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NAME 1? 1GH ~e:,.r;,=s I DATE OF BIRTH & UG ., Sb M..l..)f:2,L. · \N Ci { 821: 8 1 T~ =-+ DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF PRACTICE TYPE OF PRACTICE FIRMS ASSOCIATED WITH ( ~ indicates MATERIAL AVAILABLE UNDER ) BUILDINGS archite~t other ~ V\~· > .. 1 HISTORY OF L'TAH. .;,. I 323 immediately respouded to this summons, and was J u J ~ , = - ~ o f the St. Louis "Luminary;" presiding simultaneously over the Latter-day Saints in the Ohio and .:llis-. sissippi va.lleys. His health had not been good for some time, but he suffered uncomplainingly, and entered upon his missionary labors with bis ol<l time zeal and devotion . He had not been long in St. Louis when he was commissioned by President Young to visit the Cherokee In<lian nation, a mission which he filled in August and September, accompanied by Elder James l\foGaw. While among.the Cherokees be was attacked with ebills and fever. He returned at once to St. Louis. where be arrived on the 17th of September, very much fatigued a,nd debilitated. T;,phoid fever ensued, and on the 15th of October, 1855, he breathed his last. His remains were temporarily buried at St. Louis, but in the summer of 185G they were taken up and sent home; the final interment being in the Salt Lake City cemetery. I I . .!; .·1 I It ~b l .1 n I • ,..,. •• 1.: SAMUEL WHITNEY RICHARDS. ;f DISTINGUISHED member of a distinguished family is Hon. S. W. Richards, of Salt Lake City. Younger brother to the late President Franklin D. Richards, and elder brother to Colonel Henry P. Richards, whose biographies appear elsewhere, his mother, Wealthy Dewey Richards, was <•f the same lim,al stock as Admiral George Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay. The subject of this sketch was one of the original regents of the University of Deseret, a member of the first city council of Salt Lake City, and a representative for several sessions in the T erritorial legislature. Be presided twice over the European Mission, edited the ".:lfillennial Star,'' and performed it great ministerial work in the British Isles and adjacent countries. A native of Richmond, Berkshire county, .:lfassacbusetts, he was born August 9, IS'24. Like the ?\faster whom he was destined to ser;-e he came into the world a carpenter's son , and early acquainted himself with carpentering and cabinet work. He had a common school education; he labored summers upon the farm, and traveled at times as a trader in several of the New England States. At the age of eighteen be assisted in the construction of a railroad that was being built through his native town, and had charge of forty men on the line from Richmond to Pittsfield. After completing that piece of work he superintended another from the Xew York State line to Pittsfidd. and upon that continued to be engaged up to the time of leaving Massachusetts for Illinois. He had been baptized a Latter-day Saint in the fall of 1838. The year of his removal to Nauvoo was 1843. He now r esumed carpenter work, and labored nearly three years on the Nauvoo Temple. In the spring of 184-1, a few months before the Prophet's death, an exploring expedition was organized by his direction to seek a home for the Saints beyond the Rocky Mountains. Samuel W. Richards was one of the members of this proposed expedition, which was organized and at weekly meetings was addressed by Presidents Sidney Rigdon, Hyrum Smith and occasiom.lly by the Prophet, who instructed the explorers upon the duties that would be required of them. The expedition n ever left Nauvoo, being detained by events terminating in the martyrdom. It is ?1Ir. Richards' belief that if Joseph and Hyrum, when they crossed the :\Iississippi and started West, had continued on their way, instead of returning and surrendering themsel,es into the hands of their murderers, this baud of explorers would have accompanied them to the Rocky Mountains. While still at Nauvoo, on January 29, 1846, Samuel W. Richards was united in marriag-e to l\fary Haskin Parker, daughter of John and Ellen Parker, of Chaidgley, Lancashire, Engla.nd. He had been married but a few m·ontbs when he was called with his brother Franklin to labor as an Elder in the British ~fission. They left Nauvoo early in July, sailed from l:\ew York in the latter part of September and landed at Liverpool about the middle of October. The Richards brothers were appointed to Scotland, and Samuel remained there, meeting with much success, lon g after Franklin