ANDREW FREDERICK AHLANDER.

A well known figure in industrial circles in Provo is Andrew Frederick Ahlander, a manufacturer of carriage and auto truck bodies, who also does spring work and bicycle repairing. His skill along these various lines has insured him a liberal patronage which has placed him in an enviable position and has brought to him a substantial measure of success. He is a native of Sweden, having been born in Bohuslan on the 13^th of September, 1856. His father, Jonas Ahlander, lived to the notable old age of ninety-three years and passed away in Drammen, Norway. He followed mercantile lines and was very successful in the conduct of his business. The mother also reached the advanced age of ninety-three years. They had a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters.

Andrew Frederick Ahlander, who was the third in order of birth, was educated in the public schools of Drammen, Norway, and when a youth of fifteen started out to provide for his own support. He served an apprenticeship to acquire a knowledge of blacksmithing and carriage making, learning the latter trade at Drammen in the Gronnenberg carriage factory in Norway. He spent four years in that establishment and received a salary of six dollars per year. After completing his apprenticeship. during which time he acquainted himself with every phase of the trade, he started out in business on his own account at Valders, Norway, where he conducted a blacksmithing and wagon shop for six years. He also served in the army of Norway. He met with a fair measure of success there, but believing that he would have still better business opportunities in America, he decided to try his fortune in the new world. Moreover, he had become a convert to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and wished to cast in his lot with the people of this denomination in Utah.

Mr. Ahlander arrived in America on the 24^th of June, 1886, and made his way at once to Utah, settling first in Salt Lake City but soon afterward going to Ogden, where he was employed by C. Peterson. He remained there for two years and on the expiration of that period formed a partnership with the firm of Ernstrom & Carlson under the style of Carlson, Ahlander & Ernstrom. They conducted a general blacksmithing business and Mr. Ahlander remained a member of the firm for two years.

He then removed to Riverdale, Weber county. Utah, where he continued in the same business for three years, after which he sold his interests there and established his home in Provo. Here he immediately purchased the shop of Halvor Berg, then located at the corner of First West and Fifth South streets. He afterward removed to his present location, purchasing the site and establishing the business there in 1908.  He today has the largest business in his line in southern Utah and employs six skilled workmen. He is also the president of the Alta Superior Mining & Milling Company and in his business affairs is displaying sound judgment as well as close application and unremitting energy.

Mr. Ahlander has been married twice. In Norway he wedded Annetta Karren Johansen, who passed away in Ogden. They were the parents of four children, of whom two are living, Frank, who married Vesta Eggertsen; and Berton Tobias, who married Louise Bertin; while John and Clara have passed away. In the Logan Temple Mr. Ahlander was again married, his second union being with Ludovika Hermen, a native of Denmark, and they have become the parents of seven children; Clara May, now deceased; Joseph Walter, who married Lucille Ferguson; Amanda Emma, now the wife of S. W. Senhouse, who had also been the husband of Clara May, who died in Australia; Martha, the wife of Dewey Gessford of American Fork; Albert, deceased; Mrs. Pearl lnger Brown, of Salt Lake City; and Hyrum, also deceased. 

Mr. Ahlander belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the sixth ward of Provo and is now president of the One Hundred and Fifth-sixth Quorum of Seventy. In church work he has always taken an active and helpful part and he served on a mission to Norway from 1899 until 1901. He was acting as president of the Fredericks Hall branch. He has filled various offices in the church, putting forth every effort to promote its growth and insure the extension of its influence. He belongs to the Provo Commercial Club and he gives his political support to the republican party. His has been an active and useful life and his enterprise has constituted a dominant force in the industrial development of Provo, while the integrity of his business methods as well as his unfaltering industry has gained for him an honored name and most desirable success.

CHARLES E. ALLAN.

A modern philosopher has said: "The man who stops changing has stopped thinking, and the man who does not think is drifting-always toward the rocks." Charles E. Allan belongs to that class of men who are always thinking and always changing. He has throughout his career made constant progress in his business and his initiative is shown in the fact that he was the pioneer dry farmer of the district in which he lives. He makes his home at Mapleton, where he has a valuable and highly productive property that responds readily to the care and labor which he bestows upon it.

