History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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SETTLEMENTS, SOCIETY, AND EDUCATION.
Of the establishment and progress of other settlements,
up to the close of 1862, mention has already
been made. 21 Davis county, north of Salt Lake, was
settled by quiet pastoral and agricultural communities
of the old-fashioned type. Farmington, Centreville,
Kaysville, 25 and the three towns named Bountiful,
26 were, in 1886, reasonably prosperous, resembling
somewhat small English villages, except for the fact
that no ale-houses were to be seen in their midst.
Ogden, or, as it was sometimes erroneously called,
Junction City, the site of which was purchased, as
the reader will remember, in 1848, for some $2,000 or
$3,000, ranked in 1883 next to Salt Lake City in
population. 27 In the centre of a network of railroads
and of a prosperous agricultural region, with excellent
Mill Creek, East Mill Creek, Big Cottonwood, South Cottonwood, Union,
North Jordan, South Jordan, West Jordan, Brighton, Butlerville, Granite,
Draper, Herriman, Mountain Dell, and Pleasant Green.
24 See caps xiii., xxi., this vol.
25 So called after a bishop and early settler named William Kay, who
owned a large portion of its site. About the year 1S57 the bishop's interest
was purchased by John S. Smith, an Englishman by birth, who, landing in
Canada in 1841, afterward proceeded to Nauvoo, and was one of those who
took part in the exodus. Mr Smith is now one of the principal farmers in
Davis co. Among other prominent men in that county may be mentioned
the following: Joseph Barton, a native of St Helens, Lancashire, England,
settled at Kaysville, his present home, in 1862, being then only 14 years of
age. In 1869 he was elected county surveyor, and since that date has held
the appointments of city recorder of Kaysville, county clerk, and prosecuting
attorney, the last two of which offices he filled in 1885.. In 1884 he was a
member of the territorial legislature, and almost throughout his career in
Utah has occupied positions of trust, though they have come to him unsought,
and somewhat against his will. N. T. Porter, a native of Vermont,
was one of the first settlers in Centreville, where he took up his abode in 1849,
after suffering all the hardships of the expulsion, and of a long residence at
Winter Quarters. Jos. Egbert, a native of Salina co., Ind., was a pioneer,
sharing the blanket of Orson Pratt during the journey, and driving the first
team that eutered the valley. John R. Baines of Kaysville, a native of Bedfordshire,
England, arrived in Utah with a capital of 10 cents, and afterward
accumulated a fortune of §100,000 by farming and traffic. The president of
the Davis stake was W. R. Smith, who was for several years a member of the
legislature, and for nine years probate judge. He was born in Ontario,
Canada.
26 South, East, and West Bountiful. The last was sometimes called
Wood's Cross. Bountiful was a city in the book of Mormon. Bichards'
Utah Misc., MS., 4-5. Prominent among the citizens of West Bountiful was
W. S. Muir, a Scotchman by birth, who, accepting the Mormon faith, set
forth for Nauvoo, and in 1847 was a corporal in the Mormon battalion. In
the following year he started, in connection with Sam. Brannan, the first store
ever opened at the mines of California.
2 ' In 1883 it contained about S,000 inhabitants.