J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Manuscripts Division
Special Collections
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0860
801-581-8864
http://www.lib.utah.edu/collections/manuscripts.php
ACCN 0845
Summerhays, John W.
John W. Summerhays papers
1913-1960s
4 boxes
2 linear feet
The John W. Summerhays (1890-1980) papers consist mainly of military records and publications related to the United States Army and the Selective Service. The collection also contains a limited amount of materials concerning Summerhays' civilian life. Also included is a sizeable European postcard collection from the 1910s.
Collection materials are in
English.
Biographical Note
John W. Summerhays (1890-1980) was a United States Army Lt. Colonel who lived in Utah for much of his life. He served in World War I, and also in World War II as a coordinator for the Selective Service in Utah, and in occupied Japan during 1947-1948. He received a bachelor degree in military science from the University of Utah in 1956. Summerhays performed as a tenor with various amateur and professional opera groups throughout his life, and taught music at Granite High School for 17 years. Summerhays married Jane Carter (1902-1992), and was father to their 7 children.
The John W. Summerhays Papers consists mainly of records and publications from Summerhays' time in the U.S. Army. There are a number of manuals and regulations related to the Selective Service, which Summerhays helped to coordinate. Summerhays was stationed in Europe during World War I and collected a sizable number of European postcards, both used and blank, which are included in the collection. Also included are a small number of clippings and other items commemorating Summerhays' opera singing career.
By subject.
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.
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.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Donated by Mrs. John W. Summerhays in 1985.
Processed by Michael Bills in 2015.
Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0275).
Summerhays, John W.--Archives
United States. Selective Service System
Draft--Utah
World War, 1939-1945--Utah
Military
Manuals
Maps
Postcards
I
Military and personal records
1
1
Biographical materials
1943
1956
1
2
General materials
1
3
Aircraft pictorial manual, supplement no. 5
1947
1
4
Index of Bulletins
1
5-13
Selective Service System, Utah State Headquarters, Bulletins
1941-1946
1
14
General materials
1940-1947
This folder contains a letter; selective service materials; staff directory from the headquarters of the 1st Cavalry Division of Camp Drake (Tokyo), Japan; and a telephone directory from Camp Drake.
1
15
Maps of Japan
1945-1946
This folder contains maps of Kyushu, Hokkaido and Honshu. Two of the maps list confirmed and unconfirmed airfields and seaplane stations.
II
War Department materials
2
1
A Manual for Courts-Martial U. S. Army
1943
2
2
War Department Technical Manual, Military Justice Procedure
1945
2
3-4
Selective Service Regulations
1940s
3
1
War Department Educational Manual, English Grammar: A Self-teaching Course
1943
3
2
Selective Service System, State of Utah, World War II (1940-1947), Report of the State Director, by Colonel H. Arnold Rich
1946
This report contains the following content index:
- Administration
- Advisors
- Agriculture
- Board Clerks
- Calls, Inductions and Enlistments
- Coal Mining
- Conclusions and Recommendations
- Conscientious Objectors
- Deferments
- Delinquents
- Dependency
- Discharges and Veterans Administration
- Federal Employees
- Finance, Property and Supply
- Headquarters
- Initial Organization
- Japanese
- Lawyers
- Merchant Marine
- Mining
- Ministers of Religion
- Morale
- Physical Rejects
- Physicians
- Railroads
- Registrations
- Relationship to U.S. Employment Service
- Replacement Schedules
- Roster
- Selection of Board Members
- State Employees
- Students
3
3
Greater Tokyo Area, Occupation Forces, Telephone Directories
1947 May-June
1947 October-December
III
European travel materials
Boxes 3 and 4 contain published pictorial tourist booklets.
3
4
"Petit Dictionnaire Francais"
circa 1913
3
5
"Nouveau Plan de Paris"
1913
3
6
Postcard correspondence
1911-1914
4
1
"Album von Berlin"
4
2
"Souvenir d'Anvers"
4
3
"Lyon"
4
4
"Gand Exposition"
1913
4
5
"Der Rhein von Mainz bis Dusseldorf"
4
6
"Bruxelles: Heliographies de ND. Phot."
4
7
Paris postcard collection
circa 1913
4
8
Postcards
circa 1913
4
9
Postcard booklets of Monaco, Verdun and Versailles