Newell G. BringhurstUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Brigham Young was born June 1, 1801 in Whittingham, Vermont. He was the ninth of eleven children, growing up in an unsettled frontier environment characterized by frequent family moves to various communities throughout upstate New York. Despite the influences of a strict, moralistic family and being exposed to the religious fervor that characterized the …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ivy Baker Priest
She served as Treasurer of the U.S. during Eisenhower’s two terms. Born in Kimberly, Piute County, on September 7, 1905, to Clara Fernley and Orange D. Baker, Ivy grew up in Bingham where her father worked as a miner and her mother ran a boarding house. As a senior at Bingham High School Ivy captained the debate team, worked on …
Alma Richards
Alma Richards Was Utah’s First Olympic Gold Medalist W. Paul Reese History Blazer, February 1995 Alma Richards, a lanky, unassuming Parowan, Utah, farm boy seemed an unlikely competitor in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Fellow athletes, while aboard a ship sailing to the games, amused themselves by prodding the “raw youngster” on his hick upbringing. Richards made it to …
Kuniko Muramatsu Terasawa
For 52 years she handset type for a unique Utah newspaper. When Kuniko Muramatsu Terasawa died in Salt Lake City on August 2, 1991, the career of a distinguished newspaperwoman and one of the most active senior citizens in Utah came to a close. Her death at age 95 also marked the end of the Issei (first-generation Japanese American) era …