John McCormick Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Scott M. Matheson was born 8 January 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, a son of Scott Milne and Adele Adams Matheson. He soon moved with his family to Parowan, Utah, and, when he was five years old, to Salt Lake City, where his father became Assistant U.S. Attorney for Utah. Matheson graduated from Salt Lake …
Russell Lowell Maughan
In 1924 he made the first coast-to-coast flight in a day. “Circling high in the sky above the Golden Gate before making a perfect landing on Crissy field, Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan, tonight brought to a wonderful close his third attempt at spanning the United States by airplane within the limits of dawn and dusk of the same day.” So …
William Henry McDougall
This journalist survived shipwreck and imprisonment to become a priest. Twice a Japanese prisoner during World War II, nearly drowned in the Pacific when his ship was sunk, an innovative and energetic newspaperman, recipient of a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, William H. McDougall found enough adventure and achievement in life to satisfy almost anyone. Yet …
Phyllis McGinley
A graduate of Ogden High, she was a Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Phyllis McGinley was born March 21, 1905, in Ontario, Oregon, the daughter of Daniel and Julia Kiesel McGinley. Her father was a land speculator and the family moved often, finally settling on farm land that her father could not sell in Cliff, Colorado. When Phyllis was 12 her …
David O. McKay
(1873 – 1970) As president of the LDS church from 1951 to 1970, leading the church’s emergence from parochial obscurity to a worldwide religion, McKay made the Mormon church an active player in civic projects, encouragement of new business ventures and in the promotion of tourism. The encouragement of tolerance in inter-religious relationships was another trademark of his tenure.
Larry H. Miller
Lorille Horne Miller Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Lawrence H. Miller was born 26 April 1944 to Mary Lorille Horne and Howard Hanley West. His parents divorced in 1946, and in June 1948 his mother married Frank Soren Miller, who legally adopted Larry in September 1949. Larry attended Salt Lake City public schools, graduating from West High School in 1962. He …
David Smith Monson
Craig Fuller Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 David Smith Monson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, 20 June 1945. He attended public schools in Salt Lake City, graduating from Highland High School in 1963. He received a degree in accounting from the University of Utah in 1970 and served in the Utah Air National Guard from 1967 to 1973, reaching …
Frank E. “Ted” Moss
John S. McCormick Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 A moderate Democrat, though personally more liberal than his constituents, Frank E. “Ted” Moss was a three-term U.S. Senator who served from 1959 to 1977. He was born in Holladay, a suburb of Salt Lake City, on 23 September 1911, the youngest of seven children of James E. Moss, a well-known secondary-school educator, …
Harvey Natchees
A hero of World War II, he believed in education. One of the first Americans to enter Berlin in the final days of World War II was Harvey Natchees, a Ute Indian. Born on May 26, 1920, in Altonah, Duchesne County, to Edward and Vera Loney Natchees, he attended Roosevelt High School and was reportedly its first Indian graduate. On …
Katherine Fenton Nutter
She came west as a telegrapher and became Utah’s cattle queen. When Katherine Fenton Nutter died in Salt Lake City on July 17, 1965, at age 94, the Salt Lake Tribune called her “perhaps the last of the West’s cattle queens.” Whether she was the last of her breed is debatable; that she was indeed queen of a vast cattle …