Mr. Allan is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. He was born August 4, 1847, of the marriage of Joseph and Zillah (Player) Allan, the former a native of Yorkshire, England, while the latter was born in London. The father was a blacksmith and machinist by trade who on coming to America at once crossed the continent to Utah, making the trip in 1851 in John Brown's company. The family spent a winter in Salt Lake and then removed to Provo, where Joseph Allan worked in the first sugar factory in Utah. He was afterward sent to Sweetwater, Wyoming, to do repair work and shoe oxen for the emigrants going to the gold fields of California, spending two seasons in that way. He lived for a time at Provo and later at Heber when only two other families were there and afterward became a resident of Midway. Subsequently he took up his abode at Springville where he passed away in 1897, having for a decade survived his wife. Mrs. Zillah Allan, whose death occurred in 1887. 

Charles E. Allan was the eldest of their family of seven children. He learned the blacksmith's trade under the direction of his father but was much more interested in farming, and that he wisely chose that occupation as a life work is indicated in the success he has attained. In 1883 he homesteaded at Mapleton one hundred and sixty acres of land and he is now the owner of several hundred acres and has also sold some of his property to his son. As his financial resources increased he kept adding to his holdings until he was one of the large landowners of this section of the state. He was also one of the original dry farmers of Utah and for many years has raised wheat and other small grains and has never had a crop failure. He certainly deserves great credit for the fact that he is the pioneer dry farmer, his labors serving to encourage others, showing what could be accomplished. Throughout all the intervening years he has raised wheat, his land producing from forty to fifty bushels an acre without irrigation, and he has today an exceptionally good farm. He has transformed his property from a wilderness of sagebrush to fertile fields, and his enterprise has enabled him to overcome all obstacles and difficulties. At the present time he is irrigating some of his land. He runs cattle on the range and finds his stock raising interests a profitable source of income. He has all modern machinery necessary for farm work and everything about the place is indicative of his progressive spirit and practical methods. 

On the 24th of July, 1869, Mr. Allan was united in marriage to Elizabeth Watkins, a daughter of Bishop John Watkins, of Midway, who was for years bishop of Midway.  Mr. and Mrs. Allan became parents of ten children who are yet living and they have also lost two. Charles W., the eldest, is a farmer in the vicinity of Mapleton. William B. is a farmer and rancher living at Westwater, Grand county. John died in infancy. Mary E. is at home. Edward died at the age of sixteen years. Ann Rebecca is the wife of F. G. Twede, a farmer of Payson. Margaret is the wife of P. J. Malstrom who follows farming in Utah county. Joseph carries on farming on some of the old original homestead. Henry is farming in Hobble Creek canyon. Martha is the wife of Austin Houtz and they reside at Mapleton. Hannah is the wife of John Barker, of Springville. James G. is operating the home farm. 

While Mr. Allan has long been recognized as a most successful agriculturist, he has also become known in other business circles, being a director of the Mendenhall Banking Company of Springville and a stockholder in the Springville-Mapleton Sugar Company. He also belongs to the Mapleton Cattle Association. His religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he is serving as an elder. His political support is given to the republican party. He has never sought nor desired office, preferring to concentrate his energies and efforts upon his business affairs, which have been wisely directed. In 1914 he built a modern bungalow, which supplanted the little brick house in which he had lived for a number of years. He keeps thoroughbred cattle upon his place and in addition to his cattle raising and grain raising interests he has two acres planted to apples and small fruit. It is to such men as Mr. Allan, who has displayed a spirit of undaunted enterprise, that Utah owes her development and progress, for they have utilized her natural resources to the best possible advantage, overcoming the lack of nature with science and making the once arid desert bloom and blossom as the rose.

ROBERT EUGENE ALLEN.

