[3][4] Thomas Frazer was born in 1821, 25 miles northwest of Dundee, Scotland in the small mill town of Lortny.
After a stint as a worker in a weaving factory, Frazer became a stonemason, working with a gang of masons on a number of construction projects.
In 1861 at the age of 40, Frazer married and, alongside his new bride, relocated to the Utah Territory in the United States to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In 1881, after a quarry for volcanic tuff, also known as pink rock, opened, Frazer switched to that softer, easier to work material.
[3] Thomas Frazer became the most prolific stonemason in Beaver and the only builder in town to make a full-time living from construction.