David O. Calder

A native of Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1840, and in 1851 set off for Utah as a Mormon pioneer, accompanied by his widowed mother Anne Johnston Calder, his brother George Calder, and five other siblings.

In 1867, Calder was asked by Brigham Young to establish a commercial college in Salt Lake City, which subsequently evolved into one of the components of the University of Utah.

Calder ran the Deseret Musical Association in the late 1850s, which was largely a school teaching children to sing in choruses.

He supplied music journals, scores for both classical and popular pieces, and strings, reeds and other necessary aids to playing ones instrument.

[3] Calder was also a founding shareholder of the Utah Central Railroad, and was elected a director of Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI), widely viewed as the first department store in the United States.