COLONEL JOSEPH J. DAYNES, JR.
The name of Colonel Joseph J. Daynes, Jr., is well known in commercial
and musical circles of Salt Lake, for he is one of the organizers of
the business conducted under the name of the Daynes-Beebe Music
Company, proprietors of one of the largest music houses west of
Chicago. Mr. Daynes is a man of recognized business ability, of
unassailable integrity and of the most progressive spirit. He was born
in Salt Lake City, November 7, 1873, a son of Joseph J. and Mary J.
(Sharp) Daynes, who were natives of England and Salt Lake City
respectively. The father came to America in early life, the
grandparents being among the pioneer residents of Utah. Joseph J.
Daynes and Mary J. Sharp were married in Salt Lake and the former then
gave his attention to musical interests. He was the organist for the
Mormon Tabernacle for thirty years and has done much to develop musical
taste in this city. He is now living retired and the mother of Colonel
Daynes of this review also survives. In their family were seven
children, of whom the following are still living: Colonel Daynes, H. S.
and R. E. Daynes, Mrs. N. C. Christensen and Mrs. Charles W. Baldwin.
During his youthful days, Colonel Daynes, whose name introduces this
record, attended the public and high schools of this city and graduated
at the age of eighteen. He afterward entered the University of Utah and
also attended the Salt Lake Business College. His inclinations were
along a commercial line and in the year 1893 he became associated with
his father in the music business, since which time he has been
constantly engaged in the same. Their business grew from a small
beginning until today the company handles everything obtainable in
musical merchandise, including pianos, player pianos, phonographs,
sheet music and all kinds of musical mechanical instruments. In the
year 1909 the corporate name was changed to the Daynes-Beebe Music
Company. Mr. Daynes becoming president and general manager. The company
and its predecessors have been in continuous business since the year
1860, being the oldest music house in the west. The trade today reaches
over seven hundred thousand dollars per annum and covers a territory
embracing Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona and Colorado. Colonel
Daynes' long experience in the business thoroughly qualifies him to
speak with authority upon the value of musical instruments and his
reliability constitutes an element of worth in advising advantageous
purchases. Aside from his interest in the music trade, Colonel Daynes
is a director of the Deseret National Bank, the president of the Ebert
Home Furnishing Company, and a director of a number of minor business
concerns. In all these things his cooperation is of great value, for he
is a man of keen business sagacity and discernment.
On the 18th of December, 1895, at Salt Lake, Mr. Daynes was married to
Miss Winnifred B. Woodruff, a daughter of Wilford Woodruff, president
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Emma (Smith)
Woodruff. Colonel and Mrs. Daynes have become parents of seven
children. Joseph D., born in Salt Lake in 1898, is a graduate of the
high school of this city and is now on a mission for the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sharp W., born in Salt Lake,
February 13, 1903, is attending high school. Blanche Virginia, born in
Salt Lake, December 9, 1905, Helen Clare, born in Salt Lake in 1907,
Byron Woodruff, in 1908, Wilford Woodruff, in 1910, and Paul Woodruff
in 1915, are all now in school with the exception of the youngest.
In his political views Colonel Daynes has always been a republican and
he served as a member of the staff of Governor Spry for four years and
also on the staff of Governor Cutler for four years. His religious
faith and that of his family is in accord with the teachings of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he has always taken an
active part in church affairs. In 1899 he was called on a mission for
the church to Great Britain. His wife accompanied him and they spent a
little over two years in the city of Birmingham, England. During their
residence there he became president of the Birmingham conference,
presiding over it the last nine months of his stay in that land.
His interests in community affairs is indicated by his membership in
the Salt Lake Commercial Club, and his hearty cooperation is given to
all its well defined plans and projects for the upbuilding of the city.
He gives his support to all interests of public benefit and moment, and
the course of life which he has ever pursued commends him to the
confidence and unqualified regard of those who know him.
[Source: Utah since Statehood:
Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
WILLIAM DRIVER
WILLIAM DRIVER, the pioneer druggist of Northern Utah, and the
proprietor of the leading wholesale and retail drug stores of Ogden,
came to Utah in 1866, from London, England. He was born in Suffolk
County, at Bury Saint Edmonds, on May 3, 1837, and is the son of George
and Mary (Killingworth) Driver. The Killingworth family founded the
town of that name in Yorkshire, and the Driver family trace their
ancestry back to William the Conqueror.
