Home of Albert Remund and wife Anna Mina Madsen ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

HOME BUILT BY JOSEPH WILCOX

 

Joseph Wilcox and Candace Brlanchard Rowe Family

 

History Of Wasatch Academy ~~ Written by W. K. Throndson in 1939

HISTORY OF WASATCH ACADEMY
written by W. K. Throndson in 1939
and taken from "History of Mt. Pleasant" by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf

"In the spring of 1875, a young minister, Duncan J. McMillan. came to Mt. "Pleasant in search of health and with a longing to be of some service to his fellows. Learning from some of the local citizens that they desired educational advantages for their children, and having had several years experience in the teaching field, he entered into an agreement with them to purchase what was known as the Liberal Dance Hall, a building which still is standing on Main Street and which is now occupied by the Masonic Order. The first session was held on April 19th of that year, and before the term ended that spring, the attendance had reached well over the hundred mark. The Academy went through the usual vicissitudes of the "growing up" process. At one time it appeared that the school was doomed to cease operations because of lack of funds, but through a providential gift from a missionary society in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the work was enabled to go on.

In 1880, the school was taken over by the Board of Home Missions .of the Presbyterian church and has been under the control of that body since that date.
Of course in the beginning years, the scholastic offerings were restricted to the lower grades. The first high school class was graduated in 1887 and consisted of two members. There were no further graduates until 1895, when one student was graduated. Classes have been graduated each succeeding year, with the exception of 1900 and 1919. It was in this latter year that the local influenza epidemic made it impossible to continue after the first few weeks in the fall.

In 1888, the building on Main Street proved to be too small for efficient work, so a group of Mt. Pleasant business men subscribed the sum of $2,000.00 to help complete a new structure which was located on the site of the present Administration Hall. The old Sanpete County Co-op was the largest single subscriber to this fund.
Popular demand soon brought about the establishment of the boarding department and by 1896, we find that there were twenty four boarding pupils enrolled. The boys lived in the school building and the girls resided in a home a block distant, their home occupying the corner where the Conoco service station is now located southeast corner Main and First West.
In 1901, the music department was added to the curriculum and has continued to be one of the most popular departments up to the present time.

Mr. Ernest Patterson, formerly principal of the Henry Kendall CoIlege of Muskogee, Oklahoma, became principal in 1905, and remained in that position until 1908, when he was succeeded by Walter McKirahan, who later became Dean of Westminster CoIlege in Salt Lake City. During the latter's administration, the Academy Administration Hall was enlarged and remodeled.
Charles Lee Johns was appointed to the principal-ship in 1911. During his tenure, much of the present property was secured, a number of new buildings were erected, and the Administration Hall was again enlarged. The brick schoolhouse and grounds, east of Simpson's, the Albert Peterson residence, and. "Lincoln Hall" were purchased during this period, making the school pro¬perty equivalent to almost a city block.
In 1912, a similar school in Springville, Utah, known as "Hungerford Academy" was closed and consolidated with Wasatch. Much of the equipment from that institution was brought to the Mt. Pleasant plant.
The first important dormitory, "Finks Memorial Hall" for girls, was erected in 1913 by volunteer gifts from all parts of the nation. During the same year, the commercial and home economics departments were added. The next year, the manual training courses were offered for the first time.
Mrs. Charles F. Darlington, of New York City, long a friend of the school, gave funds in 1916, for the first boys' dormitory. The building was named "Charles F. Darlington, Jr. Dormitory" in honor of her young grandson. In 1917, the gymnasium corner was purchased, as well as a small cottage from a Mr. Johansen. By these purchases, the holdings now included one and one-half city blocks of valuable property in the heart of the city.
The "Frances Thompson Memorial Infirmary" was built in 1921, by church friends of Passaic, New Jersey. A year later, the "Johns Gymnasium" was erected, being named for the principal who was so active in its construction. The following year, the "Olivia Sage Memorial Hall" was built, funds being provided from the estate of the wife of the internationally famous philanthropist.
Mr. Johns resigned in 1924, and his position was assumed by W. K. Throndson, who is still superintendent at the time of this writing.


