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Utah County Biographies of Lehi
The History of Lehi
Written by Hamilton Gardner 1913
CARL JOHN ELLEVSEN FJELD was born January 26, 1825, in Drammen, Norway. His father, Ellev Johnson Fjeld (he was called Fjeld because of long service at Fjeldgaard, Mountain Estate, near Drammen) came from Sigdahl, Norway, and was born July 30, 1789. His mother, Anna Halvorsen, was born March, 1791, in Hillestasogn, Norway.
Carl's boyhood was spent in a ceaseless struggle for the bare necessities of life, as his parents were very poor, and although he had no schooling he became quite proficient in reading and writing. When sixteen years of age he went to sea, and spent a few years on the briny deep, much against the wishes of his mother. She finally persuaded him to give up sailing and to settle down to work and as a result he learned the trade of iron founder, at the Eidsfos Iron Works.
On the 15th of February, 1846, he took to wife Maren Eline Peterson, daughter of Peter Mortensen and Sophie Andreason, born February 5, 1822, in Hoff, Norway.
In the winter of 1852-1853 he went to Denmark, and there met the late President C. D. Fjeldsted, a fellow workman, who converted him to Mormonism. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints April 6, 1853, by Peter Hansen. The following May he returned to Norway, and during the summer moved his family to Christiania, where he had secured work. In the fall, Canute Peterson, whom he had met in Denmark, came to do missionary work in Norway's capital, and found a number of earnest investigators among Fjeld's companions in the foundry. A regular missionary campaign was now inaugurated, the meetings being held in Fjeld's house, and on December 8, 1853, a branch of the Church was organized with nine members. Fjeld was ordained a priest and set apart to preside. This branch has continued to the present and is one of the strongest in the lands of the north.
During the next seven years, Carl assisted the elders and took an active part in the ministry, and also endured his full share of the persecutions which the work had generally aroused. In the spring of 1860, with his family, he left his native land en-route for Utah, crossing the ocean in the good ship "William Tapscott," under the command of Captain Bell, and the plains in Captain Oscar O. Stoddard's hand cart company, arriving in Salt Lake City, September 24, 1860. The first winter was spent in Salt Lake City, and in the spring they moved to Lehi, as Fjeld had engaged to work for his friend, Canute Peterson. It was quite a change for the iron founder to drive an ox team while working on the farm or in the canyon, but this was the usual occupation of the pioneers of those days. On account of grasshopper wars and other wars, it was a hard struggle to get food enough for the family and the bread was often eaten bare.
On November 8, 1862, he married Anna Olson, a Swedish girl he had become acquainted with on the journey to Utah, and in 1866 he moved his first family to John C. Nagle's place, now known as Saratoga Springs, while the second family remained in Lehi. In 1870, another move was made to Pelican Point to take charge of the stage station, but the next year the route was changed through Cedar Valley, so the family moved to Eureka, where they have since resided.
In the spring of 1876, Fjeld returned to Lehi alone, where he spent the remainder of his days. He again became active in church work, to which he was very much devoted. He was one of the active deacons and a faithful Sunday School teacher. Among the Scandinavians he was a great favorite, taking a prominent part in their meetings, and generally leading the singing. He died January 8, 1888.
Maren Eline is still living in Eureka, where she is familiarly known as Grandma "Fields," and although she is in her ninety-second year, she is hale and hearty. She had eight children, six of whom reached maturity as follows: Anne Susannah (Mrs. John A. Hansen). Josephine Amelia (Mrs. Wm. Montgomery). Charles Peter. Heber Sommund. Sarah Maria (Mrs. Harrison, deceased). Daniel (also deceased)
 ANNA OLSON FJELD the daughter of Andrew Olson and Christi Johanson, was born in Ostegoard, Warmeland, Sweden, April 17, 1825. Her father was a tiller of the soil and a highly respected citizen of the little community and while the family did not live in luxury, by thrift and industry they were able to secure the common necessities of life.
As there were no schools in the country, the children were deprived the opportunities of book learning, but instead were taught to do all things necessary for their own sustenance and comfort. In this way Anna was taught to card, spin, knit, weave, sew, and make butter and cheese.
At the age of twenty-six she went to Fredrickstad, Norway, to weave, and continued this occupation with occasional visits home in the winter for eight years. The second year of her stay in Fredrickstad she lived with the family of Emil Larson, who were Mormons, and a number of Mormon elders were also boarding there. At first she was very much prejudiced against this sect but after coming in contact with them and seeing their manner of living she began an earnest investigation, with the result that she was thoroughly convinced of the truth of the gospel as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and in October, 1852, she was baptized by John Johanson. In speaking of this event she says: "I felt very happy in the knowledge that I had accepted the everlasting gospel and about a month after my baptism determined to go home and tell my mother and brothers the wonderful news that the gospel which Jesus taught had been restored in our day. To my surprise and sorrow my folks became very bitter in their feelings toward me and even my dear old mother, who was rather hasty tempered, threatened to strike me with a stick for saying my prayers. My brothers, after trying in vain to convince me that I was wrong, took me to the priest but he would have nothing to do with me, so I was taken to the Provost. The Provost and I had a long discussion, but as I had studied the Bible considerably, I was able to defend myself on every point. He finally told me I had better go to the Mormons, as he was sure that I was lost. My brother, who was with me and heard the discussion, wept bitterly.
In 1860 Anna emigrated to Utah in the same company as Carl J. E. Fjeld, whom she afterward married. She came to Lehi in 1862 and immediately commenced weaving for a livelihood. Times were hard and the people were poor, but clothing being one of the absolute necessities, she was able to get sufficient employment to maintain herself and
only son without being a burden to her husband. She was very devoted to her religion and lived the life of a true and faithful Latter-day Saint to the time of her death, which occurred August 8, 1903.
ANDREW FJELD. the youngest child of Carl J. E. Fjeld and the only child of Anna Olson Fjeld who grew to maturity, was born in Lehi, May 30, 1866. He received his education in the public schools of the city, and as a means of earning a livelihood, learned the mason trade, at which he has labored most of the time.
As a young man, he took an active part in church work, occupying the positions of counselor to Michael Vaughan, president of the priests' quorum, and later holding the office of president of the quorum with Andrew Peterson and Walter Webb as counselors.
In the Y. M. M. I. A. he at various times held the office of treasurer, counselor to Abel John Evans, and president of the association.
He was a teacher in the Sunday School for some time and on January 9, 1893, became a member of the first class to take the Sunday School course in the B. Y. University at Provo, which consisted of five weeks. The following year the course was extended to twenty weeks, when he was again called to attend the University. On his return he introduced the new ideas and methods into the Sunday School and was called November 18, 1894, to succeed William Yates as the superintendent of the school, with James Kirkham and Joseph S. Broadbent as assistants.
Being called to Australia on a mission, he was released from the Sunday School January 9, 1899, and set sail from San Francisco on the 26th of the month, landing in Sydney, Australia, February 19, 1899. He labored as traveling elder in the New South Wales Conference for thirteen months and as president of the Queensland Conference until November 28, 1900, when he was called by President Lorenzo Snow to preside over the Australian Mission. In this capacity he visited all the principal cities of Australia and Tasmania and was relieved by James Duckworth, who had  come to preside over the mission, August 4, 1901. He set sail from Sydney, Australia, on the steamship Ventura August 13, 1901, calling en route at Auckland, Pago Pago, and Honolulu, landing in San Francisco, where he was met by his wife and her father and mother September 3, 1901, arriving in Lehi on the thirteenth of the month.
He was ordained a president of seventy in the 68th quorum September 21, 1902. and on the 23rd of the following November was set apart as Second Counselor to Bishop Thomas R. Cutler. Upon the division of the Lehi Ward December 20, 1903, he was ordained a bishop and set apart to preside over the First Ward with Robert John Whipple and George Schow as counselors, which position he still holds.
He was a member of the School Board for one term, is a member of the Lehi Pioneer Committee and one of the promoters of the History of Lehi.
On the 19th of February, 1890, he married Eliza Ann Broadbent, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Dixon Broadbent, born August 17, 1870. When family cares will permit, she delights in attending to church duties and for some years was an active Relief Society teacher. She is the mother of nine children, seven of whom are living, as follows: Virgil Andrew, Wilford Carl, Leona Sarah, Edna Amanda, June, Allan Edward, and Velma.
WILLIAM FOTHERINGHAM, a patriarch and a veteran elder in the Church, was born April 5, 1826, at Clackmannan, Scotland, the son of John Fotheringham and Charlotte Gentle. He was baptized in the fall of 1847 by Elder John Sharp, ordained a teacher March 19, 1848, by Elder William Gibson; ordained a seventy in the winter of 1849 1850, by Joseph Young; ordained a high priest December 3, 1870, by Jehu Blackburn; ordained a bishop, in 1877, by Apostle Erastus Snow, to act as bishop's agent in Beaver stake; and ordained a patriarch January 22, 1905, by Francis M. Lyman.
He was one of the first settlers of Lehi, Utah County, locating there in 1850, and in the spring of 1852 he accompanied President Brigham Young on an exploring tour through Utah, Juab, Sanpete, Millard, Beaver, and Iron Counties. In 1852-1855 he filled a mission to India, during which time he traveled more extensively than any other elder who has ever performed missionary labor for the church in that country. He traveled 2,200 miles in a bullock wagon, and went as far inland as the Himalaya mountains. In the province of Orissa he resided six months close to the Temple of Juggernaut. After his return to Utah he accompanied President Brigham Young on an exploring expedition to Salmon River (now in Idaho), and the following winter participated in the Echo Canyon campaign.
In the spring of 1861 he left Salt Lake City for his second mission, this time to South Africa. In crossing the plains he assisted Captain Ira Eldredge in taking charge of fifty wagons to the Missouri River, and was ninety-nine days making the voyage from London, England, to Capetown, South Africa. He presided over the mission until 1864, when he returned to Utah. At the Missouri River he assisted in the immigration of the Saints and acted as assistant captain to Warren S. Snow in leading the last company of the season (84 wagons) to Zion. The trip was a severe one, as nearly all the teamsters were inexperienced in handling oxen.
Since Elder Fotheringham became a member of the church, he has proven to be true and faithful to the cause of Christ. Over forty years of his life he spent as a zealous Sunday School worker, with the exception of a few months, being Sunday School superintendent forty years. He labored considerably as a home missionary, and held a mission to the St. George Temple from the Beaver Stake as an ordinance worker for four years, and in addition acted as a member of the high council, and as first counselor in the presidency of the Beaver stake.
Of civil offices he has held quite a number, having acted as alderman of Lehi City, mayor of Beaver City, probate clerk of Beaver County for sixteen years, a justice of the peace of Beaver precinct, and has been a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature from Beaver and adjacent counties. In his youth he learned the trade of ship carpenter, and after his arrival in Utah he helped to build the old tithing office in Salt Lake City, together with other buildings.
He married his first wife in April, 1856, a second wife May 25, 1857, and a third wife October 10, 1865. By these three wives he has had thirty children, eighteen sons and twelve daughters. Elder Fotheringham departed this life on February 27, 1913, having proved himself staunch and true to his God, to his family, to his friends, and left behind memories worthy to cherish.
JAMES H. GARDNER. One of the chief reasons why Utah has today so many men of initiative and ability to lead is that by force of circumstances they were early thrown on their own resources and compelled by an unkind fortune to develop that supreme valuable quality-self-reliance. Responsibility is an effective teacher and the responsibility of shifting for one's self quickly brings into being any valuable attributes of character hitherto lurking under the surface.
When James Hamilton Gardner was born, on July 27, 1859, at Mill Creek, Salt Lake County, Utah, he was thrown into conditions which, while seemingly hard, were only those common to the times, and which have been so productive of the best types of Utah manhood. His father, Archibald Gardner, a pioneer of 1847, and that time Bishop of the West Jordan Ward, was that kind of man Brigham Young liked to have around him-a natural leader of men, resourceful, energetic, able to cope with new conditions, and a developer of new enterprises. His work left him little time to spend with his children, so that James H. was compelled to depend largely upon himself, living alternately with his mother, Sarah Hamilton Gardner, and his grandfather, James L. Hamilton.
