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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 454 Nephi came to Gunnison in 1870, 1889, aged 82 years. taught school for a. time, then clerked in the Co-op store two years. From 1880 to 1886 he worked on the Manti Temple and handled most of the cut stone in that building. He resided in Fairview two years, where he served as City Kecorder in 1892. In 1893 he moved to Gunnison, where he is now engaged as a land agent, notary and conveyancer and holds the positions of secretary of the Gunnison and Antelope Valley Irrigation Company and Town Clerk. He has twenty-seven acres of land adjoining town, where he resides. Was married in Fayette to Sarah J., daughter of John and Elizabeth Caldwell, born in Burlington, Iowa, December 5, 1856. They have eight children: Leo N., one of the volunteers under first call for troops, in Battery A, U. L. A.; William J., Amelia J., Luella, Mary L., Sylvia, George A. and Edna. QUEEN, MRS. M. M., teacher in the mission school, a native of New Hampshire, was born in Coos county April 19, 1837. She received a high school educa- and attended an academy in Canada two years. Taught school and "boarded around" one year, then went to New York City in the spring of 1857 and united with tion Dr. Cuyler's church, beginning at once to* do city mission Her maiden name was Martha M. Merriam, and on November 8, 1860, she was married to James F. Green, work. a hardware merchant. She and her husband were then teachers in a Sunday school mission. He passed through the ups and downs of a financial panic and ill health, and died of consumption May 1, 1876, leaving her with two children: Alice, who assists her in the mission work, a very successful and hard-working teacher, and James W., an assayer in San Diego, Gal., and graduate from tne School of Mines, Deer Lodge, Mont. She did mission work and educated her children. In 1884 she was induced to come to Utah to prosecute her work, and located in Gunnison, where herself and daughter have done excellent work. They have carried along an industrial school, cooking school and Sunday school. She has practiced medicine here for manv vears until 1898, when a |
