ALLEN TILGHMAN SANFORD.
Allen Tilghman Sanford, a well known and successful attorney of Salt Lake City, where he has been continuously engaged in practice for the past twenty-three years, is also prominent in public affairs as the present representative of his district in the state senate. His birth occurred on a farm in Jones county, Iowa, on the 13th of May, 1870, his parents being Allen and Catherine (Hartman) Sanford, both of whom were natives of Ohio. The paternal grandfather, William Sanford, was born in Poultney, Vermont, and removed westward in early manhood. It was in 1854 that he established his home in Iowa, where his remaining days were passed. The father of Mr. Sanford of this review died in the year 1872, while the mother was called to her final rest in 1885. The former passed away at the comparatively early age of thirty-nine years, his birth having occurred in 1833.
Allen T. Sanford acquired his early education in the country schools of his native county and later pursued a high school course at Anamosa, Iowa. He next entered the State University of Iowa, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Ph. B. in 1893. Having determined upon a professional career, he concluded preparation for his chosen calling as a student in the Harvard Law School, which conferred upon him the degree of LL. B. in 1896. The previous year had witnessed his arrival in Salt Lake City, Utah, and here he began practice, being admitted to the bar in January, 1896. Through the intervening period he has built up an extensive and gratifying clientage. His success in a professional way affords the best evidence of his capabilities in this line. He is a strong advocate with the jury, and concise in his appeals before the court. Much of the success which has attended him in his professional career is undoubtedly due to the fact that in no instance will he permit himself to go into court with a case unless he has absolute confidence in the justice of his client's cause. He Is also interested in mines and has long enjoyed an enviable reputation as a substantial and representative citizen of Salt Lake.
In 1896, at Anamosa, Iowa, Mr. Sanford was united in marriage to Miss Helen E. Sheean, a daughter of the late J. L. Sheean. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias and he likewise has membership with the Salt Lake Commercial Club. He gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and In the fall of 1918 was elected state senator from the sixth senatorial district, which he is now ably representing, giving thoughtful and earnest consideration to all the vital questions which come up for settlement. In both public and professional connections he has won the esteem and confidence of his colleagues and contemporaries, for his career has ever been upright and honorable, actuated by the most worthy motives and the highest principles.
GEORGE L. SAVAGE.
Among the well known mercantile establishments of Salt Lake City and one which has an enviable reputation for business responsibility and commercial integrity is the C. R. Savage Company. This firm, one of the oldest in the city, deals in pictures, art goods, fancy goods, kodaks, engineers' supplies and toys. It was established in 1860 by the late Charles R. Savage, who was one of the most highly esteemed citizens of the capital and had a wide acquaintance throughout the state. Charles R. Savage was born August 16, 1832, in Southampton, England, and became converted to the Mormon faith in his native city. He came to America in the early '50s, his destination being Salt Lake City, crossing the plains to Utah with the ox-team caravan. In 1860 he established the enterprise which still bears his name. He began business in a small way but developed his interests and built up a trade of very large and gratifying proportions. He remained active in the conduct of the business until 1906, when he decided to retire and turned the business over to others. He also had the distinction of having been the first photographer in Utah and in the early days made pictures of many of the now famous and historic landmarks and scenes. These would have been of great interest and value at the present time, but unfortunately a fire in his establishment destroyed many of the plates. He became the official photographer for the Oregon Short Line Railway and for the Union Pacific. This necessitated a large amount of travel over the lines of these roads throughout the west. Many beautiful landscapes and scenes were transferred by him to photographic plates and the result of his experience and work in this connection has been turned over to his son, George L., who incorporated the C. R. Savage Company in 1906. The father then lived retired in the enjoyment of a well earned rest to the time of his death, which occurred February 4, 1909, when he was seventy-eight years of age. He married Annie Atkins, a native of England, who passed away in Salt Lake City in 1892. They had a family of nine children, of whom George L. is the fourth in order of birth, the others being: Roscoe E. and Ralph G., residents of Salt Lake City; Ray T., living in Seattle. Washington; Mrs. Annie Richardson and Mrs. Fannie Brothers, of Salt Lake City; Luacine, the wife of Major J. Reuben Clark, a noted attorney and authority on international law at Washington, D. C; Ida, deceased; and Mrs. William D. Riter, also of Salt Lake City. Charles R. Savage was a leading and earnest worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1872 Mr. Savage founded what became known as the Old Folks Excursions and each year regularly since that time they have been conducted. The rule of eligibility is any person over the age of seventy years and it is an event looked forward to with much pleasure by the elderly people.
George L. Savage was born in Salt Lake City, January 27, 1865, and was a pupil in the public schools of the capital. After mastering the branches of learning therein taught he became a student in the University of Utah. He entered business life in connection with his father's establishment and acquainted himself with every phase and detail of the trade. He was thus well qualified to assume management and control when the business was turned over to the son. In the meantime it had grown to such proportions that it was deemed wise to incorporate and since then George L. Savage has been the president. The company employs twenty people and enjoys a very extensive and gratifying trade.
On the 22d of February, 1890, Mr. Savage was married to Miss Lana Snow, of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Snow, representatives of one of the most prominent and widely known pioneer families of Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Savage have a daughter, Geneva, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1894, was graduated from Rowland Hall and afterward continued her studies in a well known school for girls in Boston. Massachusetts. She married David Keith, of Salt Lake City, and they have one son, David Keith, Jr. Both Mr. and Mrs. Savage occupy an enviable position in the social circles of the capital and are representatives of early pioneer families of the state. The work which the father of Mr. Savage instituted in early times has been carried on by the son and throughout the entire period the name has stood as a synonym for enterprise and integrity in business affairs.
JAMES W. SAVILLE.
James W. Saville is a general merchant in Wilford ward, Salt Lake county. He was born in Salt Lake City, December 7, 1872, a son of George and Ellen (Westwood) Saville. The father was a native of Essex, England, and was a shoemaker by trade. In 1866 he left his native land and came to Utah, traveling across the plains with a handcart company, accompanied by his wife and three children. He took up shoemaking in Salt Lake City and for a number of years was the leading shoe manufacturer of Utah, employing from ten to fifteen men. In fact he was the first shoe manufacturer of Salt Lake City to engage in business to any extent, having a factory on East Second South street just off from Main street. In 1894 he purchased of C. J. Rogers a mercantile business that is now being conducted by his son James. He has also been an active churchman and was president of the Elders' Quorum in the old Millcreek ward. His family numbers six children who are yet living: Jessie, Ernest, James, Harry, Violet and Elsie, while eight children of the family died in infancy.
James W. Saville was graduated from the Latter-day Saints high school of Salt Lake City and was afterward sent on a mission to England in 1894. remaining there for twenty-six months, during which time he had charge of the Blackburn branch. He then returned to Utah and purchased the mercantile business of his father, which he has since conducted. In 1910 he was again sent on a mission to England, where he had charge of the Bedford, North London and Portsmouth branches. Following his second return to his native country he resumed the active management of his mercantile interests and is now doing a business of fifty thousand dollars annually, dealing in general merchandise, hay and grain, carrying "everything from a needle to a threshing machine." He has ever recognized that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement and his earnest effort to please his customers has been one of the dominant factors in his success.
In 1901 Mr. Saville was married to Miss Agnes Miller, of Provo. a daughter of Robert and Helen Miller, and they have two children, Vera and Martelle. Mr. Saville is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is serving as a member of the Quorum of Seventy and was president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association for a number of years. In politics he is independent, nor has he ever been an office seeker. He prefers to devote his time to his church, his business and his home and he and his family reside in a most attractive residence in Wilford ward at 3347 South Ninth East street. Salt Lake City.
RALPH C. SCHAYER.
Ralph C. Schayer is a member of the Imperial Motor Company of Salt Lake; distributors of the Amesbilt, Ameston and Sandow motor trucks. The company also handles the Kelsey bodies, Detroit weatherproof tops and the Ames-ton attachments. In the development of the business Ralph C. Schayer has become well known to the trade. He was born in Leadville, Colorado, October 5, 1887, a son of Adolph and Carrie (Elsbach) Schayer. The father was of European birth, while the mother was a native of Ohio. The former came to this country in early life and was married in the Buckeye state. In 1879 he removed with his family to Leadville, Colorado, where he engaged in the wholesale business, remaining a resident of that state to the time of his death in 1909. His widow now resides in Salt Lake City. In their family were six children, two of whom have passed away, while those still living are Julius I., David E., Arthur A. and Ralph C. The first named was a member of the Utah legislature in 1915 and drafted a bill for the establishment of an auto tax in the state, a law that is now in force.
Ralph C. Schayer acquired his education in the public schools of Leadville and in the high school of Denver and after his textbooks were put aside he entered upon a clerical position with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at Leadville, thus serving for a year and a half, when he came to Salt Lake. For a time he was with the Bear Brothers Company and also was with the Sweet Candy Company of Salt Lake as a salesman until 1917, when, in connection with William Sisenvine, he organized the Imperial Motor Company. They became distributors for the Amesbilt and Sandow trucks, the Kelsey bodies and Detroit weatherproof tops, and have already built up a substantial business.
In politics Mr. Schayer maintains an independent course. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he also has membership in the Intermountain Dealers Association.
KARL A. SCHEID.
