---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Edward H. Anderson
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 4
number: 12
published: 1901-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Edward H. Anderson, "The Governors of Utah—Close of the Sketches—Acknowledgments," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 12 (October 1901): 881.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0412unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera0412unse
start_page: 881
end_page: 881
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0412unse
  publication_year: 1901
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Governors of Utah—Close of the Sketches—Acknowledgments

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IMPROVEMENT ERA.
Vol. IV. OCTOBER, 1901. No 12.

THE GOVERNORS OF UTAH.
CLOSE OF THE SKETCHES—ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Our sketches of the fourteen territorial governors of Utah
are now ended. In this number is presented the likeness of Hon.
Alfred Cumming, the second governor, whose brief biography ap-
peared in number two of this volume, but whose portrait could not
be obtained at that time.
All but two portraits, those of Governors Harding and Vaughn,
have been printed, making the first collection of these officers ever
attempted. The Era expects to obtain the missing ones, so that
the collection may be made complete.
For information enabling it to secure this portrait of Utah's
second executive, the Era is indebted to Governor A. D. Candler,
of Atlanta, and Major Joseph B. Cumming, of Augusta, Georgia.
It was taken by Mr. H. C. Hall, photographer, Augusta, Georgia,
from an enlarged picture in the city council chamber of that city,
of which Governor Cumming was mayor when quite a young man.
In connection with securing other information and portraits
for this series, the Era also acknowledges the valuable assistance