Oral history interviews with Douglas and Florence Redd Galbraith. 1971.

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Oral history interviews with Douglas and Florence Redd Galbraith. 1971.

Oral history interviews with Douglas and Florence Galbraith, conducted by Kim Stewart, John Abraham, and Betty Mitson on 28 and 30 June 1971 for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton. Douglas discusses the Civilian Conservation Corps in Blanding, Utah, and Florence talks about her life in Blanding. They both relate many stories about the Mormon colonies in Mexico and the Native Americans in the Blanding area. Bound manuscript, 79 pages of text, one photocopied picture and two indexes.

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Stewart, Kim Diane

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Galbraith, Florence Redd, 1909-1991

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Douglas Powell Galbraithe was born 17 December 1893 in Colonia Diaz, Chihuahua, Mexico to William Wilkie and Lillian Eva Powell Galbraith. He married Florence Redd 6 June 1928 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. He died 31 March 1988 Blanding, San Juan, Utah. Florence Redd Galbraith was born 26 February 1909 in Grayson, San Juan, Utah to Benjamin Franklin and Louisa Meears Sunderland Hawkins Redd. She and her husband Douglas had seven children, four of which grew to adul...

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal agency, was created as part of the New Deal in 1935. From the description of Civilian Conservation Corps photograph collection [graphic]. 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38548415 On March 31, 1933, congress passed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 5, the president appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as Director of Emergency Conservation Work. Fechner, a vic...

Galbraith, Douglas, 1893-1988

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Douglas Powell Galbraithe was born 17 December 1893 in Colonia Diaz, Chihuahua, Mexico to William Wilkie and Lillian Eva Powell Galbraith. He married Florence Redd 6 June 1928 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. He died 31 March 1988 Blanding, San Juan, Utah. Florence Redd Galbraith was born 26 February 1909 in Grayson, San Juan, Utah to Benjamin Franklin and Louisa Meears Sunderland Hawkins Redd. She and her husband Douglas had seven children, four of which grew to adul...

Mitson, Betty Kulberg

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Herman Uriah Butt was born on 25 January 1891 in Verdure, San Juan, Utah, to Parley Rogerson Butt and Ency Camilla Bayles. He was married to Edith Pearl Bliss on 26 December 1912 in Verdure, San Juan, Utah. Herman died 5 December 1984 in Monticello, San Juan, Utah. Edith Pearl Bliss was born 15 July 1894 in Verdure, San Juan, Utah, to Orley Dwight Bliss and Harriet Josephine Lee. She served as the county clerk in Monticello, Utah, from 1947 to 1959. From the ...

Abraham, John, 1972-....

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