History of Salt Lake City, (Salt Lake County) Utah United States of America

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James Neely Johnson, governor of California, was born in Warwick county, Indiana, in 1825. He was educated in his native state and in 1849 removed to California. He studied law and then settled in practice in Sacramento, where he was city attorney and district attorney. He was elected governor of the state of California by the Native American party in 1855, serving 1856-58. After the close of his term he removed to Carson, Nev., where he engaged in the practice of law, and was appointed judge of the supreme court. He was married in 1852 to a daughter of J. C. Zabriskie, a prominent lawyer. He died at Salt Lake City, Utah, in August, 1872.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John T. Caine, delegate, was born in the Isle of Man, Jan. 8, 1829, where he received a grammar-school education, emigrated to the United States early in 1846, and resided for a time in New York city, where he became identified with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the fall of 1848 he went to St. Louis, Mo. where he cast his first ballot, and was active from 1849 to 1852 in forwarding the large number of Mormon immigrants who passed through St. Louis, bound for Utah Territory. He settled in Salt Lake City in 1852; served on a mission in the Sandwich Islands, 1854-56, and became connected with the Salt Lake Herald in 1870, serving as managing editor and also as president of the company. He was secretary of the legislative council, and a member of that body, 1876-84; a member of the Utah constitutional conventions of 1872 and 1882, and president of the convention in 1887 that made polygamy and bigamy punishable and asked for admission into the Union as a state. He was recorder of Salt Lake city, 1876-82; a trustee of Deseret university, 1876-88; a delegate to congress, 1882-93, and a state senator in 1897.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Patrick Edward Connor, soldier, was born in Ireland, March 17, 1820. His parents settled in the United States soon after his birth and he was educated in New York city. In 1839 he enlisted in the U.S. army, serving through the Seminole war, and upon his discharge in 1844 engaged in mercantile business in New York city. In 1846 he settled in Texas where he was chosen captain of Texas volunteers and as a part of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston's regiment, engaged the Mexicans at Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma and Buena Vista, at which last battle he was severely wounded. When the war was ended he settled in California and engaged in trade. Upon the outbreak of the civil war in 1861 he raised a regiment of California volunteers and was ordered to Utah to keep the Mormons in check and guard the overland route against marauding Indians. He encountered a band of three hundred Indian warriors in forrifled camp on Bear river, Washington Territory, and destroyed the entire band. He commanded the Utah district during the war and was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863 and major-general by brevet at the close of the war. He afterward organized an expedition of 2000 cavalry and defeated the Arapaho Indians at Tongue river in August, 1865. He was mustered out of the volunteer service April 30, 1866. He afterward organized 16,000 Gentiles, established Camp Douglass near Salt Lake City, founded a Gentile community, and issued the Union Vedette, the first daily paper published in Utah. He located the first silver mine in the territory, wrote the first mining law, placed the first steamboat on the Great Salt Lake, built the first silver smelting works, founded the town of Stockton, and established large commercial and mining interests. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 17, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Maude Adams, actress, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 11, 1872. Her real name was Maude Kiskadden. Her mother, whose stage name was Annie Adams, was a member of the stock company at the only theatre there. Maude appeared first on the stage at the age of six, and her first speaking part was that of Adrienne in "A Celebrated Case." She played ingenue parts in "Men and Women" and Hoyt's "A Midnight Bell" and played Dora in "Diplomacy." With John Drew, she appeared in 1892, as "Susanne Blondet" in "A Masked Ball" and as Miriam Stuart Dodge in "The Butterflies." As Babbie in "The Little Minister" her phenomenal success came, in 1897-'98. "L'Aiglon" followed in 1900, and later as Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet," she made a pronounced success. She was forced to retire from the stage on account of failing health, and traveled in Egypt and the Holy Land in 1903.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor