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Duncan Spears Casper (December 8, 1824 – May 20, 1898) was an early Mormon pioneer and one of the first settlers of Holladay, Utah. Casper was in Bellville, Ohio, the son of William Casper and Avarilla Durbin. His mother joined the Campbellites when he was eight years old, and a year later, after Mormon missionaries came through their area, his older brother William Wallace Casper joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Casper's parents joined two years later and in 1837 they moved the family to Missouri, where they purchased a home.〔Biography of Duncan Spears Casper. (). Accessed 26 August 2007.〕 Mobs drove the Latter Day Saints from Missouri, and Casper's parents had to leave their home behind. They rented a farm near Fairfield, Illinois, then moved on to Carthage. In 1841, they moved to Nauvoo, where Casper was baptized at age 16. In May 1845, 20-year-old Casper married 24-year-old Matilda Allison, a fellow Ohioan and a descendant of Thomas Miner.〔Allison was endowed February 7, 1846, in the Nauvoo Temple before she married Casper. They were sealed in the Endowment House in 1856.〕 The next year, Casper and all of his brothers left Nauvoo for Missouri as mobs were preparing to drive the Latter Day Saints from Illinois. His parents stayed behind with the two unmarried children because someone had stolen his father's horses. That summer, his father fell ill and died at age 62.〔Pioneer Chronology. (). Accessed 26 August 2007.〕 Casper returned to Nauvoo and brought his mother and two siblings back to Missouri, where they stayed for nine years.〔 In 1855, Casper crossed the plains with his wife, children, and mother in Captain Hindley's Company. In Utah Territry, they settled in Big Cottonwood (present-day Holladay), where they owned a home and land. Casper also raised stock and sheep on land he purchased in Idaho. He served as a trustee in the Big Cottonwood School District.〔 In 1867, Casper was called to help the struggling Muddy Mission.〔Youngberg, Florence C. ''Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers.'' National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, Agreka Books, 1999, p. 491. ISBN 1-888106-31-X.〕 Due to his wife's poor health, she stayed behind and died in 1871. They had nine children together. Casper married Elizabeth Ann Clark, English immigrant, in 1872. She had two children from a previous marriage. Casper adopted her children and the couple went on to have seven more together. Unlike some early Latter Day Saints, Casper did not practice plural marriage. He died in Holladay, Utah, and is buried there.〔 == Notes == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duncan Spears Casper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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