JOHN BASIN WALKER.

John Basin Walker, holding the important position of state crop pest inspector, was born at Draper, Salt Lake county, Utah, September 15, 1892, a son of John A. Walker, who was also a native of Draper. He was married in Ogden to Miunetta Robinson and passed away in Salt Lake City in 1912, after having devoted his entire life to educational interests.

His son, John B. Walker, was reared in Union, Utah, where he attended the public schools and afterward became a student in the Jordan high school at Sandy, Utah, from which he was graduated with the class of 1912. He next entered the Utah Agricultural College at Logan and completed a course there by graduation with the class of 1915.  He then returned to his home at Union, Salt Lake county, where he engaged in farming for a year, and afterward took charge of the agricultural department of the Jordan high school and also of the agricultural department of the District Club Leader. He has made the closest study concerning agricultural development in the state and all that hinders progress along that line and in May, 1917, he was appointed crop pest inspector of Utah. He is doing splendid work in disseminating knowledge concerning crop pests and the best method of their extermination, his work being of great value to the farmers of the state. In his political views Mr. Walker has always been an earnest democrat and his religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is yet a young man but is occupying a position of prominence and importance, which indicates that his future career will be well worth the watching.

HON. NOBLE WARRUM.

Hon. Noble Warrum was born at Greenfield, Indiana, September 29, 1865. He is the son of Noble Warrum, one of the pioneers of Hancock county, Indiana, whose parents had emigrated from Kentucky, and of Anna M. Wood, who came from Virginia at the beginning of the Civil war and married Noble Warrum, Sr., in 1862. She died when her eldest child, the subject of this sketch, was but eight years of age. There are but three surviving members of this family: Noble, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Henry, a prominent attorney of Indianapolis; and Mack, a well known citizen of Hancock county, Indiana.

Noble Warrum, Jr., was educated at the Greenfield high school, at De Pauw University, where he spent two years, and at the law school of the University of Michigan, where he spent one year, while subsequently he read law with Marsh & Cook, a prominent firm of central Indiana.

In 1890 Noble Warrum was married to Julia Hagen, youngest daughter of Andrew Hagen, a substantial business man of Indianapolis. They have two sons, Noble Warrum (III) and Andrew Warrum, both of whom enlisted as privates in the army aviation service at the beginning of the war with Germany and served as lieutenants in active flying in France, being mustered out in March, 1919. Both sons are now completing their education at the University of California.

Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Warrum sought their fortunes in the west, locating first at Logan, Utah, where Mr. Warrum served for one term as judge of the county court, also as a member of the constitutional convention which framed the instrument under which Utah was admitted into the Union, and as state senator in the first state assembly in 1886. Because of defective hearing Mr. Warrum decided to enter journalism and in a short time became editor-in-chief of the Salt Lake Herald during the period when it was recognized as the leading democratic daily newspaper of the intermountain region. After about ten years of this experience he resigned to look after business interests in Mexico, spending considerable time every year in that country until his appointment as postmaster of Salt Lake City in 1914. He belongs to Phi Kappa Psi, a college fraternity, and is likewise identified with the Masons and the Elks.

HARRY R. WELCH, M. D.

Dr. Harry R. Welch, a physician and surgeon of Salt Lake City, where he has practiced since 1912, entered upon his work here with seven years' experience to qualify him for the onerous professional duties that have come to him in Utah. He was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, June 24, 1878, a son of John F. and Sarah A. (Minturn) Welch, who were also natives of Ohio. The grandparents in the paternal lines resided in Muskingum county, Ohio. The grandfather, Thomas Welch, a native of Ireland, emigrated to America about one hundred years ago. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah Perry, was a descendant of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. The maternal grandfather, Judge Thomas L. Minturn, was a prominent citizen of Ohio in an early day and a man of forceful character. He served for some time in public office. The parents of the Doctor always remained residents of Nelsonville, Ohio. At the time of the call to arms in 1861, John F. Welch joined the Union forces as a lieutenant and in recognition of his valorous deeds was commissioned captain and afterward an officer on the staff of General Phil Sheridan, with whom he was in all the important engagements in which General Sheridan was in command. After the war Mr. Welch took an active part in organizing the Grand Army of the Republic.  He entered public life and filled many positions of honor and trust. He was United States marshal, also mayor of Nelsonville, a member of the city council and served in other public positions. He was likewise a prominent figure in mercantile pursuits in his city and in later life engaged in the cement and paving contracting business Giving his attention largely to street paving work. He died in the year 1904, having tor a long period survived his wife, who passed away in Ohio in 1889. They had a family of five children: Dr. Charles E. Welch, living at Nelsonville, Ohio; Mrs. L.  D. Lampman, of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. C. F. Junkerman, also a resident of Columbus.

Ohio; Mrs. R. A. Doan, living in Cincinnati, Ohio; and Harry R., of this review.  The last named was a pupil in the high school of Nelsonville, Ohio, and afterward went to Minnesota on account of his health, spending two years in that state.  On returning to his home he became associated in business with his father and later he resumed his studies by entering the Ohio State University, in which he laid the foundation for his professional knowledge. He qualified for the practice of medicine and surgery as a student in the Hahnemann -Medical College of Chicago, from which he was graduated with the class of 1905. He then located for practice in Chillicothe. Ohio, where he remained for seven years, when he sought the opportunities of the west and in 1912 opened an office in Salt Lake City, where he has since built up a large and remunerative practice. Before coming to Utah he did post-graduate work in Chicago and in Cincinnati, Ohio, and he has ever remained a close and discriminating student of the science of medicine, keeping in touch with the latest researches and discoveries that have to do with the laws of health. He is now physician for the Western Electric Company, also for wholesale drug companies and other large business organizations. Prior to his removal to Utah he filled the position of county coroner in Ross county. Ohio, for two terms, being elected on both occasions by a large majority.

On the 3d of July, 1905. Dr. Welch was married to Miss Lottie Uhrig, of Gallipolis.  Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Uhrig. Their children are: Dorothy, who was born in Chillicothe in 1906; and Charles E., born in Chillicothe in 1908.  Both are now pupils in the public schools of Salt Lake.

Politically Dr. Welch maintains an independent course. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he belongs also to the Bonneville Club. Along professional lines he has connection with the Salt Lake County Medical Society and the American Distitute of Homeopathy, and his colleagues and contemporaries in the profession acknowledge his skill and ability and rank him with the leading practitioners in Salt Lake. He has made good use of his time, talents and opportunities and his success is well deserved.

MRS. EMMELINE B. WELLS.

It is impossible to imagine what would be the history of Utah could the aid and influence of Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells be withdrawn. The value of her service to the state cannot be overestimated and her contribution to the world's thought and work is also of most tangible character. Mrs. Wells was born in Petersham, Worcester county, Massachusetts, February 29, 1828, and there are none who can claim a more exalted American lineage, judged by the American standards of intelligence and worth. Her parents were David and Diadama (Hare) Woodward. The ancestral line of the Woodward family in America can be traced back to 1630, when the progenitor of the family in the new world arrived from England. The Woodward family were given to military pursuits, while the Hare family, of equally ancient and honorable lineage, displayed marked literary tendencies, the latter strain predominating in Mrs. Wells. Her father died during the early girlhood of Mrs. Wells and the mother went west with her family to Nauvoo, Illinois, being driven out of there with the Mormon people in 1846. She died of the privations and hardships of the trip westward when crossing the Iowa prairies and was buried by the wayside in an unmarked grave. 

