ALBERT QUIST.
Albert Quist, bishop of Brinton ward, where he resides, and also part owner of the Reliable Store at Sugar House and the Bagley Mercantile Company at Brinton, was born at Big Cottonwood, November 24, 1873, a son of John Anderson and Mary C. (Henden) Quist. The father was born at Ytterby, Sweden, December 9, 1845, and was a tailor by trade. In 1869 he came to Utah, settling at Big Cottonwood, where he followed tailoring. From 1877 until 1879 he was on a mission to Sweden and was president of the Goteborg conference during the latter part of that period. He then returned to Utah and was leader of a company of Saints who were emigrating to this state. In 1884 he was appointed home missionary and also was made president of the Seventy-second Quorum of Seventy. In 1887 he was again sent on a mission to Scandinavia and was appointed to preside over the Goteborg conference. He remained on that mission for nearly three years or until he was taken ill and passed away there on the 3d of March, 1890. He was the first representative of the church to die while laboring as a missionary in that field. According to his wish, he was buried in the city of Goteborg, where he had labored so zealously in the interests of the cause. He had also worked earnestly for the church in various parts of Norway and Sweden for six years, doing missionary work there before coming to America. Albert Quist was the second in order of birth in a family of ten children, as follows: John H.; Albert, of this review; Mary Amelia; Elizabeth and Franklin who died in infancy; Annie Eliza; Joseph Frank; David and Sarah, twins; and Oscar.
In the acquirement of his education Albert Quist spent three years as a student in the Central Seminary and one year in the Latter-day Saints College, taking a business course in that institution. For thirteen years he occupied the responsible position of foreman with the Taylor & Brinton Ore Sampling Company, later the Utah Ore Sampling Company, and then turned his attention to merchandising at Brinton in partnership with J. W. Druk. He now owns the Bagley mercantile business at Brinton and also the Reliable Store at Sugar House. He is enjoying well-merited prosperity and these two enterprises represent a large volume of business.
On the 21st of October, 1903, Mr. Quist was married to Miss Letitia Neff Eldredge, a daughter of Alanson and Martha (Neff) Eldredge. They have become the parents of five children, of whom four are living. The record is as follows: Mary N.; Ruth, who died at the age of five years; Albert Owen, Barr Eldredge; and Eva Naomi. Untiring in his efforts in behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mr. Quist has followed the teachings and the example of his honored father. He was made the first bishop of Brinton ward, was ordained a high priest and set apart as bishop of the ward on the 12th of February, 1911. He has labored in all the offices of the priesthood, has been an active worker for the Sunday school and also for the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association prior to becoming bishop. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has served as a member of the county central committee and has been very active as one of the local leaders in republican circles. He is neglectful of none of the duties of citizenship but supports every plan and measure which he deems of worth to the community at large. His has been an active and useful life. He owns a good home on Highland Drive, is now at the head of a prosperous business and at the same time he finds opportunity to meet all of the obligations and duties which devolve upon him in other connections, his course at all times commending him to the confidence and good will of those who know him.
SOREN RASMUSSEN.
Soren Rasmussen is well known in mercantile circles and also as president of the Jordan stake. He was born in Grondfeldt, Denmark, April 26, 1865, a son of Rasmus and Bertha Maria (Petersen) Rasmussen. The father was a merchant of Denmark, although the Rasmussens were largely farmers of that country. The father passed away in 1882 and four of his six children came to America. Of the family, Soren Rasmussen, is the youngest. His eldest brother, Rasmus, is a resident of Denmark, where he followed farming for many years but is now living retired. Bertha Sophia became the wife of Niels Mickelsen and resided in Utah, but both she and her husband have passed away. Peter C. is living at Midvale and follows merchandising at Sandy, Midvale, Magna and Lark. Anton resides at Draper, where he is engaged in the cattle business. Christian is a large landowner who has become a millionaire of Denmark.
Soren Rasmussen acquired a common school education in Denmark and came to Utah from his native country in 1885. He made his way to Draper, where he engaged in herding sheep, in unloading coal for the mines and working on the section, at the smelter for a period of two years. He then went upon the road selling fruit trees and was thus engaged for a year and a half, after which he became manager for the Draper Cooperative Company, with which he continued for five years. He then again went upon the road, selling merchandise for Lowenberg & Company of San Francisco, his territory covering Utah. When his employers sold out, Mr. Rasmussen became connected with the Everwear Manufacturing Company, successors of the former firm, and has since remained with them, continuing in the mercantile field save for the period when he was engaged in mission work or was filling the office of bishop. He established a mercantile business at Draper under the name of the Draper Mercantile & Manufacturing Company, of which he is the general manager, and has also of late years represented Cutler Brothers Company of Salt Lake City. He is now conducting an extensive business in this connection and his enterprise constitutes the basis of the substantial success which is now his.
On the 14th of November, 1888, Mr. Rasmussen was married to Miss Anna Boline Anderson, who was born and reared in Denmark and in 1888 came alone to Utah, where she joined her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Rasmussen have become the parents of eight children, four of whom are yet living. Erastus Soren, living at Magna, is also the owner of a home at Draper and is interested in business in the latter place. Parley died at the age of two years. Stanley Albert is at Draper with his father and acts as manager of the store during the latter's absence. Mabel died at the age of seven years. Naomi is the wife of H. E. Stringfellow, a sheep raiser of Draper. Lavona is the wife of C. 0. Jensen, now a student in a dental college at Kansas City, Missouri. Two other children of the family died at birth.
In 1885 Mr. Rasmussen became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has been ward teacher and assistant superintendent and superintendent of the Sunday school and has been president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. He was first assistant superintendent and later stake superintendent of the Mutual of this stake. He has been second counselor of the elders' quorum and later became president of the elders' fifteenth quorum. He was ordained a member of the Seventy when he went on his first mission and soon after his return was made one of the presidents of the Seventy-third Quorum of Seventy. In 1910 he was ordained bishop of Draper ward and occupied that office for four years. He was next made first counselor to President Kuhre of the Jordan stake and continued in the position until 1919. In 1898 he was sent on his first mission to Scandinavia, where he labored until 1900, having charge of the Randers branch of the Aarhus conference. His second mission was from 1906 until 1909. During the first year and a half of that period he presided over the Christiania conference and during the last half of the period was president of the Scandinavian mission.
In politics Mr. Rasmussen is a democrat and has been a delegate to the county conventions of his party but is not an office seeker. Twenty years ago he purchased a home at Draper-a two-story brick residence of ten rooms standing in the midst of an acre and a half of ground devoted to the raising of fruit and vegetables. He is pleasantly situated in life, has accomplished his purposes in business and has made his record of signal service and benefit to the church. He is well known now as the president of the Jordan stake and he enjoys a wide acquaintance through his commercial connections, being known throughout this section of Utah as an able traveling salesman and merchant.
