LEO DANNENFELZER.
Leo Dannenfelzer, proprietor of the wholesale florist's and nursery business conducted under the name of the Sugar House Floral Company of Salt Lake, was born in Germany, December 7, 1865, a son of Philip and Susan (May) Dannenfelzer, who were also natives of Germany, where they spent their entire lives, the father there engaging in the occupation of farming. They had a family of two children.
Leo Dannenfelzer attended the schools of Germany and came to America when twenty years of age, settling first in New York. Later he and several companions went to Mexico on a prospecting trip and continued their journey into Arizona, Colorado and Utah. This first trip was taken at a time when the Indians were on the warpath and on several occasions they were in the country of the hostile savages but were never seriously molested outside of having horses and implements stolen which were later recovered and the guilty Indians brought to justice. Mr. Dannenfelzer and his companions escaped without any other losses on their prospecting trip and while they met various hardships incident to such a journey they also gained much valuable experience. At length Mr. Dannenfelzer bade his companions adieu and came to Utah, securing a position at Mercur in the Bingham mines, where he remained until 1900. He then came to Salt Lake and purchased the property at Sugar House, since which time he has built up a large floral and nursery business, conducting only a wholesale trade. He has five large glass-covered hothouses and several acres of outside beds and experimental bases devoted to the business. He has a deep love of flowers and plants and this combined with his practical knowledge as a botanist, has made his a successful florist and nurseryman.
On the 1st of April, 1905, Mr. Dannenfelzer was married to Miss Kate Lautner, of Salt Lake, and they are now parents of five children: Philip, who was born in 1906; Margaret Helen, in 1909; Leo, in 1911; William, in 1914; and Louise, in 1917. All were born in Salt Lake.
Mr. Dannenfelzer has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the new world. Not only is he living in a land where the spirit of militarism has never been the dominant feature, but here he has found business opportunities which he has developed and improved, and step by step he has advanced until he is now at the head of a profitable wholesale business.
CHARLES E. DAVEY.
The most casual visitor in Salt Lake at once recognizes the fact that it is a progressive business city and that at the head of its commercial affairs are men who are alert, energetic and determined. Its commercial houses would be a credit to a city of even much greater size. Actively identified with mercantile interests in Salt Lake is Charles E. Davey, a director and manager of the Modern Furniture Company, whose success is well merited, for his business methods would at all times bear the closest investigation and scrutiny. Mr. Davey was born in Salt Lake City, April 19, 1872, a son of Charles and Sarah A. (Butterworth) Davey, both of whom were natives of England. They came to America in early life, the mother crossing the Atlantic in 1868, while the father had at an earlier period made the voyage to the United States. Coming to Utah, he turned his attention to merchandising and afterward engaged in the oil business, but his interests were subsequently acquired by the Continental Oil Company. He died in Salt Lake City in 1900 and is still survived by his wife. They had a family of four children, of whom one died in infancy. Mr. Davey of this review is the eldest, the others being: Ether M., who is now living in Ophir, Utah; and Mary, who is Mrs. Frank Cutler, of Salt Lake City.
Charles E. Davey, after completing the high school course, pursued a commercial course and then entered upon his business career in connection with railroad interests as assistant ticket agent at Garfield Beach for the old Utah and Nevada Railway Company. He remained with that company for nine years arid then turned his attention to the grocery trade as a member of the firm of Haines & Davey. The business was successfully conducted for a time, after which Mr. Davey sold out and became identified with the I. X. L. Furniture Company, with which he was associated for a period of twelve years, acting as vice president of the company. Eventually he disposed of his interest in that business and organized the Modern Furniture Company in February, 1906. He has since been manager and director of this business, which from the beginning has enjoyed a substantial measure of success, the trade of the house continually growing. He carries a large and carefully selected line of moderate and high priced furniture and the reliability of his business methods and his earnest desire to please his customers have brought to him an extensive and well deserved patronage. Mr. Davey has always taken an active interest in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was superintendent of the Cannon ward Sunday School for six years and was associated with Bishop Lewis M. Cannon as counselor in the bishopric. On the 26th of May, 1918, he was made bishop and is now filling that office in a most creditable and acceptable manner, wisely directing the churchly interests under his guidance.
