WILLIAM WHITEHEAD TAYLOR was born in Tetlow Fold, Oldham, Lancashire, England, December 12. 1828, being the youngest of the seven children of Samuel and Sarah Whitehead Taylor, he had little education, but was fond of books and spent most of his evenings at  home reading.

He was converted to the Mormon faith by his brother, James, who presided over the Oldham Conference, and sailed for America September 5, 1849. on the ship "Berlin." During the voyage, cholera broke out and in twenty days forty-five deaths occurred,  he landed at New Orleans and proceeded up the river to St. Louis, where he was met by his brothers. James and Thomas, who had left England the previous year. For two and one-half years he lived at Council Bluffs and suffered much at times for want of food. On the 6th of April. 1852. Mr. Taylor started for Utah in Isaac Bullock's company While on the plains, he became lost and was found by an Indian, who took him to the Indian encampment and treated him kindly. This hospitable red skin had his squaw provide food for the white man's supper, also skins for a bed, and the next morning conducted him to his own company, also returning two horses which had strayed away. The company reached Salt Lake City, September 25, 1852.

For a year Mr. Taylor lived in Salt Lake City, helping to build the Fifteenth Ward school house, and to excavate for the temple, whose corner stone he saw laid and dedicated. In October, 1853, he moved to Lehi. where he has since led a busy and industrious life. For a time he followed farming, taking the Fotheringham farm on shares, later becoming the owner of this and several other valuable pieces of real estate. In connection with his brother Thomas he founded the mercantile firm of T. and W. Taylor, which conducted the first store in Lehi. During the latter years of his life, he engaged in the dairying business.

In 1853, he married Nannie Standring, who was born in Layton, Lancashire, England, July 24, 1826, being the daughter of James and Mary Halliwell Standring; and four years later he married Charlotte E. Leggett, a daughter of Conrad and Louisa Leggett. who was born October 9, 1837, in Ohio, and who was the mother of five children. In May, 1855, he was a member of the White Mountain expedition and from the spring of 1869 to the fall of 1870, was absent upon a mission to England, where he labored as traveling elder in the Manchester conference, and afterward presided successively over that and the Leeds conference. He returned home on account of ill health.

He was secretary of the Lehi Dramatic Association, the pioneer dramatic organization, and one of the leading players. He was at one time a member of the City Council and also connected with the local military organization. Although he preferred a quiet life and was never much of a public man, yet he was one of the staunch and sturdy men of the community, ever ready to help in every worth cause.

Charlotte E. L. Taylor died February 20. 1909. Nannie S. Taylor died June 15, 1913. Wm. W. Taylor died November 17, 1907.

SAMUEL ROGERS TAYLOR, son of James Taylor and Ann Rogers, was born August 11. 1840 in Oldham, Lancashire, England. When eight years of age, he, with his parents, left England and came to this country The winter of 1848 he lived in New Orleans and in the spring of 1849, he moved to St. Louis where he lived until 1851. At that time they moved to Paducah. Kentucky. After two years they returned to St. Louis.

Early in the spring of 1853 he and his parents started for Utah, arriving in Salt Lake early in September, shortly afterwards he came to Lehi, where he has since made his home. During    1855   and    1856, he helped   build   the   old Meeting House.

On November 1, 1861, he married Martha Ann Fox. They were one of the first three couples from Lehi to be married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City.

In 1866, he was called to Sanpete County, where he served about 60 days in the Black Hawk War.

He has served in nearly every public office, having been elected first as captain of police in 1871. From 1879 to 1880 he was alderman; 1881, 1882, 1885, 1886 was city councilor; 1889, 1890 he was Mayor; 1898, 1899, 1902, 1903 he was again a member of the Council.

In addition to these he served two terms as Justice of the Peace; and one term as deputy assessor. He was a charter member of the Lehi Brass Band, also the old Enough Band, being a member of these organizations for about 20 years.

He followed the blacksmith trade for many years until his health became impaired after which he engaged in farming. He died September 1, 1911.

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MARTHA ANN FOX TAYLOR, wife of Samuel Rogers Taylor, was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, July 11. 1844, and was the daughter of Isaac W. and Margaret Ann Slinn Fox. She  became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints July 11. 1853, at the age of nine years. During the years 1857. 1858, and 1859, she lived with her parents in Scotland, where her father was president of the Scotch Mission.

On May 1, 1860, with her parents, she emigrated to Utah, crossing the plains with ox teams.    They   arrived   in Salt Lake City, October 6. 1860, and a week later they moved to Lehi, where they have since resided.

