Preface
Three Score and Ten in Retrospect was the title I selected for this, my personal history. The title seemed appropriate when I commenced to assemble clippings, letters and other pertinent materials that had accumulated through the years, for...
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CHAPTER ONE
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Sir John Bowring English Statesman
OHN STERLING BOYDEN WAS BORN APRIL 14, 1906, only 46 years after his great-grandparents Charles and Sarah Corns (Korns) Boyden arrived in Salt...
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CHAPTER FOUR
When asked in an interview what had been most rewarding in his life, John S. Boyden replied:
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The most enduring reward hrrs been the love and trust of m y own family.
HEN ASKED "HOW HAS YOUR CHOICE OF A mate altered...
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like to put into your biography," John placed as number one in the list that he would like to be recognized as "a son, brother, husband and father who was loved as he loved." The one thing he selected that he most wanted to be...
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Jackson (President of the New England Mission) who invited us to dinner after church. After a good shower we went to another Howard Johnson to eat, then drove around through the most mixed up and crooked...
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credited their lack of injury to their high school football training and ability to tuck and roll. The rest of the family considered it more luck than good management!" Concerning the trip to the Cranberry bogs, Paul recollects:...
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'With his children and grandchildren, every moment was a teaching moment for Dad. If they were in the garden he would point out various plants and insects, in the house or at the table, he might quote from...
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First and foremost, Dad was a great example. In the eyes of the family, it was difficult to see much difference between Dad's beliefs and his actions. This example sustained his children in their hours of...
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Linn had originally formed this group soon after the Yale Ward was divided, including couples from each side of the new boundary. The group consisted of: Linn & Georgia Alder, John & Orpha Boyden, Paul & Ora...
Marl of Many Hobbies
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Stake Tabernacle had been razed. The children remember it this way: "Dad was always a peacemaker by nature. He would try to work things out in any disagreement and offer constructive solutions rather than talking behind...
Man of M a n y Hobbies
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by John and his architect friend Ron White, has a large formica counter and cabinets which hide potting soil, clay pots, tools and containers filled with peat moss. A sink under the counter provided working space and...
Full of Years and Honor
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leadership will be sorely missed. Each and every member of the Board feels a keen personal loss not only because of your guidance in important corporate and legal matters with respect to the Company but also because of...
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barrow ride after the leaves were dumped. The boys who feached scout age while their grandfather was still active were able to discuss and pass citizenship merit badges with him, gaining an appreciation for...
M y Great Ambition
paper written for a freshman college class
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH DECEMBER 18,1924
I was a very young boy when I first began to think of what I wanted to become. My mind was very unsettled. When I attended the County Fair and saw...
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won both debates. After several more contests we were again eligible to enter the state meet. The state contest was my last debate in high school. I was determined to do my best to win, but was defeated by the...
Interview
S A L T LAKE CITY. U T A H A B O U T 1960 lntemiew of John S. Boyden by a high school student in the neighborhood to complete a school assignrner~t.
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Name the five most important things you would like put info your biography. (a. A...
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Talk: John S. Boyden, 1r. My brothers and sisters, I pray that I may have the spirit of the Lord to enable me to say those things which are in my heart to say this afternoon. I can't remember a time when I felt less able or less...
Appendix
Leave the dreaming to the young. The robin bobs for grandpa As well as for a son. There was a lighter side to his compositions. When he opened a new shop in an addition to the house, which was so skillfully built by Lowell Sorenson and...
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with your loved ones, through your faithfulness." I found myself wishing that I would be given the power to see the things of the spirit that I might be eyewitness to Dad's joyful reunion with family and...