David Eccles: Pioneer Western Industrialist. 1975.

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David Eccles: Pioneer Western Industrialist. 1975.

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Arrington, Leonard J.

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Leonard J. Arrington was historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972 to 1982. The first professional historian and the first noncentral authority to occupy this position. Arrington opened archival resources and presided over an unprecedented era of enlightenment in Mormon scholarship. From the description of Leonard J. Arrington miscellaneous images, circa 1880-196u. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367935916 Leo Arrington is a black Mormon, a boxer,...

Eccles, David, 1849-1912

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Pioneer western industrialist. David Eccles founded the Oregon Lumber Company, and owned several other companies. He bought into banks, insurance companies, railroads, beet sugar factories, flour mills, construction companies, condensed milk plants, and canneries, coal mining ventures, electric light plants, a hotel in London, and the Grand Ogden House in Ogden, Utah. Eccles was elected to the Ogden City Council and served as mayor from 1888 to 1890. At the time of his death, he was...