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Show 'Peter lki.ughan,. the great. Pioneer, or Cache County, was a great man at f'oJ'Qe and ,c~. Rone has made a ~er work than he in roundln,g Cit1u e:.f tbie. tctJTttoz,.. In 1856 •. he was ch(>aen. by Preaident.. !dgham Young to take a ~ colollT into Cache Valley an4 comn&nca lhe sett-lement that. ia' now a mat im»urtant and tlouri-sh:lng pa.~ ot OUJ" st.ate. Our pioneer says .in his diar.,t •On the 2l.et of Juq 1856, I ne sent by Pres. -Brigham Yollll,g to pick out .a .l.ecation .in Cache Valley .!or a sett1e.ment. At. the- election in August I w.is el.eeted representative for Tooele County. In Septembe.l" I left Tooele Count y with my family in -c:ompany with George U. Bryan, Zeab Riggs,. Jno. Maughan, M. Baughan and others with their tamil.ies, and landed in Cache County the 13th of Sept. 1856. We spent. 2, days looking arourd the valley• then trent to work cutting hay and building houses. sheds and yards etc• On the 27th et J\lly our home we.a · blessed 'With a baby girl. lie called her Elizabeth. She was the first child born in Cache Valley. • Peter llaughan, Pioneer ot Cache Valle;y,. was the son ot tiUl b.m. and Mlll"tha Walton Maughan, and was bem &t lUlton EnglAnd., J!ay '{,. lSU. He eame to Utah Ju:11', lSS6. Returned to Tooele Valley 800n t.h~er at New I>igg1J,ga April 15th 1846, and stayed there until, April 17th 1850,. when he atart'Eld 11estllal"d and arri~ed 1n Salt Lake Cit7 .Sept. l?t.h 1850. April 1851 Tooele Co. ·was. organized. and he n.s appointed ·Count,- Clem and -assessor• and held office until 1853. Al.so hel.d offieeB as county Selectman and City Recorder of T.ot>.ele City. Oct. ' ' )-854 was appointed to preside .over E. T. City., Tooele Co. Utah. 'Was sent by |
