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“A Pictorial History Of Franklin County, Idaho—

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Horse And Buggy Days And Early Auto Era”

Cache Valley historian, Newell Hart, conceived of Hometown Album as an extended family photo album for northern Cache Valley. A selec-tion of those photos helps tell the

story here. Above: A family get together of the Rich family from Franklin with their kin in Bear Lake, Idaho, circa �9�3. The Rich family helped found Bear Lake.



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Rich family Cub River 1 Cub River 2 Parkinson family 1 Log cabin Parkinson family 2 Cutler family

Cottle home Hart home Horses & sleigh Parkinson home Nash family Nash home Nash blacksmith

Jorgensen shop Foghorn Frances Franklin band Opera house Lowe orchestra Cherryville band 1 Cherryville band 2

Polygamy prisoners A.J. Straight School class Preston dump Hunters & trappers Derrick horse Oxen

Beet plow Beet topper Shearing sheep Steam thresher Steam engine Unloading freight R.R. section crew

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Steam engine Creamery Milk wagon 1 Franklin creamery Milk wagon 2 Parkinson family Mercantile co-op

Franklin buildings Franklin girls Grocery store Pete Bowcutt Main street Webster Grocery Monson Lumber

Motorcycle Holt Barbershop Cottle Barbershop Whitney chapel Whitney S.S. First Idaho Day Indian renactment

Pioneer camp Oxen 24th of July Honored pioneers Burning privies WWI soldiers Trip to ice caves

Family outing Phone operators Hat shop Harvesting grain Lamoreaux family Thomas G. Lowe

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LEFT: Leah McQueen and her sis�9�3. RIGHT: Boy scouts visit thFlat. Originally named Muddy Rivmon president, Brigham Young. Bwoolen mills, lath mills and sorgh

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ter-in-law, Lila McQueen, at Cub River, e source of Cub River east of Willow er, Cub River was renamed by Mor-ear River and Cub River powered the um mills of Franklin.



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Mercy Roselpha Kofoed and her family’s log cabin in nearby Weston, Idaho, �900.

When they arrived in Green Meadows, (Franklin) the first settlers removed the wagon boxes from the running gear of their wagons, grouped the wagon boxes together and lived in this fort of wagon boxes until log cabins could
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Samuel C. Parkinson nd family in front of their ome in Franklin, �904.

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Allen R. Cutler and family front of their home in

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Left: Fred and Dee Kingsforwas racing sleighs one wintercles collided. In the crash Wil

Right: Built in Preston in �89Doney Parkinson. George Parof the Mormon Church from �lin and was Annie Laura Dunk

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d of Franklin. As a young man, William J. Dunkley with a friend, Bert Weaver, when the two vehi-

liam’s leg was broken at the hip.

5, this was the home of George C. and Lucy kinson served as president of the Oneida Stake 887 to �9�0. Lucy D. Parkinson grew up in Frank-ley’s aunt.



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Left: Isaac B. Nash and his secon the back row in front of theworked as a blacksmith in Califto Franklin. He was remembereof a blacksmith and the sensitithe community blacksmith, heer of hymns.

Right: Tables in the home of DIsaac B. Nash. Franklin, circa �9

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ond family, Franklin, �900. Isaac Nash is standing pillar. Mr. Nash was born in Wales in �824 and ornia during the gold rush years before coming d as “The fiery Welshman with the mighty arm

ve temperament of a poet.” Besides serving as served as a chorister, drama leader and compos-

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Blacksmith shop owned y Isaac B. Nash, Franklin.

s a blacksmith, Mr. Nash ould have fabricated a ide variety of objects om iron such as fasteners, ols, plowshares, wheel

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The Franklin Brass Band, ca �895. Originally start- by Tom Kelly, leadership the group eventually ssed to Theopholous ghorn” Frances, sec-

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r, Will Lowe, is in the ddle of the second row.

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couple of his friends. Will binson remembered,

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Rozel Lowe, Ray Robin-son and Walt Wickhamm circa �9�4. In the back-ground is Franklin’s first opera house which was torn down in �9�6 to make way for a new 8-room yel-low brick school house.

Laura Dunkley’s musical ousins. The Lowe family rchestra at Liza Lowe’s ome: Scot, Irel, Carlos and olan Lowe.

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he Cherryville Band otographed at the first ho Day celebration, nklin, June �4 and �5, 0. Taken at Franklin’s in intersection at the k of the Cottle home.

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Left: A. J. Straight, publishper, the Idaho Enterprise, OCache Valley, most of the cimon Church. While Straighriage and the perception thwrote about Franklin and th

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er and editor of Cache Valley’s second newspa-xford, Idaho, circa �880. In contrast to the rest of tizens in Oxford were not members of the Mor-t was critical of the Mormon practice of plural mar-at the Mormons kept to themselves, Straight rarely e neighboring towns.

ited States government imprisoned Mormon men e practice of polygamy. This photo is believed to irca �880



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e Franklin School, �897. Class was held at the tithing office, now the site of Relic Hall museum. The little girl in the middle with the doll is the teach-

s preschool daughter who would come each day and play in the corner.

is photo was taken almost forty years after the first school house was built t of logs and covered with a sod roof.

ura Dunkley’s younger siblings, Robert and Rozella Lowe, are in the class.



