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GOTTLIEB BERGER
Gottlieb Berger was elected city commissioner when Murray first adopted the commission form of government and since 1912 has continuously filled the position, doing splendid work in behalf of public progress. He was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, on the 15th of February, 1857, his parents being Christian and Magdalene (Zaugg) Berger. The father was a farmer, well-to-do, and had sufficient funds to pay his way to Utah in 1860, when he crossed the Atlantic on the ship Underwriter, which dropped anchor in the harbor of New York. He then proceeded by railroad to Omaha, Nebraska, and afterward crossed the plains with an ox and cow team in the Captain Ross company, for he had become a convert in his native land to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and it was his desire to join the people of that faith in Utah. He brought with him his family, which included four sons and two daughters, all born in Switzerland, namely: Christian, Anna Lizzie, John, Godfrey, Gottlieb and Rosetta. All lived to adult age, were married and had families, and all are yet living save Godfrey and Anna Lizzie. With the arrival in Utah the family home was established in what is now Berger town, where the father erected more than twenty houses, thus contributing in substantial measure to the development and improvement of that place. While he was thus engaged in building operations his real occupation was that of farming. He was a devoted member of his church and filled the office of high priest. He always adhered most loyally to the teachings of the church, paid an accurate tithing and did everything in his power to promote the church work. He passed away in 1883 at the venerable age of eighty-three years.
Gottlieb Berger acquired a common school education, pursuing his studies through the winter months, while in the summer seasons he worked upon his father's farm to the age of eighteen years. He then began working for the railroad as a brakeman and afterward as freight conductor, thus spending five years on the Bingham Canyon & Camp Floyd Railroad and on the Wasatch & Jordan Valley Railroad. He afterward secured employment at a smelter and was thus engaged for thirty six years. At first he was employed at the Old Germania smelter and afterward was with the American Smelting & Refining Company when they took over all smelters in Utah. For many years he acted as engineer and following the time when the smelters were consolidated as the property of the American Smelting & Refining Company he operated a mill. He purchased fourteen acres of land where he now resides a few years after his marriage and in 1896 erected a good brick residence of six rooms. He also built good barns, planted fruit and otherwise improved the property, which is now one of the desirable homes of Murray. During the years in which he worked at the smelter he also carried on his farm with the assistance of his son and erected all of the buildings thereon himself save the house. On the 2d of December, 1880, Mr. Berger was married to Emma Arnold, a native of Leicestershire England, who was brought to Utah when but five years of age by her father and grandparents. She also had a sister in the party. She is a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Jordan. The father was a farmer of England, but after coming to America in 1868 engaged in railroad work. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Berger: Emma Eliza, who 'died at the age of two years and four months; Gottlieb R., who is with the smelter at Murray; Magdalena, who became the wife of Wallace H. Rider and died at the age of twenty eight years, leaving three children; Lilly M., the wife of Thomas K. Baker, of Murray; Wilford, who died at the age of three years: Mirelda, who is a clerk in the Thornton-Anderson Drug Store at Murray and resides at home: Albert F., who died at the age of ten years; Ruth, who died in infancy and who was born on the twentieth wedding anniversary of her parents; Godfrey A., who is employed at the smelter; and Clarence E., in school.
Mr. Berger has long been a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. He was at one time called upon for missionary service but about that time was seriously injured by a fall at the smelter. On the 2d of March, 1911, he received a badge in honour as being the oldest resident of the second ward of Murray. He was ordained a high priest in 1904, was a member of the Elders Quorum for nine years and was counsellor and high priest of the Murray Second Ward Quorum, filling the last named position since the organization of the ward. He has also been assistant Sunday school superintendent and for a number of years has been ward teacher. His wife has been first counsellor of the Relief Society for twelve years, or since the ward was organized. Mr. Berger has also been very prominent in community affairs. He was first elected city commissioner in 1911, again in 1915 and once more in 1919 for a four years' term. He is known as a socialist candidate and such is his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him that in 1919 he was accorded the largest vote given anyone on the ticket. He was active in building the city power plant during his first term, at which time it was receiving eleven cents per kilowatt, while five cents is now being paid under the city owned plant. Mr. Berger was also the promoter of the water agitation and the city voted one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for a water plant. He is a thoroughly upright and reliable man whose word is as good as any bond, and the people know that they can trust him under any and all circumstances. Moreover, he possesses capability of a high order, and thus it is that he is able to command the large vote that has been accorded him.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
GEORGE BONNER, JR.
George Bonner, Jr., was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1850, but came to this country with his parents when but a child of five years, and has grown up amid American surroundings and institutions. His parents, George and Margaret (Edmonson) Bonner, are both living in Midway, this county. They were converted to the teachings of the Mormon Church and emigrated to America, the father coming in 1854 and settling in Pennsylvania, where he obtained employment in the coal mines, and where his family joined him the following year. They remained in Pennsylvania until 1861, when they crossed the great American plains by ox team, in the company over which Captain Murdock had command. Upon arriving in Utah the family came direct to Wasatch County and settled in Midway, where the parents have since lived.
Our subject received his early education in Pennsylvania, and later from such schools as then existed in Wasatch County. Like all other boys of those early days, much of his time was spent in assisting his father to support the family, hauling wood, herding cattle, and doing whatever his strength would allow, attending school for a few weeks in the winter. He later took a contract for furnishing wood for the Ontario mines, at which he was quite successful. When he was about twenty-four years of age, in connection with his brother William, he started a small store in one room of his father's house, which business improved so rapidly that they were soon enabled to build a small store. His brother remained with him for a number of years, and they built up a very successful business, which Mr. Bonner has conducted alone of late years. They also branched out into the live stock business, and at this time Mr. William Bonner is one of the leading stockowners of his county, and a representative business man of Midway. This has been his home since he came here as a child with his parents and all his interests are centered here. He has seen the town grow and develop and has himself been a large factor in bringing about the many improved conditions, giving freely of his time and money for the advancement of his community.
Mr. Bonner was married January 4, 1878, to Miss Phoebe Alexander, daughter of Alvah and Betsy Alexander. Six children have been born of this marriage. They are: Phoebe, Lizzie, Maggie, Flossie, Pansy and June.
Politically Mr. Bonner is a member of the Republican party, in whose principles he is a staunch believer. He has been actively identified with its work in this place, and was at one time a candidate for the Legislature on the Republican ticket, but was defeated with other members of his party.
Mr. Bonner is in all respects a noble type of the self-made man. The son of a poor man, he had early in life to begin for himself; living at almost the very outposts of civilization, the broad schooling which is the right of every American child, and which his children are today enjoying, was denied him, and thus he entered the race doubly handicapped, but what he lacked in book knowledge he more than atoned for in natural ability and a determination to succeed, which has carried him through many hard struggles and placed him at last among the front ranks of the business men of Wasatch County, and secured for him a comfortable competence with which to solace his declining years when he shall finally begin to grow old. His record thus far has been most honorable and upright, and he is in the enjoyment of a large circle of friends.
[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.]
THOMAS CLOTWORTHY
Thomas Clotworthy, one of the leading sheep men of Wasatch County, is a native of Scotland, where he was born in 1852, and is the son of Hugh and Jane (Maitland) Clotworthy, both natives of that country. There were seven children born in this family, four of whom came to the United States, and our subject is the only one now living. The parents of our subject became converted to the Mormon religion in their own
country, and with three of their children crossed the Atlantic ocean and traveled by rail and boat to the headquarters of the Church on the Missouri River, from where they crossed the plains to Utah in the second hand cart brigade, under command of Captain Ellsworth. Upon arriving in Utah the family went to Spanish Fork, where the father died in 1858, leaving his widow with no means of support and a family of small children to care for our subject, who was but six years of age at the time, being the only boy.
It was under these trying conditions that our subject grew into boyhood and finally into manhood. As soon as he was old enough to do any kind of labor he began lo assist in supporting the family, and from that time on, while they lived, he supported his mother and sisters, and
made a comfortable home for them, providing every comfort in his power. The mother lived until 1891, when she died at the home of our subject, here in Heber. In his early life Mr. Clotworthy hauled logs and timber, and for a time contracted to furnish wood for the Ontario
mine. He later owned a shingle mill, which he successfully conducted for a number of years, and there secured enough means to enable him to start in the cattle business. He later branched out into the sheep business and lias since made this his principal industry, ranging his sheep in Wasatch county. He owns a fine farm adjoining the town of Heber, owning a good residence and property in the town, and is one of the well-to-do men of this section of the State.
Mr. Clot worthy was married in Heber in 1874 to Miss Sarah M. Horner, daughter of William E. Horner. Thirteen children have been born to them, of whom eight are living.
In political life Mr. Clotworthy is a believer in the principles of the Democratic party, and has been actively identified with its work in this county. He was chairman of the Board of County Commissioners for two years, and served four years as County Commissioner. In the early days, before the division on party lines, he was a member of the town board for two terms. Mr. Clotworthy is not only well known in his own city and county, but also among the cattle and sheep men of the State, among whom he has a very high standing. He is regarded as one of the solid financial men of Heber and is one of Unsubstantial business men of Utah; aggressive and energetic, very modest about his own achievements, but always ready to advance any worthy cause. He has made his own way in the world by the application of his natural ability and aptitude for business, and by his honorable and straightforward course has won and retained the high regard of those with whom he has been associated, numbering his friends by the legion.
Source: Portrait, Genealogical and Biographical Record of the State of Utah; National Historic Record Co.; Chicago IL 1902 Pg. 149
Contributed and transcribed by Christine Walters
Gottlieb Berger was elected city commissioner when Murray first adopted the commission form of government and since 1912 has continuously filled the position, doing splendid work in behalf of public progress. He was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, on the 15th of February, 1857, his parents being Christian and Magdalene (Zaugg) Berger. The father was a farmer, well-to-do, and had sufficient funds to pay his way to Utah in 1860, when he crossed the Atlantic on the ship Underwriter, which dropped anchor in the harbor of New York. He then proceeded by railroad to Omaha, Nebraska, and afterward crossed the plains with an ox and cow team in the Captain Ross company, for he had become a convert in his native land to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and it was his desire to join the people of that faith in Utah. He brought with him his family, which included four sons and two daughters, all born in Switzerland, namely: Christian, Anna Lizzie, John, Godfrey, Gottlieb and Rosetta. All lived to adult age, were married and had families, and all are yet living save Godfrey and Anna Lizzie. With the arrival in Utah the family home was established in what is now Berger town, where the father erected more than twenty houses, thus contributing in substantial measure to the development and improvement of that place. While he was thus engaged in building operations his real occupation was that of farming. He was a devoted member of his church and filled the office of high priest. He always adhered most loyally to the teachings of the church, paid an accurate tithing and did everything in his power to promote the church work. He passed away in 1883 at the venerable age of eighty-three years.
Gottlieb Berger acquired a common school education, pursuing his studies through the winter months, while in the summer seasons he worked upon his father's farm to the age of eighteen years. He then began working for the railroad as a brakeman and afterward as freight conductor, thus spending five years on the Bingham Canyon & Camp Floyd Railroad and on the Wasatch & Jordan Valley Railroad. He afterward secured employment at a smelter and was thus engaged for thirty six years. At first he was employed at the Old Germania smelter and afterward was with the American Smelting & Refining Company when they took over all smelters in Utah. For many years he acted as engineer and following the time when the smelters were consolidated as the property of the American Smelting & Refining Company he operated a mill. He purchased fourteen acres of land where he now resides a few years after his marriage and in 1896 erected a good brick residence of six rooms. He also built good barns, planted fruit and otherwise improved the property, which is now one of the desirable homes of Murray. During the years in which he worked at the smelter he also carried on his farm with the assistance of his son and erected all of the buildings thereon himself save the house. On the 2d of December, 1880, Mr. Berger was married to Emma Arnold, a native of Leicestershire England, who was brought to Utah when but five years of age by her father and grandparents. She also had a sister in the party. She is a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Jordan. The father was a farmer of England, but after coming to America in 1868 engaged in railroad work. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Berger: Emma Eliza, who 'died at the age of two years and four months; Gottlieb R., who is with the smelter at Murray; Magdalena, who became the wife of Wallace H. Rider and died at the age of twenty eight years, leaving three children; Lilly M., the wife of Thomas K. Baker, of Murray; Wilford, who died at the age of three years: Mirelda, who is a clerk in the Thornton-Anderson Drug Store at Murray and resides at home: Albert F., who died at the age of ten years; Ruth, who died in infancy and who was born on the twentieth wedding anniversary of her parents; Godfrey A., who is employed at the smelter; and Clarence E., in school.
