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January 9 .- Great Salt Lake City incorporated.
January II .- First municipal election took place at Great Salt Lake City. Jedediah M. Grant was chosen Mayor.
Shortly after this, charters were granted to Ogden, Provo, Manti and Parowan Cities.
April 5 .- General Assembly of the Provisional State of Deseret dis- solved.
April 7 .- It was decided to build a temple in Great Salt Lake City.
Edward Hunter appointed to succeed to the office of N. K. Whitney, deceased, as Presiding Bishop of the Church.
September 23 .- First Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory met in Great Salt Lake City.
October 29 .- Fillmore City located as the seat of government for and the capital of Utah Territory.
During the latter part of this year. Millard County was settled by Anson Call and thirty families; Box Elder by Simeon A. Carter and others; Carson County (now Nevada), by Col. John Reese; and Juab County by Joseph L. Heywood and others, who located at Nephi.
1852. January 16 .- Tabernacle, capable of sitting 3,000 persons, finished.
February 14 .- Territorial Legislature memorialize Congress for a Pacific railroad and telegraph line.
In the spring of this year John D. Lee settled in Washington County. on Ash Creek, which is now the site of Harmony, Kane County.
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April 6 .- The "Old Tabernacle" dedicated. It was 126 feet long, 64 feet wide, with arched roof and no pillar supports. It faced the south; was razed a few years back, and on its site the Assembly Hall now stands.
July 27 .- Thermometer 127' in the sun in Great Salt Lake City.
August 29 .- The revelation concerning plural marriage was first pub- licly promulgated.
September 3 .- First company of Perpetual Emigration Fund immi- grants arrived from Europe, 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. January 1 .- The Social Hall, built during the previous year, was dedicated.
February 14 .- The Temple Block consecrated, and ground broken for the foundation of the Temple.
April 6 .- Corner stones of Temple laid.
August 29 .- Resolution adopted by City Council, in compliance 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, taper- ing 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. Topographical Engin- eer, 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 wound- ing of two others by a company of emigrants for California.
Second Indian war.
It was in this year that President Young purchased a grant for thirty square miles of land and some cabins from a Mexican named Bridger, which was located as a supply fort. It was the location of Green River county, at one time a portion of Utah.
Summit County was also settled this year by Samuel Snider who built saw mills in Parley's Park.
1854. January 7 .- 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.
April 7 .- Jededialı M. Grant chosen Counselor in place of Willard Richards.
May 23. - Patriarch John Smith died.
July .- Grasshoppers make their first appearance and do much damage. August 15 .- Wall around the Temple block completed.
The Deseret Alphabet was produced this year ; and the old Seventies Hall was built.
Difficulties with the Ute Indians continued during this year, result- ing in the loss of many lives and the destruction of much property ; and inade it necessary for persons to gather into settlements for mutual pro- tection.
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1855. January 1 .- Iron made by the Deseret Iron Company.
January 20 .- Walker, the celebrated Utah Chief, died at Meadow Creek. In the spring of this year Morgan County was settled by Jedediah M. Grant, Thos. Thurston and others.
May 5 .- The Endowment House was consecrated.
July 1 .- Molasses made from beet at the sugar factory.
September .- Deseret Horticultural Society organized.
Various societies organized during the early part of the year, among which, and most prominent, were the "Universal Scientific Society," the "Polysophical Society," "Deseret Philharmonic Society," and "Deseret Typographical Association."
October 29 .- In the thirteenth general epistle of the First Presidency of the Church, it was proposed that those of the faith emigrated by the Perpetual Emigration fund, should cross the plains in hand-carts.
December 10 .- The Territorial Legislative Assembly met at Fillmore, the new seat of government; for the first time. In this month the Legis- lature, by act, authorized an election of delegates to attend a Territorial convention, the object of which was to draft a state constitution, and peti- tion Congress for the admission of Utah into the Union.
During the Summer grasshoppers do serious damage to crops, destroy- ing nearly everything green in many parts of the Territory. The loss and suffering was aggravated by drought, the combined evils causing a great failure in crops.
1856. January 26 .- Express carrying company organized 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 consti- tution 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.
December 1 .- Jedediah M. Grant died.
December 8 .- Legislature met in Fillmore, organized and adjourned to Great Salt Lake City.
December 18 .- Legislature met in the Social Hall, Great Salt Lake City.
