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Homes 105 West 2nd Street Carl and Ettnie Stone built this home with the help of Joe Anderson. 115 West 2nd Street He started building the brick house at 115 W 2nd Street in the 1880s, but it was not completed until about 1895. 122 2nd Street Peter & Mary E. Hutchens Sherner Home 128 2nd Street Carl & Harriett Turnquist Home 134 West 2nd Street Thomas & Julia Sherner Irvine Home 136 West 2nd Street Italian immigrants that settled at Five Points 140 West 2nd Street George and Jane Romrell Pierce built this house starting about 1877. 141 2nd Street Porter & Grietje Pierce Home 142 West 2nd Street In 1868 George Pierce was almost 40 years old when he built this board house. 150 West 2nd Street - Bertinotti Michael Bertinoti had resided in Ogden for about forty years and left many relatives behind. 150 West 2nd Street - Gillson William was 48 years old and his son Edward was 18. All had to work together to create a house, a farm and lateral ditches and provide food and clothes 152 West 2nd Street William Hutchens and Eliza Stone Home Load More

< Back Return to Roads Melling Way 2014 Mary Ellen Melling (1855-1940) was a baby pioneer born in Wyoming as her parents trekked from Preston England to Zion in 1855. The family suffered the physical trials and deprivations common to pioneers in the 1850s, and amid these circumstances, Mary Ellen grew up to be spunky and independent. By the time she was 9 she was living in Marriott with her mother and step-father and her job was to tend the family’s sheep. She wrote that she would go “ a long way from home and stay all day with the sheep. We used to get very hungry as we had only bread and an onion and salt to take for dinner and we used to dip our bread in the river before eating it. One summer following a season after the grasshopper pest we had no bread to eat. We had to live on potatoes and we would take some boiled potatoes and salt and an onion. We also dug wild segos and ate them. Oh, a piece of bread would have been a luxury then. I always feel hurt to see a piece of bread lying in waste, to me it seems a sin for I have known the need of it.” [1] By the time she was 15, the country had become more thickly settled and a little more civilized with the arrival of the railroad. In 1870 dancing was the most important social activity. She wrote: “We generally used to dance in the school-houses; we would go from one settlement to another and dance. Sometimes our dances would continue until a late hour reaching far into the morning.” [2] It was at these dances that Mary Ellen met her future husband James H. Stone. Her mother and step-father had someone else in mind for her to marry and forbade her from dancing with or talking to Mr. Stone. But Mary Ellen liked Mr. Stone and cared nothing for the fellow that her parents had in mind, so the trouble started for Mary Ellen and James. James gave her small tin type of himself making Mary Ellen feel sure that he cared for her as he did not give a picture of himself to any other girl. When her parents discovered the picture, they took it away. [3] James and Mary Ellen continued meeting “accidentally”, as often as they could arrange it. During the May Day celebration of 1871 Mary Ellen slipped out of her house without permission to meet James for the May Day Stroll. James took her to the cabin of his brother Ed Stone in Bingham Fort, and they were visiting there when Mary Ellen’s parents found them. Her parents were excited and angry and told Mary Ellen to come right now and go home with them. Mary Ellen refused to go unless they would promise to give her the freedom to go out with and keep company with the boy of her choice. They said no, and her step-father, Thomas Salisbury, grabbed hold of James’ ear roughly pulling it, ordering him to take Mary Ellen back home. Amid this confusion and in the presence of everyone, James fell on his knee and proposed to Mary Ellen. He told her that he was not prepared to marry, but if she wanted to take the chance with him, he would do his best for her and they would get married on this very day. She accepted. He was 18 and she was almost 16. Her parents were enraged and tried to put a stop to it. Her step-father was Justice of the Peace in Marriott. He hurried around and told all other Justices of the Peace in the area of his protest to this marriage. Knowing that no one in Weber County would marry them, James secured some horses, and with the help of his brother and some friends, they forded the Weber River when its water was at its highest run off and rode south to Kay’s Ward where they were married on the evening of May 1, 1871. The day of the May Stroll turned out to be their wedding day. [4] James Stone and Mary Ellen Melling in 1871; crayon portrait by Ed Stone. For the following year Mary Ellen was shunned by her parents, and James was excommunicated from the Church for their unapproved marriage. It was not uncommon in these times to be cut off from the Church for perceived disobedience or willfulness. But they were devoted to each other and lived happily. After eloping they lived with James’ widowed mother, Mary Cruse Stone, for about a year. James worked very hard to earn money and purchased some land next to the railroad tracks from Sam Gates; this land had a large, elongated pond that was bridged by the railroad track in a narrow portion. Perhaps this parcel of land was sold because of its location by the tracks and the wetlands (today’s Fort Bingham subdivision). James built a cabin next to the pond, and in time the pond came to be known as Stone’s Pond. After the first year