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JOHN M. BLACK, Jr.
John M. Black, Jr., manager of a flour mill at Monticello, was born at Orderville, Utah, April 23, 1880. When this state was first opened up to settlement his grandparents in both the paternal and maternal lines became residents of Utah. His parents are John M. and Thressa (Cox) Black, who are natives of Utah, the father being reared in the southern part of the state. He worked for twelve years in the woolen mill at Washington and is a thorough machinist. He is a millwright by trade and also learned the business of flour milling. He has operated mills at various points, becoming one of the best millers in southern Utah. At different periods he has operated woolen mills at St. George and at Washington, and flour mills in Arizona and New Mexico and also in Old Mexico; and not only has he managed the operation of the mills but has been the builder of the mill property, which he has on completion turned over to the corporations in good condition. He is now associated with his two sons, John and Edson, in the ownership and operation of the roller mill at Blanding, where he and his wife, Mrs. Thressa Black, now make their home. In the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints he has been active and is a member of the High Priests’ Quorum.
John M. Black, Jr., obtained his education in the common schools of Arizona and from early life worked with his father in various mills, including the Blanding mill, in which he is now financially interested. He is also the manager and part owner of the Monticello mill, which has a capacity of fifty barrels. He thoroughly understands the best processes of flour manufacture and the product of the mills with which he is connected is of the highest grade.
On the 1st of January, 1902, Mr. Black was married at Fruitland, New Mexico, to Miss Selva Evans, a daughter of Thomas and Jane Ann (Cole) Evans, who were natives of Wales and in 1892 came to Utah, settling at Salt Lake City. After four years they removed to Fruitland, New Mexico, through the advice of John R. Young, and there Mr. Evans took up work in the coal fields but is now working in the coal mines of Durango, Colorado. The mother has passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Black have been born seven children: Marley, whose birth occurred at Fruitland, New Mexico, November 1, 1903; Loran, who was born in Morelos, Mexico, on the 7th of February, 1905; Marion, whose birth occurred in Juarez, Mexico, January 20, 1907; Harold, born at Fruitland, New Mexico, December 12, 1909; Thomas who was born at Kirkland, New Mexico, July 10, 1911; Carl, born at Monticello, Utah, December 12, 1917; and Ethel, born at Monticello, March 31, 1919.
In religious faith Mr. Black is a Mormon and in 1900 went to the northern states on a mission, laboring largely in southern Indiana. He returned in 1901 after working faithfully as traveling elder. His military record covers eighteen months’ service as a member of the Arizona National Guard. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but he has never been an aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and his energies upon his business affairs. The thoroughness with which he has learned the milling business and his close application have been the salient feature
in the attainment of his success.
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed by Richard Ramos]
JUDGE WILLIAM MURDOCK McCARTY
Honored and respected by all, there is no name that is enrolled higher on the judicial records of the state of Utah than that of William Murdock McCarty, who for sixteen years served upon the supreme court bench. His colleagues characterized him as an ideal jurist by reason of his close conformity to the highest ethics of the profession and his comprehensive knowledge of the law. Judge McCarty was born at Alpine, Utah, May 15, 1859, a son of James Hardwick and Lydia Margaret (Cragun) McCarty. The father, a native of Kentucky, removed to Indiana in boyhood and was reared to manhood in the Hoosier state. Leaving the Mississippi valley in 1854, he removed to Utah, where he was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Margaret Cragun, who was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, and had come to this state in 1852.
Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, the future jurist attended the Brigham Young Academy in 1881 and 1882, after mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools. He was afterward employed in driving a freighting team between points in Utah and the mines of Nevada, carrying products of the farm to the miners at Pioche. Bristol and other places. At night, as the members of the wagon train camped out along the way by the side of the old road in the Escalante desert, Mr. McCarty would pore over a law book while the other freighters would play cards or in some other way provide entertainment for the evening. It was in this way that he gained his initial knowledge of the law and, actuated by a laudable ambition, he continued his studies until he could pass the required examination which secured him admission to the bar of the district court at Beaver, Utah, on the 17th of September, 1887. He was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the state in 1890 and later in the United States district and supreme courts. He first opened a law office in Beaver, Utah, where for a period he was in partnership with O. A. Murdock, under the firm name of McCarty & Murdock. He was afterward appointed assistant United States district attorney for the territory of Utah and continuously filled that position save for a brief period until Utah was admitted to the Union in 1896. In the meantime he served for two terms, from 1892 until 1896 as county attorney of Sevier county.