Like most others of that period, he had little opportunity for education, his entire school life consisting of six winters in the grades. The rest of the time was spent working on the farm and, when he had reached young manhood, in the lumber camps.
In 1880, when James H. was 21 years old, he accepted a call for a mission to Hawaii. Here in the "garden spot of the world" he spent the next three and one-half years, and here it was also that perhaps the turning point of his life occurred. Arriving on the island just when the sugar boiler on the church plantation was about to return home, he was assigned to work in the cane sugar mill, much to his regret-then. While here he became a thorough master of the art of boiling sugar, although most of his time was spent in traveling among the natives.
In 1884 he returned to Utah and again took up his work on the farm, obtaining employment wherever possible. On October 18, 1886, he was married to Rhoda Priscilla Huffaker. From this union have come nine children, four boys and five girls. Shortly after their marriage, James H. and his wife decided to take advantage of the available government lands in Idaho, so leaving their old home in Utah, they homesteaded a quarter section of land at Willow Creek (now Elva), near Idaho Falls. The struggle to subdue this new country was a severe cue, requiring to its fullest the pioneer spirit of perseverance and determination. He had no more than brought the land into some stage of cultivation than other events occurred which altered the course of his life completely.
In 1890 the Lehi sugar factory was built and immediately there arose the necessity of obtaining workmen to run it, and especially men of some experience in the industry. Among other applications received was one from James H. Gardner of Idaho, who stated that he had previously boiled sugar in Hawaii. He was at once told to report at Lehi, a summons which he gladly followed, and during the first campaign was one of the sugar boilers. In 1892 he moved his family to Lehi, where they have since resided.
From its beginning until the present, James H. Gardner has been a faithful employee of the Utah Sugar Company. After the first campaign, he was made night foreman and, in a few years, general foreman. Finally, when Hy A. Vallez resigned from the position, he was designated superintendent of the Lehi factory. Since that time he has received still another promotion, having been made General Consulting Superintendent. He still holds this position and in addition is a member of the Technical Board which controls the operation of the plants. His record as a sugar maker is an enviable one. His long experience, his ability to handle men, his excellent judgment have won him not
only the confidence of the sugar company which employs him, but also a professional reputation in other states-a reputation which has brought him several lucrative offers from other companies in various parts of the United States. But he has preferred to remain in his native Commonwealth.
Since his residence in Lehi, James H. has given a large part of his time and talents to the work of public service. Interested in the development and betterment of the city, he has endeavored to aid every worthy movement to the extent of his power. He has served the people in the City Council one term and also as a Commissioner of Utah County. Profoundly interested in education, he was at one time a member of the School Board and has ever been an earnest supporter of Lehi's schools. He was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Commercial Club and has since been its president. His public work has also taken the form of helping to establish new enterprises in Lehi. His first venture in this line was that of a director in the Lehi Mercantile Company - now closed. He was also one of the originators of the Lehi Roller Mills and the State Bank of Lehi, being still a director of the latter institution and of the Bank of American Fork. Of late years he has developed a large section of land west of the Jordan River, in dry-farming, fruit-raising, and stock-raising.
In 1903, when the Lehi Ward was divided, James H. Gardner was chosen Bishop of the Second Ward, a position which he still holds.
 RHODA P. H. GARDNER. Simpson D. Huffaker was a pioneer of 1847 who lived with his wife. Rhoda P. Barnum, in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake County. To them was born December 30, 1865, a daughter, whom they named Rhoda Priscilla. Her mother soon dying, Rhoda was given to the care of Lauretta Palmer Barnum, her grandmother. With this good woman she spent her girlhood and young womanhood in Peoa, Summit County, Utah. Here she received a common school education and later worked a number of years in the Peoa Co-op.
On October 15, 1886, Rhoda was married to James H. Gardner in Logan. For one year they made their home in Salt Lake County and then braved a new country in Idaho. With her husband she helped to bring under cultivation the quarter section of government land upon which he had filed, undergoing all the hardships and inconveniences incident to a pioneer country.
