by Leonard J. Arrington, former Church Historian The first important Mormon community to organize itself under a system later incorporated in the united order of 1874 was Brigham City, Utah. Functioning for more than 15 years, the cooperative city exerted profound influence on the history of Utah and surrounding areas. brigham young followed its essential […]
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by Martha Sonntag Bradley, University of Utah professor Mormon church leaders brigham young, Orson Pratt and others designed a religious economic order they called the “united order of Enoch.” Traveling throughout Utah Territory, Young organized settlers—in some places as wards and in other places as towns—into united orders, saying: “Our object is to labor for the […]
This article originally appeared in Vol.59, No. 1 (2012) of Pioneer Magazine When people were interviewed by the ecclesiastical leaders before being admitted to the order, they were asked an extensive list of questions about their character, their devotion to the idea of cooperation, and their willingness to sacrifice for the work of God. These […]
“Let every one of the Latter-day Saints, male and female, decree in their hearts that they will buy of nobody else but their own faithful brethren, who will do good with the money they will thus obtain.” —brigham young, Journal of Discourses, 11:139 In the 1860s, the economic situation in Utah was changing rapidly due to […]
This article originally appeared in Vol.65, No.2 (2018) of Pioneer Magazine. by Glen M. Leonard The settlement of Farmington began in the late fall of 1847 when four men brought several hundred head of cattle to winter on the areas grasslands. The herd consisted of surplus cattle whose owners in the Salt Lake Fort paid […]
This article originally appeared in Vol.65, No.2 (2018) of Pioneer Magazine. by Glen M. Leonard One of brigham young’s first actions upon arriving in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake was to send out exploring expeditions to the north, south, and west to assess regional potential for settlement. On August 9, 1847, Jesse C. […]
Share and Share Alike: Mary Jane McCleve Meeks and united order This article originally appeared in the November/December 1970 issue of Pioneer Magazine. By Harold H. Jenson, Historian, Sons of Utah Pioneers Mary Jane McClive Meeks was born August 1, 1840 in Belfast, Ireland. She married Dr. priddy meeks November 12, 1856. She died January 13, […]
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Their journey across the plains was an arduous one, but late in 1853 they arrived in American Fork. One year later the family moved to “Mountainville” (later named Alpine) where they lived in the fort for protection against the Indians, while they began to re-establish their affairs. Exerting all their efforts, they partially overcame their hunger by eating roots, pigweed and wild onions, and beat back enough crickets to raise a full crop of grain. In spite of their many trials the hardy family hung on to their testimonies and endured.
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