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Dec 21 1r43: ;",_,1..>1t hnne ) ·: chay Nov. 8, 1869; Ann Grow b.' D~c. 15' : : ;- m. H e 11r) Smith June 21, 1869; Elizabeth b. Jan 30' m. Iowa Hall Feb. 8, 1870. Family home Salt Lak~ ~~1•>W . . HE ~RY ! ··: ~u~· ,,p1 a, P a . • , .. JI_ ·l p .11 a, a nd came to Utah Oct. 1 i . l~:~,:: ~i uried Julia )I. Veach Ap !l 17 185 . _, _.•, ·,~ht y eac hrand •Nancy 8, Ann Salt Lake · ~ e r of \\"illlam . Ell' ttCity• . : . : tshu ri;h, Pa .. pioneers Oct. 1 1851) Sh b IO o, : '· ! 8l2. Th e ir children. Th~odor · e was ?rn March , · : ,·,,.,t e r Veach b. Aug. 29 1861 m \1!\·ildm. A SadSe .Stuart; E 1cna Miche lson; Mary Ann 'm ·,~alte a, nn m1th a~d ;::, ,·n: m. Andrew Leonard; Ge~rg~ Elliot rm N'Jrthe3:.. ~uha .\ ::, .. 1,a. m. John Dobbs· ,valter V m B u · Bose 11 ths; H , .•. m. ·will Lowrie· Willi H ·• · e e. ryson; Maud ,,,, h E li zabeth. m. O r a M!'J'di· eg~r.; IE!tzabeth Adams; .\ cc: l : E uge ne Parnell, m. Lilli~ Hablsti- v;~~n\: mV. Pdhlebde ~ucoC' ity, Bartle tt m • Sel ma F ernstrom. Family · ·• Salt e : :..,,;.... Utah. home s· HENRY GROW ~or:}t~it. a1~t l 7, Norristown, Pa. Came Company. Archit~Jt~l, James Cummings Sl t1t ~ .. n·en a3 bishop of 19th w d s l · ·.,ct_ arc hite ct and builder. A!~n'g t ;'~~de_ City. Prom!:, ~·, It Lake City w s . e u ings he erected :-,;.; . Jq; ,, Salt Lake '¥~eat~~1al Hall, Mormon Tabernacle ;'. ~'.\1~;.~!ea~s~i /e,ur~,I tthflersfitrsstus'p e~si~f~ i-g~!Jg/~!8·utis.eTls1I, sugar actory In Ut h 1854 ~ ·' . c :, r H o u se ; built several saw T ! p a ' • at 1, j 5 ; ·the first woolen m·u mi_,". or resident Young ~, . k, ·s o·,er the Jordan and''~ J8o9,i the first suspension ; , .. • .. J th e Kew Deseret Paper r ;~rs,fl 1861; and com~·: !, :ll iss ionary to Penns Iv 11 s. e ,:st in Utah, in ·,.:_ Lake City 1870-76. Pl~ye8;,.n \~6. fl City coi:ncilman ·•· ~a a L a k e C ity. Died Nov. 4 • 18 1 . e rst martial band ! ·. lr1r f 1 , - WY p.108 Utah Nickname: Beehive State , co p.7 p.16 NM p.64 Land Area: 82,076 sq. mi. (12) Highest Point: Kings Peak, 13,528 ft. , F-7 Population: 1,727.784 (35) Capital: Salt Lake City . Largest City: Sal t Lake City I n d <.:~ P J !.J C 12 / . MORMON TABERNACLE, Temp le Square, Salt Lake City. s ,,c C.f: ? '-Ani<:E 1$ ttax;.'- FORr DOUGLAS MIUrARY RESERVATION /ln«f~/ IJ C . Mt Olvmpus D 901611 WASArCII NATIONAL FOR[ST E ~ 1994RandMC:N1tlr This wor ld-famous home of the Tabernacle Choir was built in 1867. Its turtle-shaped dome was co nstructed from native timbers held together with wooden dowels and reinforced with homemade glue and rawhide thongs . The b uildin g seats 8000 people on long wooden benches, and is used for ch urch con fe rences, organ and choir recitals, conce rt s and lectures. The organ da tes from the 11360', and contai ns nearly 11 ,000 p ip es, some ot wh ich were crafted fro m lumber especi ally milled in Southern Utah for this pu rp o se. Designer-b uild er of the unique struct ure was Henry Grow. (See location 11, Conference Program map. ) GROW, HENRY; b. Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 1, 1817; d. Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 4, 1891; f. Henry; m. Mary (Riter); w. seven; c. thirty. Apprentice as a carpenter and joiner in PA Supt. all bridges, culverts and other structures on Norristown and Germantown RRs. Became member of the Mormon Church, May 1842. Moved to Nauvoo, IL, May 15, 1843. Built barn for the patriarch of the Mormon Church and worked on the Nauvoo Temple. Fought in the Battle of Nauvoo, Sept. 19-21, 1846, escaped into IA Traveled to NE, Oct. 1846. Moved with family to Missouri, fall 1847. Operated saw and grist mill and did carpentry work until 1851. Left for Utah Territory. Arrived in Salt Lake City on Oct. 1, 1851. Worked for one year on public works. Worked on the Old Mormon Tabernacle and the Social Hall, winter 1851. Built first suspension bridge in the territory across the Ogden River, 1853. Built the Sugar Works, 1854. Worked on the building of the two saw mills in Big Cottonwood Canyon, 1855. Built an additional mill at the head of the canyon near Silver