Husband Louis Henry Becraft [2415] 1
Born: 3 Apr 1861 - Morehouse, Hamilton, New York, United States 1
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Died: 18 Apr 1931 - Clearfield, Davis, Utah, United States 1 2 3 4
Cause of Death: carcinoma of stomach - lesser curvature near cardiac orifice
Buried: 21 Apr 1931 - Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber Co, UT 5 6
FamilySearch ID: KPHW-PCN
Find A Grave ID: 60837419
Father: Peter Henry Becraft [2409] (1832-1893) 1
Mother: Irelia [2790] (1832- ) 1
Marriage: 6 Oct 1890 - Utica, Oneida, New York, United States
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• He appeared on the Federal census in 1870 in Kirkland, Oneida, New York, United States. Peter Becraft, age 40, born 1829 in NY; Julia? age 38, born 1831, in NY; Leonard, age 5, born 1864, in NY; Lewis, age 9 born 1860, in NY, George, age 2, born 1867, in NY.
• Military Draft Registration: Between 1917 and 1918, Utah, United States.
• He worked as a Divine Fishing Rod Company in 1890. Per Michael Sinclairs work "Fishing Rods by Devine"
''Frank Wolcott officially joined the company in Jan. 1888. He was the first and only full-time employee. Later that year, 16 year old George Becraft was added to the rodmaking staff as an apprentice.''
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'In 1890 Fred incorporated as "Fred D. Divine&Co.'' He hired Louis Becraft (older brother of George) as shop manager and rodmaker. The fourth rodmaker was George McDuffee, Fred's brother-in-law. He also added George Penfield, a machinist, on the staff. During this period of the company's history, Fred was not only head of the company, he was its only salesman. The Divine family home must have becomea a lively place-Delos and Martha Devine,Julia Devine (freds sister),Fred and his first cousin/wife Ada Devine and George McDuffee all living under one roof' This may well give some insight as to the various maladies suffered by the inhabitants.
• Event: 16 Oct 1890. The following blurb was published in the 16 October 1890 Forest & Stream and explains the short life of the firm of Divine & Becraft. It noted:
Mr. Becraft, of the firm of Devine [sic] and Becraft, fishing rod manufacturers of Utica, N.Y., has been advised by his physician to seek another climate for his health, and the firm has been dissolved; Mr. Divine writes expressing much regret at being thus compelled to separate from his partner. The many friends of Mr. Becraft will hope that in his new home he may find hoped for benefit.
• Visit: The Standard, 8 Apr 1893. Mr. L. H. Becraft left Thursday evening for his old home in Utica, New York where he will remain for some time looking after the affairs of his father, who is in...
• Event: Purchased first gas powered auto in UT, 1899, Utah, United States. L.H. Becraft purchased the first gasoline powered automobile in Utah, a one-cylinder Winton.
• He appeared on the Federal census in 1900 in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. Louis H Becraft, b Apl 1862, age 38, married 10 years, born NY, dealer in bycycles; wife Estella, b Nov 1867, age 32y, (2 children, 2 living), born NY; son Chester A, Dec 1893, age 6y, born UT, at school; son Louis H, Dec 1896, age 3y, born UT.
• Event: Drove to Salt Lake, 1900, Utah, United States. In 1900, L.H. Becraft drove his one-cylinder Winton to Salt Lake.
• He owned land Indenture on 21 Jun 1906 in New York, United States. Book 44, pg. 144
Indenture made 21 June 1906
Sophia Foote of Watertown, Jefferson Co., Christina Maxins of Watertown, August Bourquin, Bachelor of Croghan, Lewis Co., Louise Becraft of Utica, Oneida Co., George Becraft & Addie Becraft his wife of Utica, Frank F. Becraft & Emma Becraft his wife of Utica, and Louis H. Becraft & Estella A. Becraft of Ogden, Utah
To John Schriner of Morehouse
In consideration of the sum of $700.00
All that certain undivided ½ interest which Francis Bourquin had at the time of his death...
In the township of Morehouse...consisting of about 250 acres on lot #11 of the Maxwell Tract which was conveyed to Adolphe Raux by Charles J. F. Bourquin by deed dated 30 October 1859 and recorded by Hamilton County clerk 21 June 1859 in book 6 on page 23.
And also all that undivided ½ interest which the said Francis Bourquin, deceased had in all that certain piece of land in the town of Morehouse consisting of nearly 25 acres...the SW corner of lot #11 conveyed to Adolphe Raux by the Comptroller of the State of New York.