Mr. Berger has long been a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. He was at one time called upon for missionary service but about that time was seriously injured by a fall at the smelter. On the 2d of March, 1911, he received a badge in honour as being the oldest resident of the second ward of Murray. He was ordained a high priest in 1904, was a member of the Elders Quorum for nine years and was counsellor and high priest of the Murray Second Ward Quorum, filling the last named position since the organization of the ward. He has also been assistant Sunday school superintendent and for a number of years has been ward teacher. His wife has been first counsellor of the Relief Society for twelve years, or since the ward was organized. Mr. Berger has also been very prominent in community affairs. He was first elected city commissioner in 1911, again in 1915 and once more in 1919 for a four years' term. He is known as a socialist candidate and such is his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him that in 1919 he was accorded the largest vote given anyone on the ticket. He was active in building the city power plant during his first term, at which time it was receiving eleven cents per kilowatt, while five cents is now being paid under the city owned plant. Mr. Berger was also the promoter of the water agitation and the city voted one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for a water plant. He is a thoroughly upright and reliable man whose word is as good as any bond, and the people know that they can trust him under any and all circumstances. Moreover, he possesses capability of a high order, and thus it is that he is able to command the large vote that has been accorded him.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
GEORGE BONNER, JR.
George Bonner, Jr., was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1850, but came to this country with his parents when but a child of five years, and has grown up amid American surroundings and institutions. His parents, George and Margaret (Edmonson) Bonner, are both living in Midway, this county. They were converted to the teachings of the Mormon Church and emigrated to America, the father coming in 1854 and settling in Pennsylvania, where he obtained employment in the coal mines, and where his family joined him the following year. They remained in Pennsylvania until 1861, when they crossed the great American plains by ox team, in the company over which Captain Murdock had command. Upon arriving in Utah the family came direct to Wasatch County and settled in Midway, where the parents have since lived.
Our subject received his early education in Pennsylvania, and later from such schools as then existed in Wasatch County. Like all other boys of those early days, much of his time was spent in assisting his father to support the family, hauling wood, herding cattle, and doing whatever his strength would allow, attending school for a few weeks in the winter. He later took a contract for furnishing wood for the Ontario mines, at which he was quite successful. When he was about twenty-four years of age, in connection with his brother William, he started a small store in one room of his father's house, which business improved so rapidly that they were soon enabled to build a small store. His brother remained with him for a number of years, and they built up a very successful business, which Mr. Bonner has conducted alone of late years. They also branched out into the live stock business, and at this time Mr. William Bonner is one of the leading stockowners of his county, and a representative business man of Midway. This has been his home since he came here as a child with his parents and all his interests are centered here. He has seen the town grow and develop and has himself been a large factor in bringing about the many improved conditions, giving freely of his time and money for the advancement of his community.
Mr. Bonner was married January 4, 1878, to Miss Phoebe Alexander, daughter of Alvah and Betsy Alexander. Six children have been born of this marriage. They are: Phoebe, Lizzie, Maggie, Flossie, Pansy and June.
Politically Mr. Bonner is a member of the Republican party, in whose principles he is a staunch believer. He has been actively identified with its work in this place, and was at one time a candidate for the Legislature on the Republican ticket, but was defeated with other members of his party.
Mr. Bonner is in all respects a noble type of the self-made man. The son of a poor man, he had early in life to begin for himself; living at almost the very outposts of civilization, the broad schooling which is the right of every American child, and which his children are today enjoying, was denied him, and thus he entered the race doubly handicapped, but what he lacked in book knowledge he more than atoned for in natural ability and a determination to succeed, which has carried him through many hard struggles and placed him at last among the front ranks of the business men of Wasatch County, and secured for him a comfortable competence with which to solace his declining years when he shall finally begin to grow old. His record thus far has been most honorable and upright, and he is in the enjoyment of a large circle of friends.
[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.]
THOMAS CLOTWORTHY
Thomas Clotworthy, one of the leading sheep men of Wasatch County, is a native of Scotland, where he was born in 1852, and is the son of Hugh and Jane (Maitland) Clotworthy, both natives of that country. There were seven children born in this family, four of whom came to the United States, and our subject is the only one now living. The parents of our subject became converted to the Mormon religion in their own
country, and with three of their children crossed the Atlantic ocean and traveled by rail and boat to the headquarters of the Church on the Missouri River, from where they crossed the plains to Utah in the second hand cart brigade, under command of Captain Ellsworth. Upon arriving in Utah the family went to Spanish Fork, where the father died in 1858, leaving his widow with no means of support and a family of small children to care for our subject, who was but six years of age at the time, being the only boy.
It was under these trying conditions that our subject grew into boyhood and finally into manhood. As soon as he was old enough to do any kind of labor he began lo assist in supporting the family, and from that time on, while they lived, he supported his mother and sisters, and
made a comfortable home for them, providing every comfort in his power. The mother lived until 1891, when she died at the home of our subject, here in Heber. In his early life Mr. Clotworthy hauled logs and timber, and for a time contracted to furnish wood for the Ontario
mine. He later owned a shingle mill, which he successfully conducted for a number of years, and there secured enough means to enable him to start in the cattle business. He later branched out into the sheep business and lias since made this his principal industry, ranging his sheep in Wasatch county. He owns a fine farm adjoining the town of Heber, owning a good residence and property in the town, and is one of the well-to-do men of this section of the State.
Mr. Clot worthy was married in Heber in 1874 to Miss Sarah M. Horner, daughter of William E. Horner. Thirteen children have been born to them, of whom eight are living.
In political life Mr. Clotworthy is a believer in the principles of the Democratic party, and has been actively identified with its work in this county. He was chairman of the Board of County Commissioners for two years, and served four years as County Commissioner. In the early days, before the division on party lines, he was a member of the town board for two terms. Mr. Clotworthy is not only well known in his own city and county, but also among the cattle and sheep men of the State, among whom he has a very high standing. He is regarded as one of the solid financial men of Heber and is one of Unsubstantial business men of Utah; aggressive and energetic, very modest about his own achievements, but always ready to advance any worthy cause. He has made his own way in the world by the application of his natural ability and aptitude for business, and by his honorable and straightforward course has won and retained the high regard of those with whom he has been associated, numbering his friends by the legion.
Source: Portrait, Genealogical and Biographical Record of the State of Utah; National Historic Record Co.; Chicago IL 1902 Pg. 149
Contributed and transcribed by Christine Walters
HON. JAMES W. CLYDE
The life history of Hon. James W. Clyde presents many phases of activity, all of a most useful and valuable character in the up building of the state as well as the advancement of his own interests. He is now representing Wasatch County in the Utah senate and he is one of the most prominent stock raisers and ranchers of the intermountain country. He is also identified with mercantile and banking interests and his enterprise has been one of the dominant forces in the development of the state. In this connection he has carried forward the work instituted by his father, who was one of Utah's pioneers.
James W. Clyde was born at Springville, Utah, August 31,1855, his parents being George W. and Jane (McDonald) Clyde. The former was a native of the state of New York and a son of George W. Clyde, Sr., who became one of the earliest adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He joined that religious body in New York and with other followers of the faith removed to Independence, Missouri, where he experienced all of the hardships and ill treatment inflicted upon that people. He was living there during the ever memorable Missouri massacre and removed with the Saints to Nauvoo, Illinois. There he became a member of the Legion. He passed away at Nauvoo, after which his son and namesake, George W. Clyde, left that place with the exodus from Illinois, reaching Utah about 1848 or 1849 with one of the first pioneer trains that crossed the plains. Soon afterward he settled at Springville, where he took up the occupation of farming. He participated in both the Walker and Black Hawk Indian wars and in many ways contributed to the development and up building of the state. In 1860 he became a pioneer of Wasatch County, where he continued to engage in ranching and cattle raising for many years, becoming one of the prominent cattle men of the district. On settling at Heber he built a small house at the old fort. He was married in Springville to Miss Jane McDonald and they became the parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters. The death of the father occurred on the 17th of March, 1899, while the mother, surviving for a few years, passed away in 1904.
James W. Clyde acquired a common school education but his youth was largely spent in the saddle and when a boy he thoroughly learned the cattle business under his father's direction. Eventually he started in the business on his own account, handling both cattle and sheep, and today he has large acreage of range and ranch land, together with extensive flocks and herds, having become recognized as one of the largest operators in live stock in Utah. He has developed his business along most progressive lines, his energy and enterprise enabling him to overcome all the difficulties and obstacles which beset every business career. He was one of the incorporators of the Bank of Heber City on the 22nd of April, 1902, and was elected its vice president. Mr. Clyde is likewise the vice president of the Heber Mercantile Company, which is the largest store of the kind in Wasatch County and in fact conducts one of the largest mercantile establishments of the state.
In 1884 Mr. Clyde was married to Miss Mary Campbell, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell, and they have become the parents of ten children: Nellie, Nora, Mary, Hazel, Don, Nina, Bessie, Laura, and two who died in infancy. The family adhered to the faith of the church with which the grandfather of Hon. James W. Clyde became identified in the days of its early development. In politics Mr. Clyde has always been an earnest democrat and in 1899 was elected to represent his district in the state legislature, in which he served for one term in the lower house. In 1916 he was elected state senator and is now filling that position, giving thoughtful and earnest consideration to all the vital problems which come up for settlement affecting the advancement of the commonwealth. For ten years he served as mayor of Heber, giving to the city a businesslike and progressive administration. He is a stalwart champion of the cause of education, doing everything in his power to promote the interests of the schools. During the period of the World war he was chair- man of the County Council of Defence and Wasatch County oversubscribed at every call for financial assistance and was always among the first to go over the top. These are but a few phases of the activities which make James W. Clyde one of the most valued, prominent and honoured citizens of Utah.
Source: "Utah Since Statehood", Noble Warrum; Chicago :: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.,1920
Contributed and transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman
BISHOP WILLIAM DAYBELL
Of the men who came to Utah when but children and have literally grown up with the country, seeing it progress from a barren wilderness to one of the most productive and beautiful States of the Union while they themselves grew from childhood to youth and thence passed to man's estate, may be mentioned William Daybell, Bishop of Charleston Ward, and the subject of our sketch; one of the prosperous and influential citizens of Wasatch County.
Bishop Daybell was born February 24, 1858, in Derbyshire, England, and is the son of Finity and Mary (Draper) Daybell, both natives of Lincolnshire, England. There were seven children in this family, of whom our subject was the youngest. The parents and older children became converts to the teachings of the Mormon Church, and when our subject was but six years of age the family emigrated to the United States, landing at New Orleans, and coming direct to Utah, arriving in Charleston on December 24th, 1864, and this has been their home since. The father engaged in farming and stock raising, in which he was very successful, and also took a prominent part in the work of the Church. His wife died September 5, 1899, and he died in October, 1897.
Our subject grew to manhood on his father's farm, working on the farm during the summer months and attending the district school in the winter. When he started out for himself he began as a farmer and later engaged in the dairy business, and has been unusually successful in both undertakings. His farm consists of sixty-eight acres of valuable and highly cultivated land, on which he has a fine house and good fences and outbuildings, barns, etc.
He was married November 12, 1877, at Heber City, to Miss Anna Price, daughter of James and Ann Price, who came to America in the same vessel and crossed the plains in the same company as our subject. Eleven children have been born of this marriage, nine of whom are now living. John D. is engaged in farming here; Mary A. is now the wife of M. Malton, of Park City; James F. died in infancy; Phoebe E. is at home; Joseph F., also at home; Myrtle, Violet B., Lula, Ernest, and Warren.
In politics the Bishop is a believer in the principles of the Democratic party, and for two years served as County Commissioner. Both he and his wife are staunch members of the Mormon Church, and active in local Church circles. Our subject was for thirteen years Superintendent of the Sunday School and for twenty-five years an officer in that branch of the work. He held the position of High Counsel for ten years, and on February 10, 1901, was set aside as Bishop of this Ward, his Counselors being John M. Richie and George Price. From May, 1885, to November, 1887, Bishop Daybell labored as a missionary in Middle Tennessee.
The Bishop is one of the most genial and pleasant of gentlemen, broad-minded and liberal, and is a great favorite with the people over whom he presides. He is one of the leading farmers and dairymen in this county, and numbers his friends by the legion.
[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.]
T. W. DIMOND
T. W. Dimond is one of the owners of the business conducted under the name of the Murray Implement Company, being associated in this undertaking with his brother, W. A. Dimond. Not only, however, is he a progressive and successful business man but he is also an earnest church worker and is now bishop of the Bennion ward of Cottonwood stake. He was born in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England, March 22, 1867, and is a son of Henry and Jane (Weber) Dimond. The father, a weaver by trade, came to, America in 1880 and took up farming at West Jordan, Utah. He passed away in 1916, at the venerable age of eighty six years, while the mother of T. W. Dimond is still living at the age of eighty-seven years. T. W. Dimond was the sixth in order of birth in a family of nine children, of whom three died in infancy, the others being William S.Susan, Mercy, Robert E., T. W. and W. A.
