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------------------------->,,--~ FIRM NAME JCB NUMBER OWNER NAME BUILDER NAME Sill.EE'!' ADDRESS. CI'IY BUILDING TYPE res apts an rel other ----~------- no. stories BUILDING DESCRIPI'ION material number rooms notes DATE year _ _ __ source bp VISUAIS AVAILABIE JIDnth cx:l orig. copy. orig. copy. ed. ---------p bkpr nifb draw, draw. photo photo no. exist. danol. PERMIT NUMBER PRICE EXISTING/DEMOLISHED nif other ------- mat. 1 f b DATE OF BIRTH JAJ . 9 DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF PRACTICE TYPE OF PRACTICE FIRMS ASSOCIATED WITH architect ···-····-----------•-••wll' _ _ _.......~.-.WA"'JstM·'iNMttt~, IIISrrORY OF U'f.AH. VOL. 4, 455 persisted that all would return in a fow monthg, imd I lmd such faith iu her pre•liction th11t I planted my lot, and was com,: ' ted wry t'ooli:<h for!'•) tloin,:. But it prrw,,,l a 1!'1"cnt blessing to my family on tht>ir rc,tur . auu all :t~l'el'!d tl1at my wifo harl gues.,ed right, if nothing more.'' Soon after this, :\[:r. S<>edh11111 went into business with William C. Stnint•i;:, undih· tho firm narue of Staines, Xm"lharu and Comptmy, and Nrntirrn._.d in t!rnt rdatio'l imtil eallt·d upou a mi;,,.ion to bis muive laud. He was ab;;imt from th,• fall ,,f lStiO until th!.! fall of .1S(l3, ttud 1·et1.,rneti in ehitrgt> of a eompsmy of emi;:rmit>'. Jfa\'illit tll> lm,.int>.•!"nt' hi" own, h~ now derke,j for "'illifl.m J,:nniut.rs. tmd nl"O !<t'rn,d Kimb:dl an,l J,a\l')'('U(•(! in the "l\me eaptH;lty. 1,ati:r be purcha,:i;,i gooJ;;' in the Ell,;t for ll<"nry Wor;,im:msct>, who,;p lm,.iuess be eon<lucte<.l for a time. At the incl·ption of Zion',; Co-01•cra1h·e '.\ler('auiilc In,.1itu1i1n1, he a;;sis;tE>,l tu organize u.n,1 open the great concern, and for several yem·s w:,;; in (:barge of its dothiug <lepartmcnt. The year 181)0 witoesi;t>d hi;i rcrm.:,ul to Lo;.::au. -wbitht>r he went for l:u:Ui:r 1ie:iltb, bopiul! 11\;;,r, to impro,;e hi,;, fimrneial C'iren111stanct>i;, The nial;; of lifo had hr;:,n hein·y upou him. Ile hrul lost his first wife, Samh Ann .B(H1th, hi,i ,;econd wifo, :'.l:n·thu Jfitnl'>l, ' his son Charle;;: AJbe1·t, his brotbn Ji.n,es and otlwr near relatives. His wife )farilrn. H,,re '.l"urner aeeompimi<-d h·i1n to L-oitirn. He was the father of twenty-two ehil<lrc•n, ..-ltffell of whom wen~ theu fo·in~. In LiH? Church be held the 1,1lli1:(i of it ~.;,vcnty, ,mJ ,;in,.,e the year 18,32 had been one of the pn,,.idenC'y of the Thirt1<euth Q,1,,rnm. He ha,l mueh ;i1:k111_,i;s du1-ing his later years, aud died at Logan, J uni: 14, UiOl, liis remains heing hr ought to $alt Lake City for burial. m HARVEY HARRIS CLUFF. R. CLGFF is!\ natin of Kirtlnn<l, Ohio, wb1;1·e h~ was born January 9, 1836. His father, Da\•id Cluff, Sr., ,~as a «hip ~·.up1m~~r by trail,,, nnd workt,cl !luring his .. youth 11.t the Durham °!