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Show was the first Bishop of the Seventeenth Ward and was lor :many years a leader ( in the Territory. In 1851 he was appointed United States Mar shall for Utah by President Millard Filb:nore and was later reapp~i,p.ted by President F ranklin Pierc::e in 1855. The Morgan C.ommercial College was an inunediate s~ccess . It was the "Pnly, instit~tion of its kind in the Territory and young rnen. and women £rom the entire Rocky Mountain region eame to enroll therein. John Morgan was now twenty""'four years of age; possessed of an engaging personality and won, with easy effort the conlidence· and love of the entire com• · m.unity . One morning in the spring of 1867, while residing at the Heywood home, the young s.ehool master, on coming down to breakfas;t related to Mrs. Heywood a di"eam that be had had that night in which he stated he had dreamt that at the request of President Brigham Young, he waa t1raveling by foot toward the city Qf Renne , Georgia, through a very wooded country; that in his dream, President Young had told him that on his journey, he would have an experience that would ., / confirm his faith in the Gospel. As he traveled along , he eame to a place where the road forked end in the fork, in front of a large tree , he saw President Young who spoke to ~m and directed him not to take the right hand fork which led to Rome, but rather to take the left hand fork which would lead him to a place where he had a wonderous work to perform a.nd in the performance of that work he WQuld. receive a convin<:ing te$thnony of the divinity of the Book of Mc:>rrnon. He then awoke from his dream. |
