LAWRENCE LEMMON
Lawrence Lemmon, extensively interested in agricultural pursuits, was
born January 29, 1878, in the place where he now resides at No. 4130
South Thirteenth East street, in the Winder ward of Salt Lake
county. He is a son of Oliver P. and Caroline (Helm)
Lemmon. In 1763 Robert S. Lemmon, second great-grandfather,
emigrated from Ireland and settled at Baltimore, Maryland, where he
remained for a number of years. He strongly advocated the
question of America liberty and when independency was declared in 1776
was at the front and aided in bearing the brunt of battle. He was
present at General Braddock’s defeat and also at the capture of
Cornwallis. Robert S. Lemmon had four sons: Robert Jr., William,
James and John, of whom Robert Jr., died at New Albany, Indiana.
William went to Louisiana and later to Mississippi, where he passed
away. James served as a messenger boy in the Revolutionary war,
carrying messages between George Washington and his father, Robert S.
Lemmon. He was at that time a youth of seventeen. He lived
in Pennsylvania until 1786 and then removed to Kentucky. His
younger brother, John, died in Kentucky in young manhood. James
Lemmon subsequently removed to Corydon, Harrison county, Indiana, in
the year 1818. He married Sarah Carr, who became the mother of
Washington Lemmon, the grandfather of Lawrence Lemmon of this
review.
Washington Lemmon was born October 6, 1806, in Shelby county, Kentucky,
and was reared to manhood in Harrison county, Indiana. In 1839 he
removed to Adams county, Illinois, where he resided for twenty
years. In 1841 he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and he became a personal friend of the prophet Joseph Smith and
assisted in building the temple at Nauvoo. During the time that
Joseph Smith was a candidate for the presidency of the United States
Mr. Lemmon made campaign speeches in his behalf throughout
Illinois. He was absent in Indiana at the time that Joseph Smith
suffered martyrdom at Carthage. For two years Mr. Lemmon resided
at Council Bluffs and on the 10th of September, 1852, arrived in
Utah. He settled on a farm in Millcreek ward of Salt Lake county
and became a prosperous agriculturist of that region. At Corydon,
Indiana, in August, 1826, he had married Tamer Stephens, a daughter of
John and Stacey Stephens. They had a family of twelve children,
eight sons and four daughters, all of whom reached adult age, namely:
James William, who was born May 16, 1827; Stacey Ann, who was born
March 8, 1829, and married Vergil Merrill; John Wesley, born August
125, 1831; Nancy Mellissa, who was born September 6, 1833, and married
Patriarch John Smith; Jasper, born August 5, 1835; Willis, August 12,
1837; Leander, November 10, 1839, Alfred, January 9, 1842; Oliver
Perry, September 25, 1843; Mary Emily, September 17, 1845; Artimzie
Caroline, November 8, 1847; and Hyrum, November 23, 1849. Of this
number Alfred and Hyrum are still living. Washington Lemmon, the
father of this family, was a prominent churchman and served as bishop’s
counselor for more than twenty years. He died October 2, 1902, at
the notable old age of ninety-six years.
Oliver Perry Lemmon, father of Lawrence Lemmon, homesteaded the land
upon which the latter now resides and devoted his life to farming and
to church work. He was head ward teacher for many years and was
senior president of the Quorum of Seventy during the later years of his
life. He was also superintendent of Sunday schools at the time of
his death which occurred in 1894.
Caroline (Helm) Lemmon, mother of Lawrence Lemmon and the seventh in a
family of twelve children was a daughter of Abraham and Mary
Helm, and was born in Ohio, march 30, 1846, and emigrated to Utah in
1855, settling on Cottonwood creek near Jordan river. She married
Oliver P. Lemmon in 1869 and still lives on the place where they began
married life.