Mrs. Wells attended the schools of Petersham and the high school of New Salem, Massachusetts, and when but fifteen years of age was awarded a teacher's certificate. She taught school at Orange, Massachusetts, at Nauvoo, Illinois, also at Florence, Nebraska, and at Salt Lake City, and when eighty-four years of age she received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from the Brigham Young University. Her life has been largely devoted to educational work, to literary pursuits and to the publication of a magazine. For forty years she edited and published the Woman's Exponent, the first woman's paper issued west of the Mississippi river, it being largely devoted to the cause of woman's rights and better living conditions for women and children. She has indeed been a close and discriminating student of the vital problems and issues of the day and her writings have made her known throughout the country. Besides issuing the Exponent through four decades she also published a volume of poems and wrote many stories, articles and poems for other publications. Her published works are called "Musings and Memories," "Charities and Philanthropies" and "Songs of the Wasatch." When franchise was accorded Utah's women, Mrs. Wells became a stalwart advocate of republican principles and was vice president of the state committee when it was first organized. She was also a member of the constitutional convention of 1881 and was one of the pioneers in the advocacy of woman suffrage. She became the founder of the Utah Woman's Press Club and also of the Reapers Club, a literary society. She is an honorary member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and a charter member of the state society of the Daughters of the Revolution. In the Relief Society she has acted in every capacity from member and ward teacher up to that of president of the Latter-day Saints Relief Society in all the world. This organization numbers fifty thousand women and as its chief executive Mrs. Wells has thoroughly organized its charitable activities to the relief and benefit of countless numbers. 

It was on the 24th of February, 1845, at Nauvoo, Illinois, that Emmeline B. Woodward became the wife of Newell K. Whitney, who was presiding bishop of the church.  He passed away on the 23d of September, 1850, and on the 10th of October, 1852, Mrs.  Whitney became the wife of Daniel H. Wells at Salt Lake City. Mr. Wells was one of the first presidency in the Mormon church and took a prominent part in all matters, civil, military and educational, pertaining to the development and up building of the state of Utah. The children of Mrs. Wells are as follows: Eugene Henri, who died in Infancy; Isabel M., who gave her hand in marriage to S. W. Sears, a leading merchant and business man; Melvina C, who became the wife of Judge W. W. Woods, of Wallace, Idaho; Emmeline, who died in young womanhood; Annie, the wife of Colonel John Q.  Cannon; and Louie, who passed away in young womanhood. 

Mrs. Wells came to Utah in 1848 and thus for more than seventy years has been a witness of the growth of the state, which she has seen transformed from a desert to its present beautiful and fruitful condition. Her first home in Utah was a wagon, in which her first daughter was born. The wagon stood near a creek on the site of the present beautiful Hotel Utah, in which Mrs. Wells now lives and often tells the incident to visitors. She is now in her ninety-second year-"the foremost woman in Utah." She considers one of her greatest works the storing of grain against the time of need, and when the government called for help during the great world war, the relief society over which she presides turned over to the federal authorities two hundred thousand bushels of wheat, for which President Wilson personally thanked Mrs. Wells, calling upon her in her room in Hotel Utah at the time of his visit to Salt Lake City. Mrs. Wells has traveled extensively, attending the sessions of the International Council of Women in London and in the United States. She was a close friend and coworker of Miss Susan B. Anthony and of the other prominent suffragists and leading women throughout the world. She has indeed been a veritable mother in Israel and her children-and all who know her-rise up and call her blessed.

J. PARLEY WHITE.

A most enviable reputation is that which J. Bailey White has won for Salt Lake as a city that is especially free from crime and all the evils that come under police jurisdiction. As chief of the police system of Salt Lake he has made a most enviable record and his work has been a blessing to all law-abiding citizens, while his name is a menace to all who do not hold themselves amenable to law.  Mr. White is a native of Wales. He was born January 21, 1871, a son of William and Ann (Thomas) White, who came to America in 1876 and settled in Salt Lake City.  The father and his three older sons constituted the company known as White & Sons, wholesale meat dealers. They also engaged very extensively in the live stock business, raising cattle, sheep and horses, and were owners of what is known as Antelope Island in Great Salt Lake. They also became proprietors of a large ranch in Cache county, the latter comprising sixty-five thousand acres, which is still in possession of the sons.  Thus William White became a prominent factor in the business development of the state and remained active to the time of his death, which occurred in December, 1912.  He had survived the mother for some years, her death occurring in Salt Lake City in July, 1898. They had a family of nine children who reached adult age, while seven of the number of still living, namely: David H., a resident of Salt Lake City; Thomas C.  making his home in Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Myra Neal, Mrs. Ada Cannon and Miss Jannie White, all of Salt Lake City; John H. and William L., who have passed away; and J. Parley, of this review.

The last named attended the schools of Salt Lake City, passing through consecutive grades to the high school, after which he continued his studies in the University of Utah.  He was the fourth student to graduate in the new University of Utah with the degree of Bachelor of Science and later he went east to Ithaca, New York, where he entered Cornell University, there pursuing the scientific course. Upon his return to Salt Lake City he entered the University of Utah and held the chair of physics for several years.  He afterward resigned that professorship and became a member of the firm of White & Sons, wholesale meat dealers, in which business connection he continued until 1903.  He then sold his interests to become under sheriff of Salt Lake county and was active in public life for ten years. During three years of that period he was state bank examiner of Utah. He then resigned his position, for he had decided to give up politics, but his many friends felt that he should not do this and that his services were greatly needed in public affairs. He was called to Salt Lake City and tendered the position of chief of police, which he very reluctantly accepted and only under the condition that he should not be under the control of any political party. Since being at the head of the police department he has practically eliminated crime in the capital and crooks and criminals of all kinds give Salt Lake City a wide berth.

On the 21st of December, 1893, Mr. White was married to Miss Isabella Barrett.  She is the daughter of Clarence and Hannah Barrett, representatives of pioneer families of the state. Her mother came to Salt Lake in 1848 with her parents, who had made the trip to California by way of Cape Horn, Mrs. Barrett being born during the trip.  Mr. Barrett was also among the early settlers of Salt Lake. To Mr. and Mrs. White have been born two children. Vivian P., who was born in Salt Lake City in September, 1896, devoted two years to the study of medicine in the University of Utah and is now a medical student at Harvard, a member of the class of 1922. Leslie B., born in Salt Lake City in 1899, is in the junior year of the University of Utah.  Mr. White is a member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club and also of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is without doubt one of the best known public officials in the state and his standards of citizenship are most high.

THEODORE W. WHITELEY.

Theodore W. Whiteley is well known as a merchandise broker and for many years has been a prominent figure in the business circles of Salt Lake City, where he is a most highly respected citizen. He was born in Cambridgeport. Massachusetts, July 1, 1855, a son of Eli and Sarah (Jennings) Whiteley, both of whom were natives of Yorkshire, England, whence they came to America in the early '50s. They settled first at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, later removing to Nashua, New Hampshire, and afterward to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the father won prominence as a steel manufacturer. Both he and his wife died in that city. They had a family of four children, two of whom have passed away, the surviving daughter being Mrs. Alice Herrington, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The eldest of the children was Theodore W. Whiteley, who attended school in Massachusetts and continued his education at Nashua, New Hampshire, being a graduate of Professor Crosby's Academy. He pursued high school studies in bookkeeping, philosophy and algebra and when his textbooks were put aside he became identified with the iron and steel business as a representative of the Nashua Iron & Steel Company, being employed in the mechanical and drafting department, where he remained for three years. He then went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was connected with the Robinson & Ray Company for eight years. He was again in the mechanical department and in connection with his work there he taught mechanical drafting in the public schools of Pittsburgh. The year 1883 witnessed his arrival in Salt Lake City and for a time he was engaged along various lines, occupying clerical positions mostly In 1884 the firm of Andrews & Whiteley was formed for the conduct of an auctioneering business, which continued successfully until 1888, when Mr. Whiteley sold his interests and entered the real estate field on his own account. He there continued until real estate values in Salt Lake dropped materially with the passing of the boom days. He next went to Park City and became a bookkeeper but after eleven months re turned to Salt Lake in 1890 and in connection with W. H. Roy established the Salt Lake Fruit & Produce Company. They operated very successfully along that line of business until 1899 and then Mr. Whiteley sold his interests in order to engage in the merchandise brokerage business. In this he has proven the wisdom of his judgment and his keen sagacity, for along this line he has developed his interests until he is today one of the men of affluence in the city. In more recent years he admitted Berry Maycock to a partnership under the style of Whiteley & Maycock and their business now covers Utah and parts of Idaho and Wyoming. Their trade is steadily growing and the progressiveness of their methods insures a continued development. 

