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Show ! "I u ' St. John's Church William B. Preston Was One Of Logans Builders 1 t BY PRKSTOX H. MBLKY William B. Preston was one of the great builders of Logan and Cache Valley. It might be said that he was the chief founder of Logan as he came here in the beginning of the settlement and spent his most active years here. Logan would not be what it is today had it not btfn guided in its infancy man. I am particularly fond by the genius of this remarkable " Of him because I have been permitted to bear his name. It is a man icd in Salt Lake Cit$. real pleasure for me to write this Shortly after his maiiiage William enlisted as a Minute Man' in brief sketch of his life. The stale of Virginia, on the the local nulitia which had been eastern seaboard, produced Wil- organized to resist the liam B. Pteston. He was born in at my, and accompanied an exFranklin county of that slate, on pedition to the Ilalte river to goods that had been cached the 24th of November, 1830. The Mormon church, which was to by Moimon fieighter al the In his of hostilities. He also made play such a prominent part a a to California to purchase only been tiip organised had life, who B. goods for his father-in-lafew months when William Intended to open a stoie at Pay-soPieston came into the woild. Utah, where he had located. Early Idle his On teturn fiom California. In Williams early lile was spent the spiing of 1850, William also on & lann, and there he learned to locale al l'ayson, but prepared him to help weie the lessons that time he heard of a at this just a piolater on, when he became called Cache Valley, new valley west. neer and colonizer in the which was being opened for setAt the age of nineteen he lelt the tlement in Northern Utah. With faint and became a cleik in a two of his brothers-in-laJohn lie he jourcounliy store. In thiee yeais Aaron B. and Thatcher, had accumulated a sufficient neyed to Cat he Valley in August, amount to take him on "a trip to 1859. On arming at the site of Calilornia and he decided to see Logan where a few families had the wondeiful land that had B. Presand already camped, William so many and remaiked, around looked ton settle! s in such a shod space of Tills is good enough for me," time. He journeyed on a boat to and with characteristic energy he the Isthmus of Panama, where began to build a home. This he crossed to the Pacific side and home. I have been told, was locatthen sailed on another boat to ed on or near the site of the presSan Fiancisco Bay. ent Woodt uff school. the Canng little or nothing forchasChosen Bishop life of a gold hunter, he pui ed a had of land in Yolo County lit November 1850, two ol the and settled down to the occupaof the Church, Otson Apostles stock-iais. tion of a farmer and Hyde and Ezia T. Benson, weie cirAnd now a most foitunate sent from Salt I.ake City by Prescumstance occuned in his life, ident Brigham Young, to uigamze William B. Preston found that his the growing settlements of Cache nearest neighbors were Hezekiah Valley into waids. On at riving at Thatcher and family, and that Logan they selected William B. they were Mormons from Utah. Preston to be the Bishop of that He Immediately became inteiest-e- d growing ronirhunity. No moie In them and their religion. In favorable choice could have been February 1857 he was baptized made. He was a man, of sound by an Elder named Heniy G. judgment, unlimited eneigv and Boy le. fully devoted to the religion which To Utah he had espoused In the fait of 1837, when John-atnnAt the time Logan became a army approached Utah, waid under the leadetshtp of President Brigham Young advised Bishop Preston, its membership all the Mormons in California to consisted of seventeen families I return to the gaihering place and am proud to say that my grandassist in the emergency. The parents, Joel and Saiah Ricks, Thatcher family responded to and their children, comprised one this call; they sold their posses- of these families sions In California and journeyed Bishop Pieston now assumed to Salt Lake City where they ar- leadership in Logan. Early in the rived In January 1858. William spring of 18G0, while two feet of B. Preston accompanied them. snow