bad been called to Liverpool to assist at the headquarters of the :i\fission. Both the brothe::-s were noted for their 11· jl - i //' (i ~l / __, 1 ·-· --• - -- -- -- - --- - - - - - - - --- - - - - - - - - - - · - - ------ ---- 1.j 32-:1: HISTORY OJf UTAH. pleasing a ddress, gentlemanly affability and the ease with which they won their way to the hearts of the people, making frie nds am1 conYerts on evory hand. Early iu 18-!8 Samuel rotumed with his brother and a company of Latter-day Saints to America. ·while the others continued on to Salt Lake Valley he remained with hi:; fam ily in Upper 11issouri, where in the winter of 1845-9 he became acquainted with Oliver Cowdery, one of the thL"ee witnesses to the Book of 1\Iormon, who was returning from Winter Quarters after reuniting with the Church, from wliich he had b een absent for about ten years. Oli,;-er was on his way to visit his brother-in-law, David Whitmer, at Richmond, 1Iissouri, prior to coming to Utah. For three weeks, during a snow blockade, Elder Richards entertained Elder Cowdery and enjoyed his r e lation of reminiscences connected with the rise of 1\Iormonism. On reaching Richmond Oliver sickened and died . Tho next year Mr. Richards and his family came to Utah, or as it was then called;. "Deser et.'' At the organization of the Salt Lake City government, in J anuary, 1851, S:mrnel W. Richards became a member of the city council by appointment of the Governor a nd legislature pending the fhst election under the city charter. The year before he had been made a regent of the n ewly created University. He helped to frame the first city ordinances, but had not been long- in the council when he was called to r esume his ministerial 11\bors in Europe. There , in the summer of 1852, after laboring some months as a Traveling Elder, he succeeded his brother Franklin in charge of the mission , the latter returning to Utah. During thu next two years he forwarded many thousands of souls to Utah and gainod the reputation of conducting- the b est shipping agency in Great Britain. In 1854 he was summoned under tile Queen's seal to appear before the House of Commons Commictee on Emigrant Ships, to give information and offer suggestions for the improvement of the emigration laws of Great Britain. The committee consisted of fifteen members, John o:connell, E sq., chairman. President Richards ' recommendations on several points were adopted and emhodied·in a new passenger act passed by the Briti:;h Parliament about the same time with one of like character enacted by the Congress of the United States. At this time he ed:ted and published the "l\fillennial Star," then a weekly with a vast circulation, and also two semi-monthly journals. The British Isles, France and Switzerlan d comprised the field of his persotrnl labors . H e returned to Utah in 185,L Elected to the legislature he served in the House of Representatives for three consecutive sessions; the A ssembly then meeting annually. In 185G, having previously made a study of the law, lie was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court or Utah. In March of the same year he sat as a member of the Constitutional Convention. In 1857, the year of the Buchanfl.n expedition, h e was prominent iu milita ry rnoYem ents. He had held for several years the office of Brigade Quartermaster and Commis-;ary, with the rank of Lio!itenant-Colonel, to which he was commissioned by Governor Brigham Young. In the summer of the year that the F ederal troops entered Utah, and as soon as the Governor had decided to place the Territory under martial law, Colonel Richards was sent with a special message to President Buchanan, informing him that his army could not enter Uti,h until satisfactory arrangements has been. made, by commission or otherwise. This bold message was delivered to the President tlirough Colonel Thomas L. Kane, who afterwards played the part of mediator between the Chief l\fagistrate and the l\Iormon people. After delivering to Colonel Kane the dispatches entmsted to him, and securing his services as a messenger to the President, Colonel Richards crossed the Atlantic, carryipg instructions to -the Mormon missionaries in Europe to return as soon as possible. For several mouths he presided over the l\fiss10n . In 1858 h.e led home a small company of Elders , arriving at Salt Lake City in May. A fuller a ccount of this expedition is contained in chapter thirty-one of our ftrs t volume. From 1854 to 18GO Mr. Richt,rds served again as a city councilor, and