GEORGE PETER SCHOW was born in Ronne, Bornholm, Denmark. July 20. 1853. his parents being Jens Hansen Schow and Sine Kirstine  Larsen.    His father's home was know as Helligdomsgaarden, being a noted pleasure resort and its rugged cliffs and beautiful scenery were known all over the northern part of Europe.

When George was fourteen years old, his father died and the next four years were spent with his uncle. Although he was not a Mormon, at the age of eighteen years he determined to leave his native land and go to Utah.   His relatives and friends tried to persuade him against this course. This uncle, who was childless and well to do. promised to make it worth his time if he would stay. But it was all to no purpose; there seemed to be an irresistible impulse taking him to Utah, his brother, Peter, having preceded him there, he reached Utah in April, 1872, and spent the next few years working in the mines of Little Cottonwood and Bingham Canyon. For a number of years he freighted to Bingham, hauling all manner of produce, such as butter, eggs, fruit, and vegetables and selling it to the people. For the last number of years he has been one of Lehi's leading farmers and at present, in company with his sons, is engaged quite extensively in dry farming west of Jordan River.

Mr. Schow first heard the gospel as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lehi, where he has made his home since his arrival in Utah, and was baptized by Abraham Losee. He married Celestia Willes, a daughter of William Sidney Smith Willes and Alzina Lucinda Lott, November 18, 1880. To them have been born five children as follows: George Sidney, Virginia (Mrs. Arthur Webb), Alzina Lucinda (Mrs. Albert Bone), Floyd, and Joice Pamelia.

Mr. Schow is one of Lehi's progressive citizens, always taking part in every enterprise that is for the public good. He is a strong supporter of education and to his honor be it said that his son, George Sidney, was the first Lehi boy to graduate from the University of Utah. During the years 1900 and 1901, Mr. Schow was in California teaching the Californians  how  to   irrigate their lands, being recommended for this position by Bishop Thomas R. Cutler. When the four wards of Lehi were organized December 20, 1903, Mr. Schow was selected as Second Councilor to Andrew Fjeld in the Bishopric of the First Ward, a position he still holds.

 

 

 

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JOSEPH JOHNSON SMITH was the son of William and Sophia Brooks Smith, and was born April 8, 1821, in Kempston, Bedforshire, England, he learned the trade of blacksmith and wheelwright and became a proficient mechanic in this line. On March 1, 1840. he married Mary Ann Smart and on September 23. 1841. he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by John Sheffield.

In May, 1843, in company with his father, mother and some of his brothers and sisters who also had accepted Mormonism, he emigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois. On the 8th of August, 1844. his wife died, leaving him with three small children and in April, 1845. his mother died. Soon after this his father returned to England, where he later married and raised another family.

Joseph J. left Nauvoo in May, and in company with Bishop David Evans and others lived at Bonepart during the summer. In September Bishop Evans and company moved forty miles west of Pisgah on the head waters of Nodaway, intending to settle there, but their provisions gave out and their cattle died, so they were compelled to move into  Missouri   for supplies.

On the first of January. 1850, Mr. Smith was married to Ann Coleman, daughter of Prime and Sarah Thornton Coleman, by Bishop David Evans at Maryville, Missouri, and the same year they crossed the plains, arriving in Salt Lake City, September 17, 1850. They lived in Salt Lake City for one year, when, on the solicitation of Bishop David Evans, they moved to Lehi.

Mr. Smith was the first blacksmith to settle in Lehi and took an active part in the building   up of the community, he made plows for the farmers of wagon tires which Johnston's army brought; made the first iron rollers for crushing sugar cane in the manufacture of molasses; and made nails and tools of various kinds. This work occupied his spare time in winter and in the summer he followed farming. Being of an industrious disposition, he was able to surround his family with all the necessities and some of the luxuries of life and was considered well to do in those days.

He was a stockholder in many of the industries and enterprises launched for the building up of the country. He was active in furnishing supplies for those who were out on Indian expeditions and after the Church immigration, he was among the first to launch out in the bee industry.

He homesteaded a quarter section of land some distance north of Lehi on Dry Creek, which he brought into a high state of cultivation and also built a sawmill, using the water of Dry Creek for power.

