DONALD C. URIE Biography 1875 - 1948 Donald Clyde Urie was born in Cedar City, Utah. October 2 9 , 1875, the son of John and Priscilla Klingensmith Urie. He died March 9, 1948. in Provo, Utah. He,attended the Branch Normal School in Cedar City and...
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pproximately fifty more families moved to Cedar City the fall of 1853, making it necessary to enlarge the farming lands to provide area for them to grow crops. These new people were called to strengthen the settlement and fortie 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...
dedicated on Christmas day, which day will long be remembered among us. In the morning the Indians [Pihedes], to the amount of some 300, women and children included, gathered into the Fort. We preached to them in their own language and made them a...
"Father took me to Milford, north of Lund, in a bug,^ and I proceeded on my way to Salt Lake City. 'This was the first time I had heen on a train, I had never been to Salt Lake City hcfore, nor stayed in a hotel or bought food in a restaurant. No...
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territory (which was illegally claimed by a group of men). These men stripped a tire so the metal
wires were sticking out, went over to this family, tied the father up, tied his wife and daughter
to trees, ripped their shirts off,...
wanted, we had to t u r n the bolt by hand to satisfy our immediate wants, until additional machinery was added. On November l s t , Henry Lunt was the first man to be called of a company of men detailed to go in mid November to settle the Little...
labors, and reverently called upon Him to bless u s in the i u t u r e and to enable u s to maintain ourselves in this desert land, also to protect u s from the wiley Indian and help u s to accomplish the mission we were sent to perform, namely,...
ELIAS MORONI CORRY Biography 1884 - 1947 Elias Moroni Corry was born in Cedar City. Utah. February 2 1 , 1884, the son of William Henry and Elizabeth Louise P a r r y Corry. William Henry Corry was a blacksmith, having followed the same occupation...
in increasing the capacity of our Iron Works. W began to e feel proud of our achievements; b u t , low and behold, the bursting of a rain cloud in the mountains brought a flood down the Creek, and in a few hours the labors of months of incessant...
prove, however, that the manufacture of iron is an accomplished f a c t , and Iron County, with h e r vast coal fields and an inexhaustible amount of the best iron ore in the world, is destined in the near future to be a vast business center. I t...
HISTORY OF IRON COUNTY BY William R . Palmer, 1922 It has been only seventy-one years since the settlement of Iron County (18511, and little more than eighty years since people came to Utah and to the west; yet in that time the western part of this...
Chief. During the early days of the settlement of the country, when there were many more Indians than white men. a great chief named Kanarra reigned supreme over his tribe. He was very unfriendly toward the white people who were coming into the...
developed and built it up. When a post office was established some years later, the name was changed from Johnson's Springs to Enoch. Johnson's Springs was settled about 1852 or 1853. At an early period, many industries were started . throughout...
AC.CLUB
The Agricultural Club holds a great place of consequence in this
school as in any school and its aim, that of fostering better farming,
is a most worthy one. Agriculture, standing as it does as the funda-mental
and most important of the...
Mesia went back to Salt Lake in the fall and continued teaching school at the B.Y.U. during the winter of 191 1 and 1912. Henry came up to see her just once that winter. She was living with an aunt and an uncle, and Henry said there were so many...
Utah. They hoped they could do so and that they would like to help them to do the job." A teamster boasted to the Mormons in Beaver that he had participated in the Hauns Mil1 Massacre in Missoun, an atrocity in which a mob wiped out a Mormon...
Late in 1858 and in early 1859 Hemy wrote the following entnes in his journal: November 1, 1858: Attended a meeting of the Deseret Iron Company held in the company's store. The report showed that the Works have been attended with less success this...