THOMAS REDMOND.
Thomas Redmond, secretary of the state live stock commission, with offices in the Capitol building at Salt Lake, was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, July 6, 1875, and comes of Scotch parentage. His father and mother, Malcolm and Elizabeth (Dempster) Redmond, were both natives of the land of hills and heather, the former having been born in Glasgow and the latter in Edinburgh. Coming to America in 1867, they settled in St. Joseph, Missouri, where the father engaged in the live stock business and also in fruit raising, continuing his residence in that slate throughout his remaining days. He passed away in St. Joseph in 1901 and the mother is still living there at the age of seventy-one years. Their family numbered five children: Mrs. Agnes Abbott; Mrs. Margaret Neal; Thomas H.; Mrs. Helen D. Wessley; and Marie H., who has passed away.
After mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools of his native city Thomas Redmond continued his studies in the St. Joseph University. For a year thereafter he engaged in clerical work in the offices of the St. Joseph Packing & Provision Company and then returned home, spending two years in assisting his father. He later became connected with the government service, being appointed in 1898 to a position in the bureau of animal industry, with headquarters at St. Joseph Missouri. There he remained until 1900, when on account of failing health he asked for a transfer and was sent to Salt Lake City as division clerk. He acted in that capacity for eight years and subsequently engaged in field work in the same department throughout the district. He resigned that position in 1917 to become the secretary of the state live stock commission of Utah, which position he has filled to the entire satisfaction of the general public, and it is probable that he will be retained in the position as long as he cares to remain with the department, for in his work he is thorough and systematic and his labors have received the high endorsement of his superior officers. He is also the secretary and one of the directors of the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers Association and that his interest goes far beyond the point of mere business is indicated in the fact that he is a member and one of the directors of the State Humane Society.
On the 21st of June, 1904, in Salt Lake City, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Redmond and Miss Eliza L. Hunter, a daughter of Rodolph E. Hunter, a representative of one of Utah's pioneer families. They have become parents of three children: Malcolm H., born in Salt Lake in August. 1905, and now attending the East Side high school; Lillian H., who was born in 1907 and is a pupil in the sixth grade of the Douglas school; and Rodolph H. who was born in Salt Lake in 1909. All of the children are endowed with notable musical talent, which is being further cultivated. Mr. and Mrs. Redmond have become well known in Salt Lake during the period of their residence here and occupy an enviable position in social circles, while his standing as a representative of the State government service is unassailable.
JOHN L. REYNOLDS.
John L. Reynolds, a real estate dealer of Salt Lake City, where he was born November 11, 1881, acquired a public school education, supplemented by study in the Latter day Saints University of Salt Lake, and later he attended the Brigham Young University at Provo. He was then sent on a mission to Germany and England and remained in those countries for three years, two and a half years of the time being spent in various parts of Germany. Upon his return to Salt Lake he entered the employ of Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution in a clerical capacity and continued his work there for five years. He next turned his attention to the real estate business as a representative of the firm of Burt & Carlquist and afterward became a stockholder and one of the directors of the company, with which he was thus associated for five years. He then withdrew, selling his interests to engage in the real estate business on his own account. He laid out and practically started the town of Magna, Utah, which he has since developed into a thriving and prosperous community. He has devoted much time to development work and has contributed in large measure to the progress of the town. He maintains an office there for the accommodation of his patrons but has his main office in the Walker Bank building in Salt Lake City. He is likewise a director of the Garfield Realty Company, the Cooperative Investment Association, the Pleasant Green Water Company, of the Conservative Water Company and of the Magna Investment & Trust Company, while of the J. L. Reynolds Realty Company he is the president and manager. There are few men more widely or favorably known in real estate circles.
In Salt Lake City, on the 25th of June, 1908, Mr. Reynolds was united in marriage to Miss Belva Fisher, a daughter of Joseph A. and Sarah Fisher, representing a worthy pioneer family of Coalville, Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds are now the parents of two children: Louise, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1911 and is now attending school: and John Fisher, whose birth occurred in Salt Lake City in 1918. Such in brief if the history of John L. Reynolds, today a most prominent, active and honored factor in the real estate circles of Salt Lake.
PRESTON D. RICHARDS.
Preston D. Richards, one of the most progressive of the younger representatives of the Salt Lake bar, is a member of an honored pioneer family of Utah. His grandfather, Dr. Willard Richards, was a pioneer of 1847, arriving with the first company on July 24, and was the first physician to settle in Utah. He was also a prominent churchman of Utah and acted as counselor to Brigham Young. He held many positions of prominence, including that of first United States postmaster general of Utah, first secretary of state of the territory of Utah, founder and first editor of the Deseret Evening News and presiding officer of the first legislative assembly of the territory of Utah. His son, Willard B. Richards, was born in Winter Quarters while his parents were en route from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Utah in 1847 and he arrived in Utah in 1848. He is still living at the age of seventy-two years, an honored and respected resident of Salt Lake City. His life has been devoted to farming and stock raising.
Preston D. Richards, son of Willard B. and Annie (Doremus) Richards, was born in Mendon, Utah, September 15, 1881, and was educated in the public schools of Salt Lake county and in the high school of Salt Lake City, after which he became a student in the University of Utah, where he pursued his studies for five years He then entered Columbia University of New York, where he remained through 1908 and 1909, and later matriculated in the law department of the University of Chicago, from which institution he was graduated in 1911 with the LL. B. degree, cum laude. Thus thoroughly qualified by broad training for the duties of his profession, he was in September, 1911, appointed assistant legal advisor to the Secretary of State of the United States at Washington, D. C, with the title of Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State of the United States. He remained in the national capital until May, 1913, when he resigned his position in the department of state and formed a law partnership, under the firm name of Clark & Richards, with J. Reuben Clark, Jr., former solicitor of the department of state of the United States. This firm maintains offices in Salt Lake City, New York City and in Washington, D. C. In June, 1913, Mr. Richards went to El Paso, Texas, and to Mexico, where he was engaged in the preparation of claims of American citizens against the Mexican government arising out of the Orosco and Madero rebellions. Not only has Mr. Richards figured prominently as a representative of the bar, connected with much important legal work in various sections of the country, but he has also had much to do with framing the laws of the state and shaping the political activity of the republican party. In 1907-8 he was a member of the Utah legislature and in the latter year was chosen an alternate delegate to the republican national convention, which met in Chicago. From 1902 until 1908 he had filled the offices of supervisor of schools and school principal of Salt Lake county and the cause of education found in him a prominent representative, one who did much to further the interests of the schools and who imparted to teachers and pupils under him much of his own zeal and interest in the work. It was while he was thus serving that he was called upon to represent his district in the legislature of the state and at different intervals his public service has continued. While in the position of Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State of the United States he prepared for President Taft's signature the proclamation admitting New Mexico and Arizona into the Union. He also prepared for the signature of Secretary of State Philander C. Knox the proclamation announcing the adoption of the sixteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States relating to the income tax, and for the signature of Secretary of State William J. Bryan the proclamation announcing the adoption of the seventeenth amendment to the constitution, providing for the direct election of senators. His public work has been of an important character, his thorough preliminary training and his broad experience as an attorney well qualifying him for the responsible duties that have thus devolved upon him.
