![]() ![]() ![]() Mayor David Eccles declared a city-wide holiday for the laying of the cornerstone. The building was designed by architect Henry Van Brunt and featured a large electric clock tower that was donated by Ogden jeweler John S. In 1888, the Ogden Union Railway & Depot Company was organized to fill Ogden's need for a new depot. Therefore, the building became a “union” station. In 1878, the companies agreed to use a common depot – the original 1869 Union Pacific building. However, the decision of Brigham Young to designate land in Ogden for specific use as railroad yards, eventually led to Ogden becoming the “Junction City.” The designated space included facilities serving UP and CP, the Utah Central branch line to Salt Lake City, and the Utah Northern line to Cache Valley. There was some controversy between Ogden and Corinne for designation as the final junction point. By mid-January 1870, ten trains were operating daily through the Ogden terminal. Both companies built and maintained facilities in Ogden, including express offices, engine, lodging, and baggage houses. It was agreed that Ogden would serve as a temporary terminal for both the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. In 1869, having completed its part of the transcontinental rail line, the Union Pacific Railroad constructed a line through Weber Canyon to Ogden on a grade completed by men working under a contract granted Brigham Young, president of the LDS church. It can be found in the Library of Congress. The author, William Still, was a black abolitionist and businessman who was a key member of the Philadelphia stop in the freedom network. The book gives the testimonies of hundreds of slaves who escaped to freedom using the network of agents and safe houses. “The Underground Railroad” was published in 1872. He was a member of the Baptist Church in good and regular standing. He, by the way, “now lives in Hanover county, about eighteen miles from Richmond, and for fear of the sheriff, makes himself very scarce in that city.” ( I was confused by this sentence until I realized that William is referring to Walter Tyler being afraid of the sheriff).Īt fourteen years of age, William was sold for eight hundred dollars he would have brought in 1857, probably twelve hundred and fifty dollars. Twice William had been sold and bought in, on account of his master’s creditors, and for many months had been expecting to be sold again, to meet pressing claims in the hands of the sheriff against Tyler. His own slaves, spoken of as having been gambled away, came by his father-he has been married the second time.” Sale And Resale Through her I fell into the hands of Tyler. ![]() His wife was a tolerably well-disposed woman in some instances-she was a tall, thin-visaged woman, and stood high in the community. Tyler was a thin raw-boned man, with a long nose, the picture of the president. I was hired out this year for two hundred dollars, but when I would go to him to make complaints of hard treatment from the man I was hired to, he would say: “G-d d-n it, don’t come to me, all I want is my money.” “What made me leave was because I worked for him all my life-time and he never gave me but two dollars and fifteen cents in all his life. He shot at me once with a double-barrelled gun. He was a doctor, circulated high amongst southerners, though he never lived agreeably with his wife, would curse her and call her all kinds of names that he should not call a lady.įrom a boy of nine up to the time I was fifteen or sixteen, I don’t reckon he whipped me less than a hundred times. He had owned as high as forty head of slaves, but he had gambled them all away. “He (master) was about sixty-five years of age was a barbarous man, very intemperate, horse racer, chicken-cock fighter and gambler. Tyler, brother of ex-President Tyler, who was described as follows: William acknowledged that he was the property of Walter H. William unquestionably possessed a fair share of common sense, and just enough distaste to Slavery to arouse him most resolutely to seek his freedom. William Taylor’s Account Of Walter Tyler. ![]()
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