1893 Hyrum Bennion Cabinet Card Pioneer Utah Son Of Samuel Bennion Mormon LDS For Sale

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1893 Hyrum Bennion Cabinet Card Pioneer Utah Son Of Samuel Bennion Mormon LDS:
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Hyrum Bennion, son of Samuel and Mary Bushell Ben

nion, was born January 13, 1847,at Garden Grove, Iowa, at

which place his parents, his uncle, John Bennion and family

and his grandfather, John Bennion, were spending the winter of

1846-47 while on their journey from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Utah.

He was therefore a mere babe in arms when he reached the

Salt Lake Valley in October, 1847, but it was always a matter

of pleasure and pride to him that he was entitled to recognition

as one of the pioneers of the Beehive state. But babes in those

days were not permitted to remain long as such. Within a

very few years he was called upon to share with his brothers

and cousins in the care and handling of the sheep and other

livestock that had come into the hands of Samuel and John

Bennion by reason of their settlement on the west side of the

Jordan River, to which location they moved January 9, 1849.

When the little colony of Bennions, Harkers and others,

having finally made permanent settlement of Taylorsville

and later gathered up and built for themselves what became

known as English Fort, adjoining Taylorsville cemetery, a

school was established in the home of John Taylor with David

0. Calder as teacher, and there Hyrum first became a school

boy, being in the year 1854. Later he attended school held in

the home of his uncle, John Bennion, whose wife Esther A. was

the teacher. Other very crude and meager school facilities

were available to him for about three months of the year for a

time, the other nine months of each year being spent in caring

for livestock, working in garden and on farm. He also remem

bers participating in the "Grasshopper War," in the course of

which he assisted in driving these insect pests into trenches in

which grass and straw had been placed and then fired.

As he grew to manhood his time and attention were given

largely to the care of his father's livestock interests (in which

he gradually acquired part ownership) same having been trans96

ferred to Rush Valley, Tooele county, in August, 1863. During

these years his life was spent largelyin the saddleand he became

an expert horseman, resourceful and competent in the manage

ment of business affairs, a good judge of human nature, and

otherwise qualified to meet and carry on in the everyday affairs

of life.

His early married life was spent at Vernon, near the old

ranch home in Rush Valley, his entire time being occupied in

the care of the sheep, cattle and horses belonging to the Bennion

families, such livestock having by this time so increased in

numbers that it became necessary, in 1875, to find a new range,

at least for the cattle. Same was found in the south end of

Castle Valley, now Emery county, whither the herd, now num

bering over five hundred head, was moved that year and left

in charge of Thomas Simpers and Israel Bennion.

That same year Hyrum moved his family to Taylorsville,

built him a four roomed brick house on land bought of

Robert Pixton,and soon enlarged his holdings to a point that

demanded much of his time in farming operations, although he

still gave some of it to the cattle in Castle Valley and to his

sheep, which it also soon became necessary to remove from

Rush Valley. Range was found for them in summer on the

Sanpete mountain, returning to the west desert for winter, for

a number of years, and later in Wyoming.

In 1880, in partnership with his father and his cousin

Samuel R. Bennion, he became part owner in the flour mill built

by the pioneer mill builder Archibald Gardner and located on

the Jordan River at Taylorsville. He became president and

manager of the company and finally bought out all other in

terest and organized the Hyrum Bennion and Sons Company,

built a new milling plant and elevator at Murray to take the

place of the old mill on the river, same having been destroyed

by fire, also another mill at Ririe, Idaho. During the later

years of his life his activities and interests became centered

largely in this milling business, although in 1881 he, his father,

his cousin Samuel R., his brother John R., and others also organ

ized and operated a mercantile business at Taylorsville, known

as the Taylorsville Co-op. In 1909 this was purchased by the

Hyrum Bennion and Sons Company and continued as such un

til 1924, when it was consolidated with the J. S. Lindsay Mer

cantile Co. and became known as Taylorsville Mercantile Co.,

under the management of his son Joseph S. Bennion. He took a

prominent part in the establishment and organization of irri

gation companies and at the time of his death was president

of the North Jordan Irrigation Co.

Hyrum Bennion was always an active and energetic worker

in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a young

man he was the first president of the Taylorsville Young Men's

Mutual Improvement association and in 1879 and '80 he filled

a very satisfactorily and creditable mission to Great Britain,

laboring in the Bristol and Norwich Conferences. Six of his

sons have also filled missions. He served as one of the presidents

of the 14th quorum of seventy and later when the 115th

quorum was organized he was made senior president of same.

