One hundred Thanksgiving days ago....

One hundred Thanksgiving days ago, Nephi Larsen stood on the Streets of Preston with Oscar A. Kirkham watching students of the Oneida Stake Academy march in a Founder's Day parade. The OSA band was playing and banners were waving in the autumn breeze, wrote Larsen in an article that appeared in the May 1915 edition of the "Improvement Era," a publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"One of the banners, held proudly above the heads of the marching students, had printed on it in bold letters, "Labor conquers everything." Kirkham caught sight of the inscription and remarked, "Labor does not conquer everything. There are many things that can only be conquered by faith."

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meet the OSA's architect

A bit about the architect of the elegant Oneida Stake Academy, Don Carlos Young, can be found at the following link: http://www.byhigh.org/History/Young/JosDonCarlosSr.html

William Lowe Young

According to “Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah” William Lowe Young helped survey the Preston town site, the Mink Creek Ditch, the Cub River Ditch, and helped build the first railroad in Utah. 

His family notes that he was a prominent leader in the building of the ONEIDA STAKE ACADEMY and the Logan Temple (of which he was very proud).

Lowe built one of the first log homes in Preston with a dormer window on the roof. It stood just south of the Preston Cemetery. He owned that farm and the land running north of it to the cemetery.

He was married twice, first to Helen Bunting, and second to Julia Widdowson Reeves.

He had several children, and was beloved by both friends and family.