Robert Eugene Allen is the vice president and cashier of the Knight Trust & Savings Bank of Provo and is identified with other important business projects which feature in the development and up building of the section of the state in which he lives.  He was born in Coalville, Summit county, Utah, December 21. 1877, a son of Thomas L.  and Sarah (McCarthy) Allen, who are natives of Ireland, whence they crossed the Atlantic to America and then made their way to Utah. The father is an architect and builder residing at Coalville and is one of the presidency of the Summit stake. His family numbered five children who are yet living, namely: T. L., a resident of Provo; Robert Eugene; Mrs. A. M. Cheney, of Salt Lake; and J. E. and W. W., who also make their homes at Provo.

Robert E. Allen in the pursuit of his education attended the Summit Stake Academy and was graduated from the Rochester (N. Y.) Business Institute. In 1900 he became a teacher in the commercial department of Brigham Young University at Provo, with which he was thus connected for two years, and during the same time he was studying at the Brigham Young University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1902.  He afterward became connected with the Knight Investment Company of Provo and in time became secretary of all the Knight companies. He thus continued until 1905, when he was called to go on a mission to Great Britain for a period of two years and during a part of that time he acted as secretary of the British mission. Upon his return to his native land he again resumed his connection with the Knight interests as secretary and likewise served as manager of the Knight Power Company until 1912, when the Knight Trust & Savings Bank was organized by Jesse Knight, Mr. Allen doing the organization work. He was chosen the first vice president and cashier of the institution, having continued to serve in the dual capacities since that time. His activities, however, cover a very broad scope, for he is the manager of the Blue bench irrigation project in Duchesne county, comprising seventy-five hundred acres of land devoted to general farming. Over twenty-five hundred acres of this tract is already under cultivation, being given over to the raising of hay and grain. Live stock is also made a feature of the farming interests there. Mr. Allen is also a director and the secretary and treasurer of the Knight Sugar Company of Canada, is a director and the secretary-treasurer of the Ashton Theater of Provo and also one of its principal stockholders, and he and his wife are owners of the Knight block in Provo, the main office building of the city, in addition to which they hold unimproved property. He is also a director, secretary treasurer and one of the principal stockholders of the Layton Sugar Company.

It was in January, 1902, that Mr. Allen was united in marriage to Miss Inez Knight, a daughter of Jesse and Amanda (McEwan) Knight, who are mentioned elsewhere in this volume. They have become the parents of five children: William Eugene, Jesse Knight. Mark Knight, Robert Knight and Joseph Knight. Mrs. Allen is the president of the Utah Stake Relief Society. In 1898 she and Lucy J. Brimhall were the first women missionaries to go abroad on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. They were sent to England, where they labored successfully for two years.  Mr. and Mrs. Allen occupy a fine modern residence at No. 390 East Center street.  In politics Mr. Allen is a republican but has never sought nor desired office in recognition of party fealty. However, he held a commission to the Seattle Fair under Governor Spry. In the church he- is serving as high priest. Business interests make extensive demands upon his time and energies and he has proven a dynamic force in promoting the progress and up building of the various interests under his control.

CARL ANDERSEN.

Carl Andersen, a prominent and successful sheep man and farmer living at American Fork, was born in Denmark in 1866, a son of Jens and Helen Andersen. The father was a carpenter and followed that trade in his native country. He brought his family to the new world and became a convert to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Denmark, after which he emigrated to America, arriving in Utah in 1874.

Carl Andersen attended school through the winter months after coming to the UnitedStates, having been a lad of but eight years at the time of the arrival of the family on American soil. In young manhood he worked on the railroad but for the past quarter of a century has given his attention to sheep raising and has made this a profitable business. He owns two bands of sheep and is also engaged in farming. He likewise has twenty-two hundred acres of grazing land in Duchesne county and he is a stockholder in the American Fork Cooperative Institution.

In 1895 Mr. Andersen was married to Miss Mary Adams, a daughter of Arza and Catharine (Cunningham) Adams. Her father was one of the pioneer settlers of Utah, having crossed the plains in 1848. He first engaged in the milling business at American Fork and contributed to the early development and up building of the state. He is mentioned more at length in connection with the sketch of A. B. Adams on another page of this work. He was born in Leeds county, Canada, and the mother of Mrs. Anderson was also of Scotch descent, being a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Nicholas) Cunningham, who crossed the plains with the handcart company of Willis in 1858. Mr. and Mrs. Andersen have become the parents of four children: Charles A., who is interested with his father in sheep raising and who married Leona Clark, by whom he has one child, Carl;  Darel A., who was a member of the Students Army Training Corps of the University of Utah and died of influenza in the fall of 1918; and Frank H. and La Belle, both at home. The residence of the family is an attractive one which was built in 1897.

