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Identifier: utahsincestateho02warr (find matches)
Title: Utah since statehood, historical and biographical
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Warrum, Noble Morse, Charles W Ewing, W. Brown
Subjects: Utah -- Biography Utah -- History
Publisher: Chicago--Salt Lake, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ere to Barbara Ann Ewell in November, 1841. Continuing his activityin the church, he was bishop of the eleventh ward at Nauvoo and remained at that placeuntil driven out. He was made captain of a company that crossed the plains and ar-rived at Salt Lake City on the 15th of August, 1850. The next spring he removed toLehi and was appointed the first bishop of Lehi. continuing to fill that office most ac-ceptably and honorably for twenty-eight years. It was Mr. Evans who located and laidout the town of Lehi into blocks and with its material and moral development he wasclosely associated for an extended period. He served as its first postmaster and waselected a member of the first legislative assembly of Utah. He also became a colonelin the militia and served as major h the LeM military district several terms. He waschosen the second mayor of the city of Lehi and occupied that position for three terms.His ability as an organizer and executive, his business capacity, his enterprise and his
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ISRAEL EVANS UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD 539 public spirit made him one of the leading citizens not only of Lehi but of the state aswell. He passed away June 23, 1883, and President Woodruff, Bishop Hunter and manyleading men of Salt Lake City attended his funeral, going by special train from SaltLake to Lehi. The funeral cortege which followed the remains to the cemetery was thelargest ever seen in Lehi, there being one hundred and fifteen vehicles in line. BishopEvans was married in 1854 to Climena Gibson, in 1856 to Rebecca Coleman, and in 1861to Christina Holm and was the father of forty-one children. Israel Evans, the father of Israel Evans of this review, was born in Columbus,Ohio, October 2, 1828, and accompanied his father on the various removals until thefamily were residents of Nauvoo. He enlisted in the Mormon Battalion in July, 1846,and received his honorable discharge in California a year later. He then went to workat Sutters Mill and was there located at the time of the discove

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