Show christopher LAYTON FAD DD A great colonizer A successful financier A prominent ecole eccle 1 liast P foor mans friend christopher layton lay ton sr whose illness has been mentioned from time to time in the clipper passed peacefully away at the home of his son in law levi taylor in kaysville gaysville Kays gays ville on sunday evening august r ath at half past ten deceased was ailing about a year an and d a half and over five fire weeks had passed since lie ho was operated upon for two or three weeks after the operation was performed he improved in health but finally bronchial trou brou A N J sj it 7 r av I 1 SR bles set in 1 which to together 0 ether with the long illness and the operation were more than even his hia aron 0 constitution could endure deceased was a wonderful man wid and seemed especially fitted for pioneer life he was intelligent industrious and persevering had good Ju judgment dament 0 and great fore si sight 0 ht would make an abundance 0 ol 01 I 1 money where others would never think of trying t and yet he never robbed the poor man to do it in fact it was just the opposite he was the poor mans best friend he was always giving him work and opposed rings and trusts and other combines that were calculated to rob the hard working classes the following will illustrate this principle quite a number of years ago a number of prominent business men came to him in the tall fall of the year and wanted him to join them in buying 0 up all the wheat at a bushel explaining to him that in addition to making 0 a profit on the grain they would get a rebate of 25 for every car that ivas as shipped out of the coun country af after ter hearing their story he be replied he was not in with any such a ring and told his men to toll tell the people that he would pay a bushel for wheat this meant a big 0 saving C for the farmer besides beside giving employment to builders in erecting storage houses As a colonizer he be ranks forc most abou amou among ts pioneers he began his labors on this line in kaysville Kays ville early in the fifties he was called to carson valley nevada in 1856 to assist in the settlement tILI ment of that country and he built the first house in 1 V valley A great deal of quartz rock was afterwards foundoe found on 1 the farm which he had taken up me ile remained here less than a year and a half he was th the e first man to tako take up sandridge land and if it had bad not boon been for him probably davis countes coun tys great g min grain bolt bol would not have been farmed for several years after it ryas as or gr perhaps not up to the present Preel lt time at one time he threshed bushels of grain on oil the Ean sandridge dandridge dridge and bushels of lucern seed at this time lu ill corn seed fold at a bit a pound sixteen years ago lie was called to go to arizona to settle up the country where lie he made his home I 1 until he came up here five or si six x weeks ago christopher layton sr was a native of england being born at Thorne Thorn cot ot Bedford shire march 8 1821 at the age 11 two he left his old home and emigrated to america arriving in nauvoo in april 1843 here in september of 1815 1845 18 15 his wife died he went to california with the mormon battalion B at being honorably discharged at los angeles Anc Z reles on july 1847 lie he remained in the state of the setting za sun in the vicinity of sutter s mill where the gold digging 0 was going ou on 1 until the spring ca of 1850 he never du dug 0 00 gold ld himself but he managed to get lots of it by trading horses with the spaniards ds while there he broke his leg and durin during 3 the time he was laid up he le learned a arned the e spanish language lan guge the reason he was so successful in horse trading was probably due to the fact that that when he was a boy he was a horse keeper and understood all about that animal he left the coast in march of 1850 and sailed around south america landing M in england where he spent the summer while here he married sarah martin who accompanied him to st louis mo tor for which place they started in september much aluch of his california gold dust was used to emi emirate emigrate 0 rate saints he stop pod near st louis and rented a farm one year employing some of the emigrants ra to work it but this did not prove to be very profitable arrived in utah september 3rd ard 1852 he was a very useful man in an ecclesiastical capacity lie he embraced mormonism at the age of twenty one in his native country and was a staunch latter day saint up to the time of his death he was made bishop of kaysville Kays ville in 1862 in which capacity he served faithfully for fifteen years until the davis stake was organized when lie he was chosen first counselor to pres win R smith he was president of the st josephs stake in arizona from the time he went down there until january 1898 when he was released and ordained a patriarch politically he be served the people two terms in the utah legislature 1 and a term or two as county selectman was one of the first directors of the old utah central rai rail 1 I road during the seventy seven years of his life he cr erected acted a great many buildings buil din s of all kinds from granaries to gristmills grist mills he and wm win nixon are credited with driving ra tho the first wa wagon on over the sierra nevada mountains from Hang town cal to carson nevada at one time he be was the largest tx taxpayer payer in davis county and is distin distinguished 0 dished as having the largest 0 or r second largest family in the mormon church havin having 0 been the father of sixty five children and grandchildren two towns bear his name funeral services will be held bield in the kaysville Kays ville meeting 0 house tomorrow august |