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In June of 1935, in his assignment to work with the Utah State Peace Officers' Association, John spoke to those who attended the annual meeting on the subject "Relationships between Scientific Investigation of Crime and the U.S. Attorney's Office." John said, "The scene of the crime should be as carefully presenred without disturbance as if it were inlaid in gold." Governor Henry H. Blood, and Hugh B. Brown, chairman of the State Liquor Control Commission, also participated in the annual meeting. In October 1935, John, who had made friends with Utah Japanese citizens through his association with Japanese youth in Scouting, was invited by the Japanese American Citizens' League to address them under the general theme "Civics and Political Unity" concerning the need for an understanding of the purposes of govemment to enable citizens to secure "surer protection" from the agencies of govemment.
Politics and Marriage
Orpha Amanda Sweeten came from a long line of Democrats just as John did. 1934 found her working in the Democratic Party's campaign headquarters as secretary to Senator William H. King. It was a high pressure situation and Orpha worked hard for long hours. When others who worked in the office would want to go to a particular rally in the evening, she would usually decline because she was just plain tired, but one day a situation arose that was different. Somebody said, 'Why don't you go out to Wood's Cross with us7" Orpha learned that one person who would be going was John S. Boyden. She had never met him but knew who he was. According to Blanche Rampton Bean, whom Orpha had worked with at the Veterans' Administration, "he was just the neatest young man in this town." So she said, 'Well maybe I will go then, and guess what? I listened to his speech and thought it was extremely clever. He really was neat and, well, he didn't exactly hate me. I think I saw him nearly every day after that." Later when discussing "affairs of the heart" with her Republican friends, Orpha enjoyed stating. "I owe everything to the Democratic Party!" John and Orpha were married in Coalville on May 17, 1936, at the old home. "We didn't go to the temple immediately," Orpha
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| Title | John S. Boyden: three score and ten in retrospect |
| Creator | Boyden, Orpha Amanda Sweeten |
| Subject | Boyden, John Sterling, 1906-1980; Democratic Party -- Utah; Coalville (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Life story of John S. Boyden, including his experiences in Coalville, Utah, law practice, participation in the Utah Democratic Party, family life, church involvement, and advocacy for Indians. |
| Source | Boyden |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | text |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College Press |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/boyden.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1144.cpd |
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