Grandfather Charles Stuart Bagley

My Grandfather Bagley was a rancher and raised a special breed of horses.

(Charles Bagley built the home that Aunt Zola inherited. After his parents died, Farron and Stell were moved to live with Aunt Zola and Uncle Court.)

(He bought the home from Aunt Zola after she and Uncle Court moved to California. Dad sold this home in 1963 and moved to Parkview. He did this because of the parking lot lights associated with the Cottonwood Mall which was built across the street to the East. They had enjoyed the peace and quiet and darkness for many years, but the mall changed all this.)

(Now, 2024, the mall is gone and they are building apartments where the mall used to be. The Cottonwood Mall was the first indoor mall in the State of Utah. Highland Drive used to be a major thoroughfare through Salt Lake County. But with the coming of the freeways, it changed all this. The Cottonwood Mall was now located in a small town with no major freeways next to it. Thus, its demise.)

(The address of the home was 4920 Highland Circle.)

(This is how the house looked when we moved to Parkview Drive. My bedroom is on the upper left. The two windows without the vines. It was a large room. It had enough space for a full-sized bed and a twin. The full-sized was where Grandma Booth slept when she visited us.)

Callao

He obtained a ranch on the Utah-Nevada border in a place now called Calleo (sp – Callao). Here he raised his horses for the pony express riders who went through this part of the country on their way to California.

(From Wikipedia: The community was part of the original Pony Express overland route, and was first called Willow Springs in 1860. E. W. Tripp, his wife, and their son were the first to establish residence there, in 1870. In 1895 it was decided that Willow Springs was too common a name, and a new name would be chosen. The name Callao was chosen because of a resemblance to Callao, Peru, suggested by an old grizzled 1890s prospector in the region who was working out of Gold Hill to the north.)

(You can find Callao on the map here. )

Grandfather John C. Cutler (former Governor)

My Grandfather Cutler (John C. Cutler) was very active in church and civic affairs. He was elected the second governor of the State of Utah after it became a state. He was also active in business affairs, being President of the Deseret National Bank, which later became part of the First Security System. He helped in the construction of several buildings such as the Hotel Utah (now Joseph Smith Building) and the Constitution Building, which has been razed.