---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 3
published: 1919-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Portrait of Persis M. McKee,” *Improvement Era* 22, no. 3 (January 1919): 207."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2203unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2203unse
start_page: 207
end_page: 207
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2203unse
  publication_year: 1919
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Portrait of Persis M. McKee

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PERSIS  M.  McKEE

Spanish  Fork,  Utah;  born  29th  June,  1820,  Andover,  Maine

A  remarkable  woman  who  seems  to  link  the  distant  past  with  the  pres-

ent— the  days  of  the  rise  of  the  Church  with  today.  The  Book  of  Mormon

she  is  holding  was  given  her  by  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith.  Mrs.  McKee,

with  Sarah  Handy,  folded  the  entire  second  edition  of  the  Book  of  Mor-

mon; and  the  Prophet  gave  each  of  them  one  of  the  books  they  had  folded.

Mrs.  McKee  has  eight  living  children,  one  son  and  seven  daughters,  who

have  had  92  children.  This  photo  was  taken  June,  1918,  a  few  days  before

Mrs.  MeKee's  ninety-eighth  anniversary,  by  George  Ed.  Anderson,  Spring-

ville,  Utah.