Lake, 1857. Const. temporary buildings in Provo, UT in the event that the Mormons moved south, and built suspension bridge over the Provo River, 1858. Placed cotton and woolen machinery in grist mill at mouth of Canyon Creek. Built lattice truss bridges across the Weber and Jordan Rivers, 1861. Mill work, 1863-4. Began building great Mormon Tabernacle, 1865. Completed in 1867, first building designated by the ASCE as a National Historic Civil Engineerin~ Landmark, 1971. Supt. canst. of the Zions Cooperative Mercantile Inst. mam building and warehouse, 1868. Appt. on a mission for Mormon Church to preside over PA, DE and MD, Nov. 1876-June 1877. Tore down the Old Tabernacle and built the Assembly Hall when he returned to Salt Lake City. Supt. buildings and 46 scaffolding and hoisting apparatus for the carpentry [or ~he Mormon Church including the Salt Lake Temple. Went east to examme improvements of paper mills, 1880. Returned and built mill, completed in 1883. Refs: Gessel. ( ~ l HENRY GROW (1817-1891), MORMAN CARPENTER AND BUILDER UTi\H .ALMOST HAD .A. COVERED BhlDGE I,ast Spring we ascended a steep grade from the village of Whitingham, Vt. and found the sightly birthplace of Brigham Young, the Mormon leader. This reminded us of a paragraph in "Hi story of Bridge Engineering" by Henry Grattan Tyrrell ( 1911) which states: 11:rhe warping tendency (of a Town Lattice Truss bridge) is well illustrated by the old wood lattice bridge over the Jordan River at Salt Lake City, built under the di rec ti on of ~righam Young. Renewed in 1908. It was recently examined by the writer (Tyrrell) and designs prepared for a new one." This would seem to indicate that Brigham Young was a bridgebwilder as well as church leader; but the Utah ~tate Historical Society states differently, as follows: "We find ( that) a bridge was built across the Jordan River in 1854. · It was knoVln as "White Bridgen, and was located on North Temple street. ( Ed; this is now US 40, in the heart of Salt Lake City). It was a single passageway bridge with latticed sides ( not covered). It was built by John Taylor on land belonging to Ezra Bensen. Within a few years it became dangerously unsafe, and in 1860 was replaced by a larger structure. To date we have been unable to lacate any covered wooden highway br railroad bridges in Utah." Further correspondence produced a picture of nrwhi te Bridge" This is said to be the Taylor-built bridge of 1854; but we are quite certain, from our knowledge of old photographs, that it is of the second, or 1860 bridge, which q_uite possibly stood 1llltil 1908. The picture shows a regulation Town lattice bridge, built like the specifications of the patent drawings. No suggestion of covering, or former covering is to be seen. As ~ell says, it was badly warped, and though the top and secondary chords appear straight and strong, the bottom chords were bent, broken and sprit, resembling the body of a serpent undulating a few feet above the River Jordan. The bridge, probably about 100 feet long , was supported at the time of the picture by three ~ile bents in the river. That it was a great place for young Monn ons to pley is shown by the presxenee of five overalled and high-booted urchins cl.ambering on the lattices, and grinning at the cameramen. Even in Utah's drier climate, if this bridge did indeed stand completely uncovered for 48 years, as all indications seem to point, we would say: ''No wonder 1 t warpedJ "• 01'{ Sccc,t~D CX4/V\ I J..14Tlol-f , I T2-11){11 7i-ttr P'-loTu S1tows- 11 i?n.u,'.IA 0 1 ;1 Dc..n.,t>cL-134 ..ui c c. H • l'I '1;:J. C.nol.v' S lft;,o - I 9o E S Tfl vc'rv/1. fi.. uimcrc r.,,z 10 c.ri., P(.>0"'1 <,7/1t..i 5'rM IZ. 1-1 r,'/o flfr 4 I. S'cc rfl f '1,_ -1q.; I .sou [<'~s ~ .so .1-A~r:. 