A family life

Charles Ora Card

1839–1906

Charles’s life links the family’s New York and Utah history with the settlement of Cardston.

Charles Ora Card was born in 1839 and became a leading figure in the Latter-day Saint settlement of southern Alberta. His biography includes plural marriage, migration, and community building, as well as the household from which Joseph Young Card came.

Sources: Charles Ora Card: Dictionary of Canadian BiographyCharles Ora Card: biographical record

He died in Logan in September 1906. The Church History database gives September 7, while the Dictionary of Canadian Biography gives September 9. The archive leaves the exact day open.

Sources: Charles Ora Card: biographical recordCharles Ora Card: Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Family connections

Relationships and their evidence

A biography and a relationship can have different levels of support. The label on each connection describes that specific claim.

Parents

Parent

Cyrus William Card

Supported by sources

Institutional and published historical accounts identify the parent-child relationship.

Sources: Charles Ora Card: biographical recordOn the Western Frontier

Parent

Sarah Anne Tuttle

Supported by sources

Institutional and published historical accounts identify the parent-child relationship.

Sources: Charles Ora Card: biographical recordOn the Western Frontier

Spouses

Spouse

Zina Presendia Young Williams Card

Supported by sources

Institutional and documentary-edition biographies support this marriage.

Sources: Zina Presendia Young Williams CardCharles Ora Card: Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Children

Child

Joseph Young Card

Supported by sources

Joseph’s institutional biography names this parent.

Sources: Joseph Young Card: biographical record

Still being researched

Open questions

Resolve the September 7/September 9 death-date conflict with an original registration.

From the archive

Photographs and documents

SOURCE

source

Mormons Moving Into Southern Alberta

Historical article used to frame the migration corridor that anchors the Cardston story.

SOURCE

source

The Importance of Being Monogamous

Sarah Carter's study of marriage and nation building in western Canada (AU Press / University of Alberta Press, 2008), with access and licensing information from the publisher.

PDF

pdf

Alberta, Past and Present, Volume 3

Digitized local-history volume tied to Joseph Young Card's civic and business life.

Follow the evidence

Sources for this life

Institutional biography