L. Douglas Smoot
It will be included in the book titled:
ABRAHAM OWEN SMOOT - His life and service in Provo
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Date
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Event
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Location
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Other
Notes (attendees, quotes)
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1.
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1895
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BYA
Founder’s Day
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Provo
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Joseph
E. Taylor quote “…the credit for the prosperous condition of this Academy
today is largely due to Abraham O. Smoot”
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2.
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1912
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Smoot
Family Reunion
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Saratoga
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Family
Photograph; with Diana Eldredge Smoot
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3.
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1923
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Smoot
Family Reunion
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From Preface, Abraham Owen Smoot, L.D. Nixon
and L. D. Smoot, 1994
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4.
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1932
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BYU
Founder’s Day, honoring A.O. Smoot
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James E.
Talmage (1876 Academy Student) “President Smoot accomplished a work which to
one of inferior qualifications or of weaker devotion would have been
impossible”
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5.
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1951
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BYU
Founder’s Day, honoring A.O. Smoot
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John C.
Swenson (1886 Academy Student) said “…it became customary for students to
march to the home of A.O. Smoot and salute him on his birthday…as a gesture
of their appreciation for his leadership and his devotion to the Academy”
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6.
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October,
1962
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Dedication
of Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building
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BYU
Campus
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Designer
– Henry P. Fetzer
Dedicated
by
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7.
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June 3,
1978
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Smoot
Family Reunion (printed program)
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BYU
Campus
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Family
Photograph, (ELWC East Ballroom, ca. 340), Reunion Meeting, Family Meeting/Family
History, Children’s Program, Banquet (12:30pm – 7:30pm)
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8.
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June 25,
1983
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Smoot
Family Reunion (printed program)
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BYU
Campus
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ELWC
Ballroom, 19 AO Smoot child representatives, 12:30 – 7:30pm; campus tours,
family history report, workshop, refreshments, artifacts, A.O., Margaret
histories, children’s program, photographs, children descendants reception,
banquet, Vivian McKay, genealogist, 450 attendees, two-day reunion
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9.
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1994
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BYU
Founder’s Day honoring A.O. Smoot
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BYU
Campus
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Completion
of A.O. Smoot book, (Nixon, Smoot); dedication of A.O. Smoot Building Display
Case; Family Reunion; Campus Devotional(Margaret Smoot speaker) Parade (with
Doug on horse); Loretta Nixon, genealogist – events over homecoming week
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10.
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2001
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Re-dedication
of Preserved BY Academy Building – Provo City Library at Academy Square
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Academy
Building
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Seven
Year Project, 24 million dollars; Elder Jeffery Holland dedicated; Academy
Building Wing named for A.O. Smoot. Book (Miracle at Academy Square, Doug
Smoot, 2003) photograph of dedication services (over 400 in attendance)
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11.
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2003
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Dedication
of Smoot Hall – BY Academy Building (Replica of Lewis Building, West Center
Street in Provo – destroyed by fire 1884)
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This is
the Place Heritage Park, Emigration Canyon
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Stanley/Mary
Ellen Smoot provided funds for this restoration project and sponsored Family reunion dinner at Park
following dedication (ca. 200 attendees)
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12.
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2006
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Re-dedication
of Smoot Display, Abraham Owen Smoot Administration Building
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BYU
Campus Smoot Building
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Expansion
of Display – Use of Nixon/Smoot book, Personal Life, foster-father of
Academy. Family paid cost. Photo
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13.
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2011
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Decade
anniversary of re-dedication of BY Academy Building in 2001.
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Provo
City Library at Academy Square
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Banquet,
speakers. ca 200 attendees
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14.
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October,
2015
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Family
Reunion – Bi-centennial Anniversary of Abraham Owen Smoot’s birth, 17
February 1815, Owenton, Kentucky
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BYU
Campus, with BYU Founder’s Day – honoring A.O. Smoot
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BYU
Campus devotional, campus/city tours of A.O. Smoot sites, Family meeting,
artifacts display, sales, eight article series on A.O. Smoot in the Daily
Herald, new book on A.O. Smoot’s life and service in Provo, Family dinner,
family meeting, photograph. New: aosmoot.blogspot.com to coordinate
invitations and communications.
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