JAPANESE FARMERS INTRODUCED NEW CASH CROPS IN SANPETE John S. H. Smith History Blazer, August 1995 Japanese began settling in Utah just before 1900. Although many chose Utah’s cities in which to make a living, they made their major contribution to the state’s development in rural areas. Box Elder, Weber, and Salt Lake counties drew the largest number of Japanese. …
Ethnic Cultures. Selected Bibliography
African American Bringhurst, Newell G. “An Ambiguous Decision: The Implementation of Mormon Priesthood Denial for the Black Man — A Reexamination,” UHQ 46 (1975): 45-64. Clark, Michael J. U.S. Army Pioneers: Black Soldiers in Nineteenth-Century Utah. Salt Lake City, 1981. ________. “Improbable Ambassadors: Black Soldiers at Fort Douglas, 1869-99,” UHQ (1978): 282-301. Coleman, Ronald G. “The Buffalo Soldiers: Guardians of …
Old La Sal Was Once a Thriving Cow Town
Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, November 1995 Ghost towns, colorful reminders of the old west, are generally relics of the mining industry. Utah, however, has several ghost towns of other origin. This is the story of old La Sal, the ghost site of a once vigorous cow town, now stripped of its houses, stores, barns, corrals—and even its name. According …
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Morris A. Shirts Utah History Encyclopedia In April 1857 a California-bound wagon train estimated at 40 wagons, 120 to 150 men, women, and children, and as many as 900 head of beef cattle, in addition to draft and riding animals, assembled near the Crooked Creek, approximately four miles south of present-day Harrison, Arkansas. Most of these emigrants were from northwestern …
Women Workers and Housing Issues
Glen M. Leonard History of Davis County During World War II, many Utah women joined the civilian forces at defense plants and military installations. They worked as drivers, guards, ammunition inspectors, safety specialists, machinists, and in other traditionally male jobs. For most women, this was their first job outside the home. They went to work in slacks, a new phenomenon …
David Eccles
Leonard J. ArringtonUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 David Eccles was born in Paisley, Scotland, on 12 May 1849. He was the second son in a family of seven children born to William and Sarah Hutchinson Eccles. William, a half-blind wood turner, and Sarah lived in poverty in the Glasgow area until 1863, when, having converted to Mormonism, they migrated with their …
John Charles Fremont
Mary Lee Spence Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 John C. Fremont was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1813, the son of Charles Fremont, a French emigre, and Ann Beverly Whiting of Virginia. Fremont spent his boyhood in Charleston and was educated in the Scientific Department of the College of Charleston before his expulsion in 1831, three months short of graduation. In …
Miles Goodyear
Richard W. SadlerUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Miles Goodyear was a mountain man during the last years of the fur trade who built and occupied Fort Buenaventura in what is now Ogden, Utah. Goodyear was born in Hamden, Connecticut, on 24 February 1817 and was orphaned at the age of four. After serving much of his youth as a “bound Boy,” …
Jacob Hamblin
Jay M. HaymondUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Jacob Hamblin was born 6 April 1819 in Ashtabula County, Ohio. His parents were farmers, and he learned farming as a youth. In 1836 his family moved to Wisconsin Territory and homesteaded at a place called Spring Prairie. Hamblin’s father told Jacob when he was nineteen that he had been a faithful boy and …
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Florence Ellinwood Allen was the first woman appointed to a federal appellate court. She was born March 23, 1884, to Clarence Emil and Corinne Marie Tuckerman Allen in Salt Lake City where her family had moved in 1881, in an attempt to cure her father’s tuberculosis. He taught at Hammond Hall, a school run by the Congregational church as part …