On the 24th of October. 1894, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Davey was married to Miss Lucy R. Gray, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gray, pioneer people of Utah. The father came to the west with the late Major Francis Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. Davey
have become parents of seven children, three of whom died young, the survivors being Hazel Gray, who was born in Salt Lake City, September 17, 1896, was graduated from the Latter-day Saints University and from the Agricultural College. She is now the wife of Reuben H. Hanson and resides in Salt Lake City. Claude Leland, born April 29, 1903, is attending high school. Ralph Marvin, born May 24, 1906, is a pupil in the grade school of Salt Lake, Robert Gray was born May 25, 1915. The family is widely and favorably known in the capital city, where they have an extensive circle of warm friends. Mr. Davey is a self-made man who started out in life empty-handed, but by persistent effort has gradually worked his way upward, wisely utilizing every opportunity that has come to him as the years have passed.
JOSEPH DECKER.
Joseph Decker, a representative of one of the old and highly respected pioneer families of Utah, is president of the Decker-Patrick Company, wholesale dealers in dry goods in Salt Lake. He was born August 23, 1874, in the city in which he still resides, his parents being Isaac P. and Elizabeth (Ogden) Decker. The father came to Utah with the first company of pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, arriving in 1847. He afterward took up the business of stock raising in Salt Lake county and he was one of the last three surviving members of that original company who constituted the vanguard in the colonization of Utah. Only one of this number is now living, W. C. Smoot, who has passed the age of ninety years. The mother of Joseph Decker has also passed away, having died in Salt Lake City at the age of sixty-six years. In their family were seven children, all'of whom survive, namely: Fera, a resident of Salt Lake City; LeRay, whose home is in Idaho Falls; Roy, also of Idaho Falls; Joseph, of this review; Ira, who lives in Idaho Falls; Charles F., of Provo, Utah; and Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, a resident of Idaho Falls.
In his youthful days Joseph Decker attended the graded schools of Salt Lake City and after completing his education he took up mercantile interests. Later he engaged in the dry goods business, becoming connected with the wholesale house of Spencer Clawson & Company. He was associated with that firm for three years and for sixteen years was with Scowcroft & Sons, wholesale dry goods merchants. Thus he acquainted himself with every phase of the trade and gained that broad and valuable experience which has served as the foundation upon which he has built his later success. On the 1st of May, 1909, the Decker-Patrick Company was organized, with Joseph Decker as president; W. G. Patrick, vice president; J. H. Patrick, treasurer; S. W. Lawson, secretary, and F. G. Brooks, James A. Hunter and Frank W. Brazier, directors. The personnel of the firm has undergone but one change, W. C. Castleton filling the place of F. W. Brazier, deceased, as director. This company has developed from a small beginning to a business of extensive proportions largely through the able management, the close application and the indefatigable energy of its members. They handle all kinds and classes of dry goods-in fact every article known to the trade-and their stock represents the output of the leading manufacturers of the country. Something of the extensive trade of the house is indicated in the fact that sixty people are constantly employed in this establishment and the business covers the territory embraced in Utah and three neighboring states. They sell only to the wholesale trade and in addition to being president of the Decker-Patrick Company, Mr. Decker is a partner of the Decker Jewelry Company, of which he was one of the organizers, is a director of the National Bank of the Republic of Salt Lake City and is otherwise identified with important business interests.
On the 19th of March, 1896, Mr. Decker was married to Miss Lillie Parish, of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Parish, natives of England. Mr. and Mrs. Decker have become parents of four sons. James Loa, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1897, was educated in the high school and is now on a mission in New Zealand. Mortimer, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1898 and attended high school here, joined the colors and went to France as a member of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery of Utah. Francis Edwin, who is known as Teddy, was born in Salt Lake City in 1902 and is now a high school pupil. Joseph Finly was born in Salt Lake City in 1905.
Not only is Mr. Decker recognized as a prominent figure in the business circles of his state but is likewise an influential factor in the public affairs of the community as one of the board of governors of the Salt Lake Commercial Club, as president of the Utah Automobile Association and as a vice president of the Rotary Club. He is keenly interested in everything that has to do with the welfare and progress of the district in which he makes his home. His life record should serve to encourage and inspire others, showing what can be accomplished through individual effort. He has ever wisely used his opportunities for advancement and has been quick to take advantage of every chance opening in the natural ramifications of trade. His sound judgment has enabled him to avoid the pitfalls into which unrestricted progressiveness is so frequently led and to direct his labors in those lines where fruition is certain.
ALFRED H. DE NIKE.
Alfred H. De Nike is the general manager of the Mountain States Telegraph & Telephone Company, with offices in Salt Lake. He was born in Kingston, New York, May 18, 1877, a son of John Oliver and Kate Elizabeth (Hudler) De Nike, who were also natives of the Empire state, both being born at Wilbur, Ulster county, New York. John 0. De Nike engaged in the storage and moving van business and met an accidental death at the early age of twenty-seven years. His ancestors came from Holland, the family being founded in America in 1635. Representatives of this Knickerbocker family were among the first settlers at Kingston, New York. The mother still survives and makes her home in New York city. She, too, is descended from Knickerbocker ancestry. In the family were two children, of whom Alfred H. is the elder, the daughter being Mrs. Louis L. Stevens, of New York city.
Alfred H. De Nike attended the public schools and the Kingston Academy and subsequently pursued a commercial course in the Kingston (N. Y.) Business College. When his textbooks were put aside he left home in order to start out upon an independent business career. Going to Chicago, he there entered the employ of the Charles Munson Belting Company and later was transferred to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, as a representative for the company, remaining in the east at that period for a year and a half. He then returned to his home, where he spent a year, after which he heeded the call of the west and went to Denver, Colorado, where he arrived on the 1st of May, 1899. He remained in the Queen City of the Plains for a short period and then accepted a position on a large cattle ranch in Routt county, Colorado, where he became an excellent horseman and a most thoroughly trained and efficient cowboy. He was considered by his employers to be the most valuable man on the place, for his liberal education, his industry and native capacities and powers rendered his service of greatest worth to his employers. He acted as secretary for his employers, transacting much of the business and serving also as bookkeeper. After a year thus passed he returned to Denver, where he became connected with the Colorado Telephone Company, starting in a humble position but rising steadily until he became special representative of the vice president and general manager. He had comprehensive and thorough training in everything connected with the telephone business, including all the outside work along the line. The value of his service was recognized by the telephone company and he was advanced from one position to another with proportionate increase in salary. After ten years with the Denver office he was transferred to Salt Lake City in August, 1912, as general manager of the western division and has since acted in this capacity, which is one of large responsibility and importance. He is also a director of the Columbia Trust Company of Salt Lake City.
On the 20th of January, 1902, Mr. De Nike was married to Miss Maude Kelly, of Denver, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelly. They have one son, Robert Hudler, who was born in Denver, December 20, 1902 and is now attending the West Side high school at Salt Lake.
Mr. De Nike belongs to the Masonic fraternity and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, being a member of Utah Consistory, No. 1. He is a member of Sons of the American Revolution and also has membership with the Salt Lake Commercial Club and the Alta Club and of the latter is a director. His experiences have been broad and varied, bringing about a well rounded development, calling forth all his latent energies and powers and equipping him in a splendid way for any emergency or any contingency that may arise in the business world. Step by step he has progressed through individual effort and merit until his position is today one of large responsibility and importance.
FRED C. DERN.
Fred C. Dern, a mining broker of Salt Lake City, senior partner in the firm of Dern & Thomas, was born in Dodge county, Nebraska, October 1, 1876 and was the fourth in order of birth in a family numbering three daughters and two sons. More extended mention of the family is made on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of John Dern, his father.
He pursued his early education in the public schools of Fremont, Nebraska, and also mastered the branches of learning taught in the high school there. He left that state for Utah in 1894. For a year he was a student in the University of Utah and afterward entered the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, Colorado, but because of illness was obliged to return home where he had completed the full course. Subsequently he went to Mercur, Utah, as the representative of his father in charge of important property interests there and held various positions at that place. His father was at that time head of the Consolidated Mercur Company and the son was associated with the business for five years, he was afterward in the music business with the Carstensen & Anson Company for two years and in 1907 was instrumental in organizing the firm of Dern & Thomas, mining brokers. His collegiate training and his practical experience in connection with mining interests well qualified him for the work which he undertook as a partner in this firm. He is thoroughly conversant with the values of mining properties in the state and has negotiated many important sales of mining stock. In this connection he has built up a business of extensive proportions, having now a most gratifying clientele.
On the 1st of March, 1904, Mr. Dern was united in marriage lo Miss June McIntyre, a daughter of W. H. McIntyre, one of the earliest of the pioneer settlers of this state. The children of this marriage are Mildred and Fred. Jr., born January 2, 1909. In his political views Mr. Dern has always been a democrat since attaining his majority but has never been ambitious to hold office. However, he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. so that he is able to support his position by intelligent argument. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons, exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. He has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Salt Lake City Consistory and he is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he has membership in the Bonneville and the Kiwanis Clubs. He turns to fishing and hunting and various phases of outdoor life for rest and recreation and greatly enjoys being in the open. His public-spirited citizenship is recognized by all who know thought of his career, for his aid and cooperation can at all times be counted upon to further plans and measures for the general good. Much of his life has been passed in this state and the course which he has ever followed justifies the high regard in which he is uniformly held.
PHILIP DERN.
Philip Dern Is the president of the Philip Dern Company of Salt Lake City, painters and decorators, and in this connection has won a wide reputation for most artistic work. Nature endowed him with a keen appreciation for beauty of form, color and tint and in many of the fine public buildings and beautiful homes of the capital city and of the state are seen evidences of his handiwork. Mr. Dern was born May 18, 1860, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany, a son of Philip and Margaret (Lang) Dern, who were also born on the other side of the Atlantic, where the father engaged in farming. Both have now passed away.
Philip Dern was one of a family of five children and after attending school in his native country he learned the business of painting and decorating. He then joined the army and following his military service he worked for a year at his chosen vocation in Europe before crossing the Atlantic to America When twenty-three years of age he became a resident of Hooper, Nebraska, where he took up the business of painting and decorating, and in 1896 he removed to Utah. For a brief period he was in the employ of John Dern, a relative, in the American mine but at the end of that time decided to engage in business on his own account and organized what has since become the Philip Dern Company, painters and decorators. The business was organized in 1905, with Mr. Dern as the president. The company has done most interesting work throughout Salt Lake City and in other sections of Utah. They have been employed to take charge of the interior decorating and furnishing of many of the beautiful homes of the city and among their most notable work was that on the new state capitol building of Utah, where Mr. Dern furnished the interior decorations, including rugs, curtains and draperies. His work in this connection ran into large figures and has elicited the favorable comment and admiration of visitors to the capitol. Mr. Dern also did the work in his line in the American, Strand and Paramount-Empress theatres of Salt Lake City and was also awarded the contract for interior decorating in various banks and public buildings not only in Salt Lake but throughout Utah and also in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. His work is the last word in tasteful interior decoration and adornment and he keeps in close touch with all that the markets of the world afford that will render his service of greater worth to his patrons.
On the 14th of November, 1884, in Hooper, Nebraska, Mr. Dern was married to Miss Hermina Klingheil, who died at that place in 1890, leaving a son, Alfred L., who was born in Hooper, was educated in a business college of Omaha and married Alma Aldrich, by whom he has two children, John Philip and Alma. He is actuary for the Lincoln Life Insurance Company and makes his home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. On the 18th of August, 1891, at Fargo, North Dakota, Mr. Dern wedded Miss Viga Clausen and their children are Ira and Floyd. The elder son, born in Hooper, Nebraska, was educated in the schools of Salt Lake City and is now associated with his father in business. He married Miss Ada Ward of Willard, Utah, and they have one child, Carma. Floyd Dern, born in Hooper, Nebraska, was educated in Salt Lake City and is also connected with his father's business. He married Miss Melria Fowers, of Hooper, Utah. Mr. Dern does not hold to any political party, preferring to vote independently. He belongs to the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City and also to the Knights of Pythias. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the new world, for in this land of opportunity he found the chance which he sought and has made steady progress along business lines, developing his native powers and talents until the artistic quality of his work is most widely recognized and secures to him a very gratifying patronage.
EDWARD H. EARDLEY.
