Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
GRADUATION. Graduation requires sixteen units of successfully completed work. Credits will be given for work done in other standard high schools, but at least four units of work must have been completed at the Murdock Academy. No credit will be...
FIRST COLONIZERS NAMED
The question of colonizing Beaver Valley, having met the approval of George A. Smith, the following named men were chosen, with the understanding that they would become permanent settlers: Simeon F. Howd, captain; Wilson G....
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...
Adamsville boasted a store owned and operated by John F. Jones. It was fairly well stocked. He accepted butter and eggs in trade for merchandise. Since Adamsville was close to Beaver, many families made weekly trips to the stores there for a more...
the farm land for a reservoir site. Many families sold out and moved away to other counties. Adamsville lost many of its citizens. Since then its population has scattered far and wide. The school was closed and the students were transported by...
ground to procure a livelihood. Aside from this, the flow of the creek, after the spring fresher of highwater, soon dried up and the low lands in the first section alone pro-vided crops.
In the course of time, school section 16 came into market and...
THE FIRST DANCE ORCHESTRA IN BEAVER
Horace A. Skinner told of the first dance orchestra in Beaver, with William McGarry as first violinist, Alma Crosby, second violin, and Mrs. William McGarry, acccordion. They were hired by the year and paid by...
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...
Neilsen and others. While Rev. Karl L. Anderson served in Beaver from 1908 to 1912, he and Miss Edith Shirmer taught in the Richard Smith home, which the M. E. Church had purchased. This home was a two-story black rock building across the street...
devoted their lives to this profession. Necessarily, those women were patient, kind, tender and skilled to be able to answer the many calls and to have endeared themselves in the hearts of the pioneer women. Every hamlet had these "mother"...
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...
had as his assistant, Charles T. Stoney, who had been attending the Brigham Young Academy. This school immediately became very popular, so that night session were held for the benefit of adults who could not go in the daytime. A class in teacher...
and Charles E. Murdock. Up to this time it had been known as the Academy building. Now it needed a new name. The school children were asked to submit names. Mr. Maeser suggested to a pupil that it be named in honor of Dr. John R. Park, so long the...
1923 to 1929; George Marshall Jr., 1923 to 1935; C. A. Bailey, 1925 to 1929; E. N. Thompson, 1926 to 1931; D. J. Williams, 1926 to 1931; Henry Bowman Jr., 1929 to 1933; John C. Tolton, 1931 to 1935; Parley B. Fisher, 1931 to present; Joseph C....
school hours it is made available to the citizens who wish to do work there for themselves.
Perhaps no department of the school has done more for the town than has the Music department, with its excellent band and choruses, under such able...
On March 21st she writes : "I closed my school. The pupils had made creditable improvement. The house of worship where I taught was a dread to me, so neglected and out of repair. It was, however, improved a little by the vigilance of the women of...
known as the "Institute." This was one of the most noted buildings of the town, around which cling the fondest memories of its early students. The first teacher in this school was George W. Crouch. He built the two-room brick home across the...
others say it was east. C. T. Stoney was postmaster, 1894-99. He was called on an L. D. S. mission and Robert Stoney filled the vacancy. Ernest Hodges served from 1899 to 1904, in the same location. Other postmasters serving in this building were:...
Photos of Jonathan Crosbey, Pioneer Building, and wife, Caroline Barnes Crosbey; Jane Gillies, First Primary Ass'n President; Betsy Smith Goodwin, First President, West Ward Relief Society; George Munford, Patriarch, and wife, Harriet Paice Munford