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When the Bear River ashed out the highway est of Preston in �923, e area became the city mp.

Hunters and trappers. inhold Baker and Annie ura Dunkley’s cousin, Irel

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Charlie Baker in the white hirt with his team of oxen, om and Jerry, Nig and uck, Franklin, circa �9�0. he team is pulling a Bain agon.

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Georgia Peterson work-ing with a derrick horse on her father’s farm.

The derrick is the long log mounted on a tripod in the background that was used for stacking hay.




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Sylvan Weaver with a itive, one-sided sugar

t plow, Preston, circa . While sugar beets

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e man in middle of the ture, C. J. Jensen, and ilt by the man on the t, Pete Jorgensen. Mr. rgensen’ son, Marcus, is ting in the driver’s seat. e photo was taken about �3 by R. A. Jones in front his photo studio on Main eet in Franklin.

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A sheep shearing camp Montana. The fourth eep shearer from the left

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Steam engine for thresh-g grain, Malad, Idaho, cir- early �900’s. The mobile

eam engine in the center f the picture was powered y burning wood or chaff om the grain. Large belts ansferred power from the eam engine to the thresh-g machine.

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The narrow gauge engine erated by the Utah and rthern railroad in Cache lley, circa �883. This is a rminal crew whose pur-se was to service the gine at the end of a run. rminals were located in gan, Utah on the south-n end of the line and ttle Creek, Idaho at the rthern end.

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Unloading new hay mow-g machines from a Union

acific rail car. The men nloading the train were alled draymen.

he railroad played a vital art in the life and growth f Cache Valley.

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Railroad section crew hought to be in Franklin.

ill Dunkley worked on a ailroad crew as a young

an on into his early mar-ied years. Eventually he uit the railroad and pur-hased a milk pickup route o supplement the family’s arming income.

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One of the Union Pacific team engines that came hrough Preston from the ate �920’s to the end of the team era in the �950’s.

he number 304 near the mokestack identified the rain to other trains. The umber 563 under the ead light identified the team engine.

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The Franklin Co-op Creamery, shown here, was organized in �898 by the Oneida Mercantile Union. The Utah Condensed Milk Company later purchased the plant and moved it south to Richmond, Utah.

From �9�6 to �930 Ray Heusser ran a daily milk route in the Weston and Fairview area. Like Will Dunkley in Whitney, Mr. Heusser picked up milk from the farms on his route and delivered the milk to the Franklin Condensary for processing.




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The Sego Milk Condensa-ry was built in Franklin after the local election of �9�0. The condensary employed twenty-five people and fif-teen milk wagons.

The milk Will Dunkley col-lected every day was con-densed or partially evapo-rated and packaged in cans. Heating the milk under a partial vaccum lowered its

oiling point, avoiding a ooked taste.

Ezra Lewis with his horses, im and Puss, and his milk ollection wagon. Mr. Lewis ade his daily rounds for

wenty-five years, picking p cans of fresh milk from

he farmers and delivering he milk to the condensary.

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The Franklin Co-op Mercantile Institution be-came the Oneida Mercan-tile Union in �889. Many of the early residents of Franklin held stock in the co-op which originally was housed in the smaller building on the right.

Samuel Rose Parkinson, ter, with his second

e, Charlotte Smart, and ir family, �903.

rn in England, Mr. Par-son came to America 848 and went on to

come a colonizer, busi-sman, farmer and the

ector and manager of Co-op store in Franklin.

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Public buildings in Frank-, circa early �900s. The

ty’s fourth school is at e far left, followed by e third school, the city’s cond opera house and in

ont of the opera house, e court house or village

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Four lasses in front of ra Monson’s store in anklin, circa �9�4. Hilda sh, Ruth Gamle, Nona

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Left, on the back: “Ed Bower built thishall for one year. Pete Bowcutt bought store. Next owner was P. B. Dunkley. La�945 built post office at side. A new frobought it in May, �965. ; it burned downMonte’s Grocery.”

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store in �907. It was used as a pool it and used it as a grocery and meat ter sold to W. P. Waddoups and in nt was put on in �955. Monte Olsen 8 Dec. �965; rebuilt, �966. Now

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Franklin’s main street, rca �890. The second

ilding from the right was arry Whitmer’s hamburg- shop, call The Doggery. e third building from the ht was Robert G. Lowe’s

rniture store. Across the reet was the Union Mer-ntile

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Webster Groceries and eneral Outfitting in Frank-. Mr. and Mrs. Webster

anding in the doorway ith a family just arrived om Lewiston. The build-g on the left is the home

f the Packer family.