Mr. Whiteley has been married twice. His first wife died many years ago and he afterward wedded Rose Hartwell, of Salt Lake City, who passed away August 22, 1917.  Mrs. Rose (Hartwell) Whiteley was born, reared and educated in Salt Lake City. While in school she showed great aptitude for drawing pictures, which later developed into marked artistic ability. After studying with Mr. Harwood and Mr. Clawson, two of Utah's most noted artists, she went abroad to continue her work under European masters and about 1895 reached Paris, where she worked with some of the most noted masters in the French schools of art. After having studied for some time in Paris, where she copied in the Louvre gallery, besides working from models in the academies, she together with a very dear friend went to Italy, where they continued to copy the old masters in the principal cities of that country. Rose Hartwell devoted almost nineteen years of her life to studying art and traveling abroad. At different times she visited England, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Greece, Austria and Hungary. In most of the afore named countries she devoted time to studying the art of each. For many years her work was exhibited in the Paris Salon and in other noted art exhibitions of Europe. At different times her work was exhibited also in some of the principal cities of this country. Her pictures are in oil.  water colors, pastel and on ivory, but her favorite medium was oil and miniatures on ivory.

                              Rose Hartwell

Mr. Whiteley is a member of the Commercial Club, prominent in its work and activities and is serving now as one of its governors. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and to the United Commercial Travelers. Step by step he has worked his way upward and each change in his business connections has marked the utilization of an opportunity which has led him forward. His steadfast purpose, his laudable ambition and his indefatigable energy have placed him in the enviable position in which he is now found.

JOHN ANDREAS WIDTSOE.

John Andreas Widtsoe, author, educator and scientist, who since September. 1916, has been president of the University of Utah, is a recognized authority upon all subjects relating to the agricultural development of the west and particularly to dry farming. A native of Norway, he was born on the island of Froyen, January 31, 1872, his parents being John A. and Anna C. (Gaarden) Widtsoe. Although his early education was acquired in the public schools of Norway, he came to Utah in his boyhood days and afterward entered the normal department of the Brigham Young College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1891. He is also a Harvard man and at Cambridge won the Bachelor of Science degree in 1894. Later the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon him by the University of Gottingen in Germany in 1899. He further pursued his studies by post graduate work in the Polytechnic at Zurich, Switzerland, in 1900, and from 1898 until 1900 he was a traveling fellow of the Graduate School of Harvard University. His life has been devoted to educational and experimental work. In 1894 he became chemist of the Utah experimental station and thus continued until 1905. The year after his return to Utah he was also made professor of chemistry in the Utah Agricultural College at Logan and so continued until 1905. In 1900 he was made the director of the Utah experimental station, occupying that position for five years, after which he became principal of the School of Agriculture of the Brigham Young University at Provo, Utah, and so remained for two years. In 1907 he was chosen for the presidency of the Agricultural College of Utah and continued thus to serve until 1916, when he became president of the University of Utah. He is justly accounted one of the eminent educators of the west. While he has specialized in the study of agriculture, he is a scientist, interested in broad investigation along other lines. A man of eminent standing in his profession, his opinions are largely accepted as authority upon questions relative to the agricultural development of the west, and in 1912 he was chosen to the presidency of the International Dry Farming Congress, while in 1913 he was elected to its board of governors and so continued until 1917.

On the 1st of June, 1898, Dr. Widtsoe was married to Miss Leah Eudora Dunford, of Salt Lake City. His religious belief is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He holds membership also with the American Society of Agronomy, the American Breeders' Association, the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science and numerous other organizations of a scientific character. He is the author of various works on farming, including one entitled Dry Farming, published in 1911, and Irrigation Practice, published in 1914. Numerous scientific and popular articles have appeared in the press over his signature and he has also written many papers delivered before farming congresses and scientific bodies. He has been most active in the promotion of organized effort for the dissemination of knowledge that will prove of practical value in the agricultural development of the west and the extent of his labors and his influence in this regard is hardly measurable. He now makes his home in Salt Lake City, having practically throughout his entire life been a resident of Utah.

ERNEST J. WIGNAL

Ernest J. Wignal is the general manager and one of the directors of the Model Laundry of Salt Lake and deserves much credit for making this the second largest laundry in Utah. Mr. Wignal was born at Springville, Utah, January 20, 1878, a son of James and Hattie (Burt) Wignal, both of whom were natives of England. The father is a son of William and Grace Wignal, who came to America in 1852 and crossed the plains to Utah, settling in Salt Lake. They afterward removed to Payson, Utah, where the grandfather engaged in farming. James Wignal was but seven years of age when brought to this country by his parents and was therefore reared to manhood in Utah. The grandparents of Ernest J. Wignal in the maternal line were Thomas and Mary Burt, the former one of the first wardens of the penitentiary of Utah, a position which he held for many years. He was a most earnest and consistent worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as bishop's counselor. He afterward removed to Springville, where he and his wife resided until called to their final rest.  James Wignal in later life engaged in road construction, working as a contractor for the Utah Central and also for the Union Pacific Railroad, assisting in the completion of both lines. He afterward took up ranching and is still active in that business at Springville. To James and Hattie (Burt) Wignal were born nine children, one of whom has passed away, this being the eldest. Mrs. Annie Bissell. The others are: William. residing at Springville; Ernest J., of this review; Hattie, Frank, Mrs. Maggie Singleton, Mrs. Grace Everett and Charles, all of Springville; and Mrs. Ella Hatch, living at Eureka, Utah.

In his boyhood days Ernest J. Wignal attended the public schools of Springville  also the Hungerford Academy, from which institution he was graduated in 1897. He then entered the employ of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the civil engineering department, remaining with them about three years, during which time he acquired a knowledge of the profession. Later he pursued a special course of study in civil engineering and mathematics. He practiced civil engineering for several years but on the 21^st of February. 1902, became connected with the laundry business in the employ of Mr.  Scoville at Butte, Montana. He remained there for seven years, after which he resigned his position to engage in construction work in the engineering department of the Western Pacific Railroad in California. He spent one year in that way, after which he returned to Utah and became manager of the Colonial Laundry, directing the business successfully for sixteen months, he then resigned to become a stockholder in the Model Laundry, of which he has been general manager since 1911, and under his direction the business has been built up to large proportions until it is now the second largest establishment of the kind in the state, employing one hundred and twenty-seven people, and the high quality of their work insures to them a most liberal patronage. Its name is indicative of its equipment and of the character of the work turned out. Only the purest soaps are used for washing purposes and the most sanitary conditions are observed. Because of the excellence of the work the laundry is accorded a liberal patronage, which has placed it in the front rank among business enterprises of this character in the state.

On the 2d of January, 1902, at Springville, Mr. Wignal was married to Miss Almina Scoville, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Scoville. Four children have been born of this marriage: Lola Gladys, who was born June 3, 1903, at Springville and is a high school graduate; Ernest Arthur, who was born September 2, 1905, and is attending high school; Burt Marsdan, who was born at Butte, Montana, May 17, 1909; and Alden Ralph, born June 2, 1914.

Mr. Wignal is a member of the Commercial Club. His activity and interests, however, largely center upon his business, and close application and energy have constituted the important features of his success. He is indeed a self-made man and by individual effort has reached a position of well merited prosperity.

CHARLES F. WILCOX, M. D.

