Register of the Kerry William Bate Papers,

Table of Contents

Collection Overview

Collection Inventory+/-

Biographical Note/Historical Note

Content Description

Collection Use

Administrative Information

Collection Overview +/-

Title: Kerry William Bate Papers,
Dates: 1983-1991. (inclusive)
Collection Number: Mss B 196
Summary: Transcripts of oral history interviews with family members and Salt Lake City, Utah political figures.
Repository: Utah State Historical Society

Collection Inventory +/-

Box Folder Contents
Box , Folder : Transcriptions of oral history interviews
Box 1, Folder 1 : January - August 1983
Box 1, Folder 2 : August - October 1983
Box 1, Folder 3 : October - November 1983
Box 1, Folder 4 : February - July 1984
Box 1, Folder 5 : July - October 1984
Box 1, Folder 6 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 12 October 1984
Box 1, Folder 7 : Sullivan, Ned LaVar, 1 November 1984
Box 1, Folder 8 : Bate, Austin Leo, 28 November 1984
Box 1, Folder 9 : Bate, Austin Leo, 28 November 1984
Box 1, Folder 10-11 : Weaver, Lillie LaVonate Bate, 29 November 1984
Box 1, Folder 12 : Bate, Billie Jean, 12 December 1984
Box 2, Folder 1 : Atkin, Anthony William, 9 January 1985
Box 2, Folder 2 : Atkin, Anthony William, 22 January 1985
Box 2, Folder 3 : Russell, Ellis Alonzo and Zona Russell Jensen, 22 January 1985
Box 2, Folder 4 : Davis, Arvil Hanks, 24 January 1985
Box 2, Folder 5 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 25 January 1985
Box 2, Folder 6 : Hunter, Gwen Sylvester, 26 January 1985
Box 2, Folder 7 : Bryant, Ruthell Roundy, 5 February 1985
Box , Folder 8 : Roundy, Jessie "K," 11 February 1985
Box 2, Folder 9 : Roundy, Leonard, 22 March 1985
Box 2, Folder 10 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 9 May 1985
Box 2, Folder 11 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 17 June 1985
Box 2, Folder 12 : Warner, Jesse Payton, 21 June 1985
Box 2, Folder 13 : Hunter, Gwen Sylvester and JoAnn Sylvester Bate, 26 June 1985
Box 2, Folder 14 : Bate, Jennifer Leone, 29 June 1985
Box 2, Folder 15 : Roundy, Leonard, 15 July 1985
Box 2, Folder 16 : Bate, Austin Leo, 20 July 1985
Box 2, Folder 17 : Butterfield, Phyllis, 26 July 1985
Box 2, Folder 18 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 26 July 1985
Box 2, Folder 19 : Platt, Rulon Berry and Leila Platt Heap, 26 July 1985
Box 2, Folder 20 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 28 July 1985
Box 2, Folder 21 : Butterfield, Phyllis, 2 August 1985
Box 2, Folder 22 : Platt, Rulon Berry, 2 August 1985
Box 2, Folder 23 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 4 August 1985
Box 2, Folder 24 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 9 August 1985
Box 2, Folder 25 : Clegg, Hazel Billman, 22 September 1985
Box 3, Folder 1 : McGuire, Dorris Bate, 22 March 1986
Box 3, Folder 2 : Bate, Austin Leo, 24 March 1986
Box 3, Folder 3 : Bate, JoAnn Sylvester, 29 March 1986
Box 3, Folder 4 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 1 May 1986
Box 3, Folder 5 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 2 May 1986
Box 3, Folder 6 : Bate, JoAnn Sylvester, 1 June 1986
Box 3, Folder 7 : Woodmansee, Bennie, 14 July 1986
Box 3, Folder 8 : Becker, Richard, 28 July 1986
Box 3, Folder 9 : Wolverton, Brad, 29 August 1986
Box 3, Folder 10 : Shragge, Joseph M., 31 August 1986
Box 3, Folder 11 : Wolverton, Brad, 15 September 1986
Box 3, Folder 12 : Austin, G. Don, 17 September 1986
Box 3, Folder 13 : Platt, Rulon Berry, 4 October 1986
Box 3, Folder 14 : Sanford, Shanna Lea, 16 December 1986
Box 3, Folder 15 : Sanford, Shanna Lea, 5 January 1987
Box 3, Folder 16 : Walton, Virginia, 5 January 1987
Box 3, Folder 17 : Sanford, Shanna Lea, 13 January 1987
Box 3, Folder 18 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 24 January 1987
Box 3, Folder 19 : Reeves, Lynn and Ella, 21 April 1987
Box 3, Folder 20 : Olds, Arthur and Lottie, 22 April 1987
Box 3, Folder 21 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 23 April 1987
Box 3, Folder 22 : Reeves, Lynn and Ella, 23 April 1987
