Edwin Whiting Homestead 1883

There are three separate records that refer to Edwin Whiting’s Mapleton Homestead:

1.Edwin Whiting was granted a Homestead Patent number 2023, according to the United States Land Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 15, 1883.

      Source Deseret News, 1883-0321., pg 8

      url: http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/deseretnews3&CISOPTR=740325&CISOSHOW=740369

Note: The map and aerial photograph in the early pages of the Mapleton Historic Sites show the location of this homestead parcel. 

2. Early Houses in Mapleton, Utah, published by the Camp Union DUP (Daughters of the Utah Pioneers), page 94, published April 1994, “On February 10, 1883. the United States of America deeded the South half of the north west quarter of Section 10 in Township 8 South, Range 3 East of the Salt Lake Meridian to Edwin Whiting.”

3. The United States Government Bureau of Land Management online records show this same date and property description, 10 February 1883 given to Edward Whiting along with two other parcels. Since many of Edwin’s descendents have occupied this property over these many years, we suppose that the BLM records are a misprint of the name.

Url: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/results/default.aspx?searchCriteria=type=patent|st=UT|cty=049|ln=whiting|sp=true|sw=true|sadv=false