WILLIAM C. HALL
Judge Hall was born in 1842 on a farm in Pendleton County, Kentucky.
When the Civil War broke out he immediately enlisted with the Southern
forces, serving in the Army of Virginia. Later he was a member of
General John Morgan's division. When General Morgan was captured, he
joined General "Joe" Wheeler's corps, and was with General Wheeler
until the close of the war. At the close of the war, Judge Hall
returned to his Kentucky home and began the study of law in the offices
of John W. Stephenson. In 1868 he commenced the practice of law in
Lexington, Ky. Four years later he moved to Salt Lake City, where he
immediately became prominent in public affairs.
He was an exceptionally brilliant lawyer and became known throughout
the west as a master of his profession. One of Judge Hall's early
partnerships in Utah was with Judge John A. Marshall, under the firm
name of Hall & Marshall. He was a member of the Territorial
Legislature for several terms, and served as Secretary of the territory
under President Cleveland. For two terms he was City Attorney of Salt
Lake City. In 1900 he was elected Judge of the Third Judicial District.
During his four years on the bench Judge Hall made an enviable
reputation. His was the true judicial temperament, and his decisions
showed his scholarly wisdom and his careful judgment. Judge Hall made a
specialty of mining law, and was considered one of the best authorities
on that subject. His opinion involving technical points in mining law
and procedure was eagerly sought. Judge Hall was himself a mining
operator, and had large interests in some of the big mines of Utah and
Nevada. He was married in 1890 to Marion T. Thornton of Mississippi.
Judge Hall was rightly regarded as one of the big men of the west. All
his public actions were irreproachable, and his supporters were not
confined to any class or any party. His personal friends were only
limited by the range of his extensive acquaintance. Judge Hall died in
Los Angeles, Cal. on May 7, 1909.
[Source: History of the bench
and bar of Utah; By Interstate Press Association; Publ. 1913;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
WILLIAM HENRY HARRIS
It is a trite saying that there is always room at the top, but few
people grasp this statement with sufficient understanding to have it
serve as a stimulus for individual effort, resulting in successful
accomplishment. Actuated by a laudable ambition, William Henry Harris,
however, has worked his way steadily upward and is today the president
and manager of a large and profitable business conducted under the name
of the Ogden Paint, Oil & Glass Company, his sales establishment
being located at No. 2440 Washington avenue.
Mr. Harris is a native of Salt Lake City. He was born July 18, 1878, a
son of John and Anna (Maddock) Harris, both of whom are of English
birth, although they were married in. Salt Lake City. The father came
to the United States in 1860, crossing the Atlantic to New York, where
he remained for a time engaged in the confectionery and bakery
business. He afterward removed westward to Salt Lake and became one of
the pioneers in the confectionery business in this city, where for many
years he has figured as a leading and progressive business man. Both he
and his wife are yet residents of Salt Lake.
William H. Harris of this review obtained his education in the schools
of Salt Lake, completing the high school course by graduation with the
class of 1890. He afterward pursued a course in the Salt Lake Business
College, of which he is also a graduate. He entered upon his business
career as a representative of financial interests, obtaining a position
with the Utah Commercial & Savings Bank, with which he served for
two years as assistant cashier. He then turned his attention to the
paint, oil and glass business in 1906 and through the intervening years
has been an active factor in the conduct of the Ogden house. The
business was founded thirty-five years ago and is now conducted under
the name of the Ogden Paint, Oil & Glass Company, Inc., with Mr.
Harris as president and manager, William R. Wallace, vice president,
and William J. Bennett, secretary and treasurer. While the main sales
rooms are at No. 2440 Washington avenue, the company also has a large
warehouse at Twenty-third street and Wall avenue and a gasoline
warehouse at Twentieth street and the Oregon Short Line tracks. The
company are jobbers of paint, oils and window glass, handling both
American and French plate glass. They sell illuminating, automobile and
lubricating oils, handle painters' supplies, also hand and power
separator oils and are sole agents for the Wolverine Lubricants
Company. They also sell the genuine Packard oil, the Wolf Head oil and
others of equal known excellence. For five years Mr. Harris has
likewise been associated as president of the Ogden Gasoline & Oil
Company, Inc.
In September, 1916, Mr. Harris was united in marriage to Miss Mattie
Wattis, a daughter of E. O. Wattis, of a very prominent family of
Ogden, and they now have one child, Ruth Wattis, who is a year old.
Mr. Harris is well known in the social circles of the city, being a
prominent factor in club life in Ogden. He holds membership in the
Weber Club, also in the Ogden Golf & Country Club and in the Rotary
Club and he likewise has membership in the Salt Lake City Country Club.
