Diaries, 1883-1949.

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Diaries, 1883-1949.

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Photocopies of typewritten transcripts of a handwritten journal. The items were originally kept in Pitman shorthand. The entries are extensive and detailed. Whitaker was raised in Centerville, Utah but lived much of his adult life in Salt Lake City, Utah. Whitaker details his life and activities and makes observations on Utah society, the Mormon Church, and state and national politics. He had numerous callings in the Mormon Church and served as a missionary for that faith in the "Eastern States Mission" from 1897 to 1900. As a secretary for the Mormon Church's First Council of Seventy and its Deseret Sunday School Union, he observed the Church's governing bodies. Also as a son-in-law of the third president of the Mormon Church, John Taylor, Whitaker was familiary with many of the policies and prodecures of the First Presidency of that faith. Also included are transcripts of Whitaker's funeral in 1960.

2 boxes (7 linear in.)

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Taylor, John, 1808-1887

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Whitaker, John Mills, 1863-1960

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John Mills Whitaker (1863-1960) was born in Centerville, Utah. His parents were Thomas William and Elizabeth Mills Whitaker. At an early age he studied the Isaac Pitman system of shorthand. While going to school at the University of Deseret he began working for Franklin Dewey Richards (1821-1899). In 1886 Whitaker married Ida Oakley Taylor, the daughter of John Taylor (1808-1877). Whitaker helped establish the first public library in Utah, was secretary to John Willard Young (1844-1924) while he...