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Utah Since Statehood
Author is Noble Warrum - 1919
EDWARD L. IRVING.
Edward L. Irving, a prominent dairyman of Ogden. conducting a growing and profitable business on West Twelfth street, is a native son of Colorado, his birth having occurred in the city of Denver in 1880. His parents were John E. and Mamie (O'Herron) Irving, the former a native of Chicago, Illinois, while the latter was born in Canada.
The son spent the first six years of his life in Colorado. In 1892 he became a resident of Utah, settling in Salt Lake, where he began his education, but later a removal was made to the Ogden valley. He then located on the site of his present home in 1910 and established a dairy business. He has engaged in business on his own account for the past twelve years and has met with very substantial success as the result of his close application, his progressive and scientific methods and his thorough reliability. He has one of the best equipped dairies in this part of the state, fully supplied with facilities for bottling, cooling, Pasteurizing and testing the milk. His building is a concrete structure, twenty-six by twenty-eight feet, and everything is most sanitary, while the processes which he uses in the handling of the milk are most modern in character. He confines his attention strictly to the wholesale business at the present time, buying and selling milk in large quantities. He utilizes three trucks in gathering milk from the farmers every day and the capacity of his dairy is about six hundred gallons daily. He handles each day from four hundred to six hundred gallons of milk, often carrying on business to the capacity of the plant.
In September, 1907, Mr. Irving was united in marriage to Miss Alta Allen, a daughter of J. W. Allen, of Marriott, Utah. They have two children. John Edward and Edna Belle. The parents are communicants of the Catholic church and in political belief Mr. Irving is a republican. Aside from his home at Ogden he is the owner of a farm, from which he obtains a good annual rental. He is an alert and energetic business man, carrying on his interests along most progressive lines, and his success is the direct outcome of his individual labors and business ability.
AARON JACKSON.
Aaron Jackson is now living retired at Ogden but for many years was classed among the representative business men of Weber county. For a long period he conducted a mercantile establishment and the progressive spirit which he manifested in the conduct of his business affairs, his reliable methods and his earnest efforts to please his patrons secured for him a large trade that enabled him in the course of years to become the possessor of a handsome competence.
He is one of the substantial citizens that England has furnished to Utah, his birth having occurred in Macclesfield, Cheshire, on the 18th of January, 1854. His parents were Aaron and Elizabeth (Horrocks) Jackson, who in the year 1856 bade adieu to friends and native country and sailed for the new world with their family. From the eastern coast they traveled through the Mississippi valley and made the trip across the plains with one of the handcart companies. The father died while en route but Mrs. Jackson and her children, Aaron. Martha and Mary, ultimately arrived in Salt Lake, reaching their destination November 30, 1856.
Aaron Jackson was but two years old at the time the family came to the United States. He was largely reared in Utah, receiving his education in the schools of the state, and in early life took up teaming, which work he followed for some time. In 1888 he turned his attention to merchandising on Madison avenue in Ogden and still makes his home in this city. His mother opened the store and conducted it for about a quarter of a century in an early day. With her he would drive an ox team to Salt Lake City and there purchase a load of crockery ware, which they would sell through the country as the journeyed to their home in Ogden. Later Mr. Jackson purchased the store in Ogden from his mother and conducted it independently until about three years ago, when he retired from active business to enjoy the rest which he had justly won as the result of his earnest labor in former years. He had ever been a progressive merchant and his activities measured up to the highest ethical standards of commercial life.
On the 26th of January, 1878, Mr. Jackson was married to Miss Eliza J. Rawson, who was born January 13, 1857, a daughter of William Coffin and Eliza J. (Cheney) Rawson. Her father was born in Randolph county, Indiana, and in early life learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for a considerable period, and at an early day he also engaged in farming in Utah. Subsequently he turned his attention to merchandising at Harrisville and was identified with the building of the canal. He remained an active and faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and filled the offices of bishop's counselor and superintendent of the Sunday school. He was also identified with the building of the Ogden tabernacle and with various public works of benefit to the community. His death occurred in 1891. His father, Horace Strong Rawson, was born in Oneida county, New York, July 15, 1799, and came to Utah on the 16th of October, 1850, in the Wilford Woodruff company. He engaged in the manufacture of lumber and was active in the work of the church and in secular affairs. He served as high counselor in the church and was a member of the Ogden city council. He was with the Saints in their drives in Missouri and Illinois, and Mrs. Rawson personally knew Prophet Joseph Smith.
To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have been born nine children, of whom seven are still living, and they also have fifteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. Their son, Aaron William, went to Wisconsin in 1906 to fill a mission and was drowned while bathing in Black river. Grace E. is now the wife of Morton R. Barrows, a resident of Idaho. Ethel E. married Nathan A. Hawkes and they make their home in Ogden. Mary Venetta is the wife of Leland K. Nelson, of Ogden. Samuel Francis is a resident of Seattle, Washington. Zina Geneva is the wife of Gerard Klomp, of Ogden. Emma Isabel is deceased. Myrtle Florence is the next of the family. Joseph Rawson is still a resident of Ogden.
