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Weber Stake Academy first opened its doors for instruction at the LDS Second Ward Meeting House on the corner of 26th Street and Grant Avenue on January 7, 1889. The academy's two teachers, Louis F. Moench and Edwin Cutler, welcomed nearly one hundred students on the first day, and, by the end of its first term, 195 students in all had registered for the school. This monograph depicts the role the LDS church and its leaders played in founding the school, the background of its first educators and administrators and the financial challenges they confronted in operating the school from 1889 through 1894. Letters of appreciation for Louis F. Moench and a bibliography of primary sources are also provided. |
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Show 66 HOWELL, STINE AND OLMSTEAD LAWYERS David Eccles Building Ogden, Utah December 21, 1950 Mr. Walter A. Kerr Ogden, Utah My dear Sir: Inasmuch as you have asked me concerning my recollection of Professor Louis F. Moench, I am very glad indeed to be able to say this much: That while I was never a pupil of his or under his jurisdiction in the schools, nevertheless, from early manhood up until the time of his death I was very well acquainted with him, and I know that he had a reputation which he richly deserved of being as fine a man and as able a teacher and administrator as the schools ever had. I know further through my brother, who was at least for a brief time, one of his pupils, that his teaching ability was rare indeed, and especially in penmanship, because my brother when I asked him how he became such a good penman, told me that it was due to the teaching of Professor Moench. I have a sample of my brother's writing when he was 70 years of age, and he still wrote the fourishing Spencerian writing which he had learned from Professor Moench. Very truly yours, J. A. HOWELL JAH:mf |