Edward H. Eardley, a well known figure in business circles of Salt Lake as president of the Eardley Brothers Company, was born December 5, 1878, in the city in which he still makes his home, a son of Bedson and Mary Ann (Holding) Eardley, both of whom were natives of England. The father came to Utah in 1856 and the mother in 1875. The former, according to a contemporary biographer, "was among those pioneers of Utah who crossed the plains with handcart companies, walking the long distance from the Missouri river to Utah, pushing before them small handcarts in which they had loaded all their earthly possessions. The story of the privations and suffering of the handcart companies forms one of the most fascinating chapters of the history of Utah and Mr. Eardley's father did his part in making that history." He became the pioneer potter of Salt Lake and engaged in business for many years, carrying on his activities along that line from 1857 until 1889. He was also a member of the famous Mormon Croxall band and was a musician of exceptional ability playing all instruments except the piano. He died in 1894, but the mother is still living and yet makes her home in Salt Lake City. In their family were seven children, two of whom have passed away, the others being Edward H., Frank H., Arthur H., Mrs. Sarah Pace and Mrs. Alice Olray, all of Salt Lake City.
Edward Holding Eardley, whose name introduces this review, attended the public schools until he had completed the work of the seventh grade and then when a lad of but nine years became connected with the electrical business, entering the employ of the Holding Electric Company, with which he continued until 1906. During that period he rose from a very minor position to one of large responsibility. In March, 1906, he established business in a small way on his own account with a capital of but five hundred dollars and in this he was associated with his brother under the firm style of E. H. Eardley & Brother. They also conducted business under the name of the Eardley Brothers Company and in 1914 the Eardley Brothers Company was organized, of which E. H. Eardley has since been the president and manager, with Joseph C. Sharp as vice president and Mr. Ashley H. Wallace as secretary and treasurer. That the business has steadily grown in volume and importance is indicated in the fact that they now employ more than fifty-five experienced workmen and occupy the entire building in which their interests are conducted. Their contract work covers Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada and their business also includes the sale of electrical appliances and materials. Mr. Eardley is also a director of the Manufacturers Association of Utah and is interested in oil and real estate. His interests and activities thus cover a broad scope and place him among the enterprising and progressive business men of the city.
On the 24th of September, 1903, Mr. Eardley was married to Miss Olive Pixton. of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Robert and Martha Pixton, who were pioneers of Utah. Robert Pixton was a member of the famous Mormon Battalion. Mr. and Mrs. Eardley have five children. Leanore, who was born in Salt Lake, July 13, 1904, is attending the West Side high school. Kenneth P., born September 27, 1906, Edward P. born January 27, 1911, Paul P., April 16, 1915, and Gene P., a twin of Paul, are the other members of the family.
Mr. Eardley is a member of the Commercial Club and also of the Jovian National Electrical Association and during the World war he served in several government activities. His religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the work of which he has taken active and prominent part. He is a member of the high council of Pioneer stake and filled a mission for the church in northern states and presided over the Wisconsin conference for over two years. He is a typical citizen of the west, alive, energetic, ready for any emergency and any opportunity, and by reason of the high efficiency which he has attained in his chosen field of labor he is conducting a business of large volume in the field of electrical contracting.
FRANK H. EARDLEY, D. C.
Salt Lake City has readily responded to the call which the science of chiropractic makes to all thinking people and Dr. Frank H. Eardley is among those who are successfully following the profession in Utah's capital. He was here born July 15, 1881, a son of Bedson and Mary (Holding) Eardley. The father was one of those who shared in all of the hardships and privations that attended, the "handcart." companies that journeyed over the stretches of hot sand and through the mountain passes to Utah in 1856. He was a potter by trade. Having become a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he determined to make his home in Utah among people of his own faith and thus the family became established in the west.
Here Dr. Frank H. Eardley was reared, pursuing his early education in the common schools. After his textbooks were put aside he turned his attention to the electrical business as a partner in the firm of Eardley Brothers at No. 37 East First Street, South. It was in 1916 that he first became acquainted with the system of chiropractic and it made strong appeal to him, so that he entered the Palmer School in Davenport, Iowa, on the 26th of August, 1917. There he pursued a thorough course of study and was graduated on the 1st of September, 1918. He began practice in Salt Lake City and has just opened a modern suite of offices in the Keith Emporium building. He has X-ray equipment and every facility to promote his practice, and his work is being attended with excellent results.