Mr. Jackson is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he is a high priest. In 1890 he was sent on a mission to Scotland and England and returned in 1892. He has labored in the church for the past forty-five years as ward teacher and has also been active in other capacities. He is a director of the Ogden Bench Canal Company, having been associated with that enterprise for several years, and is interested in everything that has to do with the up building and development of the section of the state in which he lives, his efforts for public improvement.
W. OSWELL JACKSON
For a decade W. Oswell Jackson has successfully carried on business on his own account in sheet metal work, cornices, heating and ventilating, taking contracts for all work of this character and thus becoming recognized as a prominent representative of industrial activity in Ogden. He was born September 13. 1887 in the city in which he still resides, a son of William and Harriet J. (Hall) Jackson. The father was born in Lancashire, England, and came to the United States in 1874, when eighteen years of age. He made his way across the country to Utah, where he engaged in business as a brick and stone contractor. He was very prominent in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was first counsel to Bishop D. H. Ensign. He died in 1900, at the ago of forty-four years, but the mother is still living and makes her home in Ogden. The father's death interrupted the education of W. Oswell Jackson, who up to that time had been a pupil in the public schools but when a lad of thirteen was forced to start out in the business world, since which time he has depended entirely upon his own resources. He entered the wholesale grocery house of the Scowcroft Company and there remained for thirteen months in the office, working his way upward to the position of mail clerk. He afterward entered upon an apprenticeship in a tin shop and spent five years in learning the business, with which he became familiar in principle and detail. He worked diligently along that line, gaining expert knowledge of the trade, and in 1909 he established business on his own account as a contractor in sheet metal work, cornices, heating and ventilating. From the beginning his patronage has steadily increased and the volume of business which he now transacts is large and gratifying. The excellence of his work, his expert skin and his ability in directing the labors of those in his employ are features in his continuous success. His interests are now conducted under the name of W. Oswell Jackson, jobber and manufacturer of sheet metal products, warm air heating and ventilating, roofing, furnaces, etc. He certainly deserves much credit for what be has accomplished, as he started out in business on his own account when a youth of thirteen years and has since worked his way upward through close application, thorough reliability and undaunted enterprise.
In 1911 Mr. Jackson was united in marriage to Miss Lillie Moyes, of Ogden, a daughter of James H. Moyes. They have become the parents of three children: W. Oswell, seven years of age; Marvin Pleas, aged four, and Lillie Mae, two years old. Mr. Jackson is very active in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he is serving as elder. He has filled the office of superintendent of the Sunday school and has done everything in his power to advance the interests which he thus espouses. On March 14. 1919 he left to fill a mission in the northern states, of which he is now secretary, with headquarters in Chicago. Illinois. He is a man of high principle and can well be said to belong to the "Independent order of integrity."
BISHOP JOHN HOWARD JENKINS
Bishop John Howard Jenkins is connected with the harness and saddlery trade in Ogden, where he was born in 1886. He is a son of John and Harriet (Riley) Jenkins, who are also natives of Ogden. The paternal grandfather, Thomas Jenkins, was a native of Pennsylvania, born near Philadelphia, and in the summer of 1852 he came to Utah, settling in Ogden, where he established a blacksmith shop which he conducted for several years. His son, John Jenkins, has followed railroad work throughout his entire life and at present is general foreman of the freight depot in Ogden. In earlier years he was a messenger on the road.
John H. Jenkins of this review acquired his early education in Ogden and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1905. He afterward attended the Smithsonian Business College in 1906 and then filled a mission, leaving home on the 20th of October, 1906, for New Zealand, where he worked among the Maori people for four years. In 1910 he returned and subsequently went to Aberdeen, Idaho, where he took up one hundred and sixty acres of land. Later he again came to Ogden, where he became connected with Fred J. Kiesel and is now with the harness and saddlery house of J. G. Read & Brothers Company.
On the 20th of November, 1912, Mr. Jenkins was married to Miss Athleen Woods, a daughter of Francis L. and Evelyn (Pratt) Woods. They became parents of two children: Barbara, born November 2, 1913; and Marion, whose natal day was May 31, 1916. The wife and mother passed away November 30, 1918. Mr. Jenkins was appointed January 1, 1917, to the office of bishop of the thirteenth ward, which he organized. Prior to this time he had filled all offices in the church up to that of bishop, having long been an active and earnest worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, while his life has at all times been guided by its principles.
ANDREW BRIGHAM JENSEN.
Andrew Brigham Jensen a sergeant on the police force of Ogden, was born in Eden, Weber county, Utah, upon the homestead farm, October 23, 1874. He is a son of Nels P. and Sophia Jensen, natives of Denmark, who on coming to the new world made their way to the Ogden valley, taking up their abode in Eden, where the father devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and blacksmithing. The mother died in May, 1882, and the father long survived her, passing away at Huntsville, Utah, April 21, 1897. To them were born five children, of whom one daughter died at the age of six years. The others are Lars C, James P., Charles J., and Andrew Brigham of this review. Being only a small boy at the time of his mother's death, the last named was reared by his uncle and aunt, Anders and Margaret Larson.
