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Show chestra and played the guitar for dances. He was on the school board for the Jordan School District and built the school office when it was on Center Street. He was supervisor of construction while on the Being a moved to Sandy. He was City. until he shops to choir leader for the Mid a home near Church, in 1890 he headed He worked for the D & R G railroad transferred to was Their first home board and inspected the construction of the Jordan High School in 1912. When he left the board the school office was convert to the LDS for Salt Lake was on Bingham Junction. They later moved South Main. the northwest corner of North Main. During the 1890's, John served as the first sheriff of and, even though there were 17 saloons in the town, he seemed to handle the job ef ficiently, sometimes even taking drunks home to sleep on his back porch. After eight years as master mechanic for the railroad, he took a job as county license vale 1st ward for many years and a member of the Old Commercial Club. In partnership with Joseph Wright, East Jordan (Midvale) he opened the first theatre in Midvale. He died at the age of seventy five. His wife, Emma E. Bennett, died the week before. collector. The collected money had to be taken to Salt Lake City and County Building, a two day trip by Kenneth Dunn horse and buggy. MARY J. CHRISTENSEN GILL Mary, the daughter of Christensen, was born in 1860 came west in California Peter and Mette in Denmark. The K. family 1869, but her parents soon left for Mary to be raised by her leaving grandmother in Salt Lake. She married David Richard Gill. Mary moved to Midvale to live with the family. She did chores and helped with the children to pay for her board and room. In September she moved into a granary belonging to Grandma Cox and here her third daughter was born. She had previously lost two little girls. Mary worked for several families, living in, doing housework for a living. Albert Glover Sr., a trustee of Jordan District, asked if she would consider doing janitor work in the Midvale School. She accepted and with her daughter, Vilate, moved into a house on Wasatch st. During vacations they would help on the Peterson farm in West Jordan In 1890, Daniel Jones John Holden He larger school was built, they hired a man for he could take care of the furnace. Then Mary took in washings and did janitor work for the first Midvale Bank and for Watson's Drug Store. Mary Gill When janitor a - a school penter for remarkable woman. land William R. Brown JOHN AND AMELIA K. HOLDEN Holden, born in 1861 in West Virginia, Wright and Rhoda Baker Holden. His father was killed in an Illinois mining accident, aft in West er which John lived with his grandfather Virginia until 1870 and later with is grand-uncle in St. John, Kansas. Here he worked as a regular cowboy. In 1879 he went to work on the railroad in Colorado, after which he returned to St. John and married Amelia May son on a num on the same 35 years at the U.S. the northwest There of James Kendall in 1882. for corner of North Allen and Center of homes on the tract for the railroad men. Three of those five homes still stand at 69, 71, and 79 East Center Street. John Nelson the Republican Party Streets and asked him if he would consent to the building was chairman of the property. He worked as a car Smelter, retiring at age 73. He was somewhat responsible for the erection of five homes near the railroad station for use by the railroad workers. He approached Bill Aylett, who had a tract of a new so lived to be 85 was ber of years. When the old District No. 27 school was razed, John got up a petition with other citizens to build with the fruit crop. were seven children in the family - Eliza May (m. Edward Lee Horr) ; Elizabeth Viola and Milson Naomi (twins); James Zebedee, who received a Purple Heart in World War Lind), I; Vinnie Armenia (m. Melvin A. John Calvin (m. Alice Williams) and Nellie Delora. Holden Street was named after John N. Holden. Irene Maine 47 |