In 1929, the "Duncan J. McMillan Memorial Hall" was built to house a number of the teachers and to serve as a home for the superintendent.
On April 4, 1933, the Administration Hall was destroyed by fire. Classes were housed temporarily for the remainder of the year, and as no building funds were available at the time, the enrollment was restricted during the following year, and Darlington Hall was converted into temporary classrooms. During that period of financial depression, it was even thought in some quar¬ters that it might be necessary to close the Academy, but in the spring of 1934, it was learned that building funds had been made available through the estate of Miss Alice Craighead, of Washington, D. C. Miss Craighead's father was a friend of Dr. McMillan and she had listened as a girl to his tales of his work in Utah. Her will therefore listed the Academy as one of the schools where the Board of National Missions might spend the gift which she left to it. During the summer of 1934, the Craighead Industrial Hall was built to house the manual arts and homemaking de¬partments, and late that summer, excavation was begun on the Craighead Administration Hall. The Industrial Hall was occupied at the opening of school in 1934, and the Administration Hall in February of 1935.
In the spring of 1934, the Board decided to close its boarding and day school for girls at Logan, Utah, and consolidated that institution with Wasatch. Technically, the local school is now called Wasatch-Logan. Miss Margery E. Frink, for many years principal of Logan Academy, was brought to Mt. Pleasant as Dean of Girls, a position which she still holds.

Seeing the need of additional space, the school purchased the Clemensen home, north of the Administration Hall, in 1928, and the Barnett home in 1935. During the summer of 1938, both of these buildings were razed to make possible the erection of a fine new dormitory for girls. Funds for this building were also pro¬vided from the Craighead estate.
The last addition to the Academy property was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Seely, which was purchased in 1938 to serve as a residence for the principal. The Academy now owns approximately two city blocks in the heart of Mt. Pleasant. (1939)
The Administration building of the Wasatch Academy was destroyed by fire in April 1933.

At the present time, the school has a staff of twenty-four members and a student body gathered from ten of the intermountain states. There are accommodations in the boarding department for slightly over 160 pupils equally divided as to boys and girls. The day enrollment exceeds eighty students, making a total enrol¬ment of approximately 250. In line with the policy of the Boar; controlling the Academy, the enrollment will be held at that level unless the Board sees fit to make a special ruling and provide for an increased capacity."

In the Year 2009, Wasatch Academy now owns 43 private residences and has acquired much more property.

Home of Joseph Wilcox and his wife Candace Blanchard Rowe ~~~ from our archives

 

from our archives ......Dr. W. P. Winters

We were not able to find a regular biography of Dr. W. P. Winters.  We searched the internet and talked with people who knew him.  The following is a mixture of items we were able to find.  Peter Hafen remembers him to be a very jovial fellow.  He and his second wife, Mae were frequent visitors at the home of  Peter's "Uncle Dutch" and Aunt Johanna Hafen.



William Philitis Winters was born 24 April 1868. 
Father Henry Adelbert Winters,

Mother: Elizabeth Williams.
He married Nancy Jane Cummings in 1895. She Passed away in 1946.
He married Mary M. Wilcox Patterson in 1947.  Mary (Mae) was also from Mt. Pleasant.
Mae was the daughter of Joseph and Candace Rowe Wilcox.
Candace Rowe Wilcox was a local midwife and assisted Dr. Winters.

He died 10 July 1952 in Price, Utah.  He is buried in Mt. Pleasant.

He started his medical career in Castle Dale, but later moved his practice to Mt. Pleasant

Dr. Winters Hospital as it looks today.  Location:  149 South 100 West, Mt. Pleasant, Utah

News of his aged  father's dying.

1923 He was proprietor of Carbon Hospital in

Price, Utah

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Mayor Winters and Prohibition 

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Below is a notice of his second Marriage.

He married Mary M. Wilcox Patterson in 1947.

