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BIOGRAPHICAL 
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 Salt Lake City and Vicinity 
 
 Containing Biographies of JVell Knowfi Citize?i. 
 of the Past and Present 
 
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 NATIONAL HISTORICAL RECORD CO., CHICAGO 
 
 1902 
 

 
"Let the record be made of the men and things of today, lest thev 
 pass out of memory tomorrow and are lost. Then perpetuate them, not 
 upon wood or stone that crumbles to dust, but upon paper, chronicled in 
 picture and in words that endure forever." — Kirkland. 
 
 "A true delineation of the smallest man in his scene of pilgrimage through 
 life is capable of interesting the greatest man. All men are to an unspeak- 
 able degree brothers, each man's life a strange emblem of every man's; and 
 human portraits, faithfully drawn, are, of all pictures, the welcomest on 
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PREFACE 
 
 In presenting this work to the citizens of Salt Lal<e City and vicinity, we do not aim to per- 
 petuate every feature worthy of perpetuation in this notable locality ; such an effort would be be- 
 yond us in a work of this character, but we have tried to faithfully portray some of the leading 
 characteristics of the people who have made Utah and especially this section of it, famous 
 throughout the known world. Other States and cities are renowned for their great beauty of scen- 
 ery, unsurpassed climate or wealth of mineral and agricultural productions ; Utah has all these 
 and more — she came into existence as the home of the Mormon Church, settled at a time 
 when railroads were unknown to the West ; her solitudes undisturbed by any foot save that of 
 the savage red man and the wild beasts who had their lairs in the mountain crags or roamed the 
 valleys and plains at will, far remote from the outposts of civilization. Since then Salt Lake 
 City, as the headquarters of the Church, situated near the great lake whose name she bears, has 
 become the Mecca to which the footsteps of many tourists turn every year. In the early days 
 many sorrows and dissensions came to disturb the peace and harmony that had long prevailed 
 among this people, but that condition has long since passed, and today the stranger may find 
 people of every shade of religious and political belief living in the most pleasant relations, 
 jealous only of the well-being of the State of which all are justly proud, and as she has grown 
 in wealth and importance, people from every State and country are realizing more and more 
 the desirability of this city as a permanent home. 
 
 We have endeavored to exercise the greatest care in the compilation of this work, employing 
 men of wide experience in this line, who have spent months of conscientious endeavor in se- 
 curing reliable data. Care has been taken to have it as correct as possible, and we trust that in 'the 
 main it will be found true to facts and the reliable record of the people of this time that we 
 have sought to make it. We regret that the work will not contain biographies of all the 
 representative men of this city and vicinity, but owing to some of them being absent from 
 home and others not being able to appreciate the value and scope of such a work, a few have 
 necessarily been omitted. However, there will be found within these pages the biographies of a 
 large majority of the leading citzens of Salt Lake City and vicinity, some of whom came here in 
 early manhood from Eastern States and other countries, and many are native born ; men whom 
 any State might well be proud to claim as sons. 
 
 Within a comparatively short period of time, the last of these worthy people will have 
 taken their departure from this vale of tears, and gone to that bourne from whence none re- 
 turn, and, as the years creep by, the true merit of such a work as we present will be better 
 appreciated, as it will contain much valuable biography that otherwise never would have ap- 
 peared in print, and been irretrievably lost to the world. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL 
 
 ON. HEBER MANNING WELLS. 
 The Government of the United States 
 has been likened to a monster machine 
 made up of separate and semi-inde- 
 pendent smaller mechanisms upon 
 whose perfect attunement depends the rythmic re- 
 volving of the balance wheel of the Nation. The 
 organization of these forty-five smaller machines, 
 which constitute the Nation, is similar to that of 
 the whole broad organization which is charged 
 with the general welfare of the country and its 
 standing in the congress of the world powers. 
 
 To the chief executive of each of these sev- 
 eral States is intrusted, so far as their own country 
 is concerned, powers that correspond to the 
 deities of the Chief Executive of the Nation. 
 The governors of the new States, which have 
 l)ten carved out of the great West, have been 
 confronted with new and trying situations, and 
 novel questions have been presented for determi- 
 i.ation. In few States have these conditions been 
 so complex or difficult as in Utah. From the 
 time of its birth as a State, in 1896, down to 
 the present writing, in 1902. one man has held 
 the helm and has so well guided the affairs of the 
 State, that he is now among the most popular and 
 efficient governors of the States of the Union. 
 To a greater or less degree, the growth and 
 prosperity of a State is a reflex of the character 
 of the man who presides over its affairs and 
 guides its life. With this as a criterion, it follows 
 that the prosperous growth of Utah and the devel- 
 opment of its resources, which have gone forward 
 with a rapid increase since its acquisition of State- 
 hood, the people of Utah made a judicious choice 
 when they called Heber Planning Wells to oc- 
 cupy the highest place in their gift. He came 
 
 to the gubernatorial chair fully equipped for the 
 duties of the position, through his active business 
 career, and the prominent part he took in aiding 
 in the establishment and growth of the industries 
 of Utah, and especially of Salt Lake City, and 
 his able administration of the duties entrusted to 
 him has proved the wisdom of the choice. 
 
 It is safe to say there has never been a native 
 son of Utah who has been so highly and univers- 
 ally respected as Governor Wells. The confi- 
 dence, honor and esteem which the people of this 
 State have seen fit in their judgment to confer 
 upon him, has not been unmerited. His whole 
 life — private, business and official, from his boy- 
 hood up, has been honorable, straightforward 
 and upright, and under his administration the 
 affairs of the State have been judiciously and 
 economically handled. 
 
 The bill for the admission of Utah to Statehood 
 successfully passed both branches of Congress 
 during the session of 1894. The proclamation of 
 admission was signed by President Cleveland Jan- 
 nary 4, 1896, three months after Governor Wells 
 had been elected. His election as first Governor 
 of the State of Utah occurred in November, 1895, 
 for a term of five years, commencing January 4, 
 1896. He did such efficient work during those 
 years and so eminently satisfactory w^as his en- 
 tire administration, that demands for his re-elec- 
 tion came from every quarter, regardless of party 
 affiliation or religious creed, and he was elected, 
 by a large majority, for a term of four years, 
 commencing January i, 1901. 
 
 Heber Manning Wells was born in Salt Lake 
 City on .August 11, 1859. He is a son of the 
 late President Daniel Hanmer Wells, one of the 
 n.ost noteworthy men in the history of the Mor- 
 
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 mon Church of the State of Utah, standing in 
 the front ranks of the leaders of the Church 
 and being closely identified with every enterprise 
 for the development or advancement of the State 
 for a period covering forty-three years. His bi- 
 ographical sketch will be found in another part of 
 this work. Governor Well's mother was Martha 
 (Harris) Wells. He finished his education at 
 the University of Deseret, now the University of 
 Utah, and began his business career at the age 
 of sixteen. From the time that he was old enough 
 to take any interest in politics at all, he has been 
 strongly Republican in his views. His first em- 
 ployment was in the office of the city tax collector, 
 where he remained for five years, after which he 
 served in the capacity of deputy city recorder 
 for a period of two years. In 1883 he was ap- 
 pointed by the City Council to the position of 
 citv recorder, to fill the vacancy caused by the 
 election of Hon. John T. Caine as delegate to 
 Congress. At the expiration of the term, in 
 1884, he was elected to the same position, being 
 re-elected in 1886 and again in 1888. He was de- 
 feated for the fourth term, at the election held 
 in 1890, by Louis Hyams. 
 
 On May 6, 1890, he became cashier of the 
 State Bank of Utah, and held that position until 
 after his second election as Governor of the State, 
 He is at this time a director in that institution ; 
 also a director the Brigham Young Trust Com- 
 pany, and of the Consolidated Wagon and Ma- 
 chine Company. 
 
 Governor Wells has been three times married ; 
 his first wife was Mary Elizabeth Beatie, whom 
 he married January 15, 1880. She died October 
 12, 1888, leaving two children — Heber D. and 
 Mary. He was married a second time on Oct- 
 ober 15, 1892, to Teresa Clawson, who died July 
 II, 1897, leaving two children — Martha and 
 Florence. He married on June 5, 1901, Miss 
 Emily Katz. 
 
 In social life the Governor is a member of the 
 Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 
 and also of the Sons of the Pioneers of Utah. He 
 is also a member of the American Protective Tar- 
 iff League. 
 
 Governor Wells public career has been above 
 criticism, and his record challenges comparison 
 
 with that of any governor Utah has ever had. 
 While he comes of Mormon parentage, was born 
 and raised in the Mormon Church, and her prin- 
 ciples and doctrine are as dear to him as his own 
 life, in the many trying positions in which he has 
 been placed during the time he has occupied the 
 gubernatorial chair he has been singularly free 
 from prejudice towards all questions, and has 
 placed himself squarely on record as desiring that 
 the Church shall stand true to the promises made 
 at the time of her admission into the Union, with 
 regard to the polygamy question ; that that ques- 
 tion should be forever buried, and that out of the 
 ashes of the dead past should rise a State of which 
 every citizen should be justly proud, and of whose 
 honor he should be as jealous as of his own. 
 He has followed his convictions of right, regard- 
 less of the opinions of anyone, and his opinions 
 and decisions have been handed down, only after 
 deep and searching investigation of the question 
 under advisement. This principle cannot be bet- 
 ter illustrated than by giving here a few extracts 
 from a speech made by the Governor in the Salt 
 Lake Theatre, November 5, 1898, at the time 
 Brigham H. Roberts was running for Congress. 
 Governor Wells said, in part: 
 
 "I realize that this is a subject that should 
 not belong to politics, but in view of the pledges 
 which the people have made here, and which the 
 LInited States understands, and which I myself 
 have made, I cannot shut my eyes to the con- 
 sequences that will come if Mr. Roberts is elected 
 to Congress. It is unnecessary to refer to the 
 solemn assurances of the people on this ques- 
 tion — we understand that they ivere made, and 
 that Mr. Roberts, as well as any other speaker, 
 has frequently expressed himself as astonished 
 and appalled that the sincerity of the people of 
 Utah should be questioned in regard to their 
 abandonment of the old conditions, and their 
 acceptance of the new conditions imposed by 
 Statehood. In my inaugural address, and at 
 other times, I have given my personal assurance 
 that the question of poligamy, as affecting the 
 people of Utah, was a dead issue. * * * To 
 vote for the Democratic candidate is to vote 
 against Utah, and gives an open invitation to 
 Congress to renew the warfare against the Mor- 
 
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 mon people. * * * j yield to no man in my 
 love for the people of this State, and it is be- 
 cause of this love that I feel impressed to utter 
 these words." 
 
 OSEPH F. SMITH. The office of 
 President of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints requires for its 
 proper discharge a man of large under- 
 standing, prompt and decisive in his ac- 
 tions, broad and tolerant of the opinions of oth- 
 ers, and an ability of a rare order. These quali- 
 ties, so necessary for the proper discharge of the 
 enormous responsibilities of this important posi- 
 tion, are happily blended in the character of its 
 sixth president, Joseph F. Smith who, upon the 
 death of Lorenzo Snow, on October 10, 1901, 
 succeeded to that office. 
 
 His life has been crowded full of stirring 
 deeds, narrow escapes from a violent death, and a 
 conscientious discharge of the duties of the 
 Church with which he was intrusted. To few of 
 the leading men, pioneers of Utah, has it been 
 the lot to enter so fully into the vital interests 
 of the community and to discharge with such zeal 
 and fidelity the onerous duties assigned to them, 
 as has been the case with President Smith. 
 
 His father and mother were devout Mormons 
 and among the leaders of the Church. He was 
 horn at Far West, Caldwell county, Missouri, 
 on November 13, 1838, at a time when the feeling 
 of that State ran strongly against the people of 
 the Church. His father, Hyrum Smith, the sec- 
 ond patriarch' of the Church, and brother of the 
 prophet, Joseph Smith, was one of the men de- 
 livered into the hands of the armed mob under 
 command of General Clarke, through the base 
 treachery of Colonel Hinckle, on November 1st, 
 1838. They were incarcerated in jail and on the 
 following day were permitted to say farewell 
 to their families. Under a strong guard of the 
 militia, Hyrum Smith was escorted to his home at 
 Far West, and was ordered to take leave of his 
 wife. Here, on the thirteenth day of that month, 
 was born to her a son, whom she named Joseph 
 Fielding Smith. Here, in the midst of plundering 
 and scenes of the severest hardships and perse- 
 
 cutions, this future president of this modern 
 Church had his birthplace. 
 
 In January, of the following year, his mother, 
 leaving her husband's four children, by his de- 
 ceased wife, under the care of her sister, Mercy 
 R. Thompson, made the long and hard journey 
 from Far West to Liberty Jail, in Clay county, 
 taking with her the new-born infant. Here she 
 was permitted to see her husband, who, without 
 trial or conviction, was confined in the jail, with 
 no more specific charge against him than that 
 he was a "Mormon." She was permitted to tarry 
 but a short time with her husband, being com- 
 pelled to continue her flight from Missouri, with 
 her children, and seek refuge in Illinois. 
 
 In such manner was the infant days of the 
 future President of the Church spent, and it was 
 an arduous and inauspicious beginning of his 
 wonderful career. It doubtless developed in him 
 his great love for the Church of his choice, for 
 which his father and uncle suffered imprisonment 
 and death, and for which his mother underwent 
 untold persecutions. 
 
 The mother of the President was Mary Field- 
 ing, who was of English ancestry. She was a 
 woman with a remarkably bright mind, strong 
 character and endowed with e-xecutive and admin- 
 istrative ability of a high order. To her efforts 
 and to the principle she inculcated into his mind, 
 her son owes much of his success in his chosen 
 work, and the stamp she placed upon his character 
 is a living monument to her love and purity. 
 
 The boyhood days of Joseph were spent in 
 the midst of the agitations against the Church in 
 Missouri and Illinois, and which reached a climax 
 in the killing of his uncle and father on June 27, 
 1844, at Carthage, Plancock county, Illinois. 
 Upon the abandonment of the city by the Twelve, 
 and when the majority of the members of the 
 Church had been expelled from Nauvoo in Sep- 
 tember, 1846, his Spartan mother fled from the 
 city and found a refuge on the west side of the 
 Mississippi river, among the trees on its banks, 
 where she remained without even the shelter of 
 a wagon or a tent, during the bombardment of the 
 city by the mob. Later she succeeded in ex- 
 changing her property in Illinois for teams and 
 an outfit, and set out for Winter Quarters on the 
 
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 Missouri River, where Council Bluffs now stands, 
 that being the first place settled. It being on 
 the Indian reservation, they could only make a 
 temporary stop ; so they crossed and settled about 
 seven miles north of where Omaha now stands, 
 and that place is now called Florence. 
 
 On this trip, across the plains of Iowa, Joseph, 
 then a lad of about eight years of age, drove a 
 yoke of oxen and a wagon almost the entire 
 distance, and after his arrival at Winter Quarters, 
 secured employment as a herd boy. Here, on 
 the Western plains, guarding cattle and living 
 in the open air, he got his first taste of the 
 freedom of the West, and the love for freedom 
 and justice that deepened in him as the years 
 passed, received its impetus from this free life of 
 his youth. 
 
 It was here that he built up his wonderful 
 constitution and laid the foundation of that great 
 strength and endurance which has enabled him to 
 successfully undergo experiences that would be 
 ordinarily fatal to most men. Notwithstanding 
 the sedentary occupation of his maturer years, 
 he still possesses an erect, robust and muscular 
 form, and enjoys the perfect health that comes 
 from a well ordered life. 
 
 He is a firm believer in the efficacy of work and 
 is a lover of strength. He has expressed as one 
 of his beliefs that "Labor is the key to true hap- 
 piness of the physical and spiritual being." "If 
 a man possesses a million" he believes that "his 
 children should still be taught how to labor with 
 their hands ; boys and girls should receive a home 
 training which will fit them to cope with the 
 practical daily affairs of family life, even where 
 the conditions are such that they may not have to 
 do this work themselves ; they will then know 
 how to guide and direct others." 
 
 The ardent desire of all the members of the 
 Church, then gathered at Winter Quarters, was 
 to secure the means to enable them to make the 
 trip to the Salt Lake Valley and begin the work 
 of settling that country. With this end in view, 
 efforts were made to secure employment in Iowa 
 and in the neighboring States ; the occupations 
 ranged from school teaching to farming. In the 
 fall of 1847, Joseph Smith drove a team, for his 
 mother, to St. Joseph, to secure provisions for 
 
 the journey to Utah, and in the following spring 
 the trip was successfully accomplished. 
 
 In the fall of 1847, while tending his mother's 
 cattle, he underwent one of the most thrilling 
 experiences of his life. The cattle represented 
 their capital to defray the cost of the journey 
 across the plains, and so deeply was this fact im- 
 pressed on the mind of the lad, that he viewed 
 them as a precious heritage, whose loss would 
 be irreplacable. On the morning in question, in 
 company with Thomas and Allen Burdick, he set 
 out for the usual duties of the day. The valley in 
 which the cattle were feeding was some distance 
 from the settlement and had two entrances, one 
 over a plateau and the other through a ravine 
 or small canyon. The boys were all mounted on 
 swift horses, Joseph's bay mare being the best. 
 The party separated, Thomas and Joseph taking 
 the short route over the plateau and Alden going 
 up the canyon. When the valley was reached, the 
 cattle were seen feeding by a stream which divided 
 it in the center and wound down the canyon from 
 the direction of the settlement. Having the whole 
 day before them, and their duties as herders 
 not being arduous, the lads amused themselves 
 with feats on horseback and testing the swiftness 
 of their horses. While engaged in jumping their 
 horses over a little gully in the upper part of the 
 valley, a band of twenty or thirty Indians came 
 suddenly into view around a point in the lower 
 part of the valley, some distance below the cattle. 
 They were first seen by Thomas Burdick who 
 frantically yelled "Indians !'' wheeled his hors^e, 
 for the "bench" and started for home. Joseph 
 started to follow him, but remembering his cattle 
 and what they represented to him and to his brave 
 mother, resolved to save them if such a thing 
 was possible. All thought of escape vanished 
 and determined to save the cattle he headed the 
 horse for the Indians, in order to get around 
 the herd before the Indians reached it. One In- 
 dian passed him in the attempt to overtake 
 Thomas, and Joseph succeeded in reaching the 
 head of the herd and in turning the cattle up the 
 ravine just as the Indians arrived. His efforts, 
 unconsciously aided by the rush and yells of the 
 Indians, stampeded the herd up the valley, and 
 Joseph, following them on his horse, succeeded, 
 
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 by keeping his horse at its best pace, in remain- 
 ing between the Indians and the herd. The scene 
 was one of the most thrilHng in the annals of the 
 fight of the settlers in conquering the West. The 
 herd of stampeded cattle, the boy herder and the 
 Indians racing at their best speed straight for 
 the settlement. Finally the red men succeeded 
 in cutting Joseph from the herd, to a spring, 
 whereupon he turned and going down stream a 
 distance, then circled around the stream to the 
 right and endeavored to rejoin the cattle from the 
 side. He had not proceeded far in that direction 
 when other Indians appeared. They started for 
 him, overtaking him as he emerged from the 
 valley. He still spurred his horse, going at full 
 speed, and while thus riding, two of the naked 
 reds closed up behind him and took him, with 
 the horses at full speed, one by the left arm 
 and the other by the right leg, and lifting him 
 from the saddle, held him for a moment in the 
 air and then suddenly dropped him to the ground. 
 He would undoubtedly have been scalped but for 
 the timely appearance of a company of men 
 going to the hayfields, on the opposite side of 
 the ravine, which scared the Indians away, not, 
 however, before they had secured the horses of 
 both the boys. In the meantime, Thomas had 
 given the alarm and two relief parties were 
 hastily formed in the settlement. One, a posse 
 of horsemen, under Hosea Stout, who went up 
 the canyon and found the cattle with Alden 
 Burdick, the pursuing Indians having abandoned 
 the chase from fright ; while the others took 
 the bench route and discovered Joseph who, 
 with them, spent the day in a fruitless search 
 for the Indians and the cattle supposed to have 
 been stolen. President Smith, in relating this 
 experience, said : "I remember, on my way home, 
 how I sat down and wept for my cattle, and 
 how the thought of meeting mother, who could 
 not now go to the valley, wrung my soul with 
 anguish." But happily his bravery and fidelity 
 to his trust, which are indissolubly woven with 
 his character as a man, had saved the herd. 
 
 Joseph and his mother left Winter Quarters 
 in the spring of 1848 and reached Salt Lake 
 Valley on Sept mber 23, of that year, Joseph 
 driving two yoke of oxen with a heavily loaded 
 
 wagon the entire distance across the plains and 
 mountains. He performed all the duties of a day 
 watchman, herdsman and teamster, as well as all 
 the other duties, shared by the men, except night- 
 guarding. Upon his arrival in Utah, he again 
 became a herder, with intervals of plowing, can- 
 yon work, harvesting and fencing, and during this 
 whole time he never lost an animal entrusted to 
 his care, notwithstanding the large number of 
 wolves that then lived in the valley. 
 
 His education was given him by his mother, 
 who early taught him, in the tent, in the camp 
 and on the prairie, to read the Bible. He has 
 had no other save the sterner lessons gathered 
 from the practical pages of life's book. His op- 
 portunities, in later life, have not been unused, 
 and there are few college-bred men who delight 
 more in books than does President Smith. He is, 
 too, a good judge of the matter and manner of 
 books. His leisure for reading is limited, owing 
 to his constant employment in the affair of the 
 Church ; but he enjoys reading books of history, 
 philosophy and science, and has taken special de- 
 light in reading the works of Seiss and Samuel 
 Smiles who may be said to be his favorite au- 
 thors. He is fond of music and is a great lover 
 of it, finding keen enjoyment in the music of the 
 human voice. 
 
 Four years after his arrival in the Salt Lake 
 Valley, his Spartan mother died, leaving him 
 an orphan at the age of fourteen. During the 
 next year of his life he, with other young men, 
 was called on for his first mission for the Church, 
 and was assigned to the Sandwich Islands. The 
 incidents of the journey to the coast by horses, 
 his work in the mountains at a shingle mill for 
 means to proceed, the embarkment and journey 
 on the Vaquero for the Isilands, would more than 
 fill the space allotted to this sketch ; while his 
 labors in the Maui conference, under President 
 F. A. Hammond, his efforts to learn the language 
 in the district of Kula, his attack of sickness — 
 the most severe in his life, caused by the Panama 
 fever, and his other labors, together with his 
 varied and trying experiences while there, would 
 easily fill this volume. 
 
 After the successful completion of his mis- 
 sionary work, he returned to Utah, arriving in 
 
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 1858, and at once joined the militia under Colonel 
 Thomas Callister, which intercepted the march 
 of Johnston's army. He served imder Colonel 
 Callister until the close of hostilities, and was 
 later Chaplain of Colonel Heber P. Kimball's 
 regiment, with the rank of captain. He took 
 part in many expeditions against the Indians and 
 was in every sense a minute man in the Utah 
 militia. 
 
 He was again called to go on a mission in 
 i860, this time to Great Britain, and he drove 
 a four mule team across the plains to provide for 
 his passage. On this mission he served nearly 
 three years, returning in the summer of 1863. 
 While on this work his intimacy with President 
 George Q. Cannon began, which grew stronger 
 as their lives lengthened, and ended only in the 
 death of President Cannon. Upon his return to 
 Utah, President Brigham Young proposed, at a 
 Priesthood meeting, that Joseph and his cousin, 
 Samuel, each be given a thousand dollars to begin 
 life on. President Smith realized in the neighbor- 
 hood of seventy-five dollars in provisions and 
 merchandise, but mainly a legacy of much annoy- 
 ance from people who entertained the current 
 belief that he had thus acquired a small fortune. 
 With the bare exception of the cost of his pas- 
 sage and stage fare home, which had been sent 
 him by his aunt, Mercy R. Thompson, amounting 
 to about one hundred dollars, he paid all his ex- 
 penses throughout, as he had done on previous 
 missions. President Smith has been too busy and 
 devoted to his work in the Church to devote much 
 time to his personal affairs, and his worldly af- 
 fairs bear strong testimony to his exclusive 
 devotion to the good of his people. 
 
 His next work was as a missionary to the 
 Sandwich Islands, where, in the spring of 1864, 
 he accompanied Ezra T. Benson and Lorenzo 
 Snow and immediately set to work to straighten 
 the tangle into which the affairs of the Church 
 had got, through the actions of Walter M. Gib- 
 son. In this mission Joseph Smith acted as prin- 
 cipal interpreter for the Apostles. After the 
 excommunication of Gibson from the Church, 
 Joseph Smith was left in charge of the mission 
 there, with W. W. Ciufif and Alma L. Smith as his 
 fellow-laborers. The effort of the false teachings 
 
 of Gibson were such that it was some months 
 before the people returned to the doctrines of the 
 Church. Prominent among the work accom- 
 plished by Joseph Smith and his associates on 
 this mission was the selection of the Laie plan- 
 tation as a gathering place for the Saints, which 
 was afterward, on their recommendation, pur- 
 chased by a committee, sent for that purpose, 
 by President Young, and it has since demon- 
 strated its value to the mission and to the Church 
 as well. Joseph Smith returned to Utah from 
 this mission in the winter of 1864-5. 
 
 It was while absent on this mission that Presi- 
 dent Snow so nearly lost his life from drowning. 
 The party attempted to land from the ship in an 
 unwieldy boat across a narrow strip of rough 
 sea. Strongly against the advice of Joseph Smith 
 they attempted the landing, leaving Mr. Smith 
 and all their valuables on the ship. The boat was 
 overturned and all were rescued, save President 
 Snow, who was apparently drowned, but after 
 heroic treatment and the artificial renewal of 
 respiration, was safely restored to consciousness. 
 
 LTpon his return to Utah in the winter of 
 1864-5, President Smith was employed in the 
 office of the Church historian, where he remained 
 for a number of years ; he was also a clerk in the 
 endowment house, succeeding Elder John V. 
 Long in that capacity ; being in charge, after the 
 death of President Young, until it was closed. 
 He had been ordained as an Apostle under the 
 hands of President Young, on July i, 1866, and 
 on October 8, 1867, he was appointed to fill a 
 vacancy in the quorum of the Twelve Apostles. 
 
 In the following year he was sent with Apostle 
 Wilford Woodruff and Elder A. O. Smoot to 
 Utah county, and served one term in the Provo 
 city council. 
 
 He was assigned to a second mission to Eng- 
 land on February 28, 1874. where he was the pre- 
 siding officer of the European mission, returning 
 to Utah in 1875, after the dtath of President 
 George A. Smith. Upon his return he was ap- 
 pointed to preside over the Davis Stake until 
 the spring of 1877, when he left for his third 
 mission to England, having witnessed the dedi- 
 cation of the first temple in the Rocky mountains, 
 at St. George, April, 1877. He arrived in Liver- 
 
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 pool on May 27, of that year, wlu're he was 
 joined later by Apostle Orson Pratt, who had 
 been sent to publish new editions of the Book of 
 Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants. When 
 the news of the death of President Young ar- 
 rived, they were released from their work and 
 returned to Utah, arriving in Salt Lake City on 
 September 27, 1877. In August, of the following 
 year, he was sent, with Apostle Orson Pratt, on a 
 short mission in the eastern part of the United 
 States, visiting noted places in the history of the 
 Church in Missouri, New York, Ohio and Illi- 
 nois. It was on this trip that they had their 
 famous interview with David Whitmer. 
 
 L^pon the organization of the First Presidency, 
 in October, 1880, he was chosen second counsellor 
 to President John Taylor, who died July 25, 
 1887. He was again chosen to this position in 
 the Presidency under President \voodruflf; and 
 again held it under President Snow. Upon the 
 death of the latter and the organization of the 
 First Presidency, he was selected President of the 
 Church. 
 
 To attempt to make a sketch of his services 
 in civil capacities in Salt Lake City and in the 
 Legislature would be biit to repeat the history of 
 Salt Lake City and of Utah. His public service 
 was marked with the same zeal and fidelity that 
 he displayed in his Church work, and his honesty 
 of purpose and straightforward course has won 
 for him the love, confidence and esteem of the 
 whole community. He is a friend of the people, 
 easily approached, a wise counsellor, a man of 
 broad views, and, contrary to first impressions, 
 is a man whose sympathies are easily aroused. 
 He is a reflex of the best character of the Mor- 
 mon people — inured to hardships, patient in 
 trial, God-fearing, self-sacrificing, full of love 
 for the human race, powerful in tnoral, mental 
 and physical strength. 
 
 As a public speaker, his leading trait is in- 
 tense earnestness. He impresses the hearer with 
 his message more from the sincerity of its de- 
 livery, and the honest earnestness of his manner, 
 than from any learned exhibition of oratory or 
 studied display of logic. He touches the hearts 
 of the people with the simple eloquence of one 
 who is himself convinced of the truths presented. 
 
 He is a pillar of strength in the Church of his 
 choice, thoroughly imbued with the truths of the 
 Gospel, and the divine origin of this work. His 
 whole life and testimony are an inspiration to 
 all men, and the career he has attained marks him 
 as a man who would have been a leader in what- 
 ever he had undertaken. Under his direction, the 
 Church has already began to gather a new im- 
 petus, and the years of the twentieth century 
 will undoubtedly make great progress under his 
 wise and able administration. 
 
 President Smith has an imposing physical ap- 
 pearance. Now, in his sixty-third year, he is tall, 
 erect, well-knit and symmetrical in build. He 
 has a prominent nose and features. When speak- 
 ing, he throws his full, clear, brown eyes wide 
 open on the listener, who may readily perceive, 
 from their penetrating power, the wonderful men- 
 tality of the man. His large head is crowned 
 with an abundant growth of hair — in his early 
 years, dark ; but now, like his full beard, tinged 
 with a liberal sprinkling of grey. In conversa- 
 tion, one is forcibly impressed with the sudden 
 changes in appearance of his countenance, under 
 the different influences of his mind ; now in- 
 tensely pleasant, with an enthusiastic and child- 
 like interest in immediate subjects and surround- 
 ings ; now absent, the mobility of his features set 
 in that almost stern, majesty of expression so 
 characteristic of his portraits — so indicative of 
 the severity of the conditions and environments 
 of his early life. 
 
 RESIDENT JOHN R. WINDER, 
 First Counsellor to President Smith, 
 prominent among the pioneer workers 
 who have so successfully reared a 
 State out of the great American wilder- 
 ness and developed the natural resources that are 
 hidden in the mountains and valleys, is the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. His work has not been con- 
 fined to the Church of his choice, but has in- 
 cluded the labors incident to the development 
 of the State. In all the positions he has held — 
 civil, military and ecclesiastical, he has invariably 
 performed the tasks allotted to him in a manner 
 satisfactory to his official superiors, and to his 
 
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 fellow citizens in general. From an unpromising 
 and inauspicious beginning, from a life that, in 
 its youth, seemed to be bound by the narrow 
 limits of his native country, he has risen to the 
 opportunities that have presented themselves and 
 has made for himself a name that stands high 
 in the annals of Utah. 
 
 John Rex Winder, son of Richard and Sophia 
 (Collins) Winder, was born at Biddenden, Kent, 
 England, on December ii, 1821. His parents 
 were members of the Church of England, and 
 their son was baptized in that church when but 
 an infant, and at the age of fourteen was con- 
 firmed as one of its members, under the hands 
 of the Archbishop of Canterbury. His early 
 life was spent in his native town, and his early 
 education, such as it was, was derived through 
 his own efforts. 
 
 At the age of twenty he went to London and 
 obtained employment in a shoe store. He was 
 married on November 24th, 1845, ^"d two years 
 after, left London, taking charge of an establish- 
 ment in Liverpool where he arrived in August, 
 1847, ^nd resided there for the next six years. 
 
 So far, his life had followed the usual line of 
 the majority of the Englishmen, but the whole 
 trend of his character and his life was changed 
 in July, 1848, when he first became acquainted 
 with the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints. The first meeting of the 
 Church, that he attended, was held in a music hall 
 on Bold street, Liverpool, conducted by Elder 
 Orson Spencer. After an examination of the 
 principles of this religion, he became convinced 
 of their truth and was baptized on September 
 20th, 1848, by Elder Thomas D. Brown; and on 
 October 15th, following, his wife was baptized" 
 by Apostle Orson Pratt. Upon joining the Church 
 he was associated with the Liverpool branch 
 until February, 1853, when he, with his family, 
 set sail for America and Salt Lake, on the ship 
 Elvira Owen. At this time Bishop Winder had 
 three children living and one dead, two of the 
 former being twin babies only four months old. 
 Their trip across the ocean was one filled with 
 hardship and horror. When but ten days out 
 from Liverpool, our subject was taken with small- 
 pox, which was brought on board ship by a 
 
 child who occupied the room next to his. He 
 was the first to discover the disease, which soon 
 spread, and six of the company were quaran- 
 tined in a small house built on the deck for 
 their accommodation. Through the illness of 
 Bishop Winder his wife was left with no as- 
 sistance in her task of caring for her twin babies 
 on board of ship. So ill was the bishop that it was 
 confidently expected that he would die from 
 day to day, but believing that he would recover 
 his health, he successfully fought off the dis- 
 ease and was able to continue his journey. The 
 party landed at New Orleans and went to Keo- 
 kuk, Iowa, by way of St. Louis, and here our 
 subject joined the company under Joseph W. 
 Young, and made the long trip across the plains 
 to Salt Lake, arriving in the Valley on October 
 loth, 1853. 
 
 Shortly after his arrival in Utah he became as- 
 sociated in business with Samuel Mullner, in the 
 manufacture of saddles, boots and shoes, and in 
 conducting a tannery, and in 1855 he enlarged his 
 business interests and entered into a partnership, 
 in that year, with William Jennings, then owner 
 of a meat market and a tannery, and they also 
 carried on the manufacture of boots, shoes, sad- 
 dles and harness. This business he continued 
 until July. 1858. 
 
 Prior to this he had taken an active part in the 
 military life of the Church, having joined the 
 Nauvoo Legion in 1855. He was Captain of the 
 Company of Lancers stationed in Echo Canyon 
 in the fall and winter of 1857-8, guarding the 
 canyon and its approaches with fifty men, after 
 Johnston's army had gone into winter quarters 
 at Fort Bridger, and General D. H. Wells and 
 Colonel R. T. Burton had returned to Salt Lake 
 City. The tenseness of the situation having re- 
 laxed. Captain Winder was relieved of vidette 
 duty about Christmas, by Major H. S. Beatie, 
 who took command of Camp Weber. His res- 
 pite from military duty was, however, very short, 
 for on March the 8th, of the following year, he 
 raised a force of eighty-five men and accompanied 
 General George D. Grant through Tooele county, 
 Utah, on to the great desert, pursuing a band of 
 Indians who had stolen a lot of horses from 
 settlers in the valley. A blinding snow storm 
 
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 was encountered on the desert and the trail of 
 the Indians was lost, and the pursuers returned 
 to Salt Lake. Shortly after his return Captain 
 Winder was called to take chargfe of the defense 
 in Echo Canyon, and he remained in this duty 
 until peace was declared. 
 
 He dissolved his partnership with William 
 Jennings and associated himself with President 
 Brigham Young and Feramorze Little, and built 
 a tannery on Parley's Canyon creek. W'hile en- 
 gaged in this enterprise, he purchased his present 
 home, "Poplar Farm," and engaged in farming 
 and stock raising. The tannery business was car- 
 ried on successfully until the native bark for tan- 
 ning became scarce, and being unable to com- 
 pete with importations, the business was sus- 
 pended. During the years of 1865 to 1867, 
 Bishop Winder participated in the Black Hawk 
 Indian War in Sanpete County, serving part of 
 the time as an aide to General Wells, and in 
 1868 he served as Assistant Adjutant-General, 
 collecting and making up the accounts of the 
 expenses of this work, amounting to one million, 
 one hundred and twenty-one thousand and thirty- 
 seven dollars and thirty-eight cents. This claim 
 was submitted to Congress by Delegate William 
 H. Hooper, but the expenses have never been 
 reimbursed. 
 
 In addition to his military services and to his 
 business enterprises in the early days of Utah, 
 he has also been prominent in the administration 
 of its political affairs, and in 1870 was appointed 
 Assessor and Collector of Salt Lake City, holding 
 that position for fourteen years. He also served 
 three terms in the City Council, covering a period 
 from 1872 to 1878. He resigned his position as 
 Assessor and Collector in 1884 and was appointed 
 Water Master of Salt Lake City, which position 
 he held until April, 1887. retiring from that 
 to enter upon his duties as Second Counsellor to 
 Presiding Bishop Preston, to which position he 
 was called at a General Confernce April 6th, 
 and was set apart on the 25th of that month by 
 President George O. Cannon and .Apostle Ftank- 
 lin D. Richards. 
 
 When the Salt Lake Temple was approaching 
 completion, in .April. 1892, it was especially de- 
 sired to have the structure finished and readv for 
 
 dedication in April, 1893, forty years from the 
 time its foundation stones were laid. To Bishop 
 Winder was entrusted the work of completion, 
 and he discharged that duty with his character- 
 istic energy and zeal. He contributed liberally 
 to the fund to defray the heavy expenses entailed, 
 and after the dedication, was appointed in May, 
 1893, as First Assistant to President Lorenzo 
 Snow, in charge of the Temple, which position he 
 still holds. His great service to the Church in 
 his sui)erintendence of the Temple, won for him 
 the marked recognition of all the leaders of the 
 Church. 
 
 In addition to these prominent parts he has held 
 many important ecclesiastical positions in the 
 Church. He was ordained as a Seventy in 1854, 
 and in the following year became one of the 
 Presidents of the Twelve Quorum of Seventies, 
 being ordained a High Priest on March 4th, 1872, 
 liy Presiding Bishop Edward Hunter, and placed 
 in charge of the Fourteenth Ward of Salt Lake 
 City during the absence of Bishop Thomas Tay- 
 lor, on missionary work. He subsequently acted 
 as Bishop Taylor's First Counsellor in this work. 
 In April, 1872, he became a member of the High 
 Council of Salt Lake Stake. 
 
 His life has been one of strenuous activity and 
 one of stirring deeds and events. He was Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel of the first regiment of cavalry of 
 the Nauvoo Legion. He has also been United 
 States guager of the internal revenue department, 
 and since 1856 a director of the Deseret Agri- 
 cultural and Manufacturing Society, in addition 
 to which he has been president of that organiza- 
 tion from 1872 until his resignation in ryoo. He 
 has taken an active part in the political affairs of 
 the State and was a member of one of the early 
 Constitutional Conventions. During the old po- 
 litical regime he was for a long time Chairman 
 of the Territorial and Central Committee of the 
 People's party. He was a director in the Utah 
 Iron Manufacturing Company, and at present is 
 a director in the LUah Sugar Company of Salt 
 Lake City, and the more recently established 
 Ogden Sugar Company. He is President of the 
 Deseret Investment Company and a director of 
 the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution, and 
 holds a similar position in the D'eseret National 
 
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 Bank and in the Deseret Savings Bank. He was 
 Vice-President of the Pioneer Electric Company, 
 as well as of the Union Light and Power Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Bishop Winder's first wife, Ellen (Walters) 
 Winder, died on November 7th, 1892. He has had 
 three other wives, one of whom, Maria (Burn- 
 ham) Winder, is still living. He is the father 
 of twenty-three children and has sixty-three 
 grand children and three great-grandchildren. 
 At the advanced age of eighty-one years. Bishop 
 Winder is in good health, active in the perform- 
 ance of duties, and enjoys his life and his work 
 as much now as he did in the days of his youth 
 and prime. 
 
 On October 17th, 1901, when Joseph F. 
 Smith was elected President of the Church, he 
 appointed Bishop Winder as his First Counsellor, 
 which appointment was confirmed by a special 
 General Conference which was held on the same 
 date of his appointment above mentioned. 
 
 He has made a remarkable career in Utah, and 
 his undertakings have been eminently success- 
 ful. He is one of the best posted men upon the 
 affairs of the State and upon the condition of the 
 West. A good citizen, devoted to his religion, 
 and to the general interests of the people of his 
 Church, and to the development of the State, 
 he has won the confidence and trust of the leaders 
 of the Church and the love of its members. His 
 uprightness and integrity have won for him 
 the respect and esteem of all the people of the 
 West, and the career that he has made may well 
 be an object of pride, alike to the Church and 
 to his posterity. 
 
 RESIDENT ANTHON H. LUND. 
 The cosmopolitan character of the 
 United States is perhaps better illus- 
 trated in Utah than in any other State 
 in the West. To this State the more 
 intelligent emmigrants, from Europe, were at- 
 tracted by the teachings of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints, and under the dis- 
 
 cipline of that Church and the teaching of its 
 leaders, the foreign ideas have been submerged 
 in the great wave of Americanism. These peo- 
 ple have taken their share in the work of develop- 
 ing the unpromising land from a wilderness to 
 a state of civilization, and have aided in the 
 growth of the Church to which they willingly 
 gave their support. This adaptation is perhaps 
 better illustrated in the life and career of Presi- 
 dent Lund, the subject of this sketch, than by the 
 life and work of any other foreigner who now 
 owes allegiance to the United States. Pie has 
 taken his full part in all the work incident to the 
 subjugating of the wild country, and in building 
 up the Church to its present high standing. 
 
 Anthon Henrik Lund was born in Aalborg, 
 Denmark, May 15, 1844. When but a little more 
 than three years of age, his mother died and he 
 was reared under the care of his grandmother. 
 His father was drafted into the Danish army in 
 the fall of 1847 and sent with the forces of that 
 government to subdue the insurrection of the 
 people at Schleswig. In the following year, 
 Schleswig and Holstein revolted, and for three 
 years, with the aid of Prussia and Germany, 
 waged a sanguinary war against Denmark. 
 Through all this period, our subject's father served 
 in the Danish army, and when he returned to his 
 home it was to find his son a boy of seven years 
 of age. Shortly after his return from the war, 
 his father removed from his old home to a new 
 site, thirty-five miles distant, and after much 
 pleading, his son was left with his grandmother 
 by whom he was reared and educated. 
 
 Following the example of all European coun- 
 tries, Anthon Lund was sent to school at an early 
 age, and at four years entered a private school 
 where the rudiments of his education was begun. 
 At the age of seven he entered the public schools 
 of Aalborg, and here he displayed such zeal and 
 aptitude that he was rapidly advanced from one 
 grade to another. While preparing himself for 
 graduation in the studies given in this school, 
 he undertook the studies of the English, German 
 and French languages. At the age of eleven he 
 held the first place in school. His future activity 
 in religious matters may be dated from almost 
 the beginning of his life, for almost from the time 
 
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 he could read, the Bible was his favorite book. 
 
 When Elder Erastus Snow arrived in Den- 
 mark in 1850, upon his mission to the Scandinav- 
 ian countries, among the early converts to the 
 teachings of the church he represented, was Jens 
 Anderson, the uncle of our subject, who was a 
 respected and valued citizen of Cedar City, Utah. 
 He died in the spring of 1901. His grandmother 
 also became a member of the Church, being 
 baptized in 1853, when Anthon was but nine 
 years of age, and just before the emigration of 
 his uncle for America. Anthon was thus brought 
 into close contact with the teachmgs of 
 the Church, but was deterred for some time from 
 adopting that faith. This was due to the opposi- 
 tion of his relatives and to the persecution to 
 which the members of the Church were subjected. 
 His life at school was made unpleasant by the 
 taunts and physical torturing indulged in by the 
 older boys. His industry in his studies, however, 
 never flagged, and he won by his own merit the 
 :oveted position of "Dux," or first place, in the 
 upper class, notwithstanding the bitter opposition 
 of several of the teachers. Upon the completion 
 of his school course, his relatives wished him to 
 take a collegiate course, but his desire to become 
 a member of the then new Church overcame his 
 love for the work of study, and on May 15, 1856, 
 at the age of twelve years, he was bsptized and 
 admitted into the membership by Elder Julander, 
 and on the i8th of that month he was confirmed 
 by Elder Peter Madsen, a former resident of the 
 Second Ward of Salt Lake City. 
 
 W'hen our subject joined the Church, Elder 
 C. D. Fjelsted presided over the Aalborg confer- 
 ence, and Bishop C. A. Madsen, of Gunnison, 
 was pastor over Aalborg and several other con- 
 ferences. He and his wife, a highly educated 
 woman, rendered the young member much valu- 
 able assistance in his study of English, and their 
 kindness resulted in a very warm attachment, on 
 the young lad's part, for both Bishop and Mrs. 
 Madsen. One year after his entrance into the 
 work of the Church he was called to its labors, 
 and at thirteen was teaching the emigrants Eng- 
 lish, and distributing tracts and assisting the 
 Elders in holding meetings. When he made his 
 first report at the conference. Elder Fjelsted 
 
 lifted him upon a table, and in this way he made 
 his debut before an audience. This began his 
 active work and he traveled over the entire confer- 
 ence, addressing meetings and making converts. 
 At the age of sixteen he was ordained an Elder 
 and appointed President of the Aalborg branch, 
 and traveling elder in five other branches. This 
 was a responsible position, and especially so for 
 one so young, the branch being large and requiring 
 constant and unremitting care. He continued his 
 missionary labors until the year 1862 when, at the 
 age of eighteen, he emigrated to Utah leaving 
 Hamburg on the Benjamin Franklin. While 
 lying in tliat port, an epidemic of measles broke 
 out and spread over the ship, making fearful rav- 
 ages among the children. There was no doctor on 
 board and the captain would deliver medicine 
 only upon the order of a physician. At a meeting 
 of the members of the Church, on the ship, 
 presided over by Bishop Madsen, it was agreed to 
 appoint Elder Lund, physician for the company. 
 Equipped with a book, treating of the common 
 diseases, and the medicine chest, he creditably 
 discharged all the duties required of him to the 
 satisfaction of the passengers and the crew. 
 
 That year, four ships left Denmark with emi- 
 grants for Utah. These met at Florence, near 
 Omaha, Nebraska, where some continued the 
 journey in conveyances furnished by Utah mem- 
 bers, and the others were organized into two 
 independent commands under Bishop C. A. Mad- 
 sen and Patriarch O. N. Liljenquist. Elder Lund 
 traveled across the plains in the company headed 
 by Bishop Madsen, and arrived in Salt Lake City 
 on September 23, 1862, after an overland journey 
 of seventy-one days. 
 
 Upon his arrival in the valley Elder Lund at 
 once took hold of the work before him and has 
 ever since been actively and prominently identi- 
 fied with the work of the Church and the de- 
 velopment of the State. He first located at Fair- 
 view, Sanpete county, but three months later re- 
 moved to Mt. Pleasant. Here he remained until 
 the fall of 1870. His first work in Utah was at 
 farm labor, digging potatoes, working on the 
 threshing machines and following the routine of 
 farm work as long as such employment could be 
 had. He then secured employment in a harness 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 shop and later in a shoe shop. He was never idle 
 a day, and in a land where work could be had for 
 the asking was always busy. He was offered a 
 home in the family of John Barton, whose chil- 
 dren he taught in the evenings, and by that fam- 
 ily he was treated as one of themselves. 
 
 To Elder Lund, as to so many others who 
 have come to Utah, the first impressions and ex- 
 periences of the new country were discouraging 
 and depressing. His books were missed most, 
 and an old hand book in astronomy, without maps, 
 which he happened to find, became one of his most 
 cherished possessions. He studied it and drew his 
 own maps, using the hearthstone for a table, 
 and was able to locate the constellations of the 
 stars and trace the planets. In this manner passed 
 his first winter in Utah. 
 
 In 1864, the Church called him to go as a team- 
 ster to the Missouri River, to conduct to L'tah 
 immigrants who had collected there. This mis- 
 sion he performed with his usual ability and 
 faithfulness. 
 
 When President Brigham Young called a num- 
 ber of young men to come to Salt Lake City to 
 learn telegraphy, Elder Lund was selected as one 
 of the number to be instructed. During his stay 
 at the capitol he became acquainted with Elder 
 John Henry Smith and other prominent members 
 of the Church, with whom he has since been 
 intimately associated in Church work. Having 
 successfully mastered telegraphy, he returned ro 
 Mt. Pleasant and assumed charge of its telegraph 
 office. Here he also had a photograph gallery, 
 and when the first co-operative institution was 
 started in that place, he was made its secretary. 
 He was also elected a member of the city council. 
 Notwithstanding these varied duties, he still found 
 time to attend to the work of the Church, and in 
 1865 assisted in founding the first Sunday school 
 in his city, which proved successful in a high de- 
 gree. 
 
 In 1870, he removed to Ephraim, and in tne 
 same year married Sarah Ann Peterson, daughter 
 of Stake President Canute Peterson, by whom 
 he had nine children, seven of. whom are still liv- 
 ing. In the following year he was called upon to 
 undertake his first foreign mission, being assigned 
 to assist Elder Canute Peterson in Denmark. 
 
 Here the latter was appointed president of the 
 Scandinavian mission, and our subject became the 
 business manager of the central office in Copen- 
 hagen. 
 
 Upon his return to Ephraim, he became in- 
 terested in the co-operative store there and in the 
 next year was placed in charge of its affairs. 
 This position he held for nine years, and its suc- 
 cess was largely due to his wise and able admin- 
 istration. In 1874 he was appointed a member 
 of the High Council of Sanpete, and when the 
 stake was organized in 1877, he became Stake 
 Clerk and member of the new High Council. 
 In the following year he was made superintendent 
 of the Sunday School at Ephraim. He con- 
 tinued to devote his time and attention to these 
 multifarious duties until 1883, when he was 
 called upon to go on another mission to Scan- 
 dinavia, succeeding Elder C. D. Fjeldsted as 
 president of that mission, and there he remained 
 for two years and three months. 
 
 During his absence he was elected a member 
 of the Territorial Legislature, and upon his ar- 
 rival in the State at once took his seat in that 
 body. He was re-elected in 1888 and his service 
 in the administration of the affairs of the State 
 was marked by the same courage, zeal and in- 
 dustry that marked all his previous work. 
 
 The reform school and the agricultural col- 
 lege are the fruits of his legislative labors ; he 
 writing the bills for the establishment of the 
 same. 
 
 In May, 188S he was appointed Vice-President 
 of the JNIanti Temple, assisting President Daniel 
 H. Wells, and in 1891 he succeeded to the presi- 
 dency. At the organization of the General Church 
 Board of Education he was appointed a member 
 of that Board. In October, of the following year, 
 he was called to the office of Apostle in the 
 Church, and in 1893 was sent to preside over the 
 European mission, spending more than three years 
 in that work. His linguistic ability was of much 
 service to him in his travels over the various 
 mission fields and upon his visits to conferences, 
 and his administration was highly successful. 
 
 Upon the death of Apostle Abraham H. Can- 
 non, Apostle Lund was appointed director of the 
 Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution, and a 
 
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 few years before had been made a director of 
 the Zion"s Savings Bank. His next work for 
 the Church was as a missionary to Palestine 
 and Syria, where he was entrusted with the 
 work of organizing the members of the Church 
 and caring for their welfare generally. This 
 work he completed satisfactorily and returned to 
 Salt Lake City in the summer of 1898. 
 
 In the fall of 1898 he removed to Salt Lake 
 City, where he has since made his home. Since 
 that time he has continued his labors as an Apos- 
 tle in the various States. In April, 1900. he 
 was made superintendent of the Religion 
 Classes, and in August of that year succeeded 
 the late President Franklin D. Richards in the 
 important post of Church Historian. 
 
 On October 17, 1901, under reorganization of 
 the First Presidency, President Joseph F. Smith 
 chose him as his second counselor, and he 
 was sustained by the special General Confer- 
 ence which was held in November, 1901. In 
 1902 he was appointed President of the Board 
 of Trustees of the Latter-Day Saints University. 
 
 The career which President Lund has built 
 up, both in the work of the Church and of the 
 State, marks him as one of the remarkable men 
 of Utah. To him, as one of the leaders in the 
 work of civilization and improvement, is due to 
 a large extent, the present satisfactory condi- 
 tion of Utah and Salt Lake City. His sincerity 
 in his beliefs, and his earnestness in his work, 
 have won for him a high place in hearts of his 
 people and have brought him the confidence and 
 esteem of all the people with whom he had lived 
 or visited. Throughout the State he enjoys a 
 wide popularity, and his broadmindedness and 
 charity have made him believed even by those 
 opposed to his beliefs. 
 
 OX. ARTHUR L. THOMAS, Ex- 
 Governor of Utah, ine lives of its 
 citizens is the history of any commu- 
 nity which the world reads closest 
 and draws its deductions from to a 
 
 ;e extent. A city may advertise its un- 
 
 surpassed climate, rugged mountain scenery, 
 smiling valleys surrounding it on every hand, 
 superb location and the style and beauty of its 
 architecture, but the man who anticipates mov- 
 ing his family to that city or making his home 
 there, if he be of the better class, will ask what 
 of its educational facilities; its religious and 
 moral life and its civil government. If he place 
 his finger upon these, the pulse of the city's life, 
 and find them unsound, it were a waste of time 
 to argue in favor of merely temporal advantages. 
 There is scarcely a city of any size in the West 
 that has not passed through its stage of lawless- 
 ness and misrule, acquiring an unenviable rep- 
 utation that has clung to it long years after the 
 evils have been remedied, and against which the 
 citizens have had to fight valiantly before con- 
 vincing the world that the old conditions have 
 been utterly vanquished. Salt Lake City has 
 been peculiarly free from anything of this na- 
 ture; she has been most fortunate in the class 
 of men who have stood at the helm and guided 
 not only her affairs, but those of the State at 
 large, and every year sees the morals of her life 
 purer and higher than the last, with the result 
 that the best class of citizens in the territory 
 contiguous to Utah turn involuntarily to Salt 
 Lake City as the place in which to make their 
 homes after accumulating fortunes in mines, 
 cattle or sheep, and she bids fair to outrival 
 all western cities at no very far distant day as 
 the home of culture, refinement and wealth. 
 Such a condition of aflfairs has only been made 
 possible by the lives of such men as ex-Gov- 
 ernor Thomas, the subject of this sketch, who 
 has spent over twenty-three years of his life in 
 Salt Lake City and done as much, if not more, 
 than almost any other man for her advancement 
 and uplifting. He has always been in public 
 life, and is in close touch with all the needs of 
 the city, as well as the State at large. 
 
 Governor Thomas was born in Chicago, Illi- 
 nois, August 27, 1 85 1, and is the son of Henry 
 J. Thomas, a native of Wales, who came to 
 America as a boy, and after reachmg man's es- 
 tate engaged in the copper and iron business in 
 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he spent the 
 greater portion of his life, and was known 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 among the Welsn people in America as a prom- 
 inent Welsh scholar. He was a man of consid- 
 erable influence in Pittsburg, and for ten years 
 occupied the position of Municipal Judge. He 
 married a Miss Eleanor Lloyd, a native of 
 Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, the first exclusively 
 Welsh settlement to be established in that State. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in Pittsburg 
 and received his education from the schools of 
 that city, and later from a private tutor. At 
 the age of eighteen years he started out to make 
 his own way in life, and in the spring of 1869 
 received the appointment of a clerkship in the 
 House of Representatives at Washington, D. C, 
 which position he held continuously for a period 
 of ten years. In the spring of 1879 he was ap- 
 pointed Secretary of the Territory of Utah, and 
 filled that position until 1887. During these 
 years Governor Thomas became actively iden- 
 tified with the life of the Territory, being ap- 
 pointed in 1881 as special agent to collect sta- 
 tistics of the churches and schools of the Terri- 
 tory for the Government. He also received that 
 same year the appointment of Census Super- 
 visor for Utah. In 1884 he was appointed a 
 member of the committee to compile and codify 
 the laws of the Territory, and in 1886 was again 
 named by the Legislative Assemblv for a simi- 
 lar position, and from 1882 to 1887 was Dis- 
 bursing Agent for the Government, having 
 charge and control of all monies expended by 
 the Utah Commission. In December, 1886, he 
 was appointed a member of this Commission, 
 and remained in that capacity until 1889, when 
 he was appointed Governor. In 1888 he received 
 the appointment of member and director of the 
 Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, 
 which position he held for two years. 
 
 He received the appointment of Governor of 
 the Territory of Utah in the spring of 1889, his 
 term lasting four years. The years covered by 
 Governor Thomas' term of office are among the 
 most momentous and eventful in the history of 
 Utah. There was commenced the organization 
 of the Republican and Democratic parties in 
 Utah, and the new movement grew rapidly and 
 ultimately embraced all the old political divisions. 
 There has been no movement in all the history of 
 
 L'tah more pregnant with significant and far- 
 reaching results than was this, and it brought to- 
 gether Mormons and Gentiles in a common bond 
 of sympathy for the political principles of their 
 respective parties. The assessed valuation of 
 property in the Territory almost doubled in value 
 during that time, and many important enterprises 
 were set on foot or completed. He was chair- 
 man of the committee which accepted the plans 
 of the present penitentiary buildings and form- 
 ally accepted the same when completed. So 
 thoroughly was the ground covered at that time 
 that even to-day the State penitentiary of Utah 
 ranks foremost among such institutions in this 
 western country, being complete in every detail ; 
 strong, commodious, the best of sanitation and a 
 model institution of the kind. He was also chair- 
 man of the Board of Trustees which completed 
 the building of the State Agricultural College at 
 Logan, which has become one of the great insti- 
 tutions of the West, and which also built the 
 State Reform School at Ogden — each excellent 
 for the purpose for which it was designed. Gov- 
 ernor Thomas also proved himself the staunch 
 friend of education at this time. In his message 
 to the Legislative Assembly he recommended the 
 enactment of a new school law which would 
 guarantee an absolutely free system to the State. 
 In connection with Professor Benner of Ham- 
 mond Hall, then a member of the Legislature, 
 and Counselor Collett of Tooele county, Gov- 
 ernor Thomas helped prepare the bill which after- 
 wards became a law, providing for free schools 
 in Utah, and which bill he approved as Governor 
 after it had passed both houses ; and the impetus 
 thus given to education has resulted in a public 
 school system which is second to none in the 
 entire western country. It was also during his 
 term of office that the forming of new polyga- 
 mous relations was formally renounced by the 
 Mormon Church, through a manifesto issued by 
 President Wilford Woodruff. 
 
 After retiring from the office of Governor, 
 Mr. Thomas became President of the Idaho Irri- 
 gation and Colonization Company, and Manager 
 of the Utah Savings and Trust Company of Salt 
 Lake City, which latter position he resigned when 
 appointed postmaster. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Governor Thomas has been a member of the 
 Republican State Committee for many years, and 
 was Chairman of the Republican State Congres- 
 sional Convention held in 1899. He was also 
 Chairman of the Republican State Convention 
 which elected a delegate to the Saint Louis Con- 
 vention, which nominated William McKinley for 
 President in 1896. Governor Thomas received 
 the appointment of postmaster of Salt Lake City 
 in 1898, during President McKinley's first ad- 
 ministration, and was re-appointed by President 
 Roosevelt in January, 1902. 
 
 He was married in the City of Washington, 
 D. C, in 1873, to Helenna H. Reinbure. a native 
 of Annapolis, Maryland. Five children have been 
 born of this marriage, — Elbridge L. ; Arthur L., 
 Junior, who enlisted for service in the Spanish- 
 American War while still under age, and whose 
 name heads the muster roll of volunteer soldiers 
 from this State. He was discharged from ser- 
 vice on account of incipient tuberculosis ; Evelyn 
 L. is at home ; Alexander R. is a student in the 
 High School and Captain of the High School 
 Cadets ; Ellen is the wife of Colonel Samuel Cul- 
 ver Park, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this 
 work. At the time of her marriage Mrs. Park 
 was one of the reigning belles of Salt Lake, and 
 had the reputation of being one of the most beau- 
 tiful women in this Western country. 
 
 It is safe to say that no man in this State 
 stands higher in the confidence and esteem of 
 the people than does Governor Thomas. He is a 
 man of unsullied honor ; his public career has 
 been above reproach and no stain has ever rested 
 upon him either in public or private life. He is 
 liberal, broad-minded and charitable towards all 
 men, courteous, and behind his unassuming cpiiet 
 manner hide all the graces of a true man. 
 
 In the business world Governor Thomas is the 
 owner of one of the largest ranches in this West- 
 ern country, situated in the Boise Valley, Idaho. 
 He is a director of the Utah Savings and Trust 
 Company ; Superintendent of the Maxfield Min- 
 ing Company and President of the Cambrain As- 
 sociation of Salt Lake City, L'tah, and of the 
 inter-mountain country. 
 
 OX. JAMES A. MINER, Chief Justice 
 (if the Supreme Court of the State of 
 L'tah. In taking a retrospective view 
 (jf the settlement and development of a 
 new country and of the men who have 
 been closely identified with its history, there are 
 many important and vital points to be taken into 
 consideration, and especially is this true of a 
 State which has proved so eminently successful 
 as has the great State of Utah, which has proved 
 of such vast importance, not only to this inter- 
 mountain region, but to the whole country at 
 large ; its vast agricultural interests ; its gigantic 
 commercial enterprises, and the millions of dol- 
 lars which have been taken out of its mines and 
 the untold millions yet hidden within the secret 
 receptacle of its boundaries, all these conditions 
 go to make up the history of this State. In all 
 these undertakings and conditions it requires the 
 co-operation of men, men of ability, integrity and 
 experience to develop and bring forth the best 
 results. The history of the past has revealed and 
 at the present people are ever reminded that 
 wherever men are associated together in great 
 business enterprises, in developing of vast re- 
 sources, that differences of opinions will arise 
 and questions will forever spring up which of 
 necessity must be passed upon and finally settled 
 by disinterested parties. The forefathers and 
 founders of this great nation foresaw these con- 
 ditions and wisely provided a plan whereby ques- 
 tions and differences of opinion could be settled 
 by the judicial system. One of the most impor- 
 tant branches of the Government of the United 
 States is its Supreme Court. This also holds 
 true in the government of any State. The Su- 
 preme Court and the men who preside over it 
 ranks among the highest in its civic life. The 
 Chief Justice of a Supreme Court of a State must 
 of necessity be a man of ability, integrity and 
 wide experience, thoroughly understanding hu- 
 man nature ; and the great questions of law which 
 he is called to pass upon and finallv decide ac- 
 cording to the laws of this country. No person 
 who has become acquainted and closely w^atched 
 the proceedings and doings of Chief Justice 
 Miner, both in public and private life, will for 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a moment question his ability, integrity, sound 
 judgment and wide experience. 
 
 Judge Miner has not risen to the high position 
 which he holds in the State of Utah by mere 
 chance, but it has taken years of toil, indomitable 
 energy, and perseverance to fit him for his high 
 calling. All of his decisions since serving as 
 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of this State, 
 thoroughly evince the fact that each case and 
 every phase and condition of the case has been 
 carefully weighed and measured before he has 
 finally rendered his decision, and thoroughly 
 demonstrate that a master mind has had them 
 in charge, and today Judge Miner enjoys the 
 highest esteem, respect and honor of almost the 
 universal population of the entire State of Utah, 
 and it is safe to say that no man has ever occu- 
 pied a similar position in this or in any other 
 State who has lent greater dignity and whose 
 ability and straightforwardness has tendered to 
 bring the Supreme Court of this State to the 
 high position which it occupies today. Judge 
 Miner is a man who, by his very make-up was 
 destined to make a successful career ; the very 
 elements of success are stamped in his whole 
 likeness, and he would have made a success of 
 almost any avocation or profession to which he 
 chose to turn his attention. Judge Miner is a 
 man of dignity and his calling has of necessity 
 made him somewhat stern, yet he is genial, kind 
 and considerate of all the interests of mankind. 
 These conditions have all tended to bring to Judge 
 Miner the successful career which he has ac- 
 quired, not only in this , State, but wherever he 
 has resided. Born in Marshall, Michigan, in 
 1842, his early life was spent on his father's 
 farm and his education was derived from the 
 common schools and Lyon's Institute, working in 
 the summer months on the farm and attending 
 schools in the winter. He later secured employ- 
 ment as a school teacher, which he followed for 
 several winters, in order to obtain sufficient 
 money to complete his education. From boyhood 
 he had determined to be a lawyer and at an 
 early age he made a study of law with General 
 Noyes, of the firm of Noyes and Fitzgerald, 
 prominent lawyers of Michigan. When the Civil 
 War broke out in 1861, he took a prominent part 
 
 in raising the Ninth ^^lichigan Infantry and en- 
 tered the service, remaining in the army until 
 the death of his father, which occurred in 1864, 
 at which time he returned to Marshall, Michigan, 
 completed his study of law and^ was soon ad- 
 mitted to the bar of that State. During the early 
 days of his career as a lawyer he held the office 
 of City Recorder and Circuit Court Commis- 
 sioner, and was also Prosecuting Attorney from 
 1876 to 1889, of Calhoun County. He was ac- 
 tively engaged in the practice of law throughout 
 that time in Marshall and Southern Michigan, 
 participating in most of the important cases 
 brought before the courts of that region for 
 trial, earning for himself an enviable reputation 
 as a lawyer in that State. 
 
 He was married in 1870 to Hattie E. Alincr 
 of New York. They have one daughter living, — 
 Mabel, now Mrs. McClure of Salt Lake City. 
 
 Judge Miner is a self-made man, attaining his 
 success by the exercise of unflinching application 
 and constant industry. He has made for him- 
 self a reputation for charity, broad-mindedness 
 and liberality which has won for him the respect 
 of all classes of people in the community where 
 he has resided. In 1889 he left his native State, 
 removing to Utah, and was soon after appointed 
 by President Harrison Associate Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of the Territory, being assigned 
 to the first judicial district at Ogden, which city 
 he continued to make his residence until 1894, 
 when he removed to Salt Lake City. Upon 
 coming here he formed a partnership with Judge 
 Ogden Hiles, which continued one year, under 
 the firm name of Miner and Hiles. 
 
 In politics Judge Miner has always been a 
 staunch Republican and a firm believer in the 
 principles of that party, and especially in the 
 defense of American labor and its protection of 
 home industries. His career on the bench has 
 been a continuation of the success which he 
 made as a lawyer, and the ability he has demon- 
 strated has placed him in the front ranks of the 
 jurists who have been called to preside over the 
 Supreme Court of this State. In private as well 
 as public life he has ever evinced his purity and 
 uprightness. He is a man of great energy and 
 perseverance. Outside of his profession Judge 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Miner has done a great deal to develop and bring 
 to prominence not only Salt Lake City, but the 
 entire State as well. His fine residence is lo- 
 cated on East Brigham street, which is consid- 
 ered one of the most desirable residence streets 
 in Salt Lake City. 
 
 OX. THOMAS KEARNS. The most 
 prominent man in Utah today, in min- 
 ing, finance and politics, is undoubted- 
 ly the present junior United States 
 Senator. Behind his successful leap 
 from poverty to wealth and from the obscurity 
 of a worker to the position of leader of the domi- 
 nant political party in Utah, can readily be seen 
 that lever of success — constant hard work, grind- 
 ing application and unflagging industry, and 
 coupled with his ability and his career in mining 
 and in politics, is his great popularity. Perhaps 
 no man of today enjoys a warmer friendship of 
 so many people than does Mr. Kearns. 
 
 He was born on a farm near Woodstock, On- 
 tario, in 1862. His people were Irish emigrants 
 and his father had settled in Canada and sup- 
 ported his family by farming. His son's early 
 life was spent in working on his father's farm in 
 Nebraska, where the familv had moved in the 
 early seventies and in doing all the tasks belong- 
 ing to farm life. 
 
 At the time of the gold discoveries of the West 
 he believed that the opportunities were greater 
 and the field in which to employ his ability prom- 
 ised more results than did the contracted sphere 
 of farm life. His first work in the West was in 
 freighting provisions and supplies across the 
 plains to the mountain camps which had already 
 sprung into e.xistence in the Black Hills. This 
 he followed until the building of the railroads 
 suspended this method of transportation and did 
 away with the business of freighting. The many 
 friends whom he had made among the miners by 
 his scrupulous honesty, his manly life, his gener- 
 osity and his amiable and obliging disposition. 
 
 stood him in good stead and he soon secured em- 
 ployment as a miner. His first work was in the 
 Ontario mine at Park City, where he was one of 
 the shift of men employed in taking out the ore. 
 This employment he regarded only as a stepping 
 stone to greater things and all his time at night 
 was devoted to the study of geology, and during 
 the day while at work he learned all he could of 
 the practical working of mines. He labored in 
 the Ontario mine eight hours every day and de- 
 voted all his remaining hours of daylight to pros- 
 pecting for himself, applying all his savings of 
 his wao^es to that work. His first efforts were 
 very unsuccessful failure following failure with 
 monotonous regularity. On many of his pros- 
 pecting tours in the mountains he was often with- 
 out food for days, and for many months he 
 labored sixteen hours a day ; eight in his shift in 
 the Ontario mine and eight tapping the moun- 
 tains in his search for wealth. This life con- 
 sumed seven years ; a period marked by almost 
 constant failure and persistent effort. The 
 wheels of fortune at last began to turn and the 
 prosperity that it brought carried in its train 
 endless troubles ; litigations over the property, en- 
 joinments by the court ; embarrassment in rais- 
 ing the money for the purchase of the land on 
 which the mine was located and all the vicissi- 
 tudes to which miners are so liable. Had he been 
 a man of less determination, less confident of 
 his ability to win in the end, he would no doubt 
 have given up the task. Under these discour- 
 aging conditions the true character of the man 
 who was afterwards to lead his party and repre- 
 sent the State in the United States Senate, was 
 made apparent ; the obstacles he encountered only 
 strengthened his purpose, and the difficulties to 
 be overcome lent him more vigor. 
 
 When the first shipment of ore from his mine 
 returned to him in the shape of gold money his 
 first thought was not to reward himself for his 
 long and hard efforts, but were for his aged 
 father and mother, then living in straightened 
 circumstances on a small farm in Nebraska. He 
 received twenty thousand dollars in payment for 
 his first ore, and his first work with this money 
 was to provide for his parents a home and a 
 competence for life. This exhibition of unselfish- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ness is but in keeping with the man's life and was 
 but the beginning of the good work he has done 
 throughout Utah and the West. 
 
 His experience as a practical miner and of the 
 conditions of the vvorkingman has aided him in 
 doing much to raise their standard and to at 
 least give them more comfort. When he became 
 a mine owner he voluntarily raised the wages 
 of all the workers, through a desire to benefit as 
 large a number of people as possible, as well as 
 through a desire to remember the people whose 
 life he had shared in his early days. His work- 
 ingmen hold him in high esteem and the people 
 throughout the State respect and admire him for 
 the career he has made; for the ability he has 
 shown and for the clearness with which he has 
 met and decided all questions in which the State 
 has been a party. His mining interests in Utah 
 are now very extensive and he is without doubt 
 the most prominent mining man in all the West- 
 ern country. He is owner of the "Mayflower," 
 the first mine that he located and developed, 
 and is also part owner of the "Silver King" 
 mine, the largest mine in Utah, and perhaps 
 the most successful one in the United States. 
 
 He believes thoroughly in the future prosper- 
 ity and greatness of Utah and Salt Lake City. 
 He has not confined his attention to mining, but 
 with a broadness of grasp has seen the great 
 good that will redound to Utah from a direct 
 connection with the Pacific Coast. He is a di- 
 rector of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt 
 Lake Railroad, being associated with Senator 
 Clark of Montana and Hon. R. C. Kerens of 
 St. Louis in the work of joining Salt Lake City 
 and Southern California. 
 
 In politics Mr. Kearns has always been a Re- 
 publican and prior to his election to the United 
 States Senate, January, 1901, had been promi- 
 nently identified with the work of the party. His 
 election was at first looked upon by some as 
 doubtful, but the support he received and the 
 stampede that followed clearly demonstrated his 
 popularity with all classes throughout the State, 
 and his selection by the legislature has proven 
 satisfactory to Utah. While his Senatorial career 
 is yet in its infancy he has already demonstrated 
 that Utah will profit largely by his experience 
 
 and by his work, both in the upbuilding of the 
 State and of its capital city, and by the influence 
 which Senator Kearns has upon federal legisla- 
 tion. Like a number of prominent men who 
 have become wealthy through the development 
 of the resources of Utah, the Senator believes in 
 disbursing his wealth in the State from which it 
 was derived. His handsome home now com- 
 pleted on Brigham street is one of the most pal- 
 atial residences in the West and promises to add 
 as much to the attractiveness of Salt Lake City 
 as it does to the comfort of the Senator. Sen- 
 ator Kearns is married (his wife was Miss Jen- 
 nie Judge, a native of New York State) and has 
 three children, two sons and one daughter, Ed- 
 mund J., Thomas F. and Helen M. His wife 
 has been his constant, faithful companion, in 
 both hiS' adversity and prosperity. She is especial- 
 ly noted throughout Utah for her charity and 
 unselfishness. The City of Salt Lake owes much 
 to her and by the orphans of the miners she 
 is looked upon as their patron saint. Through 
 her efforts and munificence alone was erected the 
 magnificent orphanage to be the refuge of the 
 children of miners. With almost the first wealth 
 from her husband's wonderful mines which she 
 could devote to her own personal uses she signed 
 a check for fifty thousand dollars and presented 
 it to Bishop Scanlan of the Roman Catholic 
 Church of Utah, for the immediate erection of 
 the splendid new home for the orphaned little 
 ones of the miners. This orphanage is one of 
 the finest and most complete public buildings in 
 the State. It is of modern construction ; hand- 
 somely finished, lighted and heated and ventil- 
 ated after the most modern plans, and is equipped 
 with broad recreation halls and airy play and 
 study rooms. It shelters one hundred and sev- 
 enty children at present. These are educated to 
 fit all the avocations of life and as they grow 
 older are given the choice of a profession or oc- 
 cupation and then instructed in their choice so 
 that when they start for themselves they are 
 properly equipped and fully prepared to earn an 
 honest living and be a success in the occupation 
 which they have chosen. The establishment of 
 this institution redounds greatly to the credit 
 of Mrs. Kearns, inasmuch as it was founded by 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 her efforts and with her money long before she 
 thought of expending money in providing her- 
 self with the luxuries that she could so well af- 
 ford. The buildings were completed and dedi- 
 cated in the spring of 1901. At that ceremony 
 an audience composed of the most prominent 
 citizens of Salt Lake joined with the orphans in 
 praise of the beneficence of Mrs. Kearns. Mrs. 
 Kearns is much loved and admired throughout 
 all the West and holds a high place in the re- 
 gard of all Utahans. She is a leader in all char- 
 itable works and her genial and unassuming 
 manners have endeared her to all classes 
 throughout the State. 
 
 It is safe to say that the West has never been 
 represented in the United States Senate by a 
 stronger, more level-headed or influential man 
 than Senator Kearns has proven himself to be. 
 During the short period of his official life in the 
 Senate of the United States he has by his influ- 
 ence and untiring efforts caused Utah to be 
 recognized and honored to a degree that sur- 
 passes any new State in the Union. Appoint- 
 ments have been secured for citizens of this State 
 which many older and more prominent States 
 might well be proud of. Few men in the Senate 
 stands closer to President Roosevelt than does 
 Senator Kearns, and it is probably owing to this 
 fact that he has been able to wield so strong 
 an influence for Utah. The splendid showing 
 which he has already made may be taken as a 
 forerunner of what will be accomplished for the 
 good of the State during his term in the Senate ; 
 and while it is true that he has gained the favor 
 and good will of not only the President, but also 
 of many of the most prominent men in the coun- 
 try, he has at the same time lost no friends in 
 his own State. Beyond a doubt he today stands 
 as close to the hearts of the masses in Utah as 
 does any other man in public life. In securing 
 the raising of Fort Douglas to a regimental post 
 and the appropriation of over seven hundred and 
 forty thousand dollars for improvements, Sen- 
 ator Kearns has rendered Salt Lake City a ser- 
 vice which can only be measured and appre- 
 ciated as the years go by. 
 
 In presenting this sketch the writer has not 
 attempted to give a full biographical outline of 
 
 the life of Senator Kearns, as that would be im- 
 possible in a work of this kind, but to present 
 such facts as will enable the reader to have a 
 better idea of the main points in his life; and 
 it is believed that in the presentation it will prove 
 an inspiration to not only the yoimg and rising 
 generation, but to those who are more mature 
 in years, fully demonstrating what may be ac- 
 complished by the exercise of a level head and 
 good business judgment, coupled with determin- 
 ation, perseverance, and indomitable will power. 
 
 rOGE GEORGE W. BARTCH. As the 
 wealth of a people increases and the de- 
 \elopment of the resources of the State 
 progresses, able men are demanded to 
 adjudicate controversies and to intelli- 
 gently and impartially construe the laws. These 
 conditions have arisen in Utah, and among the 
 men selected to comprise the Supreme Court of 
 the State, few have met the demand as well and 
 none better than had the Honorable George \V. 
 Bartch. 
 
 Born on his father's farm in Sullivan County, 
 Pennsylvania, the son of the Reverend John G. 
 Bartch, an Evangelical clergyman, and of Mary 
 Madgeline (Stiner) Bartch, he was left an or- 
 phan at an early age, his mother dying while he 
 was yet an infant and his father when he was 
 but eight years of age. 
 
 The Bartch family were among the early set- 
 tlers of Pennsylvania and were of English-Ger- 
 man extraction. The Reverend John G. Bartch, 
 the father of the subject of this sketch, was well 
 and favorably known throughout Pennsylvania 
 as an ardent preacher and a consistent Christian. 
 Owing to the death of both his parents so early 
 in his life, their son has found great difficulty in 
 learning much of their early history. 
 
 Almost from the time he learned to work, our 
 subject followed his father around the farm 
 and was his constant companion until the latter's 
 death. Young as he was, this intercourse had a 
 marked influence upon the boy's mind, and the 
 principles inculcated during that time and later 
 from a study of his father's life, were undoubt- 
 edly the foundation upon which he has built a 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 reputation for unimpeachable integrity and a 
 successful career. 
 
 Upon the death of his father, he lived with an 
 older brother on a farm in Sullivan County, and 
 there spent his boyhood days. His early educa- 
 tion was received in the common schools of Sul- 
 livan County, which he attended in the winter, 
 spending the summer in work on the farm. He 
 later entered the State Normal School at Blooms- 
 burg, Pennsylvania, graduating from that insti- 
 tution in the spring of 1871 with the degree of 
 Master of Science. Finding that the contracted 
 sphere of farm life did not afford him sufficient 
 opportunity for the exercise of his ability, he 
 started out in life at the age of sixteen. His 
 first work was as a school teacher in the county 
 schools, which he continued to follow for two 
 years. The ability he displayed in this capacity 
 won for him the position of Superintendent of 
 the city schools of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, 
 which he retained for ten years. In addition to 
 his duties as principal, he taught Latin and Greek 
 until a professor was furnished for those 
 branches. Besides his study of languages, he 
 also devoted considerable time and attention to 
 the study of philosophy and mental science. Un- 
 der his direction the schools of Senandoah made 
 great strides in progress and so satisfactory had 
 his work been that it was with some difficulty 
 that the Board consented to accept his resigna- 
 tion. The reputation which he had built up as 
 an educator during this tenure of office made 
 him well and favorably known to all the leading 
 colleges and educators of Pennsylvania, and he 
 still enjoys many warm friendships he made 
 in those days in that State. 
 
 During the entire time he was engaged in di- 
 recting the school work and even before, his 
 mind had been set on following the law as 
 a profession and as his lifework. All the 
 time he could spare from his duties were given 
 to this study, and when he resigned his position 
 it was with the view of entering upon the prac- 
 tice of his chosen profession. Judge Bartch was 
 admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania and prac- 
 ticed in his native State until 1886, residing there 
 during the Molly Maguire troubles and living in 
 the very thick of that disturbance. 
 
 In the fall of 1886, this future Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of Utah removed to Colorado and 
 located at Cannon City, where he soon built up 
 a good practice and was joined by his family. 
 Here he continued to reside for two years and 
 in the spring of 1888 moved to Utah and settled 
 in Salt Lake City. Here his ability and knowl- 
 edge soon won for him a prominent place at 
 the bar, as well as a lucrative practice. His en- 
 tire time since his arrival in Salt Lake City, with 
 the exception of the terms he served on the 
 Bench, has been devoted to his professional 
 labors. 
 
 In President Harrison's term of office he was 
 appointed Probate Judge of Salt Lake County. 
 He was later appointed Associate Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of Utah by President Harrison, 
 being associated with Judge Blackburn, who was 
 then a member of that court. This position he 
 continued to fill with his usual ability and effi- 
 cieny until Utah was admitted to the Union in 
 1896. When the elections to fill the offices of 
 the new State were held. Judge Bartch was 
 elected Justice of the Supreme Court for a term 
 of five years, the last two years of which he was 
 Chief Justice, and in the election of 1900 was 
 re-elected on the Republican ticket to that posi- 
 tion by a large majority. 
 
 His work on the Bench has stamped him as 
 one of the ablest judges who have served Utah, 
 and among the men who have been chosen to 
 fill that responsible position, few have given the 
 general satisfaction that Judge Bartch has given 
 to the people of the State. Just as in other 
 walks of life, his success has been built upon 
 constant hard work, close study, and the power 
 to think and to grasp the salient points of a con- 
 troversy. In all the cases he has decided, his 
 decisions have been reached only after a careful 
 and painstaking review of all the facts. It is his 
 policy never to take anything for granted, but 
 to make himself personally familiar with all the 
 details of the case in hand. 
 
 Judge Bartch was married in Bloomsburg, 
 Pennsylvania, in 1871 to Miss Amanda A. Guild, 
 daughter of Aaron D. and Sarah A. Guild, and 
 has three children, Minnie Alice, Rae and Olive 
 Amanda. Judge Bartch's wife comes from one 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAi: RECORD. 
 
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 of the old Pennsylvania families and were among 
 the first settlers of that State. His father-in-law 
 was a farmer of means and prosperous business. 
 
 For the past thirty years Judge and Mrs. 
 Bartch have been members of the Presbyterian 
 Church and have always aided in its work and 
 taken prominent parts in its development in Utah. 
 
 In political affairs, the Judge has ever been 
 a staunch Republican and has consistently fol- 
 lowed the fortunes of that party throughout his 
 career. During the lifetime of the late President 
 McKinley, he enjoyed the warm personal friend- 
 ship of that distinguished statesman. 
 
 From an unpropitious beginning, Judge Bartck 
 has erected a career that stands high, not only 
 in Utah, but in the United States. His success- 
 ful career as a lawyer and as a judge mark him 
 as one of the most successful men of the West. 
 Thrown on his own resources at an early age 
 by the death of his parents, he has, by the dint 
 of continuous hard work and application, erected 
 a career that may well be a source of pride to 
 his posterity in the years to come. A command- 
 ing presence, coupled with a judicial cast of 
 mind, a genial and pleasant manner and a warm 
 heart has won for him a host of good friends 
 throughout Utah and made him one of the most 
 popular men in the State. 
 
 RAXKLIX S. RICHARDS is a name 
 that must ever point out one of the 
 brightest stars that has yet dawned 
 upon the horizon of the legal world of 
 the West. Perhaps no profession af- 
 fords a wider field for individual attainment than 
 does the law, and this fact has attracted to it 
 multitudes of young men from every clime since 
 it became reduced to a recognized science and in- 
 creasing civilization demanded a finer discrimina- 
 tion between justice and injustice. The man who 
 rises above the mediocre in his profession must 
 possess not only a thorough knowledge of the 
 law ; he must have a logical and resourceful 
 mind, be a reader of human nature, and have a 
 peculiar fitness not alone to so plead at the bar 
 and so sway the minds of the jury as to procure 
 for his client the desired verdict : he must pos- 
 
 sess that indefinable something called eloquence ; 
 that power over the minds and hearts of those 
 with whom he is associated that shall make them 
 bend to his will as the mighty tree bends be- 
 fore the gale that sweeps over prairie and plain ; 
 that winning personality that invests every other 
 being with a part of itself, and makes his mind 
 and his will theirs. Such a man will rise to the 
 highest mountain peaks of fame and leadership, 
 be his environment what it may. Such a mind 
 and such a personality can no more be kept in 
 obscurity than can the first bright, beautiful 
 rays of the morning sun ; and as those rays grow 
 more bright and beautiful as the orb ascends the 
 heavens, so will the career of such a man shed 
 increasing light and increasing beneficence upon 
 the world about him, penetrating ever farther and 
 farther, and bringing blessings and joy to man- 
 kind generations after the man himself shall have 
 passed from earth's scenes. Such a man as we 
 have described is to be found in the person of 
 Franklin S. Richards, whose name heads this arti- 
 cle. 
 
 Mr. Richards was born in Salt Lake City, 
 June 20, 1849, two years after the first pioneer set 
 his foot in Salt Lake Valley and here began the 
 erection of his home, seeking nothing better than 
 that he be allowed to worship according to the 
 dictates of his own conscience. Among those 
 worthy people were President Franklin D. and 
 Jane (Snyder) Richards, parents of our subject, 
 a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. 
 1 ne mother had come childless into this then un- 
 inviting wilderness, carrying with her the bitter 
 memory of two little graves where she had laid 
 her loved children after the exodus of the Mor- 
 mons from Nauvoo, and when our subject was 
 born, not only his frail life, but that of the mother, 
 hung in the balance for many days. The long 
 and wearisome journey across the plains, the 
 hardships endured not only on that journey and 
 later, but at the time of the exodus ; the breaking 
 of the mother heart as she saw her little ones 
 pass out into that bourne whence none ever re- 
 turn, all tended to break down her health and 
 sap her vitality, and the house in which the babe 
 was born was a crude structure consisting of 
 one barren adobe room, the roof thatched with 
 
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 rushes and covered over with earth ; but rude as 
 it was, it was better than the shelter that most 
 of those early pioneers had secured, as building 
 a place of shelter became almost a second con- 
 sideration in the face of the failure of the first 
 crops and the fast diminishing supply of food. 
 As a result of a terrific storm which swept the 
 valley Mrs. Richards went through a severe sick- 
 ness, in which her life was for a time despaired 
 of, but her fine constitution carried her safely 
 back to health and she was spared to her family 
 for many years. Inheriting from both parents 
 intellectuality, perseverence and the power of con- 
 centration, he early gave evidence of possessing 
 a mind of an unusual order, and he was given 
 every advantage in the way of an education that 
 the schools which then existed afforded, his par- 
 ents taking special pains to instruct him person- 
 ally. So apt a pupil did he prove that at the 
 age of seventeen, upon the departure of his father 
 to a mission to Europe, he was capable of taking 
 entire charge of a large and select school which 
 he taught for the following three years, thus 
 assisting in the support of the family. During 
 this time he continued his own studies under pri- 
 vate tutors. 
 
 On December i8, 1868, when but nineteen 
 years of age, Mr. Richards entered the marriage 
 relation with Miss Emily S. Tanner, a daughter 
 of Nathan and Rachel Tanner of this city. Sev- 
 eral children have been born of this marriage, 
 which has proved one of exceptional happiness, 
 and Mrs. Richards is one of the notable women 
 of Utah. 
 
 Early in the following year Apostle Franklin 
 D. Richards was appointed to preside over the 
 Weber Stake of Zion and it became necessary 
 for him to remove to Ogden, which he did, our 
 subject and his young wife, as a part of the fam- 
 ily, going with him. Mr. Richards had a pas- 
 sion for the study of medicine and was fitting 
 himself to follow that profession, but the condi- 
 tions which he found to e.xist in Ogden pro- 
 foundly impressed him with the necessity for a 
 good legal adviser and practitioner among the 
 people of that district, and after much deep con- 
 sideration and study of the case he abandoned 
 his determination to study medicine and turned 
 
 his attention to the study of the law. The situa- 
 tion demanded that he devote his whole energy 
 to the perfecting of himself in this direction, as 
 there was no resident lawyer in Ogden and but 
 few established legal forms ; the railroad had ar- 
 rived and the public lands were coming into the 
 market. Mr. Richards was appointed clerk of 
 the P'robate Court and subsequently elected 
 County Recorder, and during this time spent 
 much time and thought upon the difficult and 
 important task of formulating methods and de- 
 vising a way in which to keep the public records 
 in a more systematic manner than they were then 
 kept. The improvements he made in this direc- 
 tion brought him the special commendation of 
 President Brigham Young. He held the offices 
 of Clerk and Recorder for nine years, at the 
 end of which time he retired, declining re- 
 election that was tendered him. He had con- 
 tinued the study of law during these years, " — - 
 ing special attention to the subject of constitu- 
 tional law, and on the i6th of June, 1874, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of the Third District Cou'-* 
 at Salt Lake City, and on the afternoon of the 
 same day to the bar of the Supreme Court of 
 the Territory, his name being presented by the 
 veteran attorney, Frank Tilford. Mr. Richards' 
 first case in court was that of a man charged 
 with murder, and although the opposing coun- 
 sel were able and eloquent attorneys, Mr. Rich- 
 ards' handling of the case astonished even the 
 most enthusiastic of his friends and won the 
 discharge of his client. His signal success 
 brought him into immediate recognition and 
 prominence in legal circles, and the star that 
 then began to ascend li^s since continued to 
 grace the legal world with ever-increasing lustre. 
 In the spring of 1877 he was called in com- 
 pany with Apostle Joseph F. Smith to go to Eu- 
 rope on a mission for the Mormon Church. They 
 arrived in Liverpool on the 27th of May and the 
 English climate being at that season too severe 
 for his delicate health he availed himself of an 
 opportunity to travel on the continent for a time, 
 and during the period of recreation visited 
 France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and other 
 countries, and returned to London much re- 
 freshed and benefited by the change. He re- 
 
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 mained in the work in London for a time and 
 then went to the south coast, where his health 
 again became affected by the humid atmosphere, 
 and it was deemed advisable for him to return 
 home, which he did in the fall of 1877, in com- 
 pany with Apostles Orson Pratt and Joseph F. 
 Smith. 
 
 Mr. Richards attained special prominence as 
 an attorney for the Church during the adminis- 
 tration of President John Taylor, successor to 
 Brigham Young. His first work of note was in 
 connection with the estate of Brigham Young. 
 Air. Richards had as a law partner at that time 
 Judge Rufus K. Williams, formerly Chief Justice 
 of Kentucky, and was the senior member of the 
 firm. This firm was dissolved in 1881, Mr. Rich- 
 ards' arduous duties as church attorney and his 
 study of the constitutional law absorbing all his 
 spare time, and he preferring to follow this 
 course rather than that of a general law practice. 
 He was admitted in the spring of 1881 to prac- 
 tice before the bar of the Supreme Court of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 The following year he represented Weber 
 County in the Constitutional Convention, in 
 which he took a very active part, and was elected 
 one of the delegates to present the Constitution 
 to Congress, his associates being Hons. John T. 
 Caine and D. H. Peerv. This was after the pass- 
 ing of the Edmunds act, and Mr. Richards posi- 
 tion as church attorney brought him into consid- 
 erable prominence in Washington, where he made 
 the acquaintance of the most noted men of that 
 day. During this time Judge Jeremiah S. Black 
 made a special trip to Washington in the inter- 
 ests of the Mormon Church, and for the pur- 
 pose of conferring with Mr. Richards regarding 
 the condition of affairs in Utah, and it was dur- 
 ing this and suosequent conferences and the study 
 of the questions involved that the world was 
 given Judge Black's great constitutional argu- 
 ment upon "Federal Jurisdiction in the Terri- 
 tories," delivered during the following winter 
 before the Judiciary Committee of the House of 
 Representatives. The frequent conferences be- 
 tween our subject and Judge Black resulted in 
 close friendship which was only severed by the 
 death of the judge. 
 
 At a somewhat later period Air. Richards and 
 his brother, Charles C, successfully defended 
 their father in the noted mandamus proceedings 
 brought against him as Probate Judge of Weber 
 County, by James N. Kimball, and which case 
 was brought to a satisfactory termination. 
 
 Mr. Richards' next trip to Washington was in 
 the fall of 1882, when in company with Messrs. 
 Caine, Peery and ex-Delegate Cannon, in the in- 
 terests of statehood. During his sojourn in 
 Washington he was admitted to practice before 
 the bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States, upon motion of Judge Black, the date 
 of his admission being January 30, 1883. Judge 
 Black died the following August, deeply 
 mourned, not only by his chosen friend, but also 
 by the people whose cause he had so ably de- 
 fended, and in October of that year Mr. Richards 
 once more made a trip East, this time witn Hon. 
 George Q. Cannon and Delegate Caine, for the 
 purpose of engaging counsel to assist them in 
 pleading the cause of the Mormon people. As 
 a result of this visit Senator \'est of Missouri 
 was retained. He again visited the Capuol with 
 Moses Thatcher in the same cause in 1884, but 
 was obliged to return home to take his seat in 
 the legislature, having been elected to represent 
 the counties of Weber and Box Elder, being 
 elected President of the Council. He was also 
 appointed as City Attorney for Salt Lake in that 
 year and moved his residence from Ogden to this 
 city, after an absence of fifteen years. He was 
 re-elected to this office from term to term until 
 1890, when the municipal government changed 
 hands. During the period commonly called the 
 "Crusade," in which the violators of the Ed- 
 munds act were vigorously prosecuted, Mr. Rich- 
 ards gave his whole time to the defense of the 
 church and the Mormon people, his most note- 
 worthy cases being that of Rudger Clawson, the 
 first man to be tried for poligamy before Judge 
 Zane, and the case commonly referred to as Mur- 
 phy vs. Ramsey, involving the rights of thou- 
 sands of citizens disinfranchised by the rulings 
 of the Utah Commission ; also the case of the 
 L'nited States vs. Lorenzo Snow, in vvhich the 
 questions of "constructive cohabitation" and "se- 
 gregation" came up for adjudication; the vital 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 point in this case being whether or not a man 
 accused of breaking the Edmunds law could 
 legally be punished three times for one alleged 
 offense. These cases were all carried to Wash- 
 ington, where Mr. Richards^ was assisted in some 
 of them by such eminent legal lights as Watne 
 McVeigh, Senator Vest and George Ticknor 
 Curtis, who appeared with him several times be- 
 fore the Court of Last Resort. As a result of 
 Mr. Richards' labors Apostle Snow was released 
 on a writ of habeas corpus. 
 
 At that time nearly all the leaders of the Mor- 
 mon Church were living in exile, as under the 
 law then existing a man could be convicted of 
 unlawful cohabitation and sentenced upon an in- 
 definite number of counts. Mr. Richards had 
 been earnestly and persistently laboring for a 
 period of more than two years to have this law 
 modified and was finally successful. It was one 
 of the greatest victories ever won in the Supreme 
 Court of the United States in favor of the Mor- 
 mon people, and one in which the greatest grati- 
 tude was shown Mr. Richards by the leaders of 
 the church. The result of this decison was that 
 nearly all of these men came forward and sub- 
 mitted to the jurisdiction of the Court and in 
 many cases pleaded guilty and went to the peni- 
 tentiary, willing to suffer the penalty and pay 
 their fines, knowing that the reign of terror which 
 had existed among the Mormon people was 
 broken and that they could only be tried and 
 made to pay the penalty imposed by the law once 
 for an offense. Under these happy conditions 
 the people returned to their homes and once more 
 resumed their accustomed labors, feeling secure 
 that the justice of the law would protect them. 
 
 Mr. Richards also appeared in behalf of the 
 church at the time of the confiscation of the 
 church property under the Edmunds-Tucker act, 
 having associated with him such eminent lawyers 
 as Hon. James O. Broadhead and Senator Joseph 
 E. McDonald, the opposing counsel being chosen 
 from among the brightest legal lights of the 
 United States. In fact, he represented nearly all 
 the cases of note at that time. At the close of 
 the crusade, when both Mormons and Gentiles 
 agreed to bury the hatchet, wipe out old party 
 lines and become Democrats and Republicans, in 
 
 the new era then opening upon Utah, no one was 
 more active in bringing about the changed con- 
 ditions that have since prevailed. He cast his 
 lot with the Democratic party and has since been 
 one of its most staunch defenders and supporters. 
 
 He was elected a member of the Constitutional 
 Convention in 1894, representing the Fourth 
 Precinct of Salt Lake City, in which he resides. 
 He took a prominent part in this convention and 
 won laurels by his learned and logical address 
 in behalf of woman suffrage, which after a spir- 
 ited and protracted debate was incorporated into 
 the State Constitution. His cherished dream — 
 Statehood for Utah — being realized, Mr. Rich- 
 ards retired to some extent from active politics 
 and once more devoted himself to his profession. 
 His son, Joseph T., had been associated with 
 him for some years under the firm name of Rich- 
 ards and Richards, and this partnership was dis- 
 solved in the beginning of 1898, and Mr. Rich- 
 ards formed another partnership with Hon. C. S. 
 Varian. This firm has come to the front as one 
 of the leading law firms of the city. They are 
 frequently retained in big cases involving ques- 
 tions of constitutional and mining law, as well 
 as having a large general law practice, and some 
 of the most important cases tried in the State 
 since the formation of this partnership have been 
 won by this firm. Mr. Richards also still retains 
 the position of attorney for the church. 
 
 Mr. Richards is one of the most cultured of 
 men ; studious, thoughtful, and to the stranger 
 a trifle distant at first, but this apparent coldness 
 comes more from a naturally reserved nature 
 than from any desire to be formal, as he is to 
 those who know him one of the most genial and 
 kindly of men ; a great lover of home and family. 
 When aroused he is most enthusiastic and has 
 the power of infusing that enthusiasm into those 
 he wishes to impress. He is full of energy and 
 action, a hard worker, and whatever he has in 
 hand he goes at it in a whole-souled manner, 
 putting his best energies into the task until it 
 is completed. While he is and has always been 
 a strong and devoted follower of the Mormon 
 Church, yet he is a man of very broad and liberal 
 mind, charitable and allowing every man the 
 privilege of living according to the dictates of 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 his own conscience, and no man of this day stands 
 any higher in the esteem and confidence of the 
 people, not only of the city and State, but 
 throughout the whole Union wherever he is 
 known, than does Franklin S. Richards, and he 
 has won the lasting friendship of the people of 
 this land whose friendship is most worth having, 
 irrespective of religious dogma. While his great- 
 est work has been in the interests of the Mormon 
 Church, he is first, last and always the friend 
 of the people and of the State, and stands ever 
 ready to lend his aid to any enterprise or scheme 
 for the uplifting of the one or the advancement 
 of the other. 
 
 \TTHEW H. WALKER. So 
 closely interwoven with the begin- 
 ning and development of the pros- 
 perity of Utah, and of the building 
 up of Salt Lake City is the life of 
 the Walker family, in L'tah, that any attempt to 
 write a sketch of their lives must of necessity 
 include a greater part of the history of the rise 
 of Salt Lake City to its present important posi- 
 tion. They were among the first pioneers to come 
 to this Territory when it was a vast wilderness 
 and formed a part of the great American desert. 
 They participated largely in the work of settle- 
 ment, and have aided greatly in transforming 
 the desert into a prosperous and growing busi- 
 ness community. No member of the family has 
 taken a greater part in the industrial development 
 of Salt Lake than has Matthew H. Walker, the 
 subject of this sketch. He is President of the 
 Walker Brothers Dry Goods Company, one of 
 the largest and most successful establishments of 
 that kind in Utah, and is also President of 
 Walker Brothers Bank, one of the oldest and 
 most solid financial institutions in the inter-moun- 
 tain region. He was also President of the Union 
 Insurance Agency, which has been consolidated 
 with the Sherman, Wilson Insurance Company, 
 and is one of the largest individual owners of 
 real estate in Salt Lake City, in addition to which 
 he holds large interests in mining properties and 
 in other investments throughout the State. 
 He was born in Yorkshire, near Leeds, Eng- 
 
 land, on January the i6th, 1845. When he was 
 but an infant his family emigrated to America, 
 and he crossed the Atlantic ocean a babe in arms. 
 His father, Matthew, had been a prominent man 
 in England, and was largely interested in com- 
 mercial undertakings and in railroad projects. He 
 died at the age of thirty-eight, soon after reach- 
 ing Saint Louis, where the family had settled 
 upon their arrival in America. His wife, and the 
 mother of the subject of this sketch, Mercy 
 (Long) Walker, was also a native of Yorkshire, 
 England, and upon the death of her husband, 
 she, with her four sons, left Saint Louis in 1852 
 and crossed the great American plains by ox 
 teams to Utah. This journey was unusually hard 
 and arduous, owing to the fact that they lost a 
 large part of their cattle, and were forced to part 
 with the remainder to the Indians, for ponies and 
 equipment in order to enable them to continue 
 their journey. The wagon train with which they 
 started across the plains was left at Green River, 
 Wyoming, and the Walker family journeyed from 
 that point alone to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving 
 here in September, 1852. Their journey across 
 the plains occupied a period of four months. The 
 oldest son was then but sixteen years of age, 
 and Matthew, our subject, was but seven when 
 he arrived in Salt Lake. He received his early 
 education in the common schools of Salt Lake 
 City, and in 1859, ^^ the age of thirteen, he with 
 his three elder brothers, embarked in the mer- 
 cantile business under the name of Walker 
 Brothers. Prior to the establishment of their 
 business, they had secure'd employment as clerks 
 in stores in Camp Flood and in Salt Lake City. 
 Their business was first located at a site north 
 of where the building of the Walker Brothers 
 Bank now stands. Later, they purchased the 
 property on the east side of Main street, opposite 
 and later acquired the property upon which the 
 Walker Brothers Bank building now stands, at 
 the northwest corner of Main and Second South 
 streets. Their mercantile business at first occu- 
 pied all of the front of the building, facing on 
 Main street, and the banking business, which was 
 then but a side issue, was carried on in the rear 
 of the building. Their banking business grad- 
 ually grew as the years passed, due to a great 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 extent to a custom of their customers leaving 
 money with them for safe keeping. _ The increase 
 in the banking business led them to establish the 
 Union National Bank, which was a very success- 
 ful venture, but it was later merged with the 
 Walker Brothers Bank. They erected at the 
 southwest corner of Main and Third South 
 streets, in 1891, the new home of the Walker 
 Brothers Dry Goods Company, a substantial 
 three-story brick building, which is among the 
 best buildings in the city, and compares credit- 
 ably with establishments of cities much larger 
 than Salt Lake. This store, in addition to dry 
 goods, is in reality a department store in which 
 everything pertaining to clothing or dry goods 
 is kept for sale. This establishment alone gives 
 employment to about one hundred and twenty- 
 five people, and their other industries in the city 
 swells the number of their employees to one hun- 
 dred and fifty. 
 
 S. S. Walker was a member of the firm until 
 his death in 1887. Joseph R., another brother, 
 was also a member of the firm until his death in 
 1901. D. F. Walker, for years a member of the 
 firm, is now living at San Mateo, California. 
 
 Our subject married in 1865 to Miss Eliza- 
 beth Carson. She died in 1896, and his present 
 wife was Mrs. Angelena Hague, a native of Lon- 
 don, England, who came to Salt Lake City when 
 but a young girl, and has spent her life in LTtah. 
 Mr. Walker has one son, J. H. Walker, by his 
 first wife, and who is now Assistant Cashier in 
 the Walker Brothers Bank. By his second wife 
 he has one daughter, four years old. 
 
 In political life Mr. Walker is a member of 
 the Republican party but he has been so en- 
 grossed in business afifairs that he has not had 
 time to participate actively in this work. He is 
 X member of the School Board of Salt Lake. In 
 fraternal life he is a prominent member of the 
 Masonic order. 
 
 Mr. Walker has acquired his. present high 
 standing in financial and business circles through 
 no lucky chance, but by constant, hard work, 
 careful management and application to the work 
 in hand. His unimpeachable integrity has won 
 for him a high reputation in the business world, 
 and he enjoys the confidence and esteem of all 
 
 with whom he has come in contact. He is a resi- 
 dent of Salt Lake City and has a handsome home 
 on South Main street. 
 
 L'DGE THOMAS MARSHALL. Few 
 members of the Bar of Utah have ac- 
 quired as high a reputation for in- 
 tegrity, ability and learning in their 
 [profession, as has Judge Thomas Mar- 
 shal. There have been many lirilliant careers 
 in the West, and many which have shone 
 with the light of great ability and the suc- 
 cessful development of prosperous industries, 
 but among the ranks of the men whose life 
 work has been crowned with success, there are 
 none who hold a higher position than does the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 Judge Thomas Marshall was born in Wash- 
 ington, Mason County, Kentucky, August 25th, 
 1834. His is a son of Colonel Charles A. Mar- 
 shall and Phoebe Paxton Marshall, one of the 
 oldest and most prominent families in Kentucky, 
 and they number among their ancestors some of 
 the most prominent men that America has ever 
 produced. Judge Marshall's father inherited a 
 large property from his father, and in the afifairs 
 of the State and the L^nion took an active part. 
 He was twice commissioned under Garfield 
 during the Civil War. He was a nephew 
 of Chief Justice John Marshall, one of the 
 most brilliant men who have ever sat upon the 
 bench of the Supreme Court of the LTnited 
 States. Thomas Marshall, his son, was prepared 
 for college under the tuition of Doctor Lewis 
 Marshall, at the latter's home, known as "Buck's 
 Pond," in Woodford County, Kentucky. Dr. 
 Marshall was the father of Thomas F. Marshall, 
 the distinguished orator; A. K. Marshall, who 
 succeeded Clay in the Ashland district ; Edward 
 C. Marshall, member of Congress and Attorney 
 General of California ; Judge William Marshall, 
 brother-in-law of General Robert E. Lee and 
 member of Congress from Maryland. After four 
 years study under Dr. Marshall, Thomas was 
 sent to Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, where 
 he completed his studies. He also took a course 
 of law and studied under Judge Thomas A. Mar- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 37 
 
 shall, then occupying a position on the Supreme 
 Bench of Kentuck}'. Upon the completion of his 
 studies Thomas Marshall went to St. Louis and 
 there established himself in the practice of law, 
 being admitted to the Bar of that State at the 
 age of twenty-one. Here he formed a partner- 
 ship under the name of Williams, Barrett & 
 ^Marshall. Here he remained until the spring of 
 1866, when he came to Salt Lake City, and has 
 since made Utah his residence. Shortly after 
 his arrival here he became attorney for the Holli- 
 day Overland Mail and Express Company. His 
 ability was soon recognized by other corporations 
 and in 1869 he became the attorney for the Cen- 
 tral Pacific Railroad Company, and has been since 
 that time attorney for the Southern Pacific Com- 
 pany and the Southern Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany. He has also been President of the Cen- 
 tral Pacific Railroad Company and is now a di- 
 rector and served as an officer of the Territorial 
 Government in 1888, as a member of the Terri- 
 torial Council. He was admitted to the bar of 
 the Supreme Court of the United States in 1872. 
 His ability and industry have brought him great 
 success in his chosen profession and the enjoy- 
 ment of a lucrative practice. 
 
 Judge Marshall married November 27th. 1855, 
 the daughter of the Honorable James M. Hughes, 
 ex-member of Congress for the State of Mis- 
 souri at large. He was also President of the 
 State Bank 'of Missouri. He died in 1861 at Jef- 
 ferson City while a candidate for the L^nited 
 States Senate. He has one daughter, the wife 
 of D. R. Gray, who is the agent of the Harriman 
 railroads in Salt Lake City. Judge Marshall 
 has been a member of the Masons in Utah for 
 over forty years, being a Chapter Mason. He 
 joined the Masons in early life and has always 
 been an active worker in its development in the 
 West. Judge Marshall has achieved for himself 
 a high position, not only in the ranks of the legal 
 profession of Utah, but in all walks of Hfe. His 
 work as a lawyer has stamped him as a worthy 
 descendant of the greatest Chief Justice, and 
 perhaps the greatest lawyer that the United 
 States has ever produced. He is well known 
 throughout Utah and the West and enjoys the 
 warm friendship of a l^rge circle of friends. 
 
 roSTLE JOHN HENRY SMITH. 
 i'lie development of LUah from a wild 
 and apparently barren land to a pros- 
 ]i<.rous and growing State of the 
 Union within the short space of half 
 a century is one of the most remarkable chapters 
 in the growth of the United States. The diffi- 
 culties which confronted the pioneers, the priva- 
 tions and hardships they were forced to endure, 
 and their conflicts with both wild and civilized 
 man makes their triumph all the more marked. 
 One of the more prominent of these pioneers and 
 who has spent his entire life in the interests 
 of the State and the church to which it owes its 
 beginnings, is John Henry Smith. He has been 
 foremost in the work of making Utah a prosper- 
 ous and self-sustaining community and to his ef- 
 forts much of its present reputation is due. Pass- 
 ing safely through the ordeal of the early settle- 
 ment of the frontier, he has now reached a posi- 
 tion which marks him as one of the leaders of 
 the State, and his prominence in the affairs of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 
 has been the result of his ability and zeal. 
 
 John Henry Smith was born at Carbunca, 
 Iowa, September 18, 1848. He is the son of the 
 late President Smith and Sarah Ann (Libbay) 
 Smith. His parents had been driven from Illinois 
 and Missouri with the rest of the members of 
 the church and it was while they were at Car- 
 bunca, now Council Bluflfs, that their son was 
 born. His father, the late President George A. 
 Smith, had accompanied President Brigham 
 Young and the first company of pioneers to the 
 Great Salt Lake \'alley the year before, and with 
 some of them had also returned to the Missouri 
 river. Upon his arrival there he proceeded to 
 make preparations for the removal of his family 
 to the new headciuarters of the church, but it was 
 not until the summer of 1849 'hat the family 
 began their journey westward from the Missouri 
 river; and John Henry was just past one year 
 of age when the family arrived in Salt Lake City. 
 Here, on June 12, 1851, his mother died of con- 
 sumption, and after her death, he was placed un- 
 der the care of his mother's sister, Hannah 
 Maria, who was also one of his father's wives, 
 and to her he owed much of his future growth 
 and education. 
 
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 Owing to the frequent and prolonged absences 
 of his father from home, the lad was almost ex- 
 clusively under the tuition of his aunt. His 
 father's family became widely separated soon 
 after their arrival in Utah, some residing in Salt 
 Lake City and others in Parowan, while his 
 wives Lucy and Hannah were, during the sum- 
 mer of 1852, removed to Provo, in which town 
 the lad spent his early life. 
 
 The days of his boyhood passed in a similar 
 manner to that of other sons of the pioneers, and 
 one of his first occupations was in herding cattle 
 on the Provo bench and along the "bottoms" on 
 the shores of Utah Lake. He was a large and 
 powerful boy, and was always considered a gen- 
 ial, good-natured companion by his friends. For 
 several years after the first settlement of Provo 
 the Indians were exceedingly troublesome, and 
 though but a boy, John Henry participated in 
 many adventures, at one time being shot at, but 
 fortunately escaping without injury. When he 
 was fourteen years of age he had a narrow es- 
 cape from drowning in the Provo River during 
 the high-water season, and remained so long a 
 time below the water, that his life was despaired 
 but his remarkable vitality stood him in good 
 stead, and when he finally came to the surface 
 was soon resuscitated. 
 
 As he advanced in years, he removed to Salt 
 Lake City and attended the schools that were 
 then in existence. The educational conditions 
 in Utah then were necessarily crude and imper- 
 fect and his education was received more from 
 his experiences in life and from the teachings 
 of his foster-mother than from books. 
 
 At the age of eighteen he married his first 
 wife. Miss Sarah Farr, daughter of the Honor- 
 able Loren Farr, of Ogden and she has ever been 
 a true and devoted helpmeet to her husband. 
 Ten years later he married Miss Josephine 
 Groesbeck, daughter of Nicholas Groesbeck, an 
 Elder in the Church. 
 
 Upon his marriage to Miss Farr, the young 
 couple removed to Provo, where John Henry 
 Smith was employed as a telegrapher. While 
 residing there he was chosen as a counsellor to 
 Bishop W. A. Follett, of the Fourth Ward of 
 that town. When the transcontinental railway 
 
 was nearing completion he left Provo and en- 
 tered the service of Bensin, Farr & West, and 
 assisted them in completing two hundred miles 
 of line of the Central Pacific Railroad, which 
 they had contracted to build. Upon the com- 
 pletion of this work. Governor Leland Stanford, 
 of California, offered the young man a good 
 position in Sacramento, but as his father desired 
 him to return to Salt Lake City, he declined the 
 offer. 
 
 He was his father's frequent companion on 
 his travels throughout the Territory, and from 
 these journeys he derived much of his acquaint- 
 ance with the prominent men of the community. 
 This privilege also afiforded him an opportunity 
 to acquire an education which could not be ob- 
 tained from books, and how eagerly he grasped 
 it is shown in the fulness of his character and 
 life. 
 
 At the session of the Territorial Legislature 
 of 1872, John Henry Smith was appointed assis- 
 tant clerk of the House of Representatives, and 
 from this time dated the beginning of his career 
 in civil matters. In the same year he was 
 chosen assistant clerk of the constitutional con- 
 vention. 
 
 In May, 1874, he was called to go on a mis- 
 sion to Europe by President Brigham Young. 
 He left Utah on June 29 of that year and ar- 
 rived in New York on July 4, and before sailing 
 paid a short visit to his mother's brothers, then 
 residents of New Hampshire. He arrived in 
 Liverpool, England, on July 26 and reported to 
 his cousin, Joseph F. Smith, then president of 
 the European mission. By him he was assigned 
 to the duty of a travelling Elder in the Birming- 
 ham Conference, under the direction of Elder 
 Richard V. Morris. While engaged on this 
 work, he visited most of the conferences of Great 
 Britain, and also accompanied President Joseph 
 F. Smith, Elder F. M. Lyman and other high 
 officers of the mission to Denmark, Germany, 
 Switzerland and France. After the lapse of a 
 year he was called to Utah by the sickness of 
 his father, and reached Salt Lake City in time to 
 spend fifteen days at his father's bedside previous 
 to his death on September i, 1875. 
 
 He again took up the active work of the 
 
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 39 
 
 Church in Utah, and on November 22, 1875, 
 was appointed Bishop of the Seventeenth Ward 
 for Salt Lake City, which position he filled with 
 efficiency and zeal for five years. During this 
 period he was also employed by the LUah Cen- 
 tral Railway Company. 
 
 At the general conference of the Church in 
 October, 1880, the First Presidency of the 
 Church was reorganized and Elders Francis M. 
 Lyman and John Henry Smith were called to 
 fill vacancies in the quorum of the Twelve Apos- 
 tles, being ordained on the 27th day of that 
 r'-'onth. 
 
 In the first months of 1882, when the Ed- 
 munds-Tucker anti-polygamy bill was before 
 Congress, Apostles John Henry Smith and Mo- 
 ses Thatcher were sent to Washington to as- 
 sist George Q. Cannon, the delegate from Utah, 
 in preventing the passage of this act, but their 
 labors were unsuccessful. Upon three subse- 
 quent occasions. Apostle Smith has visited 
 Washington in the interest of the people of Utah. 
 In 1892 he went to the capital to aid in securing 
 the admission of Utah as a State, and in the 
 early part of 1900 he again visited that city in the 
 endeavor to modify the sentiments of the leading 
 men of the country and their attitude in regard 
 to the members of the Church. 
 
 He was again called to go on a mission to 
 England by President John Taylor, this time. 
 October, 1882, to act as president of the Euro- 
 pean mission. While there he visited the var- 
 ious conferences in England and travelled exten- 
 sively in France and Italy, being absent from 
 home a period of twenty-nine months. Upon his 
 return he found the whole State in a turmoil, 
 due to the arrests and prosecutions then being 
 made under authority of the Edmunds-Tucker 
 act. He was arrested upon the prevailing 
 charge — unlawful cohabitation — but was dis- 
 charged on account of the lack of evidence. 
 
 In addition to his duties in the work of de- 
 veloping the Church, Apostle Smith has taken an 
 active part in the political affairs of the State. 
 In February, 1876, he was a member of the Salt 
 Lake City Council and served for six years as a 
 Councilman. In August, 1881, he was elected 
 a member of the Territorial Legislature. 
 
 Upon the division of the People's party and 
 the Liberals upon national political lines, he was 
 one of the first to advocate the principles of the 
 Republican party and has ever since been an 
 active worker in that party. He was president 
 of the convention that formed the constitution 
 under which Utah was admitted into the Union 
 as a State. 
 
 Since his call to the Apostleship, Elder Smith 
 has devoted practically all of his time to public 
 duties. Except when absent from the country 
 on missions, he has travelled almost constantly 
 among the stakes of the Church, attending con- 
 ferences, instructing and encouraging the mem- 
 bers, organizing and setting in orders the stakes 
 and wards. He has visited every stake of the 
 Church in Utah, many of them several times, 
 including those in Old Mexico and dififerent 
 States and Territories of the United States and 
 Canada. He also made a tour of the Southern 
 States Mission in 1899, doing considerable 
 preaching both there and on his way.' 
 
 He has been a delegate to several of the ses- 
 sions of the Trans-Mississippi and Irrigation 
 Congress, and upon the adjournment of the last 
 one held in Houston, Texas, April, 1900, he in 
 company with President George Q. Cannon and 
 others, made an extensive trip through Mexico. 
 
 In 1901, at the session of the Trans-Missis- 
 sippi Commercial Congress held at Cripple 
 Creek, Colorado, Mr. Smith was elected Presi- 
 dent of the Congress and presided over its de- 
 liberations. 
 
 So closely had his time been devoted to pub- 
 lic affairs and to the affairs of the Church, that 
 he has not had time to devote to any extensive 
 personal business enterprises. He is, however, 
 connected with a number of the leading institu- 
 tions of the State, as an officer and director, in 
 which positions he has exhibited the same ability 
 and enterprise that has marked his whole life. 
 
 By nature and training he is admirably equip- 
 ped for public duties. He has a thorough know- 
 ledge of human nature and an extensive ac- 
 quaintance with prominent men not only in Utah 
 but in the whole country as well. These quali- 
 fications, together with his faculty for making 
 and holding friends, has fitted him admirably 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 40 
 
 for the positions and labors that have fallen to 
 him to perform. 
 
 His easy, natural and unassuming manner are 
 the outward signs of his straightforward char- 
 acter, and bespeak the possession of courage of 
 the highest type. These qualities have im- 
 pressed all with whom he has come in contact 
 with his sincerity, no matter how opposed they 
 may have been to his views. His happy disposition 
 has always enabled him to take the most cheer- 
 ful view of conditions, no matter how discourag- 
 ing their aspect. He is quick to discern and ap- 
 preciate the good qualities of others, is ever 
 thoughtful of their welfare, and is broad minded 
 in his views. He possesses the same good quali- 
 ties of heart as of mind, and is liberal almost to 
 a fault. 
 
 By his continuous upright course in life he 
 has established a reputation for integrity and 
 honesty, and has gained the confidence and es- 
 teem of all the people of the State. 
 
 As a public speaker, Apostle Smith is con- 
 vincing, forceful and eloquent, with the elo- 
 quence that comes from sincere earnestness. 
 In his private conversation he exhibits the same 
 force and is always an interesting and entertain- 
 ing talker. Perhaps the greatest secret of his 
 career and which has aided him so much in his 
 successful life is his great magnetism, the magnet- 
 ism of pure love for humanity. His career and life 
 have been such as to make it a treasured mem- 
 ory to his posterity and to the Church of his 
 choice. When the history of the rise and de- 
 velopment of Utah shall be written, his name 
 will stand high in the ranks of the men who 
 have accomplished great deeds and who have 
 built up a commonwealth from a desert. 
 
 PRENZO Sx\OW. So closely inter- 
 woven with the growth and progress 
 Mt the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints is the life of its 
 fifth President, who has just died 
 at the ripe old age of eighty-seven, that 
 a sketch of his life is necessarily a his- 
 tory of the Church. Few men, and especially 
 leaders in great movements or in great organiza- 
 
 tions, have displayed so much wisdom, integrity 
 and honesty of purpose as did this great leader 
 of this modern religion. Throughout a long 
 life of activity, controlling great interests and 
 guiding them to prosperity, developing the work 
 of the Church of his choice, and with it the State 
 wherein its headquarters were located, he left 
 behind him, not a fortune in worldly goods but 
 a reputation for honesty, singlemindedness and 
 integrity that will make his name live in the 
 annals of American history and one that may 
 well be a legacy of pride to his posterity and 
 to his Church. 
 
 Lorenzo Snow was born in Alantua, Portage 
 county, Ohio, April 3, 1814. He was the eldest 
 son of Oliver Snow and Rosetta L. Pettibone 
 Snow. His father was a native of Massachusetts 
 and his mother was born in Connecticut In 
 Ohio, the Snow family were well to do, the father 
 being a prosperous farmer, and it was on this 
 farm that Lorenzo was reared. Here he had 
 his first lessons in responsibility, while yet a boy. 
 Owing to the frequent and continued absences 
 of his father from the farm, the direction of the 
 work and the care of the property fell upon 
 his shoulders, and from this beginning was devel- 
 oped the talent for management and organization 
 which brought him success in later years. In- 
 heriting a love of knowledge, deep patriotism 
 and a sincere belief in the existence of a Supreme 
 Being from his parents, his environment was 
 such that his desire for knowledge, his love of 
 the right and justice, and his patriotism for his 
 country were deepened and widened as he grew 
 to manhood's estate. Like so many of the young 
 men, born and reared in what was then the out- 
 posts of civilization, his ambition was to follow 
 the military profession, and he later held a com- 
 mission as ensign, from the Governor of Ohio, in 
 the militia of that State, and his aptitude was such 
 that he was afterwards promoted to the grade of 
 lieutenant. 
 
 His early education was derived from the 
 schools that then existed in Ohio, and at tlie age 
 of twenty-one he secured admission to Oberlin 
 College, at that time an institution dominated 
 by the Presbyterian belief. This privilege he 
 secured through the efforts of an intimate friend 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 41 
 
 who was connected with the college. Although 
 he had been reared in the Baptist faith, to which 
 his parents belonged, he had not espoused any 
 religion at the age of twenty-two, nor had the 
 teachings of the Presbyterian church convinced 
 his mind while he remained at the college. 
 
 In June, 1836, one year after his entrance to 
 college, he made a visit to his sister, Eliza R. 
 Snow, the poetess, at Kirtland, Ohio, who had 
 recently been converted to the faith of the Latter 
 Day Saints. This town was then the headquarters 
 of the Church, and while there he entered the 
 Hebrew school established by the Prophet Joseph 
 Smith. While in that institution he became con- 
 verted to the faith of the Church, and was bap- 
 tized and admitted to its membership by Elder 
 John F. Bovnton, then one of the Twelve Apos- 
 tles. 
 
 Early in 1837, just a year after his entrance 
 into the faith, he was promoted to be an Elder in 
 the Church, and took the field in Ohio, and 
 preached among his relatives and friends until 
 his removal to Missouri in the following year, 
 to which State the members of the Church were 
 then migrating. Here he was accompanied by 
 his parents, who had also embraced the faith of 
 their son. Soon after his arrival in Missouri, 
 he left on a mission to Kentucky, and was absent 
 in that field when the members of the Church 
 were forced to leave Missouri and settle in Illi- 
 nois. He completed his work in Kentucky and 
 joined the colony at Nauvoo on the first day of 
 May, 1840. 
 
 From the time of his entrance into the Church, 
 his ability and zeal were of such an order that he 
 was assigned important and responsible tasks. 
 Upon joining the colony at Nauvoo, he was desig- 
 nated for missionary work in Europe and left in 
 the month of May, 1840, for England. Shortly 
 after his arrival in that country, he was made 
 President of the London Conference, and while 
 holding that position presented two copies of the 
 Book of Mormon, handsomely bound and speci- 
 ally prepared for that purpose, to Queen Victoria 
 and the Prince Consort. This he was enabled to 
 do through the courtesy of Sir Henry Wheatley. 
 He completed the work of this mission in 1843 
 and returned to the United States at the head 
 
 of a large company of emigrants, whom he con- 
 ducted safely to the headquarters at Xauvoo. 
 
 A short time after his return to the United 
 States, the Prophet Joseph Smith taught him the 
 principle of celestial marriage, or marriage for 
 a time and eternity, including plurality of wives. 
 In accordance with this principle, the Prophet 
 had married Eliza Snow, sister of our subject, 
 and our subject wedded two wives simultan- 
 eously and subsequently increased the number to 
 four. While at Nauvoo he was a school teacher 
 and a captain in the militia, the organization being 
 known as the Nauvoo Legion. Later he was ap- 
 pointed a member of the committee of the Church 
 to explore California and Oregon with a view to 
 locating a home for the organization beyond 
 the Rocky Mountains. Owing to the unsettled 
 conditions then prevailing in Illinois, and which 
 terminated in the killing of the Prophet, this ex- 
 pedition never left that State. In addition to his 
 duties in the Church. Lorenzo Snow took an 
 active part in the presidential campaign of 1844, 
 in which year Prophet Joseph Smith was a can- 
 didate for that office. The future President of 
 the Church left Nauvoo in the emigration which 
 took place in 1846, and in the move from the 
 ^Missouri river to Salt Lake in 1848, was a cap- 
 tain in charge of one hundred wagons in the band 
 of pioneers led by President Brigham Young. 
 
 He was ordained an Apostle of the Church 
 on February 12, 1849, by the First Presidency 
 of the Church, then comprising Brigham Young, 
 Heber C. Kimball and Willard Richards, who 
 were assisted in this service by Apostles Parley 
 P. Pratt and John Taylor. In October, of the 
 same year, he was again designated for mission- 
 ary service in Europe, being charged with the 
 establishment of a mission in Italy. He was one 
 of the first missionaries sent from the new home 
 of the Church in Utah and made his way across 
 the plains, then inhabited by hostile Indians, to 
 New York, and reached Italy via England. The 
 mission was successfully started in Italy, its es- 
 tablishment being made on a snow-covered moun- 
 tain, by Apostle Snow and three Elders of the 
 Church, on November 25. 1850. This mountain 
 overlooked the Valley of Piedmont, and the first 
 converts were made among the Waldenses. The 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 missionar\- work met with great success and was 
 extended into Switzerland and into the neijjhbor- 
 ing countries with satisfactory resuhs. While 
 sojourning in Italy, Apostle Snow had the Book 
 of Mormon translated and published in Italian, 
 together with several pamphlets he had written 
 on the work of the Church, and these were widely 
 disseminated throughout Europe. In addition to 
 his missionary labors, he found time to write 
 valuable descriptive letters of Italy and the work 
 of the missionaries for the information of the 
 Church in Utah. Besides establishing success- 
 fully the mission work of the Church in Italy 
 and Switzerland, he sent Elders to Calcutta and 
 Bombay to found a mission in India and also 
 arranged for a missionary to work on the Island 
 of Malta. After these arrangements were com- 
 pleted, he started for India, but owing to an ac- 
 cident to the ship in which he sailed, only reached 
 Malta. Owing to the lapse of time and to 
 the fact that he was under orders to return to 
 Utah to participate in the laying of the corner 
 stones of the Salt Lake Temple, he was forced to 
 abandon his voyage, and returned to Utah by 
 way of Gibraltar, Portsmouth, London, Liver- 
 pool, New York and St. Louis, arriving in Salt 
 Lake City in July, 1852. 
 
 L^pon his return to LTtah he at once took up 
 the work of building up the State and founded 
 Brigham City, in what is now Box Elder county. 
 Here a small settlement had already been formed 
 but, owing to the want of a master hand to guide 
 it, was in an unprosperous and languishing con- 
 dition. To this place Apostle Snow came, with 
 a company of fifty families, in the fall of 1853, 
 and was elected President of the Box Elder 
 Stake, which office he held until August, 1877, 
 to take up the office of the First Presidency of 
 the Church. His eldest son. Oliver G. Snow, 
 succeeded him as President of the Box Elder 
 Stake. While a resident of Salt Lake City, 
 Apostle Snow was elected to the Legislature of 
 the Territory in 1852, and upon his removal to 
 Box Elder, represented that county and the 
 county of Weber, in the Legislature. His 
 whole term of service in the Legislature covered 
 a period of thirty years, during twelve of which 
 he was the presiding officer of that body.- 
 
 He continued to reside in the State of Utah, 
 devoting his time and attention to the work of 
 his Church and to the upbuilding of the indus- 
 tries of the State until 1864, when he was sent 
 by the Church to adjust the affairs of the mission 
 in the Hawaiian Islands, which had become badly 
 tangled and demoralized through the work of an 
 imposter. While there. Apostle Snow met with 
 an almost fatal accident, and his rescue from 
 death by drowning is easily one of the most mar- 
 velous escapes from that form of death. In com- 
 pany with Apostle Ezra 1'. Benson, Elder Joseph 
 F. Smith and the remainder of the party sent to 
 Hawaii, he sailed from Honolulu to the island 
 of Maui and the ship cast anchor about a mile 
 outside of the harbor of Lahaina on March 31, 
 1864. The entrance to the harbor was between 
 two coral reefs, a narrow passage of rough water, 
 and in attempting to land in the ship's small 
 boat, all of the passengers were capsized into the 
 surf. All got through safely to land except Apos- 
 tle Snow and the captain of the ship. The bodies 
 of these two men were taken from the surf, 
 apparently lifeless, but after persistent efforts, 
 they were finally resuscitated. Both men were 
 rolled upon barrels until all the water they had 
 swallowed was ejected, but even after this heroic 
 treatment Apostle Snow failed to return to con- 
 sciousness, and it was not until respiration was 
 resumed by the efforts of his fellow missionaries, 
 who placed their mouths to his and inflated his 
 lungs with their breath, inhaling and exhaling the 
 air in imitation of natural respiration, that he be- 
 came conscious. His work in the islands was 
 prosecuted successfully and the entire mission 
 was soon enabled to return to Utah, leaving the 
 affairs of the Church in Hawaii in a very satis- 
 factory condition. 
 
 Upon his return to the United States, Apostle 
 Snow immediately undertook the organization 
 of the Brigham City Mercantile and Manufactur- 
 ing Association, first known as the United Order 
 of Brigham City. This institution was started 
 on its career with but four stockholders, of whom 
 the Apostle was one, and with a capital that did 
 not exceed three thousand dollars. The dividends 
 of the association, amounting to twenty-five per 
 cent annually, were paid in merchandise, and as 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 43 
 
 the enterprise prospered under his direction, ad- 
 ditonal capital stock was secured and the names 
 of new stockholders added to the original list, 
 This prosperity continued to such an extent that 
 the company soon had a surplus capital, and 
 succeeded in uniting the interests of all the peo- 
 ple and secured their patronage. This success 
 was followed by the establishment of a number 
 of home industries, amounting to over twenty, 
 each paying dividends in the articles manufac- 
 tured. These industries provided employment 
 for several hundred people ; new and commodi- 
 ous buildings for the various departments of the 
 association were erected, and for twenty years 
 an era of prosperity dwelt over the region domi- 
 nated by this organization. Its prosperous career 
 was checked and finally ended by a combination of 
 unfortunate events — fire, vexatious law suits, op- 
 pressive and illegal taxation which fell on the 
 order with such force as to crush its business 
 life. Its success during the twenty years that 
 Apostle Snow directed its energies stands as a 
 practical demonstration of his power of manage- 
 ment, genius, industrial thrift and capacity for 
 organization. 
 
 The progress of events in Utah were rudely 
 shaken and much disturbance caused by the cru- 
 sade against polygamy under the provisions of 
 the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1884. Many of the 
 prominent members of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints were arrested, 
 prosecuted, fined and imprisoned under this 
 law, for what they regarded as the right- 
 ful exercise of their own religion. This 
 prosecution reached its height in the next 
 year, and on November 20, 1885, Apostle Snow 
 was arrested at his home by a force of United 
 States deputy marshals, who had marched north 
 from Ogden in the night and surrounded his 
 home, at Brieham City, before dawn. Most of 
 his wives were, like himself, well advanced in 
 years, and while he acknowledged them and pro- 
 vided for their support, he was in reality living 
 with but one wife, and to all intents and pur- 
 poses was complying with the demands of the 
 law. After his arrest and before his trial, his 
 friends endeavored to secure his consent to efforts 
 looking to his rescue from what they regarded 
 
 as persecution, but with the calm fortitude and 
 belief of legality in his actions, which had always 
 characterized him throughout his life, he declined 
 their offers of assistance and submitted to what 
 he considered a persecution for the exercise of 
 his religion. He was tried and convicted three 
 times for one alleged offense — that of living with 
 and acknowledging a plurality of wives — and in 
 addition to being heavily fined, was imprisoned 
 in the penitentiary for eleven months. While 
 serving this term of imprisonment, he and his 
 fellow members of the Church who had been con- 
 victed of violations of the Edmunds-Tucker Act, 
 were offered amnesty provided they would prom- 
 ise to obey the provisions of this law, but feeling 
 that it struck at the base of their religion, the offer 
 was declined. At the expiration of eleven months, 
 Apostle Snow was released from the penitentiary 
 by virtue of a decision of the Supreme Court of 
 the LTnited States which declared illegal the 
 practice of multiplying indictments according to 
 the days, months or years during which polyga- 
 mous relations might have been maintained, and 
 under which a triple sentence had been imposed 
 upon him by the courts of Utah. The peculiar 
 circumstances surrounding his conviction, and 
 the fact that his incarceration was viewed not as 
 a punishment, but as a persecution, served only 
 to increase the admiration, love and respect of 
 his people, and upon his release from prison 
 they welcomed him, not as a returned criminal, 
 but as a martyr to his principles and to his con- 
 ception of the right. 
 
 Upon the accession of Wilford Woodruff to 
 the Presidency of the Church on April 6, 1889, 
 Apostle Snow, by virtue of his long service, was 
 the senior in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 
 the council next in authority to the First Presi- 
 dency, and on the same day he was sustained 
 as president of that council by the representatives 
 of the Church. He continued to discharge the 
 duties of this position for over nine years, and on 
 September 13, 1898, eleven days after the death 
 of President Woodruff, Apostle Snow succeeded 
 him in the Presidency of the Church, which posi- 
 tion he held until his death on October 10, 1901. 
 His first action as President was to choose his 
 companion counsellors in the First Presidency, 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and his choice was George Q. Cannon, since de- 
 ceased, and Joseph F. Smith, who succeeded to 
 the Presidency on the death of President Snow. 
 When President Snow took the office of the 
 First Presidency, the affairs of the Church were 
 in anything but a satisfactory condition. Owing 
 to the rigid prosecutions under the Edmunds- 
 Tucker Act, during the decade of the eighties, 
 much of the property of the Church had been 
 confiscated and a large and growing debt had 
 been incurred and the financial life of the Church 
 was threatened. With his usual energy and 
 ability he applied himself to the alleviation of the 
 troubles that harassed the Church, and as trustee- 
 in-trust, authorized the issue in bonds to the 
 amount of a million dollars. These were readily 
 taken up, largely by capitalists in Utah, and from 
 the proceeds thus derived, the most pressing debts 
 of the Church were cancelled and the rate of in- 
 terest on its borrowed money was materially re- 
 duced. As soon as the financial pressure was 
 relieved and the most pressing debts settled. 
 President Snow turned his attention to a method 
 of securing a future assured income for the 
 Church from its members. He decided to revive 
 the law of tithings and to secure a better ob- 
 servance of it from the members of the Church. 
 The success of this work has resulted in the 
 increased wealth of the Church and in marking 
 his administration of the Presidency as one of the 
 most notable in its history. This movement was 
 inaugurated at St. George, in the extreme south- 
 ern portion of the State, in May, 1899, where 
 President Snow, accompanied by a large party, 
 proclaimed as the word of the Lord to 
 the members of the Church that if they 
 expected to see a continuance of peace and 
 prosperity upon the land, the divine law 
 of tithings and offerings must be obeyed. He 
 promised full forgiveness for past omissions and 
 neglect and predicted that Heaven would shower 
 its blessings upon them more abundantly than 
 ever if the future witnesseth a faithful observance 
 of this law. If the law was neglected and diso- 
 beyed, he predicted the visitation of calamities 
 and the scourging of the people for their diso- 
 bedience. He stated that tithing must be paid, 
 not because it would free the Church from debt, 
 
 but because it was the word of the Lord and 
 must be obeyed. The President was followed by 
 other speakers who gave the same counsel and 
 the echoes of this successful start echoed through- 
 out the whole region. This great wave of reform 
 swept northward from St. George and resulted 
 in the gathering of large and enthusiastic meet- 
 ings at all the principal places north and south of 
 Salt Lake City, and indeed, wherever there was a 
 settlement of the people of the Church. In addition 
 to the immediate satisfactory response to this ap- 
 peal, President Snow, who had always held the 
 admiration and love of his people in a marked de- 
 gree, received increased prestige and a greater 
 love and respect from the people of the Church. 
 Tithes and olTerings were made with such dis- 
 patch and such promptitude that the material 
 conditon of the Church was greatly improved, 
 and an era of prosperity ushered in, greater than 
 that enjoyed by the Church for years. Many 
 other improvements and changes were made by 
 the new President and, throughout his term, the 
 Church progressed, both in power and wealth, 
 to a marked degree. 
 
 In his work as President of the Church, Lor- 
 enzo Snow exhibited such a rare order of ability 
 and such a comprehension of methods to success- 
 fully overcome difficulties, that his term of office 
 marks him not only as one of the great leaders 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints, but as one of the great pioneer captains 
 in the development of the West. He possessed 
 a mentality of rare breadth, being a natural finan- 
 cier, and yet a man with a spiritually-inclined 
 mind, a poetic temperament and literary tastes. 
 His religion never made him sanctimonious, nor 
 fanatical or bigoted. His broad and charitable 
 mind made it impossible for him to persecute 
 any man for his opinions, or interfere with his 
 religious worship, even when he disapproved of 
 them. Throughout his life he was an exemplary 
 Christian, pious, zealous and devoted to the cause 
 to which he gave his life-work. Possessing a 
 firm will, prompt and fearless in decision and 
 execution, jealous of his own rights and there- 
 fore considerate of the rights of others, his bal- 
 ance and integrity prevented him from doing any 
 tyrannical acts, and enabled him to judge with 
 
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 rare impartiality. Spirited and independent, he 
 was not combative in his disposition, but once 
 convinced of the correctness of his position, 
 held to it with all his inflexibility and tenacity 
 of purpose that made his career a success. 
 
 Throughout the entire West, both as a leader 
 of the Church and as a man aiding in the de- 
 velopment of the country, no one enjoyed a 
 greater esteem and popularity than did he. From 
 his very youth his life was filled with stirring 
 events, commencing as a missionary of the new 
 religion, preaching its doctrines in hostile com- 
 munities, taking part in the compulsory emigra- 
 tion of the Church from civilization to the wil- 
 derness and building up, in the great American 
 Desert, a self-sustaining and prosperous com- 
 munity ; building up and perfecting the Church 
 of his choice, and with it the State of which it 
 was the genesis, he died at the ripe old age of 
 eighty-seven, respected by all the people and 
 loved and revered by the people whom he so 
 ably served and led. By his death, Utah suf- 
 fered a great loss and one that made a wide gap 
 in the leaders of the State. At his funeral not 
 only was the Church and its members repre- 
 sented, but representatives from the entire State, 
 irrespective of religion or belief, attended his fun- 
 eral, and the services at the Tabernacle were 
 participated in by a gathering that completely 
 filled that commodious structure. The funeral 
 procession from the Tabernacle to the railroad 
 station, was composed of upwards of twenty thou- 
 sand people, and the streets were lined with citi- 
 zens who paid the last marks of respect to his 
 wonderful character and clear life. The inter- 
 ment was made at Brigham City, the town with 
 which he had been so intimately associated, both 
 as its founder and builder. In the history of the 
 West, and especially in that of the State of Utah, 
 whether as the leader of the Church or as a leader 
 in the development of the industries and resources 
 of the intermountain region, President Snow's 
 large part rightly entitles him to a high place 
 and to the gratitude, not only to the future mem- 
 bers of the Church, but of the citizens of the entire 
 State as well. 
 
 UDGE ORLANDO W. POWERS. 
 Undoubtedly one of the ablest and most 
 profound jurists who has ever sat upon 
 the bench or appeared before the bar of 
 l^tah during the past half century is to 
 be found in the person of Judge Orlando W. 
 Powers, the subject of this sketch and a member 
 of the law firm of Powers, Straup & Lippman. 
 As an orator, a public speaker or a pleader be- 
 fore the bar, Judge Powers is without a peer 
 in this Western country, and it may be ques- 
 tioned whether his equal in this respect is to be 
 found in the United States. His eloquence is 
 at all times matchless ; his wit spontaneous ; his 
 vision clear and far-reaching and his diction su- 
 perb. While the bar of Salt Lake City com- 
 prises some of the brightest legal minds to be 
 found in the entire inter-mountain region, Judge 
 Powers easily towers above them all and is the 
 acknowledged leader of the bar in this Western 
 country. He is deeply versed in all the intrica- 
 cies and questions of law, and it is through this 
 wide knowledge, added to his wonderful per- 
 sonality, holding his listeners spell-bound under 
 the power of his eloquence, that much of his un- 
 equalled success as a lawyer has been attained 
 and many noted cases won. All through his 
 professional career Judge Powers has devoted 
 much of his time to politics and been a promi- 
 nent figure in many notable political gatherings. 
 During his speeches before the political bodies 
 he holds the close attention of his audience from 
 the beginning to the close of his speech, and in 
 his flights of oratory plays upon emotions of his 
 hearers as the master musician plays upon the in- 
 strument, causing their wills to bend before the 
 strength and majesty of his will as the reeds bend 
 before the breeze. The heights to which he has at- 
 tained in public life may best be told in the fol- 
 lowing epitome of his life: 
 
 Judge Powers sprang from a family whose 
 name of Powers, or Power, is from the old 
 Korman name le Poer, and who trace their line- 
 age in England back to the time of William the 
 Conqueror, one of whose officers bore that name 
 at the Battle of Hastings. From that time 
 down the name has held an honorable place in 
 the history of England. A curious incident is 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 related of Richard le Poer, High Sheriff of 
 Gloucestershire in 1187, in that "he was killed 
 while defending the Lord's Day." When King 
 Henry the Second invaded Ireland for conquest 
 in 1171, a chief command was given to Sir Roger 
 le Poer, an English Knight, and large tracts of 
 land bestowed upon him by the crown, in recog- 
 nition of distinguished services rendered. The 
 British Parliament has had many members from 
 his descendents, and among those whose line- 
 age is traced to the ancient family is Waiter 
 Power, of Essex, England, who emigrated to 
 America in 1654, landed at Salem, Massachu- 
 setts, and settled at Littleton, Middlesex county, 
 Massachusetts. He was an ancestor of David 
 Powers, born March 4, 1753, who was the great- 
 grandfather of our subject. He was a soldier 
 in the Arnerican Revolution and one of the 
 earliest settlers of Croydon, New Hampshire. 
 His son. Captain Peter Powers, was born there 
 February 7, 1787, and married Lois Sanger 
 Cooper. They emigrated to New York State 
 and settled in Cayuga county, afterward remov- 
 ing to Pultneyville, Wayne county. New York. 
 Among their children was Josiah Woodworth 
 Powers, born December 7, 1817, who in 1842 
 married Julia Wilson Stoddard, who died in Jan- 
 uary, 1891. Josiah Woodworth Powers died in 
 the year 1900. They were the parents of Judge 
 Orlando W. Powers, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Among the most noted members of this family 
 in America may be mentioned Hiram Powers, 
 sculptor, and Abigail Powers Fillmore, the wife 
 of Millard Fillmore, formerly President of the 
 United States, and of whom it is said that "she 
 presided over the great and constant hospitali- 
 ties incident to the position of mistress of the 
 White House with a grace and dignity excelled 
 by none of her predecessors since the days of 
 Mrs. Madison." Mrs. Fillmore was a second 
 cousin of Judge Powers. 
 
 Orlando W. Powers was born June 16. 1850, 
 at Pultneyville, Wayne county, New York, a 
 little hamlet on the shore of Lake Ontario, six- 
 teen miles north of Palmyra, New York. There 
 his early boyhood was passed, his father being a 
 farmer of moderate circumstances. He received 
 his principal education in the district school, at- 
 
 tending school winters and working on the farm 
 during the summer months. He later attended 
 the Sodus Academy for two terms, and also 
 spent two terms in the Marion Collegiate Insti- 
 tute of Wayne county, New York. His parents 
 were not able to give him an elaborate education, 
 although his mother, a naturally ambitious and 
 intellectual woman, closely economized and 
 hoarded her earnings that she might devote them 
 to the education of her three children. At the age 
 of eighteen years our subject was given the choice 
 of attending the law school of Michigan LTni- 
 versity at Ann Arbor and perfecting himself for 
 the legal profession, or taking a literary course 
 at Cornell University. He at that time had fully 
 determined to become a lawyer, and from a jus- 
 tice of the peace had obtained a copy of the Re- 
 vised Statutes of New York, which his father 
 was horrified to find him reading one day in the 
 corner of a rail fence, when he was supposed to 
 be hoeing corn. Shortly after this he was called 
 to try his first case, which he won and for which 
 he received five dollars, four of which he invested 
 in "Metcalf on Contracts," which was the nuc- 
 leus of his law library. 
 
 He entered the law school of Michigan L'ni- 
 versity in the fall of 1869, and graduated in 
 the spring of 1871, in the same class with 
 Governor Charles S. Thomas, of Denver, Col- 
 orado. He then returned home and worked 
 on the farm for a time and secured other em- 
 ployment in order to obtain, the means with 
 which to start into practice. He attained his 
 majority in the fall of 1872 and was nominated 
 on the Democratic ticket for the Legislature, 
 but the district being overwhelmingly Republi- 
 can, was defeated by Hon. L. T. Yoemans, a 
 brother-in-law of ex-President Grover Cleve- 
 land. He moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, the 
 following spring, reaching there with less than 
 one hundred dollars, never having had any ex- 
 perience in a law office and with no practical ex- 
 perience at the bar. He obtained the position of 
 clerk in the ofifice of May & Buck, the former 
 being a noted orator and at one time Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor of Michigan. For the first 
 three months he received his board and permis- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 47 
 
 sion to sleep in a back room of the office ; at 
 the end of that time he was given a salary of ten 
 dollars a month, in addition to his board and 
 lodging, being required, however, to put five 
 hundred dollars worth of law books into the 
 firm, which he procured by borrowing the money 
 from Hon. T. G. Yoemans, the father of his 
 late opponent for the Legislature of New York. 
 The Hon. George M. Buck, the junior member 
 of the finn, was at that time prosecuting attor- 
 ney for Kalamazoo county, and he delegated to 
 Mr. Powers the trial of many minor criminal 
 cases in Justice courts, which proved of incalcul- 
 able benefit to him. 
 
 His work in the field of politics began in 1874 
 when he took the stump for the Democratic 
 party of his county, and during the remainder of 
 his residence in Michigan he took an active part 
 in politics, being a member of every Democratic 
 State Convention, and as a member of commit- 
 tees on resolutions assisted in preparing many of 
 the party platforms. He evolved and carried 
 through the plan whereby the Democratic and 
 Greenback parties united, which resulted in the 
 election of many Democratic Congressmen and 
 other officials, and which for many years placed 
 Michigan in the column of doubtful States. 
 During this time he enjoyed a large law prac- 
 tice, but found time to act for many years as 
 County Chairman for the Democrats of Kala- 
 mazoo county, and also directed several hard- 
 fought municipal campaigns. In 1875 the law 
 firm of May & Buck dissolved, Governor May 
 moving to Detroit, and Mr. Buck becoming 
 Judge of Probate for Kalamazoo county. Air. 
 Powers succeeded to the business of the firm, 
 associating with him Willam H. Daniels, a 
 bright young lawyer. Mr. Powers was elected 
 City Attorney of Kalamazoo in the spring of 
 1876, and in the fall of that year was nominated 
 for County Prosecuting Attorney, but did not 
 receive the election, although he ran twelve 
 hundred votes ahead of his ticket. That same 
 year he stumped the State in the interest of 
 Samuel J. Tilden for President, and also took 
 part in the campaign in Indiana, speaking in the 
 northern part of that State with Governor Hend- 
 ricks and Hon. Daniel W. Vorhees. A strong 
 
 friendship grew up between Mr. Powers and 
 Governor Hendricks, and thereafter he was a 
 staunch supporter of the great Indiana states- 
 man. 
 
 From 1878 to 1880 he was actively engaged 
 in the practice of his profession, being connected 
 with some of the largest cases of that section 
 of the State. In 1880 he was urged to allow his 
 name to be used as a candidate for Congressman 
 from the old fourth district of Michigan, which 
 had almost uniformly been represented by a 
 Republican. He absolutely refused to have his 
 name used and also refused to attend the con- 
 vention. However, his name was put up against 
 that of Doctor Foster Pratt, of Kalamazoo and 
 on the first ballot he received fifty-seven votes 
 against Doctor Pratt's three. He protested 
 vigorously against running, but was finally over- 
 powered by the arguments of his friends and 
 finally accepted the nomination, be^ng defeated 
 at the polls by Hon. Julius Caesar Burrows, 
 afterward elected Senator from Michigan. How- 
 ever, the result of the campaign left a bitterness 
 of feeling existng between the older element 
 of the party, which had desired the nomination 
 of Doctor Pratt, which feeling continued and 
 was a factor in the bitter fight afterwards waged 
 against Mr. Powers' confirmation as Associate 
 Justice of Utah, when his name was pending 
 before the United States Senate. 
 
 In 1882 he wrote a law book upon Chancery 
 Practice and Pleading, adapted to the Courts of 
 Michigan. The volume consists of eight hun- 
 dred and forty-nine pages and three hundred and 
 five practical forms. It met with a large sale 
 and is today a recognized authority upon the sub- 
 ject of which it treats. In 1884, at the re- 
 quest of the Richmond Backus Company, pub- 
 lishers of law books, of Detroit, Michigan, he 
 wrote a work of four hundred and thirty-six 
 pages, entitled "Powers' Practice," treating of 
 the subject of practice in the Supreme Court 
 O!' the State of Michigan. This also met with 
 u good reception from bench and bar. 
 
 In the same year, 1884, he was elected as a 
 delegate at large to represent the State at the 
 Democratic National Convention at Chicago, 
 and while his candidacy for the place was op- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 posed by the element which had become dis- 
 satisfied with his nomination for Congress, he 
 received more than a two-thirds majority. The 
 Michigan delegation that year took a prominent 
 part in the convention ; it was divided as to 
 its Presidential choice, part favoring Grover 
 Cleveland and part, under the leadership of Mr. 
 Powers desiring the nomination of Thomas A. 
 Hendricks. The New York delegation was 
 bound by the unit rule to vote as a body for 'Sir. 
 Cleveland, although there was a strong minority 
 led by Hon. John Kelly, of Tammany Hall who 
 was opposed to him. .^.n effort was made to 
 abrogate the unit rule and Mr. Powers took the 
 floor and spoke upon that side of the question. 
 He was the member from Michigan upon the 
 important committee of Permanent Organiza- 
 tion and Order of Business. Prior to the ballot 
 for the Presidential nomination, Mr. Powers with 
 several meipbers of the Michigan delegation, had 
 been active in working up a sentiment in favor 
 of the nomination of Mr. Hendricks, who was 
 present as a delegate from Indiana, and chair- 
 man of that delegation. The Michigan delega- 
 tion, however, decided to cast their vote upon the 
 first ballot for Mr. Cleveland, agreeing that if 
 there were an opportunity to nominate IMr. 
 Hendricks, the Cleveland men in return for the 
 united support of the Hendricks men on the first 
 ballot, would cast their votes for the latter. The 
 first ballot was taken in the evening, and while 
 Mr. Cleveland was strongly in the lead, he did 
 not have the necessary two-thirds vote. Im- 
 mediately after the adjournment of the conven- 
 tion a private meeting was held in a room at the 
 Palmer House, at which the more prominent 
 leaders of the opposition to Mr. Cleveland were 
 present ; among them being Samuel J. Randall, 
 Benjamin F. Butler, John Kelly, Daniel W. 
 Voorhees, Thomas A. Hendricks, Allen G. 
 Thurman, Senator Bayard, General Mansur, 
 Mr. Powers, and others. It was the sentiment 
 of this meeting that if Mr. Cleveland was to be 
 defeated the opposition would have to center 
 upon Governor Hendricks as its candidate, and 
 upon this being known, Mr. Hendricks left the 
 meeting. General Butler proposed that upon 
 the first ballot of the following morning the 
 
 forces should be held in line for the same candi- 
 dates for whom they had voted on the first ballot 
 in opposition to Mr. Cleveland, and that upon the 
 next ballot they should all concentrate upon Mr. 
 Hendricks. While this plan was. being discussed 
 John Kelly, of New York, called attention to Mr. 
 Powers being the original Hendricks man in the 
 convention, and invited him to give his opinion 
 of the plan. Mr. Powers favored springing the 
 name of Air. Hendricks upon the next ballot, 
 calling attention to the fact that upon the first 
 ballot there had been one vote cast for him, 
 which had brought forth much applause, and 
 there was danger of a stampede in attempting to 
 hold the lines as they had been on the previous 
 ballot. As the time for notninating candidates 
 bad closed. General Butler desired to know how 
 Mr. Powers would place the name of Mr. Hen- 
 dricks before the convention. "I would arise to 
 a question of privilege," said Mr. Powers, "and 
 upon the chair requesting that the question be 
 stated I would say that I arose to the question 
 of the highest privilege, that of placing in nom- 
 ination the next President of the United States, 
 Thomas A. Hendricks." However, it was de- 
 termined to hold the opposition in line as it had 
 been the night before, without any change on the 
 next ballot. General Butler agreed to see the 
 delegate from Illinois and have him refrain from 
 voting for Mr. Hendricks. It was also arranged 
 that just prior to the opening of the third bal- 
 lot Mr. Powers should present the name of Mr. 
 Hendricks, as he had suggested, and that Ala- 
 bama would lead off with her vote for Hen- 
 dricks, which would be the signal for all the op- 
 position to concentrate upon his name. When 
 the second ballot was taken everything pro- 
 ceeded as intended, there being no change in the 
 vote until the State of Illinois was reached, when 
 the same man who had voted for Hendricks the 
 night before again cast a ballot in his favor. 
 The announcement was made by General John 
 C. Black, Chairman for Illinois, in these words, 
 "Illinois cast one vote for Thomas A. Hen- 
 dricks." Thereupon started what is known in 
 political history as the "Hendricks stampede," 
 being the most remarkable demonstration that 
 has ever taken place in any political convention. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 49 
 
 For forty-five minutes the building rang with 
 shouts, cheers and cries for Hendricks, in the 
 midst of which Mr. Hendricks escaped from the 
 building. During the entire time of the demon- 
 stration Gen. Black remained upon his feet, 
 awaiting an opportunity to state the balance of 
 the vote from Illinois. The State of Pennsylvania 
 withdrew from the convention for consultation 
 in the midst of the tumult, and other States fol- 
 lowed suit but the States that had already voted 
 could not, under the rule, change their votes in 
 favor of Mr. Hendricks, and it was perceived by 
 his friends that the Butler plan was doomed to 
 failure. As the demonstration ceased, General 
 Black completed his sentence by saying, "and 
 thirty-eight votes for Grover Cleveland." In- 
 diana cast her vote for Hendricks, as did a part 
 of Michigan, but before the call of the States 
 was completed, it was seen that Mr. Cleveland 
 would be the nominee, and changes were made 
 in his favor, giving him more than the necessary 
 two-thirds vote. Mr. Powers dined that day 
 with Governor Hendricks, and calling the atten- 
 tion of Mr. Hendricks to his sorrow that the 
 fight had resulted as it had, the Governor re- 
 plied that from the noise and the demonstra- 
 tion he believed that if the galleries could have 
 voted he would have been the Democratic nom- 
 inee. Mr. Hendricks then departed for Indiana, 
 and that afternoon when the convention assem- 
 bled to nominate a Vice-President, Daniel Man- 
 ning, of New York, urged Mr. Powers to place 
 Governor Hendricks in nomination, which he 
 declined to do, insisting that he should have had 
 the first place. Hendricks, however, was nomi- 
 nated and became \'ice-President of the United 
 States under Mr. Cleveland's administration. 
 
 In the spring of 1885 the Democrats again car- 
 ried Kalamazoo, and Mr. Powers was again 
 elected City Attorney. A contest arose over 
 the appointment of Post Master for the city, the 
 candidates being Doctor Pratt on the one side 
 and the editor of the Democratic paper on the 
 other. Hon. Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit, was 
 just coming into prominence in national politics, 
 and Mr. Powers went to Washington in the in- 
 terests of his friend, the editor, and procured the 
 services of Mr. Dickinson. A day or two after 
 
 his return to Kalamazoo he received a dispatch 
 from Mr. Dickinson which read : "Will you ac- 
 cept position of Associate Justice of Utah? An- 
 swer quick." Mr Powers had no thought of any 
 such appointment, but upon receipt of the tele- 
 gram mimediately went to the telegraph oflSce 
 and wrote the reply, "Yes." That was in April 
 and in due time the appointment was made. In 
 May of that year Mr. Powers came to Utah, 
 took the oath of office and entered upon his du- 
 ties as Associate Justice of Utah and Judge of 
 the First Judicial District, with headquarters at 
 Ogden. His experience on the bench was not of 
 the most pleasant nature ; the laws against un- 
 lawful co-habitation and bigamy were then being 
 enforced with great vigor, and before he had 
 time to become acquainted with the people or be- 
 come familiar with his new position, cases in- 
 volving the violation of this law were brought 
 on for trial in his court, and at the June term 
 of the Supreme Court that year there came up 
 for review the cases of Angus M. Cannon and 
 A. Milton Musser, convicted of unlawful co- 
 habitation, which were affirmed. Mr. Powers, 
 however, dissenting from the opinion of the 
 court. 
 
 In the fall there came on for trial before him 
 tne celebrated mining case of the Eureka Hill 
 Mining Company against the Bullion-Beck and 
 Champion IMining company, the trial of which 
 consumed seventy-five days, and involved new 
 and intricate questions of mining law. It was 
 during the trial of this case that opposition began 
 to the confirmation of Mr. Powers as Judge, 
 by the Senate, and at the conclusion of the case, 
 those who were disappointed with his decision 
 gave aid and encouragement to the dissatisfied 
 members of his party who were opposing him in 
 the East, while the political enemies of Mr. Dick- 
 inson joined in fighting Mr. Powers, hoping 
 thereby to destroy the influence of Mr. Dickinson 
 with the President. The contest continued from 
 October until April of the succeeding year, with 
 great vigor and bitterness. Mr. Powers remained 
 in Utah, daily attending to his duties upon the 
 bench, but in his efforts to cope with his ene- 
 mies, he exhausted his finances and in April, 
 1886, telegraphed the President requesting him 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 either to withdraw his name from the considera- 
 tion of the Senate, or accept his resignation as 
 Judge. The President chose to pursue the for- 
 mer course, instructing Mr. Powers to continue 
 in the performance of his duties until his suc- 
 cessor was appointed. The name of Hon. Henry 
 P. Henderson, of Mason, Michigan, was sub- 
 mitted to Mr. Powers in June, with the query 
 as to whether his appointment would be perfectly 
 satisfactory to Mr. Powers, who replied in the 
 affirmative. Judge Henderson was appointed and 
 Mr. Powers was relieved of his duties as Judge 
 on August i6th, and returned to Michigan, where 
 he became editor of the Grand Rapids Daily 
 Democrat, returning to Utah in September, 1887, 
 and has since engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Salt Lake City. 
 
 Judge Powers was married on October 26, 
 1887, to Anna Whipple, daughter of George 
 Whipple, an old resident and merchant of Bur- 
 lington, Iowa. Two children were born of this 
 marriage — Don Whipple, died in 1889, and 
 Roger Woodworth is now eleven years of age. 
 From 1888 to 1892 Judge Powers filled the 
 position of Chairman of the Liberal State Com- 
 mittees, and conducted some of the most vigor- 
 ously contested campaigns ever conducted in 
 LTtah. It was during this period that the famous 
 "Registration train" was run by the Liberal 
 party in the campaign of 1890. The laws in 
 Utah were such that a man could register by 
 taking the required oath before a notary public 
 in any section of the country, and sending that 
 vote to the registration officer, whose duty it was 
 to put the voter upon the list. The Rio Grande 
 Western was at that time broad-gauging its 
 track and employed several hundred men. As 
 the need of completing the improvements speed- 
 ily was urgent and the company fearful that 
 they would not return to work if allowed to come 
 to Salt Lake City, felt unwilling to allow them 
 to do so. Mr. Powers consulted leading attorneys 
 who assured him that it would be proper for a 
 registration officer to register any bona fide vot- 
 ers, residents of Salt Lake City, who were work- 
 ing for the railroad company, wherever they 
 might be found within the State, and it was his 
 purpose to advertise that this would be done, in 
 
 order to allow both sides an opportunity to reg- 
 ister. However, during his absence on law busi- 
 ness in Provo, a special train was hired and 
 started from Salt Lake City at midnight, in a 
 clandestine manner, to register voters, the train 
 containing registration officers. Mr. Powers be- 
 came very indignant upon learning what had 
 been done, and when the registration officers re- 
 turned to Salt Lake, told them that if they placed 
 upon the registration list any names secured in 
 this manner, he would challenge them at the 
 proper time and, as a result, none were placed 
 upon the list. This episode created much adverse 
 comment, and Judge Po\vers, as Chairman of the 
 Committee, was held responsible, which respon- 
 bility he accepted. Upon the other hand, the 
 managers of the People's Party had secured In- 
 spector Bonfield, of Chicago, to come secretly to 
 Salt Lake City, with a number of assistants and 
 detectives, to aid in the campaign. Mr. Powers 
 caused the Bonfield matter to be exposed just 
 prior to the election, which also caused intense 
 excitement. The Liberal ticket won by a major- 
 ity of eight hundred and forty. 
 
 Anticipating the division upon political lines. 
 Judge Powers organized the Tuscarora Society, 
 a Democratic organization, which grew to a mem- 
 bership of eleven hundred, and became a strong 
 political factor. At the National Convention in 
 Chicago, in 1892, this society ran a special train, 
 containing a drum corps and about sixty mem- 
 bers of the organization, to Chicago ; where they 
 became the feature of the convention. Judge 
 Powers, with Fred J. Kiesel, attended the con- 
 vention as delegates from Utah, representing the 
 Gentile wing of the Democratic party. Their 
 right to sit as delegates was contested by Judge 
 Henderson and Hon. John T. Caine, represent- 
 atives of the newly-formed democratic party of 
 Utah ; the latter being seated. 
 
 In 1892 Judge Powers was elected a member 
 of the Legislature of Utah, and served during 
 the session of 1893. In 1895 he was unanimously 
 elected Chairman of the Democratic State Cen- 
 tral Committee, and waged a vigorous campaign, 
 being re-elected to the same office in 1896, the 
 State that year giving a very heavy democratic 
 majority. At the request of the National Com- 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 51 
 
 mittee, he stumped the States of Illinois, Iowa, 
 Nebraska and Wyoming in 1896, part of the 
 time speaking with Mr. Bryan from the latter's 
 special train. He was Chairman of the Utah 
 delegation to the Convention held in Chicago 
 that year. He submitted the plan for the organiz- 
 ation of silver delegates, which was later adopted 
 in the convention and which proved so effective, 
 surprising the gold delegates by its completeness. 
 He also placed in nomination the name of Hon. 
 John W. Daniel, of Virginia, for Vice-President, 
 making a speech that was highly complimented. 
 
 In December of that year he resigned as Chair- 
 man of the Democratic State Committee and an- 
 nounced himself as a candidate for the United 
 States Senate, withdrawing, however, in favor 
 of Hon. Moses Thatcher, before the balloting 
 commenced, the conditions at that time impressing 
 Judge Powers that it was his duty to do so. 
 Nevertheless, during the whole fight, he was voted 
 for by Senator Mattie Hughes Cannon. In 1898 
 he again became a candidate for United States 
 Senator, and was one of the leading candidates 
 during the whole session, which resulted in no 
 election of a Senator from Utah. 
 
 On August 26, 1899, an attempt was made by 
 an ex-convict, commonly called John Y. Smith, 
 to take the life of Judge Powers by an infernal 
 machine loaded with giantpowder and fulminating 
 caps. The contrivance was ingeniously con- 
 structed, but by one of those fortunate mental 
 warnings, which baffle description, but which are 
 sometimes experienced. Judge Powers did not 
 open the box, but turned it over to the police 
 who discovered its dangerous character. The 
 Governor of Utah offered a reward of five hun- 
 dred dollars for the arrest and conviction of the 
 perpetrator, and he was secured while endeavor- 
 ing to escape. His trial was had in December, 
 1899, and he was convicted of assault with in- 
 tent to murder. The day after his conviction 
 he ended his life by taking morphine with suicidal 
 intent, .^fter his conviction he confessed his con- 
 nection with the effort to take Judge Power's 
 life, but alleged that he had an associate. He 
 also stated that his true name was Louis James, 
 and that he was a cousin of the notorious Jesse 
 Tames. After his death he was identified bv one 
 
 who knew him in childhood as being what he 
 claimed to be, Louis James. 
 
 It is safe to say that during the long period 
 of time in which Judge Powers has practiced his 
 profession, and among the large and noted cases, 
 both civil and criminal, which he has conducted, 
 not only in Utah but in the State of Michigan, 
 that he has met with more uniform success than 
 any other attorney, either East or West; in fact, 
 it is very seldom that he ever loses a big case. 
 His long and most honorable career in Utah has 
 brought him prominently before the people and 
 won him a large circle of friends and admirers. 
 Personally, he is one of the most genial, pleasant 
 gentlemen one would wish to meet, and is in 
 large demand where there is any occasion for 
 speech-making. 
 
 ANIEL H. WELLS, Deceased. In 
 taking a retrospective view of Utah 
 during the past half-century, and of the 
 men who have been closely identified 
 with it through its period of direst 
 trouble and hardship, the name of Daniel H. 
 Wells stands out in bold relief, and while he has 
 passed from earth's scenes, his influence still 
 lives and will continue to live for generations 
 yet to come. 
 
 Daniel Hanmer Wells was born at Trenton, 
 Oneida County, New York, October 27, 1814, 
 and was the only son of Daniel and Catherine 
 (Chapin) Wells. Our subject's mother was Mr. 
 Well's second wife, by whom he also had one 
 daughter, Catherine Chapin Wells. Mr. Wells 
 had five daughters by his first wife, all of whom 
 are now dead. He was born at Weathersfield, 
 Connecticut, and was descended through Joshua ; 
 Joseph, Robert and John from Thomas Wells, 
 the first .\merican progenitor, who settled at 
 Hartford in 1660, and became the fourth governor 
 of Connecticut, and was several times elected al- 
 ternately to the office of Governor and Lieuten- 
 ant-Governor of that colony. 
 
 Catherine Chapin was the daughter of David 
 Chapin, a Revolutionary soldier, and connected 
 with one of the oldest and most distinguished 
 New England families. He served under the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 immediate command of Washington, and during 
 the greater part of the war for Independence. 
 He died at the great age of ninety-si.x, and is 
 buried at Havana, New York. 
 
 When our subject was but twelve years of 
 age his father died and it became necessary for 
 him to aid in supporting the family. He worked 
 on a farm until eighteen years of age, when, the 
 estate being settled and he and his sister each re- 
 ceiving a small competence, he moved with his 
 mother and sister to Marietta, Ohio, and again 
 took up farming, devoting the winter to teaching. 
 From there, they moved to Hancock county, 
 Illinois, settling near Commerce, afterward known 
 as Nauvoo. Here he again took up farming and 
 supported his mother and sister until they both 
 married. He accumulated a large amount of 
 land in Illinois, and became a successful farmer. 
 His life of sober industry and his keen interest 
 in the welfare of the community in whch he lived, 
 made him very popular, and before he had 
 reached his majority he was elected to offices of 
 honor and trust, being first a constable and then 
 justice of the peace and was an officer in the 
 first military organization of Hancock county. 
 He was a Whig, in politics, and prominent in the 
 political conventions of the period. As "Squire 
 Wells" he became noted as a man of strict in- 
 tegrity, with a high sense of justice and impar- 
 tiality. 
 
 In 1839, when the Latter Day Saints, fleeing 
 from Missouri, settled at Commerce, he aided 
 in securing for them a cordial welcome. He 
 owned eighty acres of land on the bluff, which 
 he platted and sold them at low figures and on 
 long time payments, and the chief part of the 
 city and the Mormon Temple was built on land 
 that had belonged to him. He became a warm 
 friend to Joseph Smith, and when the opposition 
 to the Mormons reached its height he espoused 
 the cause of these people, although at that time 
 not a member of the Church, which he joined 
 August 9, 1846, six weeks before the battle en- 
 sued in which the Mormons were driven from 
 the State. He was among the last to leave the 
 city. One of the balls from the cannon reaching 
 the Iowa side of the river, Mr. Wells sent it to 
 the governor of that State as a souvenir with the 
 
 laconic message that his State was being invaded. 
 
 After settling up his affairs in Illinois, which 
 involved the greatest sacrifice of his life — separa- 
 tion from his wife and only son — Squire Wells 
 started for the West and came to Utah in 1848, 
 acting as Aide-de-camp to President Brigham 
 Young on the second journey of the pioneers. 
 When Salt Lake City was laid out he drew a lot 
 in the Eighth Ward, but President Young desir- 
 ing him to live nearer Church headquarters, he 
 moved to a site near the Eagle Gate, where he 
 remained for a number of years, and afterwards 
 moved to the site now occupied by the Zion's 
 Savings Bank, also acquiring valuable land in 
 Salt Lake and Utah counties. He took the same 
 interest in the affairs of this State that he had in 
 Illinois and held many high positions, being a 
 member of the first Legislative Council, State 
 Attorney-General, Major-General of the Nauvoo 
 Legion, the State Militia, and on March 7, 1855, 
 received from President Brigham Young the 
 commission of Lieutenant-General of the Legion. 
 He took a prominent part in the Indian troubles 
 in L^tah and Sanpete counties, being in the bat- 
 tles at Provo, Battle Creek and Payson. He 
 was also in command of the Echo Canyon expedi- 
 tion at the time of the Johnston army troubles 
 and figured largely in all the exciting experiences 
 of those early days. 
 
 From 1866 to 1876 he was mayor of the city 
 of Salt Lake, and during that time carried on a 
 perpetual warfare against crime, the city being 
 conspicuously free from vice during that time. 
 He became the firm friend and supporter of edu- 
 cation and was one of the first regents of the 
 University of Deseret, being its Chancellor from 
 1869 to 1878. Mr. Wells also took an active in- 
 terest in all matters pertaining to the develop- 
 ment of the resources of the State, and developed 
 the first coal mines in Summit county, and for 
 many years operated the lumber mills in the Big 
 Cottonwood Canyon. He also managed the suc- 
 cessful manufacture of nails, and in 1872 es- 
 tablished the Gas Works of Salt Lake City, to the 
 success of which he pledged his entire property. 
 He was always a large employer of men and 
 thousands can testify to his generous treatment 
 of those who worked for him. While Superin- 
 
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 tendent of Public Works he assisted many poor 
 families in getting work and becoming independ- 
 ent. 
 
 In the Church, President Wells held the offices 
 of Elder, High Priest and Apostle. He was 
 appointed Second Counselor to President Young 
 on January 4, 1857, and in company with Presi- 
 dent Young and Heber C. Kimball visited the 
 Saints throughout the State, aiding in locating 
 and organizing many settlements, frequently hav- 
 ing entire charge of affairs in the absence of 
 President Young. His position as one of the 
 First Presidency he occupied until the death of 
 President Young, August 29. 1877. Then, the 
 Twelve Apostles succeeding to the Presidency, he 
 was appointed as Counselor to that Quorum, 
 and held the place until his death. In 1864 he 
 w-as sent on a mission to Europe, returning in 
 1865, and in 1868 took charge of the Endow- 
 ment house, where he ministered in the ordi- 
 nances for the living and the dead for many 
 years. 
 
 On May 3, 1879, he was sent to the penitenti- 
 ary for contempt of court in the Miles polygamy 
 case, for refusing to disclose the rites of the En- 
 dowment house. Being interrogated by the pros- 
 ecution in relation to clothing worn in those 
 ceremonies, he made the following answer: "I 
 decline to answer that question because I am 
 under moral and sacred obligations not to answer, 
 and it is interwoven in my character never to 
 betray a friend, a brother, my country, my God or 
 my religion." He was sentenced to a fine of 
 one hundred dollars and imprisonment for two 
 days. He paid the penalty and on May 6th was 
 escorted from the penitentiary by a procession 
 hastily, but thoroughly organized, of over ten 
 thousand people, carrying banners, mottos, flags 
 and signs of rejoicing, being one of the most 
 remarkable demonstrations of respect ever wit- 
 nessed in this country. 
 
 In the summer of 1876 he was placed in 
 charge of a company to visit the newly started 
 settlements in Arizona, and in crossinp' the Colo- 
 rado river narrowly escaped drowning, the boat 
 capsizing and the whole outfit being swept away. 
 Bishop Roundy, who was one of his companions, 
 was drowned. He again went on a mission to 
 
 Europe in 1884, presiding over the European mis- 
 sion and visiting the churches throughout the 
 British Isles ; also Scandinavia. Germany and 
 Switzerland, remaining about three years, and on 
 his return to the United States visited his rela- 
 tives in the East, reaching home in July, 1887. 
 When the Manti Temple was dedicated he was 
 appointed to take charge, in which work he was 
 engaged up to the time of his death, March ^4 
 1891. 
 
 Daniel H. Wells was the husband of seven 
 wives, six of whom survived him, by whom he 
 had thirty-seven children, of whom twelve sons 
 and twelve daughters are living, and at the time 
 of his death left twenty-five living grandchildren. 
 
 .Mr. Wells was a man of unassuming manners, 
 kind and hospitable, and his faith in his Church 
 and the doctrines it expounded was unbounded. 
 The funeral services were held in the Tabernacle, 
 and although the weather was extremely incle- 
 ment, thousands of people attended the services, 
 which were of a. most solemn and impressive 
 character. 
 
 LSOX I. SXYDER. It isn't the 
 performance or execution of some 
 great thing in life that makes a man 
 a success or a valuable citizen in the 
 community in which he lives ; on the 
 other hand, it is the careful, vigilant and close 
 attention to the most minute details of everyday 
 life that forms the elements of success. Among 
 the men who have achieved success by close and 
 careful attention to business, should be mentioned 
 the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Wilson I. Snyder was born twelve miles south 
 of Salt Lake City, on the Jordan river, in 1856. 
 He was the son of George G. Snyder, who was 
 born in Watertown, Jefferson county, New York, 
 in 1819. His early life was spent on a farm, and 
 after attaining his majority, he engaged in the 
 potash industry in New York and Canada. In 
 1844 he left his native State and went West, 
 passing through Chicago, which was then but a 
 small, straggling village, and was here offered 
 a large tract of land where the most valuable 
 property in Chicago now stands, for a yoke of 
 
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 oxen, which he refused to accept. He moved on 
 to Missouri and settled in Jefferson county. His 
 father, Isaac, was a son of Jacob Snyder, the 
 family originally coming from Germany and set- 
 tling in Pennsylvania, being among the earliest 
 settlers of that State. George G. Snyder's mother 
 was Louisa (Comstock) Snyder, whose family 
 were of English extraction, the first member of 
 the family having come over to America in the 
 Mayftozver, The Comstock family settled in cen- 
 tral New York. Peter Comstock established the 
 first express route from Rochester to the Hudson 
 river, which later formed the nucleus of the 
 Adams Express Company. Our subject's mother, 
 Elsie (Jacob) Snyder, was a daughter of Norton 
 Jacob, who belonged to an old English family 
 which came from the vicinity of Ipswich. Nor- 
 ton Jacob was a carpenter, joiner and millwright 
 and was considered one the best mechanics of his 
 time. He came to Utah in the early history of the 
 country, marrying his wife in New York and 
 emigrating thither and living in Utah until the 
 time of his death, which occurred in Glenwood, 
 Sevier county, in 1882. At the time of his death 
 Mr. Jacob was a member of the Mormon Church. 
 The first member of the Jacob family also came 
 over in the Mayflower, and settled in Massachu- 
 setts, where some branch of the family has con- 
 tinued to reside, ever since, in the old town of 
 Sheffield, Berkshire county. Norton Jacob was 
 the first to leave that section of the country, and 
 came to what was then considered the far West, 
 to Jamestown, New York. 
 
 During the time of the gold excitement in Cali- 
 fornia in 1849, our subject's father left Missouri 
 for the gold fields of that section, going by way 
 of Salt Lake City and spending the winter in the 
 Salt Lake Valley. In the autumn of 1850 he 
 landed in Sacramento and later moved to Dia- 
 mond Springs, where he built and successfully 
 run a hotel for four years. He amassed consid- 
 erable wealth in the gold fields of California, and 
 determined to return East, and on his return 
 stopped again in Salt Lake City. Having early 
 joined the Mormon Church, and having many 
 friends and associates in this valley, he changed 
 his mind and concluded to locate in this section. 
 He successfully carried on business in this and 
 
 Davis county for a number of years. He later 
 moved to Cache county, where lie located and 
 successfully operated the first saw mill ever built 
 in that section. In 1864 he moved to Summit 
 county, where he engaged in the stock and ranch 
 business, freighting, livery, merchandising, and 
 mining business ; he being among the first to 
 settle in Park City, and laying out a portion of 
 that town. JNIr. Snyder served on two missions 
 to England and the Eastern States for his 
 Church, and was also Probate Judge of Summit 
 county for six years. He spent the balance of his 
 life in Park City, and died there in 1887. His 
 wife died in March, 1891. 
 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days in Salt 
 Lake City and Summit county, .where his father 
 owned a ranch six miles north of Park City. He 
 received his early education in the schools of 
 Wanship and by private instruction, his father 
 employing a college professor of prominence, from 
 England, on one occasion for more than a year, to 
 instruct his children in the higher branches of 
 their education, the schools that then existed in 
 this secjiion of the country, affording but meagre 
 facilities. At about seventeen or eighteen years of 
 age, in the latter part of 1874, he commenced 
 the study of law in the otnce of Judge Jabez G. 
 Sutherland, at that time one of the most noted 
 mining attorneys in the State. He later studied 
 under the direction of Judge E. F. Dunne. On 
 October 21, 1878, Mr. Snyder was admitted to the 
 bar and the same year opened his office in Park 
 City, where he continued to practice successfully 
 until about one year ago, when he settled in Salt 
 Lake City, still retaining his branch office in Park 
 City, under the firm name of Snyder, Westerfelt 
 & Snyder. Mr. Snyder's whole life has been 
 closely identified with the mining interests of 
 Utah, and his practice has been largely with 
 corporations and mining companies. He is the 
 author of a work on mining law, and also of an 
 article on mines and mining in an encyclopaedia 
 of law. He is considered one of the ablest at- 
 torneys in this State. 
 
 Mr. Snyder was married in 1877, in Pleasant 
 Grove, Utah, to Miss Lythia Brown, daughter of 
 Bishop John Brown, one of the pioneers of this 
 State. Thev have had two children, one of 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 whom is living — Miss Cora Helen Snyder. His 
 first wife died in 1881, and he married again to 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Wells Arrick), a native of Shef- 
 field, England, who came to America early in 
 life and was raised and educated in this country. 
 
 In political life, Mr. Snyder has been a republi- 
 can ever since the organization of that party in 
 this State. He has been active in the work of 
 his party and is well-known in public life, having 
 filled the office of County Attorney of Summit 
 county. City Attorney of Park City, school trustee 
 and a number of other minor offices. In 1896 
 he was a candidate on the republican ticket for 
 the office of District Judge, but the party, that 
 year, w'as unsuccessful. In social life, he is a 
 member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights 
 of Pythias, Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
 and the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 While Mr. Snyder has been actively engaged 
 in his law practice, yet this has not consumed all 
 of his time, for he is prominently identified with 
 the mining interests of this State, being one of the 
 original organizers of the Ajax mine and the 
 California mine, and is still identified w^ith the 
 latter mine, being the president of that company. 
 He is also largely interested in other mining 
 properties throughout this intermountain region. 
 
 OX. CHARLES S. ZANE. In pre- 
 senting to the readers of this volume 
 the life and career of Charles S. Zane, 
 cx-Chief Justice of Utah, we are per- 
 petuating the name of one of the most 
 learned, renowned and popular men who ever 
 graced the bench or bar of this State. For a 
 period of more than twenty-six years, Judge Zane 
 has been prominently associated with the legal life 
 of the States of Illinois and Utah, and during this 
 time has won a constantly increasing reputation 
 for breadth of knowledge and keenness of intel- 
 lectual faculties. In the many positions of honor 
 to which he has been called he has proved him- 
 self a man of superior ability, in whose ■ hands 
 large responsibilities may safely be entrusted, and 
 by his unbiased and just decisions while on the 
 bench of Utah, won the esteem and good will of 
 hundreds of people whom, in his official capacity, 
 
 he was compelled to pronounce guilty of a viola- 
 tion of the laws of the United States during the 
 Territorial existence of Utah, and sentence to fine 
 and imprisonment ; as well as the hearty admira- 
 tion and support of his colleagues and the better 
 class of citizens in the territory. 
 
 Charles S. Zane was born in Cumberland 
 county. New Jersey, Alarch 2, 1831. He traces 
 his lineage in this country back to Robert Zane, a 
 Quaker, who came from England with a com- 
 pany of people of his faith, and settled at Salem, 
 Gloucester county. New Jersey, in 1672. The 
 family continued to reside in this county for a 
 number of generations. A descendant of this 
 family emigrated to the western part of Virginia 
 prior to the Revolution, and numerous members 
 of the family are to be found in that State today. 
 One of this family was a member of the com- 
 mittee of Feill in the \'irginia House of Bur- 
 gesses, of which Patrick Henry was chairman, 
 and which drafted the resolutions of resistance 
 to the English Government. The Virginia branch 
 of the family took a large part in the settlement 
 of the State of Ohio. The well-known exploit of 
 Elizabeth Zane at the blockhouse of Zanesville, 
 is still remembered among the cherished tra- 
 ditions of the Muskingum Valley. The New 
 Jersey branch of the family continued Quakers 
 until within the present century. The father of 
 the subject of this sketch, Andrew Zane, was born 
 and bred, during his early life, in Gloucester 
 county, New Jersey, and -there married Mary 
 Franklin, a distant relative of the philosopher, 
 Benjamin Franklin. They later moved to Cum- 
 berland county where there was no Quaker com- 
 munity, and there identified themselves with the 
 Methodist church, and while attaching but little 
 importance to sectarian differences, they always 
 clung to the simplicity of speech and dress of the 
 Friends. Andrew Zane was a thrifty farmer, 
 of correct and religious life, industrious habits 
 and excellent judgment. 
 
 Our subject grew up on his father's farm, 
 where he worked in the summer and attended the 
 country school in the winter. However, the 
 school-masters of that district were very illiterate 
 men at the time our subject was in school, and his 
 progress during this period was not rapid. In 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the fall of 1848 he went to Philadelphia where he 
 engaged as a clerk in a grocery store, but this 
 life proving uncongenial, returned home the fol- 
 lowing spring. Here he hauled the stone with 
 which the light house was constructed at East 
 Point, on the Delaware Bay. He returned to 
 Philadelphia that fall and acquired an interest 
 in a livery business, selling his interest the follow- 
 ing March and starting for Illinois. The means 
 of locomotion in those days were very crude and 
 it took all day to traverse the same distance that 
 is now traversed in two hours. This journey 
 consumed two weeks, but was filled with many 
 interesting and amusing incidents, which served 
 to break the monotony and fatigue incident to the 
 trip. Arriving in Springfield he took the stage 
 for his brother's farm, which lay in the same 
 neighborhood in which the Reverend Peter Cart- 
 wright resided. Mr. Cartwright was a Kentuck- 
 ian by birth and a prominent figure in that part 
 of the country. He had served as Chaplain of a 
 regiment in General Jackson's army and took part 
 in the Battle of New Orleans. On the eve of this 
 battle, General Jackson called his Chaplains to- 
 gether and instructed them to preach a strong 
 sermon to the soldiers, telling them the Lord 
 would take their souls straight to Heaven if they 
 fell in battle; to which Mr. Cartw-right replied 
 that he could not go that far, but would say to 
 them as forcibly as he could that he believed their 
 country's cause was the cause of God, and that 
 he believed those who died fighting would be 
 given credit for their bravery and sacrifice on the 
 day of judgment. He was a man of strong con- 
 victions and usually spoke with much earnest- 
 ness. 
 
 During that year our subject engaged in brick- 
 makmg and farm work and during the next 
 winter, in company with another man, cut di^wn 
 trees and split posts and rails with which he 
 fenced one hundred and sixty acres of prairie land 
 the following spring. During the winter he had 
 frozen one of his feet quite seriously. He spent 
 the summer of 1852 breaking the prairie land 
 with four yoke of oxen and a large plow. In 
 September of that year he entered McKendree 
 College, prosecuting his studies under great dis- 
 advantage on account of his lack of preparation. 
 
 Dr. Akers had been elected president of this col- 
 lege, although he did not enter upon his duties 
 until late in the term. He preached his first and 
 second sermon at the college. His first discourse 
 was purely chronological, consisting of a state- 
 ment of dates and events as found in the Bible. 
 After he had consumed more than two hours, 
 he stated that he believed that the remainder of 
 his discourse would be more intersting, and that 
 on the next Sunday he would resume. The dis- 
 course had been very dry, but the next Sunday he 
 was very eloquent. His appearance and manner 
 when speaking, indicated great clearness and 
 force. Like Cartwright he was a man of pro- 
 found convictions ; neither appeared to be 
 troubled with a doubt or fear ; they were about 
 the same age ; belonged to the Methodist Church, 
 and lived the most of their lives in the central part 
 of Illinois. Cartwright was a thrifty farmer, as 
 well as an able divine. Akers was a student, and 
 much the more learned, taking but little interest 
 in the acquisition of wealth ; he was an ardent 
 opponent to slavery and never hesitated to de- 
 nounce it on proper occasion, regarding it as 
 opposed to the teachings of the Bible. Years 
 before the Civil War he preached at a camp- 
 meeting near Springfield and took occasion to 
 condemn slavery in strong language. He said 
 that it was opposed to both civil and religious 
 liberty and predicted that sooner or later it would 
 go down in blood. Mr. Lincoln, who had a 
 very high regard for Mr. Akers, had gone out to 
 hear the sermon, and on the way home referred 
 to the sermon and expressed the opinion that the 
 prediction might come to pass ; that this nation 
 could not stand, permanently, part slave and part 
 free. During the time Judge Zane attended this 
 college, he was a member of the Philosophian So- 
 ciety, in which he took an active part, and has 
 always been very sensible of the advantages re- 
 ceived from this source. He taught school for 
 about a year after leaving college and then en- 
 tered the office of James C. Conkling, in Spring- 
 field, in the year 1856. Here he made the ac- 
 quaintance of Mr. Lincoln and his law partner, 
 ]\Ir. Herndon, and these three men had much to do 
 with the moulding of the character and career 
 of our subject. Mr. Lincoln he considered the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 greatest man he ever met, which opinion he still 
 holds, and cannot say too much in praise of 
 him. He was in his company the day the re- 
 turns came in when he was nominated for Presi- 
 dent, and the remembrance of this occasion is 
 one of the choicest in his repertoire. He suc- 
 ceeded Mr. Lincoln as a partner of Mr. Herndon, 
 under the style of Herndon & Zane, which con- 
 tinued for eight years ; at the end of that time, 
 Mr. Herndon turned his attention to farming 
 and in 1870 Judge Zane became a member of the 
 firm of Cullom, Zane & Marcy. His connection 
 with this firm ceased in 1873, upon his election, 
 in June, of that year, to the office of Judge of 
 the Judicial Circuit, composed of the counties of 
 Sangamon and Macoupin, but during the term 
 the counties of ^Montgomery, Christian, Shelly 
 and Fayette were added with two more judges. 
 At the expiration of the first term he was re- 
 elected for another term of six years, and on 
 July 2, 1884, President Arthur appointed him 
 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Ter- 
 ritory of L^tah, and he qualified as such on the 
 I St day of September following. 
 
 During his service of eleven years and six 
 months on the bench in Illinois Judge Zane had 
 a number of cases that attracted widespread 
 interest, among which may be mentioned that 
 instituted by the Attorney-General of the State 
 against the Chicago and Alton Railroad Com- 
 pany to recover certain penalties for violations 
 of a recent act of the legislature fi.xing maximum 
 freight rates and passenger tariffs. While the 
 case was pending the Circuit Court of the United 
 States for the southern district of Illinois issued 
 a writ commanding Judge Zane's clerk to certify 
 all the papers in the case to that court. Judge 
 Zane was at the time engaged in the trial of a 
 case, but on examination of the writ instructed 
 his clerk not to certify the papers without further 
 orders. The late Judge Beckwith and other at- 
 torneys on behalf of the defendant then moved 
 the court to order the clerk to certify the papers, 
 and afterwards the late Milton Hay, Henry S. 
 Green and others for the defendant and the late 
 John M. Palmer and John A. McClernand on 
 behalf of the State, argued the motion at length 
 and submitted it. After consideration Judge 
 
 Zane denied the motion and directed the clerk 
 not to certify the papers. The attorneys for the 
 defendant then applied to the Circuit Court of 
 the United States for a mandate requiring the 
 State Court to certify the papers to that court, 
 and the motion was set down for argument. 
 Upon the hearing Justice David Davis of the 
 Supreme Court of the United States, Judge 
 Drummond of the United States Circuit Court, 
 and Judge Treat of the United States District 
 Court, sat, and the Attorney General of the State 
 and others appeared for the State, the application 
 being argued at great length. The court filed a 
 written opinion concurred in by all the judges 
 denying the application. The case came before 
 the State Court again when the defendant's coun- 
 sel insisted that the charter of the corporation 
 was a contract between the State and the corpora- 
 tion, and that the latter thereby was given the 
 power to fix its own rates, and the Section Ten, 
 of Article One, on the Constitution of the United 
 States, forbidding the passage of any law by a 
 State impairing the obligations of contracts. 
 Judge Zane held that the defendant had appro- 
 priated the use of its road and rolling stock to 
 the common use of the people that might have 
 occasion to travel upon its road, or ship their 
 goods over it ; that for such use they had the 
 right to charge a reasonable compensation and no 
 more ; that the defendant had devoted its property 
 to a public use for a reasonable compensation 
 and that the Legislature possessed the power to 
 protect the public by fixing such reasonable 
 charges ; and to forbid unjust discrimination, and 
 to enforce such provisions by imposing reasonable 
 penalties for their violation. He held the law 
 vaHd. These principles the Supreme Court of 
 the United States soon after held in a case 
 brought before it. 
 
 In 1870 the people of Illinois adopted a new 
 constitution which fixed a limit to municipal in- 
 debtedness, and upon a bill presented by a tax 
 payer the City of Springfield was enjoined from 
 increasing its indebtedness in violation of this 
 provision, which injunction was affirmed by the 
 Supreme Court. During this same term of office 
 the Attorney General of the State of Illinois pre- 
 sented to Judge Zane a bill praying for an in- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 junction restraining the Saint Louis Bridge Com- 
 pany, the Wiggins Ferry Company, the Madison 
 County Ferry Company, and the Chicago and Al- 
 ton Railroad Company from executing a contract 
 between them by which all the defendants except 
 the bridge company should cease to use their re- 
 spective ferries to transport persons or property 
 across the Mississippi river between the cities of 
 Saint Louis and East Saint Louis, in Illinois, in 
 consideration that the bridge company would dis- 
 tribute each of the other defendants a certain per 
 cent, of the net earnings of the bridge. The ap- 
 plication was opposed by defendants and argued 
 at great length by eminent lawyers. The re- 
 spective defendants held charters under the laws 
 of Illinois and also under the laws of Missouri. 
 Among other things the court held in substance : 
 
 1. That the consideration upon which the 
 franchises were granted to the ferry companies 
 were the benefits to the public from their exer- 
 cise. 
 
 2. They could not by contract render them- 
 selves incapable of performing the duties their 
 charters imposed : they could not see the privi- 
 leges conferred to defeat the ends of their crea- 
 tion. 
 
 3. The contract was a combination to prevent 
 lawful competition and against public policy. 
 
 4. That its execution should be enjoined and 
 the writ should therefore issue as prayed. 
 
 A few days before starting for Utah a banquet 
 was tendered Judge Zane by members of the San- 
 gamon County Bar and business men of the city, 
 which was also attended by lawyers from other 
 parts of the circuit. The expressions of good 
 will and good feeling manifested at this time was 
 a source of much gratification to Judge Zane. 
 LIpon reaching Ogden on the afternoon of August 
 23, 1884, he was met by members of the bar and 
 others who welcomed him to the city and Terri- 
 tory with expressions of pleasure and friendship, 
 and this reception was repeated in Salt Lake 
 City, where he arrived that same evening, and 
 was met by Governor Murray, judges and other 
 officials, members of the bar and citizens who es- 
 corted him to his hotel, and during the evening 
 gave every evidence of a cordial welcome. Dur- 
 ing his thirty-four years' residence in Illinois he 
 
 had become more or less familiar with the doc- 
 trines and teachings of the Mormons, and yet 
 was not sufficiently acquainted with their prac- 
 tices to feel that he was thoroughly in touch with 
 the great questions agitating the Territory at 
 that time. He found that while an Act of Con- 
 gress had been in force since July 8, 1862, declar- 
 ing any person having a husband or wife living 
 and vtndivorced, who should marry any other per- 
 son, whether single or married, in a Territory of 
 the LTnited States, guilty of bigamy, and punish- 
 able by fine and imprisonment, only one person 
 had in the twenty-two years in which the law had 
 been in force, been convicted of its violation. He 
 also found laws defining and fixing the punish- 
 ment for poligamy and unlawful co-habitation, 
 termed by the law a misdemeanor; also a law 
 providing that either of these practices should 
 be sufficient cause of challenge against any per- 
 son called as a juror or talesman in such case. 
 Or if he should believe such practices to be right, 
 he might be challenged. This law had been in 
 force two and a half years before Judge Zane 
 opened his first case in Utah in September, 1884, 
 and no conviction had been had vmder it. There 
 was also a law in force which required the clerk 
 of the District Court and the Probate Judge to 
 select alternately names and prepare a jury list 
 in January of each year, from which grand and 
 petit jurors should be drawn from which a list 
 should be made. 
 
 Lender such circumstances Judge Zane opened 
 the Third Judicial District Court which he held 
 by virtue of his office as Chief Justice of the Su- 
 preme Court of the Territory. Believing that 
 poligamy and unlawful cohabitation cases would 
 come before the grand jury to be selected, and 
 also before the petit jurors, the court informed 
 the Assistant District Attorney that it would chal- 
 lenge on its own motion all persons presented 
 for jury duty who might believe it right for a 
 man to have living and undivorced more than one 
 wife, or to cohabit with more than one woman 
 as such. The Assistant District Attorney said 
 he would interpose a challenge to any such pro- 
 posed juror who upon examination should dis- 
 close such a belief, and the result was the court 
 sustained challenges because of such a belief to 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RFXORD. 
 
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 all of the jurors except eight whose names were 
 on the jury list and in the box. Fifteen jurors 
 constituted a grand jury and but eight were 
 found competent. The courts of the Territory 
 had held that men could not be summoned to at- 
 tend as jurors whose names were not on the lists 
 made in January, and while the Assistant District 
 Attorney said it was his opinion and the opinion 
 of the District Attorney as well, that a venire 
 could not issue to summon men whose names 
 were not on the list and in the box to serve as 
 jurors, he would make the motion for such open 
 venire, as it was termed, in order to bring the 
 matter before the court for its decision. The 
 point was argued at considerable length and sub- 
 mitted. The court held that the names on the 
 list being exhausted and no statutory method 
 provided by which a jury could be obtained, the 
 court had the power to provide a jury; that the 
 law fixed terms of court and the duty to hold 
 them was express, and therefore the power to do 
 that without which it could not proceed to try 
 cases was implied, and the open venire was issued 
 and a jury obtained in that way. The ruling was 
 afterwards brought before the Supreme Court of 
 the Territory, and afterwards before the Supreme 
 Court of the United States, and affirmed by both. 
 In his charge to the jury Judge Zane admonished 
 them that they should be fearless and impartial in 
 their investigations ; calling their attention es- 
 pecially to the crime of poligamy, and instructed 
 them that when the evidence was sufficient it was 
 their duty to indict, regardless of the position 
 of the individual pecuniarily, religiously, political- 
 ly, socially, or otherwise. Among the cases that 
 came up were those of Elder Rudger Clawson, 
 and Bishops Hamilton and Mc]\Iurrin, besides 
 scores of others, all of whom were sentenced and 
 fined, and all of whom later expressed the utmost 
 good will towards the judge, saying they believed 
 he had only done his duty as he saw it. On 
 September 24, 1890, President Wilford Woodruff 
 issued his manifesto declaring it to be his advice 
 that the practice be abandoned and that hence- 
 forth no poligamous marriages be entered into. 
 This manifesto was adopted as authoritative and 
 binding by the Semi- Annual Conference on Octo- 
 ber 6, 1890. 
 
 After the State of Utah had been admitted to 
 the Union Judge Zane's name was placed in nomi- 
 nation, without his solicitation, as a candidate for 
 the office of Supreme Judge, receiving the largest 
 majority of any one elected, and as fully two- 
 thirds of the voters were Mormons, this fact 
 alone proves the high esteem in which he was 
 held at that time, as today. Lack of space pre- 
 vents the writer going further into the details of 
 the cases tried or the able opinions handed down 
 by Judge Zane, which opinions and findings were 
 when appealed sustained by the higher courts. 
 He served three years as Chief Justice of the 
 State of Utah, and was renominated by the Re- 
 publican State Convention in 1898; but as he had 
 during the presidential canvass of 1896 expressed 
 himself opposed to the free and unlimited coinage 
 of silver at 16 to i, and had also expressed a pref- 
 erence for William McKinley for President, he 
 failed of re-election. He returned to private prac- 
 tice in Salt Lake City in January, 1899, in which 
 he still continues. 
 
 Judge Zane married Margaret D. Maxey, of 
 Springfield, Illinois, April 6, 1859. Nine children 
 were born of this marriage, six of whom are liv- 
 ing — Mary Farnetta, wife of William H. Hinc- 
 kle, of Chicago, an officer of the Illinois Trust 
 and Savings Bank, in the Trust Department; 
 Charles W. served as Assistant District Attorney 
 of Utah, and died at San Antonio, Texas, Sep- 
 tember, 1889; John 'SI. was reporter of decisions 
 of the Supreme Court of Utah, and was Assistant 
 United States District Attorney of Utah, and is 
 now practicing law in Chicago, a partner in the 
 firm of Shope, Mathis, Zane & Weber; Mar- 
 garet, wife of Dr. J. S. Witcher; Oliver W., a 
 resident of Los Angeles, California; Franklin A., 
 also a resident of Chicago, connected with the 
 Illinois Trust and Savings Bank; Agnes M., at 
 home. 
 
 As a private citizen. Judge Zane is a gentleman 
 of most winning personality, kindly, courteous, 
 and aflfable. He numbers his friends by the le- 
 gion, not only in Utah but throughout the East, 
 where he is widely known, as well as in the 
 States adjoining Utah. He is popular with all 
 classes, and has had a most honorable career 
 upon which no stairl or blemish has ever rested. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 AMES CHIPMAN. In the work of de- 
 veloping the resources of Utah and plac- 
 ing the State upon its present high 
 plane of prosperity, there has neces- 
 sarily been a demand for financiers ; men 
 of ability to judge and control, and with fore- 
 sight to understand the trend of events and pro- 
 vide for the wants of the future. In the pioneers 
 who came to Utah in 1847, ""'^'^ o^ ability were 
 not wanting, in fact almost every line of busi- 
 ness was represented by those early colonists. 
 Among these early settlers, and one who has 
 contributed largely to the success which has fol- 
 lowed the development of the State, and who 
 by his able management has made the Utah 
 National Bank, over which he presides, one of 
 the soundest institutions in the West, is the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 James Chipman was born in Carroll Count}', 
 Missouri, and came to Utah with his parents in 
 1847. His father, Stephen, a native of Canada, 
 was a farmer and stock raiser in the United 
 States, and was one of the early workers in be- 
 half of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints. LTpon his removal to Utah he par- 
 ticipated actively in the development of the 
 Church and assisted in the erection of the Salt 
 Lake temple. His wife, Amanda Washburn, and 
 the mother of our subject, was also a native 
 of Canada, but came to Missouri and later to 
 Utah with her husband. The early life of their 
 son James was spent at Mill Creek, near Salt 
 Lake City, where he attended school and gleaned 
 such information from them as the nature of 
 the schools afforded. His education was, how- 
 ever, largely derived from the great book of 
 human experience and from the daily lessons 
 taught by the efforts of the pioneers to subdue 
 and control the unpromising natural conditions. 
 At the age of twenty Mr. Chipman started out 
 for himself as a farmer and stock raiser, and 
 later engaged in freighting goods across the 
 mountains with mule teams. In this work he 
 made three trips from Alontana to Los Angeles, 
 each round trip consuming an entire season. The 
 route that he followed from Salt Lake City to 
 the Coast is virtually the same as that over which 
 the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rail- 
 
 road will be built. These trips were made in 
 the years 1866 to 1869. 
 
 When the railroads began to enter the great 
 Western country, Mr. Chipman, seeing greater 
 opportunities for the exercise of his talents in 
 that work, turned his attention to railroad con- 
 tracting. He assisted in building the Union 
 I'acific and the Rio Grande Western Railroads, 
 and in addition to the contracts which he had, 
 he also established and successfully conducted 
 a general mercantile business. This business 
 he continued to conduct until 1890, when he es- 
 tablished the mercantile business at American 
 Fork, and in connection with this enterprise also 
 established a bank at that place. These have 
 both been prosperous ventures and are in a 
 healthy condition at the present time. Notwith- 
 standing his wide and varied interests, Mr. Chip- 
 man has ,continued to give his time to the de- 
 velopment of these industries, and is still the 
 owner of the bank which he established there. 
 The Utah National Bank, of which he is now 
 President, was established in Salt Lake City in 
 1890, and Mr. Chipman was elected its Presi- 
 dent in 1898. His position as a financier and 
 one of the leaders of the business community, is 
 such that he is necessarily interested in the de- 
 velopment of all the resources of the State. He 
 has large interests in many mining properties 
 throughout Utah. He has also given consider- 
 able attention to stock raising and is identified 
 with that industry in Utah. He is the Manager 
 of the Uncle Sam Mining Company, whose prop- 
 erty is located in the Tintic district, and has in- 
 terests in a large number of other mining com- 
 panies throughout the State. 
 
 Mr. Chipman is deeply interested in all mat- 
 ters affecting the education of the yoiuhs of 
 LTtah, and to him is due in a large degree the 
 credit for the establishment of the first public 
 schools in the Territory. 
 
 He was married in 1859 to Miss Sarah A. 
 Green, daughter of Alphonso and Betsey Green, 
 who were among the early settlers of Utah. She 
 died, leaving four children, and he married his 
 second wife in 1863. She was Selina Huntsman, 
 daughter of John Huntsman, a citizen of Utah, 
 and by this wife he has ten children. His chil- 
 dren are: Bessie, James. Jr., who is in charge 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 6i 
 
 of the bank at American Fork ; Alphonso, Stephen 
 L., who is manager of the mercantile house at 
 American Fork, of which his father is President, 
 and he is also President of the Alpine Stake 
 of Utah ; Sarah A., Washburn, Milissa, Lunnie, 
 William, May, Delia, Oscar, Alva, and Emmit. 
 
 In politics Mr. Chipman is a Republican, and 
 while he has devoted most of his time and at- 
 tention to the ramifications of his business in- 
 terests, he was called upon by his party to serve 
 as State Treasurer for the term beginning 1896. 
 This was the first term of this office, it having 
 been made with the admission of the State into 
 the Union. 
 
 The position which Mr. Chipman has attained, 
 marks him as one of the ablest financiers of the 
 West, and one of the most substantial business 
 men of Utah. His success is entirely due to his 
 own efforts. Self-educated and self-made, he has 
 built up his fortune and his career by his own 
 pluck and industry. His integrity and honesty 
 have brought him the confidence and respect of 
 the entire State, and few men are possessed of 
 more warm and loyal friends than he. The ca- 
 reer that he has made may well be an object of 
 pride to his posterity and stands forth as an il- 
 lustration of what a man of energy and ability 
 can attain. 
 
 ( )i^ERT TAYLOR BURTON. In the 
 settlement of Utah and its development 
 from a wilderness, few men have taken 
 a more active part in the work, and 
 few have aided more in the develop- 
 ment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints than has the subject of this sketch, 
 who now holds the office of First Counsellor to 
 William B. Preston, Presiding Bishop of that 
 church. He was one of the early pioneers to this 
 State, and has participated actively in the stir- 
 ring deeds and stirring times of the early days 
 of Utah. He took part, not only in the develop- 
 ment of its latent resources, but was active in the 
 protection of the settlements against the depre- 
 dations of the Indians, and was a leader in the 
 forces which defended the Mormon Church 
 against the approach of the United States troops. 
 He is now one of the leaders of the church of 
 
 his choice and has won the confidence and es- 
 teem, not only of its leaders, but of the people as 
 well. By his life of industry he has achieved 
 a prominent position in the affairs of the State, 
 and enjoys the confidence and respect of all the 
 people. 
 
 Robert Taylor Burton was born in Amherst- 
 burg, Canada West, October 25, 1821. He was 
 a son of Samuel and Hannah (Shipley) Burton, 
 natives of England, who emigrated to America 
 in 181 7, sailing from Hull, Yorkshire, England, 
 and settled in Poultneyville, Wayne County, New 
 York, where they continued to reside for two or 
 three years. They moved from New York to Can- 
 ada and remained in that country until 1828, 
 when they again returned to the United States 
 and took up their residence in Lucas County, 
 Ohio. Not content with their home in this State, 
 they emigrated to the West and settled at Adrian, 
 Michigan, and later returned to their former home 
 in Canada. While residents of Canada, in 1837, 
 they were converted to the teachings of the Mor- 
 mon Church by two missionaries who visited that 
 country. At the time of the baptism of his par- 
 ents into this religion, Robert T. Burton was ab- 
 sent in Ohio, visiting relatives and attending 
 school during the winter of 1837-38. In the lat- 
 ter year he returned to Canada at the request of 
 his parents and reached there in September, and 
 was baptized into the church by Elder Henrv 
 Cook, on October 23, 1838. A few days after 
 his baptism his family left Canada and went to 
 Knoxville, Illinois, where they remained a little 
 over a year. They then joined the Mormon 
 people at Nauvoo, Illinois, in the spring of 1840, 
 and here the Burton family remained until Feb- 
 ruary of 1846. 
 
 Upon his entrance into the church Bishop Bur- 
 ton took an active part in its affairs, and in June, 
 1843, being then an Elder, he left Nauvoo in com- 
 pany with Elder N. V. Jones, to go as a mis- 
 sionary to the States of Illinois, Michigan and 
 Ohio, where he remained for a year, returning 
 to Nauvoo a few days prior to the killing of the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. 
 L^pon his return to Nauvoo, Bishop Burton en- 
 listed in Captain Gleason's cavalry company of 
 the Nauvoo Legion, and was on guard in the city 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 at the time Prophet Smith was killed. For some 
 time after that sad occurrence he was active in 
 his efforts to protect the lives and property of the 
 members of the church from mob violence and 
 robbery. About this time he also became a mem- 
 ber of the Nauvoo Brass Band, and the Nauvoo 
 choir. Bishop Burton was again sent on a mis- 
 sion in January, 1845, with Elder Samuel W. 
 Richards, to some of the central counties of the 
 State of Illinois, with a view to allaying the pre- 
 judice that had arisen in the minds of the people 
 of that locality against the Mormon Church. 
 
 Mr. Burton was married in December of this 
 year to Maria S. Haven, President Brigham 
 Young performing the ceremony, and in the fol- 
 lowing spring, the members of the church being 
 driven from Illinois, he left with the first com- 
 pany who crossed the Mississippi and encamped 
 on the west bank. The hurried departure and 
 increasing bitterness of the mob forced the people 
 to leave with but few provisions for the ensuing 
 winter. The snow was about eighteen inches 
 deep, and the weather intensely cold ; so cold, in 
 fact, that it was possible for the people to cross 
 the river on ice and secure provisions preparatory 
 for the journey towards the Rocky Mountains. 
 This company arrived at Council Bluffs in June, 
 and here the main body camped. Robert Burton, 
 however, with his aged parents, moved a distance 
 of forty or fifty miles down the Missouri river 
 and there made a temporary home. Owing to 
 the trying circumstances and the hardships and 
 exposure which they underwent, many of the peo- 
 ple succumbed and were buried by the wayside. 
 Among this number was the mother of our sub- 
 ject, who fell sick, died and was buried in a lonely 
 grave near her temporary home on the Missouri 
 river. 
 
 In the preparations for the journey towards the 
 Salt Lake Valley the Burton family formed a por- 
 tion of the company organized by President Brig- 
 ham Young, and in May, 1848, they set out upon 
 their perilous journey across the plains, arriving 
 in Salt Lake Valley on September 23rd of that 
 year. The ensuing winter they spent in the Old 
 Fort and in the spring the family removed to the 
 residence which they erected at the corner of Sec- 
 ond West and First South streets. Salt Lake City, 
 
 where they have resided ever since. The same 
 activity that Bishop Burton had displayed in the 
 East in the affairs oi the church was continued 
 in Utah, and in the fall of 1849, upon the organ- 
 ization of a Territorial militia, Robert Burton 
 enlisted in its service. This company was called 
 in the following year into active service, by the 
 Governor, to defend the settlers against the hos- 
 tile Indians, and in this expedition the Bishop 
 saw his first active service in Utah. The cavalry 
 to which he belonged took an important part in 
 the engagement with the Walker Indians, which 
 lasted for three days. In September, 1850, the 
 company was ordered north to operate against 
 the Shoshone Indians, and in November of the 
 same year went to Utah county again to restrict 
 the operations of a remnant of the tribe against 
 whom they had fought the previous spring, and 
 while on this latter campaign, the Bishop was 
 elected Lieutenant of the company. In June, 
 185 1, he accompanied another expedition against 
 the Indians on the Western desert, and although 
 suffering much from thirst, the company was 
 victorious in the battle fought in the desert west 
 of Skull Valley. In the spring of 1852 he headed 
 a small company to the Green River, to protect 
 settlers from the depredations of the Indians and 
 renegade whites, and the following year was 
 elected Captain of Company A, later receiving a 
 commission as Major-Colonel and finally Major- 
 General. His active work did not stop with this, 
 but in October, 1856, he was a member of a com- 
 pany who went five or six hundred miles east 
 of Salt Lake to rescue some hand cart companies 
 that were in great distress, the emigrants being 
 stranded on the Platte river. The weather was 
 extremely cold and the snow deep. The emi- 
 grants had almost exhausted their supply of pro- 
 visions and in consequence were reduced to one- 
 quarter rations until relief came to them from 
 Salt Lake, prior to which they suffered untold 
 hardships and many of the members died from 
 hunger and cold. In August 15, 1858, Colonel 
 Burton was ordered to take a company and assist 
 the emigrants in their passage across the plains, 
 and at the same time observe the movements of 
 the approaching forces of the United States, 
 which were said to be headed for Utah, with the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 63 
 
 express purpose of exterminating the Mormons, 
 and the remainder of this year was spent in that 
 work. In 1862 our subject was sent by Governor 
 Fuller to protect the United States mail between 
 Fort Bridger and the Platte river, where stations 
 had been burned, mail sacks cut open and stock 
 driven off by the hostile Indians and white out- 
 laws. The same application and ability which he 
 had brought to other tasks, Colonel Burton ap- 
 plied to this duty, discharging it to the entire 
 satisfaction of the government and of the author- 
 ities. In all of the stirring times of the settle- 
 ment of Utah, and in its military history. General 
 Burton stands as one of the principal men in the 
 perfecting of the organization of the militia and 
 in its operations throughout Utah. Since the dis- 
 banding of the Nauvoo Legion, Bishop Burton 
 has been very prominent in the ecclesiastical his- 
 tory of the church, and as First Counsellor to the 
 Presiding Bishop of the church. 
 
 In addition to his military duties and to his 
 work in behalf of the church, General Burton also 
 took a live interest in the affairs of the State, and 
 in 1852 was elected Constable of Salt Lake City 
 and in the following year was appointed Deputy 
 United States Alarshall, and sheriff, collector and 
 assessor of Salt Lake county in 1854, and Deputy 
 Territorial Marshal in 1861. So well had he dis- 
 charged these duties that in the following year 
 President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the 
 position of Collector of Internal Revenue, which 
 position he continued to hold until 1869. In 
 addition to these positions he also served Salt 
 Lake City as a member of the Council from 1856 
 to 1873. He was a member of the Board of 
 Regents in the Deseret university from 1875 
 to 1878. His ability in the legislature led to his 
 appointment in 1876 on a committee with Hon- 
 orable A. O. Smoot and Honorable S. S. Smith, 
 to arrange, compile and publish all of the laws 
 of the Territory then in force. 
 
 He early saw the advantages that would ac- 
 crue to Utah from the establishment and devel- 
 opment of home manufactures, and was asso- 
 ciated with Bishop A. O. Smoot and Bishop John 
 Sharp in the erection and successful operation 
 of the Wasatch Woolen Mills, located in the 
 southeast portion of Salt Lake City. 
 
 In addition to the missions heretofore men- 
 tioned which Bishop Burton performed for the 
 Church, he has also been on missions in the East- 
 ern States and to England. During the latter 
 mission he visited most of the important cities 
 of Europe, and upon his return to England was 
 chosen President of the London Conference. In 
 1859 Elder Burton was appointed Counsellor to 
 Bishop Cunningham, of the Fifteenth Ward of 
 Salt Lake City, and in 1867 was appointed Bishop 
 of that Ward, serving in that position until 1877, 
 when he was called to fill the position of Coun- 
 sellor to Presiding Bishop Edward Hunter. Upon 
 the death of the latter he was appointed First 
 Counsellor to Presiding Bishop William B. 
 Preston, which position he continues to fill. 
 
 AMES H. MOYLE. Few of the native 
 sons of Utah have participated more 
 actively in the administration of the af- 
 fairs of the State or attained higher 
 places in the standing of its leading men, 
 at the bar or in political life, than has the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. From a poor boy, struggling 
 with adverse conditions, he has now risen to 
 be one of the most prominent men in the State, 
 and one who enjoys the confidence and esteem 
 of all his fellow citizens. 
 
 James H. Moyle was born in Salt Lake City, 
 September the 17th, 1858, and was the eldest 
 son of James Moyle, a native of Cornwall, Eng- 
 land. His father spent his early life in Corn- 
 wall and in Devonshire, coming to Utah at the 
 age of seventeen. He became a convert to the 
 teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 
 ter Day Saints in England, and left his family 
 and all his prospects m that country to follow 
 the religion of his choice. He was a stone cutter 
 and builder, and his ability was soon recognized 
 upon his arrival in Utah. He assisted in build- 
 ing many of the old stone houses and business 
 buildings. He superintended most of the heavy 
 stone work on the bridges of the Western Di- 
 vision of the Union Pacific Railroad. He was 
 superintendent of the stone work on the Temple 
 and for a number of years was in charge of 
 that work, dying about the time the stone work 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was completed. He took an active part in the 
 affairs of his Church. He occupied many minor 
 offices and in later life was a member of the High 
 Council. His struggles to gain a foothold in the 
 new country were similar to those experienced 
 bv the early pioneers. His journey from the 
 eastern coast of the United States and across 
 the great plains was a long and toilsome trip, 
 occupying many months in its completion. The 
 company with which he traveled suffered from 
 the ravages of cholera and many of its members 
 died on an island in the ^Mississippi river from 
 tl-iis disease, Mr. Moyle remaining with the 
 stricken people throughout the entire time. He 
 was well and favorably known throughout Utah 
 and the West, and died respected by all who 
 knew him. He was recognized a:; a man of un- 
 impeachable integrity. His father, John R. 
 Moyle, the grandfather of our subject, came to 
 Utah a few years after his son, and settled in 
 Salt Lake City, later moving to Alpine, Utah 
 county, where he engaged in the business of 
 farming. He was by trade a stone cutter. He 
 spent the balance of his life in Utah county, 
 where he resided until his death. His wife, 
 Philipa (Beer) Moyle, was also a native of Dev- 
 onshire, and had two brothers serving in the 
 British army as commissioned officers, and her 
 father was a prosperous contractor, holding many 
 large contracts for work for the British Govern- 
 ment. The mother of the subject of this sketch, 
 Elizabeth (Wood) Moyle, was one of the early 
 pioneers of Utah and one of the first members 
 of the Church. She was born in Brown county, 
 Illinois, and came to Utah at the age of nine 
 years, and is still living. She came in 1849 from 
 Nauvoo and was at winter quarters during the 
 winter of 1848. Her father, Daniel Wood, was 
 one of the prominent men of Utah and of the 
 Church, having joined it in Mew York and leav- 
 ing with the members when they were expelled 
 from Nauvoo. He came from one of the old 
 American families and was a well-to-do farmer, 
 owning his own home in Illinois. He was one of 
 the best equipped of the pioneers who came to 
 this region and was Captain of the fifty wagons 
 in the wagon train in which he crossed the 
 plains. Woods Cross, Utah, was named after 
 
 him. He settled in Salt Lake City and later 
 moved to Sessions settlement, arriving there a 
 few months after Mrs. Sessions. It was then 
 so dry and parched that the two settlers doubted 
 if they would have water enough for their fam- 
 ilies. This land is now well watered under the 
 e-xcellent system of irrigation which prevails in 
 Utah, and also by artesian wells. At this time 
 the locality is densely populated, is considered 
 the best market garden district in the State, the 
 choice lands selling at from two hundred to five 
 hundred dollars per acre, which is now known as 
 Bountiful, in Davis county. He was a wealthy 
 farmer and owned a large and prosperous farm 
 in that region. His wife, Mary ( Snyder) Wood, 
 was a member of one of the prominent and 
 prosperous families of the East. They had first 
 settled in Canada, but upon their conversion to 
 the Mormon Church, left their comfortable home, 
 and she, with her family, journeyed to the Far 
 West to participate in the work of the Church 
 which she believed to be the true religion. They 
 knew all the hardships and trials suffered by 
 the pioneers and came out of the ordeal un- 
 smirched. Both she and her husband were re- 
 spected residents of the community in which they 
 settled, and died beloved and honored by all who 
 knew them, Mr. Wood having lived to the ad- 
 vanced age of ninety-two. He raised a large 
 family. 
 
 Our subject, James H. Moyle, spent his early 
 life in Salt Lake City, and received his early 
 education in the schools that then existed in the 
 Territory, and later entered the Deseret Uni- 
 versity at the age of thirteen, and graduated in 
 1879. He was still in school when he was sent 
 to North Carolina on a mission for the Church, 
 where he remained two years and four months, 
 during two years of which he was President of 
 the North Carolina Conference. Upon his re- 
 turn to LHah in 1881, he resumed his studies 
 and in the following vear entered the literary de- 
 partment of the University of Michigan, and 
 in 1883 entered the law department and contin- 
 ued his course of studies in both departments in 
 the school of political science for the ensuing two 
 vears. He graduated in 1885 and was admitted 
 to practice before the Supreme Court of Mich- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 igan in that year. He returned to Utah in the 
 fall of 1885 and was made Assistant City At- 
 torney of this city and also Deputy County At- 
 torney of Salt Lake County. In the fall of the 
 next year he was elected County Attorney, and 
 also served for two years as Assistant City At- 
 torne}-. He was County Attorney for four years, 
 from 1896 to 1900, and during his tenure of of- 
 fice was elected to the legislature in 1888, where 
 he was chairman of the Committee on Educa- 
 tion, and while in that important position was 
 able to aid in securing many of the institutions 
 which has redounded so much to Utah's credit. 
 He was active in securing the passage of the 
 bill for the establishment of a Deaf and Dumb 
 School ; in establishing the Agricultural College 
 at Logan, and also in establishing the State Re- 
 form School at Ogden. He secured for the uni- 
 versity the largest appropriations which up to 
 that time had been made by the State for its 
 maintenance, the amount appropriated being dou- 
 ble the previous nonnal appropriation ; and large 
 sums for the equipment of the university. His 
 work here was of such a character that he took 
 a leading position in the direction of this in- 
 stitution and was the Chairman of the Commit- 
 tee sent by the Governor to the East to investi- 
 gate and examine the various reformatories of 
 the United States, and as a result of these in- 
 vestigations the Reform School at Ogden was 
 shortly afterwards erected. He served for one 
 term as President and several terms as Trus- 
 tee of this institution. He was also a director 
 of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing 
 Society for four years. He practically retired 
 from active political life in 1890, and for the 
 decade following refused to hold office or to be 
 considered in any manner a candidate for any 
 position in the gift of the people. He has always 
 been an ardent Democrat and participated ac- 
 tively in its work in this State. Prior to the 
 organization of this party he was one of the 
 leaders of the People's Party and assisted in 
 conducting the memorable campaign of 1890, the 
 last campaign conducted on the old lines. He 
 was one of the leading men who believed in the 
 disbanding of the People's Party and a separa- 
 tion of the people upon the lines of the two Na- 
 
 tional political parties, and upon the disbfindment 
 of this old party and the organization of the 
 Democratic party he became one of its leaders, 
 and has participated actively in all of its cam- 
 paigns, having served on all of its committees, 
 including that of the City, County and State. 
 In 1898 he was Chairman of the Democratic 
 State Committee and the successful campaign 
 conducted by it in that year was largely due to 
 his able and efficient management. He con- 
 ducted the campaign of the special election the 
 following April when W. H. King was elected 
 to Congress to succeed B. H. Roberts. He was 
 a candidate for the Governorship of Utah on the 
 Democratic ticket in 1900, but was defeated with 
 his party. 
 
 His ability and learning has brought him a 
 lucrative practice in his chosen profession and 
 he is now acknowledged to be one of the lead- 
 ers of the bar of Utah. Upon his return to 
 Utah after his graduation from college, he 
 formed a partnership with the Hon. Franklin 
 S. Richards, which continued for a number of 
 years. This partnership was dissolved and he 
 continued for a time by himself, later forming 
 a partnership with John M. Zane and George P. 
 Costigan, the firm being Moyle, Zane & Costi- 
 gan. This firm was dissolved by the removal of 
 Mr. Zane to Chicago in 1898, and by Mr. Costi- 
 gan going to New York and entering upon the 
 practice of law there, since which time Mr. Moyle 
 has engaged in practice by himself. 
 
 He was married in 1887 to ^liss Alice E. Din- 
 woody, daughter of Henry Dinwoody, and by 
 this marriage has had six children, five sons and 
 one daughter: Henry D., James H., now dead; 
 Walter G., Gilbert D., Alice E., and James D. 
 
 Mr. Moyle has been a life-long member of the 
 Church. He was made an Elder at the early age 
 of sixteen, and in the following year was made 
 one of the Seventies. He is essentially a self- 
 made man and one of whom L'tah can justly be 
 proud. He has made his own way in the world 
 and the success he has achieved has been due to 
 his own efforts. He learned the trade of stone- 
 cutting and worked at that for five summers 
 when a boy. He is substantially identified with 
 the business interests of the State, including live 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 stock, banking and mining. He is a director of 
 the Consolidated Wagon and ^Machine Company, 
 a director of the Utah Commercial and Savings 
 Bank, and also of the Deseret Live Stock Com- 
 pany, which is the largest live stock company in 
 the State. He is well known throughout the 
 State by his political achievements and few men 
 are held in higher repute or are more popular 
 with the citizens of Utah. 
 
 UDGE CHARLES C. GOODWIN. 
 Utah was settled fifty years ago by the 
 pioneers who were members of the Mor- 
 mon Church and who, in coming to what 
 was then considered a far-off land in 
 the Rocky Mountains, came with the idea of 
 founding a settlement where they could worship 
 in their own way, and follow a life of agriculture. 
 The great mineral resources of Utah were then 
 unknown, and the policy of the Church was to 
 direct the energies of the members to agricul- 
 ture, rather than to mining. This was done with 
 a view to preventing the immigration of other 
 than members of the Church. The steady growth 
 of the Mormon Church and the influence which 
 it began to wield, apparently would have made 
 this policy a success, had it not been for the char- 
 acter of the citizens of the United States, who 
 from the very time of the first settlers landing 
 on the Atlantic coast, have driven their way west- 
 ward, wherever the opportunities seemed to war- 
 rant their entrance. The policy of seclusion 
 which President Brigham Young attempted to 
 enforce, was ordained to failure, by the very na- 
 ture of the people against whom it was intended 
 to be enforced. The conflict which arose be- 
 tween the civil and military forces of the United 
 States on the one side, and the Mormon Church 
 on the other, are matters of recent history. The 
 times of trouble which existed when the first 
 mineral wealth was unclosed, and the Mormon 
 Church feeling itself threatened, endeavored to 
 prevent the emigration of the miners, was by a 
 great many people denounced as un-American, 
 and in the efforts to broaden Utah and force 
 her to recognize the citizens of other portions 
 of the country as being entitled to be recognized 
 
 as her own, the Salt Lake Tribune has ever 
 stood foremost as the champion of freedom of 
 ingress to the mountains and plains of Utah, 
 and to the development and working of her great 
 mineral deposits. It can safely be said that no 
 man has taken a more active part nor done so 
 much to aid in the development of Utah's re- 
 sources, and especially the development of the 
 mines, than has Charles C. Goodwin, who for 
 over twenty years was the leading editorial writer 
 on the Tribune, and by his fearless courage, in- 
 dependent spirit, and thoroughly American style, 
 has made it possible to bring to Utah the wealth 
 of the East. He continued at his post amid all 
 the stormy days of the emigration of the Gen- 
 tiles, with a courage and devotion to his duty 
 that has seldom been excelled, and which won 
 for him the plaudits of all the people, irrespective 
 of religion or politics. Upon the transferring of 
 this newspaper property in October, 1901, Judge 
 Goodwin retired from the service of the paper, 
 taking with him the heartfelt love and friend- 
 ship of all the people whose lives he had so 
 zealously cared for and to whom he had freely 
 given during the past twenty years the best ef- 
 forts of his life. 
 
 Charles C. Goodwin was born in Riga, near 
 Rochester, in the western portion of New York, 
 and spent his early life on his father's farm in 
 that State. His father had been a successful 
 tiller of the soil and prior to engaging in the 
 agricultural business had been a distinguished 
 scout in the War of 1812, under Generals Brown 
 and Scott. His father, the grandfather of the 
 subject of this sketch, was a soldier in the Rev- 
 olutionary War, under the direct command of 
 General George Washington. The Goodwin 
 family is one of the oldest in the eastern part 
 of the United States, and from the very begin- 
 ning of the settlement of the country have taken 
 a prominent, aggressive and important part in 
 its history. The mother of Judge Goodwin was 
 Dollie (Watkins) Goodwin, a native of Berk- 
 shire, Midland county, Massachusetts, and was 
 a member of one of the old Colonial families 
 and early settlers of New England. She died 
 when her son was thirteen years of age. 
 
 Judge Goodwin's earlv education was derived 
 
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 from Riga academy, Alexander academy, and 
 Clover Street seminary, established by his un- 
 cle, Isaac Moore, near Rochester. Having faith 
 in the greater opportunities afforded by the West 
 and being equipped with the determined spirit 
 that conquered all obstacles, he removed from 
 the East and settled in Marysville, California, 
 where he engaged in the lumber business, es- 
 tablishing a saw mill in the mountains. In this 
 he continued for five years, when his entire plant 
 and capital was consumed by a disastrous fire. 
 Undaunted by these reverses, he at once turned 
 his attention to teaching school and while em- 
 ployed in that occupation in Marysville, studied 
 law under the guidance of his brother, who was 
 a prominent lawyer of California, who later 
 served as a Judge for several years, and was the 
 esteemed contemporary of Judges Field, Terry, 
 Mesick and Brian, and was among the most dis- 
 tinguished jurists California has ever called to 
 its Bench. 
 
 Upon the completion of his studies under his 
 brother, Judge Goodwin went to Plumas county, 
 California, in 1859, to settle up some business 
 affairs for a friend of his brother, and the next 
 year removed to Nevada, where he was admitted 
 to practice before all the courts of that State. 
 His next enterprise \yas in connection with Mr. 
 Levi Hite, in building a quartz mill on Carson 
 river. This was just started when it was swept 
 away by the most disastrous flood that has ever 
 occurred in the West, drowning a great number 
 of people, and destroying the mill and the prop- 
 erty. The battery and other portions of the mill 
 were picked up three-quarters of a mile away. 
 Then Judge Goodwin removed to Washoe county 
 on the admission of the State into the Union. 
 He was elected one of the first District Judges 
 and held that office for over three years. He 
 then removed to Hamilton, White Pine county, 
 Nevada, as editor of the Inland Empire, remain- 
 ing in charge of it for six months. He then 
 removed to Eureka, Nevada, and leased a fur- 
 nace which had been but partly finished. He 
 completed the buildings, bought ore and coal and 
 successfully operated it. He later bought it and 
 built a second furnace ; bought the Jackson mine 
 and conducted mine and furnace for about a 
 
 year and a half, when he sold out and for a few 
 months moved to California. 
 
 He was in California but a short time when 
 he was requested to return to Virginia City, 
 Nevada, and become associated with the late 
 R. M. Daggett on the Territorial Enterprise. 
 Mr. Daggett was elected to Congress from Ne- 
 vada in 1876, and Judge Goodwin was placed 
 in entire charge of the paper, which was the 
 leading journal of that State. This work he con- 
 tinued until 1880, when he removed to Utah. 
 His first enterprise in this State was the pur- 
 chase of several small mines in the Lincoln dis- 
 trict, near Minersville, in Beaver county. On 
 these properties he sank a shaft fifty feet deep, 
 when he encountered such a volume of water as 
 to make any further development impracticable. 
 There was no chance to tunnel, nor was Judge 
 Goodwin equipped with the finances needed for 
 the purchase of machinery to pump out the 
 water which had filled the shafts. He was first 
 struck by these mines on account of their sim- 
 ilarity to the Eureka mines of Nevada. 
 
 During this time he had been requested by 
 the owners of the Tribune to assist in the work 
 of getting out that paper, and in May, 1880, he 
 became connected with it as its chief editor, and 
 continued in that position for over twenty years. 
 The Salt Lake Tribune then held a position in 
 the world of newspapers of the United States 
 which was peculiar to itself. In the very heart 
 of the Mormon movement, and opposed to ec- 
 clesiastical rule, determined in its efforts to cre- 
 ate in the hearts and minds of all the people here 
 a love for the American country and the Amer- 
 ican institutions, it fought with vigor and de- 
 termination the policy of the Church to ob- 
 struct emigration and to prevent the develop- 
 ment of the mines and other resources of this 
 State. It was ably supported in this work by 
 the continued and generous aid of the people 
 who believed in the right of any American to 
 enter any territory belonging to the United 
 States and to occupy it in accordance with the 
 law, and in a similar manner as they might in 
 any other portion. Throughout the State their 
 following, though small, was devoted and faith- 
 ful and in the adjoining States of Nevada and 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Idaho it held the respect and patronage of the 
 greater part of the citizens. So thoroughly im- 
 bued was Judge Goodwin to create for Utah a 
 standing of the first rank in the United States, 
 that when the Edmunds-Tucker Act was so 
 vigorously enforced in the early eighties he wrote 
 the petition for amnesty for the Mormons, upon 
 the declaration of the President of the Church 
 that hereafter their religion would not tolerate 
 polygamy. The time which has elapsed since 
 then, together with the aptitude of the Ameri- 
 can people to adapt themselves to any and all 
 circumstances, has brought this bitter and un- 
 American feeling to a close, and today the cit- 
 izens of Utah are as deeply interested in the 
 welfare of the United States and of their State, 
 as are the citizens of any other community. This 
 work, stupendous in its nature, tremendous in 
 the results which it has achieved, has been ably 
 directed and conducted throughout Utah by men 
 of the stamp of Judge Goodwin, and among the 
 leaders, who by their fearless attitude have aided 
 so much in this work, he deserves the first place. 
 
 He was married in California to Miss Alice 
 Maynard. By this marriage Judge Goodwin has 
 one son, James Todman Goodwin, who has been 
 associated with his father on the Tribune and is 
 now a member of the Salt Lake Stock and Min- 
 ing Exchange, carrying on the business of 
 broker; and a daughter, Alice Ellen, now six- 
 teen years of age. 
 
 To say that Judge Goodwin has been promi- 
 nent in political life in Utah and Nevada as well, 
 is perhaps unnecessary, for with the political 
 affairs in both of these States he has been so 
 closely identified as to make his life the very 
 warp and woof of the political fabric of Utah. 
 While in Nevada he was a candidate for Con- 
 gress in 1872, but was defeated. In Utah he 
 was a member of the Constitutional Convention 
 which framed the Constitution under which this 
 State was admitted to the Union. 
 
 The career which Judge Goodwin has built 
 up stands without a parallel today. He is easiK 
 the foremost newspaper man who has ever been 
 in the life of the Western country. Depend- 
 ing entirely upon his own efforts, he has by his 
 industry, honesty, straightforwardness and fear- 
 
 lessness created for himself a name that will live 
 through the generations to come and be a source 
 of pride to his posterity, as well as to all the 
 mining men of the State. He has been an in- 
 defatigable worker in his business, and in his 
 career of over fifty years has worked day and 
 night, and for twenty-seven years has hardly had 
 a holiday, working Sundays and holidays, in the 
 effort to keep pace with the gigantic perform- 
 ance which confronted him. Although a strong 
 and ardent advocate of the principles of freedom 
 of intercourse between American States, and one 
 of the most vigorous holders of the right of the 
 American people to settle where they desire, so 
 long as they conform to the laws of the country, 
 and having been in past years opposed to the 
 policy of the Mormon Church, there is now no 
 man, irrespective of religious or political be- 
 lief, who stands as high in the popularity, es- 
 teem and confidence of the people of the State 
 as does Judge Goodwin. 
 
 L'DGE WILLIAM C. HALL. Amons 
 the men whom Utah has called to pre- 
 side over her Courts, to administer jus- 
 tice and interpret the law, none has 
 been more successful in the discharge of 
 his duties than has the subject of this sketch. 
 He is one of the leading jurists of the State, and 
 the position he has won for himself by his fear- 
 less and able administration, secures for him a 
 high place in the legal circles of the West. 
 
 He was born in Pendleton county, Kentucky, 
 in 1842, spending his early life on a farm in 
 Kentucky. He attended Shelby College, and 
 when the Civil War of Secession broke out, he 
 became an adherent of the Southern cause, join- 
 ing the army of Virginia, and serving later with 
 General John Morgan until the latter's capture. 
 He then served with General Joe Wheeler until 
 the close of the war. After the cessation of hos- 
 tilities, he returned to his home and studied law 
 with John W. Stephenson, who was later Gov- 
 ernor, and LInited States Senator from Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Our subject started in the practice of the law 
 in 1868, going to Lexington, Missouri, in that 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 year, and to Salt Lake City in 1872. At that 
 time Utah had not begun to feel that impetus 
 which has resulted from the development of its 
 mineral and other resources, and the hardships 
 incident to the early settlement had not yet been 
 abandoned. He at once began the practice of 
 law, and followed that profession until elected 
 a judge for the Third Judicial District of Utah, 
 taking his seat on the bench on January 2, 1901. 
 He has been prominent in the affairs of the State 
 and in its Territorial days he was Secretary of 
 the Territory during President Cleveland's ad- 
 ministration, and also a member of the Terri- 
 torial legislature. He was City Attorney for 
 Salt Lake City for two terms. 
 
 Judge Hall was married twelve years ago to 
 Miss Marion T. Thornton, a native of Missis- 
 sippi, and by this marriage they have three chil- 
 dren, two sons : William T. and James A., and 
 one daughter, Marion C. Judge Hall's father, 
 Thomas G. Hall, was a farmer and spent his life 
 in Kentucky. He participated in the War of 
 1812, and served in Canada, being in the battle 
 in which Tecumseh was killed. He took an active 
 part in the affairs of the State and served sev- 
 eral terms in the legislature in Kentucky. The 
 Hall family is one of the old families of Vir- 
 ginia and were among the prominent settlers of 
 Kentucky. They were originally natives of Eng- 
 land. Judge Hall is the second son of his father, 
 the family numbering seven children, of which 
 six were sons. Judge Hall's grandmother was 
 Isabelle Graves, a member of the Graves family, 
 residents of Georgetown, Kentucky. The mother 
 of our subject, Salina (McCarthy) Hall, was a 
 member of one of the early pioneer families of 
 Kentucky. Her father, Reuben jMcCarlhy, was 
 a surveyor bv profession and served as a Major 
 in the War of 1812. 
 
 In political life Judge Hall has always been a 
 Democrat. 
 
 The Judge is also largely interested in the de- 
 velopment of mining properties in Utah and his 
 investments have proved eminently successful. 
 
 Judge Hall presides over the Chancery De- 
 I'artment, and has ably administered the duties 
 of his office. He was a prominent attorney in 
 LTtah before his election to the bench, and has 
 
 taken an active part in the development of both 
 the City and State. He has witnessed all the 
 great strides that Utah has made towards its 
 present prosperous condition. While a member 
 of the legislature he was Chairman of the Com- 
 mittee to whom was referred the House and 
 Council bills for common schools ; the commit- 
 tee reporting a substitute for both bills which 
 became a law, by means of which the common 
 schools were provided with sufficient funds to 
 erect large and handsome buildings and to enter 
 upon the era of growth and prosperity which ob- 
 tains in the State. His impartiality has won 
 for him a reputation of being a just Judge and 
 his genial and considerate manner has made for 
 liim a legion of friends throughout the State. 
 
 RESIDING BISHOP WILLIAM 
 r.OWKER PRESTOX. Among the 
 ninre important offices in the Church 
 'if Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 
 is the office of Presiding Bishop. This 
 office calls for an e.xercise of administrative and 
 executive ability of a rare order, and its respon- 
 sibilities are of such a nature that an able man 
 is required to properly fulfill the duties. These 
 conditions have all been met in the person of tlie 
 present Presiding Bishop, the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 William Bowker Preston, the son of Christ- 
 opher and Martha ^litchell (Claytor) Preston, 
 was born in Franklin county, Virginia, Novem- 
 ber 24th. 1830. His early days were spent on 
 his father's plantation, doing the work incident 
 to that industry, and from six to eighteen years 
 of age he attended school in the winter months, 
 working on the plantation in the summer. He 
 continued at this work until he reached the age 
 of nineteen, when he went to Stewartsville. Bed- 
 ford count}-, \'irginia, where he secured a jiosi- 
 tion as salesman and bookkeeper, and later occu- 
 pied a similar position in a mercantile establish- 
 ment at Lynchburg, Virginia. 
 
 The marvelous discoveries of gold in Cali- 
 fornia and the tales poured into the ears of the 
 eastern people of the richness of the country and 
 the ease with which wealth was acquired, fired 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 him with an ambition to visit that country, and 
 in 1852, having gained the consent of his pa- 
 rents, he took the steamer at New York for 
 Aspinwall, and crossing the Isthmus of Darien, 
 arrived at San Francisco. Instead of turning 
 his attention to gold mining, then the universal 
 rule of action with all new-comers, he turned 
 his attention to farming and stock raising, set- 
 tling in Yolo county, thirty miles west of Sacra- 
 mento. 
 
 His parents had been devoted members of the 
 Methodist Church, and in his childhood their 
 son attended regularly the meetings and Sunday 
 School. Upon his arrival in California he be- 
 came acquainted with Hezekiah Thatcher and 
 his family, who had moved from Utah to Cali- 
 fornia. Convinced by the teachings of the 
 Church to which Mr. Thatcher belonged, he 
 was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints by Elder Henry G. 
 Boyle, in 1857. Shortly after. Elder George Q. 
 Cannon, then President of the California Mis- 
 sion, ordained him an Elder. Soon after his 
 ordination he was sent on a mission to labor in 
 the northern part of the State, in which work 
 he was engaged when the Elders were called to 
 return to Utah in the fall of 1857. Elder Pres- 
 ton, who came with other members of the 
 Church, started overland from California by the 
 southern route via Los Angeles and San Ber- 
 nardino, arriving in Salt Lake in January, 1858. 
 
 Shortly after his arrival in Salt Lake City he 
 was married to Miss Harriett Ann Thatcher, 
 daughter of Hezekiah and Allie (Kitchen) 
 Thatcher, the ceremony being performed on 
 February 24th, 1858. After a short stay in Salt 
 Lake City, he and his wife went to the south- 
 ern part of the State, settling for a short time 
 at Payson, but being unable to obtain sufficient 
 land in that vicinity for his purposes, he re- 
 solved to seek other fields. In the fall of 1859 
 the Thatcher and the Preston families moved 
 into Cache valley and assisted in locating and 
 building the town of Logan. Here he selected 
 a site on the north side of Logan river, over- 
 looking the valley, and at once set to work tak- 
 ing up government land and building the neces- 
 sary houses. In November, 1859, Apostles Or- 
 
 son Hyde and Ezra T. Benson came into Cache 
 valley for the purpose of organizing Wards and 
 Elder Preston was chosen Bishop of Logan, be- 
 ing ordained by Orson Hyde, Ezra T. Benson 
 and Peter Maughan. Throughout the ensuing 
 five years our subject's time and attention was 
 given to the building up of the City of Logan, 
 laying out farms for the settlers, building the 
 Logan and Hyde Park canal, and protecting the 
 settlers from the depredations of the Indians. 
 He was called in 1863 and 1864 to make two 
 trips to the Missouri river and conduct to Utah 
 the emigrants gathered there. He was Captain 
 of both companies, each consisting of fifty rx 
 teams. He successfully performed these tasks, 
 and upon his return to Utah was elected to serve 
 as a member of the Territorial legislature. 
 
 In April, 1865, Bishop Preston was called to 
 go on a mission to Europe and take charge of a 
 company of missionaries as far as New York. 
 Upon his arrival there he visited his father and 
 mother in Virginia, whom he had not seen for 
 thirteen years, and then proceeded on his way to 
 Europe. Here most of his missionary labor was 
 confined to the business management of the Brit^ 
 ish Mission, under the Presidency of Elders 
 Brigham Young. Junior, and Franklin D. Rich- 
 ards. After an absence of thee years and eight 
 months on this mission, he returned home. 
 
 In addition to his work in the Church, 
 Bishop Preston has taken an active part in the 
 civil affairs of Utah, and in addition to the 
 terms which he served in the Legislature, al- 
 ready mentioned, served in that body from 
 1872 to 1882, covering five terms. His work 
 in the development of Logan and in bringing 
 it to its then satisfactory condition, was re- 
 alized by the citizens, who, in 1870, elected 
 him Mayor, and in this office he served for 
 twelve years ; nor did this end his connection 
 with public affairs, for when the convention to 
 adopt a Constitution for the State was called in 
 1895, he was elected a member of it. 
 
 Although he had started in the West as a 
 farmer and stock raiser, he showed his ability 
 to do well whatever he undertook, and in 1872 
 he engaged in railroad building, assisting John 
 W. Young in building that portion of the Union 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 71 
 
 Pacific which runs through Echo Canyon. Early 
 in the same year he was actively engaged in 
 constructing the Utah Northern Railroad, which 
 two years later was completed as far as Frank- 
 lin, Idaho. He was Vice-President and Gen- 
 eral Superintendent of that company until it 
 passed into the control of the Union Pacific Rail- 
 way. 
 
 Bishop Preston was appointed as Counsellor 
 in President Moses Thatcher, of the Cache Stake, 
 in 1877, and this position he occupied until the 
 latter was called to fill a vacancy in the Quorum 
 of the Twelve Apostles. Bishop Preston was 
 then called to be President of the Cache Stake, 
 and in this position he continued until April 6th, 
 1884, when at a General Conference of the 
 Church, held at Salt Lake City, he was chosen 
 Presiding Bishop of the Church, which position 
 he has since filled. 
 
 Bishop Preston has also found time, notwith- 
 standing his duties in the Church, to take an 
 active interest in the education and material de- 
 velopment of Utah. For many years he has 
 been Chairman of the Executive Committee and 
 one of the directors of the Brigham Young Col- 
 lege at Logan, in which institution he is greatly 
 interested. He has also been Vice-President of 
 the State Bank of Utah since its organization ; 
 President of the Provo Woolen ]\Iills Company ; 
 President of the Nevada Land and Live Stock 
 Company; Vice-President of the Rexburg JMill- 
 ing Companies, and President of the Central 
 Mill and Elevator Company of Logan. His life 
 since coming to this city has been an active one, 
 his time and attention being given not only to 
 the work of the Church, but to all movements 
 having for their object the betterment of the re- 
 ligious, civil, financial and political standing of 
 the members of the Church and of the people 
 of the State. 
 
 His career marks him as one of the leaders 
 of Utah, and one who by his life of industry 
 and application has made himself a name that 
 occupies a high position in the history of the de- 
 velopment of the Church and in the prosperity of 
 Utah. His wide travels throughout the West, 
 and his responsible duties, have given him a 
 great fund of knowledge of the needs of the 
 
 country, and his sincere manner and warm heart 
 have endeared him to the people with whom he 
 has come in contact. 
 
 ILLIAM HUNTINGTON TIB- 
 BALS. Whoever labors for the 
 advancement of his community, as- 
 sisting in the development of its 
 financial, commercial, agricultural 
 or educational interests, promotes the welfare of 
 his fellow-citizens and aids in the progress of 
 the place, and is entitled to rank among its pub- 
 lic spirited, progressive citizens. Such names 
 and such men add to the importance of the com- 
 munity in which they reside and add to its pros- 
 perity. Their intelligence is a power for good 
 in local affairs, and their keen intellectual facul- 
 ties promote not only their own individual suc- 
 cess, but that of their fellow-citizens as well. 
 It is a well-known fact that one of the great- 
 est industries of this whole inter-mountain region 
 is its mineral wealth, which until a few years 
 ago was scarcely known and wholly undeveloped. 
 This great industry during the past decade has 
 done more to increase the commercial wealth of 
 Utah and bring the State prominently before 
 the great financiers of the outside world, and thus 
 secure the assistance of moneyed men of the 
 country in the developing of the vast mineral 
 wealth of the State, than has any other one thing 
 within the confines of Utah. 
 
 Among the men of Salt Lake City who have 
 taken a prominent and active part in the de- 
 velopment 01 its mines, and who has been alive 
 to every issue and enterprise for the building up 
 and advancement of the State, William H. Tib- 
 bals, the subject of this sketch, is deserving of 
 special mention, and any State may well be proud 
 in securing such men as citizens. 
 
 Mr. Tibbals was born in Union, New Jersey, 
 December 22, 1848. His father was Elisha Tib- 
 bals, a Baptist clergyman of Milford, Connecti- 
 cut, of which place Mr. Thomas Tibbals and his 
 wife were pioneers. A memorial stone in the 
 pioneer bridge at Milford commemorates Thomas 
 Tibbals. In 1854, Elisha Tibbals and family 
 moved to Lagrange, Ohio. He was pastor of 
 the Baptist church at this place and at Penfield 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 for several years. In i860 he moved to a farm in 
 North Royalton, where the subject of this sketch 
 spent his youth, and where he lived until 1875, 
 with the exception of one year spent in New York 
 City. He received his education in the public 
 schools and in Oberlin College, where he took 
 the classical course and graduated in 1875, hav- 
 ing had to work his way through the entire 
 course. He engaged in teaching and was Super- 
 intendent of the public schools of Escanaba, 
 Michigan, for four years. He was also Super- 
 intendent of the schools of Peshtigo, Wiscon- 
 sin, and for two years Associate Principal of the 
 Ohio Central Normal School, and Superintend- 
 ent of the public schools at Worthington, Ohio. 
 He was for one year Principal of the Seminary 
 at Poland, Ohio, where President McKinley was 
 at one time a student. He was also Professor 
 of Philosophy and Literature in Park College, at 
 Parkville, Missouri, for six years, and in 1889 
 received the degree of Ph. D. from Gale College, 
 Wisconsin, for special work in psychology. He 
 came to Salt Lake City in 1892 and was for sev- 
 eral years on the faculty of Salt Lake college, 
 which was under the care of the Congregational 
 Educational Society. In 1897 he left the profes- 
 sion of teaching to engage in mining, in which he 
 has been successful, and has extensive interests 
 in the Tintic district and in Beaver county, this 
 State; also in Idaho and Oregon. 
 
 On July 24, 1877, he was married to Miss 
 Helen M. Guild, of Dover, Ohio. Three chil- 
 dren were born of this marriage : Arthur Burn- 
 ell, Mildred M., and William Howard. The eld- 
 est died at the age of seven years. They have 
 a pleasant home on the corner of Third and "O" 
 streets. 
 
 Politically he is a staunch Republican. 
 
 Mr. Tibbals has done a considerable amount 
 of writing since his graduation, having been cor- 
 respondent for a number of daily and weekly 
 papers, as well as writing articles for literary 
 magazines and educational papers. He was at 
 one time literary editor of the Commoinvealth 
 Magazine. Mr. Tibbals has also written and 
 published a number of poems, and was one of 
 the founders and a leading officer of the West- 
 ern Authors and Artists Club of Kansas Citv. 
 
 I\IOS MILTON MUSSER. The 
 early history of the State of Utah and 
 that of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints must be for all 
 time inseparably linked together. 
 When the early pioneers gave up home, fortune 
 and friends and came to this then wild and un- 
 developed country and here founded homes, it 
 was that they might live undisturbed in the prac- 
 tice of the religion which they had adopted, the 
 teachings of which they believed to be true ; and 
 as the years passed and out of the wilderness 
 sprang up the State which today ranks as one 
 of the leading ones of the Union, the under- 
 lying principle with this people remained the 
 same — to make it the bone and sinew of the 
 Mormon religion ; the fountain head, from which 
 should flow out branches into all the world, un- 
 til it should become the dominant religion of 
 this age. To this end many noble lives were 
 laid upon the altar of Church and State, and 
 many of the brightest minds of the Nineteenth 
 Century directed the affairs of the Church and 
 assisted in the development and growth of the 
 State. Among these men there were none more 
 able or better fitted for the peculiar work he 
 performed in the upbuilding of these two great 
 institutions than was Amos Milton Musser, the 
 subject of this sketch, whose name will go down 
 to history as one of the staunchest defenders 
 the Mormon religion has ever had. 
 
 Mr. Musser was born in Donegal township, 
 Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, May 20. 1830, 
 and is the son of Samuel and Ann (Barr) Mus- 
 ser. His father died when he was about two 
 years of age, leaving his widow with a family 
 of four children to support. A few years later 
 Mrs. Musser married Abraham Bitner and the 
 family moved to Illinois, settling near Quincy. 
 However, Mr. Bitner's health failed and they re- 
 turned to Pennsylvania, where he died. During 
 her second widowhood Mrs. Bitner heard the 
 doctrines of Mormonism preached by Elders in 
 her neighborhood and became a convert to their 
 teachings. In 1846 she moved to Nauvoo with 
 her children, arriving there only to find the Mor- 
 mons had been driven out of the State, the few 
 who remained being too poor to procure the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 73 
 
 means to take them out of the city. Mrs. Bit- 
 ner and her children were driven with these peo- 
 ple across the Mississippi river into Iowa by the 
 mob, and our subject, who was then sixteen years 
 of age, took part in the trouble, being within a 
 few feet of Captain William Anderson and his 
 son Augustus when they were killed by the mob. 
 Our subject being the oldest living son, it fell 
 to him to assist in the support of the familv, and 
 his education was necessarily somewhat ne- 
 glected ; however, he improved every opportun- 
 ity to acquire knowledge, and having a bright 
 mind and a very retentive memory, was able to 
 obtain a fairly good education. Upon reaching 
 Iowa, where young Musser obtained employ- 
 ment in a store as a clerk, remaining there un- 
 til 185 1, in the spring of which year he started 
 for Utah. He had been a nominal member of 
 the Mormon Church for some years, but had 
 never been baptized. This ceremony was per- 
 formed at Kanesville, Iowa, on May 24, 185 1, 
 by Elder James Allred and confirmed by Apostle 
 Orson Hyde. He arrived in Salt Lake City that 
 fall and soon after reaching here accepted a posi- 
 tion as scribe in the General Tithing Office, 
 which was obtained through the kindness of Pres- 
 ident Brigham Young. The following year he 
 was called to go upon a mission to Hindoostan, 
 being blessed and set apart for the work by 
 Joseph Young, Lorenzo Snow and Wilford 
 Woodruff, on October 16, 1852. He arrived in 
 Calcutta in the following spring and labored 
 there about eight months, when in company with 
 Elder Truman Leonard he joined Elder Hugh 
 Findlay in Bombay, and was sent from there 
 to Kurrachee, Scinde, where he remained until 
 summoned home by President Young. He sailed 
 from India early in 1856, but reached London 
 too late to accompany the season's immigration 
 to Utah, and remained in England until the 
 spring of 1857, laboring principally in Wales. 
 He reached home that fall, after an absence of 
 five years, and having circumscribed the globe. 
 This long mission was performed literally "with- 
 out purse or scrip," this being the manner in 
 which Mormon Elders were directed to travel. 
 Elder Musser never had occasion to ask for aid 
 in any manner, food, clothing, lodging and means 
 
 of transportation being freely offered as occa- 
 sion required. 
 
 Upon his return home he again entered the 
 Tithing Office, remaining there a year, when he 
 was given an appointment by the First Presi- 
 dency as Traveling Bishop of the Church, which 
 position he held without intermission from 1858 
 to 1876, it being his duty to visit the dififerent 
 Stakes and Wards and attend to all matters per- 
 taining to the collecting, forwarding and report- 
 ing of the tithes; having charge of all church 
 moneys and look after the Perpetual Emigration 
 Fund, as well as attend to all other Church busi- 
 ness under the direction of the First Presidency 
 and the Presiding Bishopric. He had over three 
 hundred Wards under his charge, in this and 
 neighboring States. 
 
 In April, 1873, he was appointed assistant trus- 
 tee-in-trust to President George A. Smith, Trus- 
 tee-in-trust for the Church, filling this position 
 for three years, when he was again assigned to 
 missionary work, this time to the Eastern States, 
 laboring principally in Pennsylvania, where he 
 re-visited the scenes of his boyhood and preached 
 as opportunity offered. During this time he pub- 
 lished a number of pamphlets bearing upon the 
 belief and practices of the Church, which called 
 out the hearty approval of the heads of the 
 Church, and Mr. Musser received a personal let- 
 ter from Apostle Orson Hyde commending his 
 work. Upon again returning to Utah he was 
 for a time employed in the President's office 
 and was later given an appointment in the His- 
 torian's office, with a special commission from 
 the First Presidency to keep a record of all the 
 persecutive acts, and the names of the perpetrat- 
 ors of those acts against the Church. That he 
 faithfully performed this duty, the well-kept rec- 
 ords of his office testify. He has also written 
 much for the public press and is the author of 
 several valuable works, many of which were is- 
 sued in pamphlet form. One of his publica- 
 tions, "Fruits of Mormonism," has a wide cir- 
 culation and has been an invaluable aid to many 
 of the missionaries. 
 
 Mr. Musser's life has been devoted largely also 
 to the upbuilding and advancement of the in- 
 terests of the State, and when not engaged in 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the work of the Church he has given his atten- 
 tion as well as his means to the furthering of 
 many projects tending to the development of the 
 resources of this country. In 1866 the Deseret 
 Telegraph line was opened between Salt Lake 
 City and Ogden and the following year the Des- 
 eret Telegraph Company was incorporated, our 
 subject being one of the promoters and incor- 
 porators, and was placed in charge as general 
 superintendent. He held this position for over 
 nine years, being at the same time one of the 
 directors, and under his management the busi- 
 ness grew to large proportions, having a num- 
 ber of branches, and the gross receipts grew from 
 a little over eight thousand dollars in 1868 to 
 over seventy-five thousand dollars in 1873. A 
 few years after retiring from the management 
 of this company Bishop Musser introduced the 
 telephone into Salt Lake City, and also the phon- 
 ograph. Among the other institutions with 
 which he has been connected may be mentioned 
 the Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company 
 and the State Bank of Utah, in both of which 
 he was one of the incorporators ; The Great 
 Western Iron Company, the Utah Eastern, Salt 
 Lake and Fort Douglas; and the Juab, Sanpete 
 and Sevier Valley Railroads ; a director, secre- 
 tary, treasurer and general traveling agent of the 
 Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Soci- 
 ety ; director, secretary and treasurer of the L^ tab 
 Silk Association, and President of the Utah Bean 
 Association. He also held for many years prior 
 to Statehood the office of Fish and Game Com- 
 missioner, and did much towards supplying the 
 streams with choice fish. In fact, there were few- 
 enterprises for the public good in the earlier 
 days of the history of this State with which he 
 was not actively connected, and he has ever been 
 one of the most public spirited and broad-minded 
 of men. 
 
 Mr. Musser has been and is still a staunch 
 believer in the doctrine of plural marriages and 
 had four wives sealed to him, in the following 
 order: Ann Leaver, by President Erigham 
 Young, January 9, 1858; Mary Elizabeth White, 
 by President Heber C. Kimball, October i, 1864; 
 Belinda Pratt, by President Brigham Young, Sep- 
 tember 4, 1872, and Annie Seegmiller, bv Presi- 
 
 dent Daniel H. Wells, January 30, 1874. He 
 has been the father of twenty sons and fifteen 
 daughters. 
 
 After the passage by Congress of the anti- 
 polygamy law of 1862 Elder Musser volunteered 
 as a subject to test the constitutionality of the 
 law, but the case of Elder George Reynolds was 
 chosen instead. At the outbreak of the anti- 
 polygamy crusade under the Edmunds-Tucker 
 act Elder Musser was among those arrested for 
 violation of that law, his case coming to trial 
 on April 30, 1885. He was found guilty and 
 sentenced to a fine of three hundred dollars and 
 imprisonment for six months. He submitted a 
 letter of protest to Judge Zane, defending his 
 action, which letter, together with the substance 
 of the reply made by Judge Zane have been pre- 
 served in the Church records, and contribute 
 much valuable information regarding the grounds 
 upon which these fines and imprisonments were 
 made. 
 
 Mr. Musser's time for the past few years has 
 been largely devoted to the work of the His- 
 torian's Office, in which he has spent a great 
 part of his life. He is one of the best known 
 men of Utah, and a typical Westerner, self- 
 educated and self-made ; energetic, wide awake 
 and alive to the needs of the Church and State. 
 He is a man of broad intellect, keen sympathies, 
 hospitable, and there is no man in the State 
 who is better known or more beloved by the 
 people at large than Amos Milton Musser. 
 
 PWARD H. ANDERSON. One of the 
 most important State offices in the gift 
 of the President of the United States 
 is that of Surveyor General. When 
 Judge Jacob B. Blair, who so ably filled 
 the office, died in February, 1901, speculation 
 was rife as to who would be appointed his suc- 
 cessor. The plum fell to Mr. Edward H. Ander- 
 son, the present incumbent of the office. The 
 appointment was made by President McKinley 
 on February 13. The State Legislature was in 
 session at the time, and Mr. Anderson was sitting 
 in the lower house as a member from Weber 
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 sine die of the Legislature, when he entered upon 
 his new duties as Surveyor General of the State 
 of Utah. 
 
 Edward H'. Anderson was born in Sweden in 
 1858. When he was but six years of age his 
 parents emigrated to the United States. They 
 came direct to Utah and later settled on a farm 
 in Weber county, where they still live at Hunts- 
 ville, and where the father, Nels Anderson, is an 
 elder of the Mormon Church. Nels Anderson's 
 wife was Nellie Pehrson, who died December 17, 
 1901, and Surveyor-General Anderson is their 
 adopted child. His boyhood was spent on his 
 father's farm. He obtained his schooling in the 
 district schools, and at the age of eighteen entered 
 the Normal Department of the University of 
 Utah, from which he graduated in 1877. Thus 
 at the age of twenty he became a school teacher 
 in Weber county. Three years later he became 
 a newspaper man and later was manager and 
 editor of theOgden Herald and Standard. For 
 ten years he assumed the responsibilities of this 
 position. Then for nine years he was Superin- 
 tendent of Schools for Weber county. During 
 the years 1889 and 1890 Mr. Anderson was editor 
 of The Contributor, organ of the Young Men's 
 Mutual Improvement Associations. 
 
 For the next two years Mr. Anderson was on 
 a mission for the Mormon Church, presiding over 
 the missions in Denmark. During this time he 
 acted as emigration agent and published the 
 Scandinavian Star in two languages — Swedish 
 and Danish. He sent over to America in this 
 time about a thousand converts to the Mormon 
 faith. After his return to Ogden he wrote two 
 works : "The Life of Brigham Young," and "A 
 Brief History of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latterday ' Saints," which were published by 
 George Q. Cannon & Sons. 
 
 At the city election of November, 1893, Mr. 
 Anderson was elected Recorder of Ogden City 
 on the Republican ticket, an office to which he 
 was twice re-elected. In 1899 he declined re- 
 nomination to become the editor of the Improve- 
 ment Era, organ of the Young Men's Mutual 
 Improvement Associations. 
 
 In the following November he was elected on 
 the Republican ticket as a member of the House 
 
 of Representatives of the State Legislature from 
 Weber county, and served in the House during 
 the session of 1901. Then came his elevation to 
 the office of Surveyor General, which position 
 Mr. Anderson has filled from the start with 
 credit to himself and his State. 
 
 Edward H. Anderson was married in Ogden 
 in 1882 to Miss Jane S. Ballantyne, a daughter 
 of Richard Ballantyne, the founder of the Sun- 
 day school in the State. She is a woman of 
 strong character and excellent ability. Mr. Bal- 
 lantyne was a pioneer of 1848, and died in 1898 
 after a life of prominence in the Mormon Church. 
 He was a native of Scotland and had become a 
 Mormon in the land of his birth. He was both 
 a farmer and a man of business. He was a mer- 
 chant and for a time was manager of the leading 
 paper at Ogden. He married Miss Mary Pearce, 
 a native of England, who came here in the early 
 territorial days and is still living. Mr. Ballan- 
 tyne was a High Counselor and a Bishop of Eden 
 Ward in Ogden Valley. 
 
 Mr. Anderson has seven children, six sons and 
 one daughter — Edward H., David B., Hugo E., 
 Virgil B., Howard B., Leland B. and Jane. He 
 has himself held high ecclesiastical positions and 
 has been a member of the High Council, Stake 
 Clerk and President of the Young Men's Mutual 
 Improvement Associations of which organization 
 he is now a member of the general board. His 
 personality is pleasing. He is genial and kind. 
 He has always been an active business man, and 
 has participated in all the political campaigns of 
 the State since he was old enough to take any 
 interest in politics. Since his appointment to the 
 office of Surveyor General he has moved his fam- 
 ily from Ogden to Salt Lake City, where they 
 now make their home. 
 
 OX. CHARLES W. PENROSE. In 
 reviewing the history of any State or 
 community, there are always a few 
 names which stand out in bold relief 
 on account of their owners possessing 
 superior ability along the line of business or in 
 a professional or literary way. Such names and 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 such men increase the importance of a city or 
 State, and add to its prosperity. Their intelli- 
 gence is a power for good in local affairs, and 
 their keen intellectual faculties promote not only 
 their individual success, but that of their fellow- 
 citizens as well. Among the men of Salt Lake 
 City, and one who has become eminent as a 
 writer, orator and business man, and whose views 
 and opinions wield a powerful influence in the 
 legislative halls and through that powerful ad- 
 junct of human thought and human action — the 
 daily paper — is Charles W. Penrose, who stands 
 without a peer in this whole inter-mountain re- 
 gion. The best efforts of his life have been given 
 to the upbuilding of Utah, and in fact this whole 
 Rocky Mountain country. So closely has his 
 life and efforts been linked with the history and 
 development of L'tah that it has become a part 
 and parcel of the State. 
 
 Mr. Penrose has been at the head of that great 
 paper, the Deseret Neivs, for many years as Edi- 
 tor-in-Chief, and under his splendid management 
 the paper has grown to be one of the most pow- 
 erful daily papers of this whole region. There 
 is no man in Utah who is more thoroughly ac- 
 quainted by actual experience with all the hard- 
 ships and difficulties incident to crossing the great 
 American desert by ox teams and settling in a 
 new and undeveloped country, than is Mr. Pen- 
 rose. He is a native of England, and was born 
 in London, February 4, 1832. His boyhood days 
 and early life were spent in his native city, where 
 his scholastic education was received. His father 
 was Richard Penrose, and his mother bore the 
 maiden name of Matilda Sims. They were both 
 natives of England. The senior Mr. Penrose 
 died when our subject was a small boy, which 
 necessitated his making his own way in the 
 world. At the age of eighteen he became im- 
 pressed with the doctrines and principles of the 
 Mormon Church, and cast his lot with the for- 
 tunes of that faith, and from that day to this lie 
 has ever been a faithful worker and brilliant ex- 
 pounder of the doctrines and principles which it 
 advocates. He must have possessed superior 
 ability as a speaker and teacher, even at that age, 
 for soon after he had united with the Church he 
 was called and set apart by the heads of the 
 
 Church to serve as its missionary in his native 
 land, and ten years of his early life were spent 
 in that direction and in the interests of the Church 
 in England. s 
 
 In 1861 he came to America, crossing the At- 
 lantic Ocean in an old sailing vessel, and the 
 great American desert by ox team to Utah. He 
 first took up his residence in Farmington, Davis 
 county, and later settled in Logan, in the Cache 
 \^alley, where for a time he engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business. In the early part of 1865 he 
 was again called to serve on a mission in Great 
 Britain, laboring three and a half years, during 
 which time he had charge of several different 
 Conferences. Besides his many other duties, he 
 wrote a great deal for the Millennial Star, the 
 Church organ in England. He also took an act- 
 ive part in assisting in the emigration of the 
 Church people to this country. 
 
 On his return to Utah, he again entered the 
 mercantile business in Logan, in which he con- 
 tinued until he took charge of the Ogden Junction, 
 a daily paper, which he assisted in establishing, 
 and which he successfully conducted for seven 
 years. During his residence in Ogden, he served 
 in the City Council for seven years, and was also 
 High Counselor of the Stake of Zion in that 
 county. He also served one term in the Terri- 
 torial Legislature, from Weber county. In the 
 fall of 1877 he located in Salt Lake City, and en- 
 tered the editorial department of the Deseret 
 News, and served in that department for a num- 
 ber of years. 
 
 In 1884 he was again called to serve on a mis- 
 sion to the British Isles, traveling in the interests 
 of his Church in Scandinavia, Germany, France 
 and many other of the European countries, at the 
 same time doing a great deal of writing for the 
 Deseret News. On his return home he was per- 
 suaded to go to Washington, D. C, in 1887-S8. 
 in the interests of Statehood. He spent two 
 winters in the National Capital, using his best 
 efforts and influence to secure Statehood for 
 L'tah, and while his work and influence did not 
 result at that time in securing the admission of 
 Utah as a State, yet it did later on, when in 1896 
 the State was admitted. From 1892 to 1894 he 
 had editorial charge of the Salt Lake Herald, and 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 77 
 
 through his able and efficient management the 
 paper was put on a solid footing. 
 
 After severing his connection with the Her- 
 ald, he was appointed assistant Church His- 
 torian, which position he ably filled up to 
 January, 1899, when he took hold of the 
 Dcscret News as Editor-in-Chief. Under his 
 able management the Neivs is, year by year, 
 increasing in circulation, until today it has 
 no peer in this whole inter-mountain region. 
 It has been under the present management that 
 the new Dcserct Nezvs building has been con- 
 structed. The structure is a splendid six-story 
 building, located on the southwest corner of Alain 
 and South Temple streets. It is built of red sand- 
 stone, a product of Utah, and is conceded by 
 all the handsomest, most substantial and finest 
 business block in the city or State, being thor- 
 oughly fireproof. 
 
 Mr. Penrose has been thrice married, and bv 
 two of his wives is the father of twenty-eight 
 children, and at the present date is grandfather 
 of thirty-seven and greatgrandfather of one. 
 
 In political aflfairs, Mr. Penrose has been a 
 staunch Democrat ever since that party was or- 
 ganized in this State. In 1882-84 he was elected 
 a member of the Legislature from Salt Lake 
 county. However, on account of the position he 
 fills with the Descret Nez^'s. he takes no active part 
 in politics, as the News has always been a strong 
 Independent paper. Before the two national par- 
 ties were organized in this State, Mr. Penrose 
 took an active and prominent part in the original 
 People's Party, having served as a member of the 
 Territorial Constitutional Committee from 1872 
 to 1882, and in fact has been alive to every issue, 
 political, business or ecclesiastical, which has 
 been for the building up of the great State of 
 Utah. He has passed through all the different 
 branches of Priesthood in the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is at the present 
 time, and has been for vears past, one of the 
 Presidents of The Salt Lake Stake of Zion, be- 
 ing First Counselor to President Angus M. Can- 
 non. 
 
 Air. Penrose has indeed led an active life from 
 the time he was a boy up to the present time. 
 His life has been an aggressive one; scarcely a 
 
 moment has been spent in idleness. He has trav- 
 eled in every part of the State in the interests of 
 the Church — and the same may be said of his 
 active political career. 
 
 By his long and most honorable service in this 
 State he has won and retained the respect and 
 confidence of all classes and creeds, among the 
 people of this whole country, and whether in pri- 
 vate, public or business life, he is ever a most 
 courteous and pleasant gentleman. 
 
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 UX. DE GRAY DIXON. Among the 
 many brilliant examples of what untir- 
 ing energy, undaunted pluck, industry 
 and ability have achieved in Utah, the 
 career of the present State Treasurer 
 lim to a place in the front ranks. Begin- 
 ning his life work at the age of thirteen, employed 
 on the brickwork of the walls of the State In- 
 sane Asylum at Prove, he is now, by virtue of 
 his office as State Treasurer, one of the Board of 
 Directors of that institution. 
 
 John De Grey Di.xon is the son of Henry Al- 
 dous Dixon and Sarah (De Grey) Dixon, tie 
 was born in Salt Lake Citj-, July 16, 1867, and 
 when three years of age his parents removed to 
 Provo, with which town he has ever since been 
 identified, both in business and in politics. 
 
 His father, Henry Aldous Dixon, was born 
 in Grahamstown, South Africa, of English par- 
 ents, and came to L^tah in 1856, being one of the 
 early settlers of this State. Upon his arrival he 
 secured employment as bookkeeper in different 
 institutions in Salt Lake City, and later as secre- 
 tary of the Provo Woolen Mills, being the first 
 secretary of that establishment, and in this em- 
 ployment he remained for several years. He also 
 served a number of other firms in a similar ca- 
 pacity, and was connected with the Zion Co- 
 operative Mercantile Institution and with the H. 
 Dinwoodey Furniture Company in Salt Lake 
 City. 
 
 While in South .\frica, Mr. Dixon became a 
 member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- 
 day Saints, and upon his arrival in L'tah at once 
 took an active part in the affairs of the Church, 
 and in the development of the new Territory. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 After a residence here of about three years, the 
 Church called him to go as a missionary to South 
 Africa and England, and in that service he spent 
 four years in those countries. Upon his return 
 to Utah, he again took up his work in the Church. 
 At the time of his death, which occurred about 
 eighteen years since, he was in charge of the 
 Provo branch of the Zion Co-operative Mercan- 
 tile Institution. 
 
 Sarah De Grey Dixon, wife of Henry Aldous 
 Dixon, and mother of John De Grey Dixon, was 
 born in Dudley, England. Upon the death of 
 her father, she accompanied her mother and sis- 
 ters to America, crossing the plains in the same 
 wagon train in which her future husband traveled. 
 A few years later she married Henry Aldous 
 Dixon, and at the time of this writing still lives 
 in Provo, Utah county. 
 
 When the subject of this sketch. John De Grey 
 Dixon, was three years old, his parents removed 
 to Provo from Salt Lake City, and in the former 
 city he spent his boyhood days. He was a short 
 time an attendant of the public schools, and en- 
 tered the Academy at its commencement and re- 
 mained with it until entering the normal de- 
 partment of the Brigham Young Academy at 
 Provo ; but, owing to the departure of his father 
 to England on a second mission for the Church, 
 was forced to end his studies and earn his own 
 livelihood. From this inauspicious beginning, 
 by his own merit and through the exercise of un- 
 stinted hard work, application and industry, he 
 has erected a career that stands high in the his- 
 tory of Utah. 
 
 His first work was in the bricklaying trade, 
 which he followed for a period of four years, 
 during which time he was employed in erecting 
 the walls of the State Insane Asylum at Provo ; 
 the Tabernacle, bank, theater and other promi- 
 nent buildings. This, however, did not monopo- 
 lize his entire attention, for, at the same time, 
 he kept the books of his employers, who were en- 
 gaged in various other enterprises, requiring the 
 keeping of six entirely separate sets of books. 
 
 Later he was appointed secretary of the school 
 district, and successfully administered the duties 
 of that position for six years. He was also clerk 
 a short time to A. O. Smoot, who, in addition to 
 
 being President of the Utah County Stake of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was 
 also president of the bank and president of the 
 Provo Woolen Mills. Mr. Dixon, at the instance 
 of Mr. Smoot, became bookkeeper of the Provo 
 Lumber and Building Company, and this latter 
 position he held for four years. While in the 
 service of this firm, he was appointed to serve 
 a portion of a term in the City Council of Provo, 
 and was later elected to serve a complete term, 
 and the ticket on which he was nominated and 
 elected was the last put forward by the old Peo- 
 ple's Party. This was the beginning of his po- 
 litical career, and his popularity in later con- 
 tests was foreshadowed by the fact that he, with 
 but one exception, was the only Republican mem- 
 ber of the Council. His entire service in the 
 City Council of Provo extended over two terms. 
 He was elected by the party in favor of the instal- 
 lation of the waterworks and in improving the 
 conditions of the city. During his tenure of of- 
 fice he was an earnest advocate of these improve- 
 ments, and aided largely in giving Provo its sys- 
 tem of waterworks, which were secured at a cost 
 of $125,000, and, in addition to the improvement 
 of the health and sanitary conditions of the city, 
 are finer and better than those of any city of the 
 same size in the entire country. 
 
 In the spring of 1890, Mr. Dixon resigned from 
 the service of the Provo Lumber and Building 
 Company and entered into a partnership with 
 Taylor Brothers, in the furniture business, stove 
 and cookery business. This new firm was lo- 
 cated at Provo, and was so successful that in the 
 following year it was incorporated under the laws 
 of the Territory and its scope of business greatly 
 enlarged. Air. Dixon was elected secretary and 
 treasurer of the new corporation, and has contin- 
 ued to hold these positions since that time. Until 
 his election as State Treasurer, his entire time and 
 attention were given to the business of this com- 
 pany, in which he was also a director, with the 
 exception of two years — 1896 and 1897 — when 
 the Church called him to take up its missionary 
 work in the Southern States. A portion of this 
 time was spent in the field in Virginia, and the 
 remainder in the Church's head office at Chat- 
 tanooga, Tennessee. Upon his return from this 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 79 
 
 successful mission, Mr. Dixon resumed his po- 
 sition as secretary and treasurer of the company 
 which he had left at the call of the Church, and 
 continued to devote his time to its needs until 
 nominated on the Republican ticket and elected 
 State Treasurer in the fall of 1900. His popu- 
 larity and strength had increased with his years, 
 so that in this contest his majority was 2,000. 
 He carried his own county by a majority of 820 
 votes, the average majority being about three 
 h'.mdred. In addition to this service and the 
 terms in the City Council of Provo, Mr. Dixon 
 was nominated and elected City Recorder of 
 Provo, and served one term, covering the years 
 1894 to 1896. Two years later he was nominated 
 on the Republican ticket for County Clerk, and 
 after a vigorous campaign was defeated by the 
 bare margin of eighty-eight votes. The strength 
 he developed in this contest practically led to his 
 nomination and subsequent election as State 
 Treasurer in 1900. 
 
 Throughout his political career, Mr. Dixon has 
 always been a Republican, since the organization 
 of the party in Utah. When that party was first 
 formed in this State, he was one of its most ar- 
 dent supporters, and is numbered among its 
 prominent members, both as a worker and as a 
 counselor. 
 
 In the church of his choice, he has taken an 
 active and prominent part, and is now one of the 
 High Priests. At the time of his election to the 
 office of State Treasurer, he was President of the 
 Utah County Stake, before its separation into 
 the three divisions which now compose it. He 
 has, in addition, always taken a leading and prom- 
 inent position in the work of the Young Men's 
 Mutual Improvement Association, and aided ma- 
 terially in the development of that organization. 
 I'tsides his work in the Church and his duties 
 Z'S State Treasurer, he is a member of the Board 
 of Directors of the State Insane Asylum at Provo 
 and a director of the Utah National Bank in Salt 
 Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Dixon was married in the temple at Manti 
 to Sarah Lewis, daughter of Bishop William J. 
 Lewis, Bishop of the Provo Third Ward, and 
 has five children, four sons — Henry Aldous, John 
 \\'illiam, who died at the age of twenty-one 
 
 months ; Stanley Lewis, Rulon Sterling — and one 
 daughter — Maude. 
 
 The position which Mr. Di.xon has achieved 
 has been the result of constant hard work, un- 
 flinching application and untiring industry. 
 He is a self-made man, and has won his place 
 by his own merit and ability. His genial and 
 pleasant manner has added greatly to his popu- 
 larity, and he is held in high regard by all the 
 citizens of Utah. 
 
 D. WOOD. The settlement of the West 
 and its reclamation from a wilderness 
 has been the theme of many writers, 
 whose tales of adventure, hardships en- 
 dured, difficulties successfully sur- 
 mounted, and wealth acquired from the wonder- 
 ful deposits of valuable minerals or from the suc- 
 cessful management of vast ranches stocked with 
 uncounted herds of cattle, have charmed all minds 
 in the enjoyment of the picturesque fiction 
 founded on fact. This great work of civilization 
 was not conducted like a victorious army return- 
 ing with banners flying and drums beating, but 
 with the plodding, ceaseless work of an army of 
 pioneers working on the same general plan, actu- 
 ated by the same necessity of forcing adverse nat- 
 ural conditions to serve their ends and hewing 
 their way to the setting sun in spite of all ob- 
 stacles ; blazing their path with their life blood 
 and oftentimes marking their final battle with a 
 bleaching pile of bones in the desert wilderness. 
 It was essentially a battle of life in which the 
 fittest survived, and called for an exhibition of 
 courage of the highest type, unshaken faith in 
 their own ability to succeed and endurance of a 
 type that almost passes human understanding. 
 Through all these trials successfully passed J. D. 
 Wood, the subject of this sketch, and by his side, 
 aiding, comforting, rejoicing in his successes and 
 sympathizing in his failures, was his worthy wife, 
 an ideal helpmeet, to whom he freely accords her 
 rightful share of the credit for his successful 
 career. Self-educated, sen-made, learning deeply 
 and well from the daily book of life's experiences 
 and deriving knowledge from any and all sources, 
 no matter how humble, he is now in the foremost 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ranks of the wealthy men of Idaho and Utah, 
 and his fame has spread all over the West as 
 "the sheep king of Idaho." Hand in hand with 
 his accession of wealth and power has gone his 
 interest in the development of the West, and the 
 present prosperous condition of the mining and 
 commercial resources of Utah and of Idaho as 
 well, bears the stamp of his influence and abil- 
 ity. 
 
 He was born in Mercer county, Missouri, in 
 1841, and spent his early life on his father's farm 
 in that State, deriving what education he could 
 from the crude district schools that then existed 
 in Missouri. His father was a farmer, and fol- 
 lowed surveying with considerable success, and 
 his mother was a native of Tennessee. Her father 
 was a lawyer of considerable prominence in that 
 State, and a man of influence in his community. 
 He mysteriously disappeared while crossing the 
 Missouri river with a large sum of money. He 
 had compiled the laws of Arkansas, to be sub- 
 mitted to the Legislature, and after drawing his 
 salary started on horseback from l^ittle Rock for 
 the Missouri river, and was never afterwards 
 heard from. He was then seventy years of age. 
 
 Our subject early started upon his business 
 career, buying and shipping live stock from IMis- 
 souri to Chicago and other centers of Illinois, in 
 which business he remained until his departure 
 for Montana, in 1864. At that time the discov- 
 ery of valuable minerals in the West was en- 
 gaging the minds of the enterprising young men 
 of the country, and, believing in the greater pos- 
 sibilities of the new country, Mr. Wood disposed 
 of his business and started for the new fields. He 
 arrived at Virginia City, August 30, 1864, and 
 at once engaged in placer mining in the Alder 
 Gulch, and in the following spring to Blackfoot, 
 Montana, where he again engaged in min- 
 ing. The latter part of 1865 and the year 1866 
 he spent at Deer Lodge, in that State, famous at 
 that time for its placer mines. Here he again 
 carried on mining operations until his removal to 
 bear Town, Montana, and devoted his time to the 
 prosecution of this industry until his removal to 
 Leesburg, Idaho, in 1866. He remained in the 
 latter place until 1878, being actively connected 
 with all the industries of that State and partici- 
 
 pating in the building up of that town. He next 
 removed to what is now Custer and Fremont 
 counties, where he engaged in placer and quartz 
 mining, and devoted considerable attention to the 
 smelter business. His success paved the way 
 for greater enterprises and enlarged his field of 
 operations, and realizing the opportunities af- 
 forded by the commercial needs of Idaho and 
 Utah, and by the extensive operations in the cat- 
 tle business, he engaged in stock raising in Idaho, 
 and established the Wood Live Stock Company, 
 now the largest live stock company in that 
 State. He later established the Wood Gro- 
 cery and Produce Company in Salt Lake City. 
 This latter establishment has grown to the satis- 
 factory prosperity it now enjoys through the 
 able management of Mr. Wood and his connec- 
 tions, he being president of the company and 
 owning the majority of its stock. Since his en- 
 trance into the commercial life of Utah, he has 
 made Salt Lake City his headquarters, and has 
 in the course of his residence in Utah become 
 largely interested in many mining properties in 
 dii?erent parts of the State. He is also presi- 
 dent of the Inter-Mountain Ice Company, the 
 largest establishment of its kind in the inter- 
 mountain district, and which has grown to be 
 one of the prosperous industries o^^ Salt Lake 
 City. In Idaho his enterprises have been as large 
 as in Utah, and the Wood Live Stock Company 
 of that State is the largest in Idaho, there be- 
 ing over one hundred thousand head of sheep 
 on his ranches. Besides being the principal 
 owner of this company, the Wood Grocer Com- 
 pany and the Inter-Mountain Ice Company of 
 Salt Lake City, he is also largely interested in 
 the principal mine of Utah, the Daily West, be- 
 ing vice-president of the company which oper- 
 ates that valuable property, which now pays sixty 
 thousand dollars a month in dividends to its 
 stockholders. He is also a director and officer 
 in many other smaller mines, and in all his in- 
 vestments has been so successful as to suggest 
 the possession of Midas' magic touch. 
 
 Throughout the days of the early settlement of 
 the West, Mr. Wood was active in the work, and 
 participated in many of the troubles with the 
 Indians and outlaws and renegade whites. Dur- 
 
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 8i 
 
 ing 1877 he was engaged in the mercantile busi- 
 ness, shipping goods into Idaho from the Mis- 
 souri river. On the journey across the great 
 American plains the wagon trains were often at- 
 tacked by the Indians and outlaws ; the team- 
 sters and guards killed, the wagons looted of 
 their contents and the teams stolen. During 
 1875-77 there was an insurrection of Joseph in 
 Idaho, and the Indians captured one of Mr. 
 Wood's wagon trains, murdering the drivers and 
 stealing and burning the entire train and con- 
 tents as it passed Birch creek on its way to Idaho. 
 Mr. Wood, Ex-Senator Shoup and two of his 
 associates secured horses and saddles and fol- 
 lowed the trail of the outlaws for five days. The 
 following year word reached him that a train 
 was about to be attacked by the Indians, and Mr. 
 Wood and five men, after a forced march with- 
 out resting day or night, arrived on the scene 
 the night before the attack. In the morning the 
 Indians opened fire, and in the first battle Shoup's 
 partner, McCaleb, was killed. The rest of the 
 party successfully repulsed the attack, and mak- 
 i;ig breastworks of the contents of the train, suc- 
 cessfully withstood numerous attacks and finally 
 drove the Indians off. These Indians were later 
 captured by Colonel Miles, now Lieutenant-Gen- 
 eral and commanding the Army of the United 
 States. Upon another occasion in these trouble- 
 some days of 1864, Mr. Wood was in charge of 
 the herd from the Missouri river, which trip 
 lasted sixty-four days and nights, and during this 
 time they had several skirmishes with Indians, 
 who captured their mules and horses. Nothing 
 daunted, Mr. Wood alone followed the band for 
 two days and nights, finally taking the horses and 
 mules which they had stolen. The enormous de- 
 mand for provisions and the necessaries of life, 
 then so scarce in the West, made the contents 
 of these wagon trains worth their weight in 
 gold. Flour was readily bartered for one hun- 
 dred and ten dollars a sack, potatoes were held 
 at forty cents a pound and tobacco brought seven 
 and a half dollars a pound, and matches were 
 quoted at one dollar a box. Few men have par- 
 ticipated so actively in the work of civilization 
 now so well accomplished in the West as has 
 Mr. Wood.. and few have more ably carried to 
 
 completion tasks which seemed impossible than 
 has he. Through all these trials he exhibited 
 the same indomitable will, undaunted courage 
 and energy that has brought him such success in 
 his present career. 
 
 Mr. Wood was married at Challis, Idaho, in 
 1S82 to Mrs. Catherine E. Murphy, who had two 
 sons by her former husbands. These two boys 
 were educated by Mr. Wood, and are now suc- 
 cessfully engaged in business enterprises with 
 him, one of them being the manager of the Wood 
 Live Stock Company in Idaho and the other giv- 
 ing his attention to business interests of Mr. 
 Wood in Utah. They are both married and have 
 already demonstrated by their ability that they 
 will achieve success in their callings and be 
 among the leading men of their respective com- 
 munities. 
 
 Mrs. Wood was born in Vienna, Austria, com- 
 ing to the LTnited States at the age of eighteen, 
 and was married to her first husband, Frank 
 Hagenbarth, in Denver, Colorado, in 1864. 
 Throughout 1865 she was a resident of Salt Lake 
 City, but early in 1866 moved to Montana, and 
 in the fall of that year went from there to 
 Idaho. In 1867 her husband died, leaving her to 
 continue her fight in the world and to provide 
 for her two children. Nothing daunted bj'' the 
 tremendous odds, she returned to Salt Lake City, 
 where she successfully conducted a hotel. Here 
 she met her second husband, and they were mar- 
 ried in 1868. Her marked business ability led 
 her to retain her hotel business, and the follow- 
 ing year she moved to Challis, Idaho, where she 
 successfully conducted a similar business, mean- 
 while maintaining her eldest son in school in Salt 
 Lake City. Since her marriage to Mr. Wood 
 she has been an ideal wife, and has taken an act- 
 ive interest in his success and has done her share 
 of the work in his various enterprises. When 
 Mr. Wood first started in the stock-raising busi- 
 ness, Mrs. Wood accompanied the men to the 
 ranch and did the cooking for twenty-five men. 
 Throughout her life, with her husband, she has 
 been a constant aid and support to him, and to 
 her freely he ascribes a large part of the success 
 which has come to him. 
 
 In political life, Mr. Wood followed the tenets 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of the Democratic party until the first administra- 
 tion of President Cleveland, and left the party 
 at that time owing to its adherence to free trade, 
 which almost prostrated the wool business of 
 the Western States. Since that time he has 
 thrown his influence on the Republican side, and 
 has been a staunch adherent of that party. Mr. 
 Wood joined the Masonic lodge in Idaho in 1876, 
 and has attained the ranks of Knights-Templar. 
 He now holds his membership in Salt Lake 
 City. 
 
 Mr. and ]\Irs. Wood hav; one daughter, Cas- 
 sandra, at this time a student in the public 
 schools. 
 
 The present prominent position which Mr. 
 Wood occupies in the financial world as well as 
 the commercial and mining circles of Utah, has 
 been the result of his own industry and applica- 
 tion, and today no man enjoys a higher confi- 
 dence and esteem of his fellow-men than does 
 he. His magnificent home on Brigham street is 
 one of the finest residences in this region. 
 
 EBER C. KIMBALL. Next in impor- 
 tance to the Prophet Joseph Smith and 
 President Brigham Young in the lead- 
 ership of the Mormon Church, stands 
 the subject of this sketch, Heber C. 
 Kimball, one of the Apostles and the founder of 
 the British mission of the Mormon Church. He 
 was one of the early converts to the doctrines of 
 that Church, and by his influence and personality, 
 by his strenuous life and by the accomplishment 
 of almost impossible tasks, made for himself a 
 name that shines forth like a bright star in the 
 illustrious work of the leaders of Mormonism. 
 Whatever may be opinions as to the merits of 
 this religion, or as to the course which they have 
 pursued, there can be no question but that the 
 men who have guided and directed its efforts 
 and built it from its beginning of fifty years ago 
 to its present populous and powerful position, 
 are among the men who have brought Utah 
 to its present standing. Their leadership has 
 been marked by the highest type of execu- 
 tive and administrative ability, and their suc- 
 cess in encountering and overcoming difficulties 
 ties, entitles them to a high place in the ranks 
 
 of those who have conquered the West. The 
 faith which they held in their religion imbued 
 them with great endurance and perseverance, 
 and sustained them in any and all adverse con- 
 ditions. As a leader in the Church, Heber C. 
 Kimball was without doubt one of its most prom- 
 inent men, and in the development of Utah and 
 the bringing together of the right people for 
 the proper development of the different parts of 
 the State, he was especially distinguished. He 
 was one of the early members of the Church, and 
 was through all the trials with the members in 
 Illinois and Missouri, and in W'inter Quarters 
 near Council Bluffs, and later made the terri- 
 ble journey across the great American plains. 
 His life here was one constant battle with na- 
 ture and savage man, in the effort to bring forth 
 from the wilderness sustenance for his family. 
 The trials that the pioneers underwent he shared 
 to the fullest extent ; the lack of food, the loss 
 by the depredations of the Indians, the drought, 
 and the visitation of plagues of insects he suc- 
 cessfully combatted and rounded out a wonder- 
 ful career in the new home of the Church. At 
 his death, so prominent had be become that serv- 
 ices were held in all the Alormon churches 
 throughout the State, and as a mark of esteem 
 the City Council of Salt Lake ordered all the city 
 buildings closed and work suspended during the 
 obsequies. 
 
 Heber Chase Kimball was born in Sheldon, 
 Franklin county, Vermont, ten miles from Lake 
 Champlain, June 14, 1801. He was a native of 
 the same region from which came Ethan Allen, 
 the hero of Ticonderoga, and in later years 
 Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. He was the 
 fourth child and second son in the family of Sol- 
 omon Farnham Kimball, a native of Massachu- 
 setts, where he had been born in 1770. His 
 father was a man of "good moral character," and 
 although professing no religion, taught his chil- 
 dren the principles of right and wrong and the 
 observance of the Golden Rule. His wife, Anna 
 (Spaulding) Kimball, the mother of the subject 
 of this sketch, was a strict Presbyterian, and 
 reared her children accordmg to the doctrines of 
 that church. She was a daughter of Daniel and 
 Speedy Spaulding, and was born in Plainfield, 
 
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 83 
 
 New Hampshire, on the banks of the Connecti- 
 cut river. The Kimball family were of Engflish 
 descent. 
 
 Our subject's fourth crreat-f^randfather and 
 brother came from England to America in 1634, 
 settling in Massachusetts. In America, our sub- 
 ject's ancestors and those of the Prophet Joseph 
 Smith were related by marriage. Heber Chase 
 Kimball was named after Judge Chase, of Massa- 
 chusetts, by whom his father had been reared 
 from a boy, and who chanced to visit his former 
 protege a short time after his son was born. The 
 christening was proposed by the Judge, and he 
 suggested the name of Heber Chase Kimball 
 for the infant. Judge Chase, though learned 
 in the law, was also equipped with a trade upon 
 which he could fall back in case of adversity or 
 in case that the necessity arose that he should 
 earn his own living. He was by trade a black- 
 smith, and taught our subject's father that trade, 
 and when the latter was married assisted him to 
 establish his smithy hi the town of Sheldon. At 
 the close of the Revolutionary War our subject's 
 father was thirteen years of age. He often re- 
 hearsed to his children the scenes through which 
 he passed in those trying times throughout his 
 boyhood. He was later a captain of a militia com- 
 pany in Sheldon, and was also engaged in farm- 
 ing and clearing land, turning the wood into coal 
 and ashes, and also had a forge and trip ham- 
 mer and manufactured wrought iron. He was 
 engaged in this work down to the time of the 
 second war with England, and as a result of the 
 embargo imposed by President Madison, the 
 property of the Kimballs was entirely lost, ' in- 
 vested as it was in salts, potash and pearlash, 
 which, with the abandonment of commerce be- 
 tween the United States and England, threw this 
 property on the owner's hands and rendered it 
 valueless. 
 
 The Kimball family continued to reside in 
 Sheldon until February, 181 1. when they re- 
 moved from \'ermont and settled in West Bloom- 
 field, Ontario county, New York, five hundred 
 miles from their former home, and here our sub- 
 ject's father again took up the occupations of 
 farming and blacksmithing, and also engaged in 
 building. He received considerable aid in his 
 
 new venture from Judge Towsley, of Scipio, Cay- 
 uga county, by whom he had been employed for 
 several months as foreman in the blacksmith 
 s;hop. The building operations proved success- 
 ful, and the attention to it and the blacksmith 
 business made Mr. Kimball one of the most 
 prominent men of the country, employing eight 
 forges in the work and supplying the country 
 with agricultural and mechanical tools for a dis- 
 tance of fifty or sixty miles from his headquar- 
 ters. They continued to live in West Bloom- 
 field throughout the War of 1812. Their home 
 was on the turnpike, between Albany and Buf- 
 falo, over which the troops passed to and from 
 the seat of action. The times were flourishing, 
 business and money were plenty, and as almost 
 every man in business became a banker, issuing 
 "shin plasters" from one cent up to five dollars, 
 the inevitable result was a deflection of the 
 currency and the consequent bankruptcy of the 
 people. Air. Kimball lost the greater nortion of 
 his. property through this speculation, and was 
 forced to move from his home. He removed to 
 a site two and a half miles east, 'half way be- 
 tween East and West Bloomfield, where he pur- 
 chased a farm near a small lake called "Stew- 
 art's Pond," and here again established himself 
 in the blacksmithing business, erecting a large 
 tavern, barn and other buildings, and set out an 
 orchard of various, kinds of fruit trees. This 
 was in 1816, which year was known as the cold 
 season, that being the first time that the black 
 spots were seen on the sun. The coldness of the 
 season ruined to a great extent the crops, and 
 in the following year the family were in dire 
 distress, subsisting for over three weeks on milk 
 weeds, which they boiled and ate without salt, 
 and without bread. 
 
 The boyhood days of our subject were spent 
 in these unpropitious and adverse circumstances, 
 sharing alike with his father and the family in 
 prosperity and in adversity. His schooling ex- 
 tended from his fifth to his fourteenth year, and 
 was of the quality usually found in the primi- 
 tive village schools of that day. His education 
 was necessarily very limited, but he was not an 
 ardent lover of books, nor were the educational 
 facilities of such a nature as to recommend them 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to a young and growing mind. He derived more 
 of his knowledge from the lessons that his daily 
 life taught him and from his observations of na- 
 ture. At the age of fourteen he started to work 
 in his father's blacksmith shop, and continued at 
 that business until nineteen years old, when his 
 father, having met with further reverses, he was 
 again thrown upon his own resources and was 
 forced to make his own way in the world. He 
 has been described as a man of "singular nature, 
 composed as it was of courage and timidity ; of 
 weakness and of strength ; uniting a penchant 
 for mirth with a proneness to melancholy, and 
 blending the lion-like qualities of the leader with 
 the bashful and lamb-like simplicity of a child." 
 After the closing of his father's shop, his eldest 
 brother, Charles, offered him a position as an 
 apprentice in the potters trade, and with him he 
 continued until he was twenty-one, living in Men- 
 don, Monroe county. New York, six miles north 
 of Bloomfield, where his brother's pottery busi- 
 ness was established. Here our subject com- 
 pleted his trade and began work as a journey- 
 man, and six monbhs later purchased his broth- 
 er's business and successfully conducted it for 
 upwards of ten years. 
 
 Our subject met his first wife while engaged 
 in the pottery business, and on November 7, 1822, 
 they were married. Vilate Murray, his wife, was 
 a daughter and the youngest child of Roswell and 
 Susannah Murray. She was a native of New 
 York, having been born on June i, 1806, in Flor- 
 ida, Montgomery county, New York, and at the 
 time of her marriage was in her seventeenth 
 year. She proved to be an ideal wife and help- 
 meet to her husband, and throughout the vicis- 
 situdes and triumphs of his life was his com- 
 forter and consoler. At the time of his first 
 marriage our subject had just passed his ma- 
 jority. He followed the example of his sires 
 and enlisted in the Independent Horse Company 
 of the New York State Militia, under the com- 
 mand of Captain Sawyer, of East Bloomfield, 
 and with this organization he remained for four- 
 teen years. In 1823 he was admitted into the 
 ranks of the Masonic order, being a member of 
 it at Victor, and in the following year, with five 
 of his fellow Masons, petitioned the Chapter at 
 
 Canandiagua, then the county seat of Ontario 
 county, for the degrees up to the Royal Arch. 
 This petition was favorably considered, but be- 
 fore any action was had upon it, the Morgan anti- 
 Masonic riot occurred, and the Masonic hall, the 
 meeting place of the Chapter, was burned by the 
 mob and all the records consumed. 
 
 Our subject continued his prosperous career, 
 working at pottery in the summer and attend- 
 ing his forge in the winter months. He pur- 
 chased land, erected a house, planted orchards, 
 and was in every way prosperous. In the spring 
 of 1825 he was able to give his father a home 
 with him in Alendon. His mother had died in 
 February, 1824, at West Bloomfield, of con- 
 sumption, her husband surviving her but little 
 over a year, when he too came to his death by 
 the same disease. Our subject had now arrived 
 at the turning point of his career. He was a 
 man fully fitted for the duties and responsibili- 
 ties that fell on the heads of families and to a 
 respectable citizen of a new and growing com- 
 munity. His education was but limited, and his 
 scholastic training of the meagerest description ; 
 unlettered and untaught, save in the universal 
 university of experience, learning deeply and 
 well from the every-day events of life, he made 
 himself one of the leading men of the West and 
 of the United States, by his indefatigable appli- 
 cation to the little things of life. He had been 
 reared in a God-fearing and religious family, 
 but had never embraced the faith of his mother 
 or attended the meetings of the Presbyterian 
 Church as a member. During his residence in 
 Mendon he attended the Baptist Church and was 
 baptized into membership by Elder Elijah Wea- 
 ver. He. however, did not continue his member- 
 ship in this church. It was here that he formed 
 his intimate friendship with his life-long col- 
 league, Brigham Young, which was only severed 
 by death. The Youngs, at this time, in religious 
 life were members of the Reformed Methodists, 
 but being in poor circumstances, they were looked 
 down upon by the prosperous members of the 
 flourishing church to which they belonged. They 
 were natives of Vermont, and had moved to New 
 York, but had suffered greatly from sickness, 
 sorrow and affliction. Their condition appealed 
 
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 85 
 
 strongly to the sympathy and Icrve of our subject 
 and his wife, and led to the formation of the 
 friendship of the families which lasted through- 
 out their life time. 
 
 The first introduction that both Heber C. Kim- 
 ball and Brigham Young had to Mormonism was 
 in 1831, when, in the winter of that year, five 
 elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints came from Pennsylvania to Victor, 
 five miles distant from Mendon, and preached 
 the doctrines of their church. Their first meet- 
 ing was attended by our subject, and so strong 
 was his belief that he was immediately converted 
 to their teachings. His entrance into the Mor- 
 mon Church took place in the following year. 
 In January, 1832, he and a party of which Trig- 
 ham Young was a member, visited the branch of 
 the Alormon Church in Columbia, Bradford 
 county, Pennsylvania, and shortly after their re- 
 turn were baptized into the church by one of the 
 missionaries from Pennsylvania. This baptism 
 of our subject took place April 15, 1832, Brig- 
 ham Young having been baptized the day before, 
 and two weeks after her husband had been bap- 
 tized his wife, \'ilate Kimball, was baptized and 
 made a member of the church by Joseph Young. 
 The baptizing of these members was followed by 
 the forming of a branch of the Church at ]\Ien- 
 don, and its growth caused an uprising of the 
 people against them, and was in reality the be- 
 ginning of the future persecution of the mem- 
 bers of this church. In the following Septem- 
 ber, Brigham Young's wife, Aliriam, died, and 
 the two little daughters she left behind were 
 cared for by Vilate Kimball until they removed 
 from Mendon. In the meantime our subject had 
 been ordained an Elder, under the hands of 
 Joseph Young, and began his active work in the 
 ministry of the Church. He visited many places 
 in Xew York, baptizing new members and build- 
 ing up branches of the Church, and labored 
 throughout that State until the latter part of Oc- 
 tober, 1832, when he, in company with Brigham 
 and Joseph Young, arrived at Kirtland after a 
 journey of three hundred miles by team. Here 
 they met the Prophet, Joseph Smith, and in the 
 fall of 1833 Elder Kimball disposed of all his 
 property in Mendon and settled his affairs pre- 
 
 paratory to his migration to the West. He was 
 the only one of his father's family to become 
 convinced by the teachings of the Mormons, and 
 his action resulted in many petty persecutions, 
 his departure being hindered and delayed by a 
 number of vexatious and unjust law suits. 
 
 His family at this time consisted of his wife 
 and two children, William Henry and Helen 
 Marr. He had two children dead, Judith Marvin, 
 an elder daughter, and Roswell Heber, a younger 
 son. Brigham Young and his two motherless 
 daughters traveled in the same wagon with the 
 Kimball family to Kirtland, and upon their ar- 
 rival there late in October, they first occupied a 
 house belonging to Elijah Smith, but the indus- 
 try of our subject soon provided a home of his 
 own, which he continued to share with Brigham 
 Young until the latter procured a house for him- 
 self. The opposition which this new Church had 
 incurred was augmented upon the arrival of 
 these new members, and throughout Ofiio and 
 in Missouri the public temper was violently stir- 
 red against them. The members of the Church 
 in Jackson county, Missouri, suflfered great per- 
 secutions, about twelve hundred members being 
 driven from their homes, their houses plundered 
 and burned and some of the people killed. The 
 uprising at Kirtland had but begun to be organ- 
 ized, and as yet no active demonstrations had 
 been made against them. 
 
 The next work which our subject undertook 
 for the Church was in the expedition which left 
 Kirtland early in ]\Iay, 1834, to recover the prop- 
 erty of the members of the Church in Jackson 
 county, Alissouri, from whence they had been 
 driven by the uprising of the people of that Sate. 
 This company numbered about one hundred, and 
 were divided into companies of twelve each, and 
 captains appointed for each of the sub-divisions. 
 After a long and arduous trip across forests and 
 prairies, they arrived in Missouri with a con- 
 siderably augmented command. The camp here 
 was attacked with the dreadful scourge of chol- 
 era, sixty-eight of the members suffering that 
 disease, and fourteen of them dying. On the 
 30th of June of that year Elder Kimball started 
 for home, and arrived in Kirtland on July 26th, 
 where he found his family in good health and 
 
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 prosperous circumstances. From that time on 
 our subject was actively engaged in tlie work 
 of building up the Church's membership and in 
 erecting suitable buildings in Kirtland, until June 
 13, 1837, when he was unanimously chosen to be 
 the head of the missionary party sent to labor in 
 Great Britain. This was the foundation of the 
 work which has been carried on in that kingdom 
 by the Church, and which has grown to such pro- 
 portions that at present they have large offices 
 in Liverpool, London, and in fact in all impor- 
 tant centers throughout that kingdom. The work 
 which Elder Kimball did there in overcoming the 
 opposition, in making" converts, in building up 
 the tolerance of feeling and in securing emi- 
 grants for America, has never been duplicated 
 by any other man in any work, no matter of 
 what nature. His success there was but a con- 
 tinuation of his work in America, and marked 
 him as one of the leading men of this new re- 
 ligion. He traveled extensively all over England, 
 preaching and establishing missions wherever he 
 went, and encouraging new members and giving 
 aid and sustenance to his associates in the work. 
 He converted and baptized eighteen hundred peo- 
 ple into the Church during eight months' labors, 
 and on his second mission baptized one thousand 
 people. He returned to the United States in 
 1838, and arrived in New York in May of that 
 year. After a short stay in the East, he con- 
 tinued his journey to Kirtland, arriving there on 
 May 22nd, a little less than a year from the time 
 he departed for Europe. He remained there but 
 a short tiiTK, and on July ist of that year com- 
 menced his journey with his family and about 
 forry others, to the Missouri river, arriving at 
 P'ar West on July 25th, and in August of the 
 following year the opposition of the people of 
 ll'.al State to the Mormons was fully demon- 
 strated by the attempt to prevent them from vot- 
 ing at the election. From this time on they were 
 persecuted and oppressed in every conceivable 
 manner, and their lives were constantly in dan- 
 ger. The fall and winter of 1838 was one of the 
 darkest in the history of this Church. On the 
 one hand was the violent spirit of the public, and 
 in the ranks of the Church dissensions occurred, 
 which threatened to overthrow it. 
 
 On November 1st of that year Far West was 
 surrounded by a force of seven thousand, claim- 
 ing to be the regular militia of Missouri, and the 
 work which the members of the Church had done 
 and the property which they had improved was 
 lost entirely to them, and shortly after they were 
 forced to leave Missouri and take up their 
 residence in Winter Quarters, now known as 
 Florence, Nebraska. The times which followed 
 are too well known to be introduced into this 
 work, and forms too important a chapter in the 
 history of the LTnited States to have failed to 
 hold the attention of every person who is at all 
 familiar with the history of this country. 
 Throughout all these troublesome times our sub- 
 ject was ever at the head and front of the move- 
 ment, looking after the protection of his people, 
 and caring for their interests. After the killing 
 of the Prophet, Joseph Smith, and his brother, 
 Hyrum, the leadership of the Church devolved 
 upon Brigham Young, who chose for his right- 
 hand man Heber C. Kimball. The settlement at 
 Nauvoo was abandoned, and the members of the 
 Church, under Trigham Young and Heber C. 
 Kimball, were led to the West. 
 
 At this time a call for the Mormon battalion 
 was made, and Brigham Young and our subject 
 were among the prominent recruiting sergeants. 
 The subsequent journey across the plains to Salt 
 Lake and the trials which the first pioneers passed 
 through, forms a chapter in the history of the 
 West which is a familiar one to all of the pres- 
 ent generation. Throughout this time, aiding 
 in the development of the agricultural resources, 
 assisting in the establishment of mercantile pur- 
 suits and aiding in the upbuilding of the Churcn 
 to which he had chosen to devote his life, our 
 subject was always prominent. Shortly after his 
 arrival here, the First Presidency was re-organ- 
 ized, and Heber C. Kimball was elected one of 
 its members. He also held the office of Chief 
 Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Deseret, later 
 the Territory of Utah, and now the State. He 
 was also a prominent member of the militia, and 
 took a prominent part in the building of the Salt 
 i-,ake Temple, laying the corner stone of that 
 edifice. During the famine of 1856 he was looked 
 upon by his people as a second Prophet, and by 
 

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 his advice and counsel saved many of his peo- 
 ple from, death by starvation by saving up thou- 
 sands of bushels of grain and distributing it 
 among them. This year witnessed the great 
 "Hand Cart" expedition, and the loss of a large 
 number of members of that party and the exer- 
 tions made by President Kimball and his sons in 
 their behalf is well known. 
 
 Throughout his daily life and until his death 
 on June 22. 1868, he was one of the trusted 
 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- 
 day Saints, and one who was looked upon as 
 one of the leading men of the State. He was 
 a thorough and sincere believer in the doctrines 
 of the Church and the principle of plural mar- 
 riage. He had sixty-five children, and his de- 
 scendents now number over five hundred. His 
 wife, Vilate, whom he had cherished and loved 
 from the very, time of their marriage in 1822, 
 down to her death, one year before his own, was 
 ever a loyal and devoted helpmeet, and one who 
 by her aid and counsel was a pillar of strength 
 to him. At the death of President Kimball his 
 funeral was one of the largest that has ever been 
 held in Utah, and the universal respect shown 
 to his memory by the closing of the municipal 
 offices of Salt Lake, the gatherinsr of the mem- 
 bers in their meeting houses to hold funeral serv- 
 ices throughout the State, marked his demise as 
 a loss from which the Church would undoubtedly 
 suffer heavily, and his life as one which could but 
 be illy spared. The life which President Kim- 
 ball lived in Utah marked him as one of the lead- 
 ing members of the Church, and also as one of 
 the most prominent men. The example which he 
 set and the work he accomplished has been a 
 shining light for the guidance of his posteritv ; 
 and several of his sons are now among the in- 
 fluential men in this city and prominent in the af- 
 fairs of the Church. 
 
 OLONEL WILLIAM MONTAGUE 
 Ferry. Among the many prominent 
 mining men in Utah, who are devel- 
 iiping the mineral resources of the 
 State, there are none who occupy a 
 higher rank than the subject of this sketch. He 
 
 has had a remarkable career. A gallant soldier, 
 serving with distinction throughout the Civil 
 War, a respected citizen of his native State, and 
 a leader of people, he came to Utah and has 
 thrown his whole heart and soul into the work 
 of building up the State. His mining operations 
 have been eminently successful, and he was one 
 of the owners of the famous Quincv mine at 
 Park City. 
 
 Colonel Ferry was born at Michilimackinac, 
 }ilichigan, on July 8, 1824. He was the eldest 
 son of Rev. William M. Ferry, a prominent 
 Presbyterian clergyman of Michigan, who es- 
 tablished in 1820 and for several years main- 
 tained a mission at Mackinaw. The mother of 
 our subject was Amanda (White) Ferry. The 
 family remained at the birthplace of their son 
 until 1834, when they removed to Grand Haven, 
 Michigan, and Colonel Ferry is now the oldest 
 living white settler of Ottawa county, Michigan, 
 and made his home there until he removed to 
 Utah in 1878. He early started in life to earn his 
 own living, acquiring the trade of a machinist 
 and engineer, and successfully established the 
 Ottawa Iron Works. He attained a wide repu- 
 tation as an inventor and accomplished draughts- 
 man. So prominent had he become in the af- 
 fairs of his native State that in 1856 he was 
 elected one of the regents of the University of 
 Michigan. 
 
 L'pon the breaking out of the Civil War in 
 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Fourteenth 
 Michigan Volunteers, and served with the Union 
 forces throughout the war. Shortly after his 
 enlistment he was appointed by President Lincoln 
 a Captain and Commissary in the subsistance de- 
 partment. His position brought him into close 
 contact with the shortcomings of the army ra- 
 tions, and early in 1862 he made a report to Gen- 
 eral W. S. Rosecrans, presenting in a forcible 
 manner the lamentable condition of the army, in 
 the field and in the hospitals, owing to the fail- 
 ure of the regular army rations to provide for 
 the sick and the wounded. He also vigorously 
 condemned the (sutler) system as a scheme to 
 rob the soldiers. This rep>ort was approved by 
 General Rosecrans, but owing to the army sys- 
 tem he was powerless to institute a remedy, and 
 
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 the General assured Captain Ferry that anyone 
 attempting such an innovation would be, without 
 doubt, "cashiered" and summarily dismissed 
 from the service. So great was his sympathy for 
 the wounded, the sick and the dying, that Cap- 
 tain Ferry assumed the responsibility himself 
 and ordered from the Xorth and paid for with 
 Government funds, by commuting the ration, 
 which in lieu of the regular army rations, the 
 sick in the camp and the hospitals could receive 
 food suitable to the regaining of their health and 
 to the maintenance of their comfort. His first 
 monthly report which he submitted to the War 
 Department in \\'ashington, in which this innova- 
 tion was included, was emphatically and abso- 
 lutely condemned. Captain Ferry, nothing 
 daunted, replied, stating the need of such action 
 and asked for leniency until the results demon- 
 strated the adequacy of this radical change, prov- 
 ing at the same time, that by this system of 
 commutation the exp'enses to the Government 
 would be limited to the cost of the existing army 
 rations. This argument proved effective and, al- 
 though his action did not then receive formal 
 sanction, he was permitted to continue in the 
 course he had adopted. 
 
 In 1863 Captain Ferry was assigned to duty 
 on the staff of General James B. McPherson, 
 commanding the Seventeenth Army Corps of the 
 Army of the Tennessee, and during the siege 
 of Vicksburg, in which ninety thousand men par- 
 ticipated on the Federal side, and the Confed- 
 erate forces amounted to about the same, the 
 surrounding country having been entirely de- 
 vastated, he was ordered by General Grant to 
 provide at Vicksburg as he had at Corinth the 
 year before and make such additions and changes 
 in the rations as was necessary for the health of 
 the army. This system of commutation of ra- 
 tions introduced by Captain Ferry has now been 
 included in the regulations of the army and has 
 received the formal approval of Congress. Cap- 
 tain Ferry being specially recognized as the origi- 
 nator of the system. The "sutler" system was 
 abolished and at the present time any member 
 of the United States army, or their families, may 
 now, by requisition, receive any form of food in 
 lieu of the regular ration, in whole or in part. 
 
 Upon the cessation of hostilities. Colonel 
 Ferry was mustered out of service and again 
 took up^ his residence at Grand Haven, Michigan. 
 In politics he had been a consistent Democrat, of 
 the Jacksonian type, and in 1870 was the candi- 
 date of that party for Congress. He was also 
 Secretary of the National Democratic Conven- 
 tion held in Louisville, Kentucky, of which 
 James Lyon, of Virginia, was President, and 
 which nominated Charles O'Conor for President 
 and John Q. Adams for Vice-President. In this 
 same year Colonel Ferry was the Democratic can- 
 didate for Governor of [Michigan, but did not 
 succeed in his election. In 1873 Governor Bag- 
 ley appointed him one of the members of the 
 Constitutional Convention to form a new Con- 
 stitution for Michigan. Three years later our 
 subject was elected Mayor of Grand Haven and 
 in 1878 he removed to Utah and at once took an 
 active interest in the development of the mining 
 properties of the State. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Utah he became an active 
 member of the old Liberal party and in 1888 was 
 chosen to represent Utah on the National Demo- 
 cratic Committee, for the four years ending in 
 1892. The Liberal party not making any nomi- 
 nations to the Fiftieth Congress, he was nomi- 
 nated for that office on the Democratic ticket, 
 but was defeated by John T. Caine, the candidate 
 of the People's party. His ability and wide ex- 
 perience had brought him a national reputation, 
 and President Harrison appointed him one of the 
 alternate commissioners from Utah to the 
 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago 
 in 1893. He is also interested in educational 
 work and took an active part in the educational 
 work in Michigan, and the same interest for that 
 work in Lftah, and is an ardent advocate of the 
 public schools. He is now Vice-President of 
 the Board of Trustees of the Westminster Col- 
 lege of Salt Lake City. He is known in literary 
 circles as a writer of political and historical 
 events in Michigan, and has contributed largely 
 to the current literature of the day. His style 
 is terse almost to the point of brevity, smooth, 
 comprehensive and vigorous. 
 
 Colonel Ferry was married October 29, 1851, 
 in Michigan. His wife, Jeannette Hollister, was 
 
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 89 
 
 born in Romeo, Michigan, and educated in the 
 preparatory school for the Michigan University, 
 but it not being a co-educational school at that 
 time, she was not admitted to the university, and 
 graduated from a seminary in Rochester, New 
 York. She came to Grand Rapids in 1849 ^"d 
 took a position as principal of the girl's depart- 
 ment of Saint Mark's College in that city. She 
 has always been active and influential in social, 
 literary and religious efforts, and was selected 
 as President of the Industrial Christian Home of 
 Utah, which position she held for seven years. 
 She is now \'ice-President for Utah on the 
 Northwestern Board of Foreign Missions, and 
 of the Women's Board of the Presbyterian 
 Church for Home Missions. Colonel and Mrs. 
 Ferry are both members of the Presb}-terian 
 Church. They have done much to aid in its 
 development in this State. 
 
 Colonel Ferry is one of the prominent men in 
 Park City, and is as well known in Salt Lake 
 City as he is in the former place. His genial 
 and pleasant manner has endeared him to all 
 with whom he has come in contact. 
 
 \JOR EDMUND WILKES. 
 Among the men who have aided 
 in the development of the West, 
 few have taken as active a part 
 as the subject of this sketch. He 
 has been identified with all the enterprises that 
 have brought the West to its present standing. 
 His work ranges from the location and develop- 
 ment of mines to the building of railroads, and 
 to the establishment of industries allied to these 
 enterprises. He is now one of the leading civil 
 engineers of Utah and his fame has spread all 
 over the W^est. 
 
 Edmund Wilkes was born in New York City 
 in 1832 and spent his early life in Washington, 
 D. C, receiving his education in the schools of 
 that city and in Philadelphia. At the early age 
 of fourteen he began his life work in civil en- 
 gineering and secured employment in railroad 
 work. He later studied in the schools of Cam- 
 bridge and in 1847 went to the Hudson River 
 Railroad Company, now a part of the New York 
 Central ; from thence to Central Ohio, where he 
 
 assisted in building the line from Zanesville to 
 Wheeling. He was later made Engineer and 
 Superintendent of the Central Ohio division of 
 the Baltimore and Ohio. This position he filled 
 from 1854 to 1858. He relinquished this position 
 and accepted the superintendency of the North 
 Carolina railroad in that State. Here he re- 
 mained until 1870, when he entered the service 
 of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. So closely 
 had Mr. Wilkes been identified with the South, 
 and so thoroughly had he become imbued with 
 its principles, that during the Civil War his 
 sympathy and aid were given to that section 
 in that memorable fight. 
 
 In 1871 he came to Utah and took charge of 
 the "Howland & Aspinwall" interests in this city, 
 and since that time has been a resident of Utah. 
 During this time he has assisted in the building 
 of all the roads that entered the western country, 
 making the preliminary as well as the final sur- 
 vey of, some of their lines. His business has not 
 been confined to Utah, but he has made surveys 
 for railroads throughout the entire West, and is 
 more closely identified with the history of the 
 establishment and growth of the country and its 
 railroads than perhaps any other man now liv- 
 ing in the West. 
 
 Mr. Wilkes was married in 1854 in Ohio, to 
 Miss Bessie Van Buren, a lineal descendant of 
 President \'an Buren, and a member of one 
 of the oldest families of the United States. 
 They have had four sons and two daughters: 
 Of these children, Charles is established in 
 business in Salt Lake City; Gilbert was a 
 Captain in the L^nited States Navy, but died 
 from exposure in Cuba about one year ago, 
 and Bessie (Wilkes) Styer is the wife of a 
 Captain in the army. Mr. Wilkes has now 
 seven grandchildren. The Wilkes family have 
 always been prominent in the history of the 
 United States, Mr. Wilkes' father, Charles, hav- 
 ing been Admiral in the L^nited States Navy dur- 
 ing the Civil War, and one of the most dis- 
 tinguished officers of the navy. He was a boy 
 during the existence of the War of 1812 with 
 Great Britain, and witnessed all the scenes of that 
 conflict, and it was from these experiences and 
 from his experience in the Alexican War that he 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 acquired his love for a naval career. He also 
 commanded the United States Exploration Ex- 
 pedition around the world. The grandfather of 
 our subject was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
 War and did valiant service for his country in 
 that conflict. Mr. Wilkes' mother, Jane (Ren- 
 wick) Wilkes, is also descended from one of the 
 most distinguished families of this country. Her 
 father and mother were of Scotch descent and 
 belonged to a family distinguished alike for its 
 scientific and literary attainments. 
 
 In addition to his work as a civil engineer in 
 the building of railroads, and in the development 
 of mines, Mr. Wilkes has also devoted consider- 
 able attention to the upbuilding of Salt Lake 
 City. He was one of the promoters of the Mount 
 Olivet Cemetery in this city and in addition to 
 planning its grounds, is also trustee of the com- 
 pany which governs it. When the Episcopal 
 Church founded Saint Mark's Hospital, Mr. 
 Wilkes had much to do in starting this. Both 
 he and his wife are prominent niembers of this 
 Church and have aided in the work of its de- 
 velopment in Utah. 
 
 In political life Mr. Wilkes has never taken 
 an active part, but believes in the principles of 
 the Democratic party. In social life he is a 
 member of the Masonic order and is also a promi- 
 nent member of the Knights Templar. 
 
 The successful career which Mr. Wilkes has 
 made in Utah is but the continuation of his 
 career in the East. Coming here when the State 
 had but begun to feel the impetus given it by 
 the influx of immigration and capital from the 
 East, he has participated in its development from 
 practically a struggling border settlement to one 
 of the most prosperous States in the West. His 
 hand has ever been one of the number that 
 guided the industrial and commercial develop- 
 ment of Utah, and indeed the whole West, to its 
 present prosperous State. Endowed with a 
 splendid physique and a commanding presence, 
 outward tokens of his strength of will and de- 
 termined character, Mr. Wilkes has by his genial 
 manner gathered to himself the friendship of all 
 with whom he came in contact, and is today, in 
 addition to standine at the head of his profes- 
 sion, one of the most popular men in the West. 
 
 ILLIA:\I F. ARMSTRONG, the 
 president of the Utah Commercial 
 and Savings Bank, was born in 
 this city in 1870. He is the eldest 
 living son of Francis Armstrong, 
 a native of England, who, when a boy, emi- 
 grated to Canada and spent his early life there, 
 receiving his education in the regular schools of 
 that country. His father was a machinist, and 
 followed that trade during his life in Canada. 
 His son, the father of the subject of this sketch, 
 was one of the first pioneers who came to Utah, 
 reaching here in 1856. He secured employ- 
 ment upon his arrival in Utah in a flour mill, 
 then operated by Mr. Mousley, and later by Far- 
 amorz Little. He later engaged in the lumber 
 business, and formed a company known as Tay- 
 lor, Romney & Armstrong Co., which was after- 
 wards incorporated under the laws of the Ter- 
 ritory. He took a prominent part in the polit- 
 ical affairs of the State, served as Mayor of the 
 city, and was also a County Commissioner. His 
 wife, Isabella (Siddoway) Armstrong, the 
 mother of our subject, was a native of England, 
 and was married in Salt Lake City. Her father, 
 Robert Siddoway, was a shipbuilder, and upon 
 his removal to the United States was employed 
 in bridge building, being employed in the con- 
 struction of a number of the bridges of the rail- 
 roads entering Utah. He was later engaged in 
 farming and in the lumber business in Idaho, 
 but continued to make his home in Salt Lake 
 City. He and his wife were members of the 
 Mormon Church. His daughter, our subject's 
 mother, still lives in Salt Lake City, residing at 
 No. 667 East First South street. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools in Salt Lake City, 
 and later attended the Deseret L'niversity. Upon 
 the completion of his education he entered the 
 stock business in Idaho, as manager of the Ros- 
 coe Stock Company, and became later interested 
 in the development of L'tah, and especial!)' of 
 its financial institutions. He was made teller of 
 the bank of which he is now president, suc- 
 ceeding to this place on the death of his father 
 in 1899, who then held that office, having held it 
 from its organization. 
 
 Mr. Armstrong was married in 1894 to Miss 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 91 
 
 Edith Movie, daughter of J. H. Moyle. and by 
 this marriage they have five children — Edith, 
 Margaret, Isabel!, Francis, and James. 
 
 In political life Mr. Armstrong has always 
 been a Democrat, and has taken an active part 
 in the work of that party, but owing to his wide 
 business interests, has never been an applicant 
 for public office, nor does he desire any posi- 
 tion in public life. He is a member of the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and is a 
 member of the Seventies. He is largely inter- 
 ested in all of the more important commercial 
 enterprises of Utah, and is vice-president of the 
 Taylor-Romney-Armstrong Company, and a di- 
 rector of the Salt Lake Livery and Transfer 
 Company. Besides these, he is a director in 
 the Western Loan and Savings Company, and 
 president of the Blackfoot Stock Company of 
 Idaho. The bank of which he is now president 
 is one of the sound financial institutions of Utah, 
 and during Mr. Armstrong's connection with it 
 has increased largely in popularity, and has 
 grown into the confidence of the people. 
 Although but a young man, he has al- 
 ready demonstrated by the successful man- 
 agement of the business enterprises in which 
 he is the directing spirit that he is en- 
 titled to a prominent position in the business 
 world of the West. He enjoys the confidence 
 and trusT of the leaders of his church, and his 
 integrity and honesty, together with his ability 
 and industry, have won for him the confidence 
 and esteem of all the people of the State. 
 
 RAXKLIN DEWEY RICHARDS. It 
 has been said that men's lives are prac- 
 tically alike ; that their careers may be 
 summed up in the words "born, mar- 
 ried and died," and in one sense this 
 is true, yet after all it is the filling in of these 
 skeleton mountain-peaks that constitutes the in- 
 dividuality of the man, and the one thing that 
 truly counts in this world is character, and the 
 character that is of the most value to humanity 
 is of that stamp which is born where the storm 
 and battle of life rages fiercest. The truly great 
 men of our age, the men of achievement, have 
 
 not been found among the sons of men of afflu- 
 ence, surrounded with every luxury and the 
 means of carrying to perfection large plans for 
 the advancement of the world and the uplifting 
 of humanity ; in this busy, rushing epoch we are 
 prone to look at the effect and forget the cause, 
 but when we pause long enough to inquire into 
 the secret of the successful careers of our great 
 men. we realize that in the beginning great pri- 
 vations, sufferings, persecutions and pressing 
 need were the spurs with which their ambitions 
 were encouraged and quickened, and that the 
 brilliant life we now gaze upon, the wonderful 
 achievement, are not the growth of a day nor 
 a year, but are the accumulations of years of 
 earnest, patient endeavor, gathering here a little 
 and there a little, until we, gazing up the whole, 
 can only wonder and admire that which is so far 
 beyond our grasp, and hundreds and thousands 
 are benefited by that life, without realizing 
 whence the help comes. Perhaps no man in the 
 history of the Mormon Church has given himself 
 more wholly for the people and to the people 
 than did Franklin Dewey Richards, and while he 
 has passed from earth's scenes and the place that 
 once knew him shall know him no more, yet, 
 through his life of self-sacrifice and ceaseless 
 ministration to others his influence yet lives, and 
 will live and be felt by generations yet to come. 
 
