Gideon A. Murdock, James E. Thompson, William Moyes, Joseph Lillywhite, William R. Anderson, Charles Bird, William Thompson, Philo T. Farnsworth Jr., James P. Anderson, Robert Edwards, Thomas H. Cartwright, Thomas Patterson, Orson...
Whornham, Presley M. Woolsey, Karl P.
Wiliden, Irl T. Woolsey, Mark A.
Wiliden, James E. Yardley, Daniel H.
Willden, Joseph T. *Yardley, James Gilbert Wiliden, Ray
National Guard History Beaver City's National Guard unit came into being in the...
HISTORY OF BEAVER POST NO. 32,
OF THE AMERICAN LEGION
On December 2, 1924, the first meeting was called of all ex-service men for the purpose of organizing a Beav-er Post of the American Legion. Twenty men subscribed for membership at the meeting,...
Legion throughout the United States and in Beaver particularly, foresaw events alike to those greeting the re-turned "Dough-boy," of 1917; and immediately began promoting legislation in our government to help adjust future Legionnaires to civilian...
ing because of their whole-hearted support. Poppy wreaths are made each year to be placed on the graves of our departed heroes. Essays in the schools have been sponsored by them. Five district presidents have come from the unit, namely Minerva...
selors, and Hattie Myers, secretary. Soon after this Mrs. Eyre resigned and Mrs. M. D. Fisher was chosen to fill the vacancy. They were released March 6, 1917, and Lillie Roberts was appointed as president, with Rachel Marshall and Martha Walker as...
Effie Carter was voted in as secretary, with Hester Rollins as assistant. Alvaretta Robinson was released as magazine agent, and Ada Worthen sustained iu that position. Laura Corbridge was released as teacher supervisor and Mary Harris was chosen...
Matilda Olsen, assistants; LaPriel Dunn, secretary; Jennie O'Dell, Alice Joseph and Evelyn Slaughter, assistants. In 1915, J. W. Johnson was chosen as superintendent of the L. D. S. Sunday School by William Ashworth, presiding elder. There is no...
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...
A man was hired to paint the scenery for the stage. Seats for the Recreation Hall were purchased at a more recent date. OBTAINING MATERIAL FROM MURDOCK ACADEMY Wrecking and salvaging the materials of the old Murdock Academy began August 1, 1932....
smoke. A table and benches had been erected, and by nightfall a hot dinner was prepared, a dormitory, for the boys had been arranged in the second story of the old Administration Building. (This building was formerly the offices of the officers of...
ESCALANTE POST NO. 1546, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF U. S. A. Escalante Post No. 1546, V. F. W., was organized March 24,1928. Charter members were Walter C. Barnes, Lee Brown, Daniel Davis, J. F. Farmer, G. T. Fitzgerald, Lucin Gillis, Marcil...
den, Mrs. Nona Decker, Mrs. Hannah Smith, Mrs. Tanis Strofeld, Mrs. Ethel Smith, Mrs. Florence Barnes, Mrs. Margaret Murdock, Mrs. Dora Smithson, and Mrs. Cora Jones. Of these past presidents, two were honored by being elected presidents of the...
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT THE L. D. S. CHURCH IN MILFORD The first services for the Latter-day Saints to be held in Milford were in the Ebenezer Tanner Sr. home on Main Street. Later, services were conducted in the old Palmer building, the school...
tion of superintendent : Ebenezer Tanner Jr., Jacob T. Tanner, Harry H. Pitchforth, David Tanner, Harry Bird, Heber Taylor, Edward H. Bird, William A. Miller, Wil-liam Graft, George C. Goodwin, Rudolph Nielsen, Charles Beard, Harvey A. Dean. On...
WARD PRIMARY PRESIDENTS The first Primary was organized on January 11,1904, with Berlie Kirk, president; Margaret Hickman and Henrietta Tanner, counselors; Bertha Skillicorn, secretary. Since that time the following women have been president:...
Photos of Margery Adams Mackerll, 1945- ; Edith Slaughter Osborn, first vice-president; Metta Hutchings White, secon vice-president; Lottie Ross Farrer, secretary; Mary WIlliams Goodwin, corr. secretary; Marha Harmon Barton, historian
cy K. Nowers Burt, first white girl born in Beaver; south-west camp, "The Anderson," named in honor of William R. Anderson, one of Beaver's early pioneers. DAUGHTERS ERECT HOME ON PUBLIC SQUARE The home of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Beaver...