In politics Mr. Andersen is a republican but not an office seeker. However, he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day and supports all measures and plans which he believes will prove of public benefit. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, and his wife is president of the Relief Society. Mr. Anderson has made steady progress during the years of his residence in Utah. He came to this country a poor immigrant boy and as the years have come and gone he has prospered in his undertakings until he now occupies a creditable and enviable position among the farmers and stock raisers of American Fork.

GEORGE EDWARD ANDERSON.

George Edward Anderson, a photographer of Springville, was born in Salt Lake City, October 28, 1860, a son of George and Mary Ann (Thome) Anderson, the former a native of Scotland, while the mother was born near Dunstable, England.

In his boyhood days George Anderson, Sr., came to Utah, making the trip alone. He had become a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland and made his way to the new world in 1852. For twenty-five years he was employed as a herdsman at Salt Lake City and afterward went as a pioneer to St. Johns, Arizona, where he was timekeeper for John W. Young on construction work on the Santa Fe Railroad. He built the first brick house at St. Johns, Arizona, this being afterward used as a schoolhouse. He was indeed one of the pioneer settlers of the west and contributed in substantial measure to the development of the districts in which he lived. He also followed herding in Arizona and later returned to the employ of John W. Young, who was building a railroad to Park City, Mr. Anderson taking charge of the office. The office which he occupied at Salt Lake City stood on the present site of the Alta Club. This was before he went to Arizona. The Bee Hive at that time was the home of President Young and Mr. Anderson acted as caretaker of the Bee Hive for a number of years after John W. Young retired from the railway business. George Anderson. Sr., set out nearly all of the beautiful shade trees that now surround the temple grounds. He was an active church worker throughout his entire life. In his later years he lived retired at Springville, where he passed away in 1905.

George Edward Anderson of this review pursued his education under Dr. Maeser at Salt Lake City during the winter months and early in life he began herding cattle.  He was the city cowherd for nine years but afterward learned photography and opened a studio. As a boy he took the first prize for his photographic work at the state fair of Utah. He conducted a studio at Salt Lake City for a few years and afterward maintained photographic galleries at Nephi, Manti, Provo and Springville, and for a time he was proprietor of a traveling studio. He was sent upon a mission of six and a half years and he devoted two years to photographic work for the volume entitled Birth of Mormonism, a publication which contains pictures that illustrate the history of the church, commencing at the birthplace of the prophet Joseph Smith and containing pictures of all other points relating to the birth and early development of the church in the east.  He was also sent to London, making pictures in England of the London conference. He now maintains his photographic studio in Springville and the excellence of his work secures to him a liberal patronage. He has closely studied photography from the practical and scientific standpoints and his artistic nature finds expression is most excellent results.

