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Bishop 15th Ward. ,rnnars, JOHN (son of John Morris and Catherine Vaughan .. r Llanfair, Talharlne, Denbighshire, North Wales). Came t ,, t·tah Oct. 2, 1853, Joseph A. Young company. :l!arried Barbara Thomas (daughter of Elias Thomas). The ir children: Price; William; Lucy; Elias b. June 30, 1825, r.1. :llary E. Parry and Mary L. Walker; John ; Richard V. b. Sept. 3, 1830, m . Hannah Phillips, m. Hattie C. Jones, m . L~,·enia Robbins; Barbara; Hugh. Died Sept. 18, 1871. :: ·tail. ; ~ ~" and 23, arncy, d [ ~ ~ - j )(<)P.RIS, ELIAS (son of John Morris and Barbara Thomas) . l :n rn June 30, 1825, at Llanfair, "\Vales. Came to Utah Nov. 1, I ~:;2, Philip De La Mar company. :l!arried Mary Parry May 23, 1852, Councll Bluffs, Iowa 1,!o.ughter of John Parry and Elizabeth Parry of New Market, Flintshire, North Wales, pioneers Oct. 2, 1856, Edward Hunke r company). She was born Dec. 21, 18 34. Their chll,l r,, n Barbara b. May 30, 1853, m. Nathaniel J o nes; \",iinifred h. Oc t. 26, 1855, m . Peter T . Tibbs; Harriet b. S e pt. 3, 185 7, •iiPd; Elias Jr. b. Sept. 23, 1859; Mary E . b . March 11. 1862; 1-:c!ward b. Sept. 20, 1864, died; Rosa Frances b. Sept. 20, l~fi l, m. James A. Brown; John Parry b . M a r c h 23, 18i0 ; Ernest Edwin b . June 21, 187 2 ; Alb e rt Conway b. Jun e 8, 1, 17, di ed ; Jessie Pearl b. Aug. 22, 1876; Josephine Edna b. tlr t . 23, 1879. m. George A. Goff. · ~larried Mary L. Walk e r May, 185 6, Salt Le.ke City 1 <hughter of William Gibso n \Valker and Mary G odwin o r ~!:tnchester, Eng.; former pioneer Octob e r, 1853 , J o seph \V. 101,ng company, latter di e d at St. L o uis, M o .). She was h •rn May 14, 1835, L e ek, Staffordshire, Eng. The ir children: 1:,n., \Valker, m. Edward T. Ashton; Marl o n Adelaide, m. l:eo rge M. Cannon; Nephi Lowell, m. Harri e t Young; George '!unyle, m. Emma Ramsay; Katherine Vaughan; tour chll· <l r ~n d . Infants. Family home, Salt Lake City. 1\Iissio n a ry to Wales, 1865 -69 ; president high pri e sts quo rum ; bish op fifteenth ward. :lle: mbe r or l:tah legisl a ture ; city councilman; m e mbe r of constitutional ro nve ntio n. Build e r; contrac t or: preside nt sugar company. D ie<I :l!arch 17, 1898, in Sal t Lake City. --r-Hs G:oSf"E=.L t 0 AGT1otv 13 t -,µoMbs GL .f?aN'-~ as lit Chapter 22 ,n. ;h. :er ti" le. to ,ut Ld- ,ok te. ~n- 1al ,ed 51, ;a ID· to ire ml reHe ty. Lge 841 :o\'. 1ily ist. lio35; 'ff'.· _11ci ~ 124- ELIAS MORRIS There is a destiny which shapes our ends, rough hew ,them how we 1oi1 L (Shake~peare.) · _a" prophet UQtO the . nations." (Jere- miah I :5.) Elias Morris was one of the ch,ief actors in the' b · ke 1 , an e functioned large in t_he When Elias Morris l~t ~ hQIPe in ·\V~s. where he ha served an oli1lding programs lil srnral of . ibe throu the appi"enticeship in mechanics under smaller settlem err! ory of Ut~, and even in rehis f a t h e r , ~ ~ ~ i n further ex erien · ·· · vi g mote places within tbe 'ooundgl:Tos an - urnace const!:.Jlcljon, little did ol' other states, such as N~da, v mg. His herealize that he was preparing ~Iontana, l _d aho and han 1wor 1s to be seen in the g:i:e.a.t him se lf for the great work the Lord Mormon Twple in '. Salt Lake City; had for him to do among His ch~en in the City and County building for people in the to )S of h e mountains. 1 ton righam Young led the w'hich his company had the contract for the stone and brick work; and Saints into the desert regions of the in many other public buildings and west his g-reatest n d was for m n pretentious private dwellings that \\·ho , cou d till the soil, build. the adorn the capital city of the Saints. b11dges and construc t suitable 11• He was likewise a great industrialin gs for his o ow ·s and industrial ist, having to his credit the founding pants t at ..w ~ Y - ~of a tannery in the Nineteenth War..d, rrrenr ·for the n.eedy. Armchair Salt Lake City; a soap facto_!)' ;2 tl'ieoristsdevoid of the practical outshlte quafi'y; ano the • Salt yke look upon life would be .misfits in ~And he was one of the the midst of a wilderness that must chief promoters of the sugar industry be transformed into a habitable rein Utah. The firm of Morris and gion teeming with citie5 and villages Evans had the distinction of estabfiiled with a happy and prosperous •tishing the nrst marble monument people. vVho ,,.,·ould be so bold as to deny busmess m Salt Lake CliY, which :tias been perpetuated by the sons that . the Almighty beforehand had · prepared in some detail, at least, this of Brother Morris. The gospel reached Elia:,; Morris greatest of modern· . colonization while he was residing in the yj)Ll.ge cirama:s with respect to time, place of Abergeie, Wales, not fa.r from and · principal actors. "Known unto <Llartfair, where he . was born, June God · are all His works from the be30, 1825. At the time of his baptism ginn-ing of the world." (Acts 15 :18.) ne was... not quite twenty-four years God's foreknowledge of events ·and age; but he appears to have been the part He plays in their execution .aserious-minded . ·y outh who was is graphically portrayed in .his . prowas nouncement tc Jeremiah in these searching for-· the ti'. uth, as . the first to enter the waters o bap-words: "Before I formed thee in the _tism m h res· ed. belly ·I knew thee; and before . th~u at same .summer his parents, John earnest forth our-- of . the wom..h I Morris and Barbara Thomas. well sanct1hed thee, . and I ordained thee .of ----- he : as 120 THE GOSPEL IN ACTION as a sister and brother of Elias, While engaged as a mason with joined the Church. . the view to raising funds for his -He fiaa been in the Restored passage to America, Elias Morris Church scarcely a year ltl\en be and met with an accident that cQy)<lwell o~hers had raised up a b r a ~ f have ended his mortal career. He s1xt~embers, among them Ricbatd, was workrng from a hanging scafa brother of .Elias, who years Ia fold on a large building when the be~of 1eteentb scaffe>_ld br~. catapulting him to \ -an! of Sa t ake .Qtiy. The zeal of th,e-grou'n'cllrom three stories above. Efi"as for the salvation of his family Fortunately no bones were broken impelled him to go to Manchester a.nd he was ,saved from having the ~n~na, wfiere he had a brother··re~ scaftola tall on Tiim by quick -action s1mng, and then to Liverpo~l, the o lf1~art. • home of two o'il1er brothers, to whom e spring of 1852 he went to , n he taught the plan of salvation in Liverpool where he wi1s placed in plninness and in such convincing charge of t)1e group of mechanics term hat a three· wer d who had .been selected to go to Utah · into the ~ r for the installation of the sugar · n t e year 1850 he Was caJled and pJant. While he was waiting at set apart to labor ·RS a traveling I,iverpool for a few weeks, his beelder in Flintshire,· WaJes, a'ncT to act trothed sweetheart, l V ~ r y , ·as-'JTi:st counselor to WilJia:ur::rnry boarded a vessel for Amenca. where of' the Flintshire Canfereuce. He stre"wou@ await the arrival af ,her functioned . in these ' positions until Iave-r, at wluch time they would be the fall of 1851 . when he was re- Blttl I ied . . leased to serve .as one of the ~ c h 6 fin.ally rolled around; C~iilcs cflosen by Elder Iolrn Ta~rlQr and the ship, "Rockaway,"_!clj; the 1.o assist in establishjng a sugarJag., dock of Liver · ica. -tocy In otah. Pi.. vere Brother Morr.is and · '!'fie lu'f.