On February 10. 1865, he married Sarah Ann Liddiard and all together raised a very large family, as follows: Children of Mary Ann Smart: Caroline (Mrs. Wm. Skeens), Mercy, and Joseph. Children of Ann Coleman: Sarah Ann (Mrs. Samuel Southwick). Joseph William, George, Hyrum, Aldura (Mrs. James Roberts), Julia Elizabeth, (Mrs. James Taylor), Alfred James, Samuel Abraham, John Franklin, Rebecca, Jacob, David, Albert, and Moroni Alma. Children of Sarah Ann Liddiard: Florence Sopho (Mrs. J. E. Cotter), and Elizabeth. After a lingering illness of heart trouble, he died August 6, 1902.

ANN COLEMAN SMITH, daughter of Prime and Sarah Coleman, and wife of Joseph J. Smith, was born in Oldin. Bedfordshire, England on the 2nd day of October, 1833. She was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Bedfordshire, England,, by Elder John S. Thornton in December, 1842, and in 1843, together with her father's family, consisting of the following members: Elizabeth Coleman Jacobs, Rebecca Coleman Evans, Martha Coleman Southwick, Prime Coleman, George Coleman, and William Coleman, migrated to America, and arrived in Nauvoo May 12, 1843. She was personally acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith, and his brother, Hyrum, and passed through   the   persecutions the Saints were compelled to under go at  that time.

She was married to Joseph J. Smith at Morrisonville. Missouri, January 1, 1850, by Bishop David Evans, and in May following, in company with her husband, moved to Council Bluffs. On June 13, she crossed the Missouri River, and started across the plains with ox teams, for Utah, arriving in the fall of 1850. She lived in Salt Lake City one year, then moved to Lehi where she resided until her death.

She was the mother of 14 children, 10 sons, and 4 daughters. She was very industrious and enterprising in the settling and building up of this country, passing through all the hardships and trying times of early pioneer life. She was a dutiful, and considerate wife, a kind and loving mother, and was respected by all who knew her. She passed away October 1, 1909. being 76 years old.

SARAH ANN LIDDIARD SMITH was the daughter of Levi A. and Ann Liddiard. She was horn at Windsor, England October 16,. 1831. and joined the Church of  Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints July 14. 1848, at East Woodbay, Hampshire, England, being a member of the Landers Conference.

She sailed for America on the ship. "Hudson," July 3, 1864; there were 1100 persons on board and six weeks were consumed in crossing the ocean. She crossed the plains in Captain Warren Snow's company and during the journey she cooked for a number of elders who had been on missions and were returning home.

She arrived in Salt Lake City. November 31, 1864, and was married to Joseph J. Smith February 10. 1865, coming to Lehi the same year. She was the mother of two daughters, one dying in infancy, the other is Mrs. Florence Cotter. Mrs  Smith was of a refined yet independent disposition; having received a liberal education, she taught school for a number of years and was identified with the Sunday School as a teacher.

In 1887 she built a hotel by the Denver and Rio Grande depot which she conducted for a number of years. She died September 25. 1909.

 

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WILLIAM SOUTHWICK. My grandfather Samuel Southwick, was born at Cradley. Shropshire, England, in 1770. My grandmother, Nancy Holloway Southwick. died in 1814, in England. My father, Edward Southwick. was born in Hanley, Shropshire, England, May 15, 1812. My mother, Mary Alexander Southwick, was born in July, 1812. in Dudley, England. My parents were married in 1834.

I. William, oldest son of my parents, was born at Dudley, Staffordshire. England, September 15, 1835. My parents were religious, belonging to the Methodist church. To them were born the following children: William, Joseph, Sarah, Edward, Samuel. Mary. John, and James. We were born of goodly parents, who always taught us to be virtuous and honorable all our lives. My grandfather, as also my parents, was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in May. 1844. I was baptized December 24, 1848, by my uncle, Joseph Southwick. I attended Sunday School some five or six years.

