Utah Since Statehood
Author is Noble Warrum - 1919
 EDWARD H. CALLISTER.
Utah has profited much because of the enterprise, public spirit and highly valued services of that sterling citizen, Edward H. Callister, whose death was a distinct loss to the state. He was born in Salt Lake City, December 29, 1862, a son of Edward Callister, who came to Utah in 1854 from the Isle of Man when he was thirty years old. He was a tailor by occupation. He became a prominent member of the Mormon church and also took an active and leading part in the political administration of the affairs of the state and was a valued member of the old People's party. His wife, and the mother of the subject of this sketch, Ann (Cowley) Callister, was also a native of the Isle of Man and joined the Mormon church there. She was married to Mr. Callister in St. Louis, Missouri, and was with the Mormons when they were expelled from Nauvoo, and she was also at Macedonia when Prophet Joseph Smith was killed at Carthage. Mrs. Callister and the other members of her family who joined the church in the Isle of Man were converted through the teachings of John Taylor, who was afterwards president of the church. Her father, Mathias Cowley, was from the Isle of Man but died in St. Louis, en route to Utah. Her mother, Ann Cowley, continued the journey with her children and arrived in Salt Lake City in 1854.
Edward H. Callister was educated in the public schools of Salt Lake City that then existed. He, like all the other sons of pioneers of Utah, was early forced to aid in the support of the family, and at the age of fifteen secured employment as "devil" in the Star Printing Company of Salt Lake City, and followed the printing business with such success that he rose to be manager of it, which position he occupied for four years, on the expiration of which period he became a partner in the business. In 1895 Mr. Callister was elected to the city council from the second ward and a campaign was made for more extensive street lighting, sprinkling and sanitation. Mr. Callister found that pioneering for a bigger and better Salt Lake would progress only over many obstacles, but he persevered and won a complete victory. Lighting, sprinkling and sanitation were modernized so that Salt Lake has since been ranked as one of the best equipped cities in these respects in the west. The determination with which Mr. Callister put through this first reform venture characterized his later activity for the welfare of the city and state. When he had closed his second term as city councilman, he had brought about many municipal reforms and had won recognition as a political leader. In 1900 he was appointed republican state chairman, conducting a campaign which resulted in carrying Utah for William McKinley as president of the United States. He was appointed to the collectorship of internal revenue in July, 1901, and served with such success that he was reappointed in January, 1902, by President Roosevelt, serving until November, 1913. The district at this time included the states of Utah, Idaho and Montana and the location of the office was changed from Helena to Salt Lake City when Mr. Callister became collector. During his incumbency he developed remarkable efficiency in the conduct of the office. Mr. Callister was instrumental in the organization of the old Intermountain Republican, contributed to bringing about the consolidation of the Salt Lake Herald with the Intermountain Republican in 1909 and served as general manager of the Herald-Republican until a few months prior to his death. He was also one of the two founders of the Mount Nebo Marble Company, producers of the famous birds eye marble used as an interior decorative stone in many of the country's finest buildings.
In 1888, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Callister was married to Miss Louise Eddington. daughter of William Eddington, one of the early settlers of Utah, who came here in 1852. He was engaged in the mercantile business in this city and was a prominent man in the affairs of the church. To Mr. and Mrs. Callister were born the following children: Edward R., an attorney at Salt Lake; Marguerite, the wife of David H. Cannon; Irene, who is Mrs. R. V. McCullough; Paul Quayle, who has served in France with the United States forces; Norval E., who served in the radio branch of service in the United States army; Reed E. ; and Louis H.
Mr. Callister was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held the office of elder. In addition to his printing business and his political affairs, he took an active part in other prominent industries of Utah. He was largely identified with the sheep business and served as secretary of the Wool Growers Association and was a member of the executive committee of the National Live Stock Association for two years. Innovation in the state's sheep industry, with new advantages for the flock master, came when Mr. Callister was named president of the Utah Wool Growers Association, which he was instrumental in organizing. Cattlemen had begun making war on the sheep industry throughout the mountain west, and stockmen greatly value the settlement of a grave difference between sheep and cattle men at a conference in Denver, at which Mr. Callister, as representative of the sheep men, won an important victory over the cattle interests. Harmony has reigned in the sheep and cattle industry of the state since that memorable conference. Mr. Callister owned a large ranch in Spring Valley, Wyoming, and was also interested in the oil industry there. He took a deep interest in the advancement of Utah's educational system and he was ever an ardent friend of educational and industrial development and municipal improvement. His demise occurred on the 23d of November, 1917.
S. D. CALONGE, M. D.
Dr. S. D. Calonge, familiar with all the modern scientific methods of medical and surgical practice, has devoted the years to this profession since 1908, when he was graduated from the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa. In all this period, too, he has kept abreast with the most advanced investigation and research bearing light upon the complex problem which we call life, and in Salt Lake City, where he has practiced since 1914, he enjoys a most enviable reputation.
He was born in Gregory, Missouri, October 24, 187S, a son of Antone and M. M. (Reddin) Calonge. The father was born in Perpignan, France, and came to America after the Crimean war, in which he had taken active part. After reaching the new world he immediately joined the army, becoming a member of the Twenty-first Missouri Infantry as drillmaster under Colonel Moore. He served for three and a half years and during that period had many narrow escapes from death, for he was largely engaged in the suppression of guerrilla warfare, which was being waged in southwestern Missouri. After the close of the Civil war he entered upon agricultural pursuits and subsequently turned his attention to merchandising in Keokuk, Iowa, where he continued until 1890, when he passed away at the age of fifty-eight years. His widow survives and now makes her home in Des Moines, Iowa. In their family were eight children, four of whom are deceased, those still living being: Mrs. C. P. McGraw, of St. Louis, Missouri; Mrs. A. B. Gray, of Selma, Iowa; Mrs. H. H. House, of Des Moines; and S. D. Calonge.
Dr. Calonge, the youngest of the living children, attended the common schools of Athens, Missouri, and later became a student in the Chaddock College at Quincy, Illinois. He likewise spent three terms in pursuing a teacher's course at Oquawka, Illinois, and at Monmouth College at Monmouth, Illinois, and for four years thereafter he engaged in teaching school in Illinois. He also spent two years as a teacher in the schools of Idaho and while thus engaged he did preliminary work toward entering the medical profession. He then matriculated in the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, which has since been merged into Drake University as its medical department. He was graduated from that institution in 1908 and for two years he served as assistant surgeon under Dr. C. E. Ruth and Dr. G. W. Jones in St. Joseph's Hospital of Keokuk, thus gaining broad and valuable practical experience to supplement the theoretical training of the school. On the expiration of that period he removed to the west. Locating at Nampa. Idaho, he became surgeon for the Idaho Light & Power Company, thus continuing until 1914, when he removed to Salt Lake to become resident physician of St. Mark's Hospital. He was also with the Utah Fuel Company in relief work until 1915, when he entered upon private practice and has since built up a very lucrative and successful practice in medicine and surgery. He is also the secretary of the staff of St. Mark's Hospital and in that connection devotes himself largely to surgical work. While at Nampa, Idaho, he served as city physician as well as engaging in private practice. During the recent great /war he was appointed a captain in the Medical Corps of the United States army, serving with Company Fifty-two at Ft. Riley, Kansas.
On the 5th of August, 1908, Dr. Calonge was married to Miss Lela D. Heath, a daughter of Henry and Nellie (Dewey) Heath, residents of Utah from pioneer times and now making their home in Salt Lake City. Dr. and Mrs. Calonge have two children: Elizabeth A., who was born at Nampa, Idaho, December 24, 1909; and Katherine M., born in Nampa, December 21, 1911. Both are students in the Liberty school. Dr. Calonge is well known in Masonic circles. He joined the lodge at Keokuk, Iowa, and has since taken the Royal Arch degree. His attention, however, is chiefly given to his professional duties and he belongs to the Salt Lake County, the Utah State and the Idaho State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. He enjoys the high regard of colleagues and contemporaries in the profession, who attest his ability and his loyalty to the highest professional standards.
 JOHN M. CALLOW.
John M. Callow is a prominent metallurgical engineer and president of the General Engineering Company of Salt Lake City. There are few, if any, of the mining men in the west more thoroughly familiar with mineral resources, opportunities and operations than Mr. Callow, who fully understands every phase of the business from the technical standpoint and from practical experience as well. The story of his life is an interesting one. He was born in the village of North Repps, in Norfolk county, England, within sound of the North Sea, July 7, 1867, and was a son of Michael John and Emily (Neave) Callow. The father was a large farmer and landowner.
John M. Callow attended the schools of England to the age of sixteen years and then entered upon an apprenticeship to a firm of engineers in Norwich. He afterward pursued an engineering course in the Norwich School of Art and took the South Kensington examinations in applied science. He devoted so many evening hours to study that his health suffered and at the advice of the family physician he was sent upon a sea voyage, taking passage on a sailing ship bound for Australia, in 1885. The ship, Superb, was originally an East India troopship. The voyage brought to Mr. Callow many interesting experiences, for they were two weeks in proceeding down the English channel to Plymouth and were then afloat for three and a half months before reaching Melbourne harbor. Mr. Callow first saw mining camps at Ballarat and Clunes and afterward paid a visit to Tasmania, spending some weeks at Triabunna Bay on the east coast, whence he went to Sydney and afterward to Brisbane and the Darling Downs district. His next point was Townsville and after that Charters Towers, where he met a man from his own village of North Repps and through the kindness of this man he was able to spend some weeks on a cattle station on the Burdekin river among the Myall blacks. Mr. Callow visited the principal mines at Charters Towers and, as his funds had become exhausted, he obtained employment in Plant's mill. His previous training as a mechanical engineer made this experience of great interest to him. After working for two months, his father sent for him to return to England and resume his studies, so he embarked on the Dacca, calling en route reaching Tilbury dock in England on the 4th of October, 1886. He brought with him various souvenirs besides a mind stored with many interesting experiences and recollections of his trip in Australia. With his return to England he again entered the employ of Riches & Watt at Norwich, remaining with them until he was twenty-one, by which time he had completed his apprenticeship.
