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Show daughters Elizabeth died in New York. He and his second wife the LDS Church and moved one t Bliss, joined Illinois in 1840. Here two sons were born - of the first merchandise institutions in this Salt Lake Orson Pratt part of County and was in existence for more than fif tyyears. Cora Goff Dahl and Joseph Smith Arnold. In 1848 the family came to Utah, but Josiah went on to California. In 1850' Elizabeth died in Sacramento, California. Josiah returned to Ogden, Utah, where he married a widow, Clarissa Jones Canfield in 1854. They located in West Jordan (Midvale) and Josiah was one of the original land Clarissa Arnold owners. At first they lived in a dugout on the east side of the Jordan River. Later their property extended east of the river and south of Center Street. drought and grasshopper plague, .Because of the was known as the hard wmter of 1855 ALEXANDER AND the winter. Before spring, the destitution was appalling. Horses were eaten and when they were gone, hides and leather were boiled to .grue to keep life in starving bodies until another year might liberate them from the famine which gripped the land. Hunts were organized for rabbits, deer and other game, but soon the combined hunting of the Mormons and the famished Indians depleted even this scant source ELLEN YORGESON DAHL Alexander Dahl was born in Norway in 1831, fourth son of Paul Larsen Dahl and Marie Anderson Dahl. At eighteen he took up the carpenter trade and in five to the years became a cabinet maker. He was converted LDS Church in 1852 and in 1854, he and a small group of Norwegian and Danish members of the church emigrated to America. They arrived in New Orleans later, they arrived February 1855 and seven months Salt Lake City. Alexander first found employment as a came that Johnston's Army was Utah, he joined to delay the Army. to carpenter. on the way Canyon After his release from his CLARISSA JONES CANFIELD ARNOLD was born in Richland, New York in 1815. She and her sister, Louisa, .were the only mem bers of their family to join the Mormon Church. It was a sorrowful parting when the girls left their family and went to live in Nauvoo, Illinois. Here Clarissa married Cyrus Culver Canfield. Their son, Myron, was born in Nauvoo. Cyrus Canfield prepared his family to move he joined the Mormon Battalion, leaving his wes, but at Winter Quarters. Not long after that, the baby, fa.mIly WIth many others, was stricken with scurvy and died. The following spring in 1848, Clarissa and her sister in the militia and went to Echo When word of food. in miltary duties, he went to met Ellen Yorgeson from Malmo Sweden. She and her family were among the first con verts to join the LDS Church in Sweden. In the fall of 1855, the Yorgeson family left their comfortable home Payson where he Clarissa Lora Jones . They arrived in New York City February 1856. The family traveled from there by rail to Keokuk, Iowa, where they stayed a year to earn enough to continue their journey. They arrived in Utah and set out for America. in , in 1857. In the spring of 1858, the family moved to Spanish Fork. Here Ellen married Alexander Dahl in 1858 and they purchased a farm in East Jordan (Midvale). The farm was on the land now owned by the U.S. Smelter started in Heber C. Kimball's Company for the west. They drove their own oxen alone, with no help from the men, except to yoke and unyoke the team. When Clarissa's husband returned, they lived in Ogden where two daughters were born to them Ellen and Melissa. Not long after Melissa was born, Cyrus and was on the west side by the Jordan River by Midvale's Main Street. bordered and on the east - to California and later died there. Around 1852, retned Clarissa met and married Josiah Arnold. a widower, Maria 'and Hyrum Chester. They had two children settled in Jordan West (Midvale). They Two years later, Josiah died and his wife was left with - four children to raise. A few years later her son died but her three daughters grew to womanhood. Ellen married Thomas Stokes and moved to Draper, Utah. Melissa married John Borlase and Maria married Hyrum Goff. Soon after her young daughter's and Mary Goff, general merchandise store known as the Goff Company, with Hyrum Goff as manager. This was Clarissa marri?ge, established a with Isaac Alexander, Sr. and Ellen Dahl with family: Alexander, Soren, Louise (Barrett), 21 David and James. courtesy Charles and Ella Schmidt |
