Class of 1880 H.S.



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Booth, John Edge

Booth, John Edge
Provo, Utah US

John and 3 Booth

BY Academy High School, Class of 1880? BYU Graduate, Class of 1904. John Edge Booth. One of the first members of the Brigham Young Academy Faculty & Staff. Teacher of Mathematics, Bookkeeping & Law, 1876-1877, 1884-1913. ~ ~ ~ ~ Brigham Young University Graduate, Class of 1904. John Edge Booth. He received the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree at the 1904 Commencement, Spring of 1904. Source: 1904 Commencement Program, BYU Special Collections, UA 1008, Box 1, Folder 2. ~ ~ ~ ~ Judge John Edge Booth. Born June 29, 1847, Bedford Leigh, Lancashire, England. First married Maria Josephine Harvey, October 11, 1873. They had four children; she died after fourth. Second married Hannah Billings, 1876, no children. Third married Delia I. Winters, and they had four children. John E. Booth served as Mayor of Provo, Utah, from 1890 to 1891. John died March 28, 1920. In 1871 he craved a deeper insight into mathematics, so he moved to Provo, teaching and studying in the Timpanogos University, a branch of the University of Deseret with Warren H. Dusenberry. He studied law at night under John B. Milner and in 1875 [One year before the founding of BYA] was admitted to the Utah bar. He was appointed city attorney for Provo in 1875 and was a city counselor from 1876-1882. Judge Booth took great pride in the fact that he was a prime mover in getting the Academy in Provo, and was most happy when Karl G. Maeser assigned him the chair of mathematics at the new Brigham Young Academy. He taught civil government and law at the Academy for many years without pay (1886-1920). Some of the best legal minds of the state got their inspiration and start from Judge John E. Booth. [Brief profile in The Sons of Brigham by T. Earl Pardoe, 1969, pp. 7-10.]

Dalley, Mayhew Hillman

Dalley, Mayhew Hillman
Cedar City, Utah US

Mayhew and Lenora Dalley

Class of 1880? Mayhew H. Dalley. Not mentioned on 1881 or 1882 list -- maybe graduated in 1880? HIS OBITUARY: Mayhew Hillman Dalley, 28 Nov 1857 - 7 Jan 1934. CEDAR CITY--Mayhew H. Dalley, 76, died Saturday at 1:30 p.m. after an illness of four months. He was born at Johnson's Fort, Iron County, Nov. 28, 1857. A year later the family moved to Summit. He was a son of William and Mandana Dalley. He attended school at the Timpanogos University and was a graduate of the Brigham Young Academy, with the Class of 1881 [?]. He worked his way through school at the home of Reed Smoot's father and was a roommate of Dr. James Talmage. In the fall of 1881 he began teaching in the Cedar City District School at a salary of $60 a month, one-third of which was paid in wheat, one-third in merchandise and one-third in cash. He married Lenora C. Macfarlane in the St. George Temple, May 22, 1883. She died on Sept. 5, 1933. Mr. Dalley filled an LDS mission in the British Mission, leaving in 1886 and laboring there three years. Upon his return he taught in the Parowan Stake Academy. He was the first manager of the Cedar Sheep Association, the store being kept for some time at his home. He has been prominent in civic and church activities, having held the following positions: Superintendent of the Sunday School, surveyor of Iron County and Cedar City, recorder of Cedar City, and secretary of the library. He has conducted an abstracting and land business in Cedar City for the past 40 years. Surviving are the following children: Hilman and Maeser Dalley of Cedar City, Mrs. W. W. McCalister and Mrs. Bernall Hansen of Spanish Fork, Rulon S. and Ray Dalley of Los Angeles, Mrs. James Rees of Davis, California; Mrs. Steve Subitosch of Rocklin, Califonia, and 18 grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the Cedar City Third Ward chapel Sunday afternoon, with interment at the Cedar City Cemetery. [Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Obituary Scrapbook (1933-1939) ]

