Class of 1911 H.S.



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Thornton, James Whitaker (1911)

Thornton, James Whitaker (1911)
Provo, Utah US

James & Nellie/Mary Thornton

Class of 1911. James W. Thornton, of New Castle, Utah. High School. He took his manners from the French,/ And almost seems half shy,/ He tried her heart from her to wrench/ By breathing tenor to the sky. Source: BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ James Whitaker Thornton was born on December 9, 1883 in Pinto, Utah. His parents were Amos Thornton and Mary Whitaker. He married twice: ~ ~ First, to Nellie Schofield [BYH Class of 1903] on September 13, 1911, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Nellie Schofield was born on March 21, 1881 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her parents were John Charles Schofield and Maria Ellen Read. She died on September 14, 1943 in Provo, Utah. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. ~ ~ Second, to Mary Gardner on December 26, 1944. Mary was born June 26, 1886 in Pine Valley, Utah. Her parents were Royal Joseph Gardner and Chloe Louisa Snow. She died on March 28, 1976. James W. Thornton died on February 5, 1960 in Provo, Utah. Interment, Provo City Cemetery, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 2: James W. Thornton. Earned a High School Diploma. Students Record of Class Standings, B. Y. Academy, Book 2, p. 162.

Thornton, Sadie

Thornton, Sadie
Provo, Utah US

Sadie and Hyde Willes

Classes of 1911 and 1912. Sadie Thornton, of American Fork, Utah. High School. Privileged to live amid the brightest effulgence a certain "Ray" is capable of bestowing, this little thorn has acquired all the modest sweetness of the rose itself. Sadie has not chosen a pedagogue's life for hers. BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ Class of 1912. Sadie Thornton. She received a BYH Normal Diploma in 1912. Source 2: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 6, page 429. ~ ~ ~ ~ Sadie Thornton was born on December 14, 1891 in American Fork, Utah. Her parents were Alexander Kennedy Thornton and Elizabeth Miller. She married Hyde Alvin Willes on June 17, 1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died on April 16, 1937 in Provo, Utah. Interment, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Tippetts, J. R.

Tippetts, J. R.

J. R. Tippetts

Class of 1911. J. R. Tippetts. He received a BYH Normal Diploma in 1911. Annual Record, B.Y. University (BYU Records Office), Book 4, p. 360. ~ ~ ~ ~ 1927: J. R. Tippetts, Superintendent, Morgan County, Utah, School District.

Walker, Florence

Walker, Florence
of American Fork, Utah US

Florence and Arthur Balzarini

Class of 1911. Florence Walker, of American Fork. Normal [Teacher Prep]. Dainty and modest, with a charming personality irresistable to all. Florence finds a permanent place in the affections of fellow classmates. Do you remember the angel that appeared to Paul? 'Twas Florence. ~ ~ ~ ~ Florence Walker was born on May 19, 1892 in American Fork, Utah. Her parents were Robert Walker and Elizabeth McNeill Walker. Florence married Arthur Murray Balzarini on June 10, 1933 in American Fork, Utah. Florence Walker Balzarini died on June 29, 1987. Arthur M. Balzarini was born on June 1, 1889 in San Francisco, California. He died on August 31, 1965.

Walton, Charles Herbert

Walton, Charles Herbert
Ogden, Utah US

Chas. & 3 Walton

Class of 1911. Charles Walton, of Cardson, Alberta, Canada. Senior Class President. Willingness to try is Charles' chief characteristic. Nothing appeals to him as impossible before he has tried it. Charles has twice been our class president, which office he now holds, and has always been a loyal class member and a worker. A trier and a stayer. ~ ~ ~ ~ Charles Herbert Walton was born on June 29, 1887 in Scofield, Carbon County, Utah. His parents were Andrew Jackson Walton and Harriet Bates Noble. He married three times: First, to Ida Ann Paxman [1889-1930] on January 24, 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Second, to Mary Ellen Barker [Chugg] [1903-1958] on December 23, 1936. Third, to [Eva] Grace Farmer [Henderson] [1890-1984] on September 9, 1960. He died on May 9, 1974 in Ogden, Utah.