\"barfs in New linmpliire. Hi,-; m0ther, Be:r.sy Jhlll Cluff, wa;: deft in the use of the hand-loom. Sh" Wil\'EI from the rnw m"te.rial eiothing for her entire family of tweh·e childrNl, uutil age made it impossible fur lwr to eominue l<>uger at sueh labor. They were members of the L,ttter•da:r Chnrd1, mid ia Ctlnifortable cirenm;;;tanees, though the p.-ri.eeutiNlS through whk·h tbe:r pn,,:sed wilh th<."ir peo1-,le pre-vented the nceumtdation of nrneh '"ea!tb. , Har'l"ey wa;; bu.t four years old wlwn the family m•we!l to N'a11,·oo, lllinois, following the fortunes of the !:faints. Tht1y arrh·etl thi>re in 1S.;t1, having been dctnin('d for some tiwe at Springfi(•ld, the State eapital, by a visitation of chill-. awl i\,vcr. The boy's earlie,-t and most ,ivid recollection of tbe P1·oplwt Jos<'ph 8111ith wa,; in lit:'nrin~ liim prli':wh in a bowery near the Temple. Himself and other la<ls hnd irnther,_,J upon the !;tt•p-'> for the purpose of listening, when a po!ie,ml!tn bi-,nm to crowd th1m1 bac·k, whereupon the Prophet, stopping in his disconr;;e, told the oflleer to kt the buys alone. "Thc·y will hear H•mething," s:1id he, "thn.t they will ne,·er .forget. n Young Cluff had just ent{-rM upon his el<J't"enth year wh!'n the S:iints h<>gan to lea\'"O Xau...-oo for the °\Yest. His father'ii fomih· did not a.rrh·e in l"tr"h nutil 11)::iO. in th .. ;.:pring ""f whidi year they i;tarted from )1osciniio Creek. netn Cmrn.-il Blnll>'. Bisb.,-.p Edward Hamer had eliar1re of the eon:ipany, After lenving t'on Kranwy tbey '""""' j,,iucJ Ly 11 •!,;.serter from that post, wuo ot·ertook thelll during tbe noon hrrnr and !'toppe1i to rest. Pr"'~entl)· soldiers were seen approaching, and hastily m1111ntin)! his hc·!!-t hor1-e, the ,.:trani:,er strut'k acro5s the bills, tb.e soldiers in hot puri'nit. Xe::tt day they were m~t rcHlrniug with their prisoner. Anotlw1· exciting ineidc,ut nc'-'nrrcrl a fow· days out from Fort Laramie, when half the teams stampeded and were hdlted within a h11udro(l feet of tbe i<te,..p bank of the river. The company arri\·e,.! at 8nlt Lak.~ City c·arlr in Ot·tober. Favorable reports from r:tah County indneeu the Cluff family to 1<..-ttle at Pro,·o, ""here ther~ wer.t> only a. few families at ti.Jat time. As thcst• bad '!)any bard;.l.lip;; to enc111mter, not the lf'a!ft of wbicb were the Indian troubk,s of the pe1·1od, th"' arw:11.l of the ~t-lll"•C'orners cam~ed much rejoicing. · They ast.i:.ted in the eon;;trnC\tion of a new fol't ?f '"~·houses, built together and for,..·ing- four nnglei", all facing a eonrt)·arJ or sriuare, m tl~e Ct!nter of which stood the ,choolhouse, used also for reli~ious worslfrp. 'fh,m, Han:E'Y 4ii6 ! I , I ; HISTORY OF UTAH. spent bis first school da'.fs. The colonists increa:·•<'d in namlwr until it was :::.nfe to lay out a city l\ml buiJ,1 upon lots. "'hile hcrJ.i11~ 1sh('rp on the mouutain si<les the boy was a great stu<lC'nt the Book of )lonuon and the D0ctri11e and Co\·C'nants, the 1w1,1:-:1l t)f which prepared him for his future labor~ in the ministry. lrc well remember:- tlw gra:::shopper ,•isitation of 1853, aud the pang-s of hunger felt by hi.m during the famine that followed. The winter of lSCi--l-5 he spent with hi;;: brotlwr lhtvid at Pnrowan. He :-cttt~Ul~l'<l t!u· general conferencp at Salt Lake City in Oet1)ber, 1S:1G, when Prc:-ident Yount,r e:illt:LI for \'"Olunteers to help in the belat!.!