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66 D Street - 1892 Alonzo D. and Emaretta Root, He came to Salt Lake in 1892. He was president of the Salt Lake County Medical Society. He was a Mason and a member of the Congregational Church. He died in 1943. In 1940 Dr. Root decided to sell the house. Before he placed it on the market, Ivor Sharp, who was living through the block at 77 E Street, came and asked about the house. Sharp decided to buy the house. Ivor Sharp was vice-president of KSL Radio and Television. He was also executive vice-president of Radio Service Company and president of KSUB Radio in Cedar City and KID Radio in Idaho Falls. Sharp came to Salt Lake to work for KSL at the request of his father-in-law J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Before coming to Salt Lake, he worked for Line Lines of American Telephone and Telegraph. He developed an interchange mileage and rate guide for deter­ mining rate in long distance calls. Sharp was born in Vernon, Utah to David and Emma S. Ajax Sharp. He attended Utah State Agricultural College, George Washington University, and New York University. He was a veteran of World War I. He married Marianne Clark Sharp on June 15, 1927. He was a member of the High Council of the LDS Ensign Stake, He died in 1972. His widow, Marianne Clark Sharp continued to live in the house. A daughter of J. Reuben Clark Jr., and Luacine Annette Savage Clark, she was born in Salt Lake on Octo­ ber 28, 1901. She lived in Washington D.C. most of her youth. She graduated from the University of Utah in ancient languages in 1924. She served in various LDS Church acti­ vities while the family lived in New York. In 1940, after the family had moved to Salt Lake, she was called to the General Board of the LDS Relief Society. She helped edit the Centennial History of the Relief Society. In 1945 she became first couselor to the president of the Relief Society, Belle Spafford. She also became editor of the Relief Society Magazine that year. She was active in the National Women's Council with Mrs. Spafford. She was released from these positions in 1972.