-s°1&·htedness 'of President his-companions, as well as... the Young enabled him to see th~ great Dcsct et .Manufacturing Company possibilities in ·Utah for .the manu- machinery for making and refining facture of sugar; and his knowledge sugar. Eight long weeks elairned beinduced him to communicate with fore the vessel docked at New Elder John Taylor, then laboring us Orleans, where the mechanics were a missionary in France, with respect met by Elder John Taylor. At once to the purchasing of machinery for ·the company headed for ~ ncil .· its manufacture. ·Acting upon this B~ebraska. Sootr=nlter their advice from the . President, E~r arrival tl\l!"'wedding bells rang for Taylor contac ung French- Elias and his sweetheart, the marme e name of De La Mare w o · riage .being performed by Apostle • ul\oerstood the process<Yt-tna'11,uf~- Orson Hyde, at the home of the tlTY'i'rrg' sugar from beets; interested bride's uncle, Joseph Parry, on May · lilm lfi tfie project, and, mor~or- 23, 1852. tarifstITI, Ill .Mormonism. This ~eJ,'leferring to the sugar project the su lted m his baptism. · "l\'lillennial Star" of April 1, 1852, .. 'I fie machinery was purchased; and had this to say: "One of the most while, in quest of men who could set ..important moves which has been UJ) the machinery, Elder Taylor met J11ade for the temporal prosperity Elias Morris and · commandeered his oi : the Church in these last ;days is services. '/ . the organization by f\postle John 1 rae- . .J ELIAS MORRIS Taylor of the 'Deseret Manufacturing Company,' with a capital of fifty thousand pounds sterling; and having for its object the establishment of manufactories in Deseret. The first important operation of the company has been to take out to Utah the entire machinery and apparatus for making and refining three hundred tons of sugar from beets each season. This machinery, in every respect the best quality that could be procured, was made by Fawcett, Preston and Co. of Liverpool, England, at a cost of two thousand five hundred pounds sterling and such is its weight, that it will require about fifty teams and wagons to convey it from Council Bluffs to Great Salt Lake City." Elder Morris was assisted in his management of the company and the transportation of the machinery by L. John Nuttall, William Nuttall and Joseph Nuttall. At New Orleans the mechanics · and machinery were transferred to a steamboat bound for St. Louis up the Mississippi River, and from there, shipment was made via Council Bluffs to Leavenworth, Kansas. Here some delay was experienced; but finally the machinery was loaded on wagons, many of them made at Council Bluffs expressly for the journey across the plains to Salt Lake City, and brought from Council Bluffs to Leavenworth under the command of Captain Elias · Morris. However, the vehicles were all too light for such heavy cargoes and many of them broke down. Elder Philip De La Mare therefore was dispatched east to purchase other wagons. These purchases consisted of forty large "Prairie Schooners," or "Santa Fe Wagons," and were furnished by Charles H. Perry, a nori-Mor'mon. · When all was in readiness the company to·ok up its line of march, 121 headed by Elias Morris and wi~e. Each wagon was drawn by from six to eight yoke of oxen and carried from five thousand to nine thousand pounds of machinery. It was on July 4 that the caravan left Leavenworth. At the Sweetwater River the first severe snowstorm was encountered. The snow was two feet deep and the thermometer dropped to below zero. "One night many of their cattle got away," runs the account, "and some were never heard from again. The commissary got low and they were compelled to kill some of the remaining cattle." Eighty head of cattle were lost during one ni~ht in a dreadful storm. Provisions became so scarce that the company resorted to eating their frozen cattle; and had not relief reached them from Salt Lake City, there would have been great suffering and perhaps some would have perished from hunger and cold. The mountainous ·trails in the Bear River country were so difficult to travel that it hec11me necessary to leave some of the heaviest machinery and boilers behind to be picked up and transported to their destination the following spring. ·The attempt to manufacture sugar at Provo ended in failure; and in the spring of 185:3 J;::Jder l\Iorris walked all the way to Salt Lake City to witness the laying of the foundation stones of the temple, after a winter spent in fruitless effort at Provo. While in Salt Lake City he was called by the First Presidency to go to Cedar City to take charge of the masonry and iron work on the blast furnaces being built for the manufacture of iron. Here he labored at intervals over a period of seven years but the project ended in failure and Elder Morris returned to take up his abode again in Salt Lake City. entered the contracting ·He I 122 THE GOSPEL IN ACTION busin1rss and was awarded the contract for cutting the flagging foi: the foun,dation of the Salt Lake Tem'ple, as well as contrncts for the construction of severnl public b~ildings: · In .1865 he was called on a mission to . h(s .. native land. Before his departu.r~, he was called upon to address the Saints in one · of their gatherings; and he related several of · his thrilling experiences since becozring identified with the Church seventeen years earlier. · Uro,n arriving in England he · was ap1'iointed to labo1· in North Wales and, th:e folloV:.ing year he was called to . preside over the Swansea Conferen'ce and a little later t~ the pres/.d,e ncy of ' -the Glamorganshire Conference. While presiding there he wrote to President Franklin D. Ricl1.~.r.ds: " ... in much weakness I have.endeavored to sustain the good crec,l(t of the conference, and to, teach,the Saints t~e ways of life .and salv,ation, in temporal matters as w~ll ·lj,s spiritual, not in words alone, but jn my walk and conduct, which .. I co,1:isider to be' the most effectual and, lasting to the Sai'nts. A great deal of my teachings among the Sairits have been upon economy of their hnrd earned pence, nnd to throw away their Babylonish habits." Elder Morris was to reach .·even greater heights While Oil his mission; __ for , in June,. 1868, he was appointed to . preside over the ·entire mission in Wales, a position he filled with honor· and dignity for one year, when he was released to return home in charge of 338 ' Saints who were - emig'i·ating to Utah. Arriving at Omaha, June 2:3, 1869, President Morris telegraphed President Young as . fql.lows: "Will take the cars for the west at six o'clock this evening. We expect to be in Ogden on Frid.ay." It is well to note that this was the first company of Saints · to · travel over · the . newly completed · railroad. / The year following his return from his mission, Elders Morris and ~vans formed a building company which was operated ' much after the pattern of the Unite·d Order, in which each family would draw from the earnings just sufficient for its needs, and the ba~rnp:i would be absorbed by the company to build up the business. Few men ever worked together in such perfect harmony. Samuel Evans was bookkeeper of ·the firm and 'Elias w:is the superintendent and manager. This firm was forward-looking and was responsible for ihe introduction of new building materials in the community. The "Salt Lake Herald" of June 1, 1881, gave out the following: "Mr. Elias Morris, of ihe firm of Morris and Evans, with characteristic energy, introduced a new industry into the ·territory. · It is artificial stone, and is one of the newest, and will pi:obably become one of the most useful of discoveries . . . . Its constituents are Portland cement, lime ·and gravel; Hild it is made into all cJcsircd shapeR by means of moulds . . . . It can be manufactured into any · desired shape, and possesses the ha.rdness and