Michael Christensen Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Norman Bangerter was born in Granger, Utah, on 4 January 1933 to William H. Bangerter, a building contractor and farmer, and Isabelle Bawden Bangerter. He was the tenth of eleven children. In 1953 he married Colleen Monson of Magna, and the couple had six children of their own while also raising a foster son. …
Arthur L. Chaffin
A road to scenic southeastern Utah was one of Arthur Chaffin’s accomplishments. Although Glen Canyon gold mining was his first love, Arthur L. Chaffin made impressive contributions to his native state as a road builder and ferry operator as well as a boatman and Indian trader. His construction of a road from Hanksville to Hite, which he then linked in …
George Henry Dern
Newell G. BringhurstUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 George H. Dern was a Utah mining man, businessman, and politician. He was born in 1872 in Dodge County, Nebraska, the son of John Dern, a farmer-businessman. Dern attended the University of Nebraska for three years. In 1894, before graduating, he migrated to Utah following his father’s lead in the wake of the elder …
Thomas Kearns
Miriam B. MurphyUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Thomas Kearns was born in 1862 in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada, to Margaret Maher and Thomas Kearns. He moved with his Irish immigrant parents to a farm in Nebraska and there obtained a grammar-school education. The development of mining in the West drew him in 1883 to Park City, Utah, where he worked, prospected, …
Russell G. Frazier
A mining camp doctor, he ran wild rivers and explored Antarctica. Russell G. Frazier claimed that he was predestined both by ancestry and early upbringing for the adventuresome career be enjoyed as a mining camp physician, river runner, and Antarctic explorer. One of his ancestors, he said, was John Paul Jones, and another was one of George Washington’s officers who …
Reed Smoot
David GesselUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Reed Smoot represented Utah in the United States Senate for thirty years, longer than any other Utah senator past or present. He was the first native-born Utahn to establish a national political reputation and was also the only Mormon apostle to serve in the U.S. Senate. During his senatorial career, Smoot served concurrently as a …
Daniel Jackling
(1859 – 1956) The father of Utah copper mining, Jackling helped found the Utah Copper Co. in 1903. Figuring that mining would only be profitable with the open-pit method of ore recovery, he began in Bingham Canyon what was to become the world’s largest open-pit mine. Kennecott eventually bought the mine, and copper became king in Utah.
Charles Warner Lockerbie
Utah’s bird man recognized more than 300 bird calls. Charles Warner Lockerbie was born January 7, 1879, near Mankato, Minnesota, to William and Belle Garrett Lockerbie. At age eleven he moved with his mother and sister to Salt Lake City to live with his maternal grandparents. Growing up near the Jordan River he developed an intense interest in its wildlife, …
David Daniel Marriott
Jay M. Haymond Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Dan Marriott was born in Bingham, Tooele County, on 2 November 1939. He attended public schools in Sandy and graduated from Jordan High School in 1958. He attended the University of Utah and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1967; he later earned a certificate from the American College of Life …
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 …