On the 30th of May, 1888, Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Olive Lowry, a daughter of John and Sarah Jane (Brown) Lowry. The parents were born and reared in the east. Her father was at Nauvoo when Joseph Smith suffered martyrdom there and he afterward acted as Indian interpreter at Manti for the pony express. Both the parents of Mrs. Anderson came to Utah in 1837. They were among the earliest of the pioneers of Salt Lake and were the first people at Manti, Mr. Lowry carrying the pony express from Salt Lake to Manti. He also had the pioneer mill at Manti and with many events which figure on the pages of history in Utah he was closely associated. He delivered a message from Brigham Young to Chief Aropean and it was this Indian chief who gave to Mr. Lowry the land at Warm Springs, where he had a grist mill. He was indeed one of the valued pioneer residents of the state and contributed in substantial measure to its development and progress. He engaged in sheep raising and in merchandising at Manti and was also manager of a cannery. While going to Ogden to attend a cannery meeting he was injured by a train, and although he seemingly recovered from the accident, it undoubtedly hastened his death, which occurred in 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have become parents of three children. Eva, the eldest, is the wife of Lyman Noyes, who is now studying medicine in Salt Lake City. Edda is the wife of Lewis Brandley of Sterling, Alberta, Canada, and was previous to her marriage a stenographer at the cannery in Springville. Lowry, the youngest of the family, is at home. He is active in promoting the interests of the cannery and Mrs. Anderson was among those who secured the establishment of the cannery. She is now a director and the secretary and treasurer of the Springville Canning Company.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are very prominent in the work of the church. He was bishop of the second ward and the meetinghouse was built during his incumbency in that position, which covered five years. He is now a high priest and a very active church worker. His wife is one of the stake board of the Mutual and prior to her marriage was president of the Primary Association at Sanpete. She was teaching school at Ephraim at the time she became acquainted with Mr. Anderson. The labors of both Mr.  and Mrs. Anderson have contributed much to the promotion of the church work. Both are representatives of honored and pioneer families of the state and throughout Springville and wherever they are known they are held in the highest esteem.

JAMES N. ANDERSON.

James N. Anderson is a successful fruit grower who deserves great credit for what he has accomplished in life in that his persistency of purpose has enabled him to overcome difficulties and obstacles in his path and work his way steadily upward. He makes his home at Orem, not far from Provo, but is a native son of Denmark, his birth having occurred at Brynderslev, Vensysel, in the northern part of the country, on the 5th of January. 1870. His parents were Nels and Johanna Maria (Nilsdatter) Anderson. The father was a farmer in comfortable circumstances, devoting his life to agricultural pursuits save that he served in the war against Germany in 1848 and 1849. His death occurred in 1879, but the mother long survived, passing away in 1908.  James N. Anderson was the youngest of four children who reached adult age. He acquired a good education in the schools of Denmark and in that country worked upon a farm in early life and also learned shoemaking prior to coming to America in the year 1889. His elder brother, Andrew, had crossed the Atlantic in 1886 and became a resident of Utah, and James N. Anderson, his mother and sister made the voyage to the new world three years later. They sold their possessions in Denmark and arrived in Utah with several hundred dollars, so that they did not face the hardships and privations that confronted many of those who came to settle in the state, especially in the early days. The family remained in Salt Lake for one season and there James N. Anderson worked at his trade. They then removed to Mount Pleasant in Sanpete county, where they resided until 1899 and during that period Mr. Anderson did all kinds of labor in order to earn a living.

It was in 1894 that James N. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Dlanthy Peterson, a daughter of Frederick and Annie Peterson, who were pioneers of Sanpete county, where the father followed the occupation of farming. To Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have been born five children: Maria, a graduate of the Brigham Young University, in which she completed the normal course, and now a successful teacher; Nels, who after attending the high school spent one year in the Brigham Young University and is now assisting in the further development of the home farm; Jennie, a high school pupil; and Ejnar and Ruby, attending the graded schools.

It was in 1899 that Mr. Anderson removed to Utah county, settling on Provo bench.  He established his home at Orem, where he now resides, owning forty acres of valuable fruit land largely devoted to the raising of apples and peaches, although he likewise engages in the cultivation of various other kinds of fruits and berries. His present farm was a barren desert when he took up his abode thereon and he has placed all of the improvements upon the land. In 1910 he built a modern brick bungalow and is now most pleasantly situated, his labors throughout the years having brought to him a very comfortable competence. He keeps several head of horned cattle and also a few milk cows and he is the owner of a registered Jersey sire, Virginia's Champion Lad. 

Mr. Anderson has always been keenly interested in everything pertaining to the welfare and progress of the community in which he makes his home. He served on the school board for ten years and during this period gave his aid and support toward the erection of several large brick schoolhouses, for he is a firm believer in the cause of education. He served on the building committee when these schoolhouses were erected and he has always done whatever he could to raise the standards of education and secure the most competent teachers for the schools. He is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he has filled the office of elder. Those who know him, and he has a wide acquaintance, respect him for his genuine worth and many substantial qualities. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the new world, where he has made his home from the age of eighteen years, for as time has passed he has made steady advancement in a business way, becoming one of the men of affluence in his community.

