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5 unusual facts about Thomas Kearns


George Bergstrom

The firm also received commissions for major projects as distant as Salt Lake City, first for the Kearns Building, erected in 1911 for U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, a mining, newspaper, railroad and banking magnate and later, the Hotel Utah, now the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, was erected in 1909-1911.

Kenwood, California

Some notable people had ranches in the area including mining, railroad, newspaper and banking magnate, Thomas Kearns, who was also a U.S. Senator from Utah.

Thomas Kearns

They built a grand chateauesque marble, granite and sandstone palace residence on Brigham Street, now South Temple.

Alexander, Thomas G. Mormonism in Transition. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Born near Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, he moved with his parents to O'Neill in Holt County, Nebraska, where he attended the public schools until he was 17, worked on his family farm, and engaged in the freighting business.



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