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Utah Since Statehood

Author is Noble Warrum - 1919

FERDINAND HENRY OLSEN.

Ferdinand Henry Olsen, conducting business at Provo under the name of the Provo Automobile & Bicycle Company, was born in Midway, Wasatch county, Utah, September 12, 1882.

His father, the late Hans Olsen, was a native of Denmark, from which country he crossed the Atlantic to the new world during the early '60s and at once started for the west. He was the owner of the first span of horses in Utah. He came to the state as a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was very devout in his religious faith. He took an active and helpful interest in the church work and at the time of his demise was a high priest. He also served on a mission from Denmark to Sweden before he came to Utah. In early manhood he had learned the blacksmith's trade, becoming a most thorough and expert workman along that line while in Denmark. He possessed marked mechanical skill and ingenuity and he made the first beet cultivator used in this state. He manufactured his own dies and tools and other mechanical appliances and through his inventive genius he contributed in no small measure to the utilization of Utah's natural resources. During the later years of his life he lived at Lake View, but during the erection of the Salt Lake Temple he made and kept in repair the tools used in the construction of the temple. Death called him November 27, 1913. when he had reached the age of seventy-seven years. The mother, Hannah (Madsen) Olsen, was also born in Denmark and came to the United States in the early '60s as a young girl. She had been a sweetheart of Mr. Olsen in their native land and after reaching America they were married in the Manti Temple. They first settled at Wanship, Utah, and through their remaining days both continued residents of this state, the mother passing away in 1887. Their family numbered eight children, four sons and four daughters, of whom Ferdinand Henry was the youngest son and seventh child. After his mother's death, his father married Hannah Oman, by whom the latter had eight children, all of whom are living with the exception of one.

Ferdinand H. Olsen was educated in the public schools of Lake View and in the Brigham Young University. At the age of eighteen he started out in the world on his own account. In fact he began earning his living at the age of fourteen, when he took up the work of repairing bicycles. At the age of nineteen years he owned the first automobile owned and used in Provo. This was a one-cyclinder, four-horse power Oldsmobile.As a boy he had acquainted himself with the blacksmith's trade and with general mechanical pursuits and in 1901 he and his brother, John T. Olsen, established their first independent business enterprise under the firm name of Olsen Brothers. That partnership was continued until 1906, when Ferdinand H. Olsen purchased his brother's interest and changed the name of his establishment to the Provo Automobile & Bicycle Company, this being the first automobile shop established in Provo and the third bicycle shop. In a general way Mr. Olsen has by far the largest business in the city. His mechanical skill and ingenuity enable him to do almost anything along mechanical lines and his work has ever been of a character that has brought him in creasing patronage. While a resident of Pocatello, Idaho, between the years 1909 and 1917 he established the largest automobile business of the town and was manager of the Mooney Garage. Since 1917, however, he has continuously resided in Provo and conducted the bicycle business of which he is now the head. His bicycle trade is today a very large one, extending through Idaho, Wyoming and all parts of Utah. In mechanical lines he is considered one of the experts of the state and his establishment in Provo is equipped in a most modern manner, enabling him to do every kind of repair work. He has all of the latest machinery and he is an expert on bicycles and automobiles, thoroughly understanding their construction and by reason of his mechanical skill and ingenuity being able to do any kind of repair work.

Mr. Olsen is a democrat in his political views and was chairman of the democratic city central committee of Pocatello, Idaho. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the fourth ward and has been an active Sunday school worker and ward teacher. In fact he does everything in his power to advance the cause of the church and promote its growth and influence. He likewise has membership in the Provo Commercial Club and there is no project put forth by that organization that does not receive his earnest allegiance and stalwart endorsement. What he undertakes he accomplishes. He is a man of determined spirit and persistency of purpose and though he started out in life empty-handed he has advanced step by step, wisely and carefully utilizing the opportunities at hand and reaching a position that attests not only his superior service along mechanical lines but also the sterling worth of his character.

ADELBERT B. PACK.

Adelbert B. Pack is the senior partner in a grain, hay and stock food business which he is conducting in partnership with his son in Provo. He was born in Salt Lake City, May 4, 1853, a son of John and Nancy (Booth) Pack. The mother died in 1853, when her son Adelbert was but two months old, leaving two children. The father, who was of Canadian birth, came to Utah in 1847. He crossed the plains after the primitive manner of travel in those days, sharing in all of the hardships and privations incident to a trip over the hot stretches of sand and through the mountain passes. He reached his destination on the 2d day of July and turned his attention to farming and stock raising in this state and also became identified with commercial interests as a lumberman. He was an earnest worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, served as a member of the Quorum of Seventy and as an elder. He died in Salt Lake City in 1885.

Reared in his native city, Adelbert B. Pack attended the public schools of Salt Lake and of West Bountiful. He worked for his father until he reached the age of twenty-one years, early becoming familiar with all of the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. On attaining his majority he started out in business on his own account as a farmer and stock raiser at Bountiful and in the spring of 1879 removed to Millard county, where he again took up his abode upon a farm. His attention was given to stock raising and the further cultivation and development of the fields and the care of his crops until 1902, when he removed to Provo, and in 1908 he established his present business, admitting his son to a partnership, and they have since dealt in grain, stock foods, hay and other commodities of like nature. Their business is located at No. 151 North Academy avenue and they have developed a trade of large and gratifying proportions.

In 1876 Mr. Pack was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Roberts, of West Bountiful, and they became the parents of six children who are yet living and they also lost four. Those who survive are: Clarence W., Estella, Adelbert R., Alpha M., Ethel and Elizabeth.

Mr. Pack was previously quite active in church work and went on a mission to the northwestern states in 1898, returning in 1900. He has served as teacher of the fifth ward and he is, moreover, interested in matters of public concern, his aid and influence being ever on the side of progress and improvement. He is a man of wide reading and broad general information, of upright character and of excellent business ability. His fellow townsmen rank him as a progressive and substantial business man and as a highly respected citizen.

MILAN OWEN PACKARD.

Milan Owen Packard, merchant, banker and contractor, identified with big business interests that might well class him with the captains of industry in Utah, makes his home in Springville, his native city. He was born October 7, 1860, and is one of a family of nine children, his parents being Milan and Margaret J. (Haymond) Packard, who were married in Springville. Both were natives of Ohio. The father was born near Cleveland, a son of Noah F. Packard, who came to Utah in 1852, making his way to Springville and casting in his lot with the earliest settlers of this section of the state. He engaged in freighting, in merchandising and in mining and was closely associated with the early business development of Utah. He became a leading citizen of his section of the state and a prominent merchant of Springville. His political allegiance was given to the republican party. His widow is living at Springville at the advanced age of seventy-nine year's and with one exception all of her ten children survive.

Milan O. Packard was educated in the public schools of Springville, completing a high school course, after which he turned his attention to mercantile pursuits and was thus engaged in connection with his father for a period of fifteen years. He afterward entered the sheep business in southern Utah and eastern Nevada and developed his interests of that character to mammoth proportions. For thirteen years he was one of the foremost figures in connection with sheep raising in that section of the country and made a fortune through the conduct of his business affairs. As the years have passed Mr. Packard has extended his efforts in other lines and he is now the vice president of the Springville Banking Company. He was also one of the promoters of the Sugar Company and is the vice president of the Reynolds-Ely Construction Company. He has been closely associated with H. T. Reynolds in business interests and they are both connected with the Utah Wholesale Grocery Company, of which Mr. Packard is the vice president. Whatever he undertakes he carries forward to successful completion. His sound judgment has enabled him to avoid the pitfalls into which unrestricted progressiveness is so frequently led, and he has been able to concentrate his efforts and attention upon interests in which fruition is certain.

Mr. Packard was married on March 2, 1884, to Miss Julia A. Crandall, a daughter of Spicer W. and Mary B. Crandall, the father a native of New York and the mother of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Packard became parents of eight children, one of whom has passed away. The eldest, M. O., Jr., thirty-four years of age, is a graduate of the University of Utah and makes his home in Salt Lake. He married Lois Wrathall, a sister of the wife of Governor Spry. Spicer D., twenty-nine years of age. living at Provo, is with the General Electric Company as an electrical engineer. He too is a graduate of the University of Utah. He married Hannah Condie of Springville, a daughter of G. E. Condie, a contractor. David Russell, twenty-seven years of age, is associated with his father in the contracting business and is a graduate of the Agricultural College at Logan. He served in England in the Aerial squadron for five months and has since been honorably discharged. Fay C, eighteen years of age, pursued a high school course and afterward entered the army, from which he has now been honorably discharged. Ralph, fifteen years of age, is a high school pupil. Alton, a lad of thirteen, is attending school. Eliza is in New York on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is a graduate of the University of Utah and is now twenty-three years of age. Cecil F. died at the age of sixteen years. He had graduated from the eighth grade in the Springville schools.

