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- This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. _ 94 East 500 North . _ ~­ Lecnard, Tnunan, House Farmington, Davis (bunty UTAH STATE HISTORY 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 3 9222 50000 6221 ,I I.IW Home, 386 N. Hi<> East This home is listed on the Na tional Register. It was built if 1860 by Franklin D. Ricbards fo his wife, Rhoda Hariet Foss. Fos: was first married to LOS lPOStl, Willard Richards, who died it 1851. Three years later, she mar ried his nephew, Franklin. Th, sma!! rock house was originlll: just three rooms, but was enJaraec in 1904. Built in the vernacula· style, the Greek Revival trim i: all original, as is the interio: woodwork. Current owner i: Clara Richards, daughter of Ezn and Amanda Richards. ny logs overhead were put together with wooden pegs and trimmed with more than 1,000 feet of rope. Fred and Zelda Tidwell bought the home in 1948. . . . . The Rock Barn, 56 N. iii Main. This singlc-cell rock barn with wood trim and gable roof was constructed in 1855 by David Randall Williams. It has served as a barn and livery stable, a private home and now an art gallery owned by artist Rebecca Mann . Originally, there were three bays: one for tack and storage; one where horses and buggies could enter the front doors from Main Street and exit through the back doors; and one to stable horses. Tool marks from earlier days are still visible on the rustic old beams atop what once was the hayloft. .... The Schoolhou••, 192 N. ~ 100 Em Owned by David and Leola Merri!!, this home oncc served as Farmington's second schoolhouse. It was built in 1855, with the rock portion added in 1875. The Merri!!s purchased thr building in 1948 and transfonned it into a home. The present Iivinf room was once a dirt-floor garage that housed the city's road scraper, and a bay window was de· signed to fit the large door spacc . The Merrills hauled stone from • the nearby mountains for use in · the remodeling. The old Iimt I mortar, used by the pioneers, wa, , chiseled out and replaced with ceo · ment to match the modem work , An art gallery at the home will al· : so be open on tour day and : several weeks thereafter, featurinl ,48 of David Merrill's painting, , and the work of other local artists. . . . Old Tithing Ofllce, 108 N. iii Main. Now owned by FarAUGUST MILLER/Standard·Exam;n.r mington City, this brick building, constructed in 1907 in the Victo- This china hutch originally built for Hector Haight stili sits in the dining room. The glass is original. rian Eciectic style with a hip roof, has served as an LOS Church tithing office, city hall, a library a cost of S I 5,000. The original . . . John Preece Home, 452 Elmer · and Eleanor Hess, who W N. Main. Now owned by turned the old pantry into a bathand a fire station throughout the 40-by-60-foot stone church was years . The Farmington Lion's designed by Reuben Broadbent in Lyman Hamblin and Jen Shur- room during the 1930s. .... John W. and Caroline Club signed a 100-year lease in a single-cell vernacular style fea- tliff, the adobe and stone portion LIU Workman Hess Home, 1970 and remodeled the interior. turing a gable roof and Greek Re- of this house was constructed in 488 N. Main. Now owned by The city's historic preservation • vival trim. No excavation for the 1862, its builder unknown. The Dale and Sharon Williams, this commission plans to remodel the building was made. Instead, pio- Victorian Eclectic brick portion Victorian Eclectic home with a east bay, at the rear, into a histor- neers laid heavy timber Oat on was added in 1890 by John the ground for a foundation . The Preece, who as a 14-year-old crosswing Ooor plan was built in ical museum. 1882 for John W. Hess' fourth building was enlarged in 194 I and crossed the plains with his widwife, Caroline. She raised ten chil.... Hector C. Haight/Union again in 1979, but the original owed mother, The stained glass iii Hotel, 208 N. Main . Cur- chaPel remains intact and is still window in front dates back to the dren in the original three rooms. After her death in 1927, it became in use today. rently owned by Curt and Lissa I 890s. After the Hamblins bought the home of Albert Hess, the Last, this house was built in 1857 it in 1987, the house was exten.... John R. Walsh Sr. Home ..... Penrose Cabin, 27 N. sively remodeled. In tearing apart town's shoemaker. He eventua!!y by Hector C. Haight, the founder W 392 S. 200 East. Owned b, sold the home to his son, Willard , Main (in the rear of the walls and roof, two 35-foot log of Farmington. Listed on the NaRick and Terra Smith, this Victo· who served as the town's barber tional Register, it is architectural- church). This small cabin, built in beams from the original dwelling rian Eclectic home was construct· for 33 years. Through the years. cd in 1890 with bricks from th. ly significant as one of a very 1855 by friends of the Charles have been exposed. The wood three other rooms have been ad · limited number of two-story dou- Penrose family, was origina!!y 10' Ooor in the living room came first brick kiln in Davis County ded. The original wood trim ble-ceil houses in Utah. It is the cated directly across from the from an old dance ha!! in North located in Kaysville. Most of th. oldest remaining hotel in Far- Rock Chapel on Main Street. Pen- Salt Lake, around the windows and doors is trim is original, and the origina ' mington and one of the few re- rose was an early settler in Faridentical to the trim in the Rock etched glass in the doors is stil Chapel. .... The John W. and Mary maining houses in Utah built in mington and authored several intact. Walsh, Farmington's may &.rot Ann Steed Hess Home, the 1850s. The interior of the LOS Church hymns, including or from 1896 to 1900, bought th • . . . Truman Leonard Home, house has been virtually unal· ~Oh Ye Mountains High." When 479 N. Main. Built prior to 1886, home from Henry Steed in 1892. I&! 94 E. 500 North. The orig· tered, but the exterior has beer. the property was bought in 1924, this Victorian Eclectic home is covered with aluminum siding te his old cabin was torn down log owned by Earl and Ann Hess of inal two-room adobe house was .... William Kelsey Rici built in 1853-54 for Truman and protect the badly weathered origi. by log and moved to the court- Kaysville and used for their cater!.IiI Home, 443 S. 200 East Ortentia White Leonard, who first nal adobe. When the house wa! house grounds, where it was dedi- ing business. It was constructed of The original three rooms of thi, settled in North Farmington in restored, owners discovered thai cated in 1927 by LOS Church red brick and later painted white. rock house were built in 1857 b' 1850. While Truman served an president Heber J. Grant. In 1956 Most of the beveled glass in the just four rooms were part of the William Kelsey Rice for his sec LOS Church mission to India. Or· ond wife. Ann Victoria Rose, wh, original structure. The rear of th~ the cabin was moved to its pres- windows and doors has survived tentia and their young daughter through the years, as ent location to the rear of the we!! as some house was probably added in the ra ised 12 children there. In 1976 lived alone on their farm nonh of current owners Gunter and Mo Rock Chapel. Historical relics in- of the old door knobs. The floor 18605 or 18 70s. the city. After the family had se v· side the cabin include a rocking of the walkout basement was sell Neumann enlarged the home . . . The Rock Chapel, 272 N. chair owned by Penrose, an iron made of bricks laid close together eral frightening visits from lndi· incorporating the old and ne" ~ Main. With only $12 , kettle that came across on the to keep the room cool for storing ans, LDS bishop Gideon Brown parts with the help of a historica had local priesthood members architect. The rock walls of th' Mormon pioneers began' construc- MayOower in 1620, and the first milk and cream. This home has tion of the chapel in J861 and organ to cross the plains with the remained in the family over the _ help build her the place in town. older part have been left expose! completed it in December 1862 at Mormon pioneers. . years and at one time belonged to The large stone section was begun - in adjoining rooms. w. u.u .,Tour From 10 forming at Lagoon. To show her bravery, at the end of her act she put her head in the lion's mouth . One day, the story goes, the lion bit her head off. method, which gives wooden ob· jects such as chair rails or tables the effect of expensive, finegrained wood. Besides founding Farmington , Haight was Farmington's first sheriff and judge. When the jail was full, he brought prisoners home and locked them upstairs in the hotel rooms, Last said. She has a sample of the key that was used for both the jail and the hotel rooms. "so he only had to car· ry around one key." Last also likes to tell the story of Madame Pianca, a lion tamer who stayed at the hotel while per- "The hotel proprietors had a hard time finding out where to send all the trunks of beautiful clothes," Last said. ~We tell kids if they hear any creaks in the house, it's Madame Pianca looking for her head." The Lasts have hosted interesting guests of their own, including a group of doctors and lawyers who held a progressive dinner using many of the old homes in Far· mington . She also gives children's tea partics, with the proceeds going toward repairing Ille house's adobe walls. When the Lasts took off pari of the aluminum sidin~ History available. Proceeds go to the muLion's Club, 108 N. Main. Artist David Merrill is opening his gal- seum fund. The tour, the first of its kind in lery to those visiting his home. . Farmington. is being sponsored known as The Old Schoolhouse. on the National Register of His· toric Places; others have been ex· tensively restored; and all feature lore and legends about the previ· these ho mcs," said Sue Utley . chairman of the event. ~A lot of new people live in Davis County that may not know much about For an extra fcc, visitors can be by the historic preservation com- carried by horse·drawn buggy from house to house. An 1800s· era covercd wagon will also be mission as part of the city's cen· tennial celebration this year. Several homes and buildings are ous owners. "The main rcason we arc hav- Farmington's earlier years.... refreshments and live music in the old-fashioned gardens at the rear of the old fire station and ing this tour is to make people aware of the historical value in Tickets will be available at the entrance to the homes. ,I l~ From 10 that covered the adobe, they found some of the wall had crumbled. ~We worked with historical people on how to repair this adobe," Last said. "The first one said (to) put more adobe on top, so we mixed up mud and straw and put it on . But it fell right off, taking more with it." Now they' re trying a brick mason's suggestion to chisel out the bad layer of brick and slide in a new layer of brick. They've found an old home being torn down in Provo; the owners arc giving away the old brick. Outside, the Lasts have a 100year-old peony and carnations begun from a plant that was brought across the plains. Cuttings of the two plants were donated to the perenn ial Oower garden at the back of city hall. The family - including Lissa's three children by her first marriage and Curt's five children by his first marriage, who visit regu· larly - had to make adjustments. Since the house has no closets. they bought many armoires and big pine cupboards for clothes and linen. ~Those are the things yo u take for granted in normal homes ," Last said. Her children, ages 7, 5 and 4. enjoy the novelty of their home - such as when 5·year-old Pat· rick dug up an 1870 dim e in the yard. The children have also found old clay marbles and square pioneer nails, she said. Other relics on display a re a washboard, an old·fashioned curl· ing iron, and a butter press owned by Louisa Haight, who was Hec· to r' s daughter-in-law and secre· tary of the first LOS Primary. Last said her children's great· great grandfather, Archibald McFarland Erskine, was a tailor for Brigham Young. From the scraps used to make Young'! clothing, Erskine made a ~craz) quilt ." which will hang in th l " Brigham Young Room ." Th. Lasts are also adding a dressCl and headboard brought from an· other ancestral pioneer from Can· ada. " It' s a wonderful hobby tha I you ca n live in," Last said. ~W. never were history buffs before but we' ve gained a respect and ad· miration for the people of this pe. riod and what they did with ver) little money and thc ability the ~ had to build things." ==m. ItliIlifIB-. . . . . . . yesteryear restored for current comfort This Farmington house, built in 1857, was once the Union Hotel. By V!sl EfltE PHILLII ) ~ f'" • S!;U I(I.Hn !: (,j!' IIW:' :..1<1 t! AR~II",(jT():'-i lJuilt in 1857 by Farfou nder. Hector C. Haig ht. th e Union Hotel \\,.'ClS call · sidc'red the local Sheraton o r il s time h v gues ts such as Mo rm o n Churel) president Bri gham Young. m i nglon 's Although il i s .1 private re si today. owners Curtis and LisSJ l.ast arc used In. people dCi1I..'t" dropping hy une xpec tedly. The ci t y's f;r st historic 1101111.:5 lour on Sa turday is j ust ~In extens ion of the ~OO dement" r\' school cla sses. Srout tro ops and ;)(hcr vis ito rs 10 th e rr hOll se o n :00 "' . ~'I<lin thi s P3 st year. "'Vc 'rc a showcase, '\'C fecI it' s such a special pari o f F<l rmi ngt on hi story and of Mo rm on histor\' yo u jU!'It rail '! kee p it to yo ursc lr,~' Li ssa Last SJid. After o nl y a yea r living in the hou se. th ey've :.!.lrc Jd y acquired man y :'!Tltiqul.'s tn add to Ihos(' tefl hy Cla ir Jnd lila Rose DeLong. \\ 110 II\ c d therl' ~~ \car~. Th e Dc- Lon gs len Ille r;l!"'ll'd Br ig ham YUWI!.: th:d, ',\'h id: :::,::\..... :l long. wi lh .111 arCuunl of tht' :)fophcl rcbuk · illg F arm ill E!O n' :., C;lst canyo n w in d\; ro r hlq\\ ' ifl~! Il\' n hls car· r iclg.l ·. :\ :-. : iJ,: ;, 1(; 1' :, ~\ ! I,: ~, th e winds haven', h(.'t.:l1 as sn ere since. Ella Rose' De l o ng >a id the stfuclUrc ""a s one o f the area's lirst two-sto ry adobe buildings . .. It"s an unusu a l arch itectural style. called a t wo-story do ub le('e ll. where two sto ri l'S ;In: stac ked t hat urc id entica l in s[\'le ," she said . . The Dc' L.ongs .s pent fo ur years Lissa Last of Farmington leans against the bed which Brigham Young once slept in. The bed, located in the upstairs of her home in Farmington, boasts a crazy quilt made of cloth scraps left over from tailormade clothes for the Mormon leader. upgr;ldillg the plumhing and elce· tri c it ,·. :;t ripping p;,in: off walis - .: .'~ . ~ . '. , ,,", .... ' ,' . ; If' . J •• • ~ . '~ • .