The Personality
of Utah
By Professor “Super G” Bunker
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Brigham Young
(1801-1877) Vermont
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dynaweb/calher/tabcalif/figures/I0015103A.jpg
1947: Led Latter-day Saint Pioneers
to Salt Lake Valley.
1854/55: Beehive and Lion house
built as Young’s official residence.
“If I had a choice of educating my
daughters or my sons because of
opportunity constraints, I would
choose to educate my daughters.”
“Any young man who is unmarried at
the age of twenty one is a menace
to the community.”
Chief Noonch (Black Hawk)
(1830-1873) Spring Lake, Utah
1863: Soldiers from Fort Douglas killed
280 Shoshoni Indians at Bear River.
1865: Utes and settlers met in Manti to
discuss stolen cattle. A hot-head settler
jerked a young chieftain from his horse.
Over the next few days Chief Noonch’s
Utes killed 5 settlers and escaped with
hundreds of stolen cattle.
The Utes stole over 2,000 head of cattle
and killed 25 whites that year.
1865 to 1872: Open warfare; 150 deadly
confrontations where 2,000 died.
Cause: The white settlement disrupted
Indian subsistence patterns. In addition,
many died from European diseases.
http://www.blackhawkwarutah.com/
http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/american_indians/blackhawkwar.html
Orrin Porter Rockwell
(1813-1878) Belcher, Massachusetts
Joseph Smith told Porter Rockwell:
“Cut not your air and no bullet or
blade can harm thee."
1947 appointed deputy marshal of
Utah.
A man, in a saloon, who didn't believe
Rockwell was protected by his long
hair and fired six bullets. When the
smoke cleared, there stood Porter in
a buffalo robe that had repelled all
the shots.
He owned a tavern/hotel/way-station
near the point of the mountain
http://www.telegraph-history.org/transcontinental-telegraph/utah1.jpg
Died of natural causes
at 85 years
Butch Cassidy (Robert Parker)
(1866-1908) Beaver County, Utah (1st/13)
1889: San Miguel Val. Bank Telluride
1894: Ann Bassett - Wyo. (Prison)
1896: Montpelier, Idaho bank.
1896: sought amnesty Gov. Wells
1899: Union Pacific Railroad
Robber’s
Roost
http://www.canyoneeringusa.com/utah/roost/
http://www.utah.com/culture/capitol.htm
Sir Richard Francis Burton
(1821-1890) Devon, England
Aug 31, 1860 meet Brigham Young. Later wrote: “There are rules and
regulations of Mormonism---which disprove the popular statement that
such marriages are made to gratify licentiousness, and which render
polygamy a positive necessity.”
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/images/Burton_el-hadj_40p.jpg
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930) Edinburgh, Scotland
1887 “A Study in Scarlet” is published introducing
Sherlock Holmes to the world. It builds on the
sensational fiction about the oppressive Mormons
and the great alkali desert.
May, 1923: 1st visit to Salt Lake City and the Alta Club.
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=
/USHS_Shipler&CISOPTR=2266&CISOBOX=1&REC=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Watson
Steven R. Covey
(1932- ) Salt Lake City, Utah
“The key is not to prioritize what's
on your schedule, but to schedule
your priorities.”
1989: “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
15 million copies sold worldwide
1: Be Proactive: Personal Vision
2: Begin with the End in Mind: Personal
Leadership
3: Put First Things First: Personal Management
4: Think Win/Win: Interpersonal Leadership
5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be
Understood: Empathetic Communication
6: Synergize: Creative Communication
7: Sharpen the Saw: Balanced Self-Renewal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Covey#The_Habits
Susanna (Suzy) Emery Holmes
(1859-1942) Richmond, Missouri
Susanna Bradford was visiting relatives in Park City in 1884 when
she met and married Albion Emery. At the time, Emery was being
used as a front for investors in silver, who were horrified when he died
still holding their stocks. Susanna inherited Emery’s estate and
http://www.emccommunitycouncil.org/history.shtml
became Utah’s Silver Queen.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Gardo-House-Salt-Lake-City-Utah-Posters_i907344_.htm
http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/mining_and_railroads/silverinthebeehivestate.html
Charles A. Steen
(1919-2006) born Caddo, Texas
Jul 6, 1952 discovers the “Mi Vida” mine.
