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Governors of the State of Utah
Heber Manning Wells First Governor of the State of Utah from 1896–1905 Republican Party When Utah achieved statehood in 1896, 36-year-old Wells, a Salt Lake City native, became the first Governor of the State of Utah and the youngest governor to date. A former tax collector, city recorder, and secretary of the 1895 Utah Constitutional Convention, Wells was later involved in banking. He set …
Territorial Governors of Utah
Brigham Young First Governor of the Territory of Utah from 1850–1858 Brigham Young, first Governor of the Territory of Utah, from 1850–1858 Named governor in 1850 by Millard Fillmore, he was reappointed in 1854 by Franklin Pierce when Lt. Col. Edward J. Steptoe refused the post. Young as territorial executive was concerned with organizing the territorial government, selecting the location of the …
The Peoples of Utah, Navajos
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Navajos,” pp. 13–27 by Clyde J. Benally In beauty (happily) I walk. With beauty before me I walk. With beauty behind me I walk. With beauty below me I walk. With beauty above me I walk. It is finished (again) in beauty. It is finished in beauty. –Night Chant …
The Peoples of Utah, Japanese Life in Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Japanese Life in Utah,” pp. 333-62 by Helen Z. Papanikolas and Alice Kasai The mists rise over The still pools at Asuka. Memory does not Pass away so easily. …Akahito For centuries the Japanese were content to live isolated in their wooded land of crags, mists, and ample waters, but …
The Peoples of Utah, The Oft-Crossed Border: Canadians in Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Oft-Crossed Border: Canadians in Utah,” pp. 279–301 by Maureen Ursenbach and Richard L. Jensen Probably the first significant meeting of two Canadians in what is now Utah took place on the banks of the Weber River, east of present Ogden, on May 23, 1825. There, around mid-morning, Peter Skene …
The Peoples of Utah, Italianita in Utah: The Immigrant Experience
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Italianita in Utah: The Immigrant Experience,” pp. 303–31 by Philip F. Notarianni Many years later I was to realize that, to a child of nine years, emigration to America meant a new birth, to which a certain inevitable continuity with the past had given an added significance. …Angelo M. …
The Peoples of Utah, Immigration from the Middle East
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “From Babylon to Babylon: Immigration from the Middle East,” pp. 385–408 by Robert F. Zeidner Syria has always been an inhospitable place to live in and a splendid place to leave. …Philip K. Hitti INTRODUCTION The Middle Eastern peoples who settled in Utah–and in the entire nation–represent a congeries of …
The Peoples of Utah, The Exiled Greeks
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Exiled Greeks,” pp. 409–35 by Helen Z. Papanikolas Small bird, there where you fly to Ameriki, Tell me, where does my son sleep? When he is sick, who tends him? …Folk song of immigration At the beginning of the century, thousands of young Greeks began coming to Utah to live …
The Peoples of Utah, Imperial Zion: The British Occupation of Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Imperial Zion: The British Occupation of Utah,” pp. 61–113 by Frederick S. Buchanan On board the “International” All joyful and lighthearted. Bound Zionward, four hundred Saints, From Liverpool we started. We’re English, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh Assembled here together; Resolved to do the will of God, Whate’er the wind and …