He turns to golf as a diversion from business cares. He is also a Mason
of high rank, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish
Rite. He is a man of strong personality, successful in business,
prominent socially and in every relation of life his course has
commended him to the confidence and high regard of all with whom he has
been associated.
[Source: Utah since Statehood:
Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
HENRY PARRY HENDERSON
Judge Henderson, who died in Salt Lake City June 3, 1909, was born in
Tully, New York, September 22, 1843. He was the son of Perry and Huldah
(Christian) Henderson. When he was two years of age his parents moved
to Michigan, where the early years of his life were spent on a farm. In
1854 the family moved to Mason, Michigan, where he attended the public
schools, later attended Lansing (Michigan) High School and the Michigan
Agricultural College. For a short period he attended the Law Department
of University of Michigan. In 1863 he was appointed Clerk of the
Supreme Court of Michigan, which office he held for two years, when he
was elected County Clerk of Ingham County, Michigan, and it was during
this period that he took up the study of law. He was admitted to the
bar of Ingham County, Michigan, in 1867, and later to the bar of the
Supreme Court of Michigan. In 1868 he formed a partnership with Judge
George M. Huntington, Mason, Michigan, which continued until 1874, when
he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Ingham County. After serving his
term of two years, Judge Henderson refused the renomination and devoted
his time to the general practice of his profession. In 1879 he was
elected on a Democratic ticket to the Michigan Legislature by a
plurality of 206 in face of strong Republican opposition. Later he was
elected Mayor of Mason.
In 1886 he was appointed by President Cleveland Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Territory of Utah, and presided over the First Judicial
District. After the expiration of his term of office, he remained in
Ogden, Utah, and resumed the practice of law. In 1892 he moved to Salt
Lake City, where he formed a partnership with the late Senator Arthur
Brown, which continued until 1905, when he became a member of the firm
of Henderson, Pierce, Critchlow & Barrette. He was a member of that
firm up to the time of his death. This firm was one of the strongest
firms in the state and enjoyed an extensive clientele in adjoining
states Supreme Court of the Territory of Wyoming by President
Cleveland. This office he held until the expiration of his term in
1890, when he moved to Ogden, Utah, where he engaged in the general
practice of law. During the second administration of President
Cleveland, he was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney
of the then First District of Utah. He continued in the active practice
of law in Ogden until his death, October 26, 1910 his practice
extending over the Intermountain States.
Judge Henderson was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Idaho
in 1897, and to the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1897 he was
Democratic candidate for the United States Senate from Utah. In
November, 1898 he was elected a member of the Salt Lake City Board of
Education and served two years, after which he retired, but two years
later he was elected to that board and at the time of his death was its
President. His service on the Board of Education had been unsurpassed
and the record he established could not be excelled.
Judge Henderson was a prominent Mason, member of the Shrine, a Knight
Templar and 32nd Degree Scottish Rite. He was a member of the Utah
State Bar Association, University, Alta and Commercial Clubs of Salt
Lake City. When a very young man he married Josephine Turner of Mason,
Michigan, who survives him.
Judge Henderson recognized as few men do his responsibility to the
community in which he lived. With all the demands on his time he was
always ready to serve his day and generation, no matter what sacrifice
of energy was involved. In his readiness to meet the duties of
citizenship he was an example to all men. As a lawyer, he was
recognized for the wisdom of his council. In a long and intimate
acquaintance, his nearest associates remarked his broad charity for his
fellow man, kindly in his nature he preferred to believe the best in
all men. Courteous, gentle, thoughtful, unselfish, he had a wide circle
of friends. All who knew him admired him.
Judge Henderson brought great abilities to the discharge of his
numerous duties, yet it should be said of him that few men approached
their tasks with less show or ostentation than he. His modesty was of
that innate and unconscious character which is ever the accompaniment
of a great soul. A man of whom it might indeed have been said, "His
life was noble and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand
up and say to all the World, "This was a man."
[Source: History of the bench
and bar of Utah; By Interstate Press Association; Publ. 1913;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
DAVID L. HOGGAN
David L. Hoggan, whose record is one of outstanding success and who
deserves especial mention by reason of what he has accomplished, his
life history illustrating the force of enterprise and determination as
factors in the world's work, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January
6, 1890, a son of David and Martha (Swanier) Hoggan. The father died
during the son's first decade. His maternal grandfather was one of the
first general contractors in Utah and became one of the largest
operators in that line in the state. The grandfather in the paternal
line was Walter Hoggan, a native of Scotland, who became a contractor
in stone in Utah.