Dr. Charles F. Wilcox, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Salt Lake, his native city, was born February 23, 1859, a son of Elder Walter E. Wilcox, who came from Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Mrs. Wilcox, who was born in Richmond, Massachusetts. Both were representatives of old New England families and the genealogical record thereof was given in one of the local papers as follows: "The Wilcox coat of arms is, as given in the Visitations of Essex county, England: Argent, a lion rampant. Between three crescents, sable, a chief van, Wilcox, Willcocks; the lion rampant indicates that he to whom the arms were granted had gained a victory whilst in command of the army. The coat of arms of the American family, being almost an exact facsimile, shows lineal descent from this historic English line. They are thus given in the History of Wallingford, Connecticut. The following is an abstract from the History of Wallingford, Connecticut:        The family of Wilcox, Willcocks is of Saxon origin, and was seated at Bury St. Edmonds, in the county of Suffolk, England, before the Norman conquest. Sir John Dugdale, in his Visitations of the County of Suffolk, mentions fifteen generations of this family previous to 1600, in the reign of King Edward III. Sir John Wilcox was entrusted with several commands against the French, and had the commands of the crossbowman from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. John William Wilcox, of Bury Priory, in Suffolk, was an eminent queen's councilor and he was the representative of the ancient family. Sir George Lawrence Willcocks of Brookend, County Tyrone, Ireland, is the eldest son of the late George Willcocks, Esq., of Coal Island, County Tyrone, by Isabella, daughter of the Rev. Charles Culfield. This family is a branch of the Willcocks of Tottenham, High Cross, Middlesex, England, but they have been settled in Ireland for about two centuries. They have been, and some branches are still, members of the Society of Friends. On the old record the name is spelled Wilcox and Willcocks. It is derived from William. The first Wilcoxes who came to this country who are known are four brothers who came from St. Edmonds, England, in 1635. Their names were John, William, Edward and Daniel. John Wilcox with his wife, Mary, settled in Hartford, Connecticut, and he died in 1651. William and his wife, Margaret, settled at Stratford, Connecticut, moved to Massachusetts colony and was the first of the name who is recorded on the list of the early officers of the colony. He was an officer of the artillery company and died at Cambridge in 1653. Edward settled in Portsmouth, Kingston, R. I. Daniel Wilcox settled in New York state. There is also a Peter Wilcox who came to this country from England and settled on the north side of the Blue brook, a little above Feltville, New Jersey, in 1736-7, with Rev. Mr. Huntington, who settled there at the same time. Peter spelled his name at the time he came as Willcocks, showing that he is one of the same original English tribe. John Wilcox, who settled in Hartford. Connecticut, in 1639, is the first grandfather of Elder Wilcox in this country. It will therefore be proper to give this line as it came from Frank F. Starr, notary public and genealogist of Middletown, Connecticut. Walter was the son of William, who was the son of Captain Eli, the son of Jeremiah, son of Samuel, son of Samuel, son of John, son of John, the emigrant who came here in 1635. These are Elder Wilcox's forbears on the Wilcox side in this country."

The ancestry of Elder Wilcox in the maternal line came from England. William Lucas was one of the first settlers in Middletown, Connecticut. He married there, July 13, 1666, Hester Clark; their son William, who married Elizabeth Rowley; their son William married Mary Shilman; their son Richard married Hannah Penfleld; their daughter, Huldah Lucas, married William Wilcox, and these are the parents of Elder Wilcox. In the Dudley line the ancestry is traced back to William Dudley, who was born at Sheen, in Surry, England; came from the town of Guilford, thirty miles southeast from London, in the county of Surry. He was married to Miss Jane Sutman by Rev. Henry Whitfield, at Oakley, in Surry, England, August 24, 1635. The company left England in the fall of 1636; spent the winter in Boston, where they were urged to locate, and strong inducements were offered for that purpose; but, preferring to be a colony by themselves, they declined and went prospecting as far as New Haven. Being pleased with the Indian lands at Menuncatuc, a considerable portion of which was then under cultivation, they made the purchase of the Indians and named the settlement Guilford In remembrance of Guilford in England, from whence Mr. Dudley came. Their first child was born on shipboard. There were distinguished men in the company with whom Mr. Dudley came to America. "1 will give my line," writes Elder Wilcox, "through them, as they are grandparents to me, commencing with William, the emigrant William Dudley and his wife Jane; their son, Joseph Dudley, married Ann Robinson; their son. Captain William Dudley, married Ruth Strong; their son, Asahil Dudley, married Elizabeth Hatch; their daughter, Lois Dudley, married Captain Ell Wilcox; their son, William Wilcox, was my father."

It was in the year 1852 that Elder Wilcox made the trip across the plains and settled in Salt Lake, where he has since made his home. In the early days he engaged in the operation of a sawmill in Cottonwood and other districts, furnishing the timber and wood with which to erect the mills and buildings for many of the big mining companies. He attained the notable age of ninety-nine years, his death occurring in May, 1919. The mother of Dr. Wilcox passed away in Salt Lake City in the '80s. In their family were nine children, five of whom are still living: George A., who is a resident of Rexburg, Idaho; Mrs. Ella (Wilcox). Hyde, living in Salt Lake City; Charles F., of this review; Franklin A., residing in Salt Lake City; and Dr. E. E. Wilcox.

Charles F. Wilcox, after completing the high school course in Salt Lake City, attended the Normal School and also the University of Utah, from which he was graduated in 1880. He afterward taught school for several years and then entered the University Medical College of New York City, where he completed his course in 1890. Following his graduation there he returned to Salt Lake, where he has continued in the active practice of medicine and surgery. He has done postgraduate work in different schools of the east, also at the Mayo Brothers Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, and has constantly put forth every effort to advance his knowledge and promote his efficiency in the line of his chosen profession. He belongs to the American Medical Association, the Utah State Medical Society and the Salt Lake County Medical Society. For one term he served as health commissioner of the city and for ten years was on the staff of the Latter-day Saints Hospital. Nor have his efforts been confined alone to professional interests but have covered a wide scope, leading to the material and cultural development of the community. He is the president of the Utah Conservatory of Music, a director of the Sugar Centrifugal Discharge Company, president of the North Standard Mining Company and president of the Wisma Film Company.

In Salt Lake City, December 25, 1884, Dr. Wilcox was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Stevenson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stevenson, who were pioneer settlers of Utah. The Doctor and his wife have become the parents of six children. Charles Frederick, born in Salt Lake City, is a graduate of the University of Utah and the Harvard Medical School and is now with the Medical Department of the United States army in France. Mrs. Ramona (Wilcox) Cannon, born in Salt Lake City, is a graduate of the University of Utah, from which she won the degree of A. B. and M. A. Claire, also a graduate of the University of Utah, which institution conferred upon her the degree of A. B., is now the wife of Matthew F. Noall and resides in Salt Lake City. Edward Stevenson Wilcox, a native of New York city, makes his home in Salt Lake. Raymond Stevenson Wilcox, a native of Salt Lake City, is a pilot aviator in the service of the United States army in France. Mary Stevenson Wilcox, born in Salt Lake City, is now a student in the University of Utah.

Dr. Wilcox has always maintained an independent course in politics. He has served as medical examiner for the state insurance commission and for several insurance companies but has never sought office outside the strict path of his profession. He was also a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard and acting surgeon general for the Utah State National Guard, serving on the staff of Colonel Willard Young. His entire life has been passed in Salt Lake except for the periods of study in the east. He has ever been actuated by a laudable ambition that has made for professional success and at the same time, recognizing fully his duties and obligations of citizenship, he has contributed to the support of every plan and project looking to the welfare and up building of city and state.

GEORGE WILDING.

George Wilding, deceased, was numbered among the pioneers of Utah, having come to this state in 1852. He was born in Preston, England, November 9, 1829, and was therefore a young man less than twenty-three years of age when he made his way to the west. His parents were David and Alice (Atkinson) Wilding, in whose home he spent the period of his boyhood and youth.

The 24th of September, 1852, witnessed his arrival in Utah after traveling westward with the Benjamin Gardner company.  It was on the 30th of June, 1850, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, that Mr. Wilding was united in marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Lane and to them were born the following named: George, who was born June 5, 1851, and married Sarah Brown; David, who was born May 6, 1853, and died October 12, 1854; Mary Alice, who was born November 3, 1854, and is the wife of William Widdison; Rosilpha, who was born March 4, 1857, and is the wife of George R. Emery; Elizabeth Ann, who was born January 4, 1859, and is the wife of Joseph Burdette; Jeanetta, who was born October 26, 1860, and married Oak Poulton; Preston, who was born November 9, 1862, and died October 21, 1863; Eleanor, who was born August 28, 1864, and is the wife of Stephen H. Love; Maggie.  who was born August 21, 1866, and married Nephi Timpson; Henry David, who was born October 15, 1868, and married Eliza Ann Oldham; Eve, who was born December 31.  1870, and is wife of Charles Pettit; Olive, who was born in June, 1873, and died March 23, 1875: and Walter L., who was born October 10, 1875, and married Vivian Little.

