Matthias Cowley
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What happened to Mathias Cowley as he was playing on the banks of
the Mississippi River?
a.
The Prophet Joseph sent him on a
mission
b.
Brigham Young gave him the priesthood
c.
William Smith gave him a Patriarchal
Blessing
d.
Porter Rockwell asked him to witness
a baptism for the dead
Yesterday’s answer:
A Mormons could not settle in the area
From the life of Solomon Henry Hale: In the autumn of
1865 Bro. Hale moved to the Bear Lake country, which then contained but few
settlers. He bought land near the present town of Liberty and engaged
extensively in the stock industry, raising, buying and selling cattle. He
remained there until the spring of 1872, when he changed his base of operations
to Soda Springs, where he, in partnership with Brigham Young Jun., opened a
livery feed and sale stable. He kept up right along big stock interests,
procuring hay land in Gentile Valley for the raising of winter feed. He did the
freighting from Logan, Utah, for the branch of the Z.C.M.I. in Soda Springs and
acted as their Indian interpreter and trader. In the latter place he built two
fine residences and a billiard hall, which was the best equipped of any north
of Ogden City. These buildings are still standing and occupied. In the spring
of 1875 he sold his interest in Soda Springs and procured other tracts of land
in the central portion of Gentile Valley, where the town of Thatcher now is.
Here he started a new enterprise and went quite extensively into the stock
business and soon became one of the leading stock men of that whole valley. A
peculiar incident in his locating in Gentile Valley was that the ranch men and
trappers then living on the west side of the river forbade “Mormons” locating
among them; they claimed that the valley should be kept exclusively Gentile. It
will be plainly seen from this whence Gentile Valley derived its name. Mr. Hale
gained the friendship of his neighbors and before a great while a number of
other “Mormons” settled there and finally a Ward of the Church was organized,
over which he was appointed Bishop.
Andrew Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake
City: Andrew Jenson History Company, 1914), 170.
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