The Crookston collection spans four generations,
beginning with Robert Crookston and ending with Burns Ballantyne Crookston, his
great-grandson. The majority of the collection consists of the records of Nicholas Welch
Crookston, including correspondence (1917-1927); personal papers (1886-1932);
scrapbooks, diaries and memoranda (1857-1930); an autobiography concerning his
activities as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Bishop of the Greenville Ward;
Crookston family genealogy; and papers concerning a business deal with the Boston Land
Company and Frederick Steigmeyer (1917-1918) to develop the desert in the San Joaquin
Valley. Also includes Alice Melvina Rice Crookston correspondence (1897-1918) and
personal papers (1892-1925); Nicholas Oscar Crookston correspondence (1917-1927),
personal papers, and diaries (1905-1919), including one recording his daily activities
as a soldier in WWI (1918); Spencer Cleveland Crookston correspondence (1917-1918);
Newell James Crookston writings (1890-1976) including his autobiography and North Logan
community history; Burns Ballantyne Crookston writings (1960-1976); and Robert Crookston
autobiography (ca. 1910).
Repository:
Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Manuscript Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-1663 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
Languages:
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor:
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant,
2007-2008
Biographical Note
Robert Crookston was born on September 21, 1821, in Anstruther, Fifeshire, Scotland.
After converting to Mormonism, Robert moved to the United States where he married Anne
Welch June 20, 1847, in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. The couple had twelve children,
including Nicholas Welch Crookston, their seventh child, born October 22, 1857, in Salt
Lake City, Utah. Nicholas married Alice Melvina Rice on November 8, 1883, in Salt Lake
City, before moving north to Cache Valley. There he served as sheriff of Cache County
from 1883-1890 and 1908-1913, and bishop of the Greenville (North Logan) LDS ward from
1891 to 1911. Nicholas died in North Logan on June 7, 1932. Nicholas' seventh child,
Robert Burns Crookston was born in Logan on February 4, 1892. Before his death on
September 23, 1965, Robert and his wife Glenda Marie Ballantyne gave birth to Burns
Ballantyne Crookston on December 6, 1922. This collection spans these four generations,
beginning with Robert Crookston's birth in 1821 to Burns Crookston's death on April 28,
1975.
Content Description
The Crookston collection spans four generations, beginning with Robert Crookston and
ending with Burns Ballantyne Crookston, his great-grandson. The majority of the
collection consists of the records of Nicholas Welch Crookston, including correspondence
(1917-1927); personal papers (1886-1932); scrapbooks, diaries and memoranda (1857-1930);
an autobiography concerning his activities as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints Bishop of the Greenville Ward; Crookston family genealogy; and papers concerning
a business deal with the Boston Land Company and Frederick Steigmeyer in Huron, Calif.
(1917-1918) to develop the desert in the San Joaquin Valley.
Also includes Alice Melvina Rice Crookston correspondence (1897-1918) and personal
papers (1892-1925); Nicholas Oscar Crookston correspondence (1917-1927), personal
papers, and diaries (1905-1919), including one recording his daily activities as a
soldier in WWI (1918); Spencer Cleveland Crookston correspondence (1917-1918); Newell
James Crookston writings (1890-1976) including his autobiography and North Logan
community history; Burns Ballantyne Crookton writings (1960-1976); and Robert Crookston
autobiography (ca. 1910).
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access : Restrictions
Open to public research.
Restrictions on Use : Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Crookston family papers must
be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Preferred Citation :
Crookston family papers, 1857-1976. (COLL MSS 71). Utah State University. Special
Collections and Archives Department.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
Arranged in numeric sequence according to box and folder.
Evaluation the pre-school orientation program,
Academic performance of fraternity pledges
1960 April; June
8
5
Developing physical facilities for student
personnel services, April 4, 1961; Face in the crowd
1961
8
5
Selectivity as a factor in Fraternity Scholastic
Achievement December 1961; National vs. Local Autonomy: problems for
administration
1964
8
7
A study of attitudes concerning university
relationships with students
1966 October
8
8
Implications of drug usage for higher education
1968 July
8
9
Coping with campus disruption
1969 June
8
10
An organizational model for student development,
Oct. 1970; third party mediation in campus disputes
1970 December
8
11
Professionalism and professional style in
student personnel work, Nov. 1971; A developmental view of academic advising as
teaching
1972 January
8
12
Education for human development
1973 January
8
13
The higher callings of democracy: An essay on
changing American values, Jan. 1973; the nomendature dilemma: titles of senior
student officers at NASPA Institutions
1973
8
14
Administration of student affairs at community
colleges as compared with urban--commuter institutions
1974 February
8
15
Student development and involvement in
governance
1974 March
8
16
A study of student affairs: the principal
student affairs officer, the functions, the organization at American colleges
and universities 1967-1972
1974 April
8
17
Human development and the democratic community
1974 November
8
18
The intentional democratic community: an early
appraisal, Mar. 1975; Milieu management: an emerging key role of the principal
student affairs officer
1975 April
8
19
Student personnel--all hail and farewell!, Feb.
1975; the student franchise: economy as an ally of student development
