Ogden Police Department-Personnel P.1

On the right side of the law was the Ogden Police Force as pictured in this photograph taken in 1891. Center front row is city judge S. M. Freshaw. The others, identified by their uniforms and mustache, are early Ogden day policemen. Trouble for Ogden City began with the coming of the railroad in 1869. Transients, bums and floaters drifted into town. Tough freighters and carefree cowboys came to town to howl and fight. Many of the early policemen shot it out with the badmen and eventually lost as the mute memorial in Municipal Park will testify. However they were responsible for bringing to justice numberless deserving culprits and managed to maintain a semblance of law and order in the early railroading history of Ogden.