Lawrence Lemmon was the third in order of birth in a family of seven
children, namely: Mary Alice, now Mrs. Charles J. Peterson; Oliver
Ernest; Lawrence; Washington; Caroline May, the wife of John P. Davis;
Samuel Perry; and Abraham H. The last named has recently returned
from France after twenty-one months’ service with the Motor Mechanics
Corps and while in France was at Epinal, where the shops were only
about thirty miles from Metz.
Lawrence Lemmon acquired a common school education land took up the
occupation of farming in his native county. He has since given
his attention to agricultural pursuits save for about four years, when
he was herding sheep in Wyoming, and in ranching at Rigby, Idaho.
He has carefully developed and promoted his agricultural interests and
has a splendid tract of land, highly cultivated.
On the 27th of October, 1915, Mr. Lemmon was married to Annie C.
Shepherd, of Salt Lake City, a graduate of the normal course of the
University of Utah. She taught school for several for several
terms before her marriage and also traveled extensively, making trips
to both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. She is a daughter of
Robert and Anna (Jorgensen) Shepherd, both of pioneer Utah stock.
Mrs. Lemmon is a second counselor to the president of the Relief
Society in her ward, and before taking this office was president of the
Young ladies Mutual Improvement Association.
Mr. Lemmon served on a mission to the central states, laboring in
Nebraska, South Dakota and Colorado for thirty months in 1908, 1909 and
a part of 1910. Mr. Lemmon is second counselor to the president
of the Cottonwood stake religion class, also a member of the stake
board social committed, and is chairman of the Winder ward social
committee. He is an elder and is active in the choir and the
Young Men’s Mutual improvement Association. Mrs. Lemmon is
secretary of the stake religion class. In politics he is a
democrat and is now serving as a constable in precinct No. 3 of Salt
Lake county. Mr. Lemmon is a representative of an old, prominent
and honored American family, identified with the history of this
country from colonial days. The family has been especially active
in the development of Utah, contributing to its material, intellectual,
political and moral growth and progress.
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed by Richard Ramos]
JOHN S. LEWIS
A spirit of advancement actuates John S. Lewis in everything that he
accomplishes and carries him forward to the goal of success. He
is the owner of about fifteen hundred acres of land, mostly arable, and
he has been very successful as well in the raising of stock. He
was born in Salt Lake City, Jul 21, 1861, and is a son of John T. and
Mary (Littley) Lewis, who were natives of England. During
the period of early development in Utah they came to this state,
settling in Salt Lake City, where they resided for a number of years,
after which they removed to Wales, Sanpete county, there remaining for
four years. On the expiration of that period they located at
Emery, where Mr. Lewis followed farming until the time of his death
when he was seventy-three years of age.
John S. Lewis obtained a common school education in Salt Lake City and
when twenty years of age took up railroad work on the Sanpete Valley
road as a brakeman. He was afterward promoted to conductor and
two years later he resigned. In 1884 he removed to Emery, where
he turned his attention to farming and stock raising and, prospering in
his undertakings, he has acquired about fifteen hundred acres of land
the greater part of which is tillable. He has likewise engaged in
stock raising most profitable and at all times follows the most
progressive methods of handling his stock and developing his
fields. He is likewise interested in a mercantile business, is a
stockholder in the Emery County Bank and a director of the Emery County
Canal & Reservoir Company.
On the 14th of March, 900, at Manti, Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Eva
Matilda Abelin, a daughter of Magnus and Hannah (Christensen) Abelin,
residents of Emery. The six children of this marriage are as
follows: John S., who was born in October, 1901; Robert T., whose birth
occurred on the 31t of December, 1903; Arthur M., born in April, 1905;
Pearl, whose natal day was July 15, 1907; Udell, born July 5, 1912; and
Jessie, who was born on the 2d of July, 1916. Mr. Lewis belongs to the
Mormon church and is a member of the Seventy Quorum. For more
than a third of a century he has lived in Emery county and through the
entire period has been actuated by a spirit of progress that has
brought him to a foremost position among the representative farmers and
stock raisers of this section of the state.