T. W. Dimond acquired a common school education in his native country and soon after coming to America began herding sheep in Utah, being at the time but fourteen years of age. Associated with his brothers, Robert E. and W. A., he engaged in the sheep business and within a short time they were running six bands of sheep in Wyoming. He had had initial experience in business as an employe in a factory in England but after reaching Utah he became interested in a far different line of activity. The sheep raising Interests of the brothers were conducted under the name of the Dimond Brothers Company and their close application and indefatigable energy brought to them a very gratifying measure of success. Recognizing the need of further educational training as a preparation for life's practical duties and responsibilities, T. W. Dimond attended the Cottonwood Seminary, also the Brigham Young University of Provo and the University of Utah while he was still engaged in the sheep business. In 1909 he disposed of his interests in the sheep industry and purchased the Murray branch of the Utah Implement Company, changing the location of the business to the railway siding. He now deals in farm implements, coal, hay and grain and in the business his brother, W. A. Dimond, is an equal partner. They own the lot and all of the buildings, including the warehouse, and their business has now reached substantial and gratifying proportions. T. W. Dimond resides upon a farm of seventy-five acres in the Bennion ward, south of Taylorsville, and the tract is highly developed land, all irrigated and improved with substantial buildings. The farm is operated by a man on shares, while Mr. Dimond gives his attention to the further development of the implement business in Murray.
In 1896 Mr. Dimond was married to Miss Nora Bennion, a daughter of S. R. and Mary (Panter) Bennion. Her father was for years president of Uinta stake and a leading citizen of the Uinta basin, probably doing more to develop the basin than any other one person. To Mr. and Mrs. Dimond were born seven children: Lucile is now the wife of Calvin C. Smith, who was overseas as chaplain of the Ninety-first Division of the United States army and received shrapnel wounds and was also gassed. He is now a teacher in the Latter-day Saints University at Salt Lake. Thomas Wayne died of influenza at the University of Utah in 1918, being at that time a member of the Students Army Training Corps. Mary and Hattie are high school students. Samuel R. is at home. Clinton died in infancy. Afton completes the family. The wife and mother passed away in 1909 and Mr. Dimond afterward wedded Laura Bennion, a sister of his first wife. She has been a very active church worker, serving on a mission to Chicago, and is on the general church board of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association. For years before that she acted as president of the Mutual at Taylorsvllle.
Mr. Dimond shares with his wife in her deep interest in the church work. He served on a mission of twenty-six months in England, going to that country in 1898 and filling the position of conference clerk of the Bristol conference for a year and a half. He also presided over the Channel islands for six months. He has been assistant superintendent of the Sunday school and superintendent of the ward religion class. On the 15th of October, 1905, he was ordained a high priest and at the same time was set apart as bishop of Bennion ward. He has since filled that post save for three years when he was in the stake high council, after which he was again set apart as bishop of Bennion ward. He has acted as treasurer of the Grant school district and is interested in everything that has to do with the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of Salt Lake county. That he has prospered in his undertakings is manifest not only in the splendid mercantile establishment in which he is a partner, but also in the fact that he is a director of the First National Bank of Murray and is the owner of eight hundred acres of land, devoted to dry farming at Cedar. His life exemplifies the admonition: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all these things will be added unto you."
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
CLARENCE CECIL JACOB
Clarence Cecil Jacob, of Salt Lake, connected with the United States geological survey as hydraulic engineer, was born in Heber, Utah, June 9, 1886, a son of Joseph and Ellen (Gerber) Jacob and a grandson of Norton Jacob, who was one of the one hundred and forty-seven emigrants who came to Utah with the Brigham Young company in 1847 and settled at Salt Lake, thus founding this great western metropolis. The father, Joseph Jacob, was born at Nauvoo, Illinois, May 20, 1845, and came to Utah with his parents in 1849. He engaged in farming and sheep raising in several localities of the state,during the later years of his life in Wasatch county. He remained for many years one of the substantial citizens, agriculturists and stock raisers of his locality. He died in August, 1918, and is still survived by Mrs. Ellen Jacob, who makes her home at Provo, Utah. She was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and came to this state in her childhood with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Gerber. To Joseph and Ellen (Gerber) Jacob were born eleven children, of whom ten are still living: Joseph, who resides in southern Idaho; Mrs. Emma Parry, living at Richfield, Utah; Mrs. Eliza Phillips, of Provo; Milton, also of Provo; Isaac, who makes his home at Heber, Utah; Mrs. Nellie Anderson, of Springville; Tillie, of Provo; Elmer A., living at Lehi; Clarence Cecil, of this review; and Irvin H., who is located at Provo.
Clarence C. Jacob received liberal educational advantages. He attended the Agricultural College at Logan and also the Brigham Young University, from which he was graduated in 1909 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He next entered the University of Utah, where he won the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineer in 1910. Having thus qualified for a professional career, he began the practice of civil engineering as assistant city engineer of Provo, occupying that position for a year. He next became connected with the United States geological survey in southern California, his duties later taking him to Arizona, Utah and Navada as district engineer. In the spring of 1918 he was appointed federal court water commissioner for the Uintah basin, and is doing important work in this connection. His thorough university training and broad experience have well qualified him for the responsibilities which devolve upon him in his present position. He is also engaged in private practice as a hydraulic engineer and has offices at Roosevelt, Utah, and also at Salt Lake.
On the 15th of June, 1910, in Salt Lake, Mr. Jacob was married to Miss Florence Johnson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Johnson, of a prominent Provo family. They have three children: Richard, who was born in Mesa, Arizona, April 4, 1913; Edward, born in Phoenix, Arizona, September 3, 1914; and Karl, born in Phoenix, December 23, 1915. In politics Mr. Jacob is an independent republican, usually supporting the principles of the republican party yet not considering himself bound by party ties. The nature of his interests is indicated in the fact that he is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and also a member of the National Geographic Society. He is interested largely in scientific investigation and research and especially keeps in touch with everything that has to do with the profession which he has chosen as a life work.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
The life history of Hon. James W. Clyde presents many phases of activity, all of a most useful and valuable character in the up building of the state as well as the advancement of his own interests. He is now representing Wasatch County in the Utah senate and he is one of the most prominent stock raisers and ranchers of the intermountain country. He is also identified with mercantile and banking interests and his enterprise has been one of the dominant forces in the development of the state. In this connection he has carried forward the work instituted by his father, who was one of Utah's pioneers.
James W. Clyde was born at Springville, Utah, August 31,1855, his parents being George W. and Jane (McDonald) Clyde. The former was a native of the state of New York and a son of George W. Clyde, Sr., who became one of the earliest adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He joined that religious body in New York and with other followers of the faith removed to Independence, Missouri, where he experienced all of the hardships and ill treatment inflicted upon that people. He was living there during the ever memorable Missouri massacre and removed with the Saints to Nauvoo, Illinois. There he became a member of the Legion. He passed away at Nauvoo, after which his son and namesake, George W. Clyde, left that place with the exodus from Illinois, reaching Utah about 1848 or 1849 with one of the first pioneer trains that crossed the plains. Soon afterward he settled at Springville, where he took up the occupation of farming. He participated in both the Walker and Black Hawk Indian wars and in many ways contributed to the development and up building of the state. In 1860 he became a pioneer of Wasatch County, where he continued to engage in ranching and cattle raising for many years, becoming one of the prominent cattle men of the district. On settling at Heber he built a small house at the old fort. He was married in Springville to Miss Jane McDonald and they became the parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters. The death of the father occurred on the 17th of March, 1899, while the mother, surviving for a few years, passed away in 1904.
James W. Clyde acquired a common school education but his youth was largely spent in the saddle and when a boy he thoroughly learned the cattle business under his father's direction. Eventually he started in the business on his own account, handling both cattle and sheep, and today he has large acreage of range and ranch land, together with extensive flocks and herds, having become recognized as one of the largest operators in live stock in Utah. He has developed his business along most progressive lines, his energy and enterprise enabling him to overcome all the difficulties and obstacles which beset every business career. He was one of the incorporators of the Bank of Heber City on the 22nd of April, 1902, and was elected its vice president. Mr. Clyde is likewise the vice president of the Heber Mercantile Company, which is the largest store of the kind in Wasatch County and in fact conducts one of the largest mercantile establishments of the state.
In 1884 Mr. Clyde was married to Miss Mary Campbell, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell, and they have become the parents of ten children: Nellie, Nora, Mary, Hazel, Don, Nina, Bessie, Laura, and two who died in infancy. The family adhered to the faith of the church with which the grandfather of Hon. James W. Clyde became identified in the days of its early development. In politics Mr. Clyde has always been an earnest democrat and in 1899 was elected to represent his district in the state legislature, in which he served for one term in the lower house. In 1916 he was elected state senator and is now filling that position, giving thoughtful and earnest consideration to all the vital problems which come up for settlement affecting the advancement of the commonwealth. For ten years he served as mayor of Heber, giving to the city a businesslike and progressive administration. He is a stalwart champion of the cause of education, doing everything in his power to promote the interests of the schools. During the period of the World war he was chair- man of the County Council of Defence and Wasatch County oversubscribed at every call for financial assistance and was always among the first to go over the top. These are but a few phases of the activities which make James W. Clyde one of the most valued, prominent and honoured citizens of Utah.
Source: "Utah Since Statehood", Noble Warrum; Chicago :: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.,1920
Contributed and transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman
BISHOP WILLIAM DAYBELL
Of the men who came to Utah when but children and have literally grown up with the country, seeing it progress from a barren wilderness to one of the most productive and beautiful States of the Union while they themselves grew from childhood to youth and thence passed to man's estate, may be mentioned William Daybell, Bishop of Charleston Ward, and the subject of our sketch; one of the prosperous and influential citizens of Wasatch County.
Bishop Daybell was born February 24, 1858, in Derbyshire, England, and is the son of Finity and Mary (Draper) Daybell, both natives of Lincolnshire, England. There were seven children in this family, of whom our subject was the youngest. The parents and older children became converts to the teachings of the Mormon Church, and when our subject was but six years of age the family emigrated to the United States, landing at New Orleans, and coming direct to Utah, arriving in Charleston on December 24th, 1864, and this has been their home since. The father engaged in farming and stock raising, in which he was very successful, and also took a prominent part in the work of the Church. His wife died September 5, 1899, and he died in October, 1897.
Our subject grew to manhood on his father's farm, working on the farm during the summer months and attending the district school in the winter. When he started out for himself he began as a farmer and later engaged in the dairy business, and has been unusually successful in both undertakings. His farm consists of sixty-eight acres of valuable and highly cultivated land, on which he has a fine house and good fences and outbuildings, barns, etc.
He was married November 12, 1877, at Heber City, to Miss Anna Price, daughter of James and Ann Price, who came to America in the same vessel and crossed the plains in the same company as our subject. Eleven children have been born of this marriage, nine of whom are now living. John D. is engaged in farming here; Mary A. is now the wife of M. Malton, of Park City; James F. died in infancy; Phoebe E. is at home; Joseph F., also at home; Myrtle, Violet B., Lula, Ernest, and Warren.
In politics the Bishop is a believer in the principles of the Democratic party, and for two years served as County Commissioner. Both he and his wife are staunch members of the Mormon Church, and active in local Church circles. Our subject was for thirteen years Superintendent of the Sunday School and for twenty-five years an officer in that branch of the work. He held the position of High Counsel for ten years, and on February 10, 1901, was set aside as Bishop of this Ward, his Counselors being John M. Richie and George Price. From May, 1885, to November, 1887, Bishop Daybell labored as a missionary in Middle Tennessee.
The Bishop is one of the most genial and pleasant of gentlemen, broad-minded and liberal, and is a great favorite with the people over whom he presides. He is one of the leading farmers and dairymen in this county, and numbers his friends by the legion.
[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.]
T. W. DIMOND
T. W. Dimond is one of the owners of the business conducted under the name of the Murray Implement Company, being associated in this undertaking with his brother, W. A. Dimond. Not only, however, is he a progressive and successful business man but he is also an earnest church worker and is now bishop of the Bennion ward of Cottonwood stake. He was born in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England, March 22, 1867, and is a son of Henry and Jane (Weber) Dimond. The father, a weaver by trade, came to, America in 1880 and took up farming at West Jordan, Utah. He passed away in 1916, at the venerable age of eighty six years, while the mother of T. W. Dimond is still living at the age of eighty-seven years. T. W. Dimond was the sixth in order of birth in a family of nine children, of whom three died in infancy, the others being William S.Susan, Mercy, Robert E., T. W. and W. A.
