Myrtle Arvilla Trent papers
Overview
Contains a brief autobiography by Myrtle Arvilla Trent, including details about her early years in Hartville, Oklahoma living in a family-built rock house and her family's move to Arkansas, Missouri, and eventually Kansas in 1922. Also includes details about her courtship and marriage to Lucas Trent, raising her family, and helping her husband with his work at W. B. Young Wholesale Company, the lives of her children, and a flood in Hutchinson, Kansas... in 1929.
See moreDates
- Creation: 1971
Creator
- Trent, Myrtle Arvilla, 1898-1986 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Biography of Myrtle Arvilla Trent (1898-1986)
Myrtle Arvilla Trent was born in 1898 in Oklahoma to Moses Trader Ball and Mary Elizabeth Shell Ball. In 1916, Myrtle married Lucas Trent, and together they had seven children: Albert, Alfred, Alvis, Arvin, Annis, Alena, and Alaria. Myrtle Trent died in Hutchinson, Kansas on November 1, 1986.
Extent
1 folder : 7 pages, mimeograph of a typescript ; Pages measure 28 cm.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH MS P190
Subject
- Trent, Myrtle Arvilla, 1898-1986 (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Myrtle Arvilla Trent Collection
- Subtitle
- Myrtle Arvilla Trent papers
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by kpz, 1973. Finding aid encoded by cmp, 2021.
- Date
- 2021-03
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4300341334
- Preferred citation
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Myrtle Arvilla Trent papers, RH MS P190, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository