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Show HISTORY OF EMERY COUNTY. 671 Served as school trustee four years and Sunday -school superintendent from '86 to '91. Was presiding elder He was married in Salt Lake of the ward lor one year. City January 3, 1870, to Mary L., daughter of Isaac and Hannah Lowry, bora in Manti, March 26, 1852. They Hannali C, Effie L., Lafayette, have seven children: Ellen, Mary R., Lucy C. and Francis. M IGBY, WILLIAM son of Ezra Higby, was born in M Michigan, December 1819. His mother died at ' E., 1, the time of his birth, and in '51 he came to Utah with his father, crossing the plains in an ox-train, under Capt. Mitchell. Father and William came in a buggy, and located at South Cottonwood. Father was a millwright, and made the first shingle put on Brighain Young's barn. He died November 11, 1871. William came to Emery county in July, 1878, and settled on Young's, now called Larsen's ranch. He now has 400 acres of land and resides on Rock canyon wash, three miles south of Castle Dale. He has been engaged in stockraising several years, but is now devoted to his farm. Was married in Spring City, November 9, 1S72 to Emma M. Larsen, born in February, 1851. They have five children: Emma L., Katie M., Thomas E., Orange and Mary A. / QASMUSSEN, BISHOP HANS I\, farmer, son of RasKersten, was born in Denmark, May 8, * 1841. He joined the Mormon church in '64, and did missionary work there for three years; then came to Utah, arriving in Salt Lake City in "October, 1867. lie crossed the plains in an ox-train, under Capt. Leonard Rice, and located in Farmington, where he remained for about four years; then removed to Manti, for fourteen years. Came to Molen in '84, and has since resided here. Served a,s Justice of the Peace in '85 and '87, and is at present a member of the Board of County Commissioners. He was ordained bishop in '91, by Anthon H. Lund, to succeed Bishop Lyman S. Beach. He spent IT mus and |
