Son of Willard Brigham Richards & Harriet Ann Fairbanks Doremus
Married Barbara Maughan Morgan Howell, 12 Sep 1912, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Barbara Howell Richards, Ruth Howell Richards, Anne Howell Richards
Preston left home for a mission to Great Britain, where he labored in the Nottingham conference and returned to Utah in June, 1902.
From 1902 to 1908 he acted as principal and supervisor of schools in Salt Lake county, during which years he was also registered as a special student at the University of Utah, having received his earlier education in the public schools of Salt Lake county, and the Salt Lake High School.
In June, 1908, he entered the law department of the University of Chicago, and after completing the summer work there, went to New York and spent the season of 1908–09 in the Law Department of Columbia University. He completed his education in the University of Chicago, graduating with the degree of L. L. B. cum laude. He was the winner of the Prof. Floyd R. Mechem prize in the University of Chicago law school in 1910, and held the position as assistant solicitor in the Department of State, at Washington, D. C., from 1910–13, after which he went to El Paso, Texas, to assist in the preparation of "Mormon" colonist claims against the government of Mexico. In October, 1910, he formed a law partnership with J. Reuben Clark, jun., and opened a law office in Salt Lake City.
Prior to his going East to study he acted as president of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Sugar House Ward and as superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Granite Stake. He became a member of the General Board of the Y. M. M. I. A.
He was a member of the Utah State legislative in 1907–08 and was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention to Chicago in 1908. Preston D. Richards was a member of the American Society of International Law.
He married Barbara Howell, daughter of Congressman Joseph Howell, in the Salt Lake Temple.
Married Barbara Maughan Morgan Howell, 12 Sep 1912, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Barbara Howell Richards, Ruth Howell Richards, Anne Howell Richards
Preston left home for a mission to Great Britain, where he labored in the Nottingham conference and returned to Utah in June, 1902.
From 1902 to 1908 he acted as principal and supervisor of schools in Salt Lake county, during which years he was also registered as a special student at the University of Utah, having received his earlier education in the public schools of Salt Lake county, and the Salt Lake High School.
In June, 1908, he entered the law department of the University of Chicago, and after completing the summer work there, went to New York and spent the season of 1908–09 in the Law Department of Columbia University. He completed his education in the University of Chicago, graduating with the degree of L. L. B. cum laude. He was the winner of the Prof. Floyd R. Mechem prize in the University of Chicago law school in 1910, and held the position as assistant solicitor in the Department of State, at Washington, D. C., from 1910–13, after which he went to El Paso, Texas, to assist in the preparation of "Mormon" colonist claims against the government of Mexico. In October, 1910, he formed a law partnership with J. Reuben Clark, jun., and opened a law office in Salt Lake City.
Prior to his going East to study he acted as president of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Sugar House Ward and as superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Granite Stake. He became a member of the General Board of the Y. M. M. I. A.
He was a member of the Utah State legislative in 1907–08 and was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention to Chicago in 1908. Preston D. Richards was a member of the American Society of International Law.
He married Barbara Howell, daughter of Congressman Joseph Howell, in the Salt Lake Temple.
Son of Willard Brigham Richards & Harriet Ann Fairbanks Doremus
Married Barbara Maughan Morgan Howell, 12 Sep 1912, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Barbara Howell Richards, Ruth Howell Richards, Anne Howell Richards
Preston left home for a mission to Great Britain, where he labored in the Nottingham conference and returned to Utah in June, 1902.
From 1902 to 1908 he acted as principal and supervisor of schools in Salt Lake county, during which years he was also registered as a special student at the University of Utah, having received his earlier education in the public schools of Salt Lake county, and the Salt Lake High School.
In June, 1908, he entered the law department of the University of Chicago, and after completing the summer work there, went to New York and spent the season of 1908–09 in the Law Department of Columbia University. He completed his education in the University of Chicago, graduating with the degree of L. L. B. cum laude. He was the winner of the Prof. Floyd R. Mechem prize in the University of Chicago law school in 1910, and held the position as assistant solicitor in the Department of State, at Washington, D. C., from 1910–13, after which he went to El Paso, Texas, to assist in the preparation of "Mormon" colonist claims against the government of Mexico. In October, 1910, he formed a law partnership with J. Reuben Clark, jun., and opened a law office in Salt Lake City.
Prior to his going East to study he acted as president of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Sugar House Ward and as superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Granite Stake. He became a member of the General Board of the Y. M. M. I. A.
He was a member of the Utah State legislative in 1907–08 and was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention to Chicago in 1908. Preston D. Richards was a member of the American Society of International Law.
He married Barbara Howell, daughter of Congressman Joseph Howell, in the Salt Lake Temple.
Married Barbara Maughan Morgan Howell, 12 Sep 1912, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Barbara Howell Richards, Ruth Howell Richards, Anne Howell Richards
Preston left home for a mission to Great Britain, where he labored in the Nottingham conference and returned to Utah in June, 1902.
From 1902 to 1908 he acted as principal and supervisor of schools in Salt Lake county, during which years he was also registered as a special student at the University of Utah, having received his earlier education in the public schools of Salt Lake county, and the Salt Lake High School.
In June, 1908, he entered the law department of the University of Chicago, and after completing the summer work there, went to New York and spent the season of 1908–09 in the Law Department of Columbia University. He completed his education in the University of Chicago, graduating with the degree of L. L. B. cum laude. He was the winner of the Prof. Floyd R. Mechem prize in the University of Chicago law school in 1910, and held the position as assistant solicitor in the Department of State, at Washington, D. C., from 1910–13, after which he went to El Paso, Texas, to assist in the preparation of "Mormon" colonist claims against the government of Mexico. In October, 1910, he formed a law partnership with J. Reuben Clark, jun., and opened a law office in Salt Lake City.
Prior to his going East to study he acted as president of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Sugar House Ward and as superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Granite Stake. He became a member of the General Board of the Y. M. M. I. A.
He was a member of the Utah State legislative in 1907–08 and was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention to Chicago in 1908. Preston D. Richards was a member of the American Society of International Law.
He married Barbara Howell, daughter of Congressman Joseph Howell, in the Salt Lake Temple.
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