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COOLEY, Andrew Wood: A pioneer devoted to family

December 25, 1885. I wish I could have had the privilege of spending Christmas with you at home, but it is our lot to spend it apart. I hope you have spent it in a different way from what I have. We had a good dinner. The warden did the best he could to make the prisoners happy, but when a man’s liberty is gone, he can’t be happy when he has a family at home. I have thought of home the whole day long and so I do every day. I shall never be a happy man if I cannot enjoy the society of those that are my own flesh and blood which my family is. Things look dark to me, but I must hope for the best. God is at the helm

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CANNON, Franklin Jenne

from History of Utah Vol. 4 by Orson F. Whitney EX-SENATOR FRANKLIN JENNE CANNON is a native son of Utah and was born at Salt Lake City on the 25th…

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ROBERTS, Brigham Henry

from History of Utah, Vol. 4, by Orson F. Whitney HONORABLE B. H. ROBERTS is a personage of more than ordinary interest, not only from his official prominence aud his…

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ARMSTRONG, Francis

From this humble beginning began the rise of one of Utah's greatest entrepreneurs of his day or any other day. He obtained his own saw mill, then a lumber company, then a construction company. As the years went by, he purchased a flour mill, several huge ranches, and developed sugar companies, banks, savings and loan operations, railroads, transfer companies, insurance companies, and eventually electric street cars (the second in the world) and the supporting electricity production company.

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