1e-s J=oF 1j-\f5 ..JU"-'.Jlc:>(Z 1-l/GH BL{"' ,(A t:3L VA L-- . o/ UT..;&H ~ I o oLS 8:>Ll l V t=:., f:_ Bridge Builder Gr0\1, Henry I i3 /Z)Gf?6.F/r= October 1, 1817 - November 4, 18910 One of the men who made it possible for the Salt Lake Theater to be built was Henry Grow, a bridge builder and carpenter from Philadelphia. He was also responsible, with William Ho Folsom, for the building of the tmique roof of the Lo Do So Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Born in Philadelphie on October 1, 1817, Henry Grow was the son of Henry and Mary Riter Grow., Henry, whose great grandparents had come from Germany to Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary War, was the youngest of seven children, five girls and t wo boyso His education was limited, but he learned the traQe of mill~Tight and bridgebuilder, becoming a very fine one. Before he left Philadelphia to go west Mr. Grow was in charge of construction and repair work on the Norristo,·m and G€rmantown railroads. In 1842 11re Grow moved to Nauvoo where he worked on the Nauvoo Lo De S. Temple and other buildings. He lived in Nauvoo until 1846 when he took his family as far west as '!linter Quarterso a cabin for his familyo a111ay There he built A little later he built a house six miles where he lived for a year. In 18h7 when the ID:3.in group of emigrants left Winter Quarters 'for Utah Mro Grow and his family moved to a ho!'.le on the Little Platte River about tv1enty miles above Weston, ~issouri. There he kept the san and grist mills in repair and did other 73 ..- ....._, ~ . 74 carpenter work until 1851 when it was his turn to go to Utah. On the way the wagon train had some exciting experiences with Cheyenne and S.'1ake Indians but excaped unharmedo Salt Lake Valley on October 1, 1851. The group arrived in Mr. Grow settled at Mound Fort just north of Ogdene For the next ten years Mr. Grew was busy building bridges and mills in Salt L:lke City and the canyons n{'arbyo In 1853 he built the first extension bridge in Utah across the Weber Rivero In 1854 he built the sugar rnill in Sugar House, and in 1855 he was the assistant when two saw mills were built in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Mr. Grov1 built a suspension bridge over the Provo River, and a lattice suspension bridge over t he Jordan River6 \-.'hen the Salt Lake Theater was being built llro Grow built the water wheel and water ditch to hoist all of the rock and timbers for the theater. In addition to this he made the heavy beams and rafters for the theater and fitted up the footlightso Jn 1865 Brigham You.~g told hL~ to construct a large bowery after the same structural v1ork as the lattice suspension bridge across the Jordan River. Mr, Grow said he could make such a building one hW1dr ed and fifty feet wide an d as lone as necessary. In 1867 the Tabernacle was finished, ar.d a year later 1fir. Grow was assigned to build the 26 C. hl. I. which had been planned by Obed Tayloro From 1868-1876 Mr, Grow was in charge of all carpentering on the Temple Blocko In 1878 the Old Tabernacle was torn down and the Assembly Hall, 75 designed by Obed Taylor, was built by Henry Growo In 1880 1~. Grow was sent to !!Bny large ea s tern cities to study the building of paper mills. Upon his return to Utah he planned and built the pa per rr~ll at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyono Mr . Grow died in Salt Lake City on November 4, 1891. Reference: L. D.S. Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol6 IIIo Tullidge, Edward We Salt Lcike City and Its Founders. Tin: 1/cnrr Crow, seventh son of Henry and Mary Hiter Grow, was born October 1, 1817, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. llis grandfather, Frederick Grow, and his grandmother came from Germany before the vVar of the Hevolution and took up a large tract of land which they llivided into five farms of sixty acrl's each for their children. As a young man, Henry was an apprentice to a carpenter and joiner, and at the completion of his training superintended the construction of bridges, culverts, etc. on the Norristown and Germantown railroads, serving under George G. vVhitmore, president of the roads and ex-mayor of Philadelphia. A convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Henry was baptized in the Delaware River, Philadelphia, in May of 1842 by William Morton. He emigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1843 where he worked on the Nauvoo Temple until it was finished. He and