T. W. Dimond acquired a common school education in his native country and soon after coming to America began herding sheep in Utah, being at the time but fourteen years of age. Associated with his brothers, Robert E. and W. A., he engaged in the sheep business and within a short time they were running six bands of sheep in Wyoming. He had had initial experience in business as an employe in a factory in England but after reaching Utah he became interested in a far different line of activity. The sheep raising Interests of the brothers were conducted under the name of the Dimond Brothers Company and their close application and indefatigable energy brought to them a very gratifying measure of success. Recognizing the need of further educational training as a preparation for life's practical duties and responsibilities, T. W. Dimond attended the Cottonwood Seminary, also the Brigham Young University of Provo and the University of Utah while he was still engaged in the sheep business. In 1909 he disposed of his interests in the sheep industry and purchased the Murray branch of the Utah Implement Company, changing the location of the business to the railway siding. He now deals in farm implements, coal, hay and grain and in the business his brother, W. A. Dimond, is an equal partner. They own the lot and all of the buildings, including the warehouse, and their business has now reached substantial and gratifying proportions. T. W. Dimond resides upon a farm of seventy-five acres in the Bennion ward, south of Taylorsville, and the tract is highly developed land, all irrigated and improved with substantial buildings. The farm is operated by a man on shares, while Mr. Dimond gives his attention to the further development of the implement business in Murray.
In 1896 Mr. Dimond was married to Miss Nora Bennion, a daughter of S. R. and Mary (Panter) Bennion. Her father was for years president of Uinta stake and a leading citizen of the Uinta basin, probably doing more to develop the basin than any other one person. To Mr. and Mrs. Dimond were born seven children: Lucile is now the wife of Calvin C. Smith, who was overseas as chaplain of the Ninety-first Division of the United States army and received shrapnel wounds and was also gassed. He is now a teacher in the Latter-day Saints University at Salt Lake. Thomas Wayne died of influenza at the University of Utah in 1918, being at that time a member of the Students Army Training Corps. Mary and Hattie are high school students. Samuel R. is at home. Clinton died in infancy. Afton completes the family. The wife and mother passed away in 1909 and Mr. Dimond afterward wedded Laura Bennion, a sister of his first wife. She has been a very active church worker, serving on a mission to Chicago, and is on the general church board of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association. For years before that she acted as president of the Mutual at Taylorsvllle.
Mr. Dimond shares with his wife in her deep interest in the church work. He served on a mission of twenty-six months in England, going to that country in 1898 and filling the position of conference clerk of the Bristol conference for a year and a half. He also presided over the Channel islands for six months. He has been assistant superintendent of the Sunday school and superintendent of the ward religion class. On the 15th of October, 1905, he was ordained a high priest and at the same time was set apart as bishop of Bennion ward. He has since filled that post save for three years when he was in the stake high council, after which he was again set apart as bishop of Bennion ward. He has acted as treasurer of the Grant school district and is interested in everything that has to do with the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of Salt Lake county. That he has prospered in his undertakings is manifest not only in the splendid mercantile establishment in which he is a partner, but also in the fact that he is a director of the First National Bank of Murray and is the owner of eight hundred acres of land, devoted to dry farming at Cedar. His life exemplifies the admonition: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all these things will be added unto you."
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
CLARENCE CECIL JACOB
Clarence Cecil Jacob, of Salt Lake, connected with the United States geological survey as hydraulic engineer, was born in Heber, Utah, June 9, 1886, a son of Joseph and Ellen (Gerber) Jacob and a grandson of Norton Jacob, who was one of the one hundred and forty-seven emigrants who came to Utah with the Brigham Young company in 1847 and settled at Salt Lake, thus founding this great western metropolis. The father, Joseph Jacob, was born at Nauvoo, Illinois, May 20, 1845, and came to Utah with his parents in 1849. He engaged in farming and sheep raising in several localities of the state,during the later years of his life in Wasatch county. He remained for many years one of the substantial citizens, agriculturists and stock raisers of his locality. He died in August, 1918, and is still survived by Mrs. Ellen Jacob, who makes her home at Provo, Utah. She was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and came to this state in her childhood with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Gerber. To Joseph and Ellen (Gerber) Jacob were born eleven children, of whom ten are still living: Joseph, who resides in southern Idaho; Mrs. Emma Parry, living at Richfield, Utah; Mrs. Eliza Phillips, of Provo; Milton, also of Provo; Isaac, who makes his home at Heber, Utah; Mrs. Nellie Anderson, of Springville; Tillie, of Provo; Elmer A., living at Lehi; Clarence Cecil, of this review; and Irvin H., who is located at Provo.
Clarence C. Jacob received liberal educational advantages. He attended the Agricultural College at Logan and also the Brigham Young University, from which he was graduated in 1909 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He next entered the University of Utah, where he won the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineer in 1910. Having thus qualified for a professional career, he began the practice of civil engineering as assistant city engineer of Provo, occupying that position for a year. He next became connected with the United States geological survey in southern California, his duties later taking him to Arizona, Utah and Navada as district engineer. In the spring of 1918 he was appointed federal court water commissioner for the Uintah basin, and is doing important work in this connection. His thorough university training and broad experience have well qualified him for the responsibilities which devolve upon him in his present position. He is also engaged in private practice as a hydraulic engineer and has offices at Roosevelt, Utah, and also at Salt Lake.
On the 15th of June, 1910, in Salt Lake, Mr. Jacob was married to Miss Florence Johnson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Johnson, of a prominent Provo family. They have three children: Richard, who was born in Mesa, Arizona, April 4, 1913; Edward, born in Phoenix, Arizona, September 3, 1914; and Karl, born in Phoenix, December 23, 1915. In politics Mr. Jacob is an independent republican, usually supporting the principles of the republican party yet not considering himself bound by party ties. The nature of his interests is indicated in the fact that he is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and also a member of the National Geographic Society. He is interested largely in scientific investigation and research and especially keeps in touch with everything that has to do with the profession which he has chosen as a life work.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
MARK W. JEFFS
Mark W. Jeffs, a lumber merchant of Heber, was born in England, January 2, 1847, and is a son of Richard and Martha (Walker) Jeffs, who were natives of that country. There the mother spent her entire life, but in 1862 the father came to the new world, travelling by rail to Omaha, Nebraska, and thence with ox teams across the country as one of a train of seven hundred wagons or more. It required about three months making the trip.
Mark W. Jeffs was one of a family of nine children born to his parents and is the only one now living. He was but fifteen years of age when he and his father arrived in Utah and since that time has been dependent entirely upon his own resources, not only providing for his own support but also taking care of his father, who went blind in the fall following their arrival in this state. Mark W. Jeffs worked in the canyon for some years and later engaged in merchandising on a small scale at Heber. He was connected with mercantile interests until 1906 and in the meantime had developed the business to extensive proportions, employing from ten to twelve salespeople. He then retired from mercantile pursuits and later purchased the Wasatch Lumber Company's yard, which he now owns and conducts. He is also the owner of a fine farm, all under the ditch, and the Jeffs Hotel at Heber. His business affairs have been care- fully conducted and sound judgment has marked his course at all times.
In 1868 Mr. Jeffs was united in marriage to Miss Mary Carlisle, a native of England, and to them were born three children, all of whom are living. For his second wife Mr. Jeffs chose Miss Sarah Ann Chatwin and they had five children, of whom two are living. His third marriage was to Miss Elizabeth Egner, a native of England.
Mr. Jeffs has always been a consistent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. He served on a mission to England for two years and he is now a member of the High Priests' Quorum. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic Party, but thehonours and emoluments of office have never had attraction for him. He is a self-made man who has not only promoted his own fortunes but has also assisted largely in the development and progress of the region in which he has so long made his home. At the tender age of seven years he commenced work in a factory in his native land and has continued active throughout life. Although he is now seventy three years of age he is still hale and hearty and by all who know him he Is held in the highest regard, on account of his honourable dealings and reliability in all things. He can look back over the trail he has left with pride and the assurance that what he has got was acquired honestly and at the expense of no one. His friends are legion.
Source: "Utah Since Statehood", Noble Warrum; Chicago :: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.,1920
Contributed and transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman
GEORGE A. JENKINS
George A. Jenkins, who is engaged in the undertaking business at Murray, Midvale and Sandy, was born at Midvale, May 19, 1877, his parents being George Washington and Rebecca (Roberts) Jenkins. The father was born in Pennsylvania and died in 1913, while the mother was born in Iowa, in which state they were married, and she passed away in 1915. It was in the year 1849 that Mr. Jenkins came to Utah, where he was joined by his wife in 1852. They settled first in Ogden and afterward removed to Midvale, while their last days were spent at Sandy. Mr. Jenkins engaged in hauling freight across the plains in the early days by mule team from the Missouri river, making several trips in this way. He was a son of Johnson J. Jenkins, who was one of the bodyguard to the prophet Joseph Smith at Nauvoo. The mother of George A. Jenkins was a relative of General Roberts of Boer war fame, her father being a first cousin of the English general and a representative of a very prominent family of England. The grandfather was born in Pennsylvania and was of Scotch and Welsh descent. Becoming converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Jenkins family took active part in promoting the cause of the church and it was this that led them to become residents of Utah. The family of George W. and Rebecca Jenkins numbered four sons and two daughters, these being Ida, William, Samuel, George A., Manuel and Amelia.
George A. Jenkins acquired a common school education and was reared upon his father's farm to the age of nineteen years. He then learned the barber's trade and for a few years conducted a shop at Midvale. He had previously worked at the smelter for three years. Later he opened a barber shop at Midvale which he still owns. It is a four chair shop and he was actively connected with the conduct of the business until he turned his attention to the undertaking business at Murray in 1916. He became manager for Banks' undertaking rooms at Midvale, which position he occupied for a short time and was later their manager at Murray. He is a graduate of the Barnes School of Embalming of Chicago. At length he engaged in the undertaking business in Murray on his own account. In May, 1918, he bought out the Taylor branch at Midvale and also established a branch at Sandy in 1919. He is thus conducting business at these various points and is accorded a liberal patronage by reason of the highly satisfactory as well as scientific manner in which he cares for the dead. His establishment at Murray is new and thoroughly modern and includes fine show rooms, a chapel, rest rooms and all modern fixtures and equipment such as are found in the leading undertaking establishments of the larger cities. The branches at both Midvale and Sandy are under competent managers and Mr. Jenkins also gives supervision to both places. He still owns the barber shop at Midvale, which is conducted by one whom he employs to manage the business. In 1897 Mr. Jenkins was married to Miss Annette Williams, of Ogden, and they have become the parents of ten children: Mazle, who was accidentally killed at the age of seven years; Blanche, a student at the University of Utah; Grace, who died at the age of nine years; Viola, a high school pupil; Arthur, who died in infancy; Arvle, who died when three years old; Eunice, who died in infancy; Amy, in school; Mary; and George Weston. Mr. Jenkins built a home at Midvale soon after his marriage and is still the owner of that property. He now resides at No. 253 East Forty-eighth street, South, in a brick bungalow, of which he is also the owner. Mr. Jenkins retains his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and is a member of the Seventy. His political allegiance is given to the Republican Party. He was elected a councilman of Midvale on the first city ticket put' in the field after Midvale was incorporated and was re elected for a second term. During a part of both terms he acted as mayor of the city. He is deeply interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of the community in which he makes his home, and his aid and influence are always given on the side of advancement and improvement. He has made good use of his time and opportunities and has thus steadily worked his way upward until he is now numbered among the substantial citizens of this section.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
E. B. JORGENSEN
E. B. Jorgensen, president and manager of the brokerage firm of Jorgensen & Company at Milford, was born in Heber city, Utah, September 3, 1890. He is a son of Enoch and Anna (Berg) Jorgensen. The father was born in Sanpete county, Utah, and after acquiring his education devoted his time and energies to school work, becoming principal of various high schools, while he is now in charge of the Latter-day Saints Seminary at Sandy and he is a member of the State Historical Society. The mother is a daughter of the late O. H. Berg, of Provo.
E. B. Jorgensen acquired his early education in the public schools of Utah and afterward pursued a course in the Brigham Young University at Provo, while for six months he was a student in the University of Vienna. In 1913 he opened a branch house at Murray for the undertaking firm of S. M. Taylor & Company and managed this for two years. He then removed to Milford, where he engaged in the undertaking business on his own account and is still owner of the establishment. In 1918 he organized the brokerage firm of Jorgensen & Company, of which he is the president and manager, and in this connection handles a large amount of real estate. He is also a stockholder and one of the directors of the Milford Auto Company and a stockholder in the Milford State Bank. His business activities have been wisely and carefully directed and his success is the immediate and logical outcome of his labours and sound judgment.
