Maria Ellsworth Papers, (1880-1990's)
COLL MSS 229
Collection Processed by: Erin Pratt and Brittney Porter, March 2003
Ellsworth Collections
Biographical Sketch:
Maria S. Ellsworth was born in 1918 in Hunt, Arizona. Later she moved to Snowflake where she grew up in a family of eleven, including a twin. As far as she could tell, Maria was able to work hard and not complain.
She graduated from Arizona State Teaching College at Flagstaff May 29, 1940, and taught Kindergarten and First grade.
A couple years later Maria was visiting Salt Lake City and met and became engaged to George Ellsworth. They were married on the 24th of October in 1942. They had two boys, Stephan and Mark.
Throughout Maria’s life she was active in her community. She served in the local PTA’s, and two terms on the Logan City School Board where she was the only female member. She then became a member of the State Accreditation Committee. Maria was the President of the Old Main Society and President of the Faculty Women’s League at Utah State University. She was a teacher and served various positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In 1993 Maria Ellsworth was awarded the prize for the best biography of the year by the Mormon History Association. Her book was titled Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife, which was published by the University of Illinois. She has also had seven book reviews published by scholarly journals. She died on December 1, 1999, in Logan, Utah.
Provenance:
The papers included in this collection were donated to Special Collections and Archives Manuscripts Division at Utah State University between 1995 and 1998. Other items were donated after the death of Maria Ellsworth in 1999.
Scope and Content:
The Maria Ellsworth Collection contains her correspondence, letters sent and received, from the years 1936 to around the time of her death in 1999. It also includes articles and newspaper clippings from her life and community involvement. This collection has Maria Ellsworth’s journals from December 2nd, 1967 to November 11th, 1998. It also has two other journals: one from 1983 and 1984. There are different writings by Maria about her family and her own personal experiences.
Box Listing:
Boxes 1-3. lessons, documents, news clippings, and articles by Maria
Boxes 4-5. Notes, newsletters, clubs
Boxes 6-8. School Board information, court cases, State planning commissions
Boxes 9-13. Letters Sent
Boxes 14-16. Letters Received
Boxes 17-27. Maria’s Personal writings and journals
Box 28. Reviews
Box 29. Maria’s Writings
Box 30. Conferences and programs
Boxes 31. Research notes
Boxes 32-33. Genealogy
Some items were moved from this collection to Ellsworth photo collections (P0025, P0143).
Inventory:
Box 1. Documents
Fd 1 Birth certificate
Fd 2 Passports
Fd 3 Awards
Fd 4 Church certificates
Fd 5 Diplomas, teaching certificates and contracts
Fd 6 School autograph book 1930
Fd 7 High School autograph book
Fd 8 School notebooks 1936-1942
Fd 9 Biology class 1937
Fd 10 Maria as Democratic Delegate 1976, 1980-81
Fd 11 School Yearbook 1940
Fd 12 Maria’s Mission Papers
Fd 13 Old Main Society Papers (Maria president in 1984)
Box 2. Documents/Articles
Fd 1 Original artwork by Maria
Fd 2 News clippings, Maria Smith Ellsworth; items of interest
Fd 3 1953 Newspaper, The Arizona Republic, Safford Arizona
Fd 4 News clippings, Maria Smith Ellsworth; Friends & Associates
Fd 5 News clippings, Maria Smith Ellsworth; Family relations
Fd 6 Articles collected
Fd 7 Misc. Newspaper Articles
Fd 8 News Clippings
Fd 9 Newspaper Articles re: Alcohol laws
Fd 10 Poems, Thoughts collected
Fd 11 Music
Fd 12 Illustrations collected
Fd 13 Newspaper clippings Re: Maria
Fd 14 Programs participated in
Fd 15 Programs attended and in charge of
Fd 16 MHA 1996 Conference in Snowbird, Ut: Notes May 16-19
Fd 17 Mormon History association’s 2000 conference in Denmark
Box 3. Church Callings and Programs Participated In
Fd 1 Oakland Relief Society and church callings
Fd 2 Cultural Refinement Relief Society Lessons
Fd 3 Relief Society lessons
Fd 4 Logan, Utah Central Stake library info.
Fd 5 Genealogy class
Fd 6 Church programs, and lessons
Fd 7 Relief Society Homemaking lesson material Maria used in 1958
Fd 8 Apple works, word processing Evening class. March 19, 1992
Fd 9 Tutorial notebooks, manuals
Fd 10 Tutorial worksheets
Box 4. Miscellaneous
Fd 1 Misc. Notes
Fd 2 Misc. Notes
Fd 3 Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
Fd 4 Daughters of the Utah Pioneers newsletter
Fd 5 Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Seagull camp
Fd 6 Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, pioneer stories
Fd 7 A biography of Alof Larson
Fd 8 Daughters of the Utah Pioneers North Cache council
Box 5. Community Involvement
Fd 1 Daughter of the Utah Pioneers lessons
Fd 2 Literary Club
Fd 3 Faculty Women’s league
Fd 4 Faculty Women’s league
Fd 5 Adams school PTA 1964
Fd 6 School Board 1972
Box 6. Community Involvement
Fd 1 School Board 1973
Fd 2 School Board 1974
Fd 3 School Board 1975
Fd 4 School Board 1976 A.