In the district schools Andrew B. Jensen pursued his early education and afterward attended the Mount Pleasant Seminary, which he entered in 1888, there pursuing a two years' course. He also attended Weber Stake Academy for two years. Subsequently he spent some years in Eden, where he held the office of justice of the peace and was also chairman of the school board. He likewise held other local positions and was continuously in the public service. In 1900 he' turned his attention to the show business and purchased one of the first moving picture machines which was brought to Utah. He then gave his time and energies to the conduct of moving picture theatres for several years. He afterward became connected with the vaudeville line of entertainment, conducting a theater at Logan, also two houses in Baker City, Oregon, and two at Boise, Idaho, one of these being a vaudeville house and the other a stock show company. He installed the first Hales touring car for the firm of Halverson & Nelson of Salt Lake and in 1908 he became the manager of the Grand Theatre at Salt Lake, in which position he continued for a year. He was afterward manager of the Empress Theatre at Salt Lake for the Sullivan & Considine circuit. On the 16th of October, 1913, he withdrew from the theatrical business, having previously fought the "blue laws" of Idaho, requiring the closing of theatres on Sunday. This case he carried up to the supreme court, where the case was lost.
Mr. Jensen then took up the organization work of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen and was very successful in forming lodges in many cities and towns of Utah, adding three hundred members to the order in Ogden alone. By request of Chief of Police Thomas E. Brown, of Ogden, he entered the police department, acting first as a patrolman and later as a detective. He is now a sergeant of police, with offices on the second floor of the Police building in Ogden. He has done splendid work as an official in this connection, Ogden having one of the most efficient police systems and most thoroughly organized departments of the kind in the west.
On March 12th, 1896, Mr. Jensen was married to Miss Jensine Winter, of Huntsville, Utah, and they have become the parents of three children. Jacob B., born in 1897, became a member of the National Guard of Utah and saw active service on Mexican soil He then enlisted in the Fifteenth Regiment of Infantry and is now stationed at Tien-chen, China. Rosina N. is the wife of Evans Hewlett, of Pocatello, Idaho. Violetta, the youngest of the family, is attending school in Ogden. Fraternally Mr. Jensen is connected with the Knights of Pythias. He has always been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and on the 16th of September, 1897, started on a mission to Denmark, to which he devoted two years. He has also been a member of the Quorum of Seventy and was Sunday school superintendent in the Eden ward for a number of years. For recreation he turns to the wilds and is well known as a hunter of big game, in which he has been very successful. His experiences of life have been extremely varied and have brought him many interesting experiences. He is a man of forceful and commanding presence, possessed of many sterling traits of character, capable and energetic in all that he undertakes. He belongs to one of the old and highly respected pioneer families of Utah.
GEORGE FRED JENSEN
George Fred Jensen, an architect practicing his profession in Ogden as junior partner in the firm of Woods & Jensen, was born at Mount Pleasant, Utah, December 20, 1890 a son of C. J. and Rozella A. (Farnworth) Jensen. The parents are likewise natives of Mount Pleasant and are still living. The father has been for many years a teacher in the Weber Academy and has contributed much to the educational development of his section of the state. He has been equally active and earnest in church work and has been ordained a high priest of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
George F. Jensen of this review, after attending the public schools of Mount Pleasant, continued his education at Ephraim. Utah, where he was a student in the Snow Academy. He next entered the Weber Academy and was graduated with the class of 1909 after which he pursued special courses in the University of California and art courses at Los Angeles. He was afterward associated with L. S. Hodgson, an architect, for three years and was with W. S. Hobbard, an architect of San Diego, California, for a year. In Los Angeles he subsequently became connected with Carleton M. Winslow in a professional capacity and, returning to Utah, settled at Ogden, where he became a member of the firm of Woods & Jensen. The firm has been called upon for important professional work, making the plans and superintending the erection of the Scoville Press building, the Lewis school, the Centerville school, many county school buildings, and the Weber College gymnasium.
In August. 1917, Mr. Jensen was married to Miss Verna Farr, a daughter of Thomas Farr, of Ogden. Their religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Jensen has membership with the Utah Association of Architects and ranks very high in professional circles. He turns for recreation to tennis and basket ball and other athletic sports.
His military record began with his enlistment on the 30th of June, 1917, as a member of Battery B. One Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery. He went to the officers' training school at Camp Kearney, California, and was commissioned a second lieutenant at Camp Jackson. He afterward left for France on the 14th of June 1918, and was graduated from the Saumur Military School of that country and from the Tractor Artillery School at Gien. France, from which point he proceeded to the northern front. He participated in various engagements which meant the crushing of German militarism and he was later assigned to Battery C of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery. Following the signing of the armistice he returned home, crossing the Atlantic from Bordeaux on the 24lh of December and receiving an honorable discharge at Logan, Utah, on the 28th of January. The story of the wonderful work of the American troops is too well known to need recounting now. Suffice it to say that Lieutenant Jensen was with his command in every engagement where his regiment was sent to the front. To those who have safely returned it has been a broadening experience such as could not come in years and years of ordinary training and. like thousands of other American troops, he has returned home quietly to take up the pursuits of business life, yet with higher ideals, stronger purposes and wider recognition of the duties of citizenship. America may well thrill with pride at the record of the men who served her on the fields of Flanders and of France.
