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Show FERGUSON LILLIAN Elected 1923 to DUNYON 1927 infancy and early childhood were spent in vall ey in the extreme western portion 'of Tooel e County, Utah. Her father was telegrapher for Wells Fargo Express Company and was in charge of a "horne station" for the stage line connecting east and west. When the stage line and the telegraph there remained office were acqu1r1ng discontinued, they considerable land and going into the sheep and -cattle business. Lilllian Ibapah, Ferguson's a small born April 29, 1871 to James Corey and Elizabeth Dunlop the Fifteenth Ward in Salt Lake City, a fact she had difficulty establishing some 74 years later, as her church blessing had not been registered and no proof of her existence could be Lilian was Ferguson in found. father died when she was eleven leaving her mother with four girls and a heavy burden of financial liabilities. The following January, Lillian went to stay with an aunt in Kaysville to go to school. Her appetite for education was whetted. Two years later her mother arranged for her a to be day student at st. Marys and remained until her graduation in June of 1893. Later she served as Her president of the school's alumni association. took a speaking September 6, course 1894, at the University Lillian engineer, and six children lived to maturity. of Some years Albert Dunyon, married N. born of this union, but were later she Utah. a mining only three Until the children began to arrive, Lillian took pleasure in lving in various mining towns in Utah and Nevda. With the birth of her second child, she settled permanently into the horne her husband had given her as a wedding present. For many years she was occupied with her children, activities in the Methodist Church and the Bay View Reading Club (later Reviewers Club) of which she was a charter member. With the children in college, she moved out into the community. She served as vice president of the City Federation of Women's Clubs under Mrs. Beless, its first president. Mrs. Beless was called east, so Lillian acted as its president for the greater part of a year. of the first Smoke Committee organized to try to plan to rid the city of this nuisance. (Standing on the east bench in bright sunshine, you overlooked a black pall covering the lower levels of the city. Descending into the murk, the sun was often obscured and the day was dim as if it were heavily cloudy. To Lewis and the long drawn-out strike of his John L. be candid, United Mine Workers during the fore part of World War II did more She 72 was a develGp a member |