of their marriage, they were reconciled with Mary Ellen’s parents, but Mary Ellen did not resume activity in the Church until 1885. [5] James and Mary Ellen had five children and thirteen years of married happiness. In addition to farming James worked as a horse-back mail carrier to Huntsville. He worked hard for five more years, and they were able to buy more land and an adobe house on 2nd Street. Their bliss was cut short in November 1884 when James was injured in a run-away horse and wagon accident; he died on December 24, 1884, and was buried on Christmas Day. After the death of her beloved husband Mary Ellen was a single mother with five children under the age of 12. The Stone brothers, Ed and Moroni, helped her to retain the farm and sustain her family, but they had large families of their own. It was necessary for Mary to go into the field and hold the plow and do other work only suited to a man. During this time, she prayed to Heavenly Father to bless her crops, and the Lord opened up the way. Her tithing record for 1885 is still written on the wall of the old tithing house still located at 196 2nd Street. The older children helped her continuously, and she also took in domestic work. Under these circumstances she accepted three motherless children into her home and raised them as her own. Over the years others who were in need stayed with her for various lengths of time until they could get on their feet and establish their own homes. Baby Carl (1891-1961) was adopted by Mary Ellen and given the Stone family name. [6] Mary Ellen became an active member of the Lynne Ward and the Relief Society and served as counselor to two Relief Society presidents. She also worked in Primary, went to Logan and did temple work, and participated in the Utah silk project. In 1889 she was married in polygamy to neighbor Walter Crane, but she remained independently in her own home and continued to manage the family farm (the west portion of today’s Fort Bingham). She wrote that although she had much sickness and many deaths in the family and passed through many sorrows, she had joy in her labors, particularly since she had become an active member of the Church. Many times, when death was at the door, she exerted faith in behalf of her children and saw miraculous healings. She was known to visit much among the sick and the needy and tried to the best of her ability to comfort the hearts of the distressed. [7] She died in February 1940 at the age of 84. Her obituary described her as an early pioneer in Ogden, Utah, and stated, “She not only reared her own family, but also other children not of her family. She is known by all who have associated with her as a great mother and a friend to all.” Mary Ellen Melling’s silkworm cocoon, part of the Utah Silk project, circa 1878. Mary Ellen Melling with pet owl in front of her home at 386 W. 2nd Street, Ogden; 1912. [1] - Autobiography of Mary Ellen Melling Stone Crane, manuscript, 1922, p. 6. [2] - Ibid, p. 6. [3] - Sarah Stone Crowther, Biography of Pioneer James Hyrum Stone, 1949, manuscript, p. 4. [4] - Sarah E. Crowther, Biography of Mary Ellen Melling Stone, handwritten manuscript, c. 1935, p. 54,55. [5] - Autobiography of Mary Ellen Melling Stone Crane, p.9. [6] - Ibid, p. 9,10; Autobiographical Historical Sketch, p. 2 [7] - Autobiographical Historical Sketch, p.3. Previous Return to Roads Next

< Back Watching Indian Dances at Night Return to Native Americans Photo from LIFE OF A PIONEER, Being the Autobiography of James S Brown, printed by Geo. Q. Cannon and Sons Co., Salt Lake City. While living at 2nd Street and 1000 West the Hutchens children loved to sleep outside at night; they were never afraid and they really enjoyed it. The starlit nights were thrilling when the stars showed out so brightly; the children lay on their backs and tried to count the stars. Then there were nights when the moon shone so brightly that the world seemed to be in a soft enchanting glow. According to Jack Indian, when one could hang a powder horn on the tip of the moon and it wouldn’t slip off, then it was a sign that they could leave their powder outside because it would be dry. The best nights were when they lay on the roof of their shed and quietly watched the Indians at their campfires singing or dancing their many ceremonial dances. “Some dances were so fierce it made them shiver and others so majestic and solemn that it made one want to weep. Then others were just the opposite – almost enticing them into jumping up and down in merriment too…” Headdresses were used in ceremonies and sometimes the ceremonies were very colorful with waving banners and javelins.” On hot nights, their parents made their beds on the shed too, laying their blankets on top of clean straw and watching the Indians dance. [1] [1] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, Mary Elizabeth – Her Stories, dictated to her daughter Dorothy A. Sherner, manuscript, 1933, p 65, 91. Return to Native Americans Previous [object Object] Next

