Deseret Evening News | 1903-10-03 | Page 29 | A "Mormon" Bishop Traces His Ancestry Back Thousand Years

r 0 ix Y ri r rJ rf 0 ri x r o 1 i 41 I A 6 Mormon Bishop S wily o T Traces rapes His us I Ancestry Back r POR R Thousand P 4 Years I r IVY L LL Lu u T th the proud right ot of W Wp u p 11 pr Irston ton tt tit be to of It n a tree thin took root In l n land earlY In thou the tenth century lie truces 8 hIs Ilko n a clear back t to the time J tho iho conqueror left letl hIs hla to r Rn and inko II a no nation tin has I folka olio II d his on tree treo hack beck I Ito to totem I A p A nail line hOA the of oC c ev erv rV nul 1111 son aon who nark the tho steps In InthIS Inthe thIS the gem ladder It ho tell so he could adorn the tho ot of his hla of oC n a legion homo home 1 nh of oC an tors torI that excite Bourbon War Warnon ot a the tho enl y non and 13 reb ds and nn loyalists nIl are areis to is be found In the tho slon that the Bishop so to ins res At times they thay lavo served kins In battle battlo and In ht tho iho halls ot of soma MillO have hwe worn titles thru thrust t upon them by n grateful rn toul arch lOd ad some somo have scorned them f i leaned hallI heavily on the iho arms of oC the tons during his Imbroglios with other king since then Hutt have hao the tho nid ot of their Staunch blend home Fome ot of Iho most ruins ot of mark list end of ct the former ormer homeR ot of the tho Preston such ruth as Abbey ot of Ian 1 It one thinks that Bishop Preston IN III not notto notte to te the mailer horn let i n look lank nt the decaying yet ct noble outline ot of the tho lanor louse where the tho Ir ma de thor home for over years During Durin the war tho totally was AS loyal t to nt at 1 a hear hel cost ost for tor nil lost their henda a m sill 11 n II fortune A ot of the tho frumpy removed to to In the tho sixteenth century and It Its bloc I 1 hll has became mingled with the tho noble t 0 nt the land In Virginia their clony their were the Ita gran that led letl to to the tho Iho Ho and that ferl I they fought with the other hu ho toll loll ot of that dl tiny lor or in III their beam 1 g urd that 1010 or of liber ty tr th Il animated U tho ho breast ot of Fr an Ihl this brall branch h the tho fish ct hut huh since ho he Is IN not disposed to rip p alt oh ot of his remarkable genealogy the 1 i r I will tell Il a portion ot of the thee e hl m Till OWN W might ho be tu to ho he nt at the tho head ot at the tho temporal affairs o of tho Church his position Is IK that of oC lie Is the fourth noun mun to told that Vel very l hIe shore Inco the tho ol organization o of thin tho Church anti ho he has It tt nf fairs with ability Ile is III n tin lIo American 11 having vir been horn In ht InI I count county n Nov NOI 21 I 1830 1530 and andin Iii in now therefore 73 yearn l rl or of age aHe lie on nn hits his fathers farm tArm until ho he reached thou tho ago ot of 19 ho began clerking In n a atom near his hili haute and n a little later an moved moed to toI I Lynchburg whore ho ha 10 wonted r until 1862 IIo 10 was then 23 3 old ohl ind tin strong blood o of his hla taco meo demanded 1 n wider field where there thelo hero 10 great greater er opportunities So Ho he bade hado to 10 his native and pushed out Into tho world fa Finding his hili attention towards California magic name waa then on not oer every lip he Journ journeyed to the Golden the craze hod not taken root in III his blood gold goltl digging not being the natural bent ot of his nature natura So he the tho pIncer claim and the tho wilt miners camps and tI down downIn In 10 Vain Yolo county California to follow the themore more pursuits ot of farming and I cattle raising The Tho young Virginian hind for rOI hits hili neighbors the tho Thatcher II Y and through those people was mono morlo acquainted with the tho religion of at atthe the to whom up to HI I lj II II iI I I rrT rr t r r tr 1 HiMi t H I H I Ij p iV Vt Iii I 1 j 1 n f 1 f w T I X T r t x L 1 r tt y Lf I f e Jt 1 7 r ry t I y l e 1 y