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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 72 Salt Lake City, Utah June 12, 1950 Professor Walter A. Kerr Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Brother: In compliance with your request that I should write you a few lines expressing my appreciation of the late Professor Louis F. Moench, I am pleased to submit the following. I was living at Ogden, Utah, at the time the Professor came there to make his home, and I knew him quite intimately until the time of his death. In the fall of the year 1872 I enrolled as a student in his Academy and was a regular attendant until the end of the school year, the midsummer of the next year. Professor Moench was considered one of the ablest and most progressive teachers in the then Territory of Utah at that time. He was cultured, considerate, cheerful, studious, ambitious sincere, courageous, and always had at heart the interest and welfare of his students, as well as the reputation and standing of his school. He was a good teacher, a good friend and neighbor, and a progressive, law abiding citizen--believing, as he did, in the efficacy of the Golden Rule, that he should do unto others as he would have them do unto him. And so living, he had the love and respect of the community. Sincerely your brother, CHARLES C. RICHARDS |
