Show USEFUL CAREER the following follo sketch of the life of alc boremon bo renon sr ano died at hie home in fountain green sanpete county april 27 last and who was the father of county recorder 0 jr of Cast ledale who was a the beds d of his father when the biral summons cams shows that i busy and useful cit zen his passed from the activities of life he res ded at buntain green for nearly a half century he waa borri in tyvr aarhus denmark april 7 1836 his parents being poor he began at the age of 7 to earn his own at light work n the summer time Hs education ado such as the coarr on school of his town offered during the winter months und which he was obliged to leave at the age of 14 to pursue a live hood for himself at this youthful age he be gan learning the miller s trade in a small wind mill such as was then and are now found dotted all over the land of denmark thil youth little dreamed thit his chosen avocation should also be the trad of his wo sons and two sons in law at the age of 24 he acceptor the doctrine and became a I 1 atter day saint bainy baptized april 7 by soren v ho was alao pall bearer at the funeral services almost immediately after accepting the strange he was called to labor as a local ionar for ne irly two years in h s native land april 7 1862 he sit si t ail for zion with company of saints in a sailing vessel his vessel was tossed about on th atlantic waves for eleven dreary weeks during which time the culinary water became thrice stagnant but each time revived and became fresh again being without money he work his passage across the by dr ving an ox team fron the mis soun river right into salt lake cita reaching the latter in september after a five months journey almost immediately he located in fountain green where he resided until his dem se except tig tor a short per od during tha black hawk indian war when h with the other settlers moved their fam lies to moroni for safety he took h s full part in this tedious war deceased was endowed with consi ler abie natural ab lity in the later sixt es he aided in cocat ng the co op field at fountain green and was the head draughtsman and platted it into five ind ten acre tracts with such skill that not a foot of waste was aft in the whole triangular field using a comman carpenter s square and a leaa p nc 1 his only engineering tools he was also somei bat skill d as a turner and cabinet maker aven until th s day can ba seen creditable pieces of furniture his handiwork anda the before furniture was brought from the east and at t me when the people had no money with wh ch to buy A few of these p bees sol d relics are yet in evidence in Cast ledal and or dangeville angeville ang eville hiving been brought over the mountain when these towns were first settled in mr was in tailed t ead miller in the splendid nw phoenix burr mill at fountain gren and made its quality of floar known from silt lake cit to st george about 1886 the burr mill was charged to a roller system under his direction be ng one of the first roller systems in sanpete in less than one year this m 11 was consumed by fire but onla to be rebuilt again by the close of another year a real phoenix roller mill which still stands a monument to his integ nty the big fie made h m a par pan consuming his earnings of th ltv years and leaving his firmly without flour at the time at this mill he resided for some thirty two and reared his family in 1882 the sanate valley rai boad was bu it its it s tracks being la d son 0 three roda from th m II 11 and th null was 1 made the station dortho to and ole sorensen sr was made its agent which paa t on h h id for 20 years up to his death he filled another m assion to his native lani from maich 1883 to july 1880 he married n caroline hans n may 31 1863 at carowan parowan sha was also a native of and emigrated the same year as her husband he bi ought h s bride from the southern country by ox team which was their bridal tour to four tain grein grei n seven children chil dien blest th s m on of which two boys and two girls arc living afar the death of h s former gift he married maria N larsen june 24 1891 two children blest th s union both being girls and who survive h m the widowed mother his is largely the h story also of fountain green ha was kno for thrift ad a d honesty n all its mean ng and was counted a ane id to ill who I 1 ad 1 s than himself of this world s goods his friends are lef 01 |