On the 12th of September, 1912, Mr. Richards was married to Miss Barbara Howell, a daughter of Congressman Joseph Howell and Mary (Maughan) Howell and their children are Ruth and Barbara. The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Richards belongs also to the Sons of the American Revolution, for his ancestry was represented in the struggle for independence. He is a member of the Bonneville Club and the Timpanogas Club. He is also a member of the American Society of International Law and the Utah State Bar Association and he is lecturer on international law in the law school of the University of Utah, being a member of the law faculty of that institution. He is also a member of the general board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association and a member of the Salt Lake Executive Council of the Boy Scouts of America. His career has brought him prominently before the public and his course has been marked by a continuous progress that has resulted from broad study and close application and the wise use of the talents with which nature endowed him. On all political and economic questions he keeps abreast with the best thinking men of the age. While he is at all times companionable and approachable, his closest friends, by whom he is ever regarded as a peer, are found among those men with whom association means expansion and elevation.
JOSEPH JOHN RICHARDSON.
Joseph John Richardson, owner of the New Grand Hotel at Fourth and Main streets in Salt Lake City, has for many years been an active figure in business circles in the state. He was born at Smithfield, Utah, September 25, 1870, a son of Joseph and Eliza Lavina (Harper) Richardson, who were natives of England. The father came as a pioneer settler to Utah in 1852, being but eight years of age when brought by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Richardson, to the new world and first settled in Iowa, where Joseph Richardson remained until 1852, when he crossed the plains to Utah. The mother of our subject arrived in Utah in 1861, when a maiden of eight summers. After reaching man's estate Joseph Richardson, Sr" engaged in general farming and stock raising in Cache county and in the early days freighted flour and mill products between California and Utah. During the latter part of his life his attention was concentrated upon agricultural pursuits and the raising of stock and the capable management of his business brought him a fair measure of success. He died in Cache county in 1915. at the venerable age of eighty-four years, and the mother of Joseph John Richardson is still living. Their family numbered ten children, seven of who survive, namely: Joseph John, of this review; Susan, William H.,- Thomas P., Mose, Richard and Lavina, all residents of Smithfield, Cache county.
In his boyhood days Joseph J. Richardson was a pupil in the schools of Smithfield Utah, and afterward continued his education in the Agricultural College at Logan for one term. Later he was employed at various places, earning his first money in the buying and selling of cattle. He subsequently became a cattle dealer and farmer in Cache county, having previously received thorough training in this work upon his father's farm. For many years he was extensively engaged in stock raising as well as in the cultivation and development of his land, his business judgment and enterprise being manifest in the substantial success which rewarded his labors. In May, 1919, however, he disposed of all of his business interests in Smithfield and Cache county and came to Salt Lake City, where he found ample opportunity for investments. On June 1, 1919, he became the owner of the New Grand Hotel, one of the most popular hostelries of Salt Lake, situated on Main and Fourth South streets. He has also purchased a magnificent residence at No. 40 Virginia street in the Federal Heights district, one of the most beautiful residential sections of Salt Lake.
On the 21st of June, 1899. Mr. Richardson was married to Miss Laurina May Low of Smithfield. a daughter of Sylvester and Ann (Payton) Low, who were pioneer residents of Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have four living children: Annie, who was born in Smithfield, March 11, 1907; Eliza, April 30, 1909; Fenton L., April 23, 1911; and James L., September 28, 1913.
Mr. Richardson has been an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was baptized when eight years of age and has labored as a missionary in various sections of the United States. While in Smithfield he was also called upon for secular official service and in 1913 was elected mayor of his town, entering upon the duties of the office in January, 1914, and discharging them with such capability that he was reelected in 1915, Smithfield enjoying many improvements as the result of his well directed executive force and administrative ability. He held the office of mayor of Smithfield for two terms and served as assessor of Cache county also for two terms. He has at all times shown a keen interest in the progress and development of the state and at no time has his public spirit been found wanting. Fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
ELMER A. RICKER.
Elmer A. Ricker, agency manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States for Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, was born at Waterborough, Maine, July 27, 1866. The family was founded in America by two brothers, George and Maturin Ricker, who came from England and settled at Dover, New Hampshire. George appeared there in 1670 and was first taxed at Cocheco in 1672. A family tradition says that he came over with Parson Reyner and settled in what is now Rollinsford, New Hampshire. Both he and Maturin Ricker were killed by the Indians on the 4th of June, 1706. The journal of Rev. John Pike, who was minister at Dover, which is now in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, says under date of June 4, 1706: "George Riccar and Maturin Riccar, of Cocheco, were slain by Indians."
Asa L. Ricker, father of Elmer A. Ricker of this review, was also a native of Waterborough, Maine, and there pursued his education. He was married to Miss Augusta K. Shakley, likewise a native of Maine, and in the course of years he became a prominent figure in public life. He was elected to the office of register of deeds of York county, Maine, and in many other ways left the impress of his individuality and ability upon the interests of that section of the country. During the period of the Civil war he enlisted in the Thirty second Massachusetts Regiment and served under General McClellan in the Peninsular campaign. Both he and his wife have now passed away. They were parents of but two children, the daughter being Mrs. Annie Augusta Small, who resides in Biddeford. Maine.
The older, Elmer A. Ricker, attended Colby University at Waterville, Maine, from which he was graduated in 1887 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He started out In the business world in connection with the Equitable Life Assurance Society and as a representative of that company went to Deadwood, South Dakota, where he took charge of the interests of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, his territory covering the western part of the state and Wyoming. In 1909 he came to Salt Lake City to assume the management of the interests of the Equitable Life for the district embracing Utah, western Wyoming and the eastern counties of Nevada. In this territory he has supervision over forty-eight agents and has built up a substantial business for the corporation which he represents. His high standing in insurance circles is indicated by the fact that he is now the president of the Utah Life Underwriters Association. He served first during the term of 1912-13 and in March, 1919, was reelected to the office.
On the 2d of July, 1907, in Deadwood, South Dakota, Mr. Ricker was married to Miss Myrtle Elizabeth Grimshaw, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Grimshaw. Mr. Ricker is a member of the Commercial Club and also of the Bonneville Club and is popular in these organizations. In fact throughout Utah he has many warm friends who esteem him highly.
