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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. President Young was not at all likely to yield, or 17 be in the least Indulgent. "My a first thought truer friend than he brought through was to turn to George A., for I never had His intercession in my behalf not only about the desired result, but brought me good counsel which [ made up my mind to leave California as soon as was. I could close out my interests there. Miss Mount promised to await my return to Salt Lake, and on my return in 1856 we were married on the 26th day of May." HOME IN PAYSON. After his marriage, he remained in Salt Lake City about one month and then moved to Payson. The contrast between the new home which his wife was to enter and the one she had left some little feeling of embarrassment on the part of the husband who describes the log house which was to be her home in the following language: "I don't think in all mv life I ever saw created workmanship as were in that house following year other members of the came from California to locate in Pays en, and family through went to down Cedar City to help his mother and the boys Myron reach Payson on their journey from San Bernardino. The next year, in the spring of 1858, just before the army came in, he was engaged in what was popularly known at that time as the "move," and rendered the services of himself and team in assisting the people from the point of the mountain to }\ayson. After the army entered some time in the month of June, he left with his younger brother Dan for California, whose more ex tended opportunities for making money he was familiar with, and then he began the work of freighting between Los Angeles and Utah, a work that he carried on for a number of years. It was in those days that he began to feel more painfully during the hot as crooked logs and with its dirt roof." as poor The prickly heat that troubled his face in mid sum subsequent life. His early experiences on the deserts the .when he served in the Mormon Battalion and the days during hardships of freighting over the desert told somewhat on the rug ged nature which he possessed. Mixed with the work of freight- summer mer months the all his |
