Company leaders Edmund Wattis Littlefield was born, in April 1914, in the home of his grandparents, Edmund O. and Martha Ann Bybee Wattis, at 664 28th Street in Ogden. His earliest memories were of the dam site in Yosemite, where, in 1919, his father worked as a foreman. Later the youthful Ed became a water boy at the Red Butte Dam, east of Salt Lake City, where he innovated an easier system of moving water to the workers, thus foreshadowing his future as a company leader. With degrees from Stanford University in sociology and business administration, Littlefield became an executive with the Golden State Company. In 1951, Littlefield was recruited as general vice president and treasurer of Utah Construction. Seven years later, he became general manager and reorganized the company to create mining, construction, and land development divisions. Littlefield became company president in 1961.