In the spring of 1854. I was ordained a priest, my duties being to visit the Saints. In March. 1855, I was ordained an elder by Edmund Ellsworth, and by him sent out as a traveling elder in the Warwick Conference. In November of this year I was released, and started for Utah with a company of Saints from Rugby of the same conference. On November 30 we set sail for New York on the ship "Emerald Isle." We landed on the 1st of January, 1856. after a pleasant voyage. I spent some two months in New York, Philadelphia, and Saint Louis. Here I engaged to one Preston Thomas of Lehi (missionary to Texas), to drive a team for him to Utah. I left Saint Louis on March 4 on the river steamer, "Falls City," for New Orleans. After our arrival we re-shipped on a gulf steamer for Powder Horn, Texas. Here we met the Saints preparing for journeying to Utah, and on April 7 we struck camp for the West. After traveling some 2,500 miles on the Cherokee trail and part on the Mormon trail, we landed in Salt Lake City on September 17, and at Lehi on the 19th. After my arrival I engaged to Preston Thomas to work on his farm for a year at $10.00 per month.

The two following years. 1858-1859, I worked for John Zimmerman and John C. Nagle on their farms. Soon after my arrival I was mustered into a foot company, John Norton being captain, and soon afterwards formed a home company of which John S. Lott was captain. During the two first winters, I spent much time as a home guard at the fort gates: the first winter without shoes, and scarcely enough clothing to keep warm. There were no fires; nothing pleasant about it, only discharge of duty. Indeed I had to keep moving to keep from freezing. During the "Move" I was able to get shoes and warmer clothing, after the army came in. Their coming was a great temporal blessing to the whole people. I also assisted in herding and guarding the citizens' cattle up Utah Lake, and in taking part in all general work.

On October 20. 1859, I took to wife Martha Jane Coleman, (owing to the army being here the endowment house was closed, therefore we were married by Bishop's Counselor T.. H. Hatch). There were born to us six children: Wm. E., Samuel H. George F., Mary Ann, Rebecca, and Joseph.

In the spring of 1860 I bought a piece of land from Bishop Evans, and started farming for myself. In 1858, at the organization of the first elders' quorum, I was chosen as secretary. I was one of a committee in assisting to build the west school rooms, also helped in finishing the Meeting House.    I was captain of police two years under Marshal Abel Evans, in the '60s. November 28, 1862. I was ordained to the office of seventy in the 68th quorum by President Israel Evans; and at the same time set apart as secretary of the quorum, which position I filled for twenty-five years. On December 11. 1880, 1 was set apart as one of the council; I remained in this position until I was ordained high priest on December 1. 1906, by George Cunningham. Soon afterwards, I was called to act as second counselor to President A. R. Anderson in the Presidency of  the high priests' quorum in the Alpine Stake of Zion. In 1858, 1 joined the Lehi choir. Some time after, I became its leader for a number of years. I was a teacher in the Sunday School, also secretary of the theological class, in all thirty years.

My wife, Martha Jane, was sealed to me in the Salt Lake Endowment House August 3, 1861. by President Daniel H. Wells. On May 28. 1864, I took for my second wife Savina C. Larson, daughter of Swen Larson of Sanpete. We were sealed in the Endowment House by President W. Woodruff. The names of children born to us: Sarah M., Emma F., Martha Ann, Edith A., Ernest L., and Raymond.

In 1863 my brother Samuel arrived in Lehi, where he made his home for years. Later he moved to Idaho. In 1864 my father, with two children, came to Lehi, my mother having died upon the plains. After seven years' residence here he died in 1873.

In the '60s I was a member of the old Dramatic Company. I was a home missionary in the old Utah Stake with Bishop Thomas R. Cutler one year. In 1904 I served one year as home missionary with Emil Anderson in the Alpine Stake of Zion. In the years 1865-1880 I labored under Bishop David Evans as block teacher, and under Bishop Cutler as an acting priest.   I was general water master for Lehi for seven years, and president of the Lehi Water Company for two years.

In the fall of 1887, I received a call to take a mission to the Southern States On March 29, 1888, I left home, and arrived in  Chattanooga on April 4. Here I received my appointment to travel in the Eastern Tennessee, Western North Carolina Conference. After filling a satisfactory mission, I received an honorable discharge from the president of the Southern States Mission, William Spry. I returned home in the fall of 1889.

In the spring of 1890. I was appointed chairman of the Old Folks' Committee of Lehi. In which position I served very pleasantly for twenty years.