On the 18th of September, 1913, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Jorgensen married Miss Gertrude Sanders, a daughter of Orson and Rose Sanders. Her father is a retired merchant of Murray. The daughter, Mrs. Jorgensen, is a graduate of the Latter-day Saints University and of the University of Utah and for two years engaged in teaching school. She is a lady of liberal education, interested in all that makes for Intellectual progress, and she has made her home the centre for the cultured society circle. To Mr. and Mrs. Jorgensen have been born two children: William, who was born September 17, 1914; and Roberta, born October 9, 1917.
In religious faith Mr. Jorgensen Is connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and from 1910 to 1913 he filled a mission in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and for two years he filled the office of town clerk. He was also president of the Home School Association for a year and has been chief of the registration office, while throughout the period of the World war his activities in behalf of the government and the interests of the soldiers in the field were untiring. He acted as chairman of the Beaver County Four Minute men, which organization did so much to bring the needs and conditions squarely before the people. He has been secretary of the Milford Chapter of the Red Cross for three years. His interest in community affairs is shown by his service as secretary of the Commercial Club and he is also county committeeman of the republican party. He stands for everything that he believes will prove of public benefit, being actuated in his life by a spirit of lofty patriotism that has prompted him to give freely and generously of his time and means for public service.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
JAMES X. McDONALD
James X. McDonald, a live stock man largely devoting his attention to sheep raising, was born at Heber, Wasatch county, Utah, February 15, 1872, his parents being Joseph S. and Nancy (Cummings) McDonald, the latter a native of Tennessee. The father was born in Ireland and was brought to America during his infancy. He arrived in Utah in the early ‘50s, having crossed the plains with ox team and wagon with one of the early trains that made the arduous trip across the long, hot stretches of sand and through the mountain passes to this state. At length he arrived in Salt Lake City county, where he still makes his home, but the mother of James X. McDonald passed away in 1881. In their family were seven children, five of whom are living. After the death of his first wife Joseph S. McDonald wedded Mary M. Jones and they became the parents of ten children, seven of whom survive.
James S. McDonald spent the days of his boyhood and youth in Wasatch county and is indebted to the common school system for the early educational advantages which he enjoyed. Later he attended the Provo Academy and afterward followed the profession of teaching for one term. In 1902 he was sent on a mission to the southern states, where he labored for two and a half years in the interests of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Following his return he engaged in farming and stock raising and in 1910 he was again called upon for missionary work, spending nearly two years in the northern states. On once more coming to Utah he concentrated his efforts and attention upon farming and stock raising in Wasatch county and is today one of the prosperous agriculturists of this part of the state. He has fifty head of horses and cattle upon his ranch and twenty-five hundred head so sheep. He also owns twenty-five hundred acres of land and his home is one of the finest brick residences in the city of Heber. Everything about his place is indicative of his progressive spirit and his business affairs have at all times been carefully and wisely conducted. Eighty acres of his land has been irrigated and is now very productive.
On the 11th of November, 1908, Mr. McDonald was united in marriage to Miss Effie Jolley, who was born in Sanpete county, Utah, a daughter of Francis M. and Chelnecha (Hambleton) Jolley, the former a native of Tennessee, while the latter was born in Salt Lake City, being the third white child born in the state, her natal day being March 24, 1848. Both passed away at Manti, Utah, Mrs. McDonald was one of a family of seven children born to her parents and she also has one half-brother and a half-sister. By her marriage she has become the mother of four children: Melba, who was born June 17, 1909, and died in infancy; James M., whose birth occurred July 1, 1912; Donna whose natal day was September 18, 1913, and Norma, who was born on the 5th of September, 1917.
Both Mr. and Mrs. McDonald are consistent members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and have ever taken a most active and helpful part in church work. While serving on one of his missions Mr. McDonald acted as president of the Wisconsin conference and he was presiding elder at Cincinnati, Ohio. He is truly a self-made man in that his success is the direct reward of his enterprise and industry and he has gained for himself a creditable position among the prominent residents of Wasatch county.
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed by Richard Ramos]
L. C. MILLER
L. C. Miller, general manager and treasurer of the Miller Cahoon Company, dealers in lumber, coal, hardware and stoves at Murray, was born December 29, 1874, at Murray, his parents being James R. and Mary Jane (Gardner) Miller. The father was born at Dayton, Illinois, October 2, 1838, and was a son of Reuben and Rhoda Ann (Letts) Miller. The family became early residents of Utah and Reuben Miller served as bishop of Millcreek ward for many years. He was born in Pennsylvania, December 4, 1811, and as a young man went to La Salle county, Illinois, where he became a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, remaining one of its loyal followers until his death, which occurred July 22, 1882. He was at Nauvoo, Illinois, when the Mormons were expelled from that place and in 1849 crossed the plains with his family, settling at Big Cottonwood, where he took up his abode in an old deserted dugout, in which the family lived for eighteen months. He was a man of marked energy and enterprise and soon began to prosper. During the second year of his residence in Utah he was made county commissioner and for term after term was reelected to that office, which he was filling at the time of his death, and he was also serving as bishop of Millcreek ward, filling the office from the time of its organization in the fall of 1849 until he was called to the home beyond. His wife was a native of Knox county, Ohio, and survived him for one year.
James R. Miller was a lad of eleven years when his parents crossed the plains. He at once took an active part in the up building of the country as the assistant of his father, hauling wood out of the canyons, tending sheep and otherwise proving most useful in the work of general development and improvement in the early days. He was full of energy and his labours were crowned with successful accomplishment. At the age of twenty years he married Mary Jane Gardner, who was born in Warwick. Canada, February 13, 1843, and came to Utah with the second company of pioneers in 1847. Her father, Robert Gardner, was one of the pioneers of 1847 and erected the first sawmill in the state of Utah. He is mentioned at length on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of James H. Gardner. James R. Miller built a home a mile east of Murray and there resided for forty-two years upon a farm of eighty acres, which he developed into one of the most valuable, productive and beautiful country places of his time. He engaged in sheep raising for many years, also made extensive investments in property and was the owner of land in both Utah and Cache counties. In 1900 he organized the firm of J. R. Miller & Company for the conduct of a lumber, coal, hardware and stove business at Murray. This constituted the nucleus of the business which has since been developed under the name of the Miller Cahoon Company. Mr. Miller was an active churchman, serving as bishop's counsellor and in later years in the presidency of Granite stake. In early days he made several trips across the plains, freighting with ox teams, and was closely connected with every phase of pioneer development that has led to the present prosperity and progress of the state. To James R. and Mary Jane (Gardner) Miller were born seven children: Reuben G., living at Pingree, Idaho; Mary J., the wife of J. F. Whitney, of Logan; William E., a rancher of Murray; L. C.; Maude L., the wife of A. L. Davis, of Murray; Leonard M., of Idaho Falls, and Eva M., the wife of Dr. H. G. Merrill, of Provo.
L. C. Miller was reared upon his father's farm and supplemented his common school education by three years' study in the University of Utah and a business course in the Salt Lake Business College. For many years prior to becoming identified with the Miller Cahoon Company he was the representative and salesman for the first Cooperative Wagon Company of Salt Lake and later was connected with the Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company of Salt Lake. In 1903 the Miller Cahoon Company was organized and was a consolidation of the business built up by his father and a similar business that had been developed by the Cahoon family at Murray. In 1903 L. C. Miller was made manager of the new company, which had enjoyed rapid growth under his direction. The business is now capitalized for a half million dollars and has an extensive plant at Idaho Falls, which is managed by L. M. Miller, a brother of L. C. Miller. The company handles lumber, operates planning mills, engages in the sale of coal, hardware, farm implements, wagons and automobiles. The business has developed into one of the important commercial and industrial interests of the Intermountain country, and Mr. Miller is a most forceful and resourceful business man, ready for any emergency and at all times displaying initiative and marked enterprise in the conduct of his business. He is also interested in banking and is a stockholder in the Consolidated Wagon Company and other important corporations.
In 1905 Mr. Miller was married to Marjorie Sidley Larkin, who was born in Michigan, but was a resident of Salt Lake at the time of their marriage. They have two children, Roscoe and Basil, and they occupy one of the attractive homes of Murray, their position in social circles being an enviable one.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
CHARLES MITCHEL
Charles Mitchel, deceased, was a representative farmer and valued resident of Wasatch County. He was born in Switzerland and came to America with his parents in 1891. After taking up his abode in Utah he turned his attention to the occupation of farming and stock raising and throughout his life was thus actively identified with agricultural interests. Mr. Mitchel was married in Wasatch County to Miss Maria C. Schoney and they became the parents of six children; Edward; Louisa; Ruby E., who is deceased; Lydia M.; Pearl R. ; and Sylvia L., who passed away. The family circle was again broken by the hand of death when on the 24th of December, 1918, Mr. Mitchel was called to the home beyond, leaving a widow and four children to mourn his loss. Mrs. Mitchel now owns the farm property of twenty nine acres, which is splendidly improved with modern equipments and conveniences and which is all under irrigation. She operates this farm with the assistance of her brother-in-law, which is according to the wish of her deceased husband, who desired that the work of the farm should be thus carried on. Mr. Mitchel commanded the respect and goodwill of all who knew him and during the years of his residence in Wasatch county made many friends.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
HON. JOSEPH R. MURDOCK
The name of Hon. Joseph R. Murdock, of Heber City, is synonymous with the development of irrigation interests in the west. He has contributed to public progress along various lines and in no field have his labors been more far-reaching and resultant than in behalf of the reclamation of the arid lands through the conservation and distribution of the water supply of this section of the country. Mr. Murdock's efforts in this connection alone entitle him to rank not only with the captains of industry but with the benefactors of the race. The story of his life is an interesting one— the record of earnest endeavor crowned with successful achievement.
Mr. Murdock was born in Salt Lake City, August 11, 1858, his parents being N. C. and Sarah M. (Barney) Murdock. The former was born at Hamilton, Madison county, New York, May 12, 1833, and traced his ancestry back to the highlands of Scotland, whence came the great-great-grandfather of Joseph R. Murdock. Crossing the Atlantic to America, he settled in Connecticut, where his son William and the latter's son Joseph, who was the grandfather of Joseph R. Murdock, were born. Joseph Murdock married Sally Stacy, a native of New Salem, Massachusetts, and a daughter of Nymphas Stacy, who was a captain of the Revolutionary war. The grandparents of Joseph R. Murdock became converted to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1840 traveled by wagon to Kirtland, Ohio, whence after a short time they removed to Nauvoo, Illinois, where they arrived in the year of 1841. There the family remained until the exodus to Utah in 1846, but in the meantime Joseph Murdock had passed away in 1844. The family, consisting of the mother of Nymphas Coridon Murdock and Joseph Stacy Murdock, arrived in Winter quarters, where Council Bluffs now stands, and there remained until the following spring, when they started for the Salt Lake valley with a train of five or six hundred wagons. Their fifty was under command of Captain Ira Eldredge and theirs was the second division to arrive and. that under command of Brigham Young preceded them with a train of one hundred and fifty picked men. The party arrived in Salt Lake, September 22, 1847, and settled at the fort with the other immigrants. Joseph Stacy Murdock soon married and the care of the mother devolved upon N. C. Murdock. The grandmother passed away in Salt Lake in 1866.
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t was in 1854 that Nymphas C. Murdock was united in marriage to Sarah M. Barney, a daughter of Royal and Sarah (Esterbrook) Barney. They had four children: Nymphas C., Jr., who died at the age of nine years; Sarah M., who died at the age of seven years; Betsy E., who died at the age of four years; and Joseph R. In 1864 N. C. Murdock removed to Charleston, Wasatch county, Utah, and in 1867 he served on a mission to the eastern states covering eleven months. He participated in the troubles that caused Johnston's army to visit Utah and also defended the interests of the colonists in the early Indian troubles, serving with the minute-men. He took a prominent part in the upbuilding of Charleston and Wasatch county and was one of the organizers of the Cooperative Store. He also made contribution to the fund to build the railroad station and in various other ways prompted public progress and improvement in his town and county. In politics he was a democrat and for twenty-five years was postmaster of Charleston, while for fifteen years he served as school trustee. He was also a delegate to the first convention to form the state constitution. In the work of the church he always remained active and was made the first bishop of Charleston, serving for thirty years. His death occurred in 1917.
Joseph R. Murdock was reared to young manhood upon his father's farm and was educated in the schools of Charleston, supplemented by study in the Brigham Young Academy, now the Brigham Young University. In 1872 he became associated with his father in farming and stock raising and carried on the business extensively. They also established the first creamery in Charleston, and further extending the scope of their activities, they opened a general merchandise store in 1875. Their trade steadily grew and developed and the business was incorporated in 1890, at which time Joseph R. Murdock was1 elected the manager of the enterprise. In the year 1905, in connection with President W. H. Smart, he organized the Heber Mercantile Company, and was made president, which position he still fills. The business is located at Heber aria1 the annual sales amount to about two hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Murdock has always continued his interest in farming and stock raising, especially in the handling of sheep. If interrogated as to the nature of his business he will tell you that he is a farmer and stock raiser, and he and his sons and his sons-in-law have become leaders in this field in the west. They are operating in both Utah and Wyoming and their flocks are now most extensive.
