Editing Morgan County, Utah (section)

==History==
An early route of the [[Hastings Cutoff]] ran through the Morgan Valley and down through a narrow gorge in [[Weber Canyon]]. The [[Donner Party]] avoided going through the Morgan Valley in order to speed up their journey. However, their alternate route proved more time-consuming.

In 1855, [[Charles Sreeve Peterson]] and his family became the first white settlers to take up permanent residence in the Morgan Valley after cutting a road through Weber Canyon. After others began settling in the rather limited planar areas of the mountainous territory, the Utah Territory legislature acted on January 17, 1862, to form a separate county from sections partitioned off [[Davis County, Utah|Davis]], [[Salt Lake County, Utah|Great Salt Lake]], [[Summit County, Utah|Summit]], and [[Weber County, Utah|Weber]] counties. The small settlement at Morgan was named the county seat. The town (and thus the new county) was named for the father ([[Jedediah Morgan Grant]]) of [[Heber J. Grant]], who would serve as president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS Church]] from 1918 until 1945.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/UT_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |title=&#91;&#91;Newberry Library&#93;&#93;. Individual County Chronologies/Morgan County UT (accessed March 27, 2019) |access-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306153326/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/UT_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>