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Edna Margaret Wells

Edna Sloan

5 July 1869—5 July 1935

Born 5 July 1869 in Salt Lake City.1 Daughter of Daniel Hanmer Wells and Martha Givens Harris.2 Baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5 July 1877.3 Married Thomas Watts Sloan, 2 Nov. 1892, in Manti, Sanpete Co., Utah Territory; one child.4 Husband served a mission to the southern U.S., Dec. 1892–Jan. 1895.5 Illustrated Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch, a book of poetry by Utah women and edited by EBW, published in 1893.6 With EBW, attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch was displayed in the Utah Building and the Woman’s Building Library, June 1893.7 Exhibited floral watercolors, 1894–1904; secretary of the Art Institute of Utah, 1904.8 EBW noted the birth of her son, Lawrence Wells Sloan, 13 June 1896.9 She and her brother Governor Heber Manning Wells led the procession at his inaugural ball, 7 Jan. 1901.10 Cared for several motherless nieces and nephews.11 Died 5 July 1935 at Salt Lake City.12

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Endowments of the Living, 1888–1956,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Manti Temple, vol. A, 30 May 1888, 17 July 1913, p. 104, line 3525, Edna Margaret Wells, 3 Nov. 1892, microfilm 170485, DGS 4033559 (restricted access), FHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 10 Oct. 2019), Edna Margaret Wells (KWJK-JTB).

  2. 2 “Endowments of the Living, 1888–1956,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Manti Temple, vol. A, 30 May 1888, 17 July 1913, p. 104, line 3525, Edna Margaret Wells, 3 Nov. 1892, microfilm 170485, DGS 4033559 (restricted access), FHL. 1880 U.S. Census, Salt Lake City 12th Ward, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, ED 51, p. 9A, Edna M. Wells.

  3. 3 “Endowments of the Living, 1888–1956,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Manti Temple, vol. A, 30 May 1888, 17 July 1913, p. 104, line 3525, Edna Margaret Wells, 3 Nov. 1892, microfilm 170485, DGS 4033559 (restricted access), FHL.

  4. 4 Sanpete Co., UT, County Clerk, Marriage License Records, 1888–1966, vol. 2, p. 314, Thomas W. Sloan and Edna M. Wells, microfilm 481124, DGS 4624220, FHL.

  5. 5 “Thomas Watts Sloan,” Go Ye into All the World (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/missionary/search?query=Sloan,%20thomas&lang=eng, accessed 9 Oct. 2019). Thomas W. Sloan, Letter, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Wilford Woodruff, in First Presidency, Missionary Calls and Recommendations, 1877–1918, CR 1 168, CHL.

  6. 6 Emmeline B. Wells, ed., Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch (Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon and Sons, 1893).

  7. 7 EBW, Diary, 6, 8–11 June 1893. Sarah Wadsworth and Wayne A. Wiegand, Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman’s Building Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), 63. “Editorial Notes,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 May 1893, 156. “Utah at the World’s Fair,” Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 16 July 1893, 10.

  8. 8 “At the Art Exhibition,” Sunday Herald (Salt Lake City), 2 Dec. 1894, 5. “At the Art Exhibit,” Salt Lake Herald, 12 Dec. 1895, 5. “Art in Utah,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 23 Dec. 1899, 14. “Awards Made Yesterday,” Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 1900, 3. “Art Exhibit Attracts Many Visitors to Display at Provo,” Salt Lake Herald, 21 Sept. 1902, 7. “Fostering Art,” Salt Lake Herald, 4 June 1904, 2. “Art Institute Election,” Salt Lake Tribune, 4 June 1904, 3. Rachel Cope, Amy Easton-Flake, Keith A. Erekson, and Lisa Olsen Tait, eds., Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography (Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017), 154.

  9. 9 EBW, Diary, 16 June 1896.

  10. 10 EBW, Diary, 7/8 Jan. 1901. “Utah’s Most Brilliant Function,” Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Jan. 1901, 5.

  11. 11 “Rites Arranged for Edna Sloan,” Salt Lake Telegram, 6 July 1935, 16.

  12. 12 “Utah State Archives Indexes,” database and images, Utah State Archives (https://archives.utah.gov/research/indexes, accessed 8 Oct. 2019), Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death Certificates, Series 81448, file no. 1192/450 (1935), Edna Margaret Wells Sloan. “Rites Arranged for Edna Sloan,” Salt Lake Telegram, 6 July 1935, 16. “Mrs. Edna Wells Sloan,” Salt Lake Telegram, 8 July 1935, 4.