| Title |
Laura Young Wells: Subject is Samuel Newhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Hynda Rudd, July 19, 1977 |
| Alternative Title |
Laura Young Wells on Samuel Newhouse |
| Creator |
Wells, Laura Young, 1912-1997 |
| Contributor |
Rudd, Hynda |
| Date |
1977-07-19 |
| Date Digital |
4/29/2016 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Access Rights |
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| Subject |
Wells, Laura Young, 1912-1997--Interviews; Newhouse, Samuel, 1853-1930; Businessmen--Utah--Salt Lake City--Interviews; Jews--Utah--Salt Lake City |
| Description |
Transcript (34 pages) of an interview by Hynda Rudd with Laura Young Wells on her recollections of Samuel Newhouse on July 19, 1977. From tape number H-35 in the Jewish Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Mrs. Wells recalls the life of Samuel Newhouse, including his mining interests, the McCune railroads, his business buildings, and his eventual bankruptcy. She also recalls Ida Newhouse, her life in English court society, her jewels, and her home on South Temple. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
34 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6m92g7w |
| Topic |
Jews; Businessmen |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_johp |
| ID |
919396 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6m92g7w |
| Title |
Page 19 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_johp |
| ID |
919373 |
| OCR Text |
Show LAURA YOUNG WELLS HR: I wonder if most of them came from a kind of environment, a milieu where they were born to use their hands, because Sam Newhouse was not. He was a city boy. LW: Right. HR: As many other studies that I do on Jewish people, they are not of the land. They want to make their money. They will hire anyone in the world to help them make their money, but they will not grovel. Maybe this is one of the differences. LW: On the other hand, you see, McCune came from a highly educated family. I will bet he never dug a shovelful of dirt in his life. He had a background to begin with that gave him a great edge over many people out here because his family was so well-educated that they must have done some of this with their children. What he did have was the most incredible business mind. He had a real knack for seeing where need was and answering it. Hearst was a lawyer in San Francisco, the elder Hearst, George Hearst, the father of the publisher. These particular men were, none of them, men who had to fight their way to the top like tigers. Thomas Kearns mucked in a mine with a shovel and a pickaxe and a sledge hammer, taught himself mining geology. He could just barely read and write, but he was smart. He was shrewd, and he knew what he wanted. He did indeed work with his hands. So did David Keyes. When he 13 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6m92g7w/919373 |