HON. DAVID O. RIDEOUT.
Hon. David O. Rideout is directing his energies to the development of the interests of the Union Oil & Gas Company, a corporation now operating in one of the most productive gas fields of Utah. Moreover, he has been a very prominent factor in molding public thought and action as a member of the republican party and his opinions carry great weight in party councils. His public-spirited devotion is acknowledged by all who know of his legislative career, which has covered three terms in the Utah senate.
Mr. Rideout was born in Holliday, Salt Lake county, February 9, 1854, and is a son of David O. and Ann (Blows) Rideout, the former a native of Fremont, Ohio, while the latter was born in England. The father went to California in 1849, attracted by the discovery of gold on the Pacific slope. The mother traveled by way of the overland trail to Utah in 1852. After devoting some time to mining in California, Mr. Rideout returned to Ohio by way of Cape Horn and there he organized a company with which he crossed the plains to Utah, where he turned his attention to mining. He also opened a number of fine mines in Montana and for some time operated in the Little Cottonwood district of Utah, being connected with such well known properties as the Prince of Wales mine and others. He died in Salt Lake in 1902, having for three years survived Mrs. Ann Rideout, who passed away in 1899. They were the parents of two children: Mrs. Elizabeth Irwin, of Los Angeles; and David O., of this review.
The latter attended school in Salt Lake and in Logan and subsequently became a student in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he entered upon the study of law, being there graduated in 1893 with the LL. B. degree. He afterward practiced for a short time but later turned his attention to merchandising, which he followed in various parts of Utah, being connected at times with Draper. Mammoth, Bingham and Sandy, in his commercial ventures. At the time of the widespread financial panic, however, he lost everything and turned his attention to farming, to which he devoted three years. On the expiration of that period he sold his land and came to Salt Lake, where he entered into active connection with the Union Oil & Gas Company, of which he has become the principal stockholder. The company's property is located near Farmington and includes twenty-one hundred and sixty acres of oil lands in Utah county. There are splendid flowing wells within a half mile of the property of the company. Experts passing Judgment upon the property believe it to he in the center of a great oil and gas field. Professor R. G. Stevens of Pennsylvania said: "Never before in all my travels in the interest of the oil business, and I have visited every state which has given promise of oil, have I seen such marked surface indications for oil as there exist today in Utah." Other experts of equal note have passed similar judgment on the oil and gas fields and the Union Oil & Gas Company is now developing its interests with every prospect of splendid success.
Mr. Rideout is also the president of the West-Rideout Brokerage Company and is connected with the Draper Commercial Company of Draper, Utah, together with several other oil companies of the state besides the Union Oil & Gas Company.
On the 10th of February, 1876. Mr. Rideout was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Terry, of Salt Lake, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Terry, pioneer people of Utah. Mrs. Rideout passed away in 1914. There were thirteen children in their family, of whom three died in infancy. William L., the eldest, now residing in Madison, Wisconsin, was educated in the University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin. After going east he married and now resides in Madison, where he is engaged in the dyeing and cleaning business. He and his wife have six children. Joshua, born in Draper, was educated in the University of Utah and resides in his native city, where he is president and manager of the Draper Commercial Company. He is married and has two children. Sherman S. D., born in Draper, completed a high school course at Madison, Wisconsin, and now resides in Salt Lake City, where he is secretary, treasurer and manager for the International Correspondence Schools. He is married and has five children. Lawrence J., residing in Salt Lake, is in wholesale department of the Zion Cooperative Mercantile institution. He is married and has had two children, one now deceased. Brutus L., born in Draper, died November 1, 1918, while serving on the war front in France as corporal of his company. He was married just prior to his enlistment. Milton W. born in Draper in 1905, is attending school. Cora is the wife of William Barker, of Salt Lake City, and has five children. Golda is the wife of Clyde Soffe, of Union, Salt Lake county, and has five children. Evelyn is the wife of Alfred Crane, a native of Draper, now residing in Blackfoot, Idaho, and they have two children. Minnie is the wife of Orlando Ballard, who was born in Draper, where they reside, and they have four children.
Having lost his first wife, Hon. David O. Rideout was married in May, 1917, in Salt Lake City, to Effie M. McCauley, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. McCauley. The father is a veteran of the Civil war and resides at Portland, Oregon.
In politics Mr. Rideout has long been a prominent factor as a republican leader. He has filled the office of justice of the peace, for twelve years was secretary and treasurer of the school board and in 1906 was elected to the state legislature, where he represented his district so acceptably that he was reelected for a second term. Further endorsement of his legislative service came to him in 1913. when he was chosen by popular suffrage to the office of state senator and remained a member of the upper house for four years. He gave most earnest, thoughtful and careful consideration to the questions that came up for settlement and his public-spirited devotion to the general good is acknowledged by all. Many tangible evidences of his efforts in behalf of general welfare can be cited and he was instrumental in securing the passage of many bills of real value to the commonwealth. All who know him, and he has a wide acquaintance, recognize the fact that he stands as a high type of American manhood and citizenship.
WILLIAM D. RITER.
William D. Riter is a member of the law firm of Van Cott, Riter & Farnsworth, occupying a distinguished position at the Salt Lake bar. He is a native son of Utah and a representative of a prominent pioneer family. His father, William W. Riter, is a well known financier and banker who became president of the Deseret Savings Bank and vice president of the Deseret National Bank of Salt Lake City. Arriving in the capital at an early period, he took a prominent part in the up building of the city in many ways and the worth of his work has been widely recognized as the years have passed. He is still active in business circles in the capacities above mentioned and his word has long carried weight in financial circles. The mother of William D. Riter bore the maiden name of Susan Denton. She died in 1S81, leaving two children: William D., of this review; and Mrs. Susie Riter Wells, also a resident of Salt Lake City.
In early life William D. Riter attended the public schools of Salt Lake City and later the University of Utah, subsequent to which time he went east to enter the law school of Columbia University at New York, where he was graduated in 1897 with the LL. B. degree. In the following year, when trouble arose with Spain, he joined the Utah Light Artillery and was sent to the Philippine Islands, where he remained until the conclusion of hostilities with Spain, serving as a non-commissioned officer. On his return to Salt Lake City, Mr. Riter entered upon the practice of law. During the early period of his connection with the Utah bar he filled the position of assistant county attorney of Salt Lake County, serving in 1901 and 1902. A man of the highest professional standing, Mr. Riter has been called upon to solve many intricate legal problems, and in the numerous cases with which he has been connected his preparation has been most thorough, his presentation clear and cogent, his arguments forcible and convincing.
On the 10th of October. 1901, Mr. Riter was married to Miss Lennie Louise Savage, of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Savage. They have three children Virginia, born at Salt Lake City in 1903; Denton S., born in 1906; and Helen Louise, in 1910.