Ferguson, Barlow

Ferguson, Barlow
Boise, Idaho US

Barlow and Rachel Ferguson

Class of 1880. Barlow Ferguson. ~ ~ ~ ~ Barlow Ferguson was born on December 5, 1859 at San Francisco, Yerba Buena, California (sic) [or in Salt Lake City, Utah]. His parents were General James Ferguson and Lucy Nutting Ferguson. Barlow married Rachel Adelia Tanner on May 14, 1885 [or March 11, 1885 -- less reliable source] in Beaver, Utah. Barlow Ferguson died on July 19, 1926. ~ ~ ~ ~ Wallsburg, April 1881. Editor, Deseret News: "Our day school has been taught this winter by Brother Barlow Ferginson (sic), a graduate of the Brigham Young Academy, a rising young man, who will, I have no doubt, make an honorable mark in the world. Your brother in the gospel of peace. ~ ~ George Dabling. [Deseret News, April 27, 1881.] ~ ~ ~ ~ He was listed in the Deseret News as a participant in The People's Party of Salt Lake County in 1890, and in the Republican Party in 1891 and thereafter. ~ ~ ~ ~ OBITUARY OF HIS MOTHER: Mrs. Lucy Ferguson, whose death was recorded in yesterdays NEWS, was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, October 1, 1825. When at the age of 21, while unmarried, she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was the only one of her family that ever embraced the Gospel. She had been working in the factory and had laid up sufficient money to pay her passage from New York to San Francisco. All her folks shunned her after having joined the Church. She sailed from New York on the ship Brooklyn in Brannan's Company, was on the water six months, and landed at San Francisco when the place was a village of about 200 or 300 people. She there met and became acquainted with General James Ferguson, who came to California as one of the Mormon Battalion. They were married at San Francisco and then started for Utah. She rode from California to Utah on horseback, landing here in the spring of 1848. She lived in Salt Lake City with her husband James Ferguson until 1861, when she with her family of five children moved to the town of Lehi, Utah county, where she lived until 1890; then she moved to Salt Lake City and has since resided with her son, Attorney Barlow Ferguson. She was a faithful Latter-day Saint up to the time of her death. She leaves a large circle of friends and acquaintances to mourn her loss. She had suffered with a cough for about six years, which with organic heart trouble took her off. She did not suffer a great deal of pain during her last illness. She was surrounded by all her children at the time of her death. The funeral takes place tomorrow, the 9th, at 11 o'clock, in the Fifteenth ward meeting house. Bishop Orson F. Whitney will deliver the funeral sermon. [Deseret Evening News, January 8, 1895.] ~ ~ ~ ~ "Barlow Ferguson, formerly an attorney of Salt Lake, who resides in Boise, Idaho, is in Salt Lake on a business trip". [Salt Lake Herald, February 2, 1906.] ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS BIOGRAPHY: Barlow Ferguson. Born: December 5, 1859 at San Francisco, Yerba Buena, California. Died: July 19, 1926. ~ ~ "Barlow Ferguson, senior member of the law firm of Ferguson and Cannon. Among the well-known and able attorneys of Salt Lake City, the career of Barlow Ferguson is one that may well furnish both diversion and instruction to the reader of these pages. A native son of Utah, born and reared amid the inspiring associations to be found in this western country, where the very air makes one's pulse beat and the brain clearer, he early took up the study of the law and began active practice in his young manhood, practicing alone for some time and forming his present partnership about 1892. He is alert and wide-awake, level-headed and his uniform success in handling big cases has brought him a large volume of valuable business, and he is at this time attorney for the leading mercantile and manufacturing establishments of this State. Mr. Ferguson was born in Salt Lake City on December 5, 1859, and is the son of General James Ferguson and Lucy (Nutting) Ferguson. The father was born in Belfast, Antrim, Ireland, February 23, 1828, remaining there until thirteen years of age, when he went to Liverpool, and there remained until he reached manhood. He was a self-taught man, never having attended school after he was nine years of age. In Liverpool