Mr. Packard was a member of the state legislature, in which he served in 1911, giving thoughtful and earnest consideration to all the vital questions which came up for settlement. He has served as a member of the city council of Springville and also as mayor. For recreation he turns to hunting and fishing. He is a man of modest disposition and quiet demeanor, yet most highly esteemed and respected because of his generous spirit and kindliness. He has been a great factor in the growth of the county and state but while successfully conducting business he has always recognized his obligations and duties to his fellowmen and to his country.

JOHN SMITH PARK.

John Smith Park, who is the owner of an excellent fruit farm of nineteen acres, was one of twins, he and his brother William being the first white male children born in Provo. Their natal day was December 29, 1849, their parents being John and Louisa (Smith) Park. The father was born at Kent, near Glasgow, Scotland, and in 1822 crossed the Atlantic to Canada. He afterward made his way to Utah with an ox team in 1847, traveling with the Edward Hunter company. After a short stay in Salt Lake City he proceeded to Provo and was among the pioneer residents of that place. He settled in the old fort and it was there that John Smith Park of this review was born. The father was a weaver by trade and not only along industrial but along various other lines was closely associated with the early development and progress of the district in which he settled. He served in the Echo Canyon campaign, gave his attention to farming and remained an active worker in the church, in which he was a high priest. He died in 1867, while the mother of John S. Park passed away in 1891. She was a school teacher in Canada prior to her marriage.

John S. Park, spending his youthful days in his parents' home, acquired a good education and in early manhood engaged in freighting and railroading. In 1884 he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres on the Provo bench and his was one of the first families to live upon the bench. His original homestead has since been divided and now constitutes thirteen separate small farms, while upon the tract there are also a meeting house and a schoolhouse, Mr. Park giving the land for the school and the church. At all times he has been actuated by a most progressive spirit and was one of the first to irrigate on the Provo bench. In 1891 he erected a large brick residence, which was the first brick house of considerable size on the bench. There is no feature of development and improvement here in which he has not been keenly interested and much of the time has given most earnest support to projects for the general good. He was superintendent of the Provo Bench Canal & Irrigation Company for fourteen years and did much to secure an adequate water supply for the district. He now owns a nineteen acre farm, which he cultivates, it being devoted largely to the raising of fruit. As the years have passed he has prospered in his undertakings and is now the owner of two other residences besides the one which he occupies.

In 1874, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Park was united in marriage to Miss Martha Parker, who was born in Morgan, Utah. Their living children are: Hugh, who married Nora Pillerup and resides in Canada; Albert, who married Ruth Dillworth and makes his home in Blaine, Idaho; Louisa, the wife of Josiah Howard, also a resident of Blaine; William, who married Lizzie Meecham and lives on the Provo bench; Eliza, the wife of Alfred Ashton. a resident of Magna, Utah; Mary Ann, the wife of Roy Davis, living at Grand View, Utah; Nella, the wife of Vivian Loosie, a resident of Burley, Idaho; Erma, at home; and William, who went on a mission to the Samoan islands, where he remained from 1905 until 1909. Mr. Park was married a second time when Miss Maud Jex, of Spanish Fork, became his wife. She is a daughter of Thomas and Susanna (Howlett) Jex, who are now living retired at Spanish Fork. Mr. and Mrs. Park have two children, Naomi L. and La Rue. He also has twenty-one grandchildren.

His political allegiance is given to the republican party and for fourteen years he served as justice of the peace and has also been constable and water superintendent. He is-very active in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been a member of the Seventy and was ward clerk for a number of years. His has been an active and useful life which measures up to high standards of manhood and citizenship. All who know him respect him for his sterling worth. He is one of the honored pioneer settlers of this section, having lived in Provo and vicinity for a period of seventy years, so that he has been a witness of almost the entire growth and development of the state. Great indeed have been the changes which have occurred during this period and in the community in which he has lived. Mr. Park has always borne his part in the work of general progress and improvement.

HYRUM B. PERRY.

A highly improved farm at Mapleton is the property of Hyrum B. Perry, widely known as an enterprising agriculturist and stock raiser. He was born at Springville August 13, 1859, a son of Stephen C. and Mary (Boggs) Perry. The father was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, June 18, 1818, and in 1833, when a youth of fifteen years he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and lived with the prophet Joseph Smith for several months. He came to Utah in 1852 and in 1853 made his way to Manti, while in 1854 he was ordained bishop of Manti. In 1861 he was sent on a mission for the church to England and returned in 1864, at which time he brought back with him a colony of emigrants, leading them across the plains to Utah. He served in the Black Hawk war in Sanpete county and was identified with every phase of the state's development and progress. He also aided in framing the laws of Utah, being chosen to represent his district in the territorial legislature. By trade he was a mason and chair maker but during the latter part of his life concentrated his efforts and attention upon farming. His death occurred September 21, 1896, and the community mourned the loss of one of its representative and reliable citizens. He had three wives and reared three families. The mother of Hyrum B. Perry was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, April 12, 1843, and was brought to Utah in 1847 by her parents. By her marriage she became the mother of eleven children, one of whom died in infancy. Hyrum B. is the second in order of birth, the others being George W., Frances E., Luella, Lucy, E. Harvey, Horace, Parley, Mark and Marion.

In the common schools Hyrum B. Perry obtained his education and afterward engaged in construction work for a time but later turned his attention to farming, which he has since followed, and he is now the owner of forty acres in his home farm at Mapleton, all of which is under a high state of cultivation, being well irrigated and splendidly developed. He also owns two hundred and eighty acres of land devoted to dry farming and to grazing. His business affairs are wisely managed and as a cattleman he feeds thirty head or more in the winter, while grazing his cattle on the range in the summer. Mr. Perry was one of the first to live at Mapleton and his present home is part of his father's old homestead, which was taken up from the government in 1876. He has good buildings upon his place and all improvements were put there by him. He is one of the substantial agriculturists and stock raisers of his locality, his labors being productive of excellent results.

In 1884 Mr. Perry was united in marriage to Miss Luella Roundy, of Springville, of pioneer stock. They became parents of six children, three of whom reached adult age. Reva is the wife of Val Curtiss, residing at Mills. Juab county, Utah. Hyrum was killed in action on the 4th of August, 1918, while serving with the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Field Artillery in France. Wilda is the wife of John I. Holley, mentioned elsewhere in this work.

In politics Mr. Perry is a democrat but not an office seeker. He and his wife are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and he was on a mission to Colorado and Nebraska in 1908 and 1909. His wife is counselor to the president of the Relief Society of Mapleton. They are most highly esteemed people, having an extensive circle of warm friends, while the hospitality of their own home is greatly enjoyed by those who know them.

OTTO J. POULSON.

Otto J. Poulson is the well known owner of the Banner Fruit Farm of Utah county. He is also crops and pests inspector for the county and is an exponent of most progressive and scientific methods of farming. At the same time he is keenly interested in the work of the church and is bishop of the Timpanogos ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Poulson is a native of Sweden, his birth having occurred in Helsingborg on 'the 30th of April, 1872. His parents. Niels and Mary (Whalstrom) Poulson, were converted to the Mormon faith prior to leaving their native country and in 1882 thev sailed for America with their family and became residents of Pleasant Grove, Utah.

Otto J. Poulson was at that time a lad of but ten years. He acquired a common school education at Pleasant Grove and after his textbooks were put aside followed railroading, while subsequent to his marriage, in 1894, he was made section foreman of the Oregon Short Line, serving for about three years. He next took up farming and fruit raising on his own account, in which departments of labor he has since been active.