JAMES JENSEN.
Utah has drawn her citizenship not only from every state in the Union but also from almost every civilized country on the face of the globe. A goodly number of her substantial citizens have come from Denmark, including James Jensen, of Pleasant View, who was there born in 1853 his parents being Peter C. and Annie Jensen, who in the year 1862 bade adieu to friends and native land and with their family came to America as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Crossing the plains to Utah, they settled for a time in Pleasant Grove and afterward removed to Mount Pleasant, Sanpete county, where they lived until 1866. They then returned to Omaha. Nebraska, where they resided for two years, when they again became residents of Utah, settling in Ogden, where the father worked on the railroad all through the Weber canyon, being thus employed until March, 1869. He established the first brickyard in Weber county and in the manufacture of brick James Jensen actively assisted his father until the latter's death, which occurred in 1873.
James Jensen was a lad of but nine years when the family came to the new world. He was therefore largely reared upon the frontier of Utah and became familiar with all of the experiences, hardships and privations incident to the settlement of the state. He aided his father in the work in which the latter engaged, becoming active in the management of the brickyard, and following his father's death he turned his attention to farming, which claimed his time until 1877. In that year he became connected with mercantile interests and in addition to conducting a store engaged in buying and shipping fruit. He also grows fruit on an extensive scale, being one of the leading horticulturists of his district. He has made a close and discriminating study of the best methods of propagating and caring for the fruit trees and his orchards are In excellent condition, producing large crops annually.
In 1870 Mr. Jensen was married to Miss Sophia Hansen, who came to Utah in 1869, making the trip on the first train to Riverdale, which was then the terminus of the line. To Mr. and Mrs. Jensen have been born nine children who are yet living and they also lost one child. Their son. Henry L., filled a mission to London, going abroad in 1910 and returning in 1912.
The family adhere to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr. Jensen is a high priest. He has served as a member of the school board and has filled the office of constable, while for many years he was postmaster of Pleasant View. He has been an active factor in the development and up building of the district in which he resides, connected with its industrial and agricultural interests and now busily and successfully engaged in farming and fruit growing.
 DAVID JOHNS.
David Johns, of North Ogden, has always followed agricultural pursuits, giving his attention now to the production of grain and to stock raising. He is a well known rancher of Weber county, where he has made his home since early boyhood days. He was born in Glamorganshire, South Wales, March 19, 1853, a son of John and Margaret (Thomas) Johns, who were also natives of that country, the former having been born May 5, 1805, while the latter was born on the 19th of February, 1811. The parents left Wales on the 3d of May, 1861, with their family crossing the Atlantic in a sailing vessel which was called the Monarch of the Sea. After reaching American shores they at once started across the country and arrived in Salt Lake City on the 28th of September. After a brief period spent in the capital they came to North Ogden, reaching their destination on the 3d of October. In March of the following year Mr. Johns purchased a tract of land and took up the occupation of farming. Soon afterward the family located some springs, which they used in irrigating their land and have been utilized for this purpose continuously to the present time. The father continued in active farm work in North Ogden to the time of his death, which occurred March 20, 1883. His wife passed away on the 28th of September, 1882.
David Johns, a lad of but eight years when the family home was established in Utah, acquired his education in the schools of North Ogden, but on account of illness his opportunities for attending school were quite limited. However, he has learned many valuable lessons through experience, through reading and observation and he possesses an observing eye and retentive memory. He was reared to the occupation of farming, which he has always followed, and is now giving his attention to the production of the various crops and cereals best adapted to the soil and climate here, to fruit raising and to stock raising. His business affairs are carefully managed and his place presents a neat and thrifty appearance, indicating the careful supervision of a practical and progressive owner.
On the 1st of March, 1878, Mr. Johns was married to Miss Sarah A. Thomas, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Phillips) Thomas, who were natives of South Wales and came to Utah two weeks before the arrival of the Johns family. Mr. and Mrs. Johns have become the parents of seven children: David J.; Diana B.; William M., deceased; Robert J., deceased; Margaret; Elizabeth; and Sarah. The family adhere to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr. Johns was one of the council of the Thirty-eighth Quorum of Seventy for a period of ten years. He is also a member of the high priests' quorum of the Ogden stake and in 1902 he started for Wales, where he filled a mission for two years. His son, David J. Johns, filled a mission to the eastern states beginning June 23, 1900, and William, on the 23d of June, 1907, went on a mission to the western states. The latter died June 25, 1916. Aside from his work in the church Mr. Johns has taken a helpful interest in promoting the educational welfare of the district and for seven years occupied the position of school trustee.