he first heard the doctrines of Mormonism preached, and being convinced of the truth of that religion, was baptized into the Church and came to America in 1847, at the age of nineteen years. He was among those who started for Utah in 1847. He was Adjutant-General of the Utah Militia, and upon the call coming for volunteers for the war against Mexico, was one of the first to volunteer his services, and became a Sergeant-Major in the Mormon Battalion [under Captain James Brown Company "C"]. He made the entire trip across the deserts of Colorado and Mexico with his company, suffering untold privations and hardships, and when the Battalion was divided in New Mexico, was among those who went on to California to the relief of General Kearney. He came to Salt Lake with his company in 1849. He took up the study of the law, practicing up to the time of his death in 1863. He was also prominently identified with the newspaper life of Salt Lake City, establishing the Mountaineer, having associated with him Seth M. Blair, and continued to publish that paper up to a few years previous to his demise. Locally he had quite a reputation as an actor in the early days of Salt Lake City. He took a leading part in all the affairs of the city during his life time, and was well known and highly esteemed. He died at the age of thirty-five years. He married in San Francisco to Miss Lucy Nutting, the mother of our subject. She was the mother of five children. Mrs. Ferguson, then Miss Nutting, at her home in Hatfield, Massachusetts, joined the Mormon Church in 1846. Then a lone girl at the age of twenty-one, left her parents, relatives and friends, took passage on the ship Brooklyn, a sailing vessel, and after a six ­months' perilous voyage rounded Cape Horn, touched at Honolulu and landed at San Francisco, then a town of only two hundred people. It was there she met and married Mr. Ferguson. Her first child, Julia, now the wife of C. H. Brown, of Liberty, Idaho, was born in the Old Fort, now the Sixth Ward Square, in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Ferguson was a strong and vigorous minded woman, and endured all the hardships incident to the early times here in Utah with a light heart, having to the end the greatest faith in her religion, which enabled her to endure these hardships without a murmur. After her marriage Mrs. Ferguson made the trip from San Francisco to Salt Lake City on horseback. She died in this city in 1895. Our subject was educated in the public schools of Lehi, and later in the Brigham Young Academy at Provo, from which institution he graduated in 1880. After his graduation he started out in Park City to make his own way in life, beginning by cutting cord wood, teaching school and anything that came to hand. He had always had a strong predilection for the study of the law, and all his spare time was devoted to study along this line. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in 1886, and opened his office in Salt Lake City, practicing by himself and building up a fine business. About 1892 he formed a partnership with John M. Cannon under the firm name of Ferguson and Cannon, and this firm has rapidly come to the front as among the best practitioners in the State. Mr. Ferguson was married in 1885 to Miss Rachel Tanner, daughter of Sidney Tanner and Rachel (Neyman) Tanner, who came to Utah in 1850. Five children have been born of this marriage, four of whom are living - Ratie Ferguson, James Barlow Ferguson, Blaine Ferguson and Keith Ferguson. In politics Mr. Ferguson is a Republican and has been quite an active worker for his party. He held the office of County Attorney for Beaver county and was at one time Assistant City and County Attorney for Salt Lake county. He is a member of the Mormon Church in which he is an Elder. He is at this time attorney for the Utah Sugar Company and Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company, and also for the Bear River Water Company, the State Bank of Utah and the Salt Lake Theater. In social life Mr. Ferguson numbers many warm friends, being possessed of most gentle­manly and unassuming manners, and is quite unspoiled by the honors that have come to him and which have been won by his own undaunted pluck, perseverance and splendid energy." Barlow Ferguson died on July 19, 1926. [Source: See website.]

