Oliver Belnap (1855-1929)

Gathered here is the most comprehensive repository of materials on the life of Oliver Belnap, son of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap.  Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information concerning Oliver Belnap:

Autobiographical Writings

• Oliver Belnap Diaries, 1887-1889, Church History Library, MS 8680

Biographical Materials

• Belnap, W. Dean. Heritage With Honor: Genealogy and History of the Ancestry and Descendants of Gilbert Belnap (1821 – 1899) (1974)
• Centennial History in Honor of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap, 1850-1950 (including 1952 and 1956 Supplements) 
• Oscarson, Roy W. & W. Dean Belnap, comps. The Oscarson Families: Genealogy and History of the Ancestry and Descendants of Two Brothers: Gustaf Emil Oscarson (1862-1949) and Theodore Hjalmar Oscarson (1872- 1954)
• Jacobson, Alice Belnap, comp. Life History of Oliver Belnap (private printing)

Newspaper Articles

• “Weber Stake Conference,” Deseret News, 24 Oct 1877
• “Hooper,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 13 Nov 1880
• “Organized,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 24 Oct 1882
• “Improvement Matters,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 23 Oct 1883
• “Buried in a Snowslide,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 19 Dec 1883
• “Local and Other Matters–Buried in a Snowslide,” Deseret News, 26 Dec 1883
• “Pioneer Day,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 28 Jul 1884
• “Ogden Department–Fourth District Court,” Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Jan 1895
• “Wedding Reception at Harrisville,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 5 Aug 1895

Poetry

• “Idleness,” The Contributor, vol. 12 (Sep 1891), p. 408

Census Records

• 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Weber River Valley, Weber, UT (8 Jul 1870)
• 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Hooper, Weber, UT (11 Jun 1880)
• 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Moreland, Bingham, ID (20 Apr 1910)
• 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Washington, Washington, UT (11 Jan 1920)
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Death Records

• Death Certificate: Oliver Belnap, 1929

Photographs and Images

Individual Images

• Oliver Belnap
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• Oliver Belnap (from Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah)

Headstones

• Headstone: Ogden City Cemetery: Oliver Belnap (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Jul 2007)
• Headstone: Ogden City Cemetery: Margaret A. Belnap (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Jul 2007)
• Headstone: Ogden City Cemetery: Anna B. Belnap (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Jul 2007)
• Headstone: Ogden City Cemetery: Anna M. Leuenberger (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Jul 2007)

Spouses

• Margaret Ann Manning (1859-1894)
• Emily Desire Shurtliff (1867-1944)
• Anna Barbara Leuenberger (1872-1956)

Children

through Margaret Ann Manning

• Oliver Mead Belnap (1881-1967)
• Henry William Belnap (1883-1942)
• Margaret Belnap (1885-1922)
• Lester Belnap (1888-1981)
• Wilford Belnap (1891-1981)
• Hazel Belnap (1893-1979)

through Emily Desire Shurtliff

• Isadora Jane Belnap (1897-1944)

through Anna Barbara Leuenberger

• Lillie Anna Belnap (1902-1957)
• Henrietta Belnap (1905-1999)
• Alice Pearl Belnap (1907-1989)
• Flora Belnap (1910-2004)
• Olive Marie Belnap (1913-2003)

Parents

• Gilbert Belnap (1821-1899)
• Henrietta McBride (1821-1899)

Last update:  23 Jun 2020