On November 1, 1861, she married Samuel R. Taylor in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City. She has been an active worker in many lines. With her husband she labored in the first Old Folks Committee for many years. She has been prominent in political activities and took a leading part in many public festivities. At present she is a member of the presidency of the Relief Society of the First Ward.

She has raised a large and respectable family. The names of her children are: Samuel, James, Ebenezer, William, Isaac, Thomas, Alfred. Margaret, Robert. Charles Slinn. Birdie (Mrs. Thomas R. Cutler, Jr.) Ira, Leon, Ethel (Mrs. Douglas Scally), and Herbert

DANIEL STILLWELL THOMAS was born March 17, 1805, in Sumner County, Tennessee, and died June 27, 1878. His wife, Martha Pane Jones Thomas, was born February 20, 1808, in Sumner County, Tennessee, and died September 5, 1885. They were living in Calaway County, Kentucky, when Wilford Woodruff went on his first mission, holding the office of priest, and they were among his first converts.

They emigrated to Missouri in 1837. lived one year, built a house, and raised crops, when the Saints were driven from Missouri.   They then had five children. They were among the early settlers of Nauvoo and there built a house and lived, and chiefly worked on the temple, their oldest son, Morgan, learning the stone cutting business there, commencing on the foundation and working on the Corinthian caps, which were on the tops of the pillars. They were among the last driven from Nauvoo in February, 1846. That summer they lived in Iowa and then moved to Winter Quarters for the winter. When the Church left Winter Quarters they moved to Honey Creek, Iowa.

In the summer of 1842. they crossed the plains to Utah, lived in Salt Lake City until 1856, then moved to Lehi where they lived until their death.

Father Thomas served the public as school trustee, and built the first Lehi school house, the Thurman Building. He was president of the high priests quorum. He was a great worker and took a full share in fencing the first fields and making the first water sections.

Martha Pane Jones Thomas

Mother Thomas was counselor to Sister Coleman Evans, first president of the Relief Society, and an active worker in that body. She was a great weaver and clothed her family well in their home-made cloth.

The children of Daniel Stillwell Thomas and Martha Pane Thomas are: Morgan Milican Thomas, Matilda Ann Thomas; married Israel Evans. Malinda Stillwell Thomas; married   Alexander Loveridge. Isaac Thomas, Emma Smith Thomas; married John Woodhouse. Joseph Alma Thomas; married Mary Ellen Lawrence. Daniel White Thomas; married Mary Ashton. Martha Jane Thomas; married Newal Brown. Sarah Phylinda Thomas; married Arthur Stewart. John Jones Thomas; married Myra Clark.

GEORGE WILLIAM THURMAN, son of William Thomas Thurman and Mary Margaret Brown Thurman, was born August 11, 1843, in Larue County, Kentucky. His father died when he was eight years of age. He was the oldest of four children, three boys and one girl. He spent his boyhood in Kentucky, working on the farm during the summer and attending the public schools during the winter.

In the spring of 1860, during the agitation that finally culminated in the Civil War, he was a member of the Kentucky Home Guard, organized for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the community. In 1862, when General Bragg, followed by General Buell, made his famous raid through the state, he was called upon to carry a dispatch from Buell to Nelson at Louisville, a distance of seventy miles. Although about twenty miles of the distance he was traveling with Bragg's soldiers, he was not apprehended.

From 1863 to 1864. he attended the high school in Hardin County. In March, 1864, he started in company with several young men overland for California. He reached Salt Lake City during the summer and remained there a short time working for Bishop Hunter. From there he went to Nevada and worked for Len Wines   on   the   overland stage lines. Sometime in 1865. he was transferred to Fairfield in Cedar Valley, Utah. He became acquainted in Cedar Fort and obtained a position as teacher in the schools there.

In 1866 he married Catherine Rodeback. That same year he went to San Pete as a soldier in the Black Hawk War. In 1868. and 1869, he taught school in Lehi. In the spring of 1869. he went to Kentucky and brought his mother and her family out to Utah. The same autumn he was again employed in school teaching in Cedar Fort. He returned to Lehi in the summer of 1870, and taught school until December 24. 1871. On that date he was shot by a ruffian while he was preparing a Christmas tree for his school and his death occurred  the  same day.

LUKE TITCOMB.a pioneer of 1852, was a native of Donnington, Berkshire. England, born March 3, 1832. a son of William and Mary Atkins Titcomb. The father and mother joined the Mormon Church very soon after the introduction of the gospel into England and with their family emigrated to America in 1841. locating in Nauvoo, Illinois, passing through the persecutions of those days in common with the rest of the Saints. They crossed the plains in 1849. in Ezra T. Benson's company, arriving in Salt Lake City on the 31st of October.