In this year Cache Valley was settled by Peter Maughan and others, who located what is now known as Wellsville. Beaver County was settled the same year by Simeon Howd and thirteen others from Parowan.
The Winter of 1856-7 was excessively severe, snow falling to a depth of eight feet in places in the valleys.
1857. January 4 .- Daniel H. Wells chosen second Counselor to' President B. Young, in place of J. M. Grant.
April 23 .- Company of about seventy missionaries start and cross the plains east with hand-carts, making the trip in forty-eight days.
July II .- Alfred Cumming, of Georgia, appointed Governor of Utah.
July 24 .- Judge Stoddard arrives without the mails, the postmaster at Independence having received orders not to forward them. General Har- ney, with two thousand infantry and a proportionate number of artillery and cavalry, ordered to Utah.
August 7 .- First part of the "Army of Utah," consisting of the Tenth Infantry and Phelps' Battery, arrive at Fort Kearney.
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September 8 .- Captain Van Vliet, of General Harney's staff, arrived in Great Salt Lake City and held a conference with President Young.
September 9 .- Mountain Meadow massacre.
September 15 .- Territory declared under martial law by Governor Young; troops forbidden to enter Great Salt Lake Valley. Militia stationed at Echo Canyon and other points to intercept soldiers and prevent their access to the valley.
November .- The United States army, under General Johnston, reach Fort Bridger and take possession of the supply fort of Mormons on Green River.
Emigration of members of the Mormon faith takes place this Fall from San Bernardino, California.
During this year the so-called Reformation among members of the Lat- ter-day Saint faith takes place.
1858. January 16. - Mass meeting of citizens of Great Salt Lake City held in the Tabernacle; a petition to Congress drawn up and resolutions setting forth the condition of affairs in Utah adopted and both ordered for- warded to Washington.
February 24 .- Col. Thos. L. Kane arrives in Great Salt Lake City by way of California; has an interview with President Young; leaves for Fort Bridger where he meets Governor Cumming.
March 21 .- The citizens of Great Salt Lake City and the settlements north of it agree to abandon their homes and go south, all the information derived from eastern papers being that the approaching formidable army was sent to destroy them. Destination, when starting, supposed to be Sonora.
April 10 .- Governor A. Cumming and Col. T. L. Kane, with a servant each, having left the "Army of Utah" to proceed to Salt Lake City, arrive with an escort of Mormons whom they accidentally meet on the way.
April 15 .- Governor Cumming reports having arrived and been treated everywhere "with respectful attention."
April 19 .- Governor Cumming and Col. Kane visit the Utah Library, where J. W. Cummings showed them the records and seal of the United States District Court, said to have been burnt up, which was one of the reasons why the army was ordered to Utah.
May .- Citizens of Utah, residing north of Utah County, leave their homes and travel to the south. A few men remain in each settlement, who, it is supposed, were instructed to burn homes, and everything else, in the event that the approaching troops should prove hostile.
June 7 .- L. W. Powell, of Kentucky, and Ben Mccullough, of Texas, Peace Commissioners, arrive in Great Salt Lake City.
June II .- Peace Commissioners hold session, in Council House, Presi- dent Young and others present.
June 26. - Col. Johnston and army pass through Great Salt Lake, and camp on west side of Jordan River. Later on the army proceeded to Cedar Valley and located Camp Floyd, so named still.
July .- The greater part of the people who had abandoned their homes because of the approach of the army, returned and resumed their accus- tomed labors.
In the Spring of 1858 Kane County was settled by J. T. Willis, who located at Toquerville. In the Fall of the same year Nephi Johnson and six others located at Virgin City.
Florence, Wyoming, was this year made the outfitting point for emi- grants crossing the plains for Utah.
1859. March 8 .- Provo occupied by United States troops.
March 27 .- Governor Cumming issued a proclamation against presence
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of troops in Provo. About this time report of a conspiracy on the part of United States officials to secure the arrest of President Young gained cre- dence, together with the intimation that Col. Johnston had promised the assistance of United States troops under his command to effect the arrest. As a consequence Governor Cumming notified General D. H. Wells to hold the militia in readiness to prevent the outrage should it be attempted; and 5,000 troops were placed under arms.
April 4 .- United States troops evacuate Provo.
August 15 .- United States soldiers reported to have set fire to a hay stack at Cedar Fort, and fired upon the citizens in the night.