 Apostle Richards was born in Richmond, Berk- 
 shire county, Massachusetts, April 2, 1821, and 
 was the son of Phineas Richards, a cousin of 
 President Brigham Young. During the summer 
 of 1836 Brigham Young, then one of the Twelve 
 Apostles of the Mormon Church, and his brother 
 Joseph came to the town of Richmond as mis- 
 sionaries and the Richards family became in- 
 tensely interested in the teachings and doctrines 
 of the new sect, studying the Book of Mormon 
 and attending the preaching services of the two 
 brothers. As a result of this trip the father and 
 mother of our subject, as well as himself and 
 two uncles. Willard and Levi Richards, were 
 converted, although our subject was not baptized 
 until two years later, when his father on the 
 3rd of June, 1838, performed that ceremony. His 
 brother George and his two uncles had at that 
 time joined the Mormon colony in Ohio and at 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the time of our subject's baptism were migrating 
 from the latter State to Missouri. 
 
 In the fall of 1838 he bade farewell to such of 
 his kindred as yet remained in Massachusetts, 
 and started for Far West, Missouri, only to 
 arrive upon the scene after the fearful battle 
 had been waged in which many of the Mormons 
 lost their lives. Among the slain was his brother 
 George, although he was not aware of that fact 
 as he stood gazing with heavy heart upon the 
 ruins of what had been the headquarters of the 
 people with whom his life was henceforth to be 
 cast. He joined the remnant of the Church the 
 following May in Quincy, Illinois, and there first 
 met the Prophet Joseph Smith. At Xauvoo, in 
 April, 1840, he was ordained a Seventy and sent 
 upon a mission to Northern Indiana, where he 
 made a number of converts. At the town of La 
 Porte he met the family of Isaac Snyder, who had 
 been converted to Mormonism, in Canada, and 
 had come that far on their journey towards Nau- 
 voo. Owing to the unhealthy climate and the 
 arduousness of his duties. Air. Richards was 
 stricken with a severe illness at this place and 
 the Snyders offered him the hospitality of their 
 home and gave him every care and attention until 
 he had regained his health. 
 
 During this time a strong attachment sprang 
 up between our subject and the youngest daugh- 
 ter of the family, Jane Snyder, which resulted 
 in their marriage in Xauvoo December 18, 1842. 
 Two years later, in 1844, Mr. Richards was or- 
 dained a High Priest and called to go on a mis- 
 sion to Europe. At that time the Prophet Joseph 
 Smith was a candidate for the Presidency of the 
 L^nited States, and on his journey to the sea- 
 board Mr. Richards acted in a semi-political ca- 
 pacity in the interests of the Prophet. He con- 
 tinued his journey and was about to embark 
 when he was recalled to Nauvoo by the terrible 
 tidings of the death of Joseph Smith in the jail 
 at Carthage. Soon after his return Mr. Rich- 
 ards filled a special mission to Michigan, during 
 which time he raised means for the completion 
 of the Temple at Nauvoo, on which he labored 
 with his own hands, doing much of the carpen- 
 tering and painting. At the time of the exodus 
 from Illinois he was aa;ain called on a mission 
 
 to Europe, and left Nauvoo early in July, sail- 
 ing from New York in the latter part of Sep- 
 tember. Mrs. Richards began the long journey 
 across the plains with the Saints and before 
 reaching ]\Iount Pisgah gave birth to her second 
 child, a son, named Isaac Phineas, only a short 
 time after her husband had started on his mis- 
 sion, and the news of the birth and death of his 
 first son reached the young husband just as he 
 was on the eve of sailing. During his absence 
 in the mission field his only remaining child, a 
 lovely little daughter, Wealthy, also died, as did 
 his brother Joseph W. ; the latter in Pueblo, Colo- 
 rado, while On his way to California as a mem- 
 ber of the Mormon battalion. 
 
 Mr. Richards landed at Liverpool and was at 
 once appointed to preside over the Church in 
 Scotland. He was for a brief time President of 
 the European mission, and upon the arrival of 
 President Orson Spencer, who succeeded Presi- 
 dent Orson Hyde in the work, Mr. Richards was 
 chosen as his Counselor, and subsequently lab- 
 ored in the Bath, Bristol and Trowbridge Con- 
 ferences, which he reorganized as the South Con- 
 ference. In company with his brother Samuel, 
 who had been his co-laborer on his mission, he 
 brought a company of converts across the ocean, 
 sailing from Liverpool on February 20, 1848, and 
 joined his wife, who was waiting for him at win- 
 ter quarters, and they crossed the plains in com- 
 pany with Presidents Brigham Young, Heber C. 
 Kimball and Willard Richards, the newly created 
 First Presidency, who led the main body of the 
 Church to the Salt Lake Valley that season. Dur- 
 ing this trip Mr. Richards had charge of fifty 
 wagons. 
 
 They arrived in Salt Lake October 19th, 1848, 
 and the following October he started again on a 
 mission to Europe, having been ordained an 
 Apostle on February 12th of that year. Upon 
 reaching Liverpool he relieved President Orson 
 Pratt, who was in charge of afifairs at that point 
 and established a Perpetual Emigrating Fund in 
 Europe, which prior to leaving home he had 
 helped to institute in Utah, and in 1852 for- 
 warded to Utah the first company of Saints to 
 emigrate under its auspices. He and his brother 
 Samuel accomplished a most wonderful work 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 93 
 
 during^ this period and under their efficient and 
 energetic supervision and labors Mormonism rose 
 to the zenith of its prosperity in the British Isles. 
 It had previously numbered forty thousand con- 
 verts in that country, and between the summers 
 of 1850 and 1852 the stupendous number of six- 
 teen thousand baptisms were recorded. They 
 also perfected the organization of the confer- 
 ences, missions and pastorates ; issued new edi- 
 tions of the Hymn Book and Voice of Warning ; 
 compiled the Pearl of Great Price ; the Book of 
 Mormon was stereotyped and the business of the 
 Liverpool office doubled. They were also instru- 
 mental in changing the Millennial Star from a 
 semi-monthly to a weekly edition, and marking 
 out the route of the emigrants so they would 
 land at New York instead of at New Orleans, 
 as formerly, thus avoiding much sickness and 
 mortality among the passengers. 
 
 Apostle Richards returned to Utah in 1852, 
 in time to attend the special conference held at 
 Salt Lake City on the 28th and 29th of August, 
 at which the doctrine of plural marriage (which 
 had long since been accepted and obeyed by our 
 subject) was first publicly promulgated. The 
 two following winters he spent in the Legisla- 
 ture. Early in 1853 he participated in dedicating 
 the Salt Lake Temple grounds and laying the 
 corner-stones of that edifice. In the ensuing sum- 
 mer and fall he made two trips to Iron county 
 to establish the iron works projected by Presi- 
 dent Brigham Young; a part of which arrange- 
 ments had been completed by himself and Apos- 
 tle Erastus Snow while in Europe. During the 
 winter of 1853-54 he was again requested by 
 the Presidency to prepare for work abroad, being 
 appointed to preside over all the conferences and 
 all the affairs of the Church in the British 
 Islands and adjacent countries, which meant that 
 he was expected to direct the affairs of the 
 Church in the East Indies, Africa, Australia and 
 New Zealand, as well as in Great Britain and on 
 the continent of Europe. Prior to his departure 
 his uncle. President Willard Richards, died, and 
 from that time Franklin Dewey Richards was 
 looked upon as the head of the Richards family. 
 
 During this trip he organized the Saxon mis- 
 sion and had the honor of baptizing Doctor Karl 
 
 G. Alaeser, one of the most notable converts that 
 the European mission ever produced. His bio- 
 graphical sketch appears elsewhere in this work. 
 In 1855 he leased the present headquarters of 
 the Church, No. 42 Islington, Liverpool, and 
 entered into a shipping contract for the Mormon 
 emigration, which proved most satisfactory. Be- 
 tween 1854 and 1856 eight thousand emigrants 
 left Liverpool under his direction. He was re- 
 leased on July 26, 1856, by President Orson 
 Pratt, who eulogized his work in the columns 
 of the Millenial Star in the following language: 
 "A rapid extension of the work of the gathering 
 has been a prominent feature of his administra- 
 tion, the last great act of which — the introduc- 
 tion of practicing the law of tithing among the 
 Saints in Europe — is a fitting close to his ex- 
 tensive and important labors. We receive the 
 work from the hands of President Richards with 
 great satisfaction and pleasure on account of the 
 healthy and flourishing condition in which we 
 find it." 
 
 He arrived in Salt Lake on the 4th of October 
 and the following winter was again spent in 
 the Legislature, and he was re-elected a regent 
 of the University of Deseret, which has since 
 become known as the University of Utah. In 
 1857 he was elected and commissioned a Briga- 
 dier-General in the Utah militia and participated 
 in the Johnston army troubles. For a number of 
 years thereafter he engaged in agricultural and 
 milling pursuits on his own account, his spare 
 time being given to the public in ecclesiastical, 
 political, military and educational pursuits. 
 
 In 1866 he was once more called upon a Euro- 
 pean mission, and prior to succeeding Brigham 
 Young Jr. in the Presidency at Liverpool, made 
 an extended tour through the conferences and 
 missions of Europe. The work again received 
 a strong impetus from his presence and he once 
 more met with signal success, baptizing thirty- 
 four hundred and fifty-seven converts during the 
 next twelve months, and emigrating in that 
 length of time over twenty-three hundred con- 
 verts to Utah. He also at this time inaugurated 
 the change by which steamships were substituted 
 for sailing vessels in the Church emigration. On 
 his return from this mission he took up his resi- 
 
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 dence in Og^den, under the advice of President 
 Young, and acted for several years as President 
 of the Weber Stake of Zion. He was at Ogden 
 two months before the meeting of the two rail- 
 roads at Promontory. 
 
 ■ In February of that year he was elected Pro- 
 bate Judge of Weber county, which position he 
 held until September 25, 1883. In January, 1870, 
 he with others started the Ogden Junction, of 
 which publication he was for a time the editor. 
 Judge Richards' court had both original and ap- 
 pellate jurisdiction m common law and chancery 
 cases until the Poland law in 1874, limited the 
 jurisdiction of the Probate Courts in Utah. A 
 striking feature of his tenure of office was the 
 fact that his decisions when appealed from invar- 
 iably stood unreversed by the higher tribunals. 
 
 In April, 1884, he was made assistant to the 
 Church Historian, Apostle Wilford Woodrufif, 
 whom he succeeded in 1889 as Historian and 
 General Church Recorder. During the greater 
 part of the anti-polygamy crusade, 1884 to 1890, 
 he was one of the very few among the Mormon 
 leaders who were not compelled to go into re- 
 tirement, and during most of that period he pre- 
 sided at the general conferences of the Church 
 and gave advice and direction to the Saints as 
 the visible representative of the absent Presi- 
 dency. 
 
 The beginning of the end came in August, 
 1899, when his health failed and he was compelled 
 to take, altough too late, the rest he had hitherto 
 denied himself. A trip to California proved of 
 only temporary benefit and his spirit passed away 
 on December 9th of that year. 
 
 Apostle Richards died as he had lived, a poor 
 man. His entire life had been literally given to 
 the promulgation of the doctrines and practices 
 of the Mormon Church, and he had never taken 
 time nor sought to acquire wealth. He was most 
 liberal and charitable in his belief and practice, 
 patient under trials, preferring his neighbor be- 
 fore himself, and winning the love and devotion 
 of thousands of the members of his own church, 
 as well as the respect and confidence of those 
 outside the fold, who while they were not in sym- 
 patliy with his religious views, honored him for 
 his staunch adherence to the principles which he 
 
 believed to be right, and for his upright charac- 
 ter and unimpeachable integrity during his official 
 and public life. 
 
 EORGE D. PYPER. Among the 
 prominent and successful self-made 
 young men of Utah, one whose entire 
 fe has been spent within the con- 
 fines of this State, and who has not 
 only been identified with the history of Salt 
 Lake City since his birth, but who has also taken 
 an active and prominent part in many enter- 
 prises for its development and improvement, 
 special mention belongs to George D. Pyper, the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Pyper was born in Salt Lake City in i860, 
 and is the son of Alexander Crookshank and 
 Christiana (Dollinger) Pyper. The father was 
 born in Scotland and came to America as a 
 young man, spending the latter part of his life 
 in Utah and arising to positions of prom- 
 inence and influence in both Church and State. 
 A full biographical sketch of his interesting ca- 
 reer will be found elsewhere in this work. Mrs. 
 Pyper was a native of New York State. She 
 came to L'tah in 1859 ^"cl 's still living in this 
 city. 
 
 Our subject grew to manhood in the place of 
 his birth, and received his education from the 
 schools of the city and Deseret University, 
 which later became the University of Utah. He 
 started out to make his own way in life at the 
 tender age of fourteen years as cash boy in the 
 grocery department of the Zion Co-operative Mer- 
 cantile Institution, during the period his father 
 was superintendent of that department in the 
 Constitution building, and attended night school 
 while so employed. He remained in this place 
 three years, and at the end of that time received 
 the appointment of clerk of the police court, 
 which position he held continuously for fifteen 
 years, during which time he attended the Uni- 
 versity and night schools, and thus completed 
 his education. He was later appointed police 
 judge of Salt Lake City, and occupied that of- 
 fice four years, his term expiring in 1890. Since 
 that time he has been interested in many differ- 
 
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 ent enterprises, among them beinsr Secretary of 
 the State Fair Association, manager of the 
 theater and manager of the Home Fire insur- 
 ance Company, of which Heber J. Grant is pres- 
 ident. Air. Pyper has for years been the close 
 friend and business associate of Mr. Grant, and 
 was for a number of years his private secretary. 
 He is also manager and secretary of the Juve- 
 nile Instructor, one of the leading church mag- 
 azines published by the Mormon Church in this 
 country. This magazine puts out some ten 
 thousand copies every number. 
 
 He was married to Miss Emaretta Whitney, 
 daughter of Horace K. and Mary (Cravath) 
 Whitney. By this marriage they have one son— - 
 George W. — and one daughter — Emaretta 
 Pyper. 
 
 In political life Mr. Pyper has been a member 
 of the Democratic party all the way through. 
 For a number of years he was a member of the 
 City Council, and was during that time the 
 youngest official in the State. 
 
 Mr. Pyper is a faithful and consistent member 
 of the Mormon Church, taking an active part in 
 its work, and is at this time a member of the 
 Seventies. Three years ago he spent some time 
 in missionary work in the Eastern States, in 
 company with Hon. B. H. Roberts, and has also 
 taken a lively interest in home missions. Per- 
 sonally he is of a most genial and kindly dis- 
 position, courteous and a thorough gentleman. 
 He enjoys a large circle of friends, not only 
 among the people of his own faith, but among 
 all classes, both in business and social circles. 
 
 AMES JACK. In the administration of 
 affairs of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latterday Saints, men of brain and 
 ability are required to properly care for 
 its enormous interests. To the position 
 of Cashier and Chief Clerk of the Trustees in 
 Trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- 
 day Saints has been called a man who by his 
 work has proven himself to be not only a zealous 
 worker for the interests of the Church, but one 
 
 who has taken a great interest and a prominent 
 part in the development of the State. The present 
 satisfactory financial condition of the Church and 
 the growth of the State in which it make.s its 
 headcjuarters, are due in a large measure to the 
 able manner in which he has administered all the 
 tasks allotted to him. 
 
 James Jack, the subject of this sketch, was 
 born in Scotland, in 1829, and educated in the 
 schools of his native country. His early life was 
 spent on his father's farm and finding that work 
 uncongenial, he secured employment in a dry 
 goods establishment in Perth, Scotland, which he 
 retained until he came to the United States in 
 the fall of 1853, arriving at Salt Lake in that 
 year. His father, John Jack, was a successful 
 farmer in Scotland, and followed that avocation 
 until his death in the eighties. The mother of 
 our subject was Martha (Cowper) Jack, also a 
 native of Scotland. 
 
 L'pon his arrival in Utah he secured employ- 
 ment in building the city walls, and at this em- 
 ployment he remained until 1856, when he entered 
 the Church offices as a clerk and has held that 
 position for over forty years, and is now Cashier 
 of the Church and Chief Officer in Trust. To 
 these offices he was appointed in 1861 and has 
 held them ever since. His service of over forty 
 years in this line of church work is a remarkable 
 tribute to his financial ability and integrity. He 
 has been a life-long member of the Church and 
 is one of its most valued officers. 
 
 Mr. Jack married in Scotland Miss Jemina 
 Innis, a native of that country, and they have had 
 eight children, of which number five are living — 
 James, who died at two years of age ; Jemina, 
 who is now the wife of M. H. Weight, Mayor of 
 Pasadena, California ; John, who died at eight 
 years of age ; William, who has since married 
 and is Superintendent of the salt works in Salt 
 Lake City ; Jessie, who died at the age of fifteen ; 
 Rollo, who is married and resides in this city; 
 Jane, at home with her parents ; and Joseph. Mr. 
 Jack became a member of the Church in 1851 
 and has been an active worker in its development 
 ever since. He has also taken a large interest in 
 the affairs of Utah and is now Vice-President 
 of the Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railroad, and 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in addition to his large holdings of stock in the 
 Inland Crystal Salt Company, is also a director 
 in that company ; also a director in the Grass 
 Creek Coal Company and the Saltair Beach 
 Company. In addition to these offices he has 
 been Treasurer in the following companies : The 
 Utah Central Railroad Company; Salt Lake City 
 Railroad Company ; Salt Lake City Gas Com- 
 pany, of which he was one of the original in- 
 corporators ; Deseret News Company, and the 
 Salt Lake Theater Company. He was one of 
 the original incorporators of the Utah Sugar 
 Company and was a director in said company 
 until about six months ago, when the company 
 sold out a half interest. He was Treasurer of 
 Utah Territory for twenty years and during that 
 time handled and was responsible for millions of 
 the people's money. At each session of the 
 Legislative Assembly during that period a com- 
 mittee of five members were appointed, three 
 from the House and two from the Council, to 
 audit the accounts and examine the vouchers, and 
 in every instance Mr. Jack's accounts were found 
 to be entirely correct, and so reported to the 
 Legislature. Politically he is a Republican. 
 
 The fidelity with which j\Ir. Jack has dis- 
 charged his duties, both in ecclesiastical and civil 
 affairs, has brought to him a wide reputation for 
 integrity, honesty and ability. His long service 
 in the Church has made him one of its oldest 
 members, in point of service. When he arrived 
 in Utah he took hold of the first thing that pre- 
 sented itself and went to work on the building 
 of the city wall, and used that as a stepping 
 stone in his career. He is well and favorably 
 known throughout the entire Western country 
 and has the confidence and esteem of all those 
 with whom he has come in contact. 
 
 ^X. BRIGHAM H. ROBERTS. Few 
 men in the Mormon Church, and especi- 
 ally among its leaders, have won their 
 position through as great exhibition of 
 hard work, constant application and un- 
 tiring energy as has the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Coming to Utah, as he did, a young and poor 
 boy, he has won his way from the ranks of arti- 
 sans and mechanics to the high place he now holds 
 in the office of the Church, and so won the 
 favor of the people of the State that he was 
 elected to represent them in the Congress of 
 the United States. His life is one that has been 
 filled with the hardest work that man can do, 
 and at the same time he has risen above his work 
 and fitted himself for higher things by constant 
 study and by the ability to learn deeply and well 
 from any and all sources, no matter how humble. 
 He is now one of the leading men of the Church 
 who represents well the progressive spirit of 
 Utah. He is identified in every way with the 
 growth of the State, with the prosperity of Salt 
 Lake City and with the development of the Church 
 of his choice. 
 
 He was born in Warrington, Lancashire, Eng- 
 land, on March 13, 1857. When he was nine 
 years old his widowed mother emigrated to this 
 country and settled in L^tah. His parents had 
 become converts to the teachings of the ]\Iormon 
 Church in England, and upon the family's ar- 
 rival in Salt Lake Valley, continued to be faithful 
 and consistent members of that religion, rearing 
 the children in the same principles that they had 
 accepted in the old world. They settled in Davis 
 county and in that section of the country the son 
 spent his boyhood days. Throughout his younger 
 years he worked as a farm hand, and at the age 
 of seventeen was apprenticed to the blacksmith 
 trade and worked in Centerville, and for some 
 years in the mining camps of Utah. His educa- 
 tion, such as it was, was derived, during his 
 early days, from the district schools of Davis 
 county, and he later attended the Deseret Univer- 
 sity, graduating from its normal department in 
 1878. He then combined school teaching with 
 his trade and worked at that until he became 
 associated with the Salt Lake Herald, of which 
 paper he was, for a time, editor-in-chief. 
 
 He was reared in the Mormon faith and, in 
 1880, was called to go upon his first mission and 
 represent the Church in the Northwestern States 
 of the Union, and more especially in Iowa. He 
 travelled in that region for about eleven months, 
 working in the interests of the Church, preach- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 insT and building up its organizations. He then 
 was called to the Southern States and remained 
 in that field until June, 1882, organizing mis- 
 sions and doing all the work that falls to the lot 
 of a missionary of this Church. He returned to 
 Utah and took up school teaching again, which 
 he followed until February, 1883, when he was 
 called to return to the mission field of the Church 
 in the Southern States as the Associate President 
 of that mission, which at that time comprised the 
 territory covered by eleven States. He was as- 
 sociated with John Morgan, the president of that 
 mission, and later, for two years, held the presi- 
 dency himself. He was a firm believer in the 
 principles of his religion, including the marriage 
 law of his Church, which he obeyed, and for which 
 he was arrested in 1886. The Edmunds-Tucker 
 Act being vigorously enforced, it was considered 
 advisable by his friends and his bondsmen for him 
 to leave the jurisdiction of the United States, and 
 in accordance with the policy of the leaders of the 
 Church, and to avoid a conflict with the laws or 
 any adjudication of his case at that time, he went 
 to England and from 1886 to 1888 was employed 
 in that country as assistant editor of the Millen- 
 nial Star, the principal Mormon publication in 
 Europe. While abroad he traveled extensively 
 throughout the British Dominions and took an 
 active interest in the upbuilding of the Mor- 
 mon Church in that land. He returned to Utah 
 in the late fall of 1888, and at the 
 conference, which was held after his re- 
 turn, was chosen one of the Seven Presi- 
 dents of the Seventies, which position he still 
 continues to fill. This is one of the principal 
 governing bodies of the Church, and has in charge 
 the propagation of the doctrines of the Church 
 and the guidance of its missionary eflforts. In 
 the following spring he surrendered himself to the 
 United States courts and was tried, convicted and 
 sentenced to prison for four months in the spring 
 of 1889, for the practice of plural marriage, taught 
 as one of the basic principles of his religion, but 
 which was held by the United States courts to be 
 in violation of the Edmunds-Tucker Act. In 1889 
 he and John Morgan were called to go on a spe- 
 cial mission in the Eastern States to endeavor to 
 stem the growing tide of the popular prejudice 
 
 against the teachings of the Mormon Church, 
 and to aid in disabusing the minds of the peo- 
 ple of the misrepresentations against the Mormon 
 people. While absent upon this work he secured 
 space in the papers of New York and Chicago, 
 and ably represented the Mormon side of the 
 controversy. Throughout the succeeding three 
 years he was engaged in local missionary work 
 for the Church in Utah, and visited the Mormon 
 settlements throughout Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, 
 Arizona, and as far south as Mexico and, in fact, 
 traveled extensively throughout the entire inter- 
 mountain region. During this time he was act- 
 ively engaged in literary pursuits, chiefly of a 
 theological character, writing able papers on the 
 doctrines of tne Mormons. In 1893 he was sent, 
 with Apostle F. M. Lyman, to California to open 
 a mission in the southern part of that State, which 
 was a very successful undertaking. He has al- 
 ways taken a prominent part in the politics of 
 L'tah, and throughout the life of the People's 
 Party was one of its prominent members. When 
 the people of Utah divided upon National political 
 lines, he allied himself with the Democratic party 
 and has since been an active participant in its 
 campaigns. In the campaign of 1894 he was 
 elected a member of the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion, which formed the organic law of the State. 
 In the first State election, held in 1895, he was the 
 Democratic nominee for representative to Con- 
 gress, but went down to defeat with his party. 
 He was again its chosen candidate in 1898 and af- 
 ter a vigorous campaign, marked by acrimonious 
 accusations and violent opposition, he was elected 
 by a pluralitv of nearly six thousand over his 
 Republican opponent, having a clear majority of 
 three thousand over all the other candidates 
 in the field. The fact that he had been tried and 
 convicted for the violation of the anti-polygamy 
 law, and for the reason that he regarded his re- 
 lations to the wives that he had married as involv- 
 ing moral obligations which he could not set 
 aside, caused him to be made the object of great 
 personal hostilities on the part of the press of the 
 entire country. When his name was called at the 
 opening of Congress, objection was made to his 
 being seated, and after a vigorous test, Congress 
 finally voted to deny him his seat, on the ground 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 that the constitution accorded each House the 
 right to judge of the qualifications of its own 
 members. This action was looked upon as being 
 unconstitutional by a large part of the Demo- 
 cratic membership of the House, who. without 
 reeard to sectionalism or religious feelings, sup- 
 ported Mr. Roberts in his contention that his cer- 
 tificate of election, signed by the Governor, should 
 be recognized by the House of Representatives. 
 So large was the Republican majority and so 
 strong had the popular prejudice become against 
 Mr. Roberts, that the action of the House was 
 but in accord with the popular feeling, and he was 
 denied his seat, notwithstanding the fact that his 
 election had been certified to by the Governor of 
 the State, and that the constitution required that 
 he should be seated as Utah's representative. 
 
 Upwn his return from his unsuccessful attempt 
 to take his seat, he again actively engaeed in the 
 work of the Church, and at present is editing and 
 compiling a documentary history of the Mormon 
 Church. This is a very large work, and when 
 completed will consist of from five to seven vol- 
 umes. He has already written many other val- 
 uable Mormon works, notably, his "New Wit- 
 ness for God," "The Gospel," "Outlines of Ec- 
 clesiastical History," "The Missouri Persecut- 
 tions" and "The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo." 
 
 These works may be said to cover the entire 
 history of the Mormon Church from the discov- 
 ery of the plates of Moroni, to the emigration 
 of the members of the Church to the West, as 
 well as the doctrines of the Church. 
 
 The career which ]\Ir. Roberts has made for 
 himself stamps him as one of the ablest men of 
 Utah. He is noted for his oratorical ability and 
 for his sound reasoning, as well as for his ability 
 as a writer and a thinker. He is- one of the lead- 
 ing men of the Mormon Church and has done 
 much to bring it to its present high state of 
 efficient prosperity. His popularity throughout 
 the State was shown by the immense majority he 
 received in his candidacy for Congress. He has 
 grown with the State, and from a poor boy has 
 now reached the position of one of its leaders. 
 The credit for his success is entirely due to him- 
 self and to his untiring energy and the close appli- 
 cation which he has brought to the work in hand. 
 
 TLLIAM C. SPENCE. The wide 
 field of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latterday Saints, covering as 
 it does the entire globe, requires 
 in the administration of its efforts 
 anil the guidance of its development, a careful 
 man, of rare executive ability to properly dis- 
 charge the responsible tasks which necessarily 
 are involved in the magnitude of the work. Their 
 large corps of missionaries, numbering two thou- 
 sand, now in the field in various parts of the 
 world, makes it absolutely necessary that the man 
 in charge of the transportation affairs should be 
 thoroughly experienced in all matters relating to 
 travel, by land or water. This position is at 
 present filled by the subject of this sketch, and 
 so well has he performed his duties that he is 
 looked upon as one of the invaluable officers 
 of this great organization. 
 
 W. C. Spence was born in London, England, 
 on December 3, 185 1, and spent his early life in 
 London, attending the schools of that city. He 
 became a convert to the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church and emigrated to Utah in 1864. Upon 
 his arrival in Salt Lake City he attended the 
 public schools then in existence, and later en- 
 tered Morgan Business college, which at that 
 time was one of the prominent educational insti- 
 tutions of Utah. Upon leaving college he se- 
 cured employment in various capacities and, in 
 October. 1872. was appointed a clerk in the head 
 office of the Church. Since 1881 he has been in 
 charge of all transportation matters pertaining 
 to the Church. In addition to the position he 
 holds in the Church, in its financial adminis- 
 tration, he is also an active participant in its 
 ecclesiastical work, and at present holds the rank 
 of Elder. 
 
 He was married, in 1876, to Miss Cynthia A. 
 Eklredge. who was born in Salt Lake City, the 
 ceremony being performed by President Joseph 
 F. Smith. Her family were among the first pion- 
 eers to come to Utah, arriving in the Salt Lake 
 Valley in 1847. Her father, Elnathan Eldredge, 
 was a prominent man in Massachusetts prior to 
 his removal to Utah and upon coming to this 
 State took an active interest not only in the de- 
 velopment of the Church, but also in the upbuild- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ing of the State. Both he and his wife. Ruth Eld- 
 redge, were natives of Boston, Massachusetts. 
 He was a member of the City Council of Salt 
 Lake City, and was prominent both in civil affairs 
 and the affairs of the Church, and remained a 
 consistent and faithful member of the Church 
 until his death, thirty years ago. He was also 
 Water Master of the City and ably discharged 
 the duties of that office. While living in Massa- 
 chusetts he was engaged in the maritime busi- 
 ness and was an experienced navigator, owning 
 several ships and making successful voyages. 
 John Spence, the father of our subject, was a 
 native of Scotland, being born at Deerness, Scot- 
 land, and he had also followed the sea. He 
 followed the sea for many years, and was chief 
 officer of several sailing vessels and made a 
 number of trips around the world. His wife 
 and daughter came to Salt Lake City in the fall 
 of 1866. The parents are now both deceased. 
 Marjorie (Lisk) Spence, the mother of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, was a native of Scotland, 
 having been born in the Shetland Islands. She 
 later moved to London and was there married 
 to Mr. Spence. By his marriage to Miss Eld- 
 redge, Mr. Spence has a family of five children 
 living — Luella M., at present studying music 
 under Professor McLellan ; J. Leslie, employed 
 in the office of the Auditor of the Oregon Short 
 Line ; Genevive, died at the age of fourteen ; 
 Florence, Ruth and Willard. 
 
 In the political affairs of the City and State, 
 Mr. Spence has taken an active interest and owes 
 allegiance to the Republican party, and was 
 elected a member of the City Council in the 
 election which occurred in November, 1901. 
 
 OLONEL JOHN W. DONNELLAN. 
 The Civil War of the United States, 
 Ijctwen the North and the South, 
 which lasted for four years, from 1861 
 to 1865, called for an exhibition of 
 undaunted courage, endurance and steadfastness 
 of principles that has never been excelled by any 
 crisis in the life of any nation inhabiting the 
 world. Through this fiery ordeal men's souls 
 were tried to the limit and those who rose in it 
 
 to command troops and emerged from the trial 
 with credit, have proved themselves in life, since 
 the close of that conflict, to be of the material 
 from which master minds are made. There has 
 been no war in the history of the world which 
 was fought with greater vigor and greater de- 
 termination on both sides, than was this memor- 
 able struggle. The armies on both sides were 
 composed of the same race of men, with the same 
 predominant characteristics, and who fought with 
 the same dogged persistence and unyielding na- 
 ture. The ranks of the North were recruited from 
 all the country north of "Mason and Dixon's 
 Line," and from the Western territory. The men 
 from the \\'est who engaged in that fight were 
 pre-eminently fitted for the onerous tasks which 
 devolved upon them. Their pioneer life in the 
 West had inured them to hardships of every kind, 
 and given them the spirit to successfully with- 
 stand the determined opposition of the South. 
 The record, which they made in that war, stands 
 untouched by any other nation, and the heroic ac- 
 tions and long and sometimes fatal suffering in 
 prison, and the beginning of life anew after the 
 close of hostilities, was the lot of most of the men 
 who gave their lives to the service of the country 
 and fought for the principles which they con- 
 sidered right. 
 
 Few men have had a more remarkable career, 
 or one which has been marked with greater cour- 
 age and endurance and the power to rise above 
 almost predominant adverse circumstances and 
 compel them to serve as stepping stones in the 
 building up of their career than has the subject of 
 this sketch, the present cashier of the Commercial 
 National Bank of Salt Lake City. Colonel Don- 
 nellan has participated in the active work of set- 
 tling and civilizing the entire West and especially 
 the Rocky Mountain region. He has been largely 
 identified with the mineral resources of Colorado, 
 Wyoming and Utah and, in addition to this, has 
 aided largely in the establishment and growth of 
 many of the most prominent enterprises of the 
 inter-mountain region. Notwithstanding his ar- 
 duous services throughout the Civil War and the 
 suffering which he has endured from the wounds 
 he received then, he has fought on, in spite of 
 physical suffering, and has carved for himself 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 such a career as makes him one of the leaders 
 among the captains of the industrial forces of 
 this region. 
 
 He was born in Ireland, June 9, 1841, but 
 when very young his parents emigrated to the 
 United States and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 where their son spent his boyhood days and re- 
 ceived his education from the schools in that 
 city. He was early at work upon his business 
 career, and at the age of tw'elve had already 
 started to earn his own living. At the age of six- 
 teen he came to Colorado, crossing the plains by 
 the only transportation then afforded — the ox 
 teams, and arrived in Denver on July 10, 1859. 
 He is one of the pioneer settlers of Colorado, and 
 was one of the first to engage in mining in that 
 State, working in the Tarryall mines of Park 
 county, which were among the first placer mines 
 to be operated in that country. He was engaged 
 in this employment at the outbreak of hostilities 
 in 1 861, and was one of the forty young men of 
 that section who offered their services to the 
 Union. He returned to Cincinnati and enlisted 
 in Company C, of the Eighty-third Ohio Volun- 
 teer Infantry, and participated actively in all the 
 engagements in which that regiment took part. 
 He took part in the defense of Cincinnati against 
 the Confederate invasion and, after that was suc- 
 cessfully repulsed, his regiment was with General 
 Sherman at Memphis and also with him when the 
 first attack was made upon Vicksburg in Decem- 
 ber, 1862. Here they were repulsed and the regi- 
 ment was sent up the Arkansas River. In the 
 battle at Arkansas Post, January, 1863, Colonel 
 Donnellan was severely wounded, and for nearly 
 a year and a-half was in the hospital on detached 
 service. At the latter date he was ordered before 
 the Board of army officers to examine candidates 
 for promotion, and was promoted from a private 
 to Lieutenant-Colonel, by President Lincoln, and 
 assigned to the Twenty-seventh United States 
 Colored Infantry, which was one of the two col- 
 ored regiments from Ohio, the other being desig- 
 nated as the Fifth United States Colored Infantry 
 regiment. At the head of his regiment he was 
 under General Grant. At the battle of Hatch's 
 Run, near Petersburg, which took place October 
 27, 1864, he was again severely wounded, while 
 
 leading his regiment, but was able to be in com- 
 mand again after the lapse of sixty days. He 
 then participated in the battle of Fort Fisher and 
 capture of Wilmington, and was also in the latter 
 campaign, headed by General Sherman, through 
 the Carolinas. Our subject participated in the 
 last battle of the war, at Bentonville, North Caro- 
 lina, March 21, 1864, where the L^nion forces, 
 under General Sherman, and the Confederate 
 forces, under General Johnston, met in battle and 
 practically ended the war by the victory of the 
 North. After the cessation of hostilities. Colonel 
 Donnellan was assigned one of the military com- 
 manders to occupy the country and he was sta- 
 tioned in the region tributary to \\'ilmington, 
 North Carolina, where he had his headquarters 
 and where he remained until the civil authorities 
 were again placed in control of the city. After 
 leaving Wilmington, he was in command at Fay- 
 etteville, that State, until ordered to be mustered 
 out at Columbus, Ohio, in 1865, after having 
 served throughout the whole four years of this 
 war, with brilliancy and credit. In the fall of that 
 year, Mr. Donnellan left the East and returned to 
 Denver, arriving in the latter city on May 10, 
 1866. He returned to the mining camp which he 
 had left to enter the army, but was so troubled 
 with the wounds which he had received that he 
 had to leave the mountains. He, however, nothing 
 daunted, returned in the following year, but finally 
 had to give up his mining business and then went 
 into railroad work. He moved from Denver to 
 Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1867, and there estab- 
 lished a hardware and lumber business. In 1868 
 he went into the bank of Rogers & Company, and 
 in September of that year, established the banking 
 house of H. J. Rogers & Company at Laramie, 
 Wyoming, the Colonel being the "company." 
 
 He continued in Wyoming until 1872, when his 
 wounds again began to trouble him, and his suf- 
 fering was so great that his recovery was de- 
 spaired of and his chances for life considered very 
 slim. He took a prominent part in the affairs of 
 Wyoming during his residence there, and in 1869 
 was Treasurer of the Territory. When he recov- 
 ered from his illness, caused by his wounds, he 
 removed to Denver and remained there for four 
 years, returning to Laramie, Wyoming, in 1876, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 when he was elected Probate Judge, and was also 
 made ex-Officio County Treasurer. He has been a 
 Republican all his life, and two years later was 
 re-elected to the office of Probate Judge and 
 Treasurer. After the expiration of his term of 
 office in 1880, he organized the Laramie National 
 Bank and was its cashier and manager until he 
 came to Salt Lake City in 1889. He remained in 
 Wyoming until his health was again impaired, as 
 the result of his wounds, and he then removed to 
 Salt Lake City in 1889, where he assisted in the 
 organization of the Commercial National Bank, 
 of which he has ever since been cashier and mana- 
 ger, making his home in this city. He has taken 
 a very prominent part in all the affairs of the 
 State, and for six years was a regent of the L'ni- 
 versity of Utah, and for the last six months of his 
 term was Chancellor. He served as president of 
 the Chamber of Commerce during its existence, 
 and is regarded as one of the most influential 
 and able business men in the entire inter-mountain 
 region. 
 
 Colonel Donnellan married, in Denver, to the 
 daughter of Colonel James McNasser and Mary 
 McNasser. Col. McNasser was one of the promi- 
 nent and influential men of that city. By this mar- 
 riage he has four children — John Tilton, at pres- 
 ent in California ; Kenneth, Olive and Edna. Col. 
 Donnellan is a member of the Loyal Legion, and 
 was the first department commander of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic for the Department of 
 Colorado and Wyoming. He is a member of 
 the Society of Pioneers of Colorado, the member- 
 ship of which is limited to the people who came 
 to Colorado between 1859 and 1861. 
 
 Colonel Donnellan is not only one of the most 
 successful business men of the West, and one of 
 the most influential men in Salt Lake City, but he 
 has made a remarkable career. His brilliant war 
 record has been fully equalled by the record he 
 has made in commercial life. The wounds he 
 received in action at the head of his regiment 
 were enough to ordinarily bar any man from 
 active participation in business life, but notwith- 
 standing this serious drawback, and the illness 
 which has resulted from these old hurts. Colonel 
 Donnellan has, with persistency and rare energy, 
 applied himself to his business, so that he now 
 
 enjoys one of the leading positions of the West. 
 He is one of the most genial men and one of 
 the most popular in Salt Lake City. The position 
 which he has won for himself has been the result 
 of his own efforts and has come to him through 
 the exercise of rare persistency and an application 
 of an unusual degree. He started in life at the 
 early age of twelve years, and with the inde- 
 pendence and adaptability for which his race is 
 noted, has climbed, rung by rung, to the highest 
 point of the ladder of commercial enterprise and at 
 the same time has brought with him the friendship 
 of everj- person with whom he has come in con- 
 tact ; and today there is no more popular man 
 throughout the West, not only with his own busi- 
 ness associates, but with the entire rank and file of 
 the citizens of Utah, than is Colonel Donnellan. 
 
 EORGE N. DOW. In the administra- 
 tion of the affairs of L^tah, there are 
 many difficult and exacting duties 
 which demand rare tact and executive 
 ability of a high order in their dis- 
 charge. Chief among these is the office of War- 
 den of the State Penitentiary, which is success- 
 fully administered by the subject of this sketch. 
 George N. Dow, the son of Gilman and 
 Sarah E. (Currier) Dow, both natives of New 
 Hampshire, was born in that State in 1839. Gil- 
 man Dow was engaged in farming in New 
 Hampshire and held office in the militia of that 
 State. He died when our subject was but ten 
 years of age. 
 
 The boyhood days of his son, George N. Dow, 
 were spent on the farm. His father's death re- 
 quired the lad, when but twelve years of age, to 
 begin life and earn his own living. Finding op- 
 portunities in the New England States less num- 
 erous and less promising, he emigrated to Ten- 
 nessee and, at the age of twenty, began his career 
 in railroading. He secured employement on the 
 Louisville & Nashville railroad, of which D. W. 
 C. Rowland was then general manager, and rose 
 from brakeman through the intermediate steps of 
 baggage master and freight master, to be a pas- 
 senger conductor. 
 In few things has the progress of the last half 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of the nineteenth century been so marked as in 
 that of transportation. At the time Mr. Dow 
 started railroading, the old wood-burning engines 
 were at the height of their popularity, telegraph 
 orders were in their infancy, the roads consisted 
 mainly of but single tracks, and both equipment 
 and tracks were crude and had not yet begun to 
 reach the position now accorded them in the 
 ranks of the railroads of the world. The con- 
 ductor of a train was a position requiring 
 a far greater exercise of ability and knowl- 
 edge than is now the case in the per- 
 fected system of transportation throughout the 
 country. Mr. Dow remained in the railroad busi- 
 ness for fifteen years, spending that time in the 
 service of the Louisville & Nashville railroad in 
 Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. During the 
 Civil War he was engaged in the running of trains 
 for this company. He ran trains between Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky, and Xashville, Tennessee, and 
 took the last train across the river before the 
 burning of the bridges by the Confederate forces. 
 He was in Nashville when the Federal troops suc- 
 cessfully carried Fort Donnelson and went out 
 with the engineer regiment which was engaged in 
 restoring the tracks and bridges destroyed by the 
 Confederates. Later he returned to his position 
 of conductor and was in charge of the first train 
 attacked by the guerrillas in the fighting which 
 followed the termination of hostilities. This train 
 he successfully defended and ran it through with 
 but the loss of one man. 
 
 In 1862, he returned to the East and engaged 
 in the grocery business at Lawrence, Massachu- 
 setts, but at the urgent request of Mr. Rowland, 
 the general manager of the Louisville and Nash- 
 ville railroad, soon returned to the service of that 
 company, transferring his grocery business to his 
 brother. For the next six years he ran trains be- 
 tween Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Ten- 
 nessee. His health giving away under the strain 
 of the work, he again left the service of the rail- 
 road and returned to his home in the East, where 
 he remained until 1882^ when he came to Salt 
 Lake City. 
 
 LTpon his arrival in Utah he was made warden 
 of the then United States Penitentiary, which 
 consisted of two old adobe houses. The en- 
 
 tire grounds of the institution, at the time he as- 
 sumed charge, covered but one acre, surrounded 
 by walls of adobe. The capacity of the prison 
 was greatly overtaxed, there being thirty pris- 
 oners in each building, added to which the sys- 
 tem was crude and the accommodations insuffi- 
 cient. This position he held for four years, and 
 when the administration changed in 1886, he re- 
 signed his office. During his incumbency, the 
 work of improving and enlarging the penitentiary 
 and making its accommodations sufficient for the 
 demands made upon it, were begun. The adobe 
 houses gave way to structures of stone, commen- 
 surate with the dignity of the State, and the 
 grounds were greatly enlarged and improved. 
 It was during this period that the Edmunds- 
 Tucker Act was so vigorously enforced and so 
 many of the members of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latterday Saints, including the Presi- 
 dent of that Church, were sentenced to the peni- 
 tentiary for the violation of the provisions of this 
 law. Mr. Dow, by virtue of his position as 
 warden, was brought into close contact with 
 these people, and he bears testimony to the will- 
 ingness with which they met conditions in the 
 penitentiary, and to their obedience to its rules. 
 This is all the more remarkable from the fact 
 that Mr. Dow is not a member of that Church, 
 and from the fact that these imprisonments were 
 regarded as persecutions for the following of their 
 religious beliefs by the men who were imprisoned. 
 
 Upon his resignation of the wardenship, Mr. 
 Dow engaged in the sheep industry on a large 
 scale and also became interested in mining opera- 
 tions, in both of which industries he is at present 
 identified. 
 
 When Utah was admitted into the L^nion in 
 1896, he was reappointed warden of the peniten- 
 tiary and has continued to discharge the duties of 
 that position ever since. He again took up the 
 work of improving the facilities of that insti- 
 tution and in providing the State with a peniten- 
 tiary corresponding to its needs and dignity. All 
 the improvements which have ben made since 
 that time have been under his personal direction, 
 and the development of the system of discipline 
 and of the humane treatment of the prisoners 
 have been his own work. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 103 
 
 Mr. Dow was married in Massachusetts to Miss 
 Alice I. Shetler, a native of \'ermont, and has two 
 children — one son, George, who is employed in the 
 penitentiary, and a daughter, Florence. 
 
 In politics, Mr. Dow has always taken an active 
 part and believes in the principles of the Republi- 
 can party. He has been a prominent member of 
 the Masons for a number of years and is also a 
 member of the Odd Fellows order. 
 
 A genial manner and a kindly nature, coupled 
 with his industry and tact, has made Mr. Dow 
 one of the best known men in the State, and has 
 brought him wide and lasting popularity. 
 
 AJOR GEORGE M. DOWNEY. 
 Among the bankers and business 
 men of Salt Lake City and Utah, 
 few are more highly respected 
 or hold a higher position in the 
 cunlidcnce of their fellow-men, than does the pres- 
 ent President of the Commercial National Bank 
 of this city, the subject of this sketch, who, in 
 addition to his banking business, is also largely 
 interested in many of the more important enter- 
 prises of this city and in the general welfare of 
 the State. 
 
 Major George M. Downey was born at West- 
 ernport, Alleghany county, Maryland, December 
 25, 1841, and spent his boyhood days in Mary- 
 land and Virginia, receiving his early education 
 in the academies of those States. 
 
 When he was nineteen years of age the Civil 
 War broke out, and he entered the service of the 
 United States as First Lieutenant in the Four- 
 teenth L'nited States Infantry, and served 
 throughout that war in the Fifth Army Corps of 
 the Army of the Potomac. He was present and 
 participated in many of the large battles that his 
 corps was engaged in during that conflict, being 
 present at the battles of Mannassas, Antietam, 
 South Mountain, Fredericksburg, Chancellors- 
 ville and Gettysburg, besides numerous other en- 
 gagements. For his gallant and meritorious ser- 
 vice in the the last two battles, he was brevetted 
 captain and major by President Lincoln. Upon 
 'the close of hostilities he remained in the army and 
 was sent to the frontier of the West, and for nine- 
 teen vears served on the Pacific coast from the 
 
 Mexican line on the south to the British boundary 
 orr the north, participating in numerous engage- 
 ments with the then hostile Indian tribes. He also 
 served five years in Arizona, making his service 
 of active military life cover a period of twenty- 
 eight years, during which time he had many nar- 
 row escapes from death. He was retired from the 
 active list of the army in 1888 for disabilities in- 
 curred in his long service, being placed on the 
 retired list with the rank of Captain and Brevet 
 Major in the regular army. 
 
 L'pon his retirement he made his home at Salt 
 Lake City and became identified with the Com- 
 mercial National Bank as its president, which po- 
 sition he still holds. 
 
 In the political life of the State he has always 
 been a staunch adherent of the Republican party, 
 and while he has never sought office, has served 
 on the Board of Public Works of this city, and 
 held the office of School Trustee, together with 
 a number of offices of minor importance. 
 
 Major Downey was married in 1865 to Miss 
 Lizzie M. Faber, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a 
 lady of refinement and culture. They have one 
 son, Major George Faber Downey, at present a 
 paymaster in the United States Army, who 
 served throughout the Spanish- American War in 
 that capacity in the Philippine Islands. 
 
 In addition to the presidency of the bank over 
 which he presides. Major Downey is also con- 
 nected with a number of other financial enter- 
 prises in Utah, prominent among them being the 
 Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, of 
 which he is vice-president, and he is also presi- 
 dent of the Commercial Block Association. The 
 Commercial National Bank, of which he is presi- 
 dent, is one of the strong and solid financial in- 
 stitutions of this State. Its home is in the Com- 
 mercial Block, situated on East Second South 
 Street, in the very heart of the business center 
 of Salt Lake City. 
 
 Major Downey, in addition to being a thorough 
 business man, is a genial and pleasant gentleman, 
 and his sincere and modest manner has made him 
 one of the most popular men of Utah. His home 
 is on East South Temple street, Salt Lake City, 
 in one of the finest residence portions of this 
 citv. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 EORGE Y. WALLACE, president of 
 the Rocky Alountain Bell Telephone 
 Company. Year by year the term 
 "Magnificent distances," as applied to 
 the West, loses its significance as we 
 watch the network of wires that are rapidly 
 spreading out over the entire country, radiating 
 from a common center, Salt Lake City, and con- 
 necting that point with almost every town of any 
 importance in the inter-mountain region, as well 
 as Pacific coast points. While it is true that no 
 branch of industry responds more quickly in 
 times of prosperity than the telephone business, 
 which may in a manner be called the pulse of 
 the business life in any community, yet the stu- 
 pendous task of building lines over the rugged 
 mountains, across the turbulent streams and 
 through the tortuous valleys of this western 
 country, is one that might well discourage the 
 most sanguine person. However, the directorate 
 of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Com- 
 pany is composed of men who do not hesitate at 
 difficulties, a^d realizing the untold benefits that 
 might accriie to the widely scattered people of 
 this region through the use of the telephone, as 
 well as readily grasping the financial possibili- 
 ties of such an undertaking, the company has, 
 during the past few years, expended enormous 
 sums of money and erected many thousand miles 
 of lines, their territory at this time covering the 
 States of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. 
 It has been the aim of the heads of this concern 
 to keep abreast of, if not ahead of, the advance- 
 ment in other industrial lines, hence their equip- 
 ment is of the very latest and best pattern, and 
 their service very nearly perfect. 
 
 The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Com- 
 pany was incorporated in 1883, at which time 
 it absorbed four other local companies — one in 
 Montana, one in Wyoming, one in Ogden and 
 one in Park City. At that time there were be- 
 tween fifty and sixty telephones in Salt Lake 
 City, and eight or ten in each of the other places. 
 The growth of the business may be gathered 
 from the following figures: In 1883 there were 
 three hundred and fifty subscribers in Salt Lake 
 City, as against over three thousand at this time ; 
 sixty-six in Butte, Montana, where they now 
 
 have about fifteen hundred ; one hundred and 
 twenty in Ogden, now over seven hundred. The 
 statement rendered by the company for the year 
 ending December showed nine thousand one hun- 
 dred and five exchange subscribers, being an in- 
 crease of three thousand six hundred and thirty- 
 two for the year, which was made possible in a 
 large measure by the extensive improvements 
 and new territory covered by the company in 
 1901. In 1883 the mileage covered by their 
 lines was four hundred and ninety-four miles, 
 as against ten thousand si.x hundred and sixty- 
 two at this time. Their exchanges have in- 
 creased from twelve to sixty, and at this time 
 the company gives employment to over four hun- 
 dred people, and when the new building in course 
 ot erection in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is completed, 
 will own a handsome home in each of the four 
 States. The present beautiful and commodious 
 quarters of the company in Salt Lake City, lo- 
 cated at No. 56 South State street, were erected 
 in 1895. 
 
 The gentlemen interested in this concern are 
 among Salt Lake City's most prominent and sub- 
 stantial business men, almost all of them men of 
 large wealth and closely associated with the lead- 
 ing business enterprises of the State. Biograph- 
 ical sketches of a number of them appear else- 
 where in this work. The officers are : George 
 Y. Wallace, president ; George M. Downey, vice- 
 president ; W. S. McCornick, treasurer ; H. C. 
 Hill, secretary. The directorate includes Messrs. 
 Wallace, McCornick and Hill, together with 
 Thomas Marshall, Alonzo Burt, C. W. Clark, 
 James Ivers and C. J. French. 
 
 George Y. Wallace, the president, was born in 
 Ohio, south of Cleveland, where he received his 
 scholastic education and grew to the age of 
 eighteen years, when, in 1863, he started West 
 and settled in Omaha, Nebraska, and there for 
 nine years was engaged in the hardware busi- 
 ness. Not being entirely satisfied with his en- 
 vironments, Mr. Wallace disposed of his busi- 
 ness in 1872 and came to Utah, locating in Salt 
 Lake City, which has since been his home. For 
 the next ten or eleven years he was associated 
 with many of the business enterprises of the city, 
 and in 1883, when the above company was in- 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 105 
 
 corporated, he became a member of the board, 
 and a few years later was elected president, and 
 has since filled that position. He at once set 
 himself to the task of placing the company upon 
 a sound financial basis, in which he has met with 
 unqualified success, and has had the satisfaction 
 of seeing the business pay the stockholders a 
 dividend of six per cent since 1887. He has 
 been ably seconded in his efforts by the highly 
 efficient services of the general manager, David 
 S. Murray, who has been with the company for 
 many years. Mr. Murray came to Utah as a 
 boy, dying with consumption, and here found 
 renewed health, and is today one of the finest 
 specimens of strong manhood to be found in the 
 West. He began at the bottom of the ladder 
 with this company and worked his way up, be- 
 ing promoted from one position to another until 
 he has now reached one of the most responsi- 
 ble positions in the concern — that of manager 
 over the entire system of the company, and many 
 of the improvements and extensions of the past 
 few years have been made at his suggestion. Mr. 
 Murray is a shrewd business man, liberal and 
 progressive in his ideals, and it is his desire to 
 give the company's subscribers a thoroughly up- 
 to-date and modern system, in which he has the 
 hearty support of the president and other offi- 
 cers. He stands in the front ranks of the busi- 
 ness men of this country, and is held in the 
 highest esteem by all with whom he is associ- 
 ated, both in business and private life. 
 
 Mr. Wallace is one of Salt Lake City's repre- 
 sentative business men, giving his time to his 
 duties as president of this company, and believes 
 in progression and keeping abreast of the times. 
 His career in this city has been marked by hon- 
 orable business methods, and an evident desire 
 to give the people their full money's worth. He 
 has won and retained the confidence and respect 
 of those with whom he has been connected in a 
 business way, and enjoys a wide circle of friends 
 throughout the entire inter-mountain region. 
 
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 ILLIAM JENNINGS. Few men 
 during their lives have partici- 
 pated more actively in the work 
 of building up Salt Lake City and 
 in developing it from a straggling 
 western mountain town to a city of metropoli- 
 tan importance than has the subject of this 
 sketch, the late William Jennings. He was one 
 of the pioneers who came to Utah and devoted 
 his energies to the upbuilding of the State. The 
 work which he accomplished during his life will 
 last throughout many generations yet to come, 
 and the name he made and the place he won in 
 the annals of Utah forms an important part of 
 its historical record. To write a sketch of Utah 
 or attempt to portray the development of Salt 
 Lake City without any mention of the part which 
 Mr. Jennings played in its development, would 
 be almost impossible, inasmuch as his life work 
 formed a very part of the growth period of Salt 
 Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Jennings was born in Birmingham, En- 
 gland, and he spent twenty-six years of his life 
 in that country. He was educated in England 
 and was provided with a good education. He 
 emigrated to New York, and later moved to 
 Saint Joseph, Missouri, where he engaged in 
 the cattle business, becoming identified with the 
 growth of the western part of the United States. 
 He was very successful in these industries, and 
 became interested in the building up of the far 
 West, which at that time was but beginning to 
 attract attention. 
 
 While at Saint Joseph, he met and married 
 his first wife. He came to Utah in 1852, just 
 five years after the first white man had set- 
 tled upon the land. He found the Territory but 
 a barren wilderness, with here and there a small 
 spot watered by artificial means and forced to 
 yield a sustenance to the hardy farmer. The 
 industrial life of Utah had not yet begun, and 
 Mr. Jennings established the first tannery here. 
 This was the beginning of his connection with 
 the business life of Salt Lake City, and from 
 that time on his life was devoted to the expan- 
 sion of its business interests and to the develop- 
 ment of its resources. From tanning he turned 
 his attention to the manufacture of cloth, and 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was among the first to establish mills for that 
 purpose in the State. He demonstrated his ver- 
 satility by successfully carrying on mining op- 
 erations and at the same time establishing a 
 bank. He was a self-made man, and one who 
 owed his success in life to the energy and ability 
 with which he overcame every difficulty that 
 seemed to impede his progress. He was success- 
 ful in all that he undertook — mainly because he 
 brought to his business the untiring application 
 and activity that is always the fore-runner of 
 success. He was prominently identified with the 
 Deseret National Bank, first as stockholder and 
 director, and afterwards as vice-president and 
 director. He was one of the originators of the 
 Co-operative Mercantile business, later known 
 as the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution, 
 and assisted in organizing it and in gathering to 
 it the nucleus of the vast business which it now 
 enjoys. He was also in business in the Eagle 
 Emporium Building, in which the Co-operative 
 Mercantile business was first established, and 
 which was later merged into the Zion Co-opera- 
 tive Mercantile Institution. In mining busi- 
 ness he was very active, and was one of the 
 first pioneers to realize the possibilities of the 
 vast mineral deposits hidden in the Park City 
 districts. He did not confine his mining opera- 
 tions to Utah, but was also interested in prop- 
 erties in Grand Gulch, in Arizona. He was a 
 prominent member of the Mormon Church, and 
 rose by his merit to be an Elder in that organi- 
 zation. He was prominently identified with all 
 the work which it undertook, and assisted in 
 the building of the Temple in Salt Lake City. 
 He resided here until his death, on January 4, 
 1896. 
 
 Mr. Jennings was vice-president and director 
 and one of the builders of the Utah Central Rail- 
 road, and also held the same offices for the Utah 
 Southern Railway. 
 
 He was married in 1855 to Miss Priscilla 
 Paul, a native of Cornwall, England. She was 
 a member of one of the old families in England, 
 and was educated in Liverpool, spending her life 
 in that land until sixteen years of age, when she 
 came with her parents to Utah, in 1854. Her 
 
 father, William Goyne Paul, and her mother, 
 Elizabeth Paul, were natives of England. Her 
 father was an architect and builder in England, 
 and followed the same business upon his arrival 
 in Utah. He erected the building known as the 
 "Emporium Block," where the Utah National 
 Bank now stands, and which still belongs to Mrs. 
 Jennings. He also built the old "Devon," near 
 the depot, and erected that when every piece of 
 lumber had to be brought into the State in wag- 
 ons. So scarce was this material that even parts 
 of some of the wagons were used to form parts 
 of the walls. Mrs. Jennings' parents had both 
 become members of the Mormon Church in 
 England before coming here, and throup''OUt 
 their lives were faithful followers of the reli- 
 gion which they had adopted. Before his con- 
 version to the doctrines of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mr. Paul had been 
 a local Methodist Episcopal preacher. Mr. Jen- 
 nings was the father of twenty-six children, 
 thirteen of whom are living. Airs. Jennings has 
 seven children living — six sons and one 
 daughter — Frank W., Joseph A., James E., 
 Harry L., Walter T., Harold P., and Priscilla 
 Jennings, wife of William W. Wright. 
 
 Mrs. Jennings has participated actively in the 
 business aflfairs of Salt Lake City, and has taken 
 an active interest in the enterprises in which 
 her husband was concerned. Sb-^ and her hus- 
 band were devoted members of the Mormon 
 Church, and Mrs. Jennings today is one of the 
 prominent women of the State, and takes an 
 active part in the Church work. She is promi- 
 nent in the Temple work and in the Relief So- 
 ciety of this church is vice-president of the Stake 
 Council of Women. Throughout her life she 
 has been a staunch and devoted member of this 
 church, and the position she has won for herself 
 has been the result of her merit. She enjoys the 
 confidence and esteem of all the leaders of the 
 Church. She is noted for her charitable work 
 and for her kindness. She is also thoroughly 
 familiar with the affairs of the business world, 
 and holds a high standing in the respect and con- 
 fidence of the business community of the city 
 and of L'tah as well. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 107 
 
 W. CHISHOL^I. A State may 
 possess untold natural advantages 
 of mineral wealth, fertility of soil, 
 deposits of valuable building ma- 
 terial, and, in fact, all the re- 
 sources that go to make up a prosperous com- 
 munity, but so long as they remain unavailable 
 through lack of development, their value to a 
 people is but limited. To properly utilize these 
 advantages requires the mind of a master, one 
 who, by his grasp and by his ability to 
 turn unfavorable conditions into prosperity, 
 makes it possible to use to the fullest 
 extent what nature has so amply provided. 
 These conditions have arisen in Utah, and 
 perhaps no man has participated more in 
 their proper use, in providing financial assist- 
 ance and in organizing and developing compa- 
 nies for the successful working of these re- 
 sources than has the subject of this sketch. 
 
 W. W. Chisholm was born in Hazel Green, 
 Grant county, Wisconsin, June 26, 1842, and 
 there spent his early life. His education was 
 obtained from the public schools and from the 
 Sisters' schools. He started out for himself 
 early in life, and in 1858 undertook to learn the 
 printing business, which he followed until 1868. 
 During the Civil War he was in Chicago, and 
 followed his trade in that city. The possibili- 
 ties aflforded by the W'est claimed his attention, 
 and in 1864 he came to Virginia City, Montana, 
 where he expected to find his father, who had 
 preceded him, but did not find him there, and 
 came across the desert by teams to Salt Lake in 
 the fall of 1864. Upon his arrival here he found 
 that his father had located a mining claim in 
 Bingham Canyon, which was among the first 
 mining properties to be located in that region. 
 Mr. Chisholm spent the winter and spring of 
 1865 in the Canyon of Bingham. He and his 
 father, realizing the value of the mineral de- 
 posits in that region, secured a great many dif- 
 ferent claims, which they afterwards disposed of 
 to a considerable advantage. During the spring 
 and summer of 1865 he worked with his father 
 in the claims in Bingham, and in the fall he 
 returned to Elgin, Illinois, where he remained 
 until 1869. During this period he secured em- 
 
 ployment as a printer on a number of Chicago 
 papers, working in that city from 1865 to i868. 
 
 When the last spike was driven on the Union 
 Pacific Railroad, he returned to Utah. His in- 
 terest in mining, which he had formed while at 
 Bingham in 1865, and the property which he 
 had secured, brought him again to Utah. His 
 father had located the "Emma" mine in 1868, on 
 the Little Cottonwood, and upon his son's re- 
 turn in 1869 they developed this property and 
 finally sold it at a considerable profit. They 
 also had large interests in the Centennial Eu- 
 reka mine, in the Tintic district, and after de- 
 veloping that property for some years, disposed 
 of their holdings at a large profit. His father 
 removed to California in 1883, and spent the re- 
 maining years of his life there, dying in 1891. 
 His mother, Sarah (Van \^alkenburg) Chis- 
 holm, died in Elgin, Illinois, in 1878. In addi- 
 tion to their interests in Utah, they also became 
 interested in mining properties in Nevada and 
 owned considerable property in the Kinsley dis- 
 trict in that State. In addition to his mining 
 business, Mr. Chisholm was one of the founders, 
 and has since been a director of, the Bank of 
 Commerce, a successful financial institution of 
 this city, and is also a director of the Western 
 Arms and Sporting Goods Company, one of the 
 largest firms of that character in the West. 
 
 He married in 1876 to Miss N. Jeanette Ken- 
 dall, a native of Illinois. 
 
 In political affairs, Mr. Chisholm, up to the 
 time of the silver agitation, was an active Re- 
 publican, but, believing that the interests of the 
 mineral States would be better protected by the 
 Democrats, he transferred his allegiance to the 
 latter party, and has been an active member of 
 it since that time. In social matters he is a 
 member of the Masonic fraternity, a member of 
 the Blue Lodge Chapter, and has attained the 
 rank of Knights-Templar. 
 
 Air. Chisholm's career marks him as one of 
 the leading men of Utah, both in business circles 
 and in the development of Mining properties. 
 He is practically a self-made, self-educated man. 
 He was forced to stop at the age of twelve years 
 and earn his own living, and has since provided 
 for himself. His honesty and industry, together 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 with his unflagging devotion to his work, have 
 been the corner stone upon which he has reared 
 his fortune. He is now one of the weaUhiest 
 men in Utah, and his career stands liigh in the 
 annals of what men have been able to accomplish 
 in this State. He is well and popularly known 
 throughout Utah and the West, and numbers his 
 friends by the legion. 
 
 )SEPH NELSON. The rapid increase 
 in the industries of the L^nited States has 
 created a wide demand for men and 
 women who are properly equipped to 
 undertake the management of commer- 
 cial enterprises. There has been a constant and 
 growing need for young men and women equip- 
 ped with an education that would fit them to 
 participate intelligently in business affairs. The 
 need of an education of this kind has been felt 
 ever since the beginning of the independence of 
 the United States, and among the first to recog- 
 nize the necessity for this training was Benja- 
 min Franklin, who advocated the amending of 
 the college courses in order to fit the young men 
 and women for business life without undergoing 
 an apprenticeship after the close of their col- 
 lege career. In no part of the country has this 
 demand been more apparent than in the West. 
 The rapid development of this region and the 
 establishing and widening of its commercial en- 
 terprises has called for a constant and stead) 
 supply of men and women to aid in the devel- 
 opment of these establishments and economically 
 and efficiently discharge their work. Especially 
 in Salt Lake has this demand existed, and in 
 supplying people to fill this demand, there has 
 been no more prominent institution than the 
 Salt Lake Business College, of which the sub- 
 ject of this sketch is president. Salt Lake City 
 is exceptionally located for such a school. It is 
 almost in the center of the inter-mountain region, 
 and is the very heart of the commercial activity 
 of the inter-West. There are few enterprises 
 throughout the inter-mountain region that do 
 not have headquarters in this city. The factory, 
 machine shops, mercantile establishments, banks, 
 railways and telegraph headquarters are in con- 
 
 stant need of the services of properly equipped 
 people. The Salt Lake Business College en- 
 joys the confidence of the entire business world 
 of Utah, and, in fact, of all the territory tribu- 
 tary to this city. There is scarcely an establish- 
 ment here now which does not number among 
 its most trusted employes the students of this 
 college. Its pupils, upon graduation, readily 
 find employment, and many who have attended 
 its sessions and graduated from this institution 
 are now in positions of responsibility and trust in 
 many important establishments in the State. Its 
 prominence in the ranks of educational institu- 
 tions and the readiness with which its graduates 
 find positions, is a tribute to the efficient and 
 progressive management of its president, who 
 has done so much to aid in the development of 
 the commercial resources of the State by giving 
 to these establishments competent people who are 
 trained in its methods. 
 
 Mr. Nelson was born in JMoroni, Sanpete 
 county, LItah, in 1861, and spent his boyhood 
 days on his father's farm and in working in the 
 canyons timbering. He attended the schools of 
 his county, and later entered the Brigham Young 
 Academy at Provo, where he spent seven years 
 — five years as a student and two years as a 
 teacher. In September of 1888 he was given 
 charge of the mathematical department in the 
 Latter Day Saints' College. He remained in this 
 latter institution for thirteen years, ten years of 
 which he was in the mathematical department. 
 He successfully undertook the establishment of 
 a commercial school in that institution, and in 
 February, 1900, bought out the owners of the 
 present Salt Lake Business College, since which 
 time he has brought it to its present high state 
 of efficiency. His father, J. C. Nelson, was born 
 in Denmark, and later moved to Germany in 
 1850, and spent the ensuing five years there. He 
 then emigrated to America, and spent two years 
 in the Eastern States, coming to Utah and 
 settling in Salt Lake City. He later moved 
 to Sanpete county, when the first settlement 
 of that region was begun, and took up farming, 
 and also mechanical work. He was later en- 
 gaged in mercantile pursuits, and was for a 
 number of years superintendent of the Co-opera- 
 
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 live Store in Moroni. He joined the Mormon 
 Church before he came to America, and spent 
 his while life in that church, and has partici- 
 pated actively in its work. His wife, Annie 
 Mary (Anderson) Nelson, and the mother of the 
 subject of this sketch, was also a native of Den- 
 mark, who emigrated to America. She met Mr. 
 Nelson on the trip across the plains, and they 
 were married upon their arrival in Utah. Their 
 son's life has been spent almost entirely within 
 the confines of this State. Like all boys in pion- 
 eer life, he was forced to aid in supplying the 
 general wants of the family, and from ten to 
 twelve years of age was engaged in freighting 
 supplies to the mines. From that time until he 
 was twenty years of age he was engaged in get- 
 ting out saw timber from the mountains and in 
 hauling lumber. While the business! college 
 which Mr. Nelson now operates is the only 
 strictly business college of any importance in 
 Utah, it was founded in 1889, by Mr. N. B. 
 Johnston and Mr. J. W. Jameson. The school 
 was started in some small rooms over the Utah 
 National Bank, where its sessions were con- 
 ducted. In the following year Mr. G. W. Popp, 
 who had been in business college work in San 
 Francisco, became financially interested in the 
 school, and was identified with it from that time 
 until June, 1900. The success with which this 
 school met the demand for its graduates in the 
 business world made it imperative that they se- 
 cure larger and better accommodations, and the 
 entire top floor of the Commerce Block was se- 
 cured for its home, and here they remained until 
 July, 1891. In 1891 Mr. Jameson severed his 
 connection with the school, and until 1899 the 
 institution was under the supervision and con- 
 trol of Messrs. Johnston and Popp. Throughout 
 this decade the growth of the school was very 
 marked, and it soon won for itself a foremost 
 position among the business colleges of the West. 
 The thoroughness of its work and the efficiency 
 of the students was soon recognized by the lead- 
 ing business men, with whom the graduates of 
 this school were in high favor, and readily se- 
 cured employment. 
 
 In 1895 the school was incorporated under the 
 laws of Utah, and was given a charter and seal, 
 
 Mr. Johnston being made president. Four years 
 later William Johnston purchased a one-third in- 
 terest in the stock, and became equally interested 
 with the proprietors, N. B. Johnston and G. W. 
 Popp. In January, 1900, Mr. Nelson purchased 
 the entire school. He had for fourteen years 
 previous been identified with the Latter Day 
 Saints' College, and had by sheer force and 
 against heavy odds and strong opposition built 
 up the business department of that school from 
 a class of thirty-six students in a single room, to 
 an enrollment of over three hundred, with the 
 best quarters obtainable in the city. The growth 
 of the school during 1900 was little short of phe- 
 nomenal, and became so great that a further ex- 
 pansion was absolutely imperative. After a 
 thorough examination of the available quarters 
 in the city it was finally determined to remove 
 from the Commerce Block to the top floor of 
 the Templeton building. This change was ef- 
 fected m the early part of July, 1901, without 
 the loss of a single session of the school. The 
 quarters were thoroughly cleaned and renovated, 
 remodeled and refitted, so that today they are 
 the most commodious and finest school rooms in 
 the city. The Templeton building, in which the 
 school is now located, is at the corner of Main 
 and South Temple streets, overlooking the Tem- 
 ple Block. This building was originally erected 
 to serve as a hotel, but was far in advance of the 
 conditions in the West, and the hotel business 
 proved unsuccessful. The top floor is now en- 
 tirely occupied by the college, and many improve- 
 ments have been made in it. Some of the rooms 
 formerly separated by lath and plaster walls 
 were merged into one by the substitution of glass 
 partitions for the lath and plaster. While this 
 serves to obstruct the sound, it increases the 
 light and makes the room much more commo- 
 dious and comfortable. The entire school was 
 fitted with furniture of the latest design and pat- 
 tern; the large lecture hall, used for the assem- 
 bling of students and for the largest classes, was 
 entirely refitted with new quarter sawed oak 
 desks of the latest and best designs. The building 
 is equipped with a thoroughly modern elevator 
 service, telephone connections, electric light and 
 city water service, and is heated by steam. The 
 
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 ventilation is as nearly perfect as it is possible 
 to get it, and fire escapes, connected with every 
 room, reduce the danger from fire to a mini- 
 mum. Some idea of the growth of this school 
 may be had from the fact that during the last 
 year the enrollment has reached the high figure 
 of four hundred and forty-three students. The 
 curriculum of the school is very extensive, and 
 comprises a commercial, a shorthand, an English 
 and a penmanship course, and under these gen- 
 eral heads are taught most subjects that relate 
 to business. 
 
 Mr. Nelson was married in Salt Lake City in 
 1893 to Miss Lenora Smith, daughter of Presi- 
 dent Joseph Smith, of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints. By this marriage he has 
 four children — Joseph S., George S., Alvin S. 
 and Alice. 
 
 In political life Mr. Nelson is a believer in the 
 Republican principles, but has devoted his en- 
 tire time and attention to educational matters 
 and to the building up of that work in Utah. 
 This has so engrossed his time that he has not 
 participated actively in the work of that party, 
 and he has never been a candidate for public 
 office. He, like his parents, is a member of the 
 Mormon Church. 
 
 The work which Mr. Nelson has done in af- 
 fording a business education to niany of the 
 young people of Utah has made him one of the 
 most prominent educators in the West. His 
 school is now easily in the lead of the commer- 
 cial colleges of the West, and the confidence of 
 the leading business men whurh it enjoys makes 
 a diploma from it a valuable assistant for one 
 starting upon a business career. 
 
 O. WHITTEMORE. When the rail- 
 road from Salt Lake City to Los 
 Angeles, California, shall have been 
 completed and put into operation, it 
 will supply a monument to the untir- 
 ing perseverance of the men whose project it or- 
 iginally was to connect the Pacific coast with this 
 city, and thus open up to settlement and develop- 
 ment the southern part of Utah, as well as the 
 portion of Nevada travelled by the line of the 
 
 road. Mr. Whittemore has been identified with 
 this project from the time it was first suggested 
 to connect these two points, and the building of 
 the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Rail- 
 road is the direct outcome of the eflforts of the 
 men with whom he has been associated for the 
 past four or five years. He was one of the orig- 
 inal promoters and organizers of the company. 
 He has, ever since his birth, been a resident of 
 this State, and has taken an active part in the 
 development of the city and in the upbuilding of 
 the prosperity of the State. 
 
 Mr. Whittemore was born in Salt Lake City, 
 June 29, 1862. His father, Joseph Whittemore, 
 was one of the early pioneers, coming from 
 Brooklyn, New York, to Utah in the early fifties, 
 and living here about twenty years, dying in 1876. 
 Mr. \\'hittemore's maternal grandfather, Joseph 
 Busby, came to Utah with the second company of 
 pioneers that reached here in 1848. Mr. Busby 
 was a native of Pennsylvania, and was a promi- 
 nent member of the Mormon Church, being iden- 
 tified with it throughout the larger part of his 
 life, until he differed from the policy laid down 
 by the leaders of the Church, when he severed 
 his relations with that institution. He was one 
 of the oldest members and was prominent in the 
 building up of its work. Mr. Whittemore's 
 forefathers were natives of England. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in the city of 
 Salt Lake and received his education at St. Mark's 
 School. He later took up the study of law and 
 entered Columbia University in New York, fin- 
 ishing his course of study at that institution in 
 1884. He returned to Utah that year and began 
 the practice of his profession and has been actively 
 engaged in that work ever since. He served as 
 Assistant City Attorney in 1882, and in 1886 he 
 was, for a short time, in the office of United 
 States District Attorney Dickson. He was elected 
 in 1894 as County Attorney for Salt Lake county 
 and occupied that position until the end of the 
 year 1896. In June, 1898, he was appointed 
 United States District Attorney, by President 
 McKinley, which position he has held ever since. 
 He is now the general attorney for the San Pedro, 
 Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad company, 
 of which he was one of the incorporators. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Whittemore was married in Salt Lake City 
 in 1885, to Miss Sarah L. Brown, and by this 
 marriage has three children — June ; Joseph R., 
 and Leigh. 
 
 In political life he is a member of the Republi- 
 can party in Utah, and has been a member of that 
 organization since its formation in this State. 
 Notwithstanding the agitation which the cam- 
 paign of 1896 produced in the State, owing to the 
 advocacy of free silver, and especially in the 
 mineral producing regions, Mr. Whittemore was 
 one of the few political leaders who stood firmly 
 for the RepubHcan party and its principles. He 
 is one of the trusted and valued leaders of his 
 party and has won the confidence and esteem of 
 the party leaders throughout the United States. 
 He is a member of the Alta Club and also belongs 
 to the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows 
 lodges. His prior service as County Attorney, 
 and in the term of office that he has held as 
 United States District Attorney, has made him 
 one of the best known and popular men in the 
 State, and has won for him the confidence and 
 esteem of all the people with whom he has come 
 in contact. 
 
 ARLOW FERGUSON, senior mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Ferguson and 
 Cannon. Among the well-known and 
 able attorneys of Salt Lake City the 
 career of Barlow Ferguson is one that 
 mav well furnish both diversion and instruc- 
 tion to the reader of these pages. A native son 
 of Utah, born and reared amid the inspiring 
 associations to be found in this western coun- 
 try, where the very air makes one's pulse beat 
 quicker and the brain clearer, he early took up 
 the study of the law and began active practice 
 in his young manhood, practicing alone for some 
 time, and forming his present partnership about 
 1892. He is alert and wide-awake, level-headed 
 and his uniform success in handling big cases 
 has brought him a large volume of valuable bus- 
 iness, and he is at this time attorney for the 
 leading mercantile and manufacturing estab- 
 lisliments of this State. 
 
 Mr. Ferguson was born in Salt Lake City De- 
 cember 5, 1859, and is the son of James and 
 Lucy (Nutting) Ferguson. The father was 
 born in Belfast. Ireland, February 23, 1828, re- 
 maining there until thirteen years of age, when 
 he went to Liverpool, and there remained until 
 he reached manhood. He was a self-taught 
 man, never having attended school after he was 
 nine years of age. In Liverpool he first heard 
 the doctrines of Mormonism preached, and be- 
 ing convinced of the truth of that religion, was 
 baptized into the Church and came to America 
 in 1847, ^t the age of nineteen years. He was 
 among those who started for Utah in 1847. He 
 was Adjutant-General of the Utah MiHtia, and 
 upon the call coming for volunteers for the war 
 against Mexico, was one of the first to volunteer 
 his services, and became a Sergeant-Major in 
 the ^Mormon Battalion. He made the entire trip 
 across the deserts of Colorado and Mexico with 
 his company, suffering untold privations and 
 hardships, and when the company was divided 
 in New Mexico, was among those who went on 
 to California to the relief of General Kearney. 
 He came to Salt Lake with his company in 1849. 
 He took up the study of the law, practicing up 
 to the time of his death in 1863. He was also 
 prominently identified with the newspaper life 
 of Salt Lake City, establishing the Mountaineer, 
 having associated with him Seth M. Blair, and 
 continued to publish that paper up to a few 
 years previous to his demise. Locally he had 
 quite a reputation as an actor in the early days 
 of Salt Lake City. He took a leading part in 
 all the affairs of the city during his life time, 
 and was well known and highly esteemed. He 
 died at the age of thirty-five years. He mar- 
 ried in San Francisco to Miss Lucy Nutting, the 
 mother of our subject. She was the mother of 
 five children. Mrs. Ferguson, then Miss Nut- 
 ting, at her home in Hatfield, Massachusetts, 
 joined the Mormon Church in 1846. Then a 
 lone girl at the age of twenty-one, left her par- 
 ents, relatives and friends, took passage on the 
 ship Brooklyn, a sailing vessel, and after a six- 
 months' perilous voyage rounded Cape Horn, 
 touched at Honolulu and landed at San Fran- 
 cisco, then a town of only two hundred people. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 It was tliere she met and married Mr. Ferguson. 
 Her first child, JuHa, now the wife of C. H. 
 Brown, of Liberty, Idaho, was born in the Old 
 Fort, now the Sixth Ward Square, in Salt Lake 
 City. Mrs. Ferguson was a strong and vigor- 
 ous minded woman, and endured all the hard- 
 ships incident to the early times here in Utah 
 with a light heart, having to the end the greatest 
 faith in her religion, which enabled her to en- 
 dure these hardships without a murmur. After 
 her marriage Mrs. Ferguson made the trip from 
 San Francisco to Salt Lake City on horseback. 
 She died in this city in 1895. 
 
 Our subject was educated in the public 
 schools of Lehi, and later in the Brigham Young 
 Academy at Provo, from which institution he 
 graduated in 1880. After his graduation he 
 started out in Park City to make his own way in 
 life, beginning by cutting cord wood, teaching 
 school and anything that came to hand. He had 
 always had a strong predilection for the study 
 of the law, and all his spare time was devoted to 
 study along this line. He was admitted to prac- 
 tice before the Supreme Court in 1886, and 
 opened his office in Salt Lake City, practicing 
 by himself and building up a fine business. 
 About 1892 he formed a partnership with John 
 M. Cannon under the firm name of Ferguson and 
 Cannon, and this firm has rapidly come to the 
 front as among the best practitioners in the 
 State. 
 
 Mr. Ferguson was married in 1885 to Miss 
 Rachel Tanner, daughter of Sidney and Rachel 
 (Neyman) Tanner, who came to Utah in 1850. 
 Five children have been born of this marriage, 
 four of whom are living — Ratie, James Barlow, 
 Blaine and Keith. 
 
 In politics Mr. Ferguson is a Republican and 
 has been quite an active worker for his party. 
 He held the office of County Attorney for Beaver 
 county and was at one time Assistant City and 
 County Attorney for Salt Lake county. 
 
 He is a member of the Mormon Church in 
 which he is an Elder. He is at this time attor- 
 ney for the Utah Sugar Company and Zion's 
 Savings Bank and Trust Company, and also for 
 the Bear River Water Company, the State Bank 
 of Utah and the Salt Lake Theater. 
 
 In social life Mr. Ferguson numbers many 
 warm friends, being possessed of most gentle- 
 manly and unassuming manners, and is quite 
 unspoiled by the honors that have come to him 
 and which have been won by his own undaunted 
 pluck, perseverance and splendid energy. 
 
 OHX I\I. CAXXOX. The history of the 
 men who have built up Salt Lake City 
 and developed the resources of Utah, 
 contains many striking examples of what 
 a man can do under adverse circum- 
 stances by the exercise of determination, appli- 
 cation and industry, and prominent among these 
 records stands the life of the subject of this 
 sketch, the son of President Angus M. Cannon, 
 of the Mormon Church, whose sketch appears 
 elsewhere in this work. 
 
 John M. Cannon was born in St George, 
 Washington county, Utah, on September 24th, 
 1865, and lived there until four years of age, 
 when his parents removed to Salt Lake City, 
 where he spent his boyhood days on his father's 
 farm in this county. He was educated in the 
 district schools of Salt Lake county and later 
 entered the Deseret University, now known as 
 the University of Utah. Notwithstanding the 
 fact that his education fitted him for work re- 
 quiring a considerable expenditure of mental 
 eiifort, he decided to learn a trade in order, that 
 should he fail in his higher work, he would have 
 the means of earning a livlihood. With this end 
 in view he took up the carpenter business, suc- 
 cessfully learned that trade and followed it until 
 he was twenty-one. Shortly after reaching his 
 majority, he started in business for himself and 
 began to operate extensively in real estate in 
 L'tah. He did not confine his efforts to thi... par- 
 ticular line, but branched out into the various 
 enterprises that offered. He continued In ac- 
 tive business life until September, 1888, when he 
 went to the University of Michigan and entered 
 the law department of that institution from 
 which he graduated in June, iqoo. He at 
 once returned to Salt Lake City and im- 
 
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 113 
 
 mediately entered upon the practice of his 
 profession, and has been actively engaged 
 in that work ever since. He at once 
 formed a partnership, which has continued 
 until this time, known as Ferguson and Cannon. 
 Since his return to Utah he has been actively 
 engaged in all the work incident to its develop- 
 ment, and is at present associated with his father 
 in the development of many mining properties. 
 In his practice he makes a specialty of civil cases, 
 paying particular attention to corporation law. 
 He was one of the promoters of Forest Dale and 
 actively engaged in the building up of that sub- 
 urb to this city. 
 
 Mr. Cannon was married on July 18, 1893, to 
 Miss Zina Bennion. daughter of John and Mary 
 Bennion. By this marriage he has five chiklren — ■ 
 Blanche, Zina Lenera, John B., Milton B. and 
 Paul. 
 
 In political life Air. Cannon is an ardent Demo- 
 crat, and has followed the fortunes of that party 
 with unfaltering devotion since its organization 
 in Utah. He is a prominent member of the 
 Church of his choice, being a member of the 
 High Council of the Granite Stake. He has 
 become one of the best known lawyers in Utah 
 and enjoys a large and lucrative practice, and 
 has won for himself the confidence and esteem 
 of all the members of the Bar. 
 
 OHX Sn'EL SMITH in many respects 
 is one of the most remarkable men living 
 ill Utah. He has been an honored citi- 
 zen of this State for over half a century 
 and is now past his ninety-second mile- 
 stone on life's journey, and still an active busi- 
 ness man, which is a record that but few men can 
 equal ; and now in his declining years he can look 
 back and feel that he has performed his part in 
 life's work faithfully and well. In Davis county, 
 where the most of his life nas been spent, he 
 numbers his friends by the score. 
 
 John S. Smith was born in Worcestershire, 
 England, March 10, 1809, and is the son of 
 William and Mary (Sivel) Smith, both natives 
 
 of England, the father being born in Hereford- 
 shire, and the mother in Worcestershire. The 
 Sivels were prominent people in England ; our 
 subject's maternal grandfather, Thomas Sivel, 
 was a leading stockman of that country ; our 
 subject's parents lived and died in England. 
 
 The first fifteen years of Mr. Smith's life were 
 spent on his father's farm, near the place of 
 his birth. At the age of fifteen he went to Wor- 
 cestershire and served an apprenticeship of five 
 years and three months, learning to be a carpen- 
 ter, wood-worker and wagon-maker. After he 
 had served his apprenticeship he followed his 
 trade for three years and then returned to farm 
 life. 
 
 He married Aliss Jane Wadley, of Gloucester- 
 shire, England, and of this marriage eleven 
 children were born, eight of whom grew to ma- 
 turity, and one of the eight dying after reach- 
 ing maturity. Two of the children were born in 
 England, where they died. Of the children, Wil- 
 liam C. lives near his father, in Kaysville, where 
 he owns a beautiful home; Ellen S. is the widow 
 of John Q. Knowlton ; Elizabeth W. is single 
 and lives with her father; Eliza N. is the wife of 
 George V. Stevenson, whose biographical sketch 
 appears elsewhere in this volume ; Harriet E. 
 is the wife of Jesse M. Smith, President of the 
 W'ool Growers' Association of Utah, whose bi- 
 ographical sketch also appears in this work ; 
 Annie is the wife of N. Brown, of Draper, and 
 George M. is a cattle and sheep man and makes 
 his home in Idaho. William C. is also a heavy 
 sheep owner and cattle man, and is also engaged 
 in general merchandise. 
 
 Mr. Smith became converted to the teachings 
 of the Mormon Church in England and was 
 baptized in that country in 1840. The following 
 year he emigrated, with his family, to America, 
 settling in Kirkland, Ohio, where they remained 
 for sixteen months and then moved to Nauvoo, 
 Illinois, remaining there until the exodus of the 
 Mormon people in 1846. Our subject was in 
 Nauvoo at the time of the killing of the Prophet 
 Joseph Smith, and passed all through the suf- 
 ferings and hardships which the Mormons were 
 subjected to in those days. From Nauvoo, the 
 family went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, remaining 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 there until 1850, when they started for Utah 
 under command of Captain Wilham Snow, arriv- 
 ing' in Salt Lake City on October 5, 1850. They 
 remained in the city until March of the following 
 year, when they went to Draper, remaining there 
 until the time of the Salmon river colonization 
 in 1856. In that year he bought what was known 
 as the old Kay place, after whom the settlement 
 of Kaysville was named, and moved there in 
 1857, making it his home from that time to the 
 present. iMr. Smith owns two hundred acres of 
 finely improved land on his home place, which 
 is well improved, with a substantial brick house, 
 good outbuildings, etc., and in addition to the 
 home place owns two hundred acres of range 
 land. He started in the sheep business the year he 
 came to Kaysville, and continued in that and the 
 cattle raising business until quite recently, when 
 he sold his sheep interests. His wife died in 
 Kaysville, May 22, 1888, and since that time his 
 daughters have kept house for him. 
 
 Mr. Smith has never affiliated with any politi- 
 cal party, preferring to use his own judgment 
 in those matters, and while he has been active in 
 all things pertaining to the growth and advance- 
 ment of his county and State, he has never been 
 an office seeker or taken any active part in politi- 
 cal affairs. In Nauvoo he was a member of the 
 Nauvoo Legion, and after coming to Utah par- 
 ticipated in the Johnston army troubles, under 
 Philemon Merrill. His children are all members 
 of the Mormon Church and active in its work. 
 William C. has been called on colonization work 
 a number of times, and George served two years 
 on a mission to the Southern States. Elizabeth 
 has presided for a number of years over the 
 Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association 
 of Davis Stake. Mr. Smith's sons also spent a 
 considerable time hauling rock for the Temple 
 at Salt Lake City. For a number of years, our 
 subject was counsel to the Bishop of his ward, and 
 in 1896 was ordained a Patriarch. Although 
 ninety-two years of age, Mr. Smith is in almost 
 perfect health ; with the exception of a slight de- 
 fect in his hearing his faculties being as clear to- 
 day as when a young man, and is never so happy 
 as when actively looking after his large business 
 interests. 
 
 LBERT S. REISER. The western 
 portion of the United States has, dur- 
 ing the last quarter of a century, af- 
 forded many opportunities for the 
 exercise of ability by young men, and 
 in no State in this region is this more true than 
 of Utah. It has been ready to recognize ability 
 in young men, and has always afforded them an 
 opportunity to demonstrate their fitness to oc- 
 cupy positions of honor and trust. In Salt Lake 
 City this is especially true, and today the respon- 
 sible position of City Auditor is occupied by a 
 man who has but just passed the thirtieth mile 
 stone in his life's journey. He is now serving 
 his second term in that office, having served with 
 such distinction during his first term that he was 
 re-elected by a large majority in the election 
 which took place in 1901. His administration 
 of his office has brought him prominently be- 
 fore the people of the city and county, and to- 
 day there is no public official who stands higher 
 in the confidence of the business world and in 
 the esteem of the people than does the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 Albert S. Reiser was born in Salt Lake City 
 in 1871, and has spent his life within the boun- 
 daries of Utah. His father, Henry Reiser, was 
 a native of Switzerland, and spent his early life 
 in the land of his nativity, emigrating to Utah 
 in i860. L^pon his arrival here he engaged in 
 the jewelry business, and has successfully fol- 
 lowed that all his life. He became a convert to 
 the teachings of the Mormon Church in Switz- 
 erland, and throughout his life in Utah has been 
 a consistent and devoted follower of that faith. 
 He came from a well-known family in Switz- 
 erland, who have been for generations an in- 
 fluential and widely-known mountaineer family. 
 His wife, Magdalene (Schneider) Reiser, and 
 the mother of the subject of this sketch, was 
 also a native of Switzerland, who also joined 
 the Church in her native land and came to Utah, 
 where she was married. 
 
 Their son, Albert S., was educated in the pri- 
 vate schools of Salt Lake City, and later attended 
 the Deseret University ,now the University of 
 Utah. Upon the completion of his education, 
 he engaged in the jewelry business, which he 
 
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 successfully followed for some time. His next 
 work was in the postoffice of Salt Lake City, 
 where he served for two years under Postmas- 
 ters Nash and Barratt. He has always taken 
 an active interest in political affairs, and is a 
 staunch Republican. In 1896 he was made Dep- 
 uty City Recorder, and the reputation he made 
 in that office for efficiency, and the splendid man- 
 ner in which its duties were administered, 
 brought him the nomination of City Auditor in 
 1899, on the Republican ticket. In the election 
 which ensued he was elected, and was re-elected 
 in 1 90 1, receiving a larger number of votes than 
 any candidate for any office voted for at that 
 election. 
 
 ]Mr. Reiser was married to Aliss Nellie Hamer, 
 daughter of Samuel Hamer, in 1895. Like his 
 parents, Mr. Reiser is a member of the Mormon 
 Church, and takes an active part in its welfar'' 
 He is one of the most popular officials of Salt 
 Lake City, and has made a reputation for integ- 
 rity and ability that gives him a high rank in 
 the political life of Utah. His genial and pleas- 
 ant manner has won for him the friendship of 
 all the people with whom he has come in con- 
 tact, and today there is no more popular man 
 in this citv than he. 
 
 ORACE DRAKE. Prominent among 
 the families which came with the pion- 
 eers to Utah in 1847, was that of Hor- 
 ace Drake, of Centerville. The Drakes 
 come of good old fighting stock. Hor- 
 ace's mother's father, John Perkins, went through 
 the Revolutionary war and fought and bled for 
 his countr}' in the famous battle of Bunker Hill^ 
 and his father, Daniel Drake, was a soldier in the 
 war of 181 2, when the United States a second time 
 asserted the martial supremacy over the mother 
 country. 
 
 Horace Drake was born in Hartford, Trumbull 
 county, Ohio, on April 19, 1826. He is a son of 
 Daniel and Patience (Perkins) Drake. Both 
 father and mother were natives of Vermont, his 
 mother's home being at the foot of the Green 
 mountains. After their marriage in Vermont 
 thev moved to New York State where all of their 
 
 eleven children, except Horace, the youngest, 
 were born. Mrs. Drake was a widow when she 
 married Daniel Drake. Her first husband was a 
 well-known scythe manufacturer of Vermont, and 
 the celebrated "Taft" scythe was manufactured 
 under his name for many years after his death. 
 
 The Drakes came to Illinois in 1835 and 
 settled in Hancock county , within sixteen 
 miles of Carthage. Here they all embraced the 
 Mormon faith, and received baptism on April 
 8, 1841. They lived near Carthage until 1846, 
 and were there during the terrible riot when 
 the Mormons were persecuted, their houses 
 burned, their property destroyed or confiscated, 
 and their prophet, Jaseph Smith, killed. After 
 this, they were driven out of Illinois, from the 
 homes that they had built, and were forced to 
 abandon the temple they had spent years in erect- 
 ing in the beautiful city of Nauvoo. Crossing the 
 Mississippi, at Fort Madison, to Council Bluffs, 
 the Drakes betook themselves to Running Water 
 Fork, near the Missouri, where they took up 
 winter quarters. In the spring of '47 they fitted 
 out wagons with ox teams at Council Bluffs, and 
 the father and mother with Horace and one of his 
 brothers, Orson P., came West with the pioneers 
 to Utah. The rest of the family came on the 
 following year. Horace made an application, 
 to go with the Mormon battalion, but an ac- 
 cident to his right arm which caused a stiffening 
 of the elbow from anchylosis of the joint, pre- 
 vented his acceptance. He and one of his brothers 
 had made some drums while they were at Nau- 
 voo, and were eagerly learning to beat the tattoo 
 so that they could go as drummers with the bat- 
 talion, but as Horace's accident prevented his en- 
 listment, his father would not allow the other 
 boy to go. After coming to Utah, these two 
 made the first musical instruments that were 
 ever made in the territory. These were a couple 
 of violins on which, for many a year, they played 
 at Ogden and other places in the Valley. 
 
 The Drake family crossed the plains in a 
 train in which a hundred wagons were under 
 the command of Daniel Spencer, fifty under Ira 
 Eldredge and ten under George Boyce. The first 
 winter, they passed in the old Salt Lake Fort. 
 In i8so, the elder Drake went to Ogden, where 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he died in December of the following year. ]Mrs. 
 Drake died in i860. 
 
 On October 3, 1850, Mr. Drake was married 
 at Salt Lake City, by President Brigham Young, 
 to Diana E. Holbrook, a daughter of Chandler 
 and Unice (Dunning) Holbrook. Her father and 
 mother had both been born and raised in Genesee 
 county, New York, and came of that good old 
 Puritan stock of which New York has so many 
 sons and daughters. The Holbrooks were among 
 the first to embrace the teachings of Joseph 
 Smith, and Chandler never lost an opporunity 
 to spread the teachings he had imbibed from the 
 Prophet. He had a most profound belief in these 
 doctrines which he cherished during his whole 
 life. It was such men as Chandler Holbrook 
 that were foremost among those who laid the 
 foundation of the Mormon Church, in L'tah, 
 which lives and waxes stronger each year. He 
 was a man of more than ordinary education. He 
 had charge of the survey of what was then 
 called Dixey county, in Southern Utah. Horace's 
 wife was with the last party of women who went 
 up to Zion, at Kirkland, Ohio, and the only one 
 of that party who is living today. The Drakes 
 had twelve children, only three of whom are 
 living today. They were Horace L., dead; Cyrus 
 H., dead; Unice D., dead; Samuel, deceased; 
 Jedediah, deceased ; Joseph, dead ; Rosetta, died 
 at 14 years ; Hyrum ; Alice E., now Mrs. S. F. 
 Worsley, of Idaho; Daniel C, deceased; James 
 A., dead, and Edith L., who lives at home with 
 her parents, and is an amiable, accomplished and 
 well educated young lady, much attached to her 
 home and her parents. 
 
 After living for forty years in Salt Lake City, 
 Mr. Drake went to Centerville in 1887, where he 
 now has three hundred and thirty-seven acres of 
 land which cost him $18,000. His is one of the 
 best farms in L^tah, and was once owned by 
 Brigham Young's family. Judge Le Grande 
 Young improved it by building on it a fine, large 
 adobe house, and perhaps the most costly rock 
 barn in the State. It is built of stone, inlaid with 
 mortar, and is an immensely massive structure. 
 The farm has a gradual slope from the mountains 
 to the Great Salt Lake, and contains magnificent 
 orchards. Hyrum. one of the sons, has a small 
 
 lot and a fine brick house on this farm, which his 
 father assisted him in building. Mr. Drake also 
 owns some fine building property in Center- 
 ville, where he proposes to build a home, some 
 day, in proximity to the tneeting house. Cimeran 
 H. Pickering, a child of his oldest daughter, is 
 being raised at his home. 
 
 During the trouble with Johnston's army, Hor- 
 ace Drake was among the first to enlist in the 
 Mormon ranks, and on the first night that they 
 were out a terriffic snow storm raged in the 
 canyon all night. Drake's lame arm became 
 helpless from the cold and exposure, and the 
 colonel, noticing his condition, ordered him home. 
 He pleaded hard to stay but was not allowed. 
 Horace Dtake and all of his family are staunch 
 supporters of the Mormon Church. He, himself, 
 has passed through the priesthood and been or- 
 dained a member of the Seventies, being the 
 senior counsel of the tenth quorum. He was a 
 member of the Nauvoo Legion, and was present 
 when Joseph .Smith blessed the legion, a blessing 
 which he has cherished the memory of through 
 all his life. 
 
 Mr. Drake still holds his commission as drum 
 major in the First Regiment of the Nauvoo 
 Legion, and among his most treasured posses- 
 sions are the flag, flag-staiT and drum which 
 formed part of his accoutrements. The drum ac- 
 companied the Mormon battalion across the des- 
 erts to California, and the flag and staff were 
 made in Utah. These relics were all on exhibition 
 in Salt Lake City during the Jubilee celebration 
 held in that city in July, 1897. 
 
 KORGE C. LAMBERT. The settle- 
 ment of the West and the development 
 of its resources have been carried on 
 by many men who have taken up the 
 uncompleted tasks where their prede- 
 cessors left off, and have carried the work on 
 a little farther. In the extreme Western States 
 there has been more or less spasmodic effort 
 towards industrial development, but in the entire 
 West the States have grown not only by reason of 
 the efforts of the men, but by reason of their 
 position. This is especially true of L^tah and of 
 
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 Salt Lake City, the position of the latter being 
 such as to make it one of the most important dis- 
 tribution centers throughout the West. It is the 
 center of the mining field of Utah, into which 
 is paid the money received for the ores, and from 
 which is shipped the supplies needed not only foi" 
 mining, but for the life of the region covered by 
 four ^tates. The wide range of the industries 
 of the present day civilization has brou'ght into 
 being many enterprises which have grown with 
 the advance of years to be almost indispensable. 
 There is perhaps no greater industry nor one 
 which is more closely associated with the people, 
 and without which business could hardly be car- 
 ried on, than the newspaper. The newspaper of 
 today is essentially the product of American civil- 
 ization, and is one of the features of American 
 life. In its making there is required the co- 
 operation of a good many people and the use of 
 a varied supply of material. The work of supply- 
 ing paper, ink and, in fact, all printers' supplies, 
 has grown to be one of the prominent industries 
 of the country, and in LTtah the largest firm which 
 conducts this business, and by its honesty and in- 
 tegrity has won a high position in the commercial 
 world, is the Lambert Paper Company, over which 
 the subject of this sketch presides as President. 
 George C. Lambert was born in Winter Quar- 
 ters, now Florence, Nebraska, April 11, 1848, 
 while his parents were enrounte to Utah. The 
 Lambert family had been driven from Illinois 
 and Missouri to Nebraska, and wintered in the 
 latter State. While there their team animals were 
 stolen by the Indians and they were prevented 
 from pursuing their journey until 1849. M''- 
 Lambert's father, Charles Lambert, returned to 
 Missouri, after the birth of George C, and came 
 to L^tah the following year, arriving here in 
 1849. ''"d was among the early pioneers in the 
 development of this State. His mother, Mary 
 Alice (Cannon) Lambert, was a sister of George 
 Q. Cannon. Mr. Lambert's father was a builder 
 and mason, and after his arrival in Utah combined 
 that pursuit, with farming and bridge build- 
 ing during the balance of his life. The 
 Lambert family were through all the trials 
 of the Mormon Church in Nauvoo, and were 
 among the last members of that Church who were 
 
 driven from that city and from the State of Illi- 
 nois. While coming to Utah, in crossing the river 
 at Omaha, which at that time was frozen over, 
 the wagon containing the worldly effects of the 
 family broke through the ice and sank to the 
 bottom of the river, while Mrs. Lambert with four 
 children clinging to her skirts, witnessed the dis- 
 aster from the bank of the river. At the time 
 that this occurred j\lr. Lambert was absent in 
 Missouri. 
 
 The career that Mr. Lambert has made in 
 L^tah stamps him as one of its most remarkable 
 men. not only in the business world, but also 
 among its citizens of interest. He has built his 
 present business from a small beginning to one of 
 the largest establishments in Utah, and, in fact, 
 throughout the West. He has spent practically 
 his whole life in this State and has aided in 
 its development as well as in the work of the 
 Church of his choice. While he was not born in 
 Utah, he came here as an infant and is surely en- 
 titled to consider himself as one of the people of 
 this State with which he has been identified all his 
 life. His boyhood days were spent on his father's 
 farm, in freighting, and in doing all the work 
 that the boys of the pioneers of those days were 
 called upon to do. In 1866 he took part in the 
 expedition in the southern part of Utah, where 
 the troops were called to guard the settlers from 
 the depredations of the Indians. He received 
 such educational advantages as the ward schools 
 of those days afforded, and attended one term. 
 He later attended the Union x^cademy, which was 
 the genesis of the University of Utah. 
 
 In January, 1867, he engaged in the printing 
 business in the Deseret Nczvs office and has 
 worked in all the departments — from type-setting 
 to business manager and editor. He continued 
 with the Deseret Neivs for a number of years 
 and subsequently was in partnership with his 
 uncle, George Q. Cannon, in the publication of 
 the Juvenile Instructor, and numerous books, of 
 which business he had the entire management. 
 He was called to go on a mission to Eu- 
 rope, by his Church, in October, 1882, and 
 in Liverpool he edited the Millennial Star and 
 the Journal of Discourses. These were English 
 publications of the Mormon Church, for dis- 
 
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 tribution in Europe. Mr. Lambert served two 
 and a quarter years on that mission and, while 
 abroad, visited England, Ireland, Wales, Den- 
 mark, Sweden and France. He returned to Utah 
 at the close of his work and again took up his 
 position on the Deseret News, being first engaged 
 in the editorial department, where he remained 
 until May, 1886. 
 
 The prosecutions, by the L'nited States Govern- 
 ment, for violation of the Edmunds-Tucker Act, 
 were just commencing when he returned from 
 Europe, and Mr. Lambert, being a strong be- 
 liever in the Mormon principles, and especially in 
 the doctrine of plural marriages, had married 
 two wives, with whom he lived. He was ar- 
 rested, tried and convicted for a violation of this 
 law, and sentenced to the penitentiary for six 
 months, serving that sentence in company with 
 President Snow and other prominent members 
 of the Church. While serving his sentence, he 
 was more or less of a privileged character, owing 
 to his being a journalist, and was permitted to 
 read the newspapers, an exception which was 
 not made for any other of the Mormons during 
 his incarceration. During his six months' impris- 
 onment for what he considered not an offense 
 against the Government, but a persecution on 
 account of his religious belief, Mr. Lambert was 
 approached by the Territorial Governor and of- 
 fered amnesty if he would forego the practice of 
 polygamy. This was offered to all the prisoners 
 who w-ere incarcerated for this offense, but so 
 strong was their belief in their right to 
 follow the teachings and doctrines of their 
 religion, that they refused this offer, which also 
 included the cancellation of their sentences. Mr. 
 Lambert was chosen by the prisoners to write 
 the reply to the Governor's offer, declining his 
 proposition, which reply was signed by all the 
 Mormon prisoners. 
 
 After his release from the penitentiary, Mr. 
 Lambert continued his activity in the Mormon 
 Church, and has been one of its prominent mem- 
 bers ever since, aiding in its development and 
 guiding its work. He has always been promi- 
 nently identified with the industries of Utah, 
 and has seen Salt Lake City grow from 
 a small, straggling village to its present 
 
 importance. For more than twenty-five years 
 he has been in the newspaper business, and 
 in addition to it, he is also the owner 
 of considerable real estate in this city and 
 county. The Lambert Paper Company, of which 
 he is president, was originally established bv him 
 in 1893. This incorporation was the outgrowth 
 of the business established by Mr. Lambert, 
 twenty-five years before. It has grown to its 
 present proportions and its high standard of pros- 
 perity under his able management. In 1897 it 
 was incorporated under the laws of Utah with 
 a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars. 
 Mr. Lambert was chosen as its president and 
 manager, which positions he has held ever since. 
 His son, George C. Lambert, Junior, was elected 
 secretary and treasurer, and still holds those 
 positions, while James N., the second son, is vice- 
 president of the company. The establishment of 
 the company is on West South Temple street, 
 in a spacious, three-story brick building. The 
 firm now devotes its entire time to the wholesale 
 business, which extends throughout other inter- 
 mountain States as well as Utah. There are 
 employed, in the different departments of the 
 house, twelve men ; and three traveling salesmen 
 to cover the territory tributary to Salt Lake. 
 Their stock consists of paper of every description : 
 Stationery, printers' supplies, plain and printed 
 wrapping paper; paper boxes and cutters, twine, 
 oyster and ice cream pails, candy boxes, pie 
 plates, and in fact everything made or used in 
 paper. The firm is one of the sound financial 
 establishments of Utah, and has won an enviable 
 reputation for integrity and honesty. Mr. Lam- 
 bert has made for himself a splendid career in the 
 business life of Utah, having been prominently 
 identified with various institutions. He was 
 formerly manager and part owner of the Granite 
 Paper Mills, until the latter burned down in 
 April, 1893. 
 
 Mr. Lambert married his first wife. Miss Mary 
 Alice Needham, in May, 1871, and by her had 
 nine children, six of whom are still living. His 
 second wife was Miss Rosina M. Cannon, an 
 adopted daughter of George Q. Cannon, and by 
 her he had five children, of whom four are living. 
 
 In addition to the commercial enterprises in 
 
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 which Mr. Lambert has been' identified, he has 
 also taken an active part in the development of 
 the agricultural resources of this State. He is 
 secretary and treasurer of the Irrigation Congress 
 of Utah, also of the Utah and Salt Lake Canal 
 Company, one of the largest canals in the inter- 
 mountain region ; he is also the owner of three 
 fine farms in the outlying districts of Salt Lake 
 county, and also owns a dairy located just south 
 of the city. Few men have taken a more active 
 part in the development of Utah and in building 
 up its resources than has Mr. Lambert. He is 
 essentially a self-made man, and has gained his 
 education, not so much from books as from the 
 experiences of his daily life. He has made a 
 record which entitles him to a foremost place in 
 the annals of Utah, and is regarded as one of 
 the most substantial and influential of its citizens. 
 His leadership in the work of the Church has 
 secured for him the confidence and trust of its 
 members, and his strict integrity and honesty 
 have also won for him the respect and esteem of 
 all with whom he has been associated in business. 
 His active life has brought him into close contact 
 with all the people of the inter-mountain region, 
 and he numbers his friends by the legion. 
 
 AXIEL HARRINGTON was born in 
 American Fork, Utah county, Utah, 
 March 15, i860. He has spent his 
 whole life within the confines of this 
 State and has devoted his time to the 
 practice of the law, in which he has achieved a 
 successful career, standing now in the foremost 
 ranks of that profession in this State. 
 
 He is a son of the late L. E. Harrington, a 
 native of New York State, who came to L^tah in 
 1847, being one of the first pioneers who under- 
 took the settlement of this wild region. He set- 
 tled in Utah county and was for thirty years 
 in the Territorial Legislature, representing thai 
 district, most of that time as chairman of the 
 judiciary committee. So highly esteemed was he 
 by his fellow-citizens that for twelve consecutive 
 terms he filled the office of mayor of that town. 
 He was a prominent member of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and was a 
 
 Bishop of the Ward in which he lived. He was a 
 leading man of that section of the country and did 
 much during his life to promote its interests and 
 aided in every way in his power in the develop- 
 ment of its resources. He died in 1883, at the 
 age of sixty-seven, loved and respected by all 
 who knew him. His wife, Mary (Jones) Har- 
 rington, the mother of the subject of this sketch, 
 died when her son was but an infant. Daniel 
 Harrington's boyhood days were spent in a man- 
 ner similar to those of other pioneers. He as- 
 sisted his father in the latter's business and at- 
 tended the district schools at American Fork. 
 He later entered the Brigham Young academy 
 at Provo, at the age of eighteen, and graduated 
 from that institution two years later. L'pon leav- 
 ing that institution he took up the work of teach- 
 ing, and was principal of the schools of Richfield, 
 Sevier county, and superintendent of the schools 
 of Sevier county for some years. 
 
 Air. Harrington came to Salt Lake City, Utah, 
 in 1887, when he became associated with John 
 W. Young, who was then building a large por- 
 tion of the railroads then entering the Park City 
 region. In 1890 he was admitted to the Bar; 
 immediately thereafter, in order to acquire the 
 most advanced methods of study, he entered the 
 law department of Michigan University at Ann 
 Arbor, and graduated there with the degree of 
 L. L. B., in 1901. In 1895 he filled the office ot 
 Assistant District /Attorney in Salt Lake City and 
 continued in that office until the admission of 
 Utah into the Union as a State. His practice has 
 grown with the years, and he now enjoys a large 
 general practice. He has, however, devoted con- 
 siderable attention to criminal law, and is equally 
 as ready in the criminal as in the civil courts. 
 
 He has been an active worker in politics, and 
 has participated in all the campaigns of the Re- 
 publican party since its formation in the State. 
 In 1 89 1 he was nominated from the Second Pre- 
 cinct, Salt Lake City, on that ticket for the State 
 Legislature, but at the election the party did not 
 prevail. In the various campaigns in which he 
 has participated he has been one of the leaders 
 of the Republican party, serving on the various 
 committees charged with the conduct of the cam- 
 paigns. To him the credit is due in a large part 
 
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 of the campaign clulis which were scattered 
 throughout the State, and which were of such ma- 
 terial advantage and Ijenefit to the RepubHcan 
 party. 
 
 He married in Salt Lake City to ]\Iiss Leonora 
 Taylor, daughter of President John Taylor, of 
 the Mormon Church. They have six children- 
 Jennie; Daniel, Jr.; Florence; John T. ; Russell, 
 and Mary. 
 
 Mr. Harrington is a member of the Mormon 
 Church and has risen to a prominent position in 
 its affairs, being now one of the Seventies. His 
 ability as a lawyer has brought him prominently 
 before the people of the State, and the reputa- 
 tion which he has made has been strengtiiened by 
 his genial and pleasant manner. He is one of 
 the most popular attorneys in Salt Lake City, 
 and numbers his friends throughout the State by 
 the legion. 
 
 RS. MARY DONAHUE, ncc 
 Moody. The development of the 
 mining resources of Utah and the 
 uilding up of towns at its mining 
 centers has not been ttie exclusive 
 work of men, but in this field there have been 
 women who have gained not only wealth by 
 their operations, but also a wide reputation for 
 their business ability, and among the most prom- 
 inent of these, and especially in the Tintic min- 
 ing district of Utah, is the subject of this sketch. 
 Mrs. Donahue was born in Grimes county, 
 Texas, and came to Utah when quite young, be- 
 ing educated in the schools of Utah. She re- 
 mained here until 1862, when her people moved 
 to Utah. Her father. Bishop John Moody, 
 had become a convert to the Mormon Church 
 in Texas, and moved to Utah in 1861, and in 
 the following year was joined by his family. 
 Upon his removal to this State he engaged in 
 general business life, and later moved to Saint 
 George, where he was engaged in the machin- 
 ery and mercantile business. He took an 
 active part in all the commercial life of the 
 State. He lived at Saint George for a num- 
 ber of years, and then removed to Arizona, where 
 he spent the balance of his life. He was a mem- 
 
 ber of the Territorial Legislature, and took an 
 active part in all the work which fell to the lot 
 of the early settlers of this State. He lived to 
 be sixty years of age, and died in Arizona, in 
 which Territory he carried on a flour mill and 
 mercantile business. Throughout his life he was 
 a faithful and devoted member of the church of 
 his choice. His family had been early settlers 
 of Texas, and his father had been prominent in 
 the early business of that State, both in its po- 
 litical life and in its settlement and develop- 
 ment. They settled in the vicinity of Houston 
 Texas, and there is now a street in that city 
 which is named for him. Mrs. Donahue's mother 
 Margaret (Anglin) Moody, was also a native 
 of Texas, where her father, Elisha Anglin, was 
 one of the early settlers and operated a stock 
 raising and cattle business. Mrs. Donahue be- 
 came interested in the mining properties of 
 Utah about eleven years since, becoming identi- 
 fied with the famous Mammoth mine in the 
 Tintic district, which had been first developed 
 by the Crismons, and was later sold by them to 
 the Mclntyres, brothers of the subject of this 
 sketch. Our subject is also largely identified 
 with the commercial life of Tintic, and has one 
 of the largest establishments for the furnishing 
 of supplies for the miners in that district. This 
 is one of the famous mines of Utah, and one 
 which has proved as profitable as any mine 
 which has ever been developed in this State. It 
 is now one of the deepest in the Tintic mining 
 district, and is one of the most valuable prop- 
 erties in that portion of the State. 
 
 Mrs. Donahue has three sons — Robert Morris, 
 William J. and Monroe S. The first is estab- 
 lished in business in Salt Lake City, and Wil- 
 liam and Monroe are associated with their 
 mother in the business in the Tintic mining dis- 
 trict. Besides the general mercantile business 
 which Mrs. Donahue successfully carries on, and 
 the interests which she has in the Mammoth 
 mine, she is also identified with other industries 
 in this State. Her experience in mining, to- 
 gether with the time she has spent in the mercan- 
 tile business, has made her not only an experi- 
 enced mining expert, but also one of the best 
 business women of Utah. Although her busi- 
 
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 ness is located in Tintic, she makes her home in 
 Salt Lake City, and the splendid home which she 
 occupies is located at No. 141 South Second 
 East street, the plans of which she designed, su- 
 perintending its erection, as well as furnishing 
 it. Her father and mother were both identified 
 with the Mormon Church, and were consistent 
 members of that faith throughout their lives. 
 
 Mrs. Donahue is not a member of any church, 
 but believes in helping them in their work and 
 in doing the greatest good to the greatest num- 
 ber of people who are deserving of charity or 
 need help. Neither in Tintic nor in Salt Lake 
 City has there ever been a man sent nungry from 
 her house, and an appeal for aid tails upon will- 
 ing ears when addressed to her. 
 
 RIN HATCH. The opportunities of 
 lite all do not realize. It is, therefore, 
 especially helpful to study the life of a 
 successful man; one who has started 
 without means and worked his own 
 way steadily to a position of influence and finan- 
 cial success. Such a man is Orin Hatch, of 
 Woods Cross, Davis county, now living a retired 
 life. 
 
 Mr. Hatch was bom May 9, 1830. in Cat- 
 taraugus county. New York, and is the son of Ira 
 Stearns and Welthy (Bradford) Hatch. His 
 father was born in the State of Vermont, and his 
 mother in Maine. They were married in New 
 York State where seven children were born and 
 grew to maturity, our subject being the third of 
 six boys and one girl. In 1841 they moved from 
 New York State and settled in Hancock county, 
 Illinois, where the mother died in the fall of 1842. 
 The senior Mr. Hatch was an intimate friend and 
 associate of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and was 
 a strong believer in the doctrines which he ad- 
 vocated, and which he faithfully followed all the 
 balance of his life. He was a member of the 
 Nauvoo Legion and participated in all the 
 early troubles of the Church in that sec- 
 tion. He was present at the last public 
 speech which the Prophet ever made. In 
 1846, at the time of the exodus of the 
 Mormon people, thcv accompanied them to 
 
 Winter Quarters and when the Government called 
 for five hundred men from the ranks of the Mor- 
 mon people our subject and his brother were 
 among the first to respond to this call, and en- 
 listed in Company C, of the Mormon battalion. 
 They took up the march and traveled to Leaven- 
 worth, Kansas. Here they were supplied with a 
 new outfit, provisions, etc., and continued the 
 march to Santa Fe. This was a memorable trip 
 from the fact that so many of the soldiers suf- 
 fered greatly from ague, among this number 
 being our subject. The same characteristics, how- 
 ever, that ever followed him through life, were 
 exemplified on that march, and rather than give 
 up he stuck to it and participated in the whole of 
 the march until they were discharged from Gov- 
 ernment service, which took place in Los Angeles, 
 California. Here he remained for some time 
 with the balance of his company, having secured 
 work from Captain Sutter, who was at that time 
 constructing a dam and here the first gold was 
 discovered. On account of the scarcity of vege- 
 tables in that country at that time .=curvy broke 
 out and our subject was a great sufiferer from 
 that plague as well, at a time wnen he was 
 living in the vicinity of Sacramento. 
 
 In 1848, Mr. Hatch and his brother, Meltior, 
 who had accompanied him through all this jour- 
 ney, returned to Salt Lake City, and from Salt 
 Lake City went back to Iowa, where their father 
 had been engaged in farming during these two 
 years. They spent the winter of 1848-49 in Mis- 
 souri. In the following year, 1849, '1'^ whole 
 family returned to LItah by ox teams, our subject 
 and his father at that time owning four ox 
 teams. The company was commanded by Cap- 
 tain Enoch Reese, who had charge of fifty 
 wagons. When part way on the journey, the cat- 
 tle were stampeded by fright, and from that time 
 they traveled in smaller companies. They arrived 
 in Salt Lake City in the autumn ot that year, 
 and moved almost immediately to Bountiful, 
 where the senior Mr. Hatch made his home for 
 the balance of his life. He died in Bountiful in 
 1869. From the time of settling in Utah, our sub- 
 ject made his own way. In 1850, he went to the 
 gold fields in California, at Placerville, where he 
 remained for two years, this proving a successful 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 venture. Upon his return to Utah he was called 
 by the heads of the Church, to assist in colonizing 
 the Green River country, where he spent the 
 greater portion of one year. 
 
 On November lo, 1855. he married Miss Eliza- 
 beth Perry, daughter of John and Grace Ann 
 (Williams) Perry, both natives of England, 
 where Mrs. Hatch was born in 1836. The Perry 
 family came to America in 1840 and settled at 
 Nauvoo, where they lived until the exodus of the 
 Mormon people, which occurred in 1846. Both 
 Mr. and Mrs. Perry were members of the United 
 Brethren Church, in England. Mr. Perry was 
 called on a mission to England, and had reached 
 Atchison, Kansas, on his way home, when he was 
 taken sick, and died in 1855. His wife died in 
 1870. They were among the first families to settle 
 in Bountiful. Of this marriage thirteen children 
 were born, all of whom are now living. A 
 recent photograph of the whole family was 
 taken by one of the leading artists of Salt Lake 
 City, which is beyond a doubt one of the finest 
 family groups ever taken in the State. The sons 
 are all fine-looking, manly young men, and the 
 very picture of health, and the daughters are 
 beautiful women. They are: Orin P., John E., 
 Grace Ann, now Mrs. William Moss ; Amelia A., 
 now Mrs. David Jackson, of Rich county, Utah ; 
 Joseph E., living in the Bear River country ; 
 James E., Alice, now Mrs. James Jackson, of Rich 
 county, L'tah ; Chloe A., now Mrs. Andrew 
 Grant; Ezra T., Wilder T., in the Big Horn 
 country ; Myra, now Mrs. Mann, of the Big Horn 
 country ; Algie, now Mrs. Grant ; Jabez B. He 
 later married Maria Thompson, daughter of 
 Elizabeth and William Thompson, and by this 
 marriage eight children were bom, of whom two 
 died — William T., Orvil, Daniel, Dav'd, who died 
 in infancy ; W^alter, Lizzie, George, and Ella who 
 died at the age of two years. Mr Hatch has 
 successfully followed farming and stock raising, 
 both cattle and sheep, the greater portion of his 
 life in Utah. His home place consists of one 
 hundred acres of splendid land under a good 
 state of cultivation, and has a fine residence and 
 outbuildings. Desides this, his wife owns another 
 fine place of thirty-seven acres, also well im- 
 proved. 
 
 In politics, Mr. Hatch has always been inde- 
 pendent, preferring to support the best man for 
 office. He was baptized by one of the Mormon 
 Elders, at about fourteen years of age, and has 
 always been a faithful and consistent member of 
 that Church throughout his life. His wife was 
 baptized in the Mississippi river when only eight 
 years of age ; she was present and saw the bodies 
 ot the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother 
 Hyrum after their death. Mr. Hatch has assisted 
 in the colonization of the Carson valley and also 
 of Arizona. He has served for the past twenty- 
 five years as teacher of his Ward, and has passed 
 through all the offices of the priesthood. He 
 was ordained one of the Seven Presidents of the 
 Seventy-fourth Quorum of Seventies, later a 
 High Priest and Ordained Patriarch by Apos- 
 tle Teasdale in 1808. 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 <iIIX R. WINDER, JR., the son of 
 1 'resident John R. Winder, one of the 
 most prominent men in the history of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints in Utah, whose biograph- 
 ical sketch appears elsewhere in this work, and 
 Ellen (Walters) Winder, a native of near Tren- 
 ton, Devonshire, England. She died here in 1893. 
 John R. Winder, Jr., was born in Liverpool, 
 England, September 19, 1848, and came to LTtah 
 with his parents when but a child of five years, 
 in October, 1853. His boyhood days were spent 
 in Salt Lake City, where he obtained his educa- 
 tion from the schools that then existed, spend- 
 ing part of the time on a farm. During one of 
 the Conferences of the Church in Salt Lake City 
 the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution was 
 in need of some extra hands to handle the busi- 
 ness for a short time, and our subject persuaded 
 his father to allow him to work there for only a 
 few weeks. The weeks lengthened into months, 
 and the months into years, Mr. Winder being 
 promoted from one position to another, work- 
 ing principally in the boot, shoe and leather de- 
 partment, and a portion of the time traveling 
 through the inter-mountain region in the inter- 
 est of the establishment, until he spent thirteen 
 years in the service of that institution, having 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 123 
 
 entered at the age of twenty-one years. Upon 
 severing his connection with that estabhshment, 
 Air. Winder bought a one-third interest in the 
 hardware establishment of P. \V. Madsen & 
 Company, and had charge of the business for 
 about nine years. The business was later in- 
 corporated under the name of the Utah Stove 
 & Hardware Company, of which company ]\Ir. 
 Winder was for many years secretary, treasurer 
 and general manager, and is at this time vice- 
 president. He is also interested in the Utah 
 Commercial and Savings Bank, in which he is 
 one of the directors and a member of the execu- 
 tive committee, and is a large stockholder. He 
 has some large real estate holdings in the city, 
 owming some fine terraces on First, South and 
 Third East streets. 
 
 Mr. Winder is a single man. In political life 
 he has always been identified with the Demo- 
 cratic party, but has never sought or held public 
 office. He is a member of the Mormon Church. 
 He has served on one mission to the Southern 
 States, where he remained for about eight 
 months, laboring in that field in 1875. 
 
 Mr. Winder's entire life has been given to the 
 advancement and development of the city of 
 Salt Lake. He has devoted his time, energy- and 
 means to this cause, and is today one of the 
 staunch business men of the city, standing high 
 not only in the commercial world, but in the 
 esteem of all with whom he has been associated 
 through a long and honorable career. 
 
 OLOXEL EDWARD S. FERRY. 
 I'rominent among the young meir.- 
 liers of the bar of L'tah, and one who 
 promises by the work he has already 
 accomplished to be one of the lead- 
 ers in his profession in the fulness of his y-ears, 
 is the subject of this sketch, at present a mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Richards & Ferry. 
 
 Edward S. Ferry is the son of Edward and 
 Clara Mrginia (White) Ferry, natives of Mich- 
 igan. His father is one of the most prominent 
 and best known mining men in the West. He 
 was born near Grand Haven, Alichigan, and 
 spent his boyhood days in that city, receiving 
 
 his early education in its schools, and later en- 
 tered Beloit College, while still a young man. 
 Upon leaving college, he embarked in the lum 
 ber and banking business, which he successfully 
 followed for a number of years. For a lon^ 
 time he was president of the First National 
 Bank of Grand Haven, one of the soundest 
 financial establishments in the State of Michi- 
 gan. He took an active part in the politics cf 
 his native State, together with other members 
 of his family, and his brother served a number 
 of terms in the Senate of the United States. 
 
 -Air. Ferry came to Utah in 1870, and wai 
 one of the first men to take hold of the grea. 
 Sdver King mine, and began the developmen: 
 that has led to its present prosperity and valuc^ 
 and has been active in its management since 
 that time. He was also interested in the Anchor 
 mine, and it was largely through his efforts that 
 this mine was developed. This was the firsc 
 mine to attract attention to the vast mineral 
 deposit in the Park City district, and even in the 
 early history of the mining industry of Utah, 
 Mr. Ferry had unlimited confidence in the ulti- 
 mate growth of that section and in the wealth 
 that lay hidden beneath its surface. So strong was 
 his faith in the future of this district that he in- 
 vested almost all the money he had in mining 
 properties there, and in the generations yet to 
 come his name will be remembered for the great 
 work he has accomplished for the mining in- 
 terests of the State of Utah. 
 
 Throughout his entire life :\Ir. Ferry had 
 been a believer in the principles of the Republi- 
 can party, and his record as a member of the 
 Legislature of Utah will long stand as a mon- 
 ument to his ability and to the faithful manne' 
 in which he discharged the duties entrusted to 
 him by his fellow citizens. It was while en- 
 gaged in this duty, being re-elected several times, 
 and caring for his vast mining enterprises, that 
 his health gave way. The mother of our sub- 
 ject, Clara Virginia (White) Ferry, was also 
 a native of Michigan, and a member of one of 
 the oldest families of Western Michigan. 
 
 Edward S. Ferry, the subject of this sketch, 
 was born in Grand Haven, Michigan, in 1872, 
 and spent his early life in that State. He \va= 
 
124 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 educated in the district schools of Michigan 
 and in the MiUtary Academy at Orchard Lake, 
 and later entered Olivet College. He gradu- 
 ated from the law department of the State Uni- 
 versity of Michigan in 1896. In 1895 he was 
 admitted to the bar in Michigan. He removed 
 to Salt Lake City in 1896, and was admit- 
 ted to the bar of the Supreme Court of 
 Utah, and practiced law in the firm of Brown 
 and Henderson for three years, at which time 
 the present firm of Richards & Ferry was 
 formed. This firm enjoys a large and lucrative 
 business, devoting most of its attention to cor- 
 opration and mining cases 
 
 Mr. Ferry married Miss Mabel Edie, a nativ° 
 of Michigan. He is on the staff of Governo- 
 Wells, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel 
 
 V )RACE W. HENDERSON. The clos- 
 ing years of the nineteenth century and 
 the opening of the twentieth century 
 must go down to history as an age of 
 young men ; a period when the man in 
 the flush of young manhood, strong and vigor- 
 ous, both mentally and physically, pushed to the 
 wall the man of years who put forth his long 
 experience as a claim for the positions of re- 
 sponsibility and trust — positions that a few years 
 ago were considered beyond the reach of the 
 man whose head was not frosted with the snows 
 of many winters, and the venerable appearance 
 of the men who occupied those positions invested 
 them with a certain degree of respect, if not awe. 
 However, within the past decade a great change 
 has come over the entire country in this respect, 
 and newspapers are everywhere calling atten- 
 tion to the number of young men in high posi- 
 tions. These young giants, with their better 
 educational equipment, coming from genera- 
 tions of men who had to fight hard to win not 
 only a place in their immediate world, but to 
 bring the voung nation of which they were a 
 part to the foremost place which she now occu- 
 pies among other nations of the world, these 
 men accept as their own positions and responsi- 
 bilities which their fathers, at their age, would 
 not have dared to fill. This condition of affairs 
 
 is especially noticeable in this western country, 
 and more especially in railroad circles, the head 
 of almost every department in the railroad of- 
 fices in Salt Lake City being comj>aratively 
 young men, and among these gentlemen Horace 
 W. Henderson, the subject of this article, is 
 worthy of special notice. 
 
 Mr. Henderson is an American. He was born 
 in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1865. While he 
 w^as yet a young boy his parents moved to Illi- 
 nois and settled in Lake Forest, one of the sub- 
 urbs of Chicago, where our subject attended the 
 common schools and completed his education in 
 the Lake Forest University. He began his rail- 
 road career when but fifteen years old, at which 
 time he entered the employ of the Union Pacific 
 railroad, going to Denver in 1881 and remaining 
 there five years, in the supply department. At 
 the end of that time he was promoted and sent 
 to Laramie, Wyoming, where he entered the of- 
 fice of the Superintendent. He remained at Lar- 
 amie until the division headquarters were trans- 
 ferred to Cheyenne, when he was given a posi- 
 tion as chief clerk in the otnce of the superin- 
 tendent of that divsion, remaining tli«re until 
 September, 1890. He later spent six years in 
 Omaha, serving under different superintendents, 
 and in 1896 was transferred to Salt Lake City, 
 being given the position of local freight agent, 
 which position he has continued to fill with en- 
 tire satisfaction to his superiors, as well as the 
 patrons of his road, among whom he has made 
 many warm friends by his efficient and obliging 
 service. Mr. Henderson has about seventy men 
 under him in his department. 
 
 Mr. Henderson's father. Doctor Thomas Hen- 
 derson, was a physician and surgeon of consid- 
 erable note. He served throughout the entire 
 Civil War in the capacity of Assistant Surgeon, 
 and ir. private life practiced in Illinois, where he 
 built up a large practice, later moving to Denver, 
 Colorado, making his home there and practicing 
 his profession the remainder of his life in that 
 city. 
 
 Mr Henderson married in Omaha, in 1893, 
 to Miss Nina M. Godwin, a native of Illinois. 
 They have no children. 
 
 In politics Air. Henderson is independent, 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 125 
 
 never having affiliated with any pohtical party, 
 preferring- to use his own judgment in voting, 
 but at the last national election voted the Re- 
 publican ticket. 
 
 During the time they have been in the city 
 Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have made a large cir- 
 cle of friends, and Mr. Henderson's career as a 
 business man has been such as to elicit only 
 words of praise from those associated with him 
 He began to make his own way in life at an 
 early age, and the success that has rightfully 
 come to him has been won through his own per- 
 severing spirit and a determination to succeed. 
 His transactions have been found to be uni- 
 formly honorable and upright, and he enjoys the 
 confidence and esteem of the entire community. 
 
 I.EXAXDER McMASTER. The 
 very spirit which induced the pioneers 
 to settle in Utah and to battle with 
 the adverse conditions until they hac 
 luilt a prosperous city out of the 
 wilikmess, has to a large measure descendcG 
 to their children, and their sons are now taking 
 the same prominent part in the affairs of tlic 
 State that their sires did in the early days. 
 Among the prominent men, both in the ecclesi- 
 astical work of the Mormon Church and in the 
 political life of Salt Lake City, is the subject of 
 this sketch, who has won his present position 
 as a lawyer by the sheer force of his own meri! 
 and ability, and by his application to his work- 
 and his studies, wdiich at times seemed almost 
 beyond the power of human strength to com- 
 plete. He is now one of the leading attorneys 
 of the city, and enjoys a wide and lucrative prac- 
 tice. He also holds a high place in the Mor- 
 mon Church, and is one of the leading men in 
 its Sunday school work. 
 
 Mr. McMaster was born in Salt Lake Cit> 
 on the I2th day of August, 1857, and has prac- 
 tically spent his entire life within the confines 
 of Utah. He is the son of William Athol Mc- 
 Master, a native of Scotland, who came to Utah 
 in 1853, crossing the great plains of America 
 from the Mississippi river with a yoke of oxen 
 
 and yoke of cows instead of the customary two 
 yoke of oxen. He was a rope manufacturer in 
 his native land, and upon his arrival in Uta'- 
 was also engaged in the same business, being 
 the first rope maker to engage in that busines? 
 in the Territory. This business he built up tc 
 a very satisfactory condition, and continued t:- 
 follow that employment until the railroad era. 
 When the railroads were completed through the 
 West the demand for rope fell off, and he left 
 that business to establish a general mercantile 
 business, which he continued to follow until hi? 
 death in 1886. He had joined the Mormon 
 Church in Scotland, and was the first Sundav 
 school Superintendent of the Eleventh Wara 
 in Salt Lake City, and for many years was Coun- 
 cellor to the Bishop of that Ward, besides hold- 
 ing minor positions in the Church. He was act- 
 ive in the work of the Church, whose doctrir.es 
 he espoused, and filled several missions, ona 
 to Great Britain to labor in that country for the 
 Church. He was prominent in the civil affairs 
 ')f Utah, as well as in the ecclesiastical affairs 
 of the Church, and was Captain in the L^tah 
 militia, and assisted in making all of the im- 
 provements then under way in Salt Lake Citv, 
 aiding in the erection of the Temple and in the 
 different buildings belonging to the Church. He 
 died at the age of 73. honored and respected by 
 all whoi knew him. His forefathers for many 
 generations back were natives of Scotland. 
 
 Our subject's mother, Margaret D. (Fergu- 
 son) McMaster, was also a native of Scotland, 
 who came to Utah with the early pioneers and 
 lived in Salt Lake City until her death in 1896. 
 
 Our subject, Alexander McMaster, spent his 
 early life in Salt Lake City, receiving his early 
 education in the schools that then existed, and 
 afterwards attended for two years the sessions 
 of the Deseret University. He early started out 
 on his own career, and at the age of fourteen 
 was apprenticed to the printing trade, being em- 
 ployed on the Deseret Nezi's. He followed that 
 business continuously for a period of twenty 
 years, and served in all the dififerent capacities, 
 from the composing department to the editorial 
 staff, and was thoroughly conversant with all 
 the details of newspaper work. It had been his 
 
126 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ambition while a boy learning the printing busi- 
 ness, to follow the law as a profession, and as 
 he grew older, in addition to his emplo3'ment 
 on the Deseret News, he attended the University, 
 doing his work on the newspaper after the ses- 
 sions of the school were over. While engaged 
 on the paper he studied law, and for four years 
 before severing his connection with it employed 
 all his spare time in that study. He then took 
 a course in law in the Sprague Correspondence 
 School of Law, and after two years' work in 
 that institution, received his diploma and was 
 admitted to the Supreme Court of this State 
 and to the Federal Courts. Upon his admission 
 to the bar he left the service of the Deseret Nezcs 
 and established himself as a lawyer, and for the 
 following four years was Justice of the Peace 
 for the Fifth Precinct, Salt Lake City. He has 
 also taken an active part in the church in which 
 he was reared, and served on a mission to the 
 Southern States for two years, during 1888 and 
 1889, most of the time serving as president of 
 the West Virginia Conference. 
 
 Mr. McMaster was married in 1883, to Miss 
 Laura Mitchell, daughter of F. A. Mitchell, one 
 of the early settlers of Utah, and one of its first 
 merchants. He was among the first to engage 
 in a mercantile enterprise in this State, and suc- 
 cessfully conducted a general merchandise store 
 in connection with the Godbe Drug Company. 
 By this marriage Mr. McMaster has four chil- 
 dren — Lucile, Alexander, Junior; Frank, and 
 Frances L. 
 
 Prior to the segregation of the people of Utah 
 upon national political lines, and the formation 
 of the Democratic and Republican parties in this 
 State, Mr. McMaster was a member of the Peo- 
 ple's Party, and took an active interest in its 
 welfare. Upon the dissolution of the old po- 
 litical regime and the alignment upon political 
 issues, he became associated with the Democratic 
 party, aad has followed its fortunes unwaver- 
 ingly since that time. In the affairs of his 
 church he is prominent in the Sunday School of 
 the Eleventh Ward of Salt Lake City, which is 
 one of the largest Sunday Schools in the State. 
 He has given great care and considerable time 
 and attention to this work, and is counted among 
 
 the foremost Sunday school workers of the ]\Ior- 
 mon Church. 
 
 He formed, January I, 1901, a partnership 
 with Mr. H. J. Dininny, the firm being known 
 as Dininny & McMaster, and it now enjoys a 
 lucrative law practice. The success which Mr. 
 McMaster has achieved has been the result of 
 his own work from a poor boy of fourteen. Self- 
 made, self-educated, deriving his knowledge of 
 the aflfairs of life and securing his law education 
 by his own efforts, he has now risen to a promi- 
 nent place in the legal world of Utah. He is 
 held in high regard by the people of the State, 
 and his work in the Church has won for him 
 the confidence and trust of all its leaders. 
 
 RKSIDEXT JOSEPH W. McMUR- 
 RIN. The Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints has many able men 
 to direct its affairs and guard its 
 interests. The development of this 
 remarkable organization has been due in a 
 large measure to the ability and zeal which 
 these men have displayed in discharging the 
 tasks allotted to them. Prominent among 
 them, a L'tahn born and bred, is the subject of 
 this sketch. He is pre-eminently a man of the 
 West, and the success which he has achieved 
 has been due to the blessings of God and his own 
 industry and determination to overcome all dif- 
 ficulties that presented themselves. 
 ■ Joseph W^ McMurrin was born in Tooele City, 
 Tooele county, Utah, September 5, 1858. He is 
 the son of Joseph and Margaret (Leaing) Mc- 
 Murrin, who were among the first pioneers to 
 settle in the West. They came to the United 
 States in 1856 and settled in Tooele City, Utah, 
 in that year. When their son was very young 
 they removed to Salt Lake City, and it is there 
 he has spent his life. His father, Joseph, was 
 a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and his mother 
 was born in Edinburgh. The early life of the 
 father of our subject was spent in Scotland, and 
 he received his education in the regular schools 
 of Glasgow. He learned the trade of a cooper, 
 and followed that vocation, both there and in 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 127 
 
 Utah. The grandfather of President McMurrin 
 was also a cooper in Scotland, and upon his 
 death, his son, the father of our subject, pur- 
 chased the business and aided his mother in sup- 
 porting the family. Upon emigrating to the 
 United States, his share in the business was 
 transferred to his brother, William. He brought 
 with him, in addition to his wife and three chil- 
 dren, his mother, his mother-in-law, and one of 
 his sisters. They had all become members of the 
 Mormon Church in Scotland, and soon after 
 their conversion emigrated to the Salt Lake Val- 
 ley, crossing the great American plains by ox 
 teams. Their journey from what was then the 
 outpost of civilization to Utah, was an arduous 
 and dangerous one. They crossed the mountains 
 in the depths of winter, and owing to the deep 
 snow, lost all their cattle and a considerable por- 
 tion of their provisions. All would have per- 
 ished of cold had not assistance been sent from 
 Salt Lake City; as it was, many of the emi- 
 grating Saints died before help arrived. 
 
 When the family moved from Tooele to Salt 
 Lake City, they made their home at a site oppo- 
 site where our subject now lives. His father 
 was First Counselor to Bishop E. F. Sheets, 
 of the Eighth Ward. He took an active inter- 
 est in the work of the Church, and participated 
 in the erection of the Temple, being among the 
 first to begin work on that structure. Through- 
 out his life he was a devoted member of the 
 church of his choice, and rendered faithful and 
 willing service to it in its work. So strong was 
 his faith in the teachings of the church to which 
 he had been converted that he sold all his belong- 
 ings and left his home in Scotland, and gave up 
 a prosperous business to share in the work of 
 building up and developing this new religion. 
 He enjoyed a lucrative trade in Scotland, and 
 the same industry and ability which he displayed 
 there, brought him success in Utah. A man of 
 sterling integrity, true to God and man and to 
 every trust reposed in him, he was beloved by 
 all who knew him. He died in October, 1897. 
 Our subject's mother died in 1894. 
 
 The boyhood days of President McMurrin 
 were spent in Salt Lake City. He was educated 
 in the common schools of the city. Early in life, 
 
 being ambitious to earn his own living, permis- 
 sion was given him by his parents to assist a 
 neighbor in work upon a farm. At a later day 
 he engaged in freighting and ore hauling from 
 the mines adjacent to and from Salt Lake 
 City. For two years before he was married 
 he was employed as a stonecutter in the erec- 
 tion of the great Mormon Temple. After 
 his marriage he launched out into the rail- 
 road contracting business and secured several 
 contracts in connection with associates, in the 
 construction of portions of the Oregon Short 
 Line grade, which they successfully carried 
 through to completion. While engaged at 
 this work, he was called to go on a mission, in 
 October, 1881, to Great Britain. Upon his ar- 
 rival in England he was assigned to Scotland, 
 and labored in the county of Ayr for nine months. 
 He was then transferred to the city of Edin- 
 burgh, where he labored seven months, and was 
 then called to the city of Glasgow. He was after- 
 wards made President of the Scottish Mission, 
 which position he continued to fill until his return 
 in November, 1883, having been absent from 
 home for a period of twenty-five months. Dur- 
 ing this time he made over fifty converts, among 
 this number being two of his father's sisters, 
 whom he baptized while there. 
 
 On his return to Salt Lake he was employed at 
 the Bishop's Store House, as night-watchman. 
 At this time the Edmunds-Tucker Act was being 
 vigorously enforced by the Federal authorities, 
 and during this troublesome period in Utah, 
 which resulted in so much disturbance to the 
 affairs of the State, President McMurrin had an 
 altercation with a United States Marshal, which 
 ended in the marshal drawing his revolver and 
 shooting President McMurrin through the ab- 
 domen twice. From these wounds he speedily 
 recovered and was able to be about in six weeks, 
 and this marvelous return to health from an al- 
 most universally fatal wound, was due to his 
 iron constitution and his wonderful vitality. While 
 confined to his home. Apostle John Henry Smith 
 and others frequently visited him and encouraged 
 him ; he had the sympathy of all the people. He 
 believes that he was healed by the power of God 
 in fulfillment of a promise made by .Apostle John 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Henry Smith that he should live, notwithstanding 
 that death was seemingly inevitable. 
 
 A year after this occurrence he was called to 
 go on his second mission to Great Britain, being 
 assigned to Bristol, England, and was later trans- 
 ferred to London, where he served two years and 
 a lialf as the President of the London Confer- 
 ence, On this mission he spent four years away 
 from home. Upon his return to L"!tah he was em- 
 ployed as a receipt clerk in the Bishop's Store 
 House, which position he held for six years. In 
 June, 1896, he was again called to go on a mission 
 to Great Britain, as one of the Presidents of the 
 European Mission, to act as First Counsellor 
 to President Rulon S. Wells. The extensive 
 nature of the work in the European ]\Iission 
 makes this a responsible position, requiring a man 
 of ability and industry to properly discharge its 
 duties and supervise the work of the five hundred 
 missionaries in that country, and organize, coun- 
 sel and direct the organizations of the 
 Saints in the European iMission, who are 
 about seventeen thousand strong. Before 
 his return he traveled extensively in Ire- 
 land, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. France, 
 Holland, Belgium and Italy, and made sev- 
 eral extensive tours through England, Scot- 
 land and Wales. While absent on this mission 
 he was selected by the general authorities of the 
 Church as one of the seven Presidents of the 
 Seventies, and was sustained b}' the vote of the 
 general conference of the Church, in October, 
 1897. He returned to Utah in 1898. and has since 
 devoted all his time to the work of the Church, 
 his attention being largely given to assisting the 
 Presidents of the Seventies in their responsible 
 duties. The mission service of President Mc- 
 Murrin covers almost a quarter of a century, his 
 first mission being undertaken in 1876, when 
 he was sent on a mission to Arizona, spending 
 two years in that territory, assisting in the es- 
 tablishment of the colonists sent there by the 
 Church. President McMurrin was one of the 
 founders of St. Joseph, on the Little Colorado. 
 As a foreign missionary, he has traveled over 
 seventy-five thousand miles and has been brought 
 in contact with many nations of men. 
 
 He has also traveled quite extensively at home 
 
 in visiting the various organizations of the Saints. 
 He has made frequent trips throughout Utah, 
 and through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, 
 Colorado, Arizona and California, and into Can- 
 ada and Mexico. Thus becoming quite familiar 
 with the condition of the Latter Day Saints in 
 all of the Western States where they are perma- 
 nently established. 
 
 His advancement in the Priesthood has been 
 in the following order: The first ordination he 
 received was while he was quite a young boy, 
 when he was ordained a Deacon. January 17, 
 1876, he was ordained an Elder, and as an Elder 
 filled his first foreign mission. April 27, 1884, 
 he was ordained a Seventy and became a mem- 
 ber of the Tenth Quorum. After performing in 
 a faithful manner the duties of this calling for 
 several years, he was ordained by George Rey- 
 nolds, July 5, 1895, one of the Presidents of the 
 Tenth Quorum. January 21, 1898, he was or- 
 dained by Apostle Anthon H. Lund one of the 
 first Seven Presidents of the Seventies. Bv this 
 ordination, he became a member of the third 
 great presiding quorum of authority in the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 
 President MeMurrin is also a member of the 
 General Board of Aids of the Young Men's Mu- 
 tual Improvement Associations of the Church. 
 This organization has a membership, among the 
 young men, of thirty thousand. He is also a 
 member of the General Board of the Religion 
 Classes of the Church, which is another strong or- 
 ganization giving religious instruction to many 
 thousands of children. 
 
 He married at the age of twenty-one years, 
 Aliss Mary Ellen Hunter, daughter of Stephen 
 and Martha (Clark) Hunter. Her father was 
 born in Scotland, and emigrated to Utah in 1852. 
 Mr. McMurrin's family consists of seven children 
 — Joseph W., Stephen H., Chelta M., Everard L., 
 James Waldo, and Mary Lucile. 
 
 The ability and zeal which President McAIur- 
 rin has exhibited in the work of the Church has 
 won for him a high place in the confidence of its 
 leaders, and to him have been entrusted many 
 important and difficult tasks. His determination 
 and application have made for him a successful 
 career, and he is todav one of the leaders in that 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 organization which has done so much for the 
 development of the resources of the West. His 
 sincere manner, his broad-mindedness and his 
 charity have gained for him the love of his 
 people, and have brought him the respect and es- 
 teem of the citizens of Utah. 
 
 A. XELDEN. In the front ranks 
 of the commercial enterprises 
 which have aided so materially in 
 bringing Salt Lake City up to its 
 present position as an important 
 point of distribution for the surrounding terri- 
 tory, and in increasing the mercantile impor- 
 tance of Utah as well, stands the Xelden-Judson 
 Drug Company, both by reason of its. prosperity 
 and the extent of its business. At the head of 
 this company and guiding its movements is the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 W. A. Xelden was born in Montague, Sussex 
 county, New Jersey, and lived there on his 
 father's farm until five years of age. when the 
 family removed to Newton, New Jersey, where 
 he spent the ensuing seven years of his life. His 
 father, John H. Nelden, was a prosperous farmer 
 of New Jersey, and followed that vocation for 
 some time, leaving it to embark in the lumber 
 and coal business, which he conducted with suc- 
 cess until his death in 1859. The mother of our 
 subject, Sarah (Rorback) Nelden, died when her 
 son was fifteen years of age. The Xelden fam- 
 ily were originally natives of Holland, and 
 the Rorbacks came to the United States from 
 Germany. These two families were among tlie 
 early settlers of Pennsylvania, and were influ- 
 ential people in their community. 
 
 At the age of twelve, their son entered the 
 Temple Hill Academy at Geneseo, Xew York, 
 where he took a special course in chemistry, in 
 addition to the regular studies taught in that 
 school. Three years later he entered upon his 
 business career, securing employment in a drug 
 store in Newton, where he remained for the fol- 
 lowing five years. He has followed that busi- 
 !-.ess throughout his life, and by his energy and 
 industry has achieved such a success that he is 
 now one of the leading business men of Utah. 
 
 He established himself in the drug business at 
 Philipsburg. Xew Jersey, being proprietor of 
 a drug store there at the age of twenty. He re- 
 moved to Salt Lake City in 1879, and secured em- 
 ployment as a clerk in the drug house of Moore, 
 -Allen & Company, and in 1884 established here 
 the firm of Roberts & Xelden for the purpose of 
 transacting a wholesale and retail drug busi- 
 ness. This firm enjoyed a very lucrative trade, 
 and in 1892 Mr. Xelden purchased the interest 
 of his partner and disposed of the retail depart- 
 ment of the establishment, confining his opera- 
 tions within strictly wholesale lines. 
 
 In the following year the present establish- 
 ment was formed, under the corporate name of 
 the Nelden-Judson Drug Company, Air. Nelden 
 filling- the ofifice of president, whicii he has con- 
 tinued to hold from that date. This company 
 has had a very prosperous career, and is now the 
 largest establishment of the kind in Salt Lake, 
 and Utah as well, and has grown into its present 
 condition through the capable management of 
 its president and assistants, who have devoted 
 their time and attention to its growth. In the 
 transaction of its business, it gives employment 
 to twenty-si.x people, in addition to its force of 
 travelling salesmen, who cover all the inter- 
 mountain territory. 
 
 Mr. Xelden married in Pennsylvania Miss 
 Sarah O. Stem, daughter of Professor B. F. 
 Stem, one of the prominent educators of Eastern 
 Pennsylvania. His family consists of three chil- 
 dren — one daughter. M. Louise, and two sons — 
 Paul and Ralph. 
 
 Mr. Xelden, in political life, is a believer in 
 the principles of the Republican party, but ow- 
 ing to the confining duties of his commercial en- 
 terprises, has never participated actively in the 
 work of the party, nor has he held public office. 
 He was president of the Salt Lake Chamber of 
 Commerce several years, and was also president 
 of the Board of Education, being still a mem- 
 ber of the latter. He was one of the committee 
 appointed by the Governor when the jubilee was 
 held, and was also president of the Sak Palace 
 .Association. This is a building erected with 
 blocks of salt, and is used as a place of amuse- 
 ment. This company also built the bicycle track 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in connection with the Salt Palace, and in both 
 these ventures Mr. Nelden was one of the most 
 prominent promoters and supporters. In social 
 life he is a member of the Kniehts of Pythias, 
 and is also one of the members of the Alta Club. 
 He is third vice-president of the National 
 Wholesale Druggists' Association, and president 
 of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City, a 
 large and thriving organization. 
 
 Mr. Nelden is pre-eminently a self-made man, 
 and one who has won his present standing in the 
 commercial world of the West by his own ef- 
 forts. His integrity and ability have won for 
 him the confidence and respect of his business 
 associates, and throughout LTtah and the inter- 
 mountain region he enjoys a wide popularity, 
 and numbers his friends bv the legion. 
 
 RESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG. In 
 attempting to write a sketch of the life 
 iii this noted man it is necessary to recall 
 the fact that he attained to the liigh 
 position he occupied in the world 
 through his association in the early years of his 
 religious career with the Prophet Joseph Smith, 
 founder of the Mormon religion, whom Brigham 
 Young succeeded as head of that Church. The 
 Mormon religion is the only religion established 
 on this continent which is indiginous to the soil. 
 It has attracted more attention than any sect 
 established during the Nineteenth Century, and 
 has been the means of bringing more people from 
 lives of very often penury and sharp want in the 
 old world and transplanting them in homes of 
 comfort and even lu.xury in the United States, 
 than perhaps any other one factor used for the 
 redemption of the human race. As the head of 
 this sect, the leader of this peculiar people, fore- 
 most in every scheme advanced or promoted fof 
 the bettering of the condition of the Mormon peo- 
 ple, Brigham Young received at the hands of his 
 followers a love and devotion that is without par- 
 allel in the annals of history. It was through him 
 that they were brought to this valley and estab- 
 lished in what is rapidly becoming one of the fore- 
 most States of the West, from the standpoint of 
 wealth and fertility, and without the guiding of 
 
 that strong hand and able mind the Church must 
 have become shipwrecked in its infancy. 
 
 Brigham Young was born in Whittingham, 
 Windham county, Vermont, June i, 1801, and 
 there spent his early life and was educated in the 
 public schools of that town. His parents were 
 members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and 
 he was raised in that faith. After completing 
 his education he learned the trade of carpentering 
 and joining, and also painting and glazing, and 
 followed these occupations after reaching his ma- 
 jority. He was married October 8, 1824, in 
 .•\urelius, Cayuga County, New York, to which 
 place he had moved, and lived there twelve years, 
 following his trade. In the spring of 1829 he 
 moved to Mendon, Monroe countv, where his 
 parents then resided, and there first saw the book 
 of Mormon, which had been left with his brother 
 Phineas by Samuel H., a brother of the Prophet 
 Joseph Smith. He continued to study the Book 
 with great interest, and in the spring of 1832 in 
 company with his brother Phineas and Heber C. 
 Kimball made a visit to the branch of the Church 
 at Columbia, Pennsylvania, and there became so 
 profoundly impressed with the truth of its teach- 
 ings that he went to Canada to visit his brother 
 Joseph, who was then on a mission in the interest 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church in that coun- 
 try. He succeeded in convincing Joseph of the 
 truth of the claims made by Joseph Smith and 
 they returned home together and united with the 
 Church, Brigham being baptized x\pril 14, 1832, 
 by Elder Eleazer Miller, and received the hand 
 of fellowship from the Prophet the following 
 June, in Kirtland, Ohio, where he had journeyed 
 for the purpose. This was the first meeting of 
 the two men, and it was at this time that the 
 Prophet heard for the first time the gift of speak- 
 ing in tongues. Brigham Young had received 
 this gift and spoke in tongues at a meeting held 
 that night. From that time on through twelve 
 years of close association the two men were the 
 most intimate and loving friends, and the devo- 
 tion and affection which Brigham Young dis- 
 played for the Prophet was only surpassed by 
 that of Hyrum Smith, whose love for his gifted 
 brother led him to share even his death. TTiree 
 weeks after the baptism of President Young his 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 131 
 
 wife received the ordinance and became a mem- 
 ber of the Church. She died the following spring 
 leaving two little girls, and thereafter for many 
 years the family made their home with Heber C. 
 Kimball. 
 
 In December of that year the two brothers, 
 Brigham and Joseph Young, went on a mission 
 for the Church in upper Canada, traveling on 
 foot, and returning in February, before the ice 
 broke up. Brigham returned to Canada in April 
 and remained until the following July, establish- 
 ing branches of the Church. He settled in Kirt- 
 land, which becatne his headquarters for some 
 years, his work for the Church making it neces- 
 sary for him to be absent from home a great part 
 of the time. On February 14, 1835, the Prophet 
 called a council of the Elders, and the quorum of 
 the Twelve Apostles was chosen, Brigham Young 
 being the second one chosen. It was in the 
 spring and summer of 1837 that the greatest 
 danger menaced the Church, not from mob vio- 
 lence or opposition from outsiders — these the 
 early church had to contend with almost daily — 
 but from a spirit of apostacy that pervaded the 
 entire Church, disaffecting even members of the 
 Twelve Apostles, and during these most trying 
 times the great strength of character and mighty 
 influence that Brigham Young was destined to 
 wield over the affairs of the Church began to be 
 felt. He not only clung close to the Prophet, 
 he brought back the erring members and knit the 
 Church into a closer unity than it had yet known, 
 and those who had heard of the prophecy of 
 Joseph Smith that th'is was the man who should 
 succeed him as head of the Church were led to 
 believe that he was the man of all men most fit- 
 ted to receive such a responsibile charge. With 
 a devotion that was almost sublime, Brigham 
 Young went through all manner of dangers and 
 menaces, relieving the distress among the Saints, 
 bringing them out of the places where they were 
 gathered, and after the imprisonment of the 
 Prophet at Far West, in 1838, he took charge 
 of the affairs of the Church, being chosen Presi- 
 dent of the Twelve. The Mormons were driven 
 out of Far West and Kirtland in 1839, and lo- 
 cated in Nauvoo, where they remained until 1846, 
 two vears after the death of the Prophet. 
 
 On March 19, 1840, in company with several 
 others, Brigham Young sailed from New York 
 on his first foreign mission, laboring in England 
 about a year and returning in April, 1841 Dur- 
 ing this time they baptized eight thousand con- 
 verts, printed and distributed five thousand 
 Books of Mormon, three thousand hymn books, 
 and emigrated about one thousand converts. He 
 reached Nauvoo in July of that year, and shortly 
 after his return the Prophet received a revelation 
 to the effect that Brigham Young was not to be 
 required to go on any more missionary trips, but 
 was to remain in charge of the Church affairs at 
 home and assist in sending out other missiona- 
 ries. 
 
 The opposition to the Mormons grew rapidly 
 after the killing of the Prophet, and in 1846 they 
 were once more driven out of their homes, and 
 this time gathered at Winter Quarters, from 
 where Brigham Young led them out across the 
 Great American plains, traveling by ox teams, 
 and after enduring untold sufferings and hard- 
 ships, reached the great Salt Lake Valley, which 
 had been described to him in a revelation. Though 
 barren in aspect, it was rich in promise, and here 
 they ended their long journey and prepared to 
 build homes far from any civilization, content if 
 they could but live according to their own de- 
 sires, unmolested by those opposed to them. Mor- 
 mon and Gentile literature is alike full of the ac- 
 counts of those early days and of the devotion 
 to his people which President Young displayed. 
 It is not the object of this article to give a de- 
 tailed sketch of his life; that could not be done 
 in a work of this kind and do justice to the sub- 
 ject: but as the stranger who has perhaps wan- 
 dered far over the earth and gazed upon the val- 
 ley of the Nile, for ages the "granary of the 
 world," or roamed amid the rich plantations of 
 the Caribbean shores, where the wonderful soil 
 yields almost spontaneously every grain, grass, 
 fruit and fabric necessary for human sustenance 
 and luxury ; been delighted with the sea-islands of 
 Georgia and Carolina, or the far-farmed mighty 
 valley of Dakota, with its mighty wheat fields 
 stretching away till all around the blue sky meets 
 the heads of golden grain ; as he shall stand with- 
 in the borders of Utah, which not only gives the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 world about twelve million pounds of wool an- 
 nually, and produces tons of ores of fabulous 
 wealth, but raises to a state of perfection every 
 known product of the temperate zone, possess- 
 ingf a soil of matchless fertility and a climate un- 
 surpassed by that of any other State, let him re- 
 member the man to whom the world is indebted 
 for this wonderful consummation of the work 
 begun more than fifty years ago by a homeless, 
 friendless people ; the man who not only led them 
 into this wilderness and encouraged them amid 
 all the trying times and sufferings that followed, 
 hut who also shared every hardship and stood 
 in the thick of the fra}' and made possible by his 
 own heroic example the sacrifices that were 
 cheerfully made that a later generation might en- 
 joy not only the privileges of worshiping accord- 
 ing to their own desires, unmolested, but might 
 also possess homes of comfort and lives of pros- 
 perity. 
 
 President Young died in 1877, thirty years af- 
 ter he had first camped within the Salt Lake Val- 
 lev, deeply mourned by the people whose staff 
 he had been, but leaving the Church in such con- 
 dition that there were able and willing men to 
 carry on the work he had begun, and which has 
 nad a steady growth since then. In 1897 a 
 statue commemorating the life and work of Brig- 
 ham Young and the pioneers was unveiled, and 
 stands at the head of Main street, at the inter- 
 section of Main and Temple streets. However, 
 this statue is but the expression of the people who 
 either knew and loved the President or were later 
 the benefactors of his foresight and wise admin- 
 istration. He himself laid the foundation for and 
 brought far forward towards a state of comple- 
 tion a more magnificent and lasting monument to 
 himself in the work of the Salt Lake Temple, 
 which is one of the most exquisite pieces of archi- 
 tectural beauty and workmanship in the world, 
 and of which not alone the members of this re- 
 ligious body, but of the entire State at large, are 
 most justly proud. While none but Mormons in 
 good standing are allowed to enter this sacred 
 edifice, tourists from all parts of the world have 
 visited Salt Lake City for the purpose of gazing 
 at the exterior of the edifice and visiting its com- 
 panion, the Tabernacle, which has the most won- 
 
 derful acoustic properties of any known building 
 in the world ; the immense roof of which was put 
 together without nail or iron of anv kind, and is 
 unsupported by column or pillar. 
 
 OX. JAMES IVERS. The record of 
 the great Silver King mine of Park 
 City is known in nearly every quarter 
 of the civilized world as one of the 
 most important silver mines that has 
 ever l:)een developed and successfully operated fn 
 this or any other country — a mine which has 
 paid millions of dividends to its owners, which 
 has given employment to thousands of laboring 
 men, and which has been and will be in the fu- 
 ture of untold benefit to Salt Lake City and the 
 State at large. Among one of the first promot- 
 ers and developers of this great mine shoukl be 
 mentioned the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Ivers was born on his father's farm in 
 tlie province of Quebec. Canada, on May 12, 
 1846, and spent his boyhood days there. His 
 education was derived from the common schools 
 of his native country. When quite a young boy, 
 he learned the blacksmithing trade, and at the 
 age of seventeen started to make his own way in 
 the world. He went to Vermont and settled at 
 St. Johnsbury, where he established a black- 
 smith shop and resided there for nine years. He 
 then moved to Concord. Xew Hampshire, in 
 1872, where he conducted a similar business for 
 five years, but being dissatisfied with the oppor- 
 tunities afforded by the East, he determined to 
 seek the western country, and in the spring of 
 1877, went to California, where he spent 
 about a year, removing to Nevada, where he 
 worked at his trade. At the same time he spent 
 his leisure hours in prospecting, and located sev- 
 eral claims, all of which he sold before they were 
 developed, materially increasing his financial as- 
 sets. 
 
 In the fall of 1882 he left Xevada and settled 
 in Park City, Utah, where he worked at his 
 trade for four and one-half years, being em- 
 ployed by the company operating the Daly mine. 
 At about this time Mr. Ivers began to branch 
 out in other business, and equipped himself with 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 133 
 
 a large livery stable, which he successfully con- 
 ducted in Park City for eleven years. He be- 
 came identified with the Silver King mine in its 
 early history, and has always retained a large 
 financial interest in it, and is at present one of 
 the managing board of directors. He is also 
 largely interested in other mining property in 
 Park City and in different portions of Utah and 
 Montana as well, but has practically retired from 
 active business. 
 
 While in Concord, Xew Hamnshire, Mr. Ivers 
 met ]\liss Bridget J. Welsh, a native of that State, 
 and in 1875 they were married, and while Mr. 
 Ivers has made a wonderful success in life, yet 
 his W'ife deservedly shares in the credit of that 
 success, for she has ever been a true and de- 
 voted helpmeet, and is also a lady of rare refine- 
 ment and culture. They have had three children, 
 Mary, now a young lady, James, Jr., and Harry, 
 who died April 11, 1902. 
 
 The father of our subject, Francis Ivers, was 
 a successful farmer in Canada, where he resided 
 until his death in 1882. The mother of our sub- 
 ject, Margaret (Masterson) Ivers, is still living, 
 at the age of eighty-seven years, on the the old 
 home farm, where our subject was born and spent 
 his early life. 
 
 In politics, Air. Ivers has always been a 
 staunch Republican. He was elected to and 
 served in the State Legislature of L'tah during 
 1898 and 1899, and has served Park City in va- 
 rious capacities, such as Councilman and other 
 minor offices. He and his family are all mem- 
 bers of the Catholic Church. Their elegant and 
 comfortable home, which he erected about three 
 years ago, is located at No. 564 East First South 
 street. Salt Lake Citv. 
 
 I'oSTLE BRIGHAM YOUXG. The 
 anluous trial through which the Mor- 
 iiiiins passed in the early existence of 
 their church, the persecutions to which 
 they were subjected, and the hardships 
 the\ encountered, are more like a scene from the 
 tumultuous days of the eighteenth century in Eu- 
 rope than a real page taken from the history of 
 theL'nited States in the last half of the nineteenth 
 
 century. Through all these trials and tribula- 
 tions, sharing in the labor and sorrows and 
 finally triumphing in the success that has come to 
 Utah and to the Church is the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 The son of a great man, and especially the son 
 of a great leader, is always handicapped by the 
 halo of his sire's success. Yet, notwithstanding 
 the disadvantages under which he labored and the 
 poverty of the country in which he settled, Brig- 
 ham Young has achieved such success that his 
 fame stands high in the ranks of the builders of 
 the West and on a plane with that of his father, 
 the second President of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints, to whom Utah owes 
 so much of her material prosperity and Salt Lake 
 her present development and standing. 
 
 Brigham Young is the second son of President 
 Brigham Young and Mary Ann (Angell) Young. 
 He was born in Kirtland, Geauga county, now 
 Lake county, Ohio, December 18, 1836, when the 
 opposition to the teachings of the Church was 
 beginning to gather headway. His infancy and 
 early boyhood were passed amidst the turbulent 
 scenes enacted in Illinois and Missouri when the 
 members of the Church were mobbed and forced 
 out of those States. 
 
 His mother, Mary Ann Angell, was the second 
 wife of his father, Brigham Young, upon whose 
 shoulders the cares of the entire Cnurch rested 
 after the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. 
 By his first wife he had two children, Elizabeth 
 and Vilate, and the care of these children fell 
 to the lot of his second wife. Her noble, self- 
 sacrificing personality, her devout and sincere 
 character, together with her rare judgment, made 
 her an ideal helpmeet for her husband and a lov- 
 ing and careful guardian of his children. She 
 was passionately devoted to her children, and 
 early taught them to regard the Gospel as the 
 most precious earthly or eternal possession ; and 
 the families of President Young bear willing tes- 
 timony to her kindness and usefulness and to her 
 faithfulness in all her relations with the wives 
 and children of her husband. 
 
 The earliest recollections of Apostle Brigham 
 Young, the subject of this sketch, are of the 
 gloomy and sorrowful days of the Church in Illi- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 nois. After various moves from Far West to 
 the West, the family arrived at Commerce. These 
 journeys were made under the most trying con- 
 ditions — inclement weather, inhospitable people, 
 scarcity of food, lack of shelter, and inadequate 
 means of transportation made up one of the 
 darkest chapters in the settlement of the \\'est. 
 Through all these the devoted family of the 
 late President Young shared to the fullest ex- 
 tent, and arduous as were the experiences they 
 had the effect that all trials have on great char- 
 acters — making them stronger and more able to 
 cope with diiificulties. Notwithstanding these 
 trying conditions, the lad Brigham was a bright 
 and merry boy, full of fun and pranks. After 
 his father's departure on a mission to England, 
 his mother removed from Commerce to Mon- 
 trose, and subsequently returned to Commerce. 
 The ferry-boat had brought the family and their 
 slender effects across, carrying also their cow, 
 one of their most cherished possessions, and 
 on which they depended for their livelihood to a 
 large extent. With great dismay they saw the 
 animal plunge into the swift river, and it was 
 only after a long and dangerous chase that she 
 was finally recaptured and brought around to 
 them, having to be landed on the Iowa side of the 
 river and led around a circuit of over fourteen 
 miles. They remained in Montrose during the 
 spring of 1840, and in the following year moved 
 across the river to Xauvoo. 
 
 Earlv in his boyhood, Brigham showed the 
 possession of an indomitable spirit, an infectious 
 merriment, a love of sport and adventure and a 
 courage that nothing could daunt. He was as 
 devoted to the Prophet, Joseph Smith, as was- 
 his father. The black gloom which fell over 
 Nauvoo at the martyrdom of the leaders of the 
 Church made a deep impress on the spirit of this 
 lad. When the members of the Church were 
 driven out of Xauvoo, after the awful struggles 
 and throes of anguish which accompanied and 
 followed the killing of the Prophet, Joseph 
 Smith, President Young led the company 
 across the river to a place of greater safety, yet 
 of such barren distress as surely has been but 
 rarely witnessed. When his mother and the rest 
 of the children were taken across the ferrv, the 
 
 boy Brigham was ofif at play in Knight's mill 
 with two companions. When he returned to his 
 home in the afternoon, he found the house open, 
 furniture left standing, yet all marked with the 
 solemn silence of desertion. He immediately 
 made for the river, and found the last boat for 
 the night just putting ofif from the shore. It 
 was crowded with wretched men, women and 
 children forced away from their homes for the 
 sake of their religion, and the boy at last found 
 a seat on a barrel in the bow of the boat. When 
 he arrived on the opposite shore, he found every- 
 thing in a wild state of confusion. He failed 
 to find his parents and lived for three days, with 
 others, upon an ox that had been drowned in the 
 river and had been hauled to the shore and dis- 
 tributed among such as were without food. He 
 finally heard of his parents at Sugar Creek, dis- 
 tant ten miles to the west, and to that place he 
 tramped and joined the family. Here the con- 
 ditions were in as bad shape as on the bank of 
 the river. The wagon was overcrowded and 
 there was no room for the ten-year-old boy who 
 had just arrived, nor could any bedding be 
 spared for him. 
 
 With characteristic ability to provide for him- 
 self, the lad at once began to improvise a 
 shelter of cooking utensils and saddles against 
 one side of his mother's wagon, but the cold, bit- 
 ing storm of sleet and wind made this attempt 
 useless. With the help of some of his young 
 companions he finally succeeded in making a 
 wickiup from brush which they cut, and into this 
 they crawled and attempted to keep warm by the 
 heat of their bodies. The colony started west 
 as soon as conditions favored, but the journey 
 through the swamps and bogs of Iowa was slow 
 and painful in the extreme. For miles the wag- 
 ons labored heavily over a corduroy road, made 
 of logs withed together with tough willows. 
 This terrible swamp was full of danger and dif- 
 ficulty. Here and there were swales, with a lit- 
 tle sod over the seas of water and mud. If one 
 wagon got safely over the swale, no other would 
 dare to follow in its tracks, for they would have 
 sunk to the running gears. Each wagon strad- 
 dled the tracks of the last, and even then the 
 wheels would sink throuHi the twelve-inch sod 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 135 
 
 into the mud below, and sometimes hours would 
 be consumed in traveling a quarter of a mile. 
 In one such swale, Brigham secured a stick 
 twelve feet long, and thrusting it down through 
 a wagon track, it went completely out of sight 
 in the muddy sea below. After a toilsome and 
 dangerous journey, the party finally arrived at 
 Winter Quarters, now Florence, in Nebraska, 
 where rude, but comfortable cabins for the shel- 
 ter of the women and children were at once 
 erected. The Pioneers took their way across the 
 plains in the following year, but Brigham re- 
 mained with his mother in Winter Quarters. In 
 .April, 1848, President Brigham Young led the 
 pioneers' company from Winter Quarters on the 
 long journey to the Salt Lake Valley . Brig- 
 ham, then twelve years of age, was made a 
 driver of two yoke of oxen, and this team 
 he drove the entire distance. When the com- 
 pany halted at Sweetwater, all the members 
 were greatly discouraged, both over the delay 
 in traveling and the unpropitious conditions 
 which they encountered. President Young, feel- 
 ing the unexpressed discontent and the ne- 
 cessity for prompt action, hitched up his coach 
 with the terse statement that he was "going 
 to the valley, if anybody wants to follow the 
 road is open," whipped his horses and started 
 on the long trip. His action was seen and com- 
 prehended by his son, and without an instant's 
 delav he had yoked his team and prepared to fol- 
 low in his father's wake. To his father's wife, 
 who at once took her seat in the wagon, he said 
 "Father's started ; I'm not going to lose sight of 
 his wagon wheels while daylight lasts." Through- 
 out the long day and evening the lad followed 
 through a blinding storm the dim tracks of his 
 father's coach. Clinging to the bow of the yoke, 
 the young driver ran on beside his team, losing 
 his whip from his half frozen hands, and on the 
 seat of the wagon, half frozen, yet determined to 
 keep on, was the faithful wife, Eliza B. Young. 
 At midnight a campfire was seen, and after hav- 
 ing traveled eighteen miles from three o'clock 
 in the afternoon, they came to a rest. The jour- 
 ney was again resumed and the entire trip made 
 by the lad and the wife of his father was over 
 nine hundred miles, extending from the Mis- 
 
 souri river to Fort Bridger. Upon their ar- 
 rival here they were met by men from the Salt 
 Lake Valley, and the feeling of the lad of twelve 
 at the sight of the green spot in the heart of the 
 dreary valley of the great Salt Lake from the 
 top of the Big iMountain and later from the 
 mouth of Emigration Canyon, can not readily be 
 imagined. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Utah, he at once began his 
 active career and in the organization of the Min- 
 ute Men found ample scope for the restless dar- 
 ing and dauntless courage which the events 
 through which he had passed had bred in his very 
 fibre. At the age of fifteen, Brigham was en- 
 rolled as a member of this corps of mountain 
 soldiers, known as the Valley Tan Boys, or Min- 
 ute Men, and for nine years he was a faithful 
 member of that organization. 
 
 His next work was in 1862, when he joined 
 the company under the command of Colonel 
 Robert T. Burton, the second in command, which 
 opened up the mail route from Green river to 
 Laramie, then owned by Ben Halliday. An ac- 
 cident unfitted him temporarily for active serv- 
 ice, and he was sent to Washington with Captain 
 Hooper. When Captain Hooper and the Honor- 
 able George Q. Cannon arrived in Washington 
 with the petition for statehood, Brigham, who 
 accompanied them, found a suggestion in a let- 
 ter from his father, that he go on a mission to 
 England. This request was a severe one, inas- 
 much as he had been absent from home for over 
 three months, he having enlisted in the United 
 States service for thirty days on a telegram from 
 President Lincoln to his father, and being sepa- 
 rated from his two wives and his children, and 
 the desire to see them was very strong. His 
 father had given him the option, in case he should 
 decline to go on the mission before returning 
 home, of visiting his relatives in Troopsville, 
 New York, but with his characteristic devotion 
 to duty, the young man decided to obey the call 
 to the work of the Church, and to proceed on 
 his mission. When he arrived in Philadelphia, 
 on his way to England, he met Colonel Kane, a 
 tried and true friend of President Young and 
 of the Church, who desired to have the benefit 
 of the young man's experience, and offered him 
 
136 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a position on his staff. Notwithstanding this 
 tempting offer to participate in the great Civil 
 War, Brigham Young resolutely left for En- 
 gland. He arrived in London in August, 1862, 
 and labored earnestly and zealously under the 
 direction of Apostle George O. Cannon, then 
 president of the European mission. Here he re- 
 mained until the spring of 1863, when he re- 
 ceived word that he was to return to the L^nited 
 States in August of that year. He made a hur- 
 ried trip over Europe, visiting Italy and the 
 ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and other 
 historical places in various countries. 
 
 Upon his return to Utah, he was ordained an 
 Apostle of the Church under the hands of his 
 father. President Young, but did not enter the 
 quorum at that time. In the spring of 1864 he 
 returned to Europe, to assist President Daniel 
 H. Wells in the presidency of the European mis- 
 sion, and in 1865, President Wells returned to 
 Utah, leaving Elder Youn? in full charge of the 
 work in Europe. Here he was eminently suc- 
 cessful in spreading the work of the Church and 
 secured many converts to the teachings and many 
 emigrants to the headquarters of the Church in 
 Utah. He again returned to Salt Lake City, 
 where he spent the year 1866 and part of the 
 succeeding year, returning to Europe in 1867 
 to act as a commissioner to the Paris Exposi- 
 tion. He endeavored to secure space for an ex- 
 hibition from Utah, but this application shared 
 the fate of many similar ones and failed of fa- 
 vorable consideration by the authorities. While 
 in France he became acquainted with many prom- 
 inent men of the LTnited States, and with whom 
 he formed a lasting friendship. Among these 
 were Samuel F. B. Morse, of telegraph fame, 
 Marshall P. Wilder, and General Banks. Upon 
 his return to the United States in August, 
 1867, bringing a company of five hundred emi- 
 grants across the plains, fitting out at North 
 Platte, he at once took up the work of the 
 Church in Utah, and in the following year was 
 appointed to a place in the quorum of the 
 Twelve Apostles. He has served in many capac- 
 ities since his ordination to the Apostleship and 
 elevation to the quorum, and his life has been a 
 constant scene of travel and ministrv among the 
 
 members of the Church, both in the United 
 States and in foreign lands. In 1882 he was 
 called to go on an important mission to the 
 Yaqui Indians, in Sonora, Mexico, and in 1890 
 he again took charge of the European mission, 
 returning in time to participate in the dedica- 
 tion of the Salt Lake Temple in 1893. Since 
 then he has spent his time in traveling and vis- 
 iting stakes and conferences from Canada to 
 Mexico. 
 
 Upon the death of President Lorenzo Snow, 
 and the succession of Joseph F. Smitn to that of- 
 fice. Apostle Brigham Young, by reason of se- 
 niority, became President of the Twelve Apos- 
 tles, which position he continues to hold, dis- 
 charging its duties with the same fidelity and 
 zeal that has characterized all his life. 
 
 Apostle Young is a noble representative of his 
 father. His wisdom, integrity and truth, to- 
 gether with his warm heart and kind disposi- 
 tion, have made him beloved by all the people 
 of the Church, and have won for him the respect 
 and confidence of all the people of the West. 
 His life has been like a clear stream of water, 
 and his innate modesty of character, and his 
 freedom from guile have made him one of the 
 most prominent members of the Church of his 
 choice. His work in the Church has been along 
 broad lines, and the State has secured many ben- 
 efits from his work. He retains the same youth- 
 ful spirit, the same genial manner, and the same 
 quiet wisdom that have been so prominent in his 
 character from his boyhood days. From those 
 who know and appreciate him, he receives honor 
 and reverence. When the histor\^ of the devel- 
 opment of Utah shall be written and the work 
 of the men who have brought this State to the 
 fore shall be weighed and measured, none will 
 stand in a better position, nor tip the scales as 
 heavily as will that accomplished by Brigham 
 Young, the father, and Brigham Young, the son. 
 
 L. ROOD. The development and 
 growth of the street railway system of 
 Salt Lake City and its efficient man- 
 agement are largely due to the men 
 who now control its affairs. Among 
 them is the subject of this sketch, who, at the 
 
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 137 
 
 request of the principal owners, accepted the 
 presidency of the company last year. Its inter- 
 ests are varied and wide, and require large execu- 
 tive and administrative ability in the proper con- 
 duct of its business. His work has not been con- 
 fined to this enterprise, but he has also partici- 
 pated in the development of Utah's mineral re- 
 sources. 
 
 C. L. Rood was born in Cattaraugus county, 
 New York, in i860, and when ten years old his 
 parents removed to the West, and their son's edu- 
 cation was received in the schools of California 
 and Nevada, and he later entered the university 
 of the latter State. Like most Western men who 
 have made their mark in the world and have built 
 up a successful career, Mr. Rood early started on 
 his life work. At the age of seventeen he en- 
 tered a country bank, where he was enabled to 
 learn something of the duties of several positions, 
 all of which aiiforded a good training for a busi- 
 ness career. Two years later he went into the 
 newly discovered mines of Yankee Fork Mining 
 District, Idaho, where he became identified, as 
 clerk and afterwards as cashier, with the most 
 important mining companies there. Upon com- 
 ing to Salt Lake City, in 1886, he entered the em- 
 ployment of the Ontario Silver Mining Company, 
 and assisted its superintendent, R. C. Chambers, 
 in the many enterprises in which the latter was 
 engaged. Upon his death, Mr. Rood was chosen 
 by the heirs to the estate as administrator thereof, 
 and as such has had the care and responsibility of 
 the vast property owned by Mr. Chambers. The 
 controlling interests in the Ontario and Daly 
 Mining Companies elected him as superintendent 
 of those properties. The Ontario Mine is one of 
 the largest and most sucessful mines in the West, 
 having paid nearly fourteen million dollars in 
 dividends, out of a total output of thirty-three 
 millions. The Daly Mine is a neighbor of the 
 Ontario, and has paid nearly three millions of 
 dollars dividends. Both properties are being 
 actively worked. 
 
 Mr. Rood married in California, in 1890, Miss 
 Addie L. Stow-e, a daughter of Joseph Stowe, 
 and a member of a distinguished California fam- 
 ily. He has never taken an active part in politics. 
 
 having devoted his whole time and attention to 
 his business interests. 
 
 Mr. Rood is a self-made man, having obtained 
 his present position and success entirely through 
 his own efforts, and all his life has provided the 
 necessary finances for the conduct of whatever 
 he undertook. He is still a young man, and his 
 career may be said to be but in its beginning, 
 but the work he has already done stamps him as 
 a man who even now is a leader among the cap- 
 tains of capital in the West, and one who will un- 
 doubtedly rise to a prominent position in the af- 
 fairs of Utah. 
 
 
 AMES FARRELL. The mining opera- 
 tions which have been conducted in Utah 
 have brought forth many prominent and 
 prosperous mines, and especially so in 
 the Park City District, but among this 
 number there are few which have achieved the 
 prosperous state which the Quincy mine has 
 now reached. Its development has been the work 
 of but two years, and its present prosperity is in 
 a large measure due to the ability with which the 
 President of that company has conducted its af- 
 fairs. Mr. Farrell has been one of its promoters 
 and developers. It is now ranked among the 
 most important mines of the entire inter-moun- 
 tain region, and the work which he has done in its 
 development has gone far towards placing the 
 mining property of Utah upon the high level it 
 now occupies. 
 
 James Farrell was born in Ireland, but his 
 parents removed to the United States when he 
 was a cliild of seven years of age, and his early 
 life was spent in Chicago, Illinois, and in Cook 
 and Dupage counties in that State. His father, 
 John Farrell, was a ship builder, and upon com- 
 ing to the United States found employment in 
 the ship yards at Chicago, in which occupation he 
 was employed at the time of his death, which oc- 
 curred when his son James was but ten years of 
 age. Our subject's mother, Catherine (Hayes) 
 
138 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Farrell, was also a native of Ireland, and lived in 
 Chicago upon coming to this country. 
 
 The death of his father and the necessity which 
 was forced upon him of earning his own living, 
 made it imperative for him to go to work, and 
 at the age of eleven years he secured employment 
 on a farm in Illinois. He continued at this until 
 the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, when he 
 enlisted in the Thirteenth Illinois Infantry, and 
 participated in all the important engagements of 
 that cpnflict. He was present and took part in 
 the battles of Vicksburg, Arkansas Post, Mission 
 Ridge, Ringgold Gap, Averasboro and Jones- 
 borough, North Carolina. He was taken pris- 
 oner while at Madison, Alabama, by the Confed- 
 erate forces, and was confined in the prison at 
 Cahaba, Alabama, where he remained for si.xty 
 days, when he escaped from prison. He was, 
 however, recaptured and taken to Mobile, and 
 later to the prison camp at Andersonville, Geor- 
 gia, and from there to Savannah in the same 
 State, and was later moved to Milan, Georgia. 
 He made his escape from this latter prison, and 
 joined Sherman's army and took part in his fam- 
 ous march to the sea. He served throughout the 
 remainder of the war in Georgia and in the Caro- 
 linas, and after the close of the war participated 
 in the grand review of the Union army which 
 took place in Washington, D. C. From Wash- 
 ington he was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, and 
 from there to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he 
 was finally mustered out of the service as Ser- 
 rjeant of Company I of the Fifty-sixth Illinois 
 Regiment. He had served throughout the entire 
 war, enlisting on May 24, 1861, and being dis- 
 charged on August 12, 1865. 
 
 After the cessation of hostilities he removed to 
 the West, and traveled through Colorado and 
 New Mexico, and, in fact, all of the inter-moun- 
 tain and Pacific Slope States. He took up the 
 business 'of freighting and mining, and crossed 
 the plains to Pueblo, Colorado, and was engaged 
 for a considerable time in freighting in that State, 
 as well as in Utah, Nevada and Idaho. He came 
 to Utah and settled in Park City twenty-two 
 years ago. At that time the settlement there had 
 been in existence about five vears, and Mr. Far- 
 
 rell was one of the first to take up the work of 
 developing the mining properties of that locality. 
 In association with Mr. D. C. McLaughlin, he 
 formed the Quincy Company, which bonded the 
 Quincy Mine, Mr. Farrell being now the presi- 
 dent of the company which conducts its opera- 
 tions. In addition to this mining property, Mr. 
 Farrell is also interested in various other mining 
 properties throughout Utah and in other sections 
 of the West. The Quincy Mine has now grown 
 to be one of the largest in the State, and gives 
 employment to over one hundred men, and is one 
 of the best dividend-paying properties in Utah. 
 Mr. Farrell has seen Park City grow from a small 
 mining camp on the frontier to its present posi- 
 tion in the ranks of the cities of LUah and to its 
 importance as one of the mining centers of this 
 State. 
 
 Our subject was married, in Salt Lake City, 
 to Miss Elizabeth Nash, daughter of Thomas 
 Nash, and by this marriage they have had four 
 children. 
 
 In political life he has always been a Repub- 
 lican, and has been one of the men who have 
 been chosen by the citizens of Park City to direct 
 its atifairs, having served two years as its Mayor, 
 and also a term of two years in the Council of 
 that city. He is also interested in the develop- 
 ment of Park City and the enlargement of the 
 commercial resources of Utah. He is one of the 
 owners of one of the largest freighting and de- 
 livery businesses in Park City, conducted under 
 the name of James Farrell & Co. 
 
 Mr. Farrell is essentially a self-made man, and 
 one who has won his way to his present position 
 by dint of hard work and unwavering industry. 
 He started out to care for himself at the early 
 age of eleven years, and since that time has built 
 his way, step by step, to a high place in the busi- 
 ness and mining world of L^tah. He is one of the 
 most substantial men in this State, and one who 
 enjoys the confidence and esteem of all the people 
 with whom he has been associated. Although 
 practically one of the pioneers of Park City, he 
 prefers to live in the capital of the State, and 
 makes his home in this citv. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 139 
 
 HERON GEDDES, Vice-President and 
 General Manager of the Swansea Mine, 
 located in the Tintic District. It may 
 confidently be asserted that no State in 
 the Union has so world-wide a reputa- 
 tion, nor is more deserving of this notoriety, than 
 is the State of Utah. The extreme prolificness of 
 her soil, her unsurpassed loveliness of scenery, 
 unrivalled climate and the fabulous wealth of her 
 almost endless mining resources, as yet only in 
 their infancy, go to make up a combination that 
 cannot be surpassed, if, indeed, equalled, by any 
 sister State. Her mining industry must, how- 
 ever, take precedence over all other industries, as 
 every enterprise, public or private, of any con- 
 siderable magnitude in the State can be traced 
 directly or indirectly to the mines whose outputs 
 have made such enterprises possible. While of 
 recent years the attention of Eastern capitalists 
 has been attracted to this most enticing field, and 
 one by one they are coming here to invest their 
 surplus funds, yet by far the greater volume of 
 business in the mining world of Utah has been 
 done by men who claim this as their homes ; in 
 many instances native born citizens of Utah, but 
 quite as often poor men who have come to make 
 this their place of permanent abode, and, acquir- 
 ing large wealth from these mines, have invested 
 it in the State and used it to develop or promote 
 other industries ; erecting handsome public and 
 private buildings, and endowing charitable, re- 
 ligious or educational institutions. Magnificent 
 examples of this noble use to whicn these men 
 have put their wealth, may be mentioned the St. 
 Ann Orphanage, the Catholic Cathedral, the 
 Judge Memorial Hospital for Miners, and the 
 plot of ground on State street and donation given 
 for a public library, the donation amounting to 
 ninety thousand dollars. Among those who came 
 to Salt Lake City comparatively poor men, and, 
 through their investments in mines, have become 
 wealthy and influential citizens, mention should 
 be made of Theron Geddes, the subject of this 
 article. 
 
 Mr. Geddes is a native of Lewisburgh, L^nion 
 county, Pennsylvania, where his father, Samuel, 
 was a wealthy and influential iron manufac- 
 turer, manufacturing furnaces and stoves prin- 
 
 cipally, and turning out the first cooking stoves 
 made in the central part of Pennsylvania, 
 and which acquired a wide reputation under 
 the name of the Hathaway cooking stove. 
 He was a prominent and influential member of 
 the Presbyterian Church, active, in the Sunday 
 school and other work of the church, and 
 a man of considerable importance in business 
 circles. He later moved to Camden, and from 
 there to Dover, Kent county, Delaware, where 
 he died at the age of eighty-three years. The 
 family originally came from Scotland, settling 
 in Pennsylvania, the head of the family be- 
 ing a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. 
 He came to America before the Revolutionary 
 War, and gave some valuable assistance to this 
 government during the war. Mr. Geddes' mother 
 was also descended from Revolutionary stock, 
 her maternal ancestors being named Crane and 
 taking a prominent part in the war. Mrs. Geddes 
 bore the maiden name of Jane M. Budd, and was 
 a daughter of Joshua Budd, a resident of Peeks- 
 ville, Dutchess county, New York, where his 
 daughter was born. 
 
 Our subject obtained his education in one of 
 the best educational institutions of Pennsylvania, 
 known as the Hill School, of Pottstown, Penn- 
 sylvania, and at the age of fifteen started in life 
 for himself in Philadelphia, where he secured a 
 position with a large commission house, having 
 charge of their financial affairs, and remaining 
 with the firm four years. After severing his con- 
 nection with this concern, he remained in Phila- 
 delphia until 1881, engaged in various lines of 
 work, and in that year came West on account ol 
 his health, going first to Colorado Springs and 
 later to Denver. In Colorado Springs he began 
 his career as a railroad man, accepting a position 
 in the auditing department of the Denver and 
 Rio Grande road, filling that position two years, 
 his headquarters being later moved to Denver. 
 When the interests of the Denver and Rio Grande 
 and the Rio Grande Western roads were dis- 
 solved, in 1884, Mr. Geddes accepted a position 
 as chief clerk in the office of the Auditor of the 
 latter company, and two years later was pro- 
 moted to the Auditorship of the company, his 
 headquarters remaining in Denver until 1890, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 when the offices were moved to Salt Lake City, 
 and Mr. Geddes retained that position until the 
 road came under control of Mr. Gould, when he 
 resigned, his term of office expiring October i, 
 1901. 
 
 During the time Mr. Geddes was connected 
 with the railroad he was Auditor and Secretary 
 in the following associated companies of the Rio 
 Grande Western system: The Pleasant Valley 
 Coal Company, Wasatch Company, Rio Grande 
 Western Construction Company, Tintic Range 
 Railway Company, Sevier Railroad Company, 
 Utah Central Railroad Company, Utah Eastern 
 Railroad Company, and a director in the numer- 
 ous companies of this system. 
 
 He became identified with the mining inter- 
 ests of Utah in 1892, when he acquired an inter- 
 est in the famous Swansea Mine, at Silver City, 
 of which he was elected Secretary and Treasurer, 
 holding those offices until 1895, when he was 
 elected Vice-President, General Manager and 
 Treasurer, which offices he still holds. This mine 
 has been one of the largest producers of any mine 
 in the Tintic District, and during the past year 
 the owners have spent large sums of money in 
 development work, believing that the resources 
 of the mine are not nearly exhausted. The com- 
 pany expect to begin work again when the shaft 
 reaches a depth of twelve hundred feet, when 
 work will be commenced on the lower levels, and 
 it is confidently expected that the mine will once 
 more take a leading place as a producer of rich 
 ores, and eclipse all past records. Mr. Geddes is 
 also interested in property in the Deep Creek 
 country and the southern part of L^tah, and is 
 to-day one of Utah's leading mining men. 
 
 Our subject was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 in December, 1875, to Miss Ida B. Geffrey, a 
 native of that State. Two daughters have been 
 born to them, Kathryn Allen and Jenna-Budd. 
 
 In politics Mr. Geddes is a believer in the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, but not an active 
 worker, nor has he ever desired or sought public 
 office. 
 
 Socially Mr. Geddes is a gentleman of most 
 pleasing address, courteous and considerate in 
 his intercourse with others, and, since coming to 
 Salt Lake Citv, has won and retained the esteem 
 
 and friendship of a large class of her best citi- 
 zens. 
 
 RANCIS ARMSTRONG. (Deceased.) 
 Prominent among the business men of 
 Utah, and who made for themselves a 
 leading place in the annals of Utah, and 
 amassed wealth in the work of assist- 
 ing in the development of the resources of this 
 State, and in bringing its commercial standing up 
 to its present high position, there is no man who 
 is entitled to a higher place than tne subject of 
 this sketch. He was one of the early pioneers 
 who successfully undertook the carrying to com- 
 pletion many of the projects which have brought 
 Utah and Salt Lake City to their high commer- 
 cial position. 
 
 Francis Armstrong was born in Northumber- 
 land, England, on October 3, 1839, and when but 
 twelve years of age his parents removed to Can- 
 ada, where their son spent his early life. He was 
 educated in the public schools, and also in a 
 boarding school at Hamilton, and soon started 
 out on his business career. He removed to the 
 United States, and made his way to Missouri, 
 where he remained until the breaking out 
 of the Civil War, in 1861. He then decided 
 to remove to the West, and came to Utah, 
 driving an ox team across the plains. He became 
 identified with the Mormon Church a short time 
 after his arrival in Salt Lake City, having made 
 his way to the Great Salt Lake Valley in Captain 
 Duncan's company, who were members of the 
 Church, arriving here in 1861. Upon his arrival 
 he first devoted his attention to the milling busi- 
 ness, and successfully erected several mills, which 
 he sold at a considerable advantage. He later 
 turned his attention to the lumber business, and 
 formed the company of Armstrong & Livingston, 
 which was later known by the name of Arm- 
 strong & Bagley, their mills being in Cottonwood 
 and their headquarters in Salt Lake City. This 
 was a very successful firm, and enjoyed a con- 
 tinued prosperity from its establishment in 1864. 
 It was also known as Taylor, Lattmar & Co., 
 and later became Taylor, Romney & Armstrong 
 Company, in which Mr. .Armstrong took an active 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 141 
 
 part, botli in incorporating and in bringing it to 
 the high place it occupies in the commercial world 
 of the West. He did not confine his attention 
 entirely to the lumber business, but also found 
 time to aid in the establishment and growth of 
 many of the enterprises which have gone to build 
 up Salt Lake. He was one of the originators of 
 the Utah Power Company, of which he was Pres- 
 ident, and he also became interested in the street 
 railway system of the city. This property he pur- 
 chased from the Church when horses were the 
 motive power, and substituted electricity for that 
 power, and was President of that company for 
 some time, when he resigned. He died June 15, 
 1899. It was largely through his efiforts that the 
 present efficient system of street railways in Salt 
 Lake City was provided, and he was also one of 
 the first to introduce electricity as a motive power, 
 making Salt Lake the first city west of Chicago 
 to use that means of operating street cars. From 
 the street railway business he turned his attention 
 to stock raising, and became a stockholder in the 
 Blackfoot Stock Company, of which he was made 
 President, and also owned a large ranch in Battle 
 Creek, Idaho, which was known as the Roscoe 
 Stock Company. Mr. Armstrong was one of the 
 organizers of the Utah Commercial and Savings 
 Bank, and at its organization was elected the 
 first President, on May 31, 1899, shortly before 
 his death, when he was succeeded by his son Wil- 
 liam F. This is one of the strong financial insti- 
 tutions of the city. In politics the senior Mr. 
 Armstrong was a Democrat. Among the official 
 positions he held were those of City Councilman, 
 Mayor of Salt Lake City, and at two different 
 times was County Commissioner, holding that 
 position when he died. 
 
 From the time he joined the Mormon Church 
 he was a faithful and consistent follower of its 
 teachings, and at the time of his death was a 
 member of the Seventies. He started out as a 
 poor boy, and won his way to the ranks of 
 wealthy men by his own efforts. His industry, 
 energy and business ability made him one of the 
 most prominent men in Salt Lake City, and he 
 left behind him a record that will be a source of 
 pride to his posterity. 
 
 He was married December 10, 1864, to Miss 
 
 Isabella Siddoway, who was also a native of 
 Northumberland, England, having been born in 
 the same section as was her husband. She came 
 to Utah in i86o with her parents, as a girl of ten 
 years, and was the daughter of Roberts and Eliz- 
 abeth (Dawson) Siddoway, natives of North- 
 umberland, England. Her father was a ship 
 builder in England. He came to America in 
 1857, and spent about four years in New York 
 and Pennsylvania, and upon joining the Mormon 
 Church there emigrated to Utah, reaching here 
 in i860, and here followed the business of a 
 wheelwright, and was employed as the superin- 
 tendent of many of the buildings erected by the 
 railways, engaging in this work for many years. 
 He remained identified with the Church through- 
 out his whole life. His people in England were 
 prominent in industrial affairs, and his wife's rel- 
 atives, the Davvsons, were prominent glass manu- 
 facturers. By this marriage Mrs. Armstrong has 
 ten living children — Elizabeth S., William F., Isa- 
 bella, Anne, Mary, Emma, Sarah E., Florence, 
 Irene and Lee. Mr. Armstrong made his home in 
 Salt Lake City, dying- at the age of fifty-nine years, 
 in the fullness of his career and at the zenith of his 
 power. He was one of the most prominent and 
 influential business men of Utah, and had won 
 the confidence and esteem of the entire business 
 world by his industry and integrity. To the lead- 
 ers of the Church to which he belonged he was 
 a loved and trusted member, and was by them 
 held in high esteem. To the people of Utah, with- 
 out respect to religious belief of political faith, 
 he was known as a large-hearted and generous 
 friend. 
 
 OSEPH YOUNG. Much has been writ- 
 ten about the pioneers of the Mormon 
 Church in Utah, and of the hardships 
 and sufferings they endured on their 
 long and tedious journey over the plains. 
 Although not strictly a pioneer — for the pioneers 
 arrived in Utah in 1847 — Joseph Young was 
 among the earliest settlers, reaching the Beehive 
 State in the year 1850. His brother was Brigham 
 Young, the first President of the Mormon Church 
 in Utah, the man whose name will go down in 
 
142 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 history as the father of the pioneers and the 
 founder of the City of Salt Lake. 
 
 Joseph Young was born in Hopkinton, Massa- 
 chusetts, on April 7, 1797, and died on July 16, 
 1881, at the ripe age of eighty-four years. He 
 was the Senior President of the Seventies of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 
 and held this high church office until the time of 
 his death. He came of old Puritan stock. His 
 early years were spent in Massachusetts and New 
 York, and he obtained his schooling in the west- 
 ern part of the Empire State. Up to the time of 
 the founding of the Mormon Church he lived in 
 the vicinity of Auburn, New York, and he became 
 one of its early adherents. When the Mormons 
 migrated to Kirkland, Ohio, Joseph Young went 
 with them to their new home. He was a mem- 
 ber of what was known as Zion Camp, which 
 was the first delegation to go to Independence, 
 Missouri, and found the settlement which they 
 believed was to be the Zion, where, in course of 
 time, the great Mormon temple is to be erected. 
 But this dream has not yet been realized. The 
 Mormons were driven out of Missouri, and found 
 a new resting place at Nauvoo, Illinois. Here 
 Joseph Young assisted in building the temple, 
 and at the time of the Mormon exodus from Illi- 
 nois moved to winter quarters near Omaha, at 
 a place now called Florence. In the summer of 
 1850 he crossed the plains in a company to the 
 Great Salt Lake Valley, having spent the three 
 preceding years in Iowa. Here, in the virgin soil 
 of a new country, he took an active part in the 
 development of the great valley and the settle- 
 ment of the future State of Utah. 
 
 Joseph Young helped to lay the corner-stone 
 of the magnificent Mormon Temple, a sanctuary 
 whose intrinsic value is stated at $4,000,000, and 
 which stands to-day as a marvel of beauty of 
 architecture, a wonder to the whole civilized 
 world, and a monument to the enduring energy 
 and enterprise of the Mormon people. 
 
 As First President of the First Seventies, 
 loseph Young was commissioned to preach the 
 gospel, and most of his life after coming to 
 Utah was devoted to his sacred mission. The 
 memory of few men will be cherished by the gen- 
 erations to come with deeper respect or greater 
 
 love. He carried the word of the eospel through- 
 out the greater part of the State of Utah, ever 
 ready to succor the needy or help the suffering. 
 He was a man of marked ability and an earnest 
 student, and the work of his life showed that he 
 was a firm believer in the doctrines and principles 
 which he inculcated. 
 
 Joseph Young was a man of mild and gentle 
 temperament. If he ever had an enemy no one 
 knew of it, for he was ever genial and kind to all. 
 He was thoroughly grounded in the precepts of 
 the Mormon faith, and claimed the right to be- 
 lieve as his conscience bid him, and was ever will- 
 ing to accord to every man the same privilege. 
 If any believed differently to him, he would never 
 quarrel with him or harbor hard feelings against 
 him on this account. His brother. President Brig- 
 ham Young, has often said of Joseph that he 
 never knew a better man, nor one who followed 
 more closely the teachings of Christ. 
 
 In the early Territorial days Joseph Young was 
 a member of the Territorial Legislature. He was 
 broad and cosmopolitan in all his views, in politics 
 as well as religion. It has been said that his 
 gentle, kindly disposition was inherited from his 
 mother. 
 
 Bv his first wife, Jane Adeline Cicknell, Joseph 
 Young had nine children — Jane Adeline Young 
 Robbins, Joseph Young, Jr., Dr. Seymore B. 
 Young, Judge Le Grande Young, Vilate Young, 
 Chloie Young Benedict (wife of Dr. Benedict), 
 Rhoda Young ^Mackintosh, Henrietta Young and 
 Brigham Bicknell Young. His second wife, Eliz- 
 abeth Flemming, bore him three children — Isaac, 
 Fannie and Caroline Young; and his third, Lu- 
 cinda Allen, five — Phineas, John C, Josephine, 
 Augusta and Wilfred. The fourth wife, Mary 
 Burnham, had two children — Moriah Young Rus- 
 sell and Clara Young Conrad. By the fifth wife 
 two children were born — Edward and Mary 
 Young. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 143 
 
 ALTER P. READ. In the work of 
 developing the resources of Utah 
 and in bringing the prosperity of the 
 State to its present satisfactory con- 
 dition, few men have played a more 
 inipt.rtant part and few have been so widely in- 
 terested in the varied industries of the State as 
 has the subject of this sketch. Without the ad- 
 vantages of a scholastic education, and learning 
 deeply and well in the strict school of experience, 
 his success in life has been due entirely to his own 
 efforts and to his indomitable will and unflagging 
 industry. 
 
 Walter P. Read, the son of Samuel George 
 Read and Elizabeth Georgian (Ouellyj Read, was 
 born in London. England, in 1848, and lived in 
 that country until the eighth year of his age. His 
 father was a native of London, England, and was 
 employed as a Lieutenant in the service of the 
 East India Company, and later was employed in 
 the office of the General Mercantile Department 
 of the docks of that company in i.,ondon. He left 
 England for America in 1856, and settled in Iowa, 
 in which State he remained for five years. He re- 
 moved, with his family, to Salt Lake City in 1861, 
 arriving in Utah some time after the rest of his 
 family had arrived. This delay was due to his 
 search for his son Walter, who, at the age of 
 thirteen, evinced a desire to support himself. Our 
 subject left Iowa on the 1st day of July, 1861, 
 and arrived in Salt Lake City in October of that 
 year, he driving an o.x team across the plains. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Salt Lake City, our sub- 
 ject's father secured employment as a bookkeeper 
 in the office of the Deseret News, where he re- 
 mained until he established himself in business, 
 dealing in books and newspapers under the firm 
 name of "The London Newsdealer." He had be- 
 come a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints before he left England, and 
 continued to be a member of that Church until the 
 time of his death in Salt Lake City. 
 
 Elizabeth Georgian (Quelly) Read, wife of 
 Samuel George Read and mother of Walter P. 
 Read, was a native of England. She left that 
 country with her husband in 1856, coming direct 
 to Salt Lake and remaining here until 1859, when 
 she returned to Iowa and there joined the balance 
 
 of the family, coming back to Salt Lake City in 
 1861, her husband having come in 1859. 
 
 Walter P. Read received his early education in 
 private schools in Salt Lake City, but as he de- 
 sired to gain his own livelihood and be independ- 
 ent, soon started on his business career. At the 
 age of sixteen he entered the harness business and 
 remained in that vocation for the ensuing sixteen 
 years. The first six years of this period he was 
 an employe, and throughout the latter ten years 
 owned and controlled the business located at 
 Nephi. L'pon the sale of his harness business, he 
 devoted himself to railroad building, and in the 
 fall of 1879, in connection with Messrs. Grover 
 and McCune, formed a construction company 
 known as the Juab Contract Company, who in 
 that year successfully undertook and completed 
 the building of the line on the San Juan river, Col- 
 orado. 
 
 In the spring of 1880 the firm went to Gunnison 
 county, Colorado, and there constructed thirty 
 miles of the South Park road. This firm was 
 known as Grover, McCune & Read, and secured 
 the contract for building thirty miles of track, 
 from Gunnison City to the Ruby ?^Iountains, for 
 the Union Pacific Railroad, and also contracted 
 for and successfully completed ninety miles of 
 the road from Pueblo north on the Denver and 
 New Orleans, now known as the Denver and Fort 
 Worth Railroad. This firm operated extensively 
 in the Western States, and secured a contract in 
 Montana to haul wood to the Lexington !^Iills, 
 at Butte City, from the low lands. 
 
 In addition to the extensive interests of this 
 successful firm, Mr. Read found opportunities for 
 the exercise of his abilities in other fields, and in 
 1881 he became interested in stock raising. In 
 that year he formed a partnership with Messrs. 
 Alfred W. McCune and Thomas J. Scofield, and 
 engaged in the cattle business. This partnership 
 owns an extensive stock ranch in Southern Utah, 
 comprising about six thousand acres, stocked with 
 upwards of seven hundred head of horses and 
 cattle. The same industry and ability which he 
 displayed in his former enterprises has made this 
 ranch one of the most prosperous in the entire 
 State. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Read again turned his attention 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to railroad building, and in Montana the firm of 
 McCune, Kerkendall & Co. was formed at Helena. 
 The extensive operations of this firm were man- 
 aged by Mr. Read, who had entire charge of its 
 business in Montana. 
 
 From railroad building he turned his attention 
 in a few years, and entered into a partnership at 
 Nephi for the purpose of conducting a general 
 merchandise business, the firm being known as 
 Read & Bryan. Here he remained until 1889, 
 when he moved to Salt Lake City and took up the 
 management of the street railway system of the 
 Salt Lake City Railroad Company. When Mr. 
 Read took up the management of this property 
 it was a poorly equipped, crude system. The 
 cars were hauled by mule teams, and the tracks 
 extended but an inconsiderable distance. Since 
 his incumbency of the office of General Manager 
 the system has made wonderful strides, both in 
 efficiency and prosperity. Under his direction 
 mule power was superseded by electricity, and in 
 Salt Lake City was installed the first system of 
 electric street railways west of Omaha. He filled 
 the offices of Superintendent, General Manager 
 and Vice-President and Director of this company, 
 from the time of his arrival in Salt Lake City, 
 in 1889, until the consolidation of the two street 
 railway companies, the Rapid Transit Company 
 and the Salt Lake City Railroad Company, was 
 effected, in 1901, under the name of the Consoli- 
 dated Railway and Power Company, and in the 
 new corporation he continues to act as Superin- 
 tendent, Vice-President and Director. This com- 
 pany now controls and operates all the street rail- 
 ways of the city, and their mileage of tracks now 
 amounts to seventy-six miles. It furnishes em- 
 ployment for about two hundred and fifty men. 
 The power plants and the water power required 
 in the operation of the railway are also owned by 
 the company. In the summer season it operates 
 over one hundred cars a day, and throughout the 
 year maintains an average of fifty-four cars. 
 From the small and crude beginning in 1889 it 
 has now developed into a prosperous and efficient 
 system, and this result has been due, in a large 
 measure, to the ability and enterprise of Mr. 
 Read. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Read married Miss Martha A. 
 
 Pond, daughter of Stillman and Elizabeth Pond, 
 and his family consists of seven children — three 
 sons and four daughters — Walter E., who has 
 charge of the car barns at night ; Joseph Marion, 
 messenger for the Pacific Express Company on 
 the Oregon Short Line Railroad ; and Winslow. 
 His daughters are Gertrude, wife of Fred Michel- 
 son, who is engaged in the baking business in Salt 
 Lake City ; Martha J., in Germany, studying 
 music ; Ermer and Edna. 
 
 Notwithstanding his varied and active business 
 career, Mr. Read found time to take part in the 
 political affairs of the State. He is a believer in 
 the principles of the Democratic party, and in 
 1876 was elected and served as Sheriff of Juab 
 county, Utah. He also had the honor of being 
 the first City Marshal of Nephi, being elected to 
 that office in the spring of 1889, but owing to his 
 removal to Salt Lake City to take up the man- 
 agreement of the Salt Lake City Railroad, he re- 
 signed his office in that year. 
 
 In social matters he has also taken an active 
 part, being a member of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, of which he is Past Master, 
 and is a leading member of the Elks. 
 
 The success of all the business enterprises in 
 which Mr. Read has been interested and the 
 strikingly successful career he has made in Utah 
 are the results of his own efforts. Starting out 
 in life at an age when most boys are still under 
 parental guidance, self-instructed and self-made, 
 he has achieved results that mark him as one of 
 the great captains in the industrial development 
 of the West. A man of splendid physique, un- 
 daunted will power, coupled with the ability to 
 learn from others and profit by their experience, 
 no matter how limited, has made his career one 
 of the most striking illustrations of what energy, 
 application and industry can accomplish. Gifted 
 with a pleasing personality and a kind and genial 
 manner, he has become one of the best known and 
 most popular men throughout this region. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 145 
 
 OHN J. STEWART. In the settlement 
 of a new country and in the building up 
 of a city, especially a city of the rapid 
 growth that Salt Lake has experienced, 
 a great demand arises for building ma- 
 terial, and the supplying of the lumber necessary 
 for the erection of houses and buildings forms 
 one of the chief industries of a community. This 
 is especially true of Salt Lake City, and the 
 growth of the city is clearly indicated by the de- 
 velopment and prosperity of the large wholesale 
 lumber interests. He was one of the first to estab- 
 lish the wholesale lumber business in LItah, and he 
 has kept pace with the development of the city 
 and State. 
 
 John J. Stewart was born in \ ellow Springs, 
 Green county, Ohio, and spent his early life in 
 that State, deriving his early education from the 
 district schools established in his native county. 
 At the age of nineteen he began his business ca- 
 reer, becoming connected with his father, E. R. 
 Stewart, in the flour milling business, and con- 
 tinuing in that industry until 1887, in which year 
 his father retired from business. E. R. Stewart, 
 the father of the subject of this sketch, was a 
 native of Ohio, and his wife, Rachel (Jacoby) 
 Stewart, was a native of Ohio. Her father was 
 a successful farmer and stock raiser in that State, 
 and her family were among the early settlers of 
 Green county. The Stewart family were among 
 the pioneers of Clark county, Ohio, and settled 
 in that State when the country was a wilderness 
 and the land occupied by hostile Indians. The 
 same energy, determination and ability that has 
 made Mr. Stewart's life a success was exhibited 
 by his ancestors in the settlement and cultivation 
 of what was then considered the outpost of civil- 
 ization. After the retirement of our subject's 
 father from the flour milling business, which had 
 been conducted with great success, the family re- 
 moved to California, and there lived until 1889, 
 when they came to Salt Lake City. When Mr. 
 Stewart removed to Salt Lake City his father re- 
 turned to the East, and is still living in Spring- 
 field, Ohio, but is not actively engaged in busi- 
 ness. 
 
 In November, 1899, Mr. Stewart established 
 his present business and began the building up of 
 
 his now large and prosperous wholesale lumber 
 business. His success in the East has been con- 
 tinued in Utah, and he now ranks high in the 
 commercial and political life of this State. 
 
 He was married in Ohio, in 1883, to Miss Flora 
 Dickson, daughter of Rev. Dr. Dixon, D. D., one 
 of the most prominent and successful clergymen 
 of thePresbyterian Church in Ohio, who has since 
 died. By this marriage Mr. Stewart has four 
 children — Elinor, Marguerite, John J., Jr., and 
 Jean. 
 
 In politics Air. Stewart has been a staunch Re- 
 publican all through his life, and has participated 
 actively in the growth of Salt Lake City in the 
 administration of its aflairs. He was elected a 
 member of the City Council in this city in the 
 fall of 1895, and served in that capacity during 
 the years of 1896 and 1897. Outside of this, how- 
 ever, he has never held public office, nor sought 
 in any way or manner the nomination or election 
 to any office in the gift of the people, devoting his 
 time to the development and care of his business 
 interests. 
 
 When Mr. Stewart settled in Salt Lake, in 
 1889, it was a much smaller city than now, and 
 since that time he has seen it grow to its present 
 importance as a cosmopolitan city and the center 
 of distribution for a territory covered by Wyom- 
 ing, Nevada. Idaho and the western portion of 
 Colorado. There were not many business houses 
 of any importance here when he arrived, and he 
 has seen the present buildings erected, the city 
 extended and improvements made of a nature be- 
 fitting its importance. In this work he has taken 
 an active part, and during his tenure of office in 
 the City Council was a strong advocate of meas- 
 ures tending to improve the city and State as 
 well. He is a firm believer in the future impor- 
 tance of Salt Lake City, and feels assured that 
 in the immediate years to come it will take its 
 place as one of the most important cities in the 
 western portion of the country. When the re- 
 sources of Utah shall have been developed more 
 thoroughly and its hidden wealth disclosed, he 
 believes that the State will rise to a prominent 
 position in both agriculture and mining. 
 
 The success which Mr. Stewart has achieved 
 has been won by his own efforts, and the integ- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 rity and industry he has displayed in his business, 
 together with his genial and pleasant manner, 
 have won for him the confidence and friendship 
 of all with whom he has been associated in busi- 
 ness, and throughout the State, and, indeed, the 
 West, he enjoys a wide popularity. 
 
 KORGE H. NaYLOR. One of the 
 most responsible positions in the ad- 
 ministration of the duties which de- 
 volve upon the county is that of Sher- 
 iff, and this position has been satisfac- 
 torily filled by the present incumbent, the subject 
 of this sketch, George H. Naylor. Mr. Naylor, 
 by his unflagging devotion to duty and by his 
 humanity and consideration, has won for himself 
 a warm place in the hearts of all the people. 
 
 He was born in Salt Lake City March 10, 1863. 
 He is a son of George Xaylor, one of the pio- 
 neers of Utah and of Salt Lake county, who built 
 the first wagon ever constructed in the valley of 
 Salt Lake. He is now engaged in the sheep busi- 
 ness in Utah, and is still living in the enjoyment 
 of good health. He has been a member of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 
 ever since the early part of his life, joining it 
 in Manchester, England, and coming to this coun- 
 try as a boy. He has taken an active part in the 
 work, and has filled various offices in the Church. 
 His wife, Huldah C. (Duncan) Naylor, was a 
 native of South Carolina. Her parents died, and 
 she came West at an early age. 
 
 Their son, George H. Naylor, was educated in 
 the public schools of Salt Lake City, and started 
 out on his life work at the age of twenty years, 
 and has made his own way in the world and con- 
 ducted a successful business ever since, giving up 
 his business when he was elected Sheriff. He 
 learned the trade of blacksmith and ferrier under 
 the direction of his father, who then had a shop on 
 First South East, and after he became a journey- 
 man he established himself in business and fol- 
 lowed that with success until, as stated, he was 
 elected Sheriff. 
 
 Mr. Naylor was married sixteen years ago to 
 Miss Ruth Pierpont, a daughter of Thomas Pier- 
 
 pont, whose father was engaged in the machinery 
 and foundry business, and still lives in Salt Lake 
 City. By this marriage he has six children — 
 Naomi, Lawrence, George, Winifred, Clarence, 
 Afton and Gladys. 
 
 In political life Mr. Naylor is a believer in the 
 Democratic principles, and it was on that ticket 
 that he was elected Sheriff, his majority in that 
 election being over sixteen hundred. In fraternal 
 life he is a member of the Ancient Order ofUnited 
 Workmen, and also of the Elks. He is distinctly 
 a self-made man, and of the type that the West 
 produces. He has been beholden to no man for 
 his success, and the position which he now holds 
 he has gained by unflagging, constant hard work 
 and application to the tasks which he had in hand. 
 
 AMES P. FREEZE is a forcible example 
 lit what perseverance, coupled with abil- 
 it\- and ambition, can accomplish for a 
 man. Coming to Utah a poor boy, with- 
 out friends or influence, he is to-day one 
 of the substantial and influential citizens of the 
 State, honored wherever known, and enjoying a 
 reputation for business integrity and honesty that 
 might well be the envy of any man. He has, dur- 
 ing his business life in Utah, organized and fos- 
 tered two business enterprises and found time to 
 devote to the study of scientific farming, which 
 ideas have been crystalized since his retirement 
 from the more active duties of life, and he has 
 to-day a farm which men who have devoted their 
 entire lives to agricultural pursuits might copy 
 profitably. 
 
 Air. Freeze is an x\merican by birth, being 
 born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, October 
 II, 1834, and is the son of James and Frances 
 (Goss) Freeze. The father was a miller, and 
 until he was sixteen years of age our subject 
 worked at that business with his father. The 
 parents both died in Pennsylvania, and at the 
 age of sixteen years our subject found himself 
 compelled to make his own way in the world. He 
 began as a clerk, and in 1855 went to Philadelphia, 
 where he again secured a clerkship, remaining 
 there until 1861, when he joined a train of emi- 
 grants at Omaha, and made the long journey 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 147 
 
 across the plains with an ox team, reacliing Salt 
 Lake City on Xovember ist. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Utah he went to Richmond, 
 in Cache Valley, where he engaged in school 
 teaching for two years, and then came to Salt 
 Lake City, where he once more engaged as a 
 clerk, holding a position with Hooper & Eldridge 
 until 1869. and then opened the Thirteenth Ward 
 Co-operative Store, conducting it with success 
 until about 1894. In that year he closed out his 
 business and organized the Freeze Mercantile 
 Company, and operated that business until April, 
 igoi, at which time he sold out his interests and 
 retired from mercantile life. He has owned his 
 home in Murray for the past twenty years, and 
 upon retiring from business life moved here and 
 intends making this his permanent home. He has 
 erected a beautiful seven-room cottage, which 
 be modern in every respect, fitted up with hot and 
 cold water, electric lights, etc. His farm consists 
 of two hundred and thirty acres adjoining Mur- 
 ray, and on this land he has built fifteen houses, 
 which he rents to the employees of the smelters. 
 He has a small village of good barns and out- 
 buildings, and his place is considered one of the 
 most beautiful and cultivated in the valley. The 
 Little Cottonwood creek runs through his land, 
 and is fed from a number of boiling springs. He 
 has also several good artesian wells, which sup- 
 ply the water for his barns, orchard and yards. 
 Much of the land once formed the creek bed of the 
 stream which now flows through it, and this has 
 been reclaimed by banking the waters in with 
 slack from the smelters, which has served the 
 double purpose of confining the water within a 
 narrow channel, and also fencing the land. This 
 waste land has been converted into rich meadow 
 and pasture land, and is a monument to the skill 
 and industry of Mr. Freeze. He has on his farm 
 fifty head of the famous red polled cattle, and has 
 taken great pains to provide good quarters for 
 his stock. His ample stock barns and hay cor- 
 rals are such as are to be found in the old East- 
 ern States, built on the hillside for shelter, and 
 his place is in all resepcts a model one. 
 
 In politics he is a Democrat, but has never been 
 an office-seeker, nor taken any very active part in 
 his party's campaigns. He is a member of the 
 
 Mormon Church, and for the past twenty-five 
 years has been a member of the High Council. 
 
 In 1863 he was married to Mary Ann Burn- 
 ham, a native of Richmond, Utah, and a daughter 
 of Louis and Mary Ann Burnham. Of the eight 
 children born to them, si.x: are now living. 
 
 SCAR W. MOYLE. Salt Lake City 
 claims as citizens some of the brightest 
 legal lights of the western country, and 
 among them and worthy of special note 
 are many native sons of Utah, some ad- 
 vanced in years and in the enjoyment of an estab- 
 lished reputation and a lucrative practice ; some 
 of [hem still young in years and experience, but 
 giving evidence of the possession of talent of no 
 mean order, and having already demonstrated 
 their ability in their profession. Among the latter 
 class belongs the subject of this sketch, a mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Young & Moyle, recognized 
 as among the reputable lawyers of the city. 
 
 Mr Moyle was born in Salt Lake City in 1868, 
 and his whole life, up to the present time, with 
 the exception of the time spent in the East com- 
 pleting his studies, has been spent within the con- 
 fines of this State. As a boy he learned the stone- 
 cutting trade, and worked for a time on the Salt 
 Lake Temple. He attended the common schools 
 of the city, and later entered the Deseret Uni- 
 versity, now the University of Utah, where he 
 graduated with the class of '85, receiving the de- 
 gree of B. S. He later entered the University of 
 Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating from that 
 institution in 1890, with the degree of Ph. B., and 
 taking a two years' course in the law department 
 of the same institution, graduating in 1892, hav- 
 ing spent in all four years in .\nn Arbor. Upon 
 his graduation he was admitted to practice be- 
 fore the Supreme Court of Michigan. He re- 
 turned to Salt Lake City that same year and en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession, forming 
 a partnership with Judge Le Grande Young, one 
 of the foremost attorneys of this city, with whom 
 he has since been associated. While they have 
 done a general law practice, the greater portion 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of their work has been devoted to mining and cor- 
 poration law, of which they have made a special 
 study, and it is safe to say there are few law 
 firms in this State that have a better standing 
 or are considered more versed in this branch of 
 the law than the firm of Young & Movie. Their 
 fine offices and splendid law library are located on 
 the second floor of the Deseret National Bank 
 building, at the corner of First South and Alain 
 streets. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Moyle was married to Miss May 
 Preston, daughter of Bishop William B. Preston, 
 one of the leading business men of this city and 
 one of the most prominent men in the Mormon 
 Church, a full biographical sketch of whom ap- 
 pears elsewhere in this work. Four children have 
 been born of this marriage — Harriett, Elizabeth 
 May, Allie and Rebecca. 
 
 In political affairs Mr. Moyle has always been 
 identified with the Democratic party since the 
 time of its organization in this State. He has 
 perhaps been more prominently identified with 
 the educational work of the city than any other 
 one branch of political life. He has served on 
 the Board of Education for a number of years. 
 His second term expires in 1905. He has proved 
 himself the friend of education, and believes in 
 giving the youth of Utah every possible advan- 
 tage along this line, and raising the standard of 
 education as rapidly as circumstances will admit. 
 
 He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints, and while he has perhaps 
 not been as prominent in Church affairs as some 
 others of its members, yet he is in hearty sym- 
 pathy with all its work, as he is, in fact, with 
 every religious denomination whose tendency is 
 towards the uplifting and betterment of mankind. 
 He is naturally broad and liberal minded in his 
 views, and personally is a man of most genial and 
 pleasing manners, and it is this feature that has 
 undoubtedly contributed towards the success to 
 which he has attained in his professional career. 
 He is yet a very young man, with almost all of 
 life before him, and the record he has thus far 
 made has been such as to cause his many friends 
 to predict a brilliant future for him. His life 
 from boyhood has been straightforward, honor- 
 able and upright. 
 
 O. RHOADES, General Purchasing 
 Agent of the Oregon Short Line Rail- 
 road system. The traveler through 
 this western country must, if he stops 
 to consider the subject, justly be sur- 
 prised at the number of young men to be found 
 in positions of responsibility in the railroads of 
 this region. Some of them are natives of Utah, 
 but the greater number come from Eastern 
 homes, beginning at the bottom in railroad work 
 and rising by their own ability and perseverance, 
 promoted from one position of trust to another, 
 until at an early age we find them holding vari- 
 ous positions in our Western roads, handling their 
 work vfhh skill and giving the patrons of the 
 road most satisfactory and efficient service. The 
 duties of purchasing agent for a railway cannot 
 be said to be fraught with as great responsibility 
 as some other lines, but if not properly attended 
 to it might result in large financial losses, not 
 only to the company, but to the public, delaying 
 traffic and rendering many of the departments 
 unfit for duty. The task of superintending the 
 purchasing of supplies for so large a corporation 
 will readily be recognized as no sinecure, but one 
 that calls for a man of a high order of business 
 ability. 
 
 Mr. Rhoades was born in Rockland, Maine, 
 and when but five years of age came West with 
 his parents, they settling in Omaha, where he 
 attended the common and high schools and under- 
 took the study of medicine, with a view of fol- 
 lowing that as a profession. However, he did not 
 find the study a congenial one, and at the age of 
 sixteen entered the employ of the Union Pacific 
 Railroad Company, remaining there from 1879 
 until he came to Salt Lake City in 1897. During 
 this time he was employed as messenger in the 
 supply department, tie inspector, rail inspector, 
 and, in 1888, promoted to the position of chief 
 clerk in the office of the Purchasing Agent, hold- 
 ing that position until 1897, when he was sent 
 to Salt Lake and made Purchasing Agent of the 
 entire system of the Oregon Short Line Railway, 
 which he still holds, having supervision over 
 about one hundred men. 
 
 Mr. Rhoades' father, William G. Rhoades, was 
 a ship builder by trade, and before reaching his 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 149 
 
 majority had built the Young Mechanic, the fast- 
 est three-mast sailing vessel ever built in the 
 United States at that time. He later moved to 
 Omaha, where he followed contracting and build- 
 ing up to the time of his death. His wife, and the 
 mother of our subject, was Addie T. Durgin. 
 
 Our subject was married in 1885. in Omaha, 
 to Aliss Katherine M. Brown, by whom he has 
 two children — one son, William G., and a daugh- 
 ter, Elwinnie M. 
 
 During his residence in Omaha Mr. Rhoades 
 was largely identified with the educational work 
 of the city, and in 1893 was elected a member 
 of the School Board, being re-elected in 1896, 
 being President of the Board during the last two 
 years, as a resident of that place. In political life 
 he is a Republican, but has never been actively 
 identified with the work of the party. In fra- 
 ternal circles he is a thirty-second degree Mason 
 and has passed through all the degrees of Ma- 
 sonry, and is also a member of the A. A. O. N. 
 M. S., being at the head of that order in Salt 
 Lake. He also has his membership with the 
 Royal Arcanum and the Ancient Order of L^nited 
 Workmen. 
 
 Since he has been a resident of this city Mr. 
 Rhoades has made many warm friends, not only 
 among his associates, but in social circles, where 
 he and his wiie are ever-welcome members. He 
 is most genial and kindly in his nature, upright 
 and honorable in his business and private life, 
 and stands high in the esteem of his employers. 
 
 ICHARD MATHEW CARLISLE. 
 iM-om 1850 to 1867 Richard M. Car- 
 lisle led an unsettled life. Frontiers- 
 man, freighter, lumberman, etc., he 
 finally settled down in Mill Creek 
 Ward, where he now lives on his farm of seventy 
 acres with his wife and daughter. 
 
 A son of Richard and Jane( Fields) Carlisle, the 
 subject of this sketch was born in Lincolnshire, 
 England, in June, 1840, being the youngest of the 
 family. He came to America when he was only 
 ten years old with his parents, and the family 
 made their home for a while in St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri, where his mother died of cholera. After 
 this the family broke up, coming west to L^tah 
 
 at diflferent times. Our subject crossed the Mis- 
 sissippi to East St. Louis, in Illinois, and here 
 he found a home with one Joseph Launceford, a 
 man who had helped to build the first ten log 
 houses that were put up in St. Louis. W nen 
 Launceford came to Utah he brought our sub- 
 ject along with him. This was in 1852, and 
 Joseph Outhouse, a son-in-law of Launceford's, 
 was captain of the train. Salt Lake City was 
 reached on August 8th, 1852. Richard made but 
 a brief stay, and then went on to Spanish Fork. 
 From there he went to Palmyra, where there was 
 a little settlement, and lived for a year. Next he 
 came to Mill Creek, and lived there for about 
 two years, returning again to Utah county, where 
 he stayed till 1859. In that year he returned to 
 Salt Lake county, where he has had his home 
 ever since. He has helped to settle the Mormon 
 settlements in Arizona and has crossed the plains 
 many times, freighting and bringing over Mor- 
 mon emigrants. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Carlisle married Mary H. Wright 
 at Salt Lake City. She was born in Mill Creek, 
 and is a sister of Joseph A. Wright. Of the six 
 children born to them, only two are living — 
 Joseph A., who has a farm near his father's, and 
 Mary Alice, a girl of nineteen, who still lives 
 under the family rooftree. They were the sec- 
 ond and fourth children, respectively. The chil- 
 dren who died were: Richard W., the eldest, who 
 died at the age of four months ; Jane Maria, the 
 third, who lived till she was nineteen years ; 
 Washburn M., the fifth child, who only reached 
 the age of nine years, and Rowland W., the 
 youngest, who only lived six months. 
 
 Mr. Carlisle's home farm consists of seventy 
 acres, which is well improved and contains a com- 
 fortable home, with an artesian well in the yard. 
 His wife also has a ten-acre farm, left her by her 
 father. 
 
 Politically Mr. Carlisle is a Democrat. He has 
 taken an active interest in school matters. He was 
 born and raised a Mormon, as were also his wife 
 and children. His wife is an active member of 
 the Ladies' Relief Society, and takes a lively in- 
 terest in the Church affairs of her ward. The 
 daughter is a popular young lady in Mill Creek, 
 a member of the Young Ladies' Primary, and 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 prominent in Church matters. She was for a 
 time governess to the children of Benjamin R. 
 Eldredge. 
 
 Mr. CarHsle was left to shift for himself when 
 he was only a boy. He had no start in life, and 
 had to fight all his own battles. He was the first 
 of his family to come out to Utah, and was a 
 close friend of some of the leading families. He 
 helped to haul the materials from the canyons 
 that were used in the building of the Tabernacle 
 and the Temple. 
 
 iJlXDREW D. HELM. The history of the 
 Helm family presents a forcible ex- 
 ample of the strenuous life which the 
 ]}iuneers and early settlers of Utah had 
 to face — a life so full of hardships 
 and sutlcring that, looking back, it seems little 
 short of miraculous that so many have sur- 
 vived the struggle, and not only survived it, 
 but at the same time managed to accumu- 
 late a competency and lived to a good old 
 age. With the Helms it was a case of the 
 younger sons working to provide a living 
 for the family while the older boys patrolled the 
 neighborhood with their guns on their shoulders 
 to protect the family from sudden onslaughts by 
 the Indians. To the hardships thus endured by 
 the older sons is doubtless attributed their early 
 deaths. Three of them served in the Mormon 
 ranks in the campaign waged by General Johnson 
 against the Mormons. 
 
 Andrew D. Helm was born in Jackson town- 
 ship, Sandusky county, Ohio, in 1849. He is a 
 son of Abraham and Mary (Richards) Helm, who 
 came to L'tah in 1855. His father was born at 
 Lee Cross Road, Cumberland county, Pennsyl- 
 vania, and his mother was born in Germany and 
 raised in Ohio and Pennsylvania. He had seven 
 brothers, three of whom succumbed to the rigors 
 of the life of the early days of the Territory, and 
 four sisters. One brother is now located in 
 Idaho, another in Colorado ; one of his sisters 
 has made her home in Idaho, and the rest of the 
 family live in Utah. 
 
 The Helm family crossed the plains under the 
 leadership of Captain Moses Thurston. Thev 
 had three wagons, two teams of horses and one 
 
 of oxen, which they drove from Ohio, meeting 
 the wagon train for L^tah at Omaha. Abraham 
 Helm bought a farm in Mill Creek, and his wife 
 still lives on it. He died in 1895, ^^ '^'"'^ ^S^ of 
 eightv-four years. At the age of nine years An- 
 drew was a sheep herder. His mother and sis- 
 ters used to shear the sheep, spin the wool into 
 yarn, weave the yarn into cloth and then make 
 the cloth into clothing. He married at the age of 
 twenty-nine Rachel Mitchell, a daughter of Ben- 
 jamin T. and Mary L. (Buckwalter) Mitchell, 
 who had arrived in L'tah in the late forties. Both 
 are now dead. Andrew has four children liv- 
 ing: Rachel Josephine, Benjamin T., Mary La- 
 vina and Maple Clara. They all live at home on 
 Mr. Helm's thirty-two acre tarm in Mill Creek 
 near the railroad. Here he is now just putting 
 the finishing touches on a modern six-room, 
 pressed brick dwelling house, which is fenced in 
 bv a dense, luxuriant growth of poplar hedges 
 which Mr. Helm planted years ago. Spacious 
 barns adjoin the house, and his farm is irri- 
 gated from the Gardner mill race. He raises hay, 
 beets, wheat and cattle and runs a small dairy. 
 He also owns ten shares of stock in the Taylors- 
 ville and Murray Creamery Company. 
 
 Mr. Helm is a Democrat, and for four years he 
 has been a registrar of the fifty-eighth district. 
 He has also served as school trustee, and has 
 always been an earnest advocate of good schools. 
 His two elder children graduated from the 
 district school and now attend the Granite Stake 
 .-\cademy. It is their father's aim to give the 
 younger members of his family the same educa- 
 tional advantages. ^Ir. Helm's father became a 
 member of the Mormon church in Ohio, and An- 
 drew was baptized in the same faith in Mill Creek 
 Ward when he was twelve years old. His wife 
 and children belong to the same church. He is 
 presiding teacher in the second district in Mill 
 Creek ward, and a teacher in the theological class 
 of the Sunday school, and was called in 1891 to 
 serve on a mission in North Carolina and Tennes- 
 see, laboring in that field two years. He met 
 with good success during this period and reached 
 home on October 10, 1893. Mrs. Helm is a 
 members of the Ladies' Relief Society and is an 
 active worker among the ladies of her ward. 
 
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 151 
 
 'CTOR CLAUDE W. GATES, one 
 f the successful and leading dentists 
 lit Salt Lake City, is a native son of 
 L'tah. having been born at Saint George 
 in 1869, and his whole life up to the 
 I^resent time has been spent within the confines of 
 this State. By his courteous and genial manners 
 with all with whom he has come in contact, and 
 by close and painstaking care along the line of 
 his chosen profession, he has won for himself a 
 high place in the ranks of his profession. He is 
 the son of Jacob Gates. 
 
 Jacob Gates came to Salt Lake City in 1847. 
 He was a native of Vermont, and embraced the 
 Mormon religion in the early thirties. He was 
 with the Mormons at Kirkland, Ohio, and later 
 at Xauvoo, where he took part in the battle which 
 ensued at the time of the exodus of the Mormons 
 from that place in 1846. going with the main 
 body of the Church to Winter Quarters, near 
 Omaha, now known as Florence. When Brigham 
 Young left for L'tah, Mr. Gates was appointed 
 Captain of one of the Divisions left behind, and 
 while acting in that capacity sickness broke out 
 in the camp and his duties became so arduous 
 that he called to his assistance Claudius V. Spen- 
 cer, and together they brought the company to 
 Salt Lake City, arriving here in the fall of 1847. 
 He afterward became Senior President of the 
 Seven Presidents of the Seventies, which position 
 he occupied until his death in 1892. During the 
 years he lived in Utah he filled several European 
 missions and at one time presided over the Euro- 
 pean Conference, and was also editor of the 
 Church paper at Conference headquarters. He 
 went to Dixie in company with Erastus Snow and 
 others and assisted in settling Southern Utah, 
 and in building the Saint George Temple, residing 
 in that place for some years. He was familiarly 
 known as the '"Father of Dixie," and served as 
 Mayor of Saint George for several terms. Dur- 
 ing the latter part of his life he lived at Provo, 
 where his son Jacob F. Gates and family are 
 well-known. He spent his whole life in Utah in 
 the service of the Church, and was associated 
 with the heads of the Church in all the enter- 
 prises for the upbuilding of the work in Utah 
 during his life-time. He was a member of the 
 
 Xauvoo Legion and Aide-de-Camp on the staff of 
 Brigadier-General Erastus Snow. He was a di- 
 rector of the Washington Woolen mills and was 
 for many years identified with the milling busi- 
 ness. He built the first large residence in Salt 
 Lake City, now standing at the corner of Third 
 East and Third South streets, and which is owned 
 by Bishop A\'oolley. His wife was a sister of 
 Erastus Snow. 
 
 Our subject received his early education in 
 his native town, and moved with his father's 
 family to Provo in 1883, where he entered the 
 Erigham Young Academy, and later completed 
 his education in the Latter Day Saints' College 
 at Logan. He took up the study of dentistry in 
 1887, and two years later entered upon the active 
 practice of his profession in Salt Lake City, 
 which he has successfully followed up to the pres- 
 ent time. His office and laboratory are located 
 in the Templeton building. Doctor Gates is a 
 member of the State Dental Association. 
 
 He was married in July, 1901, to Miss Lyle 
 Young, daughter of H. S. Young, cashier of 
 the Deseret National Bank. He owns some val- 
 uable property in the city, where he expects to 
 make his future home. He is, like his people, a 
 member of the Mormon Church, and actively in- 
 terested in its work. At this time he holds the 
 office of Elder. 
 
 ( >BERT J. CASKEY, Principal of the 
 Salt Lake Collegiate Institute. Salt 
 Lake is fast becoming known as a city 
 III schools and colleges. The efifect of 
 that reputation is already being felt. 
 Many students from the outlying districts of 
 L'tah and the adjoining States are year by year 
 crowding to the city on account of its superior 
 educational facilities. One of its leading insti- 
 tutions is the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, 
 which is ably presided over and directed by 
 Robert J. Caskey, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 ^Ir. Caskey is a native of Cook County, Illinois, 
 where he was born in i860, near the village of 
 Bloom, now known as Chicago Heights. His 
 Parents were Alexander and Ellen (McQueen) 
 Caskev. residents of Illinois. Mr. Caskev re- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ceived his early education in the country schools 
 of his native State and prepared for college in a 
 private academy in Bloom, Illinois. He entered 
 Knox College in 1882, taking a classical course. 
 and graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1887, 
 and recieved the degree of A. M. in 1890. Upon 
 graduating from Knox college Mr. Caskey came 
 to Utah and became principal of the academic 
 department of the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, 
 remaining in charge of that department for four 
 years at the end of which time Mr. Caskey became 
 superintendent of the school, which position he 
 held till all grades below the eighth were dropped, 
 when his title was changed to principal of the 
 school. Early in i8go, through the munificence 
 of the Woman's Board of Home Missions 
 of the Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. Cyrus 
 H. McConnick of Chicago, the present main 
 building was erected, Mr. Caskey having 
 planned the same and having charge of the work. 
 
 The school has at this time about eighty-five 
 pupils enrolled, and is doing a good work on ed- 
 ucational lines. There are two departments in the 
 school, the preparatory and the academic ; in the 
 latter are two courses of four years each, the 
 classical and the Latin scientific. These depart- 
 ments prepare pupils for entrance into the best 
 institutions of learning in the East. 
 
 Mr. Caskey was married in 1891 to Miss Helen 
 Wishard, daughter of Rev. S. E. Wishard, D. D., 
 of Ogden, Utah, Synodical Missionary of the 
 Presbyterian Church, and a man widely known 
 and loved throughout this inter-mountain region. 
 Three daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Caskey, Lois, Carol and Kathryn. 
 
 Mr. Caskey has, during his residence in Salt 
 Lake, been prominent in all educational matters 
 pertaining to the city, having been a member of 
 the Board of Examiners for the city schools, and 
 ranking among the most successful educators of 
 Utah. He is a member of the First Presbyterian 
 Church, being an Elder in that body, and was for 
 a number of years Superintendent of its Sunday 
 school, but has of late years devoted his 
 time to teaching in the Sunday school. He 
 has been President of the State Christian 
 Endeavor Society, and President of the local 
 societv of his church. He was one of the 
 
 organizers of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association of the city and served as a member 
 of its Board of Directors. During the time he 
 has lived here Mr. Caskey's life has been above 
 reproach and he has many admirers and friends 
 among all classes of people, irrespective of church 
 affiliations or religious belief. 
 
 EORGE ROMNEY, JUNIOR. Utah 
 has furnished splendid fields for young 
 men in nearly every calling or avoca- 
 tion in life. During the past decade the 
 whole State has made most wonderful 
 strides in the direction of development and 
 progress, and to a large extent her native sons 
 have played an important part in her onward 
 march of progress. Among her native sons 
 whose history and efforts are closely linked with 
 many of her most important enterprises, special 
 mention belongs to George Romney, Junior, the 
 subject of this article. 
 
 He was born in Salt Lake City, July 7, 1864, 
 and is the son of Bishop George and Margaret 
 Ann (Thomas) Romney. He grew to manhood 
 in this city and received his education in its 
 schools. At the early age ,of fourteen he entered 
 the wholesale shoe department of the Zion Co-op- 
 erative Mercantile Institution, as a salesman, and 
 remained with that establishment for seventeen 
 years, rising to the position of manager of the 
 sales department, and in 1885 being made man- 
 ager over the boot, shoe and overall factory, 
 where he remained until 1897, in October of 
 which year the Romney Shoe Company was or- 
 ganized, of which he became manager, taking 
 entire charge of the business. This concern does 
 an exclusive wholesale boot and shoe trade. 
 
 In 1894 he was called on a mission to New 
 Zealand, by the Mormon Church, where he mas- 
 tered the native tongue and presided over the dis- 
 trict in the north end of the island, and upon com- 
 pleting his labors started on a trip around the 
 world, visiting the Melbourne and Paris expo- 
 sitions and returning home by way of New York. 
 
 In politics Mr. Romney is a Democrat, and 
 has done some good work in that party. He has 
 always been activelv interested in the advance- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 153 
 
 ment of the interests of his native city, and be- 
 fore he was twenty years of age had served for 
 three years as a member of the school board, be- 
 ing the youngest member ever elected in Salt 
 Lake City. In 1898 he was elected a member of 
 the Second State Legislature, where he served on 
 several important committees, and took an active 
 part in supporting Hon. Joseph L. Rawlins for 
 United States Senator. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Romney was married to Miss 
 Mary Ann Needham, and they have had two 
 children, Sarah and Mary Ann. 
 
 In social life he is a member of the Elks and 
 also a member of the United Commerical Travel- 
 ers' Association. Mr. Romney is a young man, 
 but has given evidence of his ability to success- 
 fully conduct a business of which older and more 
 experienced men might be justly proud. He is 
 wide awake, energetic and keeps abreast of the 
 times. The high rank he today takes among 
 Salt Lake City's leading business men has been 
 won by his own indefatigable industry and close 
 attention to detail. He is well known in social 
 circles and has many warm friends among Utah's 
 citizens. 
 
 pDGE CHARLES W. BENNETT, the 
 Dean of the legal corps of Utah, and 
 one of the ablest lawyers of the West^ 
 who, during the time he has been prac- 
 ticing his profession in Salt Lake City, 
 has won for himself a foremost place at the Bar 
 of the Supreme Court. He has been actively 
 identified with the interests of Utah and of Salt 
 Lake City for over thirty years, and stands at 
 the present time in the highest place in his pro- 
 fession. He is the senior member of the firm of 
 Bennett, Sutherland, Van Cott & Allison, one of 
 the largest firms in Salt Lake Citv, and one of 
 the most successful in the West. 
 
 He was born in Duanesburgh, Schenectady 
 county, New York, October the 14th, 1833, and 
 spent his early life on his father's farm in that 
 State. He attended the district schools of his 
 native place, later entered the Princetown Acad- 
 emy, at that time a celebrated institution of 
 learning. He also took a course and graduated 
 at the Albany Law School, one of the most prom- 
 
 inent legal institutions of New York, graduat- 
 ing at the age of twenty-three, in 1857. He was 
 admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of 
 New York in the same year. He did not re- 
 main in his native State, but removed to the 
 West, where he considered the prospects greater, 
 and located at Burlington, Racine county, Wis- 
 consin, where he practiced his profession for 
 three years. He then removed to Racine, Wis- 
 consin, and here continued the practice of law 
 until the spring of 1869, when he removed to 
 Chicago, and there formed a partnership under 
 the name of Bentley, Bennett, Ullman & Ives, 
 which firm continued to enjoy a lucrative prac- 
 tice until 1 87 1. After the great fire of that year 
 which destroyed the greater part of the city of 
 Chicago, Judge Bennett removed to Salt Lake 
 City, where he has continued to reside ever 
 since. When he came here he found Salt Lake 
 City just emerging from the clothes of a border 
 settlement and beginning to attain its present 
 proportions. From a straggling village with 
 but few ideas of progress, and no attempt made 
 to corral the great tributary trade or develop the 
 vast mineral resources of the State, the Judge 
 has witnessed the transformation during the 
 past quarter of a century to a progressive, bust- 
 ling city, alive to the possibilities incident to its 
 location, and the development of the great min- 
 eral resources of the inter-mountain region. 
 Judge Bennett has figured prominently in its 
 development, and with this development has 
 grown his law practice, until now he stands at 
 the head of a firm noted for its voluminous busi- 
 ness, as well as for the integrity, ability and 
 learning of the men who compose it. He has 
 been counsel for many of the largest mining 
 companies and industrial corporations of the 
 West, and many of the cases he has conducted 
 have gone down into history as some of the 
 most complex and intricate problems that a law- 
 yer has ever been called upon to solve. Many of 
 these cases have been distinguished, not only by 
 the knotty problems, but also by the length of 
 time consumed in unravelling them; many of 
 them taking up three months in their hearing. 
 Judge Bennett married in September, 1858, 
 in Indiana, to Miss Isabella E. Eisher, a native 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of New York, whose people were originally of 
 Scotch extraction, and among the early settlers 
 of New York State. They have two children — 
 Maud B., widow of Charles S. Davis, a citizen of 
 Salt Lake, and Mary Agnes. Mrs. Bennett died 
 April 24, 1902, at her home in Salt Lake, and 
 Mr. Davis, their son-in-law, died eight days 
 thereafter. 
 
 Judge Bennett comes from an old New York 
 family, who were originally from England. His 
 father, Ira Bennett, was a successful and pros- 
 perous farmer in New York State, and was 
 among the early settlers of that region. His 
 father, Amos Bennett, was a soldier in the Co- 
 lonial forces in ' the Revolutionary War. The 
 mother of the subject of this sketch, Angelica 
 (Templar) Bennett, was also a native of New 
 York, and her family were originally from Hol- 
 land and settled in New York in the early days 
 of its colonization. 
 
 In political life Judge Bennett has ever been 
 a staunch and faithful adherent to the principles 
 of the Republican party, having been a mem- 
 ber of that party, not only throughout his life, 
 but from its very birth. He cast his first vote 
 for John C. Fremont, and from that time has 
 unfalteringly followed the lortunes of the Repub- 
 lican party to the present time. He has, how- 
 ever, not participated actively in its work, so far 
 as the solicitation of office is concerned, his time 
 being devoted to the upbuilding of his practice 
 and to the care of the many and varied interests 
 entrusted to his charge. In fraternal life, he is 
 a prominent member of the Masonic order, be- 
 ing a Past Grand Master of Utah and a mem- 
 ber of the Chapter. He is one of the most influ- 
 ential citizens of Utah, and one who has done 
 much to bring the standing of the legal frater- 
 nity to its present high position. A man of un- 
 impeachable integrity, great learning and fair- 
 ness, he has, throughout the generation that he 
 has been practicing in this State, made for himself 
 a reputation that has not been equalled by any 
 other lawyer in the annals of Utah. His career 
 is one that may justly be a matter of pride to his 
 descendants, and his work as a lawyer makes 
 his life one 01 the mile stones in Utah's prog- 
 ress. 
 
 OHN FARRINGTON has for many 
 \ears been one of the substantial busi- 
 ness men of Salt Lake City ; in fact, his 
 whole business life has been spent with- 
 in the confines of Utah. He has been 
 identified with many dififerent kinds of enter- 
 prises and at the present writing is proprietor 
 and sole owner of one of the finest livery and 
 carriage stables in the city. 
 
 He is a native of that grand old country, Eng- 
 land, having been born in Cheshire, May 29, 
 1852, and is the son of Richard and Mary (Bunt- 
 ing) Farrington. He lived at home until fifteen 
 years of age, receiving his education in the 
 schools of his native town. His mother became 
 a member of the Mormon Church in 1844 and 
 taught her son the principles of that religion. 
 She died when our subject was fifteen years of 
 age, and his father and brother, not being mem- 
 bers of the church, and wishing to be with those 
 who were, he went to Liverpool and entered the 
 printing office of the Mormon Church there, re- 
 maining two and a half years and becoming ac- 
 quainted with many of the men who were after- 
 ward prominently identified with the work in 
 Utah, and who became his friends and associates 
 in after life. He sailed from Liverpool on board 
 the vessel Minnesota, August 25, 1869, in com- 
 pany with five hundred other emigrants, and 
 reached Salt Lake in September of that year. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Salt Lake City he found 
 employment in the Deseret News office, later be- 
 coming associated with the construction outfit of 
 the Utah Central railroad, moving to Ogden in 
 the meantime, where he printed the first and 
 second editions of the Ogden Junction, now the 
 Standard. He remained there three months, 
 when he again returned to Salt Lake, following 
 a number of occupations, spending a part of the 
 time in mines, and on April 4, 1882, started out 
 on his present career, his outfit consisting of a 
 team and carriage. From this insignificant be- 
 ginning he has built up one of the leading busi- 
 nesses of its kind in the State. 
 
 Mr. Farrington was married November 18, 
 1874, to Miss EHzabeth Brooks, a native of En- 
 gland, and by this marriage has had seven chil- 
 dren—Richard C. John S., Lillian E.. Albert H., 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 155 
 
 Ethel H., Franklin D. and Ella Louise. 
 
 He has ever been a staunch believer in the 
 principles of the Mormon Church and an active 
 and ardent worker in its interests. At this time 
 he holds the office of an Elder. In addition to the 
 fine business which he has built up, Mr. Farring- 
 ton has continued his interests in the mining 
 regions of the State, and is now interested in a 
 number of mining properties. He is also a stock- 
 holder in the L^tah Sugar Company, and actively 
 interested in whatever tends to build up this 
 country. 
 
 By his upright and honorable life he has won 
 the confidence and esteem of those with whom 
 he has been associated in business, and in private 
 life his genial and pleasant manners have won 
 for him many friends. 
 
 VRUM BENNION. The record of the 
 Bennion family in Utah has formed a 
 most interesting and valuable chapter 
 in the history of this State. From its 
 ^•ery earliest settlement by white peo- 
 ple they had been among the first of the pioneers 
 to come to this country and to forego the hard- 
 ships and trials incident to crossing the plains 
 and locating in a wild and unsettled section far 
 removed at that time from the seat of civilization. 
 At the time the Benn ions' settled in Utah it 
 was a barren waste of valley, hills and mountains. 
 and they have taken a prominent and active part 
 in bringing it up to its present wonderful state of 
 development. 
 
 Our subject was born in Garden Grove. De- 
 cater county, Iowa, January 13th, 1847. He is 
 a son of Samuel and Mary (Bushell) Bennion. 
 His father was born in Flintshire, Wales, De- 
 cember nth, 1818, but raised in Liverpool, where 
 our subject's mother was born, ]\Iarch i, 1816. 
 They were married in St. Nicholas Church, Liv- 
 erpool, Sunday, April 28th, 1839. Sunday March 
 30th, 1845, they left Liverpool for the United 
 States, landing in New Orleans the 12th of May 
 of the same year. Our subject's father had been 
 a baker by trade, and with the assistance of one 
 of his uncles, he began business for himself in 
 
 the suburbs of Liverpool, which he successfully 
 carried on for a number of years. 
 
 Having attended one of the meetings held 
 by the Mormon missionaries, he at once became 
 a disciple of that Church, and gave up his busi- 
 ness and sailed for America. 
 
 His grandfather was John Bennion, who came 
 to America in 1844, and on the arrival of our 
 subject in St. Louis, he was met by his father, on 
 May 23rd, 1845. The next day after arriving in 
 St. Louis, the Temple at Nauvoo was captured by 
 the officers of Illinois. Our subject's grand 
 father and his son John, who met them at St. 
 Louis, conveyed them to their home, which con- 
 sisted of a small shanty seven miles out of Nau- 
 voo. Here our subject's father purchased con- 
 siderable land and built a five room brick house 
 and did considerable improving on the farm. In 
 May, 1846, he sold all of his belongings in that 
 section for $250.00, receiving part of the consider- 
 ation in trade, and on the 19th of ]May, 1846, they 
 departed for the West, there being in that com- 
 pany our subject, his father and mother, grand 
 father and his son John and wife and two chil- 
 dren. They traveled 60 miles west of Nauvoo 
 to Garden Grove, here they plowed up ground 
 and put in a crop of corn and buckwheat. They 
 having between them two yoke of oxen and one 
 team of horses and two wagons. Mrs. Bennion, 
 our subject's mother, drove the horse team in 
 doing farm work. 
 
 The grandfaither of our subject died at this 
 place September 24th, 1846, at the age of 60 years, 
 having been born November 9th, 1786, at Man- 
 cott, near Harden, Flintshire, North Wales. He 
 was buried by the side of Samuel Bentley, under 
 a large oak tree at the edge of a large stretch of 
 timber by the road side, in what was then Cow 
 county, Iowa. 
 
 Our subject's father's family consisted of 
 eleven children, the two oldest died in England. 
 Our subject being the first child of the family 
 born in America. They came on with the pion- 
 eers in 1847 to Utah, spending the winter of '47 
 and '48 in the old fort of Salt Lake City. In the 
 summer of 1848 Mr. Bennion raised a crop on 
 the outskirts of what is now Salt Lake City. 
 
 In the spring of '49, Samuel and John, brothers 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of our subject, Thomas Mackay, Joseph Harker, 
 Tarbet, Field, and a Mr. Kelley crossed the Jor- 
 dan river where they threw up dirt and logs to 
 build a fort which would serve as a protection 
 against the ravages of the red man. This fort 
 was abandoned in 1853, and they built further 
 up the river what was known as the old English 
 fort, which was occupied by them for several 
 years. 
 
 Hyrum spent his boyhood days in this ward, re- 
 ceiving the best education that the schools of 
 those times would afford, and under some of the 
 most trying and difficult conditions. Here he 
 farmed until 1862, when he went to Rush Val- 
 ley, where he farmed for several years and en- 
 gaged in the stock business. 
 
 While living in the valley the United States 
 mails were often captured by bandits and out- 
 laws, and Mr. Bennion was often called upon to 
 protect passengers and mail en route to the Pa- 
 cific Coast. Later Mr. Bennion moved to Castle 
 Valley, now Emery county, where he remained 
 but a short time, when he removed to Taylors- 
 ville ward in 1875, where he has continued to live 
 ever since. 
 
 In 1880 he became interested in the Taylors- 
 ville Rolling mills, which he has successfully op- 
 erated ever since. This mill is equipped with the 
 finest machinery known to the trade in modern 
 times. It is located on the Jordan river near 
 the Taylorsville road, and the products of this 
 mill are known far and near for the excellent 
 food stuff produced in it. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Bennion established the Taylors- 
 ville Co-operative Mercantile Company, of which 
 he has been a director, stockholder and manager 
 ever since. 
 
 Mr. Bennion has been the husband of two 
 wives, and is the father of fourteen children. 
 His first wife, Eliza N., was the mother of seven 
 children, Hyrum, who is now serving on a mis- 
 sion to England; Oscar and Earnest are identi- 
 fied in the milling business with their father; 
 Joseph, a. student in the State University of 
 Utah ; May, Ruble and Robert are still at home. 
 His second wife, Mary Karen, was the mother 
 of seven children, Anna B., now Mrs. Thomas 
 D. Wallace : ^Nlary E., now Mrs. Noble Wallace ; 
 
 Madia, the wife of David Rushton ; Samuel T., 
 David, Catherine, deceased at the age of 12 years, 
 and Karen. All three daughters are now resi- 
 dents of McGrath, Canada. 
 
 In politics, Mr. Bennion has always been a 
 staunch Republican, ever since the organization 
 of that party in this State, but has never de- 
 sired or sought public ofifice. 
 
 He was born and raised in the Mormon faith 
 and has ever been a faithful and consistent mem- 
 ber of that Church. He has served his Church 
 on missionary tours, having spent from 1879 to 
 1880 on a mission to England. 
 
 During fifteen years, from i860 to 1875, Mr. 
 Bennion was continually exposed to the ravages 
 of the hostile red man. No man in the State 
 of Utah deserves greater credit or more praise 
 for what he has accomplished than the subject of 
 this sketch. He counts his friends by the legion. 
 His life has been honorable, consistent and 
 straightforward in every particular. 
 
 HRISTIAN BERGER. Among the 
 many worthy citizens which Switzer- 
 land has furnished in the building up 
 of this new country, and the men who 
 have taken a prominent part in the 
 subduing of this land and bringing it from its 
 wild state to the present prosperous condition, 
 should be mentioned the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Christian Berger was born in Switzerland De- 
 cember 23, 1847. He is the son of Christian and 
 Magdalina (Zaugg) Berger. Our subject spent 
 his early life on his father's farm in Switzerland, 
 and received a common school education in his 
 native land. When but twelve years of age his 
 parents sailed for America, in i860. They joined 
 the Mormon train and crossed the plains. Our 
 subject's father at that time owned four yoke of 
 oxen and two wagons. Upon arriving in Utah 
 they at once settled on the South Cottonwood 
 Ward creek, where the senior Mr. Berger secured 
 a piece of land and at once began farming. The 
 land which he originally took up was located 
 where the American Smelting Company has since 
 located its works, and he sold the land to that 
 company. He also sold the land for the Ger- 
 
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 mania Smelting Company works, this being on 
 a part of the original homestead. He lived and 
 died on the balance of this land. He was born in 
 181 o, and died November 18, 1892. Our subject's 
 mother was born May i, 1821, and died July 5, 
 1888. Peter Berger, the paternal grandfather of 
 our subject, was born in Switzerland in 1777, and 
 his wife, Elizabeth, was born in 1767. Our sub- 
 ject's maternal grandfather, Ulric Zaugg, was 
 born in 1781, and his wife, Cathrina, was born in 
 the same year. 
 
 Our subject remained at home on the farm with 
 his father until twenty-three years of age. He 
 married, February 21, 1870, Magdalina Buhler, 
 also a native of Switzerland, and a daughter of 
 Ulric and Ann (Burgdorfer) Buhler. Her par- 
 ents are still living in Midway, this State. In 
 starting out in life Air. Berger secured a piece of 
 land from his father, which his father had orig- 
 inally taken up, and which Mr. Berger still owns, 
 at the corner of State and Twentieth South 
 streets, which consists of twenty acres, and which 
 by years of hard work, he has improved to a high 
 state of cultivation, having built a fine house, 
 barns, sheds, fences, etc., and the place being 
 fenced and adorned with orchard and fruit trees, 
 and on which he raises all kinds of fruits in their 
 season. .\t the time he settled upon this place 
 there was only a log cabin upon it. and the other 
 improvements were correspondingly small. He 
 does a general farming and stock business, and is 
 considered one of the successful men of his 
 county. 
 
 In political affairs he has been identified with 
 the Democratic party. He has also taken an 
 active part in the work of the Church, having 
 been born and raised in the Mormon faith. There 
 were six children in his father's family, five of 
 whom are living, and our subject was the oldest. 
 They are all. with the exception of one sister, resi- 
 dents of this vicinity. Mr. Berger was called by 
 the leaders of the Church in 1882 to serve on a 
 mission in Alinnesota, where he spent nine months. 
 He also served on a mission in 1876 in Arizona, 
 and assisted in the colonization of that Territory. 
 He was ordained a member of the Seventies. His 
 wife is a member of the Ladies' Relief Society, 
 and is active in its work. Mr. Berger has always 
 
 taken a prominent and active part, not only in 
 the upbuilding of the country, in the development 
 of the land, in political affairs and in school mat- 
 ters, but he has also assisted largely in the work 
 of the Church, and few men in Salt Lake county 
 are more highly esteemed than is he. 
 
 TSHOP SANTA ANNA CASTO, Bish- 
 op of the Big Cottonwood Ward of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints, was born in Council Bluffs, 
 Iowa, May 7, 1850, and is the son of 
 William and Racheline (Cornog) Casto. His 
 father was a native of Indiana and his mother 
 was born in Pennsylvania. William Casto, 
 the father of the subject of this sketch, was of 
 New England stock, his father, Able, having been 
 born in that country. William Casto, at the age 
 of sixteen years, was sent by his father to Illinois 
 to locate a farm in that State, and was there prior 
 to the coming of the Mormons to Nauvoo. His 
 uncle. Dr. Galland, sold the Mormons the first 
 land purchased in Illinois. The Casto family are 
 of the oldest American stock, their forefathers 
 having fought in the Revolutionary War on the 
 colonial side. William Casto, the father of the 
 subject of this sketch, is supposed to be the first 
 person baptized into the Alormon Church at Nau- 
 voo, and was intimately acquainted with the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith and with the leaders of 
 that new religion, which was then practically in 
 its infancy. He lived in Nauvoo until the up- 
 rising of the people against the members of the 
 Church, and went with them on their enforced 
 march to Council Bluffs, then known as Winter 
 Quarters. He met his wife, Racheline Cornog, 
 in Illinois, and they were married there. The 
 Cornog family were among the prominent people 
 in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and a brother, 
 John, of his wife was one of the contractors who 
 built the famous Girard College in Philadelphia, 
 which stands to-day as one of the best monuments 
 to the energ}' and business sagacity, as well as the 
 charity of that merchant prince, Stephen Girard. 
 It was while the members of the Mormon Church 
 were gathering at Winter Quarters that the call 
 came from the President of the United States, 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 James K. Polk, for the formation of a battalion 
 from the members of the Church to go to Mexico 
 in the service of the United States against that 
 country. One of the principal reasons that led 
 to this call was the desire of the Federal Govern- 
 ment to ascertain for itself whether or not the 
 members of the Mormon Church were loyal to the 
 Government, or, as charged by the people who 
 opposed them in Illinois, were traitors to the 
 United States. Their prompt reply to this call, 
 by the enlistment of over five hundred of their 
 members in the army of the United States, settled 
 that question for all time. President Brigham 
 Young personally assured the members who went 
 that he, as President of the Church, would be 
 responsible for their families and would see that 
 they were watched over and cared for during the 
 absence of the members. The father of our sub- 
 ject, William Casto, was one of the first to enlist, 
 and was assigned to Company D. The movement 
 of this battalion, from its formation until the 
 close of the war, when they were mustered out 
 in Southern California, is one of the most remark- 
 able chapters in that brilliant war. The war of 
 1847 was a memorable one for many things, but 
 it distinguished itself chiefly as being the first one 
 in which the United States engaged in which they 
 were successful in foreign lands. The battalion 
 was mobilized at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and 
 from there was ordered to march to Santa Fe, 
 New Mexico, being formed into one of the United 
 States regiments under the command of General 
 Scott, then Commander-in-Chief of the United 
 States forces. ' The dangers of the desert region 
 lying between Kansas and New Mexico were then 
 unknown, and provision was not made for the 
 members in their passage across the desert. But 
 little water was taken with them ; in fact, only 
 as much as each man could carry in his canteen, 
 and when they entered the deserts of Colorado 
 and New Mexico their water supply gave out 
 eighty miles from any stream, and during the 
 last part of the journey to water many of the 
 members of this battalion had to be carried by 
 their stronger comrades. The tortures that they 
 suffered from thirst and the patience with which 
 they endured all the privations and hardships 
 through which they passed, marks this battalion as 
 
 the most remarkable body of soldiers who have 
 ever been mustered from the volunteer forces of 
 the United States. The tongues of some of the men 
 were so swollen as to almost result in suffocation, 
 and as a result of this fearful trip many of the 
 men were forever after incapacitated for any man- 
 ual labor, or, indeed, any labor requiring physi- 
 cal exertion. The battalion arrived at Santa Fe 
 and was met by couriers from General Carney, 
 with orders to hurry to his relief in Southern Cal- 
 ifornia all of the able-bodied men. In accordance 
 with this command, all of the men who were able 
 to travel were hurried forward to his relief, and 
 the sick and disabled men, together with the men 
 whose wives had accompanied them, four to each 
 company, were ordered back to the post in Colo- 
 rado, and there they spent the winter. Mr. Casto, 
 however, did not journey with either of these 
 parties, but was sent as a courier to intercept 
 Brigham Young on his trip across the plains to 
 Utah and to report to him the results of the ex- 
 pedition by the battalion. He and his companion 
 had progressed about four days from Santa Fe 
 when they encountered a hostile band of Indians, 
 who were at war with another tribe, and, believ- 
 ing that Mr. Casto and his companion were spies 
 of their foes, took them prisoners, and until con- 
 vinced that they were not spies, but emissaries of 
 the United States troops, threatened to take their 
 lives. They were, however, released, and contin- 
 ued their journey, and Mr. Casto made his report 
 to President Young, whoin he met on the plains, 
 en route to Utah. The history of the Mormon 
 battalion from the time it left Santa Fe is one of 
 the important features of the Me.xican War. 
 They successfully reached San Diego, and after 
 being placed under General Carney's command, 
 remained there until mustered out of the service 
 in the following spring at Los Angeles. Many 
 of the men remained in Southern California and 
 secured employment on a mill dam that was being 
 built at Los Angeles, and while engaged in that 
 work discovered the first gold found in that State, 
 which has advanced more than anything else the 
 present prosperity of the southwestern portion of 
 the United States. 
 
 Mr. Casto rejoined his family in 1850 or 
 1 85 1, and brought them across the plains to 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Utah. His first work in the new settlement was 
 in carrying the mails from the Salt Lake Val- 
 ley to the Missouri river. He made two or three 
 trips across the plains for this purpose at a time 
 when not only was travel dangerous, but even 
 human life was in jeopardy from the hostile at- 
 titude of the Indians. The Casto family settled 
 in Salt Lake City, where they remained for a 
 short time and then removed to Butterfield can- 
 yon, and later came to the settlement of Holli- 
 day, in the Big Cottonwood Ward, where Air. 
 Casto improved one of the finest homes in the 
 county and lived there until nis death. This 
 house and the grounds surrounding it forms 
 one of the most beautiful places in the whole 
 county, and even to this time is known as the 
 old Casto home. Air. Casto died in the fulness 
 of his years about 1894, honored and respected 
 by all who knew him, and after a life that was 
 filled with all the striking incidents which oc- 
 curred in the settlement and progress of Utah 
 from a wild and unknown region to one of the 
 most prosperous and growing of the Western 
 States. Their son, Santa Anna, received his ed- 
 ucation in the schools that then existed in this 
 country, and spent his boyhood days in the Big 
 Cottonwood Ward, and lived with his father 
 until twenty-three years of age, having entire 
 charge of the homestead, and during this time 
 his father and a younger brother were absent 
 for four years on missionary work for the 
 Church in Arizona, where they paid particular 
 attention to the settlement of that region with 
 the members of the Church, and also worked 
 among the Indian tribes. 
 
 Our subject was married January 24, 1878, 
 to Miss Mary Graham, daughter of Robert D. 
 and Mary Graham, whose family came to Utah 
 in the decade of the sixties. In this marriage 
 six children have been born, five of whom are 
 now living — Robert D., William G., Racheline. 
 who died August 30, 1901, aged seventeen years; 
 Margaret, Lewis and Vera. Bishop Casto set- 
 tled on his present home about twenty years ago, 
 and his homestead is located close to the county 
 road near Holliday. It is at the foot of a high 
 mountain, on whose peak snow lies all the year 
 round. The homestead consists of thirtv acres. 
 
 wliich is devoted largely to the growing of fruit, 
 and the Bishop's orchard is one of the finest in 
 the county, growing all the different kinds of 
 fruit trees, which he has planted and cultivated 
 himself, and which bears fruit all the season. His 
 father was the first fruit man in Utah, and was 
 considered one of the best pomologists of this re- 
 gion. 
 
 In political life, the Bishop has been a fol- 
 lower of the Democratic party, and is considered 
 one of the leaders in his district, being chair- 
 man of his committee in his election precinct, as 
 well as being its registrar. He has been a life- 
 long member of the Mormon Church, of which 
 his father was one of the first members in Illi- 
 nois, and his wife and children are also mem- 
 bers of that faith. He has risen to his present 
 high position in the Church by his ability and 
 by his constant and faithful devotion to its in- 
 terests. He was made First Counsellor to Bishop 
 Brinton in 1877, which position he held until the 
 fall of 1900, when he was made Bishop of the 
 Big Cottonwood Ward, in November of that 
 year. He has always been active in Church mat- 
 ters, and aided largely in the growth of the 
 Church in this State, and especially in his own 
 county and ward. He has also participated in 
 the development of the facilities for settling the 
 region in which he first lived, and for three years 
 held the Government contract for carrying the 
 mail from Salt Lake City to Silver City. The 
 Bishop had before him as an example the life 
 of his father, which was one that brought forth 
 all the energy, courage and endurance that a man 
 is capable of exhibiting, and he has in no way 
 allowed his father's career to be dimmed by his 
 own work. His integrity and honesty, his abil- 
 ity and industry, together with his genial and 
 pleasant manner, have made him one of the most 
 popular and respected men in his community. 
 
 OMER BROWN. In taking a retro- 
 spective view of what has been accom- 
 plished in Utah during the past half 
 century, of the trials and hardships 
 which the early pioneers passed 
 through, it appears more like a dream to those 
 who have not had actual experience along this 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 line than real facts. However, it does not require 
 any vivid imagination to those who early partic- 
 ipated in the building of this great and prosper- 
 ous State of the hardships incident to crossing 
 the great American plains, and settling in this 
 wild and barren waste of country to thoroughly 
 comprehend what it all meant. Among the early 
 settlers of Utah should be mentioned the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Brown was born in Pomphret township, 
 Chautauqua county, New York, August 9th, 
 1830. He is a son of Bishop Benjamin and Sarah 
 (Mumford) Brown. His father was the first 
 Bishop of the Fourth Ward, Salt Lake City, and 
 he was born September 30th, 1794, in the town 
 of Queensberry, Washington county, New York, 
 and his father, Asa Brown, was a Quaker, and 
 the father of twelve children, six sons and six 
 daughters. 
 
 Our subject's paternal grandfather was also 
 Asa Brown. This was one of the oldest families 
 who settled in the State of New York. Our 
 subject's father, Benjamin Brown, was the elev- 
 enth child of his family, and came to Illinois, 
 settling in Nauvoo, June 6th, 1839. Nauvoo was 
 at that time called Commerce, there the family 
 lived until the exodus of the Mormons, which 
 occurred in 1846, during that period our sub- 
 ject's father was a very active member in the 
 Mormon Church and serving on several missions 
 in New Brunswick, Maine, Canada, and several 
 other places. In 1846, the family, consisting of 
 our subject's father, mother anH two sons, Lo- 
 renzo and Homer, on May 12th, crossed the Mis- 
 sissippi river, journeying West, and in August 
 they continued their journey to Winter Quarters, 
 known as Florence, Nebraska, where the subject 
 and his mother remained while his father and 
 Lorenzo returned to Missouri in order to secure 
 money and supplies to come to Utah. On IMay 
 25th, 1848, they all left Winter Quarters and 
 started on the long and tedious journey across 
 the great American plains with Brigham Young's 
 Company. On September loth they arrived at 
 the old Fort Bridger. Here our subject hired 
 out and worked for one year trading at this fort. 
 He then came on and joined his parents in Salt 
 Lake City. The senior Brown was a carpenter 
 
 by trade, and worked on the first distillery ever 
 started in Utah, in 1849. A company of United 
 States troops were camping near Salt Lake City 
 on their way to Oregon, and being in need of a 
 carpenter, our subject's father joined this com- 
 pany, under instructions to remain with them 
 and watch their movements, as President Young 
 was in fear that they might have other objects in 
 going to Oregon. Mr. Brown worked that win- 
 ter for the government, and in the spring they 
 took up their journey to Oregon, at which time 
 Mr. Brown was called by Brigham Young to take 
 this position, he and our subject had a contract of 
 thrashing wheat, and the machinery that they 
 used were two flails. 
 
 After his father had gone with the army, our 
 subject completed the contract. After Mr. Brown 
 had served with the United States army for a 
 short time in Oregon, he was called as one of 
 the colonizing party to Iron county, Utah. He 
 died in Salt Lake City, and our subject's mother 
 died in this city January ist, 1879. She was 
 born April 20th, 1795, in Hartford county, 
 Conn., and was the daughter of Henry Mum- 
 ford, who was born in Simsberry, Hartford 
 county, Conn. He was the son of Henry and 
 Sarah (Filley) Mumford. Our subject's only 
 brother, Lorenzo, was engaged in business in 
 Arizona. He died in January, 1902. 
 
 Mr. Brown married Miss Hannah Eliza Wolff, 
 daughter of John and Sarah Ann Wolff, who 
 were pioneers in this country. 
 
 Our subject is the father of twenty-four chil- 
 dren, nineteen of whom are still living. 
 
 In December, 1881, he settled in the south end 
 of Taylorsville ward, on the Jordan river, at 
 which time the improvements were very crude, 
 only having a one-room frame house. Mr. Brown 
 has made substantial improvements on this land, 
 which consists of ninety-nine acres. 
 
 At the age of nine years he was baptized at 
 Nauvoo by one of the Mormon Elders of that 
 Church. For many years he was a member of 
 the Church, but at present he is not a member 
 of any church. All of his family, however, are 
 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints. In 1852 our subject assisted in colo- 
 nizing and settling Nephi, which had a few set- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 tiers the year previous. He took up his residence 
 at Mona, seven miles north of Nephi, where he 
 was the owner of 150 acres of land, and was fast 
 improving the same when the San Pete Indian 
 war broke out, which resulted in his abandoning 
 his home, and nearly all his effects. After being 
 driven out of Nephi, he came back to Salt Lake 
 City, and then purchased a place in Cache Val- 
 ley, where he lived for three years. He then sold 
 out and moved to Rabbit Valley. 
 
 Mr. Brown is of a literary turn of mind, and 
 while he has been a hard working man all his 
 life, yet he has been a close student and has 
 written a number of poems. When the pioneers 
 at Nephi held their jubilee in igoi, they extended 
 our subject an invitation to celebrate with them, 
 as he was one of the founders of the place. Mr. 
 Brown not being able to make a public speech, he 
 prepared a couple of poems, with the intention 
 of having some one read them at the meetings, 
 but upon his arrival he was called upon for a 
 speech, and read the poem instead. This was so 
 good that they insisted on his reading the second 
 one, and after this meeting the poems were re- 
 garded so highly by the pioneers that they in- 
 sisted on having a large number printed and dis- 
 tributed among his friends and the pioneers who 
 participated in that meeting. One of the poems 
 is entitled "The Jubilee Poem," and the other 
 "Nephi of Today and Fifty Years Ago." 
 
 Mr. Brown, by his untiring energy and deter- 
 mination, has made a splendid success in life 
 and has left a record which his posterity and fu- 
 ture generations will look upon with pride. 
 
 ARION H. BRADY. The record of 
 the early pioneers of Utah has 
 formed a chapter in the history of 
 this country that is indeed worthy 
 of being preserved and handed down 
 in tangible form for their posterity and the fu- 
 ture generation, .\mong the men who have taken 
 a prominent and active part in the development of 
 the great resources of Utah and in bringing the 
 State to its present prosperous condition, should 
 be mentioned the subject of this sketch. 
 
 ^Marion H. Brady was born in Calloway 
 county, Kentucky, December 15, 1834. He is the 
 
 son of Lindsay A. and Elizabeth Ann(Hendrick- 
 son) Brady. Lindsay A. Brady was born June 11, 
 181 1, in Lincoln county, Kentucky, and Mrs. 
 Brady was born in Washington county, Ken- 
 tucky, October 13, 1813. She was the daughter 
 of Simeon and Keziah Hendrickson. Our sub- 
 ject's paternal grandfather was Thomas Brady, 
 and his wife was Elizabeth Brady; both natives ' 
 of Kentucky. The family left Kentucky and 
 settled in Missouri, where they continued to re- 
 side for a few years and then moved to Illinois, 
 where they lived until they journeyed to Council 
 Bluffs. Our subject's father and mother were 
 among the first to be baptized into the Mormon 
 faith in Kentucky, which occurred in 1835, at the 
 hands of Wilford Woodruff, late president of the 
 Mormon Church. Our subject was baptized into 
 the same faith in Nauvoo on September i, 1844, 
 where his parents lived until the exodus of the 
 Mormon people, which occurred in 1846. The 
 senior Mr. Brady passed through all the trials 
 of the new denomination in that section. With 
 the exodus of the Mormon people he journeyed 
 to Council Bluffs and settled on the Big Masceto 
 creek, where he engaged in farming for a period 
 of three years. On June 20, 1850, the family 
 fitted out teams preparatory to making the trip 
 across the plains to Utah, which they did, travel- 
 ing in the company of which Warren Foote was 
 Captain of one hundred wagons, and William 
 Wall Captain of fifty wagons, and Chester Love- 
 land Captain of ten wagons. They arrived at 
 Salt Lake City September 19, 1850. Our sub- 
 ject's father was the owner of two wagons, and 
 on this memorable trip he drove three yoke of 
 oxen and our subject drove two yoke. In this 
 family there were eight children, one born on the 
 Platte river in Nebraska, while the family were 
 en route to Utah, and one was born in Utah, all 
 living. Our subject was the eldest of the family. 
 Upon arriving in Utah the senior Mr. Brady 
 settled on a farm one-quarter of a mile from 
 where our subject owns his present home, in the 
 Union ward, then known as the Little Cotton- 
 wood ward. Here the children grew up. The 
 father died June 6, 1885 and his wife died Au- 
 gust 7, 1890. 
 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days on the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 farm and received such education as the district 
 schools afforded at that time. He married Feb- 
 ruary 6, 1855, to Miss Frances Maria Richards, 
 daughter of Silas and Elizabeth McLenahan. 
 Three children were born to them — Newton, 
 Silas M. and Frances Maria, all of whom died, 
 and their mother died on September 12, 1859. 
 Our subject married Lucy Ann Richards, a sister 
 of his first wife, on March 22, 1858. The father 
 of these girls was born in Highland county, Ohio, 
 December 18, 1807, and their mother was born 
 in- Panelton county, Kentucky, June 12, 1809. 
 By the last marriage eleven children were born, 
 eight of whom are still Hving — Joseph S. died at 
 eight months of age ; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Joseph 
 Thompson, Junior; Hyrum H. ; Lucy M., who 
 died at the age of twelve years; Lindsay A., now 
 married ; Warren P., also married ; Martha R., 
 now Mrs. Chas. Milne ; Sarah A., now Mrs. Ar- 
 thur Wright ; Laura L., who died at six months 
 of age ; Nancy O., now Mrs. J. R. Milne, and 
 Ailcy A., at home. 
 
 Our subject settled at his present home, which 
 was formerly the home of his father, and where 
 he has continued to live for a number of years. 
 In politics he has been identified with the Demo- 
 cratic party ever since its organization in this 
 State. For many years he served as road super- 
 visor and also as constable and school trustee of 
 his ward. During the early troubles when John- 
 ston's army landed in LUah, he was called upon 
 to serve as a guard. He later served in the 
 Black Hawk war, and nearly all the Indian wars 
 that have occurred in this State. During the 
 Black Hawk war he was Captain of fifty, and 
 served as Captain for fourteen years. For twenty- 
 two years he has been Counselor to the Bishop in 
 his ward. His wife is a member of the Ladies' 
 Relief society, of which she is treasurer, and has 
 occupied that position for twenty-five months. 
 All of their daughters are members of the Young 
 Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Brady have thirty-seven grand children 
 and one great-grandchild. In the early history of 
 the church in the Little Cottonwood ward our 
 subject's father was first Counselor to the Bishop, 
 which position he filled for a period of fifteen 
 years. 
 
 5 
 
 OHN T. THORUP, Manager of the 
 Thirteenth Ward store of Salt Lake 
 City. A fact worthy of note is that Den- 
 mark has furnished a large quota of her 
 noble sons in the settlement and upbuild- 
 ing of Utah. John T. Thorup, the subject of 
 this sketch, is a native of that country. He was 
 born on his father's old home place in Copenha- 
 gen, May 25, 1856, which was the early scene of 
 his boyhood days ; where he was educated in the 
 public schools, and while his early education 
 was of a limited nature, yet through life he has 
 lost no opportunity to improve his mental facul- 
 ties. He has been a hard worker all his life, and 
 by perseverance and determination he has been 
 blessed with a reasonable degree of success. 
 
 Herman A. Thorup, the father of our subject, 
 was a native of Copenhagen, born August 11, 
 1826. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, 
 which he followed in his native country, and 
 in 1853, with his wife, was baptized into the 
 Mormon Church, after which he was ordained 
 an Elder and became Secretary of the Co- 
 penhagen Conference. In 1868 he sailed witii 
 his family for America, and after spend- 
 ing one year in Chicago, came to Utah soon 
 after the railroad had reached Ogden. He 
 is a High Priest and acting teacher in the 
 First ward. His wife was Mary C. Christensen, 
 of Myrup Sjelland, Denmark, and by this mar- 
 riage they had eight children, six of whom came 
 to L^tah and five of whom now live in the city — 
 Herman F. F., a florist ; John T., our subject ; one 
 daughter, now Mrs. Niels Rasmussen ; Hyrum E., 
 and Joseph, who is a clerk in the retail grocery 
 department of the Zion Co-operative Mercantile 
 Institution, and Clerk of the First ward. Mrs. 
 Thorup is a teacher in the Ladies' Relief society 
 of the First ward. 
 
 When our subject was thirteen years of age his 
 parents located at Provo and he there attended 
 the Brigham Young College. He came to this 
 citv with his parents in 1873 and followed the 
 carpenter trade for a few years, being associated 
 with his father in contracting and building. In 
 1878 he entered the mercantile establishment 
 oi Jennings & Sons. In 1881 he became 
 connected with the wholesale and retail gro- 
 
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 eery department of the Zion Co-operative 
 Mercantile Establishment, and remained with 
 them until 1884, when he became identified 
 with the Thirteenth Ward Co-operative store, 
 on Main street. On Septembc- i, 1891, 
 the store was re-incorporated under the name of 
 the Freeze Mercantile Company, of which Mr. 
 Thorup became Vice-President. In April, 1901, 
 the Thirteenth Ward store was organized as 
 dealers in general merchandise, and he became 
 Secretary, Treasurer and Manager, which po- 
 sitions he still retains. 
 
 Mr. Thorup was married August 24, 1882, to 
 Miss Johaiinah C. Ostermann, a native of Den- 
 mark, and the daughter of Jens C. and Caroline 
 M. (Berg) Osterman. This family came to Utah 
 in 1868, leaving their native land with a family 
 of six children, four of whom died of measles and 
 were buried at sea. The younger daughter, Mary, 
 is now the wife of B. C. Ward, and James, who 
 was born in Granite, Utah, May 9, 1874, is now a 
 student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 at Batimore, Alaryland. Mr. Ostermann became 
 a resident of Sandy and was for many years a 
 teacher and member of the Seventies. He died 
 there in 1883. and his widow is still living there, 
 conducting a general store and living in the old 
 family residence. Mr. and Mrs. Thorup have 
 seven children living — Jonn M, Caroline, M. L., 
 Mabel E., Racnel H., Ruth O., Martha O.. and 
 Neomia. The family are all members of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and 
 Mrs. Thorup is President of the Primary associa- 
 tion of the First ward. Salt Lake Stake of Zion. 
 
 At the age of sixteen, our subject was ordained 
 an Elder and in 1884 was ordained a Seventy and 
 became identified with the Sixteenth Quorum of 
 Seventies. January 23. 1887, he was ordained a 
 High Priest by President Angus M. Cannon and 
 set apart as Second Counselor to Bishop War- 
 burton of the First ward, later succeeding to the 
 First Counselorship, which position he still holds. 
 He was also for a number of years President of 
 the Young Men's Mutual Improvement associa- 
 tion of the First ward, and a Sunday school 
 teacher. He was called on a mission to his 
 native country in 1879, laboring as a travel- 
 ing Elder in the Conference of Aarhus and 
 
 on the Island of Fyen for the first year, 
 after which he was appointed to labor in 
 Aulborg Conference, where he presided over 
 the Hjoring Frederickshavn and Saby dis- 
 tricts until 1881, when he returned home with the 
 second largest company of Saints, (numbering 
 nearly one thousand) that ever crossed the At- 
 lantic. He performed a successful mission, and 
 during his labors baptized forty-eight people. 
 
 Mr. Thorup has by hard work and close econ- 
 omy fought his way through life to his present 
 position, and has by his upright living and de- 
 votion to his church commanded the respect and 
 esteem of all who have known him, and today 
 stands high, not only in the business w'orld of 
 Salt Lake City, but also in the community in 
 which he lives. 
 
 hie was School 'Trustee in the First district 
 during the years 1883-1887. 
 
 iCTOR ROMANIA BUNNELL 
 
 'R.\TT. It is a fact worthy of note 
 
 that in the vast work of transforming 
 
 from a wild and undeveloped 
 
 Utah 
 
 State to its present properous con- 
 dition, many women have played a very important 
 part. They have successfully entered every 
 channel of professional and business life. Among 
 this class, and one who by her keen intellectual 
 faculties and by close and careful study has made 
 a splendid success in the professional life. Doctor 
 Romania B. Pratt deserves special mention. 
 
 She was born August 8, 1839, at Washington, 
 Wayne county, Indiana, and is the daughter of 
 Luther B. and Esther (Mendenhall) Bunnell. 
 Her father was a native of Warren county, Ohio, 
 and her mother was born in Gilford county, 
 North Carolina. Air. and Mrs. Bunnell became 
 converts to the teachings of the Mormon Church 
 and w^hen our subject was seven years of age 
 joined the Saints at Nauvoo. However, the 
 mother's health being very poor, and the father 
 fearing to risk her life in the rigors of the win- 
 ters in Illinois, removed to Newmarket, Missouri, 
 and from there returned to Ohio, where he pur- 
 chased a farm and continued to reside until the 
 gold fever broke out in California in 1849, 3' 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 which time he left his family on the farm and 
 went with a number of others to California and 
 engaged in mining. He was very successful and 
 accumulated considerable means, which he 
 cached in a number of places. He was stricken 
 with typhoid fever in one of the mining camps 
 of that State. A nephew reached him just before 
 his death, but he was not able to tell all the places 
 where he had hidden his wealth, and only a por- 
 tion of it was ever found ; sufficient however to 
 keep his family in comfort and educate his child- 
 ren. 
 
 Our subject attended the Western Agricultural 
 school, a Quaker institution fifty miles from her 
 home, and later the Female Seminary at Craw- 
 fordsville, taking special studies at this institu- 
 tion in German, music and painting. The mother 
 was anxious lest her daughter should be in- 
 fluenced by the religious life of those with whom 
 she was associated, and wishing to live where she 
 might be surrounded by members of her own 
 faith, she sold her farm in 1855 and , with her 
 four children started across the plains to Utah, 
 traveling in an independent company of fifty peo- 
 ple, of whom John Hindley was Captain. They 
 reached Salt Lake City in September of that year, 
 and our subject began life as a school teacher, 
 supporting her mother and the other children, 
 in tne spring of 1857 the mother made a trip 
 East in order to close up matters relating to the 
 estate, and on her return brought with her a 
 piano for her daughter, which was one of the first 
 of these instruments to be brought to Utah. The 
 family moved to Provo in 1858, during- the John- 
 ston army troubles, but returned upon the resto- 
 ration of peace, and continued to make their 
 home here. 
 
 Our subject was married on February 23, 1859, 
 to Parley P. Pratt, oldest son of Apostle Parley 
 P. Pratt, by whom she had six sons and one 
 daughter ; the latter and one of the sons dying in 
 childhood. 
 
 During the earlier years of her married life 
 she passed through many scenes of privation and 
 suffering, and while her children were yet very 
 young it was decided that she should go East for 
 a course in medical study, in order to assist in 
 educating the family growing up about her. 
 
 This was a very trying time, but believing her 
 duty to be clear she undertook the journey, and 
 upon her arrival in New York spent some time 
 in reading the proof sheets for the history of 
 Parley P. Pratt, her husband's father, after which 
 she entered uf>on her medical studies, which she 
 pursued for sixteen months, and then returned 
 home. Under the advice of Brigham Young she 
 returned East and again took up her studies, re- 
 maining two years longer, studying at the Wom- 
 an's Medical school in Pennsylvania, and gradu- 
 ating with the degree of M. D. in 1877. She 
 spent her vacations in the hospital for women 
 and children in Boston and there gained much val- 
 uable information. Her work was of so high a 
 character that she was spoken of as a candidate 
 for a course in medical study in the great medi- 
 cal centres of Europe, but as this required more 
 time than she considered she could spare from 
 her family, she returned home upon her gradu- 
 ation and at once entered upon the practice of 
 her profession. She was the first woman to go 
 from Utah to an Eastern college and graduate 
 in medicine and surgery. Two years after coming 
 home she went to New York City and studied 
 under Dr. Henry D-. Noyes at the Eye and Ear 
 infirmary. Upon again returning home and re- 
 suming her practice she was urged by a nlimber 
 of prominent women of the State to teach obstet- 
 rics, and has since continued these classes, in 
 which she has met with much success and her 
 teachings have been of incalculable benefit to hun- 
 dreds of the women of Utah. She was one of the 
 originators and promoters of the Deseret hospital, 
 organized under the First Presidency in 1884, and 
 in 1887 was installed as resident physician, re- 
 maining in charge of that institution until it was 
 closed for lacK of funds in 1893, when she re- 
 turned to private practice, in which she is still 
 active, having her office in the Constitution block. 
 She has been keenly alive to everything that 
 has tended to advance or uplift womanhood in her 
 State, and was the first President of the Young 
 Ladies' Retrenchment association of the Twelfth 
 Ward. It was also she who suggested to Mrs. 
 Susie Young Gates, at that time in Hawaii, the 
 advisability of publishing a magazine for young 
 women, which suggestion Mrs. Gates received fav- 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 165 
 
 orably, and is now the able editor of the Young 
 IVoman's Journal, published in this city. In 1893 
 Doctor Pratt visited the World's Fair in company 
 with the Tabernacle choir. She was for ten years 
 Secretary of the Central Board of the Relief So- 
 ciety, of which Board she is still an active mem- 
 ber. She has also figured prominently in Club 
 work, being a charter member of the Utah 
 Woman's Press Club and of the Reapers Club. 
 She has attended a number of meetings, in com- 
 pany with ^Irs. Emmeline B. Wells, and is well 
 known throughout the State. Her work in behalf 
 of her sex has won for her not alone the love 
 and gratitude of hundreds that are at one with 
 her in religious belief, but also the confidence and 
 esteem of all with whom she has been associated, 
 irrespective of religious dogma, and she is today 
 one of the most deservedlv popular women of 
 Utah. 
 
 EORGE CALDER is the founder of 
 Calder's Park, one of the finest parks 
 in the inter-mountain region and one 
 which has achieved considerable fame 
 as a popular amusement place for the 
 residents of Salt Lake City in the heated term ; 
 but it is not alone as the founder of this place 
 that Mr. Calder is known, or has made his mark 
 on the pages of life. He has been a very promi- 
 nent man in all the industries which have built 
 up Salt Lake City and its vicinity. 
 
 He came to Utah at an early age and located on 
 his present site almost forty years ago, when there 
 was nothing to indicate that the land would repay 
 cultivation. His persistent efiforts, however, have 
 brought from this barren wilderness a highly de- 
 veloped place and it is now among the finest in 
 the County of Salt Lake. 
 
 George Calder was born in Edinburgh, Scot- 
 land, in 1839. He is the youngest of seven children 
 of George and .Anna (Johnson) Calder, both na- 
 tives of Scotland. His father died when he was 
 but a child. The family emigrated from Scotland 
 to America and later came to Utah. Our subject 
 spent some years in Cincinnati and received some 
 of his education in that city, where he attended 
 the common schools. The family then pursued 
 
 their way from Ohio across to Iowa, and from 
 Keokuk, Iowa, crossed the "-reat plains, by ox 
 teams, in the wagon train under command of Cap- 
 tain Clawson. Upon their arrival in Utah they 
 settled at the site where Taylorsville now stands, 
 and here they took up Government land and be- 
 gan the work of making the barren land of Utah 
 furnish them a living. Mr. Calder began his busi- 
 ness career about i860, and was in partnership 
 with his brother David in the stock and farming 
 business, paying particular attention to the raising 
 of sheep. 
 
 In 1861 he was married to Miss Mary Bennion, 
 daughter of John and Esther Bennion who were 
 among the early pioneers of Utah. By this mar- 
 riage they have eight children living— Orson B., 
 married and living in Vernal; Ada, now Mrs. 
 Winder, living at Vernal; Hyrum, engaged in 
 the stock business at Vernal; Rebean Ponthia, 
 married and living in \'ernal ; Wallace, attending 
 the University of Utah; Bruce, and Dora. Mr. 
 Calder's sons, who reside at\'ernal, are now build- 
 ing up a merchandise, stock and sheep company 
 to be known as Calder Bros. Company, which will 
 undoubtedly be a very successful enterprise. Mr. 
 Calder moved to his present home at the corner of 
 Seventh East and Thirteenth South, in the Spring 
 of 1 89 1, and together with his brother David, in 
 1864, purchased one hundred and ten acres of 
 land and at once laid out the present Calder's 
 Park, which covers thirty acres. This was the 
 first park ever established in Utah and is one of 
 the finest in Salt Lake. He built a fine lagoon and 
 also a splendid bridge over two hundred feet 
 long, and Mr. Calder and his son Hyrum planned 
 and erected it without any additional aid. The 
 financial outlay caused by the building of this park 
 resulted in Mr. Calder going in debt to the 
 extent of ten thousand dollars, but through his 
 ingenuity, and the original methods he adopted for 
 advertising, at the end of the season he was clear 
 of all financial encumbrances. He has now dis- 
 posed of the ownership of this park, but retained 
 about ten acres of the original plat of land, and 
 in 1890 built a fine frame house, lined with adobe, 
 which contains twenty rooms. This house was 
 erected entirely by Mr. Calder and his sons, and 
 the planning, building, finishing and decorating of 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the rooms is entirely the work of Mr. Calder ; the 
 exterior finish is especially of a fine character. 
 
 In political life he is a member of the Demo- 
 cratic party but has never run for office nor solic- 
 ited in any way public favors. He has been a 
 member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints from his childhood, and his wife and 
 children are also members of that Church. In 
 addition to his present place he has given con- 
 siderable attention to the fish industry, and at 
 present has a hatchery stocked with thousands of 
 rainbow trout. The capacity of the hatchery is 
 100,000. The location of the ponds are the best 
 in the county and the water is supplied by artesian 
 wells. ]\Ir. Calder has always been prominently 
 identified with LTtah and with Salt Lake City, 
 and especially in the development of the valley. 
 He is known as one of the most substantial men 
 in his community and has made for himself a 
 prominent place in both the business and agri- 
 cultural life of Utah. His straigntforward man- 
 ner and his integrity have won for him the trust 
 of all with whom he has been associated, and he 
 numbers his friends by the legion. 
 
 OSEPH H. BRINTON, one of the 
 worthy citizens and a native of Utah, 
 was born in Cottonwood Ward, April 8, 
 if^52. He was the son of David and 
 Harriett (Dillworth) Brinton. His father 
 was a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, 
 having been born there in 1814 ; and his mother 
 was born in the same county in 1822. The senior 
 Brinton was left an orphan in childhood and was 
 adopted by Benjamin Cope, with whom he spent 
 his early life, receiving a common school educa- 
 tion. He later learned the blacksmith trade, which 
 he followed for a number of years in the State 
 of Pennsylvania, and later he moved to Nauvoo, 
 Illinois, where he continued to follow his trade 
 until the exodus of the Mormon people, when 
 he moved to Missouri and later fitted out a num- 
 ber of ox teams and wagons for Utah and in 1850 
 left Winter Quarters with a train of Mormon 
 emigrants, he being captain of fifty wagons. They 
 crossed the plains and arrived in Salt Lake City 
 the following September. Mr. Brinton had mar- 
 
 ried four wives and was the father of eighteen 
 children. Three of his wives are now dead. 
 There were two children born in Illinois and the 
 rest after coming to Utah. Evan P. is now resid- 
 ing at Spring\'ille, Utah ; Caleb D., the oldest, 
 with his wife, is at present serving on a mission 
 in England; David B. was called to serve in 
 New York City on a mission in 1900, and spent 
 two years in that capacity; Joseph H., the next 
 oldest, was called to serve on a mission in the 
 Sandwich Islands, in 1896, where he contin- 
 ued for a period of twenty-eight months. While 
 in those islands he was assistant manager 
 of the plantation which the Church had estab- 
 lished, it having a large rice and sugar industry 
 there ; Samuel, the next youngest, has served on a 
 mission to the Southern States during the year 
 1894-95; Frank D. and Harriet D. were twins; 
 Harriet is now the wife of Hiram Bagley ; Sarah, 
 the wife of V. Shurtlifl:; Eliza D., now Mrs. L. 
 Young. All the children reside in Utah. David 
 Brinton came to Utah and at once settled in the 
 Big Cottonwood Ward, where he resided for a 
 short time when he was called to assist in the 
 settling of the town of Parowan, in the southern 
 part of this State, and after a short period re- 
 turned to Salt Lake county and took up the black- 
 smithing business, which he operatea until 1857. 
 In this year he crossed the plains to the Missouri 
 river in a hand cart company ; this was an experi- 
 mental trip, for the purpose of ascertaining the 
 practicability of that style of travel. He was 
 made Bishop of the Big Cottonwood Ward, in 
 which capacity he served for a period of seventeen 
 years. He also served on a mission to England 
 for two years, in 1869 and 1870. He died in 
 1876, at the age of sixty-four years. 
 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days on the 
 farm, where he received a common school educa- 
 tion from such schools as then existed in Utah. 
 After the death of his father he learned the black- 
 smith trade under the direction of George L.Scott, 
 and has since continued to maintain the shop at 
 the old residence of his father, which was estab- 
 lished over fifty years ago, and was among the 
 very first shops of Salt Lake county. 
 
 Mr. Brinton was married in 1874 to Miss Mary 
 W. Howard, daughter of William and Elizabeth 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 167 
 
 Howard, her father being the first man to estabhsh 
 a distillery in Utah, having settled in this State 
 in 1850. Our subject and his wife have had 
 eleven children, nine of whom are living — Mary 
 A., now the wife of O. T. Jensen, of Big Cotton- 
 wood ; Harriett W., now Mrs. T. O. Gunderson, 
 of Mill Creek Ward; Josephine E., the wife of 
 Mark Driggs, a farmer in this ward ; Catherine 
 A., now Mrs. J. F. Hill ; Samuel H., William H., 
 Lucretia, Vivian, Jay E., Elizabeth, the first born, 
 died at the age of four years ; Joseph, the first 
 son, died at the age of two years. Mrs. Jensen is 
 a University graduate and for three years taught 
 school in Salt Lake City. 
 
 ^Ir. Brinton"s blacksmith shop is situated be- 
 tween Seventeenth South and Eleventn East, and 
 his residence is on Seventeenth South, between 
 Eleventh and Twelfth East, where he has a nicely 
 furnished brick residence, barns, etc., and owns 
 forty acres of valuable land in the same vicinity. 
 For a number of years he has been constable of 
 his Ward and also S€rved as school trustee. He 
 has been identified with the Democratic party 
 ever since it was organized in this State. His 
 wife is a member of the Ladies' Relief Society, in 
 which she is a prominent and faithful worker, 
 and their daughters belong to the Young Ladies' 
 Aid Society. 
 
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 HOMAS R. G. WELCH is the oldest 
 living resident of Morgan county. He 
 was born in Sommersetshire, at Shepton 
 Malleet, England, on July 10, 1835, and 
 is the son of Robert and Isabelle (Fri- 
 day I Welch. He grew to manhood in his native 
 country, and there obtained his education, begin- 
 ninsr life as a clerk in a dry goods establishment. 
 He was converted to the teachings of the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in England, 
 and became a member of that body on September 
 20, 1854. Three years later he decided to join 
 the Mormon colony in America, and sailed from 
 Liverpool on March 28, 1857, on board the ship 
 George Washington, in company with -eight hun- 
 dred and seventeen Mormon emigrants. They 
 landed in Boston and made the trip bv rail to Iowa 
 City, and from there made the journey of thirteen 
 
 hundred and thirty-five miles across the great 
 American plains by ox team, arriving in the Salt 
 Lake Valley in the Fall of that year. In the 
 Spring of 1858 when he was at the Echo canyon 
 owing to the Johnston army troubles, the Saints 
 left Salt Lake City and moved into the southern 
 part of the State. His family was moved to Lehi, 
 in his absence, where they remained until i860, 
 when they returned to Salt Lake City. In July, 
 of that year, he moved to Weber Valley, then a 
 part of Davis county, and took up land at Little- 
 ton, later purchasing more land of the railroad 
 company. Here he engaged in general farming 
 and stock raising. He has been a resident of 
 Morgan City since 1862, when he was appointed 
 postmaster of that place by President Abraham 
 Lincoln. He held that office until 1867. 
 
 ]Mr. Welch was married in Brighton, England, 
 in 1855, to Miss Harriett Nash, who came to 
 Utah with him and died in 1894, leaving a family 
 of nine children, one of whom was born in Eng- 
 land. Of these children, six are now living. They 
 are : Thomas F., living at Morgan City ; Charles 
 A., one of the Presidency of the Big Horn Stake, 
 and a Director in the Big Horn Colonization com- 
 pany, in Wyoming; James N., Isabella L., the 
 wife of E. Butters ; Robert, and Joseph F., of 
 Morgan City. He married a second time to Mrs. 
 Mary Jane (Cook) Toomer, of Farmington. Mrs. 
 Welcn crossed the plains in 1854 with her first 
 husband and resided at Farmington for many 
 years, where they were well-known singers. She 
 has three sons by her first marriage. Mr. and 
 :Mrs. Welch each have forty grandchildren, and 
 each have one greatgrandchild. 
 
 In political life Mr. Welch is a Republican and 
 has all his life been active in politics in his own 
 town. He held the office of clerk and recorder of 
 Morgan county for four years and was assessor 
 and collector of that county for seven years prior 
 to 1874. He has also been recorder of Morgan 
 county, and was for five years a member of the 
 Republican State committee, and three years 
 chairman of the county central committee. He 
 was also an officer in the State Legislature in 
 1896. In Church life he has been clerk of the 
 Tithing Office, serving from i860 to 1899, being 
 appointed to that position by Brigham Young. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He has also been active in Sunday school work 
 and was ordained a Higfh Priest in 1877 and set 
 apart as a member of the High Council of Morgan 
 Stake of Zion, and is at present the senior member 
 of that body. 
 
 Mr. Welch, like so manv others of the early 
 pioneers of Utah, had to begin at the very bottom 
 and work his way up. He has been fairly success- 
 ful in a financial way and has won a prominent 
 place in public life by his many years of service in 
 the different offices to which he has been elected, 
 and in which he has served with efficiency and 
 honor, both to himself and to the people whom he 
 has represented. His life, both public and private, 
 has been an upright and honorable one, and he 
 stands high in the confidence and esteem of all 
 who know him. At present Mr. Welch is a suc- 
 cessful apiaculturist, producing a great deal of 
 honev. 
 
 RS. P.ATHSHEBA W. SMITH, 
 President of the Woman's Relief 
 S'iciety in all the world. In the 
 vast workings of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 
 there are many different branches in its vast field 
 of operation, and among the most important, and 
 one which is perhaps doing as much good, not 
 onlv in Utah but in every land where the Church 
 has branches, as any other one department in the 
 whole Church, is the Woman's Relief Society. 
 The object which this branch of the Church has in 
 view is looking after the wants of the poor and 
 needy, wherever they are found. Mrs. Smith is 
 filling the important office as President of this 
 Society for the whole world, with efficiency and 
 credit, not only to herself but to the Church. 
 
 Her parents were Mark and Susannah Bigler, 
 natives of Pennsylvania and Maryland, respect- 
 ively, and after their marriage moved to Harrison 
 county, West Virginia, where our subject was 
 born near the town of Shinston, May 3, 1822. Her 
 mother's people were slave holders, but from con- 
 scientious motives released the slaves. There were 
 six daughters and one son in Mr. Bigler's family 
 and they all received a good education and were 
 brought up under religious instruction, although 
 
 it was not until our subject was seventeen years 
 of age that the parents became communicants of 
 any church. About this time the family heard 
 the doctrines of the Mormon Church expounded 
 by one of the Missionary Elders of that Church, 
 and becoming convinced of the truth of their 
 teachings, the family became members of the 
 Church. 
 
 Among the Elders who came to her father's 
 home, during this time, was George A. Smith, 
 a cousin of the Prophet Joseph Smith. They were 
 married in the city of Nauvoo on July 25, 1841, 
 and two days later started on foot to go to the 
 home of Mr. Smith's father in Zerahelma, across 
 the river from Nauvoo, in Iowa. The place was 
 a mile from the river. They obtained free pas- 
 sage across the river, and there Mr. Smith, senior, 
 pronounced upon them the blessings of Abraham, 
 Isaac and Jacob. At this time George A. Smith 
 was the youngest member of the First Quorum of 
 Seventies. On June 26, 1838, he was ordained a 
 member of the High Council of Adam Ondiah- 
 man, in Davis county, Missouri, and was subse- 
 quently ordained one of the Twelve Apostles, and 
 later started on a mission to Europe, from which 
 he returned ten days previous to his marriage. 
 
 From the time of her marriage the life of our 
 subject has been a part of the history of the 
 Church. She is the only living person who re- 
 ceived her Temple blessing under the personal 
 direction of the Prophet Joseph Smith. She re- 
 ceived the endowment in 1844, before the Proph- 
 et's death, and was a continuous worker in the 
 Temple at Nauvoo, from the day of its completion 
 until the Mormons were driven out of that city. 
 She suffered all the early persecutions and trials 
 of the Church, and was with the Mormons when 
 they were expelled from Nauvoo in 1846, her par- 
 lor being used as a paint shop in painting the 
 wagons to be used in crossing the plains. After 
 her arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in October, 
 1849, she, in connection with her husband's other 
 wives, spun and wove flax and wool from which 
 they made all kinds of wearing apparel and did 
 everything possible to assist in gaining a liveli- 
 hood. For many years she lived in what is now 
 the Historian's office ; at that time Mr. Smith was 
 Historian of the Church, where her husband, at 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 169 
 
 that time First Counselor to Brighani Youn,a;, 
 died in 1875. 
 
 After reaching Salt Lake City, Mrs. Smith as- 
 sisted in erecting the Endowment House, where 
 she worked for seventeen years, and has labored 
 continuously in the Temple since its completion 
 nine years ago. She has also officiated in the 
 Temples at Logan and Manti. At the opening of 
 the Salt Lake Temple, Mrs. Zina Young, our sub- 
 ject, and Mrs. Minnie J. Snow, were set apart 
 to preside over the Woman's department, in which 
 Mrs. Smith is today an active worker. She has 
 all her life been closely associated with the leading 
 women of the Mormon Church, her special friends 
 in Xauvoo being such women as Eliza R. Snow, 
 Zina D. Young and Emily Partridge, and upon 
 the death of Mrs. Young, in August, 1901, IMrs. 
 Smith was chosen as her successor, as President 
 of the Woman's Relief Society of all the world. 
 This society has over thirty thousand members, 
 fifty Stakes, and numerous missions located wher- 
 ever there is a branch of the church, all of which 
 are under her charge. 
 
 Mrs. Smith has been the mother of three chil- 
 dren — George A. Smith, Junior, was killed by the 
 Indians at the age of eighteen, whne serving on a 
 mission in Southern L'tah and Arizona ; her sec- 
 ond son, John, died in infancy, and her daughter 
 is the w-ife of Clarence Merrill. Mrs. Smith has 
 fourteen grandchidren and fifteen greatgrandchil- 
 dren. 
 
 Her work has brought Mrs. Smith in close con- 
 tact w-ith the members of the Church from all 
 parts of the State, and by her never-failing love 
 and sympathy, as well as the help she has been 
 able to give hundreds of her sex, she has won the 
 friendship and confidence of all with whom she 
 has come in contact, and is one of the leaders in 
 Church circles of todav. 
 
 PSEPH T. MABEY. In the building up 
 of the settlement of Bountiful, Davis 
 county, Utah, few men have participated 
 more actively in the work than has the 
 subject of this sketch. He has seen it 
 
 from a small border settlement, made by 
 
 the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints, to a bustling and progressive 
 settlement. Identified with its progress and with 
 the growth of the county, he is now one of the 
 County Commissioners of Davis county. 
 
 Joseph T. Mabey was born in Wraxall, Eng- 
 land, June 30, 1345. He is the son of Thomas 
 and Esther (Chalker) Mabey, also natives of 
 England, and born in the same place as was their 
 son. He was the fourth chuu of a family of six, 
 all of whom are still living. 
 
 His parents became converts to the teachings of 
 the Church and emigrated to .America in 1862, 
 arriving in Salt Lake City on October 5, of that 
 year, after a long trip across the plains by ox- 
 teams, under the command of Captain Ansel Har- 
 man. Upon their arrival in Utah his father settled 
 at Bountiful. He died in Salt Lake City in Alarch 
 of the following year. The work of farming, 
 which he had begun, devolved upon his sons, 
 .\lbert and Joseph w^ho, at the ages of twenty and 
 eighteen, respectively, were supporting the family. 
 They continued to care for their mother during 
 the remainder of her life, and by their energy and 
 industry maintained her in comfort until her death 
 in September, 1891. 
 
 Through our subject's industry and untiring 
 energy he has carved out a career for himself 
 that stands well in the records of the accomplished 
 works of the pioneers. He settled in the north- 
 west part of East Bountiful, where he now has a 
 splendid farm, with a beautiful brick residence 
 containing nine rooms and equipped w-ith all the 
 modern conveniences. He is also the owner of 
 several other lots throughout the ward. In ad- 
 dition to his property in Utah, he is also the 
 owner of a sheep ranch in Idaho, which he has 
 successfuly conducted for a number of years. Its 
 headquarters are at Bancroft, in that State. Mr. 
 Mabey has also aided in the establishment of 
 many of the industries of his region, and is now 
 a director of the Woods Cross Canning and Pick- 
 ling Company, located at Woods Cross, a short 
 distance south of his home. This has proved to be 
 a profitable investment and is a very successful 
 enterprise. 
 
 Our subject was married on March 13, 1871, 
 to Sarah L. Tolman. daughter of Judson and 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Sarah (Holbrook) Tolman, citizens of Bountiful, 
 and by this marriage he had twelve children, of 
 whom eleven are still living. They are : Joseph 
 T., who died at the age of twenty months ; Judson 
 A., who has charge of the sheep ranch in Idaho 
 He served thirty-four months as a missionary for 
 the Church in the Southern States, being called to 
 that work in December, 1895. William A., Charles 
 R., now absent at Berlin^ Germany, on a mission. 
 This son organized the militia of Bountiful and 
 served as captain of that force until the outbreak 
 of the Spanish-American war. when he resigned 
 his commission and enlisted as a private in Bat- 
 tery A. Utah Artillery, and left with his com- 
 mand for the Philippine Islands, serving with 
 such distinction that he was promoted to be a ser- 
 geant before his return. He was honorably mus- 
 tered out of the service of the United States with 
 his battery at San Francisco. Joseph I,., at 
 school, attending the sessins of the Latter Day 
 Saints" College in Salt Lake City; George E., 
 Clarence, David, Sarah L., Orson, Alice E., and 
 Esther. 
 
 In political life ^Ir. Mabey is a Republican, join- 
 ing that party upon its organization in this State. 
 He was nominated on that ticket as County Com 
 missioner in the fall of 1900, and so great was 
 his popularity and so strong the confidence of 
 the people, that he ran ahead of his ticket, anu 
 received more votes than any other candidate of 
 his party. In the old days, when the people were 
 divided into the People's and the Liberal parties. 
 Mr. Mabey was a member of the former party. 
 and twenty years ago was one of the first con- 
 stables of Bountiful, and also served a term of two 
 years as marshal of that city. 
 
 He has always been a faithful member of the 
 Church of his choice, and is now President of 
 the One Hundredth Quorum of the Seventies. 
 For some time he was also superintendent of the 
 Sunday school in West Bountiful, and at present 
 is associate superintendent of East Bountiful. 
 
 iVIr. Mabey's success has been the result of 
 hard, plodding work, and the leading position he 
 has achieved in the affairs of Davis county are due 
 to his own efforts. His sincerity and devotion 
 to his religion have won for him a high place in 
 the regard of the leaders of his Church, and his in- 
 
 tegrity and honesty have won for him the confi- 
 dence and respect of all the people of the country. 
 
 ^ESIDE.XT ANGUS MUNX CAX- 
 XON'. So closely interwoven with the 
 history of L'tah in its development from 
 a wild and unsettled region to one of 
 the most prosperous and growing States 
 in the West, is the life of President .\ngus M. 
 Cannon, that a sketch of his life is a part of the 
 history of the State. He was one of the early 
 settlers who crossed the wilds of the western 
 plains to found in the inter-mountain region the 
 home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints. He has been a leader in the work 
 of the Church, and hand in hand with this work 
 has grown his interest in the development of the 
 State. He has built a career by his own efforts 
 which is a lasting monument to the industry and 
 ability of the pioneers, and to which his posterity 
 may well point with pride. 
 
 .\ngus Munn Cannon was born in Liverpool, 
 Lancashire, England, May 17, 1834. When he 
 was less than three years of age his maternal 
 grandmother took him to reside with her on the 
 Isle of Man and he remained there until past four 
 years of age, when he returned to the home of his 
 parents in Liverpool. His parents had become 
 converts to the teachings of the Mormon church 
 in February, 1840, and in the fall of 1842 crossed 
 the Atlantic ocean to America, landing at New 
 Orleans after an eight weeks voyage. When 
 they were six weeks out at sea the mother died. 
 She bore the maiden name of Ann Quayle. The 
 father and mother were both natives of Peel, 
 Isle of Man. The family consisted of three sons, 
 George O. ; Angus Munn, our subject ; and David 
 Henry ; and three daughters, Mary Alice ; Ann ; 
 and Leonora. From New Orleans the family 
 went to Navoo, reaching there in the spring of 
 1843. The oldest son, George O., and one sister, 
 Ann, left Nauvoo with the pioneers early in 1846. 
 and arrived in Utah in advance of the rest of the ' 
 family ; x\ngus M., David Henry and Leonora 
 being left with Charles Lambert, who had married 
 one of the sisters, Mary Alice. They remained at 
 Winter Quarters with the rest of the company. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 171 
 
 This place is now known as Florence, near Oma- 
 ha, Nebraska. So hurried had been the departure 
 and so ruthless the mob that these people, perse- 
 cuted on account of their religion, began the win- 
 ter of 1846-47 with scarcely any provisions and 
 the Cannon family in the scarcity of food found 
 relief in the artichokes and wild onions which 
 grew on the bottom lands along the Missouri 
 river. This diet, however, proved to be a very 
 good preventative against the scurvy, cholera and 
 the disease known as the black-leg, shielding them 
 against these diseases, which were then raging in 
 that section of the country. In addition to the 
 lack oi food they were much annoyed by the hos- 
 tile attitude of the Indians, who, in their despera- 
 tion killed their cattle. This necessitated our 
 subject going with his brother-in-law, Charles 
 Lambert, to Missouri, where he secured work on 
 the Missouri river, working on a farm and chop- 
 ping wood, and remained there until the winter 
 of 1847-48. While crossing the Missouri river 
 on their return to winter quarters, the ice broke 
 and they had the misfortune to destroy their out- 
 fit. 
 
 In 1849 -^I""- Lambert and the rest of the family 
 crossed the plains to L'tah. arriving in Salt Lake 
 City. in Octol)er of that year. Shortly after his 
 arival in Utah President Cannon followed manual 
 labor until the fall ot 1850, when he accompanied 
 over a hundred men and twelve or thirteen women 
 to found a colony now known as Iron county, 
 under the leadership of President George A. 
 Smith. They located on Center Creek and es- 
 tablished the city now known as Parowan, in the 
 Little Salt Lake Valley. The winter was spent in 
 building houses, surveying the land and establish- 
 ing a fort as a protection against the raids of the 
 Indians. Captain Jefferson Hunt, who met the 
 company on his w'ay to California, was sent as a 
 representative from Iron county wnich this col- 
 ony had established, to the first legislature from 
 this district. Our subject returned to Salt Lake 
 in May 1851, and spent that summer and winter 
 in hauling wood and lumber, working on the farm 
 and a portion of the winter attended school. In 
 November, 1852, he was apprenticed to the print- 
 ing business under Doctor W'illard Richards, in 
 the same building in which his present office is lo- 
 
 cated. He remained here until the tall of 1854, 
 when, on the suggestion of Governor Brigham 
 Young and Doctor J. M. Bernhisel, the then dele- 
 gate from Utah to Congress, he secured his ap- 
 pointment as a cadet to West Point for the tenn 
 of 1855. He received an appointment from the 
 Church to spend the interval in missionary work 
 in the eastern states, under President John Taylor, 
 laboring in 1854 and the early part of 1855 in 
 Connecticut. His work was most successful and 
 he succeeded in baptizing twenty-one people in 
 thirty days. President Taylor was so well pleas- 
 ed with his success as a missionary that he per- 
 suaded him to abandon the plan of entering West 
 Point, and in May, 1855, he was called to labor in 
 New York and Pennsylvania, meeting with good 
 success. He w-as later called to take the presi- 
 dency of the Philadelphia Conference, which in- 
 cluded Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Delaware and 
 Eastern Maryland, with headquarters at Philadel- 
 phia. They occupied W'ashington hall at the cor- 
 ner of Eighth and Spring Garden streets, which 
 had a seating capacity of one thousand, for their 
 Sunday ser\ices. In the spring of 1857 he was 
 called to take charge of the emigrants coming 
 from Europe by way of Boston, New York 
 and Philadelpb.ia, and in addition to act as First 
 Counselor to President William P. Appleby, who 
 had succeeded President John Taylor as publisher 
 of the Mormon paper and presiding over the east- 
 ern Mission. In the fall of the year he was pros- 
 trated with lung fever and had a very severe ill- 
 ness. 
 
 In March, 1858, he left Philadelphia for home, 
 hut when he reached Iowa was again attacked 
 with lung fever and lay a month sick at Crescent 
 City, Iowa. In May of that year he again started 
 for home, accompanying a party of one hundred 
 and ten returning Elders who had been laboring 
 in Europe, British .America and the eastern states. 
 On account of his illness he was made chaplain of 
 this company and relieved from all arduous du- 
 ties. His health was so precarious at the com- 
 mencement of the joumey from the Missouri river 
 that they despaired of his living to complete the 
 journey, but he finally began to improve and by 
 the time they arrived in Salt Lake was convales- 
 cent. At this time lohnston's army was marching 
 
172 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to Utah, and as their route would cross the line of 
 march of the army the company made a detour 
 and passed the United States forces without even 
 appraising them of their presence in the country, 
 arriving in Salt Lake without a mishap of any 
 kind. The trip was quite perilous and in the 
 eyes of those forming the company the hand of 
 providence was manifest in a remarkable degree 
 in the events attending their journey home. 
 
 Upon reaching Salt Lake City, June 21, 1858, 
 they found the place deserted and that the people 
 had all moved to the south of Salt Lake City and 
 thev were found located in the south of Utah 
 county, owing to the approach of Johnston's army. 
 Mr. Cannon went to Fillmore, where he found 
 his brother, George Q., published the Deseret 
 Nezi.'s. This was the first meeting of the brothers 
 in eleven years. Our subject remained a week 
 with his brother and returned to Salt Lake City 
 after the army had entered Utah and passed 
 through the City and located what was known as 
 Camp Floyd in Cedar Valley. The amnesty proc- 
 lamation having been issued the people returned 
 to their homes early in July. 
 
 On July i8th of that year, 1858, President Can- 
 non was married to two sisters, Sarah Maria and 
 Ann Amanda Mousley, their ancestors coming 
 originally from Finland and Sweden and settled in 
 Delaware where they were the founders of the 
 celebrated brick church of Wilmington, Delaware. 
 The marriage ceremony was performed by Presi- 
 dent Brigham Young in what is known as the 
 Beehive House. After his marriage President Can- 
 non settled in Salt Lake City where he followed 
 the occupation of printer and farmer, and finally 
 formed a co-partnership for the manufacture of 
 pottery, in the summer of i860, the business be- 
 ing successfully conducted under the name of 
 Cannon, Eardley and Brothers. In the fall of 
 1 86 1, he was called to accompany a colony to form 
 a settlement south of the rim of the Salt Lake 
 Basin, in Washington county. This colony con- 
 sisted of three hundred families, and the family 
 of President Cannon accompanied him. The 
 threatened aspect of the Civil war and a blockade 
 having been established by the Federal govern- 
 ment in the southern ports, the scarcity of cotton 
 and the demand for it bv the manufacturers of 
 
 Europe and the eastern United States caused 
 President Young to realize the importance of 
 turning the attention of the people of Utah to this 
 industry, and it was for this purpose that these 
 settlements were made. Our subject was one of 
 a committee of three who located the City of St. 
 George, and this colony was very successful in 
 growing cotton, which was sent to the Missouri 
 river with teams .going back for the purpose of 
 bringing emigrants to L^tah. It was shipped to 
 New York and there commanded a price of nine- 
 ty cents a pound. 
 
 The territorial legislature having issued a 
 Charter to Saint George, an election was held for 
 Mayor, President Cannon being elected, and hold- 
 ing that office for two terms. He was also dur- 
 ing his residence in that City elected Justice of the 
 Peace, Prosecuting Attorney and finally District 
 Attorney of the Second Judicial District. He was 
 elected Major and afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel 
 of the second regiment of the First Brigade of 
 the Nauvoo Legion of the Iron County Militia, 
 during the trouble in which Doctor James M. 
 Whitmore and Robert Mclntyre were killed by 
 the Indians, in the spring of 1865. Lieutenant 
 Colonel Cannon associated with Colonel McAr- 
 tluir. went out with a company of ninety men 
 and after a long search in the mountains found the 
 bodies of the murdered men buried under the 
 snow. They pursued the Indians and punished 
 them for their misdeeds, urging the people to 
 build forts for their protection, returning to Saint 
 George after having been out one month. In 
 1864 he had accompanied Anson Call to establish 
 what was later known as Callville, on the Colora- 
 do river, twenty-five miles west of the mouth of 
 the Virgin river. This is the highest point on the 
 Colorado river which a steamboat has attained to. 
 The boat came with a load of freight. During 
 the summer our subject was attacked with typhoid 
 fever and was the only one out of the four cases 
 who recovered. 
 
 In 1867, his health having again failed he was 
 advised to come north to recuperate. He secured 
 employment from William S. Godby, being given 
 charge of a mule train destined for Virginia City, 
 Montana, and laden with cigars, tobacco, cased 
 liquors, butter, eggs, lard, etc., and was given 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 173 
 
 charge of the train and produce to dispose of ac- 
 cording to his best judgment and just as if he 
 owned it, and to return and make his report. He 
 made his trip to Montana and only remained there 
 a short time and returned with his teams to Salt 
 Lake City, the grasshopper plague being so pre- 
 valent in that country that he could not remain 
 there with the hope of realizing what Mr. Godby 
 had anticipated in the venture. That fall he com- 
 menced his journey home to Saint George when a 
 messenger from President Young overtook him, 
 when he was informed that his brother George Q. 
 Cannon was appointed editor of the DeseretNews 
 Angus M. Cannon was appointed Business Man- 
 ager and the Deseret Evening Neii's was begun in 
 November. Mr. Cannon continued as Business 
 Manager of the paper for six years, during which 
 time they manufactured the greater portion of 
 the paper and type used in its publication. His 
 health once more failed as a result of his labor- 
 ious duties and he was compelled to resign his 
 position and for a short time traveled throughout 
 the Territory receiving much benefit from this 
 mode of living. In 1874 he engaged in the wagon 
 and machine business. In 1876 he received the 
 appointment of president of the Salt Lake Stake 
 of Zion which at that time included the churches 
 situated in Salt Lake, Tooele, Davis, Morgan, 
 Summit and Wasatch counties. He was ordained 
 to this office in April of that year, under the hands 
 of Presidents Brigham Young and Daniel H. 
 Wells. In the spring of 1877 the counties out- 
 side of Salt Lake were organized into separate 
 Stakes, reducing President Cannon's territory to 
 Salt Lake county. In July, 1876, he was elected 
 County Recorder for Salt Lake county, and held 
 that office for eight consecutive years. 
 