durability of marble while it ,is clnimccl to he much cheaper. "At the same place others were . engaged in manufacturing asbestine pipes. Mr. Morris keeps . a large number of men at work at one and another of these new industrie.s, and is doirig good for the country by the introduction of new, substantial and cheaper · articles for general need." Not only was ;Elias Morris forward-looking in the building line, but also he was a leader in other fields as well, as the following excerpt will show: " ... it is interesting to recall the circumstances of the introduction of lucern; or alfalfa, into western America, the first place of its cultivation in that section being in 0 ELIAS MORRIS 123 this state, from where seed was sent subscription and proceeds of c~n- , certs, to aid the poor Saints in Wales to California and elsewhere. "The persons who brought the first to <:?migrate. It is to be hoped their lucern seed to Utah were Hon. Elias efforts will be crowned with abundMorris and the late John ~arry, of 11'1t success, the undertaking being ibis city. They were Mormon mis- ~·enevolent and laudable." Brother sionaries in Great Britain, and when John Taylor wrote a letter 'of comin Flintshire, Wales, had their par- mendation to them and endorsed ticular attention drawn to lucern their project. They arranged for planted along railway embankments concerts, and organized in various on the river Dee, where they noticed localities to get money to send to the that the roots of the plant grew Welsh Saints who were suffei'ing · twelve to fourteen feet long. Being from famine. natives of Wales, nnd lucern being In .188a financial misfortune overcultivated in many places in Great took Bishop Morris hut he held his Britain as fodder for domestic ani- head erect and refused to yield to mals, they were in a measure discouragement: "F'ina ncial misforfamiliar with it, but its growth on tune appears to have laid its ,hand the railway embankment impressed heavily upon Elias Morris, on.e of them with the idea that it would be a our most respected citizens. .His good . thing for Utah; so when in crippling loss in connection with the Liverpool they went into a shop on Crismon Mammoth concern, amount.Great Crosshall street and bought ing to between $20,000 and $30,000, several pounds of the seed. is well known to the public. Tihis "That was in 184!), and the next business calamity was soon followed ·,, spring ,Elder Parry-they having by the late fire, by which he wa:'i come -to America- planted some in a loser to the amount of about $6.. his lot in the lGth War<l in this city." 000. These incidents are enough not ( "Dcseret News," ,July 11, 18!)7.) only to stunt but to Jloo1· an ordinary Elias waR known for hiR love man in business, but !\fr. Morris is nnd tenderness for the widows and not of a repressihle nature. Virtualorphans and others in distress, and ly he is compelled to make neatly a Icw gave more liberally of their new start; and he resumes on a broad · means to relieve sufTering. A:1 basis, SO that the husineRS firm may examp le of his concern for the reach a desirable height. He can happipess of the widows and others be found at his now charred and was announced through the "News" dilapidated stand, receiving orders of January 3, 1874: "We understand for .work in his line as briskly and that .Brother Elias Morris invited · almost as cheerfully as .ever, and a number of the widows, the aged will shortly be found in brand new and the poor of the 15th Ward to premises." ("Deseret News," July 19, his residence on Thursday, New 1880 .) Year's evening . . . . They remained Elias l\lonis was honored with together till nine o'clock, enjoying 11everal Church positions in Salt Lake the · good things provided and had City, among the most important bea most pleasant and sociable time ing a high councilor in Salt Lake together." l\'larch 9, 1878, the "Deseret News" Stake for nearly twenty yeu1·s; reported: "Brothers Elias Morris president of the high priests' quorum and S. L. Evans are interesting them- of Salt Lake Stake for ten years, selves in obtaining funds, by private and bishop of the F;fteenth Ward 0 124 ., .. •'· THE GOSPEL IN ACTION from its organization in 1849 until he passed away in death. In c1v1c affairs he was also prominent: in 1895 he was elected to the Constitutional Convention which drafted the organic laws of the state of Utah. With the organization of the Utah Sugar Company in 1889 he was made president and held the position until he died. He was also president of the Intermountain Milling Company, and a director and treasurer of the Eisteddfod organization. While financial disaster or other discouragements could not lay him low, the bishop had to yield his_body to the call of death as a result of pitching headfirst into an unguarded elev:itor shaft, an account of which appeared in "Journal History," March 14, 1898: "A sad accident occurred about 11 o'clock tonight. Bp. - Morris of the 15th Ward had been attending a meeting of the Carnbrain Society Directors to discuss plans for the forthcoming Eisteddfod. The meeting was held in the Co-op Furniture Store. The bishop was making his way to the rear of the store, being familiar with the premises, which were in that part very da1'>k, when he stumbled and fell down the elevator shaft, which was open, to the basement. Hearing his groans, those · present immediately rushed to his aid and found him lying unconscious at the bottom of the shaft. His breast had struck heavily upon the beam across the •.i •• shaft an<l his head , had struck violently on the floor, . causing congestion of the brain . . . . " Brother Morris died three days later, March 17, from the effects of the injur·c~ received in his fall. His death was universally regretted and deplored. Well-deserved eulogies were paid Bishop :M orris at his funeral held in the Salt .Lake Tabernacle, March 20, 1898, by leading Church officials and other prominent men . President George Q . Cannon said that "Elias Morris in his heart and in his actions had said he would not be subject to Satan; he had resol ved to walk in the footsteps of the Father, and had pledged his life to the onward advancement of His Church and kingdom. In carrying out his resolves and pledges, he had manifested untiring zeal, and energy and in this he had truly become a man of God, worthy of all the blessings meted out to the true and the righteous.'.' President Woodruff said that Elder Morris "had been as a SaYior to mankind, and this knowledge was sufficient proof of the glory and salvation that would be his portion.'' References: Deseret News, July 11, 1897; Apr. 23, 1865; June 22, 1869; Jan. 3, 1874; Mar. 9, 1878; Journal History, Mar. 6, 1852; Mar. 14, 20, 1898; Millennial Star, Apr. 1, 1852; Mar. 25; 1866; vol. 29:808; vol. 30:125, 395; Salt Lake Hera.ld, June 1, 1881; Deseret News, July 19., 1883; Mar. 1, 1892; July 27, 1894; Mar. 20, 1898; Contributor, vol. 14 :26.'i . Cha JAl\iES Therefore, I, the Lord, justify yo11 and your brethren of my Church in befriending that l.aw which is th constitutional l.aw of the land; WherefoTe, honest men and wis men shouucl be sought for diligentl1 and good nien and wise men y should observe to uphold; otherwis whatsoever is less than these comet of evil. (Doc. and Cov. 98: 6, 10.) James H. l\loyle had an inbor liking for constitutional law: an after completing his education in U public schools of Salt Lake City, r entered the University of Utah an would no doubt have remained unt he graduated. b,·t for a call to fill mission in the Southern States. Afo his return from his mission, h · thirst for knowledge took him aga into the University where he w: graduated in 1879. He yearned go away to a law school but in t?o early days such a thing was practic~ ly unheard of among the Sain1 l\Iany parents feared that if thE sons went east to school they wou be most certain to lose their fai in the restored gospel. And tc some of the leading brethren look upon such a move as being unwi: It happened, therefore, that you ·M oyle went to President John Tay) to consult with him about the mat1 before embarking upon such undertaking. It seems evident tr President Taylor had implicit cc fidence in the integrity and stabil of the young man, for he expres~ his opinion that it would be p fectly proper for Brother Moyle take the venture . He therefore b~ his family and friends good~_b ye a left for Ann Arbor, Michigan, a enrolled at the University of Mi, \ ·' . ~. "'- "' . ... - ~ . _.