CLARENCE BUDD JOHNSON, D. C, Ph. C.
For three years Dr. Clarence Budd Johnson has been a chiropractor of Ogden, his native city. He was born March 31, 1891, a son of Joseph T. and Elizabeth J. (Rawlins) Johnson. The father is a native of England and on coming to the new world he took up the business of masonry contracting and building, in which he was actively engaged in Ogden until 1900, when he began ranching. The mother was born in Ogden, Utah, and is a daughter of David and Mary Ann (Sharratt) Rawlins, who were pioneers and came to this state in 1847 with the Handcart Brigade, and aided in laying broad and deep the foundation upon which has been built the present progress and prosperity of the commonwealth.
Dr. Johnson, after attending the public schools of Ogden, continued his education in the Weber Academy, from which he was graduated with the class of 1911. He afterward secured a position at Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the employ of the United States government forest service and remained there for a year. He also spent one year in Idaho in the forest service and another year in Utah. He later entered the Palmer School of Chiropractic and following his graduation there from, in 1914, practiced in Sanpete county during one summer. In 1915 he went east to continue his studies and was graduated in the spring of 1916. On the 1st of August of the same year he opened an office in Ogden, where he has since engaged in practice, and his thorough understanding of the principles of the science and his devotion to the interests connected therewith has brought him an extensive practice which he is most successfully conducting. Dr. Johnson is a member of the Weber Club and his religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is active in the church work, serving as elder and as a member of the Weber stake Sunday school board. Along professional lines he has connection with the Utah Chiropractic Association. They have the most expert spine graphical laboratory in the state and are equipped to carry on spinal research work in the most modern and scientific manner.
HON. TILLMAN DAVIS JOHNSON.
Hon. Tillman Davis Johnson, federal judge of the district of Utah and a resident of Ogden, was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, January 8, 1858. His father, Columbus M. Johnson, was born in Tennessee in 1831 and served as a Confederate soldier under General Johnson in the Civil war, being wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia. He married Catharine Davis and passed away in the year 1913.
Liberal educational opportunities were accorded Judge Johnson, who was graduated from the Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1880. Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he became a student in the office and under the direction of the firm of Avent & Avent, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and was admitted to the Utah bar at Ogden in 1890, having the previous year become a resident of that city. He entered upon the active practice of his profession in Ogden, and although advancement at the bar is proverbially slow, he had within a few years attained a large clientage. In 1911 he entered into partnership with his son, Wade M. Johnson. While he has for many years been recognized as one of the ablest lawyers of Utah, his early experiences in the west were along a different professional line, for from 1886 until 1889 he had charge of the government Indian schools at Fort Bennett, South Dakota, and at Fort Hall, Idaho. It was in the latter year that he took up his abode in Ogden and, resuming his law studies, qualified for a profession in which he has since made rapid advance. Nature endowed him with marked oratorical talent, making him at all times a convincing speaker, and his pleas have likewise been characterized of the times by adverse and decisive logic which carries conviction to the minds of judge and jury. His clear reasoning and his analytical mind, together with the other salient qualities which have contributed to his success in the practice of law, commended him for judicial appointment, which came to him on the 2d of November, 1915, when he was made federal judge of the district of Utah, since which time he has been upon the bench.
On the 27th of July, 1881, in Tennessee, Judge Johnson was married to Miss Fannie McCall, a native of that state, and they have become parents of three children. Wade M., born in 1885, was graduated in 1908 from Princeton University and in 1911 from the Pennsylvania Law School with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the bar of Utah in October, 1911, and joined his father in practice that is extensive and of an important character. The second son, Ralph N, born in 1891, was graduated from Cornell University and afterward from the Harvard Medical School, thus also qualifying for a professional career. The youngest of the family is a daughter, Ruth E. Fraternally Judge Johnson is a Mason and is also connected with the Woodmen of the World. His religious faith is that of the Baptist church and his political belief that of the democratic party, in the councils of which his opinions have long carried weight, constituting an influencing element in the policy of the party and the course pursued thereby. None listen to him upon political or legal questions without recognizing his logic and the clearness of his reasoning, and his course upon the bench is in harmony with his record as a man and a lawyer, characterized by the utmost devotion to duty and by a thorough understanding of all the vital and involved problems presented for solution.
R. A. JONES.
R. A. Jones has long been a resident of Utah and now makes his home in Ogden. In former years, however, he was identified with ranching interests at Henefer, Summit county, and through the capable conduct of his business affairs there won the substantial success that now enables him to live retired. He was born in Gloucestershire, England, February 19, 1854, a son of Robert and Harriet (Tipper) Jones. The mother died in England and in 1866 the father crossed the Atlantic to the now world and made his way westward to Echo, Utah. Three years later he removed to Henefer, where he resided to the time of his death, which occurred on the 27th of April, 1906. He had devoted his life to the occupation of farming in support of his family and had converted his land into rich and productive fields. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and for twenty-throe years was Sunday school teacher and superintendent, also serving as bishop's counselor for a part of that time.