Doctor Winters and his second wife, Mae walking down the street. .
submitted by Marilain Black

Marilain Black, a granddaughter of Mary (May) Wilcox, second wife to doctor Winters shares with us a couple of interesting    stories: 

He (Doctor Winters) was her sweetheart before he became a Dr. I understand she married Joseph Sharp Patterson, Sr. on the rebound. 

My Great Grandmother, Candace Rowe Wilcox raised 8 children my grandmother

Mary M. Wilcox, was the eldest child and was 20 when her father died.  She (greatgrandmother)  became the local midwife and helped Dr. Wm. P. Winters (her oldest daughter's first sweetheart) when he was not available.  She was elected as City Treasurer on the Democratic ticket in Nov. 1987

Mary M. Wilcox Patterson  and Dr. Wm. P. Winters met again about 1947 and were married in Pocatello, Idaho by Bishop Henry B. West on 16 Jul 1947.  Dr. Winters and my grandmother

went on a honeymoon to California where his daughter, Louise, lived.  They were offered to be on a program for the oldest newlyweds but my grandmother refused.

He was 80 and she 79.  On their way back to Utah, they passed a terrible accident and stopped to administer first aid.  It was so bad, Dr. asked my grandmother to rip off her underclothes and used them to pack in the wounds.  Dr. Winters died after they had been married five years on 13 Jul 1952 in Price, Utah.  She died

8 Feb 1959 in Salt Lake City.

NOTE:  My grandmother was never called Mary.  We knew her by Dana and know she was called Mae by others.   

The following are items taken from the History of Mt. Pleasant by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf.


p. 195

In 1908, Dr. August Lundberg purchased the first two auto­mobiles brought to Mt. Pleasant. The first, a "Lokomobile" was, however, of short duration, for in the course of a month or so he purchased another, this was a large red touring car called the "Northerner."

In 1909, Dr. W. P. Winters purchased a Buick, and Frank Waldermar an E. M. F. About a year or so later, Christian Hansen purchased a ,Buick, Showman Longsdorf, a Case, and F. C. Jensen, a Cadillac. Among other early cars were those owned by Lyman Aldrich, Wallace Petty and Hyrum Merz. All these cars were very popular with the pleasure seekers and a great deal of time was spent on the road. 

p. 238  1932-33. Mayor, W. P. Winters; Recorder, Daniel Rasmussen; Treasurer, Pearl Larsen; Councilors, H. P. Olsen, four years;Ed. Johnston, John Fowles, Willis N. Madsen, E. W. Wall.

Home of Jens C. Meiling and wife Hannah Peterson ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Home of John Henry Seely and wife Margaret Folkman Peel ~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Wilcox Family ~ From the Johannah Madsen Hafen Collection

Restoration work by David R. Gunderson

PIONEER OF THE MONTH JUNE 2010 ~~~John and Karen Knudsen

This is the story of the lives of  my beloved grandparents, John and Karen Knudsen by Lucille R. Seely; written in approx 1965

John Knudsen was born October 17, 1828.  Karen was born January 28, 1829

Long long ago in the far away country of Denmark, lived a happy family - a father and mother and two small daughters - four and six years old.  The father, John K. was born in Oslo, Norway, but after meeting Karen and she had to become his wife, they settled in Vaile, Denmark.

John was a tailor by trade, and a good one.  He made a good living for his family.  Karen was religiously inclined but wasn't satisfied with her religion.  In the course of time some Mormon missionaries, representing a new religion, Latter Day Saints, visited their home and Karen became very interested.  It was so clear to her that this was what she had been praying for.  The more she investigated, the more positive shw was that it was the truth.  She tried to get her dear John to go with her to the meetings, but he refused by saying, "these missionaries are just trying to break up my family".

Poor Karen, how very sad she was and how she prayed for the Lord to help her and open John's eyes and heart so he too could see this was the true religion.  Her prayers were finally answered as John began to treat the missionaries with more kindness, and soon accompanied Karen and the little girls, Hannah and Marie to the services.  Karen was overjoyed one morning when John very seriously told her he felt in his heart and soul these missionaries were true messengers from God, and when it could be arranged, they would both be baptized.

