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Show g 3- ond ward held a social iue&uuy Nielsen, afternoon with President Pearl and Second nresidine Eugene Olsen Jhls,comment,j:omes all Anoint! iciuiitwu the that summer primary will J Box Elder County Seat Bears His Name - ft t ' 't - named here,. cooperative end Manufacturing Mr-cantil- e as- ' sociation. vi Successful United Order Organized by Lorenzo Snow In 1863 at request of Brigham Young, the United Order encompassed virtually all of the business and agricultural life of the new community for more than 13 years. According to existing reports of the orders operation, people lived within it happily and It was and cooperatively, notably successful. The United Order operated between 30 and 40 industrial branches, and the community s was about growing and manufacof all turing that percentage the various necessities and luxuries used in the lives of the people living here. In 18T5, the and Brigham City Mercantile Manufacturing associations products reached about $260,000 In value. Along about this time similar communities later to grow Into towns and cities were being established or colonized by order of Brigham Young through out the state. A vigorous and active man, with interests running through every phase of life in the territory be colonized, Brigham Young visited in all parts of the state frequently, counseling with the communities leaders, speaking to their - : ' v five-sixth- Cover Pcfare - Shows Bex Elder in mi-m- i The cover picture u . poeite photograph of u City, with the Wautch tains towering in and of pioneers in a train approaching ft, It is meant to depict in 1851 and 1951 the centennial year. Th.! Bridge trader, shot of Brigham Cit taken by Fred Pierson. people. Last Address Hers But bis namesake jumbled tural gu the Roc j discover ocean, Si city fo discover! distinction of having beard last public address, and memorial park on west street, between Second Third west streets, cornu ates this address and mark on the is now toil F Stiver an scene. A simple monument ao back of d reflecting pool a bronze plaque with a bia lief of the great colonizer, the following inscription: I "Erected in honor o( V ham Young in conuneo tion of the outstanding m he rendered the Internum at the he lake, iger Bay I Mi: area and mm: camped flowed ;y iger know was West as patriot planus onizer, . church leader, statesman. On this pis ground. August 18, 1UJ, delivered his last public dress when he orgsnint Box Elder stake," A AA Ct Brigham Young, honored Mormon spiritual leader, pioneer and first territorial governor of Utah, was president of the L.D.S. church when Brigham City was founded and named in his honor. Today a small city of some 7,000 population, Brigham City is the center of a thriving fruit industry, is famous for its peaches, and has a modest but sound economy based on agricultural, horticultural, poultry and livestock production, along with several smaller industries. well-varie- d BRIGHAM CITY, FIRST SETTLED IN 1849, WAS NAMED IN HONOR OF UTAHS GREAT COLONIZER "United Order" Operated Here In Early Days Visitors to Utah from any where in the world puzzled as they may be at such strange town names as Nephl, Moroni, Manti, Ephraim and the like never need inquire as to the origin of the name Brigham City. Brigham Young, great spiritual econ- leader, pioneer, colonizer, omist and political leader, first territorial governor of Utah, was well known throughout the world, in his day and through history to succeeding generations. Everyone can guess, and that Brigham City correctly, was named in his honor. In 1849, two years after Brigham Young uttered his famous this is the place prephesy, William Davis came from Salt Lake City to locate a homestead, early histories of Brig ham City and Box Elder county relate. He returned to Salt Lake City for the winter, and in 1850 brought his family and located his permanent year-aroun- d The Picture . The above picture of Brigham Young Is from an old photographic picture postcard which was popular with Utahns an dtourists to this state about the turn of the century. Copyrighted by W. A. Morton, on the picture side of the card is the legend, Brigham Young, born June , died August 29, 1877, and on the reverse. In addition to the postcard markins, This card is a real photograph, on bromide paper. The Rotograph Co., N. Y. City. Printed in Germany. 1, 1801, home here. Mathias and his family; William Thomas Pierce and IMeritt P. Thomas (possibly Tippets) Rockwell came about this time and his family; Simeon A. Dunn; and in the following year eight William Harris; John Gibbs and families moved to the new set- his family; four families of the tlement, including the Cliffords, Ristons; William Dee and his the Dees, Ell H. Pierce and family; Jefferson Wright and his family; David Peters and his George F. TIamson. First Child family, and the family of HenReputedly the first child bom ry Boothe. in the colony that later was to City Is Laid Out become Brigham Lorenzo Snow was called to City was George F. Hamson, Jr., who first take families to make their saw the light of day in Decem- homes at Box Elder, as the settlement was known, after the ber, 1851. During the first two years of fall conference in 1854. When the settlement of Brigham City he arrived he commenced laya band of more than 500 Indians ing out the 'city, with the help threatened from time to time, of Jesse W. Fox. After the comand for the protection of the pletion of their work, most of people a fort known as Davis which stands today in the citys Fort, was built with William streets, the city was named Davis as its presiding officer. Brigham, in honor of Brigham About this time Porter Rock- Young. well took up Porter springs, on Other early settlers, according Three-Mil- e to the records of the time creek. Area Surveyed and first residents of Brigham The country was surveyed by City were Mathew W. Dalton, Jesse W. Fox In 1851 when it Lewis N. Boothe, Jonah Mathias was part of Weber county. In Peter Greenhalgh D. W. Wal the spring of the following ker, Barbara T. Walker, Rebecca year, the Indians having ceas- Thom, John Merrell, Bertha ed to be so hostile, the farmers Wells, Christian Olsen, Lewis J, moved out of the fort and took Johnson, Simeon Carter, Sr., up their farms according to the Charles W. Hubbard, John survey. Woodward, James Whitaha, Sr In the summer of 1853 Brig Martin R. Ensign, William P. ham Young, president of the L. Tippets (possibly Thomas S.) D. S. church, ordered the fam- Cyril Call, Homer Call, Omer ilies again to build and enter a Call and Jonathan Wells. fort for protection from the In- of these names are familiarMany here dians. This time the fort was today, borne by the third, fourth about two blocks west of the and fifth generation of descen present center of Brigham City. dants of these pioneers. Jason A list of families who lived Wells and Sarah Gibbs Baty in this second fort included also are recorded as William Davis and his sons, among the earliest white being babies mother and daughters; Eli born in Brigham. Pierce and his family; It is significent that the town Harvey Cadwalander Owens and his named in his honor most sue family; Benjamin Thomas; Rich- cessfully established and carard Jones and his family; Cap ried out Brigham Youngs dream tain David R. 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