Typescript with heading: "At the request of the Church Historian, I am making notes on the life of John M. Whitaker," (13 pages) commencing with the founding of Centerville in 1847; birth of John Whitaker in 1863; recollections from childhood; Father's farming and horticulture activity in Centerville; Construction of the Utah Central Railroad; Some excerpts from Whitaker's Journal "no. 3, early 1886 to September 1887, including marriage to Ida Taylor, work for the historians office, problems of the LDS Church with the federal government, etc