____ - LATTER-DAY SAINT rious grades of the Pries thood until h e was ordained an Elder and sent out on Sunday missions to scatter tracts in Bedford and vicinity. In 1S52 h e succeeded Eld e r Griffith as president of the DeptforJ branch, which position h e occupied until he emigrated to America with his wife and three children in 1854. They crossed the Atlantic in the ship "Clara ,Vheeler," which sailed from Liverpool. England, Nov. 27, 1354. On the voyage considerable sickness prevailed among the emigrants and a rtumber of them died. Having arrived at St. Louis, ::\[o.. in January, 1855, h e found employment as a ship carpenter, Pollard and wife, together with a number of others, were se,·erely hurt, being run over b)- se,·eral wagons. Through administrations and prayel' Elder Pollard was healed in a most mir• ac:ulous manner, and the following clay was able to get around again. The company an-i\·ed in the Valley Sept. 22, 1857, having camped se,·eral times in close proximity to the baggage trains be• longing to J oh nston's army. ElderPollard located in the Fifteenth \Yard. Salt Lal,e City, where he resided till the time of his death. He found employm e nt as a carpenter for Pres. Brigham Yourig·. continuing tn his employ until 1S6!1, when he comenced work for the 'C"iah Central railway company. Short• ly after his arrival in the Valley, t,e w;,s chosen as a Ward teacher, an·i in 18:a was appointed to act as second counselor to Bishop Andrew Cunning• ham. He subsequently served as second counselor to Bishop B.obert T. Bul':on, whom he finally succeeded as Bishop ol the Ward .June 27, 1877. In 1862 he yitelded obedience to the principle ol 1 :ural mariage by marrying· Ruth Ar: l~n. who died about twenty years afterwards. Bishop Pollard died in Salt L::..ke: City, Feb. 21, 1390. He was t,11 falhe1· of seven children, and was .un:Yf.:r~ally known as a humble, upriJhl man and a faithful Latte 1·-day Saint. ,,·orking on steamboats and other vesHrls, in the employ of the famous Captain James Eades. \\'hlle thus employe'I he was o rdained to the office of a High Priest by A postl e Erastus Snow. nnd set apart to ac t as a membe r of the High Co uncil in the St. Louis Stai-".e o: 7.10n. His house was always open to the missionaries, and among thP. many "Valley"' Elders who shared in · his hospitality " ·as Apostle Parley P. Pratt, who stayed at his home about a 1_11onth immediately before going to Arkan sas, where he was murd ered. In June, 185,. Elder Pollard co ntinue d his j (•u1·ney Zio n-ward. joined the emigration at Flo rerice . ~ebraska, and crossed .the plains in Capt. Jacob Hoffines· company. Several stampedes occurred on the plains ; in one of these 46 head ot' cattle were lost. On one occasion the cattle stampeded when hitehecl to th" ·,yagons. During the afrair Elder ·")l0Rl-t1S, Elias, seventh Bishop 0 1 the Fifteenth \Varel, Salt Lake City !.'tah. was born June 30, 1825, at Lian· fa.fr, Talhairne. Denbigshire. Wales, soi o t' John Morris and Barbara Thomas His parents were both nati\·es of Nol'tl "\Vales, and had seYen sons and thre• daughters. His father was a builde, ;,.nd contractor.and was for -inany year e ng-ag--ec1 in building ·bridges and prison for the counties of North \Vales. Elia. ,ierYecl his time under his father, an, then, at the age of nineteen, he went t England to get more experience in th bricklaying line and furnace buildin~ :\larch 17, 1849, he joined the "Mormon C hurc h. He was the first man bap tizecl in the· town of Abergele, in hi nati\·e county, by John Parry. wb years afterwards- had charge of builcl ing the Logan Temple. The same sUrl' mer his father, mother, his broth, Hugh and sister Barbara, also join, the Church; and in less than a ·yei he. in connection with others, raised ll a branc h of about ~ixty n1embers.amor lj .. ~ - Z 0 IC _..... '=' T f', BIOGRAPHICAL EXCYCLOPEDIA. ,.-hom was his hrother Rich a rd V. :1Iorris. the late Bishop of the :Nineteenth "·e.rd. The following spring he w e nt to Manchester to Yisit his brother Price, ,.nd to Liverpool to Yisit his brothers "\\illiam V. and John, all three of whom .,.-ere baptized. In the year 1850 he was t111ied to travel through the Flintshire ronference as a traYeling Eide,·, and -vns also appointed first counselor to William Parry, president of that conference. There he labored till the fall of 16ol, when Apostle John Taylor vis~ted that conference, haYing in view the organization of the sugar c~mpany to send to Gtah. Elias l\,forris was called one of its mechanics, and at a con. ferencc, held at Hoiy\\·eiJ, Sept. 2S, 1851, lie was released to emigrate with the 'flli;ar company in the spring. J\fean;·Ume he returned to his trade to pro- \1de an outfit; and, while thus engaged u a mason, on a three-story building Lt Abergale, Nov. 20, 1851, pointing the -front of a building on a hanging scaffold, on the third story window, the 9Calrold ,;.•axe ,yay and he felt down into the i;treet, alighting on his thigh; with Presence of mind, as he touc h e d the -~ und, he put his hand on a course of N>ck, unde r the large shop window.and letped inside of the building, barely bcaping death frorri the !'Caf(old, which -lrll.,; falling after him. Strange to say, ~ was uninjured by the fall: and. after ~ got oYer tile fri ght, he assisted in JlatUng up a new scaffold. In the spring or 1s:,2. Elder :1Iorris m<>t the sugar company at Liverpool, and was put in char,;e of it. There were among th em "-&11 637 experts in the manufacturing of sugar, se,·eral of whom were selected in Live rl)OOl. ·while waiting in that city for sugar mac hinery, Elder :Morris sent on his betrothed wife, l\Iary Parry, of New :'.\Iarket, on boatd the ship "Ellen Maria." On the 28th of March his own company sailed from Liverpool, on board the ship "Rockaway;" and, after a tedious Yoyage of eight weeks, they arrh·ed at K e~Y Orleans, where Pres. John Taylor m e t the company. Having discharged the machinery at LeaYenworth , the president r equested Elder l\forris to accompany him to. Council Bluffs, to fetch the \Yagons down. At Council Bluff~ he met his betrothed. and they ,Yere married there by Apostle Orson Hyde, ·at the house of the brid e's uncle, Joseph Pany, May 23, 1852. In d~e time the sugar company proceeded on their journey, and reached Salt Lake City in the latter· part of NO\·embe r . 1'lder Monis immediately p1·oceeded to _Provo, and there the company turned o,·er the sugar machinery to . the Church, the enterp1·ise having resulted in a failure. He 1·e main ed at Pro,·o dm·ing th e wini er; and, in the spring of JS53 h e w a lked to Salt Lake · City to attend the April conference, to see the la~·ing of the foundation stone .of the Salt Lake Tem!)le. 