K. A. Jones was reared to the occupation of farming and acquired his education in the district schools near his home. He early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops and as the years passed on he took up farming and ranching on his own account. He carefully conducted his affairs and became successful as a rancher and stock raiser. In 1898 he took up the business of sheep raising, in which he has continued to the present time. In 1917 he removed to Ogden from his ranch at Henefer but still maintains supervision over the development of his property and the conduct of the business there carried on. He is a man of enterprise and sound judgment and his capable control of his interests has brought to him a very substantial competence.
In 1873 Mr. Jones was married to Miss Elizabeth J. Parker, a daughter of Abraham and Barbara (Scott) Parker, who came from Yorkshire, England, to the new world in 1865 and established their home in Utah in 1870. The father followed mining in Pennsylvania and afterward in Wyoming and on coming to Utah settled at Henefer. To Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been born ten children and their son. George Parker Jones, was on a mission to England from 1900 until 1903, while David Willard was on a mission to Holland from 1908 until 1910. Mr. Jones has also served as high priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and filled a mission to England from 1890 until 1892. He has been quite prominent in public affairs and in all public relations has proven his loyalty to the best interests of community and commonwealth. For ten years he filled the office of justice of the peace and his decisions were strictly fair and impartial, winning for him golden opinions from all sorts of people. He has served as school trustee for six years and was county surveyor of Summit county from 1904 until 1914, being again and again elected to the office. He had previously taken up the study of surveying and mapping through the International Correspondence School, at Scranton, Pennsylvania, from which he received his diploma, having been very successful in studies. He also met with success in the practice of his profession. He was a member of the Henefer Irrigation Company and from 1910 until 1919 was director, secretary and treasurer of the Henefer Pipe Line Company. His activities have thus been broad and varied and have constituted a valuable contribution to the interests and up building of the state in which practically his entire life has been passed.
 WILLIAM BARNETT JONES. 
William Barnett Jones, a fruit grower at North Ogden, was born in Worcestershire. England, June 2, 1848, a son of William and Mary (Barnett) Jones. The mother passed away in England, her native land, when her son William B. was quite young and the father afterward came to the United States, crossing the Atlantic in 1871.
William B. Jones had preceded him on the trip over the ocean to the new world, having sailed from England in 1867. He made his way at once to Salt Lake City, where he resided for a time, but in 1871 became a resident of North Ogden, where he has since made his home. As the years have passed he has bent his energies to the development, cultivation and improvement of a fine fruit farm and is today the owner of one of the excellent properties of the kind in the district. He raises fine apricots, peaches, plums and pears and also some grapes. He keeps his trees in excellent condition through spraying and other scientific methods, and in all things his labors are most practical and resultant. In the early days of his residence in Utah Mr. Jones worked for the Union Pacific Railroad Company and likewise engaged in bricklaying and stonemason work. He worked on culverts and bridges and was thus active in industrial circles for some time before concentrating his efforts upon fruit raising. His father had been a bricklayer and contractor and Mr. Jones had learned the trade in early life.
It was in 1872 that Mr. Jones was married to Miss Polly Buena Williams, a daughter of Lafayette Washington and Polly Maria (Shaw) Williams. Her father, who was a millwright, carpenter and farmer, was born in Chattanooga, New York, April 15, 1825, and was a descendant of Roger Williams, who came from Wales. The death of Lafayette W. Williams occurred January 5, 1907, when he was in the eighty-second year of his age. His wife was born in Bennington, Wyoming county, New York, February 10, 1830, and her death occurred on the 24th of February, 1875. To Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been born nine children, seven of whom are yet living. The son, Emery M. worked in the shipyards during the recent war. Mr. Jones and his family are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a high priest and was secretary of the High Priests Quorum of North Ogden.
IRA N. KENDELL.
Ira N. Kendell, who has been a lifelong farmer, makes his home at Uinta. He was born at South Weber, January 12, 1869. and has always resided in Utah. His parents were William and Joanna (Peek) Kendell. The father was born in Yorkshire, England, while the mother's birth occurred in Soham, England. It was on the 9th of October 1854, that William Kendell arrived at Salt Lake, where he resided for a year. In 1855 he removed to South Weber, where he made his home until about 1863, when he became a resident of Uinta, where he purchased a squatter's right to one hundred and sixty acres of land, being the twelfth man at the land office in Salt Lake. After securing his property he at once began its development. He bought the land of David Osborn and was busily engaged in its improvement until 1857, when he went to Wyoming, where he worked for John Meyers on Bear river, doing the first plowing in Wyoming. He afterward returned to Uinta, where he spent his remaining days. There he improved and developed a farm and aided in planting the seeds of civilization in that district. He was also one of the first to help build an irrigation canal. He was a stalwart supporter of the cause of education and of the church and aided in building both schoolhouses and houses of worship. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and did missionary work in England. His death occurred April 12, 1883, and in his passing Weber county lost one of its valued and representative citizens.
