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Miscellaneous written and typed pages, including journal entries, a brief autobiography of Whitaker’s childhood, and notes from the family history and Utah history. Text sometimes on back of other pages with interesting information. Some notes in shorthand.

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Miscellaneous typed pages with autobiographical information by John M. Whitaker. Includes 6-page typed narrative of John M. Whitaker’s activities, June 1890 to May 1894; 12-page typed “notes from the daily journal of John M. Whitaker" with details of activities in Spring of 1886.

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Typescript pages with autobiographical information by John M. Whitaker. Includes Memorandum from daily journal (10 pages), 1863 to 1883, including childhood and education; Memorandum continued (11 pages), 1883 to 1889, including early work history.

Scope and Contents Typescript pages with autobiographical information by John M. Whitaker. Includes John M. Whitaker’s activities in 1888-1889 (5 pages), including business in New York and Washington, D.C., in 1889; work with John W. Young; an account of the securing of a pardon for Charles W. Penrose from President Grover Cleveland; work with the Salt Lake and Eastern Railway Company, the Bullion Dust Mining Company, and the LDS Church (including as general secretary and treasurer for the First Council of...

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Second copy of the typescript of John M. Whitaker’s activities in 1888-1889 (5 pages), including business in New York and Washington, D.C., in 1889; work with John W. Young; an account of the securing of a pardon for Charles W. Penrose from President Grover Cleveland; work with the Salt Lake and Eastern Railway Company, the Bullion Dust Mining Company, and the LDS Church (including as general secretary and treasurer for the First Council of Seventies).

Scope and Contents Typescript pages with autobiographical information by John M. Whitaker. Includes “Memorandum” typescript (5 pages) of John M. Whitaker’s activities regarding his family life, rearing the children; interest in horticulture; journal entries from 1894; “Memorandum” typescript (4 pages) of John M. Whitaker’s activities in 1895; “Memorandum No. 3, typescript (5 pages, describing his activities in 1895-1896, including work for the Sugar House Ward of the LDS Church; the case of Moses Thatcher;...

Scope and Contents Typescript pages with autobiographical information by John M. Whitaker. Includes text from previously untranslated material from John M. Whitaker’s journals, covering entries from February and March of 1896; Typescript “Memorandum” (9 pages) of John M. Whitaker’s activities from March 1896 through December 1897, when he left for his mission in the eastern United States; “Memorandum (7 pages), typescript of John M. Whitaker’s activities at the start of his mission, December 1897 and January...

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Typescript pages with autobiographical information by John M. Whitaker. Includes “Memorandum” typescript (pages) covering John M. Whitaker’s activities during his mission in New Brunswick, New Jersey, January and February 1898 (includes handwritten additions).

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...

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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.

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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).

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...

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Includes copies of various clippings from newspapers.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Typescript of transcripts from John M. Whitaker journal, from May 1899 to January 1900, covering the last part of his mission to the eastern United States, including a call from the Mission President to help organize its records and writing a history of the Eastern States Mission.

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Typescript of transcripts from John M. Whitaker journal (pages 61 to 127), from January 1900 to November 1906, including his return home following his mission to the eastern United States; work as clerk for the Department of Public Works; other church and political work; unveiling of Brigham Young Monument at Main and South Temple; Whitaker’s testimony in the Reed Smoot hearings at Washington, D.C. in 1905.