JOHN WALDO HAGAN, M. D.
Dr. John Waldo Hagan, a most able representative of the medical profession, enjoying a large practice at Spanish Fork, was born on a farm in Keokuk county, Iowa, December 13, 1883. His father, Joseph Hagan, was a native of Port Washington, Ohio, and followed farming as a life work. On leaving the Buckeye state he removed to Iowa, where he again settled upon a farm, devoting his attention to its cultivation and improvement throughout his remaining days. He married Ellen Barnes, also a native of Ohio, and both have now passed away, the father having died in 1890, while the mother long survived and was called to her final rest in 1917.
In the schools of Frederic, Iowa,
Dr. Hagan pursued his education to the age of seventeen
years and then became a student in the St. Louis
University, where he prepared for the practice of
medicine and surgery. He was graduated with the class of
1904 and in 1907 he entered upon active practice in
Spanish Fork, Utah. He has taken postgraduate and
hospital work at Keokuk, Iowa, and at St. Louis and at
all times has kept in close touch with the latest
discoveries and researches of the profession, employing
all advanced and progressive methods in the care of the
sick.
In 1906 Dr. Hagan was married to
Miss Clementeen Jenson, of Elsinore, Utah, a daughter of
J. I. Jenson, who has been a resident of Utah from
pioneer times. Dr. Hagan and his wife
have three children: J. Waldo, now in school; Charles
Warner, nine years of age and also attending school; and
Theresa, aged four. Dr. and Mrs. Hagan occupy an
enviable social position and have an extensive circle of
warm friends in this section of the state. He belongs to
the Utah County and the State Medical Associations and
he allows nothing to interfere with the faithful
performance of his professional duties, meeting all such
with a sense of conscientious obligation. His
professional colleagues and contemporaries as well as
the general public speak of him in terms of the highest
regard.
CHARLES
HANKS.
Charles Hanks, identified with the
farming interests of Utah county, his home being at
Salem, was born at Gloucestershire, England, January 24,
1855, a son of John and Maria (Reynolds) Hanks. In 1868
the father came to America, making his way with ox team
from Benton, Wyoming, to Utah. The mother had died in
England prior to the emigration of the family to the new
world. The father brought his three sons with him to the
United States and although Charles Hanks was then but
thirteen years of age he began work with his brothers,
who were older, and his father on the Union Pacific
Railroad. They were at Promontory Point at the time of
the driving of the golden spike, which constituted the
completion of the two ends of the railroad, on which
occasion Ogden staged a most interesting celebration.
Later the members of the Hanks family went to the Cache
valley, where they took up their abode in 1869, spending
a year there. At the end of that time John Hanks and his
son Edward returned to England.
His eldest son, Thomas, went to Wyoming and is
now a resident of Rawlins, that
state.
Charles Hanks traveled all over the
west, riding the range and engaging in teaming for about
ten years. Learning that his father and brother had
returned to Utah and were at Salem, he, too, made Bis
way to that place and afterward went to Eureka, living
there until about 1895. During that period he was
regarded as one of Eureka's prominent and influential
citizens. He served as a member of the city council for
two years and was otherwise active in its public
affairs. He took a contract for hauling ore from the
mines to Ironton, the nearest railroad point, and during
the busy season operated as high as twenty teams. He was
also a prominent and influential member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Eureka and is a past
grand of Eureka Lodge, No. 12, and also a past chief
patriarch of Keystone Encampment, No. 8, of
Eureka.
On disposing of his business
interests at that place Mr. Hanks returned to Salem and
took up the occupation of farming. He is now the owner
of seventy-five acres of land which is well irrigated
and highly cultivated and he also has one hundred and
sixty acres of pasture land. His irrigated land is
devoted to the raising of hay, grain and sugar beets, of
which he annually produces large crops. He runs fifty
head of cattle on the range in the summer and feeds an
equal number in the winter. Aside from his farming
interests he is a director of the State Bank of Payson,
having been connected with the institution in that
capacity since its organization.
In 1879, at Blackfoot, Idaho, Mr.
Hanks was united in marriage to Miss Lena Herman and to
them were born four children, of whom two died in fancy,
the others being: Charles; and Mrs. Frank Taylor, of
Eureka. The mother of these children passed away, and
for his second wife Mr. Hanks chose Miss Emma Curtis, a
sister of Dr. Asa L. Curtis, of Payson,
mentioned elsewhere in this work. They have one child,
Roscoe, who is associated with his father in the conduct
of the home farm, upon which he resides.
He married Minnie Edmonds, of Salem, and they
have two children, Emma Jean and
Freddy.
In his political views Mr. Hanks is
a republican and has served as mayor of Salem, giving to
the city a businesslike and progressive administration.
He has long been very active in the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and only once in twenty years has he failed
to attend the grand lodge of the state, many times being
a representative thereto. He has also financially
assisted the order at Eureka when the lodge was in need
of funds there to build the Odd Fellows block. He has
ever been a faithful follower of the teachings of the
order and his life measures up to its highest
standards.
GEORGE A.
HANSEN.
George A. Hansen, sole proprietor
of the Hansen Catering Company of Provo, which, he
established in 1912, has since built up an extensive and
gratifying business as a manufacturing confectioner and
caterer. He is a native of Copenhagen, Denmark, where
his birth occurred on the 1st of June, 1880, his parents
being Neils and Sybarena (Lyngby), Hansen, both of whom
have passed away. During his active life the father was
engaged in business as a shoe manufacturer of
Denmark.
George A. Hansen pursued his early
education In the schools of his native country and after
emigrating to the new world continued his studies in the
Agricultural College of Utah at Logan. He came to
America when a lad of nine years, landing at New York,
whence he made his way direct to Logan, this state.
After his college course was completed he established a
retail candy manufacturing business, conducting an
enterprise of that character in Logan for eleven years.
Subsequently he removed to Salt Lake City and there
carried on a similar business for two years. In 1912 he
established the Hansen Catering Company at Provo, where
he has remained continuously since and has won an
extensive trade as a manufacturing confectioner and
caterer. He is an expert candy manufacturer of long and
varied experience and conducts a most attractive
establishment at Nos. 36 and 38 West Center street,
which is equipped with a handsome soda fountain and
where he deals in high grade candies and fine bakery
goods. On many occasions his services have been in
demand as caterer for banquets and in this connection he
enjoys a most enviable and well merited reputation.
On the 4th of April, 1900, Mr.
Hansen was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Grant, of
Logan, by whom he has two children: Robert G., who is
seven years of age and is attending school; and Leroy
Grant. Mr. Hansen belongs to the Provo Commercial Club
and takes an active part in furthering various plans and
measures calculated to promote civic development.
Industrious, energetic and enterprising, he has won high
standing among the business men of the community and in
social circles has made a host of warm friends. He has
never had occasion to regret his determination to come
to the United States, for here he found the
opportunities which he sought and through their wise
utilization has won success. The period of his residence
in Utah now covers three decades and he has become
widely known as one of the substantial and
representative citizens of
Provo.