f l iJ t d r ri 1 t i r 1 i I H HH I t I APPROACH TO MAIN ENTRANCE OF FURNESS ABB ABBEY Y The view I w hero presented gives an Idea of oC the Beatty o of the architecture employed In the erection or of Abbe Abbey The Tho walls shown shon In this picture arc about 40 10 feet high that tine ho hind scarcely given It a Pawling thought Ue lie became n II member or of the Church durIng the month of oC Fob Feh l 1667 57 Ing J hy by henry n 1 HoI Moyle Almost 1 mOil im immediately mediately ho he tuna into Inlo the ministry II by the Into Prest George GeorgeQ Q Cannon who was then presiding over tho lino Coast oa t mission Tho Iho new nel tra through Upper and that vicinity uny un III the faU al ot of 1957 1857 lit at which time Prest Toting Youn culled In ht nil all the 1 Eldera and Saints because of oC the tho invasion ot of Johnstons army CAME CArm TO 10 UTAH 1 ldar Preston conic to Utah in III 1 n com compan company pan pany Ic led d b by Henry 0 L hoyle one OM ot of the members ot of which wont all Moses Thatcher his future It too Into Inna la fn the tho for or tho cOn cont any Y to Iward z crossing the plains so O Otho the tho Journey hone wan made down through Los LOB An Angelca and Son Y w e r l lt 1 t i I II kh 1 1 e s d i tY k I 1 1 i P I 1 I THREE DISTINGUISHED Three distinguished dl Ir Prestone tons are found In the tho persons of oC the trio whoso whose portraits comprise tho Iho above group They Thoy are rending from loft Ill to right Stephen Preston uncle uncia o of tho subject ot of thin lt and Thomaa I L Preston o of the faculty ot of the tho of oC Virginia anal tutu Into southern Utah tho 11 north to Snit Lake City CIl Thu company nr rived home on ma New ears day ISIS 1868 and the tho following February l Pres Preston ton married Miss lIllas A Thatcher who Is stilt WS PAS A lIIM llIn Pre Young or tI t lint famous hall bod known n as th mInute men Elder J Preston was uric lint lintot ot of the tho on nail Ii ready nt uny ills his people at CUI any cost lie Vas lu III the move aid wont south nil na na 1111 10 but III it the early spring or of 1369 joined n ot at 21 J other wont to the tho hr to hiring to Utah n 11 large sc nt line diM that been br bit lion y r wIlen thou tho relations n the bt bf Utah the r jov nv There Ih I no little of danger In Inv soled In this llda expedition ns its the Ulah Illah I was just over thin the stationed nt at Fort Iro still reeling feeling ugly t Innards thit 1 and tho pretext to pounce loll down upon upon them Hut But th the young oung uncut performed their r I p t s si sr I 1 i tr t 1 r i A ti I IR R 4 r 1 r ra a r jr i t l St fr 1 I VIEW OF FURNESS ABBEY RUINS r rec nt The Work of oC demolition commenced In 1617 Upon tho Iho act ot of nt at the tho instance or of Henry VII b but t In yeArS evet every effort has been bren to preserve this beautiful specimen of early architecture 1 I I j y 1 Ills VA MILY CREST crest crost lama the tho pretty anent o on oa n a from whORe high tower ra e enn nn 1111 rugh plumed Illumed to Ol hl hi I hll ht w tm th pius ut at its hope iI I 11 ti tre I I no inn the tho towers ot of we 1 aunt 1 V mod God willing to heaven This with might t rI for different of t the hate Ih eh dl distinguishing insignia ot of th from Ih mho time er Or In Inland or 1 America tull they pawed dangerous IN N PAYSON On hl loin return to Utahn 1 Biter III r Preston IrIon ki III erecting on nn Hl ad h honer Ith his hili own oln inns The fol ol I lowing winter tinier 11 tie went to California In n a nosh company far Cor the e ot of I holy j i lug merchandise far fOl hl his father Inlaw o 8 store tie lIe got ot hack in the tho coring of at atIS IS 9 with to t ro wagon lends of oC gouda gool tutor n hard and perilous trip COUNTY PIONEER At thus limo till the beautiful Cache vol mi 10 Icy wan up Ul so sa to In com company pliny with his hili bl Inv and lots his fa loo he In the 1011 Ii and or orthe nil the present site tit of ell city so flO It may he b fairly that II I and Thatcher were ore the founders o of