Show N Vels Nels Is Ma Madson sn ig Bl-ig Brigham Brigham- m City Pi Pioneer neel Dies Pies Early Sch School l rea Teacher 4 r Fruit ruit Grower Church W Career BRIGHAM CITY March 16 Nels fels Madson 82 82 former Brigham City councilman m mand and and a a Utah pioneer plo pio neer acer died S Sunday nd y from a l lingering illness following a major opera opera- tion ion HE He was born in S L Lol Loland l lland land and Denmark son sori son of N Nels ls and Martha lartha Marie Marje Nielson Madson AugUst August Au Au- gust 14 14 1853 His parents parents' joJn Joined d the he Church in 1854 1 and antI emigrated to o the United States in 1857 set set- ling first In Iowa In 1860 they crossed the plains with witha a yoke of oxen The trip t took ten weeks S Shortly after alter arriving in Salt V VS Lake ake City they moved to Brigham City Uy City w where here they engaged in farming arming S During Mr JoIr Madson's early youth he pe was employed in In con conS str of the transcontinental r railroads which were completed at Point in 1860 He lIe worked work ed Cd edwith with co construction st gangs on the Utah Central railroad from front Ogden t to 6 Salt Lake Lak the Utah Yah N railroad and the branch line lIno from lom lomB B Brigham C City Y t. t to S Taught School In 1877 he served as a mission Iowa 10 MissO Missouri ri li and Illinois White there he bc conversed with n nm mf Hale Smith Bideman the widow of the Prophet Joseph Smith i w Returning home borne he tie V engaged in school teaching in Brigham City and Willard He w was s an ard ardent nt worker in l the the Church fi g In Inman man many pf the auxiliary ry organizations and and- andas' andas as as' as president of his seventy quorum counselor in the hIgh higl ts t.'s qu quorum rum counselor in th ne he Stake M. M t I. I A A. and as a a. a home ahome mis si He was Vas present at the he dedications of di f the Salt Lake Lak and Logan gan ganT T Temples S He was also active In civic af ni- fairs airs having served as a member of the school board and as city councilman of City DurIn DurIn Durn Dur Dur- In n his incumbency in the latter latter po pp po He nc superintended the construction con con- con of f the he municipal w water ter system and was instrumental In securing for Brigham City i its present resent y water r. r supply He Ift also was S Box Jox Elder delegate te to the first firs irrigation congress held In Jn the United States and later represent represented ed his' his county as a delegate to an liTigation ion convention lon held in New ted l Mexico o. o pj Pioneer neer Fr Fruit U Grower Mr tac 1 was was' one of the tue first firs to app eci te that the land laud in am and around Brigham m City was was' was was' lI ly adapted to raising fruits diall of di all aIL kinds In 1885 he planted the first large strawberry patch In th the vicinity He was also among the first f to r rase Elberta p peaches peach aches s cherries and prunes on a large scale In In- 1885 he married Eliza Ellza John John- so son They y wre ie parents of seven c children three of whom rIled died in childhood He is survived by his widow the following children Stanley J. J Madson Brigham City Mrs Franklin L. L West Vest wife of the theL LJ L j. j D. D S. S commissioner of t ion don n Mrs Mary L. L Neuberger Laan Loan Loan Lo Lo- an an and Marco Holmgren Salt Sal Lake City nine grandchildren and a sister Frodsham of Brigham City |