JOSEPH
HANSON.
Spanish Fork has known Joseph
Hanson throughout his entire life, for he was here born
and reared, his birth occurring January 30, 1874. He is
now a prominent factor in its business circles as
manager of the Gem Milling Company. His parents were
Henry and Christine (Olsen) Hanson, the former a native
of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, while the latter was
born in Denmark. The father became a brick maker of
Denmark and was married in that country prior to his
emigration to the new world. It was in 1868 that he bade
adieu to friends and relatives in Europe and came to
America with his wife and one child. The latter, dying
on the voyage, was buried at sea. After reaching his
destination Henry Hanson followed brick making for a
time and afterward devoted his attention to farming. He
passed away May 30, 1885, while his wife's death
occurred in 1902. Their family numbered seven children,
of whom Joseph is the third in order of birth, the
others being: George, a farmer residing in Utah county;
Sarah, who is the wife of Moroni P. Stark, a farmer of
Utah county: Augusta, the wife of James French, who
devotes his attention to agricultural pursuits in Utah
county: Jacob, a cattleman of the same district; Hyrum,
who follows farming at Roosevelt, Utah; and Annie, who
became the wife of Ferris Holley, of Mapleton. and died
in 1913, leaving two children.
Joseph Hanson acquired a common
school education, his time being divided between the
schoolroom and the fields as he assisted his father in
the work of the home farm. He continued to engage in
farming there until twenty-one years of age in
association with his brothers, after which he turned his
attention to commercial pursuits, accepting a clerkship
in the general store of Oran A. Lewis, with whom he
remained for nine years, a most valuable and efficient
employee. He afterward assisted in the organization of
the Farmers Cooperative Company and was manager for ten
years. In 1917 he was made manager of the Gem Milling
Company and has since occupied that responsible
position, the duties of which he discharges with marked
capability. He has also been the vice president of the
Commercial Bank of Spanish Pork since 1917 and for a
longer period has been a member of its board of
directors. He owns a one hundred acre tract of land,
devoted to general farming and stock raising and under a
high state of cultivation. He is likewise the owner of
the Angelus Theatre of Spanish Fork, which he built in
1912 and which has a seating capacity of six hundred.
This he now leases. He is the largest shareholder in the
Farmers Cooperative Company and thus his business
interests and connections cover a wide scope, placing
him among the foremost men of his section of the
state.
In 1901 Mr. Hanson was married to
Miss Elizabeth Williams, a daughter of John Williams,
who is mentioned in connection with the sketch of his
son, Daniel Williams, on another page of this work. Mr.
and Mrs. Hanson have become the parents of six children:
Melba, Fay, Sarah B., Roland, Wilma and Roy.
Mr. Hanson belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints and is a member of the Seventy. His
political allegiance is given to the republican party
and he is now serving as a member of the city council,
in which connection he exercises his official
prerogatives in support of all plans and measures for
the general good. He has been an active worker in behalf
of the Liberty loans and of all interests affecting the
welfare of' the country during the war period. In fact
he stands for progress and improvement at all times and
as a most progressive business man has made valuable
contribution to the development and up building of the
district in which he
lives.
E. D.
HAWKINS.
E. D. Hawkins, who follows farming
and merchandising at Benjamin, was born there, October
21, 1880, his parents being Charles and Susan (Jenkins)
Hawkins, who are mentioned in connection with the sketch
of C. E. Hawkins on another page of this work.
Upon the old homestead farm E. D.
Hawkins spent the days of his boyhood and youth and
after mastering the branches of learning taught in the
district schools attended high school at Spanish Fork
for two years. He was then called on a mission to
California but while there became ill and returned to
Utah. He later became interested in bees and for several
years conducted an extensive apiary, at times having
more than a thousand colonies of bees in southern Utah.
During a part of this period he was in partnership with
John Shepherd. Mr. Hawkins is now manager of the
Benjamin Farm Bureau Mercantile Association at Benjamin,
which has recently been organized and now has nearly one
hundred stockholders. This company is conducting a
general merchandise business, selling anything that the
farmer needs and buying everything that the farmer
produces. Mr. Hawkins is fast building up a large and
substantial business. He also carries on farming on his
own account, owning forty acres of land, all of which is
well irrigated and under a high state of cultivation.
Since retiring from the bee business he has given much
attention to farming and still lives upon the farm,
whereon he has a good brick residence and all modern
improvements. He is a stockholder in the Commercial Bank
of Spanish Fork. His farm is devoted to sugar beets and
hay and he also feeds cattle thereon. A part of his land
is rented, for he finds it difficult to attend to all of
it and at the same time manage the interests of the
mercantile company, the business of which is steadily
developing under his wise guidance.
In 1901 Mr. Hawkins was married to
Miss Lillie Hone, a daughter of George Hone, a pioneer
settler of Benjamin, who was the first man to locate
permanently there. Others had taken up
their abode in that region but did not remain. Mr. Hone
was a bee keeper for a number of years, also a farmer,
and he planted the first shade and fruit trees in his
town. To Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have been born four
children. Vivian, who is a graduate of the Brigham Young
University at Provo, having there completed a business
course, is now serving as stenographer for Attorney
Hanson at Spanish Fork. George, Merrill and Veda are all
at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins are members of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a
high priest and a member of the bishopric of Benjamin
ward, and his wife is a member of the Relief Society. In
politics he is a republican and is serving on the local
central committee and has also served on the county
central committee. He is deeply
interested in the success of his party and does
everything in his power to promote its growth and extend
its influence. He has worked diligently and persistently
and in his vocabulary there is no such word as fail. His
energy and ambition have enabled him to overcome
obstacles and difficulties such as one encounters in
business, and he is today an active factor in the
substantial development of Benjamin and the surrounding
district.
FRED SMITH
HEALEY.
Fred Smith Healey, a farmer, sheep
and wool grower and cattle raiser, resides at Alpine,
where he was born in 1887. He is a son of Ephraim and
Mary Matilda (Watkins) Healey. The father's birth
occurred at Wittake, Leicestershire, England, January
26, 1847, and he was a son of James and Elizabeth
(Smith) Healey and a grandson of Joseph and Mary
(Eggleyshaw) Healey. James Healey worked as a coal miner
before coming to America but was converted to the faith
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
sought to establish a home in Utah, where he arrived in
1854, having crossed the plains with the Job Smith
Company. The parents of Fred Smith Healey with their
three children and Mrs. Healey's mother, Mrs. Sarah
Heathcote, started for America together but the mother
and grandmother died while crossing the plains, as did
also a baby sister two years old. The family settled in
Alpine the following year and in 1855 took up land and
began farming. They were active in all the pioneer work
there and contributed much to the early development and
improvement of the section in which they lived. The
grandfather, James Healey, was a high priest of the
church and also a teacher. He died in 1907. His son,
Ephraim Healey, followed farming throughout his entire
life at Alpine with the exception of seven years spent
at Pleasant Grove. He was not only active as an
agriculturist but was county justice of the peace for a
period of twenty years and likewise filled the offices
of alderman and city councillor. He was an Indian war
veteran and there were no phases of pioneer life with
all of its hardships and privations with which he was
not familiar. In 1866 he was sent on a mission to the
Missouri river to aid in bringing immigrants to
Utah. As the years passed
through the conduct of his farming and stock raising
interests he won prominence and success, gaining a very
substantial competence as the years passed.