<l b,'l.nd-t:tlrt eon1panies. Promptly ot't'tring- bi:.:.· ,-..,rvicl·~ h started next day with forty others., ha\·ing twl'nly-t,\-o four.Jior.'-(' t0nms luade1l with ~npplies for the peri'.';hin::r innuigrants. B,:fore m(·l:ling- thl! hanJeitrts the n•lipf party wa:forced b.v a north(·1·n blizzard to take shdter ::,.ome mik~ off tlH· rn:i.in roa<l, in th/J willow,. skirting the banks of the Sweetwater, ntill Harn'y Cluff wa~ sl'k:cted to cttrry a si.~n board, indicating the cmnp, np to the road, .1.nrl place it eon~picuously. In the afternoon of tb~ same day Captain ,Yillie anJ a fellow tran-lL·r ro,le into camp. His company was snowr::,1 in some twenty·fhe miles n.'way. Had the t-.rnin not sec•n the sign board, 11ight \\onl,1 have OYertaken them near South Pass, the col(kst rq:ion on the plain~. anll !n the :,.torm then raging they must haYe perii;J..1ed. )Ir. Clun: pa!-.~e<l throu.gh all the banbhips of that perilous expedition and returned home on tlte l!Jth of Dccl·Inber. He bad been l'l.b~l:'tlt seventy·two <lays. January 2-l, 18;)7, was the Uat,,, of his nrn.rriage to )Iiss ::'\Iarg:uet Ann F'o::;ter. In the summer of that year he was employt>d U:v ~1:-t.ior Seth ::\I. Blair at Salt Lake Ciry, aud in the fall s:erYed with the militia in Echo Ca11Yon; "'Tht" i~lea nenr occurred to rn(·. ·• says ;\fr. Cluff, "th.at I was bearing arms ag-,;inst my countrs; I fully belicn•d I ·was standin:r ag-ainst a murderous force of inYatkri,:, and that as soon as poi-.5itle the Prel,,iLknt of the United States wouhl send (',1mmis"ionl:'r~ to inw,,;tig-,tte the situation, nnd on thl' truth being known at \Yashington, the troop:~ would be withdrawn.'." He was. afterwarJs a captain of militia at Provo, and in 18GJ r(•ccived a rnajor·s eornm1s::;ion from tht• Go'Vernor. Fanning had been the chief employm .. nt of his fil':','t year~ in Ctab, though l'a.Lint't work was hif- natural vocation. In the spring of lSGO the Cluff brothr:r,--David. ::\10~,::-. Benjamin, 'William \Y. and IIan·ey-beg-an th1: erection of tho hrgo2st wood mauufodurin.!,!' establishm~nt south of Salt Lake Citv. Not one of the fin, was able at that tirne to :rai:, .. twenty-five dollars in ready means, l;ut all worked with a ·wiil, and the bnildi~1g was C'or:1pleted by Christmas. Part of it was u.:;cd :~s a ball room and th,:,atre. rind fornwny yetrs ''Cluff's HaW 1 ·wa::- faruons as Provo's chivf place of amusement. The procee<ls of the first ball given there went to purchase a br:ll f,ir the meeting hon.,.;e. In April, 1SG5, Ilarniy fl. Cluff was caJk·ll on a mif-.,.;ion to Great Britttin. Ile w:,.s then one of the pre,-ident:-- of the fortr-tifth r1norum of Scvent.