Since my return from my missionary time has been spent in my home affairs, and my duties in the Church, and as a citizen of my home town, of which I feel proud, having lived for the past fifty-seven years watching it grow from a small village, surrounded by a mud wall as a protection against the invasion of hostile Indians, to its present surroundings. And may our posterity never cease to build upon the foundation laid by the early veterans until it shall become, through . their industry and enterprise, the most beautiful city, overlooking that grand view of waters, the Utah Lake.

William Southwick.

EDWARD SOUTHWICK. who was the son of Edward Southwick and Mary Alexander, was born April 24, 1842 at Dudley, Worcestershire, England. His father not being in the best of circumstances, Edward was put to work in a glass factory, at Sponlane, where he worked for a number of years, becoming quite proficient in his line of work He afterwards learned the shoe making business from his father and also mastered this occupation. After working with his father for a number of years in Westbromwich, he went to Northhampton, where he was engaged in the Mansfield shoe factory, the largest in the world at that time.   He afterward went to Norwich, where he was foreman in a small factory. From here he migrated to this country in the year 1881 on the steamship, "Nevada," which left Liverpool July 26, with 93 Saints under the direction of Lot Smith and arrived at Salt Lake City, August 16.

He then came direct to Lehi and not having sufficient work to occupy his time and make a living at his trade, he engaged in the construction work on the railroad that was being built up American Fork Canyon that year. When the railroad was completed,   he   engaged   as a cook at the old Miller Mine in American Fork Canyon, and worked as such for a number of years, going then to Alta in Big Cottonwood Canyon where he was offered better wages, he commenced to work at his trade about the year 1876 and continued in this occupation the remainder of his life, and all of the early settlers will remember him from the fact that he made footwear for them all.

He was baptized in the year 1854 by Elder John White, was ordained an elder, and did some missionary work in his native land. He was ordained a seventy May 14, 1876, by William Clark, and was a member of the 68th quorum of seventy up to the time of his death.

He was also a member of the School Board at the time of his death, the only public trust he ever held.

He was married to Ann Maria Taylor, February 18, 1866, in the old parish church of Dudley, England, and became the father of nine children. His eldest son Arthur James, who appears in the accompanying picture on his father's knee, was born March 24, 1876, at Birmingham, England. This picture was the only one Edward Southwick ever posed for. He was a man of great faith and rejoiced in visiting and administering to the sick. He died very suddenly on October 31, 1888, being sick only eight hours.

ANN MARIA TAYLOR SOUTHWICK, who was the daughter of John Taylor and Ann Maria Lager, was born March 11, 1841, at Westbromwich, Staffordshire. England. She was engaged as a domestic in her girlhood; received the gospel with other members of her father's family; was baptized in the year 1854. by John Taylor, and was a member of Westbromwich and Birmingham branch choir, for a number of years.

She  was  married to Edward Southwick March 18th. 1866. and became the mother of nine children, namely: Arthur James, now a resident of Provo, Utah; Clara, who was born March 5, at Norwich, England, now Mrs. George R. Meservy, of Provo, Utah, (whose picture appears as a baby with her mother); Edward Southwick of Lehi. Utah: Dora May, now Mrs. William L. Fuller, of Preston, Idaho, and Frederick, Agnes, Katie Elizabeth, Alice, Maud, and John Alfred, all now deceased. John Alfred died in the Thames Hospital, New Zealand, March 12th, 1908, while filling a mission.

She passed through many trying   circumstances   during her life, but had a kind and loving disposition, and although afflicted with asthma all her days, was never heard to complain. She was a member of the Relief Society and a teacher, in this organization at the time of her death, which occurred November 29, 1892, at Lehi, Utah.

EDWARD SOUTHWICK, JR. who was the son of Edward Southwick and Ann Maria Taylor, is a product of Lehi, having been born September 13, 1871, in his uncle's house now standing on the corner of First North and Fourth   West streets.