his family journeyed across the plains in the Jam es Cummings Company, arriving in the Valley on his birthday in 1851. Settling north of Ogden, Mr. Grow was called to Salt Lake City by President Brigham Young in 1852· to supervise the building of bridges and mills. In 1853 he constructed the first suspension bridge in Utah over the Weber River. In 1854 he helped build th e sugar mill under Bishop Fred Kesler, and in 1855 assisted in building the two sawmills in Big Cottonwood Canyon known as A and B. In 1856 he moved a sawmill from Cottonwood to the forks of City Creek, seven miles above Salt Lake City, for President Young, and the same fall he framed and put up Mill D in Big Cottonwood Canyon. In 1857 he helped erect Mill E at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon, ,vhile 1858 found him building a suspension bridge over the Provo River. In 1859 he tore the works out of the old gristmill at the mouth of Canyon Creek and placed the cotton and woolen machinery in the mill for President Brigham Young. This machinery, the first of its kind used in Utah, was afterwards taken to St. George. A suspension bridge was built by him across the Jordan River in 1861. When President Young called on Mr. Grow concerning the roof of the new Tabernacle, he asked him how large a roof he could construct by the application of the lattice bridge principle. Grow replied "100 feet wide and as long as it is wanted." 79 GnEAT MonMoN TAlltHNAcu: During the years 1876-77 Henry Grow fulfilled a mission in the United States, laboring principally in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland where he visited his relatives and the old family homestead. ·On his return he was engaged in tearing clown the Old Tabernacle and erecting the Assembly Hall, superintending the practical work under Architect Obed Tarlor. It was completed in 1879. Later, Elder Grow built two brick houses for President John Taylor and acted as superintendent of carpentry work for the Church. One of his most important proje<.:ts was the construction of the Deserct Paper Mill at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. It was completed in 1883 after r-.rr. Grow had traveled East to inspect New England paper mills to gain new and improved ideas on such buildings. Ilemy Grow married Mary Moyer, wl10 bore him six chilllren, and Ann Elliott, mother of seven. After arriving in Utah he married Jnlia Veach, who became the mother of fourteen children. Active in his Church, he was one of the presidents of the 30th Quorum of Seventy for many years. Mr. Grow passed away November 4, 1891, in Salt Lake City, a highly respected citizen and a faithful member of the Church. - Files of D.U.P. THE YEARS 1863-1866 By April 18, 1863, Jesse W. Fox was surveying for the foundation, and ground was being cleared. Following the survey, the foundation was excavated. April 20th, 1863, Brigham Young wrote: "I start this morning on a visit to our southern settlements, accompanied by President Kimball, some of the quorum, and other brethren, and expect to be absent some six weeks. President ·wells tarries at home to oversee business in general, and to expedite the erection of a large and commodious Tabernacle, west of the Temple foundation." The Deseret New's of June 3, 1863, presented the original plan of the New Tabernacle. The article was signed by William H. Folsom: Dimensions on ground 150 feet wide, 250 feet long, with semi-circle ends, making one hundred feet of straicrht work on piers, 3 by sides of building. The roof will be supported by 9 feet and 20 feet high, from which an eliptic arch will be sprung of 44 feet rise. From floor to ceiling, 64 feet; width in clear, 132 feet; length 232 feet in clear. There will be an elevation in the floor of 16 feet, starting from the west radius of circular end, making 66 feet of floor on the level. The stand will be in the west end, with an elevation of 8 feet, which will give every person in the house good opportunity of seeing the speaker, which is always very desirable. Between the piers will be openings of doors and windows, which can be thrown open at pleas- 44