Mr. Wilding's second marriage was to Leni Leoti Winner, whom he wedded in Salt Lake City. August 29, 1875. She is a daughter of James Winner, who was killed in the Civil war, and Isabella (Lambert) Winner. Mrs. Wilding was born July 15, 1857, in Atlas. Pike county, Illinois, and came to Utah in 1874. The children of this marriage are: Alice Isabella, who was born June 12, 1876. and is the wife of George Fox; Anna, who was born May 21, 1878, and is deceased; Mary Latilla, who was born August 21, 1879, and is the wife of William Hadfleld; Jennie Leni, who was born November 7, 1881, and is now the wife of Walter J. Rushton; Elvira Naomi, who was born October 15, 1883, and is the wife of Ira E. Hayden; Rhoda Lambert, who was born March 23, 1886, and is the wife of Albert Reed; George Lambert, who was born May 14, 1888, and married Emma Peterson; Elizabeth Jeffs, who was born May 1, 1891, and died October 9, 1903; Erma Estella, who was born October 4, 1893, and married Joseph E. Coon; Leoni Leoti, born May 11, 1896; Clara Cornelia, born November 7, 1898; and Evelyn Winner, February 22, 1901.

Mr. Wilding was a ward teacher and also a leader of the ward choir and a member of the tabernacle choir for many years. He passed away July 26, 1913, and his death was the occasion of deep and widespread regret, for his many sterling traits of character had endeared him to those with whom business or social relations had brought him in contact. He never had occasion to regret his determination to leave his native land and cast in his lot with the Saints in Utah. While he experienced many of the hardships and privations of pioneer life here, he lived to prosper in his undertakings and to witness the marvelous growth and development of this great state.

ALBERT WILKES.

Albert Wilkes, president of the Utah Photo Materials Company, the leading business interest of its kind in Salt Lake City, was born in Portsmouth, England, March 11, 1871, a son of James E. and Elizabeth (Wilkins) Wilkes, who in early life came to America from England and settled in Salt Lake City, where Mr. Wilkes lived retired.

Both parents are now deceased. The father died at the age of fifty-seven and the mother when fifty-six years of age. Albert Wilkes was the youngest of seven children, of whom five were sons. In early life he attended the schools of Salt Lake City and afterward took up the study of photography as an employe of the C. R. Savage Company of Salt Lake. He remained a faithful employe of this well known firm for twenty years, learning the photographic business in all its departments, and in April. 1912, he resigned his position to organize the Utah Photo Materials Company, which has grown to be one of the large commercial photographic houses of the intermountain country, dealing in all kinds of photo materials. The business is conducted under the personal supervision of Mr. Wilkes, who has surrounded himself with able assistants, and they specialize in scenic views and historic places, taking photographs throughout the west for commercial purposes. Many of the modern scenes reproduced in the historical section of this work are from originals made by Mr. Wilkes.

Mr. Wilkes was married to Miss Josephine Simmons, of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Joseph Simmons, one of the pioneer residents of Utah and a prominent figure in theatrical circles in the early days of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkes became parents of four daughters and three sons, but two of the sons have passed away. Those living are: Mrs. Marjorie Jenkins, who was born and educated in Salt Lake City and now resides at Park City, Utah; Helen, also a high school graduate of Salt Lake City; Doris; Marian; and Frederick Simmons. One son, Albert Lester, died in Honolulu in 1916, at the age of twenty-one years, while on a mission to that country to cover two and a half years as representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Another son, Joseph Simmons, was killed in action in France in the recent war. He enlisted with the United States Marines and after receiving his training was sent overseas.  He was in the first terrible engagement with the Germans at Belleau Wood, in which the Marines bore the brunt of the assault on the American front. He displayed the utmost valor in this engagement and made the supreme sacrifice. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and other honor medals and received a citation from the American government for conspicuous gallantry in action. He received the French citation, signed by General Petain, and the first Salt Lake City post of the American Legion (Post No. 2) has been named Joseph Simmons Wilkes Post in his honor. His course fully sustained the reputation which has always been borne by the Marines, whose work proved the turning point of the great war, being the initial step in driving the German forces back.

Mr. Wilkes is now widely known in business circles in Salt Lake City and other sections of the state and is regarded as one of the representative business men of the capital. His advancement is due entirely to his own labors. Starting out in life empty-handed, he has worked his way steadily upward, attaining a measure of efficiency in his chosen field that has given him a position of leadership.

MRS. CLARISSA SMITH WILLIAMS.

Mrs. Clarissa Smith Williams was born April 21, 1859, in the Historian's Office (which at that time was the residence of her parents), Salt Lake City, Utah. She is the daughter of the late President George A. Smith and Susan E. West Smith, her father being a first cousin to the Prophet Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Smith was one of the original pioneers who arrived with Brigham Young in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 24, 1847. He held many offices of trust in the new territory of Utah and was first councilor in the "Mormon Church" to President Brigham Young. Her mother was also an early pioneer to Utah, and with her father's family were among the founders of Parowan, Iron county. Utah. 

On the 17th of July, 1877, she was married to William Nugent Williams and she became the mother of eleven children, seven of whom are living, two sons and five daughters. Mrs. Williams is a devoted wife and mother.  Mrs. Williams from her early girlhood has been a faithful and active church worker and has held many positions of honor and trust in the various women's organizations.  Her education was obtained in the best schools the territory then afforded and she was graduated from the Deseret University, now the University of Utah. Being a pupil and a natural student, at the age of fourteen she was employed as a pupil teacher in a school in the old Social Hall, taught by Miss Mary E. Cook. After her graduation she taught school for several years.

She was appointed president of the Salt Lake Stake Relief Society in 1904. In November, 1901, she was appointed treasurer and a member of the board of direction of the National Woman's Relief Society and on April 6, 1911, she was appointed first councilor in the same society to the president, Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells, which she now holds. She has traveled extensively in the interest of the society in various states, and also in the interest of the National Council of Women, with which the Relief Society is affiliated.  In May, 1914, she attended the International Council of Women in Rome, Italy, as one of the nine delegates appointed from the United States. After the close of the council Mr. and Mrs. Williams traveled extensively in Europe.  In addition to her church work Mrs. Williams has devoted much time to the advancement of women and to literary and patriotic work. She is a charter member of both the Utah Society of the Revolution and of the Daughters of the Pioneers. She is a member of the Authors Club, the Red Cross Civilian Relief Committee and is first vice president of the Women's Civic Centre. During the recent war she was appointed chairman of the Women's Committee National Council of Defense, for the state of Utah by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, national chairman of women. Mrs. Williams was also appointed chairman of women's work for the state of Utah and a member of the executive committee of the State Council of Defense by the governor.  Mrs. Williams is gifted with rare executive ability and is a natural leader of women, being endowed with the highest qualities of mind and heart. Her genial and friendly disposition, her pleasant personality and her goodness instinctively draw every one to her. She is sympathetic and charitable and delights in making others happy.  Although Mrs. Williams has given much valuable service to her church and to the public, she is typically a home woman and is a loving, patient and devoted mother to her large family.

HON. WILLIAM NUGENT WILLIAMS.

Few men to greater degree or in more desirable manner have left their impress upon the history of Utah and its development than has Hon. William Nugent Williams.  He is a forceful factor in the business circles of the state, has aided largely in shaping its legislation, and has also exerted a most beneficial influence upon its social and moral development. Actuated by an earnest purpose and high ideals, he has so directed his efforts as to make his life a dynamic and beneficent force in his adopted state.  Mr. Williams was born in Carmarthenshire, South Wales, on the 17th of March, 1851, his parents being Evan and Sarah (Jeremy) Williams. He traces his maternal ancestry to Sir John Jeremy, who founded the house of Jeremy in Norfolk. England.

