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The collection charts Mauss's ancestry, beginning with Mauss's maternal grandparents, Axel Lind and Margareta Westlund, immigrants from Sweden who met and married in Utah. The family settled in Murray, just north of Wheeler Farm. Together the couple had five children, one of whom, Ethel Lind (Armand's mother), was a gifted singer who performed the lead roles in several University of Utah operas in the 1920s.
The collection also includes Mauss's paternal line, beginning with Jacob Mauss and Lena Kelsch Mauss, a German couple who immigrated to the United States from Liederscheid, Germany and eventually settling in Utah after their conversion to the LDS Church in 1888. The collection also includes information on Lena's brother Ludwig Kelsch (also identified as Louis Kelsch), who became a close friend of Heber J. Grant, served several missions for the LDS Church, and the patriarch of a polygamous family in Utah. One of his sons, Louis Alma Kelsch, was a founder of a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City. (Note: The original spelling of this name was Kölsch or Koelsch, simplified to Kelsch in English).
The eldest son of Jacob and Lena Mauss, Michael Mauss served as the town constable in Murray (Utah) in the years before World War I. Michael and his wife Charlottie Wright had nine children, three of whom were triplets, Vilda, Velma, and Vinal (Armand's father). Born in 1900, the triplets weighed under 2 pounds and were kept warm in a makeshift incubator above the family's coal stove. Their photograph was displayed at state fairs, and they celebrated 91 birthdays together as one of the oldest set of triplets in the world.
The collection has been separated by Armand Mauss's maternal and paternal lines, and has been divided into subseries based on marriages, including Mauss's parents and their siblings.
The Armand Mauss Genealogy Collection, 1913-2009, Utah State Historical Society.
Donated by Armand Mauss, 2011.
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Photographs have been separated and classified as Mss C 1956.