Item Detail
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Cardon, Chloe Smoot
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1888-1977
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MSS SC 2735
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Scrapbook
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Chloe Smoot Cardon was born on 4 December 1888 in Provo, Utah. She was the second oldest child of Reed Smoot and Alpha May Eldredge Smoot, her siblings being Harold Reed, Seth Eldredge (who lived only a day), Harlow Eldredge, Anne Kristine, Zella Esther, and Earnest Winder.
Chloes father became a well-known Utah senator and general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was appointed to both positions around the same time (1903 and 1900 respectively), which caused some controversy, given the Churchs policies and past experience with plural marriage, among other things.
Little is known about Chloe herself, other than that she was at least an intermediate student at Brigham Young Academy, and that later in life she took an active part in social and political affairs in her places of residence. It is also known that she became severely ill, possibly while she was living in Washington, D.C., in April of 1914, and as a result, she was mentioned in an article in the Deseret News.
On 22 August 1910, Chloe married Ariel Frederick Cardon, and together they had 3 children: Reed Smoot, John Ariel, and Robert Le Roy.
She died on 10 September 1977 in Alexandria, Virginia. -
This is a scrapbook consisting of 43 pages of mixed white paper and brown cardstock. The pages are bound in a binder, and the book bears the title, Chloe Smoot. Domestic Art C. with the added date, 1898. The scrapbook begins with a handwritten index, and the remainder is filled with bits of cloth, patterns for skirts, underskirts, and other articles of clothing. All notes, captions, etc. are handwritten.