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Julia Wore a Fine Hat ~ Flummery but Fine
Background ‘noise’ has always been an important part of my genealogical research. I hate silence. I’ve heard a loud ringing in my ears for over four decades. It can’t be cured so music or a movie...
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John Featherstone ~ Home Destroyed by Fire
During the mining boom days of Park City, Utah, homes were almost stacked on each other and were frequently built with cheap materials and poor construction standards. Unfortunately for John...
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Churchill Pedigree Upset
in 1912, Wharton Dickinson upset many Churchill descendants in America when he pointed out a fallacy in the lineage of John Churchill who immigrated to Plymouth, Massachusetts in the mid-1600’s. Mr....
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Death Was Painless ~ John Featherstone
John Featherstone was one of the crew blasting in the mine in mid-July 1902. It only took a second for the misstep to take the lives of the five men and a boy in the Utah mine that day. The...
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Nellie Berlin ~ I Recommend Executive Clemency
Midway through his second term as the Utah Territorial Governor, Caleb Walton West received a letter requesting executive clemency and the release of Nellie Berlin from prison. Nellie had been...
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Sick Widow Jailed for Whiskey in Room
Mrs. Julia (Mary) Hansen was a widow. She was struggling to support her 9 year old daughter when the “purity squad” raided her home in Utah. Even though she had been sick in bed for six days they...
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Deported From Colorado ~ Do Not Return
1906 found miners in Colorado battling for unionization of the work force and all of the attendant issues common to that effort. By early June, 1906, Colorado State officials had put a stop to the...
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Digitizing America’s Historical Newspapers
Many but not all genealogists are aware of the American historical newspapers that are being digitized. When I first heard of the endowment and structure of the funding that created the program, I...
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Utah Digital Newspapers
The Utah Digital Newspapers collection are like gold to genealogy and other historical researchers. Years ago, I was involved in the digitization of the images found on University of Utah’s Digital...
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George Washington’s Vision Concerning America
Taken from an account as it was reprinted in the December 1880 National Tribune, (Vol IV, No. 12, Washington DC), a U.S. veterans of war publication, which is today called Stars and Stripes. The...
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DAR By-Law Changes Arouse Interest Around America on 13 Apr 1913
We don’t often find news about genealogy or related societal events on the front page of the newspaper, but on 13 Apr 1913, news about the Daughters of the American Revolution was on the front page of...
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Ladies Fashion ~ San Francisco ~ April 1895
1800’s ladies fashion never has made sense to me. When I look at photos of my ancestors that were taken during the last half of that century, my mind reels with the absurdity of the designs. Yes, the...
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Los Angeles Limited ~ Direct Line to Nevada Gold Districts
On 29 Dec 1907, the Salt Lake Herald ran a large advertisement for the Los Angeles Limited train, noting that it was the direct line to the Nevada Gold Districts. The map included in the ad calls out...
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Plumber Lights Match ~ Turns Into Cannonball
Ogden, Utah Plumber, Brigham Ballantyne, turned into a human cannonball on the morning of 4 May 1913. Trying to see where he was going in an old sewer line, he struck a match for light. His next...
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Freaks of Fortune ~ An Heiress Lodged in Jail
Having money doesn’t necessarily mean happiness. Who knows what happens in the dynamics of a family, even if they have wealth?
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Frank Huggard Hauling Carbonate in American Fork Canyon
I’d heard stories of some of the jobs grandpa Frank Huggard worked to support his family in addition to owning and working on a large farm. He hauled logs down from the top of the mountains above...
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The Accidental Death of Dr. Maurice McKain
The morning of 25 Sep 1940 started out like any morning in the live of a busy small town doctor. A hurried meal tucked in between patient visits, civic and family duties and responsibilities. Dr....
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Gun Battle in Utah ~ 10 Nov 1913 ~ Blackmail
It didn’t pay for Dave Edwards to try and capture the blackmailers of Ralph E. Bristol and Leroy E. Eccles of Utah on 13 Nov 1913. The blackmailers recognized him despite him wearing the expensive cut...
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She Dreamed of Her Husband in Jail
In November 1913, Mrs. Mamie Cokely of Los Angeles had a series of dreams about her husband being in trouble. After searching for him she found that her dreams were true. He was in trouble and was...
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Accidental Death of Lawrence Snow Featherstone
4 August 1930 was a sad day for Joseph and Annie Snow Featherstone. Their young son, Lawrence Snow Featherstone, had gone for a ride with a family friend, S. N. Westerfield, a dairyman from Granger,...
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