from 1860 to 1861 as an alderman of the municipa lity. In the latter year the L egislature appointed him Probate Judge of Davis county, and soon after the Supreme Court made him a United States Commissioner. In ]\fay, 186-!, he was commissioned Colonel of mLitia, and in February, 1866, was re-elected a lderma n of the second municipal ward of Salt L ake City. His wife, Mary Haskin Parke'r, died at Salt Lake City, Juno 3, 18GO. She was in her thirty-fifth year, and had borne to him five children. His second marriage was wit h l\fary Ann Parker, his living wife, by whom he has had t en chilJren. By his third wife, Helena L. Robinson, "·ho died July 18, 1883, he is the father of eleven children, and by his fourth w;fe, Jane l\Jayer, who died May 15, 1867, the father of one. In 1871-2 Elder Richards was on a mission in his native State and in other parts of New Eng-land. - -:---1·t1 -~-.. . ..:. • I I' 325 HISTORY OF UTAH. "While the Salt Lake 'remple was nearing completion be was engaged for about two years in assisting to complete the decorative work in the carYing department. In 1805- G-7 he presided o,er the Eastern States Mission, and in this field and period of his labors became acquainted with many leaning men of the nation, including editors, ministers, judges , authors and professors , with some of whom he still corresponds . His time and services are now regularly employed in the Temple . JULIAN M OSE S. ±HE first man known to have taught a school in l'tah, or in the region now bearing that name, was the late Julian l\bses, of East )Iill Creek, Salt Lake county. He ·Iwas a native of Norfolk, Connecticut, and was born April 11. 1810. His father .rnd mother, Jesse and Esther Brown :Moses, were both descended from old Puritan families . Julian's early boyhood was passed at home with his parents, who were considered wealthy for those times. They owned a large farm and dairy, and were very thrifty people . As a lad he was delicate, and even in manhoood never became robust. ·when quite young he was sent to school; and this, according to bis own statement, was much a~ainst his will, since his mother often accompanied him ,,itb a stick, to ensure bis attendance. He acquired a good education in all the common branches, as well as considerable knowledge of the sciences and classics. At the age of nineteen be nioved to Canaan, Connecticut, where he taught school for several seasons, with excellent success. \Vbile be was there the town was Yisited by l\Iormon Elders. He attended their meetings, and was converted and baptized into the La,tter-day Church. From that time until bis death at the ripe age of eighty-two, be shared the vicis!';itudes of bis people. Parting with his parents and the r esLof the family, excepting bis brother James, who accompa,nied him, be went to Kirtland, Ohio, and there met the Prophet Joseph Smith. Each of the young men bad five buuured dollars in cash, the sum total of their worldly wealth, and this they gaYe fr eely to the Prophet , who was in financia l straits at the time. Julian attended the school established at Kirtland and was a classmate of Wilford \Voodrnff, between whom and himself there sprang up a strong and enduring friendship . ·H e fillect several missions in the E as tern and Southern States, where he made friends and converts. He was never mobbed, and was rarely interfered with in any way, as be was careful to preach only the principles of the Gospel, and aYoid giYing offense by attacking other people and their creeds. He accompanied the Church to Missouri and Illinois, and was with it in the exodus to the Rocky Mountains. In l\Iarcb, 18-±5, he bad married Barbara )I. Xeff, daughter of John and >lary Barr Neff, with whom he crossed the plains in Jedediah M. Grant's hundred and Joseph B_ Noble's fifty in the summer and fall of 1847. He arrived in Salt Lake Valley on the 2nd of October. He spent the following winter in the Old Fort, where be taught school, thus becaming the first male school teacher in L"tab; the first female teacher being :Miss l\Iary Jane Dilworth, who became ?.lrs. F . A . Hammond. From the Fort >Ir. Moses moved to the east side of the Tenth Ward Square, where he is said to ha ,-e raised, in 1848, the heaviest crop of corn in Utah, averaging fifty bushels to the acre. In 18-!9 or 1850 be was called on a mission to the Society Islands. There be labored for over three years . He was among the first to ,isit Tahiti, where he was Yery successful, so much so that the French government sent a man