Webb, Ray Orion [Orien]

Webb, Ray Orion [Orien]
Price, Utah US

Ray and Kisten Webb

Class of 1911. Ray Webb, of Monroe, Utah. High School. Our pioneer class president, an advocate of "Monroe doctrine," an ex-sheep-tender, and an apostle of pain. He will study tooth-carpentry at Chicago next year. Source: BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 2: Ray Webb. He received a High School Diploma in 1911. Annual Record, B.Y. University (BYU Records Office), Book 4, p. 329. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ray Orion [Orien] Webb was born on February 16, 1896 in Buckhorn Flat, Iron County, Utah. His parents were Melvin Webb and Charlotte May Eyre. He married Kisten Elore Jensen on June 20, 1918 in Junction, Piute County, Utah. He died on August 31, 1950 in Price, Utah. Interment, Price Cemetery, Utah. After his death in 1950, his wife, Kisten Jensen Webb, married Taliesin Whimpey Evans on August 28, 1956.

Whatcott, William Henry

Whatcott, William Henry
of Kanosh, Utah US

W. H. and Esther Whatcott

Class of 1911. William H. Whatcott, of Kanosh, Utah. Normal [Teacher Prep]. "Born and raised in fine condition,/ Married of his own volition;/ Well started on life's solemn mission,/ He works for "dough" and "prohibition." Senior disciple of brother Higgs. Source: BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ William Henry Whatcott was born December 8, 1883 in Kanosh, Utah. His parents were Henry Whatcott and Louisa Temperance Manhard. He married Esther Phelps on October 5, 1910 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on January 16, 1919, at the age of about 36, in Brigham City, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ OBITUARY FOR THEIR SON (1): Henry Lavell Whatcott, 86, one of God's most valiant servants passed from this life to eternity on Sunday August 20, 2000 from age related illnesses. Lavell was born Nov. 30, 1913 to William Henry Whatcott and Esther Phelps in Bothwell, Utah. He later moved with his family to Mesa, Arizona where he lived until he fulfilled a mission to the Central States Mission. He graduated from LDS Business College where he served as Student Body President. He married Bessie Glen Garrison on June 13, 1938 in the Salt Lake Temple. She preceded him in death in 1977. They were the proud parents of seven children. Lavell was an active member of the LDS Church. He served in many capacities and especially loved singing in the ward choir. He was a retired businessman where he was known for his honesty and hard work. Lavell will always be remembered for his generosity of love, time, and financial help. He was always giving, sharing, and doing something for others. He is survived by his children, Gary (Jeri), Glenell (John) Gadd, Louis (LeeAnn), JoAnn (Dean) Kelson, Ginny (Miguel) Mogollon, Donna Parsons, Lynn (Roxy); 22 grandchildren and 19 great- grandchildren; sister Carma McCoy of Mesa, Arizona. Funeral services were held Thurs, August 24, 2000, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Interment, Larkin Sunset Gardens, SLC, Utah. [Deseret News, Wednesday, August 23, 2000.] ~ ~ ~ ~ OBITUARY FOR THEIR SON (2): Wilford P. Whatcott passed away July 16 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Born September 2, 1916 in Kanosh, Utah to William Henry and Esther Phelps Whatcott. Married Martha Tryon. Served an LDS Mission. Enjoyed puzzles. Retired from Granite School District. He was survived by his wife, Martha; three children, Debbie (Phillip) Hart, Patty (Steve) Auerbach and John (Lori Joe) Whatcott; also survived by 12 grandchildren. [Deseret News, July 19, 1998.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 2: W. H. Whatcott. He earned a BYH Normal Diploma in 1911. Students Record of Class Standings, B.Y. Academy, Book 2, page 270.

