Two weeks ago we took a trip with Barbara & Dick up to Logan. We wanted to do a session there & eat lunch there & see all the beautiful tulips that are grown in virtually every single yard in Logan. But, alas, it snowed the day before we went, and was quite cold & windy the day we went- but we had fun anyway.
We had done some family history digging & discovered that my grandfather- George Lionel Farrell had laid the cornerstone in the NorthWest corner of the temple. In those days they began at the SouthEast corner. The prophet usually laid this cornerstone. They had a talk and a dedicatory prayer. But, for some reason, this cornerstone was laid by John Taylor- President of the Council of the the Twelve and Franklin D. Richards offered the prayer. Then they moved to the SouthWest corner & the same thing happened. This time the cornerstone was laid by Edward Hunter, the Presiding Bishop of the Church, more talks & another prayer. Then they moved to the NorthWest Corner. In a book by James Talmage he cites that George Lionel Farrell laid the cornerstone here. He was - as they put it then- the President of the High Priests' Quorum for the Cache Stake. Today we would call him the Stake President. Anyway, he was the only one who laid a cornerstone that wasn't a General Authority that day. The NorthEast cornerston was laid by Albert P. Rockwood, a member of the First Council of Seventy, then the final talks and prayers.
Here I am standing in front of the the NorthWest corner. (yes, I know my eyes are closed - but Roger only took one picture- so I have to use it) The cornerstones were laid so that the top of the stone would be level with the ground - so, you cannot see any of them today. In fact, today there are no signs or plaques or anything denoting any information about the cornerstones on any corner. Still it was fun to walk around the temple & imagine.
We marveled at the masonry work. Today you see bricks set with the brick to the outside and the mortar is inset a little. But on the Logan temple the bricks are inset a little and it's the mortar that sticks out! The cornerstones were laid on September 19, 1877. By January 1882 there is a recorded account that grandpa Farrell was furnishing several teams (usually of cattle, but it might have been horses) to the men who were hauling the sandstone rocks from the quarry to the temple site in Logan. The temple was dedicated on May 17, 1884. For a building that is 124 years old, it looks WONDERFUL! Being there gave me such a renewed appreciation for my grandfather and all the people who must have labored so incredibly hard to build this magnificent temple. We drove around Logan a little - stopped by a bookstore which sold a book about the first 100 years of the Logan Temple. It tells all the info I've included here. Then we drove around a little, but not many tulips... too early and too cold I guess. On the way home we drove by the new temple they are building in Brigham City- right down town! Totally amazing that temples are being built so rapidly - continuing to hasten the work all over the world.
We had done some family history digging & discovered that my grandfather- George Lionel Farrell had laid the cornerstone in the NorthWest corner of the temple. In those days they began at the SouthEast corner. The prophet usually laid this cornerstone. They had a talk and a dedicatory prayer. But, for some reason, this cornerstone was laid by John Taylor- President of the Council of the the Twelve and Franklin D. Richards offered the prayer. Then they moved to the SouthWest corner & the same thing happened. This time the cornerstone was laid by Edward Hunter, the Presiding Bishop of the Church, more talks & another prayer. Then they moved to the NorthWest Corner. In a book by James Talmage he cites that George Lionel Farrell laid the cornerstone here. He was - as they put it then- the President of the High Priests' Quorum for the Cache Stake. Today we would call him the Stake President. Anyway, he was the only one who laid a cornerstone that wasn't a General Authority that day. The NorthEast cornerston was laid by Albert P. Rockwood, a member of the First Council of Seventy, then the final talks and prayers. 
Here I am standing in front of the the NorthWest corner. (yes, I know my eyes are closed - but Roger only took one picture- so I have to use it) The cornerstones were laid so that the top of the stone would be level with the ground - so, you cannot see any of them today. In fact, today there are no signs or plaques or anything denoting any information about the cornerstones on any corner. Still it was fun to walk around the temple & imagine.
We marveled at the masonry work. Today you see bricks set with the brick to the outside and the mortar is inset a little. But on the Logan temple the bricks are inset a little and it's the mortar that sticks out! The cornerstones were laid on September 19, 1877. By January 1882 there is a recorded account that grandpa Farrell was furnishing several teams (usually of cattle, but it might have been horses) to the men who were hauling the sandstone rocks from the quarry to the temple site in Logan. The temple was dedicated on May 17, 1884. For a building that is 124 years old, it looks WONDERFUL! Being there gave me such a renewed appreciation for my grandfather and all the people who must have labored so incredibly hard to build this magnificent temple. We drove around Logan a little - stopped by a bookstore which sold a book about the first 100 years of the Logan Temple. It tells all the info I've included here. Then we drove around a little, but not many tulips... too early and too cold I guess. On the way home we drove by the new temple they are building in Brigham City- right down town! Totally amazing that temples are being built so rapidly - continuing to hasten the work all over the world.
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