· November .- Cache Valley organized as a Stake of Zion with Peter Maughan as president thereof.
1860. May .- Main portion of United States troops located at Camp Floyd, leave for Arizona and New Mexico.
August 26 .- Geo. Q. Cannon ordained a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
1861. April 26 .- Two hundred wagons, with four yoke of cattle each, carrying about 15,000 lbs. of flour, started for the Missouri River to bring on the poor of the immigration.
October 3 .- John W. Dawson appointed Governor of Utah.
October 18 .- First telegram crosses the overland wire, from Utah, sent to President Abraham Lincoln by President Brigham Young.
October 24 .- First telegram sent to San Francisco by President Brigham Young.
In the Fall of 1861, Col. Johnston and remainder of his army, located at Camp Floyd, were ordered to the States on account of the war that had broken out between the North and South. It is estimated that something like $4,000,000 worth of Government property, as a consequence, was dis- posed of for about $100,000.
Quite a large number of persons were called to move southward and settle the southern part of the Territory, and they located on the Rio Virgen and Santa Clara Rivers. Thus St George was located, and that section soon attained considerable prominence.
December 7 .- John W. Dawson, appointed Governor of Utah in place of Alfred Cumming, arrives in Great Salt Lake City.
1862. January 22 .- Constitution again adopted, with memorial for admission of Utah as a State, with the name of "Deseret." George Q. Cannon and W. H. Hooper elected to present them to Congress.
March 6 .- Salt Lake Theatre dedicated.
March 31 .- Stephen S. Harding appointed Governor of Utah.
May 21 .- Two hundred and sixty-two wagons, 293 teamsters, 2,880 oxen, carrying 143,315 lbs. of flour, sent from Utah to assist the poor of the immigration across the plains and mountains.
June 12 to 15 .- R. T. Burton, with posse, went to the Morrisite Camp on Weber River to arrest leaders for depredations. Camp resists, but after three days' siege, surrenders. Morris, Banks and four other Morrisites are killed, with two of the posse, caused by an attempt at resistance after the surrender had occurred.
June 16 .- Morrisites brought to Salt Lake City as prisoners.
July I .- Anti-polygamy law passed by Congress.
July 7 .- Stephen S. Harding, fourth Governor of Utah, arrives in Great Salt Lake City.
December 10 .- Governor Harding delivers his annual message, extra copies of which the Legislature will not publish, viewing it as insulting.
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1863. January 29 .- Col. P. E. Connor attacks a band of Shoshone Indians in a ravine near Bear River, and defeats them. Known as Bear River battle.
March 3 .- A mass meeting held in the Tabernacle, at which protests were entered against the course pursued by Governor Harding, and Judges Drake and Wait. A petition asking for their removal was drawn up and forwarded to President Lincoln.
President Young was arrested this month under the anti-polygamy law of 1862.
March 22 .- Overland mail, with four passengers, attacked by Indians near Eight Mile Station, Tooele County. Driver killed and one passenger wounded. Judge Mott, who was in the coach, took the reins, drove for life and escaped.
April 5 .- Battle of Spanish Fork Canyon, between 140 cavalry (C. V.,) under Col. G. S. Evans, and 200 Indians. Lieut. F. A. Teale was killed. The Indians were defeated.
May 18 .- Three hundred and eighty-four wagons, 488 teamsters, 3,604 oxen, taking 225,969 lbs. flour, start to assist the poor of the immigration. Four thousand three hundred pounds of Utah grown cotton sent East for sale with the teams dispatched to assist the immigration.
June .- Jas. D. Doty, appointed to succeed Stephen S. Harding, as Gov- ernor of Utah Territory, arrives in Great Salt Lake City.
During this year Rich County, in Bear Lake Valley, was settled by C. C. Rich. Wasatch County was also settled the same year.
1864. July 4 .- Daily Telegraph issued; T. B. H. Stenhouse, propri- etor and editor ; semi-weekly issued October 8, same year.
This year the Perpetual Emigration Company sent 170 wagons, 1,717 oxen, and 277 men to assist in the emigration of the poor from the Missouri to Utah.
1865. January .- Sevier and Piute Counties organized.
April 10 .- Proposition made to build a telegraph line in Utah.
June 5 .- Treaty made by Col. O. H. Irish with the principal Indian chiefs in the Territory, at Spanish Fork Reservation Farm.