< Back 317 West 2nd Street Return to Homes 317 West 2nd Street Site of Bingham Cabin 1850s -1953 1850s map of Bingham Fort on W 2nd Street; red marks site of Erastus Bingham cabin, fort tithing house, today’s crosswalk and monument. Bingham family members lived in the cabin until the 1880s, Mills family members until 1910 and Stone family members until the 1950s. 1911 photo: Chauncey and Edna Stone lived in the Bingham cabin from 1910 to 1925. 1929 photo: Left: Bingham 1870s granary with a garage in front; Center: Erastus Bingham 1850s cabin; Right: Thomas Mills 1910 barn. 1950 circa photo: Clyde and Macel Stone Montgomery lived in the Bingham Fort cabin from 1940 to 1953. About 1950, Ogden Mayor Raymond Wright (pictured) convinced them to preserve the Bingham cabin in a museum; the cabin had been on West 2nd Street for 100 years. 1953 photo of Montgomery children on steps of Bingham cabin. Clyde & Macel Stone Montgomery House at 317 W 2nd Street, 1953 1953: Clyde Montgomery completed building their new brick house and the family vacated the cabin and moved into the new house. It was exactly one-hundred years since the beginning of Bingham Fort in 1853. 1954: The 100-year-old Bingham Fort Cabin was propped up on a trailer bed and moved to a museum (left); in 2022 the cabin stands in Pioneer Village at Lagoon, Farmington, Ut (right). 1958: Montgomery House at 317 W 2nd St. after the Bingham Fort Cabin was moved to a museum. 2022: Montgomery House at 317 W 2nd Street. Sign placed near the site of the Bingham Cabin. Clyde Montgomery and Macel Stone, daughter of John Stone, married in 1930 and moved onto the Stone Farm in 1940, living in the Bingham Fort Cabin for thirteen years. In 1953 they moved into their new house built by Clyde located directly east of the cabin. Clyde had two jobs: he worked at Hill Air Force Base as a glazier and farmed 16-acres of the Stone farm that Macel inherited from her father. As late as the 1940s, Clyde continued to plow with a team of horses. In 1949 he bought a tractor that is still in use. One of his biggest crops was alfalfa hay. He cut, raked and baled the hay and sold it to customers who picked it up in the field. During the 1980 drought in the Midwest, cattle were starving so Clyde donated a large stack of bailed hay to help feed them. He also grew peas, tomatoes, wheat and barley and raised chickens, pigs and cows. The idea to attach the old Bingham granary to their new house originated with Macel. She preserved the granary and the old Mills barn in addition to many artifacts. Macel and Clyde had six children. Photo 1953: Clyde and Macel Montgomery pictured inside the Bingham cabin with four of their six children. The Erastus Bingham Granary, 1870s Photo 1915: Erastus Bingham had the granary built in the 1870s with orange bricks, or burnt bricks, from the Gates Adobe Mill; Erastus Bingham and Sam Gates were longtime friends; the granary was a two-level with a three-foot rock foundation to keep the rain from splashing on the bricks; pictured is Edna Stone’s brother, Noman Kent. Photo 2004: The Bingham 1870s granary was attached to the rear of the Montgomery house in 1953 when Clyde built his house; in 2004 the house and granary were listed with Stone Farm on the National Register of Historic Places. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back 122 2nd Street Return to Homes Circa 1920 Photo taken 2021 Peter Sherner Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Pioneer Peter Sherner was boarded by Sam Gates in about 1864 when he was 14 years old. Neighbors passing by the Gates cabin on Bingham Fort Lane (2nd Street) saw a young boy wearing Mr. Gates’ old clothes with sleeves and pant legs cut off to fit his size. He was a Danish immigrant with light blond hair that hung down straight almost to his shoulders. It was common practice for pioneers to board immigrant youth for help with farm or domestic labor. After a few years, the youth would move on to better opportunities or reunite with their own family. But Peter Sherner did not move on; he stayed and worked and boarded with the Gates and other families on 2nd Street and also managed to attend school. In time he matured, married and lived the rest of his life on 2nd Street. [1] In 1873, nine years after his arrival, Peter married a neighbor’s daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hutchens. She was among those who first viewed and later described Peter standing in front of the Gates cabin wearing Mr. Gates’ oversized clothes. After their marriage, they boarded and worked for Mary Maxham at 214 W 2nd Street while Peter built a one-room adobe house at 122 2nd Street. The property at 122 2nd Street was in poor condition. It still had a wheel and part of the old Gates Molasses Mill standing in a dry river bed where Wall Ave runs now. It took a team of horses and a scraper to level the land, take down the old mill, level crisscross river beds, and make a home site. Peter was a good carpenter and he thriftily recycled adobes, window casings, and doors taken from an old house that Mary’s father had torn down. [2] For the first few years after their marriage, Peter accepted the position as teacher of the Lynne School and was assisted by his wife. Peter had many jobs during his life, but he always preferred teaching or carpentry work to farming. As the years passed, Peter enlarged the house to accommodate ten children. It became a 1½ story home with a hall-parlor plan. [3] One day in about 1880, there was a humorous incident at this house between the Indians and three of the Sherner children. Mary Sherner found it necessary to go to a store three blocks away at Five Points and asked her five-year-old son, Lawrence if he thought he could take care of his younger sisters for about a half-hour. He said he could do this, and she hurried off to the store. When she was halfway home, she could see a number of Indians turn into their place, and she hurried as she knew the children would be frightened when she wasn’t there, even though they were used to seeing Indians. When she got to the gate, she saw the Indians looking through the windows and laughing. When the young Indians on horseback saw Mary, they rode out of the property, and the women moved away. Mary called to