A. H. CHILD.

A. H. Child, of the A. H. Child & Son Marble Works of Springville, was born September 21, 1860, in the town which is still his home. His father, Thomas Child, now deceased, was a native of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, and came to America in 1852 as a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Making his way across the country, he remained for a short time at Salt Lake and then came to Springville, where he resided throughout his entire life. He passed away November 8, 1908, at the age of eighty-six years. He was a stone mason by trade and for many years engaged in work along that line. In his church he was a very devout and loyal member, doing everything in his power to advance the work of the church, and was presiding teacher for the entire town for a period of twenty-five years. He served on a mission to England in 1876 and was with conference headquarters at Bradford. At Springville he was first employed at ditch making on the city pasture and he worked ten days in order to earn one hundred pounds of flour. Various hardships and privations were endured during the early period of Iris residence here, but as the years passed the advantages of the older civilization of the east were secured. The mother of A. H. Child bore the maiden name of Tabitha Milnes and was born in Bradford, England, where she was married. She accompanied her husband to the new world and their daughter, Ellen Mariah now Mrs. Wheeler, was born while they were en route to the United States and was given the name of the ship on which her birth occurred. To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Child were born eight children, five sons and three daughters, namely: Willard Young, who died at the age of forty-nine years; Ellen Mariah, now the wife of Waller Wheeler, of Springville; Emma, .who died in infancy; Eliza, who also passed away in infancy; Thomas Edward, of Springville; Moroni, who also resides in Springville; A. H., of this review; and Abraham, who died when twenty-three years old. The mother passed away in Springville in 1903 at the age of seventy-nine years, her birth having occurred in 1824.

A. H. Child of this review was educated in the public schools of Springville and at the age of thirteen years started out to earn his own livelihood. In his youthful days he worked at times at hard labor for twenty-five cents per day. When nineteen years of age he was apprenticed to the stonecutter's trade, at which he served a two years term of indenture. He and his father then entered business on their own account and were thus associated until 1898, since which time A. H. Child has carried on the business alone. He is proprietor of the Marble Works of Springville and has won a liberal patronage. He does splendid work in this connection and the excellence and attractiveness of his handiwork, combined with his reasonable prices and straightforward dealing, have constituted the basic element in his continued success. He is also engaged in farming and in fruit raising.

On the 1^st of January, 1886, Mr. Child was married to Miss Emma J. Ostler, a native of Springville and a daughter of Samuel and Emma (Beard) Ostler, both representatives of an old and prominent pioneer family. Mr. and Mrs. Child have seven children: Jennie, now deceased: Beulah, the wife of James Whiting, a resident of Springville: Ivan, who is associated with his father; Henry, a baker of Spanish Fork; Vera, the wife of Wendell Packard, living in Ogden; Floyd, who works in his father's shops; and Arville, who completes the family. The children were all born in Springville. Two of the sons are married. Ivan wedded Miss Violet Moore, a native of New Zealand, and Henry married Eva Cahoon.

In his political views Mr. Child is a democrat but not an office seeker. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the second ward and he is a member of the Fifty-first Quorum of Seventy. He has served on a home mission and is very active and earnest in church work. His life has been quietly passed in the faithful performance of his duties and his record has commended him to the respect and confidence of those among whom he has lived.

HANS CHRISTENSEN.

Hans Christensen, a farmer of American Fork whose business affairs have been most carefully and profitably conducted and who enjoys the respect and confidence of the community in which he makes his home, was born April 7, 1869, in the county in which he still resides, his parents being Hans and Marion (Jorgeson) Christensen, who were natives of Denmark. The father was a farmer in that country and in 1857 came to Utah with Captain Chris Johnson's handcart company, both he and his first wife, Helen, walking all the way from Iowa Falls, Iowa. They left Denmark in April and reached Salt Lake City on the 13th of September following, the journey from Iowa Falls covering the weeks from the last of June. The trip was fraught with hardships anu privations such as were incident to travel at that period. Arriving at Salt Lake City. Mr. Christensen's first work was husking corn in the tithing yard. In the same fall the family went to Millcreek and the succeeding spring removed to American Fork, where Hans Christensen continued to reside until his death in 1880. His wife passed away in 1894 During the first few years of his residence at American Fork Mr.  Christensen did any kind of work that would yield him a living and in the spring of 1859 he leased the farm of Bishop Hunter and continued its cultivation for four years.  The money which he saved during that period was then invested in land and as the years passed he prospered in his farming operations and before his death was one of the men of affluence in the community. He built a large house upon his farm and was most comfortably situated in life. He was also an active churchman and a high priest. He married for his second wife Marion Jorgeson, who died about 1885. Their family numbered six daughters and one son: Hans, of this review; Mary, the wife of John C.  Miller, of American Fork; Margaret, the wife of Alvin Adams, also of American Fork; Hannah, who died at the age of twenty-four years; Esther, the wife of Edward Paxman,  of American Fork; Sophie, the wife of Chauncey Crandall, of California; and Sarah, who was born July 21, 1871, and died in girlhood.

The only son, Hans Christensen, acquired a common school education and was reared to farm life upon the old homestead, which was owned jointly by his father and Neils and Paul Christensen, who were sons of the mother of Hans Christensen of this review by a former marriage. After the death of Hans Christensen, Sr., in 1880 they all remained together and as the years passed Hans Christensen, Jr., concentrated his efforts and attention more and more largely upon farming, cattle raising and sheep raising, giving his attention to the sheep industry for about ten years although he is not active along that line at the present. His agricultural interests have been carefully managed and substantial success is now his. He is also a director and stockholder of the Peoples State Bank at American Fork and a stockholder, director and the vice president of the American Fork Cooperative Institution.

In 1894 Mr. Christensen was married to Sarah Spratley, who was born and reared at American Fork, a daughter of James Spratley. They have two children: Orvilla, the wife of Leo Harvey, of American Fork; and Marion H., at home.  In his political views Mr. Christensen is a republican and is now serving for the third term as a member of the city council. He adheres to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a member of the Seventy and a ward teacher. He has lived to witness great changes in the state as the years have passed. His birthplace was a log cabin that stood near the site of his present home and in 1894 he built a good brick residence of seven rooms at No. 210 First West South street in American Fork, where he now resides. He has seen the work of progress and development carried steadily forward and at all times has borne his part, especially along the line of agricultural improvement.

JAMES P. CHRISTENSEN.

James P. Christensen is a progressive merchant of Salem, where he carries a large and well selected stock, while his annual sales amount to about eighty thousand dollars.  Close application and unfaltering enterprise are the basic elements of his growing prosperity. He is also active in the work of the church and is second counselor to the bishop at Salem. He was here born March 26, 1885, a son of Soren and Elizabeth (Jensen) Christensen, who were natives of Denmark. In 1863 the father came to Utah, making his way first to Provo and afterward to Salem, where he took active part in the pioneer development of the district, working on its canals and the pond at Salem. He also took up the occupation of farming and contributed to the agricultural development of the district. He became a second counselor in the bishopric, occupying the position for a number of years. He was also high priest and for a few years he did missionary work in Denmark prior to coming to the new world. In community affairs he was also active and served as a member of the city council. He died in the year 1915, while his wife passed away in 1918. James P. Christensen was the eldest of their family of eight children, the others being: Soren; Mrs. Ray Davis; Emma; Mrs. Elmer Sabin; Wilford, who has just returned from France, having been on overseas duty with the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery; Alma; and Angus.

James P. Christensen spent a year as a student in the Brigham Young University at Provo and then was sent to Norway on a mission, covering the years from 1905 until 1907. He was absent for twenty-six months and was president of the Tunsburg branch during most of that time. Returning to Utah, he entered the employ of the Farmers Cash Mercantile Company, taking charge of the Salem branch of the business. At the expiration of four months he purchased the Salem store and has since conducted business on his own account under the name of the Salem Mercantile Company. He has developed a substantial and profitable business, employing three clerks and carrying a line of merchandise valued at twenty thousand dollars, while his annual sales reach about eighty thousand dollars. He is thoroughly reliable in his business methods and his earnest desire to please his customers, together with the attractive line of goods which he carries, insures to him a liberal patronage.