Whiting, John Martin

Whiting, John Martin
Los Angeles, California US

John and Irene Whiting

Class of 1911. John Martin Whiting, of Mapleton, Utah. Normal [Teacher Prep]. "Born on Easter morning, 1873, 15 miles west of Tucker. Herded cows during his younger days and later made a young fortune killing grasshoppers for bounty. A member of the University baseball team and physical director of W.B.S.E. (Whiting Brothers Surplus Energy) at Mapleton." Source: BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 2: John Martin Whiting. He earned a BYH Normal Diploma in 1911. Annual Record, B.Y. University (BYU Records Office), Book 3, page 424. ~ ~ ~ ~ Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1919. John Martin Whiting. He received an AB Degree in History & Sociology in 1918. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 3, page 424. ~ ~ ~ ~ John Martin Whiting was born on February 1, 1890 in Mapleton, Utah. His parents were Albert Milton Whiting and Harriet Susannah Perry. He married Annie Irene (Irene) Cox of Bunkerville, Nevada, on November 29, 1912 in St. George, Utah. He died on August 17, 1967 in Los Angeles, California.
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By 1910, gas stations began building bigger structures that included offices. The earliest companies, such as Shell and Standard Oil, began to take advantage of the space on the side of the buildings, painting their logos and names across the side. The Whiting Brothers. In 1917 Art and Earnest Whiting began selling gasoline out of 55 gallon barrel drums. From Saint John, Arizona, the brothers expanded fulfilling the needs of motorists with gas stations and motels across the Southwest from Shamrock, Texas to Barstow, California. By the 1920s, gas station buildings often included canopies, added to protect their customers from the heat or rain. After Route 66 began to channel traffic through the eight states, gas stations started offering repairs and other services and the structures were enlarged again as service bays were added to the buildings. These structures continued to evolve over the years to the place that they are today, sometimes no bigger than those first early structures. It was during the same year that Route 66 began to be built that the Whiting Brothers discovered that with just a little lumber from their father’s mill, they could easily construct a profitable gas station. Originally founded in Saint John, Arizona in 1926, Whiting Brothers Station soon became a familiar sight all along Route 66, as well as other areas in the Southwest. Extremely profitable, the brothers continued to expand their empire, adding souvenir shops, cafes, and Whiting Brothers Motor Inns to many of their stations. For years and years, the Whiting Brothers businesses were a staple along the Mother Road, along with Stuckey’s, Burma-Shave signs, and Indian Joe’s Trading Posts. The Whiting stations suffered the same fate as Route 66. As Interstate 40 began to replace Route 66 section by section, the Whiting stations fell into decline. Along with so many other profitable businesses along Route 66, the Whiting Brothers ended in the 1990s. Today, with the exception of one remaining Whiting Brothers Station in Moriarty, Arizona , and a few buildings that have been utilized for other businesses purposes, all that’s left of the Whiting empire are its fading yellow and orange signs and crumbling buildings. Soon, these too will most likely disappear, ending another chapter of Route 66 history.

Williams, Jean

Williams, Jean
Cedar City, Utah US

Jean Williams

Class of 1911. Jean Williams, of Provo, Utah. Normal [Teacher Prep]. Jean is only 26 years old, and has a lovable disposition. She teaches a class in Sunday School as well as in the training school. She never bothers the boys, for her father used to be marshal. Source: BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 2: Jean Williams. She received a BYH Normal Diploma in 1911. Annual Record, B.Y. University (BYU Records Office), Book 4, p. 333. ~ ~ ~ ~ Jean Williams was born May 22, 1891 [or 1892] in Mapleton, Utah. Her parents were James Thomas Williams and Isabell Bruce Stewart. She died on January 26, 1934 in Cedar City, Utah. Her interment, Springville Evergreen Cemetery, Utah [as Gean Williams]. Her brother, J. Stewart Williams, graduated in the BYH Class of 1919.

