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Show .s_!1_l\N A_.!'_ __ __ Elected FRANCES Elected It's rare to find two _S_M_l_T1L_XQ!!Q 1943 and B. -1945 SMITH 1945 sisters to HAY 1947 succeeding each other as Representaatives in the legislature, yet Susan A. Smith and Frances B. Smith did just that. And whats more, their father, Keith Smith also served in 1961. Quite a family, the Smiths. Utah part of their history began when Keith Smith, a graduate Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts and Yale University He came west on a hunting and fishing expedition with a friend. liked the west, saw its potential and decided to make it his home. The of Returning east, he married Helen Alice Garrett, a former Bryn Mawr student who had left school to study for the stage. They went to Costa Rica on their honeymoon. Keiths uncle lived there and had become the vice president of the United Fruit Company. They returned to Green River and built a house at Henry's Fork. Winters were cold, and the girls were both born on Staten Island, New York. Susan in December of 1909 and Frances in April 1914. They spent winters in New York or Berkeley, California. The Smith's raised sheep and were involved in the changes of the land. They lived through floods, and the building of Dams. Gas was discovered on their land in Clay Basin. When Daggett was formed into a Utah county, Keith became a County Commisioner, a position he held for eighteen and a half years. The war years came, and Frances and Susan came home after a period of studying and teaching in the east. They helped set fence posts, helped with the plowing and harrowing and raking hay. In 1942 Susan ran for the legislature on the Republican ticket and served in the 1943 session. She was active on the Livestock, Public Lands, Revenue and Taxation, and Public Welfare committees. Susan married Harry Young a mechanical engineer and went to live in also She in Greenriver, taught art at Chatham Hall Wyoming. Chatham, Virginia before her marriage. followed her sister into the legislature. She was chairman of the Reference Committee and served on the Public Lands, Revenue and Taxation, Traffic Safety and Public Welfare committees. In 1947 she helped plan the Utah Centennial celebration in their community and carried out plans with the children in the Manila school. Frances 112 |