In 1909 Mr. Christensen was married to Miss Effie Stone, who was born and reared in Salem, a daughter of Joseph Stone, a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Christensen have become parents of four children: Howard J., Glen A., Lucille and Morris. The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr. Christensen has been second counselor to the bishop since 1909. He is also high priest and a teacher in the Sunday school and his wife is a worker in the Relief Society.  In politics Mr. Christensen is a republican and is serving for the second term as a member of the city council at Salem, having previously filled this position about six years ago. He is chairman of the republican party in Salem at the present time. He is interested in all that pertains to public welfare and has done much to further material, social and moral progress in the community in which he makes his home.

NIELS CHRISTENSEN.

Niels Christensen, after long years of connection with agricultural interests in Utah county, is now living retired at American Fork. He was born in Silla, Denmark, in 1844, a son of Pierre and Helen (Anderson) Christensen. The father died when the son was but three years of age and a year later his mother became the wife of Hans Christensen. By her first marriage she had two sons, Paul and Niels. These two boys, with their mother and stepfather, came to America and crossed the plains to Utah in 1857 with Captain Chris Johnson's handcart company. The two brothers walked all the way from Iowa Falls, Iowa, to Salt Lake barefooted. They were followed closely by Johnston's army, which was only a few days behind, and at times the vanguard of the army had advanced as far as the immigrants. As their supply of foodstuff largely gave out they subsisted to a considerable manner on greens. They had a most terrible struggle in crossing the plains, many dying while en route, and the hardships and privations of the journey can scarcely be imagined. At one time an officer of Johnston's army gave them a lame ox, bidding them kill and eat it which they did.  Arriving at Salt Lake on the 13th of September, 1857, Niels Christensen engaged in husking corn at the tithing house yard in order to earn some money. The family spent the winter at Millcreek and in the following spring removed to American Fork, where Niels Christensen herded cows for John Van Cott of Provo through the summer of 1859. In the fallowing winter he engaged in hauling the tithing flour for the church from Provo to Salt Lake, driving a two yoke team of oxen, as did his brother Paul.  These ox teams were owned by Bishop Hunter, who at that time was the presiding bishop of Salt Lake. Niels Christensen, his brother and stepfather were actively interested together in farming until Niels was twenty-nine years of age, when he married and the farming interests were divided.

It was on the 10th of February, 1873, that Niels Christensen wedded Phoebe Chipman, a daughter of Stephen Chipman, who was the founder of the Chipman family in Utah. Mrs. Christensen passed away July 14, 1894. The seven children of this marriage were: Helen, who died at the age of sixteen years; Verne, who operates his father's farm and is also connected with the Consolidated Wagon Company at American Fork; Edith, the wife of. Peter Anderson, of Salt Lake; Mable. the deceased wife of Edward Reese, of Salt Lake; John, a school teacher in Juab county; Homer, who is teaching in the Latter-day Saints University at Salt Lake; and Marie, who is the widow of William Nuttle and resides at Salt Lake. All of the children were given good educational opportunities and John, Homer and Marie are graduates of the State University.  Mr. Christensen's brother Paul never married and always made his home with Niels to the time of his death, which occurred January 19, 1914. 

Throughout an active business career Niels Christensen followed farming and cattle raising and by the capable management of his business interests won a substantial measure of prosperity, so that he is now living retired, making his home at No. 184 First West South street, his place adjoining that of his son Verne. He is a veteran and a pensioner of the Black Hawk war and he is numbered among Utah's pioneer settlers who retain a vivid recollection of all that had to do with the early development and progress of this section of the state. He is well preserved in mind and body and his memory forms a connecting link between the primitive past and the present. He has ever remained a consistent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he is a high priest. He was block teacher for twenty years and in 1868 was sent on a mission to the Missouri river after immigrants, driving a four yoke team of oxen. He also hauled rock for the Salt Lake Temple in the winter of 1867, driving a four-yoke ox team at that time. His reminiscences of the early days are most interesting and there is no phase of pioneer life in which he has not had experience.

HYRUM LORENZO CLARK.

Hyrum Lorenzo Clark, engaged in merchandising in Pleasant Grove, is a son of George Sheffer Clark. He was born in Pleasant Grove, November 7, 1866. He was educated in the public schools of Pleasant Grove, in the Brigham Young Academy at Provo, and in the University of Utah. He has been engaged in the general merchandise business with his brothers, becoming an active factor in the firm which was established by the father and his sons, and his connection with the store continued until 1907. From that year until 1915 he was with the Telluride Power Company and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. In 1915 he established his present business and has since been an active factor in the commercial interests of the city. He is alert, energetic and enterprising and carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes, readily overcoming all difficulties and obstacles by persistent, earnest and honorable effort.

In Provo, in April, 1892, Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ward, a native of Pleasant Grove, and a daughter of E. J. and Mary B. Ward, representatives of old and prominent families of Pleasant Grove. They had eight children, Susanna Mae, the wife of Dr. O. E. Grua of Pleasant Grove; Mary Ethel, the wife of Bruce L. Allyn of Pleasant Grove; Hyrum Winfield, who is associated with his father in business; Eva Mildred; Gladys Arvilla; Edna Elaine; Ward Sheffer; and Harold Leroy. The wife and mother passed away in October, 1913, her death being deeply mourned by the community as well as by her immediate family.

Mr. Clark is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and during the war he was active in all measures for the support of the government, for the maintenance of the boys in the field, and in fact of every plan and project which would promote America's interests and the cause of the Allies. He has done active work for the liberty loans and the Red Cross and his Americanism is one hundred per cent efficient. In a business way, too, he deserves much credit, for his success is attributable entirely to his persistency of purpose and intelligently directed efforts.

GEORGE EARNEST CLARK.

George Earnest Clark, engaged in sheep raising and farming, making his home at Alpine, was born in Alpine, February 6. 1883. He acquired a common school education and spent the period of his boyhood and youth to the time of his marriage under the parental roof. On the 8th of August, 1906, he wedded Belle Wilkin, a native of Alpine and a daughter of Jedediah Grant Wilkin, a mining man, who met with an accidental death in 1911. Mrs. Clark was the second in order of birth in a family which numbered: Nettie, the wife of Richard David; Reed; Royal; Alton; and Pearl Wilkin. Mr. and Mrs.  Clark have become the parents of six children: Thurza, George Earnest, Lloyd Grant, Glade Ford, Mildred Belle and Norma.

In 1908 Mr. Clark erected his present residence, a pleasant one-story dwelling, in Alpine, which he and his family now occupy. He is engaged in sheep raising and farming and in his business is associated with his brother, Charles W. They run two bands of sheep and are meeting with substantial prosperity in their undertakings.  Mr. Clark is a republican in his political views and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but does not seek nor desire office. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and from 1915 until 1917 was on a mission to the southern states. He is now the president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association and a member of the Seventy. He has also done home missionary work.  The interests and activities of his life are carefully balanced, making his a well rounded character, and his sterling worth is recognized by all who know him.

GEORGE SHEFFER CLARK.

George Sheffer Clark was one of Utah's well-known and honored pioneer settlers, who endured many hardships for the sake of his convictions. He was born in Jefferson County. Ohio, November 7. 1816, and his ancestors were among those who settled Pennsylvania under the leadership of William Penn. His parents. Richard and Elizabeth Ann Clark, were born and reared in Pennsylvania. The father was a carpenter by trade and also engaged to some extent in farming.

George Sheffer Clark was the fifth child in their family of five sons and six daughters.  He was but five years of age when his parents moved northward, settling near the Great Lakes, but after a short time the family home was established upon a farm just north of Indianapolis, Indiana. George Clark there attended school during the winter months for three or four years but had little opportunity to secure a college education, as his services were needed upon the home farm. However, throughout his entire life he eagerly availed himself of every opportunity to promote his knowledge.  In 1842 he, and others of the family were converted to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and removed to Nauvoo, where, in the spring of 1843 George S. Clark was baptized in the Mississippi river by Bishop Hale, and in the spring of that year he was ordained an elder by the president of the Elder's Quorum. He afterward returned to Indiana, where he sold his property, and then went to Williamsport, where he worked during the winter season for a Mrs. Treadway, who engaged in the slaughtering business, and in the spring sent the cured meat on flatboats to New Orleans.  Mr. Clark took the trip to the southern city and then made his way again to Nauvoo. There he was appointed one of the guards of the city, for it was at that time that serious trouble arose between the people of his faith and the people of the community.  The former, however, were allowed to complete their temple and receive their endowments. In the spring of 1846 they crossed the Mississippi river and started for the west, Mr. Clark being a member of the company organized under Colonel Markham.  Mr. Clark was chosen one of the commissaries for the camp and was later requested by President Brigham Young to drive one of his teams, with which request he readily complied.

