Glenn Clark: It was the pleasure and pride of E.T. Clark and his sons to constantly provide transportation for the authorities of the church. He had done this for 20 years in Farmington before he took a trip with Brigham Young in
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1869 to the land north. Next slide.
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These are the five brothers who came to the north country. Joseph at the far right was a young adult accompanying his father in the October 1869 trip to cut the first logs.
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Hyrum Don Carlos has to deal only with Wyoming. The other three were in Georgetown. Edward only to plant a plural wife and immediately return to Farmington
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only to visit thereafter. Charles did reside in Georgetown with his first wife, a girl from Paris in Bear Lake, but also had a second wife in Morgan, Utah. [Correction: Charles' first wife was Mary Emma Woolley from Centerville, UT and his second wife was from Morgan, Mrs. Annie Waldron. Both, however, lived in Morgan for a time—but at different homes].
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Wilford, the all-important figure among the five, came to Georgetown when he was 17 and stayed permanently thereafter. Next slide. In the 1869 trip north,
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Brigham and E.T. came through Soda Springs, then south through Georgetown and Montpelier. This was a level route, much superior to the route that came straight across, more or less from Preston to Montpelier, the route of colonization.
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Later, the family cattle were driven each spring and each fall between Farmington and Georgetown over the northern route.
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Next slide. as E.T. and Brigham came through in 1869 they were on their way to Montpelier which had been colonized as Clover Creek in 1864
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Brigham focused on the fact that this territory was next to Gentile Valley and had to be occupied to protect against incursion.
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Next slide. E.T., however, a farmer, understood that this could be a summer paradise. Next slide. Hyrum Don Carlos, who went to Star Valley, was in the most desolate and unimaginably
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cold place on earth. His huge ranch in Auburn, located right next to the state boundary, is unapproachable except
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by coming with a sled or wagon up a very difficult road from Georgetown. Next slide.
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The brothers in Bear Lake had different features, which we have reviewed already. Wilford is the most important, who we will now visit. Next.
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The Bear Lake Stake was the ecclesiastical organization covering this territory.
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It occupied territory within three states and was adorned by the only Mormon cathedral [Paris Tabernacle]. Next slide. Next slide.
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E.T. and his son Joseph were in a race to cut the first logs and bring them out of the canyon and stockpile them to later build the first house in Georgetown, which is here
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pictured much improved to become the home of Alice Randall, the plural wife of Edward Clark. W.W. did not rely simply on squatters' rights.
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Georgetown was truly the farming town of the land north. Next slide. You went backwards. Next slide.
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The commerce of the community was early on a concern of Charles Clark's family [Charles Rich Clark]. The center of the community is at the junction of Stringtown Road with US Highway 30.
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Next slide. Marion Charles Clark's store was the place where one got hardware and houseware, but hay and grain came from the then a non-painted tithing office across the street, one of Idaho's first public buildings.
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Next slide.
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Here we have a worshipful assembly in early summer 1950 in the ancient chapel, which replicates perfectly any Sunday service at the same site in 1900.
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Next slide. Wilford is the patriarch of Springdale Farm, the most classic structure in town. Next slide.
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In 1893, Karl Gottfried Maeser of BYU fame sent his son Karl Emil [Karl Emil Maeser] to create the
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Bear Lake Stake Academy. The patron of this move was Bishop Clark [Wilford Woodruff Clark] of Montpelier. Next slide. In Provo, the patron of that which became BYU is Brigham Young, and its principal was
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Karl Gottfried Maeser. This you see is the first BYU, Idaho.
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Next slide. From his home and ranch in Georgetown, Wilford was called to be THE Bishop of Montpelier, where most of his children spent their teenage years and some died,
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but not his son Russell Clark, M.D. Born in Montpelier in 1900, still active until his death 109 years later. Next slide. One traverses the land north through Star Valley and the soon-to-be temple city of Montpelier
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to get to Bear Lake. what once took over two days can now be done in less than two hours the temple pictured here is that in Montpelier
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there is a different temple at the beginning of our trek in Afton, a few miles south of Auburn and on the route one passes the now desolate and abandoned chapel of the non-existent community of Ovid.
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Truly a trip through, and perhaps later for you all, a trip to the land north.
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Thank you.
Loren: That was great. Thank you. Can you hear me?
Glen: So, did you get a good recording?
Loren: Yes, we did. Thank you, Glenn. That's wonderful. I wanted to let you know that we're considering holding a future reunion in Star Valley or maybe in Georgetown area in a couple of years, hosting it there.
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Glen: Well, the logical site for any meeting is Montpelier.
Loren: Okay, the tabernacle?
Glen: Montpelier, the […] place in the valley.
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Glen: But of course, one from there would want to make trips to the Afton Temple. I do not know whether anything remains of Auburn. To Paris, to the Stake Tabernacle, to St. Charles and Minnetonka Cave, to Fish Haven,
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where the famous fish fry in Brigham Young later came to Bear Lake, and of course, to the raspberries in Garden City, Utah.
Loren: We could do homemade raspberry shakes. I used to live up in Star Valley, and we just last year, we visited the Auburn area
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where Hyrum Don Carlos' farm was.
Glen: Star Valley has become one of the choice sites in all America to live in Teton Valley
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you have to be a billionaire you can live in Star Valley if you are only a millionaire.
Loren: That's great—well Cynthia thanks so much for helping us as well today.
Cynthia: Okay, okay.
Loren: We'll be excusing people out to get ice cream and lunch has just arrived.
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And we hope the best for the two of you. And thanks so much for doing that, Glenn. That was wonderful. Thanks for your research. And these slides were wonderful! Really, really informative. So…And you guys are in, are you in, uh, Paul's Church?
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Is that right?
Cynthia: McLean. McLean.
Loren: Okay, real close there. That's where I was in the McLean Stake when I lived in Arlington there. Loved it. So beautiful. So, so beautiful.
Cynthia: Oh, oh, yes. It's a good Stake.
Loren: Yeah, it's great. Okay.
Cynthia: Good Ward.
Loren: Well, take care.
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Both of you. Thanks, Cynthia.
Cynthia: Okay, thank you for your help, Loren.
Loren: We'll see you later.
Cynthia: Okay. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.