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Show caught the fancy of the public. The legislature appropriated $10,000 and a lovely The Grove session of the colonial house was erected where social events could be held. An oil portrait of Mrs. life chairman, occupies a place of honor 'in Memorial E.O. Howard, 1925 House. the woman who made the motion in the meeting of April 1920 which set the project in motion, was not a native Utahn. She was Antoinette B. Kinney, wife of Clesson S. Kinney, an attorney and author. Antoinette was born in New York, the daughter of Joseph A. and Mary J. Daniels Brown. Married to Clesson Kinney, she came west and was active in many phases of the community. Yet she was president of the Utah Federation of member of the Order of Eastern Star, the Ladies the Republican Club, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the American Association of University Women. She a held various offices in many cl ubs and was rgent of the University of Utah. From 1904 to Women's 1907 Club, Literary Club, a an Clesson had been early legislator and Antoinette, who was interested in social welfare, ran for and was elected to the Senate served on the Here she in 1921. Appropriations and Claims, Education and Revision and Enrolling committees. Her presence in the and in was instrumental the Senate securing promoting another added and enhanced which legislative appropriation dimension to the use of Memory Grove. After her term in the legislature, made her home in Pittsburgh. she returned to the east and 31 |
