Josie Bassett McKnight Wells Morris oral history interview 1959

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Josie Bassett McKnight Wells Morris oral history interview 1959

The Josie Bassett McKnight Wells Morris oral history interview (1959) consist of a transcript of an oral history between Morris, G. E. Untermann, A. Russell Mortensen, and Everett L. Cooley.

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Mortensen, A. Russell (Arlington Russell), 1911-

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Dividing his time between Utah and California, A. Russell Mortensen spent his early professional years as a teacher, administrator and editor. Born in Salt Lake City to Arlington Peter and Fannie Burnham Mortensen on January 30, 1911, he was raised in southern California. Mortensen returned to Utah in the early 1930s to attend Brigham Young University. While there he met and married Bessie Burch, a native of Spanish Fork, Utah. After receiving a B. S. in history in 1937 Mortensen be...

Untermann, Gerhard Ernest, 1864-1956

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Morris, Josie Bassett McKnight Wells, interviewee

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Josie Bassett was born in 1870 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Mr. and Mrs. Amos Herbert Beck Bassett. Her family moved to Brown's Park, Utah, in 1877. Josie married three times, the first to Jim McKnight, secondly to Emerson Wells, and thirdly to Ben Morris. Her first two husbands died, and she divorced the third. In 1919, Josie moved to Vernal where she spent most of her life. From the guide to the Josie Bassett McKnight Wells Morris oral history interview, 1959, (J. Will...

Cooley, Everett L.

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