Utah State Historical Society

About This Association

On July 22, 1897, in response to a call from Utah’s first state governor, twenty-seven citizens led by journalist-lawyer Jerrold Letcher organized the Utah State Historical Society in Salt Lake City. Created on the fiftieth anniversary of Mormon arrival, the society set forth to encourage historical research, collect and maintain a library, and disseminate information on Utah’s prehistoric and historic past. The forming of a historical society was an act of memorialization by a people and a society that had transitioned from the pioneer era but hoped to retain a memory of their ancestry.

Publications

Utah Historical Quarterly

Conventions

Specialties:

1. Historical Societies

Information Summary