A friend of the Indians, he was known among them as "Chief". The move south upon the approach of Johnson's Army in 1858 was under his direction. He was a statesman and colonizer of great ability. Historian Edward Tullidge proclaimed him, "Ogden's most representative citizen." He died January 12, 1909, at the age of eighty-nine. Lorin Farr was a Utah Pioneer of 1847. He was a friend and staunch supporter of Joseph Smith, The Prophet, and assisted in the settlement of Nauvoo, Illinois where he helped build the Temple. He was the first president of Weber Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a member of the first territorial legislature and a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the State of Utah. He assisted in laying out the original plot of the city of Ogden. Organized the first city government and became its first Mayor. He built and operated the first grist mill and saw mill in Weber County with others constructed the first highway through Ogden Canyon. Tullidge, contemporary Utah historian proclaimed him "Ogden's most representive citizen."