John Duncan Brite papers, 1878-1971

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materials used in classes he taught, outlines for lectures he gave, scholarly papers he wrote, and a manuscript for an unpublished work he wrote entitled, "Scientific and Technological Forces in Modern World History."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.