Fd 5 School Board 1976 B.
Fd 6 Accreditation Evaluation information for Woodruff School 1976-1977
Fd 7 Accreditation Evaluation information for Ellis School 1976-1977
Fd 8 Accreditation Evaluation information for Hillcrest School 1976-1977
Box 7. Community Involvement
Fd 1 Accreditation Evaluation information for Wilson/Riverside Schools 1976-1977
Fd 2 Accreditation Evaluation information for Adams School 1976-1977
Fd 3 School Board 1977 A. (Maria was president of the school board)
Fd 4 Evaluation manual, Logan High School 1977-1978
Fd 5 School Board 1977 B. (Maria was president of the school board)
Fd 6 School Board 1978
Box 8. Community Involvement
Fd 1 School Board 1978 Court Case
Fd 2 School Board, newspaper articles, and notes on 1978 court case trial
Fd 3 School Board/ PTA miscellaneous
Fd 4 State planning commission
Fd 5 State planning commission
Fd 6 State planning commission
Box 9. Letters Sent
Fd 1 Utah Systemwide education planning; commission member, Utah profile
Fd 2 Utah Systemwide education planning; Education profile- Misc.
Fd 3 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1936-1939
Fd 4 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1940-1941
Fd 5 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1942 Jan.- Aug.
Fd 6 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1942 September
Fd 7 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1942 October-December
Fd 8 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1943 January
Fd 9 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1943 February
Fd 10 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1943 March 1-15
Fd 11 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1943 March 16-31
Fd 12 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1943 April 1-15
Box 10. Letters Sent
Fd 1 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1943 April 16-30
Fd 2 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1943 May
Fd 3 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent to S. George Ellsworth Sept 26, 1943-Nov 17, 1943
Fd 4 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent June 1943-1944
Fd 5 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1945 January-July
Fd 6 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1945 August-December
Fd 7 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1946
Fd 8 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1947
Fd 9 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1948-1949
Box 11. Letters Sent
Fd 1 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1950-1951
Fd 2 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1952-1953
Fd 3 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1954
Fd 4 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1955-1957
Fd 5 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1958-1959
Fd 6 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1960-1961
Fd 7 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1962-1963
Box 12. Letters Sent
Fd 1 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1964
Fd 2 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1965
Fd 3 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1966
Fd 4 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1967
Fd 5 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1968
Fd 6 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1969
Box 13. Letters Sent
Fd 1 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1970
Fd 2 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1971
Fd 3 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1972
Fd 4 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1973
Fd 5 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1974-1975
Fd 6 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1976
Fd 7 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1977
Fd 8 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1978-1979
Fd 9 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1980-1981
Fd 10 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1982-1983
Box 14. Letters Sent/Received
Fd 1 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1984-1985
Fd 2 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1986-1987
Fd 3 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1988-1989
Fd 4 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters sent 1990-
Fd 5 Maria Smith Ellsworth letters received: Misc cards and post cards
Fd 6 Letters received David and Mary Adams
Fd 7 Letters received Maurine Allen
Fd 8 Letters received Lavina Fielding Anderson
Fd 9 Letters received Grace Arrington
Fd 10 Letters received Leonard J. Arrington
Fd 11 Letters received Wiley and Audrey Barker
Fd 12 Letters received Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
Fd 13 Letters received Don and Thelma Rogers Brinkerhoff
Fd 14 Letters received Anne H. Cannon
Fd 15 Letters received Wendy Checketts
Fd 16 Letters received Howard and Ida Church
Fd 17 Letters received Myron Crandall
Fd 18 Letters received Ruth Cross
Fd 19 Letters received Mark A. and Allison Ellsworth
Fd 20 Letters received various Ellsworths
Fd 21 Letters received Georgene Evans
Fd 22 Letters received Joseph and Zelda Cook Evans
Fd 23 Letters received Ruth Evans
Fd 24 Letters received Varena Fish
Fd 25 Letters received Molly Fletcher
Fd 26 Letters received Marge Foglesong
Fd 27 Letters received Joan Hitchen Garrard
Fd 28 Letters received Jeanie Glazier
Fd 29 Letters received Jack and Evelyn Groutage
Box 15. Letters Received
Fd 1 Letters received Gonzalas; friend from Ecuador
Fd 2 Letters received Guida
Fd 3 Letters received Hammer Filed Friends
Fd 4 Letters received Historical societies
Fd 5 Letters received Johnson, Clifton W., Elvie Z.
