companions went to his cabin and after prayer Father rebuked the storm in the name of the Lord and commanded the waves to be still and the storm abated. I have heard Mother state on many occasions when the family was young and the storms were severe Father would ask the Lord to temper the elements and they would become calm. He served in the bishopric for many years and on the high counsel. Toward the end of his life he was sustained as Bishop of the ward under the instruction of President Joseph F. Smith, President of the Church, to the President of the Stake. I heard the President of the Stake confess to Father that he should have been Bishop many years before but because of some personal differences between him and Father, he was not sustained until the President of the Stake was instructed to do so by President Joseph F. Smith. In Croydon in the early days there were close to five hundred people and pioneer life made men hardy and strong and rough and sometimes wicked and also some of the church would become self- righteous. This class of people always feared Father because he could see and know the intent of their hearts; of course they caused him a lot of difficulty. I remember him stating on one occasion he was riding from his ranch to his home in Croydon and he stopped and sat on a rock and talked to the Lord and told the Lord he had tried to do what was right all the days of his life and he said the Lord told him he would triumph over all his enemies and they would be scattered and from that time forth Father endured no more persecution. Father was appointed bishop in 1909 and acted until he was succeeded September 9,1917, by his son, J. Melvin Toone. It is stated in his blessing that he would make friends wherever he went. When the Union Pacific Railroad was being built, Father worked for the railroad as a supervisor. Then he was asked to open a quarry at Devil's Slide and he loaded those flat sandstone rocks on cars and they were shipped out to build abutments for the railroad bridges and all the bridges for many miles east and west were built from rock gotten out from this quarry located at Devil's Slide. This was a great blessing to Father in maintaining his large family and also to the community for he employed about a dozen men in this work. This work lasted for a good many years. When the Devil's Slide cement plant was about to be built, he saw the superintendent who had just arrived that day and told him of his experience and asked him for the position of supervising the work of constructing the plant doing the grading and the draining of Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together the ground and getting the rock out for the foundations. He obtained the position and soon after the superintendent brought his wife and four little girls. They lived in a comfortable tent on Father's home place while a home was being built for him at Devil's Slide. He received very fine wages and was employed for a good many years. When the plant was completed, he supervised the work of getting out the rock which they made cement of. This consisted of using a good deal of explosives and building tracks to take the rocks to the crusher. He was employed there until he became what they say today of retirement age. He was for eighteen years County Commissioner of Morgan County. He was defeated for reelection because, as chairman of the board of County Commissioners, he had passed an ordinance consolidating the schools of Morgan County. Of course he was vindicated and the people realized later that his actions were right. He was a man of great power - evil people feared him, but the honest in heart loved him. He was always of a jovial disposition and enjoyed all kinds of physical activity - straight as an arrow and active as the best of athletes. He could cut more grain with a scythe or a cradle and tie it than any man in the country. Always full of fun and jokes that were always wholesome and clean. Wherever there was company he was the life of the party, as Mother said, "Old Smart Alec." He often said when he married his wife, he loved her enough to eat her, and in a joking way he would say, "I often wish I had." He was an eloquent preacher of the Gospel, forceful and powerful. I was between ten and twelve years of age when he went on his mission and I was always at the Post Office when we expected a letter from Father and I would run home with the letter to Mother. I think we enjoyed his mission as much as he did. When he came home he would read the scriptures out loud and when I went on my mission I found I knew most of the scriptures a missionary should know - where they were found and the quotation, just from listening to Father reading from the standard works of the Church. At any community activity he was always on hand to do more than his share. Any construction or supervision he was always appointed to direct the work. His name should go down in history to his posterity as an ideal to follow. He never accumulated wealth. His time was spent in community activity and providing for others when they were in need. He celebrated his Golden Wedding Anniversary March 4, 1915. They lived together fifty-four years before Mother passed away. A few months 209