LOUIS HENDERSON FARNSWORTH
Louis Henderson Farnsworth, president of Walker Brothers, Bankers, is
one of the foremost men in the financial circles of the intermountain
country. Utah claims him as a native son and is proud of his record. He
is a representative of one of Utah's pioneer families and belongs to
the seventh generation in descent from the emigrant ancestor to
America. The ancestral line is traced back to the twelfth century in
England, but the family was established on American soil at a very
early period in the colonization of the new world—in 1630. In that year
they settled in New England and through the intervening period of
almost three centuries the name has figured prominently in the
business, industrial, financial and professional life of various
sections of the United States.
Louis Henderson Farnsworth was born in Provo, Utah, on the 1st of
September, 1859, a Bon of Moses Franklin and Elizabeth Jane (Duzett)
Farnsworth and early in life entered on a business career that has been
very successful. Starting in the business world in a humble capacity,
he has advanced step by step and has long occupied a prominent position
in banking circles. In 1916 he was elected to the bank presidency he
now occupies, and as the head of a financial institution whose
resources exceed ten million dollars his prominence as a banker is
unquestioned. His colleagues and contemporaries speak of him in terms
of high regard as a man of rare business ability, keen sagacity and
unfaltering enterprise. Numerous corporate interests of Salt Lake City
have profited by his cooperation or benefited by his sound judgment,
and aside from the financial interests already mentioned he is
treasurer and a director of the Keith-O'Brien Company; treasurer and
director of the M. H. Walker Realty Company; a director of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Salt Lake City; a director of the Utah Light k Power
Company as well as a member of other corporations identified with the
business and industrial life of the city and state. With activities
broad and varied, his enterprise has placed him among the
representatives of big business in this section of the great west.
Mr. Farnsworth married Miss Agnes W. Forsythe and to them were born
four children. Major Louis D. Farnsworth, who spent six months overseas
with the American Expeditionary Force, mostly in France, entered the
service with the commission of first lieutenant of the Sixty-second
Regiment, C. A. C., subsequently became captain of Battery B and on the
21st of April, 1919, was commissioned major in the Officers Reserve
Corps of the United States Army. Major Farnsworth has two children,
Zora and Louis (III). Edna Irene Farnsworth became the wife of Glen E.
Traul, of Salt Lake City, by whom she has a daughter, Ruth Agnes. Earl
F. is married and resides in San Diego, California, where he holds the
position of assistant cashier of the San Diego Savings Bank. Ruth
resides with her parents. The family are well known in the best social
circles of Salt Lake City, where they have a beautiful home, one of its
chief charms being its warm-hearted hospitality.
In his political views Mr. Farnsworth is a republican and has been
untiring in support of the party. In fact he has given his aid and
cooperation to every measure or movement which he has deemed of worth
and benefit to the community, and while he has conducted most extensive
and important business affairs, his activities have ever been of a
character that have contributed to public progress and prosperity as
well as to individual success.
[Source: Utah since Statehood:
Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
EDWARD STEWART FERRY
Edward Stewart Ferry, son of Edward Payson and Clara Virginia (White)
Ferry, was born at Grand Haven, Mich. October 21, 1872. He was educated
in the public schools of his native city; attending Michigan Military
Academy; Olivet College and graduated from the Law Department of the
University of Michigan in 1896. He moved to Salt Lake City in the same
year and in 1898 married Mabel Eddie of Grand Rapids. Mich., by whom he
is survived.
Before coming to Salt Lake City Mr. Ferry was for some time associated
with the firm of Smith, News, Hoyt and Erwin of Muskegon, Mich., from
whose office he was admitted to the bar of that State in 1895. Mr.
Ferry was a member of the firm of Richards, Richards, Ferry and Hamer
of Salt Lake City at the time of his death, which took place on the
11th day of June, 1913. He was considered, by all who knew him, to be
an able lawyer and his loss is keenly felt by all those who were
acquainted with him.
A popular club member, Mr. Ferry occupied a prominent place in local
business and social circles and was a member of the University, Alta,
Commercial and Country Clubs, as well as several fraternal
organizations. He was President of the University Club several times.
Mr. Ferry held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel under Governor H. M.
Wells of Utah. In politics he was a Republican.
[Source: History of the bench
and bar of Utah; By Interstate Press Association; Publ. 1913;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
C. EUGENE FLETCHER
C. Eugene Fletcher is the manager of the Fletcher & Thomas Clothing
Company, conducting a thoroughly up-to-date establishment, known as the
Fletcher & Thomas Company, at No. 68 West Center street, in Provo.
Mr. Fletcher is a native son of the city in which he makes his home,
his birth having here occurred August 8, 1877, his parents being C. E.
and- Elizabeth (Miller) Fletcher, representatives of pioneer families
of Salt Lake. The father was born in Salt Lake, and was reared and
educated in Salt Lake and came to Provo during the '60s, where he has
since resided. For many years he conducted business as a contractor and
builder and won substantial success but is now living retired. He
belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in early
life was very active in its work, holding several executive offices in
the church and also serving on a mission to the northwestern states. He
married Elizabeth Miller, who was born in Provo, a daughter of the late
C. D. and Alice (Higgenbotham) Miller, who became residents of Provo
during the period of its early settlement. Mrs. Fletcher passed away
February 15, 1918, at the age of sixty-two years. In their family were
eleven children, nine of whom are yet living.
C. Eugene Fletcher, the second in order of birth in the family, pursued
his early education in the public schools of Provo and he also spent
one term as a student in the Brigham Young University. When eighteen
years of age he started out to earn his own livelihood and his first
employment was that of clerk in mercantile lines. He had previously
worked with his father upon the home farm and he devoted six years to
clerking in Provo, at the end of which time he entered business on his
own account as a dealer in clothing and men's furnishings. In 1914 the
business was incorporated under the name of the Fletcher & Thomas
Company, with A. N. Thomas as the president, C. E. Fletcher as the vice
president, C. Eugene Fletcher, secretary and manager and J. A. Bird,
treasurer. Mr. Thomas has been associated with Mr. Fletcher from the
beginning. Theirs is the only exclusive store of the kind in Provo and
the leading establishment of its class in southern Utah. The store is
thoroughly modern in its equipment and the firm carries an extensive
line of standard goods. Their business has reached gratifying
proportions and their progressive methods ensure a continuance of a
substantial trade.
On the 4th of June, 1902, Mr. Fletcher was married in Salt Lake Temple
to Miss Sarah Estella Thomas, who was born in Provo, a daughter of R.
H. and Sarah E. (duff) Thomas, both representatives of old and
prominent Provo families. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher have five children:
Melba, Marie, Hazel, Ethel and Charles Thomas, all born in Provo.
The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, their membership being in the first ward. Mr.
Fletcher is president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association
and has taken an active and leading part in religious work. He filled a
mission in the eastern states from 1899 until 1901, with conference
headquarters at Brooklyn, New York, and has served as secretary and
counselor. During the period of the war Mr. Fletcher took a helpful
interest in promoting war activities and he served as a member of the
Syrian Relief committee and on two Liberty loan drives. In politics he
is a democrat and he belongs to the Provo Commercial Club. He resides
at No. 24 East First street, South, where he owns a pleasant home. His
success is attributable entirely to his own labors, for he started out
in life without capital and has steadily worked his way upward.
[Source: Utah since Statehood:
Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
FORT FREELAND
The sad history of this death trap is well and widely known, on Warrior
run, about four miles east of Watsontown and one mile east of
well-known Warrior Run church; it was stockaded in the fall of 1778 by
Jacob Freeland and his neighbors, enclosing a large two-story log house
of Jacob Freeland as many of the descendants of the early settlers
still live in this region and the bloody ending of the place has kept
it well in remembrance. Jacob Freeland here built a mill in 1773 and
1774, having brought the iron from New Jersey. Mr. Enoch Everitt, of
Watsontown, now owns the fine farms on which it was located. A
depression on the yard to the large brick farm house marks the cellar
to the site of the old Freeland house. A fine spring of water near the
house is still used by the farm house of to-day. In Vol. xii, Penna.
Archives, p. 364, is remind the recollections of Mary V. Derickson,
born in the Fort Freeland, written in 1858, seventy-five years after
the occurrence, but is remarkably clear. John Blair Linn, in his Annals
of Buffalo Valley, and John F. Meginness, in his "Otzinachson," give us
full particulars, drawn largely from the Archives.
Mary V. Derickson writes: ''Sir: In compliance with your request, I
will give (so far as my memory will serve) all the account of the early
settlers and occupants of Fort Freeland. The fort was situated on the
Warrior run creek, about 4A miles above where it empties into the
Susquehanna river. In the year 1772, Jacob Freeland, Samuel Gould,
Peter Vincent, John Vincent and his son, Cornelius Vincent, and Timothy
Williams, with their respective families cut their way through and
settled within some two miles of where the fort was afterwards built.
They were from Essex county, New Jersey. Jacob Freeland brought the
irons for a grist mill, and in the years 1773 and 1774 built one on
Warrior Run. There were several more families moved up from the same
place, and they lived on friendly terms with the Indians until 1877,
when they began to be troublesome and to remove their own families, in
the summer of 1878 they had to leave the country, and when they
returned in the fall they picketed (stockaded) around a large two-story
log house (which had been built by Jacob Freeland for his family),
enclosing half an acre of ground; the timbers were set close and were
about twelve feet high: the gate was fastened by bars inside.
