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Show Death masks of Joseph and Hyrum in 2nd John Taylor's watch top museum display history of Ogden. ' Significant because Conine, the little town west of Brigham City, once had high hopes of being the division point on the Union Pacific Railroad and becoming the Chicago of the West. But Corinne's road went downhill when branch railroad lines were built in the 1870s and 1880s, connecting the transcontinental systems in Ogden with other settlements in Utah, Idaho and Montana. Source: Hunter, ' 'Brigham Young the Colonizer" ; Utah, American Guide Service. (Quig Nielsen is an information officer for the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City.) By QUKS NIELSKM Which displays in the LDS Museum Mu-seum of Church History and Art quickly attract visitors' attention? Topping the popularity list is the watch Jolin Taylor was wearing in the Carthage jail in Illinois. The death masks of Joseph and Hyrum Smith are a close second, with William Clayton's odometer placing plac-ing third and the Enoch Train ship model, fourth. John Taylor's watch was in his vest pocket when mobbers stormed the Carthage jail. When he rushed to the window to escape, a ball fired by an outside mobber smashed the watch, throwing him back into the room. The watch stopped, and although al-though the hour, minute and second hands are now gone, fellow prisoner Willard Richards recorded the time 5:16:26. The ball's point of impact on the watch is clearly visible. Death masks of the Smith brothers were made by George Q. Cannon soon after their murders. The originals were purchased by the late Wilford C. Wood and displayed in his private museum until 1989 when the family donated them to the LDS Church. The Clayton odometer, designed by Orson Pratt and built by Ap-pleton Ap-pleton Harmon, measured the miles of the first pioneer trek. Although the original was lost many years ago, a replica made by Stephen Pratt of American Fork is now on display in the museum. The Enoch Train was a Mormon emigrant ship which crossed the ocean in 1856. The museum's model of this ship captures the imagination of visitors as they visualize visu-alize the confined living conditions of passengers during the long voyage. voy-age. Source: Records from the LDS Museum of Church History and Art. The junction city' The city of Ogden became known as "the junction city" when the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific railroads established the city as a railroad division point. And logically so, for Ogden, named for Peter Skene Ogden, a Hudson Bay Company trapper who was in northern Utah in the 1820s, had been the focal point and a place for rendezvous and wintering for fur traders and trappers since the coming of the white man. During the winter of 1825-26 trappers lived in skin tents at the present site of Ogden. Some had taken Indian wives and had settled down "to a winter of eating, sleeping, sleep-ing, yam-spinning and contests of strength." Miles Goodyear, a Connecticut native, built his cabin in 1846, thus becoming the first white settler in Ogden. Later he sold his cabin and land to Captain James Brown of the Mormon Battalion fame. Captain Brown, with his family and a few other settlers, built a fort they called "Brownsville." In 1849, Brigham Young came to visit and climbed a nearby hill "to view or select a location for a town." The following year the Mormon leader sent 100 families to augment the settlement. "Young was (considered) an excellent judge of men, and his success in colonization testifies." In 1850, he sent Lorin Farr, not one of the original Weber Valley settlers, to take charge of the Ogden and Weber county affairs. It was under Farr's careful administration and influence that the city grew. The coming of the railroad in March 1869 was without doubt "the most significant event in the |