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Show 180 HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 5 HAND, DAVID, May farmer and woolgrower, son of David and Catherine Clark, was born in Fifeskire, He joined the Mormon Scotland, 18, 1844. Church in 1801 and in 18G3 came to Utah, crossing the plains in an oxtrain, under Capt. Haight. He engaged in farming for a time and spent four years as a contractor in Little Cottonwood canyon, developing mining claims. For twenty years he was engaged in freighting produce to Salt Lake City and mining camps of Utah and Nevada. In the spring of 1886 he went on a mission to Indian Territory, and labored 18 months among the various tribes. He now owns a fine farm of 100 acres. In 1889 he engaged in woolgrowing and now has about 10,000 sheep, some of which he has on shares. He has a nice home in the city, and is a self-made man and repreHe took an active part in the Black sentative citizen. Hawk war, standing guard and doing his share. Was married in Salt Lake City, October 4, 1S00, to Bridget, daughter of John and Ann Weir Hoggan, bora in Fifeshire, Scotland, January 31, 1810. They have had eleven children. David P., Kate, John W. Marian, Charles S., 31 aggie, Jessie L. and Robert. C, living; Annie, Jennie, and Leslie C, deceased. Mrs. Shand came to this country 1800, crossing the plains in Capt. oxtrain. in 5HOMAKEB, HON. EZRA, Dan Thompson's president of the Central Utah Wool Company of Manti, is a native of Adams County, Illinois, where he was born March 20, 1843. He is n son of Jezreel, who was a farmer and stockraiser and a native of Pendleton County, Kentucky, bora October 20, 17!Mi. His father was born in the same county, and his fat her, Ezra's groat grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania. In 1S47 his parents emigrated Utah and spent the winter in Salt Lake City, and in the spring of 1848 they moved to Bountiful, Davis County, his father and Perigrene Sessions being the first two men to settle and locate that place, which long went by the name of Sessions. In the fall of 1840 the family moved to Manti, arriving here on the 19th of November, when they went into camp with others of the company and to |