When the pioneers reached the Missouri river a call came from Colonel Allen, for five hundred volunteers to enlist in the Mexican war, and Mr. Clark offered his services, being assigned to Company B. Patriotism was ever one of his marked characteristics. Upon arriving at the Mexican border, however, Mr. Clark and several others were put upon the sick list and sent back to Pueblo. In the spring of 1847 these men, under the leadership of Captain Brown, started for the Salt Lake valley by way of Laramie and as they were en route their horses were stolen from them by Spaniards.  With ten companions Mr. Clark started out to find their horses and on reaching Fort Laramie found that the Spaniards had taken them across the Platte river, but the water was too high for the pursuers to cross. While there Mr. Clark learned that the Utah pioneers had passed through Laramie only two days before, and Mr. Clark and his companions then started to join the party, which they overtook at Green River. In this way he continued his journey being one of the first to enter the Salt Lake valley. On this trip he became ill of mountain fever and was hauled into Salt Lake in one of President Young's wagons. Soon after his arrival he engaged, with others, in exploring the valley and then returned to Winter Quarters. In the spring of 1848 he and his brother-in-law went to Iowa, where they took up a farm, and Mr. Clark remained in that state for two years. He was married there to Miss Susannah Daley and afterward started for Utah, reaching Salt Lake on the 3rd day of September, 1850. On the 13th day of September of that year he arrived at what is now Pleasant Grove, where a fort was built under his direction for the protection of the settlers from the Indians. In 1851 President Young appointed him bishop of the north end of Utah county and in the fall of that year he was ordained to the office. In the spring of 1853 he was selected probate judge of Utah county. During the following fall when the Indians became troublesome he was chosen to organize a company of fifty families from Lehi, American Fork, and Pleasant Grove and go to Cedar City for the purpose of making that city stronger.  He did this at a great sacrifice of his own interests and after remaining at Cedar City for eighteen months he returned to Pleasant Grove. In the spring of 1856 he was sent on a mission to Australia, where he remained for three years. With the material development of Pleasant Grove and Utah county Mr. Clark was also closely and prominently associated. It was he who gave the city of Pleasant Grove its name, which name Mr. Clark chose because of the beautiful grove of trees which stood in the center of the place selected as the site of the city. When a plan to get water from the Provo river for the use of the people of Pleasant Grove failed Mr. Clark undertook the task of getting water from American Fork canyon and succeeded. In later years he helped materially in getting the Provo river water for the farm land on Provo bench. In 1880 Mr. Clark became a factor in the commercial development of the city, joining with his sons in the establishment of a general merchandise store, which they conducted until December, 1890, when the store was destroyed by fire, with a loss of thirty-five thousand dollars, the insurance being but three thousand dollars. However, with the energy characteristic of the Clark family, the store and opera house were rebuilt on a much larger scale and the sons are members of the firm in control at the present time. On the 9th of April, 1891, he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who passed away at the age of sixty years. Mr. Clark died in 1900 and in his passing Pleasant Grove lost an able citizen and one of its honored pioneers. George Sheffer Clark and Susannah D. Clark were the parents of six children, five sons and one daughter, namely: Joseph B., George Heber, Susannah, John F., William E.. and Hyrum L., and the sons are all capable business men.

WILLIAM WHEELER CLARK.

William Wheeler Clark, a farmer and stockman residing at Lehi, where he was born April 25, 1855, a son of William and Jane (Stephenson) Clark. The father was born in Worcestershire, England, July 26, 1825, and came to America in 1852. He was employed at plastering at St. Joseph, Missouri, for a few years, having previously learned the trade in his native country, and there worked as a plasterer until he came to the new world. He married Emily K. Bryant just prior to sailing for America and the year following his wife passed away. In 1851 he wedded Jane Stephenson and the following spring crossed the plains with ox team and wagon to Salt Lake, where he remained until the fall of 1853. He became a resident of Lehi, establishing his home there three years after the first settlers had founded the place. At once he began building operations at Lehi and did nearly all of the plastering in the early homes for a number of years, continuing to follow his trade for two decades. He also devoted a part of his time to farming and became very successful as an agriculturist. He was one of the first to engage in sheep raising in Lehi and whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion. He was likewise a director of the Peoples Cooperative Mercantile Institution, of the Lehi Commercial Savings Bank and the Lehi Irrigation Company.  In all community affairs he took a deep and helpful interest and served for several terms as a member of the city council, also as road supervisor for a number of years, and for a long period as pound keeper. He was very active in the work of the church and was sent on a mission to England in 1880. He filled the office of bishop's counselor for several years, and at the time of his death, which occurred May 7, 1910, he was patriarch of Alpine stake. The mother of William Wheeler Clark was born in Canada and was left an orphan in infancy. She was reared in Newark, New Jersey, and there married Stephen W. Ross, who passed away in 1849. She started for Utah with her two sons and one daughter and at Council Bluffs she met and married William Clark. They had a family of seven children, William Wheeler being the second in order of birth and the only son.

In the district schools, which he attended through the winter seasons, William Wheeler Clark pursued his education. He was reared to farm life and through the summer months worked in the fields, being thus employed at the time when ox teams were used in farm work. As a boy he hauled freight to Salt Lake by ox teams and he aided in the plowing and did all kinds of farm work with oxen.

He continued to live with his father until his marriage, which was celebrated in 1878, Polly M. Willes becoming his wife. She was a daughter of Ira J. and Melissa Lott (Smith) Willes. Her father was born in the state of New York, while her mother was one of the plural wives of the prophet Joseph Smith. She was born at Luzerne Plains, New York, and married Joseph Smith at Nauvoo. In 1848 she came to Utah, where she met Mr. Willes, to whom she was married on the 18th of May, 1849. Mr. Clark's children born of his first marriage are as follows: Asa J., residing at Lehi; Mary F., now the wife of Frank Fagan, a machinist in the sugar factory at Lehi; and Thomas Edgar, who was city marshal for a number of years at Lehi, where he still makes his home. The wife and mother passed away in 1887 and in 1889 Mr. Clark was married to Martha C. Ward, who was born in Manchester, Coffee county, Tennessee, and was left an orphan when thirteen years of age. She became the wife of Benjamin Ingram and left Tennessee in 1882 for Utah, living for a year in Centerville and for a year at Nephi. Mr. Ingram died at Salt Lake in 1883. Mrs. Clark is a representative of one of the old southern families. Her father was sheriff of Coffee county and she was the youngest of a family of eleven children and the only one who embraced the Mormon faith. By the second marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Clark there are two living children, Sylvan Ward and Lexie Mirl.  Mr. Clark's two sons, Asa J. and Sylvan W., work with their father, although all three own separate farms, yet they labor together for the common good of each. Altogether they own more than a thousand acres of land, two hundred and fifty acres of which is under cultivation, one hundred acres being planted to wheat, oats and barley and also sugar beets. They feed from one hundred and fifty to two hundred head of cattle each season and for a time Mr. Clark engaged in sheep raising. He is also a stockholder in the canning factory, in the Cooperative Mercantile Institution and in the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company of Lehi. His business affairs are wisely and carefully conducted and in all things he is" meeting with substantial success. In his cattle raising he makes a specialty of high grade Herefords and has a fine registered bull at the head of his herd.

