36 South 1200 East in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

The Charles F. and Hannah H. Loofbourow house was built in 1890. Charles moved to Utah in 1889 from Iowa where he had been a lawyer and district judge. In Salt Lake he was elected president of the Salt Lake City Council in 1892, and served on the committee in charge of constructing the Salt Lake City and County Building. When he died in 1904 his son, Frederick, moved into the house. Frederick served as assistant county attorney, district attorney, was appointed a district judge in 1911, and was elected to Congress in 1930. In addition to his political activities, he served on the board of education during the 1930s, was active in the Children’s Service Society, and was a language scholar and historian.

54 South 1200 East in the University Neighborhood Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

• mentioned in University Neighborhood Historic District:
  A look at the lives of many of the residents in the district (brief synopses with addresses and dates of the construction of the house are listed in Appendix A) reveals that the district was home to many prominent citizens involved in mining, business, politics and law, medicine, and teaching at the University of Utah. Their success indicates the prosperity that the city enjoyed during the period of significance c.1893-1945. In many instances their professions and civic activities indicate their desire to improve their community through more responsible government, improved education, and more opportunities for the general population. For example, Charles Loffbourow (54 South 1200 East) was a district attorney, a district judge, and a Congressman who also served on the board of education and volunteered for the Children’s Service Society. Frank Stephens (169 South 1300 East) was Salt Lake City Attorney and was instrumental in Salt Lake City’s adoption of the commission form of government. Dr. Leslie Paul (258 South Douglas) was a volunteer clinical faculty member at the University of Utah College of Medicine who helped establish the Intermountain Red Cross Blood Bank and served as commanding officer of a U.S. Army field hospital in Iran in 1944.

519 East Emerson Avenue in Liberty Wells Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

• mentioned in Liberty Wells Historic District:
  One hundred and forty-seven (147, or 8 percent) contributing buildings affiliated with this time period are present within the district. Most are single-family residential structures in variations of World War II Era Cottage and Ranch/Rambler forms. By the early 1950s, the small, World War II Era Cottage plan was extended, making it longer, and cross-gables and cross-gable bays were added to create early versions of the Ranch house form. As time progressed, the plan was extended even further and took on the trappings of the more typical tract house version of the Ranch/Rambler form established in California by Clifford May. A good example of post-war World War II Era Cottages in Wells can be seen in the 1950 residence at 519 East Emerson Avenue, while a good example of the tract house version of the Ranch/Rambler form can be seen in the 1955 house at 1636 South 200 East. Similar characteristics are seen in duplexes of the period, such as the 1948 property at 223-225 East Westminster Avenue.

950 South 1200 East in the Gilmer Park Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

• mentioned in Gilmer Park Historic District:
  Rockwood, Julius A. – 950 S. 1300 E. (1940-48); President of A.J. Rockwood Furniture

974 South 1200 East in the Gilmer Park Historic District in Salt Lake City, Utah

• mentions in Gilmer Park Historic District:
  Many Gilmer Park Historic District residents were politically influential. Wilson McCarthy, state senator, governmental appointee, and president of Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, lived at 974 South 1300 East between 1924-32. Elise F. Musser, state senator and governmental appointee, and her husband Burton W. Musser, state senator and attorney, resided at 1133 Harvard Avenue. Elise lived there until her death in 1967 and Burton lived there through the 1980s. Elizabeth P. Hayward, also politically active as a state legislator and with the Democratic National Committee, lived at 1140 Herbert Avenue between 1917-28. Finally, Herbert B. Maw, a former governor of Utah, lived at 1212 Yale Avenue between 1939-80s.
  
  also,
  Nelson, Marion C. – 974 S. 1300 E. (1932-56); Owner/President of Gillham Advertising Agency
  
  also,
  McCarthy, Wilson – 974 S. 1300 E. (1924-32); State Senator, Governmental Appointee, President of D.&R.G.W. Railroad

Captain Jefferson Hunt
CO. A Mormon Battalion
Soldier, Guide, Pioneer, Churchman, Builder
1804 -1879

This monument contains two plaques.

Leader of the largest party of ‘49ers from Salt Lake to California: guided first Mormon pioneer settlers to San Bernardino.

1851: Colonized Huntsville.
1860: Represented Weber County in Utah Territorial Legislature.
1863: Instrumental in planning Huntsville and valley irrigation; directed building of first school and meeting house; served as first branch president of Huntsville until 1865.

This plaque marks the town square of old Fort Hunt.”

Note: Jefferson Hunt was converted to Mormonism in 1834. Migrating with the Mormons, he was commissioned as a Captain in the Mormon Battalion. Hunt and his family settled in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In 1851 he was called to help create a Mormon settlement in San Bernardino, California. He was a brigadier general in the California State Militia and a California State Assemblyman.

Daughters of the Valley plaque, 1937
In Memory of Mary Heathman Smith
Lovingly known as “Granny” Smith.

Born in England, January 21, 1818, where she was trained in a maternity hospital. She came to Utah in 1862. As doctor, surgeon, midwife and nurse, for thirty years, in storm or sunshine, during the bleakest winters or the darkest night, she attended the people of Ogden Valley with a courage and faithfulness unexcelled. In addition to rearing her own family of nine, under her skill and attention she brought into the world more than 1500 babies. She died in Huntsville, Utah, December 15, 1895.

