Captain James B. Austin (WWI)

Captain James B. Austin died in the First World War, and his mother answered the loss by building a park. Ethel Howard—Mrs. E.O. Howard—chaired the committee that turned this canyon into Memory Grove, and the grove that honors hundreds of Utah's war dead grew, at its root, from one mother's grief for one son. This memorial names him directly. It's worth knowing as you walk the place: the whole grove is a Gold Star mother's argument that the dead should be kept somewhere green and tended.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Salt Lake City — 0.6 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 0.7 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Ensign Peak — 0.8 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Liberty Park — 2.4 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Vietnam POW & MIA Memorial — steps away
• Freedom Trail Monuments — steps away
• Army 145th Field Artillery Monument — steps away
• Stone Bridge — steps away