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JOHN MOUNT HIGBEE Biography 1827 - 1904 John Mount Higbee began his life, May 6 , 1827, on a 25acre farm in Palestine, Ohio. He was baptized into t h e L.D.S. Church July 1 2 . 1835, b y Isaac Falls a t Shadcreek, Clay County, on the b a n k s of the Missouri River. During t h a t year h e moved with his p a r e n t s to Kirtland. Ohio where t h e y , in connection with t h e r e s t of t h e Saints of the locality, suffered t h e persecutions incident to t h e early history of the Saints. Upon t h e expulsion of t h e Saints from Nauvoo in 1846, t h e Higbees traveled with little o r no money. On t h e way across Iowa, John drove his f a t h e r ' s team taking t h e family to Mount Pisgah where his mother, Sarah Ann Voorhees, took sick from exposure a n d want of some of the necessities of life, a n d died on t h e 15th of J u n e , 1846, a t t h e age of 4 1 . She departed this life leaving four children--John Mount. Silas, Sariah, a n d Harriet. When the Higbee family left Winter Q u a r t e r s . April 9, 1847, John M . took care of them. a s his father had been chosen a s one of t h e h u n t e r s of t h e pioneer p a r t y to Utah being detailed by Brigham Young to f e r r y wagons across the Upper Crossing of the Platte River where t h e family joined him, August 2 0 , 1847. They continued their journey on to Utah. arriving in Salt Lake City. September 26. 1847. John Higbee r e t u r n e d to the Missouri River in 1848 to assist the Saints who were traveling westward. A year later he traveled to California, b u t r e t u r n e d to Utah in 1850. In 1853, he was called with o t h e r s from Utah Valley to locate settlements in Southern Utah. He married Mary Clark, daughter of Samuel a n d Rebecca Garner Clark, November 22, 1853, in Provo, a n d brought her with him to Cedar City, which a t t h a t time was the most southern settlement in Utah. Because of the d a n g e r from Indians. Highee was called by t h e c h u r c h leaders to t h e office of Captain of Company C of a battalion of infantry of the Iron Military District of the militia of the Territory of Utah, on J a n u a r y 9 , 1854. After the militia was abandoned. the "Long Valley Volunteers" were organized on March 25, 1866, to g u a r d against the Indians. John M . Higbee became a businessman, serving a s Superintendent of t h e Co-op Store f o r many y e a r s . Being active in civic affairs, he served as City Councilman for several y e a r s , a s Mayor for four y e a r s , a n d a s City J u d g e . He married Eunice Bladen in about 1860. Later. she and h e r children joined him in Arizona where they lived a t S t . David, Cochise County; however, they eventually r e t u r n e d to Cedar City where he died in 1904. From: Daughters of t h e Utah Pioneers
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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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