In 1894 he entered into partnership relations with Samuel R. Thurman, under the firm style of Thurman & McCarty, and they thus engaged in practice until the following year, when Mr. McCarty was elected judge of the sixth judicial district of Utah and by reason of his very capable service on the bench was reelected to the office in 1900. His service on the district bench recommended him for higher judicial honors and in 1902 he was elected justice of the supreme court of Utah for a term of six years and reelected in 1908 for a similar period. A third election came to him in 1914. During his service upon the supreme court bench he twice acted as chief justice for a period of two years and would for a third time have assumed the duties of that position in 1919 had death not claimed him. In 1914 it was written of him in Men of Affairs in Utah: "As chief justice of the supreme court of Utah, William M. McCarty holds a position which is peculiarly exacting and which makes peculiarly trying demands upon him. The judicial mind must not be swayed by personal opinion and the law is the only foundation upon which opinions of the supreme court can be based.
Justice McCarty on the bench divorces himself from every personal tie and thinks only as a judge, without fear or favor. Off the bench he displays another side of a remarkable personality. Amiable, a delightful conversationalist, possessing wit that sparkles and philosophy that sobers, Chief Justice McCarty has thousands of friends who admire him and cherish his good esteem."
In 1893 Judge McCarty was united in marriage to Miss Lovina L. Murray and to them were born the following named: Murray W. and Ray S., who at the time of their father's death were in the service of their country, the former an officer in France with a bombing squadron and the latter a member of one of the gun crews of the United States transport Great Northern; Frank E. H.; and Mrs. Margaret M. Magor.
Judge McCarty was a valued member of Salt Lake Lodge, No. 85, B. P. O. E., also of the Knights of Pythias and the Loyal Order of Moose. It is worthy of note that after Judge McCarty's election to the supreme court bench he became the associate of S. R. Thurman and E. E. Corfman, who were his colleagues in the supreme court and with whom he had formerly engaged in law practice in territorial days, having been the associate of Judge Thurman at Beaver and of Judge Corfman at Provo. The death of Judge McCarty occurred on the 19th of December, 1918. He was a man of fine personal appearance and his broad brow, his keen eye, his firm but mobile mouth were indicative of the strong spirit within. His political allegiance was always given to the republican party and he never faltered in his support of any cause which he espoused. His mind was always open to conviction and he closely studied every question which came to him for settlement as a judge or as a citizen. Elected a justice of the supreme court for the third term, he would have continued in the office for eighteen years had death spared him to complete the term to which he was last elected. However, Utah benefited by his wise decisions for sixteen years and his epitaph, as written by his colleagues of the supreme court, is that "he was a man of stern integrity, of most excellent morals and led a clean and blameless life." In a memorial prepared by a committee appointed for the purpose, it was said:
"Judge McCarty was what is commonly called a self-made man. Much of his learning was acquired at the hearth and in the cabin. As a law student he had few books, but those he read diligently. He was a good advocate at the bar and an able and conscientious judge on the bench. He was learned in the law, but he was not, nor did he pretend to be, a classic or a logician of the law, nor had he, nor did he claim to have, a mind richly stored with legal lore and technical knowledge, as compared with more Renowned jurists of the country. His mind, however, was well stored with fundamentals of the law and with much general and practical knowledge, coupled with strong intuitions which at times outranked his power of expression. He reached just and correct conclusions from complicated facts and intricate questions of law with at times a seeming inaptness to give the best reasons for them, or to concretely state the propositions involved, even to his own satisfaction. His judicial opinions are put in plain language and with certainty as to what was intended and decided.
"In reviewing a record he was influenced more by what he regarded the inherent justice of the cause than by the niceties and technicalities of the law, but not in disregard of its fundamentals, nor by substituting for them what he thought the law ought to be. He had proper respect for legislative authority, but was ever vigilant to ward off encroachments upon the constitution or upon the courts.
