John E. Osguthorpe, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 24, 2004: Saving the Legacy tape no. 667

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JOHN E. 0 GUTHORPE J 24 2004 I went to school on aN ational Youth Administration grant of ten dollars and twenty cents a month. That was all I got from them for college. We would clean barns chicken coops, toilets and do snow removal for ten cents an hour. I worked ranches in Nevada for four months every summer at thirty dollars a month, which gave me exactly $120, which was exactly my tuition. My folks could not give me one dime. The president said to me, "John, you're the poorest student financially at this university." I pulled myself up by my bootstraps after I graduated. I got a job and was eventually on the executive staff of the federal government, the top two percent. My rating was equivalent to a four star general. I could go no higher. That's where I came from. That's the reason I say, the life and times of John Osguthorpe were stranger than fiction. I could not dream up the things that I've gone through, which are in this book, The Life and Times of John E. Osguthorpe- In Which Truth is Stranger Than Fiction, Copyright 1999, Ageka Books. BEC: That is an apt title. I live in East Mill Creek. JOHN: That's where I was born and raised. I was one of the Osguthorpes who lived by Mill Creek Canyon. BEC: Osguthorpe is a well known name in the history of East Mill Creek. JOHN: You know Wasatch Boulevard between 3300 South and Parley's Canyon, there are two underground water tanks. Between the two, there's a little bit of a hollow. That was where I was born. BEC: Right. My husband, in researching some of the history of the mills in the area ran across some of the Osguthorpes. 9