His wife, Mary Watkins, was born in Garden Grove,
Iowa, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Smallman) Watkins,
who were natives of England and on coming to the new
world made their way to the Mormon settlement at Nauvoo,
Illinois, where they were living at the time of the
persecution of the people of their faith. They crossed
the plains with ox team and wagon in 1851 and in 1852
settled at Alpine. Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Healey were the
parents of eight children who are yet living, while one,
Ada, died in infancy. Rosella is the wife of William
Jenkins, a resident of Victor, Idaho. Ida is the wife of
Otto Steenbock and lives at Salt Lake. Mary E. is the
wife of George Nielson, a resident of Butte, Montana.
Olivia is the wife of Thomas McGregor, who resides at
Alpine. May is the wife of Guy Shoemaker and resides at
Payson. Frank is associated with his brother, Fred S.,
in farming and in sheep raising, Fred being the next of
the family. Sarah G. is the wife of Mark Bennett, a
resident of
Alpine.
Fred S. Healey acquired a common
school education and was reared upon his father's farm.
In early life he became associated with his brother
Frank in sheep raising and is still actively connected
with the sheep industry. He has developed important
interests of this character and is now one of the
prominent sheepmen of Utah county. He also carries on
cattle raising and is extensively engaged in
farming. The brothers have
between three and four thousand head of sheep and nearly
a hundred head of cattle and Mr. Healey also has eighty
acres of fertile land under cultivation and all well
irrigated, this tract being devoted to the raising of
hay and grain. In 1909 Fred S.
Healey was married to Miss Emeline G. Nash, a daughter
of J. E. Nash, a farmer of
Alpine, where Mrs. Healey was born and reared. By her
marriage she has become the mother of five children:
Edith Lyle, Fred Floyd, Dayton Ephraim, Jack Smith and
Nash Mindwell, who died in
infancy.
The political support of Mr. Healey
is given to the republican party and while keenly
interested in its success he is not active as an office
seeker. He is an elder of the church and does everything
in his power to promote the material, intellectual,
social and moral progress and welfare of the community
in which he makes his home.
He and his family occupy a beautiful brick
bungalow, which he erected in 1907, and they are among
the most highly respected residents of their section of
the state. The family has been well known from early
pioneer times and the name of Healey is inseparably
interwoven with the history of Utah
county.
ERIK
CHRISTIAN
HENRICHSEN.
Erik Christian Henrichsen is sole
proprietor of the business conducted under the name of
the Provo Pottery Company. Those who know him, and he
has a wide acquaintance, speak of him in terms of high
regard concerning his business ability, his
progressiveness in citizenship and his sterling worth.
He was born in the city of Vejle, Denmark, on the 30th
of December, 1847. His father, Peter Henrichsen, was a
native of Denmark and a prominent business man of
"Vejle, where he engaged in mercantile business, in
brick manufacturing and in brewing. He was born in 1813
and his life record covered the intervening period to
1882, when he passed away in his native land.
His wife, who bore the maiden name of Jacobine
Ernst, came to Provo after his demise and lived with her
son until her death in 1900. In their family were ten
children, five of whom are yet
living.
The public schools of his native
country afforded Erik C. Henrichsen his educational
opportunities. When his course was completed he traveled
and studied business methods in connection with the
manufacture and sale of pottery in various cities. He
afterward became associated with his father in business
and remained in Denmark until 1871, when he sought the
opportunities of the new world. He made his way direct
to Provo. He brought with him wide experience, for he
had had charge of a large pottery in Denmark ere coming
to the United States. Soon after reaching Provo he
established his present business, conducted under the
name of the Provo Pottery Company and now the largest
undertaking of the kind in Utah. Mr. Henrichsen has been
very active in the conduct of this enterprise, studying
constantly to improve methods, and his output has found
a ready sale on the market. He is engaged in the
manufacture of fine clay products, such as flower pots,
butter and milk jars and other goods of that character,
and the plant is located at No. 690 West Third street,
South. Previous to establishing the pottery he was for a
time engaged in general merchandising on Academy avenue,
where he conducted a successful business under the name
of the Henrichsen Mercantile Company. He was also at one
time a director of the Provo Street Railway Company. He
owns a tract of land producing very fine clay, which he
uses in the manufacture of
pottery.
In 1872 Mr. Henrichsen was married
to Miss Albine J. P. Jensen, a daughter of Hans Jensen,
and they have become the parents of eleven children, of
whom seven are living. Nancy Amelia, the eldest, is now
Mrs. Mohle, of Scofield, Utah, and has a son, Albert C,
who was a member of the United States army and
participated in nineteen of the important battles upon
the French front after America's entrance into the war
and is now honorably discharged. He was a member of a
New York regiment. Alice M. is the wife of John Cannon,
of Salt Lake, and they have three children. Ernest C, of
Provo, who is with the Irvine Company, dealers in dry
goods, married Miss Nellie Jones, of Provo, and has five
children, namely: Levon, who is working in a bank in
Provo; Leah; Clifton E.; Paul J.; and Ora May. Olga M.,
the fourth of the family, is the wife of George Howard
and their children are Lorine, Ethel May, George,
Marjorie, Ernest Clinton, Ruth and James Wilford. Willy
J., of Salt Lake, married Alice Hansen and has one
child, Eugene Z. Henry Hans is the next of the family.
Edwin Roy, of Provo, married Beulah Giles and their
children are Edwin Howard, Amy Maria, Roy Giles, Beulah
Naomi and John
Elmo.
Mr. Henrichsen has taken a very
active part in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. He has been sent on two missions, to
Denmark and Norway, and was president of the Bergen
conference there, while in the work of the church he was
very successful. He has also been called upon to aid in
seven home missions and is senior of the one hundred and
fifty-sixth Quorum of Seventy. In politics he Is an
earnest republican and has served as a member of the
city council of Provo. He is greatly interested in civic
affairs and in questions of national moment and keeps
well informed concerning all the problems and issues of
the day. He reads widely and thinks deeply, and his
opinions are the expression of earnest study and a firm
belief in the principles which he espouses. He became a
charter member of the Chamber of Commerce, now the Provo
Commercial Club, and no cause that has for its object
the welfare and upbuilding of the city seeks his aid in
vain. He has a good home, standing in the midst of
beautiful grounds adjoining his place of business. He
has been a faithful and loyal citizen, a devoted
churchman, and in every relation of life he has
commanded the confidence, good will and high respect of
all who know him. He has a host cf warm friends
throughout Provo and this section of the state and all
speak of him in terms of the warmest
regard.