them and said, “What are you doing? Are you trying to frighten my papooses? You ought to know better than to come in when I am not here.” Then she looked in the window. There stood 5-year-old Lawrence on the table, facing the window with one arm raised holding the stove lifter. His face was very pale and his eyes flashed in fright. He stood guard over his sisters whom he had pushed under the table behind him and pulled the oilcloth down over the edge so it completely hid the children. There he stood to hold the cloth in place. Mary’s heart ached in sympathy. She called to him, “Lawrence, I have come. Everything is all right now. Let me in.” The Indians left laughing, and how pleased the children were to have her return. [4] Peter Sherner had a strong liking for trees and planted oak and horse chestnut trees in front of his house; one large oak still remains in 2021. On their 25-acre farm, Peter had a group of trees north of their house called The Grove. The Grove was used by church and community for dances, gatherings, and celebrations like the 24th of July. Peter did not care for farming, and in time his son, Lawrence effectively managed the farm. Peter taught new emigrants the English language, became president of the Scandinavian Society and secretary of Lynne Irrigation Company. He spoke several languages and served as an arbitrator for immigrant disputes. [5] Mary had a talent for storytelling; in 1933 she dictated her life memories in stories to a daughter, Dorothy Amelda Sherner, who transcribed them into a 200-page manuscript titled, Mary Elizabeth- Her Stories. These remarkable stories portrayed Mary’s family and encompassed a unique history of the Lynne Community. Peter died in 1899 and Mary in 1935. Eventually, the 12-inch adobe walls of the Sherner house were covered with a cement-like stucco on the exterior. The house has a unique and pleasing architectural design and has been a stately landmark on Second Street for over 140 years. [1] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, transcribed by Dorothy Sherner, Mary Elizabeth-Her Stories, manuscript, 1933, p.79; Dorothy Amelda Sherner, Memories, manuscript. [2] - Dorothy Sherner, Memories; Unknown author, Peter Lorenson Sherner, manuscript. [3] - Ibid. [4] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, transcribed by Dorothy Sherner, Mary Elizabeth-Her Stories, manuscript, 1933, p.81. [5] - Unknown author, Peter Lorenzo Sherner. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back 152 West 2nd Street Return to Homes Victor G. Reno House in c.1930; built by William Hutchens. Built by William Hutchens in 1867; purchased by Victor G. Reno in 1912; photo 2011. William Hutchens (1828-1885) and Eliza Stone (18337-1904) William Hutchens & Eliza Stone William B. Hutchens was born 1828 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the son of a wealthy plantation owner. He met Mormon missionaries at the age of 14 and was converted and baptized with his family in 1842. In 1854 he married Eliza Stone from England in Salt Lake City. After their marriage Brigham Young sent William and Eliza to Bingham Fort to help build up Weber County. They arrived after the winter of the “great experiment” when the Shoshone and the settlers lived together in Bingham Fort. The Native Americans no longer lived in the fort but they were there in great numbers; all the vacant land north and south of west 2nd Street was one great encampment of tents. The settlers’ herds and the emigrant trails had destroyed the small game, plants, grasses and seeds that the Indians depended on for food so they demanded portions of everything the pioneers had. [1] William learned enough of the Shoshone language to communicate well and gained a mutual trust with the Natives that camped near him. As William developed his farm, he shared every third row of his vegetables with them, and sub-chief Indian Jack shared buffalo from their long hunts. The house at 152 W 2nd Street is the fifth and final house that William and Eliza built in the area. This was their “dream” home built in 1867 on uncultivated land in the disbanded Bingham Fort. The house was located in a popular area between the school house, Old Pioneer Road, and the molasses mill. See Indians Love Molasses for interesting incident that occurred one morning at the Hutchens’ family breakfast. Originally the exterior walls of the house were adobe and the floor plan had two large square rooms arranged next to each other with two front doors and four windows arranged symmetrically on the front façade. The house was one and a half stories tall with end wall chimneys and small second level gable windows on either side of the chimneys; the bedrooms were upstairs. The second door on the front was not installed for polygamy but was a common American form of house that provided a separate entrance to the parlor. The granary was close to the house as it was used as a summer kitchen. 