loRan Logan In r or of tit life rains year par Apo and I Esra lra T went to nho alley tt th lie instance or of Young to 10 or orilia ilia genise III 0 the that thol load built up 1111 there ler the th direction of oC Ieler nil the latest pioneer sail anti the Iho Idol lit of till thus red 1111 noon Logan was Into pp 1111 ce c lIar ward Preston was chosen nil as Bishop tho being perfectly natural as th this young hind 1 it and spin that had already the gaze ot of Prest Young Ho wits or Oil ou No Nov H 14 ISM ISIS and nut lit open onro in n n for ur the tho develop uncut of oC thc I he r l that hUI wn s t IIA ia Vf v I g or fI oils ous nil as It was hike One of oC thou tho things t he did was to perform tho hots port In this the taut It I Park canal has beers n to this ot of Cache valley alle ever since In the Ihl spring of r 1660 1560 the snow 1111 was still on the he Surveyor or Jl ro R Fox In Inlaying laying out the th clI city ot of Logan and during the tho next year hili hia time was pretty mulch nil taken up In III receiving immigrants hood begun to pour In and homes home to them A This same nm year tor lit hr wait elected to the theLe Le au I spent the tho winters of oC 3 sitting with those thole who rondo mAdo the early In of oC hole elan purring the tho two summers he made two trips to the 1 lIs river b by o oe team to assist Into the moun loins floe Iho winces ot of 1863 ho he nl also o spent In the amt Itt at the Ihl COli col frames ot of the Church hurch f In April 18 1945 5 h he with was called to go goto goto to i to perform C a mission m El Elder der had ot of th the company no far as New York and there therl hr hI I left tt hta hili to lots parents In a whom lie hI had not risen Beon for tor thIrteen years lie He found that the tho war had left them but aside from that thu unfortunate condition ho halt had n II visit lIe He then returned to New York and for tor LIer food ar rl vi there on Au Aug 23 1886 Its H wao OD lit at on co called t pros preside Ide over the tho Newcastle nod T Durham eon and labored In that capacity until January ue when he was called to take charge or of the business meat ot of the Liverpool office orner lIe ro In the office Cor three years and la In the tho meantime visited the tho Paris In August t 1867 1567 After sere Ing for C t three nod n a half In the tho ml bid ho wits to 10 ray loin tum honor Ile sailed from Liverpool on Jul July H 14 1564 OIL op thin tho Colo ulo i ns as such until tho rod Into tho ho hands o of the tho Union In ht slay rR ISn 1877 the Cacho stake was organized stases IQ II II as and B 11 Preston aI 1111 his first 1111 counselor lor Thin Tho hat hattat tel tat held this A April when Thatcher tuns made nn an Apostle rind find h he succeeded tu lu the tho post lion of oC pl l On r 6 lIam U Preston tuns railed to not nil as thO thin Presiding ot of the tho to sue ue reed Edward hunter whoso death III oc occurred in 1883 1853 MAN MANIt AN ANIt It would not he fulsome praise to any that every or tin day train the day ot of his hla ordination to tho high and responsible y lie he holds up to tn the present has ImA the wisdom ot nt the tho choice lII holl Preston within limo him self the ot of the tho best leal emu together with Il a highly spiritual 1 a lint could not fall to tn him among the strongest uncut ot of Ids hili race I The notice In ht the esrel I NOWA Nos ot of 1 n publication recently Issued h by II Pre Preston lon lowing In Inv in that researches n short abort sketch ot of thou tho Pres Preston ton family tree trec so 80 rill far as AI It at present l known trill not he be interest t and andIs Is III herewith given IN Gm Al BRITAIN rho record of oC oho th Preston family runs nuns I I fili In were entailed tI upon them b by the crown From branches ot of the fatally early carly spread Into the tho adjoining counties of oC York fork and Lancaster but vo 0 timid that generatIons after Ir ie olphus Sir Thomas Preston atilt held hetel till the old ancestral inheritance ot of Ire Preb tot