Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Missionary Class. The Missionary Course was organized January 30, 1917, as a winter course and was completed in eight weeks. The course was under the instruction of Brother Reinhard Maeser and Gerrit de Jong, Jr.; the former gave the daily class...
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...
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...
David Miller, July 26, 1880-1886. William Edwards, June 23, 1886-1887. Post office discontinued. Re-established April 24, 1888, with William Edwards again acting. Jess Barton, October 19, 1920. Following Mr. Barton were: Mrs. Hazle Barton,...
a little hard-tack candy, for immediate call to arms. When called they served ten days or two weeks, and were then relieved by a group from another settlement. Fort Sanford was approximately 40 miles from Beaver. There was no means of...
WOMEN WHO HAVE PLAYED IMPORTANT PARTS AS DOCTORS IN MINERSVILLE Mary Blackburn was the first white woman to come to Minersville. She delivered the first white child, a girl, Rosena Roberts Rollins, to Mrs. George Roberts. She also delivered...
Lafayette Hanchett in his book, "The Old Sheriff and Other True Tales," says of Samuel Newhouse, "He was a most colorful character, a very gentle man of a winsome and kindly nature. Very persuasive in his arguments and prone to hasty judgments, and...
and the newest of all engines, the diesels. William Nichols Jr., local brakeman, is a nephew of Mr. Blanpied. Frank Kuchenmeister, John Low, William Sterling, Sam Reveal, Al Milsap, all have helped to build up part of the tradition that accompanies...
WAH WAH SPRINGS Wah Wah Springs was settled in July, 1870, by Edwin S. Squires and Lydia Abbott Squires. They were on their way to California to locate. They had a herd of cattle and when they got to Nevada they were asked to pay a tax on the...
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR POLITICAL HISTORY OF MILFORD TOWN INCORPORATED IN 1903 December 1, 1903, the Board of County Commissioners of Beaver County approved a petition for the incorporation of the Town of Milford and appointed the following persons...
somewhat simplified, but still not without hazard and difficulties. Fred Shumaker tells how they used to arrange to speed the time in bringing a doctor from Frisco to Garrison, a distance of 60 miles. He says one person started out from Garrison...
Sat. Jan 7, 1899: Ther. 1 pm. 47º., Wea. light clouds We continued stretching wire and putting up braces along the fence. Sunday 8: Ther. 11 am. 47º., Wea. clouds going south. On account of having a bad cold I didn’t go to town atall to day....
Sat. Oct. 7, 1905: Ther. Warm., Wea. Clouds We went two miles west and one south took dinner with White, staid over night with N.B. Dial six miles north-west of Martha Mr. Dial thought we were too stout and able bodied to not be working when there...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; San Rafael Swell; San Rafael River; San Rafael Bridge; Swinging Bridge; CCC
The biggest assignment for Company 529 of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Castle Dale was to build a bridge across the San Rafael River on the San Rafael Swell. Bridge Construction began in 1935. This was to provide a way for ranchers to get...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swinging Bridge; San Rafael Bridge; CCC
Condition of the deck years later. The San Rafael Bridge was built in 1937 by the CCCs. Company 529 had a base camp in Castle Dale and did most of their work on the San Rafael Swell. Their crowining achievement, according to local residents, was...