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Show stores and wore more than delighted to h0nr h1m t.el1 of 1-mat he had rondo We called him 11AlfIJ in thC50 days and thought him a wonderfully gifW sto~·ytoll e l'. Iva \-Tora always roluctant to loave until tho tala vIas endod. Hany of tho youngor onC3 Vlould be asleep if thoir parents hadn't alrea.dy como and t llk on them heme. Many t.i..mos the s~or'Y "Would bo continu od to the noxt evening and subsequent evonings according to ~~e rnmber of chapters in tho book. He had a good memory am a cloar, plell~ant voice. The stars i{OrO shinin?, and somotime s the h'2I <:m tlful moonlieht addod ~ ts bM.llianco to the scena, era we s aid good-night. Aftor long and hard days work in tho fields, doing charas, foading 11.vestock , and planting and harvosting crops, the boys would resort to r 0D.dil~ the good books their parents had ooen wise to bring wi. th ther.l from far off India.. The practical education obt~inod in those ea.rly years of ha.:rdsh1.p Pl"OVDd valuable to Alfred, instilling in him irrlustry and porsove ranco and a dosire to taka advantage of overy opportuni ty ml?do avai.lablo to him. Thus, when 13 t he 0.00 his other brothers adequat oly t'.nd responsibly took over xr.anngemont of the fem snd ranch chorns Hhile thoir fntllor took a.l"l LDS mission to Gl "Jt1. t Br5. t.rl.n. Alfrod. -vlas 15 \-.hon his fa thor returned in Novamb~w of 186.5. It Has this adventuresomo spirit and. ea.rly manifest:!. tions of leadorship ability which lwra latex" to fully blossom into one of tho nation's greatest promoters and ontropr0noUl~ s. Eli.z.a .bsth Claridge 1..as also cnpturod by this young rom IS abill ties and mannors. The couplo SiUl much of each othor and carried on a regular €lId fashicned courtship. A. 1:1. and Hillirun. A. C. Bryan Horked into t..'1e C1"01.m of "Lizotte", ELi.z..a.both Parks, and Elizabeth H. Sparks. Thon Elizabeth was called. D.1-TOoY from Nephi to be a telegraph opera tor in st. George and iins go no from the ci t.y for three years. YOUTHFUL ACTIVITIES Tho young IA')oplo of tho comnmnity enterUiincd thmilsolves by playing games, acting out pla.y~, dancing, and hold~1g group B.c:tivities. School was not to be escaped. The strong Horman idoology stI'B ssing liThe glory of God is intelligemco" . prompted euch p:i.o no or ccn:muni ty f no matter hO',T small, t.o expose their children to oduc a tion. School was hold in log rooms, the social hull. P_'1:l. oth~r placos from timo to time with John Hi<l8loy as teachor. School s eomed to run all yoar rOlL"'1d. But then there wore Church activi tics. Alfred participated in school and church activit:i.os jus t AS the ot.her childran and proeressed in the offic GS of tllo Aaronic Pl'iesti:ood. Ho HilS also an acU.vo entertainor and participant in tho loonl youn~ population1s ~scmGnt. PARTICIPATION IN UYING THE FIRST CONTINENTAL RAILROAD It was 11 t this sa.ms timo "lhen t~l,.a gr€).1. t continental railroad was drmdng nea.r completion. Tho Union Pacific branch of th o great railroad had boon completed to Greon River. Brigham Young had already soon tilO opporhmi ty for economic bonofi t froIn this nO~T form of tral1sporta tion a.nd entorod into er~ding contracts for Echo am \-le bo r Ca.nyon t s. Hary Ellen Love Neff recalls: A. W. us ed to ont~rtain his schoolmates nnd companions during the lone StL'trJOr eveningo tAfter He ,lore all tired playing strenUo1l5 gc.mes. We would ret.ire to the outs ido platfonn a::rl stops of the Nephi In"0oting-hc;uso; ho on the hi gh~r s-wp, we clustered oloso around. on tho plntform and 10;,701'" stops as thick as hops, liston.i.ng wi t h eyes a.nd oars to tho stories a.nd fairy tales he l-[ould toll us or whon ho related books he had road. His fa thor o..nd motho r 'When they caruo from Irain, brousht ..>1. th thorn sorno good story books for their children. iya Ii t tio Nophi tos dian' t have access to librar10n or book , A. H. t S rea.ding and education ooupled m th his a<ivonturecus mind recognized tile opportunity to got awa.y from his farming routine, an occupation his natura did not appeal to from the start.. E)nbarking upon his first businoss vonture; ofa long c aro er, tho lad of only 19 yoars, in company with his oldor brothor Henry and some ot.'1or men fro In Nephi, organizod a froi ghting group to haul goods from tho and of the Union Pacific S f"-U' to t.'1o Pro:l1ontory. This first plunge into the business world Has not all that. glamorous • Tho roads "rere extremely poor. Frost kept thorn miry. And the J - |
