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Show The Old UniversityPROFESSOR LEVI EDGAR YOUNGTHE University of Deseret, or "Parent School," was formally opened November 2, 1850. Classes were conducted in the parlor of the home of John Pack, in the Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake City. Among the first professors were Orson Spencer, A. M., Orson Pratt, and Cyrus W. Collins, Ph. D. The old Murray series of readers were used as texts with the Bible and copies of various other books, which had been hauled across the plains by the pioneers. During the Spring of 1851, the school was moved to the Council House, located on the site where the Deseret News Building now stands. The University was continued in the Thirteenth WardAn Early Home of the UniversityPhoto by Ben Ellerbeckschool and meeting house, until the Spring of 1857, when all the schools of the city were closed, and the people moved from their homes to the south. Historical and philosophical subjects were taught at the University at this time, together with the languages and the natural and physical sciences. Prof. Orson Pratt gave an extended course in astronomy. In 1860 the University, which had then come to be known as Union Academy, was opened in the building that had been intended for a hotel, and built by Mr. David Wilcken |