The next three years were spent in Cottonwood and in 1852 the family moved to Lehi. where Luke has since resided. His parents soon moved back to Salt Lake City. The father died soon after, but the mother lived to a ripe old age. On January 26. 1854, Luke married Lydia Jane Tanner, a capable woman and a member of a well known and very numerous family in Utah. They have raised a very large family and have passed through all the trying scenes of early days in Lehi. Mr. Titcomb was one of the builders of the fort wall in 1854; worked on the Meeting House in 1855; and was a member of the company of infantry sent to the scene of action in the Echo Canyon War in 1857, being the cook for the company of ten of which William Clark was captain.

To support his family, he has been a tiller of the soil and for a number of years he was janitor of the old Meeting House .His wife was a kind, generous, woman, ever ready to help those in distress. She was the mother of fourteen children. She died October 31. 1897; Luke Titcomb died November 24. 1913.The following children grew up to maturity: Mary Jane. (Mrs. Thomas Gray); Joseph L.. Rebecca (Mrs. Thomas Jones); Mahonri, Ruth (Mrs. John Jackson); Naomi S. (Mrs. Thomas Powers); Eunice, (Mrs. Lott Russon, Jr.); Helen E. (Mrs. Heber C. Comer); Preston; Florence.

THOMAS F. TRANE. "I was born February 4, 1846, in Lemvig, Jutland, Denmark, my father's name being Andreas Peter Trane and my mother's was Margrethe Nielson. When six years of age, I was nearly drowned in a pond, but managed to crawl out. I lived with my grandmother until I was eight years of age, when I went to my father in Copenhagen, going all the way from Aalberg in the steamer alone. I was baptized March 17. 1858. by Elder Lars Matthiasen. and confirmed the following day by Niels Wilhelmsen.

"When fourteen years of age. I started for Utah with Carl Wideberg. I left Copenhagen May 2.   1860;   crossed  the Atlantic in the sailing vessel "William Tapscott;" drove an ox team across the plains in Captain Nephi Johnson's company; and arrived in Salt Lake City October 5, 1860, coming to Lehi October 12. 1860, where I resided for fifty two years.

"The first two summers in Lehi. I herded sheep and went to school about four weeks each winter. In the summer of 1862, which is known as the high water year, I was washing sheep in Utah Lake near Pelican Point when Hyrum. the son of Bishop Evans, was drowned. I was sent to Lehi with the news, and I ran all the way from the Point to Jordan Ferry, two miles north of the bridge, which was under water, procured a horse at Terrey's and met the Bishop between American Fork and Pleasant Grove. We immediately returned, but the body of Hyrum Evans was never found.

"In the summer of 1864. I hauled freight out west on Brigham Young's contract with Ben Eldredge and the Wells Fargo Stage Line. April 28, 1866. I went back after the church immigration, driving four yoke of oxen to the Missouri river and back   to   Utah,   reaching Salt Lake City, September 17, 1866. I brought a family from Calcutta in my wagon, the woman being a Hindoo of high caste. She was a lovely woman, but could hardly walk, as her feet had been pinched after the manner of the Chinese. She could not stand the climate and died three weeks after reaching Utah.

"In the summer of 1857, I was called to Sanpete to protect the settlers from the Indians who were on the warpath under Chief Black Hawk. I served about a month on this expedition. After forty years. I received a medal for services rendered. On the 8th of December,   1867,   I   started   for San Pedro, California, with a ten horse team and two wagons after freight which was brought down the coast in small schooners. On the way down we left grain enough in a lone house at Las Vegas to last us back to the settlements. We arrived at San Bernardino January 17, 1868. and after crossing the deserts of Arizona and Nevada, I thought the San Bernardino valley was paradise itself. We went down to Los Angeles, a city at that time of 2500 inhabitants, half of whom were Mexicans and Spaniarads. There were only two or three ranches between San Bernardino and Los Angeles and one ranch from the latter place to San Pedro. We left San Pedro March 12. and arrived in Lehi May 16. 1868.

"I started right off for Fort Laramie and worked on the railroad which was coming west as fast as men and money could push it. I stayed until Christmas, working as far west as Echo and Weber canyons. I came home January 25, and was married to Eliza Howes in March, 1869. I went back to work on the railroad at Promontory and was there when the golden spike was driven by Senator Stanford of California. The camp at the Promontory was composed of the roughest men I have ever seen.