After their baptisms they could think of nothing except preparing themselves for the long journey across the ocean so they could be in Zion with the body of the saints.  Their friends and family thought they had taken leave of their senses, but they were willing to face anything that might come for the sake of the Gospel.

It must have been hard to leaave their homeland.  Karen spoke often of her beloved Vaile, where lily of the valley and other beautiful flowers grew wild in profusion.  But the decision had been made, so they disposed of their home and belongings and were soon on their way in a sailship.  Karen was pregnant with her third child when she embarked on this perilous journey.

When about midway,  many of the children became ill and little Hannah was one of these, and after a few days she passed away and had to be lowered into the mighty Atlantic.  What a trial this was for poor John and Karen, but they bore it bravely and I have heard my Karen say that when it came her turn to be called to the great beyond, she would try to find her little Hannah.

Days and weeks passed and finally after riding the calm and rough sea for six weeks, they landed in New York.  The next problem was to get transportation.  They came across the plains in 1864.  A son was born enroute.   The following is excerpts taken from the book "Knudsen Chronicles pages: 104- 115:  The son was John Knudsen, Jr..  Records indicate they were at Bitter Creek, Wyoming.  Karen's granddaughter, Lucille reported, "The day her baby was born, Grandmother mixed some bread."  

After about two and half months on the  trail, the wagon trains arrived in Salt Lake City.  The family didn't remain in Salt Lake Valley but soon settled in Provo where Karen and John again made their living as milliner and tailor.  They wanted to stay because they enjoyed city life, but their plans changed when Brigham Young called them to make their way to Mt. Pleasant, a small settlement in Sanpete County, Utah. 

A fort was built in Mt. Pleasant in 1859.  The inside of the thick walls served as the back wall of each of the living quarters, which were all sixteen feet square.  All their doors and wondows faced Pleasant Creek, which ran through the center of the fort.  A bridge crossed the creek about halfway through the fort.  Close to the bridge was the long, earthen-floored, one room schoolhouse run by A.B. Strickland and Mrs. Oscar Winters.  A huge fireplace in the east end of the schoolroom served for both heat and light.  The same building served as chapel, theater, dance hall, and meeting house.

When the John Knudsen family reached Mt. Pleasant, they lived in one of the sixteen-foot square rooms in the fort.  The exact date of their move to Mt. Pleasant is not known, but John's beginning date of service in the infantry of the Home Guard was 1 April 1866.

Their daughter, Johanna, then six years old, died 14 July that year, and was buried in one of the first graves in the  Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.  Boundaries were later surveyed and changed slightly, so the burial place was lost.  This was a source of great sadness to Karen, who wanted to know exactly where her daughter was buried so she could take flowers.  Their third daughter, whom they christened Anna Johanna, was born in Mt. Pleasant on 8 December 1866.

By the time the final peace treaty ending the Black Hawk War was signed in 1872, many settlers had already erected homesteads outside the fort.  The Knudsen family lived in the fort until John Jr. was about six years old in 1870, so the family was among those outside the fort before the final peace treaty was signed.  Karen gave birth to another son, Andrew, on 21 July 1870. 

Family stories indicated that John Sr. traded their feather bed for a city lot with an adobe house which lacked a roof.  This entry in the book Mt. Pleasant confirms that fact:  "about this time John Knudsen Sr. purchased his city lot, giving their choice feather bed in payment."  Their property was located at what is now Third South and Second west, quite a distance from the protection of the fort. 

John Sr. and John Jr. worked together to cut straight willow, weave them together, and plaster them with mud to make a roof. 

Earning a livelihood on the farm was not easy for the tailor and  the milliner, former city dwellers.  Making the transition from lush, green, rain-blessed Denmark to the dry, thirsty fields of Sanpete County must have been very difficult.  John, Sr. never did adjust to farm life in rural Utah.  He continued to carefully stitch articles of clothing, sometimes seated on a table or bench with his legs folded in front of him in what we would call 'indian fashion'. Most often, he made burial clothes for people in Mount Pleasant and nearby communities.

