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Show 143 tary district, and he was also a captain of the Topographical Engineers, and the military instructor. One Parowan resident said of him: "Bro. Martineau was what is called a Westpointer a man of education an ability and a man who shone best by the finer side or in private conversation." ^ He was born in Montgomery County, New York in 1828, the son of a physician. He was well educated and entered the printer's trade when quite young. Martineau's military experience began in the Mexican War when he was eighteen. After the war, he joined the gold rush and struck out for California. It was in Salt Lake City, while laying over the winter of I85O, that Martineau discovered the real gold he was seeking. He was baptized in January of 1851 and scrapped his plans to continue on to California. The remainder of his life was devoted to service in the Mormon church. He arrived in Parowan three months after the first settlement there and became Iron County's first county clerk and the first city recorder of Parowan. At times, he was also the Parowan Ward clerk, stake clerk, and the county probate clerk. In addition, be was a competent surveyor. At the time of the White Mountain Expedition, Martineau was thirty years old and the husband of two devoted wives (both named Susan) and the father of several small children. Men of Martineau1s character and experience were rare, and Dame relied on him heavily during the expedition. Most of the records of the southern wing of the White Mountain Expedition were written and preserved by him.20 Another notable individual to arrive at Iron Springs was Nephi Johnson. Johnson was born in the Mormon camp at Kirtland, Ohio in 1833. As a youth, be was an original pioneer of Parowan. In the spring of 1858, he lived at Johnson's Fort (present-day Enoch) near Cedar City. Although only twenty-four, Johnson had been an Indian missionary on the Virgin and Muddy Rivers and had the reputation of being the best Southern Paiute interpreter in the country. He |