Mr. Callow's previous travel awakened in him a desire to see something more of the world and in October, 1888, he embarked for New York, making Colorado his destination because of the fact that he had relatives in that state. Advised by the doctors to lead an outdoor life because his health, was not the best, he went to Eaton, Colorado, about sixty miles north of Denver, and there entered into partnership with a cousin in the cultivation of eighty acres of rented land. They spent the summer in a tent and in the winter lived in a dugout. Success attended the venture of the cousins and Mr. Callow decided then to buy land, becoming owner of one hundred and sixty acres of raw land with water rights purchased from the Colorado Mortgage & Investment Company. Here various new experiences came into his life, for he learned to ride, to drive a four-horse team, to plow, irrigate and do other work incident to the life of the farm, of which he remained owner for thirteen years. While thus engaged he met Mrs. Mary Lease, a political lecturer and one of the main expounders of the Farmers Alliance doctrine, who advised Mr. Callow to resume his profession, believing that it offered him better scope for his labors and better chances for development and success. Not long afterward, when in Pueblo, he met John Roger, with whom he secured employment as a draftsman and with whom he remained for a year.
His success as a farmer had been
such that he decided to make a visit to his old home,
where he wedded Roberta A. M. More, a sister of an
old-time friend, Thomas More. They began their domestic
life at Denver and Mr. Callow entered the employ of the
Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Company in the Denver office
in 1893. As the business of the house was largely shut
down during the widespread financial panic of 1893, Mr.
Callow at that time found it necessary to seek
employment elsewhere and worked as a draftsman at
various places in Denver until 1894, when he became
connected with Philip Argall in designing the works of
the Metallic Extraction Company near Florence, Colorado.
He was also at one time associated with Henry Vezin and
says that he gained much valuable knowledge and
experience from both Mr. Vezin and Mr. Argall. He
afterward became interested in a mine and mill, shipping
concentrates to Durango and bullion to the Denver mint,
but limited capital prevented this venture from being a
success, although it brought to Mr. Callow much valuable
experience and the property is still in his possession.
He and his wife lived at the mill, just below
timberline, at an altitude of about thirteen thousand
feet. When the mill was shut down they returned to
Denver and soon afterward Mr. Callow came to Utah for
the purpose of redesigning the old Highland Boy cyanide
mill, which was being converted into a concentrating
plant. While thus engaged he met Samuel Newhouse, whose
staff he joined, thus doing some of the early
experimental work on the ores of the Boston Consolidated
at Bingham and the Cactus mine at Milford. Subsequently
he was with the Annie Laurie Mining Company as designing
engineer in Sevier county, Utah, where he had to do with
a dry-crushing cyanide plant. At the time the Bingham
porphyries were coming into public attention he
established a little laboratory in the Dooly block to do
jigging and panning tests on this ore. The process thus
employed proved adequate and led to development work,
with which Mr. Callow was closely connected. He became
the builder of the Yampa smelter for George Robinson,
Jim Neill and their associates. At the Cactus he tested
the ore, prepared the flow-sheet and designed the mill,
which was based upon his own experimental work, the
flow-sheet consisting of rolls, jigs, tables and
vanners. It was about this time that Mr. Callow invented
what is known as the Callow cone. In this connection he
once said: "I found the necessity for some settling
device in mills employing fine crushing, and I had long
appreciated the necessity for getting the slimy pulp to
the proper density in order to do good work on the
machines. The first Callow tank was installed in
the Cactus experimental mill, which was erected close to
the mine for the purpose of testing the flow-sheet that
had been planned in the laboratory.
About this time I began to appreciate the great
importance of sizing for table work.
Out of this grew the invention known as the
Callow screen, which is a traveling belt of screen-cloth
on which pulp is spread, the oversize being retained on
the traveling screen and the undersize passing through
the meshes. These two devices-the screen and the tank-I
turned over to the Galigher Machinery Company, as
manufacturer and agent, and for some time personally
pushed these two inventions. They have had a wide
application and served a useful purpose in their time.
The Callow tank, of course, has since been replaced to a
large extent by the Dorr thickener, and the screen,
while still of considerable value in some positions in
mills, has been set aside as a sizing scheme by the
developments that have taken place in the roughing
system of concentration."
After two or three years' connection
with Samuel Newhouse, Mr. Callow established business on
his own account at Salt Lake City in 1906, under the
name of the General Engineering Company, erected a
building and took up the work of ore testing. Soon
afterward his brother Frank, together with Ernest
Gayford, Joined him and through the intervening period
the General Engineering Company has maintained a
position of leadership not only in Utah but throughout
the west. Mr. Callow has been deeply interested in
flotation since 1909 and his work along this line has
been of a most progressive character, indicative of his
initiative, his ingenuity and inventive genius, his wide
technical knowledge and skill and his undaunted spirit
of progressiveness. His name is a synonym
of advancement in connection with flotation and his
opinions along this line are largely accepted as
authority throughout the entire mining district of the
west. The General Engineering Company, one of the
representative engineering firms of the United States,
also has business relations in South America, Africa,
Australia and Europe.
On the 13th of February, 1893, Mr.
Callow was married in England to Miss Roberta A. M.
More, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert More. They have
four children: Bessie R., who was born in Denver,
Colorado, in 1896, and was educated in Salt Lake City
and in Vassar College; Margaret R. M., who was born in
Denver in 1898 and supplemented her educational training
received in Salt Lake by a commercial course in Columbia
University; Frances M., who was born in Salt Lake City
in 1900 and became a Vassar pupil; and Michael John, who
was born in Salt Lake City in 1902 and is at present
attending the West Side high school.
Mr. Callow is a member of the Alta
Club of Salt Lake City, while along professional lines
his connection is with the Colorado Scientific Society
of Denver and with the American Institute of Mining
Engineers. His contribution to the world's work has been
of most valuable character.
MRS. ANNIE WELLS
CANNON.
Mrs. Annie Wells Cannon, well known
in literary circles and through her philanthropic and
social activities but above all devoted to home and
family, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 7,
1859. She is a daughter of Daniel H. and Emmeline
(Woodward) Wells, who came to Utah in 1848 and were
among the pioneers who established this great
commonwealth. Both were of Puritan ancestry. The father
was born at Holland Patent, New York, but is a direct
descendant of Thomas Wells, the fourth governor of
Connecticut. The mother is a daughter of David Woodward
and was born in Massachusetts. The Woodward family was
founded in America in 1630. The father of Mrs. Wells
served in the War of 1812 and her grandfather was one of
the heroes of the American Revolution. Her mother.
Diadama Hare, was of equally fine lineage and her family
were inclined to literary pursuits. The mother of Mrs.
Wells left Massachusetts with her people and removed
west to Illinois, being there when the Mormons were
driven out of Nauvoo. She died of the hardships upon the
way to Utah and was laid to rest in an unknown grave on
the Iowa prairies. Both Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Wells
were educated in the best available schools of that
period. At Nauvoo, Daniel H. Wells served as justice of
the peace and in Utah was prominent in every matter
pertaining to the development of the state, serving for
ten years as mayor of Salt Lake City, for ten years as
chancellor of the University of Utah and in other
positions of honor and trust, while Mrs. Wells may
without invidious distinction be termed the foremost
woman in the state of Utah.
Their daughter, Annie Wells, first
attended a private school taught by Miss Mary Cook of
New York and later became a student in the University of
Utah, from which she was graduated with the class of
1878. On the 17th of March. 1880, in Salt Lake City, she
became the wife of John Q. Cannon, a son of the Hon.
George Q. and Elizabeth (Hoagland) Cannon. Mr. Cannon is
the present editor of the Deseret Evening News. He
served in the Spanish-American war and was a lieutenant
colonel of the Second United States Volunteer Cavalry,
while for eight years he also served as adjutant general
of the state militia. Mr. and Mrs. Cannon have become
the parents of twelve children: George Q., who married
Ruby Derr; Louise, the wife of Richard Andrew; Margaret,
the wife of David H. Clayton; Daniel H, who married
Winifred Smith; Eleanor Addy, who was born January 24.
1891, and died August 29. 1892; Emmeline, the wife of
Lyman R. Martineau: Cavendish Wells; Katharine; Abram
H.; David W.; John Q.; and Theodore L. Three of these
sons, Cavendish Wells, Abram H. and David W.,
participated in the great World war, Cavendish as a
member of the Marines, Abram as one of the khaki-clad
boys of the army, while David wore the blue uniform that
proclaimed him a member of the navy.
While Mrs. Cannon's chief interest
has always been her home and family, it would be
impossible for a woman of her ability to remain in the
background when there is such continued call for public
service in behalf of the betterment and uplift of
humanity and her activities along this line have been
indeed far-reaching and resultant. Her life experiences
have at all times been of broad and educational worth.
