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461		BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD­
	JOSEPH FIFE, one of Weber County*s well-know sheep men, has been a res­ident of Riverdale Ward for forty-six years, which makes him the oldest res­ident here. Although he came to Utah as a child, he has a very vivid remembrance of the journey across the plains by ox team, and of the vast herds of buffalo and other wild animals that roamed the country at that period. In the years that have since passed, many changes have been brought about, none more striking or significant than the fact that one may now travel for days in the wildest parts of this West­ern
country without encountering a bison, the few specimens that remain being found in the game
preserves of the country.
	A Scotchman by birth, our subject was born in Clackmannanshire, on September 9, 1841, and is the son of Adam and Helen (Sharp) Fife, both natives of Scotland, where the father was born on July 4, 1806. He was by trade a coal miner, and followed that all his life in Scotland. He joined the Mormon Church about 1848, as did also the other members of the family, and the following year took passage on one of the _ sailing vessels bound for the United States, their final destination being the new home of the Mor­mons, in Utah. However, the father located first at Saint Louis, where he became identified with the branch Church, and remained there until 1851, when he went to Winter Quarters and joined an emigrant train which made the trip to Winter Quarters and joined an emigrant train which made the trip across the plains under command of L. A. Shurt­liff. The family remained in Salt Lake City until 1853, and then moved to Cedar City, in Iron County, where they lived for the next three years, and in the spring of i856 came to Weber County, the father buying a claim in what is now Riverdale Ward. Here he spent the balance of his life engaged in    farming. He was presid­ing teacher of his district for a number of years and active in local church work. He died De­cember 29, 1863, at the age of fifty-seven years. His wife survived him and lived until 1866, leaving a family of eleven children, of whom ten are now living, all but one in Utah. This one lives in Minnesota.
Our subject grew up on his father*s farm and obtained such schooling as was to be had at that time, working on he farm~ and in the canyons during the summer and attending school when the weather was too inclement for him to work outside. However, he received the best training a boy could have for the rugged life of the pioneer days, and acquired a sturdy inde­pendence that has since stood him in good stead, having no one to depend upon and being compelled as the only boy left at home at the time of his fathers death, to assume the responsibili­ty of assisting his mother to care for the younger children. He remained at home, conducting the farm end after the death of the mother this farm came into his possession, and is still his home, consisting forty acres of as fine land as can be found in the Ward. In 1892 he branch­ed out into the sheep business, taking his sons into partnership with him, and they now have about four thousand head, ranging in Idaho.
	Since the division on national lines Mr. Fife has given his loyal support to the Republican party, and has held a number of minor offices in the county. He has been School Trustee and Road Supervisor, and has helped to build a number of school and meeting houses. He was baptized into the Mormon Church at the age of twelve years, in Iron County, and since then has been Teacher, Elder, member of the Seventy-sixth Quorum of Seventies for a number of years, and President of the Young Men*s Mutual Im­provement Association.
Mr. Fife was married to Miss Martha A. Bingham, daughter of Bishop Sanford Bingham, and Martha Ann (Lewis) Bingham, on February 16, 1865. Their thirteen children are named as fo1lows :Helen, wife of Robert A. Middleton; Joseph A.. Sanford, Mary, wife of E. N. Binghham; John B., James F., Benjamin F., Cordelia, wife of Morris Fretwell; William L., Margaret, Lucinda, Annie D., and Catherine. There are twenty-one grandchildren from this family.
He has been active in the matter of securing good irrigation for his county, and was one of I the builders of the Riverdale ditch, of which he be­came President and retained the position many years. A firm believer in education for the young, he has given his children the best the schools have afforded, and has always supported any measure for the betterment of the school system of his Ward.
From their long residence here, the family is a well known one, and closely associated with the local work of the Church. Mrs. Fife is active -in the work of the Ladies* Relief Society, of which she has been a member since its first inception.
                  

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DEATH: Crossing Atlantic Ocean.
Ship:	Berlin
	Date of Departure:	5 Sep 1849	Port of Departure:	Liverpool, England
	LDS Immigrants:	254	Church Leader:		James G. Brown
	Date of Arrival:	23 Oct 1849	Port of Arrival:	New Orleans, Louisiana
	Source(s):	BMR, Book #1043, p. 56 (FHL #025,690); Customs (FHL #175,608)
	Notes:	". . .The ship Berlin sailed for New Orleans on the 5th day of September, carrying 253 souls of the Latter-day Saints. . . ."


FIFE, Helen	<1844>	Berlin	1849
			Age:	5	Origin:	Clackmannan, Scotland
	Note:	"Dead" (Customs)

             	Ellen Fife, died September 24th, aged 5 years.
                  

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