Keeler, Joseph Brigham

Keeler, Joseph Brigham
Provo, Utah US

Joseph and Martha Keeler

Original BY Academy High School Class in 1876, graduated Class of 1880. Joseph B. Keeler. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. Also BYA Faculty & Staff. Joseph B. Keeler, Theology teacher, 1884-1920. He appears in a photo of the first faculty to serve under Principal Benjamin Cluff in 1892. He married Martha Alice Fairbanks, who was born June 29, 1860, and married to Joseph on May 17, 1883. Her father was David Fairbanks. Joseph was born September 8, 1855 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His parents were David Hutchinson Keeler and Ann Brown (widow of Benjamin Taylor, by whom she had five children: James Taylor; Sarah Taylor; Ann Taylor; Mary Jane Taylor; and Martha Tayor, who died early). Fleeing Salt Lake Valley from Johnston's Army in 1858, the Keeler family reached Provo where the family located, and where Joseph grew into young manhood. His desire for education and the opening of Brigham Young Academy coincided, and he was one of the very first students to enroll. He concluded his studies at BYA in 1879-1880, and in 1880 he was appointed editor of the local newspaper, The Provo Enquirer. He held the position for only a few months, because he was called on a mission in the Southern States, where he served until March of 1882. After holding several public offices (City Assessor, County Recorder), he accepted a teaching position at Brigham Young Academy to be head of the Intermediate Department. Joseph's new work at the school was to begin on January 28, 1884, but on the night of the 27th the Academy's Lewis Building burned to the ground. The school missed only two days, and Joseph began his teaching on January 30th, in temporary quarters. He was instrumental in handling financial affairs so that the struggling school did not close, including helping to start and maintain a boarding house for out-of-town students. In July of 1888 he was described in the Deseret News as, "Joseph B. Keeler, 1st Counselor to Karl G. Maeser, is head of the Academic Department: Bookkeeping, History and Civil Government." Over the years, J. B. Keeler was a vital teacher and administrator, and mainstay without which the Academy could not have continued. He deserves his own unique memorial in the history of Brigham Young Academy and later Brigham Young University. When he retired in 1921, he had accumulated 37 years of service to the school. ~ ~ ~ ~ Joseph Brigham Keeler was born on September 8, 1855 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on December 21, 1935 in Provo, Utah, at the age of 80. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

Robison, J. L.

Robison, J. L.

J. L. Robison

Class of 1880? J. L. Robison (male or female?).

Smoot, Reed (1880)

Smoot, Reed (1880)
Salt Lake City, Utah US

Reed & Alpha / Alice Smoot

Original BY Academy High School Class in 1876, graduated in the Class of 1880. Reed Smoot. The first of the original 29 students to register on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He graduated in the BYA high school Class of 1880. Board of Trustees, Brigham Young Academy, 1893 to 1938. He is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Reed Smoot, Senator from Utah; and Apostle, LDS Church. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 10, 1862; moved with his parents to Provo, Utah County, Utah, in 1874; attended Mormon church schools and academies and completed his studies at Brigham Young Academy high school at Provo in 1879 [no college classes at that time], graduating with the BYA high school Class of 1880; engaged in banking, mining, livestock raising, and in the manufacture of woolen goods; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1902; reelected in 1908, 1914, 1920 and 1926 and served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932; chairman, Committee on Patents (Sixtieth Congress), Committee on Printing (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Sixty-second and Sixty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on Finance (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-second Congresses); co-author of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1933; retired from active business pursuits; served as one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church) and at the time of his death was next in line to succeed the president of the quorum and third to succeed the president; died in St. Petersburg, Fla. on a visit there, February 9, 1941; interment in Provo Burial Park, Provo, Utah. [The Smoots are Mayflower descendants.] Reed Smoot married Alpha May Eldredge of Salt Lake City on 17 September 1884. They were the parents of six children: Harold Reed Smoot, Chloe Smoot, Harlow Eldredge Smoot [I], Annie K. Smoot, Zella Esther Smoot, and Ernest Winder Smoot. Alpha died on 7 November 1928 and Smoot later married Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets on 2 July 1930. [Note: Reed Smoot diaries published: http://www.signaturebooks.com/smoot.htm ] ~ ~ ~ ~ Reed Smoot was born on January 10, 1862 in Provo, Utah. His father: Abraham Owen Smoot. He married Alpha May Eldridge, and she died in 1929. Reed Smoot died on February 9, 1941 while on a visit to St. Petersburg, Florida. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. Congressional Biography.