The business ability of Mr. Murdock, however, has brought him prominently forward in other connections. There is no man more widely or favorably known as a representative of the irrigation interests of the west. He has done more beyond a doubt to further irrigation than any other one man in the state of Utah or perhaps in the west. He organized the Provo Reservoir Company, of which he is the president. This project now supplies water to ten thousand acres of land and has sufficient water for ten thousand acres additional. The project was developed at a cost of a million dollars. Mr. Murdock also organized the Utah Lake Irrigation project, which waters ten thousand acres and has water for ten thousand acres additional. This was also developed at a cost of a million dollars. The main office of the company is in the Knight building at Provo. Mr. Murdock is also the president of the Bank of Heber City, which does a business amounting to a half million dollars annually, and he is the president of the Sugar Centrifugal Discharging Company of Salt Lake City, manufacturers of sugar machinery and employing about thirty men.
In 1878 Mr. Murdock was married to Miss Margaret Wright, a daughter of William and Jemima (Dands) Wright. They became parents of eleven children. Mina M., the eldest, is now Mrs. David A. Broadbent, of Heber. Her husband is superintendent of the Wasatch county schools and is interested in sheep and cattle raising. They have ten living children: J. Grant, Vida, Naomi, Leah, Margaret, Dee, Mary, Mima, Emer and Harvey, while a daughter Clara died when but three weeks old. M. Josephine is the wife of Sylvester Broadbent who is engaged in the sheep industry in connection with his father-in-law and resides at Heber.
Mr. and Mrs. Broadbent have the following children: Verl, Ben, Joseph R., Elaine, Cloyd, Reed, Thomas, Cora and Royal J. is secretary and treasurer of the irrigation companies promoted by his father. He married Zina A. Chipman, of American Fork, and they have three children, Zina, Stephen R. and Maurine, who are with their parents at Provo. Nymphas W., a farmer and sheep and cattleman of Fruitland, Duchesne county, Utah, married Emma Hicken, and their children are Fay, Joseph, Fern, John and Nymphas C. Sarah E. is the wife of L. C. Henroid, of Provo, who is manager for the Metropolitan Life Insurance branch at that place, and their children are Maxine and Margaret. Emer W. Murdock married Tarza Henrie. His, children are Mildred, Deen and Emer. Emer W. Murdock is the cashier of the Bank of Heber and is interested with his father in the sheep industry of Wyoming. Chloe M. is the wife of Irvin H. Jacob, of Provo, chief engineer of the Provo reservoir and the Utah lake irrigation projects. He, too, is interested in farming and sheep raising in Utah. To Mr. and Mrs. Jacob have been born two children, Joseph I. and Don. Cora, the next member of the family, has recently returned from a missionary tour in the central states. Nellie and Erma are at home. Roy J. and Nymphas W. were both sent on missionary tours to the northwest, and Joseph R. Murdock spent two years on a mission work in Michigan. He was also counselor while living at Charleston to the president of the Wasatch stake, William H. Smart.
In 1903 Mr. Murdock removed with his family to Heber and was there in 1905 called to the presidency of the Wasatch stake, which he has since filled. In politics Mr. Murdock is a democrat and is a stanch supporter of President Wilson and his league of nations policy. He served for three terms as county commissioner of Wasatch county and was a member of the constitutional convention. He was also a member of the lower house of the Utah legislature during the first and second sessions of the general assembly and in the fall of 1900 he was elected state senator. During that session he was the father of the dairy bill, which was enacted into a law, and he served on many important committees.
He gave most earnest and thoughtful consideration to all the vital questions which came up for settlement during his legislative career and left the impress of his individuality and ability upon the assembly enactments. He still owns and maintains his home in Heber and also because of his business relations there has a home in Provo, he and his family dividing their time between the two cities. Mrs. Murdock has reared a family of whom she may well be proud. The children have been most carefully trained and most of them are well married and rearing families of their own. The life record of Joseph R. Murdock is indeed a creditable one. He was reared as a farm boy at a time and place where educational advantages were meager but in the school of experience he has learned many valuable lessons. From each activity of his life he has gleaned broad knowledge, which he has put to excellent use. He has looked ahead, seeing beyond the exigencies of the moment to the opportunities of the future, and has labored for general development and improvement as well as the upbuilding of his own fortune. His life has been actuated by high purposes and earnest endeavor, productive of splendid results, and among Utah's most useful and honored citizens Joseph R. Murdock is named.
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
PARLEY A. MURDOCK
Parley A. Murdock, a farmer and stockman of Wasatch county, was born in American Fork, Utah, February 3, 1859, and is a son of Joseph S. and Elizabeth (Hunter) Murdock. The father was a native of the state of New York and the mother of Scotland. They crossed the plains with ox teams in 1849, being among the pioneer settlers of Utah. They arrived at Salt Lake City, the father bringing with him the first three sheep that were introduced into the state. In his later years he settled at Heber and was engaged in the live stock business there until his death. He was the father of thirty-one children, most of whom reached adult age.
Parley A. Murdock was reared and educated in Utah and remained under the parental roof until he had attained his majority. He afterward engaged in farming and stock raising on his own account and has since followed these pursuits. He now has a herd of about seventy-five head of cattle, while his sheep number three thousand. He also owns fifty-five hundred acres of land. As the years have passed he has prospered in his undertakings and has developed his interests until he is now one of the substantial farmers and stockmen of his section of the state. In 1882 Mr. Murdock was married to Miss Lucy Hundley,a native of Wasatch County. They have become the parents of twelve children, of whom five are yet living: Joseph T.; Ireetta, the wife of J. W. Dean; Josephine, who gave her hand in marriage to Edward Green, of Chicago; Jessie, who is the wife of Emmett Shields; and Alice, at home.
In his political views Mr. Murdock is a republican and for one term he served as a member of the city council of Heber, but his ambition has not been in the line of office holding. He has always stood for progressive public measures, however, and is interested in everything that pertains to the welfare and upbuilding of the community in which he lives. He is a self-made man and he has assisted in making the county what it is today. Throughout his life he has made wise use of his time, his talents and his opportunities and has won a place among the leading agriculturists and stock raisers of Wasatch County, and at the same time he has become one of the directors of the Heber Mercantile Company. His life should serve to encourage others, showing what may be accomplished when one has the will to dare and to do.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
HON. JAMES BRIGHAM WILSON
Hon. James Brigham Wilson is one of the prominent and influential residents of Wasatch County, making his home at Midway. He has largely devoted his attention in a business way to farming and stock raising and he has won a measure of success that is of most substantial character and which has come to him as the direct reward of his perseverance and earnest labour. He was born in Carson City, Nevada, August 22, 1856, and is a son of James T. and Isabelle (Ross) Wilson, the former a native of Ireland, while the latter was born in Scotland. They came to America in the years 1852 and 1854 respectively. James T. Wilson crossed the plains with ox teams and settled in Salt Lake City, where for many years he maintained his home. The mother there passed away and in 1865 the father removed to Midway, Wasatch County, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1905. In their family were five children, of whom four are yet living.
James Brigham Wilson, whose name introduces this review, was reared and educated in Salt Lake City, attending the common schools and the University of Utah. After attaining his majority he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for three years. In 1881 he married Miss Margaret Powell, a native of South Wales, and in 1884 he removed with his family to Wasatch County, where he took up a homestead and turned his attention to farming and stock raising. He has since been active along this line 'and he and his sons are now owners of three thousand acres of land. He has a large herd of cattle and many head of sheep and his stock raising interests are extensive and important. He is likewise active in various corporations and is classed with the representative and progressive business men of his section of the state.
To James Brigham and Margaret (Powell) Wilson were born six children: J. Brigham, who is connected with his father in business; Margaret E., the wife of William G. Young, of Heber; David John, who is a graduate of the law department of the University of California at Berkeley and is now a practicing attorney of Ogden, Utah; Isabel E., the wife of Wayne B. Hales of Rexburg, Idaho; Reese Arthur, who is connected with his father in business; and Edith E., who is a graduate of the Brigham Young University and is now teaching. The wife and mother passed away in 1913 and they were laid to rest in Midway cemetery, leaving a husband and six children to mourn her loss. In 1915 Mr. Wilson wedded Miss Hannah Lundin, a native of Sweden, who came to America in 1885.
Mr. Wilson has been a prominent figure in political circles as a supporter of the Republican Party. He served for fourteen years on the town board of Midway and exercised his official prerogatives in support of various plans and measures for the general good. He has also served on the school board. In 1902 he was elected to represent Wasatch county in the state legislature, serving as a member of the lower house for two terms, while in 1908 he was elected to the state senate, of which he was a member for four years. He was connected with much constructive legislation, giving thoughtful and earnest consideration to all vital questions coming up for settlement. He is a self-made man and one of the leading citizens of Wasatch County who enjoys the confidence, goodwill and high regard of all.
Source: "Utah Since Statehood", Noble Warrum; Chicago :: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.,1920
Contributed and transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman
Mark W. Jeffs, a lumber merchant of Heber, was born in England, January 2, 1847, and is a son of Richard and Martha (Walker) Jeffs, who were natives of that country. There the mother spent her entire life, but in 1862 the father came to the new world, travelling by rail to Omaha, Nebraska, and thence with ox teams across the country as one of a train of seven hundred wagons or more. It required about three months making the trip.
Mark W. Jeffs was one of a family of nine children born to his parents and is the only one now living. He was but fifteen years of age when he and his father arrived in Utah and since that time has been dependent entirely upon his own resources, not only providing for his own support but also taking care of his father, who went blind in the fall following their arrival in this state. Mark W. Jeffs worked in the canyon for some years and later engaged in merchandising on a small scale at Heber. He was connected with mercantile interests until 1906 and in the meantime had developed the business to extensive proportions, employing from ten to twelve salespeople. He then retired from mercantile pursuits and later purchased the Wasatch Lumber Company's yard, which he now owns and conducts. He is also the owner of a fine farm, all under the ditch, and the Jeffs Hotel at Heber. His business affairs have been care- fully conducted and sound judgment has marked his course at all times.
In 1868 Mr. Jeffs was united in marriage to Miss Mary Carlisle, a native of England, and to them were born three children, all of whom are living. For his second wife Mr. Jeffs chose Miss Sarah Ann Chatwin and they had five children, of whom two are living. His third marriage was to Miss Elizabeth Egner, a native of England.
Mr. Jeffs has always been a consistent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. He served on a mission to England for two years and he is now a member of the High Priests' Quorum. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic Party, but thehonours and emoluments of office have never had attraction for him. He is a self-made man who has not only promoted his own fortunes but has also assisted largely in the development and progress of the region in which he has so long made his home. At the tender age of seven years he commenced work in a factory in his native land and has continued active throughout life. Although he is now seventy three years of age he is still hale and hearty and by all who know him he Is held in the highest regard, on account of his honourable dealings and reliability in all things. He can look back over the trail he has left with pride and the assurance that what he has got was acquired honestly and at the expense of no one. His friends are legion.
Source: "Utah Since Statehood", Noble Warrum; Chicago :: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.,1920
Contributed and transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman
GEORGE A. JENKINS
George A. Jenkins, who is engaged in the undertaking business at Murray, Midvale and Sandy, was born at Midvale, May 19, 1877, his parents being George Washington and Rebecca (Roberts) Jenkins. The father was born in Pennsylvania and died in 1913, while the mother was born in Iowa, in which state they were married, and she passed away in 1915. It was in the year 1849 that Mr. Jenkins came to Utah, where he was joined by his wife in 1852. They settled first in Ogden and afterward removed to Midvale, while their last days were spent at Sandy. Mr. Jenkins engaged in hauling freight across the plains in the early days by mule team from the Missouri river, making several trips in this way. He was a son of Johnson J. Jenkins, who was one of the bodyguard to the prophet Joseph Smith at Nauvoo. The mother of George A. Jenkins was a relative of General Roberts of Boer war fame, her father being a first cousin of the English general and a representative of a very prominent family of England. The grandfather was born in Pennsylvania and was of Scotch and Welsh descent. Becoming converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Jenkins family took active part in promoting the cause of the church and it was this that led them to become residents of Utah. The family of George W. and Rebecca Jenkins numbered four sons and two daughters, these being Ida, William, Samuel, George A., Manuel and Amelia.