It was in the public schools of his native city that David L. Hoggan
acquired his education and after his textbooks were put aside he was
employed at various places but always in connection with building
operations, for he followed in the footsteps of his two grandfathers
and has achieved notable distinction along this line. He has at
different periods been located in Canada, New York and Idaho, and for a
time was in Denver with Smith McCallin, the largest plaster contractor
west of Chicago. In 1915 Mr. Hoggan arrived in Portland, where he at
once embarked in the contracting business, his first job being the
Couch school building. Today his books show that he has done a business
amounting to over five million dollars, his pay roll amounting to
between twelve and thirteen thousand dollars monthly, the number of his
employes averaging from two hundred and fifty to three hundred and
seventy-five. Some of the leading contracts which he has secured
include the Multnomah County Hospital, the Shriners Hospital for
Crippled Children, the new annex to the University of Oregon, the
addition to the Good Samaritan Hospital, the Elks Temple, the Masonic
Temple, the Knights of Columbus building, the Telegram building, the
new Utilities building, the new Pacific building, the Weatherly
building, the Oriental theater, the Portland theater and the new
Heathman Hotel, while recently he has execute a two hundred and
fifty thousand dollar contract on the new Veterans Hospital. This
included thirteen buildings there and scores of others elsewhere. At
American Lake he erected twenty-eight buildings for the government and
he also built the court house at Kelso, Washington, the first National
Bank Building, the Elks building, the Parrish high school, two theater
buildings at Salem and the Elsinore theater, which is one of the finest
in all the northwest. Mr. Hoggan carried on the business independently
until 1919, when he was joined by Frank Lanning, this association being
maintained until 1924. In the following year the present company was
organized under the name of David L. Hoggan, ornamental plaster and
stone industries. The business includes both plain and ornamental
plastering, ornamental plaster and stone works and also brick and stone
construction, and now associated with Mr. Hoggan are his two brothers,
A. C. and L. G. Hoggan, and James L. Dorney and Adrian Voisin. In 1925
his present building was erected. It is a unique structure of modified
Italian style, recognized as one of the finest in the city, while its
odd character attracts wide attention. Mr. Hoggan believes in sharing
his profits with his employes and therefore pays high wages, ranging
from five dollars and a half per day to eighteen dollars. He has become
a recognized authority in his line of work and thus it is that his
business has reached extensive proportions, ranking him among the
leading contractors of the northwest.
Mr. Hoggan married Miss Iris Danforth, of Portland, and they have two
children, Patricia and David, Jr., aged respectively ten and six years.
Fraternally Mr. Hoggan is a Mason, belonging to Harmony Lodge, the
Scottish Rite bodies and the Mystic Shrine. He is also identified with
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the
World and his public spirit is manifest in his connection with the
Lions Club, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Oregon
Manufacturers Association. He is interested in all that has to do with
municipal progress and public improvement and supports all projects for
the general good, while at the same time his business has been a
contributing element to the improvement of the city.
Source: History of the Columbia
River Valley - From The Dalles to the Sea; Volume III - Chicago; The S.
J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1928
Submitted and transcribed by Jim Dezotell
ENOS DAUGHERTY HOGE
Judge Hoge was born in Virginia in 1831, and in 1837 was taken by his
father, who was a farmer, to Illinois. Attending the district schools
during the winter and working upon the farm during the summer, and at
the age of twenty he journeyed by ox team to the goldfields of
California. In 1856 he returned to his home in Illinois and later
studied law under Judge Parish. Later he formed a law partnership with
W. K. Murphy of Pinkneyville, Ill. and continued the practice until his
enlistment in 1862, in the 110th Illinois Infantry. He was honorably
discharged in 1863 and in 1865 resumed the practice of law. In 1865 he
moved to Salt Lake City, and on July 27, 1868 was appointed Associate
Justice of the Territory of Utah. This office he held for about one
year.
In about 1870 he formed a partnership with Judge Z. Snow, which
continued for several years, after which he formed a partnership with
Theodore Burmister. Judge Hoge was a man of fine character and of
sterling worth. He was ever conscientious in the service of his client,
and cordial, upright and trustworthy in his relations with his brother
lawyers.
[Source: History of the bench
and bar of Utah; By Interstate Press Association; Publ. 1913;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
EDWARD H. HOLT
Edward H. Holt, secretary-treasurer of the Brigham Young University of
Provo, was born at South Jordan, Salt Lake county, Utah, June 1, 1872,
his parents being Matthew and Ann (Harrison) Holt, who were natives of
Dorsetshire, England. The year 1864 witnessed their arrival in Utah,
where the father turned his attention to farming and became a man of
affairs in connection with the business development of -the state. He
was also prominent in church activities. Both parents died in 1901,
within a few months of each other.