Later he was ordained a high priest in the Cottonwood stake.

In 1919 he moved to the Hawthorne ward, Granite stake,

where he became closely connected with ward affairs and con

tinued so until his death, which occurred at his home, No. 761

Harrison Avenue, Salt Lake City, at 6 o'clock on the morning

of October 14th, 1926. He was buried in the Bennion was a man of unswerving honor and in

tegrity, kindly and sympathetic in nature and disposition,

always cheerful and optimistic and always ready to get under

the load and lift when it became necessary to move it. The

writer remembers well, with gratitude and appreciation, how,

when traveling with him in the deserts and mountains, driving

cattle or otherwise and camping out without shelter, the weather

cold and stormy, he was always the builder of a roaring big fire,

always full of song and story, and always the cook to prepare a

steaming hot breakfast for the rest of the company.

On December 13th, 1869, Hyrum Bennion was married

to Eliza Ann Harker of Taylorsville, daughter of Joseph and

Eliza Smith Harker, thus bringing about a union of the Ben

nion and Harker families, so long and closely associated as

friends and neighbors in the settlement of "Over Jordan."

She was born August 25,1853. Having grown intowomanhood

under the hardships and emergencies of pioneer life in Utah,

Eliza Ann was well prepared to become the helpmeet of her

young husband and to give him great assistance in the building

up of a home and its environment and in meeting the difficul

ties and hardships of their continued pioneer life. She was

quiet, unassuming in her character and manner, and yet she

was always an ardent Church worker, full of charity and help

fulness and a friend to all with whom she came in contact.

She became mother of the following children:

Hyrum Jr.—born April 13, 1879; married Nellie J. North,

April 23, 1903.

Oscar J.—born Feb. 5,1882; married Isabelle Campbell,

Oct. 13,1904.

Ernest—born January 10, 1884; married Olive Graham,

July 1, 1902.

Joseph S.—born October 20, 1886; married Dora Goff,

March 26,1908; later Florence Hamilton, November 3,1921.

Eliza May—born September 21, 1890; married Harvey

Smith, Nov. 9, 1911; died Jan. 24, 1919.

Ruby—born May 19, 1893; married W. F. James, July

15,1915.

Robert I—born September 18, 1895; married Violet

Rosengreen, November 16, 1917.

On November 20,1871, Hyrum was also married to Mary

Karren of Lehi, Utah, a daughter of Thomas and Ann Ratliff

Karren, born January 20, 1852,who also became a great help

meet to her husband, a devoted wife and mother. She was

economical and patient in her association with the large and

growing family and carried bravely the trials incident to plural

marriage. She was wise incounsel with her children and friends

and spent much time among the sick and afflicted of the com

munity in which she lived. In later life she did much temple

work in- behalfof the members of her father's family. She also

became the mother of seven children, as follows:

Annabelle—born August 11, 1873; married Thomas D.

Wallace, June 17,1896.

Mary Eliza—born May 6,1876; married Noble D. Wallace,

March 7,1900.

Maida—born February 10,1879; married David Rishton,

June 19, 1901.

Samuel T.—born November 26, 1881; married Lorilla

Horn, June 27,1907.

David K.—born August 25, 1884; married Edith Goff,

June 19,1907; died September 26,1926.

Catherine—born February 6,1888; died February 18,1899.

Karren H.—born August 7, 1890; married Ethel Lane,

October 20,1915.

A unique and pleasing experience that resulted from the two

marriages of Hyrum Bennion and his wives, and one that

demonstrates very fully the life of love and good will that ob

tained among them, was the fact that on December 13, 1919,

there was held a golden wedding in the Taylorsville meeting

house celebrating the first of the two unions above mentioned.

At this gathering there were present not only the immediate

family of Hyrum Bennion but almost the entire neighborhood

of friends and relatives. It was an occasion on which there

was demonstrated feelings of love and good will among all

present that will never be forgotten. As a fitting climax to

such celebration there was also held on November 20, 1921, a

duplication of the original golden wedding in honor of his se

cond marriage, on which occasion there was a like gathering

of equal pleasure and good will, a like attendance of family and

friends.

1893 Hyrum Bennion Cabinet Card Pioneer Utah Son Of Samuel Bennion Mormon LDS

$75.00