The family adhere to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the son Sylvan W. served on a mission to Australia from 1913 until 1915 and was president of the South Melbourne conference for a time. After his missionary work was ended he traveled over New Zealand and Tasmania. He was in Australia during the early war activities and witnessed the mobilization of the troops and the preparations for the gigantic struggle. Lexie Mirl is now on a mission to the northern states, spending most of her time in Chicago. She is a talented young lady, a good musician and well trained not only in instrumental music but as a vocalist. She has also studied dressmaking and possesses versatile powers. Sylvan W. was a member of the army from August, 1917, until January, 1919, with the heavy artillery, receiving his training in California. He was honorably discharged December 18, 1918. Mr. Clark has been presiding elder for seven years and ward teacher for the past thirty-five years. He is now a high priest in the church. In community affairs he has taken a deep and helpful interest and served for two terms as a member of the city council of Lehi and also as a member of the water board for ten years. His cooperation is cordially and effectively given in support of all plans and measures for the general good, and his enterprise and progressiveness make him not only a prosperous business man but also a valued citizen.

WILLIAM J. CLEGG.

A splendid farm property of two hundred acres pays tribute to the care and labor bestowed upon it by the owner, William J. Clegg, who is now a most successful dairy farmer. His residence is situated at Vineyard, which district has been transformed into the finest dairy section of the state. The home farm of Mr. Clegg has been converted to its present state of productivity since 1900, at which time it was an alkali waste. Its attractive appearance indicates his careful supervision, his practical and progressive methods and his laudable ambition.

Mr. Clegg was born in Springville, Utah county, on the 6th of May, 1859, and is a son of Henry and Ann (Lewis) Clegg. The father was born in Lancashire, England, and came to Utah in 1855 with the Richard Ballantyne Company. He was for a long period numbered among the prominent and influential residents of Utah county and for ten years he served as bishop at Springville. He afterward removed to Heber and there filled the position of bishop for twenty years or until the time of his death, which occurred on the 30th of August, 1894. He was also a member of the Twentieth Quorum of Seventy, was Sunday school superintendent, stake clerk and high counselor. He was also active in community affairs as justice of the peace and at one period he engaged in teaching school. His business activities were devoted to shoe manufacturing and to merchandising.  He was a man of determined and resolute purpose who carried forward to successful completion whatever he undertook and he made his labors of great worth in the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of the community. The mother of William J. Clegg bore the maiden name of Ann Lewis and was born in Carduff, England.  Her father, John A. Lewis, was a wealthy resident of England and financially assisted many to come to America. He furnished his own company and brought others with him. Crossing the Atlantic, he made his way westward over the American continent to the Cache valley, where he arrived in 1854. He planted the first orchard in Brigham, where he lived for a short time, afterward went to Salt Lake and eventually cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers at Spanish Fork, where he carried on business as a contractor and builder. He worked untiringly in the interests of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and gave most generously in its support.  William J. Clegg was the second in order of birth in a family of eleven children.

He acquired a common school education and first provided for his own support by hauling ore from the Mammoth mine to Salt Lake in 1870, driving ox teams. It required five days to make the round trip. He was employed by his father until he reached the age of twenty-one years, after which he worked in the mines for several years. He operated a shingle mill in Daniels canyon for a time and assisted in building the first roads in Wasatch and Utah counties. He also served as member of a band during the Black Hawk war. With every phase of frontier life and the initial steps in the development and up building of this state he was familiar. For a considerable period he carried on farming at Heber prior to 1900, when he purchased his present farm at Vineyard, Utah county. He today has an excellent tract of two hundred acres, all under Irrigation and all reclaimed since the beginning of the present century. At that time the farm was a vast alkali waste, but he has transformed it into a garden spot, having put in two miles of drainage and tiling. He has planted all kinds of fruit trees and shade trees and has built a good brick residence and substantial barns, all the work being done by himself and his sons. He is now conducting a large dairy and for this purpose keeps high grade Jerseys and Holstein cattle and ships milk to Salt Lake. There are artesian wells upon the place for irrigation and water is also secured from the Provo river. Mr. Clegg has raised more than thirty-four tons of sugar beets on a single acre of land. His sons are all interested with him in the farm work, although they occupy separate residences. Mr. Clegg was a pioneer in reclaiming the alkali land in the Vineyard section, which is today the best dairy section in the state of Utah. It has been truly a revelation what could be accomplished in this district and it has largely been through the efforts of Mr. Clegg that the marked transformation has been wrought in Vineyard.

In 1880 Mr. Clegg was married to Miss Jacobina Murdock. a daughter of John Murry and Ann (Steele) Murdock, of Heber, who were pioneers of Utah, coming to this state in 1852 in the company of Abraham 0. Smoot. Her father assisted in building the canal to move rocks from the quarry to Salt Lake in order to build the Temple and later he became active in the sheep industry. To Mr. and Mrs. Clegg have been born fifteen children, of whom the eldest, Tillie, died at the age of twenty-one years. Anna Isabell was born May 20, 1883, and married Albert Arthur Holdaway, who was born June 5, 1881. Their children are: Leora Zelda, born January 17, 1904; Ellis Dee, born June 17, 1905; Alvis Lavar, born August 24, 1908; Randal Bert, born April 30, 1911; and Inez, born November 11, 1912. Bina, the third of the Clegg family, is at home. Jeannette is the wife of J. W. McDonald, of Victor, Idaho, who follows farming and ranching there, and they have one child, Alvin. William F., a farmer residing at Vineyard, married Genevieve Aston and they had two children, Weldon and Murl. For his second wife he chose Melinda Moulton. of Heber, and their three children are Velda, Fern and Verline. J.  Wallace wedded Mary Wadleigh, of Lindon. Millicent is the wife of George F. Wells, an engineer at the Sunnyside mines in Carbon county, and they have one child, Merline.  Lewis is at home. Joy O., also at home, was in the United States Guards and was recently discharged as corporal. He was stationed in the northwest, his duties being the transfer of prisoners and members of the I. W. W. from one place to another. Nora is the wife of Roland Harding, a farmer of Vineyard, and they have two children, Vernile and Leah. Mary V. and Joseph H. are at home.  The son, J. Wallace, went on a mission to England extending from 1913 until 1915 and was president of the branch conference for sixteen months. He saw many exciting times there during the early part of the World war and was arrested several times himself as a spy until he could prove his identity and his purpose in that country. He is now an elder in the church and Mr. Clegg, the father, is also one of the church elders.  All of the children have been given good educational privileges, attending the high school and also a term or two at the Brigham Young University. The family are all musical, inheriting the father's talent in this direction. In his early days William J.  Clegg played for the dances and entertainments. His son, J. Wallace Clegg, organized the Vineyard Brass Band and was its leader for a time. The family have ever been closely connected in their business as well as their social interests and the father and sons are most progressive agriculturists. In politics he is a republican and has been, local chairman for the party for a number of years. His entire life has been actuated by a progressive spirit that has resulted in the successful accomplishment of his purpose and for almost two decades he has now been numbered among the foremost farmers and business men of Vineyard.

HYRUM S. CLYDE

Hyrum S. Clyde, vice president of the Mendenhall Banking Company and also identified with farming in Utah county, was born August 16, 1861, in the section of the state in which he still makes his home, his parents being William Morgan and Eliza (McDonald) Clyde, the former a native of Vermont, while the latter was born in Ireland.  It was in 1851 that William M. Clyde came to Utah, making the trip westward with the David Evans company. The mother, Mrs. Eliza (McDonald) Clyde, came to this state with her mother in the same year, establishing her home at Springville. William Morgan Clyde took up the occupation of farming and in 1862 he went to Florence, Nebraska, with ox teams after emigrants. He had previously participated in the Walker Indian war in 1859 and was also in the Black Hawk war in 1866-67. William Morgan Clyde and Eliza McDonald were the first couple married at Alpine, Utah, the wedding occurring on the 24th of January, 1851. Mr. Clyde passed away in January, 1919, at the age of eight-nine years, and at the time of his death was the oldest member of the Mormon church in the state, having joined in 1834. He passed away in Springville at the corner of Second street, South, and Fourth street, East, where he had lived for sixty-eight years.

