Show Mr and Mrs Charles Bagley Observe Golden Wedding I kj i 2 j 4 TL 4 4 4 5 4 kiC i fr ir pi Charles Stewart Bagley and Mrs Irs Julia Ann Hansen Bagley who celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary last night E IJ of oC fifty years ears ago R REMINISCENCES wore were a part of or the program last night at a celebration of oC the th olden wedding r pf pt Mr and Mrs Charles Charle i S S. Bagley Bale of Big Cottonwood Salt Lake count County which was held at the home of their theil son Frank E E. Bagley 16 Seventh I East Last street Mr lr Ba Basley Bagley le is one of ot the earliest Utah pioneers and was intimately inti inti- connected with all the frontier development dc of oC Salt Lakes Lake's earliest t days ays Mrs rs nag Bagley who is sixty-six sixty tars ars old old is remembered h by man many of oC he tile early earh pioneers as an el year old girl irl wl who came caine front from Denmark k in 1853 mal making the trip acro across s the tho sea without without with- with out ut relative e or friend to keep her compary com com- pary ary pary landing at New ew Orleans and making mak- mak I In ing ng the tue trip to St St. Louis by herself I At 1 St St. Louis she Joined a family of ot converts con- con erts verts to the Mormon church and In Inthe inthe the he same year l began c an the Journey journe across the he plains to Utah Mr 11 Bag Ic came to Salt Lake in 1855 III Ic- Ic went at once into mio the handling of lumber r and furnished d the wood which w vent ent nt into most of the walls of the first cabins and homes some some of ot which are arc standing today lie furnished the thc lumber lumber lum lurn- ber tier for the first telegraph raph poles potes on wires were strung In Utah and h ho also furnished the Union Pacific r railroad company with the tho ties lies which held the thc fI first t rails raUs laid Into the tho state state- In those days das he ho formed a partnership with wilh I Francis Armstrong who went Into the lumber lumbe busin business ss with him and this p partnership endured for tor or tort forty years ears not even en being interrupted by the terms Armstrong served as mayor maor of or tie tl-e city Today roday Mr 11 Armstrongs Armstrong's s 's son and Mr lT Ba Bagley's Bagleys Jes son are arc mem members bels bel's of the firm In the samo business as their their fathers fathers' firm the firm the Taylor Arm strong sUong Lumber company compan Mr h and Mrs rs Bagley were married in nl Big Cottonwood h by Bishop David Brinton when the girl who had come I aone alone from Denmark was i as sixteen years ears old Ild At t the c celebration of their theil fifty I years cars of happiness together thirty five dc descendants were In attendance Among these were ere four sons and four Cour daugh daugh- ter The sons sorts are Frank E. E Bagley secretary and treasurer of the lie Ta Taylor Taylor- lor Armstrong Lumber company compan E. E 0 O. Ba Bag Bag- loy lv of Murray Hurray Grant C C. Bagley of ot Provo Prove a and d Andrew Andrei Bale Banley of Salt alt Lake The daughters daughter arc are Mrs II H. T T. Cutler Mrs Jane B. B HIlI lulls Hills Mis h Mayette B. B King and Mss Miss Zola Bagley |