AMOS B. NEFF.
Amos B. Neff, deceased, was for many years a well known stockman of Salt Lake county. He was born in this section of the state, August 13, 1853, the eldest son of Amos Herr and Martha (Dillworth) Neff. The father is mentioned at length on another page of this work in connection with a sketch of his sons, David and Samuel Neff. The brothers and sisters of Amos B. Neff are: Ida, who married Veloran Russell and is now deceased; Eva, the widow of David Huffaker, of Murray, Utah; Cyrus, who married Grace Boice; Martha, the widow of Frank Smith; Mary, the wife of Isaac Young, of Salt Lake City; and John, deceased.
After acquiring a common school education Amos B. Neff in early life worked in the canyons and not long afterward engaged in business on his own account, hauling logs to the mill and selling lumber. He was comparatively a young man when he turned his attention to sheep raising and with the development of his interests he became the owner of between three and five thousand head of sheep. He prospered as the years passed and built for himself a large two-story brick residence, which he and his family occupied.
It was on December 21, 1882. that Mr. Neff was married to Miss Lucy Seely, a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth J. (Fisher) Seely, who were natives of Illinois and in 1848 came to Utah, casting in their lot with the pioneer settlers of Summit county. To Mr. and Mrs. Neff were born eight children who are yet living, while two have passed away, Dillworth and Isaac, the former dying at the age of two years and the latter when in his tenth year. Amos Herr, the second, married Millie Reynolds, of Vernal, Uinta county, and they have three children, Erma, Merl and Lois. Ferris married La Verne Graham and resides in Salt Lake county. John wedded Carol Smith, of Midvale. The others are Marshall, Lulu, Cyrus, Dora and Martha.
Mr. Neff was an active churchman and
in 1897 was sent on a mission to the eastern states,
being away for ten months, after which he was called
home on account of a death in his family and also by
reason of his own ill health. He was serving as a member
of the Quorum of Seventy at the time of his demise,
which occurred June 26, 1915.
In young manhood he had held many church offices
and was always loyal to the faith.
In politics he was a republican but never an
office seeker. He preferred to concentrate his efforts
and attention upon his business affairs and left to his
family an excellent estate.
His children are all interested in
farming and sheep raising and those who have married
live in homes of their own near the old home place. They
own altogether eleven thousand acres of range in Summit
county and twenty-one acres in Oakwood, where the family
residence is maintained. Of the children, Amos Herr went
on a mission to the northern states, where he labored
for two years. He resided at Upton, Summit county, for a
time, and his wife was first counselor to the president
of the Relief Society there and is now assistant to
president of the religion class at Oakwood. Ferris went
on a mission to California covering two years. He was a
member of the army from November, 1917, until June,
1919, being in France for nearly a year with the One
Hundred and Forty-eighth Field Artillery, engaged in
active service. He took part in the second battle of the
Marne, in the St. Mihiel drive, in the great and long
continued battle of the Argonne and of the Meuse. He was
a wagoner, engaged in hauling the big guns, and he
suffered neither wounds nor illness through all. His
wife is now first assistant to the president of the
Mutual Improvement Association and has also been
organist in the church for a number of years. John Neff
was also a member of the United States army from July,
1917, until May, 1919, being with the Field Artillery
troops in France from January, 1918, until April. 1919.
He received his discharge in May of the latter year. He
was a civil engineer and was kept in school nearly all
of the time. He is now connected with the state highway
commission. The daughter Lulu is president of the Young
Ladies Mutual Improvement Association. All of the
children have received good educational advantages and
all have finished school save Dora and Martha, who are
now students in the Latter-Day Saints College. John was
president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement
Association at Camp Lewis while there and is now a high
priest. Amos was high counselor of the Curlew stake,
Boxelder county, and also the Summit stake while there
residing, and he, too, is a high priest at the present
time. All have been active workers in the church and the
family is one of prominence in the community in which
they reside, occupying an enviable position in social
circles, while at all times they have indicated the
force of their character in their church work and in the
control of their business interests.
DAVID AND SAMUEL
NEFF.
David and Samuel Neff are among the
largest sheep raisers of Utah. Twin brothers they were
born at East Millcreek, near where they now reside, on
the 13th of June 187l their parents being Amos Herr and
Catharine (Thomas) Neff. The grandfather John Neff, was
born September 19, 1794, is Strasburg, Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania and was a son of John and Barbara (Herr)
Neff. The Neff family comes of Dutch-Swiss ancestry,
while the Herr family is of English lineage, and both
were established in Pennsylvania at an early period in
the colonization of that state. The parents of John Neff
were wealthy people and he was given good educational
opportunities both in English and German. He became a
very fine penman and made substantial progress in his
studies along other lines. Early in life he turned his
attention to farming and stock raising and also bought
his father's woolen mills, which he converted into one
of the most productive industries of that section. Later
he owned and operated a distillery and also speculated
in real estate, becoming a large landowner. His business
interests were extensive and important. He was a
personal friend of President Buchanan Thaddeus Stevens
and other men prominent in that day. He also met General
Lafayette during his last visit to the new world. Mr.
Neff ranked as a most honored and respected citizen of his community.
The first Mormon meeting held in his district resulted
in his conversion and he always lived a faithful
follower of the teachings of the church In 1821 he
wedded Mary Barr, a daughter of Christian and Susannah
(Breneman) Barr and in 1844 he removed to Nauvoo with
the intention of purchasing extensive property there but
on account of the unsettled condition he did not make
investment. While in Nauvoo he lived at the Mansion. He
left that city for Pennsylvania six weeks before Joseph
and Hyrum Smith suffered martyrdom for their faith. In
1846 he sold his property in the east at a sacrifice and
set out to join the Latter-day Saints, reaching Nauvoo
about the time of the exodus from Illinois. He had
excellent equipment, his teams and carriages being the
best that money could buy. He spent the winter of 1846-7
at Winter Quarters on the Missouri river and thence
crossed the plains in Captain Jedediah M. Grant's
company, arriving at
David Neff
the Salt Lake valley on the 2d
of October, 1847. While journeying westward he was
captain of ten wagons. After reaching his destination he
made his home in the old fort through the winter of
1847-8 and early in the spring of the latter year went
to Millcreek, where he built one of the first flour
mills in Utah. He began; the grinding of wheat there
early in the winter of 1848. He moved his family to that
place which is now Oakwood but for years was known as
Neff's Mills. From the first he was active in the up
building of the district, aiding in the development of
the land and always hopefully predicting the prosperity
and up building of that section. He was generous and
charitable,
giving freely of his means for the assistance of the
poor and needy. He never courted notoriety, however, and
would hold nothing but minor offices. The family became
familiar with all of the privations and conditions of
pioneer life and at a period when flour sold for as high
as a dollar per pound Mr. Neff sold the product of his
mill for six cents per pound, disposing of it only to
the poor and utterly refusing to sell to speculators or
to speculate himself in the product. He gave a thousand
dollars toward the building of the State Penitentiary,
in which his son, Amos H. Neff, was afterward held as a
violator of the Edmunds-Tucker act. John Neff was a high
priest in his church and accompanied President Young on
his mission to the Salmon river, being one of the
commission to locate university lands. He died May 9,
1869.
Amos
Herr Neff, son of John Neff and the father of David and
Samuel Neff, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
May 20, 1825, acquired a good education in that state
and came to Utah with his father, driving an ox team
across the plains. In the spring of 1848 he made his way
back across the plains to the Missouri river and thence
to Philadelphia, where with several others, he purchased
a stock of goods which they freighted to Council Bluffs,
and thence across the plains with ox teams. Upon
reaching Salt Lake the goods and machinery were all sold
directly from the boxes in which they had been shipped
and this was the first merchandise ever sold in Utah so
far as records thereof attest. Mr. Neff also made
several other trips across the plains after goods and
machinery. He was baptized a member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Missouri at the age
of twenty-two years, a hole being cut in the ice of the
Missouri river to allow the ceremony to be performed. He
was married three times, had seven children in each
family, and fourteen of the children are still living.
