Pierre-Jean De Smet

Historical marker location:

601 24th Street, Ogden, Utah

( Marker is at the intersection of 24th Street and Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling east on 24th Street.)

Marker installed: 1937

Priest of the Society of Jesus 1801-1873. Courageous Missionary to the American Indians 1838-1868.

The first permanent non-indigenous settlement in Utah was established by Mormon pioneers in 1847. They founded the city of Salt Lake City and the state of Utah was later admitted to the Union in 1896.