Hyrum S. Clyde occupies the farm that his father homesteaded and throughout his entire life has followed agricultural pursuits. He married Eleanor Johnson, a daughter of Lorenzo and Mary (Hall) Johnson, who were pioneer settlers of Springville. To Mr. and Mrs. Clyde have been born eight children. Wilford, who is a graduate of the University of Utah and resides at Springville, where he is a mining and electrical engineer, married Etta Palfreyman and they have three children, Cornell, Blaine and Russell, Grover, who was graduated from the Agricultural College at Logan, was with the American army from August, 1917, until January, 1919, and was a corporal of the One Hundred and Forty-third Field Artillery. He was in France at the time the armistice was signed, ready to go over the top. Edward married Hannah Mendenhall and they have one child, Pauline. He was for two years a student in the University of Utah and was a member of the American army from May, 1917, until January, 1919, being connected with the radio branch of the service. He was in the trenches in France for three weeks prior to the signing of the armistice but was on a quiet sector near Switzerland.  Grover and Edward went to France in the same convoy but did not see each other after boarding ship as they were not on the same vessel. George Dewey, who was for two years a student in the Agricultural College at Logan, became a member of the Student Army Training Corps. He had started for the officers' training camp when the armistice was signed and was discharged December 20, 1918. He is now at the branch Agricultural College at Cedar City, on the underground water survey. Harry is a student at the Agricultural College. Clara is at home.  Mr. Clyde is the owner of a very fertile farm, a part of this being bottom land on Hobble creek. He plants several acres to tomatoes each year, has a peach orchard and also raises various grain crops. He likewise feeds cattle and is one of the progressive agriculturists of the community. Upon his place are good buildings, and the neatness and thrift which characterize his farm indicate his practical and progressive spirit. He is likewise the vice president of the Mendenhall Banking Company, a position which he has occupied since its organization, and he is a stockholder in the Springville-Mapleton Sugar Company.

In politics Mr. Clyde is a democrat, active in party ranks, and several times has been a delegate to the state convention but he does not seek nor desire office. However, he served for one term on the Springville city council and for two terms as a member of the Mapleton town board. The line between Mapleton and Springville runs between Mr. Clyde's house and barn, so that he is in both precincts and is active in both. Everything that pertains to the welfare and progress of the community is of interest to him and his aid is never sought in vain when the public welfare is at stake.

THOMAS CODDINGTON.

Thomas Coddington, a well known sheep raiser living at American Fork, was born in Lincolnshire, England, a son of John Thomas and Ann (Whittaker) Coddington.  The father was a wheelwright by trade and died when his son Thomas was but four years of age. The mother survives and still makes her home in England.  Thomas Coddington was born April 10, 1872. and in 1878 was brought to America by his sister Alvina and his grandparents. His grandfather took up the occupation of farming after reaching Utah, to which state he traveled direct after landing on American shores.

Thomas Coddington pursued his education during winter terms of school but early had to begin work and provide for his own support. He herded sheep for Jensen & Smith for four years and afterward was connected with J. E. Jensen in the sheep business for sixteen years and during the last twelve years of that period was a partner of Mr. Jensen. He still remains active in connection with the sheep industry and has two bands of sheep on the range. He owns several sections of land in the mountains and also leases grazing land, in addition to which he has U forty-acre farm and a two and a half acre lot where he resides in American Fork. His home is an attractive and commodious brick residence. Upon his farm he has large barns, corrals and sheep sheds and there are many shade trees. His equipment for carrying on sheep raising is most adequate and his business has been profitably conducted. In addition he also raises some cattle and he is a stockholder in the Chipman Mercantile Company.

After coming to the new world Mr. Coddington made his home with his grandfather and grandmother Woods as long as they lived and afterward resided with an uncle, Stephen Woods, to the time of his marriage.

It was in December. 1895, that Mr. Coddington wedded Elizabeth Chadwick. a daughter of William and Katharine (Armstrong) Chadwick, who were pioneer residents of Utah. Her father was a painter by trade and also followed farming. He was quite active as a church worker and equally earnest in his support of republican principles. For a few terms he served as a member of the city council. Mr. and Mrs. Coddington have become parents of three children who are living: Myrtle, Raymond and Mark. His sister, with whom he came to the new world, is now Mrs. William Oakley, a resident of Eureka. Mr. Coddington remains an earnest member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is in the presidency of the elders' quorum. He is justly accounted one of the enterprising and valued citizens of Utah county, where his worth as a worker along the lines of material and moral development in the community is widely acknowledged.

MARK COOK

About a mile south of the civic center of Springville is the home of Mark Cook, who is one of the substantial farmers of his section. Born in Springville, October 21, 1866, he is of English descent, his parents, Joseph Wood and Martha (Barlow) Cook, having both been natives of Manchester, England, where they were reared and married.  They came to America in 1856, after three children were born to them, and established their home in Pennsylvania, where the father worked in the coal mines for a few years. He then left his family in that state and went to Massachusetts, where he assisted in building the Hoosic tunnel, later returning to Pennsylvania.  Becoming a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he made his way to Utah in 1861 and established his home in Springville, where he did any kind of work that he could secure for a time. He afterward spent one year at Helena and Butte. Montana, where he was engaged in mining. He then took up land which included a part of the farm of his son Mark and as the years passed he became a successful agriculturist. He was also a railroad contractor on the Union Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande roads and remained an active factor in the business world until death ended his labors in 1895, when he was sixty-five years of age. He was very active in church work in early life but in later years withdrew from the church and became a zealous advocate of Masonry, belonging to the Provo Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at the time of his death and exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft, which is based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of mankind and the fatherhood of God.

Mark Cook was the ninth child in a family of twelve children, of whom ten reached adult age. He acquired a common school education and early in life took charge of his father's farm while his father was absent in fulfilling his railroad contracts. Industry and enterprise have actuated him at all points in his career and as he was able to save from his earnings he bought land for himself, which he operated in connection with his father's farm. Prom 1892 until 1915 he conducted a brickyard, manufacturing about a million brick yearly in connection with farming. He is now the owner of one hundred and twenty-five acres of land, of which seventy-five acres is under irrigation and has been brought to a point of rich fertility. He has a good brick residence upon his place and a large grain and hay barn forty by eighty-four feet, covered with galvanized iron. This is the best barn in Utah county. He keeps fifty head of cattle on the range in the summer, feeding them in the winter, and he raises sugar beets extensively, having twenty-four acres planted to the crop in the year 1919. In many ways he has carried forward the work of improvement and development upon his farm, having plenty of water for irrigation, and he has turned waste places into fertile fields by flooding sand onto these hitherto arid districts, in this way producing several acres of productive farm land. Aside from his agricultural interests he has extended his efforts to other fields and is a director of the Springville Banking Company, a stockholder in the Springville-Mapleton Sugar Company and a stockholder in the Utah Wholesale Grocery Company of Salt Lake.

In 1898 Mr. Cook was married to Miss Irene Blanchard, a daughter of Benjamin T. Blanchard,, a pioneer of Springville, who was very active in the Mormon church, serving as a teacher and for years as tithing clerk. To Mr. and Mrs. Cook have been born four children: Leah, Martha, Louise and Mark B.  In his political views Mr. Cook is a republican and has served as a member of the city council, exercising his official prerogatives in support of many plans and measures for the general good. Springville numbers him among the substantial citizens of this region. He is recognized as a man of sound judgment, level-headed, correctly valuing any situation before making a forward move. His efforts, therefore, have been wisely directed in channels where results have been certain, and the integrity and enterprise of his methods have elicited for him the goodwill, the confidence and the high respect of his fellow townsmen.

WILLIAM JAMES CORDNER.

William James Cordner is actively indentified with agricultural and horticultural pursuits at Orem and also devotes considerable time to stock raising. The various branches of his business are wisely and profitably conducted and he is one of the substantial citizens of his district. He was born in Ireland, February 21, 1870, a son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Benson) Cordner. The father was left an orphan when but a young child and went to live with an aunt. In 1864 he was converted to the faith of the Church of Jesus of the Latter-day Saints and at once became very active, doing missionary work in Ireland until 1874, when he crossed the Atlantic to America. His aunt was wealthy and would have made him her heir if he would have consented to remain in Ireland.

