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Some of My Earliest Recollections
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Snake River Echoes
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June 2002
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John R. Winter (1872-1966) spent his boyhood days in Salt Lake City's 6th Ward. He spent much time at the home and farm of his polygamist grandfather, Thomas W. Winter, who was bishop of the 5th Ward. He witnessed Brigham Young's funeral procession, the stone cutters on Temple Square, oxen delivering granite for the temple, etc. He described the course of City Creek through the city and riding with his father to visit Church Island and a mine in City Creek Canyon. His father worked at odd jobs such as hauling wood, plowing, building railroad bridges, and as a teamster. He attended school in the 6th and 7th wards and then went to LDS College. In 1893, he went to Rexburg, Idaho, where he first worked as a bookkeeper and clerk in a general merchandise store. He became acquainted and traded with many of the settlers in Jackson Hole. After a few years, he established his own store