 Up to 1862, there had been no laws existing in 
 the Statute books against the practice of polyg- 
 amy, but at this time such a law was passed. 
 However, this law remained a dead letter for some 
 years afterwards, until the matter being agitated 
 Congress passed the Edmunds law, which took ef- 
 fect in March, 1882. This law made it a crime 
 for a man to co-habit with more than one wife, 
 and affixed a penalty of three hundred dollars fine 
 and six months imprisonment in the penitentiary. 
 Desiring to comply with the law and still perform 
 
 his duties towards his families in providing for 
 their support. President Cannon established him- 
 self in one room of his house and only met with 
 his families at meal time. At this time he had 
 three wives, having married in 1874 Mrs. Clara C. 
 Mason, a widow with two children. She came 
 from San Francisco. By this wife he had three 
 children. During this trouble he learned that a 
 warrant was out for his arrest and in the fall of 
 1884 he surrendered himself to the United States 
 authorities for the purpose of testing the consti- 
 tutionality of the law ; also with a view of protect- 
 ing the heads of the Church, as, if President Can- 
 non had been found guilty. President Taylor, 
 who was then in exile would have suffered a like 
 fate, as would also the Apostles. He was tried, 
 convicted and sentenced on the 9th day of May, 
 1885. to six months imprisonment and a fine of 
 three hundred dollars. He was asked to promise 
 to obey the law with the inducement that if he 
 would do so he need not go to prison nor pay any 
 fine. This he resolutely refused to do and was 
 sent to prison after beins" again urged by United 
 States Marshal Ireland. In his reply to Mr. Ire- 
 land he said : 'T know your power to punish and 
 even torture me in my confinement in prison, but 
 if I knew that you were to put me on the wheel 
 and pull me limb from limb and fibre from fibre, 
 I would not do what you ask." At the time he 
 was sentenced the streets were filled with his 
 friends and people and the Marshall fearing an 
 uprising, at the suggestion of Mr. Cannon Cap- 
 tain Phillips of the city police was deputized to 
 escort him to the penitentiary by a round-about 
 route. He remained in prison until he was re-ar- 
 rested and tried upon the same charge and again 
 sentenced to imprisonment. He, with the other 
 members of his Church who were imprisoned for 
 this offense, viewed it, not as a transgression of 
 the law of the land, but as a persecution by Con- 
 gress. They held that Congress, in making such 
 a law had exceeded its jurisdiction and had failed 
 to take into account the necessity for providing 
 for the children born in such marriages. Feel- 
 ing that it would be unchristian and unfatherly to 
 forsake his family and let them struggle for ex- 
 istence, he underwent his punishment for the sake 
 of his conscience. With these principles to guide 
 
174 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 him and with the thought of his family to sustain 
 him, and in the knowledge that he was acting as 
 his conscience dictated, he served his terms in the 
 penitentiary and refusing to pay his fine of three 
 hundred dollars continued in prison. 
 
 He obtained an appeal to the supreme court 
 after a writ of error had been certified to by Jus- 
 tice Miller of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States. After Mr. Cannon, had endured an eight 
 months term ne paid his fine and was discharged. 
 Being told that other warrants were issued, he 
 took what was known as the "Underground" for 
 a term of eleven months, when he was again ar- 
 rested and placed under a bond of ten thousand 
 dollars to appear and answer the charge of having 
 contracted an additional polygamous marriage. 
 He underwent an examination in which the 
 government did not spend less than a thousand 
 dollars, when he was again discharged. He was 
 arrested several times afterwards and underwent 
 examinations, the last being in the spring of 1890. 
 
 In 1888 President Cannon engaged in the stock 
 buying and raising business, and in the fall 
 of that year closed out his stock of horses 
 for ten thousand dollars. He engaged in 
 mining in Tooele county in 1890, securing 
 a good many low grade ore properties, and 
 after spending a great deal of money in im- 
 proving and patenting these properties, and hav- 
 ing patented them he discontinued work on ac- 
 count of the railroad transportation and went into 
 the Mercur Mining district, where he also located 
 a number of claims from which he realized some 
 money. During the past five years President 
 Cannon has sold a large portion of his real and 
 personal property, including much of this Mercur 
 mining property; in order to meet his obligations. 
 
 President Cannon has at this time nineteen 
 living children ; eleven sons and eight daughters, 
 with thirty-five grandchildren. He has buried 
 three daughters and five sons. Maria Bennion, 
 the fifth wife, was the mother of two sons and 
 two daughters, one beautiful little daughter of 
 nine years, Eleanor, dying December 29, 1901. 
 His fourth wife. Doctor Martha Hughes Cannon, 
 is the mother of two daughters and one son. She 
 served two terms as state senator. 
 
 President Cannon is a lover of fine horses and 
 
 has ov^'ned a number of fine saddle animals. 
 
 President Cannon all through life has been a 
 most conscientious man, whether in laboring in 
 the interests of his Church or in private or public 
 life, whenever and under whatever circumstances 
 he has been placed. He has thrown his whole 
 life, energy and strength into his work. But few 
 men have been stronger advocates of the doc- 
 trines and principles of the Church than he has 
 been. 
 
 DHX JAMES. Among the important 
 positions connected with the administra- 
 tion of the affairs of Salt Lake City and 
 county, is that of County Clerk and 
 Clerk of the Third Judicial District of 
 Utah, the duties of which are at present discharg- 
 ed by the subject of this sketch. 
 
 John James was born in Pembroke, South 
 Wales, March i, 1864. and spent his boyhood 
 days in that land. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and later graduated from college in 
 1 88 1. He came to the United States in 1885 and 
 stopped a few weeks in New York City, arriving 
 in Salt Lake City in July of the same year, where 
 for seven years he was a court reporter. He later 
 took a law course in the Sprague law school of 
 Michigan, and graduated from that institution 
 in 1896. In 1894 he was made clerk of the Po- 
 lice Court and Public Prosecutor, which positions 
 he held for two and one-half years. In the elect- 
 ion in November, 1900, Jie was elected County 
 Clerk of Salt Lake county and ex-officio Clerk of 
 the District Court of the Third Judicial District 
 of Utah, which included the Civil Court, the Pro- 
 bate Court, Criminal Court, and the Court of 
 Equity branches. He is also clerk of the board 
 of county commissioners and also of the county 
 Board of Health. 
 
 Mr. James comes from one of the old families 
 of Wales, his father, George James, having been 
 one of the six hundred in the Light Brigade 
 who made the famous charge in the battle of Bak- 
 alava and was one of the twenty-five who came 
 out of the fiery furnace alive. A brother of our 
 subject, William James, lost his life in February, 
 1881, at Alexandria, Egypt, after the bombard- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 175 
 
 nient. by falling betwen her Majesties vessels the 
 Hyacinthc and Coniptis. George James came to 
 America and settled in Brooklyn, New York, 
 where he lived for eleven years, castins? his first 
 vote for Abraham Lincoln. He was educated in 
 England and in addition to being an expert pen- 
 man, was a splendid thinker and almost invincible 
 in debate. He was the possessor of a splendid 
 physique, tall and of commanding appearance, be- 
 ing si.K feet, four inches tall. After living in 
 Brooklyn for eleven years he returned to Wales 
 and there died. The maiden name of his wife, 
 and the mother of our subject, was also James, 
 but she died when her son was but four years old. 
 
 Our subject was married to Aliss Jennie Wil- 
 liams, and she died in October, 1891, and he mar- 
 ried his present wife. Miss Anna Merrill in 1899. 
 She is a native of Yorkshire, England, but came 
 to Utah from Paris, France. By his first mar- 
 riage Mr. James has three sons and two daugh- 
 ters : Lillian, John W., Genevieve, Harold and 
 Frank K. By his second marriage he has tw-o 
 sons: George Merrill and Glyndwri Tudor. 
 
 In political life Mr. James has always been a 
 staunch Republican and has always unfalteringly 
 followed the fortunes of that party. He has 
 been in poitical life almost all of the time he has 
 been in the United States. Fraternally he is a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. W'oodmen of the W'orld, and the Fraternal 
 Union of America. He is a member of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and 
 is at present an Elder of the Twenty-first W'ard. 
 In the present position to which he was elected 
 in November, 1900, the responsibilities attached to 
 the position were so well recognized by the legis- 
 lature that it is one of the qualifications of the of- 
 fice that the Clerk is forced to furnish a bond of 
 twenty thousand dollars before he can assume the 
 duties. In the work incident to this office he em- 
 ploys fifteen clerks, including his deputies and as- 
 sistants. 
 
 The successful administration which Mr. James 
 has made in his present position, has made him 
 a host of friends, and his genial and pleasant man- 
 ner, coupled with his ability, has made him one of 
 the most popular oflficers in Utah, and he is well 
 and favorablv known throughout the state. 
 
 I-.ORGE COLEMAN. England has 
 furnished a large quota of men and 
 women who have taken a prominent 
 and substantial part in the develop- 
 ment of the vast resources of Utah, and 
 among her sons, who by bravery, perseverance 
 and determination have assisted largely in the 
 development of the agricultural and live stock 
 business in Utah, and especially in Salt Lake 
 county, should be mentioned George Coleman, 
 the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Coleman w'as born in Hartfordshire, Eng- 
 land, twenty miles from London. He is the son 
 of George and Elizabeth (Bailey) Coleman, who 
 were also natives of England, and in 1864 emi- 
 grated to America and settled in this state. The 
 family lived in Big Cottonwood Ward for many 
 years. George Coleman had become identified 
 with the Mormon Church in England and continu- 
 ed to be a faithful member and liberal supporter 
 of that Church during all the period of his life. 
 For many years he was the leader of its choir in 
 Big Cottonwood Ward. He died June 15, 1888, 
 loved, honored and respected by all who had 
 known him through his life. Henry, the brother 
 of our subject, came to America and settled in 
 Utah in 1853. Two other brothers came in 1862, 
 and our subject in 1868. Henry died December 
 25. 1867, and William in 1898. Louis and Sam- 
 uel are still living, residing in Heber City, Utah. 
 All of the members of this family were identified 
 with the Mormon Church and assisted largely in 
 building up not only the agricultural and live 
 stock interests of Utah, but they assisted largely 
 in bringing the Church to its present wonderful 
 state of prosperity. Our subject spent his early 
 life in England, being educated in the common 
 schools of that country. L'pon coming to Utah he 
 at once entered into the farming and stock raising 
 business in Salt Lake county and he has built a 
 beautiful home on the Upper Cottonwood road, 
 close to the Holliday postoffice, where he has 
 twenty-four acres of land, well improved, with a 
 substantial brick house with all modern improve- 
 ments, good barns, etc. This is considered one of 
 the finest farms in this county of its size, the 
 drive from his place being one of the best from 
 Cottonwood ^^'ard to Salt Lake Citv. 
 
176 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Coleman married October 25, 1888, to Miss 
 Amy World daughter of Caleb and Ann (Waters) 
 World. This family came to Utah in 1862, and 
 the father, Caleb World, with his family spent 
 eight years on a mission in the Sandwich islands. 
 He died December 24, 1888, aged sixty-seven, 
 and his wife died April 19, 1902, aged eighty- 
 four years. Mrs. Coleman accompanied her 
 father on his missions, which . has given her a 
 broader and wider field of forethought, having 
 come in contact with more people of the outside 
 world than it is the lot of most people to do. She 
 is a well educated lady and takes an active part 
 in all of the Church work, and especially among 
 the relief societies. They have two children, 
 Georgina, twelve years of age and Phyllis N. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Coleman were both raised in the 
 Mormon Church and have been faithful members 
 of it. The Coleman family are a family of 
 worthy and enterprising citizens and have always 
 taken a substantial part in the upbuilding of the 
 Ward in which they have resided. They enjoy 
 the respect and esteem of all with whom they have 
 been associated through life and those who have 
 had the pleasure of their warm hospitality. Mrs. 
 Coleman's family all live in Salt Lake Citv. 
 
 \PTAIX F. M. BISHOP. AlUed 
 with the development of the mining 
 resources of Utah, and so closely con- 
 nected with it as to form a part of that 
 important industry, is the business of 
 assaying. Among the prominent men engaged 
 in this business in Salt Lake City is the subject of 
 this sketch, and one who has been closely identi- 
 fied with the growth and prosperity of Utah. He 
 has seen the city grow from an inland town, and 
 with the entrance of railroads, to a city of metro- 
 politan size, and to be the distribution center for 
 an area covered by four of the largest States of 
 the L'nion. 
 
 Captain F. M. Bishop was born in Essex coun- 
 ty. New York, August the 2d, 1842, and at seven 
 years of age removed with his parents to Mar- 
 quette, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Superior, 
 his family being among the first to settle in that 
 region. He received his education in the schools 
 
 of Marquette, and in 1861 at the breaking out of 
 the Civil war, enlisted in the First Regiment, 
 Michigan Volunteers. In May, 1862, his regi- 
 ment was stationed at Old Point Comfort, Vir- 
 ginia, and he was a witness of the destruction of 
 the Merrimac by the Confederates. While there 
 his regiment was ordered to the Gasport navy 
 yards, and remained there until it was brigaded 
 with the Army of the Potomac, and he served 
 with it in front of Richmond, being in the battle 
 of Mechanicsville, which formed a part of the 
 famous Seven Days battle. After the engage- 
 ment at Harrison's Landing, he was promoted to 
 be Sergeant-Major of his regiment. He partici- 
 pated in all the battles in which his regiment was 
 engaged, and at the second battle of Bull Run 
 they lost over seventy per cent of the regiment. 
 After this battle he was promoted for gallantrv 
 to be a Second Lieutenant. They were then order- 
 ed back to Washington, and from thence to 
 Frederick, Maryland, forming a part of the 
 LTnion forces in the battles of South Mountain 
 and Antietam. After Antietem he was promoted 
 to be a First Lieutenant and was then ordered 
 with his regiment along the Blue Kidge to Fred- 
 ericksburg, during which march it had several 
 skirmishes with the Confederate forces. Here 
 they remained a short time and on December the 
 I2th, 1862, participated in the battle of Freder- 
 icksburg. He had command of the company dur- 
 ing this engagement, owing to the absence of his 
 captain. He was wounded in this battle and was 
 in the hospital incapatiated for service until May, 
 1863, when he again joined his regiment on the 
 Rappahannock, and while there assisted in break- 
 ing up General Stuart's raid. He was then call- 
 ed to Washington and transferred to the Veter- 
 an's Reserve Corps, and from Washington was 
 sent to St. Louis, and thence to Rock Island Mil- 
 itary prison. While he was serving here in 1864, 
 he was made Assistant Inspector General on the 
 staiT of General George J. Smith. He remained 
 here until July, 1864, when he was again ordered 
 to Washington and assisted in the defense of that 
 city against Mosby's raid, being stationed at Fort 
 Stevens. He was again detached from line duty 
 and made Acting Assistant Inspector General of 
 the Second Brigade of Hardin's Division, Defen- 
 
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 ses of Washington. In this duty he continued 
 until September of that year, when he rejoined 
 his regiment, which had returned to Rock Island, 
 and there assumed command of Company E., 
 Fourth Volunteer Relief Corps. He was promo- 
 ted in February, 1865, to be Captain and assigned 
 to Company H of the Second United States \'ol- 
 unteers and ordered to Fort Leavenworth. From 
 there he was ordered to Fort Larned, Kansas, 
 on the Pawnee Fork, and remained at the latter 
 place until June, 1865. He was again detached 
 from his regiment and assigned to duty as Acting. 
 Inspector General for the District of the Upper 
 Arkansas, serving on the staff of Brevet Briga- 
 dier General James G. Ford. He was ordered to 
 Fort Leavenworth on November the 7th, 1865, 
 and rounded out the entire four years of the war 
 with distinction and brilliancy. 
 
 Upon the cessation of hostilities he removed 
 to Bloomintgon, Illinois, and entered the Illinois 
 Wesleyan university, graduating from that insti- 
 tution in June, 1870, with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Science. During the summer of 1867 he was 
 a member of the expedition under the leadership 
 of i\Iajor John W. Powell engaged in the explora- 
 tion of the Colorado canyon in the interests of the 
 United States Geological survey. He accompan- 
 ied Major Powell on his first expedition to the 
 Rocky Mountains as taxidermist, and in 1870 
 came to Salt Lake City with the expedition, and 
 travelled through Arizona collecting material for 
 the work. In the following year he was one of 
 the party under Major Powell who started down 
 Green river, and also participated in the e.xplora- 
 tions in the Colorado river basin. He spent the 
 winter of 1871-72 engaged in making maps of 
 that region. He took up his residence in Salt 
 Lake City in 1872, and the first work he engaged 
 in was teaching at Morgan college. In this he 
 continued until 1873, when he was appointed to 
 the chair of Natural Science in the Deseret uni- 
 versity, and occupied that position for some time. 
 It was while here that he decided to take up as- 
 saying and much of his success as an assayer in 
 later years he owes to the opportunities which his 
 duties at the university afforded him. He re- 
 mained as a professor in the university until the 
 summer of 1877, when he resigned his position 
 
 and entered the employ of the Stormont Min- 
 ing company as assayer where he remained 
 until 1879, at which time he took up assaying in 
 Salt Lake City, and with the exception of ten 
 years, from 1885 to 1895, when he was engaged in 
 the real estate business, he has been actively en- 
 gaged in assaying and mining. In addition to 
 his mining and assaying, he has also taken an 
 active interest in the welfare of Utah, and in 
 bringing its standard up to the high place it now 
 occupies. He was one of the first to advocate 
 the adoption of the public school system in this 
 state, and it was largely througn his efforts that 
 this important adjunct to the development of the 
 state was established. He was trustee in the 
 Seventh district of Salt Lake City and during 
 his administration many important changes and 
 advances were made in the methods of educating 
 the youth of Utah. The prominence into which 
 he has come as an assayer, and the extent of his 
 original investigations, had made him well known 
 throughout the mining region, and in scientific 
 circles as well, and in 1885 he was awarded the 
 degree of Master of Arts by his alma mater, the 
 Illinois Wesleyan universitv. 
 
 Captain Bishop was married in 1873 to Miss 
 Zina Pratt, daughter of Orson Pratt, one of the 
 leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints, and by this marriage they have four 
 children now living. They are : Mrs. Alice B. 
 Graham wife of Fred C. Graham ; Bertha, wife of 
 Victor Christopherson ; Florence, wife of Orson 
 T. Truelson, an assayer in Salt Lake City, and 
 Marion Alden, at present a student at the I'niver- 
 sity of L'tah. 
 
 In polictical life Captain Bishop has always 
 been a staunch Republican, and cast his first vote 
 for Abraham Lincoln, and has participated ac- 
 tively in the work of the party in Utah, although 
 he has never sought public office. In fraternal 
 life he is a prominent member of the Masonic 
 order, being a Past Master of Argenta lodge 
 and High Priest of the Utah Chapter. He is 
 also a member of Utah Commandary of Knights 
 Templar. He was the first potentate of El Ka- 
 lah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and was one of 
 the first members of that order when it was or- 
 ganized here. He is also a prominent member 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of the Grand Army of the RepubHc and is Past 
 Commander of Mclvean Post, Number One. 
 
 The brilliant career which Captain Bishop 
 made during the Civil war stamped him, even in 
 his early life, a man of magnificent courage, 
 great resources, and splendid endurance. The 
 ordeal through which he passed in this war, 
 widened his experience and cemented his ability 
 to cope with and successfully surmount all the 
 difficulties that he encountered in his life work. 
 The success that he has attained in his chosen 
 field in Salt Lake City has brought him to the 
 front as one of the most prominent assayers and 
 his genial, unassuming and sincere manner has 
 made for him a host of friends throughout the 
 West ; and in his own circles there is no more 
 popular man. 
 
 '.TER GORDON. Among the native 
 Mins of Utah but few are deserving of 
 ,:.;reater credit for what they have ac- 
 complished in the building up of this 
 new country, along the lines of stock 
 raising and farming, than is the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 Peter Gordon was born July 24, 1861, in Mill 
 Creek Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah, and was 
 the son of James and Mary (Balintine) Gordon. 
 Both of his parents were natives of Scotland, 
 his father coming from the western and his moth- 
 er from the eastern portion of that country. 
 They emigrated to America and settled in Nau- 
 voo, Illinois, in the early forties, that place then 
 being the headquarters of the Mormon Church. 
 Here they were married by Hyrum Smith, brother 
 of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and received from 
 him the partriarchial blessing. The Gordons and 
 the Smiths'became close friends, and when Joseph 
 Smith was arrested and being taken to prison, 
 Mr. Gordon gave him substantial evidence of 
 his sympathy and friendship. It was while the 
 family were at breakfast that Mr. Gordon ob- 
 served the prophet being taken past his house to 
 the jail, and after a short consultation with his 
 wife, went out and gave him ten dollars, which 
 he had received the day before from the sale of a 
 cow. This money, though but a small sum, re- 
 presented much to Mr. Gordon, who was a poor 
 
 man, and Mr. Smith was deeply affected by this 
 proof of his friendship. Placing his hand on 
 Mr. Gordon's shoulder he thanked him warmly 
 and assured him that he would never want for 
 means ; which prophecy was amply fulfilled after 
 the family came to Salt Lake City, Mr. Gordon 
 accumulating a comfortable competence and be- 
 ing the owner of several farms. Upon coming 
 to Utah in 1848, Mr. Gordon settled first on the 
 Little Cottonwood, just south of Murray, on the 
 farm now owned and occupied by James P. 
 Freeze, where he remained but a short time, re- 
 moving from there to State street, between Fif- 
 teenth and Sixteenth South streets, where he 
 purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land 
 which he cultivated and improved to a high de- 
 gree, building several houses on it. the last one 
 being a beautiful brick residence. Although he 
 became the owner of a number of other farms he 
 continued to reside at this location and died there 
 in October, 1892. His wife died in 1878, her death 
 occuring on the 27th day of November, of that 
 year. Our subject was the youngest of a family 
 of nine children, of whom eight are still living. 
 He grew up under the same conditions as the 
 other sons of pioneers, assisting his father in the 
 cultivation of the farm and doing his share to- 
 wards supporting the family, attending school in 
 the winter and working on the farm in the sum- 
 mer. Although his father gave him all the fa- 
 cilities of obtaining an education that were then 
 within his power, the schools of those days were 
 necessarily poorly equipped, and our subject had 
 to depend upon his own powers of observation 
 and study of nature and men for a great part 
 of his education. He remained at home until the 
 time of his father's death. 
 
 Peter Gordon was married October 6, 1887, to 
 Miss Priscilla Philips, daughter of Alfred and 
 Fredrica Augusta Philips. The Philips fam- 
 ily came to Utah in 1855, 'Sir. and Mrs. Philips 
 being married on the plains, while en route to this 
 state. Mr. Gordon has had seven children by 
 this marriage, two of whom died. They are, 
 James A., who died when twenty months old; 
 Rosetta, who died at one year of age ; Rachel ; 
 Alfred L. ; Peter Y. : Bertha M. ; and Erma May. 
 
 Mr. Gordon owns thirty acres of the old home- 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 stead at Fifteenth and Sixteenth South State 
 street, which he has cultivated and improved and 
 in 1897 buih a beautiful and substantial brick 
 dwelling thereon. In addition to farming, which 
 Mr. Gordon has followed principally throughout 
 his life, he was also for a short time engaged in 
 the sheep business with his brother William. He 
 has taken an active interest in the affairs of the 
 community in which he lives and has always been 
 ready and willing to aid in any way the advance- 
 ment of the interests of the county and city. He 
 is deeply interested in educational matters, be- 
 lieving in giving the young people every assist- 
 ance in gaining a knowledge of the higher branch- 
 es of education, and has been for two terms one 
 of the school trustees of his district, his second 
 term not yet having expired. To his efiforts is 
 large!}- due the erecting of the beautiful school 
 house of his district. 
 
 In politics he is a Republican, but while activ- 
 ely interested in its work, he has never had the 
 time to give to participating to the extent of be- 
 ing a candidate for public office, preferring to 
 devote his time to the furthering of the interests 
 of his own community, in which he is held in high 
 esteem. 
 
 .\XIEL MOSS. Among the self made 
 men of Utah who by energy, persever- 
 ance and determination have acquired 
 a competency in this world's goods and 
 at the same time retained the confi- 
 dence and respect of their fellow men in the com- 
 munities where they have resided, the subject of 
 this sketch deserves special mention. 
 
 Daniel Moss was born on January 21, 1847, in 
 Council Bluiifs, Pottawatomie county, Iowa, and is 
 the son of John and Rebecca (Wood) Moss. 
 His father was a native of England, and born at 
 Newton, March 6, 1823, and his mother was a 
 native of Upper Canada. The family came to 
 Illinois and settled at Nauvoo, where they con- 
 tinued to reside until the exodus of the Mormon 
 people, which occured in 1846. On their journey 
 westward this family stopped for a short time in 
 Council Bluffs and in 1848 continued the jour- 
 ney to Utah. Soon after arriving in Salt Lake 
 
 City they settled south of Woods Cross depot in 
 the spring of 1849. Here the father secured land 
 and built a home. He was also identified with 
 the stock business, both sheep and cattle for many 
 years in this vicinity. He was one of the leading 
 men of Davis county in his day, and assisted 
 largely in the pioneer work of the early develop- 
 ment of this county. He laid the foundation for 
 the Deseret Live Stock Company, which has since 
 developed into one of the largest live' stock com- 
 panies in Utah. He died in 1884 at the age of 
 sixty-one years, his wife having died about four 
 years previous. 
 
 Our subject remained at home with his father 
 until he married on February 20, 1870, Miss Mel- 
 vina Rushton, daughter of Frederick and Eliza 
 Rushton. Ten children were born of this 
 marriage, eight of whom are now living, Eliza 
 R., now Mrs. Joseph E. Bair of Alpine, Utah; 
 John H., ranching in Idaho; Marv M., now Mrs. 
 John Jackson of West Bountiful ; Clara A., who 
 died in infancy ; Louisa, who also died in infancy ; 
 Daniel R., now a student in the Brigham Young 
 Academy in Provo ; Ida L., and Elmer H. at 
 home ; Lela ; Aften, and Glen W. 
 
 When J\Ir. Moss married he settled on his pres- 
 ent place which is located one-half mile south of 
 the postofifice and in close proximity to a splendid 
 school and meeting house. By hard work, energy 
 and perserverance he has built a splendid home, 
 adorned with fruit, shade and forest trees ^and 
 flowers, etc. Besides his home place he owns an- 
 other fami of twenty-five acres in the same vic- 
 inity, and is also interested in a large ranch of 
 three hundred acres of good land in Idaho, in 
 connection with his sons. While Mr. Moss has 
 given a great deal of time to the beautifying and 
 improving of his home, this has not been his chief 
 occupation, for he has been through life largely 
 identified with the stock business, both cattle and 
 sheep, and is one of the large stockholders in the 
 Deseret Live Stock Company. He is also interes- 
 ed in the dairy business and other enterprises in 
 tnis inter-mountain country. 
 
 In political arfairs Mr. Moss has always been 
 identified with the Republican party and has serv- 
 ed as school trustee in his Ward for years. He 
 and his family have been among the staunch 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints. At present he is one of the 
 presidents of the Seventy-fourth Quorum of the 
 Seventies. On November 4, 1890, he was call- 
 ed and set apart to serve on a mission for the 
 Church to the Southern states, where he labored 
 successfully and to the entire satisfaction of the 
 heads of the Church, laboring in the states of 
 Alabama and Mississippi for a period of two 
 years. For the past thirty years he has been a 
 teacher in his Ward. During the Black Hawk war 
 he participated in that as well as in many other 
 Indian troubles which occurred in Utah in early 
 times. Outside of the missionary work already 
 mentioned he assisted largely in the colonization 
 of Arizona, having spent considerable time in 
 that field in the interests of the Church. Per- 
 haps no other man in Davis county has had a more 
 eventful or interesting life than has Mr. Moss. 
 He has passed through all the scenes and hard- 
 ships of the early days. When only a boy he as- 
 sisted in hauling wood from the canyons and in 
 driving ox teams from place to place in this inter- 
 mountain country, doing freighting. He also 
 hauled rock from Little Cottonwood canyon for 
 the foundation of the Salt Lake Temple.. Mr. 
 Moss is essentially a self made man, having start- 
 ed out practically on his own hook. He has by 
 his energy and close attention to business made 
 a successful career for himself and is now recog- 
 nized as one of the leading men of Davis county 
 and enjoys the confidence and respect of the en- 
 tire communitv. 
 
 ABBI LOUIS G. REYNOLDS. In 
 0I connection with the life of Salt Lake 
 City, it is worthy of note that many 
 young men are active in the profes- 
 sions, in business circles and in pub- 
 lic affairs. Among those who are devot- 
 ing their lives and best energies to the up- 
 lifting of the human race, morally and spir- 
 itually, the subject of this sketch deserves 
 special mention. While yet only a young man he 
 is fast gaining a high place in the ecclesiastical 
 ranks of this city. His thorough and extensive 
 education, together with his wide and extended 
 
 travels in this and foreign lands, has well fitted 
 him for the high position he occupies in the Heb- 
 rew congregation of this city. 
 
 Louis G. Reynolds, Rabbi of the Congregation 
 Bnai Israel, of Salt Lake City, is a native of Rus- 
 sia-Poland, and was born in 1870, coming from 
 a family of professional men, both clergy and 
 medical. He received his education at the city of 
 Kovno, Russia, and also studied at the univer- 
 sities of Zurich, Switzerland, and the university 
 of France, in Paris. He came to the L^^nited 
 States in 1890 and became Rabbi of the Congre- 
 gation Ohabsholon at Newark, New Jersey, re- 
 maining there four years, and during that time 
 enlarged the synagogue and introduced many 
 changes in the ritual. In 1896 he went to Brad- 
 ford, Pennsylvania, as Rabbi of the Congregation 
 of Bith Zion, and remained there for four years. 
 This congregation was largely increased under 
 his administration, where he made many improve- 
 ments in the Synagogue and had a laj-ge attend- 
 ance of both Jews and Gentiles. In 1900 he was 
 called to Salt Lake City, and under his supervis- 
 ion the Sunday School has had a remarkable 
 growth and the congregation been materially in- 
 creased. His Friday evening lectures on theolog- 
 ical subjects are largely attended. 
 
 Dr. Reynolds is a highly educated man, speak- 
 ing twelve languages, eight of them fluently. His 
 education was self-received, and from a boy he 
 has been obliged to make his own way in the 
 world. Besides his native tongue he speaks the 
 classic Hebrew, Polish, all the Slavonic lang- 
 uages. Latin, Greek, German, French and Eng- 
 lish. He has made a thorough study of the San- 
 scrit and is now preparing for the press a history 
 of the land holdings of the nations of the Orient. 
 He has also done considerable journalistic work 
 and while in Paris was associated with the 
 "Rochcforf," besides contributing articles to 
 many other journals. He is becoming thorough- 
 ly Americanized, having already sworn allegiance 
 to the Stars and Stripes, and is much interested 
 in American customs, institutions of learning, etc. 
 He has traveled extensively throughout the 
 L'nited States and is abreast with all the leading 
 topics of the day. He is a member of the Bnai 
 Brith, the Hebrew organization of this citv. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 On January 21, 1902, he was married to Miss 
 Belle Zemansky, a native of Sacramento, Cali- 
 fornia. Her parents came from Poland, in 
 which countrv thev were born. 
 
 HOMAS S. NEWMAN, was born in 
 England -May 8th, 1852. He is a son of 
 Joseph and Elizabeth (Hughes) New- 
 man, who were bom in Staffordshire, 
 England. The family, consisting of fath- 
 er and mother and six children, of whom the sub- 
 ject of this sketch was the youngest came to 
 America in 1853, joining Claudus Spencer's train 
 at Omaha. They arrived in Utah in the fall of 
 that year and remained in Salt Lake City only a 
 short time. The following December they set- 
 tled in the Big Cottonwood Canyon, where they 
 resided for two years, the father of our subject 
 carrying on a blacksmith business. They next 
 moved on a farm and commenced building a 
 home, the father having purchased a large tract 
 of land at the mouth of the canyon from Mr. 
 Henry Lee, the place now being known as the 
 Walker Bros. farm. Here they successfully car- 
 ried on farming and gardening, and also convert- 
 ed it into a resort. ]sla.ny of the prominent people 
 of Salt Lake City at that time spent part of their 
 summers there; among them the Walkers and 
 others. 
 
 Our subject's father died about twenty-five 
 years ago, and his mother still lives, spending 
 her time among her children,three of whom re- 
 side in the town of Holliday. Our subject spent 
 his boyhood days in the vicinity where he now 
 resides. His education was received in such 
 schools as existed at that time, attending for a 
 few weeks in the winter, and working on the farm 
 during the summer months, and while his educa- 
 tion was necessarily limited, yet he has always 
 been a faithful student and is considered one of 
 the able men of his community at the present time 
 intellectually, morally and financially. 
 
 In 1877 he married Miss Caroline M.Wayman, 
 daughter of Emanuel and Margaret (Johnston) 
 Wayman. By this union nine children have been 
 born : Reuben, Joseph, William, Albert, Howell, 
 Elizabeth. Margaret, Ethel and Clarence J. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Newman settled on his present 
 home where he purchased nine acres of land, 
 and year by year he has continued to improve it, 
 until now he has what is considered one among 
 the finest homes in Salt Lake county, which is lo- 
 cated on the upper county road near the Holliday 
 postoffice, within a short distance of one of the 
 best graded schools in the county. In addition 
 to this piece he also has 55 acres near by, together 
 with other valuable property within a short radius 
 from these holdings. Mr. Newman has gradual- 
 ly added to that and now has a farm of nearly 200 
 acres. And while starting out in life on his own 
 hook, and at the very bottom of the ladder, he has 
 by economy, perseverance and determination 
 made a successful career. His upright dealings 
 with his neighbors has won for him a large circle 
 of friends in the community where he has resid- 
 ed. 
 
 In political affairs he has been identified with 
 the Democratic party since its organization in this 
 state. 
 
 Mr. Newman takes a deep interest in educa- 
 tional afifairs, having for years served as school 
 trustee in his Ward. 
 
 When but a child he became identified with the 
 ;\Iormon Church and has always been an active 
 and faithful member ever since. He was ordain- 
 ed a member of the Seventies. March i6th, 
 1894, he was called to serve on a mission to his 
 native country in England, to which he cheerfully 
 responded and spent two years in that capacity. 
 These were two years well spent in the interests 
 of the Mormon Church in England, and also a 
 great benefit to Mr. Newman personally, as while 
 there he met many of his old associates and 
 friends, and as a result of his missionary work to 
 England many adherents to the Mormon Church 
 were received. He is now one of the theological 
 teachers of the Sunday school in his ward, as 
 well as being ward teacher. 
 
 Mrs. Newman is a prominent member of the 
 Ladies' Relief Society of which she has always 
 been a faithful and consistent worker. Their 
 children are being brought up in the same re- 
 ligious belief, all of them being identified with 
 the Sunday schools, the Young Men's Mutual 
 .\ssociation, or some branch of the Church work. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 The eldest son, Reuben, is at present serving on 
 a missionary tour to New Zealand, having left 
 home September 21, igoo. 
 
 ( )SEPH P. NEWMAN. While Utah is 
 noted for the many-sided nature of her 
 climate and soil, it is perhaps true that 
 she stands out most distinctly as a farm- 
 ing State, thrifty and prosperous farms 
 being in evidence all over Utah, varying not so 
 much in the quality of their productions as in 
 their variety. It is safe to say that in all of Salt 
 Lake county there is not a farm to be found which 
 shows better evidence of care or prosperity 
 than that owned by the subject of this sketch, 
 who is a native of England, but was reared amid 
 the ever-changing scenes of this new State. 
 
 His birth occurred February 20, 1845, ™ Staf- 
 fordshire, England, and he is the son of Joseph 
 and Elizabeth (Hughes) Newman. The family 
 came to America in 1853, when our subject was 
 but eight years old, and upon their arrival in 
 Utah siettled in the Big Cottonwood Canyon, in 
 December of that year, where they remained 
 until ^lay, 1855, the father carrying on a black- 
 smith business, when they moved to Holliday, 
 which l)ecame their permanent home. 
 
 Our subject, who was the fourth child in a 
 family of six, grew up on his father's farm, find- 
 ing but little opportunity to attend school, and is 
 for the most part self-educated, but he has suc- 
 ceeded in keeping in touch with the lead- 
 ing questions of the day, and is a well- 
 informed man. The most of his young life 
 was spent in attending to the chores about his 
 father's farm and in herding the cattle and sheep, 
 his father being engaged in the live stock business 
 as well as general farming. When he had reached 
 his majority, Mr. Newman entered upon his 
 life work, first going to Montana for a year and 
 then coming back to settle down near the old 
 homestead, buying about eighty acres of sage 
 brush land which he cleared and later sold 
 to his brother Thomas. Pic then bought his 
 present home, of about fifteen acres, of his father. 
 This was also in an uncultivated state, and had to 
 be cleared of undergrowth, but he has since trans- 
 
 formed it into one of the most attractive places 
 to be found in this part of the State, located just 
 south of the Holliday postoffice, on the county 
 road. Aside from the home place, Mr. Newman 
 owns a number of other pieces of land in this 
 section of the county, and is considered one of the 
 most successful men in his community. 
 
 He was married in Sah Lake City on May i, 
 1876, to Miss Eliza A. Moses, a daughter of 
 James and Eliza (Spencer) Moses. Nine chil- 
 dren have been born to them — Joseph S. ; Edith, 
 widow of Heber Nielson, who was killed during 
 the summer of 1901 by being run over by a wagon 
 in Mill Creek Canyon; Elizabeth A.; James M., 
 died at the age of six years; John S., died in 
 infancy: Franklin W. ; Frederick P. ; Eliza; Ade- 
 laide. The mother of these children died April 
 7, 1902. 
 
 Politically, Mr. Newman owes allegiance to no 
 faction, preferring to give his vote to the man 
 whom he considers best fitted for the office. He 
 has served as Constable of Holliday and also 
 on the school board, having been a trustee and 
 also treasurer. 
 
 He was raised in the Mormon Church, as was 
 also his wife and children, and they have through 
 life been consistent members of that faith. Mr. 
 Newman has won his own way to the prominent 
 position he today accupies among the agricultur- 
 ists of Salt Lake county, and while making a 
 name for himself as a thrifty, honest and upright 
 man, has at the same time won and retained the 
 highest regard of those with whom he has been 
 associated, both in business and private life. 
 
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 ILLIAM JOSEPH PANTER. 
 Utah, in the past half a century, 
 has produced many noble sons who 
 have come on to take up and carry 
 on to successful completion the life 
 work begun by their ancestors. Among her na- 
 tive sons who have taken an active part, as well 
 as a prominent one, in buiding up Salt Lake 
 county ; in the development of its vast agricul- 
 tural and live stock interests ; in the maintenance 
 of public schools and in the furtherance of the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 183 
 
 work of the Church, none deserve more credit 
 or praise for what they have accomplished than 
 does the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. I'anter was born in South Cottonwood 
 Ward. November 3, 1861. He is the son of Wil- 
 liam and Jane (Gadesby) Panter, both of whom 
 were born and raised in Bedfordshire, England, 
 where they were married and came to America in 
 1854. The first few years they spent in Pennsyl- 
 vania near Philadelphia, where the senior Mr. 
 Panter engaged in farming. In i860 they came 
 to Utah having crossed the plains by ox-team 
 and endured all the hardships and trials incident 
 to those early migrations. They settled in South 
 Cottonwood Ward, where the father secured land 
 on which he lived the balance of his life, his death 
 occurring April 22, 1872, at the age of forty- 
 nine years, and his wife dying in September, 1889, 
 aged fifty-nine years. 
 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days on his 
 father's farm in this vicinity, where he received 
 a common school education from such schools as 
 then existed in this county. At the early age of 
 fifteen years he went to Tavlorsville where he 
 secured employment with Samuel R. Bennion, 
 with whom he remained as foreman of his large 
 herds of cattle and sheep for a number of years, 
 part of this time being spent in the fields of Wyo- 
 ming, where the herds were ranged. During 
 these years Mr. Panter had saved up considerable 
 money which he from time to time invested in 
 sheep, and on the termination of his service with 
 Mr. Bennion he had quite a large herd of his own, 
 which he moved to Wyoming, and has ever since 
 been identified with that business. 
 
 He married November 5, 1885, to Miss Lizzie 
 Bennett, of West Jordan Ward, and daughter 
 of William and Sarah (Chaple) Bennett. They 
 have two children — Edna, the oldest child, died 
 in infancy, and Eva is now seven years of age. 
 
 Our subject is now residing on the same farm 
 which his father took up and partly improved. 
 In addition to this he added sixteen acres more 
 to this land, most of it having been an unim- 
 proved, barren waste, covered with sage-brush, 
 etc. He has continued to improve his farm and 
 has erected a handsome brick dwelling, outbuild- 
 ings and barns, and has set out and maintains a 
 
 fine orchard and raises all kinds of fruit, shade 
 trees, flowers, etc.. and it is now considered one 
 of the finest farms in Salt Lake county, containing 
 sixty-six acres. 
 
 In politics, Mr. Panter has always been identi- 
 fied with the Republican party. He is President 
 of the Rrown and Sanford Irrigation company, 
 and for many years he served as delegate to the 
 irrigation conventions. He was born and raised 
 in the Mormon faith and has always been an ac- 
 tive and faithful member of that Church. He was 
 first ordained a Deacon and later an Elder, and 
 still later a member of the Seventies and a High 
 Priest. In 1896 he was called by the leaders of 
 the Church to go on a mission to England, in the 
 vicinity of the old home of his parents, which he 
 did, and served two years in that capacity. .A.t 
 the present time he is First Counselor to Bishop 
 Burgon of the Union Ward. He is also Chair- 
 man of the Old Folks' Committee of Jordan 
 Stake. 
 
 RANCIS McDonald was born in 
 Scotland on September 17, 1851, and 
 was the son of William and Christinea 
 (Wallace) McDonald. His parents 
 lived in Forfardshire at the foot of the 
 Grampian hills. Mr. McDonald spent his early 
 life in Scotland and received his early education 
 in the Government schools of Scotland, and later 
 attended the public schools of Utah, taking a 
 course in the L^niversity of this State after he 
 was married. He was converted to the teachings 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints in Scotland, and at the age of seven- 
 teen crossed the ocean and came to America, 
 crossing the great American plains to Utah under 
 the leadership of John Gillispie, who was the 
 captain of the train. He later assisted in bring- 
 ing his parents and brother to L^tah, where his 
 mother died in 1879. ^'^ father and bro'ther are 
 still living in his neighborhood. 
 
 Upon arriving in Ltah, ^Vlr. McDonald went to 
 work on the railroad in Echo Canyon, remain- 
 ing there but a short time, and in October of that 
 year — 1868. came to Salt Lake county where he 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 worked in a distillery for a time, The first farm 
 he owned was on sections four and nine, which 
 was sage brush land and which consisted of forty 
 acres and is still in the possession of the McDon- 
 ald family, and in a high state of cultivation and 
 upon which there are now four brick dwellings. 
 In addition to this forty acres and the land on 
 which he now lives, our subject owns a fine peach 
 orchard just north of the Big Cottonwood Canyon 
 at the foot of the mountains, which he bought in 
 1897. This is but a small orchard, but it is very 
 prolific and bears a fine quality of fruit. During 
 the season of 1901, Mr. McDonald got eight hun- 
 dred case of peaches from this place. In 1883 
 he opened up a store on the county road, which he 
 conducted for ten years. In addition to being a 
 good business man, Mr. McDonald is also a fine 
 brick-maker, and in addition to making the brick 
 for two houses which he has on his present 
 homestead, and for other purposes, he manufac- 
 tured all the brick of the splendid school houses 
 of Districts number twenty-eight and thirty-seven 
 in Big Cottonwood precinct. 
 
 Our subject was married in Salt Lake City in 
 1870, to Miss Zenobia Anderson, and of this mar- 
 riage nine children were born, eight of whom are 
 still living. He was married a second time and 
 is now the father of fifteen living children, all of 
 whom reside in Salt Lake county. His daughter, 
 Mary A., is a graduate of the l^atter Day Saints 
 College, and the younger children are still in 
 school. Both Mr. McDonald and his entire fam- 
 ily are members of the ]\Iormon Church and 
 active in its work. In 1879 yir. McDonald was 
 called to go on a mission to the Southern States, 
 where he spent two years, and in 1892 went on a 
 colonization mission to Old Mexico. He made 
 two trips in the interest of this work, remaining 
 six months each time, assisting in establishing 
 the colony and forming a corporation. He is 
 secretary of this company, which is known as the 
 L^tah Colonization and Improvement Company, 
 and while in Mexico assisted in purchasing one 
 hundred and twenty-five thousand acres of land 
 for the colony. His fourth son, George A., is at 
 this time on a mission in Oregon, and his second 
 son, William W., served for three and a half 
 Years in New Zealand. 
 
 Politically, Mr. McDonald is a believer in the 
 principles of the Democra::ic party, and has held 
 the position of justice of the peace for four 
 iicars. He was also school trustee for one term ; 
 during this term a fine building was erected for 
 District number twenty-eight, and he was largely 
 instrumental in obtaining the handsome building 
 which now adorns the school grounds. He is a 
 friend to education and believes in giving all the 
 advantages possible to the young people. He has 
 been active in local affairs in his community and 
 is known as an honorable, upright man and a 
 good citizen. 
 
 \PTAIN TIMOTHY EGAN. Promi- 
 nent among the successful mining men 
 of Salt Lake City and Utah, and one 
 who has aided materially in the de- 
 velopment of the resources of the 
 State, is the subject of this sketch. 
 
 He was born in Lewis county, New York, 
 and spent his early life in that State, living in 
 Jefferson county. His father died when he was 
 but eleven years old, and the boy w-as left to fend 
 for himself. He secured employment on a farm 
 and did whatever came first to his hand. At the 
 outbreak of the Civil war he was among the first 
 to volunteer and enlisted in the Thirty-fifth 
 New York Infantry, participating in many of the 
 great battles of that conflict. Most of the time his 
 regiment was brigaded with the Army of the Po- 
 tomac. He took part in the second battle of Bull 
 Run, at Fredericksburg, and most of the battles 
 of the Army of the Potomac up to Antietam, 
 being severely wounded in the latter battle. He 
 also participated in the battle of South Mountain. 
 He was promoted from private to a Lieutenant, 
 and later commissioned Captain. 
 
 When he was mustered out of the service, he en- 
 gaged as a commercial traveler for the firm of 
 Daggert & Edgerly, and remained with them 
 two years. At the end of this time he turned 
 his attention to the retail hardware business, in 
 which he met with such success and which grew 
 to such proportions that he soon started a whole- 
 sale business as well, the business being trans- 
 
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 acted under the firm name of Egan & Harper. 
 When he had been in business five years his en- 
 tire plant was destroyed by fire. After this catas- 
 trophe, he and his partner purchased the business 
 of Daggett & Edgerly, for whom he had formerly 
 traveled, and conducted the business together un- 
 til 1881. 
 
 Captain Egan's health failing, he was advised 
 by his physicians to leave the East, and he came 
 to Utah and then traveled extensively over the 
 western country for about a year, when he re- 
 turned East and established a wholesale grocery 
 business which he conducted until 1890. This 
 firm was known as Moriarity, Egan & Co. Upon 
 Mr. Moriarity's leaving for California the firm 
 was changed to Egan & McLaughlin. The 
 whole interest of the firm was disposed of in 
 1890, and in September of that year Captain Egan 
 came to Utah, going later to California where 
 he spent the winter. Since that time he has been 
 identified with the mining interests throughout 
 Utah and the inter-mountain region, and holds 
 large interests in the Gold Mountain district, 
 Piute county, Utah ; holding large interests in the 
 group of claims called the "Apex," in this district. 
 He is also interested in the Mercur Mining dis- 
 trict; in property in Park City; in the Park Val- 
 ley in Bo.x Elder county, and in the Cottonwood 
 and Eureka districts. 
 
 He was married, in 1867, to Miss May Benoit, 
 a very refined and accomplished lady. They have 
 one son, A. T. Egan, at present with the Western 
 Electric Supply Company, of St. Louis, Missouri. 
 Their son married Miss Edith Sears, of this city. 
 
 In politics Captain Egan has always been a 
 staunch Republican and has taken an active in- 
 terest in the affairs of the party. While living at 
 Ottumwa, Iowa, he served two years in the City 
 Council. He has also been Commander of the 
 Grand Army Post in Ottumwa. Captain Egan is 
 a self-made man, and one who has accomplished 
 the tasks before him by dint of constant, hard 
 work. The position he has won in the mining 
 circles of Utah marks him as one of the prominent 
 and successful operators in this State. His genial, 
 pleasant manner and his well-known integrity 
 have made for him a host of friends throughout 
 the country. 
 
 TEPHEN H. LOVE. The operations 
 of the Zion Co-operative Mercantile In- 
 stitution are of such a large and ex- 
 tended nature that the shipments made 
 by it and to it from various points, is a 
 work that requires the entire time and attention 
 of the subject of this sketch. He has had a 
 long experience in his work, and by his ability 
 has risen to a prominent place among the subordi- 
 nate officers of that great commercial institution, 
 and he is now its traffic manager. 
 
 Stephen H. Love was born in Salt Lake City 
 in 1865, and was the son of David Love, a native 
 of Scotland, who came to America in 1846, set- 
 tling at St. Louis. He removed to Utah in 1852. 
 He had become a convert to the teachings of the 
 Mormon Church in Edinburgh, and upon his re- 
 moval to the United States continued to take a 
 great interest in its affairs until his death in 1887. 
 He was an Elder in the Church and lived a life 
 consistent with its teachings. While in Scotland 
 he was in charge of a coal mine, and upon coming 
 to this country secured work as foreman of a 
 coal mine near St. Louis. Upon coming to Utah 
 he settled near the old Fort and devoted his time 
 to making adobe brick, which was used exten- 
 sively for building purposes in the early days. 
 He also engaged in farming and later in mining. 
 He crossed the plains from St. Joseph, Missouri, 
 to Utah, in the same wagon train with William 
 Jennings. His wife, Margaret (Hunter) Love, 
 the mother of our subject, was also a native of 
 Scotland, coming from the same town as the 
 Sharp family and other hardy "Scots" who took 
 such a prominent part in the upbuilding of Utah. 
 At the early age of thirteen our subject was 
 supposed to earn his own living, working in the 
 adobe yards and on the farm, and at eighteen 
 years of age commenced with the Standard Oil 
 Company, remaihing with them for several years 
 in the capacity of shipping clerk and later as 
 book-keeper. He was also employed in the County 
 Recorder's office for about a year. His next 
 occupation was with the Zion Co-Operative Mer- 
 cantile Institution, the service of which he en- 
 tered in 1888 as receiving clerk, and became its 
 traffic manager, having entire charge of its 
 freight business since 1892, and has also had 
 charge of the receiving department. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Love was married, in 1884, to Miss Eleanor 
 Wilding, daughter of George and Elizabeth Wild- 
 ing, and by this marriage he has nine children — 
 Hazel, Geneva, Lucy, Russell, Milton, Steve 
 Layne, Viola, Afton, and Douglas. 
 
 In political affairs Mr. Love has taken an ac- 
 tive part and owes his allegiance to the Republi- 
 can party. In the election, held in November, 
 1900, he was elected a State Senator for four 
 years, and also served on the State Board for five 
 years in the twenty-ninth district, being Chair- 
 man of the Board. 
 
 He is a devoted member of the Mormon Church 
 and, in addition to being an Elder in it, is a 
 Stake officer in the Granite Stake. He is also a 
 prominent member in the Jobbers' Association and 
 has held the position of secretary of this associa- 
 tion since 1892, being prominent in the develop- 
 ment of Salt Lake City as a jobbing center, being 
 an expert in rate matters, and his services have 
 been much sought after in dealing with the rail- 
 roads. Throughout his long service in his pres- 
 ent employment, he has made for himself a splen- 
 did record for ability and integrity, and today en- 
 joys a high position in the confidence of the direc- 
 tors of this institution. Mr. Love is an ardent 
 sportsman and is one of the crack shots of the 
 State. He is well and popularly known through- 
 out Utah, and enjoys the respect and esteem of all 
 the citizens. 
 
 F.ORGE JAY GIBSON, of the law 
 firm of Thompson & Gibson, of Salt 
 Lake City. Anyone who has met Mr. 
 Gibson and is at all acquainted with 
 him, will agree that he is one of the 
 oncoming lawyers of this city. The law firm, of 
 which he is a member, has only been organized 
 about three and a half years, and during that 
 time they have built up a splendid practice, which 
 many men of more mature years might be 
 proud of. 
 
 Mr. Gibson is a native of Ohio, having been 
 born in Cleveland in 1873, where the first seven 
 years of his life were spent, when his parents 
 moved to Peoria, Illinois, at which place he re- 
 ceived his early education in the district and high 
 
 schools. At the age of eighteen, in 1891, he 
 entered Yale college and graduated from the lit- 
 erary department in the class of 1895, and from 
 the law department of the same college in 1897. 
 Soon after graduation he located in Buffalo, New 
 York, where he was admitted to the Supreme 
 Court in that State. Having practiced his pro- 
 fession for one year in Buffalo, he decided to emi- 
 grate to U^tah, which he did, and located in Salt 
 Lake City in 1899. Mr. Gibson and his law 
 partner, Mr. Thompson, had been college mates, 
 both having graduated from Yale and coming to 
 Utah about the same time, the law firm being 
 organized in January, 1899, and has continued 
 ever since under the same title. 
 
 Our subject's father, George J. Gibson, was a 
 native of England, but came to America early in 
 life and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He has 
 been a successful manufacturer throughout his 
 life and for many years he was president of the 
 Peoria Steel and Iron Works, and was its chief 
 promoter until it was absorbed by the steel trust. 
 During the past few years he has lived a retired 
 life, spending most of his time in traveling in this 
 and foreign countries. Our subject's mother bore 
 the name of Caroline Scovill. She was born in 
 Cleveland, of which place her father was also a 
 native, having been born in that city in 1820. The 
 Scovill family were early settlers in America, our 
 subject's maternal great great grandfather having 
 fought in the Revolutionary War in a Connecticut 
 regiment. 
 
 In political affairs Mr. Gibson is a staunch 
 believer in the principles of the Republican party, 
 but he has never sought public preferment of any 
 kind. Mr. Gibson, socially, is a member of the 
 college fraternities, Phi Delta Phi and Phi Beta 
 Kappa. 
 
 M. MILLER. The importance of 
 the Salt Lake City Alining Ex- 
 change in the development of the 
 mining properties in Utah, can 
 hardly be overestimated. Through 
 it, Eastern capital has been largely introduced, 
 and the necessary funds provided for the develop- 
 ment of the properties through the sale of its 
 
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 187 
 
 stock. One of the leading members of the Ex- 
 change is the subject of this sketch. 
 
 M. M. Miller was born near Pittsburg, Penn- 
 sylvania, May 12, 1862, and when he was five 
 years of age his parents removed to Iowa, where 
 his father engaged in the stock business, and in 
 this State our subject received his education at 
 the common schools. He early started to make his 
 own way in the world, and at fifteen years of 
 age was buying and shipping stock to Chicago. 
 In 1879 he came to Kansas, where he lived for 
 two years, and in 1884 went to New Mexico 
 and engaged in mining. He located and de- 
 veloped the Alhambra mine and succeeded in dis- 
 posing of it to Chicago capitalists. This was a 
 very successful venture. He also went to Tupalo, 
 Mississippi, where he assisted in organizing the 
 First National Bank of Tupalo, and still retains 
 a large interest in that institution. He later re- 
 turned to New Mexico and in 1890 went to Val- 
 asco, Texas, and there established a real estate 
 business. He also assisted in the establishment 
 of the Valasco National Bank, of which he was 
 made Vice-President, and later, in company with 
 J. M. Moore, established the Angelton Bank, at 
 Angelton, Texas. These financial institutions 
 have all proven to be successful and are in active 
 business at the present time, and in most of them 
 our subject still retains a large interest, besides 
 holding interests in the oil fields in Beaumont, 
 Texas, and spends most of his summers in that 
 State. He assisted in organizing the Savanic 
 mine, and is secretary and treasurer of the com- 
 pany which now operates it. This has proven to 
 be a very rich mining claim, and is at present con- 
 ducted by H. F. Pickett and Mr. Miller. The 
 first car of ore shipped from the development 
 work showed 45 per cent copper. Mr. Miller is 
 also interested in a number of other mining prop- 
 erties in Utah and in the adjoining States. 
 
 He married, in New Mexico, in 1889, to Miss 
 Janet Hull, a native of Tyrone, Pennsylvania. 
 They have two children, of whom one son, Philip, 
 'is now living. 
 
 In political life Mr.'Miller is a believer in Re- 
 publican principles, and gives his support to that 
 party, although he has never sought distinction 
 in the line of public office. He is essentially a 
 
 self-made man, and from the time he started to 
 earn his own living at the age of fifteen, has 
 had an unvarying succession of successes. He 
 has made for himself a high place in the financial 
 world of Utah and is well and popularly known 
 throughout the State. His genial and pleasant 
 manner has won for him the confidence and re- 
 spect of all the people with whom he has come in 
 contact, and he today enjoys a wide popularity 
 throughout the West. 
 
 RESIDENT WILFORD WOOD- 
 RUFF. To attempt to repeat the story 
 of the life of President Woodruff, is 
 to tell of not only his ancestors, birth, 
 education, marriage and death ; it is to 
 record sixty-five years of service spent in the 
 interests of the Mormon Church ; a period which 
 more than covers the span of life usually allotted 
 to man, but which was scarce more than two- 
 thirds of his life, he being nearly ninety-two 
 years of age at the time of his death. President 
 Woodruff was the fourth president of the Mor- 
 mon Church and filled that position for almost 
 ten years, succeeding John Taylor. The years 
 during which he occupied the presidential chair 
 were among the most eventful and important of 
 the Church's later history, and his administration 
 was at once so tender, wise and able that it called 
 forth the honest admiration and praise of both 
 Mormon and Gentile, and to the citizens of this 
 State he was first a man and a man of such noble 
 traits of character as to overshadow all thoughts 
 of religious dift'erences and bring to him the 
 warm friendship of all classes, his death being 
 universally mourned as a loss not alone to the 
 Church of which he was the honored head, but 
 to the entire community at large. He was a man 
 of methodical habits and we owe much to this 
 trait, being able to give many facts about his life 
 from the diary which he kept of his life. He came 
 of a long and honorable line of American an- 
 cestry, and was very proud of being an American. 
 The progenitors of this family came to the United 
 States soon after the landing of the Pilgrim Fath- 
 ers, coming from England, and settling in Hart- 
 ford, Connecticut. There were two brothers of 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 this family who came to America together; they 
 were a branch of the family in England which 
 spell the name Woodroffe. 
 
 The first recorded member of the family of 
 President Woodruff is his great-grandfather, 
 Elijah Woodruff, born some time during the 
 Seventeenth Century, and lived to be over one 
 hundred years of age, dying at what is now 
 called Avon, Connecticut. He was one of the 
 Selectmen to whom the original charter of Farm- 
 ington, Connecticut, was granted. His son Eldad, 
 was born in 1747 and died at the age of fifty- 
 eight. He had seven children, one of whom, 
 Aphek, became the father of our subject. Aphek 
 Woodruff was born in Farmington, Connecticut, 
 November 11, 1778. He married Bulah Thomp- 
 son, daughter of Lot Thompson, and by this mar- 
 riage had three sons, Ozen, Azmon and Wilford, 
 our subject. The mother of these children died 
 of yellow fever in 1808, at the age of twenty-six 
 years, although she came of a sturdy and long- 
 lived race, four of her family having lived to be 
 eighty-four years of age. The father married a 
 second time to Azubah Hart, by whom he had five 
 sons and one daughter, all of whom have been 
 dead for more than forty years. President Wood- 
 ruff's father died in Salt Lake City at the age 
 of eighty-two years and six months. 
 
 President Wilford Woodruff was born in 
 Farmington, Connecticut, March i, 1807, and re- 
 ceived his early education in that place. He was 
 left motherless when about a year old and until 
 his father married a second time lived with his 
 grandmother. He always spoke in the highest 
 terms of his step-mother, and said again and 
 again that she had loved and cared for him as 
 she did for her own children, and when she finally 
 died he mourned her as a second mother. He 
 ■came of a long line of millers, that being his 
 father's occupation and the occupation of the 
 Woodruffs for generations back. Our subject 
 •assisted his father in the mills until he was 
 twenty years of age, when he took charge of 
 mills belonging to his aunt, Mrs. Helen Wheeler, 
 which he attended three years, after which he 
 had charge of the mills of a Mr. Collins, the ax 
 manufacturer of South Canton, Massachusetts. 
 In 18^1 he took charge of another flouring mill 
 
 in New Hartford, Connecticut, and in the spring 
 of 1832 went to Richland, Oswego county, New 
 York, where he purchased a farm and sawmill 
 and established himself in busmess. 
 
 He was converted to the teachings of the Mor- 
 mon Church while residing in this place and was 
 baptized December 31, 1833. His father and 
 brothers also became members of the Church and 
 his father later came to Utah. He remained in 
 Oswego county until 1837 and from that time 
 on his life was given to the work of the Church. 
 In that year he traveled on the ocean and in the 
 Eastern States, going to his old home in Con- 
 necticut and through his ministrations nine of his 
 relatives were brought into the Church. In 1839 
 he went to England and there established the first 
 branch of the Church in London. The greater 
 portion of 1842-43 were passed in Nauvoo, Illi- 
 nois. He traveled ten thousand miles in the in- 
 terests of the Church during 1844, and again 
 sailed for England in that year, returning in 
 1846. On April 7, 1847, he left his family, 
 among whom was his father, then in his seventy- 
 eighth year, at Winter Quarters and in company 
 with Brigham Young and his company of one 
 hundred and forty-three men crossed the great 
 American plains, arriving in the Salt Lake \'alley 
 on July 24, 1847. They laid out the city of Salt 
 Lake and built a fort around ten acres, after 
 which they returned to Winter Quarters that 
 same season. The day following his arrival in 
 the Valley President Woodruff with a party of 
 pioneers, went out on an exploring trip, and Pres- 
 ident Woodruff was the first to ascend the peak 
 which he named Ensign Peak, planting an en- 
 sign upon it, and it has since retained that name. 
 This was then Mexican territory, and President 
 Woodruff, under the direction of President 
 Brigham Young, was the first man to raise the 
 Stars and -Stripes in Utah, on Ensign Peak, the 
 territory being then known as Deseret. The day 
 following they visited Black Rock, and took their 
 first bath in the Great Salt Lake. On August 6th 
 the Twelve were rebaptized, and the day follow- 
 ing went to the Temple Block to select the ground 
 for their homes. President Woodruff selecting the 
 blocks southwest. They each built a log and 
 adobe house. He later owned homes in different 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 189 
 
 parts of the city, his last residence being the 
 Woodruff Villa, on Fifth East street, a modern 
 residence, built in 1893. 
 
 During- his life in Utah President Woodruff 
 was most active in building up both Church and 
 State. He was ordained an Apostle in 1839, and 
 became President of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints April 7, 1889. Among the 
 more notable events of his Presidency may be 
 mentioned the issuing of the polygamy manifesto, 
 which was read to the Mormon Conference on 
 September 24, 1890, which, upon motion of 
 Apostle Snow (who succeeded President Wood- 
 ruff as President of the Church), the declaration 
 was received as authentative and binding, and car- 
 ried unanimously. Another celebrated manifesto 
 was that touching on politics, promulgated at the 
 General Conference on April 6, 1896, which cre- 
 ated some little strife and resulted in the name of 
 Apostle Thatcher being dropped from the list of 
 officers to be sustained by the conference. This 
 manifesto requires high Church officials to take 
 "counsel". before accepting a political nomination 
 fo'r office. In politics he believed in voting for 
 the man best fitted for the office, and his advice, 
 given in 1897 to the Conference, that they should 
 vote for the man who would best serve their in- 
 terests, regardless of politics, caused some little 
 commotion in Church circles. The day after the 
 funeral of President Taylor proceedings for the 
 confiscation of Mormon Church property were 
 begun, and the litigation did not cease until about 
 a year and a half before President Woodruff's 
 death, when Congress passed an act restoring all 
 property to the Church. Utah was also admitted 
 to Statehood during his term of office, the proc- 
 lamation being signed January 6, 1896, by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland. One other important event in his 
 life was the dedication by him of the Great Salt 
 Lake Temple, which had been forty years in course 
 of construction, and which cost about four mil- 
 lions of dollars. In 1897 the fiftieth anniversary 
 of the pioneers into Salt Lake \'alley was 
 celebrated in Salt Lake City, President Wood- 
 ruff receiving much attention as a survivor of 
 those pioneers. His last public appearance 
 was just a year later, July 24. 1898, upon the 
 occasion of the dedication of the historic Pio- 
 
 neer Square for a public park. Of that notable 
 company President Woodruff and W. C. A. Smoot 
 were alone present to see their first camping 
 ground dedicated to public use, and the interesting 
 address delivered by the aged President was lis- 
 tened to with profound attention by a multitude 
 of people. At the time of his death ne was Presi- 
 dent of the Zion's Savings Bank and the Zion Co- 
 operative Mercantile Institution, besides being in- 
 terested in a number of minor enterprises. He 
 was most active, being found at his office every 
 day from nine till four, unless too ill to come down 
 town. 
 
 President Woodruff was married five times, 
 and the father of thirty-two children, three of his 
 wives and twenty children surviving him. At the 
 time of his death there were one hundred and 
 three grandchildren and thirteen great grandchil- 
 dren, the youngest being born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 William McEwan two weeks before the Presi- 
 dent's death. It was said he knew each of his 
 grand children and great grandchildren by name, 
 and was never so happy as when surrounded by 
 their happy faces. They were all extremely fond 
 of him, and his loss was felt keenly in this juve- 
 nile group. His first wife was Phoebe Carter, of 
 whose children three survive. His second wife 
 was Mary Jackson, who bore him one son. Both 
 she and Phoebe Carter have since died. His third 
 wife was Emma Smith, Y'ho was with him when 
 he died. Six of the children born of this marriage 
 are now living. His fourth wife, who survived 
 him, w^as Sarah Brown ; she has five children liv- 
 ing. His fifth wife was Delight Stocking, who 
 also survived him ; she has five living children. 
 
 President Woodruff was for many years pre- 
 vious to his death a great sufferer, and his health 
 failed so rapidly during the last year that it was 
 thought advisable to take him away, as a change 
 of climate might prove beneficial. With the im- 
 mediate members of his family, George Q. Cannon 
 and Bishop Hirum B. Clawson and their wives, 
 he was taken to San Francisco, where they all be- 
 came the guests of Colonel Isaac Trumbo. The 
 trip was taken in vain, however, for although 
 bright and happy up to the last minute, the Presi- 
 dent died there at seven o'clock on the morning 
 of September 2, 1898. The remains were brought 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to Salt Lake City, and the funeral held on Thurs- 
 day, the 9th, from the Tabernacle, most of the 
 public and business houses of the city being closed 
 and the services being attended not only by the 
 heads of the Church, city and State officials and 
 residents of the city, but people coming from all 
 over the State to pay this last tribute of respect 
 to the man whom they had honored and loved 
 during his lifetime and whom they regarded as 
 their personal friend. The building was wholly 
 inadequate to hold the vast concourse that gath- 
 ered to witness the services, and the grounds were 
 thronged with thousands who could not gain en- 
 trance into the Tabernacle. The services were 
 most impressive, the casket being almost lost to 
 view by the floral offerings which covered and 
 surrounded it, and a most touching funeral march 
 was played by Professor Joseph Daynes. Appro- 
 priate music was rendered by the choir and 
 George D. Pyper, and addresses followed from 
 President Joseph F. Smith and others. 
 
 President Woodruff died as he had lived, cheer- 
 fully and hopefully, and was laid to rest in the 
 City Cemetery, his last resting place being marked 
 by a granite monument from his native State. He 
 was a man of gentle speech and mild manner, un- 
 ostentatious, thoughtful for the comfort and hap- 
 piness of others, and had not an enemy in the 
 whole State. 
 
 MM A SMITH WOODRUFF, widow 
 I if the late President Wilford Woodruff, 
 is the daughter of one of the earliest 
 members of the Mormon Church. Her 
 father, Samuel Smith, was a native of 
 Tennessee, where he spent his early life. He and 
 his wife were converted to the teachings of the 
 Mormon Church under the preaching of' President 
 Woodruff, who was at that time laboring as a 
 missionary in Tennessee, and were baptized into 
 the Church in 1833, remaining in Tennessee until 
 1838, when they moved to Missouri. Our subject 
 was at this time about a year old. From Missouri 
 the family moved to Nauvoo, and there the father 
 built a home and assisted in building the Temple 
 at Nauvoo. In 1843 ^^- Smith was sent, with 
 
 Lyman White, George Miller and a number of 
 others, to go to the Black River country, in Wis- 
 consin, and procure lumber for use in the Nauvoo 
 Temple. Those were early days in Wisconsin, 
 and the little company suffered many privations 
 and hardships, being compelled to go without food 
 a portion of the time, and suffering from the rig- 
 ors of a northern winter. While they were ab- 
 sent on this trip the Prophet Joseph Smith was 
 killed. The February following their return Mr. 
 Smith accompanied President Brigham Young as 
 one of his body guards on his trip to Winter Quar- 
 ters, now known as Florence, near Omaha, Ne- 
 braska. He remained in Winter Quarters that 
 winter, and in the following spring returned to 
 Missouri to procure provisions and outfits to bring 
 his famiy to Utah. He started for Utah in the 
 spring of 1850, and died of cholera on June 28th, 
 two weeks after he had crossed the Missouri 
 river. His wife, and the mother of our subject, 
 bore the maiden name of Marticia Smoot. She 
 was born in Kentucky, but went to live in Ten- 
 nessee in her early womanhood, and there met and 
 married Mr. Smith. Upon the death of her hus- 
 band she was left with two children, the youngest 
 but two weeks old, but with wonderful courage 
 she continued the journey across the plains, driv- 
 ing her own ox team and caring for her infant 
 child, being assisted by her little daughter, who 
 was at that time about twelve years of age. Upon 
 arriving in Utah she settled in Salt Lake City, 
 and died here at the age of seventy-five years. 
 
 Mrs. Woodruff received her early schooling in 
 Winter Quarters, and after coming to Utah had 
 but little opportunity to devote to study, it being 
 necessary for her to assist her mother in their 
 support. She was married to the late President 
 Woodruff at the early age of fifteen, and they had 
 a family of eight children, six of whom are now 
 living — Hyrum Smith, died at an early age ; 
 Emma M., the wife of Henry Woodruff ; Asahel 
 H., who has for a number of years been connected 
 with the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution 
 as manager of the wholesale dry goods depart- 
 ment, and whose biographical sketch appears else- 
 where in this work ; Anna Thompson, died at a 
 tender age ; Clara, wife of O. C. Beebe, paying 
 teller in the Zion's Savings Bank ; Abraham O., 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 one of the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon 
 Church, and whose biographical sketch also ap- 
 pears in this volume ; Mary Alice, wife of William 
 McEwan, and Winnifred Blanche, wife of Joseph 
 J. Daynes, Jr., now absent on a mission to Eng- 
 land, and a member of the Daynes Music Com- 
 pany. Mrs. Woodruff has had twenty-three 
 grandchildren. 
 
 Our subject has been an active worker in the 
 Mormon Church since her early girlhood. Dur- 
 ing the life of her husband she traveled exten- 
 sively, accompanying him on his missionary trips 
 to British Columbia and different parts of the 
 United States, and since his death she has assisted 
 in organizing branches of the Relief Society in 
 Arizona. Mexico and Colorado, and has done con- 
 siderable missionary work in those fields. She is 
 a prominent member of the Ladies' Relief Society, 
 and President of the Granite Stake. She makes 
 her home at 1558 South on Fifth East street, 
 which is a part of the old homestead, and where 
 she has a handsome residence. 
 
 As the wife of one of the leaders of the Mor- 
 mon Church, Mrs. Woodruff has been brought 
 prominently before the people of that denomina- 
 tion, as well as of the State at large, and she has 
 herself performed some very important work for 
 the Church. She has not only won, but retained, 
 the confidence and love of the people for and with 
 whom she has labored, and now, in the sunset of 
 her life, is reaping the reward of her labors, sur- 
 rounded by the love and devotion of her children 
 and grandchildren. 
 
 REDERICK A. SWEET. Among the 
 younger members of the bar of Utah 
 who have shown marked ability in their 
 irofessional career and have aided in 
 raising the standard of the profession in 
 this State to its present high position, the subject 
 of this sketch has made an enviable record, and 
 one which, from the difficulties encountered and 
 successfully overcome marks him as a leader in 
 his chosen profession. 
 
 Frederick A. Sweet, the son of A. E. Sweet 
 and Mary (Gaylord) Sweet, was born in De Kalb 
 
 county, Illinois, in 1873, and spent the first five 
 years of his life in that State. When he was five 
 years of age his parents removed to Kansas, which 
 State continued to be his home for the ensuing 
 eight years. Here his father is engaged in farm- 
 ing, and is also at the present time a Judge of 
 Russell county, Kansas. 
 
 Our subject's boyhood days were spent on his 
 father's farm, and his early education was derived 
 from the district schools of Kansas, but owing to 
 the limited means of his parents, he was 'forced 
 to earn his own living at an early age. He en- 
 tered the railroad business and learned telegraphy, 
 and at fourteen was a telegrapher in the service 
 of the Union Pacific Railroad. He remained with 
 this company for some time, and left it for a better 
 position on the Denver, Texas and Fort Worth 
 Railroad, which he later left to enter the employ 
 of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. Later 
 he went to Iowa and entered the service of the 
 Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad, 
 in which employment he remained for a year. 
 
 He moved to Wyoming in 1889, and entered the 
 service of the Union Pacific Railroad, where, how- 
 ever, he remained but a short time, coming to Salt 
 Lake City in the fall of that year and entering the 
 service of the Rio Grande Western Railway. In 
 this employment he remained for two years, when 
 he left railroading to accept a position as traveling 
 salesman for George A. Lowe of Salt Lake City, 
 in whose employ he spent the ensuing two years. 
 His next work was in a similar capacity for Ault- 
 man, Miller & Company, for whom he traveled in 
 Colorado. 
 
 His ambition had always been to follow the pro- 
 fession of a lawyer, and, in the fall of 1894, after 
 a strenuous struggle for the accumulation of the 
 necessary funds, he entered the Law Department 
 of the University of Michigan, and graduated 
 from that institution in 1899. Owing to the fact 
 that he was working his way through college and 
 supporting himself, he was twice forced to leave 
 to earn the necessary sum to continue his studies. 
 His tenacity of purpose and the zeal and industry 
 he displayed in his studies attracted the favorable 
 attention of the faculty of the University, all of 
 whom formed for him a warm and lasting friend- 
 ship. In 1897, two years before his course was 
 
192 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 finished, he successfully passed the examination 
 for admission to the bar of the Supreme Court of 
 Utah, and in 1899 formed a partnership in Salt 
 Lake City for the purpose of carrying on business 
 as a lawyer. This firm is known as Lee & Sweet. 
 and, although young, its members have already 
 proved themselves worthy of the high place they 
 hold in the legal world of Utah. 
 
 So successful had he been in commercial life 
 that his employers endeavored to retain his serv- 
 ices, and offered him a salary of over two thou- 
 sand dollars a year and all his expenses, but even 
 this tempting offer could not induce him to forego 
 his ambition to be a lawyer. 
 
 In addition to the work attending the practice 
 of his profession, Mr. Sweet has found opportu- 
 nities to exercise his ability and energy in the suc- 
 cessful organization and establishment of a num- 
 ber of industrial enterprises in Utah. Prominent 
 among these are the canning factory, located south 
 of Ogden, which has since grown to be one of 
 the prosperous industries of the State. Another 
 industry in which he has been the guiding spirit 
 is the Mountain Ice Company, which he formed 
 in 1894, to do business in Salt Lake City. Mr. 
 Sweet was elected President of this company, and 
 continued to fill that office until J. D. Wood was 
 elected President. Upon Mr. Wood's election 
 Mr. Sweet was elected Vice-President, which po- 
 sition he still holds. 
 
 Mr. Sweet was married, in Quincy, Illinois, on 
 December 19, 1900, to Miss Electa M. Ogle, whose 
 father, F. E. Ogle, is a prominent banker in Illi- 
 nois. 
 
 In political life Mr. Sweet is a believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party. In social life 
 he is a member of the Modern Woodmen, and also 
 a member of the Order of Railway Telegraphers. 
 
 Although but a young man and his career in its 
 beginning, he has given practical demonstration 
 of his ability to cope with and successfully sur- 
 mount the obstacles in the pathway of success. 
 His industry and ability, and his energy in grasp- 
 ing opportunities and turning them to account in 
 his work of making a career, already mark him as 
 a man whose voice will have weight in the coun- 
 cils of the State and whose success will redound 
 to the credit of Utah. 
 
 RANK HOFFMAN. The increase in 
 the discovery of the mineral wealth of 
 L'tah and the prosecution of the mining 
 operations has resulted in a consider- 
 able amount of litigation, and for the 
 proper settlement of these controversies lawyers 
 of ability are demanded. They must not only be 
 well quaified to interpret the laws of the State, but 
 must also have a general knowledge and thorough 
 understanding of all the ramifications of mining. 
 There are many men who have devoted their lives 
 to the study of this industry in order to more prop- 
 erly fit themselves for the successful settlement of 
 disputed points when the cases are brought before 
 the courts to be adjudicated, and in the ranks of 
 these men there is none who holds a higher posi- 
 tion than does the subject of this sketch, who by 
 his ability has proven himself to be one of the most 
 eminent lawyers in the State. 
 
 Frank Hoffman was born in Akron, Summit 
 county, Ohio, and lived in that town until fourteen 
 years of age. He was educated in Jackson 
 Academy, in Wayne county, in that State, and left 
 school at the age of fifteen to enter the army, upon 
 the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. He en- 
 listed in Company D, Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry, 
 as a private, and served with distinction through- 
 out that conflict. He was actively engaged in the 
 battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. The 
 regiment with which he served was brigaded with 
 the Army of the Potomac, and it was later trans- 
 ferred to the Army of the Cumberland, under the 
 command of General Hooker. While in this divi- 
 sion he participated in the battle of Lookout 
 Mountain. He was in General Sherman's army, 
 that marched from Chattanooga to Altanta, and 
 later with General Sherman in his famous march 
 from Atlanta to the sea. In the campaign that 
 followed, from Atlanta north throughout the 
 Carolinas, he served with his regiment, and was 
 mustered out in June, 1865, after the cessation of 
 hostilities. 
 
 After the close of the war our subject returned 
 to Ohio and entered Vermillion Institute, at 
 Hayesville, Ohio, graduating from that institu- 
 tion in 1867. Here he completed his study of the 
 law, which he had taken up before he entered the 
 school, and upon his graduation came West and 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 193 
 
 settled in Omaha, where he resided until March, 
 1868. His first work in Nebraska was in the em- 
 ploy of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, 
 where he held a position in the engineering de- 
 partment for two months, coming to Utah in the 
 summer of that year. He was admitted to the 
 bar in this State in 1870, and has practiced law in 
 Salt Lake City ever since. He enjoys a large gen- 
 eral practice, but has also paid considerable atten- 
 tion to mining law. He has been retained as coun- 
 sel in many of the leading cases which have come 
 before the courts of this State for adjudication. 
 Prominent among these were the Kahn vs. Cen- 
 tral Smelting Company, the Montreal vs. the Old 
 Telegraph Company, Rebellion vs. Ruyon, Climax 
 vs. Walker and Webster, all of which were con- 
 troversies arising from mining claims located in 
 the Park City District. He was also counsel for 
 the Accident, Eclipse and Deiper vs. Mammoth, 
 and Morgan vs. Daly and Daly West. These 
 mines were also located in Park City. 
 
 Mr. Hofifman was married, in Salt Lake City, 
 to Miss Lottie Higbee, daughter of Isaac Higbee, 
 one of the early settlers of Utah, and a resident of 
 Provo. By this marriage he has two sons and two 
 daughters — Grace, Pearl, John F. and Frank J. 
 
 Mr. Hofifman's father, John Hoffman, was a 
 native of Schleswig-Holstein, which at the time 
 of his birth was a part of Denmark, but in the war 
 which occurred in 1846-48 it was annexed to Ger- 
 many, and has since formed a part of the German 
 Empire. His wife, Betsie (Innzz) Hoffman, and 
 the mother of the subject of this sketch, was also 
 a native of that country. 
 
 In politics our subject has followed the fortunes 
 of the Republican party. He has been largely in- 
 terested in politics and in the administration of the 
 affairs of Utah all his life, but has never been a 
 candidate for public office. He is a member of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic, and is one of 
 the officers of it. He is Past Commander of J. B. 
 McKeen Post, and Past Commander of the De- 
 partment of Utah. He has twice been appointed 
 to the position of Assistant Adjutant General, and 
 is at present serving in that capacity. The success 
 which Mr. Hoffman has made in his chosen pro- 
 fession has also been duplicated in his personal 
 life. 
 
 RANK L. HINES, Superintendent of 
 Salt Lake City Water Works. The 
 name of Frank L. Hines adds another 
 to the long list of Eastern-born men who 
 have sought fame or fortune in this 
 great Western country. The wild, free life of the 
 Western plains and mountains, the fabulous 
 wealth hidden in hill and valley, and the life- 
 giving and invigorating climate of the country 
 beyond the Rockies, have each in their way been 
 the loadstone which has drawn from the home 
 nest many an adventurous or ambitious soul. 
 
 Frank L. Hines was born in Buffalo, New 
 York, in 1850. His grandfather came from Ire- 
 land at an early date, and was among the pio- 
 neers who settled in Buffalo and hewed homes 
 for themselves and their families out of the then 
 wilderness. -His son, Andrew, the father of our 
 subject, was born there, and that was his home 
 during his lifetime. He served as a soldier in 
 the regular army during the war with Mexico, 
 and died before the Civil War occurred. His wife, 
 Margaret Hines, came to America from Ireland 
 with her parents when a child. 
 
 Mr. Hines spent his early life in Buffalo, and 
 attended the common schools of that place. When 
 fifteen years of age he started out in life for him- 
 self, going to the oil fields in Pennsylvania, where 
 he remained, identified with that business, until 
 1 87 1. Becoming imbued with a desire to see the 
 great West, of which he had heard such wonder- 
 ful stories, he started for the gold fields of Cali- 
 fornia in 1 87 1. He remained in that section but 
 a short time, leaving that State and going into 
 the mining districts of Nevada, where he success- 
 fully followed mining for a few years, and from 
 there went to Idaho. From Idaho he came to 
 Utah, and has since made Salt Lake City his 
 home, although most of his time has been spent 
 in the mining district of this and adjoining 
 States. During this time he has been superin- 
 tendent of the Ender Mines in Colorado, and also 
 of the Keystone Mines in Wyoming; the Wild 
 Dutchman and the Pittsburg and the Miller 
 Mines, all in American Fork; the i\Iaxfield, Big 
 Cottonwood, Ballondach, Northern Lights and a 
 number of others. He has also devoted much 
 time and attention to irrigation, especially in the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mount Nebo District, where he constructed the 
 tunnel and built the dam for that great irrigation 
 project. 
 
 Mr. Hines was united in marriage in Salt Lake 
 City, in 1877, to Miss Myra J. Hollingsworth, 
 daughter of Thomas J. Hollingsworth, a native 
 of England, who is living in this city at the ad- 
 vanced age of seventy-eight years, hale and 
 hearty. By this union four sons and three 
 daughters have been born — Frank T., a Lieuten- 
 ant in the regular army; he served in the Span- 
 ish-American War and also in the Philippines; 
 Delia M., Charles, Mary E., Edward and Lin- 
 coln. 
 
 In politics Mr. Hines owes his allegiance to the 
 Republican party, but has never sought or held 
 public office until recent years. He was for two 
 years Street Supervisor of the city, and was 
 elected to his present office in 1892, which posi- 
 tion he has since continued to hold. His term 
 expires in 1902. 
 
 
 EWIS T. CANNON, one of the young 
 architects of Utah, who has already 
 made for himself an enviable record in 
 his profession, and by his ability has 
 won the confidence of all the people 
 witn whom he has come in contact. 
 
 He is a son of George Q. Cannon, and was 
 born in Salt Lake City April 22, 1872, where he 
 has spent the most of his lite. He was educated 
 in the common schools here, and later entered the 
 University of Utah, where he took special studies 
 to fit himself for his chosen profession, later tak- 
 ing an advanced course in the Massachusetts In- 
 stitute of Technolog)' of Boston, graduating in 
 1896 from the Department of Architecture of 
 that institution. Upon his graduation he re- 
 turned to Utah, and for the following few months 
 was in the employ of the Utah Light and Power 
 Company in Ogden, and took an active part in 
 the construction of the large plant erected by that 
 company. He left the service of this corporation, 
 and for two years was professor of mathematics 
 and drawing in the Agricultural College at Lo- 
 gan. 
 
 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints then called him to take up its missionary 
 
 work in Germany and Switzerland, and for three 
 years he was absent on this work. While abroad 
 he perfected himself in both the German and 
 French languages. He returned to Utah in 
 April, 1901, and two months later was married 
 to Miss Martha Howell, daughter of Senator 
 Joseph Howell, a resident of Cache Valley. The 
 Howell family were among the early settlers of 
 LTtah, and were very prominent in the develop- 
 ment of the resources of the State. In addition 
 to bei/ig State Senator, Mr. Howell is also a 
 member of the Governing Board of the Brigham 
 Young College in Logan, and has been in the 
 Legislature for a number of years. Mr. Howell's 
 wife, Mary (Maughan) Howell, was a resident 
 of Cache Valley and a daughter of Bishop Wil- 
 liam H. Maughan, one of the first settlers in 
 Cache Valley. 
 
 Martha (Telle) Cannon, the mother of the 
 subject of this sketch, was one of the early set- 
 tlers of Utah, and is still living. Her uncle and 
 father by adoption, George R. Beebe, was one of 
 the prominent men of Utah, and her brother, O. 
 C. Beebe, received, in April, 1902, an appoint- 
 ment from President Roosevelt as United States 
 Bank Examiner for Utah and Wyoming. 
 
 In political life Mr. Cannon is a Republican, 
 but has never taken an active part in the work 
 of that party. In the Church of his choice he has 
 always been a prominent member, and is at pres- 
 ent one of the Seventies. He is also one of the 
 executors of the estate of his father, the late 
 George Q. Cannon. He has followed architect- 
 ure as a profession, and has given a great deal 
 of his time and attention to that, with the suc- 
 cess that invariably follows close application and 
 industry. He is at present employed in the office 
 of the United States Surveyor General, having an 
 important position in the Mineral Department 
 under that official's care. 
 
 DWARD H. CALLISTER, the present 
 Collector of United States Internal 
 Revenue for the District of Montana 
 — comprising the States of Montana, 
 Idaho and Utah — and Chairman of the 
 Republican State Central Committee of Utah, has 
 won his place through the sheer force of industry, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 195 
 
 application and the exercise of his inherent abili- 
 ties. He is a Utahn born and bred, and the suc- 
 cess which he has achieved redounds, not only to 
 his credit, but to the credit of the State as well. 
 He was appointed by President McKinley on re- 
 cess of the Senate, and on the Senate's convening 
 was reappointed by President Roosevelt. He is 
 regarded as one of the staunch rnen of Utah and 
 one who has done much to aid in its development. 
 In the work of his party he has been a prominent 
 leader, and has aided greatly in its successful 
 campaigns. He has won wide popularity by his 
 genial and courteous manner, and his strict atten- 
 tion to his official duties, together with his integ- 
 rity and honesty, have won for him the confidence 
 and esteem of all the business world of his dis- 
 trict. 
 
 Edward H. Callister was born in Salt Lake 
 City in December, 1862. He is a son of Edward 
 Callister, who came to L^tah in 1854. Our sub- 
 ject's father was a native of the Isle of Man, and 
 spent his early life there. He received his edu- 
 cation in the schools of that place, and remained 
 a subject of Great Britain until his removal to 
 Utah, when he was thirty years old. In the Isle 
 of Man he followed the business of a tailor, and 
 upon his emigration to Lftah he continued that 
 occupation here. He was a prominent member 
 of the Mormon Church, which he joined in his 
 native country, and upon coming to this State 
 took an active part in the development of the 
 Church. He also took an active and leading part 
 in the political administration of the affairs of 
 the State, and was a valued member of the old 
 People's party. His family was a very old one, 
 his ancestors for fifteen generations having been 
 residents of the Isle of Man, but the records of 
 the family, together with those of numerous oth- 
 ers, were destroyed by Cromwell in his expedi- 
 tions to subdue the people of the island. His 
 wife, and the mother of the subject of this 
 sketch, Ann (Cowley) Callister, was also a native 
 of the Isle of Man, and joined the Mormon 
 Church there. She was married to Mr. Callister 
 in St. Louis, Missouri, and was with the Mor- 
 mons when they were expelled from Nauvoo, and 
 she was also at Masidonia when Prophet Joseph 
 Smith was killed at Carthage. The Callister 
 
 family made the trip across the great .A.merican 
 plains by ox teams, and when they came through 
 Chicago it was but a small, stragging village, 
 which had not yet begun to feel the impetus of 
 the great grain trade of the West. Mrs. Callister 
 and the other members of her family who joined 
 the Church in the Isle of Man were converted 
 through the teachings of John Taylor, who was 
 afterwards President of the Church. Her father, 
 Mathias Cowley, was from the Isle of Man, but 
 died in St. Louis, en route to Utah. Her mother, 
 Ann Cowley, continued the journey with her chil- 
 dren, and arrived in Salt Lake City in 1854. 
 
 Our subject was educated in the public schools 
 of Salt Lake City that then existed. He, like all 
 the other sons of pioneers of Utah, was early 
 forced to aid in the support of the family, and at 
 the age of fifteen secured employment as "devil" 
 in the Star Printing Company of Salt Lake City, 
 and followed the printing business with such suc- 
 cess that he rose to be manager of it, which posi- 
 tion he occupied for four years, and then became 
 a partner in the business. In poitical affairs he 
 has taken a prominent part, and has aided largely 
 in the development of the city. He served in the 
 City Council in the first Republican administra- 
 tion, in 1894. and served for two consecutive 
 terms, covering a period of four years. He was 
 then elected to the Chairmanship of the Repub- 
 lican Committee, and successfully conducted the 
 last Presidential campaign, in 1900. In 1896 
 Utah had gone fifty-one thousand majority for 
 Bryan, and under Mr. Callister's management 
 this majority for the Democrats was reversed, 
 the Republicans carrying it with a majority of 
 over twenty-one hundred for McKinley. He was 
 appointed to the Collectorship of Internal Reve- 
 nue in July, 1901, and served with such success 
 that he was reappointed in January, 1902, by 
 President Roosevelt. 
 
 Mr. Callister was married, in Salt Lake City, 
 in 1888, to Miss Louise Eddington. daughter of 
 William Eddington, one of the early settlers of 
 Utah, who came here in 1852. He was engaged 
 in the mercantile business in this city, and was a 
 prominent man in the affairs of the Church. He 
 is now the oldest member of the High Council of 
 the Mormon Church, and is still enjoying good 
 
196 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 health at the advanced age of eighty years, hav- 
 ing retired from active business Hfe. By this 
 marriage Mr. Calhster has six children — Ed- 
 ward R., Marguerite, Irene, Paul Quayle, Ner- 
 val E. and Reed. Mr. Callister is also a member 
 of the Mormon Church, and is one of its valued 
 members, holding the ofifice of Elder. 
 
 In addition to his printing business and his 
 political affairs, Mr. Callister has taken an active 
 part in other prominent industries of Utah. He 
 has been largely identified with the sheep busi- 
 ness, and is now Secretary of the Wool Growers' 
 Association, and has been a member of the Exec- 
 utive Committee of the National Live Stock As- 
 sociation for two years, and owns extensive 
 ranches in Wyoming. His family have been 
 prominent in the Mormon Church ever since their 
 arrival in LItah. 
 
 i 
 
 OHN SUTHERLAND was born on the 
 Islands of Shetland, a British possession, 
 on October 11, 1832, and came to the 
 United States in 1853, later coming to 
 Utah and settling in Salt Lake county, 
 and throughout his life has been one of its promi- 
 nent and influential men. He took up land that 
 was then barren, and by his industry and appli- 
 cation has made it a fertile farm. He is now in 
 the enjoyment of a prosperous farming business, 
 and is one of the respected residents of his com- 
 munity. No man stands higher in the esteem 
 of his neighbors, nor does any one hold a higher 
 reputation for integrity, honesty and good citi- 
 zenship than does the subject of this sketch. He 
 is the son of Gilbert and Bruce (Morrison) 
 Sutherland, who were born in the Shetland 
 Islands, and lived and died there. Their son, 
 who was the oldest of eight children, received 
 a common school education, and, like many of 
 the natives of these islands, early turned his at- 
 tention to following the sea. He followed that 
 occupation until he came to America, in 1853, 
 most of his trips being made between Great 
 Britain and the United States. He served his 
 apprenticeship on board a sailing ship, and was 
 later an able seaman, and rose by his proficiency 
 to be Second Mate, and later was made First 
 
 Mate. He was in this business for upwards of 
 nine years, and his travels extended not only 
 over the Atlantic Ocean, but also among many 
 of the British Isles. He became a convert to 
 the Mormon Church in 1856, and in 1859 made 
 the long trip from the East across the plains to 
 Utah. In the voyage across the ocean the ship 
 in which Mr. Sutherland made his trip contained 
 about one hundred members of the Mormon 
 Church. After his arrival in the L'nited States, 
 our subject spent about one year in coast trade 
 on a vessel between New York and Boston, and 
 then came to St. Louis, and from there made his 
 way to Omaha, and made the journey across the 
 plains in the train under the command of Cap- 
 tain Orton Haight, and on September i, 1859, 
 arrived in Salt Lake City. He lived here for two 
 and a half years, and, owing to the fact that he 
 had followed the sea all his life and was not ap- 
 prenticed, nor had he learned any mechanical 
 trade, was forced to secure employment in the 
 quarrying of rocks. He finally decided to take 
 up farming, and in 1862 removed to the portion 
 of Salt Lake county where he has ever since 
 made his home. His homestead is on the county 
 road and Sixteenth South street, and comprises 
 about sixteen acres of land, which under his care 
 has been well cultivated and improved, and has 
 grown from a barren region into a prosperous 
 farm. 
 
 Mr. Sutherland was married, in 1859, in Ne- 
 braska, to Miss Ella C. Nicholson, also a native 
 of the Shetland Islands, and by this marriage he 
 has had seven children. They are William J., a 
 resident of the Cottonwood Ward ; Joseph, living 
 in Mill Creek Ward; Hyrum B., employed in 
 mining at Deep Creek, Utah ; Isaiah, at Park 
 City, where he follows the trade of blacksmith- 
 ing ; Mary E., now the wife of David Chrystal ; 
 Catherine E., died aged fifteen years and six 
 months, and Zenobia June, now Mrs. Harper. 
 Both of his daughters live in the neighborhood 
 of their father's residence. 
 
 In political affairs, so far as they pertained to 
 the local affairs of Utah, he was a member of 
 the People's party, but in national politics has 
 been a believer in the policies of the Republican 
 party. He has held the position of Road Super- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 197 
 
 visor, which he occupied for ten years, and has 
 also been a School Trustee of his district for 
 twenty years, his office terminating two years 
 ago. He has been a prominent member of 
 his community, and served on the jury of the 
 Court of the Third Judicial District of this btate 
 in many cases, prominent among which was the 
 Garland case. He has also been Chairman of the 
 county organizations of his party, and has held 
 that office for several years. As has been said, 
 he joined the Mormon Church in 1856, and has 
 all his life been a staunch and faithful follower 
 of its doctrines. He has served as a missionary 
 in its work, and spent a year in the Shetland 
 Islands in this work. His son Joseph is now 
 absent on a mission to Cincinnati, Ohio, and Wil- 
 liam J., another son, has also served on a mission 
 for the Church in Florida. Mr. Sutherland has 
 also been greatly interested and active in the 
 work of educating the young people of the 
 Church, and was Superintendent of his Sunday 
 school for fourteen years, and has been one of the 
 active workers in building up the Church in his 
 county. He is now in his seventieth year, and 
 enjoys fine health, and with his consistent life, 
 his straightforwardness and integrity, has won 
 for himself a lasting place in the affections of the 
 people with whom he has been brought into close 
 contact, and possesses also the confidence and 
 trust of the leaders of his Church. 
 
 )XORABLE H. S. TANNER. There 
 are, perhaps, more devotees at the 
 shrine of the Law than any other known 
 profession, and yet the old saw, that 
 "there is always room at the top," holds 
 especially true here. In the practice of the law 
 the old rule of the survival of the fittest is rigidly 
 carried out, and only those who are by natural 
 or acquired proficiency able to stem the tide ever 
 come to be read of men ; but, on the other hand, 
 no profession is so prodigal of the favors be- 
 stowed upon the successful candidate, and to 
 have one's life and history associated with the 
 names of lawyers, jurists and statesmen whose 
 names adorn the halls of fame is an honor that 
 any man may well covet. A perusal of the career 
 
 of the gentleman whose name appears at the 
 head of this sketch will easily convince the reader 
 that he has earned the right to this distinction, 
 and that he stands in the front ranks of the legal 
 world of the West. 
 
 Judge Tanner is a native son of Utah. He 
 was born in Payson, February 15, 1869, and 
 there spent his early life, attending the common 
 schools, and later spent five years in the Brigham 
 Young College at Logan and the Brigham Young 
 Academy at Provo, from which latter institution 
 he graduated in 1894. He then entered the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating 
 from its Law Department in 1899, and was the 
 same year admitted to practice before the Su- 
 preme Court of the State of Michigan. He re- 
 turned to Salt Lake Citv and was admitted to 
 
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 practice before the Supreme and Federal Courts,' 
 of this State. He at once entered upon the prac-, s \ 
 tice of his profession, meeting with good success,\jy^ 
 and in a short time built up a lucrative practice. K jfc 
 The ability he displayed as a lawyer won the at- ^ 
 tention and approbation of the older men in the 
 profession, and a bright future was predicted for 
 him, the beginning of the fulfillment of which 
 prediction came with his election, in November, 
 1901, as one of the City Judges. He took his 
 office on January i, 1902, and has thus far made 
 a very creditable record, being one of the young- 
 est Judges on the bench of L'tah. 
 
 Our subject's father is Joseph S. Tanner, ex- 
 Bishop of Payson, which office he held for nearly 
 twenty-five years. He came to Utah with his 
 father, John Tanner, in 1848, and has since de- 
 voted his time to farming, stock raising and mill- 
 ing. He recently lost one of his largest mills 
 by fire at Payson. He has met with large suc- 
 cess in a financial way, and besides being one of 
 the prominent men of his city, is one of the 
 staunch followers of the Mormon Church, in 
 which he was born and reared, his father joining 
 the Church in 1831, and has done much for the 
 advancement and upbuilding of that faith in the 
 West. He was one of the founders of the mis- 
 sion in San Bernardino county, California, re- 
 maining in that mission until recalled by Presi- 
 dent Young in 1857, during the Johnston army 
 troubles. His wife, and the mother of our sub- 
 
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 ject, bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Clark 
 Haws. She was a daughter of Catherine Haws, 
 who went through all the early trials and hard- 
 ships which the Saints endured at Nauvoo and 
 in the early days of the settlement of this State. 
 With her parents, Mrs. Tanner walked the en- 
 tire distance across the plains from Omaha to 
 Salt Lake City. 
 
 Our subject was united in marriage, in March, 
 1890, to Laura L. Woodland, daughter of W. W. 
 Woodland, who was an early settler in Utah and 
 one of President Brigham Young's body guard. 
 Six children have been born of this marriage — 
 Henry Bernard, Vella E., Mildred, La Fond, 
 Deonge and Merlyn. 
 
 Judge Tanner's political sympathies are with 
 the Republican party, to which party he has given 
 
 tis hearty support ever since its organization in 
 Itah, and it was on the ticket of this party that 
 e received his election to the Judgeship in 1901. 
 He is also a member of the Mormon Church, 
 and has devoted much of his time to its interests 
 and work. He spent two and a half years on a 
 mission to the Southern States, laboring in North 
 and South Carolina and in Georgia. He filled a 
 short mission, during the summer of 1894, in 
 Park City and vicinity, opening up the Mormon 
 Church work in that great mining, camp. He 
 had charge of the Latter Day Saints' mission in 
 California, his headquarters being in San Fran- 
 cisco, and having under his jurisdiction all of the 
 work on the Pacific Coast. He has also devoted 
 a considerable amount of time as a home mission- 
 ary in Utah. For two years he has been a mem- 
 ber of the General Board of Young Men's Mutual 
 Improvement Association of the Latter Day 
 Saints' Church. 
 
 AMES B. RHEAD has always been con- 
 sidered one of the piers of the Mormon 
 Church since reaching manhood. He 
 has lived in Coalville, and to a large de- 
 gree the rapid advancement of the 
 county has been due to his untiring efforts. He 
 has always been closely identified with the lead- 
 ing enterprises of his county ; and in the affairs 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints few men have taken a more prominent or 
 
 active part in its development and advancement. 
 To this end he has given liberaly of his time and 
 means. For a number of years he did efficient 
 work for his Church in the foreign mission field, 
 since which time he has filled two home missions, 
 each of several months duration, in the interests 
 of Mutual Improvement and general Church 
 work. His long and honorable career in this 
 State has won for him a large circle of friends 
 and admirers. 
 
 Josiah Rhead, the father of our subject, was 
 born in Staffordshire, England, in 1831. He was 
 there converted to the doctrines of the Mormon 
 Church and emigrated with his family to Amer- 
 ica in 1856 on the sailing vessel Horizon, which 
 was ten weeks in making the trip across the 
 ocean, landing in Boston in July of that year. 
 From Boston they came by rail as far west as 
 Iowa City, then the western terminus of the rail- 
 way. After remaining there two weeks, they 
 took up their journey with the ill-fated hand-cart 
 company, which was captained by Joseph Martin, 
 in which so many subsequently perished from 
 cold and hunger. After traveling some two hun- 
 dred miles, to the little town of Newton, Mr. 
 Rhead had a severe attack of chills and fever, 
 which necessitated the family abandoning the 
 journey for a time. This incident was always 
 considered providential by him in preserving the 
 family's life, as in all probability they, with 
 constitutions none too strong, would never have 
 survived the vicissitudes of that long and perilous 
 march. To them, from a religious point of view, 
 this meant much more than a mere deliverance 
 from an untimely death ; it meant that they could 
 later gather with the body of the Church in Zion, 
 and there, by officiating vicariously, be spiritual 
 saviors to their fathers' house. 
 
 Upon Mr. Rhead's recovery the family moved 
 to Des Moines, where the father worked for five 
 vears, and at the end of that time, having accu- 
 mulated sufficient to purchase an outfit, consist- 
 ing mainly of a yoke of cows and a light spring 
 wagon, crossed the plains under the captaincy of 
 Joseph A. Young, in one of the best equipped 
 companies that ever crossed the country from the 
 Missouri river to Salt Lake City. They reached 
 Utah in September. 1861, and located near the 
 
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 199 
 
 junction of Chalk creek and the Weber river, not 
 far from where Coalville is now located, and there 
 the father procured some land and engaged in 
 farming. He was a potter by trade, and one of 
 the first to engage in that business in the State, 
 being for a time employed in Salt Lake City. 
 He later established a pottery in Coalville, which 
 he run for several years, continuing his farm in 
 the meantime! He was active in business life and 
 one of the prominent men of his community. In 
 the Church he was for many years President of 
 the First Elders' Quorum of Summit Stake, and 
 later one of the Seven Presidents of the Twenty- 
 Seventh Quorum of Seventies. He died on the 
 farm in 1887, at the age of fifty-six years, sin- 
 cerely mourned by those with whom he had been 
 associated for more than twenty-five years. 
 
 His wife, the mother of the subject of this 
 sketch, was Mrs. Eliza (Lewis) Beech, a native 
 of the same shire as her husband. She, too, fig- 
 ured prominently and took great delight in 
 Church work. For a great many years she la- 
 bored arduously in the Relief Society, and for 
 the last seventeen years of her life was President 
 of the Young Ladies!" Mutual Association of 
 Summit Stake, the performance of the duties of 
 that office affording her unbounded pleasure. She 
 had two children by her first husband and eight 
 by Mr. Rhead. At the time of her death, in 1895, 
 then being seventy years of age, there were 
 seven of the children living. Of the first family, 
 Thomas L. Beech ; and of the second family, Ed- 
 ward H., now County Surveyor of Summit 
 county ; Eliza P., the widow of Joseph Farns- 
 worth ; James B., our subject; William G. ; Sarah 
 Ann, widow of A. C. Salmon, and Josiah L. 
 Rhead, a civil engineer and graduate of the Agri- 
 cultural College of L^tah. 
 
 James B. Rhead was born in Des Aloines, 
 Iowa, March 17, 1858. He grew up in Utah from 
 the time he was three years old, and received his 
 education in the schools of the State. He was 
 the first Normal graduate from Summit county, 
 at the Deseret University, now the University of 
 Utah. After graduating he spent some time 
 teaching school, and in 1887 engaged in high- 
 grade stock raising on the South Fork of Chalk 
 creek, where he has two hundred and fortv acres 
 
 of good irrigable land, being watered from a very 
 large and expensive ditch, two and a half miles 
 long, taken from the South Fork, in the construc- 
 tion of which he spent several years. Immedi- 
 ately surrounding this tract he has bought from 
 the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the 
 State, respectively, some six sections of first-class 
 grazing land for his cattle to range upon, and 
 has there established a record as being one of the 
 most successful cattle growers in thaf part of 
 the country. 
 
 He divides his time between the old homestead 
 at Coalville, where his father and mother died, 
 and where his widowed sisters and their children 
 now live, and his ranch, ten miles out of town, 
 where his wife and family reside, both of which 
 homes he has improved and beautified to a com- 
 mendable degree. 
 
 He has also been interested in local business 
 enterprises, and has been for a number of years 
 a stockholder and director in the Coalville Co- 
 operative Mercantile Institution. 
 
 Mr. Rhead was married, in 1896, to Miss 
 Maria W. Hortin, daughter of John Hortin, one 
 of the pioneers and founders of Rockport, Sum- 
 mit county. They have three children — Fia- 
 metta, Hortense and La Von. 
 
 Pie has taken an active interest in the political 
 life of his district, and has filled the office of City 
 Recorder, and also been in the City Council 
 for several years. He has also had the privilege 
 on several occasions of refusing the nominations 
 of his party, the Democratic, for Mayor ; his ex- 
 tremely busy life in his chosen occupation, and 
 consequent absence from the city a great part of 
 the time has prohibited his accepting the honor. 
 His life motto has been, "Perform well and faith- 
 fully any labor undertaken, whether of a private 
 or public nature," and this has been the keynote 
 of his unusually successful life. 
 
 In Church matters he has been a leader since 
 old enough to take part in the work. He has 
 filled the office of an Elder, and been a member 
 of the Twenty-seventh-Quorum of Seventies. He 
 was ordained a High Pridst in May, 1901, under 
 the hands of President Joseph F. Smith, and set 
 apart as a member of the High Council of Sum- 
 mit Slake at its reorganization, which position 
 
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 he now holds. He was also First Counsellor to 
 Superintendent F. W. Marchant of the Summit 
 Stake Young Men's Mutual Improvement Asso- 
 ciations for a great number of years, and until 
 Mr. Marchant's promotion to the High Council 
 of the Stake, when he was tendered his prede- 
 cessor's position as Superintendent of the Im- 
 provement Associations. Owing, however, to his 
 pressing duties in secular life, he felt obliged to 
 decline tliis honor, although he had become 
 deeply attached to the work, and it was with 
 much regret that he resigned his ambitions for a 
 larger scope of usefulness in Church work. In 
 addition to the above offices, he has also filled 
 that of teacher of the theological class in the 
 Ward Sunday school, receiving a medal for being 
 one of the oldest members of the Coalville Sab- 
 bath school. 
 
 In 1881 he was called to go on a mission to 
 the Sandwich Islands in the interest of the 
 Church, where he labored for three years, mas- 
 tering the language of that people and having 
 the honor of presiding over every conference of 
 the Church in the island. During the latter part 
 of his sojourn there he was called to preside over 
 the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associa- 
 tions of the mission. His father was considered 
 an authority on Church doctrine, and the son is 
 following closely in the footsteps of the parent. 
 
 Mr. Rhead has spent almost his entire life in 
 this vicinity, and has grown up with the country. 
 He has seen it grow, and helped to redeem it 
 from a wild and barren wilderness to a cultivated 
 and beautiful valley, and its interests and his own 
 have been identical. His life has typified that of 
 most of the sons of the early settlers of this re- 
 gion, and it is through the untiring and un- 
 daunted energy and perseverance of such men 
 as he and his father before him that this State 
 has been brought to its present high state of 
 cultivation. 
 
 LMA ELDREDGE. In tracing the 
 career of Alma Eldredge, President of 
 the People's Mercantile Company, of 
 Coalville, Summit county, one is im- 
 pressed with the fact that he is a man 
 who has risen to his present position among the 
 
 leading financiers of Utah solely by his own in- 
 herent ability and correct business methods ; that 
 he is indebted to no one nor to any favorable com- 
 bination of circumstances for his wealth and 
 prominence. Industry and concentration of pur- 
 pose have been his watchwords, and success has 
 been the natural outcome of these essential quali- 
 fications. 
 
 Alma Eldredge was bom near Indianapolis, In- 
 diana, October 13. 1841, and is the son of Ira and 
 Nancy (Black) Eldredge, who came to Utah Sep- 
 tember 22, 1847, in a train commanded by Captain 
 Daniel Spencer, as captain of one hundred wag- 
 ons and himself as captain over fifty wagons. He 
 was converted to the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church in 1841. He was a civil engineer by pro- 
 fession, and did much surveying in this country. 
 He located a farm on the site where the State 
 Penitentiary now stands, in the spring of 1849, 
 and continued his residence there until his death. 
 He was bom in Middleton, Rutland county, Ver- 
 mont, March 30, 1810, and died at Eldredge's 
 Spring, near Coalville, Utah, in 1866. His father, 
 Alanson Eldredge, was bom in New England in 
 1 781 ; his grandfather, Micha Eldredge, was born 
 there in 1758, and his great grandfather, Mulford 
 Eldredge, was born in the New England colony 
 in 1713, ninety-three years after the landing of 
 the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock. Mr. Eldredge 
 several times crossed the plains from the Mis- 
 souri river to Utah, assisting emigrants to outfit 
 and come to this State. 
 
 Alma was the fourth child in a family of nine. 
 His boyhood days were spent between Sugar 
 House Ward and American Fork, where he lived 
 for some time with an uncle, and his education 
 was obtained from the schools of those two 
 places, working on the farm in the summer and 
 attending school sometimes in the winter. In 
 the spring of 1861 he came to Coalville and took 
 up Government land half a mile south of the 
 town, where he lived for five years, following 
 ranching and stock raising. He gave particular 
 attention to irrigation, and was one of the four 
 to construct the first ditch to tap the Weber river 
 in Summit county. 
 
 During the Black Hawk War the settlers e.x- 
 perienced a great deal of trouble with the Indians, 
 
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 and were compelled to remove all improvements 
 on fanns and ranches to favorable locations for 
 forts. Mr. Eldredge removed to what is now the 
 site of Coalville, where the settlers combined to 
 build a rock fort for protection. From that time 
 to 1868 he followed freighting from Salt Lake 
 City east along the mail line. In 1868 he was 
 occupied in grading for the Union Pacilic Rail- 
 road Company, east of where Evanston, Wyom- 
 ing, now stands. From 1869 to 1871 he was en- 
 gaged in missionary work for the Mormon 
 Church in England and Ireland, laboring in the 
 Birmingham, Hereford, Bristol and Sheffield 
 Conferences in England, presiding over the two 
 latter for a time. Upon his return to L^tah he 
 spent some time in the construction of the Sum- 
 mit County Railroad, which connected the coal 
 mines with the L^nion Pacific Railroad at Echo, 
 and was later given charge of the transportation 
 department of that road, which position he held 
 for four years. He gave up this position to take 
 a contract, in connection with three other parties, 
 to build the Park City branch. In 1879 he be- 
 came manager of the Coalville Co-operative Mer- 
 cantile Institution, of which he was one of the 
 organizers, and held this position at different 
 times until 1891. In 1895 he purchased the Peo- 
 ple's Mercantile Company from Ogden parties, 
 and became President of the company. He was 
 also for a number of years identified with the 
 Johnson Coal Mine, and still owns some valuable 
 coal lands. He has done much towards building 
 up and improving the town, and built the first 
 brick house in Summit county. 
 
 Mr. Eldredge was married, January 24, 1863. 
 to Miss Marinda M. Merrill of Ogden, daughter 
 of Gilman and Rebecca (Sevier) Merrill. By 
 this marriage he has six children — Lawrence E., 
 Secretary of the People's Mercantile Company ; 
 Bert ; Earl ; Roscoe ; Leola, wife of W. J. Brom- 
 ley, and Nellie, wife of Elroy Wilkins. One 
 daughter, Armilla, married Samuel Gentry. Jr. ; 
 they both died, leaving one son, Ralph. 
 
 Mr. Eldredge was elected Sheriff of Summit 
 county in 1865, and was later Prosecuting Attor- 
 ney for that county. He was elected Probate 
 Judge in 1885, and twice thereafter re-elected to 
 the same office. He was a member of the last 
 
 Territorial Legislative Council from his district, 
 and took an active part in all legislative matters. 
 He was also a member of three State Constitu- 
 tional Conventions, the last one of which framed 
 the present Constitution of the State of Utah. In 
 1898 he was his party's candidate for Congress, 
 but was defeated by the Diemocratic nominee, B. 
 H. Roberts. In local political life he has been 
 Mayor of Coalville four terms, and has also been 
 a member of the City Council. In Church mat- 
 ters he has taken a very prominent and useful 
 part, and has been a member of the Church since 
 he was eight years old. He was ordained an 
 Elder at the age of twenty, and in 1869 became a 
 member of the Seventies. On his return from 
 England he was ordained a High Priest and set 
 apart as Second Counsellor to President W. W. 
 Cluff of the Summit Stake, later becoming First 
 Counsellor. He remained in the Presidency until 
 1901, when the Stake was disorganized. 
 
 Mr. Eldredge has been prominent in public 
 life, both in his own county and in the State, 
 and is well known throughout Utah. No man 
 in public life to-day has served his constituents 
 better or more faithfully than he has, and the 
 high place to which he has attained, both in pri- 
 vate and public walks of life, have been due to 
 his own efforts, and he is deserving of all the 
 honors that have come to him. He is a man of 
 wide intellect, agreeable and pleasant in his bear- 
 ing, and counts his friends by the legion. 
 
 ■.ORGE R. JONES, Bishop of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints, in the Twenty-third Ward, Salt 
 Lake City. Bishop Jones has been 
 closely identified with many enterprises 
 for the upbuilding of the city, having spent over 
 forty years in the best period of his life in this 
 State. He has known by sad experience the 
 hardships and difficulties which the early build- 
 ers of Utah were compelled to pass through ; in- 
 deed, he has himself experienced many privations 
 and hardships in the early days of this new coun- 
 try, and while crossing the great American plains 
 on his journey to Salt Lake, for many days he 
 and his wife suffered hunger from the scarcity of 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 food, and _vet through all these trying scenes 
 Bishop Jones has come out a stronger and better 
 man. They came across the plains and pushed 
 hand-carts, which contained their bedding, wear- 
 ing apparel, cooking utensils and provisions. 
 They were accompanied by five wagons, drawn 
 by oxen, containing the balance of the goods be- 
 longing to the party. 
 
 George R. Jones was born in the parish of New 
 Church, East Monmouthshire, England, January 
 21, 1836. He is the son of George Jones, a native 
 of Bristol, England, who moved with his family 
 to the parish of Tintern Abbey in 1845, and it 
 was in this place that our subject attained his 
 majority, at Shrewsbury, and in Shropshire be- 
 came a member of the Mormon Church in 1857. 
 Two years later he sailed with his young wife 
 from Liverpool, on the vessel William Tapscott, 
 and reached New York after a voyage of thirty- 
 one days. They went to Detroit, and from there 
 to St. Joseph, Missouri, and thence by boat to 
 Florence, then known as Winter Quarters. Here 
 they remained a short time, preparing for the 
 journey across the plains, leaving there in com- 
 pany with one of the famous hand-cart com- 
 panies, which consisted of seventy-five men and 
 a number of women. They met with many diffi- 
 culties on this trip, and had quite an interesting 
 visit with a band of Indians, whom they met at 
 Buffalo creek, and who proved to be very 
 friendly, assisting them to draw the hand-carts 
 for a short time. In the evening the Indians 
 danced their war dance around the camp, as a 
 sign of welcome, but this not being understood 
 by the emigrants, grave fears of their safety were 
 entertained. One of the young braves fell in 
 love with a young lady of the company and of- 
 fered her many inducements to accompany him 
 to his camp and become his squaw, which offer 
 was declined. Their supply of food was very 
 low, and for three days our subject and his young 
 wife were almost entirely without food. They 
 encountered a wagon belonging to the Johnston 
 army, and from this wagon obtained a loaf of 
 bread. On reaching Independence, east of the 
 Devil's Gate, they secured some flour, and some 
 of the oxen having died from drinking alkali 
 water, they were compelled to eat the flesh, and 
 
 the hide being boiled, a jellv was procured, which 
 many of the company ate. On reaching Hams 
 Fork, in the western part of Wyoming, they were 
 met by teams sent out by Brigham Young for 
 their relief, and reached Salt Lake City Septem- 
 ber 4, 1859. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Utah Bishop Jones turned 
 his attention to anything he could find, herding 
 sheep, taking care of stock and performing all 
 kinds of manual labor for a number of years. In 
 1872 he purchased a lime kiln and began digging 
 out the rock and burning lime, which occupation 
 he has followed more or less up to the present 
 time, furnishing all the lime used in building the 
 walls of the Temple and also for many of the large 
 buildings here. He still owns this property, but 
 is not operating it on as large a scale as formerly. 
 He is interested in farming in Tooele and Davis 
 counties, and has accumulated a considerable 
 amount of real estate. He also assisted in con- 
 structing many of the canals in the State. 
 
 Bishop Jones's marriage occurred in March, 
 1859, in the city of Shrewsbury, England, when 
 he was united to Miss Harriett Bruckshaw. They 
 have three children — Thomas B., a farmer in 
 Cassia county, Idaho ; he married Catherine Pick- 
 ering, and they have ten children ; Sarah, wife of 
 Milon Knight of this city, and George B., Jr., at 
 present with his brother in Idaho. 
 
 Bishop Jones has been active in Church work 
 during his residence in this State, and has held 
 a number of offices in the Church, having been 
 ordained an Elder in 1861 by John V. Long, and 
 on December 13, 1891, was made Bishop of this 
 ward. He has also been prominent in Sunday 
 school work. The Bishop is a self-made man, 
 and by dint of industry and economy has made 
 for himself a successful career. 
 
 \JOR RICHARD W. YOUNG. 
 The brilliant career which the 
 American troops made in the cam- 
 paign in the Philippines, both 
 against the Spanish arms and later 
 in the subjugation of the insurrection headed 
 by Aguinaldo, placed the volunteer forces of the 
 United States in the leadership of the world's 
 fighters. Shortly after the annihilation of the 
 
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 203 
 
 Spanish fleet by Admiral Dewey, troops were 
 hurried to his support from the western part of 
 the country, and in few things have the Ameri- 
 cans demonstrated their ability so aptly as in 
 the campaign which followed upon their arrival 
 in the East. Among the volunteer organizations 
 which took an active part in the work, the Utah 
 Light Artillery distinguished itself, both Dy its 
 bravery in action and by its discipline in garrison. 
 Its efficiency was due, in a large measure, to the 
 able officers who directed its operations, and the 
 part which Major Young, the commanding offi- 
 cer, took in the command of the organization and 
 later in the administration of the civil afifairs of 
 those islands, redounded greatly to the credit of 
 Utah and the entire West. 
 
 Major Young was born in Salt Lake City 
 April 19, 1858, and is the son of Joseph Angell 
 Young, oldest son of President Brigham Young 
 and Margaret (Whitehead) Young. He spent 
 his early life in Utah, and received his education 
 m the public schools of Salt Lake City. He spent 
 one year in the employ of the Utah Central Rail- 
 road Company, as office boy and telegraph op- 
 erator at Salt Lake City. He then began to learn 
 the trade of a carpenter, as the basis of the pro- 
 fession of architecture, and worked at that occu- 
 pation for a year and a half. He then spent the 
 winters of two years teaching school in Rich- 
 field and Manti, leaving that to again enter rail- 
 road life, accepting a position as agent of the 
 Utah Northern Railroad at Ogden. He entered 
 the Deseret University, and spent several years 
 in a course of study there. He was appointed a 
 cadet at the L^nited States Military Academy a'. 
 West Point, and graduated from that institution 
 in 1882. He graduated well in his class, and was 
 assigned to the artillery arm of the service. His 
 first work was at the headquarters of the Depart- 
 ment of the East, at Governor's Island, New 
 York City, where he was Post Adjutant, and 
 later Captam and Acting Judge Advocate of the 
 Department on the staff of Major General W. S. 
 Hancock. At the request of the Military Service 
 Institution he wrote a legal and tactical work 
 on "Mobs and the Military," which was received 
 with marked favor by the leading military and 
 naval men of the L^nited States and was com- 
 
 mended in the preface by General James B. Fry 
 as "the most thorough and complete work on the 
 subject yet published." The studies which he 
 had taken in law at West Point, together with 
 his law experience as a Judge Advocate, resulted 
 in his detail by Robert T. Lincoln, then Secretary 
 of War, to assist the prosecution in the famous 
 trial of General Swain. He was also prominent 
 m military life, and received a personal letter of 
 thanks from General Hancock for his efficient 
 services at the funeral of General Grant. His 
 success as a Judge Advocate led to his frequent 
 appointment to that position on a number of im- 
 portant courts-martial ; he was a valued mem- 
 ber of the military service during his connection 
 with it. He had studied constitutional and na- 
 tional law at West Point, and after his gradua- 
 tion from that institution pursued his study of 
 law in Columbia College, New York City, grad- 
 uating from this latter school in 1884, and being 
 admitted to practice before all the courts of the 
 State of New York in the same year. He made 
 military law a specialty until 1888, when he re- 
 signed from the service and entered upon the 
 practice of law in Salt Lake Citv. Prior to his 
 departure for the Philippines, Major Young had 
 built up a large and comfortable practice as an 
 attorney. He has taken a prominent part in the 
 affairs of Utah and in the building up of this city, 
 and has been frequently called to occupy import- 
 ant positions in the service of the people. He has 
 served as a member of the City Council, and is 
 a member and Vice-President of the Board of 
 Education of Salt Lake City, spending four and 
 a half years in the work of the latter. He was 
 also prominent in the military affairs of the State, 
 and occupied the rank of Brigadier General of 
 the Utah National Guard. When Utah was ad- 
 mitted into the Union, in 1896, he was one of 
 the Democratic candidates for the position of 
 Judge of the Supreme Court, but went down to 
 defeat with the rest of his party. He was Chair- 
 man of the commission which prepared the code 
 and revised statutes of Utah, which now forni 
 the basis of the government of this State. 
 
 Upon the breaking out of the Spanish-Ameri- 
 can War, Major Young was first appointed to 
 the command of Batterv A, and shortly after- 
 
204 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 wards, as commanding officer of the Utah Light 
 Artillery, went with that organization to the 
 Philippines, where he served in 1898 and 1899, 
 participating in the capture of Manila and a 
 number of engagements with the insurgents. He 
 was made Chief of Artillery of Major General 
 MacArthur's Division in the Malalos campaign. 
 When the Utah Artillery sailed from the Philip- 
 pines for the United States, to be mustered out. 
 General Otis, Commanding General, appointed 
 him Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the Philippine Islands, in July, 1899, and he was 
 made President of the Criminal Branch of that 
 Court by General MacArthur in 1900. In May 
 of 1901 he resigned his position and returned to 
 the United States and took up his practice again. 
 He has been nominated to the Senate by Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt for the brevets of Lieutenant 
 Colonel and Colonel for gallantry in action in 
 the Philippines. 
 
 Major Young was married to Miss Minerva 
 Richards, daughter of Henry P. Richards, one 
 of the prominent men of Utah. By this mar- 
 riage they have seven children — Margaret. Mary, 
 Richard, Henrietta, Minerva, Clark and Ethel. 
 
 Major Young has been a consistent and able 
 member of the Democratic party since its organ- 
 ization in this State. His ability and the work 
 he has done have won for him the confidence and 
 respect of all citizens, irrespective of political or 
 religious creed, and few men enjoy as wide a 
 popularity as does he. 
 
 \\^\LCOTT THOMPSON, one of the 
 leading young members of the bar of 
 I 'tah, who has already given such prom- 
 ise of his future success as to insure him 
 a leading position in his profession in this 
 State, was born at Fort Brown, Texas, February 
 10, 1873. His father, Colonel J. Milton Thomp- 
 son, is Colonel of the Twenty-third United States 
 .Infantry. He also served during the Civil War 
 in the Seventh New Hampshire Regiment, and 
 served throughout the conflict with brilliancy and 
 credit. After the war he served on the frontier 
 and at various posts throughout the country unti! 
 the breaking out of the Spanish-American War, 
 
 when he was the first American officer to take a 
 regiment — the Twenty-third Infantry — around 
 the world, to the Philippines and back to New 
 York. He has spent his entire life in the service 
 of the United States Army, and is now stationed 
 at Plattsburg Barracks, New York. His wife, 
 Mary Elizabeth (Walcott) Thompson, and the 
 mother of the subject of this sketch, is from the 
 same branch of the Walcott family as was Oliver 
 Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of 
 Independence. Her father, Oliver Walcott, was 
 a native of New Hampshire and a successful 
 manufacturer in Lebanon in that State. She is 
 still living and in the enjoyment of good health, 
 with her husband, at Plattsburg Barracks, New 
 York. 
 
 Their son prepared for college in Racine Col- 
 lege Grammar School, Racine, Wisconsin, and at 
 Tilton Seminary, Tilton, New Hampshire, ana 
 later attended Dartmouth College, where he 
 graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1895. He 
 then entered Yale University, and received from 
 it the degree of LL. B. in 1897, and in the fol- 
 lowing year received from this university his 
 degree of LL. M. He was admitted to practice 
 before the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecti- 
 cut in 1898, and in the same fall came to Utah 
 and settled in Salt Lake City, where he formed 
 a partnership with George Jay Gibson, with 
 whom he had been associated in his law studies 
 at Yale, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere 
 in this volume. They have been very successful 
 in building up their practice, and now enjoy a 
 growing business. 
 
 In politics Mr. Thompson is. a Republican. He 
 has taken a great interest in the welfare of his 
 party, and has participated actively in its work. 
 In fraternal life he is a member of the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion of the L^nited States, 
 a member of the Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion and of the following college fraternities ; 
 Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Phi ; and also of 
 the legal fraternity. Phi Delta Phi. He is also a 
 member of the Graduate Club of New Haven, 
 and in Salt Lake City is a member of the Coun- 
 try Club and of the University Club. He has 
 but lately been appointed Reporter of the Decis- 
 ions of the Supreme Court of L^tah. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 205 
 
 The work he has done and the ability which 
 he has demonstrated in the tasks which have 
 fallen to him to perform mark him as one of the 
 leadino^ young men of Salt Lake City, and for 
 whom the future has a brig:ht career. 
 
 UDGE JOHN M. BOWMAN. The bar 
 of Utah has among its numbers many 
 men of ability and learning, but no 
 member of that body has achieved a 
 greater success or occupies a more com- 
 manding position than does the subject of this 
 sketch. He is now one of the leading lawyers 
 of the State, and in addition to the enjoyment of 
 a lucrative practice, has won the confidence and 
 esteem of his fellow practitioners and of the citi- 
 zens of the State as well. 
 
 He was born in the city of Reading, Berks 
 county, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and spent his early 
 life on his father's farm. He received his early 
 education from the common schools of his native 
 county. His father, John Bowman, was a native 
 of Pennsylvania, and was one of the successful 
 farmers of Berks county. The mother of our 
 subject, Hannah (Major) Bowman, was also a 
 native of Pennsylvania. Her family were of 
 Welsh descent on her mother's side, and on her 
 father's side, of English. Her father was also 
 one the successful farmers of that county. 
 
 After the completion of his common school 
 education, Judge Bowman, then a lad of fifteen 
 years, removed to Indiana and worked on a farm 
 for over a year. The Civil War broke out in 
 1861, and in March of the following year, when 
 only seventeen, he enlisted in the Sixtieth Indi- 
 ana Volunteers, and served throughout the entire 
 conflict, being mustered out in March, 1865. His 
 first service was in Kentucky, and the first battle 
 in which his regiment participated was at Mum- 
 fordsville, when the entire command was cap- 
 tured, paroled, and sent to Indianapolis, Indiana, 
 where they were held nearly a month, with seven 
 thousand other prisoners. LTpon their being ex- 
 changed, the regiment was ordered back to In- 
 diana, and was later sent to Memphis, Tennessee, 
 
 under General Grant, and he later served in his 
 regiment under the command of General Sher- 
 man, in the first attack on Vicksburg, Chickasaw 
 Blufif. The regiment participated in the battle 
 and capture of Arkansas Post, under General Mc- 
 Clarnand, and after that battle the regiment lay 
 at Young's Point, west of Vicksburg, where they 
 remained that winter, working on the canal. Judge 
 Bowman and his oldest brother served in the 
 same regiment, and after the battle of Vicks- 
 burg, Western Louisiana, his brother was 
 wounded in the battle of Carrion Crow, in Tech 
 Valley, in that State, and later died in the hos- 
 pital, at New Orleans, from the eflfects of the 
 wound. Subsequently the regiment was ordered 
 to Texas until February, 1865, when it was or- 
 dered back to New Orleans, and from there was 
 sent to Fort Gains. 
 
 After he had been mustered out of service, 
 Judge Bowman returned to farm life, securing 
 employment on a farm near Milford, Illinois, in 
 which work he remained until 1871. Dissatisfied 
 with farm life, and determined to find a field 
 that promised greater results, he took up a 
 course of study and prepared himself for the 
 position of school teacher, which ocupation he 
 followed during the winters of 1872, 1873, snd 
 1874, in the meantime reading and studying law, 
 and in 1876 he was admitted to the Bar of Indi- 
 ana, and practiced one year. He was elected 
 Superintendent of Schools for Warren county 
 Indiana, in 1877, and served in that capacity for 
 two terms, amounting to four years. In the fall 
 of 1881 he removed from Indiana to Kansas and 
 located at Oswego, where he formed a law part- 
 nership with Bishop W. Perkins, late United 
 States Senator from that State. The firm was 
 later known as Perkins, Morrison & Bowman, 
 and this partnership continued until the fall of 
 1884, when Judge Bowman removed to Pratt 
 county, Kansas. Here he remained engaged in 
 the practice of law until 1888, when he was 
 elected to the State Legislature from Pratt 
 county. He remained in Kansas, until January, 
 1889, when he removed to Utah, settling in Salt 
 Lake City, where he has practiced law ever since. 
 On November the 24th, 1900, he formed a law 
 partnership with Alviras E. Sno\y. This partner- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ship enjoys a large and lucrative practive, and 
 is also interested to some extent in mining prop- 
 erties. 
 
 Judge Bowman married in Indiana, to Miss 
 Kate Hunt, daughter of David Hunt. She is 
 a member of an old German family and her fa- 
 ther was a prosperous farmer. 
 
 In politics Judge Bowman is a staunch Repub- 
 lican, and in social life is a member of the Ma- 
 sonic Order, having attained the degree of 
 Knights Templar, and of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic. He has served two terms as Master 
 of the Wasatch Lodge, and served one term as 
 Master of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, Temple Lodge, Number Fifteen. 
 
 Although Judge Bowman has not long been a 
 resident of Utah, his work in this State is a du- 
 plicate of his success in the East, and the promi- 
 nent position which he now occupies has been 
 the result of his own efforts, and of constant, 
 grinding, hard work. He is a self-made man of 
 the highest type — one who has acquired his edu- 
 cation and his present standing by his own abil- 
 ity, and overcame the obstacles that arose in the 
 pathway of success by his determination to suc- 
 ceed. 
 
 RESIDENT J. GOLDEN KIMB.^LL, 
 one of the Presidents of the Seventies, 
 and a son of Heber C. Kimball, 
 was born in Salt Lake City, on June 
 9, 1853, and received his education in 
 the common schools that then existed in this 
 city, and also attended the Deseret University 
 in the early days of its establishment, and later 
 attended the sessions of the Brigham Young 
 Academy, at Provo, graduating from the latter 
 institution in 1880. He became one of the promi- 
 nent men of Utah in 1875. when, at the age of 
 twenty-two, he started out for himself in the 
 ranch business and secured a ranch of four hun- 
 dred acres and stocked it with cattle and horses, 
 in Rich county, and continued in that business 
 until July, 1900, when he entered the implement 
 business, in Logan, Cache county, and main- 
 
 tained a branch house in Montpelier, Bear Lake 
 county. He believed the opportunities greater in 
 Salt Lake City than in the northern part 
 of the State, and moved here and went in to the 
 real estate business in the days of the ' boom." He 
 has taken a prominent part in the work of the 
 Church to which he belongs and of which his 
 father was one of the leaders, and has risen to a 
 prominent place in its councils. For the past 
 ten years he has been one of the First Council 
 of the Seventies, and for five years was absent on 
 missionary work for the Church, traveling 
 throughout the Southern States. During this 
 time he was engaged in traveling extensively, 
 preaching and making many converts to the doc- 
 trines of the Mormon Church. The first two 
 years he filled the regular mission and traveled 
 three hundred miles on foot, during which time 
 he never met a man who had seen a Mormon, 
 and during his first two years service was in 
 company with Elder B. H. Roberts, and assisted 
 in securing the bodies of two Mormon mission- 
 aries, who were murdered at Cane Creek, Ten- 
 nessee, on account of their religious behef. At 
 the time these two missionaries were murdered, 
 two young men who had become converts to the 
 teachings of the missionaries, were killed, and 
 their mother dangerously wounded. Upon his 
 return to Salt Lake City he resumed his active 
 work in building up the Church's influence 
 throughout Utah, and is now one of the First 
 Council of the Seventies. 
 
 Our subject was married in 1888, to Miss Jen- 
 nie K. Knowlton, daughter of Ouincy Knowlton, 
 who was one of the pioneers of this region. By 
 this marriage he has six children — Quincy, Jona- 
 than G., Elizabeth, Gladys, Heber C, and Max 
 Knowlton. 
 
 The work which he has done for the Church 
 has made him one of the prominent men of 
 its ranks and has won for him a high standing 
 in its membership. His integrity and ability have 
 won for him a high place in the esteem and re- 
 spect of the citizens of Utah, and today he en- 
 joys a wide popularity. He has devoted most 
 of his time to the work of the Church and, as 
 a consequence, has not been to any extent able 
 to carry on independent mercantile pursuits. 
 
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 207 
 
 UDGE CHRISTOPHER B. DIEHL. 
 Possessincr a thorough and practical 
 knowledge of the law, Judge Diehl is emi- 
 nently qualified to fill the responsible 
 position to which he has been called, as 
 one of the city judges, having for some time 
 prior to his appointment to this position been 
 connected with the City Justice's court, and is 
 peculiarly adapted to the discharginp- of the duties 
 of his office. 
 
 Judge Diehl is a native of Utah, being bom 
 in this city in 1874, and is the only son of Chris- 
 topher and .A.nn (Rothardt) Diehl, natives of 
 Germany. The father of our subject came to 
 Utah in 1852 and has since made Salt Lake City 
 his home. He has devoted the greater part of 
 his life to the interests of Masonry, being at this 
 time Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge, .A.. 
 F. and A. M., with headquarters in the Masonic 
 Temple, in this city, and is known through his 
 work and writings throughout the Masonic world. 
 He is one of the best known and most highly 
 respected of Salt Lake City's prominent citizens. 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days in this 
 city, and obtained his early education from the 
 common schools and the Deseret University, now 
 the University of Utah, in which he took a three 
 years' course, after which he entered the Stan- 
 ford LTniversity of California, graduating from 
 that institution. He then entered the Northwest- 
 ern University, of Chicago, from which he grad- 
 tiated with the degree of Bachelor of i^aws in 
 1897. He was adinitted to practice before the 
 Supreme Court of this State in 1898, and since 
 that time his career has been a brilliant one. He 
 was, for three and a half years, Prosecuting At- 
 torney of Salt Lake City, under Judge Timmony. 
 He filled that position until the spring of 1901, 
 when he w-as appointed to fill the vacancy caused 
 by the death of Judge Timmony, as City Justice, 
 and at the election which occurred in November, 
 1901, was elected to the position of City Judge 
 by a large inajority. 
 
 Judge Diehl is yet a young man, just in the 
 sunrise of his career, but those who have watched 
 his course, predict for him a bright future as 
 one of the leading attorneys of the West. He 
 
 ture and experienced lawyer might be well proud, 
 and commands the respect and esteem of the 
 better class of citizens in Salt Lake City. In 
 politics he is a Republican and stands high with 
 the leaders of his party, for which he has done 
 splendid work since attaining his majority. 
 
 In social Hfe he is a member of the Elks, and 
 University Club. Pie is unmarried. 
 
 OHN A. SPIKER. The field of elec- 
 tricity affords a young man of energy 
 and ability a means for pushing rapidly 
 tu the front in the commercial circles of 
 his community, and in no city is this more 
 marked than in Salt Lake. The President of the 
 Spiker Electric company is a young man who has 
 risen to his present position in the business life 
 of Salt Lake City by his own industry and un- 
 tiring perseverance. He has made his own way 
 to the position he occupies and has come to it 
 through the exercise of pluck and undaunted de- 
 termination. 
 
 John A. Spiker was born in Grand Island, 
 Nebraska, in 1877, and lived there until he was 
 nineteen years of age. He was the eldest son of 
 W. M. Spiker, a native of Illinois, who settled in 
 Nebraska in the early days, coming to that State 
 before the railroad was completed. He was a 
 prominent attorney, practicing his profession all 
 his life, and died in Grand Island when his son 
 was thirteen years of age. He was prominent in 
 the afifairs of Hall county, and was Sheriff of it. 
 He was a Democrat and participated actively in 
 the work of that party. His wife, the mother 
 of the subject of this sketch, was Melinda 
 (Barnes) Spiker. 
 
 Their son was educated in the public schools of 
 Grand Island and lived in Nebraska until he was 
 nineteen years of age. Owing to the death of his 
 father when he was but thirteen years of age, 
 he was forced to contribute to the support of 
 the family, and secured employment as a mes- 
 senger boy in the service of the Western Union 
 Telegraph Company. With this company he 
 remained for ten years, three years of which 
 time he spent in Nebraska. He then came to 
 
 has alreadv made a record of which a more ma- Utah and took a position in the Western Union 
 
208 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 service as telegraph operator, and was also an 
 electrician for that company in Salt Lake City. 
 He remained in its employ until two years ago 
 when he resigned to accept a position with the 
 Pleasant Valley Coal Company, as book-keeper 
 and operator, at Clear Creek and Castle Gate, 
 Utah. While in the service of this latter com- 
 pany he realized the possibilities of the further 
 adaptation of electricity to the needs of the peo- 
 ple, and organized the Western Construction and 
 Electric Company, which later became the Spiker 
 Electric Company, of which he was elected Presi- 
 dent, and has continued in that capacity ever 
 since. This new firm has enjoyed a great popu- 
 larity and is now one of the prosperous enter- 
 prises of the city. Its success has been largely due 
 to the energy and ability which Mr. Spiker has 
 brought to bear upon problems in connection 
 with its management. 
 
 Mr. Spiker was married three years ago to 
 Miss Delia C. Eldredge, daughter of J. U. Eld- 
 redge, one of the prominent men of Salt Lake 
 Citv, and by this marriage has one child — Lulu- 
 
 belL 
 
 In political life Mr. Spiker is a Democrat, but 
 has never participated actively in the work of that 
 party, so far as a candidacy for public office is 
 concerned, nor has he ever desired to hold office. 
 He is a self-made man of the highest type, and 
 one who, by the success he has already won 
 for himself in commercial life in Salt Lake City, 
 will in the future years be among the leaders of 
 business in this region. He is well and popularly 
 known throughout the State, and his integrity 
 and strict honesty have won for him the confi- 
 dence and esteeem of the business people. 
 
 ILLIAM NELSON. In the world 
 i)f newspaperdom of the LTnited 
 States, few papers have had so 
 strenuous a career as has had the 
 Salt Lake Tribune. It has reached 
 its present position largely through the fearless- 
 ness of its editors, and through the policy which 
 it has always maintained of being first, last and 
 all the time for the development of Utah and 
 Latah's mineral wealth. It has not confined itself 
 
 to any one industry, however, but given its aid 
 and support and used its mighty influence for the 
 furthering of any and all projects which had for 
 their end the betterment of the State. It has 
 grown in importance and prospered as the years 
 progressed, under its able corps of editors, until 
 it is now ranked as one of the best newspapers 
 in the inter-mountain region, and one of the 
 been reached and maintained through the efforts 
 of such men as Charles C. Goodwin and William 
 Nelson, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 William Nelson was born near Rutherglen, 
 Scotland, now a part of Glasgow, in 1839. At the 
 age of three years his parents removed to Amer- 
 ica and settled in Wisconsin, where their son 
 received his early education in the public schools. 
 With the necessity of contributing to the support 
 of the family, which was the lot of every boy 
 of a pioneer family in those days, young Nelson 
 started at the age of twelve years to learn the 
 trade of printing, and was apprenticed on the 
 Sentinel, at Monroe, Wisconsin, where he con- 
 tinued for some years. He afterwards left this 
 position and accepted a better one, in the same 
 line, on the Gazette, of Galena, Illinois, and re- 
 mained there for a year, returning at the end of 
 that time to Monroe, and worked for various 
 newspapers in Wisconsin, among which was the 
 IVitness, at Platteville. 
 
 Upon the outbreak of the Civil War. in 1861. 
 Mr. Nelson enlisted in Company I, Tenth Wis- 
 consin Volunteers, in September of that year, 
 and served throughout the entire conflict, being 
 mustered out of the service of the United States 
 on January 7, 1865. He participated in all the 
 battles in which his regiment was engaged, except 
 Perryville, Kentucky, and his first fight was in 
 defending the bridge at Paint Rock, .\labama. 
 The action here was very heavy and his baptismal 
 fire was a fearful ordeal. All of his command 
 of twenty-four were wounded, the attacking force 
 numbering two hundred and fifty. The enemy 
 were successfully repulsed after a two hours' 
 fight. He was later at Stevenson and took part 
 in the siege of Nashville, and was also in the 
 battle of Stone River. He fought all through 
 the Tennessee campaign, from the first engage- 
 ment to the last, the latter being the battle 01 
 
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 209 
 
 Chickamaiiga. His entire regiment was captured 
 and held prisoners, first in Richmond for four 
 months, then transferred to Danville, in Virginia, 
 and held there during the winter, and later trans- 
 ferred to the prison camp at Andersonville, made 
 famous by the horrible treatment which the Union 
 soldiers were forced to undergo there. He was 
 removed, in the fall, to Florence, South Carolina, 
 where he remained a prisoner until Februarj 
 1865. He was chosen to be a Sergeant of his 
 company, and later to be First Sergeant. After 
 the close of the war he returned to Wisconsin 
 and re-entered the newspaper business. He pur- 
 chased the I'iroqna tensor, and successfully con- 
 ducted it for some time. While he was its editor 
 he was elected State Senator from that district 
 and served for two years in the Legislature of 
 Wisconsin. He remained actively engaged in 
 the newspaper work until he came to Utah in 
 1876, as United States Marshal, and was engagea 
 in the collection of the evidence concerning the 
 Mountain Meadow Massacre. He obtained the 
 witnesses for the prosecution in the trial of John 
 D. Lee, who was one of the prime instigators 
 of that crime, perpetrated in 1857, Lee was 
 condemned to death and shot in 1877, twenty 
 years after the crime had been committed. He 
 remained in his position of United States Marshaj 
 until 1878, when he engaged in mining. He be- 
 came connected with the Tribune and has been in 
 its active service ever since. He was first em- 
 ployed as telegraph editor and raised from that 
 position to be the managing editor of that paper, 
 and it is largely through his ability and through 
 the energy and experience that he has brought 
 to this work that the Tribune of today has 
 achieved its present standing in the ranks of me- 
 tropolitan journals. 
 
 Mr. Nelson's father was a native of Scotland, 
 and after coming to Wisconsin devoted his time 
 to mining. His wife, and the mother of the 
 subject of this sketch, died in Scotland. 
 
 Mr. Xelsoji was married, in 1866, in Wisconsin, 
 to Miss Mary Fritwell, and by this marriage has 
 five children — Margaret, Mary, William, Esther, 
 and Grace. William is at present employed on 
 the Tribune, and who is also a veteran, having 
 joined liattery A, of the Utah Artillery, and 
 
 served with that organization for more than a 
 year in the insurrection in the Philippine Islands 
 being honorably mustered out of the service of 
 the United States, as Corporal, at San Fran- 
 cisco, with his battery. 
 
 In the administration of the political aiifairs of 
 the State, Mr. Nelson is a prominent member oi 
 the Republican party. In the old regime, before 
 the separation of the citizens of the State upon 
 National political lines, he was one of the leading 
 members of the Liberal party, and by his ad 
 vice and counsel did much to make possible the 
 separation of the people upon the present lines. 
 In fraternal life he is a member of the Masonic 
 Order, and a Companion in the Royal Arch. 
 
 Mr. Nelson's career in Utah has been closely 
 identified with the progress made in the develop- 
 ment of its resources, and in the building up of 
 the large mining operations which are at present 
 making this State one of the great mineral pro- 
 ducing commonwealths of the country. His suc- 
 cess in life has been achieved by his own efforts 
 and is due to his untiring energy, industry, perse- 
 verance, and indomitable will. The part which 
 he has played in forcing the opening of the State 
 to emigrants from all sections of the United 
 States, has made his name one of historical im- 
 portance in the annals of Utah. Since the termi- 
 nation of the fight which raged so fierceK in 
 L'tah between the Mormons and the Gen- 
 tiles, he has been prominent in the work 
 of making the citizens of the State a united 
 people, and the present satisfactory condi- 
 tion IS due largely to his efforts and to the 
 influence of the paper which he directs. Today 
 there is no more prominent man, nor one more 
 universally liked,, by Mormon and by Gentile, 
 than is Mr. Nelson. He was one of the first ten 
 members of the Board of Education in 1891, 
 and was afterwards President of the Board. He 
 was for four years a member of the General 
 Board, and President of it three years of that 
 time. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 LEXANDER CROOKSHANK 
 PYPER. In reviewing the history of 
 those men who came to Utah after the 
 first influx of immigration had sub- 
 sided, and by their shrewd business 
 ability, keen foresight and able co-operation as- 
 sisted in laying a firm foundation upon which 
 future generations were to build for both Church 
 and State, none is more worthy of special men- 
 tion than is the subject of this sketch, who has 
 long since laid down the responsible duties which 
 he had assumed, and passed to the reward which 
 awaits those who have lived noble lives in ac- 
 cordance with the light they possessed. He wa? 
 for a period of more than twenty years one of 
 the most prominent men in this whole inter- 
 mountain region. 
 
 Our subject was born in Larg=, Ayrshire, Scot- 
 land, May i8, 1828. He spent his early life in 
 the land of his birth and there received his edu- 
 cation. He became identified with the Mormon 
 Church while very young, and at the early age 
 of seventeen was appointed to the position of 
 Traveling Elder and spent some time preaching 
 the gospel of Mormonism in his native country, 
 enduring many hardships for Truth's sake. .A? 
 a young man he came to the United States and 
 settled first at Saint Louis, where he remained 
 for several years. From there he went to Coun- 
 cil Blufifs, in 1838, at which place and at Florence, 
 Nebraska, he conducted successful mercantile es- 
 tablishments. While on the plains, he aided Gen- 
 eral Horace S. Eldredge in connection with the 
 emigration business of the Church for a period 
 of about four years. 
 
 In 1859 he crossed the plains to Utah by ox 
 team, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the 
 Autumn of that year, bringing with him several 
 wagons loaded with general merchandise, witn 
 which he again commenced business. Subse- 
 quently he established a chemical manufact- 
 uring laboratory in Sugar House Ward and 
 engaged in the production of white lead, 
 sulphur and other articles of similar char- 
 acter. He was afterwards employed by Pres- 
 ident Brigham Young to conduct his pri- 
 vate outside business, and during the remain- 
 der of his life in Utah was closely associ- 
 
 ated with President Young in many of his busi- 
 ness enterprises, as well as in Church work. Hes 
 again engaged in the mercantile business, which 
 he conducted for a few years, when he accepted 
 a position as superintendent of the grocery de- 
 partment of the Zion Co-Operative Mercantile 
 Institution, when that branch of the business was 
 conducted in the Constitution building. This busi- 
 ness he successfully run for a number of years. 
 
 His next work was of an official character ; 
 being installed in the City Hall as Police Judge, 
 which position he occupied from August, 1874, 
 until the time of his death. For a period of ten 
 years he was a member of the City Council of 
 Salt Lake. In June, 1877, at the time of the 
 general organization of the Stakes and Wards, 
 by direction of President Brigham Young, Elder 
 Pyper was ordained a Bishop and set apart to 
 preside over the Twelfth W ard. 
 
 Perhaps no man in the city did more towards 
 promoting the silk industry than did Mr. Pyper, 
 he being one of the- most successful producers of 
 silk in the entire inter-mountain region, and even 
 up to the time of his death he took an active and 
 deep interest in that industry. That he was a 
 very strong man in every way there can be no 
 question. Full of activity and alive to the im- 
 portance of every enterprise for the upbuilding 
 and advancement of Utah, he was one of the 
 best-known figures in the State. In general ap- 
 pearance, he was of average height, spare-built 
 and of naturally quick movements. His death 
 occurred July 29, 1882, and the funeral was held 
 in the Twelfth Ward school house, July 30th. 
 The funeral was perhaps one of the largest held 
 in the city up to that time. Mr. Pyper, by his 
 long and honorable career in Utah, had drawn 
 around him many warm friends — not alone among 
 the leaders of the Church, but from the people 
 in general. On the day of the funeral the hall 
 was crowded with all classes of people. There 
 were present. Presidents Wilford Woodruf? and 
 Joseph F. Smith; Apostle and Counselor Daniel 
 H. Wells ; the Bishopric of the Church, Edward 
 Hunter and L. W. Hardy; Bishop Robert T. 
 Burton ; the Presidency of the Stake, A. M. Can- 
 non and D. O. Calder ; and nearly all the Bishops 
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 Church authorities too numerous to mention. 
 Mayor Jennings and the City Council and officers 
 were present in a body. The services were con- 
 ducted by Elder John Dr.uce, who was First 
 Counselor to Bishop Pyper in the Twelfth Ward 
 Stake of Zion. Nearly all the heads of the 
 Church spoke at his funeral in commendation of 
 his grand and useful life, and it is safe to say 
 that few men whose lives have been so closely 
 identified with Salt Lake City and the State of 
 Utah were more deeply mourned or missed than 
 was Bishop Pyper. 
 
 His wife bore the maiden name of Christiana 
 Dollinger, and was a native of New York City. 
 She came across the plains by ox teams in 1859, 
 and is still living in this city, where she has, 
 since coming here, been one of the most active 
 and prominent women of the Mormon Church ; 
 devoting much of her time to its interests and 
 being closely associated with its different charit- 
 able organizations and societies. Her long resi- 
 dence has given her an extended acquaintance — 
 not only among the citizens of Salt Lake City, 
 but throughout the State, where she is universally 
 beloved. Her father, Thomas Dollinger, was one 
 of the earliest adherents of the Mormon Church. 
 He died at Nauvoo, prior to the exodus. 
 
 USANNA BRANSFORD EMERY 
 HOLMES. The development of the 
 mining resources of Utah has resulted 
 in the enriching of the fortunes of man\ 
 of the men of the State. This field of 
 work, apparently peculiarly adapted to men, has 
 been invaded by women of courage, ability and 
 energy, and their rewards have been as great as 
 have those secured by the men. At the very head 
 of all the women of Utah, in wealth and in pop- 
 ularity, is the subject of this sketch. 
 
 A Kentuckian, by birth, she has always been 
 noted for her graciousness of manner and tne 
 courtesy and hospitality that are the inherent 
 birthrights of all Southerners. She married A. 
 B. Emery, who died about eight year* smce. By 
 this union she has one daughter — Louise Grace 
 Emery. Mr. Emery left his widow a rich herit- 
 age in mining interests. He had been a dealer in 
 
 mining stocks throughout his life, to a large de- 
 gree, and at his death left, as a legacy to his 
 widow, his extensive interests in the Silver King 
 mine. 
 
 With rare courage and ability, and profiting 
 by the knowledge of mining which she had de- 
 rived from her father's and from her husband's 
 experience, Mrs. Emery set to work to develop 
 the business. Believing in the future value of the 
 property left her by her husband, she refused the 
 trifling offers made for her rights and immedi- 
 ately began a thorough investigation of the 
 mines. Her faith was so great in the future value 
 of her properties that she willingly earned her 
 own income, rather than sacrifice her interests. 
 Later she was enabled to properly start operations 
 in the mines and the results soon justified her 
 faith. The income derived from these properties 
 soon enabled her to extend her operations until 
 now, with an income of one hundred thousand 
 dollars a year, she is the richest woman in Utah 
 and one of the wealthiest in the United States 
 whose property and fortune have been acquired 
 largely by her own efforts. So wide are her in- 
 terests that she is now a large owner in all the 
 more prosperous and valuable mining property 
 in the State, including the Silver King mine, the 
 most valuable mine in the West. 
 
 Although a remarkably rich woman, her suc- 
 cess has not robbed her of her interests in her 
 fellow beings, and today she is as widely known 
 for her philanthropy as she is for her wealth. 
 In the newsboys of Salt Lake City she takes a 
 great interest, which her wards warmly recip- 
 rocate. 
 
 In 1899, Mrs. Emery met Edwin F. Holmes, 
 a millionaire capitalist of Detroit, Michigan, in 
 the course of a mining transaction ; their mutual 
 liking developed into love and they were married 
 at the Waldorf-.\storia, in New York City, in 
 that year. 
 
 Mrs. Holmes is one of the most popular women 
 in Utah, and indeed, throughout the West. She 
 is a woman of many attainments, fond of music 
 and books, and her graceful, cultured and polished 
 manner has been enriched by her extensive trav- 
 els both in the United States and in Europe. 
 While in Europe she was the object of much 
 
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 social attention ; and in London, Paris and Rome, 
 her grace and tact, together with her wealth 
 and the richness of her jewels and gowns, 
 has made her one of the best known and 
 most popular Americans in those lands. She 
 received an audience from Pope Leo and 
 was the guest of the late Queen Victoria 
 of England, besides receiving other attentions 
 from the crowned heads of Europe. When re- 
 siding in America, her time is divided between 
 the East and the West, New York and San Fran- 
 cisco knowing and welcoming her as heartily as 
 does Salt Lake. 
 
 One of the most brilliant functions that ever 
 took place in the West, and one which Mrs. 
 Holmes directed, was the marriage of her sister. 
 Miss Nellie Bransford, to Jay T. Harris, which 
 took place in Salt Lake City, in October, 1900. 
 The entire cost of the wedding, including the 
 trousseau of the bride, was defrayed by Mrs. 
 Holmes, and amounted to over one hundred thou- 
 sand dollars. In addition to this outlay the bride 
 received, as a present from her sister, fifty thou- 
 sand dollars' worth of the stock of the Silver 
 King mine. 
 
 Mrs. Holmes is recognized as the social leader 
 in affairs of Salt Lake City — not alone from 
 her wealth but from her knowledge and tact, as 
 well. Instead of warping and narrowing .her 
 Hfe, her wealth has broadened and developed her 
 love for the beautiful ; and her hospitable home, 
 formerly the ".\melia Palace," is perhaps the 
 most popular home in all the inter-mountain re- 
 gion. She is famed for her charity and for her 
 generous spirit, and many of the poor people of 
 the city can testify to her minstering deeds. Her 
 success shines brilliantly in the records of Utah, 
 and her remarkable success in financial matters 
 is due entirely to her own ability, energy and 
 foresig:ht. 
 
 Louis, 
 
 USTAVE J. BARTHEL, the president 
 of the Utah Lithographing Company, 
 the largest printing and lithographing 
 establishment west of Omaha and east 
 of San Francisco, was born in Saint 
 Missouri, in 1863. He spent his early 
 
 life in that State, and was educated in the parish 
 schools of Saint Louis, and began to learn lith- 
 ographing and engraving at an early age. He 
 served his apprenticeship in Saint Louis with the 
 August Cast Lithographing Company, where he 
 remained about five years. He then removed to 
 Omaha, and for seven years carried on business 
 in that city, being in charge of the lithographing 
 department in the establishment of Gibson, Mil- 
 ler & Richardson, and also the Rees Printing 
 Company. He then removed to Denver and took 
 charge of the lithographing department of the 
 Pioneer Lithographing Company, in which em- 
 ployment he remained for four years, coming to 
 Salt Lake in 1893. His first work in Utah was 
 with the Salt Lake Lithographing Company, and 
 in 1895 he established the present company, of 
 which he is president, under the name of the 
 Utah Lithographing Company. This establish- 
 ment was first located on Richards street, and 
 later removed to its present site on West Temple 
 street. A short time after its establishment it 
 grew to such proportions that it bought out the 
 Salt Lake Lithographing Company, and the busi- 
 ness has increased to such an extent that from a 
 force of four men, the number of its employees 
 is now between forty-five and fifty men. It is 
 one of the solid business establishments of Salt 
 Lake City, and to the ability with which Mr. 
 Barthel has conducted its affairs is largely due 
 its popularity and prosperity. It is now the lead- 
 ing printing company in the inter-mountain re- 
 gion, and its business has increased so rapidly 
 within the past four years that additional room 
 has been needed for its work, and extensive im- 
 provements have been made in the plant. It is a 
 thoroughly equipped plant, and one that is capa- 
 ble of handling with expedition the most diffi- 
 cult class of work. 
 
 Mr. Barthel was married in C)maha, to Miss 
 Mary Callahan, daughter of J. C. Callahan, of 
 Aleadville, Pennsylvania, and by this marriage 
 has two children — Harold and Edward. 
 
 The position which he now holds in Salt Lake 
 City has been won by his own ability, and by his 
 application to his business. He has devoted his 
 entire time and attention to the building up of 
 his establishment, and the prominent position • 
 
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 which it now holds is largely due to his able ad- 
 ministration of the office of president, which he 
 has held since the company was formed. 
 
 LLIAM TONKS. Not only has 
 England furnished a larger quota of 
 the State of Utah than perhaps any 
 other country on the globe, but they 
 have invariably been men of high 
 courage and determination, coming here practi- 
 cally without means and by perseverance, pluck 
 and hard work have not only assisted in devel- 
 oping the State and transforming the once bar- 
 ren and apparently unpromising wilderness into 
 one of the most prosperous and productive por- 
 tions of the United States, but have at the same 
 time acquired wealth and high social standing 
 for themselves, and from positions of obscurity 
 have risen to the highest positions of trust and 
 influence in their community. Among these men 
 the career of William Tonks, the subject of this 
 sketch, is especially worthy of note. 
 
 Mr. Tonks was born in Staffordshire, En- 
 gland, July 19, 1832. He received his education 
 there, and grew to manhood, learning the black- 
 smith trade from his father. When but eighteen 
 years of age, he became converted to the teach- 
 ings of the Mormon Church, and in 1856, becom- 
 ing imbued with a desire to join the members of 
 that Church in this country, sailed for America, 
 and landed in New York. He remained there 
 about three years, working at his trade, and at 
 the end of that time took river passage to Flor- 
 ence with his wife and two children, and joined 
 a train of Mormon emigrants bound for Utah, 
 traveling most of the long journey across the 
 plains on foot. They arrived in Salt Lake City 
 October i, 1859. Upon his arrival here, our sub- 
 ject opened up a nail factory in the Nineteeenth 
 Ward, which he operated for a time, and then 
 took up his trade of blacksmith. In 1866 he 
 moved to Morgan City, where he opened the first 
 blacksmith shop to be established in that place, 
 and continued to ply his trade until recent years, 
 building up an extensive business and making 
 considerable monev out of it. He accumulated 
 
 a large amount of property in Morgan and built 
 one of the finest residences in that place. About 
 1872 he bought a large tract of land in Round 
 \'alley. The land was in an uncultivated state, 
 mostly covered with willows and other wild 
 growth, and since he has owned it Mr. Tonks 
 has cleared and cultivated one hundred acres of 
 it, putting it under irrigation, and has followed 
 a general farming business. He raised two thou- 
 sand bushels of potatoes off of his land in 1901, 
 besides his wheat, oats, hay and other produce. 
 He is also interested largely in stock raising, and 
 owns some valuable range land. In 1899 °'^'' 
 subject, together with a number of his neighbors, 
 organized a stock company and bought a large 
 tract of land from the railroad company, which 
 they use for range purposes, and usually have 
 about five hundred head of stock on this range. 
 Mr. Tonks has built another very fine house on 
 his ranch, which is occupied by his son, who has 
 the supervision of the place. His sons are in- 
 terested with him in his different enterprises, and 
 take the burden of looking after the extensive 
 interests in which they are engaged, off of his 
 shoulders. 
 
 Mr. Tonks was married in England in 1855 to 
 Miss IMartha Doericott, a native of the same 
 place where he grew to manhood. She came to 
 America and crossed the plains with him, pass- 
 ing through all the hardships incident to living 
 here in the early days, and has been his constant 
 companion since, doing much by her care and 
 forethought as well as advice to assist in earning 
 the reward that has come to them for the long 
 life of toil that is now past. They have a family 
 of seven children — Elizabeth, wife of John Clay- 
 ton ; George M., living in Teton Basin. Idaho; 
 William H., also living in Teton Basin : Jane, 
 wife of Thomas F. Welch; Louisa, wife of 
 Benjamin Jones ; Charles, residing on the ranch, 
 and Rebecca, wife of James Tucker, of Morgan. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Tonks have forty-seven grand- 
 children and five great-grandchildren. 
 
 Mr. Tonks has reared his children in the faith 
 of the Mormon Church, and the family are prom- 
 inent in local church work. While residing in 
 Round Valley, Mr. Tonks was Assistant Super- 
 intendent of the Sundav School there. He has 
 
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 been very liberal with his means, and has done 
 much towards building up his community, giv- 
 ing a good deal of money towards the erecting 
 of school and meeting houses, ditches, roads and 
 other enterprises for the upbuilding and growth 
 of the town and county. 
 
 When he came to Utah, IMr. Tonks had to bor- 
 row the money to bring himself and family across 
 the plains. His wonderful success since demon- 
 strates the fact that no obstacle is too great to 
 be overcome by the man who possesses the will 
 to do and dare. He has not only succeeded in 
 accumulating wealth and a high commercial 
 standing in his county, but he has won the con- 
 fidence and esteem of the business men of the 
 place, and enjoys the respect and confidence of 
 ■school work. The Bishop is a self-made man, 
 ward. He has also been prominent in Sunday 
 the people with whom he has been more or less 
 closely associated for more than thirty years. He 
 was one of the organizers and at present owns 
 one-third of the stock of the Morgan City Zion 
 Co-operative Commercial Institution. 
 
 lOVANNI LAVAGNINO. Among the 
 prominent and successful mine operat- 
 ors of the State may be counted the 
 subject of this sketch, the president of 
 the Conglomerate Mining and Milling 
 Company. 
 
 Born in Piedmont, Italy, in 1848, his boyhood 
 days were spent in his native country. His 
 early education was obtained at Piedmont and 
 later in the National University at Palarmo in 
 Sicily, graduating from the department of civil 
 engineering of that institution in 1873 with the 
 degree of C. E. He then entered the Academy 
 of mining in Frigburg, Saxony, graduating in 
 1875 in mining and metallurgy. Later he took 
 special courses in different schools to perfect his 
 education and broaden his mind along the line 
 of his chosen profession — that of civil engineer- 
 ing. During his school days he served as a sol- 
 dier in the volunteer army of his native country. 
 Upon the completion of his education in these 
 schools and universities, he was for eight years 
 
 professor of science and mathematics in differ- 
 ent schools and colleges in Italy. Later he re- 
 linquished these positions and went to the Isle 
 of Sardino, where he engaged in mining and in 
 work as a civil engineer for a period of four 
 years. He then traveled in France and England 
 for about a year, studying the mining operations 
 and methods in those countries, and also profiting 
 by the experience of the leading civil engineers 
 of those countries. 
 
 The great excitement caused by the discovery 
 of the large beds of ore in the Leadville district, 
 determined him to see and judge for himself, 
 and in the fall of 1879 he set sail for America, 
 arriving in Leadville, Colorado, in the early 
 spring of 1880. He visited the principal cities 
 of this country before he settled in Leadville. 
 Here he found conditions both unsatisfactory 
 and uncongenial, and remained but a short time, 
 removing to Butte, Montana, where he located 
 and engaged in mining for the two years, 1881 
 and 1882. Here he became identified with the 
 Calvarus Mining and Smelting Company, 
 which was the first copper mine developed and 
 sucessfully worked in Montana, the smelter be- 
 ing the first erected in that State for the exclu- 
 sive treatment of copper ores. Later he became 
 assfociated with the Lexington mine, and re- 
 mained with that company until the completion 
 of the Lexington mill in the fall of 1882. 
 
 Early in the spring of 1883, he removed to 
 Salt Lake City, since which time his headquar- 
 ters have been in this city, and here, as well as 
 in other Western States, he has taken an active 
 and prominent part in the development of some 
 of the greatest mining properties of this region. 
 Among the most prominent of such properties 
 with which he has been identified in Utah is the 
 old Telegraph mine, located at Bingham City. 
 This has been a great success and a prosperous 
 investment for its owners, and at this time is still 
 a great mine. Mr. Lavagnino sold this property 
 to the United States Mining Company in April, 
 1899, for nearly six hundred thousand dollars. 
 He also sold the De Ard mine at Cripple Creek, 
 Colorado, to W. S. Stratton, for a large sum. 
 While in the western part of the United States, 
 Mr. Lavagnino has spent about three years in 
 
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 the Cripple Creek district of Colorado, and still 
 retains interests in many mining properties there. 
 His holdings extend through Utah and into all 
 the adjoining States, and even into Mexico. In 
 Mexico, his properties have proved prosperous 
 and very remunerative. 
 
 In addition to his mining property in Utah, 
 he is a large owner of real estate in Salt Lake 
 City, and, indeed, throughout the State as well, 
 and is a firm believer in the future prosperity and 
 importance of this city. 
 
 Mr. Lavagnino is a self-made man. He was 
 left an orphan in his early childhood, and his 
 early education was derived through the assist- 
 ance and kindness of a sister. This was the 
 only assistance he received, and since that has 
 made his own way in the world. 
 
 One secret of his success, and upon which he 
 has built his career, has been the unbounded con- 
 fidence reposed in him by the people with whom 
 he has been connected, and his scrupulous re- 
 spect for the trusts confided in him has brought 
 him such a record that it may well be an object 
 of pride to his children and to his future pos- 
 terity. 
 
 Before he had arrived at the age of sixteen, 
 he was filling a position in the Internal Revenue 
 Office in his native land, connected with which 
 were responsibilities and trusts of a high order. 
 
 Mr. Lavagnino married Miss Loreno Larson, 
 a native of Salt Lake City, who, for several 
 years prior to her marriage, was a talented and 
 successful school teacher. By this union they 
 have three bright, intelligent and beautiful chil- 
 dren — Florence, Jerrett and Louise — who are 
 now at school in Italy. 
 
 In politics, our subject owes allegiance to nei- 
 ther party, preferring to maintain an independ- 
 ent position and direct his efforts in the line best 
 calculated to serve the interests of the commu- 
 nity. In religious matters, he attends the Uni- 
 tarian church. Personally, he is a very genial 
 and pleasant gentleman, highly educated, cul- 
 tured and refined. He has a large circle of warm 
 friends throughout Utah, and indeed in all the 
 Western States, and his genial manner and unim- 
 peachable integrity have brought him the enjoy- 
 ment of a wide and substantial popularity. 
 
 TEARNS HATCH. Among the prom- 
 inent and successful stockmen of Davis 
 county, who have been closely identi- 
 fied with the upbuilding of this county 
 from almost its earliest period, and who 
 has assisted in a large measure in every enter- 
 prise for the development and improvement of 
 his county, Stearns Hatch deserves special men- 
 tion. 
 
 He is a native son of LTtah having been born 
 in South Bountiful Ward, December 6, 1853, 
 and is a son of Ira Stearns and Jane (Bee) 
 Hatch, a full biographical sketch of his father 
 appearing elsewhere in this volume. His mother 
 was a native of Scotland, being born in Edin- 
 burgh. Our subject is the oldest of eight chil- 
 dren of Jane (Bee) Hatch, who is still living in 
 the neighborhood of her son, our subject. Mr. 
 Hatch spent his early life on the farm, and re- 
 ceived his education in the common schools of 
 Davis county, such as existed at that time. He 
 started out in life for himself soon after the death 
 of his father, which occurred in 1869. 
 
 On October 6, 1876, he married Miss Eliza- 
 beth Jane Ellis, daughter of John and Harriett 
 (Hales) Ellis. By this union eleven children 
 were born, ten of whom are still living — Ira S. , 
 Harriett E., John L., Lena Jane, Laura L., Wil- 
 ford W., Irene, Mary, who died at five years of 
 age ; Lillian G., Sarah, and Leonard E. Soon after 
 Mr. Hatch married, he settled in South Bountiful 
 Ward. He first purchased twenty-five acres of 
 land, which at that time was in a wild state, be- 
 ing covered with willows and underbrush, and 
 this he has continued to improve from time to 
 time until he now has one of the finest places for 
 its size in that vicinity. He owns a splendid 
 brick residence, and all the improvements on his 
 home place are of a high order. Mr. Hatch has 
 been largely identified with the stock raising bus- 
 iness, both cattle and sheep, throughout his 
 career. At the present time he is largely inter- 
 ested in the Deseret Live Stock Company, and 
 in the Hatch Brothers Live Stock Company. He 
 was one of the original organizers of the Woods 
 Cross Canning and Pickling Company, and is at 
 this time its president, having been elected in 
 1892. This has been a very successful enter- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 prise, and has been very beneficial to Davis 
 county. The concern gives eniployment to some- 
 thing over one hundred people during the sea- 
 son, and so popular are their brands that dur- 
 ing the past season they were not able to fill 
 all their orders. He is also identified with many 
 other enterprises in Davis county. 
 
 In politics he believes in supporting the best 
 man, and therefore has never been identified with 
 either of the dominant parties. He is essenti- 
 ally a business man, and has never run for any 
 political office. He and his whole family are 
 members of the Mormon Church, and for many 
 years he has served as Sunday School teacher 
 and superintendent in the South Bountiful Ward. 
 He was ordained a High Priest in 1894, and 
 later ordained one of the Presidents of the Sev- 
 enty-Fourth Quorum of Seventies, and at one 
 time was President of the Elders' Quorum, as well 
 as being a member of the High Council. He has 
 served for a number of years as school trustee 
 of his district. Mr. Hatch, in connection with 
 his brothers, has taken a deep interest in tracing 
 the genealogy of the family. They have spent 
 much money and time in traveling to the East 
 and to Europe , and now have a genealogy on 
 both sides that traces back for eight generations. 
 
 Mr. Hatch, by his honorable and straightfor- 
 ward dealings with all with whom he has been 
 associated through life, has won the confidence 
 and respect of the people, not only of South 
 Bountiful Ward, but throughout Davis county 
 and wherever he is known. 
 
 
 P,. WIGHT, member of the law firm 
 of Snyder, Westervelt, Snyder & 
 Wight, of Park City. Mr. Wight has 
 only been a resident of Park City for 
 the past ten years, and a member of 
 the firm since 1901, but during this time he and 
 the firm of which he is a member have built up 
 a large and lucrative law business. The firm 
 also have offices in the Atlas Block, Salt Lake 
 City, ]\Ir. Wight's time being mostly devoted to 
 the Park City end of the business. 
 
 Our subject is a native of New York State, 
 having been born in Fowler, Saint Lawrence 
 
 county, March 18, 1874, where he lived until 
 thirteen years of age, when the family moved to 
 Gouverneur, that State, where the school facili- 
 ties were better, and where our subject received 
 his early education. He was one of a family of 
 eight boys. The family is descended from John 
 Wight, who emigrated to this country before the 
 Revolutionary War and settled in Massachusetts, 
 following farming. The grandfather of our sub- 
 ject, Abner Wight, was born in 181 1, and emi- 
 grated to Saint Lawrence county, New York, 
 where our subject's father was raised. Our sub- 
 ject's mother was Mary Whitney, a native of 
 Spragueville, New York, and a daughter of 
 John and Mary (Houghton) Whitney. She 
 died in Park City in 1891, at the age of forty- 
 seven years, leaving seven sons — Herbert, an . 
 electrical engineer, living in Syracuse, New 
 York ; L.B., our subject ; Guy, Royal, now a prac- 
 ticing dentist of Park City; Holland, Verne, and 
 ]\Iark. Our subject's father is still living in Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Mr. Wight began life for himself at the early 
 age of sixteen, when he engaged in school teach- 
 ing, which he followed for a number of years, at- 
 tending school himself and thus completing his 
 education. In 1892 he came to Park City, where 
 his father was located, and taught school in Sum- 
 mit county until the fall of 1896, when he entered 
 the Law School of Syracuse University, from 
 which he graduated in 1898 with the degree of 
 L. B. 
 
 L'pon the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
 War, Mr. Wight enlisted with his brothers, Guy 
 and Royal, in Company A, Two Hundred and 
 Third New York Volunteer Infantry, for service 
 in Cuba. The regiment was sent to Camp Black, 
 and from there to Camp Mead, in Pennsylva- 
 nia, from which place they were transferred to 
 Camp Wetherell, where they were honorably dis- 
 charged in March, 1899, our subject retiring with 
 the title of Corporal. Mr. Wight lost one brother 
 — Guy — as a result of acute rheumatism, con- 
 tracted while in service. 
 
 Mr. Wight returned to LTtah in May, 1899, 
 and for two years was associated with Grant H. 
 Smith, in the law business in Salt Lake City, and 
 in Alarch, 1901, became a member of the present 
 
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 firm, coming to Park City to represent the firm 
 in this place. 
 
 He was married June 6, 1900, to Miss Kittie 
 J. Kickler, of Salt Lake City, daughter of the 
 late R. \\\ Kidder. They have one child — Bray- 
 ton. 
 
 In political life Mr. Wight owes his allegiance 
 to the Republican party, and is at this time City 
 Attorney of Park City. Socially he is a mem- 
 ber of the Elks, being a charter member and the 
 Esteemed Loyal Knight of Park City Lodge of 
 that order. 
 
 The firm which ;\Ir. Wight represents does 
 quite an extensive practice among the mining 
 companies of this district, representing among 
 others the Ontario Mining Company, the Daly 
 West, California, Wolverine and other mining 
 companies, besides the leading commercial houses 
 of Park City. 
 
 L'DGE PETER LOCHRIE. Among the 
 Justices of the Peace of Utah there is 
 none, who, by his work in that ofifiice, 
 has made for himself a better record or 
 stands higher in the confidence of the 
 ]iublic than does the subject of this sketch. He 
 is eminently a man of the people and has won 
 his way to the front rank that he now holds by 
 virtue of his sterling qualities and by the exer- 
 cise of unstinted hard work and constant appli- 
 cation. 
 
 He was born in Scotland in 1843. ^nd came to 
 the United States ten years later, settling in Green 
 county, Illinois, and later moved to Champaign 
 county, of that State, where he resided for a pe- 
 riod of twenty years. He was "educated in the 
 district schools and in Macon Academy and in the 
 Presbyterian Academy, and completed his studies 
 in the University which was later established at 
 Lincoln, Illinois. He took up the study of law 
 and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Illi- 
 nois in 1867. Two years later he became imbued 
 with a desire to become a journalist and entered 
 the newspaper field with a weekly paper which he 
 continued to publish for four years, at the end 
 of which time he resumed the practice of the 
 
 law, and from 1873 ^o 1879 continued in the 
 practice of that profession at Champaien, Illinois, 
 removing in the fall of the latter year to Utah 
 and settling in the mining camp of Frisco. He 
 practiced his profession in the Second Judicial 
 District of the Territory of Utah, and remained 
 there for nine years. In 1888 he came to Salt 
 Lake City, which place has been his home ever 
 since, and he has here continued to devote his 
 time to the practice of his profession, with the 
 exception of the periods covered by the terms he 
 has served as Justice of the Peace. He was elected 
 as a Justice of the Peace in 1892 and was re- 
 elected in 1896 and in 1900. His term of office 
 will expire at the end of the year 1902, by reason 
 of the establishment of the new municipal courts 
 for Salt Lake City. 
 
 Judge Lochrie was married in Illinois, in Jan- 
 uary, 1871, to Miss Viola Stanger, a native of 
 Ohio, and by this marriage he has two children — • 
 \'iola M., and Donald. Judge Lochrie's father, 
 Michael, was a native of Scotland, and upon his 
 removal to Illinois took up the business of farm- 
 ing, which he followed for the remainder of his 
 life. His father took a prominent part in the 
 politics of his county in Illinois, where he spent 
 the most of his life, and was elected to a number 
 of the minor offices of that county. His wife,, 
 the inother of the subject of this sketch, Mary 
 (Stuart) Lochrie, is a descendant of the old 
 Scotch family of that name. 
 
 In political life our subject has been a staunch 
 Republican and cast his first vote for Abraham 
 Lincoln for President, in 1864. He holds the dis- 
 tinction of having been the first Gentile elected 
 to the position of Prosecuting Attorney of Beaver 
 county, in which position he served to the entire 
 satisfaction of all the people. He is essentially 
 a self-made man, and has made his own way 
 through life from the early age of twelve. He 
 worked for his own education and has never re- 
 ceived any financial aid from anyone since that 
 time. His impartiality and his integrity as a 
 justice have won for him the confidence and 
 esteem of all the people with whom he has been 
 associated in this State, and he is one of the most 
 popular members of the judiciary of Salt Lake 
 City. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 )HX K. HALL. Among the many noble 
 sons of England who have sought fame 
 and fortune in this new country, may be 
 mentioned the subject of this sketch, John 
 K. Hall. 
 
 He was born in Yorkshire, near Sheffield, Sep- 
 tember 7, 1828, and is the son of Kilburn and 
 Ann (Shilito) Hall. He grew to manhood in his 
 native town and there received his education and 
 became a pattern maker, which trade he foUpwed 
 until i860. In 1847 he heard the doctrines of 
 the Mormon Church expounded and, becoming 
 convinced of the correctness of their views, was 
 baptized and ordained an Elder, spending the 
 next two or three years as a local preacher. He 
 took passage on the ship Cynosure, at Liverpool, 
 in the spring of 1863, and after a voyage of eight 
 weeks landed in New York City, from where he 
 went direct to Winter Quarters, where he pro- 
 cured an outfit and crossed the plains in company 
 with Captain Rossell Hyde, his wife and three 
 small children being with him. 
 
 Upon arriving in Salt Lake City, October 13, 
 1863, he purchased a lot and built a home in the 
 Fifteenth Ward, where he lived for eleven years, 
 following the trade of carpentering and contract- 
 ing. He did much of the building in the city at 
 that time, among other residences which he built 
 being that of Joseph R. Walker. He also did a 
 great deal of other carpenter work for the Walker 
 Brothers. In 1874 he moved to Enterprise, Mor- 
 gan county, and there purchased a farm and 
 also a number of lots in town. He built 
 a home on his farm, where he moved his 
 family, and took up general farming, which he 
 has followed ever since, also being engaged in 
 the contracting business as opportunity ofifered. 
 He is interested in the Bench Irrigation Ditch 
 Company, of Enterprise, in which company he 
 was a director for a number of years, and as- 
 sisted in building that ditch. He has also done 
 considerable building in the Enterprise Ward. 
 He drew the plans for the Alorgan county court 
 house, on which he did much of the work. The 
 Stake meeting house at Morgan is another build- 
 ing which he erected. Besides his farm near 
 Enterprise he has another in Spring Hollow can- 
 yon, where he homesteaded one hundred and 
 
 sixty acres about twelve years ago and built a 
 home which he named "Glen Cottage" or "Mount 
 View." This place is a very beautiful one, being 
 laid out in fruit orchards and highly cultivated. 
 He also owns twenty acres of choice land on 
 Weber river, and altogether has been very suc- 
 cessful since coming to America, and is today a 
 prosperous farmer of Morgan county. 
 
 Mr. Hall has been three times married. His 
 first marriage occurred in England, where he 
 was married on December 25, 1849, ^'^ Miss Mary 
 Spencer, a native of Sheffield, and daughter of 
 John and Mary Spencer. Her father was a man- 
 ufacturer of knives and cutlery, and one of the 
 past masters of Cutlers Company. Mrs. Hall died 
 in Enterprise, in July, 1897, leaving a family of 
 four children — Mary S. ; Edith, wife of George 
 Hufl:' ; Annetta, wife of George Palmer; and Kil- 
 burn, at home. His second wife was Jane Hales, 
 by whom he had six children, five of whom are 
 living — Ruth, wife of George Eddineton ; Edgar ; 
 Effie, now Mrs. Elijah Eddington; Eliza, and 
 Bernard, living in Ogden. The present Mrs. 
 Hall was Miss Esther Holdt, whom he married 
 December 11, iqoi. Mr. Hall has nine grand- 
 children and one great-grandchild. 
 
 In political life our subject is at this time a 
 Republican, but for many years his allegiance was 
 with the Democratic party. Except for the> posi- 
 tion of Trustee on his School Board, he has never 
 sought or held public office, his time being de- 
 voted to the interests of his large farming en- 
 terprises. He has been very active in Church 
 circles and was a teacher in the Fifteenth Ward 
 where he first made his home. He was ordained 
 a member of the Sixty-Fifth Quorum, and was 
 later one of the Seven Presidents of that Quo- 
 rum. He was for nine years Superintendent of 
 the Fifteenth Ward Sunday School. When the 
 Morgan Ward was organized, in 1877, he was or- 
 dained High Priest, and set apart as Bishop over 
 the Enterprise Ward, in which office he contin- 
 ued until the consolidation of that ward with the 
 Peterson Ward in 1901. He was for twenty 
 years Stake Superintendent of Sunday Schools 
 and upon resigning that position was tendered a 
 banquet and presented with a handsome gold- 
 headed cane, on which was engraved his name 
 
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 and the number of years he had served in that 
 office. He has been one of the most active men 
 of his ward in all enterprises for the advance- 
 ment of the work of the Church, and by his long 
 life of upright and honorable living has won the 
 esteem of the people with whom he has come in 
 contact, as well as the confidence of the leaders 
 of the Church and those with whom he has been 
 associated in business life, and is today enjoying 
 the fruits of a well-spent life. 
 
 \MES JOHAXSON, for a number of 
 years, has been a leading spirit in many 
 of the enterprises of Morgan county, 
 and is considered one of the substan- 
 tial men of his county. He is a 
 native of Denmark, where he was born in 1855, 
 and is the oldest of a family of five children. He 
 came to Utah with his parents, Paul and Mattie 
 Johanson, when but fourteen years of age. They 
 had become converts to the Mormon religion in 
 1867, and two years later emigrated to America, 
 coming to Utah in 1869, ^"d locating at Milton, 
 where the father located a farm and died in 1884. 
 The mother died in Salt Lake City in 1890. 
 
 The early education of our subject was received 
 from the schools of Denmark, and later attended 
 the schools in Utah. When quite a young man 
 he began life for himself, working for a time 
 on the Union Pacific railroad, as trackman, and 
 later being promoted to the position of section 
 foreman, living at Echo. He continued in this 
 work two and a half years, when he located a 
 farm at Littleton, where he has since resided. 
 Besides this land, he has bought a number of 
 other pieces, both range and farming land, and 
 has branched out into the cattle business, rais- 
 ing beeves for market, and is now one of the 
 prosperous and successful ranchers of that 
 county. His land is all under irrigation, most 
 of the water being obtained from the Littleton 
 and Milton irrigating ditch, of which he was one 
 of the promoters and assisted in building. 
 
 Our subject was married in 18S3 to Miss Caro- 
 line M. Nielson, daughter of Soren and Anne 
 Maria (Poulson) Nielson, natives of Denmark, 
 who came to Utah in 1866. Bv this marriage 
 
 they have three children living — .\nnie C, Ar- 
 thur and Dora. 
 
 Since the division of the parties on national 
 political lines, Mr. Johanson has cast his fortunes 
 with the Republican party, and has been quite an 
 active worker in its ranks. He has held the 
 office of a Justice of the Peace for two terms, his 
 second term not having expired, and has also 
 been a school trustee. He is a director of the 
 Live Stock Range Company, and identified with 
 many of the enterprises looking toward the ad- 
 vancement and development of the industries of 
 his section of the State. Mr. Johanson was also 
 deputy Registration Officer from 1891 until the 
 Territory was admitted into the Union as a 
 State. 
 
 AMES F. SMITH, one of the most 
 prominent young lawyers in Salt Lake 
 City, and who has already made an envi- 
 able career in his chosen profession, was 
 born in this city in 1872. He is a son of 
 James Smith, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, 
 who came to Utah in 1869. His wife, Mary 
 (Bowdidge) Smith, the mother of the subject 
 of this sketch, was a native of the Island of Jer- 
 sey, a British possession near the coast of 
 France. She emigrated to the L^nited States in 
 1865, in which year she arrived in Salt Lake 
 City. 
 
 Their son, James, was educated in the public 
 schools of this city, and later took a course in 
 All Hallows College here. Owing to the lim- 
 ited means of his parents, and the necessity of 
 earning his own living, at the age of eleven years 
 he secured employment as cash boy in the Zion 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution, where he 
 remained for about one year, and then secured 
 employment in a grocery business. He later 
 mastered the painting and glazing trade, and fol- 
 lowed that occupation for five or six years. His 
 next business was with the glass firm of G. F. 
 Culmer Brothers, where he remained for about 
 four years, and then entered the employ of the 
 Salt Lake Building and Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, remaining with this latter establishment for 
 about two years. He was early alive to the im- 
 
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 portaiice of increasing his store of knowledge, 
 and \vit)i that end in view, took a course in the 
 Salt Lake Business College, and was later a clerk 
 in the Morgan Hotel, during which time all his 
 spare moments were applied to his studies, and 
 in 1894 he began the study of law, reading with 
 the firm of Chas. J- Pence and C. E. Allen. He 
 continued to work in the day time and study late 
 at night during 1895. On September 15th of the 
 following year he accepted a position in the of- 
 fice of this firm, where he pursued his studies 
 until his admission to the bar of the Supreme 
 Court of Utah. He then opened a law office and 
 struck out for himself. His first start was in a 
 room about six feet wide and ten feet long. His 
 equipment was, to say the least, so far as books 
 were concerned, of a very limited order. His 
 application to his study and the ability which he 
 demonstrated in the successful conduct of the 
 cases entrusted to him, soon led to an increase in 
 his practice, and he is now one of the most suc- 
 cessful young attorneys in Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Smith was married in 1893 to Miss Eliza 
 A. Morgan, daughter of Elder John M. Mor- 
 gan, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints. His wife's mother was a 
 daughter of Nicholas Groesbeck, who was one 
 of the early settlers of Utah. 
 
 In political life Mr. Smith is a firm believer 
 in the principles of the Republican party, and 
 while he has taken an active part in its work, 
 has never sought or held public office. He, like 
 his parents, is a member of the Mormon Church, 
 and has been a faithful worker in its behalf. He 
 has acquired a prominent place in the legal and 
 social circles of Salt Lake, and enjoys a wide 
 popularity. 
 
 O'BERT YOUNG, one of the promi- 
 nent men of affairs of Summit county, 
 residing at Wanship. A native of New 
 Jersey, having been born in Paterson, 
 June 25, 185 1. When only a boy of 
 eight years his people emigrated from that State 
 to Utah and settled in Salt Lake City, where Mr. 
 Young grew to manhood. What education he 
 received was obtained from the common schools 
 
 of that city. When quite a younpf boy, we find 
 him assisting his father in various ways in the 
 undertakings with which he was connected — 
 such as building railroads, sawmills, stock rais- 
 ing and many other enterprises for the building 
 up and developing of the State. 
 
 Ebenezer R. Young, Senior, the father of our 
 subject, was a native of Staten Island. New 
 York, where he was born in 1816. His father 
 was a sailor on a man-of-war, and died before 
 his son was born. The mother married again, 
 leaving her son the sole representative of the 
 Young family. He grew to manhood and be- 
 came quite wealthy, owning cotton factories at 
 Westport, Connecticut, and Paterson, New Jer- 
 sey. He crossed the plains with his family in 
 1858, making a home for his family in Salt Lake 
 City, and then took up freighting over the prai- 
 ries, making twelve trips across the plains from 
 Omaha to Salt Lake, bringing the first machin- 
 ery for the woolen mills, and also a considerable 
 amount of merchandise. He at one time owned 
 a store on First South street, wnere Culmer 
 Brothers are located at this time. In 1862 he 
 moved to the Sugar House Ward, where he 
 started a woolen mill in connection with Brig- 
 ham Young, and remained there for several 
 years. He also made molasses from sugar cane. 
 In 1865 he bought the grist mill and property 
 at Wanship and followed the milling business 
 there for some years. He also engaged in the 
 general merchandise business at Wanship, and 
 in farming, owning two hundred and fifty acres 
 of land at one time. In 1868 he took a contract 
 for buildinp- a portion of the Union Pacific rail- 
 road in Echo and Weber canyons. He also spent 
 three years floating ties down the Weber river 
 for the railroad company. He was one of the 
 most prominent and widely known men of the 
 State, and the industries he fostered gave a new 
 impetus not only to the life of this State, but to 
 the whole inter-mountain region. His political 
 sympathies were with the Democratic party, and 
 for several years he was United States Court 
 Commissioner. He also served as Justice of 
 the Peace. In Church afifairs he displayed the 
 same zeal that characterized his life in other mat- 
 ters. He made two trips to the East on mission- 
 
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 ary work, and took an active part in advancing 
 the work at home. He was President of the 
 Twenty-seventh Ouoruin of Seventies. He 
 gave much of his means towards the erection of 
 schools and meeting houses, and was noted for 
 liis Hberahty and charitable nature. He died in 
 1889, greatly mourned throughout the whole 
 State. His wife and the mother of our subject 
 was Margaret Holden, a native of England. She 
 died in Wanship in 1886. leaving a family of 
 seven children — Ebenezer R., Junior ; John W., 
 of Los Angeles ; Robert, our subject ; George W., 
 Margaret Y., widow of John W. Taylor; Mary, 
 wife of Judge Appleby, and Esther E., wife of 
 P. T. Curtis. 
 
 Our subject grew up in Salt Lake City and 
 Sugar House Ward, and obtained his education 
 in those two places. His education, however, 
 was of a limited character, owing to the fact that 
 he was his father's almost constant companion 
 and associated with him in almost all of his en- 
 terprises. He had an interest in the sawmill 
 business in Summit county, and followed freight- 
 ing all over the State, hauling supplies to 
 the mining camps. After the death of his 
 father he and his brother, George W., took 
 a contract for building part of the rail- 
 road from Park City to Heber. They completed 
 their contract, but were heavy losers. These 
 two brothers bought out ihe estate of their father 
 and continued the store a. Wanship until 1899, 
 under the name of G. W. & R. Young, our sub- 
 ject carrying on a ranching and cattle raising 
 business at the same time. His farm consists of 
 three hundred and fifty acres of good land at 
 Marion, where he keeps Hereford and short- 
 horn cattle, and some good horses. He makes 
 a specialty of raising a high-grade of stock. He is 
 the owner of a private ditch taken from the Weber 
 river, and has his piace under a good system of ir- 
 rigation. He has been interested to some extent in 
 mining in his section of the countr) and has out- 
 fitted a number of prospectors. 
 
 Mr. Young was married in 1876 to Miss Annie 
 Taylor (Shreve), a daughter of Edwin and Eliz- 
 abeth Shreve of New Jersey. They have five 
 children— Robert S., Annie R., William S.. Ed- 
 win R., and Elizabeth, who died in infancy. 
 
 In political life Mr. Young is a member of the 
 Republican party. He is Chairman of the County 
 Central Committee, and has been a delegate to 
 all the county and State conventions. He is 
 Road Supervisor of his district, and active in all 
 matters pertaining to the welfare of the county. 
 
 No man of Summit county has been more 
 prominently before the people than has Mr. 
 Young, and his life, both private, public and in 
 business walks, has been such as to win and re- 
 tain the confidence and esteeem of the citizens of 
 his community, and he is today one of the most 
 deservedly popular men of that portion of the 
 State. 
 
 DWARD WHITE was born in Essex, 
 England, February 8, 1831. He is the 
 son of Henry and Anna (Arnold) 
 White, who were both natives of the 
 same part of England, and lived and 
 died in that country. Edward was the third son 
 in the family, and his father died when he was 
 eight years old, so that his education was neces- 
 sarily of a limited nature. Our subject followed 
 the sea for a living, and had a cutter or fishing 
 vessel and made trips in the harbor of Chiches- 
 ter and to the fishing banks, and also made trips 
 between England and France, following that life 
 for over twenty years. On one of these trips his 
 brother Matthew was lost overboard from the 
 smack. Mr. White was for a long time em- 
 ployed in the English squadron, and was stew- 
 ard and seaman on th; yacht Beatrice, owned by 
 Sir Walter Carue, and later owned by Squire 
 Rose of Monmouthshire, and held that position 
 for over four seasons. He was also purchasing 
 agent for that yacht at times. He was later em- 
 ployed on the steam yacht Serious, owned by 
 Lord Brownlow, and served for one season in 
 the Mediterranean. He was later cook on a 
 yawl yacht owned by Lord Gray. All these boats 
 belonged to Englislimen and were sailed by Eng- 
 lish crews. He was also for a time engaged in 
 the transportation of coal by vessels. 
 
 He had joined the Mormon Church in England 
 in the early fifties, and in 1864 Mr. White came 
 to America in the company which President Can- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 non organized, making the trip on board the ship 
 Hudson, with nine hundred Mormons and two 
 hundred Gentiles. On the trip across the ocean, 
 the charge of the cooking was sriven to Mr. 
 White. The ship arrived at New York in July, 
 1864, and they immediately left for the West. 
 At Omaha the emigrants were divided into trains, 
 and Warren Swan was captain of the company in 
 crossing the plains. Mr. White was the driver 
 of an ox team, and walked all the way from 
 Omaha to Utah, arriving in Weber on October 
 29, 1864. Upon his arrival in this State, Mr. 
 White was employed as a cook in the mines. The 
 winter that followed that year was an exception- 
 ally hard one, and food being scarce, commodi- 
 ties commanded an unusual price, flour bringing 
 twenty-four dollars a sack. Late in that winter 
 Mr. White secured a contract for the building of 
 the city canal in Salt Lake, and brought his 
 family to Salt Lake City from Weber in Febru- 
 ary, 1865. He worked on the canal for a year, 
 and then, in 1866, removed to Mill Creek Ward 
 and bought a squatter's claim and took up a 
 quarter section, and later let other men settle on 
 and cultivate a part of his claim. His home- 
 stead is located between Thirteenth and Four- 
 teenth East and Thirteenth and Fourteenth South 
 streets. When Mr. White took up his land here 
 this part of the Ward was all prairie land, and he 
 was the first settler to break the soil and bend 
 his energies to the cultivation of the land. The 
 Ward in which he then lived is now known as 
 Wilford Ward. 
 
 Mr. White was married in England to Miss 
 Eliza Howick, daughter of William and Char- 
 lotte (Carter) Howick, and by this marriage they 
 have had ten children, who are still living, and 
 they also adopted a son. They are Kezia, now 
 Mrs. Walter Howick, of Wilford Ward; Ka- 
 tura, now the wife of Mr. James Carlisle, of 
 Mill Creek Ward ; Edward, a resident of Wilford 
 Ward; Eunice, wife of T. Falkins, of Granger 
 Ward, one of the High Counselors of Granite 
 Stake; John Williain, First Counselor to Bishop 
 Cummins ; Hannah, now Mrs. John T. Lythgo, 
 of Wilford Ward; Henry H., in Wilford Ward; 
 Matthew, and Eliza E., twins; Eliza E. died at 
 the age of three years; Joseph A., absent on a 
 
 mission in England, where he has been for two 
 years ; Mahonrimoriancumur, at home, and the 
 adopted son, Eugene B. 
 
 In political life Mr. White is a Democrat, and 
 has taken an active part in the afifairs of his 
 party. He served seventeen months on a mission 
 to England, and two of his sons — John W. and 
 Henry H. — and his sons-in-law — Tobe Falkins, 
 James Carlisle and Walter Howick — have all 
 served on missions for the Church, the latter in 
 England. His homestead shows the result of 
 his constant, hard work and application to the 
 cultivation of his farm. The whole place is well 
 improved and well kept ; the buildings are good, 
 the fences in repair, and all the land is in a high 
 state of cultivation. He has demonstrated that 
 he is one of the most able farmers in Salt Lake 
 county and one of its most substantial citizens. 
 He has aided greatly in the growth, not only of 
 the Church, but of the country as well, and enjoys 
 the respect and esteem of all his neighbors, and 
 the confidence and trust of the leaders of the 
 Church. i 
 
 OUIS W. SMITH has for over forty 
 years been a resident in the Kamas Val- 
 ley, Summit county. He has taken an 
 active part in the development of his 
 county, more particularly along agricul- 
 tural and live stock lines. He has been an eye- 
 witness to its remarkable growth from a wild 
 sage brush country to its present prosperous con- 
 dition. While Mr. Smith is a native of Ger- 
 many, most of his life has been spent in the 
 United States, having come to this country when 
 only seventeen years of age. His love for Amer- 
 ica and her institutions has been fully verified, 
 for as early as 1858, in the city of Philadelphia, 
 he enlisted as a soldier in the regular army, 
 Tenth United States Infantry, under command 
 of General Johnston, and continued in the serv- 
 ice until he received his honorable discharge at 
 Fort Douglas, March 11, 1863. 
 
 ]\Ir. Smith was born in Prussia in 1837. After 
 receiving his discharge from the army, he located 
 in Salt Lake City, where he bought some prop- 
 erty, where he was married in 1863 to Miss Mary 
 
BIOGRAPHICAi: RECORD. 
 
 223 
 
 Ann Richards, a native of England, who came 
 to the United States in 1861. They have had 
 five children, three of whom are living — Louis 
 W., Junior; Mary Jane, wife of George Whipple, 
 and Mary Ann, the wife of Thomas fiates, of 
 Wanship. 
 
 Soon after his marriage, our subject purchased 
 his present farm from "Father" Rhodes, who was 
 the first settler in this valley, and with the excep- 
 tion of eighteen months spent in Ogden, where 
 he engaged in the lumber business, he has since 
 made his home here. He has done a general 
 farming business, and also engaged largely in 
 stock raising, having at times a herd of five hun- 
 dred head of cattle, and has been very success- 
 ful in all his farming ventures. He has pur- 
 chased land from time to time as he has been 
 able, and now has two hundred acres under cul- 
 tivation, obtaining the water for irrigation pur- 
 poses from Beaver creek. He also supplies the 
 creamery near this place with a large part of the 
 milk it consumes. 
 
 Mr. Smith has never affiliated with any polit- 
 ical party, preferrin?- to use his own judgment, 
 and voting for the man he considers best fitted 
 for the office. He is broad-minded and liberal in 
 his views and believes in according everyone the 
 right to follow the dictates of his own conscience. 
 
 He has devoted some time to prospecting in 
 mining, both in Utah and in Wyoming. He has 
 found a few good specimens of gold on his own 
 farm, but not enough to encourage him to pros- 
 pect to any large extent. He is interested in some 
 mining properties in Sweetwater county, Wyom- 
 ing, and also owns the Hoodoo mine in Fremont 
 county, Wyoming, which gives promise of being 
 a good producer. 
 
 A. CUNNINGHAA/[. Among the prom- 
 inent financial institutions of Utah, and 
 which have aided materially in the devel- 
 opment of Salt Lake, is the Bank of Com- 
 merce, whose affairs are directed by 
 the subject of this sketch, and he is now among 
 the leading men of the city, both in financial and 
 in mining affairs. 
 
 J. A. Cunningham was born in Quincy, Illi- 
 nois, in 1842, where he lived until the sixth year 
 of his life, when his parents removed to Salt 
 Lake City. He was the oldest son of the family. 
 His father, Andrew Cunningham, was a native 
 of West Virginia, and after settling in Utah en- 
 gaged in farming and stock raising, his farm be- 
 ing close to the city. He was held in high repute 
 by the citizens, and was elected City Marshal, 
 which position he held for some time, and was 
 also a member of the City Council for two terms. 
 He cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, and 
 all his life had been a staunch Democrat. The 
 Cunningham family were among the early set- 
 tlers of Virginia, coming to that State in 1765, 
 and participating in the Revolutionary War. The 
 mother of our subject, Lucinda (Rawlins) Cun- 
 ningham, was born in Indiana, but spent her 
 early life in Illinois, to which State her parents 
 moved in 1822. Her father, James Rawlins, was 
 a successful farmer. He was a participant in 
 the War of 1812, and was in the historic battle 
 of New Orleans, when General Jackson com- 
 manded the American forces. James Rawlins 
 was born in South Carolina, his family being 
 among the oldest settlers in that State. 
 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days on his 
 father's farm in Utah, and received his educa- 
 tion in the common schools of Salt Lake City. 
 He remained at home, aiding his father in the 
 cultivation of his farm, until he was twenty-six 
 years of age, when he started out for himself, 
 his first work being freighting goods to Mon- 
 tana from Salt Lake City. This he followed until 
 1873, when he became interested in mining, with 
 which he has been prominently identified ever 
 since. He is largely interested in the Mammoth 
 mine, being connected with that property since 
 1873. This is considered one of the best min- 
 ing properties of the West, and is a very suc- 
 cessful mine. He is also interested in a large 
 number of other mines in Utah and Nevada. In 
 addition to his mining property, he formerly had 
 large interests in stock raising, most of his 
 ranches being then in this State. At present he 
 is engaged in sheep raising in Wyoming. For 
 a number of years he held large live stock in- 
 terests in Canada, but subsequently sold his prop- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 erty in that country. He turned his attention 
 to banking, and was one of the original organ- 
 izers of the Bank of Commerce, which was estab- 
 lished in 1873. He has always been a large stock- 
 holder in that institution, and was a director in 
 it for a number of years. He became its presi- 
 dent last year, and has continued to hold that 
 position. The bank is one of the solid financial 
 institutions in Salt Lake City and Utah as well, 
 and is handsomely fitted with the most modern 
 equipments for the conduct of its business. 
 
 Mr. Cunningham was married in 1870, in Salt 
 Lake City, to Miss Jennette Forsyth, daughter 
 of Thomas Forsyth, one of the early settlers of 
 Utah, who came here in 1852. By this marriage, 
 Mr. Cunningham has six children, two sons — 
 James, teller in the Bank of Commerce, and Roy, 
 with the Conklin Smelting Works of Salt Lake, 
 — and four daughters. 
 
 In political life Mr. Cunningham is a staunch 
 adherent of the Democratic party, and while he 
 has taken an active interest in its welfare, he 
 has never participated actively in the work, so 
 far as solicitation for office is concerned. He 
 has never held public office of any kind, but has 
 devoted his entire time and attention to his grow- 
 ing business interests. His father was a promi- 
 nent member of the Mormon Church, and 
 throughout his life aided it in every way — in the 
 work of its development and in the work of 
 building up Utah. He assisted in building the 
 Salt Lake Temple, and has been prominent in 
 the other works of the Church. He was a Bishop 
 from 1852 to the time of his death, in 1868. His 
 son, our subject, is also a member of the Church, 
 but holds no office in it. 
 
 The success which Mr. Cunningham has made 
 marks his as one of the leading business men of 
 Salt Lake City. He is a self-made man, and 
 has won his wealth and position by the exercise 
 of his own ability. When he left his father's 
 farm to work for himself, he had but one team 
 and wagon, the total value of which was four 
 hundred dollars. His financial business has 
 brought him into close relations with a great 
 number of people throughout the State, and his 
 genial and courteous manner has made him one 
 of the most popular men of Utah. 
 
 TDGE CHARLES M. NIELSEN, one 
 I if the leading and representative men of 
 Salt Lake City, was born in Christian, 
 Norway, in 1856. His early life was spent 
 in his native land, where he grew to man- 
 In )od. and his education received from the com- 
 mon schools of that country. However, his early 
 scholastic education was but meager, as, on ac- 
 count of his parents being in poor circumstances, 
 it became necessary for our subject to early start 
 in life for himself. At the tender age of ten 
 years he was employed as cash boy in the stores 
 of his native place, and later came to be a clerk, 
 which occupation he followed until 1876. Judge 
 Nielsen was, as a mere boy, of an ambitious tem- 
 perament, and longed to make a name for him- 
 self in the great world. Like most boys of his 
 country, he heard much of the new country 
 across the ocean, and of the wonderful opportu- 
 nities it offered for young men to acquire wealth 
 and fame, and, fired with an ambition to share 
 in the good things which America so freely of- 
 fered to the aspiring and worthy, he left his na- 
 tive land and kindred and emigrated to the 
 United States, coming direct to Utah. The first 
 few years of his life in this new land were spent 
 in the mines, laying aside his earnings until he 
 could secure enough means to obtain a foothold. 
 He then engaged in farming for a few years, prin- 
 cipally in Salt Lake county, but this being dis- 
 tasteful to him, he abandoned it and for the next 
 seven years was employed by a number of firms 
 as a clerk, working a portion of the time for the 
 firm of Barnes, Lewis & Company. He was then 
 employed for a time as bailiff in the Third Ju- 
 dicial Court of the Territory of Utah. During 
 all these years the Judge had not forgotten the 
 ambitions of his early manhood, and while being 
 compelled to labor at such occupations as of- 
 fered, he improved all his spare time by studying. 
 At first he took up the study of law by himself, 
 and later attended the night sessions of the pri- 
 vate law schools of this city. He made such 
 headway that he was enabled to pass his exami- 
 nation and was admitted to practice before the 
 bar in this State in 1895. He at once entered 
 upon the practice of his chosen profession, which 
 he followed for the next three vears. and in i8q8 
 
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 225 
 
 was elected Justice of the Peace, and at the ex- 
 piration of his office, was re-elected in 1900, his 
 second term not having yet expired. 
 
 In politics Judee Xielsen has always been iden- 
 tified with the Democratic party, and has taken 
 an active part in its work. 
 
 He married in Salt Lake City in 1886 to Miss 
 Margaret Peterson, a native of the same section 
 of Norway as himself. They have seven living 
 children. 
 
 The career of Jude-e Nielsen is one that may 
 well serve not only as an example, but as an 
 inspiration to the youth of this country. Be- 
 ginning life as a mere child, handicapped by a 
 lack of book lore, he has continued undaunted on 
 the career which he early marked out for him- 
 self, and has overcome apparently unsurmount- 
 able obstacles, mastering a foreign language and 
 taking up the study of the law at an age when 
 other men are usually long past their student 
 days and well launched in their careers. He be- 
 came a member of the Mormon Church in his 
 boyhood days. His upright and honorable career 
 since becoming a resident of L^tah has won for 
 him the confidence and esteem of a host of 
 friends. 
 
 ILLIAM A. LEE is a lineal descend- 
 ant of the celebrated \ irginia fam- 
 ily bearing that name. John Lee, 
 the eldest son of William and 
 Catherine Lee, was born in Berk- 
 eley countw Virginia, in 1767. and soon after 
 the close of the Revolutionary War removed 
 to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and there 
 married Isabel Hays, she being a member of the 
 Hays family from which the President was de- 
 scended. Of this marriage there were thirteen 
 children born, the fourth, David R. Lee, was the 
 grandfather of the subject of this sketch. 
 
 William A. Lee was born in Falls City, Ne- 
 braska, December nth. 1859, and about the time 
 of the breaking out of the Civil War his father, 
 Benjamin F. Lee, returned to Warren county, 
 Iowa, where his father's family resided, and en- 
 listed in the i8th Iowa Infantry and served with 
 his regiment until he was killed in the battle 
 
 of Springfield, Missouri, in 1863. As this 
 branch of the family had resided in the North 
 for several generations, its sympathies were with 
 the L^nion cause and all the sons of David R. 
 Lee, who were old enough to bear arms, were in 
 the National Army. 
 
 The mother of William A. Lee was Sarah Jane 
 Worley, who belonged to one of the oldest fami- 
 lies of Valparaiso. Indiana, which emigrated 
 to Iowa in an early day, vyhere she and Benjamin 
 F. Lee were married, the issue of the marriage 
 being two daughters and one son. After the 
 death of her husband, the young widow and her 
 three children passed through the trials and hard- 
 ships incident to that trying period, and as a 
 consequence, the son had cast upon him the re- 
 sponsibility of caring for a large farm by the 
 time he was thirteen years of age. Here he spent 
 the earlier years of his life and later he took a 
 course at Simpson College, Indianolo, Iowa, and 
 in 1885 he completed a course in law at Washing- 
 ton L^niversity, St. Louis, taking the degree of 
 Bachelor of Law with the class of that year. He 
 immediately entered upon the practice of law, 
 locating in Central City, Nebraska, and being 
 associated with the Hon. Wm. T. Thompson of 
 that place, under the firm name of Lee & Thomp- 
 son. 
 
 In 1887 he was married to Miss Mollie Foulks, 
 of Chariton. Iowa, an acquaintance of his early 
 youth, and of this marriage there were three 
 children born, Corwin, Margaret and Nellie 
 Reid Lee. In 1892, his wife's health having be- 
 come seriously impaired, he removed to Ogden, 
 L^tah, in the hope that the climatic change might 
 prolong her life, but without avail, for she con- 
 tinued to decline, and tne followine year died. 
 
 Upon his coming to Utah he formed a partner- 
 ship for the practice of law with W. H. Harvey, 
 which was dissolved upon Mr. Harvey entering 
 the field of political authorship. 
 
 The first State Legislature provided for a com- 
 mission to codefy and revise the statute law to 
 meet the requirements of the new Constitution 
 and empowered the Governor to appoint three 
 commissioners to do this work. Richard W. 
 Young, Grant H. Smith, of Salt Lake, and Wil- 
 liam A. Lee, then of Ogden, were appointed as 
 
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 such commissioners. The work of the commis- 
 sion was submitted to tlie subsequent legislature 
 and was adopted with few changes, the commis- 
 sion being continued to annotate and otherwise 
 arrange and publish the same, the completed 
 work being the Revised Statutes of 1898, one 
 of the best arranged and most carefully edited 
 statutes in existence today as regards the work 
 of the compilers. 
 
 After completing this work he was appointed 
 Assistant Attorney-General, and served in that 
 capacity until the end of the first official term 
 after Statehood. During this period, it devolved 
 upon this office to determine an unusually large 
 number of important questions growing out of 
 the new conditions incident to statehood, the new 
 constitution and the revision of all the statute 
 laws. With most of the questions, the opinions 
 rendered by the Attorney-General were accepted 
 as the law, but many were taken to the State 
 Supreme Court, and not a few went up to the Su- 
 preme Court of the United States. With few ex- 
 ceptions the position taken by the Attorney-Gen- 
 eral's office were sustained by the courts, and the 
 records of that office for the term show it to have 
 been administered with exceptional ability. Very 
 much of the credit for the efficient manner in 
 which the duties of this responsible office were 
 administered is, according to the testimony of the 
 principal, due to the assistant. 
 
 In 1896, Mr. Lee was married to i\Iiss LiHyan 
 Mae Seaton, of Evanston, Wyoming, and of this 
 marriage one son, Richard Amalphus Lee, a 
 bright lad of four years, has been born. 
 
 Mr. Lee has always been in national politics 
 a stalwart Republican, and had, prior to leaving 
 Nebraska, served his party in various important 
 capacities and for years was chairman of the 
 County Central Committee, and had also held 
 positions of honor and trust, such as City At- 
 torney and Public Prosecutor, and since coming 
 to Utah has always been identified with that ele- 
 ment of the Republican party that stood upon the 
 platform of principles announced by national con- 
 ventions. 
 
 He is a member of the order of Knights of 
 Phythias, and for several years represented his 
 lodge in the Grand Lodge of Nebraska, and is 
 
 also a member of the Modern Woodmen and 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
 Since his retirement from office he has devoted 
 himself to the practice of his profession and is the 
 senior member of the law firm of Lee & Sweet, 
 one of the best-known firms among the younger 
 lawyers of Salt Lake City. 
 
 ILLIAM E. PARKER. The live 
 stock interests of Utah have formed 
 a valuable adjunct in the history of 
 the State and have been instrumen- 
 tal in paving the way for many of 
 the great and successful financial enterprises 
 which have been built up in this State. Among 
 the men who have been closely identified with 
 the life of the stock business of L^tah should be 
 mentioned William E. Parker, the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 He was born in Salt Lake City February 8, 
 1861. and is the son of William and Mary Parker. 
 When he was two years of age his parents moved 
 to Taylorsville, where they continued to reside, 
 and a sketch of William Parker is to be found 
 elsewhere in this work. Our subject spent his 
 boyhood days on his father's farm herding his 
 father's cattle, attending school for only a few 
 months during the winter time. At that time. 
 the facilities for educating the children of the 
 pioneers were but limited, and our subject re- 
 ceived only such education as the schools of his 
 vicinity afforded. As he grew towards man- 
 hood he spent a number of years herding in the 
 deserts. 
 
 ]\Ir. Parker was married on April 24, 1884, 
 to Miss ]\Iary Swenson, a daughter of Peter and 
 Charstey Swenson, and by this marriage they have 
 seven children — Winifred, Ethel, Edward W., 
 Harvey A., Aleen and Verda, twins, and Samuel 
 S. Mr. Parker settled at his present homestead 
 in 1886. He owns a fine farm of sixty-eight 
 acres two miles south of the Taylorsville post 
 office, on the Redwood road. The place is well 
 improved with good barns, fences, etc., and he 
 has built a handsome brick residence on it. His 
 house is near one of the finest schools in the 
 county, and his children are receiving the benefits 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 227 
 
 of the higher educational facihies that were de- 
 nied their father. In addition to his farming 
 interests Mr. Parker is also largely interested in 
 the sheep industry, having large sheep interests 
 in Idaho, where he ranges and keeps his herds. 
 
 Our subject in political matters is a staunch 
 adherent of the principles of the Republican 
 party, having been an ardent follower of that 
 party ever since its organization in this State, 
 but owing to his large, business interests has 
 never taken an active part in its work, to the ex- 
 tent of seeking or holding office. Both he and 
 his family are members of the Mormon Church, 
 in which he has been a Ward teacher, and is at 
 this time an officer in the Mutual Improvement 
 Association of his Ward. Mrs. Parker is also 
 actively identified with the work of the Church, 
 being a member of the Ladies' Relief Society, 
 and her oldest daughter belongs to the Young 
 Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. 
 
 Mr. Parker is well and favorably known both in 
 this vicinity and Idaho as a sterling business man, 
 and aside from the confidence and esteem of the 
 heads of the Church to which he belongs, he en- 
 joys the friendship of a large circle of people. 
 
 m 
 
 AMUEL G. SPENCER. Aluch has 
 fitly been said in praise of the brave men 
 and women who sacrificed fortune and 
 friends and came across the plains in 
 the face of many trials, dangers and 
 discouragements to plant in this then far-oflf place 
 a Church and make for themselves and their 
 children a home wherein they could follow un- 
 molested the teachings of their Church ; and 
 rocked in the cradle of this spirit of independence 
 and hardihood were the children born of those 
 parents in the early days. Among those who 
 have been born in this State and nurtured in the 
 teachings and doctrines of the Mormfln Church 
 by zealous and earnest parents, is the subject of 
 this sketch. 
 
 Samuel G. Spencer was born in Salt Lake City 
 February 14, 18C4, and is the son of Daniel and 
 Mary Jane (Cutclifife) Spencer. The Spencer fam- 
 ily has always taken an active and prominent part 
 in the life-work of the Church and State, and a 
 
 full biographical sketch of this interesting people 
 is to be found elsewhere in this work. Our subject 
 was the oiilv boy in a family of five. The first nine 
 years of his life were spent in Salt Lake City, 
 when the family moved to the country. He re- 
 turned later and attended Miss Cook's academy 
 for six years, receiving there a good academic 
 education. 
 
 Our subject has been twice married. His first 
 wife was Miss Emma Gedge, daughter of Wil- 
 liam and Rachel (Bush) Gedge, to whom he was 
 married December 21, 1882. Mrs. Spencer was 
 born August 30, 1864. They had the following 
 children: Daniel G., Samuel G., Ira O., Louie 
 E., Ivy R., Israel C, died in infancy; William 
 G. On October 14, 1885, Mr. Spencer married as 
 his second wife, Maria Baker, daughter of Al- 
 bert M. and Jane (Coon) Baker. She was born 
 May 8, 1867. Her children are: Albert, who 
 died in infancy; Alma B., David B., Pearl B., 
 Clawson, died in infancy; Rhoda, Zina B. and 
 Owen B. 
 
 Our subject took up farming and began his 
 life work at the time of his marriage, which oc- 
 curred soon after leaving school. He owns two 
 hundred acres of fine farming land, on a part of 
 which he lives. He also rents seventy-five acres 
 of land and some stock of his mother, for which 
 he pays her a yearly rental of six hundred dol- 
 lars. His business interests have covered a wide 
 field. In addition to farming, he is a large sheep. 
 owner, owning eighteen hundred acres of grazing 
 land, and also conducts a dairy farm, which is a 
 model of cleanliness and equipped with every 
 modern convenience known to that business. He 
 is now erecting a building in which he intends 
 conducting a general merchandise business. Mr. 
 Spencer's interests have not been confined to ac- 
 cumulating wealth and honors for himself, but 
 he has always been one of the staunch men of 
 his community, doing everything possible for its- 
 advancement and prosperity. He is a friend of 
 education, and it was largely through his efforts 
 that the excellent school and meeting house were 
 built in his Ward. The projectors of any plan 
 for the advancement of the interests of the com- 
 munity in which he lives have ever found in Mr. 
 Spencer a ready and liberal supporter. He has 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 been affiliated with the RepubUcan party since its 
 organization in this State and has held the office 
 of justice of the peace, as well as serving as trus- 
 tee of the school board. Both Mr. and Mrs. Spen- 
 cer are members of the Mormon Church and act- 
 ive in its work. Mr. Spencer was first ordained an 
 Elder, then a Seventy and is at this time President 
 of the Fourteenth Quorum of the Seventres. He 
 has also served the Church in the mission fields, 
 being called to the Southern States and laboring 
 in Georgia for twenty-six months. In 1894 he 
 was called to fill a mission to the Northern States 
 where he presided over the Northwest mission 
 with headquarters in Kansas City. In Sunday 
 School work he has been for years a teacher in the 
 theological department, and also filled the office of 
 President of the Young Men's Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association for years. Mrs. Spencer is a 
 member of the Ladies' Relief Society, in which 
 she is a prominent worker, and is foremost in 
 her Ward in all charitable projects. 
 
 Mr. Spencer has by energy, determination and 
 persevering hard work, demonstrated that suc- 
 cess comes to those who earnestly seek it, and 
 today he stands high in the business ranks of 
 Salt Lake county, and his fine home surrounded 
 by one of the best orchards in the county, if not 
 in the State, is a monument to his life work, of 
 which any man might well be proud. He has 
 ever been found an upright, conscientious and 
 "zealous worker in the interests of both Church 
 and State, and today occupies a high place in the 
 confidence and trust of not only the leaders of 
 the Mormon Church, but of those with whom he 
 has been associated in business as well, and by his 
 genial and pleasant manner, his hieh-mindedness 
 and his broad hospitality, has won for himself a 
 host of friends. 
 
 APTAIN J. E. HILL. One of the 
 most important industries in the life 
 of a city, and especially in a large and 
 growing community, is the supply of 
 pure milk and dairy products. The 
 work of supplying Salt Lake City and the adja- 
 cent territory with this product has grown with 
 the increased population of the city to be one 
 
 of the most important industries of this region, 
 and there is no more important establishment 
 in this work than the Elgin Creamery Company, 
 of which our subject is the President. From the 
 small and crude beginnings of the dairy business 
 in the hands of the farmers, the demand for pure 
 milk has grown to such an extent as to call for 
 able business management and improved modern 
 methods in the management and supplying of 
 this important food product to the daily life of 
 the people. The successful manner in which the 
 business of this company is conducted, is largely 
 due to the ability which its President has brought 
 to the discharge of his duties. 
 
 Captain Hill was born in Berlin, Holmes 
 county, Ohio, and lived in that section until he 
 was seventeen years of age. His boyhood days 
 were spent in working on his father's farm and 
 he attended the common schools of his State and 
 later entered the academy at West Unity, Ohio, 
 where his scholastic education was completed. 
 His parents removed, when he was seventeen 
 years of age, to Defiance, Ohio. In 1861, at the 
 outbreak of the Civil War, Captain Hill enlisted 
 in one of the Ohio regiments, and in the following 
 year was made Captain of his company. Shortly 
 after, he was sent with his regiment to Kentucky 
 and participated in the battle of Perrysville, Ken- 
 tucky, that being the first battle in which he com- 
 manded his company. He also participated in the 
 battles of Kentucky in 1862 and during the winter 
 of 1863 had command of two companies of his 
 regiment at Fort Baker, Kentucky. He was later 
 with General Burnside throughout the campaign 
 in Kentucky and Eastern Tennessee, and later 
 participated in the battle of Chattanooga. From 
 Tennessee he was sent with his regiment to Geor- 
 gia, with Sherman's army, and was at Atlanta 
 when Hood made his advance on Nashville, and 
 participated in the fight at Franklin and Nash- 
 ville. He later accompanied General Sherman's 
 army in the campaign through the Carolinas, 
 where he served until the close of the war, being 
 mustered out with the rank of captain. 
 
 i\fter the close of hostilities, he removed to 
 Illinois, and engaged in mercantile pursuits at 
 Heyworth, in that State, where he remained until 
 1872. He then removed to Beatrice. Nebraska, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 whicli at tliat time was Init a small town, and 
 there engaged in the Hve stock and farming 
 business, his ranch being located in Gage county. 
 He was then, and has always since been, a staunch 
 Republican, and took an active part in the politi- 
 cal affairs of Nebraska, being elected County 
 Clerk of Gage county, and served for three con- 
 secutive terms. He remained in Gage county, 
 filling the office of County Clerk and attending to 
 his business, until 1887, when he was appointed 
 private secretary to Governor Thayer, and in the 
 following year elected State Treasurer of Ne- 
 braska, in which position he served four years. 
 After the expiration of his term of office, he re- 
 turned to Gage county and again actively took up 
 his business life. He remained in Nebraska until 
 1901, when he came to Salt Lake City and was 
 made President of the Elgin Dairy Company, 
 which position he has held up to the present time. 
 This is one of the largest dairy plants in the 
 inter-mountain region, and at the present time 
 gives employment to thirty-eight people. Its of- 
 fice is located on State street and its extensive 
 dairy farm is in the extreme southeastern portion 
 of the city. This dairy is noted for the purity 
 of its milk and for the cleanliness with which 
 its business is conducted. In all dairy matters, 
 the prime requisite is, of course, the purity of 
 the milk, which is indispensable to the health 
 of the people, and perhaps as important a feature 
 is the use of pure water in the cleansing of the 
 bottles and vessels used in the work of supplying 
 the people with milk. 
 
 Captain Hul was married in 1866, in Illinois, 
 to Miss Laura Stewart, a native of West Vir- 
 ginia. Her people were successful agriculturalists 
 and were one of the old families of \'irginia. 
 The father of our subject, Samuel Hill, was a 
 native of Pennsylvania, but spent most of his life 
 in Ohio, and successfullv conducted a mercantile 
 business in that State. He also took an interest 
 in the political affairs of Ohio and owed al- 
 legiance to the Democratic party. His wife. 
 Pamela (Edgar) Hill, and the mother of the 
 subject of this sketch, was a member of one of 
 the old Ohio families. Her father was one of 
 the prominent men in the early settlement of that 
 State, and was a member of the old \\niig jiarty. 
 
 Captain Hill has five children — Gertrude ; Corola; 
 Herbert S., at present serving with the army in 
 the Philippines ; Winifred, and J. E., Junior, Vice- 
 President and Manager of the Elgin Dairy com- 
 pany. In political affairs, Mr. Hill, as already 
 stated, is a staunch Republican, and has followed 
 the fortunes of that party unfalteringly. In so- 
 cial life he is a member of the Grand .\rmy of 
 the Republic. 
 
 The success ■which he enjoyed in the East, and 
 the prominent part which he took in the affairs 
 of Nebraska, had marked him as one of the 
 prominent business men of the country, and the 
 successful conduct of the business in which he 
 is engaged in this region, has brought him promi- 
 nently to the front rank of the business circles 
 here. His genial and pleasant manner and his 
 integrity and honesty have won for him the con- 
 fidence and trust of all with whom he has been 
 associated. The dairy company is now one of 
 the most prosperous industries of its kind in the 
 city and its present prosperity is due, in a large 
 measure, to the able management of its Presi- 
 dent. 
 
 I.IJAH :\I. WEILER. No better illus- 
 tration of the adaptability, energy and 
 resources of the American people can 
 be found than in the conversion of Utah 
 from a wilderness to a land teeming 
 with crops and yielding from its very heart un- 
 told wealth in minerals. To the pioneers, who 
 fearlessly blazed their way across the Great .\mer- 
 ican Desert, posterity owes an unpayable debt of 
 gratitude, not alone for conquering the hostile 
 natural conditions, but for defending and main- 
 taining intact the land from foes, both savage and 
 civilized. Few men played as important a part, 
 and none exhibited greater courage, energy and 
 ability in the developing of the natural resources 
 of Utah, than did the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Elijah M. Weiler has made a career that stands 
 high in the annals of the West, not only as a 
 pioneer, but as one of the great captains in the 
 army of civilization which has brought Utah 
 to the fore, both as an agricultural and as a 
 mining State. He was born in Chester county, 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April i8. 
 1839, and eight years later, in 1847, came to Salt 
 Lake Valley with his parents. He was the young- 
 est son, and is now the only living son. of Jacob 
 Weiler, who had been an early settler of Pennsyl- 
 vania. His forefathers were natives of Germany. 
 The Weilers were among the first to reach the 
 Salt Lake \'alley, coming in in advance of the 
 party of one hundred and forty-seven, led by 
 President Brigham Young, being' one of the first 
 of four persons that arrived in advance of that 
 company. The company wintered in the old fort 
 in the winter of 1847-48. His father then built 
 a small house to shelter his family on Seventh 
 South, between First and Second East streets. 
 He also owned a farm of about twenty acres, 
 just inside the city limits, and also another farm 
 outside the city limits in the eastern portion of the 
 county. His father was a Bishop in the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for the Third 
 Ward of Salt Lake City for a period of over 
 thirty-seven years, which position he resigned two 
 years before his death on account of his age 
 and believing that his place could be better filled 
 by a man younger and more fitted to the active 
 work which such a bishopric demanded. He 
 was one of the first to assist in locating the Tem- 
 ple at Salt Lake City and was connected with 
 its building, from its foundation to its completion. 
 He was called to go on a mission for the Church, 
 to Jerusalem, with Orson Hyde and others, but 
 on arriving at New York City they found the 
 party too large, and he returned to Utah. On 
 his return from New York, he spent a considerable 
 time in the East gathering data relating to the 
 genealogy of his dead ancestors. During his 
 early sojourn in Utah he began the cultivation 
 of his farm, and with Bishop E. T. Sheets, who 
 owned the adjoining farm, worked their fields 
 jointly with one yoke of oxen and shared in the 
 labor incident to the care of both farms. Not- 
 withstanding all these difficulties and hardships 
 incident to the settlement of a new country, there 
 was never a word of complaint or a murmur of 
 discontent from any of the people. Always loyal 
 to his country and faithful to the Church of his 
 choice, a man highly respected and honored for 
 his charity and good deeds to others, he lived 
 
 to be eighty-eight years of age and died in Salt 
 Lake City on March 24, 1896. 
 
 Anna Maria Malin, the mother of the subject 
 of this sketch, and wife of Jacob Weiler, was born 
 in the same county and close to the residence 
 of her future husband. Her family, emigrated 
 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, being 
 among the first settlers of that country. Her 
 father, Elijah Malin, became a member of the 
 Church among the first days of its existence in 
 Pennsylvania. He gave up his home and followed 
 the fortunes of the Church and with his family 
 moved to Xauvoo and shared all the trials and 
 hardships to which the Church was subjected, 
 both in Illinois and Missouri. He came to Salt 
 Lake a number of years later than the pioneers 
 and died in this city. Mrs. Weiler died in 1865, 
 the next year after the marriage of her son, Eli- 
 jah. 
 
 The early life of our subject was spent on his 
 father's farm in Utah and he was educated in 
 the common schools of Salt Lake City that were 
 then in existence, following the same course as 
 did all the sons of farmers and pioneers — work- 
 ing on the farm in the summer and attending 
 school for three months in winter. In 1866 he 
 began his life work and took up farming and later 
 entered into the business of railroad contracting, 
 in which work he was identified with George 
 and Charles Crismon. The first contract which 
 this firm received was for the building of the 
 railroad from Echo to Park City, a branch of the 
 L'nion Pacific. This was a very large contract, 
 not alone from the extent of the road, but from 
 the heavy cuttings that had to be made. They 
 also built the road of the Oregon Short Line 
 from Granger to Twin Creek. They constructed 
 in all about seventy-five miles of this road, and 
 built twenty miles of the Bear River division. 
 Upon the completion of this contract, in 1881, 
 Mr. Weiler went to Missouri for the purpose of 
 purchasing mules to be used in the contract work, 
 and successfully brought them across to Utah. 
 Then Mr. Weiler, together with Mr. Crismon, 
 undertook the building of the Sweetwater Cut 
 OfT, as well as changing it from a narrow gauge 
 to a broad gauge road. They also spent a sum- 
 mer in lowering the grade at Brigham City. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 231 
 
 From railroad contractino;- Mr. \\'eiler turned 
 his attention to the sheep-raising industry, and 
 went to Iowa where he purcliased a large drove 
 of sheep and successfully brought them to Utah. 
 He devoted about seventeen years to the ?heep- 
 raising business and was associated with Mr. Cris- 
 mon in the adoption of the migratory movement 
 of sheep from one range in summer to another in 
 winter, which proved to be successful and profit- 
 able. This business he continued in until about 
 1890, when he became interested in mining prop- 
 erties in this State and secured a large interest 
 in the Utah mine, of which company he is now 
 a director, vice-president and secretary. This 
 mine has proved to be very successful and now 
 employs about twenty-six men in its operations. 
 
 When a call was made by President Lincoln, 
 in 1862, for volunteers to protect the mails be- 
 tween Salt Lake and the Sweetwater River, in 
 Wyoming, Mr. Weiler joined Captain Smith's 
 command and served in that companv throughout 
 all the trouble. Their horses and equipments, 
 they themselves provided. On the trip, they 
 killed one horse for food. There was one man 
 drowned crossing the Snake River. While serv- 
 ing in the militia in Utah in 1862, Mr. Weiler 
 was one of the members of that force which 
 turned the march of the Union soldiers at Sweet- 
 water. In the spring of 1863 he went from Salt 
 Lake City with Captain John Woolley across the 
 plains to the JMissouri River to bring a company 
 of emigrants to L'tah. In the fall of 1863 he set 
 out on a journey to San Pedro, California, from 
 Salt Lake City. This round trip he successfully 
 completed in one year. In 1865 he served for 
 ninety days under the command of Captain Peter 
 Dewey, in Sanpete county, fighting the Indians. 
 In addition to his other experiences and his trips 
 to the East and to the West, he also undertook 
 freighting to the Montana mining camps, and 
 made two trips to that region in the dead of 
 winter in 1865-66. and a few years later made 
 another trip in mid-winter. 
 
 Mr. Weiler was married on December 24th, 
 1864, to Miss Emily P. Crismon, daughter of 
 Charles and sister of George Crismon. By that 
 wife he has had ten children : Anna Luella, wife 
 of S. L. Sheets ; Elizabeth, who died at the age 
 
 of two and a half years: Catherine, wife of 
 Judge Elias A. Smith, Cashier of the Deseret Na- 
 tional Bank; Elijah M., who has served thirty- 
 three months in the South on a mission for the 
 Church, and is married to Miss Ida Pitts ; George 
 L., at present absent on a mission for the Church 
 in Holland ; Walter Scott, in Germany on a mis- 
 sion ; Agnes Pearl ; Raymond ; Irene and Gale, 
 both dead. He has two grandchildren, the chil- 
 dren of these children by his first wife. His sec- 
 ond wife was Miss Agnes Balto. a native of Utah, 
 whose family was among the first settlers of the 
 State. By this second wife he has the following 
 chidren : .-\leen. \'era. Rodney. Walter, Florence 
 and Jacob. 
 
 In the administration of the political affairs of 
 the State Mr. Weiler has always taken an active 
 interest. He is a firm believer in the principles of 
 the Democratic party. For fourteen and a half 
 years he was a Commissioner of Salt Lake 
 county, and in addition to this service has repre- 
 sented his party in the City Councils of Salt Lake 
 City for two years, covering a period from 1898 
 to 1899. 
 
 He is a prominent member of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and has given 
 his best eflforts to the advancement of this cause. 
 He was one of the first to assist in digging the 
 foundation of the Temple in Salt Lake City, and 
 contributed fifteen hundred dollars towards de- 
 fraying the cost of the completion of the build- 
 ing. Mr. Weiler's business career and the en- 
 terprises in which he has participated, cover all 
 the industries which have aided Utah in arising 
 to its present 'prosperous position. Among the 
 first to begin the raising of sheep, he has also 
 devoted his attention to mining and railroad con- 
 tracting. He is one of the stalwart men of Utah, 
 and one who, by his honesty and integrity, has 
 built a reputation that may well be a proud legacy 
 to his children and their posterity. In the devel- 
 opment of the southern part of the State he has 
 taken an active part. He was one of the original 
 settlers sent by the Church to colonize that sec- 
 tion of Utah, in the sixties. Besides his sheep 
 business he, at one time, raised a considerable 
 number of fine horses. 
 
 His success has been due entirely to- his own 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 efforts. His education was derived, not so much 
 from schools and from books, as from the lessons 
 he received from his daily experience in a country 
 where each man was judged by his ability to stand 
 and conquer almost unconquerable conditions. He 
 met every difficulty with unflinching courage, 
 and by his executive and administrative ability 
 has proved himself to be one of the leaders of the 
 army who conquered the West and made possible 
 its present prosperity. 
 
 SAHEL H. WOODRUFF is a worthy 
 scion of one of the most illustrious 
 families within the history of the Mor- 
 mon Church. His father, Wilford 
 Woodruff, was the Fourth President 
 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints, and one of the most universally beloved 
 and widely known leaders the Church has had. 
 Our subject's mother bore the maiden name of 
 Emma Smith. She became President Woodruff's 
 third wife, and at the time of the trouble, caused 
 by the enforcement of the Edmunds-Tucker law, 
 was chosen as the legal wife of President Wood- 
 ruff. She was his almost constant companion 
 on his missionary trips, and became an active 
 worker in Church circles. She survived her hus- 
 band and is now living in this city. Abraham O. 
 Woodruff is own brother to our subject ; he is one 
 of the youngest of the Twelve Apostles of the 
 Mormon Church, and is, at this time, in the 
 employ of the Church as Colonization Agent for 
 the State of Wyoming. Biographical sketches of 
 Mr. Woodruff's parents and brother will be found 
 elsewhere- in this work. 
 
 Asahel H. Woodruff was born in Salt Lake 
 City, February 3, 1863. He grew up in this city 
 and obtained a good common school education 
 from the public schools of the community. At the 
 aere of seventeen years he left school and began 
 life for himself, commencing in the packing room 
 of the Zion Co-Operative Mercantile Institution, 
 in the capacity of errand-boy. He worked here 
 two years and was then promoted to a clerkship in 
 the dry-goods department. This work proved to 
 be so congenial that he remained in it, being pro- 
 moted from time to time, until he became man- 
 
 ager of the wholesale dry goods department, in 
 1892, one of the most responsible positions in the 
 gift of the institution. He did all the buying for 
 this department, which necessitated his making 
 two trips to the Eastern States each year. 
 
 In the spring of 1884 he was called to go on a 
 mission for the Church and spent about two years 
 in the field in England, returning to Salt Lake 
 City in the fall of 1885. He remained at home 
 looking after his private business affairs, until 
 the following September, when he again entered 
 the employ of the wholesale dry goods depart- 
 ment of the Zion Co-Operative Mercantile Insti- 
 tution, and retained that position until January 
 15, 1902, when he received the appointment of 
 President of the Church work in the Northern 
 States, with headquarters at Chicago, which posi- 
 tion he accepted and is now in that field. He was 
 one of the incorporators of the Pioneer Electric 
 Power Company and is one of its directors. He 
 was one of the leading spirits in the organization 
 of the Equitable Co-Operative Institution and 
 served on its first Board of Directors. He is 
 also a director of the Wood River Live Stock 
 Company. 
 
 Mr. Woodruff' was married December 14, 1886, 
 to Miss Nannie Butterworth, daughter of Isaac 
 and Mary (Rose) Butterworth, natives of Eng- 
 land, where their daughter was born. Five chil- 
 dren have been born to this union — Roxie, 
 Norma, Beulah, .Isabel Hart. Douglass and 
 Emma Rose. 
 
 Politically. Mr. Woodruff is in sympathy with 
 the Republican party, but owing to his arduous 
 duties has never had time to participate actively 
 in its work, and has never sought or held public 
 office. 
 
 In Church circles he is one of the Seventies 
 and holds the office of Senior President of the 
 One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Quorum of 
 Seventies. 
 
 .\s a resident of Salt Lake City from his birth, 
 and a member of one of the leading families, 
 it is but natural that Mr. Woodruff should be well 
 known to the citizens of this place, but his high 
 standing in the community is the result of his own 
 upright and manly life. He began on his own 
 hook at an early age and has been verv successful 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 throughout his career so far, winning and re- 
 taining the confidence of his employers and mak- 
 ing a record as a bright and able business man. 
 When he took his present position he carried 
 with him the good wishes and highest esteem 
 of the best citizens of this community. 
 
 )SEPH A. WRIGHT. there are few 
 families in Mill Creek Ward who are bet- 
 ter known or have done more for 
 the development of this section of the 
 State than the Wright family, who 
 came here in the early days, coming to 
 America from England, and settling in Mill 
 Creek Ward in 1849. Here they made the 
 family home, the father engaging in farming, and 
 spending a portion of his time in colonization 
 work ; and here the son was born and has since 
 continued to reside, his growth being synony- 
 mous with the development and enrichment of 
 the country. He is now one of the influential 
 farmers of this district, highly respected, and an 
 honor to the community in which he makes his 
 home. 
 
 Joseph A. Wright was born February 17, 1853, 
 and is the son of Joseph and Hannah M. (Wat- 
 son) Wright. In 1862 the father was sent on a 
 colonization mission to Dixie, and remained there 
 ten years, dying on the Virgin river in 1872. His 
 wife survived him and lived until March, 1895. 
 There are in this family two sons and three, 
 daughters, all of them living in Utah. The 
 brother of our subject is now living in Di.xie, 
 in \'irgin City Ward. 
 
 Our subject, the youngest member of this 
 family, remained at home until he had attained 
 his twenty-first birthday, when he led to the mar- 
 riage altar Miss Kindness A. Badger, daughter 
 of John C. and Kindness (Haines) Badger, and 
 at once began life on his own account. The Bad- 
 ger family came from Vermont, and were among 
 the early settlers of Utah. Mrs. Badger was 
 born in Ohio, but went to Vermont to live after 
 her marriage. Ten children have come to bless 
 the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wright, nine of whom 
 are now living — ^Joseph A., Junior; Parley R., 
 Orson W., Elmer, Edgar W., Verna, Thae, 
 
 Thomas T., Cleeo D., and Mary .A. The .second 
 child, William N., died aged thirteen years. 
 
 After his marriage, Mr. Wright engaged in 
 general farming and in the raising of live stock, 
 paying particular attention to cattle and sheep, 
 and has since continued successfully in these 
 lines, owning a valuable farm of forty-five acres 
 of highly cultivated land, well improved with 
 fences, artesian wells, good barns, out-buildings, 
 etc., and has built a substantial and handsome 
 brick residence. His sheep and cattle afford him 
 a good revenue, and he is one of the substantial 
 men of Mill Creek. 
 
 Politically his sympathies are with the Repub- 
 lican party, but he has never participated actively 
 in the work of his party, nor sought to hold of- 
 fice. 
 
 The family are members of the Mormon 
 Church, Mrs. Wright being for the past twenty 
 years a valued member of the Ladies' Relief So- 
 ciety. She is also Council to the Primary Asso- 
 ciation. Mr. Wright was for many years a Ward 
 teacher, and has always been active in all lines of 
 local Church work. He has also taken a lively 
 interest in everything pertaining to the advance- 
 ment of his district, being for several terms a 
 school trustee, and wide-awake to anything that 
 would benefit his community. As a high-minded- 
 nonorable and public-spirited gentleman, our sub- 
 ject is deserving of the highest praise, and as a 
 family, the Wrights are among the most be- 
 loved and highly respected in this place. 
 
 I )HN J. McCLELLAN. Utah is noted 
 for many things and has manj^ points 
 of interest to strangers who visit her do- 
 mains, and Salt Lake City is especially 
 rich in wonders of nature, but is more 
 renowned as the center of the Mormon Church. 
 The two principal objects of all visitors are the 
 Salt Lake Temple and the great Tabernacle. In 
 addition to the Tabernacle being one of the won- 
 derful buildings of the United States, and indeed 
 of the world, constructed entirely by the pioneers 
 out of the materials indigent to Utah, and erected 
 by the labor and self-sacrifice of the early mem- 
 bers of the Church, it is perhaps more famous 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 for the wonderful organ wliose reputation is 
 known in every quarter of the world. This organ 
 was at first built by the early Mormons out of the 
 native wood of Utah, but has lately been re-con- 
 structed by the firm of W. W. Kimball Company, 
 of Chicago. Great as the organ is and wide as 
 its fame has spread, it would have been as silent 
 as the "harp in Tara's halls" did it lack the master 
 hand to bring forth its wonderful resources of 
 tone and harmony. Few of the organists who 
 have aided in establishing the reputation of this 
 organ have done so much for it as has the present 
 encumbent, the subject of this sketch. Although 
 but a young man, he has already demonstrated 
 by his genius and ability that he stands in the 
 front ranks of the organists of the United States. 
 John J. McClellan was born in Jt'ayson, Utah 
 county, Utah, April 20, 1874, where he spent his 
 boyhood days attending the public and high 
 schools. He was a son of John Jasper McClel- 
 lan, a native of Illinois, who was educated in 
 Springfield and became identified with the Mor- 
 mon Church in that State and came with the 
 pioneers across the plains in 1848, making the 
 journey on foot. The dangers were increased by 
 the hostile attitude of the Indians, who, however, 
 did not molest the travellers. Upon his arrival 
 in Utah he engaged in farming and stock raising 
 and also took an active interest in the political 
 administration of affairs, and was Mayor of Pay- 
 son for eight years, and also served in the Coun- 
 cil of that City. He first settled in Salt Lake 
 City, but remained there only a few months, 
 moving to Utah county, where he made his home. 
 He was a prominent member of the Mormon 
 Church, being an Elder, and was President of the 
 Elders' Quorum at the time of his death. His 
 father, James McClellan, was also a native of 
 Illinois, and his ancestors had been natives of 
 Scotland. James McClellan was also a member 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints, being one of its first members. The 
 mother of the subject of this sketch, and the wife 
 of John Jasper McClellan, was Eliza Barbara 
 (Walser) McClellan, a native of Switzerland, 
 who emigrated from her native land with her 
 parents to Utah, after joining the Church in 
 Europe. The father died before they left Switz- 
 
 erland, and her mother married John Deim, also 
 a member of the Church, and he brought them 
 safely to Utah. He became a prominent mer- 
 chant in Payson and amassed considerable 
 wealth. Mr. McClellan's father died in August, 
 1897. 
 
 Upon leaving school our subject entered the 
 printing business and later purchased the Payson 
 Enterprise and for two years successfully con- 
 ducted that paper, during which time he was half 
 owner of .it. He then went to Saginaw, Michi- 
 gan, to continue his musical studies and develop 
 his talents, and studied under an eminent Ger- 
 man master, Albert W. Platte, with whom he re- 
 mained for eighteen months and then went to 
 Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he entered the con- 
 servatory of music and took a post-graduate 
 course under Doctor Stanley Albert O. Jonas, a 
 great Spanish pianist. Upon the completion of 
 his musical studies he returned to Utah in June, 
 1896, and immediately entered upon his musical 
 career. In that year he was made Professor of 
 Music in the Latter Day Saints' University, which 
 position he held for two years, being next en- 
 gaged in a similar work in the Brigham Young 
 Academy at Provo for another year, and gave 
 half of his time to this work. 
 
 He was married to Miss Mary Douglass, 
 daughter of Samuel Douglass, of Payson. Her 
 family were one of the oldest in the State, and 
 very influential in their community. By this 
 marriage Mr. McClellan has three children — 
 Genevieve, Madeline and Douglass. 
 
 After the termination of his teaching career 
 in the Brigham Young Academy, Mr. McClellan 
 and his wife took an extensive tour throughout 
 Europe, where he perfected his knowledge of 
 music. While in Berlin he studied under Xavier 
 Scharwenka and Ernst Jedliczka. He returned 
 to the United States after an extensive tour 
 through France, Italy and Switzerland, and was 
 made Director of Music in the University of 
 Utah, and in August, 1900, became Organist in 
 the Tabernacle, and in the following September 
 was made Musical Director of the Salt Lake 
 Opera Company. Mr. McClellan's musical abil- 
 ity has made him one of the well-known organ- 
 ists of the country, and in 1893, at the time of 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chi- 
 cago, he was invited to perform on the great 
 organ in the Music Hall there. He was also 
 organist and choirmaster of the Catholic Church 
 at Ann Arbor during his stay there at the con- 
 servatory of music. 
 
 He is an Elder in the Mormon Church and 
 takes a great interest in the proper conduct of 
 the musical part of its services. His father was 
 one of the prominent men of the community and 
 was one of the leaders of the Church in Herri- 
 sans, holding also the position of postmaster of 
 that town. 
 
 Air. McClellan is widely known throughout 
 Utah for his musical ability, and his genial and 
 pleasant manner, his willingness to perform on 
 the wonderful organ, and his courtesy have en- 
 deared him to all with whom he has come in con- 
 tact, and made him one of the most popular men 
 in the musical profession in Utah. The "Apollo" 
 Club, composed of thirty rare male voices, has 
 lately been organized bv Mr. McClellan. 
 
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 OHN B. HOYT. The Hoyt family 
 might well be called the founders of 
 Summit county. Samuel Pierce Hoyt, 
 our subject's father, settled and owned 
 the land where Hoytsville now stands, 
 as early as i860, being among the first settlers 
 in that county, and from that day to the present 
 time the family have been closely identified with 
 the history and development of the country. 
 
 John B. Hoyt was born at Hoytsville January 
 16, 1869. His father, Samuel Pierce Hoyt, came 
 of an old New Hampshire family. He was born 
 in Devonshire, New Hampshire, in November, 
 1807, and was the son of James and Pamelia 
 Hoyt. He was reared on his father's farm and 
 when a young man settled at Pottsdam, in the 
 same State, later moving to Nashua, in that State, 
 where he became a member of the Mormon 
 Church and moved to Nauvoo. He became the 
 owner of the land where the Nauvoo temple was 
 built, which land he contributed to the Church. 
 In 1850 he crossed the plains with Elias Smith 
 and settled at Fillmore, then the capital of the 
 State, and had entire charge of the building of 
 
 the State Capitol at that place. He was engaged 
 in the mercantile and tanning business and also 
 owned a farm there, becoming one of the promi- 
 nent men of Fillmore. He moved to the Weber 
 valley in i860 and located on what is now the 
 site of Hoytsville, where in the late sixties he 
 began the erection of a large mansion, built of 
 native white cut sandstone, which was approxi- 
 mately five years in course of construction and 
 cost in the neighborhood of thirty-five thousand 
 dollars. At the time it was built it was the 
 finest residence in the State outside of Salt Lake 
 City. It is built on a tract of land of over a hun- 
 dred acres, surrounded by a massive stone wall, 
 in which are four large iron gates, one on either 
 side. The house contains sixteen spacious rooms, 
 and there are eight elaborate fireplaces. The inte- 
 rior decorations are on an unusually magnificent 
 scale, the work being done by European artists. 
 Solid black walnut winding stairs connect the 
 upper rooms and the spacious hall. This beau- 
 tiful home is at the present time occupied by Mr. 
 Hoyt's married daughter, Mrs. Mary H. Lee. 
 He erected the first grist mill, and laid the foun- 
 dation for the town which was later named in 
 his honor by Messrs. Fox and Kessler. He had 
 to abandon his mill owing to the channel of the 
 stream being changed. In 1862 he bought a 
 ranch in Rhodes valley, where he engaged in the 
 stock raising business and made his home here 
 part of the time. In politics he was a member 
 of the Republican party and filled the office of 
 selectman for a number of years. He was also 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention and 
 helped draft the first Territorial laws. In 
 Church life he was a member of the Seventies. 
 He was the husband of three wives and the 
 father of eleven children, seven of whom are now 
 living, all but one being residents of Summit 
 county — Mary, wife of Joseph W. Lee ; Pamelia, 
 now Mrs. Alonzo Mills; Elizabeth, wife of J. 
 P. Stonebraker ; John B., our subject; Martha, 
 Joseph B., and Emma. One of his wives, Cath- 
 erine E. Burbridge, is still living. Mr. Hoyt 
 died on his ranch in Rhodes valley August 12, 
 1889. 
 
 Upon the death of his father our subject as- 
 sumed charge of the business, and has since fol- 
 
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 lowed the raising of cattle, sheep and horses and 
 is today one of the largest stock dealers in the 
 valley, usually feeding one hundred and seventy 
 head of cattle and five hundred head of sheep. 
 His wife and family of four children reside on 
 the old homestead in Rhodes valley, and the 
 family is one of the most prominent in Summit 
 county. The Hoyt family built the Crystal 
 creamery in 1896, which they run for four years, 
 but which has now passed into other hands. Mr. 
 Hoyt is alive to the importance of irrigation 
 for this Western country and has been actively 
 identified with the building of the canals on the 
 south side of Weber river, and is a director in 
 the Upper Ditch. He is also interested with 
 other members of the family in some mining 
 properties which his father located and purchased 
 among the Wasatch group. The senior Mr. 
 Hoyt brought the first turning lathe into Utah, 
 on which machine all the iron work in the Salt 
 Lake Temple was turned. 
 
 In political life our subject is a believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party, but has never 
 sought or held public office, devoting his time to 
 the care of his large business interests. He is one 
 of the best known men of his county, where he 
 enjoys a wide popularity. 
 
 OHX J. THOMAS. In the important 
 lidsition of member and Secretary to tne 
 State Board of Equalization, is a man 
 who, by reason of his long experience 
 in the West and the active work that 
 he has done, is splendidly equipped to discharge 
 the responsibilities of that position. He held the 
 office of secretary originally under the Territorial 
 government, when the Board of Equalization 
 was a Territorial Board ; and when the State 
 was admitted to the LTnion, he was appointed a 
 member and was chosen to continue as secretary 
 to it as a State Board, which position he now 
 holds. 
 
 John J. Thomas was born in Chicago. Illinois, 
 in 185 1. His father was engaged in business 
 in various parts of the country and the boyhood 
 days of his son's life were spent in Wisconsin, 
 Michigan and Ohio. For seventeen ^--rs he 
 
 lived in Pennsylvania, in Pittslnirgh and Sharps- 
 burgh, where he attended school. He later en- 
 tered the Western Pennsylvania University at 
 Pittsburgh, and there took a special course of 
 studies. He completed his education at the age 
 of twenty-two and started on his life's work as 
 a clerk in his father's office, and later en- 
 tered a law office, where he read law. Find- 
 ing opportunities in the East less attractive 
 and those of the West oftering greater fields for 
 the exercise of his abilty, he emigrated to Cali- 
 fornia and engaged in the orange business near 
 Los Angeles, and followed that employment for 
 two years, when he came to Utah in 1879 and 
 entered the employ of George A. Lowe as private 
 secretary, which position he held for ten years. 
 He became Assistant Secretary of the Territorial 
 Board of Equalization in 1889 and in 1891 Sec- 
 retary, and when L'tah was admitted to the 
 Union in 1896 he was appointed a member and 
 made Secretary of the State Board of Equaliza- 
 tion, which position he continues to fill with effi- 
 ciency and credit. He has taken great interest 
 in the politics of Utah and during the years 1894 
 to 1896 was elected and served as a member of 
 the Board of Education. In 1899 he was elected 
 to the City Council of Salt Lake and re-elected 
 in 1900, in which body he is Cfiairman of the 
 Committee on Municipal Laws and the Commit- 
 tee on Streets. 
 
 In 1876 he was married to Miss Annie W. 
 Lewis, of Uniontown. Pennsylvania. She died 
 in November, 1889. In 1896 he married as his 
 second wife, Mrs. C. M. Hansen. By his first 
 marriage he had three children, all sons, two of 
 whom are dead. By his second marriage he has 
 had one daughter and one son, of which onlv the 
 daughter is living. 
 
 In the political ailfairs of L'tah he has always 
 manifested a great interest, being a staunch be- 
 liever in the principles of the Republican party, 
 and has been one of the most active workers in 
 the campaigns of that party and has aided in the 
 work of its development. So valuable have his 
 services been during his residence in Salt Lake 
 City, that he is now recognized as one of the 
 leaders of the dominant party of the State. In 
 social life he is a member of the Independent 
 
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 Order of Odd Fellows, having held many high 
 positions in that Order, and being one of its guid- 
 ing spirits in the West. He is a Past Grand Mas- 
 ter and Past Grand Patriarch, and has repre- 
 sented the Utah Grand Lodges in the sessions 
 of the Sovereign Grand Lodge for twelve years. 
 Mr. Thomas has won his present position in 
 the administration of the affairs of the city, and 
 of the State as well, by his own efforts. He has 
 risen to his present importance in political cir- 
 cles through the exercise of a rare order of abil- 
 ity and generalship. He is one of the most 
 popular men throughout the State, and the effi- 
 cient manner in which he has discharged all the 
 duties allotted to him has won him the respect 
 and confidence of all the people. 
 
 LJDGE A. X. CHERRY. Among the 
 men who have been called to preside 
 on the Bench of the Third Judicial Dis- 
 trict of Utah, there have been few who 
 iiave made as good a record as has the 
 subject of this sketch. His integrity as a judge 
 and his learning as a lawyer has made for him a 
 record in the annals of Utah's judiciary that ranks 
 high in the legal life of the West. 
 
 Judge Cherry spent his early life working on 
 his father's farm and secured his early education 
 in the log schoolhouses that then existed in his 
 section of the country. His mother was am- 
 bitious to furnish her son with the best education 
 obtainable, and the Judge then realizing the 
 necessity of a liberal education to successfully 
 compete in the successes of the world, worked 
 day and night in order to secure the means for his 
 education. 
 
 He was married in Illinois in 1865 to Miss 
 Mary E. Banks, daughter of John Banks, a native 
 of Kentucky, and a member of one of the early 
 families of that State. His wife had relatives 
 engaged on both sides of the Civil War. Judge 
 Cherry was a prominent jurist in Kansas and 
 occupied a position on the Bench there. By his 
 marriage Judge Cherry has seven children — 
 Ethel, wife of Frank J. Carmen ; Marvin B., cash- 
 ier of the Studebaker Wagon Company ; Howard 
 
 W., engaged in mining; James W., a lawyer at 
 La Grande, Oregon ; Ernest A., an electrician, 
 residing in Butte, Montana ; Bertha B., wife 
 of A. J. Vorse, of Salt Lake City, and 
 Blanche. Judge Cherry and his family are 
 members of the Unitarian Church, and have taken 
 an active part in its work in Utah. 
 
 In his younger days Judge Cherry started the 
 practice of law, but abandoned it after a time and 
 entered commercial life and engaged in the mill- 
 ing and grain business. He later disposed of 
 this business and resumed his law practice, re- 
 moving to Kansas in 1886, where he followed his 
 profession with success. Upon his removal to 
 Utah he built up a lucrative practice and was 
 called to preside over the civil branch of the 
 Third Judicial District of Utah, by the Demo- 
 cratic party, with which he has been identified 
 ever since his removal to this State, having as- 
 signed to him the trial of civil cases. He held 
 this position for four years, his term expiring in 
 January, 1901. It was his early ambition as a 
 boy to practice law, and the success which he 
 has achieved in his chosen profession has been 
 the result of his untiring application and his per- 
 severance. As a Judge in Utah he made for him- 
 self a record for impartiality and fairness that 
 won him the confidence of all the legal world, 
 and he enjoys a wide popularity throughout the 
 State. 
 
 OHN DUNCAN PARK. In this age 
 (if railroad and Pullman car service the 
 traveler in coming west from Chicago 
 can hardly avoid admiring the beautiful 
 scenery, splendid residences and substan- 
 tial homes which forms almost one continuous 
 line from east to west. How few people at the 
 present prosperous time can appreciate the vast 
 work and labor which it has taken to pave the road 
 and lay the foundation which has made it possible 
 for the present prosperous conditions to exist 
 in Utah. Few men have taken a greater or more 
 prominent part in the building up of the State of 
 Utah than has the subject of this sketch. 
 
 John Duncan Park was born in Canada, June 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 i8, 1832, and was the son of William and Jane ' 
 (Duncan) Park. His father and mother were 
 born in Scotland and came to Canada when they 
 were sixteen and fourteen years of age, respec- 
 tively. When our subject was fourteen years of 
 age his parents left Canada, where they had be- 
 come converts to the teachings of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and with their 
 family of nine children made the trip to Nauvoo 
 by ox teams. They left Canada on the loth of 
 March, 1846, and arrived in Nauvoo in April 
 of that year, remaining in that place only four 
 days, but when they reached the Iowa side of the 
 Mississippi river they made a stop of several 
 weeks and then continued their journey to Win- 
 ter Quarters, where they spent the winter, mak- 
 ing a short stay in Council Bluffs while enroute 
 to that place. The following spring they started 
 for Utah in the train in which Bishop Hunter 
 was Captain of one hundred wagons, and Joseph 
 Home had command over fifty wagons. They 
 arrived in the Salt Lake valley on October 2, 
 1847, having made the journey across the great 
 American plains in safety, and spent the winter 
 of 1847 in the Old Fort. There had been but a 
 scant crop raised in the neighborhood that year 
 and there was barely enough food to sustain the 
 little company through the winter. The Park 
 family farmed the land in 1848, which is the 
 present site of the penitentiary, and in 1849 moved 
 to Mill Creek, where William Park and his wife 
 lived until the time of their death, and the 
 brothers of John Park, Hugh, Andrew and Wil- 
 liam, still reside in Mill Creek Ward. 
 
 Mr. Park early began to work for himself, 
 and at the age of twenty-one was called to Nephi 
 to assist in guarding the settlers against the 
 depredations of the Indians, and remained in this 
 service for a year, doing a little farming to make 
 a living for himself. He was employed in the 
 Government mail service in 1857, protecting it 
 from the raids of the Indians and renegade white 
 men, and during this time was also engaged in 
 gathering supplies for the Horn Shoe station, 
 in Wyoming. He spent five months in this work, 
 and was called home when Johnston's army was 
 making its way towards Utah, and stationed at 
 Echo Canyon as a guard. In the spring of 
 
 1858 he went to Fort Bridger, Wyoming, and 
 acted in the capacity of escort to Govewior Cum- 
 mings, then on his way to Salt Lake City. Mr. 
 Park also served in the Indian wars of the early 
 fifties. During the early sixties the Government 
 called him to fight against the Indians, but cir- 
 cumstances preventing his responding to the call 
 he sent a substitute. However, he took an active 
 part in the famous Black Hawk War of 1866, 
 which was the final war of any note between the 
 Indians and the white settlers. 
 
 Our subject was married on January 19, 1857, 
 to Miss Elizabeth H. Hill, a twin of William 
 H. Hill, and a daughter of Alexander and Agnes 
 (Hood) Hill. They settled in Mill Creek at 
 that time and lived there until 1878. Six chil- 
 dren have been born to them — Agnes Ann, who 
 married David Mackay, of Granger Ward ; Wil- 
 liam, who now has a farm in Alberta, Canada; 
 Jane, who died at the age of nine months ; Alex- 
 ander, with his brother William in Canada ; 
 Mary I., now Mrs. Triplett, also living in Can- 
 ada, and John R., who has a farm in Granger 
 Ward. Elizabeth L., an adopted daughter, is 
 also a member of the family, the Parks having 
 taken her to their home when but one day old. 
 All the children are married except Elizabeth. 
 Mr. Park now has twenty grandchildren. 
 
 Mr. Park settled at his present home in the 
 Granger Ward in 1878, and his homestead is lo- 
 cated at the corner of Fourteenth South street, 
 on the Redwood road. At this place he owns 
 fifty-three acres of land, which at the time he 
 located on it was a barren wilderness, but is now 
 well improved, with good fences, outbuildings, 
 etc. In addition to his real estate holdings in 
 this State, Mr. Park two years ago bought a 
 tract of land in Canada, which he later sold to his 
 sons. While he has followed farming most of 
 his life, and has been very successful in that field, 
 he has not confined himself wholly to that in- 
 dustry, but has been engaged in the sheep busi- 
 ness for some years, which has proved to be a 
 prosperous investment. 
 
 In politics Mr. Park is a firm believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party, and while not 
 holding public office, he has ever taken a great in- 
 terest in the work of his party, and has given it his 
 
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 hearty support. He is also actively interested 
 in the education of the young people of his com- 
 munity and for some time has been a school trus- 
 tee. Ill religious life Mr. Park and his family 
 are members of the Mormon Church, and Mr. 
 Park has been an active and earnest worker in the 
 interests of the Church, having served on a mis- 
 sion to Canada for the Church in 1885, besides 
 taking an active part in the work at home, as 
 has also his wife. They enjoy the confidence and 
 esteem of all who know them. 
 
 During the Jubilee held in Salt Lake City in 
 1897, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 
 entrance of the Mormons in the Salt Lake Valley, 
 there were nine members of the Park family 
 present, the tenth member, Mrs. Agnes T. Bor- 
 rowman, being detaind at home on account of the 
 illness of her husband. Since then both Mr. 
 and Mrs. Borrowman have died. 
 
 ARRISON T. SHURTLEFF was 
 born in Massachusetts, in the village 
 of Russell, Hamlin county, January i, 
 1 841. He is a son of Vinson and 
 Elizabeth (Loomis) Shurtleff, both 
 natives of Massachusetts. They became mem- 
 bers of the Mormon Church in that State, and 
 emigrated to Nauvoo in 1845, where they re- 
 mained until the members of the Church were 
 driven out of Illinois, and spent the winter of 
 
 1846 at Punceau, on the Missouri River. In 
 
 1847 they came to Utah in company with John 
 Taylor, being among the first pioneers to arrive 
 in this country. Upon their arrival in Salt Lake 
 City they remained here for eight years, then 
 removed to Twelfth South and West Temple 
 street, and later to the vicinity of the inter- 
 mountain mill, where the father took up land, 
 which is known to this day as the Shurtlefif 
 place. The father died in May, 1893, at the 
 advanced age of eighty, having survived his 
 wife, who died in May, 1862. 
 
 Their son, Harrison T. ShurtlefT entered ac- 
 tively upon his life work when but a young boy, 
 and has made a splendid career for himself in 
 this new land. He was married in 1863, in Salt 
 Lake City, to Miss Nellie F. Smith, daughter of 
 
 Noah and Mary (De Forest) Smith, who came 
 to Utah in 1862. The father was born in Fair- 
 field county, Connecticut, and his wife was a 
 native of New York State. Mr. Smith died in 
 Salt Lake county shortly after his arrival here, 
 and his widow, later, married Ephraim Green. 
 He was a member of the Mormon Battalion 
 and active in the settlement of Salt Lake county 
 and of the entire valley. He died in this county 
 in 1874 and his wife lived until 1888. He was 
 a prominent member of the Mormon Church and 
 was twice sent on a mission to the Hawaiian 
 Islands. By this marriage, Mr. Shurtlefif has 
 six children — Nellie, wife of Joseph Morgan, of 
 Labelle, Idaho; Flarrison S., in Wyoming; Ed- 
 gar, also in Wyoming ; Mamie, now the wife of 
 Charles Bell, of Mill Creek ; Lerov, and Arthur 
 T. 
 
 Mr. Shurtleff took up his residence in the 
 place where he now lives in 1876 and has since 
 made many improvements. It is favorably situ- 
 ated for water, the Mill creek flowing within a 
 few yards of the rear of the house. His home 
 is one of the finest places in Mill Creek, and is 
 located at Fifth East and Fourteenth South, and 
 comprises forty acres. He also has another site 
 of sixty acres and has devoted himself largely 
 to the raising of cattle and the growing of hay, in 
 both of which he has been very successful, and 
 which has brought him a wide reputation. 
 
 He has recently come into prominence as fore- 
 man of the jury impanelled in the trial of the 
 famous Mortensen case, which is one of the 
 most celebrated cases tried in the State up to 
 the present time. Nearly twelve hundred men 
 had been examined before a jury could be se- 
 cured, so widely had the case been read and 
 discussed. Mr. Shurtleff was summoned on May 
 6th, accepted on the 6th, and served forty-one 
 days, the case being called May 28th, and closed 
 June 14th, 1902, the jury finding the prisoner 
 guilty. 
 
 In political affairs he is a Republican. He 
 was a member of the State Constitutional Con- 
 vention, held in 1895, and which framed the 
 Constitution on which Utah was admitted into 
 the Union, and has also taken an active interest 
 in the progress of education in Utah, having been 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 for the past seventeen years school trustee, and 
 has also been road supervisor for his district, 
 having held the latter position for seven years. 
 He is a member of the Mormon Church, and 
 between the years of 1862 and 1870 made seven 
 trips to the Missouri River, and successfully 
 conducted trains of emigrants to Utah, together 
 with a large quantity of freight. In those early 
 days the trips across the plains were fraught 
 with great danger and difficulty and it required 
 men of special ability and great courage to suc- 
 cessfully conduct the unwieldy wagon trains 
 across the plains of Nebraska and Western Wy- 
 oming through the mountains to Utah. The 
 successful manner in which Mr. Shurtleff con- 
 ducted these trains of emigrants, brought him 
 the confidence of the leaders of the Church. 
 He also made two round trips to Los An- 
 geles, California, with mule teams, crossing 
 the great Salt Lake Desert and the des- 
 ert regions of Nevada and Southeastern Cali- 
 fornia. The region from Salt Lake to California 
 was even wilder and a more desert place than 
 the prairies and mountains which lay between the 
 Salt Lake Valley and the Missouri river. In this 
 pioneer work he was not only successful in mak- 
 ing his trips without accident or injury, but also 
 brought to himself a considerable reputation as 
 a frontiersman and pioneer. He has been called 
 to go on missions for the Church, and from 1864 
 to 1866 served as missionary in England. He 
 is one of the prominent men of his locality, and 
 has won for himself a wide reputation by his 
 honesty and integrity and enjoys the friendship 
 of a large circle of friends, besides the confidence 
 and esteem of the leaders of his Church. 
 
 ALTER HENRY AT WOOD. It 
 las been truly said that "All the 
 world's a stage," and the one fact 
 tliat we may not lose sight of is 
 that in passing across this stage 
 we may do so silently or carelessly, leaving no 
 trace of our passage, or we may so indelibly im- 
 press our individuality upon everything we touch 
 or come in contact with, that our personality, our 
 buildings and our influence shall live on through 
 
 countless ages, benefitting and uplifting the hu- 
 manity that shall come after us. Among the 
 families of this Western State that are building 
 monunifnts to their thrift and industry and 
 stamping their impress upon their community as 
 men of strong individuality and honorable lives, 
 the Atwood family stands prominently forward. 
 
 Walter Henry Atwood is the third son in this 
 family, and one of the most successful. He was 
 born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, January 
 25, 1841, and during his younger life saw many 
 of the trying scenes incident to pioneer life, his 
 father being among the first settlers in Pennsyl- 
 vania, going there when the country was cov- 
 ered with a dense growth of timber, and for 
 many years having a close struggle for e.xistence. 
 A full biographical record of the interesting 
 lives of the parents of our subject, Simeon and 
 Melissa Atwood, may be found in the sketch of 
 his brother, William, which is printed in another 
 part of this work. 
 
 C)ur subject had grown up in the East and ob- 
 tained his schooling in the different towns where 
 the family lived. He had attained his majority 
 at the time the family crossed the plains in 1862, 
 and during the trip was sergeant-at-arms of the 
 train. His father was captain of the first ten 
 wagons, and J. S. Brown in charge of the train, 
 which consisted of fifty-two wagons, four oxen 
 being attached to each wagon. The family set- 
 tled at Garden Grove, on Mill Creek, and for a 
 time our subject and his brother William worked 
 at carpentering in Salt Lake City and also in the 
 canyon getting out timber. The father had been 
 a brickmaker in Pennsylvania, and taught his 
 older sons this business, and after coming to 
 Utah he engaged in that business at Murray, al- 
 though against the advice of President Brigham 
 Young, who had seen so many failures made by 
 those attempting- to make brick, that he did not 
 believe the scheme feasible. However, he gave 
 Mr. Atwood his blessing, and was constrained to 
 later praise his bricks as being the best he had 
 yet seen in Utah. The wisdom of Mr. Atwood's 
 judgment has been verified by the fact that this 
 brick yard is still in existence and is now the 
 property of our subject, who turns out about 
 twenty thousand bricks a day. The father and 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 241 
 
 sons continued together until the time of the death 
 of the senior Mr. Atwood, after which our sub- 
 ject and his older brother, William, conducted the 
 business until of recent years, when the elder 
 brother withdrew and engaged in the mercantile 
 business in Murray. Since then Mr. Atwood has 
 conducted this business alone, and has been most 
 successful in it. In addition to this property Mr. 
 Atwood has a fine farm which adjoins that of his 
 brother William, their homes beine divided by 
 Murray street. At the time of his deatli, the 
 senior Mr. Atwood deeded to his sons one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land, on which they have 
 their farms, and there is still left to the estate 
 eighty acres of valuable land, well improved, ad- 
 joining Murray. Our subject obtained the 
 eighteenth patent issued by the Government for 
 land in Utah, and his was the first claim to be 
 recorded. He also enjoys the distinction of giv- 
 ing the first deed executed in Utah. The home 
 of our subject consists of a fine brick house, sur- 
 rounded by shade and fruit trees, the latter of 
 which yield him an abundance of delicious fruit. 
 He also owns considerable other property in 
 Murray, and is at this time engaged in building 
 a row of thirteen brick cottages for the purpose 
 of renting them to the employes of the smelters. 
 He also has two hundred and forty acres of dry 
 farm land in the wheat belt. He at one time 
 built a flour mill, in which he retains an interest, 
 and also is interested in a creamery. In fact, he 
 is one of the most wide-awake and progressive 
 citizens of this flourishing little town, and either 
 alone or in connection with his brother, William, 
 between whom and himself exists a most beauti- 
 ful friendship, has been interested in a large 
 number of schemes for tlie advancement of his 
 community. 
 
 Mr. .\twood was married in Salt Lake City on 
 March 27, 1863. to Miss Dianica Stickney, who 
 has borne him nine children — Lizzie, now Mrs. 
 Shaw, of Salt Lake City ; John F. ; Abby R. ; Ida 
 M.; Henry C. ; Edwin; Alfred W. ; Lucbie D., 
 and Walter S. Mr. and Mrs. Atwood have thirty 
 grandchildren. 
 
 He is a staunch adherent, of the Democratic 
 party, in whose work he has taken an active in- 
 terest, and has been a delegate to nearly every 
 
 convention held in Salt Lake county since he 
 came here. 
 
 His father joined the Mormon Church when 
 our subject was a small boy, and he himself 
 became a member after coming to Utah. Mrs. 
 Atwood is also a member of the Church and 
 for two years served as a missionary in the east- 
 ern States. 
 
 Air. Atwood is a well preserved man and all 
 his life has been very temperate, never indulging 
 in either liquors or tobacco. As a young man 
 his father was a friend of President Brigham 
 Young and after the Atwood family came to 
 Utah the friendship was renewed and continued 
 up to the time of the President's death. 
 
 -CAR WILKINS has spent his whole 
 1)usiness life in Peoa, Summit county. 
 A native of Titbury, Gloucestershire, 
 England, born 185 1. When only thir- 
 teen years of age he accompanied his 
 mother to Utah and soon after arriving settled 
 at Peoa, where he grew to manhood. He started 
 out for himself early in life, commencing at the 
 very bottom of the ladder, and by perseverance, 
 determination and the possession of an enterpris- 
 ing spirit, he has made a splendid success in 
 life, and is considered one of the substantial, 
 enterprising business men of Summit county. 
 
 Mr. Wilkins and his mother made the trip 
 across the plains in the ox train under com- 
 mand of Captain Hyde. They arrived in Wan- 
 ship on October 17, 1864, and from there came 
 to Peoa, where they made their home. The 
 mother married James Gardner of this place and 
 died at the advanced age of eighty-three years, 
 on June 5, 1892. Our subject was the only 
 other member of the family to come to this coun- 
 try. He received a common school education in 
 his native country and attended the schools in 
 Peoa for one winter after coming to Utah. He 
 lived with his stepfather and followed general 
 farming until 1868, when he went to the Black 
 Hills and worked on the grade of the Union Pa- 
 cific railroad, following the road up until it 
 reached Ogden in the fall of 1868, when he 
 bought a team and took a sub-contract on the 
 road. He returned to Peoa in the year 1868. 
 
242 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In the fall of 1870 he was married to Miss 
 Elizabeth (Durrah) Maxwell, foster daughter of 
 Arthur Maxwell, Senior. They have a fam- 
 ily of eleven children — Emma Jane, now Mrs. 
 Frank Palmer; Hannah, wife of Henry ^Nliles; 
 Clara, wife of George Stevens ; Jeanette, now 
 Mrs. Abraham Lyons; George E. ; Oscar W., 
 a student at the Brigham Young academy at 
 Provo; Mary A., Albert, Reuben, Lillian P. and 
 Edith. 
 
 For several years after he returned to Peoa 
 Mr. Wilkins farmed on shares, and in the course 
 of time was able to buy his own land, since 
 then he has done a very successful farming 
 and stock-raising business. He was one of the 
 organizers and promoters of the South Bench 
 Canal Company, of which he was the first pres- 
 ident, and has since taken a prominent part 
 in all matters pertaining to irrigation. He has 
 several times filled the position of manager of 
 the co-operative store at this place, his connec- 
 tion with that establishment covering a period 
 of nine years, and he is at this time engaged in 
 the general merchandise business for himself. 
 He began in the mercantile line in a small room 
 in his residence, building his present commodi- 
 ous quarters two years later and is today one 
 of the leading merchants of this place. He also 
 owns one hundred and thirty-five acres of good 
 farming land, all under cultivation and well ir- 
 rigated. He keeps about sixty head of stock 
 on his place and is one of the most prosperous 
 men in the county. 
 
 Mr. Wilkins became a member of the Mor- 
 mon Church in England and has ever been a 
 faithful and consistent follower of the teach- 
 ings of that Church. He has held the office of 
 Elder, being ordained in the Endowment House 
 at Salt Lake City in 1870, and for a number of 
 years was a member of the Second Quorum of 
 Elders ; also active in the Sunday school work, 
 in which he was an officer for many years, and 
 President of the Young Men's Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association. In May, 1901, he was or- 
 dained a High Priest and chosen Second Coun- 
 selor to Ward E. Pack, President of the High 
 Priests' Quorum of Summit Stake. Mrs. Wil- 
 kins holds the office of Second Counselor to the 
 
 President of the Peoa Ward Relief Society and 
 is prominent in all Church circles. One son, 
 George E., has served on a mission of two and 
 a half years in the Southwestern States, and was 
 Counselor to President Hixson of the East 
 Arkansas Conference. 
 
 In political life our subject owes allegiance 
 to the Democratic party and has been one of the 
 most active workers in its ranks in Summit 
 county. He is the present chairman of the Dem- 
 ocratic club and a member of the Central Com- 
 mittee. He was road supervisor of this county 
 for a number of years, and has taken a keen 
 interest in the public welfare of the community 
 in which he lives. 
 
 His life here has brought him prominently be- 
 fore the people and he is known as a man of 
 superior business ability, honorable and upright 
 in all his dealings, and he has won and retained 
 the confidence and respect of all with whom he 
 has been associated. 
 
 EORGE W. ASPER is not a native 
 son of Utah, but his whole life from 
 early childhood has been spent in this 
 State and most of it on the beautiful 
 farm whicli he now owns, situated on 
 one of the loveliest spots in the Weber valley 
 in Summit county, between Echo canyon and 
 Coalville, and is considered one of the finest 
 places in the county. The land was originally 
 taken up by Elias Asper, the father of our sub- 
 ject, and has been owned by some member of 
 the family ever since. 
 
 Our subject's father, Elias Asper, was a na- 
 tive of Pennsylvania and born at Carlisle, York 
 County, in that State, March 7, 1820. He was 
 married about 1855 in Jonesville, Ohio, and was 
 a successful farmer and merchant of that place 
 for a number of years. He came West about the 
 time of the breaking out of the Civil War, spend- 
 ing a short time at Council Bluffs, and in 1861 
 drove an ox team across the plains to Utah. He 
 located his home at the mouth of Echo Canyon 
 and engaged in farming and cattle raising, also 
 having some horses. He became a large land 
 owner, owning most of the land around Echo 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 243 
 
 at one time, which he later disposed of, and 
 was at one time engaged in the hotel business 
 at that place. During the Indian war he moved 
 his family to Coalville and kept a store there 
 for some time. He became one of the repre- 
 sentative men of his county, and occupied a 
 number of public offices. He was justice of the 
 peace at Echo about the time the railroad was 
 built and was for several years Probate Judge of 
 Summit county. During his residence in Ohio 
 he had become a member of the Mormon Church 
 and was Bishop of Echo Ward up to the time 
 of his death, and active in all Church work. He 
 died on his ranch March 15, 1894. His wife 
 was Jane McCune (Morrow) Asper, also a na- 
 tive of Pennsylvania, was born September 20, 
 1816, and died at Echo, April 5, 1887, leaving 
 three children — ]\Iary Jane, now the wife of 
 William Weber; George W., our subject, and 
 Agnes I., the wife of A. G. Brim, of Echo. 
 
 George W. Asper was born near Johnsville, 
 Ohio, in 1856, and was but five years of age 
 when his parents came to Utah. His education 
 was derived from the district schools of Echo 
 and at the Deseret University, now the Univer- 
 sity of Utah. He remained on his father's farm 
 until he was twenty years of age, at which time 
 he began life for himself, taking up a place near 
 the old homestead and at this time owns about 
 eleven hundred acres of land, on which he keeps 
 a large herd of cattle. He has of late years 
 made a specialty of breeding Clydsdale horses 
 for the market* He built his present home about 
 two miles from his father's place, in the years 
 of 1890 and 1891. He has his place well im- 
 proved with a good brick house, fences, barns, 
 outbuildings, etc., and his land is under good 
 irrigation. Besides his private ditches he has an 
 interest in the Grass Creek Irrigation Ditch 
 Company. 
 
 He was married in 1877 to Miss Jeanette Mer- 
 rill, daughter of Orson L. Merrill, of Coalville. 
 They have a family of six children — Chloe J., 
 wife of William Robison ; Ethlyn Jane, wife of 
 Alex Robison; Marcia E., George W., Junior; 
 Orson E. and Rebecca. 
 
 In political life Mr. Asper is a member of the 
 Democratic party, but owing to demands of his 
 
 business has never been able to give much time 
 to the work of the party and has never sought 
 nor held public office. 
 
 Mr. Asper has seen the country grow from 
 a desolate wilderness to a valley that literally 
 blossoms as the rose, and all his life's interests 
 have centered here. He has been energetic and 
 persistent in all his undertakings, and today 
 ranks as one of the leading and most substantia] 
 farmers and stock raisers of Summit county. 
 His honorable career has won and retained the 
 confidence and esteem of hundreds of the citizens 
 of this county and State, and he enjoys the 
 friendship of a large circle of acquaintances. 
 
 TIARLES CRISMOX, JUNIOR. 
 Among the pioneers who came to 
 Utah when the land was wild and the 
 Indians hostile and who, by their in- 
 dustry, have acquired prominence in 
 its affairs, was the subject of this sketch. From 
 a wilderness, the crossing to which was a difficult 
 and dangerous journey he has witnessed and 
 aided in its transformation to a progressive and 
 wealthy city and has assisted in the develop- 
 ment of its resources and in the building and 
 extension of the great arteries that joins the 
 Union in that indissoluble bond of common in- 
 terest. No matter how favorably a State may be 
 provided with natural conditions of wealth, nor 
 how great its agricultural or mineral resources, 
 these conditions are of absolutely no value what- 
 ever until the master hand turns the key and 
 puts them into practical operation. By the work 
 which he has done and the results that he has 
 accomplished Mr. Crismon is marked as one of 
 the leaders in the empire building of the West. 
 
 Charles Crismon, Junior, son of Charles Cris- 
 mon, was born in Masadonia, Hancock county, 
 Illinois, near Nauvoo, June 14th, 1844, and was 
 but fourteen days old when the Prophet Joseph 
 Smith was killed at Carthage, Missouri. When 
 but two and a half years of age his parents came 
 across the plains to Utah and his life has ever 
 since been identified with this State. The Crismon 
 family remained in the Salt Lake valley about 
 two years, and in 1849, ^t the time of the gold 
 
244 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 discovery in California, Cliarles Crismon, father 
 of tlie subject of this sketch, went to that new- 
 country and settled on the American river where 
 he engaged in mining and followed that occupa- 
 tion for some time. He later moved to San Ber- 
 nardino county, which was then being colonized 
 by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints. He was one of the pioneers of this new 
 movement and was among its leaders in sub- 
 jugating the country to the needs of the peo- 
 ple, building mills and aiding in many ways in the 
 development of the resources. Here he remained 
 until Johnston's army marched to Utah, when, 
 by the direction of President Brigham Young, 
 the San Bernardino colonists were advised to re- 
 turn to Utah. They gave up their homes which 
 they had established after many discouraging 
 contests with nature and savage man and arrived 
 in the Salt Lake valley in the fall of 1858. 
 
 The early education of Charles Crismon, Jr., 
 was derived from the schools that existed in San 
 Bernardino county and from such schools as ex- 
 isted in the early fifties in Salt Lake City. Like 
 all sons of the pioneers his education was de- 
 rived more from actual life and from the experi- 
 ences which he received in the work of develop- 
 ing the country and in making the most of the 
 resources of what was then a wilderness. At the 
 early age of fifteen years he brought a drove of 
 sheep from the Missouri river across the plains 
 and mountains to Salt Lake valley, arriving with 
 them in the fall of 1862. 
 
 When President Lincoln called for volunteers 
 to protect the mails from the depredations of 
 the Indians along the routes from Salt Lake 
 City through Idaho and Wyoming, he was one of 
 the first to offer his services and went out in 
 the company that was raised in Salt Lake City. 
 This company furnished their own outfits, in- 
 cluding horses, saddles, arms and, in fact, all 
 equipments. The country through which they 
 marched was an absolute wilderness and for 
 fourteen days they were without food, subsisting 
 entirely upon wild berries and horse meat. They 
 lost most of their horses and outfits in crossing 
 the waters of the Snake river. Their escape 
 from death at the hands of the Indians was due 
 largely to the fact that they had provided their 
 
 equipments and accoutrements under the direc- 
 tion of President Brigham Young. Owing to 
 the absence of the regular uniforms of the sol- 
 diers of the United States the Indians did not 
 offer to molest them and they were enabled, 
 after suffering many privations and hardships, 
 to return to Salt Lake City. This expedition 
 in addition to protecting the mails was also a 
 ])unitive one. The Indians had stolen a large 
 number of horses from the mountaineers and 
 these volunteers' were sent out to retake the 
 stolen property, as well as protect the mails, 
 and to imbue in the Indians" such a respect foi 
 the property of the white men as to render fur- 
 ther depredations unprofitable. Tlie entire time 
 that this party spent absent in the field was four 
 months. 
 
 L'pon his return to Utah Air. Crismon began 
 turning his attention to the sheep raising in- 
 tlustry and went to California and successfully 
 brought to Salt Lake a drove of sheep from 
 that State, arriving here in 1863. In addition to 
 the sheep he also brought with him a quantity 
 of bees, which were the first introduced into 
 L'tah. The hardships of the expedition in the 
 northern territory against the Indians was re- 
 peated to some extent in his trip across the 
 desert between California and Salt Lake valley. 
 For seven days and seven nights he was with- 
 out water and the hostile attitude of the Indians 
 compelled him to push on at his best speed to 
 Utah. In crossing the desert, besides the tortur- 
 ing thirst which he and his* animals suf- 
 ered, he lost fifteen hundred head of sheep, 
 famished by the want of water and stolen 
 by the Indians. Some idea of the cour- 
 age and determination which has marked 
 his life in the enterprises in which he has been 
 engaged may be had from the fact that on this 
 trip for three days and three nights he was with- 
 out water or sleep. Mr. Crismon and his brother 
 George, together with his father and Mr. Elisha 
 M. Weiler, were the first to recognize the pos- 
 sibilities attending the raising of sheep in Utah 
 and are easily the pioneers of this great industry 
 of the State. They established the migratory 
 movement of sheep from one range in summer 
 to another in winter, which has proved to be 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 245 
 
 such a great success. In 1868 he made a second 
 trip to the East and successfully brought across 
 the mountains and plains from Iowa another 
 large drove of sheep. 
 
 In addition to his sheep industry Air. Crismon 
 successfully undertook the business of railroad 
 contracting. The superintending of the work 
 secured by the firm was the task alloted to him. 
 This firm had extensive contracts on all of the 
 different roads through Utah and the West. 
 They built twenty miles of the Bitter Creek di- 
 vision and sixteen .miles of the Muddy division 
 of the Union Pacific railway and also success- 
 full}- built seventy-five miles of the line of the 
 Oregon Short Line Railroad and they also built 
 the first fifty miles of the line of this latter road. 
 They built a large portion of the Park City 
 branch from Park City to Echo and also a con- 
 siderable portion of the John W. Young road, 
 now forming a part of the Denver & Rio Grande 
 Western Railway. 
 
 From railroad building Mr. Crismon turned 
 his attention to mining and was among the first 
 to develop the resources of the Tintic district, 
 locating in that district thirty years ago. He lo- 
 cated and developed the Mammoth mine there 
 to a depth of over four hundred feet. The 
 Mammoth has been a very successful mine and 
 has been a profitable undertaking. Mr. Crismon 
 also developed the Eureka Hill and did the first 
 work in developing that property, sinking a 
 shaft to a depth of three hundred feet. He also 
 began the development of the Swansea. These 
 properties he afterwards disposed of. His work 
 in this district stamps him as one of the pioneers 
 in the development of the mining resources of 
 L'tah. After disposing of his interest in the 
 Tintic district he began an investigation of the 
 coal deposit of the State and developed at Coal- 
 ville the property known as the Crismon mine, 
 now owned by the Ontario Coal & Mining Com- 
 pany. 
 
 The success of his previous enterprises fol- 
 lowed him in this new one and he again turned 
 his attention to railroad contracting and later 
 went to Fish Springs, in Juab county, Utah. 
 Here he again turned his attention to mining and 
 located and successfully developed the Geneva 
 
 mine, and the L'tah mine to the depth of five 
 hundred feet, and the Galena mine to the depth of 
 three hundred feet. He was superintendent of 
 both the Utah and Galena mines, of which he 
 was practically owner, and continued to devote 
 hJs attention to the development of these prop- 
 erties for over eight years, and retained an active 
 interest in all of his business enterprises until 
 attacked with pneumonia, which resulted in a 
 partial stroke of paralysis. Since that time he has 
 practically retired from active business life, but 
 still retains his office of director in these com- 
 panies. Throughout his long and busy life he 
 was ever ready to grasp the opportunities w-hich 
 offered, to aid in the development of the State 
 and of the entire western country. Few men 
 have taken a more active part in the development 
 of Utah's resources and few men have made the 
 success from such an inauspicious beginning as 
 was his. 
 
 Mr. Crismon married in June, 1871, Miss 
 Elizabeth Cain, daughter of Joseph and Eliza- 
 beth (Whittaker) Cain, among the pioneers of 
 this country. Their daughter Elizabeth, the wife 
 of the subject of this sketch, was born in Salt 
 Lake City and educated in the schools that ex- 
 isted here. She has spent her w-hole life within 
 the confines of the State of her birth and has seen 
 Utah develop from a wilderness to a prosperous 
 and growing State. Their family consists of 
 five children — Florence, the wife of John Y. 
 Rich, a banker in Brigham City ; Charles C. 
 and Joseph C, assayers and chemists in Salt 
 Lake City, their office being on West Temple 
 street ; George W., a student at the agricultural 
 college at Logan, and Allene, at home. After 
 Mr. Crismon had been attacked by paralysis, 
 which practically ended his business career, his 
 wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Crismon, was elected pres- 
 ident of the Utah mine, which is a very prosper- 
 ous mine, and mining has been carried on in a 
 very satisfactory manner since. jMrs. Crismon 
 is largely interested in educational work and is 
 also one of the pioneer members of the .-\uthors' 
 Club in this city. She is also deeply interested 
 in kindergarten work, being instrumental in in- 
 troducing it into the city and having it included 
 in the work of the public schools. Both Mr. 
 and Mrs. Crismon and family are members of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 RAM T. SPENCER, Bishop of Pleas- 
 ant Green Ward, of Salt Lake county, 
 and a member of one of the best- 
 known families of this section of the 
 country, several of whose sketches ap- 
 pear elsewhere in this work, was born in West 
 Stockbridge, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, 
 XDvember 13, 1835. He is the son of Hiram 
 and Mary Spencer, both natives of the same 
 place where their son was born. Hiram Spencer 
 and Daniel Spencer, whose sketch will be found 
 in another part of this volume, were brothers. 
 Mrs. Spencer died when her son Hiram was a 
 mere child, and Idiram Spencer moved to Nau- 
 voo with his son when the latter was but four 
 years old, and remained there until the ]\Ior- 
 mons were driven out of Illinois, in 1846. Mr, 
 Spencer had become a convert to the teachings 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints during the latter part of the thirties, and 
 up to the time of his death was a faithful mem- 
 ber and active and zealous worker in the inter- 
 ests of the church of his choice. He and his 
 brother Daniel were much attached to each other, 
 and the latter paid a touching tribute to his 
 memory after his death, in the following words : 
 "Hiram, whose life before association with our 
 people, and his devotion and loyalty to the Gos- 
 pel after embracing it, was worthy of the high- 
 est and noblest recognition. He had left Nauvoo 
 with the first outgoing Saints, as Captain of 
 fifty in the company of one hundred organized 
 under my presidency. During the journey from 
 Nauvoo to Garden Grove he organized the labor 
 force of the camp, and took contracts from set- 
 tlers bordering our route of travel to chop wood, 
 split rails, etc., thereby securing sustenance for 
 the camp and acquiring much other needed 
 means for the feeble and ailing. The next morn- 
 ing after his arrival at Garden Grove, he vol- 
 untarily started back to Nauvoo. Through great 
 efforts he succeeded in emigrating from there 
 several poor families ; also to sell some of the 
 property of the three Spencer brothers, taking 
 payment in stock and cattle ; but immediately 
 trumped-up writs were manufactured and at- 
 tachments issued to hold the property until the 
 mob which was gathering should come into Nau- 
 
 voo. By almost superhuman efforts he escaped 
 with the cattle and means, reaching the camp 
 of the Saints at Pisgah; although he did so as a 
 martyr — his exposures, anxieties and labors had 
 killed him. He died some miles east of Pisgah 
 and his body was brought there for burial, his 
 grave being fenced and marked by two stones 
 inscribed with the letters 'H. S.' " 
 
 This is one of the examples of devotion to 
 their principles which the early pioneers have 
 left to their posterity, and the same spirit of 
 determination and perseverance in the face of all 
 obstacles that caused them to endure even death 
 itself when necessary to protect and save the 
 Church from destruction, led them in later years 
 to hew out of this barren wilderness, amid all 
 manner of peril and hardships, one of the most 
 beautiful and prosperous States of the Nation. 
 
 His father's death had left our subject an 
 orphan and he and liis seven brothers and sisters 
 were brought across the plains by their Uncle 
 Daniel in the train of which he was Captain. 
 Although but a lad of eleven years our sub- 
 ject assisted in driving the live stock and walked 
 a large portion of the way across the plains from 
 Winter Quarters to Salt Lake Citv. Our sub- 
 ject, his brother Charles, whose sketch appears 
 in this work, and his sister Martha, now Mrs. 
 Daniel Cahoon of Deseret, are the only ones of 
 this family of eight who are now living. Mr. 
 Spencer began farming for his uncle at Neff's 
 Mills in 1 85 1 and later moved to Murray, where 
 he followed the same line for several years. He 
 then took up freighting and made seven trips 
 between Salt Lake City and the Missouri river. 
 In 1 861 he settled on his present farm and in 
 addition to farming, became interested in sheep, 
 following these lines up to the present time. He 
 owns between six and seven hundred acres of 
 land at a point of the mountain fifteen miles west 
 of Salt Lake City, where he makes his home. 
 
 On March 31, 1857, he married Miss Mary 
 B. Young, daughter of James and Jeanette 
 (Caruth) Young. Her parents were natives 
 of Scotland, where her father died. Her mother 
 came to LTtah with her family in 1848, and 
 of this family Mrs. Spencer is the only 
 survivor. Of this marriage five children have 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 247 
 
 been born, one of whom died. They are : Jean- 
 ette A., now the wife of P. J. Reid of Pleasant 
 Green ; Mary E., now Airs. D. H. Jacobs of 
 Pleasant Green ; Hiram T., who died at the age 
 of nineteen years ; Jane Edith, wife of W. S. 
 Reid of Pleasant Green, and Grace Maud, now 
 Mrs. L. B. Laker. Mr. and Airs. Spencer have 
 nine grandchildren. 
 
 In politics Mr. Spencer has been a strong 
 adherent of the Democratic principles ever since 
 the organization of that party in Utah. He has 
 been active in building up and forwarding the 
 interests of the community in which he has lived, 
 having served eight terms as road supervisor 
 and ten terms as trustee of the school. He is at 
 this time a director of the Utah and Salt Lake 
 Canal Company, of which he was at one time 
 President. He has not confined himself to the 
 interests of his immediate community, but has 
 ever been found ready to respond to the call 
 of duty and serve his State in its time of need. 
 In the early days he was a member of the Guard 
 detailed to protect the settlers against the depre- 
 dations of the Indians, and later accompanied 
 Lot Smith in his campaign against Black Hawk. 
 During the invasion of Johnston's army he was 
 a member of the Nauvoo Legion, or the Terri- 
 torial militia, and took part in the troubles which 
 occurred in Echo Canyon. He has also been 
 active in his Church work, as was his father 
 before him. He was baptized into the Mormon 
 faith in Nauvoo at the age of eight years, by 
 his uncle Daniel, and since then has passed 
 through all the different orders of the Priest- 
 hood, being ordained a High Priest in 1882 
 and set apart as First Counselor to the Bishop 
 of his Ward, holding that position for ten years, 
 at the expiration of which time he was made 
 Bishop of Pleasant Green Ward. From 1878 
 to 1882 he was Superintendent of the Sunday 
 School and in April, 1866, was called on a mis- 
 sion to Europe and labored in Scotland two 
 years. His wife is also a member of this Church 
 and is active and prominent in its work, espe- 
 cially along the lines of its charitable work, be- 
 ing a member of the Relief Society. Mrs. Spen- 
 cer comes of an old Scotch family, noted for 
 its broad-mindedness and liberalitv, and is well 
 
 known and highly respected for her good quali- 
 ties of mind and heart by the older families of 
 Salt Lake City who know her best. 
 
 Although left an orphan when but a child, 
 having nothing to look forward to but the char- 
 itable care of the uncle who stood in the place 
 of a father to him, and who in those early days 
 had hard work to sustain those dependent upon 
 him, our subject early showed a spirit of inde- 
 pendence and perseverance, and beginning to do 
 for himself at an early age, he has gone for- 
 ward with an unfaltering and splendid courage, 
 and by dint of much hard work has achieved 
 a high place among the prosperous farmers and 
 business men of this valley, being today a repre- 
 sentative and highly respected citizen of this part 
 of the State. He is regarded as a man of in- 
 tegrity, honesty and loyalty to his convictions 
 of right and justice, and no man in the com- 
 munity stands higher in the esteem of the leaders 
 of the Church, as well as among those with 
 whom he has been associated through a long 
 life, than docs Hiram T. Spencer. 
 
 TEWART T. TANNER. In the won- 
 derful development which has gone on 
 in Utah during the past half a century, 
 it has taken men of brain, energy and 
 perseverance to convert this State from 
 a wild and barren country to thriving agricul- 
 tural and commercial center such as it occu- 
 pies today in this inter-mountain region. No 
 one stands higher in this rank than does Stewart 
 T. Tanner and his worthy sire. 
 
 Air. Tanner is a native of Utah, having been 
 born in Salt Lake City on June 4, 1856. He 
 is the son of Nathan and Rachel (Smith) Tan- 
 ner, his mother dying in April, 1897, at the age 
 of seventy-six 3'ears. Our subject's father was 
 born at Boulton, New York, May 14. 1815, and 
 his father, John Tanner, was a wealthy farmer 
 in New York State. John Tanner early became 
 a member of the Mormon Church. During the 
 trying and troublesome times which occurred at 
 Nauvoo, the Church became embarrassed and 
 needed assistance. Mr. Tanner came to their 
 rescue and donatecfc his entire fortune to the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Church, his last gift being thirty thousand dol- 
 lars, which he received for his property in New 
 York. He then made his way to Utah, but ar- 
 rived here a poor man in 1848, and established 
 his home in Salt Lake City, where he lived un- 
 til a few years ago. Nathan Tanner came to 
 this city with his parents and also made his home 
 in Salt Lake until recent years, but now divides 
 his time among his children, remaining the 
 greater portion of it with the subject of our 
 sketch. He freighted from Salt Lake City to 
 California and had many thrilling experiences 
 and narrow escapes, the Indians at that time be- 
 ing very troublesome. In 1850 Nathan Tanner 
 established what is known as the Tanner canal, 
 which is one of the most important irrigating 
 canals in this county. In those days it was a vast 
 undertaking to construct a canal, but with the 
 assistance of his brothers and several of the 
 other pioneers, Mr. Tanner was able to complete 
 this work, and the canal is still in use and bears 
 his name. Our subject spent the first fourteen 
 years of his life in Salt Lake City and here re- 
 ceived his early education in the common schools 
 and also Morgan's Commercial College, the first 
 business college in the State. In 1870 he moved 
 to Cottonwood canyon and there joined his broth- 
 ers, Nathan and William, who were engaged in 
 the general mercantile business. In connection 
 with this business they also handled large quan- 
 tities of ore. This branch of the business was 
 taken in charge by our subject, he hauling the 
 first load of ore that was ever brought from 
 the Emma mine. He continued at this business 
 for a period of five years and handled the larg- 
 est volume of minerals that was ever hauled by 
 any one concern up to that time. He later lo- 
 cated upon his father's farm on the Cottonwood 
 creek, at which place he continued for several 
 years. 
 
 In 1875 he led to the marriage altar Miss Jean- 
 ette Coates, daughter of William and Elizabeth 
 (Dick) Coates, her mother having come to Utah 
 in the early seventies. As a result of this mar- 
 riage eight children have been born — Elizabeth 
 R., now Mrs. George Grant, of Granger Ward ; 
 Helen I., Stewart T.. Junio^; Abigal J.. William 
 
 C. Emily W., Charles F., and Fern L., all of 
 whom are at home attending school just across 
 the way. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Tanner moved to his present 
 home in Granger Ward, which is located half a 
 mile from the old Granger postoffice. It con- 
 sists of one hundred acres of land and is one of 
 the finest improved farms in this section. In 
 1889 he built a fine brick house on his farm, 
 and he has it otherwise well improved. Our sub- 
 ject has devoted the most of his time and at- 
 tention to horses and the general farming busi- 
 ness, and has demonstrated by his ability, un- 
 tiring energy and determination that success will 
 follow under such circumstances. Mr. Tanner 
 has received a good education, and has always 
 been a consistent and thorough student, not only 
 along the lines of book education, but he has 
 studied the great book of nature, which has as- 
 sisted him largely in his successful career. 
 
 In political life he has always been a promi- 
 nent Democrat, as was his father before him, 
 and for the past twelve years he has been a 
 school trustee in his Ward, and served one term 
 of two years as a director in the Utah and Salt 
 Lake Canal company. While he has led an 
 active and busy life he has not given all his 
 attention to business, the Church receiving its 
 full share. He was born and raised in the Mor- 
 mon faith, as was also his wife and children, 
 and they have ever been among the consistent 
 and faithful members of that Church. For many 
 years he has been a teacher in the Ward. He ac- 
 companied his father on a mission to the old 
 Tanner home in New York State. His father 
 was one of the early missionaries to the Sand- 
 wich Islands, and visited every group thereof. 
 The Tanner family were represented among 
 those who went out to fight the Indians in the 
 early days; our subject's brother Nathan was an 
 active participant in the Black Hawk War of 
 1866. He had many thrilling adventures and 
 narrow escapes, having had two comrades killed 
 by his side and at one time he used his gun as a 
 whip to urge on a comrade's horse and in so 
 doing bent the barrel, rendering the weapon use- 
 less. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 249 
 
 OHN MACK AY. Among the men who 
 have passed through all the trials and 
 hardships incident to the settlement of 
 a new country, and among those who 
 have taken a prominent and active part 
 in the prosperit)' of Utah, and more especially 
 of Salt Lake county, and who have for over half 
 a century been closely identified with the agri- 
 cultural and commercial affairs of the State, 
 should be mentioned the subject of this sketch. 
 Mr. Mackay was born in the Isle of Man, 
 March 18, 1834, being the son of Thomas and 
 Ann (Rogers) Mackay. Our subject's father 
 was born in Belfast, Ireland, but lived in Glas- 
 gow, Scotland, where he spent his early life, be- 
 ing of Scotch-Irish descent. The family came 
 to America in 1841 by way of New Orleans, hav- 
 ing crossed the Atlantic ocean in a sailing ship. 
 They settled at Nauvoo and remained there un- 
 til 1846, having come up the Mississippi river 
 from New Orleans, when the Mormons were 
 driven out of the State, when they moved to 
 Bloomfield, Iowa, and the following spring they 
 made the trip by ox team across the great Amer- 
 ican desert. In the train in which they came 
 to Utah, known as John Taylor's Company, Jos- 
 eph Home was Captain of fifty wagons and 
 Bishop E. Hunter was Captain of one hundred 
 wagons. In the spring of 1848 they formed a 
 colony at the Old Fort and in 1849 moved out 
 to Jordan, and our subject's father assisted in 
 building up that portion of the country. He 
 died in February. 1880, at the age of sixty-nine 
 years. 
 
 During the winter of 1849 our subject went 
 to California and spent two years in that State, 
 returning in 1851. He was married October 6, 
 1855, to Miss Isabella Calder, daughter of 
 George and Ann Calder, and by this marriage 
 they have eight children — Annie J., wife of Noah 
 Murphy of Granger Ward; John C, Isabella, 
 David O., William W., Jane, Walter S., and 
 Julian B. He moved onto his present place 
 which consists of two hundred and sixty acres 
 of farming land, and he has divided this up 
 among his children, giving each one a home, 
 which they have improved and cultivated. Mr 
 Mackay is a large real estate owner, outside oi 
 
 his farms, and is prominently identified with the 
 different interests of the county and State. He 
 has also been largely interested in cattle and 
 sheep and the different avocations of Utah. His 
 present home is on the east side of Redwood 
 road, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth South 
 streets, on the banks of the Jordan river. 
 
 In political life Mr. Mackay has never been 
 influenced by either of the great political par- 
 ties, but prefers to use his own judgment when 
 it comes to politics, and supports the best man 
 for the position. He has by his straightforward 
 and upright bearing made a reputation that will 
 be valuable not only to his children, but to the 
 posterity in the future generations yet to come. 
 
 OCTOR O. W. FRENCH, leading 
 physician and surgeon of Coalville. 
 He is a descendant of one of the old 
 and sturdy New England families. 
 His great-grandfather was David 
 French, a native of Connecticut, in the early 
 part of the Eighteenth century. He settled in 
 Saint Lawrence county, New York, being among 
 the earliest settlers in that section. The French 
 family originally came from Lincolnshire, Eng- 
 land. In the Colonial days they owned the Isl- 
 ands of Martha's Vinyard and Nantucket, which 
 they purchased from the English crown. 
 
 Our subject was born in Pottsdam, Saint 
 Lawrence county, New York, in 1868, and 
 is the son of Charles F. and Marian (Wit- 
 ters) French. The father of Charles F. was 
 Ira T. French, a colonel in the State militia 
 before the Civil War. Our subject's father is 
 still living on the old family homestead, and is 
 one of the prominent farmers of that county. 
 The characters and scenes in "Eben Holden," 
 one of the most popular novels of this day, were 
 taken from this spot, and the old church and 
 academy referred to in that book are still stand- 
 ing, near where our subject was born and spent 
 his boyhood days. Our subject's maternal an- 
 cestors were of Scotch descent, and settled in 
 Massachusetts in the middle of the Eighteenth 
 century. The family moved to Saint Lawrence 
 county, New York, where they are well known. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mrs. French's mother was a Bliss, from which 
 family Secretary Bliss of the United States Navy, 
 is a descendant. There were four children in 
 this family, of whom our subject is the youngest 
 — Clifton I.. George, Lottie M. and O. W., our 
 subject. 
 
 Doctor French obtained his education in the 
 schools of his native town and at the State Nor- 
 mal school. In 1890 he entered the medical de- 
 partment of the University of Michigan at Ann 
 Arbor, graduating from the Rush Medical col- 
 lege of Chicago in 1893, with the degree of M. 
 D. He began the practice of his profession in 
 Chicago, and from there went to Sioux City, 
 Iowa, where he remained six years and built up 
 a good practice. He came to Coalville in 1899, 
 where he purchased the practice of Doctor J. E. 
 Hosmer, a brother of Doctor A. J. Hosmer, of 
 Salt Lake City. Since coming to Coalville he 
 has had very good success and has built up a 
 large practice in the surrounding towns of Oak- 
 ley and Henefer. He is also sureeon for the 
 Grass Creek and Wasatch Mining companies. 
 
 Doctor French was married in 1898 to Miss 
 Lillian Koolbeck, of Iowa, a daughter of Jacob 
 Koolbeck, of that State, and a well-known man 
 in political life there. They have two daughters, 
 Pauline and Myrla. 
 
 In fraternal life the Doctor is a member of 
 Knights of Pythias Lodge Number 20, of Coal- 
 ville, in which he is Deputy Grand Chancellor. 
 He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen 
 and Company Number 20, Iowa U. R. K. P. 
 He is medical examiner for all tne insurance 
 companies doing business here. He has given 
 some attention to the mining industry of this 
 region and owns an interest in several mining 
 ventures. Socially he is a very agreeable gentle- 
 man, and durine his residence in Coalville has 
 made manv friends among" all classes. 
 
 \MES VERNON, Bishop of the Rock- 
 piirt Ward, Summit county, for the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints. FJishop Vernon has been a life- 
 long member of the Church. His faith- 
 ful performance of his duties as an official of the 
 Church has gained for him not only the admira- 
 
 tion and esteem of its leaders, but of the people in 
 the community where he has resided for many 
 years. A native of England, yet his whole busi- 
 nisss career has been spent in this State, coming to 
 L^tah with his parents when only a boy of eight 
 years. 
 
 Our subject was born in Lancashire, England, 
 April 18, 1862. His father, Francis Vernon, was 
 born in the same place in 1813. He was a mason 
 by trade, but also made musical instruments, He 
 was converted to the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church of which he became a member in 1868, 
 emigrating to the United States with his family 
 in the same year and coming direct to Utah. He 
 remained for one year in Coalville and then lo- 
 cated in Rockport, where he engaged in farming 
 for the remainder of his life. He was an officer 
 in the priesthood during his life and died much 
 respected by those who knew him. His wife, 
 and our subject's mother, was Elizabeth Cottrill, 
 a native of Derbyshire, England. She is still 
 living and is the mother of ten children — Martha, 
 wife of George Robinson ; Mary, wife of John 
 Johnson; Francis; James, our subject; Joseph; 
 Ellen, single ; and four children, now dead. 
 
 Bishop Vernon grew up on his father's farm 
 and received his education from the common 
 schools of that place. He remained at home until 
 he attained his majority when he started out for 
 himself in the sawmill business, doing a partner- 
 ship business in Weber canyon for four years, 
 turnine out native timber and supplying much of 
 the building material used in that section of the 
 country. He took up farming in Rockport in 
 1887, and with the exception of four years, spent 
 at Marion, has lived on this place ever since, 
 engaged in general farming and stock-growing. 
 In 1901 he purchased the Wilson farm, which is 
 one of the best farms in this section, all under 
 irrigation. 
 
 He was married, in 1886, to Miss Emma M. 
 Staker, daughter of Wiliam H. and Sarah (Mer- 
 chant) Staker. Sarah Staker was the daughter 
 of James and Martha (Hill) Merchant, and was 
 the only member of her family to come to this 
 country. Her people were natives of Derbyshire, 
 England. Seven children have been the result 
 of this union — Tames A. ; Francis, died in in- 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 fancy ; Sarah Edna ; Earl ; Annis L. ; Edward ; 
 Nathan L., and Richard L. 
 
 In politics the Bishop owes allegiance to the 
 Democratic party, in whose ranks he has been an 
 active worker. He has always displayed a lively 
 interest in local affairs, and for a number of 
 terms acted as school trustee of his district He 
 is also a director in the Rockport, Hoytsville and 
 Wanship Range and Live Stock Company, and 
 has also taken a deep interest in the irrigation 
 system of his county. In Church circles he is 
 President of the Young Men's Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association, and a Ward teacher. He has 
 filled the offices of Elder and High Priest, and, 
 in June. 1901, was set apart as Bishop of this 
 \\'ard, by I'resident Joseph F. Smith. 
 
 OSEPH CAIX, DECEASED. Every 
 year the number of those brave and 
 noble men who came across the plains 
 as pioneers to Utah in 1847 is rapidly 
 diminishing, and the biographer in his 
 work of gathering data is called upon to obtain 
 his information largely from the lips of those 
 with whom the early settlers were closely asso- 
 ciated, or in rare instances from the well kept 
 diaries of the men themselves. To this latter 
 method the writer of this article is greatly in- 
 debted for his knowledge of the gentleman whose 
 name heads this sketch, and who in his day was a 
 prominent and well-known figure in the early his- 
 tory of the State, taking an active part in mis- 
 sionary work and later, up to the time of his 
 death, was closely associated with the early his- 
 tory of the Deseret News, the official organ of the 
 Mormon Church, and today one of the leading 
 newspapers of the West. 
 
 Mr. Cain's early ancestors were natives of 
 the Isle of Man, where his grandfather, John 
 Cain, died in July, 1837, at the age of eighty- 
 seven years. John Cain's wife bore the maiden 
 name of Elizabeth Brew. She lived to be nine- 
 ty-two years of age and survived her husband 
 seven years, dying in March, 1844. The pa- 
 rents of our subject were James and Ann 
 (Moore) Cain. They reared a family of three 
 cliildren — William, who died May 31, 1844, at 
 
 the age of twenty-four years ; Eleanor, who re- 
 mained single and died in 1886, and Joseph, the 
 subject of this sketch. The father of these chil- 
 dren died at Douglas, Isle of Man, in October, 
 1836. 
 
 Our subject became converted to the teachings 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints in his native land, when a young man, 
 and in the early forties emigrated to the United 
 States, joining the Mormons at their headquar- 
 ters in Nauvoo. He made the trip across the 
 ocean in company with his uncle, the late Presi- 
 dent John Ta)'lor, and while in Xauvoo, about 
 1843 or 1844, worked in the printing office with 
 George 0. Cannon. In 1845 he was called to 
 go on a mission to England, remaining there 
 until 1847, '" February of that year he set sail 
 for the United States. L^pon learnine that the 
 Saints had been driven from Nauvoo he joined 
 the main body at Winter Quarters and that same 
 year crossed the plains in the company com- 
 manded by his uncle, President John Taylor, 
 reaching LTtah in the fall of that year. He took 
 up his permanent residence in Salt Lake and in 
 1849 ^"^'^s called to go on a mission to Califor- 
 nia with the late President George Q. Cannon. 
 During the year spent in this work they suffered 
 many hardships, as that country was also in an 
 undeveloped state and in the first throes of the 
 gold excitement, provisions being scarce and 
 prices abnormal. 
 
 Upon his return from California in 1850 he 
 became associated with the Deseret News, in con- 
 nection with Willard Richards and Judge Elias 
 Smith, and remained on the staff of that paper 
 up to the time of his death, which occurred in 
 1856. 
 
 During his missionary trip to England, he met 
 ^liss Elizabeth Whittaker, who became his wife 
 on February i, 1847, just prior to his return to 
 .\merica, and she made the return trip with 
 him, and together they endured all the trials and 
 hardships incident to pioneer life in Utah. Mrs. 
 Cain survived her husband and lived until 1880. 
 Of their children one daughter, Elizabeth, is 
 now the wife of Charles Crismon, Jr., a sketch 
 of whom appears elsewhere in this work. 
 
 Mr. Cain was the first postmaster of Salt Lake 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 City to be appointed by the government, and 
 while a resident of the United States proved to 
 be a most loyal citizen. He joined the Mormon 
 Church in opposition to his relatives' wishes, and 
 throughout his life was one of its most faithful 
 and consistent members, enjoying the entire con- 
 fidence and esteem of not only the leaders of 
 the Mormon Church, but also of all with whom 
 he was associated. 
 
 I SHOP FREDERICK RASBAND. 
 Among the prominent and successful 
 Ijusiness men of Park City, the subject 
 of this narrative is deserving of spe- 
 cial mention. He is a native son of 
 Utah, having been born in Provo City, Septem- 
 ber 2, 1858, and his whole life up to the pres- 
 ent time has been spent in this State. By care- 
 ful and close attention to business he has carved 
 out a successful career, and today he is con- 
 sidered one of the most successful, broad-minded 
 and liberal men of Park City. 
 
 The father of our subject was Thomas Ras- 
 band, who came to Utah from England in the 
 early fifties, crossing the plains from Quincy, 
 Illinois, by ox teams. He first located at Provo, 
 from which place he moved to Heber. He was 
 one of the first settlers in the Provo valley, in 
 Wasatch county. He took up government land 
 in Heber and became Bishop of the East Ward 
 of that place in 1873, which he retained up to 
 1885, when he died, aged sixty-seven years. He 
 was a member of the Mormon Church, in which 
 he was an active worker all his life. His wife, 
 and the mother of our subject, was Elizabeth 
 Giles, a native of England, who came to this 
 country with her husband in the early fifties. 
 She was for many years Counselor to the Stake 
 President of the Woman's Relief Society. She 
 was the mother of twelve children, eight of 
 whom are now living — Emily, the wife of Orson 
 Hicken; William G., living at Heber; Frederick, 
 our subject; Heber, was killed in the Anchor 
 mine in 1899; James, living in Park City; Jos- 
 eph, in Heber; Mary, wife of Joseph McDon- 
 ald, of Heber ; Charles, living in Salt Lake City. 
 The mother of these children lived to be seventy- 
 
 four years of age and died in Park City October 
 15. 1900. 
 
 Our subject grew up in Heber City and there 
 obtained his early education. He came to Park 
 City in 1887 and became associated with his 
 brothers Heber and James as butchers, under 
 the firm name of Rasband Brothers, continuing 
 until the fall of 1898, when they were burned out, 
 and our subject became associated with the Park 
 City Meat company. 
 
 Bishop Rasband was married September 29, 
 1881, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Hawkins, daughter 
 of John B. and Sarah (Moulton) Hawkins, of Salt 
 Lake City. They have had three children — Sadie, 
 a student in the Brigham Young academy at 
 Provo ; Ethel and Delia. 
 
 Our subject has always been active in Church 
 work and has held a number of offices in the 
 Priesthood. He was ordained anElder in 1881 and 
 a High Priest in 1885. He became one of the Su- 
 perintendency of the Wasatch local missionary 
 Stake for the Young Men's Mutual Improvement 
 Association and retained that office until 1887, 
 When the Park City Ward was organized in 1892 
 he became Counselor to Bishop Thomas x^llen, and 
 acted in that capacity until called on a mission 
 to England in 1899. He labored in the London 
 Conference for twenty months, being called 
 home to fill the vacancy in the Bishopric caused 
 by Bishop .Allen's being ordained one of the 
 Presidency of the Stake. He was also for six 
 years Superintendent of the Sunday School, and 
 active in all Church matters. 
 
 Bishop Rasband has been prominent in all mat- 
 ters pertaining to the political welfare of the city 
 and is now serving a second term as a member 
 of the Citv Council. 
 
 \RION FRAZIER. The new- 
 comer to LTtah is at once impressed 
 with the remarkable number of self- 
 made men who reside within the 
 confines of this State. Perhaps no 
 other section of the United States can lay claim 
 to a larger number of this class of men than can 
 the State of L^tah. This is not a new condition 
 of aiifairs, for it has ever been a marked 
 characteristic of this country from the time the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAi: RECORD. 
 
 253 
 
 early pioneers crossed the great American desert 
 headed for Utah, to the present time. Among 
 this class of men, and whose life's history has 
 been closely identified with nearly every enter- 
 prise for the advancement and building up of 
 Summit county, Marion Frazier is deserving of 
 special mention. 
 
 Our subject came into this valley with his 
 father, Thomas Frazier, in 1862. Thomas Fra- 
 zier was a native of Henry county, Tennessee, 
 where he became a member of the Mormon 
 Church in his earfy manhood, and moved to 
 Nauvoo, where he remained until the exodus 
 of the Mormons from that place in 1846, and 
 when the call came for volunteers in the Mexi- 
 can War, Mr. Frazier was one of those who re- 
 sponded and went through that campaign with 
 the Mormon Battalion. He was in California 
 at the time of the great gold discoveries in 1849. 
 He came to Utah in the early fifties, and was 
 married in Salt Lake City to Miss Rachel Young. 
 In 1862 he moved with his family to Wanship, 
 in the Weber valley, and there took up genera! 
 farming and stock raising, which he followed 
 for the remainder of his life. He died in 1866 
 at the early age of forty-three. His widow still 
 lives in Wanship. 
 
 Our subject was born at Fort Supply, Wyom- 
 ing, at a time when his father was one of the 
 guards stationed to head off Johnston's army. 
 His birth occurred in a covered wagon June 20, 
 1856. He was six years of age when his par- 
 ents moved to Wanship, where he grew up, and 
 where he received his education. He began life 
 for himself in 1881, when he moved to Oakley 
 and engaged in farming and stock raising, which 
 he has since successfully followed, having a good 
 herd of cattle and a large ranch on the Weber 
 river. 
 
 ]\Ir. Frazier was married l^ebruary 25, 1879, 
 to Miss Nancy Richards, daughter of Franklin 
 D. and Susan (Pilsson) Richards. They have 
 had ten children, seven of whom are now living. 
 They are : Marion E., now on a mission to the 
 Samoan Islands ; Susan L.. died in infancy ; Wil- 
 liam P. ; Nancy C. ; Thomas F., died in infancy ; 
 Albert J., died in infancy ; Lorenzo F. ; Clarence 
 R. : Walter M., and Ina Lucille. 
 
 Mr. Frazier was born and raised in the Mor- 
 mon Church and has all his life been an energetic 
 and faithful worker in its behalf. He was for 
 thirteen years superintendent of his Sunday 
 School, and has been successively ordained Elder, 
 member of the Twenty-second Quorum of Sev- 
 enties, and a High Priest. At the time of his or- 
 dination as High Priest he was set apart by 
 Apostle Brigham Young, in August, 1895, as 
 Bishop of Oakley Ward, which had just been 
 organized. He presided over this Ward for six 
 years, until it was reorganized in April, 1901. He 
 was for three years President of the Improve- 
 ment Association in his Ward, and has been one 
 of the leading spirits in church work during his 
 residence in Oakley. 
 
 The success to which Mr. Frazier has attained 
 has been due entirely to his unflagging energy 
 and determination to succeed. He was left an 
 orphan at an early age and had to carve out his 
 own career without assistance from anyone. His 
 life has been singularly free from any of the 
 subterfuges by which men often attempt to pro- 
 mote their own interests, and has always been 
 such as to command the confidence and respect 
 of those with whom he has come in contact, 
 while his pleasant and genial nature has won 
 for him manv friends. 
 
 ILES A. ROMNEY,— son of 
 Bishop George Romney, whose 
 sketch appears elsewhere in this 
 work, — is one of the most trusted 
 employes of the Zion Co-operative 
 Mercantile Institution, of which institution his 
 father, the Bishop, is a director. He has worked 
 his way from a clerkship to the important posi- 
 tion of manager of the wholesale and retail carpet 
 department, and for a number of years has 
 superintended the purchases of this institution in 
 the New York market. 
 
 Miles A. Romney was born in Salt Lake City 
 in 1862, and received his early education in the 
 public schools of Utah. At the age of nineteen 
 he began his business career in the employ of the 
 Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution, being 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 first a clerk in the wholesale and retail grocery 
 department of that institution. He served for 
 eighteen months as cashier in the retail depart- 
 ment and for the past nine years has had entire 
 charge of the wholesale and retail carpet depart- 
 ment, and has under him nine employes. He 
 has been employed in this institution for over 
 twenty years and has made for himself a splen- 
 did reputation as an energetic and active busi- 
 ness man. 
 
 He married in 1885 to Miss Nellie T. Smellie, 
 daughter of David Smellie, who is now retired 
 from active business life. By this marriage ]Mr. 
 Romney has eight children. They are : Mignon ; 
 Miles, Jr. ; David ; Douglass, Dean, these latter 
 being twins ; Clyde ; Mary Jane, and Earl. 
 
 In political life Mr. Romney is a member of 
 the Republican party and takes an active inter- 
 est in its welfare, although he has not partici- 
 pated in its work so far as the solicitation for or 
 holding of public office is concerned. He, like 
 his parents, is a devoted member of the Mormon 
 Church, and has risen by his zeal and industry 
 in its work to be an Elder. His career in the 
 Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution marks 
 him as one of the bright business men of this 
 city, and the confidence and trust reposed in him 
 by the leaders of that establishment bears testi- 
 mony to his integrity and honesty. He is well 
 and popularly known to the leaders of the 
 church and enjoys the friendship of the citizens 
 of Utah. 
 
 LVIRAS E. SNUW. In connection 
 with the life of Salt Lake City it is 
 worthy of note that there are a large 
 number of young men, active in the 
 professions, in business circles and in 
 public affairs ; and certainly the city's rapid 
 growth is due in no small decree to tneir enter- 
 prise. Among the young attorneys who are 
 building up enviable reputations, Alviras E. 
 Snow, whose name appears at the head of this 
 article, is a noteworthy subject. He comes of 
 one of Utah's most prominent and widely-known 
 
 families, and is a native of Utah, having been 
 born in Brigham City, Utah, December 2, 1863, 
 and is a son of the late President Lorenzo Snow. 
 
 Our subject spent the early days of his boy- 
 hood in Brigham City, where he received his 
 first schooling, later attending the schools of 
 Salt Lake City and graduating from the L^ni- 
 versity of Utah in the fall of 1882. Upon the 
 completion of his education he engaged in school 
 teaching, which he followed for one year, aban- 
 doning that to embark in the mercantile busi- 
 ness in Brigham City. He was for a number 
 of years a member of the Co-operative Mercan- 
 tile Company of that place, and during his resi- 
 dence in Brigham City was called to serve as a 
 member of the City Council, serving with effi- 
 ciency and to the entire satisfaction of the citi- 
 zens of that place. He has always taken a deep 
 interest in educational matters, as did his father 
 before him. 
 