In 1892 the family moved to Lehi, which has since been their home. Mrs. Gardner has here reared a family of nine children, which alone is sufficient to show that her life has been a busy one. But outside of her family cares she has found time to participate in the various activities of her sex. In Idaho she was secretary of the Relief Society and first counselor in the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. When the Lehi Second Ward was formed, she was made second counselor in the Relief Society, a position she still holds.
WILLIAM GOATES. born at Wimpolc, Cambridgeshire, England. May 11, 1817, was the son of James Goates and Ann Dockery. He spent his boyhood days working with his father, who was a professional gardener. The beauties of nature soon appealed to him, and he loved the trees and flowers and soon became an expert in their care and cultivation. He was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints December, 1840, by Elder William Pierce and was sent the same day to Cambridge to preach. By his undaunted faith and zealous labors he was successful in establishing the first branch of the church at Cambridge, under the direction of the Bedford conference president, over which he was appointed to preside. Through his earnest labors and untiring efforts, Cambridgeshire afterwards became a conference.
In 1840 he married Susan Larkin, a daughter of Thomas Larkin and Ann Rayner. They always made their home a home for the elders; and bade them welcome there. He emigrated to Utah, sailing from Liverpool, England, Tuesday, February 10, 1852, with his wife and three children in the ship "Ellen Maria," with a company of 369 Saints.
After eight weeks at sea they arrived at New Orleans. They then went to Saint Louis en route to Utah, crossing the plains in Captain A. O. Smoot's company of 31 wagons, and arriving in Salt Lake City September 3, 1852. About two weeks later he settled in Lehi with his family, consisting of his wife, Susan, and daughters, Sarah Ann, Martha, and son Joseph W., his daughter Mary having died before they left their home in England. In April, 1857, he married a plural wife, Rebecca Pilgrim, daughter of Samuel Pilgrim and Betsy Coote, a survivor of Captain Willie's hand cart company of 1856.
His early life in Lehi was a struggle with the sterile soil. He acquired land by homestead and purchase and his busy hands began to build and to cultivate. He became extensively engaged in farming and stock raising, and was one of the first to import bees into Lehi. Hereafter he was long engaged in the bee and honey industry. He loved the flowers and trees and was the pioneer floriculturist and nurseryman of the town, his trees and flowers being shipped to many parts of the country.
The industrial matters of the people always interested him and he was an ardent advocate of their enterprises, helping and encouraging them whenever he found an opportunity to assist.
In 1867 his wife, Susan, died, and was buried in Lehi. She had stood faithfully by him in all the trials of pioneer life, encouraging and helping him in all that he undertook to do. She never complained, but was his source of comfort and encouragement, and contributed much to his success, He was a man of unblemished character. His sterling honesty was proverbial, his faith immovable and his self-control truly astonishing.
He was always active and faithful in church matters, and honorably filled the positions mentioned below: President of the first elders' quorum in Lehi; he was ordained a high priest and set apart as first counselor to Bishop Evans April 4, 1877, and was afterwards appointed to preside over the Lehi branch of the high priests' quorum in the Utah Stake of Zion. He was elected City Councilman of Lehi City February 8, 1875, and served during the years 1875-1876. He was a public-spirited man and passed cheerfully through all the hardships and privations of the early settlers. He was a builder in very deed, his busy hands leaving many traces of their work both on the farm, in the garden, and in the orchard. He did special guard duty against the depredations of the Indians, helped build the "Old Fort Wall." and assisted in the early irrigation projects and road building.
His unflinching devotion to that which he believed to be right and just won for him a host of friends who were always welcomed to his home. Here he spent his declining years engaged in the life-loved work of his boyhood days, enjoying the labor of his own hands in his well cultivated garden of flowers and trees, He died Wednesday at 5:50 p. m., October 23, 1895, of general debility. Beloved by all, he passed to the world beyond with the honors of a busy, well spent life upon him. He was the father of the following children: Mary, Sarah Ann, Martha. Joseph W.. James T., John, William, and George H. His descendants number 408 souls.
 REBECCA PILGRIM GOATES. daughter of Samuel Pilgrim and Betsy Coote, was born at William Read's Farm, Madingly Road, Jiles Parish, Cambridge, England, January 1, 1826. When she was sixteen years of age her father died, leaving her mother with eight children. Being the oldest girl, she aided very materially in supporting the family.
