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Born |
December
9, 1852 in Salt Lake City |
| Died |
July
29, 1932 in Provo, Utah |
| Father |
George Washington Brimhall (1814–1895) |
| Mother |
Rachel
Ann Myers (1829–1917) |
| Families |
Alsina Elizabeth Wilkins (1856–1926) md. December 28, 1874 |
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Lucy Jane (1875–1957) |
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Alsina Elizabeth (1876–1960) |
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[unnamed]
(b. ca. 1878) |
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George
Washington (1878–1854) |
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Mark Henry (1880–1965) |
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Wells
Lovett (1882–1947) |
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Milton Albert (1883–1884) |
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Flora
McDonald Robertson (1865–1950) md. September 11,1885 |
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Dean Robertson (1886–1972) |
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Fay Robertson (1889–1972) |
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Fawn Robertson (1889–1960) |
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Burns Robertson (1892–1976) |
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Ruth Afton (1895–1965) |
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Alta Robertson (1901–1903) |
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Areo Robertson (1909–1990) |
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One
living (Ancestral File) |
| Schools
attended |
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Despite dire financial conditions, George's mother
was determined that he get an education. He attended school in Ogden, Salt
Lake, Cedar Fort, southern Utah, and Spanish Fork. |
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| Timpanogos
University |
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When a high school was started in Provo—the
Dusenberry school on Second East, then known as Timpanogos University—George
worked odd jobs to pay for his board. When he couldn't find work, the family
sacrificed, despite hard financial times, so he could attend. |
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| Spanish
Fork Young Men's Academy |
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Then, 42 of us young fellows decided it would
be a good idea to have a high school in Spanish Fork and we contributed
$15 each in work and . We brought the logs down from Santaquin Canyon. In
40 days we had a big house-raising with the whole community present. We
called it the Young Men's academy but women came too. My wife attended.
Tom Beesley taught the first and I taught the next two or three years, Algebra,
Bookkeeping, Grammar, History, and Elocution. |
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Sons
of Brigham, 16. |
| School
superintendent |
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He became Spanish Fork's superintendent of schools
for two terms, then county school superintendent for two years. |
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| Patriarch |
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He was authorized to be ordained a patriarch by
apostles in 1887. |
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¶
First Presidency letters |
| Brigham
Young Academy |
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In 1897 George joined the BYA faculty. |
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| Acting
president, president 1904 |
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When Brigham Young Academy President George Cluff took an
expedition to South America in 1900, Brimhall was named acting president,
and succeeded Cluff in 1904. |
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| BYU
1903 |
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In 1903 the academy had become Brigham Young University.
George introduced the B.S. program in 1904 and the B.A. in 1907. |
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1911 Maeser
Memorial building, evolution controversy
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The Maeser Memorial was completed in 1911. It was also the
year that the conflict between orthodox church teachings and evolution and
higher criticism came to a head, leading to the dismissal or resignation
of Joseph and Henry Peterson, and Ralph Chamberlain. Brimhall, who had hired
the threel was sympathetic toward the professors, but Superintendent of
Church Schools Horace Cummings was determined to rid the university of modernists. |
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BYU:
House of Faith, 137–148 |
Chronic
pain
17 years as president |
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Despite severe chest and abdominal pain, which
he suffered throughout his life, George served seventeen years as president
of BYU—until 1921. |
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| Suicide
at 80. |
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At age eighty, he committed suicide with a hunting rifle. |
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BYU:
House of Faith, 13 |
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