• ' .... ~ . and l1 oori'oards. ;l nd doing other n: lll l"k.h: l i llg wlJr~. "Tu reston.' a fair," lll lU5-l.' b 1)1..'1.1)0[; ~~I:d . LI ~ t a lo\"C ~If" a r,rl..'t's , "VOlJ ha H' to I (H ' I..' il o r vo u'rc crazy 10 d o it be,.';111s;; it's so' mu ch Homeowners open doors on Saturday On Sa turda y. visitors will ha ve a chance to wander back through old-time Farmington, with a tour of the rity' s 15 his toric homes and three historic buildings , built between 1849 a nd 1921. From 10 a.m . to 5 p.m .. homeowners arc opening their doors to the public, with proceeds from the ti ckets going toward remodeling the o ld fire stat io n' s east bay into a museum. Guided grc;up tours of the Rock Chapei will also be offered to the public from I p.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets arc $5 for the even!. which io clud es light See HISTORY on 3D buill in 190 I , is th e c hi ldhood home of O.c. Taooer, founder of O.c. Tanne r Co m pany. The milliona ire jeweler was first a profesSusan Leggett Clark sor at Stanford and University'of Home, 335 W. State. Ezra Utah ; the jewelry business began T. Clark had this Second Empire as a sideline, Hi s mother, Annie style, two-story brick home built Clark Tanne r - daughter of Ezra in 1868 for his second wife, Susan and Susan Leggett Clark, and wife Legget!. It was const ructed of an of polygamist J ose ph Marion inner wall of adobe blocks and an Tanner - built the house wi th outer wall of red brick, later the plot of land and SI,OOO sh e paioted white. The town got its inherited from her father. Raising first name. North Cottonwood, af- ' her eight children mostly on her ter two tall cottonwood trees that ' own, Annie provided lodging for stood on Clark's farm. Clark was travel ing o rchestras performing a t the first president · of the Davis ' lagoo n . She authored the book, County Ba nk when it opened its ' "A Mormon Mother." doors in 1862. The home is owned by Clark's descendants; The Hess Home, 30 S. residents are lewis and Maureen Main . Owned by Milton Clark. and Fern Hess, this prairie-style bungalow was buill in 1921 and Joseph Smith Clark , used as a home and medical office Home, 340 W. State. This by three separate doctors over the Victorian Eclectic home was buill : years. It was originally built b y in 1895 by Joseph Smith Clark, . Dr. Clarence S. Gardner, the first eldest son of Ezra T. Clark. The physician to live permanently in original second story was deFarmington , and mayor of Farstroyed by fire in the 1920s and mington from 1926 to 1928. Two not rebuilt until current owners, other owners, Dr. George BuchanVik and Dorothy Arnold, bought an and Dr. Harold Jensen, used it it in 1977. Much of the restoraas their home and medical office tion was done with used lumber also. Hess is a former Davi s and brick: The hardwood floor in County attorney. the living and dining rooms came Oliver Lee Robinson's from an old Iowa high school gym Barn, 67 W. 100 North. floor, and other flooring came This home, which served as a hay from the Eagle Gate apartments barn for 2S years, was built in in Salt La",e City. 1872 by Oliver lee Robinson. Annie Clark Tanner The property was granted to him by his father, Joseph L. Robinson, Home, 29 1 W . State. Farminglon's first Mormon bis hOwned by David and Peggy Barney, lhis Victorian style home, See HOMES on 3D This info rmation comes from the Farmington His toric Preservati on Commission, work," said L ast. who rece ntl v s tripped 01T li ve I ,,~ers of wa Ii p.lper to get tn th e o ri gin al plaster walls in her daughter's bed room . .. It· s slle h a wonderful sense of pride whe n you ge t done and kno w yo u did it the ri gh t way." One of the skill s la st wan ts to lea rn is tha t of wood -gra in ing, a popular skill among early se ttlers. The home is accented wi th the See TOUR on 3D A- N -----=======~ Leonard, Truman, House. 94 East 500 North, Farmington, Davis County. , 9~~22~9~~2~~9~929~~~~29R9~~2 3:~own or::: Researcher: £ . L , Date: ' 6 -30-7 8' o~ . ,y",..x 0': C:Cons~~~c~ion n:5i~!icanca Da.a -c \ STRUCTURE/SITE INFOm~~TION FORM "/,.'J O~ Ol~ -- - !""I~ 0-: 'c:OJ" Ol r'\ ./ .... \.." . ... CJ ....c: 0:: ....or ~ ,,, 0 9 '"'., 0 ... <!) O'r:'; Or. 0'- ... Street address: ?7' ~s f J7?o ~ r l/ Name of Structure: T-'vZ, -?, L _..I#7' Present Owner: FrJ A 4//./, 1 Owner address: 9i E . 5"'tl o 5¥. Construction Date: 1'86 3 ( / /~9g Original Use: Present Use: -l'.al.iql.ous _0tI:er Building Condition: ""-' '- ......" A Significmt CQnt:::ll:nltcl:y _ rnt::l:Sicn ,-. _I?la.t Marl _ Tax card & I?h:ltc _ Su.i.l.cililq E'eoti.t _ Sewar I?emit ' "" ,.... 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E:xI:W:a:atiaVSettlemmt -~ _:-!ilita:v . -Mininq _MinCrl.ty Ga:N;ls _ Polit:i.C3l -~ -.-_. _I~"";- _Scieaca _So<::!.Q-iilJlllmi.t3l:ian _~ticn F~)~:(.n·s :·,j)·;::~~:;: '~~" ~'~\\';;})i;::;):i'(/-::)//:ii;.:\?;::>?:?':'):~)(;::}:;:;: :::;:::\:;:;~:i~~:'i'(iii:=:'<i:/:::.\::';:'?·\:;>:(://::::::/~~;:X·/)/::::~~;?(;;·'<,:Y,::')/:::i:::::::::)/"':;::~<:';:';:;,,' : ,.,: :,~.• :.;, ,:' :.'," . , CONDITION I.., , I Exccllont L,d GoodO FairO (Check Ono) INTEGRITY Altered Q Unnlterod Describe tho Pre."nt and Orginol (if, knbwn) Physical ,ttppo~ronco (Chock Ono) Doterioratod O ' 0 I Movod Ruin~ 0 0 (Check One) Unexposed Ori ;;i nal Sj~e 0 ~ • The Truman Leonard home in Farmi ngton cons is ts of a rock secti on buil t about 1863 (?) and a brick annex on the west built after 1898 to rep1ace an adobe section built in 1853 or 1854. Both present portions are tlt/o-story bui1C!in9s~ The adobe ·home ;s said to have "consisted of one fair-sizedroo;';l, srr.all bedroom, and pantry. II A. \.J. 8urns remembers it as a tv/o-room adoJe. He says it served as a bedroom and "buttery" (or pantry) follo\'ting addition of the four-room rock secti on. The di rt roof on the ' adobe vias 1ater rcbui 1t \':i th shingles. The five-room brick section (two small bedroor.1s upstairs) replaced the adobe, perhaps on the sarna foundation. In the brick section are stair.: a.ld leading to the second floor and to a small cellar. In this cellar under t:-:e brick rooms E.C. Hedgepeth found and sealed over \'/hat he described as a secret hiding place, used perhaps during polygamy raids. The original three roo::-s I in the brick section's main floor have been altered some\': hat ;iJl:~ and nO~'1 j include kitchen, bedroom and bath, plus halhlay to the outside front (north) entrance. I I In the rock portion are two roor.1S dOi'mstairs (ca. 16' x 18') and V.10 uDstai.rs. Outside wa11s are about tV/O feet thick, including an adobe lining faced ~':ith I plaster. Rafters and flooring are of hand-hewn poles and fir flooring. The fireplaces in the north end of the north rooms on both floors were olugged by the present O\'mer. The rnai n floor fl ue at the south end of the south room is closed, but the flue on the second floor is connected to a stove. , T\'IO outside doors in the rock section \'/ere altered prior to 1947. One on th ~ east \'/all of the north room is nm'l a \'/indO\'I--second fror.1 the north. Tne other door entered the same room at the north end of the west wall. Mr. Pledcer has noted evidence of a stairv/ay \'/hich apparently once led to the second floor from the south\'/est corner of the north room. Pledger altered the door bet\'/een the t\,IO main floor rooms to forr.1 a larger, arched opening. ' He a1so replaced the window sashes on the main floor, and repaired but retained the original \'/indO\'1 sashes upstairs. Hedgepeth says the floor in the rock hc::-.e was 8 inches higher than that in the brock portion; he said eh lowered the floor in the north (rock) room. Pledger says he remodled the same fioor; he removed the existing fir flooring which exposed the shaped poles and put in a new floor. Pledger also rocked up a small opening in the north outside wall of the rock house which gave entrance to the space under the ho~c. II I Of the ho~'s present appearance, Dr. Austin E. Fife wrote: IIr:ote the sq-.;arc \'/indo\'/s in the upper floor and the contrast they make \·lith the rectc'lr.sular --/ windows and white shutters of the ground floor. The tailored evergreen shrubS accentuate the sy~metrica1 elegance of this house which is bound to the earth it occupies by a verdant growth of ivy covering the enti re south wall. II I J t!.§£!Z$,!.C ~:l ;'!: ~ . .:: ~~: -;;:,·::::::/·\:{i.i.: :.:':';\:)..';:<i:i'::::/:)·:> ·:·i:-:-::~·:· :>'::' :':;::\:\:::.:.~.:.:;!'i'; ::\:" i));:;:::/:/ /:.?\::>.;.:!o::..:/.: : :.: :;:,.::::;.:;/:;:/:;.:=:;:;:::/::::-;-:.<:\:;.>,) PERIOD (Chock Ono or Moro as Approprlnto) Pro-Columbian 15th Contury 0 0 16th Contury 17th Cantury 18th Contury 0 0 ht Otr, 0 . 2nd Otr,o Ord aU. 0 4th Otr. 0 19th C entury 1st C3 20th Century au. 0 Ord Otr. 0 ';:h Otr. 2nd Otr. . . .. . '« 1 ;;.:.; . . :. . 0 0 0 " SPECIFIC DATE(S) (if Applic~blo and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check Ono or Aborig i nal Prohistorle Historic Agriculture · Archltocture Art C~mmorco . . CommunicOltions . Consorv3tion 0 0 0 0 U 0 0 0 0 More., f .ppropriate" · Education 0 Politicol . EnOi"ooring .' 0 . Ro l i ;; ion/ Industry 0 .. 0 Seiance Invontlon Land,copo Architocture Lltorature . Militnry Music O. 0 0 0 0 0 Philosophy Sculpture. Urban Plannin:! 0 0 Otnor (:.,ocif·,) ~ 0 0 D ~ .J t , Social! Humonit.uian Thoator Transportation 0 0 0 STATEMENT OF HISTORICAL-SIGNIFICANCe IIncludo Bulldor/Archltoct, Orglnol 110 Sub",quent Own.r., Oet ••, Events, Etc:.) Tile Truman Leonard rock home in Farmington 'lIas described recently by Dr. Austin E. Fife of USU as "a beautiful specimen of Utah stone r.1asonry \'/hich carries in its sober symmetrical facade the \'Ieight of colonial and nic': lester tradition. II Professor Fife \-'/as impressed \'/ith "thesyr.netrical elegance of this house." I t is an outstanding landmark in the sr.1all central CClvis Count communi ty of Farmi ngton. The hCIT'e served as the hOr.1e of Truman and Ortenti a Leonilrd, and lil-~~r of John H. and Nellie Taylor, amon0 others. Leonar.d \o/as . an early follov/er of ~iormonism and settl.ed in Farmington in 1850, \'!i1 ere he . served as a selectman (county commissioner), \'/ater master, and haloed rr.ake the initial survey of the area. The rock portion of the house is Oi-e of to..IO built by and for Leonard. The second, a "duplex" for plural \·Ji'les!~ar9aret . and Nary Ann, \'las located on the Leonard farm tNO miles north of the existin \. . ' rock house. The Leonard home di ffers from mos t other rock houses of the period in its tv/o-story plan and is an excellent example of fine rock \'Iork and pleasing architectural style. j The original home on the lot \'las a small adobe cabin built for Ortentia about 1853-54 by Ii.embers of the LOS \·/ard. It \'laS buiit \'/hile Trur.1an served I a Mormon mission in India (Oct. 1852-Sept. 1856) and allowed Ortentia to rov~ from a small cabin on the farm \'/here she \'/aS becng harassed by Indians. To this first t~wing" of the home, Truman brought his plural wives in 1356. A separate home for them and the rock addition \-'/ere planned at this tirr.e . The , exact date of construction of the rock portion is uncertain. It \'las ce . ..tairit' Y not before 1860, since prior to that date all homes in Farnington Here adobe or log. The early 1860s saw construction of Farmington's first rock buildins, including the Farmington LOS Rock Church (begun 1861, cOr.ipleted late 1863) and Rock Mill (Heidelberg Restaurant), built in 1862. David Lund of Farnin~t ton tol d the present owner he remembers haul ing bri ck from Sandy for TaYior'r addition ·to the home. Lund (no\,1 deceased) helped his father in the taSK and has dated the rock part of the house at 1863. Pledger sa,'ls the rock ~'Ior~ was done for Leonard by a Welsh stonemason who also did rock~ork on the LOS Farmington C:lurch (other sources credit Charles Bourne, an Er.glish stCi.8::iaScp. \'lith the church stonework). A biography of Ortentia gives her cau~ :--;t~r, Clara (born 1865) credit for using earnings from school teachir.g lito r:aKe an addition of four nice rock rooms her father started but was never a~le to comp1ete. liThe biography does not r.:ake clear \'/hether the rock hO:71e Has built, finished, or furnished through Clara's e f forts and family ~ribers have not been able to clarify this statem~nt. (continued on attached sheet) r I Sources at~ scattered and incomplete. Listed belo!;', are references in the order of completeness and importance. Gertrude Earl Hansen Ues t, "0r tenti a \IJhi te Leonard," bi ographi cal sketch t mirr:eographed and avail ab 1e frA)m Leonard family. Intervic\oJ \'lith Harry Pledger, April 2, 1972. Int~rview \'lith Albert l. Burns, Bountiful, Jan. 25, 1972. Deseret NevIs, O~c. 21, 1854; June 13,1860; May 15, 1867~ lnterviC\'1 \,/ifh LC. Hedgepeth, 410 No. 200 Eo, Farmington, Aoril 2, 1972. Samuel \~. Taylor, Family Kinqdom (1951), pp. 80-81, 160-63, etc. Glen r". Leonard,"A History of Farmington, Utah, to 1890," MA thesis, University of Utah, 1966. Austin E. Fife, "Stone Houses of Northern Utah, II Utah Historical Ouarterl/. 40 (Winter 1972), 14. (Cc-.,t . -r;~"" Sc:c:-H~ £> ) A.L.Burns remernbers as a child visiting the home (before 1898) and seeing or.ll t'iIO rocms finished (one upstairs, one dO\'lnstairs) in the rock section. Tne evidence su99~sts, then, that Truman Leonard initiated construction of the ho~ in the 1850s and \'Iork may not have been completed for occupancy until the mi d 1880s. The rock portion apparently was not completely finished while Leonards lived. there. Following Ortentia's death in 1898 (Truman and Clara died the prececding year), . the estate \'las settled and the home sold to r·1ormon Apostle John H. Taylor. Taylor around the sam~ time purchased a home across Fifth florth for another plural \-rife, Nettie. The Taylors , as mentioned above, adaed the brick section of the hor.e. O\'lnership following the Taylor occupancy included a Bishop Duce "of Canada," and E.G. Hedgepeth, .. \,/ho purchased the home in 1920 for $1600. He sold it atlout 17 years 1ater for $4500. O\'mers duri ng the decade 1937-47 i ncl uded a Mr. Igu and perhaps others. Harry Pledger purchased the home in 1947 and has energetically \·/orkec! to keep the home and grounds in first class shape • . I OAlen;)li/ . "'c1>. j, ) 972 ~--~~~------------------------------------~~~~~~~--4 -~ Street and Nurnbcr: 832 No. 650 East City or Town: !Incorpofuted I Bountiful 0 Non-protit E~OlO 0 l Cc ;:~ 49 County STATE OF UTAH DIVISION OF STATE HISTORY Davis HISTORIC SITES SURVEY (Type or Print - Complete Applicable Sections) Common: Pledger Home and/or Historic: Truman Leonard Home r:i\:\ctbQAtiQN\/(/<:·;·:i.'{:k.