Presbyterians of Pingree

This photograph, courtesy of Sonja Durney (granddaughter of John Josephson, on a crutch to the right, and daughter of Ernest Josephson, the toddler at his right), depicts the Presbyterian Sunday School at Pingree in the 1910s. The photo is staged in front of the old Pingree Hotel, which burned around 1970--just as Udell and Helen Lloyd had all but finished restoring it. While Mormons first colonized the area called "Rich", near the current Tilden Bridge location and named so after the first settler there, Presbyterians preceded them at Fort Hall in the 1830s and at Pingree. The Presbyterians also had significant numbers at Springfield, Sterling and Aberdeen, where meetings were regularly held in the 1910s.