Wilson, David John

Wilson, David John
Salt Lake City, Utah US

David and Mary Wilson

Class of 1911. David J. Wilson. High School. "Dame nature masked him young, I know/ And I'd be glad to bet,/ That though he's odd and twenty now,/ We have not seen him yet. Well prepared for good luck, he landed the [yearbook] editorship and makes us smile while he probes our sides with honest lies. He thinks it bad taste to tell the whole truth." Source: BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1914. David J. Wilson. He received an A.B. Degree in 1914. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 3, page 124. ~ ~ ~ ~ Judge David John Wilson was born October 27, 1887 in Midway, Wasatch County, Utah. His parents were James Brigham Wilson and Margaret Powell. He married Mary Jacobs on May 31, 1916 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on April 23, 1976. ~ ~ ~ ~ 1948 ELECTIONS IN UTAH: U.S. Representative Walter K. Granger, Democrat, runing for his fifth term, defeated his Republican rival David J. Wilson for the second time. Granger had always voted for liberal measures, and his work on the House Agricultural Committee, where he was a chairman or a member of three subcommittees important to Utah interests, had been acceptable to farmers. ~ ~ ~ ~ BACKGROUND: The first BYH alumnus and Latter-day Saint appointed as judge of a specialized U.S. Court was David J. Wilson of Ogden. He was appointed to the U.S. Customs Court in 1954 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Wilson was generally thought to have been miscounted out of a Utah congressional race. Watkins proposed that Wilson be awarded a judgeship, even though he was well into his 60s. Watkins was told that this was the first Republican President in twenty years, Eisenhower had to appoint young judges to be sure they had long tenure in case the Republicans could not retain the White House. Watkins wouldn’t take no for an answer, however. He repeatedly insisted that since Wilson was an outstanding lawyer and had been cheated out of his election to Congress, that it was imperative that he be offered a judgeship. He finally wore the White House down and obtained the judgeship for Wilson. Even though Wilson was 67 when he entered the court in New York City, he was healthy and stayed on the Court for 12 years. By Mark W. Cannon ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS WIFE'S OBITUARY: Mary J. Wilson, age 94, died Tuesday, May 29, 1990, two days short of her 74th wedding anniversary. She was born in Ogden, Utah on February 17, 1896 to Henry Chariton and Emma Rigby Jacobs, the seventh of 13 children. On May 31, 1916, she married David J. Wilson [BYH Class of 1911]. The next three years were spent in Berkley, California, where her husband received his Doctor of Juris Prudence in 1919. The family then returned to Ogden where their five children were educated through public schools. Mother was proud of her home economic skills and became renowned for her candy recipes. She was totally loyal and supportive of her husband in all his ventures in his profession, church, politics and family life. Music always gave her great pleasure and she was actively involved in all aspects of it in the Ogden 12th Ward and at home. He church interests were legend, with Relief Society being her favorite, due to its service role and to the fact that her grandmother, Zina D. H. J. Young, had been the second general president of the Relief Society. She was appointed to the R. S. General Board in 1947 and served under President Belle Spafford until 1954. That year her husband received an appointment from President Eisenhower to the U. S. Custom Court through the nomination by his close friend, Senator Arthur V. Watkins. The next 12 years were spent in New York City where they worked, entertained, traveled and developed together. She was appointed to the American Mothers Committee, rising to the office of Secretary and made lifelong contacts there. In 1966 Judge Wilson retired from the bench and became a senior judge in Salt Lake City. There home, again, became a social center for friends and relatives. In 1976, her husband died and she spent the next 14 years either in her condo or with members of her family. Her last year was passed in a retirement home where omnipresent love was felt by all other tenants. She truly was a woman who felt everyone deserved to be loved. She is survived by one daughter, three sons and their families, O. Meredith and Marian W. Wilson, Eugene, Oregon; D. Jay and Blanche P. Wilson, Ogden, Utah, now on a mission in Invercargill, New Zealand; L. Keith and Margaret W. Wilson, Salt Lake City; Don B. Wilson, Ogden, Utah; and a son-in-law, Loren C. Barlow, Eugene, Oregon, whose wife Margaret died last year [1989]; 24 grandchildren; 85 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. Seven of her sisters and brothers preceded her in death and she is survived by three sisters and two brothers. They are Mrs. Edwin C. (Emma) Hinckley, Provo, Utah; Mrs. Vilate J. Thatcher, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Paul B. (Oa) Cannon, Salt Lake City; Heber G. Jacobs, Provo, Utah; and J. Smith Jacobs, Orem, Utah. The funeral was held on Saturday, June 2, 1990, in the Federal Heights Chapel, Salt Lake City. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery. [Deseret News, Thursday, May 31, 1990.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 2: David J. Wilson. Received a High School Diploma in 1911. Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 3, p. 124.

