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The Salt Lake Pressed Brick Canpany prided itself on the quality of its prcrluct and was awarded many prizes for its bricks, including first place for best red brick at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The company also manufactured pipe, tile, and other c~ay prcrlucts. It was also involved in the construction of the ''mail order" bank in Vernal in 1916, shipping all the brick via parcel post to avoid the higher conventional freight costs. John Cahoon was also involved in several other businesses including . Miller-cahoon Canpany (4810 South State Street), a lumber and hardware company, Elkhorn Ranch, and The Progress Company, which installed the water mains in Murray. In 1888 John and Elizabeth Cahoon and Harry and Jane Haynes together purchased a 17.84 tract of land fronting State Street near 4800 South. In the early 1890's Cahoon and Haynes subdivided. the land (Cahoon and Haynes Subdivision) and sold off many of the parcels. Cahoon retained about eight acres of the property and had this large house built on it around 1900. The brick for the house was mdoubtedly manufactured by his Salt Lake Pressed Brick Canpany. John P. Cahoon lived here with his wife, Elizabeth, for the next twenty years, raising most of their ten children here. In the early 1920s the Cahoons had a new house built at 4882 South Highland Drive (demolished), where they lived mtil their deaths--she in 1931, and he in 1939. In 1936 John retired, turning over the business to his sons, Chester P. and John B. 1he canpany, knoW]. since 1939 as Interstate Brick Canpany, is now headed by a grandson, Harold P. Cahoon. In 1972 the company moved fran their location at 1100 East and 3300 South (now Brickyard plaza, a shopping center) to their new plant at 9210 South 5200 West, which has been called the largest brickmaking facility in the comtry. Fran 1923-25 James C. Overson, a mining man, and his wife, Verenia, lived in the house. During the next fifteen years the house was apparently used as rental property. Around 1941 James P. and Ellen C. Payne moved into the house and lived here for many years. James (1894-1966) had set:Ved as pastor of the Murray Baptist Church, located nearby at 62 East 4800 South, fran 1926 to 1941 and also as a chaplain in the Civilian Conset:Vation Corps. He later worked as a patternmaker for American FOlmdry and Machine Company. Mrs. Payne continued . to live here after her husband's death, and for several years she and her widowed sister-in-law, Ruth Christensen, lived in the house together. In 1978 she sold the house to O~ LaMont and Shirley Heath, who used it as the office of Heath Realty. Steven L. Hansen, an attorney, purchased the house in October of 1981 and established his office on the main floor. He is currently in the process of leasing out the basement and upper stories of the house for office use. Notes lBiographical Record. p. 356. 2Utah: The Storied Ibmain, p. 559.