'iVhile at this conference he was r equebted by the aua thorities of the Church to go to Cedar City, Iron county, to take· charge of the masonn, ·and the iron works and blast furnaces. There he labored for seven years, off and on, till the failure of those works, \\·hen he returned to Salt Lake City :n the spring of 1860. After his return from the south, Elder l\forris went to work on the Temple block. He took a contract with Henn· Eccles to cut the flag·ging of the foun·dation of the Temple. Feb. ;, 1864, Elias l\forris and his men commenced \York on the Eagle· Emporium; in June he commenced 'iVm. S. Godbe's Exchange Buildings, and in July Ransahoff's store, south of Jennings'. It was at this date that :!\fain street began to as~ume fully the imposing appearanee of a merchant street. On these buildings Elder Monis paid to his m asons from fiye to se,·en dollars per day: but. at that time, flour w as selling in Salt Lake City at from $25 to $30 pe1· hundred. At the April conference, 1S65, Elias l\Iorris was called to take a mi s sion to 'i\·a1e~. Th ere he ~tayed four LATTER-DAY SAINT ye>1rs :i.ncl one month,during whic h time h e was a conference president and the last year was president of the ,ve lsh mission. H e again left his nati\·e land in May, ·]869, in charge of a company o f Saints (365 souls), who were mostly helped by the Church and their frie nds in Utah. This was the first company that came thro ugh after the completion of the railroad in the year 1S69. After his return from this mission, Elias Morris, in the spring of 1870, entered into partnership with Samuel L. Evans. This partnership, which existed for eleven y ears, was of a very peculiar and unique kind. They entered into an agreement that all their earnings should be left in their business, each family being allowed to draw out what they severally needed. :ponations, etc., · were paid in like manner by the firm, neither of the partners questioning the doings of the other: Thus they went on for eleven years, in the conduct of their business, in tlieir private buildings and improvements for their families; in the supplies and money for their families; in pocket money for themselves; . in donation, taxes, etc., indeed, in every other private or public draw on their united finances. This they did to the last, whe n death ended their partnership, without disagreement or a question ever being raised as to which family had received the least or the most. In 1:his respect they never even so much as investigate d their accounts. Their method from first to last was upon the pure United Order principle-each partner simply drawing or building according to his personal or family needs. Samuel L. Evans was the bookkeeper and cashier of the firm; and Elias Morris the superintendent of the practical work and of their men employed. Elder E,·ans died March 12, Administrators were appointed 1881. to appraise the property belonging to the firm, whic h paid all the d e bts of the deceased . :1\Ir. :\!orris offered to buy or sell the half of the business and property.and the family of the deceased partner very properly sold out. Brother :\!orris purch asing for $10,000 in money and property, E,·ans' family being allowed their choice of property. Of the hi s tory of their business it may be thus summarized: :\forris & Evans opened up the first marble monumental yard in Salt Lake. Soon after this the mining op;c,rations opened throughout the Ter- t·itory, and from Elder l\Iorris' past e xperien ce in furnace building their firm obtaineu the run of the business in building nearly all the furnaces throughout Utah and the adjacent T e rritories. At about this time they bought a fire clay mine in Bingham, and commenced the manufacture of fire brick of every kind, and supplied Nevada, l\Iontana, Idaho, ,Vyoming and Utah, giving great satisfaction. The firm took a contract for the Ontario mill. and Elder l\forris did all the mason work of that company, including the Cornish 1•ump in No. 3 shaft, which was considered by experts to be equal to anything in the Comstock mine, Nevada. He built two Stetefeldt furnaces at the- Ontario, anothet· for the Marsac on an improved plan, and another for the Bullionville Smelting Company;alsc, two of the same kind at Butte, Montana, and the two White & Howell at the Alice mill, and 6ne at the Moulton mill, After the deiith of Elder Evans. Elias Morris carried on the former firm business in h\5 own name, a nd also took a great interest in establishing other industrit>s. among which may be mentioned the N'ineteenth ,Vard Tannery, the Salt Lake Foundry, a soap factory, a slate quarry, the Utah Sugai· Factory. etc. In 1891, in partnen;hip with Houlahan & Griffith, he contracted to lay the cut stone and brick work of the City and County Building. also to build the gravity sewer of Salt Lake City. He served as a city councilor for four yea rs and \\·as a director in the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce one term . Elder 1\Iorris filled the position of a High Councilor in the Salt Lake Stake of Zion for nearly twenty years, being set apart for that office April 17; 1S78. After the death of Elia3 Smith, he Wa!:' chosen president of the High Priests' quorum in the Salt Lake Stake. To this position he was set apart · Seot. 12, 188S, and filled it until the time of his death. On the reorganization of the 15th Ward Bishopric, l\Iay 11, 1S90, he was chosen to succeed Joseph Pollard as Bishop of said \\'ard, which office he held the remain. der of his days. In 1895 he was electerl a member of the constitutional conv e ntion which drafted the organic la "· of the_State of Utah. On the organization of the Utah Sugar Company, ir 18S9, h e was made president of the same and h eld that office till his de - BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYC LOPEDIA. mi~e . He was grea tly interested in the \V e lsh 1101,ulation in Utah a nd w as treasure r and dir ect o r in the Eisteddfod orga.nization. H e h ad b een a tte nd in g a bu s iness m eeting on Monday, )ta ,·ch 14, 1S9S, when h e accidentally fe ll down a s h a ft in the Co-operath·e Furniture Compa n~··s building. o n Main Street. Salt Lake C ity, and was fatally hurt. From the effects of that a ccident he died three days later (March 17, 1898). At the time of his d eath the "Des€ret N e ws" said of him €d itoria lJy: "He was a m an of great ability a nd r esou r ce, \\' hile hi s philanthropy w as a proverb. W as there a sch eme on foot to benetit the people? He w as one of the lead e r s in it. ,Vas there a struggling enterprise that promise d· to deYelop a home resource, or furnis h employment for home labor? 'Go to Elias J\lfo rrif', he \\"ill t a k e stock in it and give it th e b e n efit of his ad\"ice · Hnd influence,' " ·as the encouraging a~;:ura nce . \Yas there a ·poor man out of work \\' ith a la r ge and s uffering family? 