My father was John Malmstrom son of Jacob Malmstrom and my mother was Annie C. Johnson. She was a convert from Sweden. She immigrated here in 1882. My father came across the plains in 1859 and arrived in Salt Lake with his father. My father was only 6 years old when he came across the plains with his father, Jacob Malmstrom and they arrived in Salt Lake City on September 15, 1859. After they arrived in Salt Lake they went out to Murray about where the Murray laundry stands at the present time. Well, just south across the creek from the laundry there was a dobey hill or clay hill that is on what is now on State street. In those days there was no lumber, no brick or any thing else. They just had to make a dug-out temporarily and the creek there furnished them with culinary water and water for the livestock. There was grass growing along the creek so the oxen could get feed and later on they moved over on to Midvale on North Main on the west side of the street . There were clay banks there they could use for dugouts and there was a spring, natural spring, where they could get their culinary water and livestock could feed down on the bottoms along the river. So, they could get milk from their cows and make butter and they could exist there up where Midvale now is. All there was, was sagebrush. There was no water.
Well, I should say there were three families, three Scandinavian families that settled down there on the east of John Malmstrom’s.