The mother of David and Samuel Neff bore the maiden name
of Catharine Thomas and was born at Cardiff, Wales,
April 18, 1842. She came to America in 1852 with her
parents, brothers and sisters, but at St. Louis all the
other members of the family except Mrs. Neff died of
cholera. Her father was wealthy but during his illness
others made away with his fortune and Mrs.
Neff was left destitute. She traveled across the
plains with one of the emigrant trains and made her home
at Brigham City with Susanna Boothe, a sister of the man
she married. Her children are:
Harriet S., now the widow of John M. Cannon, of
Centerville; Amanda, the wife of Edward C. Bagley, of
Brinton ward; David and Samuel of this review; Alice,
the wife of Frank Y. Taylor, of Centerville; and two who
died in infancy. The father, Amos Herr Neff, while a
successful business man, gave very freely of his means
for the assistance of others. Early in life he took
charge of his father's financial interests, did much to
improve the land and erected thereon a large brick
residence. In politics he was a stanch republican and he
ever remained a firm believer in the faith of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in connection with
which he held many positions of honor and trust. In 1869
he was sent on a mission to England, remaining in that
country for fifteen months. He had been in England only
a few days before he gave away all of his money to the
poor and during the rest of the time he traveled
"without scrip or purse." He died in January,
1915.
Both David and Samuel Neff are
graduates of the Central Seminary, and later attended
the Latter-day Saints College and the University of
Utah. In early life they began in the sheep business and
have been full partners in all of their business
activities to the present time. They have worked their
way upward without assistance from others and are truly
self made men. Their business today is represented by
thousands of sheep, and large herds of cattle. They own
altogether eight bands of sheep and are extensively
engaged in general mining and in ranching as well. In
summer they range their sheep in Summit county, while
the winter range is in Tooele and Juab counties, at
Skull valley and at Trout creek. The brothers at
Oakwood, where they were born, own a sixty acre farm,
upon which stand two large, substantial residences, and
everything is kept in first class condition about their
place. Their homes are surrounded by beautiful grounds
and everything is in modern condition, indicating the
most progressive spirit on the part of the
owners.
In 1902 David Neff was married to
Miss Emma Hobson, of Hoytsville. Utah, and they had one
child. Emma, who is a student in the Latter-day Saints
College. The mother died at the birth of this daughter.
In 1906 David Neff was married to Amy Chamberlain, of
Salt Lake, a sister of Professor Ralph Chamberlain of
the faculty of Harvard University, and a daughter of
William Henry Chamberlain, now deceased, who was a
prominent contractor and builder of Salt Lake. Three
children have been born of David Neff's second marriage:
David, who died at the age of nine years; Amy Ethel, and
Emerson.
Samuel
Neff was married in 1899 to Zua Brinton, a daughter of
David B. Brinton. a prominent farmer and business man of
Holliday, where, he served as bishop for many years.
They have had ten children: Samuel B., David B., Thomas
B., Branson B., Lawrence B. and Stephen B., twins, Zua,
John B.. who died in infancy, Grant B. and an infant
daughter.
Both David and Samuel Neff are
active in the work of the church. David served on a
mission to the Society islands for thirty-nine months,
while Samuel was sent on a mission to the state of New
York, where he labored for twenty-six months, each
looking after the business while the other was away.
David is high counselor of Granite stake, while Samuel
is bishop's counselor at the present time, and both are
high priests. They have been active in the church from
early manhood, aiding in the work of the Sunday school
and the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, and
they have also been ward teachers. In politics they are
republicans but not office seekers. They stand for
progress and improvement in public affairs, however, and
are most highly respected citizens. Their business interests
have been most wisely and carefully developed and sound
judgment and enterprise have won them advancement until
they are now classed with the most prominent sheep men
of Utah.
Samuel Neff
JOHN
NEFF.
John Neff was a representative of
one of the old pioneer families of Utah and was a most
valued and honored citizen. In many ways he contributed
to the development of the state and to its moral
progress, being an active churchman. He was born in
Strasburg, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, December 28,
1837, and came to Utah with his father, John Neff,
mention of whom is made at length in connection with the
sketch of David and Samuel Neff on another page of this
work.
He acquired his education under the
instruction of Julian Moses, who married Mr. Neff's
eldest sister and who was the first male teacher in Utah
to teach in private homes.
In early life John Neff started out to provide
for his own support and was early employed as a boy to
herd stock with Joseph F. Smith, afterward president of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In his
youth Mr. Neff became familiar with the flour milling
business, spending much of his time at the first flour
mill in Utah. He afterward took up the occupation of
farming and for years he also engaged in hauling logs
from the mountains. He homesteaded land and developed
his interests in accordance with the growth and progress
of the country. He set out hundreds of trees at Oakwood,
which is today one of the most beautiful residential
sections in all Utah.
On January 31, 1863, Mr. Neff was
married to Miss Anna Eliza Benedict, who was born
February 8, 1845, and was reared in Canaan, Litchfield
county, Connecticut. She is a representative of one of
the oldest New England families, the progenitor of the
family in America coming from England in 1632. Her
father was Joshua Benedict, a progressive and well-to-do
farmer of Connecticut, who in 1861 came to Utah, but
after a residence here of only a month passed away on
the 10th of September. He had three large wagons and six
yoke of oxen of his own, with which he crossed the
plains, bringing his family with him, and he also had
plenty of provisions and from his stores gave freely to
others in distress on the way. Mrs. Neff had one sister,
Mary E., who married B. B. Bitner. She died four years
after the arrival of the family in Utah, thus leaving
Mrs. Neff and her mother alone. They always lived
together until the latter's death, Mrs. Benedict passing
away in 1910, when she had reached the very advanced age
of ninety-seven years. To Mr. and Mrs. Neff were born
the following named: Delia, who is now the widow of
Albert Spencer and makes her home with her mother;
Marion B. and Mary B., twins, the former the wife of C.
F. Stillman, while the latter is the wife of Samuel A.
Cornwell; Ruth, who died in infancy; Frances E., the
wife of J. 0. Smith; Esther, the wife of Peter M. Hixon;
Edna, who died in infancy; Elaine, the wife of L. L.
Bagley; and Eugenia, the wife of J. Stokes, Jr. There
are also twenty-four grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.
The family circle was again broken
by the hand of death when on the 6th of January, 1917,
Mr. Neff passed away. He was bishop of Millcreek ward
for thirty-five years and during all that time Henry B.
Skidmore and Samuel Oliver were his counselors, laboring
most harmoniously and earnestly for the up building of
the church. Mr. Neff resigned the bishopric in 1913 and
soon afterward was ordained a patriarch. He went on a
mission to England for nineteen months, from 1873 until
1875, when he returned
on account of illness. During his
stay abroad he was president of the Liverpool
conference. His wife held the office of president of the
Relief Society for forty-two years and in all branches
of the church work they ever felt the keenest interest
and manifested continuous helpfulness. Mr. Neff during
the Civil war guarded the mail at Fort Bridger for six
months and was afterward a pensioner of the government.
He was a most highly respected citizen, a devout
churchman, a successful farmer and one who as a pioneer
settler contributed much to the reclamation of the state
for the uses of civilization. He lived to see the wild
and arid land transformed into rich and productive
farms, while hamlets grew into villages and cities and
the work of development was carried steadily forward
until Utah has become one of the great commonwealths of
the nation.
HYRUM NEILSON.
Hyrum Neilson, who is successfully
engaged in merchandising at Holliday, was born February
12, 1869. in the city which is still his home, his
parents being Carl C. and Mary (Monson) Neilson. who
came from Denmark, where the father was engaged in
farming. They arrived in Utah in 1862 and the father
again took up agricultural pursuits.
He also established the mercantile business at
Holliday which is now conducted by his son Hyrum and in
the public affairs of the community he was deeply
interested. He was an active church worker and died in
the Mormon faith in 1893. His family numbered the
following children: James; Neils; Christian; Charles;
Joseph; Mary, who died at the age of six years; Hyrum;
and Heber.
