First LDS Bishop of Spring Lake
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N 40° 00.064 W 111° 45.011
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The first LDS Bishop of Spring Lake was Benjamin F. Johnson.
Waymark Code: WMBRF0
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2011
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A Daughters of Utah Pioneers marker, erected in 1974, reads:
In 1859, James Pace and James Butler built large adobe home on this site, purchased by Joseph E. Johnson, 1861. He and brothers Benjamin F. and George W. operated many industries: drug stores, fruit-tree nursery, trunk factory, sorghum mill, cannery, broom factory, wholesale seed house, and printing office where first Utah farm paper, The Farmer's Oracle, was published. Benjamin F. Johnson, became first bishop; Samuel Openshaw, Justice of Peace; Don Carlos Babbitt, Constable.
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