During the ten years of his missionary work in that country he was much abused and ridiculed because of his belief, but he stood firm and undaunted in support of his honest convictions and used all of his means assisting the cause and the persecuted people of his faith. At length he sailed for the new world but when nearly half way across the Atlantic the ship sprung a leak and was forced to return. All on board expected to meet death in the ocean but Mr. Cordner said no, that they would safely reach Ireland again, and this proved to be the case, for the ship, though leaking badly, finally managed to reach port. He tried to persuade the captain to continue the trip to America, but this the officer would not do, being afraid to proceed. Again Mr. Cordner was entreated not to go to the new world, but with undaunted courage and firm purpose he started again and this time landed safely on American shores. He was president of the colony that came to the new world and the entire shipload of people crossed the plains with ox teams. He was without funds when he reached Salt Lake and he worked for the city through one winter. During the next spring he went to Provo and was employed in woolen mills there. He had been an expert linen weaver in Ireland and soon learned how to handle wool, remaining in the mills for two years. He subsequently worked on the railroad for two years and still later he went upon the Provo bench, where he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land. His was one of the first families to live on the Provo bench and he was the first man to grow fruit in that district.  He was also very active in promoting irrigation projects and in clearing the land of sagebrush and preparing it for further development. Although he had never previously had any experience in farming he became prosperous in the conduct of his agricultural and horticultural interests. He remained an active and earnest worker in the church, in which he served as elder and otherwise took helpful part in promoting the cause. His life was cut short by an accidental death. He was thrown from a buggy and sustained injuries which terminated in his demise May 18, 1900, when he was sixty-five years of age. His wife was eighty-one years of age on the 24th of June, 1919, and is now living with her children. To them were born nine children, namely: Thomas, who died in Ireland at the age of seven years; Mrs. Mary Lunceford, who had nine children and is deceased; Robert, a resident of Provo; William James of this review; Stephen, who died in Salt Lake City at the age of one year; John, who died at the age of seventeen; Samuel, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work; Alexander, a wealthy resident of Orem; and Arthur, who makes his home in Provo.

William J. Cordner remained at home until he reached the age of twenty-two. His educational opportunities were somewhat limited owing to the fact that his labors were needed up on the home farm. After he had attained his majority he was married and

purchased land, turning his attention to the raising of fruit, and for fifteen years he engaged in peddling fruit in Heber and Park City. In 1906 he built a modern residence on the Provo bench, where he now lives, this being one of the fine places of Utah county.  He has twenty-one acres in a fruit farm, where he resides, and also owns another seventy acre farm partly devoted to fruit growing. He is also engaged in the cattle business, owning a registered shorthorn Durham bull, Paul White. The various branches of his business are capably and profitably conducted and he is today one of the substantial citizens of Utah county.

In 1896 Mr. Cordner was married to Miss Edna Banks, a daughter of F. C. Banks, a pioneer of Utah county, who is now living retired in Pleasant Grove. To Mr. and Mrs.  Cordner have been born six children. Jesse William, the eldest, has just been released from the army after service with the Ninety-first Division with the infantry troops. He was overseas for several months during the hard fighting of 1918, but was neither wounded nor gassed although the hot bullets pierced his clothing and he also took bullets out of his knapsack. Just before leaving for training camp he was married to Jennie Ferguson, of Provo. Thomas, who is living at home, attempted to enlist but was rejected.  Frank C. is a machinist with the United States army at Camp Merritt. He volunteered for service in the Signal Corps but was transferred to the machinists corps and was in France but did not reach that country until after the armistice was signed. During the influenza epidemic he was the only one in his barracks that did not contract the disease. Howard, Stephen and Riva, the younger members of the family, are at home.

In politics Mr. Cordner is a republican but is not an office seeker, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs, which he most capably and profitably conducts. He is now feeding sixty-five head of cattle in the winter season and runs them upon the range in the summer. He cuts about one hundred tons of hay annually and is meeting with success as a general farmer and fruit raiser. His business affairs are carefully, wisely and successfully conducted and his enterprise finds visible expression in his fine home. He also remains an active and earnest worker in the church, in which he is serving as an elder.

SAMUEL CORDNER.

Samuel Cordner has been and is a most progressive business man of the Provo bench. He resides at Orem and is devoting his attention now largely to fruit raising.  His determined spirit, his unfaltering energy and his sound business judgment enable him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. He was born in Provo, September 16. 1876, a son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Benson) Cordner, who are mentioned at length on another page of his work in connection with the sketch of their son. William James Cordner.

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Samuel Cordner acquired a common school education and when not busy with his textbooks assisted his father with the work of the home farm, upon which he remained until he attained his majority, when he began farming and fruit raising on his own account. He also to some extent engaged in dealing in real estate and has negotiated a number of important property transfers. He is the owner of forty-six acres of fruit land, on which he has seven thousand trees, largely peaches and apples, although he engages to some extent in the cultivation of cherries and all kinds of berries. He has given close and discriminating study to fruit raising, with which he is thoroughly familiar from a scientific and practical standpoint, and his success is indicative of the value of the methods which he employs. He is a director of the Northwestern Union Irrigation Company, is the president of the Knight Ditch Company and was one of the promoters and a director of the Garden City Canning Company but later sold his interest in that institution. He is, however, a stockholder in the Pleasant Grove Canning Company and his business interests are thus broad and extensive. His place, which is aptly termed Paradise Farm, is one of the valuable properties of the section and in its attractive appearance indicates the care and labor which Mr. Cordner bestows upon his farm. 

In 1900 Mr. Cordner was married to Miss Elizabeth Earl, who was born and reared in Fairfield, Utah, a granddaughter of Bishop John Carson, of Fairfield, who was a pioneer resident of that part of Utah county. She has one sister, who is now Mrs. J. W. Gillespie, of Pleasant View. To Mr. and Mrs. Cordner have been born five children: Vida Pearl, Violet Gertrude, Elva, Thomas Earl and Fontella. 

Aside from his business Mr. Cordner displays great activity in the work of the church. He is first counselor to the bishop of Sharon ward and from 1913 until 1915 was on a mission to the southern states and was secretary of the mission for the greater part of the second year. His political endorsement is given to the republican party, but while he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day he does not seek nor desire office. He prefers to give his attention to his business affairs, which have ever been most wisely conducted, his keen sagacity and enterprise being manifest in everything that he has undertaken. The visible evidence of his well directed thrift and industry is his fine brick residence, which was built in 1909 and is supplied with all modern conveniences. He is justly regarded as one of the leading citizens of his community and was very active in connection with the incorporation of Orem, the city organization being largely formed in order to establish water works. His ideas and his activities in regard to public interests are always thoroughly practical as well as progressive and he has ever been a man of action rather than of theory.

JEREMIAH E. COTTER.

Stimulated by an honorable ambition and prompted by laudable purpose. Jeremiah E. Cotter has forged steadily to the front in business connections and is now numbered among the capitalists of Lehi, where he makes his home. The story of his life is an interesting and an inspiring one, showing what can be attained through individual effort when industry is guided by intelligence.

Mr. Cotter is a native of Missouri, his birth having occurred at Browning, Linn county, on the 3d of July, 1862, his parents being Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Robbs) Cotter, who were representatives of old southern families, and both were natives of Virginia.  The father became a farmer of Missouri and there passed away when his son Jeremiah was but five years of age, while four years later the mother died and he was thus left an orphan. He had a brother who was two years his senior and a younger sister.

Jeremiah E. Cotter was thrown upon his own resources when a lad of but ten years and began earning his living by doing farm work. Later he turned his attention to railroading and followed that pursuit in nearly every state of the Union up to the time when he came to Lehi to locate permanently, being married in 1893 and establishing his home in the city in which he now resides. His first railroad work was as a section hand in his native state. He then drifted to Arkansas and Texas and was at Denison, Texas, when the town contained but one grocery store and a few tents. He rode from Arkansas through what was then Indian territory on a load of apples. He spent a few years in Texas, after which he returned to Missouri, where he did teaming for a brief period at Cora. Later he was employed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company with a track gang and an extra gang, acting as foreman. In this connection he built the fence from Keokuk, Iowa, to St. Louis, from Burlington to Carrollton and from Keokuk to Mount Pleasant. He came to Utah in 1888 and was with the Denver & Rio Grande as section and extra foreman for eleven years and was also with the Union Pacific and the Oregon Short Line.