Hyrum Neilson pursued a district
school education and was reared to farm life, spending
his youth in the fields and to a large extent in his
father's store. He thus gained the experience which
qualified him to take over the business which he is now
capably conducting. He is today doing an annual business
amounting to seventy-five thousand dollars, carrying a
large and carefully selected stock. He owns the store
building and also several residence properties and in
1913 he built a fine brick residence for his own use. He
has developed his trade to extensive proportions,
following the most progressive methods in winning
patronage, and he now employs a large sales force and
uses a motor truck for delivery.
On the 11th of February. 1894, Mr.
Neilson was united in marriage to Miss Lenora Neff. by
whom he had five children, namely: Myrtle, who died at
the age of two years; Estella; H. Leroy; Viola; and
Vairess.
Mr. Neilson has been very active in
the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. He went on a mission to Denmark from 1896 until
1898 and did l I fective work in that country. He is
also leader of the choir and for six years he has been
the president of the Seventy. For two years he occupied
the position of Sunday school superintendent and has
also been ward teacher. In politics, too. he is active
as a supporter of the republican party and he stands
loyally for every plan or project that tends to up build
his section of the state. At the same time he has been a
most progressive business man, contributing to the
material welfare of Utah while promoting his individual
interests. Now, aside from merchandising, he is
interested in mining and is a director of the firm of A.
J. Kirk & Company and a director of the Sugar
Banking Company. He is regarded as one of the forceful
and resourceful business men of Holliday and his
enterprise has brought him to a position of recognized
leadership.
SAMUEL NEWHOUSE.
Samuel Newhouse is a capitalist of
Salt Lake, but his interests and activities are as wide
as this country's vast domains. He has been a dynamic
force in the development of both the east and the west,
utilizing the advantages of each section, diversified
and varied as they are, in a manner that has constituted
a most valuable contribution to up building and
progress. There is no feature of his wonderful activity
that is more deserving of notice or has created wider
interest than his discovery of the possibilities of
porphyry mining in this field, and yet this is but one
of many activities which have been of notable character
and of unusual worth in the world's progress.
Samuel Newhouse was born in New York city,
October 14, 1853. a son of Isaac and Batella (Kramer)
Newhouse, who were of European birth and came to America
in 1829, settling in New York, where they met and were
married. The father afterward engaged in various lines
of business in Scranton and at Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, residing in those two cities during the
greater part of his life. He passed away at Wilkes-Barre
in 1891, when sixty-six years of age, and his widow died
in Paris, France, in March, 1916, at the very notable
old age of eighty-eight years. In their family were nine
children, five of whom are still living: Hattie, Samuel,
Jennie, Mrs. Laura B. Irwin and Mrs. Herman
Langfield.
After attending the schools of
Scranton and of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mr.
Newhouse entered upon the study of law in the
office of a prominent firm of attorneys in Scranton,
thinking then to devote his life to law practice. While
he never became an active member of the bar, his
knowledge of law has been of immense value to him in the
conduct of business affairs. The lure of adventure and
opportunity brought him to the west. He made his way to
Leadville, Colorado, then a mining town in which there
was keen excitement attached to this discovery of
valuable ores. He engaged in freighting to the different
mining camps, making trips to and from Leadville, and
followed that business successfully until 1886, when he
sold his outfit to turn his attention to mining at
Ouray, Colorado, where he developed important interests,
becoming owner of the Wheel of Fortune, Maid of the Mist
and Lost Lode properties. He made notable profits there,
the Wheel of Fortune and Lost Lode mines becoming big
producers. Eventually he sold out and removed to Denver,
Colorado, where he promoted many big enterprises. He
also began operating in England and became widely known
in financial and business circles of that country, to
which he made numerous trips for Lloyd Tevis and Isaac
E. Blake, the latter the president of the Continental
Oil Company. In this enterprise Mr. Newhouse was again
very successful and when he had concluded his activities
of that character he once more turned his attention to
the development of mining and oil projects.
Coming to Salt Lake, Mr. Newhouse
purchased the old Highland Boy mine in the Bingham
district, which was supposed to have been thoroughly
worked out. He began operations there and it was in this
connection that he became the discoverer of the process
of porphyry mining. He was active in this field prior to
any other by three years. His discoveries in what is
known as the Bingham district have revolutionized
methods and amazed the mining men of the country.
Porphyry mining has made the Bingham mines the greatest
in the world and the owners and managers among the
richest people. In the early times when he was
projecting and perfecting his discovery his work was
regarded in a most doubtful manner by his friends and
associates, but later he was given credit for having
brought to light one of the greatest discoveries known
to the mineral world. His habit of thoroughly studying
everything that bore upon any task which he undertook
led him to a recognition of the true value of porphyry
mining and three years before Mr. Jackling and his
associates had taken over the property of the Bingham
Copper Company Mr. Newhouse had demonstrated the worth
of his process and with the money he had made out of
this property he returned to Salt Lake and began
extensive operations in the city. His first big project
was the erection of the Newhouse and Boston buildings
and later about twenty-nine or thirty other important
business structures, placing him in a position of
leadership among those who have been connected with
extensive building operations in Salt Lake. He afterward
erected the palatial Newhouse Hotel, one of the largest
and finest in the entire west. To the east he also
turned his attention and efforts, there erecting the
Flatiron building of New York city and many other
equally well known structures, the Flatiron building
being recognized at that time as a most unique model in
architectural design. His latest big enterprise is the
planting of fifty thousand acres to Egyptian long strand
cotton in the Imperial valley of California and if this
experiment proves a success it will mean the development
of immense fortunes for the residents of that section of
the country. As he has prospered his capital has been
invested in varied enterprises throughout the country
and he has long been accounted one of Salt Lake's most
enterprising, forceful and resourceful capitalists. He
is the president of the Newhouse Realty Company of Salt
Lake and is a man of dynamic force.
He never fails to reach his objective because his
plans are most carefully made and promptly and
thoroughly executed. Like the instant response of the
soldier to the bugle, he makes response to the call of
opportunity in immediate and resultant action.
Mr. Newhouse was married January 1,
1883, to Ida H. Stingley, of Denver, Colorado, a
daughter of Hiram and Mary A. Stingley, representatives
of a prominent family of Virginia. Mr. Newhouse has
never cared to enter politics and has always been an
independent voter. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity
and to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, being
made the first honorary member of Salt Lake Lodge. He
also has membership with the Commercial Club, the Alta
Club and the Country Club of Salt Lake, the Lawyers Club
and the Lotus Club of New York city, and also the Rocky
Mountain Club of New York. He never regards as foreign
to his interest anything that has to do with the
material development, the civic up building or the
social interests of community or country. There is
perhaps no history in this volume which illustrates more
clearly the opportunities that lie before young America,
and his record proves that it is under the stimulus of
necessity and the spur of opportunity that the best and
strongest in the individual is brought out and
developed. His career along various lines would entitle
him to mention among the notable business men of the
country, but there is perhaps no single activity of his
life so deserving of recognition as his discovery of the
value of porphyry mining, to which whole pages were
devoted in western papers and in engineering and mining
circles in 1897 and 1898, thus giving to the outside
world a knowledge of his wonderful achievement in this
direction.
CHARLES W.
NEWTON.
Charles W. Newton is the president
and manager of the Franklin Motor Company, distributors
of the Franklin cars in Salt Lake City and the state of
Utah. He is one of the native sons of Salt Lake, his
birth having here occurred May 28, 1885, his parents
being Samuel Smith and Sarah Elizabeth (Parker) Newton.
The father was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, while
the mother's birth occurred in the city of London.
They came to America in 1870 and made their way
to Salt Lake City, where the father engaged in the
contracting business. He is still living, now making his
home in Alberta. Canada, but the mother died December 3,
1905, at the age of forty-four years. Their family
numbered seven children, one of whom has passed away.
The others are: Mrs. Albert G. Thomas; Samuel R.; Mrs.
Susan L. Parsons; John, who was in the United States
navy during the late war; Margaret; and Mary.