Karl A. Scheid, who on the 1st of January, 1918, was appointed commissioner of public safety in Salt Lake City and who since 1911 has been known in business circles as the senior partner of The Karl A. Scheid Company, was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1872, his parents being Valentine B. and Lena (Fox) Scheid. The father was born near Bingen-on-the-Rhine, in Germany, while the mother was a native of Pennsylvania. Valentine B. Scheid came to America in his boyhood days, settling in the Keystone state, and in young manhood he removed westward to Ouray, Colorado, where he engaged in mining until 1890. He then came to Salt Lake and engaged in the meat business here to the time of his death, which occurred in 1908. The mother is still a resident of Salt Lake City. Their children were the following: Mrs. J. T. Donnellan, residing at Ocean Park, California; Mrs. J. S. Myers, living at Salt Lake City; Lambert M., deceased; W. T., who is a linotype on the Tribune of Salt Lake City; Karl A., of this review; Elsie E., clerk in the public library; Bertha May, who died in infancy; and John D., manager of The Karl A. Scheid Insurance Company.
In his boyhood days Karl A. Scheid was a pupil in the schools of Ouray, Colorado, for he was but a young lad at the time of the removal of his parents to the west. He afterward attended business college in Salt Lake City, where he studied stenography and pursued a general business course. Following his graduation he became a stenographer with the Pacific Union, which later was merged into the Board of Fire Underwriters Insurance Company. He remained altogether with the company for twenty years, gaining a most thorough and comprehensive knowledge of the business, and by reason of his capability and merit was advanced from the humble position of stenographer to that of manager of district F. When he had terminated twenty years' service with the company Mr. Scheid decided to take a long rest, of which he was badly in need, and he and his wife started on a trip around the world. They visited many sections of the globe, spending a year and a half in travel, which resulted in the benefit of the health of both and which brought them much interesting knowledge and many pleasurable experiences. Returning to their home, where they were eagerly welcomed by numerous friends, Mr. Scheid again entered upon business activities in Salt Lake. He was tendered an appointment to fill out the unexpired term of city recorder, made vacant by the resignation of Noble Warrum, who had accepted the position of postmaster of Salt Lake. Mr. Scheid continued in the office to the end of the term and was then elected city commissioner, serving with great credit for two years on the commission in charge of public affairs and finance. Later he was appointed commissioner of public safety on the 1st of January, 1918, and has since acted in that capacity, making a most creditable record in office. He also has important business interests inasmuch as he is the secretary and treasurer of The Karl A. Scheid Company, which was organized in 1911 for the conduct of a general loan and insurance business that has since been successfully carried on.
On the 11th of September, 1911, Mr. Scheid was married to Miss Blanche L. Kimball, of Salt Lake City, who died March 27, 1918, after a brief illness. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kimball, well known in Utah from pioneer times. Mrs. Scheid had a very wide acquaintance in Salt Lake and was beloved by all who knew her for her kindly disposition, her genial qualities and her friendly spirit.
Mr. Scheid did active service on the draft board for division No. 3 at Salt Lake from June until December, 1917, serving as secretary of the board. He then resigned to enter upon his duties as chairman of public safety, which gives him supervision over the police, health and fire departments. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Episcopal church, and he has membership in the Alta Club, the Commercial Club and the Salt Lake Tennis Club. Fraternally he is well known as a representative of the Masons, the Elks, the Eagles and the Moose. He is loyal to the teachings and purposes of these different organizations, and his entire life has been characterized by fidelity to every duty and by loyalty to every principle which he espouses.
JOHN
SCHWEBERGER.
Every line of business is
represented in the commercial circles of Salt Lake and
the spirit of enterprise that is back of these has led
to the up building of the beautiful and thoroughly alive
city of today. Active in this field is John Schweberger,
who is the president of the Western Leather &
Findings Company.
He was born in Austria-Hungary,
April 2, 1875, a son of John and Gertrude (Klein)
Schweberger, who were also natives of that country,
where the father spent his entire life. John Schweberger
was engaged in the sale of flour and bran for many years
and passed away in 1917. The mother was still living in
1916, at the age of sixty-five years, but since that
time Mr. Schweberger of this review has not heard from
his home. It is his intention, however, as soon as he
can gain news of her, to send for her to join him in
America if she is still alive. In their family were six
children, one of whom died in early life. The others
are: Mrs. Katherina Eckert. of Hungary; Mrs. Anna Marie
Rieder, of Hungary; Michael, who is a tailor of Salt
Lake City; Mathias, living in Jersey City, New Jersey;
and John, who was the second in order of birth.
The last named supplemented his
early education by two years' study in the high school.
When thirteen years of age he was apprenticed to the
shoemaker's trade and entered upon a four years course
of training without pay. In addition he was obliged to
furnish his own clothing and bedding. At the age of
seventeen years he started out to work as a journeyman
and was employed in various parts of Hungary and
Germany. When twenty years of age he established
business on his own account at Zsombolya. Hungary, where
he remained for three years. He then removed to Temesvar
in southern Hungary, where he continued until 1901. On
the 20th of August of that year he bade adieu to friends
and native land and started for America, hoping to have
better opportunities in this country than he could
secure in Europe. He made his way first to Cincinnati.
Ohio, where he arrived on the 13th of September.
1901. There he worked in a shoe factory, although
during the first three months he could find nothing to
do. At the end of that time he secured a position in the
shoe factory of Krippendorf & Dittmann and was
employed there for three and a half years. On the
expiration of that period he sought the opportunities of
the west, making his way to Oakley. Idaho, where he
entered the shoe business on his own account, and at
that place in September, 1905, took out his citizenship
papers. He remained a merchant of Oakley until 1907 and
in September of that year he removed to Salt Lake City.
He was employed in the shoe factory of Zion's
Cooperative Mercantile Institution from September, 1907,
until 1908 and at the same time conducted a small
business on his own account. He also wrote some life
insurance for the Beneficial Life Insurance Company and
for two months he worked on the side as a repairer for
the Salt Lake Shoe Repairing Company. He then organized
the Royal Shoe Repairing Company and opened a shop, thus
instituting the business which has grown very
extensively until there are now sixteen repair shops
conducted under that name at various points in Utah,
Idaho and Wyoming. In February, 1910, he opened the
second Royal shop at 69 West Broadway and continued the
two places, remaining in the business until 1915, when
he sold out and organized the Western Leather &
Findings Company at 39 Richards street. This business
was later incorporated. At first Mr. Schweberger was
sole proprietor, but on the 1st of February, 1918, he
incorporated his interests and others became
stockholders in the enterprise. He is the president of
the company, however, with Joseph Durand as vice
president, Charles E. Hays as secretary and treasurer
and Joseph F. Wood as a director and assistant
manager. The company now
employs eight people and carries on a wholesale trade in
leather and findings exclusively. They draw their
patronage from various points of Utah, Idaho. Nevada,
Montana, Wyoming and Arizona and their shipments are
annually increasing.
On the 17th of March, 1895, Mr.
Schweberger was united in marriage to Miss Katherina
Weidner, of Zsombolya, Hungary, a daughter of Joseph and
Anna (Orth) Weidner. The father is now a resident of
Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Schweberger have become
parents of six children: Katherina, who was born in
Zsombolya on the 13th of January, 1896, and was educated
in the Latter-day Saints high school of Salt Lake:
Gertrude, who was born March 22, 1904, in Cincinnati,
Ohio, and passed away there in November of the same
year; Anna Maria, who was born in Oakley, Idaho, October
8, 1905, and is now a pupil in the Irving school;
Magdelena, who was born in Oakley, Idaho, November 14,
1906, and is attending the Forrest school; Johanna
Margareta, who was born in Salt Lake City, December 14,
1907; and Ruth, who was born February 21,
1912.
The family are members of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mr. Schweberger belongs to the Commercial Club
and he gives his political allegiance to the republican
party. In September, 1919, he was elected a member of
the city board of education. He has never had occasion
to regret his determination to come to America, for in
this land he has found the opportunities which he sought
and in their utilization has worked his way steadily
upward, being now at the head of a substantial and
growing business.
CHARLES A.
SHAY.
Charles A. Shay, president and
manager of Shay's Cafeteria Company, Salt Lake City's
most extensively patronized dining room, was the pioneer
in Utah of the cafeteria idea. He is an easterner by
birth but a westerner by rearing. He was born in
Milford, Maine, March 2S, 1875, his parents being George
A. and Rebecca (Willey) Shay. The father was born in St.
John, New Brunswick, and as a young man went to Maine,
where he married Rebecca Willey, a native of the Pine
Tree state. George A. Shay, in
1877, came west and located in Bozeman, Montana, where,
in 1879, his family joined him. This was before the days
of railroads in Montana and when the nearest railroad
point was the northern terminus of the old Utah Northern
Railroad, at what was then called Eagle Rock, Idaho, now
Idaho Falls. From this point the journey to Bozeman had
to be made by wagon. George A. Shay resided in Bozeman,
a most highly respected and venerable citizen until his
death, October 7, 1919, being in his eighty-seventh
year. His wife survives him, in her seventy-seventh
year. Their married life extended through more than
fifty-five years. They were the parents of six children,
four of whom are living.