lay upon the gtound, he asA romance had now developed sisted the Territorial Surveyor, between Wi'liam and Harriet A. Jesse W. Fox, in suit eying the Thatcher, the comely daughter of streets and blocks of the city. He Hezekiah and Allie Thatcher, and afterwards spent much of his time on February 24th, 1858, they weie in apporlioning building sites to Has Long Hisiory in Cache Valley Herald-Journ- al Pioneer Progress Centennial Edition to t t . . I i ti t ' 1 madeW.ll.aro i ai oaH iai tUH- - to ldge But he a small 43 - be- plamei. the windows line letiiin.. "U.dii't baiter me a bit tidmg It al iujs HI Maine ude became the in he cab. locomotive T be v Lv'm 1.1am and Mars h Phibo"1 SINCE 1881 Logans Oldest Printery adobe r f r uffllx-- encour and jre Has Been Serving The Cache Valley With brmg erv to .'A t0 srr mainu place QUALITY PRINTING Utah of in in tarry chamber fa support 4, 1873 gv native j ft' I -- m of maint labor jj ag Ipint. L build ai s gnumty, ration ee upon p fxment CHA j: .CE- i Becau 'g can enl est man o I he comn Becautf k sp.nt of M. 1. followed by Bleecker, F. W. Cook, and T. I.. Bellam The coinei stone of the piesent St. John s chuich was laid in 1908 and the chuich completed in 1910. Kectois of I lie chuich in later yeais weie Kev. Paul Junes, Donald K. Johnstun. Edwin T. Lewis and Allen Jacobs. Pivx-en- t lectoi is Kev. Willis M. Rosen- Gillegly, down Hass Eeeauvf opu pess rtirh the irty. J. P. SMITH THE IMPORTANCE thal. The church and si bool established in Logan and conducted lor so many yeais by' the Episcopal ONE OF IAM1AVS OKI'.AT buildeis was William B Pieslon. Chuich have been a gteal lot re He is often teferied lo as tne cnief foundet of Logan city, fot good in the community. They the sett lets He also became active at lived at that outpost and were have made a substantial contu- in du acting the construction ol without means to tiavel acioss button lo the cultuial and ielig-th- e Logan and Cache the Logan and Hyde Paik canal. plains to Salt Lake Valley. 'ous of alley. which Cache the members in fact, Valley Every improvement, " " was necessaiy for the growing Church were requested to furnish d a number of these teams and! . . community, received his wagons, and Bishop William B. Men Not 5o Superior, assistance and support. Pieston was asked to accompany W ite Demonstrate Eegislator them as their captain. He ieadily FRT.EPORT, 111. U..P - Phillip to the call and spent responded was When a new appoi tionment the sunimeis of 1863 and 1864 on Com was proud of his hole-thi- s r made for lepresentation in the ln-- ! e "n the 8th hole unselfish mission. About six Terirtonal Legislature, in the months was spent each summer in at ,ne unspl couise. 1 nr U' Cache county wwks- - hp eould h,'! winter of 1860-61- , the journey to Omaha and was granted two tepresenta'ives. making i etui n, and each man had to pay In August 1861. an election was his own both for himself held and William B. Preston and and his expenses, animals. The w inters, to elected were Peter Maughan playing only a short tune, score J until 1S65. Bishop Preston spent' an tne on the same hole, fill these positions in ntendmg the sessions of the In April, 1863. President Brig- Temtoiial Legislatuiv in Salt ham Young madp a call on thp Lake Ci tv. 5ofl to hack for teams go people to the Missouti river and transTo Kngland port a group of Saints who had In Apnl 1865 Bishop Pieston was called by the First Presidency to undeitake a mission to Gieal Butam. He atianged his business and Church affairs and depaifed for the east eaily in OF Yo A BUSINESS ALWAYS INFLUENCED BY THE CHARACTER OF IT'S PRINTING. IS J. P. SMITH ' & SON You ( tire v PRINTERS whole-neaile- TELEPHONE 25 FEDERAL AVENUE LOGAN. UTAH 480 times -- j 120-ya- , j j 'Ul SoW puxfl6 GENERAL PAINTS 8 Factories H O. . A & Two city lots, located on the corner ot Second and Thomas slieets, were purchased by the Episcopal Chuich, and a building was eieteed which solved Uu a number of yeais both as chuich and school. Miss S. C. Blown and Miss Inez D. Eat le succeeded to the pi incipalship of the St. John's school. Later Miss A C. Cassidy became the pmuipal with Mis A. C. Banett as assistant. It was a select school with only a hunted