Leavitt/Clark House - Farmington, Utah - Utah Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This home began as a humble, 12-foot square, single-cell house. It was made of sun-dried adobe bricks in 1862 by John Quincy and Minion Leavitt. They soon addeded a second small room to the first - not the northeast corner of this house. While living here, John helped complete the transcontinental railroad and served as conductor of a train at the Golden Spike Ceremony in 1869. In 1873 Timothy Baldwin and Lucy Augusta Rice Clark purchased the home and built a two-room, rock addition to the west. They raised a large family in these four rooms until 1881, when they built the south-facing, brick, 1 1/2-story, central-passage wing. It originally featured elaborate Victorian Eastlake details, including a small second-story porch, roof cresting, and a large gable ornament. Timothy was a bookeeper and inventor and sold coal and salt. Lucy was active in politics, running for the Utah Senate in 1869; serving as President of the Davis County Women's Sufferage Association; and becoming the nation's first female, full deligate to the National Republican Convention in 1908. In 1918 Edmond and Elizabeth Ann Wood Whitaker bought the old home and added the current front porch as well as a new kitchen and the home's first indoor plumbing. The Whitakers were farmers, raising sheep, dairy cows, onions, and other crops. In 1948 they sold the house to Harold and Nelda Monson, who raised five boys and lived here for 50 years. Nelda ran a hairdressing salon for most of those years. In 1998 she sold the house to the current owners, including a great-grandson of Ed and Lizzsie Whitaker.

Marker Name: Leavitt/Clark House Marker Type: City County: Davis City: Farmington Group Responsible for Placement: National Register of Historic Places Date Dedicated: 2008 Marker Number: None Addtional Information: Not listed Web link(s) for additional information: Not listed

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