Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
tickets, laundry bags, yea even Eras, the 17's elected as official head of the family, W. H. Bakes, as president, to guide us through the trials and tribulations of our freshman year. From the very start we developed our famous hoggish spirit in...
PIONEER HONOR ROLL Anderson, James P. Black, C. L. Anderson, William R. Bradshaw, George A. Anderson, Miles Bradshaw, Richard Anderson, Martin Bradshaw, Jorham H. Anderson, Andrew B. Briggs, Alma Ashworth,...
FIRST IRRIGATION IN BEAVER VALLEY
Early in May, 1856, the water for irrigating the Old Field and town plat was taken from the river at a dam east of where the Allred home had been built. It was then conducted in a good sized ditch to the N E...
teer men and teams who responded to the call for aid. Among those who came to Beaver were Edward Tolton, William J. Allred, Hyrum and Roan Fowler, Elijah Hoopes, John and Henry Bryant, Fred Clark, Mr. Donald and others.
LAND GRANTS AND GOVERNMENT...
The first man to catch up with me was George Tracy, an old soldier of the Southern Army of the Rebellion. Next came William Allred, a noted Indian fighter. We were by now about 200 yards from the house. Tracy rode to the back door and called to the...
fence in the center of block 29, just east of where the telephone office now stands. The bullet cut the emigrant's leather belt, yet he stopped long enough to pick up his pistol. A few minutes later, William Anderson saw Sissix elevate his gun and...
"He was a strange Indian and wore a Navajo blan-ket. Brother Allred took his horse with the Indian sad-dle and bridle rope and came home, arriving here on Sun-day, evening at 9:00 p.m. The Indian had marked his trail all along and is very likely...
Canyon and one through the Big Canyon Pass or Soldier Pass to the Milford Valley.
William Allred, pioneer of Beaver, said the "Old Ute Trail," the one the Indians used in the summer, went up Bone Hollow and across the Tables, passing near the First...
Keeseo arrived in Beaver, fine young men who might have done much good, but the natural aversion of the average young women to being assisted at childbirth by a man physician was as widespread and deep-seated among the early Mormons as if the...
INDUSTRIES IN PIONEER DAYS AGRICULTURE AND STOCK RAISING
Agriculture and stock raising were the two most important industries in Beaver County in pioneer days.
The Mormon founders of Utah built their culture and institutions on an agricultural...
Photos of William W. Hutcings, Pioneer Sawmill Man, and wife, Matilda Wiseman Hutchings; Juliette Allred Low; Edwin Swindlehurst, Pioneer Lumberman; WIlliam Burt, Pioneer Builder; John Woodhouse, Drama Club Chairman
HISTORY OF BEAVER STAKE
Beaver Stake is the eighth oldest in the west. It was established March 12, 1866, with John R. Murdock as president; William Fotheringham as first and Daniel Tyler as second counselors. This organization existed until July...
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...
Spanish-American War Veterans Indian troubles were over, and the Beaver citizens were a happy, patriotic group. Their first real call to defend their country (since the Mormon Battalion) came in 1898 in the "Spanish-American War." John Frank...
Photos of Spanish American War Veterans, standing left to right: Joseph Skinner, Steven Fotheringham, Orson Allred, Lorenzo Bohn, seated, Arthur Smith, J. Frank Tolton, recruiting officer, Harry Harris; World War I Casualties: James Gilbert...
a little hard-tack candy, for immediate call to arms. When called they served ten days or two weeks, and were then relieved by a group from another settlement. Fort Sanford was approximately 40 miles from Beaver. There was no means of...
Branch Agricultural College (Cedar City, Utah); Southern Utah University -- History
Basketball team of 1948. Left to right, Back row: Coach Ray Lindquist, David Urie, Bob Peterson?, Kenneth Hall?, Lowell Sherratt, Nyles Humphreys?. Middle row: L.C. Mills, Arden Allred, George DeLand?, Darwin Woodbury, Dick DeLand?. Front row: Boyd...