 In 1805 -^Ii". Snow gave up the mercantile 
 business and entered the Columbian LTniversity 
 at Washington, D. C, where he studied law and 
 graduated from the law department of that in- 
 stitution in the fall of 1897. After his gradua- 
 tion he returned to Salt Lake City and was ad- 
 mitted to practice before the Supreme and Fed- 
 eral Courts of the State of Utah. He opened up 
 an office and engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession alone until the fall of 1900, at which time 
 he formed a partnership with Judge Bowman, 
 which has continued to the present time. 
 
 Mr. Snow has not confined his attention wholly 
 to the practice of his profession, but has taken 
 an active interest in developing the mining in- 
 dustries of Utah, being interested in a number 
 of mining claims in the State. He has devoted 
 considerable study to mining law and has a large 
 and lucrative clientage among the mining men 
 of this city. 
 
 Having spent the greater portion of his life 
 in Salt Lake, he is well known to its citizens, 
 among whom he numbers many warm friends. 
 He has inherited his father's genial and pleasant 
 dispositon, and is regarded as a man of high 
 character, strict integrity and thoroughly reliable. 
 Mr. Snow's offices are in the D. F. Walker build- 
 ing, where he has a valuable library. 
 
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 255 
 
 W. MAXWELL. A fact worthy of 
 note is the large percentage of the 
 native sons of Utah who, after they 
 have grown to manhood and started 
 out in life for themselves, choose their 
 native State as the field of their operations, and 
 to this fact may be accredited to a large extent 
 the rapid development of Utah. The work which 
 their fathers commenced has been taken up by 
 them and carried still further and to a higher 
 degree of success. 
 
 R. W. Maxwell, our subject, is a native of 
 Utah, being born at Peoa in 1862. His whole 
 life up to the present time has been spent in this 
 State. His father was Ralph Maxwell, a native 
 of Scotland, born in Glasgow in 1837. He there 
 became a member of the Mormon Church and 
 emigrated to America in 1857, coming directly to 
 Utah, crossing the plains with the famous hand 
 cart company and settling in the Salt Lake val- 
 ley, being among the men to meet the Johnston 
 army in Echo Canyon that same year. At the 
 time of the general move south on account of 
 the Johnston army troubles, he moved with his 
 brother to the southern part of the State and 
 spent a year or two at Spanish Fork, after which 
 he located on the Jordan river and was married 
 in i860. He came to the Weber valley in i86i 
 and settled at Peoa, where he engaged in general 
 farming, which he followed for the rest of his 
 life. He became a prominent figure in business, 
 public and church life, and was a well-known 
 politician. In 1888 he went on a misson to Scot- 
 land and Ireland, remaining two years, during 
 which time he preached in his native town and 
 also in London and the northern part of Scot- 
 land. He was a member of the Seventies. He 
 died in 1901 at his home in Peoa, aged sixty-four 
 years. His wife, and the mother of our subject, 
 was Isabella McGavin, also a native of Scotland. 
 She is the mother of eight children, seven of 
 whom are living, and still resides at the old home 
 in Peoa. The children are: Nettie, the wife of 
 John Miles ; Sarah E., wife of Stephen M. 
 Walker, Sr. ; Robert E. ; Arthur F. ; James A., 
 living on the old place, and Grace A., now the 
 wife of William Milliner, of Peoa. 
 
 Our subject grew up on his father's farm an'' 
 
 obtained his education at the district schools. He 
 remained in Peoa until 1884, when he went to 
 Idaho and settled on Goose creek, where he fol- 
 lowed farming for some years. He returned to 
 Peoa, where he built a home, and in June, 1891, 
 moved to Oakley, where he purchased some un- 
 cultivated land and built another home, engag- 
 ing in general farming and stock raising. He 
 also raises considerable hay on this place, hav- 
 ing it planted to timothy and lucerne. In 1897 
 he built a fine seven room brick house on this 
 place, and now has a very comfortable home. 
 He has named this place Boulderville, from 
 which the Boulderville Ditch Company, of which 
 he is a director, derived its name. He was mar- 
 ried in 1884 to Miss Fannie Elizabeth Walker, 
 daughter of Charlotte Walker, and by her has 
 had a family of six children : Dora B. ; Ella G. ; 
 James P. ; Irvin L. ; Elmer H., and Orson C. 
 
 Mr. Maxwell has all his life been active in 
 church work and has held many of the offices 
 of the priesthood. He received the ordination 
 of Elder in 1884 and in 1890 became a member 
 of the Twenty-second Quorum of the Seventies. 
 In 1894 he was ordained High Priest and set 
 apart as First Counselor to Bishop Frazier. He 
 has also been active in Sunday School work and 
 in the work of the young men's societies. 
 
 The success to which Mr. Maxwell has at- 
 tained has been directly due to his own energy 
 and perseverance. His life has been an honor- 
 able, upright and manly one, and he has always 
 striven to give every one their just due. Al- 
 though but a young man he is regarded as one 
 of the leading farmers of his district and un- 
 doubtedly has a very successful career ahead of 
 him. 
 
 H. WRIGHT, the present County Re- 
 corder of Summit county, has been a 
 resident of this county since 1869. 
 Few men have been more closely 
 identified with every laudable enter- 
 prise for the building up and advancement of 
 Summit county than has Mr. Wright. To this 
 end he has given largely of his time and means. 
 He has been thoroughly interested in the social, 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 religious and political status of his county and 
 has always taken a prominent and active part 
 along these lines. In all his dealings in public 
 or private life he has been found honorable and 
 straightforward. 
 
 A native of England, born in Sheffield, York- 
 shire, in 1852. He is the son of Joseph and 
 Martha (Rippon) Wright. Our subject's father 
 joined the Mormon Church in England in 1852, 
 and with his family emigrated to America in 
 1873, locating at Coalville, where he died at the 
 age of seventy-five, in 1878. During the few 
 years he lived in this State he was active in 
 church work and was one of the organizers of the 
 Summit Stake. His wife lived to be eighty-four 
 years of age, and also died in Coalville. There 
 were ten children in this family, six of whom are 
 now living, our subject being the youngest mem- 
 ber of the family. They are : Thomas, living 
 in Spring Hollow, who came to Utah in 1867; 
 John, still living in Yorkshire, England ; William 
 J., living in Coalville; Ann, widow of Robert 
 Rippon, of Coalville, and F. H., our subject, and 
 Marentha, wife of Levi M. Savage. 
 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days in York- 
 shire, where he received his education in the com- 
 mon schools, and came to Utah at the age of 
 seventeen years, two years before his parents 
 emigrated to this country. He came direct to 
 Coalville, which was at that time but a small 
 mining camp and his first work in this country 
 was in the mines at that place. In 1876 he be- 
 came associated with the Coalville Co-operative 
 Mercantile Company, where he remained for ten 
 years, beginning at the bottom and working up 
 to the position of bookkeeper and accountant, 
 which position he held for a number of years, 
 until 1885. In that year he was sent on a mis- 
 sion to New Zealand and labored in different 
 parts of the island for three years, a portion of 
 the time presiding over the Poverty Bay district. 
 He baptized thirty-eight converts. Upon his re- 
 turn home he took a position as clerk in the 
 Tithing Store of Summit Stake, holding that 
 position until the summer of 1901. 
 
 Mr. Wright was married June 14, 1875, to 
 Miss Emma Hickenbottom, a native of Worces' 
 
 tershire. England, who came alone to this coun- 
 try in 1871. They have had a family of nine 
 children, — Amy Edith, deceased; Clara Eliza- 
 beth ; Frank M. ; Albert H. ; John Leo ; Joseph 
 A. ; Emma Lillian ; Ella May, and Loraine, who 
 died in infancy. 
 
 Mr. Wright has all his life been a 
 Democrat and under the leadership of that party 
 had done much for the upbuilding of his county. 
 He has held a number of public offices, having 
 been City Treasurer for two terms ; two terms 
 on the School Board; three terms as City Coun- 
 cilman and was twice a candidate for Mayor, but 
 failed of election. He has held his present office, 
 that of County Recorder of Summit county, since 
 1899. He is the present chairman of the central 
 precinct committee and a delegate to the Demo- 
 cratic convention. In church life he has been 
 active as a teacher, and has held the offices of 
 Elder and a member of the Twenty-seventh 
 Quorum of Seventies. In 1880 he was ordained a 
 High Priest by President George O. Cannon and 
 set apart as Counsel to Bishop William Hodson 
 of the North Ward, in which position he re- 
 mained until the two wards were consolidated, at 
 which time he was made Bishop of the new ward, 
 acting until May, 1901, when the Stake was re- 
 organized. He is at this time a member of the 
 High Council of Summit Stake. He has also 
 been prominent as a worker among the young 
 men and was for two terms president of the 
 Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, 
 and Counselor to the President of that association 
 for three terms. 
 
 Although his hfe has been given to clerical and 
 public work, Mr. Wright is one of the well known 
 stock men of this county. He has a good ranch 
 at the site of the old Wells Fargo stage station, 
 near the Wyoming line, which he has well stocked 
 with cattle. He is also one of the directors of 
 the Coalville Co-operative Mercantile Institution, 
 and president of the Summit Creamery Associa- 
 tion. He is a well known man in his county, and 
 enjoys the confidence and esteem of all with 
 whom he has been associated in private, public 
 or business life. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 257 
 
 F.ORGE CRISMON. To attempt to 
 write a history of the builders of Salt 
 .ake City, and indeed of Utah, as well, 
 without the life and record of George 
 Crismon, would be an imperfect and 
 incomplete effort, for so closely has he been 
 identified with the growth of Salt Lake City and 
 L^tah, and in fact all of the Western States, since 
 their resources first came to the notice of the out- 
 side world, that their development and upbuild- 
 ing is a story of his life work, he being one of 
 the pioneers who came to Utah in 1847. 
 
 Born in Morgan county, Illinois, which was 
 later divided into Morgan and Scott counties, his 
 birthplace was in what is now known as Scott 
 county, Illinois, in the year 1833. 
 
 When, he was but three years of age, his father, 
 Charles Crismon, joined the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints, and two years later 
 moved from Scott county. Illinois, to Caldwell 
 county, Missouri, where they continued to make 
 their home until 1839. When the uprising 
 against the members of the church took place 
 and they were driven out of Missouri, the Cris- 
 mon famly moved back to the old home in Scott 
 county, Illinois, and here they remained for two 
 years. In 1841, Mr. Crismon disposed of all his 
 property and belongings in Scott county and 
 moved his family to Macedonia, a small town 
 in Hancock county, Illinois, twenty miles from 
 the historic town of Nauvoo and eight miles from 
 Carthage. Here the family remained until the 
 early winter of 1845, when they moved to the 
 headquarters of the church at Nauvoo, but only 
 remained there until the exodus of the people 
 of that faith took place in 1846, removing with 
 the rest of the metnbers of the church to Winter 
 Quarters established at what is now Florence, 
 near Omaha, Nebraska. 
 
 Mr. Crismon and his family being most of the 
 time in the vanguard of the movement, were sent 
 ahead to Columbus, Nebraska, and later to Nio- 
 bara, where they spent the winter of 1846. In 
 the spring of the following year they returned 
 to Winter Quarters, from whence, after securing 
 supplies and an outfit, they began the long, 
 dreary and arduous trip across the plains to Utah. 
 None but those who made that toilsome trip in 
 
 the early days can appreciate its difficulty and 
 the hardships incident to a journey across the 
 wilderness it then was. After numerous encoun- 
 ters with hostile Indians and many narrow es- 
 capes from death at their hands and from the 
 attacks of the savage beasts that then roamed at 
 will over the plains, the party arrived at Salt 
 Lake City in October, 1847, ^ short distance be- 
 hind the company of one hundred and forty- 
 seven souls led by President Brigham Young, 
 and surely deserve to be included in the roll of 
 honor of the pioneers of this State. 
 
 Mr. Charles Crismon, the father of our sub- 
 ject, was born in Christian county, Kentucky, 
 and lived there until he attained his majority, 
 when he moved to Illinois. By trade he was a 
 miller, and in addition to his work, successfully 
 erected a number of mills in Illinois. He erected 
 one at Macedonia, but owing to his departure for 
 Utah, operated it for only a few years. Upon 
 his arrival in Utah he found a large field for 
 his efforts. At that time there was not a single 
 mill in the territory, and indeed but few im- 
 provements of any kind had been made to assist 
 the people in properly using the natural re- 
 sources of the country. He built and success- 
 fully operated for a considerable time the first 
 mill ever erected in Utah, its site being on City 
 creek, about a quarter of a mile above Eagle 
 Gate. The family remained in Salt Lake City 
 for two years, and in 1849 removed to a site on 
 the north fork of the American river in Califor- 
 nia, where they engaged in mining. Here they 
 spent but a short time, removing to San Fran- 
 cisco, then but a straggling village, and in that 
 place they remained until 1850. In that year 
 they moved to Cedar ranch, about thirty miles 
 southeast of Los Angeles. The site is now oc- 
 cupied by the great Chino sugar factory. In 
 1 85 1 Mr. Crismon and his father purchased a 
 thousand head of cattle and drove them to Sacra- 
 mento, where they sold them at a profit. 
 
 Active work was begun in 1857 by the church 
 in colonizing San Bernardino county. Califor- 
 nia, and to that place the Crismon family of pio- 
 neers moved. Here Mr. Charles Crismon and 
 his son George erected the first saw mill ever 
 built south of Monterey. When Johnston's army 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was on its march to Utah, these colonists, under 
 the advice of President Brigham Young, left 
 their homes and returned to Utah, which place 
 they reached in 1858. In 1865-66 they built the 
 Husler mill on State road, about four miles 
 south of Salt Lake. In 1878 Charles Crismon 
 removed to Arizona, and assisted in establishing 
 colonies of the members of the church, and while 
 in that territory Mr. Crismon and his son George 
 built the Crismon mill near Phoenix, Arizona. 
 Charles Crismon, the father of the subject of 
 this sketch, was throughout his life a staunch and 
 valued member of the church of his choice. While 
 living in Illinois, during the early days of the 
 church, he was assigned to several important 
 missions, and later, in Califprnia, was a member 
 of the high council of San Bernardino Stake, and 
 was a captain in Bishop Miller's Pioneer Bridge 
 Building Company. He died in 1893 at the ripe 
 old age of eighty-eight years, loved and hon- 
 ored by all who knew him. 
 
 His wife, the mother of the subject of this 
 sketch, was Mary (Hill) Crismon, daughter of 
 John Hill, a native of North Carolina. Her fam- 
 ily moved to Kentucky, crossing the Blue Ridge 
 mountains with three pack horses, and later 
 moved to Illinois in company with the Crismon 
 family, about the time her future husband set- 
 tled there, and in that State they were married. 
 
 Their son, George, spent the greater portion 
 of his boyhood days traveling from one place 
 to another, and as a consequence his early educa- 
 tion was necessarily of a very rudimentary char- 
 acter. During the residence of the family in 
 Hancock county, Illinois, he attended the com- 
 mon schools then in existence there, and on com- 
 ing to Utah took advantage of whatever oppor- 
 tunity presented itself to increase his store of 
 knowledge. He attended the school in the old 
 Fort block and while residing in San Bernardino 
 county, also attended school there. 
 
 From his very boyhood days he had been as- 
 sociated with his father in business enterprises, 
 building and operating mills, and in the allied 
 work of that business and in transporting 
 freight across the plain from the Missouri river. 
 He later engaged in the sheep industry and then 
 turned his attention to railroad building. In 
 
 this work he achieved signal success and suc- 
 cessfully built large portions of the roads in the 
 West. His firm, Crismon & Sons, had large con- 
 tracts for building portions of the Union Pacific 
 railroad, and built the Park City branch to Echo. 
 The firm of which he was the senior member. 
 Crimson & Weiler, also built a large part of the 
 road of the Oregon Short Line, running west 
 from Granger a distance of seventy-five miles. 
 They were also entrusted with the contract for 
 improving the Oregon Short Line near Brigham 
 City, changing its route and increasing it from 
 a narrow gauge to a broad or standard gauge 
 road. The Granger contract on the Oregon Short 
 Line was completed in 1881 and since that time 
 Mr. Crismon has devoted his attention and en- 
 ergies to the development of mining property in 
 Utah and in other Western States. He acquired 
 large interests in the Tintic mining district and 
 at one time held, in connection with with his 
 father and brother, Charles Crismon, Jr., the 
 controlling interest in the Mammoth and Eureka 
 Hill mines. 
 
 He has aided in developing the Utah mines, 
 located at Fish Springs, Juab county, Utah, and 
 is one of its principal stockholders. He is one 
 of the directors of that company, and the mines, 
 which were opened in 1891, now employ about 
 twenty-five men in the operations. They have 
 proved to be a very successful venture and bid 
 fair to become the leading mines in that county. 
 At the State Fair, held in Salt Lake City in 1901, 
 these mines were awarded the first premium for 
 the best and finest display of silver and lead ore. 
 In addition to these mines, Mr. Crismon holds 
 large interests in similar property in other parts 
 of Utah and in Idaho. 
 
 Few men have been so widely interested in 
 the growth and development of the West as has 
 he and during his life he has seen the large cities 
 of this region grown from their first settlement. 
 His travels have been all over the mountain re- 
 gion, and in i860 he saw Denver start on its 
 present career from a small village, and four 
 years later he was in Montana when that was a 
 thinly settled territory. 
 
 Mr. Crismon married his first wife while in 
 San Bernardino county, California — Miss JMary 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 259 
 
 Louisa Tanner, daughter of Sidney Tanner, who 
 was a stock-raiser and freighter in the early days 
 of the settlement of the West. Her mother died 
 in Winter Quarters. Air. Crismon's second wife 
 was Miss Mary A. Foster, and by these two 
 wives he has fourteen living children. His chil- 
 dren by his first wife were: Elouise, now wife 
 of W. S. ^urton, of Salt Lake City; Alice; 
 George L.. who died at the age of twenty-two; 
 Margaret Louisa, wiie of D. S. Spencer; Emily 
 Jane, wife of George W. Thatcher, Jr.; Sidney 
 Charles ; Frank W. ; Dudley X., who died at the 
 age of fourteen ; Arthur Owen ; Beatrice C. and 
 Kenneth A., at present a student in the Brigham 
 Young College at Logan. By his second wife, 
 his children are: Elizabeth, wife of Joshua Sel- 
 ley, of Salt Lake City; Herbert F. ; Leo F. ; 
 Hazel F., and Duwayne F.. and he has now liv- 
 ing nineteen grandchildren. 
 
 Mr. Crismon has been a staunch member of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 
 and is at present a member of the High Council 
 of Granite Stake. He has been on missions for 
 the church in Europe, visiting London and Paris 
 in 1872 and 1873 on that work. 
 
 In politics, Mr. Crismon has taken an active 
 part, and, until the first term of President Cleve- 
 land, was a believer in the principles of the Demo- 
 cratic party, but disbelieving in that party's ad- 
 herence to the doctrine of free trade, threw his 
 support to the Republican party, with which he 
 has since been identified. He served two terms 
 as collector for Salt Lake county and served in 
 the City Council during 1874, 1875 and 1876. 
 His home is in Sugar ward in Salt Lake county. 
 
 AI. WILSON, M. D. Everywhere 
 tliroughout the length and breadth 
 'if America are to be found men who 
 have worked their own way upwards 
 from humble and lowly beginnings 
 to positions, of leadership, renown and high es- 
 teem. It has been this class of men who have 
 formed the backbone and sinew of every enter- 
 prise that has been projected and successfully 
 carried on in the L^nited States since the landing 
 of the Pilgrim Fathers. Dr. Wilson, one of the 
 
 leading physicians and surgeons of Park City, 
 was born in Fowler, St. Lawrence county. New 
 York, in 1845, and is the son of Oren and Amelia 
 (Merrill) Wilson, both natives of that county. 
 The Wilson family descended from Alexander 
 Wilson, who settled in Vermont about 1812, and 
 followed farming. His son, our subject's grand- 
 father, John Wilson, moved to New York State, 
 settling in St. Lawrence county, and there our 
 subject's father died at the age of fifty years, in 
 1864. His wife, and the mother of our subject, 
 was the daughter of Richard and Margaret (Bor- 
 land) Merrill. Mr. :\Ierrill was a native of New 
 Hampshire, but emigrated to Montgomery 
 county. New York, where he engaged in school 
 teaching. The Borland family came to this coun- 
 try from Ireland, and were also residents of 
 IMontgomery county. New York. Their ances- 
 tors, the O'Neils, were very weathy people and 
 at the time of coming to America chartered a 
 vessel to bring their goods to this country. The 
 captain of the vessel entered into a conspiracy 
 with the crew, whereby they were to starve the 
 family and gain possession of the goods and 
 large sum of money which they had with them. 
 They sailed in a roundabout way until the supply 
 of food and water was exhausted. Finally the 
 mate made a confession of the conspiracy and 
 after the captain had been put in irons, brought 
 the vessel safely to port. This family were the 
 great-great-great-grandparents of our subject 
 and the story has been handed down with the 
 family history from one generation to another. 
 The doctor's mother is still living at Canastola, 
 New York, at the advanced age of eightv-one 
 years. Her only other livincr child, John Wilson, 
 lives in the same town. The doctor's maternal 
 grandfather was a surveyor and surveyed the 
 St. Lawrence river for Baron de Kalb. He also 
 surveyed a portion of St. Lawrence countv. New 
 York. 
 
 Our subject lived in Fowler, in St. Lawrence 
 county, until he was fifteen years of age, when 
 he went to Gouveneur, where he attended the 
 Gouveneur Wesleyan Seminary, from which in- 
 stitution he graduated in 1864. He then attended 
 the Wesleyan university at Middleton, Connecti- 
 cut for two years, after which he took a course 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in medicine, studying under Dr. S. L. Parmalee 
 of Gouveneur for three years. He then entered 
 the medical college in connection with Bellevue 
 Hospital, New York, from which he graduated 
 with the degree of M. D. in 1871, and from that 
 time up to 1888 was engaged in general prac- 
 tice in the towns of Rossie, Hammond and Gou- 
 veneur, all in St. Lawrence county. 
 
 Dr. Wilson came to Park City in 1888, and has 
 since successfully followed the practice of his 
 profession. He has his membership in the New 
 York State Medical Society ; the Rocky Mountain 
 Interstate Medical Society, and the American 
 Medical Association. 
 
 Dr. Wilson was married in 1875 to Miss Eliz- 
 abeth Gregor, a native of Hammond, New York. 
 They have one daughter. Elizabeth, who is at 
 this time a student at Ann Arbor, the University 
 of Michigan. 
 
 In political life our subject is a member of the 
 Republican party, and is a member of the present 
 City Council. In social life he is a member of 
 the Park City Lodge No. 7, I. O. O. F. ; a mem- 
 ber of the K. T. O. M., and the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen. He is the local surgeon for 
 the Union Pacific and Rio Grande Western rail- 
 roads. 
 
 During the time that Dr. Wilson has been a 
 resident of Park City he has taken an active in- 
 terest in whatever pertained to the welfare of 
 the people of the city, and by his manly, straight- 
 forward life, and his kindly nature, has made 
 many friends among all classes of people. 
 
 SCAR F. LYONS has been a resident 
 of Utah most of his life, having come 
 here with his parents when only nine 
 years of age. For over a quarter of 
 a century his home has been in Peoa. 
 His position as a government officer in Utah has 
 scarcely been exceeded by any one man in the 
 State, for since 1881 he has served as postmaster 
 at Peoa. He has taken an active and prominent 
 part in every movement and enterprise for the 
 building up of Summit county, and is accounted 
 one of the most substantial, wide awake and en- 
 terprising men of the county. 
 
 He is a native of Illinois and was born in Nau- 
 voo, December 25, 1840. He is a son of Caleb 
 W. and Sarah (Bigler) Lyons, his mother being 
 a sister of Mrs. Bathsheba W. Smith, whose 
 biographical sketch appears elsewhere in this 
 work. His parents were natives of West Vir- 
 ginia, and became members of the Mormon 
 Church about 1836. They emigrated, to Nauvoo 
 in 1839 and remained there until the exodus in 
 1846, when they moved to Quincy, in the same 
 State. The father engaged as a mate on the 
 steamer Edward Bates and was killed in an ex- 
 plosion of the steamer's boiler in 1848. The fol- 
 lowing year the mother moved to Council Bluffs 
 with her family and a year later emigrated to 
 Utah in company with Seth W. Blair's train, 
 locating in the Seventeenth ward, Salt Lake City. 
 She was married to Thomas E. Taylor in 1853, 
 by whom she had two children. 
 
 L^pon coming to Utah, although but a mere 
 child, our subject began to make his own way 
 in the world, obtaining employment with the 
 Descrct Neivs, where he learned the printer's 
 trade, which he followed for some years. He 
 also became a member of the Deseret Dramatic 
 Association, and played at the Salt Lake theater 
 for two years. During the winter of 1864 he en- 
 gaged in school teaching in Peoa, and from 1867 
 to 1869 was engaged as a civil engineer on the 
 western division of the Union Pacific railroad. 
 He also did some work on the Utah Central rail- 
 road. In 1873, in connection with Robert G. 
 Slater and Joseph T. McEwan, he started the first 
 paper south of Salt Lake,r/if Provo Daily Times. 
 of which he was editor for three years. In 1876 
 he moved to Peoa, where he has since continued 
 to reside, and where he taught school for elLrlit 
 years. He became postmaster in 1881 and has 
 since held that office. 
 
 Mr. Lyons was married in 1870 to Miss Maria 
 Louise Marchant, daughter of Abraham Mar- 
 chant. By this marriage he has had eleven chil- 
 dren, of whom eight are living: Oscar F.. Jr.; 
 Maria L., wife of Albert Miles; .^bra- 
 ham M., married to Sarah J. Wilkins ; Herbert 
 A. ; Amy C. ; Edith ; Hazel L., and Gladys. Three 
 children, Gilbert B. ; Elbert L. and Emory L. 
 died in earlv childhood. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 261 
 
 He has been prosecuting attorney for Sum- 
 mit county for two terms and active in the public 
 life of Peoa. In church matters he is a promi- 
 nent figure. He was for nine years assistant su- 
 perintendent of the Stake Sunday Schools, and 
 since 1884 has been secretary and treasurer of the 
 Twenty-second Quorum of Seventies. He has 
 been clerk of the ward since 1887. He is identi- 
 fied with the Peoa South Branch Irrigation Com- 
 pany, of which he has been secretary since its 
 organization in 1887. He owns a good ranch 
 near this place, on which he raises stock, and is 
 doing a successful business in that line. He is 
 also engaged in the book and stationery business 
 on a small scale. 
 
 TSHOP ELIJAH F. SHEETS arrived 
 in Salt Lake City with the early 
 pioneers. His worldly possessions at 
 that time consisted of a yoke of oxen, 
 one cow, another yoke of oxen which 
 he had forwarded, one wagon and a scant supply 
 of eatables and wearing apparel; but he was the 
 last man in the world to sit down and mourn 
 because he was not born rich. He possessed a 
 strong body and a willing mind, and at once set 
 to work to carve out a successful career, in which 
 he has succeeded admirably. During his whole 
 life in Utah he has been an important factor in 
 its businesr. life, as well as in the work of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 
 
 He was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, 
 March 22. 1821. His father was Frederick 
 Sheets, a native of Germany, who emigrated to 
 America v hen but a youn"- man. He married 
 Hannah Page, a native of Chester county, and 
 by her had five children, of whom our subject 
 is the youngest, and the only member of the 
 family to come to Utah. He was left an orphan 
 at six years of age, and then went to live with 
 Bishop Edward Hunter, with whom he lived until 
 he was seventeen years of age, attending school 
 during the winter for six weeks each year, and 
 thus obtaining his education. At the age of sev- 
 enteen he began to learn the blacksmith trade, 
 which he followed for two and a half years. 
 
 On July 5, 1840, he joined the Mormon Church 
 and was baptized by Elder Erastus Snow, joining 
 the Saints at Nauvoo the following year. He 
 was called in company with Elder Joseph A. 
 Stratton to do missionary work in his native 
 State in 1842, and was associated with Elder 
 Stratton for twenty-two months, during which 
 time he preached to many of his old acquaint- 
 ances in Chester county, and also labored in 
 Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New 
 Jersey. Upon their return to Nauvoo in 1844, 
 he and Elder Stratton were sent on a mission to 
 England, where our subject visited the Liver- 
 pool, Preston and Manchester branches, and was 
 called to preside over the Bradford Conference 
 in Yorkshire, and later presided over the Here- 
 fordshire Conference, where he remained until 
 1846. 
 
 He was married on the ocean enroute home, 
 to Miss Margaret Hutchinson, of Radnoshire, 
 England, the ceremony being performed by Elder 
 W'ilford Woodruff. LTpon reaching Nauvoo, he 
 found that President Brigham Young had gone 
 with a company of Saints towards the Missouri 
 river. He then went on to Winter Quarters, 
 where he spent the winter of 1846-47, and where 
 his wife and infant child died. Bishop Sheets 
 was again married before leaving Winter Quar- 
 ters, his second wife being Susanna Musser, who 
 accompanied him to Salt Lake. They have four 
 children living — Nephi, Moroni, Susanna, now 
 Mrs. Thomas Wilson, and Martha, now Mrs. 
 Franklin Davis. Three children died in infancy. 
 The mother of these children also died, and he 
 married Elizabeth Leaver, daughter of Samuel 
 Leaver. She bore him ten children, eight of 
 whom are now living — Samuel, Milton, Mary 
 Ann, the wife of William Wrieht; Elizabeth, 
 wife of Mathoni Pratt ; Edward L., Joseph, Eva. 
 and two children now dead. Ine mother of 
 these children is also dead. His last wife was 
 Emma Spencer, daughter of Edwin Spencer, who 
 is also dead. She bore him Jeddiah S., Emma, 
 now the wife of James Rigby ; Heber S.. Elija, 
 Ray, Bertha, Eliza, now ]\Irs. Thomas Reader, 
 and William, deceased. 
 
 Bishop Sheets left Winter Quarters in June, 
 1847, in a company of fifty ox teams, under com- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 mand of Captain Perry Green Sessions, our sub- 
 ject having charge of ten wagons. With the 
 exception of threatened stampedes from buffaloes 
 and the trouble caused by marauding Indians, the 
 trip passed without incident, and they arrived in 
 Salt Lake City September 22nd of that year. 
 They here found a small company of pioneers 
 who had arrived in July of that year with Presi- 
 dent Brigham Young, camped in the barren des- 
 ert covered with sage brush. Brigham Young 
 had returned for another company of emigrants, 
 and they had passed him at Pacific Springs. 
 They camped in their wagons until they could 
 get out timber from the canyons to build houses. 
 Bishop Sheets and Elder Stratton built their 
 houses together at the old fort, and moved into 
 them in December, 1847. Bishop Sheets took up 
 his trade of blacksmithing, which he followed for 
 some years, and also engaged in farming in what 
 was known as the "Big Field," naw Farmer's 
 Ward. In the early fifties he was elected water 
 master for Salt Lake City, which position he 
 filled for about fourteen years, also serving as a 
 member of the City Council and Alderman of the 
 first Municipal Ward during that time. 
 
 When the Union Pacific railroad was built 
 through this country, he took a large contract 
 under President Young for grading a portion of 
 the road through Echo Canyon, near Summit. 
 This contract called for fifty thousand dollars. 
 The contract work lasted for several months, the 
 Bishop giving employment to one hundred men. 
 
 After leaving the old fort. Bishop Sheets lo- 
 cated in the Eighth Ward, near where the city 
 and county buildings now stand, and made his 
 home there for some years. In 1850 he went with 
 President George A. Smith and a company to set- 
 tle Iron county. They made a settlement at Pa- 
 rowan, where he remained for nearly a year. In 
 1868 he went to Provo in company with Presi- 
 dent Young, Heber C. Kimball, George A. Smith 
 and Joseph F. Smith, and assisted in reorganizing 
 the branch of the Church at that place, putting it 
 on a solid financial basis, as well as strengthening 
 its spiritual welfare. While there, he became 
 First Counselor to President Abraham O. Smoot, 
 who was president of the Stake, and at the same 
 
 time served as a member of the Prove City 
 Council. After completing his railroad contract 
 work, he was called by President Young to act 
 as traveling Bishop, and traveled through Utah, 
 Sanpete and Millard counties, receiving the tith- 
 ing and looking after the general welfare of the 
 Church. 
 
 In 1870 he was called to act as traveling 
 Bishop by President Young, as Mr. Young 
 was Trustee in Trust and appointed Bishop 
 Sheets as Agent, in which position he 
 had charge of all farms, lands and stocks be- 
 longing to the Church. He continued to hold 
 this position under Presidents Young, Taylor and 
 WoodrufT. He has held many of the offices of 
 the priesthood, having been ordained an Elder, 
 a Seventy and a High Priest, beinf set apart as 
 Bishop of the Eighth Ward on May 11, 1856, 
 filling that position continuously since that time, 
 his Counselors looking after the interests of the 
 Ward during his absence, and is so far as known 
 the oldest acting Bishop in the Church at this 
 time. In 1869 he was called on a mission to the 
 Eastern States, where he spent six months. He 
 has been actively identified with all the auxiliary 
 departments of the Church, and participated in 
 the construction of the Temple, where he has 
 worked since its completion in 1893 up to the 
 present time. He has always been a firm be- 
 liever in the doctrines promulgated by the Mor- 
 mon Church, and has followed them implicitly. 
 He was tried with a number of others in 1882 
 for a violation of the Edmonds-Tucker act and 
 sentenced to eighty-five days in the penitentiary 
 and a fine of three hundred dollars. 
 
 His home has been in the Fanner's Ward since 
 1 881, where he owns fifty acres of choice land, 
 which is well improved, and where he is engaged 
 in farming and stock raising. He has a hand- 
 some brick residence on this place, fitted with 
 every modern convenience, and his home is one 
 of the most beautiful in the Ward. His long 
 life in this place has, Irom the nature of his work, 
 brought him prominently before the public, and 
 he is widely known throughout the entire State, 
 and enjoys the confidence and esteem of all with 
 whom he has come in contact. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 263 
 
 ICHARD BIRCH. To be ordained a 
 Patriarch in the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints is a high honor, 
 which but very few men ever reach, 
 and only those who have faitli- 
 fullv served the church for a long time, 
 devoting nearly their entire lives to its in- 
 terest and advancement, are ordained to this 
 high position. Patriarch Piirch has been a 
 faithful member, a staunch supporter and an 
 eminent expounder and teacher of the prin- 
 cioles and doctrines of his Church from the time 
 he first joined it as a young man, up to the pres- 
 ent time. He has filled all the different offices 
 of priesthood in the church and in 1894 was or- 
 dained a Patriarch. His long and most honor- 
 able career in Summit county has made him one 
 of the most popular and highly respected citizens 
 of that entire section, and now in his declining 
 }ears he can look back with pride upon a life 
 well spent, with a true devotion and love for his 
 fellowmen. 
 
 Richard Birch was born May 25, 1824, in 
 Staffordshire, England. He grew to manhood 
 and received his education in England. He united 
 with the Mormon Church on April 9. 1849, ^"d 
 soon after emigrated to America, sailing on the 
 ship Berlin. The voyage across the Atlantic 
 ocean was a most perilous and terrible one, 
 cholera having broken out on board and many 
 of the passengers dying from the plague, our 
 subject's oldest son, William, being among the 
 number. He landed in New Orleans and went 
 direct to St. Louis, where he remained until 
 1853, when he came to Utah, crossing the plains 
 by ox team. He arrived in Salt Lake City on 
 October i6th of that year and went to Sugar 
 House Ward, being one of the first to settle there. 
 He took up land in the ward and for some time 
 worked at whatever he could find, being em- 
 ployed by President Brigham Young part of the 
 time. In i860 he removed to Hoytsville and 
 there established a home for his fainily, return- 
 ing to Salt Lake where he worked until the 
 spring of 1861, when he returned to his farm, 
 where he has since lived, following general farm- 
 ing and improving his place. He owns a com- 
 fortable stone house, where he makes his resi- 
 dence and has been verv successful financiallv. 
 
 Patriarch Birch has been three times married. 
 His first wife was Ellen Plarris, a native of Staf- 
 fordshire, England", who came to Utah with him 
 in 1853. His second wife was Mary Ann Hale, 
 now deceased, and his third wife was Mary Ann 
 Birch. He has been the father of twenty-one 
 children and has a number of grandchildren liv- 
 ing. 
 
 In the church our subject was ordained a Priest 
 before leaving his native land, and while living 
 in Sugar House Ward was ordained an Elder by 
 Bishop Rollins. He was made High Priest on 
 February 4, 1877, by President W. W. Cluff and 
 set apart as a member of the High Council of 
 Summit Stake. He was ordained a Patriarch 
 under the hands of Apostle Francis 'SI. Lyman, 
 November 4, 1894, which position he holds at 
 this time. He has done much towards building 
 up the State and in his younger days assisted in 
 erecting many of the public buildings, having 
 assisted to build the Salt Lake and Logan Tem- 
 ples, the Tabernacle and the Summit Stake 
 schools. When Johnston's army came westward 
 he was a member of Major Pugmire's company, 
 who went to meet the army. 
 
 
 1 
 
 ACHONEUS HEMENWAY. Nature 
 may endow a country with rich soil, 
 splendid climate, and untold mil- 
 lions of wealth may be hidden in the 
 secret corner of its mountains, yet all 
 these conditions avail but little, unless men of 
 unconquerable courage, perseverance and deter- 
 mination are found to develop and bring them 
 from the state in which nature left them. 
 
 Utah has not been lacking in this class of men. 
 Among those who have taken a prominent part 
 in the development of this new country should be 
 mentioned our subject. Lachoneus Hemenway 
 was born in Daysville, Ogle county, Illinois, Jan- 
 uary i6th, 1849. He is a son of Luther and AI- 
 vira (Day) Hemenway, his father being a native 
 of Massachusetts who settled in Illinois on May 
 27th, 1844. He was a machinist by trade and 
 followed that avocation for a number of years 
 in that State. He later had charge of his 
 brother's farm, who was a wealthy land owner 
 
264 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in that State. In 1852 the family came to Utah, 
 crossing the plains by ox teams, arriving in Salt 
 Lake City October 6th, 1852. The senior Hem- 
 enway engaged in the nursery business in the 
 Fourth ward, which he successfully conducted 
 for many years. Having become a member of 
 the Mormon Church, he was called upon to serve 
 on a mission after coming to Utah, which he did 
 in the St. George district during the early part 
 of 1869. There he established a vineyard, which 
 he conducted until his death, July 15th, 1891. 
 He was buried in the St. George cemetery. 
 
 Our subject's mother died in Cache valley in 
 January, 1890, and her remains were buried in 
 Logan. Our subject has spent most of his life 
 in Salt Lake county. 
 
 He was married October i8th, 1869, to Anna 
 Roberts, daughter of John Sidney Roberts, who 
 was born in Connecticut August 28th, 1809, ^"^ 
 Martha Caroline (Bowers) Roberts, born in 
 England. This family came to Utah among the 
 pioneers in 1847. Mrs. Hemenway was born in 
 Mill Creek ward in 1854. 
 
 Our subject and wife have eleven children, six 
 of whom are living: Anna E., died aged 21 
 years; Carrie, now Mrs. George Harman of 
 Granger ward ; Ada B., now the wife of George 
 Robinson, of Granger Ward; Lachoneus J., died 
 aged 25 years ; Grace, now the wife of David 
 Harman, of Idaho ; Ethel M. ; Hazel ; Amy L. ; 
 John S., died in infancy ; Luther, died at birth ; 
 George L. G., died in infancy. 
 
 In 1876 our subject settled on his present place, 
 which consists of 160 acres of land, which he 
 originally took up from the government. During 
 all of these years he has made substantial and 
 valuable improvements until today it is consid- 
 ered one of the finest farms and homes in Salt 
 Lake county. His large brick residence, splendid 
 orchard, shade trees, gardens, and beautiful 
 yards all indicate that Mr. Hemenway has been 
 an active and enterprising citizen. Stock raising 
 has been one of the principal factors and enter- 
 prises, as well as general farming. 
 
 In political affairs he has always been a 
 staunch Republican, he having served a number 
 of years as constable and deputy tree inspector 
 of Salt Lake county. 
 
 He was ordained an elder in the Mormon 
 Church of which he and his family are all faith- 
 ful and consistent members. His wife is a mem- 
 ber of the Ladies' Relief Society. His daugh- 
 ters are members of the Young Ladies' Mutual 
 Improvement Association. 
 
 Mr. Hemenway has been alive to every enter- 
 prise for the development and improvement of 
 Salt Lake county. He was for eight years a 
 director of the Utah and Salt Lake Canal Com- 
 pany and took a prominent part in its construc- 
 tion, as well as in several other ditches and 
 canals in Salt Lake county. 
 
 J. TOLLERTON, General Master 
 iNIechanic of the Utah division of 
 the Oregon Short Line railroad, 
 is a splendid example of what an 
 ambitious, energetic and honor- 
 able young man can make of himself. He was 
 born and bred amid the glamour of railroad life, 
 his father having been connected with the Great 
 Northern Railway, and upon reaching his ma- 
 jority it was but natural that he should turn to 
 the occupation with which his life had been most 
 closely associated, beginning at the very bottom 
 rung and working his way steadily upward, until 
 today he is in one of the most responsible posi- 
 tions in that branch of railway service. 
 
 Mr. Tollerton was born in Saint Paul, Alin- 
 nesota. January i, 1869, and is the son of James 
 Thomas Tollerton. who died in 1884. Our sub- 
 ject spent his early life in the vicinity of Saint 
 Paul, attending the public and high schools of 
 that city and becoming well fitted, from an edu- 
 cational standpoint, for the career he had marked 
 out for himself. He began his railroad career 
 at the age of seventeen years, entering the em- 
 ploy of the Saint Paul Foundry and Machine 
 Company, which later became the Saint Paul 
 and Duluth Railroad Company, and at the age 
 of twenty-one years entered the shops of the lat- 
 ter company as an apprentice, serving his full 
 time with that company and then went to Omaha, 
 where he accepted a position with the Union Pa- 
 cific Railroad Company, in whose employ he has 
 since remained, serving in various capacities. He 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 265 
 
 has been employed at Omaha, Kansas City, 
 Cheyenne, Pocatello and Shoshone, Idaho, prior 
 to coming to Salt Lake. He went to Pocatello 
 in August, 1892, and remained there a year, 
 when he was given charge of the shops at Sho- 
 shone. Spent two years at Shoshone, when he 
 was returned to Pocatello and given the same 
 position in that place, remaining there until June, 
 1897, when he was transferred to Salt Lake City 
 and promoted as General Master Mechanic of 
 the Utah Division of the Oregon Short Line 
 Railroad, and has since continued to fill that po- 
 sition. He has supervision over six hundred and 
 fifty-seven miles of track, and has under him in 
 the various departments three hundred and sev- 
 enty-five men. To those acquainted with rail- 
 road life, the arduous duties attached to this po- 
 sition, as well as its importance, will be readily 
 apparent. While it is true that there is a faci- 
 nation in the life of the railway that holds most 
 men to it throughout their entire lives and un- 
 fits them for other occupations, in most instances, 
 yet the man who rises to a position of trust and 
 responsibility must not only have himself passed 
 through the various branches and divisions of 
 his department and familiarized himself with the 
 minutest details, but he must possess a pecu- 
 liar adaptability for that particular work and be 
 able to control and direct the multiplied tasks 
 of those under his charge and keep everything 
 in smooth running order ; a mistake on his part 
 resulting in not only large financial loss to the 
 company, but the probable loss of life of hun- 
 dreds of innocent persons. He must be a man 
 of clear brain and quick perception, free from 
 vices and able to command the confidence not 
 only of his superiors, but of those under him as 
 well, and when such a man is found that so-called 
 "heartless corporation," the railroad company, is 
 never slow in recognizing his merits and re- 
 warding them with as rapid promotion as one's 
 abilities allow. Those who know Mr. Tollerton 
 wiir agree with the writer that he is all this, and 
 more — a whole-souled, genial man, most ap- 
 proachable, and yet allowine no social function 
 to interfere with his duties. 
 
 Mt. Tollerton is a single man ; in social life he 
 is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of 
 the Master Mechanics' Association. 
 
 H. RAND.\LL. Whoever labors for 
 the advancement of his community 
 with an unselfish devotion to duty and 
 right, assisting in promoting its ag- 
 ricultural, financial and commercial 
 interes/ts ; inspiring energy, confidence and pro- 
 gressiveness in his fellow men, will never lack 
 for friends or admirers. Such a man is Mr. Ran- 
 dall, than whom Morgan county has no more 
 highly respected or honored citizen. He has been 
 thoroughly alive to every enterprise and legiti- 
 mate undertaking which has been successfully 
 carried on in his county during the past decade, 
 and today ranks among the leaders in the financial 
 world of his county. 
 
 He is a native son of LUah, having been bom 
 in Salt Lake City January 11, 1850, and is a 
 son of Alfred Randall, who came to Utah in 1848. 
 He was a native of Ohio, where he was born in 
 1813, and became a member of the Church about 
 the time the Saints gathered at Kirkland, Ohio. 
 He was in Nauvoo at the time of the exodus, and 
 crossed the plains with ox teams in 1848, settling 
 in Salt Lake City. In 1858 he went back to the 
 Missouri river, and there purchased cattle and 
 brought a train of merchandise across the plains 
 for Livingston & Bell, who were among the first 
 merchants in this valley. He accumulated some 
 considerable means, and aside from his home in 
 Salt Lake City purchased property in North Og- 
 den and at Centerville, in Davis county. During 
 his residence in Utah he filled two missions to 
 the Sandwich Islands, and was a High Priest in 
 the Salt Lake Stake. He enjoyed the friendship 
 of such men as George Q. Cannon, Heber C. Kim- 
 ball and Brigham Young, and was foremost in 
 all enterprises looking to the upbuilding and ad- 
 vancement of the State. He built and for many 
 years ran the Ogden Woolen Mills. He was the 
 husband of five wives and the father of thirty- 
 three children, our subject being the oldest of 
 seven children of Margaret Hardy, who is still 
 living in Centerville. The senior Mr. Randall 
 died in Ogden in March, 1889, at the age of 
 seventy-eight years. 
 
 Our subject lived in Centerville for thirty years, 
 where he successfully engaged in general farm 
 intr and stock raisin"-, and where he still owns 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his farm. In 1892 he came to Morgan county 
 and established the I. X. L. Creamery Company, 
 in which his brother, M. H., is a partner. He 
 also opened up a general store in Morgan, in the 
 South Ward, and also has a ranch at Peterson, 
 on the line of the Union Pacific railroad, where 
 he has his cattle. The ranch is incorporated 
 under the name of Randall Brothers Live Stock 
 and Land Company, of which our subject is pres- 
 ident. The ranch is under the management of 
 his nephew, Harley P. Randall. The creamery 
 manufactures a very excellent grade of butter 
 and American cheese. 
 
 Mr. Randall was married in 1877 to Miss Julia 
 Woolley, daughter of John Woolley, of Center- 
 ville. They have seven children — Orrin L., Julia 
 I., John W., Rachel, Camilla, Alfred and Harold 
 — all of whom are living at home. One daughter, 
 Mary A., died at the age of fourteen years. 
 
 ]Mr. Randall is a Republican in politics, but, 
 owing to the nature of his business interests, has 
 never been able to take any active part in the 
 political life of his community. He has been a 
 member of the Mormon Church the greater part 
 of his life, and passed through the different of- 
 fices of the priesthood. In 1889 he went on a 
 mission to Pennsylvania and West Virginia 
 where he served for over two years, presiding 
 over the Eastern States Missions and Confer- 
 ence. He was ordained a High Priest of Mor- 
 gan County Stake and set apart as a member of 
 the High Council, which position he still holds 
 and is at this time President of the Young Men's 
 Mutual Improvement Association. 
 
 OHX SHAFER, deceased. The history 
 i)f the pioneers of Utah has formed a 
 chapter in the annals of this country 
 which is replete with thrilling incidents, 
 hardships, trials and difficulties which 
 the early settlers passed through. 
 
 Among this list of pioneers should be men- 
 tioned the subject of this sketch and his worthy 
 wife who survives him. John Shafer was born 
 in New York State, June 30, 1820. He was the 
 son of Jona and Hannah (Rose) Shafer. When 
 
 he was only ten years of age his people moved 
 to Ohio, and purchased a farm where the sub- 
 ject of this sketch spent his early life, and where 
 h^ received his education in the common schools 
 of that State. From Ohio the family moved to 
 Nauvoo, Illinois, and later to Missouri, where, 
 Jona and Hanna (Rose) Stiafer died, just south 
 of the Valley of the Nauvoo, which occurred in 
 1840. 
 
 October 27, 1844, our subject met Miss Han- 
 nah Casto, daughter of Abel and Mary (Gallon) 
 Casto, and they were married at Nauvoo. Mrs. 
 Shafer is a sister of William Casto, who was a 
 member of the Mormon battalion and a pioneer 
 to Utah. His son, Santa Ana, being at the pres- 
 ent time Bishop of the C(jttonwood Ward. 
 
 Both our subject and his worthy wife were 
 intimately acquainted with the Prophet, Joseph 
 Smith, and witnessed the scene of his imprison- 
 ment at Carthage. Thev were present on the 
 day of his death and saw him brought hoine a 
 corpse. 
 
 Mrs. Shafer was born in Lawrence county, In- 
 diana, June 27, 1826. After she married I\Ir. 
 Shafer, she lived in the vicinity of Nauvoo until 
 the exodus which occurred in May, 1846. On 
 May first of that year they crossed the Missis- 
 sippi river, journeying to Council Bluffs, Iowa, 
 and remained in that State until 1849. I" the 
 spring of that year they joined the train of which 
 President John Taylor was captain, crossing the 
 plains with ox teams and part of the way on foot, 
 and arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley Oc- 
 tober 4th of the same year. They took up their 
 residence in Salt Lake City, where they contin- 
 ued to live for a period of thirty-nine years. Dur- 
 ing all of these years Mr. Shafer was engaged 
 in farming, gardening and all kinds of work to 
 support his family. Eleven children were born 
 to them, eight of whom are still living — William 
 Orson, Mary A., now J\Irs. Jacob Hunter of 
 Granger ; John H., Eliza, now Mrs. Jno., W. 
 Snell of Salt Lake City ; Oliver, James, Eleanor, 
 died aged eighteen months ; Frank, and Mabel, 
 now Mrs. W. R. Smith of Tooele. Charles died 
 at the age of 35 years, just twenty days before 
 his father's death, which occurred December 17, 
 1900. Their first-born child died in infancy. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 267 
 
 Durin.e^ the thirty-nine years spent in Salt Lake 
 City, Mr. Shafer accumulated enough to pur- 
 chase a large farm in Granger Ward, being situ- 
 ated just east of the Granger postoffice, where 
 they removed in 1888, and where Mrs. Shafer 
 still resides. 
 
 In politics Mr. Shafer was a staunch Demo- 
 crat; was active in his party and was for many 
 years connected with the police department in 
 Salt Lake City. Both Mr. and Mrs. Shafer were 
 adherents of the Mormon faith in the early his- 
 tory of that church in Illinois, and were baptized 
 in the Mormon faith at Xauvoo. 
 
 Our subject had been a faithful and consistent 
 member of the Church for a great many years, 
 but through some cause or trouble which came 
 up in the management of the Church, he was 
 barred from its membership. Notwithstanding 
 this, however, he continued to believe in the 
 principles and doctrine of that church and to 
 serve it to the best of his ability until the day 
 of his death. Mrs. Shafer and her daughters are 
 still faithful members of the church, and are at 
 present taking steps to have the hubsand and 
 father reinstated, which they hope to succeed in. 
 
 Of the early pioneers, the life and record of 
 John Shafer formed an important part in the 
 historv- of this country, and by his straightfor- 
 ward, conscientious, self-sacrificing and enter- 
 prising spirit he has left a wide circle of friends 
 to mourn his demise. 
 
 A. PALAIER. Just as the most im- 
 portant industry of Utah is the de- 
 velopment of its mining resources, so 
 it necessarily follows that the most 
 prominent profession is that of min- 
 ing engineering, the members of which spend 
 their lives in the economical and efficient devel- 
 opment of this property, and aid in the financial 
 prosperity that the State enjoys. Few men have 
 taken so active a part in this work as has the 
 subject of this sketch, and no man is more fa- 
 miliar with the geological formation of the en- 
 tire West than is he. He has followed the pro- 
 fession of surveyor throughout Wyoming, L'tah, 
 Nevada, and other portions of the Western coun- 
 
 try, surveying and platting the public land of 
 the L^nited States Government. He has risen by 
 his own ability and by the exercise of his talents 
 to the prominent position that he now occupies 
 in the professional life of LTtah. 
 
 O. A. Palmer was born in Wayne county. New 
 York, in 1839, and spent his early life in Mas- 
 sachusetts and Wisconsin, where he took a course 
 in the study of engineering. After the comple- 
 tion of his education, feeling that the far West 
 afforded greater possibilities for the exercise of 
 his ability as an engineer, he went to the Pacific 
 Coast in i860, settling in San Francisco, where 
 he engaged in the stock and mining business for 
 three years. In 1864 he removed from Califor- 
 nia to Idaho and began his active work as a min- 
 ing engineer. This, however, was not his first 
 experience in this line of work, for before he left 
 for the West he had followed that profession in 
 Wisconsin, where he was employed as railroad 
 engineer in the engineering department of the 
 city of Milwaukee. His experience thus gained 
 stood him in good stead, and he soon made for 
 himself a prominent place in his profession in 
 Idaho. From Idaho he removed to Utah in 1872, 
 and from that time has been a resident of Salt 
 Lake City. He has followed his profession in 
 this State, and has come to be one of the most 
 prominent experts in all the inter-mountain re- 
 gion. In most, if indeed not all of the large and 
 important mining controversies which have arisen 
 throughout LTtah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada, 
 he has been called in to give expert testimony. He 
 is widely known through his long experience, and 
 his ability as an engineer places him in the front 
 ranks of his profession. 
 
 Mr. Palmer was married in Salt Lake City in 
 1875 to Miss Margaret McClelland, daughter of 
 Thomas McClelland, who for many years was 
 Bishop of the Seventh Ward of Salt Lake City, 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints. By this marriage they have four chil- 
 dren — Lydia, Ruth, Elizabeth and Margie. 
 
 In political life Mr. Palmer has been a staunch 
 Republican, and cast his first vote for the first 
 nominee of that party for President — Abraham 
 Lincoln. While in Idaho, he served as County 
 Surveyor, and so prominent had he become that 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he was chosen by the Government to conduct its 
 surveys in various portions of the inter-mountain 
 region, and throughout the territory east of the 
 Pacific slope. In social life he is a prominent 
 member of the Masonic order, beinfr Past Master 
 and Past High Priest. 
 
 His father, William H. Palmer, was a paintei 
 in Wisconsin and Massachusetts, and spent most 
 of his life in those two States. His wife, Lydia 
 (Alley) Palmer, was a member of one of the old 
 and prominent families of Massachusetts. Ihe 
 Alley family first settled in Maine, and later re- 
 moved to Massachusetts, where they have evet 
 since been prominent in the afifairs of that State. 
 Mr. Palmer has now achieved such a successful 
 career that he is easily among the leading men 
 of Utah, and his previous achievements have 
 made him the foremost mining engineer in this 
 region. His strict integrity and honesty have won 
 for him the confidence and esteem of all the peo- 
 ple with whom he has been associated, and there 
 is no more popular man in the entire West 
 than he. 
 
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 ILO ANDRUS, one of the success- 
 ful fanners of Salt Lake county, in 
 the vicinity of the settlement of Hol- 
 liday, was born in Liverpool, En- 
 gland, September 30, 1848. He was 
 the son of Milo and Sarah Ann (Miles) Andrus, 
 His father was a native of New York and his 
 mother was born in Connecticut, their son being 
 born in Liverpool while his father and mother 
 were on a mission to Europe. In 1850 his father 
 returned from missionary work in Great Britain, 
 and came direct to Utah, where he lived until his 
 death. He joined the wagon train at Florence, 
 Nebraska, and was captain of a train. His father 
 later made several trips to the Missouri river and 
 successfully conducted trains of emigrants to 
 Utah at a time when travel across the plains was 
 accompanied with many dangers and hardships. 
 Our subject's father had a number of wives. He 
 was the first to plant trees east of the county road, 
 and planted three-quarters of an acre of land with 
 apple trees, some of which are still living. He 
 lived in Salt Lake county for many years, and 
 
 died in Idaho in June. 1893. Owing to the ne- 
 cessity of havino- every available hand assist in 
 the support of the family, our subject was early 
 forced to gain his own livelihood, and has made 
 his own way in the world ever since. 
 
 Mr. Andrus was married in 1871 to Miss Eliz- 
 abeth Boyes, daughter of George and Elizabeth 
 (Taylor) Boyes, and by this marriage has had 
 ten children, all of whom are still living — Milo, 
 Elizabeth, Sarah, George, Ann E., Joseph, Elena, 
 Lavina, Willard, and John. Elizabeth is now 
 Mrs. Thomas Richey, and lives in Idaho, and 
 Sarah is now Mrs. James W. Brockbank, and 
 resides in the Big Cottonwood Ward. All of his 
 sons are engaged with their father in the farm- 
 ing and cattle business. He has about eighteen 
 acres of land, situated three-quarters of a mile 
 south of the Holliday postoffice. His place is 
 well improved, and he has a good home, with all 
 modern improvements, located upon it. In addi- 
 tion to this, he also holds other land in Salt Lake 
 county — one lot containing eighty acres and an- 
 other in the West Jordan Ward contains one hun- 
 dred acres. He also has a cattle range at the 
 head of Lamb's Canyon, and has some cattle on 
 that property. He is now building a comfortable 
 stone and brick house for the occupancy of his 
 eldest son. The children have all been a source 
 of pride and pleasure to their parents, and his 
 sons have always co-operated with him in the 
 work that he has done. 
 
 In politics Mr. Andrus is independent, and 
 votes for the best man, regardless of party affili- 
 ations. He has had several opportunities to af- 
 filiate with one or the other of the parties, but 
 has preferred to remain unattached, and not to 
 be a candidate for public office. His children are 
 all members of the Mormon Church, of which his 
 parents were also members. He is one of the 
 staunch members of the Church in Salt Lake 
 county, and especially in his Ward, and is now 
 First Counselor to Bishop Casto, and was Coun- 
 selor to Bishop Brinton from 1875 to 1900. 
 Bishop Brinton was Bishop Casto's predecessor 
 in this position, but relinquished it to go on a 
 mission to the East. Mr. Andrus has also been 
 Ward teacher and superintendent of the Sunday 
 Schools of his Ward, and has won for himself a 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 269 
 
 high place in the regard of the people of his lo- 
 cality, and is now enjoying the fruits of the toil 
 of his life, and is a successful, well-to-do far- 
 mer, who holds the respect and confidence of the 
 people with whom he associates. 
 
 PHN A. MARCHANT. In reviewing 
 the history of Summit county, there are 
 a few men whose names stand out in bold 
 relief, because they have possessed keen 
 intellectual faculties and been broad and 
 liberal in their views, and have taken the lead in 
 all matters pertaining to the welfare and im- 
 provement of the county. Such men are a credit 
 and an honor to any community. By their influ- 
 ence and enterprise the county advances commer- 
 cially, intellectually and morally. Among the men 
 who have done more perhaps to improve Sum- 
 mit county than any other, is the man whose 
 name heads this narrative. He has been a resi- 
 dent of Peoa since 1861, and his straightforward 
 business life, his devotion to duty, and his high 
 sense of honor have made him one of the most 
 highly respected men in the county. 
 
 Abraham Marchant, father of our subject, was 
 a native of Bath, England, where he became a 
 member of the Mormon Church in 1845, ^nd for 
 some time thereafter presided over the Birming- 
 ham Conference. In 1854 he emigrated to the 
 United States with his family, and upon arriving 
 in Utah located on the South Cottonwood, where 
 he remained until 1861, when he came to Peoa. 
 Soon after locating in this place he was appointed 
 Bishop of Peoa Ward, being the first Bishop of 
 that Ward, and later presided over the Wards of 
 Peoa, Rockport, Wanship and Kamas. He held 
 the office of Bishop until his death on October 6, 
 1881, at the age of sixty-five years. When not 
 engaged in laboring for the Church. Mr. Mar- 
 chant devoted his time to the mercantile busi- 
 ness, and was also a large farmer and stock 
 raiser, and one of the leading and prominent men 
 of Peoa. His wife was Lydia Lidiard, also a 
 native of Bath. She died here in June, 1891. 
 
 Our subject was born in Bath, England, May 
 7, 1848, and was but six years of age when his 
 
 parents emigrated to this country. He grew to 
 manhood in Peoa and received his education 
 from the schools of this district, growing up on 
 his father's farm and taking up that occupation 
 after reaching his majority. He has been very 
 successful as a farmer, and now owns a ranch 
 that covers almost an entire section of land on 
 the Weber river, where he has a large herd of 
 cattle. He also has another farm of eighty acres, 
 all under irrigation, and has one steam sawmill 
 in Peoa and one water mill on his ranch. In the 
 fall of 1882 he began in the mercantile business 
 in a small way, opening a store next to his resi- 
 dence, and in 1891 built his present business 
 place, known as Marchant's Hall, the upper part 
 of the building being devoted to the purposes of 
 a hall and the lower part occupied as a store. 
 
 Our subject was married March 30, 1867, to 
 Miss Hannah Maria Russell, who died in 1893, 
 leaving a family of six children — Myrtle S., John 
 R., Abraham H., Franklin R., Austin W., and 
 Willard. Mr. Marchant was married a second 
 time, to Miss Jane Ann Maxwell, daughter of 
 Arthur Maxwell, Senior, who bore him seven 
 children. They are,. Arthur W., Jane Ann, El- 
 bert H., Ruby, Clyde, Ivy, and Gilbert. 
 
 In politics Mr. Marchant is a Republican, and 
 president of the Peoa Republican Club. He has 
 always been a prominent figure in all the State 
 conventions of his party, to which he has been 
 a delegate, and has held a number of public of- 
 fices in his town, having been Justice of the 
 Peace and United States Court Commissioner at 
 Peoa. He was for six years Constable of this 
 precinct, and also a member of the School Board 
 for nine years. He is one of the staunch mem- 
 bers of the Mormon Church and active in Ward 
 and Sunday School work. He was ordained an 
 Elder at the time of his first marriage, when he 
 went through the Endowment House in Salt 
 Lake. 
 
 Mr. Marchant belongs to one of the oldest and 
 best-known families of this place, and as one of 
 the leading merchants and most prosperous far- 
 mers and stockmen of Summit county, has for 
 many years been prominently before the public. 
 His upright and honorable life, both in public and 
 private, has won him many friends. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 REDERICK R. KRAMER, one of the 
 successful farmers and fancy live stock- 
 men of Morgan county. Mr. Kramer 
 has proved the exception to the general 
 rule and oft-repeated saying that after 
 a man has spent fifteen or twenty years of his 
 life in the railroad business he is unfitted and un- 
 qualified to succeed in any other calling or busi- 
 ness in life. For twenty long years Mr. Kramer 
 successfully filled important and trusted positions 
 for railroad companies, and for the past twelve 
 years he has thoroughly demonstrated his abil- 
 ity to succeed at his chosen vocation, that of farm- 
 ing and the raising of fancy live stock. 
 
 Mr. Kramer is a native of Clairmont county, 
 Ohio, where he was born in 1862, and is the son 
 of William and Mary Ann (Jenkins) Kramer. 
 His father was a contractor and builder, and after 
 the birth of our subject moved to Cincinnati, 
 where his son was raised and educated. 
 
 At the age of sixteen our subject became ap- 
 prenticed to the machinists' trade, and at the ex- 
 piration of his apprenticeship came West, locating 
 at Ogden and becoming employed as a fireman on 
 the Southern Pacific railroad, running between 
 Ogden and Wells, Nevada. He was a fireman on 
 one of the passenger engines for four years, and 
 during the greater part of the time worked under 
 Engineer J. C. Martin, who is now traveling en- 
 gineer on the coast division. Mr. Kramer was 
 promoted to be an engineer in 1886, and was 
 given a freieht run between Carlin and Winne- 
 mucca, Nevada. He held this run for a number 
 of years, when he was transferred and given the 
 division between Winnemucca and Wadsworth. 
 He kept this run for five years, and was then put 
 on the run from Carlin to Wells, remaining there 
 for three years, when he was once more trans- 
 ferred, this time taking the run from Ogden to 
 Carlin, which he kept two years, completing six- 
 teen years as engineer for the same company. 
 Upon resigning from railroad service, he received 
 a personal letter from General Superintendent of 
 Motive Power H. J. Small, highly recommend- 
 ing him for the very efficient service he had ren- 
 dered the company. In 1893 he bought forty-one 
 acres of land in Morgan county, which was at 
 that time in a wild and uncultivated state, 
 
 mostly covered by willows and wild fruit trees. 
 He has since devoted his time to clearing and 
 cultivating this land, and it now yields fifty bush- 
 els of wheat and four hundred bushels of pota- 
 toes to the acre. In extra favorable seasons he 
 has raised five hundred bushels of potatoes to the 
 acre. He moved his family onto the farm in 
 1898, and has made his own home there since 
 1900, giving his time and attention aside from 
 his farm work wholly to the raising of blooded 
 stock, having on his place some fine Poland China 
 hogs and Durham cattle. He is at this time 
 making arrangements for planting a five-acre or- 
 chard to fruit, and expects to raise only choice 
 varieties, it being his ambition to make his farm 
 a model one in every respect. His handsome 
 brick residence is a model of convenience and 
 comfort, containing six rooms and a bath, and his 
 place is already one of the most beautiful in Mor- 
 gan county. He has been very successful in all 
 his business ventures, and finds his farm a very 
 good paying proposition. 
 
 Mr. Kramer was married in 1884 to Miss Mar- 
 tha M. Stewart. They have two children — Ada 
 May and William A. 
 
 He has retained his membership in the Broth- 
 erhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Broth- 
 erhood of Locomotive Firemen, and is also a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. j\Ir. Kramer is very liberal and public 
 spirited in his views, and has done_ much during 
 his residence in Morgan county to further its in- 
 terests, giving much of his assistance to irriga- 
 tion matters, and was identified with the building 
 of the North Morgan ditch. He is also part 
 owner in the North Morgan Grazing Land Com- 
 pany, Incorporated. 
 
 RTHUR MAXWELL, Bishop in the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints, for the Peoa Ward, Summit 
 Stake of Zion. A native of Utah him- 
 self, he comes from that sturdy Scotch 
 stock which has been an honor to every country 
 where they have settled. His father, Arthur 
 Maxwell, was born in Scotland in 1825. When 
 a young man, he became interested in the doc- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 271 
 
 trines and principles of the Mormon Church, and 
 after a thoroueh investigation he became con- 
 vinced of its correctness and authenticity and cast 
 his lot with the fortunes of that faith, and for 
 many years was President of the Glasgow branch 
 of the Church, before coming to America. In 
 1856 he sailed for America on the vessel John M. 
 IP'ood, and that same year came to Utah, cross- 
 ing the plains as a member of the famous hand 
 cart brigade. He located at West Jordan, where 
 he spent the first winter, and at the time of the 
 general southward movement of the Church, 
 caused by the entrance of Johnston's army into 
 the Salt Lake valley, he moved to Spanish Fork, 
 and after a time went to live in Goshen. From 
 the latter place he returned to West Jordan, and 
 in 1864 went to Peoa, and there took up farm- 
 ing, in which occupation he remained for the 
 balance of his life. He was ordained High 
 Priest and set apart as Counselor to Bishop Abra- 
 ham Marchant, retaining that position until his 
 death in 1872, at the age of forty-seven years. 
 At the time of his death Mr. Maxwell was one 
 of the best-known and most prominent men of 
 his community. His wife was Elizabeth (Mc- 
 Auslin) Maxwell. She is still living and has 
 been the mother of six children, four of whom arc 
 now living — Arthur, our subject; Jane Ann, 
 wife of John A. IMarchant ; Elizabeth, wife of 
 Abraham H. Marchant, and Catherine, wife of 
 John R. Marchant. 
 
 Bishop Maxwell was born at West Jordan, 
 December 14, 1858, and was but six years of age 
 when his parents moved to Peoa. He grew to 
 manhood in this place, working on his father's 
 farm in the summer months and attending the 
 district school for a few weeks in winter. He 
 was about fourteen years of age when his father 
 died, and since then has had to make his o\\fn way 
 in the world. He has followed the business of 
 farming and stock raising, paying particular at- 
 tention to the latter industry and raising a high 
 grade of cattle. 
 
 In 1882 he married :\Iiss Wealthy Ann Cas- 
 per of Rig Cottonwood. They have a family of 
 five children— Bethia B., Duncan A., William, 
 Matilda and John. 
 
 Mr. Maxwell has been prominent in the public 
 
 life of Peoa since he reached his majority, and 
 has filled a number of public offices. He was 
 born and reared in the Mormon faith, and has 
 been all his life a consistent and faithful worker 
 in the Church. He was ordamed an Elder, and 
 was later a member of the Twenty-Second Quo- 
 rum of the Seventies, later becoming one of the 
 Seven Presidents of that body. On May i, 1901, 
 he was ordained a High Priest and set apart as 
 Bishop of the Ward. He labored in the South- 
 ern States for two years as a missionary, being 
 called in 1888. In 1900 he was sent out as a 
 Mutual missionary to Saint George Stake, he be- 
 ing the only one sent out at that time from Sum- 
 mit Stake. In business life he is a prominent 
 and well known figure, and has been one of the 
 staunch supporters of the irrigation system in 
 Summit county. He was at one time President 
 of the South Bench Irrigation Company, in 
 which he now holds the office of vice-president, 
 and is also interested in the system for irriga- 
 tion of the upper Bench. His whole life having 
 practically been spent here, he has been identi- 
 fied with the growth and progress of the place, 
 and is today regarded as one of the solid and 
 substantial citizens of Summit county. 
 
 TEPHEN WALKER came to Utah as 
 a lioy, and has lived in Summit county 
 since 1862, doing his full sliare towards 
 developing this part of Utah from its 
 original state of barrenness and bring- 
 ing it up to its present fertile condition. He 
 was bom in Titchfield, England, October 14, 
 1842, and is the son of Edmund and Maria An- 
 toinetta (Swallow) Walker, natives of England, 
 who came to this country with their family at 
 an earlv day, tlrtf mother dying in Peoa and leav- 
 ing a family of five boys— Stephen, our subject; 
 Walter, Charles, Cyrus, and William — all of 
 whom are still living and members of the Mor- 
 mon Church. 
 
 Edmund Walker, our subject's father, was 
 born in London, England, June 11, 1818, grow- 
 ing up in that city and living there until after 
 his first child was born. He became a member 
 of the Mormon Church in 1840, and emigrated 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to America on board the ship George Bouine, in 
 the early fifties. He first settled in Council 
 Bluffs, Iowa, from which place he went to Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, where he remained until April, 
 1859, at which time he started for Utah, and 
 crossed the plains with the company over which 
 Captain Wright had command, reaching Salt 
 Lake City, October nth of that year. He bought 
 a home in the Eleventh Ward and lived there 
 until the spring of 1862, at which time he moved 
 to Peoa, where he has since been active in the 
 affairs of Summit county, following general 
 fanning and stock raising, and is still in the en- 
 joyment of good health at the advanced age of 
 eighty-four years. 
 
 Our subject obtained his early education in the 
 common schools of England and the Eastern 
 cities where he lived after coming to the L^nited 
 States, completing his education in the schools 
 of Utah. He took up a farm near Peoa, which 
 he has since improved and cultivated, doing a 
 general farming business and gradually branch- 
 ing out into the cattle business. He has taken a 
 lively interest in the question of irrigation, and 
 has been connected with the "New Field Ditch," 
 of which he is at this time president and secretary, 
 for several years. He is also interested in a 
 number of smaller ditches gotten out to water 
 the bottom lands. Mr. Walker was also one of 
 the organizers of the Peoa Co-operative Mercan- 
 tile Institutien, of which he was president and 
 secretary for many years, and has been identi- 
 fied with all the leading enterprises for the up- 
 building of the town since he has lived there. 
 
 He was married in 1866 to Miss Lydia Eliza- 
 beth Marchant, daughter of Bishop Abraham 
 Marchant. By this marriage eleven children 
 have been born, of whom but four are now liv- 
 ing — Stephen M., Counselor to Bishop Maxwell, 
 and at present absent on a mission to the Samoan 
 Islands ; Abraham, Superintendent of the Peoa 
 Sunday school ; Mary M., teachine, and Louisa 
 M., at home with her parents. Mary M. also 
 holds the office of one of the Stake Presidents 
 of the Primary Association, while Louisa M. is 
 one of the local Presidents of the Young Ladies' 
 Mutual Improvement Association. 
 
 In politics Mr. Walker is a member of the 
 
 Republican party, and has held a number of 
 minor offices in his town. He has been an act- 
 ive party worker since its organization in this 
 State. 
 
 While residing in Cincinnati, Mr. Walker was 
 ordained a Deacon and member of the Lesser 
 Priesthood, and shortly after coming to Peoa be- 
 came an Elder, and was also Superintendent of 
 the Sunday schools for a number of years. He 
 was ordained High Priest at the organization of 
 the Summit Stake, and set apart as Second Coun- 
 selor of tlishop Abraham Marchant, of the Peoa 
 Ward, succeeding to that office at the death of 
 Bishop Marchant, May 15, 1882. He held the 
 Bishopric until the Stake was re-organized in 
 May, 1901, when he was set apart as First Coun- 
 selor to President Ward E. Pack of the High 
 Priests' Quorum of Summit Stake. He has also 
 since then labored as Priest of the Ward and a 
 teacher of religious classes. The life of Mr. 
 Walker has been crowded with stirring incidents 
 and he has taken his place in the thick of the 
 fight and ever stood for the right. He has been 
 foremost in every good work in his county, taken 
 an active part in developing the town in which 
 he has lived, and is today one of the staunch men 
 of that locality, looked up to and highly re- 
 spected by all who know him. 
 
 ( )HN HORTIX. No country of the civ- 
 ilized world has furnished as many 
 worthy sons and thoroughly wide- 
 awake, energetic and enterprising citi- 
 zens for Utah as has England. From the 
 days of the early pioneers to the present time, 
 they have ever played a leading part in the vast 
 work of transforming this new country from a 
 wild and most desolate land to its present won- 
 derful state of prosperity. x\mong the native sons 
 of England who settled in Utah in i860, and 
 whose history has been closely linked with many 
 of the leading enterprises of the State, John Hor- 
 tin, the subject of this sketch, is worthy of spe- 
 cial mention. 
 
 He was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, 
 March 29, 1835. His father, Edmund Hortin, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 273 
 
 was born in Brailes, Warwickshire, in 1808. He 
 became converted to the teachings of the Mor- 
 mon Church in 1853, and two years later emi- 
 grated with his wife and family of eight chil- 
 dren to America, living for the first two years in 
 Kentucky, from which place he moved to Omaha, 
 Nebraska, where he lived three years, and in i860 
 crossed the plains in ox teams, locating on the 
 present site of Rockport, where he took up gov- 
 ernment land and began life as a farmer. At the 
 time of the Black Hawk War he moved his fam- 
 ily to Wanship, where he remained during the 
 rest of his life, dying in 1890. Our subject's 
 mother was Maria Meades, a native of the same 
 part of England. She died si.x months previous 
 to her husband's death. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Utah, our subject took up 
 government land and built a home, on which he 
 has continued to reside up to this time, doing a 
 general farming business. For a time he worked 
 in Salt Lake City to obtain means to improve his 
 place, and was engaged in 1862 in bringing em- 
 igrants across the plains from the Missouri river, 
 putting his farm out on shares. He moved his 
 family onto the farm in 1864 and during the In- 
 dian troubles in 1866 moved to Wanship," where 
 he remained for three years, making another se- 
 ries of trips to the Missouri river for emigrants. 
 He again moved his family to the farm, and they 
 have since resided there. 
 
 Mr. Hortin was married December 3, 1864, to 
 Miss Maria Wilkenson. She died in 1882, leav- 
 ing a family of seven children — John W. W., 
 Elizabeth E., Maria, wife of John B. Rhead ; 
 Joseph E., Grace E., wife of Joseph E. Jensen ; 
 Arthur Charles, at this time absent on a mission 
 to the South Sea Islands, and Clara W., living 
 at home. Mr. Hortin married again in Febru- 
 ary, 1883, to Mrs. Fannie (Proberb) Johnson, 
 by whom he has had four children — John Meade, 
 Fannie, deceased ; Alary B. , deceased, and 
 Hazel J. 
 
 In political life Mr. Hortin is a member of the 
 Democratic party, and the present chairman of 
 the Democratic Committee, and a member of the 
 County Committee. He held the office of Con- 
 stable for six years, and for eight years was 
 Justice of the Peace. He has also been a school 
 
 trustee for a number of years past, and has done 
 much towards building up the county and town 
 in which he resides. He was for twenty years 
 water master, and has been actively identified 
 with all irrigation matters in his district. In the 
 Church he has held the office of a member of the 
 Thirteenth Quorum of Seventies, a High Priest 
 and member of the High Council of Summit 
 Stake, filling that office until May, 1901. He has 
 for a number of years been foremost in all work 
 pertaining to the Sunday school, and is now a 
 teacher. 
 
 Mr. Hortin has, by dint of hard work and un- 
 wearying perseverance, worked his way up from 
 a Dosition in which his only capital was a pair of 
 strong hands and an undaunted determination to 
 succeed, until today he is among the prosperous 
 and leading farmers in his county, commanding 
 the respect and confidence of all with whom he 
 has been associated. 
 
 '.RAHAM O. WOODRUFF, one of 
 the youngest of the Twelve Apostles 
 in the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 
 ter Day Saints, is a son of President 
 Wilford and Emma (Smith) Wood- 
 ruff, biographical sketches of whom appear else- 
 where in this work. He is a native son of Utah, 
 and while yet in the sunrise of his career, bids 
 fair to stand at no distant date as high in the 
 ranks of Church and business life as did his illus- 
 trious father. 
 
 Abraham O. \\'oodrufif was born in the south- 
 ern part of the city, November 23, 1872, and still 
 resides in the old home where he was bort:. He 
 grew to manhood on his father's farm and re- 
 ceived his early education from the district school 
 in the vicinity of his home, which is still stand- 
 ing, though it is not now occupied for any pur- 
 pose, and at the age of thirteen entered the pre- 
 paratory department of the Latter Day Saints' 
 College, conducted in the old schoolhouse which 
 President Brigham Young had erected for the 
 purpose of giving instruction to his children, and 
 which stands just within the enclosure near the 
 Eagle Gate. He completed his education in this 
 institution and entered the employ of the Zion's 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Savings Bank and Trust Company, in the ca- 
 pacity of a clerk, remaining there three years, at 
 the end of which time he was called by the heads 
 of the Church to go on a mission to Europe. He 
 had at this time just attained his majority. Dur- 
 ing an absence of a little more than two and a half 
 years, he labored for seven months in the city of 
 Frankfort-on-the-Main, and there established the 
 first branch of the Mormon Church in that sec- 
 tion. From there he was called to Dresden, Sax- 
 ony, where he remained seven months. He next 
 labored in Berlin, where he was made President 
 of the Berlin Conference, and in that capacity vis- 
 ited the -cities of Hanover, Stettin, Drouskau, So- 
 rau, in Gennany, and made a trip to Vienna, Aus- 
 tria, Venice and Rome, in Italy, and did mission- 
 ary work in those places. He also visited Pompeii 
 and Switzerland. He returned to Berlin, and 
 later visited the missions of London, Edinburgh 
 and Glasgow. He returned to Salt Lake City in 
 the spring of 1896, and at once resumed his du- 
 ties in the Zion's Savings Bank. On October 7th 
 of the following year he was ordained one of the 
 Twelve Apostles by his father. Counselors and the 
 Twelve Apostles, and has since been engaged in 
 ministering to the needs of the Church, princi- 
 pally in the outlying Stakes. 
 
 During President Snow's administration, Mr. 
 Woodruff was made Colonization Agent for the 
 Church, and has devoted most of his time for the 
 past two years to that work, laboring in Mexico, 
 Arizona and Wyoming. In the latter State he 
 organized the Big Horn Basin Colonization Com- 
 pany, having for its object the securing of con- 
 tract work on railroads, and the furnishing of 
 employment to the members of the colony, there- 
 by enabling them to get a start in their work of 
 opening up and developing this new country. This 
 company, of which Mr. Woodruff is president, 
 has already been the means of distributing over 
 one hundred thousand dollars among the people 
 of that valley. He is also at this time a director 
 in the Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company 
 and president of the Wood River Live Stock 
 Company. 
 
 Apostle Woodruff was married in Salt Lake 
 City in 1897, to Miss Helen M. Winters, of Pleas- 
 ant Grove, Utah countv, a daughter of Oscar and 
 
 Mary Ann Winters. By this union he has two 
 children — Wilford Owen and Helen Mar. 
 
 RANK HIXSON, Bishop of Wanship 
 Ward, Stake of Zion, Summit county. 
 Piishop Hixson is a native son of Utah, 
 having been born in the same Ward over 
 which he presides as Bishop of his 
 Church. He has always been a progressive and 
 enterprising citizen, giving of his time and means 
 for the building up and development of his 
 county, and today ranks among the leaders in his 
 community. 
 
 Bishop Hixson was born on February 28, 1869, 
 and is the son of James M. Hi.xson, a native of 
 Indiana, who came to Utah about 1862 and first 
 setttled on Mill Creek and became associated with 
 Henry Alexander and President John W. Tay- 
 lor. He remained there about ten years, when 
 he moved to Wanship and bought land and ran 
 a sawmill, and also engaged in farming and stock 
 raising. During his younger days he was quite 
 prominent in all the affairs of his community, be- 
 ing for several years Counselor to Bishops J. C. 
 Roundy and E. R. Young. He died March 2, 
 1902. His wife was Margaret Rank, daughter 
 of Peter Rank, of East Mill Creek. They had a 
 family of eight children — Monroe, now on his 
 second mission to New Zealand; Elizabeth, wife 
 of Arthur Brown ; Vantyle, living in Park City ; 
 Frank, our subject; Peter, ^lark, Lyle, Carl, and 
 Hazel. 
 
 Our subject was raised on his father's farm, 
 and received his education from such schools as 
 the district afforded, working on the farm dur- 
 ing the summer months and attending school for 
 a few weeks in the winter. He still lives on the 
 old homestead, having an interest in the stock 
 raising and farming business. 
 
 He was married in 1901 to Miss Priscilla Judd, 
 daughter of Charles Judd of Wanship. Mrs. 
 Hixson is president of the Young Ladies' Mutual 
 Improvement Association and a member of the 
 Ladies' Relief Society, of which her husband's 
 mother is president. 
 
 Bishop Hixson is but a young man, but he has 
 all his life been a zealous worker in the Church, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 and has risen rapidly from one position of trust 
 and honor to another, until he now enjoys the 
 distinction of being Bishop of his Ward. He was 
 ordained an Elder in 1892 and became a Ward 
 teacher. In the following year he was made a 
 member of the Twenty-second Quorum of Seven- 
 ties and in 1896 ordained a High Priest by Presi- 
 dent W. W. ClufT and set apart as second Coun- 
 selor to Bishop E. R. Young, and when the Ward 
 was reorganized in May, 1901, was made Bishop 
 of the Wanship Ward. He has been a teacher 
 in the Sunday School for ten years, and is also 
 President of the Young Men's Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association. He comes of one of the 
 staunch families of the Church, his brothers hav- 
 ing filled a number of missions for the Church, 
 and his brother Peter, while on a mission to Ar- 
 kansas, was President of the East Arkansas Con- 
 
 S. McCORNICK. The dean of 
 the financial world of Utah, and 
 his great wealth and the wide ex- 
 gion as well, both by reason of 
 of the entire inter-mountain re- 
 tent of his operations, is undoubtedly W'. S. Mc- 
 Cornick. Many men have creditably performed 
 their tasks in the development of Utah and in 
 the work of bringing Salt Lake City to its pres- 
 ent importance as the distributing center for the 
 region covered by Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Mon- 
 tana, Nevada and Arizona, but few have equalled 
 the record of this great captain of the industrial 
 forces of the West. 
 
 Born in Ontario, Canada, his early days were 
 spent upon the paternal farm, but imbued with 
 the opportunities of the great western portion 
 of the United States, he emigrated to Califor- 
 nia in i860, where his first work was on a ranch, 
 which he followed for two years. 
 
 At this time, the atte'ntion of young and ven- 
 turesome men was turned to the possibilities of 
 Nevada, then being unfolded, and to that Ter- 
 ritory Mr. McCornick moved. His capital at 
 that time consisted of a splendid physique, a 
 clear head, calm judgment, and a pair of wil- 
 ling hands. These assets were so judiciously 
 
 invested there, that the foundation of his pres- 
 ent great fortune was soon commenced. As his 
 capital increased, his operations were on a larger 
 scale, and soon embraced the territory covered 
 by and tributary to Virginia City, Austin, Ham- 
 ilton, Belmont, and the other important and 
 promising centers of Nevada. 
 
 From Nevada, Mr. McCornick moved to Utah 
 and settled in Salt Lake City in 1873, where he 
 at once engaged in the banking business and 
 laid the cornerstone of the great institution 
 which now stands as the first private banking 
 house west of Chicago, and whose credit is sec- 
 ond to none in the United States. From a small 
 beginning, made under extreme difficulty, it has 
 now grown to large proportions, and the bank oc- 
 cupies the first floor of the spacious, seven-story, 
 gray stone building, known as the McCornick 
 Block, on First South and Main streets. Salt 
 Lake City. From the very beginning of his res- 
 idence in Utah. Mr. McCornick evinced a deep 
 interest in the welfare of the State, both finan- 
 cially and industrially. He did not confine his 
 interest entirely to banking, but took part in all 
 the industries of the State. His residence in 
 Nevada and the knowledge he acquired of min- 
 ing properties there stood him in good stead in 
 L'tah, and in his mining investments he has been 
 singularly fortunate. He now owns large inter- 
 ests in the Silver King mine, the most valuable 
 mining property in Utah, the Daily West, Cen- 
 tennial, Eureka and Grand Central. In addi- 
 tion to these properties, he is also interested in 
 a number of mines of lesser value, and has large 
 holdings in mining property in both Nevada and 
 Idaho. He is a stockholder in the American 
 Smelting and Refining Company, which corpo- 
 ration controls nearly all of the smelters in the 
 United States and Mexico, and has large inter- 
 ests in other industries throughout Utah. In ad- 
 dition to the presidency of the bank he founded, 
 he also holds the office of president of the First 
 National Bank of Logan, at Logan, Utah, vice- 
 president of the First National l!ank of Nephi, 
 treasurer and director of the Silver King Min- 
 ing Company, treasurer and director of the 
 Lucky Boy Mining Company, treasurer and di- 
 rector of the Daly West Mining Company, di- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 rector and treasurer of the Rocky Mountain 
 Bell Telephone Company, president of the Gold 
 Belt Water Company of Utah, president of the 
 Raft River Land and Cattle Company of Idaho, 
 and holds large blocks of stock and interests in 
 many of the leading mercantile organizations in 
 Salt Lake City, and indeed throughout Utah- 
 director in the Consolidated Wagon and Ma- 
 chine Company, director in the Utah Sugar 
 Company, director in the Utah Light and 
 Power Company, director in the Bear River 
 Land and Water Company, director in the San- 
 itarium Company, director in the Bingham Con- 
 solidated Mining and Smelting Company. His 
 business sagacity and his unimpeachable record 
 for honesty and integrity have won for him his 
 position as leader in the industrial and commer- 
 cial development of Salt Lake City and of the 
 State as well. His wealth has been the result 
 of judicious investments in legitimate enter- 
 prises, he never having believed in or practiced 
 speculation. He is also a large owner of real 
 estate in Utah, the constant increase in valua- 
 tion of which has added to a considerable extent 
 to his present wealth. 
 
 In addition to his mining interests, he has also 
 taken an active part in the development of the 
 agricultural resources of Utah, and has aided 
 greatly in bringing the State Agricultural Col- 
 lege of Utah to its present high standard and 
 efficiency. Eleven years since he was elected 
 president of the board of trustees of that insti- 
 tution, which is supported in part by the Fed- 
 eral Government and by the State of Utah, there 
 being but a nominal fee charged the students, 
 'ihe able faculty which has administered the af- 
 fairs of that college, and the reputation which 
 it has won for excellent results — a reputation 
 not bounded by State lineS' — is due largely to 
 his ability and judgment in selecting the right 
 man for the right place. 
 
 Although his attention and energies have been 
 almost wholly devoted to the pressing needs of 
 his enormous business, he has yet found time to 
 participate in the political affairs of the State 
 of his adoption. He has always been a -staunch 
 Republican, and while never active in the work, 
 so far as the solicitation of offices is concerned, 
 
 has always aided that party in its work. When 
 Salt Lake City was organized and a council 
 elected, he was one of the first non-Mormons to 
 be elected to that body, and his ability and worth 
 have become so generally recognized through- 
 out the city that on two occasions, when the af- 
 fairs of the city had become complicated beyond 
 the hope of unravelling, the people, without ref- 
 erence to party lines, selected him a Councilman, 
 confident in the belief that if any one could 
 straighten the tangle, Mr. McCornick could. 
 This confidence was also shared by the other 
 members of the Council, who unanimously 
 elected him chairman. With his ability and 
 clear comprehension of the difficulties of the 
 task, he discharged his office with rare sagac- 
 ity and successfully completed the task to which 
 he had been set by his fellow citizens. 
 
 When the Salt Lake City Chamber of Com- 
 merce was organized, he was unanimously called 
 to its presidency, and during his tenure of office 
 he successfully inaugurated and carried to com- 
 pletion several badly needed reforms. Promi- 
 nent among these were the changes he secured 
 in the transportation rates and the abolition of the 
 discriminating rates from which the city suffered. 
 During his administration he accomplished nw^^. 
 good for the city and aided materially in accel- 
 erating the impetus which Salt Lake City had 
 already begun to feel and which has resulted in 
 its satisfactory growth. Upon the organization 
 of the Alta Club, an association of the wealthy 
 men of Utah, and which now owns one of the 
 finest club houses west of Chicago, he was elected 
 Jt5 first president, and did much to make assured 
 the prominent position the club has since ac- 
 quired. 
 
 Mr. McCornick is a believer in the future im- 
 portance of Salt Lake City, and is, therefore, 
 interested in securing for it better transportation 
 facilities. He is a director in the San Pedro, 
 Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, designed 
 to connect Utah with the Pacific coast and fur- 
 nish a direct route to Southern California. Be- 
 sides his interest as director, he is one of the 
 promoters of this new route and thoroughly be- 
 lieves in the benefit that will accrue to the south- 
 ern part of Utah through its completion. Even 
 
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 this interest did not blind him to the increased 
 faciUties that would be afforded by the construc- 
 tion of another line into Salt Lake, and he was 
 at the head of a movement of the business men 
 of the city to induce the Southern Pacific road to 
 build a connection to Salt Lake. 
 
 His home life has been as clear and as much 
 above reproach as his business life. Believing 
 in the advantages of education and travel, he 
 had his wife and their eight children spend sev- 
 eral years in Europe, and he owns one of the 
 most palatial residences in Utah, which, at the 
 head of Main street in Salt Lake, overlooks 
 the Temple and the entire city. His wife has 
 been an ideal helpmeet to him in his career, and 
 has won for herself a reputation for charity and 
 goodness that makes her beloved by all the cit- 
 izens of the city and State. Several of his sons 
 are associated with him in his varied business 
 enterprises. 
 
 His career has been almost without a parallel 
 in LUah, and he easily stands at the head of the 
 men of wealth and influence in this State. His 
 wealth has been garnered by his own unflagging 
 industry, and by his ability to do with all his 
 might whatever he undertook. His genial and 
 pleasant manner and his ability and integrity 
 have secured for him a lasting place in the an- 
 nals of Utah, and his career is one that the State, 
 as well as his posterity may well be proud of. 
 
 RKSIDENT RULON SEYMOUR 
 WELLS. In the development of Utah 
 and in the building up of its commer- 
 cial and industrial resources, there have 
 been many opportunities for men of 
 ability to acquire prominence in its affairs. These 
 opportunities have been grasped and turned to 
 account by many men who have succeeded in ac- 
 cumulating wealth, and in aiding the State in 
 its work of development. There are many men 
 who by their life work have aided in bringing 
 Utah to the fore in the ranks of the Western 
 States, and prominent among these is the subject 
 of this sketch, a Utahn, born within the con- 
 fines of this city. 
 
 Rulon Seymour \\'ells, the son of President 
 
 Daniel H. and Louisa F. Wells, was born in Salt 
 Lake City. July 7, 1854, at a site inside the stone 
 wall, east of the Deseret News corner. He has 
 spent his whole life within this city, except when 
 absent on foreign missions. In 1861 the family 
 moved to the Wells home, just across the street 
 from where their son was born, and here he lived 
 until his marriage in 1883. He was baptized by 
 his father at the age of eighteen years, and con- 
 firmed as a member of the Church by Elder John 
 V. Long. His early education was derived from 
 the private schools which then existed in this 
 city. He first attended school in the old Des- 
 eret Museum building, and later attended the 
 schools of Doctor Doremus at the Union Acad- 
 emy ; Doctor Standard, at the Thirteenth Ward 
 Meeting House; Bartlett Tripp, in the Fifteenth 
 Ward Granary; O. H. Riggs, in the Fourteenth 
 Ward Meeting House, and later in the Seven- 
 ties' Hall on State street, and still later in the 
 old Union Academy. Passing from these pri- 
 mary schools, he attended Morgan and Macau- 
 ley's night school of penmanship, and after a 
 course there entered the Deseret University, 
 then under the direction of Elder David O. Cal- 
 der as a commercial college. Our subject was 
 in attendance here when Doctor John R. Park 
 changed the commercial college to a collegiate 
 institution, and in the new school President 
 Wells took a scientific and classical course of 
 study. He was ordained an Elder of the Church 
 on August 15, 1868, by Elder W. J. Smith, and 
 on April i, 1871, gave up his studies to accept 
 employment with a party of engineers, under 
 the leadership of Jesse W. Fox. who started 
 from Salt Lake City to locate and survey the 
 route of the L^tah Southern Railway, which now 
 forms a part of the Oregon Short Line system. 
 His next work was in a public capacity, and in 
 1873-74 he was appointed engrossing clerk by 
 the Territorial Legislature ; in the latter year be- 
 ing employed in the Assessor and Collector's of- 
 fice for Salt Lake City, this office at that time be- 
 ing held by John R. Winder. In the next year 
 he was employed at the saw mills in the Big 
 Cottonwood Canyon, belonging to his father. 
 It was while engaged there as a book-keeper in 
 October, 1875. that he received the assignment 
 
278 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to his first mission for the Church, and on the 
 22nd day of that month he was ordained a Sev- 
 enty and assigned to missionary work in Eu- 
 rope by President Brigham Young. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Liverpool he was as- 
 signed to the Swiss and German mission, in 
 company with Elder Martin Lenzi. In the fol- 
 lowing year he assisted Elder Theodore Brand- 
 ley in holding a public meeting in Berlin, Ger- 
 many, at which meeting were present dienitaries 
 of the German Empire, members of the Reich- 
 stag, the royal police and several representatives 
 of the State Church. He returned to the United 
 States in 1877 in company with Elder Lenzi and 
 a number of emigrants, these two elders being 
 in charge of the Swiss and German branch of 
 the company. They held meetings on board the 
 steamer "Wisconsin," and continued the work 
 of the education of the new members of tTie 
 Church until their arrival in New York City on 
 July 7th of that year. Here Elder Wells was 
 met by his mother and sister, and after a visit 
 with his father's relatives in that State contin- 
 ued his journey, arriving in Utah on July 23, 
 1877. His missionary work did not cease with 
 this journey, and he continued to be active as a 
 home missionary for a number of years. 
 
 Upon his return to Salt Lake City, our sub- 
 ject secured employment in the Zion Co-opera- 
 tive Mercantile Institution, where he remained 
 until 1880, during which time he also acted as 
 book-keeper for John Brooks, then operating the 
 Chicago Smelter, at Rush Lake, Tooele county. 
 Like so many of the men who have taken an act- 
 ive part in the work of the State, he turned his 
 attention to railroad work, and in 1881 had 
 charge of the books and clerks of John W. 
 Young, in Arizona, on the line of the Atlantic 
 and Pacific Railroad Company, on which Mr. 
 Young had a contract for building one hundred 
 miles of the road, in addition to getting out ties 
 and timber. 
 
 Our subject returned to Salt Lake Citv in De- 
 cember, 1882, and on January the i8th of the 
 following year he was married to Miss Jose- 
 phine E. Beatie, daughter of H. S. and Marian 
 T. Beatie, and his family now consists of seven 
 children — two sons and five daughters. In the 
 
 first year of his married life he built his present 
 home in the Eighteenth Ward, and occupied it 
 for the first time on January 9, 1884, and has 
 resided there ever since. Lfpon taking up his 
 residence in that Ward, he identified himself 
 with its work and has served in the capacity of 
 teacher in the Sunday schools. Ward teacher. 
 President of the Mutual Improvement Associa- 
 tion, and second Assistant Superintendent of the 
 Sunday School. During this time he was also 
 employed by the Zion Co-operative Mercantile 
 Institution, in which service he continued until 
 March, 1886, when he accepted the position of 
 secretary of the Co-operative Wagon and Ma- 
 chine Company, then known as Grant, Odell & 
 Company. He held this oosition and also acted 
 as treasurer and director of this institution until 
 1896, with the exception of one year — 1891 — 
 during which time he had charge of the office 
 work of Heber J. Grant & Company. He was 
 Secretary of Zion's Benefit and Building Society, 
 and was elected Secretary of the Home Fire In- 
 surance Company of Utah also, holding this latter 
 position until 1896. 
 
 L'pon the death of President Jacob Gates, he 
 was chosen to fill the vacancy in the First Coun- 
 cil of the Seventy on April 5, 1893, and was 
 ordained on the same day to that position by 
 President George O. Cannon, assisted by Presi- 
 dent Woodruflf, President Lorenzo Snow and 
 several of the Apostles. His next active work 
 for the Church in the missionary field was in 
 1896. On May the 8th of that year he was 
 unanimously chosen by the First Presidency, and 
 the Twelve Apostles, to succeed Apostle A. H. 
 Lund in the Presidency of the European mis- 
 sion, and he departed for this field in company 
 with Elder Joseph W. McMurrin, on June 29, 
 1896. During this mission he visited the various 
 Conferences of Great Britain five or six times, 
 and those of the continental missions three or 
 four times, most of the time in companv with 
 President Joseph W. McMurrin, his co-laborer 
 in the Presidency of the mission. He returned 
 home with President McMurrin and arrived in 
 New York on December 18, 1898, where he was 
 met by his wife and oldest daughter, and reached 
 Salt Lake City on Christmas eve. Soon after 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 279 
 
 his return to Utah he engaged in the insurance 
 business, and on December i, 1899, was made 
 manager for Utah at Salt Lake City of the Mu- 
 tual Life Insurance Company of New York, 
 which position he still holds. Since his return 
 from Europe he has visited many of the Stakes 
 of the Church at the Quarterly Conferences, and 
 taken his full share of the work devolving upon 
 the Seventies. He is also one of the General 
 Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association. 
 
 The confidence of the people of Utah in his 
 integrity and ability was shown by his election 
 in November, 1900, to the lower house of the 
 Fourth Legislature of Utah, and he served in 
 that capacity from January 14th to IMarch 14, 
 1901. President Wells is essentially a business 
 man, and has brought to his work in the Church 
 the same ability, energs' and application which 
 has made him a success in business enterprises 
 in L^tah. In his chosen field of work he is one 
 of the leaders of the State and has built up for 
 himself a reputation for honesty and unim- 
 peachable integrity. His work among the mem- 
 bers of the Church has won for him the love and 
 confidence of all its members, and his career as 
 a business man has been marked with the confi- 
 dence and respect of all the people of Utah. He 
 is still in the prime of life and has already 
 achieved such success as to make him as one 
 of the helmsmen of the State and of the Church 
 of his choice. 
 
 ILLIAM NEWJEXT WILLIAMS. 
 Few citizens of Salt Lake City are 
 more thoroughly representative or 
 more devoted to the promotion of 
 her welfare than is William New- 
 jent Williams, whose name has become a house- 
 hold word, not only in the homes of the city, but 
 throughout the State on account of the promi- 
 nent part he has taken not alone in the devel- 
 opment and growth of Salt Lake, but for the 
 hearty support he has given to the mining, ag- 
 ricultural and other business enterprises of 
 Utah. His means and influence have been un- 
 
 sparingly used in the fostering of infant enter- 
 prises and improvements which he believed 
 would be of permanent benefit to the city or 
 State. The high position which Mr. Williams 
 today occupies in the commercial world of the 
 West is the result of long-continued, indefati- 
 gable industry, perseverance and a determina- 
 tion to make an honorable career, and those who 
 have been in closest touch with his long life in 
 Utah are highest in their praise of the bravery 
 and pluck with which he has met and conquered 
 everv obstacle in the pathway of success. Mr. 
 Williams is a man of more than ordinary strength 
 of character, which he has undoubtedly inherited 
 from his mother, a woman of rare mental attain- 
 ments and great will power and force of charac- 
 ter. Hers was one of those noble natur'es that 
 seem able not only to stand quite alone in the 
 battle of life, but also to guide and direct and 
 strengthen those of a weaker nature. In the 
 woman this trait creates the ideal mother, coun- 
 sellor and friend; in the man it becomes the pil- 
 lar of strength on which large and substantial 
 business and commercial enterprises are built, 
 cities founded, and around which men and 
 women instinctively gather in times of peril to 
 home and community. Defeat is a word of 
 which he does not know the meaning, and to 
 secure his co-operation is to insure success in 
 any enterprise. 
 
 Air. Williams was born in Llanegwad Parish, 
 near Brechfa, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, 
 March 17, 1851. and is the son of Evan and 
 Sarah (Jeremy) Williams, who belonged to very 
 old and respected families of that locality. His 
 father was born in 1807, and lived to be almost 
 eighty-three years old, dying in Salt Lake City 
 in 1890. He and his wife had become converts 
 to the Mormon Church at an early day, his wife 
 joining in 1848. However, they did not come 
 to America until 1861, traveling by sailing vessel 
 from Liverpool to New York, thence by rail to 
 St. Joseph, Missouri, and by steamboat to Flor- 
 ence, Nebraska. They crossed the plains by ox 
 teams, the children walking the greater part of 
 the distance, and arrived in Salt Lake City Sep- 
 tember 23rd of the same year, where the family 
 continued to reside. The senior Mr. Williams 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 first became an Elder in the Church after coining 
 to Utah, and for years acted in the capacity of 
 teacher. He was later ordained a High Priest, 
 which office he held up to the time of his death. 
 Our subject's maternal grandmother was the 
 eleventh generation born in the farm house, 
 Llystin, and her daughter, the mother of our 
 subject, was the eighth generation born in the 
 neighboring farm house, Crybinau ; also our sub- 
 ject was born there, which makes nine generations 
 born there. Mrs. Williams was one of the earli- 
 est adherents to the Church in her native town. 
 She became prominent in Church work after 
 coming to Utah, and died at the age of seventy- 
 eight, beloved and mourned by the entire com- 
 munity. 
 
 Our' subject grew to manhood in Salt Lake 
 City, and obtained his education in the public 
 schools, ^Morgan's College and the Deseret Uni- 
 versity, now the University of Utah. His life 
 in this new State was much the same as of other 
 sons of pioneers, and he performed the various 
 tasks allotted to him with the same energy, zeal 
 and attention to detail that has since character- 
 ized his business career. He learned the carpen- 
 ter trade at an early age, and his business. ability 
 was soon manifested when he launched out into 
 the business of contracting and building, in which 
 undertaking he was very successful. However, 
 this work was not congenial to him, and he de- 
 cided to enter the commercial world, believing 
 the opportunities to be better. In 1883, in com- 
 pany with a few others, he organized the Co- 
 operative Furniture Company, which has done a 
 constantly increasing business ever since, and is 
 to-day one of the leading houses in its line in 
 the whole inter-mountain region. During the 
 first five years of the organization Mr. Williams 
 was Secretary and Treasurer of the company, 
 and since then he has acted in the capacity of 
 Manager, and its most astonishing growth dur- 
 ing these years is undoubtedly due to his able 
 and efficient management. Mr. Williams is the 
 largest individual owner of stock in the concern. 
 
 He was married, July 17, 1877, to Miss Clar- 
 issa W. Smith, eldest daughter of the late Presi- 
 dent George A. and Susan E. (West) Smith. 
 Mrs. Williams was born in Salt Lake City, April 
 
 21, 1859, in the Historian's Office, where her 
 parents resided. She received the best education 
 the Territory could then afiford, her father being 
 a progressive, liberal-minded man, believing in 
 the higher education of women. Her earliest 
 education was received in the Social Hall build- 
 ing, on State street, and at the age of fourteen 
 she occupied the position of pupil-teacher in Miss 
 Mary E. Cook's school, then the best in the city 
 She graduated with the Normal Class of 1876, 
 from the Deseret University, now the University 
 of Utah, which was the first class ever graduated 
 from that institution. From the time of her 
 grsauation until she was married to Mr. Wil- 
 liams she followed school teaching. She has 
 always been a firm adherent of the Mormon 
 Church and an active Church worker. For the 
 past five years she has held the position of Presi- 
 dent of the Seventeenth Ward Relief Society, 
 and is also General Treasurer of the National 
 Woman's Relief Society. Mrs. Williams' father 
 was first cousin to the Prophet Joseph Smith, 
 their fathers being brothers. Her father and the 
 Prophet were close associates and very warm 
 friends. Mr. Smith was one of the original pio- 
 neers of Utah, and assisted very materially in 
 the organization and building up of the new Ter- 
 ritory. He founded the counties of Washington. 
 Iron and Utah. He also was called the Father of 
 Southern Utah. He also served the Territory in 
 various official capacities. On April 12, 1839, 
 Mr. Smith was ordained one of the Twelve 
 Apostles, which position he held until October, 
 1868, at which time he was called to act as First 
 Counsellor to President Brigham Young, con- 
 tinuing in that position the remainder of his 
 life. He was also Church Historian from 1854 
 until his death, in September, 1875. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Williams have had a large family born to 
 them, of whom seven daughters and two sons 
 are now living. They are Clarissa, Sarah, Jo- 
 sephine, Hetty, Eva, Georgia, George Albert, 
 Bathsheba and Lyman. During their married 
 life thev have lived in their present beautiful 
 home, opposite Temple Square. 
 
 In political belief Mr. Williams is a staunch 
 and consistent Republican, and has been an active 
 worker m the ranks of that party. In igoo he 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was elected to the fourtli session of the Legisla- 
 ture of the State, as a Re])resentative from the 
 Eiglith District, and his sound judgment and 
 large business ability made him a valued mem- 
 ber of that body. 
 
 Like his parents he has ever been a faithful 
 follower of the teachings and doctrines of the 
 Mormon Church. He was baptized at the age 
 of ten years by Elder George Teasdale, at Flor- 
 ence, Nebraska, the ceremony occurring June 
 lo, 1861, while he was enroute to Utah with his 
 parents. Since then he has been an active worker 
 in religious circles. Elder George C. Reiser or- 
 dained him an Elder on February 21, 1875, and 
 on March 11. 1876. he was ordained a Seventy 
 by Elder \\'illiam Robertson, and is at this time 
 a member of the Third Quorum of Seventies. 
 He was called on a mission to his native country, 
 South Wales, in 1877, ^"d left home on the 
 1 8th of July, thirty-six hours after receiving the 
 first intimation of the call. He labored in the 
 Welsh Conference during the whole of the time, 
 during the latter part of which he presided over 
 the Conference, and after a most successful mis- 
 sion returned home in company with sixteen 
 other returning missionaries, of whom he was 
 the youngest, having charge of a company of 
 six hundred and twenty-two converts. They ar- 
 rived in Salt Lake July 16, 1879. 
 
 Mr. Williams is closely identified with the 
 mining, agricultural and other business interests 
 of the State, in which he has large holdings, 
 and is one of the leading business men of Utah. 
 He is a member of the Commercial Club of this 
 city, and was one of the promoters and organ- 
 izers of the Cambrian Association, being Vice- 
 President of the State organization and a Direc- 
 tor of the local organization. He was also one 
 of the Directors who so successfully conducted 
 the great Eisteddfod held in the Mormon Tab- 
 ernacle October 3rd and 4th, 1895. This Eistedd- 
 fod exceeded in scope and attendance any musical 
 and literary event of its kind ever held in the 
 United States, with the single exception of the 
 Eisteddfod held during the World's Fair in 
 Chicago. 
 
 While an article of this nature has to deal 
 principally with the commercial side of a man's 
 
 career, we may with perfect propriety note in 
 passing the high social position held by Mr. and 
 ]\Irs. Williams and their interesting fainily. As 
 a leader in Church circles, Mrs. Williams is well 
 known, and the accomplishments of the daugh- 
 ters make them welcome members of the best 
 social life of the city. Personally Mr. Williams 
 is a man of most genial and winning address, 
 and both in public, private and business life num- 
 bers his friends by the score. 
 
 1ILLIAM MONTAGUE FERRY. 
 But few young men who have of 
 recent years settled at Salt Lake 
 City have taken a more intelligent 
 interest in the afTairs of the State 
 and in the development of its latent resources, 
 especially in the exploitation of its mineral 
 wealth, than has the subject of this sketch; and 
 while yet but a young man. having just passed 
 hia thirty-first year, he has demonstrated his 
 ability to manage and control large financial mat- 
 ters and successfully carry to completion projects 
 involving the distribution of large sums. 
 
 He is a son of Edward P. Ferry, whose sketch 
 appears elsewhere in this volume, and was born 
 in Grand Haven Michigan, March 12th, 1871, 
 where his boyhood days were spent. He was ed- 
 ucated in the schools of his native State, and at- 
 tended the military academy there for two years, 
 later entering Olivet College, where he graduated 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1891. 
 The same year he removed to Utah and became 
 identified in business with his father, who had 
 resided here for a number of years previous. 
 His first work was in connection with the famous 
 Silver King Mine. After being connected with 
 that enterprise for some time, he entered the 
 State School of Mines, at Denver, Colorado, and 
 took a special course in mining and metallurgy 
 Upon returning to Utah he became connected 
 with the Marsac Mill, in the leaching and refin- 
 ing process, and later continued in the refining 
 department of that company. At this time and 
 later he became interested in various mining 
 companies of this State, among the most im- 
 
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 portant of which is the Anchor Mining Com- 
 pany, in which he is a Director. He is also Pres- 
 ident and Director of the Boss Mining Com- 
 pany, of Park City ; Secretary and Treasurer of 
 the Crescent Hill Mining Company, and Director 
 of the Woodside Mining Company, also located 
 in Summit county, Utah, and he is a Director 
 and Secretary of the Salt Lake Mining and Im- 
 provement Association. These companies are 
 among the important mining corporations in 
 Utah, and afford employment to a large number 
 of men. In the development of these properties 
 there have been expended large sums of money, 
 and a considerable amount of machinery has 
 been purchased and installed for their more eco- 
 nomical operations. Mr. Ferry is also President 
 and Director in the Ferry-Baker Lumber Com- 
 pany of Everett, Wash., in which capacity he 
 represents his father, Edward P. Ferry, who con- 
 trols the corporation. 
 
 Mr. Ferry was married, in i8(j6, in Michigan, 
 to Miss Ednah Truman, daughter of George A. 
 and Julia F. (Frink) Truman. They have twin 
 sons, three years old — William Montague and 
 Sanford Truman. 
 
 In political life Mr. Ferry is a believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party, and while he 
 takes an active part in the general affairs of his 
 party, he has as yet never sought public office, 
 nor does he desire such distinction, his whole 
 time being monopolized by his business enter- 
 prises. Personally Mr. Ferry is a very genial, 
 pleasant gentleman, and but few young men in 
 this city rank as high in business and social life 
 as does he. His genera! office is in the McCor- 
 nick Building, at the corner of JMain and First 
 South streets. 
 
 
 N. BARRATT. The development of 
 the industrial and commercial resources 
 of Utah and the increasing of the mate- 
 rial prosperity of Salt Lake City has 
 been a task fraught with difficulty and 
 hardship, and to the men who have so signally 
 discharged their duties much credit is due. 
 Prominent among these men is I. N. Barratt, 
 who now controls and directs the affairs of per- 
 haps the largest firm of its kind in the western 
 
 country, known as "The Western Arms Sporting 
 Goods Company."' 
 
 Mr. Barratt was born in Cecil county, Mary- 
 land, and spent his early life in that State. He 
 is a lineal descendant of Americans who fought 
 in all the wars in which this country has been 
 engaged since its independence. His father, An- 
 drew, was a prosperous fanner in Cecil county, 
 Maryland, and lived in that State all of his life. 
 He served in the War of 1812, and he and his 
 father built the chapel known as the "Barratt 
 Chapel," for years an old landmark in Delaware, 
 and at the time of the Chicago Exposition, in 
 1893, a model was exhibited there. The struc- 
 ture is still standing. 
 
 The mother of the subject of this sketch was 
 Rosa Lort. She was a daughter of Joseph Lort, 
 and belonged to one of the oldest and best known 
 families in Maryland. Her father also partici- 
 pated in the War of 1812. 
 
 The early education of our subject was de- 
 rived from the common schools of Cecil county, 
 Maryland. In his boyhood days he was of a 
 delicate and apparently weak constitution, and 
 at the age of twelve years, upon the advice of 
 his family physician, his father decided that he 
 should take a sea voyage. The sea voyage lasted 
 four years, and the lad returned home at the age 
 of sixteen. 
 
 Two years after his return from the sea he 
 secured employment as a clerk in a wholesale 
 grocery business in Philadelphia. Finding that 
 this business was uncongenial, he soon left that 
 and secured employment in the construction and 
 building of bridges on the Philadelphia, Wil- 
 mington and Baltimore Railroad. Prominent 
 among the important works of the early days of 
 railroading was the railroad bridge across the 
 Susquehanna, between Perryville and Havre de 
 Grace, Maryland, which completed the connec- 
 tion between the North and the South, in the 
 building of which Mr. Barratt was employed. 
 
 Shortly after the Civil War ended Mr. Barratt 
 determined to remove to the great West, at that 
 time a new and sparsely settled country. He 
 came to Salt Lake City in 1868, having crossed 
 the plains and the mountains by mule team, after 
 a long and arduous trip. Hostile Indians were 
 
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 283 
 
 encountered several times, and although often 
 attacked, Mr. Barratt got through with the loss 
 of two teams, there being no sacrifice of human 
 life. Finding the speed of the wagon train too 
 slow to satisfy his desire to get to the end of his 
 journey, he parted company with it, and for five 
 hundred miles traveled alone, reaching here 
 ahead of the train. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Utah Mr. Barratt engaged 
 in the general mercantile business with his 
 brother, the latter being established under the 
 firm name of Ross & Barratt. In this employ- 
 ment our subject remained for some time, and 
 upon the death of ]\Ir. Ross, in 1869, the firm 
 was reorganized, and was thereafter known 
 as C. R. Barratt & Company. The op- 
 erations of this firm were not confined to 
 Salt Lake City, and the possibilities aris- 
 ing from the prosecution of mining led to 
 the establishment of a branch house at Corinne 
 in 1869. Here Mr. Barratt remained in charge 
 for three years, when he returned to Salt Lake 
 and again took up his work in the firm of Bar- 
 ratt Brothers. 
 
 It was at this time that the feeling ran high 
 between the Mormons and the Gentiles, and the 
 boycott established by the Church against the 
 non-Mormon firms seriously crippled the re- 
 sources of this firm. With the passing of years 
 this feeling died, and to-day there is as much 
 liberty of trade between the members and the 
 non-members of the Church as between the peo- 
 ple of any other section of any State of the 
 L^nion. 
 
 The firm of Barratt Brothers continued in ex- 
 istence until 1892, when they disposed of their 
 business. Leaving the general merchandise busi- 
 ness, Mr. Barratt was made Manager of the Gar- 
 field Beach property, owned by the L'nion Pacific 
 Railroad Company, and remained in that employ- 
 ment for five years. 
 
 After the explosion in the Pleasant Valley Coal 
 Mining Company's works, when over two hun- 
 dred men were killed, a fund of one hundred 
 thousand dollars was raised in the State to pro- 
 vide relief for the families of the suflferers. For 
 the distribution of this money the Governor of 
 the State chose Mr. Barratt, and he was sent 
 
 into that region to take entire charge of the re- 
 lief forces and to direct the work of bringing 
 order out of chaos. The magnitude of the work 
 may perhaps be realized from the fact that he 
 had to provide for ninety-two families, number- 
 ing over four hundred people. The first day 
 after his arrival at the scene of the explosion 
 he superintended the burying of one hundred and 
 nineteen men who had been killed in the catas- 
 trophe. He successfully discharged the duties of 
 this sad task, and restored conditions to their 
 normal state. Immediately after the completion 
 of this work he returned to Salt Lake City and 
 at once began the organization of the Western 
 Arms Sporting Goods Company, which is now 
 the leading firm of this kind in the inter-moun- 
 tain region. Mr. Barratt was elected Secretary 
 and General JNIanaeer of that company, and has 
 continued to fill those positions ever since. 
 
 j\lr. Barratt was married, in Denver, to Laura 
 M. Watson, daughter of Joseph W. Watson, of 
 an old Ohio family, prominent both socially and 
 politically in that State. His wife died in 1884. 
 
 In the administration of the political affairs 
 of the State Mr. Barratt has taken the part that 
 the man of business should take in the regulation 
 of the affairs of the community of which he is a 
 citizen. He is a believer in the principles of the 
 Democratic party, but has never participated in 
 the active work of that party, so far as running 
 for office is concerned. His brother was post- 
 master of Salt Lake City for two years before 
 his death. Mr. Barratt, in social life, is a mem- 
 ber of the Elks. 
 
 Mr. Barratt's life has covered the most stir- 
 ring periods in the history of the United States. 
 He has seen the East developed and brought 
 closer together by the construction of the steam 
 railroads, and the West consolidated with the 
 East by the great arteries of the transcontinental 
 lines. His success has been due to his own en- 
 ergy, his ability to work and to do well what- 
 ever presented itself, and to grasp and make the 
 most of opportunities. His education has been 
 derived from the great school of experience, and 
 the character and reputation he has built up for 
 honesty and integrity is a record of which his 
 posterity may well be proud. His genial, kindly 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 manner, together with his broad experience in 
 the settHng of the great West and the active 
 part which he has taken in that work, has made 
 him one of the best known men in the country 
 and brought him the enjoyment of a wide popu- 
 larity. 
 
 ODXEY HILLAjNI. The Zion Co- 
 operative Mercantile Institution is rec- 
 ognized as one of the leading commer- 
 cial concerns west of Chicago. The 
 vast business carried on by this insti- 
 tution is the wonder of the whole business world, 
 located as it is in the heart of the inter-moun- 
 tain region, which at one time was considered 
 almost uninhabitable by white men, but as time 
 has passed and rapid progress has been made 
 in America by the assistance of the steam engine 
 and the most wonderful electrical appliances, it 
 is no longer remote from the seat of civilization. 
 The Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution 
 was established in 1869 by President Brigham 
 Young and his associates. Among the many de- 
 partments of this great business house the shoe 
 and clothing factories and the wholesale shoe de- 
 partment constitute one of its important branches. 
 As general manager of these departments Rod- 
 ney Hillam, the subject of this sketch, deserves 
 special mention. For over a quarter of a century 
 he has been identified with various positions in 
 the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution, 
 and for many years has been manager of the 
 shoe and clothing factories and the wholesale 
 shoe department, and under his able management 
 these departments have grown to wonderful pro- 
 portions and been placed on a sound financial 
 basis, and are to-day considered among the most 
 profitable adjuncts to the Institution. 
 
 Rodney Hillam, the son of Abraham and Han- 
 nah (Helliwell) Hillam, was born in Bradford, 
 Yorkshire, England, October 16, 1844. While 
 yet an infant his parents moved to the village 
 of Horseforth, Woodside, near Leeds, Yorkshire, 
 and there he received his early education, attend- 
 ing St. Stephen's National School, Kirkstall, 
 until the spring of 1855, when he was out to 
 
 work in the silk factory for half of each day, 
 the other half being devoted to study. He re- 
 mained at this occupation until the early part of 
 1856, when, on the loth of February, his parents 
 sailed for the United States, starting from Liver- 
 pool on board the Caravan. There were four 
 hundred and fifty-four people on board this ves- 
 sel, and the trip of six weeks was a most dan- 
 gerous one, a terrific storm being encountered, 
 in which one of the sailors lost his life. Upon 
 landing in New York, they were taken to Castle 
 Garden, where they remained two days. They 
 came by boat as far as Cleveland, Ohio, at which 
 point our subject's father left the rest of the 
 company and went to Cincinnati, reaching there 
 April 1st. Here they were met bv a friend of 
 the father's, Mr. John Hill, who had advanced 
 the money for them to come to this country. The 
 family lived in Cincinnati until 1859, our sub- 
 ject continuing his studies, working one day iii 
 the week in the office of the Gazette. He com- 
 pleted his scholastic education in this city. When 
 our subject was fifteen years of age, the family 
 started for Utah, taking passage on the river 
 boats as far as Florence, where they remained 
 some weeks, and on June 26, 1859, started across 
 the plains in ox teams, in a company of fifty-four 
 wagons, under Captain Edward Stevenson. Dur- 
 ing the trip of eleven weeks, our subject took his 
 turn with the men detailed to guard the camp and 
 cattle from the Indians. They arrived in Salt 
 Lake in September, and went to live with the 
 family of W. W. Burton, on the County Road, 
 near the Sugar House Ward, the father and son 
 running threshing machines and doing whatever 
 they could get. In the fall of that year they 
 made their first trip into the canyons with Mr. 
 Burton, after wood, and had some very uncom- 
 fortable experiences, their food being stolen while 
 they were absent from camp, and the men hav- 
 ing to go without food until the boy could be 
 sent back to the farm for a new supply. On the 
 return trip a severe storm came up, and thinking 
 best to send our subject home, where he could 
 be sheltered, the cattle were unhooked from the 
 wagon, which the severity of the storm made it 
 impossible for them to haul, and he was sent 
 ahead, the men remainins: with the wagons. 
 
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 285 
 
 However, he became lost in the bhnding storm, 
 and was compelled to lie out all night without 
 shelter of any kind. The experience was a ter- 
 rible one for a young- boy, fresh from a large 
 city and unused to the hardships and dangers 
 of the western wilds, but fortunately no bad re- 
 sults came from his experience. 
 
 In the spring of i860 the family moved to the 
 Tenth Ward, in Salt Lake City, and the follow- 
 ing year our subject began work in the tannery 
 belonging to Mr. Jennings, at which he remained 
 for four years. In the spring of 1866 he was 
 sent to the Missouri river to assist emigrants 
 across the plains, and on the return trip the In- 
 dians were very hostile, burning a number of 
 the mail stations and driving off cattle. They 
 stole a hundred head from the train of Captain 
 Chipman, and it was only by doubling the num- 
 ber of guards and exercising the utmost vigil- 
 ance that the emigrants were able to reach Salt 
 Lake in safety. From this time until 1872 Mr. 
 Hillam alternated between hauling timber from 
 the canyons and working in the tannery. In 
 1870 he moved to Brigham City, and for two 
 and a half years worked at the tannery business. 
 
 He was married to Miss Mary Ann Grimsdell 
 on January 26, 1868, and in 1872 moved his 
 family to Salt Lake, where he found employ- 
 ment on the Temple Building. His connection 
 with the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institu- 
 tion began in 1874, when he was engaged as a 
 teamster. From that he rose to the position of 
 checking all the freight received by the Institu- 
 tion, and while engaged in this received a very 
 bad injury. Upon his recovery he was given a 
 clerkship in the retail shoe department. In 1881 
 he was sent on a mission to England, and on his 
 return was transferred to the wholesale depart- 
 ment, and later sent out as a traveling salesman. 
 His work alternated for some years between that 
 of traveling salesman and assistant manager of 
 the wholesale shoe department. He was pro- 
 moted to his present position on November i, 
 1897, which he has since continuously filled. 
 With the exception of about a year, during 
 which time he served on a mission to his native 
 country, laboring in the Leeds Conference and 
 in the Bradford District. Mr. Hillam has been 
 
 a continuous resident of Utah from the time he 
 came here as a boy until now. 
 
 Mr. Hillam is a self-made man, having started 
 out in life with no capital except a strong body, 
 willing hands and a determined mind. He is 
 thoroughly acquainted, by actual experience, with 
 the hardships and many discouragements incident 
 to settling in a new country. By patience and 
 perseverance he has carved out a successful ca- 
 reer, of which any man might well be proud. By 
 his long, honorable and upright life in Utah he 
 has won and retained the confidence and respect 
 of all the people of Utah. 
 
 
 OSEPH E. T.\YLOR, the pioneer un- 
 dertaker of Salt Lake City, was born 
 December 11, 1830, at Horsham, Sussex 
 county, England, and received his edu- 
 cation in his native land. At the age 
 of seventeen he entered the ministry of the Mor- 
 mon Church, traveling as a missionary for three 
 years. 
 
 On January 4, 1851, he sailed from England 
 for America, and after being detained for a year 
 on account of sickness in St. Louis, he came 
 to Utah, traveling overland with ox teams, ar- 
 riving in Salt Lake City September 6, 1852. In 
 those early days trades and professions were of 
 little avail to the possessors; consequently Mr. 
 Taylor, like many others, labored at various oc- 
 cupations. In 1858 he formed a partnership with 
 his father-in-law, William Capener, and began 
 the manufacture of furniture from the native 
 wood, in which business they continued until 
 1863, at which time he started his present busi- 
 ness of undertaker, embalmer and funeral di- 
 rector; also the manufacturing of undertakers' 
 supplies. During a period of forty years Mr. 
 Taylor has furnished the necessary outfits and 
 prepared the bodies of over twenty thousand per- 
 sons for burial. 
 
 He is recognized, as one of the leaders in his 
 line of business, and has done much to bring the 
 undertaking profession to its present high stand- 
 ard. He has also been active in building up the 
 city and State, building in both the residence and 
 business sections. 
 
 In 1853 he was married to Miss L. R. Capener, 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a daughter of his former partner. He has con- 
 tracted other marriages, and is the father of 
 twenty-two Hving children, all residents of this 
 State. He and his entire family are members of 
 the Mormon Church, and several of his sons have 
 served on missions for the Church, one son, Alma 
 O., being at this time on a mission to Japan. ]Mr. 
 Taylor has at different times filled offices in the 
 priesthood, from that of Priest to High Priest. 
 Upon his return from a mission in the East, in 
 April, 1876, he was set apart as Counselor to 
 Angus M. Cannon, President of the Salt Lake 
 Stake, which office he still holds. He has taken 
 an active part in all matters pertaining to the 
 Church, and is a liberal contributor to educa- 
 tional enterprises, being the founder and sup- 
 porter of many of the Church institutions. He 
 has served as a member of the Board of Educa- 
 tion since its organization in 1896. 
 
 In politics Mr. Taylor is a Democrat, and in 
 1896 was elected to the State Legislature and 
 served one term. He was for thirty years Sex- 
 ton and Recorder of Vital Statistics. He has 
 been one of the successful men of Salt Lake 
 City, and those who have come in contact with 
 him have learned to recognize his force of char- 
 acter, and his reputation is above reproach. He 
 has won a high rank in the business world of 
 this community, and is regarded as a man of 
 unimpeachable integrity. 
 
 FENCER CLAWSON. Prominent 
 among the men who have developed the 
 commercial resources of Utah and have 
 so materially aided in bringing Salt 
 Lake City to its present satisfactory 
 condition, is the subject of this sketch. A com- 
 paratively young man, he has already demon- 
 strated his ability to stand in the front ranks of 
 the leaders of the State, and his business suc- 
 cesses have been such as to make him easily one 
 of the most prominent men in the business world 
 of the West. 
 
 Spencer Clawson is the son of Bishop Hiram 
 B. Clawson, and was born in Salt Lake City in 
 1862; was educated in the private schools of this 
 
 citv, and completed his education at the Deseret 
 University, graduating at the age of eighteen. 
 On the completion of his education he secured 
 employment with the Zion Co-operative Mercan- 
 tile Institution, where he remained for ten years. 
 During the decade covered by the years from 
 1872 to 1882 he had charge of all the purchases 
 made by this Institution in the Eastern markets, 
 and it was in this work that he developed his 
 business ability and gave promise of his future 
 success. In 1882 he left the service of the Zion 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution and engaged 
 in the dry goods business, locating at 55 South 
 Temple. This establishment he continued until 
 he built his new store on Broadway in 1889. 
 For the following ten years he remained at this 
 site, and then removed to Southwest Temple, 
 where the Oregon Short Line Building stood, 
 and there he remained until the entire block was 
 consumed by fire, in September, 1901. In addi- 
 tion to his wholesale dry goods business, he also 
 found time to engage to a greater or less degree 
 in other business enterprises in this city, and 
 erected the Aztec Block, now occupied by the 
 offices of the Mine, Smelter and Supply Com- 
 pany. After the fire in the Oregon Short Line 
 Building, he secured a lot on the old "Walker 
 Grounds," on Main street, above Second South, 
 where he is erecting a commodious building, 
 thirty-five by one hundred and sixty-five feet and 
 two stories high. 
 
 Mr. Clawson was married in 1876 to Aliss 
 Xabbie Young, daughter of Brigham Young, 
 and has six children. His wife died in 1894. 
 His children are : Spencer, Junior, at present in 
 Leipsic, Germany; Claire, who is now the wife 
 of Dr. Benedict ; Curtis, Grace, John and Neels. 
 
 In political life Mr. Clawson is a member of 
 the Republican party, and is at present a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Public Works. In addition 
 to this office, he was elected City Counsellor, 
 which position he held for a term of years. He 
 has witnessed Salt Lake grow from a -small in- 
 land town to its present metropolitan standing, 
 and has aided considerably in its growth. He 
 is a Trustee of the Brigham Young Trust Com- 
 pany, in the incorporation of which he also as- 
 sisted. It is capitalized for five hundred thou- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 287 
 
 sand dollars, and owns valuable real estate 
 throughout the city. He is also one of the Di- 
 rectors of the Consolidated Railway and Power 
 Company, which owns and operates all the street 
 railway systems of Salt Lake City. 
 
 In the affairs of the Church of his choice, Mr. 
 Clawson has been very active, and has contrib- 
 uted materially to its development. His success 
 in life has been due entirely to his own efforts, 
 and the career which he has built up stamps him 
 as one of the leading business men of this city, 
 and, in fact, of the entire West. Whatever en- 
 terprises he undertook he successfully carried to 
 completion, by reason of his untiring energy and 
 unflagging application to the work in hand. Salt 
 Lake City and L'tah owe a great deal to the men 
 of Mr. Clawson's stamp, who have done so much 
 for them in the development of their commercial 
 and industrial resources. 
 
 OSEPH L. HOLBROOK. Through- 
 out the State of L^tah there is no more 
 highly respected citizen than the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. Coming to Utah 
 among the pioneers of 1848, he has suc- 
 cessfully followed agriculture from an unprom- 
 ising beginning until now he is one of the most 
 successful farrtjers in Davis county. 
 
 Joseph L. Holbrook was born in Caldwell 
 county, Missouri, January 31, 1837. He is the 
 son of Joseph and Nancy (Lampson) Holbrook, 
 who were among the first members of the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. His father 
 was a native of New York, but was reared in 
 Massachusetts and later moved to Ohio, where 
 he was converted to the teachings of the Mor- 
 mon Church, and joined his fortunes with it and 
 journeyed to its headquarters, then in Missouri. 
 He was first married in ^Massachusetts, but be- 
 lieving in the doctrine of plural marriages, mar- 
 ried two other wives. By the mother of our sub- 
 ject he had six children, of whom Joseph L. is 
 the only one now living. By his other wives he 
 h.id families, but of them only eight children re- 
 main alive at this writing. 
 
 When their son Joseph was yet a child his 
 parents removed from Missouri, with the migra- 
 
 tion of the members of the Church, and settled 
 at Nauvoo, residing there when the Prophet 
 Joseph Smith was killed, of whom our subject's 
 father was a close friend. When the exodus of 
 the members of the Church took place from 
 Nauvoo, the Holbrook family went with them to 
 Winter Quarters, but passed on to Ponco, where 
 they spent that hard winter. In the following 
 spring they returned to Iowa, and settled on 
 J^Iosquito creek, where they remained until 1848, 
 when they made the long overland journey to 
 the valley of the Great Salt Lake, being members 
 of a portion of Brigham Young's company of 
 five hundred wagons, they being under the lead- 
 ership of Captain Isaac Morley, who had charge 
 of one hundred wagons. 
 
 Upon their arrival in Utah the family settled 
 in Salt Lake City, where they spent the first win- 
 ter, moving to Bountiful in the following spring. 
 The family at once took an active part in the 
 settlement of this new region, our subject's father 
 being elected the first Probate Judge of Davis 
 county, in which office he served four terms, 
 aggregating eight years. He at once took up 
 farming, and made a success of that avocation, 
 and his reputation, which he acquired by his in- 
 dustry, integrity and honesty, made him one of 
 the most respected men in his community. He 
 died, beloved and respected by all who knew 
 him, on November 14, 1886. The mother of our 
 subject died when he was quite young, passing 
 away shortly after the arrival of the family at 
 Nauvoo from Missouri. 
 
 Joseph L. Holbrook was married on July 23, 
 1854, to Catherine Watterson, daughter of Wil- 
 liam and Mary Colvin Watterson. Her family 
 were natives of the Isle of ilan, where she was 
 also born, and came to Utah in the early days, 
 arriving here in 1850, and settling in Bountiful. 
 Her father died in that town in 1855, and her 
 mother lived there until her death in 1887. The 
 family of Mrs. Holbrook has been widely scat- 
 tered throughout the West ; one sister, Margaret 
 Parks, is now a resident of Idaho, and her 
 brother, William Watterson, lives at Logan, in 
 this State. 
 
 Mr. Holbrook was baptized into the Church 
 at the age of eight years, at Nauvoo, and has 
 
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 been a consistent and faithful follower of it all 
 his life. He was called to go on a mission for 
 the Church in 1880, and was assigned to Eng- 
 land, where he labored in the Newcastle Confer- 
 ence for two years. Upon his return to Utah he 
 again took up his business as a farmer, and has 
 devoted his time and attention to that and to his 
 work in the development of his Church. In this 
 organization he is now acting as Second Coun- 
 selor to Bishop Stoker of East Bountiful Ward. 
 
 In the affairs of State he has always taken a 
 lively interest, and believes in the principles of 
 the Democratic party. He was elected County 
 Commissioner of Davis county in 1888, and again 
 in 1898. He was also selected by the citizens to 
 s.erve as Mayor of the town of Bountiful, which 
 position he filled with satisfaction for a period of 
 five years. His wife takes a prominent part in 
 the work of the Church, and is a member of the 
 Ladies' Relief Society. 
 
 Mr. Holbrooks' career has stamped him as one 
 of the substantial men of Davis county, and the 
 .=uccess he has achieved in his chosen work has 
 brought him the reward that follows industry 
 and hard, unflagging application, and he is now 
 looked upon as one of the most substantial men 
 of his community. 
 
 I SHOP JABEZ W. WEST, member 
 of the wholesale house of Knight & 
 Company, and Bishop in the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 
 of the Ninth Ward of Zion. Bishop 
 West has spent most of his life in Utah, having 
 crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the great Ameri- 
 can Desert in his mother's arms when he was 
 but four years of age. During his long resi- 
 dence in LTtah he has proved an important factor 
 in developing many of the successful enterprises 
 in this inter-mountain region. He is well ac- 
 quainted with many of the hardships incident to 
 settling in a new country, but these difficulties 
 have only tended to make him a stronger and bet- 
 ter man. His eflforts here have been crowned 
 with a reasonable degree of success, and his long 
 and honorable career in this State has won for 
 
 him a large circle of friends, among all classes 
 and creeds, in Salt Lake City and vicinity. 
 
 A native of England, born in London in 1859, 
 he is the son of Charles H. J. and Eliza (Dan- 
 gerfield) West, who came to Utah in 1863. They 
 became connected with the Mormon Church in 
 the time of Prophet Joseph Smith. The father 
 labored in England as a missionary, and in 1863 
 crossed the plains in ox teams, accompanied by 
 his family. They located in Provo, where he 
 taught school for two years, and later returned 
 to Salt Lake City, where he taught for two years 
 in the Sixth Ward. At the end of this time he 
 engaged in the mercantile business, and still re- 
 sides here. He was ordained a High Priest in 
 1896, and has been an active member of the 
 Church since its infancy. 
 
 Our subject grew up in Salt Lake City, and 
 obtained his education here, attending schools 
 usually about tliree months out of the year, the 
 rest of the time being employed in herding cattle 
 and sheep and hauling wood from the canyons, 
 experiencing many of the hardships encountered 
 by the sons of pioneers. In 1877, at the age of 
 eighteen, he engaged in the retail meat business, 
 in partnership with W. H. Peterson, and one year 
 later dissolved partnership with Mr. Peterson 
 and conducted the business alone for three years. 
 In 1883 the firm of Knight & Co. was organ- 
 ized as wholesale and retail butchers, Mr. West 
 becoming a member of the firm at that time. 
 The firm has discontinued the retail department, 
 and now does an exclusively wholesale trade. 
 They have a complete plant, with ample cold 
 storage facilities and a slaughter house in North 
 Salt Lake, and furnish employment to thirty 
 men. They have built up a large trade in and 
 out of the State; and furnish largely to the retail 
 dealers of this city. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. West married Miss Jessie Hog- 
 gan, daughter of Walter and Agnes Hoggan, 
 who came to Utah in 1863. By this marriage 
 they have seven living children and three de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Bishop West has all his life been an active 
 member of the Mormon Church and was ordained 
 an Elder by Joseph Felt in 1881. In 1897 he 
 was called on a mission to Great Britain, and 
 
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 labored in the Manchester Conference for a year, 
 and for eight months was President of the Lon- 
 don Conference. He was ordained a Seventy in 
 1893, and called to preside as Bishop of the Ninth 
 Ward on April 16, 1890. His Counselors are 
 A. H. Woolley and John Holt. 
 
 Mr. West is an entirely self-made man, and in 
 spite of a number of serious accidents has per- 
 severed over all obstacles, and by energy and de- 
 termination fought his way to a place of promi- 
 nence among the business men of Salt Lake City. 
 When but a child of four years he was severely 
 injured by a large van falling on him, and 
 the injury was thought to be permanent, but 
 his health was restored by the voyage across the 
 ocean. While the family were en route to Utah 
 the little fellow was run over by a large freight 
 wagon and his knee crushed, and in later years, 
 when driving a delivery wagon, he was severely 
 injured by his horse falling on him. However, 
 he recovered from these various mishaps, and has 
 been able to pursue his usual avocations through 
 life. 
 
 
 ARTIX CHRISTOPHERSEN. A 
 city may have fine homes and have 
 a grand climate, and yet, if it be 
 unadorned with nature's most beau- 
 tiful gifts, flowers and trees, it will 
 be a desolate place. In the beautifying of a 
 home flowers form a very important part, and 
 there are but few people who are not lovers of 
 beautiful flowers. The lovely rose, chrysanthe- 
 mum, geranium and magnolia have each held an 
 important part in the beautifying of many homes, 
 delighting the senses by their color and perfume. 
 Martin Christophersen, the subject of this sketch, 
 has perhaps done more towards decorating and 
 enhancing the beauty of Salt Lake City than any 
 other man who has ever lived here, and too much 
 praise cannot be bestowed in behalf of his work, 
 and today our city is noted for the abundance and 
 beauty of its shade trees, as well as the well-kept 
 lawns and elegant flower gardens which adorn 
 the homes of its people. 
 
 Our subject was born in Christiania, Norway, 
 on April 13, 1850. and was the son of Christopher 
 
 Peterson and Ellen (Hansen) Christophersen. 
 His father died when he was but twelve years of 
 age, and the mother being left alone to support 
 her family, was unable to give them any but a 
 scant education, which our subject, however, 
 made the most of, and being possessed of a great 
 thirst of knowledge, has improved every oppor- 
 tunity to gain an education, and to-day is a well- 
 read man, as well as a man of wide observation, 
 and during his trips abroad has availed himself 
 of the opportunities afforded to broaden his 
 knowledge of men and things. He spent his 
 early life in Norway, and learned the trade of 
 florist and landscape gardening, which he fol- 
 lowed until his twentieth year, being assistant 
 gardener at the King's palace. At the age of 
 sixteen he bcame a convert to the teachings of 
 the Mormon Church, and four years later re- 
 ceived a call from tlie Church to go on a mis- 
 sion in his own land, giving up his position at 
 the King's palace to obey this call. He served 
 fourteen months on this mission, and in August, 
 1871, sailed for America, landing at New York 
 City, and came direct to Salt Lake City, where 
 he obtained employment as florist for the Walker 
 family, which position he filled for twelve years, 
 during which time he received several medals for 
 keeping the best lawns and gardens in the State. 
 He was again called on a mission in 1883, to go 
 to his native country, and after his return he 
 located at his present home, where he has since 
 built a beautiful residence and engaged in the 
 nursery business, having some of the finest gar- 
 dens and lawns in the city. His attention has 
 not been wholly given to private lawns and 
 grounds, but he has supplied millions of trees 
 to the State, and was the man chosen to lay out 
 the plans for the beautiful grounds around the 
 City and County Building, and also the grounds 
 at the Ogden Reform School. He is regarded 
 as without a peer in his line of work. 
 
 Mr. Christophersen was married December 26, 
 1874, to Miss Jeanette Ledingham, daughter of 
 Alexander and Jeanette (Forquer) Ledingham, 
 and of this marriage nine children have been born. 
 They are : M. E., who served on a mission for 
 two years in Norway, being called there in 1895 ; 
 Willard .\., now on a mission to Xorwav ; Vic- 
 
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 tor, Jessie, Walter, Ella, Norma, Alvin and Edna. 
 The children are all of high musical ability, all 
 being- well-known singers, and his son M. E. is 
 now a teacher of vocal music at Mount Pleasant, 
 in this State. 
 
 Mr. Christophersen is a member of the Repub- 
 lican party, and has taken an active part in its 
 work. He was elected a County Commissioner in 
 1893, and it was during his term of office that 
 the City and County Building was completed. 
 \\'hen that Board of Commissioners took their 
 positions the county was financially embarrassed, 
 and Mr. Christophersen and his colleagues did a 
 great deal towards placing the county on a sound 
 financial basis. Mr. Christophersen was the first 
 Precinct Chairman of the Republican party after 
 its organization in this State, when there were 
 but few members, and before his term expired 
 its membership had grown until it held the bal- 
 ance of power, and has since been the dominant 
 party. Mrs. Christophersen, as well as all the 
 children, are also members of the Mormon faith, 
 being members of the Relief and Aid Societies in 
 their Ward, and have ever been active in the 
 service of the Church. Thev are prominent not 
 only in their immediate neighborhood, but in 
 the city and State as well, and Mr. Christopher- 
 sen enjoys a wide reputation, not alone as an 
 artist in his particular line of work, but as an 
 upright and conscientious business man, and his 
 integrity, honesty and pleasant and genial man- 
 ner have won for him a host of friends. 
 
 ISHOP REUBEN MILLER. No pio- 
 neer or early settler in Utah but knew 
 Bishop Reuben Aliller, whose well-spent 
 life leaves only kindly memories of use- 
 fulness and activity in the early history 
 of Salt Lake county. He died where he first 
 settled, on the banks of Big Cottonwood creek, 
 but the scene had undergone a transformation 
 from bleak and arid sagebrush desert to fertile 
 meadow and fallow land. In the early fifties Reu- 
 ben Miller built for himself and his family a 
 two-story adobe dwelling house, which is now 
 occupied by the widow of one of his sons, Mrs. 
 
 D. L. Miller. The building has been remodeled 
 of late years, but the walls are still the same old 
 walls which Reuben Miller built a half century 
 ago. It was within those walls that his family 
 grew up to manhood and womanhood. All of 
 the sons settled on or around the old homestead 
 and followed up the business of sheep and cattle 
 raising. 
 
 Reuben Aliller was born in Pennsylvania De- 
 cember 4, 181 1. As a young man he settled in 
 La Salle county, Illinois. Mormonism was then 
 in its infancy, and Mr. Miller being carried away 
 by the zeal and earnestness of the proselytes to 
 the new doctrine, joined their ranks. He re- 
 mained true to the teachings he then imbibed until 
 his death, which occurred July 22, 1882, and dur- 
 ing his life was an earnest laborer in the faith. 
 He was at Nauvoo when the Mormons were ex- 
 pelled from the State. He wandered to Wal- 
 worth county, Wisconsin, and from there to 
 Pottawotamie county, Iowa. In the year 1849 
 he started out, with a large family, to the almost 
 unknown mountain home of tlie Mormons in the 
 valley of Salt Lake. Their store of worldly goods 
 was small, but their hearts were stout and brave. 
 Mr. Miller settled down in the sagebrush in Big 
 Cottonwood creek, and went into a- deserted dug- 
 out and lived there eighteen months. A man of 
 energy, he began to prosper and make his pres- 
 ence felt in the sparsely peopled settlement. He 
 cleared his land, built himself a home, and began 
 to raise stock. In the first winter after his ar- 
 rival in the new Jilormon settlement Mr. Miller 
 was made a County Commissioner. Term after 
 term he was re-elected Commissioner, and he 
 held this office at the time of his death in 1882. 
 In the fall of the year 1849 ^^r. Miller was or- 
 dained Bishop of Mill Creek Ward, and this 
 Church position he also retained till his death. 
 His term as County Commissioner (thirty-four 
 years) was the longest unbroken term of public 
 office ever held in Utah. 
 
 Not only as a man of upright and honorable 
 character was Reuben Miller a man for his fel- 
 lows to emulate, but he was a financier of no 
 mean ability, and his teachings, both in matters 
 spiritual and temporal, were eagerly absorbed by 
 his children, have borne fruit in their lives. 
 
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 And not only his own family, but all who came 
 in contact with him, were benefited by the pre- 
 cepts promulgated by this good man. 
 
 Deeply attached to her husband, and equally 
 beloved with the Bishop, was his wife, who mar- 
 ried him back in Ottawa, La Salle county, Illi- 
 nois, April 17, 1836. Her maiden name was 
 Rhoda Ann Letts, and she was born in Knox 
 county, Ohio, November 25, 1814. She only 
 survived her husband one year, passing away 
 August 9, 1883. The Bishop and his wife were 
 buried in the city cemetery in Salt Lake City, 
 where a handsome monument was erected to their 
 memory by their children, of whom there were 
 eight. 
 
 EBER J. GRANT. The first Utahn 
 to be called to an Apostleship in the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints, and the thirty-third one chosen, 
 is the subject of this sketch. Born in 
 this State in 1856, his whole life has been de- 
 voted to the work of developing the Church and 
 in building up and utilizing the industries and 
 resources of his native State. Few men have 
 participated more actively in the work of the 
 Church and in the upbuilding of the prosperity 
 of the State than has Heber J. Grant. 
 
 He was born in Salt Lake City November 22, 
 1856, on the present site of the Zion Co-operative 
 ■Mercantile Institution, then the home of his 
 father. He was the only son of Jedediah ^Morgan 
 Grant and Rachael Ridgeway (Ivins) Grant. 
 His early education and business training were 
 secured by his own efforts and the sheer force 
 of determination which has since brought him 
 such success in life. The first school he attended 
 was taught by the mother of Matthias F. Cowley, 
 and he later attended the school directed by the 
 father and mother of A. F. Doremus, situated 
 in the old Deseret Hospital building, opposite 
 the University. He later attended the sessions in 
 President Young's school house, in the Eight- 
 eenth Ward, and the school in the Thirteenth 
 Ward. From here he went to the Deseret Uni- 
 vesitv, then occupying the Council House, the 
 
 Deseret Museum and the Deseret Hospital build- 
 ings. He was also a pupil of Mary E. and Ida 
 lone Cook. 
 
 Apostle Grant is pre-eminently a business man, 
 and would doubtless have devoted his entire time 
 and attention to financial matters had not the 
 call to the Apostleship changed the trend of his 
 life from its natural course and awakened in him 
 that strongly rooted religious feeling that pos- 
 sesses his soul. He began his business career 
 as an office boy in an insurance office, and rose 
 step by step. 
 
 As a boy he dreamed of being an insurance 
 agent, and determinedly bent all his energies to 
 the mastery of that business, with the result that 
 he succeeded, and is to-day President of the 
 largest insurance agency in the inter-mountain 
 region. His aspirations did not cease with be- 
 coming an agent : he dreamed of becoming a 
 president of a company, and in this he also suc- 
 ceeded, and to-day is President of the Home Fire 
 Insurance Company of Utah. While at work 
 in the insurance office he decided to learn the 
 banking business because of what he saw in the 
 bank of A. W. White & Co., located in the same 
 building, and to this end devoted all his spare 
 time in assisting the book-keepers and others. 
 Subsequently the insurance office was removed 
 to Wells, Fargo & Co.'s bank building, where he 
 followed the same course, and in this way ac- 
 quired a considerable knowledge of the business 
 of banking. His close attention to his work, 
 and his energy and ability were recognized by 
 his employer, Henry Wads worth, w'ho w'as also 
 agent of the banking house of Wells, Fargo & 
 Co., and on New Year's Day presented him with 
 one hundred dollars. His efforts to learn the 
 banking business led to his securing the position 
 of Assistant Cashier in the Zion's Savings Bank 
 and Trust Company, to fill the vacancy caused 
 by the departure of Assistant Cashier B. H. 
 Schettler on a mission for the Church. This 
 position led him to desire the presidency of a 
 bank, and this was gratified in 1890, when he 
 was chosen President of the State Bank of Utah, 
 then organized, which position he held until he 
 resigned, just prior to departing on a mission to 
 Japan. He is at present President of the Home 
 
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 Fire Insurance Company of Utah, Vice-President 
 of the Salt Lake Theatre Company, President 
 of the insurance company of H. J. Grant & Co., 
 Director of the Utah Sugar Company, and also 
 of the Consolidated Wagon and Machine Com- 
 pany. He was elected a Director of the Zion 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution in 1887, and 
 later became Chairman of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of that institution, which position he still 
 holds. His business maxims are promptness in 
 keeping appointments and in fulfilling promises. 
 He has always aimed to give value received to 
 those who employed him, and since he has be- 
 come an employer has always endeavored to treat 
 his employes with respect and consideration. 
 
 An illustration of his persistency, application 
 and determination to succeed is to be found in 
 his relations with the Salt Lake Theatre Com- 
 pany. He was passionately fond of the theatre, 
 and being too poor to pay the admission price 
 to the cheapest seats, secured admittance by car- 
 rying water to the third gallery. Because of his 
 faithfulness, he was soon promoted to the second 
 gallery, where he was employed in the same 
 work. From that he has now risen to be one of 
 the principal stockholders in the company, which 
 carries with it the privilege of occupying a pri- 
 vate box whenever he so desires. 
 
 Apostle Grant has filled a number of important 
 financial missions for the Church, as well as for 
 the institutions with which he is connected. In 
 the panic of 1890-91, he visited several of the 
 leading Western and Eastern cities, and secured 
 several hundred thousand dollars to aid institu- 
 tions in Utah that were in financial difficulties. 
 In the dark days of 1893 he crossed the continent 
 on such missions four times, and succeeded in 
 securing over half a million dollars for the 
 Church and his business establishments. 
 
 He held the offices of Elder and Seventy prior 
 to his ordination to a High Priest in October, 
 1880. He was ordained an Apostle under the 
 hands of the First Presidency and the Apostles 
 on October 16, 1882, President George Q. Can- 
 non being mouth in his ordination. His missions 
 for the Church have been to the various Stakes of 
 the Church in Utah, in many of the States and 
 Territories of the Linion, and to Mexico as well, 
 
 and he is now engaged in opening a mission in 
 Japan. He accompanied Apostle Brigham Young 
 and other members of the Church to Sonora, 
 Mexico, before any of the members of the Church 
 had located in that country. Their mission was to 
 preach the Gospel to the Yaqui Indians. In 1883 
 he again accompanied Apostle Young on another 
 mission to the Indians, this time to the Navajo 
 Nation, the Mocjuis, Zuni and Pappago, and this 
 mission resulted in active operations being begun 
 by the Church for the conversion of these people. 
 
 Apostle Grant's efforts, both in business and 
 religion, have been inspired largely by his strong 
 love for his mother. His father died when he 
 was nine days old, and out of the poverty in 
 which his mother reared him he has, by his own 
 efforts, placed her in comfort and happiness. 
 
 Apostle Grant was married, in St. George, on 
 Noyember i, 1877, to Miss Lucy Stringam, 
 who died some years ago, leaving behind her a 
 small family. Her only son, Heber Stringam 
 Grant, died a few years later. He married again, 
 to his present wife. Miss Augusta Winters, on 
 May 26, 1884. He has ten daughters. 
 
 In the administration of political affairs 
 Apostle Grant has had considerable e.xperience, 
 having served one term in the Territorial Legis- 
 lature and several terms in the City Council of 
 Salt Lake City. He is a member of the Demo- 
 cratic party. 
 
 He is now in the prime of life, tall and erect 
 in figure, with prominent features, indicating 
 energy and ability. His desire to aid others has 
 inculcated within him a love for his fellow man, 
 and to-day there is not a more loving, helping 
 heart throughout Utah than that of Heber J. 
 Grant. One of his most prominent traits of char- 
 acter is his determination to overcome obstacles 
 and defects that bars his way to a perfect charac- 
 ter. When discovered, he devotes all his ener- 
 gies to overcoming it, with a persistency that few 
 can command. He has gained the love, confi- 
 dence and respect of his friends and business 
 associates by his upright life and his honesty and 
 integrity. The authorities of the Church repose 
 perfect confidence in him, and he is assigned to 
 the most responsible trusts. He is an active 
 worker in the Church, and besides his position 
 
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 as Apostle, is a member of the General Boards 
 of the Sunday Schools and the Improvement 
 Associations, being First Assistant to General 
 Superintendent Joseph F. Smith of the Young 
 Men's Mutual Improvement Associations. Be- 
 fore being chosen President of the Japanese Alis- 
 sion, he was constantly among the people, guid- 
 ing and assisting them with his practical advice 
 and his counsel, in both temporal and spiritual 
 afifairs. 
 
 \COB MORONI SECRIST. The suc- 
 cess of any county or State depends 
 almost wholly upon the character, en- 
 ergy, perseverance and determination of 
 its citizens. Few counties in the State 
 of Utah have had a more enterprising and thor- 
 oughly progressive people than has Davis county. 
 While one of the smallest counties in the State, 
 from the standpoint of area, it is among the most 
 prosperous and highly developed counties of 
 Utah. Among the men who have taken a promi- 
 nent and active part in its development from a 
 wild and barren waste to its present prosperous 
 and thriving condition, the subject of this sketch 
 deserves special mention. 
 
 Bishop Jacob Moroni Secrist is a native son 
 of Utah, having been born in Salt Lake City 
 August 15, 1850. He is a son of Jacob Foutz 
 and Eliza (Logan) Secrist, his father being born 
 in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and his mother 
 in Waynesboro, in the same county, where they 
 spent their early life and were married. Later 
 they settled in Illinois, where they resided for 
 about two years, until the exodus of the Mormon 
 people in 1846. With the main body of the 
 Church they moved to Winter Quarters, on the 
 Missouri river, and came to Utah in the second 
 company to cross the plains. The first few years 
 they spent in Salt Lake City, where our subject 
 was born. They later moved to Davis county, 
 which was in a comparatively wild state. Here 
 the senior Mr. Secrist took up and improved 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land, on which 
 he spent the remainder of his life, and this land 
 is now in the possession of our subject. In 1852 
 Jacob F. Secrist was called to serve in Great 
 
 Britain on a mission for the Church, and spent 
 three years in that work. On his way home he 
 died while crossing the plains, and was buried 
 at what was known as the Blue River. He left 
 a family of four children, two sons and two 
 daughters — Louisa, married Charles Parker and 
 died some years ago ; Mary E.. now Mrs. Emory 
 W. Soule; Jacob Moroni, our subject, and Heber 
 Xephi, now engaged in business in Idaho. 
 
 Our subject married, September 13, 1879, 
 Miss Polly Estella Smith, daughter of Thomas 
 and Polly (Clark) Smith, her people having come 
 to Utah among the early pioneers in 1848. Mrs. 
 Secrist was born in Farmington, and died De- 
 cember 12, 1882, leaving six children — Jacob 
 Moroni, married Ruth Barber and died, leaving 
 two children, Ralston, who was killed by a kick- 
 ing horse, and Moroni. Their mother later mar- 
 ried James Smith. Our subject's second child, 
 Thomas E., married Lillian Wood, and they have 
 three children — Edwin, Sterling and Wallace. 
 The third child is Polly Estella, now Mrs. Frank 
 D. Welling, and they have five childrn — Frank- 
 lin, Ray, Emory, Estella and David Ralston, who 
 died in infancy. The others are Charles Albert, 
 who has been serving on a two and a half years' 
 mission to California ; Annie L., who married 
 George C. Layton (she has two children, Vera 
 and Ralph), and Horace, attending the Brigham 
 Young Academy at Provo, preparatory to taking 
 a medical course. Mr. Secrist's second wife was 
 Monica A. Potter, daughter of Gardner and Eve- 
 line (Hinman) Potter. By this union he has two 
 chil'dren — Henry and Ethlyn. 
 
 Notwithstanding all the hardships and trials 
 which Bishop Secrist has passed through, his life 
 has been crowned with success. He now owns 
 one of the best farms in Davis county, which con- 
 sists of one hundred and seventy acres, located 
 two and a half miles north of Farmington post- 
 office, which by energy and perseverance he im- 
 proved mostly himself. His splendid brick house, 
 barns, orchards, etc., all indicate that thrifty 
 hands have had it in charge. Farming, stock 
 raising and the dairy business have been his 
 chief avocations. He was ordained Bishop of 
 his Ward July 2, 1882. For a man who has 
 passed through as many hardships and trials 
 
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 and led so busy and active a life, Bishop Secrist 
 is wonderfully well preserved, his appearance in- 
 dicating that he is about thirty years of age. He 
 participated in the Black Hawk War and in 
 nearly all of the Indian troubles of the early days. 
 Few men of Davis county have been more active 
 or taken a more prominent part in the develop- 
 ment of that section ; and few are considered 
 more substantial, wide-awake and business-like 
 by those who are intimately acquainted with him 
 than is Bishop Secrist, and he enjoys the esteem 
 and respect of the entire community. 
 
 In politics he has been identified with the Re- 
 publican party ever since its organization in the 
 State. During 1890 he was nominated to run for 
 the Legislature, and later was nominated for 
 County Commissioner on the Republican ticket, 
 but was defeated in Davis county. He is Presi- 
 dent of the Farmington Commercial and Manu- 
 facturing- Company and a Director in the Davis 
 County Bank of Farmington. 
 
 \MES R. MILLER. Two trains of 
 wagons (fifty in each train) crossed 
 the plains in 1849 to the new Mormon 
 settlement in the Great Salt Lake Val- 
 ley. With the party was James R. 
 Miller, then a boy of eleven years, and a son 
 of Reuben ]\liller, who soon afterward became 
 Bishop of Mill Creek Ward. The tedious jour- 
 ney occupied from June 2nd to September 
 24th, and cholera carried off the capatin and 
 seven of the party. His tender years did not 
 hinder the lad from pitching in to help his 
 father, and in the second year after his father 
 had taken up a hundred-acre tract of land on 
 the Big Cottonwood creek James was driving a 
 team, and hauled forty cords of wood down the 
 canyon to his father's farm. This active, stren- 
 uous life suited the boy, and the time devoted 
 to his studies was limited to such portions of the 
 winter when the weather was too severe to work 
 — from thirty to sixty days each year. The first 
 winter he attended school thirty days, and the 
 second winter sixty days. There was much work 
 before the Millers in order to convert the sage- 
 brush desert into arable farming land, and a little 
 
 adobe school house, where split logs served for 
 writing desks and slabs did duty for seats, had 
 but slight attraction for James. It was but nat- 
 ural, then, with such surroundings, that he should 
 develop into a rancher and sheep raiser, as did 
 all his brothers. 
 
 James R. jMiller was born at Ottawa, La Salle 
 county, Illinois, on October 2, 1838. He is a 
 son of the late Bishop Reuben Miller of Mill 
 Creek Ward, by his first wife, Rhoda Ann Letts. 
 The family came here from Omaha in 1849, and 
 for a while camped on the present site of Salt 
 Lake City, later moving out to the Big Cotton- 
 wood creek, where Bishop Miller took up a gov- 
 ernment claim after the fall conference. Shortly 
 afterwards he was ordained Bishop of Mill Creek 
 Ward and County Commissioner, which offices 
 he held until his death in 1882. The Bishop had 
 become a member of the Mormon Church in Nau- 
 voo about the time of the death of the Prophet, 
 Joseph Smith. 
 
 At the age of twenty years our subject started 
 out in life for himself. He married Mary Jane 
 Gardner, a daughter of Robert Gardner, a 
 pioneer who came to Utah in 1847, when Mrs. 
 Miller was only four years old. Of this union 
 fourteen children were born, seven of whom are 
 still living, all in Utah. Reuben G., the oldest, 
 is now President of the Emery County Stake ; 
 Mary Jane, the wife of James F. Whitney, lives 
 at Mendon, in Cache county; William E. is a 
 sheep raiser at Mill Creek; Leroy C. is superin- 
 tendent of the Consolidated Wagon and Machine 
 Company, of Salt Lake City, his headquarters be- 
 ine at Montpelier, Idaho. The three younger 
 children, ]\Iaude L., Leonard M., and Eva M., 
 live at home. Leonard is a student at the State 
 University. James Miller built his home about 
 a mile to the east of Murray, and here he has 
 lived for forty-two years. The house, which is 
 built of brick, is beautifully situated on a hill. 
 It has been fitted up with all the modern im- 
 provements, has spacious barns and an up-to-date 
 creamery, with water power to do the churning. 
 There is also a steam laundry on the premises. 
 Water from an artesian well irrigates the garden 
 and lawn. The farm, consisting of eighty acres, 
 is irrigated from the Tanner ditch. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 295 
 
 Mr. Miller has always been in the sheep busi- 
 ness. He has a farm on the Provo bench and 
 one in Cache county. In February, 1900, he 
 established the firm of J. R. Miller & Co. at Mur- 
 ray, which carries on a lumber, coal, hardware 
 and stove business. In politics Mr. Miller is a 
 Republican. He was First Counselor to Bishop 
 James C. Hamilton of Mill Creek Ward for ten 
 years, after which he became First Counselor to 
 President F. Y. Taylor of Granite Stake of Zion, 
 and this office he still holds. 
 
 No less than seven times has Mr. Miller 
 crossed the plains freighting. He has never for- 
 gotten the advice of Brigham Young about treat- 
 ing the Indians — that is to feed them and not to 
 kill^ them — and as a consequence, he has never 
 been molested by them. On one occasion a band 
 of Indians on the war path rode into his camp. 
 After looking over the train the chief said to his 
 warriors the word, "Momidy," and then all the 
 bucks dismounted. Miller ordered his men to 
 divide their rations with them, and that night the 
 Indians camped with them and parted at two 
 o'clock in the morning-. 
 
 FL'BEN PARLEY MILLER, son of 
 tlie late Bishop Miller and Rhoda Ann 
 ( Letts) Miller, was born in La Salle 
 CL)unty, Illinois, on December 22, 1844. 
 His parents had joined the Mormon 
 church prior to their removal to Utah, and were 
 among the earlv pioneers to this State in 1849, 
 where they settled ih Mill Creek Ward, and where 
 our subject lived until the time of his death, on 
 March 27, 1901. In the pioneer days of Utah 
 he was one of the most active men. He will- 
 ingly performed all of the tasks that were allotted 
 to him and cheerfully did all the work required 
 of him and of the other pioneers in assisting in 
 the building up of the State and in the mainte- 
 nance of the people. He was engaged in cross- 
 ing the plains and brineing emigrants to Utah, 
 and twelve of these trips were made by him after 
 he reached manhood. The dangers of traveling 
 across the plains, from the hostile Indians, were 
 then very great, and he participated in many skir- 
 mishes with the savages. Although always ready 
 
 to fight when the occasion demanded, he was a 
 believer in the doctrine of peace, and believed in 
 settling differences amicably rather than resort 
 to more stringent measures. He was noted for 
 his sterling character and for the kindness of 
 his disposition and the willingness with which he 
 assisted those whom he could help. He num- 
 bered his friends by the legion, and won the con- 
 fidence and trust of all with whom he was asso- 
 ciated, by his energy and upright dealings, and 
 by the integrity of his life, which was character- 
 istic of the entire family of his father, Bishop 
 Reuben Miller. He was actively engaged in mer- 
 cantile pursuits and was a stockholder in the Co- 
 operative Wagon and Machine Company, and 
 was also the president and manager of the Inter- 
 Mountain Milling Company. In addition to these 
 commercial enterprises, he also owned large herds 
 of cattle and sheep, and for many years conducted 
 a live stock business, being associated with his 
 brothers, James R. and M. M. Miller, and cen- 
 tered all his energ}' and industry in amassing a 
 considerable fortune. 
 
 He was married on October 10. 1868, in the 
 Temple at Salt Lake City, to Miss Margaret 
 Gardner, daughter of Robert and Jane ( AlcCune) 
 Gardner, the ceremony being performed by Dan- 
 iel H. Wells. His wife's parents were natives of 
 Scotland. Mrs. Miller was born in Canada, and 
 when three years of age, her parents left that 
 country in 1847 ^nd made the journey across the 
 plains to Utah with the pioneers. In this mar- 
 riage there were born eight children, four of 
 whom are still living — Reuben Edgar, manager 
 of the Inter-Mountain Milling Company ; Uriah 
 G., Bishop of the Murray Ward ; Edith L., and 
 Melvin Parley, now on a mission to the South- 
 ern States. Robert G. died aged seven years 
 past ; David O. died in infancy ; Maggie M. died 
 in infancy; Ernest F. died at the age of eight 
 years past. After this marriage Mr. Miller re- 
 moved to what was then the Mill Creek Ward, 
 on State street, between Sixteenth and Seven- 
 teenth South, now known as Murray Ward, 
 where he built a comfortable home and improved 
 the homestead upon which it stood. 
 
 He was a Democrat in politics, but his duties 
 in the Church and his business interests pre- 
 
296 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 vented any active participation in the affairs of 
 the party. He, like his parents, was a staunch 
 member of the Alormon Church, and lived and 
 died in that faith. His integrity and ability had 
 won for him a prominent place in the business 
 world of Utah, and he had won the confidence 
 and respect of not only the leaders of the Church 
 to which he belonged, but his faithful service had 
 also brought to him the respect and esteem of all 
 the citizens of his community. He died on March 
 27, 1901, from a severe attack of long-continued 
 stomach trouble, beloved and honored by all who 
 knew him. 
 
 ;LVIN mormon miller. The 
 full history of Salt Lake county 
 cduld not be properly written with- 
 out giving due notice to the Miller 
 family founded here in 1849 by Reu- 
 ben Miller. .\s agriculture is the principal avoca- 
 tion of the residents of this county, so the lives of 
 this family run like a scarlet thread through its 
 history for a period of more than fifty years, 
 standing for advancement, uprightness and the 
 highest ideals of citizenship. 
 
 Reuben Miller, the founder of this family, was 
 born in Pennsylvania, and after migrating to dif- 
 ferent parts of the country, finally became a con- 
 vert to the teachings of Mormonism, and there- 
 after cast his lot with this people, passing with 
 them through all the vicissitudes, trials and per- 
 secutions of the days in Illinois, and finally cross- 
 ing the plains to Utah in 1849 and taking up his 
 abode on the banks of the Big Cottonwood, that 
 being his home during the remainder of his life, 
 and is now occupied by the widow of his son, D. 
 L. Miller. A complete biographical record of the 
 life of this remarkable man will be found else- 
 where in this work, as also of his wife, Rhoda 
 Ann (Letts) Miller, the mother of our subject. 
 Melvin Mormon Miller was born in Walworth 
 county, Wisconsin, October 17, 1846, and there- 
 fore all his conscious life has been spent within 
 the confines of this State. He grew to manhood 
 in the locality where his father settled, attending 
 schools such as the district afforded during the 
 winter months, and worked at farm life in the 
 summers, following much the same routine as 
 
 the sons of other pioneers. L^p to the age of 
 twenty-four years he spent his time between his 
 father's farm, working in the canyons and herd- 
 ing cattle and sheep on the plains. 
 
 In February, 1872, he was married to Miss 
 Alartha j\I. Shurtliff, daughter of Venson and 
 Alary Shurtliff. This family also came to Utah 
 in the latter forties. Nine children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Miller— Melvin L. died at 
 the age of three years ; Efifie M., Nettie and Let- 
 tie, twins : Martha, Arthur V., James A., Clar- 
 ence G., died aged one year; Dorus C. 
 
 After his marriage he setttled at his present 
 home on the banks of the Big Cottonwood, near 
 Seventeenth South street, and on a part of the 
 old homestead. Here he has since built a hand- 
 some fourteen-room pressed brick house, fitted 
 up with hot and cold water, electric lights, and 
 all the conveniences that go to make up the mod- 
 ern home. The house is surrounded by a beauti- 
 ful lawn, embellished with flowers, shrubs, shade 
 trees, etc., and the water is supplied from an ar- 
 tesian well. Aside from this home place, which 
 consists of fifty acres of fine farming land, Mr. 
 Aliller owns a second place of one hundred acres 
 in Cache valley. He has been engaged in rais- 
 ing live stock, both cattle and sheep, ever since 
 he began life for himself, and has met with ex- 
 cellent success. Almost twenty-five years of his 
 life has been spent in the saddle. He is also a 
 stockholder in a number of paying business en- 
 terprises in Salt Lake City, and has ever been 
 foremost in all that has tended to the upbuilding 
 or advancement of his county or State. 
 
 When but a lad of fifteen years he made two 
 trips to the Missouri river, driving four yoke of 
 o.xen and assisting to bring back emigrants. In 
 1864 he spent a year on the trail bringing sheep 
 from California. 
 
 In political life his sympathies and support 
 have been given to the Democratic party, but he 
 has never been an active participant in its work, 
 nor sought to hold office. 
 
 He was born and raised in the Alormon faith 
 and was baptized in Mill Creek Ward. He was 
 ordained a Seventy at the age of fifteen, and is 
 now a High Priest and Second Counselor to 
 Bishop Hamilton of Mill Creek Ward. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 297 
 
 Mr. Miller has through life exemplified the no- 
 ble example of true manhood left him by his 
 father, and has in every way proven himself a 
 worthy offspring of such a parent. He has ever 
 stood ready to assist his fellow-men in any way 
 possible, and has had the growth of his commu- 
 nity very near his heart. In his business and pri- 
 vate life his life has been such as to win only 
 words of praise and commendation, and he is one 
 of the substantial men of this countv. 
 
 IILION L. MILLER. The pioneers 
 who fought through all the trying 
 scenes, difificulties and hardships in- 
 cident to crossing the great Ameri- 
 can plains in the earlj- days and set- 
 tling in a new country, at that time so remote 
 from the seat of civilization, are one by one fast 
 dropping off the scene of action. But the great 
 work which they accomplished 4n the now pros- 
 perous and great State of Utah Vvill continue to 
 live throughout all the succeeding generations 
 yet to come. 
 
 Chilion L. Miller, the subject of this sketch, 
 was born in Pottowatomie county, Iowa, Novem- 
 ber 29, 1848. He is a son of Reuben and Rhoda 
 Ann ( Letts j Miller, whose biography appears 
 elsewhere in this volume. They were among the 
 early members of the Mormon Church in Nauvoo 
 during the trying scenes and difficulties which the 
 Church encountered in that section. In 1846, 
 when the Mormons were driven out of Nauvoo, 
 they wandered to Walworth county, Wisconsin, 
 and from there removed to Pottowatomie county, 
 Iowa, where the subject of our father continued 
 to reside until the spring of 1849, when they fit- 
 ted out ox teams and prepared to make the jour- 
 ney across the plains to Salt Lake City. The 
 difficulties and hardships which were encountered 
 in making that tedious and long trip will never 
 be fully known, only to those who participated in 
 the journey. 
 
 The family arrived in the Great Salt Lake Val- 
 ley in the autumn of 1849, ^"^ setttled in what 
 is known as Mill Creek Ward, where our subject 
 spent his boyhood days. Like most boys in the 
 early history of Utah, his education was neces- 
 
 sarily limited, attending school for a few weeks 
 during the winter months and assisting on the 
 farm herding sheep, hauling wood from the can- 
 yon and performing every duty to assist his father 
 in making a living in this new country. In these 
 modern times the young girls and boys can hardly 
 appreciate what their parents passed through, 
 the many inconveniences, and crude ways in 
 which they have existed. 
 
 The school house in which our subject re- 
 ceived most of his school education consisted of 
 adobe school house equipped with split logs for 
 seats and writing desks and flooring. Notwith- 
 standing the inconvenience which they have ex- 
 perienced and the limited means for an education, 
 Mr. Miller has, by his own efforts, determina- 
 tion and perseverance, carved out a successful 
 and honorable career. In 1869 he started out for 
 himself and engaged in tlie business of freight- 
 ing and running threshing machines, and in fact 
 all kinds of business connected with farming. In 
 1886 he became interested in the sheep business, 
 with his brother David, who was his youngest 
 brother, and for many years they were partners 
 in that business. 
 
 Mr. Miller, in 1885, was called to serve on a 
 mission for two years, during which time his bus- 
 iness was looked after by his sons. He was ab- 
 sent about nineteen months, and on returning, he 
 took up the sheep business, which he continues 
 to follow successfully. He has ranged his herds 
 in Utah. 
 
 January 24, 1870, he married Harriet Jane 
 Webb, daughter of Chauncey G. and Elizabeth 
 (Taft) Webb. As the result of this union, nine 
 children have been born, seven of whom are still 
 living— Chilion W., Seth R., Maggie M., Har- 
 riet E., Letts T., Rhoda E., and Fern; Ethel 
 died aged twelve years ; Loura died in infancy. 
 
 In politics Mr. Miller has always been a staunch 
 Democrat, but has never sought office of any 
 kind. 
 
 He has always been a faithful members of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and 
 he owes his success in life to the moral training 
 which he received from his father, and he thor- 
 oughly believes that any religion which would as- 
 sist his father in leading such a splendid life, 
 
298 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 would also assist his sons in following in his 
 footsteps. His son, C. W. Miller, was called to 
 fill a mission in the Northern States some years 
 ago, but was taken sick and was compelled to 
 return home, after an absence of several months. 
 
 Mrs. Miller is a member of the Relief Society, 
 and takes a prominent part in that society. Their 
 daughter, Harriet Edna, now Mrs. A. H. Turner, 
 is serving on a mission with her husband in En- 
 gland. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Miller setttled on his present place, 
 which is considered one of the finest farms in that 
 vicinity, being located on State street, between 
 Sixteenth and Seventeenth South. 
 
 .WID LETTS MILLER was born on 
 the banks of the Big Cottonwood in 
 the Mill Creek Ward, October 8, 1856, 
 and was the youngest of a family of 
 eight children of Reuben and Rhoda 
 Ann (Letts) Aliller, and lived in that neighbor- 
 hood throughout his whole life, until his death, 
 on June 6, 1901. He was associated with his 
 father all through the latter's life, and engaged 
 in business with his brother, Chilion L., in the 
 sheep and cattle industry, for many years. '1 he 
 old homestead was built by his father over fifty 
 years ago, and to this our subject has made im- 
 provements and additions until, when completed, 
 it was a splendid two-story adobe building, sur- 
 rounded by well-kept lawns and fields and sup- 
 plied with water from artesian wells. The boy- 
 hood days of our subject were spent on the farm 
 of his father, and his education was received from 
 the schools that then existed in that locality. He 
 early entered upon his business career in the rais- 
 ing of sheep and cattle, which he carried on until 
 his death. 
 
 He was married on December 27, 1877, "i Salt 
 Lake City, to Miss Emmeretta Boyce, daughter 
 of William and Phoebe (Speere) Boyce, one of 
 the old families of Utah, coming here in 1849. 
 His wife was born in South Cottonwood Ward, 
 of Salt Lake county. By this marriage ten chil- 
 dren were born, nine of whom are still living. 
 They are: Emmeretta, now the wife of George 
 T. Brown, of Grant Ward, Salt Lake county; 
 
 Rhoda Ann, now Mrs. Ephraim Gaufin; Phoebe 
 L., Grace I., who died at the age of seven years; 
 Cora E., David P.. Alargaret E., Mary G., Katie 
 L., and Claude. Air. Miller was a successful 
 farmer, and at his death left a fine farm of sev- 
 enty-seven acres, and the farm clear of all in- 
 debtedness. 
 
 In political affairs he was a believer in the Dem- 
 ocratic principles, and held several minor offices 
 in his district. He was also actively interested 
 in educational matters and was school trustee for 
 his district for several terms. Like all the mem- 
 bers of his family, he was a believer in the doc- 
 trines of the Mormon Church, and was a member 
 of the Seventies. He was called to go on a mis- 
 sion to the Southwestern States on March 3, 
 1898, and labored in that field until May, 1900. 
 He was a prominent man in Church affairs, and 
 held the office of High Priest and Second Coun- 
 selor to Bishop Hamilton, at the time of his death. 
 He was also one of the most p;-ominent home mis- 
 sionaries, and was prominent in the Sunday 
 Schol work of the Ward, being Sunday School 
 teacher, as well as a Ward teacher. He left be- 
 hind him a reputation as an honorable, upright 
 and honest man, beloved by all who knew him. 
 To his family he was a noble husband and a kind 
 father, and has left a name of which his posterity 
 may well be proud. 
 
 ESSE M. SMITH. The name Smith is 
 a common one throughout the United 
 States, and has been associated with the 
 history of America ever since the Pilgrim 
 Fathers landed in this country. The fam- 
 ily from which Jesse M. Smith descended has 
 made a name and record which can never be ob- 
 literated from the fair pages of the history of 
 this country. 
 
 Jesse AI. Smith was born in Salt Lake City No- 
 vember 21, 1858, and is the son of Elias and Amy 
 J. (King) Smith. His father was born in Roy- 
 alton, Vermont, September 6, 1804, and his 
 mother was born in Portage countv, Ohio. Elias 
 Smith became a convert to the teachings of the 
 Mormon Church in New York. He was a first 
 cousin to the Prophet, Joseph Smith, their fat! ers 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 299 
 
 being brothers, and all lived in the same part of 
 New York State. He was with the Prophet from 
 the beginning of the Church and left Xauvoo with 
 the main body of Mormons. When they arrived 
 in Iowa the grandparents of our subject, being 
 old and feeble, succumbed to the hardships and 
 privations they had endured, and our subject's 
 father remained there with them until their death, 
 coming to Utah in 1852, settling in Salt Lake 
 City. He had the distinction of being the first 
 Probate Judge in Salt Lake City, which posi- 
 tion he held for thirty-two years. During his life 
 time he was one of the most active and well 
 known men of this city, and was largely instru- 
 mental in constructing many of the canals of Salt 
 Lake county, and was ably seconded by his son, 
 Jesse M., the subject of our sketch. He died in 
 this city after an eventful and honorable life, full 
 of years and widely mourned. His death oc- 
 curred June 24, 1888. His widow is still living 
 in the city. 
 
 Our subject received his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Salt Lake City, and at the age of 
 fifteen began life for himself, doing teaming and 
 freighting. He was married February 19, 1880, 
 to Miss Harriette E. Smith, daughter of John 
 Sivel and Jane (Waddley) Smith, of Kaysville, 
 where his wife was born. Although of the same 
 name, the two families were not related. 
 
 Mr. Smith lived at Riverton for some years, 
 and in 1890 bought his first home in Layton, one 
 mile west of the depot, where he now resides. 
 This place consists of ninety acres of well im- 
 proved land under irrigation and highly culti- 
 vated, on which he has built a comfortable home. 
 Although he has followed farming in a general 
 way and has been very successful in this line, his 
 principal business for many years has been sheep 
 raising, and he has come to be one of the largest 
 sheep owners in this northwestern country, tak- 
 ing a prominent part in all conventions of sheep 
 and cattle men, and is perhaps better known 
 throughout this region than any other individual 
 sheep owner. He is especially enthusiastic over 
 the future of Utah as a wool producing State, 
 and believes there is a fortune awaiting the man 
 who will follow this industry and give it the at- 
 tention it deserves. He ranges his sheep prin- 
 
 cipally in northern Utah and southern Idaho, and 
 is one of the leading sheep men of Davis county. 
 He has been for several years president of the 
 Utah Wool Growers' Association, and is now 
 president of the Pacific Northwest Wool Grow- 
 ers' Association. At this time a new corpora- 
 tion, to be known as the Associated Wool Grow- 
 ers' Company, is being formed. The object of 
 this new company is to give the growers of wool 
 facilities for carrying, handling and marketing 
 their own wool. Mr. Smith has been appointed 
 to represent this organization in Utah and vicin- 
 ity, and it is the generally expressed opinion that 
 the company could not have made a better selec- 
 tion, as he is not only one of the best informed 
 men on the wool question in this section, but is 
 widely known and enjoys in the highest degree 
 the esteem and confidence of the stockmen of the 
 northwest. 
 
 In political life Air. Smith is a member of the 
 Republican party, and has always actively par- 
 ticipated in its work; although he is a staunch 
 party man, his large business interests have de- 
 manded most of his time, yet he has acted on 
 State and county committees at dififerent times. 
 
 Both he and his wife are loyal, consistent mem- 
 bers of the Mormon Church, in which faith they 
 were raised. Mr. Smith has served as Counsel 
 to the Bishop in Riverton, and at this time is a 
 High Priest. He served on a two years' mission 
 to the Southern States, returning in 1884. 
 
 VA<RY S. HEATH, publisher and gen- 
 eral manager of The Salt Lake Tribune, 
 is a comparative stranger to Western 
 iiewspaperdom, his connection with this 
 publication only dating back to the fall 
 of 1901, since which time, however, his time has 
 been spent in Salt Lake City, looking after the 
 paper which he now owns. Mr. Heath has been 
 prominently connected with newspaper work in 
 the Central and Eastern States for many years, 
 and is a well-known man in literary circles 
 throughout the East. He was President McKin- 
 ley's First Assistant Postmaster General, and is 
 now Secretary of the Republican National Com- 
 mittee. His connection with newspaper life in 
 
300 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Salt Lake City means much for the State, and 
 assures the future prosperity of Tlie Tribune, 
 which is undoubtedly among the leading daily 
 newspapers of the West. 
 
 The Salt Lake Tribune was started on Janu- 
 ary 17, 1868, by William S. Godbe, as the finan- 
 cial backer, and E. L. T. Harrison as editor. It 
 was in those days a Mormon publication, and 
 issued in magazine form under the name of The 
 Utah Magazine, its object being to advocate lib- 
 eral ideas and independent thought among the 
 members of the Church, and also to give a true 
 interpretation to the religion of Mormonism. 
 However, the magazine soon grew into a news- 
 paper, and its tone gradually assuming an antag- 
 onism towards President Brigham Young, the 
 publishers were tried by the Church on the 
 charge of starting a spirit of apostacy. Among 
 the others who left the Church at that time on 
 this account was Henry W. Lawrence, then a 
 prosperous merchant, and who later became the 
 largest financial backer of the publication known 
 as The Salt Lake Tribune. The Utah Magazine 
 was changed to The Mormon Tribune on Janu- 
 ary I, 1870, and on April 15, 1871, the paper was 
 issued under the name of The Salt Lake Tribune, 
 which it has since retained. J\Ir. Godbe put fully 
 fifty thousand dollars into the three papers — a 
 large sum in those days for a small city — realiz- 
 incr nothing in return, and towards the last Mr. 
 Lawrence carried the greater part of the finan- 
 cial burden, it being customary for the book- 
 keeper, George W. Reed, to draw upon Mr. Law- 
 ernce every Saturday for the deficit, which ran 
 all the way from twenty-five to one hundred and 
 fifty dollars. 
 
 The paper changed hands on July 24, 1873, the 
 owners realizing practically nothing out of their 
 investment, and it was about this time that the 
 paper became the organ of the Liberal Party and 
 the open antagonist of the Mormon Church, in- 
 augurating the journalistic battle which brought 
 wide-spread fame to the publication ; but it was 
 not until 1880 that its ascending star began to 
 mount rapidly towards its zenith. In that year 
 the paper once more changed hands. Mr. P. H. 
 Lannon and his associates bought four-fifths of 
 the stock, the other fifth being retained by O. 
 
 J. Hollister. On April 23rd of that same year 
 the announcement was made that the editorial 
 department would hereafter be in charge of Judge 
 C. C. Goodwin, at that time an already widely- 
 known and popular editorial writer, connected 
 with the Enterprise of Virginia City, Nevada. 
 His first editorial appeared on April 25, 1880, and 
 from that time forward the success of the paper 
 was assured, Judge Goodwin towering head and 
 shoulders above any other newspaper man in the 
 entire western countrj', his brilliant articles be- 
 ing copied in every newspaper of the West, and 
 bringing to the paper thousands of subscribers. 
 He continued with The Tribune for over twenty- 
 one years, resigning his position when the paper 
 changed hands in the fall of 1901, at which time 
 Mr. Heath became the owner of the plant. 
 
 The Tribune is the organ of the Republican 
 party, and has a wide circulation throughout this 
 and the neighboring States. While it was at first 
 bitterly anti-Mormon, it began gradually to 
 change its policy many years ago, and is today as 
 popular with the Mormons as with the Gentile 
 population. 
 
 TSTER 'M. LUCRETIA, Sister Superior 
 of St. Mary's Academy, Sisters of the 
 Holy Cross. Among the noble Sister- 
 hood of the Catholic Church are to be 
 found women from almost every walk 
 in life ; filled with the desire to devote their lives 
 to the uplifting and betterment of humanity, they 
 come from Catholic and Protestant families alike ; 
 from among the rich and the poor, the highly 
 educated and those whose education has been 
 limited. In the scope covered by this great work 
 there is a niche for each one, and as each steps 
 into her appointed place and takes up her part of 
 the common burden, she puts away forever what- 
 ever honor may have come to her in the world 
 from family connection, education or wealth, and 
 merges her individuality into the life of those 
 about her, becoming henceforth only a part of 
 the great whole, and as she comes and goes about 
 her daily tasks and ministrations of love, there is 
 nothine to indicate to those with whom she comes 
 
BIOGRAPHICAC RECORD. 
 
 301 
 
 in contact that she might if she desired take her 
 place among the great ones of earth. 
 
 Sister M. Lucretia, the subject of this sketch, 
 was born at Coldwater, Michigan, and is a 
 daughter of Judge Esbon G. Fuller, for many 
 years on the bench of the Superior Court of Mich- 
 igan. Judge Fuller was a native of Vermont, 
 and through his mother a direct descendant of 
 Benjamin Franklin. He settled in Michigan in 
 the early forties, and became one of the most 
 prominent lawyers and best known judges in the 
 United States. His son, Colonel J. B. Fuller, of 
 San Francisco, served with distinction through- 
 out the Civil War, and was commander of the 
 Department of California, Grand Army of the Re- 
 public, and Department Commander at the Na- 
 tional Encampment held in Washington. D. C. 
 He is e.x-Bank Examiner of San Francisco, and 
 at present is at the head of the United States Pen- 
 sion Bureau at that place. His wife bore the 
 maiden name of Elizabeth Beech, and was related 
 to Commodore Perry, of Lake Erie fame. 
 
 Our subject was educated at the Episcopal 
 school in Cleveland, Ohio, her parents being mem- 
 bers of that church. In 1863 she entered the 
 Mother House, Sisters of the Holy Cross, at 
 South Bend, Indiana, graduating from that insti- 
 tution in 1865. In 1867 she took up the work of 
 teaching at the ^Mother House, and in 1872 was 
 given charge of the vocal music department, 
 teaching the Italian and French methods, which 
 she continued with wonderful success for several 
 years, some of her pupils having since made a 
 wide reputation as vocalists. In 1881 she became 
 head of the Academy at the Mother House, which 
 position she filled for five j-ears. 
 
 In 1886 she came West to open schools in Cali- 
 fornia. At this time there were no schools con- 
 ducted by the Sisters of the Holy Cross west of 
 Utah. She established the Holy Rosary Acad- 
 emy at Woodland, Yolo county, California, and 
 remained in charge of that institution for nine 
 years. This being the first school opened in the 
 State, it was necessary to begin at the very bot- 
 tom, and she built up what is today one of the 
 most prosperous and well known educational in- 
 stitutions on the Pacific coast. 
 
 In 1895 she took charge of the Sacred Heart 
 
 Academy at Ogden, Utah, and from there came 
 to Salt Lake in 1897, becoming Sister Supe- 
 rior of the Saint Mary's Academy at this place. 
 Under her wise and able administration the school 
 has been built up and put on a good financial 
 basis. When she took charge there were about 
 si.xty pupils attending the school, and this num- 
 ber has been increased until at this time the 
 boarders number about ninety, and there is an 
 attendance at the day school of about one hundred 
 and twenty pupils coming from the homes of the 
 city. Sister Lucretia has four departments under 
 her charge— the Academy, Literary, Art and Mu- 
 sical departments^ — each one being under com- 
 petent instructors, there being a staff of twenty 
 teachers in the institution. She has also made 
 some needed improvements in the building, com- 
 pleting some unfinished departments, erecting a 
 new steam laundry and doing everj-thing possi- 
 ble to make the place attractive and homelike for 
 the students. Sister Lucretia is a woman of 
 broad intellect and sympathies ; she makes no dis- 
 tinction between the Catholic and non-Catholic 
 pupils, but endeavors to win the friendship and 
 confidence of all, and it is her aim to make the 
 students realize that in her they have a wise and 
 sympathetic friend — one who is at all times ready 
 and willing to give them the advice or assistance 
 they need, and the parents who place their daugh- 
 ters in this institution do so with the full assur- 
 ance that they are giving them into safe and kind 
 hands. 
 
 TCHARD J. EVANS. Utah has a 
 world-wide reputation as one of the 
 most prolific States of the Union, and 
 within her confines are to be found not 
 only people from every land under the 
 sun, but citizens from every quarter of the United 
 States, attracted hither not alone by the desire 
 to gain wealth or position, but because in this 
 less densely populated district there is an oppor- 
 tunity afforded for operating on a broader scale ; 
 in this rare and invigorating atmosphere men 
 may expand and grow, untrammeled by custom, 
 and here every man must stand or fall, ac- 
 
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 cording to liis merits, unsupported by wealth or 
 social prestige. Among the successful and prom- 
 inent young men who have cast their lot with the 
 fortunes of this State, is the subject of this sketch, 
 a well-known stock broker and mining man of 
 Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Evans was born in 1865, in Calumet, Mich- 
 igan, and grew up in a mining atmosphere. His 
 father was James Evans, one of the operators 
 of the famous Calumet mine, and when but fif- 
 teen years of age our subject commenced his 
 mining operations in this mine as drill boy, in 
 which department he remained for seven years, 
 and at the end of this time, under the direction 
 and advice of his father, began to take contracts 
 on his own account. Mr. Evans, senior, organ- 
 ized the first mining club in Calumet, which is 
 now one of the wealthiest clubs in the world, and 
 for years was one of its executive committee up 
 to the time of his death. He took a prominent 
 part in nearly all of the large conventions and 
 meetings held in the interests of the mining men. 
 usually attending as a delegate. His wife, and 
 the mother of our subject, was before her mar- 
 riage Miss Eliza Gundry. She was a native of 
 England, her father being a prosperous foun- 
 dryman of that country. She was the only one of 
 the family to come to America. 
 
 Our subject obtained his early scholastic educa- 
 tion in the common schools of Calumet, and in 
 1888 gave up his mining operations and entered 
 the International Business College at Saginaw, 
 Michigan, from which institution lie graduated 
 and took charge of the college as manager, re- 
 maining in that position until 1891, at which time 
 he severed his connection with the college and 
 assumed charge of the Sagiiiaii' Courier Herald, 
 a Republican paper. He has to his name the 
 credit of running the first exclusive newspaper 
 train across the State of Michigan, in the year 
 1894. At that time the paper was the leading 
 Republican publication in Northern Michigan, 
 and is still the leading paper in that section. Mr. 
 Evans built it up from a comparatively small 
 sheet to a forty-six page paper. His connection 
 with that paper covered a period of about four 
 years. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Evans came to Salt Lake City as 
 
 secretary of the Primrose Mining Company of 
 Tintic, which position he still holds, and is also 
 president of the Creole Mining Company of Park 
 City, the mines of which company are in the same 
 district as those of the Silver King. Since com- 
 ing to Utah, he has, among other mining ven- 
 tures, developed the C)phir mines, on the State 
 line, which he sold to Detroit parties for one 
 hundred thousand dollars, and which property is 
 at this time valued at half a million dollars. 
 
 Mr. Evans married a Michigan girl. Miss 
 Bertha M. La Due, whose father, John La Due, 
 was one of the prominent lumber merchants of 
 that State. Two children have been born to them 
 —Richard J., Junior, and Gladys May. 
 
 In politics our subject has all his life been iden- 
 tified with the Republican party, although since 
 coming to Utah he has not been an active par- 
 cipant in the work of that party, nor sought pub- 
 lic preferment, devoting his time to the building 
 up of his business interests. In fraternal circles 
 he is a member of the IMasonic order, in which he 
 is a Knights Templar and Shriner. He also has 
 his membership with the Elks' Lodge in this city. 
 
 Mr. Evans is still a young man, just at the 
 dawn of his career, but he has already displayed 
 a rare talent for business enterprises of magni- 
 tude, and it is confidently expected that he will 
 yet rank among the leaders in financial and min- 
 ins; circles of the West. 
 
 L'DGE SAMUEL FRANCIS. With jus- 
 tice the subject of this article is conceded 
 to fill a most important position among 
 the prominent professional men of Utah. 
 Although he had but limited means when 
 a young man, and had no influence to aid him ex- 
 cept his own good name and his upright conduct, 
 with these, and by indomitable perseverance and 
 the exercise of wise judgment he has steadily risen 
 until now he occupies a place of consideration 
 both on the bench and at the bar. Since he came 
 to L^tah he has enjoyed uninterrupted success. 
 
 Judge Francis is a native of England. He was 
 born July 3, 1830, in Trowbridge, Weltshire, and 
 grew to manhood in that place, receiving his ed- 
 ucation in the public schools. He followed the 
 
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 trade of manufacturing? woolen goods up to 1847, 
 when he became a member of the Mormon 
 Church, and was ordained an Elder, and from 
 that time traveled as a missionary for the Church, 
 through England, Switzerland and Italy. He 
 came to the United States with his family in 1861, 
 sailing from Liverpool on the ship Monarch of 
 the Sea, landing in New York. He came by rail 
 to Florence, and from that point to Salt Lake 
 City by ox team. He spent the first winter in 
 Salt Lake, and in the spring of 1862 went to 
 Farmington, where he ran a carding machine. 
 In the spring of the following year he moved his 
 family to Cottonwood, expecting to run a card- 
 ing machine, in which he met with disappoint- 
 ment. In the fall of 1863 he moved to Morgan 
 county, locating his farm on what afterwards be- 
 came the site of Morgan City, and where he still 
 lives. He engaged in farming and stock raising, 
 which he has followed to a greater or less extent 
 ever since, and is at this time interested with his 
 sons in the cattle business. They have a ranch 
 of seven thousand acres on Lost creek. 
 
 Judge Francis' public career began in 1866, 
 when he was elected a school trustee and Justice 
 of the Peace. He took up the study of law about 
 this time, and has since been admitted to the bar. 
 In 1870 he was appointed County Clerk by the 
 Probate Judge, and held that office for sixteen 
 years ; he also served nineteen years as County 
 Recorder. During this time he also filled the of- 
 fice of County Attorney. He was elected to the 
 office of Probate Judge in 1886, and held that 
 office until it became appointive by the Presi- 
 dent, and was re-appointed by President Cleve- 
 land. He took up the practice of law at the expi- 
 ration of his term of office, and has had the bulk 
 of the practice in that county ever since. Dur- 
 ine the years 1880 to 1886 he was a member of 
 the Territorial House of Representatives, and in 
 1886 was a member of the Territorial Council. 
 He was also a member of the Constitutional Con- 
 vention in 1895, and assisted in drafting the Con- 
 stitution of Utah. 
 
 Judge Francis was married in Geneva, Switz- 
 erland, to Miss Esther C. E. Weisbrot, and by 
 this marriage has had seven sons and three daugh- 
 ters — Samuel, Junior; Joseph E., Alonzo, \\'il- 
 
 liam W., Hannah L., Arthur W., Amelia L., wife 
 of James S. Hopkin ; Eliza, wife of Frank B. 
 Hopkin; Walter E., and Albion. Judge Fran- 
 cis has nineteen grandchildren. 
 
 He has also been prominently identified with 
 the work of the Church in this country. When 
 the Morgan Stake was organized, in 1877, '^^ 1'^' 
 came Counselor to President \V. G. Smith, who 
 was succeeded by Richard Fry. He remained in 
 the Stake Presidency until September, 1900. He 
 has also been a member of the Quorum of Sev- 
 enties and local missionary for Utah. The Judge 
 has always taken a lively interest in anything per- 
 taining to the building up of the State or county, 
 and has been prominent in all public matters in 
 his community. By his advice in legal matters 
 he has always been the friend of the people, and 
 has given much professional service gratis. In 
 business life he was for two years prior to 1899 
 superintendent, manaarer and director of the Mor- 
 gan Branch of the Zion Co-operative Mercantile 
 Institution, and is also president of the Morgan 
 Mill and Elevator Company. His life has brought 
 him prominently before the public, and by his 
 uprightness, honesty and strict integrity he has 
 won not only the confidence of the public, but 
 the warm admiration and friendship of hundreds 
 with whom he has come in contact. 
 
 EMUEL U. COLBATH. Among the 
 men who have achieved success in the 
 I)rofession of mining engineering, and 
 who by their work have made the mines 
 of Utah among the first in the world, 
 both in size and wealth, none holds a higher po- 
 sition than does the subject of this sketch. The 
 career that he has made for himself in the West 
 marks him as a leader in his profession, and one 
 of the most valued men of the State in his call- 
 ing. 
 
 Lemuel U. Colbath was born in New York, but 
 when he was three months old his parents re- 
 moved to Ohio, settling near Toledo. His father 
 secured a farm near that city, and on it the boy- 
 hood days of his son were spent. His early ed- 
 ucation was obtained in the district schools, and 
 at the age of sixteen he secured his first work. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 being employed in a wholesale dry goods estab- 
 lishment in West Liberty, Ohio. He followed 
 that business until his twenty-second year, but 
 finding the opportunities -limited in his contracted 
 sphere, he decided to try his fortunes in the West, 
 and removed to California, where he undertook 
 mining in the Gold Gulch. He followed this 
 for fourteen years, operating in both California 
 and Nevada, but confining his attention for the 
 most part to lode mining. He became interested 
 in the Comstock Lode in i860, and remained there 
 for eight years, when he sold his interest in that 
 property and went to Wyoming Territory in 1868, 
 where he remained until 1870, mining and pros- 
 pecting. In this latter year he removed to Salt 
 Lake City and turned his attention to mining 
 in Utah. He developed the Vallejo mine, and 
 other valuable properties in the Little Cotton- 
 wood, and acquired a large interest in the City 
 Rock group. He was also interested in mining 
 properties in Idaho, and with R. C. Chambers 
 owned the Wood River Company in that State, 
 and was also interested in ?old mining in Baker 
 county, Oregon. 
 
 He married in 1873 to Miss Carrie Simons, a 
 native of Philadelphia, who died ten years ago. 
 His family consists of five children — Lemuel, 
 Harry, Alexander, Carrie and Harriett. 
 
 In political life, Mr. Colbath is a believer in 
 the principles of the Republican party, having cast 
 his first vote for John C. Fremont for President 
 on that ticket in 1856, when the first ticket by 
 that party was put in the field. He has, how- 
 ever, never participated in the active work of the 
 party, so far as the solicitation of office is con- 
 cerned, although he has been elected School 
 Trustee and has been Chairman of the Board of 
 Public Works. In fraternal life he is a member 
 of the Masonic order, and has passed through all 
 the degrees of that fraternity. 
 
 Mr. Colbath is essentially a self-made man. 
 He has carved a fortune and success in life by 
 his own efforts and by the exhibition of rare in- 
 dustry and application. When he came west he 
 drove an ox team across the plains in 1854. He 
 has seen Salt Lake City burst from the bonds that 
 held it to the narrow life of a border settlement 
 and grow to its present proportions of wealth and 
 
 prosperity. He is thoroughly imbued with the 
 future importance of Salt Lake City, and believes 
 in the great position Utah is bound to assume in 
 the ranks of the Western States. 
 
 The father of our subject was a school teacher 
 in his early life, but later abandoned that calling 
 to take up agriculture in the West 65 years ago. 
 Mr. Colbath's mother died when he was a small 
 boy, leaving behind her a family of ten children, 
 of which he is now the only surviving member. 
 
 The courage and zeal which Mr. Colbath 
 brought to the accomplishment of every task 
 which he has undertaken has brought him the 
 high position he now holds in the regard and con- 
 fidence of his fellow citizens. His integrity and 
 ability have made him one of the most respected 
 citizens of this State, and few men enjoy as wide 
 popularity as does he. 
 
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 HOMAS J. NIPPER. To a great ex- 
 tent the material well being and devel- 
 opment of a city depends upon the char- 
 acter of its food supply, and in the pro- 
 visioning of the citizens of Salt Lake 
 City, and indeed of the entire State of Utah, few 
 men occupy as important a position as does the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 Thomas J. Nipper was born in Georgia, about 
 twenty-five miles from i\tlanta, in 1858, and a 
 few years after his birth his parents removed to 
 Fort Worth, Texas. Here his father, Jacob, en- 
 gaged successfully in stock raising, but owing to 
 his early death, his prosperous career was brought 
 to a sudden end. His wife, Susie (Mitchell) Nip- 
 per, also died when their son was but a small boy. 
 Thrown on his own resources and forced to 
 earn his living at an early age, our subject took 
 hold of the problem of life with an energy and 
 industry that foreshadowed his future success in 
 mercantile projects. His early education was de- 
 rived from the schools of Fort Worth, but at 
 fifteen he was at work in the stock raising busi- 
 ness, which he followed until he reached his ma- 
 jority. 
 
 Believing in the greater opportunities afforded 
 by the great Northwest, he left Texas, upon 
 reaching manhood's estate, and removed to Idaho. 
 Here he spent a number of years, being success- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 fully engaged in the raising of cattle and sheep 
 in both Idaho and what was then Washington 
 Territory. In addition to his stock raising in- 
 terests, he was extensively engaged in mercantile 
 pursuits in Boise City, Idaho, and made as great 
 a success in that business as he did in stock rais- 
 ing. He remained in Idaho and Washington until 
 1899, when, in the beginning of that year, he 
 removed to Salt Lake City and engaged in the 
 wholesale and retail meat business. He pur- 
 chased the entire establishment of J. IM. Marriott, 
 one of the oldest firms of that nature in this city, 
 and his enterprise and business sagacity has in- 
 creased that business over one-half of its orig- 
 inal extent. It is now the largest market in 
 Salt Lake City, and indeed in Utah, giving em- 
 ployment to about twenty-eight hands. His busi- 
 ness extends over the entire State and parts of 
 the neighboring States as well, and he enjoys a 
 large wholesale and retail business. The indus- 
 try and ability he has exhibited in his business 
 affairs and the confidence that the people of Utah 
 repose in him, mark him as one of the leading 
 business men of the State. 
 
 Mr. Nipper was married in Boise, Idaho, to 
 Miss Bertie Oilman, daughter of William J- and 
 Savariah Oilman, and they have one daughter — 
 Susie May. 
 
 While Mr. Xipper has never taken an active 
 part in politics, in the sense of competing for pub- 
 lic office, he has been a consistent and staunch Re- 
 publican. In social aft'airs he has taken great 
 interest, and is a member of all the branches of 
 the Masonic order, a prominent member of the 
 Elks and a member of the Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 The success that Mr. Xipper has achieved is 
 due to his own efforts. Starting out early in life 
 to earn his own living, his career has been built 
 by his own hands and by his untiring energy and 
 his application to business. Today he is one of 
 the leading merchants of Utah, self-educated and 
 self-made, he has won his place by dint of hard 
 work and the ability to turn to account whatever 
 work his hands found to do. His enterprise and 
 integrity, coupled with a pleasing and genial man- 
 ner, have brought him wide popularity and a large 
 circle of friends throughout the West. 
 
 AMES A. ELDREDOE. So closely iden- 
 tified with the history and development 
 of Utah has been the Eldredge family 
 that to attempt a compilation of a work 
 of this kind without a proper men- 
 tion of the family would indeed prove materially 
 lacking. 
 
 ^Ir. Eldredge is a native son of Utah, having 
 been born in the Thirteenth Ward of Salt Lake 
 City on February 15, 1857. He is the son of 
 Horace and Hannah (Adams) Eldredge, whose 
 history appears in the biographical sketch of Ben. 
 R. Eldredge, in this volume. Our subject spent 
 the first five years of his life in Salt Lake City, 
 when he and his mother and the rest of the chil- 
 dren moved to Bountiful, where our subject grew 
 to manhood, being educated in the common 
 schools of Davis county, and later completing his 
 studies in the Deseret University, now the Uni- 
 versity of Utah. Most of his education was se- 
 cured during the winter months, the summers 
 having been spent on his father's farm and as- 
 sisting in conducting its affairs. He is the oldest 
 son, and has four brothers and one sister living, 
 two of the brothers living in Utah and two in 
 Idaho. Christie E., the sister, is now the wife 
 of Mr. John L. Fackrell, of West Bountiful. 
 
 Our subject married on June 23, 1879, to Miss 
 Jane Jennings, oldest daughter of William and 
 Jane Jennings. They have two children — Susie 
 E., now the wife of George Hendricks, of Logan, 
 and Afton, at home with his parents. 
 
 Early in life our subject became interested in 
 the stock business in Idaho, which he has fol- 
 lowed successfully ever since. Two years ago 
 the business was consolidated under the firm name 
 of the Eldredge Brothers Live Stock Company, 
 of Southern Alberta, Canada, where they own an 
 immensely large live stock interest, being one of 
 the largest in that country. In addition to the 
 stock business, they do general farming as well. 
 Mr. Eldredge's residence in Davis county is con- 
 sidered one of the finest in the vicinity, and which 
 he designed and planned himself, and which is 
 a model of convenience, being furnished with 
 electric lights, hot and cold water, etc., and is 
 modern in every particular. Aside from his farm- 
 ing business he is a director and vice-president 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of the Woods Cross Canning Company, of which 
 he was one of the organizers and promoters. This 
 was one of the first canning companies to be or- 
 ganized in Utah, their principal product being 
 tomatoes. They enjoy a large trade throughout 
 Utah and the entire inter-mountain region, giv- 
 ing employment to over one hundred hands dur- 
 ing the season, and so noted has their brand be- 
 come that during the past year they were unable 
 to fill their orders. 
 
 In political life Mr. Eldredge has always iden- 
 tified himself with the Republican party. He is 
 essentially a business man, however, and gives 
 but very little of his time or attention to politics. 
 He was born and raised in the Mormon faith, as 
 was also his wife, and they have always been 
 prominent and faithful members of that church. 
 In 1883 he was called to serve on a mission to 
 the Southern States, where he labored for a pe- 
 riod of two years, to the entire satisfaction of the 
 Church. In 1896 he was again called to go on a 
 mission to California, and this time took his fam- 
 ily with him and spent several months in that 
 State and Nevada, his headquarters being at Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 BRAHAM PARKER. The history of 
 Abraham Parker is that of a man who 
 has made the best use of the oppor- 
 tunities that have come to him. He 
 came to Utah poor and unknown, be- 
 ing compelled to walk the greater part of the 
 way across the plains, and having no friends in 
 this country, and beginning at the very lowest 
 rung of the ladder he has successfully climbed it, 
 rung by rung, until today he is one of the wealth- 
 iest sheep men of his county, and able to loan 
 money to those in distress. His long and some- 
 times bitter struggle with adverse circumstances 
 has not, as is so often the case, dried up the milk 
 of human kindness in his breast, but has, on the 
 contrary, imbued him with a tender sympathy for 
 the poor, the struggling and the friendless, and 
 he is today noted not only for his kindly and sym- 
 pathetic manner, but for his many charitable 
 deeds. 
 
 Mr. Parker was born in Yorkshire, England, 
 October 18, 1825. and served a seven years' ap- 
 
 prenticeship under the Duke of Devonshire, stud- 
 ying mineralogy, becoming an expert on that sub- 
 ject, and for a number of years followed lead 
 mining. He was converted to the teachings of 
 the Mormon Church in 1862, and three years later 
 emigrated to America, crossing the great Ameri- 
 can plains on foot from Omaha to Carbon, Wyom- 
 ing, where he stopped three months, working in 
 the coal mines as an expert miner. He came to 
 Henefer, March i, 1870, and engaged in farm- 
 ing, and as his means permitted invested in sheep, 
 gradually enlarging his business until at this 
 time he has two thousand head on the winter 
 range. He has been successful to a very marked 
 degree in all his business ventures since coming 
 to L^tah, and now, in the declining years of his 
 life, is enjoying the fruits of a most honorable 
 and well spent life, living a practically retired 
 life, loaning money out to those in less fortunate 
 circumstances. 
 
 ;Mr. Parker was married at the age of twenty- 
 one to Miss Sarah Baldwin, a native of York- 
 shire, who died in England, leaving no family. 
 He again married in Yorkshire to a Miss Barbary 
 Scott, who came to Utah with him and died in 
 Henefer April 20, 1890, leaving a family of four 
 children — Alice, wife of John Arbottla ; Mary, 
 died aged twenty-three years ; Elizabeth, wife of 
 R. A. Jones, and Isabella, wife of Thomas Brit- 
 ton. His next -wife was Mrs. Ellen (White) 
 Nichols, who died in Coalville on February 7, 
 1901, leaving no family. He was again married 
 to Mrs. Elizabeth (Edwards) Ditcher, a native of 
 Leamington, Warwickshire, England, who is still 
 living. They have no family. Mrs. Parker lived 
 for some years in Saint Louis, prior to coming 
 to Utah. Her brother, Solomon Edwards, is 
 Counselor to President Steele of Bingham county, 
 Idaho. 
 
 Since he became a member of the Church, Mr. 
 Parker has been an active worker in its ranks, and 
 has held the office of Elder and High Priest since 
 1873, ^""^ h^ 1''^^ taken a lively interest in every- 
 thing that pertained to the promotion of the inter- 
 ests of the Church, having been an active worker 
 in the Sunday schools in his day. In 1893 he met 
 with a very painful accident, having his leg broken 
 in two places. 
 
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 TDGE JOSEPH E. FRICK. Among the 
 prominent members of the bar of the Su- 
 preme Court of Utah, the subject of this 
 sketch has taken a prominent position. 
 He is now one of the most successful law- 
 yers in Salt Lake City, enjoying a lucrative prac- 
 tice, and the confidence and esteem of his associ- 
 ates. 
 
 He was bom in Tiffin. Seneca county, Ohio, 
 and when but a few years of age his parents re- 
 moved to Iowa, being among the early settlers of 
 that region, and on his father's farm in that State 
 he spent his boyhood days. The Frick family set- 
 tled in Iowa when it was necessary to hew out 
 the lines of the farm from the thick growth of 
 timber ; and in the cultivation of the farm our sub- 
 ject assisted his father, attending school in the 
 winter months, and receiving his education from 
 these schools and from private tutors. Like all 
 the sons of pioneers, he early turned his attention 
 to the means of gaining a livelihood, and at the 
 age of seventeen he began to learn the building 
 trade, and from nineteen to twenty-four he was 
 engaged in contracting and building. He later 
 went to Toledo, Iowa, and engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business, which he followed for a few 
 years. Finding this uncongenial, and opportuni- 
 ties for the exercise of his ability scarce, he aban- 
 doned that and took up the study of the law. 
 He was admitted to the Supreme Court of 
 Iowa and practiced in that State until 1880. He 
 then removed to Fremont, Nebraska, and prac- 
 ticed his profession there for eighteen years ; dur- 
 ing that time being County Attorney of Dodge 
 county for the years of 1884 and 1885. He was 
 also assistant attorney for the Fremont and Elk- 
 horn Valley Railroad, now forming a part of the 
 Northwestern system, and was also counsel for a 
 number of other large corporations. He was a 
 candidate for a position on the Supreme bench of 
 Nebraska in 1893. but was defeated. In July, 
 1897, he removed to Salt Lake City, coming here 
 to represent the Mercer Gold Mining Company, 
 and when that was consolidated with the De La 
 Mar Company, he was made general attorney for 
 the new corporation. He is also attorney for the 
 Salt Lake and Mercer Railroad, and for a number 
 
 of other large corporations in the inter-mountain 
 region. 
 
 The Judge was married in Iowa, in 1872, to 
 Miss Lena Kunz, a native of Wisconsin, and an 
 accomplished and highly educated woman. They 
 have three children — Laura E. ; Frederick O., who 
 assists his father in his law office, and Etta L. 
 
 M. A. Frick, father of the subject of this 
 sketch, was a farmer in Iowa, where he settled. 
 He was a native of Alsace Loraine, France, whicli 
 was ceded to Germany in 1871, and came to Amer- 
 ica when a young man. Mary (Kuen) Frick was 
 a native of the same section of the country as her 
 husband. 
 
 In political affairs Judge Frick has always been 
 a staunch Republican, and has taken an active in- 
 terest in the affairs of that party. In fraternal life 
 he is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows ; 
 belongs to the Knights of P)thias, the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, and to the Woodmen 
 of the World. The reputation which the Judge 
 made for himself in the East has been duplicated 
 by his success in Utah. He has not only won for 
 himself a prominent place in the State, but he is 
 also one of the most highly respected citizens in 
 the community. His integrity and honesty, to- 
 gether with his ability and industry, have won for 
 him the confidence and respect of all the people. 
 
 ENRY WELSH, secretary of the Welsh, 
 Driscoll & Buck Company, one of the 
 leading mercantile houses of Park City. 
 -Mr. Welsh has spent over a quarter of 
 a century of his life in the West, and 
 twelve years of that time has been spent in Park 
 City, and while he has had many obstacles to 
 overcome, yet by patience and a firm determina- 
 tion he has successfully overcome every discour- 
 agement, and today is considered one of Park 
 City's most substantial business men. 
 
 He was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, in 
 1855, and is the son of Thomas and Mary 
 (White) Welsh, both natives of Ireland. His 
 father came to the United States as a boy in 1828, 
 and located at Watertown, New York, where he 
 took up the manufacture of woolen goods, being 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 an expert in that line. This business he followed 
 through life, until he finally retired from active 
 business. He settled in Massachusetts in the 
 early fifties, and about 1870 went to Concord, 
 New Hampshire, where he died at the age of 
 ninety-one years. He always enjoyed good health. 
 He was a life-long member of the Democratic 
 party, being one of the pioneer members of that 
 organization. His wife is still living, at the age 
 of sixty-seven. Their family consisted of eight 
 children, seven of whom are now living — Henry, 
 our subject ; Mrs. James Ivers, of Salt Lake City ; 
 James W., living in Concord; Mrs. Conners, liv- 
 ing in Concord; John F., Mrs. Miles Sweeney, 
 of Concord, and Mrs. Lovelley, of the same place. 
 At the breaking out of the Civil War, he ofifered 
 his services to his country, but was not allowed 
 to enlist. He then moved to Salem, New Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Our subject received his early education and 
 training at Salem, and worked for a number of 
 years in his father's woolen mills. He was work- 
 ing in the mills at Salem when the news came of 
 the assassination of President Lincoln. He moved 
 to Concord with his family and remained there 
 until 1877, at which time he emigrated to the 
 West and landed in central Nevada, where he 
 obtained work on the railroad as a common la- 
 borer. He later became stationary engineer, and 
 while engaged in this work became familiar with 
 the process of reducing ore by amalgamation, 
 and became amalgamator and roaster for Simeon 
 Wenbon, at Cartes, Nevada, where he remained 
 'for twelve years, part of that time being store- 
 keeper for J\Ir. Wenbon. He later took charge 
 of the books of the concern, and after Mr. Wen- 
 bon had made his fortune out of the property 
 and returned to London our subject assumed 
 charge of the entire business, which was very suc- 
 cessful under his management. He devoted his 
 time during these years to the study of survey- 
 ing, but never put his knowledge to any prac- 
 tical use, except in a general way. 
 
 Mr. Welsh came to Park City in 1891 and or- 
 ganized the mercantile firm of Conlon, Welsh & 
 Company, which lasted but a few months, when 
 INIr. Conlon died, and the firm was reorganized 
 under the name of Driscoll, Welsh & Company, 
 
 which firm continued until Mr. William J. Buck 
 became a partner in 1895, when the name was 
 changed to Welsh, Driscoll & Buck. Their trade 
 increased rapidly, and on October 7, 1898, the 
 business was incorporated, Mr. Buck being made 
 president and Mr. Welsh secretary and mana- 
 ger. Mr. Welsh has been the leading man in the 
 business since its organization in 1893. They 
 carry a complete line of merchandise and do an 
 immense trade. When they began, the business 
 made about four hundred dollars a month, and 
 it is estimated the business of 1901 exceeded three 
 hundred thousand dollars. They give employ- 
 ment to twenty clerks. 
 
 He was married in 1891 to Miss Mary Murphy, 
 daughter of Michael and Mary Murphy, of Con- 
 cord, New Hampshire. They have no family. 
 
 In political life Mr. Welsh is a member of the 
 Republican party, in whose ranks he has always 
 been an active worker, tor, a number of years 
 he was chairman of the Republican County Com- 
 mittee and a member of the Executive Commit- _ 
 tee. He also served as Commissioner of Summit 
 county from 1895 to 1897, and in the latter year 
 was a candidate for office in the State Legisla- 
 ture. At the time of the split in the party upon 
 the silver question Mr. Welsh took sides with the 
 Silver Republicans. 
 
 In fraternal life he is a member of the Ancient 
 Ordfer of United Workmen. Mr. Welsh is one 
 of the most prominent and best known of Park 
 City's business men, active in all social affairs, 
 popular as a speaker and often called upon to 
 make addresses of welcome, etc. He is also a 
 contributor to the newspapers, and has done con- 
 siderable writing on political subjects. He is ge- 
 nial and courteous in his manner, warm hearted 
 and hospitable, and has won for himself a host 
 of friends among those with whom he has been 
 associated, both in public and private life. 
 
 D. MATHIS, one of the leading 
 druggists of Salt Lake City and 
 one of the most prominent mining 
 men of Utah. The varied re- 
 sources of this State have attracted 
 to her confines men from all over the world. The 
 man in search of wealth, the pleasure seeker and 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 309 
 
 the invalid all turn to this as the Mecca where 
 all these may be found, and if he seek honestly, 
 he is but very seldom disappointed. Few men 
 seeking wealth have been as successful as has 
 Mr. Mathis, and while he has only spent the past 
 ten or twelve years of his life in Utah, during 
 that time he has assisted largely in the edvelop- 
 ment of the commercial interests of the city and 
 State, giving largely of his means for the fur- 
 thering of those interests. He has perhaps been 
 identified with more mining enterprises in this 
 inter-mountain region than any other man who 
 has lived in the State for the same period of time, 
 until today he is considered one of the most sub- 
 stantial and successful men of Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Mathis was born in Randolph county 
 Missouri, in August, 1853, and spent his early 
 life on his father's farm, attending the district 
 schools and later entering the University of Mis- 
 souri. He also attended the Methodist Episcopal 
 Institute for some time. He started out for him- 
 self quite early in life, beginning as a drug clerk 
 at the age of seventeen. After serving an ap- 
 prenticeship of two years, he entered the Phila- 
 delphia College of Pharmacy, where he took a 
 course in pharmacy. LTpon leaving college, he 
 opened a drug store in Saint Louis, which he 
 successfully conducted for ten years. Being of 
 an adventurous and ambitious turn of mind, Mr. 
 Mathis became imbued with a desire to seek new 
 fields, where he might have better opportunities, 
 and during the "boom" days of Minneapolis sold 
 out his interests in Saint Louis and moved to the 
 latter city, where he established himself in busi- 
 ness and built up a prosperous trade. However, 
 he did not feel quite satisfied with his prospects 
 in that city, and resolved to go farther West, 
 going to Denver, Colorado, and spending a year 
 in that State, principally in travel and sight-see- 
 ing. He came to Salt Lake City in 1893, and 
 has since made his home here. Upon coming 
 here he purchased the business of \V. A. Nel- 
 den, located at the southeast corner of Second 
 South and West Temple streets, where he con- 
 tinued to do business for a period of seven years, 
 and in 1900 moved to his present place of busi- 
 ness at No. 324 South ]\Iain street. 
 
 Mr. Mathis has not confined himself entirely 
 
 to the drug business since coming to Salt Lake. 
 While he has perhaps built up one of the lead- 
 ing businesses in that line in the city, he has 
 also been identified with many other enterprises 
 and industries for the upbuilding and develop- 
 ment of the city and State, prominent among 
 which has been his connection with the mining 
 life of the State. The best known of the mines 
 with which he is identified may be mentioned the 
 Park Gold Mining Company, whose properties 
 are located in Marysville, Utah, and of which 
 company Mr. Mathis is president and treasurer. 
 This property, while it has not as yet paid any 
 dividends to its owners, is considered a very val- 
 uable one, and has bright prospects. During the 
 time Mr. Mathis has been president a very large 
 amount of work has been accomplished and much 
 development done. It has been successfully 
 worked without the loss of a single day for the 
 past three years, and they have done over twelve 
 hundred feet. The property is in the same belt 
 as the famous Annie Laura mine. He is also 
 treasurer of the Blaine Gold and Silver Mining 
 Company, located in the Erickson district, in 
 Tooele county, about thirty-five miles from the 
 Tintic mines. These mines were incorporated, 
 and have been sucessfully managed by Mr. Ma- 
 this, being constantly worked. They give prom- 
 ise of being among the leading mines of that 
 vicinity. Another company in which he is inter- 
 ested is the Northern Gold Alining Company, of 
 which he is treasurer. He was the founder of 
 this company, and has been its leading spirit since 
 its organization. He is also a director in some 
 mines located in the Detroit district, in Juab 
 county. The company has a shaft of over eight 
 hundred feet on this property, and have done 
 considerable development work. He is also treas- 
 urer of the Wandering Jew Mining Company, in 
 Davis county. This mine also has a bright fu- 
 ture. The company has developed the property 
 to a depth of seven or eight hundred feet, at a 
 cost of as many thousand dollars, and while it 
 has not as yet paid any dividends, it promises to 
 equal any of the mines in Davis county. Mr. 
 Mathis has been treasurer of this company for 
 the past four years. These are but a few of the 
 mines with which he is connected, his interests 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 extending all over this inter-mountain region. 
 
 Mr. Mathis married his first wife in Bloom- 
 ington, Illinois, and she died some years later. 
 His present wife was a Mrs. V. R. Hughes. He 
 has four children — Laura May, at home ; George 
 W., check clerk of the Denver and Rio Grande 
 Western Railway ; S. J., interested with his father 
 in the mining business, being principally con- 
 nected with the Blaine property, and June, the 
 child wonder of stageland. This little daughter, 
 though but fourteen years of age, has captivated 
 the amusement loving public of America by her 
 wonderful acting. Almost from babyhood this 
 little girl has displayed remarkable talent along 
 this line. At the age of ten years she had memor- 
 ized "Ingomar," and was giving scenes between 
 the bandit and Parthenia, his Grecian love. As 
 young as seven years she began to astonish Salt 
 Lake audiences by her clever interpretation of 
 characters from standard plays, and 1 efore she 
 had entered her teens she had memorized "As 
 You Like It," and could give extracts from al- 
 most all of Shakespeare's plays. About a year 
 ago her parents yielded to her ambition and 
 placed her under the tutorship of Professor 
 Cooper of San Francisco, California, and later 
 they signed a contract for a thirty-five weeks' 
 tour under the management of Archie Levy, 
 of the "Orpheum" company, which is at this 
 time touring the East, Mrs. Mathis accom- 
 panying her daughter. Mr. Levy was anxious 
 to secure a five years' contract, but this her 
 parents would not consent to. It is predicted 
 that she will become one of the brightest stars 
 the theatrical world has yet known, and her par- 
 ents are very justly proud of her. 
 
 Mr. Mathis' people came from North Carolina, 
 his father being George A., who went to Mis- 
 souri during the early settlement of that State, 
 in 1836, and was identified with the interests of 
 that community for the balance of his life. He 
 was at one time one of the largest slave owners 
 of Missouri, but liberated all his slaves long be- 
 fore the Civil War broke out, and at the out- 
 break of that war entered the army under Gen- 
 eral Fisk, where he did valiant service for the 
 Union. His wife bore the maiden name of Par- 
 thena Parmalee Dameron, and also came from 
 
 North Carolina. Our subject's grandfather was 
 the first Judge in Missouri, and tried and con- 
 victed the first man accused of murder in that 
 State, an Indian. A brother of Mr. Mathis at 
 present owns the old homestead in Missouri, 
 which has never been transferred, e-xcept by 
 probate will, from the time George Washington 
 signed the papers giving the title of the place to 
 the Mathis family. 
 
 In political life i\ir. Mathis has always been 
 identified with the Democratic party, but has 
 never desired nor sought public office, although 
 interested in politics to the extent that every good 
 citizen should be. The only government position 
 he has ever filled was during his residence in 
 Minneapolis, when he was appointed by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland as postmaster of South !Minne- 
 apolis. 
 
 Mr. Mathis is essentially a self-made man, 
 having started out for himself at an early age, 
 and has since made his own way without assist- 
 ance from any one. Personally he is a most pleas- 
 ant, genial and courteous gentleman, which has 
 perhaps been the secret of his marked success in 
 life, and he is today in the enjoyment of a wide 
 circle of friends. 
 
 :\I. LOCKHART. There are few mem- 
 bers of the bar who are more widely 
 known in Utah than J. M. Lockhart. 
 Endowed with a keen mentality, broad 
 and liberal views, he readily masters the 
 intricacies of any situation, however involved and 
 difficult, and presses his advantage to a success- 
 ful issue in most cases. He maintains a high 
 standard of professional ethics and has never 
 been induced to descend to petty methods. 
 
 Mr. Lockhart has been a resident of Park City 
 for the past fifteen years, coming here in April, 
 1887, from Donovan, Nebraska. He is a native 
 of Nashua, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, 
 where he was born in 1867, and is the son of 
 Oliver C. and Louisa J. (Nutt) Lockhart. Ol- 
 iver C. Lockhart was a well known newspaper 
 man of Pennsylvania. For several years he edited 
 a wecklv paper at Beaver Falls, in that State, and 
 

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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 was one of the representative men of his town. 
 He crossed the plains in 1852 and spent two years 
 prospecting around the mining camp of Placer- 
 ville, in CaHfornia, after which he again returned 
 to Pennsylvania and remained there engaged in 
 newspaper work for ten years. He again got the 
 Western fever, and went to Confederate Gulch, 
 in Montana, but only remained eighteen months, 
 returning once more to his Eastern home and . 
 spent the remainder of his life on a farm he 
 owned in Pennsylvania. His widow, and the 
 mother of our subject, is still living on the old 
 home place, at the age of seventy-four years. She 
 is the mother of seven children, of whom four are 
 residents of Park City — Oliver C. ; Walter S., 
 Justice of the Peace, Park City ; Mrs. E. J. Boggs, 
 whose husband is in the contracting and building, 
 business in Park City; J. M., our subject: J. L. 
 C, Mrs. Edward Porter and ^I.TS. F. W. Hutch- 
 inson, both living in Pennsylvania. 
 
 Mr. Lockhart received his early education in 
 the common schools of his native State, and later 
 entered Westminster College. After completing 
 his education he went to Donovan, Nebraska, 
 where he did clerking for a year, and from there 
 came to Park City. Upon arriving here he ob- 
 tained a position as bookkeeper and also clerked 
 for different firms in this city for about four 
 years. In 1891 he entered the University of 
 Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating from the 
 law department in the class of 1893. He re- 
 turned to Park City, where he at once entered 
 upon the practice of his profession, and has since 
 built up a very lucrative practice. He has be- 
 come interested in mining to a considerable ex- 
 tent and is at this time secretary and a director 
 in the Creole Mining Company and also a direc- 
 tor in the Boss Mining Company. 
 
 In political life our subject is a staunch be- 
 liever in the principles of the Republican party 
 and since living in Park City has taken an active 
 interest in the work of that party. He has been 
 secretary of the Republican Central Committee 
 for a number of years. 
 
 He was married in 1896 to Miss Emma C. 
 \'an Orsdell, a resident of Park City, but a native 
 of Kentucky. 
 
 Although but a young man, Mr. Lockhart has 
 
 given evidence of possessing an unusually bright 
 legal mind, and his friends predict that he will 
 in the near future rank with the leading lawyers 
 of the West. He is courteous and gentlemanly 
 in his bearing and during his residence here has 
 won a host of friends, both socially and in the 
 profession. 
 
 LTDGE JOHN FISHER. There is no 
 country in the world where the people 
 as a whole are as broad-minded, liberal, 
 frank and honest in political and private 
 life, as well as in business life, as are the 
 people of Utah. They are known far and wide 
 for their hospitable, generous and kindly man- 
 ners, and among this class of men stands the 
 name of Judge John Fisher. He has been closely 
 identified with the State, and more especially with 
 Davis county, from its earliest history. He has 
 not only been an eye witness to the great trans- 
 formation which has taken place in this new 
 country during the past half a century, but has 
 taken a prominent and active part in every en- 
 terprise which has been for the upbuilding and 
 the development of the country. 
 
 Born in Woolwich, England, February 7, 1842, 
 he is the son of Thomas F. and Jane (Christon) 
 Fisher, both of whom were natives of England. 
 His mother died January 17, 1902, at the age 
 of about eighty-nine years. They raised a fam- 
 ily of four children — three sons and one daughter 
 — our subject being the youngest son. The fam- 
 ily emigrated to America in 1854, crossing the 
 ocean in an old sailing vessel, and later making 
 the journey across the great American plains un- 
 der the command of Captain Robert L. Camp- 
 bell, arriving in Salt Lake City October 28, 1854, 
 and at once settled in Bountiful. The senior Mr. 
 Fisher had been for many years a ship builder in 
 England, working for the English Government 
 for twentv years, for which he received a small 
 pension the remainder of his life. After com- 
 ing to Utah he followed the carpentering trade 
 and also engaged in farming in a small way. 
 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days on his 
 father's farm, receiving his education in the 
 schools such as existed in Davis county at that 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 time. At the age of eighteen he started out in 
 life for himself, his first avocation being carrying 
 the mails between Salt Lake City and Carson 
 City, Nevada, which he followed for a number 
 of years. This was known as the Pony Express, 
 and was inaugurated for the sole purpose of 
 securing the daily mail service on the central 
 route, over which the Pony Express ran, it be- 
 ing in competition with the southern route. He 
 was later employed on a stage line and for a 
 number of years drove the mail stage between 
 Salt Lake and Shell Creek, Nevada, a distance of 
 two hundred and fifty miles. This was the first 
 daily mail stage that ever ran across the conti- 
 nent. While employed by the Pony Express and 
 running into Carson City, Nevada, he had many 
 thrilling experiences, losing his horses on a num- 
 ber of occasions and several of the soldiers who 
 were appointed to protect the mails along the 
 route being killed. 
 
 After serving in this capacity for a number of 
 years he returned to Bountiful, where he marrie'd 
 Miss Josephine R. Lyon, on August i6, 1863. 
 She was the daughter of Windson and Silver 
 P. Lyon. By this union ten children were born, 
 six of whom are now living. His second mar- 
 riage was to Harriett Knighton, in April, 1878. 
 She was a daughter of William and Elizabeth 
 Knighton. Of this marriage ten children were 
 born, of whom one died. They are : George H., 
 Joseph R., Albert R., Victor E., Frederick M., 
 Ray C, William M., Rulon W., Hattie Elizabeth, 
 and David L. 
 
 In political affairs Judge Fisher has always 
 been an active member of the Democratic party. 
 
 In 1878 he was elected to the Territorial Leg- 
 islature from Davis county and re-elected in 1880. 
 In 1896 he was elected a County Commissioner 
 of his county, being Chairman of the Board. In 
 1898 he was again elected to a seat in the Legis- 
 lature. He has also held many minor positions 
 of trust and honor in his county, such as Justice 
 of the Peace, Mayor, etc. He has always been a 
 prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints, as has also his whole fam- 
 ily. One of his sons by his first marriage, Irvin 
 F., served on a mission to the Sandwich Islands, 
 and Thomas L. served on a mission to England. 
 
 Judge Fisher owns one of the finest farms in Da- 
 vis county, containing two hundred and twenty 
 acres of highly improved land. He is a stock- 
 holder and director in the People's Opera House 
 and Mercantile Company of Bountiful, of which 
 he has been secretary and treasurer for many 
 years. As his twelve sons have grown to man- 
 hood he has donated to each one a home. He 
 has by his long and honorable life in Davis county 
 won the esteem and respect of all the people who 
 have known him, both in private, public and bus- 
 iness life, and few men in Utah today enjoy a 
 larger circle of friends than does Judge Fisher. 
 
 ISHOP M. F. HARRIS, a resident of 
 Utah for more than a quarter of a 
 century, has witnessed the marvelous 
 growth of the State during that time, 
 and has himself contributed in no small 
 degree towards bringing it up to its present high 
 position among the States of the Union. 
 
 Bishop Harris is a native of South Wales, his 
 birth occurring at Nanty Gloe in 1848, and is the 
 son of Thomas and Ann (Williams) Harris, both 
 natives of South Wales, who emigrated to the 
 LTnited States in 1853 and settled for a time in 
 St. Louis, moving from there to Nebraska City, 
 where they lived until 1863, when they went to 
 what is now Bozeman, Montana, at which place 
 the father is still living in the enjoyment of good 
 health at the advanced age of eighty-six years. 
 The mother died in Salt Lake City in 1873, leav- 
 ing three sons — Thomas, living at Henefer; M. 
 F., our subject, and Dan R., living in Montana. 
 Our subject's early life was spent in Nebraska 
 City and there he received his principal education. 
 He came as far as Utah with his parents in 1863 
 and in the following year went to Henefer, where 
 he worked by the month, attending school for a 
 few weeks during the winter, as opportunity 
 offered, and by close economy was able to buy 
 five head of sheep, which formed the nucleus of 
 his present thriving business. He followed the 
 stock raising business for twenty-five years, 
 handling both cattle and sheep, but paying es- 
 pecial attention to sheep, and at times his herd 
 has numbered as high as three thousand head. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 313 
 
 He has made his home in Henefer since 1864, 
 and has done much towards building up the 
 town, assisting in laying it out and doing con- 
 siderable building. He is interested in the Hene- 
 fer Irrigation Company, in which he was at one 
 time a director, and is at this time president of 
 the Upper Henefer Irrigation Company ; and is 
 now president of the Henefer Irrigation Canal 
 Company, incorporated. 
 
 Bishop Harris was married January 73, 1868, 
 to Miss Mary Jane Bond, daughter of William 
 and Mary Ann (Barker) Bond. The result of 
 this union has been a family of eleven children — ■ 
 George R. ; Eldora, wife of William G. Richins ; 
 Joseph B. ; David Oscar; Mary Ida; Hyrum B., 
 and Myrtle J. Four children died in infancy. 
 Bishop and Mrs. Harris have four grandchildren, 
 one of whom, Jane Elizabeth Harris, has lived 
 with them since she was a baby of two weeks. 
 
 The Bishop became a Ward Teacher in 1867 
 and was later ordained an Elder. He became a 
 member of the Twenty-seventh Quorum of Sev- 
 enties in 1876, and in 1889 was ordained High 
 Priest and set apart as First Counselor to Bishop 
 John C. Paskett of Henefer Ward, whom he suc- 
 ceeded May 25, 1901. He was for a number 
 of years president of the Young Men's Mutual 
 Improvement Association. He assisted in build- 
 ing the Stake Tabernacle at Coalville and was a 
 member of the Summit Stake High Council for 
 two years ; also filled the position of home mis- 
 sionary for some time. 
 
 Bishop Harris began at the very bottom of the 
 ladder and his career has been one that would 
 be an honor to any man. Upright and honorable 
 in all his dealings, he has by his own unfaltering 
 devotion to duty and determination to succeed 
 climbed the ladder rung by rung until today he 
 stands among the leading men of his county, and 
 enjoys the confidence and respect of all with 
 whom he has been associated through a long 
 life, as well as the friendship and admiration of 
 a large circle of acquaintances. 
 
 R. E. P. LeCOMPTE, one of the pio- 
 neers in the medical profession in Park 
 City. He has been closely identified 
 with the leading enterprises of the 
 place for the past eighteen years, and 
 6y his long and honorable career has built up 
 a splendid practice. 
 He was born in Cambridge, on the eastern 
 
 shore of Maryland, in 1850, and is the son of 
 Samuel D. LeCompte, who was a graduate of the 
 law department of Yale College and for several 
 years practiced his profession in Baltimore. In 
 1854 he was appointed by President Buchanan 
 as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kan- 
 sas, with headquarters at Leavenworth. At the 
 time Judge LeCompte went to Kansas there was 
 a great deal of agitation going on over the slav- 
 ery question. Judge LeCompte arranging himself 
 on the pro-slavery side of the question, and taking 
 an active part in all political matters. He served 
 two terms on the bench and after returning to 
 private life formed a law partnership with 
 Messrs. Methias and Burns, at Leavenworth, at 
 which place he was for a time city attorney. 
 With several others he assisted in laying out the 
 town of LeCompton, on the Kaw river, which 
 was named for him. He accumulated a fortune 
 and was a wealthy man at the time of his death. 
 He owned ten acres of land in the heart of Kan- 
 sas City at the site where the depot and the 
 Armour packing houses now stand. Judge Le- 
 Compte was one of the most prominent and best- 
 known men of his day in that section of the 
 country, and became the personal friend of Jim 
 Lane. He died of apoplexy in 1888, aged seventy- 
 three years. His wife was Miss Camilla F. Cos- 
 ton, a native of Easton, Maryland. She died in 
 1878, leaving a family of four children — Eugene, 
 living in Butte, Montana; E. P., our subject; 
 Mrs. Farnam, of New Orleans, and Tripp Le- 
 Compte. 
 
 Our subject grew to manhood in Kansas and 
 there received his early education. He first 
 studied medicine under Dr. Brock of Leaven- 
 worth, and later entered the Missouri Medical 
 College at St. Louis, graduating from that in- 
 stitution in 1873, later taking a post-graduate 
 course. In 1875 he entered the service of the 
 United States army, as assistant surgeon, with a 
 rank of First Lieutenant. He received his com- 
 mission at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and was 
 sent to Fort Riley, in that State. He went with 
 the Seventy-sixth Company under General Crook 
 to the Indian war in the Black Hills, and was 
 on the Little Big Horn river on the morning of 
 Custer's last fight. He camped with General 
 
314 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Crook on the scene of the massacre at sundown 
 that night. The}- followed the Indians for six- 
 teen days, living on raw meat and having no 
 salt during the entire time, and Dr. LeCompte 
 served all through the Seventy-sixth's campaign 
 against the Indians. From 1879 to 1882 he was 
 stationed at Fort Douglas, and while there fought 
 a duel with Captain Weston, of the Fourteenth 
 Infantry. Revolvers were used as weapons and 
 both combatants were wounded, one ball going 
 through the doctor's body. In 1882 he went to 
 White river, in Colorado, and became post trader 
 at Fort Meek, being recommended by the officers 
 of the Fourteenth Infantry. In accepting this 
 position it became necessary for him to resign as 
 assistant surgeon, which he did. He remained 
 there for two years and had a large store. The 
 post was abandoned in 1884 and the doctor came 
 to Park City, where he entered upon the active 
 practice of his profession, in which he has been 
 very successful, building up a large and lucra- 
 tive practice. 
 
 Since coming to Park City Dr. LeCompte has 
 become largely interested in the mining industry 
 of this State, and is interested in a number of 
 mining properties in Park City and vicinity, 
 among others being the Constellation Mining 
 Company, of which he is president. 
 
 The doctor was married in Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, while stationed at Fort Douglas, to Miss 
 Lydia Wells, daughter of James and Hannah 
 Wells. They have two children — Edward Dex- 
 ter, born at White River, Colorado, and who is 
 a graduate of West Point, entering at the age 
 of eighteen and graduating in 1894; and Hannah. 
 
 In politics Dr. LeCompte is a Republican. He 
 is the present City Physician of Park City. 
 
 OLONEL MAURICE M. KAIGHN. 
 Among the members of the bar of the 
 Supreme Court of the State of Utah, 
 few men hold a more prominent posi- 
 tion, and few have won the respect 
 
 and confidence of his fellow practitioners more 
 
 thoroughly than has the subject of this sketch. 
 
 He is now one of the leading lawyers of Salt 
 
 Lake Citv and of Utah. 
 
 Colonel Kaighn was born in Camden, New 
 Jersey, in 1844, and his boyhood days were spent 
 in that city, where he attended the district 
 schools. He later attended the Columbian Uni- 
 versity in Washington, D. C, and graduated from 
 the law department of that institution and was 
 admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
 District of Columbia in 1869. 
 
 During the war of the Rebellion he was active- 
 ly engaged in that conflict, serving during that 
 time in two regiments from Pennsylvania, form- 
 ing a part of the Sixth Corps of the Army of 
 the Potomac. He arrived at Gettysburg on the 
 day that the battle closed and was also present at 
 Antietam and South Mountain. 
 
 His father, W. S. Kaighn. was also a native of 
 New Jersey, and was extensively engaged in the 
 manufacture of agricultural implements. The 
 Kaighn family were early settlers of the United 
 States, and the paternal great-grandfather of our 
 subject, Elias Kaighn, was an officer in the Amer- 
 ican force in the Revolutionary war, and his sons 
 participated in the war of 1812. The Kaighn 
 family were originally from the Isle of Man, and 
 from the arrival of the first members of the family 
 in this country have always been a prosperous, 
 successful and aggressive people. 
 
 The mother of Colonel Kaighn, Mrs. Nancy 
 S. (McElroy) Kaighn. was a native of New 
 Jersey, and her family were also among the early 
 settlers of that State, coming to this country some 
 years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary 
 war. Colonel Kaighn, after his admission to the 
 bar in 1869, was appointed to the position of law 
 clerk in the Department of the Interior at Wash- 
 ington, which he held until 1877, when he re- 
 signed his position to enter upon the practice of 
 his profession in Salt Lake City, and for the past 
 twenty- four years has been one of the most prom- 
 inent citizens of this State. In addition to the 
 practice of his profession, he also found time to 
 engage in mining in different parts of the State, 
 devoting the most of his attention to the develop- 
 men of properties near Bingham, in Salt Lake 
 county, where he acquired large interests and 
 employed a number of men. His application to 
 the work of his profession has won for him the 
 reputation of being among the first mining law- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 315 
 
 yers of Utah, and his practice is largely confined 
 to mining and corporation law, and extends to 
 the adjoining States of Wyoming, Idaho and Ne- 
 vada. 
 
 In the political affairs of Utah he has always 
 taken an active and prominent part. During the 
 life time of the Liberal party he was a staunch 
 member and an active worker in its ranks, and 
 upon the formation of the Republican party in 
 this State, transferred his allegiance to it. 
 
 Colonel Kaighn has had four children : Jean 
 F., wife of A. H. Gawler, of Washington, D. C. ; 
 Herbert D., in the United States Navy; Maurice 
 E., engaged in business in this city; and Merrill 
 McElroy, who is a student in the University of 
 Utah. Colonel Kaighn is a member of the Odd 
 Fellows and is also a prominent member of the 
 Masonic order. He is also an active and promi- 
 nent member of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
 lic and is Past Department Commander of the 
 Department of Utah. His industry and ability 
 have brought to him the success that always fol- 
 lows the consistent application of its principles 
 to the business in hand. 
 
 Endowed with a splendid physique, tall and 
 erect figure, his commanding person, together 
 with his geniality and kindness, has made him one 
 of the most popular men in this city and State. 
 He has had a lucrative practice and enjoys the 
 confidence and esteem of all the people with whom 
 he has come in contact. His office is at No. 76 
 West Second South street. Salt Lake City, where 
 he has one of the finest law libraries in the West. 
 
 I. FRED BEST. There have been 
 many men in Utah and in the vSalt 
 I,ake Valley who by their eft'orts 
 lave assisted materially in the devel- 
 opment of its present prosperity, and 
 in this number there are few men who have 
 taken a more active part or been more actively 
 interested in the development of the whole State, 
 as well as in the building up of the Mormon 
 Church, than has the subject of this sketch. 
 Thrown upon his own resources at an early age 
 by the failure of his father in business, starting 
 with a meagre education, he has fought his way 
 
 through all the difficulties that encompassed him, 
 and has finally rounded out a successful career as 
 one of the pioneer business men of L^tah. 
 
 Alfred Best was born in Glostershire, Eng- 
 land, in 1829. He is the son of Richard 
 and Dinah (Peart) Best, who were both born, 
 reared and lived in that part of England, and 
 died in New York City. Their son Alfred was 
 the youngest but one of the family, and in his 
 boyhood days received a meagre education in 
 the common schools, and was early apprenticed 
 to the trade of tin plate worker. He came to 
 America upon the failure of his father in busi- 
 ness, and started on his career at the age of 
 twelve. The entire Best family removed to New 
 York, and made their home at Utica, in that 
 State, where their relatives were engaged as 
 practical builders. 
 
 Our subject remained in New York but a short 
 time, and then traveled over a large portion of 
 the country in the following year. He joined a 
 wagon train at Council Bluffs which was headed 
 for the settlement in the Salt Lake Valley and 
 whose members were members of the Mormon 
 Church. Among the company he joined was 
 Apostle Orson Pratt, who was on his way back 
 to Utah from missionary work in England. The 
 wagon train arrived in Salt Lake City in the 
 early part of 185 1, and our subject lived for the 
 next three or four years in Salt Lake City. He 
 was married here in the early fifties to ]\Iiss Mar- 
 garet Oakley, daughter of Ezra and Elizabeth 
 Oakley, natives of New York. 
 
 Mr. Best established himself in the tin plate 
 business at No. 124 Main street, and remained 
 there for a number of years, doing a lucrative 
 business, which he successfully conducted until 
 a few years ago. In the early sixties Mr. Best 
 made several trips across the plains, and also 
 went back to England as a missionary for the 
 Church. The trips that he made across the plains 
 to the Missouri river were for the purpose of 
 conducting emigrants into Utah. The railroads 
 had not then been completed, and the onlj' mode 
 of travel was by wagon train. The dangers 
 which encompassed travelers in those days can 
 scarcely be realized by the occupants of the Pull- 
 man car of to-day as he speeds across the plains 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of Iowa and Nebraska. The dangers from the 
 Indians, and frequently the attacks by the rene- 
 gade white men, made it a necessity on those 
 trips to have men of only the greatest experi- 
 ence, as well as the highest courage. At this 
 place, on Ninth East, between Thirteenth and 
 Fourteenth South streets, Mr. Best has a home- 
 stead of thirty acres, and there some of his chil- 
 dren live. He also has another residence at Sev- 
 enth East and Twelfth South streets ; the home- 
 stead lot there comprising five acres, and upon 
 which is his fine residence where he now lives. 
 
 In political life he has always been a staunch 
 believer in the principles of the Democratic party, 
 and has given his support to it since its forma- 
 tion in this State. He became a member of the 
 Mormon Church in 1849, ^nd since that time has 
 been a consistent member of it, but has never 
 held any office in the Church. His wife and 
 family are also believers of the Mormon doc- 
 trines. During the crusade that followed the en- 
 actment of the Edmunds-Tucker act, in 1884-85, 
 Mr. Best was arrested, tried and convicted of a 
 violation of that law, and served his sentence in 
 the penitentiary. He preferred to serve his full 
 term, rather than take advantage of the amnesty 
 offered by the government and violate what to 
 him was the most sacred oath which a man could 
 take, and at the same time desert his dependent 
 families. He is one of the most respected men 
 in his community and enjoys the confidence and 
 esteem of all the people in his neighborhood. 
 
 Mr. Best has been married three times. By 
 his first wife, Margaret Oakley, he had thirteen 
 children, of whom eight are now living. His 
 second wife was Eliza Conk, who bore him six 
 children. He married as his third wife a sister 
 of his second wife, Amanda Conk. She has three 
 children, all living. 
 
 ISHOP W. J. BEATIE was born in 
 Salt Lake City December 31, 1849, ^nd 
 has spent the most of his life within 
 the confines of this State. His parents 
 were members of the Mormon Church, 
 and he has followed that religion all his life. He 
 is the eldest son of Hampton Sidney Beatie, who 
 was a native of Virginia, but spent his early life 
 
 in Missouri. He became a convert to the teach- 
 ings of the Church at the age of twenty-two, be- 
 fore he came to Utah, and was identified with it 
 throughout his life. He was for years a sales- 
 man in the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Insti- 
 tution, and by his faithful service rose finally to 
 be the head of the dry goods department of that 
 establishment. In the early days of his residence 
 in Utah he worked for N. S. Ransahoff & Co., 
 and left that service to become associated with 
 the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution 
 when it was organized, and remained with it 
 until 1876. He then left its service and was 
 employed in various places, first in Ogden and 
 later in Idaho. He died at Salt Lake. He was 
 one of the first to go to Carson City, Nevada, 
 being one of the pioneers who began the settle- 
 ment of that new country, and participated in all 
 the troubles with the Indians in that State and 
 throughout the troublesome times which followed 
 the entrance of the white man into the region 
 heretofore dominated by the Indians. His wife, 
 Marion T. (Mumford) Beatie, the mother of the 
 subject of this sketch, was also a native of the 
 eastern part of the United States. Her mother 
 was a native of Nova Scotia, and emigrated from 
 there to New York, and the family came by ox 
 team to Utah in 1849. Her father was a car- 
 penter and builder, and followed that business 
 in this State, as well as devoting time to farm- 
 ing, which he followed all his life. Mrs. Beatie 
 is still living in Salt Lake City. 
 
 Their son, W. J. Beatie, was educated in the 
 public schools of Salt Lake City, and later took 
 a course in John Morgan's Commercial School. 
 He spent his boyhood days in the city of his 
 birth, and at the age of eighteen years began his 
 mercantile career. He secured employment with 
 the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution as 
 invoice clerk, and remained with that institution 
 for upwards of twenty-two years, except the 
 period between the spring of 1877 and the spring 
 of 1879, and during his service of over a score 
 of years with this great mercantile establishment 
 he has risen by his faithful service and his atten- 
 tion to his duties to a high rank in the confidence 
 of the leaders and managers of that institution. 
 He is a member of the Mormon Church, and in 
 
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 317 
 
 the spring of 1877 was sent to England on a mis- 
 sion for the Church, and while there was Presi- 
 dent of a Church Conference in that country. 
 Upon his return, in the spring of 1879, he again 
 took up his position in the Zion Co-operative 
 Mercantile Institution, and from that time until 
 1890 was cashier of the general office. This is 
 one of the most important subordinate positions, 
 charged as it is with the responsibility for the 
 moneys received and expended in the transaction 
 of its vast volume of business. He left this serv- 
 ice in 1890 to accept a position as Secretary of 
 the Bullion-Beck Mining Company, and held that 
 position for ten years. In June, 1901, he was 
 appointed Bank Examiner for the State of Utah, 
 which position he still holds. 
 
 Bishop Beatie was married, in 1872, to Miss 
 Phoebe L. Young, daughter of President Brig- 
 ham Young of the Mormon Church, and by this 
 marriage has four children living — Josephine B., 
 wife of Charles S. Burton; Haze!, Nelson R. and 
 Walter Sidney. 
 
 In the administration of the political affairs of 
 the State, Bishop Beatie is a Republican, and has 
 been a member of that party since the time of its 
 organization in this State. He was one of the first 
 to sign a call for its formation when the State was 
 admitted to the Union, and has taken an active 
 interest in it ever since. In the Church of his 
 choice he has risen to be a Bishop by his faith- 
 ful and devoted service, and for six or seven 
 vears past has been a Bishop of the Seventeenth 
 Ward of Salt Lake City. He has spent his whole 
 life within the confines of Salt Lake City, and 
 lives at present on North West Temple, in the 
 house he has occupied since he was married. 
 The work he has done for his Church has won 
 for him the confidence and esteem of the leaders 
 of that organization, and his faithful and efficient 
 services in the Zion Co-operative Mercantile In- 
 stitution marks him as one of the most progressive 
 business men of this place, which was justified 
 by the work he did for the mining company of 
 which he was Secretary for over ten years, and 
 at present by his work as Bank Examiner. Per- 
 sonally, he is a very genial and pleasant man, 
 and has won the friendship of all the people 
 with whom he has come in contact, and enjoys 
 a wide popularity throughout the State. 
 
 IIARLES A. HARPER. Among the 
 early pioneers who came to Utah in the 
 late forties, none took a more promi- 
 nent part in the settlement of this re- 
 gion or in the development of the Salt 
 Lake Valley than did the father of the subject of 
 our sketch. The work which his father begun has 
 been ably carried on by his son, and he is at pres- 
 ent one of the most substantial and prosperous 
 farmers of his- neighborhood, and enjoys the con- 
 fidence and esteem of all the people with whom 
 he has been associated. 
 
 Charles A. Harper was born near Laramie, 
 Wyoming, July 23, 1848. He is a son of Charles 
 A. and Lavina (Dillworth) Harper. His parents 
 were both natives of Pennsylvania. His mother 
 was born in Chester county, near Philadelphia. 
 His father was the son of Jesse Harper, also a 
 native of Pennsylvania, and spent his early life 
 and grew to manhood on a farm in Pennsylvania, 
 and also learned the carriage and wagon-making 
 trade. He removed to Illinois early in 1840 and 
 became a member of the Mormon Church at Nau- 
 voo before the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. 
 He was through all the trials incident to the es- 
 tablishing of this new religion and came with the 
 pioneers to Utah in 1847, in the same train of 
 which Brigham Young was in command. He 
 returned the same year with President Young, 
 and returned again in 1848 to Salt Lake City, 
 where he continued to live until 1855, when he 
 was called to go to England on a mission, and 
 upon his return was sent to Carson valley to 
 colonize that region with members of the Mor- 
 mon Church, and while absent there was recalled 
 by President Young to take part in the defense 
 of Utah against the advance of the Federal troops 
 under command of General Johnston. He was a 
 prominent man in the pioneer days and was one 
 of the pilots who successfully brought emigrants 
 from England across the plains, being captain 
 of forty-eight wagons in the train. He also par- 
 ticipated actively in the settlement of the southern 
 part of Utah, and in the establishment of members 
 of the Church there. He took an active part in 
 the Indian troubles, and was all through the 
 Black Hawk war, as well as all the other depre- 
 dations caused by the uprising of the red men. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He was closely associated with the leaders of the 
 Church, especially with Brigham Young and 
 Bishop Hunter. The latter was a resident of the 
 same part of Pennsylvania as was Mr. Harper, 
 and he formed a close friendship with him which 
 lasted throughout his life. His early life in 
 Utah was spent in close association with the 
 leaders of the Church, and he was considered one 
 of its ablest advocates and staunchest members. 
 His first permanent settlement in 'the Salt Lake 
 Valley was made in the Big Cottonwood Ward 
 and he lived in a dugout on Spring Creek 
 throughout his first winter. He occupied the 
 position of Counsel to the Bishop of that Ward 
 for many years, and lived in the Big Cottonwood 
 Ward until his death in 1900, aged eighty-three 
 years. His life had been so closely interwoven 
 with the aiifairs of this Ward that it would be 
 impossible to disassociate him from its estab- 
 lishment and growth, and he died in the fullness 
 of his years, honored and respected by all the 
 people. He was the father of eleven children, 
 five of whom are still living. His wife is still 
 alive in Big Cottonwood Ward, at the age of 
 eighty-three. 
 
 Our subject was the second son of this family 
 and spent his early life in the Big Cottonwood 
 Ward, and settled on his present homestead in 
 1878, and has brought it to a high state of culti- 
 vation and prosperity. It comprises fifty acres 
 of well-cared-for land and the buildings are all 
 substantial and of modern architecture. 
 
 He was married in Salt Lake City on August 
 22, 1870, to Mary Boyes, daughter of George and 
 Elizabeth (Taylor) Boves. Mrs. Harper's 
 mother was a sister of John W. Taylor, who was 
 one of the Presidents of the Mormon Church. 
 Her father was a native of Yorkshire, England, 
 and died in this city on August i, 1874. Her 
 mother is still alive at the advanced age of 
 eighty-two, having been born in 1819, and is 
 younger than was President Taylor. By this 
 marriage Mr. Harper has eleven children, five 
 of whom are living. They are Mary, now Mrs. 
 Albert Marchant, residing in Big Cottonwood 
 Ward ; Joseph B., now on a mission in the eastern 
 states for the Church, on which he has been ab- 
 sent for sixteen months ; Levina ; Edwin B., and 
 William. 
 
 In political affairs Air. Harper is a member of 
 the Democratic party, to which his father also 
 belonged. He has taken a prominent part in the 
 affairs of the Mormon Church and was sent to 
 the Sandwich Islands as a missionary, but was 
 forced to return after the lapse of a year, on ac- 
 count of the climate. He was also the President 
 of the Quorum of Elders for fourteen years, and 
 is now one of the Presidents of the One Hundred 
 and Thirty-fourth Quorum of the Seventies.. 
 Mrs. Harper is a valued member of the Relief 
 Society of the Big Cottonwood Ward and has 
 also held the office of President of the Primary 
 Association for ten years. All of his sons and 
 daughters are active members of the Mutual Im- 
 provement Associations of the Church, and are 
 also active participants in the Sunday School 
 work of their Ward. The Harper family is 
 one of the most prominent in that section 
 of Salt Lake county, and especially in the 
 aft'airs of the ]\Iormon Church. They have 
 been intimately associated with the heads of 
 the Church, both through the paternal and 
 maternal sides of the family. The prominent 
 part which their immediate ancestors took in the 
 development of Salt Lake county and in the 
 building up of the resources of that section of the 
 valley, has been carried on by their descendants, 
 and today there is no more highly respected man 
 in the Mormon Church nor in the Big Cotton- 
 wood Ward of Salt Lake county, than is Mr. 
 Harper. , 
 
 ( )HN G. LABRUM. Among the thrifty 
 and well-kept farms of South Cotton- 
 wood, located about ten miles south of 
 Salt Lake City, none is more pleasing to 
 the eye than that of John G. Labrum, 
 with its sixty acres of well-improved land, all 
 under a good system of irrigation, highly culti- 
 vated, and surrounding a modern brick house, in 
 which are to be found all the comforts and con- 
 veniences which the life of this day demands. 
 
 Mr. Labrum was born in Buckinghamshire, 
 England, on November 29. 1849, ^'""^1 '* tl"? son 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 319 
 
 of Thomas and Elizabeth (George) Labrum, 
 both natives of that country. The family, con- 
 sisting of the mother and si.x children, who came 
 to America in 1862, the father having come in 
 1 85 1, and he died in Saint Louis of cholera. In 
 1862 the mother brought three of her children 
 across the plains to Utah, making the trip in a 
 company of sixty-two wagons, under charge of 
 Captain Joseph Home, and she herself walking 
 almost the entire distance. She has always been 
 a woman of marked vitality and is now at the 
 advanced age of eighty-four years, in the enjoy- 
 ment of good health, at her home in Butlerville. 
 The family reached Salt Lake City on October 
 I, 1862, and spent that winter in Mill Creek 
 Ward. The following year they settled in South 
 Cottonwood Ward, where the other children 
 joined them, and this continued to be the family 
 home. 
 
 ^^'hen the father died, the oldest son, Henry 
 G., assumed the care of his mother and the 
 younger children as soon as he was of an age 
 to do so, and continued to look after them until 
 the children were of an age to support themselves. 
 Our subject engaged in general farming and 
 sheep raising, when about twenty-three years of 
 age, and has met with marked success, coming 
 to be one of the solid men of this commvmity. 
 Of recent years he has practically given up the 
 active duties of life, and his sons have relieved 
 him of many of the cares of business, especially 
 in the live stock line. In the early days Mr. La- 
 brum did considerable teaming from the canyons, 
 and otherwise took an active and prominent part 
 in the settlement of this section of the State. 
 
 ]\Ir. Labrum was married on December q, 
 1872, to Miss Ann E. Wheeler, a daughter of 
 Thomas A. and Ann (Walker) Wheeler. Twelve 
 children have been born to them, of whom nine 
 are now living: Eva E. ; Sarah I.; John W. ; 
 Lulu E. ; Thomas O. ; George F. ; Rulon H. ; 
 Mable G. ; and Fern L. All live at home with 
 the exception of the two eldest, who are married. 
 Ann E., Leona and Alta all died in infancy. 
 
 Our subject has been in politics more or less 
 all his life, and is an ardent Democrat. He has 
 held the important office of Chairman of the Pre- 
 cinct Democratic Committee on Organization, 
 
 and has frequently been chosen as a delegate to 
 Conventions. At the time of the division on 
 party lines he was the choice of his party for 
 County Commisioner, but went down to defeat 
 with the other members of his party, although 
 he ran ahead of his ticket. He has always taken 
 a deep interest in all municipal matters, and was 
 school trustee for many years, being a friend of 
 education. He also filled the position of Deputy 
 Water Commissioner on the Little Cottonwood 
 Creek for thirteen years, and was Chairman of 
 the Committee on Water Division of the Little 
 Cottonwood for some years. 
 
 He was born and bred in the doctrines of the 
 Mormon religion, and when he was old enough 
 to understand its teachings became a member 
 of the Church, since which time he has been a 
 consistent and faithful follower of that faith. 
 For twelve years he served as Counselor to the 
 Late Bishop Rawlins, and has held other posi- 
 tions of honor and trust in the Church. 
 
 Mr. Labrum is a man of rare qualities of mind 
 and heart; of sterling worth and sincerity, his 
 frank, open countenance at once wins the confi- 
 dence of the stranger, and these qualities have 
 endeared him to the people among whom his lot 
 has been cast for a long period of time. The 
 family is one of the most prominent in this com- 
 munity, and very popular. The home is an ideal 
 one in every respect, the home ties being very 
 close and tender, and affection reigning supreme. 
 
 ARRY BO\\'EX. In a country which 
 has developed as rapidly as has Utah 
 (luring the past few years, there are 
 many enterprises which spring up and 
 develop to large proportions before the 
 great masses of people are aware of their exist- 
 ence. Among the most successful and new un- 
 dertakings which have been built up in the vicin- 
 ity of Salt Lake City, is the fishery and hatchery, 
 of which our subject is the owner. 
 
 Harry Bowen was born in Portland, Maine, 
 April 29, 1856, and is the son of Charles and 
 Sarah Bowen. He came to Utah in 1879, having 
 grown to manhood and received his education 
 in his native State. After spending several years 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in Utah he went to Globe, Arizona, where he be- 
 came identified with the mining interests of that 
 State, and where he prospected and located a 
 number of mines, developing a number around 
 Globe, among the most successful being the Buck- 
 eye and the Last Chance. Besides these he sold 
 ninety-one mines before returning to Utah some 
 years later. In July, 1900, Mr. Bowen purchased 
 his fishery and hatchery business in Salt Lake 
 City, located opposite Calder's Park, one of 
 the suburbs of the city, that business being 
 established in 1891 by Mr. Shurlock. Since 
 taking possession Mr. Bowen has built and 
 equipped a new hatchery, with a capacity of 
 400,000 ; he has also built a new pool, which 
 gives him four pools, the water being sup- 
 plied by six fine artesian wells and it is 
 his ambition to make this one of the finest 
 hatcheries and fish farms in the entire West. 
 This is now the largest hatchery in the State, 
 aside from that supported by the Government. 
 Mr. Bowen has here about seventy-thousand fish, 
 ranging from four months old to fish that weigh 
 five pounds. He is devoting his entire time, en- 
 ergy and means to the development of his busi- 
 ness, and expects to raise the number of fish to 
 half a million by next summer. 
 
 Mr. Bowen was married in Salt Lake City on 
 October 14, 1901, to Miss Mary Rosencranz, a 
 native of this place. 
 
 In political life he is a believer in the princi- 
 ples of the Republican party, but has never been 
 active in its ranks. He is essentially a business 
 man and puts his whole spirit in whatever he has 
 in hand. Visitors to the hatchery always find 
 Mr. Bowen courteous and willing to show them 
 around. He is especially proud of his rainbow 
 trout, of which he has about five thousand, some 
 of them weighing five pounds. His hospitable 
 and kindly manner to visitors makes the time 
 spent there enjoyable as well as profitable, and 
 visitors come away with not only a wide fund of 
 useful knowledge, but also with a kinder fellow- 
 feeling for mankind, from being thrown into 
 association with one who is ever ready to do a 
 courteous or kindlv act. 
 
 OHN FORD, JUNIOR. Among the 
 many beautiful and thriving homes to 
 be found in Davis county, there is per- 
 haps none lovelier than that owned by 
 John Ford, Junior, near the town of 
 Centerville. Here he has two hundred and twen- 
 ty-four acres of valuable land, all under a splen- 
 did system of irrigation, highly cultivated, em- 
 bellished with shade and other trees. His home 
 is a handsome and commodious brick, and the 
 barns and other outbuildings are roomy and con- 
 venient, making it one of the most desirable 
 places to be found in this locality. 
 
 The Fords are one of the oldest families in 
 Centerville, having located here in 1854, and this 
 has since been the family home. Our subject 
 is the third son of John and Rebecca (Chandler) 
 Ford. The father was born in Cambridgeshire, 
 England, March 8, 1807, being one week younger 
 than the late President Wilford Woodruff of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 
 His parents were Thomas and Sarah Terner 
 (Mayson) Ford, both of whom died in England. 
 There were five daughters and two sons in this 
 family, Mr. Ford being the only one now living; 
 his last remaining sister died recently. He be- 
 came converted to the teachings of the Mormon 
 religion in the early fifties, in England, and in 
 1854 emigrated to America with his family, com- 
 ing across the plains by ox teams, and at once 
 locating in Salt Lake for one year, and in the fall 
 of 1855 located in Centerville. The trip across the 
 plains was made under the leadership of Captain 
 Job Smith, starting from the landing place on 
 the Missouri River then known as Westport, but 
 which formed the site of what is now Kansas 
 City. Upon his arrival in Centerville Mr. Ford 
 rented sixty acres of land, which he cultivated 
 for three years, until the general move south at 
 the time of the Johnston army trouble, at which 
 time the family was sent to the southern part of 
 the State, and the father and three oldest sons, 
 William, John and Joseph, enlisted in the Mor- 
 mon ranks. After the trouble had passed away 
 and the families returned to their different homes 
 the Ford family located upon the old Standish 
 place, which the father leased for five years. Dur- 
 ing this time the father and older sons bouerht 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 321 
 
 the old Ricks farm and went into the stock rais- 
 ing business under the name of Ford & Sons. 
 They continued together until about six years 
 ago, at which time the father withdrew from the 
 firm and has since lived a retired life, making 
 his home in the neighborhood of his sons. He 
 has now reached the remarkable age of ninety- 
 five years, and is still a well-preserved and heal- 
 thy old gentleman. He has been twice married. 
 His first marriage occurred in England, where 
 he was united in 1833 to Rebecca Chandler, who 
 bore him eleven children, of whom six are now 
 living. Mrs. Ford died in April, 1880, and three 
 years later, March 29, 1883, Mr. Ford married 
 as his second wife Mary Ann Wright, daughter 
 of James and Mary Ann (Stearns) Wright, na- 
 tives of Warwickshire, England, where their 
 daughter was also born. They emigrated to 
 America at an early day. Mrs. Rigby, a sister 
 of Mrs. Ford, is living near them at this time. 
 Mr. Ford is a firm believer in education and gave 
 his children every advantage that the schools of 
 Davis county afforded, aiding them as they grew 
 up to get a good start in life, and they are now 
 all with one exception located in Davis county, 
 in the neighborhood of Centerville, interested to- 
 gether in their business enterprises, and a most 
 happy and highly respected family, commanding 
 the esteem and respect of their neighbors as men 
 of high honor and undoubted business integrity. 
 Of those now living, John, the subject of this 
 sketch, was born August 27, 1843; William lives 
 in Iron county; Eliza, now Mrs. N. T. Porter, 
 lives in Centerville; Joseph lives in Centerville; 
 Esther is now Mrs. W. W. Roundy, of Benson, 
 in Cache Valley; James Hyrum, the youngest, 
 lives in Centerville. 
 
 After the father withdrew from the firm of 
 Ford & Sons, the sons continued for a time under 
 the name of Ford Brothers Live Stock Com- 
 pany, and have since incorporated under the name 
 of Ford Brothers Land and Live Stock Company 
 of Centerville, with a capitalization of twenty- 
 five thousand dollars. There are eight members 
 of this firm, three of the sons of John Ford, 
 Senior, constituting the older members, and five 
 of their sons the younger. Phillip Ford is Pres- 
 ident, Joseph, Vice-President, and Joseph N., Sec- 
 
 retary and Treasurer. They incorporated in 
 May, 1902, what is known as the Ford Sheep 
 Company, with a capital of fifty thousand dol- 
 lars, their headquarters being at Centerville, and 
 ranging ten thousand sheep in Utah, Wyoming 
 and Idaho. The firm make a specialty of .breed- 
 ing blooded stock, raising the Short Horn cattle, 
 and owning some valuable bulls, and they sold 
 fifteen' fine bulls recently at private sale, and re- 
 tained twenty on their stock firm. They also 
 have some registered Leicester and Ramberlay 
 sheep. Their fine cattle and sheep were imported 
 from Toronto, Canada, in 1899, and last year 
 they shipped away a car load of high grade stock. 
 This large and flourishing business enterprise 
 has been built up from a small beginning through 
 the untiring enterprise and close attention of the 
 senior Mr. Ford and his sons, and it is perhaps 
 the largest private stock concern in the county, 
 if, indeed, not in the entire State. While the 
 members of the firm have their stock interests 
 in common, they each own their own farm, and 
 between them have some of the most valuable 
 and productive land in Davis county, owning 
 handsome and comfortable homes. 
 
 Our subject was married in 1868 to Miss 
 Elizabeth Gams, daughter of Phillip and Mary 
 M. Garns, who came to Utah from Pennsyl- 
 vania in 1854. Five sons and two daughters have 
 been born of this marriage — John W., was mar- 
 ried to Alice Rollins, by whom he has five chil- 
 dren. He was called to go on a mission to Eng- 
 land in 1895, and spent two years in the foreign 
 field; Phillip J., was married to Amanda Rollins; 
 Joseph N., called to go to England on a mission 
 in 1899, and spent two years in that work; 
 Thomas, and Albert, who married Alice Haight ; 
 he is now on a mission to England, laboring in 
 the Birmingham conference ; they have one child. 
 Esther, now Mrs. Nathan Clark, and ]Mary, now 
 Mrs. Stanley Parrish, of Centerville; they have 
 adopted a little girl from Kentucky, little Ora 
 Ford. 
 
 The entire family are members of the Mormon 
 Church, in whose faith they have been reared. 
 Mr. Ford served on a mission to the Southern 
 States in 1876, spending five months in Ken- 
 tucky, and has otherwise been active in Church 
 work, as have also his wife and daughters. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Ford passed through the Aaronic Priest- 
 hood, was several years a member of the Seven- 
 tieth Quorum of Seventies, and in 1878 was or- 
 dained High Priest and set apart as first Coun- 
 selor to Bishop Nathan Cheeney, of Centerville, 
 where he remained for several years. He is now 
 Superintendent of the North Centerville Sunday 
 School, and active in all the workings of the 
 Church. 
 
 ILLIAM P. RICHARDS, Bishop of 
 Oakley Ward, Summit Stake of 
 Zion, Summit county. Having been 
 born in this county, his whole life 
 with the exception of a few years, 
 has been spent here. His boyhood days were 
 spent on the fann and his early education received 
 from the common schools of Summit county. He 
 early in life started to make his own way, taking 
 up farming and stock raising, which he has suc- 
 cessfully followed, and is today reckoned among 
 the most prosperous and successful men of this 
 county. 
 
 Bishop Richards was born in Wanship, in the 
 Weber Valley, on i\Iay 18, 1864. He is the son 
 of Franklin D. and Susan Sandford (Pierson) 
 Richards. He started out in life for himself in 
 1885, when he and his brother Albert D. went 
 to Little Wood River in Blaine county, Idaho, 
 where they engaged in farming and stock raising 
 for five years, at the end of which time they 
 closed out their interests and moved to Oakley, 
 where they purchased land from the railroad 
 company and again engaged in the cattle busi- 
 ness, handling cattle for the local markets. Their 
 ranch is located on the Weber river. They have 
 been alive to the importance of good irrigation 
 for this country and were prominent in the or- 
 ganization and promoting of the Richards & 
 Company Irrigation Canal, which waters three 
 hundred acres of land at Oakley. Their own 
 ranch is well irrigated, and they raise large crops 
 of hav, feeding a large amount of stock at a 
 time. When they purchased this land it was in a 
 wild state, mostly covered by sage brush, and has 
 had to be cleared ofif and cultivated. 
 
 Our subject was married January 9, 1805, to 
 
 Miss Leah Smithies, daughter of James and 
 Hannah (Crowther) Smithies. They have two 
 children, Jennie JMarie and Karl Raymond. 
 
 In political life Mr. Richards owes allegiance 
 to the Republican party, and has been constable 
 of Oakley for two years. 
 
 Bishop Richards has given his time largely to 
 the work of the Church of which is a member, 
 and has held a number of offices in its Priest- 
 hood. He passed through the offices of Deacon, 
 Elder and High Priest and was set apart as 
 Bishop of Oakley Ward June 7, 1901, by Apostle 
 Reed Smoot. He has also acted in the ca- 
 pacity of First Counselor to President John 
 H. Seymour, of the Young Men's ]\Iutual 
 Improvement Association, and was for a number 
 of years Secretary of the Oakley Sunday School. 
 
 Bishop Richards is a man of broad and gen- 
 erous mind, hospitable, and has made many 
 friends among those with whom he has been 
 associated through life. 
 
 DWIN BENNION. Among the sub- 
 stantial and successful business men of 
 Taylorsville Ward, Salt Lake county, 
 Utah, who have assisted largely in 
 building up this section, should be men- 
 tioned Edwin Bennion, the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 He is a native son of Utah, having been born 
 in the same Ward where he has spent the greater 
 portion of his life. He was born April 8, 1868. 
 He is a brother of Heber Bennion, and a son of 
 John and Mary (Turpin) Bennion, whose bio- 
 graphical sketches appear elsewhere in this vol- 
 ume. Our subject spent his early life on the 
 farm with his father and his education was de- 
 rived in the common schools of Taylorsville 
 Ward, later at the Brigham Young academy at 
 Provo; completing his scholastic education in 
 the State University of Utah. The death of his 
 father occurred when our subject was about eight 
 years of age, and at the age of seventeen he 
 started out on his own hook. He first pur- 
 chased forty acres of land in Granger Ward, 
 which has alwavs been his home, to this he has 
 
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 added until he now lias seventy-four acres, coin- 
 prising one of the best farms of its size in the 
 county. At the time Mr. Bennion took charge 
 of this land it was in a wild state, being almost 
 covered with sage brush. Since that time he 
 has developed it, built a fine residence, barns, 
 fences, and set out fruit orchards and has it 
 under a high state of cultivation. While Mr. 
 Bennion has given considerable attention to farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, yet this has not been his 
 principal life-work. For many years he has 
 owned a large interest in the J. S. Lindsay & 
 Company store at Taylorsville, located on the 
 Redwood road. With this company he has been 
 identified not only in a financial way but has been 
 its manager for many years. This company has 
 always done a large and thriving business, which 
 has been largely built up by the good manage- 
 ment which Mr. Bennion has given to it. 
 
 On October 12, 1892, he led to the marriage 
 altar Miss Mary E. Lindsay, daughter of Jos- 
 eph, Senior, and Emma (Bennion) Lindsay. 
 There have been five children born to them — 
 Edwin A., Lavon, Laura, Erma and Elma. 
 
 In political affairs Mr. Bennion has been identi- 
 fied with the Republican party since its organiza- 
 tion in this State. He has always taken a promi- 
 nent part in the work of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints, in which he was 
 raised, and early taught its principles. His wife 
 is also a member of the same Church. He was 
 ordained a High Priest and served his Church on 
 a mission to Holland, Belgium and the Nether- 
 lands. During this time he was President of the 
 mission and had his headquarters at Rotterdam, 
 Holland, where he learned the Dutch language. 
 He was called on this mission three days after 
 his marriage and his wife accompanied him. He 
 has also served as Second Counselor to the Pres- 
 ident of the Granite Stake since the organiza- 
 tion of the Stake. He has taken an active in- 
 terest in the Sunday School work and for many 
 years was a teacher in his Ward. Besides being 
 largely interested in the J. S. Lindsay & Com- 
 pany store he is also a director in the Canaan 
 Live Stock Company, which is beyond a doubt 
 one of the largest live stock companies in the 
 State. For many years he has been manager of 
 
 this company, which necessarily takes him away 
 from his home for a considerable portion of his 
 time. While Granger Ward is his home, his vast 
 interests have called him a great deal of the time 
 to different sections of the country. 
 
 OHN GABBOTT. The very atmosphere 
 of this inter-mountain region seems to 
 inspire men with a craving to subdue 
 and develop the vast resources which na- 
 ture has so bountifully supplied, and 
 among the men who have taken an active and 
 prominent part in overcoming the almost insur- 
 mountable obstacles and in bringing this State 
 up to its present prosperous condition, may be 
 mentioned the subject of this sketch, who has 
 faithfully performed his part along this line. 
 
 John Gabbott is a native American, having 
 been born in Nauvoo, Illinois, on October 4, 
 1842, and is the son of Edward and Sarah (Rig- 
 by) Gabbott. His parents were natives of Lan- 
 cashire, England, near Preston. They became 
 converts to the teachings of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints in England and came 
 to America in 1841, settling at Nauvoo, Illinois, 
 and were at that place during all the trying and 
 troublesome days before the Mormons were 
 driven out of the State. There they met and 
 became close friends of the Prophet Joseph 
 Smith, and in later years Mr. Gabbott was ever 
 ready to speak in terms of praise and endearment 
 of Joseph Smith. When the Mormons left Nau- 
 voo the Gabbott family moved to a place known 
 as Little Pigeon, Iowa. On the way to this latter 
 place Mrs. Gabbott was run over and killed. The 
 father continued his journey alone with his little 
 family, and remained for one year in Little 
 Pigeon, coming to Utah in 1848. Upon arriving 
 in Salt Lake, Mr. Gabbott took up farming and 
 resided in the Seventh W^ard of Salt Lake City 
 until a few years before his death, when he moved 
 to State street, where his son Amos, a half brother 
 of our subject, now lives. Mr. Gabbott conducted 
 a very successful business during his life, dealing' 
 largely in real estate, both in the city and among 
 farming lands. He was an active and faithful 
 member of the Church of his choice, and filled 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the position of a member of the Seventies. He 
 died at the age of seventy-six, honored and loved 
 by all who knew him. 
 
 Our subject has spent his entire life within the 
 confines of this State, and received his education 
 from the schools and academies that then existed 
 here. He remained with his father until his mar- 
 riage at the age of twenty-five years to Miss 
 Emma Twiggs, daughter of William and Mary 
 Twiggs, in 1868. The Twiggs family came 
 to Utah in 1857, ahead of Johnston's army. 
 By this marriage Mr. Gabbott had four chil- 
 dren, three of whom are still living — Sarah 
 E. ; William E. ; John T., and Martha, who 
 died aged four years. Mrs. Gabbott died in 
 1879, and Mr. Gabbott again married in 1880 
 to Olive Cosgrove, daughter of Charles and 
 Theresa Cosgrove, and the result of this mar- 
 riage was also four chidren, of whom two 
 are still living. They are Lewis, died aged 
 twenty-one years ; Adam ; Bayard, died aged 
 eight years; Emma. Their mother died in 1889. 
 
 Mr. Gabbott followed farming until 1893, 
 when he became interested in the nursery busi- 
 ness, locating on South West Temple street, be- 
 tween Tenth and Eleventh South. He purchased 
 the entire block but has since sold a number of 
 lots, on which some handsome residences have 
 been erected. He has done a wholesale business 
 only in the fruit tree line, and has supplied deal- 
 ers in this and adjoining States. Aside from this 
 property he also owns several farms in Salt Lake 
 county. 
 
 In political life our subject has been a staunch 
 member of the Democratic party since its organ- 
 ization in this State, and has taken an active 
 interest in public affairs, filling the position of 
 Justice of the Peace, and also serving as school 
 trustee. He and all his family are members of 
 the Mormon Church and his son, John T., served 
 two and a half years on a mission for the Church 
 in Indiana, in 1896, returning in 1899. Mr. Gab- 
 bott has also been prominent in the affairs of 
 the Church, having been selected as Second Coun- 
 selor to the Bishop of Farmers' Ward, when 
 that Ward was first organized. The name Far- 
 mers' Ward was given from the fact that at the 
 time of the organization, the residents of that 
 
 portion of the city were all farmers. Today, 
 however, almost every line of business is repre- 
 sented in this ward and many of the business 
 men of the city have their homes there. He at 
 this time holds the position of First Counselor to 
 the Second Bishop of the Ward. Mr. Gabbott 
 has been eminently sucessful in his business ca- 
 reer and is today one of the wealthy men of Salt 
 Lake City. He is known as a man of high in- 
 tegrity, undaunted courage, and perseverance, 
 and by his energy and foresight has built up a 
 profitable and thriving business. His genial and 
 courteous manner has won for him a host of 
 friends, and today there is no man who stands 
 higher in the respect and confidence of the people 
 and the leaders of the Church than he. 
 
 OSEPH D. MUIR, one of the success- 
 ful young business men of Salt Lake 
 County, was born near Evanston, Wy- 
 oming, on April 27, 1875. He is a son 
 of Joseph and Ellen (Dobby) Muir, who 
 were natives of Edinborough, Scotland. They 
 came to Utah about 40 years ago, and now re- 
 side at looi East i2th South Street. 
 
 Our subject took up his residence in Sugar 
 House Ward twenty-two years ago where he has 
 continued his residence ever since. He married 
 February 28th, 1901, to Miss Ellen H. Smith, 
 daughter of John R. and Mary Smith, who re- 
 side at 1 301 East I2th South Streets. 
 
 Mrs. Muir was raised in the Mormon faith 
 from childhood and has always been a faithful 
 member of that church ever since. She and her 
 husband were school children together. On Oct- 
 ober 20th, 1897, Mr. Muir purchased his pres- 
 ent home, where he owns five acres of choice 
 land, and in connection with his home he farms 
 extensively outside of it, having charge of 650 
 acres in the vicinity of his home farm. His own 
 home, while small in acreage, is considered one of 
 the prettiest country residences in Salt Lake 
 County, with all modern improvements, electric 
 lights, bath, hot and cold water. Outside of 
 farming Mr. Muir has also been associated with 
 his brother, J. T., in the stock business. They 
 own a ranch of 280 acres, known as the "O. K." 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 brand, at Weiser, Idaho, and where they are ex- 
 tensively engaged in the stock business. Mr. 
 Muir deserves much credit for what he has ac- 
 complished during his short business life, hav- 
 ing started out on his own hook at the very bot- 
 tom of the ladder. He has thoroughly demon- 
 strated his ability as a business man. 
 
 Mr. Muir was ordained an Elder in the Mor- 
 mon Church, and he and his wife are faithful, 
 conscientious members of that faith. They have 
 one child, a daughter, born March 17, 1902. 
 
 HARLES TURNER, Bishop of South 
 ^Morgan Ward, Morgan Stake of Zion, 
 is a native of England, in which coun- 
 try he received his early education and 
 grew to manhood. He was born in 
 Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 1827, and 
 when five years of age his parents moved to Ry- 
 ton, in the same Shire. At the age of twenty- 
 three he became a member of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and shortly 
 after his baptism was ordained a Priest. He 
 labored in the Coventry branch of the Church 
 for seven years, and was made an Elder in 
 1854. He traveled for three years as a mission- 
 ary ^n England and Scotland, and was for sev- 
 enteen months President of the Dundee Confer- 
 ence. 
 
 In 1861 he became imbued with a desire to 
 come to America and in April of that year took 
 passage on the steamer Undenvriter. landing in 
 New York. He went to Florence where he spent 
 a month preparing for the long and arduous trip 
 across the great American plains, and made the 
 trip by o.x teams, arriving in Salt Lake City 
 September 15th, where he remained seven weeks, 
 and then went to the Weber valley, locating on 
 what is now the site of Morgan City. For the 
 two years following he worked at whatever he 
 could obtain to make a livelihood. At the end 
 of this time he engaged in brick making, manu- 
 facturing the brick from the native clay, and 
 furnished the first brick in Morgan City, many 
 of the houses now in use being built from these 
 brick. He also burnt the native lime stone and 
 
 engaged in this business for over thirty years, 
 still retaining his farm, which he operated in a 
 small way. Since 1896 he has given his time 
 more particularly to farming and ranching, and 
 owns a ranch about seventeen miles up' Lost 
 Creek, where he has one hundred and thirty head 
 of cattle and horses. He built his present home 
 in Morgan City in 1888, and also built a house 
 for his oldest son. He also purchased a house 
 in Morgan which he gave to his second son. 
 
 Bishop Turner was married December 8, i86t, 
 to Miss Elizabeth Wilkens, daughter of Joseph 
 and Elizabeth Wilkens. Mrs. furner died Feb- 
 ruary 26, 1865, leaving one child, which also died. 
 He married again on October 14, 1865, to Miss 
 Annie Boash, who is still living. She has been 
 the mother of thirteen children, of whom eleven 
 are living. He married a third time in 1872 to 
 Hannah Jones, who is also living, and who bore 
 him six children. The Bishop has fourteen liv- 
 ing children and seven grand-children. 
 
 In political life Bishop Turner is an ardent 
 Republican and has given much of his time to 
 the work of that party. He was one of the first 
 Councilmen of Morgan and has served eight 
 terms as Councilman and one term as Mayor. 
 He has been identified with most of the public 
 enterprises of Morgan City; assisted in taking 
 out the two main water ditches, and also one 
 from Canon creek. Before the admission of Utah 
 into the Union he served for two terms as Se- 
 lectman of his county, and has been largely in- 
 strumental in building up the community in which 
 he has lived. 
 
 Since coming to Utah he has been ordained 
 a High Priest and presided over the North Mor- 
 gan district before the Stake was organized, and 
 at the time of the organization of the Stake in 
 1877 was set apart as Bishop by Apostle Lorenzo 
 Snow to preside over the South Morgan Ward. 
 He has been noted for his liberality and generos- 
 ity. He left home and began life for himself 
 at the age of thirteen, and at the age of nine- 
 teen took the entire care of his younger broth- 
 ers and sisters, giving them an education and 
 fitting them to earn their own living. His life 
 since coming to L^tah has been above reproach 
 and he has always stood ready to relieve the 
 
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 needy or give aid to the distressed. He has 
 won and retained the confidence not only of the 
 heads of the Church, but of all with whom he 
 has been associated. 
 
 ( )HN H. RICH, one of the wealthiest 
 and most influential citizens of Morgan 
 county, is a man honored for his sterling 
 worth and integrity. Possessing more 
 than ordinary business ability, he has 
 by the exercise of his own ingenuity been able 
 to gain for himself financial prosperity, and that 
 which is still more to be desired, the respect and 
 esteem of his associates. His energy is one of 
 the conspicuous traits of his character, and to this 
 quality, combined with his ability, is due the 
 success which has attended every enterprise with 
 which he has been identified. 
 
 Mr. Rich is a native of England, having been 
 born in Trowbridge, Weltshire, September i, 
 1832, and is the son of James and Jemimah 
 (Holliday) Rich. Our svibject remained in Eng- 
 land until he attained his majority, receiving his 
 education from the schools of that country and 
 working as an operator in a woolen factory. He 
 became a convert to the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church in 1850, and on February 5, 1853, sailed 
 with his wife for America, on board the vessel 
 Jcrscx, landing in New Orleans after a voyage of 
 six weeks. From New Orleans they went by 
 boat to Saint Louis, and thence to Florence, 
 where they joined the train known as "The Texas 
 Independent company," and started across the 
 great American plains for Utah. At the last 
 crossing of the North Platte River their first 
 child was born. They reached Salt Lake City 
 September 29, 1853, and that fall moved to Cen- 
 terville and spent the w-inter with the family 
 of Thomas Thurston. Mr. Rich continued to re- 
 side in Centerville until 1861, and four of his 
 children were born in that place. In the spring 
 of the latter year he moved to Morgan county 
 and settled on the site of what was afterwards 
 called Richville, being one of the first men to 
 settle in that place. He took up a squatter's 
 claim and bought land of the Ute Indians, and 
 later when the land was surveyed he pre-empted 
 
 his claim. He engaged in general farming, which 
 he has since followed. He has added to his 
 original piece of land until at this time he owns 
 two hundred and fifty acres of valuable land. 
 He built his present home in 1869 and at that 
 time it was considered the largest and most de- 
 sirable residence in the valley. It is still a very 
 comfortable dwelling, and one of the pleasantest 
 homes in the Ward. He became identified with 
 the stock raising industry and raises cattle, sheep 
 and horses. Mr. Rich also owns property in 
 Morgan City, and is altogether one of the sub- 
 stantial and solid men of Morgan county. 
 
 In 1852 our subject married Miss Lydia Pond, 
 of Trowbridge, England. They have had six 
 children born to them, three of whom are now 
 living, — Franklin John, born on the plains. He 
 died leaving a widow, Sarah Ann (Rowle) Rich, 
 and six children ; James T., William H., Lucy 
 Jane, wife of Joseph Florence ; jNIelissa. deceased 
 wife of F. E. Whitear. and Louisa, who died at 
 two years of age. 
 
 Mr. Rich has been a follower of the Democratic 
 party since its organization in Utah, and was 
 active in public life before the admission of Utah 
 into the Union. He was for several years Se- 
 lectman of his county, and has always been 
 identified with the growth and development of 
 the county since his first residence in it. In local 
 enterprises he was one of the organizers of the 
 Morgan mill, in which he is still a director ; 
 owns stock in the Morgan branch of the Zion 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution, and also the 
 Fr\' Mercantile company, in all of which he was 
 one of the promoters and assisted in organizing 
 them. He has also done much towards securing 
 good roads and bridges for the county, and is in 
 every way a liberal and public spirited man. 
 
 He has also been very active in Church mat- 
 ters and has filled many offices in the Church. 
 He has been ordained Deacon and Elder and is 
 Counselor to President R. G. Welch, of the Eld- 
 ers' Quorum. When Morgan Stake was organ- 
 ized in 1877 he was ordained a High Priest and 
 set apart as a member of the High Council of 
 Morgan Stake, and is the second oldest member 
 of the Council at this time. His family have 
 also always been very prominent in Church work. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Mrs. Rich was prior to the organization of the 
 Morgan Stake President of the Ladies' ReHef 
 Society of South Morgan Ward, and in 1878 was 
 made President of the Stake organization. The 
 son James T. has served on a mission to Flor- 
 ida, and is a member of the Thirty-fifth Quorum 
 of Seventies. William H. has also served on a 
 mission, laboring in the southern States and is 
 at this time First Counselor to President Heiner, 
 of the INIorgan Stake. Prior to this v^^as Second 
 Counselor to President Richard Fry, now de- 
 ceased, during his presidency. The family is one 
 of the most prominent and well known in Rich- 
 ville, not only in Church work, but in social 
 life, and enjoy the respect and esteem of the resi- 
 dents of their communitv. 
 
 LIZABETH PIXTON. When the 
 early history of Utah shall have been 
 fully written it will reveal many in- 
 stances of undaunted determination, 
 perseverance and self-sacrifice among 
 the women who came across the plains with the 
 pioneers and assisted their husbands and sons 
 in subduing and cultivating this wild region, and 
 in laying the foundations for one of the. most 
 beautiful and prosperous States in the Union. 
 Among these women there is perhaps none more 
 worthy of recognition for the high courage she 
 displayed and for the love and devotion to duty 
 and to the principles of her religion which im- 
 bued her with the strength to perform the diffi- 
 cult task of bringing her family across the plains 
 and sustaining them in this wild and barren re- 
 gion until the return of her husband from the 
 Mexican War, than is the subject of this sketch, 
 ■Mrs. Elizabeth Pixton, widow of the late Rob- 
 ert Pixton. 
 
 Robert Pixton was born in iManchester, Eng- 
 land, March 27, 1818, and was the son of George 
 and Mary (Hankeson^ Paxton. who both lived 
 and died in the old country. His paternal grand- 
 parents were residents of Lancashire, England, 
 and were well known people of that place. They 
 lived to a great age, having been married seven- 
 ty-two years, living that length of time in one 
 and the same house, and where both of them 
 
 died ; and his grandfather was ninety-eight years 
 of age at the time of his death. Mr. Pixton was 
 brought up in England, living there until twenty- 
 two years of age. He received but a meagre 
 school education, but was of a studious turn of 
 mind and turned all his spare time to the ac- 
 quiring of knowledge, and at the time of his 
 death was considered an able scholar, being an 
 excellent mathematician and having a wide 
 knowledge of books, which he read with avidity- 
 He was married in Lancashire county, Eng- 
 land, on May 5, 1838, to Miss Elizabeth Cooper, 
 daughter of John and Charlotte (Hallotte) 
 Cooper, whose parents also lived all their lives 
 in England. Mrs. Pixton was born February 
 8, 18 1 8, the same year as her husband. They 
 lived in England three years after their marriage 
 and here two of their ten children were born. 
 These children are: Charlotte C, George, Rob- 
 ert, Elizabeth, Willard, Mary, who died in in- 
 fancy ; Joseph C, Sariah, now Mrs. Henry J. 
 Wheeler. Charlotte is now Mrs. William Van- 
 dyke, and Elizabeth married Henry Harker, of 
 Taylorsville, at present one of the County Com- 
 missioners of Salt Lake county, and a sketch of 
 whom appears elsewhere in this work. Airs. 
 Pixton now has fifty-four grandchildren living 
 in Utah, besides forty-four great-grandchildren, 
 and one great-great-grandson, all of whom are 
 bright and of sound mind and body. 
 
 In 1841 Mr. Pixton came to America, settling 
 in Nauvoo, and there went to work to earn pas- 
 sage money to bring his family to this country, 
 where they joined him in 1843. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Pixton were both members of the ]Mormon 
 Church and while in Nauvoo became close friends 
 of the Prophet Joseph Smith. They also met 
 and were friends of Willard Richards, who was 
 in jail with the Prophet and his brother Hyrum 
 on the day the latter were killed, and who re- 
 ceived four bullets in his clothing, but escaped 
 without serious injury. Mrs. Pixton has a pic- 
 ture of Mr. Richards, which she values highly. 
 In 1846 they left with the first train of emi- 
 grants who came to Utah, traveling in the same 
 train as Brigham Young, and when the train was 
 near Council Blufifs, Iowa, Colonel Kane of the 
 United States army caught up with them and de- 
 manded a battalion to serve under the Govern- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ment in the war with Mexico. This demand 
 was made by the Government for the purpose of 
 ascertaining whether the Mormons were loyal to 
 the Government, or as charged by those opposed 
 to them, were traitors. The manner in which 
 they responded put at rest this unjust charge. 
 There was a call made for five hundred men, and 
 Brigham Young advising them to respond, and 
 promising to personally watch over their families, 
 five hundred and forty-nine men volunteered, and 
 they were mobilized on the banks of the Mis- 
 souri river, near Council Bluffs. The story of the 
 sufferings, hardships, and heroism of the men 
 composing this battalion must ever form one of 
 the most pathetic pages in the history of our 
 country, and among those brave men, none bore 
 his part with more heroism, fortitude and un- 
 complaining devotion to duty than did Robert 
 Pixton. In addition to the usual hardships of 
 this long and arduous trip, they had trouble with 
 the Indians who at one time stampeded and drove 
 off their stock, and they spent three days chas- 
 ing and fighting the Indians before the stock was 
 recovered. They also had trouble with the vast 
 herds of buffalo which roamed at will over this 
 western country, and many of the men were 
 trampled aqd gored by these vicious animals. No 
 provision was made for water to last them over 
 the desert, aside from what they could carry in 
 their canteens, and this gave out when they were 
 eighty miles from any stream, and many of the 
 men had to be carried the latter part of the 
 journey by their stronger brethren. After reach- 
 ing Santa Fe they were sent to the relief of Cap- 
 tain Carney, in Southern California, and here re- 
 mained until discharged from service. Some of 
 the men remained in California, gold having 
 been found in the channel of the old Captain Sut- 
 ter mill race, and the story of the great gold 
 excitement that followed a few years later is too 
 well known to need repeating here. Mr. Pix- 
 tion with others returned to Salt Lake City and 
 joined his family here. Among these men were 
 Mr. Cox, Mr. Allen and D. Browitt, who, in 
 company with some Indians, who professed to be 
 friendly to the white men, left the company and 
 started to discover a better route home. They 
 were later found near a spring, where they had 
 
 been murdered, and their bodies stripped of cloth- 
 ing and filled with arrows. This spring was 
 named Tragedy Springs, in commemoration of 
 this event. Around the neck of Mr. Allen was 
 found a small bag of gold, which was brought 
 back to his widow by Mr. Pixton. 
 
 At the time her husband volunteered to go with 
 the battalion Mrs. Pixton was left with all the 
 household effects, consisting of wagons, ox teams, 
 etc., and their children, near Council Bluffs, and 
 she drove the teams all the way across the plains, 
 yoking and unyoking the oxen and having the 
 full care of them during the entire trip. They 
 reached Salt Lake City one week ahead of the 
 men who went with the battalion to California. 
 Mr. Pixton remained for some time in Salt Lake 
 City and built and occupied the places where S. 
 P. Teasdale and J. P. Gardner are now engaged 
 in business. At the time of the Johnston army 
 trouble he moved south. Later Mr. Pixton was 
 called to help colonize Dixey, where he spent sev- 
 eral years, and in the early sixties returned to the 
 family home near Taylorsville, and there built 
 a house at the foot of the hill. This was an 
 adobe house, and there the family lived until the 
 death of Mr. Pixton, on November 23, 1881. 
 
 l\trs. Pixton still has the deed to the first piece 
 of land they owned in this State, which was writ- 
 ten on a piece of paper two by three inches, 
 and the wording of which was as follows : "Rob- 
 ert Pixton, lot 7, block 69. Recorded on county 
 record. Thomas Bullock, Salt Lake County Re- 
 corder. Conveyed March 3, 1856." After the 
 death of her husband Mrs. Pixton built a com- 
 fortable brick house just at the top of the hill 
 from where the old house stood, and she is still 
 living there at the age of eighty-four, in the 
 full possession of all her faculties, and is the 
 possessor of a truly wonderful memory, being 
 able to relate the most minute details of her trip 
 across the great American plains, and the inci- 
 dents that went to make up the history of her 
 life from then to the present time. Her daugh- 
 ters have all married men of sterling worth and 
 pi-ominence in their communities and her sons 
 all live in the same community as their mother, 
 and are worthy descendants of such parents. 
 Mrs. Pixton has for over half a centurv been a 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 staunch adherent to the principles of the Mormon 
 Church and has taken an active interest in all 
 Church work in her neighborhood, and today is 
 held in high esteem by all who know her. 
 
 ILLARD PIXTON. In this coun- 
 try, where each man or woman must 
 carve out their own fortunes and 
 be judged, not by what their an- 
 cestors have done, but by what they 
 themselves accomplish, it is a gratifying thing 
 to find a whole family taking first rank in their 
 community as men of sterling worth and business 
 integrity, and this may be truthfully said of the 
 Pixton family, of which the subject of our sketch 
 is a member. His father, Robert Pixton, was 
 one of the early pioneers to this country, and a 
 member of the famous Mormon battalion, and 
 for many years a well-known and popular resi- 
 dent of the Taylorsville Ward, doing much to 
 aid in the development of the resources of that 
 district, and taking a keen interest in anything 
 that pertained to the welfare of his community. 
 He died loved, honored and mourned by a large 
 circle of friends and acquaintances, and leaving 
 a widow and family of children who have since 
 held high the standard of living of which he set 
 a worthy example. 
 
 Willard Pixton was born on Main street. Salt 
 Lake City, on November 4, 1854, and spent his 
 early life on his father's farm in Taylorsville, 
 receiving his education from the schools that then 
 existed in this country. When he was fifteen 
 years of age he accompanied his father on a mis- 
 sion to Dixey. In his early manhood he set- 
 tled at Leeds, living there until he was twenty- 
 six years of age, when he returned to this county 
 and established himself on his present farm near 
 the old homestead of his father. Here he owns 
 fifty acres of well improved land on which he 
 has a comfortable home. 
 
 Mr. Pixton was married in 1876 to Miss Isa- 
 bella Carter, daughter of William and Harriette 
 (Uttley) Carter, who were among the early pio- 
 neers to this State, coming with the first com- 
 pany to cross the plains, and her father plowed 
 the first half acre of ground ever plowed in 
 
 Salt Lake City, on what is now the site of the 
 Knutsford Hotel in July, 1847. By this mar- 
 riage they have had eleven children. They are: 
 Williard C, who was killed December 20, 1900, 
 at the age of twenty-three years and eight 
 months, by the caving of the bank while he was 
 engaged in hauling gravel; Lafayette C, John 
 E., Samuel, Norton R., Hazel I., Grace, Mary 
 E., Robert, Ephraim and George M. 
 
 In political life our subject is a member of the 
 Republican party and an active worker in its 
 ranks, being registrar of his precinct. He and 
 his entire family are devout members of the 
 Mormon Church and active in its work. In 1895 
 our subject was called to go to Southern Illi- 
 nois on a mission for the Church, but owing 
 to sickness was compelled to return home before 
 his term had expired. He occupies a prominent 
 place in local Church circles, having been a mem- 
 ber of the Council of the Young Men's Mutual 
 Association, and a teacher in the Sunday Schools. 
 He is also a member of the Presidency of the 
 One Hundred and Fifteenth Quorum of Seven- 
 ties. 
 
 •Mr. Pixton is known as a staunch and upright 
 business man and is respected for his integrity, 
 honesty and the untiring industry and energy 
 he has displayed in building up his business. He 
 had to make his own way in life and the suc- 
 cess he has achieved has been due to his own 
 efforts, unaided by any one, save for the splendid 
 example which was left him by his father, whose 
 companion he was in the days of his youth, and 
 from whom he imbibed the staunch principles 
 which he has since displayed, and today there is 
 no more popular man than he in the circles where 
 he is known. Elsewhere in this work may be 
 found a full sketch of this interesting family. 
 
 < »BERT PIXTON. It is perhaps safe 
 to say that no part of the globe is in- 
 habited by a people of more democratic 
 temper than is that portion of the 
 United States known as "The West." 
 Here a man's ancestors avail him nothing; he 
 must carve out his own fortune and stand or fall 
 on his own merits, and yet, even in this free and 
 
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 independent atmosphere there is ahvays a tribute 
 of respect and admiration paid to the memory of 
 the man or woman who has successfully carved 
 a niche for themselves in the field wherein they 
 labored, and the career of their posterity is al- 
 ways watched with more or less interest. Among 
 the children of the pioneers to Utah there is 
 today no more worthy son of a noble ancestor 
 than is the subject of this sketch, Robert Pix- 
 ton. 
 
 Our subject was born on November 6, 1850, 
 on what is now Main street, in Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, where he spent the first seven years of his 
 life. The family later moved to Lehi for a short 
 time, and from there went to Taylorsville Ward, 
 where our subject grew to manhood, obtaining 
 his education in the schools that then existed 
 in his locality, and has made his home in that 
 place since. He is the son of Robert and Eliza- 
 beth Pixton. Robert Pixton, Senior, was a na- 
 tive of England and came to this country in 1841, 
 and being converted to the teachings of the Mor- 
 mon Church, came with that people when they 
 were driven out of Nauvoo, traveling as far as 
 Council Blufifs, Iowa, with his family, at which 
 place he volunteered as a member of the Mor- 
 mon battalion and served with that body until 
 they were discharged from service, filling his 
 place with honor and distinction. A full account 
 of this period of his life, as also that of his brave 
 and noble wife, will be found elsewhere in this 
 work. 
 
 Mr. Pixton was married to Miss Amelia At- 
 wood, only sister of William and Henry Atwood, 
 of Murray, in .April, 1871, and they have had 
 nine children born of this marriage. They are : 
 Robert S., Parley, now Mrs. Alfonso Bayton ; 
 Tasy, now Mrs. George Rhoades, of Mill Creek ; 
 Elizabeth C, William T., Albert, Pearl, Nora and 
 Le Roy. Mr. Pixton owns forty and a half 
 acres of land in the neighborhood of his home, 
 which is situated at the corner of the Redwood 
 and Taylorsville roads, and has lived at his pres- 
 ent home for twenty-three years. On this place 
 he has built a fine brick residence and the farm 
 is well improved with good outbuildings, fences, 
 etc. In addition to his real estate holdings Mr. 
 Pixton is largelv interested in the cattle and sheep 
 
 industry, leasing his sheep to herders in Idaho. 
 He and his whole family are consistent members 
 of the Mormon Church, and his oldest son, Rob- 
 ert, has been on a mission for the Church in the 
 northern States for the past sixteen months. 
 Some of his children have married and he has 
 had five grandchildren, two of whom have died. 
 Both he and his wife are active in local Church 
 matters, Mrs. Pixton being a member of the 
 Ladies' Relief Society of that Ward, in which she 
 is deeply interested, and their daughter Elizabeth 
 is a member of the Young Ladies' Mutual Im- 
 provement Association. Mr. Pixton's mother is 
 still living in Taylorsville Ward, at the advanced 
 age of eighty-four years, and is in the enjoyment 
 of good health. 
 
 In politics our subject is an adherent of the 
 orinciples of the Republican party, in whose work 
 he has always taken an active interest, although 
 he has not held nor sought public office, pre- 
 ferring to devote his time to his large and grow- 
 ing business interests. In addition to his other 
 Church work Mr. Pixton is also a Ward teacher 
 and a member of the Seventies. He is a man 
 who stands high in the confidence and respect, 
 not only of the leaders and members of his 
 Church, but also of all who know him, irre- 
 spective of religious or political creeds, and is a 
 member of a well-known familv. 
 
 OX. GEORGE M. CANNON is a mem- 
 l)er of one of the most prominent fam- 
 ilies in the history of the Mormon 
 Church, his father being President 
 Angus M. Cannon, of the Salt Lake 
 Stake of Zion, a biographical sketch of whom 
 appears elsewhere in this volume. Although our 
 subject appeared upon the stage of life a good 
 manv years after the pioneers had first taber- 
 nacled in this fertile valley, yet the real growth 
 of the State has taken place within his memory 
 and he has been closely connected with much 
 that has been done to bring it to its present high 
 position. He is today one of the youngest bank- 
 ers in Salt Lake City and one of the best known 
 men in the State. 
 
 George M. Cannon was born December 25, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 331 
 
 1861, in Saint George, Washington countv, and 
 was the first white child to be born in that place. 
 When he was seven years of age his parents 
 moved to Salt Lake City and this has since been 
 his home. His education was obtained from the 
 common schools of the city, from which he en- 
 tered the Deseret University, now the Univer- 
 sity of Utah, and took a normal course, gradu- 
 ating in 1878. After his graduation he took a 
 two years' course in the scientific department of 
 the University, completing his education at the 
 age of nineteen years. The institution at that 
 time did not confer any degrees, hence Mr. Can- 
 non did not receive his degree upon completing 
 the scientific course. He has remained in close 
 touch with the L^niversity all these years and was 
 the first secretary of the Alumni Association. He 
 also served as President of the Association, and 
 has acted as toastmaster and in other promi- 
 nent positions at annual reunions and banquets 
 given by the Association. Upon leaving school 
 Mr. Cannon spent one season in the field work- 
 ing under Civil Engineer Jesse W. Fox, one of 
 the prominent men in his line in the West, at 
 one time chief engineer for the Utah Central, 
 as well as the Utah Southern Railroad. Mr. 
 Cannon also assisted in engineering work on 
 what is now the Oregon Short Line from Og- 
 den to Frisco. In 1880 he accepted a position as 
 teacher of a school founded by his uncle. Presi- 
 dent George O. Cannon, for his own children. 
 A number of the neighboring children also at- 
 tended this school. 
 
 Mr. Cannon was married in 1884 to Miss Ad- 
 die Morris, a daughter of Elias and Mary Lois 
 Morris, and by this marriage eight children have 
 been born to them — Addie M., George M., Jun- 
 ior. ; Marian M., Lucile M., Gene M., Vaughan 
 M.. Nora M. and Lois M. 
 
 During the time Mr. Cannon was a student 
 at the University he had spent a year in the of- 
 fice of the County Recorder, and in 1882 he 
 gave up teaching and again entered that office 
 as deputy, holding that position until 1884, when 
 he was elected County Recorder, remaining there 
 for six years. During this time he perfected the 
 system of abstract records and made many 
 needed changes in the office. In December, 1891, 
 
 he received the appointment of Cashier of the 
 Zions Savings Bank, which position he assumed 
 January I, 1892, and has since filled. This is 
 the oldest and one of the leading establishments 
 of the kind in Utah, and was established in 
 1873. Mr. Cannon was also one of the organiz- 
 ers of the sugar industry in Utah and has been 
 closely connected with that enterprise up to the 
 present time, being one of the original incor- 
 porators of the Utah Sugar Company, and for 
 many years a director therein. 
 
 He has always been a prominent figure in the 
 political life of the State, and before the separa- 
 tion upon national political lines was identified 
 with the People's party. In 1890 he stumped 
 the central and southern part of the State in the 
 interest of that party's candidate for Congress. 
 The following year, 1891, he cast his lot with 
 the Republican party and became one of the 
 original organizers of the Republican clubs. At 
 that time the State was overwhelmingly Dem- 
 ocratic, and at the request of prominent mem- 
 bers of the Republican party Mr. Cannon ran 
 for the legislature, but was defeated. He was 
 nominated by the Republicans in the same dis- 
 trict in 1894, and elected a member of the Con- 
 stitutional Convention and assisted in framing 
 the present State Constitution. Two of the most 
 important articles therein, those on "Revenue and 
 Taxation," and on "Public Debt," were framed 
 by committees of which he was chairman. The 
 latter article limited the amount of debt that 
 could be incurred by the State. He was elected 
 Chairman of the Republican State Committee 
 and conducted the campaign in which Repub- 
 licans were elected to all of the State offices. 
 The legislature, being Republican, elected two 
 LTnited States Senators. Mr. Cannon was elected 
 to the State Senate and had the honor of being 
 the first President of the State Senate of Utah. 
 Since then he has practically retired from polit- 
 ical life and has since devoted his time to his 
 private business. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Cannon laid out the town of For- 
 est Dale, one of the most beautiful suburbs of 
 Salt Lake City, where he located his home and 
 has since lived, owing the old Brigham Young 
 farmhouse and building, one of the finest homes 
 
332 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in that suburb. He has been actively identified 
 with the work of the Church during all these 
 years and has successively held the offices of 
 Deacon, Teacher, Priest, Elder and High Priest. 
 He has been closely associated with the work of 
 the Sunday Schools and is at this time a mem- 
 ber of the General Board of the Deseret Sunday 
 School Union, and also Superintendent of the 
 Sunday Schools of the Granite Stake with a mem- 
 bership of over four thousand enrolled officers, 
 teachers and pupils. 
 
 OSEPH O. NYSTROM. Perhaps no 
 man of his age has had a more interest- 
 ing or varied career than has the sub- 
 ject of this article. He was born in 
 Salt Lake City, May 6, 1874, and is the 
 youngest son of P. T. and Johanna (Roos) Ny- 
 strom. His father was a native of Sweden, where 
 he grew to manhood and learned the trade of 
 carpenter and carriage maker, which he followed 
 prior to coming to this country. He became a 
 convert to the doctrines and teachings of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 
 and in company with his parents emigrated to 
 America in 1850, locating in Salt Lake City, and 
 dying there at the age of fifty-six years. After 
 coming to Utah he spent six years in mission- 
 ary work in Sweden. His father, and the grand- 
 father of our subject, died in the early part of 
 this year, 1902. Our subject's mother was a na- 
 tive of Sweden, where she was a member of one 
 of the most prominent families of that country, 
 different members of the family occupying posi- 
 tions of trust and honor in public life. Mrs. 
 Nystrom came to Utah with her people some 
 years prior to the time of her husband's ar- 
 rival. 
 
 Our subject grew up in Salt Lake City and 
 received his early education from the common 
 schools of this place, completing his studies at 
 the University of Utah. At the age of eighteen 
 years he entered the employ of the Co-operative 
 Wagon and Machine Company, having charge 
 of the invoice and shipping department. 
 
 At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War 
 Mr. Nvstrom enlisted in Batterv A, United 
 
 States Light Artillery, and participated in the 
 first battle in Manila Harbor, on July 3, 1898, 
 under Alajor Richard W. Young. He was also 
 engaged in a number of the battles and skir- 
 mishes which followed in that country, and at 
 the end of a year was promoted with the rank of 
 First Sergeant. Upon being mustered out of 
 service Mr. Nystrom returned to this city and 
 resumed his position with the Co-operative 
 Wagon and Machine Company, remaining with 
 them until January i, 1900, when he accepted 
 the Chief Deputyship under R. C. Naylor, City 
 Recorder. In December of that year he received 
 the appointment to fill the vacancy caused by the 
 resignation of ;\Ir. Naylor, which position he 
 filled with much credit to himself and to the 
 entire satisfaction of his constituents, until the 
 fall of 1 90 1, when he was elected by a large ma- 
 jority on the Republican ticket to fill the office 
 of City Recorder. 
 
 Mr. Nystrom has been affiliated with the Re- 
 publican party since reaching his majority and 
 has done some good work for the party. While 
 he was reared in the faith and teachings of the 
 Mormon Church, Mr. Nystrom has never identi- 
 fied himself with any religious body, although his 
 preference is towards the Church in which he 
 was raised. 
 
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 ()1IN HOLT. The present Deputy 
 County Recorder of Salt Lake County 
 is among those men who have seen Utah 
 grow from a wild and vmsettled region 
 to one of the most prosperous States in 
 the western part of this country. He has taken 
 his full share in its development and has an in- 
 timate knowledge of the unfavorable conditions 
 that confronted the pioneers, and of the manner 
 in which the resources of the State were utilized 
 to build up the present satisfactory conditions 
 of Utah. He was born in Dorsetshire, Eng- 
 land, in 1858. His father, Albert Holt, emigrated 
 to the United States, and eight of the family 
 came to Utah a year later, crossing the plains 
 and mountains by ox team. His father followed 
 the business of railroad contractor for upwards 
 of twenty-five years. jMaria Mabey, wife of Al- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAE RECORD. 
 
 333 
 
 bert Holt, and mother of the subject of this 
 sketch, was also a native of England. Her pa- 
 rents were among the early settlers of Davis 
 county. 
 
 Our subject's boyhood days were like those 
 of the other sons of the pioneers and the first 
 settlers in Utah. As early as eight years of age 
 he was driving teams in Utah and in his twelfth 
 year had charge of a team working on the 
 "dump." His scholastic education was received 
 in the schools that then existed in Salt Lake 
 City, and he later entered the Deseret Univer- 
 sity, now the University of Utah, graduating 
 from that institution in 1882. Upon the comple- 
 tion of his education he entered business with 
 his father, who then had extensive contracts for 
 the building of the different railroads in this 
 section. Since his connection with railroad con- 
 tracts he has superintended nearly all of the work 
 which he and his father had secured. His father 
 had made extensive contracts, and built a large 
 portion of the John W. Young road, now a part 
 of the Rio Grande Western system, and was also 
 in charge of construction for the American Fork 
 Railroad. He also built portions of the line of 
 the Union Pacific and of the Santa Fe from 
 Pueblo to Denver. 
 
 Our subject was married in 1879 to Miss Mary 
 A. Soffe, daughter of Nimrod G. and Mary A. 
 Soffe. Her family were among the pioneers who 
 came to Utah across the plains in ox teams. 
 Her father, itpon his arrival in Utah, engaged in 
 farming. By this marriage Mr. Holt has a large 
 family of children. 
 
 In the administration of political afifairs in 
 Utah, Mr. Holt has been a consistent Democrat, 
 and has served as Deputy County Recorder since 
 January ist, 1901. Aside from this office he has 
 served several terms as School Trustee; been 
 Justice of the Peace and was for seven years 
 Postmaster in this county. He has been in the 
 past a school teacher in both this county and 
 city, spending twelve years in that work. In 
 the Church he has filled the offices of Superin- 
 tendent of the Sunday School and Presi- 
 dent of the Young Men's Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association. He is a member of the Church 
 of Tesus Christ of Latter Dav Saints and is a 
 
 Counselor to Bishop Jabez W. West, of the Ninth 
 Ward of Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Holt's success in life has been due entirely 
 to his own energy and to his industry and ap- 
 plication. He early learned in life the necessity 
 of relying entirely upon his own resources and 
 in making the best of the opportunities that pre- 
 sented themselves. His genial and pleasant man- 
 ner has endeared him to a wide circle of friends 
 throughout the State, and his ability has won 
 for him the reputation of unimpeachable integ- 
 rity, and gained the confidence and esteem of the 
 people. 
 
 ILLIAM HA WES CHILD, one of 
 the most successful mining men and 
 stock brokers of Salt Lake City, and 
 one of the corps who have aided ma- 
 terially in the development of the 
 mining properties of Utah and Nevada through 
 the dissemination of stock in those companies to 
 investors and capitalists, was born in Boston, 
 Massachusetts, in 1878. He is a son of Morris 
 W. Child, who was a native of Hartford, Con- 
 necticut, now a resident of Boston, and engaged 
 in maritime business there, chartering vessels and 
 conducting enterprises in that and allied branches 
 of industry. The Cliild family is one of the 
 oldest in the United States and in addition to 
 being early settlers of Connecticut, trace their 
 lineage in England back to \Mlliam the Con- 
 queror, when even then they were one of the 
 powerful and influential families of England. Air. 
 Child, the father of the subject of this sketch, 
 is an influential man of affairs in Boston. His 
 wife, Maria W. (Hawes) Child, was also a mem- 
 ber of one of the old families of Massachusetts. 
 Their son started on his business career on 
 September the loth, 1898, when he came to Salt 
 Lake City and engaged in the mining and brok- 
 erage business, participating actively in all the 
 different branches of this work, and has been 
 closely identified with the growth of the City 
 and State ever since. He is a member of the 
 Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange. He 
 has also become interested in mining properties 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 throughout the State. He is at this time Secre- 
 tory and Treasurer of the Shebe Gold and Sil- 
 ver Mining Company, in the Star mining dis- 
 trict. This is one of the famous mines of the 
 Western country and is located in Humboldt 
 county, Nevada, and has produced since active 
 operations were begun over three and a half mil- 
 lion dollars worth of ore. 
 
 In political life Mr. Child is a believer in 
 the principles of the Republican party, but has 
 not participated actively in its work and has 
 never been a candidate for public office. He is 
 a member of the Congregational Church. The 
 integrity of his business career while in Utah, 
 marks him as one of the most successful men 
 in business life, and foreshadows the future suc- 
 cess which will undoubtedly come to him in the 
 exercise of his abilitv and talents. 
 
 ^IITH PARKER. Utah has become 
 noted for many things, but in the phe- 
 nomenal advancement she has made to- 
 ward civilization during the past half 
 a century her live stock industry has 
 kept pace with the other lines until today there 
 are as fine blooded stock to be found within the 
 confines of Utah as perhaps any State in the Un- 
 ion. No man has done more towards bringing 
 the live stock industry up to its present high 
 standing than has Smith Parker, the subject of 
 this article. 
 
 He was born in Douglas, Massachusetts, 
 March lo, 1849, and is the son of Able and Sarah 
 (Darling) Parker, both natives of that State. 
 When our subject was but eight years of age 
 his parents moved to Rockford, Illinois, where 
 they remained a year, and then went to Jefferson 
 City, Bremer County, Iowa, where Able Parker 
 engaged in farming, and remained in this place 
 for five years. At the expiration of this time 
 Mr. Parker and his family, with the exception of 
 one son, who is yet at the old homestead in 
 Massachusetts, crossed the plains in a company 
 of one hundred wagons, traveling by ox team, 
 on their way to California. When they reached 
 Salt Lake Citv Mr. Parker traded his oxen for 
 
 horses and continued his journey to California, 
 where he settled in Lasson county, and took up 
 farming, which he followed until his death. 
 Both he and his wife died many years ago, leav- 
 ing a family of ten children, of whom our sub- 
 ject was the youngest, and seven of whom are 
 still living. Our subject was the only one to 
 leave California, the others making their home 
 in that State. 
 
 Mr. Parker spent three years in Nevada and 
 then came to Utah, where he has continued to 
 reside ever since. Upon coming to Utah he at 
 once went into the cattle business, which he has 
 made his life work, beginning in Juab county, 
 where he remained three years and then removed 
 to Piute county, and at one time was the owner 
 of a very large herd of cattle, which he has since 
 reduced. He is still interested in horses, of which 
 he has quite a number in Piute county. In 1885 
 Mr. Parker imported a carload of Holstein cat- 
 tle, which were the first of that class of cattle 
 to be brought into the State. He paid five hun- 
 dred dollars per head for these cattle in Syra- 
 cuse, all of them being yearlings, and later bred 
 from them, receiving two hundred dollars each 
 for his calves at three months old. He also pur- 
 chased a fine Hamiltonian stallion, for which he 
 paid twelve hundred dollars. This stallion took 
 a premium at the State Fair in New York, and 
 later won two prizes at the Utah State fairs. 
 Appreciating the work he was doing in this di- 
 rection the legislature appointed Mr. Parker a 
 director of the D. A. and M. Society, which posi- 
 tion he filled for four years. He was also Vice- 
 President of the South Utah Range Association, 
 at Koosharem, Piute county. He bred some fine 
 stock from his Hamiltonian stallion, some of 
 which he still owns, and had a race course con- 
 structed on his place. 
 
 Our subject settled at his present place about 
 1895, purchasing six and a quarter acres of land 
 and a fine house. His home is located on Sev- 
 enth East between Thirteenth and Fourteenth 
 South streets, and is known as Number 3325 
 Seventh East. In addition to this place he also 
 owns one hundred and sixty acres of good land 
 across the Jordan river, which is well improved. 
 
 Mr. Parker married on October 14, 1875, to 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 335 
 
 Miss Ellen Curtis, daughter of John and Matilda 
 (Minor) Curtis, she being born in Springville, 
 Utah. The result of this marriage has been ten 
 children, one of whom died. Th?y are: Ellen 
 R., now Mrs. Edward Vest, living in Piute 
 county ; Ralph, at home with his parents ; Frank, 
 ajso at home ; Eudora, Ida, Don C, who died 
 when four years old ; Albert S., Mable, Stella, 
 Iva M. 
 
 He is an adherent of the principles of the Re- 
 publican party, in whose work he has been active 
 since its organization in this State, and has held 
 a number of minor offices, having been Register 
 of Piute county and Postmaster at that place for 
 twelve years. He also served as a County Com- 
 missioner. In addition to these lesser offices he 
 also served as a delegate to the Fifty-fourth Con- 
 gress and was a delegate to the Territorial Con- 
 vention in 1894, just prior to the time Utah was 
 admitted into the Union. Mr. Parker has ever 
 been found the friend of education, and while 
 living in Piute county hired teachers from the 
 East and carried on the schools for five years 
 at his own expense, afterward donating the 
 building and twenty acres of land to the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal church for school and church pur- 
 poses. 
 
 Utah owes much to j\Ir. Parker for the lib- 
 eral spirit he has ever displayed in advancing the 
 interests of the State and of the communities 
 in which he has lived, and he has by his hon- 
 esty, integrity and honorable business dealings 
 won a high place in public as well as private life, 
 and today no man in the State stands higher 
 than he in the esteem of his fellow men. 
 
 ILLIAM J. SILVER. In building 
 up a commonwealth there are two 
 distinctively separate factors to be 
 considered, each a complement of 
 the other, and each in its way an 
 important feature: The advance-guard or pio- 
 neers ; brave men and women who willingly face 
 every hardship, danger and disappointment in 
 their work of opening up the paths of civiliza- 
 tion ; founding homes in an uninhabited coun- 
 try and paving the way for the industrial life 
 
 that is to follow. Close upon the footsteps of 
 these come the men who open up avenues of 
 trade and establish intercommunication with the 
 outside world, promoting enterprises of various 
 kinds and inviting investment of outside capital, 
 until in the course of time the State takes its 
 place in the life of the country as a commercial 
 center. In this latter class is to be found the 
 gentleman whose name appears at the head of 
 this article, who came to Utah in 1859 ^"d later 
 established what has since grown to be the lead- 
 ing iron works foundry in the State. 
 
