BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Alice Smoot. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ About 150 "oldtimers" gathered for the first Alumni Emeritus Banquet during commencement week of 1941. Diantha Billings Worsley, Emma Stubbs Taylor, Alice Smoot Newell, Mary E. Cluff Little (?), Charles Albert Glazier, and Samuel D. Moore, members of Brigham Young Academy's first classes in 1876-77, attended the banquet. ~ ~ ~ ~ Alice Smoot was born on February 6, 1860, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her parents: Abraham Owen Smoot II and Anne Kirstine Mauritzen [Morrison]. Alice Smoot married Myron Clark Newell on December 13, 1878, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died in Provo, Utah, on February 26, 1950. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School, Class in 1876. Olive Smoot. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Olive Smoot was born on February 10, 1860 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her parents: Abraham Owen Smoot II and Diana Eldredge. On October 18, 1876, at the age of 16, Olive Smoot married James William Bean. James died in 1941. Olive died on July 28, 1943 in Rexburg, Idaho. She was about 83 years old. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

Original BY Academy High School Class in 1876, graduated in the Class of 1880. Reed Smoot. The first of the original 29 students to register on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He graduated in the BYA high school Class of 1880. Board of Trustees, Brigham Young Academy, 1893 to 1938. He is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Reed Smoot, Senator from Utah; and Apostle, LDS Church. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 10, 1862; moved with his parents to Provo, Utah County, Utah, in 1874; attended Mormon church schools and academies and completed his studies at Brigham Young Academy high school at Provo in 1879 [no college classes at that time], graduating with the BYA high school Class of 1880; engaged in banking, mining, livestock raising, and in the manufacture of woolen goods; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1902; reelected in 1908, 1914, 1920 and 1926 and served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932; chairman, Committee on Patents (Sixtieth Congress), Committee on Printing (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Sixty-second and Sixty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on Finance (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-second Congresses); co-author of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1933; retired from active business pursuits; served as one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church) and at the time of his death was next in line to succeed the president of the quorum and third to succeed the president; died in St. Petersburg, Fla. on a visit there, February 9, 1941; interment in Provo Burial Park, Provo, Utah. [The Smoots are Mayflower descendants.] Reed Smoot married Alpha May Eldredge of Salt Lake City on 17 September 1884. They were the parents of six children: Harold Reed Smoot, Chloe Smoot, Harlow Eldredge Smoot [I], Annie K. Smoot, Zella Esther Smoot, and Ernest Winder Smoot. Alpha died on 7 November 1928 and Smoot later married Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets on 2 July 1930. [Note: Reed Smoot diaries published: http://www.signaturebooks.com/smoot.htm ] ~ ~ ~ ~ Reed Smoot was born on January 10, 1862 in Provo, Utah. His father: Abraham Owen Smoot. He married Alpha May Eldridge, and she died in 1929. Reed Smoot died on February 9, 1941 while on a visit to St. Petersburg, Florida. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. Congressional Biography.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Zina Smoot. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. ~ ~ ~ ~ Zina Beal Smoot was born on February 20, 1859 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her parents: Abraham Owen Smoot and Emily Hill. At the age of 20 she married Orson Ferguson Whitney on December 18, 1879 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died on May 23, 1900 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Arletta Snow. She is included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Arletta Colista Snow was born June 30, 1857 in Provo, Utah. Her parents were James Chauncey Snow and Elizabeth (Eliza) Ann Carter. She died April 15, 1920 [or 1929] in Provo, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ [One or two records say Arletta married Caleb Willman [or William] Haws. He was born October 7 [or 27], 1838 [or 1837] in Green Township, Wayne County, Illinois; he died November 20, 1871 in England, interment at Darton, Near Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. His records show he had married Eliza Ann Snow, who was born August 25, 1843 in the Morley Settlement, Hancock County, Illinois, to James Chauncy Snow and Elizabeth Ann Carter. Caleb Haws and Eliza Ann Snow were married on July 24, 1862 in Provo, Utah. If Arletta Colista Snow married Haws, it would have been a plural marriage.]

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Thomas Stradling, Jr. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Thomas Stradling, Jr. was born on February 26, 1865 [rarely, Feb. 03, 1865] in Provo, Utah. His parents: William Stradling, Sr., and Sarah Yarnell Evans Stradling. [Sarah first married Richard Evans on September 23, 1844, and he died in 1855 in St. Louis, Missouri. Sarah second married William Stradling, Sr., becoming one of his three wives in 1864, in Provo, Utah.] Thomas Stradling, Jr., died on October 4, 1918. [Flu?] [We do not know if he married, or where he died.]

