Introduction First of all I want to express my appreciation to President Henry Aldous Dixon who encouraged this piece of research and to his secretary, Marian Brown, who was so helpful with the typing. I thank Mr. Elliot Sampson and Mr. Howard A. Garner of the Stand Examiner who so often unlocked the basement door that I might read the dust-covered but well preserved old newspapers of years age. I thank Assistant State Superintendent of Schools, Dr. William P. Miller, formerly Assistant Superintendent of the City Schools, who permitted me to read the minutes of the Weber County and Ogden City School Boards. I am especially grateful to Laura Moench Jenkins for our many talks and to whom I am indebted for many of this early incidents of her father's life, also for the use of her father's diaries, journals and scrapbooks. I want to thank Ruth Moench Bell and Delecta Moench Davis for their, and A. William Lund, L.D.S. Church historian, who allowed me free use of diaries, newspapers, records and books which have helped me so much. Finally, I wish to express my appreciation to the many former students of Professor Moench with whom I have conversed. Walter A. Kerr