Utah Since Statehood
Author is Noble Warrum 1919

BENJAMIN CARLOS CALL.

Benjamin Carlos Call is a prominent attorney at law of Brigham He was born at Willard. Utah. March 28, 1877, and was the fifth in order of birth in a family of seven sons and four daughters whose parents were Omer and Eleanor (Jones) Call. The father was a native of Vermont and of English descent. He came to Utah during the early "50s, establishing his home at Willard, where he engaged in the operation of a grist mill, having one of the first mills of the kind in the state. He continued to devote his attention to milling, farming and stock raising throughout his life and a very substantial competence rewarded his labors. He died at the age of sixty-six years in the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he had taken an active part, at one time filling a mission in the central west. The mother, Eleanor (Jones) Call, a native of Wales, came to America in young girlhood and was married in Salt Lake City.

Benjamin C. Call began his education in the public schools of Willard and afterward attended the Brigham Young University at Provo and the Weber Stake Academy.  In early manhood he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in Emery and Boxelder counties for a year each, but he regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor and, determining upon the practice of law as a life work, entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He was there graduated in 1906 with the LL. D.  degree and following his graduation he opened an office in Brigham, Utah, where he has since remained. He prepares his cases with great thoroughness and care and is seldom, if ever, at fault in the application of a legal principle. He is clear and cogent in his reasoning and logical in his deductions and his ability is widely acknowledged. 

In Salt Lake Temple Mr. Call was married to Miss Louie Bywater, a native of Utah and a daughter of James and Hannah (Jenson) Bywater, the former now deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Call have six children: Phyllis, Marie, Louise, Benjamin E., Don Carlos and Joaham. Mr. Call belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the third ward and has served in the bishopric and on a mission to the southwestern states, during which time he had his headquarters in Kansas City. While there he was in the mission presidency and edited the Truth Reflex.

Mr. Call belongs to the Boxelder County Commercial Club and no plan or project of that organization for the up building of the community or the development of this section of the state seeks his aid in vain. In politics he is an active republican and is a recognized leader in the ranks of the party. He served as the first county attorney of Boxelder county, was the first district attorney in his judicial district, comprising Boxelder, Cache and Rich counties, and he has also served as city attorney of Brigham.During the war he was a member of a committee of three to instruct the soldiers on proper deportment and advise them concerning insurance and other matters. He was also chairman in the third precinct of the second, third and fourth Liberty Loan drives and he never hesitated in the slightest degree to give his earnest aid and support to every plan which tended to uphold American interests throughout the period of world strife.

JOHN WILLARD CHAMBERS, Jr., D. V. S.

Dr. John Willard Chambers, Jr., now the only veterinary surgeon practicing in Boxelder county, makes his home in Garland. He was born in Ogden, Utah, in December, 1881, a son of J. W. and Martha (Butterworth) Chambers. He pursued his education in the schools of his native city and obtained his professional training in the Kansas City Veterinary College of Kansas City, Missouri, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1914. Immediately afterward he selected the Bear River valley as the scene of his professional labors and opened an office and established his home in Garland. He is the pioneer graduate' of his profession in the upper valley and is the only graduate veterinarian now in Boxelder county. His practice is large and is constantly growing in volume and in importance. Prior to the time when he located in Garland the veterinary practice was confined to men who had no scientific knowledge and his coming has convinced the farmers and stock raisers that there is as much science in the care of animals as in the care of human beings. 

In October, 1906, Dr. Chambers was married to Miss Mabel Goddard and they have three very interesting children: Frank, eleven years of age; Donald Goddard. aged nine; and Max Willard, who is in his third year. The family is widely and favorably known in Garland and the work which Dr. Chambers is doing professionally is of a most valuable and important character.

ARTHUR D. COOLEY, M. D.

Dr. Arthur D. Cooley, physician and surgeon of Brigham city, was born in Salt Lake, March 2, 1875. His father, the late Andrew W. Cooley, was a native of Michigan and a representative of one of the old families of that state, of English lineage, founded in America during the early part of the seventeenth century. Andrew W. Cooley was reared and educated in Michigan and about 1866 came to Utah, having during the period of the Civil war, however, become a resident of Denver, Colorado. During his early days in Utah he taught school, which occupation he followed for a number of years. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The mother of Dr. Cooley, Ann (Hazen) Cooley, a native of England, was brought to America by her parents when a little maiden of five summers. The family settled in Salt Lake, where her father and mother remained until called to their final rest. They came to Utah as converts to" the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mrs. Cooley is still living and makes her home at Salt Lake. By her marriage she became the mother of five sons and three daughters, of whom one son is deceased.

Dr. Cooley, the seventh child of the family, pursued his studies in the graded and high schools of Logan and in the University of Utah, which he attended for two years.  He then became a medical student in the Northwestern University of Chicago and was there graduated with the M. D. degree. Before qualifying for a professional career, however, he had been employed at farm labor in his youthful days and later conducted a farm of his own in Cache county. Subsequently he taught school in that county for a year and then entered the University of Utah, being desirous of concentrating his efforts and attention upon professional activity. After his graduation from Northwestern University he served as surgical interne in the Latter-day Saints Hospital at Salt Lake for about a year and then entered upon the practice of medicine in Bear Lake county, Idaho, where be remained for six years. He then removed to Brigham, where he has since been in active, continuous and successful general practice. He belongs to the Weber County and Utah State Medical Societies and to the American Medical Association.  On the 4th of September, 1912, Dr. Cooley was married in Pans, Idaho to Miss M.  Louise Price a native of Paris and a daughter of William W. and Lottie (Innes) Price, of an old and prominent family of English descent. Dr. and Mrs. Cooley have three children Russell P., who was born September 7, 1913; De Orr, born August 29, 1918, and Darwin D., who was born on the same date, the last two being twins.  Dr Cooley belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has membership in the Boxelder Commercial Club and in politics he maintains an independent course During his residence in Bear Lake county. Idaho, he served as health officer Six months before the armistice was signed he enlisted for service in the World war but being commissioned the active fighting was brought to an end, so that he was not called upon for military duty. He worked his way through college, actuated by a laudable ambition, and has already in his professional career won a creditable name and position.

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