'Co to Elias M o rris, h e will g in' you !Something to do,' is what the poo,· man heard. A s ide from large corJ)(lr a t e enterprises, probably not a man has operated in this State during the past two decades who has furni shed more employment to poor m e n than has Elia s l\1orris. Probahly no other could be n a m ed who h as been more promin en tly identified "·ith the deve lopment of home 1--esources and the establi s hme nt of hom e enterprises than h as h e . H e was a man of tireless e n e r,:;y, unc-€as ing industry, unbo und ed i,ympat hy a nd inco rru ptible integrity_ 11nd he enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all c lasses o f the community. Me n who differed with him in respect to relig io n and politics did not h esitate to acknowledgt> hi s high m erits as a man and a citizen. To any community ~uch a m e mb('r as h e is e , ·er " ·orth a thou sand of those who by their 'wits' or their wealth seek profit out o f other J,;;ople' s distre!"ses, ignor.a n ce a nd c u J>idity. As a Latter-day Saint, the life o f Eiias ;\forris was the practical appli cation a nd liYing e lucidat ion of the principles h e professed. The meml>t:rs of Ow F ifteenth \Vard, oYer which t, · 1n·esided as Bis h op, wee p a t the ne\\·s o( hi s deat h as they would a t being told that th eil· own fath e r was d ead: fi lHl ·like bre tlnen o f th e fle!'h with hi s '•H<,ciates in t h e Priesthood mourn his (\39 departure. He liYed by a s tandard of righ teo u s n ess that was re,·eale d from h ea, ·en , a nd h e died w ith the a b s olute assuran ce that his w o rks w e re pleasing unto God, and e ntitled him to a resurr ec tio n with the just." 1UOHGAN,Joseph Hehoboam, e ig hth B ishop of the Fi fteenth \\'ard ,Salt Lake City, Utah, is the son of Samuel Morgan and Elizabeth Beddes, and was b orn April 26, 1835, at Little D eanshill, Gloucest~rshire, England. His boyhood days w e r e spent \\·orking In the coal mines. :\Iarch 13, 1845, he was baptized by Elder Thos. Morgan; and con firmed a m emb e r of the Church the day follo\\·ing by Thos . Sprague. He wa,; ord a ined a Deacon l\farch 27 1854 by '\Villia m Fowler, ordained a Pries t ' Jun e G, 1854, by Thos. J\forgan, and or~ dained an Elde r F eb. S, 1855, by John Phillips. April 10, 1856, he was called to labor as a local missionary, b e ing appoi nted a traYeling Elder In the C h eltenham conference, where h e la bored till F e b. 12, 1860, whe n his field of operation w as c hanged t o the H e refords hire confe r e n ce. He was honorablv r e leasPd With permission to emigrat~ to Zio n Aoril 23, 1862. M ay 6th, of that year, he m a rried l\fa r y Margare t Jane T~rne r, aJ1d , together with his young \\·1fe, h e emigrated to 1Jtah, sailing from LiYe rpool on the s hip "William Tapscott' ' llfa Y 14, 1S62. Afte r his arri\·al in Utah, Bro. l\forgan was ordained a Seventy by Robert Nes len Jan. 3~. 1876, in S a lt L a k e City, and on Jlfay fo. 1S!l0, h e wa s ordained a High Priest and set apart to act as first counselor to Bishop Elias l\Io rri s , of th e 15th iVard, by J oseph E. T aylor. April 3. 1S98, h e wa s ordained a Bishop a nd '.:.ppointed to pre,side o,·er the 15th iVard by P r es. Geo. Q. Cannon, and h e is still fait hfully f ulfillin g t he duties of t h at ca llin g . He h as taken much in t e r est in music. and for t'l\·enty years he was a m e mber of the 15th Ward a nd the T abernac le c h oi ,·s. He is a l"o a membe1· of the "Old Folks' c h oir," of l"alt Lake City. Bish op llforgan writes: " I am !'ti ll a b e liever in the di\·inity of th e g-r ea t Ja ttFr- day \\'Ork, a nd am fully ,saHsfied that it will oYer come a ll obf'tac les and trium p h on the ~a rt11 ." J\IOH.HIS, Xephi Lowell, seco nd counselor to Bissh c,p J os. R. l\'[01·gan of th e l:'ith \\'ard, f' a lt Lake C ity, is the I ,'1 ..,, • • ~·.~W. ~~··•••, . " · . : · ~'./~ ,. ~~ . .1 .-~. ~, - ' .II'• , .,.. , . • .. ..--- / ; m BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ISHOP ELIAS MORRIS, deceased, founder of the widely known firm of Elias )Iorris & Sons Company, stone contractors and . manufacturers of '&. monumental work, mantles, grates, marble work, etc., was the oldest of five brothers to emigrate to America. They were, Elias, William V., Richard V., John and Hugh-all of whom are now dead. Some years prior to his death Bishop "Morris undertook to write a biographical sketch of his life, but owing to his m~ny and arduous duties, this was never completed. However, from it we learn that his parents ,vere born at Llanfair, Taihhairne, Denbigshire; North Wales, and had a family of seven sons and five daughters. His father was a mason by trade and did contracting in his own country. His son, the late Bishop Morris, learned the trade from his father, and becoming a convert to the Mormon religion, emigrated to America in 1852. He had been baptized in 1849, and in 1851 President John Taylor paid a visit to. his home in North \Vales and there organized a company of capitalists to purchase machinery for the manufacture of beet sugar in Utah, it being their intention to establish this industry in Salt Lake City. Mr. :Morris, understanding the handling of such machinery, he was engaged by President Taylor to come to Utah in the interests of the sugar company, and left Liverpool in charge of the machinery in March, 1852. He landed at New Orleans and proceeded from there by boat to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where a large number of ·wagons and ox teams had been purchased to transport the machinery across the plains to Utah. The trip was a very slow and tedious one; many privations and hardships being endured by the Bishop, who finally arrived in Salt Lake City in November of that year. However, the time for such an ·industry in Utah was not yet ripe, and the company did not . mature. The scheme was found to be impracticable, and although several thousand dollars had been invested, the matter was abandoned and was not taken up again for many years. However, when the beet factory became a reality Bishop Morris was one of the foremost men in the company. and became its President. There was some excitement over the discovery of iron in Iron county, and a company oeing formed for the purpose of manufacturing iron, Bishop Morris was engaged to put up the furnace for this company, who did considerable work, but not enough to make the venture a paying one, and the scheme finally failed for want of funds. The Bishop then returned to Salt Lake City and engaged in doing contract work, in 1864. Among the buildings which he erected and the work he did may be mentioned the Eagle Emporium building, for William Jennings; the drug store for Godbe, Pitt & Company, and a number of others. In 1865 he was sent on a mission for the Church to W ales, where he remained until June, 1869, when he brought back a company of three hundred and sixty-five converts. Upon his return to Salt Lake he entered into partnership with Samuel L. Evans, under the firm name of Morris & Evans, builders. They did a growing business, and upon the opening of the mines in U tah made a specialty of fire brick and fur- · nace building. They put up the Germania. works, the smelters at Sandy, Bingham, Little Cottonwood, F lagstatf, East Canyon and Stockton. Also the mills and cornish pump at the Ontario mines. They put in the basement of the Salt Lake Temple, the Deseret National Bank block and the store building of the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution. After the death of his partner, Mr. Morris carried the business on in his own name for a time, and it . later became Elias lVlorris & Sons Company, under which title it still continues. Bishop Morris was also closely associated with many other industries and enterprises of Utah, among which may be mentioned a tannery, the Salt L ake Foundry, the soap fact"ory, and laid the cut st011e in the City and County Building in Salt Lake City; also the gravity sewer of the city. He was fo'. four years a member of ·the City Council, and for one year a director of the Chamber of Commerce. In 1895 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention which drafted the organic laws of the State of Utah. In 1889, when the Utah Sugar Company ,vas organized he was made President, and held tnat position up to the time of his death. He· • BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. . was also much interested in music and