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Sorry listmembers, I accidently deleted richard's email address. Sheila
For Richard:

Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Evanston Ward

Following is a complete list of Elders who have presided over the European
Mission, which, however, contained only the saints in the British Isles from
1837 to 1849: Heber C. Kimball, 1837–1838; Joseph Fielding, et al.,
1838–1840; Brigham Young, 1840–1841; Parley P. Pratt, 1841–1842; Thomas Ward,
1842–1843; Reuben Hedlock, 1843–1845; Wilford Woodruff, 1845–1846; Orson
Hyde, 1846–1847; Franklin D. Richards, pro tem, 1847; Orson Spencer,
1847–1848; Orson Pratt, 1848–1851; Franklin D. Richards, 1851–1852; Samuel W.
Richards, 1852–1854; Franklin D. Richards (serving a second term), 1854–1856;
Orson Pratt (serving a second term), 1856–1857; Samuel W. Richards (serving a
second term), 1857–1858; Asa Calkin, 1858–1860; Nathaniel V. Jones, pro tem.,
1860; Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich, 1860–1862; George Q. Cannon,
1862–1864; Daniel H. Wells, 1864–1865; Brigham Young, jun., 1865–1867;
Franklin D. Richards (serving a third term), 1867–1868; Albert Carrington,
1868–1870; Horace S. Eldredge, 1870–1871; Albert Carrington (serving a second
term), 1871–1873; Lester J. Herrick, pro tem,. 1873–1874; Joseph F. Smith,
1874–1875; Albert Carrington (serving a third term), 1875–1877; Joseph F.
Smith (serving a second term), 1877–1878; William Budge, 1878–1880; Albert
Carrington (serving a fourth term), 1880–1882; John Henry Smith, 1882–1885;
Daniel H. Wells (serving a second term), 1885–1887; George Teasdale,
1887–1890; Brigham Young, jun. (serving a second term), 1890–1893; Alfred
Solomon, pro tem., 1893; Anthon H. Lund, 1893–1896; Rulon S. Wells,
1896–1898; Platte D. Lyman 1898–1901; Francis M. Lyman, 1901–1904; Heber J.
Grant, 1904–1906; Charles W. Penrose, 1906–1910; Rudger Clawson, 1910–1913;
E. Taft Benson, pro tem., 1913; Hyrum M. Smith, 1913–1916; George F.
Richards, 1916–1919; George Albert Smith, 1919–1921; Orson F. Whitney,
1921–1922; David O. McKay, 1922–1924; James E. Talmage, 1924–1927, and John
A. Widtsoe, 1927–1930.

Passengers on the Millennial star
Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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“The Millennial Star”

Thomas Ward, 1840–1842; Reuben Hedlock, 1842–1844; Thomas Ward, 1845–1846;
Franklin D. Richards, 1846–1847; F. D. Richards and L. O. Littlefield,
1847–1848; Franklin D. Richards, 1848–1850; James Linforth and Cyrus H.
Wheelock, 1851–1852; Daniel Spencer and James A. Little, 1852–1854; James A.
Little and Edward W. Tullidge, 1854–1856; James A. Little, Edward W. Tullidge
and John A. Ray, 1856–1857; Henry Whittall, 1857–1858; Henry Whittall and
Thomas Williams, 1858–1860; Jacob Gates and Henry Whittall, 1860; Charles C.
Rich, Nathaniel V. Jones, and Henry Whittall, 1860–1861; Henry Whittall,
Edward L. Sloan, William Fuller, William H. Shearman, John C. Graham, George
J. Taylor, Eugene Henroid, Joseph G. Romney and George Reynolds, 1861–1864;
Brigham Young, jun., Joseph G. Romney, and John V. Hood, 1864–1865; John V.
Hood, Aurelius Miner, Orson Pratt and Charles W. Penrose, 1865–1867; Charles
W. Penrose, 1867–1868; George Teasdale and John Jaques, 1868–1870; John
Jaques, 1870–1871; George Reynolds, James G. Bleak, Samuel S. Jones and John
C. Graham, 1871–1873; John C. Graham, 1873–1874; John C. Graham, L. John
Nuttall and Edward Hanham, 1874–1875; David McKenzie and Henry W. Naisbitt,
1875–1877; Henry W. Naisbitt, 1877–1878; John Nicholson and Charles W.
Stayner, 1878–1880; Charles W. Stayner and Orson F. Whitney, 1880–1882; Orson
F. Whitney and George C. Lambert, 1882–1885; George Osmond and Charles W.
Penrose, 1885–1887; Brigham H. Roberts, Thomas W. Brookbank, George W.
Phillips and John E. Carlisle, 1887–1890; John E. Carlisle, James H.
Anderson, William B. Dougall, jun., and Alfred Solomon, 1890–1893; John V.
Bluth, Alfred L. Booth and Edwin F. Parry, 1893–1896; Joseph W. McMurrin,
Edwin F. Parry, George E. Carpenter and Attawall Wootton, 1896–1898; Henry W.
Naisbitt, James L. McMurrin and Attawall Wootton, 1898–1901; Alex Buchanan
jun., and Joseph J. Cannon, 1901–1904; Walter M. Wolfe, Nephi Anderson and
William A. Morton, 1904–1906; William A. Morton and S. Norman Lee, 1906–1910;
S. Norman Lee, Thomas W. Brookbank and Hugh Ireland, 1910–1913; T. W.
Brookbank and J. M. Sjödahl, 1913–1916; J. M. Sjödahl, 1916–1919; Junius F.
Wells, 1919–1921; William A. Morton, 1921–1923; David O. McKay and G. Martin
Hopfenbeck, 1923–1925; Franklin Artell Smith, 1925; Junius S. Romney,
1925–1926; James K. Knudson, 1926–1927; Waldo L. Osmond, 1927; Richard L.
Evans, 1927–1929, and Weston N. Nordgren, 1929–1930.

Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Salt Lake City 23rd Ward

Alfred Solomon, the first Bishop of the 22nd Ward, after serving for twenty
years, was succeeded in 1909 by Alvin A. Beesley, who was succeeded in 1926
by Frank M. Openshaw, who was succeeded on Jan. 12, 1930, by George D.
Jorgensen, who acted Dec. 31, 1930. On that date the ward had 798 members,
including 88 children.

Heart Throbs of the West
Heart Throbs of the West: Volume 9
Among the Firsts in Utah
Horizons Conquered

In the law enforcement field, Joseph L. Heywood became the first marshall in
the Territory, which area covered Utah and Nevada. Samuel Bringhurst, of
Taylorsville, was the first man to establish a wagon, carriage and blacksmith
shop in Utah. He arrived in 1847. The first piling was driven for the famous
Saltair pavilion on January 1, 1893, and was completed July 1, 1893. Alfred
Solomon, with his three brothers, used the first machinery here in the
manufacture of boots and shoes. They sold shoes to ZCMI until that concern
made its own. David Evans, early bishop of Lehi, laid out that city with a
pocket compass and a square. Albert Perry Rockwood was the first warden of
the State Penitentiary, and planned make-work projects for the prisoners, the
chief of which were twenty-two fish ponds at 2525 South 11th East, for the
purpose of raising fish to replenish the mountain streams. He became a
director of the first Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society. Thomas
Bullock, historian for the Pioneers, in 1847, built his first home in the
valley of logs on the Dinwoody block and later built one of the first high
class homes there, surrounded by lawns and flowers.

History of Utah by Orson F. Whitney
Volume 4
Manufacturers and Mining Men.
Alfred Solomon

Alfred Solomon, boot and shoe manufacturer, ex-marshal of Salt Lake City, and
present Bishop of the Twenty-second Ward, came to Utah when he was twenty-one
years of age. He was born in the town of Truro, county of Cornwall, England,
September 10, 1836. His father's name was William Solomon, and his mother's
maiden name, Nancy James Hocking. The father was a shoemaker, employing a
number of men, and his trade was chiefly among miners working in the tin and
copper mines of western Cornwall. Alfred was the seventh son, and one of
thirteen children. He received a common school education, but at thirteen
began working with his father at the shoemaking trade.
In his eighteenth year he became a Latter-day Saint, being baptized on the
6th of April, 1854; the only one of his father's family, excepting his
married brother William, to embrace Mormonism at that time. During the next
two and a half years he continued working with his father, at the same time
laboring in the interests of his religion, delivering tracts, accompanying
the Elders, and assisting them in their open-air preaching at Truro and the
neighboring towns and villages. Desiring to come to Utah, he began saving
means for that purpose, and when he had enough to pay his passage over the
Atlantic— four pounds and five shillings—sent it to Liverpool, asking those
in charge of the Latter-day Saints' emigration agency to notify him when the
next ship would sail. His parents, getting an inkling of his design, did
everything in their power to dissuade him from it. His mother told him she
would rather follow him to the grave than have him go to America and mingle
with the Mormons. But all in vain.
Early in 1857, having received word that a ship with Mormon emigrants would
sail from Liverpool in the latter part of March, he determined to take
passage on it. He was not yet twenty-one, and fearing his parents would
prevent him from leaving home, he left without their knowledge. Only his
brother William knew of his departure. He had scarcely a change of clothing,
and just enough money to pay his fare by steamer from Falmouth, to which
place he trudged on foot. He landed at Liverpool penniless, to find that he
would have to wait several days for his ship. An old lady whom he had met on
the steamer, and who was going to sail in the same company, offered to pay
his board bill at the lodging house where they stayed if he would help her
look after her luggage. While there he received a letter from his parents,
containing three pounds, with which he paid his board bill and bought an
overcoat and other necessaries for the voyage.