For a number of years he was also engaged in the real estate business, acting as manager for the Johnson & Sons Investment Company. At the present time, however, his duties and activities along other lines are too pressing to allow him to give much time to the real estate business. He has educated himself for the duties which devolve upon him in his present official position. He has read and studied broadly along the line of protecting the fruit and other crops from the pests which cause such havoc to the harvests and has become an authority upon such matters. He has studied many standard works relating to all kinds of pests and fully knows how to combat and exterminate them and thus save fruit and cereals. His fitness for the position led to his appointment as crops and pests inspector for Utah county, to which office he was appointed in 1913. He has since served in this capacity regardless of political administrations and the duties of his office carry with them the work of horticulture inspector.He is the owner of a very fine orchard, having many kinds of fruit trees, including eight hundred apple trees. He likewise has some hay, potato, and beet lands and he keeps a few cows. His home is a modern brick residence tastefully and attractively furnished and everything about the place indicates his progressive spirit and his enterprise. He has at the state fairs which are held at Salt Lake City taken first prizes on fruit for many years, winning seven silver cups. He is also a director of the fruit exhibit of Utah county at the state fair and in the year 1918, he won the Boyd Park silver cup for Utah county in competition with all other counties of the state. In addition to his other activities he is the secretary of the Provo Bench Canal & Irrigation Company and is the secretary of the Blue Cliffs Canal Company.

Mr. Poulson has long been a most zealous and earnest worker in the church and in 1902 was sent on a mission to Sweden, where he labored for two years, being president of the Oscarhamn and Skofde branches there. He was made bishop of Timpanogos ward November 18, 1917. Although of foreign birth, Mr. Poulson has made substantial advancement in his business career here. He is thoroughly American in spirit and interests and is actuated by progressive purposes in all that he undertakes. Moreover, what he undertakes he accomplishes and his labors are not only a source of individual prosperity but have been of great worth to the state, especially in the dissemination of knowledge concerning the best methods of protecting crops and fruit.

JOHN W. PROWS.

John W. Prows, engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Provo, was born in Kanosh, Millard county, Utah, May 1, 1875, a son of John T. and Mary (Manhard) Prows, whose family numbered thirteen children, eleven of whom are yet living. The mother is a representative of one of the old families of the south. The father was born in Millard county, Utah, and has devoted his life to the occupation of farming. He is still active in that pursuit, making his home at Salina, where he gives his attention to farming and stock raising. He comes of a family that has been represented for several generations in America. His religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he has served as high priest.

John W. Prows, after attending the district schools of his native county, became a student in the Brigham Young Academy in 1891 and later he attended a high school in Mexico for a period of two years. He then engaged in business on his own account in Mexico, opening a general merchandise store at Colonia Dublan in Chihuahua. He understands Spanish and speaks it fluently. Leaving Mexico, he returned to Utah and settled in Eureka in 1914. There he was engaged in contracting and in mining, but at the end of a year he removed to Provo and established an insurance agency, which he conducted for two years. At the end of that time he also entered the real estate business and is now the secretary-treasurer of the Provo Consolidated Real Estate Company, of which Thomas H. Heal is the president. He has made a close study of real estate conditions, knows the property that is upon the market and places a correct valuation upon all realty. He has negotiated many important property transfers and is accorded a very large clientage. He is likewise interested in many mining companies owning gold and silver properties and is a successful man of affairs but withal is modest and unassuming.

In 1900 Mr. Prows was married to Miss Eleanor Thurber, of Richfield, a daughter of A. D. Thurber and granddaughter of A. K. Thurber, who became connected with Utah during the early period of its settlement and was active in the colonization of Spanish Fork, where a school was named in his honor. Mr. and Mrs. Prows have become parents of eight children: Elva, Eldon, Eleanor, Mary, Nora, Thurber, Leonora and Don William.

Mr. Prows belongs to the Provo Commercial Club and he gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He has served as an elder in the fifth ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1907 went on a mission to Mexico, where he remained for twenty-six months, doing very successful work there. For recreation he turns to hunting, but the major part of his time is given to his business affairs and he now occupies a prominent position in real estate circles. He has by reason of his close application and sound judgment won a substantial measure of success and he has gained many stanch friends in Utah by reason of his genuine personal worth.

HERBERT SAMUEL PYNE. M. D.

For more than a decade Dr. Herbert Samuel Pyne has been actively engaged in the practice of medicine in Provo, where he is also connected with a number of mining interests and is an officer and stockholder in the Thornton Drug Company. He was also from 1886 until 1895 a half owner and manager of the old Pyne & Maiben Drug Company, which later became the Excelsior Drug & Paint Company. He was born in Dereham, Norfolk, England. February 12, 1862, and his youthful days were largely passed in Norwich, England. His parents were Samuel and Leah (Thrower) Pyne, who were also natives of England. His father, a tailor by trade, left that country in 1873 and made his way to Utah, establishing his home in Provo, where he continued to reside until his life's labors were ended in death in 1889. In the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints he was very active, spending nine years of his life as a missionary in England and also serving as a member of the Forty-fifth Quorum of Seventy and otherwise promoting the interests of his denomination.

Dr. Pyne, one of a family of fourteen children, left his native country and his parents at the tender age of eleven years and made his way direct to Utah, spending about six years in the home of his grandmother at Minersville, Beaver county, before coming to Provo. He pursued his early education in the public schools and then went to Washington, D. C. where he entered the George Washington University for the study of medicine. He completed his full course in that institution and was graduated on the 3d of June, 1908. After receiving his M. D. he returned to Provo, where he opened an office and entered upon active practice. Shortly after returning home he was appointed county physician, which office he held for nearly four years. He has remained a close and discriminating student of the science of medicine and through wide reading and broad experience has continually promoted his efficiency. He largely specializes in obstetrics although continuing in the general practice of medicine. He is very careful in the diagnosis of his cases and is seldom, if ever, at fault in foretelling the outcome of disease. He belongs to the Utah County Medical Society, to the Utah State Medical Society and the American Medical Association and through the proceedings of these bodies keeps in touch with the trend of modern scientific thought and investigation. He is also a member of the American Medical Volunteer Corps. He is a life member of the Utah Pharmaceutical Association and was appointed by Governor Thomas a member of the first state board of pharmacy in Utah.

In 1884 Dr. Pyne was married to Miss Hannah Arrowsmith, a daughter of J. T. Arrowsmith. who established his home in Utah during the early period of its colonization. Dr. and Mrs. Pyne have become parents of seven children. Hannah Leah is the widow of George W. Ekins, who was a prominent dentist of Provo, where he passed away March 15, 1919, as a victim of influenza, leaving three children. Edna is the wife of B. F. Pulham, of Salt Lake City, who is in the employ of the Daynes Beebe Music Company and by whom she has two children. Rachel is the wife of Cyril Duffin, a successful farmer residing at Springfield. Idaho. She served as a missionary in the Newcastle conference in England from 1912 until 1914. Their family numbers two children. Herbert S., Jr., who is a second-year medical student in the University of Utah, was a page in the United States congress in 1907 and 1908 and has also served for twenty-seven months as a missionary in the London conference in England. Joseph Sterling is now on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Japan. Thomas Murray is an officer in the United States army-in the personnel office, stationed at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, Hark Henry, the youngest of the family, is a student in the Brigham Young University.

Dr. Pyne has been an active worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is now serving as first counselor to Bishop A. L. Booth, which position he has held for the past four years. He served as clerk in the elders quorum for nine years, also acting as first counselor in the quorum for three years. Dr. Pyne is also well known in musical circles, as he possesses a fine tenor voice. He has been a member of a number of musical organizations, was connected with the Stake Tabernacle Choir for twenty-five years and acted as chorister of the Fourth Ward Choir for ten years. He is likewise a member of the famous Boshard and Pyne Brothers Quartette, which has sung together for the past thirty-two years as four brothers and is the oldest vocal organization in the state of Utah, and also belongs to the Fourth Ward Glee Club, both taking prizes in several competitive musical festivals in Salt Lake. As a member of the quartette he stumped the state with Governor Heher M. Wells, Frank J. Cannon and C. E. Allen in the memorable campaign which resulted in Utah's giving a republican majority for the first time. In politics Dr. Pyne is a stanch republican, unswerving in his allegiance to the party and active in its support. He was secretary of the first republican organization of Utah county and in 1889 he was elected county recorder, which position he filled for two years and was then reelected. He has served as a member of the county central committee as its secretary and treasurer. For five years, covering the period from 1895 until January 1, 1901, he was steward of the State Mental Hospital at Provo. Dr. Pyne is a man of striking personal appearance, with a young face framed with snow white hair. He is ever genial and his hearty manner goes far toward cheering a patient. He fully realizes the value of an encouraging and inspiring word, as well as of the use of remedies, and his presence in the sickroom inspires confidence and trust. His practice is now large and important, and he has splendidly equipped offices, while his home is one of the beautiful residences of Provo.