 Mr. Silver is an Englishman by birth and was 
 born on September i, 1832, in the city of Lon- 
 don. He is the son of William and Miriam 
 H. (Ives) Silver, both natives of that country, 
 the families on both sides having been England- 
 born for generations past. Our subject attended 
 the common and high schools of England, com- 
 pleting with a classic education in mechanical 
 drawing and engineering, which profession he 
 followed in his native country for some years 
 before coming to the United States ; being con- 
 nected with the Great Western Railway and later 
 with the Stothert and Pitt Iron Works at Bath, 
 a noted watering resort in England. This es- 
 tablishment employed from two to three hundred 
 men and was one of the largest in England at 
 that time, their specialties being steam engines; 
 railroad supplies, turn-tables, bridges, etc. 
 
 In 1855 our subject resigned his position and 
 crossed the ocean, landing in New York and re- 
 mained in that city for four years, during which 
 time he followed his profession as mechanical 
 engineer. In 1859 he started for Utah, coming 
 as far as Saint Joseph, Missouri, by rail, the 
 company with whom he was traveling being the 
 second to come to Saint Joseph in that manner. 
 From Saint Joseph they went up the river to 
 Florence, Nebraska, then the rendezvous for the 
 Mormons ; and from there started by ox teams 
 for Utah, being eight weeks on the way, driving 
 his own team most of the time. 
 
 Upon arriving in Salt Lake City he at once 
 went to work in the Church shop in Sugar House 
 Ward, where he remained for one year, at the 
 end of which time he engaged in business for 
 himself in the iron works line, and continued to 
 
336 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 increase the business from time to time until 
 he finally sold it out to his sons in the late 
 eighties. They have followed the policy adopted 
 by the father and the plant is at this time the 
 largest in the State of Utah, employing more 
 than one hundred men. Sketches of these three 
 sons and the scope of work they are engaged 
 in will be found elsewhere in this work. 
 
 On November 20, 1868, Mr. Silver constructed 
 the first steam engine ever built in the State. 
 He also put the engines into the first steamboat 
 that plied on the Great Salt Lake, the Kafe 
 Connor, named in honor of the daughter of Gen- 
 eral Conner, its principal owner. Besides these 
 he has equipped many other plants in this and 
 adjoining States with engines, etc. 
 
 Our subject was converted to the Mormon 
 faith in 185 1 while in England, and has passed 
 through all the different offices from that of 
 Elder to High Priest, always taking an active 
 part in the affairs of the Church. 
 
 Mr. Silver has had six wives. The wife of 
 his youth was Mary Askie, of Staffordshire, Eng- 
 land. Her father, William J. Askie, was also 
 an iron manufacturer, as was his ancestors for 
 some generations back. Our subject has been 
 the father of twenty-one children, of whom ten 
 are now living. They are : Frank, the young- 
 est, is now on a mission to Hawaii, where 
 he has been laboring for the past two years ; 
 George is instructor of mechanical science in the 
 University of Utah ; William, engaged in job 
 printing at Provo; Hyrum, Joseph and John, en- 
 gaged in the iron foundry business in Salt Lake 
 City. Of the four daughters now living, Mary 
 Ann is the wife of A. Harding of Provo ; Althea 
 is now Mrs. John Sheets, of Salt Lake City; 
 Caroline is the wife of Albert W. Bullough, also 
 in Salt Lake City, and Laura is living at home. 
 
 In politics our subject is independent, never 
 having tied to any of the dominant parties, and 
 has never sought or held public office. 
 
 Mr. Silver, while he sold out his interest in 
 the business to his sons many years ago, has 
 never wholly severed his connection with the con- 
 cern, and is at this time mechanical engineer and 
 an important factor in the work. He has made 
 the acquaintance of people from all parts of 
 the West and enjoys a high standing in the busi- 
 ness and social world. 
 
 
 RSON DAY is a native son of Utah, 
 having been born in Salt Lake City, 
 Alay 8, 1872, and while yet a young 
 man he has thoroughly demonstrated 
 his ability as a successful and enterpris- 
 ing business man. He is the son of David and 
 Elizabeth (Davis) Day, both natives of Eng- 
 land. The father was born in Luton, Bedford- 
 shire, England, in 1825, and emigrated to the 
 United States in 1850, arriving in Salt Lake City 
 on October 5th of that year. The mother was 
 born in Herefordshire, England, and with her 
 people came to Utah in 185 1. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Day were married in Salt Lake City and raised 
 a family of ten children, our subject being next 
 to the youngest child. Of this family six are 
 now living. The father of our subject came to 
 Davis county in an early day and invested in a 
 considerable amount of land. He later returned 
 to Salt Lake City and opened up a general mer- 
 chandise business, and was at one time the lead- 
 ing merchant in Salt Lake. He was also a large 
 owner of mining property in the State, and at 
 the time of his death, in 1877, was one of the 
 most prosperous and successful business men in 
 the city. His widow still lives there. Our sub- 
 ject was but a child when he came to Kaysville 
 Ward with his mother and this has been his 
 home ever since. He obtained his education prin- 
 cipally from the schools of this district and has 
 followed farming all his life. 
 
 Mr. Day married February 8, 1898, to Aliss 
 Ruth A. Barnes, daughter of Lorenzo and Sarah 
 Ann Barnes. The Barnes family came to Utah 
 in an early day and their daughter was born in 
 Kaysville. Mr. and Airs. Day have one child 
 — Le Roy. The place where Mr. Day now re- 
 sides was left to him and his mother by his 
 father, David Day, and he has by energy and 
 perseverance improved it to a high degree. He 
 has a comfortable home, the site being an un- 
 usually pretty one, near the historic Salt Lake, 
 and Mr. Day has spent much time in beautify- 
 ing the place. He is a very successful cattle 
 and sheep owner and among Kaysville's most 
 wide-awake and enterprising business men. Both 
 he and his wife were raised in the Mormon faith 
 and Mr. Day has alwavs been active in Church 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 337 
 
 work. He is a member of the Seventies and in 
 Februar)-, 1898, was called and set apart for mis- 
 sionary work in Great Britain, serving twenty- 
 eight moiiti», most of the time being spent in 
 the iiondon Conference. During his absence he 
 visited many points of interest in Europe, spend- 
 ing fourteen days at the Paris Exposition, and 
 was also at the Glasgow fair, and the Pan-Amer- 
 ican Exposition. He also took advantage of this 
 opportunity to secure a genealogy of the family, 
 which he prizes highly. Mr. Day is largely in- 
 terested in Sunday School work and an active 
 worker in that line at home. 
 
 In political life he is independent, preferring 
 to vote for the man whom he considered best 
 qualified for the office. While he is interested in 
 the political life of his community he has never 
 sought nor held public office, preferring to de- 
 vote his time to his business interests and to the 
 work of the Church. 
 
 KXRY HARKER, at present one oi 
 the county commissioners of Salt Lake 
 county. Among the native sons 
 of Utah there are but few men who 
 have figured as prominently and whose 
 influence and operations have been so wide and 
 far-reaching in the developing of the vast re- 
 sources of this State, as the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 Mr. Harker enjoys the distinction of being the 
 first white child born west of the Jordan river, 
 ana within a few miles of his present home, 
 which is located in Taylorsvillc Ward. His birth 
 occurred November 5, 1849. He is the fifth son 
 of Joseph and Susannah (Sneath) Harker. His 
 father and mother were both natives of Lan- 
 caster, England, and came to the United States 
 and settled in Utah in 1847. The marriage of 
 Mr. Harker, Senior, occurred in his native coun- 
 try, where he continued to reside for several 
 years after his marriage. There were three chil- 
 dren born to him in England. On their jour- 
 ney from Nauvoo to Omaha one of their chil- 
 dren was drowned in the Mississippi river, near 
 New Orleans, and one died in Winter Quarters. 
 In Echo canyon, L^tah, a child was born to them, 
 
 whom they named ^\'illiam, and who lives in 
 Taylorsville Ward, he being the first male white 
 child born in Utah. The following spring his 
 father put in his first crop in Utah in the out- 
 skirts of what is now Salt Lake City. In the 
 spring of 1849 h^ crossed the Jordan river and 
 built a log cabin, but on account of the dangers 
 which they were subject to from the Indians, 
 they abandoned this cabin and located at the old 
 English Fort, which he assisted in building. 
 Here he lived for a number of years, and built 
 a log and brick house at the foot of the hill 
 near Taylors road, on the Jordan river, and here 
 his wife, and the mother of our subject, still 
 lives. His father died at a ripe old age in 1898. 
 He had been prominently connected with the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 
 nearly all of his life, and for years was Bishop 
 of Taylorsville W^ard. He assisted largely in 
 colonization, being among those who were sent 
 to colonize the Salmon river country in Idaho, 
 where he helped construct the Lemhi Fort. On 
 the entering of the Johnston army into Utah in 
 1857 he was recalled to Utah by the heads of the 
 Church. Mr. Harker was known throughout the 
 State as an honorable, generous and kind gen- 
 tleman, and a faithful husband and father. For 
 honor and veracity he had no peer in the State. 
 
 Our subject began for himself at the early age 
 of sixteen years and his life has been crowned 
 with success from almost the very first ; he at 
 once began to accumulate means and went into 
 business for himself. Mr. Harker owns a part 
 of the old homestead which his father had spent 
 so much time and so many years in improving, 
 and where he spent the greater part of his life 
 in this State. Our subject has one of the fin- 
 est homes to be found outside of Salt Lake City, 
 in this State, and a home that would be a credit 
 to many of the eastern cities. It is elegantly 
 furnished. His Salt Lake county homestead con- 
 sists of one hundred acres, and he is also largely 
 interested in real estate and ranches in Wyom- 
 ing, where he keeps the most of his stock. Mr. 
 Harker is largely identified, not only with the 
 farming and stock business, but also in mining 
 in L^tah, Idaho and the adjoining States. 
 
 He married November 8, 1869, to Miss Eliz- 
 
338 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 abeth Pixton, daughter of that grand old cou- 
 ple, Robert and Elizabeth Pixton, her father hav- 
 ing been a member of the Mormon battalion, and 
 her mother now resides in the Taylorsville Ward 
 and is a very intelligent and hearty old lady of 
 eighty-two years of age. There have been ten 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Harker — Lov- 
 enia, Mary E., Rozella, Charlotte A., Henry, 
 Emma, Lenora, Bruce, Horace and Douglas. 
 Five of the children are married. Two of JNIr. 
 Harker 's sons-in-law are identified with him in 
 the sheep business, which Mr. Harker has suc- 
 cessfully followed the greater portion of his life. 
 The family are all members of the Mormon 
 Church. Many years ago Mr. Harker was or- 
 dained a member of the Seventies and has held 
 the office of High Priest and at present holds 
 the office of High Council of Granite Stake. 
 
 In political life our subject has always been 
 a staunch Republican, having taken a prominent 
 part in the history of that party ever since it 
 was organized in this State. In November, 
 1900, he was elected a county commissioner of 
 Salt Lake county for a term of two years, which 
 he is at present filling. For many years he 
 has been road supervisor, having been elected 
 by the Republican party. The work that has 
 been accomplished by the present quorum of 
 county commissioners has been entirely satisfac- 
 tory, not only to the constituents of Mr. Harker, 
 but to the people of Salt Lake county as well. 
 It is estimated that they have saved the county 
 at least twelve thousand dollars by the economic 
 way in which they have conducted the affairs of 
 the county during 1901. At present the county 
 commissioners are building a bridge across the 
 Jordan river, opposite the Highland Boy smelter, 
 which will prove a great benefit to the citizens 
 in that vicinity, many of the men working in the 
 smelting works living on the opposite side of the 
 river from the works and being compelled to go 
 miles around in order to get to their work. Mr. 
 Harker takes a deep interest in the afifairs of 
 the county which he is called to look after by 
 virtue of his office, and nothing is done in a 
 haphazard way, but a system is required and 
 economy demanded in everything that is under- 
 taken for the improvement of Salt Lake county. 
 
 Mrs. Harker is an active member of the Re- 
 lief societies of the Church, in which she has 
 taken a prominent part, and has assisted largely 
 in the development of this society in her Ward. 
 Two of her daughters who are residing in the 
 home are members of the Young Ladies' Aid 
 Society. Mr. Harker has also taken an active 
 and prominent part in the history of the Church, 
 having served on a mission to Great Britain, go- 
 ing there in 1891 and returning in 1893. He 
 also served in the same capacity in Arizona in 
 1873. He was the first to cross Lees Ferry over 
 the Colorado river. That summer the ferry 
 went down on account of the high water, and 
 Mr. Harker with a cargo of thirty-si.x wagons 
 was left on the other side of the river and had 
 to ferry across its banks, having to take the 
 wagons apart, which he successfully accom- 
 plished and landed his cargo on the opposite side. 
 He also served in the Black Hawk War in 1866. 
 In 1 868 he freighted in behalf of the Church, 
 going as far East as what is now Fort Steele, 
 in Wyoming, at which point he took charge of 
 the emigrant trains and conducted them across 
 the plains to Salt Lake City. 
 
 HARLES HENRY SPENCER is 
 one of those whose lives has been 
 closely associated with that of the 
 Church since the time of the Prophet 
 Joseph Smith. His parents were 
 among the early members of the Mormon 
 Church, and Mr. Spencer himself has passed 
 through almost all the vicissitudes incident to 
 the lives of this people. He is one of the pion- 
 neers of this country and his memory is a store- 
 house of many thrilling and also sad incidents 
 in connection with the subduing and cultivating 
 of this vast tract of barren land, transforming 
 it into its present high state of cultivation. 
 
 He comes of an old Massachusetts family, 
 both his parents being born in that State, and 
 his own birth occurring in Stockbridge, Massa- 
 chusetts, on December i, 1827. His parents 
 were Hiram and Mary (Spencer) Spencer, the 
 mother bearing the same name as her husband 
 previous to her marriage. The parents became 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 339 
 
 converts to the teachings of the Mormon reli- 
 gion, and after the death of the mother, which 
 occurred in Massachusetts, the father started 
 West with his family of six children. The fam- 
 ily remained at Xauvoo until after the exodus 
 in 1846 and were there at the time of the killing 
 of the Prophet. They remained at Winter 
 Quarters until 1848, when they started across 
 the plains for Utah, an uncle of our subject, 
 David Spencer, being one of the party. The 
 father w.as taken sick and died during the jour- 
 ney, and was buried on the plains, the uncle 
 assuming the care of the family until they 
 reached the end of the trip. Here they were 
 thrown upon their own resources, the older ones 
 assisting those who were younger. 
 
 Our subject was just twenty-one years of age 
 when he came to Utah, and his education had 
 been received from the schools in his native 
 State and later in Nauvoo. He at once began 
 life as a farmer, doing at first anything which 
 came to his hand, in order to enable him to make 
 a living and get a start in the world. He has 
 by close attention to his business, hard and un- 
 tiring perseverance and industry, accumulated a 
 fair amount of this world's goods, and while 
 he is less wealthy than some of his neighbors, 
 yet he has sufficient to make his declining days 
 comfortable, and has won and retained the high- 
 est esteem of all with whom he has been asso- 
 ciated throughout his long and useful career. 
 
 He was married in Salt Lake City to ]\Iiss 
 Margaret Miller, daughter of W'illiam and 
 Elizabeth E. (Watson) Miller, who came to 
 Utah in 1849, from the Isle of Man. Six of the 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are now 
 living — Charles H., Nellie, now Mrs. Joseph 
 Cornwall ; Orson, Bryant, Philip and Daisy, the 
 wife of Albert Smith. 
 
 In the Church our subject has filled the offices 
 of Elder and High Priest, and his wife is a mem- 
 ber of the Ladies' Relief Society. Their chil- 
 dren are also members of the Church. 
 
 Coming here at an early day, Mr. Spencer 
 was one of those who helped to put down the 
 bordes of Indians who infested these \\^estern 
 plains and made the life of the white settlers 
 hazardous in the extreme, making periodical 
 
 raids when they not only carried off the stock 
 and stole the provisions of the white people, but 
 often in the battles that ensued killed many of 
 them. Today there is not a spot in this West- 
 ern country where the white man may not dwell 
 in perfect safety. The fifty-three acres of land 
 which Mr. Spencer has accumulated stands as 
 a fine mounment to his skill and industry ; it is 
 all under a good state of cultivation, well fenced 
 and improved, and he owns a comfortable and 
 pretty home. While their work has been ardu- 
 ous and the way often steep and discouraging, 
 yet Mr. Spencer and his estimable wife have 
 never lost heart nor grown dissatisfied with 
 their lot, but have with a cheerfulness that has 
 proven contagious brought sunshine not only 
 into their own lives but into the lives of scores 
 of others around them, and proved bulwarks of 
 strength to the Church of which they have ever 
 been staunch adherents. 
 
 EXTAMIN MATHIAS HARM AN. 
 Since Utah has come to the fore as one 
 of the leading States in almost every 
 line of natural productions, she has 
 also been closely emulating her sister 
 States in many other directions, among which 
 may be mentioned the raising of blooded stock ; 
 high-grade Cotswold sheep ; Poland-China hogs : 
 Durham cattle, and blooded horses. Among the 
 breeders of the latter class of animals, Benjamin 
 Mathias Harman, the gentleman whose name 
 heads this article, stands foremost as one of the 
 most successful, owning one animal which has 
 taken first prize at every State Fair since first 
 exhibited, and a number of others which have 
 also been prize winners. 
 
 Mr. Harman is one of eight brothers who 
 came to America leaving their parents, Charles 
 and Mary (Mathias) Harman, in South Wales. 
 They landed on American soil in 1855, and after 
 spending a year in Pennsylvania, went from 
 there to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was mar- 
 ried in 1857. The following year the parents 
 came to the United States and settled in Kays- 
 ville, Illinois, where the family was reunited, 
 and in 1859 crossed the plains by oxen team, 
 
340 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 separating at Council Bluffs. Iowa, the boys 
 making the trip in a train under command of 
 Horton Haight, which left there in June and 
 reached Salt Lake City on October 4th, while 
 the parents came in company with Captain 
 James Brown. The family lived in Salt Lake 
 City and for the first ten years the father and 
 sons spent most of their time engaged in dig- 
 ging and building ditches ; doing contract work. 
 Both the father and mother died in the Sixteenth 
 Ward in Salt Lake City. 
 
 In 1874 our subject began his life as a farmer, 
 taking a farm in the west end of Mill Creek 
 Ward, on which he has since continued to live, 
 and on which he has erected a handsome and 
 commodious house surrounded by beautiful 
 shade trees, and the grounds embellished with 
 flowers, a good lawn, etc. He also has large 
 and well built barns and outbuildings, and the 
 place is well fenced and under a good system of 
 irrigation. He has paid considerable attention 
 to farming, a large part of his sixty-two acres 
 being under a high state of cultivation. He also 
 has a fine cattle ranch of fifty-nine acres three 
 miles west of the home place, and here the most 
 of his blooded stock is kept. Mr. Harman 
 takes a great pride in his stock and certainly 
 has one of the finest lot of thoroughbreds in the 
 county. Among them are two stallions, one a 
 standard bred three-year-old colt, which has 
 been broken to drive, and the other a Belgian 
 draft horse. This latter horse has taken first 
 prize at every State fair since being put on ex- 
 hibition, and a number of the colts bred by him 
 have also been prize winners. During the fair 
 of 1901 Mr. Harinan had six horses and colts 
 on exhibition, each one of which won a prize. 
 Any one familiar with the fine animals yearly 
 exhibited at the State fair in Utah will appre- 
 ciate the grade of these horses.. 
 
 For the past twenty years he has taken an 
 active part in mining afifairs of the State. He 
 is a director in three companies : The Cleve- 
 land, in the Tintic district ; the Saint Joe, in 
 the Brigham district, and the Gold Dust Mining 
 Company, located at Leesburg, Idaho. He is 
 also president of the latter company, and general 
 manager of the Saint Joe. 
 
 He has never participated to any great extent 
 in politics, his private business demanding all 
 his attention, but is one of the staunch support- 
 ers of the Republican ticket. All his family are 
 members of the Mormon Church, in whose doc- 
 trines they have been reared, and Mr. Harman 
 himself has done valiant service in the cause. 
 He spent two and a half years in Wales, en- 
 gaged in missionary work, and from a lay mem- 
 ber has risen to a position as member of the 
 Seventies. During the time he spent in Illinios 
 he was President of the branch of the Church in 
 that State. 
 
 Mr. Harman's marriage occurred in St. Louis, 
 when in 1857 he was united to Miss Ann Powell, 
 a daughter of John and Margaret Powell. Both 
 of Mrs. Harman's parents died in Mill Creek 
 Ward, within a year of each other. They made 
 their home during the latter part of their lives 
 with Mr. Harman. Three children have blessed 
 their marriage — John, Anna, now Mrs. Edward 
 Smith, and living in the neighborhood, and 
 Isaac. Both the sons are also married and live 
 on farms of their own in close proximity to 
 that of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Harman 
 have thirteen grandchildren. 
 
 OX C. TUFTS. Among the numerous 
 sterling citizens who have settled in 
 Utah during its early struggling pe- 
 riod, and who have assisted materially 
 in its development, is the gentleman 
 whose name heads this sketch. His long and 
 honorable record is well known in Salt Lake 
 county. He was born in Ouincy. Illinois, April 
 17, 1842, and is a son of Elbridge and Elmira 
 (Pinkham) Tufts. They were both natives of 
 Maine, and both born in the year 1812. The 
 senior Mr. Tufts spent his earl)- life on a farm 
 in Maine, where he continued to live until the 
 early part of 1830. The Pinkham family trace 
 their ancestors back to the settlement of Plym- 
 outh Rock. Our subject's father and mother 
 were married in their old native town in Maine, 
 and in 1830 they emigrated to Illinios, first set- 
 tling in Quincy. They later moved to St. Joseph, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 341 
 
 Missouri, when our subject was only four years 
 of age. They had early become members of the 
 Mormon Church in Maine, and in 1848 fitted out 
 ox teams and prepared to cross the plains to Utah, 
 traveling in the train of which Arastus Snow 
 was captain, where they might enjoy the associ- 
 ations and fellowship of their Church people. 
 There were five children at the time, and our sub- 
 ject, being the fourth child, three of whom are 
 living — Josiah, the oldest, is now living in Rich 
 county, this State ; Elizabeth, now a resident of 
 California. 
 
 On arriving in Utah, our subject's father took 
 up land in this vicinity, but only lived for two 
 years. He died in 1850. He had also taken up 
 land in Davis county. This, however, was lost 
 after his death. Our subject's mother died in 
 1883, our subject having remained with her until 
 the last. 
 
 By his first marriage three children were born 
 — Leona, now Mrs. Henry Burnett, resident of 
 Mill Creek Ward ; Geneva and Bessie. 
 
 Mr. Tufts married his second wife, Miss Ann 
 Domett, September 26, 1899. They have one 
 child — Sumner P. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Tufts, in company with T. H. 
 Morton, purchased forty-five acres of land be- 
 tween Twelfth and Thirteenth South. Later all 
 of this land was sold by Mr. Tufts with the ex- 
 ception of five acres, which he now occupies, and 
 where he built a splendid home; a portion of the 
 balance of the land being occupied by the Keams 
 St. Ann's Orphanage. 
 
 In politics Mr. Tufts has always been a staunch 
 Republican, but has never sought public office. 
 
 In the Church he has always taken a prominent 
 and active part, and by his straightforward busi- 
 ness principles has won the respect of all who 
 have been associated with him through life. 
 
 OHX .\. SILX'ER. Among the varied 
 industries which have grown in Utah 
 ii ir the proper utilization of the resources 
 of the State, none hold a higher posi- 
 tion in the business v/orld than does the 
 iron foundry whose operations are directed by 
 the subject of this sketch. Beginning with a 
 
 srtiall establishment and crude apparatus, it has 
 been so developed that it is now one of the lead- 
 ing foundries of the West. The men who have 
 conducted its affairs have, by their industry and 
 ability, made the Silver Brothers Iron Foundry 
 and Machine Works of this city one of the most 
 substantial enterprises of Utah. 
 
 John A. Silver was born on the Atlantic 
 ocean, August the 7th, 1855, while his parents 
 were en route to America, and when but four 
 years of age his parents removed from New 
 York to Salt Lake City, and here he spent his 
 boyhood days. His early education was derived 
 from the common schools that then existed in 
 this city, but with the demand for workers that 
 was then made by the West, and especially Utah, 
 where every hand was needed in the develop- 
 ment of its resources and the sustenance of the 
 people, he early started to work in his father's 
 foundry, where he learned the machine business. 
 
 His father, William J. Silver, was born in 
 London, England,, in 1832, and lived there until 
 he reached his majority. He was educated in 
 the common schools of London, and in Bath, 
 England. He secured employment on the 
 Southwestern Railroad, where he remained for 
 about three years. He emigrated to the United 
 States and settled in New York, where he re- 
 mained for four years, coming to Utah in 1859. 
 Upon his arrival in Salt Lake City he secured 
 employment at different occupations, and finally 
 laid the foundations for the establishment of the 
 present leading iron works of Salt Lake City. 
 The first site of his establishment was on Cen- 
 ter street, which he occupied until 1879, when 
 he moved to his present location. From a very 
 small beginning, his shop, at first covering a 
 space of only twelve feet square, and with no 
 other help than his own, his ability and industry 
 soon led to the increase of his business, and in 
 1868 he constructed the first steam engine ever 
 built in Utah. This engine was built without the 
 aid of any improved machinery or appliances, but 
 so thorough was his work that it is still in opera- 
 tion. The business that Mr. Silver had begun 
 continued to grow with the passing years, and 
 he remained at its head, directinj^ its affairs, 
 until 1886, when it was transferred and the en- 
 
342 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tire business sold to his three sons. At that time 
 he employed about twenty-five men and from 
 the time that his sons have managed the property 
 its force has been increased until it now numbers 
 on its rolls between one hundred and one hun- 
 dred and twenty workmen. Upon his retire- 
 ment from the iron foundry he went to Provo 
 and successfully established iron works there, 
 but continued that establishment only about 
 three years. Since his return from Provo he 
 has devoted his time almost exclusively to the 
 preparations of plans and designs for machin- 
 ery. 
 
 Mr. Silver was married in London, England, 
 to Mary Askie, a native of StaiTordshire, En- 
 gland, and by this marriage he had four sons 
 and one daughter — William, who died at the 
 age of twelve years; John A., Joseph A., Hyrum 
 A., and his daughter, who died at the age of 
 two years. Mr. Silver became a convert to the 
 teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 
 ter Day Saints in England, in 1851, at the time 
 of the great Exposition. During his residence 
 in LUah he married four wives, in accordance 
 with the teachings of his Church. By these 
 marriages he has now six sons and four daugh- 
 ters living, this number being about one-half of 
 the number of children born to him. 
 
 Mr. Silver was the only son of William and 
 Miriam Ives (Wright) Silver, natives of Yar- 
 mouth, England. He has been a faithful and 
 consistent member of the church of his choice 
 since the time he joined it, and is now one of 
 the Seventies. His time has been largely de- 
 voted to his business, but he has also found time 
 to take an active interest in the development of 
 his Church. His business has not only aided in 
 the support of about four hundred families, but 
 has been of great advantage to the youth of LUah 
 in the teaching of the iron business. He has 
 been a resident of Salt Lake ever since he came 
 to Utah, with the exception of the three years 
 spent in Provo. He is essentially a self made 
 man, and the success he has achieved for him- 
 self through his industry, perseverance and ap- 
 plication, has won for him the respect and con- 
 fidence of the entire business world of the West. 
 He is at present in the enjoyment of good health 
 
 and lives in his present home on Center street, 
 which he erected about three years ago. 
 
 The zeal which John A. Silver, our subject, 
 has shown in his business enterprises was dem- 
 onstrated in the facility with which he mastered 
 the intricacies of the machine business. After 
 spending a time in his father's works, during 
 which he was thoroughly equipped in that trade, 
 he, together with his brothers, Hyrum A. and 
 Joseph A., now also oi^cers in the Silver Broth- 
 ers Iron and Foundry Works, spent about nine 
 years in the various mining camps in Utah and 
 adjoining States, erecting pumps and installing 
 mills. He also spent about nine years in the 
 shops of the LTnion Pacific Railroad Company, 
 which are now under the control of the Oregon 
 Short Line system. He entered the shops as a 
 journeyman, and rising through the intermedi- 
 ate steps to foreman, was finally made master 
 mechanic, which position he resigned in 1886. 
 In this year he and his two brothers purchased 
 his father's foundry and machine works. At 
 that time the works were limited. These works 
 had been started by his father, and were not 
 very extensive. When the three brothers secured 
 the business they did all the work themselves. 
 It was a hard, long pull, but the firm of young 
 men stuck to their tasks, notwithstanding the 
 fact that they had to go in debt for their entire 
 business. With unflagging industry they worked 
 night and day until they got the works well un- 
 der way, and it has since grown year by year 
 until at the present writing it is the largest 
 foundry and machine shops west of Omaha. The 
 plant, from a small shop of twelve feet, has 
 now grown until it covers several acres of land. 
 The business is located at No. 149 West North 
 Temple, and the buildings run from that street 
 through to South Temple, and gives employment 
 to more than one hundred people, supplying al- 
 most all of the steel and iron used in the inter- 
 mountain region. The development of this plant is 
 one of the most striking of the successes which 
 the people of Utah have made in their conflict 
 with the unpromising natural conditions. The 
 Silver Brothers' foundry is run on systematic 
 line.s, and with such rare ability and precision 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 343. 
 
 that it easily stands high in the ranks of such in- 
 dustries throughout the United States. 
 
 John A. Silver was married on Xovember 28, 
 1880, to Miss Orthena Pratt, daughter of Apos- 
 tle Orson Pratt. By this marriage he has five 
 children — Eugena, Glenn, Alzina, Edith and 
 Leland. He is a member of the Church to which 
 his father gave his allegiance, and has shown the 
 same zeal and industry in his work for the 
 Church as has marked his career as a business 
 man. He has the trust and confidence of its 
 leaders, and is now one of the Presidents of the 
 One Hundred and Ninth Quorum of Seventies 
 in that Church. 
 
 In political affairs he has never taken an act- 
 ive interest, so far as the solicitation of office is 
 concerned, but is a believer in the principles of 
 the Democratic party. The career which he has 
 built up in Utah marks him as one of the repre- 
 sentative business men of this State. He is pre- 
 eminently a self made man, having won his pres- 
 ent standing in the financial and business world 
 by his own ability. His genial and courteous 
 manner, together with his reputation for integ- 
 rity and honesty, have won for him the confi- 
 dence and esteem of all the people with whom 
 he has come in contact. He is the owner of one 
 of the handsome homes in this city, it being 
 located at No. 952 South Eighth West street. 
 
 r.RAHAM HELM, deceased. He was 
 born in Cumberland county, Pennsyl- 
 vania, February 22, 1813, and was the 
 son of David and Elizabeth (Book- 
 man) Helm — David being the son of 
 Jacol). The Helm family were among the first to 
 locate in Pennsylvania, originally hailing from 
 Holland. The subject of this sketch was the 
 oldest son of David. He was left an orphan when 
 only eight years old, his father and mother both 
 having died. He was raised by a man named 
 John \"andersall until sixteen years of age. By 
 that time he had received a fair common school 
 education in Pennsylvania. At the age of sixteen 
 years he started out to learn the carpentering 
 business. After following this for some time 
 
 and not being satisfied with the gentleman by 
 whom he was employed, he quit that business and 
 left Pennsylvania, settling in Stark county, Ohio. 
 The first summer in Ohio was spent in working 
 by the month in a tan yard, where he remained 
 with one man for a period of two years. It was 
 in this vicinity that he met Miss Mary Richards, 
 who at that time was doing housework in the 
 same vicinity. She was the daughter of Phillip 
 and Mary (Seider) Richards, and was born in 
 Alsace, Germany, July 30, 18 12, coming to Amer- 
 ica with her parents in 1826. Her parents lived 
 and died in Ohio. Mr. Helm and Miss Richards 
 were married October 20, 1836, in Stark county. 
 Soon after marrying, Mr. Helm and his wife 
 moved to Sandusky county, Ohio, where they 
 lived for a period of eighteen years. Eleven chil- 
 dren were born to them in that county and one 
 after they came to Utah — Joseph, died at the 
 age of fifty-six years ; John, at the present time 
 lives on the old homestead with his mother ; Bar- 
 tram is a stockman in Idaho; Susannah is now 
 the wife of Thomas Clayton ; Mary A. is the twin 
 of Susannah, widow of James Gordon; Samuel 
 died at the age of thirty-eight years; Caroline is 
 now the widow of R. P. Lemmon ; Marshal and 
 Andrew D. live in Mill Creek Ward; Levi P., 
 a resident of Colorado ; Johanna, now Mrs. Sam- 
 uel Brinton ; Abraham D., who died in infancy. 
 In 1855 this family left their old home in Ohio, 
 and under Captain Moses Thurston started for 
 Salt Lake City, and after a long and hazardous 
 trip across the plains they arrived in this city 
 September 28, 1855. They at once settled in Mill 
 Creek Meadow, where they only remained about 
 one week, when they located on the old home- 
 stead, where Mr. Helm spent the balance of his 
 life, and where his widow now resides. The place 
 is located near State street, on the banks of the 
 Big Cottonwood creek. She now has six 
 acres of land, well improved; besides these 
 there are a number of other places which 
 her husband owned during his life time, and 
 which the children now own. Mr. Helm was an 
 industrious and hard-working man, a good hus- 
 band and a kind father, and when he died, on 
 October 26, 1894, he left many friends and rela- 
 tives to mourn his demise. He had been success- 
 
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 ful in Utah, and at the time of his death left a 
 large estate to the family. Of his sons there are 
 now three residing in this county, all engaged in 
 farming. 
 
 John, the oldest, resides on the home place with 
 his mother. By trade he is a blacksmith, but 
 has followed farming most of his life. He was 
 married April 21, 1866, to Miss Emily Very, 
 daughter of John and Elizabeth Very. They 
 have had three children — John A., died aged six 
 months; Joseph R., died in infancy, and William 
 Andrew is living in Utah county. The mother of 
 these children died in 1882. All of the Helm 
 family have been faithful and prominent mem- 
 bers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints, and have taken an active interest in its 
 upbuilding, as well as in the development of the 
 country. Bartram was Second Counselor to the 
 Bishop in Idaho. John, Bartram and Joseph all 
 took part as guards when Johnston's army landed 
 in Utah. They also took part in the Black Hawk 
 war, and during 1864 and 1866 John went to the 
 Missouri river after a company of emigrants, 
 whom he successfully brought to Utah. In 1862, 
 when the Governor called for volunteers to pro- 
 tect the freight and mails, he furnished a com- 
 pany for this department, fitted them out with 
 mules, and all their equipments, he himself ac- 
 companying them. Mr. Helm, during his long, 
 honorable and successful career in Utah, won the 
 confidence and respect of the people with whom 
 he associated in his private or business life. 
 
 OSEPH WARBURTON, Bishop of the 
 First Ward, Salt Lake City Stake of 
 Zion. Bishop Warburton was not a 
 pioneer to Utah, in the strict meaning of 
 that term, and yet over forty years of 
 the most valuable period of his life have been 
 spent in this State, and while it is true that many 
 people preceded him in this new country, yet at 
 the time he located in Salt Lake City, in the fall 
 of i860, he found the country in an undeveloped 
 state, compared to the great work of develop- 
 ment and rapid advancement which it has made 
 in the past forty years. The old adobe buildings 
 
 have given place to spacious mansions, and splen- 
 did red sandstone, granite and brick business 
 blocks have taken the place of the one-story frame 
 structures in which the business of the city was 
 once carried on, until today Salt Lake City oc- 
 cupies the most important position of any city in 
 the whole inter-mountain region. Through the 
 vast work of development Bishop Warburton has 
 played a most important part. He has been and 
 is still identified with many enterprises for the 
 building up of not only Salt Lake City, but the 
 entire State as well, and through his untiring 
 efforts his life has been blessed with a reasona- 
 ble degree of success. He stands high in the 
 councils of his church, as well as among the busi- 
 ness men of the State. 
 
 He is a native of England, having been born 
 in Radclifife, Lancashire, September 21, 1831, and 
 is the son of James and Sarah (Warburton) War- 
 burton, natives of the same shire, but of no kin. 
 Our subject is the seventh son among a family 
 of fifteen children, but two of whom are now 
 living. 
 
 Bishop Warburton was reared in the town 
 where he was born, and there received his educa- 
 tion and was apprenticed to the dyer's trade, fol- 
 lowing his trade in the skein factories. In 1847 
 he first heard the doctrine of Mormonism ex- 
 pounded. He was at that time a member of the 
 Swedenborgians, and it was not until four years 
 later that he was convinced of the truth of the 
 Mormon teachings. He presented himself to 
 Elder Thomas Allen in 1851, and received the 
 ordinance of baptism, being the only member of 
 the family to join this Church. In the same year 
 he was ordained a teacher and in the same year 
 an Elder, preaching in the streets of his native 
 town and presiding over the Radcliffe and Pendel- 
 bury Branches. 
 
 He was married in 1854 to INIiss Emma Wat- 
 mough, a native of the same place. By this mar- 
 riage ten children have been born, seven of whom 
 are living— Joseph C, William H., Joshua E., 
 Samuel, Ellen, now Mrs. George Kingborn; 
 Emman, wife of Thomas Powell; Mary, wife 
 of Thomas Shannon ; Sarah, the deceased wife 
 of Jasper Fletcher, and two sons who died in 
 infancy. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 345 
 
 On May 20, 1856, he and his wife set sail from 
 Liverpool on board the vessel IVellfleet, landing 
 in Boston, where they remained but a few days, 
 and then went to Lawrence, Massachusetts. 
 There our subject and his wife found employ- 
 ment in the Pacific Mills. He remained in Law- 
 rence until i860, and during that time pre- 
 sided over the Lawrence, Lowell and Groveland 
 Branches of the Church. In September, i860, 
 in company with his wife and two children, he 
 left Massachusetts and traveled by rail to Saint 
 Joseph, Missouri ; thence by boat to Florence, 
 and from there to Utah by ox team, traveling in 
 a train of forty-four wagons, under command of 
 Captain Jesse Murphey, landing in Salt Lake City 
 late on the 2nd of October of that year. His first 
 home was an old granary, ten by sixteen feet, 
 where his first son was born. For a time he did 
 whatever he could find in order to support him- 
 self and family. 
 
 About six months after the Zion Co-operative 
 Mercantile Institution was organized he opened 
 the First Ward branch of that organiza- 
 tion. Several years ago the stockholders sold 
 their interests to him, and he now con- 
 ducts it as an individual concern. He first 
 became President of the branch store, and 
 several years afterward purchased the in- 
 terests of the other stockholders, and conducted 
 the business alone for a number of years. He still 
 owns the business, but has turned the manage- 
 ment of it over to his son Samuel. He has also 
 dealt in real estate from time to time, building 
 a number of houses, and at this time has thirty- 
 five good building lots just outside the city limits. 
 
 In June, 1861, he was ordained a Seventy and 
 a member of the Sixty-second Quorum, and in 
 March of the next year was called upon to act 
 as First Counselor to Bishop Moon of the First 
 Ward. This necessitated his being ordained a 
 High Priest and givine up his membership in the 
 Seventies. Desiring to retain his membership in 
 that body, he received permission from President 
 Brigham Young to act as Counselor without be- 
 ing ordained High Priest, and retained his mem- 
 bership in the Seventies until 1870. At that time 
 Bishop Moon moved out of the Ward and our 
 subject was ordained High Priest and set apart 
 
 as Bishop of the Ward, which position he still 
 retains, his Counselors being John T. Thorup and 
 Niels Rasmussen. In May, 1895, he began work 
 in the Temple, and after completing the work for 
 the deceased members of his own family, he was 
 set apart by President Snow as a worker in the 
 Temple, where he still works four days of each 
 week. He has been a resident of the First Ward 
 since October 2, i860, since which time he has 
 devoted himself to the work of the Church. 
 
 In politics he is a Democrat, but has never as- 
 pired to office. Beginning in 1861, he was for 
 several years a Captain in the militia, under com- 
 mand of General Burton. 
 
 UGH D. PARK came here with the sec- 
 ond company of pioneers in 1847, when 
 a very small boy, and from that time 
 forward for many years his life was 
 one of severe toil and close privation. 
 He has not only been one of the noble band who 
 began at the bottom under the most discouraging 
 circumstances and transformed the barren and 
 desert wilderness into a State of exceptional fer- 
 tility and beauty, but in this stupendous task he 
 has laid his health upon the altar of his Church 
 and State, and now in his mature manhood, when 
 he should not yet think of growing old for many 
 years to come, he is wrecked in health and unable 
 to enjoy the affluence which has come to his fam- 
 ily through his industry and frugality. However, 
 illness has not soured his disposition, but rather 
 made him the more gentle and considerate, and 
 while surrounded by all that love of wife and 
 children, or that money can procure for his com- 
 fort, he is spending his life in the secure knowl- 
 edge of having faithfully earned all the honors 
 and wealth that have come to him, and is en- 
 titled to the deepest gratitude of the citizens of 
 Utah for the part he has played in this grand 
 achievement. 
 
 Mr. Park was born in Canada in 1840, and is 
 the son of William and Jane (Duncan) Park, 
 both of whom were born in Scotland and emi- 
 grated to Canada in 1821. In 1846 the family 
 came to the United States, and crossed the plains 
 
346 
 
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 to Utah in 1847 with the second company of 
 pioneers, under the guidance of Captain John 
 Taylor, who had command of the train. They 
 arrived in the Salt Lake valley on October 2nd, 
 and that winter and the following year lived in 
 the Old Fort, which had been erected for the 
 protection of the people against the raids of wild 
 animals and the no less savage Indians. In the 
 spring of 1849 they moved to Mill Creek Ward, 
 where the father had taken up some government 
 land, and this forms a part of the homestead 
 owned by the subject at this time. The first home 
 of the family was an adobe house, which stood 
 until after the death of the parents, and has since 
 been replaced by a handsome modern residence, 
 where Mr. Park makes his home. The mother 
 of our subject died at the old home in October, 
 1873, and the father died there March 11, 1890. 
 
 Owing to the necessity for each member of the 
 family to aid in the family maintenance, and to 
 the crude nature of the schools which first ex- 
 isted in Utah, the education of our subject was 
 of a naturally limited nature. His life was spent 
 in much the same manner as that of other sons 
 of pioneers, working on the farm, herding stock 
 and doing the chores about the place until he was 
 of an age to undertake heavier duties, and it was 
 largely owing to his ambition to accomplish much 
 and do the work of the men, lumbering in the 
 canyons, and doing other heavy work, that his 
 health is today impaired. He saved his scanty 
 earnings, and from titne to time invested them in 
 land or sheep, and gradually passed from a state 
 of poverty and at times almost absolute want, to 
 one of affluence, in which no reasonable wish of 
 his or his family might not be gratified. In addi- 
 tion to his home place, he has four other fine 
 houses and lots, which he rents, and one hundred 
 and twenty-five acres of valuable farming land 
 in this Ward. He has been largely interested in 
 the sheep industry, and his sons are now in that 
 line. 
 
 Mr. Park was married on November 26, 1862, 
 to Miss Agnes Hill, a daughter of Alexander and 
 Agnes Hill. Nine of the children born of this 
 marriage are living— Wiliiam H., Agnes, now 
 the wife of Edward Margan ; Alexander J., 
 Laura, now Mrs. Charles Smith ; Hugh, James, 
 
 Raymond, John, and Lillian F. The last three 
 named are at home with their parents. The fourth 
 child, Jane, died at the age of twenty-nine years. 
 
 He is in political belief a staunch adherent of 
 the Republican principles, and has never lost an 
 opportunity to cast his vote since reaching his 
 majority. 
 
 Mr. Park joined the Mormon Church at the 
 tender age of seven years, and since then has 
 been a true and consistent follower of its teach- 
 ings, but owing to his broken health has not been 
 called upon to take part in the active work of the 
 Church. Mrs. Park has also been a member since 
 childhood, having been baptized at the age of 
 eight years, and is one of the charter members of 
 the Ladies' Relief Society of her Ward. The 
 daughter, Lillian, is a member of the Young La- 
 dies' Mutual Improvement Society. 
 
 About fifteen years ago Mr. Park suffered from 
 a severe attack of nervous prostration, compli- 
 cated with rheumatism, and has never regained 
 his health, being at this time an invalid and prac- 
 tically helpless. 
 
 OLOMON F. KIMBALL, the son of 
 Apostle Heber C. Kimball, a sketch of 
 whose life appears elsewhere in this 
 work, was born in Winter Quarters, 
 Nebraska, in 1847, during the migration 
 of his parents from Nauvoo to Utah, and when 
 the family arrived in Salt Lake City their son 
 Solomon was just one year old. He spent his 
 boyhood days here, and was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of the city, and he resided here until 
 the death of his father in 1868. His father had 
 been one of the most prominent members of the 
 Mormon Church, and his children were reared in 
 that faith. His son, the subject of this sketch, 
 has followed in his father's footsteps, and has 
 taken a wide and active interest in the affairs of 
 the Mormon Church. In 1869, when he was 
 twenty-one years of age, he was called to go to 
 Bear Lake Valley on a mission, with others, to 
 assist in settling that country. He returned to 
 Salt Lake City upon the completion of the work 
 there, and remained here until 1877, when he was 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 347 
 
 again called on a mission, this time to Arizona, 
 in company with his brother David, and remained 
 in that Territory for nine years, assisting in mak- 
 ing the first settlement at Mesa City, in Salt 
 River Valley and building up the Church settle- 
 ment there. He returned to Salt Lake City in 
 1886, and secured employment as the City Jailer, 
 which position he has held ever since, with the 
 exception of a term of four years. 
 
 Mr. Kimball was married in Arizona in 1881 
 to Miss Ursulia Pomeroy, daughter of Martin 
 Pomeroy, one of the first pioneers to come to 
 the Salt Lake Valley and one of the first Bear 
 Lake expedition to settle that country. He erected 
 the first saw mill in that valley, and was one of 
 its prominent and influential men. Mr. Kimball's 
 wife died in 1891. By this marriage he had seven 
 children — Solomon F., junior, Roy David Pome- 
 roy, Helen Mary, Heber C, Sarah Vilate, Vilate 
 Murray and Murray G. Of these seven children 
 four died and three grew to maturity. Mr. Kim- 
 ball was married in 1893 to Miss Caroline Fillup, 
 a resident of Provo and daughter of Peter Fillup, 
 one of the earliest settlers in that region. 
 
 Our subject has participated in all the work 
 which has been done in settling Utah, and in 
 building up the industries of the State. He has 
 been through all the troubles with the Indians 
 and with the renegade white men, and through- 
 out the Black Hawk War, in 1866, was actively 
 engaged in operations against the Indians. His 
 brother, Heber P. Kimball, was in charge of 
 the force from Utah, being placed in command 
 in 1865 in southern Utah by President Young, 
 and served throughout the entire time the con- 
 flict lasted. Our subject went out with that force 
 on May 11, 1866, and remained there all that 
 summer. The command lost but two men in the 
 engagement with the Indians. In the work of 
 the Mormon Church, in addition to being absent 
 on important missions, our subject is now a High 
 Priest. In political life he was a strong adherent 
 of the Democratic party until the Spanish-Ameri- 
 can war, when he changed to the Republican 
 party, whose doctrines he has since followed, and 
 he is now almost the only Republican in his 
 family. 
 
 The Kimball familv is one of the oldest and 
 
 most important in Utah, and were natives of Ver- 
 mont, in America, their forefathers being natives 
 of England. The first Kimball to settle in this 
 country was Richard, who was born in Rattles- 
 den, Suffolk county, England, in 1595, and he 
 came to America in 1634 and settled in Massa- 
 chusetts. He was the fourth great grandfather 
 of Heber C. Kitnball, the father of the subject of 
 this sketch. The prominent part which Heber C. 
 Kimball took in the Church left a striking ex- 
 ample to his sons, and his career has been dupli- 
 cated, to a large extent, by the subject of this 
 sketch. He has won for himself a prominent place 
 in that organization, and enjoys the confidence 
 and trust of its leaders, and his integrity and 
 ability have won for him the respect and esteem 
 of all the citizens of Utah. 
 
 k. 
 
 OSEPH A. SILVER, Secretary, Treas- 
 urer and General Manager of the Silver 
 Brothers Iron Foundry and Machine 
 Company, and one of the most promi- 
 nent business men of Salt Lake City, 
 was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1857, and 
 came to Utah with his parents when only three 
 and a half years old, and spent his boyhood days 
 in Salt Lake City, most of the time working in 
 his father's shop. He was educated in the schools 
 of Salt Lake City, and later in the Deseret Uni- 
 versity, now theUniversity of Utah. When he was 
 seventeen years old he started on his business 
 career, and the successful establishment which 
 he and his brothers have erected through their 
 own efforts and by the exercise of their ability 
 and industry, makes him one of the most promi- 
 nent business men in Utah, and their foundry the 
 largest one in the inter-mountain region. From a 
 very small beeinning this establishment has grown 
 into large proportions ; employing in the begin- 
 ning no one except the three brothers, it now 
 affords employment to over one hundred men, 
 and its reputation has spread from the confines 
 of Salt Lake City throughout the entire West. 
 Its success has been achieved, not through any 
 lucky chance, or through financial backing, but 
 by the unflagging industry and application which 
 these three brothers brought to the performance 
 
348 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of the tasks which confronted them in making 
 their business a success. 
 
 The first work which our subject did was in 
 the carpenter trade, which he followed for eight 
 months, later securing employment in the mill- 
 wright department of the Ontario Alill, and there 
 he devoted a like period, later being promoted and 
 put in charge of the machinery of the mill, and 
 then acting as its Superintendent for over three 
 years. He resigned this position and returned to 
 Salt Lake City, where he for eight months was 
 engaged in building his home at No. 633 North 
 First West, and also working for his father in 
 the foundry. After remaining two years in Salt 
 Lake City, he returned to West Jordan, bordering 
 on the Sandy District, and took charge of all the 
 smelters and machinery of the different works 
 there, giving his time largely to the care of the 
 Telegraph smelters and visiting other works. He 
 again came to Salt Lake City, and secured a posi- 
 tion in the shops of the Utah Central Railroad, 
 where he remained for three years, leaving there 
 and entering the service of the Union Pacific Rail- 
 road at Logan, where he was made foreman of 
 the locomotive department of that company, 
 where he remained about ten months. He 
 resigned this position to accept a better one 
 on the Rio Grande ^^'estern, in the same 
 department of that road in Salt Lake City, 
 later being placed in entire charge of that 
 work. He returned to the Utah Central 
 Railroad, and was made Assistant Superintendent, 
 but resigned that position two years later to take 
 his share in the partnership of the Silver Broth- 
 ers Iron Works, with which business he has ever 
 since been identified. Much of this city's growth 
 is due to his wide experience in the iron business 
 and to the capacity which he had acquired for 
 the handling of large contracts and the solving of 
 difficult engineering problems. 
 
 He married, in Salt Lake City, Miss Mary 
 Ellen Watson, daughter of Bishop James Wat- 
 son, of the Nineteenth Ward of Salt Lake City. 
 They have one son, James, twenty-one years of 
 age, now absent in New Zealand on a mission for 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 
 The other membersof the familyare Mary.Leona, 
 Joseph W., John W., Clarence W., Watson; one 
 
 daughter, Gertrude, who died at the age of three 
 years, and William, who died in infancy, and also 
 Moralie W. Our subject has always been identi- 
 fied with the Mormon Church, and has taken a 
 prominent part in its work, and has also been one 
 of the seven Presidents of the Thirtieth Quorum 
 of Seventies, but was later transferred to the same 
 position of the One Hundredth Quorum, which 
 position he continues to fill. 
 
 \RD E. PACK. In reviewing the 
 history of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints from the time 
 it was first started by the Prophet 
 Joseph Smith down to the present 
 time, and the lives of the men who have guided 
 its destinies and presided over its affairs, it forms 
 a most interesting chapter in the annals of Ameri- 
 can history. The planting of the Church in Mis- 
 souri and Illinois ; the building of the Temple at 
 Xauvoo ; the period of prosperity ; the final expul- 
 sion : tile westward march across the plains to 
 Utah ; the early hardships endured by the pio- 
 neers, and the wonderful progress which has been 
 made under the most difficult and trying circum- 
 stances in this new country, will ever be a tribute 
 to the memory of those whose lives have been 
 spent in its service. Among the strong advocates 
 of the doctrines and principles taught by the 
 Church, Ward E. Pack ranks among the highest. 
 Our subject was born in Watertown, New 
 York, April 17, 1834. He is the son of John and 
 Julia ( Ives) Pack. His father was a native of 
 Saint John's, New Brunswick, and was born in 
 1809. He located in Watertown, New York, 
 when a young man, and in 1836 became a member 
 of the Mormon Church at that place. He moved 
 to Kirkland, Ohio, in 1838, and went with the 
 Saints to Far West, Missouri, from where they 
 
 were driven out by 
 Pike county, Illinios, 
 moved into Hancock 
 witnessed the growth 
 voo, taking part in 
 Temple at that place. 
 
 a mob and settled in 
 for a year. He then 
 county, that State, and 
 of the town of Nau- 
 the building of the 
 He went with the main 
 
 body of the Church to Winter Quarters in li 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 349 
 
 and came to Utah in the first train of one hundred 
 and forty-three men and three women, under com- 
 mand of Brigham Young, and was one of the few 
 who came into the valley before the main body of 
 emigrants. He located in what is now the Sev- 
 enteenth Ward of Salt Lake City, and began cut- 
 ting timber for a house. He got his home ready 
 that fall, and returned to Winter Quarters and 
 brought his family out the following spring. He 
 built the first dance hall in Salt Lake City, and 
 it was in that room that the first store was opened 
 in Salt Lake City, by Kincaid & Livingston. Mr. 
 Pack later took up a farm in Farmington, Davis 
 county, but remained there only one year, when 
 he sold out and took up a farm at West Bountiful, 
 in the same county. His family continued to re- 
 side in Salt Lake during this time. In 1849 he 
 went with a company over the plains to Omaha, 
 and from there went to France, where he spent 
 three years in missionary work, laboring a part 
 of the time on the Channel Islands. Upon his 
 return home he again took up his farm work in 
 West Bountiful, and lived there until 1861, at 
 which time he came to what is now Kamas, and 
 constructed the first saw mill in Beaver Canyon, 
 taking up land and bringing part of his family 
 here. The remainder of his life was spent be- 
 tween Kamas and Salt Lake, and he became an 
 active figure in the public life of the State, hav- 
 ing large interests in farming land and in stock, 
 and was one of the leading spirits in the Deseret 
 Fair Association. He was also prominent in 
 Church work, being President of the Eighth Quo- 
 rum of the Seventies from the days of Nauvoo 
 up to 1875, and was then ordained a High Priest, 
 which position he held to the time of his death 
 in Salt Lake City, April 4, 1886. He had five 
 wives, three of whom are now living, and was 
 the father of forty-three children, of which num- 
 ber thirty-nine are now living. 
 
 Our subject came to Utah with his parents in 
 1848, and obtained his education in this State. 
 He remained at home until 1853, when, at the 
 age of nineteen years, he was married to Eliza- 
 beth Still, who died in 1878, leaving no family. 
 The year following his marriage Mr. Pack was 
 called on a mission to the Sandwich Islands, 
 where he spent three years and nine months, 
 
 laboring on five of the largest islands of the 
 group and presiding over the Conference of the 
 Islands of Hawaii and Kauai. He returned to 
 Salt Lake City in 1858, and three years later 
 moved to Kamas with his family, taking up gov- 
 ernment land, and followed farming and stock 
 raising. He made a trip across the plains in 
 1862, and assisted in bringing a company of 
 emigrants to Utah, and in 1876 was again called 
 on a mission to the Sandwich Islands, where he 
 remained twenty-two months as President of the 
 mission, having charge over the whole of the 
 islands and superintending the sugar plantations 
 belonging to the Church. In 1869 he went on a 
 mission to New York, and in company with his 
 parents spent some time visiting old friends. He 
 was one of the organizers and became the Presi- 
 dent of the Kamas Co-operative Mercantile In- 
 stitution, which position he filled for a number of 
 years. In 1889 he went on his third and last mis- 
 sion to the Sandwich Islands, where he again 
 had charge of the sugar plantation. 
 
 Mr. Pack has had four wives. His second wife 
 was Laura Cravath, who is still living. She was 
 the mother of ten children — Ward E., junior; 
 ^Marvin E., of the police department. Salt Lake 
 City ; Leon R., living in Vernal ; Ella E., died at 
 age of thirteen years; Julia V., who died when 
 sixteen years of age; Mary Agnes, wife of Wil- 
 liam Ingham; John Austin, Grace E., Pearl I. 
 and L. E. His third wife was Agnes Lowry, 
 who bore him seven children, four of whom are 
 living — George W. ; Agnes B., wife of F. Young; 
 James O., and Margaret Ann, now Mrs. Richard 
 Fowler of Vernal. His fourth wife was Salena 
 Carpenter. By her he had two children — Wehrli 
 D., born in 1889 on the Sandwich Islands, and 
 Jesse G. 
 
 Mr. Pack has always been an ardent believer 
 in the principles of the Democratic party and quite 
 active in public life in his community. His first 
 public office was that of Justice of the Peace at 
 Kamas, and he later served for two terms as a 
 Selectman of that county. He was four years 
 Probate Judge of Summit county, and in 1876 
 a member of the Territorial Legislature, and was 
 again sent to the Legislature after his second mis- 
 sion to the Sandwich Islands. He has also taken 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 an active part in all matters pertaining to irriga- 
 tion in that valley, and assisted in building many 
 of the canals and ditches in Summit county. 
 
 Mr. Pack has been active in local Church mat- 
 ters, and held a number of offices in the Priest- 
 hood. He was baptized in the Temple at Nauvoo 
 in 1842; ordained an Elder in 1854 and attached 
 to the Eighth Quorum of Seventies. In 1879 he 
 was ordained a High Priest and set apart as 
 Second Counselor to President W. W. Clufif of 
 the Summit Stake, serving in that capacity until 
 1901, when the Stake was reorganized and he 
 became President of the High Priests' Quorum 
 of Summit Stake, which position he still holds. 
 
 Mr. Pack has been one of the most earnest and 
 indefatigable workers in the Church during his 
 long life, and has had many positions of trust and 
 honor conferred upon him, not only in the Church, 
 but by the citizens of his community. His life, 
 both public and private, has been such as to win 
 the confidence and respect of all who have known 
 him, and today he is one of the best known and 
 most popular men in Summit county. 
 
 ILLIAM G. TIMMINS. In Salt 
 Lake county there are perhaps few 
 better known men who have devoted 
 their lives to fanning, than is the 
 subject of this sketch, William G. 
 Timmins. He was born in Staffordshire, Eng- 
 land, in 1829. He is the son of Richard and 
 Mary (Richmond) Timmins, and spent his early 
 life in England, and lived there until i860, when 
 he emigrated to America, and crossed the plains 
 by ox team from Florence, Nebraska, under Ira 
 Eldredge, who was Captain of the wagon train, 
 and arrived in Salt Lake Valley on September 
 15, i860. ]\Ir. Timmins resided in Salt Lake but 
 a few days, and removed to Bountiful, and from 
 there removed, a short time later, to Sugar House 
 Ward, where he took up his permanent residence, 
 and in the employment of the Church in conduct- 
 ing a nail factory. He prospered so well with this 
 industry that he was enabled to purchase a home 
 in Sugar House Ward, where he lived for twenty- 
 eight years. He came to Mill Creek Ward in 
 
 1889, and purchased a home at the corner of Ninth 
 East and Fourteenth South streets. The home- 
 stead comprised twenty acres, and on it he built 
 a comfortable brick residence for himself, and has 
 also built a good house for his son, who now man- 
 ages the farm for his father. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Timmins sent for his parents, and 
 they emigrated to America and crossed the plains. 
 The journey which they made from the outposts 
 of civilization was one of the hardest which any 
 of the emigrants ever undertook, and so severe 
 were the privations and hardships which they un- 
 derwent that they resulted in the death of Mr. 
 Timmins' father, and his mother died the follow- 
 ing year, her death being superinduced by the 
 dreadful experiences which she had undergone in 
 crossing the plains. 
 
 Our 'subject was married in England, in 1853, 
 to Miss Emma Jane Lewis, daughter of George 
 and ]\Iargaret Lewis. By this marriage they have 
 had nine children, four of whom are now living — 
 William W., a locomotive engineer in Southern 
 California; Frederick M., in Salt Lake City; 
 David E., engaged in ranching in Wyoming; 
 Edwin T., on the farm at home. 
 
 In political life Mr. Timmins is a believer in the 
 Republican principles, and has been a member of 
 that party since its formation in this State. He 
 has been Road Supervisor of Salt Lake county for 
 five years, and by his work in the party is re- 
 o-arded as one of the most able men in Salt Lake 
 county. The present position which Mr. Timmms 
 has achieved has been due entirely to his untiring 
 energy and to the perseverance which he has 
 brought to the overcoming of the difficulties which 
 have presented themselves in his travels through 
 life. When he arrived in Utah he had a capital 
 of five dollars, and not only had to secure em- 
 ployment in order to maintain himself, but had to 
 provide at once a means for his livelihood. He 
 took whatever work presented itself, and did with 
 all his might whatever his hands found to do. He 
 found employment in helping to haul the material 
 used in the erection of Fort Douglas, and was 
 also one of the contractors who built a good many 
 of the buildings of Salt Lake and vicinity. He 
 aided in getting out timbers in the mountains, to 
 be used in the erection of manv of the old build- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 351 
 
 ings, and also assisted in the erection of those 
 structures. He has been prominently identified 
 with the development of this county, and espe- 
 cially of the region where he is now located, and 
 throughout his life has ever had the confidence 
 and esteem of all the people with whom he has 
 resided. 
 
 EORGE WEBSTER. Among the men 
 who came to Utah in their youth and 
 have since identified themselves with 
 her history, giving their best thought 
 and endeavor to the building up and 
 promoting of many laudable enterprises, and from 
 small beginnings fostering gigantic business en- 
 terprises, that will not only redound to the good 
 of the State at large, but stand as a lasting monu- 
 ment to their skill and financial ability, none are 
 more worthy of special mention than is George 
 Webster, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 He was born in 1836, in Bedfordshire, England, 
 and is the son of William and Hannah (Day) 
 Webster, both natives of England. They had a 
 family of nine children, four of whom died in 
 England. When our subject, who was the oldest 
 child, was nineteen years of age, the family emi- 
 grated to Utah, and crossed the plains in Milo 
 Andrus' company. They came direct to Kays- 
 ville, and settled within half a mile of the place 
 where our subject now lives, the father taking 
 up a quarter section of government land. Here 
 the parents lived until the time of their deaths 
 in 1894, the husband surviving the faithful com- 
 panion of his labors by only eleven months. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in the city of 
 his birth, and there obtained a meagre education, 
 it being necessary for him to assist in obtaining 
 the means of support for the large family of 
 younger children. However, he was of a natu- 
 rally quick turn of mind and ambitious to learn, 
 as a result of which he has educated himself, and 
 is at this time a fine mathematician, being able 
 to work out a problem in his head as quick as 
 most men can on paper. He is also well posted 
 on current events of the day, keeping abreast of 
 the times through the medium of the newspapers. 
 
 His first work in America was performed at Mor- 
 mon Grove, near Atchison, Kansas, where he 
 drove oxen for his father in plowing a piece of 
 ground. After reaching Kaysville he worked for 
 some years at whatever he could find, saving his 
 earnings, and in 1869 was able to buy his present 
 place of one hundred and twenty acres. At the 
 time he purchased this land it was in a barren 
 condition, and he has taken great pride in culti- 
 vating and improving it, bringing it up to its 
 present high state of fertility by years of hard 
 labor and unremitting care. He also bought other 
 land from time to time, and when his sons mar- 
 ried was able to give them a good farm and estab- 
 lish them in comfortable homes. He also branched 
 out in the cattle and sheep business, and followed 
 this line for twenty years, in addition to his gen- 
 eral farming, accumulating large means, and be- 
 came one of the substantial financial men of Davis 
 county. 
 
 Like his father, he partook of the early hard- 
 ships and dangers that fell to the lot of the early 
 settler, and participated in the Black Hawk and 
 other Indian wars. He was one of those who 
 hauled rock for the Temple at Salt Lake City, 
 and has been active in many enterprises for the 
 advancement of both Church and State. 
 
 Mr. Webster was married in May, 1859, to 
 Miss Christiania Helliett, daughter of Luke Hel- 
 liett. They had two children— George W. and 
 John Alford — both of whom are at this time en- 
 gaged in farming, the cattle and sheep business 
 in this place. Mrs. Webster died in July, 1893. 
 The family are all members of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, our subject 
 being baptized in his twenty-second year, and 
 since that time has been a faithful and consistent 
 worker in the Church. He has filled the office of 
 High Priest for the past ten years, and has at all 
 times stood ready and willing to extend a help- 
 ing hand to those of his faith who are in need 
 of assistance. Mr. Webster is a man of domestic 
 tastes, and is never so happy as when seated at 
 his own fireside, surrounded by his family, or 
 busy about his farm, in which he takes great pride. 
 He began life without means, but with a firm be- 
 lief in his ability to succeed, and has made step- 
 ping-stones of difficulties that would have proven 
 
352 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 insurmountable obstacles to another man. While 
 he has accumulated wealth to himself, he has not 
 been unmindful of his less fortunate brother, and 
 has drawn around him a large circle of warm 
 friends through the exercise of his charitable and 
 hospitable nature, winning and retaining the es- 
 teem and confidence of the entire community by 
 his honorable and straightforward dealings. 
 
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 HOMAS J. SMITH. In 1868 Thomas 
 Smith, aged eleven, and his brother Al- 
 exander, aged fourteen, came to America 
 in the care of Bishop Preston. They 
 found their way towards Utah as far as 
 old Fort Benton, and from there the two children 
 made their way to Salt Lake City by ox team 
 in a train of sixty-two wagons, each being fur- 
 nished with from three to ten oxen. By dint of 
 hard work, herding, saving up all the wages they 
 made, and close buying of stock, they have worked 
 themselves up to a place among the substantial 
 stockmen of Davis county. 
 
 Our subject was born in Elsemere Port, Eng- 
 land, ten miles from Liverpool, on December 24, 
 1856. He is a son of William and Nancy Ann 
 (Turner) Smith, the former a native of Scotland 
 and the latter of Manchester, England. They 
 lived in Elsemere Port until our subject was about 
 four years old, and then moved to Liverpool. The 
 father and mother came to America the year after 
 their boys did, waiting till the railroad was fin- 
 ished as far west as Ogden. They came with the 
 first company of emigrants who came to Utah by 
 rail. The family settled in Kaysville in 1869, and 
 the mother died there January 24, 1878, and the 
 father on November 17, 1901. 
 
 In March, 1891, Mr. Smith married Amanda 
 L. Nance, a daughter of James and Mary Nance. 
 They have three children — Mary A., Elizabeth R. 
 and William J. Mrs. Smith was born in Wilks- 
 burgh. North Carolina, and her folks came to 
 Utah in 1888. 
 
 Thomas J. Smith has lived at Kaysville ever 
 since he came to Utah. Seventeen years ago he 
 branched out into the sheep business, herding 
 sheep and buying as he could. Now he has a 
 
 large sheep business and ranges in Idaho. About 
 three years ago he built a handsome nine-room 
 two-story brick home, half a mile north of Kays- 
 ville, where he has ninety acres of fine farming 
 land. 
 
 In politics Mr. Smith is a Republican. He was 
 born and raised in the Mormon faith, and has 
 been lately called on a mission to the Southern 
 States. His wife is a member of the Ladies' Re- 
 lief Society of Kaysville Ward. 
 
 In addition to his other interests in Kaysville, 
 Mr. Smith is connected with the Kaysville Can- 
 ning Company, in which he is a Director, and also 
 owns a controlling interest, being the largest 
 stockholder in the concern. 
 
 TEPHEN HENRY NALDER. The 
 name of Stephen Henry Nalder is in- 
 (lissoluably associated with a great many 
 of the enterprises which contribute 
 to the prosperity and progress of 
 Davis county. He is a native son of Utah, 
 having been born in South Cottonwood Ward, 
 Salt Lake county, December 16, 1855, and 
 is the son of Stephen and Esther (New) 
 Nalder. His parents were natives, of En- 
 gland, where they were married, and where 
 their first child, William New, was born. They 
 emigrated to America in 1853, coming direct to 
 Utah, remaining in Salt Lake City the first winter, 
 after which they went to South Cottonwood, 
 where they lived for two years. They next moved 
 to Kaysville, settling near the place where our 
 subject now lives. While crossing the plains, 
 their only daughter, Elizabeth, died, and our 
 subject and his older brother are the only mem- 
 bers of the family now living. Stephen Nalder 
 was a tailor by trade and followed his trade dur- 
 ing the winters, devoting the summers to his farm 
 of eighty acres. He died in the eighties and his 
 wife died in 1898. 
 
 Our subject remained at home until his father's 
 death. He married in November, 1877, to Miss 
 Catherine Forbes, daughter of James and Mary 
 Forbes, and of this marriage seven children have 
 lieen the result, — Mary E. ; Catherine P. ; Mar- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 353 
 
 garet E. ; James S. ; Elizabeth Jane ; Hacel Wil- 
 liam, and Joseph Phillip. 
 
 Mr. Nalder established his present home about 
 twenty-two years ago. He has a fine farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres of well improved 
 land, on which he has a handsome residence, good 
 barns, outbuildings, etc. He is also largely in- 
 terested in cattle and sheep. Mr. Nalder began 
 herding sheep for his father and by economy and 
 perseverance gradually accumulated means 
 enough to buy sheep on his own account, and is 
 today one of the best known business men in 
 his locality. He is a public spirited man and 
 aside from his home interests is also a stock- 
 holder and director in the Farmers' Union Store, 
 which he was instrumental in establishing. 
 
 He also owns an interest in the Layton Roller 
 Mills, and in the dairy business, and is regarded 
 as one of the most energetic and wide-awake 
 business men of his section. He has won his own 
 way in the world, and the success that has come 
 to him has been due to his untiring energy and 
 perseverance. He has been an upright, honest 
 man, always trying to give every man his just 
 due, and occupies a high place in the esteem of 
 those who come in contact with him. Mr. Nalder 
 and his family are all staunch members of the 
 Mormon Church, in whose work they are actively 
 interested. 
 
 I SHOP JAMES DEVALSON CUM- 
 MINGS. In the entire Salt Lake 
 county there is no man who occupies 
 a higher position in the confidence and 
 esteem of the leaders of the Mormon 
 Church than does the subject of this sketch. He 
 is one of the men who have been born in Utah 
 and who have aided in its growth by the work of 
 their hands and by the application of the re- 
 sources they found to the building up of this 
 inter-mountain region. He has been prominently 
 identified with the work of the Mormon Church, 
 and he now holds the position of Bishop of Wil- 
 ford Ward through his untiring application to 
 the work entrusted to him and his devotion to 
 the cause which he believes is the true one. 
 
 He was born in Willard, Box Elder county, 
 Utah, September 30, 1859, and is a son of Benja- 
 min F. and Mary Jane (Yearsley) Cummings. 
 His father was a native of Maine, being born in 
 that State on March 3, 1821, and his mother was 
 born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on Febru- 
 ary 18, 1838. The Cummings family are one of 
 the old settlers of the United States, his grand- 
 father, James Cummings, Junior, having been 
 born in Massachusetts on January 26, 1780, and 
 his great grandfather, James Cummings, was a 
 native of Dunstable township, Massachusetts, 
 where he was born May 26, 1759; and his father, 
 Oliver, was born in the same State on April 10, 
 1728; still another ancestor back, Nathaniel Cum- 
 mings, was born in Massachusetts on September 
 8, 1699, and the ancestors of these came on the 
 Mayflower. The old home of the Cummings 
 family was in Plymouth, where the first of the 
 family had settled upon their migration from 
 Great Britain, and a portion of the family still 
 reside in that State. Our subject's father left 
 Maine and removed to Ohio when a young man, 
 and from there to Missouri, and then, following 
 the migration of the members of the Mormon 
 Church, to Nauvoo, Illinois, came from that place 
 upon the expulsion of the members of the Church 
 to Salt Lake City, arriving here with the second 
 company of pioneers who crossed the plains in 
 1847. W'hen the evacuation of the members of 
 the Church from Nauvoo took place, Mr. Cum- 
 mings' father was absent on a mission, and ar- 
 rived at Nauvoo the day after the killing of the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith at Carthage. Our sub- 
 ject's father was also associated with President 
 Brigham Young and with the leading men of the 
 Church. From that time until his death, on Oc- 
 tober 22, 1899, he was one of the most active and 
 faithful members of the Church, and enjoyed the 
 confidence and esteem of the leaders of that 
 Church. Upon coming to Utah he lived for a 
 short time in Box Elder county, and removed 
 from there to Ogden, and then to Salt Lake City, 
 in 1865, where he resided until the time of his 
 death. His wife, Mary Jane (Yearslev) Cum- 
 mings, is still living, and makes her home with 
 her son, the Bishop. Her parents, David Dutton 
 and Mary Ann (Hoopse) Yearsley, are still liv- 
 
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 ing in Salt Lake City at the age of ninety-one. 
 
 Our subject, Bishop Cummings, spent his early 
 life in Salt Lake Valley, and was married, March 
 4, 1880, to Miss Louisa Cufley, daughter of Wil- 
 liam and Jennett (Irvine) Cufley. Her parents 
 came to Utah in the early days of the migration 
 to this State, and were influential and prominent 
 people in the locality in which they settled. By 
 this marriage Bishop Cummings had eight chil- 
 dren, four of whom are still living — William D., 
 a brick-maker, was born June 30, 1881 ; Franklin 
 David, was born November 13, 1882; Kufus Le 
 Roy, was born September 28, 1886, and died an 
 infant, his death occurring on October loth of 
 that year; Horace Elmo, was born August 10, 
 1888, and only lived four days ; Margaret L., was 
 born September 19, 1889, and died on the 23rd 
 day of that month ; Lawrence and Clarence, were 
 born January 24, 1891, and Lawrence died on 
 January 27, 189 1, and Clarence is still living; 
 Clifford Ray, was born August 15, 1895. Bishop 
 Cummings has lived in his present home for over 
 twenty-four years. It is situated on the County 
 Road, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth South 
 streets, and the homestead comprises nine or ten 
 acres of well improved land. The Bishop, in his 
 early days, turned his attention to school teaching, 
 and followed that occupation for sixteen years, 
 being employed in the schools of Salt Lake City. 
 In political life he is independent, preferring to 
 vote for the man who in his opinion will best serve 
 the community. He has held the position of 
 School Trustee for upwards of ten years, and 
 has often been requested to become a candidate 
 for office, but has always declined to do so. His 
 parents were Mormons, and he was born in that 
 faith, and his wife and children are also members 
 of that Church. In the work of the Church the 
 Bishop has been especially active, and the first 
 position he held was Assistant Secretary of the 
 Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, 
 which position he held for two and a half years. 
 He was then made Secretary, and later Assistant 
 Superintendent of the Sunday School, which po- 
 sition he retained for over fourteen years. He 
 was sent on a mission to California for the 
 Church, and spent seven months in that field 
 during the year 1893-94. He also served on an- 
 
 other mission to Wisconsin, being absent twenty- 
 three months in that work. Upon his return he 
 was made Bishop of Wilford Ward, it being 
 named in honor of President Woodruff, which 
 was done in September, 1900, he being the first 
 Bishop of that Ward, which was organized on 
 his forty-first anniversary. He has taken an active 
 interest in the development of the educational af- 
 fairs of Utah, and has practically been the father 
 of all the improvements made in the schools of 
 the Thirty-sixth District for the past fourteen 
 years. He is a thorough business man, and has 
 successfully completed the building of the Wil- 
 ford Ward Meeting-house, which is located just 
 across the road from the Bishop's home. It was 
 built under his supervision, and is one of the most 
 modern meeting places in the county. It is built 
 of stone and pressed brick, and fitted with electric 
 lights and all modern improvements, and is one 
 of the finest places of the kind in the entire 
 county. His family has been well represented in 
 all the work of the Mormon Church, five members 
 of the family by marriage serving in the Mormon 
 Battalion until the end of that organization. 
 
 The Bishop has won for himself, not only a 
 high position in the Church, but has won the con- 
 fidence of its leaders and also enjoys the respect 
 and esteem of the people of Salt Lake county 
 with whom he has daily associated, and enjoys a 
 wide popularity. 
 
 OHN RIDER. Among the men who 
 have aided materially in the development 
 of Salt Lake county and in building up 
 the prosperity of the valley which is lo- 
 cated just south of Salt Lake City, there 
 has been no more prominent man than the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. He was one of the early pio- 
 neers to this region, and one who has followed 
 agriculture from the time he came here until the 
 present time. He has made a farm out of the 
 barren wilderness, and has successfully brought 
 to a high state of cultivation the land which he 
 has tilled. His success has been due entirely to 
 his own efforts and to the abilitv with which he 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 355 
 
 has conquered every difficulty that stood in the 
 way of his success. 
 
 John Rider was born in Milltown, County 
 Monghan, Ireland, on November 8, 1837. He is 
 the son of Thomas and Jane (Rowland) Rider. 
 His father was a native of the Isle of Wight, and 
 his mother was born in Ireland. Our subject re- 
 sided in Great Britain until 1866, when he came 
 to America. He had become converted to the 
 teachings of the Mormon Church in 1857, and was 
 active in the work of spreading the doctrines of 
 that Church until his removal from England. 
 Upon landing in America in 1866 he came direct 
 to Utah. His father and mother had died in En- 
 gland, and he was the only member of his fam- 
 ily who ever came to the United States. He 
 crossed the plains by ox team, "arriving in Salt 
 Lake City on October 17, 1866, in the wagon 
 train of John D. Holliday, who was Captain. 
 The first winter in Utah Mr. Rider spent in Salt 
 Lake City, and then moved to the Cot- 
 tonwood Ward, where he was employed in 
 erecting the distillery for William Howard, 
 which at that time was the largest in Utah. 
 Our subject was a machinist by trade, which he 
 had learned in England, and was also a locomotive 
 and marine engineer. 
 
 Air. Rider was married on July 28, 1867, in 
 Salt Lake City, to Aliss Mary McDonald, daugh- 
 ter of William and Christina (Wallace) McDon- 
 ald of Fauforshire, Scotland. Mrs. McDonald 
 was a descendant of Sir William Wallace. By 
 this marriage he had thirteen children, eleven of 
 whom are still living. They are : John M., a resi- 
 dent of Idaho; Francis J., a resident of Kane 
 county, Utah ; Thomas, now in Laketown, Utah ; 
 David, also in Kane county ; Oscar, now on a mis- 
 sion to the Southwestern States ; Mary Jane, now 
 in California; Rachel, now the wife of John W. 
 Wright; Florence May, Christina and Wallace 
 (twins), and Rowland W. Mr. Rider continued 
 to live in the Cottonwood Ward until the spring 
 of 1870, when he went to Kane county, and lived 
 there for twenty-five years, being one of the pio- 
 neers of that county. In 1895 he returned to Salt 
 Lake county and settled in the Mill Creek Ward, 
 with which he has ever since been identified, tak- 
 ing an active part in the work of the Church and 
 
 in the administration of the political afifairs of his 
 ward. 
 
 In politics he is a believer in the principles of 
 the Republican party, and while in Kane county 
 held the office of Justice of the Peace, and was 
 also Probate Judge for ten years, holding the 
 office of Justice of the Peace for four years, and 
 was also County Commissioner for two years in 
 that same county, and served in the Legislature 
 from there for two terms, during Governor Mur- 
 ray's administration. In Salt Lake county he is 
 now a Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. 
 He was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace 
 in 1900, and has been a Notary Public for five 
 years. He was also a school director in Kane 
 county of twelve years. In the Mormon 
 Church he has taken an active part, and 
 in Kane county he was for a time the act- 
 ing Bishop, and has served on a mission, 
 being two years in England, leaving Utah in 1879 
 and returning in the latter part of 1880, serving 
 in reality twenty-one months abroad, and upon 
 his return home was charged with the conduct of 
 a company of emigrants from Liverpool to Utah. 
 He has now a fine residence at the corner of 
 Eleventh East and Fifteenth South streets, and 
 the homestead comprises eleven acres. Mr. Rider 
 has been a delegate to many political conventions, 
 and has done a great deal of work for the Repub- 
 lican party in its campaigns in this State. He 
 has been associated with all the prominent men 
 of Utah, and his appointments have been issued 
 to him and signed by Governor Thomas, Presi- 
 dent Harrison, President McKinley, Governor 
 Wells and Governor Murray, as well as Acting 
 Governor George A. Black in 1873, Governor G. 
 W. Emery in 1877, and in September, 1886, by 
 Governor W. C. West. 
 
 In addition to the mission work already men- 
 tioned, which he performed in England, he also 
 went on another one to that country, and the total 
 time that he has been absent from Utah on this 
 work covers a period of six years. During that 
 time he was President over three Conferences of 
 the Church in Great Britain, viz., Manchester, 
 Glasgow and Essex. 
 
 He has devoted considerable time to the culti- 
 vation oi his farm and to the building up of his 
 
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 home, and he has now won for himself a promi- 
 nent place among the men who have made Utah 
 what it now is. The agricultural life of a com- 
 munity is really its backbone and one that re- 
 quires men of experience and untiring persever- 
 ance in order to properly carry it out. The 
 prominent place which Mr. Rider has taken, not 
 only in agricultural pursuits, but in all the walks 
 of life, has made him one of the most useful men 
 of Salt Lake county. 
 
 TOHN P. CAHOON. Among the indus- 
 tries of Utah, and those which are now 
 becoming a necessity in the upbuilding 
 of this growing inter-mountain city, is 
 that of the manufacture of bricks, and in 
 
 this work there is no more successful man than 
 the subject of this sketch. 
 
 He is a native Utahn, being born in the local- 
 ity where he now lives, and has practically spent 
 his entire life within the confines of this State. 
 He has made his own way in the world, and has 
 won for himself a high place in the business life 
 of the Salt Lake valley. John P. Cahoon was 
 born on the banks of the South Cottonwood 
 creek, Salt Lake county, in 1856. He is a son 
 of Andrew and Margaret (Carruth) Cahoon. 
 His father was the son of Reynold and Theresa 
 (Stiles) Cahoon, and their son, the father of the 
 subject of this sketch, spent his boyhood days 
 on his father's, farm in Ohio, and he was educated 
 in the schools of his native. State. His father 
 became associated with the Mormon Church in 
 those early days, and his son Andrew followed 
 in his steps early in life and became a convert to 
 the teachings of the Mormons, and was in Nau- 
 voo when the Prophet Joseph Smith was killed 
 at Carthage. He then became personally ac- 
 quainted with the leaders of the Church, and in 
 1847 was sent to Scotland as a missionary. 
 While there he met Margaret Carruth, daughter 
 of William and Mary (Barr) Carruth, and on 
 July 17, 1848, was married to her on the banks 
 of the Platte river, they having emigrated to 
 America with him as members of the Mormon 
 
 faith, the ceremony being performed by Presi- 
 dent Brigham Young. He continued to take an 
 active part in the work of the Church, and was 
 prominent in the migration of the members to 
 California, and in fact was one of the promi- 
 nent missionaries throughout his life. He died 
 in December, 1900, and his wife still survives 
 him and lives near her son, John P. 
 
 Our subject, John P. Cahoon, was the second 
 of five sons, and spent his boyhood days on his 
 father's farm in Salt Lake county. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools, and in the winter of 
 ' i874 took up the manufacture of bricks on a 
 small scale, and in 1890 established the Salt Lake 
 Pressed Brick Company, with a plant at Elev- 
 enth East, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth 
 South streets. The entire plant was erected un- 
 der the supervision of Mr. Cahoon, who not only 
 made the plans for the buildings, but also su- 
 perintended their erection. This now has a ca- 
 pacity of one hundred thousand bricks per day, 
 and Mr. Cahoon is president of the company and 
 directs its affairs. It is the largest brick factory 
 in Utah, and in fact throughout the inter-moun- 
 tain region. It supplies bricks to all the promi- 
 nent centers of population in Utah, and to the 
 surrounding Territories and States as well. In 
 addition to this business, which practically takes 
 up most of his time, Mr. Cahoon is also engaged 
 with his brother, Reynold E., in the lumber, coal 
 and hardware business, their establishment being 
 located at Murray. He is also interested in the 
 firm of J. R. Miller & Company, builders and 
 dealers in lumber, coal, hardware, implements, 
 etc. 
 
 ]\Ir. Cahoon was married at Murray in 1877, 
 to Miss Elizabeth Gorden, daughter of James 
 and Mary Gorden, and they have had born to 
 them ten children, nine of whom are still living. 
 Our subject makes his home in Murray, where 
 he has built a residence for himself and family, 
 which is easily the finest home in the county out- 
 side of Salt Lake City. In politics he was a 
 member of the Liberal party before the segrega- 
 tion of the people upon national political lines, 
 and since the formation of the Republican party 
 he has been a prominent member of it. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 357 
 
 Mr. Cahoon has made his own way in Ufe ever 
 since his boyhood, and has won a high place in 
 the business world of Utah by the exercise of his 
 own ability and energy and his untiring perse- 
 verance. He is now in the front ranks of the 
 business men of this State and enjoys a wide pop- 
 ularity. 
 
 At the World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893, 
 this concern received the medal given as first 
 prize for the best red brick. Also the first prize 
 at the California Alid-Winter International Ex- 
 position, held in 1894. They also have five medals 
 awarded by the Utah State Exposition, held in 
 Salt Lake City. These medals were received in 
 1891, 1892, 1894, 1899 and 1901. 
 
 ICHARD F. LAMBERT, prominent 
 agriculturalist and stockman of Kamas 
 valley, Summit county. The early 
 (lays of the settlement of L'tah will ever 
 be memorable as days of hardships en- 
 dured by the early pioneers and their sons. The 
 vast work of redeeming this country from its 
 W'ild and undeveloped state w-as no easy task, 
 and only men of exceptionally strong will power 
 and determination could have ever subdued the 
 country and developed it to its present most won- 
 derful state of prosperity. Among the State's 
 worthy sons, and one who has cheerfully per- 
 formed his part in developing the vast resources 
 of Utah and especially of Summit county, Rich- 
 ard F. Lambert, the subject of this sketch, is de- 
 serving of much credit. 
 
 He is a native son of Utah, having been born in 
 Salt Lake City, February 11. 1855, and is the 
 son of John and Adelia (Grosbeck) Lambert. A 
 full account of his father's life appears in the 
 sketch of Bishop Daniel Lambert, in another part 
 of this work. Our subject was but seven years of 
 age when the family moved to Rhodes valley, 
 now known as Kamas, and he has been a resident 
 of Summit county since that time, receiving his 
 education in the common schools of Kamas, and 
 growing up on his father's farm, his life being 
 that of every son of the pioneers. L^pon attain- 
 ing his majority he started out in life for himself, 
 
 working in the timber, and later engaged in the 
 sawmill business with his brothers, supplying tim- 
 bers for the Park City mines, following this oc- 
 cupation for ten or twelve years. During this 
 period he purchased his present farm on the west 
 side of the valley, near the county road, and in 
 1886 moved his family onto his farm, where 
 he has since resided. He has ninety acres of 
 valuable land under irrigation, and devotes his at- 
 tention principally to the raising of oats and hay. 
 He has about fifty head of cattle on his place. 
 He built a fine two-story residence on his farm 
 in 1898 and his home is today one of the most 
 beautiful in this valley. 
 
 He was married April 14, 1886, to j\Iiss Elva 
 E. W'olstenhulme, daughter of James and Mary 
 ( Page) Wolstenhulme. They have six children 
 — Elva E., Richard F., Junior; Ira C, Reuben, 
 James W.. and John Arvil. 
 
 In politics Mr. Lambert is a Democrat, but 
 although he has been active in promoting the 
 welfare of his party, he has never sought or held 
 public office, his time aside from his business be- 
 ing given mostly to Church work. He has taken 
 much pride in assisting to develop the agricul- 
 tural resources of his county, and has been largely 
 instrumental in obtaining the fine irrigation sys- 
 tem now in operation in Kamas vallej-. He is in- 
 terested in two irrigation companies and assisted 
 in constructing the water system of that valley. 
 He is at this time a member of the Twenty-second 
 Quorum of Seventies, and an active worker in his 
 Ward. Mrs. Lambert is also prominent in the 
 work of the Church in her community, being a 
 member of the Ladies' Relief Society and was 
 for a number of years President of the Young 
 Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. She 
 has also acted in the capacity of Counselor to the 
 President of the Primary Department of the Re- 
 lief society, and is a teacher in the Sunday 
 Schools. 
 
 Mr. Lambert has worked his ow^n way up to his 
 present prominent position among the farmers 
 and stockmen of Summit county, and has by 
 his energ)-, perseverance and undaunted cour- 
 age in the face of all obstacles won the admira- 
 tion and esteem of those who have known him 
 throughout a life of over forty years. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 OHN WOOD is another of Utah's native 
 sons who has risen to a position of honor 
 in the public life of the State through 
 the exercise of the abilities with which 
 nature endowed him. He was born in 
 Centerville, Davis county, in 1858, and is the 
 son of John and Naomi (Chase) Wood. His 
 father was a native of Ohio, and came to Utah 
 in 1853, locating in Centerville, where he re- 
 mained until 1862, when he removed to Morgan 
 county and located in the Richville Ward, where 
 our subject now lives. He engaged in farm- 
 ing and was one of the most prosperous and 
 prominent men of his community, active in 
 Church work and assisted in developing and set- 
 tling the county, taking an active part in most 
 of the road making and bridge and canal build- 
 ing that was undertaken during his time. He 
 died at the age of seventy-seven years on March 
 21, 1890. His wife died in Logan, in 1889. 
 
 Our subject was the youngest of a family of 
 five children and grew up in this county, ob- 
 taining his education from the schools of this 
 district and in Salt Lake City, receiving a very 
 fair scholastic education. After reaching his ma- 
 jority he spent some years in Bear Lake val- 
 ley, and in 1883 returned to Richville, where 
 he became associated with his father and re- 
 mained with him until the latter died in 1890, 
 since which time he has been the sole owner of 
 the old homestead. He has thirty acres of land 
 under irrigation and carries on a general farm- 
 ing business. 
 
 Mr. Wood was married June 14, 1889, to Miss 
 Emeline Crouch, daughter of Ebenezer and Eliz- 
 abeth (Clark) Crouch. By this marriage they 
 have had five children, two of whom have died — 
 John Karl, Grace, Zella M., deceased; Lee Marr, 
 deceased, and Lyle. 
 
 Mr. Wood has followed the fortunes of the 
 Democratic party \ever since its organization in 
 Utah and has been one of its most ardent sup- 
 porters and active workers. He was elected a 
 County Commissioner in 1895, but resigned be- 
 fore the expiration of his term to go on a mis- 
 sion for the Mormon Church. He was again 
 
 holds. He is also Secretary and a director in the 
 Richville Millrace Irrigation Company and ident- 
 ified with almost every public enterprise for the 
 upbuilding of his town. 
 
 He is a leading man in all Church work, and 
 has filled the offices of Elder and member of the 
 Thirty-fifth Quorum of Seventies, and at this 
 time is a member of the High Council of Morgan 
 Stake. He is Counselor to President Walter 
 Porter of the Young Alen's Mutual Improvement 
 Association of the Richville Ward, and has been 
 active in Sunday School and Ward teaching. In 
 i8y6 he served on a mission to the Southern 
 States, laboring in Texas and Louisiana part of 
 tlie time, and was absent two years and seven 
 months. 
 
 Mr. Wood is today one of the staunch men of 
 his county and town, and the high place which he 
 iiolds in the ranks of business and public men 
 has come to him by his own unaided efforts. He 
 has by energy, perseverance and strong determin- 
 ation carved out for himself a career of which any 
 man might be proud, and enjoys the respect and 
 esteem of a large circle of acquaintances. Since 
 her marriage Mrs. Wood has taken an active part 
 in all the work of the Church in her Ward. She 
 was for twelve years Secretary of the Young La- 
 dies' Mutual Improvement Association and is at 
 this time Secretary of the Ladies' Relief Society 
 of Morgan Stake and Counselor to the President 
 of the Richville Primary Association. 
 
 TMPSON DAVID HUFFAKER, DE- 
 CEASED. Among the successful far- 
 mers and stock men who settled in Utah 
 with the early pioneers, should be men- 
 tioned the subject of this sketch. He 
 was born July 12, 1812, in Wayne county, Ken- 
 tucky, and was the son of Jacob and Margaret 
 Huffaker. He grew to manhood in Kentucky 
 and obtained his early training and education in 
 that State. The Huffaker family later moved 
 to Illinois, and when our subject reached his ma- 
 jority he took up government land in Bureau 
 
 elected to that position in 1900, which he now county, that State, living there until 1845, when 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 359 
 
 he went to Nauvoo, Illinois, having- become a 
 convert to the teachings of the Mormons while 
 living in Bureau county, and remained in Nauvoo 
 until the exodus of the Mormons from that place, 
 when he joined the last train that came to Utah 
 in 1847, under command of Jedadiah M. Grant, 
 and in which companj' Willard Snow was Captain 
 over fifty wagons. They arrived in Salt Lake 
 City in October of that year, and the next two 
 years our subject spent in the Old Fort. In the 
 spring of 1849 Mr. Huffaker took up two hun- 
 dred and forty acres of land in the South Cot- 
 tonwood district, on which he lived until the time 
 of his death, and which is still the home of his 
 widow. In those days what is now a beautiful 
 and highly cultivated farming country was but a 
 barren wilderness, unsubdued and uncultivated, 
 and it was only by dint of much hard work and 
 an undaunted perseverance that the soil was made 
 to yield a living to the farmers of those early 
 times. Their tools were also of the rudest pat- 
 tern, many of them being manufactured at home, 
 and too much praise can not be bestowed upon the 
 hardy pioneers who by their labor and untiring 
 industry made it possible for those who came 
 after to found comfortable and even luxurious 
 homes for themselves and their children. In ad- 
 dition to his farming Mr. Huffaker also became 
 interested in cattle raising, in which industry he 
 was very successful. 
 
 Our subject was twice married. The first time 
 he was left with a family of five children to care 
 for. He met his second wife, then Miss Eliza- 
 beth Richardson in Bureau county, Illinois, and 
 was married at his father's farm near Peoria, 
 that State. Miss Richardson was the daughter of 
 Stephen and Erepta (Wilder) Richardson, and 
 was born in New Hampshire, coming with her 
 family to Bureau county, Illinois, in 1839. She 
 was married to Mr. Huffaker in February, 1846. 
 In addition to raising his family of five mother- 
 less children, Mrs. Huffaker bore her husband 
 fifteen children, eight of whom are still living 
 —David S., who is reputed to be the first white 
 male child born in Utah of which there is any 
 record, being awarded a gold medal at the Jubilee 
 held in Salt Lake City in 1897, for being the first 
 
 boy born in the State. He was born in a wagon 
 during a snow storm on what is now known 
 as Pioneer Square ; Susan E., Elizabeth M., 
 Welby R., Wilford D., Ray, El Roy, Earl P. and 
 Alferata B. Four of the sons are now engaged 
 in ranching and sheep raising in Idaho, and the 
 oldest lives at Midway, Summit county, this 
 State. 
 
 During his life Mr. Huffaker was a Demo- 
 crat and was a firm believer in the principles of 
 that party. He was a faithful, consistent member 
 of the Mormon Church and always active and 
 energetic in its work. He died at the family 
 homestead on October 17, 1891, loved and 
 mourned by all who knew him. 
 
 Mrs. Huffaker still resides at the liomestead, 
 and is an active worker in the Church to which 
 her husband belonged, being a member of it also, 
 as are her children. She was the only member 
 of her family to come to the West to reside, 
 her parents only leaving the East on brief visits, 
 and finally dying in Black Hawk county, Iowa. 
 When the Richardson family first went to Illi- 
 nois, Chicago was only a small cluster of shanties 
 and they lived to see it one of the first cities of 
 the Union. Mrs. Sally R. Dicks, the only sister 
 of Mrs. Huffaker, and whose home is in Men- 
 dota, Illinois, is at this writing visiting with Mrs. 
 Huffaker. Mr. Huffaker left his family in com- 
 fortable circumstances, and the farm on which 
 his widow resides is well improved and is consid- 
 ered one of the finest in the county. 
 
 YRUM A. SILVER. Vice-President of 
 the Silver Brothers Iron Works and 
 Foundry, was born in Brooklyn, New 
 York, in 1859, and came to Utah at 
 the age of six months. He spent his 
 early boyhood in Salt Lake City and received his 
 education in the public schools of this county and 
 in the private schools of the city. He has made 
 his own way through life, and rising from a very 
 small and unpropitious beginning, has made a 
 career that marks him as one of the leaders in 
 the business world of the inter-mountain region. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 The foundry with which he is connected has 
 grown from a small plant, operated by he and his 
 brothers, to be one of the leadine industries of 
 Salt Lake City, and of Utah as well. Its success 
 has been brought about, not by any marvelous or 
 unexpected chance, but by the steady and persis- 
 tent exercise of an untiring industry and a close 
 application to business. 
 
 Upon leaving school Mr. Silver went to work 
 in the machine shop of his father, and there 
 learned the machinist's trade. He left school at 
 the age of thirteen, and at the age of nineteen was 
 entrusted with the work of installing and putting 
 in operation pumps and other machinery in dif- 
 ferent mining camps throughout Utah, which he 
 performed with complete satisfaction, and at the 
 age of twenty-one years he was placed in charge 
 of the machinery at the Empire Mine plant at 
 Park City, where he remained for about six 
 months. He left this company to accept employ- 
 ment in the shops of the Union Pacific Railroad 
 Company, and remained in those shops for about 
 two years, at which time he took charge of the 
 foundry which had been established by his father, 
 and in which he had learned his trade. At that 
 time it was but a small establishment, giving em- 
 ployment to about six men. In 1886 he called his 
 brothers, Joseph A. and John A. Silver, to this 
 city, where they formed the partnership to carry 
 on the business begun by their father, and this 
 firm was known as Silver Brothers Iron Works. 
 It was continued under this name for a number of 
 years, until the business increased to such an ex- 
 tent that from a working force consisting of them- 
 selves, they now give employment to about one 
 hundred men. The company grew so large that 
 it was deemed advisable to incorporate it under 
 the laws of the State of Utah, which was accord- 
 ingly done, Mr. Silver, our subject, taking a large 
 part in that work, and it has since been known 
 under its present name. 
 
 Our subject was married to Miss Eleanora K. 
 Benson, daughter of Andrew and Katie (Wickel) 
 Benson. Her parents came to Utah at an early 
 age, and her mother is still living in Salt Lake 
 City. They were among the first members of the 
 Mormon Church, and her mother lived just across 
 the street from the place where the Prophet 
 
 Joseph Smith was killed. Mr. Silver's wife died, 
 and he married Miss May McAllister, daughter 
 of J. D. T. McAllister. They have eight chil- 
 dren living and three dead. They are : Eleanora, 
 Hyrum B., Katie, Albert (dead). May, Reny; 
 and by his present wife he has Amv, Clifford and 
 Walter. 
 
 In political life Mr. Silver is a behever in the 
 Democratic principles, but owing to the confining 
 nature of his business he has not participated ac- 
 tively in the work of the party. He is also a 
 member of the Mormon Church, being an Elder. 
 His present wife is also a member of that Church, 
 and her father is President of the Manti Temple. 
 Mr. Silver has resided at No. 266 Center street for 
 a number of years, the site of his house being that 
 formerly occupied by the old foundry and machine 
 shop established by his father. He has in course 
 of erection a new home on Fifth East and Tenth 
 South streets in Salt Lake City, which will easily 
 take rank as one of the finest residences here. 
 
 He is well and favorably known throughout 
 L'tah, and has. by his integrity, honesty and 
 ability, won the confidence and esteem of all with 
 whom he has been associated in business, and 
 his pleasant and genial manner has brought him 
 the warm friendship of a legion of friends 
 throusrhout the State. 
 
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 OHN W. CARPENTER. Among the 
 prominent and successful business men 
 of Summit county, John W. Carpenter, 
 the subject of this article, ranks as one 
 of the first. He. is a native son of Utah^ 
 been born in Salt Lake City, January 20, 
 1858. His whole life to the present time has 
 been spent in this State and the greater portion 
 of it in Kamas, Summit county, as his parents 
 moved to that place when he was only eight 
 years of age. He received a common school edu- 
 cation in such schools as existed in that county 
 and started to make his own way in life, be- 
 ginning at the very bottom of the ladder, and 
 by perseverance and energy he has made a splen- 
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 His father, John S. Carpenter, was a native of 
 Pennsylvania and emigrated to Utah in the pio- 
 neer days, settHng in Salt Lake City and then 
 engaged in farming in Mill Creek, later mov- 
 ing to what is now Kamas, in 1866. Here he 
 took up land and engaged in farming and stock 
 raising, and became one of the prominent men 
 of the place. He died at the age of seventy- 
 two years, in 1898. His wife, Catherine Car- 
 penter, is still living in the family home. She is 
 the mother of eight children. 
 
 For a number of years after he started out 
 for himself our subject worked by the day, saving 
 his earnings and in 1885 started in the lumber 
 business in a small way, operating a saw mill 
 in Beaver canyon and furnishing timber for the 
 Park City mines. He has followed this busi- 
 ness to a certain extent ever since. In 1895 he 
 started a small store, gradually increasing the 
 business, and during this time built the Carpenter 
 opera house and dance hall, and in 1897 built his 
 present store, which is a two-story building, thirty 
 by seventy feet. He carries a full line of mer- 
 chandise, wagons, farm implements and hard- 
 ware, having a stock worth about ten thousand 
 dollars, which is the largest stock carried by an 
 individual in this county. He also owns a ranch 
 from which he raises an excellent crop of hay, 
 usually putting up about two hundred tons a year, 
 and buys and sells cattle, feeding about seventy- 
 five head at a time. He also runs a public 
 feed stable. He is the owner of some real estate 
 in Salt Lake City and has been very successful 
 in all his business ventures. 
 
 Mr. Carpenter was married in 1886 to Miss 
 Martha J. Turnbow, daughter of John G. and 
 Elizabeth Turnbow of Kamas. Seven children 
 have been born of this marriage — Alphonso, Mar- 
 tin, Montclair, Olive, Lacy D., Etta and the baby. 
 
 He is regarded as one of the most successful 
 business men of Summit county, wide-awake and 
 energetic. He has done much towards aiding in 
 the building of church and school buildings and 
 is actively interested in all public enterprises. 
 Besides his holdings in and about Kamas, he is 
 interested in real estate in Oak City, where he 
 owns the Maple Hall. 
 
 ISHOP JOSEPH RAWLINS, DE- 
 CEASED. In reviewing the lives of 
 those who came to Utah when it was 
 yet a wild and undeveloped tract of 
 land, and after spending a life time in 
 the work of bringing it up to its present high 
 state of perfection, have laid aside the cares of 
 life and passed on to their reward, we should not 
 overlook the name of Bishop Rawlins, one of the 
 most prominent and influential men of his day in 
 Salt Lake county. 
 
 He was born in Green county, Illinois, April 
 9, 1823, and was the son of James and Jane 
 (Sharp) Rawlins, who was born in Indiana, 
 and moved to Green county, Illinois, early in 
 life. From there the family moved to Hancock 
 county, that State, where our subject met the 
 lady who afterwards became his wife. Miss Mary 
 Frost, daughter of John and Nancy (Pate) Frost. 
 Her father was a native of North Carolina, anc} 
 her mother came from Tennessee, Mrs. Rawlins 
 also being born in the latter State. The mar- 
 riage of our subject occurred in 1844. Three 
 children were born of this union — Nancy Jane, 
 now the wife of R. M. Kerr, a resident of Cache 
 county ; Mary E. was born April i, 1848, and died 
 in 1861 ; and Joseph L., at this time serving as 
 United States Senator from Utah. They also 
 raised a boy, Orson W., whom they have al-- 
 ways regarded as a son, and he is at this time 
 in the southern States on a mission for the Mor- 
 mon Church. He makes his home with ]\Irs. 
 Rawlins. 
 
 The year following their marriage Bishop 
 Rawlins and his wife were converted to the teach- 
 ings of Mormonism, and joined the Church. 
 They came to Utah in a train of fifty wagons 
 in 1848, leaving Omaha on the 12th day of April 
 and after a journey of just six months arrived 
 in Salt Lake City on October 12th; they at once 
 moved to Mill Creek Ward, where they lived 
 about two years, and for twenty years thereafter 
 made their home at Draper, nine miles south of 
 Murray. During this time our subject crossed 
 the plains seven times, bringing three companies 
 of emigrants to Utah, and also served for three 
 months as guard in protecting the United States 
 overland mails, serving under Captain L. Smith, 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 with the rank of Lieutenant, .\fter discontinu- 
 ing their residence in Draper the family moved 
 to a farm containing fifty acres, in South Cot- 
 tonwood Ward, and here the Bishop Hved during 
 the remainder of his Hfe. He was appointed 
 Bishop of this Ward in 1870 and retained the 
 position as long as he lived. 
 
 Politically the family have been Democrats for 
 generations back. Our subject was at the time 
 of his death serving his second term as County 
 Commissioner, being elected both times on the 
 Democratic ticket ; and his son received his elec- 
 tion as Senator from that party. 
 
 During his lifetime the Bishop was most active 
 in all matters having for their object the bet- 
 terment of conditions in Utah ; he assisted in 
 constructing the East Jordan canal and held the 
 office of President of the company as long as 
 he lived. He also did considerable railroad con- 
 tracting, assisting in building the first railroad 
 to enter Utah and also the road across the Jor- 
 dan Narrows. During the Johnston army trou- 
 bles he was Captain of the guards sent out to 
 guard the passes in Echo canyon against the 
 approach of the army ; and also participated in 
 many of the Indian uprisings in Utah. His death 
 occurred October 13, 1900, and he was laid to 
 Test amidst universal mourning, his manly and 
 upright living, together with his charitable and 
 hospitable nature endearing him to all who had 
 the pleasure of his acquaintance. 
 
 His widow is now living in Forestdale, a sub- 
 urb of Salt Lake City, where she has a lovely 
 brick residence. She is well known for her work 
 in the Church societies and enjoys the highest 
 esteem and regard of all who know her. 
 
 AN LAMBERT, Bishop of Kamas 
 Ward, Summit Stake of Zion, Summit 
 county. Whether assisting in the work 
 of his Church or the development of 
 the resources of Summit county ; work- 
 ing for the improvement of its public schools, 
 or for the advancement of the social and polit- 
 ical conditions of his county. Bishop Lambert can 
 always be found in the front rank, of whom 
 Summit county has no more honored or highly 
 
 respected citizen. While he was born in Salt 
 Lake City, his whole life has been spent in this 
 county, and his upright and straightforward life, 
 together with his enterprising spirit and self- 
 denial for the good of his fellow-men has won for 
 him a large circle of friends. 
 
 Bishop Lambert's father was John Lambert, a 
 native of Yorkshire, England, where he was born 
 January 31, 1820. He became a member of the 
 Mormon Church in England and emigrated to 
 .America in 1842, joining the Mormon colony at 
 Nauvoo, where he remained until the exodus of 
 1846. He made the trip across the great Amer- 
 ican plains by ox team in 1850 and settled in 
 Salt Lake City, following the business of con- 
 tracting and building. In 1861 he moved to 
 Kamas, where he took up land and established a 
 home, his land being in the center of the present 
 town. He successfully followed farming the re- 
 mainder of his life, and was the father of a 
 large family, being the husband of two wives and 
 the father of twenty-one children, sixteen of 
 whom are now living. He was active in all 
 Church work and a member of the Seventies. 
 He died at the advanced age of seventy-four 
 years, on November 25, 1893. 
 
 Our subject was born March 2, 1861, and was 
 the third child of Eleanor H. (Larson) Lambert, 
 a native of Denmark. She was baptized at twelve 
 years of age, and was the first girl to receive that 
 ordinance in the kingdom of Denmark. He grew 
 up on his father's farm in Kamas, and received 
 his education in the common schools of that place. 
 He began life for himself in 1882, when he ancl 
 his brothers took a contract for supplying native 
 timber for the mines of Park City, and has fol- 
 lowed this business largely since then. He owns 
 a fine farm near town, and has devoted consider- 
 able attention to the raising of blooded stock, par- 
 ticularly cattle. 
 
 Bishop Lambert was married in 1885 to Miss 
 ]\Iay Young, daughter of Phineas Young, a 
 brother of President Brigham Y^oung. They 
 have had a family of six children — Bathara, died 
 in infancy; Lila M., Dan D., Marie, Craig and 
 Lawrence T. 
 
 In political life Bishop Lambert owes allegiance 
 to the Democratic party, in whose ranks he has 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 363 
 
 been quite active ever since its organization in 
 this State. He has served one term as a County 
 Commissioner of Summit county, and was a 
 member of the Fourth Legislature, taking an 
 active part in the work of that body. Among 
 the committees on which he served were those of 
 Mines and Mining, Horticulture and Agriculture, 
 Resolutions, Memorials, Forestry, etc. 
 
 He was ordained an Elder at the age of sev- 
 enteen, and in 1884 became a member of the 
 Twenty-second Quorum of Seventies. In 1893 
 he served on a mission to West Virginia. He 
 was ordained a High Priest and set apart as a 
 member of the High Council of Summit Stake 
 in 1900, and in May of the following year was 
 ordained Bishop of Kamas Ward. He has given 
 much attention to Sunday school work and work 
 among the young men, and is also largely inter- 
 ested in educational matters in his community, 
 much of the efficiency of the present school sys- 
 tem in Kamas being due to his untiring efforts in 
 that direction. He has for the past several years 
 been agent for the Ontario and Daly West Min- 
 ing Companies, and is one of the well-known and 
 public-spirited men of Summit county. 
 
 OBERT HARMAN belongs to one of 
 the old and influential families of Mill 
 Creek Ward. He has been a resident 
 'if Utah since he was fifteen years of 
 age, and since first coming to this coun- 
 try has seen it developed from an uninviting, 
 sagebrush-covered area into one of the best farm- 
 ing districts in this part of the State, and has 
 with his own hands labored faithfully towards 
 this end, taking a prominent part in everything 
 that has tended to the upbuilding or beautifying 
 of his community. 
 
 He was born in South Wales December 25, 
 1844, and is the fifth child of Charles and Mary 
 (Mathias) Harman. The parents embraced the 
 Mormon religion in their own land, and for three 
 generations this family have been consistent and 
 devoted members of that Church. They emi- 
 grated to the United States and reached Utah 
 in 1859. The father engaged in farming, and 
 spent the remainder of his life in that occupation. 
 
 He was by trade a shoemaker, which he follow-ed 
 in his native land. 
 
 The most of our subject's scholastic educa- 
 tion was received from the schools of his own 
 country, as after coming to Utah he found it 
 necessary to assist in the support of the family, 
 and the opportunities for study were very limited 
 during the first years of the settlement of Utah. 
 The year following his arrival in Utah he accom- 
 panied W. W. Riter on a trip across the plains 
 to the Missouri river, for the purpose of bring- 
 ing emigrants to Utah. They drove four yoke 
 of o-xen apiece, except Mr. Riter, who acted as 
 night guard, leaving Salt Lake City on April 6th 
 and returning on October 6th, with sixty wagons 
 of freight and a little band of Mormons. The 
 train was under command of Captain Joseph W. 
 Young. In addition to this trip Mr. Harman 
 made a number of others at different times, and 
 while he encountered a good many Indians, meet- 
 ing three thousand on one occasion, they were 
 always friendly, and he never had any trouble 
 with them. 
 
 For the past thirty-one years he has made his 
 home in Mill Creek Ward, where he now owns 
 a fine farm of fifty-five acres, on which he has 
 erected a comfortable brick house, surrounded 
 by graceful poplars and other ornamental shade 
 trees. The interior decorations of his home are 
 in keeping with the general gratifying appear- 
 ance of his farm, and it is comfortably and even 
 luxuriously fitted up, being supplied with musical 
 instruments, good books, pictures, etc., and is in 
 every way a most desirable home. Mr. Harman 
 paid seventeen hundred and fifty dollars for this 
 place, and it was at that time covered with a 
 dense growth of sagebrush and other wild growth, 
 which all had to be cleared off before the land 
 could be cultivated. He has it well irrigated from 
 artesian wells and under a good state of cultiva- 
 tion. For seven years before he bought this place 
 he was in the employ of the Church, working on 
 the Church farm in the capacity of stockman, 
 and was continuously in the saddle. 
 
 He was married in the early si.xties to Miss 
 Amanda E. Mitchell, a daughter of Benjamin T. 
 and Caroline (Conrad) Mitchell. The Mitchell 
 family came to Utah in 1847, wi^'^ 'he second 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 company of pioneers, and the daughter was born 
 two years later. The father was a stone mason 
 by trade, and for many years had the superin- 
 tendency of the building of the famous Salt Lake 
 Temple, which is one of the world's wonders 
 from an architectural standpoint, and is estimated 
 to have cost in the neighborhood of four millions 
 of dollars. Eight children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Harman, of whom one is dead — Robert 
 J., engaged in sheep raising in Wyoming; 
 Amanda L., died at the age of twenty-four years ; 
 Caroline, wife of Abraham Hill, also living in 
 Wyoming; Alice, now Mrs. Peter McMillen, of 
 South Cottonwood Ward ; Edwin L. ; Maud M., 
 now the wife of Franklin E. Carlisle, of Mill, 
 Creek Ward; Parley R., and Mable J., living at 
 home. 
 
 Politically Mr. Harman is a strong Republican. 
 At this time he is Road Supervisor for his dis- 
 trict, having charge of fifty miles of road. He is 
 very active in Church work, as is also Mrs. Har- 
 man, who is a member of the Ladies' Relief So- 
 ciety. Mr. Harman has spent two years on a 
 mission for the Church in England, and is now 
 a teacher in the Ward and a member of the Sev- 
 enties. 
 
 OEL PARRISH, one of the wealthy and 
 influential agriculturalists of Davis coun- 
 ty, came to Utahwith the second company 
 of pioneers, in 1847, ^t the age of twenty 
 years. He has been a resident of Cen- 
 terville since 1848, and has grown to be one of 
 the substantial men of this place, wielding a large 
 influence for good in both private and business 
 life, and commanding the highest respect wher- 
 ever known. 
 
 Mr. Parrish was born in Lower Canada, near 
 ^Montreal, November 6, 1827, and is the son of 
 Samuel and Fannie (Dack) Parrish. The father 
 was a native of Canada, and the mother 
 bom in Ireland, but moved to Canada with her 
 people when but a small child. When our sub- 
 ject was nine years of age the family moved to 
 the United States and located in Illinois, where 
 the father assisted in organizing the county of 
 Starke and became one of its first officers. They 
 
 remained there six years, and in 1842 moved to 
 Nauvoo, Illinois, where they remained until the 
 exodus in 1846. There were in this family five 
 daughters and one son, our subject, being the 
 fifth child. Three of the daughters died, and one 
 married and settled in Wisconsin. At the time 
 of the exodus the family consisted of the parents, 
 our subject and his youngest sister. They spent 
 the winter of 1846 in Council Blufifs, and the 
 following spring the father outfitted an ox team 
 and joined the company under command of Dan- 
 iel Spencer, in which P. G. Sessions was Captain 
 over fifty wagons. Our subject drove a wagon 
 the entire distance, hiring out to a member of 
 the company. They reached Salt Lake City Sep- 
 tember 23rd, and spent that winter in the old 
 fort, which was built for their protection against 
 the raids of the Indians. In the spring of 1848 
 a small crop was planted, and the family remained 
 in Salt Lake until September, when they came to 
 Centerville, being the first settlers in this place, 
 and there being at the time but one or two fami- 
 lies in the whole county. 
 
 In June of that year our subject and Charles 
 Chase went to Emigration Canyon, where they 
 burned the first lime in Utah, and the father that 
 same month went to North Canyon, where he 
 peeled the first tanbark to be obtained in the 
 Territory. That winter he erected a corn mill at 
 Centerville, which was at that time a part of 
 Bountiful. He was a natural mechanic, and fol- 
 lowed the profession until the time of his death 
 in 1873. His wife and the mother of our sub- 
 ject died in September, 1851. 
 
 Our subject began life in Centerville as a 
 farmer, taking up twenty acres of land, which 
 he has since increased to sixty acres, and in addi- 
 tion owns three thousand acres of range and 
 farming land in Morgan county. He has devoted 
 himself to the cattle business, ranging his cattle 
 in Morgan county, and has also carried on gen- 
 eral farming. His sons are at this time interested 
 with him in the cattle industry. 
 
 Mr. Parrish was married in July, 1854, to 
 Elizabeth Bratton of Pennsylvania, daughter of 
 George and Mary (Palmer) Bratton. The father 
 died in the East, and the mother and daughter 
 came alone to Utah, reaching Salt Lake City in 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 365 
 
 1852. Twelve children have been born of this 
 marriage, of whom eight are now living. His 
 second wife was Emma Ford, a native of Eng- 
 land, and daughter of John and Rebecca (Chan- 
 dler) Ford, whose biography appears elsewhere 
 in this work. She died March 29, 1888, in Cen- 
 terville. Of the ten children born of this union, 
 seven are now living. All the children but two 
 are now residents of Utah ; these two live in 
 Canada. 
 
 All the family are strong adherents of the Mor- 
 mon Church, in whose faith they have been born 
 and reared. In 1875 Mr. Parrish was called on 
 a mission and served in the Northern States. 
 The oldest son, Samuel J., has served on two 
 missions : the first about twenty years ago, when 
 he served two years in Georgia and Tennessee, 
 and again in 1899, when he spent two years in 
 England. Hyrum B. labored two years in Ala- 
 bama and Mississippi about fifteen years ago, 
 and in March, 1899, he was also sent to England, 
 remaining there two years. Charles A. spent the 
 years of 1895-96 in mission work in Mississippi, 
 and in 1896 Parley P. went on a two years' mis- 
 sion to England. John served as Counselor to 
 the Bishop of Centerville Ward up to the time he 
 went to Canada, at which time he resigned his 
 office. Ezra B. served on a mission to England 
 for two years, being called in 1898. Joseph A., 
 another son, has been called for missionary work, 
 but is not yet set apart. Samuel is at this time a 
 member of the High Council, and Charles is As- 
 sistant Superintendent of the Sunday School in 
 which his brother Parley is a teacher. Mrs. Par- 
 rish and the daughters are also active workers 
 in the Church. 
 
 Mr. Parrish has always taken an active part 
 in public affairs, as did his father. The senior 
 Mr. Parrish was County Commissioner for a 
 number of years prior to his death, and after his 
 death our subject was elected to that office for 
 fifteen consecutive years. He was also during 
 this time Road Commissioner, and for many years 
 Justice of the Peace. He has never affiliated 
 with either political party, preferring to cast his 
 vote for the man who is in his judgment best 
 fitted for the office. 
 
 Perhaps no man now living in the State has 
 
 had a more varied career or seen more suffering 
 and privations among the Mormon people than 
 has our subject. He went all through the John- 
 ston army troubles and the Indian wars, and was 
 one of those sent to the relief of the famous hand- 
 cart company. The rescuers reached the last 
 crossing of the Platte river, where they found 
 the poeple in great distress, having but half a 
 pound of rations between them and starvation; 
 many of them sick and frozen as a result of the 
 unusually severe weather. They had been eight 
 weeks reaching that point. 
 
 AMES HYRUM FORD, Vice-President 
 of Ford Brothers Land and Live Stock 
 Company and a stockholder in the Union 
 Sheep Company, also owned by Ford 
 Brothers, ranging in Utah, Idaho and 
 Wyoming, and capitalized, respectively, at twen- 
 tv-five thousand and fifty thousand dollars. 
 
 Our subject is the youngest of a family of 
 eleven children, and was born in Centerville, as 
 was also his younger sister; the rest of the family 
 were born in England. The parents of this fam- 
 ily, John and Rebecca (Chandler) Ford, came to 
 Utah with their family in 1854, and here made 
 their home. The mother died a number of years 
 ago, and the father is still living at an advanced 
 age, in the enjoyment of good health, surrounded 
 by his children and resting from a well-spent 
 and honorable life. He accumulated large means 
 as a stockman and farmer, and as his sons grew 
 to manhood took them into business with himself, 
 forming a company under the name of Ford & 
 Sons, which continued up to the time the senior 
 Mr. Ford retired from active business life, about 
 six years ago. A full biographical sketch of this 
 interesting family will be found in the sketch of 
 John Ford, Junior, which appears elsewhere in 
 this work. 
 
 James Hyrum Ford obtained his education 
 from the schools of Centerville, attending during 
 the winter months and spending his summers on 
 his father's farm, and herding the sheep and cattle 
 on the ranges in Utah and neighboring States. 
 When he became old enough he was taken in as 
 a member of the firm and has since continuea, 
 
366 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 being at this time Vice-President of the Land 
 and Live Stock Company and a stockholder in 
 the Sheep Company. Together with his brother 
 Joseph, he owns a fine farm of one hundred and 
 fifty acres at Centerville. This land has been 
 highly cultivated and put under a good system 
 of fencing, irrigation, etc. He built a handsome 
 nine-room modern brick residence in 1893, which 
 is fitted up with all the latest conveniences and 
 elegantly furnished. 
 
 His marriage occurred February 25, 1885, 
 when he was united to Miss Anna Etta Cheney, 
 daughter of Zacharias and Amanda (Evans; 
 Cheney. The father was a member of the famous 
 JMormon Battalion, and went through all the 
 hardships and sufferings endured by that band 
 of brave men during their memorable march 
 across the desert. After the disbanding in Cali- 
 fornia, Mr. Cheney continued to reside in that 
 State for some years, finally coming to Center- 
 ville, and spent the remainder of his life in this 
 place. Six children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Ford, two of whom have died — William, 
 died in infancy ; Ivy Etta ; Ailene, died when a 
 baby ; Verna F. ; Jennett, and Hyrum W. 
 
 In politics jMr. Ford is a believer in the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, but owing to his 
 large business interests has never found time to 
 actively participate in the work of his party or 
 to hold public office. 
 
 He became a member of the Mormon Church 
 at the age of fourteen years, and since then has 
 been an earnest worker, taking a lively interest 
 in Sunday School work, and was at one time Sec- 
 retary of the Centerville Sunday School. Mrs. 
 Ford is also active in Church work and a mem- 
 ber of the Ladies' Relief Society. Their two 
 oldest children are members of the Church. 
 
 Mr. Ford has on his farm some very fine im- 
 ported cattle, principally Shorthorns, imported 
 from Ontario and Wisconsin ; also some which 
 came from Scotland. He is the owner of a two- 
 year-old Hereford bull which is said to be one 
 of the finest animals in the State. The weights 
 and ages of a few of his animals will give a bet- 
 ter idea of the value of his stock : One of his 
 Shorthorns, which he has named Severa, weighs 
 nineteen hundred and thirty-five pounds at the 
 
 age of three years ; a heifer, aged three years, 
 and three months, tips the scales at thirteen hun- 
 dred and fifty pounds ; one of his steers weighs 
 sixteen hundred and eighty pounds at two years 
 and eight months, and was a prize winner at the 
 last State Fair. Another animal, William Bryan, 
 weighs fifteen hundred and seventy pounds, at 
 the age of two and a half years. These animals 
 may be taken as fair samples of the stock owned 
 by the company of which Mr. Ford is a member, 
 and which have made the firm one of the most 
 prominent in this western country. 
 
 i 
 
 AMD HESS. Among the early pio- 
 neers to Utah who are living; at the 
 present time, but few have had a more 
 interesting and varied career than has 
 David Hess, the subject of this sketch. 
 David Hess was born in Ray county, Missouri, 
 February 18, 1837, and is a brother of President 
 John W. Hess of the Davis Stake. His father 
 was Jacob Hess, who died in Mount Pisgah, 
 Iowa, in March, 1847. A. complete biography of 
 the Hess family will be found in the sketch of 
 John W'. Hess, which appears elsewhere in this 
 work. The older brother, John W., had joined 
 the iMormon Battalion, and our subject was the 
 oldest boy left at home, and at the tender age of 
 ten years he was left by the death of his father 
 to assist his mother in providing for the three 
 other children. They lived in a little cottage 
 made of bark elm until 1848, when the oldest 
 brother, John W., returned to take them to Salt 
 Lake City. Our subject had put in a small crop 
 of buckwheat and corn for the support of the 
 family. The meeting was a most joyful one, as 
 the family had given up all hopes of ever seeing 
 their brother again. They started for Utah on 
 April 1st, 1849, ^f^d made the journey across the 
 great American plains, arriving in Salt Lake City 
 on July 28th of that year. The youngest brother, 
 Alma, died in Farmington many years ago, but 
 all the other children are still living. Ann E. 
 is now Mrs. Teal, and lives in Nevada ; the other 
 sisters are Mrs. Hinman and Mrs. Barkdull. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAC RECORD. 
 
 367 
 
 Upon arriving in Utah the family went at once 
 to Farmington, where our subject has lived ever 
 since. 
 
 He was married. March 21, 1858, to Miss Jane 
 Ann \\ ilson, and by this marriage has had eleven 
 children, nine of whom are still living. His sec- 
 ond wife bore him four children, two of whom 
 died. One son, John Alma, was on a mission to 
 Germany, having been called there in 1899 and 
 remained three years. Charles is a graduate of 
 the Agricultural College at Logan, as is Alma 
 also. Of the children of the first wife, David is 
 now in Bear Lake A'alley, Idaho, where he is en- 
 gaged in the merchandise, cattle-raising and 
 farming lines ;Mary E. is now the wife of Wil- 
 lard Stoddard of the same part of Idaho ; Amanda 
 I. is now Mrs. Hoff, also in Bear Lake Valley ; 
 Gladdis A., married a brother of Mr. Hoflfs ; 
 Sarah E., now Mrs. Baken, also in Bear Lake 
 \'alley, Idaho ; Hortense, now ]Mrs. Albert Gro- 
 ver, of Garland, Utah ; Harriett, at home ; Jacob 
 F., died at six weeks of age, and Seymore, died 
 when five years old. 
 
 In 1871 our subject went to Georgetown, Idaho, 
 having been called, in company with Ezra T. 
 Clark, to colonize that place, and Mr. Hess re- 
 mained here for sixteen years, engaged in 
 farming and the cattle business, which he 
 found very profitable. Since locating in Farm- 
 ington he has engaged in general farming, and 
 owns a fine home between First and Second 
 streets. He also owns sixty-four acres of valu- 
 able hay land a mile and a half north of his home, 
 which he takes care of himself. Mr. Hess, like 
 all of the family, has been active in Church work, 
 having been baptized into the Mormon faith at 
 Mount Pisgah in 1846, and has since then been 
 a consistent and faithful member of that Church. 
 In 1882 he was called on a mission to the South- 
 ern States. His son David W. was called to 
 serve in Xorth Carolina, but on account of his 
 poor health returned after three months. Our 
 subject married Luella M. Hyde, a daughter of 
 .Apostle Orson Hyde and Elizabeth (Galliger) 
 Hyde. He has also been active in Sunday School 
 work, having been a teacher for a number of 
 years. All the children are believers in the same 
 faith as their parents. 
 
 ^Ir. Hess came to this State with his mother, 
 but before he came here he had taken a man's 
 responsibilities upon his childish shoulders, and 
 with a courage that men might be proud of, had 
 aided his mother in keeping her little flock to- 
 gether. She died in Farmington at the advanced 
 age of eighty years. The successful career which 
 he has made has been by his own indomitable 
 will and untiring energy, and to-day he stands 
 among the front ranks of the farmers in his 
 neighborhood, and by his consistent and upright 
 life has won a high place in the confidence and 
 respect of the leaders of the Church, as well as 
 among his neighbors. 
 
 HILO DIBBLE is one of the successful 
 and substantial agriculturalists and 
 >tockmen of Davis county, his home 
 being at Layton, where he has spent 
 man}' of the best years of his life. He 
 has taken a prominent and active part in build- 
 ing up Davis county, and is among the most 
 highly respected citizens of his county. 
 
 He was born in Clay county, Missouri, in Sep- 
 tember, 1836, and is the son of Philo and Celia 
 (Kent) Dibble. His father was a native of Mas- 
 sachusetts, but raised in Connecticut, and his 
 mother was born and raised in the latter State. 
 Both Mr. and Mrs. Dibble were membes of the 
 ^lormon faith, Mr. Dibble having been baptized 
 in 1830 and his wife some time later. They were 
 members of the Church in Kirkland, Ohio, where 
 they had moved after their marriage, and from 
 that place went with the Mormons to Clay 
 county, Missouri, where our subject was bom. 
 The family moved to Quincy, Illinois, in 1839, 
 and were in Nauvoo at the time of the exodus of 
 the ^lormon people in 1846. From Xauvoo they 
 went to Council Bluffs, where they remained until 
 1 85 1, when they crossed the plains in an inde- 
 pendent company with P. C. Merrill, traveling 
 part of the way in a freight train, and arriving 
 in Salt Lake City in October of that year. Upon 
 their arrival in Utah the family settled at Ses- 
 sions Settlement, now known as Bountiful, where 
 
368 
 
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 they remained until 1858, when they moved south 
 on account of the Johnston army troubles, and 
 from that time made their home in Springville, 
 where the father and mother died. 
 
 In 1863 our subject came to Centerville, and 
 later took up some claims in Kaysville Ward, 
 which he improved and where he lived for some 
 years. He sold these claims in 1883 and bought 
 his present place in Layton, where he has since 
 continued to live. This place consists of eighty 
 acres, which Mr. Dibble has improved, planting 
 an orchard, erecting a comfortable home, good 
 outbuildings, and now has a fine farm. He has 
 followed general farming since settling in Lay- 
 ton, and aside from this is interested in the Davis 
 and Weber Canal Company, in which he is a 
 stockholder. 
 
 Mr. Dibble was married in March, 1863, to 
 Miss Antoinette Cleveland, daughter of Alanson 
 and Anna (Slade) Cleveland, and of this mar- 
 riage nine children were born, eight of whom 
 are living — Philo A. died in infancy ; Cecilia 
 Ann, Edwin C, Sidney D., George E., Laura A., 
 David D., Emma A., and Rudolph K. 
 
 In politics Mr. Dibble has followed the teach- 
 ings of the Democratic party, and has been a 
 worker in the ranks of that p^rty, holding the 
 office of Justice of the Peace and also serving as 
 Constable of Centerville for some time. In re- 
 ligious life he is a member of the ^Mormon 
 Church, having been baptized by his father in 
 Nauvoo when but a child of eight years, and 
 all through his life has been active and con- 
 sistent in his relations with that Church. He 
 served on a mission to the Southern States foi 
 about eight months, and at this time holds the 
 office of High Priest. The members of his fam- 
 ily are also believers in the doctrines of the Mor- 
 mon Church and active in its work. Mr. Dib- 
 ble has seen Utah grow from almost its begin- 
 ning to its now prominent place among the States 
 of the Union, and during the early days partici- 
 pated in the many troubles which the first set- 
 tlers were called upon to pass through. He 
 served under Lot Smith through all the John- 
 ston army troubles, and was always willing and 
 ready to serve his State as well as his Church in 
 any duty that devolved upon him. 
 
 LEXANDER DAWSON. Davis 
 county has been developed from a 
 wild and barren waste by the pioneers 
 or their sons, and the splendid con- 
 dition which the county is in at the 
 present time is a great tribute to their efforts 
 and ability. Among the most successful and 
 largest real estate owners in the county is Alex- 
 ander Dawson, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 He was born in Scotland July 13, 1837, and is 
 the son of William and Elizabeth (Harper) Daw- 
 son, natives of Scotland, where they lived and 
 died. Our subject was the oldest of a large fam- 
 ily and the only one to come to Utah. He went 
 to sea when but a lad, and followed that occupa- 
 tion for over ten years, beginning as a cabin boy 
 and being an able seaman when he quit. During 
 those years he touched at the principal ports of 
 the world, coming to America in i860 from the 
 Cape of Good Hope and landing in Boston. He 
 crossed the plains in Nephi Johnson's company, 
 and arrived in Salt Lake City October 6th of 
 that year. 
 
 Mr. Dawson was married at Port Elizabeth 
 South Africa, February 22, i860, to Miss Eliza- 
 beht Jane Fowle, daughter of William and Eliza- 
 beth Fowle, natives of England. Mrs. Dawson 
 was born in Wales. Ten children have been born 
 of this marriage, eight of whom are now living — 
 William A., Elizabeth Jane, Alexander, Isabell, 
 who died in infancy, Margaret I., Anna P., 
 Effie L., Eva Ellen, Mary, who died in infancy, 
 Emma V. All the children are living in the 
 neighborhood of their parents in Layton. 
 
 LIpon coming to Utah Mr. Dawson lived for a 
 year in Salt Lake City, at the end of which time 
 he moved to Kaysville, where he worked for 
 Christopher Layton for three years, when he 
 bought his present home. He has spent his life, 
 since coming to Utah, in farming, and is now the 
 owner of several fine farms in Davis county, and 
 is also largely interested in cattle and sheep. His 
 home place is a beautiful spot, three miles from 
 the Layton postoffice, and on which he has built 
 a lovely residence, modern in every way. Mr 
 Dawson was baptized into the Mormon faith 
 about 1858, and since he has been in Utah he 
 has been active in furthering the interests of the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 369 
 
 Church in every way possible. He has taken a 
 great interest in the colonization work in Arizona, 
 sending a man there at an expense of a thousand 
 dollars, to carry on the work. He has been a 
 Sunday School teacher for many years. His son 
 William A. spent two years in England on a mis- 
 sion for the Church, and Mrs. Dawson is also 
 active in Church matters, as are also the other 
 members of the family. 
 
 The Dawson family are noted for their gen- 
 erous hospitality and broad-mindedness. They 
 are foremost in every charitable work in their 
 vicinity, and their home is always open to the 
 stranger or those in trouble. No family in Davis 
 county is better known or more highly honored 
 than is this one, and deservedly so. 
 
 ILLIAM B. SMITH. To be es- 
 teemed beyond the average and uni- 
 versally beloved; to have no harsh 
 word uttered of one during a long 
 and useful pilgrimage on earth, and 
 to pass beyond the shadows from whence no mor- 
 tal ever returns, and to know that hearts an(i 
 lives almost unnumbered will be lonely beyond 
 the sound of one comforting voice, is a consum- 
 mation attained by few. William B. Smith has 
 passed from earth's scenes, but the influences of 
 his grand and noble life will never cease. 
 
 He was born in Bedfordshire, in February, 
 1814, and was the son of John and Lucy (Brown) 
 Smith. His father and mother lived and died in 
 England. The Smith family is a very old one in 
 England, the ancestry being traced back for cen- 
 turies. Mr. Smith came to America in tRe early 
 forties, and settled in Nauvoo, where he lived 
 until the exodus of the Mormons from that place. 
 He crossed the plains to Utah in 185 1, with Cap- 
 tain Evans, and went direct to Kaysville, in Davis 
 county, where he took up government land close 
 to the lake, on the west side of the Kaysville post- 
 office. This farm he improved and stocked with 
 cattle and sheep, as well as carried on a general 
 farming business. 
 
 Our subject was married in England to Miss 
 Ann Barnes, who died in Kaysville in 1871. His 
 
 second marriage occurred January 10, 1856, to 
 Miss Isabell Burton, who was born in Winsdale, 
 Bradfordshire, England, and was the daughter of 
 James and Isabell Burton, both of whom were 
 natives of England, where the father died. The 
 mother, with her nine children, emigrated to 
 America, and came to Utah in Milo Andrus' 
 company, arriving here in 1855, and settling in 
 Kaysville, where she died about thirty-seven years 
 ago. Of the nine children, seven are still living ; 
 two of the sons live in Kaysville Ward, three in 
 Ogden, and a daughter is living in Weber county. 
 By his second marriage Mr. Smith had six chil- 
 dren, four of whom are still living — Gabriel W., 
 a farmer in Kaysville ; Lucy I. ; Sarah A., now 
 Mrs. Frederick S. Crowley ; George W., farm- 
 ing in Kaysville. Mr. Smith died in Kaysville 
 October 11, 1897, leaving a large estate for his 
 wife and children. He was a staunch believer 
 in the principles and doctrines of the Mormon 
 Church, having been baptized into that faith in 
 England by John Sheffield. He was during his 
 lifetime active in all Church matters, and caused 
 several trips to be made to the Missouri river to 
 escort emigrants to Utah. He was one of those 
 who went out to meet the first hand-cart brigade. 
 He also participated in the early troubles which 
 the settlers encountered in Utah, serving in the 
 Johnston army troubles under Lot Smith. He 
 was one of the most active and enterprising citi- 
 zens of his county, generous to a fault, and is 
 widely remembered to-day for his many char- 
 itable deeds. He not only rendered aid to the 
 needy at his own door, but brought many of his 
 friends who had become converts to the Mormon 
 religion to this country, and among these he is 
 mourned as a true friend. He settled his sons 
 on farms of their own as they grew to manhood, 
 and they are to-day among the most substantial 
 citizens of Davis county. 
 
 Mrs. Smith, the widow of our subject, has re- 
 mained in Kaysville since her marriage, and is 
 widely known for her charity and hospitality. 
 She was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints in England by James Dins- 
 dale, and all of her children are members of that 
 faith and active in its work, her son George bav- 
 ins served fourteen months on a mission to the 
 
370 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Southern States, being called in January, 1897. 
 The oldest daughter, Lucy I., has never married, 
 but remained at home, making the declining days 
 of her parents happy. 
 
 R. W. M. BROWN. No institution 
 of the present day has done more for 
 the uplifting of fallen humanity than 
 has the Keely Institute, whose chief 
 aim is the reclaiming of men from the 
 drink habit, and to-day, wherever one of these 
 institutions is located, there are to be found hun- 
 dreds of men who owe whatever of good and of 
 happiness there ma}- be in their lives to the hu- 
 mane treatment they have received at the hands 
 of those in charge of the institute. 
 
 Dr. W. M. Brown, the physician in charge of 
 the Keely Institute of Salt Lake City, was born 
 in Linn county, Missouri, in 1853. He was edu- 
 cated at the Grand River College, at Edinburgh, 
 Missouri, where he received the degree of A. B. 
 in 1874. He then took a course of study in the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, 
 Iowa, and received the degree of M. D. from that 
 institution in 1881. After the completion of his 
 studies he located in Black Hawk, Colorado, 
 where he practiced his profession for two years, 
 going from there to D'enver, where he opened a 
 drug store on Santa Fe avenue and conducted 
 a general practice in connection with his drug 
 store for three years. From Denver he went to 
 Elizabeth, in the same State, and there estab- 
 lished a drug store, and again took up the prac- 
 tice of his profession. During this time he be- 
 came surgeon for the Denver, Texas and Fort 
 Worth Railroad and examining physician for the 
 Western Mutual Life Association. 
 
 In 1890 he entered the service of the Keely 
 Institute at Dwight, Illinois, where he was a 
 member of the medical staff for three years. In 
 1893 he was sent to the different branch institutes 
 throughout the East, visiting New York, Penn- 
 sylvania, Minnesota, etc., reviewing the work, 
 studying and investigating the course of treat- 
 ment and becoming more proficient in the method 
 of treatment adopted by the Keely Institute. In 
 1896 he opened a branch institute for the benefit 
 of the officers and enlisted men of the L'nited 
 
 States army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He 
 is the only physician who has ever conducted a 
 Keely Institute in the United States army, and 
 to-day is the second oldest physician in the serv- 
 ice of the Keely Company. 
 
 Dr. Brown came to Salt Lake City and took 
 charge of the institute at this place in 1897, and 
 has since attained a high professional standing, 
 and is universally esteemed for his qualities of 
 mind and heart. Success did not immediately 
 crown Dr. Brown's efforts, but the progress of 
 the institution, though slow at first, has been 
 steady, and when the public once realized that 
 the patients did not relapse, but that the cure 
 was permanent, the success of the undertaking 
 in this place was assured. Dr. Brown has twice 
 been compelled to move to larger quarters dur- 
 ing the four years he has been here, and to-day 
 the institute occupies a mansion equal in size 
 to many a pretentious family hotel. The present 
 quarters of this institution were erected ten years 
 ago by Mayor Faramorz Little, in the flush of 
 his prosperity, and is noted the country over for 
 its attractiveness, being one of the show places 
 of the city. Today it rivals in architectural 
 beauty, and far surpasses in interior decorations 
 many of the residences of the wealthy men of 
 the mountains and plains who have come to Salt 
 Lake to establish a permanent home. It is sur- 
 rounded by beautiful and ample grounds, and all 
 the attendants are uniformed in blue, Dr. Brown 
 taking pride in keeping everything about the 
 place in harmony. The patients find it a genuine 
 home, and it is said of them that they are so 
 contented and happy here that they often feel a 
 sincere regret when the time of their discharge 
 comes. 
 
 Salt Lake City is to be congratulated on the 
 splendid success which has resulted from Dr. 
 Brown's efficient, earnest work and careful man- 
 agement, and the cause is a most worthy one, 
 and should have the hearty support of every citi- 
 zen of this city. 
 
 Dr. Brown was married in Denver, Colorado, 
 in 1886, to Miss Nannie Nelson of that city, a 
 daughter of William Nelson of Kansas City, Mis- 
 souri. They have had one child, William, who 
 died in infancy. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 371 
 
 HOMAS STEED. But few men are 
 better or more favorably known in Salt 
 Lake City and vicinity than is Thomas 
 Steed, the subject of this sketch. From 
 the very earliest settlement of this State 
 to the present time he has been closely identified 
 with its history and development. He has passed 
 through all the early hardships and troubles, and 
 now, in the declining years of his successful and 
 eventful life, he can look back with pride to a 
 life well and honorably spent. 
 
 He was born in Worcestershire, Great Mal- 
 vern, England, on December 13, 1826, and is 
 the son of Thomas and Charlotte (Burston) 
 Steed. His mother was a native of the same 
 place, and his father was born in Herefordshire. 
 At the early age of sixteen our subject became 
 imbued with a desire to see America, and after 
 some time spent in persuading his father, he 
 gained permission to leave home. He spent six 
 months in the employ of J. H. Campbell, a 
 wealthy Scotchman, who owned a castle in Scot- 
 land, on the island of Inveron. At the end of six 
 months our subject was offered passage to Amer- 
 ica, but his employer objected and attempted to 
 persuade him to remain, offering him a position 
 on his place in Scotland, which he refused. He 
 remained in England until 1840, when he was 
 converted to the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church, under President Woodruff, who was on 
 a mission to England at that time, and on Janu- 
 ary 21 of that year sailed for America, arriving 
 in New Orleans on board the Fannie, of Boston, 
 under Captain Patterson. He was on the ocean 
 six weeks, and then had a six weeks' trip up thei 
 Mississippi river to Xauvoo, Illinois, where he 
 arrived the 13th of April. There he met the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith, and was guard over him 
 for several weeks, and present with him up to the 
 end, being among those who heard the Prophet's 
 last speech. He was with the Mormons when 
 they were driven out of Nauvoo in 1846, and 
 from there went to Keokuk, Iowa, where he re- 
 mained four years. While at this place he took 
 a contract, with two other men, to burn lime and 
 build cellars, at which business he prospered. On 
 March i. 1850, he left for Salt Lake City, in the 
 train of which Captain Andrews was in com- 
 
 mand, arriving in Salt Lake August 28, 1850. 
 Here he built a home for his family. 
 
 Our subject was married December 13, 1846, 
 to Miss Laura E. Reed, at Keokuk, Iowa. She 
 was the daughter of John and Rebecca A.(Barsh) 
 Reed. Of this marriage three children were born 
 at Keokuk — John, who died aged six months ; 
 Arthur, who died in infancy, and George H., 
 who is now living in Bear River, Box Elder 
 county, Utah. Twelve more children were born 
 in Utah, nine of whom are still living. Mr. Steed 
 was married a second time, in 1857, to Miss 
 Elizabeth Bailey, who died in 1875. Of this 
 marriage one child was born, James J., who is 
 now a sheepman, residing in Logan. 
 
 In the spring of 1851 Mr. Steed bought fifty 
 acres of land at Farmington, in Davis county, 
 just east of the village, and now has two hundred 
 and fifty acres of land in that county. He first 
 built an adobe house, which still stands, and in 
 which the family lived until 1874, when he built 
 a fine brick residence and put up a number of 
 good barns for his stock and hay. He has fol- 
 lowed the farming and live stock business ever 
 since he came to this State, and has made it a 
 successful avocation. His first wife is still liv- 
 ing, but is in feeble health. Mr. Steed has ever 
 been active in the work of the Church, and has 
 served on a number of small missions at home, 
 besides which he was called in 1875 to go on a 
 mission to Australia and New Zealand. He went 
 by way of England, circumnavigating the globe, 
 and spending a considerable time sight-seeing in 
 England, visiting the great English arsenal and 
 gun yards. He was fifty-six days on the trip 
 from England to Melbourne, and spent two years 
 in New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands. He 
 was absent for three years on this mission. He 
 encountered a terrible storm on the Indian Ocean, 
 which lasted for ten days. When this Stake was 
 organized our subject was made First Coun- 
 selor to the President of the High Priest's Quo- 
 rum, and in 1900 was ordained a Patriarch. His 
 son Thomas I. has also been on a mission to the 
 Northern States. In addition to his other busi- 
 ness interests, Mr. Steed has also taken an active 
 interest in mining, having developed several 
 claims in Davis countv, and has now two claims 
 
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 which show a good deposit of gold and copper, 
 and which he expects to develop into a good 
 mine. He has named his mines the Laura and 
 the McKinley. 
 
 The same persevering spirit that he displayed 
 when but a youth and that brought him safely 
 across the ocean and made him a citizen of a 
 strange land, has been with Mr. Steed in all his 
 business ventures, and he owes his success to his 
 own ability to grasp the opportunities that came 
 to his hand and to successfully overcome every 
 obstacle in his pathway. To-day he enjoys the 
 confidence and esteem of the leaders of his 
 Church, in which he has ever been a faithful and 
 consistent member, and has a wide circle of 
 friends. 
 
 VTRIARCH EDWIN PACE, the old- 
 est resident now living at Woods 
 Cross. When Patriarch Pace first set- 
 tled in the vicinity where he now re- 
 sides, the country was a wild and bar- 
 ren waste. There had been a few farms settled 
 in the vicinity previous to his arrival, but the 
 most were small and of a crude character. He 
 has been an eye-witness to the development of the 
 whole country, and he has always taken a promi- 
 nent and active part in every enterprise which 
 has been for the advancement or improvement of 
 Davis county. His life has been an interesting 
 one, filled with many scenes of a thrilling char- 
 acter, and now, in the declining years of his suc- 
 cessful career, he can look back with pleasure to 
 a life honorably and well spent in the interests of 
 his family, his Church and humanity. 
 
 He was born in Licking county, Ohio, Decem- 
 ber 8, 1831. He is the son of Elisha and Eliza 
 (Baldwing) Pace. The father was a native of 
 Pennsylvania, and the mother was born in Mas- 
 sachusetts. They were married in Ohio, and 
 raised a family of two sons and two daughters 
 to maturity, our subject being the oldest and the 
 only one now living. They became identified with 
 the Mormon Church in Ohio in its early history. 
 In 1837 the family moved to Nauvoo, where the 
 senior Mr. Pace died in July, 1844, and the care 
 of the family then devolved upon our subject, 
 
 he being the oldest son. Two years after the 
 death of Mr. Pace the mother and children, in 
 1846, moved to Ponca, Nebraska, about one hun- 
 dred and fifty miles above Winter Quarters, 
 where they resided during the winter, and later 
 moved to where Omaha now stands. In 1848 
 they joined the Mormon train bound for Utah 
 in company with the late President Snow, and on 
 this memorable trip our subject drove one yoke 
 of o.xen and two yoke of cows, and made the 
 entire trip on foot. They arrived in Salt Lake 
 City in the fall of that year, and the family went 
 direct to that part of Bountiful now known as 
 the South Bountiful Ward, and in this vicinity 
 Patriarch Pace has continued to reside ever since. 
 His life has been crowned with a reasonable de- 
 gree of success, he at the present time having 
 practically retired from business life. His home 
 consists of a two-story brick residence, which he 
 designed and built himself. 
 
 He was married in Bountiful May 2, 1853, to 
 Miss Mary Jane Atkinson, daughter of William 
 and Phoebe Jackson, her people having come to 
 Utah in the fall of 1852. Twelve children were 
 born of this marriage, of whom ten are still liv- 
 ing. The mother of these children died in 1877. 
 Our subject's second marriage was to Miss Mary 
 J. Brown, daughter of William and Phoebe 
 (Odell) Brown. These people were from an old 
 New York family, and came to Utah with the 
 pioneers in 1847, settling in Bountiful, where 
 they lived and died. Nine children were born of 
 this union, seven of whom still live. 
 
 It was while residing at Nauvoo, in 1840, that 
 our subject was baptized into the Mormon faith 
 by William Smith, a brother of the Prophet 
 Joseph Smith, and from that time to the present 
 he has been a consistent and faithful follower of 
 that faith. He was called to assist in the colon- 
 ization of Arizona, where he spent one season. 
 For many years he has served as First Counselor 
 to Bishop Brown, and in 1897 he was ordained a 
 Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints. During the troubles which existed 
 when Johnston's army landed in Utah he partici- 
 pated, serving as a guard in Salt creek. He also 
 participated in many Indian troubles which oc- 
 curred in the early days of the settlement of Utah. 
 
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 373 
 
 He has been a large real estate owner in Davis 
 county, but as he has advanced in years he has 
 gradually given up the greater part of his real 
 estate to his sons and daughters. He was among 
 the first to start in the sheep and cattle business 
 in Davis county, which he successfully followed 
 for a number of years. He has always been con- 
 sidered a permanent fixture of this county. 
 
 The first work which Patriarch Pace did in 
 Utah was to build a wigwam of poles covered 
 with brush, which served as a shelter for a time, 
 and the following fall built a one-room log cabin, 
 in which the family continued to live for eight 
 years. The next residence was an adobe house 
 of eight rooms, where they lived until 1885, when 
 the Patriarch constructed the splendid brick resi- 
 dence he now lives in . His home place consists 
 of nineteen acres of land, which is considered 
 the finest in Davis county for its size. Patriarch 
 ■ Pace has had over one hundred grandchildren, 
 of whom seventy-six are still living, and eight 
 great grandchildren. A noticeable feature of this 
 family is the fact that although a very large one 
 nearly every member of it has followed the teach- 
 ings of the Mormon faith. 
 
 EORGE V. STEVENSON. In the 
 vast undertaking of the transforming 
 of Utah from a wild and barren waste 
 to its present state of development, it 
 has required men of strong will power, 
 perseverance and determination ; men who know 
 no such word as fail. Among this class of citi- 
 zens of Davis county George V. Stevenson, the 
 subject of this sketch, deserves special mention. 
 Mr. Stevenson is essentially a self-made man, 
 having started out in life on his own hook, and 
 his success in life has been due to his own efforts. 
 His long and honorable life, his straightforward 
 business principles, and his honesty in dealing 
 with his fellow men has won for him a large 
 circle of friends in Davis county. 
 
 'He was born in Breaston, Derbyshire, England, 
 March 18, 1847, and is the son of John and Mary 
 (Vickers) Stevenson, both natives of England. 
 There were fourteen children in this family, all 
 born in England, of whom eight are now living. 
 The Stevenson family emigrated to America in 
 
 1862, crossing the plains to Utah with Captain 
 Home. One son, James V., now living in 
 Ephraim, Sanpete county, preceded the rest of 
 the family, coming to Utah in 1856. They 
 crossed the ocean on the sailing vessel John J. 
 Boydc. A few days after their arrival in Salt 
 Lake City the father died, and the care of the 
 family devolved upon our subject and his younger 
 brother, who obtained employment in the shoe 
 factory of Air. Jennings, which trade our subject 
 had learned from his father in England. At the 
 end of a year his health became so poor that he 
 had to relinquish his position with Mr. Jennings, 
 and he went to Kaysville, where he worked one 
 season for William B. Smith. After leaving the 
 service of William B. Smith our subject was em- 
 ployed by John S. Smith, with whom he remained 
 for a number of years, and whose daughter, Eliza 
 M., he married. The result of this marriage was 
 ten children, seven of whom are now living — 
 Richard S., Warren S., Winifred Jane, Ida E., 
 Mary Ellen, Jesse E., died aged one and a half 
 years, George S., died at eleven years of age, 
 John D., Melvin A., died in infancy, and Eliza- 
 beth. 
 
 After his marriage our subject conducted a 
 farm in Skull Valley belonging to his father-in- 
 law for one year, when he returned and farmed 
 his father-in-law's home place for two years. He 
 then rented a farm for three years, and at the 
 expiration of this term took up his present home 
 of one hundred and sixty acres, which was then 
 only a wild piece of sagebrush land, requiring 
 much labor to clear and cultivate it. By hard 
 work and perseverance he has brought this land 
 up to a high state of cultivation, erected a good 
 brick residence and outbuildings ; has it well 
 fenced and the land divided into fields and pas- 
 tures, and it is in every way a well improved and 
 desirable home. Mr. Stevenson is interested in 
 cattle, sheep and hogs, and handles only high- 
 grade stock. He has not confined his attention 
 wholly to his farming and stock-raising, but has 
 been active in promoting the growth and devel- 
 opment of his county, and is foremost in all proj- 
 ects for the betterment of Davis county. He is 
 a stockholder in the Layton Creamery, and also a 
 heavy stockholder in the irrigation company. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In politics Mr. Stevenson is independent, owing 
 allegiance to no political party, but believes in 
 the best man for the office. Mr. Stevenson was 
 baptized into the Mormon Church on January i, 
 1857, in England, by Joseph Newbold. Mrs. 
 Stevenson was born in Iowa, and was also raised 
 in the Mormon faith, as have also been all their 
 children, and the family has always been promi- 
 nent in Church work in their community. Mr. 
 Stevenson is at this time First Counselor to the 
 Bishop of West Layton, and has served as one 
 of the Seven Presidents of the Fifty-fifth Quo- 
 rum of Seventies. On October, 16, 1889, he was 
 called and set apart for missionary service in 
 England, laboring in Derbyshire, Nottingham 
 and Lincolnshire for a period of two years. His 
 wife is a member of the Ladies' Relief Society 
 and President of the Primary of their Ward. 
 
 OHN TAYLOR. We speak of the first 
 ten years of the last century as being 
 prolific in the birth of great men, who 
 have given to the century much of the 
 brilliancy for which it was noted ; not 
 warriors, but men of peace — historians, poets, 
 statesmen and men of religion. The subject of 
 this sketch was a man of peace, preaching "peace 
 on earth, good will to all men" ; asking no one to 
 do that which he could not or would not do him- 
 self ; consistent in all things, gentle, kind, noble, 
 just and generous. What better example do we 
 need than that he has given us? 
 
 John Taylor, third President of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was a son of 
 James and Agnes Taylor, and was born Novem- 
 ber 1st, 1808, at Milnthorpe, Westmoreland 
 county, England, where his parents owned a 
 small estate in the village of Hale and were mem- 
 bers of the Church of England. When he was 
 fifteen years of age he joined the Methodists, and 
 was soon appointed a local preacher, and contin- 
 ued as such until he came to America in 1828 or 
 1829. I have heard him tell of his experiences 
 as a boy preacher, and laughingly say he was 
 then so short that he had to stand on a stool in 
 
 the pulpit so that he could be seen by the con- 
 gregation. 
 
 After arriving at Toronto, Canada, he joined 
 with some educated gentlemen in studying the 
 scriptures, they not feeling satisfied that they had 
 the truth ; so that when Parley P. Pratt presented 
 a letter of introduction he thoroughly investi- 
 gated the principles of the Gospel, was con- 
 vinced of the truth, and was baptized in 1836. 
 He was ordained a High Priest under the hands 
 of Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon and Thomas 
 B. Marsh in Toronto in 1837. He removed from 
 Canada to Kirtland by request of the Prophet, 
 and from there to Missouri in 1838. 
 
 We will quote from his history: "During the 
 great apostacy of 1837, when many leading men 
 turned away and became so embittered against 
 the Prophet that the lives of men who defended 
 him were endangered. Elder John Taylor stood 
 up boldly in the Kirtland Temple, in the midst of 
 foes, and with that eloquent power which came 
 from God and which ever characterized Elder 
 Taylor's speech, declared that Joseph Smith was 
 a Prophet of the living God, and had not fallen, 
 as alleged by apostates." 
 
 While traveling through Missouri he preached 
 the Gospel and organized a Branch at Far West ; 
 was ordained to the Apostleship December 19th, 
 1838, by Apostles Brigham Young and Heber C. 
 Kimball. He shared in all the persecutions of the 
 Saints in Missouri, and was so bold and powerful 
 in his defense of their rights and in denunciations 
 of ihe wicked that he was ever after called the 
 "Champion of Right." 
 
 He and Bishop Partridge were selected to 
 write a petition to the General Government, set- 
 ting forth the persecutions of his people and ask- 
 ing redress. He left his family in poor circum- 
 stances to fulfill a mission to England in 1838. 
 He was sick for eleven weeks on his way. He 
 believed in preaching the Gospel without purse 
 and scrip ; always had great faith in God, 
 and always, if possible, traveled in the best con- 
 veyances, so that he might meet and preach to the 
 educated people. He never asked a human being 
 for help; he asked the Lord, and his prayers 
 were always answered. He arrived in Liverpool 
 January nth, i8^o, preaching, baptizing and or- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ganizing branches. He introduced the Gospel in 
 the Isle of Man ; also preached in Scotland. He 
 also published tracts refuting falsehoods; cor- 
 rected the proof sheets of the Book of Mormon, 
 etc. 
 
 In 1841 John Taylor and Elias Higbee were 
 appointed a committee to petition Congress for 
 redress of the wrongs heaped upon the Saints in 
 Missouri, and he was appointed by the Prophet 
 to present the same. He was also appointed by 
 the Prophet editor of the Times and Seasons; 
 also edited and published the Nauvoo Neighbor; 
 he was also a City Councilman, one of the Re- 
 gents of the University and Judge Advocate of 
 the Nauvoo Legion. 
 
 John Taylor was very firmly attached to the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith, often attended him in 
 his trials and persecutions, he and Willard Rich- 
 ards going with him to Carthage, and when the 
 mob attacked them, and while Willard Richards 
 closed the door the best he could, John Taylor 
 parried the guns aside with his walking cane. 
 We all know the result of that dreadful day. 
 The Prophet and his brother were murdered, 
 John Taylor wounded with four bullets, one of 
 which he carried to his grave, forty-three years 
 later. After the restoration of his health he was 
 one, with President Young and the Apostles, in 
 presiding over the Church. He helped the Saints 
 in their troubles ; assisted in the completion of 
 the Nauvoo Temple ; was driven with the Saints 
 from Xauvoo, and journeyed with the brethren 
 to Winter Quarters ; assisted in organizing the 
 Mormon Battalion, and was from this point 
 called, with Orson Hyde and Parley P. Pratt, 
 on a mission to Great Britain, arriving in Eng- 
 land, October 3rd, 1846. Performed an excellent 
 work in assisting to regulate the affairs of the 
 mission. 
 
 He says : "I left the Camp, in company with 
 my brethren, July 3rd, 1846, and have traveled 
 upwards of seventeen thousand miles in England, 
 Scotland and Wales. * * Am thankful so 
 much of my mission is completed, and I bless 
 the name of the God of Israel." He desired to 
 reach the Camp before the pioneer company left 
 for the West, as he had with him some 
 surveying and scientific instruments purchased 
 
 in England for them. These instruments 
 consisted of two sextants, two barometers, 
 two artificial horizons, one circular reflector, 
 several thermometers and a telescope. The pio- 
 neer camp was then on the Elkhorn, some twenty 
 or thirty miles from Winter Quarters. He was 
 given charge of a large company of Saints, who 
 entered the Salt Lake Valley October 5th, 1847. 
 For two years he was active in founding and 
 building Salt Lake City. He built one of the 
 first saw mills in Utah, and worked in it himself. 
 March 12th, 1849, he was chosen one of the Asso- 
 ciate Judges of the provisional State of Deseret. 
 On October 20th, 1849 he started on a mission 
 to France. During this mission the Book of Mor- 
 mon was translated into French and German un- 
 der his direction, the latter being published in 
 Hamburg, where he introduced the gospel. In 
 France he published a monthly paper, called 
 L'Btorle du Deseret, and in Germany a periodical 
 entitled Zion's Panier. During his labors sev- 
 eral branches of the Church were organized in 
 France. He purchased and sent to Utah the 
 first machinery for manufacturing beets into 
 sugar. He also wrote, while upon this mission, 
 "The Government of God." 
 
 In 1854 he resigned a position in the Territorial 
 Legislative Council to fill a mission in New York 
 and to preside over the Church in the Eastern 
 States. At that particular time heavy attacks 
 were being made upon the Latter Day Saints 
 through the press, and in order to refute these 
 attacks Elder Taylor published a paper, called 
 The Mormon, and established headquarters near 
 the office of the noted newspaper writer, James 
 Gordon Bennett, to whose attacks he replied in 
 such a vigorous manner as to surprise the anti- 
 Mormon element in New Yerk City. He con- 
 tinued The Mormon until 1857, when he was 
 called home on account of the threatened Bu- 
 chanan war against the Saints. "During this 
 time Elder Taylor was active and fearless in de- 
 fending the rights of the Saints and denouncing 
 the falsehoods that were circulated by the preach- 
 ers and politicians." 
 
 From this time on his time was occupied in 
 traveling, preaching, organizing and regulating 
 the Church in the settlements of the Saints, and 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he took part, with President Young, in organiz- 
 ing the Stakes of Zion. 
 
 He was a Probate Judge of Utah county, and 
 served many times as Speaker of- the House in 
 the Territorial Legislature. He was very active 
 in his efforts to secure the admission of the State 
 of Deseret into the Union. At the death of 
 President Young he was sustained, in 1880, as 
 President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints, and Prophet, Seer and Revelator to 
 the Church in all the world. Apostles George 
 Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith were chosen as 
 his counselors. 
 
 When the crusade against plural marriages was 
 made with such bitterness he, like many more 
 of the Saints, were obliged to leave their homes, 
 and after his return from a trip to Arizona and 
 California, February ist, 1884, he preached his 
 last public discourse in the Tabernacle. By many 
 it was said to be a most powerful address, ex- 
 horting the Saints to faithfulness and forbear- 
 ance, long suffering and charity in all their trials. 
 From this time until his death he lived in exile, 
 and died near Kaysville, Davis county. His life 
 was shortened by his exile. Truly, he was a 
 double martyr. Counselor D. H. Wells, in speak- 
 ing at his funeral, said : "Hfe lived a fearless, 
 noble and God-like life. He has been the Cham- 
 pion of Human Rights, the Champion of Liber.ty, 
 Truth and Freedom." 
 
 He was a kind, affectionate father. He taught 
 his family to respect each other's rights ; he in- 
 structed them in the principles of righteousness, 
 and placed them upon their own responsibility to 
 act for themselves. He was a delightful travel- 
 ing companion, singing hymns and pleasant songs, 
 always selecting those with high moral sentiments 
 embodied in them. He was also fond of telling 
 a story, was cheerful in disposition, and possesed 
 of a spirituality and a veneration for God and 
 truth so great that few men in this world have 
 equalled him in the possession of these qualities. 
 
 The Deseret News, in speaking of him, says : 
 "The soul of honor, of indomitable energy anc^ 
 unflinching firmness when convinced of the 
 right." President Taylor was the embodiment 
 of dignity and urbane authority. His record is 
 without a stain, and his name will be inscribed 
 
 in the archives of heaven among those of the 
 mighty spirits who have helped to sway the des- 
 tinies of this world. He has gone to mingle 
 with his brethren of this last dispensation, who 
 laid the foundations of this great work, and with 
 them he will shine in eternal splendor as a son of 
 God, an heir to the royal Priesthood, a ruler in 
 his Father's kingdom. He lived, labored and died 
 the perfect exemplification of his favorite motto, 
 "The kingdom of God or nothing." 
 
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 ASHINGTON LEMMON. Among 
 the pioneers who came to Utah and 
 settled in the Salt Lake valley 
 there have been few who have lived 
 so long or participated so actively 
 in the work of building up this State as has the 
 subject of this sketch. For almost a century 
 he has watched the United States grow from a 
 small and sparsely settled country, bounded on 
 the east by the Atlantic ocean and the west ter- 
 minating at the Mississippi river. He was among 
 the first to make the arduous journey across the 
 great plains, and has participated actively in 
 building up Utah, and in the development of the 
 Salt Lake valley, as well as taking part in all 
 the work which the Mormon Church has done. 
 He was with the Church in the early days of its 
 existence at Nauvoo, Illinois, and m Missouri, 
 and took part in all those troublesome times, 
 building up and developing the Church, strength- 
 ening its membership and aiding in the erection 
 of buildings for its work. In Utah he has been 
 a prominent man in the Church, and the position 
 which he held has been substantiated by his sons, 
 who have taken as active a part in the Church 
 as their father. He is now, at the hale old age 
 of ninety-six, retired from active business, and 
 enjoys in the evening of his life the confidence, re- 
 spect and esteem of all his neighbors and friends. 
 He was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, Oc- 
 tober 6, 1806, and is the son of James and Sarah 
 (Carr) Lemmon. His father was born in Penn- 
 sylvania, and later moved to Kentuckv. When 
 our subject was six years old his parents moved 
 from Kentucky and settled in Harrison county, 
 Indiana. There their son grew to manhood, and 
 

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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 377 
 
 in 1830 removed to Adams county, Illinois, where 
 he resided for twenty years, when he went to 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa, where the headquarters 
 were at that time, the place then being known as 
 Winter Quarters. He had joined the Mormon 
 Church in 1841, in Illinois, and assisted in erect- 
 ing the Temple at Nauvoo. He was the personal 
 friend of the leaders of the Church and of the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith, and was absent in In- 
 diana when the latter was killed at Carthage. 
 He lived two years at Council Bluffs, and left 
 that place, coming to Utah in 1852, arriving 
 here on September loth of that year, and has 
 ever since made his home in Salt Lake county. 
 He located a farm in what is now known as Mill 
 Creek Ward, in Salt Lake county, and pros- 
 pered in his work to such an extent that he is 
 now able to live upon the results of his labor 
 without doing daily toil for his sustenance. 
 
 Mr. Lemmon was married at Cardian, Indiana, 
 in August, 1826, to Miss Tamer Stephens, 
 daughter of John and Stacey Stephens, and by 
 this marriage has twelve children — James W., 
 now in Idaho ; Stacey Ann, wife of Virgil Mer- 
 rill, who died in August, 1901 ; John W., now 
 a resident of Oregon ; Nancy M., wife of John 
 Smith, of Salt Lake City ; Jasper, in Cache val- 
 ley, LItah ; Willis, also in Cache valley ; Leander, 
 in Emery county ; Alfred, in Salt Lake county ; 
 Oliver, who died in 1894; Mary E., who died in 
 1899, and Artimzie C, who makes her home with 
 her father, and Hyrum, in Payson, Utah, Coun- 
 selor to the President of the Nebo Stake. James 
 W. served in the Mormon battalion. His wife, 
 the mother of these children, died on October 4, 
 1893. Mr. Lemmon's father died on July 4, 
 1858. Mr. Lemmon's sons, Hyrum and Jasper, 
 served on missions for the Church in different 
 parts of the United States. The present home- 
 stead of our subject consists of sixty acres of 
 land, located between Fifteenth and Sixteenth 
 South streets. The homestead is well improved, 
 and- with him live two of his daughters. Mr. 
 Lemmon was a prominent man in the work of 
 the Church, and was Counselor to the Bishop 
 of his Ward, Bishop Miller, for over twenty 
 years, and was for many years a teacher in the 
 Ward. His mother died shortly after their re- 
 
 moval to Indiana, and his father died in Texas. 
 The career which Mr. Lemmon has made for 
 himself has marked him as one of the ablest pio- 
 neers who came to Utah in the early days. He 
 has seen it grow from a wilderness to one of the 
 most flourishing and prosperous States of the 
 West, and has aided in bringing its agricultural 
 resources up to their present high state. He has 
 been prominent in the work of the Church of his 
 choice, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of 
 all its members, and is known throughout his 
 community as a man of integrity and upright- 
 ness. He enjoys a wide popularity and numbers 
 his friends by the legion. 
 
 
 RS. EMMELINE B. WELLS. Per- 
 haps no woman in Utah today is as 
 well known as Mrs. Emmeline B. 
 Wells, and certainly there is no one 
 more respected and admired by all 
 classes and creeds than this editor, author, and 
 altogether brilliant little woman. 
 
 Mrs. Wells is a typical New Englander; alert 
 and progressive, of the delicate and romantic 
 temperament which, combined with the Puritan 
 practical sense, creates the finest type- of Ameri- 
 can intellectual womanhood. From her early 
 girlhood she has been a talented and versatile 
 writer. She is the editor of the Woman's Ex- 
 ponent, established in 1872, and is the second 
 oldest woman's paper in the United States. She 
 has also written several books, the best known 
 of which is "Musings and Memories," a collec- 
 tion of poems. She organized the Woman's 
 Press Club, and is Honorary President of that 
 body. 
 
 Mrs. Wells is a representative Mormon woman 
 —earnest, loyal, yet wholly independent in 
 thought and speech ; frank, cordial and extremely 
 kind and generous. No one ever went to her 
 for help, physical, mental or spiritual, who did 
 not receive it in full measure. She is very frank 
 in her expressions, which sometimes gives rise 
 to wrong impressions, for the tender heart which 
 beats beneath the silken bodice would never will- 
 ingly wound one of God's creature's. Her 
 shrewd common sense and kindly nature has eri- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 abled her to retain the good will and influence 
 gained through her position and mental gifts, 
 and she has done perhaps more than any woman 
 in the State to dispel prejudice and unite the 
 varying elements of social and religious life in 
 her native country. She is much sought after, 
 and her opinions bear weight with all Utah 
 women. The fact that she is aunt of the Gov- 
 ernor does not account for her wide political in- 
 fluence, for she is of herself a wise politician. 
 She was on the legislative ticket three years ago, 
 but went down to defeat with her party. 
 
 She is General Secretary of the Ladies' Re- 
 lief Society, the oldest and most influential so- 
 ciety of its kind in the West, organized in 1842. 
 As its name indicates, the object of this society is 
 philanthropic and charitable. It has over thirty 
 thousand members, composed of fifty stakes, be- 
 sides numerous missions, and there are over 
 seven hundred branches in the world, located 
 wherever there is a branch of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She is also 
 the promoter and organizer of as many clubs, 
 societies and benefits for women as any other 
 woman living in Utah. She organized the 
 Daughters of the Revolution, and was for two 
 years its State Regent ; she is also Honorary 
 President of the Reapers' Club, which she organ- 
 ized, as well as of the Press Club, before men- 
 tioned. She is also the only woman representa- 
 tive on the State Republican Committee. Three 
 years ago the National Council of Women of the 
 United States, recognizing her ability and integ- 
 rity, elected her Assistant Secretary of the Gen- 
 eral Board, in which capacity she attended the 
 International Council of Women, held in London 
 in June, 1899. In 1901 she attended the Min- 
 neapolis Convention of the National Council of 
 Women, and was appointed Commissioner to the 
 Philippine Islands. In 1873 Mi's- Wells was 
 made Vice-President of the Utah National Suf- 
 frage Association of the United States, and be- 
 came widely known as the leading e.xponent of 
 the cause of suffrage in the West. She was act- 
 ive in securing Statehood for Utah, and when 
 the division was made on party lines she took 
 sides with the Republican party. In 1882, pre- 
 vious to the passage of the Edmond's bill, she 
 
 was appointed a member of the Utah Constitu- 
 tional Convention, and was one of the three la- 
 dies who sat in the halls of that convention, of 
 which her husband, Daniel H. Wells, was also a 
 member. In 1886 she presented a memorial to 
 Congress from the women nof Utah ; she also pre- 
 sented memorials from the women of Utah to 
 Presidents Hayes and Cleveland. In 1879 she 
 presented her first memorial to the President in 
 person. The object of this memorial was to legit- 
 imize the children of plural marriages, and she 
 has been very active in protecting the interests 
 of her State and party. 
 
 Emmeline B.Wells was born February 29, 1828, 
 at Petersham, Worcester county, Massachusetts. 
 Her maiden name was Woodward. Her fore- 
 fathers came to the L^nited States in 1630, and 
 settled near Boston, becoming large land own- 
 ers. They were by trade mathematicians, sur- 
 veyors, etc. Her ancestors on both sides came 
 from England at an early day and fought in the 
 Revolutionary War and in the War of 1812, some 
 of them being officers of high rank. Her brothers 
 and other male relatives also fought in the Civil 
 War, and were closely identified with the history 
 of New England. She was married in 1852 to 
 Daniel H. Wells, the father of Governor Wells. 
 Daniel H. W'ells figured prominently in the his- 
 tory of Salt Lake City and of Utah, and a com- 
 plete biographical sketch of his interesting life 
 will be found elsewhere in this work. 
 
 Our subject early in life gave promise of unu- 
 sual talent, and for a child had a most remarka- 
 ble memory. She became a member of the Mor- 
 mon Church at a very early day, her mother be- 
 ing converted to the teachings of that denomina- 
 tion in 1841, and the daughter being baptized a 
 year later. She went to Nauvoo in the spring 
 of 1844, and there heard Prophet Joseph Smith 
 preach his last discourses. During the winter 
 following she was taught the principle of celes- 
 tial marriages by- Bishop Newel K. Whitney and 
 his wife. The ceremony was performed by Pres- 
 ident Brigham Young February 14, 1845. ^^ 
 the time of the exodus of the Mormons from 
 Nauvoo in 1846 her mother died from the hard- 
 ships and fatigue incident to that journey. Our 
 subject went to Winter Quarters with the main 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 body of Mormons, where she taught school for 
 a time, and later came to Salt Lake City with 
 Bishop Whitney and his family, arriving here 
 in October, 1848, experiencing all the hardships 
 of those trying times, during which her husband 
 died, leaving her a widow and mother. She 
 early became interested in woman's cause, travel- 
 ing among the Saints and organizing societies. 
 In 1874 she entered the office of the IVoinan's 
 Exponent, then edited by Lulu Greed Richards, 
 and in July, 1877, assumed the entire responsi- 
 bility of that publication, which she has since 
 continued. In November, 1876, she was chosen 
 President of the Central Grain Committee for the 
 storing of grain by women against a day of fam- 
 ine. She has siince filled many positions of trust 
 and honor, being Secretary of the Deseret Hos- 
 pital for twelve years, chairman of a number of 
 important committees, a delegate to Washington, 
 and attending numerous conventions of the Na- 
 tional Woman's Suffrage Association, National 
 Council of Woman's Suffrage, etc., and is one of 
 the widely known and greatly beloved women of 
 the L^nited States. 
 
 F.NRY DINWOODEY. In the com- 
 :in.Tcial life of the West there is no 
 more important mercantile establish- 
 ment than the H. Dinwoodey Furni- 
 ture Company, whose headquarters are 
 in Salt Lake City, and which supplies the wants 
 of the people of four States. It has risen to its 
 present high standing in the commercial world 
 by the ability and constant hard work of its 
 President, the subject of this sketch. Few of the 
 pioneers of Utah who have risen to a prominent 
 position in the affairs of the State have more suc- 
 cessfully battled with the adverse conditions 
 which confronted its early settlers than has he. 
 His early life has proved him to be a man who 
 has always been equal to any emergency that 
 presented itself, and has sucessfully overcome 
 disasters and created greater successes upon the 
 wrecks of his former trials. From a very small 
 beginning in 1857, when he employed but one or 
 two men, and his establishment occupied but one 
 story of a small frame building, it has by rapid 
 strides reached the commanding position it now 
 
 occupies, and is easily the leading furniture es- 
 tablishment west of Omaha and east of San Fran- 
 cisco. The present building which it occupies on 
 First South street, is one of the most substantial 
 business buildings in the city. The company en- 
 joys to a high degree the confidence of not only 
 the business world, but of the people of the entire 
 inter-mountain region as well. 
 
 Mr. Dinwoodey was born in Warrington, Lan- 
 cashire, England, September 11, 1825, and is now 
 in his seventy-seventh year and in the enjoyment 
 of good health. He spent his early life, until his 
 twenty-first year, in England, receiving his edu- 
 cation in the common schools of his native coun- 
 try, and in 1849 he, with his family, emigrated to 
 America. He had become a convert to the teach- 
 ings of the Alormon Church in England, and 
 since his removal to Utah has been a faithful and 
 consistent follower of that Church. His trip 
 across the Atlantic Ocean was filled with horror, 
 and was one which would try the soul of the 
 bravest man. He left Liverpool on the sailing 
 ship Berlin, and after being away from land for 
 some days the dreadful scourge of cholera broke 
 out among its passengers, and Mr. Dinwoodey 
 assisted in burying forty-nine of the victims of 
 that disease, their bodies being cast into the sea. 
 After a stormy and dangerous voyage, they finally 
 arrived at New Orleans in the fall of 1849, where 
 he remained for six months, and in the spring of 
 1850 went to Saint Louis, where he lived for five 
 years. He has learned the cabinet making busi- 
 ness, and was employed in Saint Louis in the 
 manufacture of mechanical patterns. Here he 
 remained until 1855, when he fitted out two ox 
 teams, and, with his family, made the trip across 
 the plains to Salt Lake City. In crossing the 
 plains he adopted the same humane plans which 
 had proved so successful with President Brigham 
 Young. Instead of treating the Indians as foes, 
 intent on taking their lives.and against whom the 
 only method was extermination, he treated them 
 as fellow beings, feeding and aiding them, and 
 was not molested by them in any way across the 
 plains. The only danger which they encountered 
 was from the vast herds of buffaloes, which then 
 occupied the great prairies in countless numbers. 
 The extermination which has taken place in the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 past fifty years has decimated the ranks of these 
 animals until now the few specimens of it that 
 remain are guarded in zo-ological collections in 
 order to prevent the extinction of the species. 
 So thick were the bison that it was with diffi- 
 culty that the wagon trains could move, and 
 there was a constant danger of the train being 
 entirely demolished by the rush of the herds in 
 their stampedes. To prevent this required end- 
 less vigilance on the part of the travelers, and 
 the necessity of riding on horseback to head off 
 the herds from the direction in which the train 
 was traveling. The train successfully accom- 
 plished the entire journey, and in the fall of 1855 
 arrived in Salt Lake City. Upon his arrival in 
 Salt Lake, Mr. Dinwoodey leased a piece of land 
 on which was an orchard and was surrounded by 
 a pole fence. He pulled down the fence and 
 erected a frame building, in which he at once 
 engaged in the furniture line, and thus began 
 the foundation of the enormous business which 
 has since grown from his efforts. The first 
 building he occupied was on Main street, in the 
 same block where McCornick & Company's bank 
 now stands, being about the middle of the square. 
 He continued at this site for a number of years, 
 increasing the capacity of his plant as his busi- 
 ness prospered. He bought a piece of land on 
 First South street, and put up a two-story adobe 
 building in 1866, and five years later he had dou- 
 bled the capacity of the plant. He subsequently 
 erected on the site of his adobe building a three- 
 story building in 1873, where he continued until 
 its destruction by fire. This was a three-story 
 brick building, which in 1890 gave way to his 
 present six-story structure, which is now the 
 home of his business. It is one of the hand- 
 somest business blocks in the city, and in it is car- 
 ried the most complete line of furniture in the 
 West. When Mr. Dinwoodey first started in 
 business in the late fifties, money was a scarce 
 commodity in Utah, and such of it as was re- 
 ceived in the course of business was needed for 
 the purchase of material in the East and the pay- 
 ment of freight charges. All freight was then 
 brought into the Territory by ox teams, and the 
 cost of this was almost prohibitive, being twenty- 
 five cents a pound. The business was incorpo- 
 
 rated in 1 80 1, under the name of the H. Din- 
 woodey Furniture Company, and with him is 
 now associated his son, H. M. Dinwoodey, as 
 general manager of the company, who, by his 
 application to business and his knowledge of its 
 details, has made himself one of the most promi- 
 nent business men of the inter-mountain region. 
 The company is capitalized under the laws of 
 Utah for two hundred thousand dollars. In ad- 
 dition to the large retail business which this com- 
 pany carries on, it also does an enormous whole- 
 sale business' and in addition to the six-story 
 building which it occupies, also occupies a three- 
 story brick building in the rear of the large store, 
 which affords ten thousand square feet of space. 
 It also has a warehouse for reserve stock. The 
 entire six floors and basement are filled with the 
 newest furniture, and with the best house fur- 
 nishings that can be had. The present force of 
 the company now exceeds seventy-five people, 
 in addition to the traveling salesmen, who cover 
 the entire inter-mountain region. Mr. Dinwoodey 
 is also extensively interested in many of the 
 other prominent enterprises of the city, and has 
 aided largely in the development of the resources 
 of the State. Perhaps few men have taken as 
 large an interest as he has in the development 
 of all the various commercial enterprises which 
 have made Utah so prominent and redounded so 
 much to the prosperity of the State. 
 
 He was married in 1846 to Miss Ellen Gore, 
 a native of England. They were married pre- 
 vious to Mr. Dinwoodey's departure for Amer- 
 ica, and she made the entire journey from En- 
 gland to Utah with him, and lived in Salt Lake 
 City until her death in 1885. She died child- 
 less. He has been married twice since, and has 
 had a family of nine children. 
 
 Mr. Dinwoodey had become identified with the 
 Mormon Church in England, and upon coming 
 to Utah continued to take an active part in its 
 affairs. He was one of the contributors to the 
 Temple and one of the men associated in erect- 
 ing several of the Church buildings in this city. 
 In all of his religious work he has been broad 
 minded and liberal, and has always been noted 
 for his consideration to men holding opinons 
 from whch he himself differs. He has held all 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 381 
 
 the different offices of the Church up to the rank 
 of High Priest, to which he was ordained May 
 9, 1873, and has held that position ever since. 
 In national politics Mr. Dinwoodey is a believer 
 in Democratic principles, but in the administra- 
 tion of local politics and the direction of the mu- 
 nicipality he believes in voting for the man who 
 will best serve the interests of the community, 
 irrespective of political or religious affiliations. 
 He has also been liberal in donations to other 
 churches. 
 
 In addition to the building up of his large es- 
 tablishment and to the ecclesiastical work which 
 he has undertaken in the Church, he has also 
 been prominently identified with the civil life of 
 Utah, and has been one of the men who have 
 created the present standing of the State. On 
 October 10, 1869, he was elected Captain of the 
 First Infantry of the Second Brigade, Second 
 Division Xauvoo Legion of L'tah Territory ]\Ii- 
 Htia. He received his commission from Acting- 
 Governor Mann. He has also been prominently 
 identified with the municipality of Salt Lake, 
 and on September 8, 1874, was elected a mem- 
 ber of the City Council, and served in that ca- 
 pacity until 1879. Ii^ 1876 he was elected Al- 
 derman of the Second Municipal Ward of this 
 city, and in August, 1877, was re-elected to the 
 same position, holding this office from that time 
 until 1882. He was one of the principal sup- 
 porters of the Deseret Agricultural and Manu- 
 facturing Society of Utah, and on March 4, 1874, 
 was appointed one of its directors, which office 
 he held for a period of ten years, leaving that 
 society in 1884. He has also been prominently 
 identified with the educational development of 
 Utah, and by the Legislature of 1880 was ap- 
 pointed a regent of the Deseret University, and 
 also one of the building committee. The Zion 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution is also an- 
 other of the great enterprises of Utah in which 
 he is largely interested, being elected one of its 
 directors on October 5, 1890, and has been asso- 
 ciated with it ever since as one of its directors. 
 So wide a field has his experience covered, and 
 so broad is his general knowledge of the require- 
 ments of a new city, that in 1873 he was ap- 
 pointed Assistant Engineer of the Salt Lake Fira 
 
 Department, on account of his previous experi- 
 ence in that work, and in 1889 he took still an- 
 other field for his activity, and in that year was 
 elected a director of the Salt Lake Street Rail- 
 way Company. He has traveled extensively 
 throughout the United States, and has made 
 two trips to Great Britain on business and pleas- 
 ure. He is one of the most influential men in 
 the business world of Salt Lake City and of 
 Utah, and was a director in the Deseret Savings 
 Bank for a number of years, and was a director in 
 the Deseret National Bank, being also a director 
 of the Home Fire Insurance Company, which po- 
 sition he held for a number of years. He is a 
 firm believer in the future growth of Salt Lake 
 City, and of the importance to which Utah will 
 surely come in the future. Mr. Dinwoodey is 
 one of the building committee of the Latter Day 
 Saints' Colleges on Main street, between North 
 and South Temple. Two of the buildings are 
 completed and the third one is in progress. 
 
 j\Ir. Dinwoodey 's father dying when he was 
 very young, he is essentially a self-made man, 
 and has won his own way by dint of hard work 
 and unswerving perseverance. Coming to Utah 
 when the Territory was in its infancy ; when its 
 industries were but on a small scale and the re- 
 sults of his toil bartered for the necessaries of 
 life, he has built up a business which takes first 
 rank in the commercial world of this region. His 
 honesty and integrity have won for him the con- 
 fidence and esteem of the entire business world, 
 and his broad-mindedness, together with his sin- 
 cere and upright life, have won for him the con- 
 fidence and love of all the people with whom he 
 has been associated. He is one of the promi- 
 nent members of the Church to which he has de- 
 voted his life, and has aided materially in bring- 
 ing it to its present satisfactory condition. Few 
 people who came here in the pioneer days have 
 so successfully triumphed over obstacles and dif- 
 ficulties and carved for themselves a career that 
 ranks as high as does that of Mr. Dinwoodey. 
 His life and the work which he has accomplished 
 make him one of the leading men of the city, and 
 the credit which he has won redounds not only to 
 his benefit, but to the family and the State as 
 well. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 nO^IAS G. WIMMER is without 
 doubt the owner of one of the finest 
 ranches to be found in the entire State 
 of Utah, located on Bear river, in Rich 
 county, and near the town of Woodruff. 
 This ranch was located many years ago by a 
 wealthy firm of stockmen living in Evanston, 
 Wyoming, and upon the death of two members 
 of the firm the property came into the hands of 
 Mr. Wimmer, who has turned it into a sheep 
 ranch, and there ranges his large herds of sheep. 
 While not born in Utah, Mr. Wimmer has 
 spent almost his entire life in this State, com- 
 ing here with his parents when but five years of 
 age, in 1852. He was born in Harrison Grove, 
 Harrison county, Iowa, and is the son of Robert 
 and Elizabeth (Wilkerson) Wimmer, both de- 
 scendants of old American families. The early 
 ancestors of Robert Wimmer came from Ger- 
 many and settled in Pennsylvania, where he was 
 born. Mrs. Wimmer was a native of Kentucky, 
 and her grandfather fought in the Revolutionary 
 War and was with General Morgan and his sev- 
 enty-five men who made the charge against 
 Tarleton at Cliflford Court House, North Caro- 
 lina. Mr. and Mrs. Wimmer became converts 
 to the Mormon Church, and with their family of 
 three boys and two girls crossed the plains with 
 ox teams in 1852 and located in the Mill Creek 
 Ward, and the following spring moved to Pay- 
 son, where the parents spent the remainder of 
 their lives, the father becoming a succssful far- 
 mer. Mrs. Wimmer died in 1869, and her hus- 
 band survived her a number of years, living to 
 the advanced age of eighty-eight years. 
 
 Our subject received his education from the 
 common schools of Utah and started out for him- 
 self at the age of eighteen years, beginning in a 
 small way in the stock business, which he has 
 followed up to the present time, making that his 
 principal industry, although he has been identified 
 to a large extent with many other enterprises in 
 the State. He has made a specialty of raising 
 fine sheep and blooded stock, raising short horn 
 cattle and also some fine horses. About twelve 
 years ago he helped to establish the Payson Ex- 
 change and Savings Bank, of which institution 
 he has been president up to the present time. He 
 
 has also taken a lively interest in mining, and he 
 and one of his brothers located the Mammoth 
 mine, the first mine to be located in Utah, and 
 which has been probably the largest producer in 
 the Tintic district, and is still one of the leading 
 mines of the State. 
 
 Mr. Wimmer was married in Payson, Utah, 
 to Elizabeth Simons, daughter of Orawell and 
 Martha (Dixon) Simons. He was one of the 
 early settlers in Utah, coming here in 1854, and 
 became identified with many of the leading in- 
 dustries of that portion of Utah, being connected 
 with all of the co-operative institutions and 
 known throughout the Territory, in which he was 
 a man of some considerable influence. He was 
 a member of the Mormon Church, of which he 
 was a staunch supporter, and at the time of his 
 death was universally mourned as the friend of 
 Church and people. Mr. and Mrs. Wimmer have 
 had born to them a family of thirteen children — 
 Thomas G., junior, interested with his father 
 in the cattle business ; Emily ; Orawell, died aged 
 three years ; Ethel ; Robert S., holding the respon- 
 sible position of cashier of the Payson Bank; 
 Martha ; William L., in charge of the Bear River 
 ranch; Lyle; Wayne; Remus, died aged two 
 years ; Ina, died in infancy ; Hazel, and Reed. 
 
 In politics Mr. Wimmer is a member of the 
 Republican party, but not particularly active in 
 its work, preferring to devote his time to his large 
 business interests. 
 
 The Wimmer family is one that has been 
 largely connected with the life and history of 
 this western country. Not only did some of the 
 members of it come to Utah at an early day, and 
 by taking part in the Indian wars and waging a 
 hand to hand conflict with the seemingly insur- 
 mountable obstacles that stood in the pathway 
 of success, assist in subduing this wild region 
 and bringing it up to its present state of prolific- 
 ness, but other members of this family performed 
 the same service for the State of California, and 
 in the history of that State may be found an ac- 
 count of how the wife of our subject's uncle, 
 Peter, tested the first nugget of gold found in 
 California, at Sutter's mill race, by boiling it in 
 a kettle of soap all night to discover what it was, 
 and the impurities being boiled away and the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 383 
 
 nature of the rock discovered, started the rush 
 to the gold fields of that State. 
 
 The success that has crowned Mr. Wimmer's 
 life has been due wholly to his own indomitable 
 energy, perseverance and determination, coupled 
 with a native ability. He began at the very bot- 
 tom of the ladder, handicapped with but a meager 
 education and without financial assistance, and 
 has worked his way up to a position of honor 
 and influence, giving a large impetus not only 
 to the live stock industry, but to many other 
 equally important enterprises, and is at this time 
 one of the wealthy men of the State. For the 
 last two years he has made his home at No. 601 
 East Third South street, this city. 
 
 Mr. Wimmer is a veteran of the Black Hawk 
 Indian war, in which he took an active part. 
 
 EORGE WILLIAM CLEVELAND 
 has always been a pillar of the Mor- 
 mon Church. He was baptized at 
 Nauvoo when he was only eight years 
 old, and did yeoman service for the 
 Church when he was in England on a mission, 
 from 1864 to 1866. He was born at Far West, 
 Missouri, on May 20, 1837, and is a son of Allen- 
 sen and Ann Slade (Rodgers) Cleveland. His 
 father was a native of New England, and he mar- 
 ried a Mrs. Rodgers. a w'idow with two children. 
 The result of this marriage was three children, 
 two boys and a girl — Henry, George and Antoi- 
 nette. Mr. Cleveland was among the first one 
 hundred and fifty converts to the Mormon faith, 
 and after becoming a Saint he followed the Mor- 
 mons through the Eastern States and went to Far 
 West, Missouri. Here he received a bad wound 
 from a rifle bullet in the shoulder, and he car- 
 ried the scar with him to the grave. The Cleve- 
 lands lived for a time at Pittsfield, Missouri, af- 
 ter which they made their home three miles from 
 Nauvoo, and lived there till the exodus in 1846, 
 when they moved across the Missouri river and 
 stayed at a small settlement during the summer. 
 Mr. Cleveland cradled wheat, and his son, George 
 William, drove an ox team, breaking land. From 
 here they moved to Garden Grove and stayed 
 there until the spring of 1847, when they took 
 
 winter quarters at Florence, Nebraska, remain- 
 ing there two years. Their ne.xt move was to 
 Willow Creek, where they cleared and improved 
 a farm and lived on it till 1852. In the spring 
 of that year the Clevelands joined Captain Wei- 
 ner's ox train for Utah, starting from Florence. 
 The Clevelands had two wagons, and Mrs. Cleve- 
 land's daughter, Hortense, and her husband, had 
 another. George William drove one of the wag- 
 ons. The train arrived in Salt Lake City on Oc- 
 tober 3, 1852, and the Clevelands, after stop- 
 ping over in Salt Lake City for ten days, moved 
 out to Centerville, where ]\Ir. Cleveland bought 
 ten acres of land and rented a house for the win- 
 ter. In the spring of '53 he built him a house, 
 but the Indians proving troublesome, he moved 
 it to the present site of Centerville. In 1862 our 
 subject went to Florence, returning the same 
 year, with four ox teams. In one of the wagons 
 returning he had eighteen or twenty emigrants 
 and the other was loaded with stoves. Our sub- 
 ject was with Lot Smith during the Johnston 
 army trouble. He rode out beyond Fort Bridger, 
 and many nights was in the saddle all night. 
 
 Allensen Cleveland and his brother, Henry, 
 went out on the Salmon river mission, and were 
 sent back by Brigham Young, who, it appears, 
 was not aware that they had been sent there until 
 on one of his tours of inspection he met them 
 and ordered them home. Allensen Cleveland 
 was a farmer all his life, and died in the spring 
 of 1867. Our subject worked with his father 
 until his return from the Missouri river. On 
 March 9, 1867, he married Angelina (Slade) 
 Burke, the widow of Marshall Burke. His wife 
 was born in Far West, where he himself came 
 from. They had seven children, five of whom 
 are living. The children's names are : Georgina, 
 now Mrs. Joseph Rawlins ; Angelina, married to 
 John Capener, and living in Canada; Florence, 
 died in infancy ; Estelle, who died at the age of 
 seventeen years; Luella, now Mrs. Gaulett of 
 Salt Lake City; Anna H., living at home with 
 her parents ; William E., in Canada, who died on 
 February 6, 1891. 
 
 Mr. Cleveland has been teaming and farming 
 most of his life. He has a small general mer- 
 chandise business at Centerville. All of his fam- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ily are Latter Day Saints. On .\pril 28, 1864, 
 he was sent on a mission to Great Britain, and 
 served there till the fall of 1866. He was at 
 the Norwich Conference, and labored at Loest- 
 oft on the seacoast, at Beckles, Bunge Hock- 
 ham, Shipdam, Palormarket, Thudford and Bran- 
 don. He was afterwards promoted to preside over 
 the Lincolnshire Conference, but here his health 
 began to fail, and he was ordered to Liverpool. In 
 the three months of his stay in that city his 
 health did not improve, and he was called home. 
 Mr. Cleveland has for a long time been \\'ard 
 teacher at Centerville. He has also been a school 
 trustee for several years. In politics he is a Dem- 
 ocrat. 
 
 OHX HUGH MOSS, one of the native 
 Suns of L'tah, and who has done his full 
 share towards advancing the industrial 
 interests of his county and community. 
 He was born in South Bountiful, No- 
 vember 16, 1852, and is the son of John and Re- 
 becca (\\'ood) ]\Ioss. His father was born in 
 March, 1820, and came of an old English fam- 
 ily who lived for many years in Lancashire, En- 
 gland. John Moss was the originator and pro- 
 moter of the Deseret Live Stock Company, which 
 was incorporated after his death, and is today 
 one of the largest companies of the kind in L'tah. 
 He was also a heavy sheep owner and a promi- 
 nent man in Davis county. A full account of this 
 family will be found in the sketches of Mr. Moss' 
 brothers, which appears elsewhere in this ' work. 
 Our subject's whole life has been spent within 
 the confines of his native State, principally in 
 Davis county, where he obtained his education, 
 which was of but a meager character, the schools 
 at that time being poor, and he began early in 
 life to earn his own living, beginning as a sheep 
 herder for his father, and little by little accumu- 
 lated and saved, investing his means as oppor- 
 tunity presented, until today he is one of the 
 leading farmers and stock men of Davis county. 
 His home in Woods Cross consists of twenty- 
 seven acres of highly cultivated land, on which he 
 has built a fine two-story twelve-room house, 
 which is a model of convenience and comfort. 
 His first home was a four-room house on the 
 
 lot adjoining the place where he now lives, which 
 gave way to his present commodious residence. 
 In addition to this land he also owns other land 
 in the county, having one hundred and eight 
 acres altogether. 
 
 ilr. AIoss was married May 29, 1876, to Miss 
 Missouri V. Lincoln, daughter of George W. 
 and Jane M. (Babcock) Lincoln. The Lincoln 
 family came to Utah in 1857, Mrs. Moss being 
 born in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Her parents 
 were natives of Massachusetts. By this mar- 
 riage Mr. Moss has ten children, seven of whom 
 are now living. They are : John W., living in 
 Syracuse ; Stella, now Airs. Ira Wait, of Boun- 
 tiful ; Sylva V., who died at the age of three 
 years ; Walter Hugh, who died when a year and 
 a half old; George Willard, Elva J., who died 
 aged eleven years; Iva L., Alice Isl., Le Roy, and 
 Elsie V. 
 
 In political life Mr. Moss has been a member 
 of the Republican party since its organization in 
 this State, and served for nine years as Consta- 
 ble in Davis county. He and his family were 
 all born and reared in the Mormon faith, and Mr. 
 Moss has ever been a prominent and active 
 worker in Church circles. He was called and 
 set apart in February, 1896, for missionary work 
 in England, where he served two years, labor- 
 ing in the Manchester Conference. He has also 
 served on two home missions. In addition to his 
 missionary work, he has been a Ward teacher 
 for about twenty years, and is a member of the 
 Seventies. His wife is also active in Church 
 work, being a member of the Ladies' Relief So- 
 ciety. 
 
 In addition to his home interests, Mr. Moss is 
 also identified with the Deseret Live Stock Com- 
 pany, of which his father was the organizer, and 
 was for over eight years president of that com- 
 pany, being its first president. He held that po- 
 sition until he was called on his mission to En- 
 gland, at which time his brother, William, was 
 elected to fill the vacancy, and still occupies the 
 position. Our subject is now a director in this 
 company. His Church and business interests 
 have brought him prominently before the j>eople 
 of Davis county, by whom he is held in high es- 
 teem. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 385 
 
 ( niN R. BARNES. So closely identified 
 with the history and development of this 
 w hole inter-mountain region is the name 
 of John R. Barnes that to attempt a 
 compilation of a work of this kind with- 
 out proper mention of him and his vast enter- 
 prises would prove materially lacking. 
 
 Our subject was born in Sandy, Bedfordshire, 
 England, July 28, 1833, and is the son of William 
 and Elizabeth (Jeffries) Barnes, both natives of 
 England, who came to Utah with their family of 
 two sons in 1853. The oldest son, William J., 
 died in Kaysville in 1895. The family settled in 
 Kaysville, where the parents both died. 
 
 Mr. Barnes began life in Utah as a school 
 teacher, teaching for six months, at the end of 
 which time he took up farming, with which he 
 has ever since been identified, teaching again 
 for a second term during the second year of his 
 farming. In 1866 he opened up a general mer- 
 chandise business, using a part of his residence 
 for store purposes, and this he conducted until 
 1869, when he sold his business to the K^iysville 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution, becoming 
 manager of that establishment, which position he 
 still retains. This institution was incorporated 
 in 1890 for thirty thousand dollars. When it 
 was started, in 1869, the capital was but seven 
 thousand dollars, and its rapid growth has been 
 largely due to the able and efficient management 
 of Mr. Barnes. From the beginning the business 
 has been made to 'pay good dividends, on one 
 occasion paying three hundred per cent. In 1891, 
 on January 13th of that year, they opened up a 
 banking business, which is conducted in the mer- 
 cantile establishment. This was capitalized for 
 twenty-five thousand dollars, and Mr. Barnes is 
 President of the bank and owns a controlling 
 interest in it, as he does also in the merchandise 
 establishment. As his sons have grown to man- 
 hood they have become interested in the business 
 with their father, and at this time one son, R. 
 W., is Cashier of the bank, and another son, 
 J. G. is Assistant Superintendent of the entire 
 business, taking much of the weight of responsi- 
 bility away from his father, who is becoming 
 somewhat advanced in years, although he exer- 
 cises a watchful care over both establishments. 
 
 Mr. Barnes has been married three times, his 
 first marriage occured in England, in 1853 on the 
 eve of his departure for America, when he be- 
 came united to Miss Emily Shelton, and by her 
 had ten children, four of whom are now living. 
 His second wife was Elizabeth Geeves, by whom 
 he had one son, George W., who is now associated 
 with his father in the general merchandise busi- 
 ness. His third wife, Emily Stewart, bore him 
 eight children, all of whom are now living. They, 
 are. Royal C, at present Paying Teller in the 
 Deseret National Bank, in Salt Lake City ; Claude 
 T. a student at the University of Utah, and six 
 daughters, all highly educated ladies. Of the first 
 wife's children, John G., is acting superintendent 
 of his father's business interests in the mercantile 
 establishment ; Arthur F. is manager of the 
 Barnes-Hardy Company of Salt Lake City : R. \V. 
 is cashier of the bank in Kaysville ; Wilford S. is 
 employed in the office of the Zion Co-operative 
 ^Mercantile Institution at Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Barnes has always taken a lively interest in 
 the growth of the State and has done much to for- 
 ward new enterprises. In the early days of his 
 residence here he associated himself with William 
 Stewart, and together they established and oper- 
 ated a tannery, until the reduced freight rates of 
 railroad transportation made it unprofitable, and 
 they were compelled to abandon the enterprise. 
 He is at this time largely interested in a number 
 of prominent enterprises outside of Davis county, 
 among them being the Barnes-Hardy Company 
 of Salt Lake City, of which he is President. He 
 also holds a directorate in the Deseret National 
 Bank and the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Insti- 
 tution, both of Salt Lake City, being also a 
 member of the Executive Committee of the latter 
 institution, and is a director in the Home 
 tire Insurance Company. Also in the Lay- 
 ton Milling and Elevator Company, whose 
 headquarters are at Layton, in Davis County. 
 -A.ISO is a Director in the Davis and Weber 
 Canal Company, the Provo Woolen Mills and 
 the Deseret Savings Bank of Salt Lake City. 
 At this time he is organizing a company, to be 
 known as the Kaysville Canning Company, of 
 which he will be the President. At one time 
 David Day and D. L. Davis were interested with 
 
386 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Barnes in his general merchandise business, 
 but after some years withdrew from the com- 
 pany. Mr. Barnes is also a heavy real estate 
 owner in Davis county, having about eight hun- 
 dred acres of fine farming land, and he and his 
 sons all own fine brick residences in Kaysville, 
 where they make their homes. 
 
 Mr. Barnes' life has been a wonderful example 
 of what pluck, energy and untiring perseverance, 
 coupled with honesty and integrity, may attain 
 to. He came to this country a young man with- 
 out means, and began life as a school teacher, 
 working for meagre wages, and with a family to 
 support from his earnings. To-day he is one of 
 the best known men in the State, a leading busi- 
 ness man, and one whose word is as good as 
 his bond, looked up to and respected wherever 
 known. He has reared his children to be self- 
 supporting, self-respecting men and women, given 
 them every advantage of education, and to-day 
 there is no better known or more highly respected 
 family in the community than this one. Mr. 
 Barnes is justly entitled to whatever honors men 
 may confer upon him, and his career is one to 
 which his children and future posterity may well 
 point with pride. 
 
 In politics he is a member of the Democratic 
 party, and has been quite active in its ranks. He 
 was a member of the Constitutional Convention 
 and Senator in the first State Legislature. His 
 son, John G. M., is at this time Senator for the 
 counties of Morgan, Davis and Rich. 
 
 UDGE WILLIAM H. KING. Salt Lake 
 City has perhaps a larger proportion of 
 eminent lawyers than any city of 
 its size in the LInited States ; men 
 deeply versed in the intricacies of 
 the law and used to handling big cases upon 
 which grave issues hinge ; many of whom 
 have won a national reputation for their learning 
 and legal ability. It is safe to say, however, 
 that in this galaxy of brilliant minds there is 
 none more worthy of notice than that of William 
 H. King, ex-Congressman and one of the keen- 
 est and most sagacious lawyers of the entire 
 
 West. While his scholastic education was com- 
 pleted at the early age of seventeen, he has all 
 his life been a profound student and has taken 
 advantage of every opportunity that has pre- 
 sented itself for adding to his book knowledge, 
 and his extensive travels at home and abroad 
 have made him an excellent student of human 
 nature. He is a ready and fluent speaker, hold- 
 ing the closest attention of his hearers, and has 
 won an enviable reputation not only as a pleader 
 before the bar of Justice, but as an advocate in 
 the halls of legislation, where he has rendered 
 most valuable services to his State and the na- 
 tion. .As a crimianl lawyer, he is perhaps without 
 a peer in this inter-mountain region, although 
 he has given his attention more especially to cor- 
 poration and mining law, and sought to confine 
 himself to a general law practice, in which he 
 has met with most flattering success, being the 
 senior member of one of the best known and most 
 popular law firms in the State. Judge King is 
 still a young man, not yet forty years of age, 
 and has a long life ahead of him in which he will 
 undoubtedly rise to greater heights in the legal 
 world. He has already on a number of occasions 
 been the unanimous choice of his party for posi- 
 tions carrying the highest honors of any out- 
 side the Presidency, and when the Democratic 
 party again comes into power it is safe to predict 
 that Judge King will discover that his popularity 
 has not waned. 
 
 While he is a native of Utah, the Judge comes 
 of some of the oldest and proudest families of 
 the Union, being descended from the Hancock, 
 King and Rice families of the New England 
 States, one of his ancestors in the Hancock fam- 
 ily being one of the signers of the Declaration of 
 Independence. Our subject was born in Fill- ■ 
 more City, Millard county, Utah, June 3, 1863, 
 and is the son of William and Josephine (Henry) 
 King, born in Syracuse, New York, and New 
 Orleans, Louisiana, respectively. The parents 
 came to Utah in 1850 as boy and girl, and here 
 grew up and were married. The father was a 
 well known merchant of Fillmore, and also owned 
 some farm property in the vicinity of that city. 
 He was a devoted member of ' the Mormon 
 Church, in which he was a Bishop, and for twelve 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 387 
 
 years was in charge of the Mormon missions in 
 the Sandwich Islands. 
 
 The boyhood days of Judge King were spent 
 in his father's home in Fillmore, and on the 
 farm, attending the schools of that place and 
 later at Brigham Young Academy at Provo, 
 and the University of Utah, in Salt Lake 
 City. From this latter institution he went 
 to the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, 
 graduating from that institution. When but 
 seventeen years of age he was sent on a three 
 years' mission to Europe in the interests of 
 the Mormon Church. At the end of this time 
 he returned to his home in Fillmore, and at 
 once entered upon the active duties of life, being 
 in the next few years elected to various civil po- 
 sitions in Millard county and Fillmore City. In 
 1885 he was elected to the State Legislature, be- 
 ing returned at the end of two years. He had 
 been studying law prior to his graduation from 
 Ann Arbor, and was admitted to practice in 1887. 
 Two years later he located at Provo, where he 
 formed a law partnership with S. R. Thurman 
 and George Sutherland. 
 
 As early as 1884 the best informed men in the 
 public life of the Territory began agitating the 
 question of a division upon national political 
 lines, believing that to be the wisest solution of 
 the troubles that were already beginning to 
 darken the political horizon, and in that year Mr. 
 King "stumped" a portion of the Territory in the 
 interests of the Democrats, urging such a divis- 
 ion. He was later identified with what was known 
 as the "Sage Brush" Democratic movement, and 
 canvassed Utah in behalf of the Democratic can- 
 didate for Congress. 
 
 Judge King was elected to the Legislature 
 again in 1891, serving as President of the Senate. 
 He also filled the position of County Attorney 
 for Utah county, and was City Attorney for a 
 number of the cities of that county. The winter 
 of 1892-93 was spent in Washington, and in the 
 latter year President Cleveland appointed him 
 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah, 
 which appointment was declined, only to be re- 
 peated the following year, and this time the ap- 
 pointment was accepted, and he served in that 
 capacity until the admission of L^tah into the 
 
 Union. He was then urged by his friends to ac- 
 cept the nomination for the Bench, but declined, 
 and moved his residence to Salt Lake City, where 
 he entered into a law partnership with Senator 
 Brown and Judge Henderson. 
 
 In 1896 he was elected to Congress by the 
 Democratic party, receiving over twenty-thou- 
 sand majority. He declined nomination two years 
 later, and entered the race for the United States 
 Senate. A deadlock ensuing, no one was elected. 
 In April, 1900, he was again elected to Congress 
 by the Democrats. The following election he 
 was again the unanimous choice of his party for 
 Congress, but the State went Republican, Bryan 
 being defeated by about thirty-five hundred. Mr. 
 King, however, ran ahead of his ticket, being 
 defeated by about only two hundred votes. 
 
 While in Congress in 1896, Judge King in- 
 troduced the first resolution bearing upon the 
 annexation of Hawaii, and later went to Cuba 
 for the purpose of investigating the situation, in 
 the interests of the Democratic party. Upon his 
 return he advocated the intervention of the 
 United States in behalf of Cuba for the purpose 
 of destroying Spain's sovereignty in that island. 
 He was among the first in Congress to sup- 
 port such a policy. 
 
 He formed his first partnership with Judge 
 John W. Burton and his brother, Samuel A. 
 King, in January, 1898, and has since been en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession, having 
 offices in both Salt Lake City and Provo. 
 
 Judge King was married April 17, 1889, to 
 Miss Annie L. Lyman, daughter of Apostle F. 
 M. Lyman. Their union has been blessed by 
 four children, of whom three are now living — 
 Romola, aged ten years ; Paul Browning, aged 
 eight years, and Adrieinne, aged four years. 
 
 He has all his life been a consistent member of 
 the Mormon Church, in which he was born and 
 raised, and has rendered it such service as 'he 
 could, and has held a number of ecclesiastical 
 positions therein. 
 
 Personally Judge King is one of the most ap- 
 proachable of men ; courtly in his address, his 
 genuine sincerity and apparent unaffectedness at 
 once puts the stranger at his ease and makes him 
 realize that he is in the presence of one whom 
 
388 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 fortune has not spoiled ; the truest kind of a gen- 
 tleman. His career thus far has brought him 
 into close relations with the best men of our 
 land, among whom he numbers some warm 
 friends, and in his own home State counts his 
 friends by the score. 
 
 IIOAIAS F. ROUECHE. Of all the 
 pioneers who undertook the develop- 
 ment of the vast resources of Utah, none 
 IS more closely linked than is Mr. 
 Ruuechc with the rapid growth of the 
 institutions and enterprises which constitute the 
 upbuilding of their different communities. While 
 his endeavors have been largely along the line 
 of agriculture and the live stock business, he 
 has nevertheless been identified with all lines of 
 progress, and his sound judgment has tided over 
 many shoals incident to a growing and enthusi- 
 astic community, and in public affairs few men 
 of this State have taken a more prominent or act- 
 ive part or been more highly honored along this 
 line in Utah than has Air. Roueche. 
 
 Thomas F. Roueche is an American, having 
 been born in Lincoln county. North Carolina, 
 February 9, 1833, and is the son of John B. and 
 Catherine C. (Skelly) Roueche. The father was 
 born in Germany and the mother in Ireland. 
 They were married in North Carolina and lived 
 there until 1847, when, with their family of four 
 children, of whom our subject was the oldest, 
 they moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, where two 
 of the children died, and where the fourth child 
 still lives. The father met with an accident on 
 the Mississippi river in 1849, ^"'i ^'^'^ ^^ ^ ^^' 
 suit of his injuries. His wife survived him 
 twelve years and died in Vienna, Missouri, in 
 1861. 
 
 Our subject received his education in North 
 Carolina and Missouri and lived with his mother 
 until twenty-two years of age. He was con- 
 verted to the teachings of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints in Saint Louis in 
 1854, and in the following year started for Utah, 
 crossing the plains with the Livingston and Bell 
 Mercantile Company, arriving in Salt Lake Au- 
 gust 15th of that year. He at once went to Kays- 
 
 ville, Davis county, and has since made his home 
 here. For twenty years he conducted a coal bus- 
 iness, and with the exception of that time, has 
 followed farming during his residence in L'tah. 
 He is an extensive real estate owner, having one 
 hundred and ninety-eight acres of well improved 
 and valuable farm land in Kaysville, on which he 
 has built a substantial and comfortable home. 
 Besides this, he has property in Logan, Cache 
 county, and three hundred and twenty acres of 
 land in Alberta, Canada. Mr. Roueche has re- 
 tired from active business life, and is now en- 
 joying the fruits of a long and well spent life. 
 
 He was married in Saint Louis, August 22, 
 1854, to i\Iiss Margaret Comish, and of this mar- 
 riage six children have been born — Joseph P., 
 who died aged seventeen years: Thomas F., ju-- 
 nior, now ranching in Wilford, Idaho ; Josephine, 
 living at home and keeping house for her fa- 
 ther; John E., a merchant in Millville, Cache 
 county ; Jacob, ranching in Fremont county, 
 Idaho ; William H., living on the old homestead 
 in Kaysville. The mother died June 23, 1893. 
 
 In political life Mr. Roueche is a Democrat, 
 and during his residence in Kaysville has been 
 an active participant in the political life of his 
 community. He was the first Mayor of Kays- 
 ville, and held that office for seven terms. He 
 was also Road Commissioner for three terms. 
 In 1882 he was appointed to fill a vacancy 
 as County Commissioner, and at the expira- 
 tion of that term was elected to the same office, 
 and twice re-elected after that, serving in all 
 seven years in that capacity. During his term 
 as County Commissioner the splendid brick court 
 house was built in Farmington, Mr. Roueche 
 drawing the ground plans for the same. So well 
 had Mr. Roueche fulfilled the duties allotted to 
 him in the different offices to which he has been 
 apoointed and elected, and so faithful and con- 
 scientious had been his service, that the people of 
 Davis county sent him to represent them in the 
 Territorial Legislature in 1887. He was alscv 
 appointed a trustee of the State reform School 
 in 1894, and served one term. All of his family 
 but one are members of the Mormon Church, and 
 active in its work. His son John served two 
 years on a mission for the Church to the South- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 389 
 
 ern States, and is at this time Bishop of the Mill- 
 ville Ward in Cache county. For the past twenty- 
 five years Mr. Roueche has been Counselor to 
 the Bishop of his Ward, and now holds the of- 
 fice of High Priest. 
 
 Davis county has the reputation, well earned, 
 of being the home of more substantial business 
 men than any other county in the State, although 
 it is the smallest in point of population. Its 
 live stock industry is a source of large reve- 
 nue to the State, and it is also a rich farm- 
 ing district. Mr. Roueche ranks among the 
 leading men of Davis county, both in business 
 and public life, and during his residence here 
 has made for himself an enviable career and won 
 a reputation as a man of unusual veracity and 
 integrity of purpose. It is said he was never 
 known to cast a vote in his county or in the Leg- 
 islature without first being positive that it was 
 for the best interests of the masses, and he has 
 for many years been regarded as the people's 
 friend. No man in Davis county stands higher 
 in the estimation of the citizens than does he, 
 and had he so chosen he could have filled any of- 
 fice in the gift of the people for which he might 
 have indicated a preference, so great is their 
 confidence in him, but he feels that he has served 
 both his Church and State well in years past, 
 and that younger hands and heads are better fit- 
 ted for the work of the present day. 
 
 ( )HN BENNETT is one of the substan- 
 tial and successful men of Davis county. 
 Ills residence is in Kaysville, where he 
 has spent the past fifty years of his life. 
 He has been identified with nearly every 
 enterprise which has been for the improvement 
 and development of Davis county, and by energy, 
 perseverance and determination has made a splen- 
 did success in life. His long and honorable ca- 
 reer in Davis county has won for him a host of 
 friends. 
 
 Mr. Bennett was born in Lancashire, England, 
 December 15, 1834, and is the son of James and 
 Ellen (Pincock) Bennett, both natives of Lan- 
 
 cashire. There were fourteen children in this 
 family, of whom our subject is the oldest living. 
 Eleven of the fourteen grew to maturity, and are 
 still living. James Bennett came to America 
 with his family in 1841, and settled at Nauvoo, 
 where he worked for three years on the Mormon 
 temple, and remained in that place until the exo- 
 dus of the Mormons in 1846. H was a wood 
 worker and wheelwright by trade. His parents 
 were Thomas and Ann (Parker) Bennett. James 
 Bennett was baptized in Lancashire, England, 
 on December 29, 1837, by Heber C. Kimball, and 
 was ordained to the Priesthood in July, 1840. He 
 was married June 10, 1832, and at the time of 
 his death was the grandfather of eighty-eight 
 children and the great grandfather of thirty-two 
 children. The Bennett family passed through 
 all the early troubles of the Mormon people in 
 Xauvoo. and after leaving that place settled in 
 Iowa, near Bluff City, where James Bennett 
 made the wagons for Kinnard & Livingston, 
 which brought the first merchandise to Utah. 
 
 The family crossed the plains in 1852 in War- 
 ren Snow's company, and arrived in Utah Oc- 
 tober 10, 1852. They at once settled in Kays- 
 ville, which at that time consisted of but a few 
 scattered houses. The senior Mr. Bennett was 
 ordained a High Priest in 1869, by Edward Phil- 
 lips. He was a hard working man, and by en- 
 ergy and perseverance was able to accumulate a 
 considerable amount of property before he died. 
 His death occurred December 14, 1888. Mrs. 
 Bennett was the daughter of John and Mary 
 (Marsdens) Pincock. Her parents died in 1844 
 at Nauvoo, the dates of their death being but 
 twelve days apart, and they are buried at Nau- 
 voo, near Castor creek. Mrs. Bennett was born 
 May 14, 1816, and died April 20, 1886. 
 
 Our subject remained at home with his par- 
 ents until he was twenty-four years of age, when 
 he married on February 22, 1858, to Miss Ellen 
 Ellison, daughter of James and Alice (Hallo- 
 well) Ellison, natives of England, where the 
 daughter was born in Copple, Lancashire. The 
 Ellison family emigrated to .America in 1853 on 
 board the ship Alvira Owen, and landed in New 
 Orleans ; then went to Keokuk, Iowa, and came 
 across the great American plains to Utah in the 
 
390 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 company under command of Cyrus Wheeler. 
 They remained in Salt Lake City for one year, 
 after which they moved to what is now Layton, 
 in Davis county, and in 1858 the parents moved 
 to Nephi, where the father died in 1877, and the 
 mother died April 19, 1896. To our subject has 
 been born thirteen children by this marriage, nine 
 of whom are still living. They are : Alice A., 
 now Mrs. James L. Whitesides ; Mary L., now 
 Mrs. M. M. Whitesides; Lucy I., now the wife 
 of J. W. Morgan ; Elizabeth I., now Mrs. J. G. 
 Watson; John J., living in Syracuse; Marga- 
 ret L., who married John Forbes, and later died ; 
 George H., living in Syracuse; Charles T., liv- 
 ing in Kaysville; Lettie M., Phillip A., who died 
 when four years old ; Wilford E., died at the age 
 of one and a half years ; William E., at home, 
 and Amelia P., who died when two years of age. 
 In this home is also the little daughter of Mrs. 
 John Forbes, Margaret E., who is being raised by 
 her grandparents. She was just past three weeks 
 old at the time of her mother's death. 
 
 Mr. Bennett settled on his present place in 
 1862. He has seventy acres of well improved 
 land here and twenty acres in Syracuse. He has 
 carried on a general farming business, but is also 
 largely interested in outside concerns, being a 
 stockholder in the Davis & Weber Canal Com- 
 pany, and also interested in the creamery busi- 
 ness. He is also interested in the Co-operative 
 store at Kaysville and in the Kaysville Bank. 
 
 In politics Mr. Bennett is a Democrat, but has 
 never participated actively in the work of that 
 party, devoting all his time outside of his busi- 
 ness to his Church work. He was baptized into 
 the Mormon Church at Nauvoo when but a child 
 of eight years, and has ever since been a loyal 
 and consistent member of that faith. His family 
 are also members of this Church, his son, John 
 J., having been called to serve on a mission in 
 the Eastern States in 1897, and remaining in that 
 field for two years. Mr. Bennett is a High Priest 
 in the Church and active in its work at home. 
 He made a trip to the Missouri river in 1863 and 
 conducted a train of emigrants to Utah, and in 
 1858 was also called to assist in getting emi- 
 grants away from the seat of the Indian troubles, 
 being sent to Fort Limhigh for that purpose. 
 
 DWARD T. ASHTON, Bishop of the 
 Twenty-fourth Ward of Salt Lake 
 Stake of Zion. Utah has been largely 
 liuilt up from a wild and undeveloped 
 country during the early days of set- 
 tlement, inhabited only by the savage red men 
 and wild animals that roved at will through the 
 valleys, hills and mountains, by the pioneers and 
 their sons, and the splendid record that they have 
 made along the lines of civilization and advance- 
 ment is a tribute to their energy and persever- 
 ance. As one of the State's native sons, "who 
 has taken part in her onward march of civiliza- 
 tion, and who has been alive to every enterprise 
 and issue for her advancement, Bishop Edward 
 T. Ashton is deserving of special mention. 
 
 Our subject was born in Salt Lake City, July 
 14, 1855. His father, Edward Ashton, a native 
 of Monmouthshire, Wales, was born in 1820. He 
 was a shoemaker by trade, which he followed in 
 his native country. He became a member of 
 the Mormon Church in 1849 ^"d emigrated to 
 America two years later, crossing the plains to 
 Utah in a company under command of Captain 
 Dan Jones. Upon his arrival in this City, he lo- 
 cated in the western part, which was at that time 
 mostly under water. He became interested with 
 a number of others in reclaiming this land, in 
 which he was very successful, and is still liv- 
 ing near his son, in the enjoyment of good 
 health. His wife was Jane Treharne, also a na- 
 tive of Wales. She died in this city, leaving a 
 family of seven children — Edward T., Jedediah 
 W.. Brigham W., whose sketch appears else- 
 where in this work ; Elizabeth Ann, Sarah Jane, 
 since deceased ; Emily, and George S. 
 
 Bishop Ashton was the oldest of the family and 
 grew up in the Fifteenth Ward, receiving his 
 education in the common schools of the city, and 
 becoming apprenticed at the age of sixteen to 
 Morris & Evans, stone and brick contractors, and 
 after the completion of his apprenticeship was 
 employed for some time by that firm, by whom 
 he was held in high esteem, he being presented 
 by them with a handsomely engraved silver 
 watch in recognition of his efficient services. 
 He began the general contracting business for 
 himself in 1881 and continued alone until 1892, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 391 
 
 when he took his brother, George S., into part- 
 nership, and the firm has since been known as 
 Ashton Brothers. In addition to their contract- 
 ing work they deal in all kinds of stone for build- 
 ing and monumental purposes,' and have fur- 
 nished the material for many of the large struct- 
 ures of this city. In 1899 our subject became 
 President of the Ashton, White Skillikorn Com- 
 pany, successors to Watson Brothers, the largest 
 building stone works in the State. Among other 
 buildings for which they have furnished the 
 building material may be mention the Dcscrct 
 Nezcs building and the Catholic Cathedral, now 
 in course of construction. Mr. Ashton was also 
 one of the originators and incorporators of the 
 Ashton Fire Brick and Tiling Company. 
 
 On April 4, 1878, Bishop Ashton was married 
 to Miss Effie Morris, by whom he has seven chil- 
 dren — Edward M., with the Zion's Savings Bank; 
 Elias C, connected with the Fire Brick Company; 
 Marvin O., Raymond J., Efifie M., Jane L. and 
 Lowell S., who died in infancy. He was again 
 married, in 1884, to Miss Cora Lindsay, daugh- 
 ter of Henry P. Lindsay of this city, who also 
 bore him seven children — Cora L., Ina J., Amy 
 M., Elmer T., Jed and Eva. 
 
 Bishop Ashton has been very active in building 
 up the western portion of the city, and especially 
 the Twenty-fourth Ward. In company with a 
 few others, he purchased a vacant block on First 
 South and Seventh West in 1900, and laid out 
 the Franklin subdivision, on which block they 
 have erected forty substantial brick houses. He 
 is also interested in the Elias Morris Company, 
 the West Side Mercantile Association, a success- 
 ful enterprise of that Ward. He drew the plans 
 of the State Normal School at Cedar City, and 
 had general charge of the construction of that 
 edifice. He has also erected many of the elec- 
 trical plants for the Telluride Power Company, 
 and has built the plants at the Big Cottonwood 
 and the Jordan Narrows ; Logan ; Provo ; Tellu- 
 ride, Colorado, and Butte, Montana. As an archi- 
 tect he has proved very successful, and is original 
 in his ideas. 
 
 During his busy life he has given much time 
 and attention to furthering the interests of the 
 Mormon Church, and has passed through many 
 
 of the offices of the Priesthood. He was ordained 
 an Elder in 1875, and became a member of the 
 Second Quorum of Seventies in 1885, subse- 
 quently becoming one of the Seven Presidents of 
 that Quorum. In 1891 he went to Great Britain 
 ■on a mission for the Church, and for thirteen 
 months presided over the Welsh Mission. He 
 was ordained a High Priest and set apart as 
 Bishop of the Twenty-fourth Ward in 1897, by 
 President George Q. Cannon, and has all his 
 life been prominent in the work of the Young 
 A'len's Associations and in Sunday School work. 
 His two oldest sons have also served on missions 
 to Colorado and Germany. 
 
 The success to which the Bishop has attained 
 has been won through his own unaided efforts, 
 and he is justly entitled to the place which he 
 occupies in the ranks of the business men of the 
 city and State. 
 
 DMUND WEBB has long been one of 
 Kaysville's honored and respected citi- 
 zens'. He has assisted in no small de- 
 gree in building up and developing the 
 commercial and agricultural interests 
 of Davis county, and by his straightforward busi- 
 ness principles and fair and honorable treatment 
 of his fellow men he has won the respect of the 
 entire community. 
 
 Edmund Webb was born in Linton, Cambridge- 
 shire, England, July 26, 1822, and is the son of 
 Robert and Ann (Empelton) Webb, both natives 
 of England, the father being born in Ickelton, 
 Cambridgeshire, and the mother in Linton. 
 There were nine children in this family, our sub- 
 ject being the only one to join the Mormon 
 Church or migrate to this country. He was bap- 
 tized in 1852 by Pres. Bawed, and in the follow- 
 ing year took passage at Liverpool for America 
 on board the sailing vessel Golconda, landing in 
 New Orleans, and going from there by river to 
 Keokuk, Iowa, from where he went to Winter 
 Quarters, and crossed the great American plains, 
 arriving in Salt Lake City on September 19, 1853. 
 He remained in the city that winter, and spent 
 the following summer on the Jordan river, going 
 to Kaysville in 1854, but he did not remain there 
 
392 
 
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 long. He spent seventeen months in Carson Val- 
 ley, Nevada, doing colonization work, but was 
 called home by the heads of the Church on ac- 
 count of the Johnston army troubles, and was 
 for a time in Brigham City, remaining there until 
 the call came in the spring of 1858 for the mem- 
 bers of the Church to go south. He returned to 
 Kaysville in the same year, and has since made 
 this his home. 
 
 Mr. Webb has been twice married. His first 
 marriage occurred in England, when he was 
 united to Miss Sarah Mathews. Of this mar- 
 riage seven children were born — Rosa Ellen, now 
 Mrs. William Barnes, living in Kaysville ; Pris- 
 cilla, died in England in infancy ; Ziba, died in 
 infancy; Ether, Edmund M., Sarah Ann, Mary 
 E. The mother of these children died many years 
 ago. His second marriage occurred in 1866, to 
 Miss Elizabeth Colemere, daughter of George 
 and Rachael Colemere, and by this marriage 
 eleven children were bom, eight of whom are 
 now living — George E., in Idaho ; Harriette E., 
 now Mrs. John Hodgson of Layton ; Charles, 
 died in 1892 ; Rachael R., now the wife of Wil- 
 liam H. Roueche of Kaysville ; one child, died 
 in infancy ; Martha M. ; Zina ; Alice, who died at 
 three years of age ; James R. ; Amy G. and Ann, 
 twins. The mother of this family died September 
 16, 1884. 
 
 Mr. Webb has seventy-seven acres of well 
 improved land on his home place, and has it 
 well improved with a good brick house, barns, 
 outbuildings, etc. He has devoted his time, out- 
 side of farming, to the cattle and sheep business, 
 which has proved profitable. All the family are 
 members of the Mormon Church and active in 
 its service. At the present time Mr. Webb is a 
 High Priest and a Teacher. 
 
 \NIEL LUNN. Few of the pioneers 
 who settled in the Salt Lake Valley 
 have had a more varied career than has 
 the subject of this sketch. He not only 
 crossed the plains in the pioneer days, 
 making the entire journey by ox teams from the 
 outposts of civilization to Utah, but he crossed 
 the deserts of Nevada and Western Utah to Cali- 
 
 fornia, and suflfered all the perils and dangers of 
 travel by sea in those early days, being ship- 
 wrecked on his voyage from California, by way 
 of the isthmus of Panama, to New York. He is 
 one of the oldest settlers in the Salt Lake Valley, 
 and one who has accomplished a great deal in the 
 work of bringing its agricultural and commercial 
 resources to their present high state. 
 
 Daniel Lunn was born in Hampshire, England, 
 on December 6, 1831. He is the son of Richard 
 and Jane (Collins) Lunn, who were both born in 
 the same place in England. Their son spent his 
 early life in Great Britain, and in 1853 emigrated 
 to America, sailing in the winter time and arriv- 
 ing in New Orleans in February, 1854. Here he 
 remained but a few months, and then joined a 
 company of young men and traveled with them to 
 Holt county. Missouri, where he resided for the 
 following six months. He then went to Atchison, 
 Kansas, and assisted in organizing and outfitting 
 a wagon train to make the journey across the 
 plains to Utah. The outfit of wagons was ready 
 for service in July, 1855, and in that month they 
 left for the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived here 
 in the late fall of that year, and spent the winter 
 of that year in Salt Lake City, and our subject 
 employed his time in hauling wood from the can- 
 yons to supply the settlers in the new city, which 
 had sprung up like magic out of the wilderness. 
 In the following spring- he was at the head of a 
 train of eight wagons, hauled by oxen, and made 
 the trip across the desert to California. The jour- 
 ney in those days across the great Salt Lake 
 desert and through the desert regions of Nevada, 
 was a journey of which the traveler of to-day 
 can form no conception. He successfully con- 
 ducted the train' to the Pacific Coast, and re- 
 mained there for six months. After the comple- 
 tion of that journey, the wagon train was dis- 
 banded, and for six months Mr. Lunn worked 
 on a farm in order to gain a livelihood. He then 
 determined to return to the East, and took pas- 
 sage on a ship bound for New York by way of 
 the isthmus, and intended to cross at Nicaragua. 
 The heavy storms they encountered finally resulted 
 in the wrecking of the ship, and it was driven 
 to take refuge in the port of Virginia City. Mr. 
 Lunn continued his journey, and arrived in New 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 393 
 
 York, and from there he went to Albany, in that 
 State, and then to Ranselear county, and located 
 at Sand Lake, where he met Ann Donahue, whom 
 he married. His wife was a native oflreland, and 
 came to America at the early age of eight years. 
 Her father, John Donahue, died when she was 
 but a child, and her mother, Ann Donahue, set- 
 tled at Sand Lake, and they lived there for nine 
 years. In this marriage ten children were born, 
 of whom six are now living. They were : Jane, 
 now the wife of L. Park ; George, who died aged 
 twenty-eight years ; Elizabeth, who died when she 
 was seventeen years ; Daniel, who at present is a 
 resident of Idaho ; Anna, the wife of William Gor- 
 den ; Stephen, died in infancy ; David, who lives 
 in the Mill Creek Ward ; Joseph H., who died in 
 infancy ; Louisa, now the wife of James Gorden ; 
 Queen Esther, the wife of N. J. White. Mr. 
 Lunn now has nineteen grandchildren living. 
 
 Our subject resided in Sand Lake, New York, 
 until 1864, when he moved to Saint Louis, Mis- 
 souri, and resided there for three years. Whilq 
 in New York he sent for his father and eight 
 other members of the family and sent them the 
 money to pay for their transportation, and 
 brought them to Saint Louis, where his father 
 and two sisters died, one sister having died in 
 New York State. The rest of the family he 
 brought with him to Utah in 1868. In the fol- 
 lowing year he settled in the Mill Creek Ward, 
 now Wilford Ward, and has resided there ever 
 since. He has a homestead in that Ward of nine 
 acres, located on the County road at Fourteenth 
 South. When he located his farm here there was 
 nothing but a desert region, and from this un- 
 promising region Mr. Lunn has made for himself 
 a competence that insures him against adversity, 
 and owns a fine adobe house. 
 
 EORGE QUAYLE CANNON was 
 born at Liverpool, England, January 
 iith, 1827. His parents, George and 
 Ann (Quayle) Cannon, were natives 
 of Peel, on the Isle of Man. Their 
 forefathers were probably originally from the 
 borders of Scotland, although the old family 
 names give evidence of Irish as well as Scandi- 
 
 navian ancestry. George Q. was the eldest of 
 seven children, of whom five others reached ma- 
 turity — Mary Alice, Ann, Angus M., David H. 
 and Leonora. In his boyhood he was a diligent 
 student of the Bible, and soon was able to detect 
 the great lack in modern Christendom of the 
 divine inspiration and authority and gifts enjoyed 
 by the early Saints. In January, 1840, Elder John 
 Taylor, who had married George Q.'s aunt, Leo- 
 nora, daughter of Captain George Cannon, and 
 had joined the Church in Canada, landed in Liv- 
 erpool on a mission in Great Britain. The Can- 
 nons at once received him and the Gospel mes- 
 sage he bore, and the father and mother were 
 baptized in February and the older children in 
 June of that year. The family sailed from Liver- 
 pool for Xauvoo September 17, 1842, but the 
 mother died on the way and was buried in the 
 ocean, as had been foreseen by her husband and 
 herself before their departure. 
 
 On reaching Nauvoo George Q. recognized the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith, although he had never 
 seen his portrait. On August 17, 1844, the father 
 of the Cannons died at St. Louis. George Q. 
 entered the office of the Times and Seasons and 
 Nauvoo Neighbor, which was in charge of his 
 uncle. Elder John Taylor, and he there learned 
 the printing business and was a member of Elder 
 Taylor's household. Under his hands George Q. 
 was ordained an Elder, February 9th, 1845, ^nd 
 on the same day was ordained a Seventy and was 
 received as a member of the Nineteenth Quorum. 
 In 1846, when the expulsion from Nauvoo took 
 place, he traveled with the main body of the 
 Saints to Winter Quarters, and crossed the plains 
 in 1847, arriving in Salt Lake City October 3rd 
 of that year. There he labored for a living and 
 endured the hardships of the times with the rest 
 of the pioneers. 
 
 In the fall of 1849 he was sent on a mission to 
 California, under the direction of Elder Charles 
 C. Rich. He suffered great privations on the 
 way, and in the summer of 1850 was called, with 
 nine others, to take a mission to the Hawaiian 
 Islands. They landed December 12, 1850. No 
 success being had among the whites, most of the 
 Elders determined to return, but Elder Cannon, 
 who conceived that there was no reason why the 
 
394 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 natives should remain in ignorance of the Gospel, 
 declared he would stay and preach to them, if 
 he had to remain alone; four of the mission- 
 aries elected to stay with him. He accjuired the 
 language in a marvelously short time.by diligence 
 and study and the gift of God, and was soon able 
 to proclaim the Gospel in the native tongue. He 
 also translated the Book of Mormon into Ha- 
 waiian. He and his brethren were greatly suc- 
 cessful, and when they left the islands for San 
 Francisco, July 29, 1854, there were more than 
 four thousand members of the Church in that 
 country. He reached Salt Lake City November 
 28th of that year, and was ordained one of the 
 Presidents of the Thirtieth Quorum of Seventy. 
 He was soon notified to take another mission, 
 and on May loth, 1855, he left Great Salt Lake 
 City, with his wife and Elders Joseph Bull and 
 Matthew F. Wilkie, for California, where he was 
 set apart by Elder Parley P. Pratt to preside over 
 the mission in California and Oregon. He there 
 published the Western Standard, and also the 
 Book of Mormon in the Hawaiian language, 
 which he had previously translated. In conse- 
 quence of the approach of Johnston's army to 
 Utah, President Young advised Elder Cannon to 
 close up the mission and return home. He 
 reached Salt Lake City January 19th, 1858, and 
 was appoined Adjutant General in the army of 
 defence. He was then sent to Fillmore with the 
 printing press and material of the Deseret Nczvs, 
 which he published from .April to September, 
 1858. On his way back to Salt Lake City he 
 was notified to take a mission to the Eastern 
 States, for which he made himself ready in three- 
 quarters of an hour. On this mission he was 
 gone nearly two years, during which he labored 
 diligently among the leading editors and promi- 
 nent members of Congress, to correct the mis- 
 representations concerning the Mormon people 
 which had been made by their enemies and had 
 caused the sending of the army to Utah. He 
 also took charge of the branches of the Church 
 in the East and acted as emigration agent at New 
 York for the purchasing of supplies and for- 
 warding the immigrating Saints. While there 
 he was notified of his selection to fill a vacancy 
 in the Quorum of the Twelve .Apostles. On his 
 
 return he was ordained to that office. .August 26, 
 i860. 
 
 In six weeks from that time he was appointed 
 to go on a mission to England, to take charge of 
 the Millenial Star and the emigration business at 
 Liverpool, where he landed December 21, i860, 
 and established a Church printing office. He was 
 associated with Apostle Amasa j\I. Lyman and 
 Charles C. Rich in the Presidency of the Eu- 
 ropean mission until May 14, 1862, when he was 
 called to Washington, D. C, to join with Captain 
 W. H. Hooper in endeavoring to obtain the ad- 
 mission of the Territory into the Union as a 
 State, they having been elected United States 
 Senators by the inchoate commonwealth. When 
 Congress adjourned he returned to England, ar- 
 riving July 26, 1862, where he presided over 
 the European mission until 1864, visiting the 
 branches of the Church in Scandinavia, Germany, 
 Holland, Switzerland and France. He sailed 
 from Liverpool August 27, 1864, but was de- 
 tained by the way through Indian troubles, so 
 that he did not reach home until October 12th of 
 that year. He then became the private secretary 
 for President Brigham Young for three years. 
 In the winter of 1864-1865 he organized and 
 taught a Sunday School in the Fourteenth Ward. 
 In January, 1866, he commenced the publication 
 of the Juvenile Instructor, of which he remained 
 the editor up to the time of his death. In the 
 fall of 1867 he took charge of the Deseret News, 
 which was then issued weekly and semi-weekly, 
 but on November 21st he issued the first number 
 of the daily, under the title of The Deseret Even- 
 ing Nezi's, of which he was for several years the 
 editor and publisher, but traveled a great deal 
 through the various settlements with the First 
 Presidency and Apostles, holding meetings and 
 giving counsel to the people. In 1871 he was 
 sent, with President George A. Smith, to Wash- 
 ington, D. C, where he spent some time defend- 
 ing the people of Utah from the attacks of their 
 enemies. At the adjournment of Congress for 
 the holidays he returned home. He was elected 
 a member of the .Constitutional Convention in 
 February, 1872, and helped to frame the Con- 
 stitution then adopted, and went to Washington, 
 with Hon. Thomas Fitch and Hon. Frank Fuller, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 to present the Constitution and apply for tlie ad- 
 mission of the State, having been again chosen 
 United States Senator. 
 
 In August, 1872. he was elected Delegate to 
 Congress to succeed Hon. W. H. Hooper, and 
 was re-elected for four successive terms, making 
 five in all. He became a noted character in Con- 
 gress, serving Utah with marked ability and suc- 
 cess, and from his excellent memory of measures 
 and persons and names, he became an authority 
 and a source of information in Congressional 
 matters to new members from session to session. 
 In 1881, although he received 18,568 votes and 
 Allen G. Campbell but 1,357 votes, Governor 
 Eli H. Murray refused him the cehificate of elec- 
 tion and gave it to his competitor. However, the 
 scheme to deprive him of his seat failed ; but sub- 
 sequently the Edmunds Act of March 22, 1882, 
 was made retroactive in his case, and the coun- 
 try having been greatly aroused against the Lat- 
 ter Day Saints, the House of Representatives 
 decided against his retention of the seat, and de- 
 clared it vacant by a vote of one hundrd and 
 twenty-two against seventy-nine, on April 19, 
 1882. He had the opportunity of defending his 
 position, which he did in a magnificent speech, 
 that was listened to with the most intense inter- 
 est, and in which he vindicated his own course 
 and the cause of the people whom he represented. 
 
 When President Brigham Young departed this 
 life, August 29, 1877, George Q. Cannon became 
 the principal executor of his will, and, with Brig- 
 ham Young, Junior, and Albert Carrington, the 
 co-executors, he was engaged for several years 
 in the settlement of the estate. A few of the 
 heirs were dissatisfied, and in 1879 commenced 
 suit against the executors. They had given enor- 
 mous bonds, and Judge Jacob S. Boreman wanted 
 to put them under additional bonds, which they 
 refused to give. He adjudged them guilty of 
 contempt, and they went to the Penitentiary, 
 August 4th, 1879, where they remained three 
 weeks, until released by the Supreme Court of 
 Utah, which set aside the decision of the lower 
 court. In October, 1880, the Church having been 
 under the Presidency of the Twelve Apostles for 
 a little more than three years, the First Presidency 
 was reorganized, with John Taylor as President, 
 
 George Q. Cannon as First Counselor and Joseph 
 F. Smith as Second Counselor. In 1885, when 
 the anti-polygamy raid under the Edmunds Act 
 was inaugurated, President Cannon accompanied 
 President Taylor into seclusion, and they directed 
 the afifairs of the Church in secrecy, their resi- 
 dences being searched for them by Deputy Mar- 
 shals on several occasions. Under counsel from 
 President Taylor, President Cannon took the 
 train for California, but was arrested at Hum- 
 boldt Wells. On the way back he fell from the 
 train while in rapid motion, and injured his face 
 somewhat and was badly shaken up. Marshal 
 Ireland sent for a company of soldiers to guard 
 his prisoner, and he was brought into Salt Lake 
 City under military escort. He was placed under 
 bonds for $25,000, and again for $20,000, under 
 "segregated" counts in the indictment, making 
 the enormous sum of $45,000, while he was only 
 charged with a simple misdemeanor, namely, liv- 
 ing with his wives, but under three indictments 
 for the same oflfense. The feeling against the 
 Mormon leaders was so bitter that President Tay- 
 lor counseled him not to appear when his case 
 was called, so his excessive bail was declared for- 
 feited. But subsequently the amount was re- 
 stored, by act of Congress being passed to re- 
 imburse him, he having previously settled in full 
 with his sureties. In 1888, affairs having as- 
 sumed a less passionate state in the courts. Presi- 
 dent Cannon surrendered himself to L'nited States 
 Marshal Dyer, September 17, 1888, and he was 
 sentenced by Judge Sandford to one hundred and 
 seventy-five days' imprisonment and a fine of 
 $450. He served the time and paid the fine, and 
 was released February 21, 1889. 
 
 At the decease of President Taylor, the Twelve 
 Apostles again took charge of the Church, and 
 Presidents Cannon and Smith resumed their 
 places in the Quorum of the Apostles. On the 
 acession of Wilford Woodruff to the Presidency 
 of the Church, April 7, 1889, George Q. Cannon 
 was chosen again as First Counselor and Joseph 
 F. Smith as Second Counselor. After the death 
 of President Woodruff, President Lorenzo Snow 
 succeeded to the Presidency, September 13, 1898; 
 he also selected George O. Cannon as his First 
 Counselor and Joseph F. Smith as his Second 
 
396 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Counselor. This was ratified at the General Con- 
 ference on October 9th of the same year. Presi- 
 dent Cannon remained in this important position 
 until his demise. 
 
 President Cannon's name lias always been iden- 
 tified with the Sunday School movement. At the 
 organization of the Sunday School Union in 1867 
 he was made General Superintendent, which posi- 
 tion he held until the last days of his earthly ca- 
 reer. His heart was in this work, and thousands 
 upon thousands of the children of Zion will revere 
 his name and memory. He was also a strong 
 supporter of the other Church schools. He was 
 a member of the General Board of Education 
 from the day of its organization, April 5, 1888, 
 and never relaxed his interest or energies in that 
 capacity. Besides his labors on the Juvenile In- 
 structor, he wrote many interesting works, such 
 as "My First Mission," "Life of Joseph Smith," 
 "Life of Nephi," etc., and assisted in writing 
 "The Life of Brigham Young," "Brief History 
 of the Church," and other publications. 
 
 In addition to the onerous duties of his posi- 
 tion as one of the First Presidency of the Church, 
 in which he traveled very extensively among the 
 Stakes of Zion, attending conferences, dedicat- 
 ing meeting-houses, counseling the people in 
 things temporal and spiritual, he was engaged in 
 many enterprises of importance to the public. 
 He was a director in the Union Pacific Railroad 
 Company and in the Salt Lake and Los Angeles 
 Company. He was Vice-President and Director 
 of the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution 
 for many years. He founded the publishing and 
 book firm of George Q. Cannon & Sons Com- 
 pany, of which he was President. He was Presi- 
 dent of the Utah Sugar Company, Vice-President 
 and Director of Zion's Savings Bank and Trust 
 Company, Director of the Co-operative Wagon 
 and Machine Company, President of Brigham 
 Young Trust Company, President of the Utah 
 Light and Power Company, Director of the Bul- 
 lion-Beck and Champion Mining Company, also 
 •of the Grand Central Mining Company. He re- 
 cently organized the George O. Cannon Associa- 
 tion, of which he was the President, and in which 
 he placed all his property. In the interest of these 
 associations he took repeated trips to the East 
 
 and West, and gave them each the benefit of 
 his wisdom and experience. He was President 
 of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress 
 for one term, and attended all of its sessions as 
 a member with great regularity. He was also 
 President, and afterwards Vice-President, of the 
 Irrigation Congress, and addressed its meetings 
 on several occasions as an authority on irrigation 
 and kindred affairs. 
 
 On November 29, 1900, President Cannon, ac- 
 companied by a few friends, left Salt Lake to at- 
 tend the Jubilee of the Sandwich Islands mission, 
 which was held December 12 and 13. He landed 
 at Honolulu December 10, and the next day re- 
 ceived the most magnificent greeting ever ac- 
 corded a guest of those islands. The native 
 Saints fairly adored him as the instrument in 
 the hands of God in the introduction of the Gos- 
 pel among them. Some of them he baptized fifty 
 years before. He was crowned with yellow lei, 
 the emblem of royalty. Several prominent peo- 
 ple in the present and former governments also 
 waited upon him. During the festivities, lasting 
 several days, he was honored, and almost wor- 
 shipped, bv the islanders. Ex-Queen Lilioukalani 
 also attended a meeting at which he spoke half 
 an hour in the Hawaiian tongue, . which he was 
 able to recall in a surprising manner. President 
 Cannon afterwards visited the ex-Queen, and at 
 her request blessed her. On the day of his de- 
 parture to return home he was literally covered 
 with flowers. He arrived in Salt Lake City Jari- 
 uary 16, and half an hour after alighting from 
 the train he addressed, by special request, the 
 great National Live Stock Convention, then in 
 session in the Assembly Hall, and was received 
 with immense applause. 
 
 The health of President Cannon had been oc- 
 casionally interrupted by spells of sickness for 
 some time before the fatal attack. He had been 
 robust and strong until the fall from the train 
 already mentioned. After that he experienced, 
 once in a while, a weakness in contrast to his 
 former vigor. While on visits to the East he 
 was seized with serious symptoms. At New 
 York, in November, 1899, he was severely at- 
 tacked with pneumonia, and but for his abstemi- 
 ous life and good constitution would probably 
 
BIOGRAPHICAi: RECORD. 
 
 397 
 
 have succumbed. This undoubtedly prepared the 
 way for the last illness that laid low this stal- 
 wart servant of the Church. In March, 1901, 
 he left for California, whose milder climate and 
 the lower altitude it was hoped would benefit 
 his health. But the hope proved fallacious ; and 
 surrounded by several members of his family, 
 his pure and lofty spirit took its flight in the 
 early morning hours of April 12. From the 
 peaceful, drowsy, little, old tow^n of Monterey, 
 where he died, his remains were at once conveyed 
 to San Francisco, where they were prepared for 
 burial. From there the sad return journey was 
 begun two days later, and on the 17th, with the 
 most imposing services ever held in Salt Lake 
 City, his tired body was laid to rest. 
 
 lELS DANIEL JENSEN was born in 
 Asmildgaarde, Wiborg county, Den- 
 mark, March 4, 1852. He is the son 
 of Jens J. and Karen (Sorensen) Jen- 
 sen, both natives of Denmark, and who 
 lived and died in that country. Mr. Jensen joined 
 the Mormon Church in Denmark in 1876, at 
 which time he was serving in the army of his 
 country. He left his native land and emigrated 
 to America in 1883, being one of eleven hundred 
 Mormons to come to Salt Lake in that year under 
 Captain O. J. Magleby, and arrived here on July 
 8th of that year. Their ship arrived in New York 
 City on July ist, and they came by rail to Salt 
 Lake City. He remained in Salt Lake City only 
 one year, and then moved to Mill Creek Ward, 
 now Wilford Ward, and a year later bought his 
 present home of sixteen acres, located at Four- 
 teenth East on Fourteenth South street. He es- 
 tablished himself in the dairy business, and for 
 four years successfully conducted that business. 
 He has erected a nice house, with good out-build- 
 ings, and has planted out an orchard and shade 
 trees, and now has a good home. He left the 
 dairy business and engaged in real estate trans- 
 actions, and at Mill Creek was also engaged in 
 the lumber and brick business. He built several 
 houses on the homestead which he had taken up, 
 and on the first sixteen acres of the land he 
 bought there are now nine houses. 
 
 • Mr. Jensen married in Denmark, in 1882, to 
 Miss Mary Goodmanson, and has had four chil- 
 dren, three of whom are dead — Daniel, who died 
 at one year of age ; Clara E., now sixteen years 
 of age, and two other children who died at birth. 
 In political life Mr. Jensen has been a follower 
 of the Republican party, and has been Chairman 
 of the Republican Committee, and also held the 
 office of Fruit Tree Inspector, and is now Deputy 
 Assessor; he has also been a School Trustee for 
 four years, and has held the office of Water 
 Master for ten years. He has taken a prom- 
 inent part in all the affairs of Utah, espe- 
 cially in the Mormon Church, and was Clerk 
 of the Mill Creek Ward before its division, 
 and is now Clerk of the Wilford Ward. He 
 has been statistical correspondent of the United 
 States Government for ten years for Salt Lake 
 county, and is also Secretary of the Salt 
 Lake County Horticultural Society. He has 
 aided in every way the development of his 
 portion of the country, and assisted in the or- 
 ganization of the Agricultural Society, of which 
 he was made President. He became a member of 
 the Church on May 21, 1876, in Denmark, and 
 spent three years in that land before he came to 
 the United States, and presided over several 
 branches of the Church in that country. Since 
 he settled in Mill Creek he has presided over the 
 Scandinavian meetings which have since been 
 held there. He was a Clerk of the Thirteenth 
 Quorum of Elders for many years, and is now 
 President of the Eleventh Quorum of Elders of 
 Granite Stake. 
 
 ILLIAM H. McINTYRE, for many 
 years President of the great Mam- 
 moth Mine, in the Tintic Mining 
 District of Utah, was born in Grimes 
 county, Texas, in 1848, and when 
 but a child crossed the plains with his father, 
 mother and sister, and came to Salt Lake City, 
 arriving in Utah in the fall of 1853. His early 
 life was spent on a farm, and he attended such 
 schools as existed at that time for a few weeks 
 in the winter, spending the balance of the year 
 working on the farm. His father, William Mc- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Intyre, died when our subject was only four 
 months old. He had been one of the early set- 
 tlers of Texas, and was engaged in the stock- 
 raising and farming business, which he operated 
 with considerable success. He was also in the 
 United States forces in the Mexican War, and 
 participated in one of the battles at Alamo, 
 under General Sam Houston. His mother later 
 married John Moody, the father of Mrs. Mary 
 Donahue, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this 
 volume. 
 
 Mr. Mclntyre early started out for himself, 
 and was engaged in freighting during the early 
 days of the settlement of California and Utah, 
 and also hauled freight from the Missouri river 
 to Utah and from Utah to the Blackfoot country. 
 He only operated this business for a few years, 
 when he branched out into the stock business, 
 securing a ranch in what is now the Tintic Min- 
 ing District. As early as 1873 or 1874, the Mc- 
 Intyres became identified with the Mammoth 
 Mine, which was at that time in its infancy, but 
 very little work having been done by the Cris- 
 mons upon it. There was a shaft two hundred 
 feet deep and a tunnel six hundred feet long. 
 All of the work which has since been done, and 
 the driving of the shaft to a depth of two thou- 
 sand feet, together with the tunneling and the 
 enlargement of the different levels, has been the 
 work which Mr. Mclntyre and brother have suc- 
 cessfully carried on in that property. This is 
 one of the largest, and in its time has been the 
 most profitable, mine in Utah, having paid in 
 the neighborhood of two million dollars in divi- 
 dends to its stockholders, and it is now one of 
 the best investments in the Tintic Mining Dis- 
 trict. Mr. Mclntyre came to Utah when the first 
 settlers were tilling the soil and endeavoring to 
 sustain life from the barren and unyielding wil- 
 derness. He has seen Salt Lake City grow from 
 a small village to its present metropolitan impor- 
 tance, and has seen Utah developed from a wild 
 and unknown Territory to one of the most pros- 
 perous and growing States of the West. 
 
 He married Miss Phoebe Chase, daughter of 
 George Chase, one of the early settlers of this 
 country, who was engaged here in farming. By 
 this marriage they have six children — lune, Bes- 
 
 sie, Margaret, Marion, William and Robert, all 
 of whom are at home, except one daughter, who 
 is attending school in the East. 
 
 In political life Mr. Mclntyre has been a Demo- 
 crat, but owing to the pressure of his business 
 has never taken an active part in the work of his 
 party. His whole time has been given to the 
 development of his business and to its care. In 
 addition to his mining property, he also owns one 
 of the largest ranches in Canada, consisting of 
 si.xty-five thousand acres, which is stocked with 
 horses and cattle. 
 
 The success which Mr. Mclntyre has made in 
 life and the prominent position he now occupies, 
 marks him as one of the ablest business men in 
 Utah. He started out early in life as a poor boy 
 and has made his own way without help from 
 any one, and the success which has come to him 
 has been won by his untiring industry and con- 
 stant hard work. His home is in Salt Lake City, 
 he having recently purchased the Gill S. Peyton 
 home, on Seventh and B streets, which is one 
 of the finest residences in this city. 
 
 OHN MILNER was born in Newport, 
 Mommothshire, England, June 13, 1827, 
 and spent his early life in his native land. 
 His education was derived from the 
 schools of Newport, and during his boy- 
 hood days he worked on his father's farm. He 
 was twenty years of age when he finally left Eng- 
 land and came to the United States. He landed 
 at New Orleans on March 3, 1847, and from there 
 he made the trip to Wisconsin, settling at Lan- 
 caster, the county seat of Grant county. He there 
 joined an elder brother, who had come to the 
 L^nited States a few months previous to Mr. Mil- 
 ner's arrival, and settled in Wisconsin. Upon his 
 arrival in Wisconsin Mr. Milner at once took up 
 Government land and began active work as a 
 farmer, and also buildine up a live stock busi- 
 ness. The land which he took up was at that time 
 in its native state of wildness, and was the usual 
 prairie land of the great plains of the West, ac- 
 companied by woods. The building up of this 
 farm necessitated the hewing of this timber and 
 the breaking up of the soil, which had never been 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 399 
 
 touched by a plow. The same energy which he 
 later displayed in his business enterprises he suc- 
 cessfully brought to the conduct of this work, and 
 was a prosperous and prominent man of that sec- 
 tion of Wisconsin for over twenty-three years. 
 He finally disposed of his farm in Wisconsin and 
 moved to the southwestern portion of Iowa, lo- 
 cating in Adair county, near Fontanelle, its then 
 county seat. This migration took place in 1870, 
 and here he again improved another farm 
 and made his home here for five years. At 
 this time he also took up the stock busi- 
 ness, and made as great a success of it in 
 Iowa as he had in Wisconsin. He then sold 
 his property in Adair county and moved to 
 Atlantic, Cass county, west of Adair county, 
 and went into the lumber business, giving up en- 
 tirely his farming. In this business he associated 
 with him his second son, Elliott A. Milner, and 
 this firm continued to do a flourishing business 
 for five years, at which time Mr. Milner prac- 
 tically retired from active business, and has since 
 lived on the results of the early labors of his 
 youth and manhood. He moved to Salt Lake 
 City in March, 1892, and for the pas" ten years 
 this city has been his home, where he has lived 
 enjoying the wealth that he has amassed and not 
 participating actively in business affairs.. 
 
 Mr. Milner married Miss Selina Sarah Bark, 
 who was a native of Worcestershire, England. 
 Mrs. Milner came to the United States in 1848 
 with one of her brothers and her sisters to visit 
 friends in this country, and while in Wisconsin 
 she met Mr. Milner and they were married. Her 
 father, George Bark, was a prosperous merchant, 
 and amassed considerable wealth during his early 
 life, and was able to live on the income from his 
 business in his later years at Worcestershire, Eng- 
 land. Mrs. Milner's mother was a Miss Rowe, 
 but she died when her daughter was very young. 
 Mrs. Milner was educated in the schools of 
 Worcestershire, where her father lived until his 
 death, at the age of eighty years. Mr. Milner's 
 father, James, was a farmer, and lived in New- 
 port, Mommothshire. England, the greater por- 
 tion of his life, and it was here that his son was 
 born. The mother of our subject was a Miss 
 Elliott, and her people were also among the prom- 
 
 inent families of England. By this marriage Mr. 
 Milner has eight children living. They are: 
 Colonel Stanley B. Milner, a sketch of whose life 
 appears elsewhere in this work ; Elliott A., a resi- 
 dent of Iowa; Florence, now the wife of M. M. 
 Rutt of Utah ; Mary, the wife of L. M. Rutt of 
 Salt Lake City ; Charles, who died at Tuscarora, 
 Nevada, in 1899, aged thirty-nine years ; James, 
 in the sheep businss in Montana ; Nellie M., now 
 the wife of James Whitney, a resident of Atlantic, 
 Iowa ; Harley O., engaged in the mining business 
 at Tuscarora, Nevada, and Grace M., wife of P. 
 
 A. Hawkins, principal of the schools of Colum- 
 bus, ^lontana. Mr. and Mrs. Milner now have 
 twenty-one grandchildren living. In February, 
 1899, Mr. and Mrs. Milner celebrated their golden 
 wedding at the home of their son. Colonel Stanley 
 
 B. Milner, in Salt Lake City, and there were pres- 
 ent all their children, with the exception of their 
 daughter Florence W. and their son Charles, who 
 died at Tuscarora just previous to this celebra- 
 tion. Their grandchildren were also present at 
 this reunion. 
 
 In political life Mr. Milner has of recent years 
 been a member of the Democratic party, and is a 
 firm believer in the doctrine of tariff for revenue 
 only. While a resident of Wisconsin he held 
 many of the minor offices in his county and town- 
 ship, among which were Justice of the Peace and 
 School Trustee. 
 
 R. ANDREW J. HOSMER. Every- 
 where throughout the length and 
 lireadth of America are to be found 
 men who have worked their own way 
 upward from humble and lowly begin- 
 nings to positions of leadership, renown and high 
 esteem, and it is still one of the proudest boasts 
 of our fair land that such victors over circum- 
 stances are accounted of thousand-fold more 
 value to the commonwealth than is the aristocrat 
 with his inherited wealth, standing and distin- 
 guished name. When even a reasonable degree 
 of success has been attained by one who has been 
 obliged to battle with many adversities, we are 
 inclined, as a people, to award him the palm of 
 honor, and doubtless this very spirit of "giving 
 
400 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 honor to whom honor is due," in its true sense, 
 is one of the secrets of our prosperity as a nation, 
 as well as individually. 
 
 Andrew J. Hosmer was born at New Boston, 
 Michigan, October 2, 1858, and is the son of An- 
 drew J. and Martha (Eldred) Hosmer. Dr. 
 Hosmer was one of eleven children. In his 
 father's family there were seven sons and four 
 daughters, and as the father was not over rich 
 in this world's goods, he was compelled at an 
 early age to do for himself. He was raised in 
 New Boston until the age of eleven ; then his 
 parents moved to Jackson, in the same State, 
 where he attended the country district schools 
 and worked on his father's farm. In 1875 he 
 moved, with his parents, to Romulos, Michigan, 
 where he attended the district schools in the win- 
 ter, working on the farm in the summers, and 
 finally entered the high school. 
 
 At the age of eighteen he began his life work 
 by teaching at Spring Harbor, Michigan, during 
 the winter months and attending the State Nor- 
 mal School in the summer, and by close economy 
 was able to save sufficient to enter the Michigan 
 State University at Ann Arbor in 1880, where 
 he took a literary course, and in 1882 entered 
 the medical department of that institution, grad- 
 uating with the degree of M. D. in 1885. He 
 then took up practical work at the Wayne County 
 Insane Asylum and County Poor House, where 
 he remained about a year. In 1886 he took up 
 the practice of his profession at Plymouth, a 
 small country town of Michigan, and during the 
 following eighteen months had remarkable suc- 
 cess, considering the size of the place. He then 
 moved to Ashland, Wisconsin, where he prac- 
 ticed his profession for eight years, devoting him- 
 self almost exclusively to surgery. During this 
 time he was surgeon for the Wisconsin Central 
 Railroad Company, the Northern Pacific and the 
 Saint Joseph Hospital. In spite of these arduous 
 duties he found time to take a post-graduate 
 course at the New York and Chicago post-gradu- 
 ate schools, devoting most of his time to patho- 
 logical surgery, being associated with eminent 
 surgeons of New York and Chicago. In 1894 
 he went to Europe, and spent one year at the 
 Vienna Hospital; then visited London, Berlin, 
 
 Dresden and Paris, viewing the work and gather- 
 ing statistical data of surgical operations in the 
 leading European hospitals. 
 
 LTpon his return from Europe he located in Salt 
 Lake City, where he began the practice of his pro- 
 fession in 1897. For three years he was associ- 
 ated with Dr. P. S. Keogh in the founding and 
 management of the Keogh-Hosmer Private Hos- 
 pital. In March, 1901, he was appointed a mem- 
 ber of the stafY of surgeons at the Holy Cross 
 Hospital. Dr .Hosmer has been a successful prac- 
 titioner, and stands high in the profession. He 
 is a member of the Salt Lake City Medical So- 
 ciety, the Utah State Medical Society, the Rocky 
 Mountain Inter-State Medical Society and the 
 American Medical Association, and has still con- 
 tinued his membership in the Wisconsin Medical 
 Association. 
 
 On December 17, 1890, he married Miss Letitia 
 Fell, who came to Salt Lake at the same time he 
 did. He has been a thoroughly self-made man, 
 coming up from the bottom round of the ladder, 
 and has taken pleasure in assisting three of his 
 brothers to secure a medical education, and of 
 the seven sons four are now practicing that pro- 
 fession. One is located in Detroit, one in Ash- 
 land, Wisconsin; the other has just finished his 
 post-graduate course. The doctor also comes 
 from a medical family on his mother's side, there 
 having been several physicians in the maternal 
 ancestry, dating back for several gnerations. 
 
 During his residence in this city Dr. Hosmer 
 has ever been found ready to respond to the call 
 of duty, and is never so happy as when alleviat- 
 ing suiTering. He has not only won a high place 
 in the medical profession, but stands high in the 
 esteem and confidence of those with whom he has 
 been associated in social life. 
 
 R. FRANCIS SANBURN BASCOM. 
 As the representative of the medical 
 profession, perhaps no physician in 
 Salt Lake City is more worthy of 
 ' special mention than is Dr. Bascom, 
 the subject of this sketch. He comes from an 
 old and honorable American family, his ances- 
 tors coming to America with the Pilgrim Fathers, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 401 
 
 and the progenitor of the family in this country, 
 Thomas Bascom, belonged to one of the oldest 
 and most prominent families of England, leaving 
 there on account of his religion. Our subject's 
 father was Carlos Lyman Bascom, a native of 
 Shoreham, Vermont, who married Emily Sanburn. 
 They moved to Illinois, settling in Rock Island, 
 and there our subject was born in 1857. 
 
 He spent his boyhood days in the vicinity of 
 his home, and received his early education from 
 the schools of that place, completing his medical 
 studies in Rush Medical College, in Chicago, Illi- 
 nois, from which institution he graduated in 1882. 
 After spending some time in the Chicago hos- 
 pitals, he came to Utah, and was in the employ 
 of the Government as physician and surgeon on 
 the LTintah Indian Reservation, but resigned his 
 position and went abroad, where he took a post- 
 graduate course, studying in the medical colleges 
 of Vienna, Edinburgh and London. He returned 
 to the United States in 1884, locating in Salt Lake 
 City the same year, where he has since conducted 
 a general practice and built up a most enviable 
 reputation, not only as a physician and surgeon, 
 but as a writer of authority upon subjects of in- 
 terest to the medical world. He is at this time 
 a member of the staff of physicians of Saint 
 Mark's Hospital and Medical Director of that 
 institution. 
 
 In medical circles Dr. Bascom is ex-President 
 of the State and County Medical Societies and 
 ex- Vice— President of the American Medical As- 
 sociation, having served in that capacity during 
 1893. He has been surgeon for the Rio Grande 
 Western Railway since 1886, and was for some 
 years President of the State Board of Medical 
 Examiners, receiving his first appointment from 
 Governor Thomas, and being re-appointed by 
 Governor Wells. He resigned this position, how- 
 ever, and accepted that of President of the State 
 Board of Health, which he has since held. In 
 addition to the State, County and National Med- 
 ical Societies, Dr. Bascom was honored with the 
 appointment as representative of Utah at the Pan- 
 American Medical Congress, held in 1893, and 
 has served the scientific and medical world in 
 many other capacities. Dr. Bascom has been a 
 contributor to manv of the leading- masrazines 
 
 and medical journals, furnishing statistics to sci- 
 ence and writing a number of articles on the 
 climatic conditions in this country, and other data. 
 In politics he is a believer in the principles of 
 the Republican party, but has never participated 
 actively in its work, devoting the greater portion 
 of his time to study and the prosecution of his 
 practice. In business circles he occupies the im- 
 portant position of Vice-President of the Bank of 
 Commerce, and is well known among the business 
 men of the city, with whom he enjoys a high 
 standing. He has not only built up a large and 
 lucrative practice, but has come to be one of the 
 leading physicians of Salt Lake City, enjoying 
 the confidence and esteem of all wi*.h whom he 
 has been associated, and has acquired a reputa- 
 tion for honor and integrity with his medical as- 
 sociates, among whom he numbers many warm 
 friends. 
 
 OHN WILLIAM CLARK. The story 
 of the early settlers in Utah may be re- 
 lated in part, but its full history can 
 never be recorded. The hardships en- 
 dured, the privations sustained and the 
 splendid record of those who by determined pur- 
 pose conquered in the face of every obstacle, can 
 only be fully realized and understood by those 
 who personally took an active part in its scenes. 
 Among those who settled in Utah in its early 
 period, and who has passed through all the trials 
 incident to settling in a new country, especially 
 LTtah at that time, so far removed from the seat 
 of civilization, John William Clark deserves spe- 
 cial mention. 
 
 He was born in Herefordshire, England, Janu- 
 ary 12, 1826, and is the son of Thomas S. and 
 Charlotte (Galey) Clark, both natives of that 
 place. Our subject was the oldest of a family 
 of nine children, two of whom were born in 
 America, and four of whom are now living. The 
 parents were converted to the teachings of the 
 Mormon Church, and the father was baptized by 
 President Wilford Woodruff, later baptizing his 
 children, our subject being baptized in 1841. On 
 April 6th of that year the family left their native 
 land and emigrated to America, coming over on 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 board the Catherine, which was lost at sea on her 
 next voyage. They went directly to Nauvoo, ar- 
 riving there on July 8th of the same year, and re- 
 mained there until the Mormons were driven out 
 of the State. At the time of the exodus the Clark 
 family were notified at two o'clock in the after- 
 noon to leave by six o'clock the following morn- 
 ing, and being unable to collect all their things 
 in the short time given, were compelled to leave a 
 large portion of their possessions. One of their 
 Gentile friends took them in for one night and as- 
 sisted them across the river, when they went with 
 the main body of the Church to Winter Quarters. 
 Here the father and the older sons went to work 
 haying. The following spring the father was sent 
 on a mission to England, where he remained until 
 the fall of 1849, the family being cared for by our 
 subject. Upon Mr. Clark's return from England, 
 in company with Henry Smith and Emory Bar- 
 rus, he built a ferry boat, which they run at Flor- 
 ence, six miles above Omaha, for two years, and 
 which they owned jointly, at the end of which 
 time Mr. Clark sold out his interest and with our 
 subject came to Utah, arriving here in the spring 
 of 1852, the remainder of the family coming the 
 next year. The father was Captain of ten wagon? 
 in this company, and a few days after starting 
 cholera broke out, and all of those over whom 
 Mr. Clark was in command succumbed to the 
 disease, he alone escaping. Upon arriving in 
 Utah the Clarks at once went to Grantsville, 
 which continued to be the family home. Here 
 Mr. Clark took up land, and he and his son at 
 once went to work getting out timber from the 
 canyon with which to build a house. The In- 
 dians were very troublsome, and under the ad- 
 vice of Brigham Young the settlers of Grants- 
 ville united in building a large adobe fort, the 
 walls of which were twelve feet high. The In- 
 dians continued to annoy them for a number of 
 years, and it was the custom of the settlers to lock 
 the Indian prisoners in cellars, sometimes chain- 
 ing them together. Our subject also participated 
 in the Johnston army troubles, and at this time 
 owns one of the wagon beds used by Johnston's 
 army. Mr. Clark, Senior, died in Grantsville 
 October 14, 1873, his wife having passed away 
 on April 18, 1869. 
 
 Our subject was married in Council Bluffs, 
 Iowa, August 2, 1850, to Miss Ann Mickel 
 Wright, and by this marriage eight children were 
 born — Thomas H., living in Tooele county; Lucy, 
 now Mrs. J. A. Elison ; William J., Counselor 
 to the Bishop of Grantsville; George M., ranch- 
 ing in Idaho ; Emma J., now Mrs. William Jef- 
 feries. Junior; Hanna C, the wife of Eugene T. 
 Woolley; Sarah A., died aged eight years; 
 Charles M., died in infancy. The mother of this 
 family died May 13, 1900. 
 
 Mr. Clark's principal occupation in Utah has 
 been farming and cattle raising, as well as being 
 interested to some extent in sheep. He has been 
 very successful in all his ventures, and has now 
 retired from active business life, and is enjoying 
 the competence he has accumulated. He has in 
 his life time been identified with a number of local 
 enterprises, having at this time an interest in 
 the Tooele Milling Company, which he assisted 
 to build, and also assisted in establishing the co- 
 operative store at this place, in which he is a 
 Director. His family are also members of the 
 Mormon Church and active in its work in their 
 locality. Mr. Clark has held a number of offices 
 in the Church, having been Counselor to the 
 Bishop, an Elder, High Priest, a member of the 
 Seventies, and is at this time a Patriarch. His 
 broad mindedness, integrity and high and busi- 
 ness-like methods have won for him the confi- 
 dence of those with whom he has been associated 
 in business life, while his genial and pleasant 
 manner has made friends of those who have met 
 him in social life, and to-day he stands high in 
 the good will of the people of his city and county. 
 
 I'FUS ADAMS. Among the promi- 
 nent people of Layton, Davis county, 
 none rank higher than the Adams fam- 
 ilv. They run a general merchandise 
 store of which Rufus Adams is the 
 superintendent, his father is the president and one 
 of his brothers assists in the store. Four of the 
 other brothers are stockholders in the firm of 
 Adams & Sons Company, the remainder of the 
 stock being held by farmers and residents of 
 Lavton. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 403 
 
 Rufus Adams was born in Layton, April 23, 
 1861. His father, George W. Adams, is a native 
 of Illinois, and his mother, Mary A. (Pilling) 
 Adams, a native of England. Rufus was brought 
 up on a farm, and at the age of twenty-one 
 became a clerk in a general merchandise store and 
 has remained in this line of business ever since. 
 After he had clerked for nine years his father 
 bought out Barton & Co.'s store, the pioneer 
 general store of Layton, and this they operated 
 until a disastrous fire wiped out both their stock 
 and building about six years ago. They did not 
 carrv a cent's worth of insurance, which proved 
 to be a disastrous mistake.. But they are not the 
 kind of men to sit down and pine over troubles, 
 and at once began looking around to see how they 
 could build up a new business on the ashes of 
 their burnt stock. Moreover the wholesale houses 
 with whom they had dealt assured them of every 
 help that they could afYord them. A large new 
 store was built and the firm of Adams & Sons 
 Company incorporated. The store contains as 
 complete a line of general merchandise as can be 
 found in any country store in the State and 
 does a first rate business, so that under the 
 careful management of Rufus, the heavy loss 
 he and his father and company sustained by fire 
 has now been overcome. 
 
 In November, 1883, Rufus Adams was married 
 to Sarah A. Hill, a daughter of Joseph and Ellen 
 Hill of Layton. Of the seven children born to 
 them six are living: Ethel A., Chloe V., Alta L., 
 Jenness L., died at the age of six years and five 
 months ; Melvin J\I. and Spencer D. The oldest 
 of the family, Delbert R., died when he was a 
 year and a half old. The Adams home is a hand- 
 some brick structure with modern conveniences. 
 Mr. Adams also has two farms — one of ninety 
 and the other of sixty acres — and has experi- 
 mented considerably in the raising of live stock. 
 In politics he has pinned his faith to the Repub- 
 lican party. 
 
 Rufus Adams and all of his family believe 
 implicitly in the doctrines of the Mormon faith, 
 in which they were born. Both father and 
 mother take a strong interest in Church mat- 
 ters and are highly respected in their commun- 
 ity. Mr. Adams is a man of untiring energy 
 
 and has taken part in almost every local enter- 
 prise which has been promoted in this part of 
 Utah, to which he has lent not only financial but 
 moral support. 
 
 TLLIAM MOSS. In the develop- 
 ment of the vast resources of Utah 
 it has required the combined eflforts 
 of men of energy-, brains, persever- 
 ance and determination along the 
 lines of various enterprises and industries to 
 transform this one time barren and wild waste of 
 country into its present wonderful prosperous 
 condition. One of the greatest industries of 
 Davis county, which has likely assisted more 
 small men in this county to obtain a livelihood 
 for themselves and their families, and to lay aside 
 a competence for old age, than has any other, has 
 been the Deseret Live Stock Company, of which 
 the subject of this sketch is president and gen- 
 eral manager. The foundations for this pros- 
 perous company were laid by John Moss, the 
 father of our subject, who was among the early 
 settlers of Davis county, and was for many 
 years the leading character in every laudable 
 enterprise in this county. 
 
 William Moss was born in South Bountiful, 
 June 21, 1855. His mother was Rebecca Moss. 
 He was raised on his father's farm in that 
 place and obtained such education as the schools 
 of his vicinity afiforded. He was married in 1879 
 to Miss Grace A. Hatch, daughter of Orin and 
 Elizabeth Hatch, a biographical sketch of whom 
 appears elsewhere in this work, and by this mar- 
 riage has had ten children, eight of whom are 
 now living. They are : Grace, died in infancy ; 
 Leonard W., died aged eight years ; Ethel. Gertie 
 M., Florence, Chloe. Ralph. Delilah, Ezra O. and 
 Amelia. 
 
 Mr. Moss lives one-quarter of a mile from 
 the Woods Cross postoffice, and his home place 
 is considered one of the finest in Davis county. 
 His beautiful brick residence is modern in every 
 particular, as are also his barns and outbuild- 
 ings, and the place is highly cultivated and im- 
 proved. He owns altogether one hundred and 
 fortv-one acres of land in Davis countv. The 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 company of which he is the head is capitalized 
 for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and 
 the stockholders are almost exclusively small far- 
 mers and cattle owners of Davis county. They 
 own vast ranges in Rich, Morgan and Summit 
 counties, in this State, and besides their cattle 
 and sheep also run some horses, although of late 
 years this industry has not been as profitable 
 in the western country as it once was. The 
 company employs about sixty sheep herders the 
 year round. They also own a large brick store 
 building in Woods Cross, where they do a gen- 
 eral merchandising business, giving employment 
 to four clerks. All this vast interest is directly 
 under the management of our subject, who does 
 most of the buying as well as the selling in the 
 live stock department, and gives his entire time 
 almost exclusively to this work. 
 
 In politics ]\Ir. Moss is a Republican, but 
 owing to his large business interests has never 
 been actively identified with the work of that 
 party. He was born and raised in the faith of 
 the Mormon Church, as were also his wife and 
 children, and they are all faithful and consistent 
 followers of the teachings of that body. Air. 
 Moss is a member of the Seventy-fourth Quorum 
 of Seventies. 
 
 Although still a young man, Mr. ]\Ioss has 
 shown a high order of business ability, and has 
 won his position in the business world by the 
 exercise of his own untiring application to the 
 task in hand, being ever willing to grasp and 
 make the most of the opportunity that presented, 
 and today occupies an enviable position, not 
 only in business ranks, but in the esteem and 
 confidence of his friends and associates. 
 
 SRAEL BARLOW. The early scenes in 
 Hancock county and the noted and ever 
 memorable village of Nauvoo, at one time 
 the seat and garden spot of the Mormon 
 people, can never be obliterated from the 
 fair pages of history, and what occurred dur- 
 ing their early life in that section will be handed 
 down in history for future generations to peruse. 
 In Hancock county, Illinois, not far from Nau- 
 voo, Israel Barlow, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 was born September 5, 1842. He is the son of 
 Israel and Elizabeth (Haven) Barlow, his father 
 having been born in Granville, Hampden county, 
 Massachusetts, September 13, 1806, and his 
 mother at Holeston, Massachusetts. They were 
 married at Quincy, Illinois, and eight children 
 were born to them, six of whom are still living, 
 our subject being the oldest living child. The 
 family resided in Nauvoo at the time of the ex- 
 odus of the Mormon people and the senior Mr. 
 Barlow was a close friend and body guard of 
 the Prophet Joseph Smith. In the arms of his 
 mother our subject listened to the last memorable 
 speech of the Prophet. Standing erect on a high 
 platform overlooking the vast concourse of peo- 
 ple, both friends and foes, with his right arm 
 extended towards the noon-day sun, he declared 
 in the most solemn and emphatic terms that as 
 long as he had the use of that strong right arm 
 he would never leave nor forsake his religion or 
 the principles and doctrines he advocated. 
 
 In the spring of 1846 the family left Nauvoo 
 with the main body of the Church and located in 
 Iowa, where they spent one winter and in the fall 
 of 1847 '^'i^y migrated to Winter Quarters, where 
 they remained vmtil the spring of 1848. After 
 much preparatory work in equipping ox teams 
 and providing provisions, etc., for the long trip 
 across the plains to Utah, they started in company 
 with President Brigham Young's train which ar- 
 rived in Salt Lake, September 23, 1848. The 
 first winter was spent in the Old Fort, which was 
 erected for the protection of the emigrants against 
 the savage red man. In the spring of 1849 the 
 Senior Mr. Barlow located in Bountiful, where 
 he secured a piece of land which he improved and 
 where he spent the balance of his life. This land 
 has always been in the family and is now partly 
 owned by our subject. At the time the family 
 settled upon the place it was largely covered by 
 willows and sage brush, which required much 
 hard work, perseverance and determination to 
 convert it from its wild condition to its present 
 wonderful state of cultivation. The original 
 place contained forty acres. During the years 
 which the Senior Mr. Barlow lived on this farm 
 he was called by the heads of the Church to 
 serve on a mission to England, where he remained 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 405 
 
 two years and a half, and in company with Cap- 
 tain Andrus returned to Utah with a large com- 
 pany of emigrants. He was ordained one of the 
 Coimcilmen of the Sixth Quorum of the Seventies 
 when that body was first organized, over which 
 he presided until his death, his term of office cov- 
 ering a period of thirty years. He died in 1883 
 and his wife died September 25, 1892. They are 
 laid side by side in the cemetery at Bountiful. 
 
 Our subject's early life and boyhood days were 
 spent on his father's farm ; his education was 
 meagre, being obtained in the schools such as then 
 existed in Davis county, but throughout his life 
 he has lost no opportunity to gain knowledge, be- 
 ing a close student of nature, as well as of men 
 and affairs. 
 
 He began for himself in 1863, and on April 
 26th of that year was united in marriage to Miss 
 Annie Yeates, daughter of John and ]\Iary Ann 
 (Ledburn) Yeats. Jonathan Yeats was born 
 July I, 1769, and his wife in 1786. She died Aug- 
 ust II, 1853. The Yeates family came to Utah in 
 1862. Mrs. Barlow, our subject's wife was born 
 in Hampton, Worcestershire, England, August 
 8, 1843. To our subject and his wife have been 
 born twelve children, ten of whom still live. Mrs. 
 Barlow died April 26, 1901. The children are: 
 Israel, born May 17, 1864, now residing in 
 Bountiful ; Anna L., born June 10, 1866 ; Mary 
 E., born October 6, 1867; Clara E., born Octo- 
 ber 10. 1869, and died September 12, 1870; Pa- 
 mela E., born June 9, 1872 ; John Yeates, born 
 March 4, 1874; Eva Antoinette, born February 3, 
 1876; Edmund F., born June 14, 1878, and is now 
 serving on a mission to the eastern States ; Alice 
 J., born June 2, 1880; Janthius W., born Jan- 
 uary 3, 1881 ; Rosetta M., born November 21, 
 1885. and Jennie H., born November 10, 1887, 
 and died May 12, 1891. 
 
 In the fall of 1869 our subject was called to 
 serve on a colonization mission to Nevada. He 
 took his family with him and spent some eight 
 years in this work, at the end of which time he 
 returned home to Utah. A few years previous to 
 this, in 1862, he was called to go to the Missouri 
 river to assist the emigrants on their journey 
 across the plains, and it was while on this trip 
 that he met his wife in Captain Horton Haight's 
 
 train. He was ordained a member of the Sixth 
 Quorum of Seventies and later one of the Seven 
 Presidents of the Seventieth Quorum of 
 Seventies at Bountiful. He also served as Sec- 
 ond Counselor to Bishop Joseph H. Grant of 
 Bountiful for a number of years, and then, in 
 1890, at the time of the dissolution of the Bishop- 
 ric, he went to Cache valley, where he purchased 
 a farm and resided there for five years, when he 
 again returned to his home in Davis county. On 
 March 19, 1900, he was ordained a Patriarch, 
 which position he holds at the present time. His 
 oldest son, Israel, was called on a mission in 1886 
 to the southern States, where he labored prin- 
 cipally in Mississippi. John Y. went on a mission 
 to the eastern States in August, 1895, laboring 
 in Pennsylvania, Western Virginia and Ohio for 
 a period of two years. For the past two years 
 he has been President of the Young Men's Mut- 
 ual Improvement Association of Emery Stake. 
 
 OHX D. CAMPBELL HAMILTON. 
 The most important branch of industry 
 in the building up of a State and in mak- 
 ing a State prosperous, is unquestion- 
 ably agriculture, and for its prosecution 
 is required not only ability, but untiring appli- 
 cation and industry. These qualities the pioneers 
 who came out in the early fifties have clearly dis- 
 played by the successful management of the 
 farms which they located and cultivated, and by 
 the making of prosperous farms from a barren 
 wilderness. Prominent among these people was 
 the Hamilton family, who came to Utah in 1852. 
 They settled in the vicinity of Salt Lake City, 
 and by the untiring industry which they displayed 
 have won for themselves a high place in the an- 
 nals of L'tah. 
 
 Our subject was born in Canada, in 1844. He 
 was a son of James L. and Mary Ann (Camp- 
 bell) Hamilton. His father was born in Ireland 
 and his mother in Canada. Mr. Hamilton emi- 
 grated to America and settled in Canada, later 
 coming to the United States in 1846, with the 
 Park and Gardner families, and settled in Mis- 
 souri, where they spent the winter of 1847. They 
 had become converts to the teachingfs of the Mor- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 mon Church before their arrival in the United 
 States, and journeyed west to join the headquar- 
 ters of the Church in Missouri. They remained 
 in that State until 1852, when they came to Utah 
 in a wagon train under command of Captain Rob- 
 ert Wimmer, arriving in Salt Lake City October 
 6th of that year. They did not tarry in Salt Lake 
 City, but moved at once to the Mill Creek Ward, 
 where our subject has ever since resided. The 
 Hamilton family is a prominent one in the affairs 
 of the Mormon Church and a brother of our sub- 
 ject, James C. Hamilton, is a Bishop in the 
 Church. 
 
 Our subject was married on August 18, 1866, 
 in Utah, to Miss Maria Seaburn Nott, daugh- 
 ter of Thomas Henry and Maria Nott. She was 
 born in England and came to this country and 
 settled here with her parents at an early age, her 
 family being among the early pioneers to this 
 State. By this marriage our subject has had six 
 children, four of whom are still alive. They are : 
 James N., who died at the age of eighteen 
 months ; Florence M., who died when she was 
 five years old ; Reuben S., at present residing in 
 Riverton, Utah ; Thomas M., at present absent on 
 a mission for the Church in Kansas City and 
 western Missouri; John F., Launcelot R., and in 
 their family is also an adopted daughter, Ida 
 Ethel. Mr. Hamilton resides in Mill Creek, on 
 Ninth East, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth 
 South streets, where he has a handsome frame 
 and brick house on a homestead site of thirty 
 acres of land. He is occupied in agricultural 
 pursuits and deals in grain and hay. 
 
 In political affairs he is a believer in the Dem- 
 ocratic principles, but has never been an appli- 
 cant for public office. He is a devoted member 
 of the Church of his choice, which he joined at 
 the age of seven years, and his wife and children 
 are also members of the Mormon Church. Three 
 of his sons have served on missions and his son 
 Reuben served two years in central Texas, and 
 in the Austin Conference. John F. served in 
 Kentucky on a similar work for twenty-seven 
 months, and Thomas M. is now absent in Mis- 
 souri, where he has been for the past year, act- 
 nig as President of the Missouri Conference. 
 This son is also a teacher in the Sundav School 
 
 and is the presiding Ward teacher. The adopted 
 daughter, Ida Ethel, is a member of the Young 
 Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. The 
 entire family of children have had the advantage 
 of a good education and the Hamilton family is 
 one of the most respected in their community. 
 Their adopted daughter, Ida Ethel, is a general 
 favorite with all the people and is a highly ac- 
 complished young lady. Mr. Hamilton has made 
 for himself a prominent place in the agricultural 
 life of Utah and enjoys a wide popularity 
 throughout the entire community and has the 
 trust and confidence of the leaders of his Church. 
 He participated in almost all the hardships and 
 trials of the early days, taking part in the Black 
 Hawk war of 1866, and bore his full share of 
 the burden in bringing order out of chaos. 
 
 OHN ELLISON has always been con- 
 sidered one of the piers in the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as 
 well as one of the substantial farmers 
 and stockmen of Davis county. He has 
 taken a very active part in transforming his 
 county from a desolate and barren waste to its 
 present splendid condition. 
 
 He was born in Lancashire, England, May 23, 
 1 81 8, and is the son of Matthew and Jennie (Wil- 
 son) Ellison, both natives of England. Our sub- 
 ject grew to manhood in England, where he re- 
 ceived his education, and there learned the trade 
 of pressman. He emigrated to America in 1841. 
 settling in Nauvoo, where his parents joined 
 him in 1843, and where they both died. He left 
 Nauvoo in 1846, going to Saint Louis, where for 
 six years he was pressman for the Union Print- 
 ing Company. He crossed the plains in company 
 with Captain Howe in 1852 and remained in Salt 
 Lake City until the fall of the following year, 
 when he removed to Kaysville and located a piece 
 of land, on which he built a home, and has since 
 lived there. His first house was built of logs, 
 which was replaced in 1864 by an adobe building. 
 Mr. Ellison married in England before coming 
 to America, to Miss Alice Pilling, and they have 
 had born to them eleven children, of whom four 
 boys and three girls are still living. They are: 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 407 
 
 Margaret, John A, deceased; David S., deceased; 
 :^phraim P., Mathew T., Susanna E., Elija E., 
 Mary A., Sarah A., dead; Joseph H. and ElHson. 
 All of his children have married and he has had 
 seventy-five grand-children, of whom fifty- 
 seven are now living. Mr. Ellison was the hus- 
 band of four wives, three of them being now 
 dead. His present wife is Grace (Crawford) El- 
 lison. A number of his grandsons have been 
 called on missions, and some of them are now 
 absent on missionary work for the Mormon 
 Church. All the family are members of this 
 Church, our subject having been baptized Jan- 
 uary 6, 1838, in England, by Joseph Fielding 
 Smith. His son Joseph has served on a mission 
 to Canada. Mr. Ellison was for sixteen years 
 Assistant Superintendent of the Stake Sunday 
 Schools, and spent the most of his time traveling 
 from one Stake to another, in the interest of 
 Sunday School work. During the time he was in 
 Saint Louis he was Counselor to the Bishop at 
 that place. 
 
 Mr. Ellison has had a very successful career 
 since coming to Utah, his success being entirely 
 due to his own indominitable energy and to the 
 fact that he has always persevered in every under- 
 taking, allowing no obstacles to thwart his pur- 
 pose. He has been an upright, honorable man at 
 all times and is today one of the substantial men 
 of his county. He has been prominently inter- 
 ested in cattle and sheep and has assisted his 
 sons in getting a start, and they are among the 
 large cattle owners of Davis county at this time. 
 
 
 OCTOR THOMAS ALFRED CLAW- 
 SON is a native son of Utah and 
 among its most prominent self-made 
 men. Nearly his whole life has been 
 spent in this State and by his honora- 
 ble and straightforward manner in business, pro- 
 fessional and private life, he has won a host 
 of admirers. 
 
 He was born in this city on October 19. 1862, 
 and is a son of Bishop Hyrum B. and Margaret 
 Gay (Judd) Clawson. The Clawson family are 
 among the most prominent and well known peo- 
 ple in L^tah ; the sons taking rank with the 
 
 leading artists and professional men of this in- 
 ter-mountain region. A complete biographical 
 sketch of Bishop Hyrum B. Clawson will be 
 found elsewhere in this work. Our subject's 
 mother was a native of Upper Canada and was 
 born in the Province of Ontario, and was the 
 daughter of Thomas A. and Theresa (Hastings) 
 Judd. The Judd family came to Utah in 1849, 
 and camped in their wagon box on the site where 
 the Kenyon Hotel now stands for a few weeks, 
 after which they were fortunate enough to get 
 one small room in the home of William Brown, 
 on the corner of First South and Second West 
 streets. This wagon box was made of black wal- 
 nut, and was preserved by the family. In 1899, 
 at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of 
 their coming to Utah, ;Mrs. Clawson presented 
 each of her children with a small cabinet, suitably 
 engraved, made from this box. She was the 
 mother of four sons — Dr. Stanley H Clawson, of 
 this city; Apostle Rudger Clawson; Sidney B. 
 Clawson, and our subject. 
 
 Dr. T. A. Clawson was the fourth son, and 
 was born in the old house, built in 1853 by Presi- 
 dent Lorenzo Snow, which now stands as a land- 
 mark, opposite the Cathedral, at the corner of 
 Third East and East South Temple streets. He 
 grew up in this city, and received his education 
 at the public schools and at the private schools 
 conducted by Mrs. Pratt and Mrs. Watmough. 
 He began life at an early age, being first em- 
 ployed as a call boy in the Salt Lake Theatre. 
 He later became cash boy in the Zion Co-opera- 
 tive Mercantile Institution, and also worked for 
 a time in the drug department of the institution, 
 and it was while here that he decided upon his 
 life work, and in 1878 began an apprenticeship 
 under his brother, Stanley H., who was practic- 
 ing dentistry in the city at that time. He re- 
 mained with his brother until 1884, taking a 
 course of three years at the University of Deseret, 
 now the University of Utah, during that time. 
 He was for a short time associated with Dr. L. 
 Berg in Brigham City and Logan, and upon his 
 return to the city again entered his brother's of- 
 fice, remaining there a year, at the end of which 
 time he entered the New York College of Den- 
 tistry, and graduated with honors in March, 1887, 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 coming home to practice during the summer 
 months, and thus earning the means to carry him 
 througli school. He received the second high- 
 est average in his class, and was one of four in 
 the class to receive honorable mention. Upon 
 returning home he entered into partnership with 
 his brother, which continued two years, when our 
 subject again returned to New York and took a 
 special course in crown and bridge work under 
 Dr. Robinson. He purchased his brother's inter- 
 est in the spring of 1889, and conducted the busi- 
 ness alone, employing his brother and Dr. W. 
 S. Depew of New York as his assistants, be- 
 sides having two other assistants. He acquired 
 a large and lucrative business, and was enabled 
 to pay off all the debts he had been compelled 
 to contract. 
 
 In March, 1891, he was called to go on a mis- 
 sion to Great Britain, and, together with his 
 brother Sidney B., was set apart under the hands 
 of President Woodruff and George Q. Cannon. 
 He left his business in care of Drs. J. Fred Sne- 
 deker and C. W. Gates, and on May 19, 1891, 
 sailed in company with his brother. Upon ar- 
 riving in Liverpool they were ordered to proceed 
 to London, but before entering upon his mission- 
 ary work Dr. Clawson visited his brother John 
 W., who was studying art in Paris. Upon reach- 
 ing London he was assigned to work in Brighton, 
 in Sussex, his brother being sent to Luton, in Bed- 
 fordshire. In the spring of 1892 our subject was 
 assigned to Finsbury District, in the north of 
 London, where he held over forty meetings in a 
 month and distributed about fifty thousand tracts. 
 He was then called to preside over the London 
 Conference, succeeding George Osmond, remain- 
 ing there until May 5, 1893, when he left Lon- 
 don, in company with his brother, for a trip 
 through Scotland and Ireland, and on the 22d 
 of that month sailed for New York, where they 
 were met by their mother, wives and aunt. The 
 party made a tour of the Eastern cities, taking in 
 the World's Fair at Chicago, and reached home 
 on June 30th, 1893. His business having been 
 run at a loss during his absence, he had ordered 
 the office closed, and upon reaching home opened 
 an office in the Hooper building, remaining there 
 until 1895, when he purchased his present home, 
 
 at No. 20 North State street, and moved his of- 
 fice to his home. 
 
 Dr. Clawson was married April 30, 1891, just 
 prior to his departure for Europe, to Miss Eliza- 
 beth Groesbeck, daughter of William and Eleanor 
 (Pack) Groesbeck, and by this marriage he has 
 four children — Eleanor, aged eight; Alfred, 
 aged five; Virginia, aged three, and Florence, 
 the baby. 
 
 Dr. Clawson has always been an ardent believer 
 in the principles and teachings of the Mormon 
 Church, being especially attracted by the tithing 
 system from his childhood, and ascribes his suc- 
 cess in life to the fact that he has always been 
 conscientious and faithful in the matter of tithing 
 paying. He has always been an active worker 
 in the Church, and has held numerous offices in 
 it. He passed through a very severe illness when 
 a child of thirteen years, and his life being de- 
 spaired of, was ordained an Elder by Robert Nel- 
 son. Since then he has been ordained a Seventy 
 by President B. H. Roberts, and became a mem- 
 ber of the One Hundred and Fifth Quorum. He 
 was later a member of the Thirteenth Quorum, 
 and still later a member of the One Hundred and 
 Twenty-fourth Quorum, of which he was a Presi- 
 dent. On March 12 ,1901, he was ordained a 
 High Priest by President Angus M. Cannon, and 
 set apart as a member of the High Council of 
 the Salt Lake Stake. He was at one time Presi- 
 dent of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement 
 Association of the Eighth Ward and a member 
 of the Programme Committee of the Sugar House 
 Ward. He has also been active in the work of 
 the Sunday Schools of the Wards in which he has 
 lived, and is at this time in charge of the theo- 
 logical department of the Sunday School Union 
 of Salt Lake Stake, and assistant to Superintend- 
 ent James W. Saville of the Eighteenth Ward, 
 and an aid to Superintendent George A. Smith 
 of the Stake Superintendency of the Young Men's 
 Mutual Improvement Association. 
 
 In 1897 Dr. Clawson formed a partnership 
 with Drs. Julian E. Young and Ezra O. Tay- 
 lor, in the Templeton Block, where they have 
 since built up a lucrative practice. In September, 
 1901, he purchased the business of the Utah State 
 Dental Supply House from his brother, Stanley 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 409 
 
 li., and has since conducted it under the name of 
 The State Dental Supply Depot, doing a whole- 
 sale and retail trade. He is a member of the 
 Utah Dental Association. Dr. Clawson has also 
 become interested in mining- to a certain ex- 
 tent, and is a Director in the Victor Gold and 
 Silver Mining Company, whose properties are 
 at Eureka. 
 
 TIARLES L. ANDERSON. Success 
 IS determined by one's own ability to 
 recognize opportunities and to pursue 
 ;his with a resolute and unflagging 
 energy. It results from continued ef- 
 fort, and the man who thus accomplishes his pur- 
 pose usually becomes an important factor in. the 
 business circles of the community with which he 
 is connected. Mr. Anderson, through such means, 
 has obtained a leading place among the repre- 
 sentative citizens of Tooele county, and to-day 
 is recognized by all as the wealthiest man in his 
 county. 
 
 Charles L. Anderson was born on a farm in 
 Northern Sweden April 11, 1846, and is the son 
 of Andrus and Kasja Anderson, a sketch of 
 whom appears in the biographical sketch of Gus- 
 tave Anderson, a brother of our subject. Charles 
 L. Anderson was the fifth son in a family of eight 
 children, and has three brothers living in this 
 place. He obtained his education in this locality, 
 and started on his life's career early in life, doing 
 freighting for a time, and made three trips to 
 the Missouri river for emigrants. He began as 
 a sheep man in i86g, when he took one hundred 
 and forty head of old sheep on shares. From this 
 unpropitious beginning his interests have grown 
 and his business expanded until to-day he is one 
 of the most prominent and the wealthiest man 
 in his county, owning vast herds of sheep, which 
 he ranges in Wyoming principally, and being also 
 a heavy land owner in Tooele county. He owns 
 a farm of six hundred acres in the vicinity of 
 Grantsville, on which he has erected a beautiful 
 modern home, and has it well stocked, building 
 large and commodious barns and outbuildings for 
 his stock. Although Mr. Anderson is noted prin- 
 cipally for his large holdings in sheep, he has 
 
 not given his entire time to this industry, but is 
 prominent in the business life of the State at 
 large, especially in mining, in which he has ex- 
 tensive holdings. He was the organizer and prin- 
 cipal promoter of the famous Clara Copper Mill- 
 ing and Mining Company, in Grand county, Utah, 
 which owns the Gardner Mill, Mr. Gardner be- 
 ing interested in this property, of which Mr. W. 
 C. Tracy of Salt Lake City is President and our 
 subject Vice-President. This company is now 
 making active preparations to begin work on 
 their claims. Aside from these mines Mr. Ander- 
 son is interested in a group of mines in the Park 
 Valley, and also in the Sumpter District, in the 
 vicinity of Baker City, Oregon, situated at Sump- 
 ter Terminus, which gives promise of becoming 
 one of the richest mining districts of the State. 
 In local affairs our subject is President of the Co- 
 operative Store at Grantsville, in which he is also 
 a Director; Vice-President of the North Willow 
 Irrigation Company, and a Director in the Rich- 
 ville Milling Company. 
 
 Mr. Anderson was married in 1866 to Miss 
 Ellen O. Okelberry, daughter of Martin and 
 Christy Okelberry, and by this marriage they 
 have had three sons and three daughters — Charles 
 L., Junior, is a graduate of the Brigham Young 
 College of Provo, and is at this time absent on 
 a mission for the Mormon Church in Sweden ; 
 John A., is a professor of music in Salt Lake 
 City ; he spent six years in Germany and Austria, 
 perfecting his musical education, and stvidied un- 
 der the great teacher Leschetizky ; he is also a 
 graduate of the Brigham Young Academy. Ellen 
 M., is the wife of E. W. Early, at this time con- 
 ducting a large and successful brokerage busi- 
 ness in New York City. Mr. Early is a highly 
 educated man ; he is at this time President of the 
 Red Boy Milling and Mining Company of Ogden. 
 Hortense makes her home in New York City 
 with her sister ; Beatrice at home, studying music 
 under her brother; Czeny, the youngest child, is 
 still at home. 
 
 In political life Mr. Anderson owes allegiance 
 to the Republican party, and has displayed the 
 same zeal in the work of that organization as he 
 has in his business life. He has for a number of 
 years been a member of the City Council; is a 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 member of the Educational Board of his State, 
 and was for two terms Mayor of the city. Be- 
 sides these minor offices, he represented the peo- 
 ple of Tooele county for two terms in the Legisla- 
 ture. In Church circles he has been First Coun- 
 sel to the President of the Tooele Stake of Zion 
 for the past twenty years. He was called by the 
 heads of the Church to go on a mission to Swe- 
 den in 1878, where he labored for two years to 
 the entire satisfaction of his superiors, and dur- 
 ing that time visited the whole of his native coun- 
 try. He began at that time to assist his poorer 
 countrymen who had been converted to the teach- 
 ings of the Mormon Church to come to Utah, 
 and has continued this benevolence ever since, 
 having brought dozens of Swedish families to this 
 country. His kindly, genial nature is best attested 
 to by the fact of his having had one man, Arthur 
 Bates, in his employ for eighteen years. He is 
 the soul of hospitality and good-fellowship, and 
 no man is more popular or enjoys a wider circle 
 of friends and admirers than does Charles L. 
 Anderson. 
 
 R. WILLIAM TENNEY CANNON. 
 In tracing the career of the successful 
 physician it is usually found that he 
 possesses certain marked characteris- 
 tics, in addition to a thorough knowl- 
 edge of medicine, and good financial ability. 
 There must be a readiness to sympathize and a 
 power of entering into the feelings of others, 
 united to that self-poise and conscious strength 
 which naturally emanates from a strong, self- 
 reliant soul. Dr. Cannon is fortunate in being 
 gifted with many of the qualities of the success- 
 ful physician, and his cheery, helpful optimism 
 is a source of hope and comfort in many a home 
 shadowed by sickness and suffering. 
 
 Dr. Cannon is the son of the late President 
 George O. Cannon, and was born in this city 
 September 5, 1870. He spent his early life here, 
 and was educated in the common schools of this 
 place, and later attended the Brigham Young 
 Academy at Provo. He began life for himself 
 in 1889, in the life insurance business, which he 
 successfully followed until 1895, during which 
 
 time he was also associated with his father in the 
 publishing house of George Q. Cannon & Sons, 
 Company, taking an active part in the manage- 
 ment of that large institution. 
 
 In 1895 he entered JeiTerson Medical College, 
 Philadelphia, and completed his studies at the 
 Medical Collegiate Institute in 1899. As a stu- 
 dent he was associated with Dr. J. Chalmers 
 De Costa, of Philadelphia, as his assistant, thus 
 having the advantage of practical work during 
 his college days, which has availed him much 
 in later years. After his graduation he came 
 direct to Utah, and entered upon the practice 
 of his profession at Brigham City, where he re- 
 mained a short time, when he was sent on a 
 mission for the Mormon Church to Europe, and 
 while there took a course of study at Bevier Hos- 
 pital, Belgium, where he studied thirteen months, 
 taking up the study of g}-necology and patholog- 
 ical surgery. He then went to Paris, and de- 
 voted his entire time to study at the Paris Uni- 
 versity for four months. In April, 1901, he re- 
 turned to Salt Lake City and began the practice 
 of his profession, and to-day enjoys a very re- 
 munerative practice, devoting his entire time to 
 study and the practice of his profession. 
 
 In 1892 he married Miss Ada Young Croxall, 
 a native of this city, and a granddaughter of 
 President Brigham Young. They have three 
 children. Dr. Cannon was born and raised a 
 Mormon, and comes of one of the oldest and 
 most prominent families in the Church, a his- 
 tory of the family at length appearing in the 
 sketch of his father. President George O. Can- 
 non, which appears elsewhere in this work. He 
 is active in Church matters, and is at this time 
 an Elder in the Church. 
 
 ENS HANSEN was born in the village 
 of Gjerslov, Holbeck county, Denmark, 
 March 15, 1837. He is the son of Hans 
 and Margaret (Christensen) Hansen, 
 both natives of the same part of that 
 country. His father died in his native land, 
 and his mother came to America with her son 
 and died in Salt Lake county in 1885. 
 
 Our subject was among the early emigrants 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 411 
 
 to come to Utah, and became converted to the 
 teachings of the Mormon Church in his native 
 land. He left Denmark in December, 1862, and 
 arrived in New York City in that year, where he 
 stayed but one day. He then came by railroad 
 to Saint Louis, Missouri, then by the Mississippi 
 river to Hannibal, and from there by rail to Saint 
 Joseph, then by river to Florence, formerly known 
 as Winter Quarters, where the members of the 
 Church took refuge after their expulsion from 
 Nauvoo. At Florence he prepared for the long 
 and arduous trip across the plains, and arrived 
 in Salt Lake City on September 22nd of the same 
 year. The wagon train was under the command 
 of Captain Lillienquist, and was composed of 
 forty wagons, each wagon being equipped with 
 two or three yoke of oxen. This was an inde- 
 pendent train, but the members of it belonged to 
 the Mormon Church. Mr. Hansen has taken a 
 very actitve part in the development of Salt Lake 
 county, and upon his arrival in Salt Lake City 
 engaged as a miller for four and a half years, 
 being employed by President Kimball, and at the 
 expiration of that time he bought his present 
 home, at the corner of Thirteenth South street, 
 on the County Road, where he moved in 1867, 
 He had been a miller in Denmark, and success- 
 fully carried on that business upon his arrival in 
 Utah. He bought forty acres of land, which at 
 that time was practically a desert. He has cul- 
 tivated the land successfully, and now has erected 
 on it a good adobe house. Two of his sons have 
 also built houses on their father's place, and there 
 is now on the original homstead four brick resi- 
 dences and a good orchard, which is well cared 
 for. 
 
 Mr. Hansen married, on March 24, 1862, in 
 Denmark, to Miss Birthe Jorgensen, who was 
 born and reared in the county of Fredericksburg, 
 Denmark, and by this marriage they had seven 
 children, six of whom are now living. They are : 
 Josephine ; Margaret ; Jens, Junior ; Anna C, who 
 died at the age of nine; nliza ; Sarah, and Leah. 
 Mr. Hansen married his second wife, Kirsten 
 Hendricksen, and the issue of this marriage was 
 four children — Joseph ; Christina ; Mary, and 
 Zina. 
 
 In political life Mr. Hansen is independent, 
 
 preferring to exercise his own judgment as to 
 the fitness of a man for the office, rather than 
 the dictates of a party. He is a member of the 
 Mormon Church, having joined it on April 5, 
 1857, and he soon became an earnest worker in 
 the cause of the unpopular faith, and traveled 
 as missionary for more than four years before 
 leaving his native land, and was instrumental in 
 bringing a number of representative people to a 
 belief in his teachings, many of whom also emi- 
 grated to Utah, and did much by way of assist- 
 ing to build up this great State, and has been one 
 of its staunchest members ever since. His family 
 are also members of that Church. He has taken 
 an active part in the work of the Church, and 
 spent two years in the missionary field, one year 
 of which was spent in the Northwestern States 
 and the rest of the time in Denmark. His son 
 Joseph has served as a missionary in the north- 
 western portion of the United States, and Jens 
 has also performed the same service in the South- 
 western States. Our subject was ordained a 
 Seventy, and is one of the Seven Presidents of 
 that organization in the Church, which position 
 he has held for over twenty years. He was made 
 Second Counselor to Bishop Hamilton of Mill 
 Creek Ward March 29, 1884, and has served in 
 that capacity for sixteen and a half years. He 
 has also held several of the minor positions in the 
 Church, and has participated actively in all of its 
 work. He is a staunch believer in the doctrines of 
 the Mormon Church, and on account of his plural 
 marriages was one of the members of this Church 
 who were arrested, tried and convicted for viola- 
 tion of the Edmunds-Tucker Act, and served 
 seven months in the penitentiary for violation of 
 that law. He is a broad-minded man, and has 
 taught his children the necessity of being broad 
 and generous in their religious and political life. 
 He is one of the staunch men of his community, 
 and by his work in the Church has won for him- 
 self the confidence and trust of its leaders. 
 
 He is essentially a self-made man, and has 
 made his own way through life in spite of all 
 discouraging circumstances, and is now a well- 
 to-do resident of his Ward, and enjoys the con- 
 fidence and esteem of all his neighbors. His 
 wife was made a member of the Church in Den- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 mark. All his children have been reared in that 
 faith, and he is regarded as one of the staunch 
 and valued members of that Church. The arduous 
 life which he has led, the struggles through which 
 he has passed, and the triumphant close to which 
 he has brought his career, marks him as one of 
 the ablest pioneers who undertook the subjuga- 
 tirn of the barren lands and made Utah one of 
 the most prosperous of the Western States. 
 
 YRUM STEWART, one of the most 
 prosperous and influential business men 
 of this city, was born here, and his en- 
 tire life has been spent within the con- 
 fines of this State. His people came 
 to Utah from England among the earliest set- 
 tlers, and here made their home. They had a 
 family of five children, of whom our subject was 
 the oldest. He was born in Kaysville December 
 22, 1851, and is the son of William and Alary 
 Ann (Marriott) Stewart. His boyhood days 
 were spent in this place, and here he obtained his 
 early education from the common schools then 
 existing. He left school to accept a position as 
 first clerk in the Kaysville Co-operative Store, 
 and after two years went to Sah Lake City, where 
 he took a two years' course in the Morgan Busi- 
 ness College. He returned to Kaysville and took 
 charge of the Kaysville Co-operative Store dur- 
 ino" the absence of the manager, who was on a 
 tour in England. 
 
 Upon the return of Mr. Barnes from England, 
 Mr. Stewart went to Salt Lake City, where he 
 was for some years employed by the Zion Co- 
 operative Mercantile Institution and other large 
 mercantile establishments in the capacity of clerk 
 and bookkeeper. In March, 1879, he and his 
 brother bought out the mercantile business in 
 Kaysville established by Christopher Layton. The 
 brother died in December of that year, and the 
 following year he took in Mr. C. S. Tingey as 
 a partner. This firm did a very successful busi- 
 ness from the start, and continued until 1884, at 
 which time our subject bought out the interests 
 of his partner, and has since conducted the busi- 
 ness alone. He began in a small way, and by 
 dint of hard work, honorable business methods 
 
 and close attention to business has built up one 
 of the most solid and prosperous mercantile estab- 
 lishments in this city. 
 
 Mt. Stewart has not confined his attention en- 
 tirely to business life, but has invested largely in 
 real estate in this city and county, and at this 
 time he owns a number of fine farms in Davis 
 county, and has an interest in a large ranch, also 
 having a large amount of live stock. He is a 
 Director in the canning company, and was the 
 originator of the first creamery established in 
 Kaysville. In fact, there is scarcely an enter- 
 prise of any importance in this place with which 
 he has not been associated or given his influence 
 in some measure. 
 
 Our subject was married, on October 30, 1881, 
 in Kaysville, to Miss Cynthia A. Hyde, a resident 
 of Xephi. Five children have been born to them 
 —Mary E., Luella T., Douglass H., Hyrum J. 
 and Cleveland H. 
 
 In political life he is a member of the Demo- 
 cratic party, and has, since its organization in 
 Utah, taken an active part in all its work and 
 filled a number of important offices in both the 
 city and county. For eight years he served the 
 city of Kaysville as its Mayor, and in 1897 was 
 elected to represent his county in the State Legis- 
 lature. Aside from these offices he has also been 
 Justice of the Peace, City Councilman, and for 
 a number of years was on the Board of School 
 Trustees, and was postmaster ®f Kaysville from 
 1879 to 1 89 1, having been appointed during Pres- 
 ident Hayes' administration. 
 
 He is a staunch member of the INIormon 
 Church, in whose doctrines he has been reared 
 from birth, and has brought his children up in 
 that belief. When about seventeen years of age 
 he went with a train to meet emigrants at Lara- 
 mie, Wyoming, and there saw his first railroad 
 train. Since then he has taken an active part 
 in all Church work, and filled a number of offices, 
 being at this time one of the Seven Presidents 
 of the Fifty-fifth Quorum of Seventies. 
 
 j\lr. Stewart began life at an early age, and 
 has since then been wholly dependent upon his 
 own exertions for his living. He has steadily 
 climbed the ladder of success, and is to-day one 
 of the public-spirited and liberal-minded men of 
 
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 his city, honored among business men for his 
 strict integrity, and commanding the respect and 
 esteem of all with whom he has been associated 
 throughout a long and eventful life. 
 
 EORGE HAMILTON TAYLOR. The 
 life of a truly successful man cannot 
 help but lend inspiration to the young 
 and rising generation. The obstacles 
 which he has overcome, the difficulties 
 surmounted, not only makes the man himself 
 stronger and better, but it serves to inspire con- 
 fidence and courage in those who study his his- 
 tory and career. Among the successful self-made 
 men, who by perseverance and indomitable will 
 power have year by year paved the way for a 
 successful career, is George H. Taylor, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. 
 
 Bishop Taylor is a native of New Jersey, and 
 was born at Mount Clair, Essex county, Novem- 
 ber 4, 1829. The Taylor family had lived in New 
 Jersey for many generations, our subject's grand- 
 father beins: a soldier in the War of 1812. He was 
 born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1759, and died 
 at an advanced age. His son was Samuel Tay- 
 lor, father of our subject, who was born in Mount 
 Clair in 1800, spending all his life there and dying 
 in 1875. He was a master builder by profession. 
 Our subject's mother was also born in New Jer- 
 sey. She was Lydia (Osborn) Taylor, and her 
 ancestors were early settlers of Long Island. Her 
 mother was a Baldwin, and descendant of the 
 famous Baldwin family which dates back for 
 seven generations in this country, coming orig- 
 inally from England, and being the first settlers 
 in Hadley, Massachusetts. 
 
 Our subject was the second son of the family, 
 and was reared in New Jersey, receiving but a 
 limited education. When a mere boy he learned 
 the calico engraver's trade at Haverstrow Mill. 
 At the age of nineteen he became a member of 
 the Mormon Church at Haverstrow, New York, 
 and was baptized by Elder John Druce on Sep- 
 tember 22, 1849, ^"d fo'' the next ten years fol- 
 lowed his trade and assisted Elder Druce in the 
 small church in Haverstrow. 
 
 In 1859 he came to Utah by way of Saint 
 
 Joseph, Missouri, going from thence by boat to 
 Omaha, and started across the plains from Flor- 
 ence on June 26th of that year. He came with 
 an ox train of sixty-four wagons, under command 
 of Edward Stephenson, reaching the Salt Lake 
 Valley September i6th. Here he soon found em- 
 ployment in the saw mill in Big Cottonwood Can- 
 yon. In 1864 he became associated with Mr. Lat- 
 timer, and together they borrowed five thousand 
 dollars, paying five per cent per month for three 
 thousand and three per cent per month for the 
 remainder. They sent East and bought wood- 
 work machinery, which they freighted over the 
 plains at a cost of twenty cents a pound, and set 
 up a mill in the Eighth Ward. They made all 
 kinds of building materials, and paid off nearly 
 all of their indebtedness, and when they had run 
 about a year the mill was destroyed by fire and 
 they lost everything. They then collected the 
 remnants of the machinery together and formed 
 a partnership with Fulsom & Romney, and estab- 
 lished the firm of Taylor, Romney, Armstrong 
 Company, which is the oldest lumber mill in the 
 city. In 1881, at the death of Mr. Lattimer, the 
 company was reorganized, and Mr. Taylor became 
 President, which office he still occupies. He is 
 also a Director in the Utah Sugar Company. 
 
 In 1855 he was married to Aliss Elmina Shep- 
 herd, of New York, who is still his companion, 
 and she is now President of the Young Women's 
 Mutual Improvement Association in all the world, 
 and has foe twenty years been Secretary of the 
 Fourteenth Ward Relief Society. In these ca- 
 pacities she has attended the National Women's 
 Councils in Chicago and Washington. Mr. Tay- 
 lor has also had two other wives, and been the 
 father of fourteen children, of whom eleven are 
 still living. His sons, George S. and Clarence 
 W., served on a two and a half years' mission 
 to New Zealand, where they mastered the lan- 
 guage of that countrj-. 
 
 Mr. Taylor was ordained a member of the 
 Seventies in 1859, and in 1876 ordained a High 
 Priest and set apart as Counselor to Bishop 
 Thomas Taylor of the Fourteenth Ward, whom 
 he succeeded in 1886. He has also been active 
 in Sunday School work, and for several years was 
 Superintendent of the Schools in his Ward. He 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 is a Trustee of the Latter Day Saints University, 
 and in 1879 was called on a mission to Europe, 
 where he presided over the London Conference 
 for two years. He has worked in the Temple 
 for the past four years, and is a prominent man 
 in Church circles. 
 
 Throughout a long and successful life Bishop 
 Taylor has been a man of high business ability, 
 honest, upright, and has tried to give every mat? 
 his due. He has done much towards the upbuild- 
 ing of Salt Lake City, and it to-day one of its 
 staunch business men, and stands high, not only 
 in the esteem of the leaders of his Church, but in 
 the business world, and in private life numbers 
 his friends bv the score. 
 
 R. FRED STAUFFER. During the 
 few years which mark the period of 
 Stauffer's professional career he 
 
 Dr. 
 
 has met with gratifying success, and 
 while he has but recently taken up his 
 residence in Salt Lake City, he is no stranger in 
 Utah, nor to the people of Salt Lake, being a 
 Utahn by birth and spending the greater part of 
 his life within the confines of this State. 
 
 He is the son of John Stauffer, a native of 
 Switzerland, who came to the L^nited States in 
 the early fifties, coming direct to Utah. He set- 
 tled in Salt Lake City, where he remained until 
 about i860, when he moved, with his family, to 
 Willard, this State, being one of the very first 
 to settle there and to take up Government land. 
 Here he spent the rest of his life as a farmer, 
 doing much towards supporting, building up and 
 impioving that portion of the State. He was an 
 Elder in the Mormon Church, which position he 
 held at the time of his death in 1873. His wife, 
 Elizabeth (Neussli) Staufifer, was also a native 
 of Switzerland. She came to Utah in the early 
 days, and was married to Mr. Stauffer in Utah. 
 She died in 1872, leaving a family of four chil- 
 dren, of whom our subject was the second child. 
 He was born at Willard, October 24, 1866, and 
 was left an orphan at the age of seven years, 
 since which time he has been compelled to make 
 his own way in life. At the age of thirteen he 
 went to Idaho, where he worked on farms and 
 
 ranches, attending the district schools whenever 
 possible, saving his small earnings, in the hope 
 of one day being able to secure a better educa- 
 tion. In 1887 he returned to Utah and entered 
 the State University, taking the literary course, 
 after which he was made bookkeeper and ac- 
 countant for one of the well-known wholesale 
 houses of this city. 
 
 In 1 889 he was sent by the heads of the Church 
 on a mission to Turkey, where he remained two 
 years and eight months, spending eight months 
 of that time in Constantinople. He then traveled 
 through Asia Minor, Palestine and Syria, preach- 
 ing the Mormon doctrines to the natives, and for 
 two years of this time was the only missionary of 
 the Mormon Church in the whole of Turkey. In 
 December, 1891, he returned to Utah, and the 
 following January entered the Kentucky School 
 of Medicine, at Louisville, Kentucky, graduating 
 as a physician and surgeon in the class of 1893. 
 He then came to Salt Lake City, where he prac- 
 ticed his profession for eighteen months, at the 
 end of which time he gave up his practice here 
 and removed to Eureka, where he accepted a po- 
 sition as surgeon for the Centennial Eureka and 
 Bullion-Beck Mining Companies. He also be- 
 came interested in mining to some extent, and 
 took an active part in the affairs of Eureka, serv- 
 ing one term as its Mayor. 
 
 In the spring of 1900 he went to Europe, and 
 spent considerable time in study at the Vienna 
 Hospital, where he took special courses to pre- 
 pare himself as an oculist and aurist. He then 
 visited London and Paris, studying the work in 
 the larger European hospitals, and became a 
 specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, throat and 
 nose. He returned to the United States and es- 
 tablished himself in this city in May, 1901, as an 
 oculist and aurist, and has since been very suc- 
 cessful. 
 
 Dr. Stauffer was married, in 1892, to Miss 
 Alary Leaver, daughter of H. S. Leaver, of this 
 city. His residence is No. 208 North State street, 
 where he is surrounded by his wife and two chil- 
 dren. He is quite extensively interested in the 
 early history of this city, and owns several fine 
 residences here. He has also taken a prominent 
 part in the development of the oil industrv in 
 
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 415 
 
 the Green River and Uintah Districts, and is a 
 Director of the Milton Oil and Land Company, 
 which owns forty thousand acres in the Green 
 River District. In Church circles he is an Elder, 
 and takes an active part in all the work of that 
 j^reat institution. In professional life Dr. Stauffer 
 is a member of the Salt Lake Medical Society, 
 the Utah State Medical Society and the Ameri- 
 can Medical ."Xssociation. 
 
 ILLIAM HENRY CORBRIDGE, 
 a well-to-do farmer of Davis county, 
 was born in Lancashire, England, 
 on August 9, 1844. He was a son 
 of Edward and Alice (Parker) Cor- 
 bridge of Lancashire, the oldest of a family of 
 nine children, five of whom grew to maturitv. 
 The family came to America in 1850, and stayed 
 in Saint Louis for two years. In 1852 they 
 crossed the plains with an independent train of 
 nine wagons. They stayed in Salt Lake City 
 but a few months before they moved to Davis 
 county, and here the father died on January 7, 
 1883, and the mother in i8go. 
 
 William was raised at East Bountiful, and 
 owned the farm where he now lives for several 
 years before he married, which was on February 
 14. 1870. His wife was Emma Howard, a daugh- 
 ter of Joseph and Ann (Sheldon) Howard. She 
 was born in Brimingham, England, and came to 
 America with her folks in 1864. Seven of their 
 eleven children are living — Emma A., now Mrs. 
 Birmingham of Wyoming; William E., a Wyom- 
 ing cattle man ; Joseph H., farming in Layton ; 
 John T., now on a mission in the Society Islands ; 
 Caroline E., at school : Samuel R. and Lucinda M. 
 Mr. Corbridge settled at Layton ten years ago. 
 He has a well improved farm of two hundred 
 acres, on which he raises horses. He is well sup- 
 plied with water on his farm, having two fine 
 artesian wells, a reservoir and a fish pond. He is 
 independent politically, voting for the best man, 
 according to his judgment. 
 
 His second son, Joseph, was called on a mis- 
 sion to the Southern States in 1898. and served 
 two years. In 1883 Mr. Corbridge went on a 
 two vears' mission to England, laboring mostly 
 
 in the Birmingham Conference. He is now a 
 High Priest in the Mormon Church. His wife 
 is President of the Ladies' Relief Society of Lay- 
 ton Ward, and his daughters are members of the 
 Young Ladies Mutual Aid Society. Mr. Cor- 
 bridge served in the Black Hawk War under 
 General Wells and Bishop Winder. He went, 
 in 1868, back to Laramie for emigrants, being 
 five or six months on the trip. He was one of 
 the colonizers of Star Valley, Wyoming, and was 
 there for eight years. For three years he was 
 Bishop of Auburn W'ard, in Uintah county. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Corbridge took a second wife, 
 Olive C. Sessions, a daughter of David and 
 Phoebe Sessions. They had six children, five of 
 whom are living — Olive E., now Mrs. W. Rob- 
 erts of Canada ; Phoebe C, now Mrs. H. Layton ; 
 David W., died at the age of eighteen months ; 
 Lawrence C, Isabella and Calvin. 
 
 R. P. S. KEOGH. Years of thorough 
 and painstaking preparation, together 
 with subsequent practical experience, 
 qualified Dr. Keogh to fill a high po- 
 sition in the medical profession and to 
 maintain a deserved reputation for skill and pro- 
 ficiency, and while his residence in Salt Lake City 
 has only been a few years, yet he has become 
 known as one of the most skillful and successful 
 physicians in the city. 
 