FRANK L.
HICKMAN.
Frank L. Hickman, of Provo,
representing the Inter-Mountain Life Insurance Company
of Salt Lake as district manager for southern Utah, was
born upon a farm at Benjamin, Utah county, on the 7th of
April, 1880, a son of George W. and Lucy Ann (Haws)
Hickman. The father was a native of Missouri and a
representative of one of the old American families of
German extraction, represented, however, in the new
world since 1680. He was a highly educated man and
following his graduation from a college at Memphis,
Tennessee, he attended the Eclectic Medical College at
Cincinnati, Ohio, and after his graduation practiced his
profession for a time in Missouri. In 1856, lured by the
gold fields of the west, he and his two brothers started
for California, but on arriving in Utah he became
interested in Mormonism and remained in this state,
while his brothers continued the journey to California.
After a year spent at Salt Lake he removed to Provo,
becoming the pioneer physician at that place. He also
practiced at different periods in Salem and in Payson
and he utilized his professional skill as surgeon in the
Black Hawk war, in Sanpete county. Later in life he took
up the occupation of farming at Benjamin, where he
homesteaded and also bought land. He remained very
active in the work of the church and became a high
priest. In politics he was a democrat. A broad-minded
man, interested in progress for the individual and the
community at large and connected with much constructive
work, he was loved by all who knew him. His worth as a
factor in the pioneer development of Utah was widely
recognized. He was born August 13, 1824, and was
therefore in the seventieth year of his age when he
passed away on the 25th of November,
1893.
Frank L. Hickman was the youngest
of nine children who reached adult age in a family of
thirteen. He was graduated from the Brigham Young
University at Provo, where he received his Bachelor of
Arts degree. He devoted fourteen years to school
teaching, becoming eventually a college professor. He
first taught in the district school at Benjamin, later
was principal of the schools of Hinckley, Utah, and also
principal of the schools at American Fork. He had charge
of English classics in the Brigham Young University at
Provo and while devoting much of his attention to his
professional duties he also engaged in the insurance and
real estate business as a side line. He first became
active in the real estate field at American Fork, where
he continued for two years and then removed to Provo,
where he bought out the Provo Realty Company,
consolidating the same with the Garden City Real Estate
Company. In 1917 he organized the Provo Consolidated
Real Estate Company and was president thereof until he
disposed of the business in 1918 to become district
manager for the Inter-Mountain Life Insurance Company.
His position is one of large responsibility and his
recent experience well qualifies him for the work that
devolves upon him in this connection. He is alert and
energetic, ready to meet any emergency, and his judgment
is sound and discriminating.
In 1906 Mr. Hickman was united in
marriage to Miss Jennie Dixon, of Payson, a daughter of
John H. Dixon. She died in 1910. leaving two children,
Ferris and Florence. In 1912 Mr. Hickman
was again married, his second union being with Olive
Nixon, of Provo, a daughter of J. W. Nixon, and they
have three children, Elaine, Erma and
Rane.
Mr. Hickman served on a mission for
the church in the southern states from 1900 until 1902
and was president of the conference. He has also been a
member of the Seventy In politics he is a republican,
thoroughly informed concerning the vital questions and
issues of the day, and he has served as a delegate to
county conventions but has never sought nor desired
office as a reward for party fealty. He resides at No.
345 East Center street, in Provo, in a beautiful
residence. He is a most progressive and enterprising
young business man and a wide awake citizen whose
devotion to the public welfare is thoroughly
recognized.
HORACE E.
HOAGLAND.
Horace E. Hoagland is living
retired from active business cares at Provo. For many
years he was identified with agricultural and commercial
interests and the careful conduct of his business
brought to him the measure of success which now enables
him to rest from further labor. He has passed the
seventy-fifth milestone on life's journey, his birth
having occurred in Hamburg, Livingston county, Michigan,
on the 29th of August, 1844, his parents being
Christopher and Corintha (Griffith) Hoagland, the former
a native of New Jersey, while the latter was born in the
state of New
York.
They were married in the Empire
state and soon afterward removed westward to Michigan,
taking up government land in Livingston county and thus
casting in their lot with its pioneer settlers. As the
years passed they became landowners and the father was
accounted one of the prominent farmers of that
district. Horace E. Hoagland
acquired a common school education. The father died on
his son's fifteenth birthday and an elder brother, John
F. Hoagland. then purchased the home place and Horace E.
remained in the employ of his brother until 1870. He was
the eighth in order of birth in a family of ten
children, namely: Stephen, who died while on his way to
California at the age of twenty years, when driving ox
teams to the coast; the others of the family were Emily,
Mary, Fidelia, John N, Julia, Jacob, Horace E., Henry
and James. The youthful experiences of Horace E.
Hoagland acquainted him with every phase of farm life
and thus qualified him to take up agricultural work on
his own account at a later
period.
It was in 1868 that Horace E.
Hoagland was married to Miss Maria C. Sexton, who was
born in the township of Marion, Livingston county,
Michigan. They have become the parents of three children
who survive: Minnie, the wife of Richard Beesley,
mentioned elsewhere in this work; Belle, who is at home
with her parents; and Georgia, the wife of N. Donald
Forsyth, a rancher living at Newcastle, Iron county,
Utah, and they have five children, Harry. Helen, Louise,
Saxon and Minnie.
Two years after his marriage, in
1870, Mr. Hoagland removed to O'Brien county, Iowa,
where he engaged in farming for a period of ten years.
He then took up his abode in the town of Hartley,
O'Brien county, where he established a lumberyard and
also built a home, which he occupied for two years. At
the end of that period he went to Sutherland, O'Brien
county, where he lived for a year, but afterward
returned to Hartley, where he purchased an interest with
a merchandise establishment, being connected with the
business for a year. Again he went to Sutherland, where
he resided for a short time and next removed to Dalton,
Kansas, where he resumed the occupation of farming. He
spent twelve years at that place and then established
his home at Warrensburg, Missouri, in order that his
children might enjoy the advantages of the good schools
there. He continued a resident of Warrensburg for three
years and then removed to Utah for the benefit of his
daughter's health, erecting a modern two story brick
residence in Provo, which he and his wife and daughter
now occupy. He still owns a part of his old home farm at
Dalton, Kansas, having two hundred and twenty acres of
rich and productive land there, from which he derives a
substantial annual income. His Provo residence is
situated at No. 441 East Centre street. He has become a
director of the State Bank of Provo but otherwise is not
connected with business affairs, preferring to live
retired.
Mr. Hoagland has always been deeply
interested in the cause of education and has given his
children good advantages in that direction. His daughter
Minnie pursued a medical course in the State University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor and practiced medicine in a
hospital at Bonner Springs, Kansas. Belle is a high
school graduate and Georgia completed a course at
Brigham Young University of
Provo.