WILLIAM E. RACKER.

Through the steps of a steady progression William E. Racker has reached a position of leadership in the business circles of Lehi, where he is at the head of a large commercial concern conducted under the name of the Racker Mercantile Company. He is the president of the business and his sons are associated with him in the conduct of the enterprise. His entire career has been marked by steady advancement, resulting from the wise utilization of the opportunities that have come to him. Mr. Racker was born in Denmark, January 23, 1853, a son of Frederick C. and Jacobina (Frederickson) Racker, who were also natives of Denmark. The father was a military man of that country and died there when his son William was but seven months old. The mother afterward came to the United States with her son William in 1868, he being at that time a lad of fifteen years. They crossed the continent to Utah and settled in Lehi, where Mrs. Racker passed away in 1906. She was the mother of five children, of whom two are living, the brother of William E. being Adolph Hunger.

In the schools of his native country William E. Racker began his education and continued his studies after the family home was established in Utah county. However, he soon began to earn his living by farming and herding sheep and became involved in the Indian troubles while herding sheep, finding it necessary to employ force of arms to protect his interests. In early manhood he was made tithing clerk to the bishop of Lehi and so served for seven years. Later he became connected with the Peoples Cooperative Store, first as bookkeeper and later as assistant manager and afterward as manager, remaining with that establishment for twenty-three years, and experience brought to him comprehensive and accurate knowledge of every phase of the business. Ambitious, however, to engage in business on his own account, he established a store in. 1904 and has since developed the important interests which are now conducted under the name of the Racker Mercantile Company. The business was established on a small scale but has continuously developed through the enterprise and efforts of Mr. Racker and his sons until theirs is now one of the leading establishments of the county. He has also extended his efforts into other fields and is now a director of the State Bank of Lehi and has assisted in the organization of several other banks. He is likewise interested in farming and is a stockholder of the Peoples' Cooperative Institution and of the Utah Sugar Company and of the Utah Wholesale Grocery Company, which are large and important commercial concerns. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Utah County Power Company, which was successfully operated for several years and later sold to the Utah Power & Light Company.

In 1873 Mr. Racker was united in marriage to Miss Rozille Evans, of Lehi, a daughter of Bishop David Evans, one of the honored pioneer residents of this part of the state. Of their twelve children ten reached adult age. Frederick E. died in 1909 at the age of twenty-eight years, while serving in the United States army. May is the wife of J. H. Carson, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Leonard D. is associated with his father in business. Jacob E. is also a partner of the father. The other members of the family are Mrs. Maude Whipple, of Lehi; Mrs. F. L. O'Brien, of Salt Lake City; Ira A., of Lehi, who served with the United States forces for one year, being for six months of the time in France, and honorably discharged in February, 1919; Mrs. Irene Raymond; Mrs. Rita Adamson, of Lehi; and Mrs. Larue Lee, of Magna.

Mr. Racker adheres to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served on a mission in 1903-4 in Denmark and is a high priest of the second ward. In politics he has taken an active and prominent part and has been called to several public offices, serving as treasurer of Lehi for several terms and also as mayor of the city. He is a valued member of the Commercial Club and has been a leader in the growth and development of city and county. He is a man most highly respected for his business integrity and enterprise and for the progressive spirit which he manifests in everything that has to do with the welfare of the community in which he makes his home.

CHARLES C. RASMUSSEN.

Charles C. Rasmussen is a member of the firm of Rasmussen Brothers, proprietors of the Geneva Resort, which they are developing into one of the fine summer resorts of the state. It is situated on Lake Utah, in Utah county, and the Rasmussen Brothers are holding to the highest standards in the development of the place.

Charles C. Rasmussen was born in Brooklyn, New York, August 8 1883, a son of B. C. and Caroline Rasmussen, who removed to Salt Lake when their son Charles was only a few years old. Early in life he sold papers on the streets of Salt Lake City and continued in this work until he attained his majority. At the time he withdrew from that field of labor he was vice president of the Fourth and Fifth Newsboys Union of Salt Lake. From that time until 1916 he had charge of concessions at Salt Air and other resorts all over Utah, operating dance halls and all kinds of amusement places. He was also interested with his mother in the conduct of a rooming house in Salt Lake, buying and afterward selling that property. In 1916 he purchased the Geneva Resort and is putting it in shape to become one of Utah's famous summer resort properties. His place covers several acres and includes a large hotel with dining room, pool hall and store and a dance hall fifty by one hundred and twenty-five feet. There are also fifteen cottages to rent, also boats, with bathhouses, swimming pool and every accessory that adds to the comfort and pleasure of the summer tourist. The Rasmussen Brothers have made the Geneva Resort a good, clean and respectably managed place. The grounds are delightfully cool and shady and every modern facility is being added for the comfort of patrons.

In 1911 Charles C. Rasmussen was married to Miss Sarah Simmons, who passed away some years later. He afterward wedded Effie Johnson, of Kansas City. Mr. Rasmussen has no children of his own. He was the eldest of a family of five brothers and sisters, the others being Clara, David, Fred and Arthur. His brother Fred, who is a partner with him in the business, was recently discharged from the navy, having served on a Northern Pacific steamship, which was wrecked off Fire Island January 2, 1919. He enlisted on the 5th of July, 1917, serving as a naval electrician. The brothers are progressive and enterprising young business men and success will undoubtedly crown the venture in which they are now engaged.

ALICE LOUISE REYNOLDS.

Alice Louise Reynolds, professor of English in the Brigham Young University at Provo, was born in Salt Lake City, April 1, 1873, a daughter of George and Mary Ann (Luddenhain) Reynolds, who were natives of England both having been born in London. The father became private secretary to Brigham Young and was a most prominent member of the Mormon church during his life. He came to Utah in 1865. Mr. Reynolds was also prominent in literary circles and is widely known in the Mormon church for his authorship. He was a member of the Quorum of Seven Presidents of Seventies, was one of the General Sunday School Union Board for many years, being first assistant superintendent at the time of his death. Miss Reynolds' mother had eleven children and was characterized by her sweet disposition and devotion to her husband and family.

In her childhood Miss Reynolds attended the public schools of Salt Lake City, studying under Professor T. B. Lewis, later territorial superintendent of public instruction. At the age of twelve she went to Provo and entered the Brigham Young Academy, graduating at the age of seventeen. For two years she taught in elementary schools connected with her church, the first year in Salt Lake, the second in Nephi. In the fall of 1892 she entered the University of Michigan, where she began her college training In the tall of 1894 she began work on the high school faculty of the Brigham Young University and has been connected with the faculty of that institution since. Miss Reynolds' college work has been done in the Brigham Young University, the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and the University of California. Since her graduation in 1910 she has spent fifteen months in travel in Europe, visiting literary and historical shrines. During that period she attended the University of London for two terms. Since her return from Europe in 1911 she has been on the college staff of the Brigham Young University as a professor of English.

Miss Reynolds' travels have been extensive in America and Europe. She has been both east and west in America, a goodly number of times, and was in Europe the summer of 1906 and again from May 1910, until late August, 1911. Through travel she has gained that broad education which can be secured in no other way as rapidly as in travel Miss Reynolds is known as a writer, she has contributed to all the local magazines of the state and to some of the magazines both east and west. She is a well known speaker. She was the first woman to make a founders days address in the Brigham Young University. She has appeared before the State Teachers Association, the National Educational Association, many times before the state federation of Women's Clubs both state and district meetings: before the General Conference meetings of the Y. L. M. I. A. and Relief Society. She has made addresses for suffrage in states east and west of her native state as well as at home. She has spoken in behalf of prohibition, the war activities and a league of nations. She has taken some part in politics in her state, having been a delegate to the county and state conventions, but her activity in politics has been mainly that of a public speaker. She was in all probability the first woman in the state to be the chairman of a political convention, having acted as chairman of a county convention. Three times she has spoken at the state banquet of the democratic party, Salt Lake City.