Ira N. Kendell spent the days of his boyhood and youth under the parental roof and acquired his education in the schools of Uinta, thus becoming well qualified for life's practical and responsible duties. He was reared to the occupation of farming, which he has always followed, and is now busily engaged in the further development and improvement of an excellent tract of land which responds readily to the care and labor which he bestows upon it. His fields produce good crops and the farm is now well developed. Mr. Kendell is also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he is now an elder, and for one year he was president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association of his ward.
OLIN A. KENNEDY.
Olin A. Kennedy, engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business in Ogden, was born in McDonough county, Illinois, on the 11th of September, 1861. His father was the Rev. Benjamin B. Kennedy, a native of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and a representative of one of the families of New Jersey of Scotch-Irish lineage. The family was founded in America when that country was still numbered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain, and in the maternal line Olin A. Kennedy comes from ancestors who participated in the Revolutionary war. His father was a minister of the Methodist church, one of the circuit riders of the early days, and devoted the greater part of his life to preaching the gospel. He came to Ogden in 1890 and continued a resident of this city to the time of his death, which occurred on the 5th of June, 1892. when he was sixty-eight years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Rose Patience French, was a native of Virginia. Her father was Isaac French, who served in the war of 1812, and her grandfather, William French, fought for the independence of the colonies in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Kennedy passed away in Ogden, March 31, 1915, at the notable old age of ninety years. By her marriage she had become the mother of seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom three are now living: Olin A. of this review; Clarence K., who resides at Puente, California: and Leota S., the wife of E. H. Hutsinpillar, a resident of Ogden.
Olin A. Kennedy was educated in the common schools of Lucas county, Iowa, to which place his parents had removed in 1865, and in Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa, where he graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1889. Before entering college and during intervals of his college course, he taught school in Iowa, devoting five years to that profession, two of these being in a government Indian school on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation of Oklahoma, covering the period from 1886 to 1888 in elusive. In July. 1889, he arrived in Ogden to become a reporter on the Ogden Daily Commercial. This was during the boom days when in a short period the town grew from a population of seven thousand to fifteen thousand. He continued to devote his attention to journalism for a period of three years and then entered the printing business in connection with E. W. McDaniel. This was conducted under the firm name of Kennedy & McDaniel, the partnership being maintained for two years, when Mr. McDaniel removed to La Junta, Colorado, where he is now filling the office of district judge. His place in the printing firm was taken by Charles S. Pulver, now of Salt Lake The business was conducted under the firm style of Kennedy & Pulver until 1895, when Mr. Kennedy became sole proprietor and so remained until 1896, when he sold the business and turned his attention to real estate dealing in connection with Ralph P. Hunter under the firm name of Hunter & Kennedy. This partnership continued until 1914, since which time Mr. Kennedy has carried on the business alone. He belongs to the Ogden Real Estate Association and has membership in the First Methodist church of Ogden, of which he has been recording steward for the past twenty-five years.
Mr. Kennedy claims the distinction of having been a member of the first republican club organized in the state of Utah, in 1892, and the following year was secretary of the first prohibition club in the state. In 1894 he helped organize the Utah State Editorial Association and was its first secretary. In 1910 he was secretary of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce' and assisted in organizing the Ogden Chautauqua Assembly, the first in the state. In 1911 the Ogden Betterment League was organized in his office, the first league of the kind in the state, and the following year he was business manager and editor of the Ogden Advance, the official paper of the league. Through the work of the league and paper the reform forces of the city gained a notable victory and gained control of the city government, which resulted finally in ousting the saloon and its kindred evils from the city and state. A son of a pioneer family Mr. Kennedy has never hesitated to be a pioneer in movements which appealed to him. For several years he has been an active member of the socialist party.
GEORGE KERN.
George Kern, president of the Kern Company, caterers and confectioners, conducting a wholesale and retail business at No. 2459 Washington street, in Ogden, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1876. His father, the late Robert Kern, was likewise born in the Keystone state and belonged to one of its old families. He was reared and educated in Philadelphia, where he resided throughout his entire life, and during the greater part of the time engaged in business as a live stock dealer. He died in 1882 at the comparatively early age of twenty-six years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Carrie Quaintance, was born in Philadelphia and is still living. She has four children, three sons and a daughter.
George Kern, the second child, was educated in Girard College of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1894. and then started out in the business world, being first employed as a clerk by the Pennsylvania Railroad, so continuing for seven years. He was afterward with the Union Pacific for twelve years, serving as chief clerk for the master mechanic at Denver, at Omaha and at Evanston, Wyoming. He resigned that position in 1911 and removed to Ogden, where he entered his present business in connection with V. E. McCarty. On the 12th of February, 1912, the business was incorporated, at which time Mr. McCarty withdrew, Mr. Kern becoming the chief stockholder in the company, which employs on an average sixteen people and has one of the leading establishments of the kind in Ogden.
