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Photographs of the Dedication of Pioneer Square in Salt Lake City, July 25, 1898 BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 57 Issue 1 Article 6 2018 Photographs of the Dedication of Pioneer Square in Salt Lake City, July 25, 1898 Richard Neitzel Holzapfel Brigham Young University Ronald L. Fox Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Part of the Mormon Studies Commons, and the Religious Education Commons Recommended Citation Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel and Fox, Ronald L. (2018) "Photographs of the Dedication of Pioneer Square in Salt Lake City, July 25, 1898," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 57 : Iss. 1 , Article 6. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol57/iss1/6 This Artwork is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Holzapfel and Fox: Photographs of the Dedication of Pioneer Square in Salt Lake City Figure 1. Wilford Woodruff speaking at the dedication cer- emony of Pioneer Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Mon- day, July 25, 1898. Charles E. Johnson, photographer, PH 9612, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, Salt Lake City. Johnson wrote on the glass-plate negative, “362.K. Prest. Wilford Woodruff at the Dedication of Pioneer Square. July 24th 1898. Johnson.” Johnson incor- rectly dated the event on the plate; the dedication was held July 25, 1898. Woodruff stands in front of the guests seated upon a tempo- rary platform to address those who had gathered for the special occasion. To his left: Zina D. H. Young, Emmeline B. Wells, and Mayor John Clark. Those on the stand were shaded by towering trees, while those in the crowd used hats, umbrellas, parasols, and horse buggies with tops to protect themselves from the sunlight. As a backdrop for the ceremony, there were “massive stretches of the stars and stripes.” At this time, the United States was in the midst of the Spanish-American War. “Dedication of Pioneer Square,” Salt Lake Herald, July 26, 1898, 5. Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018 1 BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 57, Iss. 1 [2018], Art. 6 PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC Photographs of the Dedication of Pioneer Square in Salt Lake City, July 25, 1898 Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Ronald L. Fox n July 1898, the Spanish-American War was raging and the people Iof the United States were remembering the Maine,1 a US ship that sank after an explosion in the Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898.2 Nevertheless, the upcoming fifty-first anniversary of the 1847 arrival of the Mormon pioneers in Utah was on the minds of Salt Lake City offi- cials. This anniversary was celebrated off and on beginning in 1849; in the 1897 jubilee year, just a year earlier, the community had “pulled out all the stops.”3 As city officials considered what might be done in 1898, they focused their attention on a piece of ground not far from the City 1. The First Presidency invited Church members through a letter published in local newspapers in the Mormon core area to hold memorial services “in honor of the brave men who lost their lives in the Maine disaster.” See, for example, “Maine Martyr Memorial Day,” Lehi Banner, July 19, 1898, 1. Addition- ally, in an unprecedented move, participants attending the memorial in the Salt Lake City Tabernacle were invited to donate to a fund to erect a national monu- ment through a collection taken up during the Sunday, July 24, gathering—LDS tradition doesn’t include passing a plate to collect funds in a Sunday meeting. 2. The specific story of Utah’s involvement in the Spanish-American War is found in A. Prentiss, ed., The History of the Utah Volunteers in the Spanish- American War and in the Philippines Islands ([Salt Lake City]: W. F. Ford, 1900); and the Church’s involvement is found in James Mangum, “The Spanish- American and Philippine Wars,” in Nineteenth-Century Saints at War, ed. Rob- ert C. Freedman (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2006), 155–93. 