The family are Methodists in
religious faith and are highly esteemed in the community
in which they live. Mr. Hoagland has always given his
political support to the republican party and while
living in O'Brien county, Iowa, served as county
supervisor for a period of three years. He was also
school trustee and school director in that county and
did everything in his power to further the cause of
education. His support and allegiance have ever been
given to projects and movements that tend to uplift the
individual and promote the welfare of the community and
his sterling worth has commanded for him the respect and
confidence of all with whom he has been brought in
contact.
ELMER T.
HOLDAWAY.
Elmer T. Holdaway is a most
progressive farmer and dairyman of Vineyard, well known
as the manager of the Union Dairy Company and also as
the vice president of the Provo Implement & Motor
Company. He was born in Provo, October 13, 1879, and is
a son of Amos David and Lydia (Thrower) Holdaway. His
grandfather is mentioned in a sketch of Marion Holdaway
on another page of this work.
The father acquired a common school
and high school education at Provo and after completing
his course of study there he worked for a time in the
canyons and also on a farm, while through one winter he
devoted his attention to teaching school. He was married
in 1872 and then purchased a tract of land north of
Temple Hill, whereon he made his home for two years. In
1880 he was appointed selectman for Utah county, after
which he rented his farm and removed to Provo, where for
twelve years he continued in office, being re-elected at
each succeeding election until he had been the incumbent
of the position for twelve years. He also served as city
alderman for several years and at one time was a
candidate for mayor of the city but failed of election.
For a number of years he was a member of the State
Insane Asylum commission and at all times he was deeply
and helpfully interested in everything pertaining to the
welfare and up building of the community and
commonwealth. After the division on party lines he
became a democrat and a leader in democratic circles,
being an unfaltering adherent of party principles. He
also served for a time as justice of the peace and for a
number of years he was associated with S. S. Jones in
mercantile interests and also did railroad contracting,
in which connection he carried on business with James E.
Daniels and S. S. Jones, doing work for the Denver &
Rio Grande and also on the Mercur Railroad. These
gentlemen likewise owned one of the largest gray
sandstone quarries in the state and in addition to
furnishing stone they furnished thousands of railroad
ties used in the construction of the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad. There were few lines of activity
contributing to the development and up building of the
state with which Mr. Holdaway was not closely and
prominently associated. In all things he seemed to look
beyond the exigencies of the moment to the opportunities
and possibilities of the future and labored for later
progress and improvement as well as present-day success.
He was at one time a member of the state fair board. He
displayed marked ability as a financier and in fact his
judgment was seldom if ever at fault in any business
transaction, for he readily discriminated between the
nonessential and the essential. He was the president of
the Upper East Union Ditch Company and was likewise
interested in the Timpanagous Canal Company. His labors
were a most important element in the development and up
building of the state through the utilization of its
natural resources. In 1894 he was appointed by Governor
West a director of the Deseret Agricultural
Manufacturing Society and was one of three men appointed
by the governor to settle the Jordan dam difficulties.
He died April 28, 1900, and a life of the utmost
usefulness and value to community and state was thus
ended.
Elmer T. Holdaway supplemented his
early education by a three years' commercial course in
the Brigham Young University of Provo, from which he was
graduated with the class of 1901. He was active with his
father in contract work in his younger years, holding a
scraper when but a little lad at the time of the
building of the Mercur Railroad.
He was early trained to habits of industry,
economy and perseverance and thus laid broad and deep
the foundation upon which he has built his later
success. After working on the railroads he turned his
attention to farming in connection with his brothers,
Milton and Walter, with whom he was associated for eight
years. On the expiration of that period he purchased his
present property and is now the owner of one hundred and
sixty-eight acres of excellent land at Vineyard. Public
opinion numbers him with the most progressive farmers
and dairymen of this section of the state. He keeps
fifty head of dairy stock, including milk cows, and his
dairy interests return to him a most gratifying annual
income. He also has thirty acres of land planted to
sugar beets and his is a splendidly improved farm,
supplied with good buildings and with artesian wells. He
has seventy-five acres of his land under cultivation and
this tract produces splendid crops. Mr. Holdaway is the
manager, secretary and treasurer of the Union Dairy
Company, which is the largest shipper of milk to Salt
Lake City, shipping about five tons of milk daily to the
capital. He is also the vice president of the Provo
Implement & Motor Company, a position which he has
occupied since its organization, and is a director in
the Eureka Lilly Mine which promises to be one of the
big producers of the state. One feature of his farm
which always attracts interest is twenty-five acres
planted to alfalfa, producing therefore a great amount
of hay. His home is a good residence in the midst of a
highly developed property. He also has an extensive barn
for the shelter of grain and stock, and all of the
accessories and improvements of the model farm of tbe
twentieth century are found upon his place.
In 1903 Mr. Holdaway was united in
marriage to Miss Ellen Ekins, a native of Provo and a
daughter of George Ekins, who was one of the pioneer
settlers of Provo, where he devoted his attention to
farming and stock raising. Mr. and Mrs. Holdaway have
four children: Lucile, fifteen years of age; Harold,
aged ten; Alene, six years of age; and Reer, a boy of
two summers.
Mr. Holdaway is an elder in the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In politics
he maintains an independent course, voting for men and
measures rather than party, yet he is not remiss in the
duties of citizenship and gives hearty cooperation to
many well devised plans for the up building of his
section of the state. The name of Holdaway is
inseparably interwoven with the history of Utah
county.
MARION
HOLDAWAY.
For an extended period Marion
Holdaway, of Vineyard, was actively and profitably
engaged in agricultural pursuits and developed one of
the fine farms in this section of the state, but is now
largely living retired, enjoying in a well earned rest,
the fruits of his former toil. He was born in Provo,
Utah, February 28, 1855, a son of Shadrach and Eliza
(Hawes) Holdaway.
The father was a native of
Tennessee, his birth having occurred in that state,
October 15, 1822, his parents being Timothy and Mary
(Trent) Holdaway, who in the year 1831 removed from
Tennessee to Illinois, so that Shadrach Holdaway from
the age of twenty-six years resided upon his father's
farm in that state. He became a member of the Mormon
church in 1844 and that fall removed to Nauvoo,
Illinois, where he remained until the people of his
faith were driven out by the mob in 1846. He later
became one of the Mormon Battalion and filled the
position of teamster for Company C, under Captain James
Brown and Lieutenant Rosencrans.
He was with the company during the entire
campaign until they were discharged from service on the
16th of July, 1847, at Los Angeles, California, after
having made the entire trip across the country to the
Pacific coast. Subsequently Mr. Holdaway spent six
months in the employ of Dan Williams. He next purchased
an outfit and had made preparations to return to Utah
when the news of the discovery of gold was brought to
Los Angeles and on his way to Utah Mr. Holdaway stopped
at the forks of the American river with seven people,
where they engaged in mining for about a year. He acted
as cook of the camp but received his share of the gold
dust, amounting to about four thousand dollars. This he
brought with him to Utah, arriving in Salt Lake, October
24, 1848. He was the first man
to pay his tithing in California gold dust. In the
spring of 1849 he returned to Illinois and Missouri and
in that fall made the return trip to Utah with the first
load of carding machinery to be brought to this state.