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed by Richard Ramos]
SAMUEL J. LINDSAY
Samuel J. Lindsay, manager, secretary and treasurer of the Murray Auto
Company, having the Ford agency for Salt Lake county outside of Salt
Lake City, embracing the region east of the Jordan river, has in this
connection built up a business of substantial proportions. The company
also acts as agents for the Fordson tractors for Salt Lake and Tooele
counties. The business was organized in 1916 with A. Branford as
President; Joseph Lindsay, vice president, and Samuel J. Lindsay as
manager, secretary and treasurer. Marked enterprise and energy have
characterized the conduct of the business from the beginning, but,
while a most wide-awake and alert business man, Mr. Lindsay is not
confining his attention to business to the exclusion of other duties
and activities. He is an active worker in the church and is serving as
bishop's counsellor.
His birth occurred at Taylorsville, where he now resides, June 28,
1882, his parents being Joseph S. and Emma (Bennion) Lindsay, who are
mentioned in connection with the sketch of their son, Joseph Lindsay,
on another page of this work. This son is county commissioner of Salt
Lake county and the family has long been one of prominence and
influence in the community.
Samuel J. Lindsay was reared in Taylorsville, where he attended the
common schools and later the high school and the Latter-day Saints
Business College in Salt Lake City. He entered upon his active business
career in connection with mercantile interests at Taylorsville in
association with his brother Joseph and is still financially connected
with the business, although since the organization of the Murray Auto
Company he has given practically his entire time to the development of
that business. He is likewise part owner in a mercantile establishment
at Magna, conducted under the firm style of Lindsay & Roswell. He
displays sound judgment in all business affairs, and his entire career
has been marked by steady progress, each forward step bringing him a
broader outlook and wider opportunities.
In June, 1916, Mr. Lindsay was married to Miss Mary Powell, of Sandy, a
graduate nurse from the sanitorium at Battle Creek, Michigan. Prior to
her marriage she was assistant superintendent of nurses of the
Latter-day Saints Hospital at Salt Lake. Two children have been born of
this marriage, Samuel Powell and Mr. Lindsay is the owner of an
attractive brick bungalow at Taylorsville, which was erected in 1916,
and which he and his family now occupy.
He has always been an earnest member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. In 1904 he went on a mission to the central states,
devoting thirty months to his labours there. He was president of the
Oklahoma conference, has also been a high priest, and since 1914 has
been first counsellor to the bishop of Taylorsville ward. He has
likewise been president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement
Association and also assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. His
political allegiance is given to the Democratic Party, and he has
served as committeeman for Taylorsville, Granger, Hunter, Brighton and
North Point in Salt Lake County. Mr. Lindsay is a typical western man,
imbued with the spirit of enterprise and progress which has dominated
the up building of this section of the country. Those who know him
speak of him in terms of high regard and recognize his ability and
business capacity. He has been instrumental in the development of an
automobile business of large proportions and one which is steadily
growing.
(Source: Utah since Statehood
Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919.
Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
CHARLES F. LOOFBOUROW
Judge Charles Franklin Loofbourow was born in Knox County. Ohio, on the
4th of September, 1842. He was the son of John Wade and Mary (Plumb)
Loofbourow. In May, 1889, he moved to Utah. Married, March 30, 1870, to
Hannah Spooner Hodgkins. He received his early education in the public
schools of his native state and by private tutors in Iowa. In 1867 he
moved from Ohio to Iowa and settled at Marshalltown, where for some
time he taught in the schools of that place and studied law in the
office of H. C. Henderson. He was admitted to the bar of Iowa at Des
Moines September 17, 1872, and settled for some time at Atlantic, Cass
County. On November 7, 1876, he was elected Circuit Judge of the
Thirteenth District of Iowa: re-elected November 2, 1881; appointed
December 24, 1883, and again elected on November 4, 1884 and served in
the above capacity until December 31, 1888.