1867 adobe house plan, 1½ stories, granary in rear. The large adobe house was upgraded to plastered walls inside and a shingled roof. Other nearby new houses and the new school house were also plastered. The process of plastering walls is best described by the children in Mary Elizabeth Hutchens’ autobiography: When the (adobe) house was finished, Mary and Mel went up to clean it. They were surprised to find black and red and white hair mixed with the plaster. They imagined that the men’s hair had come out while they were working. They were quite alarmed about it. They took some sample of all colors to show their father that night, because the men who worked on the house were Mr. Taft, who had white hair; Mr. Drake who had red hair, and his brother Orson who had black hair. So when they arrived home, Mary said to her father, “Father, why do you suppose those men’s hair fell out so?” Her father said, “What men?” Mary said, “The men who built the house. The plaster is just full of red and white and black hairs. See, we brought some to show you.” And Mary and Mel showed some of the hair they had collected. Her father laughed and said, “Well, girls, it does look as though it might have been theirs, but that is cows’ hair. They take hair off hides and put it in the plaster to make it stick on the walls. If hair wasn’t put in, the plaster would all fall off.” The girls were glad they had found out before they had said anything about it to their playmates. It took all day to clean the house and the next day their father moved the household goods, and that night they couldn’t sleep for looking at the walls and thinking what a lovely house it was and what clean smooth nice walls it had. On the ceiling was the mark of a switch- just like someone had hit the ceiling while it was yet soft. The children thought that was wonderful too. [2] The adobe house was large and grand, but it was not yet finished. In 1869 the Great Highway across the continent met in Corrine, Utah, eventually changing Ogden from a farming village to a railroad hub. Sometime in the early 1870s, surveyors made a railroad right-of-way through the Meadows (today’s Business Depot Ogden). William got the contract to build a portion of that railroad grade through the Meadows and hired men from their own vicinity and from the valley for the work. They used horses and scrapers. They scraped the soil from the sides of the right-of-way and made a high embankment for the track. Having charge of the work, William also had charge of the payroll, and one Saturday he brought home all that he could carry of money in a bag to pay the men. It was mostly silver. He said to his wife, “Eliza, I don’t know what to do with this money. I am afraid it might be stolen as I have to keep it until Monday. Where would be a safe place to hide it until then?” They both appeared rather worried. Then Eliza, seeing a large barrel of salt said, “Why don’t you partly empty the salt barrel, put the money in this pail, put it in, and then refill the barrel with the salt.” So this they did, and on Monday morning William took the bucket of money out and paid off the men; the men going to the granary back of their house.” This is how the granary became a temporary pay roll station for the railroad. [3] With the money earned from railroad work, William Hutchens built a saw mill north west of his house for the purpose of making lumber to cover the outer adobe walls of his house with board planks. In addition to covering the adobe with the planks, he added a beautiful, long porch; the porch was reminiscent of the three porches on his father’s old mansion in South Carolina. Just east of the porch, he added a third room. Shortly after this William obtained some paint and painted the front doors white. It was the first paint that the Hutchens children had ever seen. Now appearance of the board house was unique and stylish in Weber County; the house evidenced fine craftsmanship and the cultural background of the South. [4] Still another addition to the house came in 1885. William’s mother-in-law needed care and he built a mother-in-law room attached to the rear filling the space between the house and the granary. Now the Hutchens house looked like this: Drawing by Dale Brynor, 1998. Exterior adobe covered with board, front porch and room added in 1870s; rear mother-in-law room added in 1885. William and Eliza had eleven children. William served as a school trustee, an elected alderman to Ogden City Council, and a counselor in the Lynne Ward who managed all the ward business. Eliza was descended from a wealthy family in England, and she kept the house meticulously. On two occasions she chased rude Native Americans out of her house with a broom and was ever after called “Fighting Squaw” by the laughing Natives. She earned their respect, and they treated each other squarely. Victor G Reno (1883-1963) and Mary Allred (1889-1970) Victor Reno & Mary Allred Victor G. Reno was born in Ogden in 1883, the son of immigrant parents. He grew up in “Little Italy” on West 2nd Street and farmed all of his life on the 20-acre farm that became Aspen Acres subdivision in 2001. In 1912, at the age of 29, he purchased this home from the Hutchens for his new bride, Mary Allred. Before Mary Allred married Vic, she worked at Shupe William Candy located at 26th and Wall Avenue in Ogden. After their marriage she canned all the family’s fruit and vegetables and stored them in a cellar under the granary. At a certain time, she began working at Thomas Dee Hospital on 24th and Harrison Blvd. Vic did not like the idea, but she worked until she could get a new kitchen built on and a bathroom so they did not have to use the outhouse anymore. When this was accomplished, she resigned the job at the hospital. [5] c. 1930s the Renos added on a kitchen and bathroom. The Reno name was synonymous with excellent apples and vegetables in the Five Points area. Vic did all his farming with two horses; at one time he had two Clydesdale horses that were quite popular. He was unique and unusual because he always used two horses even in the 1960s. He was an old school farmer until the end. Vic always wore bib overalls and long-sleeved shirts. He had a wooden farm wagon with steel wheels; in the 1950s he drove this old wagon loaded with pea vines along Wall Avenue to the pea