Box 3, Folder 23 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 23 May 1987
Box 3, Folder 24 : Platt, Rulon Berry, 12 July 1987
Box 3, Folder 25 : Bringhurst, Hazel Eagar, 23 July 1987
Box 3, Folder 26 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 23 July 1987
Box 3, Folder 27 : Davies, David Elmer, 24 July 1987
Box 3, Folder 28 : Williams, Sylvia May Davies, 24 July 1987
Box 3, Folder 29 : Bate, Austin Leo, 19 August 1987
Box 3, Folder 30 : Reeves, Lynn and Ella, 15 October 1987
Box 3, Folder 31 : Bringhurst, Hazel Eagart, 16 October 1987
Box 3, Folder 32 : Davis, Leonard, 16 October 1987
Box 3, Folder 33 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 16 October 1987
Box 4, Folder 1 : Slack, Edwin Kenneth, 16 October 1987
Box 4, Folder 2 : Stapley, Elton Williams, 16 October 1987
Box 4, Folder 3 : Woodbury, Harriet Arvilla, 16 October 1987
Box 4, Folder 4 : Anderson, Leola Amelia, 21 November 1987
Box 4, Folder 5 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 15 January 1988
Box 4, Folder 6 : Davies, David Elmer, 16 January 1988
Box 4, Folder 7 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 16 January 1988
Box 4, Folder 8 : Reeves, Lynn and Ella, 16 January 1988
Box 4, Folder 9 : Woodbury, Harriet A., 31 January 1988
Box 4, Folder 10 : Davies, Bessie Elizabeth, 1 February 1988
Box 4, Folder 11 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 1 February 1988
Box 4, Folder 12 : Williams, Rebecca Alenna, 1 February 1988
Box 4, Folder 13 : Leavitt, Florence Beatty, 27 April 1988
Box 4, Folder 14 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 27 April 1988
Box 4, Folder 15 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 29 April 1988
Box 4, Folder 16 : Slack, Edwin Kenneth, 29 April 1988
Box 4, Folder 17 : Balser, Frederick Wilford, 24 May 1988
Box 4, Folder 18 : Cowley, Varsall Lee, 26 May 1988
Box 4, Folder 19 : Garfield, Josephine Kay, 26 May 1988
Box 4, Folder 20 : Balser, Frederick Wilford, 28 May 1988
Box 4, Folder 21 : Wilson, Nell Sylvester, Gwen Sylvester Hunter, and JoAnn Sylvester Bate, 6 June 1988
Box 4, Folder 22 : Bate, JoAnn Sylvester, 17 June 1988
Box 4, Folder 23 : Bate, JoAnn Sylvester and Gwen Sylvester Hunter, 26 June 1988
Box 5, Folder 1 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 27 June 1988
Box 5, Folder 2 : Lovell, Thelma Berry, 27 June 1988
Box 5, Folder 3 : Reeves, Lynn, 27 June 1989
Box 5, Folder 4 : Williams, Sylvia May Davies, 27 June 1988
Box 5, Folder 5 : Bate, JoAnn Sylvester, 3 August 1988
Box 5, Folder 6 : Bate, JoAnn Sylvester, 27 August 1988
Box 5, Folder 7 : Slack, Edwin Kenneth, 17 November 1988
Box 5, Folder 8 : Leavitt, Florence Beatty, 18 November 1988
Box 5, Folder 9 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 18 November 1988
Box 5, Folder 10 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 19 November 1988
Box 5, Folder 11 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 28 January 1989
Box 5, Folder 12 : Roundy, Varsel Clair, 28 January 1989
Box 5, Folder 13 : Blake, Leta Ruby Burnett, 13 April 1989
Box 5, Folder 14 : Stapley, Elton Williams, 14 April 1989
Box 5, Folder 15 : Williams, Florn Jones, 14 April 1989
Box 5, Folder 16 : Graff, Emil Eugene "E.J.," 22 July 1989
Box 5, Folder 17 : LeFebre, Reba Roundy, 22 July 1989
Box 5, Folder 18 : Zohner, Ferl Leola Davis, 22 July 1989
Box 5, Folder 19 : Williams, Terry Lee, 17 August 1989
Box 5, Folder 20 : Williams, Terry Lee, 18 August 1989
Box 5, Folder 21 : LeFevre, Reba Roundy, 6 October 1989
Box 5, Folder 22 : Bate, JoAnn Sylvester, 31 October 1989
Box , Folder : Writings
Box 5, Folder 23 : Bate, Rulon Herbert, Autobiography, dictated to and arranged by Kerry Bate, September 1985
Box 5, Folder 24 : Stapley, William Tarbet, Autobiography, typed and edited by Kerry Bate, May 1987
Box 6, Folder 1 : Bate, Kerry, "Stapley Family," 1991
Box 6, Folder 2 : Bate, Kerry, "Central City Memoir: When Gods do Ill--1974-1976," n.d.
Box , Folder : Contents and indices to oral history interviews
Box 6, Folder 3 : 1983
Box 6, Folder 4 : 1984
Box 6, Folder 5 : 1985
Box 6, Folder 6 : 1986
Box 6, Folder 7 : 1987
Box 6, Folder 8 : 1989