• Advertisement appeared in the Ogden Standard on 15 Dec 1909: 12-1-fcf EASY PAYMENT. Royal Type- writers sold on easy monthly pay- ments. L. H. BECRAFT, corner Grant and Twenty-fourth streets.
• Advertisement in the Ogden Standard SUPPLIES for YOUR typewriters can-be had at L H. BECRAFT's place, corner Grant and Twenty-fourth street. It appeared in the Ogden Standard on 27 Dec 1909.
• He appeared on the Federal census in 1910 in Weber Co, UT. Louis H Buraft [Louis H Becraft], born about 1868; wife Estella W, 1869; Chester A, 1894; Louis H, 1897.
• He appeared on the 1920 Census census in 1920 in Clearfield, Davis, Utah, United States. Lewis H Becraft, age 55, born in NY. (Mother born at sea, French), is a farmer, home farm.
Wife is Charlott G. age 33, born in CA, father born in Illinois, mother born in CA.
• He appeared on the 1930 Census census in 1930 in Clearfield, Davis, Utah, United States. Louis H Becraft age 68, born in New York, head of household, listed with wife Charlotte E. Becraft age 43 and daughter Geraldine Becraft age 6.
• He died on 18 Apr 1931 in Clearfield, Davis, Utah, United States. Name: • Biography: "Hold your horses, men here comes one of those dang smoke wagons" wagons! • His obituary was published in The Ogden Standard-Examiner on 19 Apr 1931 in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. THE STAHBABB STOPAY MOB1OTG, APRIL 19, 1931. DEATH CALL Said To Have Made First Ogden-Salt Lake City Drive Lewis Henry Becraft, credited with being- the first man to run an automobile between Ogden and Salt Lake and one of the first auto- mobile dealers in Utah, died at his home in Clearfield Saturday afternoon at the, age of 70 after a lingering illness. Mr. BECRAFT was a familiar figure on the highways when automobiles were scarce. His car was pressed into service time after time for trips to Brigham Farmington and other communities and the townspeople... Events
• She appeared on the Federal census in 1900 in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. Louis H Becraft, b Apl 1862, age 38, married 10 years, born NY, dealer in bycycles; wife Estella, b Nov 1867, age 32y, (2 children, 2 living), born NY; son Chester A, Dec 1893, age 6y, born UT, at school; son Louis H, Dec 1896, age 3y, born UT.
• She appeared on the Federal census in 1910 in Weber Co, UT. Louis H Buraft [Louis H Becraft], born about 1868; wife Estella W, 1869; Chester A, 1894; Louis H, 1897.
• Her obituary was published in The Evening Standard on 19 Jun 1912 in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. http://www.newspaperarchive.com/LandingPage.aspx?type=glpnews&search=becraft&img=\\\ MRS. L. II. BECRAFT Although apparently improving nicely and on the road to recovery. Mrs. Estella Ann Becraft wife of U H. Becraft, and a prominent lodge woman of the city, died at the Dee Memorial hospital at. 7 o'clock this morning, after an operation for gall stones, lu was one wcr-k ... • She died on 19 Jun 1912 in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. Name: Block 9, 28, 4
LDS: (AFN:B5VL-ZT) Plot: Block 9, Lot 28, Position 5
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Louis Henry Becraft, b. April 3, 1861 in Morehouse, Hamilton, Co, NY and died Apr 18, 1931 in Clearfied, Davis, UT. He Married 1st Oct, 1890 in Utica, Oneida co., NY, Estella A. Philpott. She was born November 24 1867 in Utica, NY died Jun 19 1912 in Ogden, Weber, UT. He married 2nd, between 1912 and 1920 Charlotte Cunningham. She was born Sep 30 1886 in Pike City, CA. Sometime between 1890 and 1893 the Railroad was looking for people to move to Ogden, Utah. Louis and Estella relocated and by 1900 Louis owned the first Sporting Goods Store in Ogden UT. He also owned the first Gas Automobile in the state of UT. After Estella's death, Louis married Charlotte and they moved to Clearfield, Davis Co., UT. In 1920 Louis gave his occupation as farmer. He owned and operated a Fruit Stand on the main highway in Clearfied, UT. Four years later, Louis and Charlotte had a daughter together. In 1930 they still lived in Clearfield and Louis was employed as a state highway worker. Although Louise Bouquin Becraft was not Louis's biological mother, it is apparent that he considered her his mother as he listed his mother's place of birth as "at sea" on the 1900, 1920 and 1930 Censes.
The following is a article that appeared in the Ogden "Standard Examiner" Newspaper dated July 27, 1930: FIRST AUTOMOBILE TRIP FROM OGDEN TO SALT LAKE TOOK SIX HOURS OF WORK, by Maurice Howe.