Charles A. Shay, the fifth in order
of birth in the family, was a child of but four years
when his parents went to Montana. He spent his boyhood
as a pupil in the little log schoolhouse near his
father's home in Gallatin county, that state, and in the
Bozeman high school, which latter institution he
attended for a year. He started out in the business
world as an errand boy in one of the leading department
stores of Bozeman and displayed such adaptability in
that line that at the end of two years he had become
head salesman in the shoe department. He afterward
resigned his position to engage in cyanide milling in
Montana and Utah, which business claimed his attention
for a decade, during which time he was connected with
Samuel Newhouse in various milling enterprises. He
severed his connection with the Newhouse interests to
become mill superintendent for the Montgomery Shoshone
Company at Rhyolite, Nevada, where he remained about a
year and one half. Mr. Shay had become well known in his
line of work and was regarded as a highly capable man,
so that his leaving it was not a move of his choice. The
impaired health of his wife necessitated a change of
climate and under the advice of a physician, Mr. Shay
removed to the coast. He took up his residence in Los
Angeles and while in that city his attention was first
attracted to the cafeteria business. This business was
then new, there being but three institutions of the kind
in that city. The popularity of the cafeteria had been
demonstrated, yet Mr. Shay conceived the
idea of adding to it further by introducing real home
cooking as well as other features that have been highly
successful. He planned a cafeteria and opened in Salt
Lake the first of its kind ever seen in the
intermountain country and the first east of Los Angeles.
The success of the undertaking was evident from the
beginning. His patronage steadily grew and he was soon
compelled to seek larger quarters. He then leased, in
1908, his present location at No. 341 South Main street
in the basement of the Pelt building, where he has
developed one of the best managed business enterprises
in Salt Lake, requiring a force of from forty-five to
fifty people in the handling of twelve to fifteen
hundred patrons daily in the ordinary course of
business, while often the number far exceeds these
figures. Mr. Shay has kept
fully abreast of the times in the equipment, system and
management of his business as well as the introduction
of certain features entirely original with him.
Notwithstanding the great volume of business handled, he
has not lost sight of the smaller details and
refinements that have given his cafeteria a distinction
and reputation of being just a little different and
better. The business was incorporated under the name of
Shay's Cafeteria Company, with Charles A. Shay as
president and general manager. He also established a
similar cafeteria in Los Angeles but sold this in order
to devote his entire time to his rapidly growing Salt
Lake business.
In November, 1907, in Bozeman,
Montana, Mr. Shay was married to Miss Alice M. Chester,
a daughter of Charles and Sarah Chester, formerly of
Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Shay passed away
in December, 1909, and on the 23d of June, 1917, in Salt
Lake City. Mr. Shay was again married, his second union
being with Dorothy Annette Sawyer, of St. Paul,
Minnesota. They have one daughter, Jane, who was born in
Los Angeles, California, in 1918.
In politics Mr. Shay maintains an
independent course, voting for men and measures rather
than party. He has taken the York Rite degrees in
Masonry and is a Shriner. He also belongs to
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In club circles
he is well known, holding membership in the Rotary,
Bonneville, Commercial and Country Clubs of Salt Lake
City. He is popular among his associates in club circles
and wherever known, his personal qualities and his
business ability gaining him the high regard and
admiration of those with whom he has been brought in
contact, for his position as one of the city's
successful business men and a distinct leader in his
line has long since been recognized.
HOMER W. SHERWOOD.
Homer W. Sherwood, president of the
Western Furniture Company of Salt Lake City, exemplifies
in his life the growth and progress of the west. With no
unusual opportunities at the outset of his career, he
has made steady advancement, using his time and his
powers to the best advantage, and thus he stands today
at the head of a mammoth commercial
undertaking.
He was born in Iowa county,
Wisconsin, October 17, 1865, and is a son of J. W. and
Frances (Allen) Sherwood, both of whom were natives of
Poughkeepsie, New York, whence they removed to Wisconsin
at an early period in the development of the latter
state. Subsequently J. W. Sherwood took his family to
Red Cloud, Nebraska, in 1879 and there established a dry
goods and general merchandise business and also became
identified with banking interests, his activity in
commercial and financial circles winning him place among
the prominent men of Red Cloud. He and his wife
continued to make their home in that city until called
to their final rest. They had a family of eight
children, five of whom have passed away, while those
living are: Homer W.; Walter A., the cashier of the
People's Bank of Red Cloud, Nebraska; and Mrs. Eugene
Albright, of the same city.
Through the period of his boyhood
Homer W. Sherwood largely devoted his time to school
work, beginning his education in Wisconsin and
continuing his studies in the high school at Red Cloud,
Nebraska. When his school books were put aside he
entered the bank of which his father was chief executive
officer and later he became engaged in the grocery
business in Red Cloud, there remaining until 1903, when
he came to Salt Lake City. His initial step in
commercial circles here was made in organizing the
Western Foundry & Stove Company, which he developed
into a successful business enterprise, conducting it
with profit until 1909, when he sold his interests in
order to devote his entire time to the building up of
the trade of the Western Furniture Company, which he had
organized in 1905. He started the business in a small
way but has gradually increased its relations until he
now has one of the large and important furniture
establishments of Salt Lake City, located on East Third
South and South State streets, with a frontage from 301
to 311 State street. He thus occupies one of the best
corners in the business district of the capital. The
company is represented by traveling salesmen in Idaho,
Utah, Nevada and western Wyoming and employs from
twenty-five to thirty people.
On the 15th of December, 1897, Mr.
Sherwood was married to Miss Bella Meeks, of Red Cloud,
Nebraska, and they have one child, Lynn Sherwood, who
was born at Red Cloud. He attended military school and
is now a pupil in the high school. There are no unusual
or esoteric chapters in the life history of Mr.
Sherwood, whose advancement is the direct outcome of
thoroughness, persistency and systematic management. He
early closely studied business conditions, opportunities
and the demands of the business world, and he has fully
met the latter while utilizing the former. Thus he has
progressed and commercial circles in Salt Lake find in
him a worthy type.
DAVID A. SKEEN.
David A. Skeen, junior member of
the firm of Skeen & Skeen, one of the successful law
firms of Salt Lake, was born at Plain City, Weber
county, Utah, May 13, 1885, a son of Lyman and Electa
(Dixon) Skeen. Joseph Skeen, grandfather of David A.
Skeen, was a member of the famous Mormon Battalion in
the Mexican war. He brought his family to Utah from
Missouri in the pioneer days and was a member of the
original party that settled Plain City, Weber county, in
March, 1859. They made the journey over the long, hot
stretches of sand and through the mountain passes to the
far west and became active factors in the development of
this section of the country.
Lyman Skeen, father of David A.
Skeen, was born in Missouri and since 1859 has been a
resident of Weber county. He turned his attention to the
business of stock raising and ranching. As the years
have passed he has gained a place among the most
successful and prominent stockmen of Weber county, and
while he has now reached the age of sixty-nine, he is
still as active as a man many years his junior. He has
done much to improve the grade of stock raised in that
section of the state and his labors have constituted an
example that others have followed. The mother of David
A. Skeen was also born in Weber county, where she passed
away in the year 1891. They were the parents of the
following children: Lyman. Jr., who is now deceased and
who was a prominent physician of Ogden; Charles, who is
engaged in farming near Twin Falls, Idaho; Emma, who
married Lewis H. Carver and died in Ogden; Joseph, a
farmer of Weber county; Electa, who is a teacher in the
city schools of Salt Lake; Mrs. Mary Rawson, of Ogden;
Jedediah D., who is senior partner of the law firm of
Skeen & Skeen; William R., an attorney practicing in
Ogden; David A., of this review; Sabra D., who died at
the age of four years; and Mrs.
Isabella Charlton, of West Weber. In 1894 the
father was again married, Miss Annie Skelton of West
Weber, Utah, becoming his wife. They had eight children:
Mrs. Ivy Marsden. of Salt Lake; and Blaine, Wilford,
Lenora. George, Jennie, Elwood and Stephen. The last
named died when still quite young.
After acquiring his education in
the public schools of Plain City and in the Agricultural
College, from which he was graduated with the class of
1907, David A. Skeen entered the University of Chicago
for the study of law and there won his LL. B. degree
upon graduation with the class of 1910. He located for
practice at Ogden, where he remained for a year, but in
1911 sought the still broader field offered in Salt
Lake. Here he has since successfully followed his chosen
profession in association with J. D. Skeen and they have
built up an extensive practice.
On the 16th of November, 1910, Mr.
Skeen was married to Miss Bertha Kerr, of Logan, Utah, a
daughter of Marion and Nancy (Rawlins) Kerr. They have
three children: Priscilla, born in Salt Lake in 1912; La
Rae, born in 1914; and Eleanor, born in 1918. Mr. Skeen
gives his political allegiance to the democratic party
and is a firm believer in its principles. He belongs to
the Bonneville Club, also to the State and American Bar
Associations. He is giving his attention to a profession
in which advancement depends entirely upon individual
merit and ability and since his admission to the bar has
made steady progress.
GEORGE
C. SMITH.
It is a trite saying that 'There is
always room at the top," but it does not seem to have
made a deep impression upon the majority of mankind,
else ninety per cent of those that enter the business
world would not be rated as failures; yet statistics
show that less than one-tenth of those who start in
business life achieve what may really be called success.
George C. Smith, however, is one of those who have
attained to leadership and prosperity as well. He is the
president of the Wasatch Farms Company, which owns and
controls the only dairy in the intermountain country
that is producing certified milk. There is no phase of
stock raising or the dairy business with which he has
not become thoroughly familiar and along the most modern
scientific lines have his interests been
developed.
It was on the 14th of October,
1881, in Salt Lake City, that George C. Smith was born,
a son of Joseph Fielding Smith, the honored president of
the Mormon church at the time of his death. His mother
was Julina Lambson and George C. Smith was the sixth in
her family of ten children. He was graduated from the
Latter-day Saints University of Salt Lake City and the
Brigham Young University at Provo and also attended the
University of Utah, where he completed his education
with normal and business courses. He afterward spent
three and a half years as private secretary to Hon.