Miss Reynolds is a recognized figure in woman's work. She was a delegate to the Biennial of Woman's Clubs in 1904; to the Portland Council 1915; to the New York Biennial in 1916. She was also a delegate to the American Woman's Suffrage Convention in St. Louis in 1919. She has held three positions in the state federation of clubs. She has been a board member, state press chairman and state chairman of education. She is an honorary member of the Utah Sorosis and Nelke Reading Clubs of Provo, and of the Utah Press Club of Salt Lake City. She was second vice chairman of the County Council of Defense as well as county press chairman. Miss Reynolds' activities have been equally pronounced in the church. She has worked as a teacher in the Sunday schools, and in religion classes. For six years she was state superintendent of the Y. L. M. I. A. of Utah state and for five years a counselor to the state superintendent. She is at present a member of the state board of the. Relief Society, and an honorary member of the Y. L. M. I. A.

Miss Reynolds has always been deeply interested in library work. She has made contributions to a school library in Beaver and in Castle Dale and to the Springville Public Library. But her chief achievement in library work is in having headed the committee that raised the funds for the purchase of the Whitecotton library, now part of the library of the Brigham Young University. This library consists of one thousand two hundred and twenty volumes of rare editions. In the spring of 1918 Miss Reynolds placed a library in the Brigham Young University to be known as the Alice Louise Reynolds library. She is the first woman to found a library in that institution. There is no phase of activity touching the welfare of women which is not a matter of deep concern to Miss Reynolds and her cooperation can always be counted upon to further any plan or measure which has to do with the advancement and up building of the community at large. She has worked earnestly for the uplift of the individual and for the promotion of public progress along all lines leading to the adoption of higher social, intellectual and moral standards. Never losing faith in mankind, she is constantly reaching out a helping hand to uplift another and that she has been a most thorough student of many grave and perplexing problems is shown in her public addresses, delivered in all sections of the country and before many most prominent and representative bodies.

HENRY TAYLOR REYNOLDS.

Henry Taylor Reynolds, of Springville, banker, merchant and legislator, is in various ways leaving the impress of his individuality and ability upon the history of his native city and state, for he was born at Springville, March 11, 1860. His parents were Joseph D. and Elizabeth (Taylor) Reynolds, both natives of England, although they became acquainted and were married after establishing their home in Springville. The father came to Utah as a pioneer settler in 1855 and established his home at Springville. In the work of the church he was deeply and helpfully interested and was a high priest. He died at Springville in 1914, honored and .respected by all who knew him and most of all by those who knew him best. The mother crossed the plains to Utah with a handcart company and was one of those forceful women of strong character in the early days who did much to further the upbuilding and development of the state. She had a family of eight children, seven of whom are now living, and her death occurred in 1877.

Henry T. Reynolds was educated in the public schools of Springville, and in the Brigham Young University at Provo, where he completed his schooling in 1880. He afterward engaged in farming for several years and then turned his attention to merchandising. He established and has since conducted the large general store carried on under the name of the H. T. Reynolds Mercantile Company, Inc. The business was founded in 1882 and Henry T. Reynolds became president and principal owner. They carry an extensive line of goods and in the conduct of the business Mr. Reynolds displays a most progressive spirit. This, however, is but one phase of his activities, for he is the president of the Springville Banking Company, of Springville, which was organized in 1880, he becoming one of the incorporators and the vice president at the time of the organization. He is also the president of the Utah Wholesale Grocery Company, of which he was the promoter. This corporation conducts a very extensive wholesale business, its trade extending throughout Utah and adjoining states. Mr. Reynolds is also the president of the Reynolds-Ely Construction Company, having large railroad grading contracts, and he is the vice president of the Springville-Mapleton Sugar Company, large and successful manufacturers of beet sugar, having extensive factories in Utah and other counties of the state. Of this company Jesse Knight is the president. Mr. Reynolds is likewise connected with other interests which have done much to enhance the prosperity of Utah and promote its industrial and commercial activity.

In the year 1887 Mr. Reynolds was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Porter, a daughter of James B. and Mary Porter, or Springville, and to them have been born eight children, of whom four survive. Henry Taylor, Jr., now engaged in construction work in Idaho, was recently honorably discharged from the United States army after having been stationed for some time in Texas. He is interested in the railway grading contracts promoted by his father. The other members of the family are Helen, J., Ernest and Josephine

Mr. Reynolds is a member of the high council of Utah stake of Zion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he has been called upon to fill various positions of honor and trust. For two terms he was a member of the Utah state legislature, serving in the house and also for one term in the senate. He was very active in support of the prohibition bill in the senate and other important measures. For ten years he served as city commissioner of Springville and for four years as mayor of the city. He also took a most active part in Liberty loan drives and other branches of war work and in matters of citizenship his aid and influence can always be counted on in support of progress and improvement. What he has done for the material development and growth of the state can hardly be overestimated. In all business affairs he has utilized his opportunities and has looked beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilites of the future. His path has never been strewn with the wreck of other men's fortunes, for he has always followed constructive measures, benefiting the entire district in which he has operated.

HEBER JOHN RICHARDS, M. D.

Dr. Heber John Richards was for many years a well known, prominent and honored representative of the medical profession in Utah. His last days were passed in Provo, where he practiced for a few years and then retired to private life. He was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, October 11, 1840, the eldest son of President Willard Richards, who for years was the second counselor to Brigham Young and one of the leading and honored citizens of Salt Lake, connected with the public life of the capital in many ways.

Dr. Richards was brought to Utah by his father in young manhood. He acquired a liberal education, attending the Deseret University at Salt Lake, and for a time he engaged in ranching in the Skull valley of Utah. He then spent three years on a mission to England, with Brigham Young, Jr., and others and on his return to Utah Brigham Young asked him if he would like to study medicine and surgery. So he then entered Bellevue Medical College of New York city, being one of the first men to be sent east by the Mormons to study medicine, and he was graduated from that famous old medical college of New York. He then returned to Salt Lake, where he opened an office and for a time was associated in practice with Dr. W. F. Anderson, one of the eminent physicians of the city. Later Dr. Richards opened an office of his own and continued in practice in the capital until 1892, when he removed to Provo, where he opened an office with his son-in-law, Dr. Taylor. After a brief period devoted to practice here, however, he retired to private life to enjoy a rest which he had truly earned and richly merited. He built a fine residence at No. 211 South Academy avenue and his time was afterward devoted to travel and the care of his home. Accompanied by his wife and family, he made a trip to Europe, visiting nearly all of the countries on the European continent, spending two years abroad.

It was in 1862 that Dr. Richards was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. Johnson, a daughter of Joseph E. Johnson, whose father was one of the first in the state of New York to embrace the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was born in the Empire state and afterward removed to the west with the people of his religious belief. At the time of the birth of his daughter, Mrs. Richards, on the 24th of September, 1841, the family was living at Macedonia, Illinois. In 1864 they came to Utah, Mrs. Richards driving a four-mule team most of the way. The family resided in Salt Lake for one winter and then went to Spring Lake Villa, where they remained for a year. They next became residents of St. George, where Mr. Johnson engaged in the publication of a newspaper called the Pomologist. devoted largely to horticultural interests. He afterward became one of the pioneer residents of Mesa, Arizona. He was a large landowner in Iowa before his removal to Utah, having a thousand acres between Council Bluffs and Crescent City, all of which was fenced. The place was called Ellisdale, and in addition to the management of his extensive property interests there Mr. Johnson was also for a time the publisher of the Council Bluffs Bugle. He was at all times active for the betterment of the people of his religious belief and gave freely of his means for the benefit of others. It was his great desire to aid in making this once barren desert blossom as the rose and his labors in this direction were most effective. To Dr. and Mrs. Richards were born eight children: Mary, who died when one year and eight months old; Mrs. F. W. Taylor, whose husband is a prominent physician of Provo; Mrs. J. T. Harwood, Mrs. A. O. Whitmore and Mrs. E. T. Stevenson, all of Salt Lake; Mrs. G. C. Riser, of McGill, Nevada; and Julia and Alice, who died in childhood. The family circle was again broken by the hand of death when on the 12th of May, 1919, Dr. Richards passed away. In early life he had been on a mission to England covering three years. His life was ever fraught with good deeds and characterized by high purposes. In the practice of his profession he was continually extending a helping hand to others and he was honored as one of Utah's pioneer physicians, whose practice was the result of a commingling of broad humanitarianism with scientific knowledge and skill.