This monument is Sons of Utah Pioneers historic marker #H, located in Huntsville Park at 250 South 7400 East in Huntsville, Utah

• S.U.P. Historic Markers

Huntsville Monument

This monument stands in remembrance of the dedicated and hard working men and women who settled the town of Huntsville and its surrounding area.

The early settlers arrived in 1860 with a determination to conquer the harsh elements of a high mountain climate to establish a community. With the challenges of late springs, early frosts and the hostilities of the Indians, they put their shoulders to the plow and turned the hills and meadows into productive fields of grain, alfalfa, pastures, orchards and gardens. A few head of cattle grew to herds of cows and dairy farming took root and helped establish a sense of permanence.

The needs of a growing community mixed with hopes, dreams and opportunity attracted many courageous men and women who helped build Huntsville. Sawmills and gristmills were built and irrigation companies formed. Masons, carpenters, merchants, butchers, blacksmiths, shepherds, clog makers, tinsmiths, shoemakers, basket makers, midwives, wagon makers, mechanics, school teachers and others all contributed to develop a community that was diverse in its elements, yet unified as a whole.
Huntsville remained a farming community until the needs and demands of World War II brought new opportunities and changes.

Today we honor these men and women whose names are inscribed here. We remember their sacrifices and hard work to establish the seeds of all we now harvest and enjoy in this beautiful place we call home.

This monument is located in Huntsville Park at 250 South 7400 East in Huntsville, Utah

Orrin Porter Rockwell
June 28, 1813 – June 9, 1878

Orrin Porter Rockwell was a figure of the Wild West period of American History, a Mormon Danite, and a law man in the Utah Territory. He was nicknamed Old Port and labeled “The Destroying Angel of Mormondom”. During his lifetime he was as famous and controversial. He was the bodyguard and personal friend of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saints movement.

Orrin Porter Rockwell was born June 28, 1813 in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts to Orrin and Sarah Rockwell, neighbors to the Smith family. Porter Rockwell was eight years younger than Joseph Smith. When Smith was publishing the Book of Mormon, Rockwell would work by picking berries at night and hauling wood into town in order to help pay for the publishing.

At 16 yours old, Porter Rockwell was baptized into Church of Christ in Fayette, Western New York in 1830. The date of Porter’s baptism has been associated with the day the church was organized, April 6th, more recent access to original documents suggests a date of June 9th. Porter Rockwell has been named the youngest member of the first group to be baptized into the church. He married Luana Beebe on February 2, 1832 and was endowed in the Nauvoo Temple on January 5, 1846. He served as a loyal personal bodyguard to both Joseph Smith and later Brigham Young.

Porter Rockwell had the distinction of being the subject of a direct prophecy by Joseph Smith. After spending eight months in jail on charges of attempting to assassinate former Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs who signed Executive Order known as the “Extermination Order” evicting Mormons from Missouri by violent and deadly means. Porter Rockwell traveled to Nauvoo, where he appeared unannounced at a Christmas party at Joseph Smith’s home. When his identity was confirmed, Joseph was moved to say, “I prophesy, in the name of the Lord, that you Orrin Porter Rockwell as long as you remain loyal and true to the faith, need fear no enemy. He was told do not cut your hair and no bullet or blade can harm you. He did at one time cut his hair. Upon hearing of a widow who was balding from typhoid fever, he gave up his famous long hair to make the woman a wig. The recipient of the hair was Agnes Coolbrith Smith Pickett, widow of Joseph Smith’s brother, Don Carlos.

He was also reputed to have killed many men as a gunfighter, as a religious enforcer, and Deputy United States Marshal. It is said that Porter Rockwell once told a crowd “I never killed anyone who didn’t need Killing”.

Porter Rockwell had four wives but was never a polygamist.

Following the death of Joseph Smith, Porter Rockwell followed Brigham Young and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to Utah. Porter Rockwell was appointed as deputy marshal of Great Salt Lake City and remained a peace officer until his death. He was known for his endurance, loyalty and relentlessness.

Porter Rockwell operated a Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery at the southern end of the Salt Lake Valley, in an area known as “Point of the Mountain.”

Porter Rockwell died in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, of natural causes on June 9, 1878. He was buried in the Salt Lake Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah. Grave Location is as follows: Plot – C, Block – 5, Lot – 9, Grave – 1, Tier – E. At the time of his death, Porter Rockwell had been a member of the LDS Church longer than anyone living. His epitaph reads, “He was brave and loyal to his faith. True to the Prophet Joseph Smith, a promise that was made to him by the prophet. Through obedience it was fulfilled. At Porter Rockwell’s funeral, apostle and future church president Joseph F. Smith spoke and said “They say he was a murderer; if he was he was the friend of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and he was faithful to them, and he has gone to Heaven.

Related:

• Orrin Porter Rockwell (my main reference page for him)
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3463/orrin_porter-rockwell
• https://www.slcdocs.com/Cemetery/Person/Orrin%20Porter%20Rockwell.pdf