Family Foundation of America records
Scope and Contents
Business records of Kenneth Dale Wells' Family Foundation of America. Includes an autobiography and biographical material of Wells and his wife Ruth, speeches, photographs, professional files, retirement papers, and extensive research files on individuals. Professional files include meeting minutes, reports, project files, publicity , and correspondence. Also includes some material on Freedoms Foundation. Largely focuses on the international activities of the Family Foundation. Central American civil warfare, effects of land mines on children, orphanages, artificial limbs. Wells worked in Guatemala and El Salvador. He worked with Jose Napoleon Duarte to establish and orphanage in El Salvador.
Dates
- Creation: 1977-1992
Creator
- Wells, Ruth E. (Ruth Elizabeth), 1909-2001 (Person)
- Wells, Kenneth Dale, 1908-1998 (Person)
- Family Foundation of America (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Family Foundation of America collection must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical / Historical
Oversaw employer-employee realations for Union Oil, 1939-1949. Founded Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, 1949, served as chairman of the board, built the foundation's campus, and worked closely with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Retiree, 1970. Founded Family Foundation after retirement. Through it he and his wife Ruth worked with schools and orphanages in El Salvador.
Extent
80 boxes (40 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
Finding aid available in repository.
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS1610.xml
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Author, Edgewater, Florida, gift, 1992.
Appraisal
Utah and the American West and LDS cultural, social, and religious history (20th century Western & Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.VII, 2007).
Subject
- Duarte, José Napoleón (Person)
- Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge (Organization)
- Family Foundation of America (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Register of Family Foundation of America records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jennifer Kim
- Date
- 2011 September 13
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
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Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States