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Career, Romance, and Family time I was there. We had about half finished when the doctor, her father, pushed back his plate and arose from the table. I proceeded to do likewise but was invited to remain where I was. I learned later that he always finished long before the others as he chewed on both sides at once. I was invited to go to the canyon to spend the last week before starting on my traveF' On that trip I completely lost my heart. As well as her mental qualities, I saw what a thorough housekeeper she gave promise to become should she be a "poor man's wife. " Soon before my departure we went on a climb. A younger sister started to go with us, but her mother called her back; I was thankful. It was one of those days of which there are only a few in life, beauty everywhere. We sat on a granite boulder which was like a grey jewel. And then my arm crept around her, and my lips met hers, and all was understood. We kissed only this once. And the God of Creation recorded it. The morning I returned to the city, she and I rode horseback a few miles, and on the way I returned a ring she had let me his wife, was the second daughter of Heber John and Mary Johnson Richards, who raised five girls to maturity - Aimie, Harriet, Jennetta, Rhoda, and Blanche in order of age. The children of James and Sarah Jane Harwood (J. T. Har- wood's parents) were J. T. (born 8 April lsbo), Mary Jane (born 24 January 1862), Samuel (born 24 March 1864, but lived only two weeks), Ann (born 14 April 1865), Rose (born 15 September 1867), Lilley May (born 15 May 1869), Flora (born 3 October 1872) twin boys (25 September 1875, one child born dead, the other died at six months), Valentine (born 14 April 1877), Fred (born 1 February 1880), and Maude (born 10 May 1882). Harwood, "Auto- biography," 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 33. 10 After a "time of teaching he felt a great desire for further development in his art," and Harwood went to study in Paris first at the Ecole des Benux-Arts, and before the end of the year ( 1889), the Acndemie /z&m. In 1888 Harwood passed the examination that allowed him acceptance as a student in the Beaux Arts. He placed twenty-ninth of the hundred students accepted. Hnwood Art Exhibition, 4; James L. Haseltine, 100 Yenrs of Utnh Pniztiq, Selected Wads from the 1840s to the 1940s (Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Art Center, 1965), 41- 42; Harwood, "National Cyclopedia," 2; Horne, Devotees, 53; Heaton, Piolzeeu of Utnh Art, 74; Thomas A. Leek, "James T. Harwood," 1, unpublished report, 197Os, in author's possession; Olpin, Dictioany, 116; and Alice Merrill Horne, "Harwood - the Strenuous Utah Artist," The Young Womm~~s Jouwnl, 21 (1910):121. 31 |
