Jay M. Haymond Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Jacob Hamblin was born 6 April 1819 in Ashtabula County, Ohio. His parents were farmers, and he learned farming as a youth. In 1836 his family moved to Wisconsin Territory and homesteaded at a place called Spring Prairie. Hamblin’s father told Jacob when he was nineteen that he had been a faithful boy …
Miles Goodyear
Richard W. Sadler Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 THIS CABIN, BUILT ABOUT 1845 AND OCCUPIED BY MILES GOODYEAR, EARLY TRAPPER AND EXPLORER, AND HIS COMMON-LAW INDIAN WIFE, IS AS FAR AS KNOWN THE FIRST PERMANENT HOME BUILT IN UTAH AND STOOD NEAR THE JUNCTION OF OGDEN AND WEBER RIVERS. IT WAS SOLD WITH A SPANISH LAND GRANT COVERING ALL OF WEBER …
John Charles Fremont
John C. Fremont was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1813, the son of Charles Fremont, a French emigre, and Ann Beverly Whiting of Virginia. Fremont spent his boyhood in Charleston and was educated in the Scientific Department of the College of Charleston before his expulsion in 1831, three months short of graduation. In 1833 Fremont obtained a civilian post as …
David Eccles
Leonard J. Arrington Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 David Eccles was born in Paisley, Scotland, on 12 May 1849. He was the second son in a family of seven children born to William and Sarah Hutchinson Eccles. William, a half-blind wood turner, and Sarah lived in poverty in the Glasgow area until 1863, when, having converted to Mormonism, they migrated with …
Martha Hughes Cannon
John Sillito and Constance Lieber Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Martha Maria Hughes Cannon, noted physician and the first female state senator in the United States, was born 1 July 1857 near Llandudno, Wales, the second of three daughters born to Peter and MARTHA HUGHES CANNON (1857-1932) WAS A PHYSICIAN, A STATE SENATOR, AND THE WIFE OF ANGUS M. CANNON Elizabeth …
James Bridger
James Bridger Matthew Despain and Fred R. Gowans Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 James Bridger was one of the greatest frontiersmen of Utah and American history. During his lifetime he was a hunter, trapper, trader, Indian fighter, and guide, and one of only a few trappers to remain in the Rockies after the demise of the fur trade. In 1822 young …