Talmage, James Edward

Talmage, James Edward
Salt Lake City, Utah US

James and 6 Talmage

BY Academy High School Class of 1880. ~ ~ BYA Collegiate Class of 1881. Source: The Territorial Enquirer of Provo, Utah, June 22, 1881, "Principal's Report." ~ ~ Faculty & Staff, Training School & Chemistry, 1879-1891. Board of Trustees, 1886 to 1891. ~ ~ ~ ~ Elder Talmage obtained his early schooling in the National and Board schools of his home district in England, and was an Oxford diocesan prize scholar in 1874. He entered the Brigham Young Academy at Provo, Utah in 1876, and followed to completion the high school Normal courses in 1879, graduating in the Class of 1880. At the age of 17 he was a teacher of Elementary Science and English in the institution named. In 1881 James E. Talmage received a collegiate diploma from the BYA Scientific Department, the first such diploma to be issued. His early predilection was for the sciences, and in 1882-1883 he took a selected course, mainly in chemistry and geology, at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennysylvania. Though a special student and not a candidate for a degree, he passed during his single year of residence nearly all the examinations in the four-year course and was later graduated; and in 1883-1884 he was engaged in advanced work at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He returned to Utah in the fall of 1884, in response to a summons from Brigham Young Academy, and served as professor of Geology and Chemistry, with varied activities in other departments, in the Brigham Young Academy from 1884 to 1888. ~ ~ ~ ~ While still a member of the faculty, he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brigham Young Academy. During his residence in Provo, he served successively as city councilman, alderman and justice of the peace. ~ ~ ~ ~ James Edward Talmage was a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, and a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born Sunday Sept. 21, 1862, at Hungerford, Berkshire, England, the son of James Joyce Talmage and his wife, Susannah Preater. He is the first son and second child in a family of eight. He was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the place of his birth, June 15, 1873, and on the 18th of the following August was ordained a Deacon in the Ramsbury branch of the London conference. The entire family left England May 24, 1876, landed in New York June 5th, and arrived in Salt Lake City on June 14, 1876. In Provo, Utah, where the family had established a home, he was ordained a Teacher on December 17, 1877, and an Elder on June 28, 1880. Elder Talmage obtained his early schooling in the National and Board schools of his home district in England, and was an Oxford diocesan prize scholar in 1874. He entered the Brigham Young Academy high school at Provo, Utah, in 1876. He followed to completion the high school courses and graduated, taking the "normal" courses in preparation for becoming a teacher. At the age of 17 he became a teacher of elementary science and English at Brigham Young Academy. On September 29, 1884, he was ordained a High Priest, and was set apart as an alternate High Councilor in the Utah Stake of Zion. On June 14, 1888 he married Mary May Booth, daughter of Richard Thornton Booth and Elsie Edge Booth, at the Manti Temple, and from this union there came the following children: Sterling B. Talmage, born May 21, 1889; Paul B. Talmage, born Dec. 21, 1891; Zella Talmage, born Aug. 3, 1894, died of pneumonia April 27, 1895; Elsie Talmage, born Aug. 16, 1896; James Karl Talmage, born Aug. 29, 1898; Lucile Talmage, born May 29, 1900; Helen May Talmage, born Oct. 24, 1902, and John Russell Talmage, born Feb. 1, 1911. His early preference was for the sciences, and in 1882-1883 he took a selected course, mainly in Chemistry and Geology, at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Though a special student and not a candidate for a degree, he passed during his single year of residence nearly all the examinations in the four-year course and was later graduated; and in 1883-84 he was engaged in advanced