Woodbury, William Evans

Woodbury, William Evans
Cedar City, Utah US

William and Verda Woodbury

Class of 1911. William E. Woodbury, of St. George, Utah. Normal [Teacher Prep]. William has stayed at home most of the time this year, for he is now the husband of a wife. However, he still bears the ear-mark of having been a ladies' man, and ----- ------, well, he is a conscientious student and an obedient husband. Source: BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 2: William E. Woodbury. He earned a BYH Normal Diploma in 1911. Annual Record, B.Y. University (BYU Records Office), Book 3, page 429. ~ ~ ~ ~ William Evans Woodbury was born on July 1, 1888 in St. George, Utah. His parents were John Taylor Woodbury and Mary Elizabeth Evans. He married Verda Sullivan on September 6, 1910 in St. George, Utah. He died on October 28, 1966 in Cedar City, Utah. Interment, Cedar City, Utah.

Wrathall, A. Alice [Ada Alice]

Wrathall, A. Alice [Ada Alice]
of Grantsville, Utah US

Alice & VirginiusLee Johnson

BYH Classes of 1911 and 1912. Ada Alice Wrathall. A winsome Miss with beautiful eyes,/ And a smile that you can't but mark,/ Who, deserting us all to her home to go,/ Left her "Stores" in American Fork. Source: BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ Class of 1912. Alice Wrathall, of Grantsville. Graduated from Brigham Young High School in 1912. Source 1: 1912 BYU Mizpah, BYH section, photos and names on pp. 1 - 105. ~ ~ ~ ~ Class of 1912. Alice Wrathall. She received a BYH Normal Diploma in 1912. Source 2: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 6, page 115. ~ ~ ~ ~ Born September 8, 1892, Grantsville, Tooele, Utah. Her parents were James Leishman Wrathall and Penninah Susana Hunter. She married Virginius Lee Johnson on October 13, 1915. They had three children: Alice Maureen Johnson, David Wrathall Johnson, Robert Lee Johnson. She died on January 6, 1945. Her sister, Irene Wrathall, also graduated in the Class of 1911, but they were born several years apart.

Wrathall, Irena

Wrathall, Irena
of Grantsville, Utah US

Irene and George Page

Class of 1911. Normal [Teacher Prep]. Irena Wrathall. ~ ~ ~ Irene's school career tells the observer of a sweet simplicity, an honest purpose, and an unassuming dignity that all admire. With these characteristics schoolroom success is guaranteed Irene. ~ ~ ~ ~ Irena Wrathall was born February 13, 1890, Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah. Her parents were James Leishman Wrathall and Penninah Susana Hunter. She married George Wilford Page on June 26, 1918. They had one daughter, Janice Maryon Page. Irena died on April 5, 1973. Her sister, Alice Wrathall, also graduated in the Class of 1911, but they were born several years apart.

