Gazeteer [sic] of Utah and Salt Lake City directory, 1874, Part 1

Author: Sloan, E. L. (Edward Lennox), 1830-1874
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : "Salt Lake Herald" Publishing Company, Publishers
Number of Pages: 336


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GAZETEER OF


7 U TAH,


AND


SALT LAKE ITY


DIRECTORY.


COMPILED AND EDITED BY EDWARD L. SLOAN.


1874.


SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH : "SALT LAKE HERALD" PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.


Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1874, by EDWARD L. SLOAN, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.


GENERAL INDEX.


PAGE


PAGE


Abbreviations 185


Mormonism, Sketch of I7


Adams District II2


Newfoundland District I37


Agricultural Products 35


Ogden Business Directory 108


Alta Business Directory. 78


Ogden Junction District 170


American Fork District II6


Ohio District I38


Beaver County 52


Ophir District. 139


Big Cottonwood District I29


Ophir Business Directory 92


Bingham Business Directory 81


Parley's Park District I47


Box Elder County. 54


Pinto District I70


Cache County_ 60


Piute County. 74


Camp Douglas 18I


Post-Offices


50


Camp Floyd District 119


Property Valuation


38


Chronological Events of Utah 22


Provo Business Directory


96


Clifton District


I22


Railroads


43


Columbia District 123


58


Rush Valley District 148


Counties_


52


Davis County


65


Draper District


169


Educational


39


Salt Lake County


75


General Directory of Salt Lake City


185


Sevier County


86


Governmental 40


Iron County 67


Summit County


88


Island District 170


Territory of Utah 35


Juab County


68


Kane County 70


Tintic District 158


Little Cottonwood District 124


Tooele County


89


Logan Business Directory 63


Utah County . 94


Lucin District.


I34


Wasatch County. IOI


Millard County


71


Washington County 103


Mining Districts II2


Weber County 104


West Mountain District


163


INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.


PAGE


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Cardon Bros., watches and jewelry 64


Carter, Thomas, cigars 307


Cassin & Mower, meats IIO


Central Pacific R. R 330


Chicago & Northwestern R. R. 334


Clasbey & Read


.Head lines over


Alta and front paster


Clayton, Wm., notary and convey- ancer 318


Cluff, David, Jr., furniture, coffins, etc. 97


Curtis, Theo., tents, etc .. 324


Davis, G. W., fancy groceries. 314 Davis, Nathan, & Sons, founders_ 310


Deseret Museum


331


Deseret National Bank. 302


Deseret News_


Dinwoodey, Henry, furniture. 313


304


Dixon House, R. D. Clark, propr.


82


Driver, Wm., drugs, etc.


III


Adolphy Fritz, hotel and restau-


rant 79 Alta Meat Market, Armstrong & Co. 79


Andrews, A. H. & Co., school fur- niture Front paster Arcade Chop House 322 Bachman, Benjamin, dry goods, groceries, etc. 97


Barratt, C. R., furniture, crockery, etc. 302


Bauer, Julius, & Co., pianos 329


Benedict Bros., surgeons. 321


Blenny, W. E., general merchan- dise. 81


Bredemeyer, W., consulting en- gineer 317


Broughton, G., & Co., wines and liquors 326


Campbell & Patterson, booksellers 306


Rich County 74


Corinne Business Directory.


Salt Lake Business Directory 301


Salt Lake General Directory 185


Salt Lake City. I72


Sanpete County


83


Star District


152


Timmons, or Nebo, District. I57


Morgan County 72


THE LIBRARY BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PROVO, UTAH


INDEX TO ADVERTISERS - CONCLUDED.


PAGE


Dunford & Sons Bottom lines


Dwyer, James, books and station-


ery. Front paster First National Bank of Utah ____ 302


Fraser, Chalmers & Co., Liberty


Iron Works_


330


Gerrish, J. H., tin and sheet iron_ 59 Gilbert, Hubbard & Co., ship chan- dlers Facing front paster Gorlinski, Joseph, land and min- ing attorney 316


Hagell, John, ice cream saloon


314


Harris, Ed., cigars.