WILLIAM D. ROBERTS

With every phase of pioneer life in all the period of the development of the great region west from the Rocky mountains to the coast William D. Roberts was familiar and his history if written in detail would present many a chapter more thrilling and interesting than any tale of fiction. He occupied the old home at Provo until his death, which occurred March 8, 1912. Thus spending the evening of his days amid quiet and beautiful surroundings, one can scarcely realize that he had met the experiences of mining in the west, of travel across the plains, of encounters with the Indians and with the desperadoes that frequented the country during the period of its early settlement.

Mr. Roberts was born in Winchester, Scott county, Illinois, on the 4th of September, 1835, and was between ten and twelve years of age when he left his native state and went with his father's family to Iowa during the Mormon exodus. They settled first at Garden Grove, Iowa, where they resided until 1849, and then established a home at Lancaster, Missouri. In 1850 Bolivar Roberts, brother of William D., came to Utah, being the first of the family to cross the plains. In the following year William D. Roberts, his father and mother and other members of the household also came to this state and in September of that year the family home was established at Provo. It was during the succeeding winter that William D. Roberts was baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the spring of 1852 he started for California, accompanied by his brother Bolivar and their father, and on the 9th of July they reached Hang Town, now Placerville. There the two brothers took up the occupation of mining, while the father engaged in the practice of medicine until the winter of 1852-3, when a removal was made to San Jose, California, where they spent the winter months. They next went to San Bernardino, joining the colony of Latter-day Saints there located. In the fall of 1853 the father returned to Lancaster, Missouri, but the sons remained on the Pacific coast, William D. turning his attention to farming on Eel river, where he was joined at harvest time by his brother Bolivar, who had been in Utah. It was their plan to return to Utah as soon as they could market the crops that William D. Roberts had raised. It was the expectation that he would realize four or five thousand dollars by shipping his crops to Trinidad, twenty-five miles up the coast, the shipment consisting of one hundred and fifteen thousand pounds of grain and potatoes. The boat on which they were obliged to ship had no storage space below deck, so that the produce had to be placed on the steamer's deck, where it was exposed to a heavy storm that caused great damage and they realized only three hundred and sixty dollars after all of the expenses of the sale had been met. Having thus suffered heavy losses, the brothers purchased a mule and a miners' outfit and started for northern California, where they engaged in placer mining at Cox's Bar on Trinity river. Later they turned their attention to the lumber business, which they conducted with success. While there located William D. Roberts determined to return to Utah. He outfitted at San Bernardino, whence he made the trip to Provo, arriving in December, 1855, with a horse, saddle, leggings, spurs, a six-shooter and two twenty dollar gold pieces, this being all that he had to show for his four years' hard labor in California. He had met many difficulties, hardships and perils while in the west and on three different occasions had almost lost his life at the hands of Spaniards, who manifested the most intense hatred toward Americans. Soon after taking up his abode at Provo, Mr. Roberts became one of a posse summoned by Deputy United States Marshal Thomas Johnson, who aided in the arrest of the Indian chief Tintic and his hostile band, who had been running off stock belonging to the settlers. The sheriff's posse numbered twenty-five men, who followed the Indians into Rush valley and might have captured them had not the marshal ordered a retreat on finding that the Indians were entrenched behind rocks in the cedars on the mountain side. When ordered to surrender Tintic refused, saying that he was hungry for a fight, and fired upon the white men. One of the balls passed between Mr. Roberts and George Parrish, who were standing near together, about two hundred yards from the Indians. The men who formed the marshal's posse were much chagrined that they were not allowed to attempt the capture of the Indians, who were thus permitted to drive off a large number of horses and cattle belonging to the settlers. During the trouble about twelve white people were killed by the savages.

With every phase and form of pioneer life in Utah, William D. Roberts became familiar. He took an active part in promoting the work of development and progress resulting in modern day civilization. In 1856 he moved to Pleasant Grove, but after a summer passed there returned in the fall of the same year to Provo, where he began farming and also was active along other business lines. He belonged to the relief party that was sent out to bring the last of the handcart emigrants from Fort Bridger and thus alleviate the terrible suffering which they had undergone. In 1857 Mr. Roberts went with Daniel W. Jones to the Sweet Water, there to trade with the emigrants, and while thus engaged the two men were captured by the Crow Indians but the following morning were rescued by a company of people on their way to California. In the fall Mr. Roberts returned to Utah and in the succeeding winter made a trip to southern California. He brought back with him a band of wild horses and several hundred head of sheep and for a long period was identified with the stock raising interests of his section of the state. When the Indians again went upon the warpath, resulting in the Echo Canyon campaign, he was again among the number who did military duty. About this time his brother, Clark Roberts, who had been in the east, came to Utah and took his mother and his brothers, Homer and Byron, back to Missouri, but William D. Roberts concluded to remain a resident of Utah. In 1858 he engaged in freighting and in carrying passengers between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, California, and thus again made the long and arduous journey across the hot stretches of sand and over the mountains to the coast. By way of California, the Isthmus route and New York city he went east to Missouri in April, 1859, to visit his parents, making the trip in that way because of the hostility manifested by the Indians on the eastern route. Remaining in Missouri until 1860, he then purchased a herd of cattle, which he drove across the plains to Utah, and he further extended his business activities during the following winter by introducing many colonies of imported bees from Los Angeles. On the first trip he brought eighteen colonies and at subsequent periods increased the number until he had introduced six hundred colonies of bees into Utah. Later he started with his freighting teams for Austin, Nevada, and while upon that trip was instrumental in capturing a murderer, John Webb, who with a companion, Ransom G. Young, had killed with a hatchet three traveling companions-a man by the name of McCoy and two brothers by the name of Wollman, committing the murder at Schell Creek, Nevada. Assisted by Peter Neece, William D. Roberts arrested Webb five miles west of Camp Floyd and brought him under heavy irons to Schell Creek. It was his intention to take the prisoner to Austin, Nevada, but at Schell Creek he was met by a posse of between fifty and one hundred men, who had succeeded in capturing Webb's fellow murderer and who had everything in readiness for a lynching, carrying out their plans in less than an hour after Mr. Roberts' arrival with the criminal. He made his next trip by the overland stage line. The journey was fraught with many perils, for the Civil war was then in progress and unrest was felt in every section of the country. On his railroad journey he passed both Federal and Confederate lines at different points and finally reached Lancaster, where he met his parents and three brothers, while his eldest brother, Don, who had never been in Utah, was with the Confederate army under General Price.

On the 6th of February, 1862, William D. Roberts married Miss Maria Lusk and on the opening of spring he and his wife, with his mother and brothers and two of his wife's brothers, left Lancaster for Utah. Throughout the intervening years until his death Mr. Roberts was engaged in various business interests at Provo and was an active factor in the development and up building of the city and this section of the state. He planted orchards and vineyards and conducted his farm along the most progressive lines, importing blooded horses, cattle, pigs and chickens. He was also connected with a company that imported the first steam power threshing machine and the first steam power brick machine into Utah and with many phases of agricultural and industrial development he was closely connected. Mr. Roberts discovered and developed mines in the Tintic district and spent much money in connection with the timber and lumber business. Whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion. At the same time he remained an active worker in the church, until his death was a member of the Seventy since May 17, 1857, and was the senior president of the Thirty-fourth Quorum. He filled missions to Great Britain and California. His work in behalf of the church was of a most effective, earnest and resultant character. With various other interests Mr. Roberts was also identified. He belonged to the first dramatic association of Provo and also was a member of the first brass band organized in Utah county. In municipal affairs he took an active interest and was a member of the city council for five years, serving two years of that period as alderman. He became the first postmaster of Provo after Utah was admitted to the Union. His history is thus closely interwoven with the annals of the city and of the west. His memory forms a connecting link between the primitive past with its hardships, privations and dangers and the progressive present with its opportunities and its prosperity. His reminiscences of the early days are most interesting and he justly deserves classification with the honored pioneer settlers of Utah.

MARION C. ROBINSON.