Into this fort, or house, the families of Jacob Freeland, Sen., and
Jacob Free land, Jr., John Little, Michael Freeland, John Vincent,
Peter Vincent, George Pack, Cornelius Vincent, Moses Kirk, James
Durham, Samuel Gould, Isaac Vincent and David Vincent, all gathered and
lived there that winter. In November George Pack, son of George Pack,
was born, and on the 20th May, George, son of Teter Vincent, was born,
on the 10th of February, 1779, 1 was born. My father was Cornelius
Vincent . In the spring of 1779, the men planted corn but were
occasionally surprised with the Indians, but nothing serious occurred
until the 21st day of July, as some of them were at work in the corn
field back of the fort, they were attacked by a party of Indians, about
nine o'clock, A. M. and Isaac Vincent, Elias Freeland and Jacob
Freeland, Jr., were killed and Benjamin Vincent and Michael Freeland
were taken prisoners. Daniel Vincent was chased by them but he outran
them and escaped by leaping a high log fence. When the Indians
surprised them Benjamin Vincent (then ten years of age) hid in a
furrow, but he thought he would be more secure by climbing a tree, as
there was a woods near, but they saw him and took him a prisoner. He
was ignorant of the fate of the others until about two o'clock P. M.,
when an Indian thrust a bloody scalp in his face and he knew it was his
(and my) brother's Isaac's scalp. Nothing again occurred until the
morning of the 29th about daybreak, as Jacob Freeland, Sen., was agoing
out the gate he was shot and fell inside of the gate.
The fort was surrounded by about three hundred British and Indians,
commanded by Capt. McDonald. There were but 21 men in the fort and but
little ammunition. Mary Kirk and Phoebe Vincent, commenced immediately
and run all their spoons and plates into bullets; about nine o'clock
there was a flag of truce raised, and John Little and John Vincent went
out to capitulate, but could not agree. They had half an hour given to
consult with those inside; at length they agreed that all who were able
to bear arms should go as prisoners, and the old men and women and
children set free, and the fort given up to plunder. They all left the
fort by 12 o'clock P. M. Not one of them having eaten a bite that day
and not a child was heard cry or ask for bread that day.
They reached Northumberland, eighteen miles distant, that night and
there drew their rations, the first they had that day. When Mrs. Kirk
heard the terms on which they were set free she put female clothes on
her son William, a lad of 16, and he escaped with the women. Mrs.
Elizabeth Vincent was a cripple; she could not walk. Her husband John
Vincent, went to Capt. McDonald and told him of her sit nation, and
said if he had a horse that the Indians had taken from his son Teter
the week before that she could ride about day light next morning. The
horse came to them; he had carried his wife to the lower end of the
meadow, where they lay and saw the fort burned, and it rained so hard
that night that she laid mid side in the water; when the horse came he
stripped the bark off a hickory tree and plaited a halter, set his wife
on and led it to Northumberland, where there were wagons pressed to
take them on down country.
After the surrender of the fort Captains Boone and Daugherty arrived
with thirty men; supposing the fort still holding out they made a dash
across Warrior run, when they were surrounded. Capt. Hawkins Boone and
Capt. Samuel Daugherty, with nearly half the force were killed; the
remainder broke through their enemies and escaped. Thirteen scalps of
this party were brought into the fort in a handkerchief. Soon after
this the fort was set fire to and burned down. The killed of the
garrison and Boone's party, from best information, to be arrived at
amounted to about twenty men, but two such men as Boone and Daugherty
in such times were of more value to such a community than many common
men.
Thus ended Fort Freeland. Robert Covenhoven, the famous scout and
Indian killer of the West Branch, had passed down ahead of this party
of Tories and savages, giving notice of their approach, but it is said
Fort Freeland did not get notice. Ammunition was hard to get, almost
impossible sometimes to procure, which may account for Fort Freeland
being so short that the women had to run up their spoon and "pewter"
plates, but one would suppose, if there was any head to the garrison
after the attack of a few days before, when their loss was three killed
and two captured, he would have caused them to be better prepared for
another attack. Each succeeding generation on the Warrior run since the
fall of Fort Freeland has pursued up the site of the place that no
doubts exist in regard to it.