"In his discharge of his duties he was faithful and impartial. Neither politics nor religion, nor rank or wealth of litigants, but only the facts and the law of the cause, influenced him in reaching a result. Friend and foe alike received at his hands the same consideration. He was of most positive character, firm and independent, fearless in his convictions, strong in his likes and dislikes, yet ever willing to redress a wrong and to enforce right.
"There was not anything diplomatic or politic about him. He was plain and outspoken and usually called things by their right name. Fawn and flattery were foreign to his nature. His whole life was modest and simple and free from ostentation. He was of stern integrity, of most excellent morals and lived a clean and blameless life. He was domestic in his habits, affectionate and devoted to his family, and cheerfully made whatever sacrifices were necessary for their comfort and welfare. Undemonstrative and reserved of manner, yet he was most warm-hearted and a genial and an interesting companion, full of anecdote and reminiscences. As a citizen he was public-spirited, of undoubted loyalty and ready and willing to aid any cause he thought just.
"No time was wasted by him in doubts and fears as to the future. All that he saw and understood taught him to trust a high power for what he did not see or understand. To him death was a natural event. He met it in firmness and with confidence that a proper performance of duties of this life is the best preparation for the life that follows."
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
GEORGE C. WHITMORE
George C. Whitmore, who died in 1917 at Nephi, had a history that reads more like romance than fact and verifies the truth of the old saying that "Truth is stranger than fiction." He was a son of Dr. James M. Whitmore, one of the early settlers of what is now Kane County and owner of a ranch near Pipe Springs. On January 8, 1866, at the beginning of a heavy snow storm, Doctor Whitmore and a hired man named Robert McIntyre started out to look after the live stock. Indians were lying in wait and both men were killed, after which the Indians ran off with some of the cattle. The heavy snow fall covered the bodies of the two men and they were not found until the 20th. David Chidester, one of the party who made the search, says they were guided to the spot by Indians who claimed to have seen the killing but took no hand in it, and later the clothing of the two men was found in the Indian camp. Captain Pierce demanded the surrender of the Indians and upon their refusal seven of them were killed, according to Mr. Chidester's story.
At that time George C. was thirteen years old, having been born on January 26, 1853. After the burial of his father and the hired man, he begged his mother to buy him a repeating rifle. He had seen the Indians lurking in the neighborhood, knew which band had committed the deed, and meant to avenge the death of his father. His mother at first declined to grant his request, telling him that if he had a gun he would only get into trouble. But the boy persisted and finally his mother sold three head of cattle to get the money for the rifle. A neighbor purchased the gun and a supply of ammunition in Salt Lake City. Although but thirteen years of age, George knew how to handle a gun, an accomplishment that comes early to boys on the frontier. As soon as he received his repeating rifle he began a series of attacks on the Indians that rivals the deeds of Daniel Boone or Lewis Wetzel.
Saddling one of the ranch horses, the boy set out alone for the Indian Camp. As soon as he located the band he hid his horse in the brush, crept cautiously to the top of a ridge overlooking the camp. The rifle cracked twice in quick succession and two Indians fell. Hurrying to his horse, he made his way safely to his home, telling no one what he had done. The savages moved to another camping place, but the boy kept track of their movements and a few days later another savage was killed by the mysterious foe. Again they moved and again the boy followed, and every time he came within rifle range of their camp one or more of the redskins "bit the dust."
Among the white people there was an element that deplored the actions of young Whitmore, fearing that his activity would bring on an Indian war, and the authorities tried to arrest him. Now he was between two fires, yet he did not relax his warfare against the savages who had murdered his father. With a cunning rarely equaled in one so young, he dodged the officers of the law and added a "good Indian" to his list at every opportunity. Finally the band was reduced to two, who fled southward, crossed the Colorado and sought refuge among the Navajo Indians to escape their youthful Nemesis.
When the band had been thus dispersed, George set his gun aside and engaged in peaceful occupations. For many years he was engaged in the banking business at Nephi. He never boasted of his exploits and when asked about them his answers were given reluctantly, but as an agent of vengeance his work was well done.
