"Cedar City, Utah is located in the heart of scenic Southern Utah on U.S. Hwy. 91. It lies at the base of the great Wasatch Mountains. Gateway to Utah's National Parks and Monuments. Population 6,172, Elevation 5,840."
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The charter members were M. Cathrine Smithson, Sarah L. Harrington, Margaret R. Williams, Mary A. McKeon, Susan A. Peak, Merentha H. Smithson, John B. Smithson, Josephine Muldoon, James F. Muldoon and Mrs. Julia Smithson. The first meetings were...
the ward and the good townspeople which was equal, in its way, to Utah's earliest pioneer building efforts. For a long time the ward had realized a need for a larger building. Rudolph Nielsen says that the movement for the new church building...
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO BEAVER COUNTY IN THE CENTENNIAL PROGRAM With the advent of Utah's Centennial year, Beaver County Commission appointed a Centennial committee to direct the activities during the historic year. The members of the committee were:...
JOHN M . HIGBEE Mayor 1867-1871 Documentation and Research March 30. 1867.. .List of elections from Utah State Archives TE-0. Election took place Feb. 11, 1867. as follows: Mayor: Aldermen: John M . Higbee Francis Webster John Chatterley
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JOHN S. WOODBURY Biography 1865 - 1949 John Stillman Woodbury was born in St. George, Utah, November 16, 1865. He was the oldest of eleven children born to John Stillman and Martha Alice Parker Woodburv. They were among the pioneers arriving in the...
WILLIAM H . LEIGH Biography 1877 - 1958 William H . Leigh was one of Cedar City's best known businessmen and civic workers. He founded the Leigh Furniture and Carpet Company in Cedar City, and operated it for 45 years before turning i t over to the...
ZION CANYON NATIONAL PARK There a r e five National Parks within Utah's borders The .man riding t h e horse on the left is Lehi W . Jones, Mayor of Cedar City 1887-88. When the President of the United States, Warren G . Harding, visited Cedar City...
WALTER K . GRANGER Biography 1888 - 1978 Walter Keil Granger was born October 11, 1888, in S t . George, Utah, to Walter and Annie Keil Granger. He served an L . D . S. Mission in Georgia, a f t e r which h e married Hazel Dalley, J u n e 6 , 1912....
In this biography of one of Utah's early pioneers, Henry Lunt, you will read about the almost unsurmountable difficulties experienced by some of the people who settled the Utah Territory. The hardships were numerous. The dangerous wagon trails...
He wrote the following, dated November 5, to the Deserez News: Yesterday a site was surveyed for a fort and stock corral on Coal Creek, twenty miles from Parowan. Today a company has been organized to commence operations immediately in the...
instructed Brother Nephi Johnson, Indian interpreter, and Brother Wood to go to the Utah's camp and tell them that if they would get the pony back again and bring the boy that stole it, we would pay them for their trouble. And, if they would not do...
The problem of wlonization was particularly difficult during the Utah War because of the large number of people called back to Utah. In addition, two to four thousand immigrants were brought into the tenitory each year by the pioneer companies....
CHAPTER XVIII
C N l L WAR TIMES 1861 - 1865
he year 1861was one of the most distresimg years America had ever seen since becoming an independent nation. Five states seceded fiom the union in January--Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and...
across the continent by solitas. horsernen carrying fifteen pounds of letters. The charge to send this mail was $5 per one-half ounce. Stations were located about twenty-four miles apart. As his day's nde, each nder was requued to span three...