Mr. Driver joined the Mormon Church in 1851, at the age of fourteen
years, remaining at home until seventeen years of age, when he went to
London, and there worked in a laboratory, and later spending some years
as a traveling Elder for the Church, attending the Kent and London
conferences, and presiding over some of the districts. During 1864 and
1866 he was engaged in the grocery business in Wansworth, a suburb of
London and in the latter year disposed of his interests, and with his
wife and family took passage on the sailing vessel Caroline, bound for
New York. One of the children, William, died en route and was buried at
sea. From New York he traveled with a company of Saints round by
Montreal to Wyoming, Nebraska, where he joined the company under
command of Captain John Holliday, and with them crossed the plains to
Utah.
Upon his arrival in Salt Lake City, Mr. Driver obtained employment with
the Deseret Telegraph Company, which has since become a part of the
Western Union system, having charge of constructing on the line between
Chicken Creek and Gunnison, and also in straightening up the lines
between Logan and Saint George. His next work was with the Union
Pacific construction outfit at Mountain Green, in the Weber Valley. In
1867 he became cashier for the drug firm of William Godbe & Co., of
Salt Lake City, and at the end of two years was sent to become manager
of their business in Ogden, remaining in that position until 1871, when
he established himself in business, becoming associated with Dr. C S.
Nellis, under the firm name of Driver and Nellis. He bought out the
interests of his partner in 1873, and from that time up to 1882
conducted the business alone. In 1882 he took his son George into
partnership, and the firm became Driver & Son, and so continued
until 1895, when the style was again changed, this time to William
Driver, under which he has since done business, in 1874-75 Mr. Driver
built the first three-story business house to be established in Weber
County, and has since then built a number of residences in this city.
He gradually branched out, and at one time conducted four stores—one at
Logan, one at Montpelier, Idaho, and one at Bingham City, besides the
parent house in Ogden.
Our subject has been one of the progressive men of this place, and has
always be«n largely interested in various enterprises, having for their
object the upbuilding of the city, and the advancement of the interests
of the county. He organized the Moleculer Telephone Company, in which
he was a Director; is one of the Directors in the Davis and Weber
County Canal Company; an incorporator of the Ogden Street Railway
Company and in 1885 was elected on the People's ticket as a City
Councilman, serving two years. He was also a member of the
Constitutional Convention in 1895, which framed the present
constitution on which Statehood for Utah was based. He was at one time
Vice-President of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce, and in 1901 was
elected Councilman from his Ward, being made President of the Council,
which position he occupies at this time. He is a Republican in
politics, and one of the leaders of the party in the Fifth Ward.
Mr. Driver has also been active in the Church work of his Ward, and in
other lines. He served in the missionary field in England in 1878,
spending almost three years as traveling Elder, and working in the
London Conference. Since 1869 he has been a member of the Seventy-sixth
Quorum of Seventies.
His marriage occurred in 1857, when he led to the marriage altar Miss
Charlotte E. Boulter, of Hastings, England. Of his eighteen children,
seven are now living—George, Ellen, wife of John J. Reeve; Mary Ann,
wife of Joseph F. Burton; Charlotte, wife of F. S. Schoonover, of
Philadelphia; Willard, Ida May and Walter.
Mr. Driver has done perhaps as much as any man of his time towards the
upbuilding of his city. He was chairman of the committee that built the
first streets of Ogden, and has been in the front in many of the
projects for the betterment of the city. He commands the highest
respect and esteem from those who know him, and is a representative man
of the West.
[Source: Portrait, Genealogical
and Biographical Record of the State of Utah; Publ. 1902 By The
National Historical Record Co., Chicago; Transcribed and submitted by
Andrea Stawski Pack.]
HON. JAMES G. DUFFIN
Hon. James G. Duffin, who during the past five years has been
successfully engaged in the real estate business in Salt Lake City as
president of the Duffin & Stone Company, was at one time a member
of the Utah legislature and for seven years acted as president of the
central states mission. He represents an honored pioneer family
of the state, his birth having occurred in Salt Lake City on the 30th
of May, 1860. His parents were Isaac and Mary (Fielding) Duffin,
natives of Manchester, England, Isaac Duffin emigrated to the United
States in 1848 and at the end of a year spent in Philadelphia made his
way across the country to Utah, arriving in this state in 1850.
He acted as superintendent of works under Brigham Young for several
years and in 1862 was called by the church authorities to go to
Washington county, Utah, where he supervised the building of
roads. He was a veteran of the Black Hawk war, a member of the
Nauvoo Legion and an active churchman, his labors being indeed a
valuable element in the work of pioneer development here. In
later years he carried on merchandising at Toquerville and also became
interested in mining. His demise occurred on the 26th of
February, 1882, and Mary (Fielding) Duffin passed away in 1904 at
Toquerville, Utah. They were the parents of seven sons and three
daughters, namely: Maria D., Mary A., Anna, Isaac N., Brigham S., James
G., Joseph A., Richard H., William H. and H. E.
