If you find your ancestors included on these indexes please e-mail me with the name, the name of the book and the page number and I'll let you know what it says. My e-mail address is khamaker@emerytelcom.net.
Utah Historical Quarterly
Spring 1999/Volume 67/number 2
By Edward A Geary
The first paragraph in this book reads:
Utah history furnishes numerous examples of once prominent individuals whose reputations have been obscured by the passage of time and yet whose experiences and contributions are well worth remembering. Reuben G. Miller was such an individual: proprietor of the largest livestock operation in the Carbon-Emery county region, telecommunications entrepreneur, Price civic leader, and prominent local Mormon church official. His career also reflects a struggle against personal adversity and offers an interesting sidelight on the "peculiar instituion" of plural marriage.
This article was of particular interest to me because it answered two main questions that I have had. I live in the area called Miller Creek in Carbon County. Many people have asked me why it was called Miller Creek. The answer to this first question is found on page 127:
....The Miller brothers remained. In 1876 they had once again trailed their cattle to the Wasatch Plateau; that fall they established a permanent camp on what came to be known as Miller Creek and erected a log cabin that they called the Winter House. The following year they built the Summer House near a spring that still bears that name on the high benches of the Gordon Creek drainage.
The U.S. Fuel Company maintained a dairy that supplied dairy products to the people of Hiawatha. Question #2: Why was this dairy called Millerton Dairy?
page 138: Probably impelled in part by a perception that the era of the big livestock operation was coming to an end and in part by his growing involvement in other activities, Miller disposed of most of his livestock in 1905 and sold his Carbon County ranches the following year to N.L. Nielson, a sheepman based in Mount Pleasant. The Winter House headquarters ranch was resold in 1907, primarily for its water rights, to the company that was developing the Hiawatha mine. Subsequently known as the Millerton Ranch, it is still held by a successor company.
Thus Millerton Ranch becomes Millerton Dairy. So why was it named Millerton Ranch instead of Miller's Ranch? If anyone has any answers please e-mail Kathy Hamaker.
The following is a list of the names that appear in the article. If you are related to these individuals and would like to know what it says please e-mail Kathy Hamaker.
| Bennion, Hyrum.....126 Brinkerhoff, Alonzo Bishop.....143 Cassidy, Butch.....133 Chipman, William H.....127 Cluff, Gertrude.....146 Cowley, Matthias F.....140, 145 Crossland, Emma (Mills).....142 Daft, Sarah.....146 Davidson, Daniel......127 Erekson, Jonas.....126 Gardner, Archibald.....124 Gardner, Mary Jane.....124 Gardner, Robert Jr......124 Gentry, William.....127 Harmon, Levi N......145 Harmon, Levi.....138 Harmon, Oliver.....138 Hickman, G. F......141 Hyde, Orson.....125 Inglefield, Jim.....133 Kingsbury, Joseph T.....147 Lemmon, Lee.....127, 129, 144 Letts, Rhoda Ann.....124 | McCune (or McKeown), Jane.....124 McKay, David O......145 Miller, Anna Argene.....140 Miller, Byron.....133 Miller, Byron.....144 Miller, Clarence.....133, 142, 144 Miller, Gertrude.....132,134 Miller, James Robinson.....124-126 Miller, James Rex.....132, 134, 144 Miller, Melvin.....126, 128, 129 Miller, Milton.....133, 146 Miller, Reuben Gardner.....123-147 Miller, Reuben P.....124,126,128,129,131 Miller, Reuben.....124 Miller, Will.....131 Molen, Mike.....127 Moynier, Pierre.....138 Nelson, Lowry.....141 Nelson, Martha ("Mattie").....140 Nielson, N.L......138 | Palmer, Chloe.....141 Park, John R......147 Peterson, Charles S.....126 Pulsipher, Laura.....145 Rhoades, Frank.....131 Seely, Nephi.....127 Seely, Orange.....127 Seely, Wellington.....127 Smith, Joseph F. (President).....140 Smoot, Reed.....141 Starr, Al.....129 Starr, Alfred.....144 Starr, brothers.....127 Swasey, Brothers.....127 Taylor, John W......140 Thompson, Hannah.....140 Toronto, Joseph B......147 Walker, Joe.....133 Wardell, John.....144 Whitmore, J.M......136 Whitmore, James M. ("Tobe").....127 Winder, Anna Jane.....130, 131 Winder, John R......130, 140 Woolley, John.....142, 145 |