Paul Cephas Howell was a Mormon convert from the South who came to Salt Lake City.

By 1886, Wilford Woodruff (who later became the president of the LDS Church) arranged for his employment on the city's police force.

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Photo credit: Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved. The Utah's African-American Voices archival photo gallery is an online adaption of the Utah Humanities Council's "Blacks in Utah History" project, created by Gary B. Peterson.