2 The young professor soon found employment. His keen mind and his marvelous penmanship attracted the attention of David O. Calker, who in 1867 opened the Commercial Department of the University of Deseret, whose doors had been closed for fifteen years. Mr. Calder undoubtedly employed Mr. Moench. Dr. John R. Park and Brigham Young were also impressed by this young professor. Dr. Park was looking for highly educated and highly specialized professors to make the University one of the leading institutions in the country. Louis F. Moench, then twenty years of age, was employed as Professor of German and Penmanship and Drawing. This opportunity to teach and his joining the Latter-Day Saints Church in the year 1867 were two events which helped materially to shape his career. The position at the University of Deseret he filled honorably during the academic year of 1868-69. He was chosen in 1870 to teach in the Select School to which Brigham Young and others sent their children. Lorenzo Snow, who had become one of his best friends, asked him to come to Brigham City and open a Select School. Due to financial difficulties the University of Deseret had been forced to eliminate some of the more advanced work. Louis F. Moench went to Brigham City and taught with great success for two years. In 1872 Apostle Franklin D. Richards and other leading citizens of Ogden called upon the young professor and finally persuaded him to move to Ogden where he opened what was called the Ogden Seminary. Young men and young women flocked to the new school. One of the young charming pupils was Ruthinda E. Hill, whom he married in 187U and who taught with him for several years and helped greatly in his successful school career. The year 1875 brought new honors to the young professor. He was made County and City Superintendent of schools, which position he held for eight years. He showed great ability as Superintendent and as Principal of the Seminary. The year 1880 was a year of great importance in the educational history of Ogden City. The Board of Trustees built the new Central School which had been planned carefully by Professor Moench and, when finished, was one of the most outstanding school buildings in the Territory of Utah. Louis F. Moench brought a new era in education to Ogden, He, as Superintendent, built and beautified school buildings; he worked for better teachers and better salaries; he inspired a new educational idea in the minds of the people of Weber County and his students; he was recognized all over the state, and was asked by Supt. John Taylor to visit all the northern counties of Utah in the interest of education; he inauguarated teachers institutes and was a speaker at various teachers institutes in the state; he filled a four year mission (1885-88) for the L. D. S. Church in Germany where he wrote and translated many articles and composed the words for many favorite hymns of his native land; he traveled extensively in Europe and absorbed what he saw.