He set up the machinery near what is now known as Provo
dugway, but one year and a half later he set up his shop
where the Provo Laundry now stands, and for twenty years
followed the business of carding wool, having the only
carding mill in the territory and doing all of the work
along that line. In 1865 he built a sawmill on the south
fork of Provo canyon, where he engaged in cutting native
timber until 1874. During the following year after
moving to Provo he built the first threshing machine
made in Utah, constructed from wagons left by Johnston's
army. He also had the first molasses mill and the first
corn grinder He was a man of marked mechanical skill and
ingenuity and could fashion almost anything out of wood
and iron. Because of his initiative, his inventive
genius and his progressive spirit he became recognized
as one of the foremost men in the state. He built more
miles of roads than any other one man during his time
and also made the second canal out of Provo river. As
the years passed he prospered in his undertakings and
became a large landowner. He was also a thoroughly
public-spirited man, participating in every plan and
project put forth for the development of the land in and
around Provo and the up building of the district. He
also took a lively and helpful interest in church
affairs, was a member of the Thirty-first Quorum of
Seventies and was also high priest. He died in the year
1906, on the anniversary of his wedding day, and thus
passed away one of Utah's most prominent pioneer
settlers, one whose tangible worth to the new
commonwealth was widely recognized by all. His second
wife was Eliza Hawes, a sister of his first wife,
Lucinda Hawes.
Marion Holdaway was the only child
of the father's second marriage who lived.
He acquired a common school education and work
with his father until he reached the age of twenty-two
years. Since then he has devoted his time and attention
to farming, to mining, to railroading and to the
operation of sawmills. He was thus engaged until 1899,
when he concentrated his efforts and attention upon
agricultural pursuits at Vineyard, a part of his present
farm being a portion of his father's old homestead farm,
which was given to him. He wrought a wonderful
transformation in the appearance of the place,
converting the land into rich and productive fields and
making the farm one of the valuable properties of the
district. He erected thereon fair buildings, put in
artesian wells and planted apple orchards, together with
much small fruit.
On the 25th of November, 1876, Mr.
Holdaway was married to Miss Prudence E.
Peay, of Provo, Utah, a daughter of Francis and
Eliza (Baker) Peay, her father a well known and
prominent pioneer farmer of Utah. He was also a very
active and devout Mormon, full of good deeds in behalf
of his fellowmen ar.d his church. He was especially
remarkable for his retentive memory. His death occurred
in the year 1910. To Mr. and Mrs. Holdaway were born the
following named. Clara Eva is the wife of Dudley Chase,
a resident of Salt Lake, and they have three children.
Clive, Earl and Reed. Francis M., a farmer of Vineyard,
wedded Nellie Handley and they have six children:
Gladys, Glenn, Ray and Fay, twins, Claude and Donald.
Albert Arthur married Annabelle Clegg, a daughter of
William Clegg, mentioned elsewhere in this work.
Albert A. Holdaway has been associated with his
father in farm work for a considerable period and
recently has purchased the old homestead farm, which he
now owns and cultivates. He carries on general
agricultural pursuits and dairying. His father in making
the sale reserved the home buildings upon the place and
Albert A. has an entirely separate set of buildings. He
is a progressive and energetic business man, displaying
sound judgment and notable enterprise in the conduct of
his affairs. Prudence Eliza is the wife of William C.
Chase, of Ogden, and they have three children, Willard,
Lyle and Prudence. Florence Rosetta is the wife of Frank
Carter, a resident of Salt Lake, and their five children
are Mabel, Edith, Ronald, Bessie and Sidney. Zelda Maud
is the wife of Joel Bunnell, a farmer of Vineyard, and
they have four children, Dean, Grace, Jessie and Neal.
Jennie is the wife of George J. Fox, a resident of Elko,
Nevada, and they have one child,
Marion.
Such in brief is the life history
of Marion Holdaway, who has always remained a resident
of Utah, spending his entire life in the section of the
state in which he still resides. His business affairs
have been wisely and carefully conducted and his
thorough reliability is one of his salient
characteristics. Success in substantial measure came to
him as the reward of his labors and enables him now in
large measure to rest from further
toil.
WALTER
HOLDAWAY.
A splendidly irrigated and highly
developed farm is the property of Milton and Walter
Holdaway, living at Vineyard, Utah county. They devote
their attention to general agricultural pursuits and
dairying and both branches of their business are proving
profitable. Walter Holdaway is a native son of Provo. He
was born November 25, 1889, his parents being Amos David
and Lydia Holdaway. mentioned elsewhere in this work in
connection with the sketch of Elmer Holdaway.
Walter Holdaway took a commercial
course at the Brigham Young University and was thus well
qualified for life's practical and responsible duties.
For a few years thereafter he was employed by the city
of Provo as deputy superintendent of the water works and
inspector of construction work for the city. Later,
however, he took up farming on his own account in
connection with his brother Milton, and together they
own a three hundred acre dairy farm at Vineyard, on
which they have built a substantial residence, large
barns and all the necessary outbuildings for the shelter
of grain and stock. They have one of the best cow barns
in Utah, thoroughly modern and sanitary in every detail.
It is one of very few barns in the west having a
cork-brick floor for the cows to stand on, with drinking
cups in the manger for each individual. The barn is
forty by eighty feet, built of brick and cement, is well
lighted and splendidly ventilated and has a capacity for
forty head of cows. They have very high grade stock,
mostly pure bred Holsteins. They own a pure bred
Holstein bull which is a half-brother of Duchess Skylark
Ormsby, the world's champion cow. The name of the bull
is Uno Skylark Ormsby. They also own a pure bred
Guernsey bull and a number of high class registered cows
from the state prison herd of Utah. The farm of the
Holdaway brothers has an abundance of artesian water for
irrigation and they have one hundred and twenty acres of
land under cultivation, of which fifty-two acres is
planted to sugar beets. Their business affairs are most
carefully, wisely and successfully conducted and they
have, aside from their farming Interests, considerable
holdings in mining and other
stocks.
In 1911 Walter Holdaway was united
in marriage to Miss Edna Knudsen, a daughter of Herman
and Amanda Knudsen, pioneer settlers of Utah county. Two
children have been born to this marriage, Clyde and
Lyle. Mr. Holdaway's business affairs claim his
undivided time and attention, and the progressiveness
and integrity of his methods have placed him in the
front rank among the leading agriculturists of his
section of the
state.
JOHN I.
HOLLEY.
John I. Holley has since 1917 been
engaged in dealing in general merchandise, farm
implements, hay and grain at Mapleton. He had previously
been actively identified with agricultural interests. He
was born at Mapleton, March 2, 1894, a son of James H.
and Emma (Isaac) Holley, the former a native of England,
while the latter was born in Pennsylvania. James H.
