BARBERS REMEMBERED (From our archives)

 

Straight Razor Display


A display to honor the local barbers throughout the history of our established community. It is a collection of straight-edge razors once used to shave the beards of pioneers as well as the more modern day gentlemen who preferred to go to a barber than to do it themselves.


The first two barbers on record, found in Hilda Madsen Longdorf’s History of Mt. Pleasant are J. C. Barton and C. E. Hampshire. Both of these barbers lost their barber shops in a devastating fire in the early morning of July 24th 1898. Many other businesses on the north side of Main Street were a total loss as well.


Peter Hafen has been working on this collection for some time. He has been able to collect straight-edge razors from the families of known barbers of our community. For those barbers that he was not able to find a razor, he has substituted from his own collection, as this is a hobby for him.


Peter is a licensed barber and has given many gentlemen a clean shave. He once worked in the Hotel Utah Barbershop. He also owned and operated his own shop in Provo, called Yogi’s. After moving back to Mt. Pleasant, he cut hair at night in his barbershop on State Street.


The barbers remembered in this collection are: J.C. Barton, C.E. Hampshire, James Walker, Bill Rowe, Slim Borg, Lorraine Beck, Keith Allred, Wayne Stansfield, Deb Miller, Bardell Beck, Bernard Burnside, Jim Fillis, Dewey Scow, Alt Brotherson, Orval Simons, and Peter Hafen.


It is hoped that this collection will be viewed by many generations in the years to come. It marks a very important trade practiced here in Mt. Pleasant, and brings back memories of those days when the local barbershop was not only where locals went to get a haircut or shave, but also to catch up on the news of the day.

HUNTING ???

Standing: Alvin Christensen, Sitting: Boyd Waldemar 

 

IN THE YEAR 1905, THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH'S BIRTH THE CHURCH ERECTED A MONUMENT

This info is taken from the booklet "THE BIRTH OF MORMONISM IN PICTURE " published by Deseret Sunday School Union , Salt Lake City, Utah .

The photographs are by George E. Anderson.

The narrative and notes are by Prof. John Henry Owens.

MT. PLEASANT GUARD UNIT STANDS AT READY ~~~ Chesley R. Christensen ~~~ July 1976

 

SANPETE COUNTY FAIR ~~~ 2026

 

MT. PLEASANT NEWSLETTER ~~~JUNE 2026

 

NORTH WARD RELIEF SOCIETY PICNIC ~~~ AUGUST 1977

Twas a long time ago ! I can only recognize a few.  But most of them are now dead.

I see Afton Brotherson, Helen Lasson, Verla Coates, Thelma McArthur, Fanon Cook, Shirley Shelley, Eva Lay.

 

MAYBELLE FRANDSEN'S LETTERS TO THE PYRAMID

KERRY VERGE DEUEL ~~~ PASSES AWAY ~~~ (from our archves

 

MT. PLEASANT CREAMERY ON STATE STREET IN 1892

 

It stood where Wasatch Academy Arts Studio Stands now 

Snippets about the creamery taken from History of Mt. Pleasant by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf 

Ole Hansen and the Barton Brothers organized a Creamery Company, which was the first in Mt. Pleasant, and the third in the Territory. History of Mt. Pleasant p 172, Longsdorf 

"The Mount Pleasant Creamery has been running more pleas­antly for the milk producers than for the stockholders. A gentle man interested therein states that they had found out that unless a sufficient supply of milk could be procured, a creamery could not be a financial success.  History of Mt. Pleasant p 179, Longsdorf 

Borg and Ole Clemen­sen had a harness shop near the Beaumann home, and Abner Crane had a blacksmith shop near where the Crane home is now. Ole Hansen and Kimber Barton had a fine creamery where the hotel is now. James Burns was the sheriff and Thomas Braby was marshal. Mr. Oman drove the mail wagon. John Fredrick Fechser ran the mill.

Things have changed since 1890, "we have automobiles now," said Mr. Web Green.

