William James Belnap (1853-1932)

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

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) 
• Shupe, Muriel Robinson. Branches Over the Wall: A History of Robert Harrison and Elizabeth Heath Watts and Some of Their Ancestors and Descendants (1990)

Newspaper Articles

• “Weber County Convention;” Ogden Standard Examiner, 16 Jul 1883
• “County and District Conventions,” Deseret News, 25 Jul 1883
• “More Commissions,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 29 Sep 1883
• “Golden Wedding at Hooper,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 27 Dec 1895
• “Ogden Society,” Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Dec 1895
• “How Clarence Belnap Died,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 27 Dec 1898

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)
• 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Hooper, Weber, UT (11 Jun 1900)
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• 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Hooper, Weber, UT (24 Apr 1910)
• 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Hooper, Weber, UT (24 Jan 1920)
• 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Hooper, Weber, UT (7 Apr 1930)

Death Records

• Death Certificate: William James Belnap, 1932
• Death Certificate: Eliza Ann Watts Belnap, 1940

Photographs and Images

Individual Images

• William James Belnap (from Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah)

Group Images

• Group portrait of first missionaries called to settle Arizona from Hooper, UT; back row (left to right):  Joseph Stone, Gilbert Rosel Belnap, William James Belnap; front row (left to right):  Levi Hammon, Levi Byram Hammon, William W. Child; 8 Mar 1873 (from Church History Library, PH 10; gift of John M. Belnap, Ogden, UT, Jan 1972)
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• Joseph Stone (left) and William James Belnap (right), prior to departing on mission (taken in Salt Lake City, Utah, at C. R. Savage), Apr 1873 (from Marion Adaline Belnap Kerr photo collection)
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• Joseph Stone (left) and William James Belnap (right), prior to departing on mission (taken in Salt Lake City, Utah, at C. R. Savage), Apr 1873 (same as above; black/white)

Headstones

• Headstone: Hooper Cemetery: William James Belnap and Eliza Ann Watts

Spouse

• Eliza Ann Watts (1857-1940)

Children

• William Oscar Belnap (1874-1963)
• James Gilbert Belnap (1877-1936)
• Clarence Robert Belnap (1879-1898) [no issue]
• Etta Eliza Belnap (1881-1907)
• Henry Belnap (1883-1978)
• Mary Ellen Belnap (1884-1898) [no issue]
• (John) Austin Belnap (1887-1922)
• Sarah Elizabeth Belnap (1889-1977)
• Ivy Belnap (1891-1981)
• Alonzo Belnap (1893-1967) [married; no issue]
• Hilma May Belnap (1895-1970)
• Erma Belnap (1896-1904) [no issue]
• Nellie Belnap (1898-1978)
• Albert Belnap (1899-1958) [married; no issue]

Parents

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

Last update:  27 Jun 2020