Young, Kimball

Young, Kimball
Provo, Utah US

Kimball & 2 Young

Class of 1911. Kimball Young, of Provo, Utah. Kimball is still Young, but he is not childish. Ability to form opinions and courage to support them, characterizes Kimball's class activities. He doesn't regard all as gold that glitters. A thorough student who has an aim. Source: BYHS Yearbook 1911. ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 2: Kimball Young. He received a High School Diploma in 1911. Annual Record, B.Y. University (BYU Records Office), Book 4, p. 344. ~ ~ ~ ~ Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1915. Kimball Young. He received an AB Degree in 1915. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 4, page 344. ~ ~ ~ ~ Kimball Young was born on October 26, 1893 in Provo, Utah. His parents were Oscar Brigham Young and Annie Marie Roseberry. He married twice: ~ ~ First, to Myra Magdalene Anderson on September 6, 1917. Magdalene Anderson was born on November 12, 1893 in Grantsville, Utah. Her parents were Gustaf (Gustave) Anderson and Emily Jennes (or Jennis) Hunter. Magdalene died on February 29, 1956 in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. [Divorced]. ~ ~ He second married Lillian Claire Doster on April 2, 1940. She was born about 1890 - 1897. She died on September 24, 1970 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery. Kimball Young died on September 1, 1972 in Provo, Utah. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ Kimball Young served as the 35th President of the American Sociological Society (name later changed to Association). His Presidential Address, "Society and the State: Some Neglected Areas of Research and Theory," was delivered at the organization's annual meeting in Chicago in December 1945 and was later published in the American Sociological Review (Volume 11, Number 2, pages 137-46, April, 1946). Howard W. Odum, in his 1951 book American Sociology: The Story of Sociology in the United States through 1950 provided the following biography of Kimball Young (see pages 218-222): Like the account of his successor, Carl Taylor, whose retelling of the social incidence which brought him into the field of sociology appears in the next section, Kimball Young's story is so realistically representative that it is relevant to the total record of American sociology. Here was an American of the third generation of the great frontiersman, Brigham Young, born in Provo, Utah, in 1893, graduated from Brigham Young University in 1915, taught high school for a year in Arizona, and then entered into a breathtaking trek across new fields "back East." Young spent five quarters at the University of Chicago in sociology, took off from there to Stanford University in California for a Ph.D. in psychology in 1921, was assistant professor in the University of Oregon for two years, then across to New England as assistant professor at Clark University, stamping ground of Hankins, Odum, and Frazier. Then he went back to Oregon as associate professor in 1922 to 1926, thence to the University of Wisconsin as associate professor of sociology from 1926 to 1930 and professor of social psychology for ten years, 1930 to 1940; then again to the Northeast as chairman of the Department of Sociology at Queens College until 1947, and then back again to the Middle States as head of the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. And in the meantime he had been author of some of the most popular text-books used widely in all parts of the nation by thousands of students in the rapidly expanding American sociology. As was the case with most of the presidents of the American Sociological Society, Young, the thirty-fifth president, in 1945, was influenced by his teachers and by his reading of some of the classical source books. He could, he wrote, write a long piece about his coming of age in sociology but instead gives only some highlights to be published in American Sociology. "My father, as you know, was a son of Brigham Young and brought up in the faith of the Mormons. Yet he was a well-read man — only had a third-grade schooling, formally — knew Shakespeare, Sam Johnson, and most of the hard-headed literary lights of English literature. He read Tom Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Darwin, Huxley, and especially Herbert Spencer. He even tackled Schopenhauer, though I fancy he found him a bit tough going. Politically he was a `Jacksonian' democrat — and this in the midst of the Reed Smoot type of Republicanism. (Incidentally, he `knew everybody' worth knowing in Mormondom, and Smoot was a close personal friend. You see, our family were among the élite of the Church, so even though he was looked upon as heterodox, he was liked and respected. This helped in my own adjustment, too.) Now my father and an old friend of his, Doctor Richards — also a son of a prominent Mormon — would spend hours on end arguing politics, economics, religion, and philosophy. I used to hear them while I was at play and though I did not understand much of what they said, I gathered a critical attitude, a questioning frame of mind, from hearing them checkmate each other in their own disputations. "Added to this was my own reading of some of the simpler items in Ingersoll and Paine, at about the coming of puberty. But with respect to sociological interests and teaching, it was such books as Tylor's Anthropology, which I read when 13 years of age, and various histories, that set me on my way. "In high school (which was the preparatory department of the Brig-ham Young University, at Provo, Utah) I had excellent teachers, especially in civics, history, and literature. In college it was John C. Swenson, sociologist, Joseph Peterson, psychologist, and William Chamberlain, a philosopher, who gave me the chief shove toward sociology and social psychology. I devoured the first two