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Show 198° When Utah was admitted as a state, Alien was elected Utah's first United States Congressman, serving from January 4,1896 to March 1,1897. While a congressman, he intro duced bills to allow the Post Office to receive money on deposit; to extend the time for bringing suit to vacate patents upon public lands; to defray the expense of Utah's Constitutional Convention; to amend law relative to verification of affidavits for mining claims; and for relief of the IDS Church. His remarks appear in the Congressional Record on the subjects of bankruptcy laws; bond issue and silver coinage; compulsory pilotage; Mormon Church property and public buildings; the need to give Utah equal consideration with other states for land for a capitol building; and an inquiry into the non-issue of patents in Utah to the Union Pacific Railroad. Family health problems (his younger children had diptheria while living in Wash ington D.C.) and the opportunity to manage the Centennial Eureka Mining Co., were factors in his decision not seek a second term in Congress. In 1897, then, he returned to Utah, and managed the Centennial until he retired and moved to Ohio in 1922. While managing the Centennial, he also managed the United States Mining Company with nine mines in Utah and Nevada. Alien's wife, Corrine Tuckerman Alien, was prominent in her own right. She helped establish a library that eventually became the Salt Lake Public Library. She was President of the Ladies Literary Club of Salt Lake City, which was the second oldest such club in the United States, president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, a founder of the Parent Teacher's Association of Utah, and a founder of the National Playground Association. The Alien's daughter, Florence E. Alien, born in Salt Lake City in 1884, received a law degree from New York University, became the first woman to be elected to the Ohio Supreme Court and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth District, that being in 1934. A second daughter, Esther Alien Gaw, was appointed Dean of Women At Ohio State University. Upon Alien,s retirement in 1922, he moved to Columbus, Ohio, where his daughter Florence was a judge. The SLC house was not sold, but was rented until his death in 1932. It was then sold to Mrs. Leigh B. Turner. She was a draftswomen with the Silver King Coalition Mines in SLC amd Park City for thirty-five years until her retirement in 1946. She was also an artist, and designed the insignia of the Utah Associated Garden Clubs. Following her death in 1950, the house was sold to Carl H. Schack, a metalurgist at the U.S. Bureau of Mines. |
