Image of Edward Lloyd Parry for Book Cover

The following are images of an inverted photograph of Edward Lloyd Parry, with his signature below. It is mounted on wood and measures roughly 5" x 6.25". We believe this was the same image used in Orson F. Whitney's History of Utah, Volume 4, pages 459-461. It is the same image we used for the front cover of the biography The Life of Edward Lloyd Parry. We think that ink was originally applied to the image and somehow stamped or applied to paper in order to create images in books. In my limited research on the topic, I believe this is called a tintype, but I am unsure. I would also like to find out what the image is made of (Tin? Silver?). If you have information about this image or how the process worked, please contact me at elephantnavel@gmail.com.

 

This last image is an actual scan of the piece:

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Early Photo of the ELP Home in Manti

Just last week a friend of mine who lives across the street from me came over with an old leather book of his ancestors' photos, just because he knows I like Utah Pioneer history. I noticed that a few were taken in Manti, but with no apparent relation to Edward Lloyd Parry. One picture, however, caught my eye:

Edward Lloyd Parry's home in Manti!

The back of the photo reads: "Jezreel Shoemaker's House, Manti." What a blessed coincidence! My neighbor friend is a descendant of Jezreel Shoemaker, hence he had this picture. Shoemaker was one of two previous owners of the home in Manti before Edward Lloyd Parry moved in; therefore my friend and I are descendants of two different men who both lived in the same house over 100 years ago!

This is the first time I have seen this picture, and one of the oldest pictures we have come across showing the old Parry home in Manti (50 North 100 West).

Nowadays, the home has the following plaque affixed to its front:

 

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P.S. March 3, 2013: I just received further information regarding the house from their present-day owners, as follows:

This picture of the home was taken approximately 1930-1940. There is really very little different from the present looks except for the closed in sleeping porch on the upper story front. The kitchen extension to the south is still clapboard (later stuccoed over) and has the door and windows to the south as well (those were closed off when the stucco job went on). The rear carriage shed is unchanged and there is a different building (near the current stone garage) in the far rear but its details are not discernible.
     The ash tree in the front yard is the best dating device. Remember the 1907 picture you provided; there the ash was maybe six inches in diameter. Here it is maybe 18 inches.
     There is no driveway close to the house at that time. We intend to eliminate the current driveway and take it back to that wrap-around lawn eventually. Just one more facet of restoration.
     The old chimneys have been exposed in the north rooms by our latest work. Our helper stripped the plaster off the parlor and upper N room chimneys over that time. They are back to the original field oolitic limestone and we are planning to re-point them (gouge out the old adobe and re-mortar the joints nicely) and use them as backdrops to modern gas-burning stoves in each room. Plumbing the gas lines and venting the stoves through the old chimney flues will be the major challenges.

Edward Lloyd Parry's Organ

This is the organ Edward Lloyd Parry purchased at an auction. Family tradition holds that the organ was originally intended for the Manti Temple chapel, but it was determined that it did not produce enough sound for the chapel. It was auctioned off and ELP purchased it in a closed bid. However, he didn’t keep the organ for long; by 1891 he had given it to Charlotte Edmunds Parry, the wife of his son Edward Thomas Parry.

On February 27, 1944, Winnifred Parry Brooks (daughter of Edward Thomas Parry, who was the oldest son of Edward Lloyd Parry) gave the organ to her daughter, Barbara Dean Brooks, with this letter:

This organ belongs to Barbara Dean Brooks if she learns to play it well. 

(signed)
Winnifred Parry Brooks

P.S. My father Edward Thomas Parry bought it for $90 from his father, Edward Lloyd Parry, over 60 years ago. Take good care of it, Bobby.

Witness -
Samuel Brooks

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Edward Lloyd Parry's Armoire

According to family tradition, Edward Lloyd Parry purchased an organ and an armoire at an auction in Manti, likely in the late 1880s. Here is the armoire:

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Edward Lloyd Parry's stonemason tools at the Church History Museum

A tool box filled with Edward Lloyd Parry's stonemason tools is on display at the LDS Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. The museum is directly west of Temple Square. As one enters the museum, the tour leads to the right and snakes through various displays. About 3/4 of the way through the tour, one comes around a bend and on the right there is a display called "Adorning Temples" (see the photo below). The panel in front has a picture of ELP. Behind the mural in the glass case is Parry's toolbox: 

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Here is an excerpt from the panel in front:

And here is a closeup of his toolbox:

The next three pictures are closeups of each of the three compartments within the toolbox, from left to right:

In this last picture, note the longer, chisel-shaped tool leaning to the left and seemingly propping open the lid. While my camera couldn't pick it up, it clearly has the initials "JLP" engraved on its handle. That tool, then, belonged to John Lloyd Parry (1864-1916), Edward Lloyd Parry's son. John Lloyd was ELP's fourth child, and one of the three sons who carried on the stonemason business into the twentieth century (the other two being Edward Thomas (1859-1938) and Bernard (1873-1940)).

Painting: St. George Temple dedication 1877

The LDS Church's Conference Center in Salt Lake City has numerous paintings on display, one of which is a piece entitled St. George Temple Groundbreaking:

If one inspects the above photo closely, a man to the far left of the painting appears similar to Edward Lloyd Parry:

Regardless of whether it is Edward Lloyd Parry or not, we know that he was the master stonemason of the St. George Temple and was present at its dedication. We also know that he knew President Brigham Young personally and was in frequent contact with him regarding the St. George Temple's construction.

The plaque to the side of the painting reads as follows:

St. George Temple Groundbreaking

J. Roman Andrus, (1907-1993)
Oil on canvas, 1942

Brigham Young broke ground for the St. George Temple in southern Utah in 1871 and presided over its dedication shortly before he died in 1877. The first completed in the American West, this temple was built of local materials by the commitment and sacrifice of Latter-day Saints who were struggling to survive on the raw frontier. The artist taught painting and printmaking at Brigham Young University for many years. 

Incidentally, Roman Andrus is my father's first cousin. Both are grandchildren of George Brooks, whom Edward Lloyd Parry adopted when he (George) was an 11-year-old pioneer orphan in 1856. With Andrus' connection to ELP, it seems likely that he would have included him in the painting.

Edward Lloyd Parry picture in the DUP Museum

The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum in Salt Lake City is a treasure trove for written histories and some pictures of Edward Lloyd Parry. A portrait of ELP is on display there. To find it, go in the main entrance, down the staircase on the right, and walk toward the elevator. His portrait is hanging on the left. Here is what you should look for:

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