\·\\/·(r\\~iU·/{/\:::i/{::{::{i\{::,:«?:\i·:·(/)\~::j:\://:{}·>r:/:)?:\'.:./}:/\:·::r/~.i~(/;\i/)/~:::/\:)(r::::::::/-/i?:ii\::;}':< Street and Number or Other Description of Location 90. East 500 North City, Town, or Township Farmington I State UTAH Utah I 84025 CATEGORY (Check One) District Site .0 0 Building 49 I I I County: ~ 0 Private 11!1 In Process Both 0 Being Considered Public Acquisition: Unoccupied Preservation work in progress 0 PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Agricultural Commercial 'Educational o o Government Industrial '0 Entertainment Military 0 Museum 0 0 o o o Park Transportation Private Residence ~ III 0 Occupied 0 0 Other (Specify) Code ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC STATUS Public 0 1 Davis OWNERSHIP StructureD Object Code o Yes: I--- Restricted Unrestricted No: Zoning (Specify) o 0 0 0 .0 oo o Comments c: 0 0 Religious Scientific ::J ~ Owners Name: Harry W. Pledger Street and Number 94 East 500 North City or Town: I State: Farmington Zip Code . Utah L Code I· 84025 Courthouse, Registry of Deeds, Etc: Davis County Court House Street and Number: en ;:t' ID City or Town: B4025 Farminr.ton Zip Code ~ Z . m 3 ID Approximate Acreage of Nominated Property: [jJHi)ii~m.ts.i!fitf~1:{Q..t~O~tf;~"ij~f$.~y~:v.$.)}!fi;j)~)j?//:Y::-:j~(;·(\:/\·:.?/:\(\Y{j:';'~!/"?(·?\\::·:::;;:~i:\};()\i:ij:/\~..\\!(f·?}y/:;~~·(j/i: Title of Survey Records: Date of Survey: Federal o State o County 0 o Local Depository for Survey Records: Street and Number: City of Town: Form HSS-1/69/3M l State: Zip Code L Code [ o m ; CONDITION Excellant Q GoodO FairO (Check One) INTEGRITY Altered [i Unaltered Describe the Present and Orglnal (If known) Physical Appearance (Check One) Deteriorated o I 0 Moved RulnsO 0 (Check One) Unexposed Original Site 0 IX! The Truman Leonard home in Farmington consists of a rock section built abou~ 1863 (?) and a brick annex on the west built after 1898 to replace an adobe section built in 1853 or 1854. Both present portions are two-story buildings. The adobe home is said to have "consisted of one fair-sized room, small bedroom, and pantry. A. W. Burns remembers it as a two-room adobe. He says it served as a bedroom and "buttery" (or pantry) following addition of the four-room rock section. The dirt roof on the adobe was later rebuilt with shingles. The five-room brick section (two small bedrooms upstairs) rep1ace~ the adobe, perhaps on the same foundation. In the brick section are stairways leading to the second floor and to a small cellar. In this cellar under the brick rooms E.C. Hedgepeth found and sealed over what he described as ,a secret hiding place, used perhaps during polygamy raids. The original three rooms in the brick sectionls main floor have been altered somewhat f~B and now include kitchen, bedroom and bath, plus hallway to the outside fromt (north) entrance. II In the rock portion are two rooms downstairs (ca. 16 1 x 18 1 ) and two upstairs. Outside walls are about two feet thick, including an adobe lining faced with plaster. Rafters and flooring are of hand-hewn poles and fir flooring. The fireplaces in the north end of the north rooms on both floors were plugged by the present owner. The mai n floor fl ue at the south end o'f the south room is closed, but the flue on the second floor is connected to a stove. Two outside doors in the rock section were altered prior to 1947. One on thE east wall of the north room is now a 'window--second from the north. The othEr door entered the same room at the north end of the west wall. Mr. Pledger has noted evidence of a stairway which apparently once lea to the second floor from the southwest corner of the north room. Pledger altered the door between the two main floor rooms to form a larger, arched opening. He also replaced the window sashes on the main floor, and repai~ed but retained the original window sashes upstairs. Hedgepeth says the floor in the rock home was 8 inches higher than that in the brock portion; he said eh lowered the floor in the north (rock) room. Pledger says he remodled the same floor; he removed the existing fir flooring which exposed the shaped poles and put in a new floor. Pledger also rocked up a small opening in the north outside wall of the rock house which gave entrance to the space under the home. Of the home s present appearance, Dr. Aus ti n E. Fi fe wrote: "Note the square windows in the upper floor and the contrast they make with the rectangular windows and white shutters of the ground floor. The tailored evergreen shrubs accentuate the symmetrical elegance of this house which is bound to th~ earth it occupies by a verdant growth of ivy covering the entire south wall." I PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columblan 0 0 15th Century 16th Century 17th Century I 19th Century ~ 18th Century 0 0 1st Otr. 0 2nd Otr.O 3rd Otr. 4th Otr. 0 '0 1st Otr. SPECIFIC DATE(S) Of Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or Aboriginal Prehistoric Historic Agriculture . Education 0 Invention Architecture I! Art 0 q, Co~merce .. , . 0 , 0 . Communications Conservation 0 0 0 Engi neering Industry Landscape Architecture 'riteratu~e .' . Military Music · 0 O . 0 0 ,. 0 0 .. 12!1 , . .. , , " Urban Planning 0 Rellgion/ Philosophy .' 0 " Political . . " 4th Otr. , Mor~ as Appro~riate) ' 0' . 0 0 20th Century 3rd Otr. ~ 0 2nd Otr. 0 Science _ .. Sculptute '. .. Other (Specify) 0 0 0 - . .. ~\ l-k:skLj 0 0 ~ 0 ' " Soclal/ HU,mli'nitarla~ 0 ." Theater I;] Transportation 0 STATEMENT OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE !Include 8ullder/Archltect, Orgl"al & Subsequent Owners, Dates, Events, Etc.) I The Truman Leonard rock home in Farmington was described recently by Dr. Austin E. Fife of USU as "a beautiful specimen of Utah stone masonry which carries in its sober symmetrical facade the weight of colonial and midwester tradition. Professor Fife was impressed with lithe symmetrical elegance of It is an outstanding landmark in the small central Davis Count this house. community of Farmington. The home served as the home of Truman and Ortentia Leonard, and later of John W. and Nellie Taylor, among others. Leonard was an early follower of Mormonism and settled in Farmington in 1850, where he served as a selectman (county commissioner), water master, and helped make the initial survey of the area. The rock portion of the house is one of two built by and for Leonard. The second, a Idup1ex" for plural wives Margaret and Mary Ann, was located on the Leonard farm two miles north of the existin rock house. The Leonard home differs from most other rock houses of the period in its two-story plan and is an excellent example of fine rock work and pleasing architectural style. II II The ori gi na 1 home on the lot was a small adobe cabi n bui 1t for Ortenti a about 1853-54 by members of the LOS ward. It was built \'Jhile Truman served a Mormon mission in India (Oct. 1852-Sept. 1856) and allowed Ortentia to mov from a small cabin on the farm ' where she was being harassed by Indi ans. To this first (Jwing" of the home, Truman brought his plural wives in 1856. A separate home for them and the rock addition were planned at this time. The exact date of construction of the rock portion is uncertain. It was certain y not before 1860, since prior to that date all homes in Farmington were adobe or log. The early 1860s saw construction of Farmington's first rock bui1din~s, including the Farmington LOS Rock Church (begun 1861, completed late 1863; and Rock Mill (Heidelberg Restaurant), built in 1862. David Lund of Farming~ ton told the present owner he remembers hauling brick from Sandy for Tay10r'~ addition to the home. Lund (now deceased) helped his father in the task and has dated the rock part of the house at 1863. Pledger says the rock work was done for Leonard by a Welsh stonemason who also did rockwork on the LOS Farmington Church (other sources credit Charles Bourne, an English stonemaso~ with the church stonework). A biography of Ortentia gives her daughter, Clara (born l865) credit for using earnings from school teaching lito make an addition of four nice rock rooms her father started but was never able to complete. The biography does not make clear whether the rock home was built, finished, or furnished through Clara's efforts and family members have not been able to clarify this statement. (continued on attached sheet) II 1)~>(:::M~.~:::~~B.(i(J.:$.B.f4J~i!fi:Mt.\it(ift~'~N¢'~~:Jp'9¢QM~N1.$)p:V:!;i~4¢At~9.N$>a:tp.o.i:tt$./N:g~~#:~~.syU(::::>?~::{ Sources are scattered and incomplete. Listed below are references in the order 'of completeness and importance. Gertrude Earl Hansen Wes t, "0r tenti a Whi te Leonard, II bi ographi cal sketch, . mimeographed and available from Leonard family. Interview with Harry Pledger, April 2, 1972. Interview with Albert L. Burns, Bountiful, Jan. 25,1972. Deseret News, Dec. 21, 1854; June 13, 1860; May 15, 1867. Interview with E.C. Hedgepeth, 410 No. 200 E., Farmington, April 2, 1972. Samuel W. Taylor, Family Kingdom (1951), pp. 80-81, 160-63, .etc. Gl en M. Leonard, II A Hi s tory of Farmi ngton, Utah, to 1890, II MA thes is, University of Utah, 1966. Austin E. Fife, "Stone Houses of Northern Utah," Utah Historical Quarterly 40 (Winter 1972), 14. ~ LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PJ3.PP'E"ATY : DEFI LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPE ~ ~-----r----~~------~~~~ ----.------4 OR _____ ~ egrees NW NE Minut 0 SE~ --sW . - ........... I-"'" LAT~E CORNER 0 0 eC~~ Degrees Minutes Seconds " o' • " 0 ' " " 0 ' " ~ . ~NGITUDE ~ egrees MinutesS el;. . " . " OFLESSTHANONEACRE~ LA~DE LONGITUDE Degrees M i nutes Seconds 0 ' " ~ ---- 0 • " 0 . .. 0 . " 0 ' " ~ • " ~.:... " 0 . ~. " LIST ALL STATES AND-COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVE IJ;>APPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES State: ...J::o tfe State: Code county:~ Code County : State: St!l& ~ ~ ~ ~ ""-- Code County: I~ Glen M. Leonard Code -------. Code ~ I Street and Number: Code ------ Code Datea,Pnl ~. ), 1972 832 No. 650 East City or Town : Incorporated State: Bountiful 0 UTAH Non-profit 0 Code 8h010 49 (COl'lt . ~ sc.c-Hotv-- ~ ) A.L.Burns remembers as a child visiting the home (before 1898) and seeing only two romms finished (one upstairs, one downstairs) in the rock section. The evidence suggests,- then, that Truman Leonard initiated construction of the home in the 1860s and work may not have been completed for occupancy until the mid 1880s. The rock portion apparently was not completely finished while Leonards lived there. Following Ortentia's death in 1898 (Truman and Clara died the preceeding year), the estate was settled and the home sold to ~1ormon Apostle John ~J. Taylor. Taylor around the same time purchased a home across Fifth North for another plural wife, Nettie. The Taylors , as mentioned above, added the brick section of the home. Ownership following the Taylor occupancy included a Bishop Duce "of Canada," and E.C. Hedgepeth, who purchased the home in 1920 for $1600. He sold it about 17 years later for $4500. Owners during the decade 1937-47 included a Mr. Igu and perhaps others. Harry Pledger purchased the home in 1947 and has energetically worked to keep the home and grounds in first class shape. HISTORIC SITES MARKER ORDER FORM Name of Site: Truman Leonard House Date: June 19, 1990 PROPOSED TEXT: This home was built for Truman and Ortentia Leonard, early Mormon converts who settled in Farmington in 1850. The original adobe house, built in 1853-54, was expanded by the stone section which was started c. 1863 but not completed for many years. The adobe section was replaced by the brick addition in 1908. Leonard, a farmer, served as county selectman (commissioner) and helped divide the county into electoral precincts. He filled a church mission to India, 1852-56, a trip which took him around the world. Upon his return, he married two plural wives who moved to his farm north of town. Polygamy raids in the 1880s forced him to flee to Canada for six years. He died in 1897 and Ortentia in 1898. The house was then sold to Mormon apostle John W. Taylor who built the brick addition. Marker placed in 1990. U U I would like to order a marker with the text as proposed. I would like to order a marker with the following changes in the proposed text: I am enclosing my check payable to INTERPRETIVE GRAPHICS in the amount of: U $363.00 for a 19" x 15" plaque U $161.00 for a 10" x 8" plaque Return to: Signed: Historic Preservation Office Utah State Historical Society 300 Rio Grande Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Please allow six weeks for delivery of the marker. (Name, address & telephone) UHCS E:NCO U I N G FO F~M To be Comole.ted for All SP es in the Potential Fi Ie " /25/84 , 1.Ig.1IDVI4219f~~chzi~ ST. CO. cr. P. BLOCK 2. Ir1 ~ 3I .. sou. ' SITE : I " , I' .': ' '" r--r-r1 ,_ 1 1 , .4. LlL"+- SMI~H$ ()NIAN , NUMBER ZONE 5.0 1~3f2jJl.l?A I ~El6. ill ' SEC. 9. TOWNSHIP RAN GE STRE ET NUMBER ' ' ..L;~'-=J-~ EAST I,NG Z, G,'__ a",~ ', . £(5;3, _ _ . __ , " NORTHING ' , I 8.1 1.9, ZSI , MER. , ~'1AP RE ~ EREN CE .-'--1,' ,-,-,-,-,-, -,-.-,-,-,-",.,. . -:. -:-,-,-+-'l i,1 If' ENCODER:~~11!~7m-,.-' --.:.-.::l~ •" , DATE 1¢i!p,.:?:¢¢t#1 k%¢>'¢9,L(fS , , STREET NAME ' " NORTH/SOUTH . EA ST/WEST 10 ~ ~i£-E~,Q~,N~I-r-A"T""<:R]~'1-'-,TJ~ , ' ~~:,~tL~tnr-"'ll!,A:-:",N+-'j" -I-r-rfi-,.:::'/D~,U:--:,S=-=E=-,-:-, ,..... ' I~ ' -"-~-'" -,-,..-.,-111tr11m13ID 18.~;: . , CONST. PROPERTY NAME OWN. , Cl 19.~20.~ .2 1'~ •22~23tg , HE I GHT rtf1 C~T 31. MAT. STYLE ~ .lLYl .;2.8 ' THEME V? PLAN 0 TRIM ROOF ·ALT. CONDo PLANPHOTO # TYPE ' 33·1::::: 134 .1 :: : ; : 1 35 .~~~~ ,'36. ~~¥A-l-u....'j *' ", ARCHITECTS _\ BUILDERS ASSOCIATED IND I VI DUALS CULTURE 37.142-,D, R, T,G ,.fJ,L,k,8. , , " " , I' , ASSOCI ATED ORGAN I ZA T I Q'\j S COMIvIENTS LETTER rNG : 8 A E3 C D E F G H I J . K L M N 0 P ADD. DE STR. 241 : 125'~ 26. Il!m 27.l1!l 28~l£l29 .flil$ 30.~ ~::.::;3~~ 32,. . . . . . . . 1" CON. TY., NR. Q R S TU II W x Y r NUMBER ING: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9~ ~ ORIGINAL USE April 13, 1972 Mr. Harry W. Pledger 94 East 500 North Farmington, Utah 84025 Dear Mr. Pledger: We are pleased to Inform you of the action of the Governor's Historic and Cultural Sites Review Committee on April 12, 1972. ThIs Committee recommended that the Truman Leonard Home in Farmington be listed on the Utah State Register of Historic Sites. We wIll be presenting you an offIcial CertifIcate of Listing on the State Register and hope that a marker can be placed in the proximity of the property to properly identify It. We are enclosing a copy of the Governor's Proclamation establishing the State Register. We arehappy that this recognition has come to this historic site, and we are anxious that Its historical Integrity be preserved. If you have any questions or recommendations, please feel free to contact us. Sincerely your~. Melvin T. Smith Keeper Utah State Register I~TS :ecd Enclosure County STATE OF UTAH DIVISION OF STATE HISTORY Davis HISTORIC SITES SURVEY (Type or Print· Complete Applicable Sections) Common : Pledger Home and/or Historic: Truman Leonard Home l~z\rtb~Ar.'b.i\(/t/·::\i{·.Y?:\»i{:U)jj!i·;:;\H::\:i':}::::(:i·i:?