University of Wyoming
Hyrum Smith Shumway was born in 1921 in Salt Lake City. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1943 with a BS in Pre-Med. He completed a MS in Education at the University of Maryland in 1952. He served in the U.S. Army, 18th Infantry, First Division, 1943-1946 and was wounded in the D Day invasion, losing his eyesight. After the war he worked for the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in Baltimore, 1946-1955. He was a state official in Cheyenne, Wyoming from 1955-1970, serving as the director for the Division for the Deaf and Blind, Wyoming State Department of Education. He was a bishop and member of the High Council in the Mormon Church. Hyrum married Sarah Bagley in 1948. Sarah was born in Afton, Wyoming in 1921 and grew up on the family's ranch. She graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1943 with a BS in Home Economics. She worked as a home economist in Wyoming, prior to her marriage to Shumway. The Shumways raised their eight children in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Sarah was also very active in the Mormon Church.
The Hyrum and Sarah Bagley Shumway collection contains bound, unpublished copies of the "Autobiography of H. Smith Shumway" (1996) and the "Autobiography of Sarah Bagley Shumway" (1992).
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There are no known other archival collections created by Hyrum Smith and Sarah Bagley Shumway at the date of processing.
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