"Hold your horses, men here comes one of those dang smoke wagons!". Such was the cry of warning in the early days of motoring.
Thirty years have rolled by since the first automobile trip was made over the highway between Ogden and Salt Lake. The men who made that memorable trip still vividly recalled the many difficulties that beset the way Saturday and contrasted conditions with those existing now.
It was L. H. Becraft who owned the first gasoline propelled automobile in the state of Utah and Ralph Grange, mechanic, who took the first long distance motor trip in the state in the spring of 1900.
In discribing the trip one day last wee, Mr. Becraft, who now operates a fruit, vegetable and chicken farm near Clearfield in Davis county, said, "I was operating a bicycle and sporting goods store in Ogden at the corner of Twenty-fourth street and Grant avenue when I bought the first gasoling driven horseless carriage in Utah. There had been two or three "steamers" in Salt Lake previously, but no gas cars. Mine was a one cylinder Winton surrey:
The machine cost me $1200 at the factory in Detroit and when it was shipped out here the railroad asked $400 freight which I refused to pay. Officials looked through all the rate books but could find no rate on automobiles, so after considerabe delay the bill was reduced to $200 and I paid it.
LOOKED LIKE A BUGGY "The car was painted, black, looked just like a buggy, had the engine under the seat with chain drive, and was adorned with patent leather fenders. It had 36 by 5-inch single tube tires on wire wheels and we used to have a hard time mending punctures. We had to repair the tires by burning a hole through the rubber and then fill it in with a plug and cement. The plugs always held, however.
"After we learned to drive the care we decided to go to Salt Lake one day in the fall. We left Ogden about 5 o'clock in the morning and stopped at the Kenyon hotel, Salt Lake, at about 11. So many people crowded around to see the machine that they blocked the traffic and street cars could not get through.
"We had quite a time making the 37-mile drive. The old-time one-cylinder engine was water cooled but had no radiator. So we had to stop at every ditch and fill the water jacket around the cylinder to keep it from overgeating. It got to be so much bother using a bucket that Ralph Grange fashioned a hand pump and we just stuck a hose in a canal and pumped the water into the jacket."
"You could hear that machine coming a mile away and people would run to look at the strange vehicle. It frightened the childrn out of their wits and they would run and hide in the houses and peek out of the windows as we went by."
HIGH GRADE GAS The Winton made about 12 miles to the gallon of gasoline, Mr Grange recalled. He said: "We had high grade gas in those days. It was very explosive and would ignite if a person held a match four feet away. The car could make 11 or 12 miles an hour, but we encountered a lot of steep hills, deep sand and mudholes along the way. Then, too, we had to stop every time we met a team of horses and lead the horses past. The animals were scared wild and would rear and kick and plunge if the engine was running. We certainly got many a cussing from people whose horses had to pass us. "
"We stayed in Salt Lake a couple of hours and started back, reaching Ogden in the evening. On the way back we had to cross a spring of water near Centerville. There were three girls there who were curious about the automobile, but they didn't like to get too close to it. So they stood out to one end of the culvert crossing the stream. Just as we got opposite them Lou blew the horn and one of them jumped off the bridge into water up to her knees. "
"The road was rough in those days, no pavement or grading of course. It was rocky, full of ruts and high centers and dusty. It an all day journey all right to go to Salt Lake and back.:
FIRST CAR SOLD "Later the Winton was sold to George Hartog, who was a traveling salesman for Scowcroft's. George told me if the machine would go to Malad, Idago, withou trouble, in one day, he would but it. Well we started early one morning in 1902 and George made every town along the route. He sold about a carload of stuff that trip and was well pleased.
"When we started back it rained and it took us three days to get home. We had to hire the Indians at Washakie to tow us for many miles. George bought the car anyway and used it a few trips up to Park City. Then it had so many repairs he decided to get rid of it and sold it to Jim Doon, a railroad engineer, who ran a feed mill on North Washington avenue. He later sold it to someone in Salt Lake and I guess it was junked long ago.
"One time in the early day of outomobiling Mr. Becraft and I drove to Logan. We carried enough gasoling to get us there, but we had an awful time buying enough to get back. There wasn't much use for gas in those days, except for cleaning or running a blow torch or a stationary engine for a cement mixer. We couldn't buy any on Sundays because of the laws governing drug stores where it was sold in those days."
HAD FIRST GARAGE Mr. Becraft was born in Moorehouseville, New York, in the Adirondack mountains, in 1862. From there he moved to Utica and then camt to Ogden where he had a repair shop and gun store for 25 years. Mr. Becraft had the first garage in Ogden in the building now occupied by Frank Smith on Grant avenue. He had the agency at various times for the Maxwell, Oldsmobile, Apperson Jack Rabbit and the E.M.F. automobiles. I got the Oldsmobile in 1901 and drove one up Ensign peak in Salt Lake.
