Ella Walby Collection
Content Description
Books, Photocopies of Student Textbooks and Other Materials
Dates
- Creation: 1892 - 2017
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research
Biographical / Historical
Collection was donated by Shirley Alice Dickinson Erhart: Birth 15 Dec 1929, Union, Mason County, Washington, USA; Death 19 Jul 2022 (aged 92), Shelton, Mason County, Washington, USA. It belonged to her grandmother, Ella Walby.
Ella Louise Walby Benton: Birth 6 Jul 1876, California, USA; Death 28 Jan 1929 (aged 52), Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
University of Idaho alum and raised in Genesee, Idaho.
Beloved wife of William B. Benton, mother of Alice Benton of Portland, Mrs. Gunner Haglund, Deep River, Wash.; Mrs. A. O. Dickinson of Union, Wash.
Her family immigrated from Germany and homesteaded in Genesee in 1884.
--Find a Grave
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Books, Photocopies of Student Textbooks
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials donated by Shirley Erhart in 2017 (UA 2017-03).
Condition Description
good
- Title
- Guide to Ella Walby Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding Aid prepared by Ariana Burns
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository