Robert Webster Carder papers on Carder family history
Scope and Contents
Includes notes and pedigree charts typed, written, and compiled by Robert Webster Carder of his family history.
Dates
- 1955-1986
Creator
- Carder, Robert Webster, 1907-1988 (creator, Person)
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 the Carder family history papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Robert Webster Carder (1907-1988) was a family historian from Connecticut.
Robert Webster Carder was born on February 2, 1907, in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents Josiah Smith and Grace Livermore Webster Carder. He married Ruth Elizabeth Kelius (1905-1983) on August 4, 1931, in Singapore, China. They later settled in Madison, Connecticut. After retiring, Carder was involved in extensive family history research. He published three works on family history: Index, Bulletin of the Stamford Genealogical Society; Carder family genealogical collection; and Richard Carder of Boston, Mass., Portsmouth and Warwick, R.I. and some of his descendants.
Carder died on August 21, 1988, in Fairfield Connecticut.
Extent
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Found in stacks in 2014.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Found in stacks; November 2014.
Appraisal
Utah and the American West and LDS cultural, social, and religious history (20th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy 5.V, August 2007).
Processing Information
Processed; Sadie Hutchinson; 2015.
- Title
- Register of Robert Webster Carder papers on Carder family history
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sadie Hutchinson
- Date
- August 12, 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States