The E. M. F. car was the first low priced car on the market, said Mr. Becraft. "It sold for $1000 and I sold 52 cars the first year, winning a bonus of $3500 for having the best record in the state."
For the past 12 years Mr. Becraft has operated his farm, which adjoins the highway where he made the first out trip and today thousands of cars whiz past on a paved road making the samt rip in an hour or less that took him half a day in the old "one lunger buggy"
OBITUARY: DEATH CALLS L. H. BECRAFT, AUTO PIONEER Said to have made first Ogden-Salt Lake City drive.
Louis Henry Becraft, credited with being the first man to run an automobile between Ogden and Salt Lake and one of the first automobile dealers in Utah, died at his home in Clearfield Saturday afternoon at the age of 70 after a lingering illness.
Mr. Becraft was a familiar figure on the highways when automobiles were scarce. His car was pressed into service time after time for trips to Brigham City, Farmington and other communities and the towns people sped its departue and greeted its arrival with keen interest.
The early model was a roadster with a hot and panting single cylinder engine in its middle portion just about under the seat. For guiding the car the driver grasped a lever extending up from the floor boards like the tiller of a boat. Mr. Becraft became interested in motor cars while operating a bicycle and sporting oods store at Grant avenue and Twent-fourth street. In recent years he operated a fruit store on the paved highway just north of the Clearfield corner.
He was born at Moorehouseville, New York, April 3, 1860*, the son of Mr. and Mrs Lester Becraft**. He came to Ogden while a young man taking a keen interest in sports and athletic games. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
He is survived by his widow, Charlotte Cunningham Becraft, a son Louis H. Becraft, Jr., of Ogden, a young daughter, Geralding of Clearfield, and two brothers, Frank and George Becraft of Utica, New York.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at eh Clearfield ward chapel with Bishop Bryant S. Jacobs officiating. Interment will be made in the Ogden city Cemetery*** under the direction of Larkin and Sons. Friends may call at the Larking chapel Monday afternoon and evening and at the familyhome in Clearfield Tuesday morning from 9 until 12 o'clock
*Correct date is April 3, 1861
**Parents were Peter H. and Julia Bourquin Becraft
*** Interment was in the "Mt. View Cemetery in Ogden, UT.
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Wife Estella Ann Philpott [2416]
Born: 24 Nov 1868 - Utica, Oneida, New York, United States
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Died: 19 Jun 1912 - Salt Lake Co, UT 7 8
Cause of Death: result of operation to remove gall stones
Buried: 22 Jun 1912 - Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber Co, UT 5
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Find A Grave ID: 53388930
Father: Joseph Philpott [12011] ( - )
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1 M Chester Arthur Becraft [2418] 1
Born: 25 Dec 1893 - Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States 1 9
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Died: 22 Apr 1920 - Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States 1 9 10
Cause of Death: peritontitus
Buried: 25 Apr 1920 - Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber Co, UT 5
FamilySearch ID: L64H-PQX
Find A Grave ID: 53389074
Spouse: Ella Barbara Hislop [2420] (1893-1969)
Marr: 15 Jun 1914 - Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States
2 M Louis Henry Becraft [2417] 1
Born: 11 Dec 1896 - Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States 1 11
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Died: 24 Oct 1964 - Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States 11 12
Buried: 28 Oct 1964 - Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States 5 11
FamilySearch ID: LW5H-9RY
Find A Grave ID: 117868085
Spouse: Dottie Rose Rozilla Graves [2419] (1898-1958)
Marr: 4 Jan 1916 - Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States 13
Burial Notes: Husband - Louis Henry Becraft
General Notes: Husband - Louis Henry Becraft
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Sometime between 1890 and 1893, Louis and Estella moved to Ogden, Weber Co., Utah where they had two sons. In 1900 Louis was employed as a dealer in bicycles and in 1910 as a proprietor of a paper shop. After Estella's death, Louis married Charlotte and they moved to Clearfield, Davis Co., Utah. In 1920 Louis gave his occupation as farmer. Four years later, Louis and Charlotte had a daughter together. In 1930 they still lived in Clearfield and Louis was employed as a state highway worker. Although Louise Bouquin Becraft was not Louis's biological mother, it is apparent that he considered her his mother as he listed his mother's place of birth as "at sea" on the 1900, 1920 and 1930 census.
Burial Notes: Wife - Estella Ann Philpott
General Notes: Wife - Estella Ann Philpott