By Scott L. Greenwell “The chief glory of every people arises from its authors”[*] ~Samuel Johnson Ask anyone in Ogden about Bernard DeVoto and chances are you’ll meet with a polite shrug and a blank stare. Hardly anyone seems to know who DeVoto is or was. How could his hometown have forgotten the one whom Wallace Stegner considered “Utah’s …
Class 1 U. S. Senators belong to the electoral cycle that has recently been contested in 1994, 2000, 2006, and 2012, etc. . Thomas Kearns, Republican Time in Office: January 23, 1901–March 3, 1905 . . George Sutherland, Republican Time in Office: March 4, 1905–March 3, 1917 . . William H. King, Democrat March 4, 1917–January 3, 1941 . . …
African Americans Built Churches Utah’s Early African American Farmers Improbable Ambassadors: Black Soldiers African Americans at Fort Douglas Hotel Served Basques & African Americans Hispanic Folk Practices Early Greek Immigrants Greek Sheepmen The Greek Midwife Magerou Scandinavian Life in Utah South Slav Community in Midvale The Fall of Skliris, “Czar of the Greeks” Mining and the Immigrants Japanese Farmers in …
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Falcons in Flight: The Yugoslavs,” pp. 373–83 by Joseph Stipanovich Oh, rocky Lika,2 your soil is poor and barren, but for every one of your stones you have a gray falcon.3 …Traditional Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes began arriving in Utah in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The …
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Scandinavian Saga,” pp. 151–85″ by William Mulder I In the telephone directories, Utah looks decidedly Anglo-Scandinavian. History and the statistics confirm the impression. Utah’s Scandinavians and their descendants, as with most of the state’s other immigrants from northern Europe, are largely the fruit of over a century of Mormon proselyting …
Maurice Abravanel Florence Ellinwood Allen Fortunato Anselmo Leonard Arrington Norman Bangerter Edwina Booth Reva Beck Bosone John Eugene Broaddus Juanita Brooks John M. Browning Arthur L. Chaffin Edward Wilbur Clyde George Henry Dern Harold Drake, Sr. Marriner Eccles Lantie Jesse Eldred Alf Engen Philo Farnsworth Anne Marie Fox Felt John Dennis Fitzgerald John J. Fitzpatrick Harvey Fletcher Russell G. Frazier …
James Bridger Martha H. Cannon David Eccles John C. Fremont Miles Goodyear Jacob Hamblin Hoskannini Albert S. Johnston Thomas Kearns Tabby-To-Kwanah Peter Skene Ogden Chief Ouray Chief Pocatello John Wesley Powell Etienne Provost Jedediah S. Smith Reed Smoot Arthur V. Watkins John Weber Brigham Young
Introductory Text goes here And more text And more More, too…… Government Leaders Territorial Governors State Governors U. S. Senators Influential Citizens This diverse group of Utahns includes those whose efforts, abilities, and skills have enriched the lives of the citizens of both the State of Utah and the world. Scientists, explorers, teachers, artists, inventors, musicians, athletes, and people of …