The Gottfredson family settled in Utah in 1858, mostly in the Richfield and Manti area.

Jens and Karen Jensen Gottfredon joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and emigrated to the United States in 1855 with their children, which included Peter Gottfredson. In 1858, they trekked with a handcart company to the Salt Lake Valley, and eventually settled in Richfield, Utah. Peter Gottfredson became involved in the local militia during the Black Hawk War when Native Americans threatened to chase the Saints out of the Richfield/Manti area. In 1872 he married Amelia Gledhill. They had nine children together before Amelia passed away in 1893. Later that year, Peter married Alice Keeler Hatch, and before they divorced in 1913, they had five children together. After their divorce, Peter traveled to compile his life's work, a book on the history of the Indian Wars in Utah. Alice was a temple worker in the Manti and St. George temples. The fourth of Peter and Alice's children was David Booth Gottfredson, who served in World War I, married Irma Grainger in 1922, and went to medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. They had five children together, four of whom lived to adulthood. David Booth Gottfredson also served as a Colonel in North Africa and Italy in World War II. He was discharged due to illness and injury in 1944. David and Irma's early married life was spent in Richfield, but following World War II, they lived and worked in the Salt Lake City area.

David passed away in 1977, and Irma in 1988.