Enoch Reese
Enoch Reese (May 25, 1813 – July 20, 1876[1]) was an early leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature, and an early settler of Nevada.
Reese was serving as president of the Buffalo, New York branch of the LDS Church in 1843.[2] In 1848 he was a captain of fifty in one of the Mormon pioneer companies.[3]
In 1850, Reese staked out claims for land in Spanish Fork, Utah Territory. Enoch and his brother John Reese opened a store in Salt Lake City about 1850.[4]
In 1851 Reese settled in the Carson Valley, then a part of Utah Territory, along with his brother John.[5] They established a sawmill and gristmill called Mormon Station en route to the California mines, it being the first permanent nonnative settlement in present-day Nevada. From Carson County, he was elected to the Utah Territorial Legislature.[6]
In 1857 Reese was in the hand-cart company of missionaries headed east from Salt Lake City bound for missions in Europe.
In the 1860s he was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature from Salt Lake County. He also was a member of the Salt Lake City Council for a time.
Notes[edit]
- ^ "Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946". FamilySearch. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- ^ biography of William H. Folson
- ^ Reddick N. Allred journal
- ^ "article on history of merchants in Utah". Archived from the original on 2010-03-05. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
- ^ "Political History of Nevada (Eleventh Edition), 2006, p. 74" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-02. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
- ^ Deseret News, Aug. 16, 1901
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