Brigham H. Roberts and was then sent on a mission to
Sweden, where he labored for the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints for two and a half years and during
the last year of that period was president of the
Gothenburg conference. Mr. Smith then
returned to Salt Lake City and for six years was
accountant in the office of the presiding bishop there.
At the end of that time he and his brother David took
over the farm interests of the Fielding Investment
Company, which they then conducted under the name of the
Smith Brothers Jersey Farm, and in 1918 the business was
reorganized as the Wasatch Farms Company, with George C.
Smith as the president and principal owner. This company
has a seventy-acre farm and no expense has been spared
to make it the best in the country. They have thereon
one hundred and thirty-two head of registered Jersey
cattle. At the head of their herd is a Registered sire,
Ferry Boys Golden Jolly, and that bull and stock bred by
It have won more prizes than any other herd by one bull
at any single fair in the United States. The sire is
from the Kinloch herd at Kirksville, Missouri. At the
Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915 his exhibits scored
ninety-five per cent pure milk-the third highest score
out of twenty-five hundred competitors. In 1917, at
Portland, Oregon, the score was ninety-five and
five-tenths per cent and in 1918, at Yakima, Washington,
the score reached ninety-six and four-tenths per cent,
while in 1919, at Boise, Idaho, the score was
ninety-seven and five-tenths per cent. In 1917, 1918 and
1919 tests were made before the Western Dairymen's
Association at the dairy shows. In addition to the
extensive dairy business carried on, the Wasatch Farms
Company breeds registered stock, which it sells all over
the United States, some of their yearlings having
brought as high as three thousand dollars. They have
bred and exported some of the most famous Jerseys ever
produced in the United States. They have the most modern
barns in the entire country, second to none, not
excluding even the famous Borden barns of New York. No
expense has been spared in the development and
improvement of their place, which is an expression of
the last word in modern scientific dairying and stock
raising.
In 1903 Mr. Smith was married to
Miss Lillian Emery, a daughter of George R. Emery one of
the presidency of the Salt Lake stake. Their children
are: Lillian; Florence; Ina; George C, Jr. born August
23, 1910; Eleanor; Mary; Wilford; and Emery, born July
24, 1919. Mr. Smith has continued an active worker in
the church. He is a member of the Seventy, secretary and
treasurer of the tabernacle choir of Salt Lake City, a
teacher in the Seventy class, a chorister in the Sunday
school in Holliday ward and also a ward teacher.
Politically he is an earnest republican but not an
office seeker and his only public position of this
character has been that of judge of elections in Salt
Lake City. He is not remiss in
the duties of citizenship, however, but on the contrary
gives active aid and support to all measures and plans
which he deems of public benefit. He has done much for
the state, too, in the development of its material
interests as a leading stock raiser and dairyman and has
made the name of the Wasatch Farms Company known
throughout the length and breadth of the land. With a
nature that could never be content with mediocrity, he
has made steady advancement until his position is one of
acknowledged and enviable leadership.
HON. REED
SMOOT.
Hon. Reed Smoot, senior senator
from Utah in the United States senate, is one of the
forceful figures of that great body as well as one of
the country's most distinguished statesmen. He has
exerted marked influence over the history of his state
and over national affairs. Higher testimonial of his
ability and the confidence reposed in him by the people
of the state could not be given than the fact that he
has been three times elected representative to the
highest legislative body of the nation. And fortunate
indeed is that commonwealth in the American union of
states whose citizenship has the clear sightedness and
intelligent judgment to select for its representative in
congress a man whose keenness, energy and patriotism
enable him to occupy and hold a place among the safer
and most progressive leaders of national thought and
action. In the halls of
congress and in the forum of national comment and
discussion Senator Smoot is known for his wonderful
capacity for work-honest, conscientious work and plenty
of it; that he is untiring in his furtherance of
measures and methods which he conceives to be based on
just and righteous principles; and equally unflinching
in his antagonism to that which he recognizes as
dishonest, unjust or hypocritical; and that no interests
of Utah are passed by slightingly and no citizen of Utah
but who receives the benefit of his sympathetic
solicitude as far as courtesy and fair dealing make it
possible; and that while he esteems the various
interests of Utah and her advancing prestige as a state,
his breadth of comprehension and official action reach
in commensurate degree to the progress of the whole
American people.
Reed Smoot was born in Salt Lake
City, Utah, January 10, 1862, the son of Abram Owen and
Anne Kristina (Morrison) Smoot. In the acquirement of
his early education, Senator Smoot after attending the
public schools entered the University of Utah, and
shortly after entered the Brigham Young Academy at Provo
and graduated from that institution. In his life work he
has carried forward enterprises and lines of business
with which the name of Smoot has long been prominently
associated. He is now connected with various important
commercial, industrial and financial interests, being
the president of the Provo Commercial and Savings Bank,
as well as director of several of the most important
business concerns of Salt Lake City, including Zion's
Cooperative Mercantile Institution, the Deseret National
Bank and the Deseret Savings Bank. He is likewise
interested in various mining projects and in all the
business affairs with which he is associated his keen
enterprise and indefatigable energy have led to
success. A man of forceful
nature Senator Smoot carries to successful completion
whatever he undertakes. He does not lightly enter upon
any activity without carefully considering its
possibilities and has learned and recognized the fact
that when one avenue of advancement seems closed he can
carve out other paths whereby he may reach the desired
goal. Obstacles have ever been to him an impetus for
renewed effort.
Senator Smoot was married on the
17th of September. 1884, to Miss Alpha M.
Eldredge of Salt Lake City, a daughter of General
Horace S. Eldredge. They have six children; Harold R.
Smoot, head of the Harold R. Smoot Company, investment
brokers of Salt Lake City; Chloe, the wife of A. F.
Cardon, of Logan, Utah; Harlow E., assistant general
manager of the United Cold Storage Company of Chicago;
Anne K., wife of Grover Rebentisch of Salt Lake City;
Zella E., who is attending school in New York city; and
Ernest W" who is attending school in Washington, D.
C. The religious faith
of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, and throughout his lifetime Reed
Smoot has been an earnest and ardent worker in the
church. He was appointed one of the presidency of Utah
stake in April 1895, and became an apostle in
1900.
Politically, Senator Smoot has
always been a stalwart republican and in 1903 was
elected to represent Utah in the United States senate.
In 1909 he was again chosen to that office and was once
more elected in 1915, his present term to continue until
1921. An acknowledged
expert on governmental finance, Senator Smoot's views
and opinions carry great weight among his colleagues. He
is now serving on a number of the most important
committees of the senate, among them the finance,
appropriations, printing, pensions, civil service and
retrenchment, the committee on public lands, of which he
is chairman. His knowledge concerning the distribution
of public lands is conceded to be greater than that of
any other senator. He is also chairman of the joint
committee on printing, chairman of the public building
commission, which has the task of distributing all the
office space to the various governmental agencies in the
District of Columbia, and is also chairman of the
sub-committee having the revision of the war risk
insurance laws under consideration.
It is a peculiar and notable fact
that whenever a cry of adverse criticism has been made
over some action of Senator Smoot as senator, time and
calmer judgment of the people have, without the
exception of a single instance, demonstrated the
righteousness of his stand. Working in accord with other
national leaders when his judgment was In harmony with
theirs, he nevertheless displayed independence of
judgment whenever his convictions lead him to disagree
with his associates. He was a warm personal friend of
the late President Roosevelt, President Taft, Senators
Aldridge, Lodge, Root, Dillingham, Johnson, Borah,
Bourne, Kenyon. Cummins and Knox.
No other senator has had a more
extended list of work assigned him than that which
occupies Senator Smoot in Washington. In every committee
or commission on which he has been placed he has
established the reputation for knowing his subject
thoroughly. Pew senators are in closer touch with the
various government departments, and in connection with
committee work as well as with other business he is
known in all the government departments in Washington as
the senator who does things on time and at the proper
time.
During his term in the senate
Senator Smoot has served on the following commissions
and committees: Chairman of the committee on standard
weights and measures, chairman of the committee on
patents, chairman of the committee on printing, chairman
of the joint committee on printing (senate and house),
chairman of the committee on public lands, chairman of
the committee on expenditures in the interior
department, chairman of the printing investigation
commission, member of the committee on claims, member of
the committee on forest reservations and protection of
game, member of the committee on pensions, member of the
committee on railroads, member of the committee on
finance, member of the committee on appropriations,
member of the committee on civil service and
retrenchment, member of the committee on public health
and national quarantine, member of the committee on
University of the United States, member of the committee
on committees, member of special committee to
investigate high cost of living, member of joint Alaskan
commission, chairman of the forest section of the
national conservation commission appointed by President
Roosevelt, chairman of the public buildings
commission.
Senator Smoot has always been a
strong advocate of our national park system, and many of
the sanctuaries that have been laid aside for public use
in the western states owe their existence to his
efforts. Elected to the United States senate from one of
the newer states of the Union and one of the smaller
ones in point of population, Senator Smoot has carved
for himself in America's hall of fame a niche that
places him on the same footing with the foremost
American citizens.
FRANK H. SOUTHER.