Marion C. Robinson, proprietor of the Royal Store, has the only exclusive establishment of the kind in the northern part of Utah county. He carries an extensive and carefully selected line of clothing and men's furnishing goods at American Fork and his establishment is known as the Royal Store. Mr. Robinson was born at American Fork, July 4, 1893, a son of William E. Robinson, also a native of American Fork. His grandfather, William S. Robinson was born in England and was a son of Edward Robinson, who was one of the first railroad conductors in the world, being on the first train in England. He came with his family to Utah in 1849 and settled at American Fork, where the family has been prominent ever since. His son, William S. Robinson, became one of the early residents of Utah county. He arrived in this state in 1850 and has devoted his life to farming and stock raising. He has been a prominent and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His son, William E. Robinson, was reared and educated at American Fork and in early life turned his attention to the profession of teaching, which he followed in Wasatch and Utah counties. He afterward took up farming and stock raising and was a most versatile man of splendid ability. He had comprehensive knowledge of the law, won success as an educator and as an agriculturist and was a man of much influence in political and church circles. He was a counselor to his fellow townsmen in times of sorrow and prosperity alike, and his advice was continuously sought and freely given. He was very active in all movements for the benefit of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and labored just as effectively and earnestly to promote high ideals in civic and political matters. He passed away March 5, 1919, when fifty-two years of age. and in his death the community lost one of its most valued citizens, the church a helpful member, his associates a devoted friend and his family a loving husband and father. He married Jane C. Chipman, a daughter of Henry and Sarah (Singleton) Chipman. She is still living and by her marriage she became the mother of five children, two sons and three daughters.

Marion C. Robinson, of this review, who was the second of the children, was educated in the public schools of American Fork and was first employed at mercantile pursuits as a clerk. In 1912 he became active with others in establishing the Royal Store and since 1916 has conducted the business alone. He carries a complete line of everything needed for men's wear, catering to good business and having a most attractive line of goods. He makes a specialty of stockmen and miners' shoes and clothing and the business is constantly growing.

On the 20th of May. 1914, Marion C. Robinson was married at Salt Lake City to Miss Sigrid Peterson, a native of Sweden, and they have two children: Marian, who was born December 26, 1914; and William Kenneth, born June 13, 1916. The religious faith of the parents is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, their membership being in the second ward, American Fork. In politics Mr. Robinson maintains an independent course. He prefers to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs and his capable management of his store is bringing to him well merited success. His establishment, moreover, is a credit to the town, being the only exclusive store of the kind in the northern part of Utah county and meeting every want of the public in the line of men's furnishings.

J. HENRY ROSE, D. C.

J. Henry Rose, doctor of chiropractic and a graduate of the Palmer School of Chiropractic, where he completed his course July 26, 1917, is now enjoying a large practice. He was born in Inverury, Utah, December 26, 1882. His father, Oscar E. Rose, was a native of Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he followed the occupation of farming. At length he removed westward, making his way to Ogden, Utah, and subsequently becoming a resident of Inverury. He has been active in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and he has also conducted a successful business along agricultural lines. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Mary Jane Snyder, was born in Salt Lake City, a daughter of John Snyder, who established his home in Utah during the period of its pioneer development. By her marriage she became the mother of ten children, eight of whom are yet living.

The youthful days of Dr. J. Henry Rose to the age of twenty years were spent upon the home farm. He acquired a public school education and afterward pursued a course in the Brigham Young University, taking the high school branches and after ward the college course. He was graduated with the class of 1910, winning the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and then he turned his attention to the profession of teaching, becoming principal of a high school, in which capacity he served for four years In 1914 he matriculated in the University of Chicago, where he studied for one year and later he spent two years as principal of the high school at Springville, Utah county In 1917 he pursued a course in the Palmer School of Chiropractic, winning the D. C degree, and through the intervening period he has followed his profession in Provo He now has a well equipped office and is doing a business of gratifying proportions.

In 1904 Dr. Rose was married to Miss Lillian Anderson, of Salina, Utah, a daughter of H. S. Anderson. Dr. Rose turns to hunting and fishing for recreation and greatly enjoys a trip in the open with rod and gun. He is a member of the Utah Society of Chiropractic. Dr. Rose and Dr. M. A. Nelson, of Salt Lake, are the only men with college degrees who are chiropractors in the state of Utah. His finely equipped office is an indication of the success which has attended him and although he has practiced for but a brief period he is now accorded a very extensive patronage, which is constantly increasing.

FRANK Y. ROUSE.

Frank Y. Rouse is the proprietor of the Goldenrod Jersey Farm near Springville, Utah. This is the mountain home of Flying Fox, one of the finest Jersey sires in the country. The farm is situated a mile north of Springville and its equipment and business methods are fast making it one of the finest dairy farms of the state. Mr. Rouse was born March 6, 1866, a son of John and Susanna (Young) Rouse, the former a native of Warwickshire, England, while the latter was born in Sweden. It was in the early '50s that the father came to Utah, while the mother arrived in this state in the latter part of the same decade. John Rouse remained for a short time in Salt Lake and then removed to Cedar Fork, after which he went to Goshen, where he became one of the leading pioneer settlers, actively identified with farming and stock raising there. He was also one of the stockholders of the woolen mills at Provo during the early period of the existence of that enterprise, trading cattle and sheep for his stock in the undertaking. He was well known as a freighter in the early days, keeping two teams on the road all of the time for about twenty years. With every phase of the business development and the material progress of the community he was closely associated, contributing largely to those forces which constituted the foundation upon which has been built the present progress and prosperity of the state. He was also an active factor in the moral development of the community, serving as bishop's counselor at Goshen for years, but later in life he left the church. However, he was a leader among men for the up building of the community and the uplift of the individual. His death resulted from being thrown from a buggy and he passed away on the 21st of June, 1883. John Rouse was the father of seven children: J. H., now living in California; Mrs. G. C. Elmer, of Salt Lake; Mrs. John M. Wheeler, of Salt Lake; David, who died at the age of eleven years from the kick of a horse; W. S., living at Raymond, Canada; Frank Y., of this review; and Mrs. F. S. Baxter, who recently passed away at Provo.

Frank Y. Rouse spent one year as a student in the Brigham Young University at Provo and remained upon the home farm with his father until he reached the age of twenty-five years. He then married Miss Gertrude White, of Goshen, a daughter of John W. White, who was the pioneer blacksmith of Goshen and also engaged in farming there. He learned the trade of blacksmithing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was born and reared, and he became an expert in that line of work, being able to make anything that is produced in a blacksmith shop and make it of the highest quality. He was also a leader in republican ranks at Goshen for a time but prior to his death became identified with the socialist party. To Mr. and Mrs. Rouse have been born six children. John Elmer married Effie Burt and they have one child, Burt. Rita is the wife of R. A. Bowles and they have a daughter, Thelma. Leone is the wife of L. S. Davis, a farmer of Sterling. Idaho, and they have one child, Iris. Madeline died at the age of sixteen years. Rachel and Walter M. are at home. Following his marriage Mr. Rouse took up one hundred and sixty acres, which he homesteaded at Goshen, and resided thereon until 1907, when he purchased his present farm. At Goshen he engaged in cattle raising and farming, keeping two hundred head of cattle on the range. His present farm comprises ninety acres, which is well watered, and with his son, John Elmer, and his son-in-law, R. A. Bowles, he is conducting one of the high class dairy farms of Utah. He has a large herd of registered Jerseys, having about forty-five head of young stock. He owns a registered sire, bought in Jackson county, Missouri. This is Flying Fox, of the same strain of Jerseys as are those of the famous Longview Dairy Farm of Martin City, Jackson county, Missouri. This is one of the finest dairy farms of the United States, owned by R. A. Long, a millionaire lumberman of Kansas City. Mr. Rouse now has nine cows on a merit test and for the month of May, 1919, these nine cows produced ten thousand, three hundred and forty pounds of milk, which beat the record of the Jackson county farm for butter test in 1916. Mr. Rouse furnishes cream for ice cream parlors, milking the cows three times daily. He has a concrete and stone dairy barn with inside measurements of eighty-five by forty-one feet, built in 1913. It is thoroughly modern in its equipment. He also has a concrete silo forty feet deep, with one hundred and fifty tons ensilage. Aside from his dairy interests he raises sugar beets and hay upon the farm and he also keeps a flock of four hundred Nacona hens from the Shepherd's great strain of Ohio. His son, John Elmer, is a graduate of the Logan Agricultural College, where he pursued a full course in animal husbandry and dairying and also did the chores at the college night and morning in order to get all the practical knowledge possible while mastering the sciences that constituted his curriculum. The son resides on the farm of his mother-in-law near the Rouse place, while Mr. Bowles resides with Mr. Rouse upon the farm, the latter's wife having died on the 19th of April, 1914. From the Goldenrod Jersey Farm they sell registered sires but nothing except from cows that produce upwards of five hundred pounds of butter annually. The work of improvement is steadily being carried forward on the farm, which within a short time will be one of the finest dairy farms of the state.