the fine arts. He took a proITlinent part in the l!istedd-. fod, which was held in Salt Lake City, ~nd was treasurer and director of· that association. In the Mormon Church he held the position of High Counselor for nearly twenty years. On Septemher 12, 1888, he was set .apart as President of the High Priests' Quorum of Salt l.;ake Stake, and held that position .at the time of his death. When the .W ard was reorganized, May 11, 1890, · he was chosen to succeed Bishop Joseph Pollard, also holding that office up to his death. Bishop Morris died March 17, 1898, as the • ~-:- ·,-result of a fall down the elevator shaft of one of , ;': , the public buildings. He died surrounded by his -family, . and mourned by the entire city, at the age of seventy-three years. · The funeral was ·very largely attended, the Tabernacle building, · where the services were conducted, not being large enough to hold the large concourse which . gathered to p~y their respects to their late townsman. ·mrRMAN W. EREKSON. In the ast work of settling- and developing tab, she has drawn from the reser forces . of nearly every civilized cou ry in the · world. Among those co ntries Norway has furnished many of .her le sons and daughters; among them Jonas · ekson, the fa'.-· .<~·:ther of the subject of this sk ch. Norman W. · Erekson was born in Sout ottonwood Ward, March 9, 1867. He is a n of Jonas and Mary (Powell) Erekson; the · ather having been born in Norway and the r her in Pennsylvania. · In 184-9 the senio Mr. Erekson emigrated to America, arrivin m Utah the same year, and settled on a far . within one mile of where our subject now r ides. The Powell family also set. tied in the ame vicinity, James Powell being among th first to introduce irrigation in that section. onas Erekson went to California the llowing his arrival in Utah, having cau t the gold fever, but not meeting with the s cess he ·had anticipated, returned to Utah in t 5r. He was one of the first men in Utah to 4}7 . engage in the sheep and cattle business, w •ch occ~pation he ~uccessfully followed until his death, '\\_'hich occurred January 4, 1881, a the age of fifty-four years, eleven month and twenty-eight days. He had early becom a follower of the Mormon Church, and cont" ued to be a faithful and liberal supporter of at faith throughout the balance of his nfe. T e mother of our subject was a professional nu se, and as such found here a wide field for er services, following her profession for many ears in Salt Lake county, and winning a high eputation for her skill. Among other things, s e compounded a remedy for diphtheria, which as reputed to be an infallible cure, she ha mg successfully treated hundreds of cases wit it. The original recipe is still in the possessi of the Erekson family. Mrs. Erekson died on May 17, 1891, at the age of sixty-one years, one month and eight days. She was the mother of five sons and two daughters~Jo s H., a resident of Salt Lake county; Maf)J A., now Mrs. A. A. Cahoon; James T., res <ies on the old home. place ; Norman W., the subject of this sketch, is: the youngest in the amily. He remaineq. at; home with his parent until their <lea.th and then: · started out in life fo himself. His early educa-: tion was received i the common schools of Salt' Lake county. In e late seventies he attended Saint Mark's Sch 1 in Salt Lake City, and later the Deseret Uni ersity, now the University of Utah. The mo of his schooling was obtained in the winter m nths, his summers being devoted to working on he home farm, but while his early education wa limited, he has ever been a close student, not only of books, but also learning from the gr at school of life. He firs settled on Ninth ·East street, near South, which is a portion of the old homeste , containing fifty-one acres. By hard work, erseverance and determination . he has conver ed his place into one of the finest homes in Sa Lake county. His residence is built on a pr minence overlooking the valley. \Vhile Mr. Erekson has devoted much of his time to the mprovement of his home and farm, he has als, been largely interested in the cattle and. sheep business, and is considered one of the \ \ , I VoL--t ELIAS MORRIS . @LIAS ~IORRTS, the "Pll known builder and manufacturer, ,,·ho came to Utah in the year U ,.j:! . wa~ one of the most u~eful and enterprising men that ever took up resiJt•nce »itliin o,ir border;;. He was born at Stanfair. Talbairn, Denbighshire, Xorth "\Yale5, June '.30 , lS:2.->, and was th e son of John and Barbara ~!orris, who were :he parent::; of seven sons and th·e daughters. His father was a mason aud taught his sou that trade when he " ·a5 tweh·c or fo,uteen }'(ears old, µrior to whirh time he spent fifteen months :tt school unJer th e HeL Thomns Lloyd in tlie town of Abergele, to whi<:11 place th e family had mo,·ed. The father took contracts to build bridges and prisons for thr counties of Denbigh and :.Ioutgomery. Elias attended ma,on and kept his father's bo0ks, at th e same time lc·an1i11!! to l'Ut ancl ,et stone . "\rhen al,out fifteen he kq,t hooks for William Jones, a builder at :\l ullram . Yorkshire. England, and after Iea,·ing his employ wa11teJ to g-o to sea . but could not find a ship to " ·hieh he could apprentice hi mself. SuL,-er1tu:ntly he worked u1>on ~t. George's hall, Li,-erpool. and also plied bis trade at i\lanchester and in other part,; o[ E'n!!la11d. He \\·as a member of the Drickl.:i.yer's Socie:r and of th e lnJ cpcndeut Ord1::1· of OdJ Fellows. Ile Lad r eturned tc> ) 1. hergele :rnd "·as working there, when Elder John Parry. Jr., came into that part pn.'ad1ing )Iormo11i>'m. He was inYitecl to tea by Elias' me>ther, much to h er ~on 's di"gL1~t. for he shared the preYail in g- prejudice again~t the "deluded i\J ormous;" but soon be h .. anl Elder Parr.,· preach , and two da>·:s later offered himself as a r.nnwrc to the faith. He \\·as baptized March 17, 1S4D , in the sea at Point-of-Air lighthouse, near ~ ew )larker, ,Yh en.> there was a srnali branch 0f tbe Church. He was the first Mormon convert in Abergele. at once entered the mi1ii:;try. preaching on Sundays aud ,n•ek nights, and in a short time baptized a good!~- number of persons, io clmli11g bis si ste r Barbara and his brother Richard V. , »h o , like himself, became a Bishop in litah. Up to December, J S-!!), he ofHciated as a Priest, and »as then ordained an Elder under the hands of E Ider ~\. be! F.,-ans. I n Septetubc·r, 1S-->1, there wa~ a conference of the Latter-day Saints at Holywell, iu Flintshire district. o,-er whieh William Parry prt'sid ed, with Blias )!orris as his fir"t counselor. Apostle John Taylor attt>ude,l this eonfereuce, aud there engaged ;\[r. :i\ f orris to go ,,ith him to l"tah in th e int er ests of a sugar company Le haJ organized for the manufacture of beer sug-nr at Salt Lakf' City. · Ju charge of tlic nwl·hinery for thi s enterpris':), and a small company of emigrating Saints, he set sail from Lin·rpool iu the latter part of ;\farch. 18.52, and by way of ~e,,Orl cans and St. Louis. reached KanesYille, l o\\·a. where the machinery was loaded iuto. wagons for th(· pa,,age of rhe phin~ . .At that poiut. 011 the ?3rd of i\l ay, Elias ;\lorris married :.lary Parry. dau~bter of John and Elizabeth Parry, of Xel\·market, Wales . who bad prceec!Pd him a few " ·eek~ acro~s th e Atlantic . 'l'he marriage eeremony was p erform ed by Pre,i,1eut Orsou Il_Hle. A fe,,· days later the rompany tra,·eled down the )lissouri to Fort L eaH·nworth. and on th e 4th of July started across the plains. Philip De La Ma r wa~ captain of the company . "-ith Elias ;\[orris as chaplain and captain of ten. They lrnJ a h.,1·d time durin!! their laLoriuus journ ey of four months, but after suffering fr om sno,,-. Jrn !!):C r ,taru pc·de~ and other unpl(•a,nnt visitati0ns, they reach ed Green Hiver, where they were mr:t by ..