KAYSVILLE KINKS - #92 IN SERIES - AUGUST 1898 Christopher Layton (1821-1898)

KAYSVILLE KINKS - #92 IN SERIES - AUGUST 1898

• William L. Galbraith and Albert Beazer have leased the Kaysville Roller Mills (currently area of Walgreens) and expect to commence operations next week. The mill is being remodeled and repaired some.
• There are 627 children in the 8th School District that are of school age, an increase of 4 over last year.
• The Flint and Guthrie still is to start up next week. T. J. Robins has been appointed gauger. (job is to measure whiskey at withdrawal and collect taxes)
• Elders Frank L. Layton and Hubert C. Burton leave for Great Britain on the 27th.
• A letter was received from Oscar C. Bennett which stated he and William Garlick were both well. They are getting ready to enter Santiago (they are fighting in the Spanish American War)
• Christopher Layton Dead - he peacefully passed away in Kaysville on Sunday evening August 7. He was a great colonizer, successful financier, prominent ecclesiastic, and poor man's friend. He was a Private in the Mormon Battalion, Mexican War. He is distinguished as having one of the largest families in the Mormon church, having been the husband of 10 wives, 65 children and 104 grandchildren at the time of his death. The town Layton bears his name.
• PHOTO: 9 Memorial at his funeral in 1898, courtesy Heritage Museum of Layton.