Records: 1890-1978
Linear Feet: 3
Restrictions: None
Scope & Content
This collection consists of canceled checks, receipts, financial statements, and warrants for Mendon City. The dates for this material range from 1923 to 1969. There are also twenty-three Mendon City receipt books spanning the period from 1890 to1969. Other miscellaneous Mendon City records from 1922 to 1978 are also included. Some of these miscellaneous city records cover topics such as animal control, church activities, community activities, and the American Legion. The collection is arranged first by financial records, second, miscellaneous files, then receipt books.
See also MSS #166 – Mendon Historical Documents
Historical Note
Settlement in Mendon began in 1857 when Alexander Brice Hill, his wife Eliza Jane Wimmer, and his brother Robert Brice Hill acquired land and built a log cabin north of Maughan's Fort (Wellsville), the first Mormon community in Cache Valley. At that time Mendon was called North Settlement because of its location in relation to Maughan's Fort. Permanent occupation of Mendon did not begin until May, 1859, when eight families arrived. (In 1858, Cache Valley settlers evacuated their homes prior to the arrival of the U.S. Army.)
In the winter of 1859-1860 Mendon had to be made into a temporary fort while territorial surveyor Jesse Williams Fox platted all of Cache Valley. Extensive development began after the survey was finished as a number of additional settlers came to Mendon in the spring of 1860. By October 1863, after county surveyor James H. Martineau conducted another survey, the city had nine square blocks along with a central public square.
On April 1, 1870, the Legislative Assembly of Utah officially incorporated Mendon. George W. Baker served as the first mayor, along with six councilors, two justices and one town marshal. The 1870 census reported 427 residents, made up of 168 adults and 259 minors. By 1890, new homesteaders were not allowed in Mendon due to scarcity of water, although this ban did not remain in effect as settlement continued in the early years of the 20th century.
According to historian Charles S. Peterson, Mendon has moved along with the rest of Cache Valley from being a strictly Mormon village to an agricultural community. The process of this transition is reflected by the contents of this collection.
Sources:
Abrams, James. "Straying and Maying in Mendon: The History of a Morphology of a Festival." ed. Charles S. Peterson. Special Course on Local (Cache County) History, 1981. (Unpublished paper)
Sorenson, Isaac. History of Mendon: A Pioneer Chronicle of a Mormon Settlement. Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1988.
Inventory
Box 1 – Mendon City Corporation/Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks
Fd 1 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1923
Fd 2 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1924
Fd 3 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1925
Fd 4 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1926
Fd 5 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1927
Fd 6 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1928
Fd 7 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1929
Fd 8 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1930
Fd 9 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1932
Fd 10 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1933
Fd 11 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1934
Fd 12 Mendon City Corporation Canceled Checks 1935
Fd 13 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1931
Fd 14 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1933
Fd 15 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1934
Fd 16 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1935
Fd 17 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1953
Fd 18 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1954
Fd 19 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1955
Fd 20 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1956
Fd 21 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1957
Box 2 – Mendon City Fund/Road Fund Canceled Checks
