Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-20 | Page 22 | Salt Lake Landmark Passes St. Mark's School Torn Down

Salt Lake Landmark Passes, n n n n n, St. Mark's School Torn Down; I 1884 by Bishop Daniel S. Turtle. j I Pioneer Educational lnstitu-tion lnstitu-tion to Be Replaced by Garage. WITH flic razing of the St. Mark.' school building at 115 East First South street, constructed in 137U 71 and in recent years used as headquarters by the Volunteers of America, thenc passes into history one of the most noted educational land marks in ttie state and the entire in tcrmountain region. St. Mark's school, as an institution. was first established July -J, 1867. in what a:t known as "Independence Hall" on West Third South street, a holt 'liitance weBt of the site now oc-tupied oc-tupied by Walker Brothers Dry (iooils OlDMUr. This hall was the first building build-ing in the city to be used for church WriMI other than those conducted by the Mormons and continued to be used 'both as school and church until the otiiplctii'ii of St. Mark's rath.-dral and Mark's school, both finished in 1871. The Kt. Kev. Daniel S. Tuttle. who was consecrated Bishop of Montana in Oetob-r. 1 -rti. baring jurisdiction also over Idaho and I'tah. reached Salt Ike in the littler part of April. 1S67, and from the time of the establish no ut of the school in that year, was activch identified with its work, him self tcacliina at intervals, it is recalVrd by some of his pupils, a class iu niathe 111., tic-. TM fir.-t head master of St. Mark's school, as shown bv a report on do tnestlr missions, made br Brnhop Tuttle in 1884, was the Kev. T. W. llaskins. oe of the four Wiionari siVeted bv Bitfcop Tuttle as his helpers in this ucw and almost unlraveled field. His other ir.iM"ll:trte were the Kev. lu'nrce W . pOOfcBj th" Rev. Kdward N. QMdafJ and th.' Rv. (Morn ft M. Miller. The Kc. .1. M. Turner succeeded Mr. llii-kins its head master of the sriool, aud he, in turn, was followed bv Mr. Miller, who remained in charee of the institution until it was closed in 1SS7. In the report made bv Ilishop Tuttle in IW, referrinn to the establishment of the school in 1887, he said: "That school Ins multiplied into five in t'tah. in which more than J00 pupils are now in flaUj at'.-n.lnnce." t. Mnrk's srhod set liitfh a standard stand-ard of educational training that it uumbcis iiinonif its list of graduates u in- i.usc n times arc well known il.r..:u:l.out the ttate uml intcrmountain r.'L'i"".' Among Ihcui mav lw mentioned Mr. Bells UetanneO, Mrs. !.n. K. Corar, Mrs. Will ' fhnrp. Mrs. .1. M. Hid well. Mrs Alfnlos Vonng. Mi.s .loiinnn H. Sprague. nnd C. O. Whittvmore. for ., , ,rs prominent ilt Lfkc attorney, now resident of l.os Angeles. Mv reason nf the egeollenee of its work the school was well attended, but with the creation of Salt Lake's public school svstein and tlM building of How. land Ball, a lehool exehustvas for girls, founded and maintained bv the Kpisco-pal Kpisco-pal elnircli. the pressing need for n parochial pa-rochial institution for both sexes was rssaovrd and the historic buildiug. dc WOlti lor vears to other purposes, lias I been torn dowr lo mnke room for n modern automobile enrage.