Charles W. Newton, who was the
third in order of birth in the family, after attending
the public schools of Salt Lake learned the bricklayer's
trade, which he subsequently followed for twelve years.
For a time he worked for wages in the employ of others
and then engaged in business on his own account, buying
land and building homes thereon, then selling and
building more. He continued successfully as a
speculative builder until 1914, when he concluded to
turn his attention to the automobile trade, which he
began in a small way, handling the Rauch-Lang electric
cars. In 1915 he secured the exclusive agency for Utah
for the famous Franklin air cooled cars, which he has
since successfully distributed, selling more than one
hundred cars per annum. He also maintains a repair and
service station for Franklin owners.
His business was incorporated under the name of
the Franklin Motor Company in 1915 with a paid up
capital of fifty thousand dollars. This is a close
corporation, of which Mr. Newton is the
president.
On the 6th of December, 1905, was
celebrated the marriage of Charles W. Newton and Miss
Amy D. Remal, a daughter of John H. Remal, Jr., of Salt
Lake. The four children born of this marriage are:
Richard Remal, who was born in Salt Lake in 1908;
Francis, who died at the age of two years; Eleanor, born
in 1911; and Evelyn, born in 1919.
The religious faith of the family
is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. In politics Mr. Newton maintains an independent
course, yet is not remiss in the duties of citizenship
and cooperates in various plans and measures that have
to do with public welfare and improvement. He belongs to
the Commercial Club and is much interested in all of its
well devised plans and measures for the up building of
the city and the extension of its trade connections. His
own career is illustrative of the progressive spirit of
the west. Starting out in the business world
empty-handed, he has made good use of his time and
opportunities and as the years have passed has advanced
steadily step by step until he has reached a creditable
position in the automobile trade of Utah.
WILLIAM T. NOALL.
William T. Noall is the president
of the Noall Brothers & Armstrong Company, which
firm not only conducts a lumberyard and planing mill in
Salt Lake City but has also done an extensive business
as leading contractors for forty years, constructing
many of the finest public and office buildings and
residences in the city. He is a native of Utah and a son
of Simon Noall, who was an early pioneer of this state
and a carpenter and millwright by trade.
William T. Noall became a pupil in
the Deseret University after attending the public
schools of Salt Lake City and when his textbooks were
put aside he began learning the trade of carpentering
and building. When he had served his apprenticeship
under his father he worked at the trade for ten years,
at the end of which time he and his brother Matthew,
together with William Asper, took up the building and
contracting business. While thus engaged he and his
brother established what is now the Noall Brothers &
Armstrong planing mill and lumberyard and from a modest
start have developed the business to extensive
proportions. As their patronage grew it was deemed wise
to incorporate the business, which was done in 1893,
since which time William T.
Noall has been the president of the company. They
employ twenty-five or more experienced people and they
have a plant and lumberyards which are creditable
factors in the business circles of the city. William T.
Noall is also president or director of many other
important business enterprises and he is likewise
heavily interested in farming operations in Salt Lake
and Tooele counties, comprising several thousand
acres. Mr. Noall has always
been very active as a worker in the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and has been called to fill
many positions of trust in the activities of the
church.
GEORGE M.
NUTTALL.
George M. Nuttall, a plumbing and
heating contractor of Salt Lake City, is numbered among
the native sons of Utah, his birth having occurred in
Wallsburg, Wasatch county, September 30, 1879, his
parents being William G. and Juliet (Wall) Nuttall, both
of whom were natives of Provo. The grandfather in the
paternal line, William E. Nuttall, brought to
Utah the machinery for the first sugar factory in the
state. The grandmother was also one of the early pioneer
residents of Utah. William G. Nuttall was reared to
manhood in Utah and after reaching adult age became
connected with lumber manufacturing. He also took up
ranching in Wasatch county, where he still makes his
home at the age of sixty-six years. The mother died in
1915. at the age of sixtyyears.
In their family were twelve children, three of
whom have passed away. The others are: William A.,
living in Provo; Juliet, the wife of William Oler, of
Shelley, Idaho; Rose, the wife of Walter Sells, of
Nephi, Utah; Josephine, the wife of Lyman Whitney, of
Provo; Leonard W., of Idaho Falls, Idaho; Ellis, who is
serving in the United States army, being stationed at
Douglas, Arizona; James V., also with the army at
Douglas; Genevia, the wife of Leon Peterson, of Heber,
Utah; and George M., who was the second in order of
birth in the family.
The last named attended the public
schools of Provo, after which he entered the Brigham
Young University, there completing his education. Later
he entered upon an apprenticeship at the plumber's and
steamfltter's trade in Salt Lake City and when he had
completed his apprenticeship ha returned to Provo and
engaged in business on his own account. There he
continued successfully until January 1, 1919, when he
removed to Salt Lake City. In 1918 the Nuttall-Allen
Plumbing & Heating Company was incorporated and
since that time Mr. Nuttall has been the president, with
H. E. Allen as vice
president and secretary. They have executed important
contracts in their line in various parts of the west. In
twenty-six different school buildings they have
installed the heating and water systems, including the
Agricultural College at Logan. They also had a contract
for the Utah State National Bank of Salt Lake City and
many other important contracts throughout the state. The
firm is making continual advancement and progress in the
nature and in the extent of its business.
On the 15th of August, 1900, in
Tooele, Utah, Mr. Nuttall was married to Miss Ruby
Herron, a daughter of Alexander and Mary Herron. They
have become the parents of eleven children: Eldon R.,
who was born July 8, 1901, in Tooele, and is a graduate
of the Provo district schools, while now attending the
Latter-day Saints high school; George Elbert, who was
born in Grantsville, Utah, November 29, 1902, and is a
student in the Brigham Young University of Provo; Ralph,
who was born in Wallsburg, December 6, 1903, and is
likewise attending the Brigham Young University;
Josephine, who was born September 1, 1905, in Tooele,
and is a student in the Brigham Young University; Mabel,
who was born December 6, 1906, in Tooele, and is
attending the same institution as the three last named;
Ned S., who was born July 14, 1908, in Tooele, and is
likewise a pupil in the Brigham Young University;
Genevieve, who was born in Provo, February 20, 1910, and
is attendng the Brigham Young University; Elmer, who was
born April 8, 1912; Georgie, born November 5, 1913;
Charmia, born February 1, 1915; and Marjorie, on
November 11, 1917. The four last named were also born in
Provo.
Mr. Nuttall has recently purchased
a fine home in Salt Lake City which his family is now
occupying. He belongs to Provo Lodge, No. 849, B. P. O.
E.. and is also a member of the Commercial Club of
Provo. He is connected with the state and national
master plumbers' associations.
P. J. O'CARROLL.
P. J. O'Carroll, manager of the
Pacific Nash Motor Company of Salt Lake, was born in
Wicklow, Ireland, October 28, 1879, a son of Peter J.
and Hannah (Ward) O'Carroll, who were also natives of
the Emerald isle, where they spent their entire lives,
the father devoting his attention to the occupation of
farming. He passed away January 15. 1900, survived by
his wife, who died on the 22d of September, 1910. Their
family numbered eight children: Myles, who is
still living in Ireland; Charles, whose home is in San
Diego, California; James, deceased; Anna Maria, of
Seattle, Washington; John, of Salt Lake City; Mary Ann
and Elizabeth, who were the eldest of the family and
have passed away; and P. J.
P. J. O'Carroll of this review was
the youngest member of his father's household.
He attended the public schools, afterward entered
the hardware business, traveling on the road for five
years as a representative of the firm of Thomas Farrell
& Company of Dublin, Ireland. At length he
determined to try his fortune in the new world and on
the 10th of September.
