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Show Banks' Hosts to Utah History Study Group Last Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Karl Banks were hosts at their home last Saturday night to a Utah History Study Group. The group is made up of a number of prominent north and central Utah people, who are interested inter-ested in learning the authentic details of early Utah history from an unbiased study of documentary facts. The group members came to Pleasant Grove to listen to a manuscript prepared by Mr. Banks relative to the Mormon Milita foray against some 500 Morrisite Church adherants at Kingston's Fort, near Ogden, Utah, June 13, 14, and 15, 1862. The Morrisites were a "splinter "splin-ter group of former Mormons and gentiles, who had established estab-lished themselves as a religious relig-ious organization under the direction dir-ection of their leader, Joseph Morris. During the military foray, against the Morrisites, Morris was killed, as, was John Banks, who had chosen to cast his lot with the dissenters. John Banks was the grandfather of Karl Banks, which fact stimulated stim-ulated his interest in the Mor-risite-Mormon Military episode. Those present at the last Saturday meeting were Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Howard and Ezra W. Clark of Bountiful and Utah Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. Allan Crockett , Mr. and Mrs. La Mar Petersen, Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzgerald, Dr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Paul, Mrs. Edith Pendleton and James A. Cox, all of Salt Lake City, and the host and hostess. Refreshments were served by Mrs, Howard and Mrs. Banks. |