Preface "Monuments to Courage" is a history of Beaver County from the time of the arrival of the first settlers on February 6, 1856, to the Centennial year of the state of Utah, 1947. The collection of the material and its publication was a...
A. J. Wilson, J. Harris, C. Willden, Joseph Armstrong, D. D. Reese, J. Tattersall, H. Tattersall, Thomas Richards, D. C. Adams, W. Holgate and W. Hall.
The Adamsville townsite was surveyed in 1867, and named Adamsville after its founder, David...
July 4th, 1900, by a party consisting of Orrin Puffer, William A. Twitchell, James Valentine, and William Man-hard. There still are deer, a few mountain lions, coyotes and bob cats. Fox are very scarce. Beaver, having been imported and protected,...
This additional spread of water over greater acreage caused more bottom land to sub-irrigate and added much to our rich meadow acreage. And, in turn, most of the water springs up in our lower fields and communities and is reclaimed through natural...
Silver Reef Mine, Mr. Field decided to move his office to Milford, but on account of no support he moved back to Beaver.
On February 19, 1881, the SOUTHERN UTONIAN came into existence, published by Frank R. Clayton and Company. The Utonian told of...
made butter for many years, were Sarah Nowers, Mary Low, Mrs. W. P. Smith, Amelia Smith, Mrs. Ann Levi, Sophia Dean, and others. Mrs. William Dean churned and supplied the officers at Fort Cameron with butter while they were stationed there.
In...
building. Much of the lumber used in building up Pioche, Frisco and Newhouse was furnished by local mills, operated by local men, and delivered by team to the mines at prices ranging from $70 to $100 per thousand feet.
The only local sawmill in...
he labored the greater part of his life. The walls of this little room were usually adorned with guns of every make and size of the day, and there were rows and rows of brass keys strung on wire.
Mr. Ash was a special friend of the Indians, who...
1915 to 1919. Vie Christian took the principalship again for the year 1919-20, then C. B. McMullin for the years 1920-22. John F. Joseph came in the fall of 1922 and held the job until 1930, when C. B. McMullin again took over the position, holding...
S. Taylor Farnsworth was set apart as president of the stake, August 13, 1933, with Clark G. Murdock as first and William E. White as second counselor. J. Albert Muir was selected as clerk.
Until the re-organization of the stake, February 16, 1947,...
August 15, 1937, C. Edwin Paice was made bishop, with William Milo Baker and Wallace D. Yardley as counselors. John F. Joseph served as clerk.
From August 25, 1945, to August 18, 1946, Hyrum Steffen served as bishop, with Leonard W. Paice and...
Woolsey, in August, 1945. His counselors are (July, 1947) Gilbert Gale and Chase H. Murdock.
HISTORY OF EAST WARD RELIEF SOCIETY
Today the Relief Societies are reaping rich harvest from the efforts of the past. From heights of success we look back...
this group; cooked and sold many hot dinners. The canning project was continued, which required many long hours of their time and labor. Board released in 1942. Zelma Muir, president; Pauline Firmage and Lydia Smith, counselors ; Jennie Tanner,...
Murdock and Lovina Pearce were called as executive of-ficers of Beaver Stake Relief Society. When the Church-wide Singing Mothers Chorus was organized a number of mothers (Relief Society members), of Beaker Stake, under the leadership of Mae C....
clothes were gathered and later shipped to the L. D. S. Saints in Europe. A loom, which was ordered, was paid for and $300 worth of rugs sold. The largest welfare budget assigned to Beaver Stake was completed one hun-dred per cent. The Family Hour...
Y. L. M. I. A. Nora Morgan, president, with Amelia Dean and Ida Grimshaw as assistants; Catherine Muir, secretary.
JULY, 1947 (CENTENNIAL YEAR) Y. M. M. I. A.-Beaver Stake, Milo Baker, superintendent; assistants, Arch Hoopes, Melvin White, Orville...
For one year all the children in town attended Primary meetings. On March 28, 1881, the wards were divided, designated as First and Second Wards, with a Primary organization in each ward. Jane Gillies was sustained as president of the First Ward,...
Hester Harris, president; Ella Smith and Alice Farnsworth, counselors; Ruby Grimshaw, secretary. ' Centennial Year, 1947.
PRIMARY ACHIEVEMENTS In May, 1922, the Children's Hospital, a home for crippled children, was established in Salt Lake City....
property and in 1890 she and her husband, W. H. Bakes, added a two-story brick building on the north of the present building and started in the hotel business. For fifty years she cooked for boarders in that house. For many years it was the home...