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 …
Frank E. “Ted” Moss
John S. McCormick Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 A moderate Democrat, though personally more liberal than his constituents, Frank E. “Ted” Moss was a three-term U.S. Senator who served from 1959 to 1977. He was born in Holladay, a suburb of Salt Lake City, on 23 September 1911, the youngest of seven children of James E. Moss, a well-known secondary-school educator, …
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 …
Helen Papanikolas
(1917 – 2004) Faithful recorder of Utah’s rich ethnic heritage, whose historical works made it impossible to ignore the complexities of Utah’s past and present.
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 …
Ada Williams Quinn
She founded a clothing factory in Ogden and ran for governor in 1940. Born on December 13, 1878, in Peterson, Morgan County, to Joshua and Hannah Martha Green Williams, Ada attended school in Morgan County and then earned a teaching certificate from the University of Utah. She taught school in both Morgan County and Ogden. She married Edward N. Quinn, …
Calvin Rampton
(1913–2007) A three-term Democratic governor from 1965 to 1977, Rampton launched economic development programs through business-government partnerships that were the foundation for the present-day economic health in Utah. He was the first governor to seriously include minorities in his administration and launched an aggressive building program on higher education campuses.
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 …
Harold Wallace Ross
The founder of The New Yorker grew up in Salt Lake City. Harold Ross, creator and editor of America’s most sophisticated magazine, The New Yorker, was known for his strong personality and his unsophisticated dress and manners. Some claimed that Ross was a literary hoax, because a man who looked and acted like Harold Ross could not be the editor …