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Show 134 HISTORY OF SANrETE COUNTY. The family were converted to the Morfaith in their native land, and emigrated to Utah in the fall of 1862, settling in Manti. The family consisted of three sons and three daughters. The father was spent on a farm. mon member of the church and spent most of his comfortable fortune in the cause. He brought sixtyfive persons from Denmark to Utah besides his own family, at his private expense. The parents both died in Manti, the father, February 27, 1875, and the mother, February 19, 1881. Our subject studied the English Ianguage before coming to this country, and after his arrival here studied in the Union Academy of Salt Lake, afterward merged into the Deseret University. He also a very zealous studied surveying, photography and telegraphy. He was the first telegraph operator in Manti, whieb occupation he followed two years, when he returned to his native land on a mission leaving here in the spring of 1869, and working for the good of the church until the fall of 1870. Upon his return he followed the business of a traveling photographer two years in southern Utah. He then entered the office of county surveyor as deputy and served three years when he received another call and went to southern Colorado as surveyor for the church. He located and platted the two towns of Ephraim and Manassa, beside doing considerable surveying on canals and ditches to irrigate the new settlement. On his return to Manti he was in 1880 elected to the oiftiee of county surveyor which he has since filled, excepting two He is assisted by liis sou, John A., who is also deputy county recorder and deputy postmaster. Mr. Hougaard is manager and a large stockholder in the Manti Union flouring mills, and is also a stockholder in the Co-op store, and the Manti City Savings Rank. He years. was interested in the first grist mill built in Mayfield. also interested in wool -growing, having a band of about 1000 head of sheep. He is a charter member and was the first past muster of Manti Lodge No. 23, A. O. U. \Y. He was mayor of Manti four years, and member of the City Council six years. Mr. Hougaard is an enterprising, energetic citizen of the kind which help to build up a town, ;ind is highly esteemed bv his fellow towns- He is |
