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English
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Utah's Statehood and Higher Education : The Consolidation Controversy of 1894
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The Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences
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2000
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77
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Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters
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235-241
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Prior to Utah statehood, a proposal to consolidate the Utah Agricultural College in Logan with the University of Utah caused a sectional dispute between Cache and Salt Lake County Democrats and Republicans. The author notes that "had it not been for partisan politics and local sentiment in both Salt Lake City and Logan, consolidation may have occurred in 1895." Mormons Moses Thatcher and B.H. Roberts opposed the consolidation while George M. Cannon favored it.