Chapel; $150 for Liberty Bonds; $25 for Savings Stamps; $39 for the suffering in Europe, and 783 articles of clothing for destitute Belgians.
President Woolsey's board was released in 1925. Emma Smith, president, with Eva Carlow and Sarah...
Chapter Ten
Communication in Pioneer Days
Beaver's Early Mail Service
Beaver's first mail service was the freight wagon train. The drivers would deliver mail to the Bishop, who in turn would distribute it in Church. Then an office was maintained in...
Photos of Old Field's Hall. Scene of many early day celebrations and dances, and Tithing Office, LDS church headquarters and housed the first telegraph office
poses. After other, and more modern, facilities for school were procured, this building was rented to the Beaver Creamery, where butter and cheese were manufactured. Then, finally, it was turned over to the Beaver High School and the old historic...
shaw, Charley Booth, Robert Edwards, William Barton, Samuel Maunsey, and Thomas Butler. There were probably others, but at this time their names can not be recalled to mind. BUILD BRICK AND ADOBE HOUSES All in all the group, together with those...
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,...
women who took up such work were Mrs. Ruth Reese, "Aunt Jane" Richards, and "Grandma" Jenkins. It is believed that Mrs. Jenkins was the first to practice in Greenville. When Mrs. Reese would meet one of "her boys," she would say, "I was the first...
It was advanced from a small affair in a brick building just a few rods to the south of its present site. This co-operative establishment grew to a mammoth institution for that day. It was incorporated with a sub-scribed capital of $20,000. Aside...
Wilson G. Nowers, county clerk; Orson Tyler, sheriff; Lamoni L. Babitt, constable; James W. Huntsman, selectman. In the absence of Simeon F. Howd and Joel W. White, John M. Davis and Ephraim Tompkinson were duly sworn to fill the offices of...
An act prescribing certain qualifications necessary to enable a person to hold office was approved. Regular elections were held in August and election precincts were established. A mining company, composed of Isaac Grundy and others, was granted...
In 1865, the Court ordered that Greenville be an Election Precinct, also to be known as School District No. 2, hereafter Beaver to be known as District No. 1, Minersville District No. 3. In 1866, an act of the Legislature of the Territory of Utah,...
BEAVER COUNTY SELECTMEN AND YEARS OF SERVICE
John W. Huntsman 1856-7 James McKnight 1880-87
Simeon F. Howd 1856-7 Willis Coplan 1881
Joel W. White 1856-7 John; R. Murdock 1882
Ross B. Rogers 1858-9- Philo T. Farnsworth 1883
David B. Adams 1858-9...
BEAVER CITY INCORPORATED IN 1867
An act to incorporate Beaver City in Beaver County was passed and approved by the Governor and Legisla-ture of the Territory of Utah, January 10, 1867. Also enacted that all that portion of country situated within...
the printing. Wilson G. Nowers was appointed clock cus-todian. City recorder E. E. Cowdell resigned ; Robert Fotheringham, appointed.
1893-William H. Bakes, mayor, with Reinhard Maeser, Frank D. Farnsworth, Jesse Baldwin, Walter S. Tolton and...
and Cyrus Davis, councilmen; Bernice M. Brooke, re-corder. Murdock Academy grounds purchased for race track.
1938-39-Wesley Farrer mayor; Levi Howd, Elton Mackerell, Arnold Low, M. J. Wary and Albert Smith, councilmen.; Sadie Patterson, recorder....
on the east bank of Dry Creek. Other members to head this Society were: second president, Mary Davis; third president, Margaret Adams. In 1893, Jane Barton was made president, with Mary Morris, and Mary A. Miller as counselors. This groupp served...
January 5, 1908, Mary J. Blackner was chosen president, with Mary E. Morris and Winnifred Miller as counselors; Julia Griffith, secretary; Mary A. Reese, treasurer. Caring for the sick and needy, the gathering and storing of wheat, went steadily...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN POLITICAL HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY THE SECOND JUDICIAL COURT The Second Judicial Court for the Territory was established in Beaver under the following procedure: On November 8, 1869, by proclamation of Charles Durkee, Governor...
Due to shortage of water in the early days, there was little hay raised by the Minersville settlers. To supple-ment the small supply, the ranchers, farmers and stock-men would make regular trips to the Yellow Banks, 20 miles north of Minersville,...
floors. The furniture consisted of rock or adobe fire-places, roughly constructed tables and benches. Bed-steads were considered luxuries and were home-made. The door and window casings were chopped from cottonwood which grew along the creek....