History of Mt. Pleasant p 324,  Longsdorf  (1935)

Some of the early Main Street stores which need only be men­tioned in passing, were Brown & Acord, the creamery stations managed by Peter Matson and Ole Hansen, and James B. Porter's book store a block east; Tarvey's notion store, Arrowsmith notion store, Aldrich Brothers in the Progress Building, W. O. Ash & Company, Hardware, which started as a tin shop and developed into a leading hardware store, located in part of the building used by the Consolidated Furniture Company. History of Mt. Pleasant p 329  Longsdorf  

BOOK OF MT. PLEASANT ~~~ AUNTY HYDE SCHOOL ~~~HILDA MADSEN LONGSDORF

 

24th ANNUAL RAT FINK REUNION

 

HENNING PEDERSEN PIHL and Karen Kirstene Madsen and Daughter Caroline, Johanna Louisa Frederikke~~~PIONEERS OF THE MONTH ~~~JUNE 2026

 

Henning Pedersen Pihl Biography by Sylvia Randall Peel

Henning Pedersen Pihl was born the 26th of February 1799 in the small parish of Poulsker on the farm Dyndebygaard, just down the road from the Poulsker Church.  Henning's father was Henning Pedersen also, and his mother was Ane Olsdatter.  Henning was raised with two older sisters -7 and 9 years older (his parents had lost four children in between) and his mother died when he was two years old.  His father married Kirsten Pedersdatter the next year.

In 1818, when Henning was twenty, he moved to another parish two miles west of Poulsker, called Pedersker.  He had taken the last name of Pihl. (A pihl is a poplar tree or willow that is grown on the island.)  Under the "Names Act of 1828" Danes were required to take surnames.  Henning was probably associated with or worked on a name Pilesgaard (or Pihlgaard or Piilgaard) from which he took his name.  There are several Pilegaard homes close to Dyndebygaard in Poulsker. Willows were used in home building in Utah as lath on which plaster was applied to finish the interior walls of a home or building.  There is a log home built by his grandson, Christian F. Peel in which willow branches were used in this manner.  The home is located about two miles southwest of Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

 

On the 16th of October 1819, Henning married Karen Kirstine Madsen in Pedersker Church.  She was born and lived in Pedersker.  They relocated in or near Aaker, the village in the center of Bornholm.  Their first son, Peder Madsen Pihl was born to them August 24, 1820.  AnneKirstine Elsine Pihl was born 14 March 1826 and died two days later.  Caroline Pihl was born 14 February 1827 and she died 12 May 1835.  The second Caroline Pihl was born 5 March 1836.  They were all born in or near Aaker and christened in the beautiful Aaker church.  Peder and Caroline lived to adulthood and raised families.

Henning, Karen and Caroline were baptized into the LDS church November 11, 1851 by Hans Peder Jensen.  They went during the night to the beach where they were baptized.  They were some of the first members on Bornholm.  They were persecuted greatly by their fellow countrymen.  Henning, Karen and Caroline chose to immigrate from Denmark the fall of 1852.  They received their "Going Out" permits November 6, 1852.  They sailed with 25 adults and 11 children for Copenhagen to join other Scandinavian saints.  They sailed for England on December 20th via Keil.  Brother John Forsgren was their leader.  They left Liverpool on January 16, 1853 with 297 saints on the Forest Monarch.  They landed in New Orleans on March 12, 1853.  Then they traveled up the Mississippi River to Keokuk, Iowa.  May 21, they left Keokuk and traveled by ox train to Salt Lake City arriving on September 30, 1853.  They were the first large company of Scandinavian saints to emigrate to Utah.  The LDS emigration records list Henning as a doctor and also the last name is spelled Piil.

Karen died November 30, 1853 in Salt Lake City, two months after arriving in Utah.  Shortly after her death Henning and Caroline moved to Lehi.  The following year Peder and his wife Christiane came to Utah.  Shortly after that they all traveled to Salt Lake, they could not find Karen's grave.  To this day we don't know where she was buried.

Caroline married Hans Y. Simpson in 1855.  Henning married Johanna Hansen in the Endowment House in SLC on May 23rd, 1856. Henning lived in Lehi about five years.  After the Utah war he and his family traveled to Ephraim passing through Salt Creek Canyon on June 4, 1858 unarmed.  The following day several pioneers were massacred by the Indians there.  Shortly after they moved to Mt. Pleasant.  Henning helped build the fort.  He settled here and lived in Mt. Pleasant the rest of his life.  He built a small home on the southeast corner of 300 west and 400 south.

Following the death of his second wife he married Hannah Louisa Frederikke (probably Mina).  In the 1880 census he is listed as blind.  Also at that time he and his wife were caring for his wife's granddaughter.  Her mother had died and her father was serving a mission.  Henning died August 6, 1885.  He is buried in the Mt. Pleasant City cemetery with his second and third wife.

The following is research on the Henning Peel home done by Tudy Barentsen Standlee.