Biographical Note/Historical Note +/-

Kerry William Bate was born on 20 July 1950, in Cedar City, Utah to Max William Bate and Joan Sylvester. In the spring of 1972, Bate worked as the Weber County coordinator for Senator George McGovern's political campaign. In June of the same year, Bate graduated from Weber State College, Ogden, Utah, with a double major of history and political science. On 14 October 1972, he married Marilyn Eileen Turner in Ogden. Throughout the 1970s, Bate served as campaign manager for several state representatives in Utah, including Terry Lee Williams.

In the 1980s, Bate began publishing works related to his family history. The Ebenezer Hanks Story, his family's genealogy contained in a volume that bears the name of Bate's great great grandfather, appeared in 1982. An article on Ebenezer's daughter, "Jane Hanks: Businesswoman, Spiritualist," was written in 1983. Other writings on Bate's family include "Promise to Grandma," appearing in Dialogue's Winter 1986 issue, and a 1992 piece on Charles and Sarah Stapley. Bate also had articles published in genealogical periodicals as well as Mormon periodicals such as Sunstone Review, at which Bate served as a staff member. Bate has worked for the Salt Lake Community Action Program and the State of Utah's Community Development Division in the Department of Community and Economic Development, and has also served as the director of the Central City Neighborhood Council in Salt Lake City.

NOTE: Most of the above information is from Kerry William Bate's biographical entry in his family's genealogy The Ebenezer Hanks Story, page 288-289. Researchers should consult that text for complete genealogical information regarding Bate relatives.

Content Description +/-

This collection consists of transcriptions of oral history interviews conducted by Kerry William Bate from 1983 to 1989. These transcriptions are contained in boxes 1 through 5 of the collection, and are organized chronologically. A few writings prepared by Bate are filed following the transcriptions, and include Rulon Herbert Bate's 1985 autobiography, William Tarbet Stapley's 1987 autobiography, a 1991 article entitled "Stapley Family," and an undated memoir called "Central City Memoir: When Gods do Ill -- 1974-1976". Box 6 consists of the table of contents and indices to the oral history interviews filed in boxes 1 through 5.

Collection Use +/-

Restrictions on Access:

Restrictions on Use

Administrative Information +/-

Arrangement:

Creator:

Bate, Kerry William.

Language:

English.

Sponsor:

Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008

Quantity:

6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

Language of the Finding Aid:

Finding aid written in Englishin Latin script

EAD Creation Date:

1999.