David King Udall
| David King Udall | |
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| Arizona Territorial Legislature | |
| In office | |
| 1899 | |
| Political party | Republican |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 7, 1851 St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Died | February 18, 1938 (aged 86) St. Johns, Arizona, United States |
| Resting place | Saint Johns Cemetery 34°30′52″N 109°22′19″W / 34.5144°N 109.3720°W |
| Spouse(s) | Eliza Luella Stewart Ida Frances Hunt Mary Ann Linton Morgan |
| Parents | David Udall Eliza King |
David King Udall, Sr. (September 7, 1851 – February 18, 1938) was a representative to the Arizona Territorial Legislature and the founder of the Udall political family. His great-grandson Tom currently represents the state of New Mexico in the United States Senate.
David King Udall was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1851. His parents, David Udall and Eliza King, had immigrated to the United States from England earlier in the year. In 1852 they followed the Mormon Trail to Utah. They settled in Nephi.
Udall spent his childhood farming. As a teenager, he spent a short period as a laborer building the Union Pacific Railroad which became part of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
In 1875, Udall married his first wife, Eliza Stewart. Shortly thereafter he was called by the LDS Church on a mission to England, where he remained until 1877.
In 1880, while again living in Nephi, Udall was called to be the Mormon bishop in St. Johns, Arizona. At the time, St. Johns was a small and primarily Hispanic Catholic community. Immediately after moving his family there, Udall purchased lands and directed improvements geared toward creating a larger Mormon settlement of the area. The outraged local residents were happy with the prior state of things, and Udall became a hated figure to many.
In 1882, Udall took a second wife, Ida Hunt, a granddaughter of Jefferson Hunt and also through her mother Lois Barnes Pratt, of Addison Pratt. That same year the U.S. Congress passed the Edmunds Act to aid in the prosecution of polygamists. Udall was indicted on charges of unlawful cohabitation in 1884. He was never convicted, because his second wife lived in another town, and prosecutors could not locate Ida to compel her testimony against him.
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