[Source: Utah since statehood: historical and biographical, Volume 1; Edited by Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
John M. Black, Jr., manager of a flour mill at Monticello, was born at Orderville, Utah, April 23, 1880. When this state was first opened up to settlement his grandparents in both the paternal and maternal lines became residents of Utah. His parents are John M. and Thressa (Cox) Black, who are natives of Utah, the father being reared in the southern part of the state. He worked for twelve years in the woolen mill at Washington and is a thorough machinist. He is a millwright by trade and also learned the business of flour milling. He has operated mills at various points, becoming one of the best millers in southern Utah. At different periods he has operated woolen mills at St. George and at Washington, and flour mills in Arizona and New Mexico and also in Old Mexico; and not only has he managed the operation of the mills but has been the builder of the mill property, which he has on completion turned over to the corporations in good condition. He is now associated with his two sons, John and Edson, in the ownership and operation of the roller mill at Blanding, where he and his wife, Mrs. Thressa Black, now make their home. In the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints he has been active and is a member of the High Priests’ Quorum.
John M. Black, Jr., obtained his education in the common schools of Arizona and from early life worked with his father in various mills, including the Blanding mill, in which he is now financially interested. He is also the manager and part owner of the Monticello mill, which has a capacity of fifty barrels. He thoroughly understands the best processes of flour manufacture and the product of the mills with which he is connected is of the highest grade.
On the 1st of January, 1902, Mr. Black was married at Fruitland, New Mexico, to Miss Selva Evans, a daughter of Thomas and Jane Ann (Cole) Evans, who were natives of Wales and in 1892 came to Utah, settling at Salt Lake City. After four years they removed to Fruitland, New Mexico, through the advice of John R. Young, and there Mr. Evans took up work in the coal fields but is now working in the coal mines of Durango, Colorado. The mother has passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Black have been born seven children: Marley, whose birth occurred at Fruitland, New Mexico, November 1, 1903; Loran, who was born in Morelos, Mexico, on the 7th of February, 1905; Marion, whose birth occurred in Juarez, Mexico, January 20, 1907; Harold, born at Fruitland, New Mexico, December 12, 1909; Thomas who was born at Kirkland, New Mexico, July 10, 1911; Carl, born at Monticello, Utah, December 12, 1917; and Ethel, born at Monticello, March 31, 1919.
In religious faith Mr. Black is a Mormon and in 1900 went to the northern states on a mission, laboring largely in southern Indiana. He returned in 1901 after working faithfully as traveling elder. His military record covers eighteen months’ service as a member of the Arizona National Guard. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but he has never been an aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and his energies upon his business affairs. The thoroughness with which he has learned the milling business and his close application have been the salient feature
in the attainment of his success.
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed by Richard Ramos]
JUDGE WILLIAM MURDOCK McCARTY
Honored and respected by all, there is no name that is enrolled higher on the judicial records of the state of Utah than that of William Murdock McCarty, who for sixteen years served upon the supreme court bench. His colleagues characterized him as an ideal jurist by reason of his close conformity to the highest ethics of the profession and his comprehensive knowledge of the law. Judge McCarty was born at Alpine, Utah, May 15, 1859, a son of James Hardwick and Lydia Margaret (Cragun) McCarty. The father, a native of Kentucky, removed to Indiana in boyhood and was reared to manhood in the Hoosier state. Leaving the Mississippi valley in 1854, he removed to Utah, where he was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Margaret Cragun, who was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, and had come to this state in 1852.
Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, the future jurist attended the Brigham Young Academy in 1881 and 1882, after mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools. He was afterward employed in driving a freighting team between points in Utah and the mines of Nevada, carrying products of the farm to the miners at Pioche. Bristol and other places. At night, as the members of the wagon train camped out along the way by the side of the old road in the Escalante desert, Mr. McCarty would pore over a law book while the other freighters would play cards or in some other way provide entertainment for the evening. It was in this way that he gained his initial knowledge of the law and, actuated by a laudable ambition, he continued his studies until he could pass the required examination which secured him admission to the bar of the district court at Beaver, Utah, on the 17th of September, 1887. He was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the state in 1890 and later in the United States district and supreme courts. He first opened a law office in Beaver, Utah, where for a period he was in partnership with O. A. Murdock, under the firm name of McCarty & Murdock. He was afterward appointed assistant United States district attorney for the territory of Utah and continuously filled that position save for a brief period until Utah was admitted to the Union in 1896. In the meantime he served for two terms, from 1892 until 1896 as county attorney of Sevier county.