"I went up Bingham Canyon and  worked for awhile  at one of the first placer mines in the canyon. In 1871, I tended stage stock at the Half Way house for Gilmore and Salsbury, and in July of that year commenced to work for Bishop Evans as a clerk in the Lehi Union Exchange, continuing until December 15, 1879, when I started out as traveling salesman and introduced the Studebaker wagons. My territory covered Utah, parts of Idaho, Arizona, and Wyoming. In 1882, with Augustus Powell I started a small mercantile business near the Denver & Rio Grande depot in Lehi. Which I sold in 1894, on account of the Teasdale   failure   in   Salt Lake City. I next clerked for the People's Co-operative Institution for a few years and on April 7, 1896. was ordained a seventy and sent on a mission to California by way of Portland, Oregon. Labored in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego, returning home in September, 1897. During the last few years, I have been traveling salesman for the knitting factory in Lehi and in 1912 moved to American Fork,"

Mr. Trane has led a very active life; has been a member of the City Council several times; a member of the School Board; and one of the first officers of the Young Men's Mutual Association in 1875. He has traveled much in the west; was present at the World's Fair at Chicago and St.  Louis;  and  altogether has been a progressive, industrious, and useful citizen.

He has four daughters living: Jean C. (Mrs. William Chipman), Haydee (Mrs. William Thornton), Lulu M. (Mrs. Dr. H. E. Robinson), and Lexia M. (Mrs. Lawrence Briggs.)

ELIZA MARIA HOWES TRANE, daughter of Henry and  Eliza Howes, was born May 30, 1849, in Norwich, Norfolk, England. She emigrated to Utah, leaving England in January. 1853, with her father, mother, grandmother and a little sister of whom the last named was buried on the plains. She came in the sailing vessel "Ellen Maria," landed in New Orleans and proceeded up the river to Keokuk. She crossed the plains with an ox team in Claudius Spencer's company, arriving in Salt Lake City in October, 1853, being nine months on the way. She lived in Salt Lake City for one year, moved to Lehi where her father, who was a bricklayer, helped to build the Meeting House and took an active part in the building up of Lehi. Being  a  man  of  means,  he also assisted in bringing others to Utah.

Sister Trane had a brother and sister born under very trying circumstances; it was during the grasshopper war. When money could not buy a comfort on earth, as it was not here. She attended the school taught by Mrs. Bassett and later taught by Charles D. Evans. As women and girls in those day's worked in the fields, she took her part, hauling and stacking hay and grain, digging potatoes and hauling sage brush for fuel. Furthermore, she worked many days killing grasshoppers; spun and colored yarn for her own dresses and performed other work of  this kind.

She is the mother of 8 children, 2 boys and 6 girls and at the present writing is the grandmother of 13 grandchildren. She was a teacher in the Relief Society for 12 years before moving to American Fork.

MICHAEL VAUGHAN. a son of William Vaughan, was born October 11. 1823, in the parish of Dinister, Monmouthshire, Wales, and was a coal miner in occupation. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blana, June 11, 1850. and on April 16. 1854, was married to Jane Witchell. a daughter of William Witchell, at Hanover church. She died at Lehi January 25, 1893.

In 1858, he emigrated to Utah, his wife following three years later.    In   1859,  he  located in Lehi and for several years was employed by Bishop Evans, but it was not long before he secured some land and commenced farming for himself. His principal occupation during the remainder of his life was tilling the soil. For eighteen years he was a dealer in coal, his stand being located near the D. & R. G. depot and for a number of years he was agent for farm machinery.

Mr. Vaughan was an earnest church worker and during his entire sojourn in Lehi was a faithful and efficient member of the choir and was seldom absent from his place among the bassos. For many years he was a devoted Sunday School worker and block teacher; for a number of years presided over the priests quorum and in this position won the love and respect of the young men of the organization.

On May 6, 1863, he married Jane Mariah Brain, a daughter of Thomas and Mariah Brain who was born May 1, 1841. in Bambury, Oxfordshire, England. Her parents being members of the Mormon Church, she was baptized when eight years of age and emigrated to Utah in 1862, crossing the plains in Homer Duncan's company, coming direct to Lehi where she had a sister living. To this union were born nine children, three of whom died in infancy; the others are; Mariah Brain (Mrs. Mark Austin), Michael Thomas, (deceased), William Henry, Emily Jane (deceased), George Isaac, and Eleazer (deceased.) Mr. Vaughan died February 21, 1893.