During the recent great war Mr. Riter was about to be commissioned major in the judge advocate general's department when the armistice was signed. A short time later he was so commissioned in the Officers Reserve Corps of the United States army. In politics he has always been a republican. Fraternally he is a Mason of high rank, having attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. He belongs to various clubs and social organizations, including the Alta Club, the Bonneville Club and the Columbia Alumni Federation of Utah, of which he was president in 1918. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Along professional lines he is connected with the Utah State Bar Association and with the American Bar Association, and his high professional standing is indicated by the fact that in 1917 he was elected to the presidency of the State Bar Association. He is remarkable among lawyers for the wide research and painstaking care bestowed on his cases. In no instance has his reading been confined to the limitations of the question at issue; it has gone beyond and compassed every contingency, providing not alone for the expected but for the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them. His logical grasp of the facts and of the principles of the law applicable to them has been another potent element in his success; and a remarkable clearness of expression, coupled with an adequate and precise diction which enables him to make others understand not only the salient points of his argument but every gradation of meaning, may be accounted one of his most conspicuous gifts and accomplishments.
JOSEPH B. ROBBINS.
Joseph B. Robbins is the secretary-treasurer of the Keeley Ice Cream Company, one of the most important productive industries of Salt Lake City. With an extensive plant thoroughly modern in its equipment, this company is turning out the finest ice creams and ices, with no superior anywhere, and by reason of the excellence of the product the business is constantly growing. Mr. Robbins was born in Logan, Utah, June 28, 1867, a son of Charles B. and Jane Adeline (Young) Robbins. The father was born in New Jersey and became an early pioneer of Utah, crossing the plains with an ox team. He engaged in mercantile lines in Logan and was the first merchant in what was then a little village on the frontier of the west. He remained a resident of Logan until called to his final rest and during his latter years was quite active in public affairs. At the time of his death he was the chief of the Logan fire department and passed away in 1904. The mother of Joseph B. Robbins was born in New York and in her girlhood days she drove an ox team across the plains to Utah, spending her last days in Salt Lake City, where she passed away in 1913. She had become the mother of eight children: Charlotte, the wife of H. J. Mathews, of Providence, Utah; John Y., of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Alice Denbeck, now deceased; Charles R., of Salt Lake City; Joseph B., of this review; and Seymour B., Le Grande and George Y., all of Salt Lake City.
In the acquirement of his education Joseph B. Robbins attended the schools of Logan, Utah, and afterward took up agricultural pursuits. After devoting some time to farm work he turned his attention to merchandising at Peterson, Morgan county. Utah, where he continued successfully in business for twelve years. He then sold his interests there and came to Salt Lake City, where he entered the ice cream manufacturing business in connection with his brother, Seymour B. Robbins, and A. G. Keeley.
Their interests have been conducted under the name of the Keeley Ice Cream Company and have grown to be one of the chief manufacturing enterprises of the city. They have a splendidly equipped plant which bears little resemblance to their establishment of fourteen years ago, when they began with a one-horse delivery wagon. Today they utilize fourteen great trucks in delivering ice cream throughout Salt Lake City and to the railroad stations, whence it is shipped to various points in Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho. Mr. Robbins and his associates have built up the largest wholesale ice cream making business between Denver and the coast and their plant is a most interesting place. The freezing machines are big steel cylinders, with a jacket through which the freezing brine is pumped while the cream turns round inside. Five of these great machines are in use, turning out one hundred gallons of ice cream every twenty minutes or three hundred gallons per hour. The cream is furnished from the Mutual Creamery Company and is mixed in big tanks with rotating cooling pipes, while the purest of sugars and flavors are used. An expert is employed, having a refrigerator for his special use in the making of rosettes, flowers and other fancy ice cream forms or frozen cakes. In addition to their immense ice cream trade the company is building up a big candy business and also engages in the manufacture of pastry. They not only supply a large wholesale and retail trade along the various lines of their manufactured product, but they also conduct three stores in the city and are now enlarging their facilities in every branch of their business. They employ one hundred and sixty people and their trade is steadily growing. While Mr. Robbins gives almost his entire time and attention to this business, he is also a director of the Hyrum Silver Foundry Company.
On the 18th of December, 1889, in Centerville, Utah, Mr. Robbins was married to Miss Ellen Fance, who was born in July, 1867. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fance. They have become parents of three children. Burtis F., who was born in Salt Lake City in 1890, was graduated from the medical department of the University of Utah and at the present time is studying in the New York Medical School. Calvin B., who was born at Peterson, Utah, in 1892, was graduated from the University of Utah and at the present time is on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Australia. Thelma Ellen, who was born in Peterson, Utah, in 1897 and was graduated from the Latter-day Saints University, has become the wife of Aldrich N. Evans, of Salt Lake City, by whom she has a son, John Aldrich. Mr. Evans is the manager of the retail stores of the Keeley Ice Cream Company and is a most progressive and enterprising young business man.
Mr. Robbins belongs to the Salt Lake Commercial Club, also to the Manufacturers Association and the Utah Association of Credit Men. He stands very high in the business circles of the city because of his enterprise and his initiative. He is a forceful and resourceful man who carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. His plans are always carefully formulated and promptly executed and he allows no obstacle or difficulty to bar his path if it can be overcome by persistent and energetic effort. Watchful of all the possibilities opening up in the natural ramifications of trade and possessing initiative and adaptability, he is today one of the foremost figures in manufacturing and commercial circles of Salt Lake City.
NICHOLAS ALEXANDER ROBERTSON.