Frank H. Souther, vice president of
the Globe Laundry Company, was born in Union county,
Georgia, December 20, 1886, a son of J. G. and Carrie
(Allen) Souther. The father was a native of Union
county, Georgia, while the mother's birth occurred in
Kansas City, Missouri. They were married in Colorado, to
which state they had removed in early life, but later
Mr. Souther returned with his wife to Georgia, where he
remained until 1887 and then came to the west, settling
in Salt Lake City. Here he entered the real estate
business in connection with his father-in-law but
afterward withdrew from that field of activity and is
now connected with the water department of Salt Lake
City. The mother passed away January 14, 1917. They had
a family of five children, two of whom are yet living,
the daughter being Helen, a resident of Salt
Lake.
Frank H. Souther, the elder of the
surviving children, after completing a course in the
Salt Lake high school with the class of 1906, entered
the University of Utah in the engineering department. He
took up the profession of civil engineering, giving his
attention to construction work from 1908 until 1917.
Through this period he was connected with the American
Smelting & Refining Company and the Utah Copper
Company and in the discharge of his duties made his
headquarters at Garfield, Utah. However, during the
period from 1912 until 1915 he also had charge of
construction work on railroads in Canada, representing
the Grand Trunk Railway Company on a branch of the main
line. He served as an engineer and in the construction
department but after America's entrance into the war he
enlisted in the United States Engineers Corps on the
18th of September, 1917. and reported to Camp Lewis,
Washington. He was later transferred to Jacksonville,
Florida, as a student in the officers' training camp and
there received his commission on the 13th of August,
1918. He was ordered to Washington, D. C, to report for
duty as assistant officer in the construction department
of the United States army, with the rank of second
lieutenant. After serving for three months the armistice
was signed and he was honorably discharged on the 5th of
February, 1919, when he returned to Salt Lake. Here he
became connected with the Globe Laundry Company as vice
president and treasurer, having previously become
financially interested in this business, which is
steadily developing and giving promise of becoming one
of the large laundries of the west. They now have on
their pay rolls thirty-three employees. The plant is
modern in every particular, its equipment showing the
latest machinery used in laundry work.
On the 12th of April, 1918, Mr.
Souther was married to Miss Margaret Rasmussen, of St.
Anthony, Idaho. Lieutenant Souther has reached a
creditable position for one of his years and his
progressive spirit indicates that his future will be
well worth watching.
DANIEL
SAMUEL SPENCER.
Daniel Samuel Spencer, general
passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, also
of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad lines in Utah,
is not only one of the best known passenger traffic men
of the west but in railway circles generally has an
extensive acquaintance as a result of his long
connection with railroad interests.
He is a native son of Utah, born in Salt Lake
City, June 12, 1857, a son of Claudius V. and Susannah
(Neslen) Spencer, and belongs to one of the states most
prominent pioneer families whose connection with Utah's
history dates back to September, 1847.
This Spencer family comes from Massachusetts and
in that old commonwealth it was founded at an early
period in the colonization of the new world.
Daniel Spencer, the grandfather of Daniel S. was
born at West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, July 20, 1794,
a son of Daniel and Chloe (Wilson) Spencer and a direct
descendant of Revolutionary war ancestors. He was a
prominent man in that section of the Bay state, served
as selectman of West Stockbridge and was considered a
man of much wealth for that period. In 1847 he crossed
the plains to the Salt Lake valley as captain of his own
company, arriving here on the 23d of September, that
year. The entire distance from New England was made by
wagon except the journey across Lake Erie. He was one of
the prominent men in the early history of Utah and a
successful merchant and farmer. He died December 8,
1868. He was the first president of the Salt Lake stake
of Zion and served continuously in that position to the
time of his death.
His son, Claudius V. Spencer, the
father of Daniel S. Spencer, was born April 2, 1824, at
West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and came to Utah as a
member of the company of which his father was captain,
reaching Salt Lake valley, September 23, 1847.
After coming to Utah he engaged in farming, which
business he successfully followed.
He took a prominent part in public affairs of the
city, county and state. He was elected a member of the
territorial assembly August 6, 1855, and was a member of
that body when the state capital was transferred from
Fillmore to Salt Lake City in December, 1856, where it
first convened in "Social Hall." Claudius V. Spencer was
one of the first street commissioners of Salt Lake,
filling that position without compensation, and the
development of the present street system is, in part,
due to his activities in those early days. He was active
and influential in the work of the dominant church of
Utah. He filled two missions to Great Britian also two
in the United States. On April 16, 1861, while returning
from a mission to Great Britain, the packet ship
"Manchester" sailed from Liverpool, England, with three
hundred and eighty Saints on board who were under the
direction of Mr. Spencer. He remained active and
prominent in public and church affairs during most of
his life. His death occurred January 5, 1910, in his
eighty-sixth year. Susannah Neslen, the mother of Daniel
S. Spencer, also came from a Utah pioneer family. She
was born in Lowestoft, County Suffolk, England, a
daughter of Samuel and Eunice (Francis) Neslen, who
crossed the plains of Utah as a member of the Claudius
V. Spencer company, reaching Salt Lake, September 20,
1853. She was the mother of six children, two of whom
are now living Daniel S., and Edmund B., of San
Francisco.
Daniel S. Spencer received his
early education in the public and private schools of
Salt Lake City, after which for a short time he was a
student in the University of Utah. The putting aside of
his text books was from necessity. He became a messenger
for the Deseret Telegraph Company, which position he
filled for two years between the ages of fifteen and
seventeen. He then entered the employ of the Utah
Central and Utah Southern Railroads, which lines
subsequently became a part of the Oregon Short Line
system. His fidelity and capability led to his promotion
and he was advanced from messenger boy to telegraph
operator, train dispatcher, train master, freight
cashier, depot ticket agent, chief clerk and assistant
general passenger agent, then in May, 1917, to the
position of general passenger agent, which he is now
filling, while his connection with the Los Angeles and
Salt Lake Railroad is general passenger agent.
(Lines in Utah.) Step by step Mr. Spencer has
advanced through an orderly progression that has brought
him to a place of prominence, and his record is one of
which he has every reason to be proud. He is recognized
as a forceful and resourceful man thoroughly dependable
because of reliability, his initiative and his readiness
to meet any emergency that may arise.
On November 9th, 1887, at Logan,
Utah, Daniel S. Spencer was married to Miss Margaret
Louise Crismon a daughter of George and Mary L. (Tanner)
Crismon. The Crismon family is one of the genuine
pioneer families of Utah and originally came from
Virginia. Charles Crismon the grandfather of Mrs.
Spencer, was born in Kentucky and crossed the plains to
Utah in October, 1847. He built the first grist mill in
Utah in City Creek canyon, in 1848. George Crismon, the
father of Mrs. Spencer, was but a boy of fourteen when
he accompanied his parents to the Salt Lake valley. He
became a well known citizen and his death occurred
January 27, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer
have four living children: Margaret Louise is now
Mrs. Maurice Tanner and
has a daughter, Margaret. Frank D. was educated in the
public schools and in the Agricultural College at Logan,
Utah. He afterward entered the Columbia Medical
University of New York and was there graduated with the
M. D. degree in 1917. He is
now serving an internship in the Presbyterian Hospital
of New York City. He married Edna Harlow, of Cleveland,
Ohio, and they have one child, Eleanor Harlow Spencer.
Kathryn was educated in the public schools and in the
Latter-day Saints University. David Crismon is now a
junior in the high school.
The family belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Spencer is a member
of the Sons of the American Revolution and in 1914
served as president of the Utah Society of that
organization. He is also well known in club circles
belonging to the Alta, Commercial and Bonneville Clubs
of Salt Lake. He has a very wide and favorable
acquaintance in this state, occupying a position of
prominence by reason of his business ability and
standing, his social qualities and his public
spirit.
T. C. STAYNER.
T. C. Stayner. president of the
Stayner-Daly Lumber Company, wholesale dealers of Salt
Lake, was born at Farmington, Utah. June 28, 1883, a son
of Arthur and Clara (Miller) Stayner, the latter a
native of Utah, while the former was born in
England. In early life,
however, he became a resident of this state, settling at
Salt Lake City, and he became one of the pioneers in
connection with the sugar beet industry in Utah.
He died in Salt Lake, but the mother is still
living and now makes her home in Farmington. Two of the
children of the family also survive, the elder being
Charles Miller, now a resident of Ogden,
Utah.
The younger, T. C. Stayner,
attended the public schools of Farmington and afterward
became a pupil in the Latter-day Saints University. On
putting aside his text books he entered the lumber
trade, first in connection with the retail business,
while in 1907 he turned his attention to the wholesale
trade, handling lumber in large lots. He was with the
Nibley-Channett Lumber Company at Twin Falls, Idaho, for
some time and afterward became connected with the Rio
Grande Lumber Company. In 1912 he entered business on
his own account, prompted thereto by a laudable ambition
that has caused him to make wise use of every
opportunity that has come his way. He bought out the
business of Lillard & Barker and has since been a
successful factor in wholesale lumber circles, being
today one of the prominent dealers of the state. From
his earliest connection with the lumber trade he has
studied the business from every possible standpoint,
thoroughly acquainting himself with its various phases
and keeping at all times in close touch with the market,
so that he has been able wisely to direct his
investments and promote profitable sales.
In Salt Lake City, on the 18th of
July, 1907, Mr. Stayner was married to Miss Ruth Dorius,
a daughter of John and Marie Dorius, representatives of
one of the early and prominent families of the state.
They have become parents of a daughter, Dorothy L., who
was born in Ephraim, Utah.
Mr. Stayner belongs to the Salt
Lake City Commercial Club and also to the Utah
Automobile Association. He has never aspired to public
office and in politics has always voted independently.
He thinks along original lines and by individual effort
and ability has worked his way steadily upward until his
name is today well known in connection with the
wholesale lumber trade of Utah.
