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Show 6 The Protestant missionary movement to Utah resulted in the establishment of many churches and with the churches educated ministers. These churches found the ful in attracting Mormon youth, enjoyed rapid growth. a and of schools were quite were low success- 1875 and between the years of Thse schools college trained teachers, use the well- came 1890, to tuition-wise, had rapidly housed in newly constructed 1 churches. Salt Lake City was center of of Mormonism and also the West. The brought report This scene. which indicates the the new-Gentile movement to cent gain from 1880 to 1890 '. to 1870, a growth discovery of 61 per' cent the minerals, scene per cent in Saltlake 1870 from gain 56 of center Cecil Alter's shown in J. is population gain a 1860 to 1880, came the and a City 116 per :2 From the non-Mormons in Salt lake City ation of church and state. the federal The non-Mormons government for public schools. public schools as one of its goals for gamy to deny statehood to system. was surge of non-Mormons into Salt Lake and the national a from selves It conflict. of the railroad and the completion also the local was the hub of this cry for separ- could and did appeal to The Protestant churches had Utah, and used the issue of poly- Utah until its citizens could prove them- loyal Americans, tolerant Christians, and adopt a public school 3 1 Wain lishing Cecil Historical 3T• Alter, Society), Edgar Lyon, Mormon Dominated 1962. York: Lewis Pub- Company), 1949- 2J. can Sutton, UtaA Centennial History (New A Storied Domain (Chicago and New York: Ameri 1932. "Evangelical Areas," (unpublished Protestant Missionary Activities in PhD dissertation, University of Utah), |
