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Show Education Begun Early in Utah The old fort on Pioneer Square, Salt Lake City, was the site of the first anglo-saxon educational training train-ing center in Western America. . Here, the magnificent position which Utah holds in matters educational edu-cational today, had its beginning. Scarcely before their homes in the Fort were completed, a school was started wherein the children in camp could receive educational training. The first classes were held in October, 1847, in a small round tent on the west side of the south extension of the old fort (near 3rd West between 4th and 5th South streets). Pieces of logs were used for seats and a small camp table for a desk. The first teacher was Miss Mary Jane Dilworth, aged seventeen years. She later married President F. A. Hammond who at one time presided over the San Juan stake of the LDS Church. In January, 1848, Julian Moses began teaching school in his little log house in the old fort. By November, 1848, a school room 30 by 40 feet was built to completion on the north side of the fort just east from its northwest north-west corner. That would place it on the south side of the present 3rd South street, just east from 3rd West street. Oliver B. Huntington, Hunt-ington, brother of Dimmick B. Huntington, famous Indian missionary mis-sionary and interpreter, began teaching in this school in November, Novem-ber, 1948, and occupied this position posi-tion until February, 1849. |