BYU Studies Quarterly
Keywords
Heber J. Grant, Heber Jeddy Grant, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Presidents, Biography, Businessmen, Utah
Abstract
One day in early February 1874, Jim Ferguson, sensing the forlorn hope of advancing his courtship with Minnie Horne, suggested to Ort (Orson F.) Whitney and another of the boys that they organize a reading society. Ferguson "had heard, no doubt, of fond couples 'reading life's meaning in each others eyes,'" Whitney later mused, "and that was the kind of reading that most interested him." Since the seventeen-year-old Whitney found himself "in the same box with Ferguson on the girl question," the suggestion found a ready response. Whitney immediately invited those who "would make desirable members" to meet at the home of Sister Emmeline B. Wells, his motherly confidante. It was there on Salt Lake City's State Street that the Wasatch Literary Society was born (illus. 4-1).
Recommended Citation
Walker, Ronald W.
(2004)
"Growing Up in Early Utah: The Wasatch Literary Association 1874-1878,"
BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 43:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol43/iss1/7