Item 59: Bookplate, Charles H. Hart, no date

Item — Box: 20, Folder: 59

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Dates

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Bookplate

Condition Note:

Good

Measurements:

3 7/16 in. x 2 ⅛ in.

Title:

Charles H. Hart

Description:

A bookplate for Charles H. Hart. The bookplate features a shield with saint logos on it, and a statue above it. There is text below the shield that reads “Lumen Accipe Et Imperti” which translates to “receive light and immortal.” Bookplate collector and LDS church leader Charles Henry Hart was born July 5, 1866 in Bloomington, Idaho. His mother was Sabina Scheib Hart, and his father was James Henry Hart. He had eight siblings, Anna Maria Hart, Alice Catherine Hart Osmond, Eugene Schieb Hart, Arthur William Hart, Alfred Augustus Hart, John Thomas Hart, Sabrina Hermoine Hart Roberts, and Emily Rosina Hart Batt. He also had three half-siblings, James Ellingham Hart, Nellie Thomas Hart, and Henry Jason Hart. He was married twice, first to Adelia Greenlagh Hart in 1889, then to Mary Lalene Hendricks Hart in 1915. He had eleven children, Lucile Adelia Hart Pack, Leona Sabrina Hart Ashton, Viola Genevive Hart Wilcox, Mary Clarissa Hart, Harold Henry Hart, Paul Eugene Hart, Dean Eldon Hart, Melvin Greenlagh Hart, Raymond George Hart, Phyllis Hart Moss, and Mary Lalene Hart. He was a leader and part of the “First Council of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints.” He was leader of the Canadian Mission of the LDS Church for 3 years. “When he was called as a member of the First Council of Seventy in April 1906, he became the first general authority born in Idaho.” On September 29, 1934 he passed away from pneumonia in Salt Lake City, Utah.