\. 0. ~moot . who hacl been St:nt out hy President Brig-ham Young with teams and :'.npplie,- to hdp th em in. ' 'Whil e )Ir. Smoot ,-tood at onr eamp-lire, sympathi zing with r • wn•tched condition," says ;\Ir. :'.forri;::, "lie noti<•ccl tLrce large. white lcltl·r,;- D. :',[. (..-paintt.• J ott th e sug:ir boiler;;. ][ e asked us the rnealling of the lctlPrs, bnt receiving no an,-\\·er. "aid hun,o ron-;ly , ; J tl1iRk l can tf'll yo u-D . )I. C. means in thi~ case. 1 ) - - )[i,erab lc· Compally .' aud we agrec•d that he was right.' ' Th ey rea<"hed Salt Lake City about llie midi.Ile ot' .>rffembcr. It harl been the design to set up the sugar work,; at Pro,·o. and to that point the machinery was taken. Soon, liow e ,·t:r. th e rngar c·ompany n·a" di,;;::oh·ed, and the maehiuery (1l1'ne,l over to the Church , which subsequently built the Sugar House, southea st of Salt Lak e City . (:1 l He : f i t 488 HISTORY OF U'rAil. Io April, 1S.'i3, Elins ~lorris, selling out nt Pro\·o. wh<·re he had sett led, mon•\1 to Ce<lnr City; nnd there "np e riutend<:d the COLJStrnc t ion of fnrna~c·~ for the manufacture of irnn; a company ha\·ing b ef' n organized for th nt pnrposP . Conside ra ble irun \\':tS mn<lt• but uot in suflieient quantity nor of goo\l ,·nnugli qualit~· to rpn,ln th.- (•nte rp rise a ,:nc: cess .. aud for want of ft111ds the company t'ailvd. ~Ir. ~[orri, n·rn:1ined in tlie ~out h <loini: all he COlJld to build up the country. 1111ti! the ,:priug of J~(iO. when he r etu rned nvrth. ii;tending to go on to Lognn. \\·lwre lie lt:ul preYiou,:ly selL·<'ted :t <:ity lvt :111 ; trm. By adYtce of President Young. he recon,:idere,l this ,le;;i!.!'n and ,,ettl,,d at Salt l -,;,• CitY. That :,c,ar he with othe r,- bnilt a gri,:t mill at· rannington f,,r Franklin D. l{iehard:-, and iu l SG l li e began to \\'Ork on th e Sa It L a k,• Tbl'at n.>. In l C,fj:! he a n,l .J ,,h n l' ,llT\' Sl't stone for tl1e T emple 0n th:i.t portion of the ,,·,irk which lia,l been eon,lemncd and vr;lcre(i rebuilt by PrP,si<ll'nt 1 oung. The same yl'ar he all<] I. C. '.forris built a bake un-n at C'amp Douglas for Jobn Sharp,\\·ho ha ,l c·outracte,1 with the militan· nuthoriti Ps for it~ con~trnction. In JSGJ Elias :.Ivrris I.m ilt b)· co11traet the EaglP Emp:,riu111 fo1· \\' illiam Je11ning-s, the Godbe building- jn st oppo,:ite, and X. S. Han,:ohoff's swre . l'orupleting the three ,:tructures bc,fore winter set in. In the fall he and H. Ect.:les took a contract to cut flacmi1w for the Temple. ,...,,, "' In the sp ring of 1SG:'.J came a call for a mi,ssion to '\\'ale~, a mi~~i0n honorabh· fulfilled . He returned home in June, l SGO, at th,, head of n C'o111pnny of thn,e bundr,:,J and sixty-fi\·e Saiub. Soon aften~anl,; he entcn-,l into a co-par(ll(•r,hip \Yith Samnd L. t\·a11.s. und e r rhe tlnn name of ~Iorris ,\:: E,·,rns. builders. upon the opening of the mining- industry in Utah they made a special ty of the 11rn11ufo.cture of tire-b rick and the putting up of furna ces . ~Iorris and E\·ans built the Ucnnania \~Orks, nlso ,.,111elte r s itt Sanrl.\·, Bingham, Little Cottonwood. Flagstaff, East Canyon . Stucktou an,l Am erican Fork; th,·y erected tbe Ontario mill ancl put in th e Cornish pnmp at tb8 Ontario mine. Park City; also erecting 111nuy other bnilding~ . includin~ the basement stor.\· of the Temple, the Dc~eret :-Sational Bank, Z. C. ~[. I., )fayor Little's rc,s idenre anJ the l'niH,r:;itY. After the cl eat h of )Ir. E rnns J[ r. ~1orris carried OU the lJn s ine~s in his O\\'JJ name. :1 lso lau nched out in the establishment of home industries, such ns a tannery. the Salt Lake foumlr)·.a son1J factory, the Utah Cement Company, a ~late qw1rry and the l'td18ngar Fact0ry. In ! SD! , in partn ers hip with Houhhan and Griffith. hP coutr:,cte,1 to!:,!· the en-~tone auJ brit:k· work ot' the City an(l County Building. also the gra,·ity se\\·er of Salt Lnk8 City . For four ve a rs Elias >Iorris sen·ed as a member.o f the cit\' eouucil. and fo r one term as a director the Salt Lake CbamlJer of Commerce (,;ee ch,i'pter '27. YOlnme 3). He was a member of the Con~titntional Convent ion of 1SO.i. and w:i.s i rea~urer and director in the Eisteddfod .\ s,oeiat ion, who~e grPnt mnsi,•al festiYals ga,·e him much ,ldigh r. As earl~- as April 1S,S he was a member of th e High Cunncil of tlw Sa lt Lake ~take. aud in SL·p· tember, 1SSS, wa~ SPt apart as president of the J]ig-h Pri0:;b Qnorum. Io )Ia_,·, lS!lO, he succet·deo Joseph Pollard . Llel' ea ~ed, a5 I3i,;lwp of the Fiftel•lll h \\'ard. and was a<:ting in that office at the ti me of hi,; death . This rlel'ply deplored e,·ent took p!acc> on t l1 e forty-ninth anni \·ersnry of his bapti,.:m . It ·was ,lne to au a ce id e ntal fall rlown au un!.!'narded elevator shaft. in :1. builtlin!! on :\Iain Street, n,·o lloors sonth of thl' Templl'ton . ,,:hl·re a nH'L;t in'..'.' of th,, C:i.nilJrian .-\~;,o,·iation \Yas iu progrc>ss for the prep,1ra1ion •Jf an Ei,tl'<ldfo<l. ~Ir. :\[onis had pre\·ion~ly had ~Hc·ral sev8re falls . in one of wbi Ph he 11·as precipitated, by the g i,·in!! way of a S<'aJTold. thirtytive foet to the pavement . This "·a,; \\·hc>11 a ~-uirng 111nn in \\.all,; those\, ho witnc~,l·tl the mishap cried out that he wa~ kill ed, bnt hP soou r eYi ved ,lnJ fif tt'e n minutes later \H·nt up tbe ladder ancl I.milt a ne"· scaffold . ThL• fatal fall of :\L1n:l1 lf:11"', wa~ .. oJ y alwnt tw eh·e feet. but he was then nearly ,:en>nty-1 !tree y,,ars of ng-e. He Jin~d but three tl:1y,.: after the acl'ident, which was ~upplemente d by nn attack of pneumouin. Ile was th e hns· b:i.n<l of two wives aud the father of tw cn1y·Olll' l'.hilclren. .An upright, Lone~t man, be will be r emembered as a m-eful and Jistingui ~hecl citizen of the commonwealth . He of l,. ENOCH BARTLETT TRIPP. HE ancestors of E. B. Tripp for sen,r:tl generations were·.\ mericaus . and took pint 1;1 so;ne_ of the mo;;t_illnstrious e \·euts of their co:111t1-y' · hi.~lory. Hi, fatlwr, Wilham Tripp, served m the war of 1Sl~; and Lis grand[arher, bcarrng the- ~:rnw name, was a Revolutionary ;:.o!Jie r -a <·orporal in th e Continf'nt:il arm y. lfol,,·rt Tripp, his great grandfather, was. the ~ou of Syl\·:rnus Tripp, wbo sett.ltd about tbe } ·e:i r HiSO at Kilten· wa;. rdateJ t b.r of I ntkuenJ.:11, in the r:l'gi,l a: · S!)Ult llJO:,t of }i }~nueb w:i.; with his par.-n come profiei ent ti ,.m . Fond of l tnti (, n ~eeurP,l f Todd, of Soutli frvlll homl' . had purpose of bi:; e Wl·ek s c·ntirc-h· i the bt ter diej a work in the ~hu;: of hi~ Lnbtr's b1 the WL·,tt·rn J•ar, .\ mong th,~ near . ..,vttino· a pntari~n fu; tn cidedh· rizc:in,t b to the· pa; ture fo anxious and start a fie!J b (: ]ong-in: adjoiuin'.!. "It me. I had c-ot , ra~, -al.' H;ltin: me. Imm E-<1iatel up . He was gre, whip you nearly ognizing n1y Yo! into my orclrn.nl ~ Lad ne,·e r taken r · for you were in , would In.Ye su,pe of timbe r near b like /\Q"ain. I pe; to \rh ip me, not o before you whip field . ,rnJ whdt I '1.Sk C:'tJ Ill}' for_;i,·t' in eidf-nt and !arnl'' Enod1 cout iff ~hoe ~bop at Caml. hundred ,J., liar5 t hi., p a~ t f·,ithfulu, tions n, to time a to •lo lm~ine,,-, in , for tw~ Yf1 ar:-: atre t ions, o:; ~atur.Ja \' \Yili on , \,here he· Kilburn. In S<'J•l•· .\[r. Adon ijah \\'.,!, \·e11tnre proYe,1 un a l!'reat vxt'.'itcrrH:Ut tune tJH,re. It was the /fr; ,;tartc>d 11po11 bis j Boston, ..\ll•auY. B , verti,ement to ·t hee the HocK y ::.I0untai1 31