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HENRY LEIGH Biography 1843, - 1920 Henry Leigh was horn December 31, 1843, in Llanelly, South Wales, the son of Samuel and Ann Davis Leigh. He emigrated to America with his family, February 1849, on the ship Buna Vista, with 250 saints on board, arriving at New Orleans the 18th of April, then proceeding up the Mississippi A child. and Missouri Rivers to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Samuel, was horn enroute, and near St. Louis cholera broke o u t , and the mother and baby were among the ones who died of this disease. The father and four remaining children-William, Henry, John, and Sophia--stayed in Council Bluffs for three years where the father married Mary Treharne and two more children were born--Mary Ann and Daniel Treharne. In 1852 this family of eight emigrated to Utah, crossing the plains in William Morgan's company. Enroute, young Henry was baptized in the Platte River by Elder William Morgan. The family arrived in Salt Lake City, October of 1852, and were sent to Iron County three weeks later to work at the Iron Works. During his boyhood, Henry Leigh lived most of the time with the family of John M . Higbee and with Grandmother Jones, a sister to his stepmother. Henry was particularly good at cradling grain and one time, while working in the grain field, a heavy rain storm came up. H i s new buckskin trousers had to last him a year so, in order to keep them from stretching while wet and then shrinking until they were unwearable, he took them off, rolled them up to keep them d r y , and walked to town without them. On his way he met Mrs. Higbee who had taken off her buckskin skirt for the same reason. Henry Leigh availed himself of what educational opportunities he could a n d , after he was grown, he attended college for two years in Salt Lake City at the University of Deseret, one of the first persons to go away to college from Cedar City. While in Salt Lake, he hauled wood out of Emigration Canyon on shares to help pay his tuition. He played on the first organized baseball team in Utah. Henry served as a U.S. Mail carrier between Cedar City and Santa Clara in Washington County. In 1864 he went back across the plains to help bring a company of emigrants to Utah, as there was great fear of Indians at this time. In May of 1872 he was called on a mission to Great Britain but returned home in 1873 due to ill health. He married Amy ELizabeth Webster, daughter of Francis and Ann Elizabeth There were ten children Parsons Webster. May 22. 1879. born to this marriage. Henry served one term as Mayor of Cedar City; served for several terms on the City Council; acted a s Justice of the
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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