In 1894 he entered into partnership relations with Samuel R. Thurman, under the firm style of Thurman & McCarty, and they thus engaged in practice until the following year, when Mr. McCarty was elected judge of the sixth judicial district of Utah and by reason of his very capable service on the bench was reelected to the office in 1900. His service on the district bench recommended him for higher judicial honors and in 1902 he was elected justice of the supreme court of Utah for a term of six years and reelected in 1908 for a similar period. A third election came to him in 1914. During his service upon the supreme court bench he twice acted as chief justice for a period of two years and would for a third time have assumed the duties of that position in 1919 had death not claimed him. In 1914 it was written of him in Men of Affairs in Utah: "As chief justice of the supreme court of Utah, William M. McCarty holds a position which is peculiarly exacting and which makes peculiarly trying demands upon him. The judicial mind must not be swayed by personal opinion and the law is the only foundation upon which opinions of the supreme court can be based.
Justice McCarty on the bench divorces himself from every personal tie and thinks only as a judge, without fear or favor. Off the bench he displays another side of a remarkable personality. Amiable, a delightful conversationalist, possessing wit that sparkles and philosophy that sobers, Chief Justice McCarty has thousands of friends who admire him and cherish his good esteem."
In 1893 Judge McCarty was united in marriage to Miss Lovina L. Murray and to them were born the following named: Murray W. and Ray S., who at the time of their father's death were in the service of their country, the former an officer in France with a bombing squadron and the latter a member of one of the gun crews of the United States transport Great Northern; Frank E. H.; and Mrs. Margaret M. Magor.
Judge McCarty was a valued member of Salt Lake Lodge, No. 85, B. P. O. E., also of the Knights of Pythias and the Loyal Order of Moose. It is worthy of note that after Judge McCarty's election to the supreme court bench he became the associate of S. R. Thurman and E. E. Corfman, who were his colleagues in the supreme court and with whom he had formerly engaged in law practice in territorial days, having been the associate of Judge Thurman at Beaver and of Judge Corfman at Provo. The death of Judge McCarty occurred on the 19th of December, 1918. He was a man of fine personal appearance and his broad brow, his keen eye, his firm but mobile mouth were indicative of the strong spirit within. His political allegiance was always given to the republican party and he never faltered in his support of any cause which he espoused. His mind was always open to conviction and he closely studied every question which came to him for settlement as a judge or as a citizen. Elected a justice of the supreme court for the third term, he would have continued in the office for eighteen years had death spared him to complete the term to which he was last elected. However, Utah benefited by his wise decisions for sixteen years and his epitaph, as written by his colleagues of the supreme court, is that "he was a man of stern integrity, of most excellent morals and led a clean and blameless life." In a memorial prepared by a committee appointed for the purpose, it was said:
"Judge McCarty was what is commonly called a self-made man. Much of his learning was acquired at the hearth and in the cabin. As a law student he had few books, but those he read diligently. He was a good advocate at the bar and an able and conscientious judge on the bench. He was learned in the law, but he was not, nor did he pretend to be, a classic or a logician of the law, nor had he, nor did he claim to have, a mind richly stored with legal lore and technical knowledge, as compared with more Renowned jurists of the country. His mind, however, was well stored with fundamentals of the law and with much general and practical knowledge, coupled with strong intuitions which at times outranked his power of expression. He reached just and correct conclusions from complicated facts and intricate questions of law with at times a seeming inaptness to give the best reasons for them, or to concretely state the propositions involved, even to his own satisfaction. His judicial opinions are put in plain language and with certainty as to what was intended and decided.
"In reviewing a record he was influenced more by what he regarded the inherent justice of the cause than by the niceties and technicalities of the law, but not in disregard of its fundamentals, nor by substituting for them what he thought the law ought to be. He had proper respect for legislative authority, but was ever vigilant to ward off encroachments upon the constitution or upon the courts.