In 1883 and 1884 she traveled abroad with her husband,
visiting all the large cities on the continent and in
the British Isles, their trip covering a year. She has
also traveled extensively in the United States and in
Canada. For twenty years she assisted her mother in
editing the Woman's Exponent, the first woman's paper
published west of the Mississippi river-a magazine which
stood for woman's rights and the welfare of women and
children. It was the organ of the Latter-day Saints
Relief Society until 1914, when it ceased publication
and was succeeded by the Relief Society Magazine. While
Mrs. Cannon's public work
has been only auxiliary to that of the home, she has
always been keenly interested in literature, is a writer
of ability and would take particular delight in spending
much time in literary pursuits if other interests and
activities did not render this impossible.
Recognizing the duties and
obligations as well as the privileges of citizenship,
Mrs. Cannon has given
stalwart support to the republican party, has served as
a member of the state committee and has assisted the
party in elections. The public offices that she has held
have been of a social and philanthropic nature save that
for one term, in 1913, she represented her district in
the state legislature. In the summer of 1918 Mrs. Cannon
was appointed a member of the city library board and
reappointed in September. 1919, for a term of
three years. She has been an active member of the Red
Cross since 1898 anc! was a member of the Red Cross
Canteen executive committee and the civilian relief
committee for the World war. She has been the president
of the Utah War Mothers from July 5, 1918, to the
present time, is a charter member of the Daughters of
Utah Pioneers and belongs to the Utah Woman's Press
Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution
as well as the Woman's Republican Club. For ten years
she was a member of the General Board of Relief Society
and has been president of the Pibneer Stake Relief
Society since 1904. Her great mother heart reaches out
in sympathy and .kindliness to all mankind and her
ideals have found expression in practical service for
the benefit of others.
 GEORGE
M. CANNON
From the earliest period of Utah's
settlement and development the name of Cannon has
figured prominently in connection with the history of
the state. The work instituted by Angus M. Cannon,
father of George M. Cannon, in connection with the
material, political and moral development of Utah has
been carried on by the later generations of the family,
each bearing his full part in the task of general
advancement and improvement. Angus M, Cannon was born in
Liverpool, England, May 17, 1834, and came to the United
States when a lad of but nine years. He landed at New
Orleans, made his way up the Mississippi river to
Nauvoo, Illinois, and after residing there for a time
came to Utah at the age of fifteen years, walking the
entire distance from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Salt Lake
City. He did all the hunting for the party while en
route, supplying the company with game and fish on the
entire trip across the plains and over the mountains.
After reaching Salt Lake he there remained until his
seventeenth year, when in company with George A. Smith
he went to Iron county, Utah, and made the first adobe
brick that were used for building purposes in Parowan
the first settlement in Iron county. He afterward
returned to Salt Lake City and entered upon an
apprenticeship at the printer's trade with the Deseret
News. He continued to work
at the printing business until he was sent east on a
mission for the Mormon church with John Taylor, who
afterward became the president of the church. Mr. Cannon
remained on the mission for four years and during a part
of the time had charge of emigration at Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania, for the church. He then returned to Salt
Lake City at the time Johnston's army was sent here. He
engaged in the pottery business for a number of years,
and in 1861 was called on for service with the Dixie
mission to go with Erastus Snow to settle southern Utah.
He aided in establishing the town of St. George, Utah,
and remained there for seven years.
He was later released from this mission and
returned to Salt Lake, where he engaged in freighting
and in the sawmill business. He had charge of a sawmill
in Big Cottonwood canyon belonging to Daniel H. Wells,
and of a freighting outfit for William S. Godbe and was
thus engaged in freighting from Salt Lake to points in
Montana.
After a year he was made business
manager of the Deseret News and occupied that position
for several years, during which time he made a number of
trips to the east as representative of the paper. He
next entered the wagon, implement and coal business,
handling the Grass Creek coal secured near Coalville,
Utah. He was active along that line until 1876, when he
was elected to the position of comity recorder of Salt
Lake county and served In the office for eight years in
most acceptable manner. Turning his attention to mining,
he opened up various properties at Mercur and also the
metal mines in the Dugway district. He was thus
prominently connected with mining interests to the time
of his death. Throughout his entire life he was a most
active worker in behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. In 1875 he was appointed president of
the Salt Lake stake by Brigham Young, this embracing
seven stakes in Salt Lake county and all of Tooele,
Davis, Morgan, Summit and Wasatch counties.
Not long after his appointment all of these
stakes were separated and Mr. Cannon remained president of the Salt
Lake stake until 1900 during which time he presided over
more than fifty thousand people. He had charge of all
meetings in the tabernacle except the general
conferences and he put forth every possible effort for
the up building of the church and the extension of the
cause. He died June 7, 1915, and thus passed away one
of-the most honored and valued residents of Utah-a man
who in many relations of life had contributed to the up
building of the state, promoting its material progress
and its intellectual and moral advancement. The mother
of George M. Cannon bore the maiden name of Sarah M.
Mousley and was born at Centerville, near Wilmington,
Delaware, July 21, 1828 and died in Salt Lake City in
1913. In their family were
four children, of whom George M. is the eldest, the
others being: John M., now a prominent attorney of Salt
Lake City; Ann M.; and Leonora, the wife of Barnard J.
Stewart., a well known attorney of Salt Lake.
George M. Cannon was born at St.
George, Washington county, Utah, December 25, 1861, and
during his boyhood days he attended school to his
twelfth year, after which he became connected with his
father in the coal business, to which he devoted two
years. He then resumed his interrupted education by
attending the University of Utah and completed the
normal course by graduation in 1878. He continued his
college work at the university for two years and then
took up teaching in a private school for George M.
Cannon on the latter's farm and devoted two years to
that work. In 1884 he was
elected county recorder of Salt Lake county, continuing
to serve until 1890 during which time he gave to the
county the present system of abstracts of titles used in
the recorder's office and which he copyrighted. On
retiring from office he entered the real estate business
and on the 1st of
January 1891, he was offered the cashier ship of Zion's
Savings Bank, in which capacity he continued for fifteen
years or until 1906 when he resigned to again become
active in the field of real estate. He has since carried
on the business on his own account and has built up a
large clientage. He is thoroughly
familiar with property values, knows all of the property
that la upon the market and has negotiated many
important realty transfers which have led to the
development and improvement of Salt Lake.
On Christmas day of 1884. George M.
Cannon was married in Salt Lake City to Miss Marian
Adelaide Morris, a daughter of Elias and Mary L.
Morris. They have
become parents of nine children. Addie, who was born in
Salt Lake City and is the wife of David P. Howells,
resides in New York city but is now with her husband in
France. Mrs. Howells received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts upon graduation from the University of Utah. George
M" Jr.. born in Salt Lake, is a graduate Bachelor of
Arts of the University of Utah and received his LL. B.
degree upon graduation from the University of Chicago.
He is now engaged in law practice in Salt Lake City. He
enlisted as a private for service in the great European
war and rose to the rank of first lieutenant on the
staff of General Richard W. Young, serving with the One
Hundred and Forty-fifth Artillery. He married Miss Edna
Nibley and has one child, George Nibley Cannon, born
February 23, 1919. Marian, born in Salt Lake, studied
music under John J. McClellan and Arthur Shepherd in
Salt Lake City and spent three winters in Berlin under
some of the best teachers of that city, prior to the
great war. She now resides in New York city and is
taking post graduate work in instrumental and vocal
music. Lucile. born in Salt Lake, is the wife of Glynn
S. Bennion who is engaged in dry farming in Tooele
county, Utah, and they have one child, Glynn
Colin, born May 3. 1918. Gene, born in Salt Lake, attended the
University of Utah and graduated with the
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919. Vaughan, born in Salt
Lake, volunteered with the Utah cavalry for service on
the Mexican border and was advanced from the ranks to
the position of sergeant. At the time America declared
war on Germany he entered upon training for the Officers
Reserve Corps, passed the required examination and was
made a second lieutenant of cavalry May 1, 1917. After a
course at the Presidio, San Francisco, he was sent to
Camp Lewis, and assigned to the artillery branch of the
army. Later he was assigned to a cavalry regiment at
Fort Russell, Wyoming. While there he met and married
Miss Zella Ferris, of Denver, Colorado, who went with
him to Camp Jackson near Columbia, South Carolina.
There he was promoted to the first lieutenancy
and was on duty at that place when the armistice was
signed. He is now ranching in Cache county Utah. Nora
M., born in Salt Lake, is a graduate of the Latter-day
Saints University and is now studying music in New York
city, specializing on the cello and piano. She was on a
mission to the Hawaiian Islands in 1917 and 1918. Lois,
born in Salt Lake. and Ellas Morris, also a native of
Salt Lake, are both students In the Latter-day Saints
University. The children have all had unusual
opportunities for travel, one going on a mission to
South Africa, another to Germany and a third to the
Hawaiian Islands. Mrs. Howells has
crossed the Pacific Ocean on four different occasions,
visiting Australia. New Zealand. Japan, China, the Dutch
Strait settlements and has also visited most of the
larger islands of the Pacific Ocean. .
Mr. Cannon is widely known in connection with the
public life of Utah as a leader in the ranks of the
republican party. He was nominated for the legislature
on that ticket, at the time of the division on party
lines in 1891 but was defeated.