In 1853 she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This brought upon her much opposition from her family and friends, but she was un-daunted and fearless in her convictions and though persecuted and scorned, she remained faithful and true. In 1856 on the fourth day of May, she left her native home and friends and emigrated to Utah, sailing on the ship "Thornton" with a company in care of Elder Levi Savage, arriving at New York June 14, 1856. She joined Captain James G. Willie's hand cart company, numbering about five hundred, which left Iowa City July 15, 1856. with 120 hand carts and six wagons. She pulled a hand cart 1.400 miles through valleys and over the plains and mountains. The terrible privations of her company and the sufferings they endured during the trip are a matter of record.
A recital of the sad story of the hand cart company disaster always filled her heart with pride and thanksgiving at the thoughts that she had passed through such hardships for the cause which she embraced and loved so much. She arrived at Salt Lake City, November 9, 1856, after great suffering from scarcity of provisions, cold, and over exertion in the mountains, many of the company having perished during the trip. She remained in Salt Lake City about one week and then came to Lehi.
In April, 1857, she married William Goates. The remainder of her life was lovingly devoted to assisting him in all he under-took to do. She took the place of a mother and cared for his motherless children; she was devoted and faithful, and although she never became a mother, she was indeed a mother to the motherless. She was kind, sympathetic and generous, always ready to aid those in need, and was ever busy looking after the welfare of others. She possessed a remarkably strong constitution, which took considerable time to wear away, but was finally called to a well earned rest, after having been confined to her bed two weeks, suffering of general debility. She passed peacefully to the Great Beyond, at 12:30 a. m., April 18, 1909. Her honored career was closed in full faith and fellowship in the cause for which she so long had suffered, at the age of 83 years, 3 months, and 17 days.
ISAAC GOODWIN. a descendant of Ozias Goodwin, who came to America from England and settled in Connecticut in 1632, was born June 18, 1810, in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut. He married Laura Hotchkiss February 2, 1833, from which union seven children were born, four boys and three girls: Isaac, Lewis, Edwin A., Albert S., Emmerett E. (Coons), Nancy (Evans), and Lucinda (Bushman).
Isaac Goodwin and family embraced the faith of the Latter-day Saints in the year 1844. Two years later in company with other Saints they concluded to go west and took passage at New York on the sailing vessel "Brooklyn," her destination being California. Leaving New York on February 4, 1846, they sailed around Cape Horn at the southern extremity of South America, which point they passed in the latter part of April, finally landing at San Francisco on July 24, 1846. the voyage consuming a little less than six months. At the beginning of the voyage, Mrs. Goodwin met with an accident and being in delicate health, never recovered from the shock, passing away on May 6, 1846, shortly after the ship had rounded Cape Horn. She was buried on Goat Island, one of the Juan Fernandes Group, (Robinson Crusoe's famed islands).
Isaac Goodwin and children lived for some time at San Francisco and later moved to San Bernardino, where he met and married on December 22, 1855, Mary Cox of New Haven, England, who received the gospel on January 10, 1850, and emigrated to America, coming overland to Utah with Charles C. Rich's company and then going on to California. No children were born of this union. Mary Cox Goodwin died December 13, 1898, at Lehi, Utah.
After living at San Bernardino for several years, they decided to move to Utah, traveling the southern route, making a short stay in "Dixie," also in one or two other places, and finally settling in Lehi in 1859.
Isaac Goodwin was the first to introduce alfalfa (lucern) in Utah, the hay from which has been such an important factor in the agriculture of this State. He was elected mayor of Lehi City on February 13, 1865; was appointed mayor on October 31, 1874, to fill the vacancy made by William H. Winn, who resigned; was again elected mayor on February 8, 1875; and filled the office with honor and fidelity on each occasion.
He held many other positions of trust, both secular and religious. In 1872 he went on a mission to the Eastern States. Isaac Goodwin died April 25, 1879, Lehi, Utah.