\·· He labored in tht: )t:rnchester conforenee six months, and th('n had charge of the GJa,..~ow conl:'eren<·e and 1hc entire Scottish 1listriet np to the time of hi,; rdnrn. He was presiJent. he rN:ord~, c.,f tlw last <'Ontpany of emigrating Saints that left Liverpool in a sailing vessd--"'Ihe Con:,tirntion. ' 1 This was in the spring of 1SG8. At home again, he re-engaged with hi:-- brother David in the cabinet bus;ine~s. lr: October, lSGO, he wa.s called on a. mis~ion to the 8andwieh Islands. He ~pent Df_.arly ihe years in that land, returning in Ang-ust_. 1874. He was no,,· employed a:, a salt·sm:i.n in the ''East Co-op." stor~ at Provo, and also h:\1l ('barge of the Utah County printing nl,'1'·lishment. In the spring of 1SJ5 he 1JeC'anH! a:-: ..;es~or and ('fJ1\e<:tor of the city and l't.>\:::t:·. He sen-ed two terms ns a member of the citv council. Dnnnc: 1875 he was made Bi:,.h"i" of the Fourth "~ard, being called and :-et .i.p;u-t to that oilh:e b:,=-Pr,,sident Brigham Yoan:.·. He held the position until JunL• ~. !SIi, whc>n he was appointed second couu:::dor to 1-'r ... ~· ident A. 0. Smo')t of Utah Stak('. 'While a('ting in that capacity he was (·alled in April, 1819, upon his second mi=-~>:: to the Sandwich Islands. He pre;;ided over tl1e Church thne, anfl h~d cliarg-e of thP st:::.:'\!' plantation at Laie. He erectecl a new .o::.ugar mill at a cost of twenty.fqur th1Ju~and <lol.:.,:-1; and his financia.t report for the three years crnling- June 30, 188~. showed a n1.:t ~ain ': twenty-eight thousand dolbr$. The Elders a::;sisting' him \H·re Joseph I-I. De:rn. ,1!'\.c··'.' F. Gates, \Villiam D. Akxander. I-I. A. \\Tonlley, Benjamin Cluff. Jr., Samuel E. \\",;~1• ·'· " · Sidney Cort\:",·, James IL Gardner, S:unucl Gentry, Carl Anderson and Jl\nH'-: h:?_;,... President Cluff returned home August 18, 1SS2, ac('ompanied hy eight llawa.ii.•rn :-:-:, 1::.~'He was now cho!'ien to superintend the erection of the Ltah Stake tabernacle, ;uid ::i.'. ....· became manager of the Provo Lumber ~fonnfnctnring alltl Buildiug Company. On Septe'mber '20, 18S2, his wife )largaret died, an event which he de~eribe<:- ll~ ti.~ mo:--t hl'nrt-rf-n1 and ha<l heen timt:' two (,\h(·r in July, ]~Ii. ering him liah)1 .Ariu,na. r,ar!l down tb·ir Ii~ t•• prO('t>t'.J"-.-d to l·tah. Ou th(· lt mittee of tbn-t> haJ aln-:1,h· r.:1 \Y, Cluff ::t~1J tinall~- a p!m·tto take d1:rr::, wa,; _\ ng11:at :.! '".Jnst·Vt. :• A brati,,u. he -.,·a tn Proru, r,·:-t :-n;n-ri i: t t•nt.lt:(l institutio:1 he 1 In 1:3~.<~. Hawaiian 1;ol1 Pn•.-.ide11l·,·. i,h•m Jo ... ;.i,h Lad a 111t·t1d,t· i,.:1:rnd pt·nplt"' p,.,,;,;ibilitv oft at "Jo:-G\,a" u m)[O'.;G :, w!th p..; U. p:e. an. tr,v·tu:- _\n E:1'.c Ille" w:;,; Lonr·:-r ,.,,.J 1°, llf:>Xt tn i '.1i:- J'! :,;tudinu.s: ::;l.'.U' hei.:in with. :,, ,;f r~1,ui.\· .~n! .i· f1.\ Id p! :c•,• v-.· <:ultnrP. 11,. ;inw (,[ rl1," ;\ (J[ e1l11e:tr:n:1;, w12alfh.w,,.._ t iil1·atin!J:- r.. r !he arnn. BPer - v,·,-n· wa;,, hunl t!1, rna~on, au,! ti Tile f.,1:. y<·ar;: latl'r n lS.':,6 . •Janw: 29