{\?:\\~·::·:::\}}/(//\{[X:::)W:Y:?\?}\\?/?r~}'\:~/:);;:;}/i·~./!!::?r/~:::~:.:ft~:\:;i{-}~·}~j Street and Number or Other Description of Location 9u East 500 North City, Town, or Township Fa nningt on UTAH I 49 I 84025 Utah CATEGORY (Check One) District Site I 1 Code 'l County: State ,0 0 OWNERSHIP Building ~ StructureD 0 ObjeCt Public Private Both 0 In Process 0 ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC STATUS Public Acquisition: 11!1 Being Considered ;g 0 Occupied 0 0 Code I Davis Unoccupied Preservation work in progress 0 Yes: UnreStricted No: 0 0 0 Zoning (Specify) ,0 Restricted PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Agricultural Commercial o o Government Industrial Military ·0 Entertainment 0 Educational Museum 0 o o o o o Park Transportation Private Residence fit) Religious Other (Specify) o o o Comments ... :::J < 0 Scientific bl c: Owners Name: Harry W. Pledger Street and Num ber 94 East 500 North City or Town: I State: Fannington Zip Code L Code . I 84025 . Utah Courthouse, Registry of Daeds, Etc: Davis County Court House Street and Number: f/l City or Town: Zip Code 8h025 Farminpton l Code J 49 i: z III 3co Approximate Acreage of Nom inated Property: r~i!i!!)~~~~~NfAl'{,,-;tit)~.(t:~11~q~$.~y:~:v.$./,'ifmijij~:y)?:>·:·~;;i"(;{\:::@!j!:\/L:?;:?){~·:/t\?tn}}</ff{};~;>\\\i:~P/:\"{{{<i,ti:\' Title of Survey Records: Date of Survey: Depository for Survey Records: Street and Number: City of Town: Form HSS-1/69/3M Federal I State: o State o County 0 o Local Z ip Code l l ...o'" to Code ~/P.~i.¢#ffi.J.)W{~'5:X~:;/:YiX(:S::f.i.i/?M:':}{M{Z;:~>:::::::{~Wj~ti¥[fn;~,~.%B?{~~~i:<i/:t?i?/),:;·g::V;;/XN~!iF[,';~~::)/~Nt::::::::::/~\)}?/i!i){?:~)2?~:;:;: TCONDITION Excellent Q Good 0 FairO (Check One) INTEGRITY Altered [l Unaltered Describe the Present and Orginal (If known) Physical Appearance ~e~:~~o~~:~ 0 o I Moved Ruins 0 0 Unexposed (Check One) Original S ite 0 ~ The Truman Leonard home in Farmington consists of a rock section built abou,~ 1863 (?) and a brick annex on the west built after 1898 to replace an adobe section built in 1853 or 1854. Both present portions are two-story buildings The adobe home is said to have "consisted of one fair-sized room, sma11 bedroom, and pantry. A.W. Burns remembers it as a two-room adobe. He says it served as a bedroom and "buttery" (or pantry) following addition of the four-room rock section. The dirt roof on the adobe was later rebuilt with shingles. The five-room brick section (two small bedrooms upstairs) rep1ace~ the adobe, perhaps on the same foundation. In the brick section are stairways leading to the second floor and to a small cellar. In this cellar under the brick rooms E.C. Hedgepeth found and sealed over what he described asa secret hiding place, used perhaps during polygamy raids. The original three rooms in the brick section's main floor have been altered somewhat f~a and now include kitchen, bedroom and bath, plus hallway to the outside front (north) entrance. II In the rock portion are two rooms downstairs (ca. 16' x 18') and bolO upstairs. Outside walls are about two feet thick, including an adobe lining faced with plaster. Rafters and flooring are of hand-hewn pO,les and fir flooring. The firep1 aces in the north end of the north rooms on both floors were pl ugged by the present owner. The main floor flue at the south end of the south room is closed, but the flue on the second floor is connected to a stove. Two outside doors in the rock section were altered prior to 1947. One on thE east wall of the north room is now a 'l'Iindow--second from the north. The othl r door entered the same room at the north end of the west wall. Mr. Pledger has noted evidence of a stairway whjch apparently once led to the second floor from the southwest corner of the north room. Pledger altered the door between the two main floor rooms to form a larger, ,arched 9pening. He also replaced the window sashes on the main floor, and repai~ed but retained the original \'/indow sashes upstairs.Hedg~peth says the floor in the rock home was 8 inches higher than that in the brd>ck portion; he said {e1\..lo\'/ered the floor in the north (rock) room. Pledger says he remod1ed the same floor; he removed the existing fir flooring which exposed the shaped poles and put in a new floor. Pledger also rocked up a small opening in the north outside wall of the rock house which gave entrance to the space under .the home. Of the home's present appearance, Dr. Austin E. Fife wrote: "Note the square windows in the upper floor and the contrast they make with the rectangular windows and \'1hite shutters of the ground floor. The tailored evergreen shrubs accentuate the symmetrical elegance of this house which is bound to th~ earth it occupies by a verdant growth of ivy covering the entire south \'/a11." PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian 0 16th Century 0 18th Century 15th Century 0 17th Century 0 1st Otr. 0 3rd Otr. 2nd Otr.o 4th Otr. SPECIFIC DATE(S) (1f Applicable and Known) , 0 0 19th Century ~ 1st Otr. 0 3rd Otr. 2nd Otr. 0 4th Otr. AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Aboriginal 0 .' Education 0 . Political --. 0 0 0 Prehistoric Historic Agriculture , Architecture I! , 0 0 Art Commerce . __Co;";munl~aii~;;s ,d , 0 Conservation Engineering ' Industry Invention ·, ,Landscape ' , Architecture Literature Military ,:, Music " 0 0 0 0 ,. 0 0 0 ' 0 . .. Religionl Philosophy Science Sculpture . 0 : o o 20th Century Ii:!I 0 129 Urban Planning . . Other (Specify) " o o .0 Social! Humanitarian Theater Transportation 0 0 0 STATEMENT OF HISTORICAL S IGNIFICANCE (Include BUilder/Architect, Orginal & Subsequent Owners, Dates, Events, Etc.) { The Truman Leonard rock home in Farmington was described recently by Dr. Austin E. Fife of USU as "a beautiful specimen of Utah stone masonry \'Ihich carries in its sober symmetrical facade the weight of colonial and midwesterr tradition. Professor Fife was impressed with lithe symmetrical elegance of this house. It is an outstanding landmark in the small central Davis Count community of Farmington. The home served as the home of Truman and Ortentia Leonard, and later of John W. and Nellie Taylor, among others. Leonard was an early follower of Mormonism and settled in Farmington in 1850, where he served as a selectman (county commissioner), \'/ater master, and helped make the initial survey of the area. The rock portion of the house is one of b/o bui 1t by and for Leonard. The second, a "dup1ex for pl ural wi ves ~'argaret and t4ary Ann, was located on the Leonard farm blo miles north of the existin rock house. The Leonard home differs from most other rock houses of the period in its two-story plan and is an excellent example of fine rock \'Iork and pleasing architectural style. II II II The original home on the lot was a small adobe cabin built for Ortentia about 1853-54 by members of the LOS ward. It \'Ias bui 1t \,/hi le Truman served a t10rmon mission in India (Oct. 1852-Sept. 1856) and allo\'Jed Ortentia to mov from a small cabin on the farm\'/here she was being harassed by Indians. To this first rJwing" of the home, Truman brought his plural wives in 1856. A separate home for them and the rock addition were planned at this time. The exact date of construction of the rock portion is uncertain. It was certain y not before 1860, since prior to that date all homes in Farmington \'/ere adobe or log. The early 1860s saw construction of Farmington's first rock buildin s, including the Farmington LOS Rock Church (begun 1861, completed late 1863; and Rock Mill (Heidelberg Restaurant), built in 1862. David Lund of Farming ton told the present owner he remembers hauling brick from Sandy for Taylor'~ addition to the home. Lund (now deceased) helped his father in the task and has dated the rock part of the house at 1863. Pledger says the rock \'/ork \'las done for Leonard by a Welsh stonemason who also did rockwork on the LOS Farmington Church (other sources credit Charles Bourne, an English stonemaso~, with the church stonework). A biography of Ortentia gives her daughter, Clara (born 1865) credit for using earnings from school teaching lito make an addition of four nice rock rooms her father started but was never able to complete. The biography does not make clear \'/hether the rock home \'1as built, finished, or furnished through Clara's efforts and family members have not been able to clarify this statement. (continued on attached sheet) II ~:i: :. ..:::.:·. '~~~;:~~~ '~~~':'~:~'a't'~~;~d'~nd incomplete. Listed belo\'1 are references in the order of Earl c6mpletenessWan~ biographical sketch, Gertrude Hansen es , i~b~~!~~~:'Whited Leonard," f .1 mimeographed and available fro~ Leon~~72 aml y. Intervie\'J w~th Harry p~ed~er'sAp~~~n~iful, jan. 25, 1972. Intervie\,1 w1th Albert . u:nJ~ne 13,1860; May 15,1867. . Deseret Ne\'Js, Dec. 21, 1854'h 410 "Jo 200 E Farmington, Apr11 2, 1972. Interview with E.C. Hedgep~t, (l~5i) 'SO-81 160-63, etc. Samuel H. Taylor, Family K1ngdom . t' PPUtah . t~ 1890," ~1A thesis, Glen t1. Leonard, "A History of Farm1ng on, , University Utah, Houses 1966. of Nor th ern Utah , Utah Historical Quarterly Austin E. Fife, of"Stone 40 (Winter 1972), 14. II (Cont · ~ Sc:c-H"" t) ) A.L.Burns remembers as a child visiting the home (before 1898) and seeing only two romms finished (one upstairs, one downstairs) in the rock section. The evidence suggests, then, that Truman Leonard initiated construction of the home in the 1860s and work may not have been completed for occupancy until the mid 1880s. The rock portion apparently was not completely finished \'Ihile Leonards lived there. Following Ortentia's death in 1898 (Truman and Clara died the preceeding year), the estate was settled and the home sold to Mormon Apostle John W. Taylor. Taylor around the same time purchased a home across Fifth North for another plural wife, Nettie. The Taylors, as mentioned above, added the brick section of the home. Ownership following the Taylor Occupancy included a Bishop Duce "of Canada," and E.C. Hedgepeth, who purchased the home in 1920 for $1600. He sold it about 17 years later for $4500. Owners during the decade 1937-47 included a Mr. Igu and perhaps others. Harry Pledger purchased the home in 1947 and has energetically \,Iorked to keep the home and grounds in first class shape. :;. :. :. : :.. . ... .-:.' .. . .. . . . .:. "..... . 1 [jf:·:::FORM::pneA.Al!D:,&Y::::.:::~:::.::!!!::::::,:,:,::::::.::::::::,:::::::::,;::::i::::·::.:.:.:: ..::.:...··......... ... . Team NO,' Signature : Glen M. Leonard , Dat~,Ph/ ~. ), 1912 Street and Number: 8)2 No. 650 East I Incorpor ated 0 Non..profit 0 Code This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. W"'~ tArr'--" tv~ l~J I.U~ 7)~ ...~ ~106~.e~_ "f.. 0 - " ......,~·.UA~ !l lot- -,. ~ '"""'" \'lo{....t :)0 . lJHA • <Y I"~L ......... 7 -r 1~6:' r: 1" ~,..-.- {~~J 1")4.0.,,", t.A-'1 II. A.'I r.""",\A.A: ~ ,i- Ara.-...., d 14 ?'I ~ ~ a..~ a~~ Q~ " .I ~ " f?t- }-.f./ !.{)~ I~£.? 'J ~ 1-!Nt-_.4..i~ i ? ~ l...u 74'''4 lAI!~ Mk::. ~''-A._ ~ t;:tu. '2tJIJ ~""""" D~A4'lf I~, rh\ M.LIl. t5-0A.....A.. ~.."f.A·h~ ! .s.~" This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. May 5, 1972 Mr. Harry W. Pledger, Sr. 94 E. 5th. N. Farmington, Utah 84025 Dear Hr. Pledger: Tuesday, May 9, 1972, the Governor's Review Board Committee will be meeting here at the Utah Historical Society at 2:00 p.m. At that time we would like to present you a certificate to honor the Truman Leonard Home, recently listed on the State Register of His tor I c Sites. I have been trying to contact you by phone, but have been unsuccessful. Thus, the lateness of this letter. We do hope that you will be able to find time to attend our meeting and accept your certificate. We are looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday, Hay 9, 1972 at 2:00 p.m. Sincerely, Elizabeth C. Delaney STATE OF UTAH Calvin L. Rarnpton, Governor DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT SERVlCFS ,i1.pd1 15, 1J74 Division of State History Melvin T. Smith, Director 603 East South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 Telephone: (801) 328~5755 Mr. Harry W. Pledger 94 East 500 North Farmington, UT 84025 Dear Mr. Pledger: We~re curren~l~ updating our files for those sites listed oA Utah's Historic Site Registers. You are listed as the ow~er of the Truman Leonard Home on the State Register. Please check the proper b0X on the enclosed post card and return it to us. If JOU are no longer th9. mmer and Cdn supp 1y us I'Jith tr:e new c\'mer I s narr.2 ijnd address, we ~:e -c1Y'C ~ould be most appreciative. or: our mailing list for trw Utah this' putdi!,;at.ters tile min2r':-; U;7 !'Iistoric sittl p~·OPe'('ti,=s. :Ie feel plar.ning to inchc1e your Historlta,l Soci~ty'S' cation several ~~~_s_~ox~Ji.ishl.t~lf!.t~. \iithin p.:l~;es a"t~ d ·:? VJt2~! :::'0 nL :,: Qr'!c ;Jreservation and specificf~ny t'e1rH.'ing !laii!e puo 'i ;catl(11) tt) thi s \,Ii 11 be a guod '::ay rna i nta~ ~li ng some contact beti'/een (,),( off; ce and ~Jf the owners af historic sites . •102 wQuld,apprecia'te bear-ing allY c0.l;;1:l2r.tS·y.ou l]3.v('! on tne st.atus of .¥o;jr , ni s tori c s it,:; ~oY' hm,' ','L~ can br:! or V2neTi-::. Sincere -ly , ,---.., ( i ,/L '\' .\~ ; " -r t (~\.!~' " --'\ ) ..... t . \ . i>:~ i1 t P-J':'I<~ 1 .. PreservJt on Historid:! :-~nclosure STATE HISTORY BOARD: Dr. Milton C. Abrams, Chairman . Dr. Delio G. Dayton • Dr. Richard O. Ulibarri • Theron H. Luke • Juanita Brooks • Cleo L. Jensen . Helen Z. Papanikolas • Clyde L. Miller • Elizabeth Skanchy Howard C. Price, Jr. • Naomi Woolley } 1 1.~- //~ / f \' O \ j ( ) 5 t ,, 3 .) C 1 / t t!~ h AprIl 13, 1972 Mr. Harry W. Pledger 94 East 500 North FarmIngton, Utah 84025 Dear Mr. Pledger: We are pleased to Inform you of the action of the Governor's HistorIc and Cultural Sites RevIew Committee on April 12, 1972. ThIs Committee recommended that the Truman leonard Home In Farmington be listed on the Utah State RegIster of HistorIc Sites. We wIll be presenting you an officIal CertIficate of listIng on the State RegIster and hope that a marker can be placed In the proxImity of the property to properly Identify It. We are enclosIng a copy of the Governor's Proclamation establishing the State Register. We arehappy that this recognitIon has come to thIs historic site, and we are anxIous that Its hIstorical Integrity be preserved. If you have any questIons or recommendatIons, please feel free to contact us. SIncerely your~. MelvIn T. SmIth Keeper Utah State Register MTS:ecd Enclosure This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. 