1904, arrived in America. He made his way across the
country to Idaho, where he remained for four months and
then came to Salt Lake City as representative of the
Salt Lake Hardware Company, with which he was connected
for five years, spending four years of that period as a
traveling salesman on the road. He then resigned his
position to engage in the real estate business at
Richmond, California, where he remained from 1910 until
the middle of 1916. He then sold his business there and
entered the automobile trade in Salt Lake City, taking
charge of the truck department of the Utah-Idaho Motor
Company. He continued as a salesman with that
corporation until 1917. when be became connected with
the Inter-Mountain Motor Car Company. In 1918 he entered
upon his present association with the Pacific Nash Motor
Company as sales manager and at Salt Lake has built up a
very successful and growing business. He is also a
trustee of the Rado Oil Company.
On the 10th of September, 1910, in
Salt Lake, Mr. O'Carroll was married to Miss Mae Kane, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kane, and they have
become parents of three children: Mary Hannah, who was
born in Los Angeles in 1912; P. J., born in Salt Lake in
1915; and Thomas Kane, in 1917. The religious faith of
the family is that of the Catholic church and their
membership is in Cathedral parish.
Mr. O'Carroll is a prominent member of the
Knights of Columbus, serving as deputy grand of the
order. He is a self-made man who has worked his way
upward entirely through his own efforts, his persistency
of purpose, close application and thorough reliability
winning him advancement until he is now in control of a
gratifying business, a branch of the Pacific Nash Motor
Company in Ogden, Utah.
CULBERT LEVY OLSON.
Culbert Levy Olson, one of the well
known and able attorneys of Salt Lake City, is a native
son of Utah, his birth having occurred at Fillmore, this
state, on the 7th of November, 1876. He represents
honored pioneer families of Utah in both the paternal
and maternal lines. His father, George Daniel Olson, was
born September 2, 1835, at Hosterkyob, Denmark, and came
to Utah in 1854. He was well known in pioneer musical
circles and conducted the orchestra at the opening of
the Salt Lake Theatre on the 8th of March, 1862. In
1861, at Fillmore, Utah, he married Delilah King, a
daughter of Thomas Rice and Matilda (Robinson) King. The
former was born in Onondaga county, New York, and with
his family crossed the plains in 1851, becoming one of
the first settlers of Fillmore, Utah.
Spending his youthful days in his
father's home, Culbert L. Olson attended the public
schools. He learned telegraphy and was employed
successively by the old Deseret Telegraph Company, the
Rio Grande Railroad Company and the Western Union
Telegraph Company. The earnings thus acquired enabled
him to attend the Brigham Young Academy at Provo, in
which institution he completed the academic course by
graduation with the class of 1895. He then went to Ogden
as city editor of the Ogden Standard. With a view of
following the practice of law he made his way to Ann
Arbor, Michigan, where he entered the State University
as a law student, spending a year in study there.
Subsequently he pursued a three years' course at the
Columbia University Law School and at George Washington
University in Washington, D. C, graduating from that
institution in 1901. He then returned to establish a law
office in Salt Lake City, where he has since engaged in
practice. He was associated with Judge Ogden Hiles in
the practice of law until Judge Hiles retired in 1907,
when he became associated with Albert J. Weber in the
law firm of Weber & Olson, which subsequently became
Weber, Olson & Lewis and so continued until Judge
Weber's election to the supreme court in November, 1918.
The professional career of Mr. Olson has been one of
steady progress, bringing to him a large and important
clientage. He has also been connected with the legal
department of the state and has figured in financial
circles as the president of the First National Bank of
Burley, Idaho. These various connections and activities
have brought him a wide acquaintance and the sterling
worth of his character, as shown in his professional and
business career and in his private life, has gained for
him scores of warm friends.
Not long after his graduation Mr.
Olson was united in marriage to Miss Kate Jeremy and
they now have three sons: Richard C, whose birth
occurred June 27, 1907; and Dean J. and John W., twins,
born February 24, 1917.
Mr. Olson belongs to Phi Delta Phi,
a Greek letter fraternity. His political support has
always been given to the democratic party and he has
been a most earnest and untiring worker in behalf of its
success. He was elected to the state senate in 1916 and
served through a four-year term beginning with the
session commencing in January.
1917. He acted as chairman of the judiciary
committee and was also a member of the committee on
public affairs, the two most important working
committees in the senate. Mr. Olson introduced and took
active part in securing the passage of the public
utilities law and workmen's compensation, introduced and
was instrumental in the construction of taxation and
other economic measures now on the statute books of the
state and on all questions was a militant progressive,
strongly opposing ultra-conservative or reactionary
tendencies. He stands stanchly for whatever he believes
to be for the best interests of the individual or for
the welfare of the community at large. His position is
never an equivocal one and the friendships he has gained
attest his high standing in both social and professional
circles.
JOHN H. OSGUTHORPE.
John H. Osguthorpe, residing at
Millcreek, Salt Lake county, devotes his attention to
farming, to saw milling and to the lumber business. He
was born near his present home on the 2d of February.
1857. a son of John and Lydia (Roper) Osguthorpe. The
father was a native of Sheffield. England, where he was
employed as a horn bone and ivory sawyer in a cutlery
factory. He came to America in 1849, making his way to
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, where he worked at his trade
until 1853. when he came to Utah with the Charles
Wilkins ox team company and settled at Millcreek. There
he was employed in a lath and shingle mill and later he
purchased the mill, which he converted into a lumber
mill that is now partly owned by his son, John H. The
father continued to operate the mill until his death,
which occurred April 13, 1884. He served as justice of
the peace and was also an active church worker, being
president of the teachers class in his ward, a member of
the Quorum of Seventy and also ward teacher.
John H. Osguthorpe was the third in
order of birth in a family of seven children, the others
being Sarah A., Priscilla, Lydia, Thomas, Joseph and
Salina. In the winter months he was a pupil in one of
the old-time log schoolhouses and in the summer months
he worked in the mill and on the farm. When a lad of
only six years he aided in bunching shingles and laths.
Since attaining his majority hq has devoted his
attention to the lumber trade and to farming and in
early days he sawed about a quarter of a million feet of
lumber yearly. He has worked diligently and persistently
as the years have passed and through his industry, close
application and energy has become one of the well-to-do
men of his community. He makes his home at No. 21 East
and near Thirty-ninth street, South, in Millcreek ward,
where he owns a fourteen acre farm, upon which stands a
comfortable residence surrounded by fine shade trees.
There is also a good barn upon the place and all of the
improvements there found have been placed by Mr.
Osguthorpe, for the tract was wild and undeveloped when
it came into his possession. He is now the oldest man in
Millcreek ward that was born within its borders and
still resides there. In addition to the home property
Mr. Osguthorpe owns a third interest in sixteen hundred
acres of grazing land at the head of Mill creek. At the
present time he is in charge of the grading of highways
for the scenic road around Salt Lake county, a project
that is now being developed and will make one of the
most beautiful drives of the country.
On the 19th of February, 1880, Mr.
Osguthorpe was married to Miss Mary Magdalena Garn, a
daughter of Daniel and Mahala (Garn) Garn, who were
natives of England and came to Utah in September, 1853,
crossing the plains with the David Wilkins company that
journeyed with ox teams and wagons. Mr. and Mrs.
Osguthorpe have become the parents of twelve children,
eight of whom are living: Mary E., the wife of Alfred
Harker, a resident of Jamison, Idaho; Emma, the wife of
Joseph Stillman, living in Millcreek; Edgar, a resident
of Cottonwood creek, Idaho; George O, who resides near
his father at Millcreek; Joseph C. and Delbert, also
residents of the same locality; Lydia Mahala, the wife
of J. B. Hawkins, who has just returned from two years'
service with the Medical Corps in the United States
army; and Selina. One of the sons,
Edgar, was on a mission to the southern states for a
period of thirty-one months. Delbert enlisted in the
United States army the 15th of June, 1918 and served as
radio operator in the 216 Field Signal Battalion, 16th
Division, from where he was discharged. Joseph C.
entered the United States army October 3, 1917 and was
stationed at Camp Kearney. He was in training until July
23, 1918, on which date he left for France with the 145
Field Artillery. He was discharged from the service and
returned home, January 24, 1919.