In 1250 Sir John Jeremy married Margaret, daughter of Roger De Bigod, earl marshal of England and duke of Norfolk. The Bigod family came to Britain with William the Conqueror, and they were large possessors of extensive manors and leaders in governmental affairs. The parents of William N. Williams became early converts to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and with their family left Wales en route for Utah, their son William being at that time a lad of ten years. The voyage across the Atlantic was made in one of the old-time sailing vessels, the Manchester, and by rail they traveled from New York to St. Joseph, Missouri, whence they proceeded by steamboat up the Missouri river to Florence, Nebraska. The journey was then completed with ox team and wagon and the boy William walked the greater part of the way. The remainder of his youth was passed in Salt Lake City, where he experienced all of the hardships and privations of pioneer life. He engaged in herding cattle, in hauling fire wood from the mountains, in working on the railroads and in the mines, and as opportunity offered, through the winter seasons, he attended school.  Education has always been the aim of the people of his faith, however, and he eagerly embraced his opportunity of continuing his studies in Morgan's College and later in the University of Deseret. now the University of Utah.  In early life Mr. Williams learned the carpenter's trade and afterward took up contracting and building, being active in that business until 1883, when he became one of the organizers of the Co-operative Furniture Company and ultimately acquired all of the stock in that corporation. He has developed his interests into one of the leading furniture houses of the state. The growth of his trade has been based upon honest and progressive business methods. As he has prospered he has made judicious and extensive investments in real estate, in mining and in other industries and his position today is that of one of the foremost of the successful business men of Utah. A man of unusual energy, keen observation and great foresight, Mr. Williams has always been alive to the best interests of the community and state. He has always been actively identified with the growth and development of Utah, and aside from looking after his personal interests has found time to lend his efforts toward civic and religious activities.

Mr. Williams has always been a consistent Latter-day Saint and has given much of his well occupied time to the work of the church. In 1877, when but a young man.  he filled an honorable mission for that ecclesiastical organization, during which time he presided over the Welsh conference. Upon returning home from his field of labor.  Mr. Williams was placed in charge as captain of more than six hundred Mormon converts who were coming to this country from Europe.

In club circles he is widely known and he became a charter member of the Bonneville Club, has served on the board of governors of the Salt Lake Commercial Club and is a prominent member of the Cambrian Association, of which he was a founder, and has been an officer of that organization since its inception. He is a member of the Antiquarian and Research Society of Carmarthen county, South Wales.  For eight years Mr. Williams was a member of the board of regents for the University of Utah, acting as a member of the executive board and chairman of the building committee. He has always been active in the promotion of the University of Utah and higher education generally.

During the World war he gave of his means without stint and ably assisted in the work of making the Liberty Loan drives successful. During all of the Liberty Loan drives Mr. Williams acted as chairman of the furniture dealers' committee. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Utah branch of the League to Enforce Peace and at one time was chairman of the Red Cross chapter for Salt Lake City.

A republican from early manhood, William N. Williams has followed loyally the party with which he had become affiliated. In 1900 he was elected to the house of representatives and in 1902 was elected to the state senate, serving in all fourteen years in the Utah legislature. While in the legislature Mr. Williams gained the distinction of being one of the most industrious and the best posted member in the state on matters of finance. During four sessions he was chairman of the appropriations committee.  The public service of Mr. Williams also covers active work as a member of the Trans-Mississippi Congress for a number of years He was a delegate to its sessions held in Seattle, in St. Louis and in Portland. He has also visited all of the international expositions since that held in Chicago in 1893.

Mr. Williams was married July 17, 1877, to Miss Clarissa Smith, daughter of the late President George A. Smith and Susan E. West Smith, and they have seven living children, two sons and five daughters. Mrs. Williams is a devoted wife and a loving mother, and her genial disposition, personality and gentleness attract all who meet her. However, besides her household duties and social side of life she is a woman of prominence in church and literary work. In 1911 she was appointed first counselor to the president of the Relief Society, Emmeline B. Wells, and still holds that position, and has traveled extensively in the interests of the society in various states, organizing various branches of the society elsewhere. She has also traveled extensively in the interests of the National Council of Women, and in May, 1914. attended the International Council of Women in Rome. Italy, as one of the nine delegates appointed from the United States to that conference. At that time Mr. and Mrs. Williams traveled in Europe for several months.

The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Williams is most ideal and he is a loving and sympathetic husband and father. The interests of his life are indeed broad and varied and his activities have ever been of the nature of uplift and progress He stands high as a man among men-one whom to know is to respect and honor-and Wales has contributed no more valuable addition to the citizenship of Utah than William Nugent Williams.

JOHN F. WILLIAMSON.

John F. Williamson, president of the Helper Western Railway and also of the National Fuel Company of Salt Lake City, was born in Piqua. Ohio. October 17, 1865, a son of Albert J. and Isabella (Andrews) Williamson, who were also natives of the Buckeye state. The grandparents removed from Virginia to Ohio and the parents remained residents of the latter state, the father devoting his life to the occupation of farming and stock raising. To him and his wife were born three children: James A., a resident of Piqua, Ohio; Mrs. Sarah E. Grimes, of Dayton, Ohio; and John F.  The last named attended the high school of Piqua and afterward became a student in the Ohio State University, in which he completed a course in civil engineering in 1885. He then secured a position in the engineering department of the Santa Fe Railroad and continued in that line of employment throughout the country, particularly in the west, for a period of twenty years. It was in that capacity that he came to Salt Lake City in 1907, being chief engineer with the Southern Utah Railroad, which be built and which was afterward sold to the United States Smelting & Refining Company. Having completed the task of building the railroad, he resigned and became connected with the National Fuel Company, which he had organized and which has operated extensive coal mines in Carbon county, Utah. From its incorporation he has been the president and in this connection occupies a prominent position as a representative of the rich mineral resources of the state. He is also the president of the Helper Western Railway, which is a branch of the main line. 

On the 30^th of October. 1917, Mr. Williamson was married to Miss Elsie Barbee, of Piqua, Ohio, a daughter of William and Mary J. Barbee, still residents of that city.  Fraternally Mr. Williamson is connected with the Masons and in his life exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft. In politics he maintains an independent course. In matters of citizenship, however, he is progressive and gives his active support and cooperation to all plans and measures which he deems of value to community, commonwealth and country. Actuated by a spirit of enterprise and of laudable ambition, he turned his face to the west to benefit by Its opportunities and in the up building of his own fortunes he has also contributed to the development and progress of the state, being today a prominent factor in connection with the coal industry just as he has been in railway circles. His worth as a business man and as a citizen is widely acknowledged.

CLYDE H. WILSON.

Clyde H. Wilson, of the firm of Wilson Brothers of Salt Lake City, was born in Brownsville, Nebraska, February 6, 1868, his parents being William P. and Anna M.  (McKenzie) Wilson. He is a younger brother of Frank L. Wilson, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this publication.

Clyde H. Wilson came to Salt Lake in 1889 and soon after his arrival became interested in the Deep Creek mining district, in western Tooele county, Utah. He was very successful in acquiring a large area of very valuable mineral ground, particularly in the Clifton mining district, that has since proved to be rich in the rare minerals tungsten, bismuth, and molybdenum. Clyde H. Wilson and his brother, Frank L., were the original discoverers of these rare ores, and it has been largely through their efforts that the Deep Creek country has become so well known and so extensively developed. Mr. Wilson's success was brought about, largely, by an early recognition of the wonderful mineral possibilities of the Deep Creek country, and the wise utilization of the opportunities that have come to him. In May, 1905, Mr. Wilson was married. He has three children.

FRANK L. WILSON.

Frank L. Wilson is a member of the firm of Wilson Brothers, of Salt Lake City, whose extensive mining interests have constituted an important feature in the up building of the state through the utilization of its natural resources. He displayed the enterprising spirit which has been the dominant factor in the development of the west. He is a western man by birth, training and preference. He was born at London, Nemaha county, Nebraska, February 18, 1859, a son of William F. and Anna M. (McKenzie) Wilson, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, the former having been born at Brighton, while the latter was born in Vanport, in Beaver county.