vinery on Highway 89. He loved farming and turned down other jobs that were offered to him. Victor G Reno at 152 W 2nd Street. His farm was successful and he provided for his family well. During the Depression he fed many families that were in need, anonymously leaving bags of vegetables and fresh flowers on the front porches. He donated consistently to local church charities. Vic and Mary raised twelve children in this house. Vic was very strict with the children and expected all to help with the farm (except two of the daughters) and to work hard in school. Later his grandchildren came to grandpa’s house and also helped with the plantings and harvests. Victor was also talented in math and could easily calculate math problems in his mind. He would challenge his grandchildren showing them a silver dollar, telling them if they could answer a math problem, they could have the silver dollar. [6] Vic's brother, Leon, had a tractor and assisted Vic with farm work. From the 1920s to the 1960s many teenagers in the area worked on the Reno Farm picking apples, beans, thinning sugar beets, planting and harvesting tomatoes or potatoes, etc. When the day’s work was done, Vic Reno paid them in coins from a long leather purse with a snap on the top. [7] Victor and Leon never retired; they farmed and worked until the end of their lives. Vic passed away in 1963 and Mary in 1970. [1] - William Birch Hutchens, written by his daughter, manuscript. [2] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, Mary Elizabeth-Her Stories, manuscript, 1933, p. 19, 38, 39. [3] - P. 60. [4] - P 19, 38, 68. [5] - Cora Reno, Mary Jeannette Allred Reno, manuscript. [6] - Cora Reno, Victor George Reno, manuscript. [7] - Ibid; interview with Dave Montgomery, April 2022. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back Game Played by Indian Children Return to Native Americans In the 1860s when Mary and Mel Hutchens lived on 2nd Street, little Indian girls use to come and play with them. Mary and Mel taught the Indian girls a game called Pussy Wants a Corner. Then the Indian girls taught them a game with sticks. They laid three sticks together: two sticks close together and the third stick on top of the first two, thus three similar sticks were laid at intervals of a few feet until there were fifteen or twenty piles of them. Then the tiny girls would hop over all the piles, but it was necessary to keep standing on one foot without resting, as the game was to hop over one pile and see that their foot did not touch a stick, then they would try the next pile. One little Indian girl did it easily; then they asked Mary to try. She had never hopped before. She hopped over four or five, resting between each pile; but then she touched the next pile so that the top stick rolled off the other two, and she missed. The little Indian girl looked very sad and told her she must leave the game and showed her where to sit down. Each girl came and patted her on the back and told her they were sorry. No one laughed at her. The other little Indian girls tried; several failed and took their places with Mary under the cottonwood tree. The ones who succeeded in jumping all the piles of sticks stood up. Mel was only about four years old and she didn’t try for a long time. Finally, when she saw that some of the others had failed, she took courage and tried. She went farther than Mary, but finally touched a stick and missed. They became tired of hopping and decided they wanted to do something else, so Mary and Mel taught them to play Ring Around the Rosie. They couldn’t understand very well and kept squatting down and jumping up when they shouldn’t, but finally, they learned to do it fairly well, and they liked that game too. [1] [1] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, p. 83. Return to Native Americans Previous [object Object] Next

< Back 226 2nd Street Return to Homes Adobe house built in 1880. Photo taken in 1910. Courtesy of Chrissy Orell. Residents continue to use flood irrigation from Bingham Fort Ditch. The ditch is now called the N Branch of Lower Lynne Ditch. Photo taken in 2021. Home is 141 years old. Moroni Stone was born in 1850 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to English immigrant parents, William and Mary Cruse Stone, who celebrated their conversion to the Mormon Church by naming their baby Moroni. The family arrived in Bingham Fort in about 1857. He and his three brothers learned agriculture skills from their father who farmed where the Aspen Acres subdivision is now located. When of age, he and his brothers secured their own farms on 2nd Street and helped each other in their work. As a young unmarried man, Moroni also worked on the railroad to earn cash to run his farm. He was hard working and had high expectations. The pay received was $5 a day for a man and a team and $10 for Sunday work. These wages seemed enormous to the frugal pioneers. [1] In June 1879 Moroni married Charlotte Gale; he was 29 years old and was serving at the time as a volunteer fireman. After the wedding, the Gale family served a full course dinner to 100 guests, and during the meal, the Ogden Brass Band serenaded them from the middle of Washington Avenue. Later in the evening, a dance was held in the Fireman’s Hall on Grant Avenue at 25th Street. Moroni and Charlotte led the wedding waltz. [2] Moroni built their house at 226 2nd Street next to the North Branch of the Lynne Ditch (then called Bingham Fort Ditch). He made the adobe bricks by hand, getting the clay at the “2nd Street Swamp”, mixing it, placing it in molds, and putting it in the sun to dry. The lumber used on the inside