With young John's help, Karen managed the home and fields.  Native bunch grass and sagebrush had to be grubbed out slowly and painfully before crops could be planted.  Planting, weeding, irrigating, and harvesting required long hours of hard physical labor. 

Karen and John were thrilled when their daughter, Annie, who married Magnus G. Rolph, gave birth to a beautiful, dark-eyed baby girl whom they named Etta Althea.  They welcomed a second granddaughter, Ena Lucille, on 8 March 1890.  This blond, blue-eyed baby was born at Karen and John's home.

However, a tragedy occurred when Annie's third daughter, Anna, was born on 27 September 1891.  Annie probably contracted 'childbed fever' caused by lack of cleanliness on the part of the midwife.  During her illnes, Karen helped Annie in every way she could and also took care of the three little girls.

In her lifestory, Lucille wrote. "Mother was very sick, and Grandma and Grandpa Knudsen stayed close by.  Grandma told me lots of times of bringing me to see my mother.  I climbed on the bed and loved her so hard, and Grandma said to Mother, "I better take Lucille away, as it's too hard on you."  My Mother replied, "let her love me, I'm afraid she won't have me  very long."  "She told her mother, 'you take my little girls, and if possible, raise them together', and Grandma did.  "Our dear Mother hung on for about three weeks, and then the reaper came and took her away."

John and Karen became substitute parents to the newborn daughter and her two older sisters. 

Lucille's remembrances of her grandparents: Karen was a good housekeeper After the beds were made, and that was early, nothing could be laid on them; not even a hat. She insisted on everyone wearing an apron. Then she cooked a meal, her cooking utensils were always washed and put away before the meal was served.
Sunday was the girls' day off. All Karen asked of them was that they attend Sunday School and Sacrament Meeting. If they did this they could go to the depot and see the trains come and go. Really a highlight in their young lives.

above is Karen and John (center front) at the 1914 Pioneer Celebration

John and Karen had five children, but only the two sons lived to raise their own families.  The posterity from the three granddaughters they raised: Etta R. Peterson, Lucille R. Seely and Anna R. Gunderson was much greater than that of the sons.

John and Karen were now getting along in years and Karen often said she was so tired and ready to go to meet those who had gone before.  Thirty years after the death of her daughter, Annie, she passed away quietly at the age of ninety three and was laid to rest beside her daughter and her daughter's  husband Magnus Rolph.  She was buried on John's birthday.

John lived five more years with a granddaughter, Anna and her husband, Vern Gunderson.  He was very lonely for Karen after their long life together.  He enjoyed visiting the Manti Temple, which he helped to build.  He was a faithful tithe payer.

In January, 1926, John attended church and within a week he was also taken home to join Karen.  He was buried on January 28th, Karen's birthday.

God bless the memories of these two noble pioneers and all who sacrificed to make this desert blossom as a rose.   ~ Lucille R;.Seely

Postscript:  In 1966, Ruby Knudsen Wiseman, in doing genealogical research, discovered Uncle Andrew Knudsen was the only child sealed to John and Karen.  Arrangements were made to complete the sealings in the Salt Lake Temple.  Chesla S. Patterson would stand for her grandmother, Annie Knudsen Rolph.  Present were Ruby K. Wiseman, her husband and Chesla K. Patterson.

During the sealing ordinance, Chesla felt the pressure of a loving caress on her hand.  She quietly looked to see from whence it came.  It was then she realized who that person was; and for the first time felt the living presence of her grandmother.  Tears of joy fell from her eyes as she whispered a prayer of Thanksgiving to her Heavenly Father for the heritage that is here because of the sacrifices made by her beloved great grandparents, John and Karen Knudsen.