Mr. Wilson came to Salt Lake City in 1888 and soon after became interested in the development of the natural resources of the state. As the mineral resources of the state are practically unlimited, it was natural that he should become interested in mining; and as the Deep Creek country in western Tooele county, Utah, was beginning to attract attention on account of some rich discoveries of gold and lead-silver ores, he concluded to cast his lot with Deep Creek. He and his brother, Clyde H., have been very successful in acquiring large mining interests, and have been instrumental in extensive development of the mineral resources of that part of the state. He and his brother were the first to recognize the rare ores of the country, and were the first shippers of tungsten, bismuth and molybdenum. Deep Creek has since become a heavy shipper of the rare ores, and the indications are that the Clifton mining district will be one of the richest mineral producers ever found in the west. Mr. Wilson makes his home in Salt Lake City. He is married and has five children.

KARL WINTER.

Karl Winter is one whose opinion is considered authoritative upon any subject relative to the repairing of motor cars. He is regarded as one of the expert automobile mechanics of the west and is conducting an extensive business along that line as the head of the Karl Winter Auto Supplies & Repair Company. He has one of the most complete repair departments in the state, so that every kind of car can be expertly handled in his garage.

Mr. Winter comes to Salt Lake City from Denver, Colorado, his native city, where he was born January 29, 1885. He is a son of Gustave Frederick Karl and Emilie (Schmidt) Winter, the former of European birth, while the mother is a native of Hermann, Missouri. Coming to America in his boyhood days, G. F. K. Winter settled in Denver at an early period and there engaged in ornamental iron and wire work, later organizing the Denver Iron Works, in the conduct of which business he continued to the time of his death, which occurred in 1888. His widow survives and yet makes her home in Denver. Their family numbered seven children. 

The sixth in order of birth in the father's household was Karl Winter of this review, who in his youthful days was a pupil in the public schools of Denver, pursuing his studies to the age of fourteen, when he began providing for his own support by working in connection with the iron manufacturing business established by his father.  He thoroughly learned the trade during the succeeding four years and at the end of that time decided on a change. He then turned his attention to the automobile business in 1902, receiving the remunerative salary of three dollars per week. He was determined, however, to thoroughly acquaint himself with the business in every phase and was willing to accept a meager wage in order to gain the necessary experience. He worked for various firms, gradually making advancement as he developed his powers in this connection, and eventually he entered business on his own account in Denver as a member of a partnership. In 1909, however, he sold his interests in the business and removed to Salt Lake City, securing employment in the repair department of the Botterill Automobile Company, working under Frank Botterill in the mechanical department. After four months he went to the firm of Randall, Dodd & Company and acted as their chief mechanic for four years. In 1913 he determined to engage in business independently and organized the Karl Winter Company, starting in a small way but developing his business to large proportions, so that he now employs sixteen people. He has one of the best equipped shops in the state and can handle the heaviest as well as the lightest cars, no matter how badly damaged. For this he has installed all adequate machinery, including one device which alone costs more than twenty-five hundred dollars. He not only does repair work of the highest and most difficult kind but also has a splendid accessories and sales department. He is sole proprietor of the business.

On the 28th of January, 1908, Mr. Winter was married to Miss Ethel Armantrout, of Denver, Colorado, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Armantrout. They have two children: Karline, born in Denver in 1909; and Harold, born in Salt Lake City in October, 1914.

In politics Mr. Winter maintains an independent course, supporting men and measures rather than party. He belongs to the Utah Automobile Association and he has made for himself a creditable position in business circles.

J. LLOYD  WOODRUFF. M. D.

Dr. J. Lloyd Woodruff, a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, has since 1909 engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Salt Lake City, where he was born on the 5th of November, 1875. He was the fourth in a family of nine children born to James J. and Fannie (Lloyd) Woodruff. The father was born in Missouri, while the mother is a native of England and came to Utah when but a girl in her teens, her parents removing to this state at that time. Dr. Woodruff has the distinction of having three ancestors-his father, grandfather and great-grandfather-who crossed the plains in 1847. The great-grandfather, Aphic Woodruff, was a member of the original company that arrived in the Salt Lake valley July 24, 1847, while the grandfather, Wilford Woodruff, with his family came with the second company that crossed the plains and reached the valley in September of that year. Wilford Woodruff was the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving from April, 1889, until his death in September. 1898. At the time his parents came to Utah, the father, James J. Woodruff, was but eight months old. He was for many years actively engaged in mercantile pursuits in Salt Lake City, where he and his wife yet reside. Their three living children are: Mary, now the widow of George A. Ensign; Hazel W., the wife of J. Herman Johnson; and Dr. J. Lloyd Woodruff.

The last named, the only surviving son, after attending the high school of Salt Lake City entered the Latter-day Saints University. During 1896 and 1897 he was engaged in railroad engineering in old Mexico and worked on the construction of a line of road, now a part of the Mexican National System, which connects Juarez with the Mormon colonies. On his return to Utah he was for a time connected with the Union Assaying Company. Subsequently he went on a mission to Germany and spent three years in that work, after which he located at Provo and for some time was editor of the Enquirer in that city. For some time he had cherished the thought of taking up the medical profession as his life work and had done considerable reading with that object in view before entering the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1909 with the M. D. degree. He began the practice of his profession in Salt Lake City and as the years have passed success in substantial measure has come to him. He has done post-graduate work in Dr. Murphy's clinic of Chicago, in the clinic of the Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minnesota, in the winter of 1914, and in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He is thus constantly adding to his knowledge and efficiency and his discriminating judgment enables him to readily recognize the value of any new medical discovery. He is always most careful and painstaking in the diagnosis of his cases and is seldom at fault in his judgment concerning the outcome of disease.

On the 23d of September, 1902, Dr. Woodruff was married to Miss Josephine Booth, of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Judge John E. and Maria (Harvey) Booth, of Provo, Utah, the former being judge of the third judicial district court of the state. Dr. and Mrs. Woodruff have become parents of five children: Josephine, who was born in Provo in 1904 and is now attending high school; Ruth, born in Philadelphia in 1907 and now a pupil in the graded schools; Jackson Booth, born in Salt Lake City in 1911; Booth Lloyd, born in Bountiful, Utah^ in 1914; and Elizabeth, born in Salt Lake City in 1916.  In politics Dr. Woodruff has always maintained an independent course but is keenly interested in the vital problems and questions of the day and gives his support to many measures for the general good. He was the first judge of the juvenile court of Utah county, filling that position in 1903 and 1904. The greater part of his time and attention, however, in recent years has been concentrated upon his professional duties, which are continually growing in volume and importance, and he has kept in close touch with the advanced thought of the profession through the proceedings of the Salt Lake County and Utah State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, in all of which he has membership.

LeGRAND YOUNG.

LeGrand Young, a member of the Utah bar, was born at Nauvoo, Illinois, December 27, 1840. He has, therefore, passed the seventy-eighth milestone on life's journey but yet continues active in professional ranks. He is a son of Joseph and Jane Adeline (Bicknell) Young, the father a native of Massachusetts and the mother of New York. They married in New York state in 1834. In the course of his western progress, Joseph Young was a pioneer of Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Utah. In early life he was a minister of the Methodist faith but later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1834 he and his wife made their way to Kirtland, Ohio, and then to Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1846 Joseph Young and family left that place with the rest of the Mormons, journeying westward to Winter Quarters in Nebraska and thence to Salt Lake City in 1850. Joseph Young was an active worker and zealous in his religious belief.  He held the office of first president in the Seventies. He died in Salt Lake City in 1881, at the age of eighty-four years, while the mother of LeGrand Young passed away in 1913, at the notable age of ninety-eight-she was in her ninety-ninth year. 