He sailed on the 27th of March, and landed at Boston on the 20th of April.
Having no more money, he had made up his mind that he would have to stay
there for a season, when, to his great joy, two of the brethren whose
acquaintance he had made while on the ocean, offered to lend him enough to
take him to Iowa City, the western railroad terminus at that time. The fare
was ten dollars and fifty cents. At Iowa City he found that the trains to
take the companies across the plains—one half with ox teams the other half
with handcarts—would not be ready for three weeks. While waiting on the
frontier, Mr. Solomon worked for Senator Kirkwood, of Iowa, fencing corn
fields, at a dollar a day. On the eve of the departure of the ox train, Jesse
B. Martin, who had been appointed captain of it, came to him, and asked him
to drive his team to Utah. He gladly accepted the offer, and with the money
received from Senator Kirkwood, after reimbursing those who had paid his
railroad fare from Boston, he fitted himself out for the journey. He left
Iowa City about the 20th of May. Between Wood River and the Black Hills great
herds of buffalo were encountered, so dense that the train was compelled to
stop at times and let them pass. Some mornings the men had to go outside the
camp and shoot off their guns to scare away the buffalo from the cattle,
which became frightened and stampeded, both in and out of the yoke. In one
stampede three persons were killed. The plains abounded in game, herds of
deer and antelope being seen on either side of the road most of the time,
while herds of elk were often descried on the banks of the Platte. One day
John Taylor and Erastus Snow overtook the company, and told them of the
killing of Parley P. Pratt, in Arkansas, also of the coming of Johnston's
army. Mr. Solomon reached Salt Lake City on the 12th of September.

Three days after his arrival the Territory of Utah was placed under martial
law by Governor Brigham Young, as a measure of defense against the invading
force. The newly-arrived immigrant began working for Samuel Mulliner at
shoemaking, but owing to the unsettled state of affairs, very little labor of
that kind was done, as all were preparing to meet the army. He served in Echo
canyon that winter, and was one of the guards left at Salt Lake City, when
the people moved south. After the move he worked for Robert J. Golding,
having charge of his shoemaking department. He was one of the special police
called into service under Mayor A. O. Smoot, to keep in control the rough
element that had followed the troops to Utah. He assisted Captain Andrew
Burt, the brave and capable chief of police, in the detective department, and
was one of the posse who went with Deputy Territorial Marshal Robert T.
Burton to arrest the rebellious Morrisites in 1862. He was an artilleryman
under Major Ladd in the old militia organization, and one of the original
members of the Salt Lake Fire Department. From 1876 to 1880 he served as
constable of the Third precinct.

About the year 1870 Alfred Solomon, with his brothers William and James,
formed a co-partnership as manufacturers of boots and shoes. A year or two
later William was called to settle in Arizona, and Alfred and James continued
the business. They were the first, it is claimed, to introduce machinery into
Utah for such manufactures. Their product was purchased at wholesale by Z. C.
M. I. until that institution began to manufacture the same line of goods.
Solomon Brothers then started their wholesale and retail business, which has
continued to this day.

Alfred Solomon has been a married man since June 3, 1860, when he wedded
Ellen Gyde, who died November 26, 1871. Prior to her decease, he had married,
on March 28, 1868, his second wife, Emma S. Brown, who died May 10, 1877. His
third and present wife, Mary Louisa Solomon, was married to him September 22,
1873. Thus, while he had lived in polygamy, and reared a large family of
children, he was not living in such relations at the time of the enactment of
the Edmunds law. His hospitable home was open to those "on the underground"
in consequence of the crusade, and in this and other ways he proved to the
exiled Church leaders a staunch and faithful friend.

In February, 1886, he was elected city marshal and appointed chief of police,
and by re-election and re-appointment served in those offices until the
Liberal party took the city government in 1890. Marshal Solomon's most
distinguished service was in February, 1888, when in conjunction with Mayor
Armstrong and a posse, he ejected the land jumpers from the public lands of
Salt Lake City, as related in the twenty-third chapter of the previous volume.

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