Seminary Sam next visited two Release Time Seminary classes at Ben Lomond High School in Ogden, Utah. Ogden is 35 miles north of Salt Lake City.

Students from Brother Jones' 1st period Seminary class are shown in the foyer of their Seminary building.

The Ben Lomond Seminary building is located across the street from the high school.

The Ogden Temple and Miles Goodyear log cabin are located near each other on Ogden's Temple Square.

A plaque near the Miles Goodyear Cabin reads:

Miles Morris Goodyear built this cabin on the lower Weber River as a way station and trading. The cabin, along with other buildings, became Fort Buenaventura meaning good venture. It was the first permanent settlement in the Utah Territory... Goodyear was a trapper, prospector and trader. His Indian wife Pomona was the daughter of Ute chief Peet-teet-neet...

Mormon Battalion Captain James Brown and Mary Black Brown bought Fort Buenaventura and all of Weber County [from Goodyear]... Mary Brown made the cabin home for her family...

Daughters of Utah Pioneers

Seminary Sam and Marie Alford are shown in front of a monument dedicated to Lorin Farr, one of Ogden's most prominent citizens.  The first plaque reads:

Lorin Farr, civic and religious leader, staunch friend and supporter of the Prophet Joseph Smith, assisted in the settlement of Nauvoo, Illinois, and in building the temple.

He came to Utah with Brigham Young in 1847. In January, 1851, he became the first president of the Weber Stake of Zion, serving until 1870. He directed the building of Ogden Tabernacle in 1855-56. He was a member of the first territorial legislature for thirty years, serving longer than any other member and was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the State of Utah.

A friend to the Indians, he was known among them as "Chief." The move south upon the approach of Johnson's Army in 1858, was conducted under his direction.

He was a statesman and colonizer of great ability. Historian Edward Tullidge proclaimed him "Ogden's most representative citizen."

The second plaque reads:

Lorin Farr, Utah pioneer of 1847, one of the founders of Ogden, established Farr's Fort in 1850, assisted in laying out the city and organized its first government. In 1851, he became the first mayor, serving twenty-two years, twenty years without pay. The deed to Ogden was made by Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, to Lorin Farr, as mayor.

He built Weber County's first sawmill and grist-mill (1850) and with others built the first woolen factory in northern Utah (1868). In 1857, with Newton Goodal and others, he built the first road through Ogden Canyon. Under his direction Weber County was surveyed and irrigation canals and roads were built. He was a leading contractor on the Central Pacific Railroad west from Ogden to Promontory.
 

Seminary Sam takes a break at Farr's Ice Cream to enjoy a triple thick milkshake.

Thomas B. Marsh, who as his grave marker (above) notes, was the "first President of the Council of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." He died in Ogden in 1866 and is buried in the Ogden City Cemetery.

For a brief period of about 18 months, Pony Express riders rode down Weber Canyon and through Ogden, but for most of its history, Ogden has been a "railroad town."

The picture Sam is standing by shows an 1860's wagon train preparing to enter the Ogden valley.

The railroad passed through Weber Canyon on its way to Promontory Point where the Union and Central Pacific lines were joined on May 10, 1869 (an actual photograph from that event is shown above). Many members of the church helped build the Utah portion of the transcontinental railroad.

Ben Lomond High School Seminary students wish Sam good luck as he leaves Utah and heads back to California.