volumes of Cooley, which were texts in a course in social psychology. I cut my sociological teeth on Small and Vincent, and we even made little community maps and the like, along the lines of those in that long-forgotten but, for its time, invaluable book. But I majored in history, as there was not yet a separate department of sociology. "After a year of teaching in a high school in Arizona — English and history — I took off to Chicago, under the stimulation of William J. Snow, another teacher at the Brigham Young University who told me about W. I. Thomas and his course in `Social Origins.' (I had never heard of Thomas till then, and had read nothing of his.) The five quarters at Chicago, where my record was very sound, as a student, `fixed' me for sociology and social psychology. Within two quarters I had become `reader' for Thomas and was reading like mad everything I could lay my hands on in sociology and social psychology. G. H. Mead had a great influence on me, but I took work with Small, Park, Burgess, E. S. Ames, G. B. Foster, and others. "However, I took my doctorate in psychology under Terman at Stan-ford, and used my work at Chicago to fulfill my requirements for a full or double minor. But though I taught straight psychology for some years after taking the Ph.D. my first love was social psychology and the psychology of personality. With regard to the latter, I must add one more comment. At Oregon, beginning in 1920, I gave what must have been one of the first courses under the title: `Psychology of Personality.' I used Wells' Mental Adjustments as the basic text and had the students read Freud and other dynamic psychologists." In addition to a large number of articles in the current social science journals, Young's main works include Mental Differences in Certain Immigrant Groups, 1922; Source Book for Social Psychology, 1927; Social Psychology, 1930, 1944; Social Attitudes (with others), 1931; An Introductory Sociology, 1934, new editions, 1942, 1949; Source Book for Sociology, 1935; Personality and Problems of Adjustment, 1941. Young was general editor of the "American Sociology Series" for the American Book Company, member of the board of editors of the Journal of Social Psychology, and The American Journal of Sociology. He combined his broad interest in the social sciences, being a member of the Social Science Research Council, of the American Psychological Association, and of various local and regional organizations. While at Wisconsin he also collaborated in The Madison Community, produced with R. D. Lawrence, a bibliography on censorship and propaganda. His evaluation of sociology's status and trends, as of 1948, as is the case with most authorities, could be expanded beyond this preliminary estimate. He begins by saying, "Sociology is just now — say in the past ten years — beginning to mature. When I began as a student with Thomas, Park and Small, in 1916, the work was still largely oriented along philosophic lines. Thomas and Park were just beginning to stress empirical field studies, but without being able to give the graduate student much in the way of rigid training in method. (I had my first course in statistics, for example, with James A. Field, an economist.) However, under Park I did the first, or one of the first, ecological field studies in Chicago, working the area north of the river along Clark Street to Chicago Avenue. (I am told that later the graduate students literally `wore out' my M.A. thesis, reading it as a `bad' example and as a warning `what not to do.') It was not till the early 1930's that more rigid methods began to take root. Remember, how in the late 1920's we discussed method with such sound and fury, but no one did much empirical research. Gradually the movement started: Chapin, Rice, Burgess, the group at North Carolina, and later Stouffer and his whole generation. Today we are beginning to look a little like a science. "As one who has produced a tolerably successful textbook, I should say that our students are beginning to reap the benefits of this empirical trend. But as to theory to go along with it, that is another story. We now need a synthesis — say as of 1950 — and we have no Aristotles around, although Parsons, Merton, and Lundberg have acquitted themselves pretty well." Concerning his own work, he says: "If I have made any special contribution to sociology, it has been in social psychology and with reference to this one matter: I have long maintained (a) that not all learning is cultural learning (that is, the learning in which we are interested); (b) that basic to cultural learning, or conditioning, if you prefer this term, is social learning which is older than culture; (c) that is to say, social learning is found not only in man but in all mammals, especially the primates; (d) as a result of this we find many of the basic features of social order among the prehuman, higher forms, e.g., apes and monkeys, such as familial group, play group, dominance and submission, prototype of in-group vs. out-group, and others; (e) and finally that even in human society we find social learning which is not identical to what we call `cultural' learning. Those who stress cultural determinism scout this and do not properly recognize the difference. Now, for want of a better term I have called this `personal-social' learning or conditioning. It is not a happy term but I do think the idea is important. Few people have paid any attention to it, and most of those who do have misconstrued my meaning a bit. Burgess comes near to it in his discussion of the psychogenics of the personality." More specifically, Young writes: "In any case, this is my one original contribution to social psychological theory, although others also considered the matter in varying ways. Second to this, I believe I have done a tolerable job in bringing together cultural