Geary, Elmo. Plate LV, Prominent Players in Traveling Companies. Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah, 1953. Fig. 1 Luke Cosgrove (Walters Stock Company); Fig. 2 Walters Stock Company Preparing for a...
Drew Richards and friends traveling to the San Rafael Swell for Easter weekend. Although many people had cars in 1928, horses and wagons fared better in the muddy areas of the Swell. Spending Easter weekend on the Swell or the desert, as locals...
the fourth, Sarah Ann Lunt. married J a n . 16, 1878. to whom eight boys were born. Owing to the anti-polygamy persecutions, he left Cedar City in 1887, together with his wife Sarah Ann and four s o n s , traveling by team through Southern Utah,...
JOHN MOUNT HIGBEE Biography 1827 - 1904 John Mount Higbee began his life, May 6 , 1827, on a 25acre farm in Palestine, Ohio. He was baptized into t h e L.D.S. Church July 1 2 . 1835, b y Isaac Falls a t Shadcreek, Clay County, on the b a n k s of...
Nov. 28, 1884.. .Bill of C. C. Bladen for 1 year's services a s City Marshal, amounting to $15, was presented a n d , on motion of Councilman Heybornc, r e f e r r e d back t o t h e Marshal for itemized account of statement before the Council of t...
Jan. 2 0 , 1895.. .The Mayor called the attention of the Council to the fact of there being a large bundle of old papers. bonds, deeds, receipts, e t c . On motion Councilman Fretwell. the Mayor was authorized to destroy all the worthless. Feb. 4 ,...
appointed Supervisor to act under the direction of the City to supervise the tapping of the water mains. July 8 , 1 9 0 4 . . .The filling of trenches (on new water system) and completion of reservoir was urged by the Mayor a n d , on the motion of...
PARADE O CEDAR CITY MAIN STREET N (Intersection Main 6 Center, looking southeast) llSoldierls Day ,I1 May 2 1 , 1919 Note: The City Water Tank, on stand in center of picture.
July 21, 1904...The City put in a water hydrant at t h e Tabernacle...
J u n e 29, 1923 . . . [Excerpts from Iron County Record) "President of t h e United S t a t e s . Warren G . Hardine. a n d p a r t y arrived in Cedar City J b n e 27, 1923 on t & new railroad, and Mayor Parley Dalley a n d his official City...
April 17, 1924.. .Committee on Police and Public Safety reported t h a t sign posts for s t r e e t crossings and corners would be p u t up immediately. May 1 , 1924.. . D r . Green was present and suggested that the s t r e e t , known as the...
On motion of Councilman Frank B. Wood the following bills were allowed and the Recorder instructed to issue warrants for the same:
Orson Haiaht Thomas Lawrence 8 E. Lawrence .
Lester W Ford . Willard Perkins Ether Perry Dave Prvor Myles dams George...
Aug. 12, 1941.. .Mayor Lunt reported that he would like to have the 1 9 4 2 Municipal League Convention held in Cedar City. Mayor instructed to make the invitation to the Municipal League to hold their next annual convention in Cedar City. Oct. 2 ,...
wanted, we had to t u r n the bolt by hand to satisfy our immediate wants, until additional machinery was added. On November l s t , Henry Lunt was the first man to be called of a company of men detailed to go in mid November to settle the Little...
Brigham Young in July of 1847. He made a round trip to California by way of Cedar Valley in the winter and spring of 1847-48, returning with cattle and wagons--the first such conveyances to cross the Old Spanish Trail. Jefferson Hunt returned again...
found such a concentration of steamboats. They stretched for four or five miles, curving with the river itse& sometimes two and three deep. By night, the procession of boats on the lower river was one of magical splendor. Hundreds of lights glanced...
years before.I9The city of Winter Quarters (now Omaha, Nebraska), where some of the people from Nauvoo settled, was across the Missouri River on the west bank. Weakened by the long trek, the Inhabitants were plagued by disease but were still able...
the same ship as Henry, was Captain of the first company. The last company left on July 4, and took until sometime in October to reach Salt Lake City. It was unwise to leave Kanesville any later because of bad weather that late in the season. There...
plains was so well organized that many of the prior problems had been solved and some diarists described the trip as a rather enjoyable event. Henry Lunt's company reached the Great Salt ~ a k valley on e August 28, 1850." After traveling through a...
previous been over the road in Parley P. Pratt's Company, was appointed Camp Pilot for the group. An Indian interpreter, Thomas S. Wheeler, was with them. John D. Lee was appointed Clerk, and Henry was appointed Assistant clerk in addition to his...