Fd 1 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1958
Fd 2 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1965
Fd 3 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1966
Fd 4 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1967
Fd 5 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1968
Fd 6 Mendon City Fund Canceled Checks 1969
Fd 7 Mendon B Road Fund Canceled Checks 1956
Fd 8 Mendon B and C Road Fund Canceled Checks 1967
Fd 9 Mendon B and C Road Fund Canceled Checks 1968
Fd 10 Mendon B and C Road Fund Canceled Checks 1969
Box 3 – Statement of Accounts, Warrants
Fd 1 Interest Statements 1929-1933
Fd 2 Deposit Slips 1925-1934
Fd 3 Deposit Slips 1968-1969
Fd 4 Receipts 1923-1933
Fd 5 Statement of Account for General Irrigation and Delinquent Taxes 1929-1933
Fd 6 Statement of Account/ General 1923
Fd 7 Statement of Account/ General 1924
Fd 8 Statement of Account/ General 1926
Fd 9 Statement of Account/ General 1928
Fd 10 Statement of Account/ General 1929
Fd 11 Statement of Account/ General 1932
Fd 12 Statement of Account/ General 1933
Fd 13 Statement of Account/ General 1934
Fd 14 Statement of Account/ General 1935
Fd 15 Statement of Account/ General 1936
Fd 16 Statement of Account/ General 1951-1958
Fd 17 Statement of Account/ General 1967-1969
Fd 18 Warrants 1926
Fd 19 Warrants 1928
Fd 20 Warrants 1929
Fd 21 Warrants 1930
Fd 22 Warrants 1931
Box 4 – Miscellaneous Files
Fd 1 Mendon City- American Legion 1922
Fd 2 Mendon City- Animal Control 1970
Fd 3 Mendon City- Church Activities
Fd 4 Mendon City- Community and Fund Raising 1971
Fd 5 Mendon City- Community Productions 1970-1978
Fd 6 Mendon City- Depot Society
Fd 7 Mendon City- Fair 1970-1972
Fd 8 Mendon City- General 1926-1969
Fd 9 Mendon City- Theatrical Productions: A Christmas Carol
Fd 10 Misc.- receipts, a processed check 1927-1969
Box 5 – Receipt Books
Book # 1
December 13, 1890 - December 22, 1892
Signature- from: Jasper Lemmon
Book # 2
February 2, 1910 - March 25, 1912
No. 101-199
Signatures: Baker
Book # 3
Mendon City
May 19, 1913 - July 3, 1923
No. 301- 400
Book # 4
November 26, 1923 - March 15, 1929
No. 601- 700
Signatures: H. J. Richards, Wayne Willie
Book # 5
Aug. 30, 1923- Aug. 5, 1931
No. 555 - 806
Signatures: A. W. Richards, Edgar Hancock, P. R. Bird
Book # 6
Acorn Duplicating Money Receipts No. 84
June 18, 1925 - July 6, 1926
Signatures: Annie L. Hughes, Sarah J. Larsen
Book # 7
Mendon City (duplicate checks)
July 18, 1926 - February 7, 1935
No. 1- 251
Book # 8
City of Mendon
April 2, 1929 - May 30, 1931
No. 1 - 50
Book # 9
Mendon City Water Receipts
October 4, 1933 - October 31, 1935
No. 761-1000
Signature: Howard Baker
Book # 10
Mendon City (duplicate checks)
March 9,1934 - May 8, 1935
No. 351 - 450
Book # 11
Mendon City Water Receipts
December 31, 1952 - July 1, 1954
No. 1-150
Signatures: Vessie S. Gibbs, Clara H. Muir
Book # 12
(check stubs)
November 6, 1953 - December 7, 1955
No. 2826 - 3076 or 1654 - 1902
Box 6 – Receipt Books
Book # 13
Mendon City Water Receipts
August 26, 1954 - August 7, 1956
No. 451- 453
Signature: Clara H. Muir
Book # 14
Mendon City (duplicate checks)
July 16, 1955 - December 4, 1956
No. 3032 - 3231
Signature: Stephen Muir
Book # 15
Logan Branch of first Security Bank of Utah (receipt book)
December 7, 1955 - November 1, 1958
No. 1-50
Book # 16
Mendon City Water Receipts
August 8, 1956 - July 16,1958
No. 157-300
Book # 17
Mendon City Duplicate Checks
December 4, 1956 - November 13, 1958
No. 3232-3431
Book # 18
Mendon City Water Receipts
July 16, 1958 - September 28, 1959
No. 301- 450
Book # 19
Mendon City (duplicate checks)
October 1, 1961 - November 15, 1969
No. 5 - 500
Signatures: Bird, Gibbs
Book # 20
Mendon City Water Receipts
November 15, 1966 - July 18, 1968
No. 601- 750
Book # 21
Receipt book
December 7, 1967- April 4, 1968
No. 501- 550
Signature: Vessie S. Gibbs
Book # 22
Receipt book
April 6, 1968- October 3, 1968
No. 551- 600
Signature: Vessie S. Gibbs
Book # 23
Receipt book
October 29, 1968 - May 5, 1969
No. 601- 650
Signature: Gibbs
Collection Processed by: Jolyn Hunting
Register Prepared by: Jolyn Hunting and Allyson Mower
Date Completed: April 10, 2000
