Married John Andreas Widstoe, 1 Jun 1898, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Anna Gaarden Widtsoe, John Andreas Widtsoe, Mark Adriel Widtsoe, Leah Eudora Widtsoe, Helen Widtsoe, Mary Widtsoe, Karl Marcelius Widtsoe
History - Leah graduated as valedictorian, receiving a teaching certificate, from the University of Utah in 1896. She studied domestic science and domestic arts at the Pratt Institute for one year and received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1899. During 1897-1898 she taught home economics at the Brigham Young Academy. She received an honorary doctor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1960.
In 1913, Leah conducted the first home institute for women in Utah. When her husband was director of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station she traveled throughout the state with him, teaching homemakers about kitchen planning and home management. She published a bulletin on labor-saving devices.
In John Widtsoe's autobiography, In a Sunlit Land, he related that Leah played string instruments, the piano, and sang. She had a "native wit" and "shyness was not in her nature." She was an "excellent speaker." Leah was interested in the study of nutrition and "became virtually a propagandist for better nutrition."
With her husband, Leah was the author of The Word of Wisdom: A Modern Interpretation, 1937. She was also the author of How to Be Well: a Handbook on Health with recipes and menus. She wrote a book about her grandfather, Brigham Young the Man of the Hour, and collaborated with her mother, Susa Young Gates on The Life Story of Brigham Young. Leah was a popular speaker on health and nutrition, giving a lecture a few months before her death at age 91.
While her husband was president of USU, Leah oversaw the remodeling of the kitchen to make it more efficient. Their third child was born in an upstairs bedroom.
Married John Andreas Widstoe, 1 Jun 1898, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Anna Gaarden Widtsoe, John Andreas Widtsoe, Mark Adriel Widtsoe, Leah Eudora Widtsoe, Helen Widtsoe, Mary Widtsoe, Karl Marcelius Widtsoe
History - Leah graduated as valedictorian, receiving a teaching certificate, from the University of Utah in 1896. She studied domestic science and domestic arts at the Pratt Institute for one year and received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1899. During 1897-1898 she taught home economics at the Brigham Young Academy. She received an honorary doctor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1960.
In 1913, Leah conducted the first home institute for women in Utah. When her husband was director of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station she traveled throughout the state with him, teaching homemakers about kitchen planning and home management. She published a bulletin on labor-saving devices.
In John Widtsoe's autobiography, In a Sunlit Land, he related that Leah played string instruments, the piano, and sang. She had a "native wit" and "shyness was not in her nature." She was an "excellent speaker." Leah was interested in the study of nutrition and "became virtually a propagandist for better nutrition."
With her husband, Leah was the author of The Word of Wisdom: A Modern Interpretation, 1937. She was also the author of How to Be Well: a Handbook on Health with recipes and menus. She wrote a book about her grandfather, Brigham Young the Man of the Hour, and collaborated with her mother, Susa Young Gates on The Life Story of Brigham Young. Leah was a popular speaker on health and nutrition, giving a lecture a few months before her death at age 91.
While her husband was president of USU, Leah oversaw the remodeling of the kitchen to make it more efficient. Their third child was born in an upstairs bedroom.
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Emma Lucy Gates Bowen
1880–1951
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Isaac Clayton Dunford
1883–1905
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Margaret Moon Dunford Gardiner
1886–1949
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Brigham Cecil Gates
1887–1941
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Alice Amelia Dunford Greene
1888–1976
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Rachel Grant Dunford Lingard
1889–1948
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Ruth Olive Dunford
1892–1907
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William Chauncey Dunford
1895–1937
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Leah Mary Dunford Kener
1907–1993
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Lucy Y. Gates
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