The Bair Family

John was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1834. He joined the church while in Kirtland, Ohio. John immigrated to Utah on June 3 or 4, 1850. In 1852, John built and operated the first ferry boat in Utah on the Bear River that crossed from Box Elder County to Cache County, starting from Collington, Box Elder, Utah. 

As Cache Valley was starting to become a large known area for the settlers, Brigham Young wanted the valley, as how beautiful and luscious it was, to be a large cattle ground for the Church. President Young sent John with some cattle to be pasteurized in the valley. John replied that it was a great place to have settlers. 

In 1859, John, with several others, began a new life in Cache Valley. Where they had previously seen in 1852 was taken by many settlers in now Logan. They went a little further north, to maybe find some other land to settle. They unfortunately found more settlers in Summit Creek, who had already planted their crops for the season. With a little disappointment, they carried on north and located near the same spring that he watched over the cattle President Young asked him to take care of.