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I,Ii"; II:1 ~ ;1 ,I ,;, III ,I Ii II :1 ::1 , 1'1 '.! 1\" :1 1 ;,1 , :' . I .! : I· i,i "1i 111 j'. lhi q· I :1 , II 1 I FOR TRUMAN LEONARD, finding himself seated at the head of the table at Brigham Young's gala Christmas party in 1856 was not so much an honor as an opportunity. Leonard's carefully worded letter of three weeks earlier asking the ~10rmon leader's permission to many both a second \)~ 1tl\in~uSL QLUAI\\k~ ~ ~'\ 1'7~ , vcJl · 44 #:.1 < Truman Leonard: Pioneer Mormon Farmer 241 a third wife had gone unanswered. President Young had ach-ised Leonard four years earlier that upon fulfilling his proselytizing mission to I !lelia he should implement the newly announced principle of plurality in his life. Reluctant at first, the faithful elder had had long months of loneliness to consider the :Mormon doctrine ; then, on his journey home with the Ellsworth and McArthur handcart companies, fortune hJcl blessed him with the acquaintanceship of t\VO young English girls. Truman Leonard grasped the opportunity during the conversation of ell ristmas evening to remind President Young of his promise to the missionaries called in August 1852. "If one plural wife was sanctioned, \\'ould two be agreeable?" "Yes, of course," Young responded. "Take t\\·o or three." Truman Leonard's commitment to :Mormonism almost ah\'ays led him to accept the counsel of his priesthood leaders. He married those [\\'0 young women, plucking one of them right out of Brigham Young's o\\'n kitchen, and took them home to Farmington, where Ortentia, his wife of ten years, accepted them, though with some misgivings, into her t\\'o-room adobe cabin. Though he was slightly more married than the average Latter-day SJint of his day, in many ways Truman Leonard was a typical Utah \fonnoll. Both of his plural wives were taken during the flurry of marryin ,~ stirred up by the Mormon Reformation, just before James Buchanan's armed expedition arrived in the supposedly rebellious territory. Like nlJny of his neighbors, Leonard participated in the Utah 'Var. At other times he served his community in response to priesthood calls in a variety of civic duties, from county selectman to chairman of a July 4 extravaganza. A missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints four times during his seventy-seven years, and a home missionary and 5c\'cnties president in between, he was one of those religious exiles from ~allvoo who managed to mingle a zeal for salvation with hard \\'ork on a small but productive Utah farm. And through it all he struggled with the humanness of being determined, even obstinate at times, while developing a reputation for unbounded generosity. Why Truman Leonard chose in 1850 to live in Davis County has not been recorded; but whatever the reasons that took him north from ;lI1d , Dr. Leonard is a senior historical associate in the Historical Department of the Church Christ of Latter-day Saints, This paper was awarded honorable mention in the 1976 l'tah Bicentennial Biographies Contest, professional class, jointly sponsored by the Utah State III ~torical Society, the Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and the Salt Lake " I jc'SllS Tnbune, Opposite: Truman Leonard. Photographs courtesy of the Leonard family. ,; '. r ,{ I " I! 11 'I 'j I 242 Utah Historical Quarterly he ' Salt Lake City along the narrmy, sloping 'Vasatch ~Iountain foothills, did find himself among compatriots. Within a year of his arrival, census takers for the federal government counted eighty residents of Farmington, Truman Leonard included, who listed Xe\\' York State as the place ..J!of their birth. That was a full 47 percent of the town's adult population. '~ Most of the other. family heads were Illinois or Ohio natives, and many °-:,t of the western New Yorkers had accepted :\10lomonism in one of those ~, midwestern states. The percentage of New Yorkers in Farmington was ~' double that of the territOlY as a whole, but even in Utah itself no other state claimed a larger share of native sons. Furthermore, 78 percent of Farmington's workers listed farming as their livelihood. In this, too, Truman Leonard fit the common mold of early Utah. 1 Thus, though Leonard is virtually unknown in Utah history, his life can illustrate the contribution to his community of a typical man, belonging t<;> an uncommon but dominant religion, living in a representative nineteenth-century Utah Mormon tmyn. Truman Leonard first heard of Mormonism as a young man. His " father had left Massachusetts in 1811 and moved to Ontario County, New York, where, like so many other New Englanders, he sought a new life of economic opportunity in the new \Vest. At Middlesex, among the Finger Lakes, the family was only a few miles from the center of early :Mormon activities. Stories of a gold bible, discovered in a hillside by one Joseph Smith, Jr., spread by word of mouth throughout the district. Excerpts of the translated record soon appeared in Obediah Dogberry's Palmyra Reflector in 1830 and then the book itself was offered at doorsteps in the hands of earnest missionaries. Truman, who was born at Middlesex on September 17, 1820, once visited Hill Cumorah out of curiosity for a personal inspection of the landmark. 2 But the new religion did not catch up with the Leonards in New York. Truman's father, Truman Leonard, Sr., sold his improved 148acre farm for $4,221 and moved on to Chatham, in :Medina County, Ohio, where he started over again on a 396-acre spread. That was in 1 Compiled and calculated from U.S., Bureau of the Census, "Seventh Census Population Schedules: 1850," microfilm of MS, Special Collections, ~farriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. ' 1 A brief biographical sketch of Truman Leonard. Jr. , by a grandson, Frank J. Earl, "Fifth Mormon to Circumnavigate the Globe," The Pioneer 15 (~fay-June 1968): 12-13, provides a useful overview of his life. Also helpful in the preparation of this paper have been the historical and genealogical researches of Earl, Margaret L. 1foon, Mary L. Onstott, and the late Luverne L. Hinman. Truman Leonard kept diaries of most of his missions after the first, but wrote little of his life otherwise. Typescripts of se\Oen of his survi ving diaries were prepared in 1969-70 by Brigham Young University for d eposit in the library there. The originals remain with the family. The visit to Cumorah is reported in Dat'is County Clipper, November 26, 1897. Truman Leonard: Pioneer Alormon Farmer 1835. Young Truman was fifteen years old and it would be another eight vears before his investigations and the visit of l'oah Packard , an itinerant , Latter-day Saint preacher, would lead him to accept baptism. Packard's proselytizing apparent]y attracted the interest first of Han'ey Edwards, husband of one of Truman Leonard's older sisters. Tmman was baptized in the Black River on :March 25, 1843, followed quickly by a younger hrother, John, over whom Truman assumed a self-appointed guardianship from that time on. In the ensuing months~ others of the family followed these three into the :Mormon church. Eventually Tmman's father, probably his mother, and five or six of the other eleven children became members.s A growing number of believers in Chatham soon created the need for a regular church organization. Therefore, a small branch was fonned in September 1843, with Truman Leonard, Jr., as presiding elder. Then, only four months later, he answered a missionary call to Ohio and New York and left the branch presidency to his father. During this critical year for ~formonism, Joseph Smith was moving toward a national campaign for the United States presidency. Truman may have joined the dozens who mingled proselytizing with politicking that spring and early slimmer of 1844. The prophet's murder in late June ended the quest for political authority, and in the flurry of uncertainty that followed, several Latter-day Saints were claiming the right to religious leadership. In succeeding years, Truman's oldest brother, Ebenezer, followed James J. Strang to Beaver Island. Several others of the family remained in Chatham, Ohio, where both parents died in 1846. About this time the little branch voted to disband and move en masse to Xam'oo, but apparently none of the Leonards joined Truman and John who had already tied their fortunes to the leadership of Brigham Young. 4 On July 11, 1844, at the close of Truman's eastern mission, he and his young brother arrived in Nauvoo. For the next two years, Truman worked on the 1Ionnon temple. He was a registered voter in Nauvoo, and in January 1845 became a ~1aster l\fason in the Nauvoo Lodge. The wiry young man, then in his mid-twenties and standing five foot nine inches tall, gained a reputation for hard work and caught the attention of the new Mormon prophet. I : " I I " !I i I I ! . :I :1' 1 j' : II I I III I 1/ . I II :! I I I ! I q .;II \::'/ ,I II 'i ll I III .: 11 I 'Mary L. Onstott, "Historical Sketch of Truman Leonard, Sr. (1784-1846)," TL: .\'ezt'fletter 01 the TTuman Leonard Family Association, no. 6 (Julr 19i5), p. 2; Noah Packard, ..I Synopsis 01 the Lile and Travels 01 Noah Packard, Born: li96 (n.p., n.d.), pp. 3-4, 7-8 . .. Glen :\.1. Leonard, "New Records Reveal Chatham Branch Acth'ity," T L: NewsletteT, ':0. 6 (July 1975), p. 7; and Minutes of the Chatham Branch, :\.IS, Western Americana CoHeclion, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. . , I' , .1 244 Utah Historical Quarterly An anecdote told by his descendants reflects the energetic determina_ tion with which Truman Leonard approached his task as laborer. As the temple walls rose skyward, workers used the construction derricks as personnel hoists. Each morning they hauled themselves upward to their work stations, and at noontime or evening rode the swinging ropes down. A game developed among the young men to see which of them could reach the hoist first and thus touch down ahead of the others. Truman, swift of foot, often edged out the other roof-top racers in the dash for the elevator. On one occasion, outdone by his fun-loving companions, he surprised them all by leaping from the roof of the temple as the derrick was swinging toward the pickup point. Grabbing the rope in midair, he 'was successful in \\-inning that night's race to the supper table. Another version of the story has the impetuous young man falling from the temple ' walls and breaking several bones that were then healed by an administration of the elders. \ Vhatever the consequences of his zeal, Truman Leonard apparently did earn a promise from Brigham Young that when the temple ",as opened for ordinances the first marriage perfom1ed 'would be that of Truman Leonard and Ortentia 'White. On January 1. 1846, Elder Heber C. Kimball performed the marriage and then, as a memento of the solemn occasion, handed the twenty-year-old, l\ew York-born bride a photograph of himself and a lock of his hair. 5 The temple, only partially completed, was not yet formally dedicated. and although most church authorities and a majority of the Saints fled from the threatened city early that year, Truman and Ortentia stayed on to help put finishing touches on the sacred monument to Joseph Smith's threatened empire. According to a report preserved by Ortentia's children, Truman helped install the angel atop the completed temple's spire. Then, when Hancock County citizens attacked Nauvoo, he joined the Spartan band in defending their Zion city. For five days, \\'hile Ortentia wondered at his fate, Truman manned a powder plot for the rag-tag militia. There were injuries and deaths on both sides. Truman escaped unharmed, but performed the sorrowful task of removing the bodies of \Villiam Anderson and his fifteen-year-old son from the battlefield and then of prying out the bullets so their bodies could be \\'asher! and clothed for buria1. 6 5 The story has been told to the auth or by Margaret L. M oo n , the latc Luvcrnc L H i'~l" :l " , and others; and the alternate vcrsion is in Gertrude Earl Hansen 'Vcst, "Ortcntia \\' In: ' Leonard ," mimeographed biographical sketch prcpared for family m embcrs, n,d" cnp" ;c possessio n of the author. r, \\'est. "Ortentia " ' hite Leonard ," p , 1 ; and No tes on an fntervicw with Truman Lc(,naf{: Jr" C ard ston, Alb erta, Octobcr 19, 1894, on a printed form titled Biographical Ellc),cio/,a i r;' IC TrlllIlan Leonard: Pioneer J.1ormon Farmer 245 The Battle of Nam'oo ended the Mormon stay in Illinois, and the Lconards were among those forced to flee in September 1846, Crossing th e \Iississippi, they joined the sick and unwilling exiles in the trek to \\'int cr Quarters, The journey was especially hard on Ortentia, who was pregnant with their first child, The couple reached the Mormon camps along the Missouri in late fall before the birth November 4 of Ezra Newton Leonard, who died and was buried the same day. For three, nearly iOllr years, Truman and Ortentia remained in the Council Bluffs area. \[any of Brigham Young's ablest teamsters had joined the Mormon B:lttalion. Consequently, Truman's talents as a handler of li\'estock and ~kill as a builder were valuable assets. The interlude also allo\\'ed him to ;lcquire a few possessions of his own-oxen and a wagon, cattle, and the mpplies they would need for the trek to the Great Basin. Before Truman and Ortentia set out from Kanesville in June 1850, they had rejoiced in the birth of a second son whom they named Truman \Iilton, But just two days before their departure the eight-month-old 00,' died of the dreaded "black canker" and was buried in an unmarked Zf:l\'e, Joseph Young, presiding church officer in Nauvoo after Brigham YOllng's departure, headed the wagon company. He was thus acquainted with Truman Leonard, who had worked for him at the temple. As the procession moved out across the plains, it soon became apparent that too many families had been enrolled for convenient supervision. Elder Young reorganized the party and placed Tmman Leonard in charge of one rl the sections. The twenty-seven-wagon group arrived at its destina:;on in early October. 7 Then began the period of Truman Leonard's greatest usefulness to h L~ church and community. The decade of the 1850s would see him :m'oked in a variety of religious, civic, and cultural duties. Thirty years 0i age in 1850, he had proven himself through a half-dozen years of i.lithful church service and through a demonstrated facility for practical :!1ings, His file leaders would see to it that his willing hands "-ere engaged :nhelping to build the kingdom at home and abroad. It is possible that an advertisement in the newly founded Deseret .'