Show LORIN FARR Of Ogden was born in the town of Waterford Caledonia county state of Vermont July 27 1820 He TV as among the first to reach the < then Great Salt Lake valley arriving here in the summer sum-mer of 1847 He lived in Salt Lake city until the spring of 1S50 when he I moved to Ogden Was the first major ever elected In Ogden holding that office for ten consecutive terms twenty years and six years after was again elected mayor Was a member of the territorial legislature for twentyeight years In the latter part of 1868 in connection with Ezra T Benson and Chanucey TV West he took a contract to build and do the grading of ZOO miles of railroad west of Ogden for the Central Pacific Railroad company and finished the contract in the spring of 186 > > He was an Intimate friend of I Governor Leland Stanford and well acquainted with nearly all the Central Pacific railway officials also the Union Pacific officials such as Sidney DIllon Jay Gould the Ames Duff fmd many others 31r Farr helped to get up the first memorial to Congress to appoint a commission to look out a route for a LOlWi r railrad Across the continent showing TJpihetgTeatradvaTitag s > fthe sam to the government He has been a front fron-t rm nanaa pioneerof this western country almost since Chicago was a small town Well acquainted with an Indian and frontier life Mr Parr has always been a staunch Democrat and from his experience as indicated above he Tvlll make a very able member mem-ber of the constitutional convention |