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Show Nt'S r OUII 1 (J OMB No. lOCY.'4.()()lH VOO·" l!t t\h WOld"f"r10ct!"l 1 Fo rm"' (f ' ovl !t fKJ ~eb 1(03) United Statcs Ilcparlrrcnt of thc Illtcrior Natiorkll Park Scrvice National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. -.JL Page ~ Clark I ane HistorI c 1l 1<,(r\C; . I drmlng toll, DLlVis Cuunty. UI Farmington organization. Among these leaders was Ezra 1. Clark, who was chosen to serve as treasurer. Because of limited success among individual communities, a Davis County United Order was established in 1876 in hopes of rescuing a number of local orders. However, this new county order survived only unti 1 1880 14 • The establishment of the United Order had a significant effect on the Clark family. Even though the Clark family did not formally participate in the community order, the effect of this program on the family far outreached the community order itself. An alternative to participation in the local order was personally presented by Clark to Brigham Young, wherein the order would be practiced within the organization of ' the Clark family. This alternative was accepted and Clark was a 1lowed to separate his stock from the community herd. As stated by Tanner: "Clark conceived and worked to the end that the United Order should exist within his own family group. The older boys of the family in working to achieve this purpose did so with the conviction that a United Order within the family was highly preferable to practicing it within the larger social grouplll!i. Therefore, a cooperative business relationship was created within the Clark family. This community ownership arong the mature members of the family continued until the death of Ezra. T. Clarki. The strength of this family organization is illustrated by the fact that the major portion of his family kept their property interests together. Not until just before the death of Ezra T. Clark in 1901, when manl of his children were in their 40's and 50's, did they have deed to their own homes l . Shortly b~fore his death, Clark stated the following at a family reunion regarding his original intent in creating a gathering place for his family: I have accumulated, since my early settlement in Farmington, as much property as I reasonably could along the street on which a number of my family are now living, and desire that, so far as my family can, consistent with their best interest, they maintain their real estate, that they may be helpful to one another, and that the homes of my family there may always be a gathering place for those who may be scattered in different parts of this and adjoining statesg and I especially commend the spirit of hospitality to my children l 14leonard. Glen M. Masters Thesis. A History of Farmington, Utah To 1890. Univ. of Utah, 1966, pp. 135-146. '~Tanner, Annie Clark, A Biography of Ezra Thompson Clark. (Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah, 1975). pp. 52-53. 16Tanner, Annie Clark. A Mormon Mother (Salt lake City: Univ. of Utah, 1983) p. 26. '7Tanner, Annie Clark, A Biooraphy of Ezra Thompson Clark. (Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah, 1975). pp. 51. 181bid. p. 75. L See eonllnua'oon ShM1 |
