| Show I i THAT WAS s SALT LAKEly LAKE LAKE- ly y Ut Utah Boys Faced d Hard Hari Life j Tells Jells of Tasks O j- j jt t lI s 's H J JJ A lj J l f f r. r i it t 4 t s rye Y e fn Ic 4 rr I 44 Y r I z V. V f rr i A-i I U H HAULED LE TITHING PAID IN K KIND ND TO SALT L LAKE n i t I Judge Daniel Knew Porter Rockwell In Editors Editor's Thle 11 lithe the a erlee and d or af relating incident I In earl Carly Salt Lake da dau as a. recalled by br City period pioneer of Gf that B By Life CLARENCE An E P D. D WILLIAMS t Life 1 in n early Carly Utah was pretty P pretty tt r tough for young Dan Harrington Dans Dan's s mother died within 24 hours hour f after she gave birth to Dan and h his twIn sister Mary back bad in Mar March 1860 Were We're talking about a man wh who S knew Porter Rockwell Jewell and th the hardships that existed in his da day He Hes He's s white white haired Judge Daniel Dani Daniel Harrington a familiar figure o on onI I the streets of or Salt Lake City today to- to today to to- day despite his 81 years Th The The judge gets around Maybe you would like to kno know what the time old-time barrister an and former presiding judge of the cit city court for eight years thinks about abou the present generation before w we skip back to his early life The re okeh says T Judge Harrington G Gen Generally e n era 11 y their ideals are as hig high as those of the youth of my day i However they are more restless than in the olden days and nee need steering in the right direction Today's Youth Quicker But they're faster to grasp Their Thear aptitude ex cells They hava have hav havea a quicker perception asserted th the tall slender Mr Harrington He thought a moment and raising raisIng rais rais- ing his bushy eyebrows made this thi declaration Youth too often trespasses o on social rules and ethl ethics s of the modem modern modern mod mod- ern em n day The judge settled down in a chair to relate his early experIences expert and in a soft voice saidI said said- I was born March 15 1860 in ina ina Ina a two-room two log cabin in American Fork My mother was Mary Jones Jone Harrington She was born in Eng Eng- land My fathers father's name was Leonard Leonard Leonand Leon Leon- ard and E. E Harrington He was born in New Lisbon Os Oswego we go county N. N NY YAt YAt Y At the age of 9 my life was wa strenuous and exciting My fa father fa- fa father ther was a man of many cares He was the bishop of a growing ward with its active tithing office His membership in the legislature and mayoralty duties made his life a real merry go In the midst of this I had to be passed around to the care of various families Thus my condition was one more of pity than hope Tough Job for Lad LadI LadI LadI I not only had to receive al all manner of produce and livestock at the tithing office and yards but was required to feed stock milk cows in the winter and assist assis in herding on the benches northeast northeast northeast north north- east of American Fork To cap off a good days day's work I would milk several cows in the evening In the summer or for a few months In the winter we attended attendee local ocal schools but because of the many chores it was often quite irksome Early in my life I hauled tithing paid in kind produce and other things to Salt Lake We used to assume heavy duties early I recall when only 13 I had the responsibility responsibility re- re of taking one of our teams earns and going in a double-box double wagon loaded with flour into Deep Creek reek and Cherry Creek Nev to sell ell them Judge Harrington told how the horses wandered away while his party arty was asleep and how he went to o the ranch of Porter Rockwell located about 20 miles southeast of Lookout Porter himself equipped with withy spy y glasses spent most of the day with me in a futile to find the animals said the Utah pio pio- neer Yes sir it was tough going inthe Inthe in the he early days of Salt Lake and Utah he concluded Judge Harrington lives at 1975 Seventh East street |
