Source: The Mountain Empire Utah. 1904.

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BAPTIST CHURCH. — Baptist work began in Utah in 1880, by the organization of a Sunday school in Ogden by H. A. Lindley. In 1881 a church was organized there by Dr. Dwight Spencer. Soon after, Dr. Spencer organized the First Baptist Church of Salt Lake City. There are now eight churches with 806 members. The churches are as follows: Bear River Valley; Ogden, O. C. Wright, pastor; Salt Lake City, First, D. A. Brown, pastor; East Side, Frank Barnett, pastor; Calvary, C. O. Boothe, pastor; and there are churches at Murray, Provo and Springville.

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THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN UTAH. — Rev. Henry Kendall, D. D., secretary of the board of home missions, in 1864 preached the first sermon in Salt Lake City that was preached by any representative of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., Synodical Missionary, landed at Corinne in June, 1869. Regular religious services were commenced on the 13th of June, and on the 14th day of July, 1870, the first Presbyterian church was organized in Utah.

The First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City was organized November 12, 1871. Later churches were organized at American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Ogden, Kaysville, Logan, Smithfield, Hyrum, Springville, Spanish Fork, Mt. Pleasant, Ephraim, Manti, Salina, Richfield, Parowan, Nephi, Payson, Benjamin, Central Park in Ogden, Brigham and Collinston. The Westminster and Third Churches in Salt Lake City have been added to the above list. Presbyterians now have twenty-seven churches in Utah.

Educational work, under the care of the Presbyterian Church, was commenced in Salt Lake City by Prof. J. M. Coyner April 12th, 1875. That beginning has developed into the present Salt Lake Collegiate Institute. A few weeks later another school was opened at Mt. Pleasant, and is now the Wasatch Academy. Later another school was opened at Logan, which has now become the New Jersey Academy. The school that was organized at Springville has grown into the Hungerford Academy. The Presbyterian Church has now these four academies, educating about 500 pupils and fitting for college those that wish to pursue advanced studies. This educational work has been recently crowned by the founding in Salt Lake City of the Westminster College, by Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D. This institution is now prepared to take the graduates of the four above mentioned academies and give them a college course.