Four years later he was elected to the
constitutional convention which met in Salt Lake in 1895
and was made chairman of the committees on taxation and
public debt. He also served on
other important committees. The same year he was elected
chairman of the republican state committee and conducted
the campaign which elected the first state ticket, all
of the candidates there on being elected in that year.
He was also chosen president of the first state senate
of Utah and he was later a candidate for the office of
United States senator. He has never sought other
political positions but has long wielded a wide
influence over public thought and opinion, his course at
all times being marked by the utmost fidelity to duty,
his public-spirited citizenship being manifest in many
ways. He belongs to a family that has long figured
prominently in connection with the history of the state
and his own record adds new luster to an untarnished
family name. The Cannons have ever exercised wide
influence in relation to the material and moral
development of the community and the social and
intellectual activities-in fact in all those forces
which are of cultural worth.
ALMA B. CARSTENSEN.
Alma B. Carstensen is well known in
the business circles of Salt Lake City, where he was
formerly a member of the Carstensen & Anson Company,
dealers in musical instruments, while at the present
time he is managing director of the Montana-Wyoming Oil
Company, a Utah corporation with general offices in the
Mclntyre block of Salt Lake, while its oil property is
located in the Midway oil field of Kern county,
California, Tampico, Mexico, and other states. Mr.
Carstensen is a native of Ogden, Utah. He was born
September 11, 1875, a son of Peter Cornelius Carstensen,
who was born at Holeboll, Gravensteen, Denmark, December
17, 1833. His father was Iver Carstensen, who was born
in Tygom, Kloster. Prensia, and died December 17, 1859,
in Holeboll. Prensia. The mother, Ane
Catarine Carstensen, was born March 27, 1787 in
Flensburg. They were married April 11, 1814. and her
death occurred March 10, 1857. Peter Cornelius
Carstensen was educated in Denmark and throughout his
life followed the occupations of farming and shoemaking.
While crossing the Atlantic ocean, on shipboard. April
28, 1864, he wedded Karen Peterson, a daughter of Hans
and Maren Peterson. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark,
and started to the new world with her parents. After his
marriage Mr. Carstensen largely followed farming in Utah
and passed away in Ogden in 1889. He ever remained a
faithful and consistent member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, served as a member of the
Seventy and filled two missions in Denmark. To Mr. and
Mrs. Carstensen were born eight children, as follows:
Martha C, who is now the wife of T. H. Ballantyne;
Joseph; Agnes V.. the wife of E. N. Jenkins; Charles,
who wedded Miss Mary Anderson; Clara R., the wife of
Joseph Pingree; Alma B., who married Miss Libbie
Donelson; Louise A., who gave her hand in marriage to
William Browning; and Florence M., the wife of Frank S.
Peery.
The youth of Alma B. Carstensen was
largely devoted to the acquirement of an education in
the schools of Ogden. Removing to Salt Lake City, he
formed a partnership with J. H. Anson in the
establishment and conduct of a music house under the
name of the Carstensen & Anson Company. This was for
twenty-five years one of the best equipped and most
prosperous music houses of the state and the business
was carefully and successfully conducted until January
1, 1917, when they closed out their affairs by mutual
agreement of the stockholders. On the 1st of March.
1917. the Montana Wyoming Oil Company was incorporated,
of which Mr. Carstensen became managing director. He is
now concentrating his efforts and energies upon the
development of the business, which is capitalized for
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, fully paid.
On the 11th of September, 1897, Mr.
Carstensen was married to Miss Libbie Donelson.
of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Charles M. and
Susie B. (McAllister) Donelson.
Four children have been born of this marriage:
Alma B., born May 8. 1904; Donald L., born March 16,
1906; Melva D., born November 9, 1907; and Althie
Liberty born Mav 13, 1912.
In politics Mr. Carstensen is a
republican and for six years he was a director of the
Utah State Pair Association. His interest in the welfare
of community and commonwealth is deep and sincere and is
manifest by hearty cooperation in many plans and
projects for the general good. In all of his business
interests he is actuated by a progressive spirit and,
recognizing the opportunities offered in oil
development, he has now become an active factor in the
Montana-Wyoming Oil Company, managing its interests from
the general offices in Salt Lake City.
The marvelous growth of the Inter
Mountain Life Insurance Company of Salt Lake City, of
which J. Owen Carter is the president, is indicative of
his splendid business ability, powers of organization
and executive force. Born in American Fork. Utah, in
1879. he is a son of James C. and Margaret Ann
(Greenwood) Carter, the latter a daughter of William
Greenwood, who was one of the pioneer settlers at
American Fork. The father passed
away in October. 1918. having long survived the mother,
who departed this life in 1883.
J. Owen Carter was a pupil in the
schools at American Fork and afterward matriculated to
the University of Utah, from which he was graduated with
the class of 1903. From each experience of his business
life he learned the lessons therein contained and
constantly broadened the scope of his activity, his life
record being a notable exemplification of the fact that
activity does not tire-It gives power and resistance.
Eventually directing his efforts in the field of
Insurance, in 1911 Mr. Carter organized the
Inter-Mountain Life Insurance Company of Utah and was
elected its first general manager, which position he
filled until January 20, 1917, when he was elected
president. Something of the growth of a business that
has now reached mammoth proportions is indicated in the
fact that during the first year of the company's
existence the business amounted to five hundred thousand
dollars. Within nine years, or from 1911 until 1920, it
had risen to ten million dollars. The reason for this is
not hard to seek. The success of the undertaking has
been found in the enterprise, the careful systemization
and the executive ability of Mr. Carter and his fellow
officers in the company. He associated with him men of
well known business ability and prominence, Thomas R.
Cutler becoming the first vice president; Joshua
Greenwood, second vice president; James H.
Moyle, third vice president; M. S. Browning,
fourth vice president; Richard R. Lyman, fifth vice
president; Wilbur M. Johnson, secretary and actuary;
with J. A. Edwards as superintendent of agents; Charles
C. Friel, manager of the farm loan department; E.
H. Gamette, auditor; T.
W. Gardner, cashier; and Dr. George W. Middleton,
medical director. Having carefully
studied every phase of the insurance business. Mr.
Carter as the directing head of the company has given
tangible evidence of his progressive spirit in the
continued growth of the business.
Mr. Carter was married to Miss M.
Juliet Cutler, a daughter of Thomas R. Cutler, and their
children are Juliet Margaret and Owen Cutler Carter, the
latter born March 31. 1913, in Salt Lake City. The
family is connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and politically Mr. Carter is
identified with the republican party, but the honors and
emoluments of office have had no attraction for him as
he has always preferred to concentrate his efforts and
energies upon his business affairs.
 DAVID
HENRY CHRISTENSEN.
Whether David Henry Christensen is
better known as an educator or as a prominent
representative of industrial activity in Utah, it is
almost impossible to determine Those who know of his
work in either connection recognize the fact that his
efforts along one of these lines alone would entitle him
to mention among the representative men of the state.
For a long period he was at the head of the schools of
Salt Lake City and is now regent of the University of
Utah. It was in 1913 that he organized the Christensen
Construction Company, of which he is president, and in
this field he has operated largely, doing much important
construction work in this and adjoining
states.
Professor Christensen is a native
of Utah, his birth having occurred at Manti, March 28,
1869, his parents being Herman J. and Anne (Poulson)
Christensen. The father is now deceased, but the mother
survives and makes her home in Salt Lake City.
In the acquirement of his education Professor
Christensen won a diploma from the State Normal School
in 1890 and afterward entered the University of Utah, in
which he pursued the classical course, there obtaining
the degree of Bachelor of Arts In 1898 he went abroad
for study, spending a part of his time as a student in
the University of Gottingen in Germany. He has since
devoted summer seasons to study in Yale and Columbia
Universities and in fact throughout his entire life he
has been a student, early coming to recognition of the
fact that the keenest pleasure in life comes from
intellectual stimulus. Before going abroad he had
entered upon educational work and served as
superintendent of the Utah county schools from 1893
until 1897. During four years in the later '90s he
traveled extensively in Europe, visiting schools and
studying the continental educational system. Following
his return he was made the head of the public schools of
Salt Lake City and continued in that position for
fifteen years, contributing in a marked measure to the
development of the splendid schools of Salt Lake. He was
continually advancing the standards of education here
and his work has been of the utmost value.
At the conclusion of his fifteen
years of service, the board of education ordered a
thorough and far reaching survey of all departments of
the school system. For this purpose the services of four
distinguished American educators were secured. Their
names follow: Elwood P. Cubberly, professor of
education, Leland Stanford Junior-University, director
of the survey, administration, finances; James H. Van
Sickle, superintendent of city schools, Springfield,
Massachusetts, courses of study, instruction; Lewis M.
Terman, associate professor of education, Leland
Stanford Junior University, school buildings, physical
education; Jesse B. Sears, assistant professor of
education. Leland Stanford Junior University, efficiency
tests; J. Harold Williams, research fellow, Leland
Stanford Junior University, progress of pupils,
statistical work, drawings.
In a recent address before a body
of teachers in southern California, Dr. Cubberly had
this to say concerning his survey of the Salt Lake City
schools: "The survey showed very conclusively that the
schools were in a good condition, that the supervision
and administration was very good, that the
superintendent of schools had managed the schools in a
very capable manner, that the work in the fundamental
school subjects was of a much higher grade than the city
had any reason to expect. In short, the report
was the most complete vindication of the past work of a
school superintendent of any survey report so far
published. I might add that the superintendent was
unknown to any member of the survey staff before going
to Salt Lake City, and that no one had any
preconceptions to influence him. We took only the
evidence produced in the course of the investigation."