of war to take him and his companion away. On his r eturn home he stayed in Ca lifornia a long while, working for Captain Sutter, the same who owned the mill-race in which gold was first disco,ered in that land. l\fr. >loses brought home c1uite a large sum in gold as the fruits of bis industry vrbile there. He had been abse nt fiye years. He now took up bis abode at >Iill Creek. where bis father-in-law bad erected a gristmill ann. a few settlers bad broken land. He secured a farm of about one hundred and twenty acres, which be cultivated with skill and success. He had few equals in this line of industry. Year after year during times of scarcity, caused by the ra,ages of crickets and grasshoppers, he furnished seed gl"ain to hi s less successsful neighbors for miles around . He made it a rule to ha Ye at laast a two years supply of grain on band. Julian l\[oses was a wi!fe-awake, intelligtnt Laiter-day Saint. He was one of the \l) ---- ...:..;.:. ___ . l'. f·'ivlili11g', \\ ' lli<'II p11:-.i t ion Ill' uc<' ll Picd un- t i I the a tTintl ur the 'l'll' c l ve in 1840. Tn '''"loh<·r. 1s:ls . Ill' quilt<'tl his tempo:·n.l l1u:-:.inl·~:-,; tu g-i\·c hitu ~c· lf wholly to the mini>'try, and h e soon commenced pn•:ir·hing- :inti 1,apli7.i11g· in M:111ch,,s te r. J.;ig-htet·11 munth,s latc 1· (April 1~. 1S·IO). h e r e1,0rted 2·l0 members in the branch he ha,1 built up in that city. Being h on o m bly rel eased from his mission,: ,·~· laliors in Great Britain he emigrate cl to Am e rica, sailing from Liverpool, Eng-land , in the ship "North America," :-,cpt. S, 1S40, and arri\·ed in Nauvoo, lll., in December or that year. Locating- te mpo rarily on the \\'est side of the ::\1 is s iss ippi rh·er h e was chosen clerk c,f tlw Hig-h Co un c il in Ioll'a in July, 1S41, liut h e soon became a. permanent "i tiz e n of Nn.uvoo, where i1e, in June. JS4~. su<·eeeded \Villard Richards as l'lerk to th e Prophe t Jos,:,p h Smith. :-;ub s<.·qu e nlly h e was appointed c lerk a n<l r eco r de r of th e N a uyoo Temple, a.nd \\'a s also electe d treasurer of . the C'ity or ::-.l a u,·oo. H e wa.s prese nt \\'h e n J osl'ph Smith r ece i\·ed the re\'elation on l'E'lt'stial marriage, and was a.n intimn.te associate, and tried and trusted friend of th e Prnphet, to whom he continued 10 net as pri\·ate sec re tary up to the 1im e of the latte r's martyrdom. While labo ring in that capaci ty, he trans·c1·ibed the re,·elatio n on celestial mar r iage aml other reYelations, under the }'rop h et ' s dictation an d direction . At ihe tim e of the exodu s from _ N a uvoo in 1846, Eldet· Clayton came west with 1 he rest of th e Saints and w as a promi nent figure in the "Ca mps of I s r ael," Hnd at \Vinter Quarters . In 1847 he c·am-e to Great Salt L ake \'all e y as one or t h e ori gina l pio ne eers under the im mediate leadership of Pres. Brigham Young, and acted as clerk of the camp. H e !'\' tu rned east th e same year, but l'ame to the '\"alley the second time in JS-IS , afte r which he r es ided permanently in Salt L a l,e Ci ty till the day ,,f his cl Pa 1.h. He held various offices o[ 1•ublic trust am1 respons ibil ity in the co m mun ity after his a rriliaJ in the \'allrc~·. Th u s h e sen·ed for se\'eral Yt'a r s 'ns t r eas ure r of Z. C. M. I.; for many y ea r s he was T erritorial r ecor1l0r of marks and brands, and up to a f'-' 11· months b e fore his death (whe n he resir,-n ed his office ·on account of ~i ckn ess) he held the pos ition of T erri torial AtH1ilur of Public A ccou nts. El d;,1· Clayton <lied at his home in the 17th Ward, Sa lt Lal<e Cit y , Dec. 4, 187 9. ,\ l th e ti11 1c ur hl,i tlemisc t he "D l!scrd News," speaking of him e<lllorl:,ily, sa id: "He was a man or. sterlini; 111 • tt•gTity, remarkal.Jle ul.Jilily, :i faith ful Latter-day Saint, and a guod and u sc1'11! eitiz<' n , whose death, thoui;h a l11 q ,. py 1·clicf from his suITering-,;, Cc-It deeply by hosts ·of personal fricn,1 ~> Elder Clayton left a large family (01·,·r thirty children), having during- hi• lifetime married several wives. ,,·:,s !U CHA.R D S , Samu e l \ Vh i t ncy, a Yete ran E lder in the Church, is the sr•n of Phinehas Richards and \Vcalt11r Dewey and wa s \Jorn Aug. 9, 182·1, 111 Eichmond, Berkshire county, ?