In 1902 he withdrew from railroading and took charge of a creamery at Lehi, continuing in that business for a year. In 1903 he established the Cotter Cash Grocery and owned and conducted the store until January  1919, when he sold the business, in which he had made very substantial success. He always carried a large and carefully selected line of staple and fancy groceries and his reasonable prices, honorable dealing and earnest desire to please his customers secured for him a liberal patronage that made the volume of his trade profitable.  In 1893 Mr. Cotter was married at Lehi to Miss Florence Smith, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Leddard) Smith, who were natives of England and thence came to the new world. The father arrived in Utah in 1854 and the mother in 1864. Mr. Smith was a blacksmith by trade and in the early days of Lehi was the town mechanic. Later he homesteaded and took up the occupation of farming. His birth occurred at Kempston, England, while the mother was born at Windsor, in Berkshire. Mr. Smith was at Nauvoo during the troublous times there and was to come to Utah with the first pioneers in 1847 but was requested to stay at Winter Quarters until later in order to shoe oxen and make repairs on wagons. Mrs. Smith made the voyage to the new world on the sailing ship Hudson and was the only one of her family to come to Utah. There were ten hundred and forty immigrants on the Hudson and, like others of the party, she made her way to Salt Lake City, where she became the wife of Mr. Smith.  Mr. and Mrs. Cotter are now parents of two sons, Clarence Edward and Ralph. The elder is a captain of the United States army, now stationed at Fort Scott, San Francisco. He is a high school graduate, also a graduate of the Agricultural College at Logan of the class of 1915, and he worked for the government in connection with the office of the Denver Weather Bureau until October, 1916, when he enlisted in the National Guard and saw service on the Mexican border until the spring of 1917, when he joined the regular army. He was advanced to corporal and sergeant while on the border.  In competitive examination he won a commission as second lieutenant and later first lieutenant, getting both commissions on the 22d of March, 1917. In August of the same year he was advanced to the rank of captain and was at Fort McArthur in the coast artillery service for about a year, after which he was sent to France in August, 1918, and had charge of the Seventeenth Anti-Aircraft Battery at the time the armistice was signed. He was then given charge of the internment camp at Richelieu, France, where nearly one thousand German prisoners of war were detained, all of them being commissioned officers. From France he was sent to England and Scotland and later he sailed from Marseilles, France, passed through the straits of Gibraltar and thence proceeded across the Atlantic to Fort Monroe, where he was stationed for a time and was then transferred to Fort Scott, San Francisco. Ralph was graduated from the high school and from the Agricultural College at Logan with the class of 1918 on the completion of a course in botany. At present he is in southern Utah for the government, doing temporary work on the geodetic survey, being sent there by the college as an expert on plant classification.

Mr. Cotter makes his home in Lehi. where he and his family occupy an attractive residence. He also owns a farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres, from which he derives a good annual rental, and he is a director of the State Bank of Lehi, of which he has been a stockholder since its organization. In community affairs he is deeply and helpfully interested, serving at the present time as a member of the city council, while on one occasion he was offered the mayoralty but declined to become a candidate. For the past six years he has been president of the Commercial Club, a live and progressive organization formed to promote Lehi's up building and extend her trade relations. He is also serving on the library board. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having membership in Lehi Lodge, No. 26, of which he is a past grand, and he has also been representative to the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Utah. His wife belongs to the Rebekahs and is past president of the local organization, while in 1915-16 she was state president. Mr. Cotter is a charter member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Lehi and both he and his wife are charter members of the Rebekah lodge. They are among the most highly respected citizens of Lehi and their many sterling traits of character have gained for them the warm esteem of all. The record of Mr. Cotter should serve as a stimulus to the efforts and enterprise of young men who have to start out in life as he did without capital, dependent upon their own resources. His career illustrates the possibilities for successful achievement as step by step he has worked his way upward until he is now numbered among the men of affluence in Utah county.

MYRON EDGAR CRANDALL, JR.

Myron Edgar Crandall, Jr., is the president and manager of the Springville Canning Company, which controls one of the most important productive industries of Utah county. Sound business judgment and indefatigable enterprise characterize his control of this project, which is of great worth to the community, as it furnishes a splendid market to producers and employment to a large force of workmen. Mr. Crandall is determined and energetic, and his keen sagacity enables him to avoid all business pitfalls into which unrestricted progressiveness is so apt to lead.  A native son of Springville, he was born May 17, 1874, of the marriage of Myron Edgar and Mary Louise (Metcalf) Crandall. His grandfather, Myron Nathan Crandall, with his family came to Springville among the original eight families who founded and settled the town, arriving there in the fall of 1850 after having crossed the plains with Aaron Johnson's company. The Crandalls are representatives of one of the old New England families. The grandfather was born in Genesee county, New York, on the 17th of August, 1818, and with his removal to the west became a prominent figure in the development of Springville and the surrounding district. He aided largely in converting pioneer conditions into the advantages of modern civilization and was active in public office as justice of the peace and as a member of the city council. His business was that of a farmer and stock raiser, and his private interests were carefully and successfully conducted. He was also an earnest worker in the church, serving as bishop's counselor and as missionary to Fort Bridger, Wyoming, in 1868. He also became a high priest in the church. His son, Myron Edgar Crandall, was born in Pottawattamie county, Iowa. February 17, 1848, and was brought by his parents to Utah, where he was reared amid the scenes and environment of pioneer life. He, too, took up the occupation of farming and stock raising at Springville and likewise became a railroad contractor and business man. He was one of the organizers of the Springville Canning Company, which was formed in 1904, and in promoting the progress and development of this section of the state proved a prominent factor.

Myron Edgar Crandall, Jr., was well qualified for life's practical and responsible duties by liberal educational opportunities. He was graduated from the Brigham Young College at Logan and afterward entered the University of Utah at Salt Lake, where he pursued courses in general science and mathematics. Before attending the advanced schools, however, he made his initial step in the business world, for at the age of thirteen years he entered the employ of the firm of Roylance & Crandall and at fifteen years of age was occupying the position of bookkeeper and chief clerk in the commissary department for his father, who had a large railroad construction contract. When sixteen years of age, while living at Logan, Mr. Crandall served as bookkeeper for the Ricks-Crandall Company, dealers in merchandise and produce, and when seventeen years of age he became bookkeeper for the Cache Valley Dairy Company at Richmond, Utah. When a young man of nineteen years he returned to Springville and took charge of the books for William M. Roylance, proprietor of an extensive produce house. He occupied that position for six years and then went on a mission to the northern states, covering the years from 1900 until 1902, with headquarters at Chicago, and served as secretary in the latter year.

Upon his return to Springville, Mr. Crandall again became bookkeeper for the Roylance interests and after a year thus passed was made cashier of the Springville Banking Company, in which capacity he served for two years. He also filled the position of city recorder and was a member of the city council during that period. He resigned the bank cashier ship to become general agent for the state of Utah for the Continental Insurance Company of Salt Lake, which he thus represented for a year. In 1906 he entered the employ of the Studebaker Corporation, with which he continued for twelve years, or until 1918, with offices at Salt Lake. He acted as traveling auditor and salesman for the state of Utah and for five years he was at the head of the Salt Lake office, acting during the last two years as retail sales manager for the automobile department.

Upon again coming to Springville in 1918 Mr. Crandall was made manager and in 1919 president and manager of the Springville Canning Company, as the steady increase of its business demanded a good business executive at its head. The company built and equipped a new factory for their canning business at a cost of sixty thousand dollars.  This plant has a capacity of five thousand cases of canned goods per day and they handle and can peas, beans and tomatoes. This is one of the largest canneries of beans in the state. The most cleanly and sanitary methods are employed, one of their factories standing at the head in this line, according to the report of the inspection. They utilize the latest automatic machinery in handling the product and also have a branch establishment for the handling of peas at Spanish Fork and at Salem. The extent and importance of the enterprise is indicated in the fact that they have an average during the canning season of two hundred and fifty employees. In 1918. when the government was taking forty-five per cent of the product as fast as it was turned out, they had on the pay roll as high as six hundred employees during the months when the government was urging the saving of the crop to the fullest extent. The business is indeed one of great importance to Springville and vicinity on account of the splendid market which is offered to producers and the. employment furnished to so many. Some of the farmers realize as high as five hundred dollars per acre for the crops which they sell to the cannery. 

