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The collection was donated in September 2001 and before coming to the BYU Library, had remained in the family.
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Emily Stevenson McDonald Carlisle was born 6 September 1886 to Francis McDonald and Rozella Stevenson in Big Cottonwood (now Holladay) Utah. She was the oldest of eleven children. Emily was a highly educated woman. In 1907, she graduated from University of Utah Normal School. She received her masters degree from the University of Utah in 1916. During the summers of 1918 and 1923, she interned at Columbia University. She continued her education throughout all her life as she took summer sessions at University of California and University of Utah. In 1952, she received her MS from the University of Utah.
Emily married Harvey Cartwright Carlisle on 19 July 1923. She would have two children in this marriage: Isabelle and Frank McDonald Carlisle. Harvey had children from his other marriages, and so, they too came to accept Emily as their mother. Harvey died 3 July 1935, leaving Emily a widow. She never remarried.
Beginning in 1907, Emily began teaching in Granite District, Utah. From 1916-1923, she was the head of the English Department at Granite High School. In 1935, Emily began teaching at Cyprus Junior and Senior High School. During this time, she was an advisor of the yearbook which won many national awards.
In addition to Emily’s accomplishments as a teacher, she was very active in church service, social service, and politics. She served as Director of Cottonwood Stake Maternity Hospital, 1926-1931; first President of the Granite PTA Council, 1924-1925; President of Twin Peaks Camp, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1956-1958; Member of Eighteenth Session of the State Legislature, 1935-1936 and 1947-1948; President of Utah Council of Teachers of English; and many other things.
During the last years of her life, Emily lived with her children Frank, in New York, and Isabelle Carlisle Packard, in California. Emily died in San Luis Obispo, California on 24 January 1975.
The collection contains correspondence between Emily Stevenson McDonald Carlisle, relatives, and ancestors; family history and biographies; information on Holladay, Utah; identification documents and certificates of Emily Stevenson McDonald Carlisle and family; newspaper clippings; school papers and events; organizations that Emily McDonald Carlisle and family were involved in; legal and financial information; yearbooks; photographs; and miscellaneous material. The collection is contained in six boxes.
Genealogical information has been compiled together to assist in the research process and is contained in box 1, fd. 37. They consist of a 3 ½ floppy disk containing information on PAF (Personal Ancestral File) and a sheet of paper containing a list of the main people in the collection with names, dates, spouses, children, and parents
[All of the folders contain photocopies of photographs. Folders 10-15 contain photocopies made by the creator of the collection and folders 16-36 contain photocopies of the original photographs which have been transferred to Photo Archives.]