John H. Osguthorpe is a high priest
and has been active in the work of the church, serving
as Sunday school superintendent, ward teacher, and choir
leader. His entire life has been passed in the locality
where he now resides and his sterling worth is attested
by all who know him, for they have found him a reliable
business man, a loyal citizen and a faithful follower of
the principles and teachings of the church.
FREDERICK J. PACK.
Professor Frederick J. Pack,
educator and scientist, now occupying the chair of
Deseret professor of geology in the University of Utah
and prominently known as a consulting geologist, was
born in Davis county, Utah, February 2, 1875. He is a
son of John and Mary Jane (Walker) Pack. The father was
born of American parents in New Brunswick. Canada. The
mother was born in England and came to the new world in
1851. In 1847 John Pack made the memorable trip across
the western plains with the first company of '"Mormon"
pioneers; he, with a few others, arrived in Salt Lake
valley on July 22, 1847, two days ahead of the main
company. Throughout his life Mr. Pack took a prominent
part in the activities of the "Mormon" church. He died
in the state of Utah in 1885 at the age of seventy-six.
The mother passed away in 1908 at the age of
seventy-four. In the family are eleven children, Mrs.
Geneva Buckland, Mrs. Luella Buckland. Quince R., Walker
N., Mrs. Annie Roberts, Mrs. Edith Eldredge, Mrs. Flora
Kohler, Mrs. Phylotte Brown, Mrs. Hattie Howard,
Frederick J. and Harold R.
In his boyhood days the subject of
this review attended the public schools of Bountiful,
Utah, and after passing through consecutive grades to
the high school he took up the profession of teaching at
the age of seventeen years. Later he entered the
Latter-day Saints College of Salt Lake City and after
graduation he resumed teaching. Still later he became a
student in the University of Utah, from which
institution he was graduated in 1904 with the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering. In the fall
of 1904 he matriculated in Columbia University in New
York city and was there graduated in 1905 with the
degree of Master of Arts, and in 1906 with the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy.
In the fall of the same year Mr.
Pack became professor of geology in the Brigham Young
College at Logan, Utah. In 1907 he was appointed to the
Deseret professorship of geology in the University of
Utah and still occupies that chair. He now enjoys well
earned fame and distinction as a geologist.
It is to Professor Pack that credit
is due for the discovery of the great gas fields near
Byron, Wyoming. In 1908 he made a careful geological
examination of this field.
On the property he then acquired he has since
developed the largest natural gas wells in the world.
The great carbon black and gasoline plants at Cowley,
Wyoming, are utilizing gas drawn from this property. His
comprehensive knowledge of geology and geological
formations has brought him a large private practice.
Professor Pack is also director of the University
Geological and Natural Resource Survey of Utah.
On the 25th of November, 1896,
Professor Pack was married in Salt Lake City to Miss
Sarah Grant, the ceremony being performed in the Salt
Lake Temple. Mrs. Pack is a daughter of Mrs. Joseph H.
Grant of Bountiful, Utah. Professor and Mrs. Pack have
four children, Eugene G., Alvin G., Marion and Eleanor.
The oldest was born in 1902 and the youngest in 1919.
Professor Pack is the owner of one of the finest
residences in the state and takes a justifiable pride in
its beauty and development. He lives in Salt Lake City
during the winter months and at his country residence in
Bountiful during the summer season.
He belongs to Sigma Xi, an honorary
college fraternity; he is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, of the
Seismological Society of America, of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, of the American Museum of
Natural History and other national Associations. He
takes an active part in the work of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and has served in a variety
of positions. His specialty is with young people. He has
recently published a very widely read book, "Tobacco and
Human Efficiency," and has in course of preparation a
volume dealing with relationship of science to practical
theology. It is believed that this book, which will be
published soon, will be almost an epoch making
one.
RICHARD PAPWORTH,
Jr.
A native son of Utah. Richard
Papworth. Jr., is one of the veterans in the wholesale
meat and packing business in the state. His father,
Richard Papworth, Sr., was the founder of the firm of
Papworth & Sons and was one of the first to engage
in the wholesale meat trade in Utah, developing a large
industry in this connection. He founded the business in
North Salt Lake many years ago on the present site of
the Cudahy packing plant. A fire destroyed his entire
establishment, and as he was carrying no insurance, he
had to start in business again without financial
assistance. He secured another
location, the Cudahy Packing Company buying what was
left of his former plant. Enterprise, industry and
progressiveness have ever been associated with the
business dealings of the Papworth family.
The life history of Richard
Papworth, Jr., began in Salt Lake City on the 22d of
August, 1877. his parents being Richard and Elizabeth
(Davis) Papworth, the former a native of England, while
the latter was born in Utah and represents one of the
old families of the state. The father came to America in
early life, crossing the plains with an ox team and
locating in Salt Lake, where he met and married Miss
Davis. In his youth he had
learned the meat business and here he engaged in meat
packing. He was the founder of the Papworth & Sons
Company and continued his connection with the business
until death ended his labors in September, 1915. The
mother is still a resident of Salt Lake City. In the
family were twelve children, one of whom has passed
away, the others being: Richard, Jr., of this review;
Ray E., a member of the Papworth & Sons Company;
Parley E., Marvin B., Le Roy J., Clyde J., Wesley G. and
Lyle V., all of whom are residents of Salt Lake City;
May, the wife of L. 0. Ensign, of Salt Lake City; Lillie
Jane, the wife of W. B. Hall, of Salt Lake City; and
Ruby, now the wife of J. H. Parks, of Salt Lake
City.
Richard Papworth attended school in
his native city, passing through consecutive grades to
the high school, after which he entered business circles
in connection with his father, starting in a minor
capacity but working his way upward through various
departments until he became thoroughly familiar with
every branch of the business-not only in the care and
sale of meat but also became an expert in the buying and
grading of cattle. He is familiar with every phase of
the meat industry, including the dressing and packing,
and he is today regarded as one of the representative
wholesale meat dealers of Salt Lake City. In 1908 the
Papworth & Sons Company was incorporated, at which
time the father retired from the active management of
the business and Richard Papworth, Jr., was chosen
president and manager, with R. E. Papworth as vice
president and W. B. Hall as secretary and treasurer. The
entire attention of Richard Papworth, Jr.. is given to
the business and in everything relating to the trade he
manifests keen sagacity and unfaltering enterprise.
On the 2d of September, 1898, Mr.
Papworth was married to Miss Mary H.
Llewellyn, of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Llewellyn. They have become the parents
of six children: Richard E., who was born in Salt Lake
City in 1899 and is a high school graduate; Virginia,
who was born in Salt Lake City in 1901 and was also
graduated from the high school; Lynn, who was born in
1903 and is attending high school; Lucille, born in
1906; Maxine. in 1910; and Farrell, in 1912. The family
is widely and favorably known in Salt Lake
City.
WILLIAM M. PARLON
William M. Parlon is the secretary,
treasurer and manager of the Mountain States Supply
Company, wholesale dealers at Salt Lake in all kinds of
plumbing materials, bathroom fixtures and piping.
Through the years of his connection with Utah, Mr.
Parlon has won a place among its most substantial and
progressive business men. He was born in Chicago,
Illinois, November 18, 1885, a son of James M. and Mary
(Kelly) Parlon. the former a native of Kentucky, while
the latter was born in Virginia. In early life they came
to Chicago and the father afterward entered the employ
of the Peoples Gas Company of that city and rose to the
position of superintendent. He and his wife are still
residents of Chicago and there they reared their family
of four children, one of whom has passed away, while
those still living are William M.. Thomas P. and James
C.
William M. Parlon, the eldest,
attended the public schools of Chicago, passing through
consecutive grades to the high school, while later he
became a student in a private school and then entered
upon his business career in connection with the packing
Industry, representing the Armour Packing Company in the
auditing department of their Chicago house. He was later
transferred to Jacksonville, Florida, as agent of the
fertilizer plant and remained there for a year. He then
resigned to accept a position as commissioner of the
Enamel Manufacturers' Association, with headquarters in
Chicago, and represented all the enamel manufacturers of
the United States and Canada. He served in that capacity
for two years, when he resigned to join the Kohler
Company, manufacturers of bath tubs, with whom he was
thus associated for a year and a half or until February,
1917, when he came to Salt Lake to take charge of the
interests of the Mountain States Supply Company as
secretary, treasurer and manager. He was also one of the
organizers of the Union Oil 6 Gas Company, of which he
served as president, resigning that position, however,
in order to devote his undivided attention to his
present business interests. This company deals in all
kinds of plumbing materials and supplies, together with
bathroom fixtures, bath tubs, kitchen sinks, piping and
other commodities of that nature. The business is
conducted along the wholesale line only and its trade
extends over a very wide territory.
