He later served in the Utah territorial legislature from 1853 to 1876.
The Utah Legislature has already set aside $5 million for such an institute.
The Utah Legislature, like many others, is in summer recess.
He also draft the legislation regulating abortion passed by the Utah legislature in the early 1990s.
He was one of the sponsors of a 2009 bill in the Utah legislature to ban most abortion cases.
Instead, the institute started more prosaically two months ago with $4.5 million from the Utah Legislature.
This year, the Utah Legislature raised the age for statutory rape to 17 from 16.
Beginning in 1862, Preston served as a member of the Utah territorial legislature.
However, early in 1998 the Utah legislature refused to appropriate $9 million to the project, feeling that tax revenues could better be spent on other projects.