Holley came to Utah with his father, James Holley, Sr.,
in the early '50s, and the Holleys were among the first
families in Springville, where their old home is still
standing. James H. Holley was an active churchman in his
younger days and for a time was a railroad contractor,
doing grading for the Oregon Short Line in Idaho and for
the Denver & Rio Grande in Colorado. During the
construction of the Strawberry Irrigation project, which
was built by the government, he and his son, John I. of
this review, did work in connection therewith, using
their railroad grading equipment and furnishing several
teams of horses. James H. Holley was thus actively and
helpfully associated with the material development of
the west in the utilization of its natural resources and
remained an active factor in the world's work until his
death, which occurred in March, 1918. The mother of John
I. Holley was a telegraph operator in the early days and
was employed largely by the Southern Utah Railroad. The
family numbered ten children, eight of whom reached
adult age, John I. being the next to the youngest. The
others are: James R., residing in California; Richard
F., a sheepman of Utah county, Utah; Teresa, the wife of
Arthur Manwaring; Dallas, a farmer living in Utah
county; Patsy, the wife of E. W. Konold, a resident of
Canada; Benjamin, who resides in Bingham canyon; and
Glen, who makes his home at Mapleton and is engaged in
the sheep business with his brother, Richard F.
Holley.
In the acquirement of his education
John I. Holley attended the district schools and was
reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with the
best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the
crops. He assisted his father in the farm work and in
the work on the Strawberry irrigation project and
continued to engage in farming until 1917, when he
purchased his present general merchandise establishment
in Mapleton. In addition to
carrying a full line of general merchandise, he handles
farm implements and also deals in hay and grain and is
doing a business amounting to about fifty thousand
dollars annually, carrying a stock valued at ten
thousand dollars.
In 1914 Mr. Holley was married to
Miss Wilda Perry, a daughter of Hyrum B. Perry, and they
have two children, John Perry and Grace. In politics Mr.
Holley Is a republican and his religious faith is
indicated in the fact that he is an elder in the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Progressiveness in
business affairs has brought him steadily to the front
and he is now enjoying a large trade, having three
employees and using an auto for delivery of goods
several miles out in the
country.
ALONZO
HOOLEY.
Alonzo Hooley, who is engaged in
farming and dairying, his home being at Lindon, was born
at Pleasant Grove, Utah, July 22, 1864. a son of Thomas
and Harriett (Nardin) Hooley, both of whom were natives
of England. The father came alone to the new world,
making his way to Utah, and the mother during her
girlhood days was brought by her parents to this state,
the journey across the plains being made with ox team
and wagon. Thomas Hooley, however, made the trip to Utah
with the famous handcart company of 1856 that endured
such dreadful suffering because of hunger and cold.
He took up the occupation of farming at Pleasant
Grove and there passed away in 1864, only a few months
after the birth of his son Alonzo. The mother later
married again, becoming the wife of Thomas Holland, a
farmer of Pleasant Grove, who passed away in 1880,
leaving a family of six
children.
Alonzo Hooley had but little
opportunity for attending school and early in life he
worked in the sawmills in the canyon. When sixteen years
of age he was employed on the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad with a track gang and became the support of his
mother and the younger children of the family. He has
but one full sister living, this being Mrs. William
Rawlings, while his own brothers, Benjamin and Thomas,
died in infancy. Thus the period of Alonzo Hooley's
youth passed in earnest and unremitting toil.
In 1887 he married Sarah Parks, who
was born at Pleasant Grove, her father being one of the
pioneer settlers of Utah county and the first man to get
timber out of the canyon. He also followed farming and
was active in church work. He passed away in 1917. To
Mr. and Mrs. Hooley have been born thirteen children,
twelve of whom are yet living. Emma, the eldest, is the
wife of Alfred B. Harper, a farmer of Utah county, and
they have six children: Margie, Thelma, Helen, Howard,
Rue and Verl. William, who follows carpentering and
farming in Utah county, married Blanche Kimber and has
one child, Harold. Before devoting his attention to
agricultural pursuits William was electrician for the
Telluride interests in Bingham canyon for eleven years
and for two years he was at the Brigham Young University
in Provo. Ervin married Sarah Varley, a daughter of
William Varley, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work.
Ervin enlisted with the American forces and received his
military training at American Lakes, in New York and at
Newport News, being honorably discharged in December,
1918. Leonard married Cora Newell and with their four
children, Wilford, Lavon, Owen and Wayne, they reside
upon a farm in Utah county. Merle is the wife of Ray
Kirk, a sheep man, and they have three children: Leah,
Cleo and Gladys. Roy, who follows
farming in Utah county, married Clara Merritt and has
one child, Levar. Leo married Thelma Jacobson, of
Pleasant Grove. Arnold, Delilah, Howard, Verlond and
Melda are all at home. Ezma died at the age of seventeen
months. William, Roy and Leo all qualified for entrance
into the United States army and were ready to answer the
call of the country when the armistice was signed.
Mr. Hooley purchased a seventy-acre
farm at Lindon, where he now resides, and has since
given his attention to general agricultural pursuits and
dairying, keeping full-blooded registered stock, with a
fine Durham bull, Victor Gold, at the head of his herd.
He has put all of the improvements upon his place, which
when it came into his possession was a tract of desert
land covered with sagebrush. Today it is a well
developed and highly improved property with good
buildings, large shade trees, a fine orchard and full
farm equipment, including all the latest improved
machinery and all accessories that lessen farm labor. He
is today regarded as one of the progressive
agriculturists of Utah county and he is also the
president of the North Union Irrigation Company. His
religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, in which he is serving as a Seventy.
His political endorsement is given to the republican
party, but he does not seek nor desire office,
preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon
his business affairs, which have been wisely and
successfully
directed.
JOSEPH
HUGHES, M. D.
Dr. Joseph Hughes, physician and
surgeon of Spanish Fork, who in his practice holds to
the highest professional standards and ethics, was born
January 19, 1876, in the city in which he still resides,
his father being Morgan Hughes, a native of Wales,
mentioned elsewhere in this work in connection with the
sketch of Dr. E. G. Hughes.
While spending his youthful days in
his parents' home Dr. Joseph Hughes attended the schools
of Spanish Fork, passing through consecutive grades to
his graduation from the high school. In 1897 he was a
student in the Brigham Young University, but just before
the completion of his course there he was sent on a
mission to the southern states. He afterward entered the
University of Utah, from which he was graduated in 1901
upon the completion of the Normal course. Taking up the
profession of teaching, he became principal of the
schools of Mount Pleasant, of which he had charge from
1904 until 1906. He had previously taught in the schools
of Payson from 1902 until 1904, but he regarded this
merely as an initial step to other professional labor,
as it was his earnest desire to become a physician and
surgeon. With that end in view he entered the Jefferson
Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he
remained as a student from 1906 until 1910 and
then received his M. D. degree upon his
graduation. Returning to Utah, he
entered upon the active practice of medicine and surgery
at Spanish Fork, where he has since remained. He has
also taken post-graduate work and in 1912 he was a
delegate to the International Congress of Hygiene and
Demography at Washington, D. C. In 1916 he was a student
in the New York Post Graduate School, where he made a
specialty of diseases of women, and for two seasons he
studied at the Lying-in Hospital. He belongs to the Utah
County, the Utah State and the American Medical
Associations and in 1918 was vice president of the
county society, while for three years he has been one of
the delegates to Utah State Medical Association. He is
keenly interested in everything that tends to bring to
man the key to the complex mystery which we call life
and as the years have passed on he has made steady
progress in his
profession.
