Overview of the Collection Creator Hunter, Edward, 1793-1883 Title Edward Hunter papers Dates 1818-1922 (inclusive) 1818 1922 Quantity 5 linear feet Collection Number Ms0358 Summary The Edward Hunter papers (1818-1922) consist of correspondence, business papers, and genealogical materials concerning Edward Hunter (1793-1883) and his family. Hunter was the third presiding bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Repository University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah 295 South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860 Telephone: 801-581-8863 SPCreference@lists.utah.edu Access Restrictions Twenty-four hours advance notice encouraged. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law. Languages English Historical Note Edward Hunter was born on 22 June 1793 at Newton Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He served for seven years in the cavalry and three years as Delaware County Commissioner. He moved to Chester County and married Ann Standley in 1830. He was baptized into the LDS Church in 1840 and moved to Nauvoo. Hunter served as bishop of several wards, supervised emigration to Salt Lake City, and was called to be presiding bishop in 1851. He organized the tithing system and a system to aid the poor. Edward Hunter died in 1855. Content Description The Edward Hunter papers (1818-1922) consist of correspondence, business papers, and genealogical materials concerning Edward Hunter (1793-1883) and his family. Administrative Information Acquisition Information http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 1
Gift of Lyman Hunter in 1973 and 1974. Separated Materials Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0027). Processing Note Processed by Jennifer Breaden in 1989. Detailed Description of the Collection Edward Hunter and Family Correspondence Box1 Folders 1-13 contain letters written by Edward Hunter to the recipients listed below. Folders 14-40 contain letters written to Edward Hunter by family members listed below. All correspondence is arranged alphabetically, then chronologically. Box 1 Folder 1 To William Hailstone and Edmund Hood 1863; 1874 2 To Addie Porter Hunter 3-4 To Daniel Hunter 1879; 1888 5 To Edward W. Hunter 1874-1888 6 To Oscar Hunter 1874 7 To C. C. Rich 1880 8 To Ann Eliza Rich 1879 9 To George Riser 1882 10 To Willard G. Smith 1857 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 2
11 To C. W. West 1857 12 To Brigham Young circa 1860 13 Unaddressed Note 1856 14 From Elizabeth Bishop 1846; 1869 15-16 From Annabelle Cowperthwaite Bull 1861-1883 17 From Edmund Hood 1874-1879 18 From C. W. Hunter 1887 19-26 From Daniel W. Hunter 1878-1907 27 From Edward Hunter A nephew. 1852; 1857 28-31 From Edward W. Hunter 1872-1887 32 From Hannah Hunter 1857-1862 33 From Joseph Hunter 1869 34 From Joseph and Ann Eliza Hunter 1872 35 From Laura Lavinia Hunter 36 From Margaret Hunter 1863-1881 37 From Mina C. Hunter Family Correspondence Box2 Folders 1-23 contain letters to Edward Hunter from the family members listed. Folders 24-35 contain all other family correspondence not addressed to Hunter. Box http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 3
2 Folder 1-10 From Oscar Hunter 1872-1883 11 From Rachel Hunter 1883 12 From Rodolph Edward Hunter 1880; 1883 13 From William Hunter 1849 14-19 From William W. Hunter 1874-1883 20 From Ann Eliza Rich 1877-1883 21 From Edward C. Rich 1883 22 From Susanna Wann Hunter 1871 23 From E. Porter 24 To Addie Porter Hunter from the Porter Family 1890-1891 25 To Ann Hunter from Christiann Litzenburg 1846 26 To John Hunter from Thomas Taylor 27 To L & R Wesler & Co. from Oscar Hunter & Co. 1882 28 To Rodolph Hunter from William G. Way 1875 29-31 From Susanna Wann Hunter to Daniel Wann 1843-1885 32 To Susanna Wann Hunter from Daniel Wann 1870 33 To Susanna Hunter from J. C. Rich 1876 34 To Susanna Hunter from Jane Perry 1857 35 Porter Family Letters 1861-1893 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 4