1954 more stocks were traded in one day
than on the New York Stock Exchange.
“Girls in red light district gave a stock
certificate with every trick.”
http://www.steenmansion.com/details.aspx
http://www.gjsentinel.com/featr/content/features/steen/steen_main.html
Reed Smoot
(1862-1941) Salt Lake City, Utah
Apr 8, 1900: Ordained LDS Apostle (38 yrs)
Mar 5, 1903: First LDS member of U.S.
Senate. Took 4 years to seat him.
June 17, 1930 The Smoot Hawley Tariff Act
became law. Raised tariffs on 20,000
imported goods. It hastened or some
say---caused the Great Depression.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19290408,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot-Hawley_Tariff_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
Marriner S Eccles
(1890-1977) Logan, Utah
1928: First Security Corp.: first multibank holding corp. in U.S.
1933: Testimony before congress had
a plan that impressed FDR
1934 nominated by FDR as Chairman
of the Federal Reserve System.
Reformed US monetary & fiscal policy
Created Fed Deposit Insurance Corp.
Created Federal Housing Act
Changed the structure of the Federal
Reserve System
Aggressive economic policies to get us
out of the depression.
Chair until 1948---Board until 1951.
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James Cash Penney
(1875-1971) Hamilton, Missouri
1909: Moved headquarters to SLC with 24
“Golden Rule Stores”
1910: Wife Berta dies (devastation)
1913 incorporated JC Penney co. in SLC
(701-707 Kearns Building)
1914 relocate headquarters to New York
Kearns
Building
1910
136
South
Main St.
http://www.hines.com/property/detail.aspx?id=126
“Courteous treatment will
make the customer a
walking advertisement.”
John Willard Marriott
(1900-1985) Ogden, Utah
“Good timber does not grow
with ease; the stronger the
wind the stronger the trees.”
1914, he was given the job of taking a flock of sheep by rail to San
Francisco and selling them. (14 years old)
In 1927, the day after graduating from the University of Utah, he took
his bride, who also graduated, in a Model T Ford on an 11 days trip
from Salt Lake City to Washington D.C. to pursue his dream.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ukura006/architecture/model-t.gif
http://marriottschool.byu.edu/story/marriotts.cfm
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/slcut-salt-lake-city-marriott-downtown/
Willam F. Christensen
(1902-2001) Brigham City, Utah
Grandfather of American Ballet
1932: Founded Portland Ballet
1937: Principal dancer of San Francisco
Opera Ballet
1942: Founded San Francisco Ballet
1944: 1st U.S. performance of “The Nutcracker”
1st U.S. performance of “Swan Lake”
1951: First University Ballet Department in U.S. at University of Utah
1963: Utah Civic Ballet & 1968: Ballet West (Salt Lake City)
“Willam was proudest of his discovery of the complete Tchaikovsky
score (the "Nutcracker" Suite was what people knew then)”
"Nothing is more beautiful than the human body, and in a ballet it tells a story with
line and form. Ballet should contain all the elements of good theater: spectacle,
drama, virtuosity and, most important, innovation."
Alvin Gittins
(1922-1981) Kidderminster, England
1947: Bachelors of Arts Brigham Young Univ.
1947: Instructor at Univ. of Utah
1956-1962: Chair of Univ. of Utah Art Dept.
LDS Church Office Bldg
LDS Museum
http://www.utah.com/mormon/museum_of_church_history.htm
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2727
“I’m a representational
painter, dealing almost
exclusively with the human
figure and with character
studies.”
Jack Dempsey
(1895-1983) Manassa, Colorado
1910 family (mother and eleven children)
moved to Utah.
1911 when the old Salt Lake Grand
Theater was staging fights for money,
Jack entered and "flattened two
opponents the same night," receiving
$5 for the effort. (16 years old)
1919-1926: Heavyweight Champion.
Jack would call his mother after every
fight and when his first big money
came moved her into a bungalow on
Center Street just north of the triangle
separating North Main and Center.
Later he moved her into a home at 973
E. South Temple and then finally to a
21 acre farm at 5030 Naylor lane in
Murray, Utah.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19230910,00.html
http://utahtheaters.info/TheaterMain.asp?ID=90
Grand Theater: 121 East 200 South
Tony Lazzeri
(1903-1946) San Francisco, Calif.