work at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He returned to Utah in the fall of 1884, in response to a summons from Brigham Young Academy, and served as professor of Geology and Chemistry, with varied activities in other departments, in the Brigham Young Academy from 1884 to 1888. While still a member of the faculty, he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brigham Young Academy. During his residence in Provo, he served successively as city councilman, alderman and justice of the peace. In 1888 he was called to Salt Lake City to take the presidency of the Latter-day Saints College, which position he held until 1893. ~ ~ ~ ~ He became President of and Professor of Geology in the University of Utah, 1894-1897. In 1897 he resigned the presidency, but retained the chair of geology, which had been specially endowed; and ten years later (1907) he resigned the professorship to follow the practical work of mining geology, for which his services were in great demand. In 1891 he received the Bachelor of Science degree, and in 1912 the honorary degree of Doctor of Science, from his old alma mater, Lehigh University. In 1890 he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Science and Didactics by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and in 1896 was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree by Illinois Wesleyan University for nonresident work. Dr. Talmage was elected to life membership in several learned societies, and for many years was a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (London), Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (Edinburgh), Fellow of the Geological Society (London), Fellow of the Geological Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Associate of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, or Victoria Institute, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Talmage traveled extensively, having traversed most of this country and of Europe many times in the course of scientific pursuits. He was a delegate from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to the International Geological Congress held at St. Petersburg (Petrograd) in 1897, and was a member of the party that crossed the Urals into Siberia. Throughout the period of his professional career as teacher and professor, Dr. Talmage was particularly active and efficient in encouraging scientific study by popular lectures and writings, and for this labor his deep love for science and his exceptional command of language and ability as a public speaker particularly fitted him. Impelled by the same spirit, he took charge of the little Deseret Museum in 1891, and had the satisfaction of seeing the institution become large and influential. He retained the directorship until 1919, when the Deseret Museum ceased to exist as a unified institution, its collections being segregated to form the LDS University Museum, and the LDS Church Museum, respectively. In his teaching work Dr. Talmage was the first to establish courses in Domestic Science and Agricultural Chemistry in the intermountain West. ~ ~ ~ ~ On December 7, 1911, he was appointed and sustained to be one of the Apostles, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Elder Charles W. Penrose as second counselor in the First Presidency, and on the following day (Dec. 8th) was ordained an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ and was set apart as one of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, under the hands of President Joseph F. Smith, assisted by his counselors and members of the Council of the Twelve. When called to special ministry in the Church he promptly relinquished his profession as a mining geologist and engineer, the practice of which had grown to be extensive and lucrative, and from that time he devoted himself entirely to ecclesiastical service. Dr. Talmage was the author of many scientific and theological works, among which are: "First Book of Nature" (1888); "Domestic Science" (1891); "Tables for Blowpipe Determination of Minerals" (1899); "The Great Salt Lake, Present and Past" (1900); "The Articles