Will Head Pioneer Parade e < ‘ “~. THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINER a SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE ee 18, 1950 Remembers When-‘ ts Dr. Edward I. Rich,.retired Ogsurgeon, hasn’t tossed a long OQ kb den leg over saddle for some five years now, But he’s going to spend at least some time steed between astride now ke. = “Cc. Dr. E. I. Rich|_ OA = y a western 1 and July get- ting in trim for the long ride he'll make along the city’s “main drag” on the twenty-fourth of that month. The 82-year-old native Utah piomeer has been assigned the role of parade marshal of Ogden’s centennial parade, it was announced Sat- Cc . urday by Ernest R. McKay, rr ti b Pioneer days i Ogden parade’ chairman. Dr. Rich has within the span of his life experienced some of the city’s beginnings that will be portrayed in the centennial parade. He was nine years old when the Mormon and ged prophet, he Brigham remembers leader of the and ‘some of colonization died, that Latter-day church the Young, well of his rug- Saints associates period. Parents Arrived in 1847 The parents of Dr. Rich arrived in Utah in 1847, already married, young enough lang of Zion. to give of the eet tet and co demanding vitality needed in carv‘ing a homeland in the western wilderness. His mother, the former Mary Ann Phelps, was just 18 when she drove her oxteam into the new ret | Oe His father; the late Apostle Charles C. Rich, went on from Utah He returned horse a year later with laden with $15,000 in et nit. a pack re in 1849 at the request of Brigham Young to explore southern Califor- Born in fete: A te gold, representing tithing paid by members of the Mormon battalion and other church members stationed in California, 1868 y Dr. Rich was born in Utah on April 9, 1868, in what is today a part of the Bear lake country in Idaho. During his boyhood on his father’s ranch he learned to ride horses and has been a horse fan- cier all his life. He began the practice of medicine in Ogden 57 years ago, retiring from that profession during Utah’s centennial year, in 1947. He resides today with his wife at 2624, Taylor avenue. The centennial parade is in charge of a group of men and women representing major organizations of Ogden city and Weber county. Their aim is to organize floats and other units that will depict the days. cf 1850, when Ogden was a settlement of crude log homes, on through to today’s modern city, McKay said... ‘Many of the events of Ogden’s centennial parade are within early history to be portrayed in Ogden’s the experience of Dr. Edward I. Rich, shown above, who will head the procession as parade marshal. Af Di. ww ‘ nian — es