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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 150 He located in Mauti and took up ten 5, 1854. acres of land, following the trade of a weaver. In both Indian wars he took an active part and his sou Peter J. was killed in the Black Hawk war. He now owns twenty acres of tine farming laud west and ninety acres south of the city. His wife, whom he married in Denmark June 16, 1844, was Mary Christ opherson, the mother of Peter The secoud wife, married here, was J., their only child. Christina Lai sen, who had but one child; both are dead. His third wife, Annie Steck, resides in Sterling. They have had ten children: Christena, Mary, Emily, Annie, Erick, Sophronie, Katy Lillian, Elmer, Vida Leonia and October Minnie M. (deceased). I UKE, CHAELES ()., farmer, of Mauti, is a son of WilHam and Emma (Perkins) Luke, born in Manches- \ I England, January 25, 1829. In 1853 he came to and crossed the plains in an ox train with Capt. A. Harmon, arriving in Manti in December in time to join the Manti militia and take part in the Walker war. He subsequently took part in the Black Hawk war. Soon after his arrivel he took up a piece of land and has made farming his occupation. He has now a farm of 40 acres, and his residence in town. Mr. Luke has always been a worker in the Sunday school, in which he was a teacher some thirty years. He married in Manchester, England, February 27, 1853, Miss Ann Beaver, and the following are their children. The living reside in Orangeville, Emery county, except Charles W., Emma A., deceased, Charles W., farmer, Elizabeth C, Sarah J. and Mary M., deceased, Margaret B., wife of Christian Poulsen, Thomas J., deceased, Joseph O., farmer, and Benjamin P., who is a. school teacher and secretary -treasurer and business manager of the Co-op. store. Mr. Luke had the misfortune to lose his wife September 14, 1888. ter, this country 1 UKE, JOHN I was born ^* T., farmer, in Manti, sun of AYiliam May 26, 1801. and Mary, He was raised to farming, and at the age of 10 began freighting produce to the mining camps of Utah and Nevada, which he followed several vears. Now owns and cultivates a |