of Faith" (1899), a comprehensive exposition of the doctrines of the Church; "The Great Apostasy" (1909); "The House of the Lord" (1912), a discussion of holy sanctuaries, ancient and modern; "The Story of Mormonism" (1907); lectures delivered at Michigan, Cornell and other universities; "The Philosophical Basis of Mormonism" (1915); "Jesus the Christ" (1915); "The Vitality of Mormonism" (1919), and numerous pamphlets and contributions to periodicals. Bishop Orson F. Whitney, author of the "History of Utah", said of him: "Professionally a scientist and a preceptor, with gifts and powers equalled by few, Dr. Talmage is also a writer and speaker of great ability and skill. He is an absolute master of English, both by pen and tongue, and possesses a musical eloquence of marvelous fluency and precision. His style of oratory, though not stentorian, is wonderfully impressive, and his well stored mind, capacious memory, quick recollection and remarkable readiness of speech render him a beau-ideal instructor, in public or in private." Elder Talmage served in the Quorum of the Twelve until his death July 27, 1933 at Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of seventy. [Adapted from the LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.] ~ ~ ~ ~ In 1888 Professor Karl G. Maeser was called as the first Superintendent of Church Schools, although he was not immediately relieved of his duties as Principal of Brigham Young Academy. The following year the Board of Education conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Letters and Didactics at a time when he was busy establishing academies throughout the Church. He was away much of the time, and the B.Y. Academy Board selected James E. Talmage to replace Dr. Maeser as Principal. Talmage, an immigrant from England in 1876, entered the Academy soon after his arrival in Utah and later was employed as a teacher. In 1882 he was given a leave of absence to obtain a bachelor's degree from Lehigh University. Later he studied an additional year at Johns Hopkins University and returned to the B.Y. Academy as teacher of chemistry and geology. Professor Talmage accepted the principalship but never served. He had done little more than outline plans for the ensuing year when he was called by the presiding authorities of the Church to the principalship of the Salt Lake Academy, afterwards the Latter-day Saints College and still later the LDS University. Dr. Karl G. Maeser stayed on as BYA Principal. In 1890 when Benjamin Cluff, Jr., returned from the University of Michigan with his bachelor's degree, he was made Assistant Principal, a position he held until January 4, 1892, when he became Principal. Dr. James E. Talmage went on to become President of the University of Deseret (University of Utah) and an apostle in the Church. Brigham Young University named the James E. Talmage Mathematical Sciences and Computer Building in his honor in 1974. ~ ~ ~ ~ James Edward Talmage was born on September 21, 1862 in Hungerford, England. His parents were Gabriel James Joyce Talmage and Susanna Preator Talmage. He first married Merry May Booth on June 14, 1888 in Manti, Utah. Merry May Booth was his only wife in this life. He was sealed to five other women after their deaths, Zella Lee Webb being the first of such sealings. Zella Lee Webb, a friend, was very seriously burned in September 1886 and was probably bedfast thereafter. Although she and Talmage had a special relationship during the year after her accident, they were not married prior to her death in September 1887. During the months of her illness, she expressed a desire to be sealed to him after her death. He received approval from the First Presidency and was sealed to her after his marriage to Merry Mae Booth. He was sealed after their deaths to Grace Mayhew, Loretta Ann Whitby, Elizabeth ______, and Harriet Doolan. Apostle James E. Talmage died on July 27, 1933 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His interment, Salt Lake City. ~ ~ ~ ~ If The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has ever produced a child prodigy, it is James Edward Talmage.

