Lorin Farr

Lorin Farr (July 27, 1820 – January 12, 1909)[1] was a Mormon pioneer and the first mayor of Ogden, Utah.

[2][3] When he was eleven, Lorin Farr joined the LDS church after being introduced to it by Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson.

The Farr family moved to Kirtland, Ohio in 1837 and then to Missouri in 1838, and to Nauvoo, Illinois after that.

Other neighbors living nearby included Stillman Pond and Heber C. Kimball.Lorin went west with the body of the Latter Day Saints, arriving in the Salt Lake Valley in September 1847.

In 1851, Farr was called as president of the newly formed Weber Stake, which required him to move to Ogden.

Single-story red brick home of Lorin Farr (adjacent to and just north of his father's home , but situated south of Apostle Wilford Woodruff 's home) on Durphy Street. The Farrs were neighbors of the Heber C. Kimball and Stillman Pond families, who lived nearby on Munson Street. These streets formed, respectively, the east and south sides of block 106, Nauvoo, Illinois .