tOIl nil as alma the ant to Under hail Daring 11 hlo lifeline II fe thill Sir Sh Thomas further to thou the family holdings b by the purchase of at Furness II Abbey nod Park of Thin The ruins ruin ot of Furness Abbey are one ot of tho iho attractions to le tourists In the vicinity or of In Furness anti pre present sent lont a very er Imposing appearance even Ien evenIn In the tho ruin wrought upon them by k several wars and nearly seven cen I tunes ot of time A most mORt slate o of preservation Ion la is shown In t the ho house Boule hero horo illustrAted where the of oC the Manor made their homo home for tor over oer Z 2 O years The Th war 1111 bet een the tho adherents of liing Ing Charles I amid tho those o of oC thou tho l Eng n parliament In 1642 1612 came enma very ory near 1 bringing extinction to the tho Prell Preston ton tarn nm II fly Thc They not only themselves Joined forces Corcell with tho boo kIn g hut but tile they heavily encumbered their estates In loin his so that at the tho close o of the Will war In which Cromwell came cation to the tho dictator dictatorship ship the one house not nol only found liMit itself bereft berott of at the tho flower of oC its manhood hut but was Willi on the ot of fin Sn j jH l 1 i r H I HH H H H H H H Jo I J j If iI 1 1 1 t t s r if I ji J 1 y y y y ii yI I F t j Fj j I 1 1 f IE 1 i Eli Elik T i k j j 1 t I dy a Y 1 t 1 tj tf j f H II I H H i 1 H t H H HH H II H REAR VIEW Or OF FURNESS ABBEY ABSEY RUINS In charge ot of n 0 ot of Gag Saints and r Salt Lake the ol oh bowing September BISHOP OF CJ Tim The fhe h IIA heing constructed nt at this time null the tho II naturally t found n congenial foul here helI In the winter ot of Ile he In Echo pra R a ot of the Union road its III 1 n under Pros dent Young As lon nil its hole hili work worl her here WAS he t to lo 10 gnu and 11 ht 1572 tyna 1118 again sent to the Legislature and In Pint hOlly body until 1912 1882 In hi April 1511 Preston wen WAR called to Peter who just all as Bishop ot of sell vr l 10 ley Jn In that name year real ho united thus III ht the support o of President lre Young Ir hit the construction of 01 the tho Northern The Ift run road II was completed as far nr as in May 1674 and thin ny that was WnM or g nil refI tu l o It II d of fohn fah n nil as president arid ii 11 Proston 10 president nt nud the latter hack back 1010 A D I be before foro thin tho In invasion alon ot et tho Conqueror when DO Preston com comes o to notice as the lOJ o ot of u a largo larco estate Ito III nail from that thins forward fondly lotus Ima been hren II before the people among whom Its It have hao lived JIVed Arid And this Ito In striking to the career or et most ot of tho Old landed gentry Al AI Almost most without exception the tilled hOlli oI 01 of after far n 1 few reI have for rol some one reason or Ol other or of their ills solute manner ut of or from chase In relations become extinct lIu But t thin tho Preston star thought at t times In eclipse hn has ever linen hoen In iii this the ascendant lie Ire grandson was olle of oC the noble chosen lIy by r Edward I uC of 1 England to Irate hel between Nan hullo Ind us UA to the lire Scoot To tithe this clr 11 I I is IH probably the tnt fart that n I till branch of oC the tho fatally anon removed 1 from Scotland to the noel 1 I ot I n whore the ot of Preston Richard and Patrick I ruin But touch was the thC virility I 1 or of the tho Preston blood that In n the tho course a I of oC two to the family urns Willi lignIn again to tn the rout anti there thero nr are still lUIt I III Scotia ul and Ireland soy lIW J oral tithed or of the tho house e Count CountIng t Ing rom rant lII shop hop Ir Preston ton lina records covering 28 8 of oC the tho 1 In Great Orent f rilE VIRGINIA morNIA tc f l years otter the rise riM ot of the family had hod so 10 tar fr reeo d Its lIa nil its to lo six Alx war norH brothers rA to tradition to tho forces ot of King lames 11 when he advanced Upon for Cor the siege of oC 1653 Three ot of