 ISAAC H. GOODWIN. was born August 25, 1834, at New Haven, Connecticut. He died at Thurber, Wayne County, Utah, April 6, 1891, a faithful member of the L. D. S. Church. He is survived by his wife and four sons-and many grandchildren, in addition to two great-grandsons. He moved to Smithfield, Cache Valley, in 1862, and was a pioneer there for fourteen years. He then moved south to Escalante in 1876. again a pioneer. The next move was to Thurber in 1883, where he died in 1891. He was a good frontiersman, building his own houses, and working his own farm and garden.
 BETSY SMITH GOODWIN. Was born on March 7, 1843, at Dundee, Scotland, the daughter of Alexander Nichol Smith and May McEwan Smith. She emigrated with her widowed mother and family in 1856. crossing the plains with J. G. Willie's hand cart company. Robert Angus Bain, also a Lehi pioneer, son and brother, met the family at Green river, and brought them to Lehi, arriving November 11.
In Lehi they received kindness and sympathy from Bishop Evans and the good people of the city. Betsy married Isaac H. Goodwin, eldest son of Isaac R. and Laura Hotchkiss Goodwin, on December 1, 1859. Nine children, seven sons and two daughters, blessed their home. She was president of the Relief Society eight years.
 JAMES GOUGH was born January 14, 1840, in Clifford. Herefordshire, England. He was the second child and oldest son of James Gough and Ellenor Jones Gough. When he was seven years old, his parents moved to Monmouthshire, Wales.
He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints November 19, 1857, by Thomas Morgan and confirmed by David Howells. He was ordained to all the offices in the Aaronic priesthood and later sent out as a traveling elder, which lasted for one year and seven months, after which he was called to preside over the Bryn Mawr Branch.
Mr. Gough left Wales for Utah April 26, 1862, and was five weeks and three days on the sea. He walked all the way from Florence across the plains to Salt Lake City in Captain Harmon's company, where he arrived October 4, 1862, taking six months to make the journey. He was met in Salt Lake City a few days after his arrival by his old friend Joseph J. H. Colledge, who had presided over the conference in which Gough had labored as traveling elder. With his old friend he came to Lehi.
On October 17, 1863, he married Charlotte Crocket, to whom he had been engaged in England. She came to Utah in October, 1863. They have lived in Lehi continuously, Mr. Gough working in the mines, on the railroad, and at farming.
 Mr. Gough's public work has been in the church, to which he has always been very devoted. At the time of his departure for Utah, a number of the Saints of the branch over which he presided also emigrated to Zion. These looked to him as their leader during the entire journey.
Since coming to Utah, he has held the positions of seventy and high priest. He has been a Sunday School teacher almost all the time and also a block teacher, which position he still holds. Mr. Gough moved "over the creek" in 1868. being the first one to locate in that district and has been one of the main pillars of the church in this part of the community.
CHARLOTTE CROCKET GOUGH. was the daughter of William and Ann Williams Crocket and was born April 25, 1840, in Victoria, Monmouthshire, Wales. She joined the church in 1857. She is the mother of eleven children, as follows: Mary Ann (Mrs. Soren Sorensen), Lavina (Mrs. Moroni Thayne), James Charles. Ellen (Mrs. James Carter), William, Richard, Harriett (Mrs. Thomas Taylor), Samuel, Thomas Ephraim, Charlotte (Mrs. William Hadfield), and Robert.
WILLIAM GURNEY. was born in Bedfordshire, England, August 8, 1834, the son of John and Mary Bales Gurney. His mother died when he was ten years of age. He was then taken care of by a loving sister. At the age of fifteen he first heard the gospel of Jesus Christ and soon accepted the same and was baptized March 1, 1853, by Daniel Mathews.
He emigrated from England April 8, 1854, on the ship "Marshfield," landing at New Orleans May 28, 1854, and continuing his journey up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. There was much sickness among the Saints, which caused considerable delay, but he finally reached Salt Lake City October 22, 1854, where he remained for some time.
He came to Lehi in the spring of 1855. After remaining in Lehi about four years, he became acquainted with Miss Julia Jeans, whom he married, and to them were born eleven children to gladden their home.
