16 Facts About Christopher Layton

Christopher Layton was a Mormon colonizer and Patriarch who founded the cities of Kaysville, Utah; Layton, Utah; and Thatcher, Arizona.

Christopher Layton joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1842 and a year later emigrated to the United States.

Christopher Layton reveals himself as a common man who achieved great success as a business man, a Church man and particularly as a family man, being a father of sixty-five children and a husband to ten wives.

Christopher Layton heard and believed their message and was baptized on January 1,1842.

At the English hamlet of Big Mound, eight miles from Nauvoo, Christopher Layton was putting in seed corn when he heard the news of the death of Joseph, and he dropped his load and walked slowly out of the field.

Two years later Mary Matthews Christopher Layton died, leaving her husband with a thirteen-month-old daughter.

Christopher Layton was only a private in the Mormon Battalion, but his military service spread over nearly a quarter of a century.

Christopher Layton bought a band of horses at $1.50 a head and sold each one for $100.

Christopher Layton made considerable money and decided to sail to England to visit his parents.

When it was known that the government was sending an army to Utah, the outlying settlements were abandoned, and Christopher Layton was called to Utah to the headquarters of the Church.

Christopher Layton settled himself in Davis County and established Kaysville.

Christopher Layton was general superintendent for the Utah Central Railroad.

Christopher Layton served a term in the territorial legislature.

Christopher Layton had been set apart to preside over a new stake to be named St Joseph in honor of the martyred Prophet.

Christopher Layton was sent south to colonize a desert whose occasional Mexican and white villages were isolated by Apaches and desolation.

Christopher Layton bought two thousand acres, called the place Thatcher, divided it into lots, and sold them to Mormon settlers.