-·, ws turned Truman Leonard's attention toward the fertile farmlands -:-~ interview collected information for Andrew Jenson's encyclopaedia of Mormon biography, ~:: the form is filed in the Archives of the Historical Department, the Church of Jesus Christ :' Luter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (cited hereinafter as LDS Archives), The notes will be cited --:-:naftt'r as Truman Leonard interview, October 19,1894, '_ ' ''Journal History of the Church," August 28, 1850, LDS Archives, cO:1taining a letter • .C) Joseph Young to the First Presidency; and Truman Leonard interview, October 19, 1894, I , ! , i ' I I III, !I, ! , ,I i , I :{ " :1 !I ! I 'I Ii Ii : I : i !I " i L' I 'I I !II I 1'1 i , J I;I ;Iit , II 1: 1 :, III' , 1,1 !I I I:: I ,'1/,1; i i " I !i I ~ , I "I ~ ,I ,I 'I I 'j 246 Utah Historical Quart erl), of central Davis County. '\Tillard Richards was building a sawmill four miles up North Cottom\-ood Canyon. He needed men skilled in the building trades and laborers to get out timber and build roads and bridges. After Leonard had provided a small cabin on a farmsite a mile and a half further north, he probably worked much of the time through the winter in the canyon.8 Already the settlers of 1848 and 1849 had appropriated much of the land along the bigger streams. They were calling their scattered com, munity alternately Miller's Settlement and North Cottonwood, but after 1852 it became Farmington. Truman staked a claim, approved by Bishop Joseph L. Robinson, to at least fifty acres stretching in a narrow strip from the mountains westward. Within the first year he cleared and put under cultivation ten acres of the best land. His principal crops \\'Cre wheat and potatoes, with a few garden vegetables added as he found time to care for them. The first harvest brought in a reported 160 bu~h('l~ of wheat and 200 bushels of Irish potatoes; and that same year he realized a surplus of 25 pounds of butter. That he had not arrived in Utah completely without resources is demonstrated in his claim to twenty-ninc head of livestock, including five milch cows, eighteen working oxen, t\\'O other "cattle," and four horses. 9 It was the oxen that gave him thc greatest pride of ownership. Truman Leonard enjoyed the animals as some men enjoyed a good riding horse, and his neighbors soon came to recognize his stable of working oxen as among the finest in the community, His efforts toward a moderately comfortable life were interrupted after only two years by the call to full-time missionary service in India , He and eight others whose names ,,,,ere read from the pulpit at the speci:d August 1852 general conference spent nearly two and one-half years in the Hindoostan Mission with little to show for their efforts, plus anoth er eighteen months getting there and back. The call to India interrupted an important opportunity for com· munity service. In 1851 he had been assigned by the bishop to help organize the North Cottonwood 'Ward into school districts. Soon afterward he was named a selectman from the central district of Davis COllnt\ and sat with the first county court in l'vfarch 1852. His service fell at ;1 significant time in county history. \Vith Judge Joseph Holbrook and selectman Daniel Carter, he helped divide the county into electoral pre8 Deseret News, August 24 and September 28, 1850 ; Milton D, Hammond , ":\ .1< ,"""" Kept by Milton D , Hammond. "'ilh a Short Sketc h of My Life Previous to Date of J"!If:,,': 1856- 1858," p, 3, mimeog raph ed. copy at Marrio tt Library, University of Utah. • Recorded in Bureau of the Census, "Seventh Census Population Schedules: 1,(11 ' 247 .-inet' and school and highway districts, appointed watermasters, and in :11 :111 \ other ways took actions that established precedents for local ..:nn '!1lment. At the regular election in August 1852 he was named to a ';:'(onc1 term on the court but resigned the position a few \\-eeks later to .1 I1S\\T r the missionary calling.lO Truman had two months to get his affairs in order. He left his farm under the charge of his twenty-one-year-old and still-single brother John, <.Old some of his livestock to help finance the journey and sustain his \,·ifc. and obtained a promise from the local priesthood that Ortentia's needs would be cared for. She had lost another baby by now, an experience that would be repeated four more times, but earlier that year she Iud borne a healthy girl, one of three girls who would li\-e to maturity. Hd cn :Mar was six months old when her father loaded a wagon and hcack d for Los Angeles to begin a globe-encircling missionary tour. Because of the season, the Asian missionaries reached San Francisco's international port by the circuitous route through Las Yegas Meadows :md Los Angeles. In southern California they sold their fifteen wagons and forty-six horses and mules for cash, purchased passage on a coastal boat, and sent the surplus funds to their families. At San Francisco they collected enough from church members and others to pay their fares of .$200 each. An eighty-eight-day sea voyage aboard the clipper ship AlonJoan brought them to Calcutta, on India's east coast. They were welcomed there May 1, 1853, by the family of British army officer ::Matthew ~fcCune. Already converts to Mormonism, the 11cCunes were able to l.,~ is t the elders, and on one occasion nursed an ailing Truman Leonard back to full health.ll Leonard spent his first seven months in an area not far from Calcutta, at Chinsura. Then he joined Elder Amos Milton :Musser for a month-long voyage around the subcontinent's southern cape to Bombay. Consultations with other missionaries led them to a field of labor further up the coast at Karachi (now part of Pakistan) where they remainedsometimes together, sometimes alone-for the next year and a half. Never totally optimistic in his regular reports to mission headquarters in Liverpool, England, Elder Leonard determined in his last letter to his supervisor, Elder Franklin D. Richards, "to tell things as they '" William Robb Purrington, " The History of South Davis County from 1847-1870" (M.S. Ll:esis, University of Utah, 1959) , pp. 82- 84. 11 Earl, "Fifth Monnon to Navigate the Globe," pp. 12-13. 248 Utah Historical Quarter!:. are" and corroborate the discouraging reports of his coworkers in other parts of India. All whom he had contacted, he said, had "refrained from obeying the Gospel; they heeded it not sufficiently, they regarded too lightly the day of their visitation, they remain out of the kingdom, and know not its sweets." Furthermore, he was convinced that the "judg. ments of an offended God" were about to be poured out upon the land. and he cited civil disturbances in the upper provinces as signs of the impending calamity.12 Having cleared his conscience of further obligation to "India's sons." he sought passage for Liverpool, but having depended upon the gooclnts, of his hosts for so long-and living destitute often of basic necessities-he found it doubly difficult to raise the necessary fare. He and his com· panions finally arranged with the captain of a sailing ship to work their passage homeward. At Liverpool Truman joined the Enoch Trail1, a ~hip loaded with British converts. He was shortly assigned by .Mormon organizers on board to preside over the ship's fifth ecclesiastical \\'ar<1, His home\\'ard-bound preaching revived his own dampened spirits. for his shipboard audience was not only captive but receptive. From their landing port at Boston, the ship's 1'vformon emigrant moved by rail to Iowa City, where Leonard assisted in the preparation of handcarts. 'When the group was organized for travel, he was appoillted captain of the first of two divisions of Daniel D. lYIcArthur's companv. Equipped with twelve yoke of oxen, four wagons, and forty-eight cam. plus five beef cattle and a dozen cows, the company of 222 people left Iowa City June 11 and after two weeks at Florence, Nebraska, for fin:!! repairs, headed out on the plains July 24, 1856.13 The trek of the first handcart companies, well known in the al1ll:ll< of :Mormon migration, included much routine and little excitement. Onl~ three special incidents seemed important enough for :McArthur to note in his official report to Brigham Young. Two of them concerned emergencies involving older women, and in both cases Truman Leonard was on the scene to give aid. On August 16, nine days beyond Fort Kearney, while crossing ;l sandy hillock, fifty-nine-year-old l\fary Bathgate, a leader in the \\';dk'" Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 18 (November 1855) :45-46. The mi~ s i(Jn hi'.:' '-· is told in R. Lanier Britsch, "The Latter-day Saint Mission to India. 1851-1856." P, ':J ,:'c Young U'l h'ersity Studies 12 (Spring 1972) :262-77; and in Britsch's "A His(r,,, ,f .:" ~ri s si o nary ..\ni,·ity of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in India, I n·l ~ I:· ." (M.A. thesi s, Brigham Young Uni\'ersity, 1964) . 1 13 J ohn D . T . ~fcAlli s ter, Diary, ~ray 23, June 3, 1856, typescript, Harold B. Lc r 1.: ,;.", Brigham Young Uni\'ersity, Provo, Utah . T rull/a n Leonard: Pioneer A1ormon Farmer 249 in(!" brigade \vhich was normally strung out ahead of the carts and wagons, I,·a.' bitten on the ankle by a rattlesnake. Upon learning of the accident, Cq)[ains ~1cArthur and Leonard ran the half-mile to her side. Truman opened the wound with his pen-knife and sucked out the poison. Then he helped her into his wagon, and after a two-hour rest, the company commenced its journey. But as the heavily laden wagon started to move, (he \'ictim's close friend, Isabella Park, stepped up to inquire of her condition. The driver failed to see "Mother" Park, and she \vas knocked dO\\'n , the front wheels of the heavy wagon passing O\'er her hips. Leona rd, seeing her fall, pulled her away just short of the hind wheel, which passed over both ankles. The softness of the soil had saved her from broken bones, but bruised, she joined her former walking partner in (h e wagon for a few days. Neither woman had ridden at all before that time, and as the oldest in the company the two had prided themselves on their accomplishment. :Mrs. Bathgate, in fact, good naturedly sought \\'irncsses that she was being placed in the ,vagon not of her own choice but at the bidding of the reptile! Before they reached Salt Lake Valley, both \\'omen were again out marching at the head of the company.14 The two young British women , . . ho would soon become plural wives of Truman Leonard were members of the Ellsworth party ,,-hich had left 100\'a City just ahead of the l'vfcArthur camp. Until they reached Florence, the t\\·o groups traveled in a common movement. Minutes reveal that Tnlman Leonard appeared frequently as a speaker or gi\-er of prayers .It [lIs\\'orth camp meetings. The two companies sometimes made contact west of Florence, too, giving him opportunities to get acquainted with ira\"Clcrs in both groups. Besides, he had sailed the Atlantic with ~Jargaret Bourne, who was accompanied by her parents, and Mary Ann ~feadows, \\ ho had left her family behind in England. In later years Truman con:idcd to Brigham Young that he had courted neither of these young bd ies to exceed three hours each. Formal courting began only after his \\clcome reunion with Ortentia. 15 Th e two companies of handcarts reached Salt Lake Valley on the forenoon of Friday, September 26. William Pitt's brass band, dozens of city residents, and a representation of officialdom headed by Brigham .. ~l cAr thur's report is published in LeRoy R . Hafen and Ann W . Hafen . Handcarts to 1" , : T he St ory 0/ a Unique West ern Migration, 1856-1860, The Far West and Rockies His~':( ~l Series.. vol. 14 (Glen.daJe, Ca!if.: The Arthur H: Clark Company. 1960), pp. 214-17. _-;.., t •• t' r \'crslon of the story IS In LydIa D. Alder, "The FIrst H andcart Company," Improvement : .. : 12 (July 1909): 720-23. y " Hafen and Hafen, Handcarts to Zion, pp. 58, 64, 200-202 j Truman Leonard to Brigham ""'g', Apri l 8, 1859. LDS Archives. ;, p, I', ,I : i, ' ' 1 'I ' I ' ! ·1 250 1 'i'" ii !!, r; Ii· I, " !i 11 ' :i! I:' , !;: ~ I Ii : i I:1"~ , r :I',' 1 ; 1, I l' , I ' l, : I: ; Utah Historical QuartOl) Young were on hand at the canyon mouth to greet the pioneers. After 2 surprise but \velcome melon bust, an impressive procession down Sout h Temple Street escorted them to the public square. They reached the immigrant campground at sunset, heard an official welcome by President Young, and then, as they had done a hundred times since leaving IO\Q City, the weary trekkers pitched their tents for the night. 16 On the foIlmdng day, Ortentia arrived from Farmington, and after a night with friends in the city, the reunited couple returned home. Tn!. man had left his "'ife and new daughter in a small log cabin on the fann, two miles north of Farmington. Wandering Indian bands often frequ ented the area, looking for food or seeking wild game. On one of thri r visits after Truman's departure, Ortentia had been so frightened by an intruding Indian man that Bishop Gideon Brownell decided to mow her into the ne\\'ly settled townsite. The local priesthood had hclpcd Ortentia build a two-room adobe home at the far northeast corner of the city plat. To this comfortable cabin Truman returned in 1856. 1 7 In between "isits with friends and relatives and speaking engage· ments at ward meetings in Salt Lake City and Farmington, the \\'ear~ missionary pitched in to help his brother with the wheat harvest on their farms and again settled into an agrarian life. Is 'Vithin two months he had obtained Ortentia's approval to marry polygamously. On December 5 he sent his friend Daniel Miller to t1H' city with a letter and an invitation. The letter was the one asking Brigham Young's permission to take a third wife along with a second one: the invitation brought 'Margaret Bourne to Farmington on an offici:1] visit. For the next few weeks Truman busied himself with his farm\\ork -killing a beef, fixing fences, gathering wood from the canyon, and repairing his farm tools-while awaiting the official reply that did 110t come. And then when the returned missionaries gathered at the president's new Lion House for the Christmas Day party, he asked the question in person. On January 5 Truman obtained approval from ~1argarct'~ parents and from ~hrgaret; contacted Brigham Young and formally proposed to the young woman, Mary Ann ~1eado\\-s, who was gainfully employed in the president's kitchen; and then, having received ~rar: Ann's acceptance and having bought a new dress for Ortentia, he scheduled a double wedding at the Endowment House for the following day.:> ,. Deseret Neu.'s, O ctober I, 1856. West. "Ortentia White Leona rd," p . 2. "Thomas S. Smith, Journal , March 8, 185 7, ~\'!S. LDS Archi,'c;. "Truman Leonard to Brigham Youn g, D ecember 5, 1856, ~fS, LDS Archives ; D o n,: Sea's, December 31, 1856. ' ,~ i I I , ,'II I Tr uman L eonard: Pioneer Mormon 'Farmer ()rt entia White Leonard. .