308


Harris, J., confectioner.


309


Hooper, W. J., boots and shoes


306


Jackson, Pfouts & Douglas, Home


Stomach Bitters


328


Joelson, J. M., furniture. 3II


Johnson, Geo. G., mining engineer 317 Liddell & Brown, the Scotch Store 184 Livingston, W., clothing, dry goods, etc. 97


Lowe, George A., Schuttler's wag- ons 58


Lowe, George A., Schuttler's wag- ons 326


Mackintosh, R., Pioneer Sampling


Works


323


Mann, H. R., & Co., insurance


agents.


314


Maps of the Mines and of Utah __ 319 Margetts, Phil., English ale vaults 323 McKee & Duncan, general mer- chandise_


Meader, J. B., assayer 30I


Miller & Co., news dealers


318


Missouri Valley Life Insurance


304


Moch House ..


314


Moore, H. J., tin, sheet and gal-


vanized iron worker.


98


Morris, WV. V., & Son, painters 318


New Map of Utah, Froiseth's


34


Oakey, T., Excelsior Steam Planing Mill 32I


Ogden Bazar, fancy goods


109


Ogden Junction Newspaper


107


Omaha Saloon_


323


O'Neil & Co., Salt Lake Shops


305


Paul, Wm., Jr., builder


325


Pickard, W. L., hides and leather


325


Pioneer Real Estate Ass'n of Utah 322


Pioneer Store, Isador Morris


S2


Provo Cooperative M. I., dry


goods, groceries, wagons, etc. - 97


PAGE


Richards House, The


314


Robertson & McBride, attorneys-


at-law


303


Rosborough & Merritt, attorneys-


at-law


303


Salt Lake City Brewery


307


Salt Lake Herald


Head lines and face of map


Salt Lake Street R. R.


325


Salt Lake Tribune


320


Savage, C. R., art gallery


318


Schuttler, Peter, wagons


300


Schweitzer & Beer, toys, etc. Facing front paster


Siegel Bros., clothing 304 Sloan, John & Co., boiler makers 306 Smith, Mrs. Jane S., baskets 305 Smith, T. G. M., boots and shoes_ 307 Snell, John W., general merchadise 312 Snow & Hoge, attorneys-at-law __ 303


Stevens & Co., stationery and pa- per warehouse. 302


Street & Ralph, general merchan-


dise.


79


Stubbs, Peter, baker and grocer __ 98 Sutherland & Bates, counselors-at- law 301


Swansea Separating and Refining


Works


325


Theatre, Salt Lake


331


Tibbals, Sam. L., fine wines,


liquors, etc.


60


Townsend House. The


314


Tucker, James, groceries and pro-


visions


79


Turner, Geo. W., books, station-


ery, etc.


IOS


Union & Central Pacific R. R. .. Back paster


Union Depot Hotel, G. S. Erb,


propr.


IIO


Usher & Crowell, billiards


Utah Lumber Yard


316


Utah Mining Gazette


332


Utah Soap Works


314


Warm Spring Baths


II4


Wells, W. H., & Bro., ornamen- tal glass Facing front paster Wilkes, E., foundry and machine shops 314


Woodcock Saloon and Dining


Rooms


323


Zion's Cooperative Mercantile In-


stitution


II3


INTRODUCTION.


IN presenting a second volume of this kind to the people- of Utah, and those interested in its progress, the compiler may be allowed to say, that though errors may be found in it, every care has been taken to make this Gazeteer and Directory as reliable as possible. He acknowledges the uniform courtesy extended, and the promptness with which information was kindly furnished from all parts of the Terri- tory ; and begs to tender his thanks to those who thus assisted him, whose names would extend to a too lengthy, list for publication.


Thomas MCLelland Aisha; ~ 7th Ward


DEDICATION.


To the Mayor and City Council of Salt Lake City, and to the enterprising business men of Utah Ter= ritory, this volume is respectfully dedicated by


THE PUBLISHERS.