3. Steven L. Olsen, “Pioneer Day,” in Utah History Encyclopedia, ed. Allan Kent Powell (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994), 424. BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 1 (2018) 105 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol57/iss1/6 2 Holzapfel and Fox: Photographs of the Dedication of Pioneer Square in Salt Lake City 106 v BYU Studies Quarterly and County Building.4 The council minutes for Tuesday evening, July 12, 1898, report, “Councilman [John] Siddoway5 moved that a special com- mittee of five be appointed by the Chair to take charge of dedicating the Pioneer Park Jul 25, next.” 6 The Salt Lake Tribune provided a fuller and more detailed account of the meeting than is found in the council min- utes. The report reads, “A matter that caused more talk than anything else” was the “motion that Pioneer square be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on July 25th.”7 Pioneer Square is known today as Pioneer Park—a ten-acre site where the Latter-day Saints built their first fort in August 1847.8 Identi- fied as the “Plymouth rock” for the Utah commonwealth,9 Pioneer Park is located between 300 and 400 South and 300 and 400 West in Salt Lake City.10 The old fort was ordered to be torn down by April 1, 1851. By April 11, 1851, “Nathaniel H. Felt and Joseph Cain were authorized to fence and improve the Old Fort Square.”11 The Salt Lake Herald empha- sized in July 1898 that “the historic ground which has heretofore been given over to profane uses and more than once proposed to be given for a railroad depot, was formally and appropriately set apart for the per- manent use and benefit of the public.”12 Later events blocked the park’s development until 1903. TheDeseret Evening News reported on July 24, 1903, “For the second time within the past five years historical Pioneer square was today set apart as a public park and thrown open to the pub- lic as a place of recreation for the citizens. Unlike the dedication of 4. The City-County Building is located on “Washington Square,” between State Street and 200 East, and 400 South and 500 South in Salt Lake City. 5. John Siddoway (1838–1902) was an LDS English convert, Mormon pio- neer, politician, and father of Robert H. Siddoway, who sang at the Pioneer Park dedication ceremony. See “Died,” Deseret Evening News, June 26, 1902, 3. 6. Salt Lake City Council Minutes, July 12, 1898, Book U 1898, 248, Utah State Archives and Recorders Service, Salt Lake City. 7. “Council to Dedicate,” Salt Lake Tribune, July 13, 1898, 6. 8. Also identified as Dobie Square and Old Fort Square in the nineteenth century. See Will Bagley, ed., The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock (Spokane, Wash.: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1997), 247 n. 28. 9. “Pioneer Day Gift,” Deseret Evening News, July 25, 1898. 10. The first Salt Lake City park, Liberty Park, was dedicated in 1882. Today the Salt Lake City park system contains 126 parks, containing nearly one thou- sand acres. “Parks—Salt Lake City Parks,” http://www.slcgov.com/cityparks. 11. “A Record of the City Council of the Great Salt Lake City, Deseret,” Janu- ary 11, 1851, 12–13, Salt Lake City Offices, Salt Lake City. 12. “Dedication of Pioneer Square,” Salt Lake Herald, July 26, 1898, 5. Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018 3 BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 57, Iss. 1 [2018], Art. 6 Photos of the Dedication of Pioneer Square V 107 the park on July 25, 1898, there were no special dedicatory ceremonies today.” The paper reported that between 1898 and 1903, “several times has the square been granted to railroad corporations to be used a depot site. [However,] about two months ago an ordinance was passed by the city council again dedicating the square as a public park and setting today as the date for it to be thrown open.”13 With this final push, Pio- neer Park became one of Salt Lake City’s permanent public parks. A. Russell Mortensen, former director of the Utah Historical Society, identified the importance of the site in an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune: “Here’s where it all began. The first settlement, the first houses, the first government, the first division of the city into its ecclesiastical wards, the reorganization of the First Presidency of the LDS Church, and a host of other firsts took place right here, not on the Temple Block, not on the old Eighth Ward Square, not on the old Union Square, but right here on the old Pioneer Square.”14 The site’s historical significance was further recognized in 1974 when the park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the US federal government’s official list of districts, sites, buildings, struc- tures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.15 During the July 12, 1898, city council meeting, Mayor John Clark,16 who had been nominated to serve as chair of the committee, “suggested the com- mittee could get along very well without him . [as] he thought no formal dedication of that character would be necessary or appropriate.”17 Never- the less, the city council passed the amendment placing Clark in charge of the event with eleven members voting in favor, two voting against, and 13. “Celebration of Pioneer Day,” Deseret Evening News, July 24, 1903, 1.
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