Lyndia CarterHistory Blazer, April 1996 In the quiet solemnity of the Heber City cemetery stands a simple sandstone marker bearing the initials T. T. A huge pine tree towers over the grave, shadowing the burial place of Tom Tabby, son of Tabby-To-Kwanah, a chief of the Ute Indians who lived at the reservation in the Uinta Basin in 1867. Chief …
Peter Skene Ogden
S. Matthew Despain and Fred R. GowansUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Peter Skene Ogden, born in 1794, was an experienced trapper and mountain man who remained with the Hudson’s Bay Company after its 1821 merger with the Northwest Fur Company. In November 1824 Ogden was appointed leader of the Snake River Country Expeditions by John McLoughlin, and he was instructed to …
Chief Ouray
CHIEF OURAY HOPED TO ACHIEVE PEACE WITH WHITE PEOPLE W. Paul Reeve History Blazer, January 1995 The western Ute bands originally occupied about 23.5 million acres or around 45 percent of the present state of Utah. By the 1870s, however, Utah’s Utes were confined to less than 10 percent of that area, slightly over 2 million acres on the Uintah …
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 …
Etienne Provost
FELLOW TRAPPERS CALLED ETIENNE PROVOST “THE MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS”Jeffrey D. NicholsHistory Blazer, August 1995 Although he does not have the wide recognition of Jim Bridger or John Colter, Etienne Provost was considered by his contemporaries as one of the most knowledgeable, skillful, and successful of the mountain men. Provost gave his name (phonetically) to the Provo River and the …
Otto Abels Harbach
He became one of the most famous lyricists of the Broadway stage. Music came into Otto Harbach’s life at an early age. One of his first memories was of his mother’s singing. Later, when his brothers started a small orchestra, he learned to play his father’s violin and joined them. He was born in Salt Lake City on August 18, …
Jedediah S. Smith
S. Matthew Despain and Fred R. GowansUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Jedediah S. Smith was a trailblazer, brigade leader, and partner in two fur-trading companies whose travels took him throughout Utah and the West. Born in 1799, he was the first American after the Astorians to cross west over the Continental Divide, rediscovering South Pass; the first to cross overland to …
Joe Hill
Gibbs M. Smith Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Born in Gavle, Sweden, on 7 October 1879, Joe Hill, also known as Joseph Hillstrom and Joel Hagglund, was an American labor songwriter and martyr who was executed in Salt Lake City on 19 November 1915. He immigrated to the lower east side Bowery section of New York City via Ellis Island in …
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Jon M. Huntsman, Sr.is Founder and Executive Chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals. Forty years ago, Mr. Huntsman began a small entrepreneurial plastics packaging business. Originally known for pioneering innovations in packaging and, later, for rapid and integrated growth in petrochemicals, its operating companies today manufacture chemical products used in a wide range of …
John Henry Weber
S. Matthew Despain and Fred R. GowansUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 John Henry Weber was born in 1779 in Altona near Hamburg, at that time part of Denmark. By 1807 he migrated to America to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri where he became acquainted with William Ashley and Andrew Henry. In 1822 Weber enlisted in the Ashley-Henry Fur Company which departed St. Louis …