Class of 1886 H.S.


Alphabetical Alumni
Stevens, William R.

Stevens, William R.

William R. Stevens

BY Academy High School Class of 1886. William R. Stevens. Awarded Special Certificate in Bookkeeping. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886.

Talmage, Sadie C. [Sarah Christian]

Talmage, Sadie C. [Sarah Christian]
Provo, Utah US

Sadie and William Patten

BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Sadie Talmage. Awarded Teacher's Certificate. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886. ~ ~ ~ ~ Sarah [Sadie] Christian Talmage was born on December 8, 1865 in Hungerford, England. He married Gabriel James Joyce Talmage and Susanna Prater [Preater]. She married William Wallace Patten on January 14, 1891 in Manti, Utah. He was born on August 13, 1867 in Provo, Utah. His parents were Thomas Jefferson Patten and Joanna Hollister. He died on April 3, 1930 in Sterling, Idaho. His interment, Provo, Utah. Sadie died on November 26, 1942 in Provo, Utah. Her interment, Provo, Utah.

Talman, Mattie Ann

Talman, Mattie Ann

Mattie Talman

BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Mattie Ann Talman. Awarded Assistant Teacher's Certificate. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886.

Tanner, Sadie

Tanner, Sadie

Sadie Tanner

BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Sadie Tanner. Awarded Assistant Teacher's Certificate. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886.

Todd, Douglas M.

Todd, Douglas M.

Douglas Todd

BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Douglas M. Todd. Awarded Teacher's Certificate, and Special Certificates in General Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology & Hygiene. He spoke at Commencement on May 21, 1886 "In Behalf of Domestic Organization". Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 21 and 25, 1886. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ricks College Biography [where he was principal of the Fremont Stake Academy from 1899 to 1901]: Douglas McLain Todd (1860-1935). Douglas McLain Todd was born in Clover Creek, Utah. His boyhood was spent at St. John and Grantsville, Utah. He studied with Karl G. Maser at Brigham Young Academy in Provo, graduating in 1886. After graduation, he taught for a year at Santaquin, Utah, before being called to Logan in 1887 to teach at Brigham Young College under President J.M. Tanner. He was an excellent teacher and a favorite with his students. From 1897 to 1901, he taught at Fremont Stake Academy (this was the forerunner of Ricks College). He also was principal of the Academy for most of that time. He worked to develop the high school curriculum at the Academy at a time there were no high schools in the immediate Rexburg area. He also instituted a classroom teacher preparatory course at the Academy. During his tenure, work was begun on a stone academic building just a few blocks from downtown Rexburg. This building would become known as the Spori Building. In 1901 he resigned and moved from the area. Later he assisted in the establishment of Granite High School, Utah, where he taught until his health broke and he was forced to retire. His later years were spent in writing and in research. He was devoted to the Church and served as a member of the General Board of the Y.M.M.I.A. from 1898 to 1912. He died in 1935 in Alhambra, California while visiting one of his daughters. He is buried in Salt Lake City. He married three times. In 1887 he married Florence Marian Driggs in the Logan Temple. She was the mother of two children. She died in 1889 in Logan, Utah. His second wife was Marian Davis Lufkin. She was the mother of ten children. She was with Douglas when he taught in Rexburg. His last wife was Hannah N. McMurray. She was the mother of six daughters.

Tullestrup, Albert N.

Tullestrup, Albert N.

Albert Tullestrup

BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Albert N. Tullestrup. Awarded Assistant Teacher's Certificate. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886.

West, Claudine

West, Claudine

Claudine West

BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Claudine West. Awarded Assistant Teacher's Certificate. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886.

Williams, Pleasant Samuel

Williams, Pleasant Samuel
Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua MX

"Placido" + 3 Williams

BY Academy High School Class of 1883 & 1886. Pleasant Williams of New Mexico. Graduated Friday, June 15, 1883, with a Bookkeeping certificate, and a Mathematics certificate. Source: Territorial Enquirer, Friday, June 15, 1883. ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Pleasant S. Williams. Awarded Assistant Teacher's Certificate. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886. ~ ~ ~ ~ Pleasant Samuel Williams was born on May 19, 1861 in Denton, Texas. His parents were George Calvin Williams and Martha Bearl Easterly Williams. Pleasant S. Williams married three times: ~ ~ First, Pleasant S. Williams of Juarez, Mexico to Annie Woods of Woodruff, Arizona on May 19, 1887 in St. George, Utah. She was born March 23, 1868 in Porterville, Utah. They had no children. ~ ~ He second married Anna Sariah "Minnie" Tenney Coleman in a civil marriage in Colonia Dublan on 19 May 1907, and they were sealed on June 6, 1907 in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were later divorced. They had no children. She was born March 23, 1870 in Toquerville, Utah. She was previously married to Prime Thornton Coleman 1893 and divorced. ~ ~ He third married Maria Lara on June 22, 1924. She was born on December 15, 1878 in Toluca, Mexico, and died in October of 1970. They had no children. Pleasant S. Williams died on January 30, 1940 in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Young, Aretta [Arretta]

Young, Aretta [Arretta]
Provo, Utah US

Aretta Young

BY Academy High School Class of 1884, 1886, and Collegiate Class of 1900. Aretta Young. Graduated Friday, June 13, 1884, with a Normal diploma. Source: Territorial Enquirer, Friday, June 13, 1884. ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy High School Class of 1884. Aretta Young received a certificate of proficiency in Physical Geography. Source: Territorial Enquirer, Friday, June 13, 1884. ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Arretta Young. Awarded Teacher's Certificate. She spoke at Commencement on May 21, 1886 "In Behalf of the Ladies' Department". Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 21 and 25, 1886.~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy Collegiate Class of 1900. Received a Diploma: Bachelor of Pedagogy (B.Pd.). Source: Deseret Evening News, June 2, 1900. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYH Faculty & Staff. Arretta Young, Art & Reading teacher, 1885-1886, 1897-1923. She apparently taught in Wayne County [Fremont] in the interim period. She was the Principal of the Fremont LDS Seminary in 1890. ~ ~ ~ ~ Aretta Young was born on September 10, 1864 in Idaho. She died on March 25, 1923 in Provo, Utah. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. [She apparently never married.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Springville Museum of Art: Aretta Young, born September 10, 1864; died March 25, 1923, is of St. Charles, Idaho, and Provo, Utah. She was an art instructor at Brigham Young University around the turn of the century (ca. 1907) in the School of Arts. A daughter of Frank and Anna Young, Aretta Young attended Brigham Young Academy (BYU) beginning in 1883, and then went to New York State's Oswego Normal School in 1885. Also studying at Columbia University (Columbia Teachers) in 1905, she became a designer, watercolorist, oil painter, and poet whose monogram shows a large "A" with a squared top, with a small "Y" inside it. Aretta Young became an art teacher back in Utah; she also did calligraphy and drawings as well as watercolors of boats and figures in genre scenes done in this medium-- all these in a painterly and richly colored style.

Young, John W.

Young, John W.

John W. Young

BY Academy High School Class of 1886 & 1889. John W. Young. Awarded Special Certificates in General Chemistry and Physics. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886. ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy High School Class of 1889. John W. Young received Certificates: Bookkeeping, Rhetoric. Source: Utah Enquirer, May 28, 1889.

Young, Joseph E.

Young, Joseph E.

Joseph Young

BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Joseph E. Young. Awarded Special Certificates in General Chemistry and Geology. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886.

Young, William H.

Young, William H.

William Young

BY Academy High School Class of 1886. William H. Young. Awarded Special Certificate in General Chemistry. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 25, 1886.

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