was brought from Monte Cristo. [3] After his marriage, Moroni quit working for the railroad and farmed. For additional money, he drove a horse-drawn sprinkling wagon over the dirt roads to keep the dust down on Washington Avenue and Bingham Fort Lane. He was an active supporter of the community and continued as a volunteer fireman. The decades of the 1870s and the 1880s were times of intense political conflict in Weber County and Utah Territory. The People’s Party (Mormons) skirmished with the Liberal Party (non-Mormons). The People’s Party wanted to elect Mormons or those who were sympathetic to Mormons in office, and the Liberal Party wanted just the opposite. Moroni Stone was excommunicated from the Mormon Church for attending railroad dances, and he became an outspoken and active member of the Liberal Party. [4] The Mormons formed economic cooperatives, particularly the 1868 ZCMI, to control the economic impacts of the railroad. Price gouging was commonplace as non-Mormon merchants raised prices on necessary goods to Mormon patrons. But the Liberals protested the organization of ZCMI and other economic programs advocated by Brigham Young in response to the railroad, mining, and outside trade. Some Mormon Church members were not happy to be told how to vote and where to shop; two of Moroni Stone’s brothers were excommunicated for shopping at mercantile stores other than ZCMI (see 159 W. 2nd St.). Moroni’s third brother was excommunicated for eloping with his sweetheart (see 368 W. 2nd St.). Some called the Stone brothers “rowdy”. [5] In addition to moral, political, and business issues, polygamy and prospective statehood were also major concerns in the 1870s and 1880s. The 20-year rivalry between the Mormons and the non-Mormons did not die easily, but with the abandonment of polygamy in 1890, both groups became increasingly more cooperative. Most residents of the county and of the territory were interested in achieving statehood, and so there was a decided effort to politically reorganize. The People’s Party was dissolved in 1891, and local Lynne ward members were now counseled to make their own political choices. Moroni had already been making his own political choices for the last twenty years. In the latter part of 1891 “considerable excitement prevailed” among LDS church members at Five Points as they divided into political parties according to personal choice. In the 1892 election, there were three parties recorded at Five Points: the Republicans, the Democrats, and the Liberals. Moroni rode out the years of conflict and always remained an active, contributing member of the community. [6] Moroni and Charlotte had many diverse friends to whom they opened their home. Charlotte was a wonderful mother and cook with many domestic talents that endeared their home to their children, grandchildren, and many friends. Moroni played the violin and is remembered for his violin-whistling duets with his sister, Sarah. Moroni had two nicknames: “Honest Rone Stone” because his word was his bond and “Whispering Rone” because he talked with such a loud voice. Once he saw a young boy shuffling along and he boomed out in his outspoken way, “Walk up Coffin!” meaning “Don’t drag your feet.” [7] Moroni & Charlotte Gale Stone, 1890s Many of Charlotte and Moroni’s adult children remained at Five Points and contributed to the development of the community. Their son George Stone was a member of the Redfield Dance Orchestra, and two of their daughters married two Redfield brothers who were later involved in several businesses at Five Points: Emma Stone married Cleveland Redfield who invented the Universal Spot Welder, [8] and Charlotte Stone married Fred Redfield who started the Superior Honey business. Their son Charlie Stone had a plumbing business and a gas station at Washington Blvd. and 3rd Street that Ralph Kunz acquired many years later. Their son William Stone was a chiropractor for many years at Five Points. [9] In 1910 his sons Spencer and George Stone helped Fred Redfield develop the Superior Honey business which was located at 349 3rd Street on a railroad spur. [10] Spencer Stone also served on the Ogden board of education and in the 1940s the Spencer Stone family donated the site at 606 Washington Blvd. for the Emerson Stone Branch library. [11] Redfield Dance Orchestra Front – Arthur, Clyde & Carl Redfield. Back – Fred Redfield, Archer Anderson, George Stone, Chauncey Stone. Superior Honey Building Started by Fred Redfield, assisted by Spencer Stone and George Stone. Located on 3rd Street where Mountain America Credit Union now stands. Read's Leather was home to Automatic Controller & Manufacturing Co. in 1916. Owned by Emma Stone & Cleveland Redfield who invented the Universal Spot Welder. The location is the northeast corner of Washington & 3rd Street. Gas station started by Charlie Stone on NW corner of 3rd and Washington. Spencer Stone donated land at 606 Washington Blvd for Emmerson Stone Branch Library. Emmerson Stone Branch Library as seen today. [1] - Ogden Daily Standard, May 9, 1919. [2] - Ogden Standard-Examiner, Married, June 18, 1879; Pioneer Personal History of Charlotte Gale Stone by Elvera L. Manful, 1937, manuscript, p. 3. [3] - Ibid. [4] - The Standard, July 19, 1891. [5] - Richard C. Roberts and Richard W. Saddler, A History of Weber County, 1997, Utah Historical Society and Weber County Commission, p. 133, 134. [6] - Ibid, p. 140; Andrew Jensen, History of the Lynne Ward, p. 12. [7] - Interview Helen Redfield Rogers and William Byron Redfield by Anna Keogh, 1998. [8] - Pearl Stowe, Ogden Utah 8th Ward, Lorin Farr Stake,1908-1980, p. 319. [9] - 1920 Census. [10] - Ibid, p. 323. [11] - History of the Weber County Library System, p. 2, 5; Ogden Standard-Examiner, Industrial Leader Dies While On South American Vacation, April 21, 1950, p. 12A. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back 141 2nd Street Return to Homes West side of 141 2nd Street, circa 1905 This side-passage house has an entrance passage inserted on one side of the main floor, which gives the house a distinctive asymmetrical design. It is a one-and-a-half story and has Greek revival styling with a variety of surface textures and materials giving it a very stylish appearance. ​ Porter Pierce was born in 1877 and raised by pioneer parents at 140 W 2nd Street. He was a farmer who was brilliant in mathematics and taught school for a while. He was also a fine carpenter and built this house about 1900 and rented it. ​ In 1908 he married Grietje Smit who immigrated from the Netherlands in 1903 with her parents as converts to the Mormon Church. Porter dismissed the renters so he and his wife could move into his stylish new house. The house was built on a parcel of land that extended from 2nd Street to 4th Street, and he built a large barn south of the house. 149 2nd Street became the home of Wilke and Jantje Smit from the Netherlands in 1920. In 2013 the house was ruined by a fire, and in 2014 it was replaced with the house on the right. Porter and Grietje had three children that lived to adulthood. A spur of the Oregon Short Line ran in front of their house causing awe to the young children or a disruption in their daily life. Once a baby buggy was stuck on the tracks and was removed just before the train arrived. Sometimes the train spooked the horses as Porter came home from the lower fields. Another time the train hit Pierce’s daughter’s boyfriend’s car when it was parked in front, but the train was slow-moving and merely pushed the car out of the way. [1] Some neighbors described Porter as humorous and colorful, and one said, “He should have been in movies”. In the 1930s he joined the Jehovah Witness Church and became convinced that the end of the world was coming, and he began to warn his neighbors. He approached one neighbor, Mr. Stone, poked his little boy in the stomach, and said, “The end is coming and it’s going to get you and take everything you have!” Porter’s neighbor Harry James at 159 W 2nd St. did not want to listen to this nonsense about the end of the world, and he shut his door. Porter brought a talking machine in his car, cranked it up, and played it loudly in front of the James house so that the James family and everyone else on the street could hear the warnings. LOL. The children in the neighborhood like Porter’s humor and exuberance and liked working for him when he had few jobs for hire. One time at Halloween they decided to play a trick on Porter. They took his farm wagon apart and put it back together on the roof of his barn. When Porter came out in the morning and saw the wagon on the roof, he was speechless. What could he do? He hired some neighborhood children to go up on the roof and bring the wagon down (probably the same children that put it up there). [2] In 1939 Porter updated his house by installing its first bathroom. He was a good carpenter and built three houses on Childs Ave north of 4th Street for his children. He died in 1955. Grietje was also a favorite among the neighbors and this article about her appeared in the Standard-Examiner in 1950. Grietje died in 1977 at age 92. [1] - Interview with Myrtle Pierce Page by Anna Keogh, 1998. [2] - Oral interviews with Warren Stone, Donna Clapier, and Tug Anderson. Return to Homes Previous Next

< Back Indians Loved Molasses Return to Native Americans 52 West 2nd Street, still standing in 2021, 154 years old. William Hutchens was always a friend to the Indians; he learned their language and planted every third row in his garden for his Indian brothers. One day in about 1870 when they were living at today’s address of 152 West 2nd Street, Jack Indian paid them an unexpected visit. Usually, he called out to William before entering the house, but on this day, he simply opened the door and came in. “One morning Jack Indian, dressed in a new blanket, opened their door and walked in when the family was seated at breakfast. He pulled John away from his place and gave him a shove, then he seated himself in John’s place, and no one dared say anything, because Jack was a chief and felt that he had a right to do anything he pleased. William Hutchens said, “Well, Jack, how are you? Will you have some potatoes and gravy?” He said he would, so her father passed them and then told Jack to eat whatever he wished. Jack helped himself to a plateful of potatoes and gravy and then took the molasses pitcher and covered the whole plateful with molasses and then ate it all with great relish. He finished long before the rest of the family, as her father was talking to Jack all the time, and the children couldn’t eat much for watching Jack gobble his up. When Jack was finished, he turned to John and told him he could come and eat now, and then he walked out of the door and went away.” [1] The Hutchens house was located about 400 feet west of the Sam Gates Molasses Mill; both were located in the confines of the old Bingham Fort. William grew sugar cane and took the cane to the Sam Gates Molasses Mill for processing. The Hutchens house still stands in 2021. [1] - Autobiography of Mary Elizabeth Hutchens Sherner, Mary Elizabeth – Her Stories, dictated to her daughter Dorothy A. Sherner, manuscript, 1933, p. 83. Return to Native Americans Previous [object Object] Next