In his political views Mr. Rouse is a republican and is keenly interested in the vital problems and questions of the day but never seeks nor desires office, preferring to concentrate his energy and attention upon his well managed business affairs, and he is justly accounted one of the foremost dairymen of Utah.

HON. WILLIAM MARTIN ROYLANCE.

Hon. William Martin Roylance, whose name figures prominently on the pages of Provo's history in connection with its business interests and as its representative in the state legislature, was born in Springville, Utah. March 31, 1865, a son of William and Lucy (Clucus) Roylance, and a grandson of John Roylance, a member of the Mormon Battalion. The father was born in England and came to the United States in 1851. Crossing the country, he settled at Springville, Utah, where he took up the occupation of ranching and farming. He was an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, greatly interested in its work, and at the same time he contributed much to the development of his city, participating actively in many local and county affairs and filling various offices of public honor and trust. The mother was also of English birth and they had a family of nine children, seven of whom are yet living. Both William and Lucy Roylance passed away in the year 1903. William Martin Roylance is indebted to the public school system of Springville for the educational opportunities which he enjoyed. At the early age of sixteen years he entered a general merchandise store in Springville and was there employed for two years. He was afterward in the service of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company for a year and a half and on the expiration of that period, in 1885, embarked in business on his own account at Springville as a wholesale dealer in fruits, produce and all farm products, winning success in that undertaking from the beginning. In 1889 he helped organize the Springville Banking Company, of which he became one of the directors, thus being officially connected with the institution for a period of ten years. On the 1st of January, 1900, he removed to Provo and established the William M. Roylance Company, Inc., for the conduct of a wholesale business in fruits and produce. From a small beginning he has steadily developed this enterprise until he has a very extensive business, making shipments to all parts of the United States, to Canada, Australia and other parts of the globe. The company deals extensively in fruits, vegetables, honey and other produce and are pioneers in this line of business in Provo and southern Utah. Through the conduct of the business, which has furnished a splendid market for producers, Mr. Roylance has contributed much to the work of enhancing the value of land in this section of the state. The volume of his trade enables him to make large purchases of produce and fruits raised in this section, and his interests have ever been of a character that have contributed in marked measure to the up building and commercial development of the region. In addition to handling produce raised by others, he owns the largest pear and apple orchards in the state of Utah, and his personal experience along these lines enables him to speak with authority concerning many points of interest to the horticulturist.

In 1885 Mr. Roylance was married to Miss Laura A. Turner, a daughter of John W. Turner, a pioneer of 1847 and a resident of Provo at the time of his death. Mrs. Roylance passed away in 1901, leaving three children: Martin W., who is now in business with his father as vice president and one of the directors of the William M. Roylance Company, was graduated from the Brigham Young Academy and in 1908 was sent on a mission to England for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He spent two years at Liverpool and was very successful in his labors in that land. Merline is now the wife of A. W. Turner, a rising young attorney of Provo, mentioned elsewhere in this work, and they have one child, William C. Enid, the youngest of the family, is still in Provo. For his second wife Mr. Roylance chose Mrs. May Z. Young, of Provo, a daughter of A. M. and Emma Zabrinski, who were old-time residents of the state, having cast in their lot with its early settlers. They have one child, William C, who is now in school.

Mr. Roylance is a man of fine personal appearance, with snow white hair, clear-cut features and courtly manner. He is widely known among the prominent and influential residents of the state and is regarded as the peer of those who have been most active in bringing about the material development and upholding the political, legal and moral status of the commonwealth. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he is serving as high priest. He has been very active in support of national interests through his work in behalf of the Liberty loans and the Red Cross. While in Springville he filled the office of city recorder and was also a member of the city council. He has taken a most active interest in public affairs and has left the impress of his individuality and ability upon the annals of the state. He was speaker of the house in the third Utah legislature in 1899 and was a member of the house during the second and third sessions of the general assembly. He is the author of many bills of importance which are now found on the statute books of the state. In 1904 and 1905 he served as mayor of Provo and he has always given his political allegiance to the democratic party. He served as a delegate to the Baltimore convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson for the presidency and has never missed a state convention of the party. He was one of the organizers of the Provo Commercial Club, has served as its president and as a director, and his efforts were largely responsible for the great water system which Provo now owns. In a word his life has been of great usefulness to the public as well as a source of individual success, and he is honored and esteemed wherever known and most of all where best known.

JOHN L. RUSSELL.

John L. Russell is a prominent factor in commercial circles of Provo as the secretary, treasurer and manager of the Maiben Glass & Paint Company, which conducts an extensive establishment at No. 272 West Center street. His birth occurred at Almy, Wyoming, on the 22d of March, 1882, his parents being John L. and Marian (Carruth) Russell. The father, a native of Stirling, Scotland, emigrated to the United States in 1854, when a youth of sixteen years, making his way to Wyoming, where he was identified with mining interests throughout the remainder of his life as manager and owner of coal properties. He also became prominent in political circles and was chosen to represent his district in the Wyoming legislature, while in religious work he took an earnest and active part as an elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He met a tragic death in 1899, being killed in a mine explosion at Diamondville, Wyoming. The mother of John L. Russell, Jr., who bore the maiden name of Marian Carruth and was a native of South Cottonwood, Utah, passed away at Provo, this state, in 1904. She was a daughter of William and Agnes Carruth, who emigrated from Scotland to the United States and took up their abode among the pioneer settlers of Utah. By her marriage she became the mother of ten children.

John L. Russell, whose name introduces this review, acquired his early education in the public schools of Provo, Utah, and later continued his studies in the Brigham Young University. On leaving that institution, in 1907, he entered business circles as an employee of the Taylor Brothers Company, having charge of their carpet department for eleven years. On the expiration of that period he assumed the responsibilities of secretary, treasurer and manager of the Maiben Glass & Paint Company, with Thomas N. Taylor as president, and has since been at the head of large interests. The company deals in paints, oils, glass, brushes, wall paper, mouldings, burlap, oilcloth, artists' materials and picture frames and in this connection has built up an extensive and profitable business. In the conduct of its affairs Mr. Russell displays sound judgment, keen sagacity and unfaltering enterprise, contributing much to the continued growth and success of the establishment.

In 1910 Mr. Russell was united in marriage to Miss Mertis Hoover, of Provo. a, daughter of J. W. Hoover, who established one of the first flour mills in the state. Mr. and Mrs. Russell have become the parents of three sons, Max, Maurice and Easton, who are seven, five and two years of age respectively.

Mr. Russell gives his political allegiance to the republican party and is an interested and active member of the Provo Commercial Club. His religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he is an elder, and he is now serving as clerk for the third ward of Provo. He has become widely and favorably known throughout the community in which practically his entire life has been spent, enjoying well merited recognition as a leading business man and representative citizen.

IRA RAYMOND RUSSON.

Ira Raymond Russon, proprietor of the Russon Garage at Lehi, was born May 29, 1896, in the city where he yet resides. His father, Lott Russon, is a native of England and when twelve years of age was brought to the United States. He became a resident of Lehi. Utah, and after reaching adult age took up the occupation of farming, which he has since followed. He yet makes his home at Lehi and he is high priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The mother, who in her maidenhood was Eunice Titcomb, of Lehi, is also living and they have become parents of eight children, seven of whom survive.

At the usual age Ira R. Russon became a pupil in the public schools and thus pursued his education to the age of eighteen years, when his textbooks were put aside and he took up the occupation of farming. In 1916 he established his present business under the name of the Russon Garage and is now handling all kinds of automobile accessories. He is an expert mechanic and does intricate repair work. He is very successful in this and has an excellent business of large proportions. He likewise adds materially to his income through the sale of automobile general accessories.

On the 1st of December, 1915, Mr. Russon was married to Miss Myrtle Devey, of Alpine, Utah, a daughter of William Devey, who came to this state at an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Russon have one child, Cleo, who is in her third year. Mr. Russon belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a block teacher. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party. He stands well in the community as an enterprising and industrious business man. young and popular.

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