1922: came to new Salt Lake Bees.
Oct 19, 1925: Hit 60 home runs a PCL
record that still stands (222 RBIs).
5 world series champion 1927, 1928,
1932, 1936, & 1937 with Yankees.
1946: died from fall (epilectic seazure)
1991: Baseball Hall of Fame.
323 South Main
Salt Lake’s
Italian Restaurant
Lazzeri’s second home.
Utah Historical Quarterly,
Fall 2004, Vol 72, no 4
Pages 343-357
Martha (Mattie) Hughes Cannon
(1857-1932) Llandudno, Wales
1861: Emigrated to Salt Lake City Utah
1871: School teacher/worked for the
“Woman’s Exponent” newspaper
1881: Medical degree from University of
Michigan
1882: Resident physician at Deseret
Hospital
1884: Married Angus M. Cannon (forth
wife of six), had three children
Nov 3 1896: First woman elected as
state senator in United States.
http://kued.org/productions/voteutah/moments/09.html
http://www.thisistheplace.org/virtualtour/26-hospital.html
Rosanne Barr
Born 1955, Salt Lake City Utah
“There's a lot more to being a
woman than being a mother, but
there's a hell of a lot more to being a
mother than most people suspect.”
1985: Domestic Goddess (Tonight Show)
1988-1997: Rosanne ABC TV Show
Roseanne began an obsession with the
number five in the late 1960's. She felt
that everything had to count out to five,
or something terrible would happen.
Roseanne was uncomfortable with the
obsession until comedian, Rodney
Dangerfield, informed her that a good
percentage of performers and creative
types, including himself, have number
obsessions.
http://www.nndb.com/people/833/000024761/roseanne-barr.jpg
John Moses Browning
(1855-1926) Ogden Utah
Oct 7, 1879 patented his first gun
1895: machine-gun purchased by the US Navy.
1911: .45 ACP Military handgun. Standard to 1986.
1917: US Army orders 57,000 of new machine gun.
1921: M2 50 cal. machine gun, the standard for
NATO countries today. (won battle of Brittan)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWbrowningJ.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning_machine_gun
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWbrowning.htm
Chesley Peterson
(1920-2000) Salmon, Idaho
"Six or seven of us volunteered
together, out of a sense of
adventure, primarily.”
1932: Santaquin, Utah—ride with Barnstormer
1940: Volunteered for UK RAF Eagle Squadron
(1st American to command a squadron)
1942: Transferred to US (at 23 became Colonel)
This “ace” flew 130 combat missions
German order: “Get Peterson!!!”
Used Browning machine gun to defend Britain
Awarded:
RAF distinguished flying cross
RAF medallion
US distinguished service cross
Britain’s distinguished service order
Five US air medals
French Legion of d’Honneur
Purple Heart and many more
http://usfighter.tripod.com/peterson.htm
Philo Farnsworth
(1906-1971) Beaver, Utah
“The damned thing works!”
(on the first successful television)
“There's nothing on it worthwhile, and
we're not going to watch it in this
household, and I don't want it in your
intellectual diet.” (year later to his son)
Spring 1926 Farnsworth explains how
television is going to work to two
promoters developing Salt Lake’s
community chest campaign: “It’s a
television system, a way of sending
pictures through the air in the same
way we do sound. I thought of it when
I was in high school.”
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html
Debbi Sivyer Fields
(1956- )
Youngest of five sisters.
1977 began business in Palo Alto, California
Lived near Park City, Utah until late 1990s
“[My husband] immediately said, ‘Oh, sweetie,
that is such a stupid idea.’ And then my mom
and dad pipe up and say, ‘You don’t have any
business going into the cookie business.’”
“The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened
to all the people during the course of my life
who said, ‘You can’t. You’ll fail. It won’t work.
You don’t have’, I wouldn’t be here today.”
http://www.angelfire.com/on3/tristar16/biography.html
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/
1558/Debbi-Fields-Quotes.html
http://www.franchiseonline.com/cgi-bin/profile.php?key=7854
George Virl Osmond
(1917-2007) Star Valley, Wyoming
World War II Veteran
1944: Married Olive
Loved to sing and taught his children
barbershop.
The Osmonds sang at Disneyland and
came to attention of Walt Disney.
Early 1960s: Andy Williams TV show.