He was baptized October 3. 1880. by Lot Russon, Sr.; He was ordained a deacon and a teacher by his father; was ordained an elder by Lot Russon, Sr., in July, 1889; and a seventy April 20, 1904. by President Seymour B. Young. He filled a mission in England from 1894 to 1896, also. a mission to Colorado in 1899, returning in 1900. He has labored as a Sunday School teacher, superintendent, and stake officer for twenty-two years, and as a M.I A. officer and teacher for twelve years. He was secretary of the deacons', elders', and seventies' quorums for a number of years, and was chosen and set apart as one of the presidents of the 68th quorum by President Seymour B. Young September 9, 1900. He has labored as such from that date to the present, now being the senior president of the quorum. He was city recorder of Lehi in 1898 and 1899. and a school trustee from 1907 to 1910, mayor of Lehi in 1910 and 1911. and a member of the tenth session of the Utah Legislature in 1913.

He is a director in the State Bank of Lehi and has been since its incorporation; has been employed in various occupations; but is at present engaged in the real estate business and farming.

He was married in the Salt Lake temple March 24, 1897, to Rachel Ann Webb, and is the father of the following named children: Ethel, Edward W., Hannah Pearl. John W., Owen W, Glen W., and  Emma Ann.

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EDWIN STANDRING, a son of James and Mary Standring, was born April 27. 1828. in Oldham, Lancashire. England. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints March 4. 1848, in Oldham, and emigrated to Utah in 1853 In 1857 he  came   to   Lehi  and in 1858 was in the Echo Canyon War. In 1862, the high water year, he went back to the Missouri River after the Church immigration, driving an ox-team all the way.

On   the   28th   of November. 1862, he was ordained a seventy and in the fall of 1876, went on a short mission to the States, returning in May, 1877. In 1884, he was ordained a high priest and chosen as Second Counselor to Bishop Thomas R. Cutler.

On the 3rd of June, 1859, he married Rebecca Smith; she never had any children, but later in life she adopted Alice Bahr (Mrs. Henry Moroni Royle, Jr.)

On the 14th of February, 1864, he married Elizabeth Dixon who bore him one son who lived but six days; the mother died in December, 1867.

On the 28th of February, 1878, he married Ann Cutler, who became the mother of a girl and boy. The girl died in infancy and the boy is John Edwin. Mary Ann died July 13, 1900.

On the 8th of November, 1888, Mr. Standring was summoned to Provo on a charge of cohabitation. He was discharged and on the way home caught a severe cold which turned to pneumonia, causing his death November 20, 1888.

REBECCA SMITH STANDRING, the wife of Edwin Standring. Was born in North Hampton, North Hamptonshire, England, February 20, 1828. She was the daughter of William Smith and Charlotte Ford, being the fourth child in a family of ten children. It can truthfully be said of Mrs. Standring that she forsook all for the gospel's sake, for having accepted the doctrines as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in company with two sisters, she emigrated to America in 1855, leaving a husband who afterward followed her to Salt Lake City, and tried to persuade her to return to England with him. During her stay in Salt Lake City, she lived with the mother of Apostle Anthony Ivins and in the "Move" went south with the Saints. After the people returned to their homes, she came to Lehi to visit her sister and met Edwin Standring to whom she was married June 3, 1859, by James W. Taylor.

Mrs. Standring was refined and cultured, with queenly dignity, a natural leader and endowed with good practical sense. Being deprived of the privilege of motherhood, she took a prominent part in the public affairs of the community. During the early sixties she was one of the leading stars in the pioneer Home Dramatic Association and when the Sunday School was organized in 1866 she was the first lady teacher called to aid in this noble work.

For thirty years she was one of the most prompt and efficient teachers in the school until compelled by stress of other duties to resign. For a number of years she was stake aid in the Primary Association in the old Utah Stake and has labored for three months in each of the following temples: St. George, Manti, and Salt Lake. At the organization of the Relief Society in Lehi, October 28, 1868, she was chosen secretary and served in this capacity until the resignation of President Sarah Coleman, October 2, 1879, when she was selected as the president of the society. On July 28. 1901, the well merited honor of presiding over the Relief Societies of the Alpine Stake was conferred upon her by the Stake Presidency. She faithfully performed the duties of this responsible calling until October 26, 1913. when through age and ill health she was honorably released.

In the Relief Society Mrs. Standring found ample scope for her talents as leader, and spiritual advisor and through her wise management the organization was brought to a high point of efficiency. Her works will long be held in grateful remembrance by her devoted sisters.