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Toys, Fancy Goods,Baskets, CHINA, GLASS AND LAVA WARE, Etc., Musical Instruments, Cutlery, Notions, Bird Cages, Children's Carriages, Boys' Carts, Wagons, Sleighs, Etc., Etc.,


154 and 156 State Street,


Opposite Palmer House, CHICAGO, ILL.


House in Nuremberg, Germany.


GILBERT HUBBARD & CO., Ship Chandlers and Sail Makers, DEALERS IN


Mining Duck & Seamless Hose, STEEL AND IRON WIRE-ROPE, Tents, Wagon Covers, Paulins and Awnings, Flags and Banners, Nets and Seines.


Largest Stock of TWINES AND CORDAGE, in the West.


226, 228 & 230 Water St Chicago, Ill.


W. H. WELLS & BRO.,


Ornamental Glass Works


48 and 50 Franklin Street,


CHICAGO, ILL.


Stained Glass for Churches a Specialty.


MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF ORNAMENTAL GLASS.


Photographic Samples and Designs Sent on Application. W. H. WELLS. G. S. WELLS.


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SKETCH OF MORMONISM.


JOSEPH SMITH, the founder of the organization, was born in Sharon, Windsor county, Vermont, December 23d, 1805. His father's name was Joseph and his mother's Lucy ; and their family consisted of six sons and three daughters, of whom the future prophet was the third son. When he was in his fourteenth year his father moved to Manchester, On- tario county, New York, having previously resided four years in Palmyra in the same county. While in Manchester, and during a religious revival, he was, as he states in his autobiography, the subject of religious impressions ; during which, while praying in the woods one day, he had the first vision,-two glorious personages appearing to him, who com- muned with him. Some three and a half years afterwards, on the 21st of September, 1823, he had a second vision, and received a communication relative to the plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. These plates, his history states, he obtained possession of on the 22d of September, 1827, from the place of their deposit, on the west side of a hill convenient to Manchester, the village where he resided. The plates were enclosed in a box, covered with a stone, and had been there for some 1,400 years, having been buried by an ancient inhabitant of this continent named Moroni. The characters on them had been principally inscribed by Mor- mon ; hence the title of the work.


Being poor, and with the work of translating the records before him, in his exigencies he obtained assistance from a gentleman named Martin Harris; and in April, 1829, he made the acquaintance of Oliver Cowdery, a school teacher, who became his amanuensis, and the work of translating


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commenced immediately. The Book of Mormon was put in the hands of the printers; but before it was published a church was organized on the 6th day of April, 1830, in the house of Mr. Peter Whitmer, Fayette, Seneca county, New York. Thus the Empire State not only produced the plates from which the book was translated, but can claim the honor of the organization of that society which is the greatest prob- lem of the century. Six members composed this church on its organization -a small beginning for the thousands into which it has grown, and the power and influence acquired in the short space of forty odd years. The Book of Mormon was published, preaching and proselytizing were prosecuted with vigor, though the missionaries of the new faith were mostly uneducated, and churches were raised up in a num- ber of places in a few months.


Early in 1831, a settlement was made at Kirtland, Ohio, and this may be called the first " gathering place " of the church -a central point towards which all who received the faith should converge. In July of the same year a lot was selected, and dedicated for a Temple, at Independence, Jack- son county, Missouri. Here a printing press was set in ope- ration, and a periodical, the Evening and Morning Star, was published by Judge W. W. Phelps. Trouble broke out at Independence, between the settlers of the new faith and others inhabiting that region, and a mob tore down the printing office, tarred and feathered some of the prominent Mormons, abused others, and inflicted losses on the frater- nity, in the destruction of property, to a very large amount. The Mormons were obliged to leave, and most of them fled into and settled in Clay county, in the same State. The Jackson county mob influenced the citizens of Clay county, and after a time the refugees had again to leave, this time settling in unoccupied territory, which received the name of Caldwell county, as well as in Davis and other adjacent counties, in Missouri. In three years they made wonderful improvements in their new location, for industry has ever been a prominent characteristic of the organization. At this