1971: “One Bad Apple” #1 hit (Bros.)
1973: “Paper Roses” (Marie)
1975: “The Proud One” #1 hit (Bros.)
1976-1979: Donny & Marie TV show
2007: Donny at the
Capitol Theater
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/
5392218/1976_rolling_stone_covers/photo/6/large
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21659054/
http://www.slco.org/fi/facilities/capitol/capitol.html
“Dad always said: Family,
faith, career in that order.
How many times do I have
to say it?”
Robert Redford
(1936- ) Santa Monica, California
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969: Purchased Sundance Utah
1974: Best Director Oscar “Ordinary People”
1974-1976 #1 Box office star in America
1981 Began the Sundance Film Festival
1995: 4th Sexiest Star of all-time
“Some people have analysis.
I have Utah.”
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19760329,00.html
Otto Abels Harbach
(1873-1963) Salt Lake City, Utah
1890: attended the Collegiate Institute.
October 23, 1933 “Gowns By Roberta”
opens with “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
Wrote more than 40
Broadway musicals
(Jerome Kern)
http://shopping.yahoo.com/video/images/muze/dvd/sm/82/392682.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/images/vc42a.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80651083@N00/2091264692/
The Beach Boys
(1961 - )
1961: “Surfing” was first release
Jun 1964: wrote “I Get Around” driving
to airport from Salt Lake City. US
Billboard Hot 100 #1 in 1964.
1964: "And she'll have Fun, Fun, Fun
'til her daddy takes the T-Bird
away..." inspired by Shirley England
of Salt Lake who’s dad owned the
radio station that promoted the
Beach Boys. Peaked at #5.
1965: “Salt Lake City” song appeared
on the “Summer Days” album
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Beach+Boys/+images/151
(1941- ): Mike Love
(1942- ): Brian Wilson
(1942- ): Al Jardine
(1944-1983): Dennis Wilson
(1946-1998): Carl Wilson
“Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys. He is the band. We are his messengers.”
Gary Mark Gilmore
(1940-1977) Texas
Gained international notoriety, following two murders
in Utah, for demanding his death sentence be
fulfilled.
Jan 17, 1977 he became the first person executed in
the United States in more than 10 years.
He was strapped to a chair, with a wall of sandbags behind him. Five
prison guards concealed behind a curtain with five small holes aimed at
him. Asked for any last words, Gilmore simply replied, "Let's do it."
Gilmore requested his eyes be used for
transplant purposes. Within hours of the
execution, two people received his
corneas, inspiring British punk rock band
The Adverts to write and release "Gary
Gilmore's Eyes" and The Police to record
"Bring on the Night".
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/gary_gilmore.html
Ted Bundy
(1946-1989) Burlington, Vermont
American Serial Killer
1972 began killing in Wash state.
1974 Univ of Utah Law School
Nov 8, 1974: Carol DaRonch
escaped his clutches
Aug 16, 1975: Arrested in SLC
"You are going to kill me, and that
will protect society from me. But
out there are many, many more
people who are addicted to
pornography, and you are doing
nothing about that."
http://www.dragtimes.com/images/7267-1971-Volkswagen-Beetle.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy
“I’m shooting at world’s records. I’m
trying to make them around a twelveand-a-half mile track on the Utah salt
(1883-1956) Spanish Fork, Utah flat, driving a two-and-a-half-ton race
car day and night for twenty-four hours
1940: Averaged 161.180 mph for a 24- at an average speed of 160 miles an
hour.” Saturday Evening Post, Dec 4, 1937, pg 18
Ab Jenkins
hour run. Record stood for 50 years
1940-1944: Mayor of Salt Lake City
Karl Malone & John Stockton
(1963- ) Bernice, Louisiana / (1962- ) Spokane, Wash.
NBA MVP (‘97, '99);
11-time All-NBA First Team (1988-1999);
14-time All-Star (1988-98, 2000-02);
One of 50 Greatest Players in NBA History
Two-time Olympic gold medalist (‘92, '96).
Only missed 10 games in 18 years.
Second all-time leading scorer in NBA history
NBA co-MVP game (‘93);
10-time NBA All-Star
NBA record for career assists with 15,806,
5400 more than second place.
NBA record for career steals with 3,265,
30 % more than second placed
One of 50 Greatest Players in NBA History
Record Setters #2