The survey report has been printed by the World
Publishing Company of New York and constitutes the first
volume in a series known as the Educational Efficiency
Series. It is widely used as a text in training classes
for teachers in normal schools and colleges.
Mr. Christensen served on the state
board of education for eighteen years, being appointed
to membership in the first board when Utah entered
statehood. When he returned to the United States from
Europe in 1901 he was again appointed and served
continuously until he severed his connection with school
work. Mr. Christensen is
also active in connection with construction work in
Utah, being the president and manager of the company
which bears his name. The work of this company has been
a most important element along construction lines in
Utah and Mr. Christensen's accomplishments in this field
alone would rank him as one of the prominent business
men of Utah.
In 1893 Mr. Christensen was united
in marriage to Miss Katie Dean, a graduate of the
University of Utah and a daughter of Joseph and Amelia
Dean, who were pioneer residents of Salt Lake, coming to
this city in the early '50s. Mr. and Mrs.
Christensen are the parents of eight children,
five daughters and three sons. Aileen,
born in March, 1898, in Salt Lake City, is a
senior in the University of California at Berkeley,
where she is majoring in history and economics. Lucile
is a graduate of the East high school. Marie and Dean
are high school students, while Rhea and David H., Jr.,
are in the junior high school. Stanley and Kathleen are
in the primary grades.
Mr. Christensen has been a member
of the Salt Lake Commercial Club since its organization.
He also belongs to the Bonneville Club, is a member of
the city library board and since 1918 has been serving
as a regent of the University of Utah. His contribution
to the upbuilding and development of the state has been
most valuable. His labors have been far-reaching and
resultant and he has the happy faculty of recognizing
and utilizing practical methods while working toward
high ideals.
JOHN WOLCOTT
CHRISTY.
John Wolcott Christy who since the
1st of July, 1915, has
been clerk of the United States district court for the
district of Utah at Salt Lake City, was born in
Victoria, in the province of Ontario, Canada, June 11,
1854, a son of George B. and Diana (Bowerman) Christy.
Comparatively little is known concerning the ancestry of
the family, yet the records state that Dennis Christy or
his father came from the north of Ireland and served in
the Revolutionary war though a Quaker. He afterward
settled in Poughkeepsie, New York. In the maternal line
Mr. Christy is descended from the Bowerman family that
was founded on American soil by Welsh emigrants early in
the eighteenth century. The two grandmothers of John W.
Christy were sisters, the daughters of Henry Brewer, of
Schenectady, New York, who was one of the most direct
descendants of Anneke Jans Bogardus, of New York city,
whose name has figured so prominently in connection with
the litigation over valuable property interests which
were once held by her and which include the Trinity
Church property. George B. Christy was born in 1830 and
in early life took up the study of medicine. He served
as surgeon in chief of Hatch's division during the Civil
war, from 1861 until 1864, and afterward practiced as a
physician and surgeon in Chicago and in western Iowa.
His wife was born in 1833 and they became the parents of
five children.
John W. Christy, following the
removal of the family to Chicago, pursued his education
in the public schools of that city until 1869, when at
the age of fifteen years he started out in the business
world to provide for his own support. He was employed at
various times in grocery and drug stores and as office
boy in the general freight office of the Illinois
Central Railroad of Chicago. He there took up the study
of shorthand and became an amanuensis in railroad and
express offices in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri. In
early manhood he also spent one summer in the Black
Hills but was not fortunate in his search for gold
there. He has been identified with the west, however,
since 1878, in which year he became official shorthand
reporter for the fourth district court of Colorado, in
which district are situated Leadville, Colorado Springs,
Durango, Gunnison, Lake City, Del Norte and other county
seats. Mr. Christy continued in the position until 1889
and afterward became official shorthand reporter of the
eighth Judicial district of Colorado, including Boulder,
Fort Collins, Greeley and other points. He served until
1894 and during that period also did reporting in the
United States court at Denver. He was engaged in general
shorthand business in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1895 and in
December of that year came to Salt Lake City, Utah,
where he was appointed shorthand reporter of the United
States courts, serving In that capacity and as deputy
clerk of the courts for four years. In fact he continued
to act as reporter until July, 1915. In the meantime,
for seven years, or until December, 1912, he was
standing examiner in chancery of the United States
court. On the 1st of
July, 1915, he was appointed clerk of the United States
district court for the district of Utah and has since
occupied that position, making a most creditable record
by the thoroughness and systematic manner in which he
discharges his duties. In the year 1905 he was admitted
to the bar of the supreme court of the state of Utah but
has never opened an office for practice. He is, however,
a member of the American Bar Association of the United
States.
Mr. Christy has been married twice.
In Denver, in 1880, he wedded Lula La Count, who passed
away in March, 1881, and their only child, a son died in
the same year. In Salt Lake City, on
the 11th of December,
1903, Mr. Christy wedded Clara Berthe Knox Paul, a
daughter of Samuel and Martha (Knox) Paul, of Hopedale,
Ohio, the latter a cousin of Philander C. Knox. Mrs.
Christy is a descendant of the Quaker family of Paul's
of Philadelphia and also of John Knox. She is an
accomplished musician who made a specialty of the study
of piano at Oberlin College and who taught singing in
the public schools of Colorado. She has also studied
largely for her own pleasure and is well known in the
musical circles of the city.
Mr. Christy belongs to the
Episcopal church and he gives his political support to
the democratic party, although he has largely held
office under republican judges. He is known in club
circles as a valued member of the Alta Club and also of
the Bonneville Club, both of Salt Lake City.
LON CLAFLIN.
Lon Claflin, of Salt Lake City. Is
engaged in the sale of the Indian motorcycles, bicycles
and accessories and also does repair work. He is known
to the world at large as the winner of a championship in
1912, when he startled the motorcycle world on the
19th day of May at Los
Angeles, California, by breaking the world's amateur
record both in a mile race and in a seventeen-mile
contest. His record on those occasions has never been
equaled. The same determination to reach his objective
in the business world is manifest in the conduct of his
Salt Lake establishment. Mr. Claflin is a
native of Missouri. He was born in Ray county on the
4th of October, 1880, a
son of John J. and Alice E. (Easton) Claflin, the former
a native of Illinois, while the latter was born in
Missouri. The father removed to Missouri in early life
and was there reared to manhood, after which he engaged
in the cattle business, becoming a buyer and shipper of
cattle. In 1890 he removed to Colorado, settling at
Hartsel in Park county, where he engaged in ranching.
His last days were passed in Salt Lake City, where he
resided from 1913 until 1915, when he was called to his
final rest. His widow survives and now resides in Santa
Monica, California. Lon Clafiin, their
only child, was a pupil in the public schools of
Missouri and Colorado, attending the high school at
Denver, after which he made his initial step in the
business world by turning his attention to mining at
Cripple Creek, Colorado. He remained active in that
field of labor until 1910, when he came to Salt Lake
City, where on the 25th
of March he organized his present business, having the
agency for the Indian motorcycles and bicycles. He also
has a large repair department and engages in the sale of
all motorcycle parts. He established business in a small
way but his trade has grown to large proportions and in
1911 the business was incorporated with Mr.
Claflin as the president. The success of the
undertaking is attributable almost entirely to his
efforts, being due to his close application,
indefatigable energy and persistency of
purpose.
On the 22d of September, 1906, Mr.
Clafiin was married at Cripple Creek, Colorado, to Miss
Pearl Funk, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott E. Funk,
the former well known in mining circles at Cripple
Creek. In politics Mr. Claflin maintains an independent
course. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of
the World and also with the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks of Salt Lake and he belongs likewise to the Salt
Lake Commercial Club, being deeply interested in
everything that pertains to the up-building of the city
and the advancement of its material and civic interests.
The name of Lon Claflin has been known in sporting
circles since the 19th
of May, 1912, when he covered a mile in a motorcycle
race in thirty-eight and two-fifths seconds and
seventeen miles in eleven minutes, twenty-four and
three-fifths seconds, or what would be an average of
eighty-nine and fifty-five hundredths miles per hour.
This record has never been beaten. His interest in the
motorcycle has been one feature of his success in the
development of his present business. He knows whereof he
speaks when he recommends the Indian and, moreover, he
possesses the qualities of good salesmanship, so that
his business is steadily growing.
CAMILLA CLARA COBB.
One of Utah's pioneer women and one
beloved by all who know her is "Aunt Camille" Cobb, of
Salt Lake City, where she has resided for the past sixty
years. Mrs. Cobb was born in Dresden, Saxony, Germany,
May 24, 1843, a daughter of Carl Benjamin Emanuel and
Henrietta Meith. Her father was a director of schools at
Dresden and was a widely known educator. He died in
1852". Mrs. Cobb was the youngest of four children:
Anna, who became the wife of Dr. Maeser, a well known
educator of Utah; Ottilie. who married Edward Schoufelt;
Emil 0., who was an engineer and architect ot the Royal
Surveyors in Germany; and Camilla Clara, of this
review.
After the death of her father,
which occurred when she was nine years of age, Camilla
Clara Meith made her home with Dr. Maeser and
accompanied his family to America in 1856. They located
at Philadelphia, where they remained for four years and
then came to Utah, arriving here in the fall of 1860 as
members of the Captain John Smith company, Mrs. Cobb
walking nearly all the way across the plains. She had
received good educational opportunities in Philadelphia
and also private instruction under Dr. Maeser. so that
she was qualified to teach school, which she did during
the winter following her arrival in Utah. Mrs. Cobb
continued to teach for twenty years and during the last
three years of that period was matron of the Latter-day
Saints College. She established the
first kindergarten school in Utah, being assisted by a
liberal cash donation from John W. Young, and the
kindergarten was held in a schoolhouse near Eagle Gate.
