GEORGIA PARCELLS
General Chairman
ELLEN WHITE
Assistant Chairman
Ex-Officio eMembers
LESLIE PUGH
FAE DECKER
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Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Graduate's Farewell. The time is rapidly approaching when we must bid farewell to our Alma Mater, and it is with a mingling of both pleasure and pain. We are happy, extremely happy in the thought that our four years of high school work are coming...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Sophomores -- 19's. During the first month of the school year (1916-17) the Sophomores organized themselves as the Second Year Class of the Murdock Academy. Grant Smith was elected President, Nettie Messenger, Vice President, and Golda Baldwin,...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
The Ag. Club. In the fall of nineteen hundred and twelve, a new organization came into existence within the realms of "Old Murdock." That organization was none other than the Murdock Academy Aggie Club. It was presently to take its place as one...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Parents who can do so are especially invited to come and live with their children at the school and partake of the same privilege of free rent offered to students. Children not of high school age may be provided for in the Beaver county school and...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Athletics: In previous years our track and basket ball squad captured so many pennants that the mere mention of Murdock's track team caused other much larger school to tremble. But of late years our pennants are fewer in number. It would be in...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Sophomore Class: On the 19th day of September, 1921, the big doors of Murdock swung open to let in the largest, most progressive class of students that ever enrolled in this institution. The first year Wells Black was chosen as our president, but...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Our Music Department. We are all very much pleased with our Music Department, and to the untiring efforts of our beloved instructor, Professor C. N. Lyngby, are we indebted for its splendid success. He successfully imparted some of his enthusiasm...
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...
cannot be attributed to this organization, person or group of persons, who gave freely of their time and talents in support of this project. Scores of photographs have been submitted to the organization. Reprints of many of these were made by Mrs....
given unnumbered days of her time to the gathering of historical data, old photographs, and biographies. Mrs. Mackerell's worthy aids contributed their share toward the completion of this project. Many committees and individuals worked untiringly...
frost about October 5th. The Milford Valley is colder in the north portion but varies but little from the dates as to frost at Minersville.
The climate or weather conditions in the county are temperate, not being subject to either extreme heat or...
MINERAL RESOURCES
The early discovery of precious and valuable mineral and the development of the prospects, placed the count; as one of the most important mining centers of the west It has been said that the whole county was a vast laboratory,...
so far completed as to be suitable for the occasion. The earth floor, spread with a blanket, sufficed for a table and the seats were of oriental style.
The year of 1855 had been a year of calamity, famine and distress. The crops in this part of the...
CHAPTER FOUR -
FOUNDING OF TOWNS, RANCHES AND FORTS
FORT CAMERON
September, 1873, witnessed the construction of a Military Barracks at Beaver. A post had been established in May when 250 United States Troops arrived in the Territory. Though...
York Volunteer Infantry, who was killed in the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.
Before the summer had passed, contracts had been let to a number of men for the construction of four company barracks, a guard house, commissary, hospital and...
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...