Another spiritual experience by Ruby Knudsen Parken Wiseman
"After I had been working in genealogy for a while, I was having a rather hard time finding leads to
Grandma's family, so I wrote to her granddaughter, Lucille Rolph Seely, who was reared by her.  I asked what information she had to help me in my research.  She wrote back to tell me about a  little black book where Grandmother kept information of the Temple work they had done, but Lucille felt sure the book must have been lost because she hadn't seen it for many years.  Then, in a few weeks, I received a package in the mail containing the little black book!  A lady brought the book to Lucille in a store one day an said, "This must be your Grandmother's."  "This book proved to be a gold mine to me in finding those of Grandma's loved ones who needed their Temple work done.

"Some weeks later, I found myself waking every morning about two or three o'clock with my thoughts on Grandma and Grandpa.  After several nights of this, I wondered why.  Was it possible they were trying to tell me something?  I spent many hours trying to find the answer.  Then the thought came to me that their older children had not been sealed to them!  Uncle Andrew, their last child, was born  after  they themselves were sealed in the  old Endowment House where, at the time, only couples were married and sealed.  He was born under the covenant, but what of their other children?.... I finally  concluded the other children must not have been sealed to them.  Father was the oldest living child and married in the Manti temple after its dedication in 1887.  Anna, the next child was married in the Logan Temple before the Manti Temple was in use.  The two girls who were born in Denmark both died very young; the one was buried in the ocean and the other died shortly after they went to Mt. Pleasant.  My grandparents probably thought their own sealing would automatically take care of the sealing of their children to them.

"When I made out a family group sheet and put it in the library to be processed and checked, I knew they had made me understand what they wanted, and my nights were not disturbed again.  I am so grateful to know that communication can come through from beyond the veil so important missions can be accomplished.  It was a marvelous experience to be part of this reunion at the time the sealing was performed in the Salt Lake Temple.  As I have done endowments and sealings for their nieces and nephews, I have experienced such a joy in this work, and I have felt their presence and help in many ways."

History of Wasatch Academy

HISTORY OF WASATCH ACADEMY
written by W. K. Throndson in 1939
and taken from "History of Mt. Pleasant" by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf

"In the spring of 1875, a young minister, Duncan J. McMillan. came to Mt. "Pleasant in search of health and with a longing to be of some service to his fellows. Learning from some of the local citizens that they desired educational advantages for their children, and having had several years experience in the teaching field, he entered into an agreement with them to purchase what was known as the Liberal Dance Hall, a building which still is standing on Main Street and which is now occupied by the Masonic Order. The first session was held on April 19th of that year, and before the term ended that spring, the attendance had reached well over the hundred mark. The Academy went through the usual vicissitudes of the "growing up" process. At one time it appeared that the school was doomed to cease operations because of lack of funds, but through a providential gift from a missionary society in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the work was enabled to go on.

In 1880, the school was taken over by the Board of Home Missions .of the Presbyterian church and has been under the control of that body since that date.
Of course in the beginning years, the scholastic offerings were restricted to the lower grades. The first high school class was graduated in 1887 and consisted of two members. There were no further graduates until 1895, when one student was graduated. Classes have been graduated each succeeding year, with the exception of 1900 and 1919. It was in this latter year that the local influenza epidemic made it impossible to continue after the first few weeks in the fall.

In 1888, the building on Main Street proved to be too small for efficient work, so a group of Mt. Pleasant business men subscribed the sum of $2,000.00 to help complete a new structure which was located on the site of the present Administration Hall. The old Sanpete County Co-op was the largest single subscriber to this fund.
Popular demand soon brought about the establishment of the boarding department and by 1896, we find that there were twenty four boarding pupils enrolled. The boys lived in the school building and the girls resided in a home a block distant, their home occupying the corner where the Conoco service station is now located southeast corner Main and First West.
In 1901, the music department was added to the curriculum and has continued to be one of the most popular departments up to the present time.

