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Show 4 CHAPTER I HISTORICAL BACKGROUND In March, 1849, after the arrival soon body of Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake valley, sional State Government of the new colony were admitted to the Union statehood was Government Utah and denied the 1850, on the passed as to was to be Washington asking appointed This Territorial a them for the Territory of governor. twenty-eighth o,f February of the Provisional its second law, rating the 'ffUniversity Provi Representatives but in 1850 I"egislative Assembly Government This act, to a the State of Deseret. them, Brigham Young Meanwhile, sent as granted was formed. was of the main of the State an of act incorpo Deseret".1. among others of the Provisional Government, ratified by the Legislative Assembly of the Ter was ritory of Utah, October 4, 1851. ' On November on for the opened was the name 11,1850, corner of the the first time University in the home of :J:ohn of First North and West "Parent Schoolff• and the Board of of Deseret Pack, Temple under the Ohancellor Orson Spencer Regents employed Dr. Cyrus W. Collins r Annual of the University of,Deseret 1886-1887, Salt Lake City: Published by the University 1886, p. 11. |