June 8 .- Hon. Schuyler Colfax and party arrive.
June 11 .- Colfax and party address the citizens in front of the Salt Lake House.
June 13 .- Governor Doty died.
July 15 .- Chas. Durkee appointed Governor of Utah.
July 24 .- Hon. J. M. Ashley addressed an audience in the Bowery, at the celebration on the Territorial anniversary.
October 7 .- Chas. Durkee, Utah's sixth Governor, arrives in Great Salt Lake City.
October 8 .- First issue of the Deseret News, semi-weekly.
November .- First Hebrew marriage celebrated in Salt Lake City.
Construction of Deseret Telegraph line commenced this year.
1866. January 1 .- First number Juvenile Instructor appeared; Geo. Q. Cannon editor.
May 31 .- First circumcision of Hebrew child in Salt Lake City.
June 11 .- Indian war. General Wells and militia start for Sanpete to protect the settlements there.
December 2 .-- Deseret Telegraph Line operated between Logan and St. George.
1867. July 19 .- Grasshoppers arrive in vast quantities.
October 6 .- First conference held in new Tabernacle.
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October 8 .- Jos. F. Smith appointed to fill vacancy in quorum of Twelve Apostles, caused by the apostasy of Amasa M. Lyman.
November 21 .- First number of Deseret Evening News appears.
The Union Pacific was completed as far as Julesbuig this year and emigrants traveled by rail to that point.
1868. January 29 .- Act approved changing the names of Great Salt Lake City and County to Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County.
June .- Union Iron Company commence operations at Pinto, Iron County.
June 19 .-- Ground broken on the Union Pacific Railroad in Weber Canyon.
June 22 .- Heber C. Kimball, First Counselor to President Young, died.
October 6 .- George A. Smith chosen First Counselor in place of Heber C. Kimball.
October 8 .- Brigham Young, Jr., set apart as a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
October 16 .- Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution was founded in Salt Lake City, with Brigham Young as president. Co-op. Stores were shortly after opened in most of the towns and settlements of the Territory.
1869. January .- First General Directory of Salt Lake City compiled by E. L. Sloan.
February .- Co-operative merchandising introduced in Utah by Presi- dent Brigham Young.
March 8 .- University of Deseret opens in Council House.
May 10 .- Completion of the great Pacific Railroad ; last rail laid and last spike driven at Promontory, Utah.
May 17 .- Ground broken at Ogden for the Utah Central Railroad.
May 25 .- First company of immigrants arrive in Ogden over the Union Pacific Railroad, in charge of Elias Morris.
July 25 .- First shipment of Utah ore, being ten tons from the Monitor and Magnet mine, Little Cottonwood, shipped by Woodhull Bros. to T. H. Selby, San Francisco, $32.50 per ton being paid for freighting it to Uintah on the Union Pacific Railroad.
July 31 .- Woodhull Bros. make the first shipment of Utah copper ore, ten tons, from the Kingston mine, Bingham canyon.
August .- Grasshoppers destroy a large portion of the growing crops in Cache, Washington, Kane, and Iron Counties; other parts of the Territory escape the visitation and gather abundant crops.
September 3 .- Apostle E. T. Benson died at Ogden, Utah.
October 7 .- Mass meeting held in Salt Lake City, with a view of again appealing to Congress for the admission of Utah as a State.
October 8 .- One hundred and ninety Mormon missionaries called at the General Conference in Salt Lake City to go to the different States of the Union and preach.
October 31 .- Indian raid on town of Kanara, Kane County.
The Mormon emigration from Europe to Utah during this year was about 3,000.
1870. January 1 .- First number Ogden Junction issued.
Weekly Tribune newspaper issued.
January 10 .- Last rail of the Utah Central Railroad laid and last spike driven, at Salt Lake City, by President Brigham Young, in presence of 15,000 people.
January 12 .- Woodhull Bros. ship the first car-load of ore over the Utah Central Railroad.
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January 13 .- Large mass meeting of and speeches by Mormon women, in the Old Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, to protest against the passage of the Cullom anti-polygamy bill.
February 12 .- Woman suffrage bill, passed by the Utah Legislature, is approved by Acting-Governor S. A. Mann, and becomes law.
March 29 .- J. Wilson Shaffer, recently appointed Governor of Utah, arrives.
April 27 .- Patriarch John Young, President Young's oldest brother, died in Salt Lake City.
