Louis F. Moench

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Louis Frederick Moench (July 29, 1847 – April 25, 1916)[1] was the founding president of Weber Stake Academy and the father of education in Northern Utah, on the same level of importance as John R. Park and Karl G. Maeser to the development of education in Utah.[citation needed]

Moench was born in

Brigham City and established the "Select School." In 1872, he accepted a position to organize and teach at Ogden, Utah at the Ogden Seminary. In 1875, as he continued to teach, he accepted the position of Superintendent of Schools for Weber County, retiring in 1883.[2]

In Ogden, Moench was supervisor of the city and county schools. He is considered the first president of

Weber Stake Academy. A second term began in 1894.[3] He was succeeded as head of the academy in 1902 by David O. McKay.[4]

Moench also served as a

1985 version of the LDS hymnbook
.

Moench was also the assistant superintendent of the

Stake under Richard Ballantyne
.

His daughter was the fictionist Laura Moench Jenkins who also wrote of her father's life as "A Sketch in the Life of Professor Louis Frederick Moench"; his daughter Delecta Moench Davis also wrote about him in "The Story of a Pioneer."[5]

Notes

  1. State of Utah. April 29, 1916. Archived from the original
    on August 18, 2011. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  2. ^ "A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF Professor Louis Frederick Moench". Familysearch.org. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Louis F. Moench (1889-1892". Weber.edu. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  4. ^ Morrell, Jeanette McKay. Highlights in the Life of President David O. McKay. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1966) p. 50
  5. ^ "The Laura Moench Jenkins Manuscript Collection," WSU Stewart Library Special Collections. Archives Space. Accessed 20 February 2024.

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