On the 29th of July, 1911, Mr.
Parlon was married to Miss Alice English, of Chicago, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. English. Fraternally Mr.
Parlon is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks and the Woodmen of the World and in club circles
he is well known as a member of the Bonneville and
Commercial Clubs. In the latter organization he
cooperates heartily in every well devised plan and
measure for the up building of the city's interests. He
is thoroughly imbued with the progressive spirit of the
west and has won his place among the substantial
business men of his adopted city. His own career has
been marked by steady advancement and each forward step
has brought him a broader outlook and wider
opportunities. Each change that he has made in his
business connections has given him larger scope for his
enterprise and initiative-his dominant
qualities.
IMER
PETT
For many years Imer Pett has
occupied a high place in mining circles and is now
general manager of the Bingham Mines Company, Eagle
& Blue Bell and associated companies, making his
home at Salt Lake City. He was born in Brigham City,
Utah. July 4, 1875 a son of
James and Jane (Brandon) Pett, the former a native of
England. while the latter was born in Tennessee. They
became pioneer residents of Utah in 1852-56. The father,
who was an architect by profession, made the plans for
and supervised the erection of many prominent buildings
and bridges of the state. He died in 1908 in
Brigham City when eighty-one years of age, having for a
long period survived his wife, who died in Brigham City
in 1897, at the age of fifty-six years. Their family
numbered nine, of whom Imer was the eighth in order of
birth.
In early life Imer Pett worked on
the farm and attended the public schools of Brigham City
and later the high school of Ogden, and also pursued a
business course there. He afterward, while a
stenographer in a law office, read law and later entered
upon railroad work in the general freight department of
the Denver & Rio Grande at Salt Lake City, occupying
the position of private secretary to the general freight
agent and assistant to the freight claim agent for a
period of six years. In 1904 he became associated with
Captain Duncan MacVichie, who is mentioned elsewhere in
this work, and through that association gained a wide
and accurate knowledge of mining. He later became
general manager of the Bingham Mines and associated
companies. As the years have passed he has studied
mining problems and kept in touch with the trend of
development of the mineral resources of the slate. In
fact he has contributed in no small measure lo the
promotion of mining interests In Utah and has become a
well known figure in mining circles. Ills high standing
and his expert knowledge are indicated in the fact that
he has been made the governor of the Utah Chapter of the
American Mining Congress.
On the 27th of September, 1899, in
Salt Lake City, Mr. Pett was married to Miss Josephine
Arnold, a daughter of Orson Pratt and Fanny D. (Linnell)
Arnold, and they have become parents of four children:
Imer Arnold, who was born in Salt Lake in1901 and is now
attending high school; Frank Russell, who was born in
1903 and is also a high school pupil; James Arthur, born
in 1909; and Stewart Brandon, in 1911. The younger
children are pupils in the grammar grades of the public
schools. Mr. Pett belongs to
the Alta Club and also to the Commercial Club. He has a
wide acquaintance in Salt Lake City and his entire life
has been passed in the west. His career exemplifies the
spirit of enterprise which has been a dominant factor in
bringing about the present progress and prosperity of
the state. He is alert and energetic, thorough and
systematic in everything that he undertakes and is ready
at all times for any emergency, meeting every business
condition with the consciousness of strength that comes
from a right conception of things and an habitual regard
for what is best in the exercise of human
activities.
HARRY
PHILLIPS, MD.
Dr. Harry Phillips, devoting his
time and attention to the practice of osteopathy with
good success in Salt Lake City, comes to the west from
Missouri. His birth occurred at Moberly, Missouri,
August 4, 1866, his parents being Jeremiah and Marietta
(Patton) Phillips. The father, who was a native of
Kentucky, died in October, 1918, but the mother, who was
born in Virginia, is still living and now makes her home
in Salt Lake City.
Dr. Phillips of this review is
indebted to the public school system of Missouri for the
educational advantages which he enjoyed in his youth. He
afterward studied both medicine and osteopathy and in
1899 was graduated from the American School of
Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri. He began the
practice of his profession at Palmyra, Missouri, where
he remained until 1906 and then came to Salt Lake, where
he opened an office. Through the intervening period of
thirteen years he has enjoyed a large and well deserved
practice, for he is most conscientious in the
performance of all of his professional duties and,
keeping in touch with the latest scientific researches
and discoveries, he has done most excellent work for his
many patients. He belongs to both the state and national
osteopathic societies.
Dr. Phillips has membership in the
Salt Lake Commercial Club and is interested in all that
has to do with the up building of the city and with all
of the club's activities for the extension of trade
relations and the upholding of civic standards. In
politics he has ever maintained an independent course,
voting according to the dictates of his judgment with
little regard for party ties. Fraternally he is an Odd
Fellow and has served as grand master of his lodge. He
is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks and the Woodmen of the World, and his religious
faith is that of the Presbyterian church. His life has
ever been actuated by high and honorable principles and
his sterling worth is recognized by all with whom he has
come in contact.
CHARLES F.
PINKERTON, M. D.
Dr. Charles F. Pinkerton, devoting
his attention to the practice of medicine and surgery in
Salt Lake, was born in Peoria, county, Illinois, March
16, 1876, a son of John M. and Mary Jane (Stevenson)
Pinkerton. The father was a minister of the United
Presbyterian church. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio,
and the mother was also a native of that state. Her
parents were of Revolutionary war stock and removed to
Illinois during the pioneer epoch in the history of that
state, settling upon a farm there.
Mr. and Mrs. Pinkerton were long residents of
Illinois and the father died in that state in 1882. The
mother afterward removed to Omaha, Nebraska, where she
passed away in 1903. In the family were nine children,
two of whom are deceased. Those still living are: Mrs.
Barbara E. Parr and Mrs. Zillah McFadden, of Iowa;
William, August G., Burt and Harry A., who are living in
Omaha; and Charles of this review.
Dr. Pinkerton, the youngest of the
family, after attending the country schools of Illinois
and the public and high schools of Omaha. Nebraska, took
up the study of medicine in Creighton University and was
graduated with the M. D. degree as a member of the class
of 1899. He began practice in Salt Lake, where as the
years have passed he has been accorded a liberal
patronage. He is consulting physician for the Standard
and Peerless Coal Companies of Salt Lake and belongs to
the American Medical Association, the Utah State Medical
Society and the Salt Lake County Medical Society.
In June, 1904, Dr. Pinkerton was
married to Miss Lilith Zenger, a daughter of John H. and
Hettie (Jukes) Zenger. They have become the parents of
four children: Lilith L., born in Salt Lake, March 1,
1905, and now attending Rowland Hall; Clare, who was
born in 1911 and is also a student in Rowland Hall; Mary
Beth, born in Salt Lake, July 16, 1915; and Charles
Frederick, born January 4, 1917.
Fraternally Dr. Pinkerton is connected with the
Masons and with the Elks and is a loyal follower of the
teachings of these orders. Those who know him, and he
has many friends, esteem him highly as a man of genuine
personal worth, as a physician of ability and as a
citizen who is ever loyal to the best interests of the
community.
CHARLES GRIFFIN
PLUMMER.
Charles Griffin Plummer, B. L., B.