Edward W. Hunter Papers Box3 Folders 1-19 contain correspondence. Box 3 Folder 1-3 To Addie Porter Hunter 1888-1898 4-6 From Addie Porter Hunter to Edward W. Hunter 1888-1890 7 To Henry Carrington 1892 8 To Edward from Oscar Hunter 1887 9 To Edward from Rodolph Edward Hunter, J. W. Davis Hunter, Mary A. Hunter, and J. C. Rich 1874-1893 10 To Edward from James A. Anderson and O. B. Anderson 1888-1908 11 To Edward from J. E. Booth, H. R. Carrington, and Julia Carter 1889-1891 12 To Edward from George and Eliza Claup, William Cooper, John H. Dickson, H. B. Doddridge, and G. Everett 13 To Edward from Jesse Fox, P. Francis, Ben Fry, and Richard Fry 14 To Edward from George Goddard, D. E. Harris, and Hubert D. Hays 1874-1891 1887-1889 1875-1890 15 To Edward from O. F. Lyons, J. McNiven, and H. Pembroke 1884; 1887 16 To Edward from E. A. Richards, Saul Stewart, J. W. Summerhays, Moses Thatcher, Charles Welch, and O. Wold 1874-1889 17 To Bishop Evans from Edward W. Hunter 1866 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 5
18 To William Eddington and Washington Townsend 1878; 1883 19 To Sisters Carter and Ferness 1890 20 Edward W. Hunter, Patriarchal Blessing 1888 21 Account Books 1885-1887 22 Business Papers 1874 23 T. Tuckfield Works, Boiler Test Certificate 1876 24 County Surveyor Election Certificate 1885 25 Indentures 1881; 1891 26-28 Morgan County Surveys 1880s-1894 29 "The Surveyor's Companion" 1882 30 Quit Claim Deeds 1909 31 Notebook Contains conditions of sales and purchasers names. 32 Salt Lake City Assessment List 1891 33 Utah Eastern Railroad Prospectus 34 Warranty Deeds 1896-1903 Business Correspondence, A-F Box4 Box 4 Folder http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 6
1 John Alger 1878 2 American Agriculturist 1877 3 O. B. Andersen 1878-1883 4 D. Appleby 1850 5 George Bachman 1845 6 Bailey 1827 7 Mary Ball 1853 8 A. F. Barron 1861 9 Davis Bartholomew 1882 10 N. W. Batholomew 1853 11 John Bennion 1857 12-13 J. W. Bigler 1856; 1874 14-15 E. H. Blackburn 1854-1858 16 John Bright 1853 17 C. H. Bryan 1865 18 Elizabeth Burton 1856-1857 19-20 Andrew Cahoon 21 Addison Caine 1905 22 Thomas Callister 1857 23 John Cameron 1863 24 Hiram Cannon 1852 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 7
25 I. C. Cannon 1855 26 Isaac Clark 1852-1853 27 Thomas Clark 1857 28 Hyrum B. Clawson 1853 29 William Clayton 1853 30 G. W. Cochran 1857 31 James B. Cole 32 Alfred Condon 1856-1868 33 Isiah M. Coombs 1850 34-35 Howard Coray 1880-1883 36 Anna Courvoisier 1860s 37 C. J. Cowperthwait 1822 38 Heber S. Cutler 1906 39-40 W. R. Davies 1855 41-42 E. H. Davis 1844; 1862 43 Thomas Deardon 1884 44 George Dorkstader 1867 45 J. H. Eddy 46 M. M. Egan 47 John S. Eldredge 1859 48 David Evans 1855 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 8
49 Isaac T. Evans 1835 50 John B. Fairbanks 1862; 1866 51 George Farnsworth 1882 52 John A. Forgeus 53-54 William Forman 1880; 1883 55 B. Frost 56 E. K. Fuller 1852 Business Correspondence, G-P Box5 Box 5 Folder 1 Robert Gardner 1842 2 George Goddard 1873 3 Joseph Hadfield 1862 4 I. C. Haight 1856 5 L. E. Harrington 1866 6 Thomas W. Haskins 1872 7 John S. Hawkins 1869 8 William Hickenloopes 1865 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 9
9 A. N. Hill 1863 10 Charles H. Hubbard 1856 11 Dimick B. Huntington 1852 12 W. W. Hutchings 1865 13 J. M. Johnson 1878 14 Dan Jones 1861 15 Isabalea Jones 1866 16 Judd 1861 17 H. H. Kearns 1862 18 Thomas Kington 1856 19 J. H. Kinkead 1849 20 Henry Lund 1865-1866 21 C. Layton 1866 22 John Lewis 1855 23 Joseph Lewis 1879 24 L. J. Lincoln 1857 25 A. M. Lowry 1857 26 John Lowry 1853 27 Henry Lunt/Lund 1868 28 Walter Mansfield 29 Rebecca A. Martindale 1859 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 10
30-31 Peter Maughan 1859-1866 32 David McConkey 1842-1846 33 James McCormick 1864 34 T. J. McCullough 1875 35 A. E. Millett 1881 36 J. R. Murdock 1878 37 Amitton Musser 1867 38 A. Nichols 1879 39 Benjamin A. Norris 1866 40 John Oakley 1883 41 Davis and Mariah Page 42 Samuel Pinkerton 1841 43 Stephen Poulteser 1842 44 Robert Price 1882 Business Correspondence, R-Y Box6 Box 6 Folder 1 E. A. Richards 1872; 1874 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 11
2 Willard Richards 1849-1852 3 George Riser 1882 4 Peter Robison 1857 5 John Rowberry 1859 6 Thomas Salisbury 1864 7 Jane Savage 1881 8 B. Scheller 1883 9 W. S. Seeley 1861; 1866 10 E. F. Sheets 1861 11 George A. Smith 1873 12 John Henry Smith 1883 13 J. W. Smith 1880 14 Philip K. Smith 1852-1854 15 A. D. Smoot 1852 16 G. D. Snell 1882 17 Z. Snow 1854 18 C. W. Stayner 1883 19 William G. Sterrett 1857 20 William Stevensen 1870 21 Edward Stevenson 1870 22 John Stoker 1853 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 12
