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ARCHITECT NAME G,1 L-LeSf:l ts/ DATE OF BIRTII J \) k)E. ·~ DATE OF DEATH '"1bH,. l<oq(o EEE:,Te:. f> Jf· 12> '2. '2. architect FIRMS ASSOCIATED WI'IH MATERIAL AVAILABLE UNDER other ~Tb tJE MASO~ "\ . ~~~c!fjt~\ P \p,J;> ~ ~~V ' y PLACE OF PRACTICE TYPE OF PRACTICE ~ };!l /l'o,tY ~ \s- ~ VOL r 4- PETER GILLESPIE. s)ETER GILLESPIE, JH., ;;on of Peier Gilll,;;pie and his wife ?lbrtha Scott, was v born at Denny, Stirling;;hire, Scotland, .June 2-!, 1S2:2. His father wag a ~tone ma ;on, aud in the city of Gb,;g-ow, at the ag-e of t\\·eke,y,rnng- P..t1.,r was apprenticed to a ~toue-enttt>r, whose tra<le he thoroughly ma,-t,•red. His pare11t,; were poor, con~eqnently be re<'Ci\"e<l but little education. He worked t\\·l']Ye itours a ,lay, and attended sdrnol at night. In Gla:,:gow, when he was twenty years of ag-e, he embra~ed the latier-day Gospel, and thenceforth labored as a local mi~sion:ll"y, al;;o working ener;;,:ti<'ally for m1·:rn;; to emig-rate to Ctah. He sailed for America ,January 2:2, l:::i.jJ, and landc•d on the 21Jr!1 of )larch at Xew Orleans. From that pvint he proeceded to Alton, lllinoi;;, wbc·re he worked on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, to prrwnre mean~ for an outfit to bring- him farther west. \\-itL au ox-team, wae,ou, and pro\·i"iou,; for the journey, he ,;tartt,d April lS. lS:33, for Qumey, and there cro,;srd th,, .'.\Ji;;si,;;ippi to K,,okuk, where a company was organized under the direetiou of .'.\Iose,; Claw~on to ero;;s tlie plains. ft was a season of high watn, the riYers on:,r/lowing the country for mile~, :rnd in addition to the,e ob,t~C'les their cattle stampe<lt>d twit•e, breakiug a number of \\·agon;;. Hero.ls of baffalo were encountered daily, an<l in one of them a!l thr, loo;se ~toek of the company were run off, but were subsequently 1·ecoven'd. September 18 was the date of arri,·al in Utah. '.\Ir. Gillespie settled first in Tooele County, where he remaine,1 four years. In the Indian troubles of 1S53--1 he took an aeti\·e part, standing- guanl e\·ery otber nig-!,t to proteet the lives and property of the white settler~. In the gr:1s~hoppcr famint that followed, alt his crops were dc>stroyecl. and he and hi~ family \Hilt without bread for weeks at a time, subsisting npon ~eg-,ws aml other wild ronH. In lSS,. at the call of Pre;;id,mt Brigham Young, lie mo\-e(l to Salt Lake City to work on the Temple. He ;.en-et! in Ed10 canyon that year. and in the rnoYe of the year following- \Tent to Pondtown (now Payson) returnin.~ north with the re~t of thc> iuhabitants. ·s:e cut stone for the Salt L'll.:e Tell!p!e fro:n foundation tu cap~tone, an,l when r:nt thus employed, worked upon other i111ponant IJUiitlings and cntcrpri,;e~. In c,oujunction with James :\Ioylc he did all the stonework on till· l,ri<lg-es of the Union Pacific Ifailrnad from De,·il's Gate to Echo; the work upon the Tetllple not being in prngres.,; at ri1e time. ;\Ir. Gille"pie's ecelesia,tieal labors i11eln<le fori~· yE-ar,s rxperienee as a ward tea<·lier, and rn:rnY vears service as ~uperintendent of tlw Sixt<·enth \\'ard S1111day S<·lwol. He wa,.; ord,{iu"ed to the Priesthood in 1S40. and bee-amt• a i'.,e1·<>nty iu 1Sii7. In his latter yc·ars he was one of the pre;;iJency of tbe 21th Quorum of SeYenty. He married on June O, 184:i .. .'.\farrtal'et ~lclntyre, anll after her death WC',ltle,1 Lavinia Harnptun. Ile ;;-,,s the father of eight children. (Tp di,,,~ in T"'"···-··- , ,,n,·· 0