Show u r I N THE OGDEN WednetcUy Evening July 22 1936 STANDARD-EXAMINE- R ©gdeiro ©vemoirDeirQiI''Was EccDesnaslhkall Incorporated In 1 851 Under Deseret State EFnirsU" were recorded in the entire countr3 during the year ending June 1 1850 by E D Rich assistant marshal of Utah territory ( Continued From Page One) James G ’Browning was the successor of Postmaster Clark his appointment being dated May 18 3854 The first form of government in this as all other settlements founded by members of the Mormon church was ecclesiastical The branch now named Ogden In January 1851 being divided into two wards Isaac Clark being appointed bishop and James G Browning and James Brown as counsellors of the First ward ferastus Bingham Sr as bishop and Charles Hubbard and Stephen Parry as counsellors of the Second ward The ecclesiastical form of government was soon supplanted by action of the provisional government of the state of Deseret which on February 6 1851 incorporated Ogden City The first municipal election was held October 23 1851 resulting in the election of the following officers: Lorin Farr mayor (a position held by him until 1879 with the exception of only three terms occupied by Lester Herrick) Charles R Dana Erastus Bingham Francello Durfee and James G Levi MurBrowning aldermen dock Samuel Stickney John Shaw B W Nolan D B Dillie Ithamer Sprague Daniel Burch Jonathan Browning James Lake James Brown Joseph Grover and F Dempsey counsellors The early settlers aided the muni- -' cipal government considerable in promoting individual good anj by uniting in the accomplishment of public improvements One of these 'was the construction of a wall ” around the city which if completed was estimated to have represented an expense of $40000 in labor for protection against the Indians A number of other Utah towns were surrounded by these walls ’ ’ ’ Ogden being the farthest north The election of public officials were not contested in the present day lively manner The Residents of the city1 would -- gather in a centrally' located meeting hall' and nominate and elect their officers within the space of an hour oe at that time would have been the first attacked by war parties coming in from the north There were at least four of these so fp' ( walled camps or forts in this cinity The early settlers congre- vi- gated in towns both fqr social and protective purposes instead of living in scattered farms as did the pioneers in other parts of the United States Fort Ogden A s' ' enclosed the land bounded by Wall avenue Twenty-eight- h street Madison avenue and Twentieth street including the cemetery Wall avenue derived its name from the west wall of the fort Mound Fort consisted of a wall surrounding the large mound northwest of the Mound Fort school-hous- e The west side of the mound was cut down perpendicularly and formed a part of the wall Bingham Fort was about a quarter mile west of Five Points on both sides of Second street Two or three small buildings which were built within the fort are still standing on the south side of Second street North Ogden Fort enclosed the space about half a mile square nearly coinciding with the present North Ogden townsite however this fort was never completed When the Fort Ogden wall was planned it was decided to leave the west tier of blocks outside the wall Few if any settlers had Each setbuilt on these blocks tler in the city was assigned a certain portion of the wall to build Irrigation the great secret of the success of Utah agriculture was recognizzed as an indespensable factor for the subjugation of the ground at an early date In 1852 a canal for irrigating the lower part of the city was constructed from the Weber river for a distance of about seven miles $' i i "" The first school of Weber county was conducted within Brown’ fort near where the Sperry mill now stand Educational facilities of the early days were on a more or less makeshift basis Although schoolhouses were provided it was difficult to secure competent teachers to ' educate the children Statistics for the year ending June 1 1850 reveal that 156 persons attended Weber county schools during the year B S Lockwood was the schoolmaster and ‘Nelson Slater and John Page we-- e the teachers during this year Ogden’s increase in population following 1870 was rapid c Starting with 1332 inhabitants in 1852 it rose to 1463 in I860 to 3127 by 1870 to 6069 in 1880 14889 in 189 and to 16313 in 1900 and 42000 in 1936 Even with the rapid increase fol1870 it was comparatively lowing Hardy Murphy and his horse Silver Cloud who will appear at the isolated from other sections of th rodeo during Ogden’s Pioneer days are shown posing as the famous country Its business was mainly picture “The End of the TraiL" local being principally confined tn a system of barter between store-goo- ds and workshop fabrics of th W Thomson Colonel quarThis was followed five years later jutant colonel and the produce of th man Moore David termaster on of a construction the canal city by the “Bench” for watering the up- First regiment B F Cummings farmer This state of affairs changed colonel Secod regiment per part of the city with the coming of th ! In 1852 the then existing pub- grpatly This arduous work was performed railroad Th transcontinental first inadebecome at an estimated cost of $50000 in lic buildings having of railroad brought easy access to th labor a large outlay for such a quate for the increasing number world and brought with worshipers the L D S outside young community in such compara- religious business activity enincreased it west on the tive isolation from resources The tabernacle was built avenue be- terprise! capital trade and enof Washington Ogden canyon road was constructed side and Twenty-secon- d hanced prosperity in 1859 with another large outlay tween Twenty-firstThe first of the railroads to enstreets of capital The toll gate ' at the ter Ogden was the Union Pacific mouth of the canyon was establishThq pioneers lacked many of the railroad the first locomotive of modern day conveniences which we which steamed into Ogden at two ed in 1860 On the 10th of March 1858 the deem to be indespensable Meet p m on March 3 1869 Great was city council during the the joy of the residents on finally first brigade of the Weber county ings of the 9 held at night were militia was organized into two year being linked with the east candle light illuminated by Festive ceremonies of the great regiments for external defense The of to' was fatal Cholera eighteen following constituted the general day included a salute from Cap- staff C W West brigadier gen- the settlers of Weber county in deaths 0 Twenty-seve- n ( Continued on Page Four) ad eral Daniel Gamble 1858-185- brigadier 1849-185- To MAYOR “HARM 99 AND - OGDEN PIONEER DAYS INC FOR GIVING UTAH THE FINEST CELEBRATION IN THE WEST s t i General Electric Supply Corporation 312 West Second South Street Salt Lake City Utah -- |