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<\/div><\/div><\/div>   How it Began<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div><\/div>   Jack of All Trades <\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div><\/div><\/div>   Artist: Kreg Harrison <\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Artist: Kreg Harrison – Photograph by RyLeigh Thorne – Voiced by Holly Barrick

1 Richard Harrison – How it Began <\/strong>
Richard Harrison spent much of his adult life working tirelessly to establish a successful iron industry among the early settlements of southwestern Utah.

These words from his personal diary describe quite matter-of-factly, how it all began. 

\u201c[In]  December 1850 I was called on a mission to Little Salt Lake, Iron County, in company with George A. Smith, arrived at the place later called Paromwan on the 13th of January 1851, built me  a adobe house and made a farm. In the fall of 1861, was called by George A. Smith to settle on Coal Creek, later called Cedar City\u2026 In the spring of 1852 President Brigham Young came to Cedar and organized a company to make iron and appointed me to preside over same.\u201d

2 Richard Harrison – Jack of All Trades<\/strong>
Though initially serving as the Superintendent of the Cedar City Iron Works, Harrison remained with the project in various capacities as the mining and manufacturing operations were taken on by different men and a variety of companies.  Work records indicate that in 1857 alone, he shingled the blacksmith shop, cleared the casting house and the trial furnace, and molded the small furnace. He subsequently  “fitted up” the cylinders of the steam engine, worked as a carpenter, helped build a wagon box for the coal mine and joined a large crew of more than 40 men in building a reservoir to create a reliable water supply for the steam engine.

3 Richard Harrison – Artist: Kreg Harrison<\/strong>
Unveiled in 2009, this statue of Cedar City Iron Works founder Richard Hararison, was created by Utah sculpture, Kreg Harraison, a 5th generation grandson of his subject. Kreg has described his sculptural work as \u201cbreathing life into bronze.\u201d
Though he has fashioned several captivating human figures like this one, Harrison is best known around the world for his life-like bronze sculptures of dogs and horses, first sketching and sculpting them in clay while he studies them in person, \u201cshaping still life, from real life.\u201d  This artistic enterprise has been so successful that he was once featured on the cover of the Wall Street Journal<\/em>.

 In an interview with Salt Lake City\u2019s Deseret News<\/em>, he noted, 
“I haven’t asked for this. I’m a private person. I just wanted to blend in like everyone else. \u2026 I’m just a guy who’s worked hard and fallen in love with the thing he does for a living. I’m pretty sure most people in my past have to be thinking, ‘You, of all people, on the cover of the Wall Street Journal?’ “
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