CHAPTER FOUR -
FOUNDING OF TOWNS, RANCHES AND FORTS
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September, 1873, witnessed the construction of a Military Barracks at Beaver. A post had been established in May when 250 United States Troops arrived in the Territory. Though...
THE METHODIST CHURCH SCHOOL
In 1873, the Rev. Clark Smith came to Beaver to establish the Methodist Episcopal Church, and to conduct a school for the members and patrons. He began his services in a small lumber building across the street east of...
Dr. John Ward Christian's early education was under the direction of the Catholic Fathers. Later he attended Pennsylvania State College, now Jefferson College, where he was graduated as an M. D.
HIGHLIGHTS OF HIS LIFE
During the Mexican War, he was...
Dr. Christian served in the following capacities
Appointed Clerk of the Second Judicial District Court of the Territory of Utah, December 24, 1869, by Cyrus M. Hawley, Judge.
June 10, 1873, admitted to the bar by Judge Jacob S. Boreman.
November,...
ing dailies, tri-weeklies and weeklies vied simultaneously with one another for patronage, while other Utah towns of much greater population permitted a lone newspaper
to starve.
THE BEAVER ENTERPRISE was the name of the
first newspaper, the first...
THE MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS OF BEAVER STAKE The earlist available record of the Young Men's Mutual Association of Beaver is dated 1879, showing Solomon A. Wixom as superintendent, with W. H. Bakes, William Ashworth and Frank Clayton as...
When that bell would ring, one could hear school children begin singing, "There is a boarding house not far away,
Where they serve ham and eggs three times a day. Oh, hear the boarders yell, when they hear that dinner bell, Oh, how good those...
Others were implicated and indicted with Lee, but on his conviction and execution, they were discharged. The record of this famous trial is found in Minute Book No. 1 of Second Judicial Court of Utah, record of 1874-77. JUDGE HAWLEY WRITES THE WAR...
Gideon A. Murdock, James E. Thompson, William Moyes, Joseph Lillywhite, William R. Anderson, Charles Bird, William Thompson, Philo T. Farnsworth Jr., James P. Anderson, Robert Edwards, Thomas H. Cartwright, Thomas Patterson, Orson...
HISTORY OF MINERSVILLE RELIEF SOCIETY
The Relief Society of the Minersville Ward was organized April 15, 1869, with Malinda Lewis as president and Harriet Bradshaw as secretary. The society was
called Female Relief Society of Minersville.
Tarlton...
upon their own claims. Hence there are a lot of rudely-worked prospects, with very little development. During that time 40 men were working and prospecting in the two districts.
A two-stack smelter was built in Shauntie in the sum-mer of 1873. The...
at Frisco. His ore wagons traveled across the valley from the Cave by way of Horseshoe Bend, past Hay Spring, (then called Troy) and on up to Frisco. After the advent of the railroad in 1880, ore was sent north for smelting. John Morgan Griffiths...