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Title: Joseph C. Loughran Collection
Dates: c.1844-1953
Bulk dates: 1864-1946
Collection Number: Consult
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Creator:
Loughran, Joseph C.
Extent:
c.340 items
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: manuscripts@huntington.org
URL:http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, essays, bibliographical notes,
bound volumes, and ephemera either pertaining to or collected by Joseph C. Loughran.
The majority of the items relate to Utah history from the 1860s to the 1940s and
focus on Weber County, particularly the Ogden area.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the
Reader Services Department. For more information, please go to the following
website .
In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual
materials, researchers must obtain formal permission from the office of the
Library Director. In most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as
owner of the physical property rights only, and researchers must also obtain
permission from the holder of the literary rights. In some instances, the
Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights.
Researchers may contact the appropriate curator for further information.
[Identification of item], Joseph C. Loughran collection, The Huntington Library,
San Marino, California.
Purchased from Louis J. Loughran with a collection of printed books and pamphlets
in October 1960 and transferred to the Manuscripts Department in 1974. For more
information on the printed material, please contact the Huntington's Rare Books
Department.
Joseph Clarence Loughran was born in Saunders County, Nebraska, on July 26, 1873.
His parents were Joseph Fox Loughran (1850-1938), a native of County Tyrone,
Northern Ireland, and English immigrant Margaret Hayes. Loughran served with the
Utah Light Artillery, Battery C, during the Spanish-American War. After settling in
Utah he worked as a railway carman. He married Mildred Luciel Toyer (1884-1974), the
widow of Hyrum Harper (1880-1919), sometime after 1919. Loughran died in Ogden,
Utah, on May 17, 1957.
The collection consists of correspondence, essays, bibliographical notes, bound
volumes, and ephemera either pertaining to or collected by Joseph C. Loughran. The
majority of the items relate to Utah history from the 1860s to the 1940s and focus
on Weber County, particularly the Ogden area. Items of note include genealogy
records for the Fuller, Jacobs-Huntington, Hansen, and Young families; extensive
bibliographical records related to Mormon history; a book of poetry and essays by
Reba B. Pratt (1880); a book of annotated newspaper clippings by Mormon dissenter
Lamoni Call; shopkeeper’s day books and account books kept in Ogden from the
1860s-1880s and which feature entries for Lorin Farr, Edwin Smout, George Lake, Seth
M. Blair, R.D. Sprague, H.B. Scovill, and others; a wage and account book for Ogden
gravedigger Joseph Compton (1880-1883); a record of temple work in Ogden
(c.1921-1922); record books of the Primary Association of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, 11th Ward, Logan Stake, Utah (1931-1934); and a record book
from the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Hall Fidelity Lodge No.3 of Ogden
(1894-1900).
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in 8 boxes: 1) Correspondence, essays, and
miscellaneous manuscripts, c.1884-1952; 2) Notes and ephemera, c.1866-1953; 3)
Mormon History bibliography; 4) Mormon history bibliography volumes,
c.1871-1934; 5) Bibliographical notes and genealogical records, c.1871-1932; 6)
Miscellaneous small volumes, c.1870-1944; 7) Miscellaneous volumes, 1864-1922;
and 8) Miscellaneous volumes, c.1931-1944. There is also one oversize volume.
Each box is arranged chronologically.
A detailed container list is available through the Manuscripts Department.
Call,
Lamoni.
Farr, Lorin.
Loughran, Joseph
C.
Ancient Order of United
Workmen.
Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints. Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association.
Primary Association
(Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Gravediggers.
Mormon Church--History--19th
century.
Mormon Church--History--20th
century.
Mormons--Bibliography.
Mormons--Genealogy.
Mormons--Poetry.
Railroads employees--Utah.
Sunday schools--Utah.
Ogden
(Utah)--History.
Utah--History--19th
century--Sources.
Utah--History--20th
century--Sources.
Weber County
(Utah)--History.
Bibliographies--Utah--20th
century.
Letters (correspondence)--Utah--20th
century.
Record books--Utah--19th
century.
Record books--Utah--20th
century.