The effect of the fall of Fort Freeland was disastrous to this region,
accompanied as it was with the death of Boone, Daugherty and their
brave comrades, and the desertion of Boone's Mills as a post of
defense. It entirely uncovered Fort Augusta to the inroads of the
enemy. Bosley's Mills alone, with its small garrison standing on the
defensive on one flank liable to be overthrown when any considerable
force of the enemy appeared before it. Colonel Hunter, holding his base
with a force so feeble as to warrant a less courageous commander in
calling in every man and gun for the protection of Augusta, as
comparatively few persons remained to protect in his front, but holding
what he had left. In November the German Battalion was sent him.
counting about one hundred and twenty men, with which he secured his
base, built Fort Rice and garrisoned it, and built Fort Swartz and also
garrisoned it, as well as Fort Jenkins with thirty men,—with ten to
fifteen militia at Bosley's Mills, and a few of the inhabitants to hold
Wheeler, eighty to ninety men in all, besides his garrison of Augusta.
At this date his left flank had been contracted from now Lock Haven to
Milton, with his right weak but intact. Affairs did not improve much in
this department to the close of the war in 1780. The right flanking
fort was destroyed by the troops being withdrawn in an emergency, and
some time elapsed before the flank was again protected by Fort McClure
at now Bloomsburg.
[Source: Report of the
Commission to locate the site of the frontier forts Volume 1; By
Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania,
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, John M. Buckalew, Sheldon Reynolds,
Jay Gilfillan Weiser, George Dallas Albert; Publ. 1896; By Andrea
Stawski Pack.]
HON. JOSEPH E. FRICK
Hon. Joseph E. Frick, justice of the supreme court of Utah, was born in
Tiffin, Ohio, August 6, 1848, a son of Michael and Mary (Kuen) Frick,
who were natives of the Rhine province of Germany but came to America
in early life, establishing their home in Ohio. Subsequently they
removed to Iowa, settling in Iowa county, where the father took up the
occupation of farming, in which he continued to the time of his death.
During the period of his early youth Judge Frick was a pupil in the
district schools of Iowa county through the winter months, while the
summer seasons were devoted to various kinds of work for which a boy is
fitted. He contributed to the support of the family and was largely
engaged in farm duties until he reached the age of eighteen. He then
turned his attention to mechanical pursuits and became an expert along
that line. He was employed in that way for eight years, but upon the
advice of Judge Kinney, of Toledo, Tama county, Iowa, he decided to
enter upon the study of law and in that city began reading in
preparation for a career at the bar. He thoroughly mastered the
principles of jurisprudence and was admitted to practice in 1879,
entering upon the active duties of the profession in 1880 in Toledo,
Iowa.
The same year he removed to Fremont, Nebraska, where he won substantial
success, continuing his work in the courts of that district until July
8, 1897, when he removed to Salt Lake City. Here he again opened an
office and remained in active private practice until 1906, when on
October 1st of that year he was appointed to the supreme bench and in
November following was elected for the regular term of six years. In
1912 he was reelected for another six year term, following which he was
appointed by Governor Simon Bamberger to fill the vacancy in that body
caused by the death of Judge William M. McCarty. Judge Frick has
rendered many decisions of deep interest, based upon a thorough
knowledge of the law as applied to the points in litigation. He has
passed upon many important cases and in all of his professional career
has shown himself to be possessed of a rare combination of talent,
learning, tact, patience and industry. The successful lawyer and the
competent judge must be a man of well balanced intellect, thoroughly
familiar with the law and practice, of comprehensive general
information, possessed of an analytical mind and a self-control that
will enable him to lose his individuality, his personal feelings, his
prejudices and his peculiarities of disposition in the dignity,
impartiality and equity of the office to which life, property, right
and liberty must look for protection. Possessing these qualities, Judge
Frick justly merits the high honor which was conferred upon him by his
elevation to the court of last resort in Utah. While a resident of
Dodge county, Nebraska, he was elected county attorney and served for
three years. He also served as insanity commissioner of Dodge county
for fourteen years. In Utah he has been a member of the board of
corrections for two years and is now an ex-officio member of the board
of pardons.
On the 24th of December, 1872, Judge Frick was married in Iowa county,
Iowa, to Miss Katherine L. Kunz and they have two children living. Fred
O., who was born in Iowa in 1879, was educated in Nebraska and is now
chief clerk of the Continental Life Insurance Company of Salt Lake
City. He is married and has one child, Gladys. Etta; L., who was born
in Fremont, Nebraska, in 1888, resides with her parents in Salt Lake
City.
Judge Frick is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
the Knights of Pythias, the Kiwanis Club of Utah and the Commercial
Club of Salt Lake City and along strictly professional lines has
connection with the Utah State Bar Association. Though his life has
been one rather of modest reserve than of ambitious self-seeking, he
has shown himself a peer of the ablest representatives of the judiciary
of Utah and his mental talents led to his selection for the important
position which he now fills..
[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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