"In his discharge of his duties he was faithful and impartial. Neither politics nor religion, nor rank or wealth of litigants, but only the facts and the law of the cause, influenced him in reaching a result. Friend and foe alike received at his hands the same consideration. He was of most positive character, firm and independent, fearless in his convictions, strong in his likes and dislikes, yet ever willing to redress a wrong and to enforce right.
"There was not anything diplomatic or politic about him. He was plain and outspoken and usually called things by their right name. Fawn and flattery were foreign to his nature. His whole life was modest and simple and free from ostentation. He was of stern integrity, of most excellent morals and lived a clean and blameless life. He was domestic in his habits, affectionate and devoted to his family, and cheerfully made whatever sacrifices were necessary for their comfort and welfare. Undemonstrative and reserved of manner, yet he was most warm-hearted and a genial and an interesting companion, full of anecdote and reminiscences. As a citizen he was public-spirited, of undoubted loyalty and ready and willing to aid any cause he thought just.
"No time was wasted by him in doubts and fears as to the future. All that he saw and understood taught him to trust a high power for what he did not see or understand. To him death was a natural event. He met it in firmness and with confidence that a proper performance of duties of this life is the best preparation for the life that follows."
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
GEORGE C. WHITMORE
George C. Whitmore, who died in 1917 at Nephi, had a history that reads more like romance than fact and verifies the truth of the old saying that "Truth is stranger than fiction." He was a son of Dr. James M. Whitmore, one of the early settlers of what is now Kane County and owner of a ranch near Pipe Springs. On January 8, 1866, at the beginning of a heavy snow storm, Doctor Whitmore and a hired man named Robert McIntyre started out to look after the live stock. Indians were lying in wait and both men were killed, after which the Indians ran off with some of the cattle. The heavy snow fall covered the bodies of the two men and they were not found until the 20th. David Chidester, one of the party who made the search, says they were guided to the spot by Indians who claimed to have seen the killing but took no hand in it, and later the clothing of the two men was found in the Indian camp. Captain Pierce demanded the surrender of the Indians and upon their refusal seven of them were killed, according to Mr. Chidester's story.
At that time George C. was thirteen years old, having been born on January 26, 1853. After the burial of his father and the hired man, he begged his mother to buy him a repeating rifle. He had seen the Indians lurking in the neighborhood, knew which band had committed the deed, and meant to avenge the death of his father. His mother at first declined to grant his request, telling him that if he had a gun he would only get into trouble. But the boy persisted and finally his mother sold three head of cattle to get the money for the rifle. A neighbor purchased the gun and a supply of ammunition in Salt Lake City. Although but thirteen years of age, George knew how to handle a gun, an accomplishment that comes early to boys on the frontier. As soon as he received his repeating rifle he began a series of attacks on the Indians that rivals the deeds of Daniel Boone or Lewis Wetzel.
Saddling one of the ranch horses, the boy set out alone for the Indian Camp. As soon as he located the band he hid his horse in the brush, crept cautiously to the top of a ridge overlooking the camp. The rifle cracked twice in quick succession and two Indians fell. Hurrying to his horse, he made his way safely to his home, telling no one what he had done. The savages moved to another camping place, but the boy kept track of their movements and a few days later another savage was killed by the mysterious foe. Again they moved and again the boy followed, and every time he came within rifle range of their camp one or more of the redskins "bit the dust."
Among the white people there was an element that deplored the actions of young Whitmore, fearing that his activity would bring on an Indian war, and the authorities tried to arrest him. Now he was between two fires, yet he did not relax his warfare against the savages who had murdered his father. With a cunning rarely equaled in one so young, he dodged the officers of the law and added a "good Indian" to his list at every opportunity. Finally the band was reduced to two, who fled southward, crossed the Colorado and sought refuge among the Navajo Indians to escape their youthful Nemesis.
When the band had been thus dispersed, George set his gun aside and engaged in peaceful occupations. For many years he was engaged in the banking business at Nephi. He never boasted of his exploits and when asked about them his answers were given reluctantly, but as an agent of vengeance his work was well done.
[Source: Utah since statehood: historical and biographical, Volume 1; Edited by Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
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