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This collection was donated to USU Special Collections and Archives by John Duncan Brite in 1971.
John Duncan Brite papers, 1878-1971. (COLL MSS 005). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.
J. Duncan Brite was born March 4, 1901. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1922 and went on to be a fellow and research assistant at the University of Chicago, where he earned a master's degree in American history and a doctorate in European history. He taught at Kansas State College, Ohio State University, Penn State University, and Oxford University, among others. Brite was a professor of history at Utah State University from 1933 until his retirement in 1971. He was head of the Utah State History Department from 1964 to 1966. He won various awards and honors and was active in many different groups, including the Cache Valley Historical Society and the American Historical Association. He moved to California in 1982, where he died on July 8, 1985 at the age of 84.
Collection largely comprised of materials on the history of Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, and Congregationalist Churches in Cache County, Utah, and Franklin County, Idaho, and the mission schools established by these denominations in Cache Valley. Data on the Protestant movement of the 1870s to 1890s directed toward conversion of the Mormons in Utah and southeastern Idaho, short histories done on various private and public schools and on various congregations in the two counties, and the minutes of the Cache Valley Centennial Commission (1955-1956) are also included.
Some of the materials in the collection are reproductions and include: typescript notes, transcriptions from books, periodicals, manuscript collections, and personal interviews. The handwritten correspondence to Dr. Brite is concerned with the schools and churches in Cache Valley.
Also included in this collection are personal files of Dr. Brite. They include notes from classes he attended as a student, papers written as a student, materials used in classes he taught, outlines for lectures he gave, scholarly papers he wrote, and a manuscript for an unpublished work he wrote entitled, "Scientific and Technological Forces in Modern World History." These are organized topically and then alphabetically. The collection also includes information he collected about the University of Miami, the Utah Academy, and newspapers he saved about the major events of World War II.
Organized into the following series: I. Cache Valley Historical Society; II. Drafts and Corrected Galley Proofs of Chapters Twelve and Thirteen of History of a Valley; III. Correspondence and Notes: Protestant And Catholic Schools and Churches In Cache Valley; IV. Presbyterian Schools and Churches in Cache Valley; V. Correspondence and Notes: Public Schools in Cache Valley Including Some Newspaper Transcriptions Dealing with Protestant Schools.
See also: Correspondence concerning Presbyterians in box III