CHAPTER EIGHT
PIONEER MEDICINE
HERBS USED IN EARLY-DAY TREATMENTS
In Beaver's dramatic history, like other early towns, there were no more heroic figures than our pioneer doctors, midwives and nurses. Hundreds of miles from professional aid, they...
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"...
of the institution until about 1890, it was possible to se-cure all the wool necessary to operate the plant by exchanging the mill products for the wool. About this time, wool demanded cash or mostly cash and the mills found it difficult to sell...
the Lumber and Brick schools. Mrs. Lizzie Neilsen recalls her school days with "Aunt Lu" in these words: "She was the mother of a large family, which always incuded a baby. All the children came to school with their mother, and each morning we were...
water from Devil's Creek, thus making it possible to operate the year 'round. This mill was a great help to the people of the neighborhood and vicinity. People came from as far away as St. George with their grists to have them ground. This mill was...
Photos of James Henry Blackner and Jane Allen Blackner, C. David Morgan and Sarah Morgan Griffith, Mary Armond Morris, mother of Joseph S. Morris, John Jenkins, Eleanor Griffith Jenkins, and daughter Margaret
West Ward Superintendent, Edwin Smith; Ronald Bradshaw and James Morgan, assistants; Joan Baker, secretary.
"WELL DONE, THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT"
To the hundreds of sincere and faithful workers of the various organizations of the Beaver Stake...
A PART OF EARLY-DAY MILFORD In the early days, J. D. McAuley owned the whole block from the large house on the corner, which was his home, down to and including the Flatiron Building. Before Mr. McCauley built his home there, the corner was...
Ebenezer Tanner Jr. bought the place from his father, and in turn sold it to Mrs. Jessie Robinson, who continued to use it as a hotel. It was later used as an apartment house, until it was razed in 1946. Mrs. Tanner, widely known as "Ma" Tanner in...
morning. All the guests had escaped from the burning building and Mr. Forgie, clad only in his night robe, had reached the front porch when the cry of "Save David", his nine-year-old son, reached his ears. Little David had already escaped and was...
Branch Agricultural College--Cedar City (Utah)--History; Peterson, Elmer G.; Utah State Agricultural College--Logan (Utah)
E.G. Peterson. The picture was taken about 1930. E. G. Peterson was the President of the Utah State Agricultural College, the mother college to Branch Agricultural College.
Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--Students; Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--History
Students assembled on the lawn for a class picture. Pictured: Blanche Wood, Israel Neilson, Wallace Lunt, Ellen Nelson, Seymour McAllister, Ethella Foster, Royce Nelsen, Roswell Belnap, Clifford Ashby class father, Myrtle Decker class mother, Jed...
Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--Students; Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--History
Students assembled on the lawn for a class picture. Pictured: Blanche Wood, Israel Neilson, Wallace Lunt, Ellen Nelson, Seymour McAllister, Ethella Foster, Royce Nelsen, Roswell Belnap, Clifford Ashby class father, Myrtle Decker class mother, Jed...
Branch Agricultural College (Cedar City, Utah); Southern Utah University -- History
Fall of 1922 High School Graduating Class. Names go left to right, Front to back. Creston Jones, Raymond Banks, Orin Taylor, Thail Dunham?, George Millet, Clarence Riddle, Cleo Williams, Theodore Pryre?, Fern Froyd, Ellen Smith, Ida Jolley, Alenna...
Tues. April 19, 1898: Ther. warm Wea. windy cloudy Father, Mother & I went to Rockville while in Town a Telephone message was received stating that war had been Declared Wednesday 20: Ther. 58 at 6-50 Wea. light clouds wind after noon. I W...