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Show BIOGRAPHY OF ENOCH FARR. 1845 - 1914 (SR.) Enoch Farr was born 28 December 1845 in Nauvoo. Hancock County, Illinois to Lorin Farr and Nancy Bailey Chase. He was their firet child and the first child of Lorin Farr. He had seven sisters and three brothers. Their names, birth and death dates are: Julia, (1848-1851); Sarah, (1849-1921) was the mother of church president George Albert Smith: Tirzah, (1852-1946); Lorin, twins, (1804-1928): Egra, twain, (ig5ed1933); Newton, (1856-1921); Diana, twin, (1858-1933); Diantha, twin, (1858-1858); Isabel, (1861-1936); Mary Belina, (1863-1864). Enoch was just two years old when his Winter Quarters to come west with the saints They arrived in Salt Lake City 19 September parents left in July 1847. 1847 with the Daniel Spencer Company. The family lived in Salt Lake for two years, then President Brigham Young sent Lorin Farr to Ogden to lay out the town. He was the mayor of Ogden for twenty years and President of the Weber Stake for nineteen years. Christ Farr. Knoch of was baptized a member of Latter-Day Saints in 1853 the Church of by his father, Jesus Lorin He grew up in Ogden and received his education there. Like other boys of those days he had to learn from practical experience to do many kinde of work like herding the cattle, hauling wood from the canyons and various other tasks that fell to the sons of the pioneers. As he grew older he spent some time working on the road in Ogden Canyon. His father was one of the prime movers in this project. He also worked in his father’s store and after the latter sold out Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution (Z.C.M.I.), clerked for that establishment for a few to the Enoch years. On 20 October 1866 Enoch and Mary Elizabeth Eggleston were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. She was the :daughter of Samuel Eggleston and Durania Powers Burgess. Her father later became a Patriarch for the Church. The eleven children born to this couple were Enoch Farr, Jr. 1867-1933); Mary Isabell, (1869-1951); Julia May, (18721889); Reuben Ezra, (1874-1959); Frank, (1876-1938); Fredrick, (1878-1879); Walter Raymond, (1879-1951); Nancy Lurania, otanley (1882-1882); Burgess, (1892- George, (1883-1949); Leslie, (1888-); ? In 1867 he went to Salt Lake City and entered the University of Deseret, taking a general business course under Ur, Parr. At the end of two years he returned home. soon after this he became employed by the Central Pacific Company as a brakeman and continued in this work for two years. After giving this up he spent three years working in the Cottonwood mines, receiving as part compensation a half interest in some mines. Page 1 |