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time they were viewed with suspicion by many pro-slavery citizens there, who classed them as abolitionists, many of them having come from States where the abolition theory was gaining ground. For this cause, and because their in- dustrious habits conflicted with the dissipated customs of a class always too well known in frontier settlements, as well as for religious reasons, troubles again broke out, and the entire Mormon community was compelled to leave the State. Their next settlement was at Commerce, Hancock county, Illinois, where, in a short time, they built the city of Nauvoo, which was duly chartered by the State Legislature. They had built a temple at Kirtland, which was an immense effort in its size and costliness for so small and poor a body of people as they then were. But in Nauvoo one was com- menced on a scale proportionately greater, to correspond with their increased numbers, wealth and importance. This they finished ; but before it was completed, their Prophet, Joseph Smith, and his brother Hyrum Smith, the Patriarch of the Church, were murdered in Carthage, where they were imprisoned on a charge of treason. The Missouri enemies of the prophet and his followers had never ceased their ef- forts against him and his people, preferring charge after charge, which were disposed of by the courts, he always ob- taining an acquittal; until this last charge, when the mob would not wait for the result of a trial, but shot him and his brother dead while in prison under guard, wounding at the . same time Elder John Taylor, one of the Twelve Apostles .. They held Governor Ford's pledge for their safety at the time. This was on the 27th of June, 1844.


Soon after the Mormons were compelled to leave Illinois, and took up their line of march in February, 1846, for the then almost unknown west. That Fall and Winter the main body of the refugee Saints located in the neighborhood of the Missouri River, near what is now Council Bluffs and Omaha, where temporary settlements were formed. Next Spring, President Brigham Young started westward with 143 pioneers, broke a road, forded streams and built bridges


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from the Missouri over the great plains and through the Rocky Mountains, arriving in Salt Lake Valley on the 21st of July, 1847. As soon after as possible the main body followed, a provisional State government was formed, gentle- men were sent to Washington to represent the new colony ; and in 1849 a Territorial government was granted to them for the Territory of Utah. Since that time they have prospered exceedingly ; their cities, towns and settlements number about two hundred, with a population of nearly 150,000 souls. Besides these there are branches of the Church in many parts of the United States; and in Europe the communicants of the faith number nearly 20,000. Their missionary efforts have been directed to every country where religious toleration would permit them to carry and disseminate their views. Most European and some Asiatic nations, as well as Australia and several of the Pacific Islands, have given proselytes to the faith; and almost all the old members of the Church are native born citizens of the Union, which still adds largely to the believers in the Latter-day dispensation.


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The Church is organized with a First Presidency; a Council of Twelve Apostles ; a Patriarch ; a quorum of High Priests of indefinite number; sixty-four quorums of Seventies ; an Elders' Quorum ; a Presidency of three and a High Council for each Stake of Zion; a Presiding Bishop for the Church with two Counselors ; a Bishop for each Ward; a Priests' quorum ; a Teachers' quorum ; and a Deacons' quorum.


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The present authorities of the Church are : - BRIGHAM YOUNG, President ; with George A. Smith, Daniel H. Wells, Lorenzo Snow, Brigham Young, Jr., Albert Carrington, John W. Young, Geo. Q. Cannon, as Counselors. Orson Hyde, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Orson Pratt, Sen., John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Chas. C. Rich, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, Franklin D. Richards, George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young, Jr., Joseph F. Smith, and Albert Carrington, members ; John Smith,


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Patriarch. Elias Smith, President of the High Priests' Quorum; Edward Snelgrove and Elias Morris, Counselors. Joseph Young, President of the first seven Presidents of the Seventies, and Levi W. Hancock, Henry Herriman, Albert P. Rockwood, Horace S. Eldredge, Jacob Gates and John Van Cott, members of the first seven Presidents of the Seventies. Edward Hunter, Presiding Bishop ; Leonard W. Hardy and Jesse C. Little, Counselors. Albert Carring- ton, Historian and General Church Recorder, and Wilford Woodruff, assistant.