\farga ret Bourne Leonard. .\{Il TY AliT! }'1eadows Leonard. 251 Margaret, having been the first courted, firmly insisted on being the first married, and it was so agreed. :\lary Ann, as her posterity explain it, though last in marriage, received a compensating bl essing, for she was mother to seven children, all of whom lived to maturity, while Margaret, for reasons only fate could determine, endured a long life of childlessness. During Truman Leonard's extended absence from his farm, the bishop had found other settlers needing soil to till and had divided the Leonard homestead with them. Truman's brother had already received a portion of the original claim and half interest in part of the remaining lanel as an enticement to remain with Truman in a cooperating farming arrangement. The bishop's realignment in 1855 left Truman-and everyone else in to\\TIwith a farm of about twenty acres, a parcel his descendants have continued to farm as their inheritance in Zion.20 Nearly destitute after four years away, Truman immediately began the process of rebuilding his economic resources. He spent the winter preparing for the season ahead. He visited the local lumber mills and blacksmith shops for materials, built himself a harrow, and constructed others for neighbors in exchange for goods needed to sustain his family. Plowing began early in the spring, followed by the sowing of his wheat and .., Gideon Brownell to Brigham Young, March 21, 1855, and Leonard to Young, April 8, 1859, LDS Archives. 252 -, ,, i ! ' , ~ ' . 1 . ,, .' ·, , : .. t t ,· ,;. · i ',I: n . ~ , ; :1 ; .i: .1 ~, = ii· I' !.j. 1::: I 1 ,·, I , i I! " i lI , I' I' 1; I I.! Itl I \1 Utah Historical Quarterly potatoes. Then came the long summer months of furrowing, hoeing, and irrigating before the harvest rewarded his labors. His enterprise paid dividends; by the second year he was forecasting a one-thousand-bushd grain harvest. 21 By 1860 his herds included at least 116 sheep. That was the number lost in a fire of November 17. The disaster was caused by the east wind that, from the first days of settlement, had been testing the secUI-it\" of f'armington's buildings. It had not taken long for early residents to kam that a carelessly laid roof required emergency reinforcement when the gray wind cloud formed along the eastern mountains. Molasses barrels or discarded millstones worked well as weights, and logging chains hrlpcd tie down flimsy housetops. But little could be done to prevent the SOl l ering of sparks from a wood-burning fireplace . In that early, pred awn . windstorm of 1860 a spark from a chimney twenty rods away landed in Tmman Leonard's straw stack. The resulting blaze destroyed the straw. several tons of hay, a mule, and the 116 sheep. It then spread acro~s a wide lane to the home of Andrew Quigley. As the family fled into the cold night, their log home burned to the ground. 22 It would have been typical of Truman Leonard to respond to thl' disaster stoically, seeing it perhaps as a trial of faith, a means of di\·inc testing. In the 1860s and succeeding decades friend and foe alike \\"Ould sometimes seem at odds with him, but for the first years after his mi s~ ion the challenges were mingled ·with a fervent activity in defensive warfare, In September 1854, during his absence in India, Truman had been appointed senior president of the Fifty-sixth Quomm of Seventy. This was his principal ecclesiastical position in the Latter-day Saint church, and it became a lifelong stewardship, a symbol of his commitmen t to proselytizing, which was the special assignment of the seventy. Perhap~ because of this office and no doubt because of his recent service in the foreign mission field, Leonard was given charge of the 'Monnon Reformation in Farmington. In its broader aspects, the movement to encourage the Saints to live their religion with greater earnestness had gotten its start just before his return from India. Only days before the first handcarts reached Salt Lake Valley, hundreds were being rebaptized in the mill ponds of Kaysville and Farmington as a sign of rededication, Tmman and Ortentia had been rebaptized in 1851 but submitted th em21 A typical farm season can be reconstructed from the journals of Milton D . I·fam m" ,,': (see note 8), and J oseph L. R obinson, "Autobiography and Journa l, 1819-1892," ~f S . LJ) S Archi\'es. 21 "Journal History," November 16, 1860 ; Desere! News, Nov ember 23,1864. Fill man Leonard: Pioneer Mormon Farmer 253 ,;ck cs to another immersion while attending the 'October general con• 23 lere nce. Thus recommitted he picked as counselors in the home missionary c;dling Joseph France and Thomas Grover and then began energetically !".\ t ending the call to repentance to his neighbors. Some took offense at hi..; prying catechizing. One family left town for California. Here and there young farmers admitted to branding livestock which had "wan(k reel" into their possession from a neighbor's farmyard . Leonard told a -';:lth ering of priesthood bearers he intended to pursue the goal of pruning the Lord's vineyard whatever the personal feelings of his friends, for hc~ earnestly believed that the good life lay in righteousness and that that . '. ':;105 obtainable only by cutting out sin wherever it was found. Five un: :cpclltant souls were excommunicated as a step toward repentance; and ; lllo,t of th ~m found their way back into the fold through counseling and i!lcreased works of faithfulness. The reformation, though shortlived, left j l.ht ing images in Farmington; and while the generation of the 18505 h rel . Truman Leonard and his associates resurrected the term whenever ill !'\" saw the need to enliven their followers in the work of the kingdom.24 f ).[eanwhile, practical matters enlisted a share of Truman Leonard's ~cll' rgi es. In 1857 he helped count votes at the August election. In that ~ l . l rlH.' election he was named to the post of county selectman that he had ~ .1~):lllcl oned for his mission. This time he sezved three years. Then, for a . ~ ,' J r after that, he worked as road supezvisor for the Farmington district. h 1857 and again three years later, he perfOlmed the duties of water::~,\ ;;( c r for Shepard Creek, a stream that once bore his own last name and :h.1t still watered his farm.25 In the spring of 1857, Truman Leonard was invited to join the , Dt~ (' rc t Brass Band, a local organization with a rapidly rising reputa,>'11 in the territory. He accepted a position in the percussion section and n attending practices to prepare for the town's annual Independence .l y celebration. A member of the arrangements committee, he gave ~ t:' signal to discharge a responding blast from the militia's cannon to ::nch the day's activities. Then he joined with the band in serenading John ,\V. Hess with the national anthem. All of this happened I I i "Farmi ngton Ward Record, 1851-65, Book A, pp. 64-65, microfilm, LDS Genealogical . ; Deseret N ews, September 24, 1856 . r.. .. "Journal History," November 21, 1856, and March 5, 1857 ; and the story of the reform a<:'L.Farmi r;g ton is in Glen M . Leonard, "A History of Farmington, Utah, to 1890" (1I.A. . r. ,.. ersl ty of Utah, 1966) , pp. 53-59 . County, Court Minutes, vol. 1, pp. 48, 69, 81, 85- 86, and 99, MS, Davis County mce, Farmington, Utah. .,"f}::.\;; ... i :, If . ! : i l' \: ji I .Ii 1 i IiI I I I: ! Utah Historical Quart erly 254 at four o'clock in the morning. Next, the band performed for a halfdozen sleepy-eyed dignitaries at their homes and enjoyed a sumptllous breakfast at Thomas Grover's large house. At 8 o'clock the town's residents who had been so resoundingly awakened by the predawn ceremonies gathered at the Farmington parade ground. There the militiaboth cavalry and infantry-exhibited its marching prowess, and the band performed again to inaugurate a day of speechmaking, picnicking-. dancing, and festive tomfoolery.26 Three " 'eeks later a more serious mood settled over Farmington . 'Vord had arrived of the approach of United States military forces uncler the command of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston. The Utah Expedition "'as marching west to quell a reported insurrection among the Saints. Tru· man Leonard's first involvement in the Utah "War came in late September when the Farmington band escorted a spirited county infantry detachment to Echo Canyon. Early in October the band played at the Deseret State Fair, and in November Truman picked up his drum again to accompany another segment of Col. Philemon C. IVIerrill's Davis COllnty regiment to the canyon. The band marched to Salt Lake City for ordcr5. arriving November 10. There Brigham Young instructed bandmaster lVilliam Glover to dismiss all but four of the musicians. Truman " 'as one of the four to join with the regiment's drum and bugle corps for continlled duty. He was also assigned forage master duties for the encampment and remained at his post, struggling against frostbitten feet, until ca rh' December.27 Returning home, he discovered that in his absence his brother J ohn. not yet twenty-six, had died after a short illness. The sorrowing slllyi\w helped resolve the affairs of his brother, who had married just a year earlier; but before they could be entirely settled, political developmellt< led to a decision to abandon the northern settlements in preparation fo r the invasion of Johnston's army. In mid-January Farmington residen!.' affilmed their support for Brigham Young's evacuation policy and apprO\'ed resolutions condemning President James Buchanan's decision 10 send the Utah Expedition. 28 These actions were taken at a public meeting in the upstairs asscmhh room of the new Davis County Courthouse. On the steps of th e S:!1111' "" D esere! News, August 20, 1856; "Journal History," July 4, 1857. '" Band minutes, in Kate B. Carter, ed. , Heart Throbs of the West, 12 vols. ( S.l': L:,:·· City: D a ugh ters of Utah J>ioneers, 1939-51),4 : 137; "Journal History," O ctober 3, 18 :) 7 : '1',.",:.. " Leonard inter"iew, O ctober 19, 189+ ; R obinson, "Autobiog raphy and Journa l," D "IT ' '' ' · ' f 1857 . '" Truman Leonard, Diary, January 24, 1893; Deseret News, January 27, 1858. :; . '1 ~ 1 I i JI l J 1 ,j i i ' Truman Leonard: Pioneer A1ormon Farmer 255 Old Leonard barn and addition are still in use by family members in Farmington. buiHing three months later, the mood of the citizenry was one of patriotic bravado. Alfred Cumming, recently appointed to replace Brigham Young as territorial governor, was being escorted to Salt Lake City. Because heavy snows had blocked the more direct route through Emigration Canyon, the party followed an alternate road down "Weber Canyon. A mounted, uniformed guard from Farmington met them at the mouth of the canyon, while Truman Leonard and the Deseret Band waited patiently at the courthouse. Cumming finally arrived some time after midnight and was pleas:lntly surprised when the local musicians struck up a fervent rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." He spent the night in Farmington and on the following evening the band rejoined him for an official welcome to Salt Lake City. Again the band serenaded the new official, playing for him the national anthem, "Hail Columbia," and "Yankee Doodle." Cumming interpreted this show of patriotism as genuine and unfeigned; but one non-Mormon immigrant, who said he \vitnessed the band's \\·clcome, reported that after Cumming was out of earshot the musicians disobeyed instructions and vented some of their resentment by playing the }'IOlmon "Doodah," a tune whose words lambasted the new appointee. Truman Leonard shared that feeling of resentment, and he be!it~\·cd it was the wise Mormon who laid up a store of arms and ammunition in preparation for the threatened invasion. 29 When Truman left Farmington in May, during the general evacuation of the ward to Juab County, he took with him special guests \·,rho had 'r ,. "Journal History," April 15, 1858, containing a Deseret News report; Hammond, 11ay 2-5, 1858; Robinson, "Autobiography and Journal," May 18, 23, 1858. ,~u mal , " 256 Utah Historical Quart erly been wintering in the town. They ",,'ere Matthew :M cCune and his familv who had so generously looked after the missionaries in India. McCun~ had arrived with the immigration trains in September 1857. The ~rc­ Cunes remained in Nephi after the displaced settlers returned to their homes in Farmington early in July.30 Truman Leonard once more settled into the life of a Mormon fanner. The next fifteen years saw few interruptions to this routine. He kept busy in his civic responsibilities with the county court and communitv roads, served as a juryman later in the 1860s, and continued his h om~ missionary work in the capacity of an acting teacher, which required him to visit homes in the ward monthly. Most fast days he faithfully carried in an offering of flour or other foodstuffs for deposit in the bishop's storehouse. In 1865, with many in the community, he donated five clolla rs to a public works project to help improve the canyon road. Four yrars later he pledged t\\'enty-five dollars when the ward teachers asked for funds for the immigrating poor. Truman was known to have taken a special concern for widows. \Vhen he saw a need, he quietly filled it by bringing in an extra load of wood or sharing a pail of flour. Those \\"110 knew him best, said one obituary years later, knew him as a big-hea rted man, "generous to a fault." 31 His hard-headedness and occasional flare of temper did sometimes get the man into trouble. Therefore, the same teachers' meeting th at heard his reports about families in the district he visited, sometil1lr!; arbitrated the disagreements of Truman Leonard and his neighbors. :\t question were such things as property lines, water rights, and livestock . On one occasion a man built a home on benchland Leonard claimed, and the bishop ruled in favor of the builder. In 1865 Truman persistelltl v disagreed with arrangements made for the cooperative herding of sh eep. Two years later he was awarded damages when another herd trampled his crops. Another time he was reprimanded for flooding the street \\'ith ••• 3" IrrIgatIOn water. In the late 1870s he was called in before the teachers and charg-cd . with mistreating his horses. Truman explained that the animals had bern :I!l Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical En cyclopedia, 4 vols. (1901 ; repr int . Salt Lake C ity: Western Ep ics, 1971) , 3 : 161. " Da,·is County, Court ~lillut es , \"01. I, PP. 121 , 163-64 ; R obinson, " Autobiog rap h,· :d:<: J ournal," }.[arch I , 1858 : !\[inutes of the Ward Teachers Meeting of the Fa rmin gton \ \· ~ rt!. Au gust '27. 1865, September 29. 1867. and April 25, 1869, J\'[S , LDS Archives; and Dt ' ,/(: E ,·enin g Xe ll's, N'o,·ember 22, 1897 . '" ~[inut es of the Ward Teac hers Meeting. March 18, 1865, August 3D, 1868, and \b y 30. 