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Show 112 themselves in the community. celebrated their 24th When William Gibson and his wife wedding anniversary, they Robert Menzies, the McMaster party where they could talk of auld Gibson is the rn is continually making s in southwestern Hugh Findlay, and Isobel Muir to lang mention of syne.2 visiting a dinner On his mission in Utah, with families such as Scotland, where he spent so many years as a ion a r v.P Wherever Scots national A searl y the family invited Murdochs, Lairds, Rosses, Bairds, Cowans and Frews--names common , 1 as itself upon the impress new surroundings. 1848 at the fir st 24th of Jul y celebration held in honor of pioneers' entry Brigham Young tion of should background it seemed almost inevitable that their gathered into the with Independence, copies va l ley, of the U. after which tune of "Bruce's Address to His 1Henry Hamilton, Richard an S. Constitution and the Declara- "Ode to Army," Journal, Ballantyne presented Liberty" sung to the the unofficial national anthem January 15-19, Encyclopedia, II, 5, 61; "Biographical was 1857; Biographical Sketch of David Eccles" in Wain Sutton, Utah--A Centennial History (3 vols., New York, 1949), III, 26; Autobiographical Sketch of Jessie Robb (Works Progress Administra tion Project, typescript in Utah State Historical 2William Gibson, Journal, 1855-56, (types cript in Utah State Historical Society). 3Ibid., Office. passim; also see his journals Society). December 6, 1855 in Church Historian's |