George A. Jenkins acquired a common school education and was reared upon his father's farm to the age of nineteen years. He then learned the barber's trade and for a few years conducted a shop at Midvale. He had previously worked at the smelter for three years. Later he opened a barber shop at Midvale which he still owns. It is a four chair shop and he was actively connected with the conduct of the business until he turned his attention to the undertaking business at Murray in 1916. He became manager for Banks' undertaking rooms at Midvale, which position he occupied for a short time and was later their manager at Murray. He is a graduate of the Barnes School of Embalming of Chicago. At length he engaged in the undertaking business in Murray on his own account. In May, 1918, he bought out the Taylor branch at Midvale and also established a branch at Sandy in 1919. He is thus conducting business at these various points and is accorded a liberal patronage by reason of the highly satisfactory as well as scientific manner in which he cares for the dead. His establishment at Murray is new and thoroughly modern and includes fine show rooms, a chapel, rest rooms and all modern fixtures and equipment such as are found in the leading undertaking establishments of the larger cities. The branches at both Midvale and Sandy are under competent managers and Mr. Jenkins also gives supervision to both places. He still owns the barber shop at Midvale, which is conducted by one whom he employs to manage the business. In 1897 Mr. Jenkins was married to Miss Annette Williams, of Ogden, and they have become the parents of ten children: Mazle, who was accidentally killed at the age of seven years; Blanche, a student at the University of Utah; Grace, who died at the age of nine years; Viola, a high school pupil; Arthur, who died in infancy; Arvle, who died when three years old; Eunice, who died in infancy; Amy, in school; Mary; and George Weston. Mr. Jenkins built a home at Midvale soon after his marriage and is still the owner of that property. He now resides at No. 253 East Forty-eighth street, South, in a brick bungalow, of which he is also the owner. Mr. Jenkins retains his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and is a member of the Seventy. His political allegiance is given to the Republican Party. He was elected a councilman of Midvale on the first city ticket put' in the field after Midvale was incorporated and was re elected for a second term. During a part of both terms he acted as mayor of the city. He is deeply interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of the community in which he makes his home, and his aid and influence are always given on the side of advancement and improvement. He has made good use of his time and opportunities and has thus steadily worked his way upward until he is now numbered among the substantial citizens of this section.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
E. B. JORGENSEN
E. B. Jorgensen, president and manager of the brokerage firm of Jorgensen & Company at Milford, was born in Heber city, Utah, September 3, 1890. He is a son of Enoch and Anna (Berg) Jorgensen. The father was born in Sanpete county, Utah, and after acquiring his education devoted his time and energies to school work, becoming principal of various high schools, while he is now in charge of the Latter-day Saints Seminary at Sandy and he is a member of the State Historical Society. The mother is a daughter of the late O. H. Berg, of Provo.
E. B. Jorgensen acquired his early education in the public schools of Utah and afterward pursued a course in the Brigham Young University at Provo, while for six months he was a student in the University of Vienna. In 1913 he opened a branch house at Murray for the undertaking firm of S. M. Taylor & Company and managed this for two years. He then removed to Milford, where he engaged in the undertaking business on his own account and is still owner of the establishment. In 1918 he organized the brokerage firm of Jorgensen & Company, of which he is the president and manager, and in this connection handles a large amount of real estate. He is also a stockholder and one of the directors of the Milford Auto Company and a stockholder in the Milford State Bank. His business activities have been wisely and carefully directed and his success is the immediate and logical outcome of his labours and sound judgment.
On the 18th of September, 1913, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Jorgensen married Miss Gertrude Sanders, a daughter of Orson and Rose Sanders. Her father is a retired merchant of Murray. The daughter, Mrs. Jorgensen, is a graduate of the Latter-day Saints University and of the University of Utah and for two years engaged in teaching school. She is a lady of liberal education, interested in all that makes for Intellectual progress, and she has made her home the centre for the cultured society circle. To Mr. and Mrs. Jorgensen have been born two children: William, who was born September 17, 1914; and Roberta, born October 9, 1917.
In religious faith Mr. Jorgensen Is connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and from 1910 to 1913 he filled a mission in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and for two years he filled the office of town clerk. He was also president of the Home School Association for a year and has been chief of the registration office, while throughout the period of the World war his activities in behalf of the government and the interests of the soldiers in the field were untiring. He acted as chairman of the Beaver County Four Minute men, which organization did so much to bring the needs and conditions squarely before the people. He has been secretary of the Milford Chapter of the Red Cross for three years. His interest in community affairs is shown by his service as secretary of the Commercial Club and he is also county committeeman of the republican party. He stands for everything that he believes will prove of public benefit, being actuated in his life by a spirit of lofty patriotism that has prompted him to give freely and generously of his time and means for public service.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
JAMES X. McDONALD
James X. McDonald, a live stock man largely devoting his attention to sheep raising, was born at Heber, Wasatch county, Utah, February 15, 1872, his parents being Joseph S. and Nancy (Cummings) McDonald, the latter a native of Tennessee. The father was born in Ireland and was brought to America during his infancy. He arrived in Utah in the early ‘50s, having crossed the plains with ox team and wagon with one of the early trains that made the arduous trip across the long, hot stretches of sand and through the mountain passes to this state. At length he arrived in Salt Lake City county, where he still makes his home, but the mother of James X. McDonald passed away in 1881. In their family were seven children, five of whom are living. After the death of his first wife Joseph S. McDonald wedded Mary M. Jones and they became the parents of ten children, seven of whom survive.
James S. McDonald spent the days of his boyhood and youth in Wasatch county and is indebted to the common school system for the early educational advantages which he enjoyed. Later he attended the Provo Academy and afterward followed the profession of teaching for one term. In 1902 he was sent on a mission to the southern states, where he labored for two and a half years in the interests of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Following his return he engaged in farming and stock raising and in 1910 he was again called upon for missionary work, spending nearly two years in the northern states. On once more coming to Utah he concentrated his efforts and attention upon farming and stock raising in Wasatch county and is today one of the prosperous agriculturists of this part of the state. He has fifty head of horses and cattle upon his ranch and twenty-five hundred head so sheep. He also owns twenty-five hundred acres of land and his home is one of the finest brick residences in the city of Heber. Everything about his place is indicative of his progressive spirit and his business affairs have at all times been carefully and wisely conducted. Eighty acres of his land has been irrigated and is now very productive.
On the 11th of November, 1908, Mr. McDonald was united in marriage to Miss Effie Jolley, who was born in Sanpete county, Utah, a daughter of Francis M. and Chelnecha (Hambleton) Jolley, the former a native of Tennessee, while the latter was born in Salt Lake City, being the third white child born in the state, her natal day being March 24, 1848. Both passed away at Manti, Utah, Mrs. McDonald was one of a family of seven children born to her parents and she also has one half-brother and a half-sister. By her marriage she has become the mother of four children: Melba, who was born June 17, 1909, and died in infancy; James M., whose birth occurred July 1, 1912; Donna whose natal day was September 18, 1913, and Norma, who was born on the 5th of September, 1917.
Both Mr. and Mrs. McDonald are consistent members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and have ever taken a most active and helpful part in church work. While serving on one of his missions Mr. McDonald acted as president of the Wisconsin conference and he was presiding elder at Cincinnati, Ohio. He is truly a self-made man in that his success is the direct reward of his enterprise and industry and he has gained for himself a creditable position among the prominent residents of Wasatch county.
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed by Richard Ramos]
L. C. MILLER
L. C. Miller, general manager and treasurer of the Miller Cahoon Company, dealers in lumber, coal, hardware and stoves at Murray, was born December 29, 1874, at Murray, his parents being James R. and Mary Jane (Gardner) Miller. The father was born at Dayton, Illinois, October 2, 1838, and was a son of Reuben and Rhoda Ann (Letts) Miller. The family became early residents of Utah and Reuben Miller served as bishop of Millcreek ward for many years. He was born in Pennsylvania, December 4, 1811, and as a young man went to La Salle county, Illinois, where he became a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, remaining one of its loyal followers until his death, which occurred July 22, 1882. He was at Nauvoo, Illinois, when the Mormons were expelled from that place and in 1849 crossed the plains with his family, settling at Big Cottonwood, where he took up his abode in an old deserted dugout, in which the family lived for eighteen months. He was a man of marked energy and enterprise and soon began to prosper. During the second year of his residence in Utah he was made county commissioner and for term after term was reelected to that office, which he was filling at the time of his death, and he was also serving as bishop of Millcreek ward, filling the office from the time of its organization in the fall of 1849 until he was called to the home beyond. His wife was a native of Knox county, Ohio, and survived him for one year.
James R. Miller was a lad of eleven years when his parents crossed the plains. He at once took an active part in the up building of the country as the assistant of his father, hauling wood out of the canyons, tending sheep and otherwise proving most useful in the work of general development and improvement in the early days. He was full of energy and his labours were crowned with successful accomplishment. At the age of twenty years he married Mary Jane Gardner, who was born in Warwick. Canada, February 13, 1843, and came to Utah with the second company of pioneers in 1847. Her father, Robert Gardner, was one of the pioneers of 1847 and erected the first sawmill in the state of Utah. He is mentioned at length on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of James H. Gardner. James R. Miller built a home a mile east of Murray and there resided for forty-two years upon a farm of eighty acres, which he developed into one of the most valuable, productive and beautiful country places of his time. He engaged in sheep raising for many years, also made extensive investments in property and was the owner of land in both Utah and Cache counties. In 1900 he organized the firm of J. R. Miller & Company for the conduct of a lumber, coal, hardware and stove business at Murray. This constituted the nucleus of the business which has since been developed under the name of the Miller Cahoon Company. Mr. Miller was an active churchman, serving as bishop's counsellor and in later years in the presidency of Granite stake. In early days he made several trips across the plains, freighting with ox teams, and was closely connected with every phase of pioneer development that has led to the present prosperity and progress of the state. To James R. and Mary Jane (Gardner) Miller were born seven children: Reuben G., living at Pingree, Idaho; Mary J., the wife of J. F. Whitney, of Logan; William E., a rancher of Murray; L. C.; Maude L., the wife of A. L. Davis, of Murray; Leonard M., of Idaho Falls, and Eva M., the wife of Dr. H. G. Merrill, of Provo.
L. C. Miller was reared upon his father's farm and supplemented his common school education by three years' study in the University of Utah and a business course in the Salt Lake Business College. For many years prior to becoming identified with the Miller Cahoon Company he was the representative and salesman for the first Cooperative Wagon Company of Salt Lake and later was connected with the Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company of Salt Lake. In 1903 the Miller Cahoon Company was organized and was a consolidation of the business built up by his father and a similar business that had been developed by the Cahoon family at Murray. In 1903 L. C. Miller was made manager of the new company, which had enjoyed rapid growth under his direction. The business is now capitalized for a half million dollars and has an extensive plant at Idaho Falls, which is managed by L. M. Miller, a brother of L. C. Miller. The company handles lumber, operates planning mills, engages in the sale of coal, hardware, farm implements, wagons and automobiles. The business has developed into one of the important commercial and industrial interests of the Intermountain country, and Mr. Miller is a most forceful and resourceful business man, ready for any emergency and at all times displaying initiative and marked enterprise in the conduct of his business. He is also interested in banking and is a stockholder in the Consolidated Wagon Company and other important corporations.
In 1905 Mr. Miller was married to Marjorie Sidley Larkin, who was born in Michigan, but was a resident of Salt Lake at the time of their marriage. They have two children, Roscoe and Basil, and they occupy one of the attractive homes of Murray, their position in social circles being an enviable one.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
CHARLES MITCHEL
Charles Mitchel, deceased, was a representative farmer and valued resident of Wasatch County. He was born in Switzerland and came to America with his parents in 1891. After taking up his abode in Utah he turned his attention to the occupation of farming and stock raising and throughout his life was thus actively identified with agricultural interests. Mr. Mitchel was married in Wasatch County to Miss Maria C. Schoney and they became the parents of six children; Edward; Louisa; Ruby E., who is deceased; Lydia M.; Pearl R. ; and Sylvia L., who passed away. The family circle was again broken by the hand of death when on the 24th of December, 1918, Mr. Mitchel was called to the home beyond, leaving a widow and four children to mourn his loss. Mrs. Mitchel now owns the farm property of twenty nine acres, which is splendidly improved with modern equipments and conveniences and which is all under irrigation. She operates this farm with the assistance of her brother-in-law, which is according to the wish of her deceased husband, who desired that the work of the farm should be thus carried on. Mr. Mitchel commanded the respect and goodwill of all who knew him and during the years of his residence in Wasatch county made many friends.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
HON. JOSEPH R. MURDOCK
The name of Hon. Joseph R. Murdock, of Heber City, is synonymous with the development of irrigation interests in the west. He has contributed to public progress along various lines and in no field have his labors been more far-reaching and resultant than in behalf of the reclamation of the arid lands through the conservation and distribution of the water supply of this section of the country. Mr. Murdock's efforts in this connection alone entitle him to rank not only with the captains of industry but with the benefactors of the race. The story of his life is an interesting one— the record of earnest endeavor crowned with successful achievement.
