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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 112 Trances E., end Thomas Richard H., Grace E., Clarice E., Editha W. E. John and November He joined the Moimoii church and came 13, 18115. to Utah in Capt. Joseph Young's company, James being captain of ten wagons, and arrived in Manti in January, £}OOK, .JAMES, \^ Sarah, retired wheelwright, sou of in Shropshire, England, was born 1854, with but ten cents. He purchased 30 acres of land, his wife erected a rock and mud house, covered witli dirt, having cotton cloth windows and ground floor. During the grasshopper Mar the family of five subsisted chiefly on pigweed, one loaf of bread lasting and he and He took part in the Indian wars and lost He owns his home and residence considerable stock. property in the city, and is an old, respected citizen. His first wife was Ann Lane, married in Wolverhampton, She had nine children, Ann, Staffordshire, England. widow of William K. Barton, Hyrum and Maud, living, about a month. and Mary, James N., Henry, Brigham and two unnamed infants deceased. Second Avife was Anna Davenport, to whom he was sealed but did not lire with. Third wife was the daughter of Anna, by whom he had one child, deceased. {pOOLIlMrE, OSCAH F., of Manti, agent for the Co-op Wagon and .Machine Company, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, November 10, 1850, son of Joseph W. ard Rebecca lAtwood) Coolidge. His father was a very \ prominent man in his neighborhood, merchant and millowner on Keg Creek, and for several years was Probate Judge of Mills county, Iowa. He died in Iowa in 1870. In 1864 Oscar came to Utah in an emigrant train, his mother and sister Alvira accompanying him. His mother married again in Manti, James Wareham, who was a settler of 1853, and his sister married, Frederick W. Cox, Jr. They all reside in Manti. Mr. Coolidge started a small general store in 1808, and about a year later sold out to the Co-op. In 1872 he formed a partnership with George Sid well and E. W. Fox, and in 1873 built the large stone store building on Main street known as Fox's |