Nicholas Alexander Robertson, whom public opinion places in a foremost position at the bar of Salt Lake City, was born in North Argyle, Washington county, New York, a son of Robert Stoddart and Elizabeth (Miller) Robertson. The father was the son of Nicholas and Martha Hume (Stoddart) Robertson and was educated at Argyle Academy, afterward taking up the study of law in the offices of Judge Charles Crary at 6 Wall street, New York city. After being admitted to the bar he began to practice law at Whitehall, New York. The Civil war, however, was at hand and he organized a company on the first call for volunteers, was elected captain and with other companies, went into barracks at Albany, where an epidemic of smallpox so reduced the ranks that his company and three others were reorganized into one. He lost his captaincy but not his patriotism and enlisted in the new company as a private. The following February he was commissioned a first lieutenant and transferred from the line to the staff of General Nelson A. Miles. On May 30, 1864, he was shot through the bowels with an ounce minie ball and reported among the mortally wounded. This was near the end of the Wilderness to Spottsylvania campaign. In 1906, forty-two years afterward, he died of this wound. He was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry out of the line of duty. After the war he married, and when the subject of this sketch was three months old, moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he at once became prominent in his profession and in public life. In 1876 he was the republican nominee for lieutenant governor on the ticket headed by General Benjamin Harrison, the nominee for governor, and ten years later was elected lieutenant governor at the head of the ticket carrying the state for his party for the first time in six years. At that time General Harrison was a candidate for reelection to the United States senate, Lieutenant Governor Robertson was prevented from taking his seat as president of the democratic senate through fear that he would in joint assembly, which was a tie, cast the deciding vote for Harrison. The fight that ensued and the means adopted to defeat Harrison were the factors that led to the nomination of Harrison for president the following year. From 1889 to 1893 he was a member of the Utah commission, discharging functions under the Edmunds-Tucker law and, as such, was associated with Colonel George L. Godfrey, of Iowa, War Governor and former United States Senator Alvin Saunders, of Nebraska; Judge A. B. Williams, of Arkansas, and General John A. McClernand. of Illinois. The mother of the subject of the review was the daughter of Professor John A. Miller, of Union College, Schenectady, New York, and Catherine (Robertson) Miller, of Albany, and died at her Fort Wayne home, beloved of all, in 1896. The brother and sisters are: Robert Strowan Robertson, a prominent lumberman of the south, residing at Paducah, Kentucky; Louise Robertson Shambaugh, now deceased; Mrs. Ernest F. Lloyd, of Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Mrs. W. N. Whiteley, of Springfield, Ohio.
The eldest of the family, Nicholas Alexander Robertson, obtained his preliminary education in the public and high schools of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and then entered the Indiana University, in which he pursued his law course and won the LL. B. degree as a member of the graduating class of 1890. The same year he came to Salt Lake City and entered the law offices of the well known firm of Bennett, Marshall & Bradley, with which he remained for six years. At the end of that time he began practice on his own account and a year later removed to Eureka, Utah, in order to look after work being done on mining properties in which he was interested in the Tintic district. He was actively engaged there for ten years, devoting his attention to mining, to the private practice of law and also serving as city attorney of Eureka, under various administrations. He has been connected with a number of important cases and became a leading figure in legal circles of the state. With his return to Salt Lake City he entered into partnership with George N. Lawrence, a connection that was maintained until 1913. Since the dissolution of that partnership, Mr. Robertson has continued alone in the private practice of law and is now attorney for many corporations and individuals, acting as general counsel for many of the large business interests of Salt Lake City and the state. In 1912 he took an active part in the organization of the progressive party; was elected delegate to the first progressive convention at Chicago; was assigned to the rules committee and was one of the members of the sub-committee that drafted the rules of the convention and the party laws; was a member of the state executive committee and secretary of the state committee; was one of the progressive nominees for judge of the third district in 1912 and led his ticket in Salt Lake City. For the last three years he has taken no active part in politics.
On the 10th of October, 1897, Mr. Robertson was married to Miss Dorothy Davis, of New Orleans, Louisiana, a daughter of John G. and Dorothy (Stafford) Davis. Her mother came from old Virginia and Louisiana families. Her father was a prominent lawyer of Illinois and Louisiana. Although coming from the north in the reconstruction period, he so conducted his life among the people of the south, then so sorely tried, that he had gained their confidence, love and esteem. He died at New Orleans in 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have become parents of two children. Robert Stafford, who was born December 12, 1898, and died in infancy; and Stafford, born August 7, 1901. He attended the public schools of Salt Lake City and after one year in the high school became and is now a student in the Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, Maryland. Fraternally Mr. Robertson is connected with the Masons. He belongs to the Commercial Club and the Utah State Bar Association, his colleagues and contemporaries in the profession recognizing his ability and high professional standing.
JULIUS A. ROCKWOOD.
Julius A. Rockwood, one of Salt Lake's native sons, now numbered among the leaders in her business circles, has done much for the development of the Sugar House district of the capital city. He was born in Salt Lake, March 5, 1878, and is a son of Albert Perry and Juliane Sophia (Olsen) Rockwood, the former a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, while the latter was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Albert P. Rockwood came to Utah with the first company of Mormon pioneers, or with the original Brigham Young company that arrived on the present site of Salt Lake City on the 24th of July. 1847. He held a high place in the affairs and councils of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became an active factor in the public life of the community. He was made the first warden of the state penitentiary and he later became connected with a number of the early business enterprises of the new territory. He also left the impress of his individuality upon its political history, serving as a member of the first territorial legislature and as a member of every subsequent general assembly from that time until his demise. He became the territorial treasurer under Brigham Young and had charge of every important public financial transaction that took place up to the time of his death. He most carefully safeguarded the public interests in this connection, so that he was sometimes called the watchdog of the treasury. His activity in church and public affairs began even before his removal to Utah. He was one of the first seven presidents of seventies, so serving from 1845 until 1879. He was captain, drill officer and general of Nauvoo Legion and was acting adjutant of the company of horsemen that aided in the rescue of Joseph Smith when he was kidnapped at Dixon, Illinois, in 1843. He had also served as municipal officer at Nauvoo. In Utah he was a director of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society. He died November 25, 1879, in Sugar House ward in Salt Lake City. The mother of Julius A. Rockwood died in 1913, leaving two sons, the older being Samuel Rockwood, also of Salt Lake City.
In his early boyhood Julius A. Rockwood attended the district schools and afterward became a student in the University of Utah, from which he graduated in 1897, having pursued the normal course. He afterward took a commercial course in the Salt Lake Business College and when he had completed his studies he was sent on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to New York, remaining away from home for thirty-two months. Following his return he established a business that was afterward conducted under the name of the Utah Ice Company. He was associated therewith for four years and then sold his interests and organized the Sugar House Mercantile Company, which he conducted successfully along progressive lines for a period of three years. Once more he sold out and went on a second mission for the church to England, remaining in that country for two years. Following his return he and his brother engaged in the hay, grain and feed business under the firm style of Rockwood Brothers but conducted two separate establishments, and later they divided their interests into separate businesses. Mr. Rockwood of this review began handling men's clothing, furnishings and shoes and was very successful in the conduct of that enterprise. He afterward organized the Granite Furniture Company, which has grown into one of the big business concerns of the Sugar House district. Prior to the organization of the various industries in which he has engaged, Mr. Rockwood foresaw the future development of the Sugar House section and bought the land on which has since been established the principal commercial district of the city. He gradually developed this property and improved it with magnificent business blocks. He also invested in a large tract known as the Rockwood Addition to the city and has built thereon twelve houses which have been sold at a good profit. At the present time he has in course of erection twelve more which are being sold as rapidly as completed. He has led a life of marked business enterprise and activity and is today a leading figure in commercial circles as the head of the Granite Furniture Company, for he was elected its president on its organization on the 27th of January, 1910, the other officers being Dr. Stephen L. Richards, vice president, and Malvin C. Morris, secretary and treasurer. He is also the president of the Rockwood-Richards Investment Company, owning extensive coal yards and also conducting a real estate business in the Sugar House section. In addition Mr. Rockwood is the sole owner of much valuable property in various sections of Salt Lake, being the sole owner of the Rockwood division, and he is likewise the president and manager of the opera house at Bountiful, Utah. In 1914 he was appointed and sustained as bishop of the newly created Richards ward and under his direction the new church edifice costing fifty thousand dollars was completed in 1919.
