Monthly Archives: November 2014

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 […]

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

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 […]