He was a valiant worker in the cause of truth, at all times laboring in the Sabbath School from its earliest organization until the time of his death. He worked in connection with William Yates in the acting teachers' quorum for many years, and was its president at the time of his death; he was also one of the senior presidents of the Sixty-eighth quorum of seventies, where he gained the love and respect of his brethren.
He died March 25, 1905, after a long and useful life. He was the husband of three wives; and the father of nineteen children. He has in the year 1913, 67 living descendants: 11 children, 44 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren; 8 children, 10 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren having passed to the Great Beyond.
 WILLIAM HADFIELD, second son and third child of Samuel Hadfield and Alice Baker, was born at Provo, Utah, June 3. 1880. where he resided until 1889. Being left an orphan, he came to live in Lehi in December, 1889, with T. R. Jones. He was baptized in 1890 by A. M. Fox, ordained a deacon by W. W. Clark, and ordained an elder by Edward Southwick in June, 1902.
He filled a mission to the Eastern States from October, 1902, to December, 1904, and was president of the New York conference for five months. He was superintendent of the Third Ward Sunday School from 1904 to 1910, when he was chosen second counselor in the Bishopric of Lehi Third Ward. He was ordained a seventy by J. G. Kimball in 1906. He married Charlotte Gough June 28, 1905, in the Salt Lake Temple. Mr. Hadfield was the first and only Mormon to represent Utah at the national convention of mail carriers September 16 to 19, 1913, at Evansville, Indiana.
HANS HAMMER. was born in Bornholm, Denmark, October 11. 1829, and is the son of Hans and Ane Anderson Hammer. He grew to manhood in his native place and there received his education and was married.
In 1853 he became converted to the teachings of the Mormon Church and with his family emigrated to America, reaching Salt Lake City in 1854. and there made his home for the next five years, working part of the time on the Temple and doing anything he could find to make a living for himself and family.
He moved to Lehi in 1858, taking up a farm and has since made this place his home. For a number of years he was engaged in peddling, mostly among the soldiers; he also conducted a small store for a time. In 1871 he commenced the livery business, being the pioneer livery man of Lehi. He also went into the hotel business on a small scale, all of which he conducted with success.. The livery business has continued to grow from year to year, and at present it is the leading livery stable of the town.
Mr. Hammer was married in his native land in 1853 to Miss Julane Marie Reese, who bore him eight children, three of whom are now living-George, Margaret (Mrs. Edward F. Cox), and Aldora (Mrs. Henry Ashton). The mother of these children died March 28. 1867, and on the 26th of the following October Mr. Hammer married Miss Anne Christine Orego, by whom he had seven children of whom Joseph is the only one living.
Mr. Hammer was an industrious citizen and in common with the pioneers of Lehi passed through the hard times of early days and lived to become a thriving business man of the community, he died September 15, 1905
 ANNE CHRISTINE OREGO HAMMER. the wife of Hans Hammer, was born August 6, 1839, in Puerdal, Denmark. Her parents, Christian Larsen Orego and Marie Petersen, were farmer folk living on the shore of the North Sea. At the age of six she lost her father.
On the 17th of January, 1864, she was baptized a member of the Mormon Church, two years later emigrating to America, arriving in Utah September, 1866. Mrs. Hammer was a young woman of twenty-seven years of age when she crossed the plains and she walked the entire distance from Omaha City to West Weber, where she stayed for six months with William Cluff. During the summer of 1867 she was working in Salt Lake City for a family of Jews. While here some of her friends in Lehi prevailed on Mr. Hammer, who was a widower, to call on her, which he did with the result that she was persuaded to make Lehi her future home, being married to Mr. Hammer October 26, 1867.
At this time Mr. Hammer had a family of small children, times were hard and pioneer conditions prevailed, yet the subject of our sketch set bravely to work to make conditions better and help her husband rear his family. In time seven children blessed this union, but sad to relate only one is now living, Joseph, who with George, the son of the first wife, is conducting the business left them by their father.
Mrs. Hammer has ever been an industrious and faithful wife and mother, a good neighbor, and a devoted Latter-day Saint. For thirty-two years she has been an active Relief Society teacher and is still engaged in the work.
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