 Dr. Keogh was born in Belleville, in the Prov- 
 ince of Ontario, Canada, in 1850, and there spent 
 his early life, obtaining his education in the gram- 
 mar schools and university of that place. He re- 
 ceived his medical training in the Bellevue Med- 
 ical College of New York City, graduating from 
 that institution in 1883, after which he became 
 an interne at the Kings County Hospital, Brook- 
 lyn, New York. From Brooklyn he removed to 
 Omaha, Nebraska, where he entered upon the 
 practice of his profession, and was for four and 
 a half years County Physician of Douglas county. 
 In the formation of the John A. Creighton Med- 
 ical College, which institution he assisted in or- 
 ganizing, he was selected as Dean, and filled that 
 chair from 1893 to 1897, and had the degree of 
 A. M. conferred upon him by that college. He 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 next took a course of eighteen months, working 
 in the laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity, in Baltimore, Maryland, where he completed 
 his studies in surgery and gynecology. 
 
 At the expiration of this time Dr. Keogh came 
 to Salt Lake City, where he again took up the 
 practice of his profession, and became a member 
 of the staff of the Holy Cross Hospital, as gyne- 
 cologist. During this period he founded and 
 opened the Keogh- Wright private hospital, where 
 he has since been one of the physicians and sur- 
 geons.. He served as City Physician of Salt 
 Lake City for two years, and at this time has a 
 membership in the Salt Lake County Medical 
 Association, Utah State and American Medical 
 Associations, the Inter-Mountain Association and 
 the Missouri Valley Association. He has also 
 contributed several original articles for the benefit 
 of the medical societies on microscopical and 
 pathological subjects, and is considered a verv 
 bright man in his profession. 
 
 Dr. Keogh is devoted to his profession, and 
 spends all his spare time in study and research, 
 keeping pace with the advancement made by sci- 
 ence in the line of medicine and surgery, and is 
 to-day in the enjoyment of a wide practice. 
 
 OHX T. FLINDERS is one of the 
 prominent and on-coming young men of 
 Tooele county, at present holding the im- 
 portant position of General Manager of 
 the Grantsville Co-operative Store of 
 Grantsville. He is a native of England, having 
 been born in London September ii, 1870, where 
 he passed the first nineteen years of his life. He 
 received a good education in the schools of Lon- 
 don. He is the son of Thomas and Mary Ann 
 (Tharby) Flinders, both natives of England, and 
 is the oldest of a family of six children, he and 
 his brother Thomas being the only ones to come 
 to this country. 
 
 Mr. Flinders emigrated to America in 1889, 
 and came direct to Utah, working for six months 
 in Salt Lake City, doing whatever he could find 
 to do, and then for two years being in the em- 
 ploy of William Wood & Son. At the end of 
 this time he came to Grantsville, which he has 
 
 since made his home. In Grantsville he began 
 as a teamster, later securing a clerkship, and in 
 1896 was made Manager of the Grantsville Co- 
 operative Store, of which he is Secretary and 
 Treasurer, also owning some stock in the con- 
 cern. He has taken a most prominent and active 
 interest in the industrial affairs of this place, aside 
 from the positions which he holds in the above 
 institution. He is a director in the Richville 
 -Milling Company, and is interested in both the 
 North and South Willow Irrigation Companies ; 
 also Secretary and Treasurer of the Grantsville 
 Creamery, in which he has a large interest. 
 
 Mr. Flinders is a man of family, having been 
 married, March i, 1893, i" this place, to Miss 
 Elizabeth Fawson. They have three children — ■ 
 Mary L., Sarah E. and Samuel A. 
 
 In political life our subject is a member of 
 the Republican party, and under its reign has 
 held the offices of City Treasurer and Deputv 
 Recorder, and during his residence in Grants- 
 ville has been an active worker in its ranks. 
 
 While Mr. Flinders makes his home in Grants- 
 ville, where he owns a beautiful home, he is also 
 the owner of a fine farm of two hundred acres, 
 mostly grazing land, and has a half interest in 
 a large band of sheep in this vicinity. Both he 
 and his wife are staunch adherents of the Mor- 
 mon Church, in whose work they take a foremost 
 part, and Mr. Flinders holds the office of Coun- 
 selor to the President of the Elder's Quorum. 
 In England he was a member of the First Lon- 
 don Royal Engineers, V. B., who went to Africa 
 to take part in the Boer War, and there some of 
 his comrades gave up their lives for their coun- 
 try. Mr. Flinders naturally takes a great interest 
 in any thing pertaining to his old life, but is at 
 heart a thorough American, believing firmlv in 
 the principles of the government of this, his 
 adopted country. 
 
 The success that has attended Air. Flinders' 
 career in this place has been little less than phe- 
 nomenal. Coming to L^tah less than thirteen 
 years ago, he began with scarcely any other cap- 
 ital than the will to do, and these years have 
 proved that success comes to the man who has 
 the courage to go forward with undaunted de- 
 termination and conquer whatever obstacles may 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 present themselves in the patliway that leads to 
 success. He is to-day regarded as one of the 
 wide-awake and aggressive business men of 
 Tooele county, being prominent in business, 
 political, Church and private life, and his life 
 during this time has been above reproach, in 
 whatever capacity. The success that has come 
 to him has been due entirely to himself, and to- 
 day he is in the enjoyment of a wide circle of 
 friends, with a future stretching out before him 
 that is full of promise. 
 
 I' STAY ANDERSON. Among the 
 >uccessful and enterprising citizens of 
 Tooele county, and one who has by 
 perseverance and determination carved 
 out a splendid career for himself and 
 taken a prominent and active part in transform- 
 ing Tooele county from a wild and barren waste 
 to its present prosperous condition, and whose 
 history is closely linked with almost every enter- 
 prise for the building up of his community, Gus- 
 tav Anderson, the subject of this sketch deserves 
 special mention. 
 
 He is the son of Andrus and Kajsa Anderson, 
 both natives of Sweden, where our subject was 
 born January 5, 1850. His parents became con- 
 verts to the teachings of the Mormon Church, 
 and. with the older children, were baptized in 
 their native country, our subject being baptized 
 at the age of eleven years. When he was twelve 
 years of age his parents emigrated, with their 
 family of six children, to America, coming direct 
 to Utah, crossing the plains in the train com- 
 manded by Captain Home in 1862. They at once 
 settled in Grantsville Ward, where they continued 
 to reside until the time of their death. 
 
 Gustav Anderson spent his boj'hood days on 
 his father's farm, and assisted in supporting the 
 family, obtaining but a meagre schooling, but he 
 has always been a close student of nature, as well 
 as a wide reader of books, and has kept abreast 
 of the times. He early began to do for himself, 
 and hired out to herd sheep, following this occu- 
 pation the greater part of his youth. 
 
 He was married, February 22, 1873, to Miss 
 Emily J. Hunter, daughter of Bishop Edward 
 Hunter. Junior, of Grantsville \\'ard, and by this 
 
 marriage has had eight children — Gustav Ed- 
 ward, William H., Emily J., Ethel M., Lewis E., 
 George N., Sarah V. and Mira M. 
 
 In political life our subject is at this time a 
 believer in the principles of the Republican party, 
 having come into this party from the Democratic 
 ranks, being a staunch believer in protection. He 
 has been twice elected Mayor of Grantsville, his 
 first election occurring in 1897, being again elected 
 in 1901. He has also been a member of the City 
 Council for the past fourteen years, and is also 
 identified with a number of local enterprises, own- 
 ing stock in the Richville Milling Company, in 
 v.^hich concern he is one of the Directors, and is 
 clso a Director in the Co-operative Store at this 
 place. Mr. Anderson and his family are active in 
 the work of the Church, Mr. Anderson having 
 filled the offices of both Second and First Coun- 
 selor to the Bishop of his Ward, and from 1882 
 to [884 served on a mission to his native country. 
 His oldest son is at present in Boston, where he 
 has been for the past twenty-seven months la- 
 boring in the interests of the Mormon Church. 
 Mrs. Anderson is President of the Ladies' Relief 
 Society of the Tooele Stake and prominent in the 
 work of that organization. Mr. Anderson has 
 lived in his present place in Grantsville since his 
 marriage, and in addition thereto owns a number 
 of other pieces of land in this county. He has 
 erected a fine house on his home place, and has 
 it well improved with good barns, sheds, fences, 
 etc. Our subject belongs to one of the best-known 
 and most influential families in Tooele county, 
 his brother Charles, a sketch of whom appears 
 elsewhere in this work, being- regarded as the 
 wealthiest man in the county, and Mr. Gustav 
 Anderson is said to be fast following in his 
 brother's footsetps in this respect. 
 
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 K. C. M. BENEDICT. Although com- 
 paratively a young man, and while he 
 has only been practicing his profession 
 in Salt Lake City for a short time, yet 
 by close study and application along 
 ine of his chosen profession, he has won a 
 
 high place in the ranks of the medical fraternity. 
 
 He is a native son of LTtah, having been born 
 
 in vSalt Lake City December 15. 1875, and is the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 son of Dr. Joseph M. Benedict, who came to this 
 city in 1871. Dr. Joseph M. Benedict was born 
 in North Canan, Connecticut, April 29, 1844. In 
 1850 his father, Francis K. Benedict, moved with 
 his family to Freeport, Long Island, where he 
 kept the County Asylum for a number of years. 
 His son, and the father of our subject, was raised 
 at Jamaica, and received his early education at 
 boarding schools. He graduated from the New 
 York University in 1865 with the degree of A. B., 
 and in 1867 with the degree of M. D. He then 
 took a special course and took the Valentine Mott 
 prize medal for dissection. In the fall of the same 
 year he settled in Hoboken, New Jersey, where 
 he practiced for one year, and then moved to 
 Freeport, Long Island, where he remained three 
 years. He came to Salt Lake City on one of the 
 first trips made by the railroad into the city in 
 1871, accompanied by his wife and baby. Here 
 he entered into practice with his brother. Dr. F. 
 Denton Benedict, under the name of Benedict 
 Brothers. They practiced together until the death 
 of Dr. F. Denton Benedict, when our subject's 
 father continued to practice alone up to the time 
 of his death, July 24 ,1896. These two brothers, 
 with Drs. Seymour B. Young and W. F. Ander- 
 son, attended the late President Brigham Young 
 during his last illness. 
 
 During his lifetime Dr. Joseph AI. Benedict 
 was prominent in medical circles in the city. He 
 was one of the founders of the Holy Cross Hos- 
 pital, of which he was physician for a number of 
 years. He was also surgeon for the Denver and 
 Rio Grande Railway for three years. The first 
 organization of the Salt Lake Medical Associa- 
 tion was effected at his home, and he was an active 
 member of this association during the remainder 
 of his life. In 1886 he took a trip to England, 
 Scotland and France, and in 1894, with his son, 
 our subject, made a trip around the world, sail- 
 ing from San Francisco to Japan, China, Singa- 
 pore, Island of Ceylon, India, Red Sea, Suez 
 Canal, Joppa, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Cairo, 
 Italy, Switzerland, France, England, and home 
 by the way of New York City. He also took a 
 very active part in the founding of the Utah In- 
 sane Asvlum, and in that connection visited the 
 asylums of New York and Connecticut, securing 
 
 plans which he submitted to the Board of Trus- 
 tees. He was married, on June 5, 1867, to Miss 
 Sarah E. Pierson, a native of West Field, New 
 Jersey, and a daughter of William J. Pierson, a 
 prominent merchant and real estate owner of that 
 place. By this marriage Dr. Benedict had three 
 children — Mrs. C. S. Cowan, of this city ; Dr. 
 C. M. Benedict, our subject, and Nellie May, who 
 died in infancy. He was a Royal Arch Mason 
 and prominent in fraternal life in Salt Lake City. 
 He had made many friends during his long pro- 
 fessional career in this place, and was popular, 
 not only with the residents of this city, but also 
 with himdreds of people from the adjoining States 
 who had come to him for treatment, and was well 
 known throughout the inter-mountan region, leav- 
 ing a wide circle of friends to mourn his demise. 
 
 Our subject received his early education in the 
 public schools of this city and at Hammond Hall. 
 In 1890 he entered the Deseret National Bank, 
 and, with the exception of the time which he 
 spent with his father on his trip around the world, 
 was in that institution for the following five years. 
 In 1896 he entered the medical department of the 
 New York University, where he studied for two 
 years, completing his medical education in the 
 maiden year of Cornell Medical College, receiv- 
 ing his degree June 7, 1899. He then worked for 
 a time in the Bellevue Hospital. New York, and 
 in 1899 began the active practice of his profession 
 in Salt Lake City. He is the examining physician 
 for the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and 
 in August, 1900, was appointed by Governor 
 Wells as Surgeon, with the rank of Major, in 
 the Utah National Guards, on the staf? of Colonel 
 Samuel C. Park. He is a member of the Salt 
 Lake County Medical Society. 
 
 Dr. Benedict was married, on October 29, 1901, 
 to Miss Clara Clawson, daughter of Spencer 
 Clawson, one of the leading business men of this 
 city, whose sketch appears elewhere in this work. 
 
 Dr. Benedict's life has been spent in this city, 
 and he has many friends here who predict for him 
 the same successful career that his father attained 
 to, and wish him every success that comes to the 
 man who perseveres. He is a member of the 
 American Medical Association, which was organ- 
 ised in 1901. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 419 
 
 ICHARD ERASTUS EGAN, Bishop 
 of South Bountiful Ward, Davis 
 county. But few men have been more 
 closely identified with the history of 
 Utah and this whole inter-mountain 
 region than has Bishop Egan. His whole life 
 has been spent in this country, having emigrated 
 with his parents when only a child, among the 
 early pioneers to Utah. 
 
 Born in Salem, Massachusetts, March 29, 1842, 
 he is the son of Howard and Tamson (Porshley) 
 Egan. His father was a native of Ireland, where 
 he was born in 181 5, and his mother born July 
 24, 1823, in New Hampshire. The senior Mr. 
 Egan emigrated to America in 1825, and mar- 
 ried in Salem in 1839, where they continued 
 to live until the early forties, when they emi- 
 grated to Illinois, settling at Nauvoo, and re- 
 mained there until the exodus of the Mormon 
 people, which occurred in 1846, when they went 
 with the main body of the Church to Winter 
 Quarters, where the family remained for one 
 year, the father coming to Utah with the first pio- 
 neers, and returning for his family shortly after, 
 coming across the plains with them in Heber C. 
 Kimball's train, and arriving in Salt Lake in the 
 autumn of that year. The senior Mr. Egan set- 
 tled in Salt Lake Citv and here spent the balance 
 of his life, his death occurring March 15, 1878. 
 His wife still lives, at the age of seventy-eight. 
 
 Bishop Egan spent the first fifteen years after 
 coming to Utah in Salt Lake City, during which 
 time he took advantage of the common schools, 
 such as e.xisted then in Salt Lake. His father 
 had become employed in buying and selling stock 
 in Salt Lake City, and at the age of fifteen, Bishop 
 Egan started out and made one trip to Califor- 
 nia, and assisted his father in carrying on his 
 large livestock deals. The senior Mr. Egan made 
 several trips from Utah to the Missouri river on 
 business for the church. In 1858 our subject 
 secured employment from the Government sub- 
 contractor carrying mails between Brigham City 
 and Salt Lake, which was performed mostly on 
 horseback. In the following year he went with 
 Doctor Farnay, Superintendent of Indian Afifairs, 
 who had been commissioned to make a treaty 
 with the Shoshone Indians in Humboldt. After 
 
 this treaty was completed Bishop Egan was or- 
 dered to return to Utah, bringing five head of 
 government mules. This was a long and tedious 
 trip and on the journey of three hundred miles 
 the only provisions he and another boy had was 
 six quarts of flour, the scarcity of food nearly re- 
 sulting in their death. In the spring of i860 he 
 hired out to the Pony Express Company, whicn 
 occupation he followed for a period of sixteen 
 months, carrying the express from Salt Lake 
 City to Faust Station. He later worked for 
 his father, who had several large trading posts 
 in LHah and Nevada. This he only followed for 
 about nine months, freighting between Salt Lake 
 and Carson City, Nevada. These were dangerous 
 times, as the Indians were bad, and many men 
 during these two years were killed by the 
 Indians; at one time Bishop Egan found three 
 men who had been murdered by the Indi- 
 ans in the canyon. He then took charge of 
 the Deep Creek farm and station along the 
 trail of the Pony Express, which he contin- 
 ued until the express company was disposed 
 of. He then assisted his father on his ranches 
 and trading posts in Nevada for a couple of years, 
 his father also having been superintendent of 
 the Pony Express and stage line. After this he 
 engaged in business for himself in Ruby Valley, 
 Nevada, where he continued for two years, from 
 1863, until the spring of 1865, ^^ company with 
 his father and brother Howard. Soon after 
 this he started in business for himself in the same 
 valley, securing a ranch and engaging in the 
 stock business from 1865 to 1867, when he was 
 called by the heads of the Church to serve on a 
 mission to England, where he spent two years 
 in the vicinity of Liverpool. After his return 
 home he again took up farming and the stock 
 raising business in Ruby valley, where he contin- 
 ued to live until 1877, when he sold out his en- 
 tire interests in that vicinity and moved to South 
 Bountiful, where he has since continued to live. 
 He has been a heavy real estate owner in Davis 
 county, at one time having owned two hundred 
 and forty acres of land, considerable of which 
 has been sold from time to time. Since taking 
 up his residence in South Bountiful he has not 
 onlv been engaged in farming but is also largely 
 
420 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 interested in the sheep business, ranging prin- 
 cipally in Utah. At the present time he is serv- 
 ing in the capacity of Secretary and Treasurer 
 of the Bountiful Live Stock Company, which he 
 assisted in organizing two years ago. This is one 
 of the largest live stock companies in Davis 
 county. He is also largely interested in the 
 Woods-Cross Canning and Pickling Company, 
 and is also identified with a great many other 
 enterprises in Utah. 
 
 On January i, 1861, he was married to Mary 
 Minnie Fisher, a sister of Judge John Fisher of 
 Davis county. A sketch of this family appears 
 in the biographical sketch of Judge Fisher, in 
 this volume. As a result of this marriage, thir- 
 teen children have been born, of whom ten are 
 now living. The mother died December 26, 1887. 
 The children are: Tamson M., Erastus H., Harrv 
 O., who was born October 2, 1866, and died 
 March 10, 1879; Horace F. ; John L. ; \\'illiam F. 
 and Willard R., twins, who were born April 5, 
 1872, and William died December 25, 1900. He 
 was a noble young man and had the promise of a 
 bright future. He was called by the heads of the 
 Church to serve on a mission to California on 
 January 7, 1897, where he spent two years ; 
 Joseph R. died in infancy ; Ira I., Linnie J., Mary 
 A., Charles M., and David. Mr. Egan's second 
 marriage took place July 10, 1889, to Miss Mary 
 B. Noble, daughter of Joseph B. and Loretta S. 
 (Meacham) Noble. Five children were born 
 of this union, four of whom are still living : Har- 
 old, born May 23, 1890 and died April 23, 1891 : 
 Ora May, Nellie L., Erma A., and Byron N. 
 Nearly all of Bishop Egan's sons who have 
 grown to manhood have taken a prominent part 
 in the work of the Church and many of them have 
 served on missionary trips ranging from one to 
 three years. Our subject was ordained a Bishop 
 and set apart to preside over South Bountiful 
 Ward in January, 1892. He has also taken a 
 prominent and active part in school matters, and 
 everything that pertains to the upbuilding of his 
 country. 
 
 In politics he has been identified with the Dem- 
 ocratic party ever since its organization in this 
 State. He served as a Justice of the Peace for 
 several terms in Davis county, in South Bountiful 
 
 Ward. In 1889 he was Assessor and Collector 
 of Davis county, and so well did he perform his 
 duties that he was re-elected in 1900. He was 
 a member of the first State Legislature of Utah, 
 from Davis county. 
 
 There are few men in Davis county who have 
 taken a greater interest in tracing the genealogy 
 of his family than has Bishop Egan. He has 
 spent many years and expended much money in 
 making trips to the East and to Europe in order 
 that he might get all the facts in connection with 
 the history of the family on both sides, and now 
 has one of the most complete genealogies to be 
 found in anv familv in Davis countv. 
 
 (~)BERT L"RE. Few men have taken a 
 more prominent or active part in the 
 building up of the State of Utah than 
 has Robert LTre, the subject of this 
 sketch. Over fifty years of his life 
 have been spent here, and now, in the declining 
 years of his life he can look back with pleasure 
 upon a life well and honorably spent in the in- 
 terests of his family, his Church and humanity. 
 \lr. L^re and his whole family are among the 
 most highly respected people in Davis county. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is descended from 
 sturdy Scotch ancestors, and was born in Rent- 
 frashire, Scotland, on the river Clyde, September 
 28, 1829. Of his parents, James and Janet (Mc- 
 Cool) Ure, his father was born in Greenwick, 
 Scotland, and his mother in Dunne, Scotland. 
 His grandfather, James Ure. was a soldier in the 
 East India war, and died on the field of battle. 
 
 In 1848, at the age of twenty years, Robert 
 L're left Scotland, in company with his parents 
 and their ten children. Of this sturdy, happy 
 family, who turned their faces from the rugged 
 Scottish shore towards prosperous America, but 
 two members still remain — the subject of this 
 sketch and a sister, now Mrs. Elizabeth S. Tay- 
 lor, of Saint Louis, Missouri. Both the father 
 and mother died within a few years after their 
 arrival in this country, their deaths occurring 
 in St. Louis. Not satisfied to remain in St. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 421 
 
 Louis, where they arrived in tlie early spring of 
 1849, Robert Ure and his brother James deter- 
 mined to push on to the far West, and when 
 they had been in St. Louis but three weeks fitted 
 up an ox team apiece, and, in company with 
 four other parties and their outfits, left St. Louis 
 for the old Winter Ouarters of the Mormons 
 later known as Florence, Nebraska, at which 
 point they joined Ira C. Benson's train for L'tah. 
 This train consisted of fifty teams, and they 
 started for Utah in the spring of 1849, experi- 
 encing, among other dangers on the way, one 
 of the most severe storms encountered by any of 
 the emigrants in crossing the western plains. 
 Upon their arrival in Utah both brothers settled 
 in Salt Lake City, where James continued to live 
 most of his life, dying at Kamas in 1899. 
 
 Our subject spent the first two years of his res- 
 idence in Utah following various occupations in 
 Salt Lake City, at times hauling lumber from 
 the canyons, and dug the first horse stable for 
 Brigham Young out of the side of the hill near 
 where the old White House used to stand. He 
 also assisted in buildina: the first three log houses 
 ever built in Grantsville, Tooele county. He 
 went to Bountiful, Davis county, in 1851, and 
 began work on the old Mure farm, near what 
 is now Woods Cross. 
 
 On February 9 ,1854, he married Miss !\Iary 
 !Mure, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Black- 
 wood) Mure. JMrs. L're is also from an old 
 Scotch family, being the only surviving member 
 of a family of twelve, and having been born at 
 Bannockburn, Scotland. As a result of this 
 marriage twelve children were born — Elizabeth, 
 Mary J., Robert W., Janet, Norah, Alinnie, Ste- 
 phen, Maggie, Lucy, Rachael, Ann and Ethel, 
 all of whom are now living. 
 
 Following his marriage Mr. Ure conducted 
 the farm of William Mure for some time, during 
 which time the latter was doing missionary work 
 for his Church. Oijr subject afterwards pur- 
 chased fifty acres of land about one mile west 
 of Woods Cross station, and on this he erected 
 his first home, a two-room log house, in which 
 the family continued to live for some years, Mr. 
 Ure eventally building a commodious and com- 
 fortable residence, to which has been added a 
 
 brick wing, giving them at this time a pleasant, 
 substantial home. The fertile soil of Davis 
 county is especially adapted to the raising of 
 vegetables, supplying the most of the Salt Lake 
 market, and Mr. L're has devoted a portion of 
 his farm to the cultivation of this produce, giving 
 especial attention to asparagus, of which article 
 he is the largest producer in the State. 
 
 In politics our subject is a Democrat, although 
 he is not actively engaged in the work of his 
 party. He and his family are all members of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 
 and actively engaged in Church work. About 
 1 88 1 he was called by the heads of the Church to 
 fill a mission to his native country, and while 
 there was called to preside over the Birmingham 
 Conference, where he finished his two years' mis- 
 sion. For over fifty years, both during his resi- 
 dence in Scotland and America, Mr. Ure has 
 been a Ward teacher. Mrs. Ure is also promi- 
 nent in local Church circles. They have twenty- 
 five grandchildren, all of their children, with the 
 exception of Robert W. and the three youngest 
 daughters, having married. The daughter Ra- 
 chael is a graduate of the University of Utah, 
 and is now employed as a teacher in the Lincoln 
 School, in Salt Lake City. Mr. Ure took part 
 in all the early troubles in the State, and served 
 in the army all through the disturbances arising 
 from the landing of Johnston's army in Utah. 
 
 A visit to this home of genial hospitality easily 
 convinces the visitor that the reputation of Utah 
 for her friendship and hospitality has been estab- 
 lished by such courteous welcome as has been ex- 
 tended to both Mormon and Gentile visitors in 
 this home. Friends and neighbors alike unite 
 in speaking only words of praise for Mr. and 
 Mrs. Ure, and many are the charitable deeds re- 
 lated of them, even by the old Indians, to whom 
 their kindness was extended in the early days. 
 Trials there have been, and days when their pros- 
 pects were gloomy, davs when mush or green 
 peas constituted the meal three times a day, but 
 looking back over nearly half a century of min- 
 gled joy and sorrow, there comes the satisfac- 
 tion of a work well and faithfully performed and 
 the knowledge that for such work blessings come 
 at last. 
 
422 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ICHARD DUERDEN. Success in life 
 v^ is one of tlie things for which most 
 men strive. It is a God-given instinct, 
 without which life is a failure and a 
 blank. Of the many self-made men, 
 who by perseverance, energy and determination 
 have made a success in Utah, starting at the very 
 foot of the ladder, the subject of this sketch 
 deserves special mention. Born in Lancashire, 
 Eneland, February 19, 1830, he is the son of 
 Richard and Martha (Hudson) Duerden, both 
 natives of the same country, where they lived and 
 died. Our subject spent the first thirty-eight 
 years of his life in England, and there received 
 his education, and for many vears followed his 
 trade as a manufacturer of cloth. 
 
 He married in England to Miss Elizabeth Brad- 
 shire, who died, leaving two children — Nephi, 
 now a resident of East Bountiful, and Martha, 
 deceased. In 1868, not being satisfied with the 
 opportunities which England aflforded to a man 
 of ambition, he determined to come to .\merica, 
 and sailed in the spring of that year, crossing 
 the ocean in an old sailing vessel, and making 
 the rest of the trip by ox team, arriving in Salt 
 Lake City September i6th of that year. He at 
 once located in Bountiful, where he worked for 
 a number of years on diiTerent farms and for 
 different people, and in this way, little by little, 
 he saved some means, and finally began buying 
 vegetables and wool from the farmers, taking 
 them to Salt Lake City and bringing back in re- 
 turn a small lot of cloth, groceries, etc. In this 
 way his prosperous business was started, and 
 has been a success ever since. His first store 
 consisted of one room in his residence, which 
 contained a kitchen table and two short shelves. 
 After continuing in a small way for some time, 
 he later built a three-room adobe store, and year 
 by year his business increased in these quarters, 
 until this was finally replaced by a fine business 
 house, the foundation of which is built of Temple 
 rock, which is on the road between East Bounti- 
 ful and Woods Cross, in what is known as South 
 Bountiful, where he has six acres of land, well 
 improved. He also has eleven acres in East 
 Bountiful. Mr. Duerden's success has been 
 marked from the fact that when he arrived in 
 
 Davis county he counted his cash and found it 
 to consist of ten cents. For many years he has 
 been interested to quite a large extent in mining, 
 and now has the foundation laid which promises 
 to prove very successful in the not far distant 
 future. 
 
 Mr. Duerden's second marriage, which oc- 
 curred in Davis countv, was to Miss Sarah Ann 
 Starkey. Of this marriage nine children have 
 been born, seven of whom are now living — Ed- 
 mondson, Richard, Sarah Jane, Elizabeth, Wil- 
 liam, Margaret, all residents of LTtah, with the 
 exception of one son, who resides in Idaho. 
 Since his residence in this country Mr. Duerden 
 has lieen back to England once, on which occa- 
 sion he spent three months visiting his family 
 and friends. 
 
 In political affairs he is independent, prefer- 
 ring to follow the dictates of his own judgment, 
 rather than that of any political party. He be- 
 came a member of the Mormon Church while 
 residing in England, in 1855, and has since been 
 a faithful member of that Church. For many 
 years he has been a Ward and Sunday School 
 teacher, and was ordained a member of the High 
 Council of Davis county. He has also been 
 largely interested in home missions. During his 
 early life in Utah he was connected for some 
 time with the Brigham City Woolen Mills, which 
 under his management were successful, but 
 finally went down after he had left them. He was 
 also connected with President Brigham Young's 
 woolen mills at Manti. He was one of a family 
 of seventeen, of whom he is the only living mem- 
 ber in America. 
 
 I SHOP JAMES L. WRATHALL. 
 The march of improvement and prog- 
 ress is accelerated day by day, and 
 each move seems to demand of men a 
 broader intelligence and greater dis- 
 cernment than did the preceding. Successful 
 men must be live men in this age ; bristling with 
 activity, prompt in seizing every opportunity in 
 the "nick of time," fertile in expedient and not 
 easily discouraged. Fortunes are not often ac- 
 quired in a day or a year, as sometimes happened 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 423 
 
 a decade ago ; on the contrary, it seems that every 
 step toward prosperity must be fought with all 
 the vigor and strength of purpose that can be 
 mustered, but in the end victory is all the more 
 desirable. BishoD James L. Wrathall has fought 
 his own battles thus far through life, and by his 
 energy and perseverance has succeeded in every 
 enterprise he has taken hold of. 
 
 A native son of Utah, having been born in 
 Grantsville September 22, i860, he is the son of 
 James and Mary (Leishman) Wrathall. His 
 father was bom in Yorkshire, England, and came 
 to America in 1850. cominsr direct to Utah and 
 settling in Grantsville the following year, where 
 he continued to make his home the rest of his 
 life, although from time to time he was called 
 to other parts of the country on work for the 
 Mormon Church, of which he was ever a staunch 
 and faithful member. Mr. Wrathall was among 
 the first settlers in Grantsville, there being but 
 three or four families in this place when he took 
 up his residence here. He was one of the first 
 men sent out by the Church to do colonization 
 work in Carson \'alley, Nevada, and from that 
 place made a trip to California. He was also 
 sent to the Missouri river to pilot emigrants from 
 that place to Utah in 1868, and in 1882 was sent 
 on a mission to his native country, in which work 
 he spent two years. He later made a pleasure 
 trip to England in 1889. Besides the mother of 
 our subject, Mr. Wrathall had other wives, and 
 was the father of fourteen children. During his 
 lifetime he engaged in cattle and sheep raising, 
 as well as farming, and was one of the well 
 known and substantial men of Grantsville. He 
 died in December, 1896, mourned by a large circle 
 of friends. 
 
 Mary (Leishman) \VrathalI, the mother of the 
 subject of this sketch, was also a native of Eng- 
 land, having been bom in Lancashire, coming to 
 Utah in the early fifties with her people, who 
 were members of the Mormon Church. She was 
 the mother of three children, of whom our sub- 
 ject was the second, and only son. The oldest 
 daughter, Maria, married a Mr. Sutton, and died 
 in 1885. The youngest daughter is now Mrs. 
 William Spry, living in Grantsville. Mrs. 
 Wrathall died in 1871. 
 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days in Grants- 
 ville, growing up on his father's farm, and re- 
 ceiving such education as was common to the 
 sons of pioneers, working on the farm during 
 the summer months and attending school for a 
 few weeks in the winter. He early beean life 
 for himself, spendinf many years herding cattle 
 and sheep on the plains of Tooele county. From 
 time to time he invested his little savings in sheep, 
 and from a very small beginning his interests in 
 this direction have grown until to-day he is the 
 owner of a large band of sheep in his own right, 
 as well as being interested in another herd with 
 one of his brothers. 
 
 Bishop Wrathall was married February 2, 
 1882, to Miss Penninah Hunter, daugliter of 
 Bishop Edward Hunter, Junior, and bv this 
 marriage has had eight children. They are : 
 Leslie, Myrtle, Paul, Irene, Alice, Sarah, Pen- 
 ninah and Jennis. The Bishop believes in edu- 
 cation, and has given his children all the advan- 
 tages possible in this direction. The Grantsville 
 schools are among the best in the State, being 
 graded, and employing six teachers. As the chil- 
 dren have passed out of this institution they 
 have been sent to higher seats of learning, and 
 his oldest son is at this time a student in the 
 Brigham Young Academy at Provo, while the 
 oldest daughter is attending the Latter Day 
 Saints' University in Salt Lake City. 
 
 In addition to his large holdings in sheep. 
 Bishop Wrathall is the owner of two fine ranches, 
 one devoted to fruit raising, in which the Bishop 
 is an expert, and the other a hay ranch. His 
 fruit farm is conceded to be the finest in Tooele 
 county, and he is justly proud of it. He makes 
 his home in Grantsville, where he erected, in 
 1898, a beautiful home of twelve rooms. The 
 house is a two-story brick, and modern in every 
 respect. Bishop Wrathall was born and raised 
 in the Mormon Church, of which he has all his 
 life been a staunch member, and has held many 
 offices in the Priesthood, having been ordained 
 an Elder in 1881, later a member of the Seven- 
 ties and still later a High Priest. He was set 
 apart and ordained Bishop of the Grantsville 
 Ward in July, 1890, which office he still retains. 
 In addition to serving in these different capaci- 
 
424 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ties in the Church, Bishop Wrathall served for 
 twenty-six months in the mission field in the 
 Northern States, being called in 1887. He is a 
 man of broad sympathies, active in all that per- 
 tains to the welfare of his community, and promi- 
 nently identified with many of the local enter- 
 prises, being President of the North Willow Irri- 
 gation Company, President of the Richville Mill- 
 ing Company, doing a flouring business in Tooele 
 City, and is a director in the Co-operative Store 
 at this place. 
 
 His long and useful career has brought him 
 prominently before the people of this city and 
 county, and by his strict adherence to the highest 
 business principles, his close attention to duty, 
 and his faithful and devoted work in the inter- 
 ests of his church, he has won the confidence and 
 respect of those with whom he has been associ- 
 ated, while his genial and pleasant manners have 
 endeared him to those who have known him in 
 social life. 
 
 lines. 
 
 .\MES P. GARDNER. Strangers com- 
 ing to Salt Lake City for the first time 
 are surprised to find here so many flour- 
 ishing business houses, carrying im- 
 mense stocks of the latest goods in their 
 
 Used as thev are to the close proximity 
 
 of the larger Eastern cities, they do not realize 
 the immense territory tributary to Salt Lake that 
 is supplied by these establishments, which, in 
 order to cater to the varied tastes of so large a 
 class of customers in almost every walk of life, 
 are compelled to handle, not only large lines, but 
 a complete variety, if they would successfully 
 compete with other houses in their particular 
 branch of mercantile trade. No merchant in the 
 city understands this fact better or has profited 
 more through his knowledge than has James P. 
 Gardner. He has been a resident of Salt Lake 
 City but a little more than thirteen years, but 
 in that time has built up one of the largest whole- 
 sale and retail men's furnishing goods establish- 
 ments in Utah. 
 
 Mr. Gardner was born in Whitesboro, Oneida 
 county. New York, in 1863, in which State his 
 ancestors were earlv settlers, both sides of the 
 
 family participating in the Revolutionary War. 
 His father was a widely known educator, and 
 for thirty years principal of the Whitestown 
 Seminary, in its dav one of the prominent and 
 well-known educational institutions of the State 
 of New York. The senior Mr. Gardner died 
 when our subject was sixteen years of age. The 
 mother of our subject bore the maiden name of 
 Elizabeth Phillips, and was also a member of an 
 influential New York family. Mr. Gardner grew 
 up in Whitestown, and was educated in the insti- 
 tution of which his father was the head. When 
 his father died he started out in life for himself, 
 and served an apprenticeship in a large wholesale 
 woolen and cloth manufacturing concern at 
 Utica, New York. He followed this line for 
 four years, at the end of which time, his health 
 failing, he went to the Indian Territory, where 
 he spent about a year on a cattle ranch, recuper- 
 ating his lost health. At the end of the year he 
 went to Kansas, where he became Recorder of 
 Deeds for Hamilton county, his office being at 
 Syracuse, the county seat. The town site was 
 owned by the Arkansas Valley Town and Land 
 Company, and Mr. Gardner sold the town lots 
 for the company. For the next few years he 
 was engaged in the stock business and various 
 enterprises, and having regained his health, be- 
 gan to look about for an opportunity to perma- 
 nently engage in business. 'He came to Utah in 
 1889, and was so impressed with the possibilities 
 of Salt Lake City that he decided to remain here, 
 and the following spring established his present 
 business. He began in a room sixteen by forty 
 feet, just across the street from his present place 
 of business, at 136-138 South Main street, hav- 
 ing a small stock of goods, and from this small 
 beginning has built un one of the finest and most 
 complete businesses of the kind in the entire 
 State. He occupies one of the largest and most 
 desirable establishments in the city and caters to 
 the most fashionable trade here, as well as hav- 
 ing an immense volume of trade from the adjoin- 
 ing districts. At this time he gives emploment 
 to from twenty-five to fifty clerks, according to 
 the season of the year. 
 
 In addition to this business Mr. Gardner is also 
 quite extensively interested in valuable mining 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 425 
 
 properties, besides beingf actively identified with 
 a number of minor local enterprises. 
 
 He is a Republican in politics, but not actively 
 associated in the work of his party. In fraternal 
 circles he has his membership in the Odd Fel- 
 lows' Lodge, No. 2, of Salt Lake, and is also a 
 member of the Alta and Commercial Clubs. 
 
 Socially Mr. Gardner is very popular in the 
 circles in which he moves, and is a gentleman of 
 most genial and pleasing address. His wide- 
 awake and honorable business methods have won 
 for him the respect and confidence of the busi- 
 ness men of the city, and in both public and pri- 
 vate life he has made many friends. 
 
 I 
 
 AVID DAY, deceased. Of the many 
 the early history and development 
 nf Utah, counting it a far greater 
 lirivileee to share in the privations, 
 noble men who cast their lots with 
 sufferings and even death of those who gave 
 up their all for the privilege of founding a home 
 for their Church, whose teachings they believed 
 to be the true one, than to live amid scenes of 
 comfort and plenty, surrounded by kindred and 
 friends, and yet be denied to live according to 
 the tenets of their religion, the name of David 
 Day stands prominently forward. For twenty- 
 six years he stood among the leading men of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 
 serving her interests wffii an unquestioning de- 
 votion that won him the entire confidence and 
 esteem of those high in authority. Officially he 
 laid no claim to leadership, but in his own walk 
 of life, in the offices he filled and in the work 
 his hands found to perform, he was one of the 
 most zealous, aggressive and faithful workers 
 the Church has perhaos ever known. This prin- 
 ciple he carried with him through life, and it was 
 the distinguishing feature of his business career, 
 which was one of marked success. For many 
 years after coming to Utah he engaged in agri- 
 cultural pursuits in Davis county, later moving 
 to Salt Lake City, where he engaged in a mer- 
 cantile life, and followed this up to the time of 
 his death, making a record as an able, upright 
 and honorable business man, and winning and 
 
 retaining the confidence of his business associ- 
 ates. 
 
 David Day was born in Bedfordshire, England, 
 June 2, 1824, and was the son of James and 
 Mary Day, who were both natives of that place. 
 He grew to manhood in the city of his birth, and 
 received his education at the common schools. 
 When about twenty years of age he heard the 
 Gospel of Mormonism preached by Elder Thomas 
 Squires, and upon profession of his belief in that 
 doctrine was baptized by Elder Squires in De- 
 cember, 1845. ^^ was shortly afterwards or- 
 dained to the office of Teacher, under the hands 
 of this same Elder, and labored in that capacity 
 for eighteen months. In the spring of 1846 he 
 was ordained an Elder, under the hands of Elder 
 John Banks, and was frequently engaged in 
 preaching the Gospel of Mormonism in his vicin- 
 ity. About four months after his ordination as 
 Elder he was appointed to the Presidency of the 
 Luton Branch of the Church, which position he 
 held until his departure for America. 
 
 In 1848 he left England, on board the vessel 
 Forest Monarchy and upon reaching the United 
 States set- out at once for Utah, but when he had 
 reached Missouri was taken ill, and on this ac- 
 count was compelled to abandon the trip almost 
 two years, taking up his journey again in 1850, 
 and, after crossing the plains in company with 
 other emigrants, reached Salt Lake City in Oc- 
 tober of that year. Upon reaching Utah he at 
 once went to Kaysville, Davis county, where he 
 engaged in a genera! farming business, and con- 
 tinued in that until October, 1862, when he 
 moved to Salt Lake City, and, in company with 
 Henry Squires,' opened a general merchandise 
 business, which was among the first of the kind 
 to be established in Salt Lake City. He also had 
 as partners John R. Barnes of Kaysville and D. 
 L. Davis, the firm being known as Day & Com- 
 pany. They had their establishment on Main 
 street, and during the lifetime of Mr. Day con- 
 tinued to do a thriving business. The business 
 was carried on for two years after the death of 
 our subject and then discontinued. In addition 
 to this undertaking he was also for some time a 
 director and stockholder in the Zion Co-operative 
 Mercantile Institution, and active in the business 
 
426 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 world of this city. He spent three months in 
 Lehi in 1858, to which place he moved his family 
 during the Johnston army troubles, but the rest 
 of his life, up to 1862, was spent in Kaysville. 
 
 He was given his endowments in Salt Lake 
 City in 1855, and soon thereafter sealed to his 
 £rst wife, Mary Wilson, by President Brigham 
 Young. In April, 1867, he was sealed to his 
 second wife, Elizabeth Davis, this ceremony also 
 being performed by President Young. Miss 
 Davis was the daughter of William and Eliza- 
 beth (Bishop) Davis. She survived her hus- 
 band, and is at this time living in Salt Lake City. 
 Ten children were born to Mr. Day — Elizabeth 
 Ann, who died in infancy ; James W. ; Sarah E., 
 now Mrs. James E. Robbins, of Layton; David 
 F., died aged thirty-two years ; Abraham J. ; 
 Joseph H., died at the age of thirteen years ; 
 Alice v., now the wife of I'homas H. Robbins, 
 of Kaysville ; George E., died in infancy ; Orson ; 
 Mary A., now Mrs. G. W. Watt, of Layton. 
 
 Mr. Day received his ordination as a Seventy 
 at the hands of Benjamin Clapp in 1857, and was 
 appointed a member of the Twenty-fifth Quorum. 
 He died June 11, 1876, after faithfully serving 
 t)Oth his Church, Territory and community 
 througout a long and honorable career, and was 
 laid to rest amid universal mourning, leaving his 
 posterity the memory of a noble life well spent. 
 
 R. WILLIAM F. BEER. Utah has 
 '^h'tn to the world many men and 
 \\(jmen who have achieved distinction 
 in their chosen professions, but she 
 still retains within her confines men 
 and women of as brilliant attainments as any 
 who have gone without her portals and who are 
 rapidly climbing the ladder of fame. Among 
 this number may well be mentioned the subject 
 ■of this sketch. Dr. William F. Beer, one of Salt 
 Lake City's prominent young physicians, and a 
 native son of Utah, having been born in this city 
 November 7, 1866. 
 
 His boyhood days were spent in this State, 
 having but a limited opportunitv for obtaininig 
 an education. At the age of nine years he left 
 home and went to Ogden, where he worked for 
 
 his board and attended school, obtaining his early 
 education by his own unaided efforts. In the 
 early eighties he returned to Salt Lake City and 
 entered the employ of the George A. Meers 
 wholesale house, remaining with that concern for 
 several years. 
 
 On September 21, 1889, he married Miss Jo- 
 sephine Taylor, daughter of Joseph E. Taylor, 
 whose biographical sketch appears elsewhere in 
 this work, and immediately left the city for a 
 tour of the Eastern States. In the fall of that 
 year he took the Regents' examination, along 
 with the graduates from Yale, Harvard and 
 Princeton, for admission to the medical depart- 
 ment of Columbian University, Washington, D. 
 C, which examination he successfully passed and 
 entered at once upon his studies, his wife remain- 
 ing- in Washington during his college days. He 
 worked his way through college, and graduated 
 second in his class, March 17, i8q2. He then 
 went to New York City, for practical work in 
 the Bellevue Hospital, from which place he came 
 direct to Salt Lake City, and began at the bottom 
 of the ladder to work his way up in the medical 
 profession. The success which has crowned his 
 labors is attested by his large and lucrative prac- 
 tice of to-day. 
 
 He is a member of the American Medical As* 
 sociation, the Salt Lake County Medical Society, 
 the Rocky Mountain Inter-State Medical Soci- 
 ety and the Utaili State ]\Iedical Society. In 1895 
 he became a member of*the Hospital Corps, U. 
 N. G., with the commission of Captain, rising 
 to the rank of Surgeon Major, and in 1900 was 
 commissioned by the Government as Assistant 
 Surgeon General of the State, with the rank of 
 Lieutenant Colonel. 
 
 In social life Dr. Beer is a prominent member 
 of the Elks, having his membership in Lodge 
 No. 85. He is also a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, of which he was 
 Grand Medical Examiner for eight years, that 
 being the longest term held by any one in a 
 similar position in the State. He is at this time 
 Medical Examiner for the Woodmen of the 
 World, in which organization he also holds mem- 
 bership. 
 
 Dr. Beer owns a fine residence on B street. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 427 
 
 where he is surrounded by a happy family circle, 
 consisting of his wife and two children. Al- 
 though but a young man, he has given promise 
 of a high order of ability in the medical profes- 
 sion, and the different positions he has filled at- 
 test the confidence reposed in his professional 
 ability by those in a position to best judge of 
 those matters. He enjoys the esteem of his fel- 
 low practitioners, and his friends predict for him 
 a bright future. 
 
 In politics he is a staunch member of the Re- 
 publican party, in which he takes a lively in- 
 terest. 
 
 REXEMAN B. BITNER. Prominent 
 among the early pioneers of Utah who 
 have taken an active part in the build- 
 ing up of this new country to its pres- 
 ent prosperous condition is the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 Breneman B. Bitner was born in Lancaster 
 countv, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1837, and 
 was the son of Abraham and Ann (Barr) Bitner, 
 both of whom were natives of Lancaster county, 
 Pennsylvania, and of German descent. Abraham 
 Bitner died when his son was a child, and his wife 
 left Pennsylvania with her five children in 1846, 
 with the intention of joining the Mormon colony 
 at Nauvoo, Illinois. She reached that place just 
 after the inain body of the Church had been driven 
 out of the State, and with others was compelled to 
 leave at the mouth of the cannon. They joined the 
 main body of the Church at Winter Quarters, and 
 remained there until 1849, when they began the 
 long and arduous journey across the plains to 
 Utah by ox team. Silas Richards was Captain 
 of this train, and Breneman Bitner, though only 
 eleven years of age, drove two yoke of oxen all 
 the way to Salt Lake from the Missouri river. 
 They arrived in Salt Lake City on the last day 
 of October, 1849, ^^^ ^^''S- Bitner settled here 
 with her family. 
 
 Our subject remained in Salt Lake City until 
 1855, when he moved to the Cottonwood Ward, 
 where he purchased his first home. At the pres- 
 ent time he has sixty acres of valuable land, 
 which is under excellent cultivation, and on 
 
 which he has built a large adobe and brick house. 
 In addition to his farming he has also devoted 
 much of his time and attention to the cattle and 
 sheep industry, in which he has extensive inter- 
 ests, and his sons are now associated with him 
 in the sheep business, and look after his interests 
 in that quarter. He has done much towards 
 bringing Salt Lake county to its present high 
 state of development, and has been active in public 
 as well as private life. 
 
 Mr. Bitner has had three wives, two of whom 
 are now living, the first wife, Mary E. Benedict, 
 being dead, and nineteen children, all of whom 
 are still living and active in the work of the 
 Mormon Church, into which faith Mr. Bitner 
 was baptized at the age of ten years, while at 
 Winter Quarters, and he has ever since been a 
 faithful and consistent follower of the doctrines 
 of that Church. He has held many offices in the 
 gift of the Church, and in 1871 and 1872 served 
 on a mission to his native home. He has also 
 been active in Sunday School work, having bten 
 Superintendent of the Sunday School of his 
 Ward. In 1856 he was ordained a Seventy, and 
 is at this time President of the One Hundred and 
 Thirty-fourth Quorum of Seventies. His chil- 
 dren are all highly educated, and in addition to 
 being active in Church work, take a prominent 
 part in educational matters in the State. Mr. 
 Bitner's home is an unusually pleasant one, there 
 being the utmost harmony among all the mem- 
 bers, and the young people are devoted to their 
 parents and to one another, and delight to spend 
 all the time available in their home, which they 
 make bright by their youth and beauty. His son 
 Breneman H. is now absent on a mission to New 
 York State. Our subject served in the Johnston 
 blockade, being in Echo canyon all winter, and 
 in the Black Hawk War of 1866 was comissary 
 for one hundred cavalry. 
 
 In political life Mr. IHtner is a staunch Repub- 
 lican, and was one of the organizers of that party 
 in this State, since which time he has given much 
 time to its work, and has held a number of minor 
 public offices, being at one time Justice of the 
 Peace, and also United States Ganger. He was 
 also Deputy Assessor for a period extending over 
 twentv-five vears. Mr. Bitner has led an honest 
 
428 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and upright life, trying to give every man his 
 just dues, and has attained a high position in the 
 esteem of his neighbors, as well as among the 
 leaders of his Church, and his children and the 
 future generations yet unborn may well point 
 with pride to the career which he has marked out 
 for himself. 
 
 HARLES R. WOOTON. Among 
 the prominent and successful farmers 
 of Salt Lake county who have taken 
 an active part in building up this new 
 country, in developing its resources 
 along the lines of agriculture and stock-raising, 
 should be mentioned the subject of this sketch. 
 Mr. Wooton was born in Bedfordshire, Eng- 
 land, on July 4, 1847, ^nd is the son of William 
 and Deborah (Rowbath) Wooton, both natives 
 of the same section where our subject was born. 
 His mother died when he was but ten years of 
 age. There were four children born at that 
 time, and our subject was the youngest. Wil- 
 liam Wooton, with his two sons, came to Amer- 
 ica in 1861, and in the same year our subject 
 crossed the plains by ox team, and settled in 
 Davis county, this State, where he engaged in 
 farming for a few years. His father and brother 
 came later in the season with another company of 
 Mormon emigrants. The family settled at Farm- 
 ington, in Davis county, where they continued to 
 live for two years, when they moved to Mill 
 Creek Ward, Salt Lake county, and here the 
 father took up land, which he improved and 
 where he spent the balance of his days. In 1864 
 our subject went to Dixy, where he spent one 
 year, and then returned and settled in the South 
 Cottonwood Ward, remaining there for sixteen 
 years. In 1879 he located in Granite, now Butler 
 Ward, and has continued to reside there ever 
 since, his home farm consisting of sixty and one- 
 half acres of good land, which is well improved. 
 He owns a comfortable brick house, and has his 
 place well fenced and laid out in orchards and 
 shade trees. 
 
 On December 23, 1878, in Little Cottonwood 
 Ward, he led to the marriage altar Miss Esther 
 Ballard, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Cog- 
 
 ger) Ballard. Mrs. Ballard's father was one of 
 the first to become identified with the Mormon 
 Church in England. Mrs. Wooton was born at 
 iVIaderstone, Kent, England. Her father died in 
 England while a comparatively young man, and 
 her mother came to America and settled in Utah, 
 where she still lives. To our subject and his 
 wife were born six children, five of whom are 
 living — William C, now on a mission for the 
 Church to the Southern States, having been called 
 October 18, 1900; Vincent F. ; Deborah; Sidney, 
 who died at one year of age; Grace; Esther. 
 
 In politics our subject has been identified with 
 the Republican party. For many years he served 
 as Road Supervisor and School Trustee, being 
 President of the latter Board. He was baptized 
 into the Mormon Church at eight years of age, 
 and he baptized all of his children into the same 
 faith. He has ever been a constant, faithful fol- 
 lower of the Church, and has assisted largely in 
 its work and in developing the State. He was 
 ordained a member of the Seventies. He enjoys 
 the confidence and trust of all the leaders of the 
 Church, as well as of the citizens in the neigh- 
 borhood where he lives. 'His wife is a member 
 of the Ladies' Relief Society, and President of 
 the Primary Association. Their daughters are 
 members of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association, and his dauehter Grace is or- 
 ganist in the Ward Church. His son Vincent 
 was Secretary of the Young Men's Mutual Im- 
 provement Association for about a year, and is 
 now First Counselor to President William W. 
 Butler of that association, and is also a Sunday 
 School teacher. His daughter Deborah also 
 teaches in the Sunday School, and is Assistant 
 Secretary of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association. 
 
 EXRY J. WHEELER, one of the pros- 
 perous farmers of Salt Lake county, 
 is a native Utahn, his birth- occurring 
 in the South Cottonwood Ward Febru- 
 ary t8, 1866. He is the son of Thomas 
 .■\. anil Ann (Walker) Wheeler, both natives of 
 England, where they grew to maturity and where 
 thev were married. After their marriage the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 429 
 
 parents were converted to the teachings of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints, 
 and upon uniting with the same decided to cast 
 their lot with the Church in far-off America. 
 They accordingly crossed the ocean in 1852, and 
 making the long trip across the plains in ox 
 teams, reached Salt Lake in the fall of that year. 
 They spent two years in Salt Lake City, and then 
 settled in the South Cottonwood Ward, where 
 their third son, our subject, was born. The 
 parents continued to live here the remainder of 
 their lives, the father for many years being in 
 the employ of President Wilford Woodrufif. He 
 died on November 16, 1900, surviving his wife 
 by three years, her death occurring December 20, 
 this district. Mr. Wheeler was First Counselor 
 to Bishop Rawlins during the Bishop's lifetime, 
 they having been set apart at the same time. 
 They grew to be very intimate friends, and Mr. 
 Wheeler survived the Bishop but a few weeks. 
 The senior Mr. Wheeler took part in the John- 
 ston army trouble, being on guard in Echo can- 
 yon several weeks, as well as in all the early In- 
 dian troubles and hardships known so well to the 
 pioneers of Utah. 
 
 Our subject grew up on his father's farm, and 
 received his education from the schools of this 
 district, attending a few weeks during the winter 
 months. When twenty years of age he started 
 out for himself, and has since devoted himself 
 chiefly to general farming. He has a fine farm 
 of seventy-seven acres, facing on Ninth East 
 street, ten miles south of Salt Lake City. The 
 land is under a good system of irrigation, the 
 water being supplied from the Little Cottonwood 
 creek, which runs through the farm. His house, 
 of pressed brick, consists of ten commodious 
 rooms, and the entire structure was planned by 
 Mrs. Wheeler and reflects great credit upon her 
 knowledge of architecture, as it is not only home- 
 like and convenient, but one of the prettiest little 
 farm houses to be found in the county. Mr. 
 Wheeler also has some sheep and cattle on his 
 farm, the former being his specialty. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler was married on June 17, 1886, 
 to Miss Sariah Pixton. a daughter of Robert and 
 Elizabeth (Cooper) Pixton. Mrs. Pixton came 
 across the plains to Utah in 1848 with her oldest 
 
 child, in a company of which President P.righam 
 Young was Captain, driving her own team the 
 entire distance. Her husband was among those 
 who responded to the Government's call for vol- 
 unteers in the war against Mexico, and served 
 with the Mormon Battalion during the whole 
 campaign, bringing with him from California the 
 wages of two of his comrades to their widows 
 in Utah. These men had been killed by the In- 
 dians while on their way home. The father lived 
 until November, 1881. The mother is still living 
 in Taylorsville, at the hale old age of eighty-four. 
 Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Wheeler — Lisadore, Elsie, Henry, Leona and 
 Cilma, the baby. 
 
 In political life he is a member of the Demo- 
 cratic party, but has never participated in its 
 work to the extent of being an office-seeker. He 
 is a member of the Mormon Cliurch, in which he 
 is an Elder, and takes a deep interest in all local 
 Church matters. Socially the Wheeler family is 
 very popular, and enjoys a large circle of friends. 
 
 ACOB HUx\TER. In the settling and 
 building up of a new country it of neces- 
 sity requires the co-operation of men in 
 the various departments and fields of op- 
 eration to develop and bring forth in the 
 shortest time the best results, and the work of 
 building up a new State might be likened to the 
 workings of some gigantic • piece of machinery, 
 of which, if any part be removed or separated, 
 the machinery at once becomes inoperative and 
 useless. Had it not been for the farmers and 
 stockmen of this State, which has really formed 
 the nucleus to every other branch and enterprise 
 in the State, and which has played such an im- 
 portant part in the forming and successful opera^ 
 tions of the great commercial enterprises which 
 have been built up in this new country, it would 
 not have been possible to develop the vast min- 
 ing interests of Utah. Among the worthy citi- 
 zens who have been closely identified with the 
 commercial and live stock interests of Utah 
 should be mentioned the subject of this sketch. 
 
430 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Hunter was born in Westmoreland, in, 
 North England, October loth, 1846. He is the 
 son of Isaac and Ann (Lundj Hunter, who were 
 born in the same place as their son. The family 
 came to America in 1847, ^^d settled in Council 
 Bluflfs, Iowa, where they lived until 1849, when 
 they crossed the plains with ox teams to Utah, 
 arriving in Salt Lake City October 4th of that 
 year. The father settled on North Temple street, 
 between Seventh and Eighth West, where he con- 
 tinued to live until his death, which occurred May 
 28th, 1900, and his wife died December 22nd fol- 
 lowing. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life and boyhood 
 days in this city, receiving his education at the 
 common schools, such as existed at that time. 
 
 January 25th, 1868, he married Miss Mary 
 Shafer, the oldest daughter of John and Hannah 
 Shafer, who were also early settlers of Utah. 
 having arrived here in 1848. Mrs. Hunter also 
 spent her early life in Salt Lake City. Thev 
 have had a family of ten children, eight of whom 
 are still living — Jacob R.; John; Eusebia A.; 
 Mary E. ; James, died in infancy ; Eliza H. ; 
 Maud, died aged seven years ; Bertrum O. ; 
 Frank; Elmer H. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Hunter moved to his present home 
 on Fourteenth South street, one mile west of the 
 Redwood road. Here he Has one hundred and 
 sixty-five acres of splendid land, well fenced and 
 improved to a high state of cultivation. While 
 Mr. Hunter has given a great deal of his time to 
 farming, yet this has not been his chief life's 
 work. For the past ten years he has been promi- 
 nently engaged in the stock business, more par- 
 ticularly in sheep. And, in fact, since his boy- 
 hood days he has spent a great portion of his life 
 in the saddle. In addition to his fine farm in 
 Utah county, he has a large range farm in Sum- 
 mit county, Utah, consisting of four hundred and 
 eighty acres. 
 
 In political life he has been identified with the 
 Democratic party since the organization of that 
 party in this State. For many years he was 
 School Trustee in his Ward, and has served on 
 different committees and active in the workings 
 of the party. 
 
 He was born and raised in the Mormon faith. 
 
 as were also his wife and children. He has 
 ever been a faithful and liberal supporter of the 
 Church, having served, in 1866, five months on a 
 colonization mission, by way of a trip to the 
 Missouri river for emigrants. Mrs. Hunter is 
 a member of the Ladies' Relief Society, in which 
 she has always taken a prominent and active 
 part. The sketch of her parents appears else- 
 where in this volume. 
 
 Of the men who have assisted in building up 
 Salt Lake county and Utah, none deserve more 
 credit for what they have accomplished through 
 their untiring energy- and determination than the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 ACOB HEBER GRIFFITHS, 'ine his- 
 tory of the splendid work which has been 
 accomplished in Utah by the early set- 
 tlers and later carried on by their sons 
 and daughters, will be remembered with 
 pride by succeeding generations yet unborn. The 
 many hardships and trials which have been en- 
 dured by the pioneers in reachinp- this country 
 and the great obstacles which stood in their way 
 in the development of the vast resources of this 
 new and at that time unsettled country, is a splen- 
 did tribute to their memory. Among those who 
 have assisted materially in the building of Salt 
 Lake county should be mentioned Jacob Heber 
 Griffiths. 
 
 He is a native son of Utah, having been born 
 in Union Ward, then Little Cottonwood W'ard, on 
 November 15, 1851, and is the son of Joseph and 
 Ann (Roberts) Griffiths. His father was a native 
 of England and was born in that country January 
 18, 1816; there he met and married his wife, Ann 
 Roberts, who was born in Denbeshire, Wales, 
 April 28, 1819. Their marriage took place Jan- 
 uary 3, 1843, ^nd that year they came to America 
 and settled in the old historic town of Nauvoo, 
 Illinois. There they remained until the e.xodus 
 of the Mormon oeople, which occurred in 1846. 
 They were acquainted with the Prophet Joseph 
 Smith, and saw his body when it was brought 
 back after his death. From Nauvoo they went 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 431 
 
 to Garden Gap, where they lived until 1848, in the 
 fall of which year they journeyed to Winter 
 Quarters and the next spring they fitted out 
 teams with provisions, etc., preparatory to mak- 
 ing the great trip across the plains to Utah, 
 which they did, arriving in Utah in the fall of 
 the same year, remaining in Salt Lake City but a 
 short time and then settled on the Little Cotton- 
 wood, now a part of Union Ward, and here our 
 subject's father took up land which he improved, 
 and lived there the remainder of his life. He 
 died in 18G0. His old home place was located 
 less than a mile from where oiir subject now re- 
 sides and has his farm. The senior Mr. Griffiths 
 had early become a member of the Mormon 
 Church and continued to be a faithful and 
 worthy member of that faith throughout the rest 
 of his life. During the early days in Utah and 
 especially when the Johnston army landed, 
 he served as a guard for a considerable length of 
 time. Our subject had seven brothers and seven 
 sisters, he being the fifth and twin brother of 
 David, his mother having given birth to five sets 
 of twins. Of tlie children there are at present 
 but six living, four of whom are residents of Salt 
 Lake county. All of the children remained with 
 their mother until they reached their majority. 
 She died on December 26, 1895. Our subject 
 spent his boyhood days on the farm and received 
 such schooling as was to be had at that time. 
 
 At twenty-eight years of age he marrried, on 
 October 12, 1878, to Miss Lucy E. Middleton, 
 daughter of Richard P. and Emma P. (Beck- 
 sted) Middleton. This family were also early 
 settlers in Utah. As a result of this marriage 
 ten children were born, seven of whom are still 
 living — Jacob F., who resides at home and as- 
 sists his father on the farm ; Nora May, Phoebe 
 Jane, Willard L., Lula, Eva Pearl, and Irvin, 
 Lucy A., Rachel O.. and Heber J. died in child- 
 hood. 
 
 Soon after Mr. Griffiths married he settled on 
 his present place, which contains forty-seven 
 acres of fine land, which he has improved with 
 his own hands. At the time of the settlement 
 of this place it was a wild and barren waste, 
 covered with sage brush. He has by judicious 
 management cultivated and improved it until 
 
 now it is considered one of the best places in 
 Salt Lake county. His splendid brick residence, 
 fences, orchard and fruit trees all indicate that 
 he has been a hard and constant worker. Out- 
 side of farming, he has been largely identified 
 with the sheep and cattle business in Wyoming. 
 This business he has followed nearly all of his 
 life. 
 
 In political affairs he is independent, prefer- 
 ring to follow the dictates of his own judgment 
 rather than that of any political party. He be- 
 lieves in supporting the best man for the place, 
 regardless of his political affiliations. For a 
 number of years he has been trustee of his school 
 district. He has taken an active and prominent 
 part in the work of the Church, of which he be- 
 came a member in early life, and his wife and 
 children are also members of that church. He 
 was first ordained a Deacon, later an Elder, and 
 is now a member of the Seventies. For over 
 thirty years he has been a teacher in the Ward 
 Sunday Schools. His wife is a member of the 
 Ladies' Relief Society, and their daughters and 
 oldest son are members of the Mutual Improve- 
 ment Societies. 
 
 ^Ir. Griifiths, by his long and honorable career 
 in Utah, and by his upright and just dealings, 
 has won many friends in every section where he 
 has resided, and he n5w enjoys a large circle of 
 associates and friends. 
 
 OSEPH BODILY of Syracuse was born 
 in South Africa on December 21, 1853, 
 on Bushman's river. He is a son of 
 Robert and Jane (Pitnum) Bodily, both 
 natives of London, England, where they 
 were married. Of their nine children, two were 
 born in London, six in South Africa and one on 
 mid-ocean, on the voyage from South Africa to 
 the United States. Seven of these children are 
 still living. 
 
 Robert Bodily, father of our subject, arrived 
 in Cape Colony, South Africa, in December, 
 1845, and there he followed the trade of a stone 
 mason, but was also engaged to some extent 
 
432 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in raising cattle. The family landed in America 
 in i860, and arrived in Salt Lake City on Oc- 
 tober 6th of that year, where they stayed that 
 winter, and in the following spring moved to 
 Kaysville. Here Mr. Bodily died on April 17, 
 1892, and here his wife still lives. Of their 
 family, Joseph and his sister, Jane — Mrs. Christo- 
 pher Layton, Jr. — live in Davis county. Mr. 
 Bodily grew up in Kaysville, and there, on Feb- 
 ruary 16, 1874, he married Isabella Phillips, a 
 daughter of Edward and Hannah Phillips, who 
 were among the first settlers in Kaysville, where 
 Mrs. Bodily was born. Three of her twelve chil- 
 dren are dead. The children's names are : Lucy 
 N., Fred, Hannah, who died at the age of 
 twenty-two years ; Mary J., Joseph P., John E., 
 Isabella, a twin, (the other twin died in infancy, 
 unnamed) ; Robert E., Pearl and Ruby, twins, 
 (Ruby died at the age of six weeks), and 
 Emma C. 
 
 Our subject settled on the farm, where he 
 now lives, in 1887. He has a fine farm of a hun- 
 dred and sixty acres with a good house, and has 
 followed the sheep raising business all his life. 
 He was raised in the Mormon Church, and his 
 wife was born and raised in the same faith, as 
 were all of their children. Mr. Bodily was called 
 to help colonize the Little Colorado district in 
 Arizona, and remained at this work for six 
 months. He is a member of the One Hundred 
 and Sixty-sixth Quorum of Seventies. Before 
 he settled at his present home in Syracuse he 
 lived for three years at Lewiston, Idaho. His 
 son, Joseph, left on the 15th of January, 1902, 
 to serve on a mission in Mississippi and the South- 
 ern States. Hannah, the daughter who died, 
 was organist of the Ward, and an active mem- 
 ber of the Church, and a young lady who was 
 beloved and respected by all who knew her. Mr. 
 Bodily has acted as President of the Young 
 Men's Mutual Imorovement Association in his 
 Ward for a period of eight years. After the 
 Ward of Syracuse was organized he was chosen 
 one of a committee of four to locate a site and 
 make arrangements for the building of a suita- 
 ble meeting house. They erected a fine brick 
 building, thirty by sixty feet, which is in every 
 wav a credit to their Ward. 
 
 E.\S XELSOX. In the vast undertaking 
 I if settling and developing Utah, men 
 fnim nearly every civilized country in 
 the world have assisted in transforming 
 this country from a wild and barren 
 waste to its present prosperous condition. Among 
 the worthy sons of Denmark who have taken 
 an active part in the development of this State, 
 the subject of this sketch deserves mention. 
 
 Jens Nelson was born in Denmark, May 8, 
 1841, and is the son of Knud and Margaret Nel- 
 son, both natives of the same place, where our 
 subject was born'. There were eight children in 
 the family, Mr. Nelson being the sixth child. 
 The family emigrated to America in 1853, hav- 
 ing crossed the ocean in an old sailing vessel, 
 and the plains by ox team, under command of 
 John Fosgreens, arriving in Salt Lake City in 
 October of the same year. That first winter 
 was spent in Salt Lake City and the following 
 spring, 1854, they located in what is now South 
 Bountiful Ward, where the father .died April 
 II, 1862. The mother died in April, 1872. Our 
 subject spent his boyhood days on the farm of 
 his brother-in-law, G. Hogan, at Bountiful. His 
 father had taken up land in the vicinity of Boun- 
 tiful, which he developed. Our subject was ed- 
 ucated in the common schools of Davis county. 
 On the death of his father he started out to make 
 his own way in life, having, however, previously 
 lived away from home. 
 
 On November 22, i86q, he married Miss Eliza 
 S. Bryson, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Ann 
 (Conrey) Bryson, her people having been born 
 in Ireland and subsequently moved to Scotland, 
 and coming to Utah in 1855. Mrs. Nelson was 
 born in Glasgow, Scotland. The marriage of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Nelson took place in the old Indepen- 
 dence House in Salt Lake City, and the ceremony 
 was performed by President Joseph F. Smith. 
 As a result of this marriage ten children have 
 been born, all of whom are living — Jens K., 
 who is now doing for himself and resides in 
 East Bountiful, where he has a wife and two 
 children ; Samuel R., a resident of Rich county ; 
 David M., in South Bountiful ; Sarah, now Mrs. 
 John Stoker, and Sylvanus, twins ; Eliza, Clo- 
 rena and Lawrence, twins ; James Everett, and 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 433 
 
 Harold C. There liave been two sets of twins 
 in the family. 
 
 Our subject, by industry, perseverance and 
 determination, has built a fine home for himself 
 and family. At the time he settled on his pres- 
 ent place, it was unimproved to a great extent, 
 but he has improved it until it is now one of 
 the desirable places of South Bountiful. In ad- 
 dition to his home place, he owns a farm of six 
 hundred acres in Rich county. Mr. Nelson, 
 while he has devoted much of his time and at- 
 tention to improving- his home, has also been 
 identified in the sheep and cattle business. He 
 has served as Vice-President of the Deseret Live 
 Stock Company, one of the largest companies 
 of the kind in L'tah, and at present is a stock- 
 holder in that company. He is now considered 
 one of the successful men of Davis county. 
 
 In politics he has been identified with the Re- 
 publican party, and assisted in its organization 
 in Davis county. He and his family are all mem- 
 bers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Saints, Air. Xelson having been baptized into 
 that faith in 1853. and has ever since been a con- 
 sistent and faithful member. His children are 
 now following in the footsteps of their parents, 
 one of his sons taking up missionary work in 
 foreign lands as called from time to time by the 
 heads of the Church. The oldest son was called 
 and set apart in December, 1893, to serve in New- 
 Zealand, and served in that capacity for three 
 and a half years. David M. was called and set 
 apart January 7, 1897, for work in the south- 
 western States, and labored in that field for a 
 period of twenty-seven months. At the present 
 time Mr. Nelson is one of the Presidents of the 
 Seventy-fourth Quorum of Seventies. He has 
 for many years been active and prominent in 
 Church work in his Ward, being a Ward teacher. 
 His wife is a member of the Ladies' Relief So- 
 ciety, and at the present time holds the office of 
 Second Mce-President. His daughters are also 
 active in Church matters, more particularly in 
 the Young Ladies" Mutual Improvement Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 In addition to raising and providing for his 
 •own family, Mr. Xelson has taken into his home 
 little Marv Emma Brvson, a niece of Mrs. Nel- 
 
 son's, whose mother died, and she is looked upon 
 as one of their own children. 
 
 TI.TJAAI BLOOD. People who are 
 li'irn and raised in this day and age 
 lit the world — an age of great prog- 
 ress ; an age when, by the use of 
 the steam engine and electric power, 
 the West is brought as close to the East as 
 was Philadelphia to Boston fifty years ago 
 — it is difficult to realize what the early pio- 
 neers passed through in crossing the plains from. 
 Omaha to Utah a half century ago, and the full 
 story of the privations and hardships endured 
 by them can never be described. Among those 
 who have passed through all the early scenes in 
 crossing the plains and settling in LTtah in its 
 early history, should be mentioned William Blood, 
 the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Blood was born in Staffordshire, England, 
 August 27, 1839, and is the son of William and 
 Mary (Stretten) Blood. His parents were na- 
 tives of England, the father being born in Derby- 
 shire, and the mother in Staffordshire, where 
 they were married. They had two daughters and 
 one son, our subject, who was the second child. 
 The family left England January 26, 1844, and 
 emigrated to America, arrivinsr in Nauvoo April 
 13th of that year. The father died three weeks 
 after his arrival in this country, and in 1846 the 
 mother married Henry Woolley. This was at the 
 time of the uprising of the people of Illinois 
 against the Mormons, and the Woolley family, in 
 order to avoid having their home burned, moved 
 to Council Bluffs, remaining there until 1849, 
 when they crossed the plains and came to Utah. 
 They left Winter Quarters July 5, 1849, in the 
 train of which Allen Taylor was captain over 
 one hundred wagons. Beddick Allred was cap- 
 tain over fifty wagons and Charles Lambert cap- 
 tain over ten wagons. They arrived in Salt Lake 
 City on October 13 of that year, and went to Mill 
 Creek, where they remained a year, going to 
 Kaysville in December, 1850. The first settlers 
 in Kaysville had moved to that place in the spring 
 of 1850, and at the time Mr. Woolley moved there 
 it consisted of only a few scattering houses, and 
 
434 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was not organized into a ward or named until 
 some time later. By this, his second marriage, Mr. 
 Woolley also had two daughters and one son, all 
 of whom are now living. Both of our subject's 
 sisters are living in Idaho ; one half sister is in 
 Canada, and his half-brother spends his time in 
 traveling; the other half sister is a resident of 
 Utah. Mrs. Woolley died on March 3. 1891, and 
 her husband died October 10, 1898. 
 
 In coming across the plains our subject drove 
 cattle all the way in company with Angus and 
 David Cannon, being associated with them dur- 
 , ing the entire trip. After reaching Utah, al- 
 though but eleven years of age, our subject 
 started to earn his own living, working on his 
 step-father's farm, and such education as he re- 
 ceived was obtained by the opportunities that 
 presented themselves at that time, a few weeks in 
 winter being all the time he could spare for study. 
 
 On September 9, 1861, Mr. Blood was married 
 to Miss Jane Wilkie Hooper, daughter of John 
 and Ann Hooper. This family came to Utah in 
 1854, and the mother died September 7, 1858. 
 Mrs. Blood was born in Southampton, England, 
 May 2, 1845. '^s ^ result of this marriage, ten 
 children were born, all of whom are now living — 
 Annie H., William H., John H., Mary H.. Henry 
 H., Jane W. H., George H, Maggie H., Wilkey 
 H. and Iva H. — all of the children taking their 
 mother's maiden name. Mr. Blood was married 
 a second time on November 18, 1872, to Misi 
 Sarah Jane Colemere, and by this marriage eleven 
 children were born, of whom nine are now living 
 • — Eber, Jennette C, Ellen C, Ernest, Eva C, 
 and Lawrence C, twins; Pearl C, Dorah C. died 
 aged fourteen years; Myrtle C, Violette C. died 
 in infancy, and Donnetta. These children also 
 bear their mother's maiden name. 
 
 Mr. Blood took up a piece of land on the lake 
 shore, where he lived for some years, and on 
 March i, 1867, moved to Kaysville, at that time 
 called Fort Kaysville, where he has since resided. 
 He built an adobe house, in which he lived for 
 some time; later he bought another farm of 
 thirty-two acres of land, besides some land in 
 the town, his lots there containing three acres 
 each. He sold two of his farms to his sons, on 
 which they now live. Since moving to this place 
 
 he has followed farming principally, having also 
 considerable live stock. He has had a verj- suc- 
 cessful career, from a financial standpoint, and 
 is well liked by the people of his community. In 
 the early days he took an active part in all the 
 troubles of the State, being called to take up 
 arms during the Jonnston army trouble, and for 
 ten days was a guard at the mouth of Echo Can- 
 yon, when he was called home and again sent 
 out in November under Philemon C. Merrill, and 
 joined Lot Smith's company, serving with that 
 company for a short time. At the time of the 
 Black Plawk war, being unable to leave home, he 
 outfitted another man and sent him in his stead. 
 ;\Ir. Blood has been a member of the Mormon 
 Church since 1849, having been baptized on Au- 
 gust loth of that year by William Hawk, in the 
 Platte river. His family are also all members of 
 this Church, and active in its service. Mr. Blood 
 has served for two years in missionary work in 
 Davis county, and for the past sixteen years has 
 been assistant superintendent of the Sunday 
 School in his Ward. Of his sons, William H. 
 was called for missionary work on November 2, 
 1886, being set apart for work in the Southern 
 States, where he labored for twenty-five months,, 
 returning home on December i, 1888. Eber C. 
 was also called for service in the Southern States, 
 being set apart December 2, 1895, and returning 
 August 23, i8g8. George H. was called and set 
 apart January nth, and left January 21, 1899, 
 for work in the Samoan Islands, where he la- 
 bored about three years. Henry H. left for mis- 
 sionary work in England, April 24, 1901, and is 
 at this time President of the Grimsby Conference 
 There is not in Davis county a more devoted or 
 loving father than William Blood. He has given 
 his children every advantage possible, and is very 
 proud of his family. He has thirty-three living 
 grandchildren, having lost two grandchildren. Al- 
 though quite advanced in years, he is possessed 
 of a most remarkable memory, and relates events 
 that occurred in the early days with wonderful 
 accuracy, giving dates without hesitation. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 435 
 
 ETER BARTON, fourth Bishop of 
 Kaysville, was born in Lancashire, En- 
 gland, on March 21, 1845. His father 
 was John Barton and his mother EHz- 
 abeth (Bell) Barton, both natives of 
 England, and all of their nine children, of whom 
 Peter was the sixth, were born in that country. 
 Seven of them — six sons and one daughter — are 
 still living. The family came to America in 1862, 
 and settled in Kaysville. He died in Salt Lake 
 City in 1874. His wife survived him, dying in 
 1896. Their daughter, Mrs. Bertha Irvine, now 
 resides in Portland, Oregon. Their son Joseph 
 is General Passenger and Freight Agent of 
 the Sumpter \'alley railroad, and resides at 
 Baker City, Oregon., and the rest of the family 
 live either at Kaysville or Salt Lake City. The 
 father and mother joined the Mormon Church 
 in England in 1846. Mr. Barton was an expert 
 machinist, and the superintendent of a large iron 
 w'orks in Saint Helens, England. 
 
 Bishop Barton was married on December 26, 
 1870, to Ellen A. Beazer, a daughter of Mark 
 and Hanna Beazer, who came to Utah in 1855 
 from Birmingham, England. His wife was only 
 three years old when she came with her parents 
 to America. Of this marriage ten children were 
 born — Oscar C, Laura, Nellie H., Lillie. Peter, 
 Elizabeth B., Albert B., Clara H., Dora B., Ber- 
 tha. Laura, Peter and Bertha died in infancy. 
 
 He was married a second time in 1879, to Miss 
 Mary Beesley, a native of Kaysville, by whom 
 he has had four children — Lottie, Amelia. Robert 
 and Spencer. 
 
 Bishop Barton's place at Kaysville is about a 
 mile south of the Oregon Short Line depot, and 
 he has lived here ever since he came to Utah. 
 He has two hundred and forty acres of fine farm- 
 ing land, with a nice brick homestead and well 
 improved place, and is engaged largely in the 
 raising of cattle and sheep ; but he has many busi- 
 ness interests outside of this. He is President 
 of the Kaysville Co-operative Alercantile Insti- 
 tution, a director of the Barnes Banking Com- 
 pany, Vice-President of the Kaysville Canning 
 Company. He is a Democrat in politics, and 
 was a member of the old People's Party. He 
 was the first Recorder of Kavsville, has been a 
 
 Justice of the Peace, and served two terms in 
 the Territorial Legislature. 
 
 James Barton, a brother of the Bishop, bap- 
 tized him into the Mormon Church in England. 
 He passed through the priesthood, and was or- 
 dained Bishop on June 18, 1877, and set apart 
 to preside over Kaysville Ward, an office which 
 he has ably filled for twenty-five years. He was 
 on a mission for the Church in 1874, 1875 and 
 1876, laboring in England. His son, Oscar, was 
 called on a mission to Switzerland in 1895, and 
 served two years. The Bishop's brother, Isaac, 
 went through the Black Hawk war. 
 
 ILBERT S. HATCH. The family rep- 
 resented by the subject of this article 
 is one of the best known and most 
 highly honored in Davis county, our 
 >ubject being a native son, having been 
 born in South Bountiful Ward in the days when 
 the settlers were few and the work of civilization 
 had scarcely begun. The family afterwards were 
 conspicuous factors in forwarding the interests 
 of this community and in developing its material 
 resources, being capable and efficient agricultur- 
 alists, well fitted for the work which they under- 
 took, and father and sons uniting closely in the 
 work of building up the community and in im- 
 proving their homes. 
 
 Gilbert S. Hatch was born January 15, 1859, 
 in South Bountiful Ward, and is the son of Ira 
 S. and Jane Ann (Stewart) Hatch, a biograph- 
 ical sketch of his father appearing elsewhere in 
 this volume. His mother was a native of Scot- 
 land, her parents having died when she was a 
 child. She came to America, arriving in New 
 York in the spring of 1856, and coming from 
 thence to Utah in the noted Hand Cart company. 
 This was perhaps one of the most tedious and 
 dreadful journeys that has ever been made by 
 the settlers in Utah. On this trip many of the 
 travelers were frozen to death, and many suf- 
 fered starvation on account of the lack of food. 
 Mrs. Hatch never fully regained her hearing 
 after this trip. After arriving in America, she 
 married Ira S. Hatch in 1858. There were three 
 children born to them — Wealthy Ann, now Mrs. 
 
436 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Hyrum Hartley, of Rockland, Idaho ; our sub- 
 ject being the next child, and Stephen C. at 
 present residing in Kaysville Ward, Davis 
 county. The mother died July 20, 1879. 
 
 Mr. Hatch has practically spent his whole life 
 in South Bountiful Ward, his early days being 
 spent on the farm and his education received 
 from the schools that then existed in the county. 
 His father having died when he was a boy of 
 ten years, necessitated each member of the fam- 
 ily putting forth every effort for the mainte- 
 nance and support of the mother and themselves. 
 Our subject has always resided on the old home 
 place, and after the death of his mother he pur- 
 chased the interests of the rest of the heirs. He 
 has twenty acres in his home place, which is 
 located at Woods Cross. Since taking hold of this 
 farm he has erected a splendid brick residence 
 and has one of the nicest places for its size in 
 that vicinity. Besides his home place he also 
 owns other land in Davis county, which is used 
 for pasture. He has always been more or less 
 identified with the stock business in Davis county 
 and at present is a large holder in the Deseret 
 Live Stock Company, one of the largest in the 
 State ; also a large stockholder in the Woods 
 Cross Canning and Pickling Company. 
 
 On October 4, 1884, he led to the marriage al- 
 tar Miss Ellen Moss, daughter of John and Re- 
 becca (Wood) Moss, whose biographical sketch 
 appears elsewhere in this work. Eight children 
 have been born of this marriage, seven of whom 
 are now living — Clara R., Ellen B., Rilla, Edith, 
 Mary R., Alice, Gilbert S., who died at the age 
 of three and a half years ; Lawrence M. 
 
 In political affairs Mr. Hatch has never been 
 identified with either of the dominant parties, pre- 
 ferring to use his own judgment and support the 
 best man for the office, although he voted for 
 President McKinley each time he ran for office. 
 He was raised in the Mormon Church, and has 
 always been a faithful member of that denomi- 
 nation, having for many years taken an active 
 part in its work, both in Sunday School and 
 Ward teachings. His wife is a member of the 
 Ladies' Relief Society, in which she is a teacher. 
 Their oldest daughter, Clara, although but sev- 
 enteen years of age, has alreadv shown great tal- 
 
 ent along artistic lines, especially in landscape 
 painting, the home being adorned with many 
 specimens of her work in this direction, which, 
 considering the meager instruction she has re- 
 ceived are truly wonderful, and are prophetic 
 of a bright future for the young artist. It is 
 the desire and intention of her parents that she 
 shall receive a most thorough and efficient edu- 
 cation along this line, and the prospects are that 
 she will eventually become one of the leading 
 artists of Utah, and of the inter-mountain re- 
 gion. 
 
 ()HN RICHARDSON. The beautiful, 
 urderly and well improved farm of John 
 Richardson is a splendid monument to 
 his industry, keen business foresight and 
 untiring perseverance, and is a forcible 
 illustration of the old adage that "where there's 
 a will there's a way." He came to Utah with 
 his widowed mother as a boy of eighteen, and 
 since then has made his own way in the world, 
 beginning almost penniless and working his way 
 steadily upward until he is now the owner of 
 one of the most desirable little farms in Salt 
 Lake county, and among its staunchest and most 
 substantial citizens. 
 
 Mr. Richardson was born in Bedfordshire, En- 
 gland, in 1 85 1, and is the son of Charles and 
 Sarah (Lavender) Richardson, both natives of 
 that county, made famous as the birthplace of 
 John Bunyan, the great reformer. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Richardson came to Utah, cross- 
 ing the plains by rail as far as Ogden. He first 
 located at Taylorsville, and after living there 
 four years our subject bought twenty-four acres 
 of partly improved land in Grant Ward. He has 
 since, by hard work, brought this place up to a 
 high state of cultivation, under a good system 
 of irrigation, and shaded by an abundance of 
 stately trees. He has built a pretty little seven- 
 room brick cottage, and has the entire place 
 fenced. His mother died in 1889, having sur- 
 vived her husband six years. 
 
 He was married in Salt Lake City in 1872, to 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 437 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Sarah 
 (Franks) Rlackay. Mr. Mackay came to Utah 
 in 1847, and his wife and daughter followed in 
 1856, crossing the plains with one of the famous 
 hand cart companies. The mother is still liv- 
 ing; the father died in 1880. Of the children 
 born of this marriage, seven are now living — 
 Charles, Pearl, a student at the high school in 
 Salt Lake City ; Ada, Le Roy, Clara, Earl, and 
 Clvde. It is Mr. Richardson's ambition to give 
 all his children a fine education, and with that 
 end in view they are being sent to the schools of 
 Salt Lake City as fast as they finish in the dis- 
 trict schools. 
 
 In politics Mr. Richardson is a Republican, and 
 cast his first vote in a Presidential election for 
 the late President McKinley in 1896. He has 
 been a school trustee for the past four years, and 
 is a firm friend of education, believing it to be 
 the best legacy one can leave their children. 
 
 He and his family are members of the Mormon 
 Church, and active in its work. 
 
 The career which Mr. Richardson has carved 
 out for himself is one that is worthy of emula- 
 tion by any young man starting out on life's 
 journey. While he had but a dollar and five 
 cents with which to begin life in Utah, he was 
 rich in hope and the belief that he could over- 
 come every obstacle, and it is owing largely to 
 this unconquerable spirit of independence that 
 he owes his present prosperity. The land he first 
 bought as a home is worth today two hundred 
 dollars an acre, and is yielding a handsome re- 
 turn on the original investment. Personally he 
 is of a most genial and kindly disposition, and 
 enjoys the confidence and esteem of a large cir- 
 cle of friends. 
 
 RESTON S. FREE, the subject of this 
 sketch, was one of the early pioneers 
 a mow to Utah, coming to this State in 1848. 
 S ^SS He was born in Saint Clair county, Il- 
 linois, March 13, 1831, and is the son 
 of Absalom P. and Betsy (Strait) Free. Ab- 
 solom P. Free was born in Xorth Carolina in 
 
 March, 1778, and moved to Saint Clair county, 
 Illinois, in 1816. He was married in South Car- 
 olina, wher.e two sons — Andrew and Velcher — 
 were lx)rn, and where the mother died. These 
 two sons were all through the Civil War, Velcher 
 being with Sherman in his famous march to the 
 sea. Mr. Free later married the mother of our 
 subject in Saint Clair county, Illinois. She was 
 a native of Kentucky, being born in that State 
 on January 30, 1804. The result of this marriage 
 was twelve children, eight of whom grew to man- 
 hood and womanhood, Preston S. being the fifth 
 child. The Free family went to Missouri with 
 the first westward bound Mormons, and after 
 being driven from that State joined the ranks 
 at Xauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, where they re- 
 mained until the exodus of the Mormons in 1846, 
 when tliey went, in company with the main body 
 of the Church, to Winter Quarters, on the Mis- 
 souri river. That was the winter the call came 
 from the government for volunteers to serve 
 in the war against Alexico, and the response of 
 five hundred and forty-nine able bodied men who 
 went to fight for the honor of their country left 
 many families with no one to provide for them, 
 many being in destitute circumstances. Brigham 
 Young, then President of the Church, organized 
 those who were left into companies of ten, and 
 the men and boys who were able to work were 
 required to go out into different parts of the 
 country and earn money to provide for the needs 
 of the company. Absolom P. Free and his sons 
 went into ^Missouri, where they worked in ac- 
 cordance with this provision and assisted in pro- 
 viding for those who were left without any means 
 of support. After the main body had started 
 across the great American plains for Utah, the 
 Free family put in a crop on the Missouri river, 
 and remained there until the spring of 1848, 
 when Brigham Young returned for them, and 
 in his company they arrived in Salt Lake City 
 on September 12th of that year. An old friend 
 of Mr. Free's met them upon their arrival, and 
 at once took him to a piece of land adjoining 
 his own, which Mr. Free took up, and lived near 
 his friend, Isaac Chase, for some time. This 
 place was later turned over to Brigham Young, 
 and now forms the east end of Liberty Park. 
 
438 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 After disposing of his first homestead to Presi- 
 dent Young, Mr. Free moved to the Eighth 
 Ward, where he Hved three years, and then 
 moved to the Twelfth Ward, later settling on 
 the farm at Third East and Twelfth South 
 streets, where he remained until his death in 
 1885. His wife survived him but about a year, 
 and of this family only three are now living, 
 they being our subject and his two sisters. 
 
 Preston S. Free was married on August 30, 
 1855, to Miss Mary Titcomb, daughter of John 
 and Mary (Atkins) Titcomb, both natives of 
 England, where they were married, and came to 
 America in 1843, settling at Nauvoo, and com- 
 ing to Utah in 1849. I" this family there were 
 eight children, Mrs. Free being the fourth child, 
 and three of these children are now living. Mrs. 
 Free's parents have been dead many years, her 
 father dying in Cottonwod Ward and her 
 mother in Mill Creek Ward. Thirteen children 
 have been born to our subject, of whom four 
 died — Preston S., Daniel F., Mary T., now Mrs. 
 James Hendry of Forest Dale Ward ; Louisa E., 
 now Mrs. Wilford Kimball ; Hannah C, who 
 died in infancy; Euretta, also died in infancy; 
 Findley C, who died when twenty-five years of 
 age ; Fannie Laura, now Mrs. Nephi Hansen, of 
 Forest Dale Ward; Grace F., now Mrs. Victor 
 Ensign, of Forest Dale Ward; Ida C, now Mrs. 
 Thomas Beisinger, also living in Forest Dale 
 Ward ; Jerald Roy, now on a mission to the 
 Southern States : Ray, a twin of Jerald's died 
 in infancy ; and Huron R., at home with his par- 
 ents. The husband of Mrs. Thomas Beisinger 
 is now on a mission in Gennany, and since he 
 left on this mission a daughter, Ida May, has 
 been born to them. Three of Mr. Free's sons- 
 in-law have served on missions for the Mormon 
 Church, and James Hendry, the husband of Mary 
 F., is Counselor to Bishop Jensen of Forest Dale 
 Ward. All the fainily are members of the Mor- 
 mon Church and active in its work, the mother 
 and her daughters being members of the Relief 
 Societies ; Mary L. is President of the Young 
 Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association, and 
 Ida is First Counselor to the President of the 
 Primarv Association of her Ward; she is also a 
 teacher in the Sundav School, and was one of 
 
 the first to assist in starting a Sunday School in 
 her Ward. Mr. and Mrs. Free have had twenty- 
 eight grandchildren, of whom five have died. 
 
 Many years ago Mr. Free settled at his pres- 
 ent home at the corner of Seventh East and Thir- 
 teenth South streets, where he bought twenty 
 acres of land, which he improved, and from time 
 to time he has given each of his children a home 
 from this original piece of land, giving each as 
 they married a lot and modern brick house, and 
 today is surrounded by his children, the family 
 circle being an unusually happy and interesting 
 one. It has been Mr. Free's aim through life to 
 provide comfortable homes for his children, and 
 he is now reaping his just reward of happiness 
 in seeing them near him ; the bond between these 
 children and their parents being an unusually 
 tender one, and the home is noted in the com- 
 munity as one of hospitable good will towards 
 all men. Mr. Free was baptized into the Mor- 
 mon Church at Winter Quarters in the early 
 spring of 1848, and has all his life since taken 
 an active part in its work, assisting his sons- 
 in-law in every wav possible when they have 
 been called on missions, and being ever a staunch 
 believer in the doctrines taught by that Church, 
 teaching them in turn to his children. He has 
 also been prominent in the work of advancing 
 the prosperity of his State and community, and 
 in the early days was a member of the State mi- 
 litia, retirine with the rank of Major. During 
 the time of the invasion of Johnston's army he 
 organized a company and was preparing them to 
 go to the front when he was stricken with ty- 
 phoid fever, and was compelled to abandon the 
 project. He served with the militia until the 
 government prohibited its members from carry- 
 ing arms. He was also a participant in all the 
 Indian troubles of those days, and took part in 
 protecting the settlers from the depredations of 
 the red men. 
 
 Mr. Free has, by his untiring energy, and hard 
 work, secured for himself a comfortable compe- 
 tence in his declining years, and has by his genial 
 and pleasant manner, his upright and honorable 
 career, won the confidence and respect of all who 
 have been associated with him in business or 
 known him in social life. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 439 
 
 oil X EDWARD HATCH. Among tlie 
 successful and prominent young men of 
 Davis county Mr. Hatch, the subject of 
 this sketch, deserves special mention. 
 He is a native son of Utah, having been 
 born in South Bountiful Ward January 26, 1859, 
 and is the son of Orin and Elizabeth M. Hatch, 
 whose biographical sketch appears elsewhere in 
 this volume. 
 
 Mr. Hatch has practically spent his whole life 
 in Davis county, his boyhood days being spent 
 on his father's fann where he assisted in build- 
 ing the home, and his education was received in 
 the common schools of that county. When quite 
 a small boy he started out herding sheep and 
 cattle for his father, at which he continued until 
 he married, on October 16, 1879, to Miss Laura V. 
 Ellis, daughter of John and Harriett Ellis, whose 
 parents came to LTtah in the early fifties. They 
 have had four children — Harriett M., John E., 
 Sylvia and Sarah L. 
 
 Soon after marrying he purchased a home in 
 South Bountiful Ward, which he improved and 
 where they continued to reside until 1901, when 
 that place was sold. He purchased his present 
 home in 1895, but only recently made his home 
 there. This place consists of eight acres, one- 
 quarter of a mile south of the postoffice, on which 
 he has built a fine eight-room brick house. Since 
 Mr. Hatch took hold of this farm he has greatly 
 improved it, and now has one of the finest homes 
 in his vicinity. He also owns thirty acres in the 
 same vicinity, besides his home place, which he 
 has also improved, and on which there is a splen- 
 did residence, barns, fences, shade trees, etc. This 
 farm joins his father's place. Mr. Hatch is a 
 member of the Deseret Live Stock Company, 
 having served for a number of j'ears as one of 
 the directors of that company. Like his father 
 he has always been a prominent and active mem- 
 ber of the Mormon Church, of which his wife 
 and children are also members, his wife being a 
 teacher in the Ladies' Relief Society, of which 
 she is a member. For many years Mr. Hatch has 
 been Superintendent and a teacher in the Ward 
 Sunday Schools. He was called and set apart 
 February 4, 1899, to serve on a mission to Eng- 
 land, where he spent twenty-six months in the 
 
 vicinity of Liverpool. At present he is one of 
 the Presidents of the Seventy-fourth Quorum of 
 Seventies. 
 
 I'lIRAIM P. ELLISON has spent 
 practically his whole life in the vicin- 
 ity of Layton and Kaysville, in Davis 
 county, having arrived in Kaysville with 
 his parents when only two years of age. 
 Here he spent his bovhood days on his father's 
 farm, and received his early education from the 
 common schools. He early started out to make 
 his own way in life, and by foresight and good 
 business principles his efforts have been crowned 
 with success. At the present time he is consid- 
 ered one of the most prominent and successful 
 business men of Davis county. He is the son of 
 John and Alice (Pilling) Ellison, a biographical 
 sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, 
 and was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, June 10, 
 1850. 
 
 Mr. Ellison was married in January, 1873, ^^ 
 Miss Elizabeth Whitesides, daughter of Lewis 
 and Susan (Perkins) Whitesides. By this mar- 
 riage nine children were born. 
 
 Our subject is the owner of several farms in 
 Davis county, and is also largely interested in 
 cattle and sheep. He also operates a coal yard in 
 Layton. In addition to these private enterprises 
 Mr. Ellison is President of the Davis and Weber 
 Canal Company, which was organized about 
 twenty years ago, and irrigates ten thousand 
 acres of land. The capital of this concern has 
 lately been increased to five hundred thousand 
 dollars. He was one of the organizers of the 
 Farmers' Union, which does a general merchan- 
 dise business at Layton. The establishment was 
 organized in 1882, and in connection with the 
 mercantile business they have a lumber business. 
 They own a fine, large, brick building, in which 
 they transact business, the upper portion being 
 used as a hall. Mr. Ellison has been Superin- 
 tendent of this business since its organization. 
 He is a director in the Layton Dairy Company, 
 and also in the Layton Milling Company, of 
 which he is Manager. He was the promoter of 
 the Layton Milling Company. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In politics Mr. Ellison is a Republican, and 
 served one term as County Commissioner of his 
 county about ten years ago, under the People's 
 party, since which time his business interests 
 and his Church work has required all his time, 
 and he has not of late years been active in party 
 work. He and his family are members of the 
 Mormon Church, and Mr. Ellison is Hisrh Coun- 
 sel of the Davis Stake and Superintendent of the 
 Sunday School. He is a stockholder and mem- 
 ber of the Board of Directors of the Ogden Sugar 
 Company. 
 
 WID COOK, Bishop of Syracuse 
 Ward, was born in Somersetshire, 
 l-.ngland, on March 15, 1847. He is 
 the oldest of six children who grew 
 to maturity out of tne family of thir- 
 teen of ^lark and Ann (Evans) Cook, both na- 
 tives of Somerset. Mark Cook brought his fam- 
 ily to the United States in 1853, coming direct 
 to Utah. They crossed the plains in the com- 
 pany of Jacob Gates, and arrived in Salt Lake 
 Citv in October of that year, where they win- 
 tered. In 1855 Mr. Cook moved his family to 
 East Bountiful, and here David grew to man- 
 hood, and his father and mother died, the former 
 in September, 1895, the latter on July 23, 1882. 
 The Bishop was married in Bountiful on jMarch 
 21, 1871, to Hannah Holt, a daughter of John 
 and Elizabeth (Rhodes) Holt. His wife came to 
 Utah with her mother in 1866. They have nine 
 children— Hannah M., now Mrs. F. E. Briggs, 
 of Syracuse; David, of Bear River, Box Elder 
 county ; Emeline, now Mrs. Walker, of Syracuse ; 
 Elizabeth A., Samuel, INIary Ann, Amos Roy, 
 Lydia M., and Tessie H. The Bishop lived in 
 Bountiful until 1890, when he moved to Syra- 
 cuse, where he has a farm of a hundred and sixty 
 acres. He also has a fifty-acre farm in another 
 part of the county, which is well improved. Both 
 of these he converted from sagebrush deserts into 
 good arable land. Besides farming he raises cat- 
 tle and sheep. 
 
 In politics Bishop Cook is a Democrat. He 
 
 was elected County Commissioner in 1894, and 
 has been Road Supervisor, School Trustee, and 
 held other public ofifices. When he came to Syra- 
 cuse it was part of South Hooper Ward. He 
 was ordained Bishop in 1894, and set apart to 
 preside over South Hooper Ward, and when 
 Syracuse Ward was created he was set apart 
 as Bishop thereof, and he has been Bishop of 
 this Ward ever since. He was baptized in the 
 Mormon Church in East Bountiful when he 
 was a child of eight years, and all of his family 
 are members of the Church. On October 12, 
 1880, he was sent on a two years' mission to 
 Great Britain, and labored for his Church in 
 the Liverpool Conference. In 1866 he returned 
 to the Missouri river to act as guide to Horton 
 Hayte's immigrant train, which was coming out 
 to Utah. His father served in the Mormon army 
 during the Johnston army trouble. David G., his 
 oldest son, went on a mission to the Southern 
 States in June, 1898, and Samuel C, another son, 
 went on a mission to the Southern States last 
 January. 
 
 \:MUEL H. BEXXIOX. Taylorsville 
 Ward, in Salt Lake county, is without 
 doubt one of the best sections in the 
 agricultural districts of the entire State. 
 Its splendid, rich and productive soil; 
 its many elegant homes, adorned with fruit, for- 
 est and shade trees, and its irrigating canals, all 
 indicate that master hands have had it in charge 
 during the past half century. Among its worthy 
 citizens, who have been closely identified with the 
 history of this section and have taken a promi- 
 nent and important part in its building up and 
 improvement, is the gentleman whose name ap- 
 pears at the head of this sketch. 
 
 Samuel H. Bennion was born in Taylorsville 
 Ward June 20, 1854, and is the son of Samuel 
 and Mary (Bushell) Bennion. Our subject 
 turned to Taylorsville Ward, where he purchased a 
 educated in the common schools that existed 
 then. He early started out in the cattle and 
 sheep business, and in 1875 moved to Vernon, 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 44 r 
 
 Tooele county, where he followed the cattle busi- 
 ness for a period of fifteen years. He then re- 
 turned to TaylorsvilleWard, where he purchased a 
 home and began making improvements on it. His 
 home is located just west and a little north of the 
 old postoffice on the Redwood road ;here Mr. Ben- 
 nion owns thirty acres of highly improved land, 
 most of the improvements of which he has put 
 on with his own hands. He has a splendid brick 
 residence surrounded with orchard, fruit and 
 shade trees. While he has given considerable 
 attention to farming, this has not been his only 
 avocation, for all through his business life he 
 has been identified largely with the sheep and 
 cattle business, and at present ranges in Wyom- 
 ing. 
 
 On December 27th, 1875, he was married to 
 Miss Elizabeth Sharp, daughter of Adam and 
 Jeanette (Cook) Sharp, and four children were 
 born to them — Jessie, now Mrs. Raymond Cole, 
 of Salt Lake City; Ethel, died aged two years, 
 and two died at birth. Mr. Bennion's first wife 
 died on July 27, 1882, and on May 3, 1883,, he 
 married as his second wife Matilda Hokenson, 
 and by this marriage four children were born — 
 Amy, Harvey, Ella and Andrew. Their mother 
 died October 23, 1888, and on February 20, 1890, 
 Mr. Bennion again married, this time to Mrs. 
 Belle (Martin) Rowberry, daughter of Moses 
 and Isabella (Gillespie) Martin, and of this mar- 
 riage three children have been born — ^Myrtle, 
 Vera and Leone. His present wife had been mar- 
 ried before to William Rowberry, who died July 
 3, 1882, and there were two children born to 
 them — Isabella, now Mrs. Albert Cook, of I'ay- 
 lorsville, and Mary. 
 
 In politics Mr. Bennion has always taken an 
 active part in the Republican party. He and his 
 family are members of the Mormon Church, and 
 have always been prominently identified with that 
 denomination in Taylorsville Ward. For fifteen 
 years he was Counselor to Bishop J. C. Sharp, 
 in Vernon, Tooele county. He has also been 
 Sunday School Superintendent, and is now a 
 High Priest. His wife and family are also active 
 in Church work, Mrs. Bennion being a member 
 of the Ladies' Relief Society and his daughters 
 members of the Young Ladies' Relief Society. 
 
 .\MES KIPPEN. No one can bequeath 
 to posterity a richer heritage than the 
 memory of a noble and well-directed life, 
 devoted with unselfish affection to the 
 upbuilding of the human race. Such a 
 man will wield an influence that will not cease 
 with his departure from earth's scenes. The life 
 of James Kippen has been largely devoted to the 
 welfare of his fellow beings. 
 
 He was born February 3, 1820, at Perthshire, 
 Scotland, and is now therefore in the eighty- 
 second year of his age. He is the son of Robert 
 and Catherine (Campbell) Kippen, who were 
 both natives of the Highlands of Scotland, where 
 they lived and died. Our subject spent the first 
 twenty-four years of his life within sixteen miles 
 of the place of his birth, and received a common 
 school education in his native land. On June 
 16, 1842, after listening to one of the Alormon 
 missionaries who were preaching in that country, 
 he became an adherent and member of the Mor- 
 mon Church, being baptized into that faith at 
 Mansadie Parish. So enthused was he in this 
 new religion that soon after he became a convert 
 he began to preach in his native land to his as- 
 sociates and friends, but so far as known none 
 of them ever became converts, he being the only 
 one in his family and the only one in that com- 
 munity to join the Mormons. In 1844 he sailed 
 for America, crossing the Atlantic Ocean in an 
 old sailing vessel, and arriving at Nauvoo, Illi- 
 nois, in April of the same year, where he re- 
 mained until the following August, when he went 
 to Saint Louis, where he followed the trade 
 wliich he had learned in his native land with his 
 father and oldest brother, that of a mason. After 
 working in Saint Louis and vicinity for a time, 
 he next located in Lexington, ^Missouri, and later 
 went to Independence, in the same State, where he 
 contracted the fever and ague, which hung on for 
 three months and left him greatly emaciated. In 
 1848 he outfitted an ox team with provisions, 
 preparatory to crossing the plains to Utah, which 
 he did, arriving in Salt Lake City on October 
 4th, after a long and wearisome trip. Here he 
 followed his trade for a short period, having 
 placed the first rock in the old Tithing Office, 
 and also assisted in building President Brigham 
 
442 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Young's first house. In the spring of 1850 he 
 located in Bountiful, where he secured thirty-five 
 acres of land, at that time in a wild state and 
 covered with willows, sage and under-brush, and 
 here he has since continued to live. His home 
 place is at present in a high state of cultivation, 
 he having erected a splendid brick residence, sunk 
 an artesian well to supply water for both his 
 stock and irrigating purposes, until now he has 
 one of the finest places of its size in Davis county. 
 In addition to his home place he owns two hun- 
 dred acres of valuable farming land in Morgan 
 county, where part of his family reside. Farming 
 and the stock business have been his principal 
 avocations through life. 
 
 While residing at Nauvoo he met and married 
 Isabella Watson, dauehter of Andrew Watson, 
 the marriage ceremony being performed by 
 Hyrum Smith, the brother of the Prophet. His 
 second marriage occurred in 1853. when he was 
 married to Catherine Watson. He has been the 
 father of ten children, eight of whom are now 
 living — Jasper ; Catherine ; Margaret ; Jannett, 
 who died aged two and a half years ; James ; 
 Duncan; Robert; Elizabeth, and George. His 
 children are residents and worthy citizens of 
 Utah. Duncan was called in 1895 to go on a 
 mission to the Samoan Islands, where he spent 
 two years. In 1878 our subject was called to go 
 on a mission to his native land, and served two 
 years in that country. While there he visited 
 the scenes of his early bovhood days, and met 
 one brother and two sisters, all the remainder of 
 the family having passed away. 
 
 Mr. Kippen is a firm believer in the teachings 
 of his Church regarding work for the dead, and 
 for the past seven years he has been doing work 
 along this line in the Temple for members of his 
 family who have died out of the faith of the Mor- 
 mon Church, believing that by this means he will 
 be able to save their souls. He has passed all 
 through the scenes of hardships and difficulties 
 which the settlement of Utah has made a matter 
 of history, and during the Johnston army troubles 
 he served as a guard in the Green river country 
 and in Echo Canyon. While much of his life has 
 been given to the maintenance of his families and 
 in laying the foundation for a comfortable com- 
 
 petence for his declining years, yet one of the 
 greatest desires of his life has been to preach 
 the Gospel, and in this direction he has lost no 
 opportunities, but has done all in his power to 
 bring salvation to the human race. He has been 
 ordained a High Priest, and still holds that posi- 
 tion. Three different times during his life he has 
 been at the point of death, but by divine provi- 
 dence his life has been spared: In luly, 1901. 
 while driving across the railroad track, one of 
 the fast express trains thundered down the track, 
 striking his wagon and tearing it to pieces, and 
 throwing Mr. Kippen onto the south side of the 
 wagon road. From this he only experienced a 
 small jar. Another evidence of a narrow escape 
 was while he was serving on his mission to Scot- 
 land. He had converted a lady, whose brother 
 became enraged over it, and picked up a club and 
 struck Mr. Kippen over the head. The blow 
 was one which might ordinarily have resulted in 
 death, but it never fazed Mr. Kippen. He has 
 also been shot at, but never wounded. 
 
 OSEPH J. HOLBROOK. Of the native 
 .sons of Utah few have been more closely 
 identified with Davis county than has the 
 subject of this sketch, and while still 
 a comparatively young man, his life has 
 been of a rather eventful and interesting char- 
 acter. 
 
 Born in Hountiful, Davis county, January 23, 
 1858, he is the son of Joseph and Lucy (Jones) 
 Holbrook, of whom a biographical sketch ap- 
 pears elsewhere in this volume. Our subject had 
 two full sisters and one brother, William, now 
 living in Bountiful. Mr. Holbrook spent his early 
 life on the farm in Davis county, and remained at 
 home until twenty-two years of age, receiving his 
 education from such schools as then existed in 
 that community. 
 
 He started out in life for himself at the age 
 of twentv-two, having married Miss Alice Cook 
 on December 23, 1878. She was the daughter of 
 Mark and Ann (Evans) Cook, her people com- 
 ing to Utah in 1854. Mrs. Holbrook was born 
 in Bountiful. As a result of this union six chil- 
 dren have been born, five of them still living — 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 443 
 
 Lucy, now Mrs. P. O. Hatch, of Bountiful, who 
 has two children, Lawrence P. and Cecil ; his other 
 children are Joseph, Artulus, William A., Anna 
 L.. and Wilford, who died in infancy. 
 
 The old home place in which our subject now 
 resides consists of a full block, on which stands 
 an old gray residence, which was built many years 
 ■ago. He also owns forty acres of land in Syra- 
 cuse and other tracts of land in the vicinity of 
 Bountiful. When the Spanish-.\merican War 
 broke out he was among the first to enlist in 
 Battery A, under command of Captain Richard 
 W. Young, and served in the Philippine Islands 
 for a period of about seven months, being dis- 
 charged by special act of Congress, through the 
 instrumentality of the Hon. Frank J. Cannon, 
 who was at that time United States Senator. Mr. 
 Holbrook has also taken an active part in the 
 work of the Church, having been for years a 
 Ward teacher and President of the Elders' Quo- 
 rum. 
 
 In politics he has been identified with the Dem- 
 ocratic party, and in 1900 was nominated and 
 elected a County Commissioner for Davis county, 
 being Chairman of that body. He has also served 
 as Deputy Sheriff for several terms, and is now 
 Constable, and has been Deputy Fish and Game 
 Warden. He helped to take the first steam saw 
 mill into Arizona, in July, 1876, and the mill was 
 erected at Mogollon Ranee in September of that 
 year. Previous to this he had made a coloniza- 
 tion trip to Sunset Crossing, in the same Terri- 
 tory, remaining there about eighteen months. 
 There was at this time but one white family 
 living between Kanab, Utah, and Saint Johns, 
 Arizona. 
 
 OHX W. HESS. Concentration of pur- 
 pose and persistently applied energy 
 rarely fail of success in the accomplish- 
 ment of any task, however great, and 
 in tracing the career of John W. Hess, 
 President of the Davis Stake, it is plainly seen 
 that these things have been the secret of his rise 
 to a position of prominence and respect, not only 
 in the ordinary walks of life, but in the work of 
 the Momion Church as well. 
 
 John W. Hess was born in Franklin county, 
 Pennsylvania, August 24, 1821, and is the son 
 of Jacob and Elizabeth (Foutz) Hess. His father 
 was born May 21, 1792, and his mother June 4, 
 1797, both in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. 
 They were married in 1816, and of this marriage 
 twelve children were born — Catherine, Polly, 
 Mary Ann, John W., Sarah, Ann, Christina, Har- 
 riett, Lydia Ann, David, Alma and Emma. In 
 1832 the family moved to Richland county, Ohio, 
 where Mr. Hess located on a piece of heavy tim- 
 ber land, which he cleared, and opened a small 
 farm with bright prospects. In March, 1834, Mr. 
 Hess, his wife, three oldest daughters and our 
 subject were baptized into the Mormon Church 
 by Bishop David Evans, who later lived in Lehi, 
 this State, and died some years ago. Their baptism 
 was the signal for a number of petty persecutions 
 on the part of their neighbors, and in the year 
 1836, May 1st, Mr. Hess moved with his family 
 to Ray county, Missouri, where he rented a farm 
 from John Arbuckle, living there until the Mor- 
 mons were expelled from Caldwell county, when 
 he went to Illinois and settled in Hancock county, 
 again settling on a piece of timber land, which he 
 cultivated as best he could, but the many priva- 
 tions and persecutions he had suffered began to 
 tell, and his health failed. In moving from place 
 to place Mr. Hess had lost the most of his means, 
 and at this time was in destitute circumstances. 
 Our subject, being the oldest of the children, 
 much of the care and responsibilities in assisting 
 his father fell upon him. He bought forty acres 
 of land, which he began to improve, and in 1844- 
 45 began the erection of a hewed log cabin. At 
 this time the people were burning the posses- 
 sions of the Mormons in Morley's settlement, 
 which was near the Hess place, and finally the 
 mob violence became so threatening that they did 
 not dare remain on their place any longer, and 
 our subject moved the family to Nauvoo, where 
 they occupied a part of the home of Mrs. H^ss' 
 brother. Bishop Foutz. It had become necessary 
 for them to leave the greater {jortion of their 
 possessions at the farm when leaving, and upon 
 our subject's return he found they had all been 
 destroyed. In November, 1845, the father was 
 stricken with paralysis and lost the use of one 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 side, and was a helpless invalid from that time 
 until his death. 
 
 Our subject had married Emeline Bigler, who 
 was born in Harrison county, Virginia, on August 
 20, 1824. Word was sent to the members of the 
 Church that they would leave Nauvoo in the fol- 
 lowing spring. After much difficulty Mr. Hess 
 managed to get two wagons and two yokes of 
 oxen, which he fitted up, putting a bed in one 
 wagon, on which he placed his father. The fam- 
 ily possessions had to be taken in the remaining 
 wagon, and this necessitated the entire family, 
 with the exception of the helpless father, walk- 
 ing the entire distance. On April 3, 1846, they 
 started for Mount Pisgah. That night they 
 crossed the Mississippi river and camped on the 
 Iowa side of the river in a drenching rain. The 
 advance companies of Mormons had planted corn 
 and vegetables for the benefit of those who 
 came later, and here our subject decided to 
 remain for a time, as supplies were al- 
 most exhausted and the father was failing 
 rapidly. In June, 1846, he built a temporary 
 shelter of elm bark, in which house the mother 
 and children remained for two years. It 
 was learned at this time that Brigham Young was 
 going to send a company to the Rocky Mountains 
 to locate a settlement, and our subject went to 
 Council Bluffs with his team, after making his 
 father and mother as comfortable as he could, 
 and with his wife started for Utah, in the com- 
 pany of which Henry W. Miller was Captain. 
 When but a short distance from Council Bluffs 
 they were overtaken by Captain Allen, accom- 
 panied by five dragoons of the United States 
 army, who camped with them that night. Cap- 
 tain Allen was the bearer of a message from the 
 Government, asking them to raise a company of 
 five hundred volunteers to go to Mexico in the 
 service of the Government. After consultation. 
 President Brigham Young advised the men to 
 go, and in response to this call five hundred and 
 forty-nine volunteered. They arrived in Council 
 Bluff's about the loth of July, and found that four 
 companies had already enlisted. Our subject 
 and his wife enlisted in Company E, under 
 Captain Daniel C. Davis, the Government having 
 made provision for four women to accompany 
 
 each company of one hundred men as laundresses. 
 He left his team and outfit with his brother-in- 
 law, D. A. Miller, to be taken through to Utah. 
 Each company was provided with two six-mule 
 teams, and our subject drove one of these, and in 
 this way was able to make the trip comparatively 
 comfortable for his wife and the other women 
 of his company. Just prior to the time they 
 started for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Mr. Hess 
 received word of the death of his father. The 
 company remained two weeks at Fort Leaven- 
 worth, and then started for Santa Fe, a distance 
 of one thousand miles. They had no way of 
 carrying water for their own use except in their 
 canteens, and while on the desert were compelled 
 to use buffalo chips for fuel. This march across 
 the desert was a most fearful one, and many of 
 the men had to be assisted to finish the latter part 
 of the journey. General Carney was at this time 
 fighting the Mexicans in Upper California, and 
 feeling that he was about to be defeated, sent a 
 messenger to Santa Fe, requesting that all able- 
 bodied men be sent on a forced march to his re- 
 lief. Mr. Hess had proved to be an excellent 
 teamster, and Captain Davis requested that he be 
 allowed to drive his private conveyance. Pro- 
 vision had been made to send the disabled men 
 and the women back to the camp on the Missouri 
 river. Mr. Hess did not wish to leave his wife 
 alone with a lot of sick men and helpless women, 
 and requested that she be allowed to accompany 
 him or that he be sent back with the company to 
 the old camp. Captain Davis was unwilling to 
 accede to either request, and it was only after 
 aopealing to General Doniphan, commander of 
 the post, that matters were adjusted satisfac- 
 torily, and Mr. Hess started back in company 
 with his wife and others. The detachment 
 reached Pueblo, where they built wood houses 
 for the winter. They had had no pay for seven 
 months, and Captain Brown, accompanied by ten 
 men, of whom our subject was one, went to Santa 
 Fe with the pay roll and got the pay for the men, 
 returning to Pueblo on April 1st, and on April 
 15th took up the march for Fort Laramie, three 
 hundred miles distant. They expected to learn 
 something about the train they had left at Council 
 Bluffs when thev reached Fort Laramie, and 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 445 
 
 while en route to that place met Amasa L)-man. 
 who, with others, had come from the Mormon 
 camp. They attempted to overtake the pioneers, 
 but came into Salt Lake City on July 28th, four 
 days after the Mormon train arrived, and on their 
 arrival were discharged from Government service. 
 Mr. Hess looks back upon that experience as one 
 of the most priceless in his life, and is proud of 
 the fact that he was a member of the Mormon 
 battalion. Upon arriving in Utah he found him- 
 self almost without means, but at once set about 
 to provide a home for himself and his faithful 
 wife. He got out logs for a house, and, in com- 
 pany with John Bevin, with whom he formed a 
 partnership, put up a whip saw pit and began to 
 turn out one hundred feet of lumber a day, for 
 which they found a ready sale. In this manner he 
 spent the winter of 1847. I" the spring of 1848 he 
 moved to Mill Creek, where he put in a small 
 crop, which was eaten up by crickets. On Sep- 
 tember 9th of that year he started back for his 
 mother and her children. His brother David was 
 the oldest child left at home, and he was only ten 
 years of age at the time of his father's death, but 
 the little fellow had pluckily set to work to as- 
 sist his mother in keeping the family together, 
 and they had planted a crop of buckwheat and 
 corn, and the older brother, on his return, found 
 them in good health and fairly comfortable cir- 
 cumstances. He made arrangements to bring 
 them to Utah in the following spring, and then 
 went to Council Bluffs, where he engaged to 
 work for Apostle Orson Hyde for twenty dol- 
 lars a month. He had only worked one month 
 when cold weather set in and work was sus- 
 pended for the rest of the winter. On April 15, 
 1849, he started for Salt Lake City, and after 
 an arduous journey arrived in Salt Lake on July 
 27th, 1849, only to find his land in Mill Creek 
 taken up by another party. 
 
 Mr. Hess was married seven times. He mar- 
 ried his second wife. Miss Emily Cord, on Alarch 
 30, 1852. She was a native of Maine, and was 
 born September 27, 1831. She was the mother 
 of ten children. On the i6th day of November, 
 1856, he married Julia Peterson, who was born 
 in Norway September 29, 1839, and became the 
 mother of four children. In March, 1857, he 
 
 was married to Mary Ann Steed, born in Eng- 
 land November 27, 1837, and who bore him ten 
 children. January 31, 1862, his first wife died. 
 This was a very severe trial to Mr. Hess, as she 
 had been the wife of his youth and was ever a 
 faithful and loving helpmeet, passing through all 
 the early trials and hardships of life with him. 
 On the 25th of April of that year he married 
 Miss Caroline Workman, who was born in Ten- 
 nessee March 28, 1846, and who became the 
 mother of ten children. He married Miss Sarah 
 L. Miller on May 30, 1868. She was born in 
 Farmington, Davis county, Utah, June 24, 1850, 
 and by her he had eight children. His second 
 wife, Emily Cord, died August 4, 1872. On July 
 28, 1875, he married Francis Marian Bigler, born 
 in Farmington, Utah, October 22, 1859, and by 
 her had seven children. Mr. Hess is the father 
 of sixty-six children, of whom thirty sons and 
 thirty daughters are now living. He has two 
 hundred and fifty grandchildren and fifty-five 
 great grandchildren. 
 
 Upon arriving in Utah with his mother Mr. 
 Hess went to Farmington, in Davis county, and 
 has made that his home ever since. He has fol- 
 lowed general farming, and has been very suc- 
 cessful. He and his different families are faith- 
 ful and consistent members of the Mormon 
 Church, and Mr. Hess has been especially active 
 in its work. He has passed through all the ofifices 
 of the Priesthood, and is now a Patriarch. He 
 was ordained a Bishop by President Young, and 
 set aside to preside over the Farmington Ward 
 in 1855. President Young called him to go 
 on a mission among the Lamanites, located in 
 Washakie, in Box Elder county, Utah, and he 
 has been more or less active in working among 
 and directing these people since that time. In 
 September, 1882, he was called by Prsident John 
 Taylor and set apart as First Counselor to the 
 President of Davis Stake of Zion. On March 
 17, 1885, the citizens of Farmington prepared a 
 banquet at Social Hall in honor of Mr. Hess' 
 long and useful career during his twenty- 
 seven years as a Bishop, and as a token of their 
 esteem and gratitude for his services presented 
 him with a bust of President Brigham Young 
 and a set of books containing the Church works. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In September, 1887, he was called on a mission 
 to the Washakie tribe of Indians, in company 
 with Bishop Zundel. He had gone on a mission 
 to his old home in November, 1869, and wnile 
 there had looked up the family genealogy, return- 
 ing to Utah February 16, 1870. Shortly after his 
 return William R. Smith, then President of the 
 Davis Stake, died, and iVIr. Hess was called to 
 fill the vacancy temporarily. On March 4, 1894, 
 he was set aside to preside as President of Davis 
 Stake of Zion, which position he still holds. 
 
 Mr. Hess has not distinguished himself in 
 Church work alone, but has been a prominent 
 and active man in political affairs in Utah, and 
 has ever been foremost in assisting to promote 
 the welfare of the State, as well as the com- 
 munity in which he has lived. In 1858 he was 
 elected to the Utah Legislature, and was re- 
 elected in 1862, serving four years. He was 
 again elected to the Legislature in 1876, and 
 was in command of the militia of Davis county 
 for many years, up to the time Governor Hard- 
 ing issued a proclamation making it an offense 
 to bear arms, when he was relieved from that 
 responsible duty. 
 
 In social life President Hess is known as a 
 most genial and kindlv gentleman, and to know 
 him is to admire and respect him. He has 
 through a long life been a man of high integrity, 
 following the teachings of the Church of his 
 choice with a conscience void of oft'ense, and has 
 won a high place in the esteem of all who know 
 Tiim. Left an orphan and the oldest child of the 
 family, he early assumed the duties of manhood, 
 and while rearing a large family himself, his first 
 thought was ever for his mother and her chil- 
 dren, to whom he has been a faithful and devoted 
 son and brother. The success which has come to 
 him has been through his own unaided efforts, 
 and he has made a career to which his children 
 and future posterity may well point with pride. 
 
 OHN WOOD. The first farm taken up 
 on j\Iill creek was taken up by Daniel 
 Wood, the father of our subject, the 
 family being the third to settle in Davis 
 county in the vicinity of South Bounti- 
 ful. It has been over half a centurv since the 
 
 family first settled there, and the transforming of 
 this wild and barren waste to its present splendid 
 condition is due in no small degree to the efforts 
 and energy of the Wood family. 
 
 John Wood was born in Duchess county, Can- 
 ada, April 10, 1830, and is the son of Daniel and 
 Mary (Snyder) Wood, who were both natives 
 of Canada. The family moved to Ohio when our 
 subject was but three years of age, and lived in 
 Kirkland for two or three years, going froni 
 there to Missouri, where they passed through 
 all the difficulties and hardships which were the 
 lot of the Mormon people in that State. From 
 Missouri they moved to Pike county, Illinois; 
 were they remained for a time, and then moved 
 to Hancock county, about twelve miles south of 
 Nauvoo, later making their home in Nauvoo-, 
 and leaving there with the main body of the 
 Mormon Church in 1846, going with them to 
 Winter Quarters, where they remained until 1848, 
 when they started across the great American 
 plains in Brigham Young's train, in which Mr. 
 Wood was made Captain of ten wagons. The 
 senior Mr. Wood was in quite comfortable cir^ 
 cumstances, as compared with the majority of 
 the pioneers, being the owner of two farm wagons 
 and a light spring wagon, one team of horses and 
 five yoke of oxen and cows. Upon their arrival 
 in L^tah the family went at once to Davis county 
 and settled at the place where our subject now 
 lives, one-quarter of a mile east of Woods Cross 
 station on the Oregon Short Line Railroad, where 
 the father took up one hundred acres of land, 
 which he improved and cultivated. The first 
 home of the family was a small log house with 
 a thatched roof, which was later replaced with a 
 two-story adobe house, in which the father lived 
 until his death. Mr. Wood was a staunch mem- 
 ber of the Mormon Church, both he and his wife 
 having been baptized in Canada by Joseph Young, 
 a brother of President Brigham Young. He was 
 a firm believer in the doctrine of polygamy, and 
 had eight wives, being the father of about twenty- 
 five children. Our subject was the second of a 
 family of seven children, all of whom, with the 
 exception of one sister, now Mrs. Moyle, of Salt 
 Lake City, have died. The senior Mr. Wood 
 was a member of the Nauvoo Legion. He was 
 
BIOGRAPHICAi: RECORD. 
 
 447 
 
 a prominent man in Davis county during his life, 
 being- active in all matters pertaining to the wel- 
 fare of his community. In addition to his farm, 
 he was also a heavy owner of cattle, sheep and 
 horses. After he had been in Utah some years 
 Mr. Wood made a trip to Canada, and during his 
 absence the Oregon Short Line Railroad built 
 through the choicest portion of his farm, and 
 built the station, which they named "Woods 
 Cross," right in the center of his farm. Mr. 
 Wood made his return trip by rail, and was much 
 surprised, as well as displeased, at what had oc- 
 curred during his absence. The company was 
 afterwards induced to move the station to its 
 present location. Mrs. Wood died about 1880, 
 and Mr. Wood died in 1892, mourned by a large 
 circle of life-long friends, and leaving a record 
 for business sagacity and integrity of which his 
 children may well be proud. 
 
 Our subject remained on the farm with his 
 father until he was about twenty-eight years of 
 age, at which time he was married to Miss 
 Amelia Langford, daughter of Eliza Langford. 
 Her father died in England, and she came to 
 Utah in 1850. By this marriage nine children 
 have been born, all but four of whom are now 
 living — Xephi, now engaged in ranching in 
 Idaho ; Eliza Jane, now Mrs. Hartley, living in 
 Idaho ; Edvv'ard and Henry, living near their 
 father ; Ellen, now ilrs. Samuel Sessions, living 
 in East Bountiful. The mother of these children 
 died July 26, 1880. He had previously married 
 her sister, Louisa, by whom he had seven chil- 
 dren, of whom four are now alive — Emily, now 
 Mrs. James Hartley, living in Idaho ; Edgar, 
 William and Earnest, all living at home. Airs. 
 \\'ood died January 5, 1901. Since the death of 
 the mother one of Mr. Wood's granddaughters 
 has kept house for him and is a great favorite 
 with the family. 
 
 Soon after his first marriage Mr. Wood set- 
 tled on his present home place, where he has 
 twenty-three acres of valuable land, well im- 
 proved, on which he has a comfortable home and 
 good out-buildings. He was born and raised in 
 the ^Mormon faith, and was baptized by Elder 
 Fountz, when but a child, in Pike county, Illi- 
 nois, and has ever since been a faithful adherent 
 
 of the teachings of his Church, as have also 
 his entire family. He remembers perfectly the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith, whom he saw when with 
 his parents in Nauvoo, and recalls his childhood's 
 associations with pleasure. He has been a leader 
 in all Church work in his community, and one of 
 his sons, Henry, served for two years in mission- 
 ary work in the Southern States. He partici- 
 pated in the early troubles when Johnston's army 
 landed in Utah, and saw service under Colonel 
 Ross in 1857. He took his family to American 
 Fork until the troubles were over, when he re- 
 turned for them and brought them home in the 
 fall of 1858. The Wood family also assisted 
 greatly in bringing freight and emigrants to 
 Utah, sending their teams to assist in bringing 
 supplies and families out, though they never 
 themselves accompanied their teams. He was in 
 the State militia, with the rank of Fourth Cor- 
 poral. In politics he is a Democrat, but has never 
 sought nor held public office. 
 
 HO.MAS WADDOUPS. Not to every 
 ambitious man does success come, no 
 matter how zealously he labors and 
 1 lends his energies to that desired end; 
 but in the preponderance of cases con- 
 centration of purpose, when united with integrity 
 and sagacity, will cause the goddess of fortune 
 to smile benignantly upon his efforts. Of the 
 self-made men whose history has been closely 
 identified with that of Davis county, and who 
 have passed through all the early scenes and 
 troubles of this new country since 1866, the sub- 
 ject of this, sketch deserves special mention. 
 
 Thomas Waddoups was born in Warwickshire, 
 England April 11, 1850, and is the son of Thomas 
 and Elizabeth Waddoups, both natives of Eng- 
 land. There were nine children in their family, 
 si.x of whom grew to maturity, our subject being 
 the fourth child. His early life was spent in his 
 native land, where he worked with his father on 
 a farm, and there he received a common school 
 education, but being of an ambitious turn of 
 mind, he early decided to seek new fields, where 
 greater opportunities were afforded young men, 
 
448 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and at the age of sixteen he started for America, 
 crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a sailing vessel, 
 and the plains by ox team, in company with 
 Horton Haight, Captain of the train, arriving in 
 Salt Lake City in the latter part of that same year. 
 On this trip he drove three yoke of oxen. Air. 
 Waddoup's success is more marked and pro- 
 nounced from the fact that when he arrived in 
 Utah and settled in Bountiful he hardly had a 
 cent to his name ; consequently had to begin at 
 the bottom of the ladder. The first few years 
 in Utah were none too pleasant. However, by 
 energy, perserverance and determination he was 
 able, during the first two years, to obtain suffi- 
 cient money to send for his father and his family. 
 Mr. Waddoups' first experience in Utah was in 
 working at whatever came first to his hand. 
 Money was very scarce in those days, and his 
 labors were paid for in farming products, these 
 being taken to the city and sold for one-half the 
 price he had paid in labor, but by economical and 
 careful living he year by year succeeded in get- 
 ting ahead, and is now considered one of the suc- 
 cessful and prosperous men of Davis county. 
 The senior Mr. Waddoups spent the balance of 
 his life in Bountiful, and died in October, 1900, 
 at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. His 
 wife died in 1884. Of their children there are 
 two sons and two daughters, besides our subject, 
 still living. 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Waddoups was married to Miss 
 Mary Call, daughter of Anson and Margaretta 
 Call, and of this marriaee ten children have been 
 born, of whom seven are still living, six sons and 
 one daughter — Thomas A. ; William M., now in 
 Honolulu on a mission for the Church, having 
 been called in February, 1899. Thomas A. also 
 served four years in the same section, and after 
 returning home was called to go to Skull Valley, 
 in the losepa range of mountains, in this State, 
 where there is a settlement of native Honolulans, 
 of which settlement he is in charge. The other 
 children are: Cyril, who died at the age of eight- 
 een months ; Ezra, school teaching in Skull Val- 
 ley; Royal; Bertha; Mable; Ralph, and Omer. 
 Our subject's second marriage was to Miss Cyn- 
 thia Call, a sister of his first wife. Six children 
 have been born of this marriage — Thara ; Aaron ; 
 
 Cynthia E. ; Eunice ; Irena, and Beatrice, all liv- 
 ing at home. 
 
 As the result of our subject's industrious life, 
 he is now the owner of sixty-five acres of splen- 
 did land in the vicinity of Bountiful ; this he has 
 improved and brought up to a high state of cul- 
 tivation, having planted orchards, made wells, 
 etc., and has a good residence upon it. While he 
 has given much of his time to his business and 
 the laying of a foundation for a home for him- 
 self and family, yet this has not occupied all of 
 his time. He has been a prominent member of 
 the Mormon Church ever since his baptism at the 
 age of eight years, his people also being mem- 
 bers of the same Church. In 1883 he was called 
 to serve on a mission to Great Britain, where he 
 labored to the entire satisfaction of the heads of 
 the Church for a period of two years in the vicin- 
 ity of his old home, being President of that Con- 
 ference. He has also taken an active and prom- 
 inent part in home missionary and colonization 
 work, and for the past twenty-eight years has 
 been a teacher in his Ward, as well as being a 
 member of the Ward Conference for the same 
 length of time. He was ordained President of 
 the Seventieth Quorum of the Seventies, which 
 ofiice he holds at this time. 
 
 By his long and honorable life in Utah he has 
 won the confidence and esteem of the heads of 
 the Church and enjoys the friendship and good 
 will of the communitv in which he resides. 
 
 ATvUAI DR.\KE, one of the prominent 
 \oung agriculturalists of Davis county, 
 has the proud distinction of being a 
 descendant of an old American family, 
 his ancestors on his father's side hav- 
 ing fought in the Revolutionary War. The fa- 
 ther, Horace Drake, whose biographical sketch 
 appears elsewhere in this work, was born in Hart- 
 ford, Trumbull county, Ohio, and was one of the 
 early members of the Mormon Church, coming 
 to Utah with the pioneers in 1847. His wife, 
 and the mother of our subject, bore the maiden 
 name of Diana E. Holbrook, a descendant of an 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 449 
 
 old Puritan family who settled in New York- 
 State. 
 
 Our subject was born in the Second Ward of 
 Salt Lake City, March 19. 1861, and there grew 
 to manhood and received his scholastic educa- 
 tion from the schools then existing in that city. 
 He was always at home with his father, and when 
 the latter moved to Centerville, our subject ac- 
 coinpanied him thither, and this has since been 
 his home. The senior Air. Drake has practically 
 retired from a life of activity, and the son has 
 entire charge of the farm. He is also building a 
 beautiful home in Centerville, which, when com- 
 pleted, will be one of tne finest in this part of 
 Utah. 
 
 Mr. Drake was married January 18, 1888. 
 when he led to the altar Miss Mary Derrick, 
 daughter of Zacharias and Mary E. (Horspool) 
 Derrick. The Derrick family came to Utah in 
 the early fifties, and Mrs. Drake was born in Salt 
 Lake City April 28, 1864. In their childhood 
 days Mr. and Mrs. Drake were schoolmates, and 
 from this life-long companionship sprang up the 
 affection that later culminated in their marriage. 
 But two children have blessed this union, and 
 they both died in infancy — Ivy the elder, died at 
 the age of three months, and his little brother, 
 Hyrum, when but nine days old. 
 
 Both Air. and Mrs. Drake are adherents of the 
 Mormon religion. Air. Drake being baptized into 
 the Church when but eight years of age, and he 
 has since been a most faithful and conscientious 
 follower of its teachings. He received one call 
 from the heads of the Church to go on a mission 
 to the Eastern States, but his health failing, he 
 was compelled to return home before the mis- 
 .sion was completed. However, he has been at 
 home a most faithful and earnest Church worker, 
 in connection with his father doing much for the 
 spread of the Alormon gospel. His efforts as a 
 Latter Day Saint and his zeal in Church mat- 
 ters have been recognized by the First Presi- 
 dency, who have advanced him from office to of- 
 fice, until he is at this time a member of the Quo- 
 rum of Seventies. 
 
 In political life Air. Drake is a member of the 
 Democratic party, although he has never sought 
 nor held public office. 
 
 AXIEL WILLIAAIS was one of the 
 early pioneers in Alorgan county ; in 
 fact, he was the first man to settle on 
 the north side of the Weber river, in 
 the fall of 1861. The following win- 
 ter was perhaps one of the most severe w'inters 
 ever known in Alorgan county. The continual 
 snow storms made life a burden for Air. Williams 
 and his little family. They suflfered many hard- 
 ships from cold, and sometimes hunger; but Air. 
 Williams is of that stamp of men which has made 
 Utah famous. No obstacles or difficulties could 
 daunt his courage or thwart his plans ; his strong 
 will power and determination has brought suc- 
 cess to his door. His whole life in Utah has been 
 honorable, straightforward and upright, and if 
 he has an enemy in all Alorgan county no one 
 is aware of it. 
 
 Air. Williams was l)orn in Alonmouthshire, 
 near Newport, Wales, in 1824 and is the son of 
 Daniel and Alaria (Rawlins) Williams. He grew 
 to manhood and received his education in his 
 native country. He followed the life of a coal 
 miner there for twenty years. He became a 
 member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints in 1849, and in i860 emigrated to the 
 United States, crossing the Atlantic Ocean on 
 board the ship Undemriter, and landed in New 
 York. His first year in America was spent in 
 Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he worked in the 
 coal mines. In 1861 he came to Florence, and 
 from there to Utah by ox teams, accompanied 
 by his five children and his sister, now Mrs. 
 Olson of San Diego, California. His ox teams 
 gave out on Green river, and he was compelled 
 to remain there for a time. He later came to the 
 Weber valley and located on the Weber river, 
 at Alountain Green, where he remained a few 
 months only, going from there to Alorgan county 
 and taking up a squatter's claim on the site where 
 Alorgan City now stands. Here he built a home. 
 He found a good quality of lime rock on his place 
 and burned all the lime used in the construction 
 work of the Union Pacific Railroad along the 
 Weber river. He followed this business for thirty 
 years, meantime clearing his land and improving 
 it, and taking up the occupation of farming, in 
 which he has been very successful. In 1872 he 
 
450 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 built a large house facing the railroad station, and 
 for a number of years had a general store adjoin- 
 ing his dwelling. At this time he owns consider- 
 able property in Morgan City. He has helped take 
 out a number of water ditches from Weber river, 
 and built the greater part of the North Morgan 
 ditch on contract. 
 
 Mr. Williams has had four wives. His first 
 wife was Miss Eliza Ames, whom he married in 
 Wales. She came to America with him, and died 
 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, leaving a family of 
 seven children, of whom five are now living — 
 Mary Ann, now the wife of Nelson Harvey ; 
 Joseph ; Jane, wife of Joseph Holt ; Hyrum ; Har- 
 riett, now Mrs. Thomas E. Jones, of California. 
 His second wife was Harriett Thurston, daughter 
 of Bishop Thurston of Milton, who was a school 
 teacher when she was married to Mr. Williams 
 in 1861. They had no family. His third wife 
 was Jane (Carter) Southwell, a native of Eng- 
 land, who died in 1897, leaving no family. His 
 present wife was a Mrs. Anderton. 
 
 In politics Mr. Williams is a believer in the 
 principles of the Democratic party, but he has 
 never sought or held public office, giving his 
 entire time to his business. Besides his property 
 in Morgan, Mr. Williams has four houses and 
 lots in Osrden, and has done considerable build- 
 ing there, as well as in Morgan. 
 
 ILLIAM ATWOOD. Macaulay, 
 the great historian, has truthfully 
 said, "The history of a country is 
 best told in the lives of its people." 
 In presenting the biography of the 
 Atwood family we do so with the knowledge that 
 it is replete with- many interesting and valua- 
 ble incidents ; the life of a people inured for gen- 
 erations to the hardship of frontier life, always 
 foremost in the advance guard of civilization ; 
 living in the thick of the fray, and occupying po- 
 sitions of high honor and trust in the communi- 
 ties where they have made their homes. 
 
 William Atwood was born in Dunkirk, New 
 York, January 30, 1839, and is the son of Simeon 
 and Melissa (Turrell) Atwood. The father was 
 a native of New York, being born in Montrose 
 county, September 12, 1814. The mother was 
 born in Burlington, Vermont, her birth occuring 
 the same hour as that of the late Queen Victoria. 
 While our subject was a small boy, the family 
 moved to Buffalo, New York, and from there to 
 Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where the father 
 built his home in the heavy timber country of 
 the Keystone State. After locating here, he was 
 for many years agent for Mr. Hidercooper, a 
 large land owner in Pennsylvania, but having 
 at that time no broken land and no means to tide 
 bun over the first few years, he was obliged to 
 deoend on day labor for the support of his fam- 
 ily, and during these years they sufifered many 
 privations, having to practice the most rigid econ- 
 omy. The father secured work in a near-by 
 brick yard, and on one occasion upon returning 
 home he discovered the family were entirely 
 without food, the children having been sent to 
 bed supperless, and the wife in tears over the dis- 
 couraging prospect. There was a two bushel 
 sack of rye in the house, and putting this on his 
 back he carried it three miles to the mill, only to 
 find the miller had retired ; nothing daunted, how- 
 ever, he obtained the key to the mill and spent 
 the greater part of the night grinding the rye, 
 reaching home at three o'clock in the morning, 
 when the meal was converted into bread and the 
 children aroused and fed. Thus early introduced 
 to the hardships that must always go hand in 
 hand with frontier life, the family were better 
 prepared for the life in this western country than 
 were some others. Later they moved to More- 
 headville, Erie county, Pennsylvania, where the 
 father engaged in the manufacture of bricks, in 
 which he was fairly successful, and continued 
 until 1862. On the i6th of June of that year 
 they started on their long journey for Utah. The 
 three oldest children were Alonzo T., William, 
 our subject, and Walter Henry. There were 
 eight children in the family. 
 
 The trip across the plains was made by ox 
 team, and during the journey our subject suffered 
 a severe illness, in which his life was despaired 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 451 
 
 of by all the family, but himself; he never lost 
 faith in his ultimate recovery, and comforted his 
 mother with the assurance of his returning 
 health. The change came when they reached the 
 life-giving breezes of the Rocky Mountains, and 
 from that time forward the recovery of the young 
 man was rapid. The wagon train, of which Cap- 
 tain J. S. Brown was in charge, arrived in Salt 
 Lake City on October 7, 1862. 
 
 At first Mr. Atwood and his younger brother, 
 Walter Henry, worked at the carpenter trade, 
 and in getting out timber from the canyon. Later 
 they built a brick kiln at Murray, and were as- 
 sociated with their father in the manufacture of 
 brick, which trade he had taught them in Penn- 
 sylvania. L^pon conferring with Brigham Young 
 before undertaking the work, the elder Mr. At- 
 wood had been discouraged by the President, 
 who had become convinced by repeated trials 
 which he had seen made that good brick could 
 not be made in this Territory. However, when 
 he found the Atwoods were not to be convinced, 
 he gave them his blessing and encouraeed them 
 to make the attempt, which they did with marked 
 success, and President Young was agreeably sur- 
 prised to find the product far superior to any- 
 thing that had yet been produced. The father 
 and sons continued in this business until the 
 death of the former in the early nineties, after 
 which the sons conducted the business until re- 
 cently, when our subject withdrew. The mother 
 of these boys died about a year after reaching 
 Utah. 
 
 There has always existed a most beautiful and 
 harmonious intimacy between our subject and 
 his brother, Walter Henry, who have during most 
 of their lives been not only close associates, but 
 interested in business together. Their farms ad- 
 join and their houses are only divided by the 
 street, living on opposite sides of Murray street. 
 No discord has ever risen between them, and their 
 lives aflford a beautiful example of what broth- 
 erly love should be. 
 
 Mr. Atwood's home place consists of thirty 
 acres of valuable land ; he also has one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land at Park City, at the head 
 of Silver Creek. After withdrawing from the 
 brick business, he engaged in the coal, lumber 
 
 and hardware business, and is now one of the' 
 successful merchants of Murray. His residence 
 is a handsome and commodious brick, fitted up 
 with every convenience and comfort, and sur- 
 rounded by a beautiful lawn, shade trees and 
 flowers. 
 
 His marriage took place in the Endowment 
 House in Salt Lake City in the winter of 1863, 
 when he was united to Aliss Laura Wade, who 
 lived but seven weeks after the ceremony had 
 been performed. He sought forgetfulness amid 
 strange surroundings, and for a year spent his 
 time in Wyoming, where he worked as a car- 
 penter. At the end of that time he returned 
 home, and married Sarah J. Wade, a sister of his 
 deceased wife. The present Mrs. Atwood is a 
 lady of most gracious and winning manners, be- 
 loved by all who know her, and an ornament to 
 the society in which she moves. She has borne 
 her husband six children — Oralie M., now the 
 wife of George W. Baker, a physician of Ogden ; 
 lona, a graduate of the State University, still at 
 home; Nina, Raiola, Wilma and Roscoe. 
 
 In politics Mr. Atwood is a staunch Demo- 
 crat, but not an office seeker. He and his fam- 
 ilv are members of the Mormon Church, in which 
 they are active, and our subject has been a mem- 
 ber of the Seventies since 1864. 
 
 He is a keen sportsman, and several times ev- 
 ery year makes trips to the mountains for the 
 purpose of hunting and fishing. 
 
 Ihe life and career of Mr. Atwood is one that 
 may well afford good food for reflection to the 
 young man starting out in life for himself; be- 
 ginning as a poor boy, he has by patient in- 
 dustry, untiring perseverance and close economy 
 overcome every obstacle and made a record as an 
 honest and successful business man of which he 
 may justly be proud. In his store he employs a 
 number of clerks, and estimates his business at 
 about fifteen thousand dollars a year, which is 
 a large business for his locality. 
 
 Mr. Atwood was an eye witness to the drill- 
 ing of the first coal oil well, which was about a 
 mile and a half southeast of Titusville, Pennsyl- 
 vania. The drill was operated by the old style 
 flutter wheel. On this occasion his brother, 
 Henrv, was with him. 
 
452 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ACOB PEART. Among the early set- 
 tlers of Utah no one has taken a more 
 prominent or active part in the develop- 
 ment of Salt Lake county than the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, who was born July i, 
 1835, in Alston, Cumberland county, England. 
 
 He is a son of Jacob, who was born on the 
 River Tine, Alston, Cumberland county, En- 
 gland, June 3, 1 801. He was the son of George, 
 who was born in Eneland in 1765. George Peart 
 was a farmer, miner, carpenter and miller in the 
 old country. The father of our subject was a 
 genius along mechanical lines, and during his 
 life time he constructed with his own hands a 
 wooden clock, which was kept in the family for 
 many years, and was considered as good a time 
 keeper as many of the clocks and watches made 
 at the present time. He also made a bass fiddle, 
 which was used in the Old Methodist Church, 
 which he attended in England, and where he was 
 the chorister. 
 
 Jacob Peart married December 20, 1824, to 
 Miss Elizabeth Holden. In 1841 he and his wife 
 came to America on account of their religious 
 proclivities. They first settled at Nauvoo, 111., 
 where they continued to live until the e.xodus of 
 the Mormon people, which occurred in 1846, and 
 taking part in all the scenes of the history of 
 the Church in that section. Being intimately ac- 
 quainted with the Prophet, Joseph Smith, Air. 
 Peart was sent by him to Rock Island, Illinois, 
 for the purpose of opening up coal mines, where 
 he was residing at the time of the killing of the 
 Prophet. 
 
 The family later moved to St. Joseph, Mis- 
 souri, where they remained for a short time, and 
 in the following spring they journeyed to Winter 
 Quarters, now Florence, Nebraska, only remain- 
 ing there for three days, when they joined Brig- 
 ham Young's company for Utah in the summer 
 of 1848, Stephen H. Goddard being captain of 
 ten wagons in that train. After an adventurous 
 trip across the plains, they arrived September 
 20th of that year. Here our subject's father took 
 up the mason work, and followed it for a num- 
 ber of years. He assisted Brigham Young in the 
 construction of some of the first buildings wtiich 
 were erected in Salt Lake City, carrying on farm- 
 
 ing at the same time in the vicinity of Eleventh 
 South and State streets, where he owned five 
 acres of land, on which he built him a home. He 
 followed the building business for the balance of 
 his life. He died April 20, 1874, at the corner 
 of Eleventh South and State streets, in the house 
 of his son. Our subject's mother died in Nau- 
 voo in 1841. All her children died there except 
 our subject. 
 
 In the early history of Utah Mr. Peart was 
 sent to Los Vegas, California, to assist in build- 
 ing up a colony in that section, but was recalled 
 during the year in which Johnston's army ar- 
 rived in Utah, being commissioned by Brigham 
 Young to serve as a fuard during that period. 
 
 At the age of twenty-five years our subject be- 
 gan business for himself. July 20, i860, he mar- 
 ried Margaret Gray, daughter of John and Sarah 
 (McConacie) Gray. The father having died in 
 England, the mother came to L^tah with her two 
 daughters in 1855. Our subject and wife have 
 had twelve children born to them, ten of whom 
 are still liviup- — Olinthus L., Elizabeth L., John 
 G., Margaret, Violate, DSniel, Sarah, Annie, May, 
 Sophronia and Lenora. Jacob L. was the second 
 child, and he died at the age of two and a half 
 years. Mark, the eleventh child, died at the age 
 of nine years and ten months. 
 
 .A.fter our subject married he first took up land 
 and began farming, at the same time freighting 
 and following these avocations until 1886. Dur- 
 ing the time when he was engaged in the freight 
 business he furnished material for many of the 
 larger buildings, dwellings, etc. of Salt Lake 
 City. His father had taken up land where the 
 Metropolitan building now stands, and where our 
 subject lived until 1864., when he moved to the 
 corner of Eleventh South and State streets, 
 where he built an adobe dwelling, which now 
 stands unoccupied, this being one of the first res- 
 idences built in that vicinity. He occupied this 
 dwelling until he constructed his new brick 
 house, in 1890, which he located at 53 East Elev- 
 enth South, and is modern in all particulars. 
 
 During the years Mr. Peart carried on farm- 
 ing, he had a large farm of 500 acres in the Bear 
 River country, but this has later been turned over 
 to his son. 
 
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 453 
 
 Mr. Peart has been instrumental in building a 
 number of residences in Salt Lake City and 
 county. 
 
 He is now engaged in the general merchandise 
 business, at tlie southwest corner of Ninth East 
 and Twelfth South, having started there in the 
 early nineties. 
 
 In politics he has always been identified with 
 the Republican partv ever since its organization 
 in this State, and while he has taken an active 
 interest in the party, yet has never desired pub- 
 lic office. He has served on the missionary work 
 for the Church, and has been ordained a mem- 
 ber of the Seventies. 
 
 John G., one of his sons, has served on a mis- 
 sion to Virginia. Daniel served on a mission to 
 Colorado during 1897 and 1898. 
 
 Mr. Peart's long residence in Salt Lake City 
 and county has been marked by a straightfor- 
 ward, honest, upright life. He has been the 
 means of assisting a great many young men in 
 starting in life. 
 
 (^XORABLE EZRA THOMPSUX. 
 For the past four years the attairs of 
 the City of Salt Lake have been di- 
 rected by a man who had never held 
 an executive position prior to his 
 election to the Mayoralty of this city. His suc- 
 cess in mining and in business life, and the abil- 
 itv he exhibited, led to his selection by the peo- 
 ple, and their confidence has been justified by 
 the able manner in which he has discharged the 
 duties of that position. He is a native of this 
 State and a native of Salt Lake City, being born 
 in the city he now presides over on July 17, 
 1850. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools, and 
 when quite a small boy was thrown on his own 
 resources and forced to make his own way in 
 the world. He has earned his own living since 
 he was thirteen years of age, and his present po- 
 sition has been reached bv the sheer force of de- 
 
 termination, courage and industry. His work 
 was in freighting goods from Salt Lake City 
 to Nevada, and to the mining districts of this 
 State, and when seventeen years of age he had 
 charge of a four-yoke team of oxen, which he 
 drove across the plains from North Platte, Ne- 
 braska, to Salt Lake City. This trip was at that 
 time an arduous undertaking and consumed 
 nearly a year. In addition to the slowness of 
 traveling, the hostile attitude of the Indians made 
 constant vigilance a necessity. His freighting 
 business grew as the years progressed, and led 
 to his becoming interested in the mining re- 
 sources of the State. He had large contracts for 
 hauling ore from the mines, and became conver- 
 sant with the details of that business, and for 
 the past twenty years has been identified with a 
 large number of the most prosperous mines of 
 this State. He has been an officer and stock- 
 holder for a number of years in the Daly West 
 and the Silver King mines, to the extent that 
 he now ranks among the representative mining 
 men of the State. 
 
 Mayor Thompson is possessed of that strong 
 will power that carries in its train success in 
 wnatever is undertaken. When a boy driving ox 
 teams to and from the mines and across the great 
 American desert, he determined that his life 
 would be a success, and he has demonstrated his 
 power and ability to conquer obstacles that stood 
 in the pathway of success. He has seen Salt 
 Lake City grow to its present size and import- 
 ance, and has aided materially in its work. He 
 has been interested in the development of the 
 State as w-ell as of the city, and is one of the 
 men who have successfully brought Utah to the 
 prominent position it now occupies in the ranks 
 of the Western States. He believes in the fu- 
 ture prominence of Salt Lake City, and in the 
 future prosperity of the State. He has seen the 
 great American desert turned from a wilder- 
 ness into a land hiving with industry ; the once 
 barren land covered with growing crops ; bar- 
 ren mountains yielding up wealth and sustenance 
 for the people, and a State unknown at the time 
 of his birth, raised to a prominent rank in the 
 L'nion. His success in life is one of the bril- 
 liant records that men have made in Utah. The 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 truism that "A prophet is not without honor, 
 save in his own country," has been reversed, for 
 in the very city in which he was born, he has 
 overcome obstacles that seemed insurmountable, 
 and has risen step by step through his own in- 
 dustry and energy to the head of its govern- 
 ment. 
 
 Mayor Thompson was married on February 
 14, 1885, to Miss Emily Pugsley. Her father 
 was one of the earlv pioneers of Utah, and was 
 prominent in the settlement of this State. He 
 was extensively engaged in mining and milling, 
 and in manufacturing ; in fact was interested in 
 almost all of the industries of Utah. The May- 
 or's family consists of four children — Linn H., 
 the oldest, now thirteen years of age ; Norinne, 
 Ezra P. and Clyde R. 
 
 In politics the Mayor has always been a 
 staunch Republican, and has followed the for- 
 tunes of that party with unwavering fidelity and 
 zeal. While a resident of Park City -he was for 
 four years a member of the City Council. He 
 was elected Mayor of Salt Lake City in 1898, 
 and so popular was his administration and so 
 ably did he administer the affairs of the city that 
 he was re-elected by a large majority, decisively 
 defeating the Democratic candidate. 
 
 Mayor Thompson comes from an old Eastern 
 family. His father, Ezra, was a native of Con- 
 necticut, and his mother Lois (Trumbull) 
 Thompson, was a native of Maine. His paternal 
 and maternal ancestors were among the earlv 
 settlers of the Eastern part of the country. Mayor 
 Thompson's family came across the plains and 
 settled in Salt Lake City, arriving here a short 
 time after the first settlers came in. 
 
 The Mayor is a man of dignified appearance, 
 tall and well built, and of a commanding pres- 
 ence. His success has been due to the great de- 
 termination and energy which he has brought to 
 the accomplishment of every task allotted to him. 
 His able administration of the city's affairs, to- 
 gether with his genial, kindly nature, has made 
 him one of the most oopular men in this city and 
 throughout Utah, and no man stands higher in 
 the confidence and respect of the people than 
 does the present Chief Executive of the Capital 
 of the State. 
 
 KNRY G. McMillan. There are 
 few men in Salt Lake City who have 
 taken a more prominent part in the de- 
 velopment of the mining resources of 
 Utah than has the subject of this 
 sketch. He is one of the most prominent busi- 
 ness men in the entire inter-mountain region, 
 and is one who has accomplished a great deal 
 of work in bringing the resources of Utah to 
 their present satisfactory condition. His atten- 
 tion has not been limited to the field of min- 
 ing, but he has also taken a wide interest in all 
 the varied commercial enterprises which go to 
 build up a prosperous State. He is one of the 
 staunchest business men of this city, and one in 
 whom the people have the utmost confidence. 
 
 Henry G. McMillan was born in Giles county, 
 Tennessee, and when but a young boy his par- 
 ents moved to Macoupin county, Illinois, and 
 here our subject spent his early life. He was 
 educated in the regular schools of that county 
 and in the Blackburn University, a famous Pres- 
 byterian institution of Illinois, of which his fa- 
 ther was one of the founders. He started out 
 to earn his own living at the age of sixteen, and 
 engaged in the manufacture of wool, handling 
 wool in all of its various forms and doing both 
 a wholesale and a retail business. He was con- 
 nected with the first wool manufactory in Ma- 
 coupin county. In this business he was very suc- 
 cessful, and remained identified with it for over 
 ten years. In addition to the work of building 
 up his factory, he also traveled as a salesman for 
 the same. In December, 1875, ^^ removed from 
 Illinois and came West and settled in Salt Lake 
 City, where he assumed charge of the general 
 business of Durrant & Cutting, who at that time 
 handled ores and smelting supplies, and also op- 
 erated an extensive forwarding and express bus- 
 iness to the outlying districts, and also imported 
 large quantities of grain into this section of the 
 country. After serving as their manager for 
 two years, the business of the firm was trans- 
 ferred. 
 
 Mr. McMillan secured employment in the dis- 
 trict court in the early part of 1877, and remained 
 there until 1894, first as deputy and later as chief 
 clerk, and throughout this time he was also iden- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 455 
 
 tified with other business and with mining prop- 
 ositions, as well as having interests in the real 
 estate and stock business. Soon after the termi- 
 nation of his services at the district court he 
 established himself in business and continued for 
 several years as a general broker and later 
 formed a partnership with J. E. Bamberger, un- 
 der the firm name of Bamberger & McMillan, 
 the new firm carrying on a general brokerage 
 business and also handling ores on a large scale, 
 as agents of M. Guggenheim & Sons. At the 
 time of the consolidation of the smelting inter- 
 ests of the firm of M. Guggenheim & Sons with 
 the American Smelting Company, the firm of 
 Bamberger & McMillan was also merged into 
 the corporation, and since that time Mr. McMil- 
 lan has been largely identified with the interests 
 of this new company. This is now one of the 
 largest smeltino- companies in Utah, and in fact 
 in the inter-mountain region. He has aided 
 largely, not only in bringing its capacity up to 
 its present size, but has also been instrumental 
 in expanding its field of operations. He is also 
 prominently identified with the growth of Salt 
 Lake City, and in addition to his large real es- 
 tate holdings, is interested in many of its com- 
 mercial enterprises, and in the line of mining 
 and smelting is one of the leaders of this State. 
 
 He was married in Illinois in 1873, to Miss 
 Emma L. Corn, whose father was a prominent 
 merchant m Lexington, Kentucky, in his early 
 life, but who died when Mrs. McMillan was a 
 small child. By this marriage they have nine 
 children, si.x daughters and three sons. His 
 oldest daughter. Lute, is now the wife of Gus- 
 tave Luellwitz, of Spokane, Washington, and 
 Anna Mae is the wife of Samuel C. Adams, gen- 
 eral manager of the New York Life Insurance 
 Company, at Denver, Colorado. Leta has re- 
 cently graduated from the Salt Lake City high 
 School and from the National Park Seminary. 
 Gordon, his oldest son, is in Williston Academy, 
 in Massachusetts, taking a special course in elec- 
 trical engineering. His other children are: Bess, 
 Mildred, Aline, Harold and Donald. 
 
 Mr. McMillan comes of one of the old Pres- 
 byterian families of Illinois, his father, Ed- 
 
 ward, having been one of the prominent minis- 
 ters of that faith in that State. At the outbreak 
 of the Civil War he entered the service of the 
 United States army as a captain, and died near 
 the close of the war at the battle of Atlanta, 
 Georgia. At this time his son was sixteen years 
 of age, and the death of his father necessitated 
 his starting out in life for himself at that age. 
 His wife, and the mother of the subject of this 
 sketch, was Miss Mary Ann (Brown) McMil- 
 lan, who died at the age of seventy-four years. 
 She was a sister of ex-Governor Neil S. Brown, 
 of Tennessee, and also of John C. Brown. Neil 
 S. Brown was later Ambassador to Russia under 
 President Tyler, in the latter part of the forties 
 or the early fifties. John C. Brown was also a 
 prominent man in the affairs of the United 
 States, and was active in securing the bill of 
 the Texas Pacific railroad, and for many years 
 was its president and general manager, which po- 
 sition he continued to fill until it was absorbed 
 by the Gould interests, when he became general 
 superintendent of all the Gould lines, holding 
 the latter position until his death in 1888. 
 
 Our subject has always been a staunch Repub- 
 lican, and has been prominently identified with 
 the work of the party in Utah, having served 
 in the Council of Salt Lake City. He was also 
 receiver of the Salt Lake and Eastern railway, 
 which extended from Coalville to Park City, and 
 which was finally absorbed by the Union Pacific 
 railroad in 1880. Mr. McMillan is a prominent 
 member of the First Presbyterian Church of 
 Salt Lake City, and has been a member of the 
 Presbyterian faith for over thirty years. The 
 ancestors of the McMillans were natives of Scot- 
 land, and his father's family were early settlers 
 in North Carolina. His mother's people were 
 prominent in Tennessee, both in the political and 
 financial life of that State. His paternal and 
 maternal grandfathers both fought in the Revo- 
 lutionary War on the side of the Colonists, and 
 his paternal grandfather took part in the battle 
 of New Orleans, in 1812, under General Andrew 
 Jackson. Mr. McMillan's grandfather at that 
 time was a Major of one of the famous Ten- 
 nessee regiments of riflemen. 
 
456 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ISHOP ELIAS MORRIS, deceased, 
 founder of the widely known firm of 
 Elias Morris & Sons Company, stone 
 contractors and manufacturers of 
 monumental work, mantles, grates, 
 marble work, etc., was the oldest of five brothers 
 to emigrate to America. They were, Elias, Wil- 
 liam v., Richard V., John and Hugh — all of 
 whom are now dead. Some years prior to his 
 death Bishop Morris undertook to write a bio- 
 graphical sketch of his life, but owing to his many 
 and arduous duties, this was never completed. 
 However, from it we learn that his parents were 
 born at Llanfair, Taihhairne, Denbigshire, North 
 Wales, and had a family of seven sons and five 
 daughters. His father was a mason by trade 
 and did contracting in his own country. His 
 son, the late Bishop Morris, learned the trade 
 from his father, and becoming a convert to the 
 Mormon religion, emigrated to America in 1852. 
 He had been baptized in 1849, and in 1851 Pres- 
 ident John Taylor paid a visit to his home in 
 North Wales and there organized a company of 
 capitalists to purchase machinery for the man- 
 ufacture of beet sugar in Utah, it being their 
 intention to establish this industry in Salt Lake 
 Citv. ]\lr. Morris, understanding the handling 
 of such machinery, he was engaged by Presi- 
 dent Taylor to come to Utah in the interests of 
 the sugar company, and left Liverpool in charge 
 of the machinery in March, 1852. He landed at 
 New Orleans and proceeded from there by boat 
 to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where a large 
 number of wagons and ox teams had been pur- 
 chased to transport the machinery across the 
 plains to Utah. The trip was a very slow and 
 tedious one, many privations and hardships be- 
 ing endured by the Bishop, who finally arrived 
 in Salt Lake City in November of that year. 
 However, the time for such an industry in Utah 
 was not yet ripe, and the company did not ma- 
 ture. The scheme was found to be impractica- 
 ble, and although several thousand dollars had 
 been invested, the matter was abandoned and 
 was not taken up again for many years. How- 
 ever, when the beet factory became a reality 
 Bishop Morris was one of the foremost men in 
 the company, and became its President. There 
 
 was some excitement over the discovery of iron 
 in Iron county, and a company being formed for 
 the purpose of manufacturing iron. Bishop Mor- 
 ris was engaged to put up the furnace for this 
 company, who did considerable work, but not 
 enough to make the venture a paying one, and 
 the scheme finally failed for want of funds. The 
 Bishop then returned to Salt Lake City and en- 
 gaged in doing contract work, in 1864. Among 
 the buildings which he erected and the work he 
 did may be mentioned the Eagle Emporium build- 
 ing, for William Jennings ; the drug store for 
 Godbe, Pitt & Company, and a number of others. 
 
 In 1865 he was sent on a mission for the 
 Church to Wales, where he remained until June, 
 1869, when he brought back a company of three 
 hundred and sixty-five converts. L'pon his re- 
 turn to Salt Lake he entered into partnership 
 with Samuel L. Evans, under the firm name of 
 Morris & Evans, builders. They did a grow- 
 ing business, and upon the opening of the mines 
 in Utah made a specialty of fire brick and fur- 
 nace building. They put up the Germania 
 works, the smelters at Sandy, Bingham, Little 
 Cottonwood, Flagstatf, East Canyon and Stock- 
 ton. Also the mills and cornish pump at the 
 Ontario mines. They put in the basement of 
 the Salt Lake Temple, the Deseret National 
 Bank block and the store building of the Zion 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution. After the 
 death of his partner, Mr. Morris carried the 
 business on in his own name for a time, and it 
 later became Elias Morris & Sons Company, un- 
 der which title it stni continues. 
 
 Bishop Morris was also closely associated with 
 many other industries and enterprises of Utah, 
 among which may be mentioned a tannery, the 
 Salt Lake Foundry, the soap factory, and laid 
 the cut stone in the City and County Building 
 in Salt Lake City; also the gravity sewer of the 
 city. He was for four years a member of the 
 Citv Council, and for one year a director of the 
 Chamber of Commerce. In 1895 he was elected 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention 
 which drafted the organic laws of the State of 
 Utah. In 1889, when the Utah Sugar Company 
 was organized he was made President, and held 
 that position up to the time of his death. He 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 457 
 
 was also much interested in music and the fine 
 arts. He took a prominent part in the Eistedd- 
 fod, which was held in Salt Lake City, and was 
 treasurer and director of that association. In 
 the Mormon Church he held the position of High 
 Counselor for nearly twenty years. On Septem- 
 ber 12, 1888, he was set apart as President of 
 the High Priests' Quorum of Salt Lake Stake, 
 and held that position at the time of his death. 
 When the Ward was reorganized. May 11, 1890, 
 he was chosen to succeed Bishop Joseph Pol- 
 lard, also holding that office up to his death. 
 
 Bishop Morris died March 17, 1898, as the 
 result of a fall down the elevator shaft of one of 
 the public buildings. He died surrounded by his 
 family, and mourned by the entire city, at the 
 age of seventy-three years. The funeral was 
 very largely attended, the Tabernacle building, 
 where the services were conducted, not being 
 large enough to hold the large concourse which 
 gathered to pay their respects to their late towns- 
 man. 
 
 1()R^L\X W. EREKSOX. In the vast 
 work of settling and developing Utah. 
 -he has drawn from the reserve forces 
 Mf nearly every civilized country in the 
 world. Among those countries Nor- 
 way has furnished many of her noble sons and 
 daughters ; among them Jonas Erekson, the fa- 
 ther of the subject of this sketch. Norman W. 
 Erekson was born in South Cottonwood Ward, 
 March 9, 1867. He is a son of Jonas and Mary 
 (Powell) Erekson; the father having been born 
 in Norway. and the mother in Pennsylvania. 
 
 In 1849 the senior Mr. Erekson emigrated to 
 America, arriving in Utah the same year, and 
 settled on a farm within one mile of where our 
 subject now resides. The Powell family also set- 
 tled in the same vicinity, James Powell being 
 among the first to introduce irrigation in that 
 section. Jonas Erekson went to California the 
 year following his arrival in Utah, having 
 caught the gold fever, but not meeting with the 
 success he had anticipated, returned to Utah in 
 1851. He was one of the first men in Utah to 
 
 engage in the sheep and cattle business, which 
 occupation he successfully followed until his 
 death, which occurred January 4, 1881, at the 
 age of fifty-four years, eleven months and 
 twenty-eight days. He had early become a fol- 
 lower of the Mormon Church, and continued to 
 be a faithful and liberal supporter of that faith 
 throughout the balance of his life. The mother 
 of our subject w'as a professional nurse, and as 
 such found here a wide field for her services, 
 following her profession for many years in Salt 
 Lake county, and winning a high reputation for 
 her skill. Among other things, she compounded 
 a remedy for diphtheria, which was reputed to 
 be an infallible cure, she having successfully 
 treated hundreds of cases with it. The original 
 recipe is still in the possession of the Erekson 
 family. Mrs. Erekson died on May 17, 1891, 
 at the age of sixty-one years, one month and 
 eight days. She was the mother of five sons 
 and two daughters — Jonas H., a resident of 
 Salt Lake county; Mary A., now Mrs. A. A. 
 Cahoon; James T., resides on the old home 
 place; Norman W., the subject of this sketch, is 
 the youngest in the family. He remained at 
 home with his parents until their death and then 
 started out in life for himself. His early educa- 
 tion was received in the common schools of Salt 
 Lake county. In the late seventies he attended 
 Saint I^Iark's School in Salt Lake City, and later 
 the Deseret University, now the University of 
 Utah. The most of his schooling was obtained 
 in the winter months, his summers being devoted 
 to working on the home farm, but while his early 
 education was limited, he has ever been a close 
 student, not only of books, but also learning 
 from the great school of life. 
 
 He first settled on Ninth East street, near 
 Twentieth South, which is a portion of the old 
 homestead, containing fifty-one acres. By hard 
 work, perseverance and determination he has 
 converted his place into one of the finest homes 
 in Salt Lake county. His residence is built on 
 a prominence overlooking the valley. While 
 Mr. Erekson has devoted much of his time to 
 the improvement of his home and farm, he has 
 also been largely interested in the cattle and 
 sheep business, and is considered one of the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 prominent and successful men of this section of 
 the State. 
 
 In poHtics he has always been a believer in 
 the protection of home industry, thus following 
 the fortunes of the Republican party. 
 
 On March 29, 1888, our subject was married 
 to Miss Ellen Underwood, daughter of Samuel 
 and Ehzabeth (Kelsey) Underwood. The fam- 
 ily came to Utah in 1879 from England, where 
 Mrs. Erekson was born. One son has been born 
 of this union — Percy N. — and one daughter — 
 Labeta B. 
 
 Mr. Erekson has taken an active part in the 
 educational affairs of this county, and especially 
 in the Ward where he resides ; he has served for 
 a number of years as school trustee. By his hon- 
 orable, straightforward business principles he 
 has won the respect and esteem of all who have 
 been acquainted and associated with him through 
 life. 
 
 KPHI L. MORRIS, president of the 
 lias Morris & Sons Company, is a 
 member of one of the old and reliable 
 firms of Salt Lake City. The busi- 
 ness was established by his father, the 
 late Bishop Elias Morris, at an early day, and 
 he presided over it as President until his death 
 in 1898. The concern handles one of the largest 
 and most complete lines of marble, granite and 
 building stones to be found in the entire West, 
 as well as mantles, grates and a large line of 
 monumental work. They do an extensive con- 
 tracting business, and are well known through- 
 out the inter-mountain country. A full account 
 of the life and work of the father of our subject 
 will be found elsewhere in this work. 
 
 Our subject, Nephi L. Morris, was born in 
 Salt Lake City, October 21, 1870, and grew to 
 manhood in this place, ' receiving his education 
 from the common schools, the Brigham Young 
 Academy at Provo and the University of Utah. 
 He has been associated in business with his 
 father since attaining his majority, and the above 
 concern, of which he is now the head, was in- 
 corporated in 1893, his father being elected 
 President of the company and holding that po- 
 
 sition up to the time of his death, when our sub- 
 ject succeeded as head of the firm. He is, like 
 his father, one of the enterprising, wide-awake 
 business men of Utah, and is active in many en- 
 terprises of this day. The firm of which he is 
 the head does perhaps the largest business in 
 its line of any such establishment in the inter- 
 mountain region, and gives employment to from 
 twenty-five to forty men, according to the sea- 
 son of the year. They own their present hand- 
 some cjuarters on South Temple street, which 
 will stand for many years as a monument to the 
 memory of Elias Morris. 
 
 Mr. Morris is a member of the Church in 
 which he was born and reared, and from 1892 
 to 1895 served on a mission to Great Britain, 
 part of the time being spent in London. He is 
 Counselor to the Bishop of the Fifteenth Ward, 
 and a director in the Young Men's Mutual Im- 
 provement Association. He has never married. 
 
 In politics Mr. Morris is a staunch Republi- 
 can, and has spent considerable time working 
 in the interests of that party. He was a mem- 
 ber of the last Legislature. 
 
 Socially he is a most pleasing and attractive 
 gentleman. His entire life has been spent in 
 this city, and he is well known in all circles, be- 
 ing a universal favorite, and much respected 
 among business men for his sterling qualities 
 and high business methods. 
 
 \MES M. WORTHINGTON is a de- 
 scendant of one of the old, sturdy En- 
 glish families. The progenitor of the 
 family in this country was our subject's 
 grandfather, Isaac W., who was born 
 in Cheshire, England, emigrated to America 
 and settled in Pennsylvania some time in the sev- 
 enteenth century, where he spent the balance of 
 his life. 
 
 Our subject was born in Brighton, Beaver 
 county, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1831. His fa- 
 ther, James W., was also born in Pennsylvania, 
 January 9, 1803. His wife was Rachel Stealey, 
 the daughter of Jacob Stealey, who was born 
 at sea while his parents were emigrating to 
 America from Germany. When our subject was 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 459 
 
 seven years of age his parents moved to Mis- 
 souri, but they only remained one month in that 
 State, going to Adams county, Illinios, where 
 they lived for two years, and then moved to Nau- 
 voo, where they passed through all the troubles 
 and privations which the Mormon people suf- 
 fered at that period. Mr. Worthington, our sub- 
 ject's father, was Captain of one of the com- 
 panies in the Nauvoo Legion, and later promoted 
 to Major, and during the battle at the time of 
 the eviction of the Mormons from Nauvoo in 
 1846 had charge of one of the old historic guns 
 made from the shafts of an old river boat. The 
 family came to L^tah in 1853 in company with 
 Captain Thomas Rrierly. They remained one 
 month in Salt Lake City, and then located on 
 what is now Garfield beach, where the father 
 spent one winter manufacturing salt, but gave 
 this up, and in the spring of 1854 moved to 
 Grantsville, where he purchased ninety acres of 
 land and engaged in farming. With the excep- 
 tion of a few years spent in the Deep Creek 
 country, where he at one time owned a farm, 
 he spent the remainder of his life in Grantsville, 
 dying there July 26, 1885, h's wife having died 
 February 24, 1882. 
 
 Our subject was the oldest of a family of five 
 children, and has spent the greater portion of 
 his life within the confines of this State, grow- 
 ing up on his father's farm and securing his 
 education from the common schools of his dis- 
 trict. 
 
 Mr. Worthington has been twice married. His 
 first marriage occurred November 9, 1857, to 
 Miss Martha J. Pratt, daughter of Jonathan and 
 Susan (Blackburn) Pratt, and by this marriage 
 nine children were born, of whom three are now 
 living — ^James H., living in Oakley, Idaho, and 
 who has just returned from a two years' mis- 
 sion to England ; Stephen S., living in Pleasant 
 Green Ward, Salt Lake City, and who served 
 a two years' mission in the Southern States ; 
 Alice A., now Mrs. Edward Polton. The mother 
 of these children died about twelve years ago. 
 His second marriage was to Mrs. Dorcas L. 
 (McBride) Craner, daughter of Jamesi and 
 Maria (Reddan) McBride. Mrs. Worthing- 
 ton's paternal grandfather was Thomas Mc- 
 
 Bride, who was killed at Haun's Mills, on the 
 Shoal creek, in Missouri. His son, James, the 
 father of Mrs. Worthington, was in company 
 with Harrison Sevier, the first man to settle in 
 this locality. Mrs. Worthington has two sons — 
 Elmer and Ray — by her former marriage. Her 
 maternal grandfather, R. J- Redden, came to 
 Utah with the first company of emigrants. 
 
 In politics Mr. Worthington owes allegiance 
 to the Democratic party, and for two terms has 
 been a member of the City Council. He is a 
 staunch believer in the doctrines of the Mormon 
 Church, and in 1863 was sent by the heads of 
 the Church to conduct a party of emigrants to 
 Utah from the Missouri river. 
 
 Mr. Worthington's chief business has been 
 that of a farmer, which occupation he followed 
 successfully until 1898, when he sold his farm 
 and moved to Grantsville village, since which 
 time he has engaged in the money loaning bus- 
 iness. He is a representative man of this com- 
 munity, honorable, upright and of sterling in- 
 tegrity, and in his declining years is enjoying 
 the fruits of a well spent life, surrounded by a 
 large circle of life-long friends. He was Cap- 
 tain of the Grantsville Militia in the early days, 
 and he also took an active part in the Johnston 
 army troubles, serving for a month on this cam- 
 paign. 
 
 ILLIAM JEFFERIES. Linked 
 with the history and development 
 of Tooele county are the names of 
 a few whose great and natural force 
 of character and indomitable en- 
 ergy has pushed to a successful termination the 
 various enterprises and institutions planned for 
 her progress. Among such men may be men- 
 tioned the subject of this sketch, William Jef- 
 feries, who, though sadly handicapped early in 
 life by the loss of one hand, has made his own 
 way in life, relying solely upon himself, and has 
 overcome obstacles that might well have dis- 
 heartened a man with less fortitude and energ>'. 
 Sterling integrity of word and deed has char- 
 acterized all of his transactions, and his history 
 
460 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 presents much of interest and inspiration to the 
 young. 
 
 William Jefferies was born in Goodeaves. 
 Somersetshire. England. March 8, 183 1, and is 
 the son of William and Lita (Flower) Jefiferies, 
 both natives of that place. Our subject's pater- 
 nal grandfather was George Jefiferies, and his 
 maternal grandfather Edward Flower. William 
 Jefferies and his wife both died in England, his 
 wife being but thirty-seven years of age when 
 she died. There were seven children in this 
 family, of whom our subject is tlie only one now 
 living. 
 
 Mr. Jeffries left home at the age of eleven, 
 having up to that time received his education in 
 the common schools of his birthplace. He went 
 to Bristol, where he was employed in the Avon 
 Side Iron Works as a machinist, being designed 
 for an engineer. On Januarv 27, 1852, he lost 
 his left hand, and was compelled to give up his 
 ambition and turn his attention to other lines. 
 He took a course in a business college and fitted 
 himself for office work, which, however, he did 
 not at once take up, but accepted a position in 
 which he operated a patent screwing machine for 
 five years. In 1856 he embraced the Mormon re- 
 ligion, and for the next four vears and three 
 months traveled, doing missionary work for the 
 Church, coming to America in 1861. He crossed 
 the plains in Joseph W. Young's company, ar- 
 riving in Salt Lake City September 23rd of that 
 year, acting as a clerk for church companies 
 while on the way across the plains, and shortly 
 after his arrival in Salt Lake City was sent out 
 to Grantsville as a clerk in the Tithing office, 
 and has made his home here since that time. He 
 occupied the position of a clerk for sixteen and 
 a half years, buying in the meantime part of the 
 land where the old fort had stood and tearing 
 down the old wall and buildings. He built a 
 large and comfortable adobe house, and has at 
 this time several other pieces of property adja- 
 cent to Grantsville. He was made secretary and 
 treasurer of the Co-operative Store at this place 
 in 1869, continuing in that capacity for several 
 years, which business he helped establish, and 
 which has since proved a great success. In 
 1880 he was again re-elected to fill the office of 
 
 secretary and treasurer. In 1882 he was made 
 superintendent of this establishment, in addi- 
 tion to his other offices, and remained in that po- 
 sition until 1891, when he resigned. He also had 
 an interest at one time in the mill at this place, 
 and in the woolen factory, which later failed ; in 
 fact there has scarcely been an enterprise started 
 for the upbuilding of this section that he has 
 not assisted in fostering. He has a farm of 
 about seventy-five acres near Grantsville, and 
 is also interested in cattle and sheep. 
 
 Mr. Jefferies was married in Bristol, England, 
 April 3, 1861, to Miss Mary F. Ould, daughter 
 of William and Mary (Fox) Ould. Mrs. Jef- 
 feries was born in Lelant, Cornwall, England. 
 Twelve children were born of this marriage, six 
 of whom are now living — William O., engaged in 
 ranching, and also one of the lessees of the opera 
 house in Grantsville and a leader of the brass 
 band at that place; Richard, farming, and also 
 a musician of some ability; Matilda, the wife of 
 Bishop M. M. Stookey, of Rush valley, Albert, 
 at Provo; Henry, now at home, recently a stu- 
 dent at the Brigham Young Academy at Provo; 
 Murray, now a student at Provo; two children 
 died in infancy; Mary, the wife of Joseph R. 
 Olsen. She died aged thirty-two years, leaving 
 three children ; James F., died aged fifteen ; 
 Franklin, died at eleven years of age; Lita, died 
 at the age of nine years. Mr. Jefferies' wife and 
 children, are also members of the Mormon faith, 
 and active in Church work. William O. served 
 two years, engaged in missionary work in the 
 Northwestern States, where he was called in 
 1887. Richard labored in England from 1893 
 to 189s ; Albert was called to the Southern 
 States in 1897, and remained in that district for 
 over two years. Of his sons-in-law, Joseph R. 
 Olsen was called to Sweden in 1890, and spent 
 two years in that field, and Bishop Stookey 
 served for two years in the Northwestern States. 
 Smce living in Grantsville, Mr. Jefferies has 
 been Counsel to several Bishops, and was also 
 acting Bishop of Grantsville for three years and 
 nine months. He has also been Stake and Sun- 
 day School Superintendent for a number of 
 years, and Counselor to the President of the 
 High Priests, which latter position he now holds. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 461 
 
 He has, by his integrity and honesty, won a 
 high place in the esteem of those with whom he 
 has been associated throughout a long life, and 
 has by care and perseverance accumulated a 
 considerable amount of this world's goods, and 
 now, in the declinins' years of his life, has re- 
 tired from active work and is enjoying the fruits 
 of a well spent and honorable life, which his 
 friends trust he may continue to do for many 
 years yet to come. 
 
 NDREW G. BENSON. It has been 
 said that men's lives are practically 
 alike ; that "born, married, died," is 
 the summing up of the majority of 
 careers, and, superficially considered, 
 this often appears to be the truth. But, after all, ' 
 the filling in of these meager skeletons of moun- 
 tain-peak events in the life of the average man 
 is what constitutes his individuality, and the one 
 thing which truly counts, both in this life and 
 the one to come, is character. And often has it 
 been pointed out to us by the poet, preacher and 
 philosopher, aye, by the lessons and experience 
 of our own lives, that strong, rugged characters 
 are formed only in the storm — that "flowery beds 
 of ease" are not conducive to the nobility of soul 
 and strength of mind which we admire and covet. 
 Andrew G. Benson, the subject of our sketch, 
 was born in Skoneholle. Sweden, August 22, 
 1863. He is the son of John and Anna L. (Ja- 
 cobson) Benson, both natives of Sweden, where 
 the father died after his conversion to the Mor- 
 mon faith. His mother was converted to the 
 teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 
 ter Day Saints, and after the death of her hus- 
 band came to America with other Mormon emi- 
 grants, and located at Grantsville, this State. She 
 had left her small family of three boys and one 
 girl in the old country, where three of the chil- 
 dren remained, our subject following his mother 
 to Utah in 1874. This was a long journey for 
 a lad of eleven years, and the undertaking was 
 an indication of the strenrth of character and 
 determination to succeed in his purpose despite 
 
 every obstacle, that has since characterized his 
 life. He remained with his mother until 1880, 
 with the exception of four months spent in Ne- 
 vada in 1879, seeking work, receiving such 
 schooling as was to be obtained from the schools 
 in that district, and doing whatever he could to- 
 wards assisting his mother in earning a living. 
 In 1880 he went to Idaho, and for the next seven 
 years worked in that State at intervals. He was 
 careful and econoinical, and from time to time, 
 as the occasion offered, put away a little of his 
 earnings, until in 1888 he was able to buy a few 
 sheep, which was the foundation of his since 
 most successful business in this line. 
 
 Our subject married in February, 1888, to 
 Miss Lulu May Sabin, the daughter of Ara and 
 Nancy Sabin. Mrs. Benson is a Utahn, having 
 been born in Grantsville. By this marriage they 
 have had six children — Aquila, Andrew Murray, 
 Grant, Lee, Parley G. Enid May, and Blanche. 
 
 In political life Mr. Benson is a staunch Re- 
 publican, having been identified with that party 
 ever since its organization in Utah, and has ever 
 been an active and faithful worker in its ranks, 
 and has been rewarded with a number of posi- 
 tions of honor and trust, both in the party and 
 in the gift of the people. For two years he filled 
 the office of City Counselor of Grantsville, and 
 in 1888 was elected 3 County Commissioner for 
 Tooele county, being re-elected in 1900. In 1901 
 he was a delegate to the State Convention, held 
 at Provo. Mr. Benson is also actively interested 
 in many of the schemes for the promotion of the 
 interests of his immediate neighborhood, being 
 a member of the Building Board of the Grants- 
 ville opera house, and a large stockholder in the 
 Grantsville South Willow Irrigation Company, in 
 which he is one of the directors. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Mormon Church, and prominent in 
 its work in Grantsville, and Counselor to the 
 President of the Young Men's Mututal Improve- 
 ment Association of that Ward. Mr. Benson has 
 a finely improved farm of one hundred and thirty- 
 six acres near Grantsville, where he makes his 
 home. 
 
 While yet a young man, he has during his life 
 here demonstrated his ability to successfully cope 
 with problems that would daunt older and more 
 
462 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 experienced men, and by his clearness of vision 
 in solving difficult questions, his quickness to 
 grasp and make the most of every opportunity, 
 and his unflinching devotion to duty, as well as 
 the highmindedness he has displayed in all busi- 
 ness dealing's, has won a high place in the ranks 
 of the business men of this locality, and today 
 enjoys a wide circle of friends, both in private 
 and public life. 
 
 YRUM E. BOOTH. It is true that 
 some are born lucky, and what is usu- 
 ally inferred from this phrase, children 
 of wealthy parents, and who in child- 
 hood are surrounded by all the luxu- 
 ries and affluence such as only the wealthy peo- 
 ple can bestow upon their children. Whether 
 these conditions always result for the best, is an- 
 other thing. 
 
 Hyrum E. Booth, the subject of this article, 
 was not born or raised in the ranks or elements 
 of wealth ; on the contrary, when only a child 
 he was left a poor orphan boy to fieht and make 
 his own way in life, and the splendid record 
 he has made by perseverance and energy is 
 worthy of imitation by all young men who have 
 the privilege of reading and studying his life 
 history and record. 
 
 Mr. Booth was born in Adams county, Illi- 
 nois, August 22, 1841, and is the son of Lorenzo 
 D. and Parthena (Works) Booth. His parents 
 became converts to the doctrines of the Mormon 
 Church, and our subject was baptized into that 
 faith when but eight years of age. The family 
 moved to Nauvoo, where the father died. After 
 the death of her husband, Mrs. Booth started for 
 Utah with her five children, of whom our sub- 
 ject was the youngest, but died in the vicinity of 
 Council Bluffs, after which the family separated. 
 Although but a child, our subject realized that 
 he had no one to care for him and that he would 
 have to make his own way through life. He 
 continued with the train under the care of Cap- 
 tain Tidwell, and arrived in Salt Lake City in 
 September, 1852, at the age of eleven years. He 
 
 at once went to work, doing whatever came to 
 hand, and for the next eight years lived in this 
 way, savine every cent possible, and obtaining 
 no schooling except such as he could pick up 
 from time to time during his leisure hours. In 
 i860 he came to Grantsville and secured a small 
 piece of land on which he built a log house, and 
 two years later was able to buy ten acres more. 
 His success dates from that time, and he has 
 since rapidly accumulated wealth, owning at this 
 time four hundred acres of land, which he has 
 well improved, and on which he has built a com- 
 fortable home. In addition to his farm, he has 
 large holdinp-s in cattle, sheep and horses, and 
 is among the substantial men of his county at 
 this time. 
 
 Mr. Booth married February 3, 1862, to Miss 
 Sarah Ann Hunter, daughter of Bishop Edward 
 Hunter, Jr., of Grantsville. Mrs. Hunter came 
 with the early pioneers to Grantsville, and is 
 still living at the age of seventy-three years. By 
 this marriage seven children have been born, six 
 of whom are now living — Mary P., now Mrs. 
 Leon Imley; Hyrum E., Junior; Emily L., the 
 wife of Albert Erickson ; Sarah L., Zina O.. 
 died aged twenty-four years ; Eva J., and Wil- 
 ham L. 
 
 In political life Mr. Booth is a believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party, but has never 
 actively participated in its work, giving his time 
 outside of his business affairs to the work of the 
 Church. His family are also members of this 
 .Church, and his oldest son has served a three 
 years' mission to the Samoan Islands, learning 
 the language of those people while there. Out- 
 side of his farming and stock raising interests, 
 Mr. Booth is one of the heaviest stockholders in 
 the South Willow Irrigation Company, and fore- 
 most in whatever tends to the upbuilding or 
 growth of his community. In the early days he 
 participated in almost all the Indian troubles in 
 the State, being in the Black Hawk war, and also 
 took a part in the Johnston army troubles. He 
 has lived in this vicinity almost all of his life, 
 and the career that he has made for himself has 
 been such as to command for him the confidence 
 and respect of the best class of citizens of this 
 county. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 463 
 
 UEL BARRUS. It has been over half 
 a century since James K. Polk, as 
 President of the United States, sent 
 a call for five hundred men from the 
 ranks of the Mormon forces to assist 
 in qutUincr the war which was at that time going 
 on between the United States and Mexico. Ruel 
 Barrus was among the very first to respond to 
 that call, and served in the Mormon Battalion 
 until honorably discharged, and to-day he is the 
 only living commissioned officer of that ever- 
 noted and famous company. 
 
 He was born at Setauket, New York, August 
 10, 1821, and came of an old American family, 
 his ancestors on both sides having fought in the 
 Revolutionary War, his maternal grandfather 
 having participated in the famous Battle of 
 Bunker Hill. His father, Benjamin Barrus, was 
 a soldier in the War of 1812, and was wounded 
 at the burning of Bufi'alo, in which engagement 
 he took part. He died when our subject was 
 born. Our subject's mother was Betsy (Stub- 
 bins) Barrus, who is also dead. Both the Barrus 
 and the Stubbins families settled in Massachu- 
 setts in the early history of this country. 
 
 Ruel Barrus was the youngest of a family of 
 five girls and five boys, and was but seven years 
 of age when his mother died. He is the only 
 surviving member of this family. He grew up 
 and obtained his education in his native town, 
 learning there the carpentering trade. He em- 
 braced the doctrines of the Mormon Church and 
 at the age of nineteen years, left home and went 
 to Pennsylvania, where he spent two years with 
 his brother Alexander, a i\lethodist Episcopal 
 minister in that State. His brother being un- 
 friendly to the Mormons, and havinp' no sym- 
 pathy with their relieious creed, our subject left 
 Pennsylvania, and in 1844 joined his oldest 
 brother, Emory, who had also become a convert 
 to the Mormon teachings, and was living in 
 Nauvoo, Illinois. These two were the only 
 ones of the family to join the Mormon Church. 
 They remained in Nauvoo until the uprising 
 of the people against the Mormons, when they 
 went to Council Bluffs, and when the Presi- 
 dent's call came for five hundred volunteers 
 from the Mormon ranks our subject enlisted in 
 
 Company B. The history of the Mormon Bat- 
 talion is too well known for us to recite it in 
 detail here ; suffice it to say that Mr. Barrus was 
 with the Battalion during the whole of its service, 
 suffering the terrible privations on the desert, 
 sharing in the dangers from wild animals, and 
 was among those sent to the relief of General 
 Carney at San Diego, where he was discharged, 
 July 16, 1847, and re-enlisted, being stationed at 
 San Luis Rey. He remained there for eight 
 months, and was discharged in March, 1848. He 
 here met Parley P. Pratt, and accompanied him 
 on a two years' mission for the Mormon Church 
 to the northern part of California ; he then spent 
 a year in the Santa Clara Valley, and from there 
 went into the southern part of the State, where 
 he remained two years, coming to Utah in 1857. 
 The brother had preceded him by a year, and 
 taken up his home in Grantsville, where our sub- 
 ject joined him. Emory Barrus died in 1899. 
 
 Mr. Barrus married, August 10, 1859, to Miss 
 Ellen Martin, who came to America with her 
 parents at an early day. Her mother died at 
 Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1855, en route to Utah, 
 and her father died in this State in 1892. They 
 were also members of the Mormon faith. Nine 
 children have been born of this marriage, five of 
 whom are now living— Ellen P.; Betsy A., died 
 in infancy; Zylpha A., died aged fourteen 
 months ; Fannie I. ; Loana ; Ruel M. ; Dorius M. ; 
 Royal L., died aged about two years, and Essie 
 G., who died aged fourteen years. 
 
 In politics Mr. Barrus is a staunch Democrat, 
 but has never given much time to the work of 
 that party, devoting his time, aside from his 
 business, to the work of the Church, in which 
 he has always been prominent, and is at tliis time 
 a member of the Seventies. 
 
 Upon coming to Grantsville Mr. Barrus en- 
 gaged in cattle and sheep raising, in which he 
 has been fairly prosperous, and owns a good 
 farm of twenty acres, where he makes his home. 
 He retired from the Mormon Battalion with the 
 rank of Lieutenant, and draws a pension of eight 
 dollars for his services during that time. At 
 the time of the Johnston army troubles he or- 
 ganized and equipped a company, of which com- 
 pany he received the commission of Major. Mr. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Barrus has done valiant service, both for his 
 country and his Church, and to-day enjoys the 
 confidence and resnect, not only of the heads of 
 the Mormon Church, but of all with whom he 
 has been associated through many years of resi- 
 dence in Tooele county. 
 
 HARLES G. PARKINSON. 
 Through his successful work as a 
 contractor and builder, Mr. Parkinson 
 has contributed to the development of 
 Tooele county, which has been his 
 home for nearly fifty years. 
 
 Charles Graham Parkinson was born in Lan- 
 castershire, England, February 11, 1834, and is 
 the son of Timothy and Ann (Fielding) Parkin- 
 son, both natives of that country. This family 
 consisted of six children — John ; Mary Ann ; 
 Charles G., our subject; Sarah Ann; Timothy; 
 Henry, and Amos F. Of these children three 
 are now living. The family became converts to 
 the teachinp-s of the Mormon Church in England, 
 Timothy Parkinson being the only one of a 
 family of twelve to embrace the new religion, 
 and with his family emigrated to America, tak- 
 ing passage on board the Ellen Maria, an Ameri- 
 can sailing vessel, January 18, 1853, and landing 
 in New Orleans in March of that year. From 
 New Orleans they went up the Mississippi river 
 to Saint Louis, and from there to Keokuk, Iowa, 
 where they remained several weeks. At that 
 place a train of emigrants was made up to come 
 to Utah, under Captain Cyrus H. Wheelock, but 
 the train being too large, it was divided, and 
 Captain George Kimball took charge of half of 
 it. They arrived in Salt Lake City October 11, 
 1853, and from there came direct to Grantsville, 
 the father and younger sons engaging in farm- 
 ing. In England the senior Mr. Parkinson had 
 been a printer on silks and fine cloths, but there 
 was no opportunity for him to follow his trade 
 in this place. He died here in 1891, his wife 
 having died in England. 
 Our subject grew to manhood in England, re- 
 
 ceiving his education in the common schools of 
 that country, and learned the trade of metal en- 
 graving. There being no call for such work here, 
 he turned his attention to painting, which has 
 been his chief occupation ever since, although he 
 established the first photograph gallery in Grants- 
 ville, and also engaged in the mercantile business 
 in a small way, both here and in Cache Valley. 
 He has painted many of the residences and other 
 buildings in this county, and has been fairly suc- 
 cessful. When he settled here, in 1853, he built a 
 log cabin, in which he has lived up to the present 
 time, but has now in course of construction a 
 fine adobe house, which will be his future home. 
 He is interested in the sheep business on a small 
 scale, but has never given it much attention. 
 
 Mr. Parkinson married, October 18, 1854, to 
 Miss Hannah M. Clark, daughter of Thomas and 
 Charlotte Clark, and by her had eight children, 
 seven of whom are now living. She died in 1869, 
 and on October 22, 1871, he was married tq 
 Sarah Hill, daughter of Louis and Caroline (Bos- 
 worth) Hill. She was born in Huntingtonshire 
 England, and came to America in 1871, her fam- 
 ily coming in 1880, and her father lived in Coal- 
 ville until his death in 1902. Her mother died 
 in 1S97. By this marriage Mr. Parkinson has 
 had twelve children, seven of whom are now 
 living. 
 
 In politics he owes allegiance to the Demo- 
 cratic party, but has never sought nor held office. 
 He has always been an active worker in Church 
 circles, and in 1863 made a trip to the Missouri 
 river for the purpose of conducting emigrants to 
 this State. He took part in most of the Indian 
 troubles in Utah in the early days, being the 
 first man to break ground for the building of 
 the old fort at Grantsville ; and was also engaged 
 in the troubles arising from the coming of John- 
 ston's army into Utah. 
 
 Mr. Parkinson has during his life in Utah 
 given his hearty support to the work of develop- 
 ing his section of the country, as well as in build- 
 ing up the Church in Utah, and commands the 
 respect and esteem of all who have been asso- 
 ciated with him, for his honesty and integrity ; 
 and is to-day one of the respected citizens of 
 Tooele county. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 465 
 
 ILLIAM HEMMING, one of the 
 earliest and most highly respected 
 residents of Morgan county. Per- 
 haps one of the hardest and most 
 severe tests of the early pioneers to 
 Utah was what is known as the hand-cart bri- 
 gade. By this mode of travel the entire trip 
 was made from the Missouri river across the 
 plains to Utah, and the terrible sufferings and 
 hardships endured by those who were compelled 
 to make the long journey in this manner will 
 never be fully known or appreciated by the out- 
 side world. Mr. Hemming and his worthy wife 
 were among a company who crossed the plains 
 to Utah in the hand-cart brigade, walking the 
 entire distance from Omaha to Salt Lake City, 
 in i860. 
 
 Our subject is a native of England, and was 
 born in Oxfordshire on June 8, 1827. He is the 
 son of John and Sarah (Embra) Hemming. He 
 was raised in the small town of Swell, in Glouces- 
 tershire, until eight years of age, when his par- 
 ents moved to Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace 
 of Shakespeare. There he received his education, 
 growing to manhood and learning the painter's 
 trade, living on the farm with his parents. He 
 became a convert to the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church, and was baptized on November 16, 1852, 
 and for the next three years labored as a mis- 
 sionary and teacher in the surrounding villages. 
 On November 24, 1855, he emigrated to America 
 with his wife and two children, sailing from Liv- 
 erjHDol on board the ship Emerald Isle. They 
 landed in New York, where they made their 
 home for the next four years, the father follow- 
 ing his trade as a painter, and laboring among 
 the people as a teacher of the Mormon doctrines. 
 On May 6, i860, they started for Utah, going by 
 rail as far as Saint Joseph, Missouri, and from 
 there to Florence by boat. There they joined the 
 hand-cart company, and reached Salt Lake City 
 on August 27th of that year. The family re- 
 mained two weeks with the family of Colonel 
 J. C. Little, and then went to Morgan county, at 
 that time a part of Davis county, where they 
 made their home in the town of Littleton for two 
 years. Our subject built three log houses on Dry 
 creek, and did farming on shares for Colonel 
 
 Little. In 1862 he bought a house in Richville 
 Ward, where he lived for three years, and then 
 moved to his present farm, which is inside the 
 limits of Morgan City at this time. He has this 
 place well improved, and has built a fine brick 
 residence. His farm consists of thirty-three 
 acres of valuable land, well irrigated from the 
 Weber and city ditches. In addition to farm- 
 ing he has continued to follow his trade as a 
 painter, and also, since settling here, has done 
 considerable carpenter work. He did a large part 
 of the work on the Stake Meeting House, donat- 
 ing his services. He is a very public-spirited 
 man, and believes in good roads and bridges, 
 and has done much towards securing them for 
 his county. 
 
 Mr. Hemming was married in England to Miss 
 Emma Sanford, a native of Warwickshire. They 
 .have had a family of six children — Fannie, widow 
 of John Toomer; Frederick W. ; Emily, wife of 
 James Rich ; Sarah Jane, wife of Roswell H. 
 Stevens; Alfred John, in Idaho; and Charlotte 
 M., wife of Aaron B. Cherrey, of Centerville. 
 
 Mr. Hemming is an adherent of the Demo- 
 cratic party, and has been one of the most active 
 workers of that party. He has served two terms 
 as a member of the City Council, and been promi- 
 nently identified with every measure advanced 
 for the upbuilding of his county or town. He 
 and his whole family are members of the Mor- 
 mon Church, and all are prominent in the work 
 of that bodv, his daughters being members of 
 the Ladies' Relief Society, as is also his wife, 
 she having been a teacher in that society for many 
 years. Mr. Hemming has been Stake teacher for 
 over forty years, traveling a good deal in the in- 
 terest of that work. On January 10, 1876, he was 
 ordained a High Priest by Elias S. Smith, and 
 set apart as First Counselor to President Meekam 
 of the High Priests' Quorum of Zion. He later 
 filled the same office for President Hogg, whom 
 he succeeded in 1900, and has since continued to 
 hold the position of President of the High 
 Priests' Quorum, Morgan Stake of Zion. 
 
 Mr. Hemming's career, since he has been a 
 resident of this place, has been such as to win 
 for him the confidence and esteem of all with 
 whom he has been associated, and while he came 
 
466 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 here a poor man, he has, by dint of hard work 
 and undaunted determination, overcome every 
 obstacle, and is now in comfortable circumstance? 
 honored and respected by all who know him, and 
 regarded as one of the representative men of 
 Morgan City. 
 
 ROET LUCIUS HALE has spent 
 over half a century of his life in Utah, 
 and upwards of forty-seven years in 
 Tooele county, and by his long and 
 honorable career in this county has 
 won the confidence and respect of all the best 
 people. He has been active in many of the dif- 
 ferent enterprises which have been for the build- 
 ing up of his community. He has passed through 
 all the early discouragements and hardships of 
 which perhaps no section of the LTnited States 
 is more noted than Utah. In religious affairs he 
 has always been a faithful follower and active 
 worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints, and todav ranks among the leaders 
 of that faith in his community. 
 
 He was born in Dover, New Hampshire, May 
 i8, 1828, and came of an old Massachusetts fam- 
 ily. His mother, Olive (Boynton) Hale was 
 born in Bradford, Massachusetts, in 1805, and 
 his father, Jonathan Hale, was born in the same 
 State in 1800. They moved to Dover after their 
 marriage, and while there were converted to the 
 teachings of the Mormon Church, and moved to 
 Kirkland, Ohio, going from there to Far We^t, 
 Missouri, and finally to Nauvoo. At the time of 
 the exodus of the Mormons from Nauvoo, the 
 family went with the main body of the Church 
 to Winter Quarters, where both the parents died. 
 Four of the eight children died in Illinois. Of 
 those who remained, one sister married Lucus 
 Hoagland, who was a member of the famous 
 Mormon Battalion, and who died in San Ber- 
 nardino, California ; Alma is living in Smith- 
 field, Cache county ; Solomon is also living in 
 Cache Valley, at Preston, and our subject, who 
 is the oldest of the family, makes his home at 
 Grantsville. After the death of the parents 
 these four children continued the journey to 
 Utah, traveling in the train of Captain Heber C. 
 
 Kimball, in which train an uncle by marriage 
 of the children, Henry Heriman, was Captain 
 over fifty wagons. They arrived in Salt Lake 
 City in the fall of 1848, and our subject con- 
 tinued to make this his home for about six years. 
 During the first years of his residence in L^tah 
 he saw considerable service fighting Indians, and 
 also participated in the Johnston army troubles. 
 He was one of the company known as Minute- 
 Men, or Life Guards, and was one of the men 
 who was given a home as an act of appreciation 
 for the service rendered during that time. He 
 was also sent out by the Church to do coloniza- 
 tion work, and spent a considerable portion of 
 his time in this occupation. He helped organ- 
 ize and colonize the mission at Los Vegas, on 
 the Colorado river, and also spent two years on 
 the iVIuddy river in this work. He acted as body 
 guard to Brieham Young during his tours of 
 inspection, and altoo-ether was very active in the 
 life of the new State. 
 
 Our subject was a mason by trade, and when 
 not engaged in fighting or colonization work fol- 
 lowed his trade. He came to Grantsville about 
 185s, and settled on the land that had been given 
 him by the State, and took up farming, which 
 he has since continued to follow in a successful 
 way. Besides his home place, he has about fifty 
 acres of other land in the vicinity of Grantsville. 
 
 Mr. Hale has been four times married, and is 
 the father of twenty-six children. He was first 
 married in Salt Lake City in 1849 to Olive Whit- 
 tle, daughter of Thomas and Amelia Whittle, by 
 whom he had six children — .\roet L., Junior; 
 Olive A., Jonathan, Thomas, who died in his 
 twenty-third year; Rachael S., the wife of T. H. 
 Clark, of Grantsville, and Solomon E., living at 
 Oakley, Idaho. The mother died in Grantsville, 
 September 14, i860. His second wife bore him 
 one child — Esther— now Mrs. Joseph Acoff. He 
 married as his third wife Louisa. Cook, daugh- 
 ter of Emory and Martha (Morris) Cook. This 
 marriage occurred December 24, 1861. The 
 Cook family came to Utah in 1864, from En- 
 gland, their daughter being born in that coun- 
 try, and she came to this country in 1861, the 
 year of her marriage to Mr. Hale. Her parents 
 died in Grantsville. Eight children were born 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 467 
 
 as a result of this marriaee — Aroetta, now Mrs. 
 Holgate, living in Vernal, Uintah county, Utah ; 
 Clarissa, at this time the wife of William Mat- 
 thews, of Grantsville ; Henry L-, who died in in- 
 fancy ; Leonard W'.. livinir in Grantsville ; 
 Phoebe, now Mrs. P. Meachain, living in Hinck- 
 ley, I'tah ; Minnie, died aged sixteen year.^ ; 
 Frank B., and Nettie, at home. The fourth wife 
 was Charlotte, a sister of his third wife, and of 
 this marriage nine children were born — George, 
 who died aged sixteen years ; Lottie, now Mrs. 
 Hunter, living in Oakley, Idaho; Fred, Benja- 
 min W., Harriett, drowned when sixteen years 
 of age ; Morris J., Mary, Lucielle and Louie. All 
 of this family reside at Afton, Wyoming, except 
 Lottie (Mrs. Hunter). 
 
 Mr. Hale was baptized in Kirkland, Ohio, 
 when but nine years of age, by President Wilford 
 Woodrulif, and has ever since been a faithful and 
 consistent member of the ]\Iormon Church, rais- 
 ing his children in the doctrines of that denom- 
 ination. He has served as Counselor to Bishop 
 Thomas Clark, first Bishop of Grantsville Ward. 
 
 In politics he has always been a Democrat 
 since the organization of that party in Utah, and 
 was a member of the first City Council of Grants- 
 ville. He held two commissions during his serv- 
 ice in military life, the first being that or Orderly 
 Sergeant of the First Company of Life Guards. 
 This commission was received from Governor 
 Durkey. He was also made Adjutant of Bat- 
 talion under Major Robery. During his resi- 
 dence in Grantsville Mr. Hale has taken a lively 
 interest in whatever pertained to the welfare of 
 his community, and was at one time connected 
 with the flouring and woolen mills at that place. 
 He now holds an interest in the Co-operative 
 Store at Grantsville, and is looked upon as one 
 of the able and active business men of that sec- 
 tion. 
 
 At the time that Lieutenant Gunnison was 
 killed in the southern part of the State, Mr. Hale 
 was selected by Mr. Demick Huntington, the In- 
 dian interpreter, to go to the seat of trouble, and 
 secure, if possible, the body, instruments, field 
 notes, etc., which belonged to the Lieutenant. 
 The first party failed in their mission. Messrs. 
 Hale and Huntington left Salt Lake City alone. 
 
 but were reinforced by two more men at Payson. 
 The Lieutenant's bodv and instruments were 
 later secured by another searching party. 
 
 ARLES JOHNSON has for up- 
 wards of half a century been an hon- 
 'jred and highly respected citizen af 
 Tooele county, residing in Grants- 
 ville. He was born in Northern Swe- 
 den November 14, 1835, and is the son of John 
 Johnson. Our subject grew to manhood in his 
 native country, and there acquired his education 
 and learned the carpenter trade. He was con- 
 verted to the doctrines of the Mormon Church, 
 and in 1863 sailed for America on the ship Kim- 
 ball. He crossed the plains in the emigrant train 
 under Lorenzo Kimball, and arrived in Salt Lake 
 Citv on September 6th of that year, going im- 
 mediately to Grantsville, which he has since made 
 his home. 
 
 On .March 18, 1864, in Salt Lake City, he was 
 married to Miss Lottie Erickson, dauehter of 
 Erick and Johanna (Johnson) Erickson. This 
 family had also become converts to the doctrines 
 and teachings of the Mormon Church, and came 
 to America in the same ship and to Utah in the 
 same company as our subject, also going to 
 Grantsville and making their home there. Three 
 children were born of this marriage — Charles, 
 Junior, born in 1866, now engaged with his father 
 in the mercantile business in Grantsville, and also 
 in the sheep business ; Alexander, a sketch of 
 whom appears elsewhere in this work, and Leo, 
 born in 1873, in partnership with his brother 
 Alexander in the sheep business. 
 
 LTpon going to Grantsville Mr. Johnson fol- 
 lowed his trade as a carpenter for many years, 
 building a number of the finest residences in that 
 place. About seven years ago he opened up a 
 general merchandise business here, taking his 
 three sons into partnership with him, and of 
 which business the oldest son, Charles, is man- 
 ager. The family are all members of the Church, 
 and the oldest son has served on a three years' 
 mission in New Zealand. All of the sons are 
 married, and Mr. Johnson has seven grandchil- 
 dren. They own a fine brick store building and 
 
468 
 
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 music hall on Main street, and also own com- 
 fortable homes here. The family is a prominent 
 and highly respected one in this community, and 
 Mr. Johnson enjoys the confidence and esteem 
 of all those with whom he has been associated. 
 
 LEXANDER JOHNSON is a native 
 son of Utah, having been born in 
 Grantsville, Tooele county, September 
 2, 1870. He is a son of Charles and 
 Lottie (Erickson) Johnson, whose bio- 
 grahpical sketch appears elsewhere in this vol- 
 ume. Alexander Johnson is yet a young man, 
 having just passed the thirty-first milestone on 
 his life's journey. He has already demonstrated 
 his ability as a successful business man, and has 
 made a record that many men of more mature 
 years might well be proud of. 
 
 Our subject has spent his entire life in this 
 part of Utah, receiving here his education in the 
 common schools. He is the second child in his 
 father's family. He began life for himself in 
 1899, engaging in the sheep business, having 
 spent some years as a sheep herder, and in the 
 course of time this venture proved to be a very 
 successful one. He later took his brother Leo 
 into partnership with him, and the firm is known 
 as Johnson Brothers. They have about eight 
 thousand head of sheep, which they range mostly 
 in Western Wyoming. Mr. Johnson also has an 
 interest in the general merchandise store of his 
 father in Grantsville. 
 
 He was married, December 14, 1898, to Miss 
 Mary Alice Anderson, and they have had two 
 children — x'Mta and Pheris. 
 
 In politics Mr. Johnson is a believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party, in which he 
 takes an active interest. He is at this time a 
 member of the City Council. He and his wife 
 are members of the Mormon Church, and promi- 
 nent in its work in their community. Mr. John- 
 son is regarded as one of the successful young 
 business men of Tooele county, and makes his 
 home in Grantsville, where he has a beautiful 
 nine-room two-story brick house, modern in 
 every respect, and his home is conceded to be 
 next to the finest in Grantsville. He has, bv his 
 
 upright, manly life, his strict integrity and close 
 application to business, won the confidence and 
 esteem of those with whom he has been associ- 
 ated, and enjoys the friendship of a large circle 
 of people. 
 
 RANK R. SNOW. No history of Utah 
 will ever be complete unless it gives 
 due prominence to the Snow family, 
 whose history is inseparably linked 
 with that of the State, as well as of 
 the Mormon Church. The early members of 
 this family came to Utah with the pioneers, and 
 were amone the leaders of the Church, of which 
 their descendants remain staunch supporters, 
 and were actively identified with every enterprise 
 that was launched in the early days for the de- 
 velopment of the vast resources of this then wild 
 and almost unknown region. The work they so 
 nobly began has been prosecuted by the different 
 members of the family, among whom the gentle- 
 man whose name heads this article occupies a 
 prominent place. 
 
 Frank R. Snow is a native Utahn, having been 
 born in Salt Lake City in 1854, and is a son of 
 Apostle Erastus Snow, a native of Vermont who 
 became a member of the Mormon Church at the 
 early age of fourteen, and later moved to Nau- 
 voo, where he remained until the people were 
 driven out in 1846, when he went with the Saints 
 to Winter Quarters, and in company with Brig- 
 ham Young crossed the great American plains in 
 the early part of 1847. He and Orson Pratt were 
 the first members of the company to enter Salt 
 Lake Valley, July 21, 1847. He was identified 
 with the life of the Church all through the years 
 that followed, up to the time of his death in 1888. 
 He was one of the founders of the city of Saint 
 George, and did much towards building up South- 
 ern Utah. He made his home in Saint George, 
 but spent a considerable part of his time in other 
 parts of the State, in the intrests of the Church. 
 He opened up the Scandinavian mission, which 
 has furnished a larger quota of the membership 
 of the Mormon Church than any other country 
 outside of Great Britain, and after mastering the 
 language of that people translated a number of 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 469 
 
 the Church works into the Scandinavian tongue 
 He was ordained an Apostle in 1849. His wife, 
 and the mother of our subject, was Artimesia 
 Beman, a native of Massachusetts, who died in 
 1882, beini- a daughter of Alva and Sarah 
 (Burtts) Beman. Air. Beman became a convert 
 to the Church earl)' in life, and lived in Nauvoo 
 for some years, but died before reaching Utah. 
 The Snow family orieinally came from England 
 in 1624, and settled in Massachusetts. The late 
 President Lorenzo Snow descended from one 
 branch of this family. The ancestors of the 
 Beman family were also English people. There 
 were nine children in the family of which our 
 subject is a member — Sarah L., married George 
 W. Thurston ; M. M., born in Florence ; Arti- 
 mesia, born in this city and married Daniel Seeg- 
 miller; Erastus B., deceased; Frank R., our sub- 
 ject; Maroni, married Addie Gates, and is now 
 residing in Provo ; Orson P., married Sarah 
 Blackner, and lives in Idaho Falls, Idaho ; George 
 A., married Effie Stoddard, and is at this time a 
 director of the Consolidated Wagon and Machine 
 Company of this city. 
 
 Mr. Snow was reared in Saint George, and ob- 
 tained his education from the schools of that dis- 
 trict. He did considerable freighting in his early 
 life, and at the age of twenty-one started out for 
 himself and became Secretary of the Rio Virgin 
 Manufacturing Company. He remained with that 
 establishment from 1874 to 1884. He was for 
 a number of years Bishop's agent of Saint George 
 Stake, and also assistant manager of the Co- 
 operative Mercantile Institution at that place. 
 JHe came to Salt Lake City in 1887, and in con- 
 nection with his brother George A. established 
 the Consolidated Implement Company, of which 
 he became Secretary and Treasurer, which po- 
 sition he filled until the company consolidated 
 yvith the Co-operative Wagon and Machine Com- 
 pany, under the name of the Consolidated Wagon 
 and Machine Company, January i, 1902, when he 
 was elected to fill the position of Treasurer and 
 director of the new company. 
 
 Mr. Snow was married, in Saint George, in 
 1877, to Miss Lucy Simmons, daughter of Joseph 
 M. and Rachel E. Simmons. Mrs. Snow's peo- 
 ple, on her mother's side, were naitves of Penn- 
 
 sylvania, and came to Utah with the pioneers. 
 She is a granddaughter of the late Bishop Ed- 
 win D. Woolley. By this marriage they have 
 had three sons and eight daughters — Ralph F. ; 
 ^"alentine S. ; J. Marcellus ; Lucy ; Rachel ; Merle ; 
 Gertrude; Marguerite; Virginia; Olive, and Ar- 
 timesia. 
 
 In political life Mr. Snow owes allegiance to 
 the Democratic party, and was a candidate on 
 that ticket for City Councilman at the late elec- 
 tion, but went down to defeat with the other 
 members of his party. 
 
 In religious life he is a member of the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and has 
 filled many of the offices in the Priesthood, hav- 
 ing been ordained a High Priest in 1885, and ap- 
 pointed Bishop's agent of the Saint George 
 Stake. He has also been prominently identified 
 with the work of the Sunday Schools. He per- 
 formed a mission to Mexico in 1883-84, and as- 
 sisted in establishing the first mission in that 
 country. Aside from his interests in Salt Lake, 
 Mr. Snow is a member of the Boyle Furniture 
 Company of Ogden, one of the largest furniture 
 establishments in the inter-mountain region, and 
 in which he was one of the original organizers 
 and promoters. He is well known throughout 
 the State, and his given his support to many of 
 the enterprises for the advancement of Utah. Mr. 
 Snow occupies a high place in the ranks of the 
 business men of Salt Lake City, and has won a 
 reputation for unimpeachable integrity and high 
 business methods. He is popular with all classes, 
 and numbers his friends bv the legion. 
 
 ELVIX D. WELLS. Although Mr. 
 Wells comes from one of the most 
 illustrious families, not only in the 
 Mormon Church, but in the State 
 of Utah as well, he is essentially a 
 self-made man, and has carved out for himself 
 a career of which any man might well be proud. 
 Mr. Wells is a Utahn, having been born in 
 Salt Lake City July 31, 1867. He is a son of 
 Daniel H. Wells, and a half brother to Governor 
 Heber M. Wells, biographical sketches of whom 
 appear elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Wells' 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 mother bore the maiden name of Louisa Free. 
 She was a native of Kentucky, and came to Utah 
 ,with her people in 1848. She was the daughter 
 of Alonzo P. and Betsie (Strait) Free. Mr. Free 
 became a member of the Mormon Church in his 
 native State, and moved to Nauvoo, lUinois, 
 where he went through all the early hardships 
 of the pioneers, and when they were driven out 
 of that city went with the main body of the 
 Church to Winter Quarters, from which place 
 he crossed the plains to Utah, and was actively 
 identified with the work of the Church in this 
 State. He died at the age of eighty-four, in 
 1881. and his wife survived him four years. Our 
 subject's mother died in June, 1886. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in this city, and 
 was educated in the public schools, and later en- 
 tered the Deseret University, now the L^niversity 
 of Utah, but left that institution before graduat- 
 ing to take a position with the Zion Co-operative 
 Mercantile Institution, in the crockery and hard- 
 ware department, known as "Department C' At 
 the end of six months he was called by the heads 
 of the Mormon Church to go on a mission to 
 England. While there he labored in the Lan- 
 cashire Conference, having his headquarters in 
 Liverpool. He remained in England nine months, 
 and upon his return to Utah aeain entered the 
 employ of the Zion Co-operative Mercantile In- 
 stitution, where he remained for eighteen months. 
 Upon severing his connection with that insti- 
 tution Mr. Wells entered the employ of the Co- 
 operative Wagon and Machine Company, in Au- 
 gust, 1887. beginning at the bottom, and has since 
 worked his way up through all the dififerent de- 
 partments, until he is to-day filling the responsi- 
 ble position of Secretary of one of the largest 
 wagon and machine establishments in the entire 
 West. For six years he had charge of the branch 
 house at Montpelier, Idaho. He was made Sec- 
 retary and Treasurer of the Co-operative Wagon 
 and Machine Company in 1896, and remained in 
 that position until the consolidation of his com- 
 pany with the Consolidated Implement Company, 
 when he was elected Secretary of the new con- 
 cern, which is doing business under the name of 
 the Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company. 
 
 Mr. Wells was married, in Salt Lake City, in 
 
 1892, to Miss Ann Elizabeth Young, a daughter 
 of Dr. Seymour B. Young, whose grandfather 
 was a brother of President Brigham Young. 
 Four children have been born of this marriage — 
 Louisa E. ; Miriam Y. ; Melvin D., Junior, and 
 Joseph 15. 
 
 Politically Mr. Wells supports the Democratic 
 party, although he has never actively participated 
 in the work of the party, his entire time, outside 
 of liis business, being devoted to the interests of 
 his Church. He is a member of the High Council 
 of Salt Lake Stake, and gives his hearty support 
 and a considerable amount of his time and means 
 to the promulgation of the work of the Mormon 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. Wells, in common with his brothers, re- 
 ceived the best education to be obtained from the 
 schools of this State, which his father believed 
 to be the best heritage he could leave his children, 
 and appreciating the fact that the best and most 
 useful men the country has ever known have been 
 those who were compelled to carve out their own 
 career, unaided by wealth or family influence, 
 brought his sons up in that belief, and when Mr. 
 Wells began in life it was as a poor man. The 
 wonderful success that has since come to him 
 has been won by his own unaided efforts. His 
 entire career has been most honorable and up- 
 right, and by his honesty and integrity, as much 
 as through the exercise of an undaunted cour- 
 age and determination to overcome every obsta- 
 cle, he has attained to a high position in business 
 circles, and has won and retained the confidence 
 and esteem of those with whom he has been as- 
 sociated. 
 
 Baas 
 
 RS. SARAH JENNE CANNON. 
 In the settlement of a new country, 
 and especially of the western por- 
 tion of the United States, a peculiar 
 combination of afYairs has been re- 
 quired, together with the united efforts of both 
 men and women, and in the compilation of a 
 work of this nature it is only fair and just that 
 the women who have so actively participated in 
 the building up and development of the vast re- 
 sources of tliis region should receive their due 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 471 
 
 share of credit. Prominent among those who 
 have been identified with the settlement of Utah 
 and Salt Lake City, almost from its very begin- 
 ning, is the subject of this sketch, Mrs. Sarah 
 Jenne Cannon, widow of the late George Q. Can- 
 non, a sketch of whose life appears elsewhere in 
 this volume. She was born in Canada, but when 
 an infant her parents removed to Indiana, where 
 she lived until about two years of age ; then they 
 moved to Illinois, and at the age of nine years 
 she came, with Franklin D. Richards and family, 
 across the great plains of America in a waeon 
 train, making a portion of the trip on foot. They 
 arrived in Salt Lake City in the fall of 1848, and 
 here our subject has lived ever since. Her early 
 education was received in such schools as the 
 new Territory then afforded. Her paternal an- 
 cestors were among the early settlers of the 
 United States, having landed on the eastern 
 shores as early as 1623, and her forefathers, on 
 both sides, fought in the Revolutionary War. 
 Her father's mother was a Miss Lincoln, her 
 father being an own brother to President Abra- 
 ham Lincoln, and our subject's mother was Miss 
 Sarah Snyder, a descendant of one of the old and 
 prominent Eastern families. 
 
 In 1858 our subject was married to George O. 
 Cannon, and has reared to maturity a family of 
 seven children — Honorable Frank J. Cannon, 
 late Lfnited States Senator; Angus J., who for 
 years has been connected with the George Q. 
 Cannon Publishing House, of this city ; Hugh 
 J., at present serving in Germany on a mission 
 for the Church ; Rosannah, now the wife of Lonzo 
 B. Irving, of this city ; Joseph J., absent in Swe- 
 den on a mission for the Church; Preston J., of 
 Salt Lake City, and Carl O., absent on a mission 
 in New Zealand. 
 
 Mrs. Cannon has been an active woman. She 
 has not only raised a family of seven children, all 
 of whom have achieved such distinction in the 
 world as redound to her credit, but she has been 
 prominently identified with the work of the 
 Church. In the Relief Societies she has been 
 an untiring worker for the past fifteen years. 
 She has given a great deal of her time to Church 
 work. She has held various offices of trust, and 
 at present holds the office of First Counselor to 
 
 President Mary Isabella Home, of the Salt Lake 
 Stake, and the love and charity she has shown in 
 her work will leave its influence to be felt by the 
 generations yet unborn. She has passed through 
 the early trials and tribulations incident to the 
 settlement of this country, and notwithstanding 
 all the troubles and difficulties of the dark and 
 gloomy days, she has been of a cheerful and hope- 
 ful spirit, and to-day is held in the bonds of love 
 and friendship by all the people with whom she 
 has come in contact. 
 
 TAXLEY B. MILNER. Utah num- 
 bers anions' its leading citizens many 
 men who have overcome almost insur- 
 mountable difficulties, and made in theu' 
 lifetimes careers that are splendid illus- 
 trations of man's pluck and ability to overcome 
 unpropitious natural conditions, and make the 
 unwilling earth contribute to the support and 
 prosperity of the State. Prominent among these 
 men, and especially so from the wide and varied 
 pursuits he has followed and the successful re- 
 sults he has achieved, is the subject of this sketch. 
 Stanley B. Milner, son of John and Sarah 
 Selina (Bark) Milner, both natives of England, 
 was born in Grand county, Wisconsin, and spent 
 his early life on his father's farm in that State. 
 His father John Milner, was one of the early set- 
 tlers of Wisconsin, hewing his farm out of the 
 timber lands and guarding his home against the 
 depredations of the hostile Indians. When he 
 settled in Wisconsin, in 1847, that region was a 
 wilderness, and he was one of the first pioneers 
 to convert it into a home. The same independ- 
 ence and ability which made him a pioneer also 
 brought him success in his industry of farming 
 the new land, and, as the country became settled, 
 he became a leader of that community, and took 
 an active part in the government of its local 
 affairs. Although actively interested in the gov- 
 ernment of his home affairs, he took no active 
 part in the political affairs of the State. Leaving 
 the State of his adoption, he came to Salt Lake 
 City, where he and his wife are still living. 
 
 The early education of his son, Stanley B. 
 Milner, the subject of this sketch, was derived 
 from such schools as then e.xisted in that new 
 
472 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 reg'ion, but, following the example of all the chil- 
 dren of the pioneers, he soon struck out for him- 
 self. His first work outside of the farm was be- 
 gun at the age of sixteen, when he began to learn 
 the trade of cabinetmaker and carpentering, and 
 this trade he followed for the ensuing three years 
 in Wisconsin. When he was twenty years of 
 age he left his native State and went to work in 
 Iowa as a carpenter, continuing in that trade until 
 he was twenty-four. 
 
 Finding that as a mechanic he did not have 
 sufficient opportunity to exercise his ability, he 
 embarked in the lumber business at Atlantic, Cass 
 county Iowa, and during the nine years he was 
 engaged in that business enjoyed a successful ca- 
 reer. His business increased with the years, and 
 to accommodate its requirements he established 
 branches in different parts of Iowa, and in other 
 States as well. This business he disposed of, 
 and, with others, erected an alcohol distillery at 
 Atlantic, Iowa, at a cost of $135,000. Air. Mil- 
 ner was the manager of this new venture, which 
 prospered to a great degree under Ms supervision. 
 It was later disposed of to the alcohol trust. 
 After it was taken under control by the alcohol 
 trust, he headed a company in the erection of a 
 starch factorv in that place, which cost $90,000. 
 Of this he was the principal owner, and devoted 
 his time to its management. The success of the 
 alcohol distillery was duplicated by the starch 
 factory, and it continued to be a profitable invest- 
 ment the entire time it was under the manage- 
 ment of Mr. Milner. This factory was later ab- 
 sorbed by the starch trust. 
 
 Throughout the last ten years of the time he 
 spent in Iowa Mr. Milner became interested in 
 mining operations in the Leadville District in 
 Colorado, and he located and developed the High- 
 land Chief mine there, and still retains a large 
 financial interest in it. This was his first ven- 
 ture into the field of mining, and he was the orig- 
 inal promoter and developer of this property, 
 which has since grown to great value. Besides 
 his mining interests, he was also interested in a 
 ^number of business enterprises in Colorado. 
 
 His interests in mining properties continued 
 to widen with years, and in 1888 he removed to 
 Utah and settled in Salt Lake City. He became 
 
 interested in mining propositions in Gold Moun- 
 tain, Utah, and later acquired a large interest in 
 the Pedro mine, at Bingham, being elected Presi- 
 dent of the company formed to develop it. This 
 proved to be a rich mine, and he still retains a 
 Jarge financial interest in it. He developed this 
 mine, and was interested in many other properties 
 in this State. Among these is the Dexter mine, 
 at Tuscarora, in which he holds large interests, 
 and is the Vice-President of the company. This 
 is also a valuable property, yielding during the 
 past year one hundred and seventy thousand dol- 
 lars to its stockholders in the form of dividends. 
 In addition to his holdings of mining properties 
 of precious and valuable ores, his holdings of 
 iron ore lands in Utah makes him the owner of 
 the largest body of high-grade iron ore in the 
 world. These beds of ore are located in the 
 southern part of Utah, and will be on the line 
 of the new railroad designed to connect Salt 
 Lake City with Los Angeles, California, thus 
 affording ready transportation and efficient aid 
 in the development of this property. The esti- 
 mates of the extent of this body of iron place 
 the amount at over one hundred and sixty mil- 
 lion tons of ore, which exceeds the amount owned 
 by even the Czar of the Russias. 
 
 In addition to his interests in mining, Mr. Mil- 
 ner has taken part in the development of the finan- 
 cial interests of Utah and in the building up of 
 Salt Lake City. Lie is a director in the National 
 Bank of the Republic, in this city, and is also 
 the owner of "Fountain Place," a suburb in the 
 southern part of Salt Lake City, which contains 
 over twenty-three acres. Nor are his interests 
 confined by the boundaries of the State. He is 
 President and manager of the Twin Falls Land 
 and Water Company, of Southern Idaho, which 
 has under way the project of irrigating two hun- 
 dred and seventy thousand acres of arid land in 
 that country. This irrigation will be from one 
 fountain head, and the water will be drawn from 
 the Snake river, the connection being made at a 
 point eighteen miles above the Shoshone Falls 
 on that river. Not only will this be of great 
 financial benefit to the projectors, but it will serve 
 to open up a new country, which at present lies 
 useless and idle from lack of water. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 473 
 
 Mr. Milner was married, in Atlantic, Iowa, to 
 Miss Truth Campbell, daughter of Stanton A. 
 Campbell, who was first a school teacher and 
 later a banker in that State. His wife is a de- 
 scendant of the old Argj'le family of Scotland, 
 and whose ancestors settled in Massachusetts 
 over a hundred years ap-o. He has three sons — 
 Archibald, who is associated with his father in 
 his various business enterprises; Clarence, en- 
 gaged in the beet sugar industry, for which he is 
 being fitted by a special course at college in Ber- 
 lin, Germany, and Jay. 
 
 While Mr. Milner has devoted his time entirely 
 to business, and has not actively participated in 
 politics, he believes in the principles of the Demo- 
 cratic party. He was formerly a believer in the 
 Republican tenets, but owing to the adherence of 
 the Democratic party to the silver cause, in which 
 the mining States were so vitally concerned, 
 joined the ranks of that party. 
 
 He now stands at the head of the business men 
 •of Utah, both in wealth and in the extent of 
 his enterprises. His industry and ability have 
 brough him wealth and success, and his career 
 is one that marks him as a man who would have 
 succeeded in whatever he turned his hand to do. 
 His geniality and kindness, his integrity and 
 ability, together with his unflinching honesty, 
 have made him one of the best known men in 
 the West and one of the most popular. 
 
 Starting at an early age to earn his own liv- 
 ing, self-made and self-instructed, he has carved 
 a fortune and career from the opportunities that 
 presented themselves, and in building for him- 
 self he has built for others, in the development 
 of the industries of the State with which he has 
 been so closely allied. 
 
 ILLIAM SMITH. One of the 
 most prominent and influential citi- 
 zens in the Mill Creek Ward, and 
 one who throughout his lifetime was 
 one of its most valued members, as 
 well as an active worker in the Mormon Church, 
 was the subject of this sketch, who died October 
 lo, 1901. He was born in Steeple, Ashton, Eng- 
 land, November 12 1841, and was the son of 
 
 Thomas and Alice (Long) Smith. His father 
 and mother were natives of England, and lived 
 and died in that land. 
 
 Our subject was married, in England, on April 
 23, 1862, to Miss Anna Sophia DuFc^e, daugh- 
 ter of Anthony and Anna (Lawrence) DuFosee, 
 the father a native of Saulsbury and the mother 
 of Stopleford, England. Her father was a grand- 
 son of Anthony DuFosee, the inventor of the first 
 carpet-weaving machine. This ancestor of the 
 family came from France with Lord Pembroke, 
 and lived with him after he came to England at 
 his home in Wilton, where the first carpet weav- 
 ing by machinery in history took place. From 
 here he went to Kityminster, where he also 
 started carpet weaving, and in this place he died. 
 Mrs. Smith's grandfather was a tallow chandler 
 at Saulsbury, England, and her father also. The 
 DuFosee family were one of the prominent fami- 
 lies in manufacturing and textile life in England. 
 Shortly after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Smith 
 emigrated to America, and landed at New York, 
 making their way west to Utah without delay. 
 They arrived at Florence, Nebraska, and spent 
 five weeks there waiting for wagons in which to 
 make the trip across the plains. In the wagon 
 train in which they finally traveled across to 
 Utah Captain Henry Miller was in command, 
 and the train arrived safely in Salt Lake City 
 on October 17, 1862. Upon their arrival in Utah 
 they took up their residence in Sugar House 
 Ward, and lived there for some time, coming to 
 Mill Creek Ward in April, 1867, and located at 
 Ninth East, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth 
 South streets, where they have lived ever since, 
 and where Mr. Smith died. So successfully did 
 he cultivate the land which he had taken up that 
 at his death he was able to leave his widow in 
 comfortable circumstances, with a fine brick home, 
 splendid orchard and shade trees, and twenty- 
 five acres of cultivated land. The result of their 
 marriage was six children — William D., was born 
 September 9, 1863, and died November 3, 1866; 
 Alice S. D., now the wife of Duncan Park, was 
 born January 5, 1866; Elizabeth J. D., was born 
 February 13, 1868, and is now the wife of Ed- 
 ward Knowles ; Hannah D., born April 10, 1870, 
 now the wife of J. S. Blake ; Lovenia, bom March 
 
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 24, 1874, died September 17, 1879; ^nd Louisa 
 D., born December 11, 1877. 
 
 In political life Mr. Smith was not a mem- 
 ber of either of the dominant parties, but 
 preferred to maintain an independent position 
 and vote for the man whom he judged best fitted 
 for the position. He became a member of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 
 when he was eight years of age, and was a con- 
 sistent and faithful member of that Church 
 throuehout his life. For two years he was ab- 
 sent on its missionary work, returning to Utah 
 on October 6, 1900. This period was spent in 
 England, where he had charge of the Birming- 
 ham Conferences. At his home and in his work 
 he was known as a consistent Christian, and one 
 who followed with care the principles of the 
 Golden Rule. He died from the result of a severe 
 attack of heart trouble. The reputation which he 
 made throughout his life for integrity and hon- 
 esty, and his fair dealings and broad-mindedness. 
 had won for him the confidence and esteem, not 
 only of the members of his Church, but also of 
 the people of the Salt Lake Valley, without re- 
 gard to religious belief or political affiliations. 
 
 AMUEL H. HILL. It may be doubted 
 if any resident of the Salt Lake Val- 
 ley is more favorablv known throughout 
 Utah than the subject of this article. 
 He has wielded a potent influence in 
 affairs that make for the upbuilding of a com- 
 munity and the development of its resources. 
 For this reason, therefore a special interest at- 
 taches to the record of his life, which is the story 
 of a man who came to this wild and unsettled 
 country when but a child, obtaining only the most 
 meagre education to fit him for the battle of life, 
 and who began life poor in purse, but rich in ex- 
 pectation and hope ; a man of invincible deter- 
 mination and tireless energy, fitted by natural 
 endowments for large responsibilities in the 
 business world. 
 
 Samuel H. Hill was born in Canada West 
 December 23, 1840, to which place his father, 
 Archibald N. Hill, had emigrated from Scotland. 
 While he was yet a small child his parents re- 
 
 moved from Canada and emigrated to the United 
 States, settling at Nauvoo, Illinois, and there 
 shared all the sufferings and trials to which the 
 Saints were subjected. Mr. Hill, our subject's 
 father, had become a member of the Mormon 
 Church during his residence in Canada, and his 
 emigration to America was the outgrowth of a 
 desire to live among the people of his own faith. 
 When the Mormons were driven out of Nauvoo 
 he went with the main body of the Church to 
 Winter Quarters, and made the long and toilsome 
 journey across the plains to the Salt Lake Val- 
 ley with the second train of emigrants, arriving 
 here in the fall of 1847. After coming to Utah 
 he settled in Salt Lake City, and had charge of 
 the General Tithing Office from that time until 
 he retired from active life. He died in January. 
 1899, ^t the advanced age of ei?hty-four years, 
 after a life spent wholly in the work of building 
 up and strengthening the Church which he be- 
 lieved to be the true one. His position had 
 brought him into close touch with almost every 
 member of the Church, and he was widely known 
 throughout the State, and enjoyed the friendship, 
 not only of the heads of the Church, but of hun- 
 dreds of the members in other sections of the 
 State as well, and at the time of his demise was 
 mourned by the entire Church. His wife, and 
 the mother of our subject, was a Miss Isabella 
 Hood. She died when her son was but seven 
 years of age, and was the only member of her 
 family to come to the United States. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in Illinois, re- 
 maining there until he was about twelve years of 
 age, and receiving his early training and educa- 
 tion in the schools of that State. In 185 1 he 
 crossed the plains with a company of Mormon 
 emigrants, driving an ox team part of the way. 
 The company encountered large herds of buf- 
 falo, which caused them no little inconvenience, 
 it being a difficult matter to prevent the cattle 
 stampeding, and during this journey Mr. Hill had 
 the misfortune to be run over by a wagon, result- 
 ing in a broken leg, from which, however, no bad 
 effects were suffered, the leg being about mended 
 by the time he reached his destination. This com- 
 pany were also most fortunate in their relations 
 with the Indians, who usually caused so much 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 475 
 
 trouble and often danger to the emigrants. Al- 
 though they at one time passed a village in which 
 there was said to be ten thousand warriors, they 
 were not molested or interfered with in any way 
 on the entire journey. Upon reaching Salt Lake 
 City our subject joined his father, and remained 
 with him for some years, attending such schools 
 as the city afforded at that time. In 1857 Mr. 
 Hill, in connection with others, started to estab- 
 lish mail stations between Fort Leavenworth, 
 Kansas, and Salt Lake City. He spent the sum- 
 mer at a point on the line called Deer Creek, near 
 the Platte river. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Hill started out in life for him- 
 self, enlisting as a private in the United States 
 army as a cavalryman, and was mustered out in 
 the following fall. In May, 1863, he was called 
 by the heads of the Church to go on a mission to 
 Europe, and spent three and a half years in the 
 foreign mission field, laboring in England, Scot- 
 land, Holland, Germany, France and Switzer- 
 land. During this time he mastered the German 
 language and acquired a smattering of the 
 trench. The Church had not organized its work 
 into districts at this time, and at one time Mr. 
 Hill was the only Elder from Utah in these coun- 
 tries. Upon his return to Utah, in 1866, he was 
 sent to Southern Nevada, where he spent some 
 time in colonization work. He again returned 
 to Utah, in 1868, and engaged with Brigham 
 Young in the construction of the Union Pacific 
 Railroad in Utah Territory. He continued in 
 this work until the transcontinental road was 
 completed and the tracks met at Promontory in 
 1870. In that year he became associated with 
 the Utah Central Railroad, which was in course 
 of construction from Ogden to Salt Lake City, 
 and which has since been absorbed bv the Oregon 
 Short Line. He remained with that company 
 until 1889, acting in the capacity of purchasing 
 agent and pay master. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Hill became associated with the 
 old established firm of Cunnington & Company, 
 with which he Jias since been identified. This 
 house was established in May, 1867, by Messrs. 
 Walker Brothers, John Cunnington and John 
 Chislett, under the firm name of Cunnington 
 & Company, their first location being the north- 
 
 east corner of Main and Second South streets. 
 From the very start this establishment has had a 
 splendid business, their trade rapidly extending 
 to the remote mining camps and throughout the 
 entire State. In 1883 the business absorbed the 
 firm of Kimball & Lawrence, one of the leading 
 businesses of Salt Lake City at that time, and 
 until 1891 occupied quarters on the corner of 
 Main and First South streets, where the McCor- 
 nick building now stands. From there the busi- 
 ness was transferred to the Hooper Block, 21 and 
 23 East South Temple, and their increasing busi- 
 ness demanding larger quarters, they again 
 moved, in July, 1900 to their present location, 
 at Nos. 48 and 50 South Main street. Here, in 
 addition to their main building, they have erected 
 a large warehouse, which extends from the rear 
 of the business premises and fronts on Richards 
 street. They carry a complete line of mining 
 supplies and hardware, and also do a large gro- 
 cery business, conducting both a wholesale and 
 retail business, and are among the most substan- 
 tial and prosperous firms of Salt Lake City. 
 Since his connection with the firm Mr. Hill has 
 been its manager;' and has entire charge of the 
 business of the company, and it is largely due to 
 his able and efficient management, as well as the 
 untiring energy and devotion to the interests of 
 the house which he has displayed, that the rflsti- 
 tution is to-day in such excellent financial condi- 
 tion. He is a man of most genial persottSlity, 
 possessing, in addition to a high order of busi- 
 ness ability, the rare gift of ma:king friends of 
 his patrons, and during these years he has not 
 only been able to retain the large patronage which 
 the house enjoyed at the time he bfCame asso- 
 ciated with it, but has also largety increased the 
 number of its customers, by uniformly honorable 
 and business-like dealings, it being" the first de- 
 sire of this house that every one should find their 
 purchase to be exactly as represented and worth 
 the price paid. 
 
 Mr. Hill was married, in Salt Lake City, in 
 May, 1867, to Miss Audrey Paine, a daughter of 
 James and Elizabeth Paine. His wife only lived 
 eleven months after their marriapre, and died' in 
 Nevada May 18, 1868. Fie again marriecl, in 
 1870, to Miss Martha Thomas, daughter of David 
 
476 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and Martha Thomas. The Thomas family were 
 of Welsh extraction, and came to Utah in 1868. 
 By this marriage Mr. Hill has six children — 
 David ; Archibald ; Coe ; James ; Edwin, and 
 Mary. 
 
 In political life Mr. Hill is an adherent of the 
 principles of the Republican party. He was a 
 member of the Constitutional Convention, held 
 in 1895, for the purpose of making application to 
 the Federal Government for admission into the 
 Union of States. He took a nrominent and active 
 part in its deliberations. He is a member of the 
 Mormon Church, but, while active in its work, 
 holds no official position in the Church. He has 
 traveled extensively, takino^ a trip through Mex- 
 ico in 1885, and also made a tour of the old 
 world in 1877. 
 
 EORGE M. SCOTT. The present 
 prosperity of Utah is the result of the 
 life work of many men who have given 
 their entire energies to the building up 
 of the commercial resources of this 
 inter-mountain State, and have brought out of the 
 wilderness mineral wealth and industry. Mr. 
 Scott has taken an active part in the settlement 
 of the Pacific slope, and in the development of 
 ihe resources of the inter-mountain region. He 
 went to California in the early days, going via 
 Panama and the Isthmus of Darian in the spring 
 of 1852, and began there his business career, 
 which has brought him in the fullness of his 
 years to the leading position among business 
 men throughout Utah. He has created for him- 
 self a standing that is not excelled by any other 
 man, and in the State he enjoys the confidence 
 and esteem of the business world. 
 
 He was born in the northern part of New York 
 State in 1835, and received his education in the 
 public and high schools of that State. He re- 
 sided there until 1852, when he decided to strike 
 out for the great West, and to carve for himself 
 out of the latent power of that region a success- 
 ful career Mr. Scott continued in business for 
 some years, and then removed to Salt Lake City 
 in 1871. He found Salt Lake a small, strugsriing 
 mountain town, with but little attention paid to 
 
 business, and with the energies of the people di- 
 rected to agriculture and produce rather than to 
 the development of the wonderful mineral wealth 
 hidden in the mountains of Utah. Upon his ar- 
 .rival he established the present hardware business 
 of which he is now the head, under the firm name 
 of Scott, Dunham & Company. This firm enjoyed 
 a very prosperous existence, and conducted the 
 business at considerable profit for a number of 
 years, until 1874, when the firm became Geo. M. 
 Scott & Company, who conducted the business 
 for a number of years. In 1898 the style was 
 changed to the Geo. M. Scott-Strevell Hardware 
 Company. This establishment, of which he has 
 been President since its oreanization, has kept 
 pace with the growth of Salt Lake City and is 
 now one of the most substantial business estab- 
 lishments in the city. As the State of Utah be- 
 gan to feel the inrush of wealth, due to the devel- 
 opment of its mines. Salt Lake City became more 
 and more an important center for the supplying 
 of mills and appliances needed for the work of 
 taking out ore. This company now enjoys a large 
 and extensive business, and gives employment 
 to between seventy and eighty men. Its business 
 has not been confined to the limits of Utah, but 
 e.xtends throughout the entire inter-mountain 
 region, and is the lareest house of its kind west 
 of Denver and east of San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. Scott has never married. In political life 
 he has always been a staunch Republican, and in 
 the early days in Salt Lake City, when the peo- 
 ple were divided on Mormon and non-Mormon 
 lines, Mr. Scott was a strong and active worker 
 in the ranks of the latter party. During the 
 campaign of the Liberal party in Utah in 1890, 
 he was its candidate for Mayor, and was suc- 
 cessfully elected, enjoying the distinction of be- 
 ing the first Gentile Mayor ever elected in Salt 
 Lake City, and he presided over the destinies 
 of the city during the years 1890 and 1891. 
 Aside from this office, he has never held nor 
 sought any other position in the public confi- 
 dence, preferring to devote his time and ener- 
 gies to his business interests, which now com- 
 prise the leading enterprise of the State. He is 
 a prominent member of the Alta club, of this 
 city. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAC RECORD. 
 
 477 
 
 Mr. Scott's father, E. A. Scott, was a native 
 of New York and was one of its successful mer- 
 chants. The success which his son has achieved 
 in the mercantile world ranks him as one of the 
 leaders in the West, and with the growth of his 
 business and increase in his wealth has grown his 
 interest in the city and State. He has unlimited 
 faith in the future greatness of Salt Lake City, 
 and in the importance of Utah. His genial and 
 pleasant manner and his large-heartedness have 
 made him one of the most popular men in Utah, 
 and he numbers his friends by the legion. 
 
 ILLIAM A. NEEDHAM. In the 
 conduct of the operations of Zion's 
 Co-Operative Mercantile Institu- 
 tion, which ranks high among the 
 mercantile institutions of the United 
 States, and undoubtedly holds the first place in 
 the commercial world of the entire inter-mountain 
 region, both by reason of its enormous volume 
 of business, and by the vast fields over which its 
 •operations are extended, men of ability are re- 
 quired to properly guide the efforts of this great 
 establishment. Prominent among the men who 
 have aided materially in the development of its 
 business, and have assisted in bringing it to its 
 present high standing, is the subject of tliis 
 sketch. 
 
 William A. Needham was born in Salt Lake 
 City October 2, 1858. His father, James Need- 
 ham, was a native of England, and came to Utah 
 in the early days of its settlement. He was con- 
 verted to the teachings of the Mormon Church 
 in England, and remained a devoted member of 
 the Church, engaging actively as a missionary 
 for several years. His wife, Alice (Warburton) 
 Needham, the mother of the subject of this 
 sketch, was also a native of England. She came 
 to Utah with her husband, and throughout her 
 life was a consistent and devoted member of the 
 Church of her choice. 
 
 Their son, William, received his early educa- 
 tion in the district schools of Utah, but owing 
 to the necessity, so urgent in a newly settled re- 
 gion, for the turning to account of every hand 
 that was able to work, he was early forced to earn 
 
 his own living, and as a boy of twelve years he 
 entered the employ of S. P. Teasdel, as cash boy, 
 and afterwards as saleman, where he remained 
 until he reached his majority. He has been in 
 the employ of Zion's Co-Operative Mercantile 
 Institution for over twenty years, being first em- 
 ployed in the dress goods department, where he 
 remained as clerk for ten years, at the expiration 
 of which time he was placed in charge of the en- 
 tire retail dry goods department of that estab- 
 lishment, and conducted its affairs with efficiency 
 and credit to himself, having under his charge 
 between thirty and forty men and women. For 
 twelve years past he has made trips to the East 
 about twice a year for the purpose of purchasing 
 goods for the department of which he has charge. 
 
 Mr. Needham married twenty years ago to 
 Miss Lizzie Brown, daughter of John Brown, 
 Counselor to the Bishop of the Ninth Ward of 
 Salt Lake City. By this marriage they have five 
 children — Alice, Mamie, Hazel, Irme B. and 
 Ray B. 
 
 In political affairs Mr. Needham is a member 
 of the Republican party and has followed its for- 
 tunes since its organization in Utah. He has 
 never held or sought public office, giving his en- 
 tire attention to his business. 
 
 ENRY B. PROUT, manager of the 
 Sales Department of the Consolidated 
 Wagon and Machine Company, is one 
 of the best known and most popular 
 employes of this great establishment. 
 He began life at the very bottom of the ladder, 
 and through the exercise of his own energy and 
 ability has progressed until he now occupies a 
 position of trust and honor in one of the largest 
 implement establishments of the entire inter- 
 mountain region, if not, indeed, of the West, 
 
 Henry B. Prout was born in Williamsburg, 
 Granville county. North Carolina, May 8, 1859. 
 He is the son of Henry H. Prout, a native of New 
 York State and a noted Episcopal divine. The 
 Prout family came from England at an early day, 
 the originator of the family in this country being 
 believed to have come over in the Mayflower. He 
 located in Ashland, New York, where he estab- 
 
478 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 lished a home which has ever since been in posses- 
 sion of different members of the family, and 
 which is one of the old landmarks of that place 
 at this day, known as Elm Cottage. Our sub- 
 ject's mother was also descended from an old 
 New York family, who located in another part of 
 the State. Her maiden name was Maria Wicks. 
 She is now living in Schenectady, New York 
 State at the advanced age of eight-three years. 
 When our subject was seven years of age his 
 father moved to Ashland, New York, where he 
 remained for some years, and then, leaving his 
 family at the old homestead, came West and set- 
 tled in a parish in what was originally known as 
 Alder Gulch, now Virginia City, Montana, from 
 which place he came to Salt Lake City in 1874, 
 and was here joined by his family. After coming 
 to this city he had charge of the Saint Mark's 
 hospital and was assistant Rector of the Episcopal 
 Cathedral. He died in 1879. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in Ashland, 
 and attended the private schools of that place 
 until he was fifteen years of age, at which time 
 he accompanied his mother to Salt Lake City, 
 and was a student at Saint Mark's Academy for 
 two years after coming here. He began life in 
 the employ of the Utah Forwarding Company, 
 of which George Y. Wallace, now Manager of 
 the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, 
 was at that time President. He remained with 
 that company for four years and then became 
 identified with Heber J. and B. F. Grant, who 
 ,were engaged in the implement business under 
 the firm name of Grant Brothers. At the expira- 
 tion of two years B. F. Grant withdrew from the 
 business and his interest was purchased by Mr. 
 Prout, and the business continued another two 
 years under the name of Prout & Grant, when it 
 was sold out to the Southern Forwarding Com- 
 pany^ which was eventually merged into the Con- 
 solidated Implement Company. After severing 
 his connection with Mr. Grant, our subject en- 
 gaged in the stock business, which he followed 
 for three years, and then entered the employ of 
 Allen G. Campbell, engaged in the mining busi- 
 ness, remaining in Beaver county for two years. 
 He then took charge, as Manager, of the Consoli- 
 dated Implement Company at Milford, and for 
 
 thirteen years held that position with the com- 
 pany, a portion of the time being spent in Salt 
 Lake City, where he resides at this time, having 
 retained his old position when that company was 
 absorbed by the Consolidated Wagon and Ma- 
 chine Company, January i, 1902. Mr. Prout has 
 been identified with this company altogether for 
 a period of twenty-three years, and has become 
 one of the most efficient and best posted machine 
 men in the Western country. 
 
 He was married in Salt Lake City in 1886 to 
 Miss Mamie A. Latey, a native of Utah and a 
 daughter of John H. and Eleanor J. Latey. Mrs. 
 Prout's father is of English descent, and came 
 here from Illinois. Her mother is of Scotch ex- 
 traction. By this marriage Mr. and Mrs. Prout 
 have three children — M. Eleanor, Clara L., and 
 Ralph B. 
 
 Mr. Prout is a staunch adherent to the princi- 
 ples of the Republican party. He was nominated 
 for State Senator on the Republican ticket from 
 the Eleventh district, in 1896, and carried three 
 counties and a part of the fourth, but was de- 
 feated by the fifth county. This is the only 
 public office for which Mr. Prout has been 
 a candidate. In religious life he was reared 
 in the Episcopal faith. He has shown him- 
 self possessed of a high order of business 
 ability, and his long connection with this one 
 firm attests the confidence they have had in 
 him, as well as showing that he has been the 
 right man in the right place. He is of a pleasing 
 personality, and has the knack of winning and 
 retaining the confidence and esteem of his pa- 
 .trons. His long life in Utah has brought him in 
 contact with people from all over the State, and 
 he numbers his friends by the score wherever he 
 is known. 
 
 OYD PARK. Salt Lake City, nestling 
 in the bosom of the great Salt Lake 
 \'alley, is distinguished not alone for 
 her superb climate,, her beautiful and 
 picturesque location, the magnificence 
 of her public buildings, elegant homes, and the 
 unrivalled bathing resort which lies at her feet, 
 although she is rich in all these, and more, but 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 479 
 
 she is also noted for the number of resolute and 
 aggressive men of business to be found among 
 her citizens, whose broad intelligence and wide- 
 awake business enterprises have developed her 
 vast resources and made this the garden spot of 
 the inter-mountain region. Among these the sub- 
 ject of this article must ever occupy a prominent 
 position. 
 
 Boyd Park could not be called a pioneer to 
 Utah, but thirty-one years of his life has been 
 spent in Salt Lake City, during which time all 
 the vast improvements which can be seen on 
 every hand have been reared. The splendid 
 granite blocks, the beautiful homes, the magnifi- 
 cent city and county building, in fact, nearly every 
 modern improvement which the city has just 
 right to be proud of at the present time, has been 
 made during Mr. Park's residence here, and but 
 few men have been more closely identified with 
 nearly every enterprise for the upbuilding and ad- 
 vancement of not only Salt Lake City, but the 
 entire inter-mountain region, than has Mr. Park. 
 He has given largel" of both his time and means 
 to her progress and development and has been 
 eminently successful in his business career, stand- 
 ing to-day as one of the strong financial piers 
 of this country. Mr. Park's faith in Salt Lake 
 City and the State at large has always been al- 
 most unbounded, and the soundness of his wis- 
 dom and judgment has been fully demonstrated 
 in a city which today stands without a peer in 
 the whole confines of this inter-mountain country. 
 
 Mr. Park is a native of that grand old country, 
 Scotland, which has furnished thousands of her 
 noble sons for the upbuilding of Utah. Born in 
 Renfreashire, December 28, 1837, when but a 
 child of eaight years his parents came to America 
 and settled in Troy, New York, where Mr. Park 
 spent his early life and received a good common 
 school education. He became an apprentice to 
 the jewelers' trade and followed that business in 
 Troy until the spring of 1862, when he moved 
 to Poultney, Rutland county, Vermont, where he 
 formed a partnershin in the jewelry business with 
 Mr. Joslin, under the firm name of Joslin & Park. 
 They remained in Poultney until 1865, when they 
 started West, crossing the plains, using ox teams 
 to haul their baggage, and arrived in Denver, 
 
 Colorado, having walked across the plains, in the 
 fall of that year. Here they again established 
 themselves in business under the same firm name, 
 and built up one of the largest jewelry establish- 
 ments in the entire West. Three years later they 
 established a branch business at Cheyenne, Wyo- 
 ming, which was in charge of Mr. Park, and 
 which they conducted until the spring of 1880, 
 Mr. Park coming to Salt Lake City and opening 
 up a branch house here, where he has since made 
 his home, and has built up a business almost as 
 large as the parent house, which is still located at 
 Denver. Mr. Park not only has the largest es- 
 tablishment of the kind in the city, but has per- 
 haps conducted the most successful business ven- 
 ture in the entire State. The business, both in 
 Denver and Salt Lake, continued to be conducted 
 under the old firm name of Joslin & Park, until a 
 few years ago, when Mr. Park purchased the in- 
 terest of his partner and has since conducted both 
 establishments under his own name. During the 
 past few months his son, Colonel Samuel Culver 
 Park, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this 
 work, has been associated with him in the busi- 
 ness. While the Denver house continues to be 
 the largest in many respects, yet the Salt Lake 
 house continues to lead in this direction among 
 the institutions of this kind west of Denver, do- 
 ing both a wholesale and retail trade. The Salt 
 Lake house gives employment to about fourteen 
 .men, and the Denver establishment about seven- 
 teen. The present handsome and commodious 
 quarters occupied by Mr. Park were erected in 
 1874, at No. 170 South Main street, and his splen- 
 did home, at No. 468 South Main street, was com- 
 pleted in 1883. 
 
 In 1869, while living in Cheyenne, Wyoming, 
 he returned to Poultney, Vermont, where he was 
 married to Miss Jane E. Culver, a native of that 
 State. By this union two children have been 
 born, Colonel Samuel Culver Park and Mar- 
 garet B. Park. 
 
 In political life Mr. Park has always been iden- 
 tified with the Renublican party, but he has never 
 desired nor held public office, his entire time be- 
 ing taken up by his large business interests. In 
 fraternal life he is a Mason and one of the most 
 prominent members of that body in the West, 
 
48o 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 , having reached the highest degree attainable in 
 that order in this country. 
 
 Although Mr. Park is best known to the people 
 of this region as a jeweler, he has not by any 
 means confined himself to that line in Utah, but 
 has been closely associated with most of the en- 
 terprises put forth for the advancement and 
 growth of the city and State. He is largely iden- 
 tified with the mining interests of Utah, as well 
 as a great many of the financial institution of the 
 city. He was one of the organizers and was for 
 many years President of the Bank of Commerce 
 in which he is at the present time a director and 
 heavy stockholder. 
 
 Mr. Park is essentially a self-made man, having 
 started out in life as a poor boy ; and the marked 
 success which he has won by close attention to 
 business, a firm adherence to the highest busi- 
 ness principles, perseverance and determination, 
 should be an inspiration to every young man who 
 has the privilege of studying the record of Mr. 
 Park's life. He is a gentleman of unsullied honor, 
 strict integrity and high ideals, standing high in 
 the esteem and confidence of the entire western 
 world. 
 
 OLONEL SAMUEL CULVER 
 PARK. The stranger visiting Salt 
 Lake City must be struck with the 
 number of young men in business and 
 "■;"^ ' public life who hold positions of trust 
 aitH'Yesponsibility, and her rapid growth of recent 
 years has been'^-^ue in a large measure to their 
 enterprise and energetic handling of affairs. One 
 of the ablest and most wide-awake young busi- 
 ness men of the city is the subject of our sketch, 
 only son of Boyd Park, the leading jeweler of 
 Salt Lake City, and whose biographical sketch 
 appears elsewhere in this work. 
 
 Colonel Park was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 
 November i6, 1869, but came to Salt Lake city 
 with his parents in 1871, and has since made this 
 his home. His early scholastic education was ob- 
 tained from the schools of Salt Lake city. He 
 later entered the Philips Exeter Academy, in New 
 Hampshire, and after taking a thorough course 
 
 in that institution, entered the State University 
 of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating in 1891, 
 with the degree of A. B. Upon completing his 
 education. Colonel Park returned to Salt Lake 
 City, and at once became identified with the Bank 
 of Commerce, being given the responsible po- 
 sition of cashier, which position he continued to 
 fill, with credit to himself and to the entire satis- 
 faction of the members of the firm, until a few 
 months ago, when he resigned his position and 
 has since been identified with his father, assisting 
 him in looking after his extensive business inter- 
 ests in this State and Colorado. 
 
 Colonel Park united in marriage with Miss 
 Ella Thomas, daughter of ex-Governor Arthur L. 
 Thomas, of this city. They have two children, 
 Boyd Thomas and Eleanor. 
 
 He has always been identified with the Repub- 
 lican party, but has never actively participated in 
 its work. He is a prominent member of the Ma- 
 sonic order and a life member of the Elks lodge 
 of this city. He is also a prominent member of 
 the University Club, and he and his estimable 
 vvife are leaders in social circles in the city. 
 
 Since attaining his majority, Colonel Park has 
 taken a very active interest in the affairs of the 
 city and State, and has for several years been a 
 member of the State militia, in which he has re- 
 ceived rapid promotion, until he now holds the 
 rank of Colonel. His wide education has tended 
 to make him a man of broad and liberal ideas, 
 keeping in touch with the leading questions of 
 the day and with his fellow men, among whom 
 he is very popular. He is a young man of sterling 
 worth and undoubted integrity and high honor, 
 and bids fair to be among the leading business 
 men of the city at no distant day. 
 
 Quring the Elks Grand Lodge Convention in 
 1902, he was Grand Marshal and one of the lead- 
 ing spirits in the manaeement of the convention. 
 
 ILL F. WANLESS is one of the 
 enterprising and successful young 
 lawyers of Salt Lake City, and is 
 deservino' of great credit for the 
 success which he has thus far 
 achieved, for he has been forced to rely entirely 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 481 
 
 upon his own resources. Possessing pluck and 
 determination he has bravely mastered every ob- 
 stacle and is rapidly winning the favor of those 
 with whom he has been associated since coming 
 to Utah. 
 
 Mr. Wanless was born in Denver, Colorado, in 
 1870, and is the son of George F. Wanless, at 
 this time engaged in the insurance business in 
 this city. He is a native of Canada, as was also 
 his wife, who bore the maiden name of Anna 
 Hume. Her brothers served in the army during 
 the Civil War. Colonel John Wanless, an uncle 
 of our subject, was at one time provost-marshal 
 of Denver, when that city was but a small village. 
 
 Our subject grew up in his native city and ob- 
 tained his early education from the schools of that 
 place. When but nineteen years of age he en- 
 tered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, 
 after graduating from the high school of Den- 
 ver, and graduated from the law department of 
 that institution in 1891, with the degree of Bach- 
 elor of Arts. He was admitted to practice be- 
 fore the Supreme Court of Michigan and later 
 settled in Chicago, where he formed a copartner*' 
 ship with Messrs. Pierson and Knudson, under 
 the firm name of Wanless, Pierson & Knudson. 
 However, not being satisfied with the opportuni- 
 ties which that city afforded for a young and 
 ambitious man, and believing the advantages of 
 the West to be superior to those offered by the 
 East, he came to Utah and settled in Salt Lake 
 City in 1900, and has since followed his chosen 
 profession in this city, making a notable record as 
 a criminal lawyer. Mr. Wanless is but a young 
 man, scarce launched upon his career, but the 
 evidence he has already given of his ability along 
 legal lines leads his friends to predict that he will 
 yet rank as a great criminal lawyer. Like most 
 all other professional and business men of this 
 city Mr. W'anless is interested to some extent 
 in mining, and is interested in some of the best 
 coal mines in Utah, but his mining interests are 
 but a side issue, his best endeavor being given 
 to perfecting himself in his chosen work. 
 
 In political life Mr. Wanless is a member of 
 the Democratic party, but has never been actively 
 identified with the work of that body. 
 
 i:XRY W. BROWN. If the pioneers 
 could return to earth and revisit the 
 scenes of their early struggles and 
 hardships, they would doubtless be 
 filled with amazement at the transform- 
 ation which has since taken place in the country 
 which presented so many unpromising features 
 a little more than half a century ago. They have 
 not all passed away, however, and there are still 
 many residents who came to L'tah in the early 
 days, as children, and have a very vivid recol- 
 lection of those days and the struggles passed 
 through by the hardy people who did so much 
 to make Utah what it is today, one of the fore- 
 most States in the nation. Among these latter 
 mention should be made of Henry W. Brown, the 
 subject of this article. 
 
 His birth occurred in Berkshire, England, on 
 ( )ctober 10, 1839, and was the oldest of a family 
 of ten children, seven of whom were born in Eng- 
 land. The parents were Jonathan and Sarah 
 (Couzins) Brown, the father born July 31, 1818, 
 and the mother born in the village of Thatcham, 
 Berkshire, March 7, 1819. The parents and older 
 children became converts to the Mormon religion 
 and on the nth day of January, 1853, ^^^ ^^'^ 
 from Liverpool, and joined a company of Mor- 
 mon emigrants at Keokuk, Iowa, from where they 
 made the trip across the plains in a company of 
 fifty o.x teams, under command of Captain Clau- 
 dius V. Spencer. The father had followed his 
 trade as a baker in England, but did not resume 
 that occupation after coming to Utah, devoting 
 his time to farming. In the fall of 1855 he lo- 
 cated on the farm which our subject now owns, 
 buying seventy-six acres of land, which was in a 
 wild state and had to be cleared before it could 
 be cultivated, and here made his home until his 
 death. Besides our subject there are now living 
 two sons and two daughters of this family. One 
 son, Charles, was killed by the Indians in Thistle 
 Valley, Sanpete county, on June 24, 1866, while 
 standing as guard during the Indian war. After 
 the death of the father our subject became the 
 head of the family and cared for his mother until 
 her death. 
 
 Mr. Brown's marriage occurred in Salt Lake 
 
482 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 City on March 15, 1869, when he was united to 
 Miss Sarah Ann Kilpack, daughter of John and 
 Frances Kilpack, who came to Utah in 1864. Ten 
 children have been born to our subject— Henry 
 J., deceased ; Frances S., deceased; Charles B., 
 married and living on his father's farm; Eliza- 
 beth R., now Mrs. James Dunster, of South Cot- 
 tonwood ; George E., married and living on his 
 father's farm; Arthur William, living at home; 
 John L., now in Milwaukee on a mission ; La- 
 vina L., a student at the State University in Salt 
 Lake City ; Esther L., and Zina, the baby. . 
 
 In politics Mr. Brown is a Democrat. He has 
 been Deputy Assessor and Collector at diiTerent 
 times and was Road Supervisor for a period of 
 twenty years. He was also for twelve years school 
 trustee, finishing his term in 1875, and for the 
 past two years has acted in that same capacity. 
 He is secretary and director in the East Jordan 
 Irrigation Company, holding these positions since 
 the organization of the company in 1878. 
 
 Mr. Brown became a member of the Mormon 
 Church November 29, 1852, and has since that 
 time been a consistent follower of its teachings, 
 and brought his family up in that faith. He is at 
 this time Senior President of the Seventy-Second 
 Quorum of Seventies. From 1881 to 1883 he 
 served on a mission to Europe, laboring in the 
 London conference. One son, Charles, also 
 served two years in missionary work in California. 
 Left in his early boyhood to not only earn his 
 own living, but help in the support of his mother 
 and the younger members of the family, Mr. 
 Brown has passed through many trying times. 
 On one occasion the family susbsisted for a whole 
 year on one sack of flour, it being used to thicken 
 and give strength to the milk which formed al- 
 most the only article of diet. Since then he has 
 come into possession of a considerable amount of 
 land, and is in very comfortable circumstances, 
 surrounded by all the comforts of life. Besides 
 his home place he has forty acres of good land at 
 Crescent, and is one of the substantial farmers 
 of Salt Lake county, enjoying the confidence and 
 esteem of all who know him. 
 
 AVID G. CALDER, Vice-President 
 ajid General Manager of the D. O. 
 Calder's Sons Company of Salt Lake 
 City, Utah, and a son of D. O. Calder, 
 for many years one of the most promi- 
 nent and leading business men of Utah, having 
 been identified with nearly every enterprise of the 
 State. He was the founder of the D. O. Calder 
 music house, which was established in i860, and 
 incorporated in 1902 as the D. O. Calder's Sons 
 Company, and from that time to the present has 
 been a most successful business venture. He was 
 a native of Scotland, where he was born in 1823, 
 and where he spent his early life, receiving a 
 splendid musical and literary education from the 
 schools of that country, and developing a most 
 wonderful musical talent. He acquired consid- 
 erable reputation in his own land along musical 
 lines and had charge of the Falkirk choir in 
 Scotland. Early in life he became identified with 
 the Clyde Canal, beginning as messenger boy, 
 and was promoted from one position to another 
 until he became general manager of that com- 
 pany's business between Falkirk and Glasgow, 
 having charge of all the stations and business 
 along that line. He became a member of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 
 when a young man, and in 1850 came to America, 
 settling in Cincinnati, where he remained for a 
 period of two years, crossing the plains by ox 
 team to Utah in 1852. Perhaps but few men 
 were more closely associated or held in h'gber es- 
 teem by Brigham Young than Mr. Calder. He 
 was his chief clerk for a period of over sixteen 
 years and was identified with nearly every busi- 
 ness with which Brigham Young was connected. 
 Mr. Calder was the organizer of the Commercial 
 college, which was really the forerunner of the 
 Deseret University, which institution he gave 
 his hearty support during the remainder of his 
 life, and which is now known as the University 
 of Utah, and it was very largely through his in- 
 fluence that this institution was established. He 
 also served the State in a public capacity, being 
 for many years Territorial Treasurer. He was 
 one of the promoters and organizers of the Utah 
 Central railroad, and for many years had entire 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 483 
 
 charge of the traffic of that road, introducing the 
 present system of accounts. For many years, and 
 up to the time of his death he had charge of the 
 Church emigration matters. He was connected 
 with the Descret News for three years as editor 
 and manager, and was also at one time secretary, 
 treasurer and a director in the Zion Co-operative 
 Mercantile Institution, of which he was one of 
 the founders, and was connected with that in- 
 stitution to a greater or less degree up to the time 
 of his death. He assisted in organizing the 
 Zion's Savings Bank and held the office of cashier 
 of that institution for some time. At the time 
 of his death he was a member of the City Coun- 
 cil. He was one of the most active and promi- 
 nent men of his section, standing high with all 
 classes, held high in the esteem of the leaders of 
 the church and a staunch business man of the 
 city. He died at the age of sixty-one years, on 
 July 4, 1884. His wife was a Miss Anna Hamer. 
 She is still living. Of the six children in this 
 family four are connected with the music om- 
 pany — David G., our subject; S. H. ; Daniel H. 
 and Henrietta, a sister. Daniel H. is also a phy- 
 sician, residing in Brattleboro, Vermont. 
 
 Our subject, David G. Calder, is a native son 
 of Utah, having been born in Salt Lake City 
 April 24, 1858. He received his early education 
 in the public schools of this city and later en- 
 tered Deseret University, and after completing 
 his education traveled in Europe for a period of 
 two years, during which time he took special les- 
 sons in drawing in the leading schools of Glas- 
 gow. In 1874 he became identified with the house 
 of which he is now vice-president and manager, 
 and has been its leading spirit from that time to 
 the present. They have done a most successful 
 and flourishing business since he became asso- 
 ciated with the establishment, and now give em- 
 ployment to many people, besides the traveling 
 men, doing a wholesale and retail business. When 
 the business was started in i860 the instruments 
 had to be freighted across the plains by ox teams, 
 at the rate of twenty-five cents a pound for haul- 
 ing, which made the freight on an instrument al- 
 most as much as one can now be bought for, and 
 the business begun under these inauspicious con- 
 
 ditions has grown until the firm now occupies a 
 handsome three-story and basement brick build- 
 ing which was erected in 1883^ and is one of the 
 largest establishments of the kind in the inter- 
 mountain region. 
 
 Mr. Calder was married in 1880 to Miss Sarah 
 E. Hague, a native of this State and daughter 
 of James Hague, one of the early settlers of Utah, 
 and during his lifetime one of the leading busi- 
 ness men in this country. Seven children have 
 been born of this marriage. 
 
 In political life Mr. Calder has been identified 
 with the Democratic party since the separation on 
 national party lines, but has never sought or held 
 public office of any kind. He has always been 
 identified with the Mormon Church, but on ac- 
 count of his active business life has not been as 
 prominent in the work of the Church as some 
 other of its members ; his whole life from boy- 
 hood being devoted to the advancement of the 
 business which he has assisted in making such a 
 success. He is regarded as one of the solid busi- 
 ness men of the city and enjoys the confidence 
 and esteem of a large circle of business associates 
 and friends. 
 
 ORXELIUS S. GREEN. The promi- 
 nence with which Utah has been 
 brought before the outside world has 
 been marked and rapid; especially is 
 this true of the past fifteen or twenty 
 years. Its fine climate, the splendid opportunities 
 for young men, and the character of the settlers 
 who originally located in this country, have all 
 tended to inspire men to seek this new and prom- 
 ising country. Amono- those who settled here in 
 the early history of the country and who fought 
 all the battles from Nauvoo to this State, crossing 
 the plains, encountering the savage red man, com- 
 ing in contact with wild animals and the herds 
 of buffaloes, should h^^ mentioned the Green fam- 
 ily, of whom the subject of this sketch is a mem- 
 ber. 
 
 Mr. Green is a native of Utah, having been 
 born in Salt Lake City on November 16, 1861. 
 He is the son of Cornelius and Karan C. (Han- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 son) Green, his father being a native of Eng- 
 land and his mother of Denmark. The senior Mr. 
 Green was among the early settlers who came 
 to Utah, leaving the historic little town of Flor- 
 ence on the Missouri river and crossing the plains 
 with ox teams in 1855. His wife followed two 
 years later. Cornelius Green was a miner and 
 farmer by occupation and after coming to Utah 
 spent the balance of his days in Salt Lake county. 
 In the early days he settled on Eleventh East, 
 between Thirteenth and tourteenth South streets, 
 where his son Joseph, the only brother of our 
 subject, now resides. In this family there were 
 two sons and five daughters. Our subject's 
 father was a successful man during his life ; he 
 did much for the building up of this country in 
 the early days, in the developing of its agricul- 
 tural interests and in building up Salt Lake City. 
 He had become associated with the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the early 
 history of that denomination in Illinois, and con- 
 tinued to be a faithful, consistent and liberal sup- 
 porter of it all the rest of his life. He was closely 
 associated with the leading members of the 
 Church and always stood ready to perform any 
 duty to which they called him. He served on 
 one mission to his native country after settling in 
 Utah and many worth\- citizens in this State to- 
 day can point back to the time when they were 
 influenced by this missionary to cross the ocean 
 and settle in this country. He died at the old 
 homestead in 1895, and by those who were inti- 
 mately acquainted with him, both in and out of 
 the Church, only the kindest remembrances of his 
 life and work are treasured. Our subject's 
 mother is still living, surrounded by her children 
 in Salt Lake county. 
 
 Cornelius S. Green was the eldest of the fam- 
 ily and grew up in the vicinity of where he now 
 lives. His early education was received in the 
 schools such as existed in Salt Lake county at 
 that time. Early in life he learned the paper- 
 making trade and whil^ engaged in that business 
 met with an accident which partly deprived him 
 of the use of his right hand. However, this did 
 not put an end to or materially retard his am- 
 bitious and progressive spirit, for he at once 
 
 turned his attention to contracting and building 
 and a great many of the modern dwellings in 
 Salt Lake City and valley are the products of his 
 labor. The splendid meeting house in Willard 
 Ward stands as one of the monuments of his 
 workmanship, and is a great pleasure and com- 
 fort to the residents of that vicinity. 
 
 In 1886 he married Miss Edna Millard, daugh- 
 ter of Elisha and Adeline (Simpson) Millard, 
 and as the result of this marriage seven children 
 have been born — Ray C. ; Nora G. ; Bertha E. ; 
 Edna M.; Myrtle; Levina, and Cecil C. In 189& 
 Mr. Green settled at his present home, which is 
 located on Ninth East and between Fourteenth 
 and Fifteenth South streets, where he has twelve 
 acres of very valuable land, highly improved by 
 fences, fruit and shade trees, flower gardens, etc., 
 and on which he has a splendid brick cottage of 
 seven rooms. 
 
 In politics Mr. Green has been identified with 
 the Republican party ever since its organization 
 in this State, but he has never sought nor desired 
 public office, as his life work and attention has 
 been given to the securing of a home for himself 
 and his family. He was born and raised in the 
 Mormon faith, as was his wife, and their chil- 
 dren have been reared in the same faith. He is 
 a teacher in the Sunday School and President of 
 the Young Men's Mutal Improvement Associa- 
 tion. In 1895 he was called to fill a mission in 
 the Northern States, where he served for a period, 
 of eighteen months. Mrs. Green also takes an 
 active part in the Ladies' Relief Society of her 
 Ward, in whose work she is prominent. By hon- 
 orable and straightforward business principles 
 he has endeavored all through life to treat every- 
 one honorably and fairly, and as a result of this 
 he enjoys the respect and confidence of all his 
 neighbors and those who have been acquainted 
 with him throudi life. 
 
 ILLIAM PARKER. Among the 
 prominent and successful men of 
 Salt Lake county who are closely 
 identified with the agricultural in- 
 terests of Taylorsville Ward, and 
 who has assisted materially in the building- and 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 485 
 
 developments of this new country, should be men- 
 tioned the subject of this sketch. William Parker 
 Avas born in Lancashire, England, November 
 24th, 1835, ^nd is now in his sixty-seventh year. 
 He is a son of John and Alice (Woodacre) Par- 
 ker, both of whom were born in the same shire 
 -as our subject. Mrs. Parker, the subject's mother, 
 died when he was a child. His father came to 
 America in 1845, with his son William and two 
 daughters. They first settled at Nauvoo, where 
 they lived until 1846 and then went to St. Louis, 
 where the senior Mr. Parker engaged in the 
 soda water business for a period of six years. 
 Here success crowned his eflforts, and while re- 
 siding in that section he sent back to England for 
 some of his relatives. 
 
 John Parker married his second wife, who bore 
 him three children. In 1852 the Parkers fitted 
 out eleven wagons, and with the family and all of 
 his relatives started for Utah, John Parker be- 
 ing captain of the train. They arrived in the 
 great Salt Lake Valley in the Autumn of 1852, 
 and shortly after arriving here our subject's 
 father was called to Dixey to assist in colonizing 
 and building up that country, where he spent the 
 remaining days of his life, and died in 1888, aged 
 seventy-four years. 
 
 Our subject spent three years in Salt Lake City 
 and Centerville, in which latter place his father 
 had been identified in the canning and saw-mill 
 business. In 1856 our subject settled in Taylors- 
 ville Ward on the Jordon river, which at that time 
 was in a crude state, the only improvement on his 
 farm being a log house, the place having formerly 
 been owned by Orson Hyde. Mr. Parker's father 
 had opened through this neighborhood a ditch 
 known as the old Parker ditch, which was the 
 only one in the neighborhood, and is still in con- 
 stant use. 
 
 Since settling upon his farm Mr. Parker has 
 improved it until it is at the present time one of 
 the finest farms in Salt Lake county. His fine 
 brick residence, splendid out-buildings and fences 
 all indicate that thrifty, enterprising hands have 
 had it in charge. 
 
 Mr. Parker has not only given his attention to 
 farming, but he has been largely interested in the 
 stock business, both sheep and cattle, which he 
 
 successfully followed for a great many years un- 
 til advanced age required him to practically re- 
 tire from active business, and to suspend many of 
 the enterprises of which he has been the promoter. 
 In November, 1859, he married Miss Mary 
 Shanks, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Fee) 
 Shanks. The father died on the plains in coming 
 to Utah, from the effects of a rattlesnake bite. 
 Mrs. Parker came to Utah in company with 
 Bishop John R. Winder, in whose family she had 
 lived before leaving England ; her father came to 
 America several years later. 
 
 Mr. Parker has had eleven children, ten of 
 whom are still living, Sarah A., wife of Orson 
 Brown of Taylorsville; William E., married; 
 Mary E., now Mrs. B. M. Winchester of Grant 
 Ward; John, Martha, and Samuel H., who died 
 November, 1898; Nettie M. ; Joseph A. and James 
 H. were twins ; Franklin S., and Vilate, now Mrs. 
 Nephi Jensen of South Cottonwood; John and 
 Samuel H. are married. The father has fitted 
 each one of them out with a fine home in the 
 neighborhood of Taylorsville Ward. 
 
 In political life Mr. Parker has been a staunch 
 Republican. He has taken an active part in the 
 aflfairs of his party in Taylorsville Ward, having 
 served a number of years as school trustee, and 
 it was through his efforts that the splendid new 
 school building in District No. 64 was erected. 
 Mr. Parker and his family are all faithful and 
 consistent members of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints. He has served on a mission 
 to his native country, going there in 1889, but 
 on account of illness was compelled to return 
 home soon afterwards. He was ordained a mem- 
 ber of the Seventies, and for many years was First 
 Assistant Superintendent in the Sunday School. 
 
 During the trying times in the early fifties, Mr. 
 Parker served as a guard when Johnson's army 
 landed in this country. 
 
 The success which Mr. Parker has obtained in 
 life marks him as one of the most valuable citi- 
 zens of Salt Lake county. His honest integrity 
 and straightforward business methods has 
 brought to him a large circle of friends. 
 
486 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ICHARD HOWE, farmer, legislator, 
 county commissioner and statinch, rug- 
 ged Democrat, is one of the many for- 
 eign-born Utahns who came to the 
 Rocky Mountain home-of the Mormons 
 to carve out a niche for themselves in the world's 
 hard surface. But few of the pioneers or early 
 settlers, with their thrift, frugality and indomita- 
 ble perseverance, have failed to achieve success 
 in the Mormon Utopia towards which their steps 
 were bent; and to Richard Howe has come a 
 larger measure of prosperity than was accorded 
 to many of his fellows, so that now, with the gray 
 hairs of honest toil and the cheering vista of a 
 well-spent life to look back upon, he is ready to 
 retire from active business life, and when the time 
 shall come for his passing he will have the satis- 
 faction of feeling that he had not lived in vain. 
 
 Born in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, Eng- 
 land, July 30, 1839, and left fatherless when but 
 a child, he came to America with his mother in 
 1855, when sixteen years of age. His parents 
 were Joseph Henry and Ann (Johnson) Howe. 
 The mother, who had married William Turner, 
 and her two children arrived in New York and 
 proceeded thence by rail to Pittsburg. From the 
 Smoky City the emigrants sailed down the Ohio 
 rived to the Mississippi, and up the Mississippi to 
 St. Louis. Here they made a short stay before go- 
 ing on west to Atchison, Kansas, where they were 
 to 'join a party going out to Utah. In those early 
 days Atchison was an insignificant hamlet, made 
 up of a half dozen or more log cabins. Nearby 
 was Mormon Grove, which had been agreed upon 
 as the rendezvous of the westward bound party 
 of Mormons. Here the family joined a train of 
 fifty wagons drawn by teams of oxen, which were 
 all ready to make the trip over the plains. The 
 party arrived at Great Salt Lake City on October 
 25, 1855, and by the end of the month Mr. Howe 
 had settled in South Cottonwood, which was then 
 a large Ward and little better than a desert. 
 Here young Howe farmed until 1872, when a co- 
 operative store was established, which he has been 
 conducting most of the time since, successfully. 
 He still farms a large tract of land which he 
 has improved and worked up to a high state of 
 cultivation. Close to his store stands an adobe 
 
 meeting-house, part of which was built in 1858, 
 and which was then the finest church building 
 outside of Salt Lake City in Salt Lake county. 
 
 Mr. Howe is a stockholder in the Zions Co-Op- 
 erative Mercantile Institution, and several of Salt 
 Lake banks. For many years he was associated 
 in business with his step-father, William Turner, 
 whose sister, Ann, he married February ist, 1862. 
 The Turners had also emigrated from England 
 at the same time as Howe. Of this marriage ten 
 children were born, six sons and four daughters, 
 and all but two of the boys are now married. 
 Two of the sons and one daughter have made 
 their homes in Idaho, and the rest live in Salt 
 Lake county, near their parents. The children are : 
 John H. ; Richard A. and William T., living in 
 Fremont count}', Idaho ; Ann Eda, now Mrs. 
 William Martisen of Grant, Idaho ; Edward E. ; 
 Sarah E., now Mrs. D. W. Moffat, of South Cot- 
 tonwood Ward ; Laura A., now Mrs. Robert 
 Trott, also in South Cottonwood Ward ; Frank 
 C. ; Minnie L., now Mrs. David A. McMillen, of 
 South Cottonwood Ward, and Harry E. 
 
 Mr. Howe was elected to the Territorial legis- 
 lature in 1888 on the People's ticket, and the fol- 
 lowing year he became County Selectman for 
 Salt Lake county, being elected on the People's 
 ticket in August, 1889, and served two years. He 
 joined the Mormon Church before he left Eng- 
 land and has been engaged in Sunday School work 
 most the time since he came to Utah. Through 
 shrewd and careful management he has made a 
 success of everything he has taken hold of, and 
 consequently at the age of sixty-three is about to 
 retire from business. Mr. Howe has made many 
 friends throughout the State, both socially and 
 through his business dealings. 
 
 When President Lincoln called for a company 
 of volunteers in 1862 to protect the mails on the 
 line between Salt Lake City and the upper cross- 
 ing of the Platte river, Mr. Howe tendered his 
 services, and spent three months in the employ 
 of the Government. In 1866 he again offered his 
 services to his country and saw service in the 
 famous Black Hawk war, against the Indians 
 of that name. He also saw considerable service 
 during the Johnston army troubles, and was ever 
 at the fore when his services were needed. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 487 
 
 PHRAIM H. WILLIAMS, one of the 
 successful farmers and business men of 
 Salt Lake county, who, by his energy, 
 perseverance, and determination has 
 carved out a successful career, and is 
 deserving; of much credit for what he has accom- 
 plished and the work he has done in building up 
 Salt Lake county. While Mr. Williams does not 
 claim to be one of the pioneers of the State, hav- 
 ing arrived here in 1852, yet the development of 
 the State at that time was necessarily limited 
 to what it is today, and much work yet to be done. 
 Mr. Williams was born in the old historic town 
 of Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, and is the son of Ben- 
 jamin and Mary Ann (Rock) Williams. Both 
 his parents were born in Hartfordshire, England, 
 where they spent their early life, having married 
 there, and came to America in 1844, crossing the 
 Atlantic Ocean in an old sailing ship. They 
 first settled at Nauvoo, where the senior Mr. 
 Williams lived only two years, dying in 1846. 
 Our subject's mother left Nauvoo with the main 
 body of the Church, accompanying them as far 
 as Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she met and mar- 
 ried Edward Pugh. The family then moved to 
 Missouri, where they lived until 1852. 
 
 Our subject has one full brother and sister, 
 George A. and Lucy, now Mrs. W. W. Merrill. 
 
 In the latter part of i8s2 the family came to 
 Utah, and settled in Salt Lake county, on the 
 corner of Tenth East and Si.xteenth South ; here 
 the mother died at the age of eighty-three years. 
 Our subject started out for himself at the age of 
 sixteen years. He first took up contracting, and 
 worked along that line on the Salt Lake County 
 Canal, and also on the L^nion Pacific Railroad 
 when it was built into this State. Not finding 
 this class of work congenial, however, he turned 
 his attention to farming and stock raising, which 
 he has followed closely for a great many years. 
 He settled on his present place, at the corner of 
 Fifteenth South and Eleventh East, in 1863. Here 
 Mr. Williams has seventy acres of fine land, 
 which he has continued to improve, and on which 
 he has a splendid brick residence, fruit and shade 
 trees; all indicating that thrifty hands have had it 
 in charge. Besides his home place Mr. Williams 
 also owns a cattle and sheep ranch in Summit 
 county, this state. 
 
 In 1863 he led to the marriage altar Miss El- 
 mira North, daughter of Levi and Aramenta 
 (Howard) North. This family came to Utah 
 the same year in which the Williams landed here, 
 1852 ; the father died in the early nineties, and the 
 mother still lives, but is very old and feeble. As 
 the result of this union nine children have been 
 born to our subject — Henry, Oscar, Eveline, Al- 
 bert, Claudius, Eleanor, Alberta, Don and Leo. 
 
 In political life JVIr. Williams has aways taken 
 the side of protection, and thus followed the for- 
 tunes of the Republican party. However, in local 
 politics he prefers to support the best man for 
 office. 
 
 The Williams family are all members of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 
 Mr. Williams having served on two missions to 
 England, his first call being in 1882 and the sec- 
 ond time in 1889, making in all over three years 
 which he served in this capacity, having been 
 released from this last mission on account of ill 
 health. For a number of years he has been 
 Superintendent of his Ward Sunday Schools. 
 
 A remarkable incident in the life of Mr. Will- 
 iams is worthy of note in this connection. When 
 he was only eighteen years of age he received a 
 call to go out in Lot Smith's company to fight In- 
 dians. He spent all the money he had in fitting out 
 a horse for the campaign, which proved to be the 
 best animal in the company. This fine horse was 
 the cause of getting Mr. Williams into a great 
 deal of trouble, as wherever there was a river to 
 be swam, or any difficult place to go, the duty fell 
 to him. On several occasions he was required 
 to swim the rivers to carry ropes, etc., in order to 
 effect a crossing, in which duty he caught a cold 
 which almost cost him his life several times; 
 for one whole winter he lay with a fever from 
 the effect of that notorious campaign. He also 
 spent six weeks in Echo Canyon as a guard dur- 
 ing the Johnston army troubles. 
 
 KORGE ROBERTS. The Weber val- 
 ley of Summit county is perhaps one 
 of the finest valleys in the State. Its 
 rich, productive soil ; its splendid irri- 
 rigation ditches which supply an abun- 
 dance of water for the land, and its beautiful 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 "homes and highly cultivated farms, all form im- 
 portant adjuncts to making it a most desirable 
 5pot in which to live. Among the men who have 
 formed an important factor in the building up 
 of this splendid section of the State, none is de- 
 serving of more credit than is George Roberts, 
 the subject of this sketch. He has been almost 
 a life long resident of the Summit valley, as he 
 came here when a boy with his mother, and most 
 of his life has been spent in Henefer. 
 
 Mr. Roberts was born in Lincolnshire, Eng- 
 land, in 1847. His father, James Roberts, was a 
 farrier in England, and died when his son was 
 but two years of age. His wife, and the mother 
 of our subject, was Abigal (Leason) Roberts. 
 She came to the United States with her family 
 in 1865, and died in Henefer in 1878. Our sub- 
 ject is now the only living member of the family. 
 His education was obtained from the common 
 -schools of his native land, and the year following 
 his arrival in Utah he engasred in farming in the 
 Summit valley, which he has since followed suc- 
 cessfully. He engaged in the blacksmith business 
 for a time, both in Henefer and at Kaysville, in 
 Davis county, and was later identified with the 
 green grocery business in Park City, in partner- 
 ship with C. Hunt. They also assisted in build- 
 ing the Marsac mill in Park City, hauling the 
 engine from Echo by ox team. He was also en- 
 gaged in bulding coal cars for use in the John 
 Hopkins mine at Como, Colorado, as well as as- 
 sisting to build the schutes at the Blair mine in 
 Rock Springs, Wyoming. He was for three years 
 associated with the firm of Stevens and Roberts, 
 wholesale butchers, on State street in Salt Lake 
 City. He retained his farm during all these years 
 and engaged in the sheep business, having at 
 this time close to two thousand head. He has his 
 farm of thirty-five acres well improved and built 
 a fine brick residence on it in 1898. He has been 
 largely instrumental in briging about the present 
 efficient system of irrigation in Summit county, 
 and was at one time President of the Henefer 
 Irrigation Company, which obtains its water from 
 the Weber river and waters eleven hundred acres. 
 
 Mr. Roberts was married in Salt Lake City in 
 1867 to Miss Maria Dallimore. They have a 
 iamily of eight children — Abiagal, wife of David 
 
 H. Foster ; George ; William ; Emma Jane ; 
 James ; Lulu ; Herbert, and Almeda. George, the 
 oldest son, was married in Salt Lake City, Sep- 
 tember 18, 1901, to Miss Alice Lucas. They 
 make their home on Mr. Roberts' farm. 
 
 In politics he is a believer in the principles of 
 the Republican party and has been Road Super- 
 visor of his district for nine years, serving under 
 four different Boards. He has been a prominent 
 worker in the ranks of his party ever since its 
 organization in this State. 
 
 In fraternal life Mr. Roberts is a member of 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Ontaria, 
 Lodge No. I of Park City. Mr. Roberts began 
 at the bottom of the ladder, and it has been by 
 close application and determined eflFort that he 
 has worked his way up to the position he now 
 occupies as one of the prominent farmers and 
 sheep growers of his county. His career has been 
 straightforward, and he enjoys the confidence and 
 esteem of all with whom he has been associated. 
 
 I SHOP WILLIAM GILES comes of 
 one of the old and prominent families in 
 the Mormon Church. He has spent his 
 life in this State, of which he is a na- 
 tive, and has grown with its growth, 
 until the history of Utah and particularly of Mor- 
 gan county has been closely entwined about his 
 personal history, and today he is a prominent and 
 well-known man in his community. 
 
 William Giles was born in Littleton, Morgan 
 county, July 3, 1868. He is the son of John H. 
 and Ann (Kingman) Giles. His father was a 
 native of Lancashire, England, where he became 
 a member of the Mormon Church and emigrated 
 to the United States in the early fifties. He 
 crossed the great American plains in ox teams 
 and located in Salt Lake City, where he engaged 
 in the general merchandise business. In 1858 he 
 moved his family to Lehi for a short time, on ac- 
 count of the Johnston army troubles, and after 
 the trouble was over he moved to Farmington 
 in Davis county, whire he followed carpentering 
 for some years. In 1864 he moved his family 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 489 
 
 to Morgan county, locating a farm on what is 
 now the site of Littleton, and in connection with 
 his trade of carpentering did a general farming 
 business. Many of the houses which he built 
 are still standing. He was a very successful man 
 financially, and prominent in Church work. He 
 was a High Priest and Counselor to Bishop 
 Wbittier of Milton Ward. He was later a mem- 
 ber of the High Priests' Quorum of Morgan Stake 
 of Zion, which position he filled until the time 
 of his death. He was president of the Milton Dra- 
 matic Company. For many years he was Assist- 
 ant Superintendent of the Sunday Schools and 
 Counselor to the President of the Young ]\Ien's 
 Mutual Improvement Association. He was noted 
 for his many charitable deeds and made liberal 
 contributions to all Church work. Mr. Giles was 
 twice married, and was the father of seventeen 
 children, nearly all of whom are living in Mor- 
 gan county. Our subject was the fourth son by 
 the second wife. I\Ir. Giles died January 16, 1891, 
 at the age of sixty-three, mourned by the people 
 of three counties, among whom he was widely 
 known and loved. 
 
 Our subject grew up in Alilton Ward and there 
 received his education. He became active in 
 Church work at a very early age. Was made a 
 Deacon at the age of sixteen and became a Ward 
 teacher. At the age of twenty-one he was or- 
 dained a member of the Thirty-fifth Quorum of 
 Seventies, and in January, 1890, was called on a 
 mission to England, but on reaching New York 
 was recalled on account of his father meeting 
 with an accident which resulted in his death. In 
 1892 he was ordained a High Priest and set apart 
 as Bishop of ]\Iilton Ward, which he still retains. 
 Plis Counselors are Joseph S. Spendlow and F. A. 
 Little. He has been active in Sunday School and 
 Ward Work, being the leader of the Ward choir, 
 and a leader in musical circles in the Ward. He 
 has general supervision over all Ward matters. 
 
 Bishop Giles was married in 1891 to Sarah 
 Hogg, daughter of Robert Hogg, of Morgan. 
 They have four children : Geneve, Robert H., 
 Mary, Bernice A. and Rulon. 
 
 The Bishop bought his present place in the 
 same year in which he was married, and has de- 
 voted his time to general farming and stock rais- 
 
 ing, in which he has been very successful, and 
 is identified largely with the stock interests of 
 his county. He is a director of the Littleton 
 Stock Range Compain-. He was for many years 
 a director in the Littleton Commercial Company 
 and was Water Master for five years. He has 
 done much towards building up and improving his 
 town and has been very successful in all his un- 
 dertakings. He is regarded as one of the repre- 
 sentative men of Morgan coimty. and enjoys the 
 confidence and esteem of all with whom he has 
 come in contact. 
 
 TSHOP JAMES CAMPBELL HAM- 
 ILTON is among the oldest residents 
 'if Mill Creek Ward, having come here 
 as a child of six years, and has since 
 made this his home, taking an active 
 part in the upbuilding of the county and the 
 growth and advancement of his community. 
 Since he first came here the wild and barren 
 lands, covered with a dense growth of sage brush 
 and willows have almost all been cleared off, and 
 supplanted by rolling meadows and waiving 
 wheat fields, and where once the wild animal and 
 the no less wild Indian roamed at will, pretty 
 homes have sprung up and the laughter of the 
 white child is heard. 
 
 The Bishop's birth occurred in Warwick, Cana- 
 da, on January 10, 1846. He is the son of James 
 L. and Mary Ann T Campbell) Hamilton. The 
 father was born in Ireland, and his father, John 
 Hamilton, was an English soldier. He died in 
 1875. The mother of our subject was born in 
 Canada, on the shores of Lake Erie. She is of 
 noble birth and traces her ancestry back to one of 
 the kings of Denmark, the family name being 
 originally Kimble. She is still living. The Ham- 
 ilton family left Canada on March i, 1846, and 
 went to Nauvoo. During the exodus they accom- 
 panied the Saints as far as Omaha, Nebraska, and 
 then upon the advice of President Brigham 
 Young the father removed to Missouri, where 
 they remained until 1852, at which time the Apos- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tie Orson Hyde organized part of a train of Mor- 
 mon emigrants in Missouri, and among them 
 were this family. At Florence the train was com- 
 pleted and from there they crossed the plains to 
 Utah, arriving in Salt Lake City in September of 
 that year, in time for Conference. After Confer- 
 ence the father bought a piece of land in Mill 
 Creek Ward and rented a small cottage for the 
 family to live in. Two years later he built a log 
 cabin, in which they lived until 1870, when it was 
 replaced by a better house. The father was an 
 officer in the Nauvoo legion and during the John- 
 ston trouble was Captain of ten men. He passed 
 through all the hardships incident to pioneer life, 
 and saw much service in the various Indian 
 troubles. After the Johnston troubles they moved 
 to Spanish Fork, but remained there only a short 
 time, returning to the home place, and all the 
 family worked together on the farm, assisting 
 in supporting themselves. The oldest son, John 
 D., made two trips back to the Missouri river 
 after emigrants. He is now living in this Ward 
 and has always been associated to a greater or 
 less extent in business with our subject. 
 
 Bishop Hamilton has been twice married. His 
 first marriage occurred November 28, 1870, to 
 Miss Isabel Hill, daughter of Alexander and Ag- 
 nes (Hood) Hill. Mr. Hill was a former asso- 
 ciate of the Prophet, Joseph Smith, and an active 
 participator of all his campaigns in the East. He 
 came with his family to Utah in 1849. I" the 
 Church he filled the position of First Counselor 
 to Bishop Miller, and was ordained a Patriarch 
 on March 30, 1884. His death occurred in 
 February, 1889. Our subject married as his 
 second wife on March 4, 1885, Mary B., daughter 
 of George M. and Margaret A. White. Mrs. 
 White and her daughter came to Utah in 1849 
 and the father followed in i860. Twenty children 
 have been born to the Bishop, fourteen by his first 
 wife and six by his second. The eldest, James 
 was born October 12, 1871, and died August 18, 
 1872; Alexander Parley was born January 13, 
 1873; Agnes Ellen, born April 18, 1874; John 
 William, born February 16, 1876; Robert Hill, 
 born December 8, 1S77; Mary Ann, born October 
 9, 1879; Isabel E., born May 3, 1881; Charles 
 Orson, born June 6, 1883; Joseph F., born July 
 
 30, 1885, and died September 14, 1885; Jane and 
 Elizabeth, twins, born December 16, 1886; Flor- 
 ence Bell, born June 2, 1887; Willard Reuben, 
 born March 21, 1888, and died January 14, 1889; 
 Leonard W., born March 25, 1890, and died Feb- 
 ruary 14, 1891 ; James Exile, bom October 17, 
 1891 ; Lulu Fern, born November 6,1892; George 
 M., born February 11, 1892; Beryl Adella, born 
 April 8, 1896; Emma Margaret, born August i, 
 1898, and Leo Miller, born April 9, 1901. Mary 
 Ann is a graduate of the Latter Day Saints Col- 
 lege of Salt Lake City, and is now teaching 
 school. Bishop Hamilton has always been a firm 
 believer in the doctrines of the Mormon Church, 
 and especially of polygamy as a divine right, 
 and was one of those incarcerated and fined for 
 violation of the Edmunds law. He was first in- 
 carcerated in the penitentiary October 12, 1888, 
 and fined one hundred and fifty dollars. On No- 
 vember 8, 1889, he was again fined to pay one 
 hundred dollars and costs. He was set apart as 
 LJishop of Mill Creek Ward, March 30, 1884. 
 
 After his first marriage his father traded him 
 a ten acre lot at the corner of Seventh East and 
 Fifteenth South streets, where he built a one 
 room log cabin, in, which he and his family lived 
 until 1879, when he built himself a small brick 
 cottage. In 1896 he built his present home, a 
 handsome thirteen-room brick residence, sur- 
 rounded by a fine lawn, flowers, shade trees, etc. 
 This house was built entirely by our subject and 
 is in every respect a model home. He also has a 
 splendid orchard on his home place which now 
 consists of thirty-five acres, and is well improved 
 with good barns, fences, etc. He also owns a 
 forty-acre farm west of the Jordan river, which 
 he took up as government land. 
 
 He has taken a deep interest in irrigation and 
 assisted to build the Salt Lake and Utah Canal, 
 which is supplied with water from Utah lake. He 
 has been for a number of years School Trustee, 
 and since the formation of the Republican party 
 in Utah has been a staunch supporter of its prin- 
 ciples. Together with his sons he is largely in- 
 terested in sheep in Wyoming, where they have 
 four thousand head. As his children have mar- 
 ried they have settled in the State, and are among 
 Lltah's most useful citizens. 
 
BIOGKAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 491 
 
 ( )HX P. STOiXhBRAKER has lived in 
 rioytsville, Summit county, since he 
 was twelve years of age. He is a na- 
 tive son of Utah, and was born at Og- 
 den, August 15, 1851. His early edu- 
 cation was obtained in the schools of Ogden, 
 completing in the district schools of Hoytsville. 
 While yet in his teens he began farming, which 
 he successfully followed for a number of years. 
 At the age of twenty-six he learned the black- 
 smith trade, which he has followed ever since in 
 connection with the farming and stock raising 
 business. 
 
 Joseph Stonebraker, the father of our subject, 
 was a native of Ohio, where he was born Janu- 
 ary I, 1826. He was a miller by trade. Upon 
 coming to Utah in 1849, he settled at Salt Lake 
 City, but only remained there a short time, when 
 he went to Ogden, where he operated the first 
 flour mill in Weber county, for Lorin Farr. When 
 Johnston's army came to Utah in 1857 he took 
 his family to Fillmore, and remained there five 
 years, when he moved to Hoytsville, where he 
 assisted in building the Hoyt mill, which he af- 
 terwards ran for several years. He remained 
 in Hoytsville until 1870, when he removed to 
 Tintic, where he engaged in mining, retaining 
 his property in Hoytsville. He located a num- 
 ber of good mining claims in the Tintic district, 
 and at one time owned a part of the Mammoth 
 and Red Bird mines. He died there in 1897, at 
 the age of seventy-one years. His wife, and the 
 mother of the subject of this sketch, was Phoebe 
 Phelps, dauehter of John Phelps, of Canada. 
 She was the mother of eleven children, and is 
 still living in Hoytsville at the age of sixty-nine 
 years. 
 
 Our subject is the oldest of the family. He 
 came to Hoytsville with his parents, and has 
 lived here ever since, engaged in general farm- 
 ing. In 1888 he opened a blacksmith shop on 
 his farm, which he has since continued to oper- 
 ate, doing a general blacksmithing business. 
 He makes his home at the present time on the 
 old homestead, which he operates, and which is 
 well improved, with a comfortable brick house, 
 outbuildings, barn, fences, etc. 
 
 Mr. Stonebraker was married in 1877 to Miss 
 
 Harriett Jones, daughter of John and Emma 
 Jones, of Hoytsville. She died in 1884, leaving 
 a family of four children, two of whom are now 
 living — Lovica, wife of Walter Calderwood, and 
 l\Iary, wife of Nephi Delanev. His second wife 
 was Miss Carrie Crittenden, by whom he also 
 haa four children, two of whom are living — 
 Winnie E. and Hazel T. He married a third 
 time to Miss Elizabeth Hoyt, daughter of Samuel 
 P. Hoyt, by whom he has had no family. 
 
 In politics Mr. Stonebraker is a believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party. He has filled 
 the office of Justice of the Peace for two years 
 and that of School Trustee for four years. He 
 was a member of the Central Committee for sev- 
 eral years, and in 1899 was a candidate for 
 County Commissioner, but failed of election. He 
 has been actively identified with the interests of 
 his community, and foremost in promoting the 
 growth of his town. He has taken a large in- 
 terest in irrigation matters, and is president of 
 the Elkhorn Water Ditch Comnany. In the 
 Church he is prominent in the work of the Sun- 
 day Schools and among the young men, having 
 been two terms President of their Mutual Im- 
 provement Association. 
 
 ILIJA^^I G. SWANER, President 
 of the Utah Electrical Supply Com- 
 |)anv and chief engineer of the old 
 Rapid Transit plant for the Consol- 
 idated Railway and Power Com- 
 pany, is one of the most prominent young men 
 of Salt Lake City. He has secured his present 
 position by the exercise of his own industry and 
 ability, and the high rank he holds in the busi- 
 ness world is due entirely to his own application 
 to the work in hand. 
 
 He was born in Salt Lake City on January 24, 
 1876. He is a son of Christian J. Swaner, a na- 
 tive of Denmark, who came to this country when 
 but a boy with his parents, in the early days of 
 the settlement of this region, and was among the 
 pioneers to settle here in the early fifties. He 
 was a carpenter by trade, and was employed in 
 building the Tabernacle in this city, as well as 
 the Salt Lake Theatre. He and his family had 
 
492 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 become members of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints in Denmark, and he con- 
 tinued in that faith until his death, about twenty 
 years ago. His father, the grandfather of the 
 subject of this sketch, lived to a ripe old age, 
 and was a life long member of the Church. The 
 mother of our subject, Emma L. (Burnett) 
 Swaner, was a native of New York City, and 
 came to Utah with her parents at the age of 
 seven, making the entire trip across the plains 
 by wagon. She has been a consistent and faith- 
 ful member of the Church throughout her life. 
 Her son, William, has spent his whole life within 
 the confines of his native State, and has lived in 
 the house in which he was born, No. 331 South 
 Tenth East, all his life. He was educated in 
 the Tenth district school, and also in the Na- 
 tional Correspondence School, in which he took 
 a course in the study of electricity, and he is now 
 a student in that institution. 
 
 He early started to earn his own living, and 
 at the age of eleven secured employment in the 
 bottling works of the Salt Lake Brewery, where 
 he was employed more or less regularly for five 
 years, going to school in the winter and working 
 in the summer. He then went to Lehi with his 
 brother and engaged in the bee business for a 
 year, returning to Salt Lake City and entering 
 the employ of the Rapid Transit Company, and 
 worked for that company for three years, clean- 
 ing- headlights and attending to the store room. 
 In this capacity he was employed for two years, 
 and in the third year was employed as a machin- 
 ist in that company's shops. He then was made a 
 motorman and operated a car on the First West 
 route of the West Side Rapid Transit for a year. 
 He then returned to the shops of the Salt Lake 
 Rao'd Transit Comn-^'^y and worked another 
 year at the machinist trade, and was then 
 made foreman of the Salt Lake Rapid 
 Transit Company's power house, which po- 
 sition he held until the Rapid Transit and 
 Salt Lake companies were consolidated, in 
 April, iQoi, and after the disastrous fire 
 which destroyed most of the plant, he was 
 made chief engineer of the old Rapid Transit 
 plant, which position he still holds. At the same 
 time that he has been employed in railroad work. 
 
 he has successfully established the present Utah 
 Electrical Supply Company, of which he is Pres- 
 ident, and which at the present time has grown 
 to be one of the prosperous enterprises of Salt 
 Lake City, and redounds greatly to the business 
 sagacity of Mr. Swaner. 
 
 Although but a young man, he has already 
 given such an account of himself as would indi- 
 cate that in the future he will occupy a promi- 
 nent and leading position among the business 
 men of Utah, and especially in the application 
 of electricity to the needs of the people. 
 
 \AIUEL BRINTON. Success comes 
 not to the man who idly waits, but to 
 tlie faithful toiler whose work is char- 
 acterized by intelligence and force; it 
 comes only to the man who has the fore- 
 sight and keen mental vision to know how, when 
 and where to exert his energy, and thus it hap- 
 pens that but a small proportion of those who 
 enter the world's broad field of battle comes of? 
 victorious in the struggle for wealth and posi- 
 tion. As the historian passes in review over the 
 many successful men of Summit county, his at- 
 tention is called to a man who is undoubtedly one 
 of the most successful in his line of occupation 
 in the entire county, Samuel Brinton ; and be- 
 lieving that his many friends will be glad to have 
 presented to them a brief synopsis of his career, 
 the following has been compiled : 
 
 Samuel Brinton was born in Big Cottonwood 
 Ward, Salt Lake county, December 26, 1853, 
 during the absence of his father in Fort Supply, 
 and is the son of David Brinton, senior, and a 
 brother of J. H. Brinton, whose sketch appears 
 elsewhere in this work. David Brinton was bom 
 in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where his an- 
 cestors had settled in 1620. He came of an old 
 Quaker family, but married outside the Church, 
 and in 1838 became a convert to the teachings 
 of the Mormon Elders and moved to Nauvoo in 
 1840, where he remained until the Saints were 
 driven out in 1846. During his residence in Nau- 
 voo he became well acquainted with the Prophet, 
 Joseph Smith, .•\fter the people were driven out 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of Nauvoo Mr. Brinton moved to Savannah, Mis- 
 souri, where he engaged in the blacksmith busi- 
 ness, his wife making goggles. They came to 
 Utah in 1849, reaching here in September of that 
 year. In December of that same year he was 
 called to go to Iron county, where he made the 
 first settlement, at Parowan, leaving his family 
 in Salt Lake City. In 1853 he was called to Fort 
 Supply, where he organized another settlement, 
 and in 1856 was sent to the Missouri river to 
 assist the famous hand cart brigade. He re- 
 turned home just after Johnston's army had been 
 in Salt Lake, and found his family had gone 
 south with the rest of the people. He located 
 them at Lehi, and after the trouble was over 
 brought them back to the city. During the in- 
 tervals when not called away on Church work, 
 Mr. Brinton had followed his trade as a black- 
 smith, which he again took up at this time, hav- 
 ing a shop on his ranch in the Big Cottonwood, 
 where he spent the remainder of his life. He 
 filled seven missions for the Church, laboring in 
 the L^nited States and England, and in 1870 en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business, having a store 
 one mile from the site of the present postoffice 
 at Brinton. He was for eighteen years Bishop 
 of the Ward, and while on his mission to En- 
 gland presided over the London Conference. He 
 had the distinction of being one of the few to 
 receive the endowment at the hands of the 
 Prophet. Joseph Smith, in Nauvoo. He died 
 May 17, 1878, at the age of sixty-three years, 
 his death being very sudden. His wife, and the 
 mother of our subject, was Harriett W. Dill- 
 worth. She died aged seventy-five, on Novem- 
 ber 19, 1897, after a noble and useful life. After 
 coming to Utah the father of this family was 
 absent from home much of the time, filling seven 
 missions, both preaching and colonizing, and only 
 returning home for a brief time at the close of 
 each mission. During this time almost the en- 
 tire care and sustenance of the family fell to the 
 brave wife. 
 
 Our subject received his education in the com- 
 mon schools of Salt Salt Lake county and at the 
 Deseret University, now the University of Utah. 
 He lived on his father's farm in the Big Cotton- 
 wood, and did much of the herding of the cat- 
 
 tle and sheep. He bought a place adjoining his 
 father's, where he lived for twenty-three years, 
 and still owns considerable farming land in that 
 Ward. In 1899 he bought the Boulder ranch, 
 near Oakley, in Summit county, where he moved 
 his family and now makes his home. He also 
 owns three ranches in the Weber valley, having 
 altogether about a thousand acres of land. He 
 puts up about three hundred tons of hay annu- 
 ally, all of which he feeds out to his stock. 
 
 Mr. Brinton was married in 1875 to Miss Joan 
 Helm, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Rich- 
 ards) Helm, of Mill Creek, who has borne him 
 fourteen children — Ada P., the wife of Orson 
 Drage; David A., on a mission to Tennessee; 
 Samuel L., John, deceased; Walter D., Joan; 
 Joseph H., Mary G., deceased ; Paul E. and 
 Laura, both dead, and Eugenia; Naomi, Don G. 
 and Ruth. 
 
 In politics Mr. Brinton is a Republican, and 
 has been an active worker in that party. He has 
 held the office of Justice of the Peace, and was 
 appointed a Notary Public by Governor Wells. 
 He has also been water commissioner of that 
 district. 
 
 He was ordained a Deacon in 1867 and an 
 Elder in the following year. He became a mem- 
 ber of the Seventy-second Quorum of the Sev- 
 enties in 1890. In 1893 he went on a mission 
 to the Southern States, presiding over the West 
 Virginia and Kentucky Conferences for two 
 years, being President of both Conferences from 
 January 11, 1894, to December 12, 1895, at which 
 time he was honorably released and returned 
 home. Upon returning home he became a home 
 missionary for Salt Lake county, and retained 
 that position until he removed to Summit county, 
 and since his residence in the latter county has 
 filled the same position there. 
 
 Mr. Brinton comes from one of the best known 
 and most popular families in Utah. His whole 
 life has been spent in Salt Lake and Summit 
 counties, and by dint of hard work, untiring en- 
 ergy and perseverance he has worked his way 
 up until he is today one of the solid business men 
 and successful farmers of Summit county. He is 
 a man of hospitable nature, genial and pleasing 
 manners, and numbers his friends by the legion. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 OSEPH GILES. The history of our 
 subject is closely linked with that of 
 ]Morgan county, within whose confines 
 his life has been mostly spent. He was 
 born in Salt Lake City, August 21, 1858, 
 and the first ten years of his life were spent on 
 his father's farm in Davis county, after which he 
 came to Morgan county and obtained his edu- 
 cation in the common schools, returning to Davis 
 county at the age of eighteen and serving an ap- 
 prenticeship as blacksmith under T. H. White, 
 of Farmington. 
 
 He is the son of John H. and Louisa (Candy; 
 Giles. An account of his father's life will be 
 found in the sketch of Bishop William Giles, a 
 brother of our subject. Upon reaching his ma- 
 jority our subject moved to Littleton and opened 
 the first blacksmith shop in that place. He fol- 
 lowed this business for some years, also having 
 an interest in the old homestead with his father 
 and brothers. In 1885 he bought a portion of 
 the original homestead of his father, and there 
 built his home and followed general farming 
 and stock raising, in addition to his blacksmith 
 business. He also assisted in building the Lit- 
 tleton and Milton Wards, his present home be- 
 ing in the latter Ward. In addition to his other 
 interests he is a director in the Littleton Stock 
 Range Company, and also identified with the 
 Littleton and Milton canal, of which he was a 
 director for two years. 
 
 Mr. Giles was married in 1895 to ]Miss 
 Eva Hinman, daughter of ^Morgan L. and 
 Harriett (Hess) Hinman, a sister of Presi- 
 dent John W. Hess, of the Davis Stake, 
 a biographical sketch of whom appears else- 
 where in this work. Mrs. Giles' father was 
 a native of West Stockbridge, Berkshire county, 
 Massachusetts, and came to Utah in 1847. He 
 was first located in Salt Lake City for some 
 years, but at the time of the Johnston army 
 troubles moved his family south with the rest 
 of the people, and upon returning located in 
 Farmington, where he lived until 1890, when he 
 moved to Lees creek. Northwest Territory, 
 where he died at the age of sixty years. Mrs. 
 Giles is now the only living; member of that fam- 
 ily. Her father was President of the Davis 
 
 Stake and a W^ard teacher for a number of years. 
 He was also a member of the Seventies. Mr. 
 Giles has one daughter. Marvel Eva. 
 
 There is no better known man in Morgan 
 county than the subject of this sketch. His fa- 
 ther was one of the prominent men of this and 
 Davis counties, and his sons have grown to be 
 prominent men in their particular walks of life. 
 Mr. Giles is a member of the Mormon Church, 
 in whose faith he was raised, and active in the 
 work of his Ward. 
 
 E. CHISHOLM. In the operations 
 of railroads there is no more impor- 
 tant part, nor one which requires a 
 greater experience, than the mechanical 
 department. No matter how commo- 
 dious or how luxurious the equipment may be, if 
 the motor power is lacking the railroad fails of 
 its mission. The mechanical department of the 
 railroad is charged with the superintendency of 
 the locomotives and with seeing that the liability 
 to accident is reduced to a minimum, and that 
 the greatest results are achieved from the loco- 
 motives, compatible with safety, speed and com- 
 fort. The superintendent of motive power has 
 charge of all its work, and under him, as his 
 right-hand man, is the master mechanic, assisted 
 by a foreman, who is virtually an assistant mas- 
 ter mechanic, and oftentimes acts in his absence. 
 To fill the position of master mechanic requires 
 a thorough knowledge of machinery and of me- 
 chanics, and it is usually only after a long ex- 
 perience that a man is entrusted with the duties 
 of that important position. The Rio Grande 
 Western Railway, traversing as it does the Rocky 
 Mountain region, requires its locomotives to be 
 in the very highest state of efficiency, and its 
 mechanical department is one of the best among 
 the western railroads. Intimately connected with 
 this and directing a large part of its operations, 
 is the subject of this sketch, in the capacity of 
 General Foreman. 
 
 J. E. Chisholm was born in Constantina, Os- 
 wego county, New York, in 1858, but when very 
 young his parents moved to the West, and his 
 early life was spent in Shakopee, Minnesota, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 twenty-six miles from Saint Paul. His father, 
 Robert Chisholm, was a railroad man, and was 
 foreman of the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis 
 and Omaha Railroad, with headquarters at Sha- 
 kopee. He was a native of New York, but re- 
 moved to Minnesota when his son was but a small 
 boy. He was of Scotch descent, and his father 
 had been a prominent boat builder on the Erie 
 Canal. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, 
 in 1862, he enlisted in Company I, Xiiilh !Min- 
 nesota Volunteer Infantry, and served until the 
 close of that war, in 1865. Prior to its service 
 in the Civil War this regiment was ordered West, 
 to go on a punitive expedition against the Sioux 
 Indians, shortly after the massacre of the white 
 people by that tribe in 1862. The regiment went 
 to Fort Ridgley. and ^Ir. Chisholm participated 
 in all the battles with the Indians in which the 
 regiment was engaged, being later mustered out 
 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. His death, in 1884, 
 was the result of the hardships he had undergone 
 in this campaign. His wife, Lucretia (Gifford) 
 Chisholm, and the mother of the subject of this 
 sketch, was also a native of New York. She was 
 of Scotch extraction, and is still living at her 
 home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 
 
 Their son spent his early life in Minnesota, 
 and was educated in the public and grammar 
 schools. He soon, however, turned his attention 
 to work, and at the age of eighteen entered the 
 car department of the Saint Paul and Sioux City 
 Railroad, which later formed a portion of the 
 system of the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis 
 and Omaha Railway, and is now a constituent 
 part of the Northwestern system. He served 
 with this company for over eighteen years, in 
 various departments in mechanical and operating 
 work, the last two years having charge of the 
 motive power department of the Northern Di- 
 vision, at Spooner, Wisconsin. He left the rail- 
 road business in 1893, and engaged in other en- 
 terprises. Feeling that the railroad life was more 
 congenial to him than the enterprises in which 
 he had established himself, he returned to that 
 work, and entered the service of the Northern 
 Pacific Railroad Company, where he remained 
 for five years in its mechanical department. He 
 was then tendered and accepted the position of 
 
 General Foreman of the Rio Grande Western 
 
 Railroad, and has been with that company since 
 that time, with headquarters in Salt Lake City. 
 His ability and the long experience he has had 
 in mechanical railroad work has won for him an 
 enviable reputation among railroad men, and he 
 is also the First Assistant of the Master Me- 
 chanic, and is often charged with the duties of 
 that higher position. 
 
 Our subject was married, in Minnesota, to 
 Miss Mary J. DuBois, a native of Philadelphia, 
 and by this marriage he had one child 
 — Lillian Stuart. His wife died, and he 
 married again, in Mandan, North Dakota, 
 to Miss Hattie May Thurston, a native o£ 
 Iowa, and by this marriage he has two chil- 
 dren — Marion and Gertrude. 
 
 In political life Mr. Chisholm has alwavs been 
 a staunch and consistent Republican. His rail- 
 road work has consumed all his time, so that he 
 has never had an opportunity to take an active 
 part in the work of the party. His first vote for 
 President was cast for Garfield, and he has voted 
 for the Republican nominees for President ever 
 since. In social life he is a member of the Ma- 
 sonic order, and also belongs to the Maccabees 
 and to the Fraternal Union of America. While 
 in Saint Paul he joined the United Workmen. 
 The able manner in which Mr. Chisholm has dis- 
 charged all the duties which have been allotted 
 to him has won the confidence of his superior 
 officers in the railroad, and to-day, in the Rio 
 Grande system, there is no more trusted officer 
 than our subject. His wide experience in rail- 
 road work has won for him a prominent posi- 
 tion in the field of the directors of the mechanical 
 departments of these vast enterprises. He is well 
 and favorably known in Salt Lake City, and en- 
 joys the friendship of a large circle of friends. 
 
 ILLIAM SARGENT, Bishop of 
 Iloytsville Ward. Perhaps one of 
 the most noted and talked-of coun- 
 ties in the whole State of Utah is 
 Summit county. It is, beyond a 
 
 doubt, one of the wealthiest counties in the State. 
 
 Its vast mining industries; its agricultural and 
 
496 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 stock-raising business, together with its fine cli- 
 mate, the beautiful scenery of its hills and valleys, 
 and the sturdy, energetic and thoroughly wide- 
 awake citizens who have developed it from a 
 wild and barren waste to its present prosperous 
 condition, has all tended to bring the county 
 prominently before the outside world. Bishop 
 Sargent has been a resident of this county since 
 1868, and has been closely identified with many 
 of the leading enterprises for the improvement of 
 the precinct. 
 
 He was born in the village of Dawsdale. Lin- 
 colnshire, England, August i, 1844, and is a son 
 of John and Hannah (Farrow) Sargent, both 
 natives of that shire. The mother died in 1847, 
 and three years later the father became a mem- 
 ber of the Alormon Church, and in 1868, with 
 his family of four children, emigrated to the 
 United States, crossing the plains to Utah in 
 his own ox teams, and settling in Hoytsville, in 
 the Weber Valley, where he died the 14th day of 
 the following March, aged fifty-one years. 
 
 Our subject grew to manhood on his father's 
 farm in England, receiving his limited education 
 from the schools of that country. He came to 
 this country with his father, and settled in Hoyts- 
 ville, where he became interested in farming. 
 For the first following twelve years, besides his 
 farming, Mr. Sargent engaged in freighting, 
 hauling coal and timber to and from the mines 
 and freighting to Grass Creek. He also engaged 
 for some years in the manufacture of brick from 
 the native clay, and furnished the brick for many 
 of the houses which are still standing in Hoyts- 
 ville. He gradually increased his farm, and at 
 this time owns one hundred and sixty acres of 
 range land and fifty acres under cultivation. He 
 has also done some cattle raising, and altogether 
 has had a fairly successful life, financially. He 
 owns a fine brick house in Hoytsville, where he 
 makes his home. .He is also interested in four 
 irrigation ditch companies, and is one of the most 
 earnest workers in the interests of irrigation to 
 be found in the county. 
 
 Bishop Sargent was married, in 1867, to Miss 
 Sarah E. Spriggs, of Lincolnshire, England. 
 They have had ten children, nine sons and one 
 daughter, seven of whom are living — John 
 
 Henry, serving on a three years' mission to New 
 Zealand ; William ; Alma L., who served three 
 years in England on a mission ; Charles L. ; Lo- 
 renzo ; Rosanna, and David Leroy. Albert A., 
 Julian A. and William J. died in childhood. 
 
