MAUDE ADAMS
Adams, Maude, actress, was born Nov. 11, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She has attained success in Little Minister. Her real name is Kiskadden.
Source: [Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains
Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life
and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 –
Transcribed by AFFG]
CLARENCE EMIR ALLEN
ALLEN, Clarence Emir, a Representative from Utah; born in Girard
Township, Erie County, Pa., September 8, 1852; attended the district
school and Girard (Pa.) Academy; was graduated from Western Reserve
College, then at Hudson, Ohio, in 1877; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah,
in August 1881 and was an instructor in Salt Lake Academy until 1886,
when he resigned to engage in mining pursuits; member of the
Territorial house of representatives in 1888, 1890, and again in 1894;
elected county clerk of Salt Lake County in August 1890 and served
until January 1, 1893; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and
commenced practice in Salt Lake City; unsuccessful Liberal candidate
for election in 1892 as a Delegate to the Fifty-third Congress;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892 and 1896; upon
the admission of Utah as a State into the Union was elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from January 4,
1896, to March 3, 1897; declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1896; resumed his former mining pursuits until 1922, when he retired
from active business and resided in Columbus, Ohio, until 1931; died in
Escondido, Calif., July 9, 1932; the remains were cremated and the
ashes interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Source: Biographical Directory of U. S. Congress, 1774-Present
Contributed and transcribed by Anna Newell
A. G. AMUNDSON
A. G. Amundson is a prosperous merchant of Stockton who owes his
success to his close application, his earnest study of the trade and
the market and his fair dealing and reasonable prices. He has the
leading store in Stockton and his progressiveness sets the standard for
mercantile activities in this part of Tooele county. He was born in
Salt Lake City in 1882, a son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Glover)
Amundson, the former a native of Christiania, Norway, while the latter
was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The father came to Utah in 1859,
while the mother arrived in this state in 1863. He was a contractor and
builder, devoting his life to industrial activity of that character
throughout his entire business career.
Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, A. G. Amundson
passed through consecutive grades in the public schools until graduated
from the high school and later he was for three years a student in the
Brigham Young Academy at Provo and also spent two years in the
Agricultural College at Logan, pursuing a course in architecture and
drafting. In 1900 he removed to La Grande, Oregon, where his father did
an extensive business as a contractor and builder, erecting many of the
best buildings of that city. Mr. Amundson of this review was associated
with him as architect and made many of the plans for these buildings.
He remained a factor in the business life of that city for five years
and in 1905 removed to Clifton, Idaho, where he carried on mercantile
pursuits and also turned his attention to ranching. Eventually he
disposed of his store at Clifton, Idaho, and removed to Stockton, where
he now lives. Here he purchased the mercantile business of J. W.
Lawrence in 1917 and is today owner of the leading store of the city.
He has been a wise and careful buyer, closely watching the market,
taking advantage of low prices and giving to his patrons the benefit of
his purchases. He carries a large and carefully selected line of goods,
and his earnest effort to please his patrons has been one of the
dominant features in his success. His sales amount to about forty
thousand dollars annually. In addition to his store he owns a ranch of
one hundred acres in Idaho.
In 1903 Mr. Amundson was united in marriage to Miss Violet Gidney, a
daughter of George Gidney and a native of Brigham City. Her father was
engaged in merchandising in Brigham City and later removed to Mercur,
then a prosperous mining town, where his death occurred. When Mrs.
Amundson was a little maiden of twelve years her mother married again
and Mrs. Amundson went to live with Mrs. J. W. Lawrence, who had no
children of her own, and when Mr. Lawrence died his widow had Mr.
Amundson come from Idaho to buy her out, as her husband was the pioneer
merchant of Stockton. To Mr. and Mrs. Amundson were born four children,
Cleone, Florence, Ruth and Lawrence T.
Mr. Amundson was with the government from 1904 to 1905 at the Fort Hall
Indian reservation of Idaho, where he acted as superintendent of
construction of buildings which were then being erected there. He has
been an elder in the Mormon church and a very active church worker in
every locality in which he has resided. He is just completing a new
brick bungalow at Stockton and will have one of the pleasant and
attractive homes of the city. He is a lover of good books and possesses
a large private library, with the contents of which he is very
familiar. His broad reading and study have made him a well informed man
and association with him means expansion and elevation.
[Source: Utah since Statehood:
Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
CHARLES MACLEAN ANDERSON
The call of opportunity has found instant response in Charles Maclean
Anderson, whose alertness has brought him steadily to the front in
commercial circles. He is now the manager of the five, ten and fifteen
cent store of the F. W. Woolworth Company at Salt Lake City, where he
is employing between fifty and sixty clerks. His life record is the
expression of modern commercial enterprise intelligently directed. Mr.
