Show 200 Williams became engaged to David P Aided Kimball very much against the wishes of her father James A Young and by Heber P Kimball Brigham Young Jr business man Thomas S the young lovers were provided with a carriage and bodyguard who escorted them to Judge Elias Smith’s office for marriage and then to Antelope Island where they Quince Knowlton enjoyed vain their honeymoon while the irate father sought them in Upon their return the father decided to ’’forget and forgive” Although the Perpetual Emigrating Company a church agency) had been granted exclusive use of both Stansbury and t held no deeds or legal ownership to the islands Hence when the railroad was granted alternate sections of land as a subsidy to promote railroad construction in the 18603 the company was really cut out of its posses- Islands Antelope it sions on Antelope Island Under the homestead law the Church had been house where the one section to claim only lay built nnA improvements made In 1877 Robert Harkness and Adam Patterson bought the railroad land as well as the Church section A few years later 1884 Wells-F- ar go took over the could This transaction was followed -almost immediately by the purchase of the Wells Fargo in- Harkness-Patters- on interests 14 Kimball ”Re collections of Antelope Era X 1907 335 Island” |