On the 20th of December, 1896, Mr. Kern was married to Miss Mary Moore, a native of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, and a daughter of John and Mary (Moore) Moore, the former now deceased. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kern: Horace, Florence, Ellen and Mary.
Mr. Kern is a republican in his political views and fraternally is connected with Philadelphia Lodge, No. 72, A. F. & A. M., with the Scottish Rite bodies of Denver and with the Mystic Shrine at Salt Lake. He is also a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of Ogden and he is identified with the Weber Club and the Masonic Club of Ogden.
 WILLIAM KNIGHT.
When Utah was largely an undeveloped region, when the work of colonization had scarcely been begun, when great stretches of land were still unclaimed, when its canyons were unexplored and its vast natural resources had never been developed, William Knight entered upon the scene of earthly activities within the borders of the future state. He was born near Salt Lake, at Union Fort, or Little Cottonwood, in the year 1854, his parents having cast in their lot with the pioneer settlers of Utah. He is a son of Alonzo and Catherine Meguire Knight, the former a native of New Hampshire, born October 14, 1830, while the latter was born in Pennsylvania. It was about the year 1850, when twenty years of age, that Alonzo Knight came to Utah and located on the Little Cottonwood, where he lived for a time and then removed to Plain City. There he engaged in farming and stock raising, which he continuously followed until 1900, when he retired from active business cares. Both he and his wife are still living at this time and are among the old and well known pioneer settlers of the state, having for more than half a century been identified with the development and upbuilding of this section of the country. Mr. Knight has served as school trustee and as a member of the water committee for a number of years. He has been the promoter of all good work in his locality, cooperating heartily in every plan and measure for the upbuilding of the district and the advancement of its moral progress. A devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he has been a most active and earnest worker in its behalf and his salient traits of character have ever been such as have commended him to the confidence and good will of all.
William Knight acquired his education in the common schools and has always followed farming and the machinist's trade. He has worked diligently and persistently along these lines as the years have passed, for indolence and idleness have ever been foreign to his nature. For a long period he carefully tilled the soil and produced substantial crops upon his ranch, but in recent years he has put aside the more active work of the fields and is now enjoying well earned rest.
On the 28th of March, 1872, Mr. Knight was married to Miss Florence Dunne, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Keterung) Dunne both of whom were natives of England. They started for Utah in 1868, but Mrs. Dunne died while en route for the west. The father afterward returned east to Minnesota and there lived for a time but eventually again became a resident of Salt Lake, where he has since made his home. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have become the parents of twelve children. Some of these are married and have children and there are now five generations of the Knight family represented in Utah, descended from Alonzo Knight and his wife, Catherine (Meguire) Knight, the former now almost eighty-nine years of age, his birth having occurred in New Hampshire, October 14, 1830. He and his wife were married in Salt Lake City on the 24th of April, 1853, he having come to Utah in 1850 under Joseph Young with a company of one hundred that traveled by ox team across the western plains and over the mountains and took up their abode on the Little Cottonwood. His wife was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1833, and is therefore eighty-six years of age. This venerable couple are still living and many of their descendants are now residents of Utah and have carried forward the work of progress and improvement begun in pioneer times by this worthy pair. All have been members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and have been active in its work.
The son, William Knight, is now a well known resident of Plain City and his connection with Utah covers sixty-five years, or the entire period of his life. Within this time he has indeed witnessed a remarkable transformation in the state and at all times has lent active aid and cooperation to plans and movements for the benefit and upbuilding of the district in which he makes his home. He has served as road supervisor and also as assessor of Plain City for several years, making a most creditable record in both connections.
RAY E. KNOWLES
Ray E. Knowles is the proprietor of what is known as the Hudson Auto Top Company at Ogden. He was born in Paso Robles, California. May 31, 1892, a son of the late Oliver Knowles, who was a native of California and of English descent, the family having been founded on the Pacific coast at an early day. During the later years of his life the father followed the occupation of farming and met with substantial success in his undertakings. He wedded Lulu Gardner, who also belongs to one of the old families of California of English lineage. She is still living.
Ray E. Knowles was the third in order of birth in a family of six children, four sons and two daughters. He acquired a public school education in Portland, Oregon, and for one year was a student in the Portland high school. He then put aside his textbooks and entered upon an apprenticeship to the business in which he is now engaged. He worked as a journeyman from 1909 until 1916 and in 1915 came to Utah, settling at Salt Lake, where he remained until January 1916, when he removed to Ogden. In April, 1917, he entered into partnership with H. W. Murdock in the establishment of the present business, which since April 10, 1919, he has conducted alone.
In 1914, in Portland. Oregon, Mr. Knowles was married to Miss Clara White, a native of Washington and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William White, who went to the northwest from Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Knowles have three children: Dell, Lee and Irene, who are with their parents at No. 2052 Douglas street in Ogden. Mr. Knowles has membership with the Royal Highlanders, and his political allegiance is given to the democratic party, which finds in him a stalwart champion, but he has no desire to seek office, his time and energies being fully occupied with his business interests.
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