LeRoy R. Hafen
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Authors LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann Hafen in 1960
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LeRoy Reuben Hafen December 18, 1893 Bunkerville, Nevada |
| Died | March 8, 1985 (aged 91) Palm Desert, California |
| Parent(s) | John George Hafen Mary Ann Stucki |
LeRoy Reuben Hafen (December 8, 1893 – March 8, 1985) was a historian of the American West and a Latter-day Saint. For many years he was a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU).
He was born on December 8, 1893 in Bunkerville, Nevada to John George Hafen, a polygamist, and Mary Ann Stucki. He attended high school in Cedar City, Utah for two years and then at the St. George Stake Academy (now Dixie State College of Utah) in St. George, Utah. It was in St. George that Hafen met his wife, Ann Woodbury. They were married on 3 September 1915 in the St. George Temple. He received his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. After this he taught school in Bunkerville and then was the principal of Virgin Valley High School. He then pursued graduate studies receiving his master's degree from the University of Utah, writing his dissertation on the Mormon handcart pioneers, and then received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley Hafen studied under Herbert E. Bolton.
For 30 years, from 1924 until 1954, Hafen was the Colorado State Historian, and then he taught at BYU for 17 years. While Colorado State Historian Hafen was also the director of the Colorado State Museum and editor of the Colorado Magazine. He also worked as a history professor at the University of Denver. Among other projects as State Historian Hafen oversaw was a diorama of the city of Denver funded through federal work aid projects. In 1947 Hafen served as a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow and in 1949-1950 he has a fellowship at the Huntington Library. Hafen was one of the founders of the Western History Association.
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