Ebenezer Bryce

Ebenezer Bryce ( born November 17 1830 in Dunblane, Scotland, † September 26, 1913 in Bryce, Arizona) is the namesake of Bryce Canyon.

Bryce, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints belonging, learned the trade of ship builder. As he left many of his coreligionists at the age of seventeen, his Scottish homeland towards Utah in North America. Here in Salt Lake City, he married in 1854 Mary Park. With her ​​, he moved in 1862 to Pine Valley in Washington County in southern Utah in 1868 and built a chapel there in the shape of an inverted ship's hull. Today, the Pine Valley Chapell is the longest continuously used the Mormon Church.

A little later, Bryce and his wife left the Pine Valley on the Paria Valley in Clifton in the direction of Henderson Valley in New Clifton. Here Bryce involved in the construction of a seven- mile-long irrigation system as well as a road into the Pink Cliffs. The road was to ensure access to the forests and the timber transport. The inhabitants of the place called that is reminiscent of an ancient theater rock formation, at ending the road, soon Bryce's Canyon. He saw the natural wonders of the more practical side, calling it " a light of a place to lose a cow" as.

Ebenezer Bryce and his family moved to Arizona in 1880 on a settlement that now bears his name. In Bryce Ebenezer Bryce died in 1913. He is buried there in the Bryce Cemetery.