Show I SOME LIVING PIONEER The distinction of having driven l the first team into the Great Salt Lake valley belongs Mr Joseph Egbert who resides with his family in Kuysville He crossed the plains with the first company of pioneers under Brigham Young and entered the valley on July 22 tw9 days in advance of the president presi-dent who was detained by an attack of mountain fever Mr Egbert was born in Carlisle Sullivan ounty Indiana on March 10 1818 He identified himself with the Mormon church early in life and was an I actor in many of the trying scenes of early church history When the westward west-ward move began from Winter Quarters he joined the company of pioneers and was assigned to President Wilfprd Woodruffs company of ten He and Orson conveyance Pratt were companions on the eventful journey riding in the rame S Mr Estiert was a good marksman was fond of hunting and it fell to his lot to furnish part if the meat for his companions Six buffaloes fell beneath his unerring fire in one day and at other times he brought in deer and elk as trophies of his hunt The old eentleman is exmmily feeble now from the effects of a lingering ailment that has afflicted lum for years His voice i almost inaudible and he finds difficulty in roncontratiiiK his mind upon a subject but when called upon by a Herald reporter the other day he brightened up xronuerfuUv anl seemed to live over again the events lie was narrating He said that when mountain fever afflicted the pioneer camp h ami OrS Or-S S f S I S 5 5 5 S T 1q j 5 1 jS 5 i i i c S I j t I S S ii qr l JOSEPH EGBEBT From a Photo Loaned to the Herald J son Pratt were the onlr two of the company who escaped it Ths was the reason they came forward in advance with some thirty others and entered the valley on July 22 Mr Eifrert was driving Mr Pratts light wagon I the first vehicle that emerged from the canyon S S They camped east of where the city now stands and when President Young arrived on the 24th ho said Boys this isnt the place follow me and led them down to a point near the northeast corner of the temple llock I where a permanent camp was made Mr Egbert returned to Winter Quarters in the fall of 1S47 and the next year made a wagon from raw material and brought his family west He brought also a colony of bees the first as he believes that came to Utah His bees died and he paid 54 for a colony to replace them S He built the first house in Mill Creek but soon left there and removed to Kaysville where he erected the first twostory adobe house in the place Being in the main road and about midway between Ogden and Salt Lake his I house became a regular stopping place for travelers and continued so lor S9 years until 1889 when he sold i I The Herald man was shown a wooden chair about four feet long tat Mr Egbert made from the sideboard of the wagon that he brought here in 1848 5 1848Mr Egbert has reared a larjca family and now in his declining ears he is held in great respect by the community in which he resides |