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PARLEY DALLEY Biography 1886 - 1970 Parley Dalley was born November 5 , 1886, the son of James and Petrina B. Dalley. He grew up on a farm in Summit. Utah, the place of his b i r t h , and attended the oneroom school there. He then went to the Parowan Stake Academy in Cedar City, studying under his sister Amelia Dalley Green, and then to the Cedar City Public School. From 1902 to 1905, he attended the Branch Normal School and then obtained his Chemical Engineering degree, graduating in 1909 from the University of Utah. He later obtained his master's degree. In 1910, he married Mable Naegle and they became the parents of three children. Dalley returned to the Branch Normal School as head of the Physical Science Department in 1909. H i s teaching career spanned most of the four phases of the college: Branch Normal School, Branch Agricultural College, College of Southern Utah, and even the beginning of Southern Utah State College in 1 9 6 9 . During his long academic association he was appointed full professor in 1948: pursued graduate work at California University at Berkley and University of Southern California in Los Angeles; served a s acting president of B.A.C. in 1945: and at retirement was given an honorary Science Degree from Utah State University. He served as College Alumni president three times, being a member of the Alumni Council 18 years; wrote the constitution for the Alumni Association and the Fifty Year Club of which he acted a s sponsor, president, and secretary-treasurer; a member of the graduation committee 30 years; 32 years on the Scholarship Committee; and was president of the Faculty Association one term. Parley served a s Superintendent of Schools from 1913 to 1919. He was Mayor of Cedar City when the railroad came in and President Warren G . Harding visited the City. He was a member of the Library Board from 1934 to 1942. He was precinct and County Chairman of the Democratic Party at the time of the election of Woodrow Wilson, and remained active in the party for many y e a r s ; first president of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers; president of the Commercial Club for a year; lifetime member of the Chamber of Commerce; organizer and president of the Rock Club; and owner and operator of a farm specializing in purebred sheep and dairy cattle. Parley Dalley studied the geology of Southern Utah, and he logged 18,000 miles in tours of the U.S., Canada, and other places. He donated many very valuable collections of specimens to the college, along with a historical collection of manuscripts, pictures, e t c . , which he had amassed over the years. He died October 2 4 , 1970. From: A sketch by Inez Cooper taken from Autobiography of Parley Dalley--S.U. S. C. Library
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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