23 J. W. Sylvester 1879 24 I. S. Tarnall 1878 25-26 John Taylor 1854-1883 27 Benjamin Terry 28 Morgan Thomas 1838 29 August Thomberg 1874 30 Charles and Harriet Thornton; Hannah Harris 1880 31 Charles Turner 1882 32 United States Internal Revenue District of Utah 1868-1869 33 Samuel Wagstaff 1868 34 Jacob Weiler 1866 35 C. W. West 1856 36 Lyman Wight 1855 37 Thomas G. Winn 1861 38 T. W. Winter 39 H. Y. Wood 1874 40 Mary C. Woodward 1847 41 R. D. Wooley 42 John Worthen 1882 43 Jonathan C. Wright 1852 44 Brigham Young 1850-1866 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 13
45 Joseph Young 1857 Miscellaneous and Unidentified Correspondence Box7 Box 7 Folder 1 Laura Lavinia Brown to President Young 1850 2 N. H. Felt to John Taylor 1855 3 Bishop Saines to Aaron Johnson 1852 4 Joseph F. Smith to Owen Morgan 1882 5 William G. Sterrett to C. S. Bolton 1857 6 Mary Wilson to Abraham Brothwell 1846 7 Lyman L. Wood to Zina D. Young 1867 8-12 Unknown to Edward Hunter 1845-1880 13 Unknown 14 Invitations 1823-1881 15-17 Notes and Letter Fragments Business and Property Papers Box8 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 14
Box 8 Folder 1-7 Notebooks, Notes, Lists, Orders, and Correspondence 8 Power of Attorney Document by Chauncey S. Higbee 1846 9-24 Public Storehouse Receipts and Price Lists 1824-1891 25 "List of Wards and the Cattle They Will Furnish to Haul Stone from the Quarry" 26-44 Land and Property Deeds, Water Certificates, Leases, and Morgan County Surveys 45-53 Emigration Records, Accounts, and Property Deals 54 Miscellaneous Check from Edward Hunter to ZCMI, ticket to Utah Territorial Fair, William E. Williamson business card, and Salt Lake County seal. 1878-1882 55 Liberty Park Opening, Ticket and Program 56 National Independence, 86th Anniversary Celebration Program 57 "Salt Lake City's Ovation to the Old Folks" 58 Record-keeping Flyer 1902 59 Salt Lake City Post Office, Statement of Business 1879 60 "Constitution and Rules for Detecting Horse Thieves" 1818 Church Business and Genealogy Box9 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 15
Box 9 Folder 1 Letter Fragment Telling of Joseph and Hyrum Smith's Murders in Carthage 2-3 Memos to Bishops and Counsellors 4 Book Pages 5 Baptisms and Blessings 1851-1853 6 Tabernacle Meeting Minutes 1852 7 Sixth Ward Meeting Minutes 1867 8 Church Doctrine Notes 9 Luella Hunter, Patriarchal Blessing 1922 10 "Restoration of the Gospel" 11 Salt Lake Temple Dedication Tickets 1893 12-14 Mormon Battalion, Name List and Regimental Orders 1855-1856 15-18 Speech Drafts and Excerpts By Edward Hunter, Joseph Smith, and Brigham Young. 1820-1853 19-21 Poetry and Songs 22-26 Tithing Office Coupons and Receipts 1853-1880 27 "Reflections of Edward Hunter" 1874 28 Thomas Lay, Biography and Address 29 James Taylor Memorial Poem to Edward Hunter http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 16
30-33 Hunter Family Genealogy 34 Lyon Soap Recipe 35 Poetry 36 Abraham and Francis Brothwell Papers 37 Name Lists 38 Evelyn Hunter Papers 39 George Washington Birthday Commemoration Invitation 1824 40 Request for Supplies 1842-1843 41 Typographical Association of Deseret, Meeting Invitation 1856 42 Deseret Tannery Water Analysis 1881 43 Fourth of July Program 1871 44 Susannah Heiner Letter 1885 45 Addie Porter, Teacher Certificate and Composition 1885; 1889 Bound Volume of Hunter Family Papers Box10 Contains genealogy charts and correspondence. Names and Subjects Subject Terms : Mormon Church--Finance Corporate Names : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Presiding Bishopric Family Names : Hunter family Geographical Names : Utah--Genealogy Form or Genre Terms : Business records http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 17
Correspondence Genealogies Finding aid prepared by Jennifer Breaden 1989 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ About Creative Commons Licenses in Archives West: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/cc-zero.shtml http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv24221 18