Captain James Brown--No 112, Ogden, UT
N 41° 13.210 W 111° 58.274
12T E 418589 N 4563652
The "City Hall Park" in Ogden, Utah, has numerour plaques, history signs and memorials, including this one for the well-respected Captain James Brown.
Waymark Code: WMA49X
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 11/14/2010
Views: 20
The text on the monument reads:
(The First Plaque on the monument:)
"No 112
Captain James Brown
Captain James Brown, pioneer, soldier and one of the founders of Ogden, enlisted in the Mormon Ballation of the U.S. Army in the Mexican War, July 18, 1846, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and was made Captain of Company C. Longest march of INfantry ever recorded, at Santa Fe, Captain Brown was placed in charge of the sick detachment and ordered to Pueblo where they spent the winter of 1846-47 with a group of converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints enroute from Mississippi to the Salt Lake Valley.
In the spring he marched his men by way of Fort Laramie and the South Pas arriving in the Vally July 23, 1847, closely following Brigham Young and the Morman Pioneers."
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(The second plaque on the monument:)
"Erected July 29, 1947
Captain James Brown
Early in August he left by way of Fort Hall for California to collect the Army pay due members of the Battalion. Returning late in 1847, he stopped at the Fort of Miles Goodyear, a trapper, located near the juction of the Ogden and Weber Rivers. From Goodyear he purchased for $3,000 all of the land now comprising Weber County together with some livestock and the Fort.
the land was conveyed to Captain Brown in a Mexican Land Grant, this entire area being at that time a part of Mexico. In January 1848, he settled here with his family and began the colonizatoin of Brownsville, late Ogden. He was born September 30, 1801, and died September 30, 1969.
This monument erected by descendents of Captain James Brown, Citizens of Weber County and the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association."
Marker Name: Captain James Brown
Marker Type: City
County: Salt Lake
City: Ogden
Group Responsible for Placement: Descendents of Captain James Brown, Citizens of Weber County and the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association.
Date Dedicated: July 29, 1947
Marker Number: 112
Web link(s) for additional information:
http://history.utah.gov/apps/markers/detailed_results.php?markerid=1697
Addtional Information: Not listed
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