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Show Jou 'Lake City's' First Mayor es Interesting Historical Notes Contaily his-I his-I tory of lot the state, thlrd E. Harringte Jan- church in 1840. In 1842 he, with his wife, removed to Nauvoo. Following the period of persecution against the church members, and the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, Leon- many responsible ofices in Utah, and that he was a wise counselor and lawmaker in the legislature. The journal contains many interesting inter-esting incidents in the pioneering uary issitorical Quarterly Historical His-torical S The jol for publicatic Harrington, Har-rington, unent civic lead The journal, vjy as originally i few rearrangeinary record, sirhout a misspel-am-, matical st Dealing year ; events frcwas first settle and " written bsbly was most day affairs of 5 of great histaer-ican histaer-ican Fork. The autng-, autng-, ton, was tew Lisbon. N ' 18i6. He .nd 1 poilv Evaited to the L. he ard E. Harrington and family joined with the other pioneers in the migration mi-gration to Utah, arriving here in September of 1847. In the fall of 1850, the family moved to American Fork, and in May of 1851 the ward of American Fork was organized, with Mr. Harrington Har-rington as bishop and Asa Adams and James Guyman as counselors. In 1852 Bishop Harrington was elected elect-ed a member of the House of Representatives Rep-resentatives of the Territory. He became American Fork's first mayor, at the first election in July of 1853. He was also appointed postmaster in 1851. His life was one of activity in church and secular affairs. He served 29 consecutive years as mayor, and 29 consecutive years as a member mem-ber of the Territorial legislature; also as Bishop, postmaster, school trustee and in a number of other executive ex-ecutive positions. Wilford Woodruff, the Historical Quarterly editor relates, said no man had ever more completely filled so and building of Utah, as well as comments on affairs of national scope. Of particular interest is the entry concerning Bishop Harrington's Harring-ton's removal to American Fork: "In the fall of 1850, we moved to American Fork in Utah Valley, Utah County Lived in a tent till we COUK lild a house which we did n.oved into it about Christmas, rmed through the summer of 1851. Our ward of American Fork was organized in May of this year and I was chosen President and Bishop. I chose Asa Adams and James Guy-mon Guy-mon counselors. At the August election I was elected justice of the peace for American Fork precinct. . . "At the August election of 1852 I was elected a member of the house of Representatives of the Territory of Utah for the County of Utah. I was also ordained a High Priest and Bishop under the hands of Edward Hunter, Presiding Bishop. William Greenwood had previously been (Continued on Page 8) |