In May of the following year he came to Utah and was admitted to the
bar of the State on June 21, and continued in the general practice of
his profession until the time of his death. On February 8, 1892, Judge
Loofbourow was elected a member of the City Council of Salt Lake City,
was President during his term and was one of the city's representatives
on the Joint Committee which had charge of building the City and County
Building in Salt Lake City. Judge Loofbourow died at his residence in
Salt Lake City on the 18th of December, 1904. He was a member of the
Masonic Order and in politics, a Republican.
[Source: History of the bench
and bar of Utah; By Interstate Press Association; Publ. 1913;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
ANTHON HENRIK LUND
Anthon Henrik Lund, first counselor to President Heber J. Grant of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born at Aalborg,
Denmark, May 15, 1844, being the son of Henrik and Anna Christina
(Anderson) Lund. When he was four years of age the mother passed away
and, the father then serving his country in the war between Denmark and
Schleswig-Holstein, the small Anthon was left in the care of his
grandmother. She immediately placed him in school to begin his
education, a career which was not interrupted by the father's return
from the battlefields in 1851. At the tender age of seven years young
Anthon was advanced to the so-called "city schools," wherein he gained
the first place with its attendant honors five years later. During the
same year in which this latter success came to him he also was baptized
into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Several years
previous to his baptism one of his uncles had joined the church and
later his grandmother, too, embraced the new teachings, with the result
that Anthon, youngster though he was, read and became vitally
interested in the doctrines of the Mormon church. From this time until
the present his labors have been in the interests of his church, and
his devotion and loyalty to his belief have burned as a steady flame.
At the age of thirteen Anthon H. Lund was called to labor in the
Aalborg conference, his duties in this connection being the teaching of
English to the emigrating Saints, to distribute tracts and to assist
the elders in various ways. Then in 1862 came the first great event of
his life—the voyage to American shores. His sailing vessel entered New
York harbor on May 28th of that year. Accompanied by his grandmother,
who had zealously watched over him throughout his youthful years, he
traveled by rail and overland to Salt Lake City, arriving here
September 23d in the Bishop C. A, Madsen independent company. After a
short time here he went into the Sanpete country, the grandmother
joining her son at Cedar City.
On a farm near Fairview, Anthon Lund was first employed during a period
of three months and then moved to Mount Pleasant, where he found an
occupation more suited to his taste and education. John Barton, a
citizen of Mount Pleasant, offered him a home in return for the
tutoring of the Barton children, a bargain which was quickly and
gratefully accepted. In 1864 his vocation assumed a different turn and
he became a teamster, bringing emigrants from the Missouri river to
Utah. During the winter months of this year he taught school again and
in the following summer season he clerked in a store.
In the autumn of the year 1865 Anthon H. Lund, with a number of other
young men, responded to a call from President Brigham Young to come to
Salt Lake City and study telegraphy under the veteran operator, John
Clowes. The first Deseret telegraph line was then being finished and in
1866 he returned to Mount Pleasant as a full-fledged operator to take
charge of the station at that place. For three years he filled this
position and in addition conducted a photograph gallery. In 1868 he
became secretary of the local cooperative association and also was
chosen a member of the first city council of Mount Pleasant.
Two years later, to be exact on May 2, 1870, occurred his marriage to
Sarah Ann Peterson, the daughter of Bishop Canute Peterson, of Ephraim,
Utah, to which town he then moved from Mount Pleasant. The next year he
was sent on a mission to his native land, Denmark, accompanying his
father-in-law, who was sent to preside over the affairs of the church
in Scandinavia. Anthon Lund, then but twenty-six years of age, was
placed in charge of the business department of the Copenhagen office of
the Scandinavian mission and remained thusly for a year and a half,
when he returned to the United States and his beloved Utah.
After another winter of teaching he was made the head clerk of the
Ephraim store, a position which he filled so acceptably that he was
soon advanced to the place of superintendent, which he held for ten
years. Then, in 1883, he was sent upon another mission to European
fields, succeeding Christian D. Fielsted as president of the
Scandinavian mission. Previous to this mission he had been high
counselor and clerk of the Sanpete stake of Zion and also
superintendent of the Ephraim Sunday schools.
