Fox, Charles Wilson, 1823-1880.

Franklin County, Idaho farmer and financial clerk for the local LDS Church ward.

Farmer, mail carrier, director of Franklin Co-op.

Samuel Parkinson Cowley was born July 23, 1899 in Franklin, Idaho the son of Mathias Foss and Luella Smart Parkinson Cowley. (Mathias F. Cowley was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had numerous polygamous wives.) Around 1910 Samuel and his mother moved to Logan, Utah where he graduated from high school. The following year Cowley enrolled at the Utah Agricultural College (now Utah State University). After graduating from the UAC, Cowley was called to serve as a missionary in Hawaii by the LDS Church and he labored there from 1914 to 1920. After completing his missionary service, Cowley enrolled at George Washington University and studied law. Upon graduating he took a position with the FBI in 1929. In 1934 Cowley was promoted to the rank of inspector.

In the early summer of 1934 J. Edgar Hoover assigned Cowley to preside over several agency operations to catch a string of notorious criminals. One of Cowley's investigations aimed to catch and arrest John Dillinger, then "public enemy number one." That summer Cowley and his team located and surrounded Dillinger as he exited the Biograph Theater in Chicago. A gun battle erupted and Dillinger was killed.

After this assignment Cowley next set out to catch Baby Face Nelson (alias Lester Gillis), an infamous criminal of the time who was wanted for murder and other criminal charges. In November 1934, Cowley and other FBI detectives discovered that Lester Gillis and his accomplices were hiding out near Barrington, Illinois. When the FBI attempted to make an arrest a gun battle erupted. During this firefight Cowley was mortally wounded and later died on November 28, 1934. National and local government officials attended Cowley's funeral in Utah.

Sources:

Respect Paid to Cowley, The Herald Journal, 8 May 1972.

Hoover, J. Edgar, Samuel P. Cowley of the FBI Millennial Star, Special Sunday School Issue, Vol. 121 # 9 (Sept 1959), 368-370.

Anna Marie Nolan was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 6, 1898. She attended New Mexico Highland University studying English. On August 6, 1919, Anna married Thomas Patrick Clark. Their only child, Thomas Patrick, Jr., was later killed in World War II.

After teaching English at Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Clark began a 25 year career with the United States government's schools for Indian children. In her work Clark became alarmed by the lack of instructional material in the students' own language and connected with their Indian culture. As a result Clark began writing her own materials, resulting in a series of books: Little Herder in Spring (1940), The Pine Ridge Porcupine (1941), Young Hunter of Picuris (1943), Singing Sioux Cowboy Reader (1947), and Little Navajo Herder (1951). Many of these books were bilingual, featuring both the English and various Native America Indian translations.

During the 1940s, Clark also supervised the production of materials in Central and South America for the Institute of Inter-American Affairs. This experience led her to write Magic Money (1950), Looking-for-Something (1952), and the 1953 Newbery Medal winner, Secret of the Andes .

During the 1950s and 1960s, Clark worked at the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, Utah. It was while she working there that she wrote Blue Canyon Horse (1955). Between 1930-1960 Clark regularly published stories in the New Mexico Magazine, which became the basis for "We Made This Land," which was subsequently published as; These Were the Valiant, Calvin Horn Publisher Inc, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1969 (Book Collection 16, C-34). Ann Nolan Clark died in 1995.

Source: University of Southern Mississippi, archive collection DG 0188: