Samuel R. Thurman

His older brother George W. Thurman was Lehi City Attorney at the time, but was shot and killed at a New Year's Eve party in 1871.

He was part of a significant number of Utah Latter Day Saints going to study law at the University of Michigan in this time period.

He was arrested for unlawful cohabitation in 1889, but left on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to England before he was prosecuted.

[1] Thurman also "eloquently pleaded for reducing the twelve-person jury as an economy measure that would not jeopardize justice for the accused".

He moved to Salt Lake City in 1906 where he formed the partnership of Wedgewood, Thurman and Irvine that specialized in irrigation law.