GEORGE A.
STEINER.
George A. Steiner, general manager
and one of the directors of the American Linen Supply
Company, who has developed this enterprise into one of
the leading business concerns not only of Salt Lake but
of the west, was born in Leavenworth, Kansas March 13,
1874, a son of John A. and Annabelle Flora Steiner, who
were natives of Ohio The father removed
from Kenton, Ohio, to Kansas, in his nineteenth year and
later engaged in the hardware business in Leavenworth.
He afterward returned to Kenton however, and there
continued until 1888, when he removed to Lincoln,
Nebraska, where he engaged in the wholesale grocery
business as a salesman for thirty years. He is now a
resident of Chicago, connected with the American Linen
Supply Company, and his wife is also living. Their
children are: George A.; Frank M., a resident of
Minneapolis. Minnesota; Mrs.
William Mathews, of Des Moines, Iowa; and Helen M., the
wife of Major Arthur T. Wallace, of Des
Moines.
In his boyhood days George A.
Steiner was a pupil in the public schools of Kenton,
Ohio, to his fourteenth year, when he entered the
schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, and was graduated from the
high school. He next became a student in the State
University of Nebraska, in which he pursued his studies
for three years. When his college days were over he
removed to Salt Lake City in 1895, when the present
American Linen Supply Company established a branch in
this city. He directed the construction of its building,
which is considered a model of its kind, possessing
every sanitary feature not only In the handling of the
linen but also for the comfort of the employees. The
plant is one of the best lighted structures in the west,
thoroughly modern in its equipment, and today a force of
one hundred and twenty-five people is employed. This
indicates something of the volume of business carried on
at Salt Lake under the direction of Mr.
Steiner.
On the 16th of December, 1896, at
Newkirk, Oklahoma, Mr Steiner was married to Miss Mary
Gardner, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gardner, and
they have two children. Lieutenant Frank G. Steiner was
born in Salt Lake in 1898, is a high school graduate and
has been serving with the rank of lieutenant in the One
Hundred and Fortieth Infantry of the Thirty-first
Division, in France. He was a student in the University
of Pennsylvania when he responded to the call to the
colors. Jeannette, born in 1912, is attending school in
Salt Lake.
The progressiveness, business
ability and public spirit of Mr. Steiner are evidenced
in the fact that he was elected to the presidency of the
Salt Lake Commercial Club and has for the past three
years served on its board of directors. His popularity
is also manifest in the Alta, University, Country and
Rotary Clubs of Salt Lake, in all of which he has
membership. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen
of the World and other lodges. In politics he maintains
an independent course and while he has never been
ambitious to hold office he has ever given ready and
helpful support to all plans and measures affecting the
general good. While he has made steady advancement in
his business career he has always avoided the pitfalls
into which unrestricted progressiveness so frequently
leads. He never takes an unwarranted risk but closely
studies every phase of a situation and correctly weighs
every opportunity, so that he has come to be regarded as
a man of most sound and substantial judgment.
MAURICE STIEFEL.
A modern philosopher has said:
"Success does not depend upon a map but upon a time
table." In other words, it is not locality nor
environment but the use of opportunity that leads to the
attainment of prosperity. Mr. Stiefel belongs to that
class of men who are always alert, and energetic and
thus it is that he has gained a place among the leading
and successful clothing merchants of Salt Lake City,
where he is conducting business under the name of
Maurice Stiefel & Sons. He has adopted as a business
slogan the words "The Man on the Spot" and this
indicates exactly his position in all business affairs.
He is ready at all times and by his "Klassy Klothes"
have made his establishment a favorite with the good
dressers among men.
Mr. Stiefel was born in Corvallis,
Oregon, October 7, 1867, his parents being Alexander and
Helen (Samek) Stiefel. the former a native of Germany,
while the latter was born in New York city. The father
came to the new world when a boy and in young manhood
went to Oregon, where he engaged in the transfer
business. He afterward removed to Salt Lake, where he
arrived on the 4th of
July, 1871, and here be established the Stiefel Transfer
& Freighting Company, engaged in freighting to
Nevada. He died in Salt Lake, October 12, 1904, when he
had reached the age of seventy-seven years, and the
mother, still surviving, yet makes her home in this
city. Their family numbered four children: Samuel, who
is a resident of California; Maurice, of this review;
Alfred, also living in California; and Eugene, who makes
his home in Salt Lake City.
In his boyhood days Maurice Stiefel
attended the Presbyterian Collegiate Institute of Salt
Lake and afterward became an apprentice at the clothing
trade, which he thoroughly learned before embarking in
business on his own account in 1904. Since that date, by
diligent and painstaking effort, he has succeeded in
building up one of the largest and most prosperous
tailoring establishments of the city. He has his store
in one of the central office buildings of Salt Lake and
he today has a very large number of satisfied customers.
He handles all of the latest and most attractive lines
of clothes sent out by the leading manufacturing houses
of the country and represents the Kahn Tailoring Company
of Indianapolis and the Ferd Klaas Shirt Company of
Chicago.
On the 22d of April, 1887, Mr.
Stiefel was married to Miss Isabella Davidson, of Salt
Lake, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Davidson, the
former a pioneer sheep importer of Utah, who brought the
first sheep to the state and in later years was
prominently and extensively identified with sheep
raising. Mr. and Mrs. Stiefel have become parents of
eight children and the family circle yet remains
unbroken by the hand of death. The eldest. Frank, born
in Salt Lake City in 1890 and graduated from the Salt
Lake high school, is married and is now with the
Sullivan Electric Company at Butte, Montana. Valjean,
born in Salt Lake City in 1892, was graduated from the
high school, is married and has two children, Valjean,
Jr., and Jack. Harold, born in 1894, was a high school
pupil and is now a member of the United States army,
located at Brest, France. Mrs. Helen McKenzie, born in
Salt Lake City in 1896, is a high school graduate and
has one child, Maurice McKenzie. Lieutenant Maurice
Stiefel is a graduate of the Salt Lake high school and
of the Agricultural College of Utah at Logan and is now
an officer of the United States army, holding the rank
of lieutenant. He has been a leader in all athletic
events of the state university, was a member of the
football team of the Agricultural College at Logan and
was famed as a quarterback. Henrietta, born in 1900, in
Salt Lake, and Virginia, in 1902, are both high school
pupils. Isabella, born in 1907, is still a pupil in the
grades.
Mr. Stiefel has always been fond of
outdoor sports and is a devotee of our great national
game of baseball. He organized and manages the Stiefel
Baseball Club of Salt Lake, an amateur organization,
which has won laurels in local baseball circles. All of
Its members enlisted in some branch of war service and
several of them were in front-line trenches and some
were wounded in action. On account of several of the
members still being with the army or navy the club has
temporarily disbanded. Mr. Stiefel belongs also to the
Automobile Association. He is widely known in Salt Lake,
where he has resided from early boyhood. In fact he was
only four years of age when the family home was
established in this city and through the intervening
period he has here lived, witnessing the rapid growth
and development of the city through a period of
forty-eight years and for a long time enjoying prestige
as a leading and representative merchant.
JOSEPH
WILKENSEN STRINGFELLOW.
Joseph Wilkensen Stringfellow, city
judge of Salt Lake City, called to the bench by
appointment to fill out an unexpired term in November,
1918, had previously made a most creditable record as a
lawyer and business man. He represents one of the old
pioneer families of the state and was born in Salt Lake
City, January 15, 1875. His father, George
Stringfellow. a native of England, came to the United
States in early manhood and made his way across the
plains to Utah in the '50s, traveling over the long
stretches of hot sand with team and wagon. He was
married here to Grace Wilkensen, also a native of
England, who came to Utah with ox teams, and they are
still residents of Salt Lake.
During his youthful days Joseph W.
Stringfellow attended the public schools of Salt Lake
City and afterward became a student in the Brigham Young
Academy at Provo. He also pursued special courses of
study in the University of Utah, and then determining
upon the practice of law as a life work, he went east to
Michigan and matriculated in the law department of the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, which conferred
upon him the B. L. degree upon his graduation with the
class of 1901. Having completed his
course, Judge Stringfellow then returned to Salt Lake
and began practice, in which he actively continued until
elected to the bench. For ten years he was associated in
practice with the late Judge Charles S. Zane and he has
long ranked as an eminent member of the Utah bar, his
devotion to his clients' interests being proverbial.
Whatever he does is for the best interests of his
clients and for the honor of his profession. No man
gives to either a more unqualified allegiance or riper
ability, and these qualities have won for him the
admiration and respect of all who know him. Extending
his efforts also into commercial fields, he became the
president and one of the directors of the Utah Casket
Company.
In Salt Lake City, on the 18th of
September 1908, Judge Stringfellow was married to Miss
Fannie Myra Little, a daughter of the late James T.
Little, who on the 8th of January, 1913, was called to
her final rest. In religious faith Judge Stringfellow
has always been connected with the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and for two years was on a
mission to London, where he was also made president of
the Nottingham (England) Conference, serving in that
capacity about eight months. His political endorsement
is given to the democratic party and he was made its
candidate for the office of city judge in November,
1918, to which office he was elected. Calm, dignified,
self-controlled, fr3e from passion or prejudice, he had
given to his clients the service of great talent,
unwearied industry and rare learning, nor had he ever
forgotten that there are certain things due to the
court, to his own self-respect and above all to justice
and righteous administration of the law, which neither
the zeal of an advocate nor the pleasure of success
permits one to disregard. It was by reason of the able
record which he had made as a lawyer, conforming his
practice at all times to a high standard of professional
ethics, that he was chosen for the office of city judge
and is now sitting upon the municipal bench, the justice
and equity of his decisions being recognized by
all.