Anderson was born at Port Huron, Michigan, November 7, 1880, and is a
son of William Lawrence and Christy (Maclean) Anderson, both of whom
were natives of Scotland, and in their son are found many of the
sterling characteristics of the Scotch race. His parents came to the
new world in their childhood days with their respective families and
were residents of Port Huron, Michigan, where William L. Anderson
became a mechanic for the Pere Marquette Railroad and also followed the
occupation of farming. The mother is a descendant of the famous Maclean
clan, tracing her ancestry back to the early Celtic warrior who built
the Maclean-Duart castle, which still stands on the edge of a high
cliff off the coast of Mull, near Oban, Scotland. This clan also
suffered in the early days for the Stuart cause. Mr. Anderson of this
review has in his possession a piece of old Scotch tartan which has
been handed down through the generations and is over four hundred and
fifty years old. His father died at Port Huron, Michigan, in 1892. The
family numbered five children, the eldest being Mrs. Olive Mitchell,
now a widow of Salt Lake City. The others are: Charles M., of this
review; Allan, living at Cincinnati, Ohio; Lewis, of Salt Lake City;
and Bessie, the wife of M. Burns, of Rockford, Illinois. Charles M.
Anderson acquired a public school education and at the Mme of his
father's death became the head of the family. He was obliged to work to
assist in maintaining the others of the household and entered the
employ of the Grand Trunk Railway Company when but twelve years of age.
He was employed by the railway company for many years and at the time
he left that position he was acting as billing clerk at Port Huron. In
1909 he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and secured a position in the five
and ten cent store of S. H. Knox, acting first as stockman and
afterward as floorwalker. This business was subsequently taken over by
the F. W. Woolworth Company, Mr. Anderson remaining at St. Louis for
two years and then going to Evansville, Indiana, where he remained for'
nearly a year. He next was transferred to Danville, Illinois, where he
continued for eight months and on the expiration of that period was
sent to Billings, Montana, to open a store there for the company,
having charge at that place for a year and a half. He was then sent to
Salt Lake City to become manager of the larger store at this point and
has since been in control of the business, which has reached such a
volume that there are now employed on an average of from fifty to sixty
clerks.
In 1913 Mr. Anderson was married at Danville, Illinois, to Miss Abbie
Baker, of Evansville, Indiana, and they had two children, Jacqueline
and Jeane. The wife and mother passed away in the fall of 1918, her
death being occasioned by the influenza epidemic, and the mother of Mr.
Anderson is now acting as housekeeper for him at Salt Lake City. Mr.
Anderson is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being connected with
the blue lodge at Port Huron, Michigan, and with the Scottish Rite and
Mystic Shrine at Salt Lake City. He also belongs to the Commercial
Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Automobile Club and the Masonic Club and is
a popular representative of these various organizations. He is a
typical American citizen in his spirit of enterprise and
progressiveness and he has the industry and perseverance inherited from
an honoured Scotch ancestry.
(Source: Utah since Statehood
Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919.
Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
GEORGE S. ASHTON
George S. Ashton, who has for many years been prominently identified
with building operations in Salt Lake, his native city, as a contractor
and as the vice president of the Ashton Improvement Company, was born
on the 27th of July, 1870. a son of Edward and Jane (Treharne) Ashton,
both of whom were natives of Wales. They came to America in 1852,
settling in Salt Lake City and the father engaged in the shoemaking
business for a time. He afterward worked for the Utah Central Railroad
Company as a mechanic, representing that road for thirty years.
Previous to that time he had been employed at his trade by William
Jennings. He was thus closely associated with the industrial
development of Salt Lake, where he passed away in February, 1906, at
the advanced age of eighty-three years. He had crossed the plains after
the primitive manner of travel in the early days, with ox teams and
wagons, proceeding in. that way from the Missouri river to Salt Lake.
The mother of George S. Ashton passed away in Salt Lake City in 1897.
In the family were seven children, four sons and three daughters, of
whom four are yet living: George S., of this review; and Edward T.,
Elizabeth and Mrs. Emma Richards, all of Salt Lake. The deceased are
Jedediah, Brigham and Sarah.
George S. Ashton was the youngest of the family. He attended the graded
schools, and afterward spent a year in study in the Latter-day Saints'
College, after which he entered upon the general contracting business
and has done much construction work in Salt Lake City and in Utah. The
firm of Ashton Brothers is one of the best known in the contracting
business in the state. George S. Ashton is also the vice president of
the Ashton Improvement Company. He is likewise a director of the Sugar
House Lumber Company and of the Deseret Building Society. His business
interests have been of a character that have contributed in large
measure to the development and upbuilding of the city and state in
which he makes his home.
On the 27th of September, 1893, in Salt Lake, Mr. Ashton was united in
marriage to Miss Leah Fidkin, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Fidkin, who arrived in Salt Lake in 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Ashton are
parents of eight children: Mrs. Leah Lloyd, who was born in Salt Lake
and was here educated, being graduated from the Latter-day Saints'
College; George W., who was graduated from the Latter-day Saints'
College and is now pursuing an engineering course in the University of
Utah; Lucille, a high school graduate, who completed a course in the
Kiester College of Dressmaking; Aliene, a graduate of the Business
College of the Latter-day Saints and now with her father in business;
Emma, who is a graduate of the public school and is attending the
Latter-day Saints College; William, also attending school; Melvin, who
is likewise in school; and Reed, who completes the family.
In politics Mr. Ashton's attitude is that of an independent republican.
He has been a very prominent and zealous member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and is now serving as first counselor of
the fifteenth ward.
[Source: Utah since Statehood:
Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
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