On the 25th of June, 1902, Mr. Crandall was married to Miss Evelyn Maeser, a daughter of Dr. Karl G. Maeser, an eminent educator of Utah, who was connected with the Brigham Young University at Provo and in whose honor has been erected a memorial known as the Dr. Maeser Memorial building. Mr. and Mrs. Crandall are the parents of seven children: Myron Maeser, Karl Kent, Gordon Edgar, Kelsch Carlisle, Anna Emelie, Sterling Meith and Lowell Weber.

In church circles Mr. Crandall is a prominent and influential figure. He is a high priest and is a member of the stake high council and also ward teacher. While living in Salt Lake he was in the stake superintendence of the Ensign and Granite stakes and was chorister of Emerson ward. He is also chorister of the Sunday school at Springville and his wife is a member of the Relief Society. Mr. Crandall possesses much musical talent and is a great lover of the art. His ability in this direction has enabled him to contribute much to the church services and to the pleasures of social life. He was recently appointed a member of the city council of Springville. He possesses marked ability as an organizer and executive, forms his plans readily and is determined in their execution. Opportunity has ever been to him a call to action and his keen sagacity has enabled him to most wisely direct his efforts along those lines where fruition is certain.

GEORGE A. CULLIMORE.

George A. Cullimore, conducting business at Orem, on the Provo bench, under the name of the Sharon Mercantile Company, was born at Pleasant Grove, April 15, 1880, his parents being James and Clara (Fowlke) Cullimore, who were natives of England and came to the new world with their respective parents, who settled in Utah. James Cullimore and his people came to Utah in 1859 with the Robert F. Neslen company, while the mother's family came in 1861 with the Ira Eldredge company. The grandparents in the paternal line were William and Lettice (Powell) Cullimore, who were natives of England, the former born January 5, 1791, and the latter December 15, 1792.  James Cullimore was born July 26, 1840, in Tockington, Gloucestershire, England, which was also the birthplace of his father, and while in his native land he learned the mason's trade of his father. James Cullimore was one of the pioneer settlers of Pleasant Grove and was active in the pioneer development of the community as well as in the work of the church. He served as president of the high priests' quorum and assisted in building the St. George Temple in 1874. He was a director of the Pleasant Grove Cooperative Company for several years and was a representative of the Genealogical Society of Utah for two years. He was also high priest. He died in 1917, while the mother of George A. Cullimore is still living. Her family numbered seven children who yet survive, while three died in infancy. Those living are: Elizabeth Lettice, the wife of George R. Ash, of Pleasant Grove; William James, of Pleasant Grove; Albert Lorenzo, of Pleasant Grove, who is bishop of the Lindon first ward; Calara Rosena, the wife of James H. Kirk, of Provo bench; Etta Caroline, the wife of William S. Greenwood, of American Fork; George Alfred, of this review; and Harriet, who was born October 2, 1868, and gave her hand in marriage to Benjamin Cluff, Jr.

After pursuing a high school course, which he completed by graduation, George A.  Cullimore spent two years in a general course at the Brigham Young University of Provo. He then took up farming in connection with his father and was thus engaged until 1900, when he went on a mission to the northwestern states, spending two years in the mission field. He was president of the conference for a part of the time and then again took up farming on the home place, there remaining until 1907, when he became associated with his brother, Albert Lorenzo, in the mercantile business at Pleasant Grove, remaining active in the conduct of a store there for seven years. In 1914 he bought the Sharon mercantile business and has since conducted the store, his annual sales amounting to about thirty-five thousand dollars. He conducts the store along progressive lines, carrying a well selected stock of goods, and his enterprise and energy are proving the basic elements of his growing success. 

In 1901 Mr. Cullimore was married to Miss Allie McBride, who was reared on the Provo bench, a daughter of Albert McBride, one of the pioneer settlers of this part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Cullimore have four children: Leslie, Ferris, Gladys, and Virginia.

In 1915 Mr. Cullimore built a twelve-room residence of colonial design in Orem, which is one of the most handsome homes in this section of the state. He has taken an active and helpful interest in the development of the district in which he lives and cooperates heartily in all plans and measures for the general good. In addition to the conduct of his store he deals in coal, grain, hay and sometimes fruit and his business has grown along steady and substantial lines, resulting in the attainment of a gratifying success. He is active in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, in which he is a Seventy. In politics Mr. Cullimore is a republican where national questions and issues are involved but at local elections casts an independent ballot.

ASA L. CURTIS, M. D.

Dr. Asa L. Curtis, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Payson, was born at Salem, Utah county, February 3, 1877. The Curtis family is distinctively American in its lineal and collateral branches, having been represented on American soil since 1635. The progenitor of the Curtis family in the new world was a native of England. The original home of the family, built in 1667, is still standing at Boxford, Massachusetts, and the home place is still owned by a member of the family, George Curtis, who is a Civil war veteran. The family has been represented in every war of America from the first settlement on the soil of the new world down to the present time. Lyman Curtis, father of Dr. Curtis, was reared and educated in Massachusetts to the time when in his boyhood the family home was established in Erie county.  Pennsylvania. Later he became a resident of Clear Lake, Michigan, his parents having joined the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints in Michigan in 1832.  Not long afterward they removed to Kirtland, Ohio, and thence to Missouri as members of the Zion Camp. The father there endured all of the persecutions to which people of his faith were then subjected. He was among the pioneer settlers who came to Utah and was with President Brigham Young, being among the first eight men to arrive in this state. He was at all times very devout and loyal to his belief and did much to further the cause of the church. He was blessed by Joseph Smith, who said ing his blessing that "he should strike the rock" and bring forth water. His work later sustained the prophecy, for he established irrigation canals at Salem and St. George and developed the Muddy and Curtis River irrigation projects, the latter being named in his honor. At a subsequent date Mr. Curtis followed farming and stock raising and was very successful, his life illustrating the biblical truth: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you," for not only did he prove a devoted follower of the church but also prospered in a material way. He died in 1896, at the age of eighty-four years. The mother of Dr. Curtis was prior to her marriage Miss Sarah Hartley. She was born in Sheffield, England, and came to America with her mother, a convert to the church. They were among the early handcart company, traveling with that band of devoted people who experienced such intense suffering as they journeyed across the plains. It was in Salt Lake that she became the wife of Lyman Curtis and she had a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters, six of these children being born of her marriage to Mr. Curtis, while two were children of a former marriage. Mrs. Curtis is still living at the advanced age of eighty-three years and makes her home in Salem, Utah.

Dr. Curtis was educated in the district schools of Salem and in the Brigham Young University at Provo, where he pursued a normal course. After leaving college he taught school for four years, two years of this time in Utah county and two years in Arizona. He then went on a mission to New Zealand, where he remained for three years, from 1901 until 1903 inclusive, with headquarters at Wellington, serving as president of the conference during the last year of that period. On his return to the United States he took up the study of medicine in Northwestern University of Chicago and was graduated there from in 1911 with the degree of M. D. He at once located for practice in Payson, Utah, and has since devoted his attention to medicine and surgery, in which he has met with excellent success. He belongs to the Utah County Medical Society, also to the Utah State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and he was at one time vice president of the county organization. He was commissioned a captain of the Medical Corps on the 27th of June, 1918, and served at Camp Funston until his discharge February 12, 1919, during which time he prepared and presented to the war department the outline and plans for a new tank, which was intended to have the speed of an automobile and the fighting qualities of a tank.  For this service he received congratulations from Colonel Thompson, General Crowder, Senator Smoot and several other army officers, but the war ended before his tank was put into use.

Dr. Curtis was married December 28, 1903, in Manti Temple, to Miss Annie B. Littlewood, a native of Payson and a daughter of Martin Littlewood. Dr. and Mrs.  Curtis have eight children: Asa Brentnall, Lucille, Evelyn, Melva, Mildred, Helen, Emerson and Delbert.

Dr. Curtis belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints of the second ward. He is a member of the high council and in church and Sunday school work has taken an active part. He belongs also to the Payson Commercial Club, of which he has served as president. Nothing is foreign to him that has to do with the up building and progress of the community in which he makes his home, his aid and cooperation being counted upon at all times to further every measure for the general good. He also holds to the highest professional standards and his ability is recognized by his contemporaries and colleagues in the profession.

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