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Emma Stubbs. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ About 150 "oldtimers" gathered for the first Alumni Emeritus Banquet during commencement week of 1941. Diantha Billings Worsley, Emma Stubbs Taylor, Alice Smoot Newell, Mary E. Cluff Little, Charles Albert Glazier, and Samuel D. Moore, members of Brigham Young Academy's first classes in 1876-77, attended the banquet. ~ ~ ~ ~ Emma Stubbs was born on August 20, 1862 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Peter Stubbs and Elizabeth Dunn Stubbs. She married John Edwin Taylor on December 16, 1880, at the age of 17. She died on September 10, 1958 in Provo, Utah, at the age of 96. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Hannah Asenath [or Aseneth or Asenth] Stubbs. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. A centennarian, she was the last survivor of the 29. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Hannah Asenath Stubbs was born on April 16, 1864 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Peter Stubbs and Elizabeth Dunn Stubbs. At the age of 21, Hannah married Edward L. [Latrielle] Jones on October 29, 1885 in Logan, Utah. Hannah Stubbs Jones died on May 1, 1964 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 100. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ In connection with Brigham Young Academy Commencement in May of 1899, an Alumni Banquet was held at the Hotel Roberts in Provo with about two hundred people attending. Four alumni spoke about different periods of time in the life of the Academy. "Mrs. Hannah Stubbs Jones responded to the first toast, 'The Original 29.' She referred to the twenty-nine students with whom Dr. Maeser commenced the institution, away back in 1876. Mrs. Jones called them 'Homes-spun', for she said that they then had to weave and make their own clothing, and schooling was not for [as] advanced in those days as at the present time. She was pleased, however, to note the success which the 'original 29' had made in life. Most of them now had sons and daughters attending the academy." Source: Deseret Evening News, May 27, 1899. [The other three speakers: J. Golden Kimball, Newton Noyes, and George H. Brimhall.]

George Thatcher. He is included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ George Bond Thatcher was born on September 17, 1858 in Farmington, Utah. His parents were George Thatcher and Emma Bond Thatcher. George B. Thatcher married Sarah Jane Beckstead on October 12, 1882 in Salt Lake City, Utah. George B. Thatcher died on February 17, 1926 in Provo, Utah. His interment, Provo, Utah.

Mary E. Thatcher. She is included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Mary Emma Thatcher was born on September 23, 1865 in Provo, Utah. Her parents were George Thatcher and Mary Reese Thatcher. Mary Thatcher married William Mathew Holt on June 23, 1898. Mary Thatcher Holt died on September 11, 1900 in Provo, Utah. Her interment, South Jordan, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ William Mathew Holt was born on May 7, 1861 in Britport, Dorset, England. His parents were Matthew Holt and Ann Harrison Holt. William Holt married twice: ~ ~ First, to Mary Emma Thatcher in 1898. Following Mary's death in 1900, William married Anna Hemmingsen on December 21, 1904 in Logan, Utah. William M. Holt died on April 6, 1948 in South Jordan, Utah. His interment, South Jordan, Utah.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. John J. Walton. BYA High School Class of 1878, Normal diploma, Friday, June 21, 1878. John J. Walton. Source: Deseret News, June 21, 1878. John J. Walton was one of five 1878 graduates, including Joseph B. Walton. John was one of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. ~ ~ ~ ~ John James Walton was born on February 7, 1858 in Alpine, Utah. His parents: Joseph Walton and Ann Thompson. He married Anna Catherine Bissell on July 1, 1880 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on May 22, 1931 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Andrew Watson. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Andrew Allan Watson was born on December 22, 1862 in Provo, Utah. His parents: Andrew Watson and Jane or Jean Allan or Allen. He married Annie Shand on April 11, 1888 in Logan, Utah. He second married Annie Jane Parks McConnell on September 20, 1895 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Andrew Watson died on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1908, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Interment, Magrath, Alberta, Canada.

Joseph Wilkins. He is included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Joseph Emmons Wilkins was born on October 23, 1860 in Spanish Fork, Utah. His parents: George Washington Wilkins and Catherine Augusta Lovett. He married Armintia Achsa Wilson on September 13, 1883 in Spanish Fork. He died on August 29, 1928 in Spanish Fork, Utah.

Maggie J. Wilson. She is included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. She married _______ Murdock.

Mary Wilson. She is listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. She married ____ Hansen.