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Show They Helped To Build Sugar House -rf . . ' rs in, .. ' V ,Z ? I S r , ' ' -- wi.;w ' 1 :. .-, Mumm iiiiinnnm nffiimiml jr ' M ' ' -::-: A. O. SMOOT MARGARET "MA" SMOOT On April 23, 185 there was a meeting of LDS members to choose at name for their ward. Margaret T. McMeans "Ma" Smoot, the wife of A O Smoot, who later served as mayor of the city, stood up and suggested the name Sugar House, In honor of the sugar mill then under construction a few rods away on the banks of Parleys Creek. |