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Warren Newton Dusenberry (November 1, 1836 - March 31, 1915) was a pioneer educator and public figure in Provo, Utah, and the founding principal of Brigham Young Academy from 1875–6.
Biography[edit]
Dusenberry was born in Whitehaven, Pennsylvania and lived in Pike County, Illinois in the 1840s. Around 70 miles to the north, in Nauvoo, Illinois, his mother's brother, Howard Coray, was a schoolteacher and Mormon convert who served as a secretary to Joseph Smith. Howard's influence led to their mother's conversion to Mormonism before 1846.[3]
In 1861, Dusenberry and his brother Wilson moved to Utah Territory to work as teachers.[2]
In 1863 they converted.[2]
Warren (and brother Wilson Dusenberry) founded two schools.[1]
1863, both were teachers at the First Ward School in Provo.[4]
Married June 18, 1865 to Adelaide E. Webb.[5]
Served mission in various states[6] (south?), 1860s-1869[7][8]
Taught at Territorial Normal Institute, 1873[9]
Timpanogos Branch of the University of Deseret[edit]
In 1863, the Dusenberrys opened a school in Provo, Utah with their own funds. As it grew,
founded by Warren and Wilson[2]
BY owned a two-story building in Provo, that was used as a dance and theater hall. He let the Dusenberry's use it for the branch.[2]
April 1870: Principal of the Provo Branch of the University of Deseret w/ 172 students procured the Lewis Hall, the most commodious schoolroom in the territory[10]
Dusenberry also active in promoting Utah County educational programs[11]
Warren was president[1]
was a small grammar and manual arts technicum[2]
Timpanogos Branch was loosely affiliated with the University of Deseret (later University of Utah). It grew to nearly 300 pupils, many at the pre-collegiate level, of elementary to high school age.[2]
closed because of financial support by the parent institution.[1]
branch encountered serious financial trouble in 1875[2]
Brigham Young Acadamy[edit]
BY made Warren principal, and retained Wilson as a teacher.[2]
BY bought Timp Branch of UD from Dusenberrys and renamed to Brigham Young Academy.[2]
Warren was chosen as the first principal because of his educational experience[1]
motivation[edit]
improve territory's education[2]
Intended to continue the same educational program, but with added religious instruction[2]
BY felt territory's public and Protestant schools had insufficient religious teaching. BYA admitted only faithful LDS members and integrated gospel teaching into its curriculum.[2]
Departure[edit]
Principal: December 4, 1875-April 15, 1876[12]
It was understood that he would only serve until a permanent principal was appointed.[1]
He preferred the tumult and the controversy of the law with its financial security to the peace of education with its financial uncertainty.[1]
Disliked pushing wheelbarrows around to collect produce for tuition.[1]
After serving as principal only a few months, he recommended Karl G. Maeser as his successor.[1]
Warren Dusenberry remained at Brigham Young Academy only one term, then resigned to pursue a more profitable career as a local businessman and county judge.[2]
In early 1876, Brigham Young hired forty-eight-year-old Karl G. Maeser to fill Dusenberry's position.[2]
Maeser was a private tutor, formerly of BY's children, and had served three missions for the church.[2]
Civil roles[edit]
Superintendent of Common Schools for Utah County, 1871 - 1873[13][14] or was it Wilson?[15][16]
1871 defense attourney[17]
1872 prosecuting attorney[18]
prosecuting attorney of First Judicial District in 1874[19]
member of the 1872 Territorial Republican Convention[20]
Worked to organize a Teachers' Association for Utah Territory.[21] Served as president 1873[22]
Dusenberry became mayor of Provo, Utah, 1892-93. His younger brother Wilson had previously been Provo's mayor from 1882-89.[23]
other[edit]
served as home missionary, 1872[24]
associated with leaders of the church[25][26]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i http://unicomm.byu.edu/president/dusenberry.aspx
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/byu/chapter1.htm
- ^ Wilkinson, p.32
- ^ http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/BYUPhotos,62
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews2,15752
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews2,39929
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews2,38248
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews2,41070
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,143353
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews2,42395
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,2232982
- ^ http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/BYUPhotos,61
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,999
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,2232982
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,9439
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,143211
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews2,44508
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,141307
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/slt1,28413
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,9382
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,9439
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,142250
- ^ http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/durkee-duval.html
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,11897
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,12013
- ^ http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,12088