This is Ellen Brandon Read in front of her Ogden home in 1900. She died in 1904 in this home, which was located at 2049 Jefferson. Look at the details on the house and the unpaved streets. Ellen was a lacemaker prior to her marriage to Josiah Read. They raised 12 children in England and moved to Ogden in the 1880s. Josiah built this house and one behind it.*

2049 South Jefferson Avenue in Ogden’s Central Bench Historic District in Ogden, Utah