This photograph of Ed Littlefield was taken in the home of his Wattis grandparents, circa 1916. Courtesy of the Edmund W. and Jeannik Littlefield Foundation EDMUND W. LITTLEFIELD "I was born in Ogden, Utah, on April 16,1914," wrote Edmund W. Littlefield. "Except for some months as a child of two or three years of age that I spent with my parents on the Utah Construction Company ranches near Montello, Nevada, and a winter I spent with my parents in a construction camp in Yosemite National Park during the building of the O'Shaughnessy Dam (Hetch-Hetchy), I lived virtually all of my first 12 years in Ogden. "My father homesteaded 160 acres [of sagebrush) outside of Arco, Idaho. .. [and] erected a small tar-paper shack on the property. My father and the hired man and I lived there. I slept in the upper bunk and the hired man in the lower bunk. My father slept in the bed. My uncle lived outside in a sheep wagon. All the water had to be brought in by water wagon. We had an automobile, but very often we traveled by horse and buggy. Arco had no paved streets. Many people still carried guns. Of course, I thought it was marvelous. "My mother obviously did not take to construction camps," Littlefield added. "She wanted to live in Ogden, or at least in a city of some size with some culture and social structure. Prior to World War I, my father and mother returned to Ogden, and my father opened an automobile dealership for Cadillac and Oakland, both manufactured by General Motors. "My parents lived briefly on Capitol [Street]. I lived there when I had my tonsils and adenoids taken out by Zeke Dumke, before he was a member of the family. He used to tell two stories about me: I was the only child he ever saw that bit through the thermometer. The second story took place when he was courting my aunt Edna [Wattis]. The week after he took out my tonsils and adenoids, I came into the room and, without saying anything, walked straight across the room and kicked him in the shins as hard as I could!"