 Bishop Sargent has always been an ardent be- 
 liever in the principles of the Democratic party, 
 and was a delegate to the first State Democratic 
 Convention, held in Salt Lake City. He became 
 a member of the Alormon Chvirch at the age of 
 twenty-three, and soon after coming to Utah was 
 ordained an Elder, and for several years labored 
 as a Ward teacher. He was ordained a High 
 Priest and set apart as First Counselor to Bishop 
 Alonzo Winters, and at the Bishop's death was 
 chosen his successor, being ordained August 14, 
 1886, by John Henry Smith. He was re-ap- 
 pointed to this position in 1901, when the Stake 
 was re-organized. He was also a member of the 
 Stake Ecclesiastical Association and of the 
 Stake Board of Education. He has served as 
 home missionary, and has always been active in 
 all departments of Church work. 
 
 The success that has come to Bishop Sargent, 
 both in business life and Church matters has been 
 due to his own unflagging energy and persever- 
 ance in the face of all obstacles. His life has 
 been singularly upright and free from subterfuge, 
 and he has won a host of friends in the com- 
 munity in which he lives. 
 
 OHX THURSTON. Chairman of the 
 Board of County Commissioners of 
 Morgan county, has the distinction of 
 being the first white child born in that 
 county. He was born in 1859, and is 
 the son of Thomas Jefiferson Thurston, a native 
 of Vermont, where he was born in 1805, and 
 emigrated to Ohio with his parents at the age 
 of twelve years. He became a member of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 
 an early day, and lived for some time at Nauvoo. 
 At the time of the exodus from that place, in 
 1846, he went with the main bodv of the Church 
 to Winter Quarters, and the following spring 
 came to Utah with the first company of emi- 
 grants, wintering in the Salt Lake Valley dur- 
 ing the winter of 1847. He located at Center- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 497 
 
 ville, in Davis county, where he owned a large 
 farm, and from there moved to the place where 
 Milton now stands, where he was the first set- 
 tler, and built a log house on Deep creek. In 
 connection with Colonel J. C. Little and Jedediah 
 Grant, he obtained a grant of land from the 
 Legislature in Weber Valley, and he built the 
 road through Devil's Gate. He obtained a large 
 tract of land at Milton, extending as far as Mor- 
 gan, and there kept a large herd of cattle, and 
 in later years did an extensive farming business. 
 He was widely identified with the development 
 and progress of the county, and interested in 
 many enterprises. Besides his farm and cattle 
 business, he owned a saw mill at what was known 
 as Hard Scrabble. He was the first Bishop of 
 the place, before the Morgan Stake was organ- 
 ized, and in the early days was the leading man 
 of his county. He assisted in building Thurs- 
 ton's Fort, during the Indian troubles, and this 
 later became the town of Thurston, being named 
 in his honor. In 1882 he sold out to his son 
 and moved to Saint George, where he worked 
 in the Temple during the remainder of his life, 
 dying there in 1885, at the age of eighty years 
 and four months. During his life he was a mem- 
 ber of the Thirtieth Quorum of Seventies. He 
 was the husband of three wives, and reared a 
 large family. 
 
 Our subject was the third child in a family 
 of thirteen children, by the second wife, Eliza- 
 "beth Smith. He grew to manhood in this countv, 
 and received his education from the common 
 schools. He remained at home with his father 
 until 1882, when he bought the original home- 
 stead of two hundred and eighty-five acres and 
 began life for himself, following farming and 
 stock raising, and took up the work his father 
 had so ably carried on, identifying himself with 
 the work of his county and doing much for its 
 growth and betterment. He assisted in building 
 the Littleton canal and Milton ditch, and for the 
 past ten years has been Water Master of that 
 ditch. In 1897 he built his present handsome 
 home of white sandstone and made numerous 
 improvements on the place, beautifying it, and 
 now has one of the loveliest homes in the Weber 
 Vallev. 
 
 Mr. Thurston was married, April 6, 1881, to 
 IViiss Alice Josephine Little, daughter of Colonel 
 J. C. Little, one of the early settlers of Weber 
 \'alley, coming there about the time Mr. Thurs- 
 ton's father settled in Morgan county. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Thurston have had nine children born to 
 them— Alice E., John W., Leo A., Frank W., 
 Clarence, Loraine, and three children who have 
 died. The daughter, Alice E., is a school teacher 
 in the Littleton District. His brothers have ac- 
 quired a reputation in the county as hunters of 
 large game, and have many evidences of their 
 skui in this direction. 
 
 In politics Mr. Thurston has for many years 
 been an adherent of the Democratic party, and 
 was twice elected to a seat on the Board of 
 County Commissioners through that party, being 
 at this time Chairman of the Board, by virtue of 
 being the oldest member. However, since his 
 last election to office his political convictions have 
 undergone a change, and his sympathies are now 
 with the Socialist party. He has always taken 
 an active interest in the affairs of the county, 
 and was for ten years School Trustee. He is 
 President of the Littleton Stock Range Company 
 and a director in the Littleton and Milton Irrigat- 
 ing Com[)any. 
 
 ( )HX BOYDEN. Few men have had a 
 more interesting career, both in public, 
 professional and business life than has 
 Mr. Boyden. His life has been closely 
 identified with the history of Summit 
 county for the past thirty-seven years, and dur- 
 ing that long period of time he has received more 
 official honors at the hands of the people of his 
 county than any other one man who has ever re- 
 sided within her borders. His honorable career, 
 and straightforward and upright manner of deal- 
 ing with his fellow men has won for him a large 
 circle of friends and admirers. 
 
 Our subject is a native of Staffordshire, En- 
 gland, having been born there in 1841, and com- 
 ing to the United States with his parents, Charles 
 and Sarah (Corns) Boyden, in i860. His mother 
 died in Salt Lake City in 1863, and his father 
 moved with his children to Morgan countv, where 
 
498 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he took up a farm and resided there until his 
 death in 1892, at the age of seventy-six years. 
 Mr. Boyden received his education in England, 
 and at the age of eighteen became a school 
 teacher. After coming to Utah he followed teach- 
 ing for three years in Salt Lake City, and later 
 taught in Peterson, Morgan county, where he 
 was also Assessor and Collector for one year. In 
 1886 he came to Coalville, where he again filled 
 the office of Assessor and Collector for two years 
 and was later a clerk in the Tithing office. He was 
 for fourteen years Superintendent of the Coalville 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution, filling the 
 office of Secretary ot the institution at the same 
 time. In 1891 he established the first drug store 
 in Coalville, dealing in drugs and sundries, and 
 up to the present time has had no competition. 
 
 He was married to Miss Jessie jMitchell of Salt 
 Lake City, and by this marriage has three chil- 
 dren, J. Leslie, Amy I., and Walter M. 
 
 In political life Mr. Boyden was a member of 
 the People's party in early days, but when the 
 people divided on national political lines he iden- 
 tified himself with the Democratic party and has 
 since been an aggressive worker in its ranks. He 
 has held almost every office in the gift of the peo- 
 ple of his community, and has discharged his 
 duties in a manner reflecting credit not only upon 
 himself but upon the people whose choice he has 
 so often been. Among the minor offices he has 
 held has been that of Selectman; Recorder of 
 Summit county for ten years ; City Recorder for 
 about twelve years ; member of the School 
 Board for three terms, and Assessor and Collec- 
 tor for the county for a numh^er of years. He has 
 also served the City as its Mayor for three terms, 
 and was Enrolling Clerk in the Legislature for 
 four terms, after which he was a member of the 
 Legislature for two years. He was also been 
 Secretary of the Stake Academy for some time, 
 and Chairman of the Democratic County Com- 
 mittee for four years. No man has done more 
 to bring the public service of Summit county to 
 a high standard of efficiency than has Mr. Boy- 
 den, and the confidence of the people in his ability 
 and integrity has time and again been attested at 
 the polls. 
 
 He is a member of the Mormon Church, 
 
 and the same zeal that he has displayed in dis- 
 charging his public duties is to be found in his 
 work for the Church. He was a member of the 
 High Council of Summit Stake from the time of 
 the organization of that Stake until 1901, when 
 it was reorganized. In 1879 he was called on a 
 mission to his native land, laboring in the New- 
 castle and Manchester Conferences, and had a 
 most successful mission. He has been identified 
 with Sunday School work for a quarter of a cen- 
 tury, having been Stake Superintendent for the 
 Sunday Schools for twenty-five years, and Super- 
 intendent of the Coalville Sunday Schools for 
 twelve years. Mrs. Boyden is also a prominent 
 Church worker and was for some time Secretary 
 of the Stake Relief Society. 
 
 In addition to his other duties Mr. Boyden has 
 found time to promote a number of business en- 
 terprises of Coalville and vicinity, and during the 
 construction of what is now the Park City Rail- 
 road was secretary of that company, and one of 
 its active promoters. He has been identified with 
 the mining industry of this section of the State 
 and has done much towards developing the coal 
 mines of Summit county. He has done consider- 
 able building in the town and willingly lends his 
 aid and influence to any enterprise for the growth 
 or betterment of his town. In connection with 
 Bishop W. W. Cluff he established the first public 
 library and reading room in Coalville, and has 
 ever been found the friend of education. His son 
 J. Leslie was on a mission to England for more 
 than a year. Walter M. has been instructor in the 
 public schools for six years, four of which he was 
 Principal. Amy J. was educated at the Brigham 
 Young Academy at Provo. 
 
 ILLISPIE W. WALDRON is one of 
 the oldest living Presidents of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day- 
 Saints, in the Stake of Zion, Morgan 
 county. For over forty years he has- 
 been one of the honored and most highly re- 
 spected citizens of his county. His whole busi- 
 ness career has been spent in Utah. He is thor- 
 oughly acquainted with all the ups and downs 
 of the early settlement in the State, having- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 499 
 
 crossed the plains as early as 1853 by ox teams, 
 and from that time to the present he has been 
 one of the important factors in developing the 
 vast resources of Utah. He has always taken 
 an active and leading part in the work of his 
 Church, and has had the confidence of the lead- 
 ers of his Church, as well as of all the people in 
 his county. 
 
 Gillespie W. Waldron is a native of New York 
 State, having been born in Wyoming county in 
 1836. He is a son of Benjamin and Sallie (Lap- 
 ham) Waldron. His father was born at Brigh- 
 ton, England, in 1795, and came to the United 
 States when a young man, settling in New York 
 State, and there became a member of the Mor- 
 mon Church. He later moved to Pennsylvania, 
 and about the time of the exodus of the Mor- 
 mons from Nauvoo he paid a visit to that cit}' 
 and followed the Saints to Winter Quarters, re- 
 siding near Omaha for a number of years. He 
 followed his trade of shoemaker until 1853, when 
 he came to Utah. The first winter was spent in 
 Salt Lake City, when he purchased property in 
 Centerville, Davis county, where he again took 
 up his trade. He died at the age of eighty-seven, 
 in Uintah, Weber county. During his life he 
 was an active worker in the Church, but held no 
 office. He was especially noted for his many 
 charitable deeds, and was mourned by a large 
 circle of friends when he passed away. His wife 
 died in Centerville in 1855. Our subject was 
 the only child. 
 
 When our subject started out in life for him- 
 self he labored at whatever he could find to do. 
 In 1856 he moved to Malad Valley, Idaho, where 
 he remained until the call came for the Saints to 
 move to the southern part of this State, at the 
 time of the Johnston army troubles, when he 
 took his family to Payson, and on returning 
 north settled at Centerville, where he remained 
 until 1861, when he came to Morgan county, 
 where he took up forty-five acres of Government 
 land and improved it. He raised the first crop 
 of wheat in his Ward. When the call came for 
 the people to form settlements for better protec- 
 tion against the raids of the Indians, Mr. Wal- 
 dron moved his family to the site of his present 
 home, being one of the first to move into this 
 
 settlement. He bought land in Richville, and 
 disposed of his first farm. He has made his 
 home here continuously since that time, and has 
 devoted his time to general farming and stock 
 raising. As the years went by Mr. Waldron 
 accumulated a large amount of land, but of late 
 years he has divided much of this among his 
 children. At this time he has, besides his home 
 place, about forty-five acres of choice bottom 
 land, to which he gives his personal attention, 
 and which is under a high state of cultivation. 
 For many years the family occupied a commo- 
 dious and comfortable log house, but this has 
 been taken down and replaced by a handsome 
 brick structure. 
 
 Mr. Waldron wa.^ married, in Malad A'alley, 
 Idaho, in 1857, to ^liss Ann Dewhurst, daughter 
 of James and Elizabeth (Fielding) Dewhurst. 
 This family were natives of England, and came 
 to Utah in 1854. Twelve children have been 
 born of this marriasre — Joseph T. ; Annie, wife 
 of C. R. Clark ; Gillispie W., Junior ; Benjamin ; 
 Thomas; Harriett, wife of Robert C. Harris; 
 Mary, wife of Joseph D. Harris ; Levi, and Lucy 
 E. They also have an adopted daughter, Louisa. 
 Three children died in infancy. 
 
 The whole family are members of the Mormon 
 Church and among its most faithful and active 
 followers. The sons have served on missions to 
 different parts of the world, and the daughters 
 are prominent in the work of the Relief Society 
 and the Young Ladies' Mutual Aid Association. 
 Mr. Waldron is First Counselor to Bishop Dixon, 
 which office he has held since the organization 
 of this Stake. 
 
 r. EVANS, Mayor of Park City. 
 Perhaps no other section in the en- 
 tire State of Utah is so well known 
 throughout the business world as Park 
 City. Its vast mining interests have, 
 in a large measure, been the cause of its world- 
 wide reputation, containing as it does many of 
 the richest and best dividend paying mines ever 
 developed in the United States. E. P. Evans, 
 the present Mavor of Park City, has been closely 
 identified with many enterprises for the develop- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 merit of that place, from almost its first incep- 
 tion, for as early as 1880 he became a resident 
 of Park City, where he has since resided. 
 
 Mr. Evans is a native son of Utah, having 
 been born at Centerville, Davis county, on Sep- 
 tember 5, 1862. His father is Parley P. Evans, 
 a pioneer of Utah, and for many years a resident 
 of Davis county, where he successfully followed 
 farming, and has now retired from active life 
 and is spending his declining days in Park City, 
 enjoying the fruits of a long and well-spent life. 
 He raised a family of twelve children, all of 
 whom are residents of this State, our subject 
 being the eldest. 
 
 Mr. Evans grew u]) on his father's farm in 
 Davis county, and received a common school edu- 
 cation. In September, 1880, he located, in Park 
 City, at that time a small, straggling mining 
 camp, and became employed by the Ontario Min- 
 ing Company. He has retained his interest in 
 the mines of that vicinity since that time, though 
 he has not been actively identified with mining. 
 His attention of late years has been given largely 
 to mercantile pursuits, and he was at one time 
 engaged in the livery business in Park City. He 
 became manager of the Hopkins Coal Company 
 in 1895, and has since retained that position. 
 
 He was married, in 1885, to Miss Lillian Sny- 
 der, a sister of W. I. Snyder of Salt Lake City. 
 by whom he had a family of nine children, of 
 whom but three are now living. 
 
 In political life Mr. Evans is a staunch believer 
 in the principles of the Republican party, and 
 has been an active worker in its ranks ever since 
 its organization in this State. He was for two 
 years Alderman of Park City, and the only Re- 
 publican elected on the ticket in 1898. He re- 
 ceived the election of Mayor of the city in No- 
 vember, 1901, of which office he is still an in- 
 cumbent, his term not having yet expired. 
 
 With the exception of a few years spent in 
 the gold fields of California, Mr. Evans' whole 
 life has been spent within the confines of this 
 State, and he has been foremost in every enter- 
 prise pertaining to the upbuilding or improving 
 of the section in which he has lived. He is es- 
 sentially a self-made man, and has won his pres- 
 ent high standing among the business men of 
 
 the city by his own unaided efforts, and by that 
 determined spirit in the face of all obstacles and 
 persevering application to business that is sure 
 to bring success in its train. His upright and 
 honorable career has won the confidence of those 
 with whom he has been associated and has made 
 him many friends. 
 
 EORGE MOORE, one of the most 
 successful agriculturalists and live 
 stock men to be found in Summit 
 county. The career of a successful 
 man who has made his own way in 
 lite, overcoming every obstacle and surmounting 
 every difficulty in an honorable and upright man- 
 ner, should be and is an inspiration to the young 
 and rising generation. Such a man is Mr. Moore, 
 a native of England, born in Lincolnshire, in 
 1836. He is the son of Richard and Susannah 
 (Wright) Moore, who had a family of six chil- 
 dren, four of whom are now living, our subject 
 being the second youngest. The other children 
 are, Wright, now living in Garden City ; Mrs. 
 Palmer, and Charles. Our subject's parents were 
 converted to the Mormon Church in England and 
 emigrated to America in 185 1, remaining in Saint 
 Louis and Omaha until 1862, when they crossed 
 the plains to Utah, locating in Cache valley, 
 where they remained until their death. 
 
 Our subject was but fifteen years of age when 
 he came to this country. He married in Omaha, 
 Nebraska, in i860, bringing his family to Utah in 
 1862. His wife was a Miss Sarah Carter, a 
 daughter of Charles Carter, and sister of George 
 and William Carter of this place. The Carter 
 family also crossed the plains in 1862. By this 
 marriage Mr. Moore has had eleven children — 
 William H., Elizabeth, deceased; Fannie, wife 
 of Albert Gibbins, of Kamas ; Mary L., George 
 C, Harvey C, Fred W., Albert N. and Sarah 
 Electa. Two other children died in infancy. 
 
 Mr. Moore's principal occupation has been that 
 of farming and cattle raising. He owns one of 
 the largest places in the valley, which he has 
 nicely improved, with good houses, barns, out- 
 buildings, fences, etc., and has three private 
 ditches on his place, besides being interested in 
 
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 the Wanship No. i and No. 2 ditches and the 
 Pine creek ditch. He is also a partner in the 
 Carter & Moore grist mill at Wanship. 
 
 In political life Mr. ]\Ioore is a believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party and has been 
 a worker in its ranks since the party was organ- 
 ized in this State. During the days before the 
 admission of the State into the Union, he was 
 Selectman of his district, and for a number of 
 terms was on the School Board. 
 
 From a poor boy, forced to begin at the very 
 bottom rung of the ladder, Air. Moore has by 
 dint of hard work, economy and perseverance 
 climbed step by step until he is now one of the 
 foremost cattle owners of his county, and com- 
 mands the esteem of all with whom he has come 
 in contact. 
 
 ALTER SCOTT. The Anchor mine 
 of Park City is considered among 
 the leading mines of Summit county. 
 At the present time, igo2, it is in 
 splendid condition and producing 
 over one hundred tons of milling ore daily, which 
 is all concentrated at the company's new mill, 
 which from the point of up-to-date machinery is 
 not surpassed by any other mill of the kind in 
 the State. It has a capacity of about two hun- 
 dred tons every twenty-four hours. At the 
 present time the Anchor Mining Company gives 
 employment to about one hundred and forty men. 
 The company owns a vast territory of rich min- 
 eral land, which extends practically unbroken 
 from the Daly West mine on the southwest to 
 the Prince of Wales' mine on the Little Cotton- 
 wood, a distance of about three miles, and will 
 undoubtedly be producing ore when the present 
 generation has passed into the great unknown. 
 The subject of this sketch is secretary of this 
 great company. 
 
 Mr. Scott is a native of Denmark, being born 
 at Copenhagen in 1845. where he received his 
 education. At the age of twenty years he emi- 
 grated to the United States and settled in De 
 Kalb county, Illinois, where he engaged in farm- 
 ing, and after residing there for some years 
 moved to Mitchell county, Kansas, where he 
 
 again engaged in farming, and where he exper- 
 ienced the great devastation caused by the grass- 
 hoppers in 1872. His crops being entirely de- 
 stroyed it became necessary for him to seek out- 
 side employment to provide the necessaries of 
 life, and going to Beloit, the county seat of that 
 county, he became engaged as a laborer on a 
 building then in course of construction. A pri- 
 vate bank was opened in this building by Frank 
 Hart as soon as finished, and our subject at 
 once became the cashier of said bank, in which 
 position he remained for some years. In 1879 
 he moved to Minneapolis, Kansas, and became 
 cashier in the Ottawa county bank, remaining 
 there thirteen years, when he came to Utah. 
 
 L'pon arriving in Utah Mr. Scott went at 
 once to Park City, where he became bookkeeper 
 lor the Anchor Mining Company, now part of 
 the Daly-Judge, and a few years later was pro- 
 moted and became secretary of the company. He 
 has also acted in the capacity of bookkeeper and 
 secretary for a number of other famous mines 
 in that locality, among which may be mentioned 
 the Woodside Mining Company ; Silver King ; 
 Quincy Mining Company ; the Columbus Min- 
 mg Company ; the California Mining Company , 
 the Homestake Mining Company, and many 
 others. He has also been identified with the 
 Park City Light. Heat and Power Company and 
 the Park City Water Works. He is now secre- 
 tary and bookkeeper of the Utah Mining Ma- 
 chinery and Supply Company, of Salt Lake City, 
 and is also a stockholder in the company. 
 
 He was married to Miss Atlissa L. Smith, a 
 native of Indiana, by whom he has had two sons 
 Roy and Carl. The family are members of the 
 English Lutheran Church, and Mrs. Scott is a 
 well-known club woman, being at this time 
 '■i::urer of the Utah Federation of Woman's 
 Clubs. 
 
 Politically Mr. Scott owes allegiance to the 
 Republican party, of which he has been a life- 
 long member, and in the past has been quite 
 actively identified with the work of the party, 
 having held the offices of Deputy Sheriff, Deputy 
 County Treasurer and Deputy County Clerk in 
 Mitchell county, Kansas, and serving for two 
 vears as Alderman in the city of Minneapolis. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ' He is well known in fraternal circles, being a 
 thirty-second degree Mason, and is Past Master 
 of Uintah Lodge, No. 7, F. and A. M., and 
 Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of 
 Utah; Past High Priest of Ontario Chapter, 
 No. 3, R. A. M. ; Master of Utah Council No. 
 I, Royal and Select Masters; a member of the 
 Utah Commandery No. i, Knights Templar; a 
 member of El Kalah Temple, N. M. S. ; Past 
 Noble Grand of Minneapolis Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
 and a member of the local lodge ; Past Chief 
 Patriarch of Nasazet Encampment of Minne- 
 apolis, Kansas ; a member of the Park City En- 
 campment No. 7 and Past Chancellor of Myrtle 
 Lodge, Kniehts of Pythias, Minneapolis, Kansas. 
 Mr. Scott has by his genial and pleasant man- 
 ners made many friends since coming to Park 
 City, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of 
 those with whom he has been associated in busi- 
 ness life. 
 
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 ()HN C. CAPSON. Of the many 
 worthy sons who have immigrated to 
 this country from Sweden, and who 
 have assisted in building up Salt Lake 
 county, none are deserving of more 
 credit for what has been accomplished along this 
 line than the subject of this sketch. Born in 
 Sweden in 1848, he was a son of Carl J. and 
 Ingre Capson. The family immigrated to 
 America in 1853, settling in Utah in the fall 
 of the same year. The father of our subject 
 died November 24, 1901, aged seventy-nine 
 years, and his wife died at the age of seventy- 
 three years, November 19, 1896. 
 
 Thirty-five years ago our subject settled in 
 his present home, which at that time was a bar- 
 ren waste of sage brush and desert land. Here 
 he has continued to reside ever since and by 
 courage and hard work he has built up a splen- 
 did home, improved by orchards and all kinds 
 of fruits, fine brick house, large barns, fences, 
 etc., all of which indicate that industrious hands 
 have had it in charge. His place is located on 
 Fourteenth South and Thirteenth East street. 
 
 In 1873 he led to the marriage altar Miss 
 Susanna L. Ranck, daughter of Peter and Ann 
 
 (Lemon) Ranck. By this union eleven children 
 have been born, all but two of whom are living: 
 John B. died at six years of age ; Ella M., now 
 ivlrs. Robert Hodgens, who resides in the vicin- 
 ity of her father ; Carl R. ; Bertha ; Frank C. ; 
 Hattie M. ; Albert L. ; Susannah L. ; Leo L. ; 
 Delphia L. and Joseph Q., who died in infancy. 
 
 In political life Mr. Capson has been identified 
 witli the Democratic party ever since its organ- 
 ization in this State. For many years he has 
 served as judge of election in his district, and 
 was School Trustee for some years. 
 
 He was born and raised in the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as was his 
 wife and all of his children. He was ordained 
 an elder in 1890, and was later ordained a mem- 
 ber of the Seventies. In 1882 he was called to 
 serve on a mission to his native country, which 
 he willingly accepted and served for a period of 
 twenty-six months. For the past year he has 
 been on the home missionary list. 
 
 His wife is a member of the Ladies' Relief 
 Society, and their daughters Misses Bertha and 
 Hattie are members of the Young Ladies' Mu- 
 tual Improvement Association. 
 
 No family in Salt Lake county are more 
 highly respected than are Mr. Capson and his 
 wife and children. 
 
 ILLIAM HENRY HAIGH. No 
 section of the United States can 
 point with greater pride to the 
 splendid achievements which have 
 been obtained by its self-made men 
 than can the State of Utah, and among this class 
 of men should be mentioned the subject of this 
 sketch, who by his untiring energy, persever- 
 ence and determination has carved out a record 
 which is worthy of emulation by the young and 
 rising generation. 
 
 Mr. Haigh was born in Huddersfield, York- 
 shire, England, July i8th, 1844. He is a son 
 of Abraham and Elizabeth (Cartwright) Haigh, 
 both of whom were natives of the same place in 
 which our subject was born, where they lived 
 and died. Mr. Haigh was but a child when his 
 mother died, and his father was engaged in the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 503 
 
 woolen manufacturing business in England. The 
 boyhood days of our subject were spent at home 
 and received a liberal education in the common 
 schools and academies of his native land. His 
 school days, however, were cut short when he 
 was only twelve years of age, his father having 
 died one year previous to that. Mr. Haigh started 
 out in life for himself at the age of twelve years. 
 He commenced to work in the furnishing de- 
 partment of the woolen manufacturing business 
 and continued in that business for a few years 
 in the vicinity of his birthplace. At the age of 
 eighteen years he went to Devvsbury, England, and 
 again took up the same work which he had fol- 
 lowed the previous years at his old home; When 
 just past his twenty-first year, being of an ambi- 
 tious turn of mind, and desiring wider fields of 
 operation, he left his native home and sailed for 
 America in 1866, coming by the way of New York 
 Citv, and while in that city he came across some 
 of the Mormon emigrants and at once took up 
 with them. He started on his journey west in 
 company with Captain Thomas Ricks, to Utah, 
 who was captain of the train. They arrived 
 here in the fall of 1866 and Mr. Haigh at once 
 settled west of the Jordan river, where he has 
 continued to make his home ever since. Having 
 been left an orphan when only a child and com- 
 pelled to make his own way through life, Re had 
 of necessity but little means on reaching this 
 new country, and the first year he worked out 
 by the month, and later secured employment for 
 two years in the woolen factory at the mouth of 
 Parley's canyon, when he became interested in 
 the stock business, more especially in sheep, and 
 continued at that successfully for a few years, 
 working at the same time in the factory. Suc- 
 cess has followed the efforts of Mr. Haigh all 
 through his life in Utah, and he has been instru- 
 mental in building up the Taylorsville Ward 
 having erected several fine houses, and his pres- 
 ent home is a beautiful brick residence situated 
 on the Taylorsville road. 
 
 For a number of years Mr. Haigh ranged his 
 stock in Utah, but in 1879 he removed his herds 
 to Wyoming, which has been the seat of opera- 
 tion ever since. He is largely interested in the 
 Taylorsville Live Stock Company, which is 
 
 among one of the prominent successful corpora- 
 tions in this State. 
 
 Mr. Haigh was married in Salt Lake City, 
 December 6th, 1869, to Miss Mary Ann Harker 
 daughter of Joseph and Susannah (Sneath) 
 Harker. Her parents came to Utah in 1847. 
 David E. Haigh and Mary Alice Haigh are two 
 adopted children of our subject. David is at 
 present a student in the University of Michigan, 
 having spent last year in Cornell University. 
 David has served on a mission to Germany and 
 visited Geneva and all of the prominent cities of 
 Europe, and he is at present preparing himself 
 for the practice of the law. Little Mary .Alice 
 is at home. 
 
 Our subject joined the Mormon Church in 
 1866, and has ever been one of its staunch and 
 liberal supporters. At present he is serving as 
 Second Counsel to Bishop Heber Bennion of his 
 Ward. Mr. Haigh served on a mission for his 
 church in England from January 5th, 1879, to 
 1 88 1. For many years he was Ward Clerk, but 
 resigned that position on account of his many 
 other duties. At present he is Assistant Sunday 
 School Superintendent. 
 
 In politics Mr. Haigh has always been a 
 staunch Republican, thoroughly believing in 
 the principles and following the fortunes of that 
 party. In 1898 he was nominated for County 
 Commissioner by his party, but the Republican 
 party was unsuccessful that year, and he failed 
 to be elected. 
 
 His wife has always taken a prominent and 
 leading part in the work of the Church, and es- 
 pecially in the Relief Societies. 
 
 MOS H. NEFF. Numberless inci- 
 dents have been related of the hard- 
 ships and the sufferings and un- 
 daunted determination which charac- 
 terized the first settlement of this 
 State by the Mormons, but it must not be for- 
 gotten that the trials and sufferings of this peo- 
 ple did not begin with their entrance into Utah, 
 nor yet with the journey across the great Ameri- 
 can plains, though the pathway was strewn with 
 many graves whose location is to-day unknown 
 and in many instances forgotten. From the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 birth of this religion it has been the object of 
 persecution at the hands of those who were not 
 in sympathy with its teachings, and many of 
 those now Hving here participated in the battles 
 which took place between the citizens of the 
 places in which the Church sought to establish 
 itself and the defenders of the Church. Among 
 this number is the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Amos H. Neff was born in Lancaster county, 
 Pennsylvania, May 20, 1825, and there his father 
 and mother, John and Mary (Barr) Neff were 
 also born. The family were originally natives 
 of Germany, but came to America at an early 
 day, John Neff's father, John, Senior, being also 
 born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. John 
 Xeflf, Junior, was for many years a distiller in 
 the county in which he was born, and also spec- 
 ulated larsrely in real estate, owning several 
 farms, and at the time of leaving that State 
 was a very wealthy man. In 1846 he sold all 
 his property, with the exception of two farms, 
 which he retained up to the time of his death, 
 In that year he moved, with his wife and eight 
 children, to Xauvoo, Illinois, arriving there just 
 two weeks prior to the exodus of the Mormons 
 from that place, and he and his sons, Amos 
 Cyrus and Franklin, took an active part in the 
 battle which ensued between the citizens of Nau- 
 voo and the members of the Church at the time 
 the latter were driven from the State. The fam- 
 ily took up the long journey to Utah, going to 
 Winter Quarters and starting across the plains 
 in ox teams in the spring of 1847, their effects 
 consisting of four wagons, eight ox teams and 
 a horse and buesr}-. In this train Bates Noble 
 was Captain of fifty wagons, and our subject 
 was Captain of ten wagons. They arrived in 
 Salt Lake City October 2nd of that year, and 
 remained here during the winter. In the follow- 
 ing spring John Neff and his sons went to Mill 
 Creek, where they established what is still known 
 as the old Neff homestead. Here the senior Nefif 
 built a flour mill, which he operated for many 
 years, and was the first mill to grind and turn 
 out flour in Utah. In addition to his milling in- 
 terests, he also became largely identified in farm- 
 ing and cattle raising, and took a prominent part 
 in the development of the agricultural resources 
 
 of Salt Lake county, as well as advancing the in- 
 terests of the State in every way possible, and 
 was a well-known and influential man in the 
 early days of the history of Utah. Although 
 the mill which Mr. Neff built is not now in ex- 
 istence, the place is still known as Neff's Mills. 
 At this time a number of elegant residences and 
 a large grove of fine shade trees adorn the spot 
 where the mill once stood. John Neff came to 
 LTtah a wealthy man, and throughout his life 
 was noted for his liberality and his charity, many 
 of tlie residents of the State to-day having cause 
 to remember him with gratitude. He scattered 
 his wealth broadcast among his people, and with 
 his family was a liberal and devoted father, giv- 
 ing them every comfort that money could pur- 
 chase in those days, and establishing his chil- 
 dren in their own homes. He died in 1869, and 
 his wife survived him six years. Amos H. Neff 
 was the second son of John Neff, and his broth- 
 ers having learned the milling business, he had 
 to assume the care of his father's outside busi- 
 ness interests and look after his financial affairs. 
 In the sprin? of 1848 he went back across the 
 plains to the Missouri river, and from there to 
 Philadelphia, in company with a small company 
 of thirteen persons, four of whom were women, 
 his wife being amonar the number. The day be- 
 fore they reached the Missouri river five of their 
 horses were frozen to death. He purchased a 
 stock of goods in Philadelphia, which he shipped 
 to Council Bluflfs, and from there freighted them 
 by ox teams across the plains to Utah. Upon 
 arriving here with his cargo he opened the goods 
 in an adobe house belonging to his father, and 
 which is still standing, and sold the goods di- 
 rectly from the boxes in which they were shipped. 
 This is the first merchandise store of which there 
 is any record in Utah. Since that time he has 
 made a number of trips to the East, traveling on 
 the railroads, and after the death of his father 
 went to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and dis- 
 posed of the two farms which his father owned 
 in that place. 
 
 'Sir. Neff was married, in the Old Fort, in Salt 
 Lake City, in the spring of 1848, to Miss Martha 
 A. Gillworth, daughter of Caleb and Eliza Gill- 
 worth. The Gillworth family were also natives 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 505 
 
 of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Neff being born in Chester 
 county of that State. Mr. Neff later married 
 two other wives, each wife bearing him seven 
 children, of whom seventeen are now living. He 
 is a firm believer in the tenets of the Mormon 
 Church, having been baptized into membership 
 of that Church in the Missouri river, at Winter 
 Quarters, at the age of twenty-two years, a hole 
 being cut in the ice to allow the ceremony to 
 be performed. It was in conformity with the 
 teachings of this Church that he made his plural 
 marriages, and after the passage of the Edmunds- 
 Tucker act he was arrested for violation of that 
 law and served a sentence of a year in the peni- 
 tentiary for unlawful cohabitation. Mr. Neff's 
 residence has always been in the same yard where 
 his father built his first house, and there he owns 
 a fine farm of forty acres, which he has well im- 
 proved and under a high state of cultivation. On 
 this property he has a fine orchard, and has built 
 himself a beautiful and commodious brick resi- 
 dence. His home is considered one of the love- 
 liest in that section of the county. In addition 
 to this place he also owns another fine farm of 
 eighty-five acres. 
 
 In politics he and his sons are all staunch be- 
 lievers in the principles of the Republican party, 
 and are also firm adherents of the Mormon faith, 
 and have ever been foremost in the work of that 
 Church, holding positions of honor and trust. In 
 1869 Mr. Neff was called to England on a mis- 
 sion, and served in that field fifteen months. His 
 son Amos A. has served on a mission to West 
 Virginia, as has also his son Cyrus ; David served 
 on a mission to the Society Islands, and Samuel 
 is now on a mission to New York City. Mr. Neff 
 is a member of the Seventies. 
 
 Mr. Neff belongs to one of the oldest and best- 
 known families of this State, and has done much 
 for the advancement of the agricultural and other 
 interests of Utah. He has made a record as a 
 man of high business principles, veracity and in- 
 tegrity, and his genial and pleasant manner, to- 
 gether with his broad-minedness and his adher- 
 ence to the principles which he believes to be 
 right, have won for him the confidence and re- 
 spect of those with whom he has been associ- 
 ated through life. 
 
 l.I.|.\H E. ELLISON. Although he 
 has not yet reached middle age, the 
 ;j;cntleman whose name heads this ar- 
 ticle is already known throughout the 
 State of Utah as one of the leading 
 fancy stock raisers in the State. He has been 
 in this business for the past ten years, and at 
 this time owns one of the finest stock farms in 
 Davis county, located a mile and a half west 
 of the Layton postoffice, where he has one hun- 
 dred and thirty acres of valuable land, and on 
 which he keeps the most of his blooded animals. 
 He also has a one-third interest in a four-thou- 
 sand-acre farm in Rich county. 
 
 Mr. Ellison was born at Kaysville, Davis 
 county, on August i, 1857, where he was raised, 
 and received his education in the common schools. 
 He is a son of John and Alice (Pilling) Ellison, 
 a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. 
 His home place is well improved, with a fine 
 house and many spacious barns and sheds, 
 and he devotes his entire attention to the 
 breeding of fine cattle, sheep and hogs. 
 He has many Short Horn cattle, Cotswold 
 sheep and Poland China hogs, his herds 
 containing as good stock as there is to be found 
 in the United States. Some of his sheep and 
 cattle have been selected from the leading strains 
 of the world ; his sheep from England and the 
 cattle from Scotland. He also has some sheep 
 which he imported from Ontario, Canada. Each 
 year he fattens up a herd of steers for the mar- 
 ket ; this year he is feeding thirty head. He is 
 also an importer of Poland China hogs, and he 
 has been importing various kinds of fine stock 
 for the past ten years, and has made a pronounced 
 success of the business. Five hundred dollars 
 was refused by Mr. Ellison for a Scotch Short 
 Horn bull calf, which he had on exhibition at the 
 National Live Stock Convention, held in Salt 
 Lake City January, 1901. He is now heading his 
 herd with this very fine bred animal. 
 
 In politics Mr. Ellison is a Republican ; he is 
 a School Trustee in his district, in which a nine- 
 thousand-dollar school house is now in course of 
 erection. Both he and his wife were born and 
 raised in the Mormon Church, and all their chil- 
 dren are being brouglit up in the same faith. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He is a Sunday School teacher, and was ordained 
 High Priest and set apart as Second Counselor 
 to Bishop Layton, of Layton Ward, in ]\Iarch, 
 1893, at the time the Ward was organized. 
 
 He was married, in Salt Lake City, on January 
 18, 1874, to Miss Harriette E. Morgan, a daugh- 
 ter of Joseph and Hannah Morgan. They have 
 had seven childrei> five of whom are still living 
 — John E., died at the age of fourteen months ; 
 Delbert M. ; Jennie A. ; Glen E. ; Joseph E., died 
 .at the age of fourteen months ; Parley M., and 
 the baby, not yet named. 
 
 AAIES GODFREY. No country in the 
 world has furnished as many success- 
 ful self-made men as America. Since 
 the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers this 
 country has been teeming with men of 
 this character ; men possessed of strong and de- 
 termined minds which no obstacle could check 
 and no difficulty thwart. Among the successful 
 men of Salt Lake county who have risen under 
 some of the most trying and difficult circum- 
 stances, should be noted the subject of this 
 article. 
 
 Mr. Godfrey was born in Sommersetshire, 
 England, January 5, 1840, and is the son of 
 Charles and Caroline (Trott) Godfrey. His 
 paternal grandfather was also Charles Godfrey. 
 When our subject was but two and a half years 
 old his father died; his mother died in 1882. He 
 spent his early life on a farm, being the youngest 
 of seven children. He remained with his mother 
 until grown to manhood. In 1864 she, with her 
 son, started for America. An older brother had 
 settled in Utah in 1853 and helped to build the 
 first house in Cache valley ; he died in 1868. All 
 the rest of the children are dead, except the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. The mother and son crossed 
 the ocean in the sailing vessel Hudson and 
 reached New York at the time the great Civil 
 War was in progress and travel was most diffi- 
 cult and hard. They oftentimes rode in cattle 
 cars covered with filth and were compelled to do 
 their own transferring, and the trip was a long 
 and circuitous one. From New York they trav- 
 eled through Canada, then by way of Bufifalo, 
 
 Chicago and Saint Joseph, and finally joined 
 the Mormon train of ox teams in Nebraska, 
 arriving in Salt Lake City on October 27th of 
 that year, making a journey of over five months. 
 In the sailing vessel in which they crossed the 
 Atlantic Ocean there were eleven hundred pas- 
 sengers, nine hundred and ten of this number 
 being bound for Utah. Soon after our subject 
 and his mother reached Utah they located in 
 South Cottonwood Ward, and he at once went 
 to work hauling lumber and wood from the 
 canyons during the fall and winter. 
 
 The next fall our subject began in the freight- 
 ing business, and freighted from L'^tah to Cali- 
 fornia with a four-mule team which he owned. 
 This proved very successful ; on one trip alone 
 he cleared over one thousand dollars ; this was 
 from the profits made on flour hauled to Helena, 
 Montana, flour in Helena being worth at that 
 time fifteen dollars per hundred pounds. His 
 train was the second ever to cross the Eagle 
 Rock Bridge. The next summer Mr. Godfrey 
 took a contract to herd the Ward stock. In 
 May of that year he was called to serve in the 
 Black Hawk War, and had completed his outfit 
 which consisted of a horse, saddle, bridle, etc., 
 at a cost of three hundred dollars, when he was 
 taken sick and had to abandon the call. He, 
 however, furnished a substitute, a man who was 
 working for him taking his place and serving 
 during the Black Hawk War, for which Mr. 
 Godfrey paid him forty dollars per month all 
 summer, in addition to furnishing his outfit. 
 After Mr. Godfrey had recovered from this at- 
 tack he became, in a small way, interested in 
 cattle and sheep, and started in Silver Creek ; 
 he had, however, only been there for a short 
 time when the Indians swooped down and stole 
 nearly all of his cattle and sheep. He then 
 turned out to fight Indians, and after driving 
 them out of his section of the country, returned 
 home and purchased a farm about two miles 
 from where he now lives. After he had put 
 in his crop that spring and had everything nicely 
 started, the grasshoppers came along and de- 
 stroyed his prospects for that year. Mr. God- 
 frey was determined not to be overcome by these 
 obstacles, and he then went to work on the Union 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Pacific Railroad, where he took a contract and 
 worked until the next year, earning sufficient 
 money to enable him to aeain start in the cattle 
 and sheep business in a small way. This he did 
 and has been successfully identified with that 
 business ever since. He lived on this farm for 
 two years, and then purchased the place where 
 he now lives, which originally belonged to one 
 of his brothers. This is located east of Mur- 
 ray, about three-quarters of a mile. Since then 
 he has purchased other land, which he has joined 
 onto this farm, making in all one hundred acres. 
 He also owns two more adjoining farms, where 
 he has one hundred acres. He also owns a num- 
 ber of tenant houses and twenty-one acres just 
 east of his home. His home place is finely im- 
 proved; he has built a splendid house, outbuild- 
 ings, fences, etc., and it is considered one of the 
 best farms in the county. Mr. Godfrey has also 
 devoted much time and money in mining. Min- 
 ing, however, has not been his sphere, and has 
 not been as successful as the cattle and sheep 
 business to him. In 1868 he became interested 
 in the South Cottonwood Co-operative Store, 
 which he for many years took an active inter- 
 est in. He later became identified with the Peo- 
 ple's Store of South Cottonwood. This, how- 
 ever, did not prove successful, as the stockhold- 
 ers lost over five thousand dollars, and Mr. God- 
 frey lost over twenty-five hundred on account 
 of bad debts. 
 
 Mr. Godfrey married, in South Cottonwood, 
 to the widow of one of his brothers. Seven 
 children were born, and the mother died in 1878. 
 She had four children by her first husband. He 
 married his second wife December 23, 1880, 
 Miss Fannie A. Jones, daughter of James and 
 Anna (Brooks) Jones. This family came to 
 Utah in 1878. Mr. Godfrey has had eleven 
 children by this second marriage, ten of whom 
 are living — Fannie A. ; Horace T. ; John A. ; 
 died in infancy; Dorah L. ; Bertha J.; James 
 C. ; Ellen M. ; Sidney R. ; Wilford E. ; Silver 
 and Zina. 
 
 In political life our subject has always been 
 a staunch Republican. For many years he has 
 been Trustee of the school in his Ward, and 
 has assisted in building four school houses in 
 
 Utah. He and his family are members of the 
 Mormon Church, he being baptized in 1864 by 
 Elder Willis Miller. He has always taken an 
 active and prominent part in the aflfairs of the 
 Church. He was first ordained an Elder and 
 later a Seventy, and for many years was Presi- 
 dent of the Quorum of Seventies in his Stake. 
 He has also been largely interested in the Sunday 
 School work, and for many years has been Su- 
 perintendent in that department in the South 
 Cottonwood Ward. He was First President of 
 the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associa- 
 tion, and also President of the Lesser Priesthood 
 for many years, as well as looking after the 
 fast-books or poor fund of the Church in his 
 Ward, which he did for twenty-one years. He 
 has served on missions for his Church in this 
 country, being in the Northern States when Pres- 
 ident Garfield was assassinated in 1881. He was 
 relieved, however, before his term expired, on 
 account of ill health. 
 
 Mr. Godfrey has demonstrated, by his straight- 
 forward business principles through life, that 
 success will finally come to the one who has 
 courage, energj' and perseverance, and no man. 
 in his county is held in greater esteem than is he. 
 
 DW.\RD WEI5B. In the settling and 
 developing of Utah she has drawn 
 from the reserve forces of nearly every 
 State in the Union, as well as frorn 
 every land under the shining sun. 
 Among the States which have furnished a large 
 quota of her noble sons to this country is Mis- 
 souri, where the subject of this sketch, Edward 
 Webb, was born, in the county of Davis, April 
 15, 1838. He is the son of Chauncy G. and Eliza 
 Jane (Churchill) Webb, who were natives of the 
 State of New York, his father having been born 
 in 1812. They were married in New York, where 
 they lived for a number of years and engaged in 
 farming. In 1839. during the early history of 
 Illinois, they settled in that State, locating in 
 Quincy, where they resided for a number of 
 years. They later moved to Nauvoo, remain- 
 ing there until the exodus of the Mormons, when 
 they accompanied the first train to Winter Quar- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ters. Like many others in the Mormon Church 
 at that time, they were limited in financial means, 
 and the senior Mr. Webb was compelled to re- 
 turn to Missouri to earn enough money to secure 
 an outfit with which he could cross the plains to 
 Utah, which he succeeded in doing, and in the 
 spring of 1848 he came with the second train 
 of Brigham Young's company to cross the plains, 
 and arrived in Salt Lake City in September of 
 that year. The family took up their residence 
 in the city, and later secured farming land in 
 the vicinity, which they improved and beauti- 
 fied, our subject's father, however, always main- 
 taining a city home. He was instrumental in as- 
 sisting to colonize Utah county. In 1852 he was 
 called by the heads of the Church to serve on a 
 mission to England, which he did, spending four 
 years in that work, and through his instrumen- 
 tality a great many converts were secured. Upon 
 returning home it became necessary for him to 
 stop in Florence and assist in building hand- 
 carts, which the Mormon emigrants could use 
 in crossing the plains. With his own hands he 
 built two hundred and six of these vehicles, and 
 returned home in the fall of 1856, ahead of the 
 hand-cart brigade. Soon after arriving in Salt 
 Lake, Brigham Youn? again chose him to return 
 and meet the hand-cart train, which he did, his 
 son Edward, the subject of this sketch, accom- 
 panying him. When they had proceeded about 
 three hundred and fifty miles the weather be- 
 came extremely cold, and Edward was badly 
 frozen, and as the result of this he lost one toe, 
 which was amputated by his father with a pocket 
 knife. The following winter Brigham Young 
 took these hand-carts and put them in service 
 for carrying the mails between Salt Lake City 
 and the Missouri river. The next year our sub- 
 ject's father was sent to Chicago to assist in 
 building wagons for the emigrants. During the 
 troublesome scenes of 1857, when Johnston's 
 army landed in Utah, the senior Mr. Webb was 
 called home. He later engaged in the stock busi- 
 ness, which he followed for the balance of his 
 life. 
 
 Our subject was the second oldest child in a 
 family of three ; his early life was spent on a farm, 
 and his education was received in the common 
 
 schools of Salt Lake City, such as existed at that 
 time. In 1858 he led to the marriage altar Miss 
 Harrietta Demming. His first wife only lived 
 eighteen months. In 1862 he married for his sec- 
 ond wife Miss Elizabeth A. Horn, daughter of 
 Joseph and Isabella Horn. By this marriage 
 twelve children were born, three of whom are 
 living — Elizabeth L., now the wife of J. H. Horn- 
 ing, who resides in Sanpete, Utah ; his son Ed-' 
 win is engaged in the stock business in Idaho, 
 as is his son Walter. Their mother died in 18884 
 Mr. Webb again married, in December, 1896, to 
 Miss Eda Turner, daughter of William and Ann 
 (Thompson) Turner. Mr. Webb has spent al- 
 most his entire life in L^tah, fifteen years of which 
 were spent in Millard county. He has been iden- 
 tified with the stock business, both cattle and 
 sheep, and in general farming ever since he 
 started out for himself. During the early days 
 he was engaged in freighting, he and his brother 
 hauling grain from this valley to the out-lying 
 market, and they also had a stage line. This 
 business proved successful, as well as the other 
 enterprises with which Mr. Webb has been con- 
 nected. In 1897 he settled in his present home, 
 which was formerly the old home of his father. 
 He has greatly improved it, having built a splen- 
 did brick residence and owning a good farm of 
 twenty-three acres. In addition to his farming 
 and cattle business, he is also sexton of the South 
 Cottonwood Ward Cemetery, which occupies a 
 portion of his time. 
 
 In politics he has been identified with the Re- 
 publican party ever since its formation in this 
 State. He and his wife are both faithful and 
 deserving members of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints. He was ordained a Sev- 
 enty, and his wife assists in the Ladies' Reliei 
 Society. 
 
 ARSHEL HELM. Whether en- 
 gaged in the improvement of farms, 
 building of school houses, attending 
 to Church matters or the general 
 improvement of the country, no one 
 has taken a more prominent and active part along 
 these lines or performed the work more faithfully 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 509 
 
 and well than has the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Marshel Helm was born in Sandusky county, 
 Ohio, September 26, 1847. He is the son of 
 Abraham and Mary (Richard) Helm. His 
 father was born in Pennsylvania, and his mother 
 in Germany. Our subject's father lived in Ohio, 
 where he engaged in farming and the stock busi- 
 ness, until 1855, when he and Phillip Garns went 
 to Mormon Grove, where they fitted out an ox 
 team preparatory to crossing the plains to Utah, 
 under Captain Moses Thurston. After a long 
 and tedious trip across the plains, they arrived 
 in Salt Lake City on September 28, 1855. After 
 remaining about three days in Salt Lake City, 
 they located in the Mill Creek Ward, where our. 
 subject has resided ever since, between Fifteenth 
 and Sixteenth South streets, one-quarter of a mile 
 west of State street. Here Abraham Helm pur- 
 chased his first farm, and later purchased and im- 
 proved several other farms. The family later 
 moved to Spanish Fork, where they continued to 
 live until the advent of Johnston's army to LUah, 
 when, under the direction of President Brigham 
 Young, they were called home. After returning 
 from Spanish Fork, they again took up their res- 
 idence in Mill Creek \\'ard, where the father died, 
 October 26, 1894. 
 
 Our subject remained at home with his father 
 until after his marriage, which occurred on Janu- 
 ary 16, 1879, when he led to the marriage altar 
 Miss Margaret Mitchell, daughter of Benjamin 
 and Levina (Buckwalter) Mitchell, one of the 
 earliest families in Utah, our subject's wife hav- 
 ing been born in Utah county. Mrs. Helm's 
 father was a pioneer of 1847, and was a promi- 
 nent man of affairs, in both Church and State, 
 during the early days. He took a very active 
 part in the construction of the Temple, and had 
 charge of the workmen for a number of years. 
 While engaged in this work he sacrificed his 
 health, through his having inhaled stone and 
 steel dust, which ultimately caused his death, 
 which occurred in 1880, at the age of sixty-nine 
 years. As the result of this marriage eight chil- 
 dren have been born, four of whom are now 
 living — Martha L., died at the age of nine 
 months ; :Matilda ; Marshel O., died at the age of 
 eighteen months ; Margaret D., died at the age 
 
 of two and a half years ; Thaddeus ; Phillip R. ; 
 Laura F. ; Rilla L., and Joseph B., who died at 
 five months of age. For five years our subject 
 lived south of his old home place, which he im- 
 proved and which he still owns. In 1883 he pur- 
 chased his present place, which is situated be- 
 tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth South, near the 
 county road. This place contains nine acres of 
 valuable land, which has been greatly improved 
 since Mr. Helm took hold of it ; he having built 
 a splendid home, set out fruit, forest and shade 
 trees, etc. 
 
 Our subject has always been identified along 
 the lines of general farming, and is now con- 
 sidered one of the prosperous and successful 
 farmers of Salt Lake county. In addition to the 
 other places mentioned, he also owns twenty 
 acres of land on State street, between Fourteenth 
 and Fifteenth South streets. In politics he has 
 been identified with the Democratic party ever 
 since its organization in this State. He has 
 taken an active part along this line, and especially 
 in school matters. He has assisted in erecting 
 four new school houses in the vicinities where he 
 has lived, and for many years has been Trustee 
 and President of the Board. He has also taken 
 an active part in Church work, being ordained 
 a member of the Seventies. Mrs. Helm has also 
 taken an active part in the work of the Church, 
 being prominent in the Relief Societies, and has 
 done her share in relieving the needs of the 
 worthy poor. Air. Helm, although starting out 
 in life on his own hook, has thoroughly demon- 
 strated his ability to handle and control success- 
 fully the different lines he has operated, and is 
 now considered one of the successful and promi- 
 nent farmers of the county. Few men in this 
 countv are more honored and respected than 
 is he. 
 
 XDREW SHULSEN. Among the 
 worthy citizens of Salt Lake county 
 who have achieved success in this life 
 by undaunted energy, courage and de- 
 termination, should be mentioned the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 Andrew Shulsen was 1x)rn near Kongsburg, 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in Norway, on September 4, 1842, and is the son 
 of Olson and Margreta (Halverson) Shulsen, 
 who were both natives of Norway, and lived and 
 died in that country. Our subject left home at 
 an early age, and spent his boyhood days on a 
 farm near Christiana. He later learned the mill- 
 ing business, spending three years in learning 
 that trade. He sailed for America in 1863. land- 
 ing in New York City. From New York City 
 he traveled to Saint Joseph by railroad, and from 
 that place to Omaha by boat, joining the Mor- 
 mon emigrants who were leaving that place for 
 Utah, and coming across the plains in the train 
 under the command of Captain John Murdock, 
 making the journey across the country by ox 
 team. He arrived in Salt Lake City on August 
 29th of that year, and at once went out to Silver 
 creek, where he secured work on the road, and 
 remained there for three months. At the end of 
 that time he removed to Cottonwood, where he 
 lived for some time, and from there moved to 
 Draper, where he remained for three years, and 
 then returned to Cottonwood. In 1868 and 1869 
 he went to work on the railroad, and followed 
 that occupation until he bought his present farm 
 of eighty acres on the Redwood road, in School 
 District Twenty-one, and has resided there ever 
 since. 
 
 Mr. Shulsen was married, on November 28, 
 1870, to Mrs. Hanna Johnson, daughter of John 
 Peterson. Her parents were natives of Sweden, 
 and her father died in that country, her mother 
 coming to America and dying here in 1901. By 
 this marriage they have had nine children, eight 
 of whom are still living. They are: John Wil- 
 liam ; Heber Albert ; Margarette ; Orson Edwin ; 
 Alice ; Alma David, who died on November 19. 
 1899, his death being caused by a live electric 
 wire; Millie; James Alfred, and Hyrum. Air. 
 Shulsen was baptized into the Mormon Church 
 in June, 1862, but has claimed no membership 
 in that Church since 1872. He has not, however, 
 attempted to bias the minds of his children 
 against this faith, but believes in allowing eacii 
 one to choose for themselves in religious, as other 
 matters, and has ever been a kind and devoted 
 husband and father. 
 
 In political life our subject is a Republican, 
 
 but while taking an active interest in the affairs 
 of his party, he has never held any public office 
 in the gift of the people, giving his entire time 
 to his business affairs. In addition to the first 
 eighty acres of land which Mr. Shulsen bought, 
 he has invested in other lands, and at this time 
 owns two hundred and forty acres. When he 
 first began farming his place was a barren piece 
 of land, uncultivated, and for many years he 
 lived in a little shanty, twelve by fourteen feet 
 long. He has devoted his whole time to improv- 
 ing his land, and by dint of hard work, untiring 
 industry and undaunted determination, has suc- 
 cessfully overcome every difficulty, and to-day 
 he has one of the best farms to be found in this 
 county. As he got more means he improved his 
 living room, building a house a little larger and 
 more comfortable than his first abode, and now 
 has a beautiful thirteen-room brick residence, 
 whieli he built in 1896, and which is modern in 
 every respect and comfortably furnished. His 
 place is well improved, with good barns, out- 
 buildings, hedges, etc., and is one of the prettiest 
 places to be found in that locality. 
 
 Mr. Shulsen has not confined himself entirely 
 to the improving of his own home, but has taken 
 a substantial interest in the aft'airs of his com- 
 munity, and was largely instrumental in getting 
 the South Jordan Canal built, which has been 
 of so much benefit to the farmers of that section. 
 He is also active in educational matters, giving 
 much of his time and attention to the bettering 
 of the educational facilities of his Ward, and is 
 held in high esteem by those with whom he has 
 come in contact. He has made his own way in 
 the world, and has risen to his present high po- 
 sition through the exercise of his own ability and 
 by dint of hard work and a high courage, and is 
 well and favorably known in his neighborhood. 
 
 OHX J. SMITH, clerk of the Davis 
 Stake of Zion, was born in England on 
 April 16, 1840, and came to the United 
 States with his father, mother, brother 
 and sister in 1854. He is the son of 
 Henry and Susanna (Jex) Smith, both natives 
 of England. The Smiths settled down in Brook- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAE RECORD. 
 
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 lyn. and remained there until June, 1862, when 
 they joined an ox train at Florence, Nebraska, 
 which was commanded by Captain Henry ^liller, 
 and reached Salt Lake City in October of that 
 year. The family lived for awhile at Center- 
 ville, and then moved to Xorth Ogden, where 
 ihey stayed until the spring of 1867. Then the 
 whole family, except John J. and his brother 
 William, went back east to the State of Iowa. 
 The father die'd in Iowa in .August, 1868, but 
 Mrs. Smith, with her two daughters and one son, 
 still lives there. 
 
 Our subject has made his home in Centerville 
 since comine to Utah, excepting two or three 
 years, when he was in dilYerent parts of the 
 State. He is a gardener, but was in the mining 
 business for some years. He was married, in 
 Centerville, in October, 1863, to Ruth Dewhurst, 
 and has a pleasant home there. They had one 
 child. Ida. who is now Mrs. Harold Smith, and 
 lives at Centerville. Mrs. Smith, the wife of 
 our subject, died in March, 1868, and Mr. Smith 
 married again in October, 1870. His second wife 
 was Jane Theckston. She bore him seven chil- 
 dren, all of whom are still living. The children 
 by the second wife are : Martha, now Mrs. Page, 
 of Layton; Sabina; Rhoda ; Leo X.; John t. ; 
 Jenette, and Luella. 
 
 In politics 'Sir. Smith is a Democrat. He and 
 all his family are staunch adherents of the Mor- 
 mon Church. He himself was baptized in the 
 faith in England, when he was only nine years 
 old. He became Second Counselor to Bishop A. 
 B. Porter in 1888, and is now First Counselor 
 to the Bishop of Centerville Ward, and has been 
 Clerk of Davis Stake since 1892. In 1868 Mr. 
 Smith drove four yoke of oxen to North Platte, 
 Nebraska, and returned with emigrants. He has 
 been Ward Teacher and Ward Clerk for twenty 
 years. His son John F. is now serving on a 
 mission in Florida. The Smiths are bringing up 
 Maud Theckston, his wife's brother's child, whose 
 mother died when she was a baby. 
 
 Mr. Smith is a self-educated man, and he 
 keeps abreast of the times by reading and close 
 observation. He has had to make his own way 
 in the world since he was a boy. In his 
 earlv life in LTtah he had to take whatever work 
 
 worked as a farm hand, and, indeed, was never 
 above doing anything that was honorable and 
 honest. In this way, by patience and persever- 
 ance, he has made himself a happy home and 
 has a sufficiency of this world's goods to keep 
 his family in comfort. 
 
 AROLD P. JENNINGS. Davis coun- 
 ty has rightly been called the garden 
 spot of Utah. While it is one of the 
 smallest counties in the State, it is un- 
 doubtedly one of, if not, indeed, the 
 very richest, yielding a superior cjuality of both 
 fruits and vegetables, and noted also as a rich 
 grazing country. The eye of the traveler is de- 
 lighted by the evidences of prosperity spread out 
 on every hand ; thrifty and well-kept farms and 
 fruit orchards, dotted over with pretty and com- 
 fortable farm houses ; an abundance of shade 
 trees, flowers and well-kept yards, testifying to 
 the beauty-loving nature of the owners of these 
 places. It is amid such surroundings that we find 
 the home of Harold P. Jennings, one of the 
 younger generation of farmers and stock raisers, 
 whose farm is in the vicinity of Centerville. 
 
 Mr. Jennings was born in Salt Lake City De- 
 cember 26, 1875, ^nd 's ^ SO" of William and 
 Priscilla (Paul) Jennings. William Jennings 
 was one of the most prominent and noteworthy 
 men in the history of the early life of the Mor- 
 mon Church and the State of Utah. He was 
 born in Birmingham, England, emigrating to the 
 United States after reaching manhood, and en- 
 gaging for a few years in the cattle business in 
 the Eastern States, coming to Utah in 1850, and 
 from that time forth, until his death in 1886, 
 was one of the foremost men of Salt Lake City 
 and vicinity, promoting and carrying to success- 
 ful completion vast financial, mercantile and ag- 
 ricultural enterprises. He became well known 
 throughout the State, and built a career which 
 will stand as a monument to his memory for 
 many generations yet to come, and which can 
 but be an inspiration and help to all who peruse 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 presented itself. He lumbered in the canyons, 
 the story of his life, which will be found in a 
 more complete form in another part of this work. 
 
 Our subject was reared in Salt Lake City, and 
 obtained his scholastic education from the insti- 
 tutions of that place. He remained in Salt Lake 
 until 1900, at which time he came to Davis 
 county, and estal)lished himself on a three-hun- 
 dred-acre farm which had at one time belonged 
 to his father, but which the senior Mr. Jennings 
 had never occupied. It is Mr. Jennings' inten- 
 tion to confine himself wholly to blooded stock, 
 and with this end in view he is rapidly stocking 
 his place with fine imported animals, having at 
 this time some of the most valuable Short Horns 
 in Utah, and is in a fair way to become one of 
 the leading men of the State in his particular 
 line. His farm is situated fourteen miles from 
 the City of Salt Lake, and is in an ideal loca- 
 tion for his purposes. He has made some very 
 valuable improvements upon the place, building 
 a comfortable home, good barns, outbuildings, 
 etc., and has it under an excellent system of irri- 
 gation. 
 
 He was married, in Salt Lake City, in 1895, 
 to Miss Clara Sanders, daughter of William and 
 Leona Sanders. One child has been born of this 
 union, Harold Sanders, now four years of age. 
 
 In religious belief he is an adherent of the 
 Mormon Church, whose teachings have been in- 
 stilled into his mind from earliest infancy, and 
 in which his mother is at this time a prominent 
 worker. His wife is also a member of this 
 Church. He received a call to go on a mission 
 in 1897, and served two years in Great Britain, 
 laboring during that time in London, Lincoln, 
 Nottingham and the central part of England 
 His mission was a very successful one, and he 
 made a number of converts to the Mormon re- 
 ligion. 
 
 He has never given much attention to 
 politics, his time being absorbed by his 
 Church work and the duties of his farm. 
 While he is still a very young man, not 
 yet thirty years of age, Mr. Jennings gives 
 strong evidence of having inherited his fa- 
 ther's wonderful business and executive ability, 
 and his friends confidently predict a brilliant ca- 
 
 reer for him. He is of a most pleasing person- 
 ality, genial, frank and open-hearted, and has a 
 knack of winning and retaining the friendship 
 and confidence of those with whom he is brought 
 in contact, and easily stands among the front 
 ranks of the rising young business men of this 
 State. 
 
 ( )nX P. BENSON is one of the suc- 
 cessful and substantial men of Davis 
 cijunty, and has been closely identified 
 witli the upbuilding of that section, al- 
 most from its earliest period. 
 He was born in Sweetwater county, Wyoming, 
 September 24, 1849, the place of his birth having 
 been on the old trail, which the Mormons passed 
 over in their many trips to Utah. He is the son 
 of Ezra T. and Eliza A. (Perry) Benson, his 
 father having been born in Pottawatomie county, 
 Iowa, and his mother in Herefordshire, England. 
 Ezra T. Benson lived for a number of years in 
 Hancock county, Illinois, and was married in 
 Nauvoo. He came to Utah with the first pio- 
 neers, and in 1847 returned for his family, re- 
 turning to Salt Lake City with them in 1849. 
 Our subject was the second child of the second 
 wife of Mr. Benson, who raised six families, 
 Our subject's mother and her family came to 
 Bountiful in 1851, her parents having lived in 
 this vicinity at that time. The senior Mr. Ben- 
 son spent his time between Salt Lake City and 
 Cache Valley, where he was interested in stock 
 raising and farming. He died in Ogden in 1869, 
 and his wife, the mother of our subject, is still 
 living in Cache Vallev. Mr. Benson spent his 
 boyhood days on his grandmother's farm, in 
 South Bountiful, and his education was received 
 from the schools of that locality. 
 
 He started out to make his own way in life 
 at the time of his marriage, which occurred Oc- 
 tober 16, 1871, to Miss Eveline Hales, daughter 
 of Stephen and Eveline (Liddy) Hales. By this 
 marriage there were six children born — -Eveline 
 L., now Mrs. Horace Egan ; Millie, now Mrs. 
 John Egan; Inez, now Airs. Ephraim Briggs; 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 513 
 
 John P., a student in the Latter Day Saints' 
 Academy in Salt Lake City; Ezra T., and Pearl, 
 at school. Soon after his marriage Mr. Benson 
 settled on the place where he now lives, and 
 which he owns. It is located just across the 
 road from the splendid graded school and meet- 
 ing house. His first residence was a small brick- 
 house, where he continued to reside for several 
 years. That house has since given way to a 
 more substantial brick residence, which was de- 
 signed and constructed by IMr. Benson during 
 the past few years. His whole farm indicates 
 that thrifty hands have had it in charge. His 
 splendid barns and outbuildings, shade trees and 
 orchards all go to give it a fine appearance. The 
 home place comprises forty-nine acres, and be- 
 sides this he owns thirty-five acres in another 
 section, which is used for pasture land. While 
 Mr. Benson has given much of his time to the 
 improvement of his farm, he has also been largely 
 interested, outside of his farm, in stock, both 
 5heep and cattle. He is a large stockholder in 
 the Deseret Live Stock Company, and also in 
 the Bountiful Live Stock Company. In connec- 
 tion with his stock business, he has a good dairy 
 business. He is also a stockholder in the Woods 
 Cross Canning and Pickling Company. 
 
 In political affairs ]\Ir. Benson has always been 
 independent, preferring to follow his own judg- 
 ment in these matters, rather than the dictates 
 of any political party. He was born and raised 
 a member of the Mormon Church, as have the 
 members of his family also. He has ever been a 
 consistent and faithful follower of the doctrines 
 ■of that Church, and was called and set apart to 
 serve on a mission to England and Ireland in 
 1890, where he served for two years with entire 
 satisfaction to the heads of the Church. He was 
 ordained a High Priest, and is now Second Coun- 
 selor to Bishop Egan. For a number of years he 
 served as one of the Presidents of the Seventy- 
 fourth Quorum of Seventies. 
 
 Mr. Benson's long and honorable life in Utah 
 has won for him the confidence and respect of all 
 the people who have been associated with him in 
 private, business or Church work, and he has a 
 high standing in the community in which he 
 Jives. 
 
 ESSE E. MURPHY, one of the pros- 
 perous farmers of Salt Lake county, was 
 born in Union county, South Carolina, 
 on January 27, 1832. He is the son of 
 Emanuel M. and Nancy (Easters) Mur- 
 phy. His father was a native of Union county. 
 South Carolina, and his mother was born in Ches- 
 ter county, of the same State. Emanuel's father 
 was Mark ]\Iurphy, a native of South Carolina, 
 whose forefathers came to \'irginia from Great 
 Britain. Mark's father, Simeon, participated in 
 the Revolutionary War, fighting for the colonial 
 forces, and Simeon's father was the first of the 
 family to come to America, being kidnapped and 
 brought to the United States. Our subject came 
 to Utah in 1857. His early life had been spent 
 in South Carolina, and on coming to Utah he 
 turned his attention to farming. 
 
 En route to Saint Louis he married Miss Grace 
 Broadbent, on April 28, 1857. She was the 
 daughter of William and Mary Broadbent. Her 
 father was born in Lancashire, England, and her 
 mother was also a native of that country. By 
 this marriage our subject has seven children liv- 
 ing — William, now absent on a mission for the 
 Church in Ireland ; Mark, living in Granger 
 Ward ; Charles, in Sugar House Ward ; Hyrum, 
 at home; Etta, wife of Thomas H. Horn, of Salt 
 Lake City; Louise, now the wife of iMr. Gorf, 
 of Butte. Montana; Maude married Mr. Hovey, 
 of Salt Lake City. Our subject's second mar- 
 riage was to Elizabeth Sprawl, who died child- 
 less. He married a third time to Robina Sprawl, 
 sister of his second wife, who bore him four 
 children — Bird, living in Sugar House Ward ; 
 Frank, also in Sugar House Ward ; Mary, the 
 wife of John Norris, of the same Ward, and 
 Elizabeth, who died at the age of two years. The 
 present Mrs. Murphy was Miss Livona Murphy. 
 She is the mother of two children — Thomas, now 
 in Idaho, and Ella, a school teacher employed in 
 Salt Lake City. The son Bird was called on a 
 mission for the Church, and served in the South- 
 ern States for over two years. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Murphy moved to ]\Iill Creek, on 
 Thirteenth East, between Fourteenth and Fif- 
 teenth South, and built a fine, large, two-story 
 adobe house, and the homestead comprises thirty- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 five acres of land. It originally consisted of 
 eighty acres, but in the spring of 1901 he sold 
 forty-five acres of land. He was converted to 
 the teachings of the Mormon Church in the East. 
 and since coming here has taken an active part 
 in its work. From 1867 to 1869 he was absent 
 on a mission in the Southern States for the 
 Church, and has been a Teacher in his Ward for 
 the past twenty years. He is one of the largest 
 growers of berries in Salt Lake county, and ships 
 to the Salt Lake market and to the field tributary 
 to this city more berries in the season than per- 
 haps any other man in the county. 
 
 In politics ^Ir. Alurphy is a member of the 
 Democratic party, and has followed its fortunes 
 with unwavering devotion. 
 
 Mr. Alurphy was one of the pioneers who came 
 to Utah and settled in Salt Lake valley, and by 
 his work has built for himself a home out of the 
 wilderness. He came across the plains in a 
 wagon train under command of Captain Huffi- 
 ans. He was one of the prominent men in the 
 early days of the settlement of this region, and 
 made a trip in i860 to the Missouri river, and 
 successfully brought a train of emigrants to 
 Utah, among the members of which were his 
 father and mother. His father lived in the Salt 
 Lake Valley until his death, in 1872, and his 
 mother died in 1898. j\Ir. Murphy has three 
 brothers living in this State — Hyrum and Gaden, 
 living in Salina, and Emanuel B., living at Wood- 
 land, Utah. One of Mrs. Murphy's brothers, 
 William Broadbent, also lives in Salt Lake City, 
 and her brother Frank is a resident of Canada. 
 The work which Mr. Murphy has done and the 
 prominent part he has taken in the affairs of the 
 Church, marks him as one of the most prominent 
 men in the valley, and he enjoys the confidence 
 and esteem of all the leaders of the Church, in 
 addition to a wide popularity among the people 
 of Utah. Mr. Murphy was called as a guard 
 during the Johnston army troubles, and was one 
 of the men who went out to meet and escort Gov- 
 ernor Cummings from Fort Bridger to Salt Lake 
 City in carriages. 'Slv. Murphy has taken a part 
 in the troubles in the early days, and has always 
 been found ready to assist in any of the early 
 trouliles of his State. No man enjoys a more 
 
 popular reputation for honesty, integrity and citi- 
 zenship than does the subject of this sketch. 
 
 R. C. M. GARRISON. Utah has of- 
 fered many inducements to people of 
 the outside world to come to this coun- 
 try and take up their residence. Its 
 great mineral wealth has not been its 
 only attraction, bvit its balmy and life-giving at- 
 mosphere has been the means of many Eastern 
 people taking up their abode here, and thus, year 
 by year, the State has received new and valuable 
 recruits. It was the question of improving his 
 health which first put into the mind of Dr. C. M. 
 Garrison to cast his lot in the Bee-Hive State. 
 
 The ancestors of our subject came to America 
 and settled at Westchester, New York, before the 
 Revolution, and from there the great grand- 
 father of Dr. Garrison emigrated to Ulster 
 county, in the same State, at which place our 
 subject's father. Dr. Isaac Garrison, was born 
 He moved to Brockport, Monroe county. New 
 York, and there Dr. C. M. Garrison was born, 
 in 1858. The senior Dr. Garrison was a gradu- 
 ate of the Burlington, Vermont, Medical Col- 
 lege, and for many years was a practicing physi- 
 cian of Newburg, New York. He retired from 
 active practice after removing to Brockport. He 
 was prominent in scientific and medical circles, 
 and during his life stood at the head of his pro- 
 fession. He finally returned to Newburg, where 
 he spent the remainder of his life, and died in 
 1891, at the age of seventy-eight years. His 
 wife was Catherine A. Scott, a native of Orange 
 county, New York, and a descendant of the Scott 
 family which settled in the lower end of Long 
 Island in Revolutionary times. She came to Salt 
 Lake City in 1893, with her son, our subject, and 
 died here four years later. 
 
 Dr. Garrison's education was received from 
 the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he re- 
 ceived the degree of A. B. in 1879, and entered 
 the medical department of Columbia College in 
 1880, graduating with the degree of M. D. in 
 1884. He then went to Germany and Austria, 
 and continued his medical studies, and upon his 
 return took a complete hospital course at the 
 Chambers streets branch of the New York Hos- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 515 
 
 pital. He began the practice of his profession 
 on Thirty-fourth street, but later removed to 
 Thirty-eighth street, New York City, and con- 
 tinued there until 1803, when poor health caused 
 his retirement. During this time he was attend- 
 ing surgeon at the Xew York Eye and Ear In- 
 firmary, and also assistant surgeon in the out- 
 patients' department of the Roosevelt Hospital. 
 He is a member of the New York State Medical 
 Association, and since coming to Salt Lake 
 has become a member of the Rocky Mountain 
 Inter-State ^Medical Society and a member of 
 the Salt Lake L'niversity Club. 
 
 He came to Salt Lake City in 1893, and has 
 since been a resident of this place, although for 
 some years he has not practiced his profession. 
 Since coming here he has become interested in 
 mining, and is a stockholder in a number of min- 
 ing companies. 
 
 ■HRAIM HATCH. In all those mat- 
 ters tending toward the development 
 'if the higher interests of Davis county 
 .Mr. Hatch has been an important fac- 
 t T from almost its earliest period of 
 settlement. He came here with his parents when 
 only a boy, among the pioneers, and Davis county 
 has been the scene of his operations for upwards 
 of half a century. 
 
 Our subject was born in Cattaragus county, 
 Xew York, November 30, 1837, and is the son 
 of Ira S. and Weltha (Bradford) Hatch. The 
 Hatch family drove from New York State to 
 Nauvoo, Illinois, by team in 1840, and came to 
 Utah with the pioneers in 1849. -^ sketch of 
 our subject's father appears elsewhere in this 
 work. Ephraim Hatch was the fifth son of a 
 family of seven children, there being six sons 
 and one daughter. The oldest son, Mettiar, died 
 in Garfield county. Ira has for many years been 
 engaged in colonization work in Arizona. 
 
 June 13, 1864, Mr. Hatch was married to Miss 
 Rosa Ellen King, daughter of John and Hanna 
 A. (Montgomery) King. She was born in Port- 
 age county, Ohio, and her parents were natives 
 of Vermont. The King family came to Utah in 
 1863. By this marriage seven children were 
 born, of whom one died^Parley E., now en- 
 
 gaged in the general merchandise business at 
 Simpkins Station, Woods Cross, Davis county ; 
 Horace K., a member of the Hatch Brick Com- 
 pany and owner of a ranch in Idaho, also a 
 farmer in Davis county ; Nellie M., now Mrs. 
 Robinson ; John R., bookkeeper of the Hatch 
 Brick Company, of which he is also a member; 
 Minnie A., now Mrs. Burnham ; Rhoana L., 
 and Alameda, who died in infancy. After his 
 marriage Mr. Hatch settled at his present home, 
 near Woods Cross, on the Oregon Short Line 
 Railroad. Here he has more than a hundred 
 acres of valuable land, which he has improved 
 and on which he has built a fine dwelling house, 
 good outbuildings, barns, etc., and during his 
 whole life time has followed general farming and 
 the stock business, dealing largely in catiie and 
 horses. He is mterested in other enterprises in 
 Davis county, and about ten years ago established 
 his son Parley in the brick business at Woods 
 Cross. Mr. Hatch is the principal owner of this 
 business, but devotes his time mostly to his farm 
 and allows his sons to manage the making of 
 brick, in which they have been very successful. 
 They have three brick yards, one a dry press. 
 One of the yards which they operate has a ca- 
 pacity of thirty thousand bricks per day, and 
 the other two ten thousand each. They ship to 
 Salt Lake City, and also supply the adjoining 
 territory. During the season they give employ- 
 ment to between fifty and seventy -five men, both 
 at the yards and in Salt Lake City, Mr. Hatch's 
 other sons, as well as his sons-in-law, working 
 for him. This company, which is known as the 
 Hatch Brick Company, furnished the brick for 
 the new Dcscrel Nezvs building, which is at this 
 time nearing completion in Salt Lake City, and 
 which, when completed, will be one of the finest 
 business blocks in the city, and also for many of 
 the most important buildings in the city, together 
 with the brick to build the sewer system of Salt 
 Lake. The members of the Hatch family are 
 noted for the successful manner in which they 
 conduct their business enterprises, and in this re- 
 spect the brick plant is not behind any other un- 
 dertaking in which the family have engaged, be- 
 ing considered one of the leading enterprises of 
 the kind in the State. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Hatch has since his early boyhood taken 
 an active part in building up, not only his own 
 county and community, but the entire State, as 
 well as adjoining ones, and in the early days 
 participated in the troubles that existed in the 
 State from the depredations of the Indians and 
 the landine of Johnston's army in Utah, taking 
 part in the troubles at Fort Bridger, Green river. 
 etc., and during i860 and 1861 made two trips to 
 the Missouri river and piloted emigrants to this 
 State. On one of these trips he brought back a 
 portion of the first paper mill that came to the 
 State. He was in the Black Hawk War, in 1866, 
 under Captain Bigler. Our subject was born and 
 raised in the Mormon Church, being baptized in 
 1850 by Anson Call, and has all his life been a 
 firm believer in the doctrines of that Church. 
 His sons and daughters are among the most 
 hiehly respected citizens of Davis county. 
 
 In politics Mr. Hatch is a believer in the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, but has never 
 taken an active part in the work of his party, de- 
 voting his entire time and attention to his busi- 
 ness and to the work of the Church. He is at 
 this time a member of the Seventies. Mrs. Hatch 
 is also active in Church circles, being a member 
 of the Ladies' Relief Society and prominent in 
 all charitable works in her community. She was 
 baptized into the Mormon Church in Portage 
 county, Ohio, by Elder Elisha Edwards. 
 
 HILANDER HATCH, one of the 
 most energetic business men and loyal 
 citizens of Davis county, has spent his 
 entire life in that section, having been 
 born in that county, and has seen it 
 developed from a desolate wilderness to one of 
 the richest counties in the State of Utah, in which 
 work he has ever been foremost since his early 
 youth. 
 
 Mr. Hatch was born in South Bountiful on 
 June 2, 1855, and is the son of Ira S. and Jane 
 (Bee) Hatch, and a brother of Stearns Hatch, 
 a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. 
 Our subject spent his early life on his father's 
 farm, and received his education from such 
 schools as then existed in Davis county. He 
 
 worked for five years as a brakeman and con- 
 ductor on the Utah Central Railroad, running 
 out of Ogden, and with this exception has de- 
 voted his life to farming and the stock business, 
 handling both cattle and sheep. He was for three 
 years in the sheep business in the Bear river 
 country. On his return from the Bear river 
 country he built a fine brick home on his place 
 in Woods Cross, which consisted of thirty acres 
 of valuble land, which he has improved to a high 
 degree, and there makes his home. 
 
 He was married, in Salt Lake City, to Miss 
 Priscilla Muir, daughter of William S. and Jane 
 R. Muir, and they have had born to them three 
 children — Clarence E., seventeen years of age; 
 \\ illard S., thirteen years old, and Glenn A., 
 eleven years old. 
 
 For a number of years Mr. Hatch was iden- 
 tified with the Deseret Live Stock and Mercan- 
 tile Company, being manager of their general 
 merchandise business for some time, and subse- 
 quently opened up a general merchandise busi- 
 ness of his own, which he still conducts, still re- 
 taining his interest in the Deseret Live Stock 
 Company. He is also a stockholder in the Hatch 
 Brothers Live Stock Company, of which he is 
 Secretary and Treasurer, and in which his five 
 brothers and one nephew are also interested. Mr. 
 Hatch also has an interest in the Woods Cross 
 Canning and Pickling Company. 
 
 In politics our subject is a believer in the teach- 
 ings of the Democratic party, and has been active 
 in its work. He has served two terms as County 
 Commissioner, his first term being in the early 
 nineties. He was botn and reared in the doc- 
 trines of the Mormon Church. 
 
 The Hatch family is one of the most prominent 
 in Davis county, and have attained a high place 
 in the ranks of the business men of that part of 
 the State. They are public-spirited men, always 
 willing to aid in any manner in the advancement 
 of the interests of their communitv, and have 
 done much in bringing Davis county to a front 
 rank as one of the most fertile counties of Utah. 
 Our subject is regarded as one of the solid men 
 of W'oods Cross, and by his energetic and upright 
 life has won the confidence and respect of all 
 with whom he has been associated. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 517 
 
 KXRY RAMPTON, of Bountiful, 
 Davis county, Utah. The scenes of 
 i-arly cliildhood and the associations 
 (if the old home; father, mother, broth- 
 ers, sisters ; the old school house, where 
 the first lessons were taught ; the school teacher, 
 with her kind and pleasant manners, all make an 
 indelible impression upon the youthful mind 
 which death alone can obliterate. The early 
 scenes of Mr. Rampton's boyhood days were laid 
 in England. He was born September 8, 1829, 
 in the village of Old Alresford, Hampshire. 
 
 He is the son of William and Elizabeth (.\'or- 
 gate) Rampton, both of whom were born, raised, 
 lived and died in the same vicinity. Mr. Ramp- 
 ton's paternal grandfather was Johnathan Ramp- 
 ton, also a native of England. The first twenty- 
 six years of our subject's life were spent in that 
 country, where he received a good common school 
 education and learned the blacksmith trade. His 
 father and mother both died when he was a mere 
 child, and he lived for two years on the large 
 estate of Squire Martinnen. He was the fourth 
 child of the family ; the two eldest children are 
 now dead, and one brother and one sister are 
 living in England. In 1854 Mr. Rampton came 
 to America in an old sailing vessel, and located 
 in Saint Louis, where he worked for two years 
 at his trade. In the spring of 1856 he joined an 
 ox train of emigrants at Florence, most of the 
 train having been made up in Saint Louis, under 
 command of Captain John Banks, and after a 
 long, tedious and eventful trip over the plains, 
 they arrived in Salt Lake City on October the 
 5th of the same year. Mr. Rampton at once set- 
 tled in Bountiful, where he followed his trade 
 for a period of three months, and then secured 
 an outfit of tools and started on his own hook. 
 He purchased a small place, where he continued 
 to live for a number of years. He later built a 
 substantial brick house, which is located not far 
 from where his shop is, and here he continued 
 in business for a number of years, having only 
 recently retired. 
 
 Mr. Rampton was married, in England, in 
 1851, to Miss Catherine Harfield, who died in 
 Saint Louis, in May, 1854. His second wife was 
 Miss Frances Dinwoodev, a sister of Henrv Din- 
 
 woodey, of Salt Lake City, and a daughter of 
 James and Elizabeth (Wills) Dinwoodey. This 
 marriage took place December 25, 1854. Mrs. 
 Rampton's father was born on the Isle of Man, 
 and died in Lachford, England, in the latter part 
 of 1830. He left a wife and six children, the 
 mother coming to Utah in 1855. As a result of 
 this marriage eight children were born to Mr. 
 Rampton, one of whom died — Henry James, who 
 is engaged in the blacksmith business at Center- 
 ville; William, in the furniture business in Poca- 
 tello, Idaho; Charles H., engaged in general mer- 
 chandise business in Bountiful ; James, who died 
 in infancy ; Arthur, now residing at home ; Wal- 
 ter, residing in Farmington, and Catherine, now 
 Mrs. Pace, of South Bountiful. His third mar- 
 riage was to Miss Ada MacDuff, in 1868. By 
 this marriage nine children have been born — 
 George H. ; John R. ; James ; Thomas ; Nellie ; 
 Malcolm ; Elizabeth ; Sarah ; Olive, who died 
 aged five years. Thomas was called, in March, 
 1899, to serve on a mission to New Zealand, 
 where he spent two years and eight months. 
 Our subject's wife is Treasurer of the Ladies' 
 Relief Society of East Bountiful. John is a pro- 
 fessor in the Franklin School in Salt Lake City. 
 George owns a blacksmith shop in Syracuse, Da- 
 vis county. Our subject also has a good farm at 
 Syracuse. 
 
 VVID STOKER, Bishop of East 
 Bountiful \\'ard. Few men are better 
 or more favorably known in Davis 
 county than is Bishop David Stoker, 
 the subject of this sketch. He has been 
 closely identified with the interests of Davis 
 county from his early boyhood and has been alive 
 to every enterprise for the upbuilding of his 
 county and the State at large. 
 
 Born in Hancock county, Illinois. September 
 28, 1844, he is the son of John and Jane (Mc- 
 Daniel) Stoker, his father having been born in 
 Jackson county, Ohio, March 8, 1817, and his 
 mother being a native of Gallia county, Ohio, 
 where she was born February 24, 1810. They 
 spent their early life in Ohio, where they were 
 married, and in 1836 they emigrated to Adams 
 county, Illinois, and later settled in Hancock 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 county, in the same State. There were six chil- 
 dren born to them, three of whom are still liv- 
 ing, all in Utah — Alma, the oldest son, died in 
 June, 1898, at Syracuse, Davis county, this 
 State; Hyrum, died June 5, 1885, at Bountiful; 
 Franklin died at Bountiful on September 2"/, 
 1855; David, the subject of this sketch; Zibiah 
 Jane, now Mrs. Judson Tolman, living in Boun- 
 tiful ; Sarah Ann, now Mrs. H. E. Simmons, of 
 West Layton, Davis county. The Stoker family 
 lived in Illinois until the exodus of the Mormon 
 people from that State, which occurred in 1846, 
 at which time they moved , to Alount Pisgah, 
 Iowa. They resided there until 1848, when they 
 fitted out ox teams preparatory to crossing the 
 plains to Utah, which they did in the Brigham 
 Young train which consisted of more than one 
 thousand people. In this company the late Pres- 
 ident Lorenzo Snow was captain of one hundred 
 wagons, having under him Daniel Wood as cap- 
 tain of fifty wagons and our subject's father 
 captain of the other fifty. They left Mount Pis- 
 gah in April, 1848, and after a long and weari- 
 some trip across the plains arrived in Salt Lake 
 City on September 23rd of the same year. The 
 first winter was spent in the Old Fort at Salt 
 Lake and in the spring of 1849 they located at 
 Bountiful, which, at that time was sparsely set- 
 lied and in a wild state. Here the father secured 
 twenty acres of land upon which he built a log 
 liouse and where he continued to live until 1855. 
 He then moved to an old adobe house where he 
 spent the remainder of his life. He assisted in 
 building the first adobe schoolhouse in Bountiful, 
 which was equipped with rough boards for desks 
 .and seats, and at the present time would be con- 
 .sidered a very crude a-ffair for school purposes. 
 He had been closely identified with the church 
 through all his life and for many years was a 
 Bishop in his Ward. He died June 11, 1881, and 
 his wife died January 20, 1890. In November, 
 1869, he was called on a mission to \'irginia and 
 several of the Eastern, Southern and Northern 
 States. This mission, however, was of short 
 duration, as he returned home February 29, 1870. 
 He had early become a member of the Mor- 
 mon Church, having been baptized by Seymour 
 Brunson in Jackson county, Ohio, in 1836. 
 
 Our subject spent his early days on the farm 
 and his education was received from the schools 
 such as existed at that time in Davis county, 
 he only being able to attend for a few weeks 
 during the winter months. However, this did 
 not put a stop to his education, as after he was 
 married and had a family he again took up his 
 school work and attended the schools in his vicin- 
 ity for a number of years, thus completing his 
 scholastic education. 
 
 On March 3, 1866, he led to the marriage altar 
 Miss Regena Hogan, the marriage ceremony be- 
 ing performed by Heber C. Kimball. She was 
 the daughter of Erica G. M. and Harriett (Nes- 
 tebey) Hogan. This family came to L^tah in the 
 same company as our subject and his family. Of 
 tliis union eight children were born, seven of 
 whom are still living — Elizabeth R., now Mrs. 
 Thomas J. Thurgood, of Clearfield, Davis 
 county; David Jr., born April 6, 1869, living in 
 Syracuse, Davis county. He has served on a mis- 
 sion for the Church, having been called Novem- 
 ber II, 1899. to England, where he remained 
 nearly two years, returning on account of ill 
 health ; Sarah L., now Mrs. Jesse H. Barlow, of 
 S>racuse ; Eveline, now the wife of George Holt, 
 also of Syracuse; John H., at home, and clerk- 
 ing in the co-operative store at Bountiful ; Ira, 
 who was educated in the University of Utah ; 
 William Judson, at school, and Harriett Ann, 
 who died November 19, 1873. 
 
 Bishop Stoker's whole life has been spent in 
 Bountiful, Davis county ; he has seen the coun- 
 try transformed from a wild and barren waste 
 to its now prosperous condition and in this trans- 
 formation he has taken a prominent and active 
 part. His home place is considered one of the 
 finest of its size in the locality. In 1876 he and 
 his brother secured one hundred and sixty acres 
 of land in Syracuse, and as his children have 
 grown up and married he has given each one a 
 home of twenty acres out of his land. He is 
 the grandfather of nineteen children. On May 
 4, 1892, Bishop Stoker was called to serve on a 
 mission for the Church in the Northern States, 
 but was released from service on account of ill 
 health. During the Indian troubles in Utah he 
 served in the company organized to protect the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 519 
 
 settlers and was in the Black Hawk war for 
 eighty-one days, under Captain Andrew Bigler. 
 He has always been closelv and prominently 
 identified with the Mormon Church and was bap- 
 tized into that faith on September 29, 1852. He 
 was set apart as President of the Quorum of 
 Elders in Bountiful, in which position he served 
 for a number of years, and was later ordained a 
 Seventy and still later a High Priest, by Orson 
 Pratt. He has also been First Counselor to 
 Bishop Chester Call, which position he held until 
 January 19, 1896, when he was ordained a Bishop 
 by the late President Snow and set apart to pre- 
 side over East Bountiful Ward, which is one of 
 the largest wards in the Church, and so well and 
 faithfully has he oerformed his duties in Church 
 matters that he enjoys the respect and esteem not 
 only of the people of Bountiful but of the heads 
 of the Church as well. His wife is a member 
 of the Ladies' Relief Society and one of the 
 Presidents of the Young Ladies' Mutual Im- 
 provement Association. 
 
 Bishop Stoker has also taken a prominent part 
 in political affairs in his county. In 1880 he was 
 elected County Commissioner and served two 
 years. In 1882 he was appointed to fill the un- 
 expired term of Probate Judge William R. Smith, 
 and at the expiration of that term was twice 
 elected to fill that office. In 1892 he was elected 
 a member of the Legislature and returned to the 
 same position in 1894. In politics he has been a 
 staunch Democrat throughout his life, as was also 
 his father. He assisted in the organization of 
 that party in Utah and it was through his in- 
 strumentality that the first Democratic Club wan 
 formed in Bountiful. 
 
 TLLIAM HENRY STREEPER en- 
 joys the reputation of having the 
 best equipped hundred-acre farm in 
 the State of Utah. It is in Center- 
 terville, Davis county, and his farm 
 won a prize at the State Fair, for which the 
 Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society 
 awarded him a very fine farm wagon, which was 
 contributed to the society for that purpose by 
 'George A. Lowe. 
 
 Mr. Streeper was born in Philadelphia on Aug- 
 
 ust I, 1837. His father, Wilkinson Streeper, was 
 born in Philadelphia in 1809. and his mother Ma- 
 tilda (Wells) Streeper, was a native of New Jer- 
 sey and was born in 1814. They were married in 
 Philadelphia in July, 1834. They had six chil- 
 dren — three sons and three daughters — of whom 
 William Henry was the second born. The Streep- 
 er family came to Utah in 185 1. Wilkinson 
 Streeper died on January 16, 1856, and his wife 
 on October 10, 1892, and both are buried in Salt 
 Lake City. Five out of their six children are 
 still living. The family first settled in Salt Lake 
 City, and William Henry went to Centerville in 
 1867, and took up a farm in the north part of the 
 settlement at the foot of the mountains. This 
 he improved each year, till today it enjoys its 
 enviable reputation throughout the State. Among 
 the improvements on Mr. Streeper's farm are a 
 fine stone residence, built from native stone quar- 
 ried on his farm. It is supplied with hot and 
 cold water, bath room and all the conveniences of 
 a modern home. In its neighborhood is a perfect 
 village of barns and outhouses, consisting of 
 horse and cattle stables, implement and tool 
 houses, granaries, etc. The creamery is a perfect 
 model of neatness, cleanliness and modern con- 
 venience. It is lined with coils of pipes which 
 convey cold water under the vessels which con- 
 tain the milk. Then there is an ice house in 
 which each winter Mr. Streeper stores enough 
 ice to last through the hot weather, and indeed 
 till it is time to cut ice again. All of the out- 
 buildings, except the cattle and horse barns, are 
 built of brick and stone. The latter are sur- 
 rounded with walls of mortar-laid stone with 
 floors of the same material. The stone walls, 
 which he uses as fences are substantially built 
 and are laid with mortar, all of which has meant 
 a large expenditure of money and labor. 
 
 While Mr. Streeper has devoted most of his 
 time to farming and raising cattle he has had 
 other interests. Together with his sons he was at 
 one time interested in an implement house in 
 Salt Lake City, and at a later period in a general 
 merchandise business in Centerville. They built 
 and operated on the home farm for some time. 
 Today father and sons run a general merchandise 
 business in Ogden. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 William Streeper was married in Salt Lake 
 City in 1867 to Mary A. Richards, a niece of 
 Apostle Richards and daus^hter of S. W. and 
 Mary Richards. Eight children were born to 
 them, five boys and three girls. The sons are: 
 William H., Jr., now County Attorney of Davis 
 county; S. W., a carpenter; Charles A., Howard 
 and Herbert R., farmers. The daughters are 
 Catherine, Annie and Erma R. 
 
 In politics Mr. Streeper is a staunch Democrat. 
 He is a member of the board of judges of the 
 Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing So- 
 ciety. He and all of his family belong to the 
 Mormon Church, and he has been on several 
 colonizing expeditions in Utah, and stands firm 
 in his belief in the Mormon faith. Three of his 
 sons have been sent on missions for the church. 
 William Jr. served in England and in France ; 
 Charles in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia and 
 New Jersey, and Herbert has done colonizing in 
 Arizona, Montana and the West. 
 
 Mr. Streeper takes a great pride in a Bible 
 that has been handed down as an heirloom in his 
 family. The book was given to Mr. Streeper by 
 his mother, and as the binding was much worn 
 and the typography much faded and in many 
 places efifaced, Mr. Streeper had it handsomely 
 bound in leather to preserve it. It is a relic highly 
 prized in the family. 
 
 ENJAMIN ASHBY. One of the 
 grandest things in the declining years 
 of a man's life is to be able to look back 
 upon a life honorably and well spent 
 in the interest of his family and of 
 humanity. No one who has been associated, 
 either in public, private or business life with 
 Benjamin Ashby can say that he has been any- 
 thing but honorable, straightforward and up- 
 right, and to a large extent has devoted his life 
 to the interests of his fellowmen. 
 
 He was born in Salem, Essex county, Massa- 
 chusetts, December 19, 1828, and is the son of 
 Nathaniel and Susan (Hammond) Ashby. Na- 
 thaniel Ashby came of an old family of that name 
 in Massachusetts, the founder of the family in 
 America being born about 1635, and being a 
 
 freeholder in Massachusetts. His name was Ben- 
 jamin Ashby, and for three generations the heads 
 of this family bore the name of Jonathan, after 
 whom came another Benjamin, who was the 
 grandfather of our subject. Mrs. Ashby, our 
 subject's mother was a native of Marblehead, 
 Massachusetts. After the birth of our subject, 
 \vho was the oldest of twelve children, the family 
 moved to Nauvoo, Illinois in 1843, ^'id there re- 
 mained until the exodus of the Mormons in 1846, 
 when they went to Winter Quarters. The father 
 died on this trip, and was buried near the road 
 beside the grave of a little child of Mr. Palmer. 
 The family remained in Winter Quarters until 
 1848. In 1847 our subject, upon whom devolved 
 the care of the family, put in a crop in company 
 with Abraham Washburn, and that winter those 
 two went to Fort Kearney and worked making 
 shoes for the soldiers. In 1848, in the Brigham 
 Young train in which Erastus Snow had charge 
 of ten wagons, the family crossed the plains, ar- 
 riving in Salt Lake City in October of that year 
 and spending the winter in the Old Fort. In the 
 following spring they moved to a lot in the Thir- 
 teenth Ward, where they built a log bouse, and 
 lived there until 1850. In the meantime Mr. 
 Ashby had taken up some government land in 
 Bountiful, which is his present home. His mother 
 died in 1852 and in 1853 he was called to go on 
 a mission to England, where he served for four 
 years ; one and a half years of this time being 
 spent in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and six 
 months in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and one year in 
 Wales. Upon his return to the United States, 
 ]\Ir. Ashby in company with Israel Evans led the 
 first company of the hand cart brigade to cross 
 the plains in 1857. This company made the 
 journey without the loss of a single member. 
 During his stay in England Mr. Ashby met and 
 baptized Ann Chester, of Linconshire, whom he 
 married in Salt Lake City in 1857. She came 
 to Utah in 1856 in the first hand cart brigade in 
 Edmond Ellsworth's company. Mr. Ashby has 
 been the father of fourteen children, of whom 
 eight are now living. They are: Frances Ann, 
 now Mrs. Alma Page ; Susan, now the wife of 
 Cvrus Paee, of Bountiful; Martha, now Mrs. 
 James Burmingham, of East Bountiful; William 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 521 
 
 C, living near his father ; Briant, a resident of 
 Murray; Jolin F., living in Taylorsville ; Charles 
 A., lives near his father ; James R., at home. 
 
 After returning from his mission Mr. Ashby 
 lived in Salt Lake City for a time, when he was 
 called upon to serve as a guard in Echo Canyon. 
 He came home and took his wife to Spanish Fork 
 and then returned to his puard duty. He also 
 served seven weeks in the Black Hawk war, un- 
 der Colonel Burton. After the Johnston army 
 troubles had passed our subject returned to his 
 farm in Bountiful, which he improved and has 
 since engaged in general farming and gardening. 
 He owns nineteen acres of valuable land. Mr. 
 Ashby and his parents joined the Mormon Church 
 in Salem, Massachusetts, and he and his family 
 have ever been loyal and active members 
 of that faith. Mr. Ashby has been prominent in 
 home missionary and Sunday School work. His 
 son Briant was called on a mission to New Zea- 
 land in 1895, and served there for three years. 
 Charles A. has just returned from a mission to 
 Texas. Mr. Ashby is a hale old gentleman, high- 
 ly respected in his community, and has always 
 been an active Church worker. During his mis- 
 sion to England he was healed of a severe ill- 
 ness through the laying on of hands by one of 
 his fellow Elders, and is a firm believer in the 
 efficacy of this treatment. He has passed through 
 all the hardships and troubles incident to the set- 
 tlement of this State, participating in the first 
 Indian troubles in Ogden, in 1849, which lasted 
 but a few weeks, and has done much not only for 
 the spread of the gospel as taught by his Church, 
 but also in the building up and developing of this 
 section of the countrv. 
 
 ILLIAM H. HILL. Few men who 
 came to Utah in the days of the 
 pioneers have turned out to be as 
 successful stock raisers as William 
 H. Hill, who was not yet eleven years 
 old when he crossed the plains with his father. 
 The element of adventure enthused the boy, and 
 with youthful bravado he stuck to his two yoke 
 of oxen and drove them every foot of the way 
 across the dreary plains to the western Mecca 
 
 of the Latter Day Saints in the Rocky mountains, 
 enduring the hardships, sufferings and perils of 
 the road with a spirit which would have done 
 honor to a grown man. Today with his sons 
 he owns an extensive sheep ranch in Wyoming, 
 some twenty-five thousand head of sheep, six 
 or seven hundred head of horses and from four 
 to five hundred head of cattle, besides an ex- 
 tensive farm and homestead in the neighborhood 
 of Murray. 
 
 Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1840, Mr. Hill 
 was the third son of Alexander Hill by his wife, 
 Agnes Hood. His father and mother were of 
 Scotch birth and his grandparents, Alexander 
 and Elizabeth Hill, passed their lives in the town 
 of Currie, Scotland. The Hill family emigrated 
 to Canada, and in 1841, when he was an infant, 
 came to Nauvoo, Illinois, where they lived for a 
 number of years. His father was an associate 
 and fellow worker with Prophet Joseph Smith 
 and was at Nauvoo when the Prophet was killed. 
 In 1846 he came as far west as Gordon Grove 
 with a number of helpless families who were 
 bound for Utah, returning for his own family. 
 A wagon train was made up at Council Bluffs, 
 commanded by Captain Allen Taylor and with 
 a hundred wagons in charge of Captain Aldred. 
 The little settlement in the great Salt Lake val- 
 ley was reached on the Third day of October, 
 1849. After the fall Conference of that year 
 Alexander Hill took up a government claim of 
 thirty acres, and on this original freehold his son, 
 William H., now has his home. At first the 
 elder Hill built a dug-out in which he lived for 
 two years with his wife and nine children. In 
 the summer of 1850 they built an adobe school- 
 house in the neighborhood, and the children went 
 to school in the winter and worked with their 
 father during the rest of the year. The mother 
 died on February 17, 1871, and when the father 
 died on March 8, 1889, he left eighty acres of 
 land to his ten children. Both parents were bu- 
 ried in Salt Lake City cemetery, as well as the 
 grandparents who came to Utah in 1851. 
 
 On January i, i860, William H. Hill married 
 Mary C. Sorensen, a daughter of Nichol and 
 Melinda Sorensen, who emigrated from Denmark 
 in 1857. He married a second wife on February 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 14, 1870, Elizabeth N. Hamilton, a sister of 
 Bishop Hamilton of Mill Creek. The two wives 
 bore him sixteen children, ten by the first and six 
 bv the second. The children's names are : Alex- 
 ander J., William N., Abraham M., Edgar E., 
 John H., Annie E. Mary C, David R., Frank I., 
 Lewis S., Jacob F., Ellen M., Guy H., Norah J., 
 and Hazel A., eleven sons and five daughters. 
 All of the sons are engaged in the stock business 
 with their father. Besides his extensive stock 
 holdings Mr. Hill has a beautiful brick residence 
 of twelve rooms on a ninety-acre farm. The 
 house is built on elevated ground at Fifth East 
 street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth South 
 streets, and is supplied with artesian well water. 
 Mr. Hill is a staunch Republican. For twenty 
 years he has been a school trustee. He became 
 a member of the Mormon Church in April, 1850, 
 in Mill Creek Ward, and has remained an ardent 
 supporter of the faith he adopted. He is now 
 First Counselor to Bishop Hamilton of Mill 
 Creek. For two years he made his home in Eng- 
 land on a mission for the Church, and he was 
 President of the Sixty-first Quorum of Seven- 
 ties for ten years. In 1889 Mr. Hill, with many 
 other Mormons who believed in plural marital re- 
 lations, served seventy days in prison and was 
 compelled to pay to the federal government a 
 fine of one hundred and fifty dollars. Mr. Hill 
 took an active part in all the Indian wars. In 
 1862 he was a minuteman ; in 1866 fought against 
 the Blackhawks, the most troublesome Indians of 
 that time. This was the last uprising of Indians 
 in Utah. He was also at Echo Canyon, Green 
 River and Ham's Fork during the Johnston army 
 troubles. On the whole, he has taken a most 
 active part in developing the State from a bar- 
 ren wilderness to its present wonderful state of 
 fertilitv. 
 
 ANIEL HEINER, President of the 
 Morgan Stake of Zion, is a native of 
 Pennsylvania, where he was born No- 
 vember 2"/, 1850, in the county of 
 Franklin. His father and mother, 
 Martin and Adelgunda (Ditzel) Heiner, were 
 natives of Germany. When our subject was 
 
 nine years of age his father crossed the plains to 
 Utah, bringing with him his wife and eleven 
 cniidren. There was but one wagon for the 
 accommodation of the family, and as a result 
 most of them had to walk, our subject making 
 the journey in this manner. They arrived in 
 Utah late in the fall and moved into a small 
 house in the Bingham canyon, 'ihis house was 
 guiltless of floor or door. The family suffered 
 many privations in those first days, the father 
 herding cattle for President Taylor and being 
 able to occasionally kill a rabbit, but the prin- 
 cipal food of the family that winter was bread 
 and water. They remained in this abode until 
 the spring of 1862, when the father moved the 
 family to West Jordan and attempted to cultivate 
 a piece of land, but the alkali and other mineral 
 deoosits in the soil killed the grain, and he was 
 unable to procure a crop. It was at this critical 
 time that our subject undertook to support the 
 family with his gun, and he later became one of 
 the most famous shots of the State, and succeeded 
 even in those early days in keeping the family 
 from absolute want. The family remained at 
 West Jordan for two vears, meeting with a little 
 better success the second season, and then moved 
 to Morgan county in the fall of 1863, and there 
 continued to live the remainder of their lives, 
 both parents living to be eighty years of age, the 
 mother dying in 1894 and the father dying in 
 1897. When they came here the log cabin the 
 family first lived in was the only one in Weber 
 valley. Mr. Heiner was a quiet and inoffensive 
 man, well known throughout the State. He 
 bought a squatter's claim in Morgan county and 
 followed farming with a fair degree of success. 
 
 Our subject was thirteen years of age when 
 his parents moved to Morgan county, and he 
 erew up on his father's farm, and as they lived 
 on the outskirts his schooling was meagre, hav- 
 ing only attended about two months. In 1871 
 he became interested in a cattle ranch in Echo 
 canyon, which later became known as the Echo 
 Land and Stock Company, of which he was 
 manager, and for twenty years he spent his sum- 
 mers on this place, looking after the interests of 
 the business, keeping at times three thousand 
 head of cattle on the place. In 1898 he settled on 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 523 
 
 the old family homestead in North Morgan, 
 where he has since followed general farming and 
 stock raising. He is also the owner and manager 
 of the Morgan hotel, one of the best hostelries 
 in the town, and is active in promoting the in- 
 terests of the place. 
 
 Mr. Heiner was married to Miss Martha Ste- 
 vens in 1873, and at that time, while on the ranch, 
 he had scarcely anything in the way of stock or 
 capital, and it was his custom to arise early and 
 go out trapping in order that he might get the 
 necessaries of life for his family. She was a 
 daughter of Roswell Stevens, one of the pioneers 
 of this valley. Mrs. Heiner was a native of the 
 Weber valley and lived in the mountains all her 
 life. His next wife was Miss Sarah Coulan. Mr. 
 Heiner is the father of thirteen sons and six 
 daughters, and has nine grandchildren. 
 
 Mr. Heiner has always been actively identified 
 with the political life of his countv, and was one 
 of the first to take a stand for the Republican 
 party when the issues were divided upon Na- 
 tional political lines. He spent much time and 
 money in promotinp- the interests of that party 
 in his county, and was the first Republican Mayor 
 of Morgan City. He was also a member of the 
 first State Legislature in 1896. While Mr. Heiner 
 has done much for his party and is a strong be- 
 liever in the principles it advocates, he has never 
 sought public office, and the honors that have 
 come to him along this line have been unsought, 
 and came as the expression of the good will of 
 the people and as a mark of appreciation for the 
 work he has done for his community, rather than 
 from his desire to be an office holder. 
 
 He was born and reared in the Mormon Church 
 and has ever been a faithful and devoted worker 
 in its behalf. He was a member and one of the 
 Seven Presidents of the Thirty-fifth Quorum of 
 Seventies of Morgan Stake, and in 1888 was or- 
 dained as High Priest and set aside as a member 
 of the High Council, remaining in that office un- 
 til September 13, IQOO, when he was set apart as 
 President of Morgan Stake, which position he 
 still retains. He has always taken a lively in- 
 terest in the work of the Sunday School, in which 
 he has filled a number of offices. He was also 
 for twelve years President of the Young Men's 
 
 Mutual Improvement Association of the Morgan 
 Ward. His sons are also active workers in the 
 Church. On March 29, 1902, his son Heber J. 
 was called on a mission to the Society Islands, in 
 the Pacific Ocean, where he is at this time. An- 
 other son, John, has been on a mission to Ger- 
 many. R. M. was on a mission to the Northern 
 States and Canada for twenty-seven months. 
 
 Mr. Heiner is one of the Morgan City's most 
 progressive citizens. Beginning life in destitute 
 circumstances, he has by energy, perseverance 
 and a strong determination overcome obstacles 
 that seemed almost insurmountable, and has risen 
 unaided to one of the foremost positions among 
 the business and public men of his community. 
 He has had the interest of his city close to his 
 heart and has done much to beautify the place. 
 His father set out the first shade and fruit trees in 
 the county, and while Mr. Heiner was Mayor of 
 the city he caused shade trees to be set out on all 
 the public streets, which have added much to 
 both the beauty and comfort of the place. He 
 has won the respect and esteem of those with 
 whom he has been associated, both in public, 
 private and business life, and no man in his 
 county enjoys the friendship of a larger circle of 
 people than does Daniel Heiner. 
 
 OHN C. PASKETT has resided in Hene- 
 fer. Summit county, for the past thirty- 
 four years. A native of England, born 
 in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, 1849. His 
 early life was spent in his native country, 
 where he received a good common school educa- 
 tion. Early in life he joined the Mormon Church 
 and for many years before coming to America he 
 was President of the Tetbury and Nailsworth 
 Branches of the Church. He was the son of 
 James P. and Charlotte (Buckingham) Paskett, 
 who were also converted to the teachings of the 
 Mormon Church. They emigrated to Utah in 
 1872 and located in Henefer, where the father 
 devoted his life to the work of the Church, hold- 
 ing the office of High Priest and Superintendent 
 of the Ward Sunday School. He is still living 
 at the age of eighty-four and active in Church 
 work. His wife is still living at the age of eighty- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 two. There are eia:ht children in this family, — 
 Sarah, wife of William Bettridge, of Grouse 
 Creek, Box Elder county, Utah ; Fannie, wife of 
 C. H. R. Stevens, of Henefer ; Jane, wife of 
 George Judd, of Henefer ; Annie, widow of Wil- 
 liam Tunley, living at Brisbane, Australia ; John 
 C, our subject, and Philip, living in Box Elder 
 county; William, living in Grouse Creek; Emily 
 A., wife of Nephi A. Bond, of Henefer. All of 
 the family living in Utah are members of the 
 Mormon Church, and Mrs. Judd was President of 
 the Ladies' Relief Society prior to the disorgani- 
 zation of the Stake. The Pasketts come of a 
 long-lived family, one of Mr. Paskett's brothers 
 being ninety-five years of age at the time of his 
 death. Mr. Paskett has besides the daughter and 
 her family living in Australia, approximately one 
 hundred and twenty grandchildren and twenty- 
 five great-grandchildren living in Utah. 
 
 Our subject came to Utah four years before 
 the other members of the family. He had learned 
 the shoemaker's trade in England with his father 
 and for a time followed that in this country. He 
 came direct to LItah upon arriving in the United 
 States and settled in Henefer, where he' pur- 
 chased some land and began in the general farm- 
 ing and stockraising business, first running cat- 
 tle, and later purchasing sheep, keeping at this 
 time a herd of from two thousand to twenty-five 
 hundred. His farm adjoins the town of Henefer 
 but he does not live on this, making his home in 
 the town, where he also owns property. 
 
 Mr. Paskett was married in 1876 to Miss Sarah 
 Ann Thomas, daughter of Philip and Mary 
 (Williams) Thomas, who came to Utah in 1862, 
 from England and settled in Henefer, where the 
 parents died. There were ten children in this 
 family, of whom Mrs. Paskett is the only living 
 member. By this marriage Mr. Paskett has had 
 eight children, — Curtis J., a graduate of the Brig- 
 ham Young Academy at Provo ; LaviniaM., Pres- 
 ident of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement 
 Association ; Howard P. ; Jessie E., a student at 
 the Latter Day Saints University, Salt Lake City ; 
 Cora E. ; Elsie M. ; Edgar P. and Beatrice, who 
 was born July 24, 1897, the day of the Grand 
 Jubilee celebration, held in Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Paskett has since coming to Utah taken 
 
 a prominent part in all the difYerent branches of 
 the Church work. He first held the office of El- 
 der, and labored as Ward Clerk for some time. 
 In 1876 he was ordained High Priest and set 
 apart as Second Counselor to Bishop Charles 
 kichins, holding that ofifice until May, 1890, when 
 he became Bishop of the Ward, in which office 
 he continued until the Ward was disorganized in 
 April, 1901. He was later set apart as a mem- 
 ber of the High Council of Summit Stake. He 
 was a member of the Building Committee of the 
 Summit Stake Tabernacle and Academy, and also 
 a member of the Stake Board of Education ; also 
 a member of the Teachers' Examining Board for 
 the Provo Schools. He has been actively identi- 
 fied with the Henefer Irrigation Company, of 
 which he was a Director and Trustee, and was 
 one of a number to purchase a large tract of 
 land from the railroad company, so they now 
 own the land for a distance of ten miles from 
 the town of Henefer. He was nominated by the 
 Republican party in 1900 as a member of the 
 Legislature, but was defeated with his party. He 
 has served two terms as County Commissioner. 
 
 Mr. Paskett came to Utah a poor man and has 
 by industry and economy climbed from the very 
 lowest rung of the ladder to a position of wealth 
 and influence. He has left the imprint of his 
 strong character upon the work he has done in 
 this county and town, and his influence has been 
 felt especially along the line of Church work. 
 He has educated all his children in the doctrines 
 and tenets of the Mormon Church, and the family 
 is an important factor in the life of the Church 
 in that place. 
 
 ILLIAM J. EDDINGTON. In no 
 other State in the Union, perhaps, 
 are the public ofifices so generally 
 filled with native born citizens, as in 
 Utah. William J. Eddington, the 
 present Recorder of Morgan county, was born 
 in Salt Lake City, October 23, 1858. He received 
 a common school education in the school of Utah, 
 and his whole life has been spent w-ithin the con- 
 fines of this State. 
 
 He is the son of William and Louisa (Barton) 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 525 
 
 Eddington. His father was a native of England 
 and became a member of the Mormon Church in 
 1854, coming to Utah and settling in Salt Lake 
 City, where he engaged in the mercantile business 
 and followed it for many years. He later moved 
 to Morgan county, where he became the owner of 
 the first sawmill in that county, and also opened 
 up the first mercantile business in Morgan City. 
 He gave up active business life about 1880, and 
 for the past few years has lived in Teton Basin, 
 in Idaho, where he owns a ranch, and when in 
 Utah makes his home with his children. He has 
 all his life been an active worker in the Church, 
 and is one of the oldest living members of the 
 High Council of Salt Lake Stake. He was the 
 first Mayor of Morgan City and took an active 
 interest in the upbuilding of that part of the 
 State. He is now in his seventy-eighth year, in 
 the enjoyment of good health, active and a great 
 worker, giving his personal attention to the af- 
 fairs of his ranch. He was the husband of three 
 wives and the father of eighteen children, seven- 
 teen of whom are now living in Morgan and Salt 
 Lake counties, in Utah, and in Teton Basin, 
 Idaho. 
 
 Our subject lived on his father's place until 
 1882 when he struck out for himself and spent 
 several months in Colorado. He was for a num- 
 ber of years clerk for the Morgan branch of the 
 Zion Co-operative iNlercantile Institution, and was 
 for three years manager of that business. He 
 spent some time doing grading work on the 
 Union Pacific Railroad, and later engaged in 
 farming on his own account. He has a farm of 
 thirty acres of choice land adjoining Morgan 
 City. He has this place well watered and im- 
 proved, getting the water from the South Morgan 
 ditch, of which company he is secretary and a di- 
 rector. He resides in the old family home in 
 Morgan, which his father built about 1867. 
 
 Mr. Eddington was married in 1882 to Miss 
 Mary .^nn Fry, daughter of Richard Fry of Mor- 
 gan, and by this marriage has had seven children: 
 Hazel ; William R. : Carl ; Elmo ; Vera ; Leonard 
 and Lillie, twins; Lillie died in infancy; all living 
 at home. 
 
 In political life our subject is a member of the 
 Democratic party, and has for many years been 
 
 active in its work. He has held the office of Jus- 
 tice of the Peace of both Morgan City and Mor- 
 gan precinct, and is at present a member of the 
 City Council. Pie was elected Recorder of Mor- 
 o-an county in 1900, and still holds the office. He 
 has given much of his time to the upbuilding of 
 his city, and is always willing to do anything for 
 its advancement. He was one of the organizers 
 of the Fry Mercantile Company in 1894, and 
 which for several years did a very successful 
 business. He has also been prominent in Church 
 work, taking an active part in Sunday School 
 work, and also the work of the YoungMen's Mu- 
 tual Improvement Association. He was ordained 
 an Elder in 1872 and later became a member of 
 the Thirty-fifth Quorum of Seventies. Mrs. 
 Eddington is also an active worker in the Church, 
 and is President of the South Ward Young La- 
 dies' Mutual Improvement Association, and was 
 for several years Counselor to President Mary 
 Welch of the Morgan Stake. 
 
 Mr. Eddington has by his own energy, perse- 
 verance and pluck won the high position he now 
 holds in the public affairs of his community, and 
 his associates have found him to be a man of 
 sterling integrity, a high sense of honor, and one 
 who has given his whole attention to the duties 
 entrusted to him. He is a man of genial and 
 pleasing manners and enjoys the friendship of a 
 wide circle of acquaintances. 
 
 ( )SEPH FRANCE. Among the hardy 
 pioneers who in 1849 crossed the wild 
 and dreary stretch of land lying be- 
 tween the Missouri river and Utah and 
 here planted the Church, which has since 
 become world re-nowned and which has done 
 more for the poor and unfortunate of the Old 
 World than perhaps any other known agency, 
 Joseph France, the subject of this sketch, is wor- 
 thy of special mention. He has long since passed 
 to his reward, but his influence is still felt in the 
 community which was for many years his home, 
 and where he accumulated large wealth. Mr. 
 France was born in Columbia county, Pennsyl- 
 vania, in 1814. He grew up in his native State, 
 and after reaching manhood became a convert to 
 
526 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the teachings of Mormonism. He crossed the 
 plains in a company under command of Captain 
 Cully, in 1849, and settled in Davis county, where 
 he eneaged in general farming. At the time he 
 came to Utah Mr. France was without means 
 and during the first year was no stranger to want, 
 suflfering many hardships and privations in com- 
 mon with the other early settlers. 
 
 However, by close economy and careful atten- 
 tion to business, he was able to get a start in 
 life and his means rapidly increased so that at 
 the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest 
 men in his section of the county. 
 
 He participated in the Johnston army troubles, 
 and also in the Indian wars, identifying himself 
 with the life of this State and taking a prominent 
 part in all matters of oublic welfare. Our sub- 
 ject was chosen and set apart to go on a mission 
 to England, on April 11, 1853. He spent three 
 years on this mission, and during this time bap- 
 tized three hundred converts. 
 
 Among the company whom he afterwards 
 brought to America were two women who subse- 
 quently became his wives. They were all mem- 
 bers of the first hand cart company to cross the 
 plains. Mr. France had five wives. His first 
 wife was Bessie Card, who bore him three chil- 
 dren, two of whom are now living. The second 
 wife was Diana Smith, who became the mother 
 of four children, of whom but one is now alive. 
 His third wife was Mary E. Kudder. By her 
 he had six children, of whom four are living. He 
 married as his fourth wife Ellen Harrod, who 
 bore him seven children. Three of these children 
 are now living. His fifth and last wife was Ade- 
 laide Gyde, who became the mother of ten chil- 
 dren, of whom eight are still living. Of these 
 wives but two are now living, the fourth and 
 fifth. Of these children but eighteen are now liv- 
 ing, and had he lived to this time would have had 
 ninety-two grandchildren and forty-two great- 
 grandchildren. He was during his lifetime an 
 active worker in all Church matters, especially in 
 the Sunday Schools, in which he was for many 
 years a Superintendent. 
 
 By his will he vested a life interest in his farm 
 in his widows, the estate to be divided equally be- 
 tween his children upon the death of his wives. 
 
 C)ne of his sons, Charles Edward, is at this 
 time living on the farm and has for some time 
 past been buying up the interests of the other 
 heirs. The farm is principally laid out in alfalfa, 
 and Mr. France buys large quantities of hay in 
 the north and takes it to the Salt Lake market, 
 doing a large business in this line, and will with- 
 out doubt come into possession of the entire farm 
 at some future time. He is also largely interested 
 in cattle and acquiring considerable means. 
 
 He was married on March 30, 1882, to IMatilda 
 Kent, daughter of Sidney and Mary (Daly) 
 Kent. The Kents came to Utah in 1847, and 
 their daughter was born in Bountiful, where 
 she grew to womanhood. Eight children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. France : Charles E., 
 who died aged about ten years ; Lawrence K. ; 
 Sidney W. ; Philip M. ; Mary E. ; Sadie, who died 
 in infancy ; Ellen I., and Derail. All the family 
 are members of the Mormon Church. Mrs. El- 
 len France, the fourth wife of our subject, makes 
 her home with Charles Edward, and his fifth wife 
 also lives on this farm near them. The family 
 is highly respected in their community, where 
 they are known for their kindlv, charitable lives. 
 
 EBER J. SHEFFIELD. Davis county 
 is one of the most fertile and productive 
 lit any county in the State of Utah, 
 reducing some of the finest fruits and 
 egetables in the entire inter-mountain 
 region, and is considered the richest county in 
 Utah. Here may be found many beautiful homes 
 scattered throughout the valley, farms in a high 
 state of cultivation, and farmers happy in the 
 possession of a lucrative business. In such a 
 country there is necessarily a large demand for 
 the commodities of life and the mercantile estab- 
 lishments in the different towns throughout the 
 county are as a rule on a solid financial basis, do- 
 ing a good trade. It is safe to say that among the 
 merchants of Kaysville no one is doing a better 
 business than is the gentleman whose name heads 
 this article, and who has been in business here 
 since 1889. 
 
 Our subject was born in Wellenborough, 
 Northamptonshire, England, May 29, 1854, and 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 527 
 
 is the son of James and Sarah A. (Wihiier) Shef- 
 field, both natives of that part of England. There 
 were ten children in the family, of whom 
 Heber J. is tlfe oldest. The family were con- 
 verted to the teachings of the Mormon religion 
 in their native country, and when but eighteen 
 years of age our subject came to America, cross- 
 ing the plains by rail and reaching Salt Lake City 
 July 4, 1872. He was joined the following year 
 by the other members of the family. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Salt Lake City Mr. Shef- 
 field obtained employment as a clerk in one of 
 the general merchandise establishments and re- 
 mained there until 1875, at which time he came 
 to Kaysville and accepted a position as clerk for 
 Christopher Layton, who later sold the business 
 to Hyrum Stewart. After resigning his position 
 with Mr. Layton our subject erected a saw-mill 
 and took as a partner Lambert Blamires. They 
 conducted the business for about two years, when 
 they disposed of it and Mr. Sheffield went ^ to 
 work for the co-operative .store at this place, 
 remaining with them about ten years. In 1889 
 he decided to enter the mercantile life on his own 
 hook and accordinely invested what means he 
 had saved in a small stock of goods and began 
 in the general merchandise line in a small way. 
 His business increased so rapidly that in 1892 
 he was obliged to move into more commodious 
 quarters, erecting a building thirty by sixty feet. 
 He remained here until 1899, when it again be- 
 came necessary for him to have more room and 
 he erected another fine storehouse, of the same 
 dimensions as the first, and at this time occu- 
 pies both buildings. He owns a handsome home 
 here, his grounds being beautifully decorated 
 with trees, flowers, private fish pond, etc., and 
 his house, a fine, modern structure, fitted up with 
 all the latest conveniences and appliances. 
 
 Mr. Sheffield was married in 1875 to Miss 
 Sarah H. Blamires, a native of Yorkshire, Eng- 
 land. They have three children — Heber J., Jun- 
 ior ; George B. and Fred .V. 
 
 Politically he is a member of the Democratic 
 party and has on a number of occasions served 
 his fellow citizens in different public capacities. 
 He has at diflferent times been a member of the 
 City Council and is at this time serving in that 
 
 capacity by appointment. He was a member of 
 the Board of School Trustees for a number of 
 years. 
 
 Both Mr. and .Mrs. Sheffield are faithful and 
 devoted members of the Mormon Church, and 
 have brought their children up in that belief. 
 Heber J., Junior, is at this time absent on a mis- 
 sion to the Society Islands. Mr. Sheffield is a 
 member of the Seventies and Assistant Superin- 
 tendent of the Sunday School. Ever since he 
 has been a resident of this place Mr. Sheffield 
 has taken an active part in all matters pertain- 
 ing to the public welfare, and especially in edu- 
 cational matters. He is a firm believer in edu- 
 cation for the youth of Utah, and in his own fam- 
 ily has given his sons every advantage possible 
 along these lines. Two of his sons are at this 
 time clerking in his store, and the family is one 
 of the most highly respected in Kaysville. 
 
 LEXANDER H. HILL, DECEASED, 
 was born in Toronto, Canada. He was 
 the son of Alexander and Agnes 
 (Hood) Hill, . who removed to the 
 LTniled States in 1841 and came to 
 L'tah in 1849. ^^^ ^^'^^ °"^ °^ ^^^^ early pio- 
 neers to this State, and one who by his un- 
 tiring industry had not only made for himself 
 a prominent place among its prosperous farmers, 
 but had also acquired a reputation for upright- 
 ness and integrity that brought him the respect 
 and esteem of all his business associates. He 
 lived in Mill Creek \\'ard, in Salt Lake county, 
 until the day of his death. 
 
 He was married on January 19, 1857, to Miss 
 Jane Park, daughter of William and Jane (Dun- 
 can) Park, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere 
 in this work. Her parents were natives of Scot- 
 land and came to Canada in the early days and 
 were there converted to the teachings of the Mor- 
 mon Church. They made the long overland trip 
 from Canada to Nauvoo by ox team, in 1846, 
 and remained there that winter, leaving in the 
 following spring for Utah. This was one of the 
 largest families that came in the train of the pio- 
 neers, there being nine children, besides the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 father and mother. By this marriage Mr. Hill 
 had nine children, five of whom are still living. 
 They are: Jane, now the wife of John Wardell, 
 of Wyoming; Alexander P., who died at the age 
 of twenty-five ; William, who died at the age of 
 thirty-one; Agnes, wife of Samuel Mackey ; 
 James, engaged in tne sheep business in \\'yom- 
 ing; Aloroni, also a resident of Wyoming, and 
 Joseph N. The entire family of Mr. Hill belong 
 to the Mormon Church, and have been consistent 
 and faithful members of that religion through- 
 out their lives. 
 
 At his death, on July 27, 1898, he was one 
 of the most respected farmers in the Mill Creek- 
 Ward, and was honored and looked up to hv all 
 who 'knew him. He left Mrs. Hill a home- 
 stead of forty acres to hold until her death. He 
 was buried in Mill Creek cemetery. Throughout 
 his life our subject was active in all Church 
 matters, and in political life followed the teach- 
 ings of the Republican party. 
 
 Mrs. Hill has now taken up her husband's 
 work, and together with her sons and family is 
 interested in the sheep business. She now has 
 nineteen grandchildren. During Mr. Hill's life 
 he enjoyed a prosperous career as a sheep dealer, 
 and, in fact, was successful in all the undertak- 
 ings in wdiich he engaged. Mrs. Hill is a sister 
 of Andrew D., Hugh D., William D. and John 
 D. Park, sketches of whose lives appear else- 
 where in this work. 
 
 iP.ERT I'lKE was born in Norfolk, 
 i-'ngland, January 22, 1846. He was 
 the son of Ann Pike. Owing to the 
 fact that his father died when he was 
 an infant, nothing is known of him. 
 Mr. Pike grew to manhood in England, and was 
 educated in the common schools that then ex- 
 isted in that country, and in 1868 emigrated to 
 America, arriving in the United States in the 
 fall of 1868. He made the trip across the plains 
 with ox teams, and after arriving in Salt Lake 
 City came to Mill Creek Ward in 1869, and the 
 next vear went to Riverdale, where he engaged 
 
 in farming for one year, and then returned to 
 Mill Creek Ward, now Wilford Ward, where 
 he has lived ever since. His present home is on 
 Ninth East, between Ihirteenth and Fourteenth 
 South streets, and comprises twelve acres of 
 fine land, a good adobe house and out houses, 
 and all the improvements necessary for the 
 proper carrying on of his farm work. Mr. Pike 
 has won for himself a comfortable competence 
 from his farming industry, and this result is due 
 entirely to his own untiring energy and un- 
 daunted perseverance. The unpromising con- 
 ditions which existed when he took up his land 
 and the barrenness of the country, which dis- 
 couraged so many people, led him only to bend 
 his energies the harder in concjuering the adverse 
 conditions, in which he has so far succeeded that 
 he is now one of the most prosperous farmers 
 in Salt Lake county. 
 
 He was married October 21, 1872, to Mrs. Ade- 
 line M. (Woods) Millard, daughter of Edwin and 
 Edna (Enshliff) Woods. Her parents and their 
 family came to Utah in the early days, and were 
 among the pioneers to this State. By this mar- 
 riage Mr. Pike has had seven children — Mary 
 E.. now Mrs. Dye, a resident of Idaho; Robert 
 W., now on a mission to the Southern States ; 
 Elijah T. and Eliza, Lawrence R., of Idaho; 
 Edna D. and Hazel R. Airs. Pike is also the 
 mother of Edna M. and Henry Millard, whom 
 she bore to her first husband. These children 
 are living in Uintah, Weber county, L^tah, and 
 are both married. The daughter is now Mrs. 
 Cornelius Green. 
 
 In political life Mr. Pike has always been a 
 Democrat, but has never had the time to give 
 to active work of the party, and has never so- 
 licited public oftice. He has held the position 
 of school trustee of his district for some time. 
 He became a member of the Church when quite 
 a child, and has been a faithful member of that 
 religion ever since. His wife and children also 
 belong to this Church. 
 
 Mr. Pike is essentially a self-made man, and 
 has made his own way through life without as- 
 sistance from any one. He is well and favor- 
 ably known by all the residents of his conmiu- 
 nity, and enjoys their confidence and esteem. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 529 
 
 I'.XRY \V. BROWxX, Vice-President of 
 tlie Utah National Bank, President of 
 Salt Lake Saddlery Company, and one 
 of the most prominent miningf men in 
 Utah, was born in Fairfield, Jefferson 
 county, Iowa, and there spent the first thirteen 
 years of his life, obtaining his education from the 
 common schools of his native town. At the a,s:e 
 of thirteen years he went to Nebraska, where his 
 two older brothers were engaged in the stock 
 and ranch business, and there he completed his 
 education at Doan College, in Crete. His brothers 
 took him into partnership with them and for 
 many years he was a member of the firm of Brown 
 Brothers, of Fremont, Dodge county, Nebraska, 
 one of the best known stock firms of that State, 
 noted as raisers of blooded horses, being the first 
 men to import fine animals from England to Ne- 
 braska, and bringing that State to the front as 
 a producer of blooded stock. They took up land 
 at an early day when it had but little market 
 value, and in this wav became large land owners, 
 having some of the most valuable land in the 
 State at this time, and the brothers being among 
 the leading: men in Nebraska. They shipped two 
 carloads of their stock to L^tah in 1882. 
 
 Mr. Brown's fatlier came to Iowa from Penn- 
 sylvania in 1844. He was a blacksmith by trade, 
 but after locating in Iowa took up the business of 
 freighting and contracting, which he continued 
 to follow until 1881, when he left Iowa and went 
 to Fremont, Nebraska, where he resided near his 
 sons. His wife bore the maiden name of Sarah 
 Ellen Fee, and was a native of Huntington coun- 
 ty, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hrown's parents died 
 within half an hour of each other on December 6, 
 1891, the father having celebrated his seventy- 
 ninth birthday the April previous, and the mother 
 being seventy-five in June. 
 
 Our subject severeil his connection with his 
 brothers in 1890, and came to Salt Lake City, 
 where he became interested in the famous Mer- 
 cur mine in connection with Gill S. Peyton, and 
 thev built the first successful cyanide mill ever 
 built in the L'^nitcd States. They developed this 
 mine and put in machinery, and it became one of 
 the best ore producing mines in L'tah, paying 
 thousands of dollars dividends to the owners. 
 
 Mr. Brown was Vice-President and Superinten- 
 dent of the company until 1894, when he resigned 
 that office, and in 1897 sold his interest to other 
 parties. He has also laree holdings in other min- 
 ing interests in this and adjoining States, and is 
 a leading spirit in the mining world. He has not 
 confined bis interests to mining, but had be- 
 come associated with many other enterprises in 
 Utah, among them being the Salt Lake Saddlery 
 Company, one of the largest establishments of 
 tiie kind in the West, and of which he is President 
 and the principal stockholder. He is also Vice- 
 President of the Utah National Bank, a well- 
 known financial institution of this city. He has 
 kept up his interest in horseflesh and has done 
 much to encourage the breeding of high grade 
 stock in Utah. He himself owns one of the finest 
 stallions in this countrv, Altoka, who has a record 
 of 2 :io>2. 
 
 Mr. Brown was married in Dodge county, Ne- 
 braska, to Miss Carrie L. Smith, a native of Cana- 
 da, raised in New York and came to Illinois with 
 her people, moving from there to Nebraska. Two 
 children have been born of this marriage, Wayne 
 F., who died February 7, 1902, and Ralph, a 
 student in the high school, at the age of fifteen 
 years. 
 
 In politics Mr. Brown has been a Republican all 
 his life, but while anxious for the success of his 
 oarty has never been an active worker in its ranks, 
 nor sought or held public office. 
 
 His life has been a remarkably successful one ; 
 starting out at the tender age of thirteen years 
 he has since had to look out for himself, and like 
 his brothers has won his success through his own 
 honest efforts, setting his standard high and ever 
 striving to attain his end through honorable busi- 
 ness methods. There were six brothers in this 
 family, all of whom have made honorable and 
 successful careers, none of them ever havmg been 
 addicted to the use of whiskey or tobacco, or vices 
 of any description ; all being men of high standing 
 in the comnumities where thev live. 
 
530 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 XDREW D. PARK. Among the pio- 
 neers who came to Utah in the early 
 ilays of the settlement of this State 
 and took up the occupation of farm- 
 ing in the vicinity of Salt Lake City, 
 was William Park, and his sons are now among 
 the most prominent men of Salt Lake county. 
 
 Andrew D. Park, the subject of this sketch, 
 was burn in Canada, in 1845. He is the ninth 
 child of William and Jane (Duncan) Park, who 
 were among the early members of the Morinon 
 Church, and who followed the fortunes of that 
 Church during the troublesome times in Illinois 
 of the settlement in Nebraska, and later emi- 
 grated to the great Salt Lake valley, where with 
 rare courage and endurance they built for them- 
 selves a substantial place in this community. 
 William Park, the father of the subject of this 
 sketch, was born in Scotland in 1805, and his 
 mother, Jane (Duncan) Park, was also a native 
 of that country. They came to Canada in 1821, 
 and resided there until 1846, when they became 
 converts to the teachings of the Mormon Church 
 and emigrated to Illinois, where they remained 
 until the abandonment of Nauvoo and the set- 
 tlement of the members of the Church at Winter 
 Quarters, in Nebraska. Here they remained 
 until the wagon train in charge of President 
 John Taylor was organized for the journey to 
 Utah. He was in command of the entire train, 
 and under him Edward Hunter was captain of 
 one hundred wagons ; Joseph Horn was captain 
 of fifty wagons, and x\rchibald Gardner was cap- 
 tain of ten wagons. They successfully made the 
 entire trip from the Missouri river to the Salt 
 L,ake vallev, arriving in Utah on October 6, 1847. 
 X ne Park family was the largest family among 
 the pioneers, comprising as it did, nine children 
 and the two parents. During their residence in 
 Utah two more children were born into the fam- 
 ily. The Parks spent the first winter in the "Old 
 Fort," and in 1849 moved to Mill Creek Ward, 
 at a time when it was sparsely settled and few 
 families lived there. The father immediately be- 
 gan farming, and also turned his attention to 
 stock raising, and was engaged in that busi- 
 ness until his death in 1890. His wife died in 
 1873. Their children were all reared in Utah 
 
 and received their education from the schools 
 that then existed in their locality. 
 
 Our subject, Andrew D. Park, was married 
 in 1868, and resided at home working for his 
 father until that time. He was married on March 
 14th of that year to Miss Jane A. Ellison, 
 daughter of James and Alice Ellison, whose 
 parents came to Utah in the early fifties, his 
 wife being born in England, where her parents 
 were converted to the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church. By this marriage Mr. Park has nine 
 children living. They are : Alice, now the wife 
 of Reuben J. Bailey, of Wilford Ward ; Martha 
 Jane, William Andrew, wdio, with his brother, 
 James Henrv, is associated with his father in 
 the sheep business in the Mill Creek Ward ; Etnel 
 Gertrude, now the wife of Eugene Watts, of 
 Grant Ward ; Lillie May, Amanda F., Pearl L-, 
 and Clive P. S. Park. Mr. Park has a hand- 
 some brick and adobe house on his homestead 
 site of sixty-nine acres, and in addition to this 
 owns another farm of eighty acres, stocked with 
 sheep and cattle. 
 
 In political affairs he is a believer in the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, but has never 
 held office. He has been a member of the Mor- 
 mon Church ever since his childhood, as have his 
 wife and children. He has been prominent in 
 the affairs of the Church, and has been a Ward 
 teacher, and is now an Elder in its organzation. 
 He is one of the successful farmers and stock- 
 raisers of this region, and enjoys a wide popu- 
 larity. 
 
 Although Mr. Park is only fifty-si.x years of 
 age, he has passed through all the trying times 
 which the frontiersman experienced in the early 
 settlement of Utah. He at present enjoys splen- 
 did health and looks back to his experiences as 
 chapters in his life which he considers invalu- 
 able. Throughout the first winter that he spent 
 in Utah it was not infrequent for the blankets on 
 which they slept in the night to be frozen to- 
 the ground. Most of the pioneers were em- 
 ployed in the lumber camps of Utah, getting 
 out lumber to build homes, and Air. Park and 
 his brother took their share in the tasks, al- 
 though they were but children. They drove the 
 oxen and hauled the wood from the lumber camps 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 531 
 
 to the sites of the buildings. Mr. Park's father 
 was in the cattle and sheep raisins;- business, and 
 when our subject reached the age of discretion 
 he engaged in this business, and has now asso- 
 ciated with him his sons in the sanie business. 
 They are one of the most congenial families in 
 tne vicinity of Salt Lake City, and have won a 
 wide reputation for their honesty and integrity 
 in the sheep raising and wool business. 
 
 m 1 
 
 AMES S. CARLISLE, one of the pros- 
 perous farmers of Mill Creek Ward. 
 comes of a long line of English ancestry, 
 tracing his family to Lincolnshire, En- 
 gland, back to his great-grandfather. 
 Thomas Carlisle. The great-grandfather, the 
 grandfather, Richard, and the father, Joseph Car- 
 lisle, were all born in this place. The paternal 
 grandmother of our subject bore the maiden name 
 of Jane Fields. In 1851 Joseph Carlisle came to 
 America with his father and located in Saint 
 Louis, where he was married to Isabel Sharp 
 whose birthplace was also Lincolnshire, England, 
 and who became the mother of our subject. The 
 grandmother of our subject died in Saint Louis 
 of cholera. The grandfather crossed the plains 
 to Utah with President John Taylor, when he 
 freighted the machinery for the Utah sugar fac- 
 tory across the plains in 1852. The following 
 vear the father of our subject joined an emigrant 
 train at Keokuk, Iowa, and reached Salt Lake 
 City on September 17, 1853. He at once came 
 to Mill Creek Ward, where he is still living. The 
 family consisted of five boys and two girls — 
 Joseph R., junior; James S., our subject; Fred- 
 erick, Harvey C, E. Franklin, Isabel, now Mrs. 
 Joseph Walters, and Pearl, now the wife of 
 Bishop U. G. Miller, of Murray. Both the par- 
 ents are living in the enjoyment of good health. 
 Our subject was born in Mill Creek on Sep- 
 tember 4, 1859. The opportunities afiforded the 
 children of those days were meager, indeed, com- 
 pared with the almost unsurpassed advantages 
 offered at this time, but Mr. Carlisle was of an 
 ambitious and studious nature, and embraced 
 every possible opportunity for increasing his book 
 lore, bringing books home to read and study, and 
 
 has all his life since been more or less of a stu- 
 dent. 
 
 On February 11, 1884, he was united in the 
 bonds of wedlock to Miss Katurah White, daugh- 
 ter of Edward and Eliza White, who emigrated 
 to Utah soon after Brigham Young first came, 
 and are still living in Wilford Ward, in the east- 
 ern part of Salt Lake county. Three children 
 have come to gladden the home of Mr. Carlisle — 
 Katurah, Carrie and Anna, aged eleven, eight 
 and five years, respectively. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Carlisle located on 
 thirty acres of wild land in the west end of Mill 
 Creek Ward. This land was then covered with 
 a dense growth of willows and sage brush, and 
 required the hardest kind of labor in the clear- 
 ing, the work being all done by hand, as it is 
 only of recent years that proper machinery has 
 been invented for the successful grubbing of 
 sage brush, the roots of which are extremely 
 long and very tough, making its extermination 
 difficult. He now owns fifty acres of valuable 
 land, covered with grain and other farm prod- 
 uce, much of it being given over to the raising of 
 alfalfa. The land is well irrigated from the Jor- 
 dan river, and the house is supplied from an arte- 
 sian well. In the place of the rude log cabin 
 which was the first home of Mr. and Mrs. Car- 
 lisle, they now have a lovely brick house, sur- 
 rounded by orchard and shade trees, and it is 
 altogether a most desirable spot in which to spend 
 one's days. In addition to his general farm Mr. 
 Carlisle devotes a portion of his time to fatten- 
 ing cattle for market, and raising standard bred 
 Hamiltonian horses. 
 
 He has been affiliated with the Republican 
 party ever since its formation in Utah, and while 
 not an office seeker, has always been a staunch 
 supporter of his party and jealous for its suc- 
 cess. He has been a member of the Mormon 
 Church all his life, and his wife and family are 
 members of the same faith. In the Carlisle fam- 
 ily the father and three of his sons have been 
 absent at different times on missions for the 
 Church. James served in the Southern field, but 
 was released and returned home on account of a 
 fever which he contracted during the first year 
 of his stay. Joseph R. labored for two years 
 
532 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in the Southern States, and at home has been a 
 superintendent of Sunday School for several 
 years. Our subject has been a Ward teacher 
 for many years, and is at this time a superin- 
 tendent of religion classes in Mill Creek Ward. 
 He is also a member of the Seventies. His 
 brother-in-law, Tobe Felkin, is a member of the 
 High Council of Granite Stake, as is also his 
 brother, Harvey C. Carlisle. Mrs. Carlisle is a 
 member of the. Ladies' Relief Society of Mill 
 Creek Ward, in which she is an active worker, 
 and her mother, Mrs. White, is President of the 
 society in her Ward. The family is a very prom- 
 inent one, in both social and religious circles, and 
 all highly respected. Mrs. Carlisle's brother. 
 John W., is First Counselor to Bishop Cum- 
 mings, of Wilford Ward, and her brother, 
 Mathew, is Superintendent of the Sunday School 
 in the same Ward. Her father has filled two mis- 
 sions to Europe, and four of her brothers have 
 seen like service in Europe and the L^nited 
 States. 
 
 \MES M. FISHER, JR. The time is 
 fast coming when the early settlers and 
 |iioneers of L'tah will have performed 
 the last act in building up and develop- 
 ing this new country from a wild and 
 barren waste into a beautiful, thriving and pros- 
 perous country ; but as they one by one say the 
 last good-bye they well know that the work they 
 have begun will be ablv carried on by their sons 
 and daughters. Among the native sons of Utah 
 who have during their lives assisted in improv- 
 ing and beautifying Utah county, should be men- 
 tioned the subject of this sketch, James 'SI. Fisher, 
 junior. 
 
 He was born in Box Elder county, Utah, on 
 December 14, 1857, and is the son of James M. 
 and Edith E. (Pierce) Fisher. His parents were 
 both natives of Pennsylvania, and came to Utah 
 with their people in the early days of the settle- 
 ment of the State. J\lrs. Fisher came in 1847. 
 and Mr. Fisher came in 1852. They were mar- 
 ried in January, 1857, when they moved to Box 
 Elder county, where their son was born. In the 
 spring of 1858, during the Johnston army trou- 
 
 bles, they moved to the southern part of this 
 State, and later returned to Salt Lake county, lo- 
 cating on the place where our subject now lives, 
 and are still living in that vicinity. Mr. Fisher, 
 senior, at first only took up thirty-five acres of 
 land, but later homesteaded one hundred and 
 sixty acres, deeding portions of the land to squat- 
 ters who had already settled upon it. Mr. Fisher 
 has taken an active interest in the development 
 of Salt Lake county, and has done much towards 
 bringing the State up to its present high stan- 
 dard, and stands high in the estimation of the peo- 
 ple of his community. 
 
 Our subject was twice married. His first wife 
 was Miss Mary M. Xefif, daughter of Franklin 
 and Frances M. (Stillman) Neff, pioneers *:o 
 L'tah. The ceremony was performed December 
 26, 1S78, and of this marriage thirteen children 
 were born, all of whom are now living. They are : 
 Madison N., Francis E., Franklin P., Leonidas 
 and Lyle. twins; Junius F., Caleb L., Minerva, 
 ?ilaude, Alfaretta, Joshua, Arta E., and Vivian L. 
 In 1885 he married his second wife, Miss Cyn- 
 thia Burnham, daughter of Wallace K. and Lydia 
 ( Stanley) Burnham, and of this marriage three 
 children were born — Arvilla, Retta and James M. 
 Mr. Fisher has always lived here from the time 
 •his parents came to this county in 1858. and his 
 wife ^larv M. fXcff) Fisher was born and raised 
 here. 
 
 Mr. Fisher has fourteen acres of land on Four- 
 teenth East, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth 
 South streets, all highly developed and the most 
 of which is devoted to the raising of fruit. When 
 he became the owner of this land it was covered 
 with sage brush, and Mr. Fisher has since then 
 cleared it off and improved it, and today owns a 
 good farm, upon which he has erected a fine brick 
 residence, with good outbuildings, etc. In 1890 
 he started a nursery, but as his place grew into 
 fruit he abandoned the nursery business and con- 
 fined his attention to fruit raising, in which he 
 has been very successful. Previous to this time 
 he, for nine years, operated the old Neff pio- 
 neer flour mill. 
 
 In politics Mr. Fisher is a follower of the Dem- 
 ocratic party, and one of the active workers in 
 his Ward, though he has never been a party can- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 533 
 
 didate for office, devoting his time outside of his 
 business to the work of the schools, of which he 
 has served for a number of years as trustee, and 
 which position he now holds, and to the duties 
 which he has been called to perform in the inter- 
 ests of the Mormon Church, of which he and his 
 entire family are devoted and consistent members. 
 He has also in the past been pound keeper for the 
 district. Air. Fisher has all his life been an active 
 participant in the work of the Church of his 
 choice, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of 
 the leaders of that body. He was first ordained 
 to the Priesthood as a Deacon and President of 
 a Quorum, later being ordained an Elder and be- 
 coming Clerk of the Quorum, and since 1884 he 
 has filled the position of Clerk and Director of 
 his Ward. From 1880 to 1885 he was Super- 
 intendent of the Mutual Improvement Society, 
 and since that time has been Assistant Superin- 
 tendent of the Sunday School of his Ward, and 
 is at this time a member of the Seventies, being 
 one of the Presidents of the One Hundred and 
 Twenty-second Quorum of the Seventies. These 
 different offices have called for a large portion 
 of his time, and much arduous labor, but he has 
 ever been found willing to respond to any de- 
 mand made by the Church upon both his time, 
 strength and means, and the high regard in which 
 he is held by the higher officials of the Church 
 is evidenced by the positions he has been called 
 upon to fill. His wife and sons are also active 
 in Church matters, Mrs. Fisher being prominent 
 in the work of the Relief Society of her Ward, 
 of which she was the first Secretary, and her 
 daughter, Frances E., is a member of the Young 
 Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. His 
 son, Madison X.. was called to serve as a mis- 
 sionary in the Southern States on March 17, i8q8, 
 being absent twenty-eight months, and was again 
 called to go to Arizona on October 15, 1901, for 
 five months, in the interests of the Mutual Im- 
 provement Association, and is now doing effect- 
 ive work in the Gila valley. Franklin P. was 
 called in May, 1899 on a colonization mission at 
 Alberta, Canada, and there he met and married 
 Miss Sarah Gibb. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have 
 a beautiful and interesting family, all the chil- 
 dren being exceptionally bright and obedient, and 
 
 the Fisher home is considered one of the pleas- 
 antest in that Ward. 
 
 By his close attention to business and his up- 
 right, straightforward and manly life, Mr. Fisher 
 has built up a well-deserved reputation as a cit- 
 izen of one of the leading and growing States 
 of the Union, and his sincerity, his devotion to his 
 Church, and his courteous and kindly manner has 
 won for him a host of friends both in and out of 
 his immediate circle of acquaintances, and his 
 career is one to which his children may well point 
 with pride. 
 
 MOS S. GABBOTT is one of the active 
 sons of Utah who have done much 
 towards carrying forward the noble 
 work begun by the early pioneers, who 
 left home, friends, wealth and all that 
 ones to !iiake up a happy and comfortable life, 
 that they might make for themselves a home 
 . where they could worship according to the dic- 
 tates of their own conscience. 
 
 Mr. Gabbott was born in Salt Lake City, Jan- 
 uary 20, 1856, and is the son of Edward and Jane 
 (Cjmith) Gabbott. The father was a native of 
 England, being born near Preston, Lancashire. 
 He became a member of the Mormon Church 
 there, but gave up his home to come to this coun- 
 try and follow the fortunes of the Church whose 
 faith he had adopted. With his family he ar- 
 rived in America in 1841, going direct to the 
 headquarters of the Church at Nauvoo, Illinois, 
 where he became a firm friend of the Prophet 
 Joseph Smith, and other leaders of the Church. 
 From that time until his death in Salt Lake City, 
 in 1876, he was a faithful, consistent and active 
 member of the Mormon faith, rearing his fam- 
 ily in its doctrines and leaving them a noble ex- 
 ample of high Christian manhood and business 
 integrity. A sketch of this worthy man and his 
 son John, the half-brother of our subject, appears 
 elsewhere in this work. The wise and faithful 
 mother, whose self-sacrificing nature won for her 
 the love and respect of all those with whom she 
 came in contact, was born in Bucks county. Penn- 
 sylvania. Although not of Mormon parentage, 
 she was still a young woman when she partook 
 
534 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of its enlightening faith, and soon after leaving 
 her family, she joined a company of emigrants to 
 make Salt Lake City her future home. It was 
 here she met and married Mr. Gabbott. She lived 
 to do a good work, making a most noble record 
 as a mother and wife until the ripe age of eighty- 
 one, when, in the spring of 1895, she died. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in this vicinity 
 and obtained such education as the schools then 
 afforded, working on his father's farm in the 
 summers and attendiii"' school for a few weeks in 
 the winter. 
 
 In the autumn of 1877 he was married to Miss 
 Angle Mc.-Mlister, daughter of J. D. T. McAl- 
 lister, at this time President of the Manti Tem- 
 ple, and Angie (Goforth) McAllister, and of this 
 marriage seven children were born. They are : 
 An^ie, now Mrs. R. L. McGhie; Emmaretta, the 
 wife of C. M. Brown ; John ;\I., Katie, Bessie 
 who died at the age of nine years ; Jennie, and 
 Edward. The daughter Angie is a graduate of 
 the University of LUah, and is now teaching in 
 the schools of Salt Lake county. 
 
 Mr. Gabbott now owns the old homestead, at 
 1460 State street, where he has a commodious 
 and comfortable home, which was built by his 
 father, and where the parents spent their declin- 
 ing: days. He has devoted himself largely to 
 farming and has accumulated considerable prop- 
 erty in Salt Lake county. 
 
 Politically he is an adherent of the principles of 
 the Republican partv, and has ever been an active 
 worker in its ranks. 
 
 Being a man of strong principles and ever ex- 
 ercising good judgment, he has won the confi- 
 dence and resnect of those with whom he has been 
 associated. 
 
 XOCIi R. PUGH was born in Council 
 niuffs, Iowa, January 10, 1848, and is 
 the son of Edward and Mary Ann 
 (Rock) Pugh, who were natives of 
 England, the family emigrating from 
 England and coming to Iowa and later to Utah, 
 arriving here in 185,^. They settled in the Mill 
 Creek Ward in the fall of that year and took up 
 
 their residence on Sixteenth South and Ninth 
 East streets. His father lived throughout all 
 the time that the Church was being established 
 and brought to its present high state of efficiency, 
 and died at a ripe old age in iqoi, respected and 
 honored by all who knew him. His mother, 
 Mary Ann Pugh, also lived to be quite old and 
 died at the home of her late husband, which he 
 had established in ATili Creek Ward. Our sub- 
 ject now has the old homestead, which comprises 
 sixty-five acres, and has given the most of his 
 attention to the cattle business. 
 
 He was married on May 26, 1872, to Miss Har- 
 riett Hughes, daughter of James and Elizabeth 
 (Swallow) Hughes. Her father came to Utah in 
 i860, and at the present writing is still living in 
 the Mill Creek Ward. They have had seven chil- 
 dren by this marriage — Nancy, now Mrs. George 
 Boyce ; Laura, now Mrs. George Simper ; Byron, 
 Mamie, Mav, Willard and Donetta. 
 
 In political life Mr. Pugh is independent, but 
 has never run for office nor has he ever desired 
 to hold a position of public trust. He and his 
 family are members of the Mormon Church, and 
 have been consistent and faithful followers of that 
 religion throughout their lives. The success which 
 iNIr. Pugh has made marks him as a self-made man 
 of the West. He was early to work and assisted 
 Ills parents to support the family. In the early 
 davs of the decade of the fifties he was employed 
 in cutting timber in the mountains and hauling it 
 into the city for consumption by the settlers. This 
 was an arduous task in those days from the fact 
 tliat the sons of the pioneers went out to the can- 
 yons in the night time, and, with only a blanket 
 to cover them, slept in the cold air, and in the 
 winter time especially it was frequently found 
 in the morning that their blankets had become 
 frozen to the ground, and often they found it nec- 
 essary to clear the ground of snow before they 
 could light their fires. In the summer time he 
 was employed in working as a farm hand and do- 
 ing all the work that fell to the lot of the pioneer 
 agriculturalists. Through these struggles in a 
 new land and through all these efforts to obtain a 
 living he has come triumphant, and now enjoys 
 such success as a farmer as is not excelled by any 
 other resident of his localitv. He has been a hard 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 535 
 
 worker throughout his life, and the successful 
 career which he has made as a farmer in Utah, 
 and his integrity and honesty has won him the 
 confidence and esteem of all who know him. His 
 farm is one of the finest in the county and his 
 buildings and the impiovements he has made in- 
 dicate the care with which he tills his land and 
 cares for his property. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Pugh made a trip to the Missouri 
 river and escorted a train of fifty emigrant wagons 
 across the plains to Utah. 
 
 HRACE S. ELDREDGE, Deceased. 
 Among the men of large business abil- 
 ity, who helped establish the Mormon 
 Church on a solid foundation, Horace 
 S. Eldredge had perhaps no equal in 
 his line. A great financier, he safely carried the 
 Church institutions over the shoals that ship- 
 wrecked so many financial institutions through- 
 out the country in 1873, and through his personal 
 credit and unblemished reputation for integrity 
 which he had established in business centers was 
 able to render the Church a service which she 
 could never repay. ]\Iany positions of high honor 
 were his during the first years of the new Ter- 
 ritory, and when the Church felt the need of 
 some one to look after the thousands of emi- 
 grants being landed on our shores from foreign 
 countries, they called upon Horace S. Eldredge 
 and, like the faithful servant that he was, he at 
 once responded to the call, spending about four 
 years altogether in that work and putting the 
 Church machinery in the East in smooth running 
 order. 
 
 Horace S. Eldredge was born February 6, 
 1816, in Brutus, Cayuga county, New York. His 
 mother died at the time he was but eight years 
 of age, and her death made a very strong im- 
 pression on his childish mind. He became filled 
 with the belief that he must live such a life as 
 would insure his meeting her in the future, and 
 this feeling led to his uniting with the Baptist 
 Church when he was sixteen years of age. How- 
 ever, his religious experience was not satisfac- 
 tory and at the age of twenty he united with the 
 
 Mormon Church, whose doctrines he had heard 
 preached in the early spring of that year, and 
 had after a careful and thorough investigation 
 become convinced that this was the true faith. 
 His people were much opposed to this step, but 
 he never faltered in his purpose and gave up kin- 
 dred and friends for the sake of his religion. He 
 settled on a farm in Independence, Indiana, that 
 year, but being desirous of living in the same 
 community with other members of the church of 
 his (jhoice he sold out and moved to Far West, 
 Missouri, where he purchased two hundred and 
 thirty acres of improved land. However, the 
 people of that State were opposed to the prac- 
 tices and teachings of the Church, and the feel- 
 ing thus engendered grew until it resulted in the 
 Mormons being forbidden to vote at the polls, 
 and the quarrel grew and assumed such propor- 
 tions that Governor Boggs finally issued an order 
 under which the members of the Church were 
 driven from the State, the Prophet Joseph Smith 
 and a number of the other leaders being impris- 
 oned. A number of lives were lost in the battle 
 which ensued, and the Mormons lost a great deal 
 of real and personal property, Mr. Eldredge be- 
 ing among the number, and never receiving a 
 cent for the large tract of valuable land which 
 he had bought, and which incurred a heavy- loss 
 to him. He returned to Indiana, where he re- 
 mained until 1840, when he joined the company 
 at Xauvoo, Illinois, where the Prophet had pur- 
 chased a town site after making his escape from 
 the Missouri prison. Here Mr. Eldredge assisted 
 in breaking the ground for the Temple, witness- 
 ing the completion of the structure and doing 
 his full share towards building up the town. At 
 the time of the exodus in 1846 he went to Win- 
 ter Quarters with the main body of the Church 
 and there built a rude log hut, which was the 
 first shelter the family had had since the early 
 spring. Two of his children succumbed to the 
 hardships and privations which they had under- 
 gone, and were buried in Winter quarters. He 
 remained there until the spring of 1848 when he 
 came to Utah in Brigham Young's company of 
 five hundred teams, which was followed by an- 
 other company of about the same size under 
 Heber C. Kimball. They arrived in Salt Lake 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 City September 22, 1848, only to find that the 
 crops of that year had been a failure, having been 
 destroyed by the crickets, and food being scarce, 
 much suffering was experienced by the people 
 that winter. Mr. Eldredge"s first work was the 
 erection of a comfortable home for his family, it 
 being the first pleasant abode they had had since 
 leaving Winter Quarters, and which they occu- 
 pied in 1852. The house is still standing. Prior 
 to that time he and his family lived in a log 
 cabin. Upon arriving in Utah Mr. Eldredge 
 was appointed Marshal of the Territory and As- 
 sessor and Collector of Taxes. He was also ap- 
 pointed and commissioned Brigadier-General of 
 one of the first companies of infantry in the Ter- 
 ritory. The season of 1849 was a very fruitful 
 one and the settlers gathered an abundant har- 
 vest, which they celebrated in royal style on the 
 second anniversary of their arrival in the valley, 
 Mr. Eldredge being on the committee oi arrange- 
 ments and Grand Marshal of the day. Not only 
 the members of the colony but also many strang- 
 ers passing through on their way to California 
 partook of the bounteous repast, and it was a 
 time of general thanksgiving and rejoicing. 
 
 In the fall of 1852 Mr. Eldredge was called to 
 go to Saint Louis and preside over the Confer- 
 ence and act as Emigration Agent. The emigra- 
 tion from Europe and the Eastern States required 
 about four hundred wagons and outfits and about 
 two thousand head of oxen, during the spring 
 of 1853, and these were purchased under Mr. 
 Eldredge's supervision, after which he conducted 
 the train as far as Winter Quarters, and after 
 seeing it safely started on its journey across the 
 plains returned to St. Louis and from there paid 
 a visit to his family and friends in New York. 
 He spent that summer purchasing outfits for the 
 following spring. He received instructions from 
 the heads of the Church to purchase a large 
 quantity of merchandise and hire men and teams 
 to haul it across the country to the Salt Lake 
 valley, which he did, continuing in his capacity 
 of Emigration and Purchasing Agent for the 
 Church until 1855, at which time he was elected 
 a member of the Territorial Legislature and 
 called home. 
 
 In 1856 he entered into a contract with W. H. 
 
 Hooper to take a large stock of goods to Utah 
 county, and they started on October 23rd with 
 a train carrying fifteen thousand dollars worth 
 of merchandise. They opened a store in Provo, 
 which proved a success, but in the fall of the 
 following year, 1857, Mr. Eldredge was recalled 
 and again sent to St. Louis to resume the posi- 
 tion he had previously filled. He spent about a 
 year on this trip, visiting most of the larger 
 cities, and upon his return found his home and 
 the city deserted on account of the trouble that 
 had arisen with the entrance of Johnston's army 
 into Lftah, and found his family in Provo. After 
 the trouble was over and the family had once 
 more settled in Salt Lake our subject began pre- 
 parations for another trip across the plains, and 
 on September 14, 1858, in companv with his wife 
 and child and a number of other people, started 
 for the East, for the purpose of purchasing ma- 
 chinery and merchandise. He took with him 
 twenty-six thousand dollars on this^trip, and de- 
 posited the most of it in St. Louis, which place 
 he reached on November ist. He visited a num- 
 ber of the larger cities, making his purchases, 
 which he shipped to Florence ; among other pur- 
 chases was over two hundred and seventeen 
 Schuttler wagons and a number of cattle. In 
 ]\Iay, 1859, he started his first wagon train across 
 the plains under direction of Captain H. D. 
 Haight ; this train consisted of seventy-two wag- 
 ons, each drawn by three yoke of oxen. On June 
 1st he started out his second train of fifty wagons, 
 under Captain James Brown, and then loaded his 
 personal wagons, seventeen in number, with mer- 
 chandise sending it in charge of James Lemmon. 
 He left for Utah on July loth, and reached Salt 
 Lake City on August 15th, opening a store in 
 partnership with W. H. Hooper in part of the 
 building since occupied by the Herald. He made 
 a number of trips East after this, for the purpose 
 of purchasing supplies for himself or the Church, 
 investing between eight and ten thousand dol- 
 lars in machinery for a cotton factory in 1863. 
 This machinery was purchased from him by 
 President Young. He made other trips in 1864- 
 65 and 1867; during the latter year his wagons 
 were attacked by the Indians and twenty thousand 
 dollars worth of goods captured and destroyed. 
 
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 This merchandise was at that time in the hands of 
 the Union Pacific railroad, and being compelled 
 to sue the company for damages they received 
 a judgment for nineteen thousand five hundred 
 dollars, and settled with the companv for sixteen 
 thousand five hundred dollars. When the Zion 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution was estab- 
 lished in 1868 the firm sold out to them, our sub- 
 ject taking twenty-five thousand dollars worth of 
 stock in that institution, which afterwards in- 
 creased to forty thousand dollars in value, a. 
 became one of its first directors. In i86q in com- 
 pany with W. H. Hooper and L. S. Hills he 
 opened a banking establishment, which was the 
 following year incorporated imder the name of 
 the Deseret National Bank, capitalized at one 
 hundred and eighty thousand dollars. He spent 
 the next fourteen months in Europe, going there 
 in 1870, and during that time had charge of the 
 European missions of the Church. Two years 
 later he was elected President of the Zion's Co- 
 operative ]\Iercantile Institution, occupying also 
 the position of Manager and Superintendent in 
 connection with the Presidency, for a number of 
 years, and during the panic of 1873 it was largely 
 owing to his foresight and business sagacity and 
 personal credit that the institution was tided over 
 the crisis. During the years in which he con- 
 trolled the affairs of this institution it was put 
 upon a sound financial basis and many of the 
 plans for its enlargement were promulgated and 
 put inta practice by Mr. Eldredge. He was also 
 one of the foimders and a prime factor in the 
 establishing of the business of Clark Eldredge 
 & Company, which is one of the leading whole- 
 sale grocery houses of Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Eldredge died at his home in i>alt Lake 
 City, September 6, 1888, mourned by the people 
 of the entire Territory, who had come to know 
 and love him during his many years of public 
 service and also through his position as Emi- 
 gration Agent. It may safely be said that no 
 other man of his time lived closer to the hearts 
 of the people, saving only, perhaps, the President 
 of the Church, and the glowing tributes paid Mr. 
 Eldredge by Moses Thatcher and others were 
 listened to by a large concourse of sorrowing 
 friends. 
 
 ILL! AM D. PARK is the sixth 
 child of William and Jane (Dun- 
 can) Park, who were among the 
 ^^^ early settlers to come to Utah and 
 
 ' take up farming in Salt Lake 
 
 county. The progress which his father made has 
 been carried on in a higher degree by all of his 
 sons. And in the successful tilling of the ground 
 and in the conducting of a large and growing 
 sheep business, Wm. D. Park is considered one 
 of the foremost men of the county, in his line of 
 work. Sketches of his brothers, Andrew D., 
 Hugh D., John D., and also his brother-in-law, 
 Alexander H. Hill, the husband of his sister, 
 Jane, also appear elsewhere in this work. 
 
 Mr. Park was born in Canada, November 25, 
 1837, and the Park family were originally na- 
 tives of Scotland, his parents coming to America 
 at the ages of fourteen and sixteen, respectively, 
 and settled in the western part of upper Canada. 
 His paternal grandfather was James Park, a 
 prominent and prosperous Scotchman, and his 
 paternal grandmother was Marian (Allen) 
 Park, also a native of Scotland. The Park 
 family remained residents of the British Do- 
 minion until 1846, when the whole family, 
 consisting of the parents and nine children, 
 moved from Canada to Nauvoo, Illinois, mak- 
 ing the long trip to Illinois by ox teams, 
 and arriving there in 1846. They reached 
 that place at the time that public sentiment was 
 in its highest frenzy against the members of the 
 Mormon Church, and were among the members 
 who were forced to leave Illinois and take refuge 
 in the wilds of Nebraska, where they established 
 the settlement of Winter Quarters, now Flor- 
 ence, Nebraska, on the banks of the Missouri 
 river. The Park family were among the first 
 to come to Utah, arriving here in 1847, "ot only 
 being pioneers in crossing the plains, but blaz- 
 ing the way for the members of the Church to 
 -ome here in later years and marking the trails 
 so that the emigration was, considering the dif- 
 ficulties of travel, rendered comparatively easy. 
 They arrived in the Utah valley October 2, 1847. 
 They were under the direct command of Archi- 
 bald Gardiner, who was captain of ten wagons 
 in the train in which thev traveled. These ten 
 
538 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 wagons were one of the subdivisions under Cap- 
 tain Horn, who had fifty wagons under his con- 
 trol, and he in turn was under Captain Hunter, 
 who had under his command one hundred wag- 
 ons, the entire train being under the command 
 of John Taylor, late President of the Church. 
 Our subject drove two yoke of oxen all the way 
 from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake. Owing to 
 the enforced evacuation from Nauvoo and the 
 privations under which they suffered, many of 
 the Mormons were poorly equipped with clothes, 
 and young Park was not among the best fa- 
 vored ; in fact, he made the trip bare-footed and 
 walked most of the way beside his team. They 
 remained in Salt Lake City throughout the win- 
 ter of 1847, ^"d in the spring of 1848. They 
 put in their first crop in Utah on the land now 
 occupied by the penitentiary, and moved to I\Iill 
 Creek Ward in 1849, where their father took up 
 land and turned his attention to the cultivation 
 of it, in which he was very successful. The first 
 year the crop was very good, and assisted consid- 
 erably in alleviating the distress of the pioneers. 
 The whole family of boys assisted their father 
 in the work of tilling the farm, and, like all 
 the sons of pioneers of those days, took their full 
 share of the work. In the summer they worked 
 on the farm, and in winter went to the moun- 
 tains, where they suflfered hardships that would 
 now seem almost beyond the endurance of man, 
 in getting out timber, not alone for fuel, but 
 also to be used in the erection of buildings here. 
 They all assisted in the erection of the Salt Lake 
 Temple, which was begun shortly after their 
 arrival here. In 1850 they built an adobe school, 
 and here the boys received what education they 
 ■could from an attendance limited to a few weeks 
 each winter. 
 
 Mr. Park married on February 17, i860, to 
 Miss Jannette Gordon, daughter of James and 
 Mary Gordon. This family was also among the 
 pioneers of Utah, coming here in 1848. The 
 Gordon family was a large one, and several of 
 the children are still living in Salt Lake county. 
 By this marriage Mr. Park has had fourteen 
 children, of which number four sons are now 
 dead. His children are: William G., a farmer 
 in ]\Iill Creek Ward ; James, who died at the age 
 
 of thirty-eight years and left behind him a wife 
 and si.x children ; Mary, now Mrs. Edward 
 Mackay, of Taylorsville Ward ; Jane, now Mrs. 
 Emil Bloom, of Mill Creek Ward; Joseph G., 
 at present absent in England on a mission, where 
 he has served two years ; Rachel, now the wife 
 of Harrison S. Shurtliff, a resident of Mill Creek 
 Ward ; John, who died at the age of sixteen 
 years ; Janette, now Mrs. Hyrum Harker ; Rob- 
 ert, engaged in the sheep business in Wyoming ; 
 Ellen, Andrew and David, twins, who died in 
 childhood ; Le Roy and Arthur. 
 
 The home which ^Ir. Park occupies has been 
 his residence since 1866. He owned it prior to 
 that time, but did not occupy it until that year. 
 The homestead is located on State street, be- 
 tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth South streets, 
 and contains one hundred acres. He has a com- 
 fortable home and good, substantial barns and 
 outhouses, and his land is all fenced. The water 
 used is furnished by artesian wells, and his house 
 is equipped with all the conveniences that mod- 
 ern inventions have supplied for the conveni- 
 ence of dwellers. He is also the owner of con- 
 siderable land in Wyoming, where he has a large 
 and growing sheep business. L'nder the desert 
 act he has 312 acres. His son, William G., owns 
 311 acres, and his son Robert 320 acres, which 
 at the present time is used for pasture, and also 
 for the growing of hay, their hay land being all 
 under irrigation. Mr. Park and his sons, who 
 are now associated with him in Wyoming, de- 
 vote their time to their large sheep business, 
 which has grown to a very prosperous and satis- 
 factory condition. 
 
 In political life Mr. Park is a Republican, and 
 is a prominent man in the work of his party. He 
 has been a delegate from his county to the con- 
 ventions to nominate candidates for the offices 
 in the State, and he has also been a delegate to 
 the National Live Stock Growers' Association, 
 having attended three sessions of that body. He 
 has followed the faith of his fathers, and early 
 joined the Mormon Church, to which faith his 
 wife and children also belong. They have all 
 taken a prominent part in the work of the 
 Church, and are counted among its staunchest 
 members in Salt Lake countv. His son, Wil- 
 
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 539 
 
 liam G., was for three years absent in Australia 
 on missionary work for the Church. Mr. Park 
 is not only a member of one of the earliest pio- 
 neer families in Salt Lake county, but the work 
 he has done entitles him to a high place in the 
 ranks of the business life of Utah, and especi- 
 ally in the live stock business. The reputation 
 which he has made for honesty and integrity, 
 together with the ability he has demonstrated in 
 successfully managing his business, has won for 
 him the confidence and respect of his business 
 associates, and his sincerity and large-minded- 
 ness in his Church work has brought him the con- 
 fidence and esteem of all the people of that or- 
 ganization, and he enjoys a wide popularity 
 throughout the State, and in Wvomine: as well. 
 
 ^^^ HE RIGHT REVEREND ABIEL 
 LEOXARD, S. T. D., Bishop of the 
 Episcopal Church in Utah. No one 
 can bequeath to posterity a richer heri- 
 tage than the memory of a noble life 
 devoted with unselfish affection to the uplifting 
 of the human race. Such a man will wield an in- 
 fluence that will not cease with his departure 
 from earth's scenes nor will death, while it may 
 change, be able to lessen his activities ; but in 
 deeds of kindness which he performed in self- 
 sacrificing acts of helpfulness and in ceaseless 
 ministrations to others, his influence still lives, 
 through his work as a clergyman, and in the less 
 conspicuous though not less useful routine of his 
 private life. Bishop Leonard has proven himself 
 to be one of God's noblemen. 
 
 1 he life which this narrative sketches began 
 at Fayette Missouri, where Bishop Leonard was 
 born June 26, 1848. He comes of New England 
 ancestry on his father's side, reaching back to 
 1652. He was educated in the schools of his 
 native town and in the preparatory department of 
 Washington University, St. Louis, and was grad- 
 uated from Dartmouth College in New Hamp- 
 shire, in 1870. 
 
 Having decided to enter the ministry of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church, he entered the 
 General Theological Seminary in New York City 
 in the autumn of 1870. and graduated from that 
 
 institution in 1873. He was ordained a Deacon 
 by Bishop Robertson of Missouri in what is com- 
 monly known as "The Little Church Around the 
 Corner," the Church of Transfiguration, in New 
 York City. He entered upon the duties of his 
 life work at once in Sedalia, Missouri, where he 
 remained three years, being ordained Priest dur- 
 ing his residence at that place. He also officiated 
 for a short time in Pike county, Missouri, and 
 afterwards in St. Louis, Missouri, removing in 
 1877 to Hannibal, in that State, where he re- 
 mained until November. 1881. During his resi- 
 dence in Missouri he occupied several positions 
 of honor and trust in the church. In 1881 he re- 
 moved to Atchison, Kansas where he spent seven 
 years. While residing in this State he was prom- 
 inently connected with the interests of the Church 
 and was also closely identified with the educa- 
 tional interests of the city of his residence, serv- 
 ing the whole period upon the Board of Exam- 
 iners of Public School Teachers. In the autumn 
 of 1887 he was elected Missionary Bishop of 
 Nevada and Utah, and took up his residence in 
 Salt Lake City in March, 1888. He received the 
 degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from his 
 alma mater, the General Theological Seminary 
 of New York City. During his residence in the 
 Rocky Mountains he has always had a large dis- 
 trict under his supervision. Much of his work 
 has been in connection with Christian education, 
 in which he has always been greatly interested. 
 At one time there were two boarding and seven 
 day schools in operation under his care. All of 
 these have now been closed, with the exception 
 of Rowland Hall, in Salt Lake City. Upon his 
 arrival in the city he found nine boarding pupils 
 in Rowland Hall, which number has now in- 
 creased to fifty. The school building was small 
 and inconvenient, and it has been twice enlarged 
 at a cost of more than twenty thousand dollars, 
 and another building is now in contemplation, 
 which will cost about fifteen thousand dollars. 
 The present buildings are admirably suited for 
 its purpose and the hall has a beautiful location. 
 The standard of instruction has been raised to 
 such an extent under the Bishop's careful man- 
 agement that the holder of one of its diplomas 
 may enter many of the leading eastern colleges 
 
540 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 without examination. It is his ambition to make 
 this the leading educational institution for girls in 
 the western country. 
 
 Bishop Leonard has also been greatly interest- 
 ed in movements for the care of the sick. When 
 he came here he found St. Mark's Hospital 
 housed in a small building capable of accommo- 
 dating about twenty-five patients and struggling 
 with a debt which threatened to destroy it. To- 
 day this institution is the possessgr of one of the 
 largest and best equipped buildings in the West. 
 It cost about one hundred thousand dollars. Its 
 management is first-class in every way ; its medi- 
 cal stafif is composed of some of the ablest and 
 best known physicians in this inter-mountain 
 region, and it employs a large stafif of competent 
 nurses, many of them being graduates of this 
 institution. Under the Bishop's supervision the 
 work of the Church also took on new life and 
 churches and mission stations have multiplied in 
 his district. Among other stations two have been 
 established for the Ute Indians, and an effort is 
 being made to care for their bodily as well as 
 their spiritual welfare. 
 
 Bishop Leonard was married in 1875 to Aliss 
 Flora Thompson, daughter of A. H. Thompson 
 of Boonville, Missouri. They have five children : 
 Ada Cameron ; Sally ; Robert Leverett ; Dorothy, 
 and Margaret. 
 
 Bishop Leonard's ancestors came to America 
 many generations ago. On his paternal side his 
 ancestors sprung from an English Baroness 
 whose castle was found in the County of Sussex, 
 England, but those who came to America cared 
 little for titles and one ancestor upon being in- 
 formed that he could have a titled position by re- 
 turning to England, retorted that he preferred 
 to remain in this country without a title. Our 
 subject's father was the Honorable Abiel Leonard, 
 for some years a judge of the Supreme Court 
 in the State of Missouri. He was widely identi- 
 fied with the history of Missouri, reaching the 
 State two years before its admission into the 
 Union. His opinions from the Bench are widely 
 known and largely quoted by lawyers. His father 
 was Nathaniel Leonard, a captain in the L'nited 
 States army and participated in the War of 1812. 
 Bishop Leonard's great-grandfather was the 
 
 Reverend Abiel Leonard. D. D., a Congrega- 
 tional minister, who was chaplain to General 
 Washington in the War of the Revolution. An- 
 other ancestor on his father's maternal side was 
 a Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, while 
 still another, John Leverett, was at one time 
 President of Harvard Collesre. 
 
 ETl 
 
 OUIS STRASBURG. It is said of the 
 lives of men who shape the affairs of 
 nations that nearness of vision often 
 destroys clearness of vision, hence the 
 difficulty of one's own near friends 
 and neighbors accurately measuring the influence 
 of his character and career. However, this is not 
 always true, for we find many instances of men 
 who are justly honored and esteemed by their 
 associates, and whose most intimate friends do 
 the greatest justice to their influence. Such may 
 be said of Mr. Strasburg, whose name and works 
 will be woven into the history of his country, 
 and as time passes he and others who shaped the 
 course of progress in days gone by will be given 
 the positions to which their merit entitles them. 
 Louis Strasburg, Mayor of Tooele City was 
 born August 19, 1835, on the river Rhine, in 
 Prussia, and is the son of Anton Strasburg. Our 
 subject emigrated to America when but seven- 
 teen years of age, and two years later on May 
 I, 1855, enlisted in New York City as a soldier 
 in the United States army. Tenth Infantry. In 
 this company our subject was the chief bugler. 
 The company was organized in the Carlisle bar- 
 racks in Pennsylvania, and was for a time sta- 
 tioned at Fort Prairie Duchesne, Wisconsin, and 
 saw considerable service during the Indian trou- 
 bles. In May, 1857, the army came down the 
 river to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and took up 
 the march for Utah, camping that winter at Fort 
 Bridger, Wyoming. The rations of the army 
 at this time consisted of seven ounces of flour 
 per man per day, they not having even salt to 
 season it with. Brigham Young sent a quantity 
 of salt to General Johnston, which the latter re- 
 fused on account of the fact that he was sent out 
 to quell the rebellion against the government 
 which thev believed to exist among: the Mormon 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 541 
 
 people at that time. This salt was sold to some 
 traders for twoand a half dollars a pound. In May, 
 1858. the army again took up their march, cross- 
 ing the Salt Lake valley at Lehi and camped at 
 the hot springs for a number of weeks, allowing 
 the men to recruit. From this place they went to 
 Camp Floyd, where they were finally mustered 
 out, and our subject received an honorable dis- 
 charge in i860. 
 
 After leaving the service of the Government 
 our subject remained in Utah, taking up a farm 
 in the Little Cottonwood canyon, from which 
 place he went to Weber on Silver creek and re- 
 mained there eighteen months, moving from there 
 to Rush valley, where he again procured a farm 
 and branched out into the cattle business and also 
 the sheep business. He lived in Rush valley 
 from 1863 to 1898, following his occupation of 
 farmer and stock raiser ; taking an active interest 
 in the welfare of his community and serving as 
 Justice of the Peace for eight years. 
 
 Mr. Strasburg was married in Camp Floyd 
 February 14, 1859, to Miss Mary Armstrong, 
 daughter of William Armstrong. Fourteen chil- 
 dren were the result of this marriage, of whom 
 nine are now living : Louis H. : Robert ; George ; 
 Katie, David ; Joseph ; Jane ; Nellie ; Alice. The 
 two oldest daughters are married and live in 
 Tooele county. Louis and George are farmers, 
 residing at American Fork ; Robert has a farm on 
 Clover creek, in Toole county ; David is living 
 on the old homestead in Rush valley, and Joseph 
 has charge of the cattle and sheep business, in 
 which the entire family has an interest. They 
 own five hundred acres of land in Rush valley. 
 
 In political life Mr. Strasburg has always been 
 a staunch Republican, and besides being a Justice 
 of the Peace in Rush valley, has served as Coun- 
 ty Commissioner of Tooele county, and on No- 
 vember 4, 1901, was elected Mayor of Tooele 
 City, taking his seat on January i, 1902. It was 
 his intention to retire from public and business 
 life when he came to this place, but so popular 
 was he and so well had he served the people in 
 the other offices to which he had been elected that 
 they would not hear of his declining the nomina- 
 tion for Mayor of the city, to which position he 
 was elected bv a large maiority. In social life 
 
 the Mayor is a member of the Odd Fellows, hav- 
 ing had his membership in Salt Lake City for 
 the past twenty-five years. 
 
 Mayor Strasburg is a most genial and kindly 
 man, one who instantly puts strangers at their 
 ease and convinces them by his sincere and frank 
 manner that they are in the presence of a friend. 
 His life, both private and public, has been with- 
 out a blemish, and while he is loved and honored 
 by all who know him, it is in the home that he is 
 most highly prized and appreciated. He has ever 
 been a most kind and indulgent husband and 
 father, and as his children have grown to ma- 
 turity he has assisted each one to get a comfort- 
 able start in life, taking them into partnership 
 with him in his large cattle and sheep business in 
 Rush valley, and today there is no more worthy 
 family in Tooele county than that reared by 
 Mayor Strasburg. 
 
 C. NELSON. The most prominent 
 feature in the life of the United States 
 and one which has resulted largely 
 in the building up of its present ad- 
 vanced position in the vanguard of 
 civilization, is the attention paid to the education 
 of the young people. Liberal provisions are made 
 bv the different States for the prosecution of this 
 work, and the development of the school system 
 has been placed in the hands of men who have 
 bv long experience proved themselves fit to dis- 
 charge the responsibilities of this task. In Utah 
 the development of the school system has kept 
 pace with the development of the resources and 
 industries of the State, and today the schcc'. sys- 
 tem of Salt Lake City, and, in fact, throughout 
 Utah, is considerably in advance of some of the 
 neighboring States. In this service there are 
 many efficient men and among the number there 
 is no more prominent educator than the subject 
 of this sketch, the State Superintendent of 
 Schools. 
 
 A. C. Nelson was born in Ephriam, Sanpete 
 county, Utah, in 1864. His father, M. P. Nelson, 
 was a native of Denmark, and came here in the 
 early days of the settlement of this State, locating 
 at Ephriam in i860. Here he followed farming 
 
542 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and continued to devote his attention to that bus- 
 iness. During his life he also paid particular 
 attention to educational matters, and died at the 
 age of fifty-six, honored and respected by all who 
 knew him. His wife, Margaret Nelson, is still 
 living in Redmond, Sevier county. 
 
 Their son spent his early life on the farm, get- 
 ting his education in the public schools that then 
 existed in the State, and at the age of fifteen 
 he started out on life's work and secured em- 
 ployment in the Government Survey, engaged 
 in surveying the eastern portion of Utah. He 
 remained in that employment until the following 
 vear when he left it and took a position on the 
 surveying staflf of the railroads, and in the rail- 
 road surveying he remained for three years. He 
 left that work and attended the Brigham Young 
 Academy at Provo, attending the sessions of that 
 school for six or seven years during the winters 
 and returning to work in the summer. He grad- 
 uated in i8gi, and in that year was tendered the 
 position of principal of the Manti Seminary, an 
 institution under the auspices of the Alormon 
 Church, which position he accepted, and held for 
 three years. He then accepted a position as 
 principal of the public schools of Manti, and was 
 elected as County Superintendent of Schools for 
 Sanpete county shortly after. This position he 
 held for two terms, aggregating a term of four 
 and a half years. In addition to his work as Su- 
 perintendent of the Sanpete county schools, 
 he found time to take a course extending over 
 four years at the State University of Indiana, 
 known as the Indian Central University. He 
 holds the degree of Bachelor of Science from the 
 Brigram Young Academy, and also a degree 
 from the University of Indiana. In 1897 he was 
 appointed by Governor Wells as a member of the 
 State Board of Education, which position he still 
 holds, and by virtue of that position he is Chair- 
 man of the State Board of Education. In the 
 fall of 1900 he was elected State Superintendent 
 of Schools, and has jurisdiction over three hun- 
 dred school districts, and since his inauguration 
 to that position has visited twenty of the twenty- 
 seven counties of the State. He is well fitted for 
 the duties which he has been called upon to dis- 
 charge, and has jurisdiction not only over the 
 
 district schools, but over the high schools as well. 
 His work in Sanpete county marked him as one 
 of the most prominent educators of Utah, and the 
 splendid record he made there has been continued 
 since his election to his present office. 
 
 Mr. Nelson was married in 1884 in Sevier 
 county, Utah, to Miss Amanda Jensen, daughter 
 of Captain John Jensen, who came to Utah in its 
 early days. Her mother's father, Andrew Peter- 
 son, was a native of Norway. By this marriage 
 Mr. Nelson has eight children : Clarence ; Cloe ; 
 Clifton : Claron ; Carlisle ; Lamar ; ]\Iarion Tan- 
 ner and Irving. 
 
 In political life Mr. Nelson has been a staunch 
 Republican and has followed the fortunes of that 
 partv since its formation in Utah. He has three 
 brothers, all of whom have made successful ca- 
 reers in life. Two of them are properous farmers 
 in the southern part of the State ; the younger 
 brother is Secretary to Congressman Sutherland, 
 and is attending the sessions of a law school in 
 W'ashiugron, D. C. 
 
 <Ej 
 
 EXJAMIN B. HEYWOOD, United 
 States Marshal of the State of Utah 
 needs no introduction to the citizens 
 of Utah. He is a native son of this 
 State, and has spent almost his entire 
 life within her confines, being largely connected 
 with her mining and stock raising industry, and 
 a familiar figure in all parts of the State long be- 
 fore his official position brought him into public 
 life. 
 
 Mr. Hey wood was born in Salt Lake City Sep- 
 tember 16, 1854, and his scholastic education was 
 received from her schools. His early education 
 was obtained by attending schools a few months 
 at a time during the winter seasons, it being 
 necessary for him to earn his own living, and 
 being compelled to work most of the time the 
 \enr around. However, he was of a persevering 
 nature, willing and anxious to learn, and lost no 
 opportunity to add to his store of book knowledge 
 After completing his rudimentary studies he at- 
 tended the sessions of the Morgan Commercial 
 College of this city, at that time one of the lead- 
 ing- commercial institutions of the State, where 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 543 
 
 he completed his education. After leaving 
 school Mr. Heywood engaged in the live 
 stock business in this State, which he has 
 since followed more or less regularly and is 
 still interested in that line. He spent six 
 months in construction work on the main line 
 of the Union Pacific Railroad between Omaha 
 and Salt Lake, and spent a year in ]\Ion- 
 tana, engaged in the same work on the Xorthern 
 Pacific railroad, in 1882. He also spent a year 
 in Oregon, where he engaged in the stock busi- 
 ness and during the years 1880 and 1881 spent 
 most of his time on the cattle trail in Idaho, Utah 
 and Wyoming. In 1894 he turned his attention 
 to mining and for two years was connected with 
 the mines in San Juan county. Since that time 
 he has associated himself with the mining indus- 
 tries of the State to a considerable extent, still 
 retaining his interest in the cattle business. 
 
 Mr. Heywood's father is Joseph L. Heywood, 
 a native of Massachusetts, and one of the early 
 pioneers to Utah,, having crossed the plains in o.x 
 teams in 1848. He has been since that time 
 closely associated with the life of the State, and 
 during his more active days was a prominent man 
 in the State. He was the first Marshal in the 
 Territory, and had jurisdiction over that terri- 
 tory covered at this time by the States of Utah 
 and Nevada, which position he filled with credit to 
 himself and the entire satisfaction of the govern- 
 ment for many years. When he retired form this 
 position he entered private life, and has since 
 followed ao-ricultural pursuits, doing an extensive 
 farming and stock raising business in Garfield 
 county, where he still lives at the hale old age 
 of eighty-seven years, in the enjoyment of good 
 health. His wife and the mother of our subject. 
 bore the maiden name of Serepta M. Blodgett. 
 She was a native of Ohio. Her father was one 
 of the first settlers in Beloit, Wisconsin, where 
 he w'as well known, and lived until his death. 
 
 Mr. Heywood w'as married in 1881 to Miss 
 ^Martha Thornley, who died two years later, leav- 
 ing one son, Benjamin T., a mining man. He 
 was married a second time, in 1896, to Miss 
 Kathleen Pitt. They have one daughter, Kath- 
 leen B. 
 
 In political affairs he has always been identified 
 
 with the Repulilican party, and has always voted 
 this ticket, with the exception of the fall of 1896, 
 when he cast his vote for William Jennings Bryan. 
 Prior to the formation of the Republican party 
 in Utah Mr. Heywood owed his allegiance to the 
 Liberal party. He received the appointment to 
 his present position January 28, 19Q2. 
 
 From a child of twelve years Mr. Heywood 
 has made his way in life, unaided by any one, 
 and the success which has crowned his life and 
 the distiniction he has won both in business and 
 public life are due to his own efforts and ability. 
 He has always been a straightforward, honorable 
 bearing, gentlemanly in his demanor and has 
 won and retained not only the confidence and re- 
 spect but also the warm friendship of hundreds 
 of people in this citv and State. 
 
 AAIES H. ANDERSON. In the gov- 
 irnment of Salt Lake City and in the 
 direction of its affairs, there is perhaps 
 III) more important position than that of 
 Commissioner. To this position, equip- 
 ped with the experience of a life spent within 
 the confines of the State in which he was born, 
 has been called a native Utahn, the subject of 
 this sketch. 
 
 James H. Anderson was born in Salt Lake 
 City on February 11, 1857. He is the son of 
 James Anderson, a native of Scotland, who came 
 to the L'nited States in 1849 and located in Utah 
 in 1854. Upon his arrival in Utah, at a time 
 when there was little assistance afforded to the 
 settlers in their efforts to subjugate a wilderness, 
 he established an iron foundry, the first of its 
 kind in this country. This firm, know-n as James 
 Anderson and Sons, was one of the most success- 
 ful enterprises of its kind that have existed in 
 Utah. Mr. Anderson remained at the head of 
 this establishment until his death in 1899. He 
 had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints in Scotland and took an active part 
 in its aflfairs until his death. He was greatly 
 interested in the welfare of the young, and having 
 been self educated, realized the necessity of pro- 
 viding proper educational facilities to the sons 
 and daughters of the community. He was one 
 
544 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of the first trustees of the schools in Utah and 
 gave wilHng aid to that work. When the present 
 Salt Lake Temple was in course of erection, Mr. 
 Anderson assisted materially in the work. He 
 milled the first Utah iron that was used in the 
 west. His father, William Anderson, was also 
 a meinber of the Church and followed the trade 
 of a carpenter. 
 
 The mother of the subject of this sketch, Cath- 
 erine Mary (Cowley) Anderson, was born on 
 the Isle of Man. Her family emigrated to Amer- 
 ica in 1841, and were among the members of the 
 Church who were expelled from Nauvoo, Illi- 
 nois, in 1846. They came across the plains to 
 L^tah with other emigrants and here she resides 
 still. 
 
 James H. Anderson spent his early life in the 
 city of his birth, and received his education in the 
 public schools of this city, and later entered the 
 U^niversity of Utah, at that time known as the 
 Deseret University. His first work was under- 
 taken at the age of fourteen, and for a short time 
 he was engaged as teacher in the schools of the 
 Sixth district. He later learned the art of print- 
 ing, and starting in the composing department, 
 went through all the dififerent departments of 
 printing, from setting type to the editorial work 
 on the Deseret Evening Nczcs. His services with 
 that paper extended over a period of twenty- 
 eight years, and he was largely instrumental in 
 bunging it up to its present high standard of 
 efficency. In addition to his work on the Deseret 
 Neii'S, he was also editor of the Millenial Star, 
 which position he held from 1890 to 1892, pub- 
 lishing that paper in Liverpool, England, for dis- 
 tribution throughout Great Britain. At the close 
 of his mission in 1892, he returned to Utah and 
 again took up his work on the Deseret News, 
 and continued in that service until he was elected 
 County Commissioner in 1900, of which body he 
 is now chairman. The confining work of a news- 
 paper and the responsibility which rested upon 
 him made him welcome this election as a relief 
 from his arduous duties, and it was on this ac- 
 count that he severed his relations with the news- 
 paper. He has, besides his newspaper work, as- 
 sisted Bishop Whitney in writing and compiling 
 the hisotrv of L'tah. 
 
 Mr. Anderson was married in 1881 to Miss 
 Mary A. Abbott, daughter of Nemiah and Eliza 
 Abbott, natives of Monmouthshire, England, who 
 came to Utah in 1878. His family consists of five 
 children, two sons and three daughters : Florence 
 M.; Edgar J.; Mable E. : Albert H. and Des- 
 sie M. 
 
 In the political ai?airs of Utah Mr. Anderson 
 has always taken an active interest, and is a be- 
 liever in the principles of the Republican party. 
 He is also a prominent and active worker in the 
 Church of his choice, and holds the position of 
 Seventy. He is also Senior President of the 
 One Hundred and Tenth Quorum, and is deeply 
 interested in Sundav School work, having been a 
 teacher for eighteen years ; besides holding va- 
 rious offices in that organization. Like his father, 
 Mr. Anderson has taken a great interest in the 
 education of the young, and is now greatly in- 
 terested in the development and perfecting of the 
 public school system of this city and State. 
 
 By his untiring energy and application to work, 
 Mr. Anderson has made a record in Utah that 
 easily stands first among the records of the men 
 who have assisted in the work of developing the 
 resources of the State and in raising Salt Lake 
 City from an unkempt village to a city that gives 
 fair promise of being one of the largest and most 
 important points of distribution in the West. His 
 conservative manner and his broadness of mind, 
 together with his human interest in the afifairs 
 of life, has endeared him to his own people and 
 has won for him the confidence and esteem of 
 tl'e people of the city and surrounding country. 
 
 KIGHAM W. ASHTOX. Among the 
 different professions and avocations to 
 which men and women are called, in 
 this or any other country, that of the 
 educator and disciplinarian ranks 
 among the highest and most important, for upon 
 him or her to a large extent depend the future 
 welfare, intelligence and standing of that com- 
 munity. As an instructor and advisor of the 
 )'outh of this county, the subject of this sketch 
 

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 545 
 
 ranks among the leaders in his profession, at 
 present holding the important position of Su- 
 perintendent of the Salt Lake County Schools. 
 
 Mr. Ashton was born in Salt Lake City in 
 1858. He is the third son of Edward and Jane 
 (Treharne) Ashton. both natives of Wales, 
 where they spent the early portion of their 
 lives, becoming adherents to the Mormon Church 
 among the earliest in their native country, sail- 
 ing for America in 1851, crossing the Atlantic 
 in an old sail ship, and the great American 
 plains by ox team, and a portion of that trip 
 on foot. Arriving in Utah, Mr. Ashton, the 
 father of the subject of this sketch, has been 
 engaged in the manufacture of boots and 
 shoes. Both he and his wife have been faith- 
 ful followers of the church of their choice. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in this city, 
 educated in the common schools, and later at 
 the University of Utah. Mr. Ashton's early life 
 was anything but an easy one, for when he was 
 only nine years old he was making the adobe 
 bricks and assisting in erecting buildings out of 
 that material, following that kind of labor until 
 he was about sixteen years of age. In the mean- 
 time, however, he lost no opportunity to improve 
 his education, and many a night he burned the 
 midnight oil in order that he could learn his 
 lessons, that he might be able to labor the next 
 day and earn money to help support the family. 
 Later he attended the university, and after hav- 
 ing acquired sufficient education to enable him 
 to teach school, he commenced that profession, 
 and has followed it with success. He has been 
 one of the most prominent educators in Salt Lake 
 county and city for several years. Six years 
 were spent in the Salt Lake City schools. 
 
 In the fall of 1890 he was elected on the Re- 
 publican ticket by a large majority to the posi- 
 tion which he now holds. He has thirty-six dis- 
 tricts under him in this county, one hundred and 
 twenty-five teachers, there being between six and 
 seven thousand pupils, and of all these different 
 districts he manages to visit each one at least 
 twice a year, and no Superintendent of Salt Lake 
 county has ever given better satisfaction or per- 
 haps brought up and improved the high stand- 
 ing of the schools better than he has. 
 
 In 1889 he married Miss Mary Alice Pettit. 
 daughter of Bower and Lucinda (Abraham) 
 Pettit. They were early settlers in Utah, ar- 
 riving in 185 1. Our subject has seven children 
 — Lottie, Willard, Blanche, Lucinda, Edward, 
 Jedediah and Georgia. 
 
 In politics Mr. Ashton has always been a prom- 
 inent Republican, ever since the organization of 
 the party ; in fact, he helped to organize it in 
 this State, and has taken a prominent and active 
 part during every campaign since that time. He 
 is an Elder in the Mormon Church. Personally 
 Mr. Ashton is a perfect gentleman; genial and 
 pleasant, and stands very high in the estimation 
 of the very best people of Salt Lake City and 
 county, both as as educator and as a business 
 man as well. 
 
 ARTHA HUGHES CANNON, M. 
 D. The time has long passed when, 
 the right and ability of women in the 
 field of medicine was called into 
 question, and today it is cheerfully 
 conceded, even by those of their own profession, 
 where rivalry might be expected to exist, that 
 women are peculiarly adapted to the healing art, 
 and that in numerous instances their presence in 
 the sick-room is to be greatly preferred. Women, 
 and children especially, are often assisted toward 
 recovery from illness by a woman physician when 
 other physicians have labored in vain to benefit 
 them, and in various diseases of her own sex 
 she is unequalled. 
 
 Doctor Martha Hughes Cannon, of Salt Lake 
 City, is deserving of great credit for the success 
 she has achieved, and a perusal of her history will 
 no doubt prove of deep interest to her numerous 
 sincere friends here and elsewhere. She is a 
 lady of wide education, thoroughly identified 
 with all the progressive and philanthropic move- 
 ments, and conscientious in the discharge of the 
 duties devolving upon her. 
 
 Doctor Cannon is a native of Wales, born at 
 the famous watering place of Llandidno. Her pa- 
 rents embraced Mormonism when she was a 
 small child and emigrated to .\merica. Her 
 
546 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 father was compelled to remain in Xew York 
 for two years after arriving in this country, his 
 health being- such that he could not undertake the 
 fatigues of the long journey across the great 
 American plains. At the end of that time he at- 
 tempted the journey upon the advice of his phy- 
 sician, and arrived in Salt Lake City in the year 
 1861, only to die a few days later. His widow, 
 and the mother of our subject. Elizabeth 
 (Evans) Hughes, married again and continued 
 to make this city her home, and here her little 
 daughter grew to womanhood and received her 
 early education from the primitive schools such 
 as then existed in the city. 
 
 At the early age of fourteen our subject began 
 life by teaching in an infant school, and the next 
 year entered the office of the Woman's Exponent, 
 where she remained five years, working as a com- 
 positor. During these years she took an aca- 
 demic course at the University of Deseret, re- 
 ceiving a diploma in chemistry from that institu- 
 tion. She also took advantage of an opportunity 
 to attend a course of medical lectures given by 
 Doctors Young, Barker and Pratt, and passed 
 an examination under Doctors Anderson and 
 Young, receiving a certificate equal to two years 
 of medical study. Being of a religious turn of 
 mind she was called on to fill many offices in the 
 Church, being for eight years Secretary of the 
 Young Ladies' Retrenchment Association of the 
 Tenth Ecclesiastical Ward, was also teacher in the 
 Sunday School and member of the Ward Choir. 
 In 1878 she entered the medcal department of 
 Ann Arbor L'niversity, and was admitted without 
 e.xamintion, upon her credentials from Doctors 
 Anderson and Young and her diploma in chem- 
 istry from the L^niversity of Deseret. She grad- 
 uated from that institution with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine in 1880. During her college 
 work she took two optional courses in electro 
 therapeutics and bacteriology. She assisted to 
 work her wav through college by giving instruc- 
 tion in chemistry to some of the students. After 
 her graduation she went to Algonac, on the Saint 
 Clair river, where she practiced during the sum- 
 mer. At this time American physicians were not 
 considered up to the European standard, and 
 were not allowed to practice in British territorv, 
 
 but through the intervention of some eminent 
 physicians who visited Europe, this condition 
 of afifairs was changed, and thereafter any doc- 
 tor holding diplomas from Harvard, Yale, L^ni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, Cornell or Ann Arbor 
 were allowed to practice on English soil. 
 
 In the fall of 1880 Doctor Cannon went to 
 Philadelphia and entered the National School of 
 Elocution and Oratory, under Professor Shu- 
 maker, attending the morning sessions of that 
 institution and giving the remainder of her time 
 to a special course of study in the Auxiliary Med- 
 ical Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania. She was the only lady out of a class of 
 one hundred and twenty-five at this latter insti- 
 tution, and one of the four to graduate. Her even- 
 ings during her second year were devoted to a 
 course of study at the Philadelphia Pharmaceu- 
 tical College, and in 1882 sHe received her di- 
 plomas from the first two named institution. 
 
 Upon the completion of her studies in Phila- 
 delphia, Doctor Cannon came direct to Salt Lke 
 City, where she became resident physician at the 
 Deseret Hospital, remaining there three years and 
 building up a large outside practice during this 
 time. In the fall of 1884 she was married to 
 President Angus M. Cannon of the Salt Lake 
 Stake of Zion, whose biography will be found 
 elsewhere in this work. Of this marriage three 
 children have been born : Elizabeth R. ; James 
 H., and Gwendolyn H. After severing her con- 
 nection with the Deseret Hospital, she took an 
 extended tour in the East, visiting the nurses' 
 training schools, and the leading hospitals of 
 New York, Boston and New Orleans. This she 
 did with a view of obtaining a thorough knowl- 
 edge of the methods of training nurses, and be- 
 coming familiar with the methods of nursing the 
 sick, as well as administering as a physician. In 
 1886 she went to Europe and visited the training 
 schools at Guys, Saint Thomas and Saint Bar- 
 tholomew. Upon her return to Salt Lake City 
 she again took up the practice of medicine and 
 established the first traning school for nurses in 
 Utah, using the same text books as were then 
 in use in the Boston City Hospital Training 
 School for Nurses. Of recent years the Doctor 
 has given up much of her practice and is de- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 547 
 
 voting herself to the education of her three chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Doctor Cannon has not only been fortunate in 
 being born in an age when women are allowed 
 not only the advantages of a higher education, 
 but has also been a resident of one of the few 
 States of the Union which allows women the 
 right of suffrage, which right she has exercised. 
 She has always been a believer in equal suffrage, 
 and while she is not radical on the question, be- 
 lives that where a woman has talent, intelligence, 
 education and all the requirements necessary, she 
 ought to have the privilege of taking positions 
 of trust and responsibility on an equal plane with 
 the sterner sex. In i8g6 she was elected on the 
 Democratic ticket to the State Senate for two 
 years, and at the end of that time was fortunate 
 enough to draw a number entitling her to hold 
 over for two years more, thus serving four years 
 in all. Being the only physician in the Senate, 
 she took an active part in improving the sanitary 
 conditions of the State, and was instrumental in 
 securing the passage of the bill establishing a 
 State Board of HealtTi, and was also active in de- 
 feating the proposed measure abolishing the 
 State Board of Medical Examiners. She was 
 Chairman of the Committee on Public Health. 
 Between the two legislative sessions she was in- 
 vited by the National Committee to speak at the 
 Jubilee Convention held at Washington, D. C, 
 to commemorate the first Woman's Convention 
 on Suffrage, held at Seneca Falls, and she ap- 
 peared at the hearino- of the Congressional Com- 
 mittee to give a synopsis of the political work of 
 ihe women of Utah. She also served two years 
 on the State Board of Trustees of the Institution 
 for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, which is located 
 at Ogden. She still holds the appointment from 
 Governor W'ells as a member of the State Board 
 of Health. In November, 1901, she was made 
 one of the Vice-Presidents of the American Con- 
 gress of Tuberculosis, being the only woman 
 to receive a vice-presidency. 
 
 Doctor Cannon's career is one that should at 
 once be an incentive and an inspiration to every 
 ambitious woman. Born in a day when the higher 
 education of women was looked upon in an un- 
 favorable light, reared in a State where educa- 
 
 tional facilities were of the crudest character, 
 she early became imbued with the desire to rise 
 above her surroundings and take her place among 
 those who were by their lives making the world 
 better, and benefiting mankind. By dint of hard 
 work and unswerving loyalty to her high pur- 
 pose, she overcame every obstacle and by her 
 own efforts won the means to pursue her studies, 
 giving every moment of her time to the one aim 
 of her life, resolutely putting aside the many 
 allurements of girlhood, and winning high honors 
 in her studies. Today she is not only a woman 
 of broad cultivation and wide intellect, but is a 
 woman of accomplishment, traveled, cultured and 
 thoroughly womanly withal, which is the highest 
 praise that can ever be accorded any woman, and 
 whether at the bedside of suffering or attending 
 the homely duties of the home, she is the same 
 sympathetic, gentle friend. Perhaps no woman 
 in this city has a wider circle of friends or is 
 more widelv known that she. 
 
 ENNIS C. EICHNOR. One of the pop- 
 ular men in Salt Lake City, and indeed 
 throughout L^tah, is the District At- 
 tiirney for the Third Judicial District 
 of Utah, Dennis C. Eichnor. In ad- 
 dition to the important position which he fills 
 with efficiency and credit, he is also the most 
 prominent Republican in Salt Lake City. The 
 success of the last two campaigns conducted by 
 the Republican party, one in the county and the 
 other in the city, has been due to the ability which 
 Mr. Eichnor, as chairman, has shown in the dis- 
 charge of his duties. He is well known in the 
 State, and is beloved by all the people, without 
 regard to political affiliation or religious belief. 
 He has made his own way in the world, and the 
 success which he has achieved is due entirely to 
 his own energy and the power to grasp and turn 
 to account the opportunities that present them- 
 selves. 
 
 Dennis C. Eichnor was born in Meyersdale, 
 Somerset ^ county, Pennsylvania, December 18, 
 1858, his father and mother being natives of 
 Germany. His mother, Anna K. (Sass) Eich- 
 nor. belonged to a prominent family in Germany, 
 
548 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 her father being a surveyor and an attorney of 
 considerable importance in that country. The 
 early life of her son was spent on his father's 
 farm in Somerset county, and he received his 
 education in the public schools of his native place. 
 He worked on his father's farm during the va- 
 cations and attended school in the winter. 
 
 He started out for himself at the age of 
 twenty-one and secured employment as a teacher 
 in the schools, which employment he followed 
 for about eight years, meanwhile attending the 
 sessions of the State Normal School, from which 
 he graduated with distinction. Believing in the 
 possibilities that the West afforded to young 
 men of energy and ability, he emigrated to Salt 
 Lake City, and arrived here in 1888. Prior to 
 his removal from Pennsvlvania, he had taken up 
 the studv of law, and when he arrived in Salt 
 Lake City continued his studies under the direc- 
 tion of the Hon. W. H. Dickson, and was admit- 
 ted to practice before the courts of Utah in the 
 same year. He established himself in the prac- 
 tice of his profession, and has continued to de- 
 vote his time to that ever since. He has won 
 the confidence of the public, and his practice has 
 grown in a prosperous and satisfactory manner. 
 He has been a consistent Republican throughout 
 his life, and has taken an active and prominent 
 part in the afifairs of Salt Lake City. In 1890 
 and 1891 he was Assistant City Attorney, and 
 from 1 89 1 to 1894 was Assistant County Attor- 
 ney. He was also a member of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention, which met in 1895 to shape 
 the Constitution for Utah, which was then to be 
 admitted into the Union. In 1898 he was elected 
 Chairman of the Republican County Committee. 
 That year the party suffered defeat. 
 
 The ability and political knowledge he dis- 
 played in the conduct of this work resulted in 
 his election as Chairman of the Republican City 
 Committee in 1899. In this position he success- 
 fully carried to victory the Republican banner, 
 which resulted in the election of Alayor Thomp- 
 son. He was Chairman of the County Commit- 
 tee in 1900, and was chosen as Chairman of the 
 City Committee in 1901, and conducted the phe- 
 nomenally successful campaign by which the en- 
 tire ticket, with one exception, was elected, and 
 
 resulted in a majority of the Council being Re- 
 publican. The manner in which Mr. Eichnor 
 conducted the campaign won the applause of 
 the entire party, having made a hard fight. In 
 August, 1900, he was nominated by acclamation 
 in the judicial convention for the position of 
 District Attorney for the Third Judicial District 
 of Utah, which position he has continued to fill 
 since that time with signal ability, and is recog- 
 nized as one of the ablest prosecutors of the 
 State. As a lawyer, he takes high rank among 
 the ablest members of the bar in LUah. In the 
 fall of that year, at the earnest solicitation of the 
 leaders of the party and of the candidates for 
 office, he agreed to manage the campaign, and 
 it w'as a decided success for the Republican 
 party, Mr. Eichnor being elected to his office by 
 a majority of over four hundred. 
 
 Air. Eichnor was married in Salt Lake City 
 in 1891, to Miss S. Lizzie Keim. and by this 
 marriage has tw^o children, Adelaide and George. 
 
 Mr. Eichnor cast his first vote for President 
 in 1880 for Garfield, and in 1884 voted for 
 Blaine; in 1888 and 1892, Utah being a Terri- 
 tory, he could not vote for President, and in 
 1896 he cast his vote as he did in 1900, for Pres- 
 ident McKinley. His genial and pleasant man- 
 ner, and the courtesy with which he treats everv 
 one. has brought him the frendship and affection 
 of the entire city. He is regarded as one of the 
 most prominent men in the political life of the 
 city, and in the conduct of the campaigns en- 
 trusted to his care has shown marked al)ilitv. 
 
 ODERT FORRESTER. The advant- 
 ages which the Western States afford 
 to men of energy and ability to rise to 
 wealth and power is perhaps better il- 
 lustrated in Utah than in any other 
 State. These advantages have been realized by 
 the inhabitants of the Old World, and among 
 those who by energy and industry achieved suc- 
 cess in the development of mining properties, 
 the subject of this sketch has reached a distin- 
 guished position. 
 
 Robert Forrester is the son of John Forrester 
 and Jane (Bell) Forrester, both natives of Scot- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 549 
 
 land, and their son was born in Fifeshire, Scot- 
 land, in 1864. John Forrester, the father of the 
 subject of our sketch, has also devoted his at- 
 tention to mining operations, both in Scotland 
 and America, and upon his arrival in the United 
 States settled at Castle Gate, Utah, in which 
 State he has since been actively engaged in min- 
 ing. Robert Forrester comes from a line of 
 mining engineers. His grandfather, Robert For- 
 rester, a native Scot, was a colliery manager 
 and agent for estates in Scotland the greater 
 part of his life. 
 
 Jane (Bell) Forrester, wife of John Forrester, 
 and mother of Robert Forrester, was born in 
 Scotland and lived in Midlothian until her re- 
 moval with her husband to the United States. 
 
 From almost the very commencement of his 
 life, Robert Forrester has been connected with 
 mines and mining. At the age of fifteen he was 
 a foreman of a mine in Scotland. His early edu- 
 cation was obtained in the common schools of 
 West Calder, and he later attended the Uni- 
 versity of Edinburg, where he successfully Com- 
 pleted a technical course in mining. Two years 
 later he removed to the United States and lo- 
 cated in Pennsylvania, where he spent a short 
 time in the study of American mining methods 
 and operations. From Pennsylvania he went 
 to Kansas City, where he had charge of the first 
 mining exhibit held in that city. From Kan- 
 sas City he went to Joplin and secured employ- 
 ment in the lead mines. While in that place, 
 -Mr. Forrester demonstrated his ability to cope 
 with emergencies and to earn his living by doing 
 the first thing that presented itself. The opera- 
 tions at Joplin slackened and he lost his posi- 
 tion in the mines. Nothing daunted, he turned 
 his attention to carpentering, and successfully 
 mastered that trade and worked at it for some 
 time. Mining business being still depressed and 
 greater opportunities presenting themselves in 
 other lines of building he learned bricklaying 
 and stone masonry, and also worked at these 
 trades for a time. 
 
 From Missouri he traveled westward, and ar- 
 rived in Salt Lake City on Christmas Day, 1888. 
 Upon his arrival in Utah he found no oppor- 
 tunity to engage in business for which he had 
 
 been speciallv trained and fitted, but with a will- 
 ingness to work, secured employment laying 
 tracks in the coal mines of the Pleasant Valley 
 Coal Company. His abiHty as an engineer was 
 soon recognized, and his services were soon in 
 demand. He was employed by the Utah Cen- 
 tral Railroad Coal Department, the Pleasant Val- 
 ley Coal Company, the Union Pacific Coal Com- 
 pany and the Diamond Coal and Coke Company 
 of Wyoming in inspecting coal lands, designing 
 plants for their working and the erection of the 
 requisite machinery for their operation. In ad- 
 dition to these companies many of the most prom- 
 inent mining companies in the mountain region 
 availed themselves of his knowledge and skill 
 as an engineer in the erection of plants and in 
 the prosecution of operations. In Canada, 
 throughout all the Western States, and in Old 
 and New Mexico, practical monuments in the 
 form of successful mining plants testify to his 
 ability and constructive genius as an engineer. 
 
 His ability and success as an engineer has 
 been recognized throughout the United States 
 and in Great Britain as well. Since 1895 he has 
 represented in Utah the C. E. Exploration Syn- 
 dicate of London. This corporation numbers 
 among its members the greatest capitalists of 
 the day, and it makes investments in mines and 
 other properties throughout the world. He is 
 now geologist and mining engineer of the LUah 
 Fuel Company, geologist for the Denver and 
 Rio Grande Railroad and Rio Grande Western 
 Railway. 
 
 Mr. Forrester's ability as an enirineer, and the 
 high rank he has attained by his work, has won 
 for him membership in the most famous asso- 
 ciations of engineers in the world. He was 
 elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of 
 Edinburgh in 1887, and holds membership in the 
 Mining Institute of Scotland and in the Feder- 
 ated Institute of Mining Engineers of Great 
 Britain. He is also a member of the Congress 
 of Geologists. While his attention in the United 
 States has been devoted largely to mining and to 
 the business enterprises in which he is interested, 
 he has been elected to a number of positions, 
 among which was the office of United States 
 Inspector of Mines in Utah. Those places were 
 
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 not solicited by him, and are apt illustrations of 
 the office seekinp' the man. 
 
 He is unmaried, and in politics believes in the 
 principles of the Republican party. In affairs 
 of state he does not take an active interest, but 
 so high is the confidence of the people in his 
 ability that he has several times been elected to 
 office without any effort on his part. 
 
 Endowed with a splendid physique, equipped 
 with a fine technical education and a willingness 
 to do and do well whatever came first to his 
 hand, he has risen in his chosen profession to a 
 commanding position, and r.nw ranks among the 
 first of the mining experts ot Utah, and indeed 
 of the United States. 
 
 ( )CTOR E. F. ROOT. It is a well- 
 known fact that Salt Lake City has 
 made rapid strides during the past ten 
 or twelve years. The growth of the 
 city has been phenomenal; great com- 
 mercial enterprises have sprung up, vast im- 
 provements have been in progress, and splendid 
 residences and business blocks have been erected 
 which have added largely to the beauty and sta- 
 bility of the city. During this period the dif- 
 ferent professions and callings have been raised 
 to a higher standard, and perhaps no branch of 
 the professions has grown so rapidly as has the 
 medical profession. Among the men who have 
 assisted materially in bringing to a high stand- 
 ard that profession in Utah, Doctor E. F. Root, 
 the subject of this sketch, deserves special men- 
 tion. 
 
 Doctor Root comes of old Puritan stock, the 
 history of the family in America dating back 
 to two brothers who came from England in 
 1620, supposedly in the Ulayflozvcr. They 
 were among the early settlers of the Con- 
 necticut colony, and it is not known which 
 of the brothers this family sprang from, 
 but there are many of that name scattered 
 over the LTnited States, who are descendants of 
 those two brothers. Our subject was born at 
 Hartford, Washington county, Wisconsin, No- 
 vember I, 1858, and is the son of Doctor Alonzo 
 D. Root, who was born on April 3, 1836, on a 
 
 farm near Streetsborough, Portage county, Ohio. 
 He emigrated to Wisconsin at the age of twenty- 
 one, and subsequently graduated from the West- 
 ern Reserve Universitv at Cleveland, Ohio, with 
 the degree of M. D., in i860. He then took up 
 the practice of his profession in Washington 
 county. Wisconsin, where he remained for twelve 
 years. In 1872 he located in Crete, Nebraska, 
 and is still practicing in that place. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Nebraska State and American Medical 
 Associations, and has devoted his life to the study 
 and practice of medicine. His father was De 
 Calevos Root, who came to Ohio from Connec- 
 ticut and settled on the Western Reserve when 
 the countrv was covered with timber. He cleared 
 a farm and became the forerunner of civilization 
 in this part of the United States. At the age of 
 forty-two he met with an accident which caused 
 his death. Our subject's paternal grandmother, 
 Susan Streeter, was born in Connecticut, and 
 as a child settled with her family on the Western 
 Reserve of Ohio, and is now living in Crete, 
 Nebraska, at the advanced age of ninety-seven 
 vears, and is a wonderfully well preserved 
 woman. 
 
 The Doctor's mother was Emeretta Root, 
 the daughter of Edwin and Sarah Ann (Tous- 
 ley ) Root. Her family were early settlers of 
 Connecticut. These two families trace their an- 
 cestors back to the original emigrants, but the 
 connecting link has been lost, and so far as 
 known they are of no kin. Mrs. Root is still 
 living, and is the mother of eight children — 
 Doctor E. F., our subject, who is the oldest ; Su- 
 san, wife of Captain T. B. Rhodes, of Washing- 
 ton, D. C. ; Doctor Wallace W., V. V. S., U. S. 
 A., now serving on the Island of Luzon; Clara 
 T., Addie, the wife of Leon Farr, Professor of 
 Dead Languages in one of the leading colleges 
 at Elizabeth, New Jersey; Gad B., a commission 
 merchant at Weatherford, Oklahoma, and two 
 children who died in infancy. 
 
 Our subject lived in Wisconsin up to the age 
 of fourteen, at which time he moved to Crete, 
 Nebraska, with his parents, and received his ed- 
 ucation at Doan College, and in the medical de- 
 partment at the Western Reserve University- 
 graduating in 1880. He then entered into prac- 
 
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 tice with his father at Crete, remaining there for 
 five years, and in 1885 moved to Exeter, in that 
 State, and practiced there for six years. In No- 
 vember, 1890, he came to Salt Lake City, where 
 he has since followed his profession, devoting 
 most of his time to surgery. For the past seven 
 years he has been a member of the staff of sur- 
 geons at the Holy Cross Hospital. He is ex- 
 president of the Salt Lake Medical Society and 
 a member of the Utah State Medical Society and 
 American Medical Association ; also medical e.x- 
 aminer for several well-known life insurance 
 companies. 
 
 Doctor Root was married at Crete, Nebraska, 
 in 1882, to Miss Emma Kind, daughter of John 
 and Mary Kind, of that place, and by her had 
 two children — Clara Louise and Frank. She died 
 in the fall of 1891, and he then married Miss 
 Helen Randall, of Pueblo, Colorado, by whom 
 he has one son — Emmerson Randall. 
 
 Doctor Root has made many friends during 
 his residence here, and the success to which he 
 has attained in his profession has been the result 
 of close study and untiring effort to keep abreast 
 of the times in that science. He is today in the 
 enjoyment of a large and lucrative practice. 
 
 ETER A. DROUB.\Y. No citizen of 
 Tooele county is more thoroughly rep- 
 resentative or has been more devoted to 
 the promotion of its welfare than Peter 
 A. Droubay, whose name is highly 
 known for the prominent part he has taken in 
 local progress and development. His means and 
 influence have been unsparingly used in the fos- 
 tering of infant enterprises, industries and im- 
 provements which he believed would prove of 
 permanent value to the place of his abode in Utah, 
 and wealth and high standing came to him as the 
 reward of long continued, indefatigable industry ; 
 and no one who has known him in past years 
 and is aware of the bravery and pluck with which 
 he met and conquered the obstacles in his path- 
 way, one by one, could for a moment feel envious 
 of his success. 
 
 He is a native of France, having been born in 
 that country in 1855, and is the son of Peter A., 
 who was a highly educated man, being a graduate 
 
 of the best institutions in France, and for many 
 years prior to coming to Utah was a teacher and 
 professor in the schools of his native country. 
 At the time the family migrated to this country 
 the educational facilities were very meagre here 
 and Mr. Droubay became instructor to his chil- 
 dren, giving them much better book knowledge 
 than they could have obtained from the common 
 schools of their district, or indeed of the State 
 at that time. When our subject was but nine 
 years of age his father brought his family, con- 
 sisting of a wife and four children, to this country, 
 arriving in Utah in 1864, and spending the first 
 winter in Salt Lake City. One of the children 
 died while the family were on the plains en route 
 to this State, and one died during the first winter 
 in Salt Lake City. The remaining child, Paul, a 
 younger brother of our subject, is at this time en- 
 gaged in ranching and stock raising in Tooele 
 county, .\fter remaining in Salt Lake City for 
 three years, the Droubay family moved to Tooele 
 county, where the father engaged in farming, and 
 died about twenty years ago. The mother is still 
 living on the old homestead. 
 
 Our subject began life for himself at the age of 
 twenty-one years by engaging in freighting, fol- 
 lowing that for a number of years, and investing 
 his savings in sheep and cattle, which investment 
 proved very successful, and his holdings in this 
 direction has made him one of the heaviest stock- 
 men in Tooele county, owning at this time over 
 two hundred head of cattle. As the country be- 
 came more thickly settled it was necessary for 
 him to buy land for grazing purposes, as well as 
 farming, and besides his enormous ranch of twen- 
 ty-four hundred acres of well improved and val- 
 uable land, he owns two thousand acres of land 
 devoted to a range for his cattle in the hills near 
 Tooele, which makes him one of the largest in- 
 dividual land owners of the county. In 1888 Mr. 
 Droubay became interested in the general mer- 
 chandise business, his success in the cattle busi- 
 ness following him in this avocation until he be- 
 came the leading merchant in Tooele county, 
 which position he retains. He owns his spacious 
 store building, the upper part of which is used as 
 an amusement hall. 
 
 Mr. Droubay married in 1877 to Miss Hanna 
 
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 Bell Gallalier, daughter of James Gallaher. By 
 this marriage they have had eleven children, nine 
 of whom are living. The oldest son, Peter G., 
 assists his father in the management of his vast 
 business enterprises. He has just returned from 
 serving two and a half years in the missionary 
 fields of England for the Church, all of the mem- 
 bers of Mr. Droubay's family being adherents of 
 the Mormon Church. 
 
 In political life Mr. Droubay is a Republican, 
 but owing to his large business interests has 
 never taken an active part in the work of his 
 party. 
 
 OHN McLAWS. Among the pioneers 
 who settled in Utah over half a century 
 ago, who have passed through all the 
 early scenes and troubles, who know- 
 by experience all the hardships and diffi- 
 culties incident to crossing the plains by ox 
 teams and settling in Utah in those early days, 
 the subject of this sketch deserves special men- 
 tion. He is a descendant of an old, sturdy Scotch 
 family, he himself having been born in Renfrew- 
 shire, Scotland, November 27, 1827, and is the 
 son of John and Sarah (Whitworth) McLaws, 
 both natives of that country, living and dying 
 in the town where their son was born. There 
 were eight children in this family, of whom 
 our subject was the fifth child. A brother and 
 sister accompanied him to America, but both 
 have since died, the brother being drowned in 
 California in 1853. None of the rest of the fam- 
 ily ever came to this country. 
 
 John McLaws received his early education and 
 training in the town where he was born, and at 
 the age of fourteen years went to Glasgow, where 
 he obtained a clerkship in a book-binding and 
 stationery establishment. During his residence 
 here he became a convert to the teachings of the 
 Mormon Church in 1844. and was ordained an 
 Elder. He was appointed by the Church to 
 write the records of the Glasgow Conference, 
 which occupied all his spare time for more than 
 a year. In 1849 he emigrated to America on 
 board the sailing vessel Hartley, landing in New 
 Orleans, from which place he journeyed by river 
 to Saint Louis, Missouri. The whole trip was a 
 
 most terrible and disastrous one. On the way 
 up the Mississippi river Asiatic cholera broke out 
 among the passengers, and they died by the 
 dozens and were buried on the banks of the river. 
 Our subject had the dread disease, but recovered 
 before arriving in Saint Louis. He made the 
 trip up the river on board the ship Marmaduke, 
 which caught fire at the landing, and a large 
 portion of the City of Saint Louis was destroyed. 
 Mr. McLaws remained in Saint Louis six weeks, 
 regaining his full health and recovering from 
 the horrible shock his system had received from 
 the fearful ordeals through which he had passed. 
 At the end of that time he went to Saint Joseph, 
 Missouri, and from there to Pottawatomie coun- 
 ty, Iowa, where he purchased a place on Honey 
 creek, in 1850. In the spring of 1851 he drove 
 a five-yoke team of oxen from the Missouri 
 river to Salt Lake City, the freight being mer- 
 cnandise, which he brought to Utah for the 
 firm of Holliday and Warner, traveling in the 
 company under command of Captain Holliday, 
 and arriving in Salt Lake City in August of that 
 year. He remained in Utah, his first work being 
 the digging of a cellar at the site where the Zion 
 Co-operative Mercantile Institution now stands. 
 While in Saint Joseph he had learned the plas- 
 tering trade, and followed that for many years 
 in Utah, among the places in which he did the 
 plastering being the old Tabernacle, the Brig- 
 ham Young theatre, the Bee Hive; and assisted 
 in like manner on many of Brigham Young's 
 houses. He also worked for six months on the 
 Temple at Saint George, and assisted in plaster- 
 ing the old State House at Fillmore. During 
 the time he worked on the Brigham Young 
 houses he was in terrible financial straits, being 
 compelled to work half a day and devote the 
 other half to hunting and digging roots, upon 
 which he subsisted. 
 
 ]Mr. McLaws married December 25, 1850, at 
 Honey creek, Iowa, to Jonanna Ross, daughter of 
 Daniel and Agnes (McKeller) Ross, whose pa- 
 rents emigrated later to Utah, where they died. 
 Mrs. McLaws is a twin sister of Mrs. John Gil- 
 lespie of this place, a sketch of Mr. Gillespie ap- 
 pearing elsewhere in this work. Thirteen children 
 have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McLaws, of 
 
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 553 
 
 whom ten are still living. Shortly after this mar- 
 riage our subject was sent by the Church to do 
 colonization work in Iowa, and upon his return 
 from that field was sent into the Western States, 
 months elapsing before he saw his bride again. 
 
 After spending twenty years in Salt Lake City 
 and vicinity, Mr. McLaws came to Tooele, where 
 he bought eighteen acres of uncultivated land, 
 which he improved and where he has since made 
 his home, following farming principally. He 
 is a man of some accomplishments, being an ex- 
 cellent musician, and during hisi residence in 
 Salt Lake City was a member of the band, play- 
 ing the clarionet and the tenor horn. His wife 
 and family are all members of the Mormon 
 Church, Mrs. McLaws having joined in 1847. 
 The family has ever been an active and promi- 
 nent one in Church matters, and Mr. McLaws 
 has held many positions of honor and trust in the 
 Church. In Salt Lake City he was Clerk of the 
 Fifteenth Ward and Counsel to the Bishop; also 
 was acting Bishop for two years during the ab- 
 sence of the Bishop on missionary work. He has 
 held the offices of Elder, High Priest and a Sev- 
 enty, and for many years has been active in Ward 
 and Sunday School teaching. His son Robert 
 was called in 1881 to serve on a mission to Scot- 
 land, where he labored for two years, and his 
 oldest son. John, was sent to do colonization 
 work on the Little Colorado river in Arizona, 
 and still makes his home in that place. 
 
 Mr. McLaws shared in all the dangers from 
 Indians in the early days, being in the Indian 
 troubles in Sanpete county in 1853, and was 
 also in the Johnston army troubles, serving in the 
 infantry under Thomas Forsythe. His life in 
 Utah has been one of unflinching allegiance to the 
 cause of truth and rieht, and throughout a long 
 life he has been noted for his uprightness and 
 integrity. In financial matters he has been 
 blessed with a sufficiency of this world's goods 
 to enable him to live in comfort, and enjoy in 
 his declining years the fruits of a well spent and 
 honorable life. 
 
 In politics he has always been independent. 
 He was county Treasurer of Tooele county for 
 two years, and served several terms in the City 
 Council of Tooele. 
 
 HOMAS HARDING, 
 operative Mercantile 
 
 The Zion Co- 
 Institution of 
 Lake City, and it branches in Utah and 
 Idaho, is conceded by all to be one of 
 the greatest mercantile establishments 
 west of Chicago and east of San Francisco. 
 Among its branch houses special mention belongs 
 to the Morgan department, which was established 
 many years ago. As general manager of the 
 Morgan branch, Mr. Harding is deserving of 
 much credit in building up and putting it on a 
 sound financial basis. He has been identified 
 with it, serving in different departments, for 
 over a quarter of a century ; in fact, his best ef- 
 forts in Utah have been devoted to this institution 
 and much of its success is due to his able and ef- 
 ficient management. By his long and honorable 
 life in Morgan he has w-on a host of friends, and 
 today is considered one of the substantial and 
 leading citizens of his county. 
 
 Mr. Harding was born in Devonshire, Eng- 
 land, in 1846, and there he received his education 
 and grew to manhood. He became a convert to 
 the teachings of the Mormon Church in his na- 
 tive country and in 1873 emigrated to America, 
 coming direct to Utah and locating in Morgan, 
 which has since been his home. Upon arriving 
 here he took up a farm, and followed that busi- 
 ness for several years. He still ow-ns this farm 
 and makes a specialty of raising early Ohio pota- 
 toes and beets, in which he is quite successful. 
 He became associated with the branch house of 
 the Zion Co-operative Mercantile Institution at 
 this place in 1880, as a clerk, and has year by 
 year worked his way up until he is now general 
 manager of the establishment, which position he 
 has held since 1899. 
 
 Mr. Harding was married in 1875 to ^liss So- 
 phronia A. Bull, and by this marriage has had 
 four children : Evelyn B. ; Thomas C, now on 
 a mission to Wales ; Daniel, and Charles. His 
 children all make their home in Morgan. Mrs. 
 Harding came here in 1849, ^nd has passed 
 through all the hardships incident to pioneer life 
 in Utah. 
 
 In politics Mr. Harding is a member of the Re- 
 publican party. He has served for a number of 
 years on the City Council, and on November, 
 
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 1901, was elected Mayor of Morgan, taking his 
 office January i. 1902. 
 
 In Church life he has filled the offices of Dea- 
 con and Elder, and at this time is a member of 
 the Seventieth Quorum. He has always taken a 
 deep interest in matters pertaining to the welfare 
 of his community or the Church, and is regarded 
 as one of the solid men of that county. He has 
 been largely identified with the irrigation system 
 in Morgan county and was for seventeen years 
 water master, and has done much for his county 
 in this regard. He is essentially a self-made 
 man, and one who commands the confidence and 
 esteem of all who know him. 
 
 OSEPH WILLIAMS. The stock busi- 
 ness, like every other avocation or call- 
 ing in life, requires careful and judi- 
 cious management in order to make 
 it a success. Mr. Williams, while he is 
 a comparatively young man, has demonstrated 
 his ability to successfully handle and control the 
 stock business, having been identified with that 
 bne during all his business life. 
 
 He is a native son of L'tah, having been born 
 in Taylorsville W'ard on June 20, 1866, and is 
 the son of Thomas and Harriet (Davis) Will- 
 iams, both of his parents having been born in 
 Wales. His father came to Utah in i860 and re- 
 turned for his family in the spring of 1862. The 
 Senior Islr. Williams first settled west of the 
 Jordan river on the Taylorsville road, and spent 
 the remainder of his life in this neighborhood 
 v^fhere he took up and improved part of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land. He later sold a 
 portion of this land and lived the rest of his life 
 on the remainder, dying in 1873. Our subject's 
 mother is still living. Joseph Williams was 
 the fifth child and second son in his father's 
 family, and after the father's death he went 
 to herding cattle on the plains of Utah, which 
 he followed for a number of years. He later 
 became identified with the cattle and sheep 
 business for himself and has followed that 
 business successfully ever since, the most of 
 his stock being kept in Idaho. On his home 
 
 place is a splendid brick residence, wind mill, 
 barns, etc., fruit and orchard trees, and the whole 
 place is under a high state of cultivation. 
 
 He married on September 9, 1891 to Miss Al- 
 freda Anderson, in P.p-^^-pr county, where he was 
 at that time in the stock business. Her parents 
 had come to Utah in 1882. Of this marriage five 
 children have been born : Joseph E. ; Jennie ; 
 Carl L. ; Delpha, and Lawrence Alden. In polit- 
 ical life Mr. Williams has always been identified 
 with the Republican party, but has never desired 
 nor soueht public office. All the members of his 
 family are followers of the Mormon Church, and 
 Mr. Williams is an Elder in his Ward. His 
 wife takes an active part in the Ladies' Relief 
 Society, in caring for the worthy poor. No peo- 
 ple in Salt Lake county enjoy a wider circle of 
 friends than does Mr. Williams and his family. 
 
 H. CHRISTENSEN. In the settle- 
 ment of a new territory in the United 
 States, as soon as the land had been 
 cultivated to such an extent as to pro- 
 vide for the sustenance of the people, 
 or the natural resources had been developed so as 
 to provide for their wants, the attention of the 
 citizens of the new land has invariable turned to 
 providing adequate means for the education of 
 their children. Perhaps in no one thing does the 
 United States so far excel any other country 
 than in the educational facilities it provides for 
 the proper training of the young people. The 
 splendid system of public schools which now ex- 
 ists in LTtah was founded when the pioneers first 
 began the settlement of Utah, and this system 
 has grown to its present proportions through the 
 efforts of many men and under the guidance of 
 many superintendents, but none of them has ex- 
 erted more influence upon its growth than has 
 the present Superintendent of Public Schools of 
 Salt Lake City, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 D. H. Christensen was born in Manti, Utah, 
 in 1869, and spent his early life in that city, being 
 educated in the Presbyterian mission schools un- 
 til twelve years of age. His mother and family 
 then removed to Southern Colorado and engaged 
 in farming, and here Mr. Christensen remained 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 for the following six years, spending his time 
 on the ranch. He then returned to Salt Lake 
 City, and entered the University of Utah, grad- 
 uating in 1890, and in the same year was ap- 
 pointed principal of the Payson schools. He was 
 appointed Superintendent of the Utah coun- 
 ty schools, succeeding Judge E. A. Wilson in 
 1893, which position he held until 1897, when he 
 resigned. He was then appointed principal of 
 the Branch Normal school, but resigfned without 
 acting, to make a visit to Europe for the purpose 
 of travel and study, and at the same time ten- 
 dered his resignation from membership in the 
 State Board of Education, in which capacity he 
 had been serving since its organization. He 
 spent the first part of this trip in the British 
 Islands and made visits to France, Switzerland, 
 Italy, Holland and Belgium and studied their 
 educational institutions. Most of the latter parr 
 of his stay abroad, however, was spent in Ger- 
 many, and in the City of Berlin he remained two 
 years, where through the courtesy of Ambassa- 
 dor White he received special permission from 
 the Royal Minister of Public Instruction for the 
 Kingdom of Prussia, to investigate and study the 
 educational system of that kingdom. He devoted 
 a considerable portion of his time while in Berlin 
 to the study of the German language, and then 
 went to Frankfort, where he remained for six 
 months. Leaving Frankfort, he spent several 
 months traveling in Europe with his family, who 
 had accompanied him, and spent one month at 
 the World's Fair held in Paris in 1900. He then 
 returned to the L^niversity of Goettingen, where 
 he registered as a regular student, and took a 
 special course in psychology under Dr. Mueller, 
 and in physics under Dr. Riecke. He then re- 
 turned to America and spent a considerable time 
 in the East in the schools of Baltimore, Washing- 
 ton and Boston. In June, 1901, he went to Chi- 
 cago with the intention of entering the University 
 of Chicago, but while there received a message 
 calling him to Salt Lake City. A few days after 
 his arrival he was tendered the position of Super- 
 intendent of the Salt Lake City schools. 
 
 Since that time he has given his whole atten- 
 tion to the betterment of the public school sys- 
 tem and the efforts that he has made have re- 
 
 sulted in some changes being made and in the 
 betterment of this system. At the present time 
 he has under him three hundred and fifteen 
 teachers, including those employed in the high 
 school, and during the last year there were en- 
 rolled between twelve and thirteen thousand pu- 
 pils at the various schools. 
 
 Mr. Christensen was married in 1894 to Miss 
 Katie Dean, daughter of Joseph and Amelia 
 Dean. At the time of his marriage his wife was 
 one of the well-known teachers in Salt Lake City, 
 and while in Europe with Mr. Christensen de- 
 voted considerable time to the study of industrial 
 training for girls. By this marriage they have 
 three daughters, Aileen, Lucile and Maree. 
 Mr. Christensen and his wife are both members 
 of the Mormon Church and are descendants of 
 the old pioneer families of Utah. His father, 
 Herman J. Christensen, came to Utah in 1853, 
 and settled in Sanpete county. He was a promi- 
 nent man in all the afifairs of that community and 
 was a successful sheep grower, and a leading 
 member of the Mormon Church until he severed 
 his connection in 1868. He was also Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the ]\Ianti Savings Bank, and had joined 
 the Church prior to his removal to Utah. He died 
 in 1897. The mother of the subject of this sketch, 
 Anne (Poulson) Christensen, is still alive at this 
 writing, in Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Christensen is regarded by the prominent 
 educators of his State as one of the best fitted 
 men for the position which he now occupies. He 
 is well and favorably known throughout the 
 State, and enjoys a wide and lasting popularity. 
 
 < )HN C. LYNCH. Among the enter- 
 prising young business men of Salt Lake 
 City may be found many who began 
 their careers in other parts of the coun- 
 try, but who, chafing under the re- 
 straint placed about them, filled with a longing 
 to mingle with and become a part of this free 
 western life, have lent a willing" ear to Horace 
 Greeley's famous advice to young men, and turn- 
 ing their faces westward have found here the 
 goal of their ambitions. Such a man is the sub- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ject of this sketch, who, ahhougli but yet in his 
 early manhood, standing upon the very threshold 
 of his career, is making rapid strides in the busi- 
 ness life and even now occupies a position of 
 prominence in the city. 
 
 John C. Lynch, Secretary and General Mana- 
 ger of the Salt Lake Ice Company, and a Direc- 
 tor in the National Bank of the Republic, was 
 born in Champaign county, Illinois, January 21. 
 1867, and his early life was spent on his father's 
 farm. His parents were Patrick and Katherine 
 (Courtney) Lynch, and his father followed agri- 
 cultural pursuits all his life, dying on January 
 4, 1892. 
 
 Mr. Lynch's early education was obtained from 
 the schools of his native county, and later at 
 Terre Haute, Indiana, Commercial College. He 
 was of an ambitious temperament, and at the age 
 of nineteen turned his back upon farm life and 
 started West, going first to the Black Hills coun- 
 try. South Dakota, where he engaged for some 
 time in mining. He remained there about four 
 years, but not meeting with the success he desired, 
 continued his Westward trip until he reached Salt 
 Lake City, and has since made his home here. 
 After he had been here a short time he became 
 convinced of the fact that there was a good field 
 for a successful ice business, if conducted prop- 
 erly, and at once identified himself with that 
 industry, becoming associated with the Mountain 
 Ice and Cold Storage Company. He set about 
 to build uo the business of that concern, and 
 succeeded so well that in 1895 the business was 
 incorporated under the name of the Salt Lake 
 Ice Company, and Mr. Lynch placed in charge as 
 Secretary and Manager. He has since been the 
 leading spirit in the concern, having the entire 
 control and management of the business, which 
 has assumed large proportions, being the only 
 company between San Francisco and Denver 
 owning a plant for the manufacture of artificial 
 ice and catering to a large patronage. 
 
 Aside from the above line of business, Mr. 
 Lynch has followed his early predilection for 
 mining and is interested in a number of the lead- 
 ing mining propositions of Utah and the inter- 
 mountain country, among which may be men- 
 tioned the Silver King and Daly West, two of 
 
 the noted mines in the Park City District, and in 
 the Tintic District, one of the richest mining 
 belts in L^tah. Besides these he is interested in a 
 number of mines of smaller note, and is heavily 
 interested in valuable business real estate in the 
 city. His mining and real estate office is at 54 
 East Second South. He has great faith in the 
 future of Utah's mines. He has been associated 
 with the National Bank of the Republic almost 
 from the time he first came to Salt Lake, having 
 been elected a Director in 1888, and has since 
 continued to hold that position. 
 
 Mr. Lynch was married in Terre Haute, In- 
 diana, in 1892, to Miss Jennie Byrne, a native of 
 that State, and daughter of P. J. Byrne. They 
 have four children : Robert P. ; John ; Courtney, 
 and Mary. 
 
 In politics Mr. Lynch has always been a fol- 
 lower of the Republican party but during his 
 life in Salt Lake has not taken any very active 
 part in its work, devoting his time and attention 
 to his large business enterprises. He is a prom- 
 inent member of the Commercial Club. 
 
 It is just such enterprising, wide-awake young 
 men as our subject that are bringing Salt Lake 
 City so prominently into notice among Eastern 
 capitalists, and they are not only building up 
 strong careers for themselves, but are building up 
 the city as well, and too much cannot be said in 
 their praise. During his residence among us Mr. 
 Lynch has made many friends, not only in busi- 
 ness life but in social circles as well. 
 
 m 
 
 ROMAS ALSTON. The important 
 position of County Recorder of Salt 
 Lake county has been entrusted by his 
 fellow citizens to the subject of this 
 sketch, and the able manner in which 
 he has administered the duties of that office, has 
 justified their choice. 
 
 Thomas Alston was born in Southport, Lan- 
 caster, England, October 24th, 1857, and spent 
 his boyhood days in the place of his nativity. His 
 education was derived from the common schools 
 and Deseret University of Utah. His father died 
 in 1863 and after his death, when our subject 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 557 
 
 was but a boy, Thomas, his mother and two sis- 
 ters, emigrated to America, two elder brothers 
 having preceded them one year. Our subject, 
 mother and sisters left their native land in May.. 
 1865. and after a long and arduous journey ar- 
 rived in Salt Lake City in November of that 
 year. Upon the arrival of the family in Utah, 
 Thomas joined the sessions of the Deseret Uni- 
 versity, now the University of Utah, and also 
 attended the night schools, determined to have 
 as good an education as was possible for him to 
 get under the existing conditions. 
 
 His first work was as a school teacher, which 
 he began at the age of sixteen, and two years 
 later he took charge of a school in Summit coun- 
 ty, Utah, and continued to devote his time to 
 educational work until 1882, with the exception 
 of a period of two and a half years, when he fol- 
 lowed the occupation of a machinist. 
 
 His first entrance into political life was in 
 1883, when he was elected County Clerk of Sum- 
 mit County, Utah, by a large majority, and was 
 re-elected upon the expiration of his term, and 
 again re-elected, and was renominated for a fourth 
 term, and only defeated by thirteen votes. His 
 service as County Clerk covered a period of over 
 five years. LTpon his retiring from the office of 
 County Clerk he returned to Salt Lake City 
 and secured a position in the County Recorder's 
 office of this county, where he remained until 
 the spring of 1889. In April of that year he was 
 called by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints to go to England on its missionary 
 work. He was absent from Utah for two years 
 on this mission, during which time he visited his 
 old home and spent a large portion of his time 
 during the last year as business manager of the 
 Liverpool office of the Church. Upon his re- 
 turn to Utah he was appointed assistant to the 
 private secretary of President Woodruff, then at 
 the head of the Church, and remained in that 
 position from 1891 to 1893, when he was trans- 
 ferred to the Salt Lake Temple as Assistant Re- 
 corder, remaining in this position for five years. 
 He also served as clerk in the office of the State 
 Land Board, and in January, 1900, was chosen 
 as Stake Clerk and Historian of the new Granite 
 Stake of Zion. In the election held in Novem- 
 
 ber, 1900, he was elected on the Democratic ticket 
 as Recorder of Salt Lake county, by a large ma- 
 jority, and in this office employment is provided 
 for twelve clerks. 
 
 He married in Salt Lake City Miss Mary Ellen 
 Holt, of Hoytsville, Summit county, Utah, daugh- 
 ter of Leroy Holt, who came to Utah in an early 
 day. By this marriage they have thirteen chil- 
 dren. The father of our subject, James Alston, 
 was a prosperous builder in England, being the 
 principal builder in his home town. His wife, 
 Ann (Molyneux) Alston, was a native of Lancas- 
 ter, and her parents came to Utah in the early 
 days. They were among the early members of 
 the Church in England, being almost the first to 
 join. 
 
 In political life Mr. Alston has always been 
 prominently identified with the Democratic party, 
 and has followed with unwavering allegiance its 
 fortunes from the time of its organization in this 
 State. He has been prominently identified with 
 the Church of his choice, and is now Clerk of the 
 Granite Stake and a High Priest and Clerk of 
 the High Priests' Quorum of the Stake. 
 
 Mr. Alston is in every sense of the term a self- 
 made man. His education was obtained through 
 his own efforts, and when he started in life he 
 assisted his widowed mother in rearing and edu- 
 cating the j'ounger children. His ability and 
 industry, together with his courteous manner, 
 have made for him a host of friends throughout 
 Utah, and he enjoys the confidence and trust of 
 the leaders of the Church, and the respect and 
 esteem of the people of his acquaintance. 
 
 EORGE T. ODELL. General Manager 
 of the Consolidated Wagon and ]\Ia- 
 chine Company. Perhaps no State in 
 the Union of the same age as Utah 
 can boast of having within her borders 
 as many great and prosperous commercial and 
 financial institutions as can she, and more par- 
 ticularly does this apply to the City of Salt Lake. 
 Almost from the first year that Brigham Young 
 and his followers landed in the great Salt Lake 
 Valley, things have been planned and carried 
 
558 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 out on a large and gigantic scale ; nothing small ; 
 nothing insignificant. The stranger who now 
 visits Salt Lake City after a period of only a 
 little more than half a century of settlement and 
 development, must be at once impressed with 
 the broad and most magnificent scale on which so 
 many of the leading business establishments of 
 Salt Lake City are handled, as well as the un- 
 surpassed business ability of the men who con- 
 duct these different enterprises. The handsome 
 and thoroughly modern business blocks, public 
 buildings, and the great Salt Lake Temple, which 
 is of itself of world-wide note, with its granite 
 walls, its many spires extending far up towards 
 the noonday sun, and its generally grand and 
 stately appearance, must all leave a lasting and 
 indelible impression upon the new-comer, paying 
 mute but eloquent tribute to the stupendous and 
 magnificent undertakings of the citizens of this 
 city and State ; for these things are true not alone 
 of the capital of the State, but of the State itself; 
 whatever is undertaken bears upon it the stamp 
 of true worth and durability ; far reaching in its 
 influence and of lasting benefit to the State at 
 large. 
 
 Among the leading commercial institutions of 
 not only Salt Lake City and this entire western 
 country, but standing at the head of its particular 
 line of such establishments throughout the 
 United States, is the Consolidated Wagon and 
 Machine Company, with branches scattered 
 throughout this entire inter-mountain region. 
 Through these branches, which serve as feeders 
 for the parent house, this establishment reaches 
 out into all the surrounding States, and supplies 
 the greater part of all the vehicles, agricultural 
 implements, special lines of hardware, harness, 
 strap goods, and similar goods consumed by the 
 inhabitants of this entire western region. Before 
 taking up in detail the life of the man whose 
 genius and unequalled business ability has been 
 the leading factor in the building up of this 
 mammoth business, it might be interesting to 
 trace the career of the establishment itself. 
 
 The Consolidated Wagon and Machine Com- 
 pany, with its capitalization of one million, five 
 hundred thousand dollars, is of recent ori- 
 gin, being a consolidation of two of the 
 
 largest and most enterprising vehicle and 
 implement houses of the city, the Co-oper- 
 ative Wagon and ]\Iachine Company and 
 the Consolidated Implement Company. These 
 two institutions separately shared the greater 
 part of the trade of this region between them 
 each having branches throughout Utah, Idaho 
 and Wyoming, with a large force of traveling 
 men constantly traversing the field. They held 
 the exclusive agencies for the leading goods in 
 their lines, as well as a complete line of auxiliary 
 foods, and for years did an enormous volume of 
 business. They employed men of known business 
 ability, catered to the best class of patronage 
 and their business methods and standards were 
 above criticism. Each began in a small way, 
 started by the men who now control and operate 
 the new establishment, and by a slow but sure 
 growth attained to high positions in the business 
 world. It was upon such a foundation as this 
 that the new company came into existence. Reaf- 
 izing that by merging their interests they could 
 control even a larger field and carry on the busi- 
 ness at an immense saving and expense, the con- 
 solidation was finally effected, and the firm of 
 the Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company 
 began business on February i, 1902, with the 
 following officers and board of directors : 
 
 President, Joseph F. Smith ; Vice-President, 
 W. S. McCornick; Secretary, Melvin D. Wells; 
 Treasurer, Frank R. Snow ; General Manager, 
 George T. Odell. These gentlemen together with 
 George Romney, George A. Snow, Heber J. 
 Grant, H. B. Prout, L. S. Hills, G. G. Wright, 
 John Henry Smith, Frank R. Snow, Charles S. 
 Burton, and James H. Movie, form the Board of 
 Directors. 
 
 Aside from its immense capitalization the com- 
 pany has an almost unlimited financial backing, 
 W. S. McCornick being the leading banker of 
 this western country, a man of shrewd business 
 ability and large wealth ; Joseph F. Smith is one 
 of the leading spirits in the business world of 
 this section, being President of the Zion Co- 
 operative Institution, and of a number of smaller 
 establishments, and is at this time President of 
 the Mormon Church ; George Romney is a mem- 
 ber of the Romney Shoe Company ; Heber J. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAC RECORD. 
 
 559 
 
 Grant is President of the Home Fire Insurance 
 Company ; all men of more or less wealth, and 
 the remainder of the directorate are men of con- 
 siderable means and undoubted business stand- 
 ing. Although the chief aim of the consolidation 
 has been to reduce the running expenses of the 
 concern and cover a wider field, it is no part of 
 the intention of the owners of this establishment 
 to do this at the expense of their patrons ; on the 
 contrary they expect to give their customers the 
 benefit of this change and be able to maintain the 
 present low level of prices now prevailing, and 
 in the near future reduce these prices even lower 
 by being able to buy in larger quantities and at 
 cheaper rates in consequence. It is safe to say 
 that no firm in the West has a brighter outlook 
 or can more confidently expect a continuance of 
 past successes than can the Consolidated Wagon 
 and Machine Company. 
 
 George T. Odell, the General Alanager of this 
 establishment and its numerous branch houses 
 has been a resident of Salt Lake City since 1880. 
 He came to Utah forty-two years ago, but spent 
 some time in other parts of the State and in Neva- 
 da, coming to Salt Lake from that State. We first 
 find Mr. Odell in the employ of the Central Pa- 
 cific Railway in 1869, which business he followed 
 until 1878, when he resigned his position and 
 went to Ogden, where he engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business under the firm name of Odell 
 and Wright, building up a prosperous business. 
 He continued there for some years, when he 
 moved to Nevada and took charge of the mer- 
 cantile interests of the Bullionville Smelting; 
 Company, remaining there until 1884. In that year 
 he came to Salt Lake City and in company with 
 Heber J. and J. F. Grant established a vehicle and 
 implement business, under the firm name of 
 Grant, Odell & Company. The success of this 
 firm was assured from the start and the business 
 soon assumed such proportions that they were 
 able to absorb the Howard Seebree and the John 
 W. Lowell Wagon companies, and incorporate 
 the business under the style of the Co-operative 
 Wagon and Machine Company, from which time 
 the business was one of constant and increasing 
 magnitude. Mr. Odell was assistant manager 
 of the business until 1891, and its phenomenal 
 
 success was almost wholly due to his high order 
 of executive and business ability, untiring energy 
 and unflagging attention and devotion to the in- 
 terests of the concern. 
 
 Aside from this business Mr. Odell has asso- 
 ciated himself with a number of other leading en- 
 terprises of Salt Lake City, as well as the ad- 
 joining States. He is a Director in the Utah Com- 
 mercial and Savings Bank, and a Director in the 
 Idaho Falls Milling Company of Idaho Falls, 
 Idaho. 
 
 In political life he is an adherent of the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, and although 
 he has never participated to any great extent in 
 the work of that party, is very popular with its 
 leaders, and has several times been, urged to ac- 
 cept a public office, which he has invariably de- 
 clined, until the last election, when upon the earn- 
 est solicitation of not only the party leaders but 
 his many friends in the city, irrespective of party 
 affiliations, he allowed his name to be used 
 as a candidate for Mayor of Salt Lake City, but 
 did not receive the nomination, his opponent be- 
 ing Mayor Thompson, who was nominated and 
 re-elected to his second term. 
 
 Mr. Odell came to Utah poor in pocket but 
 rich in hope and determination to succeed, and 
 how well he has carried out that determination 
 may be seen from this sketch. His career has 
 been one of unblemished honor ; upright and 
 straightforward, he has followed the highest bus- 
 ness ideals, and today is regarded among busi- 
 ness men as of undoubted integrity and sterling 
 worth. His somewhat quick and abrupt manner 
 is more than atoned for by his undoubted sin- 
 cerity and the kindly generous heart that beats 
 beneath an at first sight brusque exterior. He 
 was married in 1871 to Miss Florence Grant, and 
 they have five children : Thomas ; George, prac- 
 ticing physician of Salt Lake City : T. Fred, 
 salesman for the Consolidated Wagon and Ma- 
 chine Company : Florence L.. now Mrs. Joseph 
 H. Richards of Salt Lake City ; Adelaide E. and 
 Ethal ^I. Mr. Odell has one grandchild, Joseph 
 H. He lives in a choice residence location in 
 the eastern part of the city, and is in the enjoy- 
 ment of a large circle of friends, both in business 
 and social life. 
 
560 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 DWARD DALTON, member of the 
 Board of County Commissioners of 
 Tooele county, and one of the promi- 
 nent and successful men of that sec- 
 tion of the State, is a member of an old 
 English family, having been born in Lancashire, 
 England, December 5, 1857, and is the son of 
 John and Hannah (Hibbert) Dalton, both na- 
 tives of the place where their son was born. 
 
 When our subject was seven years ot age his 
 mother became a convert to the teachings of the 
 I\Iormon Church, and with her child came to 
 America in 1864, coming direct to Utah and set- 
 tling in Weber canyon, where she remained but 
 a short time, removing from there to Salt Lake 
 City, and from that place to Pleasant Grove, 
 where our subject grew to manhood and where 
 he received such education as the schools of 
 the vicinity aiiforded. He began life as a farmer, 
 following that for three or four years, and then 
 went into the freighting business, which he has 
 since followed, doing contracting work princi- 
 pally. At first he freighted between Salt Lake 
 City and the mining camps, but since the rail- 
 roads have entered the State he has operated be- 
 tween the mines and the railroad terminus, 
 employing from one hundred to one hun- 
 dred and twenty-five horse and mule teams and 
 from twenty-five to thirty men. Since Senator 
 Clark has been interested in the State Mr. Dal- 
 ton has done all his teaming, and his work has 
 been most satisfactory, as he is a man who never 
 breaks his word and when he promises to have 
 freight at a certain point at a given time, it can 
 be depended upon that the freight will be there 
 if it is in human power to fulfill the contract. 
 
 Our subject was married in Tooele county, 
 July 14, 1877, to Miss Celestia Bates, daughter 
 of Ormas E. and Sarah (Mier) Bates. Eleven 
 children have been born of this marriage, eight 
 of whom are still living. They are : Sitha A., 
 who died when a baby; Celestia I., .\lameda S., 
 Emeline A., Sarah E., died aged three years; 
 Clara I., died in infancy ; Edward A., William 
 R., Elvia L., Lawrence E., and Claude E. Air. 
 Dalton has made his home in Tooele City for the 
 past seven years. 
 
 In politics he has been a believer in the princi- 
 
 ples of the Democratic party since its organiza- 
 tion in Utah, and has for many years been an 
 active worker in the ranks of that party. At 
 present he is a member of the Board of County 
 Commissioners, having been elected in 1900, the 
 same being his first political office. At the time 
 of the election there was a tie between him and 
 his opponent, which was decided in Mr. Dalton's 
 favor, he being the only Democrat elected to office, 
 and running far ahead of his ticket. He has al- 
 ways been foremost in upbuilding Tooele county, 
 and his hearty, whole-souled and generous man- 
 ner has made him a favorite with those who have 
 been associated with him, both in business and 
 private life. He is regarded as a most reliable 
 and trustworthy man in every respect, and the 
 high place to which he has attained in the es- 
 teem of his fellow men has been won by his own 
 efforts and by his strict attention to duty, and the 
 efficient and business-like manner in which he 
 has performed his work at all times. 
 
 OHX B. BRINGHURST. During the 
 past half century Utah has produced 
 many native sons who have risen to 
 prominence in the affairs of this coun- 
 try, and have gradually taken up the work 
 which their forefathers had started, but who, on 
 account of old age, were compelled to turn it over 
 to their sons. 
 
 Among the native sons of this State who de- 
 serve much credit for the part taken of building 
 up this new country must be mentioned the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. Mr. Bringhurst was born in 
 Salt Lake City, June 13th, 1854. He is the son 
 of Samuel and Eleanor B. Bringhurst, who were 
 born near the city of Philadelphia, the father 
 was born December 21st, 1812 and the mother 
 December 25, 1816. His father having been en- 
 gaged in the buggy and wagon manufacturing 
 business, and on coming to Utah he established 
 a shop in this city, and for many years success- 
 fully carried on that business, supplying most of 
 the wagons, buggies and farming implements at 
 that time used by the farmers. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in Salt Lake 
 City, being educated in the public schools, at- 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 561 
 
 tending school in the winter time and assisting 
 his father in the blacksmith and wagon shop dur- 
 ing the summer months. He was one of nine 
 children, of whom eight are living. There be- 
 ing two sets of twins, Samuel and Eleanor being 
 the first pair, and John and Mary the second — 
 there being twenty-seven hours difference in 
 their births. Mary is now Mrs. H. Cohn of 
 Salt Lake City. 
 
 In 1871 our subject removed with his parents 
 to Taylorsville Ward, where he at once became 
 interested in farming with his father and where 
 he has continued to reside ever since. Mr. Bring- 
 hurst settled on his present farm in 1880, which 
 is situated on the Redwood road, and only one 
 and one half miles south of the old Taylorsville 
 postoffice, and within eighty rods of the school 
 house of district No. 64, which is considered one 
 of the best schools in the county. His farm con- 
 sists of thirty acres of splendid land, which he 
 has continued to improve, having erected a mod- 
 ern and substantial brick residence. Fruit and 
 shade trees, etc., adorn the place. 
 
 January 3rd, 1867, he led to the marriage altar 
 Miss Emma Tripp, daughter of Enoch B. and 
 Jessie (Eddins) Tripp, who were early settlers 
 in Utah. Mrs. Bringhurst having been born in 
 Salt Lake City. By this union there have been 
 eleven children born. Jessie, the wife of J. W. 
 Webster of Taylorsville Ward ; Ella, Mary, John, 
 William, Lucy, Samuel, Joseph, Howard, Arthur 
 and Heber Grant, who died at the age of eighteen 
 months. The family has been remarkable for its 
 ruggedness and the healthy condition of the child- 
 ren, and up to two years ago had never called a 
 physician. 
 
 In political life, ]Mr. Bringhurst has followed 
 the fortunes of the Democratic party. He has 
 served as Justice of the Peace, Constable, and 
 Road Supervisor and School Trustee in his 
 Ward. 
 
 No family in Salt Lake county enjoys a larger 
 circle of friends that does Mr. and Mrs. Bring- 
 hurst. They are ever courteous, kind and public- 
 spirited and believe in assisting in every way pos- 
 sible the worthy poor. Mr. Bringhurst has al- 
 ways had great confidence in Utah, and espec- 
 ially in Salt Lake county, and the part he has 
 
 taken in building up this new country has been 
 of no small dimensions. While he has been en- 
 gaged in farming, yet this has not consumed all 
 of his time, as he has been largely interested in 
 the stock business and other enterprises of the 
 State. 
 
 OBERT PIERCE BRINGHURST. So 
 wjs closely identified with the history of 
 this inter-mountain region and espe- 
 cially of Salt Lake county, Utah, has 
 been the subject of this skettli and of 
 his people, that to attempt a compilation of this 
 kind without a proper mention of them would 
 prove materially lacking, for they were among 
 the first pioneers and founders of this new coun- 
 try, and the part they have taken in the develop- 
 ment, not only in the agricultural and stock in- 
 terests of Salt Lake county, but in commercial 
 lines as well, has been of no small dimensions. 
 
 Robert Pierce Bringhurst was born in Potta- 
 watomie county, Iowa, November 25, 1846, while 
 his parents were en route to Winter Quarters. 
 '1 he night of his birth the Missouri river froze 
 over, and Robert Pierce, who was on the other 
 side of the river, hearing of the new-born babe, 
 came across and took the family to warmer and 
 better quarters. When Robert was but two weeks 
 old his mother took him across the ice on the Mis- 
 souri river, carrying him in her arms. In the 
 following spring the family started with the train 
 under command of President John Taylor, for 
 Salt Lake City, Utah. He was the son of Samuel 
 and Eleanor B. Bringhurst. Samuel Bringhurst 
 was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, De- 
 cember 21, 1812, where he remained for a num- 
 ber of years, following his trade of wagon and 
 buggy maker, and during the time of the migra- 
 tion of the Mormon people to Nauvoo, he set- 
 tled in that vicinity and was residing at that 
 place when the Prophet Joseph Smith was killed. 
 During the troublesome times in Nauvoo, Mr. 
 Bringhurst experienced many unpleasant and an- 
 noying difficulties. At that time the residences 
 and homes of the Mormon people were being 
 searched and investigated for arms and ammu- 
 nition, which the officers of the State believed 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 they had in their possession. Mr. Eringhurst's 
 home was often searched, and on one occasion 
 when the officers came he had a gun secreted 
 under a trap door. His wife, seeing the officers 
 coming, put her rocking chair over the trap door 
 and sat down to get the youngest child to sleep, 
 and in that way they saved their gun. This gun 
 was later given to a Gentile friend of Mr. Ering- 
 hurst's, and when he started for Winter Quar- 
 ters his friend delivered it to him in a quiet way, 
 on board a boat on the Mississippi river, and the 
 same gun was brought to this State. An incident 
 which is worthy of mention in connection with 
 this memorable trip is the fact that seven of the 
 people who came across with the train have set- 
 tled west of the Jordan river in the vicinity of 
 Taylorsville, and all of whom have taken an 
 active and prominent part in the building up of 
 that section of the country, and they were instru- 
 mental in giving Taylorsville its name, in honor 
 of the captain of the train which carried them 
 safely across the great American plains. On ar- 
 riving in Salt Lake City the father of our sub- 
 ject was the first man to establish a wagon and 
 carriage repair and blacksmith shop ever opened 
 in Salt Lake City or in the State. He continued 
 at this business until 1871, making a great many 
 wagons and repairing the plows for the farmers, 
 and also making different articles which were 
 necessary in those early days for the successful 
 carrying on of farming, and he also made the 
 cradles that were used in harvesting' their grain. 
 The elder Bringhurst was a prominent factor 
 in the early history of this country and was known 
 throughout the State for his honesty and the un- 
 daunted courage which marked him as one of 
 the ablest men among the pioneers. In 1871 he 
 moved to where his son Robert now lives on the 
 Jordan river, and in the south end of Taylorsville 
 Ward. Here he died on April 12th, 1888, and 
 his wife died on July 29th of the same year. 
 There were nine children in the family, eight of 
 whom are still living. There were two sets of 
 twins, Samuel and Eleanor being the eldest, and 
 John and Mary E. the youngest. Five of the 
 boys still live in Utah, all being in the neighbor- 
 hood of Taylorsville Ward, with the exception 
 of William, who lives in Dixie. 
 
 Our subject's boyhood days were spent in 
 Utah and in the summer he worked at home in 
 the garden, and assisted his father in the black- 
 smith shop, learning that trade, and also hauling 
 wood from the mountains. He received only a few 
 weeks' schooling during the winter months. He 
 remained with his father until seven years after 
 his marriage, which occurred November 12, 1870. 
 to Miss Elizabeth Jane Foster, daughter of 
 Charles and Elizabeth (Mackleroy) Foster, whose 
 family came to Utah in 1848. .^s a result of this 
 marriage eleven children were born, nine of whom 
 are still living. They are, Robert, who died in 
 infancy ; Mary E. ; Elizabeth J. ; Charles, who 
 died at the age of nine months; Ida; Julia; 
 Henry ; Jacob W. ; Raymond ; Sarah L. and Ma- 
 bel. In 1871 Mr. Bringhurst settled on his pres- 
 ent place, east of the Redwood road, in the south 
 end of Taylorsville Ward, where he owns a splen- 
 did home, which includes sixty-six acres of as 
 good land as there is in the State, being located 
 on the north and south Jordan canals. At the 
 time that ^Ir. Bringhurst came into possession, 
 of this land it was in a wild and unimproved 
 state, and during the early years of his settle- 
 men there they were years of toil and hardship 
 and he spent the first seven years in a log cabin. 
 He later built a two-room brick house, and in 
 1896 built his splendid modern brick home, which 
 is equipped with all the conveniences of modern 
 times, hot and cold water, etc. It only requires 
 a casual glance at his present magnificent home 
 to convince any one that careful hands have had 
 it in charge. The beautiful yards, fruit and shade 
 trees, lawns and flower gardens, all go to make 
 up a most desirable home. Mr. Bringhurst has 
 not only given his time and attention to his farm- 
 ing, but he has also been largely interested in 
 the cattle and sheep business. He was among 
 the first to engage in the raising of beets for 
 the sugar industry, and his farm has produced 
 large quantities of this product. He is largely 
 interested as a stockholder in the beet sugar fac- 
 tory, and also in mining. He is also a stockholder 
 in many of the prominent banks of Salt Lake 
 City. 
 
 In politics he has always been a staunch Re- 
 publican, and in his Ward has taken a prominent 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 and active part in the political affairs of that sec- 
 tion. For six years he was a school trustee and 
 was instrumental in building a four thousand dol- 
 lar school house in that section and in raising the 
 general educational facilities to a higher standard. 
 Mr. Bringhurst and his wife were both born and 
 raised in the Mormon faith, as were also their 
 children. For many years Mrs. Bringhurst was 
 connected with the work of the relief society, but 
 resigned her position in that body on account of 
 other duties. Mr. Bringhurst was largely instru- 
 mental in organizing and bringing to perfection 
 the Jordan canal, which has proved of great bene- 
 fit to the farmers of that part of the valley. 
 
 During the Jubilee in 1897, the State through 
 'its appreciation of the work which the early 
 pioneers had accomplished, passed a bill in its 
 legislature directing that a gold medal be manu- 
 factured and that each pioneer be presented with 
 one. These medals were manufactured by one 
 of the best known firms in New York City, at a 
 cost of twenty-two dollars each, and are highly 
 prized by their possessors. This gold medal has 
 inscribed on it the picture of Brigham Young on 
 one side, and the Bee Hive on the other. Mr. 
 Bringhurst was presented with one of these 
 medals. Our subject and all of his brothers had 
 greal faith in the counsels of their father, and 
 remained at home with him until they had all 
 grown and married, and the principles of the doc- 
 trines which were inculcated into their minds 
 by the association with their father, on account 
 of his moral intellectual ability, has perhaps been 
 one of the leading secrets of their successful and 
 prosperous lives. 
 
 EORGE CRAXER. Among the early 
 pioneers and now highly respected 
 citizens of Tooele City who by fore- 
 sight and strict business principles have 
 carved out by their own efforts a suc- 
 cessful career, who have taken a prominent and 
 active part in the development of Tooele count)', 
 should be mentioned George Craner, the subject of 
 this article, a native of England, having been born 
 in Warwickshire, June i, 1829. He is the son 
 of George B. and Elizabeth (West) Craner, both 
 
 natives of England. Out of a large family of 
 children ten grew to maturity and five are now 
 living in this country, being located in Idaho 
 and Utah. 
 
 Our subject was converted to the teachings of 
 the Mormon faith in England, where he grew 
 to manhood, and received his education in the 
 common schools of that country. He emigrated 
 to America in January, 1851, on the sailing ves- 
 sel Geo. ]V. Bourne. They were ten weeks on the 
 journey from Liverpool to New Orleans, and in 
 the following year crossed the great American 
 plains in a company under command of James 
 Snow, driving four yoke of oxen for his board. 
 He arrived in Utah on the 7th of October of that 
 vear, and at once went to work to get money to 
 brine his father and mother, three sisters and 
 one brother to Utah. This was accomplished in 
 1854, at which time he had a home ready for 
 them. The father died in Kansas while en route 
 to Utah, from an attack of cholera, and was bur- 
 ied in a grave with two others, a young lady, 
 and a child, who had died of the same disease. 
 His wife continued the journey to Utah, and 
 lived with her son until her death, April 8, 1869. 
 The log house which Mr. Craner built for his 
 parents' use is still occupied. 
 
 Mr. Craner was married January i, 1857, to 
 Miss Emma Jenkins, daughter of Edward Jenk- 
 ins. She was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, October 
 5, 1842, and died February 14, 1880. Of this 
 marriage twelve children were horn, four of 
 whom are now living — George. John, Eliza, 
 Mary Ann, Joseph, drowned in Idaho, July 3, 
 1891. aged twenty-three years; Edward, died Oc- 
 tober 18, 1882, when eighteen and one-half years 
 old. The other children all died when very 
 young, and the remaining children have married. 
 
 While Mr. Craner has been active in political 
 life .ever since coming to Utah, he has never af- 
 filiated with either of the dominant parties, pre- 
 ferring to use his own judgment in regard to 
 voting, although he is more inclined to the pol- 
 icy of the Republicans than that of the Demo- 
 cratic party. He has been for eleven years a 
 member of the City Council of Tooele City, and 
 served as City Treasurer for si.x years. Both 
 parties have solicited his name as a candidate for 
 
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 Mayor, but he has always declined the honor. 
 He has not only taken a lively interest in what- 
 ever pertained to the welfare of his own city and 
 county, but in the early days was active in de- 
 fending the State against the Indians, and dur- 
 ing the time of the Johnston army troubles was 
 a guard at Echo canyon. He was also at one 
 time a guard at Tooele City during the troubles 
 with the Indians, and assisted in building a wall 
 around that place for the better protection of the 
 citizens against the raids of the red men. On 
 December 2, 1856, he went to Bridger to assist 
 the famous hand cart brigade to continue their 
 journey. Mr. Craner has been all throug'h life 
 a prominent man in the Church. He holds a 
 badge which he received during the Jubilee Cel- 
 ebration of the Latter Day Saints' Sunday School 
 held in Salt Lake City in 180Q, which has in- 
 scribed on one side the fact that he had then 
 been a teacher for thirty-five years in the Mor- 
 mon Sunday Schools, and he is today the oldest 
 person attending Sunday School in his city. He 
 was ordained a High Priest, and was set apart 
 as First Counsel to Bishop Atkins over twenty 
 years ago, still holding that position. He also 
 at one time was High Counsel of the Tooele 
 Stake. Mr. Craner relates with pride the fact 
 that he was a teacher in the first Sunday School 
 organized, on January 7, 1857. Since coming 
 to L'tah he has assisted a number of people to 
 emigrate to this place, bringing three families 
 to Utah, besides his own. When Mr. Craner 
 went to Tooele City the place was little more 
 than a wilderness. He raised the first peaches 
 grown in Tooele City. 
 
 He has followed farming and fruit raising all 
 his life since coming here, and has been so suc- 
 cessful that he was able to retire from active bus- 
 iness life about eight years ago. In addition to 
 accumulating a comfortable competence for his 
 own declining days, he has been able to assist 
 his children as they grew to maturity, and after 
 giving them every advantage possible in the 
 way of education assisted them in starting in 
 life, and today they are all well-to-do. Mr. Cra- 
 ner, by his own industry, perseverance and up- 
 right living, has attained to a high place among 
 the citizens and business men of Tooele countv. 
 
 KX'JAMIN CLEGG. For over half a 
 century Mr. Clegg has been identified 
 with almost every undertaking and en- 
 terprise which was for the building up 
 of Tooele county and City. He has 
 assisted in the development of its financial, com- 
 mercial, agricultural and educational interests, 
 promoting the welfare of its fellow citizens and 
 aiding the progress of his county, and is en- 
 titled to be ranked among the public spirited, 
 progressive citizens. By his long and honorable 
 life in Tooele county he has won and retained 
 the confidence and respect of all the best peo- 
 ple of his community. 
 
 Benjamin Clegg is a native of England, being 
 born in Lancashire, September i, 1826, and is 
 the son of Joseph and Mary Clegg. Our subject 
 was converted to the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church in the spring of 1848, and that year left 
 his native land and emigrated to America, cross- 
 ing the great American plains to Utah in 1849, 
 in Ezra T. Benson's company. That winter was 
 spent in the old Fort at Salt Lake City, and the 
 following spring he went to what is now the site 
 of Tooele City, where he located the place which 
 has been his home ever since. At the time he 
 came here there were but few families living 
 here, and of those few he is the only person now 
 living here, the others having either moved away 
 or died. When he came to Utah his capital con- 
 sisted of seventy-five cents in money, a span of 
 horses, one cow and one steer. With this small 
 capital he began life in Tooele, and by untiring 
 industry, hard work, economy and determination 
 in the face of all obstacles accumulated a little 
 at a time, until now he is one of the most sub- 
 stantial farmers in this county, owning a beau- 
 tiful place of thirty-nine acres of highly culti- 
 vated land in this place, and having large inter- 
 ests in cattle and sheep. He retired from active 
 life about five years ago, since which time his 
 sons have looked after his interests. 
 
 In April, 1850, he married in Salt Lake City 
 a widow who had five children. This wife died 
 in 1882. In December, 1853, '^^ ^"^'^s again mar- 
 ried, this time to Miss Grace Mclntyre, daugh- 
 ter of Peter and Agnes Mclntyre. The Mcln- 
 tyres were natives of Scotland, Mrs. Clegg being 
 
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 born in Millport, Scotland, and baptized into the 
 Mormon faith in that country in 1844. Peter 
 Mclntyre was a soldier under Napoleon Bona- 
 parte. His wife died, leaving him with a fam- 
 ily of six children, whom he brought to Amer- 
 ica in 1853, settling at Tooele City, where he 
 died in 1872. Five children have been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Clegg — Elizabeth, now Mrs. J. S. 
 Brown, of Salt Lake City; Benjamin, Peter, 
 Agnes, who died aged two years, and Grace, 
 now Mrs. Grace Jones, of Bingham Canyon. 
 
 Mr. Clegg has been active in the work of 
 the Mormon Church during his residence, and 
 has reared his children in that faith. He holds 
 the office of High Priest in the Church. His son, 
 Benjamin, now living at Soda Springs, Idaho, 
 was called for missionary service in Australia, 
 and served in that field for three years. As his 
 sons have grown to manhood, Mr. Clegg has 
 started them in the cattle and sheep business, 
 and his son Peter is today the largest owner of 
 cattle and sheep in Tooele county. 
 
 EXRY PHIXEHAS RICHARDS. For 
 upwards of fifty-four years Henry 
 Phinehas Richards has made his home 
 in Salt Lake City. He has been an 
 eye-witness to the vast work of trans- 
 forming Salt Lake City from a small and strug- 
 gling village of adobe houses and business places 
 to the splendid position which it occupies at the 
 present time. Elder Richards has spent most 
 of his life in the interests of the Mormon Church, 
 serving on Missions at home and in the foreign 
 fields. 
 
 He was born November 30, 1831, in Richmond, 
 Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and is the son 
 of Phinehas and Wealthy (Dewey) Richards. 
 His parents were converted to the teachings of 
 the Mormon Church, and baptized when our sub- 
 ject was about eight years of age, and their son 
 was baptized into that faith when he was a youth 
 of eight j-ears. The family emigrated to Nauvoo 
 in 1843, ^"d remained there until the exodus of the 
 Mormon people in 1846, spending the winter of 
 1847-48 at Winter Quarters and on July 3, 1848, 
 
 took up the journey westward, arriving in the Val- 
 ley of the Great Salt Lake on October 19th of that 
 year. During this journey our subject drove an 
 oxteam for Mrs. Moss, whose husband was on a 
 mission to England, and had charge of two teams 
 all the way, standing guard half the night every 
 third night. He was not of a very strong con- 
 stitution, and this trip proved a very trying one. 
 For a number of years after coming to Utah he 
 assisted in supporting the family, and acted as 
 messenger in the House of Representatives of 
 the Provisional Government of the State of 
 Deseret, during its first two sessions. This later 
 became the State of Utah. In the winter of 1850 
 he took an active part in organizing the first 
 dramatic company west of the Missouri river, 
 and took part in the first play presented by that 
 company, the title of which was "The Triumph 
 of Innocence," and was presented in the old Bow- 
 ery, then situated in the Temple Block. 
 
 On December 30, 1852, he was united in mar- 
 riage by President Willard Richards to Margaret 
 Miner\^a Empey, and to them were born eight 
 children. On April 17th, 1854, he was ordained a 
 Seventy under the hands of President Joseph 
 Young, and became identified with the Eighth 
 Quorum. On May 4th of that year he was sent 
 by the heads of the Church, in company with 
 eighteen other Elders on a mission to the Hawa- 
 iian Islands, traveling by team to California. 
 During his absence of three and a half years he 
 acquired a knowledge of the language of that 
 country and successfully labored upon the islands 
 of Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanal, Oahu and 
 Kauai. His oldest child, a daughter, was born 
 soon after he left for this mission, and was about 
 three and a half years old when he first saw her. 
 
 In the spring of 1858, upon the approach of 
 Johnston's army, he moved south and located in 
 Provo, where his family remained until the trou- 
 ble passed. On August 21, 1865, he was com- 
 missioned by acting Governor Amos Reed as 
 Quartermaster and Commissary of the Second 
 Brigade, First Division. Militia of Utah, with 
 the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of Infantry, and 
 on July 13th of the following year was commis- 
 sioned bv Governor Charles Durkee as First 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Aide-de-Camp on the staff of the Commander of 
 the Second Brigade, First Division, Utah MiHtia, 
 with the rank of Colonel of Infantry. 
 
 On September ii, 1869, he was ordained one 
 of the Presidents of the Eighth Quorum of Sev- 
 enties, occupying that position until May 9, 1873. 
 when he was ordained a High Priest and set apart 
 to act as Alternate High Counselor, under the 
 hands of President Joseph F. Smith and the 
 Presidency of the Stake. He was again called 
 on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands in October. 
 1876, taking passage at San Francisco on board 
 the ship City of Xezv York, and arriving in Hono- 
 lulu January 12, 1877. He labored on many of 
 the islands which he had first visited, and met 
 many with whom he had become acquainted on 
 his first mission. He had several interviews with 
 the King of those Islands, who expressed him- 
 self as being friendly to the Mormons, and Mr. 
 Richards presented Queen Kapiolani with a nicely 
 bound volume of the Book of Mormon, published 
 in her own language. He also traveled for a 
 time with Her Majesty on the Island of Hawaii, 
 partaking of her hospitality and assisting her on 
 a number of occasions in organizing her Hoola 
 Hooulu Lahui, an organization similar to the 
 Relief Societies of tne Latter Day Saints. Dur- 
 ing his stay on the Island of Oahu, Elder Rich- 
 ards was assessed a personal tax of five dollars 
 by the native assessor, and upon his refusal to 
 pay the tax, upon the ground of his being a Chris- 
 tian minister, and therefore entitled to exemption, 
 was arrested and tried by the native courts, who 
 upheld the action of the assessor, but this de- 
 cision was reversed by Judge McCully, and there- 
 after the Mormon missionaries were exempted 
 from this tax. Elder Richards also had several 
 interviews with J. Mott Smith. Minister to the 
 Interior, the result of which was the granting of 
 licenses to the Alormon missionaries, allowing 
 them to solemnize marriages. His mission this 
 time lasted about two and a half years, and on 
 his return he brought with him four natives of 
 the Sandwich Islands. While on his way from 
 the Island of Hawaii to Honolulu, news reached 
 him of the death of President Brigham Young. 
 
 On June 5. 1881. he was appointed Superin- 
 
 tendent of the Fourteenth Ward Sunday School, 
 which position he held nearly eight years, having 
 previously been connected with the school in va- 
 rious capacities. He served as District School 
 Trustee from 1882 to 1888. On September 8, 
 1890, he was enrolled as a member of the High 
 Council of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion. 
 
 During the time he has been at home he has 
 been actively engaged in mercantile pursuits and 
 has been in the employ of a number of the lead- 
 ing houses of the city. On April 5, 1898, he was 
 appointed Oil and Food Inspector for the city. 
 
 ODERT E. DIMOXD. Salt Lake 
 county is noted for its fine soil, splen- 
 did homes, prosperous and successful 
 farms, and stock men. Mr. Robert E. 
 Dimond has taken no small part during 
 the past twenty years of his life in L^tah in bring- 
 ing about the present prosperous and most satis- 
 factory condition which today exists in Salt Lake 
 county. 
 
 Mr. Dimond is a native of England, having 
 been horn in Crewkerne, Sommersetshire, Eng- 
 land, on April 30, 1865. He is the son of Henry 
 and Elizabeth Jane (Weber) Dimond, who were 
 also natives of England, and came to America 
 with their family in 1880, settling in West 
 Jordan Ward, near the place where their son 
 now has his farm. The boys received their edu- 
 cation in England, attending the common schools 
 of that country. Our subject is a member of the 
 Mormon Church and has been active in its work 
 ever since his residence in this country. In 1891 
 he was called to go on a mission for the Church 
 to the Samoan Islands, where he served three 
 years, returning in 1894. He has also been active 
 in the home work of the Church, having served 
 for a time as assistant superintendent of the Sun- 
 day Schools of his W'ard, and is at this time a 
 Ward teacher. He is also occupying the position 
 of one of the Presidents of a Quorum of Seven- 
 ties, and by his untiring and conscientious work 
 in behalf of the Church has won the confidence 
 and trust of its leaders, by whom he is held in 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 567 
 
 hisfh esteem. In addition to his journey to the 
 Samoan Islands, he has also been back to his na- 
 tive land since coming to this country, having 
 visited the Paris Exposition in company with his 
 brothers, W. A. and T. W. Dimond, in 1900. 
 
 Our subject was married on November 24. 
 1887, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Bateman, daughter 
 of Thomas and Mary Hateman, who were among 
 the early pioneers to this State, and are well-to- 
 do people of Salt Lake county, and well and 
 favorably known in their own community, as well 
 as in Salt Lake City. By this marriage Mr. Di- 
 mond has had seven children : Edwin Robert ; 
 George Thomas ; Arthur William ; Leo H., who 
 died at the age of three years ; Lola, Zella E., 
 and Servella A. Like her husband, Mrs. Dimond 
 is a member of the Mormon faith, and was 
 brought up in the doctrines of that Church. 
 
 In politics Mr. Dimond is a believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party, but while tak- 
 ing an active interest in the work of his party, he 
 has never been an office seeker, devoting his en- 
 tire time to the management of his large business 
 interests. In company' with his brothers, Mr. 
 Dimond has large sheep interests, ranging their 
 sheep in Wyoming, and the firm of Dimond 
 Brothers is well known among stockmen of this 
 section of the country. The firm is a prosperous 
 one and they make large shipments to the East. 
 Our subject also owns his home in the West 
 Jordan Ward, having forty acres of land on which 
 he has erected a fine brick residence, and the place 
 is well improved, with good outbuildings, fences 
 windmills, etc. 
 
 Mr. Dimond is still in his early manhood, but 
 he has already won a high place for himself in 
 the ranks of the business men of this community, 
 and it is confidentially predicted by those who 
 are in close touch with him in business aflfairs 
 that he will by his unusual business ability be in 
 a position to retire from active business life at an 
 early age, if he so desires. He has made his own 
 way in the world, and his success is due to his 
 own efforts, unaided by any outside financial 
 support. He has the confidence and respect of 
 those who know him and enjoys a large circle of 
 friends. 
 
 ( )HN ENGLAND. Whoever labors for 
 the advancement of his community as- 
 sists in the development of its financial, 
 commercial, agricultural and educational 
 interests, promoting the welfare of his 
 fellow citizens and aiding in the progress of the 
 place, and is entitled to rank among its public 
 spirited, progressive citizens. Such a man is Mr. 
 England, than whom Tooele county has no citi- 
 zen more prominent or popular. His name has 
 been identified with almost every important meas- 
 ure for the benefit and upbuilding of Tooele City 
 and county. His help has been relied upon in 
 the development of material interests ; his gen- 
 erosity has stimulated local progress and his in- 
 telligence has enabled him to devise means of 
 enhancing the common good. For upwards of 
 half a century he has been closely associated with 
 the interests and development of his county, and 
 today ranks among the most highly respected 
 men throughout the entire county of Tooele. 
 
 John England was born in Norfolk, England, 
 October 25, 1840, and is the son of Daniel and 
 Mary Ann (Medler) England. His parents were 
 converted to the teachings of the Mormon Church 
 in England, and brought their children up in that 
 faith, our subject being baptized at the age of 
 eight years. The family emigrated to America 
 in 1856 and joined the famous hand cart com- 
 pany, but they stopped in Winter Quarters and 
 did not accompany that ill-fated company to 
 L'tah. Daniel England had been a shoemaker in 
 England and taught that trade to his sons. For 
 four years after coming to the United States 
 the family remained in Omaha, where the father 
 and sons plied their trade. In i860 they crossed 
 the plains in company with Brigham H. Young 
 Their outfit consisted of a wagon, two oxen and 
 two cows. While en route to Utah one ox was 
 stolen, and at Fort Laramie they bought a cow 
 and continued the journev with the cows and 
 oxen hitched together. On arriving in Utah the 
 family went at once to Tooele City, where the 
 father and sons again followed their trade as 
 shoemakers, making the first pair of boots ever 
 manufactured in Tooele City, which were pre- 
 sented as a gift to Apostle Orson Pratt. Our 
 
568 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 subject has been engaged in the boot and shoe 
 business at intervals since that time, and was for 
 ten years manager of the boot and shoe depart- 
 ment for the Zion Co-operative Mercantile In- 
 stitution in Tooele City. He bought his present 
 establishment in 1890 and is today one of the most 
 substantial and enterprising business men of this 
 place. 
 
 Mr. England was married in Tooele City in 
 1863 to Miss Eliza Kennington, who came to 
 Utah with the first hand cart company. They 
 have had twelve children, eight of whom are now 
 living: John; Maggie; Henry; Julia; Joseph; 
 Leon ; Hazel, and Olive. Mr. England has a 
 good home here and owns a number of city lots. 
 He has been twice married and is the father of 
 nineteen children, and after the passage of the' 
 Edmunds-Tucker Act served a term in the peni- 
 tentiary for violation of that law. 
 
 The people for whom Mr. England did shoe- 
 making in the early days had as a rule very little 
 money, and it was not always possible for him 
 to obtain his pay promptly, and he was often 
 obliged to go out and earn money in other ways. 
 He hauled the first load of ore from the Hidden 
 Treasure mine to Salt. Lake City, and also assisted 
 in building the road up to the mine. In addition 
 to this work he helped get out the first ties for the 
 Union Pacific Railroad. In late years he has been 
 interested in the sheep business quite extensively 
 his sons at this time looking after his interests 
 in that direction, their ranges being mostly in 
 "Vv'yoming. The whole family are members of 
 the Mormon Church, and Mr. England holds the 
 office of High Priest. He was called on a mission 
 to England in 1881, and served two years in the 
 Norfolk Conference. His mother died the year 
 he left on his mission, and his father died in 
 1889. Mr. England is a self-made man, and dur- 
 ing his life here has been noted for his many 
 charitable acts, being always ready to assist those 
 who were poorer than himself. He is of a genial 
 and kindly nature and has many friends in Tooele 
 county and other parts of the State where he is 
 known. 
 
 \MUEL HENRY PARKER. To have 
 lived a life devoted to the betterment of 
 nne's fellowmen, and so filled the lives 
 of those about us with kindly deeds that 
 when we pass out into the bourne from 
 whence none ever return, the hearts of those left 
 must forever mourn the absence of our comfort- 
 ing presence, is a measure of happiness that 
 comes to but few of us, thoughtlessly running our 
 race, often unmindful of the sorrows of our 
 brother. Those who came in daily touch with the 
 subject of this sketch have only words of praise 
 to offer for a life that closed in its prime, and his 
 memory is held in tenderest remembrance by those 
 bound to him by the close ties of relationshp, to 
 whom his loss is an irreparable one. 
 
 He comes of an old English family, his grand- 
 parents having come to America in 1845 ^"'i ^o 
 L'tah in 1852. His parents were William and 
 Mary (Shanks) Parker, both of whom are still 
 living, and an interesting account of the family 
 history will be found in the sketch of the father, 
 which appears elsewhere in this work. He was 
 also a brother of William Edward Parker, a 
 prosperous farmer of Taylorsville, whose biog- 
 raphy also appears in this volume. 
 
 Our subject grew up on his father's farm in 
 Taylorsville Ward, where he was born April 11, 
 1869, and obtained such scholastic advantages as 
 the times aforded. After his marriage he moved 
 to the present family homestead at the south end 
 of Taylorsville Ward, where he engaged in farm- 
 ing, building a fine brick house, good outbuild- 
 ings, etc., and bringing his farm up to an excel- 
 lent state of cultivation, in which he took much 
 pride. In the Church he was a most active 
 worker, and was sent to England on a mission, 
 but ill health compelled him to return in 1895 
 before his time was up. He was at the time of 
 his death a member of the Seventies. 
 
 Mr. Parker married on January 9, 1890, Aliss 
 Maggie Swenson, daughter of Peter bwenson 
 who survives him. Two children were born to 
 them : Emil Samuel and Mervin. 
 
 Mr. Parker was in his twenty-ninth year when 
 death claimed him on November 14th, 1897, and 
 he was followed to the grave bv a host of sorrow- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ing neighbors and friends, who had loved hiin 
 for his many noble qualities of mind and heart, 
 and honored him for his manly and upright mode 
 of life. 
 
 Mrs. Parker's parents are still living in Grant 
 Ward and she has five sisters and two brothers, 
 all of whom with one exception are residents of 
 Utah. Her husband left the home in good condi- 
 tion and free of all encumbrances, and she has 
 since been enabled to live in comfort, surrounded 
 by her children, to whom she is deeply attached. 
 She is identified with the work of the Ladies' Re- 
 lief Society and an active worker in all Church 
 departments, enjoying a wide popularity among 
 her friends. 
 
 , IGHT REVEREND LAURENCE 
 O -"^CANLAN, D. D., Bishop (R. C.) 
 diocese of Salt Lake City. During the 
 thirty years of his life spent in Salt 
 Lake City, Bishop Scanlan has accom- 
 plished wonderful things along the line of his 
 Church work, and the results of his active, pro- 
 gressive life can be seen on every hand. Broad 
 and liberal in his views he not only holds the 
 respect and esteem of his own people, but en- 
 joys the highest confidence of all classes in this 
 inter-mountain region. 
 
 Bishop Scanlan is a native of Ireland. He was 
 educated at All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland, 
 and ordained a priest June 24, 1868. He at once 
 came to the United States, landing at New York 
 and going from thence to California by way of 
 Panama. He went to San Francisco, where he 
 was for two years assistant pastor of Saint Pat- 
 rick's Church, then assistant pastor of Saint 
 Mary's Cathedral for one year. In 187 1 he was 
 appointed pastor at Woodland, Sonoma county, 
 California, where he remained only six months. 
 He was then sent to Pioche. a mining camp in 
 Southern Nevada, where he ministered to the 
 people for eighteen months, and in 1873 was 
 transferred to Petaluma, Sonoma county, Cali- 
 fornia, remaining there but six months, being in 
 that same year appointed pastor of Saint Mary's. 
 Salt Lake City, and after entering upon his 
 duties here, had charge of the entire territory un- vering 
 
 til 1887. In 1875 'ic became Vicar-General under 
 Ijishop Allamany of San Francisco. He then 
 proceeded to establish other parishes throughout 
 the State, and today has twelve parishes in Utah, 
 besides forty missions in different parts of the 
 State. 
 
 On June 29, 1887, he was consecrated Bishop 
 of Laranda and Vicar-Apostolic of Utah. In 
 1891 he was transferred from Bishop of Laranda 
 to Bishop of Salt Lake, and has supreme power 
 in all of Utah and Easteru Nevada, assisted by 
 eighteen priests under his charge. 
 
 In 1875 he founded Saint Mary's Academy, 
 a well-known educational institution of this city. 
 In 1881 he built the Holy Cross Hospital of Salt 
 Lake City, which is the leading Hospital for 
 surgical operations in this inter-mountain coun- 
 try, and widely known throughout the adjoining 
 States. In 1886 he built All Hallows College and 
 conducted it for two years, as President, until his 
 successor was appointed. He also has super- 
 vision over the Kearns' Saint Ann's Orphanage, 
 of this city. On the Fourth day of July, 1899, 
 he broke the ground on East South Temple 
 street, and commenced the erection of Saint 
 Clary's Cathedral, a beautiful structure of gray 
 sandstone, adjoining the Bishop's home. 
 
 Bishop Scanlan has done a great work in the 
 upbuilding of the Church in Utah. In 1876 he 
 built the Ogden Church, of which he was in 
 charge until his successor was appointed. In 
 1879 he erected the old Sacred Heart Academy 
 at Ogden, built churches and schools in Park 
 City, Eureka, Castle Gate and Bingham City. 
 
 The Bishop is well known in Salt Lake City 
 and Utah, as well as in the surrounding States, 
 and highly respected for his good qualities and 
 educational attainments. He is deeply interested 
 in the welfare of the city and State, and enjoys 
 a wide circle of friends, irrespective of religious 
 dogma. 
 
 ( )UIS BRINGHURST. In the great 
 work of developing and bringing the 
 State of Utah to its present prosperous 
 condition it has called for brave men; 
 men of determined purpose and perse- 
 encrgy. The Bringhurst family has been 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 identified with its interests since its earliest days,^ 
 being among the first pioneers to settle in this 
 country, and by their efforts much has been ac- 
 complished in bringing this new country from a 
 wild and barren waste to its present prosperous 
 condition. 
 
 Our subject, Louis Bringhurst, is a native son 
 of Utah, having been born in Salt Lake City Sep- 
 tember 24, 1856. He is a son of Samuel Bring- 
 hurst, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this 
 volume. Our subject spent his boyhood days in 
 Salt Lake City, up to the age of fifteen, receiving 
 his education in the public schools. He first 
 started working for his father and brothers until 
 he reached his majority. In 1871 the family 
 moved to West Jordan, now the south end of 
 Taylorsville Ward, where Mr. Bringhurst has 
 continued to reside ever since. 
 
 On July 3. 1884, he married Miss Phoebe 
 Brown, daughter of Homer and Sarah Ann 
 (Wolf) Brown, who were pioneers to Utah, hav- 
 ing crossed the plains with the first Mormon train 
 in 1847. Mrs. Bringhurst was born in Salt Lake 
 City. They have had seven children, two of 
 whom have died: Phoebe Grace; Louis Scott; 
 Eleanor Ann ; Harvey, who died aged four years ; 
 Chester, who died at two years of age ; Beatrice, 
 and Tracy. Mr. Bringhurst owns a splendid 
 farm of thirty acres, which he settled upon in 
 1887, and year by year he has devoted his time 
 to making substantial improvements upon his 
 place ; his buildings are all of modern type, and 
 his home is situated on the Redwood road, one 
 and a half miles south of the Taylorsville post- 
 ofifice. 
 
 In political affairs he has always been a Repub- 
 lican, and at the present time is serving as Road 
 Supervisor and is a Director of the South Jordan 
 canal. From early childhood he has been asso- 
 ciated with the Mormon Church, as has his wife, 
 and they have taken an active and prominent part 
 in the work of the Church, and enjoy the confi- 
 dence and esteem of its leaders. His children 
 are also members of that Church. He is one of 
 the Seven Presidents of the Seventies, and also 
 President of the Mutual Improvement Associa- 
 tion. In 1894 he was called to serve on a mission 
 
 to England, which he filled with credit to him- 
 self, and with satisfaction to the leaders of the 
 Church, returning in 1895. 
 
 Mr. Bringhurst has in his possession a book 
 which was published in 1728 by order of the 
 Grand Asembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, 
 which treats of the laws then in force in that 
 Province. William Penn's Charter, written in 
 his own hand-writing, contains fourteen pages of 
 closely written laws. This volume contains three 
 hundred and eighty-four pages. But few volumes 
 were printed and in binding, William Penn's 
 Charter was for some reason bound in the same 
 book. This book has been in the possession of 
 the family for many years, being handed down 
 by their ancestors. On the front page of this 
 book appears the name of John Bringhurst, which 
 was no doubt written either by their grandfather 
 or their great-grandfather. The book is con- 
 sidered a valuable one and a great curiosity, laeing 
 the only one now in existence. During the Cen- 
 tennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876 
 it was on exhibition there. 
 
 AMUEL BATEMAN. Probably one 
 of the oldest settlers in West Jordan is 
 Samuel Bateman, who has been farm- 
 ing in that .section of Salt Lake county 
 for the last fifty years. He has been 
 in his time deputy sheriff, pound master, road 
 overseer and Superintendent of the Sunday 
 School, and is in politics a firm believer in the 
 principles of Democracy. He has raised sixteen 
 children, of whom all but one lived in the neigh- 
 borhood. 
 
 Mr. Bateman was born in Manchester, Eng- 
 land, on July 1st, 1832. His father was Thomas 
 Bateman and his mother Mary (Street) Bateman. 
 The elder Bateman joined the Mormon Church 
 in England, and came to America in 1840, stay- 
 ing the winter of that year in St. Louis. In the 
 following spring the father and family went to 
 Nauvoo, and were there at the laying of the cor- 
 ner stone of the Temple. After staying there for 
 six months they moved to Lee county, Iowa, and 
 after establishing a home for his family there 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 571 
 
 Thomas Bateman with his son, Sam, returned to 
 Nauvoo and went to work in the Nauvoo brick 
 yard for the summer. In the winter of 1844, af- 
 ter Prophet Smith was killed, Mr. Bateman sold 
 out his place in Iowa and returned to Nauvoo 
 with his family, where he remained until 1846. 
 Our subject worked on the Temple building in 
 the winter, and in the summer obtained work in 
 the brick yard. He was in Nauvoo when the 
 Temple was completed in the winter of 1845-46. 
 Then he returned to Iowa and lived for three 
 years near his former home. In 1849 the Bate- 
 mans went to Council Bluffs, and in the following 
 year crossed the plains to the new Mormon set- 
 tlement in the Salt Lake valley. There were 
 fifty-si.x wagons in the freight train in which 
 the family crossed the plains, and Thomas Bate- 
 man and Faremorz Little were the captains of 
 the train, which reached Salt Lake City in Sep- 
 tember. The train of merchandise was owned by 
 Livingston and Kincaid and was the first freight 
 train with merchandise to cross the plains to Salt 
 Lake City. That winter our subject journeyed 
 into Iron county. On the way thither he passed 
 through West Jordan, where he settled less than 
 two years later and still lives. In 1851 he re- 
 turned to Salt Lake City. Making a trip back to 
 Parowan the following year, he sold out what 
 property he had there and came back to Salt Lake 
 City. Since the close of the summer of 1852 he 
 has remained in West Jordan. Here he started 
 in to farm with seven and three-quarters acres of 
 land, which in course of time he increased to 
 forty-one acres. The north Jordan canal runs 
 through his land, making it fertile. Mr. Bate- 
 man also has an interest in the West Jordan 
 Flouring Mill. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Bateman married Miranda Allen. 
 a daughter of D. R. and Eliza (Martin) Allen 
 of West Jordan, who came to Utah in 1853. He 
 became a member of the Mormon Church when 
 he was in Iowa, and has always been a staunch 
 supporter of the tenets of that faith. He was one 
 of the intimate friends of Presidents Brigham 
 Young and Wilford Woodruff, and also of Apos- 
 tle John Taylor. He was one of the many 
 Mormons who suffered seventy-five days' im- 
 
 prisonment in the State Prison for maintaining 
 plural wives, and refusing to give up one of the 
 principles of his faith. Mr. Bateman was one of 
 Brigham Young's guards, and in that position 
 went to Idaho, and has been into every Territory 
 bordering on Utah. He was sent on a mission 
 to Dixey. His father went back to England to 
 dispose of his property, and died on the voyage 
 back, being buried at sea. His mother lived to 
 tiie age of eiehty-one years, dying in West Jordan 
 Ward. 
 
 OHN C. MACKAY, one of the most 
 able and influential men of Salt 
 Lake county, who has only just passed 
 his forty-fourth mile-stone in his life's 
 history, has fully demonstrated his ability 
 to handle and control the intricate and compli- 
 cated problems in life. 
 
 Mr. Mackay is a man of wide range of thought 
 and a thorough student. He goes on the theory 
 that every man, whether his occupation is that of 
 a farmer, stock-man, banker, or whatever his 
 position or avocation in life may be, must keep 
 up with the times in order to reap the greatest 
 benefits intellectually, morally and financially. 
 
 Mr. Mackay is a native of Utah, having been 
 born in Salt Lake City, November 30th, 1857. He 
 is a son of John and Isabella (Calder) Mackay, 
 and a grandson of Thomas Mackay, who was 
 among the original pioneers of this State, and one 
 of the first men to cross the Jordan river and set- 
 tle in that section. A full sketch of the family 
 history may be found elsewhere in this volume. 
 Our subject spent his boyhood days in Salt Lake 
 City. His early education was received in the 
 common schools, later entering the State Uni- 
 versity of Utah, and receiving graduating honors 
 in that institution in 1875, ^^ the age of eighteen 
 years. In the class in which Mr. Mackay grad- 
 uated were Major Richard W. Young, Ferry 
 Young, D. C. Young and Levy Riter. After com- 
 pleting his education, Mr. Mackay followed book- 
 keeping for several years for some of the leading 
 firms in Salt Lake City. In 1878 he moved to 
 granger Ward on the Redwood road, between 
 
572 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Fourteenth and Fifteenth South, where he pur- 
 chased forty acres of land, upon which he has 
 made vakiable improvements, and which includes 
 his beautiful home, a large brick house. 
 
 Mr. Mackay has been a very busy man during 
 all of his business career, and yet he desires to 
 reside in his country home where he can raise 
 his family untampered by the bad influences in- 
 cident to a city life. 
 
 Quite early in life Mr. Mackay entered the 
 sheep business, soon after moving into the coun- 
 trv, and has been prominently identified with that 
 industry ever since. While living in the city he 
 had taken up civil engineering and became pro- 
 ficient in that profession, and on account of his 
 expert knowledge along this line, he has been 
 called to fill many positions demanding expe- 
 rience in this department, among some of those 
 he has filled is the position of Secretary of the 
 North Jordan Canal, to which he has given much 
 of his time and attention, and was closely identi- 
 fied in the construction of that canal in measuring 
 the water and doing all of the company's business, 
 which position he has filled for the past ten 
 years, and being so competent in that department 
 he has been sought by other canal companies to 
 do similar business, and is now Secretary of all 
 of the companies interested in Utah Lake as a 
 reservoir. 
 
 On account of those positions, Mr. Mackay 
 has spent a great deal of time in the courts giving 
 expert testimony along the lines in dispute and 
 questions of law which have come up for the de- 
 cisions of the courts. He is also President of the 
 Wool Growers' Protective Association of Uinta 
 county. Wyoming. Mr. Mackay has taken a 
 very active part in the National Live Stock Asso- 
 ciation, and was chairman of the Entertainment 
 Committee when they held their National Con- 
 vention at Salt Lake City in 1901. He is con- 
 sidered one of the ablest speakers along the lines 
 of live stock and irrigation in this State, and 
 many of his speeches can be found in the differ- 
 ent publications of not only Utah, but which 
 have been copied in the papers of other States 
 as well. Perhaps one of the greatest speeches 
 was delivered at Denver, Colorado, on "Forest 
 
 Reserves," which appears in the volume of 1899 
 and also in the volume of 1900, upon the "Arid 
 Lands." On account of the prominent positions 
 he occupies along this line he is almost in con- 
 stant correspondence with the National Govern- 
 ment, giving information and his theory as to irri- 
 gation and the arid lands. 
 
 Mr. Mackay has always been a protectionist, 
 having stumped the State of Utah every cam- 
 paign since its admission in the Union as a State, 
 for the Republican party. 
 
 He married on November 8th, 1883, to Miss 
 Catherine Moses, daughter of George R. and 
 Alice (Cristy) Moses, one of the old and promi- 
 nent families of this State. Ten children have been 
 born as the result of this union : John E. ; Eugene ; 
 .Alice ; .A.lonzo ; Albert C. ; George W. ; Rowland 
 C. ; Harold M. ; Dewy C, and Wendell. The 
 oldest son at the present time is a student in the 
 State University of Utah, preparing for a civil 
 engineer. One of Mr. Mackay's greatest desires 
 in life is that all of his children shall have a thor- 
 ough and complete education. 
 
 He and his familv are all members of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He 
 was called upon to fill a mission, and had made 
 all preparations to that end, but on account of his 
 business relations in this State, was relieved and 
 chosen First Counsel to the Bishop of his Ward 
 which position he still holds. 
 
 Mrs. Mackay is a member of the Ladies' Relief 
 Association, and has always taken a prominent 
 part in that organization, and is considered one of 
 the leaders in her Ward among social relations. 
 
 HILIP DE LA MARE. The beet sugar 
 industry has assumed large propro- 
 tions in Utah and is fast becoming one 
 of the greatest enterprises in the State, 
 ' bringing wealth to the manufacturer as 
 well as to the producer of beets. This great in- 
 dustry has been developed and put on a paying 
 basis during the past few years. Few people 
 living in Utah at the present time realize that 
 among the first promoters of this great enterprise 
 was Philip De La Mare, and that he agitated 
 it over half a century ago, purchasing in Eng- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 573 
 
 land and bringing to the United States and to 
 Utah the first beet sugar machines ever brought 
 to America. These facts are history and while 
 at that time the country was not ripe for an in- 
 dustry of that kind, and as in many other new 
 undertakings the first ventures have failed, so 
 with the beet sugar industry of fifty years ago ; 
 it was not a success. Nevertheless Mr. De La 
 Mare had faith in the project and predicted at 
 that time that the beet sugar industry would at 
 some time prove a success, which has been fully 
 demonstrated during his life time. 
 
 Philip De La Mare was born April 3, 1823. 
 on the Island of Jersey, among the Channel Is- 
 lands, on the coast of France, and is the son of 
 Francis and Jane E. (Hier) De La Mare. Our 
 subject grew to manhood in his native land, re- 
 ceiving his education there and learned the 
 blacksmith trade, which trade he followed for a 
 time in the northern part of England. In 1849 
 he was converted to the doctrines of the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, under the 
 preaching of W. C. Dunbar, by whom he was 
 baptized, and on January 10. 1852, sailed from 
 Liverpool on board the ship Kenebeck for Ameri- 
 ca, landing in New Orleans on the 17th of 
 March. He went up the Mississippi river by 
 boat to St. Louis, remaining there but a few 
 days, going out in the country to buy cattle and 
 wagons with which to transport to LUah the beet 
 sugar machine which he had brought with him 
 to America, si-xty thousand dollars being invested 
 in it. The machinery was of the best that money 
 could buy at that time and it required two hun- 
 dred head of cattle to bring it across the plains. 
 They left Fort Leavenworth on July 4, 1852, and 
 arrived in Salt Lake City on November of that 
 year. The undertaking did not prove a success 
 and was finally abandoned. Associated with Mr. 
 De La Mare in this enterprise was Apostle John 
 Taylor, late President of the Church, Captain 
 Russell, a ship builder, and John W. Coward, a 
 Liverpool broker. Our subject remained in Salt 
 Lake City for a year and then came to Tooele 
 City, being a pioneer to this place. He has follow- 
 ed his trade since living here, and retired from 
 active business life in 1896. He owns his home 
 and a farm of si.xtv acres of land here and is 
 
 now enjoying the fruits of a long and honorable 
 career. While living in Salt Lake City the gov- 
 ernment paid him five hundred dollars to build a 
 platform scale, and he also built the anchors for 
 Mr. Patrick O'Connor when he launched his 
 boat on the great Salt Lake some years ago. 
 
 Mr. De La Mare has been thrice married, and 
 has been the father of twenty-one children, four- 
 teen of whom are now living. Of his wives, 
 Mary (Chivalier) De La Mare died in 1884, and 
 Mary (Parken) De La Mare died in 1895. His 
 third wife was Jennette Meiklejohn, whom he 
 married in 1857, and who is still living. Almost 
 all his children live in the State, and the entire 
 family are members of the Church in which they 
 were born and reared. One son, John C, served 
 for two years in the missionary field in the South- 
 ern States, and his son Philip served on a mis- 
 sion to Arizona. 
 
 In political life our subject is a staunch Demo- 
 crat, as are all his sons, but he has never taken 
 any very active part in the work of his party, 
 preferring to devote his spare time to Church 
 work, in which he has been prominent during his 
 whole life. In 1850 he went on his first mission, 
 being gone about six months ;with him was Apos- 
 tle Taylor. At this time the Book of Mormon was 
 translated into the French language. On April 
 20, i860, he was sent by the heads of the Church 
 on a mission to France, and presided over the 
 Channel Island Conference for three years, 
 spending three years and eight months in that 
 work, and on his return in company with John 
 Needham and Samuel H. Smith brought 
 back a company of six hundred emigrants. He 
 liaS passed through all the different offices of 
 the Priesthood and has been a Patriarch since 
 1898, having been set apart and ordained to that 
 office by Apostle Marion F. Lyman. An inter- 
 esting feature of his mission to Europe was the 
 fact that while in St. Louis on his way to New 
 York he met a man by the name of Style who 
 claimed to have found a gold plate on which 
 was inscribed the history of one of the members 
 of the Mormon Priesthood. Mr. Styles claimed 
 to have uncovered this plate forty feet below the 
 surface of the ground while engaged in digging 
 a well. In the earlv davs of his residence in 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Utah Mr. De La Mare was a man of considerable 
 means and many instances of his benevolence 
 are related, he being at all times willing to divide 
 with his poorer brother, or in any way relieve 
 distress or want, and now in the declining years 
 of his life his many friends unite in making his 
 life as peaceful and pleasant as possible. 
 
 AMUEL BRINGHURST. Among the 
 native sons of Utah who have taken 
 an active and prominent part in the 
 building up of this new country and 
 especially in the development of its 
 agricultural resources in Sal Lake county, 
 should be mentioned Samuel Bringhurst, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. 
 
 He was born in Salt Lake City April 7, 1850, 
 and is the son of Samuel and Eleanor Bring- 
 hurst, who were born near the City of Phila- 
 delphia, his father being born December 21, 1812, 
 and his mother December 25, 1816. Mr. Bring- 
 hurst spent his early life in Salt Lake City, where 
 he received his education in the common schools. 
 In starting out in life he began his first work 
 on a farm in Taylorsville Ward, which he car- 
 ried on while his residence was still in the city. 
 
 On December 12, 1888, he married Miss Sarah 
 E. Orr, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Wickel) 
 Orr, who came to Utah in the early fifties. By 
 this union six children have been born to them : 
 Ada E. ; Florence; Bessie; Marion; Edna, and 
 Wilma, who died in infancy. Mr. Bringhurst 
 remained at home with his parents until after 
 his marriage, since which time he has been doing 
 for himself. He moved to his present home on 
 the Redwood road, in 1888, at which time it was 
 unimproved and in a wild state, covered with 
 sage brush. Today he has thirty acres well im- 
 proved and in a high state of cultivation. He has 
 built a splendid brick residence which is located 
 within forty rods of one of the best schools in 
 Salt Lake county. 
 
 In political affairs he has always been identified 
 with the Democratic party and for many years 
 served as trustee of the school of his Ward. He 
 has been a member of the Mormon Church from 
 childhood, of which his wife is also a faithful 
 
 member. He has served as Second Counselor to 
 the Late Bishop Samuel Bennion, and for the 
 past fifteen years has been Superintendent of the 
 Sunday School He was ordained a High Priest 
 in the early eighties. Mrs. Bringhurst is a mem- 
 ber of the Ladies' Relief Society and takes a 
 deep interest in providing for the poor and desti- 
 tute, as well as for the sick. 
 
 The father of the subject of this sketch, Sam- 
 uel Bringhurst, was one of the early settlers in 
 Utah and for years was engaged in the buggy 
 and wagon manufacturing business ; in the early 
 days he built nearly all the wagons and farming 
 implements used by the settlers. He later went 
 to Iron county, where he assisted in building up 
 a settlement in that section. A full biographical 
 sketch of the parents will be found elsewhere in 
 this work. 
 
 Air. Bringhurst was a member of the jury 
 which served during the trial of Peter Morten- 
 sen, the most celebrated case of its nature in the 
 historv of the State. 
 
 ISHOP THOMAS ATKIN, JR. If 
 there is one lesson that the lives of 
 the pioneers should teach the youth of 
 this generation, above all others, it is 
 that success in life is not a thing that 
 comes at our bidding, or can be bought with 
 wealth or influence; it comes only to the man 
 who dares; the man who is willing to pursue 
 one thing with singleness of purpose, day after 
 dav, vear after year ; the man who does not 
 know the meaning of the word "discouraged." 
 It was to this class that the noble pioneers be- 
 longed; those men and women who left all that 
 made life desirable and faced every imaginable 
 hardship, privation and danger, for the sole pur- 
 pose of building unto themselves a Temple in 
 the heart of the mountains, wherein they might 
 live the life they had chosen, far removed from 
 contact with those opposed to them. Although 
 the father of our subject was not able to join 
 the people with whom he had chosen to cast 
 has been a member of the Mormon Church from 
 he desired, yet he came here with his family at 
 a very early day, arriving in the valley Septem» 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 575 
 
 ber 25, 1849, our subject being a youth of about 
 sixteen years, and since then his Hfe has been 
 spent in the service of the Church and for the ad- 
 vancement of his State, and from a poor boy, un- 
 known save by the few friends who accompanied 
 the family from England, he has risen to be one 
 of the best known men of his county, occupying 
 not only a place of prominence and influence in 
 the Church, but in business and public life as 
 well, and it is perhaps safe to say he has done 
 as much for the advancement and development 
 of his city and county as any of the residents of 
 this section of Utah. 
 
 Bishop Atkin was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, 
 England, July 7, 1833. 3"<i '^ the son of Thomas 
 and Mary (Morley) Atkin, natives of England, 
 who were married February 13. 1826, in Saint 
 Mary's Church, Nottingham. Mr. and Mrs. At- 
 kin were members of the Methodist Church, and 
 Mrs. Atkin was especially noted for her great 
 piety, and during his early life our subject had 
 the very best religious instruction his mother 
 was able to give him, thus early instilling into 
 his mind a reverence for sacred things. The 
 father was a carpenter by trade, and in very com- 
 fortable circumstances, owning some property 
 and a number of houses, from which he received 
 a good rent roll. The town of Louth contained at 
 that time about twelve thousand inhabitants and 
 was a model town in all respects, being noted 
 for its good morals and Christian influence. Born 
 and reared in such an atmosphere, it is not 
 strange that Bishop Atkin should carry through 
 life a deep sense of man's responsibility towards 
 his Creator, and that his whole life should be a 
 most exemplary one. There were six children 
 in this family, three of whom. Emily, George and 
 our subject, grew to maturity. Although a nomi- 
 nal Christian, the senior Mr. Atkin was not es- 
 pecially active in religious matters, and it was 
 not until his wife w'as miraculously saved from 
 a dangerous illness through prayer in the year 
 1840, that he gave much serious thought to the 
 question of his soul's salvation. However, his 
 search after the truth was a most unsatisfying 
 one, and for tw^o years he was in a very un- 
 settled state of mind in regard to religious mat- 
 ters. In the year 1842, he heard for the first 
 
 time the Mormon doctrine expounded by Elder 
 Henry Cuerdon. From the first this doctrine ap- 
 pealed strongly to Mr. Atkin, but he did not ac- 
 cept it until he had made a deep study of it, 
 and was convinced that it was the true faith, after 
 which he took great pains and pleasure in mak- 
 ing the essential points plain to the members 
 of his family, with the result that at different 
 times during the year 1843 the entire family, 
 with the exception of one son, George, were bap- 
 tized and confirmed members of the Church, 
 and this son was baptized and confirmed in 1846. 
 In addition to this family were a number of the 
 prominent families of Louth, who became mem- 
 bers of the Church, but as a whole the gospel 
 as preached by the Mormon Elders did not find 
 favor with the people of that town, and an es- 
 trangement grew up between them and those who 
 had accepted the faith. The Atkin family were 
 especially active in spreading the teachings of 
 the new gospel, and as time wore on they became 
 filled with a desire to join the Saints in America. 
 All preparations had been made and they were 
 on the eve of departure when the terrible news 
 of the killing of the Prophet Joseph Smith 
 reached them. This deterred them from going at 
 that time, and it was not until January, 1849, 
 about three years later, that Mr. Atkin was able 
 to dispose of his property to good advantage and 
 start on the long contemplated journey, in com- 
 pany wdth a number of families from the town 
 of Louth. After a voyage of ten weeks, during 
 which time the trip was without particular inci- 
 dent, except a small fire which broke out on board 
 a few days after starting, they arriyed in New 
 Orleans, on board the Zetland and took passage 
 on the lozva for St. Louis. Cholera was raging 
 in the Southern States at that time, and during 
 the trip up the Mississippi river a number of 
 deaths occurred, the pilot of the boat being 
 among the number. They remained a few days 
 in St. Louis and continued by boat to Council 
 Bluffs. At Fort Henry our travelers had their 
 first glimpse of an Indian. They started from 
 Council Bluffs on their long journey across the 
 plains on May 28th, having lost three of the 
 friends w^ho had started with them from Louth, 
 through cholera, and the mother of our subject 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 being' sick witli the disease at tlie time they 
 started. 'Sirs. .\tkin"s life was once more spared, 
 and on June 2nd they crossed the river and 
 joined the main body of emigrants who were 
 waiting to be organized into companies. On 
 June 3rd they camped in Winter Quarters, now- 
 known as Florence, where the vacant houses of 
 the Apostles and other leaders of the Church 
 were of great interest to them. They once more 
 took up the march across the plains on June 8th, 
 under the immediate care of Captain William 
 Hyde and Captain CoUett, Orson Spencer being 
 captain of one hundred wagons in that company. 
 They encountered a band of hostile Indians on 
 the Elk Horn River, but after making a show 
 of arms, the Indians evidently changed their 
 minds and retired from the scene. Two other in- 
 cidents of note occurred during this journey, one 
 the accidental killing of a little child ; and the 
 other our subject's becoming lost while attempt- 
 ing to return to camp at nightfall, ahead of a 
 party of hunters who had been out after buflfalo. 
 
 Upon arriving in Salt Lake City the senior 
 Mr. Atkin and his family located on a piece or 
 land in the Eleventh Ward, now owned by the 
 family of the late Francis Armstrong. Here 
 they built an adobe house of one room before 
 winter set in, and our subject slept that first 
 winter in the wagon in which they had crossed 
 the plains. The following summer his brother 
 George and he farmed on shares for one of the 
 men who owned a farm just outside the city, and 
 the spring of 1 85 1 our subject and his father 
 purchased a forty-acre farm in Tooele county, 
 on what is now the site of Tooele City. The 
 daughter Emily married that year to Richard 
 Warliurton, and thereafter made her home in 
 Salt Lake City. Their lives for the next few 
 years was that of the early settler, failure of 
 crops, devastation by grasshoppers ; raids from 
 Indians, whom they were often called upon to 
 pursue and fight, and the building of a fort and 
 wall around the town for their better protec- 
 tion. 
 
 On May 20, 1856, our subject took as his help- 
 meet through life Miss Mary Ann Maughan, 
 daughter of Peter and Ruth (Harrison) Maugh- 
 an. Mr. Maughan came to Utah from England, 
 
 bringing his little daughter with him, at a very 
 early day, his wife having died in that country. 
 He first settled in Tooele county, but later moved 
 into Cache county, where he became the first 
 Bishop and President of the Cache Valley Stake 
 of Zion. Air. Atkin's brother George was mar- 
 ried at the same time to Miss Sarah Matilda Ut- 
 ley, daughter of L. J. L-tley, the ceremonies be- 
 ing performed by Bishop John Rowberry. The 
 ceremony of endowment and sealing was per- 
 formed on June 4th in the Endowment house in 
 Salt Lake City, by President Jedediah M. Grant. 
 There were born to Bishop and Mrs. Atkin of 
 this marriage, the following children : Thomas 
 Maughan, born June 7, 1858; Ruth Eveline, born 
 November 16, 1859; Mary Ann, born December 
 ig, 1861 ; Edward and Edith, twins, born October 
 30, 1864, Edith died leaving a family of three 
 cliildren ; Peter died in infancy; Willard George, 
 born August 25, 1875, and William Franklin, 
 born January 14, 1878. 
 
 During the invasion of Johnston's army, Mr. 
 Atkin moved his family to Lehi, and it was here 
 his first child was born. He took part in all the 
 trouble following the invasion, being one of the 
 men to guard Echo canyon, and also engaging 
 in numerous battles with the Indians who were 
 not slow to take advantage of the opportunity of- 
 fered for plundering. He moved his family back 
 to the farm after cessation of hostilities, and at 
 once took up his former occupation of stock 
 raising and general farming, in which he has 
 since been most successful. 
 
 Since those days Bishop Atkin and his fam- 
 ily have been among the most prominent and ef- 
 ficient members of the Church in Tooele City, 
 and have occupied a number of official positions. 
 Mrs. Atkin was chosen treasurer of the first Re- 
 lief Society organized in that Ward, and in 1896 
 was elected President, being re-elected to that 
 office in 1901, for a term of four years. The 
 Bishop was elected to his present office over 
 twenty-two years ago, and in that capacity has 
 done valiant service for the cause. He has also 
 held a number of positions in public office, having 
 been Treasurer of the county for some years, and 
 passed through all the troublesome times of the 
 State before the division on national political 
 
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 lines. His children have all followed in the 
 teachings of their parents and are worthy mem- 
 bers of the Mormon Church, the sons having 
 performed a nmnber of missions and being active 
 workers at home. In fact, it is safe to say there 
 is not a more worthy or highly respected family 
 in the valley, nor a man more universally honored 
 and loved than Bishop Thomas Atkin. 
 
 AVID C. McLaughlin, Deceased, 
 was for many years one of the most 
 substantial and prominent business 
 men of Salt Lake City and vicinity. 
 An important factor in business life 
 and public afifairs, he won and retained the con- 
 fidence and esteem of his fellow men. He was 
 widely known as the president of the Ouincv 
 mine, of which he was one of the founders and 
 promoters ; also the Woodside mine and the An- 
 chor mine, all located in the Park City district. 
 
