YEAR ARRIVED Stoddard, Utah 1860. FIRST SETTLERS Judson L Stoddard. HISTORY WROTE BY WHOM & DATE Eunice Clawson Preece. WHO FILED HISTORY Genevia Preece, THEIR ADDRESS Stoddard, Morgan Co. Utah. Morgan, Utah 84050. Mt Joy Camp, CAMP HISTORIAN Larene Preece, RFD 100, Morgan, Utah 84050. Morgan. COUNTY HISTORIAN Dena C Rich, 1266 N Morgan Valley Dr. Morgan Utah 84050. STODDARD. The first man to make a home in Morgan County was Ben Simon. He was a trapper and built the first house in the valley, at what is now known as the Stoddard Spring. Formerly it was known as the Simon Spring. About 1860 Judson L. Stoddard of Farmington purchased the Simon property and the place was given its name in honor of Mr. Stoddard. STODDARD The first man to make a in Morgan County was Ben Simons. He was a trapper and built the first house in the valley, at what is now known as the Stoddard Spring. Formerly it was known as the Simon Spring. About 1860 Judson L. Stoddard of Farmington purchased the Simon property and the place was given its name in honor of Mr. Stoddard. He owned what is now the Hyrum Smith property, he was a very wealthy man and brought a Large number of cattle and horses into the valley. Another noted resident of Stoddard was Lot Smith who played important part in the Echo canyon war. He with only a small company of mountain rangers blocked the canyon against the oncoming troops. They burned the supply trains and drove off the horses and men constructed barricades in the mountains and the canyons. All this was accomplished without the shedding of a drop of blood. Capt. Smith often had his small troop ride around visible hill tops and passes for hours at a stretch making it appear that the mountains were alive with Mormons. Lot Smith utterly devoid of fear and with a physique and a will of irons he fitted for just such dangerous adventure. His home in Stoddard is now owned by Mr. William Lyons. At one time there was quite a settlement around the Stoddard Spring, perhaps a dosen families resided there. Some of the families living there besides J.L. Stoddard and Lot Smith were: Phlemon C. Merrill, Conrad Smith, The Manhards, Henry Rock, Miller Parrish, John Hess, Then Smith (a brother of Lot), Nick Barkdull, Dave Sanders, Johney Hayes and Jake Grover. The people were engaged in farming and stockraising. At first the children went to the North Morgan school. The present school building erected by Henry Mortensen and John Simmons. Miss Olga Edholm taught school there. Charles Pents was the first presiding Elder Stoddard is now a part of the North Morgan Ward (1931). The first school house was bought by Dave Clawson and moved to his place in Stoddard. It is still standing there. Charles Pentz was also the first superintendent of the Stoddard Sunday School for 25 years. Charles J. Pentz came to Morgan from Waynesboro, Penn. in 1887. In 1893, he married. Eliza Loduska Grover, the eldest daughter of Annie Smith & Jacob Grover. Their first home in Stoddard, down where the Fish Hatchery house now stands, they owned part of the land the Fish Hatchery now has, end the farm surrounding it. Mr. Pentz was also a Brick Mason, laying brick for many of the old homes that are still standing in Morgan, the Vallis Hotel, the old Stoddard School and helped with the North Morgan Ward. They moved over on the highway in about 1901, where they lived until they moved to Ogden in 1936.