anthropology, sociology, and social psychology. This is seen in my sociology books, and in my Social Psychology itself. "I think of myself as a social psychologist, concerned with both basic phases: (a) collective behavior, e.g., crowds, fashion phenomena, public opinion, and like areas; and (b) personality development and operation. To me we need to tackle really big problems, but those which can be made manageable. We neglect our possible contribution to international affairs. We have not as yet tackled industrial problems as we should. And even in the field of majority-minority groups we have messed around trying to rationalize rather than understand conflict and intolerance. Until other persons than members of minority groups begin to tackle these topics seriously, we won't advance very much. Most people are afraid to go at the problems honestly because they fear the Jews and Negroes won't like what they find out. As to our biggest need, it is still methodological, but we are making advances." The following obituary was published for Kimball Young in the May 1973 issue of Footnotes (page 8): "Kimball Young's career so effectively spans the development of sociology in America over a fifty-year period that his own biography provides a set of markers describing where we have been and, perhaps, suggesting where we are going. He was one of the first sociologists whose intellectual curiosity led him to be psychoanalyzed. This is hardly a startlin idea today; half a century ago, when Kimball Young decided that personal psychoanalysis might contribute to social science insight, he took a year's leave from his academic post and left the community in order to avoid the consequences that might stem from rumors about a professor's needing mental treatment. In the 1970's, high school freshmen discuss the burden of parents who project their own ambitions onto their children. When Kimball Young published an article on this topic in the 1920's, it was a fresh and challenging idea. When, as a young radical member of the American Sociological Society, Young participated in the caucus picking W. I. Thomas for President of the Society, older members who had come to the profession via the Protestant ministry predicted that such leadership spelled doom for the discipline in the American academic world. At the last meeting of the American Sociological Association which he attended, Young applauded vigorously the efforts of the caucus uring sociological research on military institutions - an interest he had sustained since his own studies of Ratzehoffer and Gumplowitz. "Kimball Young died in Provo, Utah, on September 1, 1972, of congestive heart failure. He retired from Northwestern University in 1962 and not long afterward suffered the detachment of both retinas. Despite his resulting blindness, he continued to work and taught a seminar or two a year for several years at Arizona State University. "Professor Young was the grandson of Brigham Young and was born in Provo on October 26, 1893. After taking his A.B. from Brigham Young University in 1915, he studied with Robert E. Park and William I. Thomas at the University of Chicago and received the A.M. degree in sociology there in 1918. During World War I he served as a Mormon missionary in Germany. He took his doctorate in psychology under Lewis Terman at Stanford University in 1921. After serving as a psychologist at the University of Oregon (1920-22 and 1923-26) and Clark University (1922-23), he moved to the University of Wisconsin, where he served as associate professor of social psychology (1930-40). He was chairman of sociology at Queens College (1940-47), at Shrivenham American University (U.S. Army installation in England, 1945), and at Northwestern University, beginning in 1947. He was president of the Alpha Kappa Delta in 1928-30 and of the American Sociological Society in 1943. He held a Guggenheim fellowship in 1951-52. "With the late Robert Seashore and the late Melville J. Herskovits he establish an integrated sociology-psychology-anthropology freshman course in 1948 at Northwestern. He was the author of many articles and of widely known texts in sociology, social psychology, and personality, and of Isn't One Wife Enough?, a study of life among the early Mormons. "He was generous with his time and knowledge, and could be irascible in inter-personal relations. As a young social scientist trained in psychology, he spent hours with a young colleague in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Ralph Linton. To admirers of the writings of both men, it is evident that they stimulated and learned from one another. Each of the two denied that the other had any influence on his work. "As an individual, Kimball Young presented his fellow social scientists with a delicious set of paradoxes. He was prejudiced against virtually all social categories and virtually no individual human beings. He was infected with the racial prejudices of his father's time and place, and a warm supporter of E. Franklin Frazier as the first black president of the American Sociological Society. He was a catalog of petty anti-Semitic sterotypes, and counted Louis Wirth and Melville J. Herskovits among his closest friends. He believe it important to be well dressed, and used to arrive at the chairman's office in a Hawaiian shirt and a Homburg hat. He was a political conservative, and worked tirelessly to help the late Eduardo Mondlane prepare for a career as an anti-colonial revolutionary. He interested himself in the personal problems of the campus janitors, and cursed at the university business manager for having the lights turned off in the campus office buildings on Sundays when normal professors did their work." Written by Raymond W. Mack and Robert F. Winch, Northwestern University "Find a Grave" Biography

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