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Left: Monson Lumber store. Owner, Brigham Monson, is the man in the cen-ter of the group wearing the vest. This was a picture postcard that read on the back: “Dear Bro.—Bowen says honey is 7c lb. this year & very scarce. Must order at once if you get any. His name is T. R. Bowen. All’s well & hope you are too. With kind regards, Brig etc.” circa �9�2

Right: Lorin Hampton riding an early motorcycle. In the background is Riter Bros. Drug Co. store, located on Main Street in Franklin.



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group gathered in front Cottle’s store and barber-

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oster on the wall at the t reads, “Superb Attrac-n, Distinguished Actor, n S. Lindsay.”

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A barbershop in Pres-n owned by the man on e right, Rob Holt. Ralph yman’s pool hall was con-cted to the business. Mr. lt eventually moved to

sedena, California in the e �920s.

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Started in �89�, a MormoIdaho in �907. As a boy, Wisandstone for the chapel. Hthis chapel until it was torn

A Whitney Sunday Schoobrother, Lester Dunkley, is Their brother, Loren Dunklrow. In �904 William was se

Roy Tanner, second from thas bishop of the Whitney WWill Dunkley to serve as his

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n meeting house was completed in Whitney, ll Dunkley may have helped his father transport

e and his family would have attended church in down in �924.

l group, circa �904. William Job Dunkley’s younger the third person from the left on the front row. ey, is the third person from the left on the back rving in England as a Mormon missionary.

e left on the middle row would grow up to serve ard during the Great Depression. He would call first counselor in the bishopric.



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On June �4, �9�0 the citizens of Franklin launched a two-day celebration of


the town’s pioneer heritage in the first annual Idaho Day. Activities included speeches, musical numbers, food, a parade, an Indian skirmish re-enactment, gun salutes and fireworks. Mormon president Joseph F. Smith, and Idaho governor, James H. Brady, were scheduled guests at the occasion. Laura Lowe Dunkley’s uncle, Thomas G. Lowe, is in the center of the photo.



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An “Indian” group or-anized for one of the kirmish exhibitions at an arly Idaho Day celebra-ion in Franklin. Several f the men are white,

ncluding the man in the enter with a star on his eadband, Wallace Chat-

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One of the skirmish camps put on for the first Idaho Day celebration in Franklin.




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A children’s parade in ranklin celebrating the 4th of July. July 24th had ecome a day to honor e first Mormon pio-

eers to enter the Salt ake Valley.

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Mr. and Mrs. Charlie aker at a pioneer cel-bration in Pocatello,

daho, �934. The Bakers on second prize in the

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n his day Mr. Baker was nown for his exceptional xen. Here he is, twen-y-four years earlier in ranklin.

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Pioneers at first annual Idaho Day pose for a photo in front of the pioneer monument. In �9�0, at the time of the photo, Laura Lowe Dunkley’s maternal grandmother, Eliza Lowe, would have been 8� years old and would have lived in Franklin for 50 years. Each of the pioneers is wearing a special ribbon. Here is a ribbon from the �92� celebration.



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Left: Dimon Bodily and Scot�9�7. Right: When the towrounding areas learned that Wons and outhouses into the pnamed the rows after streetsburned the “Schity of Berlin”

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t Lowe in their World War I uniforms, circa nspeople of Preston, Idaho and the sur-

orld War I was over, they hauled old wag-ublic square, lined them up in rows and

in Berlin, Germany. At night the crowd in an enormous bonfire, �9�8.



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A group from Franklin n an excursion to the aris Ice Cave. A caption n the back notes that

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A family outing, circa �920s. Just as today, fami-lies were the foundation for the society built by the pioneers.




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The Preston office of he Independent tele-hone company, located bove the Foss Drug tore, �908. The company as in competition with

he Rocky Mountain Bell ompany.

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Mrs. William Struve in her hat shop in Pres-ton, Idaho, �907. When the Struves arrived from Dennmark in �903, Mrs. Struve opened her first shop. Not speaking any English, she priced all of her hats in even dollar amounts.

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Harvesting on the ames Johnson dryfarm n Winder, �9�7. The mo-ion of the machine’s heels being pulled by

dozen horses provided he power for the device.

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The Lamoreaux family at their home in Preston, Idaho, circa �900. L to R: Florence, Rosanell, baby Orell, Sadie on the ladder, Grandfather David , Fred Lamoreaux.




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Laura Lowe Dunkley’s uncle, Thomas G. Lowe, in Logan, Utah,

. “When I was a small boy nois,” he said, “ I remem-istening to Abe Lincoln. He speaking in a grove, up on a h. All I remember is his vest buttoned wrong—he had an button at the top and an hole at the bottom. ”

moved to Franklin in �863 carried the mail for several

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As a missionary in Arizona, Lowe invented a roadmeter to mea-sure distances between Idaho and Arizona. A newspaper article from �876 resolves a misconcep-tion that Orson Pratt had invent-ed the device.

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