Young, Zina

Young, Zina
Salt Lake City, Utah US

Zina & Thomas/ Chas. Williams/Card

Class of 1880? Faculty & Staff. Zina Young Williams, Training School, 1879-1884. Board of Directors, 1918 to 1930. A daughter of Brigham Young, Zina Young was born April 3, 1850, in the "old log row the first house built by Brigham Young after he entered the Salt Lake Valley." She was given the name of her mother, Zina Diantha Huntington Young, by her father. The Huntington family roots dated back to England. The family immigrated to America in 1633 and established themselves in the state of Massachusetts. They were strict Presbyterians. Samuel Huntington was reportedly one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Zina D. H. Young herself, Zina Card's mother, was a notable figure of Mormon history. Married first to Henry Bailey Jacobs, then sealed to Joseph Smith and then Brigham Young, she was the wife of two prophets. She, like her daughter who would follow, worked in the Church Relief Society, was matron at the Salt Lake Temple and later, General President of the Relief Society. Zina Card and her mother, Zina D. H. Young, were close. Family papers are replete with references to this mother and daughter bond. In the Brigham Young family Zina Card, the daughter, grew up as one of "the big ten"--this was what President Young called his ten eldest daughters and it gave young Zina both refined learning opportunities and a position of prominence. She moved into the "Lion House" when she was six years of age and lived with twenty-nine other children. Zina wrote affectionately of her life in her father's home: "How joyous were our lives. There were so many girls of nearly the same age, and everything was so nice. Our mothers all occupied their apartments on the center floor. The upper floor we children had for bedrooms. Downstairs were the dining room, kitchen, wash room, school room, weave room, and cellars. The parlor, a large well-lighted, well-furnished and well-kept room was the place where our father assembled his family every evening for prayers. No scene is more vivid in my mind than the gathering of our mothers with their families around them, our loved and honored father sitting by the round table in the center of the room. We all controlled every childish display of temper or restlessness, and a sweet spirit of reverence pervaded all hearts. His presence was commanding and comforting, a peaceful control of his family that brought love and respect for him and each other, and his prayers were the grandest and most impressive I have ever heard." Brigham Young tried to provide a good education for his children and "to give everyone in his family an opportunity for knowledge, improvement and culture". They had a music teacher, a dance teacher and a governess. When they had learned a song, a dance or a part in a play they performed it for their father. Zina's first educational classroom experience was conducted in the basement of the Lion House, where Harriet Cook, another one of Brigham Young's wives, conducted school classes for the children. Zina was first married, at the age of eighteen, to Thomas Williams. Williams, age 40, was an employee of Brigham Young. He had worked as manager of the Salt Lake Theatre and as Young's bookkeeper for several years. Little was written of this relationship perhaps because William's death cut it short. John Taylor became the third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving from October 10, 1880 to July 25, 1887. Some months after becoming President of the Church, President Taylor was visited by Zina Young Williams, the Dean of Women of the Brigham Young Academy in Provo and a daughter of Brigham Young. The Academy was less than a decade old and was experiencing serious financial difficulties that, if not resolved, would mean its closing. After listening to Sister Williams's plea for help, President Taylor took her hand "in a fatherly way" and said: "My dear child, I have something of importance to tell you that I know will make you happy. I have been visited by your father. He came to me in the silence of the night clothed in brightness and with a face beaming with love and confidence told me things of great importance and among others that the school being taught by Brother [Karl G.] Maeser was accepted in the heavens and was a part of the great plan of life and salvation; . . . and there was a bright future in store for . . . preparing . . . the children of the covenant for future usefulness in the Kingdom of God, and that Christ himself was directing, and had a care over this school." [Leonard J. Arrington, ed., The Presidents of the Church (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1986), pp. 108-109] Zina and Charles Ora Card's relationship began at the time she was Matron of Brigham Young Academy. Card had two of his own children, from his first marriage, who were in attendance and Zina was involved in counselling his daughter. Card saw his daughter's disenchantment with her father and his Church as a result of his controversial (polygamous) public life, and he encouraged her to seek out "Sister Zina and allow her to advise you." Card made several trips to Provo visiting his own children and was also reportedly heroic in saving some of the books and valuable papers from a fire which almost destroyed the school. The relationship between Zina and Card grew serious following the dedication of the Logan Temple. Zina and her mother had been called to work in the Temple, May 19 [1884]. They were considering the purchase of C.O. Card's home in Logan where they expected to live and work in the temple. It was on May 25, 1884 while at her home in Provo making provisions to move to Logan that she received a letter from C.O. Card proposing marriage: While she respected him very much she had never thought of marrying him. She deferred answering him until she went back to Logan. She had a dream that convinced her that he was the right man. They were married on the 17th of the following June, 1884. She was thirty-four years of age, he was forty-five. Zina returned to Logan from Canada in 1903 after her husband became ill, in Cardston, and after his death, at age 67, September 9, 1906, she moved to Salt Lake City where she lived the remainder of her life. Zina had five children--Sterling Williams, Thomas Edgar Williams; and Joseph Young, Zina Young (the third Zina) and Orson Rega Card. She was appointed as a member of the L.D.S. Primary General Board, where she served for the next fifteen years, and assumed the duties as matron of the L.D.S. Business School in Salt Lake City. On January 31, 1931, at 81 years of age Zina passed away quietly in her sleep.