 Mr. McLaughlin was born in Illinois, on Au- 
 gust 26, 1854. When only a child his parents 
 moved to Muskegon, Michigan, where he spent 
 his early life. Educated in the common schools 
 of Muskegon he later entered the law depart- 
 ment of the L'niversity of Michigan, from which 
 institution he graduated with honors in his class. 
 He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court 
 of Michigan in 1876, and entered the law firm of 
 Smith, Nims, Hoyt & Erwin, with whom he was 
 associated until he came to Utah in 1880. He 
 located in Park City, where he contined to prac- 
 tice his profession. He took an active part in 
 politics, and was the first Gentile ever elected to 
 the Territorial Legislature of Utah, having served 
 the sessions of 1884 and 1886. For many years 
 he was President of the School Board of Park 
 City, and also City Attorney. He was one of 
 the promoters and founders of the great Quincy 
 mine of Park City, having served as its Presi- 
 dent until his death. He was also President of 
 the Woodside mine, and a promoter and director 
 in the Anchor mine, he being among the first to 
 take hold of and develop the mining interests in 
 the Park City district. In political afifairs he was 
 a staunch Republican, having assisted in the or- 
 
 ganizati(.)n of that party in this State, and also 
 took a prominent and active part in its afifairs. 
 In the Church he was identified with the Episco- 
 pal faith. His father, David, was also a lawyer, 
 and one of the early settlers in Michigan. He had 
 one brother, Andrew C, professor of history and 
 law in the L^niversity of Michigan, and another 
 brother, James C, a lawyer and Tax Commis- 
 sioner of the State of Michigan. Another brother, 
 W'm. B., is National Bank Inspector. 
 
 Mr. McLaughlin married in 1888 to Miss Etta 
 Young, daughter of H. C). Young, one of the 
 prominent merchants of Salt Lake City, she hav- 
 ing been educated in the schools of this city, 
 where she resided until her marriage. She has one 
 daughter, Isabella Lois. Mrs. McLaughlin, since 
 the death of her husband, has made her home 
 at the Knutsford in Salt Lake City. Since the 
 death of Mr. McLaughlin the large volume of 
 business which he carried on has fallen on her 
 shoulders, which she has demonstrated her abil- 
 itv to handle in a thorough and business-like man- 
 ner, and today is considered one of the best bus- 
 iness women in Utah. She holds large interests 
 in Park City and in diiiferent parts of the State, 
 more particularly in mining interests. Mr. Mc- 
 Laughlin was an untiring worker all his life, and 
 by thorough business principles he had laid the 
 foundation for a successful career, and just on the 
 eve of that success he was taken sick and passed 
 into the unknown, having died June 18, 1901, at 
 the age of forty-six years. While Mr. McLaugh- 
 lin had made his home in Park City since com- 
 ing to Utah, yet he was as widely known in Salt 
 Lake City, and in fact throughout Utah as he 
 was in the vicinity in which he resided, on ac- 
 count of the part he took in building up the great 
 mining industries of the State. His demise has 
 been keenly felt, not only in Park City, but in 
 Salt Lake City and vicinity as well. The Utah 
 Souvenir Edition of the Park City Herald con- 
 tain a touching tribute to the memory of Mr. Mc- 
 Laughlin, of which the following is an extract : 
 
 "Up to the hour of his death he had been more 
 closely identified with the material prosperity and 
 growth of Park City than any other man, and 
 was just beginning to realize the highest climax 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of liis ideal in the city's permanency and pros- 
 perity * * * when he was summoned to the 
 far-away shores of the Crystal Sea. To his mem- 
 ory, standing as an everlasting monument and 
 growing more beautiful with each returning 
 year, rising on the firm and well built 
 foundation of his hand and brain, rests the 
 charming city of Park. * * * When the 
 dark angel pressed the helpless form to 
 the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust, a 
 city stood by the bier containing the earthly re- 
 mains, as one mourner — for grief and sorrow 
 was universal and as the clay comingled with the 
 mother clay from whence it came, tears wrung 
 from hearts overflowing with grief and anguish 
 fell to moisten the sod of the evergreen memory 
 and to nourish the flower of hope and peace in the 
 world hereafter. No warrior ever passed to dust 
 with greater honor, or a higher respect, and no 
 memory is more sincerely cherished than that of 
 the townspeople for this departed man. * * * 
 He was heavily interested in the mining proper- 
 ties of the district ; was an e.xtensive owner of 
 Park property, but his greatest wealth reposed 
 in the magnanimity and generosity of his great, 
 noble heart, which beat not alone for his, but for 
 all mankind." 
 
 OHX \\'. TATE. Utah is noted for the 
 large number of self-made men who 
 reside within her borders. Among her 
 many worthy citizens who by energy, 
 perseverance and close attention to busi- 
 ness have paved the way for a successful career, 
 and at the same time won and retained the confi- 
 dence and respect of the best people of his com- 
 munity, John W. Tate deserves special mention. 
 He is among the largest and most successful 
 merchants of Tooele City, in which place he has 
 spent his whole life. 
 
 He was born .August 8, 1853, in Wyoming, 
 while his parents were en route to Utah, and is 
 the son of John and Ann (Seetree) Tate, na- 
 tives of England, who came to Utah with their 
 family in 1853, and settled in Salt Lake City, 
 remaining there two and a half years, at the end 
 of which time they moved to the northern part 
 
 of Toole county, remaining there until 1865, 
 when they came to Tooele City, where they spent 
 the remainder of their lives, the father dying 
 July 4, 1898, and the mother surviving him 
 a little more than a year. 
 
 Our subject grew to manhood in Tooele county, 
 receiving such schooling as was to be obtained 
 at that time, working on his father's farm dur- 
 ing the summer months and attending the dis- 
 trict school for a few weeks in the winter. He 
 early began life as a clerk, and has been more 
 or less in the mercantile business ever since. 
 In 1894 he began peddling, following that for a 
 year, when he opened up a general merchandise 
 store in a small room in Tooele City, which has 
 grown until today his establishment is the sec- 
 ond largest in that place. 
 
 Mr. Tate was married in Tooele City February 
 22. 1875, to Miss Elizabeth De La Mare, daugh- 
 ter of Philip and Mary (Chevalier) De La Mare. 
 Of this marriage fourteen children have been 
 born, all of whom are now living. They are: 
 John P. ; William F. ; Joseph H. ; George L. ; 
 Mary A.; Ethel S. ; Clara M. ; Anna M.; Delia 
 M.; Luella; Edith V.; Leland S. ; Charles D., 
 and Thomas T. Three of the children are stu- 
 dents at the Latter Day Saints College in Salt 
 Lake City. 
 
 In politics Mr. Tate is a Democrat, and has 
 held a number of public offices in his county, hav- 
 ing been elected County Clerk by the People's 
 party in 1883, and for a number of years has 
 been a member of the City Council, as well as 
 serving a number of terms as County Clerk and 
 Treasurer. He has been a member of the School 
 Board almost from the time he moved here, being 
 one of the Trustees and Secretary of the Board. 
 He supervised the building of the new school 
 house in Tooele City, which is one of the finest 
 buildings of the kind in the State, being erected 
 at a cost of twenty-thousand dollars. Mr. Tate 
 and his entire family are members of the Mormon 
 Church, in whose work he has been a prominent 
 factor. He has served six months in missionary 
 work in the Southern States, and while doing 
 missionary work in the Blue Ridge mountains 
 was shot at by three men. He has filled the of- 
 fice of Hig-h Council of this Stake for a number 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of years, and for the past eight years has been 
 Superintendent of the Sunday School. At this 
 time he is Clerk of the Tooele Stake. 
 
 Mr. Tate enjoys the confidence and esteem 
 of a large circle of business associates and 
 friends, as well as the leaders of the Church, and 
 has through life been an upright, honorable man, 
 seeking to give every one their just dues, and 
 the success which has crowned his lifg has been 
 entirely due to his own honest efforts and strict 
 adherence to the highest business principles. 
 
 b. 
 
 AMES B. HICKMAN. Prominent 
 among the officials of Tooele county is 
 its present County Recorder, James B. 
 Hickman, a native son of Utah, having 
 been born in Salt Lake City February 
 .27, 1866. While still a young man he has demon- 
 strated his ability to handle and control success- 
 fully any enterprise or project to which he has 
 turned his attention, and few men in Tooele 
 county hold a better record either in private, 
 business or public life than does he, and few are 
 more highly respected by the better class of 
 citizens in that county. 
 
 He is the son of William A. and ^lary J. 
 (Hetherington) Hickman. Mr. Hickman was 
 raised in Stockton, in Tooele county, where he 
 received his early education, completing his 
 studies at the Brigham Young Academy in 
 Provo. He began life as a clerk in a store, and 
 from that became interested in mining, being 
 at this time largely interested in the silver and 
 lead mines of Tooele county, in which he has 
 great faith, though as yet they have not been 
 developed to any appreciable degree. In 1895 he 
 organized the Mercur Abstract Company and 
 wrote up a complete set of records of Tooele 
 county, being the first and only one in existence. 
 He was also at one time the owner of a consid- 
 erable number of sheep and it is his intention 
 to again embark in that enterprise in the near 
 future. 
 
 Mr. Hickman was married at Stockton in 1882, 
 to Miss Ellen L. Booth, daughter of Henry 
 Booth, and by this marriage has had three chil- 
 
 dren : Edna P. and Harry J. ; Charles died aged 
 four years. 
 
 In politics he has been a member of the Re- 
 publican party since its organizatio.n in Utah, 
 and has ever been an active worker in its ranks. 
 He was elected County Recorder of Tooele coun- 
 ty in 1894, and re-elected to the same office in 
 1899. He has also filled the position of District 
 Mining Recorder, and for many years acted as 
 school trustee in his district. He is not a mem- 
 ber of any church, but believes in giving assist- 
 ance to any worthy religious cause. In social 
 life he is a member of the Odd Fellows of Stock- 
 ton, where he makes his home, and in which 
 place he has a comfortable and substantial resi- 
 dence, although his public duties have required 
 his making Tooele his headquarters since he has 
 been in office. Mr. Hickman has made his own 
 way in the world without financial assistance 
 from any source, and though but a young man 
 is looked upon as one of the most aggregsiye and 
 successful business men of his county. His up- 
 right and manly life, his integrity and honesty in 
 the discharge of the important trusts that have 
 been given into his hands, and his determination 
 and energy, together with a genial, pleasing per- 
 sonality, have won for him a score of friends, and 
 today he enjoys the confidence and trust of those 
 with whom he is associated. 
 
 ages ; 
 
 UDGE HUGH S. GOWANS. Nations 
 rise and reign, then pass into oblivion, 
 yet there are stars within the constella- 
 tions of those governments which never 
 cease to send their light down the 
 men who by their strong individuality 
 make an impression upon the ocean of humanity 
 and the waves of time that the rust of inaction 
 can never destroy. Of Hugh S. Gowans it may 
 be said that his life has been an earnest effort 
 to promote the perpetuation of the best in the 
 world. The characters of such men will wield an 
 influence when the earthly house of their taber- 
 nacle shall have been dissolved, and we will ap- 
 propriate their lives to our own good; they will 
 go with us and guide us in every action and word. 
 Even the humblest man who lives noblv exerts 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 an influence for good in his community ; to a 
 much greater degree does the life of a prominent 
 man prove a power, not only in his immediate 
 neighborhood, but in places remote, and his good 
 deeds bless mankind through an endless cycle of 
 years. Of the subject of this sketch it may be 
 said that no citizen of Tooele county has more 
 powerfully affected its history or enhanced its de- 
 velopment than he has. He has been honored 
 with more political positions than any other man 
 who ever settled in Tooele county. 
 
 Hugh S. Gowans, President of the Tooele 
 Stake of Zion, came of an old Scotch family, 
 and was born February 23, 183.2, in the City of 
 Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. He is the son of 
 Robert and Grace (McKay) Gowans, both na- 
 tive of that country, where they spent their lives 
 and where they died. The family moved from 
 Perth when our subject was very young and 
 took up their home in the City of Aberdeen, 
 famed as the Granite City of Northern Scot- 
 land. Here the son lived until ten years of age, 
 receiving his early education from the schools 
 of that place. His parents then moved to Ar- 
 broath, where his scholastic education was com- 
 pleted and where he remained until twenty-three 
 years of age. In 1850 he was converted to the 
 teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints, under the preaching of Elder Joseph 
 Booth, by whom he was baptized. In 1855 he 
 left his native home and took passage for Ameri- 
 ca on a cruising vessel, arriving in the L^nited 
 States on May 27th of that year. From New 
 York City he went to Pittsburg by railroad and 
 from there by boat to St. Louis. From St. Louis 
 he traveled by river to Atchison, Kansas, joining 
 a train of Alormon emigrants under command 
 of Captain Milo Andrus, with whom he crossed 
 the great American plains, and arrived in Salt 
 Lake City October 24, 1855, Upon his arrival 
 in Utah our subject at once settled on the gov- 
 ernment reservation in Rush Valley, Tooele coun- 
 ty, where he only remained a short time, being 
 compelled to abandon his home there by the hos- 
 tile attitude of the Indians. He then settled in 
 Tooele City, where he has since continued to 
 make his home. For a number of years he fol- 
 lowed farming as his chief occupation, but since 
 
 1865 has been in political life continuously, occu- 
 pying many positions of honor and trust. 
 
 Judge Gowans was married in Scotland, March 
 i6, 1854, to Miss Betsy Gowans, who although 
 bearing the same family name, was not related 
 to the Judge's family. Ten children were born of 
 this marriage, seven of whom are now living : 
 Barbara.. James, Andrew, Betsy, Ephraim, Alon- 
 zo, and Charle*. 
 
 Since 1865 Judge Gowans has been one of the 
 most active and prominent men in public life in 
 the State of Utah. His first office was that of 
 County Assessor and Collector, being elected on 
 the People's ticket, which position he held for 
 fi.\ years, after which he was Mayor of Tooele 
 City for eight years. In August, 1878, he was 
 elected Probate Judge of Tooele county, prior 
 to which time he had for two years been Prosecut- 
 ing .\ttorney for that county. He filled the posi- 
 tion of Probate Judge for four years. In 1866 
 he was appointed Inspector of Distilled Spirits 
 and Coal Oil for the Territory of Utah, his ap- 
 pointment being made by the Secretary of the 
 Treasury. He was made Chairman of the Cen- 
 tral Executive ('ommittee of Election on Sep- 
 tember 2, 1878, and in August of the following 
 year was elected an Alderman of Tooele City, 
 and also filled the office of Justice of the Peace, 
 his commission being signed by Governor George 
 W. Emory. He later studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to practice before the bar of the Third 
 Judicial District of Utah on April 11, 1896. Judge 
 Gowans has also been prominent in military af- 
 fairs in the State. He was made an Adjutant in 
 Company A., First Battalion, on May 16, 1868, 
 and was a member of the Nauvoo Legion of 
 Utah, in which organization he held the rank of 
 Lieutenant. At this time Judge Gowans is in- 
 terested in the Insurance and Loans business, and 
 is also agent for the Oregon Short Line railroad 
 company. 
 
 .Although a very busy man in public life. Judge 
 Gowans has not neglected the work of the 
 Church, and much of his life has been devoted 
 to furthering its interests in this State, and in 
 the mission field. He has held many offices in 
 the Priesthood, having been ordained an Elder in 
 Scotland, on January- 10, 1852; made a Priest in 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 1 85 1, and on April 20, 1857, was ordained a 
 member of the Seventies by President Joseph 
 Young. In May of that year he was set apart as 
 one of the Presidents of the Forty-third Quorum 
 of Seventies. He was ordained a High Priest by 
 F. D. Richards in 1877, and was also Counsel to 
 Bishop Rowberry. He was appointed to his 
 present office, that of President of the Stake of 
 Tooele, in October, 1882. In October, 1872, he 
 was called and set apart on the 25th of that 
 month for service in England, laboring in Bed- 
 ford Conference, and later in Manchester, return- 
 ing in 1875. Judge Gowans has all his life been 
 a close follower of the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church, and after the passage of the Edmunds- 
 Tucker act was arrested for violation of that 
 law and served six months in the Penitentiary in 
 1886, being the first man to be indicted under the 
 Segregation act. However, being a firm believer 
 in the rights of the Mormon people to practice 
 their religion according to the teachings of the 
 Church, he went to prison rather than renounce 
 the doctrines which he had espoused. In public 
 and private life Judge Gowan's life has been 
 above reproach, and he is held high in the esteem 
 of men in every walk of life, irrespective of re- 
 ligious or political creed. 
 
 ( )BERT M. SHEILDS. Sheriff of 
 Tooele county. Mr. Shields is a noted 
 son of Utah, having been born in 
 Tooele City, June 2, 1869. While yet 
 a young man he has by his straight- 
 forward business principles and faithfulness in 
 public office won the respect of all the best people 
 of his county. 
 
 Our subject is the son of John C. and Jane 
 (Aleiklejohn) Shields, both natives of Scotland, 
 being born in that country, where they were con- 
 verted to the teachings of the Mormon faith, 
 and emigrated to America. Their family of nine 
 children, all of whom are now living, were born 
 in Utah, our subject being the second oldest 
 child. On arriving in Utah the parents settled in 
 Tooele county, where they are still living. 
 
 Mr. Shields spent his boyhood days on his 
 father's farm, and his life was much like that of 
 
 the other sons of pioneers, working on the farm 
 during the summer months and attending school 
 for a few weeks in winter, when the weather 
 was too severe to permit of his doing outdoor 
 work. He early began life on his own account, 
 learning the blacksmith trade, which he fol- 
 lowed for sixteen years, and is still interested 
 in that business with his brother, John M., who 
 has charge of the blacksmith shop. 
 
 He married in Tooele City, in 1891, to Miss 
 Lottie Lee, daughter of Samuel F. and Ann Lee, 
 residents of Tooele and early settlers of Utah. 
 Five children have been born to them : Bertha, 
 Lee, Grant, Anna and Mary. Mr. Shields has a 
 comfortable home on West street in Tooele City. 
 His blacksmith shop is on Main street. 
 
 In political life our subject has always been a 
 staunch believer in the principles of the Republi- 
 can partv, and has always been active in party 
 work and political life, and prior to his election 
 to the office of sheriff on November 4, 1900, had 
 served two years as Deputy Marshal and two 
 years as Constable of his precinct. His father 
 and brothers are also members of the Republican 
 party. Mr. Shields has the distinction of being 
 the youngest sheriflf in the State of Utah, being 
 but thirty-one years of age when elected to of- 
 fice. He is a man of very mild appearance and 
 retiring manners, but has the reputation of being 
 a fearless official, never faltering at any call for 
 duty, no matter how dangerous the undertaking, 
 and the bandits who infest this State and have 
 made it famous of recent years as the rendez- 
 vous of the outlaws not only of this but of ad- 
 joining States, have no terrors for Mr. Shields, 
 who goes where duty calls him, regardless of 
 whom he may be following. He and his family 
 are faithful adherents of the Mormon Church 
 and active in its work in their community. 
 
 ( )SEPH U. ELDREDGE. Sr., Deputy 
 Sheriflf of Salt Lake City. For more than 
 a quarter of a century the gentleman 
 whose name appears at the head of this 
 article has been identified with the politi- 
 cal and public life of Utah, and more especially 
 of Salt Lake City and county, and by integrity, 
 
582 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 courtesy and a genuine desire to meet the wishes 
 of the people has won the success which he thor- 
 oughly deserves. Since his early manhood he 
 has been obliged to make his own way in the world, 
 and his record has been of the highest order, 
 acquiring a reputation for honesty and integrity. 
 
 Mr. Eldredge was born in Dennisport, ]Mass., 
 October lo, 1843, but his whole life has been spent 
 in Utah ; he came across the plains in his mother's 
 arms with pioneers in 1847. His father, L. Na- 
 than Eldredge, was also a native of Massachu- 
 setts. He was for many years a sea captain. 
 He became a convert to the teachings of the Mor- 
 mon Church and was among the pioneers to cross 
 the plains in 1847, following farming principally 
 after coming to Utah. Mr. Eldredge was one 
 of the most active and prominent men in the af- 
 fairs of Utah during the early days ; for several 
 terms he served on the City Council, and was 
 identified with many of the early enterprises for 
 the advancement of the State. He participated 
 in the early Indian wars and was among the first 
 to go to Southern Utah, and assisted in settling 
 that section. He was for a number of years 
 prior to his death Counselor to the Bishop of the 
 Sixteenth Ward, and held that position at the time 
 of his demise. Mr.Eldridge's ancestors came from 
 Scotland. There were eight brothers who emi- 
 grated to America at the same time and settled 
 in different portions of the United States. Mr. 
 Eldredge's wife, and the mother of our subject, 
 also was descended from old New England stock, 
 her people coming over in the Mayfloiver. She 
 bore the maiden name of Ruth Baker, and was a 
 most estimable lady. Both our subject's paternal 
 and maternal ancestors fought in the War of the 
 Revolution, and also in the War of 1812. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life on a farm and 
 obtained his education from the district schools 
 and at Mousley's Academy, then the best schools 
 in Utah. He served one summer in the Black 
 Hawk Indian war in Southern Utah. He lived at 
 home until twenty-eight years of age, but had 
 been engaged in business for himself for a num- 
 ber of years previous to that time. He has 
 crossed the plains a number of times; his first 
 work was freighting with o.x teams from the 
 Missouri river when he was about nineteen years 
 
 of age ; also between the Missouri river and He- 
 lena. Montana, which he continued for a number 
 of years, and also did considerable freighting in 
 Nevada, from Elko to the White Pine mines. 
 
 After he quit the freighting business he went 
 to Rich county, this State, and engaged in farm- 
 ing and stock raising. He also took a contract for 
 carrying the government mail between Evans- 
 ton, Wyoming, and Paris, Idaho, which he fol- 
 lowed for about six years. During his residence 
 in Rich county he served two terms as Assessor 
 and Collector of that county. In 1885 he moved 
 back to Salt Lake City and was for six years 
 Deputy Collector of this county. During the real 
 estate boom he took a very active part in the real 
 estate speculations, buying and selling, and made 
 some money out of his investments. In 1897 he 
 was made Deputy Sheriff of Salt Lake county, 
 which position he still holds. 
 
 Mr. Eldredge was married in 1870 to Miss 
 Manna Pratt, a daughter of Apostle Orson Pratt, 
 and by this marriage has had the following chil- 
 dren : J. U., Jr. ; Ruth, now starring in one of 
 the leading theatrical companies, of which Frank, 
 another child, is business manager ; Delia, wife 
 of John W. Spiker ; Lulubell, a prominent music 
 teacher of the city ; Orson, and Vera, at school. 
 
 He has also been active in Church work. In 
 1869 he served on a mission to the Eastern 
 States, and in 1884 spent two years in mission- 
 ary work in the Southern States. He is at this 
 time a member of the Seventies 
 
 lETER CLEGG is a native son of Utah, 
 having been born in Tooele City Octo- 
 ber 15, 1859. He has made Tooele 
 county his Home since his birth, his boy- 
 hood days having been spent on his 
 father's farm in Tooele Valley. He received his 
 scholastic education in the district schools of his 
 native county. 
 
 tie began for himself at the age of twenty- 
 one, taking up the stock business, both cattle 
 and sheep, which has been his principal voca- 
 tion through life, and by his judicious manage- 
 ment, keen business foresight, coupled with en- 
 ergy and perseverance, has won an enviable place 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 583 
 
 in the business worlJ. and today stands pre-em- 
 inently at the head in his line in Tooele county. 
 
 He is the son of Benjamin and Grace (Mcln- 
 tyre) Clegg, old residents of this section of Utah, 
 his father being prominent in agricultural and 
 stock raising lines, and a biographical sketch of 
 whom appears elsewhere in this work. 
 
 Our subject married twice. The first time to 
 Edith M. Atkin, daughter of Bishop Atkin. by 
 which marriage he is the father of three children : 
 Zella, Peter V. and Edith M. The mother of 
 these children died on July ist, 1890, and he 
 again married in June, 1895. to Miss Agnes Mc- 
 Laws, daughter of John and Johanna McLaws. 
 There have been no children by this second mar- 
 riage. Biographical sketches of both the Atkin 
 and McLaws families will also be found in an- 
 other part of this volume, they being important 
 factors in tlie history of the settlement and de- 
 velopment of Tooele county. 
 
 In politics Mr. Clegg owes allegiance to the Re- 
 publican party, which is the dominant one in this 
 section, and under its leadership has held a num- 
 ber of positions of honor and trust, which he has 
 filled to the entire satisfaction of the people of 
 his community and county, irrespective of re- 
 ligious affiliations. He was for five years City 
 Marshal and County Collector for two years ; also 
 a member of the City Council for a number of 
 years. He is a friend of education, believing in 
 giving the young people of the State the best 
 possible educational facilities, and has been a 
 member of the School Board of his district for 
 thirteen years, being a member of the Board un- 
 der whose administration the magnificent school 
 house at Tooele City, which was erected at a cost 
 of twenty thousand dollars, and which is con- 
 ceded to be one of the finest in the State, was 
 built. In religious life he and his family are 
 members of the Mormon Church, in which both 
 Mr. and Mrs. Clegg were born and raised, and 
 he is at the present time a member of the Sev- 
 enties, i 
 
 Mr. Clegg is not only noted as one of the 
 largest cattle and sheep men of this county, but 
 is also known as a man who is most careful of 
 the best interests of his stock. He ranges his 
 large herds of sheep in Idaho, and keeps his cat- 
 
 tle in Utah, feeding the cattle during the winter 
 months, and on his home place is a small village 
 of sheds and corrals where the cattle are pro- 
 tected from the rigors of the winter weather. He 
 is the owner of a thousand acres of land, besides 
 having access to the public ranges, and in the 
 two lines gives employment to about ten men 
 the year round. He has a commodious and beau- 
 tiful home in Tooele City, where he ranks among 
 the foremost business men of that place, and is 
 held in high esteem by those who have been as- 
 sociated with him. 
 
 TXDSOR V. RICE was born in the 
 town of Riceburg, named after his 
 family, near Montreal, Canada, in 
 1S50, and spent his early life in that 
 section of the British Dominion. He 
 was educated in the schools of Riceburg, and in 
 what was known as the Eastern Township, 
 mostly settled by people from the New England 
 States. At the age of sixteen he began his act- 
 ive career as a mechanical engineer, and fol- 
 lowed that profession throughout his life. He 
 has made for himself such a success that he is 
 now one of the prominent men engaged in that 
 profession in Utah. He removed from Canada 
 to ^lichigan and secured engineering work in 
 that State, where he remained for eight years, 
 becoming identified with Colonel William M. 
 Ferry, and later with Hopkins and Ferry. He 
 then returned to his old home in Riceburg and 
 followed his profession there until the spring of 
 1887, when he came to Utah and has since been 
 a resident of Salt Lake City and Park City. He 
 is identified here with the interests of E. P. Ferry 
 in many of the important mining properties of 
 L^tah. Mr. Rice, since coming to Utah, has been 
 identified with all of the leading mines of this 
 inter-mountain region. He was one of the large 
 owners and promoters of the Anchor mine, and 
 is identified with the Quincy, and is also largely 
 identified with the famous Silver King mine, of 
 which he has been a director since its organiza- 
 tion, and of which he was one of the first or- 
 ganizers and developers. With this latter mine 
 he has been closely identified ever since it began 
 
5^4 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 operations, and has taken a great interest in the 
 development of Park City industries as well, be- 
 ing one of the original organizers of the Steam 
 Boat MiningCompany,and is also manager of the 
 Water and Electric Light Company in Park City. 
 He has also been President of the First National 
 Bank of Park City, which position he held for 
 some years, and at the present time is a director 
 in that institution. In addition to these enter- 
 prises he is largely interested in many of the bus- 
 iness enterprises that go to make up the indus- 
 trial and financial life of I'tah, and has aided 
 largely in the development of its present pros- 
 perity. 
 
 Mr. Rice married in Dunham, Canada, to Miss 
 M. Belle Browne, daughter of David Browne, 
 who was of an old English family. Mr. Rice's 
 father was an iron manufacturer, engaged in 
 business in Riceburg, and here spent the greater 
 portion of his life. He was a successful business 
 man, and one whose influence was felt throughout 
 his community. His wife, Permilla (Vincent) 
 Rice, and the mother of the subject of this 
 sketch, belonged to one of the old Vermont fam- 
 ilies, who had originally come from Scotland. 
 
 In political life Mr. Rice is independent, and 
 does not ally himself with either of the domi- 
 nant parties, preferring to vote for the men who 
 in his judgment are best fitted to serve the com- 
 munity. His mining business has absorbed all 
 of his time and attention, so that he has never 
 had an opportunity to participate actively in po- 
 litical work, and has never cared to be a candi- 
 date for any public office. In fraternal life Mr. 
 Rice is a member of the A'lasonic order, and a 
 member of the Knights Templar. 
 
 Ever since he was sixteen years of age Mr. 
 Rice has made his own way in the world, and 
 the successful career which he has built for hhn- 
 self, both in Michigan and in the West, stands 
 as a monument to his industry, application and 
 untiring energy. His varied mining interests 
 throughout Utah and the inter-mountain region 
 make him one of the largest mining operators 
 in the West. He enjoys the confidence and es- 
 teem of his business associates, and in mining 
 matters there is no man whose opinion carries 
 greater weight than does his His reputation has 
 
 not been gained by mere chance, but by consistent 
 and constant hard work and application to the 
 tasks which have fallen to him to perform. He 
 is well and favorably known throughout Utah 
 and the West, and enjoys a wide popularity. 
 
 WELBY. The different depart- 
 ments of a railroad corporation might 
 well be likened to the work-room of a 
 vast training school, through which ev- 
 ery man had to pass before he could 
 aspire to any position of importance or responsi- 
 bility. While in almost any line of commercial 
 enterprise the man who understands the details 
 of his business will stand the better chance of 
 building up a sound financial institution, this 
 thorough knowledge of details is of essential im- 
 portance to the railroad man, and without it he 
 can never fit himself for the higher departments 
 of the service. This, perhaps, is the reason why 
 the railroad man rarely enters any other line of 
 business ; it is in itself the business of a life-time ; 
 there is but the one place to begin — at the bot- 
 tom, and it requires many years of training to 
 fit a man for the responsible position of head of 
 a department : by the time he is eligible for such 
 a promotion he is usually of an age when he 
 has lost, in a measure, his adaptability and does 
 not care to spend years in acquiring knowledge 
 of a new business, in which the years of training 
 he has already received can be of no practical use. 
 Among the men who control and direct the af- 
 fairs of the western railroads, none is perhaps 
 better known or more worthy of special commen- 
 dation than A. E. Welby, General Superintendent 
 of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, and the 
 subject of this article, who makes his head- 
 quarters in Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Welby was born February 5, 1855, at 
 Georgetown, South .A.frica. At the age of sev- 
 enteen years he entered the railroad service in 
 Canada, in May 1872, as a roadman on the Great 
 Western Railway of Canada, which is at this time 
 known as the Grand Trunk system. In the fol- 
 lowing year he entered the operating department 
 of that road, and from then until 1876 held a 
 number of positions in that department. On 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 585 
 
 March i. 1877, he entered the office of the Chief 
 Engineer, where he remained until August 13th 
 of that year, when he severed his connection with 
 that road and accepted a position as clerk to the 
 Superintendent of the Grand Trunk Railway. 
 He held that position until 1881. On November 
 5th of that year Air. Welby assumed the position 
 of clerk in the office of the Division Superintend- 
 ent of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway and 
 has since been in the employ of that road. In 
 June, 1883, he was promoted to the position of 
 Chief Clerk in the General Superintendent's of- 
 fice, and in May, 1887, was transferred to the 
 General Manager's office, where he held the same 
 position until June 30, 1890. Mr. Welby had 
 during these years shown such marked ability in 
 his work and so thoroughly mastered the intri- 
 cacies of that department of the service that he 
 was, on July i, 1890, promoted to the responsible 
 position of Superintendent of the Denver and 
 Rio Grande Railway, where for two years he 
 performed his duties in such an efficient man- 
 ner that, on January i, 1892, the company once 
 more evidenced their confidence in and appre- 
 ciation of his work by tendering him the position 
 of General Superintendent of the road, which 
 position he accepted, and has since continued 
 to fill, with credit to himself and the entire satis- 
 faction of the owners of the road and its patrons. 
 Prosperity has not spoiled Mr. Welby, who is 
 one of the most genial men in the entire service. 
 His long service with this road has given him a 
 wide acquaintance among its employes, and his 
 kindly treatment of the men under him has won 
 for him only highest words of praise. While he 
 understands the importance of having the best 
 possible service in all departments and invariably 
 insists upon this kind of work, he is not in any 
 sense of the word inclined to be arbitrary, and 
 rules by kindness, being quick to note and re- 
 ward special merit, and dealing gently with those 
 who are not so adaptable to their work. His fam- 
 ily are among the social leaders of Salt Lake 
 City, and his daughters highly educated and ac- 
 complished young ladies. Mr. Welby is also a 
 familiar figure in business and social circles of 
 the city, where he is universally popular. 
 
 TLLIAM S. BURTON. There have 
 been many men who have contrib- 
 uted their quota to the building up 
 of Utah and the development of 
 Salt Lake City, and among these 
 men. both by reason of his service and by reason 
 of the length of time he has given to the work, 
 is William S. Burton, the subject of this sketch. 
 He is the sou of Bishop Robert T. Burton of 
 Salt Lake City, and was born in Salt Lake City 
 in 1850, receiving his education in the schools 
 of this city, and later in the Deseret University. 
 
 His father, being Sheriff of this county, Mr. 
 Burton, who was then at college discontinued 
 his studies to enter his father's office as his assist- 
 ant. So successful was he in this work and so 
 adapted to the requirements of the office, that 
 he served in a similar capacity for several succes- 
 sive Sheriffs, for a term of ten years. He was 
 called to go on a mission for the Church in 1877, 
 and remained absent on that work for the ensu- 
 ing two years. While there he had charge of the 
 office in Birmingham, besides doing considerable 
 work in that field. He returned in 1879 and was 
 appointed Deputy County Assessor and Collec- 
 tor. Two years later he was elected Assessor and 
 served in that capacity until 1883. About that time 
 a change was made in the political parties in Utah, 
 the People's and the Liberal parties agreeing to 
 discontinue their fight on Mormon and Non- 
 Alormon lines and join in the national political 
 issues. In this work of harmonizing the con- 
 ditions existing throughout the State and in set- 
 tling the feeling that existed between the two 
 factions, Mr. Burton was very prominent. Upon 
 the completion of his term as Assessor, he en- 
 tered the service of the Rio Grande Western 
 Railway as its Coal Agent and established and 
 carried the work in that department to its pres- 
 ent satisfactory condition. When he took hold 
 of the work this was a very small concern, and 
 is now one of the largest in this country. His 
 term of service for this road covered a period of 
 three years, and his next venture was the organi- 
 zation of the firm of Burton, Gardner & Company, 
 for the purpose of transacting a lumber business. 
 This firm was very successful and prosperous 
 
586 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 until the financial panic swept over the country in 
 1893, when it was forced to suspend. During 
 the early days of his life Mr. Burton had learned 
 the carpenter trade, and has had charge of all 
 the buildings erected by the Church for the past 
 eight years. He has also built many of the stamp- 
 ing mills in the mining districts of this State. Per- 
 haps his best work, and the one that will stand as 
 a practical monument to his ability, is the new 
 Deseret Nezvs building, which is at the time of 
 this writing almost completed. 
 
 Mr. Burton has also given considerable atten- 
 tion to the mining resources of Utah and is at 
 present a director and Secretary of the Saint Joe 
 Mining Company, in addition to which he has 
 other extensive interests in properties in this 
 State. 
 
 Mr. Burton was married in 1871 to Miss Julia 
 M. Home, daughter of M. Isabella Home. She, 
 however, lived but one year, leaving one child, 
 a daughter, Julia, who died, aged one year. 
 Upon Mr. Burton's return from his missionary 
 work in England, in 1879, he married Miss Eloise 
 Crismon, daughter of George and Mary L. Cris- 
 mon, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this 
 work. Mrs. Burton was born in San Bernardino, 
 California, and she received her education in 
 Deseret University, now the University of Utah, 
 and has spent nearly all her life here. They have 
 nine children, who are: Evadne, Leona, Theresa, 
 Eloise, Vernico, Florence, Ralph, Helen and 
 George. 
 
 In the administration of political affairs Mr. 
 Burton has taken an extensive interest, and as 
 stated above, has several times been elected as 
 an officer by the county. He is a believer in the 
 principles of the Democratic party. His ability 
 and industry have won for him an enviable ca- 
 reer in the life of the State, and his integrity and 
 honesty have gained for him the esteem of all 
 the people with whom he has been associated. 
 
 this 
 
 ON. DAVID KEITH. The stran- 
 ger who visits Utah at the present time 
 must of necessity be more or less sur- 
 prised and delighted at the vast work 
 of development which has taken place 
 new country during the past half cen- 
 tury. The early pioneers began at the very foot 
 of the ladder in the transformation of this coun- 
 try from a wild and barren waste ; a land in- 
 habited only by hostile Indians, who had to be 
 guarded against and finally subdued, thus mak- 
 ing their task two-fold, not only overcoming the 
 natural conditions of the soil — which was so sun- 
 baked that until they devised the scheme of first 
 irrigating it, broke their plowshares as if they 
 had been of stubble — and making it to blossom 
 as the rose ; but also to subdue and control a 
 wild, savage and hostile horde of Indians; and 
 while today the sun shines gloriously upon the 
 hills and valleys of this grand country, lighting 
 up the grand panorama of valleys covered with 
 fields of golden grain, the cattle upon a thou- 
 sand hills, the vast mining industries pouring 
 wealth not only into the coffers of their owners, 
 but enriching the entire country ; the beautiful 
 hamlets, towns and cities which have sprung up 
 with their fine public buildings, grand marble 
 and granite business blocks ; the splendid and 
 perhaps unsurpassed system of irrigation, elec- 
 tric car lines, telephone lines traversing the 
 whole inter-mountain region, and the vast rail- 
 road systems threading the entire western do- 
 main and reaching into almost every nook 
 and corner and playing a most important 
 part in the work of the settlement and de- 
 velopment of this western empire, at that time 
 this most desirable state of affairs had its ex- 
 istence only in the fertile brain of those hardy 
 pioneers who came to blaze the way that these 
 accessories of civilization might become a real- 
 ity. Among the men who have of late years been 
 largely instrumental in bringing about the pres- 
 ent prosperity which this city and State enjoy ; 
 one who has spent much time, strength and 
 money in the effort to bring Utah to the front 
 among her sister States, the name of David 
 Keith must ever stand forth. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 587 
 
 IMr. Keith is a native of Canada. His birth 
 occurred at Mabou, Cape Breton, Canada, in 
 1847. His early boyhood days were spent in 
 that place, and there he received his scholastic 
 education, remaining at home until he was four- 
 teen years of age. When he had reached this 
 age he became imbued with a desire to see some- 
 thing of the world on his own account, and leav- 
 ing home went to the Isaac Harbor gold dig- 
 gings, in Nova Scotia. Here he was employed 
 in the mines and at different occupations for 
 the next five years. When nineteen years of age 
 he started out on another exploring expedition, 
 going first to the Pacific Coast and then travel- 
 ing inland spent a }"ear prospecting in the Sierra 
 Garde country, in California, and finally wound 
 up his travels at Virginia City, Nevada. This 
 was in the famous Comstock days, and at Cale- 
 donia, Nevada, where he had charge of the Cal- 
 edonia mines. From there he took charge of 
 the Overman shaft. He remained in Nevada, 
 engaged almost the entire time in mining and 
 prospecting, until 1883, when he abandoned that 
 country and came to Utah, going to Park City, 
 where he was employed to put in a number of 
 new Cornish pumps in the Ontario mines. Here 
 he was given charge of the No. 3 shaft, and held 
 the position of foreman for the following eight 
 years. He was also employed as superintendent 
 and manager of the Anchor mine, occupying this 
 position for ten years. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Keith began mining on his own 
 account, saving his wages and investing his 
 money from time to time in new prospects, which 
 he formed companies to develop, and has been 
 actively identified with more of the leading min- 
 eral properties of Utah than perhaps any other 
 man in the State, spending an immense fortune 
 in development work, and giving liberal sup- 
 port to a great many enterprises that must have 
 otherwise gone to the wall, but which with 
 proper manipulation have come to the front as 
 large wealth producers. One of the largest and 
 best-known mines with which he is connected 
 at this time is the Silver King, of which he was 
 one of the incorporators, and is at this time pres- 
 ident, and in which Senator Kearns is also heav- 
 ily interested. In fact, these gentlemen have al- 
 
 most all their mining interests together, Mr. 
 Keith looking after his partner's interests during 
 the frequent absence of the latter. 
 
 He has also invested heavily in real estate in 
 Salt Lake City, owning valuable property in the 
 heart of the business district, and is at this time 
 erecting a magnificent business block on Main 
 street, on the site of the old Walker Hotel. Two 
 years ago he built his present elegant home on 
 Brigham street, the most fashionable and de- 
 sirable residence district in the city. This home 
 was over a year in course of erection, and when 
 completed was one which bore every evidence 
 of taste and refinement, equipped with every con- 
 venience that modern architecture could devise 
 or money supply, and is among the beautiful 
 homes of the city. 
 
 Mr. Keith was married in Salt Lake City to 
 Miss Mary Ferguson, daughter of James Fer- 
 guson. Five children have blessed this union — 
 two boys and three girls — Charles, associated in 
 business with his father; Etta, married to R. S. 
 Eskridge, and living , in Seattle, Washington ; 
 Lillie, now Mrs. A. C. Allen, living in this city ; 
 Margaret, still in school, and David, Junior, at 
 home. 
 
 He has all his life been a staunch adherent of 
 the Republican principles, but, unlike his part- 
 ner. Senator Kearns, has not participated in pol- 
 itics to any appreciable extent, preferring to de- 
 vote his entire time to his large business inter- 
 ests. His refraining from office, however, is not 
 owing to any probability of defeat in the event 
 of his running, as he enjoys a wide popularity 
 throughout the entire State of Utah, and while 
 living in Summit county was elected a member 
 of the Constitutional Convention, receiving the 
 largest vote of any member of the Convention. 
 
 In private life Mr. Keith is one of the most 
 modest and unassuming of gentlemen, shrink- 
 ing from notoriety of any kind, and yet it is 
 perhaps not too much to say that Utah owes as 
 much of her present prosperity to his keen busi- 
 ness ability, energy and readiness to assist any 
 worthy cause, as to any other one man in the 
 State. He is one of the best-known men in this 
 inter-mountain region, and enjoys the friendship 
 of a large circle of acquaintances. 
 
588 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 RAXKLIX WHITEHOUSE, well 
 known to the people of Utah as one of 
 its most reliable officials. Mr. White- 
 liouse is a native son of Utah and 
 Tooele county, having been born at 
 Lakeview, March i8, 1872. He is the youngest 
 of a family of six children. His boyhood days 
 were spent mostly on the farm, receiving his early 
 education in the schools of Tooele City, and 
 completing his scholastic education at the 
 Brigham Young Academy at Provo. 
 
 He is the son of J. L. and Emma M. (Warr) 
 "Whitehouse, who are natives of England, the 
 father having been born in Tipton and the mother 
 in Sommersetshire, England. J. L. Whitehouse 
 came to Utah in 1859, and Mrs. Whitehouse 
 came with her people about 1861. They were 
 married in Grantsville. but later moved to Lake- 
 view, where thev have continued to live ever 
 since, and have raised a family of six children, 
 of whom the subject of this sketch is the young- 
 est. Their children are : J. W., Pamelia ; Emma, 
 Ellen, William, who died when eight years of 
 age; and Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Whitehouse 
 are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints, and have raised their children 
 in the same belief. They have given their chil- 
 dren all the educational advantages possible, and 
 the family enjoys a high social standing in their 
 community. 
 
 Our subject is a single man. In political life 
 lie is a believer in the principles of the Republican 
 party, and since reaching his majority has been 
 an active worker in the ranks of that party. He 
 was elected to the office of Treasurer and Collect- 
 or of Tooele county on the Republican ticket in 
 1900, and has since filled the office to the entire 
 satisfaction of the people of the county, irrespec- 
 tive of party affiliations. 
 
 Mr. Whitehouse is a faithful and consistent 
 member of the Church in which he was raised, 
 and for many years past has been active and 
 prominent in its work. He was called and set 
 apart October 23, 1897, to serve on a mission for 
 the Church in England, where he remained for 
 two years, laboring in the Burmingham Confer- 
 ence. He also labored for a vear as a home mis- 
 
 sionary, and at this time is President of the 
 Men's Mutual Improvement Association, 
 active worker in the Sunday School. Mr. 
 house has lived in this vicinity all his life, 
 though but a young man his life thus 
 given promise of a very successful future, 
 energetic and ambitious, and his friends 
 for him a brilliant career. 
 
 Young 
 and an 
 White- 
 and al- 
 far has 
 He is 
 predict 
 
 < )HX GILLESPIE. Linked with the 
 history and development of Utah are 
 the names of a few whose great nat- 
 ural force of character and indomitable 
 energy have seemed to push to a suc- 
 cessful termination the various enterprises and 
 institutions planned for her progress. Aside 
 from their ratings as citizens and general pro- 
 moters of public good, they have in the minds 
 of the people an added interest, growing out of 
 an e.Kistence crowded with incidents of a more 
 or less adventurous nature. That the early pio- 
 neers of L^tah endured many hardships and sur- 
 mounted many difficulties, no one can doubt. The 
 life of John Gillespie has been no exception to 
 this rule. His memory of the early days is re- 
 plete with thrilling episodes. His position as 
 an officer during the early times furnishes ma- 
 terial for many a drama, in which the lawless 
 desperadoes of this inter-mountain region were 
 the chief actors. He and his friends were the 
 vindicators of the strong arm of the law. Mr. 
 Gillespie has spent the greater portion of his life 
 in Utah, more especially in Tooele county, be- 
 ing among the very first to settle in Tooele City, 
 and today is one of the most highly honored and 
 respected citizens of that county. 
 
 John Gillespie was born in the City of Glas- 
 gow, Scotland, March 27, 1830, and is the son 
 of Peter and Martha (Scott) Gillespie, both na- 
 tives of that country, the mother being born in 
 the City of Denney, Stotlandshire, and the fa- 
 ther near that place. Peter Gillespie was a stone 
 mason by trade, and taught his sons the same 
 trade. He and his wife became converts to the 
 teachings of the Chqrch of Jesus Christ of Lat- 
 ter Day Saints, and were baptized into that faith 
 in Scotland, all of the children embracing the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAC RECORD. 
 
 589 
 
 same faith as they grew up. Our subject was 
 baptized in 1843. ^'i 1848 the father came to 
 America, settling in New Orleans. His wife, 
 three sons, of whom our subject was one, and one 
 daughter, came the following year, and they later 
 brought four other children over, thus complet- 
 ing the family circle. The father and older sons 
 worked for some time at New Orleans, follow- 
 ing their trade as stone masons, and were very 
 successful. They later went to Saint Louis, Mis- 
 souri, where they worked at their trade for 
 several months, and then moved to Alton, Illi- 
 nois, and took a contract from the Alton rail- 
 road to do the masonry work and build the sta- 
 tions for a distance of seventy-five miles from 
 Alton tow'ards Chicago. This work they com- 
 pleted in the spring of 1852. After the comple- 
 tion of this contract our subject came to Utah, 
 leaving the family in Alton. He crossed the 
 plains in company with Captain Tedwell, and 
 arrived on the loth day of September in Salt 
 Lake City, where he remained until March of 
 the following year, being employed in cutting 
 stone for the Temple, which was then in course 
 of erection. In exchange for his labor he re- 
 ceived ten pounds of flour every two or three 
 weeks, and a large portion of the time worked 
 on a straight potato diet. In 1853 our subject 
 bought a large farm in Tooele county, and in 
 the fall of that year was joined by his parents 
 and the othpr members of the family, who all 
 went to live on this farm, where the father and 
 mother spent the rest of their lives, the father 
 dying about thirty years ago and the mother dy- 
 ing about thirty-five years ago. 
 
 In 1853 our subject enlisted as a cavalryman 
 under Colonel Robert T. Burton, and on July 
 1st was ordered south into Iron county to fight 
 Indians, under Colonel William H. Kimball. 
 During the skirmish which they had at this time 
 they captured six Indians and forty head of cat- 
 tle which the Indians had driven off. These 
 they delivered at Salt Lake City. The Indians 
 also gave the settlers at Tooele City considera- 
 ble trouble, and they were compelled to build a 
 wall eighteen feet high around the settlement 
 on three sides, as a protection against these ma- 
 rauders, in which work Mr. Gillespie assisted. 
 
 In 1857 our subject was recalled to Salt Lake 
 City to cut stone for the Temple, and moved his 
 family to that place, remaining there until the 
 Johnston army troubles, when he was sent out to 
 meet the army, under command of Colonel Rob- 
 ert T. Burton, and during this time had many 
 thrilling experiences. He served most the time 
 as a spy, and on one occasion, in company with 
 three other men, went as far as Fort Laramie, 
 attired as miners. There they found Johnston's 
 army, and camped with them one night, claiming 
 to be on their way East from the gold fields of 
 California. They learned that it was the inten- 
 tion of Johnston to push on to Utah and extend 
 no mercy to Brigham Young or his followers, 
 and without exciting suspicion managed to re- 
 trace their way to the camp of Colonel Burton, 
 and make their report. They were later with 
 Lot Smith when he cut off a part of the sup- 
 plies of Johnston's army and drove off fourteen 
 hundred head of cattle. In 1859 he went to 
 Camp Floyd and biiilt a number of houses for 
 the officers. He had with him a very fine race 
 horse, to which one of the officers took a great 
 fancy, and for which he paid Mr. Gillespie seven 
 hundred dollars. In the fall of that year he was 
 elected Sheriff of Tooele county and Marshal 
 of Tooele City, serving in both capacities for a 
 number of years, and having many exciting and 
 hazardous experiences, robbery and murder being 
 common in the early days of the settlement of 
 Utah. It was while he was Sheriff that Rob- 
 ert Sutton was shot on October 10, 1866, Mr. 
 Gillespie selecting five men to do the firing, one 
 of whose guns ended the condemned man's life. 
 In 1863 he was appointed and commissioned a 
 Major, by General Charles Durkee. 
 
 Mr. Gillespie was married in Salt Lake City 
 November 16, 1852, to Catherine Ross, daughter 
 of Daniel and Agnes (McKellar) Ross, and 
 twelve children were the result of this marriage, 
 of whom seven sons and two daughters are now 
 living. They are, Agnes, now Mrs. Gillette, of 
 Tooele City ; Peter, living in Tooele county ; 
 John. William, Daniel, Jaines, Alexander and 
 Walter, all living in Tooele county, and Mar- 
 garet, now Mrs. .Arthur Bryan, living in Butte, 
 Montana, .\lthough Mr. Gillespie has spent a 
 
590 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 considerable portion of his time on the farm he 
 bought wlien first coming to Tooele county, his 
 principal life work has been that of a mason, and 
 a large number of the houses and business places 
 of Tooele and Grantsville have been built by 
 him. He also assisted in building the towns of 
 Saint Joseph and Overton. He retired from act- 
 ive business life about twenty years ago. 
 
 ]Mr. Gillespie has always been prominent and 
 active in Church work during his life in Utah, 
 and in the spring of 1868 went to Cheyenne, 
 Wyoming, with a train of one hundred and two 
 ox teams, to meet a company of emigrants com- 
 ing to Utah. This trip consumed seven or eight 
 months. He was also called to do colonization 
 work in the Big Muddy country in southeastern 
 Nevada, in 1868, after his return from Chey- 
 enne, and remained in Nevada three years, doing 
 efficient work for the Church in that place. He 
 was for many years a Ward teacher and a mem- 
 ber of the High Council of his Stake, being also 
 President of the High Priests' Quorum. He 
 has always been a firm believer in the doctrine 
 of polygamy, and after the passage of the Ed- 
 munds-Tucker act served one term in the pen- 
 itentiary for unlawful co-habitation, rather than 
 renounce the teachings of his Church. His fam- 
 ily are all members of the Mormon Church, and 
 his eldest son, Peter, served for two years on a 
 mission to the northwestern States, being called 
 in 1897. 
 
 In politics Mr. Gillespie is a staunch Repub- 
 lican, and has been a member of that party since 
 its organization in this State. He has been act- 
 ive in political aflfairs in his community, having 
 been a member of the City Council most of the 
 time since the City was incorporated, January 
 15, 1850. He also assisted in surveying the city 
 in 1853. In 1901 Mr. Gillespie went on a pleas- 
 ure trip to Scotland, traveling over sixteen thou- 
 sand miles to revisit the scenes and friends of 
 his early life, and while there secured a gene- 
 alogy of the family. 
 
 He is regarded as one of the substantial men 
 of his county, and is widely known for his many 
 kindly deeds of charity. He has always tried to 
 deal fairly with all men, and has ever been true 
 to his convictions of right and duty, giving freely 
 
 of his time in the interests of both Church and 
 State, and today there is no man who stands 
 higher in the esteem and confidence of his fel- 
 low men than does John Gillespie. 
 
 OLONEL NEPHI W. CLAYTON. 
 So closely interwoven with the history 
 and development of Salt Lake City 
 and vicinity, and indeed of the entire 
 State, is the life record of Nephi W. 
 CIa\ton, the subject of this sketch, that to com- 
 pile a work of this kind without a proper men- 
 tion of the prominent and important part which 
 Colonel Clayton has played in the affairs of Utah 
 would prove but a feeble effort. He has been 
 actively identified with many of the enterprises 
 in this State, from the developing of the mines 
 to the opening up of the salt industry and the 
 building of the railroads. No man has given 
 more of his time or means towards promoting 
 the growth and development of this country, or 
 is better or more favorably known throughout 
 the entire inter-mountain region than he. 
 
 Colonel Clayton was born in this city, October 
 8, 1855, and is the son of William and Augusta 
 (Bradock) Clayton. William Clayton was born 
 in England, July 17, 1814. He emigrated to 
 America when but a young man, and settled in 
 Nauvoo, where he became private secretary to 
 the Prophet, Joseph Smith, and later endured 
 all the trials and persecutions to which the 
 Saints were subjected in that city. He was one 
 of the party of one hundred and forty-seven pio- 
 neers who crossed the plains with Brigham 
 Young, and landed in the Salt Lake valley on 
 July 24, 1847. After coming to Salt Lake City 
 he was for years chief clerk in the Tithing Of- 
 fice, and was later secretary of the Zion Co-oper- 
 ative Mercantile Institution, of which he was 
 one of the original founders. He was later 
 elected Auditor of Public Accounts of the Ter- 
 ritory of LUah, which position he continued to 
 fill for sixteen years. He also acquired notori- 
 ety from the invention of a device for measuring 
 distances ; it being attached to the wheel of a 
 vehicle, each revolution of the wheel recording 
 
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 a certain distance. In this way tlic distance from 
 the Missouri river to Salt Lake City was meas- 
 ured. He died on December 4, 1879, while still 
 an incumbent of the office of Public Auditor, 
 being mourned by the entire State. His wife 
 was a native of England, and came to Nauvoo 
 with her parents, at which place she met and 
 later married Colonel Clayton's father. 
 
 Our subject grew up and received his educa- 
 tion from the common schools of Utah, starting 
 out to make his own living at the tender age 
 of thirteen years, since which time he has prac- 
 tically made his own way in the world. In 1873 
 he was called by his father to assist him in his 
 office, where he became thoroughly posted in the 
 detail work connected therewith, and became 
 proficient in drawing up all kinds of legal instru- 
 ments. In 1876 he was elected Territorial Li- 
 brarian, and in 1878 succeeded his father in the 
 office of Auditor of Public Accounts and Re- 
 corder of Marks and Brands, which offices he 
 held until 1889, when the law under which he 
 was elected was declared by the Supreme Court 
 of the United States void, and the appointees 
 of the then Governor succeeded him. 
 
 In 1887 Colonel Clayton became identified 
 with the salt industry, and was instrumental in 
 launching the Island Salt Company. In three 
 years the company made such a showing that 
 Eastern people became interested and made the 
 owners an oiifer which they could not refuse, and 
 it was sold to Kansas City people in 1890 for two 
 hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 In 1892 the projectors of the Salt Lake and 
 Los Angeles Railway prevailed upon Colonel 
 Clayton to take charge of the construction of 
 the line from this city to the lake, and he later 
 became the manager of the company. The road 
 was completed in that year, and in January, 1893, 
 the first piling was driven for the famous Salt- 
 air pavilion, which was completed July i, 1893, 
 and thrown open to the public. The building 
 of the Salt . Lake and Los Angeles Railway 
 brought into existence the Inter-Mountain Salt 
 Company, located along its line near Saltair, and 
 in addition to the management of the railroad 
 and beach. Colonel Clayton became manager of 
 the salt company, which formed the present In- 
 
 land Crystal Salt Company, of which he is still 
 manager. 
 
 Upon the death of George Q. Cannon, he be- 
 came manager of the Brigham Young Trust 
 Company, and later President of the D. O. Cal- 
 der's Sons Company. The various offices which 
 the Colonel at present occupies are : Manager of 
 the Inland Crystal Salt Company, President and 
 Jvlanager of the Brigham Young Trust Company, 
 and of the Clayton Land and Cattle Company; 
 also President of the D. O. Calder's Sons Com- 
 pany. 
 
 In 1884 he led to the marriage altar Miss 
 Sybella W. Johnson, youngest daughter of M. 
 W. Johnson, who came to Utah in 1866. By 
 this union five children have been born — Sybella 
 W., Charles C, Lawrence H., Irving E. and 
 Robert McMinn. 
 
 In political life Colonel Clayton has never 
 given his allegiance to any of the dominant par- 
 ties, preferring to use his own judgment and 
 support the man whom he considers best fitted 
 for the office. 
 
 .\LTER A. DIMOND. One of 
 the best-known families in the vi- 
 cinity of Murray, is that of the Di- 
 monds, all well-to-do and represen- 
 tative business men in the agricul- 
 tural and live stock lines. Sketches of two 
 brothers of the gentleman whose name heads this 
 article will be found elsewhere in this work. 
 
 Walter A. Dimond was born at Crewkerne, 
 Sommersetshire, England, July 18, 1872, and 
 is the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Weber) Di- 
 mond. Our subject's father was born in the 
 same place as his son, on December 20, 1829, 
 and his father and mother were Abraham and 
 Elizabeth (Munford) Dimond. The senior 
 Dimond grew to manhood in the town of his 
 birth, and there lived until he came to America 
 with his family. He spent many years at the 
 lumber sawing business, and after meeting with 
 an accident which cost him an eye^ he turned 
 his attention to weaving, and followed that until 
 he came to Utah. He married in his native town 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 on January 4. 1856, to Elizabeth Jane Weber, 
 whose parents were William and Hannah 
 (Spearing) Weber. Nine children were born 
 of this marriage — William S., Susan A., Eliza- 
 beth J., died at the age of three and a half 
 years ; Mercy M., Robert E., Thomas W., George 
 H., died aged three and a half years ; Walter 
 A., our subject; Charles H., died at the age of 
 four years and nine months. 
 
 Our subject was eight years old when the 
 family came to Utah in 1880, and his first home 
 was in West Jordan Ward, where the family 
 lived two years and then removed to the present 
 home on the Redwood road, where our subject 
 grew to manhood. It became necessary for him 
 to begin for himself at a tender age, and as a 
 consequence his education was somewhat neg- 
 lected along the lines of book learning, but be- 
 ing a close student of human nature and a wide 
 observer, he has in a large measure made up 
 for the deficiency. At the age of twelve years 
 he began herding sheep, and continued at that 
 occupation, hoarding his earnings, until he 
 reached his nineteenth year, when he went into 
 partnership with his brother, Thomas W. Feel- 
 ing that he could now devote a little more time 
 to study, he spent some time in different edu- 
 cational institutions in Utah, attending the Brig- 
 ham Young Academy at Provo, the Latter Day 
 Saints' College of Salt Lake and the Univer- 
 sity of Utah, completing his education after 
 reaching maturity, with the money which he had 
 himself earned through long years of hard la- 
 bor and self-sacrifice. All the family have set- 
 tled in this neighborhood and are among the rep- 
 resentative people of the county, commanding 
 the high esteem of all who know them. Two 
 brothers — Robert E. and Thomas W. — are asso- 
 ciated with our subject in the sheep business, 
 under the style of Dimond Brothers. They have 
 about eighteen thousand head of sheep on the 
 range. Each of the boys owns his own home 
 and is in good financial condition. That of our 
 subject consists of ninety-six acres of well-im- 
 proved land, on which he has a comfortable 
 home. The utmost harmony has always pre- 
 vailed among the brothers in their business re- 
 lations, and they are setting an example of broth- 
 
 erly love and loyalty which many young people 
 might piofitably follow. 
 
 Mr. Dimond has never married. He lives 
 at home with his parents, to whom he is deeply 
 attached, and proposes to care for them while 
 they live. He, like his brothers, is a Republi- 
 can in politics, but no office seeker, devoting his 
 entire time to his private interests, and to the 
 work of the Church. With the exception of the 
 oldest sister, Susan, the entire family are mem- 
 bers of the Mormon Church. Susan is still a 
 resident of England, where her husband, T. E. 
 Humphries, is supervisor of one of the London 
 postoffices. Mrs. Humphries is at this time vis- 
 iting her parents and other relatives in Utah. 
 Our subject and his brothers, Robert and 
 Thomas, made a visit to their native home in 
 1900, during which time they also visited the 
 Paris Exposition. They are all extensive travel- 
 ers, and have gathered a fund of useful and en- 
 tertaining knowledge. Of a most kindly and 
 hospitable nature, the stranger is at once made 
 at home among them, and carries away only the 
 pleasantest memories. 
 
 l.MMON JOSEPH BRUNEAU, one 
 (if the prominent and highly respected 
 citizens of Tooele City, while yet a 
 voung man, having only just passed 
 the twenty-sixth mile-stone in his life's 
 journey, has thoroughly demonstrated his ability 
 as an able business man. Mr. Bruneau was the 
 original promoter of the Mercur Abstract Com- 
 pany, of which he holds the office of Manager. 
 His company is the oldest and largest of its kind 
 in the county, and under Mr. Bruneau's manage- 
 ment, thoroughly reliable. 
 
 Mr. Bruneau is a Utahn, having been born in 
 Lakeview, Tooele county. May 28, 1876, and is 
 the son of Moses H. and Sarah Bell (Tolman) 
 Bruneau. Our subject's father was a native of 
 France, having been born near Paris, and in his 
 native land was a restaurant keeper. He traveled 
 extensively before coming to L'tah, visiting al- 
 most every country on the globe, and visited Cal- 
 ifornia and Nevada in the LTnited States before 
 settling in Utah. He settled in Tooele City, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 where he was married, and where he still re- 
 sides. Of this marriage four children were 
 born — .-Mice R.. Eugenie, Ammon Joseph, our 
 subject ; and Hannah Belle, who is now serving 
 as Deputy County Clerk, under her brother. The 
 mother died in 1878. 
 
 Our subject grew up in Utah, spending eleven 
 years of his life in Salt Lake City and two in 
 Wyoming. His education was received in the 
 schools of L'tah, graduating in 1893 from All 
 Hallow's college, of Salt Lake City, with the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 
 He was married in Salt Lake City, June 22, 
 1896, to Aliss Bessie IMarshall, daughter of 
 Henry and Rhoda Marshall, and by this mar- 
 riage has had three children— Ralph E., Rhoda 
 and Ruth. 
 
 In politics Mr. Bruneau is a staunch Republi- 
 can, and while a young man. he has for a number 
 of years been active in the political life of his 
 community, in which the Republicans have the 
 controlling vote, five of the county offices being 
 at this time filled by members of that party, with 
 the exception of one Democrat among the 
 County Commissioners. Mr. Bruneau was 
 elected County Clerk in 1898 and re-elected in 
 1900. Prior to this time he had filled the office of 
 Deputy County Recorder for eighteen months, 
 and has also been Deputy County Clerk for six 
 months. The county built a splendid brick build- 
 ing in Tooele City at a cost of sixteen thousand 
 dollars, which was completed during our sub- 
 ject's tenure of office, and in which the county 
 offices are located. While his life has largely 
 been devoted to politics, this has not been hi? only 
 occupation. The abstract business in which lie 
 is the leading spirit, and which is carried on 
 under his able management, is noted through- 
 out the State as a model enterprise of the kind. 
 
 He is also interested in the fire insurance and 
 loan business, and is regarded as one of Tooele 
 county's most agrressive and successful young 
 business men, and his already well-known busi- 
 ness talent gives promise of a brilliant future. 
 He is the owner of a beautiful brick residence 
 in Tooele City, where he makes his home, and. 
 he and the members of his familv are devout ad- 
 
 herents of the Catholic Church. His public life 
 has brought him prominently before the people 
 of the community and State and he has won the 
 confidence and esteem of all with whom he has 
 been associated, both in business, private and pub- 
 lic life. 
 
 ( )HN HICKEY. In looking back to the 
 beginning of railroading in America and 
 viewing the present vastness of the rail- 
 road systems which gird the entire 
 United States, and bring the West as 
 close tu the East as Philadelphia was to Rich- 
 mond a century ago, many important factors in 
 the development of this aid to civilization are 
 almost lost to sight. The development of the 
 railroad corporations has been likened to that of 
 an army of a prosperous and growing nation, and 
 in some respects the comparison is good. Just 
 as in an army there are separate heads of im- 
 portant divisions, each reporting to a higher head, 
 and finally to the commanding general, so in the 
 railroad the work is divided. The care of the 
 roadbed, the construction of new track, the build- 
 ing of locomotives and rolling stock, and the gov- 
 ernment of its financial aftairs are confided to 
 men who have by their special fitness proved 
 themselves, after long experience, capable of prop- 
 erlv discharging the responsibilities of the duties 
 allotted to them. The ever-quickening demand 
 for shorter means of communication between im- 
 portant centers has led rapidly to the develop- 
 ment of the heavier rail and larger locomotive, 
 and more commodious equipment. The haste 
 with which Americans live and desire to accom- 
 plish whatever they attempt in the shortest space 
 possible, is thoroughly exemplified in the work 
 of the railroads. It may well be said that a rail- 
 road chief is a man who is constantly engaged 
 in the work of elimination and revision, and con- 
 stantly striving to improve and increase the fa- 
 cilities of his road ; not only to reduce to the 
 minimum the expense of operation, but also to 
 increase the traffic and afford to the traveling 
 public and to the industrial world better facili- 
 ties for the transaction of their business. In 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the work of the railroad there is no more im- 
 portant position than that of general superin- 
 tendent of motive power, nor one which requires 
 a wider training or a broader experience in rail- 
 road work. To the superintendent of this de- 
 partment is entrusted the care of the rolling stock, 
 and especially of the locomotives, and it is a part 
 of his business to see that the equipment of the 
 road not only meets the demands made upon it, 
 but keeps in advance of the present progress. To 
 this responsible position in the Rio Grande West- 
 ern Railway was called a man who, by his pre- 
 vious experience as superintendent of the motive 
 power and machinery of the entire Northern Pa- 
 cific system, showed his ability to cope with and 
 successfully surmount all the difficulties which 
 present themselves in that important branch of 
 the railroad service. 
 
 John Hickey was born in Painesville, Ohio, 
 on March 24, 1844, and received his early edu- 
 cation in the common schools of that place, later 
 going to Toronto, Canada, and taking a course 
 in the Upper Canada College, where he prac- 
 tically completed his scholastic education. He 
 had always had a strong penchant for machin- 
 ery, and intended to follow that as his life work. 
 His first employment was secured in Cleveland, 
 Ohio, where he was employed in constructing 
 machinery for steam boats. He there served his 
 apprenticeship as machinist, and then turned his 
 attention to railroad mechanical work, and be- 
 came identified with the Chicago, Burlington and 
 Quincy Railroad Company, at Aurora, where he 
 was employed as foreman of the locomotive re- 
 pair shops for a number of years. He then en- 
 tered the employ of the Chicago and Northwest- 
 ern as Master Mechanic, in their Chicago avenue 
 shop, in Chicago, serving in this latter capacity 
 for a number of years. His ability had already 
 marked him as one of the rising master me- 
 chanics in railroad life, and he was secured by 
 the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Rail- 
 road as its General Master Mechanic, remaining 
 with that company for six years, after which time 
 he was appointed superintendent of the motive 
 power and rolling stock of the entire Northern 
 Pacific system. He had become one of the lead- 
 
 ing men in his business in the country, and was 
 forced, after occupying this later position for 
 seven years, to relinquish it, owing to the ill 
 health of his family. While he was engaged in this 
 latter position, six of his seven children were at- 
 tacked with disease, which proved fatal, and he 
 decided to come to the West and seek a more 
 healthful climate. In 1897 he came to Salt Lake 
 and was appointed General Master Mechanic of 
 the Rio Grande Western Railway, which posi- 
 tion he has held ever since. So prominent had 
 he become in railroad life that he was appointed 
 one of the judges of the transportation depart- 
 ment of the World's Columbian Exposition, held 
 in Chicago in 1893, and served with distinction 
 in that capacity. He has held a membership in 
 the American Railway Master Mechanics' Asso- 
 ciation for a number of years, and has served as 
 its president for two years. 
 
 Mr. Hickey married in Michigan, in 1874, to 
 Miss Helen Melody, a native of Detroit, Michi- 
 gan, and by this marriage they have had seven 
 children, six of whom are dead, four of them 
 having died after reaching maturity. Their one 
 living child, D. D. Hickey, is at present em- 
 ployed as a draughtsman in the mechanical de- 
 partment of the Rio Grande Western Railway. 
 
 Mr. Hickey comes from a family of railroad 
 men, his father, D. D. Hickey, having been ac- 
 tive in the railroad business all his life, serving 
 for a long time in the capacity of foreman in the 
 wood working department of the Chicago, Rock 
 Island and Pacific Railroad. His wife, Mary 
 Helen (Burke) Hickey, and the mother of 
 the subject of this sketch, was also from 
 an old Michigan family. The Hickey fam- 
 ily settled in the East in the early days, and were 
 originally of an old Scotch-Irish stock, and a 
 number of Mr. Hickey's relatives in Scotland are 
 today at the head of large shipbuilding and rail- 
 road industries in that country. 
 
 The successful career which Mr. Hickey has 
 Iniilt up in his present position as General Su- 
 perintendent of Motive Power is but a continu- 
 ation of the work that he had done in the East. 
 Throughout the railroad world he is known as 
 one of the most experienced and learned men in 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 595 
 
 his branch of railroading, and he enjoys the confi- 
 dence and esteem not only of the prominent rail- 
 road men of the country, but also of the men 
 under his charge, who regard him as a friend 
 and helper. 
 
 EORGE A. SHEETS. In the affairs 
 along the lines of public service in Salt 
 Lake City there is no more popular 
 or efficient man than the subject of this 
 sketch, nor one who has more satisfac- 
 torily discharged the duties allotted to him. He 
 has risen to the front ranks of that important 
 force by virtue of his own ability and the pains- 
 taking industry which he brings to the solution 
 of every task allotted to him. 
 
 He was born in Salt Lake City, July 25, 1864, 
 and is a son of John J. Sheets, of Pennsylvania, 
 who spent his early life in that State, coming to 
 Utah in 1858. His wife, the mother of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, Elizabeth (Tryseboch) Sheets, 
 was also a native of Pennsyb'ania, and came 
 here- in the early days. Their son, George, was 
 educated in the common schools of Salt Lake 
 City and at the age of fifteen started on his ca- 
 reer. He became identified with the police de- 
 partment in 1890, and was identified with the 
 same for twelve years. For the first three years 
 he was a patrolman, and the following six months 
 served as First Sergeant, after which time he 
 was appointed a detective, and rose steadily to 
 the front until he ranked next to the Chief in that 
 department. 
 
 He married Miss Henriette Gunn, daughter of 
 Alfred and Rachel Gunn. Her parents came 
 here in the early days, crossing the plains in a 
 hand cart company. By this marriage Mr. 
 Sheets has one child, a daughter, Katie Klea. 
 
 In politics Mr. Sheets is a Republican, and 
 takes an active interest in the welfare of the 
 party. In fraternal life he is a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. The un- 
 tiring energy and application which he has shown 
 in his work has always won for him the confi- 
 dence and esteem of his superiors and has made 
 him one of the popular public officials in Salt 
 Lake City. 
 
 R. JOSEPH S. RICHARDS is the son 
 of Williard Richards, a native of 
 Massachusetts, who was made Second 
 Counselor to Brigham Young at 
 Winter Quarters, near Omaha, Ne- 
 braska, in 1847. He came with President Young 
 to Utah in the fall of 1847. I" 1848 he returned 
 to Winter Quarters and brought his family to 
 Salt Lake City. He afterwards served as Church 
 Historian, was the founder of the Deseret Neivs, 
 was speaker of the Territorial House of Repre- 
 sentatives and immediately associated with the 
 history of the Church. Prior to coming to Utah 
 he was associated with Joseph Smith, the 
 Prophet, and was with him in Carthage jail when 
 he was killed. He died in March, 1854, at the 
 age of fifty-two years. The doctor's mother 
 was Sarah (Longstroth) Richards, a native of 
 Lancaster, England. 
 
 Dr. Joseph S. Richards was born October the 
 4th. 1848, while the family were enroute to 
 Utah, at a place where Granger, Wyoming now 
 stands. He was but twelve days old when his 
 parents settled down on the present site of Salt 
 Lake City. Here he grew to manhood and re- 
 ceived a common school education. He spent 
 several years on a ranch as a cowboy, and in 
 1866 he saw service in the Black Hawk war, 
 under Col. H. P. Kimball. 
 
 In 1867 he went to England on a mission and 
 spent three years in that field. In 1870 he en- 
 tered the drug business in Salt Lake City, and for 
 two years during this period he studied medicine 
 under Dr. Nichols, entering Bellevue Medical 
 College, New York, in 1873, ^^d graduating with 
 a degree of M. D. in March, 1875. He at once 
 came to Salt Lake City and entered upon his 
 chosen profession, which he has since followed, 
 part of the time being associated with his 
 brother. Dr. H. J. Richards, and also with Dr. 
 W. F. Anderson. He was chief surgeon at the 
 Deseret Hospital, and for the past six years has 
 been surgeon for the Holy Cross Hospital. For 
 several years he was chief surgeon for the Utah 
 Central Railroad, assistant surgeon for the Ore- 
 gon Short Line Railroad, and at present is sur- 
 geon for the Consolidated Street Railway and 
 Power Company, of Salt Lake City. He was at 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 one time President of the Salt Lake County Med- 
 ical Association, Vice-President of the State 
 Medical Association and is Medical Referee for 
 the National Life Insurance Company of i\Iont- 
 pelier, Vermont. 
 
 The Doctor is named in the will of the late Dr. 
 W. H. Graves as medical director of the Dr. W. 
 H. Graves Latter Day Saints Hospital, that is 
 being erected in Salt Lake City. 
 
 In 1876 he married Miss Louise M. Taylor 
 daughter of Joseph E. Taylor, now Counselor to 
 President Cannon. They have had seven chil- 
 dren, six of whom are living. One son, Ralph T. 
 Richards, intends following his father's profes- 
 sion, and will graduate from the University of 
 Bellevue Medical College, New York, in 1903. 
 Dr. Richards has been a successful practitioner, 
 devoting his time to the study and practice of 
 his chosen profession almost exclusively. He 
 has been active as an upbuilder of Salt Lake City, 
 and in 1898 he opened up the street which was 
 afterwards named Richards street in his honor. 
 Six of his children were born in a house which 
 stood in the center of what is now Richards 
 street. He is a member of the Mormon Church, 
 and is related by marriage to President Joseph 
 Smith, who married his sister. 
 
 OCTOR A. C. :\IACLEAN has been a 
 resident of Salt Lake City for the past 
 fourteen years. By careful study and 
 close attention to every detail along the 
 line of his chosen profession he has 
 built up a large practice in the city. Possessing 
 marked natural keenness and executive ability, 
 and all the advantages of a superior education 
 and years of practical and varied experiences in 
 the practice of medicine in other fields before lo- 
 cating in this city, has well qualified him for 
 the positions of trust and responsibility to which 
 he has been frequently called since coming here. 
 He comes of an old, sturdy Scotch family, and 
 was born near Belleville, Ontario, Canada, June 
 22, 1855. His father was a native of Edinburg. 
 
 Scotland, and descended from the Macleans of 
 Drimnin. His grandfather was a very promir 
 nent man. He was Solicitor of the Exchequer 
 of Scotland, and an intimate friend of Sir Wal- 
 ter Scott, through whose influence he received the 
 appointment, at a salary of five thousand pounds 
 per year. His ancestors came from the High- 
 land fighting stock, and the Drimnin House was 
 an old historic place of Scotland. Our subject's 
 father lost his eyesight by an accident, and emi- 
 grated to Canada about 1837. On his mother's- 
 side Doctor Maclean also comes of an old Scotch 
 family, her people being the Campbells of Ar- 
 tornish, and was born in Mull, in the highlands. 
 
 Our subject was the second youngest of eighty 
 children, and has three brothers now practicing 
 medicine in the L'nited States. He lived in 
 Kingston, Canada, where he received his prelim- 
 inary education, and subsequently entered the 
 University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where 
 he took a complete medical course, graduating 
 in 1877. For three years after his graduation 
 he was house surgeon at the University hospital. 
 In 1880 he began the practice of his profession 
 at Leadville, Colorado, where he had a large prac- 
 tice, and remained there eight years. During this 
 time he was surgeon for the Iron Silver Mining 
 Company, and the Saint Luke's Hospital, and the 
 Denver and Rio Grande Railway. 
 
 In 1888 he came to Salt Lake City and entered 
 upon a general practice, and for eight years was 
 surgeon for the Saint ]\Iark's Hospital. In pro- 
 fessional life he is a member of the Salt Lake 
 County Medical Society, the Rocky Mountain 
 Inter-State Medical Society, the Utah State Med- 
 ical Society (of which he is President), and the 
 American Medical Association. He has enjoyed 
 a large practice here, and devotes the greater 
 part of his time to his profession. 
 
 Doctor Maclean was married at Olathe, Kan- 
 sas, to Miss Susan Mariner, a native of Tennes- 
 see. They have three children — two sons and 
 one daughter. 
 
 Besides being interested in mining, Dr. Mac- 
 lean is the owner ^ considerable Salt Lake real 
 estate, and is largely interested in a cattle ranch 
 in San Luis Vallev, Colorado. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 597 
 
 ON. ORSON PRATT. It is now more 
 than twenty years since the life work of 
 ( )r.';on Pratt, one of the most brilliant 
 and learned men in the history of the 
 Mormon Church, was closed; but while 
 the earthly tenement has returned to the dust 
 whence it came, the impress of a strong soul is yet 
 to be found in the minds and hearts of the people 
 who lived under' the beneficent influence of a life 
 spent in the loving service of uplifting and ben- 
 efiting humanity. Yet not alone upon his fellow 
 men has fallen the imprint of his magnetism, 
 his strength of character and his wonderful per- 
 sonality; it may be seen and felt wherever the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is 
 known. The close and confidential friend of the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith, he later became one of the 
 strongest pillars of the Mormon Church. 
 
 The progenitors of our subject came to Amer- 
 ica in the Seventeenth century. The records at 
 Newton, since called Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
 show that John and William Pratt owned land 
 in that town as early as 1636. They are believed 
 to have been the sons of Rev. William Pratt, of 
 Stevenage, Hartfordshire, England, but this is 
 not authenticated. In England this branch of 
 the family is traced back to William de Pratellis, 
 who came to England from Normandy in the 
 •eleventh century. William and John Pratt were 
 among the colonists who located the town of 
 Hartford, Connecticut, and received their ap- 
 portionment of land in 1639. Orson Pratt is de- 
 scended from William, who became a member 
 of the Connecticut Legislature and remained in 
 that position for twenty-five or thirty sessions ; 
 also holding other high official positions. The 
 parents of our subject were Jared and Charity 
 (Dickinson) Pratt. Jared Pratt was born No- 
 vember 25, 1769, in Canaan, Columbus county, 
 New York. The mother of our subject was born 
 February 24, 1776. She became the mother of 
 six children — Mary, Anson, William D., Parley 
 Parker, Orson and Nelson. The father died No- 
 vember 5, 1839, and was buried a few miles from 
 Detroit, Michigan. His wife died in St. Joseph, 
 Missouri, May 20, 1849, ^""^ was buried in the 
 city cemetery there, and a tombstone erected to 
 her memory. 
 
 Anson died of cholera on May 26, 1849, ^"d 
 was buried by the side of his mother. William D. 
 died in Salt Lake City, September 15th, 1870; 
 Parley P. was assassinated by a mob near Van 
 Buren, Kansas, May 13, 1857, aged 50 years, and 
 Nelson died at the home of his son, Edwin D., in 
 Norwich, Huron county, Ohio, in 1889, being 
 the last member of the family to die. 
 
 Orson Pratt was born September 19, 181 1, in 
 Hartford, Washington county New York. As 
 his father was a poor man and unable to care 
 for his large family, it became necessary for our 
 subject to make his own way in life at a very 
 early age; accordingly, he started out at the 
 age of ten years and from then until nineteen 
 years of age lived in a number of places and was 
 engaged in various occupations, gleaning his 
 scholastic education here and there as opportu- 
 nity oflfered, and being of a studious and en- 
 quiring turn of mind, became a very apt scholar. 
 \\'hile his parents were not professed Christians 
 they entertained a deep reverence for the scrip- 
 tures, and had instilled this reverence into the 
 minds of their children, encouraging them to 
 read the Bible and search out its truths for them- 
 selves. Our subject was of a naturally devout 
 nature and from the autumn of 1829 to Septem- 
 ber, 1830, strove very hard to discover what 
 might be the true religion. In September, 1830, 
 some Mormon missionaries came into his neigh- 
 borhood, one of them being his brother Parley, 
 and there preached the gospel of Mormonism. 
 Our subject was convinced after listening to 
 them for some time that this was the truth for 
 which he had been seeking, and was accordingly 
 baptized, his brother performing the ceremony ; 
 the occasion being his nineteenth birthday. The 
 following month he traveled over two hundred 
 miles to see the Prophet Joseph Smith, who was 
 at that time in Fayette, New York. Here the 
 Prophet received a revelation concering the fu- 
 ture career of Orson, and the latter was or- 
 dained an elder under the hands of the Prophet 
 December 30th. From this time forward, for 
 several years his time was spent as a traveling 
 missionary, most of the time journeying on foot 
 and without money. He was ordained a High 
 Priest and later, April 26, 1835, was ordained 
 
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 an Apostle. He was married to Sarah Miranda 
 Bates, July 4, 1836, whom he had baptized near 
 Sacketts Harbor, about a year before. From this 
 time until 1840 he moved about from place to 
 place with his family, and on July 4th, 1837, was 
 instrumental in releasing his brother Parley from 
 prison at Far West, Missouri. In the spring of 
 1840 he left with several of the Apostles for a 
 mission to Scotland, laboring in Edinburg nine 
 months, during which time he instituted a church 
 with over two hundred members and published a 
 pamphlet called "Remarkable Visions." He re- 
 turned to Nauvoo in 1841 and remained there 
 about a year, having charge of a mathematical 
 school the greater portion of the time. In the 
 spring of 1843 he went on a tour of the Eastern 
 States, and returned to Nauvoo in the fall of that 
 year, when he was elected a member of the City 
 Council and appointed with a number of others to 
 draw up a memorial to Congress, and was ap- 
 pointed to go to Washington and present the 
 same. He spent ten weeks in the latter city, and 
 during his leisure time preached and baptized 
 converts, and spent the remainder of his time cal- 
 culating eclipses and preparing an almanac. He 
 was absent from Nauvoo at the time of the killing 
 of the Prophet, but returned soon after and in 
 the latter part of 1844 entered into his first ce- 
 lestial marriages, having two wives sealed to 
 him by President Brigham Young, who had suc- 
 ceeded as head of the Church. 
 
 In the summer of 1845 he was called to preside 
 over the branches of the Church in the Eastern 
 and Middle States, returning to Nauvoo in No- 
 vember, and when the exodus occurred in Febru- 
 ary, 1846, together with his four wives and three 
 small children, the youngest but a few weeks old, 
 crossed the Mississippi river and camped at 
 Sugar Creek for a number of days, the thermom- 
 eter averaging twenty-two degrees above zero, 
 and several snow storms occurring. After break- 
 ing camp they proceeded westward, camping a 
 short time at (^ach successive stopping place, the 
 weather continuing inclement, and it was with 
 difficulty that sufficient food was obtained to 
 sustain life in themselves and their animals. 
 When they arrived at a place which was named 
 Garden Grove the leaders decided it wise to put 
 
 in crops and open farms for the benefit of the 
 poor and those unable to continue, as well as for 
 those following. Other camps were thus opened 
 up and named. After the company left Mount 
 Pisgah one of Orson Pratt's wives, Louisa 
 Chandler Pratt, died of typhus fever and was 
 buried on the plains of Iowa. The company 
 finally reached Winter Quarters, and the folllow- 
 ing spring our subject left his family in that 
 place and accompanied President Young across 
 the plains to Utah. The company consisted of 
 one hundred and forty-eight persons and the trip 
 was made without particular incident. Mr. 
 Pratt and Erastus Snow came into the valley 
 ahead of the rest of the party, having but one 
 horse, which they used alternately. Mr. Snow 
 had the misfortune to lose his coat, and while 
 he was retracing his footsteps searching for the 
 garment our subject rode leisurely ahead and 
 was the first one to put foot upon the site of what 
 is now Salt Lake City, which was July 21, 1847, 
 three days ahead of the first company. Imme- 
 diately upon forming camp they set about putting 
 in crops. The following day being the Sabbath, 
 regular services were held, Elder Pratt preach- 
 ing. On the succeding day (Monday) they at 
 once commenced the laying out of the city and 
 the erection of homes for their families, return- 
 ing to Winter Quarters October 31st. The fol- 
 lowing April our subject was called to go on a 
 mission to England, to take charge of the afifairs 
 of the Church in that country. Accompanied 
 by his first wife and three children he left Winter 
 Quarters in May of that year, returning at the 
 end of three years and brought his family across 
 the plains. One child, Harmel, was born during 
 the journey. They arrived in Salt Lake City 
 October 7, 185 1, and resided for some time in 
 the Seventh Ward. Elder Pratt became Profes- 
 sor in the Deseret University, now the University 
 of Utah, and delivered a number of lectures on 
 astronomy. In January, 1853, he was sent on a 
 mission to Washington, D. C, and from there 
 made a trip to England, where he published a 
 book entitled "Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and 
 his Progenitors." He also published a paper 
 in Washington which he called the Seer. His 
 life from this on was a succession of missions to 
 
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 different parts of the world. During this time 
 he did much writing, devoting a large portion of 
 his leisure time to the study of astronomy and 
 making some important discoveries. He was the 
 author of "Pratt's Cubic Bio-Uadratic Eo- 
 Uatiom and Key to the Universe," which he di- 
 vided into chapter and verses, with marginal 
 reference to the Book or Mormon, and Doctrine 
 and Covenants. He also held a three-days' debate 
 with Doctor J. P. Newman on the subject, "Does 
 the Bible Sanction Polygamy," in which he van- 
 quished his opponent. 
 
 He returned home from the foreign mission 
 field in 1879, and spent the remainder of his life 
 in Utah. During his first mission to England 
 he was the means of 22,000 people embracing the 
 Mormon faith. He was elected a member of the 
 Legislative Assembly during its first session, 
 and at each successive session when he was in 
 the Territory, and seven times was chosen 
 Speaker of the House. He suffered much during 
 his later years from diabetes, which finally re- 
 sulted in his death. His last public address was 
 given in the Tabernacle, Sunday, September 18, 
 1881, which was the last day of his seventy- 
 eighth year. He was taken sick the follow- 
 ing day and passed away October 3, 1881. Beau- 
 tiful and impressive services were held in the 
 Tabernacle, and at the Legislature succeeding his 
 death appropriate resolutions were adopted. 
 
 The writer of this article has attempted to 
 briefly and yet clearly outline the career of one 
 of the most remarkable and beloved men in the 
 history of the Mormon Church. A fuller ac- 
 count of his teachings, writings and experiences 
 may be found in the writings of his son Milando 
 Pratt. He was the last of the original council 
 of Twelve Apostles of the Mormon Church. He 
 was the father of sixteen sons and sixteen daugh- 
 ters and at his death left forty-three grandchild- 
 ren. 
 
 IL.A.NDO PRATT. Much of the 
 vast wealth of Utah is hidden within 
 its hills and mountains, in the form 
 of minerals of various kinds, and it 
 requires the ingenuity and skill of 
 man to successfully develop and convert these 
 
 minerals into legal tender. Among those who 
 have been largely interested in the great mining 
 fields of this inter-mounatin region, the subject 
 of this sketch deserves special mention. 
 
 He is the son of Apostle Orson Pratt, and was 
 born at Harris Grove, about forty miles from 
 Winter Quarters, in Pottawatomie county, Iowa, 
 September 30, 1848. At the time of his birth 
 his father was absent on a mission to Europe, 
 and on his return, in 1851, he brought his fam-- 
 ily to Utah. 
 
 Our subject grew to manhood in the Salt Lake 
 valley, and obtained such education as the 
 schools of that day afforded, living much the same 
 life as did the other sons of pioneers, attending 
 school about three months in the year and the 
 remainder of that time being spent in working 
 on the farm and herding sheep and cattle. He 
 also assisted in hauling wood from the canyons 
 with ox teams. When he was eighteen years of 
 age, before there were any railroads in this coun- 
 try, he drove seven yoke of oxen over the 'plains 
 to Julesburg, on the Missouri river, and brought 
 back two loads of merchandise and seventy-five 
 men. In 1867 he took a sub-contract from the 
 LTnion Pacific railroad to grade a piece of road 
 in Weber canyon, and was known as the youngest 
 contractor on the line. He completed this con- 
 tract, all under Apostle John Taylor. He also 
 took a contract under Messrs. Benson, Farr and 
 West, in Utah, on the Central Pacific, now the 
 Southern Pacific Railway. 
 
 After completing his railroad work he entered 
 the mercantile business in Salt Lake City. He 
 later entered the employ of the Zion Co-opera- 
 tive Mercantile Institution, remaining there a 
 year, when he turned his attention to mining at 
 the head of Big Cottonwood, but not being suc- 
 cessful, he abandoned this and entered the Church 
 Historian's office, where he was employed for 
 three years. While there he met with an acci- 
 dent which deprived him of the use of his right 
 hand for clerical work, and he resigned his posi- 
 tion, and was shortly thereafter engaged by the 
 Singer Sewing Machine Company to open and 
 manage a branch office in Ogden. 
 
 He recovered the use of his right hand, and 
 
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 in 1880 again entered the Historian's office in or- 
 der to assist his father, who was faiHng in health, 
 and while there prepared the documents for a 
 general history of the Church. In 1888 he be- 
 came associated with his two brothers, under the 
 name of Pratt Brothers, in the real estate and 
 loan business, remaining in this business until 
 1893, since which time he has given most of his 
 time and attention to mining, and is now Secre- 
 tary of the Bingham West Dip Tunnel Company. 
 He is also secretary and a director of the Ander- 
 son Double Column Pump Company, and Sec- 
 retary of the Salt Lake Asphalt Company, and 
 director and Secretary of the Ensign Gold Min- 
 ing Company. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Pratt was married to Elizabeth 
 Rich, daughter of Apostle Charles C. Rich, who 
 was a pioneer to L'tah in 1847, ^nd who in 1849, 
 in company with Messrs. Lyman and Hanks, set- 
 tled the San Bernardino colony in California. Of 
 this marriage five sons and two daughters have 
 been born, all of whom have given evidence of 
 possessing great talent. The oldest daughter is 
 now Mrs. Viola (Pratt) Gillette, having a na- 
 tional reputation as a singer, and now taking 
 the role of Prince Charming, in the "Sleeping 
 Beauty and the Beast," under the management 
 of Klaw and Erlanger, of New York. The sec- 
 ond daughter, Leonia De Armon, is now playing 
 in "Moll, the Orange Girl," and is an understudy 
 to the leading lady in "Mistress Xell." Milando 
 Pratt, Junior, is in New City filling a cler- 
 ical position; Charles R. ; Orson M., who pos- 
 sesses a fine tenor voice; Benjamin, who gives 
 promise of great musical ability, and Frederick 
 Earl, complete this interesting family of chil- 
 dren. 
 
 In politics Mr. Pratt has always been a Demo- 
 crat, and in his younger days served as Sergeant- 
 at-Arms in the Territorial Legislature, and was 
 Docket Clerk in the Legislature of 1899, and 
 Chairman of the Seventh District in 1901. He 
 has been an Elder in the Mormon Church since 
 he was fifteen years of age, and in 1873 was or- 
 dained a High Priest by President Young, and 
 set apart as a member of the High Council, which 
 position he still retains. He has been for seven 
 
 years a member of the Home Missionary Board, 
 and in 1877 was called to perform a mission in 
 the Eastern States, laboring in New York, Penn- 
 sylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut. In 1889 
 he published the second edition of the autobi- 
 ography of his uncle, Apostle Parley Parker 
 Pratt. 
 
 Mr. Pratt comes of one of the oldest and 
 best-known families in the Mormon Church, and 
 during his long residence in this State has made 
 a wide circle of friends, both in the public and 
 private walks of life, who respect and esteem 
 him for his high integrity and sterling manhood. 
 
 I SHOP WILLIAM THORN, an active 
 and highly esteemed citizen of Salt 
 Lake City, and a resident of Utah for 
 more than half a century, Mr. Thorn 
 has contributed his full share towards 
 advancing the agricultural interests of his adopted 
 State, and has been a valued factor in promoting 
 its growth along this line. 
 
 He is a native of Oxfordshire, England, where 
 he was born October 26, 1815, growing to man- 
 hood in that country and there receiving his edu- 
 cation. He was a great lover of horses and in 
 his native land was a trainer of running and 
 hunting horses, having hunted in many counties 
 in England with the Queen's stag and fox hounds, 
 and since his residence in Utah has given much 
 valuable assistance in promoting the raising of 
 fine horse flesh in this State. 
 
 Mr. Thorn was converted to the teachings of 
 the Alormon Church in 1849, and on April 23rd 
 of that year was baptized in London by Elder 
 William Booth. On January 9, 185 1, he sailed 
 from Liverpool on board the vessel George W. 
 Borne, and landed in New Orleans, from which 
 place he went by boat to St. Louis, and from there 
 up the Missouri river by boat to Council Bluffs, 
 where he secured an outfit for the journey across 
 the great American plains. He spent some little 
 time in Winter Quarters, leaving there on July 
 1st of the same year with the train under com- 
 mand of Elder Alfred Gordon, and arrived in Salt 
 Lake City on October 2, 185 1. Here he found a 
 
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 small colony of pioneers and soon after his ar- 
 rival bought some property in the Seventh Ward, 
 where he has since continued to reside. He began 
 farming in what is now know as Farmer's Ward, 
 but was then called the "Big Field," and where 
 he still owns considerable land. He has always 
 made a specialty of vegetables and for two years 
 in succession took first prize at the State Fair for 
 the best two-acre field of potatoes, and one year 
 secured first prize for the best one-acre field of 
 turnips. 
 
 He platted a five-acre lot and created what is 
 known as Thorn's Subdivision to Salt Lake City: 
 He has been very active in everything pertaining 
 to the growth and development of the city, as 
 well as in Church circles. Soon after coming hers 
 he was appointed Ward Teacher for the Seventh 
 Ward and later set apart as Second Counselor to 
 Bishop Jonathan Pugmire, and on March 12, 
 1865, when Thomas McLellan was made Bishop 
 of that Ward, our subject was set apart as his 
 Fir.st Counselor and held the position until De- 
 cember 24, 1870, when he was placed in charge 
 of the Ward, with Henry Dinwoodey and Thomas 
 Woodbury as his Counselors. When the Ward 
 was reorganized on June 15, 1877, our subject 
 was ordained Bishop, with William McLachlan 
 and Thomas Woodbury as Counselors, and upon 
 the death of Thomas Woodbury in 1899, Henry 
 Wallace was appointed to fill his place. Mr. 
 Thorn has since been Bishop of this Ward, and 
 has devoted his time largely to looking after his 
 arduous duties, having nine blocks under his jur- 
 isdiction. He has also held the office of High 
 Counselor to the Presidency of the Salt Lake 
 Stake. 
 
 Bishop Thorn was married March 23, 1852, to 
 Mrs. Maria S. Merick and of this marriage two 
 children have been born. She died in 1889. On 
 December 20, 1862 he married Sarah White. She 
 bore him eight children, four sons and four 
 daughters. Alfred Charles, one of his sons, 
 served on a mission to England in 1891, laboring 
 there twenty-six months, most of which time was 
 spent in London. 
 
 Bishop Thorn has always been active in en- 
 couraging the promoters of the State Fairs and 
 
 was one of the organizers of the County Agricul- 
 tural Society. He has for a number of years held 
 the position of superintendent of the horse ex- 
 hibits at the fairs, his knowledge of horseflesh 
 being a valuable aid in this direction. Through 
 his long and useful life the Bishop has always been 
 found to be a man of sterling worth, and now in 
 his declining days is enjoying the fruits of a life 
 well spent and filled with good deeds. 
 
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 OCTOR PEDER A. H. FRANKLIN. 
 In the development of the mineral re- 
 sources of L^tah, and in the location of 
 mines and furnishing of the necessary 
 financial assistance for their proper 
 workings, few men have taken as important a 
 part, and none a greater one, than has the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. He has perhaps more exten- 
 sive mining interests in Utah and in the adjoining 
 States than any other man in the West, and 
 through the development of these properties has 
 aided materially in bringing about the present 
 prosperity of Utah. He is now President of the 
 Black Bird Copper Gold Mining Company, which 
 controls large territory in Lemhi county, Idaho, 
 and also in Beaver county, L'tah, giving employ- 
 ment to a large force of men. This same com- 
 pany is also the owner of vast mining properties 
 in the southern part of Utah. 
 
 Doctor Franklin was born in Norway, at Thoe- 
 tan, August 8, 1847, where he spent his boyhood 
 days. He was educated in the schools of his na- 
 tive country, and at twenty-two years of age was 
 an officer in the army of Norway. Two years 
 later he emigrated to Denmark, and secured em- 
 ployment as civil engineer under the government. 
 He gave up his career in the army to follow his 
 native bent, the study of geology, for which he 
 had an inherent love. It was one of his greatest 
 privileges when but a small boy to roam around 
 the hills and mountains of his native land, search- 
 ing for minerals, and making a thorough study of 
 
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 their constituent parts. While in Denmark and 
 in the practice of his chosen profession, he be- 
 came familiar with the resources of Utah, and 
 filled with a desire to see and investigate for him- 
 self, left Europe and arrived in Utah in 1873, at 
 a time when the discovery of the mineral wealth 
 of this State was but in its infancy, and opera- 
 tions had only begun. He was among the first 
 to realize the possibilities of the wealth that lay 
 hidden in the mountains of this State, and for 
 four years he worked in different mines as a day 
 laborer, securing employment in the Flagstaff 
 and Ella mines. He was soon in a position to 
 employ his ability in the exploitation of mining 
 property, and became financially interested in the 
 Niagara Company of Bingham, of which he 
 continues President and General Manager. This 
 company owned the old Spanish mines and old 
 Utah mines, together with a number of other 
 valuable properties. He was President and Gen- 
 eral Manager of this company and gave his per- 
 sonal attention to the work in this property for 
 five years. These mines he succeeded in develop- 
 ing and made a paying investment, and they were 
 later sold to the United States Mining Company, 
 and have since fully justified the expectations 
 of their original owner. That was the beginning 
 of Doctor Franklin's connection with mining 
 properties in the West, and since that time his 
 interests have increased rapidly. He is now also 
 President of the Red Bird Gold Mining Com- 
 pany of Idaho, which controls vast mining inter- 
 ests in that State. He is President of the Yan- 
 kee Consolidated Mining Company in the Tintic 
 district of Utah, and holds a similar position in 
 the Blue Bird Copper Company in Beaver county, 
 in this State. His interest has not been confined 
 to mining, but has included all of the industries 
 of Utah and Idaho, which have aided in the 
 building up of the property in these two States. 
 He believes in the future importance of Salt Lake 
 City, and in the future prosperity of Utah, and is 
 confident that in a few years Salt Lake City will 
 have quadrupled its poulation ; its importance 
 and prosperity keeping pace with its increase in 
 population. 
 
 Doctor Franklin has assisted many prospectors 
 
 who are today in the position he occupied at the 
 start of his career in Utah. He is a friend of all 
 this class of men, and stands ready to either give 
 them employment or to purchase their prospects 
 when he is convinced that they are of any value. 
 He has a genial and pleasant manner, which, 
 coupled with his ability and integrity, have made 
 him one of the most popular mining men 
 throughout the West. Doctor Franklin was mar- 
 ried to Miss Catherine Wall, and he has one 
 daughter, Catherine. 
 
 In political affairs Doctor Franklin is a believer 
 in the principles of the Republican party, but his 
 business interests have been too great to permit 
 him to participate actively in the work of that 
 party, and he has never held public office. In 
 fraternal life he is a member of the Elks. 
 
 Some idea of the magnitude of his operations 
 may be had from the fact that during the year 
 1 90 1 he has spent over founteen hundred thou- 
 sand dollars in the purchase of mining properties 
 in Utah, and throughout the West, and expects 
 to spend half a million dollars in the coming year 
 in development work on new mines which he has 
 acquired. His operations have to a large extent 
 been carried on in concert with one of the leading 
 capitalists of Pennsylvania, John A. E. Dubois, 
 who has implicit confidence in the judgment of 
 Doctor Franklin, and who willingly loans his aid 
 in the financing of his operations. 
 
 Doctor Franklin's career in Utah marks him as 
 one of the men who have brought the mining in- 
 terests of Utah to its present importance, and his 
 success has been achieved by his own efforts. He 
 is a self-made man, and whatever he accomplished 
 was accomplished through his own industry and 
 ability. He was left an orphan at ten years of 
 age, and has made his own way in life from that 
 time. He was the youngest but one of a family 
 of five boys, and his brothers have all made 
 successful careers. No matter what tasks Doctor 
 Franklin had to perform, he brought to them the 
 same energy, industry and application which have 
 made his career in greater projects such a suc- 
 cess. He is a resident of Salt Lake City, and 
 owns a handsome home at No. 11 16 East, South 
 Temple street. 
 
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 603 
 
 A. SHERMAN. The mineral wealth 
 of Utah has not been deposited in 
 any one locality, but is found all 
 over the State, and in the Cainp 
 Floyd mining district, in which the 
 subject of this sketch was the pioneer operator 
 at Sunshine. He has been engaged in mining 
 enterprises for the greater part of his life, and 
 is thoroughly familiar with all the different phases 
 of that work. He is now rated as one of the suc- 
 cessful miners in Utah, and the standing which 
 he has acquired in Salt Lake City marks him as 
 one of the leading men of the community. 
 
 W. Arthur Sherman, the first son of Andrew 
 and Mary Jane (Fairchild) Sherman, was born 
 in Bethel, Connecticut. The Sherman family is 
 one of the oldest in the United States, having 
 come to this country in 1634. From the records 
 obtainable it appears that the family name "Sher- 
 man" is undoubtedly of Saxon origin. Their lin- 
 eage can be traced as far back as the middle of 
 the sixteenth century, when it is recorded that 
 Henry Sherman married Agnes Butler, and the 
 issue were : Edmond, Henry, Judith, John and 
 Robert. Henry Sherman, the father, died in Ded- 
 ham, England, in 1589. His son, Edmond, mar- 
 ried Ann Pillett, on April 30, 1560, and had a 
 son, Edmond, who married Ann Clark, on Sep- 
 tember 1 1 , 1 584, and they had two sons, Edmond 
 and Richard. Their son Edmond married Judith 
 Angier, May 26, 161 1, and they had three sons — 
 Edmond, Samuel and John. Samuel, the second 
 son of this marriage, was born in 1618, and was 
 the founder of the Sherman family in America, 
 coming to the United States at the age of 16, in 
 1634. He came to this country in company with 
 his father and brother Edmond on the ship Elis- 
 abeth from Ipswich, England, and arrived in Bos- 
 ton in June, 1634. His father and his brother 
 Edmond returned to England in 1636 or 1637, 
 and their descendants still live at Dedham. The 
 English Sherman family lived in Suffolk and Es- 
 sex counties, chiefly, and the principal family 
 of that name in the sixteenth century were the 
 Shermans of Yaxley, in the county of Suffolk. 
 Edmond Sherman was a cloth worker and a man 
 of means. He came to America in 1634, but only 
 
 remained for a couple of years, returning again 
 to England. Reverend H. B. Sherman, of Belle- 
 ville, New Jersey, while visiting Dedham, En- 
 gland, found on one of the stained glass win- 
 dows of the church, the initials of Edmond Sher- 
 man, which recorded the fact that this window 
 had been his gift, and the records of the church 
 also showed that one of the buttresses of the 
 church was erected at his expense. This church, 
 which, for the main part, is of the Tudor style 
 of architecture, was built in the reign of Henry 
 the Seventh (1485 to 1509). The grave and 
 monument of Edmond Sherman still remain in 
 the church yard, on the north side of the church, 
 near the door. In 1599 he donated and gave to 
 the village of Dedham a free school, for many 
 years known as the "Sherman Free School," and 
 now called "Sherman Hall." With this school 
 he also gave a house for its head master. 
 
 The record of Samuel Sherman in America is 
 one that has a prominent place in the history of 
 the settlement of New England. He assisted in 
 the establishment of several towns in the colony 
 of Connecticut, and for a number of years was 
 a member of the Upper House of the General 
 Court and Supreme Judicial Tribunal, besides 
 holding other offices of honor and trust. He set- 
 tled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1636, and 
 remained there for about four years, when he 
 removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1640, 
 or 1641. He was one of the original proprietors 
 of Stamford, Connecticut, and was one of the 
 committee in 1637 to declare war against the Pe- 
 quot Indians, and in Stratford he continued his 
 activity in public affairs. He is referred to in 
 deeds and documents as "Worshipful Mr. Sher- 
 man." He died April 5, 1700. Samuel Sherman 
 married Sarah Mitchell, who was born in En- 
 gland in 1 62 1. By this marriage they had nine 
 children — eight sons and one daughter — Samuel 
 Theophilus, Matthew, Edmond; John, the fifth 
 son, is the branch from whom descended Hon- 
 orable John Sherman and General William Te- 
 cumseh Sherman, both now deceased; Sarah, 
 Nathaniel, Benjamin and David. Benjamin, the 
 seventh son of Samuel, was born at Stratford, 
 Connecticut, March 29, 1662. He married and 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 had six children. From Kathaniel, the fourth 
 son of Benjamin, is descended the subject of this 
 sketch. Nathaniel Sherman, the fourth son of 
 Benjamin, was born at Stratford, Connecticut. 
 He married and had three sons — Nathan, Phin- 
 eas and Nathaniel, and Nathaniel had two sons — 
 David and Nathan. David, the first son of Na- 
 thaniel, lived in Newton, Connecticut, and had 
 ten chlidren — Seth, Matthew, Andrew, Lemuel, 
 Ezra, Hepziba, Anna, Hannah, Abigail and 
 Sarah. He died in 1800, and among the inter- 
 esting records that have been left by him is the 
 following extract from his will : "I divide my 
 estate equally among my ten children, save as to 
 Andrew Sherman, whose proportion shall be sev- 
 enteen dollars less than each of the others, and 
 this defalcation of said Andrew's portion I make 
 against him for and in consideration of having 
 given him a mechanic's trade. I give and be- 
 queath to Seth ten dollars worth of land in ex- 
 cess of each of the others as an acknowledgement 
 that he is my eldest son." Andrew, the third son 
 of David, was born in Newton in 1760 and died 
 on April 21, 1809. He had five children — Anne, 
 Lucretia, David, Zalmon and Daniel. His first 
 son, David, was also born in Newton, July 14, 
 1793, and died in Bethel, Connecticut, on August 
 3, i860. He married Tamar Beebe, October 17, 
 1815, who died November 14, i860. Their chil- 
 dren were: Ethel, Andrew, William, Lemuel 
 and Jane. Their second son, Andrew, was born 
 in Hrookfield, Connecticut, on April 12, 1820, and 
 was engaged in the manufacture of hats, being 
 associated in that business with his father. He 
 married Jane Fairchild, daughter of Captain Kiah 
 B. and Polly (Hubbell) Fairchild, on October 
 26, 1842. She died on January 29, i860, leav- 
 ing two children — Maria A., born in Bethel, Con- 
 necticut, September 2,- 1844, and W. Arthur,, 
 the subject of this sketch, born June 6, 1848. Our 
 subject's father was married the second time to 
 Sarah Blackman, and by this marriage had two 
 children — Mary H., born February 23, 1863, and 
 Frederick B., born January 3, 1865. 
 
 The boyhood days of W. Arthur Sherman, the 
 oldest son of Andrew Sherman, were spent in 
 
 Connecticut and he was educated in the Elms- 
 wood district schools, and later he attended 
 the Bethel Institute, a private educational in- 
 stitution, graduating from it in 1865. He then 
 turned his attention to topographical engineering, 
 and later to civil engineering, and continued to 
 devote his time and attention to this profession 
 until 1876, when he moved to Pennsylvania and 
 became identified with the oil industry in Butler 
 and Venango counties. Here he continued until 
 1881, when the possibilities of the mineral wealth 
 of the West induced him to remove to Colorado. 
 Here he settled in Ouray and engaged in mining. 
 He took an active part in the affairs of the county, 
 and became one of the prominent men. In 1883 
 he was elected Judge of the County Court of Ou- 
 ray county, and also Probate Judge, serving on 
 the bench for four years. After his retirement 
 from the judiciary he continued to devote his at- 
 tention to mining, and remained interested in 
 Colorado properties until 1893, when he removed 
 to Salt Lake City, and became identified with the 
 development of mining properties in Utah. In 
 addition to his mining property he is also largely 
 interested in the industrial resources of the State. 
 
 Mr. Sherman was married on February 13, 
 1878, to Miss Lizzie D. Robinson, of Kittianning, 
 Pennsylvania, who died on February 23, of the 
 following year. Of this marriage there was born 
 a daughter — Lizzie D. — who died in .A^ugust of 
 the latter year. He was again married on Feb- 
 ruary 21, 1882, to Miss Laura Randolph Keim, 
 daughter of General William H. and Lucy (Ran- 
 dolph) Keim, of Reading, Pennsylvania. By this 
 latter marriage Mr. Sherman had three children, 
 of whom two are now living — Rose Randolph 
 was born November 28, 1882, and died at Den- 
 ver, Colorado, on March 4, 1892; Andrew Fair- 
 child was born April 2, 1884, and Mary Keim, 
 born May 8, 1887. 
 
 Mr. Sherman is a firm believer in the future 
 importance of Salt Lake City, and in the growth 
 and prosperity of the State. His residence on 
 East Brigham street, in the very heart of the most 
 fashionable residence district, is one of the hand- 
 somest houses in Salt Lake Citv. 
 
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 605 
 
 RSOX D. ROMXEY. The Taylor, 
 Romney, Armstrong Company of Salt 
 Lake City, have for many years been 
 une of the most prominent and substan- 
 tial business concerns in this city. To 
 successfully manage a large mercantile establish- 
 ment and keep it in the fore rank in a great city 
 like Salt Lake requires men of ability and long 
 business experience. That Orson D. Romney fills 
 this requirement to a high degree has been thor- 
 oughly demonstrated by his long and successful 
 career as Assistant Manager.Secretary and Treas- 
 urer of the Taylor, Romney, Armstrong Company. 
 He is well and favorably known by the best busi- 
 ness men of this whole inter-mountain region. His 
 connection in a business way with many of the 
 leading enterprises of the State has brought him 
 prominently before all classes of people. 
 
 He is a native son of Utah, having been born 
 in this city August 15, i860, and is the son of 
 Bishop George and Vilate Ellen (Douglass) 
 Romney, a sketch of his parents appearing else- 
 where in this work. Mr. Romne}' received his 
 education in the public schools of Salt Lake City 
 and at the Deseret University, now the Univer- 
 sity of Utah. Upon completing his scholastic edu- 
 cation he entered the employ of S. P. Teasdale, 
 with whom he remained until 1878, when he be- 
 came a teamster for the company of which he is 
 now assistant manager. He worked his way up 
 to his present resopnsible position year by year, 
 working for some time as a carpenter and famil- 
 iarizing himself with the branch of the business 
 pertaining to building, contracting, etc., and then 
 entered the office, where he was for a time book- 
 keeper, and was later made secretary and treas- 
 urer. He filled these positions until 1888, when 
 he was called to go on a mission for the Mormon 
 Church, and his place was filled for a time by 
 his brother, George E. Just prior to his return 
 in 1892, at the annual meeting of the directors, 
 he was elected to his present position, which he 
 at once assumed. In his position of assistant 
 manager he is nominally the head of the firm, 
 having entire control of all the business of the 
 establishment, which consumes his entire time. 
 On September 4, 1884, Mr. Romney was mar- 
 
 ried to Miss Emma F. Phillips, daughter of Wil- 
 liam G. and Maria Phillips. By this marrriage 
 they have had five children — Vilate Ellen; Ger- 
 trude May; Orson D., Junior; Melbourne, and 
 William G. Mr. Romney's home is located at No. 
 3(X) Third street, one of the most desirable resi- 
 dence portions of the city, located in the Twen- 
 tieth Ward, where he has lived since 1869. 
 
 The Romney family is one of the most promi- 
 nent and well known in the Mormon Church, as 
 well as in this city, and our subject has been 
 especially active in his Church relations. In 1888, 
 just previous to his departure for Aukland, Xevv 
 Zealand, where he had been called to serve in 
 missionary work, he was ordained a member of 
 the Thirteenth Quorum of Seventies. He mas- 
 tered the native language of that country and 
 for the first year acted as traveling missionary, 
 having jurisdiction over a number of districts, 
 and completing his labors at Wellington, in the 
 southern part of the North Island. During this 
 time he also presided over three branches of the 
 European mission, and after laboring in this field 
 for three years, spent five months in travel. In 
 September, 1891, in company with H. S. Cuttler, 
 he started home by the way of Sidney, Australia, 
 going from thence to Adelaid, Ceylon and Suez, 
 and from thence to Cairo, where he spent two 
 weeks, and after a visit in Alexandria crossing 
 the Mediterranean, and visiting the leading cities 
 of Italy, Switzerland and France, crossing the 
 channel and visiting London, Liverpool, Edin- 
 borough, Glasgow and Belfast, reaching Xew 
 York on January zj, 1892. He was met here by 
 his wife and together they visited a number of 
 the large Eastern cities, reaching home on Feb- 
 ruary 14th. He has been active in Church work 
 in his Ward since returning home, and is now one 
 of the Seven Presidents of the Thirteenth Quor- 
 um, and active in Sunday School work. 
 
 Mr. Romney has spent the greater portion of 
 his life within the confines of L^tah, and his whole 
 interest has been centered here. While his time 
 and attention has been given principally to the 
 business with which he has been connected for 
 so many years, he has also found time to interest 
 himself in many other enterprises which have 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 been for the advancement and growth of the city 
 and State, and besides his interest in the company 
 of which he is Assistant Manager, also has hold- 
 ings in the Co-operative Furniture Company, in 
 which he is a director ; the Oregon Lumber Com- 
 pany, and in the Amalgamated Sugar Company, 
 in which he is a heavy stockholder. He is 
 also largely interested in much valuable real 
 estate in Salt Lake City. He is yet a 
 young man, but has demonstrated his ability to 
 successfully conduct large enterprises and is 
 ranked as one of the most progressive and reliable 
 business men of the city. His travels have tended 
 to make him broad minded and liberal, and he 
 enjoys the confidence and respect of all who have 
 been associated with him. both in public and pri- 
 vate life. 
 
 ROFESSOR EVAX STEPHENS. 
 \Mierever the name of Salt Lake City 
 is heard there must come a vision of the 
 wonderful Tabernacle Choir, whose 
 fame has gone abroad over the whole 
 civilized world, and which stands only second to 
 the famous Welsh singers who received first prize 
 at the World's Fair, held in Chicago in 1893 ; the 
 Tabernacle Choir receiving second prize. This 
 choir which at the present time numbers over six 
 hundred members, claims as its members some of 
 the sweetest singers the world has ever heard ; it 
 has for years been one of the strongest drawing 
 cards of the city, and no tourist stopping here feels 
 reconciled to leave without listening to its music. 
 Not only is the ordinary tourist and traveler 
 charmed and entertained by one of the most noted 
 musical organization of the present age, but here 
 come the great musicians of all lands, willing 
 pupils at the feet of these master singers. How- 
 ever, the success that has come to these musicians 
 is due, not alone to the individual voice nor the 
 large number of trained voices swelling out in 
 grand unison of praise and melody, but to the 
 master mind that has molded and developed his 
 material as the sculptor molds his clay, or the 
 artist portrays upon the canvas the picture which 
 he sees with his mental vision. Professor Steph- 
 
 ens has given his whole life to this work and is 
 himself one of the most wonderful musical pro- 
 ducts of the nineteenth century. 
 
 Born in Carmarthem, Wales, in 1854, he spent 
 the first ten years of his life in that country, at- 
 tending the common schools, and in 1864 emi- 
 grated to America with his parents, crossing the 
 Atlantic ocean in a sail ship, and making the trip 
 over the great American plains by ox team. The 
 parents of our subject, David and Jane (Evan) 
 Stephens, were natives of Wales, and there be- 
 came converts to the Mormon Church. They 
 came to Utah with their family of ten children, 
 five of whom are still living, of whom our sub- 
 ject is the youngest. The family settled in Box 
 Elder county, where they remained four years, 
 engaged in farming, and later moved to Malad, 
 Idaho, taking up land and building a fine home. 
 Our subject's mother died when he was nine years 
 of age, and when he was nineteen years old his 
 father passed away, and he was left to battle for 
 himself. He had attended the district schools of 
 Utah and Idaho, working on his father's farm in 
 the summer and going to school for a few weeks 
 in the winter, and thus obtained all the scholastic 
 education he ever received, .^fter his father's 
 death he worked for five years as a section hand 
 on the railroad, and it was at the end of this 
 time that his musical career began. He had, early 
 in life made up his mind that whatever he did 
 would be well done, and this spirit has permeated 
 all his work since and brought him signal success. 
 Coming from a country whose music has for gen- 
 erations led the world, it was but natural that he 
 should be a passionate lover of music, and from 
 the time when he followed the plow on his fath- 
 farm his mind flowed in the one channel, and 
 the music in his soul sought expression in both 
 vocal and instrumental compositions, one of 
 which. "Aly Old Country Home," was inspired 
 by the life he led on the farm, and which is re- 
 garded as one of his master-pieces. The most 
 wonderful feature of his music is that he is self- 
 taught. He mastered the reading of music by 
 his owai efforts, studying such books as he could 
 get hold of, one of the first being a book of Welsh 
 songs belonging to his brother. He never at- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 607 
 
 tended but one singing class, and that after he 
 was well along in his work, paying for his instruc- 
 tion of one full term with a gallon of molasses. 
 He bought his first organ, a small, four-octave, 
 with sixty bushels of wheat, which he raised 
 himself and hauled fifteen miles by team. 
 
 At seventeen years of age Professor Stephens 
 was the director of the local choir, and at that 
 time his music was sufficiently good to warrant 
 it appearing in print. At the age of twenty-four 
 years his friends induced him to go to Logan 
 and give his whole time to the study of music, 
 which he did, acting as organist and director of 
 the Logan choir, at that time the best Church 
 choir in the Territory, supporting himself by giv- 
 ing lessons in music. The work he did here at- 
 tracted the notice of the church authorities, who 
 gave him every encouragement, and he later took 
 up the work on a broader scale, coming to Salt 
 Lake City in March, 1882, where he soon had 
 large classes and became director of the local 
 Opera Company, which gave, under his supervis- 
 ion such operas as Martha, the Bohemian Girl 
 and Days of Regret, all of which were received 
 with warm approval by the music loving people. 
 He was also organist of the Choral Society, an 
 organization composed of Salt Lake talent, and 
 which numbered four hundred members. The 
 success of this society led up to his being em- 
 ployed by the Church to take charge of the Tab- 
 ernacle Choir, which was reorganized and has 
 never during the twelve years of his leadership 
 numbered less than three hundred members, and 
 has now double that number. The leaders of the 
 Mormons have ever believed in doing things on 
 a large scale, and it is but fitting that such a choir 
 should be supported by one of the largest and 
 finest toned instruments in the known world, 
 which is ably presided over by Professor John J. 
 McClellan, a noted musician, whose biographical 
 sketch will be foimd in this work. This organ 
 is, in its way, as famous as the choir, and Profes- 
 sor McClellan has come into prominence through 
 the free organ recitals given every week in the 
 tabernacle, and which are largely attended and 
 appreciated not alone by the visitors to the city, 
 but also bv those who make their homes here and 
 
 whose occupations allow them leisure time to 
 spend in this way. One of the pleasantest fea- 
 tures of these recitals and song services is the 
 fact that they have the hearty support and admi- 
 ration of the citizens of Salt Lake City, irrespec- 
 tive of religious creed. 
 
 Professor Stephens has not only spent his time 
 perfecting the choir for work in Church services, 
 but he has also devoted a large portion of his time 
 giving concerts, both at home and abroad. Ex- 
 cept during the times when they have been in 
 special training for some contemplated trip, the 
 choir has given at least one grand concert in the 
 city every winter, and its concerts have been the 
 feature of the Church Conferences held here twice 
 every year. They visited the World's Fair and 
 have been a number of times in California, their 
 last trip there being made in the spring of 1902, 
 and have also made a number of trips into the ad- 
 joining States. Their concerts thus far have 
 netted them over fifty thousand dollars, and they 
 are entirely free from debt. Professor Stephens 
 also made a trip to Paris during the Exposition. 
 
 He has traveled considerably, both at home and 
 abroad, and during a trip to Boston took some 
 special instructions from Professors Chadwick 
 and Whittney, which was, however, more in the 
 nature of a review of work already done. In 1889 
 he spent several months in Europe, visiting Paris, 
 London and all the northern countries of Europe. 
 He is also a composer of some note, devoting 
 much time to Sunday School music, and also a 
 number of songs and operas, which have been 
 rendered in the Tabernacle. His "Hosannah" 
 and "Tempest" are the most widely known. 
 Among his first compositions was "The Gushing 
 lit the Rill, "which he produced at the age of nine- 
 teen years. 
 
 Professor Stephens has always been a faithful 
 and devoted member of the Church in which he 
 was born and raised, and for which he has labored 
 the greater portion of his life. He has never mar- 
 ried. He is of a most pleasing personality, but 
 like all truly great people very modest and unas- 
 suming regarding his talents and work. He un- 
 doubtedly stands at the head of his profession, 
 and enjoys the respect and admiration of thous- 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ands who have been asslociated with him or 
 known of his work. 
 
 AMES F. DUNN. The supremacy of 
 the United States in the commercial 
 world has been largely gained through 
 the rapid development which has taken 
 place in its industrial life and the ability 
 of its citizens to successfully cope with and 
 subdue adverse conditions. In all the history 
 of the world there has been no more remarkable 
 chapter than the settlement of America, and its 
 growth from a new and wild land to the leader- 
 ship of the world in the short space of two cen- 
 turies. The position it has acquired in commer- 
 cial life it also occupies in the fields of invention 
 and the application of the products of the minds 
 of men to the needs of the people. Few inven- 
 tions have aided so much in the civilization of the 
 West and the development of its resources, as 
 has the progress made in the perfection of steam 
 engineering. To the railroad is due in a large 
 measure the growth of this region, and coupled 
 with the telegraph it has brought the West into 
 instant touch with the financial centers' of the 
 East. The railroad era of the United States has 
 been the product of the past fifty years ; from ^ 
 crude beginning with engines capable of a speed 
 of but four miles an hour, iron rails spiked to 
 stone blocks, and cars that were but an adapta- 
 tion of the stage coach to an iron railway, it has 
 now reached the highest point of development 
 known to the world, and its trains are equipped 
 with all the comforts and luxuries that human 
 intelligence can devise. Its rails are now of the 
 heaviest steel, laid on securely ballasted road- 
 ways, and the engines are marvels of engineer- 
 ing skill, not uncommonly traveling eighty miles 
 in the space of an hour. No matter what the de- 
 velopment has been in the roadway it has alway.s 
 fallen to the motive power department to keep 
 ahead of these improvements and to furnish loco- 
 motives and cars of a type that will easily per- 
 form all the conditions which the rapid advance 
 of civilization demands. The locomotive of to- 
 day is a product of evolution, and one which, 
 
 when compared with the crude wood or coal 
 burning engines of the forties, seems to be an 
 entirely radical departure from the first efforts 
 made to shorten distance and cheat time. The 
 work of increasing the power and efficiency of 
 locomotives, and at the same time keep within 
 bounds the cost of operation, has been a problem 
 which has confronted the entire engineering 
 world. The motive power department bears the 
 same relation to a railroad as the distribution de- 
 partment does to an army. To properly discharge 
 the duties of this position requires a man of un- 
 usual ability, together with a wide and varied ex- 
 perience in all the problems of modern railroad- 
 ing. The economical consumption of fuel ; the 
 greatest results from the operation of the ma- 
 chinery, together with the comfort and safety of 
 the passengers, are among the many problems 
 that confronts the railroad man, and charged with 
 these cares and responsibilities is the man under 
 whose direction the motive power of the road is 
 supplied, and the pressing needs for swifter en- 
 gines and modern cars successfully met. To the 
 position of General Superintendent of the motive 
 power department of the Oregon Short Line has 
 been called the subject of this sketch. A man 
 who, by his wide experience, has won for him- 
 self in railroad and scientific circles a reputation 
 of being among the first in his profession in the 
 United States. 
 
 James F. Dunn was born in Onondago county, 
 seven miles from Auburn, New York, in a small 
 town called Skaneattles, in 1854. He remained 
 in the East but six years, and when that age his 
 parents removed to San Jose, California, where 
 he received his early education in the public 
 schools of that State. He spent his boyhood days 
 in California and at the age of sixteen years he 
 went to Sacramento and served his apprentice- 
 ship as machinist in the shops of the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad, where he continued to be em- 
 ployed until 1876, when he left its service and en- 
 tered the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad 
 Company, serving as machinist, fireman, en- 
 gineer, and later foreman of the shops in Wyom- 
 ing and Idaho, and finally rose to be Master Me- 
 chanic, to which position he was appointed in 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 609 
 
 1890, with headquarters at Pocatello, on the main 
 line of the Union Pacific Railroad. He contin- 
 ued as Master Mechanic of this company until 
 March, 1897, when the Oregon Short Line Rail- 
 road, which formed a part of the Union Pacific 
 system, was taken out of the general system, and 
 commands its own officers. When this was done 
 Mr. Dunn was appointed General Superintendent 
 of Motive Power, of the Oregon Short Line 
 Road, with headquarters at Salt Lake City, which 
 position he has continued to occupy from that 
 time. He has risen through every stage of me- 
 chanical work, from an apprentice, until now he 
 occupies the highest position in the motive power 
 department, being charged with the responsibil- 
 ities and care of the entire motive power and roll- 
 ing stock of the Oregon Short Line Railroad. 
 
 Mr. Dunn is married, and has two daughters, 
 Edna and Margaret. 
 
 In political life he is and has always been a 
 staunch Republican, but has never been a can- 
 didate for office, nor would he consent to occupy 
 a public position. He has devoted his entire atten- 
 tion to his profession, for which he had a strong 
 predilection even in his boyhood days, and one 
 cause of his successful career is undoubtedly the 
 fact that he has devoted his energies to the work 
 for which he was best fitted. He is a member of the 
 Alta Club of this city. He is looked upon as one 
 of the most substantial and influential men in the 
 business life of Utah, and the ability with which 
 he has discharged his duties in the railroad field 
 has won for him the confidence and esteem of the 
 directors and stockholders of the company, and 
 has made for him a host of warm friends through- 
 out the State. 
 
 ATTHEW CULLEN. The traveler 
 of today from the vantage point of a 
 Pullman car in traveling over the 
 prairies and mountains of the west- 
 ern part of the United States, views 
 with complacency the beautiful scenery through 
 which he travels, and marks with an appreciative 
 eye the work which has been carried on by the 
 men who have settled in that region. Few of 
 
 them, however, appreciate the struggles and the 
 terrible work which have been entailed in bring- 
 ing the country to its present position, and in 
 making the railroads possible. The advances 
 which have been made by railroad construction 
 throughout the West, has not only brought the 
 far portions of the country into almost instant 
 communication, but has reduced to a minimum 
 the dangers and toil of travel. The traveler can- 
 not appreciate nor in any way understand the 
 hardships suffered by the pioneers who made 
 their way by ox team and by hand cart from the 
 outposts of civilization across the great Ameri- 
 can desert to the Rocky Mountains, and, in fact, 
 all of the inter-mountain region, in the late forties 
 and throughout the decades of the fifties and the 
 sixties. The tide of emigration which flowed 
 into the western country upon the discovery of 
 gold in California, and the discovery of precious 
 metals throughout Montana, Idaho, Nevada and 
 all of the inter-mountain region, brought in its 
 train untold suffering. The barrenness of the 
 country and the want of water resulted in many 
 privations, until the farmers could till the land 
 and reap crops, which were often too meagre for 
 the demands made upon them. Through all 
 these trials, however, passed the men who are 
 now prominent in the affairs of Utah, and of all 
 the other western States, and who by the indom- 
 itable will, energy and determination which they 
 displayed, made for themselves and for their 
 country an imperishable record for courage and 
 endurance. Passing through all these trials, suf- 
 fering all the hardships incident to the settle- 
 ment of a new country, taking hold of and doing 
 with all his might whatever first came to his 
 hand, and finally enjoying the triumph of a suc- 
 cessful life, is the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Matthew Cullen was born in Ireland, July 17, 
 1840. He is a son of Patrick and Catherine 
 (Rice) Cullen. They, too, were natives of Ire- 
 land, and came to the United States when our 
 subject was about twelve years of age. The 
 father followed farming all through life. He 
 died in Oakland, Maryland, during the Civil 
 War, aged about sixty years, and the mother died 
 in the same place aged about seventy. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Our subject spent his early life in Alleghany 
 county, Maryland, and his scholastic education, 
 such as it was, was received in the common 
 schools of that State. He was early forced to 
 earn his own living, and at the age of fourteen 
 was apprenticed to the trade of a blacksmith, and 
 followed that occupation for three years. The 
 indomitable spirit which he displayed throughout 
 his life was demonstrated by his independence and 
 spirit in striking out from his home at the age 
 of seventeen, in 1857, and crossing the great 
 American plains in that year, driving a team as 
 far as Fort Bridger, in the spring of 1858, and 
 later returned to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, for 
 supplies, after which he returned to Fort Bridger 
 and secured employment herding cattle for the 
 government, and later being in charge of the 
 government stock at what is now Stockton. He 
 continued in this employment until May 15. i860, 
 when he started with the United States army to 
 New Mexico under Colonel Morrison, and in the 
 same year left the army and returned to his home 
 in Maryland. At the outbreak of the Civil War 
 in 1861, he was appointed camp-master and sent 
 to Oakland, Maryland, and later to West Vir- 
 ginia as wagon-master of Gen. Rosecrans' army. 
 After the campaign in that year he was sent to 
 Lebanon, Kentucky, and had charge of the cor- 
 rals there, being in charge of the camp equip- 
 age and animals at the time of the battle of 
 Mill Springs. He was present at the battle of 
 Pittsburg Landing, being wagon-master of the 
 government property there, and later chief wag- 
 on-master under Captain Bringerhoflf. 
 
 He then returned to Louisville, Kentucky and 
 was employed in hiring men for the government 
 and later went to Nashville, Tennessee. He re- 
 mained in this section of the country for two 
 years as brigade wagon-master, and then was 
 attached to General Sherman's army and was 
 with the General on his famous march from At- 
 lanta to the sea, having charge of the wagon and 
 camp equipage of the First Division, Twentieth 
 Corps. He served all through the Civil War with 
 courage and ability, and at the close returned to 
 his home in Maryland. His mother and his sis- 
 ter, Mrs. Rasche, were living just outside of the 
 
 city of Hancock in that State. His brother Mich- 
 ael had elisted with the Confederate forces and 
 was taken prisoner at Atlanta, Georgia, and sent 
 to Camp Douglas prison at Chicago. At the close 
 of the war, Mr. Cullen, after a short visit at his 
 home in Maryland, went to Chicago and was in- 
 strumental in having his brother released. 
 
 In the fall of 1865 our subject came to Denver 
 and remained there only a sliort time, leaving at 
 once for the mines. He secured employment in 
 the Bobtail Mine and later in the Clear Creek 
 Mine. In the latter he engaged as a placer miner 
 and remained in that employment until the spring 
 of 1867, when he abandoned mining ana took up 
 railroad contracting. He owned and operated 
 many teams and in i:he building of the Union Pa- 
 cific railroad through Wyoming and Utah, he 
 supplied a great many teams for the construc- 
 tion work of that road, and remained in these 
 two States until the building of the Wasatch tun- 
 nel, when he came to that place and sold all his 
 teams. He then removed to Echo, Utah, and 
 there he bought four mule teams and made four 
 trips freighting from Salt Lake City to Echo. 
 From this time on he has been prominently iden- 
 tified with the development of the resources of 
 the State, especially of its mines. He has taken 
 a prominent part in the building of railroads and 
 in the development of the railroad facilities of 
 Utah. In those early times he was active in af- 
 fording access to and from the mines both for 
 passengers and freight, and during the excitement 
 at White Pine, Nevada, he conducted passengers 
 to the new fields. He later hauled freight from 
 Hamilton to Robinson, Nevada, a distance of 
 forty miles, and secured for his services a toll 
 of five cents a pound. He remained here for up- 
 wards of a year at different kinds of work, do- 
 ing whatever he could to sustain himself and at 
 the same time prospecting for ore. He left his 
 prospects, however, which haa not proved suc- 
 cessful, although he had between forty and fifty 
 claims in that vicinity. He then went to Silver 
 Park district, and in company with Dennis Ryan, 
 as partner, carried on prospecting there, and later 
 went to L'tah together with James C. O'Neil, 
 prospecting. This was the turning of his for- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 6ii 
 
 tune so far as mining was concerned. They dis- 
 covered the Star District mines in Beaver 
 county, Utah, with which our subject has been 
 connected ever since ; at the same time associating 
 himself with other mining projects in that dis- 
 trict He and Allen G. Campbell, Gus Byram 
 and Dennis Ryan bought the Horn Silver Mine, 
 The mining operations which Mr. Cullen has car- 
 ried on have not been confined to the limits of 
 Utah, but have extended over the entire inter- 
 mountain region. 
 
 He has also taken a lively interest in Salt Lake 
 City, and has aided greatly in its development. 
 Fourteen years ago he built the present building 
 occupied by the Cullen Hotel, one of the leading 
 with which they were identified for many years, 
 hotels of the city, and one which has not only a 
 high reputation throughout the State, but is 
 known all over the country as a first-class hotel. 
 He also owns the Gault house in Chicago, one of 
 the historic hotels of that city. He is also Presi- 
 dent of the Salt Lake Brewing Company, which 
 position he has held for many years. 
 
 Mr. Cullen married in Beaver, Utah, December 
 19, 1878, to Miss Emma J. Thompson, a daugh- 
 ter of Edward W. and Julia (Fish) Thompson. 
 She was a niece of Hon. Ezra Thompson, the 
 present Mayor of Salt Lake City. His wife was a 
 native of Utah, her parents having been among 
 the early settlers of this State. By this marriage 
 Mr. Cullen has two children, Nellie M. and Julia 
 Catherine. Mrs. Cullen died June 18, 1888. 
 
 Mr. Cullen is a member of the Roman Catholic 
 Church, and is one of its strongest members and 
 principal supporters in Utah. He has made his 
 home in Salt Lake City for the past sixteen years, 
 where he owns a spacious and comfortable resi- 
 dence. 
 
 Mr. Cullen is essentially a self-made man and 
 the career which he has made in Utah marks him 
 as one of the most successful men of this region. 
 Starting out as he did at the early age of four- 
 teen, with but a limited scholastic education, most 
 of his knowledge has been derived from the daily 
 lessons in the great book of life's experiences. 
 He has met every difficulty with unfaltering cour- 
 age and unwaverins: determination. He has suc- 
 
 cessfully surmounted difficulties that would have 
 proved a stumbling block to and daunted most 
 men. The career which he has made entitles him 
 to the front rank among the pioneers of the State, 
 and throughout this region there is no man who 
 is held in higher esteem than he is. His genial 
 and pleasant manner, his business ability ; his in- 
 tegrity and honesty, and his application and 
 broad-mindedness, have made him one of the 
 most popular men in Utah and he enjoys the 
 friendship of a wide circle of friends. 
 
 HARLES H. JENKINSON, Local 
 Treasurer of the Oregon Short Line 
 Railroad. Few young men in the rail- 
 road service have made a better or 
 more satisfactory record than has Mr. 
 Jenkinson. Nearly his entire business life has 
 been devoted to some department of railroad 
 work, and step by step he has been promoted, un- 
 til he now holds one of the most important posi- 
 tions in the railroad world in this western country. 
 Mr. Jenkinson was born in Lowell, Mass., in 
 i860, receiving his education from the common 
 and high schools of his native town, and at the 
 age of eighteen came West, locating in Logan, 
 Utali, where he was employed in the supply de- 
 partment of the Union Pacific railroad for some 
 time, and was later transferred to Pocatello, 
 Idaho, where he became chief clerk in the office 
 of the superintendent. From there he was sent 
 to Idaho Falls, in the same capacity, and after re- 
 maining there for a time quit the railroad service 
 and went to Anaconda, ^^lontana, where he was 
 for a year identified with one of the leading 
 smelters of that place. Returning to Pocatello, 
 he became Cashier in the National Bank of Idaho, 
 filling that position from 1893 to 1895. In the 
 latter year he again accepted a position as chief 
 clerk in the Superintendent's office at Pocatello, 
 remaining there until 1897, when he was trans- 
 ferred to this city and held the same position 
 under Mr. E. E. Calvin, until February, 1901, 
 at which time he was promoted to his present 
 responsible position as local treasurer of the Ore- 
 gon Short Line Railroad. 
 
 Mr. Jenkinson was married in Anaconda, in 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1896, to Miss Mary A. R. St. Clair, daughter of 
 W. P. P. St. Clair, also a prominent railroad 
 man, who was for many years connected with 
 the Union Pacific Railroad, but is at present en- 
 gaged in the same line of work in Ohio. Four 
 daughters have been born of this marriage. 
 
 In political life our subject's sympathies have 
 always been with the Republican party, but owing 
 to the nature of his business he has never been 
 actively identified with the work of the party, 
 nor sought or held public office. 
 
 During the years he has spent in Salt Lake City 
 Mr. Jenkinson has, by his manly and upright 
 life, won many friends, not alone among his busi- 
 ness associates and employers, but in social cir- 
 cles, where he and his estimable wife are well 
 known members. 
 
 nOAR W. DUXCAX. The city of 
 v^alt Lake is distinguished not only for 
 its superb climate, location, extensive 
 agricultural resources and mineral 
 wealth, but also for its resolute and 
 ■aggressive men of business, whose broad intelli- 
 gence and enterprise have developed these forces. 
 It matters very little to what extent a city may 
 be so endowed ; it must also be re-enforced with 
 a financial system, a monetary organism, so 
 intelligently and vigorously managed as to with- 
 stand the vicissitudes that are inevitable in the 
 development of new American cities of sucli 
 growth as Salt Lake has experienced. In this 
 particular Salt Lake has been especially favored, 
 and prominent among the financiers who have so 
 ably directed her affairs is Edgar D. Duncan. 
 He came to Salt Lake City in 1894 to assume 
 charge of the Xational Bank of the Republic, as 
 its Cashier, which position he held until January 
 10, 1901, when he resigned in order to devote his 
 entire time 'and attention to the management of 
 his wide and varied enterprises. In the history 
 of Salt Lake City there probably never has been 
 any man who was so closely identified with the 
 financial growth of the city, and indeed of LUah, 
 as well, during the time Mr. Duncan held his po- 
 iition in the bank, as was he. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Spring 
 Hill, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1846, and lived 
 there until nine years old. His parents then re- 
 moved to Dubuque, Iowa, and here their son 
 spent his succeeding years until his removal to 
 Salt Lake City in 1894. His early education, 
 such as it was, was derived from the common 
 schools of Dubuque, but he started on his business 
 carrer at an early age, first selling newspapers 
 and doing well whatever came first to his hand 
 and learning his lessons well from the daily book 
 of life's experiences. He later worked at pho- 
 tography, securing employment in a studio in 
 Dubuque and at the age of seventeen started in 
 business for himself. Owing to the Civil War, 
 which was then at its height, the demand for 
 breadstuffs was greater than the supply, and Mr. 
 Duncan, realizing the opportunities that this state 
 of affairs presented, entfered that business under 
 the firm name of Thompson & Dimcan, and this 
 he followed during the entire time that the war 
 lasted. The financial success of this undertaking 
 foreshadowed his later successes in life in broader 
 fields, and equipped him with invaluable experi- 
 ence that he employed so judiciously in his later 
 enterprises that he is now a man of independent 
 wealth. 
 
 .\t the termination of hostilities he disposed of 
 his interest in the milling business and entered 
 the real estate and banking business, in which he 
 was signally successful and followed that calling 
 for the thirty years he remained in Dubuque. 
 He was for many years cashier of the Dubuque 
 County Bank and was a director in that institu- 
 tion prior to his election as cashier. He aided 
 materially in the development of that city and 
 held large interests in many of its more important 
 enterprises and by his ability and integrity be- 
 came one of the leading men. not only of his 
 home city, but of the State of Iowa as well. 
 
 J. K. Duncan, the father of our subject, was a 
 native of Pennsylvania and carried on an exten- 
 sive iron business in that State . Upon his removal 
 to Iowa he engaged in the real estate and loan 
 business in Dubuque and followed that business 
 until the time of his death. His family were 
 among the early settlers of Pennsylvania and 
 
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 were highly respected and influential people in 
 their community. His wife, Anna (Volephant) 
 Duncan, and the mother of Edgar W. Duncan, 
 was also a native of Pennsylvania and her brothers 
 were also engaged in the iron business close to 
 the establishment of her husband in that State. 
 Her family were well represented in the Civil 
 War, and, in addition to four of her sons who 
 were enegaged in that struggle, she also had 
 seven nephews serving in the Federal forces, one 
 of whom rose to the rank of Brigadier General. 
 Of her own sons, two were killed in action, while 
 serving under General Sheridan and the other 
 two, who also served on the Union side, were so 
 shattered by the hardships they underwent as to 
 be practically broken down at the time they were 
 mustered out of the service. 
 
 Edgar W. Duncan was married at Fulton, Mis- 
 souri, on January 14. 1874, to Miss Lillian J.' 
 Lawther, daughter of Hans Lawther, who re- 
 cently died at the advanced age of ninety years. 
 By this marriage they have two children, one 
 son, Amedee W., engaged in the insurance busi- 
 ness, and who is married and living in Minne- 
 apolis, Minnesota, and one daughter, Edna M. 
 
 During the seven years that Mr. Duncan 
 served as cashier of the National Bank of the 
 Republic, the deposits in that institution were in- 
 creased under his administration from two hun- 
 dred thousand dollars to fourteen hundred thou- 
 sand dollars, an increase of over seven hundred 
 per cent. Its present satisfactory financial con- 
 dition is due largely to him, and he probably had 
 more to do with placing it on a solid financial 
 basis than any other man who has ever been con- 
 nected with it. His private interests in Utah had 
 grown to such an extent that he was finally 
 forced to withdraw from the bank and give his 
 entire attention to them. He is largely inter- 
 ested in mining properties throughout the State 
 and is also a large holder of real estate in Salt 
 Lake City, and is a firm believer in the future 
 importance of this city. He is one of the largest 
 owners of houses here and has done much to sup- 
 ply the demand for homes, which has grown so 
 rapidly within the last decade. He is also Vice 
 President and Director in the Salt Lake Directory 
 
 Company and holds large interests in other im- 
 portant enterprises, both in Salt Lake and 
 throughout the State. 
 
 In political life, Mr. Duncan is a believer in 
 the principles espoused by the Republican party, 
 but owing to his active business life has not had 
 the time to participate actively in the work of 
 the party and has never sought public office. In 
 fraternal life he is a leading member of the 
 Knights of Pythias, being now Supreme Repre- 
 sentative. He first associated himself with this 
 order in 1878, when he joined Apollo Lodge, No. 
 41. at Dubuque, and after filling the various of- 
 fices in tlie subordinate lodge, became Grand 
 Chancellor of the order in that State, in 1888, 
 during which time thirty-two new lodges were 
 organized and twenty-five hundred new members 
 added to the rolls. During the convention of the 
 Grand Lodge at Dubuque in that year, Mrs. Dun- 
 can was made an honorary member of the order, 
 a distinction never before accorded to any woman. 
 On his removal to Salt Sale City Mr. Duncan af- 
 filiated with Zion Lodge, No. 12, and at the meet- 
 ing of the Grand Lodge in Park City, in 1897 
 was elected to the position of Supreme Represen- 
 tative for a period of four years. He also holds 
 membership in the Workmen's Order of Du- 
 buque. He is also a member of the I. O. O.F. 
 and the Elks Lodge. 
 
 Mr. Duncan is essentially a self-made man, 
 who owes his present successful position in life 
 to his own eflforts. Thrown on his own resources 
 at an early age he has successfully overcome ev- 
 ery obstacle that stood between him and success. 
 Some idea of his character may be gained from 
 the fact that during the twenty-one years in which 
 he was associated with Mr. John R. Waller in 
 business at Dubuque, there was never a cross 
 word between them, notwithstanding the enor- 
 mous business projects they successfully carried 
 to completion. The successful career he made 
 in Iowa has been continued in Utah, and today 
 there is not a more widely known man throughout 
 the State nor one who stands higher in the confi- 
 dence and esteem of the people than does he, and 
 he is easily among the foremost men in the worlds 
 of business and finance of Utah. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 LARENXE J. McXITT, Auditor of 
 the Oregon Short Line Railway. The 
 tourist sitting at ease in the palatial 
 cars of the fast express, or in the 
 less elaborate but equally comfortable 
 coaches of the train that bears him swiftly across 
 mountain and plain, setting him down at the end 
 of a week's journey less fatigued than he would 
 be from one day's ride in an ordinary carriage, 
 takes but little thought nor would scarce be able 
 to comprehend the vast outlay of expense and 
 labor required in supplying him with the almost 
 endless contrivances for his happiness, comfort 
 and safety. The operating of a railroad has been 
 systematized to a degree of almost absolute per- 
 fection, and while its patrons complain often and 
 loud of the amount of "red tape" to be gone 
 through with before a matter can be adjusted, it 
 is just this system that enables the heads of the 
 various departments, to without hesitation put 
 their hands upon the cause of any difficulty or 
 know at a glance the exact condition of the entire 
 system. There is perhaps no better posted man 
 or one better qualified to give opinion upon 
 the general and specific condition of a road than 
 its Auditor. Through his hands must pass the re- 
 sults of the work in every department, and to him 
 the heads of the road look to see that no man 
 in any department is abusng his power or author- 
 ity in making useless expenditure or neglecting 
 to husband the resources already at hand. 
 
 Clarence J. McNitt is a native of Wisconsin, 
 being born in Columbia county. His father, E. 
 W. McNitt was a merchant in that State 
 and a man of considerable prominence. He 
 served in the Legislature of his State during the 
 Civil War, and died some years later, when our 
 subject was but fourteen years of age. His wife 
 bore the maiden name of Rhoda Boutwell. She 
 is still living in Salt Lake City, where she came 
 with her son a few years ago. 
 
 Our subject moved to northern Iowa when a 
 young boy and is indebted to the schools of that 
 district for his education. He began his railroad 
 career with the Milwaukee and Saint Paul Rail- 
 road in 1876, at about the age of nineteen. He 
 remained with this company about nine years, em- 
 
 ployed in the operating department, in numerous 
 capacities. He then spent a year in the Auditor's 
 office of the Omaha and St. Louis Railway, and 
 from there went to Omaha, where he accepted a 
 position in the Auditor's office of the Union Pa- 
 cific Railroad. Here he continued until March 
 16, 1897, at which time the business of the Union 
 Pacific Railroad Company and the Oregon Short 
 Line Railroad Company was segregated, and Mr. 
 McNitt was transferred to the office of the Audi- 
 tor of the latter company at Salt Lake, where he 
 became chief clerk of the freight accounts. He 
 continued in this position until June i, 1901, 
 when he was promoted to the position of Acting 
 Auditor, and June ist, 1902, appointed Auditor, 
 which position he still retains. 
 
 Mr. McNitt was married in Council Bluffs, 
 Iowa, in 1887, to Miss Mary Cooley, also a native 
 of Wisconsin. Two sons and one daughter have 
 been born of this marriage — Albert, Helen and 
 Gordon. 
 
 In politics he is a believer in the principles of 
 the Republican party, but owing to the nature of 
 his duties has never actively participated in the 
 work of his party. Koth himself and Mrs. Mc- 
 Nitt are active members of the First Baptist 
 Church of this city, and Mrs. McNitt is prom- 
 inent in the work of the Sunday School and also 
 of the different societies of the ladies of the 
 Church. 
 
 In fraternal circles IMr. McNitt is a Mason. 
 He has his membership in the Blue Lodge, 
 Knights of Pythias and Royal Arcanum, of Salt 
 Lake City. 
 
 At the present time the Oregon Short Line 
 headquarters are located in the Deseret News 
 Building, occupying the fourth, fifth and sixth 
 floors. Mr. McNitt with his force of eighty 
 clerks occupying most of the fifth floor. 
 
 Mr. McNitt is a gentleman, genial and kindly 
 in disposition ; a man of high honor and unques- 
 tioned integrity. During the few years he has 
 resided in this City he has made a host of friends, 
 not alone among his business associates and the 
 members of his Church, where he is very popular 
 but in social circles as well, and his friends feel 
 that his recent promotion has been well de- 
 served. 
 
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 \ MUEL C. EWING. The past quarter of 
 a century in Utah has produced no more 
 lirominent or successful business men 
 especially in the hotel line, than Samuel 
 C. Ewing, the subject of this sketch. 
 Mr. Ewing has been in the hotel business in Utah 
 for the past thirty-five years, the greater portion 
 of which time he has been identified with the 
 hotel life of this city, having had charge of the 
 Cullen hotel ever since it was built and open-d, 
 in 1887. This hotel is located on Second South, 
 between Main and West Temple streets, and is 
 the headquarters for stock and mining men, and 
 also a poular resort with the traveling public. It 
 is a model of convenience and comfort, and the 
 designs were drawn by Mr. Ewing, whose long 
 experience in this business had peculiarly fitted 
 him with a knowledge of the requirements of a 
 first-class hotel. 
 
 Samuel C. Ewing was born on September 11, 
 1838, in Pittsburg, Pennsvlyania, and is the son of 
 John P. Ewing, a farmer residing near that city, 
 and it was on this farm that our subject spent his 
 boyhood days, obtaining his education from the 
 country schools. He remained with his father 
 until about twenty-three years of age, at which 
 time he started out to make his own way in the 
 world. Possessing an adventurous and ambitious 
 spirit, he decided to visit the Pacific Coast, of 
 which he had heard wonderful accounts, and ac- 
 cordingly started for California in 1861, going 
 by the ocean route, and landing in San Francisco 
 late in that fall. He remained there but a short 
 time, and from there went into Nevada, locating 
 in Virginian City, then one of the most flourishing 
 and noted mining camps in the West, and at that 
 time at the very height of its prosperity. The 
 shafts of some of the mines extended down into 
 the earth to a depth of thirty-two hundred feet. 
 Mr. Ewing remained there about six years, en- 
 gaged in mining, being most successful in that 
 venture. From V'irginia City he went into the 
 White Pine country, in the same State, where he 
 engaged in the general mercantile and lumber 
 business, again meeting with considerable suc- 
 cess. He conducted that business for three 
 years and in 1871 came to Utah, opening 
 
 up a hotel and becoming identified with the 
 mines in Ophir City, where he remained 
 for three years and from there went to Alta, in 
 the Little Cottonwood canyon, engaging in the 
 same business. He remained in Alta for four 
 years, coming from there to Salt Lake City in the 
 latter part of 1877. At that time Salt Lake was 
 little more than a country village, having very 
 few nice residences or business buildings. Upon 
 his arrival here Mr. Ewing took charge of the 
 old Salt Lake hotel, which he conducted for a 
 short time and then became proprietor of the 
 Clift House, then the leading hotel of the city. 
 Pie conducted the Clift House for about nine 
 years, having a large patronage, and building up 
 a reputation as one of the most competent hotel 
 men in the West. Salt Lake City had begun to 
 take on metropolitan airs during these years, and 
 it became apparent to Mr. Ewing that there was a 
 demand for a better class of hotel accommoda- 
 tions than was afforded by the hotel over which 
 he presided. He accordingly persuaded Mr. 
 Matthew Cullen, whose biographical sketch ap- 
 pears elsewhere in this work, to build the Cullen 
 hotel, submitting plans for the same. Believing 
 the proposition to be a profitable one, Mr. Cullen 
 adopted both the suggestion and the plans, and 
 when the structure was completed Mr. Ewing as- 
 sumed charge as proprietor, in which capacity he 
 has since remained, conducting a first-class hotel 
 and keeping in touch with the requirements of the 
 day. 
 
 Mr. Ewing's marriage occurred in the Presby- 
 terian Church in Virginia City, Nevada, April 20, 
 1865, when he led to the marriage altar Miss Le- 
 nora Myers, a native of Wheeling, West Virginia. 
 Her parents had moved to California when she 
 was but an infant and her life had been spent in 
 the West. Mrs. Ewing was a lady of refinement 
 and culture, of a kindly, gentle disposition. She 
 died in this city in October, 1901, mourned by a 
 wide circle of friends. They have one child, 
 Lulu, who married Geo. W. Parks, one of Salt 
 Lake City's prominent land attorneys. 
 
 In politics Mr. Ewing has always been a 
 staunch Republican, but has never actively par- 
 ticipated in the work of the party, his time being 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 occupied wholly by his business, yet he has al- 
 ways taken a keen interest in the success of his 
 party and stands high with its leaders. He filled 
 a term as a member of the City Council and was 
 acting in that capacity when the present city and 
 county building was planned and constructed, 
 and it was largely through his efforts that one of 
 the handsomest public puildings in the United 
 States graces the city of Salt Lake. Mr. Ewing's 
 name may be seen on the marble slab which hangs 
 in the hall of the building, commemorating the of- 
 ficials who were on the Council at the time the 
 building was erected. In fraternal life Mr. 
 Ewing is a member of the Masonic order, and is 
 at this time a Knight Templar and Shriner. 
 
 The varied career through which Mr. Ewing 
 has passed has tended to develop the best traits 
 of his nature, and he is today a most liberal and 
 broad-minded man, hospitable and charitable. 
 He has been closely identified with the mining 
 industries of the State for many years, and owns 
 some valuable mining properties at this time. 
 He at one time owned a claim in the very heart 
 of the since famous Silver King mine, which cir- 
 cumstances compelled him to dispose of. This 
 mine has since produced several millions of dol- 
 lars. 
 
 S. CA:MPBELL, Secretary and Gen- 
 eral Manager of the Utah Light and 
 Power Company. Although the people 
 of this day and age are so used to the 
 advantages and benefits derived either 
 directly or indirectly from the use of electricity 
 in its almost endlessly multiplied forms as to take 
 both the old and new uses in which it is daily be- 
 ing put as a matter of course, yet we are still 
 mindful of the fact that we owe almost all the 
 greater comforts and conveniences of our homes 
 and traveling facilities to this wonderful agent, 
 and in no other direction, perhaps, is this more 
 fully demonstrated than in the matter of street 
 railway locomotion and the electric lighting sys- 
 tem. While the Eastern cities are slower to adopt 
 improved methods, having to take into considera- 
 tion the expense of doing away with present sys- 
 
 tems, the cities and towns of the newer West are 
 always ahead in the matter of their improvements, 
 as when they are in a position to adopt better 
 conditions, they invariably select the very best in 
 its particular line, and the result is that in the 
 matter of public conveniences a western city of 
 comparatively small population assumes a most 
 metropolitan air. It is thus that Salt Lake City 
 has today one of the most perfect and complete 
 systems of power and light to be found in the 
 West. The men who first promoted these in- 
 dustries laid a broad foundation upon which the 
 succeeding companies have been able to build up 
 what is rapidly coming to be an almost perfect 
 system, at a comparatively small cost, taking in- 
 to consideration what the outlay has been ; there 
 having been an inferior system in use to be done 
 away with. 
 
 The system now owned and operated by the 
 L'tah Light and Power Company, of which the 
 subject of this sketch is Secretary and Manager, 
 comprises three water-power plants, eighty miles 
 of high tension transmission lines, and also light 
 and power distribution apparatus in and near Salt 
 Lake City and Ogden, together with one sub-sta- 
 tion for supplying the Salt Lake City Railroad 
 and some reserve steam plants. It is perhaps true 
 that no other city of its size in the United States 
 has brought electrically transmitted power to 
 such a relatively important place as has Salt 
 Lake City. The development, while it started 
 early, has been very rapid, the snow-fed mountain 
 streams to the east of the city affording unusual 
 opportunities to the hydraulic and electrical en- 
 gineer. Although coal is not excessively high, 
 bringing from two dollars and a half a ton for 
 slack to four dollars and a half for the best lump, 
 the close proximity of water power with high 
 pressure to the city and its surrounding smelter 
 and other power-consuming industries, led, a 
 number of years ago to the erection of three wa- 
 ter-power plants, by as many companies. The 
 Big Cottonwood Power Company erected a plant 
 in the Big Cottonwood canyon, fourteen miles 
 southeast of Salt Lake City, several years ago; 
 the Pioneer Electric Power Company started its 
 plant soon after, in the Ogden canyon, near Og- 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 den, thirty-seven miles from Salt Lake City, and 
 the Utah Power Company the same year built 
 a plant for transmitting power for the Salt Lake 
 City Railroad, their plant being also in the Big 
 Cottonwood canyon. These different plants were 
 later consolidated under the name of the Utah 
 Light and Power Company, and conducted as 
 one complete and comprehensive system, covering 
 a district extending north and south about sixty 
 miles, including Ogden and Salt Lake City and 
 a district about sixteen miles south of the latter 
 place, including some large smelters. 
 
 During the year past the company has made 
 improvements aggregating an outlay of one hun- 
 dred thousand dollars and at this time have in 
 course of construction in the Ogden canyon a 
 large dam and reservoir which will, when com- 
 pleted, give the Ogden plant a maximum capacity 
 of eighty-five hundred horse-power. This reser- 
 voir will have a capacity of two billion cubic feet 
 of water. An arrangement has been made where- 
 by the farmers will have an opportuity to use 
 this water, being a long step forward in the mat- 
 ter of solving the irrigation problem, and making 
 the value of the reservoir two-fold. At present 
 the power is transmitted from Ogden at sixteen 
 thousand volts, and from Big Cottonwood canyon 
 at twelve thousand volts, and it is expected that 
 they will in the near future have made such 
 changes as will enable them to transmit the en- 
 tire power at twenty-eight thousand volts. The 
 company is also contemplating the erection of a 
 new station in the western part of the city, which, 
 when completed, will replace the several sub-sta- 
 tions and auxiliary steam plants in Salt Lake 
 City. 
 
 This company also owns an extensive gas plant 
 in Salt Lake City, and a smaller one in Ogden. 
 In Salt Lake there are about thirty miles of gas 
 mains. The works are located in a two and a 
 half acre lot in the western portion of the city, 
 where there is every facility for the delivery of 
 coal. The plant has a capacity of four hundred 
 thousand cubic feet per day and is a mixed coal 
 and water plant, being so designed that either or 
 both systems can be used in the manufacture of 
 gas. It is the intention of the company to in- 
 
 crease the capacity of this plant to one million 
 cubic feet per day. 
 
 The officers of this company are, Hon. Joseph 
 F. Smith, President; Colonel John R. Winder, 
 First Vice-President; Colonel Thomas G. Web- 
 ber, Second Vice-President; L. S. Hills, Treas- 
 urer, who together with Rudger Clawson, John 
 J. Banigan, W. S. McCornick, William J. Cur- 
 tis and George Romney, form the directorate. 
 Judge LeGrande Young is the company's general 
 counsel, R. S. Campbell, Secretary and General 
 .Manager, and R. F. Hayward, Electric Engineer. 
 
 R. S. Campbell, the subject of our sketch, has 
 been for some time connected with the above com- 
 pany, and the large and important improvements 
 that have been already made and are still in con- 
 templation or in course of construction have been 
 carried on under his personal supervision, and in 
 many instances at his suggestion. He is thorough- 
 ly in touch with all the best methods of the adap- 
 tation of energy as applied to power and lighting 
 systems, having had many years of practical expe- 
 rience in this business, and is one of the aggres- 
 sive and progressive citizens of Salt Lake City. 
 While his wide knowledge makes his services 
 almost invaluable to his employers, he has also 
 won their entire confidence and esteem by his 
 thorough and conscientious business methods 
 and his evident desire that the best results shall 
 be obtained at the least possible cost. He is well- 
 known among the business men of the city, with 
 whom he is very popular, and in social ilfe en- 
 joys a wide circle of friends, being of a most 
 genial and kindly nature, courteous and a true 
 gentleman at all times. 
 
 TSHOP GEORGE ROMNEY. The 
 vast work of improvement which has 
 been going on in Utah during the last 
 half century has called for men of brain, 
 energj' and perseverance, as well as de- 
 termination, to transform this country from a 
 wild and undeveloped state to its present most 
 wonderfully prosperous condition. Among the 
 men whose history and life's work has been closely 
 linked with nearly every enterprise that has been 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 for the betterment and development of not only 
 Utah but of this whole inter-mountain region, 
 Bishop George Romney, the subject of this sketch, 
 deserves special mention. Over fifty years of the 
 most valuable period of his life has been spent 
 in Utah, and by his long and honorable career in 
 this State he has won a host of friends among 
 all classes and creeds, and today is reckoned 
 among the most prominent and substantial citi- 
 zens of the State. 
 
 He is a native of England, having been born 
 in Dalton, Lancashire, August 14, 1831, and is 
 therefore in his seventy-first year, as active and 
 full of business as when he was a young man. 
 His father. Miles Romney, was a native of the 
 same shire as our subject, and became a member 
 of the Mormon church in 1837. He was ordained 
 an Elder and labored as a local preacher in the 
 Preston Conference. On February 27, 1841, he 
 sailed from Liverpool with his family on the ship 
 Sheffield, and after a voyage of seven weeks ar- 
 rived at New Orleans, then traveled up the Mis- 
 sissippi river by boat to Nauvoo, Illinois, and 
 while there acted as foreman of the construction 
 of the Nauvoo Temple. At the time of the exo- 
 dus in 1846 he moved his family to Burlington, 
 Iowa, where they spent the winter. In the fol- 
 lowing spring they moved to Saint Louis and 
 there made preparations for the long trip across 
 the plains. They left Saint Louis in March, 1850, 
 with ox teams and six wagons, and arrived in 
 Salt Lake City October i8th of that year. Dur- 
 ing that winter the family camped in their wagon 
 boxes on Temple Block, where one daughter was 
 born. In 1856 he was called on a mission to 
 England and remained there two years. In 1862 
 he was sent to Dixie and had charge of the wood- 
 work on the Saint George Temple. He con- 
 tinued to live in that place until his death, which 
 occurred May 8, 1877. His wife, Elizabeth Gas- 
 kell, mother of our subject, also a native of Lan- 
 cashire, England, accompanied him to America 
 and endured all the hardships incident to the pio- 
 neer women of those days. She was the mother 
 of nine children, five of whom are still living. 
 
 Our subject was converted to the teachings of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 
 
 in his native land, and baptized in September, 
 1839. He came to America with his parents and 
 learned the carpenter trade at Nauvoo, where he 
 worked on the Temple. He was married in Saint 
 Louis March 15, 1850, to Miss Jane Jamison, 
 who bore him twelve children. She was a native 
 of Scotland, where she became a member of the 
 Mormon Church, and emigrated to the United 
 States in 1849. They came to Utah in company 
 with the Bishop's parents and camped with them 
 in their wagon boxes on Temple Block that first 
 winter, and it was there their first child was born, 
 on December 15, 1850, when the snow was three 
 feet deep. Since then Bishop Romney has mar- 
 ried two other wives and is the father of thirty- 
 five children, twenty-three of whom are living. 
 At the time the Edmonds law came into effect he 
 was among those who were tried and convicted 
 of violation of that law, and was sentenced to a 
 six months' imprisonment, but was released for 
 good behavior at the expiration of five months. 
 His second wife was Vilate Ellen Douglass, a 
 native of Lancashire, England, who came to Nau- 
 voo with her parents when a child. Her mother 
 passed through the exodus at Nauvoo and en- 
 dured the hardships there and in the early days 
 of Salt Lake, where she arrived in 1852. She 
 is a member of the Ladies' Relief Society and is 
 the mother of twelve children. His third wife 
 was Margaret Thomas, a native of London. She 
 emigrated to America with her mother and 
 brother, Charles J. Thomas, and came to Utah 
 in 1 861. She was married to Bishop Romney in 
 1863 and is the mother of eleven children. She 
 has been prominently identified with theatrical in- 
 terests and was one of the first actresses at the 
 opening of the Salt Lake theater, taking the part 
 of "Comeadania" in "The Pride of the Market." 
 She is a teacher in the Relief Society of the 
 Twentieth Ward and a member of the Reapers' 
 Club. 
 
 Upon coming to Utah the Bishop began work- 
 ing at his trade, laboring part of the time on the 
 public works where his father was foreman, and 
 doing whatever other work he could find. In 
 1854 he entered into partnership with George 
 Price and others, doing contracting and building, 
 
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 and this firm built many of the early houses and 
 public buildings. In 1856, when his father wa> 
 called on a mission to England, he took his place 
 as foreman in constructing the woodwork on the 
 Lion House and all public works, in which posi- 
 tion he remained until they were closed in 1864. 
 In 1857 he was appointed by Governor Brigham 
 Young as Captain in Major Blair's Battalion of 
 the Nauvoo Legion, and took part in the Echo 
 campaign, which lasted for several months. At 
 the time of the approach of Johnston's army the 
 City was practically deserted, most of the people 
 having moved to Provo, our subject taking his 
 family with others, and they remained there until 
 the trouble was over, when they returned and he 
 continued his work on the public buildings. In 
 1S64 he formed a partnership with W. H. Folsom 
 and together they built the City Hall, many of 
 the stores and residences, and did a general con- 
 tracting business until 1869, when the firm was 
 enlarged and they organized what is today known 
 as the Taylor, Romney, Armstrong Company, the 
 other members of the firm at that time being 
 George H. Taylor and Thomas Lattimer. Our 
 subject became the manager of the firm and has 
 retained that position to the present day, through 
 many changes. The present firm was incorpo- 
 rated in 1 89 1. 
 
 During his residence in this city the Bishop 
 has been foremost in everything that has tended 
 to build up or improve the city or State. He 
 has been associated with many of the large corpo- 
 rations ; among other things he has been for the 
 past seventeen years a director of the Zions Co- 
 operative Mercantile Institution and is now Vice- 
 President, and also Director. This is one of the 
 largest establishments of the kind in the entire 
 western country; a Director and member of the 
 executive committee of the Consolidated Wagon 
 and Machine Company ; for several years a Di- 
 rector arid now Vice-President of the Home Fire 
 Insurance Company; a Director in the Deseret 
 National Bank and the Deseret Savings Bank, 
 and also a Director and one of the executive com- 
 mittee of the firm of Clark, Eldredge and Com- 
 pany. He was one of the first to advance means 
 to develop the beet sugar industry in Utah, and 
 
 thus paved the way for the founding of the L'tah 
 Sugar Company. He is also President of the 
 Romney Shoe Company and a Director and Vice 
 President of the Oregon Lumber Company. He 
 has also accumulated considerable real estate in 
 Salt Lake City. 
 
 In politics Bishop Romney is a believer in the 
 principles of the Republican party, and has been 
 an active worker in its ranks since its organiza- 
 tion in this State. He has all his life in Utah 
 been prominent in public affairs, and served two 
 terms in the City Council, being elected in 1882 
 and again in 1895. In 1890 he was a delegate to 
 the Trans-Mississippi Congress at Houston, 
 Texas, and also to the Congress at Cripple Creek, 
 Colorado, in 1891. He is a member of the ex- 
 ecutive committee of the Congress which will meet 
 at Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1902. He is also 
 an aggressive worker in Church circles ; he has 
 traveled in California, Alexico, Hawaiian Islands. 
 England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, France, Scan- 
 dinavia and Holland. While on his mission to 
 England in 1869 he presided over the Liverpool 
 and London Conferences. In the Priesthood he 
 has held the offices of a Seventy, President of the 
 Quorum of Seventies, High Priest, Counselor to 
 Bishop W. C. Bassett, and later Bishop of the 
 Twentieth Ward, succeeding Bishop Bassett in 
 1888. Llis Counselors are George F. Gibbs and 
 Joseph F. Simmons. He is active in all matters 
 pertaining to his Ward, to which he devotes a 
 large portion of his time. 
 
 ONORABLE SAMUEL W. STEW- 
 ART. A prominent member of the 
 judiciary of Utah, and one who since 
 his occupancy of a Judgeship in the 
 Third Judicial District of the State has 
 proved by his work to be able and worthy to fill 
 that position, is the subject of this sketch. When 
 the work of this Judicial District was divided, to 
 Judge Stewart was assigned the jurisdiction over 
 the criminal division of that court. The impar- 
 tiality which he has shown in the cases tried be- 
 fore him, and the able manner in which he has ad- 
 ministered justice and interpreted the laws, marks 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 him as a capable lawyer as well as one of the 
 most competent judges in the State. 
 
 Samuel W. Stewart was born in Draper, Salt 
 Lake county, Utah, May 21, 1867, and spent his 
 early life on a farm. He attended public school 
 in the winter months and during the rest of the 
 year worked on the farm, earning means sufficient 
 to enable him to enter the Deseret University, 
 now the University of Utah. After two year in 
 that institution he was made principal of one of 
 the public schools. This vocation he followed for 
 three years and earned a sum sufficient to pay 
 for his tuition in the University of Michigan, at 
 Ann Arbor, graduating from the law department 
 of that institution in 1892. He returned to Salt 
 Lake City and entered upon the practice of his 
 profession, to which he continued to devote his 
 time until his election to the Judgeship in No- 
 vember, 1900. For six years he was the senior 
 member of the law firm of Stewart & Stewart. 
 He has taken an active interest in the affairs 
 of the State and served in the Legislature from 
 1899 to 1901. In his practice he was a good ad- 
 vocate and a safe counselor. He has now juris- 
 diction over all the criminal cases in his district, 
 but also assists in the hearing of civil cases. He 
 has the distinction of being the youngest District 
 Judge in L'tah, and his career has been a success- 
 ful one. 
 
 His father, Isaac M. Stewart, was a native of 
 New Jersey, but came to Utah in the early days 
 of the settlement of this State, being, in fact, one 
 of the pioneers, reaching here in 1852. Isaac's 
 father died when he was but a lad, and he was 
 early thrown upon his own resources. When he 
 arrived in the Salt Lake valley he was equipped 
 with willing hands and an active and clear mind, 
 and with these assets he made for himself a suc- 
 cessful career in the new Territory. He took up 
 farming and stock raising, and grew to be one 
 of the most successful men engaged in that busi- 
 ness. He realized the necessity of educating the 
 young people and all his life was an earnest ad- 
 vocate of a liberal education. He was a member 
 of the County Court of Salt Lake county for 
 nine years, being associated with Judge Elias 
 Smith, the first Probate Judge in this county, and 
 
 with whom he formed a mutual friendship of great 
 strength and endurance. He was one of the early 
 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints, participating actively in its work, and 
 being made a Bishop of that Church. He con- 
 tinued in this membership for thirty-four years, 
 until his death in 1890, at the age of seventy-five. 
 He was the only member of his family who left 
 the East and adopted this faith. His father, and 
 the grandfather of Judge Stewart, was Biekley 
 Stewart, a soldier who participated in the Revo- 
 lutionary War. joining the Colonial forces at the 
 age of fifteen. The Stewart family were Quakers 
 and were among the first settlers of the Eastern 
 States, coming to this country from Scotland. The 
 dominant principles of these peace-loving people 
 were strongly shown in the character and life of 
 Judge Stewart's father, and he has to a large 
 extent inherited many of these characteristics. 
 His mother, Elizabeth (White) Stewart, was a 
 native of London, England. Her father died 
 when she was quite young, and at the age of fif- 
 teen she came to the United States. She has one 
 brother, Barnard White, living at Ogden, who is 
 one of the prominent and successful business men 
 of that city. Judge Stewart is a member of a 
 family of thirteen children, there being seven sons 
 and six daughters. His brother, James Z., has 
 also followed the profession of the law, and was 
 Probate Judge of Cache county, Utah, having 
 served two terms in tTiat office. He has also been 
 principal of the Brigham Young College at Logan. 
 Another brother, Isaac J., is a practicing attorney 
 at Richfield, Utah. Joshua B. has devoted his 
 time and attention to agriculture ; William M. is 
 principal of the normal department of the Uni- 
 versity of Utah ; Charles B. is Deputy City At- 
 torney of Salt Lake City, and Barnard J. is also 
 an attorney in Salt Lake City, being a member 
 of the firm of Stewart & Stewart. His sisters 
 are Mary A. Ballantine, Alice C. Stringfellow, 
 Elizabeth Fife, Eliza J. Fife, Luella E. Linsey 
 and Nettie P. Stewart. 
 
 Judge Stewart was married October, 1894, to 
 Miss Ella M. Nebeker, then a prominent critic 
 teacher in the Utah State Normal School, daugh- 
 ter of George and Maria L. Nebeker, who were 
 
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 among the early settlers of Utah, and her father 
 was one of the prominent men in the affairs of 
 this city. 
 
 In political affairs Judge Stewart has followed 
 the fortunes of the Democratic party with un- 
 wavering loyalty. He is a faithful member of the 
 Mormon Church and takes great interest in its 
 work. His impartiality as a judge, breadth of 
 mind and ability to readily grasp the salient points 
 of a controversy have made his term as a judge 
 one of the most creditable of the State. In pri- 
 vate life his genial and pleasant manner, together 
 with his ability, have won for him the friendship 
 and confidence of the people with whom he has 
 come in contact, and the efficient and zealous dis- 
 charge of his duties have brought him the respect 
 and esteem of his fellow citizens. 
 
 OLONEL THEODORE BRUBACK. 
 Although there has been considerable 
 development of the resources of Utah, 
 and the mineral wealth already dis- 
 closed has brought prosperity to the 
 Slate, its development has been made in quite a 
 limited area. The possibilties of the southern 
 part of the State have not yet begun to be re- 
 alized, and in addition to the mineral wealth 
 which it undoubtedly possesses, there are valu- 
 able deposits of stone and other building ma- 
 terial. Among the first to undertake the develop- 
 ment of this country has been the Sanpete Rail- 
 road Company, of which the subject of this sketch 
 is President. The administration of the affairs 
 of this company and the development of the ter- 
 ritory tributary to this road has made him one 
 of the most invaluable men in Utah and has 
 brought him such a measure of success that he is 
 now recognized as one of the leading business 
 men of the State. 
 
 Theodore Bruback was born in Pittsburg, .'Mle- 
 gheny county, Pennsylvania, and spent his early 
 life in that State. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and high schools of Allegheny county 
 and later attended the Iron City College, gradu- 
 ating from that instituton in 1866. His family 
 were originally natives of Alsace Lorraine. His 
 father, David, came to America when but a young 
 
 man, from Bruback, a small town in his native 
 province, named after the family. He engaged 
 in the iron business in Pittsburg and amassed 
 considerable wealth by his ability and industry. 
 The mother of the subject of this sketch, Anna 
 Kunigunda Dietrich, was also of German ex- 
 traction, her parents being among the first set- 
 tlers of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Upon the completion of his education, our sub- 
 ject started on his life work and assisted in de- 
 veloping the oil fields of Pennsylvania, in the 
 vicinity of Pittsburg. He was a member of the 
 firm of Reed & Co., and engaged in the oil busi- 
 ness in Pennsylvania until 1877. During his 
 business career in Pennsylvania he acquired in- 
 terests in a great many enterprises. In some of 
 these he was interested as a capitalist and in some 
 as the organizer and promoter. 
 
 In 1877 the possibilities of the West attracted 
 his attention, and in that year he came to Wy- 
 oming and engaged in the mining and stock rais- 
 ing business. While here he located and developed 
 the "Sun Rise" and "Blue Jay" mines, which he 
 successfully operated for a number of years. He 
 remained in Wyoming, interested in all the in- 
 dustries of that State, for the ensuing eight years. 
 In 1885 he came to Salt Lake City and became 
 interested in the mining possibilities of Utah, 
 and in addition to his mining properties secured 
 large holdings in railroads. The Sanpete Valley 
 Railroad, of which he is now President, was con- 
 structed in 1882 and came under Mr. Bruback's 
 control in 1886. He imnTediately built large ex- 
 tensions and converted it from a narrow gauge to 
 a broad gauge road. He built a branch to the 
 Morrison coal mines, and later built another 
 branch to the brownstone quarries at Mount Nebo, 
 which contains the finest building stone, not only 
 in Utah, but in the West. Besides these rail- 
 road interests and his mining operations in Utah, 
 Colonel Bruback holds large interests in mining 
 properties in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. 
 
 In Utah the Colonel's most valuable mining 
 holdings are contained in the property owned 
 and operated by the Sterling Coal and Coke Com- 
 pany, whose mines are on Six Mile creek, in San- 
 pete county, at the terminus of the Sanpete 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Valley Railroad, of which company Colonel Bru- 
 back is President and General Manager. Here 
 they operate the most extensive coal mines in 
 the State, having several thousand acres. The 
 property was located in 1890 by men who had 
 been practical coal miners all their lives, having 
 wide experience in the collieries of Wales. The 
 property changed hands a couple of times and 
 was then purchased by Colonel Bruback in 1893. 
 Many seemingly insurmountable obstacles were 
 encountered in opening up the vein, and a vast 
 sum of money expended before the property was 
 put upon a paying basis, but through every dis- 
 couragement the Colonel never lost his confidence 
 or enthusiasm in the project, and has been re- 
 warded by finding himself the owner of an almost 
 inexhaustable supply of the finest bituminous coal 
 to be found in the country. After the company 
 had been formed and systematic work begun, an 
 immense body of water was encountered after 
 they had driven an incline tunnel seven hundred 
 feet ; of course, this necessitated work being sus- 
 pended. With the fullest confidence in the ulti- 
 mate success of the mine. Colonel Bruback at 
 once placed contracts for tunneling into the moun- 
 tain and striking the vein some six hundred feet 
 below the surface, thus enabling them to ob- 
 tain the coal and at the same time drain ofif the 
 water and put it to some practical use. They 
 did not strike the vein they were working to- 
 ward until they had tunneled two thousand and 
 sixty feet, and although at times the task seemed 
 hopeless, and even th» contractors advised that 
 the attempt be given up, the Colonel was not to 
 be deterred from completing the project, nor was 
 his faith in the feasibility of the plan to be shaken. 
 The tunnel is eight feet high and eight feet wide, 
 and the grade permits the mine to be drained 
 in a most satisfactory manner. The stream of 
 water obtained is estimated to carry a volume 
 of ten cubic feet of water per minute, and the 
 company expects to derive a large revenue from 
 this source alone, as the water is of inestimable 
 value for irrigating purposes. Once the quality 
 of the coal began to be appreciated orders poured 
 into the office of the company from all the sur- 
 rounding States, and the output of this mine has 
 
 become the standard coal in Utah. Large as are 
 the veins already opened, the company feel that 
 their explorations are as yet only in their infancy 
 and that the property is destined to become one 
 of the largest wealth producers in this line in the 
 West, in which opinion they are backed by many 
 mining experts. 
 
 He was married in Westfield, New York, in 
 1886 to Miss Jessie White McLane, daughter of 
 Colonel J. H. McLane, of Erie county, Pennsyl- 
 vania, and has two children, Theodore and Jessie 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 In political affairs Colonel Bruback is a be- 
 liever in the principles of the Republican party, 
 and at present holds the office of Lieutenant- 
 Colonel on the stafi' of Governor Wells. He is 
 a member of the Masonic fraternity. Colonel 
 Bruback owes his success entirely to his own 
 efforts, and the present position that he occupies 
 in Utah has been the result of his untiring en- 
 ergy, industry and application. His administra- 
 tive and executive abilities have made successful 
 whatever enterprises he has undertaken, and his 
 genial and pleasant manners have contribut- 
 ed greatly to his popularity throughout Utah and 
 have brought him the enjoyment of a large circle 
 of friends throughout the entire West. 
 
 LLIAM H. BANCROFT. While 
 the discovery of steam and the in- 
 vention of the locomotive belong to 
 England, the development of this 
 powerful adjunct of civilization and 
 its application to the work of bringing closer to- 
 gether distant points of the earth and in settling 
 new regions belongs exclusively to America. The 
 Nineteenth Century was a wonderful epoch in 
 the world's growth, and in the number of in- 
 ventions made to more perfectly perform the work 
 of increasing the industrial strength of the na- 
 tions, but no other invention has accomplished 
 so much or aided so greatly as has the locomo- 
 tive. The railroads of the United States as late 
 as 1840 were but short lines operated in a crude 
 and inefficient manner. They were almost en- 
 tirely located in the extreme Eastern States and 
 had not grown to such proportions as to entirely 
 displace the old stage coach. The slow means of 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 C&nal transportation were in operation then and 
 remained in use for several decades later. The 
 railroad of today is' one of the wonders of the 
 world. It has grown in America from a small 
 and crude beginning- to one of the most powerful 
 and strongly organized features in the wonder- 
 ful industrial growth of this country. The men 
 who have spent their lives in railroad work and 
 have developed the systems that now gird the 
 United States had to learn from experience. There 
 was no guide for them to follow and each ad- 
 vance made in the history of railroading has been 
 accomplished entirely by the application of master 
 minds to the solving of the difficult problems. 
 Thoroughout New York and Pennsylvania and 
 in the New England States many difficult en- 
 gineering problems confronted the early railroad 
 builders, but these were as child's play to the 
 building of the railroads from the Mississippi 
 river west to the Pacific coast. No traveler who 
 passes over the lines traversing the Rocky Moun- 
 tains can fail to be impressed with the magni- 
 tude of the work and the tremendous amount of 
 perseverance it required to build the lines. The 
 building of the railroads throughout the western 
 region has accomplished more for the West than 
 any other work, save that important adjunct to 
 •railroad work,' the telegraph. From a system 
 where the conductor and engineer in charge of 
 the train were for the time being its sole mas- 
 ters, the development of these wonderful sys- 
 tems has required men of ability to properly di- 
 rect the multifarious duties that now fall to the 
 lot of the governing head of the railroad. A 
 president of a railroad company, a general man- 
 ager or a superintendent must be a man who is 
 thoroughly conversant with every detail of rail- 
 road work, and in addition must have a broad 
 general knowledge of mankind and be versed in 
 the financial affairs of the country. The posi- 
 tions of presidents, general managers and super- 
 intendents are filled by a process which is in 
 reality but the application of the doctrine of the 
 survival of the fittest. To reach these positions 
 requires long experience and application of the 
 closest nature to the grinding detail of every- 
 dav life of railroad work. In the ranks of the 
 
 railroads of the country there is no more im- 
 portant system than that controlled by the Union 
 Pacific Railroad Company, and one of its most 
 prosperous constituent parts is the Oregon Short 
 Line Railroad, whose operations are directed by 
 the subject of this sketch, in the capacity of Vice- 
 President and General Manager. 
 
 W. H. Bancroft was born October 20, 1840, 
 at Newberry, Ohio, and entered upon railroad 
 work at the age of sixteen years, and has been 
 connected with that business throughout his life. 
 His first position was as a telegraph operator and 
 ticket clerk for the Michigan Southern Railway, 
 with which road he remained until 1861, rising 
 through the various grades to a prominent subor- 
 dinate position, and in the latter year left the 
 service of this company to accept a position as 
 clerk and dispatcher on the Erie Railroad, which 
 he retained until 1868. He then entered the em- 
 ploy of the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company on 
 October 20, 1869, and remained with it until 
 April, 1872, when he was called to take the posi- 
 tion of Assistant Superintendent of the Atchison, 
 Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, holding that po- 
 sition from May, 1875, to 1876. His experience in 
 railroad matters had brought him prominently 
 to the front among the rising men in his profes- 
 sion, and secured for him the Superintendency 
 of the Saint Louis, Lawrence and Western Rail- 
 road, which position he held until April, 1878. 
 He then entered the employ of the Missouri, Kan- 
 sas and Texas Railroad, as its Chief Dispatcher, 
 and became connected with the Denver and Rio 
 Grande Railroad on August 15, 1881, and served 
 as Superintendent of several of its divisions until 
 July 29, 1886, when he was appointed Receiver 
 of the Rio Grande Western Railroad, and from 
 that time until June, 1890, he served as Receiver 
 and General Superintendent of that road. He 
 became connected with the L'nion Pacific Rail- 
 road Company on January 15, 1890, as General 
 Superintendent of its Mountain division, which 
 position he occupied until March, 1897. 
 
 When the railroads composing the Union Pa- 
 cific system were separated and operated under 
 their own organizations, in March, 1897, Mr. 
 Bancroft was chosen on that date to manage its 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 operations as Vice-President and General Man- 
 ager of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Com- 
 pany. This is one of the most important rail- 
 roads of the West, and under the able manage- 
 ment of Mr. Bancroft has developed into one 
 of the most prosperous properties of its kind in 
 the United States. The work which it has done 
 in developing Utah, Oregon and Washington 
 can scarcely be overestimated. It has opened new 
 territory and aided in forming new settlements 
 throughout all this region. The force under Mr. 
 Bancroft's direction in Salt Lake City, where its 
 headquarters are, constitute an important factor 
 in the business world of this city. The career 
 which Mr. Bancroft has made and the success 
 which has come to him in the work which he has 
 undertaken has made him one of the foremost 
 railroad men in the United States. He occupies 
 a high position in the class of men who have 
 done more to settle and civilize the great West 
 than any other class of men have accomplished 
 during the last fifty years. He is well and fa- 
 vorably known to all the people in the inter- 
 mountain region, and enjoys a wide popularity, 
 both as a railroad man and as a citizen. 
 
 ILIJA^^I McMillan. There is 
 perhaps no industry in the United 
 States which calls for men of 
 sounder business judgment or wider 
 experience than does the vast and 
 intricate railroad systems which traverse this 
 country, and it is a notable fact that a very large 
 percentage of the men who today operate and 
 control these systems are men who have begun 
 at the very bottom rung of the ladder, often wit'i 
 little education or means, and by years of persist- 
 ent application and untiring energy have fought 
 their way to the very pinnacle of success in rail- 
 road life. The manner in which William Mc- 
 Millan, the subject of this sketch, worked his 
 way from a poor boy, coming to a strange coun- 
 try without friends or means, to the position of 
 Secretary and Treasurer of the Salt Lake and 
 Los Angeles Railroad and the Saltair Beach Com- 
 pany, is such as to furnish a valuable lesson to 
 every ambitious and self-supporting young man. 
 
 Our subject was born in Cumberland, England, 
 August I, 1852. His mother died during his in- 
 fancy and his father emigrated to America and 
 settled in Pennsylvania, leaving his infant son 
 in care of his maternal grandparents, who gave 
 him such a home as they were able, sending him 
 to the public schools, and with whom he remained 
 until he was sixteen years of age, at which time 
 he found employment with the North Eastern 
 Railroad Company, of England, serving in dif- 
 ferent departments until 1879. Like many an- 
 other young man in his native country, he be- 
 came imbued with a desire to visit the wonder- 
 ful country of America, believing it to offer bet- 
 ter inducements for ambitious young men, and 
 in the autumn he sailed for this country, reach- 
 ing Utah the latter part of 1879. He became 
 ticket and freight agent for the Utah Central 
 Railroad in 1882, having charge of the station 
 at Milford, where he remained imtil the summer 
 of 1888, when he moved to Salt Lake City and 
 became associated with the Salt Lake West- 
 ern, and Utah and Nevada, remaining with these 
 companies until they were absorbed by the Union 
 Pacific, when he became chief clerk in the office 
 of the latter company at Salt Lake City. Here 
 he remained until 1893, when he became chief 
 clerk in the office of which he is' now Secretary 
 and Treasurer. He was also at this time made 
 Secretary and Treasurer of the Saltair Beach 
 Company, and has since filled these postions with 
 efficiency and to the entire satisfaction of his 
 superiors. 
 
 Mr. McMillan was married in England to Miss 
 Agnes Newton, by whom he has six children : 
 Emily May ; Clara E. ; William, Junior ; Agnes ; 
 Don N., and Kyle. 
 
 In poltical life Mr. McMillan is a staunch be- 
 liever in the principles of the Republican party 
 and has been as active in its work as his duties 
 would allow. In 1900 he was elected a member 
 of the State Legislature. He is a member of the 
 Mormon Church, in which he is a faithful and 
 active worker. 
 
 His life while in Utah has been such as to 
 win for him the confidence of those by whom he 
 has been employed, and his genial and pleasant 
 manner has won for him a host of friends. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 625 
 
 T.FRED SOLOMON, Bishop of the 
 Twenty-second Ward of Salt Lake 
 Stake of Zion. The wholesale boot 
 and shoe house of Solomon Brothers, 
 of Salt Lake City, of which Alfred 
 Solomon was one of the promoters, has long been 
 one of the most important business houses of this 
 City. By close and careful attention to business 
 Bishop Solomon has built up a most enviable 
 trade, and his house is considered one of the most 
 prominent in the State. 
 
 Alfred Solomon was born September 10, 1836, 
 at Truro, Cornwall, England, and is the son of 
 William and Xancy (Hocking) Solomon. He 
 spent the first twenty years of his life in his na- 
 tive town, going to school until thirteen years of 
 age, when he learned the shoemaker's trade of 
 his father. His father employed a number of 
 men and made shoes principally for the miners 
 in the western part of Cornwall. 
 
 He became a convert to the teachings of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when 
 but eighteen years of age, and for the next two 
 and a half years labored in the interests of that 
 Church, accompanying the Elders and preaching 
 in his own and adjoining towns. He met with 
 much opposition in his father's family, only one 
 other brother, William, uniting with the Church, 
 and this brother was married and lived in an- 
 other part of the town. He saved all his small 
 earnings and when he had enough to pay his 
 passage to America left home on the i6th of 
 March, 1857, going without the knowledge of his 
 parents, who were much opposed to his course. 
 Leaving as he did he had to go without any lug- 
 gage and had only sufficient means for his passage 
 money. On arriving in Liverpool he discovered 
 he would have to wait a few days before the 
 steamer would sail, and an old lady who was to 
 take passage on the same ship volunteered to 
 pay his board while they waited, in exchange 
 for his taking care of her luggage. During his 
 stay in Liverpool he received a letter from his 
 parents, containing three pounds, which he was 
 obliged to spend for clothing and other necessi- 
 ties. He sailed on the steamer George Wash- 
 ington, which had on board eight hundred and 
 
 seventeen Mormon emigrants and fourteen re- 
 turning missionaries. They arrived in Boston on 
 the 20th of April, 1857, and when the company 
 was ready to start two men volunteered to loan 
 our subject sufikient money to pay his way to 
 Iowa City, Iowa. Upon their arrival at this 
 place they found the company would not leave for 
 three weeks, and Bishop Solomon obtained em- 
 ployment on the farm of State Senator Kirkwood, 
 receiving a dollar a day for his work. When 
 the time came for the ox train to start he was 
 given an opportunity to drive the team of Elder 
 Jesse B. Martin, who had been appointed one of 
 the Captains, which he was glad to accept. He 
 had earned sufficient money to pay back the 
 money he had borrowed to pay his fare to Iowa 
 City, and while he again started without any 
 means, he was out of debt. Only a portion of 
 those who came over were in this train, which 
 consisted of eighty wagons, with two or three 
 yokes of oxen to each wagon : the remainder 
 forming one of the famous hand cart companies. 
 On the trip across the plains they encountered 
 immense droves of buffaloes, which caused them 
 a great deal of trouble, and during one stampede 
 caused by the buiifaloes one man and a child were 
 killed and many injured. He arrived in Salt 
 Lake City September 12, 1857, six months from 
 the time he left home. 
 
 This was at the time of the invasion of John- 
 ston's army and shortly after his arrival the city 
 was placed under martial law. Most of the men 
 had moved their families into the southern part 
 of the State and there was but little business 
 being transacted when our subject came here. 
 He worked for Samuel Mulliner at the shoemak- 
 ing business for a short time, but being without 
 any family was called into active military service 
 and in the winter of 1857-58 made three trips into 
 Echo canyon. On one of these trips, it being im- 
 possible to penetrate into the canyon on account 
 of the deep snow, the company had to go by way 
 of Weber canyon, crossing the Weber river nine- 
 teen times to reach Echo canyon. He was later 
 appointed one of the guards to re-enter the city 
 and burn the houses, but peace being restored, 
 business was resumed in the citv and he took 
 
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 charge of the shoe department of Robert J. Gold- 
 ing. It becoming necessary to appoint special 
 poHce to look after the safety of the city, our sub- 
 ject was one of the number chosen by Mayor A. 
 O. Smoot and served under Chief of Police An- 
 drew Burt, and was one of the posse who went 
 with General Burton to the Morrisite Camp by or- 
 der of Judge Kinney to arrest the Morrisites, the 
 xvlorrisites having held as prisoners a number of 
 people who were not in sympathy with their creed. 
 He served for three terms as Constable in the 
 third precinct. Pie was also a member of the 
 Utah Artillery under Major Ladd, and is one 
 of the veteran artillerymen of the State. He was, 
 for three or four years, a member of the first 
 fire department in Salt Lake City, serving under 
 Chief Donaldson. He was elected City Marshal, 
 Chief of Police in 1886, and served four years 
 in that capacity under Mayor Armstrong. In 
 1870 he formed a partnership with his brothers, 
 Henry, William and James, in the manufacture 
 of boots and shoes. They were the pioneer shoe 
 manufacturers of Salt Lake City and the first to 
 introduce machinery into the manufacture of 
 boots and shoes in the Territory of Utah. They 
 sold their goods to the Zion Co-operative Mer- 
 cantile Institution for a number of years, until 
 that company began manufacturing boots and 
 shoes on their own account. They then estab- 
 lished the wholesale and retail business, which 
 has continued to this time under the name of Solo- 
 mon Brothers. 
 
 Bishop Solomon was married June 3, i860, to 
 Miss Ellen Gyde. He has buried two wives and 
 is the father of twenty-four children, twelve of 
 whom are living. 
 
 On March 31, 1889, when the Twenty-second 
 Ward was organized, he was ordained a High 
 Priest and set apart as Bishop of that Ward, 
 which position he still occupies. On July 28, 
 1891, he went on a mission to Great Britain, go- 
 ing by way of Arizona, where he visited his 
 brother William, and then continued on to New 
 York, and finally arrived in Liverpool, visiting 
 several Conferences in company with President 
 Brigham Young of the European mission, and 
 was called to preside over the Newcastle Confer- 
 
 ence, where he remained until June 13, 1892, 
 when he took charge of the Cheltenham Confer- 
 ence, remaining there until January 20, 1893, at 
 which time he was called to Liverpool to take 
 charge of the European mission, President Brig- 
 ham Young being called home to take part in the 
 dedication of the Temple. He remained in Liver- 
 pool until released by Apostle A. H. Lund on 
 June 14th, returning at once to the United States, 
 and visiting the W'orld's Fair in Chicago on his 
 way home. Bishop Solomon has also been an 
 active worker in the Sunday School of his Ward, 
 having been a teacher from 1867 to 1889, and 
 was Superintendent for seven years. On July 17, 
 1894, he was called to labor in the Salt Lake 
 Temple, where he has continued up to the pres- 
 ent time. 
 
 Bishop Solomon has for a great many years 
 been a prominent man of this city, both in Church 
 and business circles, and has by his own untiring 
 energy, perseverance and honesty won a high 
 place not only among business men, but in the 
 confidence and esteem of all who know him. 
 
 E. C.\LVIN. No invention of the Nine- 
 teenth Century and its application to 
 the needs of the people has done so 
 much for the development of the coun- 
 try, and especially of the United States, 
 as has the invention of the steam engine and its 
 application to the locomotive trains. Just as the 
 East was built up and close communicaton es- 
 tablished between its various centers of popula- 
 tion and industry, so has the West been de- 
 veloped and its resources utilized through the 
 great arteries which have been built from the 
 Mississippi river to the Pacific coast. Closely 
 identified with the railroads in Utah, and, nideed, 
 throughout the entire West, has been the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. He has seen the pony mail 
 displaced by the stage coach, and the stage coach 
 displaced by the iron horse traveling on his road 
 of steel, until now, what was once a wilderness 
 has been converted through this creation of man, 
 aided by natural resources, and has become one 
 of the most prosperous portions of the country, 
 
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 so that the West is now as close to New York 
 as Washington was to New York one hundred 
 years ago. He has participated in the construc- 
 tion and operation of all the roads that now af- 
 ford easy communication with all parts of the 
 great West and the Pacific slope. A sketch of 
 his life must necessarily include mention of most 
 of the ralroads, from Texas in the south to the 
 British boundary on the north, and from the 
 Mississippi river on the east to the waters of the 
 Pacific on the west. 
 
 E. E. Calvin, General Superintendent of the 
 Oregon Short Line Railroad system, was born 
 in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1858, and spent his 
 boyhood days in that city and in its immediate 
 vicinity. What education he received he ob- 
 tained from the public schools, before the age 
 of thirteen, and when he had arrived at that age 
 he started in the railroad business, then in its in- 
 fancy. His first work was as a messenger boy, 
 and his aptitude was such that he was soon pro- 
 moted to be a telegrapher, and shortly thereafter 
 was placed in charge cf stations as telegraph 
 operator, continuing in that work until he reached 
 the age of sixteen. He left the railroad service 
 and re-entered school, attending the public and 
 high schools of Indiana for two years, returning 
 thence to railroad work. During this time he 
 was employed in the service of the Chicago, 
 Cleveland, Cincinnati and Saint Louis Railroads, 
 popularly known as the "Big Four," and was 
 employed by it in various capacities and in dif- 
 ferent localities until April, 1877, when he re- 
 signed from that service and entered the employ 
 of the LTnion Pacific Railroad Company in Wyom- 
 ing, first as a telegraph operator, and later as 
 agent at various places along the line of the sys- 
 tem in that State. He remained in active service 
 on that road until 1880. when he entered the 
 coal department of the Union Pacific, as Superin- 
 tendent of its mines at Grass Creek, Utah, in 
 which position he continued until June, 1881, 
 when he returned to active railroad work, hav- 
 ing charge of the material for the construction 
 of the Oregon Short Line, with headquarters at 
 Granger, Wyoming. He continued in that posi- 
 tion until April, 1882. when he was appointed 
 
 Train Dispatcher of the Utah and Northern Rail- 
 road, with headquarters at Logan, and later at 
 Pocatello, Idaho. L'pon the completion of that 
 road, he was appointed Train Dispatcher and 
 Train Master of the Oregon Short Line, which 
 position he occupied until June, 1887, when he 
 resigned from its service and entered the emplo\^ 
 of the Missouri Pacific, where he was made Di- 
 vision Superintendent and continued to discharge 
 the duties of that position until February, 1891, 
 So signally had he discharged his duties with 
 the Oregon Short Line, and so wide had been 
 his experience in railroad matters, that he re- 
 ceived a call from that road to return to its 
 service, and in February, 1891, he was made 
 Superintendent of the Idaho division of the Ore- 
 gon Short Line, and contnued to act in that 
 capacity until June, 1895, his headquarters being 
 at Pocatello. At the latter date he was made 
 General Superintendent of the International and 
 Great Northern Railroad, with headquarters at 
 Palestine, Texas, and in this work he was em- 
 ployed until 1897. In that year he returned to 
 the Oregon Short Line and took charge of it as 
 General Superintendent, which position he has 
 held since that time, discharging its responsible 
 duties with efficiency and credit. His headquar- 
 ters since his appointment as General Superin- 
 tendent have been at Salt Lake City. 
 
 Mr. Calvin's father was born in Ohio, but re- 
 moved to Indiana, where he was a prominent 
 builder and contractor. In the Civil War he 
 served as a private during the entire period that 
 conflict raged, and died in 1893, in Indiana. His 
 wife, Asenth (Pangborn) Calvin, was a member 
 of the Conry family, and she is still living at the 
 old family residence in Indiana. 
 
 Our subject married in Wyoming, in 1881, to 
 Miss Alida Mann, daughter of H. A. Mann, a 
 native of Illinois. Her father was a prominent 
 railroad man and had been born and reared in 
 Chicago. They have five children : Nellie ; Car- 
 rie ; Herbert, Erminie, and Frank. 
 
 In politics Mr. Calvin has been a staunch be- 
 liever in the principles of the Republican party, 
 but throughout his life he has never solicited or 
 held public office, his time and attention having 
 
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 been entirely monopolized by his work as a rail- 
 road man, and the prominence that he has reached 
 in this great modern business has been due en- 
 tirely to the industry and application which he 
 has brought to the accomplishment of every task 
 allotted to him. In social life he is a member 
 of the Jklasonic order, having joined it upon 
 reaching his majority. 
 
 Mr. Calvin is distinctively a man of the people; 
 self-made and self-educated, he has risen in prom- 
 inence in railroad circles and in the business 
 world by his own ability, and the present high 
 position that he holds as General Superintendent 
 of one of the great railroad arteries of the West 
 places him in the front ranks of the business men 
 of this portion of the United States. He is also 
 interested in mining, being President of the 
 Checkmate Mining Company, of Idaho, which 
 has been a very successful and prosperous mine 
 for the past five years, during which time much 
 valuable ore has been shipped in large quantities 
 from the property at Pearl, twenty-three miles 
 from Boise. In Salt Lake City there is no more 
 popular man than Mr. Calvin, and the regard 
 in which he is held by his fellow citizens is not 
 confined to the limits of this city nor to Utah. 
 He is known as one of the most progressive rail- 
 road men throughout the West, and one who 
 by his great industry and the zeal with wnich 
 he has discharged the duties allotted to him has 
 made for himself a career that stands foremost 
 in the railroad and business world. He is now 
 recognized as one of the best General Superin- 
 tendents in the country, and his genial and pleas- 
 ant manner has won him the friendship and es- 
 teem of all the people with whom he has come 
 in contact during his long and varied services in 
 the West. 
 
 ILLIAM J. HORNE is one of the 
 l)rominent men of Salt Lake county 
 and one who has actively partici- 
 pated both in the government of the 
 city and county, and in the develop- 
 ment of its resources. He has always taken a 
 great interest in Salt Lake City and is firm in 
 the belief that in the years to come it will be 
 one of the most important cities in the West. 
 He is a prominent member of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to which faith 
 his parents also belonged. 
 
 He was born in Salt Lake City, November the 
 1st, 1859, and is the son of Joseph Home, a 
 native of London, England, who came to Ameri- 
 ca at the age of eight, and settled in Toronto, 
 Canada, where he lived until he joined the Mor- 
 mon Church. He then removed to the headquar- 
 ters of the Church at Nauvoo, Illinois, and re- 
 mained there until they were driven out from 
 that city and from Illinois, going thence to 
 Winter Quarters, near Omaha. Here he resided 
 during the winter of 1846, and came to Salt Lake 
 City in the following year, arriving here in the 
 middle of winter. His first work in Utah was 
 farming, which he followed successfully. He 
 was also a Bishop in the Church and was one of 
 the Bishops of Salt Lake City. He gave his 
 whole life to the work of the Church and aided 
 largely in its development and in bringing it to 
 its present satisfactory standing. At one tim.e 
 he was superintendent of the construction of the 
 Church buildings on Temple block. In 1861-62 
 he was sent to the Missouri river by the Church 
 to conduct emigrants across the plains to the 
 Salt Lake valley. He did not confine his work 
 to Salt Lake City, but participated in the de- 
 velopment of the entire State, being one of the 
 first to open up the southern territory at Dixey, 
 Parowan, and all the southern settlements. He 
 was closely associated with President Cannon and 
 died at the ripe old age of eighty-five, on April 
 the 27th, 1897, beloved and respected by all who 
 knew him. His wife, Mary Park (Shepherd) 
 Home, the mother of our subject, was born in 
 New Castle, England, and came to Utah in 1854. 
 Her father was a sea captain and followed that 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 business for many years. Her mother died en 
 route to Utah, her death occurring at Saint Louis, 
 Missouri. Her father was also a member of the 
 Mormon Church. Our subject's mother is still 
 living. William Home, her son, spent his early 
 life on his father's farm in Utah, and was edu- 
 cated at the public schools in Salt Lake City, 
 later attending the Deseret University, now the 
 University of Utah. At the age of nineteen he 
 started out on his life work and secured em- 
 ployment as locomotive engineer on the railroad. 
 This he followed for nine years and then turned 
 his attention to farming and to commercial en- 
 terprises. 
 
 He was married on October the 26th, 1882, 
 to Miss Lorilla Little, daughter of Faramorz Lit- 
 tle, who was a prominent man of affairs in Utah. 
 He was Mayor of the city for one term and was 
 extensively engaged in the lumber business, hav- 
 ing also contracts for the carrying of mails, and 
 was President of the Utah Southern Railroad. 
 Our subject by his marriage has seven children, 
 two sons and five daughters. They are: Lorilla; 
 Geneve ; Annie ; Feramorz ; Ardell ; William Wal- 
 lace, and Helen. 
 
 In political affairs Mr. Home has taken an 
 active interest and owes allegiance to the Demo- 
 cratic party. He was Justice of the Peace of 
 Granger Precinct of Salt Lake county for eight 
 years, and served a term as School Trustee. In 
 business affairs he is also Secretary of the North 
 Jordan Irrigation Company. In the work of the 
 Church of his choice he is President of the Elders 
 in the Quorum. L^pon the resignation of Honor- 
 able Joseph S. Rawlins from his office of County 
 Commissioner he was appointed to fill the va- 
 cancy, and on November the 7th, 1900, he was 
 elected for a term of two years to that office. 
 
 He is one of the progressive business men of 
 Salt Lake county and one who has done a great 
 deal to bring Utah to the present position it now 
 occupies in the ranks of the Western States. His 
 valuable services and his zeal in the work of the 
 Church of his choice has won for him the con- 
 fidence and trust of the leaders of the Church, 
 and he is well and popularly known throughout 
 the county by the people. 
 
 \RL M. NEUHAUSEN. Perhaps no 
 one feature of a city does as much to 
 make or mar it as its architecture. 
 Many of the leading cities of the world 
 are famed for their beautiful buildings 
 — ihcir cathedrals, towers, palaces, or pictur- 
 esque ruins, and their fame attracts "tourists from 
 every clime. Salt Lake City is rapidly coming 
 to the front in this direction, as in many others. 
 Among the most noteworthy buildings may be 
 mentioned the Sale Lake Temple and Taber- 
 nacle ; the latter not so much on account of its 
 beauty as from its marvelous acoustic properties, 
 and the fact that its mammoth roof is unsup- 
 ported by pillar and held in place without the 
 aid of nail or iron rod of an description. Of 
 the later structures are the city and county 
 building, among the handsomest of the kind to 
 be found anywhere ; the public school houses, at 
 once the admiration and wonder of visitors ; the 
 Alta Club building; the Deseret News building, 
 now nearing completion, and also the Catholic 
 Cathedral, also nearing completion; Saint Ann's 
 Orphanage; and in the residence district the 
 mansions of a large number of the wealthy min- 
 ing and real estate men of the city, the most 
 beautiful of which is the marble palace of United 
 States Senator Kearns. Almost without excep- 
 tion, the work on these buildings has been done 
 by local talent, among whom Carl M. Neuhausen. 
 the subject of this sketch, is pre-eminently a 
 leader, not only in this city, but throughout the 
 entire inter-mountain region. 
 
 Mr. Neuhausen was born in Southern Ger- 
 many, October 8, 1858, and his early life was 
 spent in his native country, receiving his educa- 
 tion from the regular schools and from the poly- 
 technic institutions of Germany. At twenty-four 
 years of age, after having mastered the funda- 
 mental principles of his profession, he started 
 out in life for himself. He followed his vocation 
 for a short period in Germany, traveling about 
 the German empire with a view of perfecting his 
 knowledge of German architecture. A the age of 
 twenty-eight, being of an adventurous spirit, and 
 having determined to seek fields that offered bet- 
 ter inducements and a larger scope for the am- 
 
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 bitions and talents of a young man, he came to 
 America. Upon his arrival in this country he 
 settled in Minneapolis, where he followed his 
 profession for a number of years, in the employ 
 of one of the leading architects of that city, and 
 assisted in planning and erecting many of the 
 principal buildings of Minneapolis. Upon leav- 
 ing Minneapolis he traveled for some years 
 throughout the United States and Canada, 
 studying American architecture, and broadening 
 his education along this line. He came to Salt 
 Lake City in February, 1892, and has since made 
 this his home. The first three years of his resi- 
 dence here he spent in the employ of Mr. Kleet- 
 ing, at that time one of the best architects in 
 the city. Among the buildings which he assisted 
 Mr. Kleeting in drawing plans for and erecting 
 was the Saltair Pavilion at Saltair Beach, one 
 of the noted bathing resorts of the world, about 
 eighteen miles from the city of Salt Lake. 
 
 On January i, 1895, Mr. Neuhausen estab- 
 lished an office for himself in the same rooms he 
 now occupies, Nos. 528-30, in the Dooly block. 
 Among his first work was the drawing of the 
 plans for the building occupied by the offices of 
 the Oregon Short Line Railway, which building 
 was destroyed by fire about a year ago and is 
 now rebuilt. He also drew the plans for the D. 
 F. Walker block, one of the prominent business 
 blocks of the city. He has under construction 
 the magnificent home of United States Senator 
 Kearns, now completed, and which bids fair to 
 be one of the most beautiful and attractive homes 
 in the entire West ; also the home of J. D. Wood, 
 on Brigham street, among the finest residences 
 in the city. The new Catholic Cathedral and Saint 
 Ann's Orphanage are also his work: also the 
 F. D. Clift building, occupied by the Paris Milli- 
 nery Company, on Main street. Among the 
 business buildings which are under way are the 
 Hollaran-Brisacker building, and the Fisher Hall. 
 He has also made additions to the Holy Cross 
 Hospital and the Harmon block; also built a 
 number of terraces for A. H. Tarbet. Among 
 the new buildings to be erected in the city, and 
 which he will draw plans for, may be mentioned 
 the .^11 Hollows College addition, to cost over 
 one hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 Mr. Neuhausen was married in Minneapolis, 
 Minnesota, to Miss Julia Liblum, and by this 
 marriage has six children. 
 
 In political affairs he has always been a staunch 
 Republican, but while he is thoroughly imbued 
 with a desire for the success of his party, he has 
 never taken any active part nor desired public 
 preferment of any kind, choosing to follow his 
 profession. Religiously he is a member of the 
 Catholic Church, and a member of the Knights 
 of Columbia. He also has his membership in 
 the Elks' lodge in this city. 
 
 Personally Mr. Neuhausen is one of the most 
 genial and pleasant of gentlemen, and while his 
 residence, in comparison with the pioneers, has 
 been of but short duration in this city, his straight- 
 forward and honorable career has made for him 
 a large circle of friends. He resides with his 
 family in a modern residence at the corner of 
 First South and Thirteenth East streets. 
 
 YRUM MACKAY. The great stock 
 business and agricultural interests of 
 Utah have not been developed and 
 brought to the high and prosperous 
 condition which they occupy today by 
 chance, but it has taken men of brain, courage 
 and untiring energy ; it has taken a period of 
 over half a century and the lives of many of our 
 best men to bring this country to its present 
 wonderful state. Among the men who have 
 formed a prominent and successful part in this 
 great field of labor may be mentioned Hyrum 
 Mackay, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Mackay is a native of Utah, having been 
 born in Taylorsville Ward January ist, 1854, and 
 is the son of Thomas and Charlotte (Davis) Mac- 
 kay. Thomas Mackay was a native of Ireland 
 and our subject's mother was born in Wales. 
 Thomas Mackay came to the United States in 
 the early forties, settling at Nauvoo, and wit- 
 nessed the killing of the Prophet Joseph Smith. 
 He and the Prophet had been for many years 
 close friends and associates, and during their 
 leisure time used to take part in games, such as 
 jumping, racing and throwing quoits. Thomas 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Mackay came to Utah with the pioneers in 
 1847, being one of the first who was associ- 
 ated with Messrs. Bennion, Marker, Tarbet and 
 Fields, who in 1849 crossed the Jordan river, 
 which was at that time called the West Jordan 
 river, and up to that time had never been settled 
 by white men. They made the first improvements, 
 west of the Jordan and here laid out and built 
 for themselves homes and began to till the land 
 in its wild and uncultivated state. At first they 
 built small adobe houses and cabins near the old 
 English Fort, where they might be protected 
 from the Indians. Mr. Mackay has built sev- 
 eral residences in Taylorsville, where he lived and 
 died. He took a prominent part in the building 
 and establishing of the old English Fort. For 
 several years Mr. Mackay followed farming and 
 later drifted into the cattle and sheep business, 
 especial attention Tjeing given to sheep. He was 
 also a close friend of President John Taylor, 
 who was captain of the train in which they came 
 across the plains, and they often met and talked 
 over the scenes and incidents of that trip. Mr. 
 Mackay, like President Taylor, was a stern and 
 determined man, and yet they always got along 
 nicely together. Mr. Mackay had three wives, 
 our subject being the first living son of the sec- 
 ond wife. Our subject's mother came to Utah 
 with the pioneers and died in May, 1901. 
 
 .\t the age of twenty-three Mr. Mackay began 
 for himself ; up to that time he had never left 
 his father's roof. He was married December 24, 
 1877, to Miss Sarah Ann Newbold, daughter of 
 William and Elizabeth Newbold, and they have 
 six children living : Leanora ; Anna E. ; Hyrum 
 J. ; Ellen ; Leonard ; DeLisle, and Anna, now Mrs. 
 James Wheeler. Mr. Mackay settled on his pres- 
 ent place the year he was married. His farm 
 is located on the Redwood road, just south of 
 the old Taylorsville Postoffice ; here he has one 
 hundred and twenty acres of the most valuable 
 land in Utah county, highly improved. On this 
 he first built a one-room frame shanty, in which 
 he found the winters very severe. He then built 
 a log house, in which he lived for one year, and 
 when that became too small to accommodate his 
 familv he Iniilt a two-room brick house, and that 
 
 also soon becoming crowded, he made up his 
 mind that he would build a house suitable for 
 the accommodation of his family. Today he has 
 one of the most modern brick houses of Salt Lake 
 county, surrounded by barns and windmills, and 
 fruit and shade trees, and it is considered one 
 of the most beautiful places in the county. Mr. 
 Mackay is also the owner of one hundred acres 
 of the old homestead, which lies nearly east of 
 his present home. He took up the business of 
 his father, along the stock line, which he has fol- 
 lowed all through his life, and has made a suc- 
 cess. 
 
 In politics he is a Republican and has always 
 been a staunch member and believer in the prin- 
 ciples of that party. He was raised a member 
 of the Mormon Church and has served in the 
 different departments of that denomination. His 
 counsel to young men and young women is con- 
 sidered valuable, as he has always taken an ac- 
 tive interest in their lives and in their Mutual 
 Improvement Associations. He has served on a 
 mission to the old and historical State of North 
 Carolina, where he remained eighteen months, 
 mingling with the citizens of that State, and 
 through his efiforts many good citizens were in- 
 duced to come to Utah and help develop this new 
 country. While he was absent on this mission 
 his wife was taken sick, and upon hearing the 
 news he returned home as fast as possible, but 
 she never recovered from the illness and died on 
 August 25, 1899. 
 
 ISHOP HEBER BENNION. The 
 history of the early pioneers who 
 crossed the great American plains un- 
 der the most difficult and trying con- 
 ditions, menaced by the savage and 
 untamed red man and the wild beasts which 
 roamed at large, has formed a chapter in the his- 
 tory of Utah and of this western country which 
 can never be stamped out. The members who 
 settled in Utah in the early days were all mem- 
 bers of the Mormon Church, and in fact it was 
 on account of their faith in that Church that in- 
 spired them to forego the comforts of life and 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 endure the privations and hardships incident to 
 settling in a new country, and especially Utah, 
 which at that time was so far removed from 
 the seat of civilization ; but the splendid record 
 which they and their sons and daughters have 
 made in this country will be looked upon with 
 pride by all future generations, as well as by 
 their posterity. 
 
 Bishop Heber Bennion, the subject of this 
 sketch, was born in Taylorsville Ward, in the 
 old English fort, November 28, 1858. He is the 
 son of John and Mary (Turpin) Bennion, both 
 natives of England. John Bennion, the father of 
 the subject of this sketch, came to America with 
 his wife in 1842 and settled at Nauvoo, his 
 mother coming in 1845, ^^d the family lived 
 there until the exodus of the Mormon people in 
 1846, when they formed the first train of which 
 ever landed in Utah, arriving here in 1847. That 
 winter was spent in the Old Fort in Salt Lake 
 City, and in the following year the senior Ben- 
 nion raised a crop on the land which is now oc- 
 cupied by Salt Lake City. In the summer of 
 1849 John Bennion, his brother Samuel, Thomas 
 Mackay, Mr. Tarbet, Mr. Fields and Joseph 
 Harker crossed the Jordan river and established 
 an old fort known as the "Welsh Fort," located 
 close to the Jordan river, near Taylorsville, and 
 began farming. They built homes and had the 
 first farms and made the first settlement west of 
 the Jordan river. In 1853 they established what 
 was known as the old "English Fort," which was 
 located west of the Jordan river, and near Tay- 
 lorsville postoffice. Our subject's father took up 
 government land and continued in the farming 
 and stock raising business the balance of his life. 
 He was the husband of three wives, and had 
 twenty-three children, our subject being the eld- 
 est son of the third wife, and was born and raised 
 in Taylorsville, where he has spent all of his 
 life. He early started out for himself and en- 
 gaged in farming and the most of his life was 
 given to the cattle and sheep business. 
 
 He was married in 1885 to Miss Susie Winters, 
 daughter of Oscar and Mary Ann (S'tearns) Win- 
 ters, whose parents came to Utah in 1852. Bishop 
 Bennion has seven children, all of whom are 
 
 living: Ethelyn, a student in the college of the 
 Latter Day Saints at Salt Lake City; Heber; 
 Mary ; Lucile ; Helen ; Sterling A. ; Rulon O. 
 
 Bishop Bennion has one of the finest homes 
 in Salt Lake county, lying west of the Redwood 
 road and a little north of the old Taylorsville 
 postoffice. This land was all unimproved and in 
 a barren state when Bishop Bennion took hold 
 of it, and he has by perseverance, determination 
 and hard work brought it up to a wonderful state 
 of development, and at present it is considered 
 one of the best improved farms in Salt Lake 
 county. He has a beautiful brick residence, which 
 is substantial and large, and all the outbuildings 
 and barns are of the best and of the latest im- 
 provements. Bishop Bennion has also taken an 
 active part in the development of the fruit in- 
 dustries of this State, having one of the finest 
 prune orchards in the countr)', and this year, 
 1901, he has raised and shipped over twelve thou- 
 sand pounds of this commodity to the market. 
 His farm consists of one hundred and fifty acres 
 and while he has taken an active part in its de- 
 velopment, he has also been largely identified 
 in the stock business, both cattle and sheep, and 
 is today one of the leaders along this line, and 
 one of the most prosperous and prominent farm- 
 ers in Salt Lake county. 
 
 In politics he is a Democrat and has taken an 
 active part in that party, having served in the 
 Territorial Legislature, and also two terms since it 
 was admitted as a State. For many years he was 
 a member 01 the Democratic county committee, 
 and also a member of the State central committee, 
 during which time he was closely associated with 
 Judge Powers. He was a staunch supporter and 
 worked hard for the election of Senator Rawlins. 
 
 He was born and raised a Mormon and has al- 
 way taken a prominent and active part in the 
 affairs in this Church, having served two mis- 
 sions in the Northwest States, and has been Pres- 
 ident of a Quorum of Seventies. He was made 
 Bishop of Taylorsville Ward in January, 1890. 
 His wife is a member of the Ladies' Relief Asso- 
 ciation, and takes an active part in all of the 
 Church work. She has the honor of being Presi- 
 dent of the first Woman's Literary Society ever 
 
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 organized in Taylorsville Ward. She is a sister 
 of Heber J. Grant's wife. Mrs. Bennion's grand- 
 mother, Rebecka Winters, died of cholera when 
 crossing the plains to this country, and was 
 buried on the banks of the North Platte, in Ne- 
 braska. The grave was marked by a wagon tire, 
 one of the members of the company inscribing on 
 the inside of the tire "Rebecka Winters." For 
 many years the family had lost track of this grave 
 and only knew that it was somewhere on the 
 North Platte river, until the Burlington railroad, 
 which recently made excavations for a branch 
 line, discovered the wagon tire, noted the inscrip- 
 tion and wrote to the President of the Mormon 
 Church for information as to who the party was ; 
 and in this way the family became acquainted 
 with the location, and since that time the relatives 
 have erected a beautiful monument over the 
 grave, with the Salt Lake Temple building in- 
 scribed thereon, the Burlington company having 
 left the grave undisturbed. 
 
 Bishop Bennion, by his integrity and honesty, 
 has built a record and made a success of which 
 any man may well be proud, and which his pos- 
 terity will always regard with pleasure. 
 
 DWARD PAYSON FERRY has for al- 
 most a quarter of a century been one 
 <jf the stalwart figures in the mining 
 industry of this State, but more es- 
 pecially of the Park City district. 
 \Micn he came here the illimitable wealth of the 
 mountains of Utah was just beginning to be 
 realized, and but little outside capital had been in- 
 vested or interested. A great change has come 
 over the face of the mining industry since those 
 days, and Utah has forged to the front as one 
 of the greatest mineral producing States of the 
 West, her wealth as yet but feebly estimated, but 
 every year seeing more Eastern capital interested, 
 and greater strides made in investigating the hid- 
 den treasures of mountain-sides. Without the 
 unwavering support of such men as Edward P. 
 Ferry, Utah must have remained in obscurity 
 many years yet, her riches unknown and her 
 progress crippled. These men have brought to 
 
 her their wealth of brain power, and with a cour- 
 age in her future greatness that has at times been 
 sublime, have stood by every scheme put forth for 
 her advancement, giving of their time and means, 
 and asking in return nothing but that they might 
 live to see the fruits of their labors. Some of 
 them have passed on, but a few remain, and 
 among them none more widely beloved or sin- 
 cerely honored than the gentleman whose name 
 appears at the head of this article. 
 
 Edward Payson Ferry was born at Grand Ha- 
 ven, Michigan, on April 16, 1837. His parents 
 were Rev. William M. and Amanda W. Ferry. 
 They were among the earliest settlers in Ottawa 
 county, ^here the father was a noted Presby- 
 byterian minister, and became prominently iden- 
 tified with the industrial development of Western 
 Michigan. Our subject was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and later for a short time attended 
 Beloit College. He has always been a great 
 reader, particularly upon historical and political 
 subjects. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Ferry was married to Miss Clara 
 \'irginia White. Five children were born of this 
 union, four of whom are now living. 
 
 About 1873, Mr. Ferry became interested, 
 through W. H. Howland, in mining interests in 
 Parley's Park District, Utah, and among the rest 
 the Woodside, afterwards famous as the nucleus 
 of the May Flower and Silver King mines, in 
 both of which corporations Mr. Ferry became a 
 heavy stockholder and leader, not only in the 
 management of the mines, but in the settlement 
 of the Nerthland litigation. It was he who or- 
 ganized the Crescent and later the Anchor, and 
 was also instrumental in organizing the Alliance, 
 and prominent in its affairs. All these proper- 
 ties were valuable, and except for the serious 
 slump in silver in 1892-93, would have been great 
 producers, even in that great camp. Besides 
 these mines he has also been associated with the 
 Boss, Daly West, Quincy and others. 
 
 It was the knowledge of the necessity of more 
 careful business methods in connection with his 
 many mining interests which impelled Mr. Ferry 
 to leave his Michigan home and take up his resi- 
 dence in Park Citv, which he did in 1878. A 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 peerless helpmeet always, his loved and loving 
 wife — anxious to have the lot of him she loved 
 made happy, forsook her comfortable home in 
 Grand Haven, and took up her residence with her 
 husband in Park City in 1879. I* ^'^^ here their 
 youngest child was born, in 1880, and here she 
 met her tragic death a year later, while riding 
 along a steep mountain side with her husband — 
 a habit which afi'ordod her always great pleasure. 
 
 Mr. Ferry's Michigan career was one of great 
 business and political activity, although he al- 
 ways eschewed the holding of ofifice. He was 
 largely interested in the lake carrying trade and 
 in the manufacture of lumber ; he was the man- 
 aging partner of the firm of Ferry Brothers, at 
 one time one of the largest firms of lumber mer- 
 chants in the State. In addition to these duties 
 he found time to manage all the political cam- 
 paigns of his brother, Hon. Thomas White Ferry, 
 and was instrumental to a great extent in plac- 
 ing him in the Congress and the Senate of the 
 United States, where he served some sixteen 
 years with honor to himself and satisfaction to 
 his constituents. He was President pro tem of 
 the Senate and acting Vice-President during the 
 latter part of President Grant's second admin- 
 istration, after the death of Henry Nilson. When 
 his brother Edward W. was defeated for election 
 in the United States Senate, and just before 
 Thomas W. Palmer was elected to succeed him, 
 Edward P. Ferry was offered the election by both 
 factions of the party, but his loyalty to his 
 brother prompted him to decline the honor. He 
 was, during his active career, an exceptionally 
 far-seeing, able and honorable politician and 
 business man. Both the Senator and E. P. Ferry 
 were stalwart Republicans, while the other sur- 
 viving brother, William M., is a Democrat, 
 while again. Major Noah H. Ferry, another 
 brother, a Democrat before the War, was a Re- 
 publican during that fearful conflict, and sur- 
 rendered his life at the head of his regiment in 
 the Little Round Top during the second dreadful 
 day of Gettysburg. 
 
 E. P. Ferry was always an aggressive man, 
 both in business and politics — a tireless worker, a 
 shrewd organizer, he possessed to a marked de- 
 
 gree the elements which drew men to him in- 
 stinctively as a leader among leaders — the peer 
 of the West. When stricken with the fearful ill- 
 ness which has held him a chained sufferer for 
 over ten years, he was planning the alignment of 
 the Republican party of Utah, rejuvinated and re- 
 organized out of the discordant element of the 
 past, with the fortunes of the great Republican 
 party of the Nation. That had he remained in 
 possession of sound health and all his powerful 
 faculties until the happening of that happy event, 
 no one who knows him questions for an instant 
 that he would have taken a very high place in the 
 councils and management of the affairs of this 
 glorious State. Remarkably true and steadfast 
 to his friends, they were always anxious to honor 
 him, and were honored in so doing. JNIr. Ferry 
 took an active part in the political struggle 
 against the powers of the Mormon Church in 
 State affairs. He was twice elected to the State 
 Legislature in Utah, and was the Liberal (non- 
 Mormon) candidate for Speaker of the House. 
 For several years he was the delegate to the 
 Trans-Mississippi Congress, and always took a 
 prominent part in the debates. In 1890, when the 
 Congress met in Denver, Mr. Ferry was elected 
 Chairman. 
 
 He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, hav- 
 ing attained to the degree of Knight Templar in 
 that institution. 
 
 Those who know and love him most firmly be- 
 lieve that, inasmuch as he is of a long-lived race, 
 he will be strong enough to overcome his present 
 trouble and regain the possession of a healthy 
 body and mind, as of yore. Generous to his 
 friends, just to his enemies, if he had any — 
 and he was too positive and pronounced in his 
 opinion not to have. — always serene, respectful 
 and self-respecting, he commanded involuntary 
 respect from all who knew him. He always was 
 a man among men. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 635 
 
 AXIEL SBIPER. Perhaps no other 
 European country has furnished so 
 many of her noble sons to the advance- 
 ment and upbuilding of the State of 
 Utah as has England, and certainly 
 no people have been more zealous in their work 
 both for the State and the Church than have 
 those whose birth occurred in the Mother coun- 
 try. Among those who came here in early life 
 and have since devoted their time and strength 
 to the work of transforming this country into 
 one of the loveliest spots in the western empire, 
 may be mentioned Daniel Simper, the subject of 
 this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Simper was born in Gloucestershire, Eng- 
 land, in 1848, and is the son of T. W. and Eliza- 
 beth (Massey) Simper, both natives of that coun- 
 try. The family became converts to the Mormon 
 religion and in 1865 crossed the Atlantic ocean 
 and came by rail as far as Nebraska City, Ne- 
 braska, where they joined a train of three hun- 
 dred Mormon emigrants. This was later aug- 
 mented by a freight train of two hundred wagons 
 and the entire company of five hundred wagons 
 made the entire journey across the country 
 through the Black Hills, the journey occupying 
 two months. After the Black Hills had been 
 passed, a returning missionary, Professor Bare- 
 foot, caught up with them and offered to pilot 
 some of the party the rest of the distance; ac- 
 cordingly Mr. Simper and nine other parties left 
 the main train and reached Salt Lake City some 
 days ahead of the others, arriving on November 
 2, 1865. After camping for two days in the city 
 they went to Taylorsville and made their home 
 there for two years. At the end of that time 
 our subject, who was then nineteen years of age, 
 moved to where his home now is, purchasing thir- 
 teen acres of land, and began life for himself. 
 He has since increased this until at this time he 
 has a fine farm of sixty-eight acres, all under a 
 good stater of cultivation. This property is lo- 
 cated in the Grant Ward. Here he has built a 
 modern brick residence, and his grounds are em- 
 bellished with shade trees, good lawns, flowers, 
 etc. He also owns a large stock farm of three 
 hundred and seventy-eight acres "in the Provo 
 
 river valley, which he uses chiefly for the raising 
 of sheep and cattle. He also has some stock on 
 his home place, and a large band of sheep in 
 Wyoming. He has about five thousand head of 
 sheep, all told, besides his cattle, and is one of 
 the well-to-do men of Salt Lake county. 
 
 His marriage occurred in Salt Lake City in 
 1872, when he was united to Miss Mary A. 
 Panter, daughter of William and Sarah (Lane) 
 Panter. Ten children were born of this mar- 
 riage, all of whom live in the neighborhood of 
 the parents, and some of the boys work for their 
 father. The farm is in charge of the eldest son. 
 Almost all of his stock is shipped to the eastern 
 markets. 
 
 In politics Mr. Simper is a Republican, but 
 owing to his large and varied interests both at 
 home and abroad, he has never actively partici- 
 pated in its work. Both himself and all his fam- 
 ily belong to the Mormon Church. 
 
 One of the features of Mr. Simper's home 
 place is a handsome outdoor cellar built entirely 
 of granite, which was taken from the chippings 
 of the stone used in the erection of the Brigham 
 Young monument and was quarried in the Little 
 Cottonwood canyon. 
 
 HOMAS W. DIMOND. Among the 
 prominent young men of Salt Lake 
 county who have made rapid strides 
 along the roads of a successful life dur- 
 ing the past twenty years in Utah, 
 should be mentioned Thomas W. Dimond, the 
 subject of this sketch. He was born in the town 
 of Crewkerne, Sommersetshire, England, March 
 22nd, 1866, being in the thirty-sixth year of his 
 life. He has already demonstrated his ability to 
 handle and control the large business interests of 
 which he and his brothers are connected, under 
 the firm name of Dimond Brothers. 
 
 He is a son of Henry J. and Elizabeth (Weber) 
 Dimond, who were also natives of the same sec- 
 tion where our subject was born in England. 
 Mr. Dimond spent his early life . in the town 
 where he was born, being educated in the schools 
 of that section. At the early age of twelve years 
 
636 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he went to work in a factory where he remained 
 for about one year. Not being content with the 
 opportunities which England afforded to young 
 men, he set sail for America in the fall of 1880, 
 and arrived in Utah that autumn. His first work 
 here was on a farm, where he and his brothers be- 
 came interested in the sheep business, which they 
 have continued to follow successfully ever since, 
 the firm constisting of our subject, Robert E., 
 and Walter A., under the style of the Dimond 
 Brothers Company. 
 
 While Mr. Dimond makes his home in Salt 
 Lake county, most of their stock interests are lo- 
 cated in Wyoming, where they are largely in- 
 terested in the sheep business. His parents and 
 all the family live in the vicinity of our subject's 
 home. William S., the oldest brother came to 
 America in 1874, and resides in West Jordan 
 Ward. During the year 1896 Mr. Dimond pur- 
 chased twenty acres of fine land on what is known 
 as Redwood Road, east of Taylorsville postoffice, 
 and has continued to improve and beautify his 
 place. In 1898 he built a two-story pressed brick 
 residence, which contains thirteen rooms, besides 
 the basement, having all the modern improve- 
 inents, hot and cold water, etc., and is one of the 
 prettiest homes in Salt Lake county. 
 
 ]\Ir. Dimond married October 14, 1896, to Miss 
 Nora Bennion, daughter of S. R. and Mary 
 (Banter) Bennion, whose father is Bresident of 
 the Uintah Stake of Zion. They have three chil- 
 dren, Ethel Lucile, Thomas Wayne, and Mary. 
 
 In politics Mr. Dimond has always been in 
 favor of protection, and therefore has followed 
 the fortunes of the Republican party. 
 
 He is one of the prominent and faithful mem- 
 bers of the Mormon Church, having been bap- 
 tized in that faith before leaving his native coun- 
 try. His family are also members of the same 
 church. Mr. Dimond has served his Church on a 
 mission to England, being set apart October 14, 
 1898, returning January 2, 1901. 
 
 He has also taken a prominent part in the home 
 missionary affairs, and is Superintendent of re- 
 ligious classes. Mr. Dimond by his straightfor- 
 ward, conscientious business principles has won 
 the esteem and respect of all who have become 
 
 acquainted with him, and enjoys a large circle of 
 friends, not only in Utah, but in Wyoming, where 
 he is known as a prominent stock man. 
 
 OHN COOK. Since his baptism in the 
 Mormon faith in England, on Decem- 
 ber 25, 1850, John Cook has been an 
 earnest supporter of the Church, and a 
 zealous worker in its interests. From 
 this time on until 1861, when he left England for 
 America, he led an active Church life, making 
 proselvtes to the Mormon faith. He was made 
 the Bresident of a branch of the Church in Eng- 
 land, and in January, 1856, was called to preside 
 over the Nottingham Conference, remaining its 
 Bresident for a period of two years. He estab- 
 lished pastors during 1858 and 1859 i" F- D. 
 Richards' time, and was himself pastor of three 
 Conferences — at Nottingham, Derby, and Leices- 
 ter. In i860 he was in Liverpool, from which 
 port he sailed for America. He had served five 
 years as a missionary before he came to the 
 United States. In 1861 Mr. Cook arrived in 
 America, reaching Salt Lake City on the fifteenth 
 day of September, 1861, after crossing the plains 
 in a wagon train under the captaincy of Ira H. EI- 
 dredge. Without loss of time he came on to 
 ]\Iill Creek Ward, where he built an adobe house 
 in which he and his family lived until 1892. Then 
 he built a substantial brick house and homestead- 
 ed one hvmdred and sixty acres. He still retains 
 forty-two acres of this homestead, and shade 
 trees have sprung up to beautify and protect his 
 home. 
 
 Mr. Cook leans to Democracy in his political 
 views. He has been back in England for two 
 years on missionary work, and has devoted eight 
 months of his time to similar work Th the United 
 States. He has been a High Briest in the Church 
 for twenty-five years and Bresident of the High 
 Briest's Quorum. When Granite Stake was or- 
 ganized he was made the Bresident of the 
 Quorum. 
 
 John Cook was born in Newthorpe, England, 
 on November 28, 1822. He came of an old and 
 honored family, and being the oldest son he was 
 
BIOGRAPHICAE RECORD. 
 
 637 
 
 called John, that worthy patronymic having de- 
 scended from father to first-born son for a period 
 of three hundred years without exception. His 
 father was John Cook and his mother had been 
 a Miss Hannah Severn. In 1844 he was married 
 in England to Rachel ^Marsden, a daughter of 
 William and Mary (Wood) Marsden, and five 
 children were the fruit of this union, of whom 
 four are still living. Of these John, the eldest, 
 lives at Ashley, and the other three, Elizabeth, 
 Eliza and Sarah, at Provo. ^lary Ann, the sec- 
 ond daughter, was married and died, leaving 
 three children. The mother of these children 
 died in 1882. 
 
 y[. MOORE, the Vice-president of the 
 B. and O. Transfer Company, and the 
 General Agent of the Union Pacific 
 Coal Company of Salt Lake City, was 
 born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 
 1858. and there spent his early life. He was edu- 
 cated in the regular schools of that city, and at 
 the age of twenty began his career as a school 
 teacher, which he followed for three years. Find- 
 ing the opportunities in this business limited, he 
 decided to turn his attention to railroad work, 
 and with that end in view learned telegraphy, 
 and secured employment with the Chicago, Burl- 
 ington and Quincy Railroad Company in Nebras- 
 ka, and served in different places in that State, 
 in various capacities, until 1886, when he quit 
 railroading and entered the employ of the S. K. 
 Martin Lumber Company in Nebraska, and re- 
 mained with that company for four years, and 
 then accepted a position as traveling salesman 
 for the Howard Lumber Company, with head- 
 quarters at Omaha, which position he retained 
 for two years. From the lumber business he 
 next turned his attention to the coal business and 
 secured a similar position with the Henderson 
 Retail Coal Company, and then entered the ser- 
 vice of Hiram Tidbal! & Company, coal deal- 
 ers, with whom he remained for some time, and 
 then entered the service of the Union Pacific Coal 
 Company, with headquarters at Butte, Montana, 
 where he remained for two years, leaving that 
 
 position as a General Manager, to take up head- 
 quarters at Salt Lake City, where he has repre- 
 sented this company for the past eight years. 
 
 He was one of the principal organizers of the 
 B. and O. Transfer Company, one of the largest 
 cartage firms in Salt Lake City, and one which 
 from a small beginning has grown to its present 
 proportions through the able management of its 
 officers. Mr. Moore has won for himself an en- 
 viable position in the business world of Salt Lake 
 City and has aided greatly in the growth of the 
 city and in the development of the commercial 
 wealth of the inter-mountain region. His in- 
 terests are not confined to the transfer company, 
 but include a great many of the more prominent 
 business establishments in this city. For several 
 years he was President of the B. and O. Trans- 
 fer Company, and at present is its Vice-president. 
 He is rated as one of the most substantial citi- 
 zens of the city and one who by his work in the 
 Union Pacific Coal Company, and in promoting 
 and establishing the transfer company, of which 
 he is one of the officers, has become one of the 
 most influential business men of L'tah. 
 
 He married in Missouri on January 17, 1882, 
 to ]\Iiss Grace K. Butler, daughter of Sadler But- 
 ler, a prominent furniture manufacturer in West- 
 ern Missouri. Mrs. Moore's family is one of the 
 oldest in that State, and one which has been 
 prominent both in financial and business circles 
 for a long time. The father of the subject of this 
 sketch was a successful merchant and stockman 
 in Missouri, who died at the age of seventy-four, 
 about twelve years since. His wife, Theodosia 
 (Williams) Moore, and the mother of the subject 
 of this sketch, was born in Virgmia, and her 
 family was one of the old and prominent families 
 in Virginia, being among the early settlers of the 
 Old Dominion. By this marriage Mr. Moore has 
 two children, Emmett and Roy. 
 
 In political life he has always been a staunch 
 Democrat, but has been so actively engaged in 
 business life that he has never participated ac- 
 tively in the work of that party, so far as being 
 a candidate for office is concerned, and which dis- 
 tinction he has never coveted nor desired. In so- 
 cial life he is a member of the Elks and of the 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Maccabees. The career which Mr. Moore has 
 made for himself has marked him as one of the 
 leading business men of this community, and his 
 success has been achieved by his own industry 
 and application to his business. He has never 
 depended upon any one for any financial aid but 
 has won his own way by his perseverance and 
 merit. He is well and popularly known in all 
 the business world of the inter-mountain region, 
 and enjoys the confidence and esteem of all the 
 men with whom he is associated, and has a wide 
 popularity, counting his friends by the score. 
 
 HOMAS M. SCHUMACHER. After 
 the roadway of the railroad is secured, 
 the tracks laid, stations built and the 
 motive power supplied, it may be said 
 that the real work of the railroad 
 starts. These are but the accessories of the rail- 
 road, without which it cannot carry on its busi- 
 ness. It of course must first have a roadway, 
 motive power, rolling stock and the necessary 
 stations before it can enter upon its business 
 career, but after these have been suppliea there 
 is a demand created for a man who can properly 
 manage the freight traffic of the road. In all the 
 railroads throughout the United States the traf- 
 fic is divided into two general heads ; one, the 
 freight and the most profitable as well as the 
 larger volume of business, and the passenger, 
 the less profitable, but valued from the adver- 
 tising it gives to the road. The position of gen- 
 eral traffic manager of a road is filled always 
 by the selection of a man who has been in close 
 touch with the freight department for a number 
 of years, and who by his experience and by the 
 ability he has demonstrated in less responsible 
 positions, shows himself capable of managing 
 and directing the great resources of the company. 
 In this position is required a man who is not 
 alone capable of directing the movement of 
 freight and supplying the demand for cars, but 
 he must also be a man in touch with the general 
 business of the territory drained by his road, and 
 conversant with the detail of the everyday life of 
 the people who constitute the patrons of the com- 
 pany, as well as thoroughly versed in the finan- 
 
 cial affairs of the entire country. To be chosen 
 for such a position is a great tribute to the execu- 
 tive and administrative ability of a man, and 
 there is no more responsible position in the rail- 
 road, nor one which if illy managed cripples the 
 company greater than does an incompetent man- 
 ager. The management of the vast freight in- 
 terests of the Oregon Short Line has been en- 
 trusted to a man who by his previous experience 
 in railroading and in general mercantile life has 
 demonstrated that he is one of the leading busi- 
 ness men of the West, and one who understands 
 the railroad business, especially the movement 
 of freight, from Alpha to Omega. The reputa- 
 tion which he has acquired in the discharge of his 
 duties has won for him a leading position in the 
 ranks of railroad men who are charged with the 
 management and movement of the freight of the 
 great railroads of this country. 
 
 Mr. Schumacher was born in Williamsport, 
 Pennsylvania, in 1861, but his early life was spent 
 in Ohio, whither his parents had moved when he 
 was quite young. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of that State and started out on his 
 railroad career at the age of sixteen, securing 
 employment with the C. C. C. and I. Railroad 
 Company as a telegraph operator and clerk in 
 the freight department. He remained with this 
 company from 1877 until 1881, and then entered 
 the service of the Pittsburg, Chicago, Columbus 
 and St. Louis Railroad, known as the "Pan Han- 
 dle," now forming a portion of the system of 
 the Pennsylvania company. He was employed 
 in its train service, with headquarters at In- 
 dianapolis, and here he remained until 1883. He 
 next entered the employ of the Chicago, Burling- 
 ton and Quincy Railroad, with headquarters in 
 East St. Louis, where he was a clerk in the 
 freight department for about one year, and then 
 became connected with the Missouri Pacific in 
 St. Louis as chief billing clerk, and later as 
 chief clerk, and remained with that company 
 until 1888, when he entered the service of the 
 Union Pacific Railroad Company, with head- 
 quarters in St. Louis. Here he was employed 
 as chief clerk of that company's offices until 1891. 
 He then went to Omaha and assumed the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 duties of the position of chief clerk in the general 
 freight department, remaining in that capacity 
 for three years. The ability with which he had 
 discharged the various duties entrusted to him, 
 had already won for him a wide reputation as a 
 prominent railroad man, and from Omaha he 
 went to San Francisco, being the general agent 
 of the Union Pacific, which he continued to be 
 until October i, 1898, when he left the railroad 
 service and became the Vice-president of the 
 Continental Fruit and Express Company, and 
 was also made its general manager, with head- 
 quarters in Chicago. This was one of the im- 
 portant express companies, and especially so in 
 the movement of fruit to the Eastern markets, 
 and enjoyed a large and profitable business dur- 
 ing the two years that Mr. Schumacher was at 
 the head of its affairs. He resigned his position 
 with this company and again re-entered the ser- 
 vice of the Union Pacific Railroad, as its general 
 agent at San Francisco, where he remained until 
 September i, 1901, when he became the Traffic 
 Manager of the Oregon Short Line, with head- 
 quarters at Salt Lake City, which position he has 
 held ever sinc^ 
 
 In political life our subject has been a Repub- 
 lican ever since the first administration of Presi- 
 dent McKinley, and has since followed the for- 
 tunes of that party. He has never participated 
 actively in politics, owing to the confining duties 
 of the positions he has held, and to the necessity 
 of devoting his entire time and attention to his 
 railroad duties. He is a member of the clubs 
 of Salt Lake City, and has been a popular club 
 man in all the cities in which he has resided dur- 
 ing his busy career. He is rated as one of the 
 best traffic managers in the railroad systems of 
 the United States, and has shown marked ability 
 in every work which he has taken up. He en- 
 joys a wide popularity throughout the country, 
 and with the patrons of the Oregon Short Line. 
 He is a genial and pleasant man, and one who by 
 his integrity and honesty has made for himself a 
 prominent place in the ranks of the business men 
 of the country. He is well and favorably known 
 throughout Utah and the entire West, and counts 
 his friends bv the score. 
 
 RESIDENT W. W. CLUFF. Much 
 has been properly written about the mar- 
 velous growth and development of the 
 State of Utah during the comparatively 
 short period of little more than half a 
 ceiitur}-. Fifty-five years ago it was a barren 
 stretch of land, given over to the savage red man 
 and the wild animals that roamed the mountains, 
 plains and valleys, and was almost wholly un- 
 known to the white man. Occasionally some in- 
 trepid hunter or trapper, familiar with the In- 
 dian language and with their habits of life, 
 camped for a few weeks or months along the 
 mountain streams, but until the leaders of the 
 Church established by Joseph Smith, and known 
 as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
 Sain4:s, or Mormon Church, after being driven 
 from State to State, and city to city, by the peo- 
 ple opposed to their religion, finally decided to 
 leave all traces of civilization and travel west- 
 ward until they should so far separate themselves 
 from all who were not in entire sympathy with 
 them as to secure for themselves immunity from 
 further persecutions, and where they might es- 
 tablish homes and live as their consciences dic- 
 tated ; until this time arrived civilized man had 
 not thought of planting his home among the rude 
 and uninviting environments of the western fron- 
 tier. However, with this western movement a 
 new era dawned upon the American people, and 
 a few years after the hardy pioneers blazed the 
 way across the great American desert, people be- 
 gan to flock to Utah and finally spread out into 
 other regions, and the West has since become the 
 Mecca for the ambitious and enterprising men 
 and women of all States. It is not our intention, 
 however, to give particular heed at this time to 
 Utah as a State, but to the Church which was 
 planted here by the Mormon people, and which 
 has since gathered thousands upon thousands of 
 the poor and oppressed of every land into her am- 
 ple bosom, bringing them to a veritable land flow- 
 ing with milk and honey, and establishing them 
 in homes where they might not only live in com- 
 fort and happiness, but also have an opportunity 
 to acquire affluence and high honors in the mu- 
 nicipal government of the State if they so de- 
 
640 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 sired. The government of the Mormon Church 
 appears to an outsider to resemmble more a wheel 
 within a wheel, each doing its particular work 
 methodically and without friction, and yet each 
 depending upon the other. The vast work that 
 has been so successfully accomplished and which 
 is still being carried on with unabated enthusiasm, 
 has required men of brain as well as brawn, and 
 it has in many instances been necessary that some 
 of these men give their entire life to the work of 
 the Church. Such a man is President W. W. 
 Cluff, whose name heads this article. 
 
 He is the son of David and Betsy (Hall) 
 Cluff, and was born March 8, 1832, in Willough- 
 by Geauga county, Ohio. The name of this coun- 
 ty has since been changed to Lake. The father 
 was born in Durham, New Hampshire, and was 
 by trade a ship carpenter. He moved to Ohio in 
 183 1, and there engaged in farming. Having 
 become a convert to the teachings of Mormonism, 
 he moved to Kirkland, that State, in 1835. Here 
 the first Mormon Temple was erected. Two 
 years later the Saints moved to Far West, Mis- 
 souri, and the Cluff family prepared to go with 
 them. However, when they had reached Spring- 
 field all the family, with the exception of the 
 father and one son, were stricken with chills and 
 fever, and this necessitated their remaining in 
 Springfield until the sick members had recovered. 
 They lived in that city until the Mormon people 
 began to gather in Commerce, later known as 
 Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1840, and there joined them 
 and made their home in Nauvoo until the exodus 
 in 1846, when they went to Council Bluffs. In 
 1850 they crossed the plains to Utah, the father 
 taking up a farm in Provo and remaining there 
 until he had reached the age of eighty-four years, 
 when he and his wife went to Arizona, where 
 four of their sons were living, and spent the re- 
 mainder of their Hves in that Territory; the 
 father dying at the age of eighty-eight and the 
 mother at the age of seventy-eight. They had 
 eleven sons and one daughter ; she was the step- 
 mother of one son, making twelve boys in the 
 family ; all of whom are still living except David, 
 the eldest son, who died Guymas, Mexico, on 
 the Gulf of California, with the yellow fever. Mr. 
 
 Cluff was a natural pioneer. He was one of the 
 first settlers in Canada, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, 
 Utah and Arizona. He served in the War of 
 1812. He was a man of more than ordinary abil- 
 ity, commanding the highest respect and esteem 
 of those who knew him, as a man of unimpeach- 
 able integrity, and after rendering valuable ser- 
 vice to his Church and community passed away 
 deeply mourned by all who had been associated 
 with him through a long and honorable life. 
 
 When the family moved to Kirtland our subject 
 was a child of four years, and attended his first 
 school in Nauvoo, at the age of eight years, later 
 picking up what book knowledge was possible to 
 the boys and girls of this new land. He lived 
 at home with his father until 1854, and in this 
 year at the age of twenty-two, received his first 
 call for missionary work from the Church. He 
 was sent to the Sandwich Islands in company 
 with eighteen other young men and labored in 
 that field for over four years. He returned home 
 in 1858, stopping a short time in California, where 
 he met the estimable woman who afterwards be- 
 came his wife. In September, 1859, he was called 
 to go on a mission to Denmark, having his head- 
 quarters at Copenhagen. He applied himself to 
 mastering the Danish language and after he had 
 succeeded in doing so was appointed traveling 
 Elder, visiting the entire mission which comprised 
 Denmark, Sweden and Norway, spending over 
 three years in this work. Upon returning to 
 Utah he located in his former home, and on Octo- 
 ber 24, 1864, he was married to Miss Ann Whip- 
 ple, daughter of EH and Patience (Foster) Whip- 
 ple, early settlers in Utah. A full biographical 
 sketch of Mrs. Cluff and her interesting family 
 will be found in another part of this work. 
 
 On the 5th of March, 1865, Mr. Cluff was 
 again sent to the Sandwich Islands, spending 
 eighteen months in missionary work. Shortly 
 after his return from this trip he was called to 
 preside over the settlements in Morgan, Summit 
 and Wasatch counties as Presiding Bishop, mak- 
 ing his home during this time at Coalville. In 
 1869 he received his second call for missionary 
 work in Denmark and was sent to preside over 
 the Scandinavian mission, his headquarters again 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 being at Copenhagen. He remained away two 
 years and a half. Upon his return to Coalville, 
 Summit Stake was organized and has since been 
 known by this name. It comprised all the settle- 
 ments of Summit county and western part of 
 Wyoming. Bishop Cluff was appointed Presi- 
 dent of this Stake, filling that office until April 
 13, 1901, at which time he retired from active 
 life and has since spent his time at home with 
 his family, much of it at their handsome home in 
 Salt Lake City. 
 
 Almost his entire time from 1854 to 1901, has 
 been spent in the active duties of the Church, and 
 aside from his numerous missions he was sent in 
 1887 to make a business trip to the Sandwich 
 Islands, this trip occupying about two months. 
 Later, upon the celebration of the fiftieth anniver- 
 sary of the introduction of the gospel of Mor- 
 monism into the Sandwich Islands, accompanied 
 by his wife and President George O. Cannon he 
 made another trip to the islands, this being his 
 fourth journey to that part of the hemisphere. 
 
 In politics the Bishop is a strong Democrat and 
 during the intervals of home life has been quite 
 active in political matters. In the days when 
 Utah was a Territory he represented Summit 
 county six terms in the Legislature, two terms of 
 w'hich he served as a member of the Council, the 
 last term being its President. He was also twice 
 a member of the Territorial convention to adopt 
 a Constitution for the State. 
 
 While the most of his life has been spent away 
 from home, President Clufif has by the nature of 
 his work been brought into close touch with the 
 leaders of the Mormon Church, in whose confi- 
 dence and esteem he occupies a high place, and 
 has also in his public career been quite promi- 
 nently before the people of Utah, so that he is 
 no stranger to the citizens of this State. Mrs. 
 Cluff is known as one of the best business women 
 in Utah and the entire family occupy a high posi- 
 tion in both the social, business and religious life 
 of the State. 
 
 I WA 
 
 RS. ANN WHIPPLE CLUFF. At 
 this age of the world, an age of 
 progress, development and advance- 
 ment ; an age of untiring energy and 
 almost one incessant succession of 
 successes, it is no uncommon thing to see and 
 read of men who have by sheer determination, 
 perseverance and energy hewed out their destiny 
 and paved the way to influence, power and 
 wealth ; but it is not so common to read and hear 
 of a woman who by the same tactics has accom- 
 plished the same end. However, this is true of 
 the life and record of the subject of this article. 
 But few women in this country, or in any other 
 country, have a more just and legitimate right 
 to be proud of what they have accomplished, and 
 whose life and record will redound through the 
 generations yet to come, and whose posterity will 
 behold with more pride, than will the lineal de- 
 scendants of Mrs. Ann Whipple Clufif. 
 
 Born in McKeene county, Pennsylvania, near 
 the New York line, when but a young girl her 
 parents moved to 'California, via the Panama 
 route, an Indian carrying Mrs. Cluff on his back 
 across the mountains. They first settled in Red- 
 wood City, near San Francisco, where her father, 
 Eli, and her mother. Patience (Foster) Whipple, 
 built their first western home. In early manhood 
 Mr. W'hipple had been engaged in the lumber 
 business, first in the forests of Pennsylvania and 
 Ohio, and on coming to California, he was the 
 pioneer in that business there, and through his 
 efforts and business sagacity amassed a for- 
 tune in the California lumber business. Af- 
 ter spending a number of 3'ears in that 
 section, the family moved to Utah, settling near 
 St. George when that was an uninhabited sec- 
 tion, in 1858. Here Mr. Whipple built the first 
 saw mill and assisted largely in the upbuilding of 
 that country, where he resided until the past few 
 years, since which time he has made his home in 
 Mexico. Early in the history of the Mormon 
 Church in Pennsylvania, Mr. Whipple and his 
 wife had become followers of that church, and 
 have ever since been faithful, consistent members. 
 Our subject spent her childhood days in Penn- 
 sylvania and girlhood in California. Educated 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 at Santa Clara Seminary, California, at the age 
 of sixteen years she came to Utah with her par- 
 ents, and while living near Saint George married 
 Bishop W. W. Clufif, in 1864, having previously 
 met him in California. Mr. Cluff has for the 
 greater portion of his life been one of the stand- 
 bys in the missionary field for the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints, and at the time of 
 their marriage he had just returned from a for- 
 eign missionary trip to Europe, where he had la- 
 bored in Denmark. Three months after the mar- 
 riage ceremony was performed he was again 
 called on another foreign mission. Mrs. Clufif 
 was left with but a scant supply of food and 
 clothing, and with her husband away on a mis- 
 sion, the prospects for future financial successes 
 were not of the best, but having inherited a strong- 
 liking for business from her father, she could not 
 think of sitting idly down or merely taking care 
 of her household duties. During August her eld- 
 est son was born, and later she worked making 
 gloves, earning during that season between five 
 and six hundred dollars, at the same time per- 
 forming her household duties. This was the 
 starting point of Mrs. Clufif's financial success. 
 
 Taking what money she could spare out of the 
 six hundred dollars, she invested in the Co-opera- 
 tive store at Coalville. That proved a success. 
 She next built a frame house in Coalville, Summit 
 county, and later purchased a farm in that vicin- 
 ity, building on that and improving it. She next 
 built a fine hotel in Coalville, which is elegantly 
 furnished throughout, and which would be a credit 
 to a much larger city, Mrs. Clufif part of the time 
 giving her personal attention to the running of 
 the hotel. She now owns large property interests 
 in the different parts of the State, having a fine 
 vineyard and orchard at Provo, Utah county, ex- 
 tensive property in Ogden, and of recent date has 
 purchased the Hoyt Sherman home, an elegant 
 residence property located near the State Univer- 
 sity at No. 201 Douglas avenue. Salt Lake City. 
 All these places Mrs. Clufif has improved and fur- 
 nished complete. She now owns the majority of 
 the stock in the Co-operative store in Coalville ; 
 also having a h^lf interest in the opera house in 
 that town. 
 
 Mrs. Clufif has raised a family of eight children, 
 three daughters and one son — W. W. Cluff, Ju- 
 nior, traveling salesman for the Salt Lake Hard- 
 ware Company, and who married Edith Atwood, 
 daughter of Bishop S. F. Atwood, of Kamas ; 
 .\nnie May, wife of Frank W. Olsen, with the 
 Studebaker company, of Salt Lake City ; Lillian, 
 wife of John Powlas, residents of Ogden ; Flora 
 N., wife of Lawrence Eldredge, who resides in 
 Coalville. Four sons died in youth. She has 
 seven grandchildren. 
 
 In Church aliairs Mrs. Cluff has taken an 
 active and prominent part, especially in the way 
 of assisting financially, giving freely of her wealth 
 to many worthy causes. She has for many years 
 been Counselor to the President of the Relief So- 
 ciety of Summit Stake, and has for a number 
 of years had full charge of the millinery and 
 dressmaking establishment conducted by that so- 
 ciety, whose sole object is to assist the needy and 
 relieve the poor, and in these departments has 
 been an indefatigable worker. Mrs. ClufT's finan- 
 cial success, it might be said, has been accom- 
 plished practically through her own efforts. 
 While her husband, Bishoff Cluff, has assisted in 
 every way he could, yet most of his life has been 
 spent away from home in the interests of the 
 Church. 
 
 ISHOP HARRISOX SPERRY. Much 
 has been written in the past and much 
 will be written in the future of the 
 early pioneers who settled in Utah for 
 the purpose of reclaiming it from a wild 
 and barren waste to a prosperous and high con- 
 dition of civilization and advancement, but it is 
 a question, notwithstanding all that has been told 
 and written along this line, whether the future 
 generations will fully understand and realize what 
 this sturdy branch of the human family passed 
 through in paving the way of civilization in this 
 new and at that time far remote section of the 
 country. The hardships endured, the obstacles 
 overcome by the pioneers, can never be fully told 
 or understood. Among the men who settled in 
 Utah in 1847 ^"d who has passed through many 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of the trying scenes incident to settling in this 
 new country, Bishop Harrison Sperry deserves 
 special mention. 
 
 He was born in Trumble county, Ohio, in 1832, 
 and is the son of Joy Sperry, a native of New- 
 York State. Mr. Sperry was a pioneer settler of 
 Trumble county and from there moved to Han- 
 cock county, Illinois, in 1843, locating at Lay- 
 harp, and there became a member of the Mormon 
 Church. He was a carpenter by trade, but also 
 followed farming. At the time of the exodus of 
 the Mormon people in 1846 he started with his 
 family for Highland Grove, his wife dying at 
 Mount Pisgah. After burying his wife Mr. 
 Sperry continued his journey and died at High- 
 land Grove on New Years day, 1847. His son 
 Aaron also died there, their deaths being the re- 
 sult of the hardships and exposure endured. 
 
 The children thus left orphans, William, 
 Charles, Betsy and our subject, proceeded to 
 Winter Quarters and left there with an ox train 
 under command of Erastus Snow, J. M. Grant 
 and Alessrs. Noble and Gates, the two latter hav- 
 ing charge of fifty wagons each. After enduring 
 many hardships the company reached Salt Lake 
 City October 16, 1847. On reaching here the lit- 
 tle family camped at the old fort and the boys at 
 once began work building adobe houses. During 
 the winter they were compelled to kill many of 
 their oxen for meat, and in the spring dug sago 
 and thistle roots, which was their principal means 
 of subsistence, and occasionally obtaining a little 
 wild game. Our subject witnessed the survey- 
 ing and laying out of Salt Lake City, and during 
 1848-49 he, with his brothers and Samuel Miller, 
 took contracts for herding cattle on the Big Cot- 
 tonwood. They were attacked by Indians at one 
 time while engaged in this avocation, but their 
 lives were saved through the guns in the hands 
 of the Indians failing to discharge, and the party 
 was able to hide in the brush, owing to the dark- 
 ness. In the morning it was discovered that about 
 two hundred head of cattle had been driven off 
 by the marauders. A pursuing party was at once 
 sent out and recovered what cattle had not al- 
 ready been killed. Bishop Sperry also partici- 
 pated in the Indian troubles at Prove, in 1849, 
 
 being a volunteer under a regular United States 
 officer, and served in that campaign until the In- 
 dians were driven to the mountains. 
 
 In 1855 he was married to Miss Mary Mosley. 
 daughter of William Mosley, who died in Illinois. 
 The daughter came to Utah with her mother and 
 other members of the family in 1848. JNIrs. Sperry 
 died in 1862 and the Bishop married her sister, 
 Susan M. Mosley. He is the father of twenty- 
 two children, eight of whom are now living, and 
 husband of three wives. His third wife was Ellen 
 M. Butterworth, and like most of his old asso- 
 ciates he served six months in the penitentiary for 
 what they believed to be right. His son Charles 
 served on a mission to the Southern States, and 
 another son, George, is now in England on a mis- 
 sion, laboring in the Birmingham Conference. 
 
 Bishop Sperry was baptized into the Mormon 
 faith at the age of ten years, in Hancock county, 
 Illinois. He was ordained a Deacon when a mere 
 boy and soon after arriving in Salt Lake became 
 a teacher under Bishop Benjamin Brown, of the 
 Fourth Ward. He was ordained a Seventy early 
 in the sixties and later a High Priest and set 
 apart as Second Counselor to Bishop Brown, later 
 becoming First Counselor to Bishop Jenkins, the 
 successor of Bishop Brown, whom he succeeded 
 on May 20, 1875, ^"d has since presided over that 
 Ward and all its auxiliary branches. During the 
 time he has held this office there have been many 
 changes in the Ward, and a number of prominent 
 men of the City have been associated with him at 
 different periods as his Counselors. He has al- 
 ways been prominent in Sunday School work 
 and organized the Young Men's Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association in his Ward. 
 
 At the time of his marriage he became in- 
 terested in farming and has since owned a number 
 of pieces of land, the most of which he sold, and 
 is at this time interested in ranching and stock 
 raising in Tooele county, though he makes his 
 home in this City, where he purchased property in 
 the early fifties. 
 
 Bishop Sperry is a self-made man ; he began 
 at the very foot of the ladder, and the high rank 
 which he has since taken among the business men 
 of this localitv has been won bv his own unaided 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 efforts. He stands high in the esteem not only of 
 the leaders of his Church, but with all with whom 
 he has come in contact through a long and hon- 
 orable life. 
 
 ACKSOX R. ALLEN. The live stock 
 business has been handled more or less 
 in Utah ever since the pioneers settled 
 in this country. However, until the last 
 few years it has been of an inferior grade. 
 the thoroughbred grade of stock being very 
 scarce. Mr. Allen, the subject of this sketch, 
 was among the first to recognize the great need of 
 improvement along these lines, and by his untiring 
 efforts he has accomplished more in building up 
 and improving the live stock business, both cat- 
 tle and sheep, than almost any other man in Salt 
 Lake county. 
 
 Mr. Allen is a native son of Utah, having 
 been born in Draper Ward December 31, 1870, 
 and while he is comparatively a young man, he 
 has demonstrated his ability to handle and con- 
 trol the stock business in a manner that would 
 do credit to a man of more mature years. He 
 is the son of Andrew Jackson and Louisa (Rog- 
 ers) Allen. His father was a native of Ken- 
 tucky, being born in 1818, and his mother was 
 born in Glostershire, England. His paternal 
 grandfather, whose name was James Andrews 
 Allen, was also a native of Kentucky, this being 
 one of the old Kentucky families. Our subject's 
 father came to Utah in 1847 ^"d was married in 
 the Temple. Our subject is one of four brothers 
 of his father's last family, being the oldest of the 
 children. The Senior Mr. Allen died in July, 
 1884, and his wife still lives and makes her home 
 with the subject of this sketch. Andrew J. Allen 
 was a stock man all his life and he took an active 
 part in the work of the Mormon Church also. 
 Our subject's early education was derived from 
 the schools of Salt Lake City and county and he 
 later graduated from the University of Utah, in 
 the class of 1890. After his graduation he took 
 up book-keeping in the office of the Pioneer 
 Smelting Company at Sandy, but only followed 
 this for a short time. He was later in the County 
 
 Recorder's office about two years and served as a 
 member of the Board of Trustees for the Draper 
 schools for a couple of years. In the fall of 1890 
 he took up the blooded stock business, which he 
 has followed successfully ever since. He is in- 
 terested in both sheep and cattle, dealing prin- 
 cipally in the Short Horn cattle and Cotswold 
 sheep. Aside from dealing in fancy stock he also 
 does a general stock business, ranging most of the 
 time in Utah. In the company with which he is 
 identified all three of his brothers are also inter- 
 ested and it is known as Allen Brothers' Stock 
 Company. The ranch is known as the Excelsior 
 Stock Farm. They have seven different places, 
 six being in the vicinity of Draper and one at 
 Charleston, in Wasatch county. In 1890 Mr. 
 Allen built a splendid brick residence, which con- 
 tains thirteen rooms, being located one mile south 
 of the Draper postoffice, and he has on this place 
 some fine barns and all of the modern improve- 
 ments. It is today recognized as one of the finest 
 places in Salt Lake county. 
 
 In December, 1891, ]\Ir. Allen led to the mar- 
 riage altar Miss Matilda C. Day, daughter of 
 Henry Day, one of the pioneers to Utah. By this 
 marriage four children have been born — Leona 
 C, Ruth L., James H. and Mary D. 
 
 In politics Mr. Allen is a Democrat but has 
 never desired nor sought public office. He is a 
 member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
 Day Saints, as is also his wife and family, and 
 they have all taken an active part in the Church 
 work in Draper, Mr. Allen being an Elder in the 
 Church. 
 
 OXORABLE JOSEPH KIMBALL, 
 one of the most prominent business men 
 of Utah, was born in Salt Lake City, 
 December 22, 1851. He is a son of 
 Apostle Heber C. and Presendia La- 
 throp (Huntington) Kimball. Few men have 
 taken a more active part in the work of the 
 Church or in the development of Utah than has 
 the subject of this sketch. He is rated as a very 
 active business man of the inter-mountain region 
 and has become one of the most popular men of 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 645 
 
 Utah, both by his public service and by his in- 
 tegrity as a business man. He spent his boyhood 
 days in this City and was educated in its leading 
 schools, attending Morgan's Business College and 
 later entering the Deseret University. He re- 
 moved from Salt Lake to Meadowville, Rich 
 county, in 1871, and served as Bishop of that 
 Ward until his removal to Cache county in 1890, 
 from which section he was elected as a represen- 
 tative in the second Utah Legislature. He has 
 been in public life for a number of years.. The 
 first public office he held was as a member of the 
 Board of Selectmen of Rich county, which he held 
 from 1878 until August, 1884, when he was 
 elected Probate Judge of that county. In the 
 election which took place on March 3, 1885, he 
 was chosen a member of the House of Represen- 
 tatives of the Territorial Legislature, from the 
 district that comprised the counties of Cache and 
 Rich. When his term expired in 1887 he was 
 again elected Selectman, which position he held 
 until 1889, when he was re-elected. He was 
 elected a delegate to the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion from Rich county in 1882, and was also sent 
 to the Trans- Alississippi Congress at Ogden, as a 
 representative from Rich County. He has been 
 widely interested in the development of the agri- 
 cultural resources of the State, and has also been 
 actively interested in stock-raising and in mining. 
 He was one of the chief promotors and was after- 
 wards President and Director of two different 
 irrigation companies in the southern portion of 
 Bear Lake valley. He is now prominently identi- 
 fied with several mining properties in La Plata 
 and Bear Lake and is President and director in 
 many of the companies whose properties are lo- 
 cated in those districts. He was President of the 
 Logan Chamber of Commerce, and in the Mor- 
 mon Church is one of the Bishopric of the First 
 Ward of Logan. 
 
 Mr. Kimball was married on October 30, 1870, 
 to Miss Lathilla Pratt, daughter of Apostle Orson 
 and Mary Ann (Merrill) Pratt, and by this mar- 
 riage has thirteen children, eight sons and five 
 daughters — Joseph Raymond, Louie Presendia, 
 Florence, Earnest, Orson Heber, Alma, Clark, 
 Ethel Beatrice,01iver, Naomi Pearl, Reba Geneve, 
 
 Willard Lathrop, and Pratt. Of these children 
 six are now living in Canada. Louie Presendia is 
 now the wife of L. C. Pond, and she labored 
 with her husband on a mission in Tasmania for 
 three years. She is President of the Ladies' Mu- 
 tual Improvement Association of the Pocatello 
 Stake, Idaho. Florence is now the wife of Wil- 
 liam J. Hyde, of Baker City, Oregon. He served 
 three years in Germany on a mission. 
 
 The Kimball family is of old Revolutionary 
 stock, our subject's forefathers having been en- 
 gaged in all the wars which took place in Amer- 
 ica from 1634 to the last conflict with Great 
 Britain, and the Kimball family have been rep- 
 resented in the War with Mexico, the Civil War 
 and in all the Indian troubles on the western 
 frontier, and in the Spanish-American war. 
 
 Mr. Kimball has taken an active part in the 
 development of Utah and in the work of the 
 Church, and he is today one of the leading busi- 
 ness men of the inter-mountain region, and has 
 proved himself to be a faithful public officer and 
 one who has not only a great faith in the future 
 prosperity of Utah and of Salt Lake City, but 
 who has been a constant worker for their suc- 
 cess. 
 
 HOMAS H. HILTOX. In the adminis- 
 tration of the affairs of a city there is 
 perhaps no more responsible position 
 than that of Chief of Police. The re- 
 .sponsibilities of this position have been 
 cartd for and the arduous duties satisfactorily 
 discharged by the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Thomas H. Hilton was born in Salt Lake City, 
 on December the 6th, 1870, and has spent most 
 of his life -within the confines of this city. He 
 was educated in the common schools of the city 
 and at the University of Utah. His first work 
 was in the Tithing office of the Mormon Church 
 in this city, and he served also four years in the 
 grain department of that Church, and for some 
 time attended to his father's financial affairs in 
 the meat market, being Secretary and Treasurer 
 of the company of which his father was the head. 
 In May, 1892, he was called to go on a mis- 
 sion for the Church and was absent for three 
 
646 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 years, spending that time in the Samoan Islands, 
 where he presided over the affairs of the Church 
 for one year. 
 
 Mr. Hilton was married on December the 4th, 
 1888, to Miss Sarah McMurrin, daughter of Jo- 
 seph McMurrin, who was a prominent member of 
 the Mormon Church and had been actively identi- 
 fied with it for years. He was Counsel to the 
 Bishop of the Eighth Ward for a long time. He 
 was one of the earliest settlers to come to Utah 
 and was one of the most prominent merchants 
 of the State. His son, Joseph W. McMurrin, is 
 now one of the Seven Presidents of the Seventies. 
 The father of our subject, David Hilton, is still 
 living in Salt Lake City. He was born in Lees, 
 Lancastershire, England, and now, at the age of 
 seventy-one, is hale and hearty, and enjoys fine 
 health. He joined the Church in England and 
 emigrated with the first converts to Utah, and 
 has been actively engaged in the work of the 
 Church throughout his life. He has followed 
 butchering a great part of his life, but for the 
 past iew years has retired from active business. 
 He is one of the Seventies in the Church and for 
 a period covering more than twenty years he was 
 in the Tithing office. His life has been of such 
 a character that now in his old age he enjoys the 
 friendship, confidence and esteem of all the peo- 
 ple with whom he came in contact from the time 
 he came to Utah, in 1852, to the present time. 
 The mother of our subject, Mary Ann (Affleck) 
 Hilton, was also a native of England, and lived to 
 a good old age, dying in Salt Lake City on 
 October the i8th, 1901. 
 
 Shortly after the return of our subject from 
 his missionary work, he was appointed to a po- 
 sition in the Police Department, and in April, 
 1899, he was made Chief of Police, which posi- 
 tion he filled with credit to himself and satisfac- 
 tion to the people. For a number of years he 
 had the distinction of being the youngest Chief 
 of Police in the United States. He resigned the 
 position of Chief of Police May the 6th, 1902, and 
 was immediately appointed Deputy Internal Rev- 
 enue Collector for the .District of Montana, with 
 headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Hilton 
 is a man of fine appearance ; tall and well built. 
 
 His genial and pleasant manners have made him 
 one of the most popular men in Salt Lake City, 
 and his standing with the people throughout the 
 State is not excelled by any other citizen of this 
 Citv. 
 
 ANIEL SPENCER, Deceased. In the 
 work of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints there have been 
 many men who have taken a promi- 
 nent part and who have spent their lives 
 in its service, but to the first members of this 
 Church and to those who emigrated from the 
 East to Utah, much of the credit of its present 
 standing is undoubtedly due. In all organiza- 
 tions the hardest and greatest tasks are in their 
 successful launching and in the promulgation of 
 the principles which they must follow. This is 
 especially true of religion and the Herculean ef- 
 forts which the early members of the Mormon 
 Church made mark this movement as one of the 
 most wonderful efforts ever made by men. The 
 history of its rise and growth in the eastern part 
 of the United States and the banishment of its 
 members from Illinois and Missouri, and their 
 westward journey across the great plains of 
 America to an unknown, uncivilized and barren 
 land, forms one of the most striking chapters in 
 the history of the United States. The faith they 
 had in their religion and the confWence they re- 
 posed in their leaders, has never been excelled by 
 any other movement that has taken place in the 
 history of the world. From a barren land, entirely 
 cut off from communication with civilization, 
 surrounded by hostile Indians and encompassed 
 with dangerous natural conditions, they have 
 built out of the wilderness a State that now stands 
 foremost in the ranks of the western sovereignties 
 of the United States. There can be but little 
 question that had the Mormons not taken up their 
 residence in the great Salt Lake Valley and set- 
 tled and populated Utah, it would now be in a 
 less stage of advancement. To them is due the 
 founding and growth of Salt Lake City, and 
 while they opposed at first the developnrent of 
 the mineral resources of Utah, thev are how 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 647 
 
 heart and soul in the work of bringing the State 
 to the highest possible position, both in prosperity 
 and in finances. Among the leaders of this or- 
 ganization, and one who gave up his home and 
 his property and journeyed with them to a far 
 land for what he expressed as a similar desire to 
 that entertained by his Pilgrim forefathers — the 
 observance of a religion according to the dictates 
 of his own conscience — was the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 Daniel Spencer was one of the family of eleven 
 children of Daniel and Chloe (Wilson) Spencer, 
 He was born July 20, 1794, at West Stock- 
 bridge, Berkshire county, Massachusetts. The 
 Spencer family was descended from one of the 
 oldest families of that State. His father had 
 served throughout the Continental army, enlist- 
 ing at the age of sixteen and remaining with it 
 until the surrender of Cprnwallis at Yorktown. 
 He was a son of Peter and Ruth (Emmons) 
 Spencer. His father was a descendant of Ger- 
 ard Spencer, who settled at Lynn, Massachu- 
 setts, in 1662, and whose daughter, Mahitable, 
 married Daniel Cone, who was the first Cone to 
 settle in America. The site of Hadam, Con- 
 necticut, was purchased from the Indians in 1662, 
 and in the fall of that year Gerard Spencer, Daniel 
 Cone and a company of twenty-two others 
 founded the settlement there. Gerard Spencer's 
 ancestors were numerous in Bedford. England. 
 
 The boyhood days of our subject, Daniel 
 Spencer, were spent on his father's farm, but 
 owing to the size of the family and the neces- 
 sity for having every available hand aid in its 
 sustenance, our subject was early to work, and 
 at the age of twelve years was engaged in freight- 
 ing marble with teams to Hudson, a distance of 
 about thirty miles from his home. Two years 
 later he was placed in charge of his father's farm 
 and discharged the duties with credit that fore- 
 shadowed his future success in the business 
 world. At an early age he was imbued with a 
 desire to become a merchant and carry on busi- 
 ness for himself, and at the age of nineteen he 
 entered the employ of Joseph Cone, of Harrowis- 
 ton, Lichfield county, Connecticut, and was en- 
 trusted by him with a team and wagon loaded 
 
 with merchandise to sell in North and South 
 Carolina. He had agreed with his father that in 
 consideration to his consenting to his entering 
 this employment he would pay him the first one 
 hundred dollars that he could save from the work. 
 He worked for two years for Mr. Cone and then 
 entered on business for himself and soon had 
 several of his brothers engaged in selling mer- 
 chandise in North and South Carolina, and in 
 Georgia and Alabama. The winters of these 
 years were spent in the south and in the sum- 
 mer the caravans journeyed through the New 
 England States. The enterprise was a great suc- 
 cess and our subject was enabled not only to 
 pay the one hundred dollars that he had prom- 
 ised to his father, but was able to help him still 
 further. This business he followed until 1820, 
 when he opened a mercantile establishment in 
 his native town in co-partnership with Charles 
 and Bilson Boynton, the latter two being silent 
 partners. It was the intention of our subject to 
 own the entire store and with that end in view all 
 of his salary as manager that he could spare, to- 
 gether with the profits from the business that be- 
 longed to him, he turned into the store. It was 
 during the life of this partnership that he be- 
 came a convert to the teachings of the Mormon 
 Church, and not long after this occurred his two 
 silent partners took advantage of the bankrupt 
 law, and Mr. Spencer lost considerable money 
 through their action. 
 
 Mr. Spencer's mother and father were devout 
 members of the Baptist Church and reared their 
 family in a truly religious manner, imbuing them 
 with a sense of justice and right, and the fear 
 of God. Their son, however, never embraced 
 that faith, and after much thought journeyed to 
 his brother Orson, who at that time was a Close 
 Communion Baptist minister, by whom he was 
 baptized, but failed to become a member of that 
 Church. His first meeting with the Mormon 
 Church was during the winter of 1838, when he 
 met a ^lormon Elder on the streets of his town, 
 who was endeavoring to secure a place to preach. 
 Being Chairman of the School Board, Mr. Spen- 
 cer endeavored to secure the school house for 
 him, and after a considerable opposition the Elder 
 
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 was permitted to hold his services. The meeting 
 was largely attended by members of the different 
 churches, but none of them cared to entertain the 
 missionary and Mr. Spencer invited him to his 
 home. This visit was followed by another, after 
 a lapse of a month, and then he preached in the 
 Presbyterian meeting house, being entertained at 
 the home of Mr. Spencer. He left with the latter 
 some works on Alormons, and from these Mr. 
 Spencer dated his first interest in this new re- 
 ligion. He became convinced of the truth of 
 those doctrines and was baptized shortly after, 
 being the only one of his town to accept the new 
 religion. Pie was afterwards ordained an Elder 
 and preached considerably in Berkshire county, 
 Massachusetts. Plis action in joining this re- 
 ligion estranged him from his parents and from 
 his family, who expressed a desire to have nothing 
 more to do with him. Notwithstanding this, 
 however, he later baptized his brother, who after- 
 ward became an Elder, and brought his father and 
 mother with him to Xauvoo, the headquarters of 
 the Church. The opposition which this new re- 
 ligion met with at its beginning, was exemplified 
 in the case of Mr. Spencer, and the people in ad- 
 dition to advising him of the perils he was about 
 to undertake, at the same time tried to secure 
 his property at the smallest cost possible to them- 
 selves. The business education which Mr. Spen- 
 cer had acquired in his various enterprises stood 
 him in good stead and he was able to enter into 
 negotiations for the transfer of his property that 
 netted him a considerable profit, which he in- 
 vested in broadcloth and satinet, and shortly after 
 left with his brother Hyrum, Daniel Hendricks 
 and their families in teams for Nauvoo, Illinois, 
 and in that manner performed the long journey 
 from West Stockbridge, Berkshire county, Mas- 
 sachusetts, to Salt Lake City, as long an over- 
 land trip as has ever been made by any of the 
 people who emigrated to the West. 
 
 On January 21, 1823, Mr. Spencer was mar- 
 ried to Miss Sophronia E. Pomeroy, daughter of 
 General Grove Pomeroy, member of the State 
 Assembly of Massachusetts in the year 1801-02, 
 and by this marriage had one son, Claudius Vic- 
 tor. She died on October 5, 1832. A little over 
 
 two years after the death of his first wife, he mar- 
 ried Sarah Lester Van Schoonoven, and by her 
 had four children, two sons who died early in 
 life, and two daughters, Amanda (also dead) and 
 Mary Leone Chambers, of Salt Lake City. His 
 family journeyed with him and other members of 
 the wagon train which he headed from Massachu- 
 setts, and safely arrived at Nauvoo. Here Mr. 
 Spencer at once set to work to provide a suitable 
 home for them, and secured a considerable amount 
 of government land adjoining Nauvoo, fenced and 
 improved a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, 
 distant six miles from the city, erected a two- 
 story brick house and also an extensive barn and 
 out-houses. Here he remained until the expul- 
 sion of the members of that Church from the 
 city. 
 
 He had already become one of the trusted 
 members of the Church and one of its leaders, 
 and in 1842 was called to go on a mission to 
 Canada, and in the ne.xt year performed a similar 
 duty to the Indian Nation. In 1843 he was 
 elected a member of the City Council of Nauvoo, 
 and in the following year by the vote of its Coun- 
 cil was elected its Mayor, and held that office un- 
 til the Charter was repealed. This same year he 
 was sent on a mission to Massachusetts. He re- 
 turned in February, 1846, shortly after the killing 
 of Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, 
 and in February of that year he with many others 
 were forced to flee from Nauvoo across the 
 frozen Mississippi and take refuge in the wilds 
 of Iowa. The hardships and exposures which 
 this flight entailed caused the death of many 
 members of the Church, and among them was the 
 wife of his brother Orson. The compulsory ex- 
 odus was also the cause of the death of Mr. 
 Spencer's wife Mary, who weakened under the 
 hardships imposed by the journey and was buried 
 by the side of the road. In the panic stricken 
 flight of the members her grave was unmarked, 
 and to this day none of her kindred know her 
 last resting place. From Iowa the exiles fol- 
 lowed the Indian trails to Council Bluffs, most 
 of the time camping in close proximity to the In- 
 dians, and being by them most hospitably re- 
 ceived. During the winter of 1846-47 they 
 
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 649 
 
 camped on the banks of the Missouri river, and 
 during- this time our subject acted as Bishop. 
 This settlement on the Missouri river is one of 
 the most striking feats of endurance ever per- 
 formed by the American people. The trials and 
 hardships were such as to test the very essence 
 of manhood and womanhood, and the trials were 
 not only heroically met, but the patience and trust 
 of the people served to mitigate the hardships and 
 to make them stronger than ever in their faith. 
 Bishop Spencer was practically in command of 
 the camp and fitted out the first pioneers who 
 came to Salt Lake City from that place. They 
 were Francis Hoggs, Elijah Newman and Levi 
 Kimball, who arrived on the present site of Salt 
 Lake City on July 25, 1847. They made the 
 trip with two yoke of oxen, wagons, provisions 
 and seed grain and farming tools, and these oxen 
 were the first to draw a plow through the soil in 
 the Territory of Utah. After the leaving of 
 these pioneers, the company was organized into 
 one hundred and started West in June of that 
 year, with Ira Eldredge as Captain of fifty. They 
 followed the Indian and trappers' trails, which 
 led to the North Fork of the Platte river, en- 
 countering on their way many novel and oft-times 
 dangerous experiences. The company reached 
 Salt Lake City on September 23, 1847, and was 
 the first Eastern emigration company organized 
 in June at Elk Horn to reach the valley, and to 
 move into what was known as the "Old Fort." 
 Upon his arrival here Bishop Spencer engaged in 
 farming and in the various enterprises that are 
 indispensible to the life of a new community, and 
 at one time formed a partnership with Jacob 
 Gates, Jesse Little and his eldest son, Claudius 
 v., for the operation of a ranch in Rush valley. 
 This they operated until the arrival of Johnston's 
 army, when they were forced to vacate it. 
 
 Bishop Spencer was a firm believer in the doc- 
 trine of plural marriages, and in addition to the 
 wives already mentioned, he was married to Emily 
 Thompson, by whom he had two sons, Jared and 
 John D. (a sketch of the latter appears else- 
 where in this volume), and four daughters, Au- 
 relia, Sophia, Emma and Josephine. This mar- 
 riage he followed by another on December 27, 
 
 1856, to Miss Sarah Jane Gray, who bore him 
 three sons, Orson, Mark and Grove, and one 
 daughter, Sophronia. He also married Elizabeth 
 Funnell and by her had four daughters, Georgi- 
 ana, Chloe, Elizabeth and Cora, and one son, 
 Henry Wilson Spencer, who was named in mem- 
 ory of Judge Wilson of Richmond Hill, New 
 York, who had married our subject's sister, Electa, 
 who was the mother of Marcus Wilson, the author 
 of the Wilson series of school books. Our sub- 
 ject was also married to Mary Jane Cutcliffe, 
 and by her had three daughters, Lydia, Elvira and 
 Amelia, and one son, Samuel G. Spencer, whose 
 sketch appears elsewhere in this work. 
 
 The prominent part which Bishop Spencer had 
 taken in the work of the Church brought him the 
 confidence and trust of its leaders, and on Febru- 
 ary 7, 1849, 1''6 was appointed President of the 
 Salt Lake Stake, and at the General Conference 
 on September 6th of the following year, was ap- 
 pointed with Edward Hunter and Willard Snow 
 as a committee charged with the business of 
 gathering funds for the poor. Two years later he 
 was appointed to go to Europe on missionary 
 work, and arrived there on December 20, 1852. 
 On May 14th of the following year he was ap- 
 pointed First Counsellor to the President of the 
 British Mission, and in this work he remained 
 until his departure for America on March 15, 
 1856, when he was appointed the agent in the 
 United States to forward the through emigration 
 of the members of the Church to Utah, with out- 
 fitting points at Iowa City and Florence. He 
 arrived in Salt Lake City on October 4, 1856, and 
 resumed his duties as President of the Salt Lake 
 Stake. He was also prominent in the political 
 affairs of Utah and served as a member of the 
 Territorial Legislature in 1851-52 and from 1856 
 to 1859, and later served in the City Council 
 of Salt Lake from 1861 to 1865, inclusive. 
 
 Our subject died at the ripe age of seventy- 
 five, on December 8. 1868, in Salt Lake City, after 
 a life that was crowded full of the most stirring 
 events of one of the most remarkable epochs in 
 American history. He was a very prominent 
 man in the Church to which he owed allegiance, 
 and was active in building up the resources of 
 
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 Utah and Salt Lake. He has made such a career 
 in his life that any attempt to write a history of 
 Utah without a reference to him would be but 
 imperfect. He was essentially of the pioneer 
 type that has so successfully overcome every ob- 
 stacle that stood in the pathway of the settlement 
 and civilization of the West. To men of his 
 type is due in a large degree the present develop- 
 ment of the inter-mountain region and its trans- 
 formation from a wilderness to a prosperous and 
 fruitful region. 
 
 ENJAMIN MEEK. Few young men 
 have been more closely identified with 
 Salt Lake county than has Benjamin 
 Meek. He is a native son of Utah, 
 having been born in Kaysville, Davis 
 county, on September 7, 1866, and his whole life 
 has been spent in Davis and Salt Lake counties. 
 He is the son of Benjamin and Louise (Rodgers) 
 Meek. His parents were both natives of England, 
 where they were married, and had one daughter 
 and two sons born to them. The two boys died 
 in childhood in their native land. Anna is now 
 Mrs. Jack of Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Meek emigrated to America and in 1866 started 
 across the plains for Utah, but while en route to 
 this place Mr. Meek died and was buried on the 
 plains. Mrs. Meek continued the journey alone 
 with her little daughter, having but very little 
 means, and a few months after her arrival here 
 our subject was born. His mother later mar- 
 ried Andrew Jackson Allen, a sketch of whom 
 appears elsewhere in this volume. By this mar- 
 riage Mrs. Allen had four children. Mr. Allen 
 settled at Draper, about a mile east of the post- 
 office, and it was here our subject grew up and 
 received such education as his step-father was 
 able to give him. At the age of seventeen he 
 began life for himself, working for two years 
 on a farm and then went to herding sheep. He 
 saved all the money he could from his earnings 
 and invested from time to time in sheep until he 
 became the owner of a nice flock. Later he 
 formed a partnership with A. J. Nelson, and this 
 partnership lasted for twelve years, the flocks 
 
 being ranged in Utah and Idaho. He bought his 
 present home, which is located just east of the 
 postoffice at Draper, in 1897, and in 1899 built 
 a beautiful and commodious two-story brick 
 house, there being twelve rooms in the house. 
 
 He was married on April 13, 1892, to Miss 
 Oleivia A. Nelson, daughter of P. A. and Oleivia 
 Nelson, and by this marriage has had three chil- 
 dren, Benjamin A., Virginia O. and Jerold R. 
 
 In politics our subject is a Republican and a 
 strict party man. Owing to his large business 
 interests, however, he has never taken part in 
 ihe work of his party to the extent of seeking or 
 holding office, but has confined his attention to 
 his home interests. He has had an unusually suc- 
 cessful business career and in addition to his 
 large holdings in live stock is also interested in 
 the M. and M. Mercantile Company, one of the 
 large concerns of Draper, of which he is Presi- 
 dent, and is also interested in the Draper Live 
 Stock Company, and in the creamery business. 
 The example he has set to the young men of 
 L'tah who are but just entering upon their busi- 
 ness life is one worthy of emulation. Starting in 
 life an orphan he has by his own industry and 
 perseverance, as well as strict attention to the 
 duty in hand, and by an upright and honest life, 
 attained a high business standing, and is re- 
 garded as one of the staunch men of his com- 
 munitv. He and his family are believers in the 
 doctrines of the Mormon Church and active in 
 its service, he being an Elder and Mrs. Meek 
 a member of the Ladies' Relief Societv. 
 
 MARLES H. ROBERTS is a native of 
 England, having been born in Stafford- 
 shire on July 5, 185 1, and the first 
 eleven years of his life being spent in 
 that country. He is the son of Reuben 
 and Catherine (Smith) Roberts. Reuben Rob- 
 erts was a carpenter and followed that trade in 
 England, but after coming to Utah took up farm- 
 ing, which he continued up to the time of his 
 licath in 1876. He came with his wife and three 
 children in 1862, making the journey across the 
 great American plains by ox team, in the train 
 commanded by Captain Homer Duncan, whom he 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 651 
 
 joined at Florence, on the Missouri river. Upon 
 reaching Utah Air. Roberts at once went to 
 American Fork and took up a farm, where he 
 continued to reside, and where his widow is still 
 living. 
 
 Our subject grew to manhood on his father's 
 farm, obtaining his education in the schools that 
 then e.xisted in the community where he lived. 
 He was elected Marshal of y^merican Fork City, 
 Utah, in 1884, and held said office for four 
 years. In 1889 he went to Bingham and 
 established a general merchandise business, whicn 
 he carried on until 1895, when a disastrous fire 
 swept away every business place in town, as well 
 as a large portion of the residence district. In 
 the following year he built the hotel known as 
 Hotel Roberts, and which is the best hotel in 
 Bingham canyon. 
 
 Mr. Roberts was married at American Fork in 
 1872 to Miss Mary E. Shelley, daughter of James 
 and Mary Shelley, who came to Utah in the early 
 days, Mrs. Roberts being born and raised in this 
 State. Ten children were born of this marriage, 
 five of whom are still living. They are : Reuben 
 A., Oliver J., Charlotte R., Maude S. and 
 Ethel E. 
 
 In political life Mr. Roberts is a believer in 
 the principles of the Republican party and has 
 been active in public affairs in his community. 
 He was elected County Commissioner in 1894 
 and it was during his term of office that the 
 bridge across the Jordan river at Gale was con- 
 structed, and the finishing of the County and 
 City building. He has for many years been 
 postmaster at Bingham, which is a money order 
 station, issuing both home and foreign orders. 
 He received his first appointment as postmaster 
 in 1892, resigned it in 1894, and being re-ap- 
 pointed in 1898, since which time he has con- 
 tinued to act in that capacity. In social life he is 
 a member of the Odd Fellows, having his mem- 
 bership in Bingham Lodge Number 10. Mr. 
 Roberts and his family are all members of the 
 Mormon Church and active in its work. By 
 those who know him he is regarded as a genial 
 and pleasant man, and commands the respect and 
 esteem of all his associates. 
 
 ILLIAM C. ALLEN came to Utah 
 with his parents when but a mere 
 child, they being among the early 
 pioneers to settle in this State. His 
 whole life has practically been spent 
 in I'tah and the greater portion of it in Salt Lake 
 county. He has not only been an eye witness of 
 the great changes and developments which have 
 taken place in this new country, but he has per- 
 formed his part faithfully and well in assisting 
 to bring Utah from a wild and barren waste to 
 its present prosperous condition. 
 
 William C. Allen was born in Calloway county, 
 Kentucky, February 14, 1843, ^nd is the son of 
 Andrew Jackson Allen, who was born September 
 5, 1818, at Sommerset, Polaski county, Ken- 
 tucky. Our subject's mother was a Miss Delilah, 
 who was born May 6, 18x9, in Murray, Illinois. 
 Our subject was the second child and eldest son 
 of a family of fourteen children, seven of whom 
 giew to maturity, and of this number two sons 
 and three daughters are now living. Andrew J. 
 Allen came to Utah with his family in company 
 with other pioneers under Captain Abraham O. 
 Smoot, and almost immediately on reaching Utah 
 settled in Mill Creek Ward, where they re- 
 mained for a short time only, when they removed 
 to Draper, which at that time was just being col- 
 onized, and where W. C. Allen now lives, a little 
 south of the postoffice, and there the Senior Mr. 
 Allen spent the balance of his life. He had early 
 become a member of the Mormon Church in 
 Kentucky, and throughout his life was a consist- 
 ent follower of that faith. He died July 18, 1884, 
 his wife having died on December 5, 1869. They 
 are buried side by side in the cemetery at Draper. 
 William C. Allen was only a boy of nine years 
 when his family came to this vicinity. His edu- 
 cation was received in an old adobe school house 
 which his father had assisted in building and 
 which was used jointly for school and church pur- 
 [/Oses. His education, however, was limited, he 
 only being able to attend a few weeks in winter, 
 and then only when the weather was too severe 
 for him to work outside. He remained at home 
 with his parents, assisting on the farm, hauling 
 wood and timber, and doing all the kinds of 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 work which a boy is called upon to do in his 
 early life. 
 
 At twenty-four years of age, January 12, 1867, 
 he led to the marriage altar Miss Lovina Jane 
 Smith, daughter of Absolom W. and Amy E. 
 (Downs) Smith. The marriage ceremony was 
 performed by the late President Wilford Wood- 
 ruff. The Smith family came to Utah in 1852, 
 Mrs. Allen being born in Pottawatomie county, 
 Iowa, while the family were en route to Utah. 
 As a result of this marriage fourteen children 
 have been born, twelve of whom are still living. 
 Tney are: William S., the oldest; Andrew W., 
 Delilah L., who died in infancy ; Joseph E., 
 Adella M., Rial C, Absalom Lewis, who was 
 drowned at the age of fourteen ; Earl S., Wilford 
 J., Maggie A., Hyrum B., Alda P., Anna P., and 
 Eva M. The two oldest daughters are now mar- 
 ried, Adella being Jvlrs. William Walker, of East 
 Jordan, and Maggie now Mrs. Robert Dansie, of 
 Riverton. Three of the oldest sons are partners 
 in the sheep business and all reside in Salt Lake 
 county. 
 
 Soon after Mr. Allen married he settled at his 
 present home, which is located one-half mile south 
 of the postoffice. He has his place well improved 
 and has a splendid brick residence. His farm is 
 considered one of the best improved places in 
 Salt Lake county. 
 
 In politics Mr. Allen has always been identified 
 with the Democratic party. For years he has 
 served as road supervisor, as well as school trus- 
 tee. He has taken a prominent and active part 
 in everything which has tended to build up and 
 improve this county. ' He was raised in the Mor- 
 mon faith and has ever been a consistent and 
 faithful member of that Church. For nine years 
 he served as Bishop of his Ward and has taken 
 an active part in the Sunday School and in 
 everything that pertains to Church affairs. In 
 1876 he was called by the heads of the Church to 
 serve on a mission and assist in colonization work 
 in Arizona, serving eight years in that capacity 
 and filling the position of Captain of the Coloniza- 
 tion Mission. He also assisted in colonizing 
 Saint Joseph, on the Little Colorado. During the 
 early scenes and troubles when Johnston's army 
 
 landed in Utah, our subject's father was called 
 upon to serve as guard for the protection of the 
 ]\Iormon emigrants, and our subject served in 
 the same capacity during the Indian troubles in 
 1862. Soon after Mr. Allen returned from his 
 missionary tour in Arizona he was called by 
 President Brigham Young to make a trip east 
 for the purpose of marking out a more direct 
 route to Arizona from what they had formerly 
 been traveling, in order to save much of the 
 hardships and destitution which the Mormons 
 were subject to in following the old trail. Mr. 
 Allen was sent on this mission in company with 
 others, he being at the head and having charge 
 of the work. Upon returning from this trip he 
 was appointed First Counselor to Lot Smith, 
 who was at that time President of the Stake. 
 Upon the death of his father our subject re- 
 turned to the old home, having been appointed in 
 the will as executor of the estate. Mr. Allen en- 
 joys the respect and esteem of all of his neigh- 
 bors and those who have been associated with 
 him, both in public and in private life. Mr. Allen 
 is proud of the family record as defenders of their 
 country, not only in his and generations past, 
 but also of the generation who was called to put 
 their shoulders to the guns in the latest troubles, 
 and is particularly proud of being an uncle of 
 Ensign Pearson of Manila fame, whose bravery 
 and meritorious conduct will be recounted in 
 American historv for all time to come. 
 
 ION CO-OPERATIVE MERCAN- 
 TILE INSTITUTION. In review- 
 ing the history of any State there are 
 always a few institutions that should 
 stand out in collossal grandeur above 
 other establishments of kindred nature, by vir- 
 tue of their owners or promoters possessing su- 
 perior business, literary or professional ability, 
 bending their combined energies, time and wealth 
 in the single effort to build up and perpetuate 
 either their own names, or to commemorate some 
 notable event in the history of their common- 
 wealth. Such an institution is the above, founded 
 during the early days of the history of the Mor- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 653 
 
 mon Church in Utah, by the first President, 
 Brigham Young, and from a very small begin- 
 ning, — its object being more to extend still further 
 the protecting care which the Church has ever 
 exercised over those within her folds, giving its 
 financial aid and encouragement to those whose 
 means were scarcely large enough to justify their 
 engaging in business alone, and through the 
 wise administrations of a head composed of men 
 thoroughly versed in all the intricacies of various 
 commercial enterprises, avoid the possibility of 
 failure, which must come to the individual of in- 
 experience and small means — from this has 
 sprung an enterprise, the like of which is not to 
 be found in the entire West, and it is doubtful 
 if its counterpart exists anywhere in the United 
 States. 
 
 A just conception of the vast operations of this 
 institution is a difficult matter for an outsider to 
 grasp ; it being necessary for one to become fa- 
 miliar with the inner workings of this mam- 
 moth undertaking in order to be able to prop- 
 erly appreciate them. Like all matters in 
 which the Mormon Church has any interest, the 
 affairs of the Zion Co-operative Mercantile In- 
 stitution are conducted in a most thorough and 
 systematic manner, and it is run strictly on 
 business principles. The concern does an 
 extensive trade throughout Utah and many of 
 the adjoiniing States , both in a wholesale 
 and retail line. They handle boots, shoes, 
 clothing, men's furnishings, dry goods, groceries, 
 hardware and, in fact, almost everything that the 
 citizens of any community might need. The busi- 
 ness is conducted in an immense three-story build- 
 ing, which has been extensively repaired this year, 
 several thousand dollars having been spent in ren- 
 ovations and additions; new plate glass windows 
 being placed in the front, and additional room 
 being added. The wholesale departments are sys- 
 temized and conducted under different heads, over 
 which a special manager presides, they in turn be- 
 ing accountable to a General Superintendent. 
 Among these departments are to be found the 
 Wholesale Dry Goods; Groceries; Carpets; No- 
 tions; Hardware, etc. In addition to this, the 
 concern does a large manufacturing in the line 
 
 of boots, shoes and clothing, and gives employ- 
 ment to a small army of men, women and boys. 
 
 While they do a large and extensive wholesale 
 trade, their retail trade is equally important, and 
 through its numerous branch houses reaches al- 
 most every home in the State, as well as many 
 in adjoining States where they have branch es- 
 tablishments. The largest of these is located in 
 Ogden, which was organized in 1868, the same 
 year as the main house in Salt Lake City, and has 
 grown 3'ear by year until it now occupies a high 
 rank among the business institutions of that city. 
 It occupies a four story and basement building lo- 
 cated on the corner of Twenty-fourth and Wash- 
 ington streets, and gives employment to forty peo- 
 ple, John Watson being Manager. The other 
 principal branch establishments are located at 
 Provo and Logan, Utah, and Idaho Falls, Idaho, 
 although there are a number of smaller establish- 
 ments scattered throughout the different towns 
 of Utah, which are controlled by the parent 
 house at Salt Lake. The Salt Lake house has 
 about five hundred people on its payrolls, and it 
 is estimated that it does several million of dollars 
 worth of business each year. It has been one of 
 the most potent factors in Utah in the rapid de- 
 velopment of the State and the encouragement 
 of its industrial life, affording a ready market 
 for the produce of the farmer, and supplying 
 him in turn with all the necessaries and many of 
 the luxuries of life at the lowest possible cost. 
 Expert buyers make eastern trips twice a year, 
 and thus the house is kept in touch with the 
 world's progress in its particular lines and is 
 thoroughly up-to-date in all particulars, having 
 among its immense stock fabrics which may af- 
 ford the millionaire or the laboring man a wide 
 field of selection. So well and carefully are the 
 details of this mammoth house watched, that the 
 expense has been reduced to a minimum and the 
 stock pays a high dividend to the holders. Dur- 
 ing one time or another in its history probably 
 almost every business man of note in the State 
 has been identified with this institution, and at 
 this time among its executive officers are to be 
 found such men as : Joseph F. Smith, President ; 
 George Romney, \'ice-President ; Thomas G. 
 
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 Webber, Secretary and General Manager, and A. Alclntyre, Reed Smoot and Thomas G. Webber. 
 
 W. Clavvson, Treasurer. The Directors are: Col. Webber has been associated with the con- 
 
 Heber J. Grant, John R. Winder, Henry Din- cern since 1869, and General Superintendent since 
 
 woodey, P. T. Farnsworth, John Henry Sniith, 1888, which fact alone speaks volumes for his 
 
 F. M. Lyman, Anthon H. Lund, William H. fitness for the responsible position. 
 
INDEX 
 
 A 
 
 Anderson, Edward H 74 
 
 Armstrong, William F 90 
 
 Armstrong, Francis 140 
 
 Atwood, Walter H 240 
 
 Asper, George W 242 
 
 Andrus, Milo 268 
 
 Ashton, Edward T 300 
 
 Adams, Rufus..., 402 
 
 Anderson, Charles L 40!) 
 
 Anderson, Gustav 417 
 
 Atwood, William 450 
 
 Ashby, Benjamin 520 
 
 Anderson, James H 543 
 
 Ashton, Brigham VV 544 
 
 Alston, Thomas 550 
 
 Atkins, Bishop Thomas, Jr 574 
 
 Allen, J. R 644 
 
 Allen, William C 651 
 
 Bartch, Hon. Geo. W 29 
 
 B 
 
 Burton, Bishop Robt. T 61 
 
 Bennett, Judge Chas. W 153 
 
 Bennion, Hjrum 155 
 
 Berger , Christian 156 
 
 Brown, Homer ....159 
 
 Brady, Marion H 161 
 
 Brinton, J. H 166 
 
 Bishop, Capt. F. M 176 
 
 Bowman, Judge John M 205 
 
 Barthel, Gustave J 212 
 
 Birch, Richard 263 
 
 Barratt, I. N 2S2 
 
 Best, Alfred 315 
 
 Beatie, Bishop W. J 316 
 
 Bowen, Harry 319 
 
 Bennion, Edwin 322 
 
 Brown, Dr. W. M .370 
 
 Barnes, John R 385 
 
 Bennett, John 389 
 
 Bascom, Dr. F. S 400 
 
 Barlow, Israel 404 
 
 Benedict, Dr. C. M 47 
 
 Beer, Dr. William F 426 
 
 Bitner, Breneman B 427 
 
 Bodily, Joseph 431 
 
 Blood, William 433 
 
 Barton, Bishop Peter 435 
 
 Bennion, Samuel H 440 
 
 Benson, Andrew G 461 
 
 Booth, Hyrum E 462 
 
 Barrus, Ruel 463 
 
 Brown, Henry W 481 
 
 Brinton, Samuel 492 
 
 Boyden, John 497 
 
 Benson, John P 512 
 
 Brown, H. W .529 
 
 Bringhurst, John B 560 
 
 Bringhurst, Louis 569 
 
 Bringhurst, Robt. P 561 
 
 Bateman , Samuel -570 
 
 Bringhurst, Samuel 574 
 
 Burton, William S .585 
 
 Bruneau, Ammon J 592 
 
 Bruback, Col. Theodore 621 
 
 Bancroft, William H 622 
 
 Bennion, Bishop Heber 631 
 
 Chipman, Hon. James 60 
 
 Chisholm, W. W 107 
 
 Cannon, John M 112 
 
 Carlisle, Richard M 149 
 
 Caskey, Prof. Robt. J 1.51 
 
 Casto, Bishop Santa A 157 
 
 Calder, George 165 
 
 Cannon, Pres. Angus M 170 
 
 Coleman , George 175 
 
 Cannon, Lewis T 194 
 
 Callister, Edward H 194 
 
 Cunningham, J. A 223 
 
 Cherry, Judge A. N 237 
 
 Crismon, Charles, Jr 243 
 
 Cain, Joseph 251 
 
 Crismon, George 2.57 
 
 Clawson, Spencer 286 
 
 Christophersen, M 289 
 
 Colbath, Lemuel U 303 
 
 Cannon, Hon. George M 330 
 
 Child, William H .333 
 
 Cumraings, Bishop J. D 353 
 
 Cahoon, John P 356 
 
 Carpenter, John W 360 
 
 Cleveland, George W 383 
 
 3 
 
 Cannon, Pres. Geo. Q 39 
 
 Clark, John W 401 
 
 Clawson, Dr. T. A 407. 
 
 Cannon, Dr. W. T 410 
 
 Corbridge, William H 415 
 
 Cook, David 440 
 
 Cannon, Mrs. Sarah J 470 
 
 Calder, David G 482 
 
 Chisholm, J. E 494 
 
 Capson, John C 502 
 
 Carlisle, James S .531 
 
 Cannon, Martha H. M. D .545 
 
 Christensen, D. H 5.54 
 
 Craner, George ,563 
 
 Clegg, Benjamin 564 
 
 Clegg, Peter 582 
 
 Clayton, Col. Nephi W .590 
 
 Campbell, R. S 616 
 
 Calvin, E. E 626 
 
 Cook, John (536 
 
 Cullen, Matthew 609 
 
 Clufif, President W. W 639 
 
 Cluff, Mrs. Ann W 641 
 
 Dixon, John DeGray 77 
 
 Donnellan, Col. J. W 99 
 
 Dow, George N 101 
 
 Downey, Major Geo. M 103 
 
 Drake, Horace 115 
 
 Donahue, Mrs. Mary 120 
 
 Diehl, Judge Chris. B 207 
 
 Day, Orson ,336 
 
 Dinwoodey, Henry 379 
 
 Dibble. Philo 367 
 
 Dawson, Alexander 368 
 
 Duerden, Richard 422 
 
 Day, David 425 
 
 Drake, Hyrum 448 
 
 Droubay, Peter A .551 
 
 Dalton, Edward 560 
 
 Dimond, Robert E 566 
 
 De La Mare, Philip 572 
 
 Dimond, Walter A .591 
 
 Dunn, James F 608 
 
 Duncan, Edgar, W 612 
 
 Dimond, Thomas W 635 
 
INDEX 
 
 E 
 
 Egan, Capt Timothy 184 
 
 Eldredge, Alma 200 
 
 Evans, Richard J 301 
 
 Eldredge, James A 305 
 
 Ellison, John 40(i 
 
 Egan, Richard, E 419 
 
 Ellison, E. P 43<J 
 
 Erekson, Norman W 457 
 
 Evans, E. P 499 
 
 Ellison, Elijah E 505 
 
 Eddington, \V. J 524 
 
 Eldredge, Horace S 535 
 
 Eichnor, Dennis C 547 
 
 England, John 5(J7 
 
 Eldredge, Joseph U. Sr 581 
 
 Ewing, Samuel C 615 
 
 F 
 
 Ferry, Col. Wm. M 87 
 
 Ferguson , Barlow Ill 
 
 Ferry, Col. Edward S 123 
 
 Farrell, James 137 
 
 Freeze, James P 146 
 
 Farrington, John 154 
 
 French. Dr. O. W 249 
 
 Frazier, Marion 252 
 
 Ferry, W. Mont 281 
 
 Francis, Judge Samuel .302 
 
 Frick, Judge Joseph E 307 
 
 Fisher, Judge John 311 
 
 Ford, John, Jr 320 
 
 Ford, James H 365 
 
 Flinders, John T 416 
 
 Free, Preston S 437 
 
 France, Joseph 525 
 
 Fisher, James M., Jr 532 
 
 Forrester, Robert 548 
 
 Franklin, Dr. P. A. H 601 
 
 Ferry, Edward P 633 
 
 G 
 
 Goodwin, Judge Chas. C 66 
 
 Geddes, Theron 1.39 
 
 Gates, Dr. C. W 151 
 
 Gorden, Peter 178 
 
 Gibson, George J 186 
 
 Grant, Apostle H. J 291 
 
 Gabbott, John 323 
 
 Gardner, J. P 424 
 
 Griffiths, Jacob H 430 
 
 Green, C. S 483 
 
 Giles, Bishop William 488 
 
 Giles, Joseph 494 
 
 Godfrey, James 506 
 
 Garrison, Dr. C. M 514 
 
 Gabbott, Amos S 533 
 
 Gowan, Judge Hugh S 579 
 
 Gillespie, John 588 
 
 H 
 
 Hall, Judge William C 68 
 
 Harrington, Daniel.. 119 
 
 Hatch, Orin 121 
 
 Henderson, Horace W 124 
 
 Helm, Andrew [) 150 
 
 Hoffman, Frank 192 
 
 Hines, Frank L 193 
 
 Holmes, Mrs. Susanna B. E 211 
 
 Hall, J. K 218 
 
 Hatch, Stearns 215 
 
 Hill, Captain J. E 228 
 
 Hoyt, John B 235 
 
 Hemenway, Lachoneus 263 
 
 Hortin.John 272 
 
 Hixson, Frank 274 
 
 Hillam, Rodney 284 
 
 Holbrook, Joseph L 287 
 
 Heath, Hon. Perry S 299 
 
 Harris, Bishop M. F 312 
 
 Harper, Charles A 317 
 
 Holt, John 332 
 
 Harker, Henry 337 
 
 Harman, Benjamin M 339 
 
 H^lm, Abraham 343 
 
 Huffaker, Simpson D 358 
 
 Harman, Robert 363 
 
 Hess, David 366 
 
 Hosmer, Dr. A. J 399 
 
 Hamilton, J. D. C 405 
 
 Hansen, Jens 410 
 
 Hunter, Jacob 429 
 
 Hatch, Gilberts 435 
 
 Hatch, JohnE 439 
 
 Holbrook, Jos. J 442 
 
 Hess, John W 443 
 
 Hemming, William 465 
 
 Hale, Aroet L 466 
 
 Hill, S. H 474 
 
 Howe, Richard 486 
 
 Hamilton, Bishop J. C 489 
 
 Haigh, William H 502 
 
 Helm, Marshel 508 
 
 Hatch, Ephraim 515 
 
 Hatch, Philander 516 
 
 Hill, William H .521 
 
 Heiner, Daniel 522 
 
 Hill, Alexander H 527 
 
 Heywood, Benj. B 542 
 
 Harding, Thomas 553 
 
 Hickman, J. B 579 
 
 Hickey, John 593 
 
 Home, William J 628 
 
 Hilton, Thomas H 645 
 
 I 
 
 Ivers, Hon. James 132 
 
 J 
 
 Jack, James 9,5 
 
 Jennings, William 105 
 
 James, John 174 
 
 Jones, Bishop George R 201 
 
 Johanson, James 219 
 
 Jensen, N. D .397 
 
 Jefferies, William 459 
 
 Johnson, Charles 467 
 
 Johnson, Alexander 468 
 
 Jennings, H. P 511 
 
 Jenkinson, Chas. H 611 
 
 K 
 
 Kearns, Hon. Thomas 27 
 
 Kimball, Pres. Heber C 82 
 
 Kimball, Pres. J. G 206 
 
 Kramer, F. R 270 
 
 Kaighn, Col. Maurice M 314 
 
 Kimball, Solomon F 346 
 
 King, Judge W. H 386 
 
 Keogh, Dr. P. S 415 
 
 Kippen, James 441 
 
 Keith, Hon. David 586 
 
 Kimball, Hon. Joseph 644 
 
 L 
 
 Lund, Pres. Anthon H 20 
 
 Lambert, George C 116 
 
 Love, Stephen H 185 
 
 La vagn ino , Giovan n i 214 
 
 Lochrie, Judge Peter 217 
 
 Lee, W. A 225 
 
 Lyons, Oscar F 260 
 
 Lucretia, Sister M 300 
 
 Lockhart, J. M 310 
 
 LeCompte, Dr. E. P 313 
 
 Labrum, John G 318 
 
 Lambert, Richard F 3.57 
 
 Lambert, Dan 362 
 
 Lemmon, Washington 376 
 
 Lunn, Daniel 392 
 
 Leonard, Bishop Abiel 539 
 
 Lynch, John C 555 
 
 M 
 
 McMaster, Alexander 125 
 
 McMurrin, Pres. Jos. W 126 
 
 McDonald, Francis 183 
 
 McClellan, Prof. J. J 233 
 
 McCornick, W. S 275 
 
 Mclntyre, William H 397 
 
 McMillan, Henry G 454 
 
 McLaws, John 552 
 
 McLaughlin, David C 577 
 
 McNitt, C. J 614 
 
 McMillan, William 624 
 
INDEX 
 
 Miner, Hon. James A 25 
 
 Marshall, Judge Thomas 36 
 
 Moyle, James H G3 
 
 Musser, Bishop A. M 72 
 
 Moyle, O. W 147 
 
 Mabey, Joseph T 169 
 
 Moss, Daniel 179 
 
 Miller, M. M 186 
 
 Mackay, John 249 
 
 Maxwell, R. W 255 
 
 Marchant, John A 269 
 
 Maxwell, Bishop Arthur 270 
 
 Miller, Bishop Reuben 290 
 
 Miller, James R 294 
 
 Miller, Reuben P 295 
 
 Miller, Melvin M 296 
 
 Miller, Chiliou L 297 
 
 Miller, David L 298 
 
 Mathis, W. D 308 
 
 Muir, J. D 324 
 
 Moss, John H 384 
 
 Milner, John 398 
 
 Moss, William 403 
 
 Morris, Bishop Elias 456 
 
 Morris, Nephi L 458 
 
 Milner, Stanley B 471 
 
 Moore, George 500 
 
 Murphy, Jesse E 513 
 
 Mackay, John C 571 
 
 Maclean, Dr. A. C 596 
 
 Mackay, Hyrum 630 
 
 Moore, J. M 637 
 
 Meek, Benjamin 650 
 
 N 
 
 Nelson, Prof. Joseph 108 
 
 Nelden, W. A 129 
 
 Naylor, George H 146 
 
 Newman, Thomas S 181 
 
 Newman, Joseph P 182 
 
 Nelson, William 208 
 
 Nielsen, Judge Chas. M 224 
 
 Nipper, Thomas J 304 
 
 Nystrom, J. O 332 
 
 Nalder, S. H 352 
 
 Nelson, Jens 432 
 
 Needham, William A 477 
 
 NeflF, Amos H 503 
 
 Nelson, A. C 541 
 
 Neuhausen, Carl M 629 
 
 O 
 Odell, George T 557 
 
 P 
 
 Powers, Judge Orlando W 45 
 
 Preston, Bishop William B 69 
 
 Penrose, Hon. Charles W 75 
 
 Pyper, George E 94 
 
 Pratt, Dr. Romania B 163 
 
 Panter, William J 182 
 
 Pyper, Alexander C 210 
 
 Parker, W. E 226 
 
 Park, John D 237 
 
 Palmer, O. A 267 
 
 Parker, Abraham 306 
 
 Pixton, Elizabeth 327 
 
 Pixton, Willard 329 
 
 Pixton, Robert 329 
 
 Parker, Smith 334 
 
 Park, Hugh D 345 
 
 Pack, Ward E 348 
 
 Parrish, Joel 364 
 
 Pace, Patriarch Edwin 372 
 
 Peart, Jacob 452 
 
 Parkinson, Chas. G 464 
 
 Prout, H. B 477 
 
 Park, Boyd 478 
 
 Park, Col. Samuel C 480 
 
 Parker, William 484 
 
 Paskett, John C 523 
 
 Pike, Robert 528 
 
 Park, Andrew D 530 
 
 Pugh, Enoch R 534 
 
 Park, William D 537 
 
 Parker, Samuel H 568 
 
 Pratt, Hon. Orson 597 
 
 Pratt, Milando 599 
 
 R 
 
 Richards, Hon. Franklin S 31 
 
 Richards, Franklin D 91 
 
 Roberts, Hon. B. H 96 
 
 Reiser, Albert S 114 
 
 Rood, C. L 136 
 
 Read, Walter P 143 
 
 Rhoades, I. 148 
 
 Romney, George, Jr 152 
 
 Reynolds, Rabbi L. G 180 
 
 Rhead. James B 198 
 
 Rasband, Bishop Fred 252 
 
 Romney, Miles A 253 
 
 Randall, O. H 265 
 
 Richards, Bishop Wm. P 322 
 
 Rich, John H 326 
 
 Rider, John 354 
 
 Rawlins, Bishop Jos. S 361 
 
 Roueche, Thomas F 388 
 
 Jlichardson, John 4,56 
 
 Roberts, George 487 
 
 Rampton, Henry 517 
 
 Root, Dr. E. F 550 
 
 Richards, H. P 565 
 
 Rice, Windsor V 583 
 
 Richards, Dr. J. S 595 
 
 Romney, Orson D 605 
 
 Romney, Bishop George 617 
 
 Roberts, CharlesH 650 
 
 S 
 
 Smith, Pres. Joseph F 13 
 
 Smith, Apostle J. H 37 
 
 Snow, Pres. Lorenzo 40 
 
 Snyder, Wilson 1 53 
 
 Spence, W. C 98 
 
 Smith, John S 113 
 
 Stewart, John J 145 
 
 Smith, Mrs. B. W 168 
 
 Sweet, F. A 191 
 
 Sutherland, John 196 
 
 Spiker, John A 207 
 
 Smith, James F 219 
 
 Smith, Louis W 222 
 
 Spencer, Samuel G 227 
 
 Shurlleff, Harrison T 2.39 
 
 Spencer, Hiram T 246 
 
 Snow, Alviras E 254 
 
 Sheets, Bishop Elijah F 261 
 
 Shafer, John 266 
 
 Secrist, Jacob M 293 
 
 Smith, Jesse M 298 
 
 Silver, William J 335 
 
 Spencer, Charles H 338 
 
 Silver, John A 341 
 
 Silver, Joseph A 347 
 
 Smith, Thomas J 352 
 
 Silver, Hyrum A 359 
 
 Smith, William B 369 
 
 Steed, Thomas 371 
 
 Stevenson, George V 373 
 
 Stewart, Hyrum 412 
 
 Stauffer, Dr. Fred 414 
 
 Snow, Frank R 468 
 
 Smith, William 473 
 
 Scott, George M 476 
 
 Stonebraker, John P 491 
 
 Swaner. William G 491 
 
 Sargent Bishop Wm 495 
 
 Scott, Walter 501 
 
 Shulsen, Andrew 509 
 
 Smith, John J 510 
 
 Stoker, Bishop David 517 
 
 Streeper, William H 519 
 
 Sheffield, Heber J 526 
 
 Strasburg, Louis 540 
 
 Scanlan, Bishop L 569 
 
 Shields, Robert M 581 
 
 Sheets, George A 595 
 
 Sherman, W. A 603 
 
 Stephens, Prof. Evan 606 
 
 Stewart, Judge Samuel W 619 
 
 Solomon, Bishop Alfred 625 
 
 Simper Daniel 635 
 
 Schumacher, T. M 638 
 
 Sperry, Bishop Harrison 642 
 
 Spencer, Daniel 646 
 
INDEX 
 
 Thomas, Hon. Arthur L 23 
 
 Tibbals, WillUm H 71 
 
 Thorup, John T 162 
 
 Tanner, Judge H. S 197 
 
 Thompson, J. Walcott 204 
 
 Tonks, William 213 
 
 Thomas, Hon J. J 236 
 
 Tanner, Stewart T 247 
 
 Tollerton, W J 264 
 
 Taylor, Joseph E _ 285 
 
 Turner, Charles 325 
 
 Tufts, Don C 340 
 
 Timmins, William G 350 
 
 Taylor, John 374 
 
 Taylor,George H 413 
 
 Thompson, Hon. Ezra 453 
 
 Thurston, John 496 
 
 Tate, John W 578 
 
 Thorn, Bishop Wm 600 
 
 U 
 
 Ore, Robert 420 
 
 Vernon, ] nu -s.. 
 
 ..250 
 
 W 
 
 Wells, Governor Heher M 11 
 
 Winder, Pres. John R 17 
 
 Walker, Matthew H 35 
 
 Wells, Pres. Daniel H 51 
 
 Wood, J.D 79 
 
 Wilkes, Major Edmund 89 
 
 Wallace, George Y 104 
 
 Whittemore, Hon. C 110 
 
 Winder, John R., Jr 122 
 
 Welch, Thomas R. G 167 
 
 Woodruff, Pres. Wilford 187 
 
 Woodruff, Mrs. Emma S 190 
 
 Wight, L. B 216 
 
 White, Edward 221 
 
 Weiler, Elijah M 229 
 
 Woodruff, Asahel H 232 
 
 Wright, Joseph A 233 
 
 Wilkins, Oscar 241 
 
 Wright, F. H 255 
 
 Wilson. C. M., M.D 259 
 
 Walker, Stephen 271 
 
 Woodruff, Apostle A. O 273 
 
 Wells, Pres. Rulon S 277 
 
 Williams, Wra. N 279 
 
 West, Bishop Jabez W 288 
 
 Welsh, Henry 307 
 
 Warburton, Bisliop Jcs .344 
 
 Webster, George 351 
 
 Wood, John 358 
 
 Wells, Mrs. Emmeline U .377 
 
 Wimmer, Thomas G .' 382 
 
 Webb, Edmund 391 
 
 Wrathall, James L 422 
 
 Wooton, Charles R 428 
 
 Wheelfr, Henry J 428 
 
 Wood, John 446 
 
 Waddoups, Thomas 447 
 
 Williams, Daniel 449 
 
 Worthington. James M 458 
 
 Wells. Melvin D 469 
 
 Wanless, Will F 480 
 
 Williams,E. H.; 487 
 
 Waldron, G. W 498 
 
 Webb, Edward 507 
 
 Williams, Joseph 554 
 
 Welby, A. E 584 
 
 Whitehouse, Franklin 588 
 
 Young, Pres Brigham 1.30 
 
 Young, Apostle Brigham 133 
 
 Young, Joseph 141 
 
 Young, Major Richard W 202 
 
 Young, Robert 2.0 
 
 z 
 
 Zane, Hon. Charles S 55 
 
 Zion Co-op. Merc. Inst 652 
 
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