BEN E. ARGYLE.

No student of history can carry his investigations far into the records of Utah without learning of the active and prominent part which the Argyle family have borne in the work of general development and improvement. Ben E. Argyle is today one of the prominent farmers and cattle raisers of Utah county and is also filling the position of county surveyor. His father, Benjamin Argyle, was a very prominent figure in connection with events leading to the up building not only of his community but of the state as well. He was born in Birmingham, England, and after coming to the new world concentrated his efforts and attention upon farming and cattle raising at Spanish Fork, where he soon became recognized as a leading, influential and prominent citizen He continued to make his home there to the time of his death, which occurred in 1917, when he had reached the age of seventy-four years and which was occasioned by being thrown from a horse. In the fall he sustained serious injuries which caused his demise a few weeks later. He had become one of the active and progressive business men of the community, was president of the First National Bank, was the owner of the City Drug Store, and also owner of extensive landed interests.  The later years of his life were devoted almost entirely to the work of the church and for eleven years he was the bishop of the second ward at Spanish Fork. He was also a high priest. In politics, too, he exerted a widely felt influence and was frequently solicited to become a candidate for some state office but steadily declined, preferring to do his public duty as a private citizen rather than as an office holder. He served, however, as city marshal, as member of the city council and as mayor of Spanish Fork and at all times he gave stanch support to the principles of the democratic party. His friends, and they were many, entertained for him the warmest regard, for all who knew him recognized his sterling worth, his marked devotion to duty and his fidelity to the highest principles of manhood and citizenship.  His family numbered the following named: Jane, the wife of Willis Bendows, a farmer of Salem; Ben E . of this review; Hazel, the wife of W. E. Arnold, of Spanish Fork; Horace, who enlisted in the aviation corps in the fall of 1917 and died of influenza at Mathers field during the widespread epidemic of that disease in 1918: William, who is connected with the Bureau of Mines at Chicago, Illinois; Sterling, who served in the United States army, being for eighteen months in France with the field artillery on active duty and recently discharged; and Mark, who lives upon a farm near Spanish Fork.

Ben E. Argyle was born in the locality of his present home, November 12, 1884.  He received liberal educational opportunities and was graduated from the University of Utah on completing a course in mining engineering. For several years he devoted his attention to his profession and is now filling the office of county surveyor. At the present time he is largely concentrating his efforts and attention upon farming and cattle raising, which he carries on extensively. He is the owner of three hundred and thirty-seven acres of rich and valuable land, all under a high state of cultivation and all irrigated except one hundred acres of pasture land. He feeds nearly a thousand head of cattle, cuts several hundred tons of hay each season and has silos of large capacity. His business affairs are most carefully and wisely managed, indicating his progressive spirit, his keen sagacity and his unfaltering energy. 

In 1911 Mr. Argyle was married to Miss Zilla Deal, a daughter of Edward E. Deal, who was the eldest brother in the firm of Deal Brothers & Mendenhall of Springville, who in their time were the largest railroad contractors in the western part of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Argyle have two daughters, Zilla and Chloe, who with their parents occupy a beautiful home which was erected in 1913. It is richly and attractively furnished and is noted for its warm-hearted hospitality.

Mr. Argyle belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he is serving as elder. In politics he is a democrat, and like his father an influential member of the party. He has served as county road commissioner and was state road agent for two years. He did surveying for the canal company, putting in the South Field system, a thirty thousand dollar project. He is a man of action rather than of theory and his labors have always been of a most practical character and highly and beneficially result.

HON. LORENZO ARGYLE.

