Weston celebrates 88th anniversary with town history
A Weston retrospective outlines early settlement by log fort builders under LDS leadership, land grants, irrigation from Weston Creek begun 1865, and the 1884 Weston Reservoir. It notes development of water and public services, first meeting house, mills, a stage mail route, railway shifts, postmasters, early medical care, and the Preston brothers store establishment in 1890.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Maughan
Weston
Weston Creek
Big Canyon
Weston City
William Gill
Ferdinand Fredrickson
James Mack
Logan
U. and N
Oregon Short Line
U, and N
Preston
Oxford
Battle Creek
Union Pacific
Pocatello
Salt Lake City
William Preston
Thomas Preston
William Chatterton
Priscilla Hoopes
John A. Kofoed
Lorenzo Robbins
Peter D. Maughan
Preston Brothers Company
Weston Village History and Local Family Notes Chronicle
The article traces Weston’s 1903 incorporation and the first village board led by John Clark and others, details the evolution of the grade and high school buildings from 1892 to 1945, and notes the 1950 move to West Side High in Dayton after the 1945 fire. It recounts the 1868 meeting-house origins, later chapels and wards, and lists several local families and residents connected to Clifton, Ogden, Layton, Preston, and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Robinson
Weston Village
John Clark
Thomas Preston
Otto Gassman
P.” J. Sanberg
Adam
Campbell
John’.A. Kofoed
Dayton
Weston
Clifton High School
West Side High School
Ward
Lincoln Ward MIA presents three act play Dont Darken This Door
Dayton area reports bake weekend visits by Knudsons Archibalds and Phillips as families travel for Easter and church events. Linrose MIA staged the three act comedy with Dean Bingham Ranae Poulsen Phillip Nash Leona Adams Joyce Tanner Carla Bingham Janet Davis and Geralene Hobbs. Glen Sparrow directed with Arthur Stevenson as assistant. Other locals joined trips to Logan Layton Salt Lake Downey and Preston for conferences hospital visits and family gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Knudson
Salt Lake City
Lilian Knudson
Marilyn
Joan Archibald
Smithfield
Gladys Bingham
Dayton Ward
Linrose Mia
Dean Bingham
Ranae Poulsen
Phillip Nash
Leona Adams
Joyce Tanner
Carla Bingham
Janet Davis
Geralene Hobbs
Glen Sparrow
Arthur Stevenson
Kenna Bergeson
Logan
Shell Raymond
Lds Hospital
Fred Smith
Maurene Hollingsworth
Randy Howell
Clifton
Garth Archibald
Bruce
Laura Archibald
Murray
DeAnn
Wellsville
Virgil Archibald
Downey
Allen M. ‘Archibald
Mattie
Atkinson Sand
Polly Taylor
Preston
Sam Atkinson
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Seven-Up Bottling CO
Martin
West Oneida
Hone
Preston, Idaho
Ilies
Bester Frew
Jack Platt
Eva Jean
Salt Lake
Nellie Atkinson
Don Gould
Ogden
Ispend E
Clarence Nelson
sLuWayne Olsen
Mackay
S. G. Crookston
Berk Galloway
Layton
Paul
Noel
Korea
Japan
Scott Sorenson
William Taylor
Payette
James Phillips
Floyd Thornley
Brian
Ellis Phillips
Kathy
Garland
Allen Atkinson
Gary Atkingson
Reed Olsen
Marzella Archipald
Myrtle Eck
Rebecca Nelson
Ma Jones
Mary Jones
Emma _ Shepherd
Edna Hulse
Lola Shepherd
Margaret Nelson
Myrtle Bowden
Cora Aston
Norma Rodrero
Edith Murray
Lillian’ Knudson
Hans Nelson
Garnard Keller
Chenowith
Wash
Cliff Keller
Jerome Keller
Idaho Falls
Orilla Neymire
Leonard Nelson
Ollie Jean
Josephine Keller
Orson Nelson
Lester Call
Claudia Gould
Linda Call
Jack L. Christensen
San Diego Naval Hospital
Ogden 19Th Ward
Joyce Gould
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