Salt Lake Walking Tour (North Section) by Ronald W
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Salt Lake Walking Tour (North Section) By Ronald W. Andersen, 2013 Blocks by their 1847 plat numbers as they look in 2012 Model of Salt Lake City in 1870 (located in Church History Museum) BLOCK 86 (Joseph Smith’s Relatives) Ca. 1853, N. G. Morgan & R.W. Andersen Research 1871-2 Property Owners 1. JUDGE ELIAS SMITH (1804-1888) Son of Asahel Smith, a brother of Joseph Smith, Sr. Helped George A. Smith revise Lucy Mack’s Joseph the Prophet. Worked regularly in the Endowment House, 1868-1880. He was the arbiter in controversy between Brigham Young and Union Pacific Railroad. President of all High Priests in the Church, 1870-77. President of High Priests Quorum, Salt Lake Stake, 1877-88. Elias Smith was the first Probate Judge in Salt Lake City, which position he held for thirty-two years, until his death. He was also editor for the Deseret News, 1856-63. 2. JOHN SMITH (1781-1854) Younger brother of Joseph Smith, Sr. by 10 years. Father of George A. Smith, uncle of Joseph Smith. Baptized 10 Jan 1832 as he was dying from consumption. He slowly recovered. He was sustained as assistant counselor to the First Presidency from 3 Sep 1837 until Joseph Smith’s death, 27 Jun 1844. He was appointed president of the Salt Lake High Council on 3 Oct 1847. He was ordained the 4th Patriarch of the Church, 1 Jan 1849. 2 3 3. DR. JOHN MILTON BERNHISEL. John M. Bernhisel (1799 –1881) was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania and practiced medicine in New York City. After joining the LDS church, he served as the personal physician to Joseph Smith and lived in his home. He delivered some of Emma Smith's children. He was a member of the Council of Fifty. Bernhisel was a bachelor until he was 46 years old when he married Julia Ann Haight, a widow with five children. The couple had one child. He subsequently married six other women, but by 1850 all of them but Elizabeth Barker had left for various reasons. In Utah, Bernhisel continued the practice of medicine. He was the original delegate of the Utah Territory in the U. S. House of Representatives (1851– 1859, 1861–1863) 4. MARINDA HYDE/FUTURE PRIMARY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (1922-1952). Nancy Marinda Johnson, sister of Luke and Lyman Johnson, married Orson Hyde in 1834 and had three children before Orson went on his mission to Israel. Orson learned about plural marriage and had taken two additional wives by March, 1842. Marinda was married to Joseph Smith in April, 1842. She bore Orson seven more children over the next 20 years and Orson married seven additional wives. They were divorced in 1870 and she continued living in this home. She was a charter member of the Nauvoo Relief Society and president of the 17th Ward Relief Society. Hospital. One day in 1911, Sara Louisa “Louie” Bolton Felt, general president of the Primary Association, and May Anderson, her counselor, while walking along the street saw a little crippled boy. Their hearts went out to him and to other crippled children, thus the idea of the Primary Children's Hospital was born. It was to President Joseph F. Smith that the plan for helping crippled children was first submitted. He was generous in his approval and beds were obtained for Primary patients in the Latter-day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City. Unfortunately, demand exceeded supply . In 1922, Louie and May appealed to President Heber J. Grant for help. Under his direction, Mrs. Felt and Miss Anderson were sent east to study plans and methods used in the finest children's hospitals. The Church provided, remodeled and equipped the old Hyde home on North Temple Street, which was then turned over to the Primary Association for use as a convalescent hospital. Most operating funds came from pennies donated by Primary children and the annual fund raiser, the Penny Parade. Water in front of Conference Center. The stream of water next to the sidewalk is NOT from City Creek. It is pumped out from under Temple Square. 4 5. Presiding Bishop Edward’s Second Home. Edward Hunter (1793 – 1883) was born in Newtown, Pennsylvania and was the third Presiding Bishop of the Church from 1851 until his death. He served as Presiding Bishop longer than any other person in the history of the LDS Church. Hunter was engaged in the mercantile business near Philadelphia from 1816 to 1822 and was married to Ann Standley in 1830. He served in the US Cavalry for seven years and as Delaware County commissioner for three years. Hunter converted to Mormonism in 1840, and served as Bishop of the Nauvoo 5th ward from 1844 to 1846, then migrated to Utah in 1847 and served as the Bishop of the Salt Lake City 13th Ward from 1849 to 1854. He was called as Presiding Bishop by Church President Brigham Young in 1851. Hunter had four wives and fourteen children. 