May 12 .- Amasa M. Lyman, once a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, is excommunicated for apostasy.
June 5 .- First number Salt Lake Daily Herald issued, W. C. Dunbar and E. L. Sloan publishers; Edward L. Sloan editor.
June 23 .- Fifteen wagons loaded with machinery for a woolen factory at Beaver, leave Salt Lake City.
June .- During this month the potato bug made its appearance, but caused no serious injury.
July 3 .- Albert Carrington was ordained one of the Twelve Apostles.
July 13 .- Lady Franklin visited Salt Lake City, while on the return from searching for her husband, the lost Sir John.
July 18 .- Reported that the Uintah Agency was attacked by the Tabby- wache Indians, from the White River Reservation.
July 24 .- Hon. Wm. H. Hooper received an ovation on his return from Washington. Crowds met the train bearing him from Ogden to Salt Lake, at each station, and the demonstrations of approval were most pro- nounced.
July .- S. A. Mann, Secretary, and C. C. Wilson, Chief Justice of Utah, removed by President Grant, Jas. B. McKean being appointed Chief Justice, and Vernon H. Vaughan, Secretary.
August 12 .- Discussion on polygamy between Rev. J. P. Newman, Chaplain of the United States Senate, and Elder Orson Pratt, of the Mor- mon Twelve Apostles, commences in the New Tabernacle in Salt Lake City and continues three days.
August 13 .- S. D. Woodhull, of the firm of Woodhull Bros., the ear- liest active mining operators in Utah, was shot in Little Cottonwood, in a difficulty over a claim. He died the evening of the 14th.
August 27 .- The establishment of Paul Englebrecht was broken up, and his stock of liquors destroyed under authority of the City because he sold without a license.
August 28 .- Martin Harris, one of the "witnesses" to the Book of Mormon, arrived in Salt Lake City. He was 88 years old.
August 30 .- Judge Jas. B. Mckean arrived in Salt Lake.
September 1 .- First issue of the Salt Lake Herald, semi-weekly edition.
September 7 .- Jas. B. Mckean entered upon his duties as Chief Justice of the Territory.
September 9 .- Jones & Robbins began the erection of smelting works on the State Road.
September 15 .- Gov. J. W. Shaffer issued a proclamation appointing P. Edward Connor Major General of the Utah militia, and Wm. M. Johns Assistant Adjutant General. On the same day he issued a proclama- tion prohibiting all drills, musters and militia gatherings except upon his order or that of the United States Marshal; also ordering the delivery of all arms belonging to the Territory of Utah or the United States-except in the possession of United States soldiers-to Col. Wm. M. Johns.
September 19 .- Judge Mckean decided that the United States Marshal for Utah was a United States and not a Territorial officer, hence the summons
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of the grand jury by the Territorial Marshal was illegal and the jury con- sequently an illegal body.
September 20 .- First run of crude bullion at the first smelting works built in Utah, erected six miles south of Salt Lake by Woodhull Brothers. .
October 12 .- Hon. Vincent Colyer, Secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners, Washington, D. C., visited Salt Lake City in the interest of Indian affairs.
October 12 .- The Old Arsenal building, Salt Lake City, was burned to the ground. Incendiary.
October 14 .- A scientific exploring party from Yale Collage under direction of Professor Marsh arrived in Salt Lake City.
October 31 .- J. Wilson Shaffer, Governor of Utah, died at his resi- dence in Salt Lake City.
November 4 .- Prof. Hayden, United States Geologist, arrived at Salt Lake City.
November 4 .-- Howland's Crushing and Sampling Works were started in Salt Lake City.
November 8 .- General Chas. A. Washburn, United States Minister to Paraguay, and Hon. Alvin Handers, Governor of Washington Territory, visited Salt Lake City.
November 23 .- The "wooden gun rebellion" occurs. Messrs. C. R. Savage, Geo. M. Ottinger, John C. Graham, and others are arrested for treason and confined at Camp Douglas.
December 14 .- Senator Stewart, of Nevada, offered a resolution in the United States Senate asking the President to inform the Senate how much it had cost the Government to guard the overland route, from the annexa- tion of California to 1864, from attacks of Indians and Mormons.
December 21 .- Ex-Governor Mann and a party left Salt Lake City to represent the mining interests of Utah before the San Francisco Board of Commerce.
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