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Jefferson Hunt (1804-1879) —
also known as Charles Jefferson Hunt —
of San
Bernardino County, Calif.; Weber
County, Utah; Oxford, Bannock
County, Idaho.
Born in Mason County (part now in Bracken
County), Ky., January
22, 1804.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Utah
territorial House of Representatives, 1851, 1863; member of California
state assembly, 1853-58 (2nd District 1853-54, 1st District
1854-58).
Mormon.
Founder, in 1860, of Huntsville, Utah.
Died in Oxford, Bannock
County, Idaho, May 11,
1879 (age 75 years, 109
days).
Interment at Red
Rock Pass Cemetery, Red Rock, Idaho.
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Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895) —
also known as Abraham O. Smoot; A. O.
Smoot —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Provo, Utah
County, Utah.
Born in Owenton, Owen
County, Ky., February
17, 1815.
Mayor
of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1857-66; mayor of
Provo, Utah, 1868-81; banker; lumber
business.
Mormon.
Died in Provo, Utah
County, Utah, March 6,
1895 (age 80 years, 17
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Washigton Smoot and Nancy Ann (Rowlett) Smoot; married, November
11, 1838, to Margaret Thompson McMeans; married, February
17, 1856, to Anna Kirstine Mauritzdatter; father of Abraham
Owen Smoot (1856-1911) and Reed
Owen Smoot; nephew of Daniel
Owen Rowlett and Joseph
Rowlett; grandfather of Abraham
Owen Smoot III and Isaac
Albert Smoot. |
|  | Political family: Bullock-Smoot
family of Provo, Utah (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | The Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building
(opened 1962), at Brigham Young University,
Provo,
Utah, is named for
him. |
|  | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Samuel Richard Thurman (1850-1941) —
also known as Samuel R. Thurman —
of Lehi, Utah
County, Utah; Provo, Utah
County, Utah; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Hodgenville, Larue
County, Ky., May 6,
1850.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; law
partner of George
Sutherland and William
H. King; mayor of
Lehi, Utah, 1881-82; resigned 1882; member of Utah
territorial legislature, 1882-90; in 1889, he was arrested
and charged
with unlawful cohabitation
(polygamy);
left
the country on a mission to England, and was never tried; delegate
to Utah state constitutional convention, 1895; Utah
Democratic state chair, 1910; justice of
Utah state supreme court, 1917-29; chief
justice of Utah state supreme court, 1927-29.
Mormon.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, July 12,
1941 (age 91 years, 67
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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