In his boyhood days LeGrand Young attended the common schools in Salt Lake City, Utah, afterward graduating from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. To become a lawyer had been a cherished hope of Mr. Young from his early boyhood days. He was admitted to the bar in November, 1870. In 1895 he was elected judge of the district court and opened the first term of the district court in this state. He and P. L. Williams, with whom he read law in the office of Hoge & Johnson, formed a partnership in 1872, which continued for fourteen years. He then practiced law alone until 1891 when the present partnership with Oscar W. Moyle was formed. For many years he served as attorney for the Union Pacific Railroad Company and has also been attorney for several other railroads in the state of Utah, for several of which he acted as attorney to organize, and has been and is attorney for the Deseret National Bank of Salt Lake. He has long been a most honored member of the State Bar Association and served as its president.

In 1907 Mr. Young, in company with some friends, commenced the construction of the Emigration Canyon Railroad, he being the leading spirit, carrying the project forward to successful completion.

Mr. Young married Miss Grace Hardie, third daughter and fourth child of John and Janet (Downing) Hardie, of Edinburgh, Scotland. Janet (Downing) Hardie, mother of Mrs. Young, was a daughter of Douglas Downing, member of a prominent family, who at his death was possessed of considerable property, including a merchant ship. This vessel became the property of Mrs. Hardie and her only sister and was used in the merchant trade between London and Copenhagen, Denmark. During the war between England and Denmark this vessel was destroyed and in final settlement for it only a small recompense was paid the owners by the British government. This severe financial blow depleted the fortune of John Hardie and family and soon afterward his health failed and he died, leaving a widow and five small children. The family later Joined the Mormon church and set out for Utah, the brave and courageous mother and five children-Phyllis, Agnes, John, Grace and James-crossed the plains with handcarts in 1856. The transformation in the lives of this noble mother and her children surely was a great one, reared as the parent was in comfort and plenty and in the new world enduring hardships and privations which fell to the lot of the pioneers of Utah.

It was in April, 1863. that Grace Hardie was married to LeGrand Young, and after a happy married life of nearly forty-five years Mrs. Young died on March 14, 1908. She was a noble woman, a woman delightful to know, and a mother and wife whose equal is seldom found. Their home, mostly through her influence, was always a bright and happy one and the personal beauty and charming personality of Mrs Young endeared her to all who were fortunate in having her acquaintance. Mr. and Mrs. Young became the parents of six children. Joseph H. married Katherine Lawrence, a daughter of Henry W. Lawrence, of Salt Lake City. Mr. Young and his wife now reside in Norfolk, Virginia, where the former was president and general manager of the Norfolk & Southern Railroad and is now one of the directors of the United States Railroad Administration, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. They have two children, Jeanette and Katherine. Grace Young married Kenneth C. Kerr, formerly of Washington, D. C, and now a resident of Seattle. Washington. Mr. Kerr is editor of the Marine and Railway News and part owner of this paper. They have three children, Ruth, Grace and John. Lucille married William Reid. who is engaged with the American Smelting & Refining Company of Salt Lake City. They have two children Lucille and Janet. Afton Young resides with her father. LeGrand Young, Jr., married Miss Fern Scott and they have three children, Marcus LeGrand, Laura Fern and Joseph Hardy. LeGrand Young, Jr., is superintendent of the Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway. Jasmine Young married Lester D. Freed, of Salt Lake City, a prominent merchant here. They have four children: David, William, Daniel and Robert.

From the time he was nine years old LeGrand Young has lived in this state, so practically all his life has been spent here and all of his professional life. In a review of his career one must recognize the fact that age need not necessarily suggest idleness nor want of occupation. There is an old age that grows stronger and brighter mentally and morally as the years pass on and gives out of its rich stores of wisdom and experience for the benefit of others. Such has been the record of LeGrand Young.

ROBERT NICHOLSON YOUNG.

Robert Nicholson Young, filling the office of city treasurer of Salt Lake, was born in New York city, July 16, 1879. His father, Douglas J. Young, was a native of the state of New York, born in 1840, and there he was married to Miss Mary N. Sutton, who still survives and yet lives in the Empire state, but the father died in New York in early manhood.

Robert Nicholson Young was brought to Utah in 1882 by an uncle, when but three years of age, and was reared in this state, obtaining his education in Park City and in Salt Lake City. He pursued his studies to the age of sixteen and then went to work in Salt Lake in 1895. The following year he had secured a position as office boy and from that point he steadily worked his way upward. In 1897 he entered the office of the auditor of the Oregon Short Line, where he served as a clerk for two years. He was next employed by the American Smelting & Refining Company of Salt Lake in a clerical capacity for two years, after which he entered the government service, spending a few months in that connection. Later he had various minor experiences along business lines and eventually became superintendent for Bradstreet at Salt Lake, occupying that position for two years. Returning to the Oregon Short Line, he acted as clerk in the engineering department, with which he was connected from July 1905, until November, 1906, when he went to Goldfield, Nevada, where he remained for two years. He afterward went to Arkansas on a railway construction job and was there from December, 1908, until April, 1909. In the latter year he removed to Fort Worth, Texas, where he spent five years in the employ of the Southwest Telegraph & Telephone Company, acting as chief clerk of the plant department. In July, 1915, however, he returned to Salt Lake and became deputy sheriff, filling that position until January 1, 1916, when he was appointed secretary to Hon. W. M. Ferry, mayor of the city. He proved most capable in that position, which he filled until March 1, 1918, when he was appointed city treasurer and is now serving in that capacity. In March, 1919, upon the organization of the Industrial Loan & Investment Company, Mr. Young was made second vice president.

Qn the 21st of June, 1916, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Young was married to Miss Clella Alice McCready, a daughter of Charles H. McCready, and they now have two children, Clella Louise and Roger Sutton.

Mr. Young is a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and is also identified with the Bonneville Club and the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City, taking an active interest in all of its well defined plans and projects for the city's up building and the extension of its trade relations. He is likewise identified with the Kiwanis Club, an international organization, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. His various activities have brought him broad experience and he is a typical American citizen, alert, enterprising and energetic, never waiting for opportunity to come to him but seeking the chances for advancement and by legitimate steps reaching the responsible position which he is now filling.

EDWARD R. ZALINSKI.

Edward Robins Zalinski, a mining engineer with offices and residence in Salt Lake City, was born at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, May 13, 1879, the son of Edmund Louis Gray and Anna (Hall) Zalinski. the former a native of Poland, coming to the United States when a year old, and the latter of Puritan ancestry, being a member of the Parkman and Brooks families, whose best known representatives are Francis Parkman, the historian, and Phillips Brooks. Mr. Zalinski's father was an army officer, retiring at a comparatively early age with the grade of major. He attained distinction as an authority on artillery, adding much to the science of warfare through inventions of military devices and of weapons of defense. He was much interested in high explosives and his name is best known in connection with the "dynamite gun," his invention, which was used on the Vesuvius and for coast defense. Major Zalinski's name has boon mentioned in the current news from time to time in connection with high-power guns during the war just ended, and he was the first to successfully throw high explosives for any distance. In later life Major Zalinski made a study of lighting and in this field invented a prismatic diffusing reflector, having been an innovator here also in that he combined diffusion with reflection in the modern system of lighting for the first time.

His son, Edward R. Zalinski, attended school in New York and Massachusetts and afterward entered Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1900, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in mining and metallurgy. He afterward pursued post-graduate courses in petrography, geology, physics and chemistry at the University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany, where he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in February, 1904. While abroad he visited and studied European mines.

Following his return to America, Mr. Zalinski became field assistant to F. L. Ransome of the United States geological survey in work on the mines of the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho, where he spent the summer and fall of 1904. Later he occupied the position of engineer and assayer at the Do Soto mine of Middleton, Arizona, and subsequently was superintendent of the Azure Mining Company in the Burro mountains near Silver City, New Mexico. The year 1906 witnessed his arrival in Salt Lake City, since which time he has devoted his attention to mining engineering, chiefly in examination of properties and in the direction of development work. 

In 1908 Mr. Zalinski was married to Miss Agnes de Schweinitz and they have one son. Edmund Louis Gray II, who was born in Salt Lake, August 17, 1915. Mr. Zalinski belongs to a number of dubs, including the Phi Gamma Delta, a college fraternity, the University Club of Salt Lake, the Engineers' Club of New York, and the American Institute of Mining Engineers.

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