Mildred J. Berryman

Mildred "Berry" Berryman
Berry, age 38, in 'The Mineralogist' magazine, July 1940
Born
Mildred Jessie Berryman

(1901-09-22)September 22, 1901[1]
Salt Lake City, Utah[1]
DiedNovember 7, 1972(1972-11-07) (aged 71)[1]
Salt Lake City, Utah[1]
Resting placeBountiful City Cemetery, Bountiful, Utah[1]
40°52′6.5366″N 111°53′18.0384″W / 40.868482389°N 111.888344000°W / 40.868482389; -111.888344000[2]
Other namesBarrie or Berry
Alma materWestminster College[3]: 69 
Notable workThe Psychological Phenomena of the Homosexual[4]: 897–898 
PartnerRuth Uckerman Dempsey[5]
Parents
  • Mildred Stokes[6]: 353 
  • Richard Berryman[6]: 353 

Mildred Jessie Berryman (September 22, 1901 – November 7, 1972), who went by "Berry"[7]: 66 [1] (also spelled "Barrie"),[8] was an early 20th century American pioneering researcher of lesbian and gay community in post-WWI Utah.[9] She was also a photographer, a mineral merchant, and a manufacturing business co-owner with her girlfriend of over three decades.

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Mildred Berryman". The Salt Lake Tribune. November 9, 1972. p. B13 – via University of Utah. Mildred J. "Berry" Berryman, 71, of 3513 S. Main St. Bountiful died Nov. 7, 1972 in a Salt Lake hospital of natural causes. Born Sept. 22, 1901 Salt Lake City to Richard Gordon and Millie Stokes Berryman. Member of Bountiful Community Church, past president of Business and Professional Women, past president American Legion Auxiliary, employed at Stokes-Berryman photography 25 years. Survivors brother G. Stokes Salt Lake City, several nieces and nephews. ... Burial Bountiful Memorial Park.
  2. ^ "Bountiful City Cemetery". Names In Stone. Gateway Mapping.
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  7. ^ Bullough, Vern L. (November 20, 2002). "Berry Berryman (1901–1972)". Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context. New York City: Harrington Park Press. ISBN 1560231939 – via Internet Archive.
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  9. ^ Gallo, Marci M. (September 28, 2007). Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement. Seal Press by Basic Books. ISBN 978-1580052528 – via Google Books. Unknown to them at the time was the work decades earlier of a pioneering lesbian researcher, Mildred (Berry) Berryman. Berryman and her life partner, Ruth ...