Show KNOW UTAH V V VV V V F. F PHILIPS V Who waa the first school t teacher in Utah am V where school held van cas a a. a question a last Ins veiling when whelk tho public school chool system of the tor ter- was being discussed sit nt a a- party V The early settlers of Utah In lii t the midst df dt their luff labors found provide pro trO- vide for fOk tho thou children S Aa 1547 three Lila advent pioneers n. n school ris the old fort by Miss y Mai-y lanc 17 This TiIs yoUng woman who undoubtedly was was' th tho pioneer school t teacher i u of Utah opened her v school In to teach leach th thc children of the tho pioneers In a small II round on tho west side of south extension of ot the old stockades cs ot logs were for heath floats and a n small camp table tt i. i desk In January following V Julian as a. soon oona as lib ho haJ finished hIs little log house c covered with willows arid nd earth began teaching school therein having benches of puncheons Similar schools sprang up in outer other set settlements t- t as rust fast as they were formed The first Sabbath Sabbath Sab Sab- bath school i the tho of the extensive Deseret Sunday School union union- o of to today was WIH opened in tho thoV V Fourteenth ward Salt talt Lake In December 1849 Its founder was wa Richard ro Utah's V VV educational beginnings V V V Iionia retrospection I In the report rt of or public In Salt l ako- ako City tho Oio t is interest to in iii d data ta all Ii in tn taken as It refers to tho r aduar advancement V and allI progress of at tim tho school chooL frt its beginning V tho tho- achievements of tho present t school of it today V V V V V Sayi Saya tho superintendent of tho schoOls in V VV bis- bis V report The Sturdy Lurdy little band of pioneers entered V this in a. a desert To however it Was a V ai oasis oasis- In g a. a desert They had not braved the tho- C tho niA their way oss aci-oss th the track trackless less plains for naught They Inov too that wilh their advent into the tho Salt Lake y valley alley civilization gained Its foothold west bf the of-the the Rocky their and trust they were d ai-d V not slow slow-in and inott potent in tho ieri perpetuation bf of filet or this republic governed as li tto will io the fIrst a. a hut Scarcely enough to bo ho seen among tho that surrounded V Vre re Us homely form and the tho nc v community w foi arid invent although adequate ra cn- cn tim tho luXury y of a. a v village school S i Tills s s the genii it iC you please fi frou tho present system has lia grown This This- seed it ft is true tru was planted in hi thousands of tho dc desert rt far ar froth from tho running brook but the thu watchful taro Or tho husbandmen gave itHie it the Hie conditions that thatah an environment could not hot re 1 f qs iid a-iid it tho mighty pak This little was ws tim tho pio pioneer bez of western schools and and- western education r V V VV VV V V 4 V. V V VV V 1 government as ia in 1560 but two and halt ono years after com pan pany Ui livo assembly act act- of tile the State Desere now I w tho University of Utah ad thus tHus' mado caily provision for higher education V VV VV V V V S v vAs As As Limo rolled rouea on tho school V v la iwa was rc ni until in when th the free school l lawi designated tin tho new Vas enacted this enabled the in lit Its the dream oi Horace Mann it did notmark not notmark mark tho advent of or tim tho first free schools In tS availed them them- selves of the tho local option of ornet laws and established free enactment of or this law Jaw did however bring the free the reach of every overy child chilil In ln the ter- ter rit ry although hod formerly in most cases cases been nominal In addition to the lie then existing exist ing district It established by means of con con- dir districts to tobo bo 1 known as cities of the ho first second and class cIas of which are four In namely Salt Lake e Ogden Logan and v the V being the being the only orio of cass |