1869. ~i I II I' i . :.., '".. -- '- - ~-- - ~~ ~ ....--:----: '-- '. ' . , . ~ Tr:lIl/ an and Ortentia Leonard's rock house in Farmington represents ;" dding skills of ninet ee nth-cenlury settlers. The home is listed on the Utah l:a!r Ul'gisler of Historic Sites. bIking, "and being impetuous [he] had done too much, was sorry .. :H1d \I'ould try and profit by the lesson." His mentors then proceeded :0 ;lckisc that kindness, rather than beating, \vas the preferred cure for h:-dky horses; and since the offender had agreed to do better "'ith his ~CHlb, the offense would be overlooked. Although the incident ended ·.. ilh an apparent resolution, Truman was offended that the charge had :Xtn carried to the quorum for consideration in the first place. Feelings ',,',er the matter lingered for several years. 33 Truman Leonard and his wives did not let these minor problems I~~nd in the way of continued service to the church they had so faithfully '...::fcnclccl for so many years. In the early 1860s Farmington completed :'.{'-struction of a beautiful rock meetinghouse. Truman's contribution, .'- :; tithe of labor, was to haul lime from vVeber Canyon for the mortar .::.! to bring timber from the canyon. In that same decade he apparently ~~~:\n construction of a new rock home for Ortentia alongside the old a .! I i Ibid .. September 15, 1878, and February 15, 1880. I 258 ! ' I' i: 'Ii : III ;;, , I ,, ' U I: I I': 1' n I; 'J Utah Historical Quart er:., one on the city lot, and a rock duplex on the farm for Margaret ant: ~vrary Ann.3f Ortentia, especially, during these years was active in church an(: civic affairs. She bore six children during the decade ending in 1867, but only the last two, Clara and Hattie, survived childhood. This relative lack of responsibilities at home freed her to participate in public afbi n For forty years her clear alto voice was heard in the ward choir, and for :\ number of seasons she joined in a popular quartet that sang at \\'an! functions. Continuing the home industry she had commenced durill:: Truman's mission, she took in sewing. \Vith seven other women, sh(" organized sewing classes and established a dressmaking business. ;\ church calling recognized this talent when she and three other Fannin:.:. ton ladies were asked to drape the caskets and layout the deac!. \ "hen the Relief Society was organized in Farmington in May 1868, she and ::\1argaret became visiting teachers, and Ortentia was soon appointe-rj presiding teacher over the twenty-three-member staff. The fallo\\'in :: year she was gone three months visiting relatives in the East, tLl\ elim: both "'ays on the newly completed transcontinental railroad. Aft er hrr return she served for more than twenty years in the ward Relief Society presidency, including a long term as president. Truman's other t\\·o \\' i\T~ are less visible in surviving records. Perhaps living away from the center of town lessened their involvement; and Mary Ann, at least, was kepI busy raising the seven children born to her bet\veen 1858 and 1874.'" In 1871 Truman made his first visit to the States since the handcart migration. The occasion was an official short-term mission for the church , Like so many other missionaries to the United States during this period. he spent most of his time seeking out relatives living in Ohio. Thi, mission was followed by a similar one in 1874. Again he contacted surviving uncles, aunts, and cousins; visited with available brothers and sisters; gathered genealogical information; and preached Mormonism to hospitable, but disinterested, kinsfolk. In the 1880s the polygamy raids forced him into hiding. Several of his neighbors in Farmington were tried and found guilty of cohabitation under the hated federal legislation. A number of other local polygamist. . of Truman Leonard's generation escaped harassment, according to Jo"eph . , Thomas S, Smith, a super"isor of the meetin ghouse construction project. recorded ("n · tribution s in the first pages of his 1855 diary and the last ,e"eral pages of his 1855-6+ di a n ' T i:r Leonard rock home has been dated by its present o"'ner: inten'ie\\' " 'ith Harry Pledger. Fan fl:"c , ton , :\pril 2, 1972. '" ~finutes of the Relief Society of the Farmington Ward . June 3. and Aug ust 2fi , 1: ', Ii:~ Da, 'i5 C o unty Clipper, Augu st 26, 1898, ~farch 19, 1892; Dese ret E c elling Neu:5, Decl'n Ii ,\'l' ~(, 1878: West, "Ortentia White Leonard ," pp , 3-+, t rum an Leonard: Pion ee r J1onnon Farmer 259 r.. Robinson, through th e grace of a kind God \\·ho called them home. 36 Truman , in good health for his sixty-six years, decided in 1886 to go into :1 : ; afer exile. Placing the car(' of his property in other hands, he \,'ent fi rst to Logan \\·here he and Ortentia spent many hours in the temple performing proxy ordinances for dead ancestors. Then, after another \ C~lr of hiding, he gathered up fourteen head of cattle and follo\\'ed them Oil horseback to Canada . ~Iargaret later joined him at Cardston, bringing \\'ith her one of \fary Ann's daughters, Amy, \\"ho had chosen the childless ~Iargaret as J surrogate mother. For six yea rs Truman and this part of his family remained in Alberta province. He \\'orked a small farm, presided over the mass quorum of priesthood, and grew to like the situation so well that e\'en after \Vilford Woodruff's ~Ianifesto quieted political condition, in Utah Territory he lingered on. ~Iargaret journeyed to Salt Lake CitYln 1893 to attend the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple, and the follo\\'ing year Truman said goodbye to his adopted land of refuge and tra\"Cled home by train. He arrived in December 1894 and helped his oldest son, George, prepare for a mission to Samoa. Truman's light brown hair \\'as now graying, his frame carrying less than the usual 165 pounds. But fri ends who welcomed him detected no change in the determined ,pirit that looked upon them through those characteristic, hazel-gray On New Year's Day in 1896, while Utah awaited the culmination of a half-century struggle toward statehood, Truman and Ortentia celehr:lI CcI their golden wedding anniversary. Crippled by a back injury ,n"Cral years earlier, Ortentia was now continuing her sewing on a 'peed lap board. Their daughter Clara, active in the local suffrage 0rC!":mi zation, teaching school, and serving as treasurer for the Primary, hJd through her schoolteaching income helped put finishing touches on the long incomplete rock home. Engaged to be married, she \,'as a\\'aiting :he return of her fiance from the German mission. 3s Then in August 1397 Clara died suddenly from an unexplained illness. A sorrO\ving Lu her joined this favored daughter in death four months later. Suffering h :Jln pneumonia and heart disease, Truman told the family on :\'ovember ~, "Put out the light ... , This has been a hard day, but I am going to . . " .\ nd rew J enso n, comp., "Fannington Ward. Davis County, Utah," pp. 20-23 , :\IS, LDS ,-.,. :; ' Vel: Rnbinson, "Autobiography and Journal," September 26, 1886 . . t.- , ,. \\· ('5[. "Ortentia \Vhite Leonard ," pp. 3-4: Truman Leonard interview, October 19, •.'> . . . .' Famlington Ward, Primary Association Minute Book, March 29, 18i9, ~vfS, LDS \."'1,vcs : Wes t, "Ortentia \Vhite Leonard," p . 3. : ; , , !, iI , :I ,I i .i lr iI i I I ! I,! \.,' I ~ r jll 1, I 260 . Utah Historical Quarter[, rest." 39 Ortentia lived nine months after Truman's death and Mary Ann fourteen months beyond that. Their simple coffins \",ere placed in the t\\"'o remaining burial plots between Truman and Clara. Margaret was l;:id to rest at the foot of her husband in 1904. The imposing granite monument erected by grateful desccl1clan t~ on the Leonard burial plot in Farmington's hillside cemetery stands bi::. ger than life over the simple sandstone gravemarkers that identify the resting places of Truman Leonard and his three wives. Perhaps in it; impressive size the tombstone exhibits some of Truman Leonard's 0\\11 determination to persist, through east winds and blizzards, ew'n the attacks of mobs when necessary. Had the man it honors had hi, say he would no doubt have chosen one less prctcntiou,. one more in keeping with the frugal pioneer which characterized his life. Bu! his generation of practical :\for. mons was dying as CtJh entered a new age, and Truman Leonard had been one of many typical L'tJh farmers who had prepJ red the way for that change. 30 Davis County Cli{!tff , November 26, 1897. Leonard graves in lli.Farmington cem eto ). Davis County Leonard, Truman, Home, 94 East 500 North, Farmington (SR). The Leonard home differs from most other rock houses of the period (ca. 1863) in its two-story plan and is an excel lent example of fine rock work and pleasing architectural style. It has been described as a "beautiful specimen of Utah stone masonry which carries in its sober symmetrical facade the weight of colonial and midwestern tradition." In 1898 a brick annex was bui It to the west to replace an 1853 or 1854 adobe structure. The home served as the home of Truman and Ortentia Leonard, and later of John W. and Nel I ie Taylor, amon~ others. Leonard was an early fol lower of Mormonism and settled in Farmington in 1850, where he served as a selectman (county commissioner), water master, and helped make the initial survey of the area. Leonard, Truman, House. 94 East 500 North, Farmington, Davis County. Leonard, Truman, House. l'1r~J"" 1., 19'75 94 East 500 North, Farmington, Davis County. 38 @ Truman Leonard Home 94 East 500 North Truman and Ortentia White Leonard, first settled in North Farmington in 1850. While Truman s~rved an L.OS. Church mission to India, Ortentia and their young daughter lived alone on their farm north of the city. After several frightening visits from Indians. Bishop Gideon Brown and local priesthood brethren helped her build the original two-room adobe home in 1853-54. The large stone section was added in 1863. After Truman died in 1897 and Ortentia in 1898, the house was sold to Monnon leader, John W. Taylor and his wife Nellie. Taylor replaced the original adobe house with the brick addition. Current owners of this cobblestone and brick house are Larry and Julie Haugen. Bui Vic var L.D OUt Far: buil inte fun The Truman Leonard Home: 94 East 500 North This cobblestone and brick house was built in 1853-54, for Truman and Ortentia White Leonard, who first settled in North Farmington in 1850. While Truman served an L.D .S. Church mission to India, Ortentia and their young daughter lived alone on their farm north of the city. After several frightening visits from Indians, L.D.S. Bishop Gideon Brown moved her into town. The local priesthood brethren helped her build the original two-room adobe home. The large stone section was added in 1863, but not completed for several years. After Truman died in 1897 and Ortentia in 1898, the house was sold to Mormon leader, John W. Taylor and his wife, Nellie. Taylor later replaced the original adobe house with the brick addition. Current owners are Larry and Julie Haugen. 94 East 500 North ~\ ~ Franklin D. Richards Home: 386 North 100 East This home is listed on the National Register. It was built in 1860 by Franklin D. Richards for his wife, Rhoda Harriet F oss. Rhod a Foss was first married to Willard Richards who died in 1851. Three years later, she m a rried his nephew, Franklin, and moved to Farmington. The small rock house was originally just three rooms, but it was enlarged in 1904 by Ezra Richards. Ezra filled two L.D .S. missions to New Zealand . During the first mission he translated the Book of Mormon into the Maori language. Built in the vernacular style, the greek revival trim is all original, as is the interior woodwork. Current owner is Clara Richards, daughter of Ezra and Amanda Richards. 386 North 100 East 9 I~terpretive GRAPHICS SIGNS &SYSTEMS .... EMf 1000 IouttI ~C14 t.It &.at CftJ UWl14121 For your approval: Please proofread carefully, check size and positioning, and mark corrections and revisions in red. Please check the appropriate response below and return to our office with your Signature of approval so that we may go ahead with production. Thank you. - - OK ~ to produce (no changes). Ok to produce when the marked ~ changes have been made. Make the marked changes and send - - another proof. Date _~ Leonard House and Ortentia White Leonard, se(uea in Farmington in 1850. The original adobe house was built in 1853,54 forOrtentia while Truman served a church mission to India from 1852 to 1856, a trip which took him around the world. Upon his return, he married two additional wives who later moved to his farm north of town. The original adobe house was expanded with the large stone section which was started c. 1863 but was not completed for many years. Polygamy raids in the 1880s forced him to flee to Canada for six years. Truman, a farmer, served in several civic positions, including selectman (county commissioner), helping to divide\Davis Cbunty into electoral precincts. He died in 1897 and Ortentia in 1898. The house was then sold to Mormon apostle John W. Taylor and his wife Nellie. Taylor later replaced the original adobe house with the brick addition. ......... y . ...V1l11VH \-unVeiL:; WHO Marker placed in 1992 s: m en en l> Gl ~ 'tJ 1: 0 2 m 0 " s: "0 0 ~ m J) lJ ~ c.J - I m 0 11 a 0 0 ro D 11 ~ 2 -t ~' I m en en ~ s:m J:a m iii l> ~ 1434 07-84 31 - 1' 1240 I---=..L~.LJ...-I-I.~~~~~~---,I $\ d'?3, d:t2 I ~~~~LL~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~L-L-~~~ ~~~~:F> -" , e:..~ IRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH , ~ WEST STATE STREET MINGTpN. UTAH 84025 :~c~-(!! m~r t$'i:''''2l.0000 • 21: • 2? ~~~·:<~i{i·~ .:.:";,-: ; CURRENT, INC., CO LORADO SPRINGS, CO 8094' .0855 NATURE ' S MAJESTY , Truman & Ortentia Leonard House This house was built for Truman and Ortentia White Leonard, early Mormon converts who settled in Farmington in 1850. The original adobe house was built in 1853-54 for Ortentia while Truman served a church mission to India from 1852 to 1856, a trip which took him around the world. Upon his return, he married two additional wives who later moved to his farm north of town. The original adobe house was expanded with the large stone section which was started c. 1863 but was not completed for many years. Polygamy raids in the 1880s forced him to flee to Canada for six years. Truman, a farmer, served in several civic positions, including selectman (county cOlnmissioner), helping to divide Davis County into electoral precincts. He died in 1897 and Ortentia in 1898. The house was then sold to Mormon apostle John W. Taylor and his wife Nellie. Taylor later replaced the original adobe house with the brick addition. Marker placed in 1992