John Ulrich Giesy 1877-1947
2010
John Ulrich Giesy was born in Ohio to William Giesy and his wife Annie. At the age of two he is found with his parents in Kansas and at some point, he came to Utah with his parents. His father set up an insurance business and John became a physician. They listed their office spaces next to each other in a downtown Salt Lake City office building. In an unknown year, John married Juliet Galena Conwell. Galena was the daughter of Carrie Virginia Pancake and Albert Conwell. She was born in Utah County where her parents were living in the late 1800s. Her father was a miner who died of consumption at a young age.
John was a successful Salt Lake City physician and also a writer of science fiction. Many of his stories and books have been published. John and Galena did not have any children. He died in the hospital and was buried in the Samuel Crawford Pancake family plot in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah. His wife Galena is buried next to him. Also buried in the plot are Galena’s father Albert Conwell, her aunts Demie Pancake Whiteley and Juliet Pancake Guthrie, her cousin Boyd Guthrie, her uncle Ralph Guthrie, her grandfather Samuel Pancake and her nephew Martin Watrous.
The migration of John Ulrich Giesy
Ohio to Kansas to Utah