After mastering the branches of learning taught in the district schools
Edward H. Holt, continued his education in the Brigham Young Academy,
now the Brigham Young University, and was graduated with the class of
1895. He made his initial step in the business world as an employee in
the State Bank under Heber J. Grant, who is now the head of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For a year he remained in that
connection and then again became identified with school interests,
doing work as a tutor in order to enable him to continue his studies.
In 1897 he became secretary to the faculty of the Brigham Young
University and is now the secretary-treasurer of the board of trustees,
having been called to this position in 1910 and serving in the office
continuously since with marked capability. He has been at the head of
the business department of the university since 1916 and is splendidly
qualified for the conduct of the interests entrusted to his care.
Throughout his entire life he has worked earnestly, consistently and
resultantly for the advancement of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, of which he is now a high priest, and since 1901 he
has served as clerk of the Utah stake.
In 1895 Mr. Holt was married to Miss Edith Holdaway, a daughter of John
M. Holdaway, who has been a resident of Provo from early times. Mr. and
Mrs. Holt are now parents of six children: Jeanie M., the wife of R. N.
Cooper, of Provo, who is the secretary of the Provo Commercial Club;
Florence, a student of Brigham Young University; Reed, who is attending
the Brigham Young University; Afton, a daughter, who is in school;
Paul, also in school; and Grant, who completes the family.
Mr. Holt is a member of the Utah State Teachers Association. He has
given his best efforts to the management of the business affairs of the
university and is regarded as a splendid executive, an indefatigable
worker, a man of marked enthusiasm, who loves his work in the school
and is producing splendid results for the institution. He is a man of
broad and liberal culture, affable, yet dignified in manner, and is
highly esteemed by a legion of friends.
[Source: Utah since Statehood:
Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
EDWARD O. HOWARD
Edward O. Howard, vice president of Walker Brothers Bankers and
president of the Utah Bankers Association, is one of the best known men
in the banking circles in the intermountain country. He has been a
resident of Salt Lake City for nearly thirty years, during which time
he has been continually identified with the city's financial interests,
and has long since been regarded as one of the very able men among the
leading bankers of this section of the west.
Mr. Howard was born in Owasco, New York, a son of Oscar and Cornelia A.
Howard, both of whom came from well known families in that portion of
the east. His education was acquired in the public and high schools of
Skaneateles, New York, and with a business rather than a professional
career appealing to him, he came west, locating in Salt Lake City in
1890. Here he soon entered the field at banking, securing a position of
trust which constituted the starting point of a career that has brought
him to an enviable position in the field where his activities have been
centered. He has never dissipated his energies over a broad field but
has concentrated his efforts and attention upon the banking business
with the result that he has made valuable contribution to the growth
and stability of Walker Brothers Bankers, whose assets of more than
eleven millions of dollars place theirs among the foremost financial
institutions in the intermountain country. Thoroughness has ever been
one of Mr. Howard's pronounced characteristics. He mastered every
detail of the banking business, with which his various positions bad to
do, and has also been a close student of problems of finance, so that
he is able to speak with a considerable measure of authority upon the
vital questions of the day relating to business and financial interests.
Not long after his arrival in Utah, Mr. Howard was married to Mrs.
Annie Payne Austin, of Kansas City, Missouri, and they have a daughter,
Margery M. Captain James B. Austin, Mrs. Howard's son by a former
marriage, who was but nine years of age when his mother became Mrs.
Howard, was killed in the Argonne Forest, October 9, 1918. He was a
captain of the Thirty-eighth Infantry, Third Division, and was
decorated by the Belgian government and the Distinguished Service Cross
of our own country for heroic action in battle.
Mr. Howard belongs to the Alta Club, the Bonneville Club, the
University Club, the Country Club, the Salt Lake Rotary Club and also
to the Salt Lake City Commercial Club. He is deeply interested in the
plans of the last named organization for the upbuilding of the city,
for the extension of its trade relations and for the establishment and
maintenance of high civic standards. In fact he is a most energetic
worker in all matters pertaining to the betterment of social.
political, material and moral conditions in Salt Lake City and the
state.
In the recent crisis which tested the patriotism and loyalty of every
citizen, Mr. Howard proved himself one hundred per cent American, and
his work with the Red Cross has brought him distinction. He served as
chairman of the executive committee of the American Red Cross. He has
always voted with the republican party and many tangible evidences of
his public spirit are found in his generous, active and effective
support of measures for the public good. Mr. Howard's residence on East
South Temple street is one of the attractive homes of Salt Lake, and
with his family he is well known in the best social circles of the city.
[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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