During her early school experiences Mrs. Cobb numbered
among her pupils the children of the best families of
Salt Lake City-men and women who have since become
nationally and internationally prominent. As a teacher
she was most successful and her noble character and
influence have been reflected in her pupils, many of
whom today express their gratitude and appreciation of
her efforts.
On the 14th of November. 1864. she
was married to James Thornton Cobb, who was born
December 15, 1833, in Beverly, Massachusetts, and was a
descendant of an old New England family. Mr. Cobb was
educated at Amherst and Dartmouth Colleges and came to
Utah in 1859, his mother having removed to the territory
in 1848. James Thornton Cobb was a journalist of much
ability and rare intellectual talent and continued a
resident of Utah until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb
became the parents of seven children as follows: Ives
E., who resides in San Francisco. California; Lucy A.,
the wife of Edward Ivius, who publishes a newspaper at
Lewiston. Montana; Carl A., who died at the age of two
years; Henry I., who was connected with mining interests
and died in May, 1919; Rufus K., a prominent business
man of Salt Lake, who is mentioned elsewhere in this
work; James K., a well known physician of Salt Lake; and
Grace C, who died at the age of seven years.Mrs. Cobb
has more than rounded out the Psalmist's span of three
score years and ten, for she has now passed the
seventy-sixth milestone on life's journey. Her influence
both as a teacher and in the private relations of the
home has been a most potent element for good, her
natural refinement and true womanly qualities making
their impress upon all with whom she has been brought in
contact.
JOHN H. COOK.
John H. Cook, custodian of the
state capitol of Utah and a resident of Salt Lake City,
was born March 2. 1867, at Meriden, Connecticut, a son
of Alfred W. and Julia (Ford) Cook. The father was born
in North Carolina and was a representative of an old
southern family, his ancestors having been large
plantation owners of that section of the country. Alfred
W. Cook is still living at Meriden, Connecticut, where
for years he has engaged in business as a contractor and
builder, and has also been very active as a leader in
democratic circles there. The mother was born in
Ireland. John H. Cook is the eldest of
a family of five sons, the others being William, Alfred,
George and Thomas, all residents of
Connecticut.
After acquiring a high school
education John H. Cook served an apprenticeship to the
plater's trade. The experiences of his life have been
broad and varied. He has crossed the Atlantic several
times, rounding Cape Horn in 1888, when making a trip
between New York and San Francisco. He has installed
plating plants in England, France, Germany, Scotland,
Canada and in many parts of the United States, a fact
indicative of the notable efficiency to which he has
attained since starting out as an apprentice. He has
also been in charge of the plating department of the
Underwood Typewriter Company in New York city and in the
Thomas Day chandelier factory at San Francisco. He has
likewise had charge of the plating department in other
large concerns of the United States. He was in San
Francisco at the time of the earthquake and was put in
charge of all relief work in the mission district,
including all of San Francisco south of Market street.
His duties were of a most arduous and important
character in that connection, as he planned the rescue
work for thousands. An important point in his business
career was in connection with the building of the first
safety bicycle at the Ames sword factory at Chicopee
Falls, Massachusetts. In 1908 he came to Salt Lake City,
where he had charge of the Capital Electric
Manufacturing Company for a few years. He afterward
conducted an electrical business of his own, which he
later sold to the Intermountain Electric Company, with
which he remained, however, as manager until 1916, when
he was appointed custodian of the capitol by Governor
Bamberger.
In 1905 Mr. Cook was married to
Miss Bessie Skinner, of New Haven, Connecticut, and they
became the parents of two children, John Edward and
Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Cook has long
been a prominent figure in political circles. While in
New York city he became a member of Tammany Hall, where
he still maintains his membership, and during his
residence in the metropolis he was very active in
democratic circles. In fact throughout
his entire life he has soon become a recognized
democratic leader in any community in which he has lived
for any length of time. He was appointed factory
inspector, his being the first appointment of that
character made in Salt Lake City under the industrial
commission. He resigned that position to become
custodian of the state capitol. His activities have
carried him into nearly every state of the Union but he
is now a confirmed Utahan and a most zealous and
enthusiastic champion of Salt Lake City and of the state
at large. He resides at No. 143 Lincoln street, where he
owns a comfortable home.
Fraternally Mr. Cook is connected
with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the
Woodmen of the World. He is one of the most progressive
and energetic men of Salt Lake City, a dynamic force in
public affairs, and one who exerts a wide influence over
democratic interests in city and state.
 WALTER
J. COOPER.
Walter J. Cooper is an architect of
Salt Lake who has done much to beautify the city through
the exercise of his professional skill and expert
knowledge. He was born in Auburn, New York, July 2,
1879, a son of David B. Cooper, who is a native of
Michigan but in early life became a resident of the
Empire state. He was there married, his wife being a
native of New York. Throughout his business career he
has been active in the field of life insurance and now
has charge of the general agency for the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, with
headquarters at Syracuse, where he now resides. To him
and his wife were born four children: Mrs. C. William
Wurster, of New York city; George N., agent for the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, with
headquarters at Rochester, New York; B. I. Cooper, who
is branch manager of the General Chemical Company of New
York, located at Syracuse. New York; and Walter J., of
this review.
The last named, the youngest of the
family, pursued his education in the public schools of
Syracuse, New York, prepared for college at Worcester
Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts, studied architecture
at Syracuse University, and for a few months practiced
his profession in Syracuse under the firm name of Wright
& Cooper. This firm did much heavy construction
work, including factories for such well known concerns
as the L. C. Smith and Brothers Typewriter Company and
the Franklin Automobile Company.
Being desirous of broadening his experience Mr.
Cooper removed to New York city, where for five years he
was connected with three of the most prominent
architectural firms of that city and helped to plan and
construct many hotels and business structures scattered
from Boston to San Francisco. Among these buildings were
the Newhouse and Boston buildings and Newhouse Hotel,
and in 1910 Mr. Cooper came west to take charge of the
construction of a theatre at Denver, Colorado, and the
Newhouse Hotel in Salt Lake City. On the completion of
the contract he returned to the eastern metropolis,
where he remained, however, for only a short time. The
lure of the west was upon him and in 1911 he again came
to Salt Lake, where he took up his permanent abode and
entered into a partnership as a member of the firm of
McDonald & Cooper. This association was
maintained until 1916, during which time the firm
erected many fine residences, theatres, garages and
commercial buildings in Utah and adjoining states,
including the new fireproof Keith O'Brien building. They
were associate architects with Eames & Young of St.
Louis, Missouri, for the Walker Bank building in this
city, the construction of which was superintended
personally by Mr. Cooper. After this partnership was
dissolved Mr. Cooper continued to practice architecture
and has done considerable residence and commercial work
in Utah and the surrounding territory, including
residences and mine buildings for the Chief Consolidated
Mining Company at Eureka, Utah; the Isolation Hospital
for Salt Lake county, the Beck Hot Springs Natatorium in
Salt Lake; the Tomahawk Hotel at Green River, Wyoming;
banks at Rock Springs, Wyoming; St. Anthony, Idaho;
Magna, Utah; and the Whitehall Hotel extension and the
building of the Tracy Loan & Trust Company in Salt
Lake City. He has closely studied every phase of his
chosen life work, is thoroughly familiar with the best
types of architecture and has the faculty of combining
in a most attractive way utility, convenience and
beauty. He is also familiar with modern methods of
construction down to the smallest detail and much of
Salt Lake's architectural beauty is due to his
efforts.
On the 3d of July, 1914, in Salt
Lake City, Mr. Cooper was married to Miss Kate Condie,
of this city, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter S.
Condie, and they have one child, David Condie Cooper,
born April 12, 1919, in Salt Lake City. Mr. Cooper is a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the
Onondaga Society of New York, the Commercial Club of
Salt Lake City, the Pan Hellenic Association of Utah,
and of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. A man of
social, genial nature, his personal qualities make for
popularity among all who know him, while his developing
skill has placed him in the front rank among Utah's
prominent architects.
FRANCIS W. COPE.
Francis W. Cope, a public
accountant of Salt Lake, his native city, was born June
4, 1873, and comes of English ancestry, for his parents,
Francis and Ruth (Howell) Cope, were both natives of
England. Coming to America in 1868. they reached Ogden,
Utah, by rail and afterward traveled by stage to Salt
Lake City. The father entered upon his business career
in this state in a clerical position with the Utah
Central Railway at the commencement of its construction
from Ogden south and continued with that road until his
death, which occurred December 27, 1889. However,
various promotions had been accorded him and at the time
of his demise he was general freight and passenger agent
of the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway, into
which the Utah Central had been merged and which later
was to become part of the Oregon Short Line Railway. The
mother died in Salt Lake in 1898. In their family were
nine children, seven of whom are yet living, namely:
Mrs. Joseph Johnson, Mrs. William S.
Highman, Francis W., Albert J., Charles Edward,
Mrs. R. C. Sudbury and George A.
All are residents of Salt Lake with the exception
of the last named, who makes his home at Idaho Falls,
Idaho. Those who passed away were: Esther, who died at
the age of sixteen years; and Ruth, whose death occurred
when she was but two years of age.
