Reuben Belnap (1851-1923)

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

Biographical Materials

• Belnap, W. Dean. Heritage With Honor: Genealogy and History of the Ancestry and Descendants of Gilbert Belnap (1821 – 1899) (1974)
  • Heritage With Honor: Augustus Weber Belnap
  • Heritage With Honor: Mary Read
• Centennial History in Honor of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap, 1850-1950 (including 1952 and 1956 Supplements) 
• Greenwell, Betsy Robena H., comp. Early Utah Pioneers: Levi Hammon and Polly Chapman Bybee (1964)
• Hill, Les L., comp. Reuben Belnap Descendants
• Jenson, Andrew. “Reuben Belnap.” LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. _ (____), p. ___
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Letters

• Reuben Belnap (brother), 8 Oct 1879
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Newspaper Articles

• “Born,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 30 Aug 1881
• “Hooperville Hints,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 17 Sep 1884
• “Funerals,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 22 Oct 1923
• “Funerals,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 23 Oct 1923

Census Records

• 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Weber County, UT (10 Jul 1860)
• 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Weber River Valley, Weber, UT (8 Jul 1870)
• 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Hooper, Weber, UT (9 Jun 1880)
• 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Basalt, Bingham, ID (4-5 Jun 1900)
• 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Ogden, Weber, UT (26 Apr 1910)
• 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Malad, Oneida, ID (4-7 Jan 1920)

Death Records

• Death Certificate: Reuben Belnap, 1923
• Death Certificate: Lucein [sic] Hammon Belnap, 1937

Photographs and Images

Individual Images

• Reuben Belnap (taken in Ogden, Utah, at J. O. Stephens) (from Marion Adaline Belnap Kerr photo collection)
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• Reuben Belnap (taken in Ogden, Utah, at J. O. Stephens) (same as above; black/white)
• Reuben Belnap (from Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah)
• Reuben Belnap (from original in possession of Jeane Erickson Burton)
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• Lucien Vilate Hammon (taken in Ogden, Utah, at J. O. Stephens) (from Marion Adaline Belnap Kerr photo collection)
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• Lucien Vilate Hammon (taken in Ogden, Utah, at J. O. Stephens) (same as above; black/white)

Group Images

Headstones

• Headstone: Hooper Cemetery: Reuben Belnap and Lucien Vilate Hammon
• Headstone: Hooper Cemetery: Reuben Belnap and Lucien Vilate Hammon (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Jul 2007)

Spouse

• Lucien Vilate Hammon (1852-1937)

Children

• Reuben Augustus Belnap (1879-1960)
• Gilbert Levi Belnap (1881-1883) [no issue]
• Ansel Marion Belnap (1884-1884) [no issue]
• Luvina Vilate Belnap (1885-1969)
• Nora Lucien Belnap (1887-1888) [no issue]
• Polly Estella Belnap (1889-1980)
• Adaline Elizabeth Belnap (1891-1968)
• Chauncy Asel Belnap (1894-1895) [no issue]
• Ethel Beamy Belnap (1896-1980)

Parents

• Gilbert Belnap (1821-1899)
• Adaline Knight (1831-1919)

Last update:  15 Jun 2020