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Planing Mill, Sash & Door Factory AND LUMBER YARD.


Dealers in Eastern and Western Panel Doors, Glazed Sash, Blinds and Mouldings.


LATH, SHINGLES, REDWOOD AND TRUCKEE LUMBER.


TAYLOR & CUTLER,


Dealers in


Dry Goods & Groceries,


PROVISIONS, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, CLOTHING, HARDWARE, STOVES, TINWARE, ETC.


EAST TEMPLE ST., SALT LAKE CITY.


TAYLOR'S HOTEL, :


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CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS OF UTAH.


1847. July 24 .- Pioneers, numbering 143 men, enter Salt Lake Valley, having left the Missouri river April 14th. The day of their arrival they commenced plowing and plant- ing potatoes. A thunder shower wet the ground slightly in the afternoon.


July 29 .- A portion of the " Mormon Battalion," num- bering about 150, under command of Captain Brown, arrive, having come from Pueblo to Fort Laramie, and thence west. They were accompanied by a party of immigrants from the State of Mississippi.


July 31 .- Great Salt Lake City laid out in square blocks of ten acres each, eight lots to the block, and streets eight rods wide, running at right angles. Latitude of northern boundary of Temple block, ascertained by meridian observa- tions of the sun by Prof. Orson Pratt, Sr., 40 deg., 45 min., 44 sec. Longitude, obtained by lunar distances, taken by the sextant and circle, 111 deg., 26 min., 34 sec., west of Greenwich. Altitude above sea level, 4,300 feet.


August 25 .- President Brigham Young and about seventy of the pioneers start east for " winter quarters " on the Missouri river, to assist their immigration forward.


August 26 .- The colonists had laid off a fort, built twenty- seven log houses, plowed and planted eighty-four acres with corn, potatoes, beans, buckwheat, turnips, etc., and had man- ufactured 125 bushels of salt.


1848. May 31 .- President Brigham Young organizes the immigrants of the faith coming west, at Winter Quarters, into companies for the journey. They numbered 1,891 souls, with 623 wagons.


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August 9 .- Great Salt Lake City fort contains 450 build- ings, with three saw-mills and a flouring mill in the city, and others in course of construction.


August 10 .- Feast given in Great Salt Lake City to cel- ebrate the first harvest gathered in the Great Basin.


September 20 .- President Young arrives with his com- pany. Davis and Weber counties settled.


1849. February 5 .- Mercury 33 deg. below zero in Great Salt Lake City.


March 8 .- Memorial sent to Congress for a State Gov- ernment.


March 9. - Election held under the Provisional Gov- ernment of the State of Deseret. Brigham Young elected Governor; Willard Richards, Secretary of State; N. K. Whitney, Treasurer; H. C. Kimball, Chief Justice ; John Taylor and N. K. Whitney, Associate Justices ; Daniel H. Wells, Attorney General ; Horace S. Eldredge, Marshal ; Albert Carrington, Assessor and Collector of Taxes; and' Joseph L. Heywood, Surveyor of Highways, etc. Magis- trates were also elected.


May 27 .- Parties from the east en route for the California gold mines first arrive.


August 28 .- Captain H. Stansbury arrives to commence his survey.


October 6 .- Perpetual Emigration Company organized.


Utah, Tooele, and Sanpete counties settled. First Indian war.


Deseret Dramatic Association organized. Robert Camp- bell, President. Re-organized again in 1850.


1850. February 22. - Earthquake shock felt in Great Salt Lake Valley.


June 15 .- Deseret News published.


July 4. -.- Parley's canon opened for travel under the - name of "The Golden Pass."


August 28 .- Captain Stansbury completes his survey.


September 9 .- Act of Congress, organizing Utah Terri- tory, approved.


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Ogden City located.


October .- Brigham Young appointed Governor of Utah Territory.