President Lund remained abroad until November, 1885, and *then returned
to Utah, where he was met by a most agreeable honor. Anticipating his
early return from across the Atlantic, the people had elected him a
member of the territorial legislature. He served notably in the session
of 1886 and in 1888 was again returned to the house. Hsia work in these
bodies was important and valuable and among other legislative measures
that he introduced were the bills to establish the Industrial School
and the Agricultural College.
In the year 1888 Anthon H. Lund was made vice president of Manti
Temple, assisting President Daniel H. Wells, and at the death of the
president, in March, 1891, he was chosen as president. His call to the
apostleship came in October, 1889.
From 1893 until 1896 he presided over the European mission and in 1897
he visited the orient in company with F. F. Hintze, for the purpose of
reorganizing the Turkish mission and selecting a spot for a colony in
Palestine. In June, 1898, he returned to Utah. At the close of the year
1899 he was appointed to the position of church historian, to which he
succeeded at the demise of Franklin D. Richards, also succeeding, him
as president of the State Genealogical Society. President Lund had been
acting as superintendent of religion classes, in which capacity he
remained until January, 1919. He is also one of the original members of
the General Church Board of Education.
On October 17, 1901, Anthon H. Lund became one of the first presidents
of the church, by virtue of his appointment on that date as second
counselor to President Joseph F. Smith. In this capacity he served
faithfully until his appointment as first counselor to the president of
the church at the death of John R. Winder.
In addition to his valuable life's work with the church of his
adoption, President Lund has engaged in other activities which have won
for him the added respect of members of his own faith and of those of
other beliefs. Among the various directorates and positions of
executive responsibility to which he has been chosen are those of
regent of the State University; president of the board of trustees of
the Latter-day Saints University; president of the board of trustees of
the Snow Academy; director of the Zion Cooperative Mercantile
Institution; director of the Utah State National Bank; vice president
of the Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Company; and president of the
Amalgamated Sugar Company.
A disciplinarian in many ways, courageous, an indefatigable worker and
possessed of the wisdom of the ages, President Lund has yet been
inspired in his great work by motives of charity, generosity and
sympathy for his fellows. Not only in his official and religious life
have these qualities been predominant, but in his home life he has
created a circle of love and loyalty of the highest type. Married to
his chosen life* mate early in his career, he has had the ennobling
influence of her presence through the many years of labor which have
been his. Surely no greater fortune could man possess. Mrs. Lund,
previous to their marriage on May 2, 1870, was Miss Sarah Ann Peterson,
born January 4, 1853, a daughter of Bishop Canute and Sarah Ann
(Nelson) Peterson, who were Utah pioneers, coming here in 1849.
President Lund has reared a family of whom any parent could feel proud.
His children are: Anthony C., a well known musician of Salt Lake and
leader of the Tabernacle choir; Henry C., who is a prominent member of
the Salt Lake bar and is mentioned elsewhere in this work; Sarah A.,
who died in infancy; Herbert Z., a successful physician of Salt Lake,
who is mentioned elsewhere in this work; Canute, who died at the age of
twelve years; Othniel, a resident of Ephraim, Utah; A. William, who is
historian for the Mormon church; George Cannon, who was color sergeant
with the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery and served in
France while his command was abroad; and Eva, who resides with her
parents.
The life of President Lund may well serve as a type of the men who have
given their lives to the development of the west, pioneering through
the days of doubt and hardship, facing disappointments with a smile,
exercising great judgment in building up the institutions of the
country and ever promoting the interests of the religions faith of
their choice. It is the record of such lives as that of Anthon H. Lund
which makes the history of Utah the romantic and interesting story it
is, and as one of the leaders both in the work of the church and of the
state marks him as one of the remarkable men of Utah.
[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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