Show 201 terosts by Fred Meyers:® Eventually most of the island cane under the control of J E Dooly and White & Sons Co concern leased the Dooly holdings and used the island as a cattle range until 1903 Purebred stock vas introduced and a fine herd of cattle roamed the island In The latter 1903 White & Sons sold to Ernest Bamberger Shortly therewas organized with J after the Island Improvement Company E Dooly as president and general manager Although this company has leased the island at various times the owner-sh- ip has not been changed since 1903 James William Walker an employee of J E Dooly and White & Sons took his young bride to the island with him in 1890 where he eventually became ranch foreman and helped This was the first "family" develop the ranch into a dry farm They lived there to make Antelope Island a permanent home more than a dozen years three children being born to them during that time 17 In 1891 George Frary filed a homestead on 160 acres of land on the island and moved there with his wife and their four children® Frary became well known as a lake man and 15 Brown np 16 Loo "Description and History of Antelope Island" cit Howell and Elvera Manful Virginia History of James William Walker" np 18 "Statement of George Frary" to A 17 1939 Copy in Utah Historical Society "Pioneer Personal 17 J Swenson files July |