Comments on: “As Wonderful as It Is Glorious”: Lorenzo Snow Goes for a Spin in an Automobile

By: Clark

Clark — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:26:55 +0000

I love the mental image of Lorenzo Snow’s long beard whipping behind him in the wind as they cruised along.

Family legend reports that when the county paved the road in front of Marcellus Bean’s home (born 1867) sometime in the late 1920′s, he commented to his grandchildren that he’d lived long enough to see the “streets of gold.” One of those grandchildren–my grandmother–told me recently, “I wonder what he’d think about the freeways we drive on now.”

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:00:20 +0000

Not the last time, but if this does reflect what happened, it's almost certainly the first time it happened in Utah!

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:58:19 +0000

Maybe it is Hyrum’s son spending dad’s money. It would not be the last time a young man got a car he didn’t pay for by himself.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:38:44 +0000

Justin, he’s either the brother of John Silver (whose wife was a granddaughter of Brigham Young), or that Hyrum’s son — the wealth required for a purchase like this sounds more like the father, but the innovativeness sounds like the younger man. In any case, other than genealogical details and a few bits found by googling (none of them particularly interesting or identifying), I don’t know anything about him. Yet.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:10:54 +0000

LOL.

Ardis, do you know anything about Hyrum Silver? I assume that he was a man of some means.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:50:05 +0000

Nice try, Jacob! Really nice try.

(I don’t know why your comment ended up in the spam filter. The technology must have greater doubts about your claim than I have.)

By: Jacob J

Jacob J — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:34:01 +0000

I knew about that Salt Lake Herald story too, I just didn’t feel like sharing. In fact, I usually know the references Justin provides before he adds them. That’s because I, too, am one of the three nephites.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:15:41 +0000

Thanks, Justin! (This merits more than a single exclamation point but I have to keep some in reserve for the next treasures you unearth and share here. So there.)

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:56:13 +0000

The version I’ve read: “President Snow’s Famous Trip and His Race with President Smith,” The Salt Lake Herald, Oct. 11, 1901, 3.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:50:20 +0000

Wow!, How cool is this story! Thank you Ardis. It is interesting about the line,”When we build the City of Zion in Jackson County, there are explicit instructions that it shall contain no stables or horses.” I wonder what other explicit instructions there might be lying around?