James G. Duffin obtained his early education in the district schools
and later pursued a two years’ normal course in the Brigham Young
University at Provo. He then devoted eight years to teaching in
the public schools of Washington county, on the expiration of which
period he turned his attention to farming and stock raising
there. He became a prominent factor in the public life of the
community, serving for four years as county commissioner of Washington
county, which he was also called upon to represent in the second
legislature of the state of Utah. In 1887 the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints sent him on a mission to the southern
states, where he remained until 1899, acting as president of the North
Carolina conference. From 1899 until 1906 he filled a mission in
the central states, spending the first five months of that period as
traveling elder, while during the remainder of the time he was
president of the central states mission, with headquarters at Kansas
City, Missouri. The extent of the work done by the central states
missionaries under Mr. Duffin’s presidency is indicated in the
following data: seven hundred and nine thousand three hundred and
fourteen families were visited and fifty-five thousand two hundred and
twenty-six families were revisited, making a total of seven hundred and
sixty-four thousand five hundred and forty visits to families, at which
the gospel was taught; one million, one hundred and forty-six thousand,
eight hundred and forty-eight tracts were distributed; four thousand
three hundred and forty-nine copies of the Book of Mormon were disposed
of; forty-three thousand and thirty-six meetings were held at which the
gospel was preached, and the attendance at those meetings was nine
hundred and forty0for thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
There were sixty million four hundred and forty-nine thousand pages of
reading matter in the tracts and books given away. Under
President Duffin the mission published eleven thousand five hundred
copies of the Book of Mormon, twenty thousand copies of the Voice of
Warning and one million nine hundred and twenty-three thousand
tracts. The first edition of the Book of Mormon consisted of ten
thousand copies--the only edition ever published by any mission in the
United States up to that time. A colony was established in Texas,
a town was laid out and a schoolhouse and church were erected in the
place, which now has a population of nearly one thousand. Other
buildings were erected in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana and
Kansas and two valuable pieces of property were purchased at
Independence, Missouri, the headquarters of the mission being later
removed from Kansas City to Independence.
Following the close of his missionary labors in the central states Mr.
Duffin resided at Provo until 1915, giving his attention to the real
estate business and to fruit growing and shipping. He was manager
of the Fruit Grower’s Association of Utah county and also of the Juab
Development Company. Since 1915, however, he has been a resident
of Salt Lake City, where he has been actively and successfully engaged
in the real estate business as president of the Duffin & Stone
Company, having in March, 1919, admitted to a partnership J. O. Stone,
of Provo, while more recently Hyrum E. Jones joined the firm. Mr. Stone
acts as vice president and Mr. Jones holds the position of
secretary-treasurer. They handle all branches of the real estate
business, including investments and mortgage loans, and deal in stock
ranches, farm lands and city property.
On the 19th of January, 1881, in St. George Temple, Mr. Duffin was
joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Jane Granger, a daughter of Christopher
and Sarah (Salkield) Granger, both of whom were natives of
Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Duffin became the parents of twelve
children, nine of whom survive, as follows: J. Franklin, who is a
resident of Burley, Idaho; Clarence, living at Springfield, Idaho;
Cyril, who wedded Miss Rachel Price and also resides at Springfield,
Idaho; George a resident of Carey, Idaho; Florence; Stanley, who served
with the American Expeditionary Forces in France as a member of the One
Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery, First Utah Regiment; and
Maurine, Spencer and Owen, at home. The family residence is at
No. 233 G Street in Salt Lake City.
As already indicated, Mr. Duffin has been a most active and zealous
worker for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While
a resident of Washington county he served as president of the Young
Men’s Mutual Improvement Association, as Sunday school superintendent
and as president of the Ninth Quorum of Seventy. At Provo he
acted as stake supervisor of parents’ classes and was one of the
presidents of the Quorum of Seventy, while in Salt Lake City he is
class leader of the Quorum of Seventy in the twentieth ward. His
four eldest sons and his daughter-in-law, Mr. Rachel (Pyne) Duffin,
have served on missions. Altogether the different members of the family
have given twenty years to foreign missionary work. His record is
indeed a commendable one and he enjoys an enviable reputation
throughout the capital city and in the other districts where he has
lived.
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed by Richard Ramos]
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