LORENZO NELSON
STOHL
Lorenzo Nelson Stohl, vice
president of the Beneficial Life Insurance Company of
Salt Lake City, is a man of the keenest business
discernment and of most progressive spirit. Whatever he
undertakes he carries forward to successful completion
and his cooperation has been sought along many lines. He
is now identified with various corporate interests and
every organization with which he has been affiliated
bears testimony to the value of his cooperation, while
his ideals and ideas arc ever an impetus for progressive
effort on the part of his associates.
Mr. Stohl was born in Brigham, Utah, April 7,
1873, a son of Ola N. and Christina (Johnson) Stohl. who
were pioneers of this state, having emigrated from
Sweden to the new world and thence crossed the continent
to Utah. The father was prominent in church and civic
affairs for many years.
Liberal educational advantages were
offered the son, who attended the University of Utah in
Salt Lake City and also the Agricultural College of Utah
at Logan. When his textbooks were put aside he became an
active factor in the business world and his well defined
energies have ever been most resultant. In Brigham he is
conducting important interests under the name of the
Stohl Furniture Company and also established a branch of
the business at Malad City, Idaho. In banking circles
his force has also been felt and he is now the president
of the First National Bank of Brigham, which institution
was organized and has been directed by him. A safe,
conservative policy has ever been maintained yet it has
not hampered progressiveness and the bank has long since
become recognized as one of the strong moneyed
institutions of the mountain country. He is likewise a
director of the Deseret National Bank. A contemporary
biographer has said of Mr. Stohl: "If some historian
should construct a financial weather-map of Utah he
would find that in 1900 the little arrows that show
which way the local winds blow were pointing toward
Brigham and in 1912 these had shifted towards Salt Lake
City, indicating that at these points there was a rising
current of accomplishment and if he went so far as to
investigate the cause of these local upheavals in the
business atmosphere he would discover that Lorenzo
Nelson Stohl had moved from the one place to the other,
and after experiencing the magnetism, the power, energy and the
contagious enthusiasm of this cause, our psycho
meteorologist would consistently expect as result of
these disturbances financial institutions of a high
order. Nor would he disappointed. Three as successful
institutions as the west can boast, and several minor
ones, owe their existence and present excellent standing
to Mr. Stohl's ability as an organizer and executive.
The Beneficial Life Insurance Company with a consistent
rapid growth and present stability hardly equaled and
never excelled by any similar institution in any
country, born of his vision and faith, nurtured through
infancy and childhood by his conservative foresight, has
reached its majority with his tried experience still
directing its course. He is second vice
president and general manager."
Mr. Stohl was united in marriage on
the 24th of October.
1894. to Miss La Vinna Ralph and to them have been horn
seven children: Dolores, the wife of Wilford Young
Cannon: Lorenzo N., who died at the age of eight years;
Hortense, Camille and Phyllis, who are all living; La
Vinna, who died at the age of ten years; and Ralph N.
who was born in Salt Lake City, January 26,
1914.
In his political views Mr. Stohl
has always been a stalwart republican and he has
membership with the Salt Lake Commercial Club. At the
age of twenty-six Mr. Stohl was appointed
bishop of the third ecclesiastical ward of Brigham,
which position he held from 1899 to 1912. During these
years this ward's chapel, one of the finest in the
Mormon Church, was built, equipped and fully paid for.
He has served the dominant church in many other
capacities, notably as a missionary, for a period of
three years. For fourteen years Mr. Stohl has been a
member of the board of trustees of the Agricultural
College of Logan. Utah, twelve of these years acting as
president of that board, a position which he holds at
the present time. In a word he stands for all that has
to do with progress and advancement in community and
commonwealth and he has been a forceful factor in much
that has made for the material, intellectual, social and
moral progress of the state.
LOUIS HENRY
STOHR.
Louis Henry Stohr, who since May,
1916, has represented the New York Life Insurance
Company at Salt Lake as agency director, was born in
Elgin, Illinois, in 1868. His father, Martin Stohr, was
a native of Lorraine, France, born in 1830. Coming to
the new world, he was married in Elgin, Illinois, to
Miss Sophie Stroehlin, a native of that state. He died
in Elgin in the year 1875. while his widow survived for
about three decades, passing away in the same city in
1905.
Louis Henry Stohr was reared in
Elgin, where he attended the public schools to the age
of sixteen years. His textbooks were then put aside that
he might start out in the business world and he secured
a position as delivery clerk in the Elgin post office,
serving in that capacity for two and a half years. He
then became general bookkeeper in the First National
Bank of Elgin and was employed by that institution for
seven and a half years, during which time he rose to the
position of teller. He has been identified with
insurance interests since 1894, when he went to Chicago
and entered the office of the New York Life Insurance
Company. Thoroughly acquainting himself with the
business in every particular, he came to Salt Lake City
as cashier for the company in 1902 and fourteen years
later, or in May, 1916, was advanced to the position of
manager. Through the
intervening period of three years he has been in control
of the interests of the company in this city and has
developed the business to gratifying proportions.
He is also the secretary of the Tintic Standard
Mining Company of Utah.
On the 7th of March, 1899, in
Elgin, Illinois, Mr. Stohr was married to Miss Edith
Granger Alden, a daughter of Albert Frank Alden, of
Elgin, who was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, and who
at the age of fourteen years joined the Union army and
served for four years and four months in defense of the
Union. To Mr. and Mrs. Stohr have been born five
children: Priscilla Alden; John Alden, born September
22, 1901; Marion Louise; Louis H., Jr., born June 29,
1907; and Granger Alden, born September 9, 1911.
In his political views Mr. Stohr is a republican
but has never been a politician in the sense of office
seeking. His interest in community affairs, however, is
shown by his membership in the Commercial Club of Salt
Lake City. His religious faith is evidenced in his
connection with the First Presbyterian church, in which
he is serving as elder, taking a most active and helpful
part in advancing its interests and extending its
influence. He is a man of
genuine personal worth, highly esteemed by all who know
him, and the circle of his friends is constantly growing
as the circle of his acquaintance broadens.
GEORGE M. STRATTON
George M. Stratton, general manager
for the Salt Lake Iron & Steel Company, was born in
Detroit. Michigan December 10, 1881 a son of George F.
and Annie L. (Cheney) Stratton, the former a native of
London. England, while the latter was born in Maine. In
early life George F. Stratton took up his abode in
Detroit, Michigan, where he engaged in the lumber
business, which he followed in its various branches. He
removed to Massachusetts, settling in Boston, where for
some time he was active in the lumber trade, and he now
resides in Salt Lake City. He is special correspondent
for the Country Gentleman, his territory covering Utah.
To him and his wife were born two children, the daughter
being Fay D.. who became the wife of Burton F. Norris,
of New York city. George M. Stratton, the younger child,
attended the schools of Boston and passed through
consecutive grades to the high school, from which he was
graduated in 1900.
He subsequently became a student in
the Lewis institute of Chicago, Illinois, and was there
graduated from the mechanical engineering department in
1904. He afterward followed the profession of mechanical
engineering and secured a position with the General
Electric Company of Boston. Massachusetts, continuing
with that corporation in the engineering department at
the Boston plant for five years. He then returned to
Chicago as mechanical engineer for the Edison Company of
that city, with which he remained for four years. He
afterward held a similar position with the Schott
Engineering Company of Chicago, which corporation took
the contract for the Salt Lake Public Service Company
and Mr. Stratton came to Salt Lake City in charge of the
work of construction. The project was not carried
forward, however, but he decided to remain, believing
that the city offered an excellent field for business.
He secured a position with the Silver Brothers Iron
Works, and after remaining in their employ for a short
time, the business was absorbed by the Salt Lake Iron
& Steel Company. From the mechanical engineering
department Mr. Stratton has worked his way upward
through various positions and promotions until he is now
general manager of this vast enterprise and as such is
regarded as one of the foremost representatives of
mechanical engineering' in the west. He has most
extensive interests under his direction and there is no
phase of the profession with which he is not thoroughly
familiar.
On the 25th of November. 1916, Mr.
Stratton was married to Miss Edith M. Beutlich, of Salt
Lake, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Inghart Beutlich.
representing a well known family of this city. They have
one child. Annette, who was born in Salt Lake in
1917. Mr. Stratton is a
director of the Utah Manufacturers Association. He
belongs to the Commercial Club and also to the Utah
Society of Engineers. His interest has largely centered
along professional lines and his constantly expanding
powers have brought him distinction and success in that
field. At the same time he is actuated by a
public-spirited devotion to the general welfare that is
manifest in many tangible ways, resulting in benefit to
his city.
TONY
STRILIC.
Tony Strilic is a partner of Nick
Balic in the ownership of the Slovonian Store Company at
Highland Boy Mine in Bingham Canyon. He was born in the
city of Gospic, Croatia, in 1881, a son of Steve and
Anna Strilic. The father was a farmer by occupation and
upon the home farm
Tony Strilic spent the days of his
boyhood and youth. When twenty years of age he
determined to try his fortune in America and in 1901
bade adieu to friends and native land and sailed for the
new world. Making his way westward to Pueblo, Colorado,
he was there married to Miss Iva Basson, in 1903, and to
them was born a son, Steve, in 1904. Following the death
of his wife in 1907, Mr. Strilic returned to his native
country with his little son and while there conducted a
saloon and hotel. He still owns the hotel property and
also an office building valued at about seven thousand
dollars. When he again decided to come to the United
States he was not allowed to bring his son with him.
