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Show delivery of the cattle, to continue on to California and further to see rnore of the rest o! the world. They al":rived in Salt Lake City on December 21 , 1866, but due to the absence of Mr. Jennings from the city, '\lvere r~quired to remain for about ten days before receiving settlement for their services. Prior to this time, John Morgan had never been in contact with Mormon people' knew nothing of thei:r history , except in a very general way , and was wholly unacquainted with their religious faith. During the few days fe>llowing his arrival, however, he became intensely interested in the people \Yhom he met and in the com.munity life of the Latter• day Saints and decided to cast his lot with them and permit his companion to continue on his journey to California. Within a few days , he had organized ~, Commercial College patterned after his Alma Mater, the Eastman National B usiness College of Poughkeepsie New Yor k ; whi¢h he named. ''Morgan's Commercial College " . ln the early days of January , 1867, he opened his college on the second floor o! of the building which formerly stood where Kress store now .stands . Thus it was that John Morgan, who in the few yeaJts following was to become such a vital factor in the religious, educational , and economic life oi the Mormon people, became a resident of Salt Lake City and a citizen of the Ter• ritory of Utah. His first and only residence in Salt Lake City until his ma:t'riage, was at the hom.e of Bishop Joseph L . Heywood, Bishop of the Seventeenth Ward, that home being located at 45 West First North Street. The head of this family |
