| Show SKETCH OF Or F A PROVO PIONEER iZ I Special Correspondence Corre Y Feb Kel 2 l William PU Lewis Lewi the man who built th thI I float 11 rat brick building or erected In III Pro Provo la 18 now In lalIon nor Is 68 08 years yearn earH of ot nee age Mr Lewis while not nol n or ono one of oC the original Utah Ulab Ilo 1 lo lon to t country COUll try 4 45 6 Y Yand oare ago RHO and h Is ud up of Bluff lurt through and nn through hiM hie n In the old days with his Judge Smith lion Hon neo leo A Smith Win Will Jen Walker and tilde makes hla hie i name ame a n 1 well oven re remembered on III Ili the tho list 1st of ot th h 3 8 who JI W took look euell a IL prominent pert part In develop rK n i territory Your elm true pioneer la to ono for whom an all Undeveloped country line has a is L peculiar charm probably for tor the tho reason r that t throe IA Is I plenty of or elbow room not only onh le but bUl Industrially No vocation IH is overcrowded and lid the tho truo true pioneer likes liken room particularly to 10 put hi his Mean Ideas into Inlo experimental lIlal form torm with without Without out Jut being trammeled by too much nyi tern hem and detail letup such nu as In III old l land and community life lite Ho lie 0 Is Ip en on and progressive IC but hUI has not Ilet much with tho method nod conservative tendencies of ot complex civilization Thin hl stakes him a 1 pio Po pioneer user neer When such luch a I man has the tho Ito to to II b Rarest II relt In his hla projects to 10 the degree of ot cooperation he ho a valuable acquisition to n a now new community After the tho community be cornea comell older anti the social machinery rima rues smoothly and regularly nil all tho the parts complete completo and each doing Ha its work by rule rille the plo pio a aft as such Is gone And It he remains anti lit is unable to reduce and contract his Ids efforts to some 1 pir lr brunch branch of oC competing Industry I and amI hold hit his own awn In that the good ho hohas has dune done IH Is likely to be forgotten or ort t Mr MI was horn born In Kentucky CS 68 years year ago ngo He lie commenced his hi westward movement early curly In III life ICe going with his hili parents to 10 Missouri when ton years of or OHO liRe and mud shortly utter to Iowa where the tha funnily family ut Fort Dos Des now hOW Den Dee Moines There Mr Ir Lewis engaged In nod at tho age liRe of or 18 IS married battled Ml Miss Mary Fuller Farming ParOling Watt Van too for tor Mr Lewis I fill In UH 1568 he Ills his liI wIt wl anti and their Infant non lion Oran Gran A Lewi now jiow u II prominent merchant of Spanish Fork 1011 crossed the I plains to Denver then glen only a n mining tump camp on all the tha desert Mr Lewis took with him the first fiut quartz quarts mill brought to t I Denver and after setting It up 1111 und and and operating I It for or some time sold Raid It Tho Tile family then thin returned to Iowa lawn but hut the cocky Hock Mountain country suited lulled Mr Lewis Levels and acid he Ile made a n second trip westin west weRl westIn weRlIn In 1889 1680 coming an IU fur far as all Provo return returnIng Ing hI again to lown In to 1862 1864 In ISM 1868 the tho family crone carne back cl to ProVo Prove and has hn since resided III In Utah county At that early date Mr Lewis nt at once ono of or the tho leading citizens of o othe the place taking nn nit active and effective part In building budding up III tho town To Tn him Ii 1111 belongs belong 8 the distinction of o erecting the tho then lint first fir l brick building In I n t tho t he city rILY The building Is la still standing nt mileK In ht Center street and and Is hi It owned by I Taylor Hron Bros company it IN la told that the tho people luau had doubts with regard to tho thin possibility ty tl of o making milking brick but bill Mr Lewis hind had no doubt dOlbt In the th matter Ho Ito noon con cond the skeptics that a II good quality or brick could be made and A they brought ht a Il good price 60 a 1 thousand when they the were mode made Mr Lewis there then erected what was waa at III the UtE time lime probably I the largest building In Ill the tiro territory out I of Salt Gait Lake City tho the Lewis 1 Hall flail on en tin till corner of ot Center anti I Third West esl streets tl This wn was a I dime I and brick structure ture lure The Tho mud first story i were Intended for far a mercantile establishment and a n largo large hall occupying tho the entire second floor wax tens titled lilted up for far u n theater and equipped by Mr Lewis with suitable scenery mud and other othor necessary theatrical accessories This building wan ens afterwards sold to la President dent Brigham Young and tho the Timpa branch of ot the Deseret University was conducted there thero tel for several years yearn by b Warren N and Wilson II it Dusen Dupen Dusenberry herd berry U It was wall a part Bart I of or the property given by Young to tho the Young Youn academy and be carne camB tho the first homo hOlM of or time tilt academy now lIOW university and Ant was wall occupied by b this thIN Institution In III till 1894 when It was wall destroyed by hy fire Mr Ir LenIs engaged Cn In iii merchandising nt at various times an as well ns as n farming until and cattle raising HP with Ot Taylor j ir r also opened ol the Omit first photo photograph photograph graph gallery In Provo Prove He lie was wan tins the fleet drat man to 10 float ties tics down Provo river and anti when the mining die dis district wits was opened ollen d ho he was one OliO of ut tho Una thomen men who became Interested In tho tile new I camps locating the tho Eureka hilt Hill mine the Iho Eimer 1 nay flay nn now the i III other o her that have sin si t valuable During the tho n early Y P ea a his hi residence In Provo he ie fluent trips tripe to 10 the tho states made ear r ti and AlII for other pur burp lUt crossed the plains eighteen tit sea 1 6 a team experiencing tin s 1 h 14 ninny him has with made mada and Inc narrow several the tho escapes tripe was from tro IS ness n s and to 10 vl visit lt relative cant enit Ul tv t r About twenty years ago nga Mr r rr I left lot Provo find and line has resided fe I In th the r 1 I a nn ern part of ot tho Iho county c n and In mining In n TI ri d p 1 cottonwood and although l f ir r r years fortune did dial not tr tl t hi hl hiAn w L Ia 8 t vT Sit 1 An early picture of oy Mrs Jes Jesse W N and children Tim Thu boy ho Ie h O nn A of nt h Fork his l b hopeful nature had ro M r t for or discouragement dl anti he lie ha hu as been l bl n rewarded by sufficient memos means to I J sure lire u tr comfortable old aliI ago age for tor hit him himself self licIt and his worthy worth wife who Mho hm has hJ hec bc l f fA A It a to tl him him In all 11 hn ha fortunes Mr Lewis L wl ens lit iii Provo n II shot short t thi 1 ngo ago tho time first time for tOI Severn several year ra and many old friends who wro did not know where he was nil living or tha th ih he h was living at all nil tore ero glad glud to extol him ns as he to 10 them n a friendly g gand and wet In exchanging dr r s t r forty Olt years age ug to live IIo In metro tho the but hut stirring 1 that nil all tho the of ot the tho stale ex In their youth when they laid the for 01 tho the great com corn commonwealth their hive have In Thin Tho looking backwards was most pleasant to all nil of t them th ln and arl the thought came to 10 the tho writer that thaI retrospect would not bo ho unprofitable lest we forget forset tho Iho pioneers aim nod th the great reul work they ther have performed perform I 1 1 I IJ J If f I tt e it t a aw w 1 f r y yI I I I t ih LEWIS WIS uIS HALL BALL First DrInk Brink In Prom Built by lIy JOMO Jassa W Lewis Built hull by I II Jo Josso o W Lewis t |