Mr. Murdock was born in Salt Lake City, August 11, 1858, his parents being N. C. and Sarah M. (Barney) Murdock. The former was born at Hamilton, Madison county, New York, May 12, 1833, and traced his ancestry back to the highlands of Scotland, whence came the great-great-grandfather of Joseph R. Murdock. Crossing the Atlantic to America, he settled in Connecticut, where his son William and the latter's son Joseph, who was the grandfather of Joseph R. Murdock, were born. Joseph Murdock married Sally Stacy, a native of New Salem, Massachusetts, and a daughter of Nymphas Stacy, who was a captain of the Revolutionary war. The grandparents of Joseph R. Murdock became converted to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1840 traveled by wagon to Kirtland, Ohio, whence after a short time they removed to Nauvoo, Illinois, where they arrived in the year of 1841. There the family remained until the exodus to Utah in 1846, but in the meantime Joseph Murdock had passed away in 1844. The family, consisting of the mother of Nymphas Coridon Murdock and Joseph Stacy Murdock, arrived in Winter quarters, where Council Bluffs now stands, and there remained until the following spring, when they started for the Salt Lake valley with a train of five or six hundred wagons. Their fifty was under command of Captain Ira Eldredge and theirs was the second division to arrive and. that under command of Brigham Young preceded them with a train of one hundred and fifty picked men. The party arrived in Salt Lake, September 22, 1847, and settled at the fort with the other immigrants. Joseph Stacy Murdock soon married and the care of the mother devolved upon N. C. Murdock. The grandmother passed away in Salt Lake in 1866.
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t was in 1854 that Nymphas C. Murdock was united in marriage to Sarah M. Barney, a daughter of Royal and Sarah (Esterbrook) Barney. They had four children: Nymphas C., Jr., who died at the age of nine years; Sarah M., who died at the age of seven years; Betsy E., who died at the age of four years; and Joseph R. In 1864 N. C. Murdock removed to Charleston, Wasatch county, Utah, and in 1867 he served on a mission to the eastern states covering eleven months. He participated in the troubles that caused Johnston's army to visit Utah and also defended the interests of the colonists in the early Indian troubles, serving with the minute-men. He took a prominent part in the upbuilding of Charleston and Wasatch county and was one of the organizers of the Cooperative Store. He also made contribution to the fund to build the railroad station and in various other ways prompted public progress and improvement in his town and county. In politics he was a democrat and for twenty-five years was postmaster of Charleston, while for fifteen years he served as school trustee. He was also a delegate to the first convention to form the state constitution. In the work of the church he always remained active and was made the first bishop of Charleston, serving for thirty years. His death occurred in 1917.
Joseph R. Murdock was reared to young manhood upon his father's farm and was educated in the schools of Charleston, supplemented by study in the Brigham Young Academy, now the Brigham Young University. In 1872 he became associated with his father in farming and stock raising and carried on the business extensively. They also established the first creamery in Charleston, and further extending the scope of their activities, they opened a general merchandise store in 1875. Their trade steadily grew and developed and the business was incorporated in 1890, at which time Joseph R. Murdock was1 elected the manager of the enterprise. In the year 1905, in connection with President W. H. Smart, he organized the Heber Mercantile Company, and was made president, which position he still fills. The business is located at Heber aria1 the annual sales amount to about two hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Murdock has always continued his interest in farming and stock raising, especially in the handling of sheep. If interrogated as to the nature of his business he will tell you that he is a farmer and stock raiser, and he and his sons and his sons-in-law have become leaders in this field in the west. They are operating in both Utah and Wyoming and their flocks are now most extensive.
The business ability of Mr. Murdock, however, has brought him prominently forward in other connections. There is no man more widely or favorably known as a representative of the irrigation interests of the west. He has done more beyond a doubt to further irrigation than any other one man in the state of Utah or perhaps in the west. He organized the Provo Reservoir Company, of which he is the president. This project now supplies water to ten thousand acres of land and has sufficient water for ten thousand acres additional. The project was developed at a cost of a million dollars. Mr. Murdock also organized the Utah Lake Irrigation project, which waters ten thousand acres and has water for ten thousand acres additional. This was also developed at a cost of a million dollars. The main office of the company is in the Knight building at Provo. Mr. Murdock is also the president of the Bank of Heber City, which does a business amounting to a half million dollars annually, and he is the president of the Sugar Centrifugal Discharging Company of Salt Lake City, manufacturers of sugar machinery and employing about thirty men.
In 1878 Mr. Murdock was married to Miss Margaret Wright, a daughter of William and Jemima (Dands) Wright. They became parents of eleven children. Mina M., the eldest, is now Mrs. David A. Broadbent, of Heber. Her husband is superintendent of the Wasatch county schools and is interested in sheep and cattle raising. They have ten living children: J. Grant, Vida, Naomi, Leah, Margaret, Dee, Mary, Mima, Emer and Harvey, while a daughter Clara died when but three weeks old. M. Josephine is the wife of Sylvester Broadbent who is engaged in the sheep industry in connection with his father-in-law and resides at Heber.
Mr. and Mrs. Broadbent have the following children: Verl, Ben, Joseph R., Elaine, Cloyd, Reed, Thomas, Cora and Royal J. is secretary and treasurer of the irrigation companies promoted by his father. He married Zina A. Chipman, of American Fork, and they have three children, Zina, Stephen R. and Maurine, who are with their parents at Provo. Nymphas W., a farmer and sheep and cattleman of Fruitland, Duchesne county, Utah, married Emma Hicken, and their children are Fay, Joseph, Fern, John and Nymphas C. Sarah E. is the wife of L. C. Henroid, of Provo, who is manager for the Metropolitan Life Insurance branch at that place, and their children are Maxine and Margaret. Emer W. Murdock married Tarza Henrie. His, children are Mildred, Deen and Emer. Emer W. Murdock is the cashier of the Bank of Heber and is interested with his father in the sheep industry of Wyoming. Chloe M. is the wife of Irvin H. Jacob, of Provo, chief engineer of the Provo reservoir and the Utah lake irrigation projects. He, too, is interested in farming and sheep raising in Utah. To Mr. and Mrs. Jacob have been born two children, Joseph I. and Don. Cora, the next member of the family, has recently returned from a missionary tour in the central states. Nellie and Erma are at home. Roy J. and Nymphas W. were both sent on missionary tours to the northwest, and Joseph R. Murdock spent two years on a mission work in Michigan. He was also counselor while living at Charleston to the president of the Wasatch stake, William H. Smart.
In 1903 Mr. Murdock removed with his family to Heber and was there in 1905 called to the presidency of the Wasatch stake, which he has since filled. In politics Mr. Murdock is a democrat and is a stanch supporter of President Wilson and his league of nations policy. He served for three terms as county commissioner of Wasatch county and was a member of the constitutional convention. He was also a member of the lower house of the Utah legislature during the first and second sessions of the general assembly and in the fall of 1900 he was elected state senator. During that session he was the father of the dairy bill, which was enacted into a law, and he served on many important committees.
He gave most earnest and thoughtful consideration to all the vital questions which came up for settlement during his legislative career and left the impress of his individuality and ability upon the assembly enactments. He still owns and maintains his home in Heber and also because of his business relations there has a home in Provo, he and his family dividing their time between the two cities. Mrs. Murdock has reared a family of whom she may well be proud. The children have been most carefully trained and most of them are well married and rearing families of their own. The life record of Joseph R. Murdock is indeed a creditable one. He was reared as a farm boy at a time and place where educational advantages were meager but in the school of experience he has learned many valuable lessons. From each activity of his life he has gleaned broad knowledge, which he has put to excellent use. He has looked ahead, seeing beyond the exigencies of the moment to the opportunities of the future, and has labored for general development and improvement as well as the upbuilding of his own fortune. His life has been actuated by high purposes and earnest endeavor, productive of splendid results, and among Utah's most useful and honored citizens Joseph R. Murdock is named.
[Source: Utah since Statehood: Historical and Biographical Volume 2; By Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
PARLEY A. MURDOCK
Parley A. Murdock, a farmer and stockman of Wasatch county, was born in American Fork, Utah, February 3, 1859, and is a son of Joseph S. and Elizabeth (Hunter) Murdock. The father was a native of the state of New York and the mother of Scotland. They crossed the plains with ox teams in 1849, being among the pioneer settlers of Utah. They arrived at Salt Lake City, the father bringing with him the first three sheep that were introduced into the state. In his later years he settled at Heber and was engaged in the live stock business there until his death. He was the father of thirty-one children, most of whom reached adult age.
Parley A. Murdock was reared and educated in Utah and remained under the parental roof until he had attained his majority. He afterward engaged in farming and stock raising on his own account and has since followed these pursuits. He now has a herd of about seventy-five head of cattle, while his sheep number three thousand. He also owns fifty-five hundred acres of land. As the years have passed he has prospered in his undertakings and has developed his interests until he is now one of the substantial farmers and stockmen of his section of the state. In 1882 Mr. Murdock was married to Miss Lucy Hundley,a native of Wasatch County. They have become the parents of twelve children, of whom five are yet living: Joseph T.; Ireetta, the wife of J. W. Dean; Josephine, who gave her hand in marriage to Edward Green, of Chicago; Jessie, who is the wife of Emmett Shields; and Alice, at home.
In his political views Mr. Murdock is a republican and for one term he served as a member of the city council of Heber, but his ambition has not been in the line of office holding. He has always stood for progressive public measures, however, and is interested in everything that pertains to the welfare and upbuilding of the community in which he lives. He is a self-made man and he has assisted in making the county what it is today. Throughout his life he has made wise use of his time, his talents and his opportunities and has won a place among the leading agriculturists and stock raisers of Wasatch County, and at the same time he has become one of the directors of the Heber Mercantile Company. His life should serve to encourage others, showing what may be accomplished when one has the will to dare and to do.
(Source: Utah since Statehood Historical and Biographical, by Noble Warrum, editor, Vol 1, Publ 1919. Transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman)
HON. JAMES BRIGHAM WILSON
Hon. James Brigham Wilson is one of the prominent and influential residents of Wasatch County, making his home at Midway. He has largely devoted his attention in a business way to farming and stock raising and he has won a measure of success that is of most substantial character and which has come to him as the direct reward of his perseverance and earnest labour. He was born in Carson City, Nevada, August 22, 1856, and is a son of James T. and Isabelle (Ross) Wilson, the former a native of Ireland, while the latter was born in Scotland. They came to America in the years 1852 and 1854 respectively. James T. Wilson crossed the plains with ox teams and settled in Salt Lake City, where for many years he maintained his home. The mother there passed away and in 1865 the father removed to Midway, Wasatch County, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1905. In their family were five children, of whom four are yet living.
James Brigham Wilson, whose name introduces this review, was reared and educated in Salt Lake City, attending the common schools and the University of Utah. After attaining his majority he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for three years. In 1881 he married Miss Margaret Powell, a native of South Wales, and in 1884 he removed with his family to Wasatch County, where he took up a homestead and turned his attention to farming and stock raising. He has since been active along this line 'and he and his sons are now owners of three thousand acres of land. He has a large herd of cattle and many head of sheep and his stock raising interests are extensive and important. He is likewise active in various corporations and is classed with the representative and progressive business men of his section of the state.
To James Brigham and Margaret (Powell) Wilson were born six children: J. Brigham, who is connected with his father in business; Margaret E., the wife of William G. Young, of Heber; David John, who is a graduate of the law department of the University of California at Berkeley and is now a practicing attorney of Ogden, Utah; Isabel E., the wife of Wayne B. Hales of Rexburg, Idaho; Reese Arthur, who is connected with his father in business; and Edith E., who is a graduate of the Brigham Young University and is now teaching. The wife and mother passed away in 1913 and they were laid to rest in Midway cemetery, leaving a husband and six children to mourn her loss. In 1915 Mr. Wilson wedded Miss Hannah Lundin, a native of Sweden, who came to America in 1885.
Mr. Wilson has been a prominent figure in political circles as a supporter of the Republican Party. He served for fourteen years on the town board of Midway and exercised his official prerogatives in support of various plans and measures for the general good. He has also served on the school board. In 1902 he was elected to represent Wasatch county in the state legislature, serving as a member of the lower house for two terms, while in 1908 he was elected to the state senate, of which he was a member for four years. He was connected with much constructive legislation, giving thoughtful and earnest consideration to all vital questions coming up for settlement. He is a self-made man and one of the leading citizens of Wasatch County who enjoys the confidence, goodwill and high regard of all.
Source: "Utah Since Statehood", Noble Warrum; Chicago :: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.,1920
Contributed and transcribed by Wayne Cheeseman
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