John M. Browning One of the most famous gun inventors in the world, John Moses Browning was born in Ogden. By 1900, he had sold 44 gun patents to the Winchester Arms Company. He invented rifles, shotguns, pistols and machine guns; his brother Matthew ran the business side of the company. Browning's best-known inventions include the Browning Automatic-5 shotgun, first made in 1902; the 45-caliber pistol; and the Browning automatic rifle.

Martha Hughes Cannon Utah's public health laws stem from the work of Cannon, a physician and the first female state senator in the United States. A Democrat, Cannon was elected in 1896 beating out her husband and served two terms in the Legislature, working primarily on public health issues. After leaving the legislature, she served on the Utah Board of Health and the board of the then-named Utah State School for the Deaf and Dumb.

David Eccles Eccles was the father of a Utah banking dynasty and the state's first multi-millionaire. In the early 1900s, he owned the Ogden Lumber Co. and various Oregon timber interests. He diversified by buying into banks, insurance companies, railroads, flour mills, construction companies, canneries, beet sugar factories and coal mining ventures. A polygamist, Eccles established well-known families in Ogden and Logan.

Samuel Newhouse One of Utah's wealthiest mining magnates, Newhouse is noted for his effort to create a miniature "Wall Street" in downtown Salt Lake City. He wanted to shift the city's center from Temple Square south to Exchange Place at 300 South and Main Street. In 1907, he built the city's first skyscrapers the Boston and Newhouse buildings. In 1909, construction began on the grand Newhouse Hotel.

Lawrence Scanlan Under the leadership of Bishop Scanlan, the Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene or Cathedral of the Madeleine was dedicated in Salt Lake City in 1909. The Irish-born priest arrived to serve Utah's small Catholic population in 1873. He visited miners and railroad workers throughout the territory. "His social consciousness was quite expanded for the time," says Kent Powell of the Utah Historical Society. Scanlan died in 1915 and is buried in the South Temple cathedral.

Joseph F. Smith Smith became president of the LDS Church in 1901, serving until his death in 1918. He helped integrate the church into mainstream America by ending the secret continuance of plural marriages (officially abolished in 1890). Smith was called to testify before a U.S. Senate panel during hearings over the seating of Utah's senator Reed Smoot. The hearings focused national attention on Mormon political influence and polygamy.

William Henry Smart William Smart was instrumental in the opening of the Uinta Basin to white settlers, primarily Mormons. He laid the groundwork locating townsites and mapping out irrigation systems, for instance so that when the government opened the land to settlers, the resulting land rush was largely Mormon. He served as a spiritual leader, but was also a builder and visionary. He brought telephones to Vernal and surrounding areas in 1907, and spent his life fortune developing newspapers, banks and other institutions.