S., M. D., a representative physician of Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born in Chicago, Illinois, January 1, 1859. He
was the son of Sanford Alexander and Martha Cordelia
(Cooley) Plummer who were natives of the state of New
York and moved to Chicago late in 1858. In the course of
a few years his father became one of the prominent
wholesale and retail commission merchants on South Water
street in that city. During the Civil war he tried to
gain admission to the ranks of the Union army but was
denied duty because of physical disability. He and his
wife remained residents of Chicago until called by
death. The father was born in 1822 and passed away in
1909, while the mother, whose birth occurred in 1828,
died in 1906. They were parents of five children, two of
whom are now living.
Charles Griffin Plummer attended
the public schools of Chicago and entered the Paw Paw
Academy just west of Chicago in 1876, from which he
graduated in 1879 with the degree of Bachelor of
Science. He taught district schools in Illinois and in
Iowa for a few terms while in college and after leaving
the academy to aid him in securing his
degrees.
In April, 1880, he entered the
Northwestern University, from which institution he was
graduated in 1884 with the degree of Bachelor of
Literature. While at Northwestern University he was a
member of the United States Life Saving crew. He was
initiated into the Delta Upsilon college fraternity on
the evening of the death of former President Garfield,
who belonged to that fraternity.
A three years' course in medicine
at the Chicago Medical College, now the Northwestern
University Medical School, gave him the degree of Doctor
of Medicine in 1886. For two years he
practiced medicine and .surgery in Chicago, when he was
offered a good position as surgeon of the Northern
Pacific railroad at Wallace, Idaho, which office he
filled for two years, and was surgeon to numerous mines
in that vicinity. He also was appointed to the position
of surgeon of the Union Pacific Railroad when it built
into the above-named town in 1889.
All positions in Wallace were
resigned soon after Dr. Plummer's marriage to Miss Anna
L. Colburn of Lewisburg, Pa., the daughter of the Rev.
Nathaniel W. Colburn, a clergyman of the Methodist
Episcopal church in Pennsylvania. The wedding took place
at Lewisburg on April 30, 1890.
Then a year's post-graduate work in
the New York Polyclinic and the Roosevelt hospitals in
New York followed, as well as in other institutions in
New York and Chicago. November, 1891, found Dr. and Mrs.
Plummer starting life in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr. Plummer has practiced his profession in that
city since that time. In 1905 he became one of the
surgeons of the Latter-day Saints Hospital of Salt Lake
City, which position he held until he was made a
consulting surgeon of the staff of this hospital In
1914. For four years he was a regent of the University
of Utah, having been appointed under the regime of
Governor John C. Cutler.
Early in 1907 he was elected
Colonel, First Infantry. Utah National Guard and was
later granted the commission of Colonel by examination.
This office he held for three years, or until the
National Guard of Utah was mustered out as a regiment,
under the rulings of the Dick Bill in the United States
senate. In 1907 he was the
republican candidate for mayor of Salt Lake City, losing
to the candidate of the American party.
Dr. Plummer is one of the Utah
Commission on Provisions for the Feebleminded and has
done much work along these lines to benefit this class
of people. Nature-study has
occupied much of his time during late years and he has
lived much time, all vacations, in the midst of the
birds and other wild life of the state, studying their
lives, habits and characteristics. He is a lecturer on
wild life topics as well as on other subjects of
interest.
Dr. Plummer belongs to the Masonic
fraternity as well as to the University Club of Salt
Lake City. He has membership in the following
professional and scientific socities and associations:
Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine; fellow of
the American Medical Association; the Utah State Medical
Society; the Salt Lake County Medical Society; fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science;
the Western Naturalists' Association; charter member of
the American Association of Mainmalogists; the American
Association of Public Health; the American Civic
Association, as well as other professional and
scientific organizations. Always fond of
athletic sports that were strictly amateur, Dr. Plummer
has given much time to their advancement everywhere. In
college and post-college days he was an athlete of note
in many branches of sport. He is actively engaged in Boy
Scout work, being chairman of the Camping committee of
the Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America, as
well as a member of the Court of Honor of this
organization. Colleagues and
contemporaries in the profession attest his position and
worth as a citizen which he has worthily won through the
development of himself. A laudable ambition has made him
a close student of public and professional affairs and
he is devoted to the cause of progressive citizenship in
his state and community.
KENNETH C. PURDY.
Kenneth C. Purdy, of the
Purdy-Reilley Company of Salt Lake City, distributors of
the Nelson car and International motor truck, was born
in Los Angeles, California, January l1, 1891, a son of
James S. and Rose C. (Cooley) Purdy. The father was born
in the state of New York and the mother in California,
to which state Mr. Purdy removed in young manhood and
later engaged in mercantile business in Los Angeles,
where he and his wife still reside.
Kenneth C. Purdy, their only child,
attended the public schools of Los Angeles and afterward
took up mechanical pursuits, thoroughly acquainting
himself with the mechanical interests of the automobile
trade. He built the first practical automobile that was
ever in use in southern California as a California
product. He continued active along those lines and later
established an automobile sales agency, which he
conducted at Los Angeles to the time when he disposed of
his interests there preparatory to removing to Salt Lake
City. Here in 1917 he organized the Purdy-Reilley
Company and in the ownership of the business is
associated with Charles H. Reilley. Both are practical
automobile mechanics, doing expert work in that line,
and are likewise capable salesmen.
They have the exclusive agency for the Nelson car
and the International truck.
They sell automobile parts and accessories and
handle more than three hundred cars per
annum.
On the 17th of February, 1916, Mr.
Purdy was united in marriage to Miss Grace Meade, of Los
Angeles, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Meade, of
that city. They have already gained many friends during
the period of their residence in Salt Lake and the
hospitality of many attractive homes in Utah's capital
is cordially extended them.
ASTLEY BLOXAN
PURTON.
Astley Bloxan Purton. who in April.
1918, became district engineer of the Salt Lake
district, having in charge the water resources
department, was born in Minneapolis, Kansas, in 1886.
His father, Astley R. Purton, is a native of
Warwickshire, England, born in 1855, and in Liverpool he
was married, after which he came to the United States.
He established his home in Kansas in 1879 and he and his
wife are still residents of Minneapolis, where he has
long figured prominently in the public life of the
community, occupying a leading position in financial
circles as the president of the Ottawa County Bank. In
his family are three sons: Astley B., Thomas A. and John
Lawrence. The son, John Lawrence Purton, born in 1899,
was a first sergeant of Company G of the One Hundred and
Thirty-seventh United States Infantry, Thirty-fifth
Division, and was killed at Vauquois Hill in the Argonne
Forest of France, September 26, 1918. laying down his
life as a sacrifice on the altar of world democracy.
Thomas A. is assistant engineer of
the General Electric Company and resides in Salt Lake
City. Astley B. Purton, the
eldest son, whose name introduces this review, pursued
his early education in the schools of Minneapolis,
Kansas, and afterward entered the University of Kansas
at Lawrence, from which he was graduated in 1907 with
the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
He next entered the United States coast and geodetic
survey in 1907 and was thus employed for two and a half
years. On the expiration of
that period he was transferred to the United States
geological survey and came to Salt Lake in 1910 as
junior engineer, while later he was promoted to the
position of assistant engineer. He spent the three
years, 1912, 1913 and 1914, in Boise, Idaho, as junior
and assistant engineer and in April, 1918, was made
district engineer of the Salt Lake district, in charge
of the water resources branch. He stands as a
representative of that army of men of broad scientific
and practical training who are meeting the problems of
the west in a manner that is leading to its rapid and
substantial development and up building by placing its
natural resources in a form that can be widely
used.
On the 4th of February, 1914, in
Boise, Idaho, Mr. Purton was united in marriage to Miss
Nina May Givan, a daughter of the late Captain Henry P.
Givan, who was a native of New Brunswick and a sea
captain. Mr. and Mrs. Purton have two children.
Frances Louise, and Astley Henry, who was born at
Salt Lake City, May 30, 1917.
The religious faith of Mr. Purton
and his family is that of the Episcopal church.
He belongs to Sigma Alpha Epsilon. a college
fraternity, and is an associate member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. He is a man of genuine
personal worth, enjoying the respect and confidence of
all who know him, while in his profession he holds to
the highest ideals and has reached a point of successful
accomplishment.