On the 11th of December, 1901, Mr. Rockwood was married in Salt Lake City to Miss Mary Ellen Hill a daughter of William H. and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Hill, who were pioneer settlers on Mill Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Rockwood have become parents of nine children but lost two: William Apollos, who died in September, 1903; Ardella, who was born in 1904 and was graduated from the Salt Lake high school in 1919; Clarence LeRoy. who was born in 1906, in Salt Lake City, and is attending school; Claude Hill, born in 1907; Leona, in 1910; Wendell Hood, in 1911; Louis, in 1913; Oleah, born in 1915; and Naomi, who was born in 1919 and died in infancy.
When twenty-one years of age Mr. Rockwood was appointed justice of the peace and was the youngest incumbent in that position at the time of the consolidation of the justices districts of Salt Lake. He has been very active in republican politics doing everything in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of the party. and he has acted as district chairman of Sugar House. He is now chairman of the first municipal ward of Salt Lake City. He belongs to the Commercial Club, also to the Utah Auto Association and is keenly interested in activities having to do with the social progress as well as the material development of the community in which lie makes his home. He has worked his way upward entirely unaided and is indeed a self-made man. He started out to provide for his own support when a youth of ten years and worked six days a week in order to earn money to meet his expenses while he was in school. He thus displayed the elemental strength of his character-a strength that has constituted the foundation of his present position and prosperity.
ALEXANDER ROGERS.
No history of Salt Lake would be complete without extended reference to Alexander Rogers, who has passed the eighty-first milestone on life's journey yet still remains an active factor in the business world and moreover has contributed to the development and progress of the state from early pioneer times. He is one of Utah's honored pioneer settlers and his life has ever commanded for him the confidence, respect and goodwill of those who know him. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 10, 1838, a son of James and Marian (Wilson) Rogers, who were likewise of Scotch parentage. The father died when the son Alexander was but a year old, so that he does not remember him. The boy attended the schools of Scotland till he reached the age of eighteen and then went to work in the mines, continuing to engage in mining in his native country until 1863, when he made the voyage across the Atlantic to the new world, and from the eastern coast started on the long trip to Utah. He drove across the plains with four yoke of oxen, traveling over the long, hot stretches of sand and through the mountain passes, the trip requiring two months. After reaching his destination he secured a position in the old Salt Lake Paper Mills, where he continued to work for a considerable time, after which he took up the profession of teaching in the ward schools of Salt Lake, being thus employed until 1870. In that year he turned his attention to general merchandising interests in connection with the firm of Cunnington & Company and later was admitted to a partnership in the business. He remained with that company for some time and then engaged in the wholesale cigar business, in which he has since been very successful. For five years he was in partnership with George Husler in the Husler Milling Company until Mr. Husler's death, after which Mr. Rogers conducted the business alone for several years. The Rogers Cigar Company was incorporated in 1904, with Alexander Rogers as the president, W. W. Rogers as vice president and R. B. Rogers as treasurer. Moreover, Alexander Rogers is interested in the Coca Cola Company of Salt Lake City. The Rogers Cigar Company, conducting a wholesale business in cigars and smokers sundries, has one of the leading business enterprises of this character in Salt Lake and its success is being further promoted by Mr. Rogers and his sons.
In 1866 Mr. Rogers was married to Miss Jeannette Brown, of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown. They have become the parents of seven children, one of whom has passed away, John B., who was private secretary to General John B. Schofield and died in China while on that duty. Alexander. Jr., born in Salt Lake City in August, 1867, and now a member of the Rogers Cigar Company, is married and resides in Salt Lake City. His family numbers four children: Allen, Mary, John awl William. James Rogers, born and educated in Salt Lake City, is at the head of the insurance firm of Rogers, Evans & Company. He is married and resides with his family in Salt Lake City, having three children: James, Denton and Kathleen. Mary is the widow of George S. Bell and resides in Salt Lake. She has one son. Lieutenant John R. Bell, who is with Brigadier General Hines. William Wallace, born and educated in Salt Lake City, is the vice president of the Rogers Cigar Company and president of the Salt Lake Coca Cola Bottling Company. He, too, is married and his children are Hermie and Wallace Rogers. Robert Bruce, born and educated in Salt Lake City, is the president of the Rogers-Hess Wholesale Company of Salt Lake City and is married and has one child, Jeannette. Edgar Allen, born in Salt Lake City, pursued a commercial course and the law course at Cornell University and is now a prominent attorney of Salt Lake City. He is married and has four children: Edgar R., Helen, Aileen and Craig.
Mr. Rogers belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand master and also a past grand patriarch. He likewise is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He manifests keen interest in everything having to do with the welfare and progress of his community and he has come to a notable old age vigorous in mind and body, yet an active and honored factor in the world's work.
AUGUST ROLAND.
August Roland is the president of the Murray Meat & Live Stock Company and also president of the Palace Market Company of Salt Lake City. He was one of the first to engage in the wholesale meat trade in this city and he has long occupied a prominent and enviable position in business circles here. The companies of which he is the head control an extensive wholesale and retail trade in meats and success in substantial measure is rewarding their labors. Mr. Roland of this review was born across the Atlantic on the 4th of May, 1857, a son of August and Carolina (Coin) Roland, who were likewise of European birth. The father engaged in the wholesale manufacture of cigars. To him and his wife were born nine children, two of whom are still living, the surviving daughter being Rosa, now a resident of New York city.
The surviving son, August Roland, attended school in Europe in early life and after his textbooks were put aside acquainted himself with the meat business. He became an apprentice to the butcher's trade and subsequently bade adieu to friends and native land and sailed for the United States. He made his way to New York city, where he secured a position in a retail meat market. There he worked at his trade for several years and with the money that he was able to save from his earnings, as the result of his well directed economy, he went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and engaged in the meat business on his own account. After eight years there he sold out and came to Salt Lake in the early '80s. Here he established a wholesale meat business, becoming one of the pioneers in this line in Utah. From the beginning he did a thriving and profitable business but later sold his interests at a very substantial figure. He then went to Gunnison county, Colorado, settling at Tincup, where he established a large sheep ranch, and he also engaged in mining in that vicinity; but the widespread financial panic of 1893 came on and he lost all that he had formerly earned. With undaunted spirit, however, he returned to Salt Lake in 1889 and again took up the meat business. It was not long before he had once more gained a good start. His location was on Third South and Fifth West. He afterward bought the lot and erected a substantial building which he still owns, remaining there for a number of years. He next purchased property at No. 372 South State street, now in the very heart of the city and constituting a most valuable piece of land. Upon this lot he erected a substantial building that contains the refrigerating and cooling plant and also the wholesale department of the Murray Meat & Live Stock Company. He became the organizer and the president of this company and continued to carry on business at the plant just designated for many years. He next purchased the property at Nos. 2932 to 2940 South State street, where he has the wholesale slaughtering plant and near by a handsome residence which he erected. His place comprises ten acres of land that has greatly enhanced in value, being today many times worth the price which he paid for it. In the conduct of his wholesale meat business he has met with very substantial success and, extending his efforts, has become the president of the Palace Market Company, retail dealers in meats, fish, poultry and delicatessen goods at Nos. 263 and 265 South Main street.