Mr. Ernest Patterson, formerly principal of the Henry Kendall CoIlege of Muskogee, Oklahoma, became principal in 1905, and remained in that position until 1908, when he was succeeded by Walter McKirahan, who later became Dean of Westminster CoIlege in Salt Lake City. During the latter's administration, the Academy Administration Hall was enlarged and remodeled.
Charles Lee Johns was appointed to the principal-ship in 1911. During his tenure, much of the present property was secured, a number of new buildings were erected, and the Administration Hall was again enlarged. The brick schoolhouse and grounds, east of Simpson's, the Albert Peterson residence, and. "Lincoln Hall" were purchased during this period, making the school pro¬perty equivalent to almost a city block.
In 1912, a similar school in Springville, Utah, known as "Hungerford Academy" was closed and consolidated with Wasatch. Much of the equipment from that institution was brought to the Mt. Pleasant plant.
The first important dormitory, "Finks Memorial Hall" for girls, was erected in 1913 by volunteer gifts from all parts of the nation. During the same year, the commercial and home economics departments were added. The next year, the manual training courses were offered for the first time.
Mrs. Charles F. Darlington, of New York City, long a friend of the school, gave funds in 1916, for the first boys' dormitory. The building was named "Charles F. Darlington, Jr. Dormitory" in honor of her young grandson. In 1917, the gymnasium corner was purchased, as well as a small cottage from a Mr. Johansen. By these purchases, the holdings now included one and one-half city blocks of valuable property in the heart of the city.
The "Frances Thompson Memorial Infirmary" was built in 1921, by church friends of Passaic, New Jersey. A year later, the "Johns Gymnasium" was erected, being named for the principal who was so active in its construction. The following year, the "Olivia Sage Memorial Hall" was built, funds being provided from the estate of the wife of the internationally famous philanthropist.
Mr. Johns resigned in 1924, and his position was assumed by W. K. Throndson, who is still superintendent at the time of this writing.


In 1929, the "Duncan J. McMillan Memorial Hall" was built to house a number of the teachers and to serve as a home for the superintendent.
On April 4, 1933, the Administration Hall was destroyed by fire. Classes were housed temporarily for the remainder of the year, and as no building funds were available at the time, the enrollment was restricted during the following year, and Darlington Hall was converted into temporary classrooms. During that period of financial depression, it was even thought in some quar¬ters that it might be necessary to close the Academy, but in the spring of 1934, it was learned that building funds had been made available through the estate of Miss Alice Craighead, of Washington, D. C. Miss Craighead's father was a friend of Dr. McMillan and she had listened as a girl to his tales of his work in Utah. Her will therefore listed the Academy as one of the schools where the Board of National Missions might spend the gift which she left to it. During the summer of 1934, the Craighead Industrial Hall was built to house the manual arts and homemaking de¬partments, and late that summer, excavation was begun on the Craighead Administration Hall. The Industrial Hall was occupied at the opening of school in 1934, and the Administration Hall in February of 1935.
In the spring of 1934, the Board decided to close its boarding and day school for girls at Logan, Utah, and consolidated that institution with Wasatch. Technically, the local school is now called Wasatch-Logan. Miss Margery E. Frink, for many years principal of Logan Academy, was brought to Mt. Pleasant as Dean of Girls, a position which she still holds.

Seeing the need of additional space, the school purchased the Clemensen home, north of the Administration Hall, in 1928, and the Barnett home in 1935. During the summer of 1938, both of these buildings were razed to make possible the erection of a fine new dormitory for girls. Funds for this building were also pro¬vided from the Craighead estate.
The last addition to the Academy property was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Seely, which was purchased in 1938 to serve as a residence for the principal. The Academy now owns approximately two city blocks in the heart of Mt. Pleasant. (1939)
The Administration building of the Wasatch Academy was destroyed by fire in April 1933.

At the present time, the school has a staff of twenty-four members and a student body gathered from ten of the intermountain states. There are accommodations in the boarding department for slightly over 160 pupils equally divided as to boys and girls. The day enrollment exceeds eighty students, making a total enrol¬ment of approximately 250. In line with the policy of the Boar; controlling the Academy, the enrollment will be held at that level unless the Board sees fit to make a special ruling and provide for an increased capacity."

In the Year 2009, Wasatch Academy now owns 43 private residences and has acquired much more property.