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Show WALTER J. & EMILY CUNLIFFE GREEN HOUSE Historic Site Form Section 5: History This house appears to have been constructed in the late 1890's or early 1900's. The earliest owners of the property identified by this researcher is Walter J. Green and his wife, Emily Hilton Cunliffe Green. 1 Like many Draper residents during this period, Green raised sheep. He was born in Draper in 1866 and died in 1941. 2 Born in 1871, Emily Green was a native of Lancaster, England. She moved to Salt Lake City in 1918, where she died three years after her husband.3 According to a title search the Greens owned the property for only two years, as they sold it in 1904 to James E. Paine, a native of Michigan who moved to Salt Lake City in 1875 at the age of 21. His obituary states that" ... he was engaged in the wagon and agricultural business a number of years ago. "4 The property was next owned by Peter C. Rasmussen, who purchased it in 1904. Active in the L.D.S. church, Peter was a prominent citizen of Draper, as he was a bishop in the local Mormon ward from 1914 to 1919.5 He was born in Denmark in 1857 and married Mette Marie Jensen in 1879. They emigrated to Utah in 1884, settled in Draper, and ran a meat and grocery business while also raising cattle. 6 They moved to Midvale in 1919, having sold the house the year before to the Jordan School District'? The school district rented the house to the principal of the Draper School, Reid Beck, and his wife, Wilda Guymon Beck, both natives of Spring City. Beck graduated from Brigham Young University and moved to Draper in 1917, serving as principal from that 1 This researcher could trace the chain of title only to 1902, with the recording of the parcels of this town site ending at 1882. A local history provided by the Utah Heritage Foundation states that the house was built by Alfred Green and sits on property that was part of a larger parcel given by a government pate'nt to the town site of Draper. The history goes on to state that the parcel was purchased by Perry and Agnes Fitzgerald, who continued to own large tracts of land in the Draper area, and that in the same year parts of the parcel were sold to several Draper families, including Alfred and Minnie Green. Whether or not Alfred and Minnie were related to Walter and Emily has not been determined. Because the researcher could not establish that Alfred had constructed the house, finding no other reference to Alfred and Minnie, and because her title search reached only to 1882, she is referring to the house by using the names of Walter and Emily Green. 2 Obituary for Walter Green, Salt Lake Tribune, 23 August 1941, p. 23. 3 Obituary for Emily Hilton Cunliffe Green, Salt Lake Tribune, 29 January 1944, p. 19. 4 Obituary for James E. Paine, Deseret Evening News, 1 November 1922, sec. 2, p. 9. 5 A History of Draper, Draper First Ward, Draper, Utah, 1956, p. 41. 6 "Funeral Services Set for Thursday," obituary for Peter C. Rasmussen, Deseret ~ 22 February 1932, p. 5. 7 Chain of title, Salt Lake County Recorders Office. |