Fd 6 Letters received Spencer W. Kimball
Fd 7 Letters received Louise Willis Levine
Fd 8 Letters received Angel Lewandowski
Fd 9 Letters received Jean Marshall
Fd 10 Letters received Ruth Melville
Fd 11 Letters received Cynthia Mitchell (The West-Movie)
Fd 12 Letters received Ruth Mussler
Fd 13 Letters received Naegle
Fd 14 Letters received Oakland Friends
Fd 15 Letters received Gerald and Carlotta Pace
Fd 16 Letters received Eric and Carol Pease
Fd 17 Letters received Yves R. and Kathleen C. Perrin
Fd 18 Letters received Laurel Peterson
Fd 19 Letters received Alfred Pietz
Fd 20 Letters received Earl A. and Hazel Ross
Fd 21 Letters received Merlin and Edna W. Sant
Fd 22 Letters received Fernith I. Saporiti 1953-1969
Fd 23 Letters received Richard Simpson
Fd 24 Letters received Barbara Smith
Fd 25 Letters received Myreel Smith
Fd 26 Letters received Smith-various
Fd 27 Letters received Myrtle Snarr
Fd 28 Letters received Snowflake Friends
Fd 29 Letters received George S. Tanner
Box 16 Letters Received
Fd 1 Letters received Tahuhuterani Family
Fd 2 Letters received Gwen and Keith Udall
Fd 3 Letters received Udall
Fd 4 Letters received Utah State University
Fd 5 Letters received Margaret U. Warnock
Fd 6 Letters received Berniece Weber (Mrs. Gordon E. Weber)
Fd 7 Letters received Mariam West
Fd 8 Letters received Re: Women’s Literary Club
Fd 9 Letters received Rob Young
Fd 10 Letters received Christmas form letters, cards
Fd 11 Letters received Love letters
Fd 12 Letters received Birthday cards (Anniversary/Mother’s day)
Fd 13 Letters received Get Well Cards
Fd 14 Letters received Thank you notes
Fd 15 No last names
Fd 16 Misc cards
Fd 17 Misc correspondence: Allen - Wuthrich
Box 17. Letters Received/Maria’s Writings
Fd 1 Letters received miscellaneous
Maria’s Writings
Fd 2 Vita
Fd 3 Writing and spelling helps
Fd 4 Writings autobiographical drafts
Fd 5 Writings “My life story” 9 August 1995
Fd 6 Autobiography Draft “Life-Story” Incomplete
Fd 7 Autobiography Draft Maria’s Early Life
Fd 8 Maria’s writings, “Childhood”
Fd 9 Maria’s personal writings, “My three escapes from death.”
Fd 10 Maria’s writings “Learning to Work.”
Fd 11 Maria’s writings “Memories of parties in our home.”
Fd 12 Maria’s writings “Christmas: A wonderful time for giving and receiving.”
Fd 13 Maria’s personal writings, “College Days.”
Fd 14 Maria’s writings “I learned how to say no.”
Fd 15 Maria’s personal writings “Marriage” 1942-1951
Fd 16 Maria’s writings “Logan Canyon in my life.”
Fd 17 Maria’s writings “Friends from South America.”
Fd 18 Maria’s personal writings “Logan” 1951-1957
Fd 19 Maria’s writings “Poetry”
Fd 20 Maria’s writings “Politics and Issues.”
Box18. Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife
Fd 1 Index
Fd 2 Author’s galleys
Fd 3 Author’s galleys
Fd 4 Author’s galleys and genealogy
Fd 5 Author’s proofs
Fd 6 Author’s proofs
Fd 7 Author’s proofs
Fd 8 University of Illinois Press correspondence
Fd 9 University of Illinois Press contract instructions
Fd 10 Table of Contents
Fd 11 Original submission: Beginning to page 58
Fd 12 Original submission: pp. 59-169
Fd 13 Original submission: pp. 170-274
Fd 14 Original submission: pp. 275-383
Fd 15 Original submission: endnotes and bibliography
Box 19. Mormon Odyssey
Fd 1 Research notes
Fd 2 Notes
Fd 3 Udall correspondence
Fd 4 Sources and literature
Fd 5 Editor’s essays
Fd 6 Afterward
Fd 7 Contents page and outlines
Fd 8 Editor’s essay: draft
Fd 9 Editor’s essay: draft
Fd 10 Editor’s essay: draft
Fd 11 Early drafts
Fd 12 Early drafts
Fd 13 Early drafts: 1886 to end of journal
Fd 14 Early drafts