Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-03

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drove a team to san Bernardino and
over the southwest trail to Salt Lake
arriving here Jan. /, 1868. ,,,
This opened the career as Itah
pioneer. in which Bishop Preston
found his large usefulness he MAJ
ried Harriet Ann Thatcher, teo. -
1858, and in the move south Iounu
final stopping place at Payson, where
he built him an adobe house win ms
own hands In 1859 he decided thal
the new country of Cache valley o.
fered more Inducements than did ray
son Hence he went there with ms
wife. and with John 3. and Aaron D.
Thatcher, both brothers-in-law
LOGAN SETTLED.
When they got to the site of Logan
City there was yet no house on le
ground A few families were living Ia
wagons and preparing to build. rms
Is good enough for me-" was the re
mark with which Bishop Preston mar
ed his team and stopped on the site
where he was TO make his permanent
home. In November, 1853, Elers Or
son Hyde and Ezra I. Benson of the
council of apostles came 10 Cache val
ley to organize the settlement, and Pc
ter Maughan. the original settler OF
w tllsNllits yphiAS Tvs
ton. He was accordingly chosen ana
became the Bishop of Logan In 1860,
before the snow was of the ground,
Bishop Preston was at work on the
Logan and Hyde Park canal, an enter
prise which must be completed in time
for the crops of 1860 II proved prac-
tical proposition, and It had hardly
been completed when a large band OF
Indians came in from Oregon, deter
mined to clear Cache valley of whites
and make ii their rendezvous. THIS
meant a military organization, and
Bishop Preston became a minute
man" The Indians were watched
closely and everywhere treated kindly
but never afforded a vulnerable point
for attack. They finally left, ana ds
the strain of watching them disar-
peared duties of citizenship called for
other activities. In 1862 Bishop Pres
ton came to the legislature from
Cache,
MISSION TO EUROPE.
In 1853 he headed company OF so
teams, called by President Young to
accompany $50 more teams from other
parts of Utah, TO the Missouri river,
to assist in bringing on the immigra-
ton. In 1865 he was set apart Mt the
April conference for an European mis-
sion and left May 20 at the head of a
HolN ~ vi ~ ihlNSibilhA ltrs Ilt SAbppfh
In New York for a visit to his folks in
Virginia. and then went to Liverpool, To
become president of the mission
branches at Newcastle and Durham.
Called TO the Liverpool office I'm Jan
nary. 1896, he became business manager
OF the European mission under Presl-
dents Brigham Young, Jr and Frank
lin y. Richards.
He returned to Utah In September.
1865. after a mission of three ana one
half years, to find himself, in 1870,
elected mayor of Logan. a position
which he filled continuously for y years
until March, 1852, President Brigham
Young named him Al this time as trus-
tee of the Brigham Young college. then
being organized. with the history OF
this Institution he was always after
wards intimately connected, ana for
years was chairman OF the executive
committee governing IL.
BUILT UTAH NORTHERN.
a work similar in Importance TO the
canal which gave Logan her water
supply, became necessary In 1874.
when II was determined to build the
Utah Northern railway ON local capital
to run for 60 miles 10 connection
with tho Utah Central, This move
was deemed necessary To get 10 mar
6et the grains and fruits which were
Cache valleys CHIEF products, Bishop
Preston became vice president and
superintendent OF construction Of the
new road, and until it's completion in
1874 he was one of the hardest work
ers I'm the enterprise, II IL over this
same roadbed ihat the remains Of
Bishop Preston viii be- carried We'd
nesday to their final resting place.
May Fl. 1917, the Cache stake was
organized, with Bishop Preston as
first counselor 10 President Moses
Thatcher. Afterwards he became
president of the stake, and then In
1884 his duties brought him 10 salt
Lake AS presiding bishop ~ the
church. whore his final activities had
a feld for expression As worker In
the pioneer neld he wiz be remember
I'd in the results Of hs labor In many
parts of Utah and Of the Church mis-
sions sent out from a.