Hon. Lorenzo Argyle, who is now representing his district in the state legislature and who is engaged in farming and cattle raising at Lake Shore, was born in Birmingham, England, October 26, 1852, his parents being Joseph and Jane (French) Argyle. The father was a gas fitter in his native country, where he remained until 1856, when he came to America and made his way to Utah with the first handcart company to arrive in Salt Lake, accompanied by Captain Ellsworth and reaching its destination on the 29th of September, 1856. In the party were the father, mother and six children, three boys and three girls. The father and mother and all the children, except two who were too young, walked all the way from Iowa City, Iowa, to Salt Lake. They had sailed from Liverpool on leaving their native land and landed at New York city.  After reaching Utah the .father took up tin work, making new tin ware out of old cans and any material which could be secured, maintaining a shop at Bountiful. He spent nearly ten years of his life in missionary work, going on two different missions to England and on two missions to the southern states. When not thus engaged he carried on general farming at Bountiful, where he passed away exactly forty-nine years to the day from his first arrival at Salt Lake. In his family were twelve children, of whom one died in England before the family started for America. Ten of the number are now living and the youngest sister of Mr. Argyle of this review is about fifty years of age.

Lorenzo Argyle was not yet four years of age when with his parents he came to the new world. However, he well remembers the last night spent in England, also events that occurred during the voyage to the new world and the first Indians that he saw here. In fact he has manv recollections of pioneer times and has been an interested witness of the growth and development of the state as the work of transformation has been carried steadily forward. He acquired his education through attendance at school in the winter seasons and obtained a good education for those days. He remained upon his father's farm until he reached the age of twenty years, when he began working for Horace Eldredge at Salt Lake, with whom he continued for a year. He next engaged in herding cattle and soon afterward began business on his own account in connection with his bother Benjamin, their first location being in the Ogden valley, after which they removed to what is now Lake Shore but was a district then known as the Indian reservation. It was in the spring of 1874 that Lorenzo Argyle came to this district to live with his brother Benjamin. They kept bachelors' hall for a time, building a frame house and doing all of their own housework in addition to the development of the land.

After three years Lorenzo Argyle was united in marriage to Miss Emily Manwill, of Payson, a daughter of John F. Manwill, who is a veteran of the Black Hawk war and for many years engaged in freighting. He is now living retired at Payson. To Mr. and Mrs. Argyle have been born fifteen children, four of whom died in infancy, while eleven are yet living, namely: Emily Eliza, the wife of Joshua Hone; Joseph L.; Fannie M., the wife of Charles Evans; Alma, who lives in Randolph; Mary, the wife of Royal Porter; Olive, the wife of Henry Fernsten; Florence, who married John Mitchell; James; Etta; Vergie, the wife of Arnold Soderberg; and Claude. The mother died in August, 1910. For his second wife Mr. Argyle chose Ann Brown, of Salina, and they have one child, Daniel L., who is postmaster at Salina.  Mr. Argyle is the owner of a farm of one hundred and twenty acres but formerly within the boundaries of his place were comprised one hundred and eighty acres. He carries on general agricultural pursuits and cattle raising and has won substantial success in the conduct of his affairs. All of the improvements upon his place were put there by him and indicate how active and progressive he has ever been; There are now large shade trees upon his place, apple orchards and much small fruit. His fields have been most carefully cultivated and large crops are annually garnered in reward of his labors.

Mr. Argyle has also been an active worker in the church. He presided over the Lake Shore ward for thirty-three years and four months. He became the first bishop of the district, there being only about twenty-five families when the ward was organized on the 9th of May, 1886. He continued to fill the position until he resigned as bishop in 1913. He was also the first superintendent of the Sunday school and is a high priest. He is now an elder in the church and his wife, who is now deceased, was active in the Relief Society. He took a trip to Florida in the winter of 1912-13 and was there made a missionary. He has traveled quite extensively, going to Old Mexico in 1910 with a view of locating there but changed his plans. He has also visited Canada and has traveled through nineteen states of the Union. His son Joseph L. has been on a mission to the southern states for two years and three months. Mr. Argyle is recognized as one of the leaders of the democratic party in Utah. He was first elected to the state legislature in 1916 and endorsement of his first term's service came to him in his reelection in 1918. He served on seven different committees during his first term and is now a member of three important committees. He is serving as a member of the democratic county central committee and has ever been untiring in his efforts to promote the political principles in which he so firmly believes, being recognized as one of the prominent democrats of the state. He has contributed much to the substantial development of the district in which he lives through road building and the building of bridges and in many other ways.

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