Crossing the Atlantic for the second time, he made his
way to Bingham Canyon, Utah, where he worked in the
mines until he became a factor in opening up the
mercantile business now conducted under the name of the
Slovonian Store Company. This was in April, 1914.
The business has been steadily developed and the
firm enjoys a very liberal patronage.
Mr. Strilic owns the store
building, a two-story frame structure with living rooms
above. Having lost his first
wife, Mr. Strilic was married to Miss Caddie Zupant and
they have become parents of six children: John, Mike,
Tony, Anne, George and Mary.
Mr. Strilic is a member of the National Croatian
Society of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and also of the
National Croatian Society of Chicago, Illinois. He is
secretary of the local Croatian Society, which is a
branch of the Pittsburgh organization. His religious
faith is that of the Catholic church and he is connected
with Bingham parish. Politically he is a
democrat and votes for the men and measures of the
party. He has never sought or desired office, however,
preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon
his business affairs, which are capably conducted and
are bringing to him a well merited measure of
success.
JOSEPH WILLIAM
SUMMERHAYS.
Joseph William Summerhays was born
January 15, 1849, in Pimlico, Middlesex, England. He is
the son of Caleb Summerhays and Maragaret Moore, who
were likewise natives of England. Joseph William left
the land of his birth for America on the sailing ship
Caroline, which left London, May 5, 1866, and was five
weeks and one day reaching the port of New York. From
New York he traveled by rail and steamboat to Wyoming,
Nebraska, where he hired out to drive an ox team across
the plains to Salt Lake City in Captain Andrew Scott's
company. Leaving Wyoming, Nebraska, on the 9th of
August, 1866, they arrived in Salt Lake City, October
11, being something over two months on the way. It
proved to be a strenuous trip and many people died in
the company from one cause or another.
Arriving in Utah, Mr. Summerhays
found such work as was to be had in those early times,
such as driving team, hauling wood from the canyon,
logging in the canyon, farming, freighting, etc. His
freighting experience took him as far north as Virginia
City, Montana, when flour in the Alder gulch was worth
about one hundred dollars in gold dust for a one hundred
pound sack. It also took him as far south at Pahranagat
valley in Nevada.
Early in the 70s he embarked in the
hide and wool business and was associated with the late
W. L. Pickard, Zion's Cooperative Mercantile
Institution, when that institution dealt in hides and
wool, also the late H. B. Clauson, and in 1883 he went
into business under the name of J. W. Summerhays &
Company. He has remained in the hide and wool business
ever since and is now the dean of those lines in the
state of Utah. He is now connected with the firm of J.
W. Summerhays & Sons Company, hide and wool dealers,
whose chief place of business is in Salt Lake
City.
As well as being in the hide and
wool business Mr. Summerhays has been extensively
engaged in various lines of home manufacturing, such as
sheep skin tanning, paper making, woolen goods
manufacturing, and he was one of the promoters of the
Big Cottonwood Power Company. He was also associated
with the late Henry Dinwoodey in the manufacturing of
mattresses, bedding, etc. He has held several political
positions and in early days was associated with the
peoples party and was a member of the territorial
committee of that party. When it was divided on party
lines, he associated himself with the republican party.
During the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, he
assisted in putting that road through Weber canyon,
Sharp and Young being the general
contractors.
For many years he was a director of
the Deseret News Publishing Company when the building
which housed it stood where the Hotel Utah now stands.
During the Indian troubles in Utah in the late '60s he
was a member of the Utah militia, belonging to a company
that was organized in Battle Creek, Utah county. He has
been an ardent and enthusiastic church man and has held
several ecclesiastical positions of high rank. He has
raised a numerous family of sons and daughters among
which are some of the leading vocalists of the state.
His life has indeed been an active and useful one,
connecting him with many important projects which have
led to the development and up building of the state. The
worth of his work is widely recognized throughout the
inter-mountain region.
ARTHUR ALONZO SWEET.
Death often removes from our midst
those whom we can ill afford to lose. Among the men of
Salt Lake City who contributed to its commercial
progress and substantial up building and whose labors
have been terminated by death was Arthur Alonzo Sweet, a
man of most progressive spirit whose labors were ever of
a character that contributed to public prosperity as
well as to individual success. He did much to aid in the
development of the natural resources of the state,
especially in the coal fields, and his methods were of a
most constructive character, far-reaching and
resultant. Mr. Sweet was born at
Ellsworth, Kansas, January 10, 1881. a son of Alfred E.
and Mary (Gaylord) Sweet, who were married in Ohio in
1868, the mother being a native of the Buckeye state,
while the father was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts,
in 1842. He was a veteran of
the Civil war, having enlisted in 1863 as a private of
the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, with which he
served until the close of hostilities, participating in
many important battles with the Army of the Potomac.
Following the close of the war he established his home
in Ohio, was there married and in 1878 removed with his
family to Kansas. Later he lived for a time in Salt Lake
City and eventually went to Hollywood, California, where
he passed away in 1916. The mother is living at
Hollywood, California.
In the schools of his native city
Arthur A. Sweet acquired his early education. He was a
lad of fifteen years when he came to Salt Lake City and
soon afterward entered its business circles, in which he
made steady progress, attaining a place in the front
rank of the representatives of commercial interests
here. With notable discrimination he recognized the
value of business situations and utilized his
opportunities to the best advantage. He was the promoter
and organizer of the Independent Coal & Coke
Company, the first coal operation in the Carbon county
field independent of railway capital and the forerunner
of many enterprises of similar character. He extended
his efforts into other fields, becoming general manager
and one of the directors of the Consolidated Fuel
Company, one of the largest corporations operating in
the west, shipping two thousand tons of coal per day.
The company also opened up one of the most extensive
coal fields in Utah and Mr. Sweet was the directing head
of this large enterprise. He also became the general
manager of the Southern Utah Railway, twenty-one and a
half miles in extent, from Price, Utah, to Emery
county. This railroad
furnishes shipping facilities to a large coal and
farming community that will in time yield great wealth
to the people interested and will be of untold benefit
to the citizens of Utah in the development of the great
mineral resources of the state.
On the 31st of August, 1900, Mr.
Sweet was married to Miss Frances Mary Wade and to them
were born three children. Marcella, Harold Arthur and
Doris Louise. The family circle was
broken by the hand of death in July, 1910, when Mr.
Sweet passed away in California, whither he had gone
hoping to recover from a nervous breakdown occasioned by
his unremitting attention to his many and complex
business interests. He had never sought political
prominence, preferring always to concentrate his efforts
and attention upon his business affairs. He belonged,
however, to Lincoln Lodge of the Knights of Pythias,
also to the Commercial and Automobile Clubs of Salt Lake
City and to the American Mining Congress. He was
appreciative of the social amenities of life and his
personal traits won him merited popularity.
He was regarded as one of the most
progressive and forceful factors in the younger element
of the business life of Salt Lake and it seemed that his
career should have been extended over many years. His
talents had been so splendidly developed, his time so
wisely used, that his life was of great benefit and
worth to the community in which he made his home and his
death was therefore the occasion of deep and widespread
regret.
FREDERICK A. SWEET.
Frederick A. Sweet, of Salt Lake
City, president of the Standard Coal Company and also of
the American Falls Canal Securities Company, was born in
Hinckley, Illinois, in 1873. His father, Alfred E.
Sweet, was a native of Greenfield, Massachusetts, born
in 1842. He was twenty-one years of age when in 1863 he
joined the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery as a
private and with that command served until the close of
the war with the Army of the Potomac, participating in
many engagements. After the war he removed to Ohio
thence to Illinois and Kansas, following the occupation
of farming until 1890, when he was elected probate judge
of Russell county, Kansas, which position he held for
twelve years. In 1904 he removed to Salt Lake City. His
death occurred in Hollywood. California, in 1916. He was
married in Ohio, in 1868, to Mary Gaylord, a native of
that state, and for forty eight years they traveled
life's journey together. His widow survives and now
makes her home in Hollywood, California.
Frederick A. Sweet was reared in central Kansas,
to which state the family removed in 1878, when he was a
little lad of but five years. He determined upon the
practice of law as a life work and after completing his
preliminary education entered the law department of the
University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in
1899 with the LL. B. degree. In the meantime he had
become a resident of Salt Lake City, where he took up
his abode in 1889. Following his graduation ten years
later he returned to this city and entered upon the
practice of his profession. In which he continued for
three years, when he became interested in business
matters. Mr. Sweet became vice president and general
manager of the American Falls canal and was largely
responsible for its successful completion. In Salt Lake
City he is also well known as the president of the
Standard Coal Company, which was organized in 1913 and
now controls an extensive trade.
On the 19th of December, 1900, in Paloma,
Illinois, Mr. Sweet was united in marriage to Miss Mary
Electa Ogle, who passed away in 1916, leaving three
children:
Evelyn Electa, Frederick Arthur and Katherine
Alice. Mr. Sweet was again married in San Francisco to
Miss Mary Eunice Lowry.
In his political views Mr. Sweet is
a republican and his religious faith is indicated by his
attendance at the Congregational church. He belongs to
the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City and is interested
in every project for the up building of the community,
the extension of its trade relations and the upholding
of its civic standards. His personal worth, his business
ability and his fidelity to the best interests of city
and commonwealth are factors which have made him one of
the highly respected and valued residents of this
section of the country.
