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His life was as remarkable as one would expect from a person with talents and interests beyond the normal. To tell it, links are provided below to the 8 volume family history named “UPHILL BOTH WAYS” which resides on the web at <uphillbothways.org>. The history starts with a thumbnail sketch of his great-grandfather, a Danish emigre, and then his father. It provides detail of his life from birth in 1918, up to 1961, when he left Harvard for BYU. where he worked for 23 years. This website itself constitutes his history from 1961 to 1984 when he retired. The volumes are in chronological order and named for the geographic location where things happened. Because of the extraordinary contribution of his wife to his success, I have included the volume named “Naples, Utah 1923” which tells of her life up to the time they met in Mercur, Utah and married in frontier Alaska in 1941. First, here’s a gallery of photos of Alvin at different ages on the farm:
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LEAMINGTON, UTAH --1918:
He was born in Leamington where he lived until he turned seventeen.
Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Part 5 COMPLETE
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NAPLES, UTAH --1923:
This volume is about mom’s childhood, to give you a sense of the similarity of their backgrounds. Naples
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MERCUR, UTAH -- 1940:
They met and courted in Mercur, an active mining town which is now a ghost town.
Complete
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SEWARD, ALASKA --1941:
They decided to go to Alaska to get married. He went first to earn money and sent for her. They intended to homestead. Complete
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VERNAL, UTAH & PEARL HARBOR, HANFORD -- 1942:
When the military occupied Seward, mom and dad returned to Utah where they had 2 sons. Dad became a journeyman welder and machinist, went to Hanford, Pearl Harbor & then back to Utah
Introduction; Naples & Hanford; Next to Last; Final Section; COMPLETE
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VERNAL, UTAH -- 1945:
They bought a 2 acre farm south of town where he engaged in many arts and worked at different jobs, but didn’t farm:
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7; Part 8; Part 9; Part 10
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SEWARD, ALASKA -- 1951.
They returned to Seward in 1951, with the 2 sons, where he was a longshoreman.
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5 - 50 miles on Yukon
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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS -- 1956:
Dad was hired by Dr. AS Romer as a preparator at Harvard in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. This volume of life history is incomplete, but these volumes are available:
Part 1; Part 2 & 3 combined; Part 4; Part 5
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The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read these PDF files. The Reader is free at <adobe.com>.
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