In 1901 Dr. Hughes was married to
Miss Delilah Gardner, a daughter of Neil Gardner, one of
the early residents of Spanish Fork. They have become
parents of eight children: Regina, who is sixteen years
of age and is a high school graduate; Bernice, fourteen
years of age; Delilah May, aged twelve; Anna Blanche,
aged ten; Joseph Walden, eight years of age; Preston
Gardner, six; Reed Gardner, three and Ruth Prances, who
is in her first
year.
While Dr. Hughes is preeminently a
physician and surgeon, he is also identified with other
business interests of Spanish Fork, being a director of
the Spanish Fork Cooperative Institution and the vice
president of the Spanish Fork Building &. Loan
Association. He belongs to the Spanish Fork Commercial
Club, in the work of which he takes a most active and
helpful interest, having served for two years as its
president. He belongs to the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is now a
high counselor of the Nebo stake. He is most active in
philanthropic and social service work and his efforts
along those lines have been productive of beneficial
results. For a number of years he has acted as medical
inspector of the schools and at one time was a member of
the school board. He has been frequently heard on the
lecture platform upon subjects relative to his
profession and to social service work and his life has
been one of great activity and usefulness, his labors
being largely prompted by a broad humanitarian
spirit.
GEORGE E. HYDE, M.
D.
Dr. George E. Hyde, practicing in
Provo as superintendent of the State Mental Hospital,
has for some time specialized in mental and nervous
diseases and has come to be recognized as an authority
in that field. Dr. Hyde is a native of Manchester,
England. He was born April 23, 1864, of the marriage of
John and Mary Jane (Whitehead) Hyde, who were also
natives of England, the mother's birth occurring in
Manchester. The father devoted his life to merchandising
and passed away in 1866. The mother, however,
survives and makes her home in her native city.
Dr. Hyde attended the grammar
schools of Manchester, England, and came to the United
States in 1883, when a young man of nineteen years. He
landed at New York city and thence made his way at once
across the country to Ogden, where he became associated
with Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, with
which he was connected for nine years, acting as chief
clerk in Ogden. It was his desire, however, to enter
upon a professional career and he became a student in
the Preparatory Medical College of the University of
California, where eventually he won his professional
degree as a graduate of the class of 1895. He then
returned to Ogden, where he opened an office and
continued in practice for a year, at the end of which
time he removed to Idaho, where he practiced
successfully until 1913. He was then made superintendent
of the Insane Asylum at Blackfoot, Idaho, a position
which he occupied for two years, and was afterward
connected with the State Mental Hospital at Provo,
becoming assistant to Dr. Calder, who later resigned, at
which time Dr. Hyde was chosen to fill the position. His
work in this connection is highly satisfactory. He has
long made a close study of mental disorders and under
his wise guidance the most efficient care is given the
patients in this institution, many of whom have been
brought to complete recovery. He keeps in touch with the
latest scientific researches and discoveries having to
do with his special branch and he belongs also to the
American Medico-Psychological Association. He has
membership in the Utah State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association and his high professional
standing is indicated in the fact that he has been
honored with the presidency of the former.
In 1886 Dr. Hyde was married to
Miss Rose Farr, a daughter of Judge Farr, of Ogden. and
to them have been born six children: Vida. who is the
wife of C. D. French, of American
Falls, Idaho; Myrtle, the wife of Dr. E. B. Thatcher, of
Ogden; George A.; Afton, the wife of Earl Smoot, of
Provo; Clarissa, at home; and Melba, who is in
school.
Dr. Hyde is extremely fond of
music. Greatly interested in the work of the church, he
has been superintendent of a Stake Mutual Improvement
Association. He supports all interests which are of
cultural and moral value and throughout his entire life
has been actuated by a progressive spirit that has found
direct manifestation in his advancement along
professional
lines.
GEORGE LYMAN
HYDE.
George Lyman Hyde, a representative
of one of the oldest pioneer families and now living
retired at Springville although still having supervision
over his personal interests and investments, was born in
Salt Lake City, March 16, 1860, a son of Orson and Ann
Eliza (Vickers) Hyde. The father is mentioned at length
on another page of this work. The mother was born in
Illinois, January 26, 1841, and in 1856 became the wife
of Orson Hyde. They had six children, four sons and two
daughters: Charles A., George L., Joseph S., Geneva
Justesen, Maria, who died at the age of eighteen months,
and Melvin, who died at about the age of nine years. The
mother is still living and makes her home in Spring
City, Sanpete
county.
George L. Hyde was educated in the
district schools and in early life learned blacksmithing
and later turned his attention to farming and stock
raising, subsequently be coming connected with the
mining interests of the state. With Utah's development
he has kept pace, managing his business affairs in
accordance with the spirit and demands of the times and
with the utilization of the rich mineral resources of
Utah he became connected. He was elected president and
manager of the Eva Mining Company, operating in the
Mount Nebo mining district of Juab county with a very
valuable property that has produced lead, silver and
zinc. He is still interested in farming and mining and
from these departments of business derives his
income.
On the 26th of April, 1883, in Salt
Lake City, Utah, Mr. Hyde was married to Miss Jennie
Davis, a daughter of James and Mary Davis. The children
of this marriage are: Blanche; Lyman, who wedded Blanche
Cain, of Logan, Utah; Edna, the wife of Emmett Dalton,
of Salt Lake City; and Geneva, the wife of Robert E.
Wilson, of Salt Lake
City.
Mr. Hyde remains a member of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and holds
the office of high priest. He was chosen a member of the
bishopric in 1914 as second counselor to Bishop J. F.
Bringhurst of the second ward of Springville. In
politics he is a republican and has always been an
ardent worker for the party, believing its principles to
be sane and sound doctrines and for the best advancement
and protection of the country. He was elected a member
of the city council of Eureka City in 1898 and served
two years. He was elected a member of the Springville
city council in 1907 and reelected in 1909, serving for
four years in all. During the war with Germany he was
very active in support of American interests, serving as
chairman of the Springville district on all Victory and
Liberty loans and giving generous assistance in the
raising of all funds for Red Cross and other war
activities needed in behalf of suffering Europe and for
the protection of American soldiers abroad. He
represents one of the oldest families of Utah, the name
of Hyde figuring prominently upon the pages of history
of the state from pioneer times down to the
present.
