The Fathers of Capitol Reef National Park

Charles Kelly History Blazer, September 1995 Two men deserve credit for the preliminary work that led to the creation of Capitol Reef National Monument (later Park)—Ephraim P. Pectol and Joseph S. Hickman. Pectol was born May 16, 1875, in Glenwood, Sevier County. In 1888 his family moved to Cainesville. In 1910 he bought some land at Grover and that same …