6. William H. Clayton. Clayton, born in England, acted as a clerk and scribe to Joseph Smith. Early in February 1846, Clayton left Nauvoo with the first Latter Day Saint group in their exodus to the West. In April 1846, while camped near Locust Creek on the plains of Iowa, Clayton wrote the words to the popular LDS hymn, now known as "Come, Come, Ye Saints" which is sung to the music of a traditional English song, "All is Well." The hymn was in response to good news from Mormons still living in Nauvoo. One of his plural wives, Diantha, had given birth to a healthy baby boy, William Adriel Benoni Clayton. Clayton acted as recording scribe for Brigham Young’s vanguard company in 1847. Clayton's pioneer journal, later published, is the most well-known account of the expedition. He later prepared and published The Latter-day Saints' Emigrants' Guide, a meticulous description of the route from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake City, with suggestions for camping places. Mileage was based on an odometer, designed by Orson Pratt and built by Appleton Harmon. Latitude, In Utah, Clayton continued to help maintain church records. He became an auditor for the Territory of Utah, as well as recorder of marks and brands. He worked as treasurer of the Deseret Telegraph Company and as secretary of (ZCMI). Private ventures included collecting debts, filing land claims, acting as a legal advocate, lending money, merchandising, farming, and mining speculation. Clayton married nine wives and fathered 42 children. Three of his wives later left him. 5 7. Gibbs-Thomas-Hansen-Hughes Home. On June 24, 1895 Gideon Aaron Gibbs and Maggie Young Taylor received a building permit for this house. G ibbs, a pioneer Utah civil engineer and surveyor would marry Maggie, a daughter of John Taylor, third president of LDS Church and his 7th and last wife. Taylor's wedding gift of $3,800 (roughly $75,000 in 2012 dollars) to the couple covered the house's estimated cost of construction for this Richard Kletting-designed, Victorian home. Kletting also designed the state capitol building, Salt Air resort and other businesses and residences. Unfortunately, in harder times, Margaret Gibbs was forced to sell the house "by Sheriff" in 1903. The house's most illustrious resident, Elbert Duncan Thomas. Thomas served a mission to Japan for the LDS Church with his first wife, from 1907 to 1912. For part of his five-year mission, he was the president of the Japanese Mission. On his return from Japan, he became a Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Utah (where he had received his B.A. in 1906). He taught Latin, Greek and Japanese culture, as well as being a Political Science and History professor and eventually an Administrator on the Board of Regents at the University. He was elected as a U.S. Senator from Utah in 1932, defeating Republican incumbent Reed Smoot. He in turn was defeated in 1950 by Wallace F. Bennett. In 1943, the Mormon senator credited his faith for his resolve to stop persecution - co-chaired a weeklong "Emergency Conference to Save the Jewish People of Europe" and introduced a resolution in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to build a U.S. government agency to rescue refugees from mass murder. Thomas then wrote the legislation that would create it. The result: The War Refugee Board that - in the final 15 months of the war - saved about 200,000 Jews and 20,000 non-Jews the Nazis had targeted for extermination. Thomas, was later an outspoken supporter for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Israel. In 1951, he was appointed High Commissioner over the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by President Truman. Elbert died in Honolulu, Hawaii Territory on February 11, 1953. The house passed to other owners and has maintained its original integrity despite once being converted into multiple apartments. Purchased from the previous owners in 1989 under the condition that this would remain a single family residence, Elaine and J.P. Hughes have worked tirelessly to accurately preserve the home. 8. JOHN PACK HOME. First commercial store in Salt Lake City was operated out of his house by Livingston and Kinkead with $10,000 worth of inventory. The house was a convenient two blocks away from Union Square (now West High School) where emigrants, on arriving in the valley, would go until relatives came and got them or they found out where they could settle. Livingston and Kinkead relocated to Main Street a short time later and Bell replaced Kinkead as a partner.