First Things First

William Streeper was a successful farmer and businessman in Centerville, Utah. Here's a list of things he had first in Centerville:

• Electric lights
• Cement sidewalk
• Weighing scales
• Bathtub
• Store

I'm so glad somebody wrote that down! Sometimes when I'm recording my own personal history (that's fancy talk for writing in my diary,) I think, self, who's ever going to care about this random fact or that? But, you know, the random, everyday stuff is more entertaining than the born-when-married-where stuff.

Source: "A Documentary History of William Henry Streeper and Mary Amelia Richards Streeper" published by William Henry Streeper Family Organization, August 1989