Francis W. Cope of this review
attended the public schools of Salt Lake and also spent
two years in study in the University of Utah. He then
also took up railroad work in the employ of the Utah
Central and after it was taken over by the Union Pacific
he continued with the latter in a clerical capacity. At
length, however, he resigned his position and entered
the employ of the firm of White & Sons Company, with
whom he remained from 1889 until 1894. On the expiration
of that period he became connected with the Consolidated
Wagon & Machine Company and was afterward with the
Oregon Short Line Railway Company until 1901. From that
period until 1911 he was with the American Smelting
& Refining Company in the clerical and accounting
department, being promoted to the position of chief
clerk. He resigned to engage in business independently
as a public accountant and auditor and has been very
successful in following the profession. He is a director
of the Bennion Live Stock Company, also of the Fort
Herriman Land & Stock Company and is the secretary
and treasurer of the Roosevelt Live Stock Company and
secretary of the Altmont Shearing Company, while of the
Western Wyoming Land & Live Stock Company he is
assistant secretary. He has thus extended his efforts
largely along business lines while practicing his
profession as a public accountant in Salt Lake City. His
land and live stock interests are of an important
character and contribute in material measure to his
prosperity.
In Salt Lake City, on the 24th of November, 1898, Mr.
Cope was married to Miss Alice M. Nicholson, a daughter
of John and Susanna (Keep) Nicholson, of Salt Lake.
They have become parents of seven children. Mrs.
Helen M. Simmons, born in Salt Lake in 1900 and still
residing in this city, has two children, Warren Cope
Simmons, and Beverly Cope Simmons. Francis N., born in
Salt Lake in June, 1901, was graduated from high school
in 1918 and is now with the National Copper Bank. John
N., born in 1903, is attending high school. Gordon N.,
born in 1906, is a pupil in the junior high school.
Donald N., born in 1908, Alice N., in 1910, and Howell
N., in 1913, are all in school.
Mr. Cope gives his political
allegiance to the republican party and at one time
served as a member of the town council of Forest Dale, a
suburb of Salt Lake City. His time and attention,
however, have largely been given to his individual
business interests and he has made wise use of his time,
talents and opportunities, so that he is today classed
among the substantial residents of Salt Lake City, where
he is not only winning success as a public accountant
but also through his interests in land and live stock
companies in the west.
 NEPHI L. COTTAM, D.
C.
Dr. Nephi L. Cottam has attained
high standing as a chiropractor of Salt Lake City, his
practice being now very extensive and of a most
important character. Moreover, he is one of the
progressive residents of the capital, his aid and
influence being always
given on the side of advancement
and improvement. He was born in Salt Lake. December 5,
1883, and is the youngest of the four children of John
and Anna G. (Johnson) Cottam. the former a wood turner
and chair maker.
After mastering the branches of
learning taught in the common schools Dr. Cottam entered
the Latter-day Saints University, and in addition to the
general branches of learning which he pursued he gave
much attention to the study of music and public speaking
and under the direction of Professor Stephens be became
well known as a vocalist and as an accompanist. Music
has always been to him one of the chief joys of life and
through his own talents in that direction he has
rendered much pleasure to others. As a public speaker he
won the Salt Lake Mutual Improvement Association
oratorical cup at the final contest in 1902. That he
possesses considerable histrionic power is also manifest
in the fact that Joseph Haworth, a well known actor,
offered to make him his understudy. Dr. Cottam was a
member of the class when the Mormon play, Corianton. was
first staged. The work was of intense interest to him
and after a few rehearsals he had learned the lines and
the way to play the various parts by listening to the
actors. He won the attention of Joseph Haworth, who
offered to assist him in making the stage his career and
agreed to make him his understudy, but Dr.
Cottam's religious inclinations forbade such a
course and he accepted a call on a mission to the
eastern states, where he labored for two and a half
years. On the expiration of that period he returned to
Utah.
While teaching in Ogden, Dr. Cottam
heard the trial of F. J. Freenor, which convinced him of
the merits of chiropractic. He then obtained literature
from all the leading chiropractic schools and after
thorough investigation of the profession and its
educational opportunities entered the Palmer School of
Chiropractic at Davenport. Iowa. While a senior there he
showed his adaptability In his chosen calling by
obtaining some of the most remarkable results in
adjustment that have ever boon secured. The same success
has continued to be his throughout his practice in Salt
Lake City, where he has remained in the active work of
the profession since his graduation. Thousands have been
benefited because of his skill, which has also
demonstrated to many others the value of this method of
healing. In fact Utah perhaps more than any other state
in the Union has endorsed chiropractic, giving to the
representatives of the profession a most extensive
patronage. That Dr. Cottam is a most versatile man has
already been indicated and such are his qualities and
talents that he would have made a success in any
profession that he might choose. Such is his character
and ability that be would have dignified any profession,
while his determination and his ambition would have
enabled him to secure success in any line.
In 1911 Dr. Cottam was united in
marriage to Miss Edwardena Parry, of Manti, Utah, who
has had advanced training in music and possesses one of
the best soprano voices in the state. She has been heard
in connection with many of the finest musical programs
and church services. Mrs. Cottam is also a graduate of
the Palmer School of Chiropractic of the class of 1915,
but does not practice now, giving her attention to home
interests.
Active in the work of the church,
Dr. Cottam is a member of the Council of Seventy.
He is a progressive citizen, upholding all that
is constructive and praiseworthy in civic affairs. A man
of large sympathies and rare kindness of heart, he does
much for the relief of the poor in his community and no
one is turned from his door when he can aid him toward
health or toward success. He has a large circle of
friends throughout Utah and the surrounding states, his
life being one of acknowledged usefulness and
value.
 WILLIAM JOSEPH
COWAN.
William Joseph Cowan, engaged in
the practice of law in Salt Lake City, where he was born
on the 11th of October, 1889, is a son of William A. and
Annie (Durrans) Cowan. The father was also born in Salt
Lake, his natal day being September 16, 1861. He is a
son of Andrew Cowan, who was one of the "handcart
pioneers," who crossed the plains, enduring hardships
and privations such as are entirely unknown at the
present time, when rail travel in a few days brings the
traveler over a distance that in the older times
required as many months. Locating in Salt Lake City, the
grandfather continued a resident of this place to the
time of his death. His son, William A. Cowan, here
reared and educated, learned the printer's trade, which
he followed for some time, but eventually took up the
occupation of farming, which he yet carries on in Salt
Lake county. He married Annie Durrans, who was born in
England and came to Utah with her parents when but six
years old. She also survives.
They had a family of four children: Leland R.,
who is now a student in the medical school of Columbia
University of New York City; William Joseph, of this
review, and Almina and Louise, both of Salt Lake
City.
Liberal educational opportunities
were accorded the children, who after attending the
public schools, in which they passed through consecutive
grades to the high school, matriculated in the
University of Utah. In his boyhood days William Joseph
Cowan was a pupil in the Grant school of Salt Lake and
afterward entered the Latter-day Saints University.
Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he
then became a student in a law office and subsequently
entered the University of Utah. He was admitted to
practice on the 8th of May, 1911, and entered upon his
professional career associated with J. D. Skeen, a
prominent attorney of Salt Lake, with whom he was
connected for five years. Later Mr. Cowan continued in
practice independently until January 1, 1919, when he
joined the firm of Powers & Riter. at which time the
style of Powers, Riter & Cowan was adopted. This
makes one of the strong legal
combinations of the Salt Lake bar.
Messrs. Powers and Riter are among the representative
lawyers of the state, enjoying a well merited reputation
for winning the great majority of cases entrusted to
their care. This firm was originally formed by Judge
Orlando W. Powers, in his day the peer of any attorney
of the intermountain country. Mr. Cowan has thus entered
upon a valuable and helpful association and he gives to
his practice the enthusiasm and energy of young manhood.
He is careful in the preparation of his cases, is clear
in his analysis, logical in his reasoning and seldom at
fault in the application of legal principles.
In connection with his law practice Mr. Cowan has
business interests, being now a director in various oil
and mining companies. His political support is given to
the democratic party but he has never been a politician
in the sense of seeking office. He belongs to the Utah
State Bar Association and the major part of his time and
energy is devoted to his professional interests and
duties, so that he has already gained a position among
the well known younger representatives of the Salt Lake
City bar.
 FRED H.
CRAGER.
Fred H. Crager is well known in
industrial circles in Salt Lake City as general manager
of the Crager Wire & Iron Works. He was born in
Pana, Illinois, August 20, 1876, a son of Samuel E. and
Eliza J. (Ragle) Crager, both of whom were natives of
Indiana and at an early day came to Illinois. Later they
became residents of Wichita, Kansas, where Mr. Crager
turned his attention to the ornamental iron
manufacturing business. He remained there for only two
years, when he removed with his family to Ogden, Utah,
where he continued for about two years. It is said that he
came to Utah in answer to an advertisement of a man who
wished to sell a half interest in a wire hoop and bustle
manufactory for fifty dollars. He answered the
advertisement, invested the required fifty dollars and
the next morning awoke to find that his partner had left
in the night and that he was sole possessor of the
business. He learned, too, that the articles hitherto
manufactured were rapidly going out of style and he then
looked about to find what use could be made of the
little plant that had thus come into his possession. He
found that there was some equipment for the manipulation
of wire and at once he began the development and
organization of a woven wire business, which has since
been converted into the big Crager Wire & Iron Works
of today.