In 1883 Mr. Roland was married in Salt Lake City to Miss Rebecca Lyons, who died in 1893. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lyons, who are residents of Canada. To August and Rebecca (Lyons) Roland were born two children: Ernest A., who was born in 1884 and is mentioned elsewhere in this work; and Nellie, who is married and resides in Arizona. In 1900 Mr. Roland was again married, his second union being with Miss Zelia Johnson, of Salt Lake City. They have become the parents of six children: Mayme, born in Salt Lake City in 1901 and now attending the University of Utah; Irma, born in 1903; Roy, who died in 1918; Louis, born in 1907; August, Jr., born in 1909; and Helen, in 1911.
Mr. Roland is indeed a self-made man who has worked his way steadily upward through persistent efforts and deserves much credit for what he has accomplished. Those who know him attest his worth and business ability and he is everywhere spoken of as a representative merchant and business man of Salt Lake.
ERNEST A. ROLAND.
Ernest A. Roland is an active figure in connection with the wholesale meat trade of the intermountain country. He is engaged in business in Salt Lake and is recognized as one of the rising young business men of the state, having a wide general acquaintance throughout Utah, while among business men and bankers he is spoken of in terms of admiration and high regard.
He was born at Tincup, Colorado, September 16, 1884, a son of August and Rebecca (Lyons) Roland. The father was born in Europe but in boyhood came to the United States, settling first in New York city, where he secured employment in a retail meat market. He afterward removed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he conducted business on his own account for eight years and then came to Salt Lake in the early '80s. Here he developed a large wholesale meat business which he later sold at a profitable figure. Removing to Colorado, he made investment of his money and was extensively engaged in sheep raising and ranching there as well as in mining, but the widespread financial panic of 1893 swept away his fortune and he was compelled to start in business life anew. Returning to Salt Lake, he once more took up the wholesale meat trade and in a few years had again laid a very substantial foundation for his fortunes. He is now the president of the Murray Meat & Live Stock Company and the president of the Palace Market Company of Salt Lake City and is mentioned at length on another page of this work. Ernest A. Roland, son of his father's first marriage, attended the schools of Salt Lake City and after completing his studies became connected with the meat trade in association with his father and is now in charge of the wholesale branch of the business. He is about to enter business independently, however, for the father is turning over the meat packing industry to his son Ernest, a most progressive and enterprising young man whose future career will be well worth watching.
On the 9th of October, 1906, Mr. Roland was married to Miss Mayme Anderson, a native of Salt Lake City. They have become parents of three children: Dorothy, born in 1911; Blaine, in 1914; and Jack, in 1917. All were born in Salt Lake City. In politics Mr. Roland has ever maintained an independent course, voting for men and measures rather than party. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and is a loyal follower of the teachings of the craft, which is based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of mankind and the obligations thereby imposed.
JAMES W. ROSS.
James W. Ross, president and manager of the Langton Lime & Cement Company of Salt Lake City, was born in Rochester. New York, December 14, 1854, a son of William and Jane (McPherson) Ross, both of whom were natives of Scotland, the father having been born in the Lowlands, while the mother was a native of the Highlands. Both came to America in early life and settled in the state of New York. There the father engaged in the manufacture of flour and in farming and both he and his wife remained residents of the Empire state until called to their final rest. They had a family of four children, two of whom are living, the daughter being Mrs. Susan A. Langton, also a resident of Salt Lake City.
James W. Ross acquired his early education in the schools of Rochester, New York, and after leaving the high school he became a pupil in the Bryant & Stratton Business College of Rochester, from which in due course of time he was graduated. He then turned his attention to the flour and feed business at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he continued successfully in business for a period of eight years. On selling out he removed to Salt Lake City, where he arrived in 1891. For a time he engaged in mining and was active in various mining sections of the state. In 1897 he became interested with James Langton in the lime and cement business and organized the Langton Lime & Cement Company, which was incorporated in that year, Mr. Ross becoming the president and Mr. Langton manager of the business. They conduct a wholesale trade in lime, cement and plaster and their patronage has grown to extensive proportions, their business being one of the leading enterprises of this kind in the state. Mr. Ross bends his energies to the direction of the trade, displaying capable management and unfaltering enterprise and overcoming obstacles and difficulties by persistency of purpose and honorable effort. He has now been a resident of Utah for twenty-eight years and is accounted one of the valued and representative citizens of the state.
JOHN Q. RYAN.
John Q. Ryan, one of the proprietors of the Century Printing Company and the Romney & Ryan Linotype Company of Salt Lake City, is a native son of Indiana, his birth having occurred at Port Wayne, January 1, 1876, his parents being Michael and Anna (Rable) Ryan, who were also natives of the Hoosier state and who came to Utah in 1904. The father was engaged in the lumber business for many years. He passed away in Salt Lake City in 1916 and the mother is still living. In the family were six children, one of whom has passed away, the others being: Mrs. James R. Wick, now living in Washington, D. C; John Q., of this review; Kathryn, of Salt Lake City; Mrs. William M. Day. of Washington. D. C; and Mrs. Charles Reed, of Topeka, Kansas.
At the usual age John Q. Ryan became a pupil in the public schools of Indiana and started upon his business career as an employee in a printing office in Kansas. In 1899 he removed to Salt Lake City and was employed for a time on the Salt Lake Herald. He afterward was instrumental in organizing the Romney & Ryan Linotype Company in 1902 and later this firm acquired the Century Printing Company, a partnership In which Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan are the sole owners. They have a well equipped printing establishment and have built up a business of gratifying proportions.
In November, 1909, Mr. Ryan was married to Miss Clara Cluff, of Provo, Utah, and they have become parents of two children: Kathryn, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1911; and John Q., Jr., born in 1914.
In politics Mr. Ryan maintains an independent course. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus. His business activity, well directed, has brought him to a prominent position in printing circles of Salt Lake City, for the patronage of the Century Printing Company is constantly increasing.