>la s. . His m ind was naturall y relig-iously lt1 clin,:,d and as a boy he took much Interest in spiri t ual matters. \Vhen he was eleven years o ld, the fa c t th a t u n e w dispensation from God had com e to man on earth In this clay was fl rs t brought to his mind, by the visits or the "Mormon" Elders to his fath er'~ house. Samuel eagerly ·Jnvestiga tc:d their message, and at fourt ee n h•• yi e ld ed obedience to the ·principle nf bapt ism and became a me mber of th•' Ch url'h. He was ordained to th r Pries thood at the age of fifteen and s~11t out to labor as a missionary in pn.rls or New York, Connecticut and Verm ont. \Vhile· on this mission he pa s,,·rl through many trials, but not,,·tth· standing his youth and his Jack of a collegiate education, he wn.s alilc, ll'ith the assistance of the Lord,to present tlw gospel in a convincing manner to mnny f ,,f the lw11t•sl In h,•:u·l.. 1n 1S·12 he lng- to :-.top t1h Pl"l)g'!'t·HS or t:od's ,vurl<: ~,tthered with his father's family · in h e has assul'iall•ll with Prophets, Seem :-/auvoo, Ill., wh e re h e bectune pe rson- a n<l Hc ve !a ton,: he has seen n.ngels ally at.:quainte tl with the Prophet Jo- and l·on,·,·rst>•l ll'ith th e m; h e h as pnYisions of untold ,;eph, hi,s brother Hyrum and the other joyed h·~avenly _ ge rwrn 1'n.uthorilies of the Church. As g-ranll<'ut· on many different occasions, " tl:.Li ly uecupallon he laliot·ed un the in \l'hieh he has lieen permitted to loo!, :-/!l.uvoo 'l'emple as a carpenter till the deep into the future, an<l he' has witro mpletion of the structure. He wn.s nessed the man ifestations of the powe r present at its dedication, and then be- of God in the healing of th e sick, the gan performing ordinance work there~ casting out of devils, the speaking- in In. which work he continued till the tongues, etc., almost during his entire Elder Ri c hards is s till ha le an<l linal closing of the Temple. In 1846 life. he left for Europe to perform his first h earty, considering his all\'anced years. foreign missionary labor. Since that and enjoyes his In.hors in th e T emple time he has tilled three other foreign of God (in Salt Lake C ity), whe re ht> missions, cove ring n. period of nine has liee n n. worke r for a nurnlJ e r of He is always full of blessings yen.rs. '.rl10ugh his missionary work y en.rs. In Eul'Ope was pe1·formed mainly In and wonls of enco uragement for the C:reat Britain, it also extended to Saints and carries n. heavenly smile on 'l'h e m e re touch of Frnnce, Italy, Switze rland and Ger- his countenan ce. ma.ny. He has spe nt altogether six- his hn.ncl bcspen.lrn a h ear t full of th at tee n years of his life as a missionary. sympathy a.nd love . which is c harac terIn Am e ri ca he has labored in all of the istic of a tru e servant or God. :slew England States, and in eig-ht of S.\ll 'l'H, Elias, presi<le nt of a ll th e the Eastern n.nd l\'liddle States a s w ell as in Canada. For twenty years he held High PriPsts in the C hurch from 1870 suf' h c ivil ornces in Utah as mem11er to 1S77 and pres i,len t of - the Hig-h ,,r the first city council of Salt Lal,e Pri es ts' quorum in the Salt Lake Stake of Zion from 1877 to 1888, was bom t 'ity, alde rman, police judge, president of the c ity council, U. S. commissioner Sept. 6, 1804, in Royalton , Windsor for Da,vis county, justice of Salt Lake cou nty, member of the Territorial legislature, etc., in all of which offices he conducted himself with credit and marked ability. His military cat'i?er r·ommenced with the Nauvoo Legion, in which body he officiated as drill ~e rgeant. Next he was commissioned in Salt Lake City as col onel of the 2nd regiment of infantry and did service as such till the Legion was disbanded hy Gov. Shaffer. From his regiment he furnished and mostly fitted out at his own expense, a company to supress the Indian uprising in Sanpete county. In 1852-54, as president of the Europt·a n mission, h e edited and publish ed the "Millennial Sta r.'" and also published a numb e r of the standard book~ ,,f the Church. He hn.s also conti·ibuted ma n y articles to the different Church 1,eriodi cals during his long and useful ('aree r In the Churcl1. 'l'here are few county, Vermont, near Sharon, whern mt n living who have had a mor-e varied his cousin, the Prophet, was born. ln expe r ie nce in the Church than Eld er 1809 his father cmigrate<l to the town Sam ue l "\V, Rich a rds; he has mingled of Stockholm, St. Lawren ce county, ll'ith lords, pee rs ana rulers of mon - New York. 'l'here Elias wa s rais ed archial governments. a s well as people in the wild e rness. with but few oppor In the humbl est walks In life; he has tunities for schooling. Mo st of hi s faced mob s and tyrants who were try- knowl ed ge \\'as acquired by obsen·a- 1 f j l J 1