Fern Flagler Peery papers, 1840-2008

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Peery, Fern Flagler
Title
Fern Flagler Peery papers
Dates
1840-2008 (inclusive)
Quantity
10.25 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 2473
Summary
The Fern Flagler Peery papers (1840-2008) contain correspondence, diaries, vital records, genealogy, and news clippings of Peery and her family members. Also included is family history research.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Fern Flagler was born 13 January 1917 in Elko, Nevada, the daughter of Robert H. Flagler and Elizabeth Fisher Flagler. In 1936 she married Frank E. Larson Jr., and had two children, Frankie and Brent. The couple divorced sometime in the 1940s. Fern was married again in 1949 to University of Utah professor Joseph S. Peery and had two children, Teri and Tana. They divorced in 1991.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Fern Flagler Peery papers (1840-2008) contain correspondence, diaries, vital records, genealogy, news clippings and scrapbooks. The bulk of correspondence is regarding Fern F. Peery's children, and second husband Joe. The collection houses many books and newspaper clippings regarding Henry Morrison Flagler, the Father of Miami, a relative of Fern F. Peery. Also of note are two tubes containing numerous brass rubbings made by Fern. Where possible, original order of the creator has been maintained.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Donated by Tana Hunter in 2009.

Separated Materials

Photographs have been tranferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P1592).

Processing Note

Processed by Julia Huddleston in 2009.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Diaries and MemorabiliaReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
Birth, Death, and Marriage Certificates
1911-2000
1 2
Insurance Papers
1940s
1 3-4
Memorabilia
Folders 3 and 4 contain personal material gathered by Fern, including news clippings about various gardening awards she had won, her 50 year high school reunion, poetry, and photocopies of her marriage license to Frank Larson.
1938-1997
1 5-6
Cambridge Trip Diary
1966
1 7
European Trip Diary
1968-1969

CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1
Frankie's Letters
1939-1981
2 2
Brent P. Larson, Vital Records
1940-1973
2 3
Brent, School Papers
2 4
Brent and Frankie, Car Accident
1947
2 5
Brent, Navy Correspondence
1959-1968
2 6-7
Teri and Tana
1968-2008
3 1
Letters regarding Joe
1946-1995
3 2
Fern and Joe's Wedding
1949
3 3-4
Kids and Grandkids
1974-2002
3 5-6
Fern's Family Letters, R. H. Flagler, Beth and Ruth
Contains letters from father, Robert Henry Flagler, and sisters Beth Flagler Spratt and Ruth Flagler Barnabei.
1907-1969
3 7
Vardis Fisher
Fern's mother, Elizabeth Fisher Flagler, was a cousin to Vardis Fisher.
1840-1991
3 8
Leroy Fisher Flagler
1939-1965
3 9
Blank Postcards

Daughters of the American Revolution and Books on Brass RubbingsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
4 1-2
Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Charts
4 3
DAR Salt Lake Valley Chapter Yearbook
1996-1998
4 4
Monumental Brasses , Herbert Macklin
1966
4 5
Monumental Brasses in Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely
1968

Henry Morrison FlaglerReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
5 1
Henry Morrison Flagler, Magazine and News Clippings
1976-1998
5 2
The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum
1975
5 3
The Flagler Story and Memorial Church
1975
5 4
Edward N. Akin, Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron
1988
5 5
Sidney Walter Martin, Florida's Flagler
1949
5 6
David A. Redding, Flagler and His Church
1970
5 7
Sandra Wallus Sammons, Henry Flagler: Builder of Florida

Poetry BooksReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
6 1
Henry Drummond, The Greatest Thing in the World
6 2
Ted Malone, ed. Pack Up Your Troubles
1942
6 3
James J. Metcalfe, Poem Portraits
1948
6 4
Ogden Nash, The Face Is Familiar
1941

Oversize MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
7
Awards and Certificates
Box 7 includes certificates awarded to Fern for perfect attendance in elementary school, bowling league awards, wine labels, and a cork from a bottle of champagne served and Fern and Joseph S. Peery's wedding in 1949.
1920-1968
8
Neighborhood Garden Club Scrapbook
1984-1985
tube
9-10
Brass Rubbings
Boxes 9 and 10 contain brass rubbings done by Fern Flagler Peery, most likely during her stay in Cambridge in 1966. Most are done in black wax on white paper, with a few done in blue and copper. Of note, there are several rubbings of the Lace Lady, as well as various religious figures.
Box
11-12
Scrapbooks
Box 11 contains two scrapbooks of new clippings created by Tera Hunter, Fern's granddaughter. Box 12 contains a scrapbook of the Neighborhood Garden Club.
1984-1987
tube
13-14
Posters
Tubes 14 and 15 contain an assortment of posters, including a map of open spaces in Salt Lake City, baseball players, the University of Utah football and gymnastics teams, calendars from the Cosmic Aeroplane, playbills, possibly designed by Teri Peery, and caricatures of Teri, Tana and Joseph Peery while in Paris.
1967-1994

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Personal Names

  • Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830-1913
  • Peery, Joseph S.

Family Names

  • Flagler family

Form or Genre Terms

  • Clippings
  • Correspondence
  • Diaries
  • Genealogy
  • Scrapbooks