In 1892 Mr.
Crager came to Salt Lake City and remained active
in the business to the time of his death, which occurred
in 1911, when he was seventy-two years of age. He made
the output of his factory so valuable that there was a
constantly increasing demand for the products. He began
making all kinds of ornamental iron work for churches,
banks, office buildings, cemeteries and country estates
and was the fabricator of fancy grill work for elevator
shafts and stairways in public buildings. The Crager
Wire & Iron Works also builds jail cells and designs
bankers cages. In fact there is nothing in the line of
ornamental wire work that the company does not undertake
successfully. They have constantly enlarged the scope of
their activities and the progressive methods of the
house, combined with their reasonable prices and
straightforward dealings, constitute the measure of a
most gratifying success. At the outbreak of the Civil
war Samuel E. Crager became a
volunteer soldier, going to the front first with the
Indiana troops and later with an Illinois company. He
was for four years with the Union army and participated
in many hotly contested engagements, serving as color
sergeant of his regiment. His widow is still
living and makes her home in Salt Lake City. In their
family were seven children, two of whom have passed
away, while those who survive are: Charles W., a
resident of Salt Lake City; Samuel A., living in Dallas.
Texas; Fred H., of this review: Minnie, the wife of M.
W. Crane, of Salt Lake City; and Abigail, the wife of
Elmer D. Jones, of Salt Lake City.
Fred H. Crager attended the public
and high schools of Salt Lake City and also spent two
years in pursuing the academic course in the University
of Utah. He next entered the Latter-day Saints Business
College and at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war
was imbued with the same spirit of patriotism which had
prompted his father's enlistment for service in the
Union army. He joined the American troops and went to
the Philippine Islands with the Utah Battery from Salt
Lake City, acting as bugler of his company. He remained
in the Philippines during the entire period of
insurrection there and was mustered out in Salt Lake in
1899. On his return to civil life he entered business
with his father and started in a humble capacity in
order that he might thoroughly learn every phase of the
trade. Gradually he has worked his way upward as he has
gained comprehensive and intimate knowledge of the
business until he is now the general manager. The plant
employs more than thirty people in its various
departments, having a completely equipped shop and
modern manufacturing plant.
In Salt Lake City, on the 30th of
January, 1901, Mr. Crager was married to Miss Bessie
Harris, a daughter of Thomas Harris. They have become
the parents of six children: Fred H" who was born in
Salt Lake City in 1902 and has spent one year in high
school; Genevieve, who was born in 1904 and is attending
high school; Le Roy, who was born in 1906 and is a pupil
in the graded schools; Mildred, who was born in 1909;
Eldred, born in 1916; and Richard W., born in 1918.
Fraternally Mr. Crager is a Mason of high
standing. He has attained the thirty-second degree of
the Scottish Rite and has also crossed the sands of the
desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also
a member of the Salt Lake City Commercial Club and the
Utah Manufacturers Association and is keenly interested
in the work of both organizations in their efforts to
promote business enterprise. In the conduct of his
individual interests he is also proving himself the
worthy successor of a capable and resourceful father and
together they have made the name of Crager a potent
force in the industrial world of Salt Lake.
MELVIN W. CRANE.
Among the business men of Salt Lake
City who have achieved remarkable success, there is
possibly none more entitled to recognition as a
self-made man than Melvin W.
Crane, who is the secretary and treasurer of the
Crane-Rohlfing Company, proprietors of a men's
furnishing goods store that is now widely known as the
Duds Shop. It enjoys a well established reputation as a
leader in this particular field. The business career of
the secretary is a story of inspirational value, for Mr.
Crane started out to earn his living by selling papers
and worked as a newsboy until he could qualify for more
remunerative employment. Economy and industry at length
brought him the capital that enabled him to engage in
business on his own account and since starting out in
the clothing line his progress has been rapid and
satisfactory.
Melvin W. Crane was born in Salt
Lake City, May 20, 1877, a son of J. K. and Mary A.
(Connor) Crane, the former a native of the state of New
York, while the latter was born in New Jersey. They came
west to Utah in 1875 but after a brief period returned
to New York and it was not until early in 1877 that they
once more established their home in Utah. The father
opened a furniture house, which was one of the first of
the kind in Salt Lake, and continued in business there
up to the time of his leaving Salt Lake in 1888 for
South America. He located at Buenos Aires, where he was
for some years in the exporting trade, and was one of
the pioneers in the fresh meat business in that
city. He passed away in
Australia while on a trip to that far-off land. The
mother is still living and makes her home in Salt Lake
City. They were parents of four children:J. K., who
resides in Los Angeles, California; Nellie J., now the
wife of William Reading, of Salt Lake City; Mrs. T. C.
Rooklidge, of Salt Lake City; and Melvin W.
The youngest of the family, Melvin
W. Crane, supplemented his public school education,
acquired in Salt Lake City, by study in the Collegiate
Institute of the fourteenth ward and later entered the
Salt Lake Business College, from which he was graduated
on the completion of a commercial course in 1897. He
found employment with George Mullett of Salt Lake prior
to pursuing a business course, beginning work for Mr.
Mullett as a salesman in the men's furnishing and
clothing business in 1893 and continuing in his
establishment for nineteen years as a most conscientious
and faithful employee. He left that position
on one occasion to enter the service of Shannon,
Colthorp & Company, also dealers in men's furnishing
goods at Salt Lake, but after eighteen months he
returned to his former position with Mr. Mullett, with
whom he continued until October, 1916. He then joined B.
D. Rohlfing in establishing the Duds Shop, which has
grown steadily in popularity with those who are
considered the best dressers of the town. They carry a
large and carefully selected line of clothing and men's
furnishings and cater to the highest class trade.
Something of the volume of their business is indicated
in the fact that they employ from five to fifteen men
according to the season and their patronage is steadily
increasing. In 1916 the business was incorporated with
B. D. Rohlfing as president, H. C. Edwards as vice
president and Melvin W. Crane as secretary and
treasurer.
On the 6th of October, 1908, Mr.
Crane was married in Ogden to Miss Minnie Pearl Crager,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Crager, former
residents of Pana, Illinois.
They now have four children: Lois A., who was
born in Salt Lake City and is a high school graduate;
Melvin W., Jr., who was born in October, 1909, and is
attending the public schools; and Betty May and Beverly,
twins, who were born in April, 1917.
Mr. Crane has never been an aspirant for office
nor has he ever allied himself with a political party,
casting an independent ballot. He is well known in
Masonic circles, has attained the thirty-second degree
of the Scottish Rite and has also crossed the sands of
the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He
displays unfaltering adherence to the teachings and
purposes of the craft and has many stanch friends among
his Masonic brethren. His salient characteristics are
those which make for personal popularity among his
social associates and his business acquaintances as
well, and the erstwhile newsboy is today one of the
representative merchants of Salt Lake City.
GEORGE N CURTIS. M.
D.
Dr. George N. Curtis, physician and
surgeon of Salt Lake, was born in Park City, Utah, April
16, 1881, his parents being George William and Millie
(Haws) Curtis, who are also natives of this state, the
former having been born at Payson and the latter at
Logan. The grandparents were members of the original
company that came to Utah with Brigham Young from
Nauvoo. Illinois. The paternal grandfather George Curtis
was a personal friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith and
was closely associated with him at Nauvoo. Illinois. He
early came to Utah and was sent by President Young to
Payson, being one of the original settlers there. He
resided there during the remainder of his life, dying at
the age of eighty-seven years. Our subject's grandfather
in the maternal line was Nathaniel Haws, who was very
closely associated with Brigham Young in the
establishment of the colony and in the development of
the church. He was sent by President Young to the Cache
valley to settle and colonize that district with Mormon
emigrants. George William Curtis in early life engaged
in mining and in milling and later took up land,
devoting the remainder of his active business career to
agricultural pursuits. He has now lived retired for a
number of years and he and his wife make their home in
Logan. They were the parents of three children: George
N.; Lula, the wife of Dr. David K. Allen, a physician
and surgeon of Salt Lake; and Zeeta who resides with her
parents.
Dr. Curtis was a pupil in the
public schools of Park City, passing through consecutive
grades to the high school, while later he attended
college at Logan. Subsequently he became a student in
the Northwestern University of Chicago, Illinois, and
devoting his time to the study of medicine, was there
graduated in 1913. He served for one year as an interne
in Wesley Hospital of Chicago, thus gaining broad and
valuable experience through hospital practice, after
which he returned to Utah and opened an office in Salt
Lake City, where he has since followed his profession
with good success. He belongs to the Salt Lake City
Medical Society, the Salt Lake County Medical Society,
the Utah State Medical Society and the American Medical
Association.
In September. 1910, in Salt Lake
City, Dr. Curtis was married to Miss Anna Hindley, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hindley, of American
Fork, Utah. They have become parents of four children:
George Curtis, who was born in Chicago in 1912; Lucille,
born in Salt Lake City in 1914; Homer Chipman, born in
February 1917; and David Haws, in August
1918.
The religious faith of the family
is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Fraternally Dr. Curtis is connected with the
Loyal Order of Moose and he also belongs to the
Automobile Association. In politics he is a republican
but has never been an office seeker, preferring to
concentrate his efforts and his energies upon his
business affairs, which have been wisely directed with
the conscientious desire to make his service of great
benefit to his fellowmen. He has worked his way upward
entirely un-assisted and he is today regarded as one of
the representative physicians of the
state.
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