number of pupils. The pi unary, inlei mediate, gi annual, and higher giades weie taught C hurch Leaders The Keveiend Mi. Stuy, fust pastor, was succeeded by James L. ei " rent administered December gold-seeke- i sAstHl building known as The bakeiy and lutal-e- d on the comer ut Thud and vashington stieels. In September of that year, a building knuwn as Slieuuan Hall was tented and was installed. school furmluie Chailes G. iJavis was appointed principal of the school, and the lirst teachei was By ion E. W iku. The first baptism in Logan was out-bie- 'a -- m'lioad engineer and served Metis tin tiie Boston The first tiein run b the Utah Noithein Kailioad aimed in Cache Valley in Febiu.uy, 1873 'lwo of Its pt.ssengeis weie Bishop Tuttle and the Keveirnd William Stoy of the Episcopal chuieti. In Logan they were guests at .he home of Aaion DeWitt. The puipuxe ol I heir visit to Logan was to establish a mission ana school under auspiicxol the Episcopal church. Fust slip was I The a Aired His Trouble and PRESENTS THE ULTIMATE In American Car Styling! May. On hisvv ay to New Yoik he visited his patents in Virginia whom he had not seen for thirteen yeais. Shortly after his ai-- t tv al m Liverpool he was given charge of the emigration of the Saints, and other business matters of the Euiopean Mission. He laboied in this canacity for three yeais, until his lelease to return home, in July 1868. Aiming in Salt Lake City he at once a'ainged to take a con-t- i act from Ilesidcnt Biighant Young for building part of the d giade of the Union Paeific LOGAN RECOGNIZED AS THE CREATOR OF AMERICA'S MOST DISTINCTIVE FINE CARS J it Rail-loa- 60 Warehouses Serving the West lnough Echo Canyon He also lesumed his duties as Bishop of Logan, and in addition was again elected to the Temtoiial t H( Legislature. an Upon the death of Peter Maughin Apt tl 1871. William B Pres- r1 main ton was railed lo aet as Piesiding Bishop ot Cm he Valley. Dunn,1 this same year he began to e the building of a tailioad nln Cat he Valley, and Ihiough his gieat enteipiise and the as: Mstanoe of other able men. this 'inpi ov ement was completed a far as Logan, in January, 1S73. p 1 with "lake pro-mit- i fires, sbne cu Stake President lien Cache Valley Stake was oigamed.in May, 1877. by Picm-'h'lBiighant Young. Moses Thatcher was marie the pi esurient, with William B. Pieston as his fust counselor. Two yvns later Mose Thatcher was elevated to the olfiee of Apostle, and President Pieston succeeded him as Pt esident of the Stake. Vor five years he labored diligently in this oo piety, traveling during the summer and winter, by team, from town to town, oigaming. encouraging and assisting the members of the Chuich in eveiy helpful manner possible. His stake limits at one time reached from Paradise on the south to Rexbuig, W liteve it CACHE VALLEY GLASS AND PAINT STORE IN LOGAN PAINTS ENAMELS VARNISHES Ida-ho- ,on i LACQUERS DISTRIBUTORS r W , I :'T I Maintain FOR NANCY WARREN WALLPAPERS a Complete Glass Stock and Service Wholesale and Retail CACHE VALLEY GLASS 68 WEST FIRST NORTH. LOGAN, UTAH & PAINT CO. TELEPHONE 417 ysf car new :,reston( You ton get Fire HOME OF W tire LINCOLN-MEBCUF- V AUTOMOIILES IN LOGAN mile LINCOLN AND MERCURY it Fires m the north. SALES AND SERVICE When Edward Hunter, the Presiding Bishop of the Chuich. died t Salt Lake City in October 1883. Pt esident William B. Preston of Cache alley Stake, was called to succeed him. He ieadily accepted his cal, as he had accepted every of'er call made by the Church, mice he had been a member; he toved to Salt Lake Oitv and built a beautiful home on Noith Tem-nl- c Street. Pei haps his chief acorn olishment. while he acted as residing Bislton, was to encour- age and supervise the completion of the Salt Lake Temnle, which great building was dedicated in Aftr r v in- - lumpy-1- ' "r years ns Presjd ng p.p- ,n. Vi" am P,. Pieston dmd at his home in Salt Lake City on August 2, p is. SINCE 194? 'Otvice Assure The mechanical service for LINCOLN, MERCURY and other automobiles that is maintained And in our fully equipped shop is of the same high standard of quality synonymous with the nantf f rorrt Lincoln and Mercury. 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