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Show 180 MOUNTAINS CONQUERED EZRA THOMPSON CLARK Ezra Thompson Clark Ezra T. Clark could be regarded as an adopted son of Morgan County. Never a permanent resident, he nevertheless has been connected With thls valley since 1867, when he was asked by President Brigham Young to build a flour mill in Weber Valley. He purchased an old sawmill and farm at Morgan, sent seven yoke of oxen to the Missouri River for the necessary equipment, and built the mill before the railroad came to Utah. This mill, located at the fite where Eddingtons nOW conduct a feed store was improved and kept in use until destroyed by fire in 1932. Ezra OIark came to Utah in 1848 and settled in Farmington. He Was called to help settle Georgetown, Idaho, and the "Muddy," In Nevada. He helped establish the Davis County Bank and was the fir&t president of it. He was one of seven presidents of seventies, high councilman, patriarch, and went on four LDS missions. Mr. Clark had 21 children. He lived to be 102 years of age. The descendants of Ezra T . Clark, engendered with the missionary spirit, have spent over 250 years in the mission field and worked in the temples over one hundred years. Of his three wives, one was very closely associated with the Morgan area. She was Nancy Areta Porter daughter of Sanford Porter and Nancy Warriner, both of whom died in Porterville, Morgan County, the town of which they were the first settlers. One of Ezra Clark's sons, Charles Rich, represented his father's industrIal investments in Morgan and became a permanent resident there. One of Oharles' .wives was also of Morgan County stock Ann Elizabeth Waldron, daughter of GUlisple Benjamin Waldron. Another of Ezra's sons, Hyrum D., took a wife from Morgan County. He married Ann Eliza Porter, daughter of Alma Porter and Minerva A. Deuel. One of his granddaughters, Mary Elizabeth Robinson, became the wife of the lata Byron Porter of Morgan County, son of Lyman Wright Porter. '11lree of Charles Olark's sons, Wallace, Lawrence and Carlos have |
