Box 4
Container
Contains 36 Results:
Memorandum from daily journal, 1898-1899
File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Typescript pages with autobiographical information by John M. Whitaker. Includes text describing John M. Whitaker’s activities during his mission in the eastern United States from October 1898 to February 1899, including debates with members of the “Josephite” (Reorganized LDS) Church in October 1898; travels in the area of Providence, Rhode Island; Worcester, Massachusetts; writing articles and letters for newspapers in November; witnessing a gathering of Methodists at Boston in January 1899,...
Dates:
1898-1899
Memorandum from daily journal, February to October 1898
File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Typescript pages with autobiographical information by John M. Whitaker. Includes “Memorandum” typescript (35 pages, plus handwritten additions) covering John M. Whitaker’s activities during his mission in the eastern United States, February to October 1898, including mission work at Brooklyn, N.Y., New Brunswick, N.J.; Providence, Rhode Island; Everett, Massachusetts; Portland, Maine, and elsewhere in the northeast.
Dates:
February to October 1898
Memorandum from daily journal, 1883-1886
File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Typescript of John M. Whitaker’s journals covering a period from 1883 to 1886, including text of letters from Church President John Taylor; copy of the obituary for his father, Thomas W. Whitaker; “A remarkable dream, 1886, the day before father died”; Construction work on the Baptist Church in Salt Lake City; meeting his future wife, Ida Taylor, etc. (Beginning of this Memorandum is in middle of the set, and page 10 on at the beginning).
Dates:
1883-1886
Notes on the life of John M. Whitaker, 1863-1887
File — Box: 4, Folder: 12
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Typescript with heading: “At the request of the Church Historian, I am making notes on the life of John M. Whitaker,” (13 pages) commencing with the founding of Centerville in 1847; birth of John Whitaker in 1863; recollections from childhood; Father’s farming and horticulture activity in Centerville; Construction of the Utah Central Railroad; Some excerpts from Whitaker’s Journal “no. 3, early 1886 to September 1887, including marriage to Ida Taylor, work for the historians office, problems of...
Dates:
1863-1887
Memorandum from daily journal, September 1887-September 1888
File — Box: 4, Folder: 13
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of various clippings from newspapers.
Dates:
September 1887-September 1888
Memorandum from daily journal, September 1888-March 1889
File — Box: 4, Folder: 14
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Notes from Journal no. 5, September 21st 1888 to March 29, 1889, including John M. Whitaker’s trip east to New York and Washington, with numerous clippings and advertisements concerning Washington.
Dates:
September 1888-March 1889
Memorandum from daily journal, March 1889 to March 1890
File — Box: 4, Folder: 15
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Notes from Journal no. 6, March 28, 1889 to March 21, 1890, including second part of the journey in the East (New Brunswick, New Jersey; New York, etc.); organization of the Utah Western Railway Company; Whitaker’s appointment as Secretary and Treasurer for the First Quorum of the Seventies; Copy of the 1889-1890 calendar for the University of Deseret.
Dates:
March 1889 to March 1890
Memorandum from daily journal, March 1890-December 1892
File — Box: 4, Folder: 16
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Transcript of Journal no. 7, John M. Whitaker, from March 22 1890 to December 3rd 1897 (part 1, to late 1892), including the events leading up to and following Church President Wilford Woodruff’s issuing of the Manifesto ending plural marriage in 1890; building the Whitakers’ new home; Whitaker’s work with the Seventies and the Sunday School organization; teaching at the University; a narrow escape with a careless buggy driver (May 1891); a vote on annexing county areas to Salt Lake City.
Dates:
March 1890-December 1892
Memorandum from daily journal, December 1892-November 1897
File — Box: 4, Folder: 17
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Transcript of Journal no. 7, John M. Whitaker, from March 22 1890 to December 3rd 1897 (part 2, December 24, 1892 to November 1897), including Sunday School work; work with B. H. Roberts; dedication of the Salt Lake Temple; a visit to Yellowstone Park; Utah Statehood, 50th anniversary of the pioneer arrival in Utah, and his call to go on a mission in the eastern United States.
Dates:
December 1892-November 1897
Memorandum from daily journal, January-June 1890
File — Box: 4, Folder: 18
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Typescript of transcripts from John M. Whitaker journal, from January to June of 1899, covering part of his mission to the eastern United States, work in New England and New York.
Dates:
January-June 1890