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Show 22 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER The entrances were framed with columns, and columns also appeared on either side of the rostrum. An amusement hall was added in 1913.1 The Farm House now occupies a prominent place in Salt Lake's Pioneer Trail State Park. Forest Dale was a deeply stabilizing environment for Madelyn. Many descendants of the Mormon pioneers lived near the Stewarts-the Spencers, Youngs, Woodruffs, Loves, and Merrills. Forest Dale was a town by itself. Only a streetcar con nected the residents with Salt Lake City, and they seldom used it. A daughter of John and Esther Bennion, Zina, married John M. Cannon, an older brother of Nora; they settled in Forest Dale with their large family. In 1900, a brother of Zina, Milton, with his wife Cora, moved to Forest Dale and the Bennion chil dren grew up with the Stewarts and Cannons. A graduate of Columbia University, Milton was dean of education at the University of Utah when Madelyn was a student there; he also served as general superintendent of the church's Sunday Schools when Madelyn was a teacher. The oldest daughter of Milton and Cora, Maurine Bennion (Folsom), six months older than Madelyn, was a lifetime friend. Her younger brother, Lowell (named after the Massachusetts Lowells), seven years younger than Madelyn, wrote many of the manuals used by Madelyn in teaching Sunday School, M.LA., and seminary classes, and Madelyn felt an intellectual kinship with this fellow "product" of Forest Dale. The first bishop of Forest Dale Ward was James Jensen, a native of Denmark, who had farmed Brigham's Forest Farm on shares and had purchased an acreage of his own after Brigham's death in 1877. Bishop Jensen was Madelyn's bishop until 1914, when he was succeeded by Elias S. Woodruff, a grandson of LDS President Wilford Woodruff, who was a local coal dealer and advertising manager of the Deseret News. Madelyn, who liked him, thought Bishop Woodruff to be a quietly reverent J. M. Tanner, who published a biography of Bishop Jensen in 1911, wrote that the settlers of Forest Dale were "largely progressive young men who were ambitious to bring about man. ideal conditions in the growth of their chosen home town .... |