December S .- " Thirty families left Salt Lake city, in- cluding 118 men, with 600 head of stock and 101 wagons, led by Elder George A. Smith, and in January following arrived at and settled the county of Iron, by building a fort at Parowan."


Council House ready for occupation this fall.


1851. January 3 .- First criminal trial by jury held in the provisional State of Deseret.


January 11 .- Great Salt Lake City incorporated, Jedediah Morgan Grant, first Mayor.


Charters granted to Ogden, Provo, Manti and Parowan cities.


October 29 .- Fillmore City located as the seat of govern- ment for. and the capital of. Utah Territory.


Millard. Box Elder and Carson counties settled.


1852. January 16 .- Tabernacle, capable of seating nearly 3,000 persons. finished.


February 14 .- Territorial Legislature memorialize. Con- gress for a Pacific railroad and telegraph line.


July 27 .- Thermometer 127 deg. in the sun in Great Salt Lake City.


September 3 .- First company of P. E. Fund immigrants arrive from Europe with thirty-one wagons, A. O. Smoot, captain ; met by the First Presidency, Captain Wm. Pitt's band, and many leading citizens.


September 4 .- Treaty made with the chiefs of the Utes and Shoshones in Great Salt Lake City.


Juab and Washington counties settled ; the latter in the spring and the former in the fall.


Post offices established at American Fork, Springville and Payson, Utah county; Salt Creek (Nephi), Juab county ; and Fillmore City, Millard county.


1853. February 14 .- The ground for the Temple, in Temple Block, consecrated.


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April 6 .- Corner stones of Temple laid.


Angust 29 .- Resolution adopted by city council, in com- pliance with expressed request of the inhabitants, to build a Spanish wall around Great Salt Lake City. The wall was twelve feet high ; six feet thick at base, tapering to two feet and six inches, six feet from the ground, and preserving that thickness to the top. It was about nine miles in length.


September 26. - Captain J. W. Gunnison, U. S. Topo- graphical Engineers, and seven men, killed by Indians near the swamps of the Sevier, twenty miles from the Sevier river, in revenge for killing an Indian and the wounding of two others by a company of immigrants for California.


Second Indian war.


Social Hall erected.


Summit and Green River counties settled.


1854. January 7th .- John C. Fremont with nine whites and twelve Delaware Indians, arrived at Parowan in a state of starvation. One man had fallen dead from his horse near the settlement, and others were nearly dead. Animals and provisions were supplied, and after resting to the 20th, they departed.


March 11 .- Dr. Willard Richards, second Counselor to President Young, and editor of the Deseret News, died.


May 23 .- Patriarch John Smith died.


April 7 .- Jedediah M. Grant chosen Counselor in place of Willard Richards.


July .- Grasshoppers make their appearance and do much damage.


Deseret alphabet produced.


Seventies' Hall built.


1855. January 1 .- Iron made by the Deseret Iron Company.


January 20 .- Walker, the celebrated Utah Chief, died at Meadow Creek.


July 1 .- Molasses made from beet at the sugar factory.


September .- Deseret Horticultural Society organized.


Various societies organized during the early part of the


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year, among which, and most prominent, were the " Univer- sal Scientific Society," the "Polysophical Society," " Deseret Philharmonic Society," and " Deseret Typographical Asso- ciation."


Grasshoppers do serious damage to crops, destroying nearly everthing green in many parts of the Territory.


Morgan county settled.


1856. January 26 .- Express carrying company organ- ized to carry express from Missouri River to California, and shares taken to stock a thousand miles of the road at a mass meeting held in Great Salt Lake City.


March 17 .- Convention met in Great Salt Lake City to prepare constitution and memorial to Congress for admission as a State.


March 27 .- Constitution and memorial adopted ; George A. Smith and John Taylor elected Delegates to present them to Congress.


September 26 .- First hand-cart companies arrive under charge of Captains Edmund Ellsworth and D. D. McArthur. They were met by the First Presidency of the Church, a brass band, a company of lancers, and a large concourse of influential citizens.




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