On the 20th of June, 1906, Dr. Eardley was married to Miss Eva Smith, of Salt Lake, and they have two children, Dora and Elva. In politics he is a republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but does not seek nor desire political preferment as he wishes to concentrate his entire effort and attention upon his professional interests and duties. To the end of keeping in touch with the most advanced thought and methods of the profession he holds membership in the County, State and National Chiropractic Associations.
FREDERICK EBERHARDT.
Starting upon his business career in Utah with a capital of less than one hundred and fifty dollars and developing his interests until he is now at the head of an important incorporated manufacturing enterprise, Frederick Eberhardt has thus accomplished what seemed at the outset almost an impossibility. He is today well known as the president and manager of the Salt Lake Mattress & Manufacturing Company, one of the important productive industries of the city. A native of Washington county, Wisconsin, he was horn June 26, 1851, of the marriage of Valentine and Catherine Eberhardt, who were of European birth but came to America in early life and cast in their lot among the pioneer farming people of Washington county, Wisconsin. They subsequently removed to Salina, Kansas, where they resided to the time of their death.
Their son Frederick was the eighth in order of birth in a family of eleven children. In his boyhood days he attended the public schools of Washington county, Wisconsin, and after the removal of the family to Kansas he entered the employ of a lumber company at Salina and thus received his initial business training. Eventually he embarked in the furniture trade in that city on his own account and in connection therewith began the manufacture of mattresses and also some pieces of upholstery and furniture. At length he decided to make a change in his location and selected Salt Lake as offering favorable opportunities. He took up his abode in this city in 1891 and for a year worked for others, but he was ambitious to engage in business for himself and started in 1892 in a small way. While his capital was extremely limited, he employed several assistants to aid him in the manufacture of mattresses and in upholstering work. The business grew apace and later was incorporated as the Salt Lake Mattress & Manufacturing Company. Today the company occupies three stories of a large building and has adjacent railroad track. Their plant is equipped with the most modern machinery and appliances devoted to the manufacture of box mattresses, bedding, springs and upholstering, and the growth of the business in indicated in the fact that they now employ from twenty-five to thirty-five people. There is an ever increasing demand for the product and the trade is now not only gratifying in Its proportions but brings to the stockholders a substantial annual income. Mr. Eberhardt is also the president and one of the directors of the Production Oil & Gas Company of Spring Valley, Wyoming.
On the 8th of July, 1878, Mr. Eberhardt was married to Miss Katherine Nungesser, of Manistee, Michigan, and they have become the parents of three children. Those living are Alexander E., born in Salina, Kansas, in 1880 and educated in the Salt Lake high school, is secretary and treasurer of the Salt Lake Mattress & Manufacturing Company. He married Bessie Hard and has four children, Katherine, Marion, Eleanor R. and John Frederick. Irma M., born in Salina, Kansas, in 1884, is the wife of Charles A. MacFarland and they now reside in Seattle, Washington, and have three children, Margaret, Charles and Frederick. Hubbard, born in Salina, Kansas, died at Salt Lake at the age of twenty-one years.
Mr. Eberhardt gives his political allegiance to the republican party but has never been an office seeker. He belongs to the Commercial Club of Salt Lake and to the Manufacturers Association of Utah and in both connections takes an active and helpful interest in promoting the work of public progress and in extending trade relations. His life record illustrates the fact that the portals of success will swing wide to the man of persistent effort whose labors are intelligently directed.
BERT J. ENGLE.
Bert J. Engle, president of the Wasatch Oil & Refining Company and a resident of Salt Lake, was born in Newton, Iowa, May 28, 1877, a son of Dr. Perry and Kate (Madison) Engle, who were natives of Ohio and Michigan respectively. The father was graduated from the Brooklyn Medical School and afterward from the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In early life he became a resident of Iowa, where he has been engaged in active practice for a half century, still devoting his attention to the profession although now eighty years of age. He is one of the honored and respected physicians of the state. During the war he tendered his services as a medical man to the government and was one of the staff of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Hospital. He has labored earnestly for the advancement and up building of his adopted state, has served as a member of the Iowa senate and aided in framing many of the early laws of the commonwealth, some of which have been of great benefit to the people. He framed the law reducing the legal interest rate from eight to six per cent. He also introduced a bill compelling the railroads to install safety couplers and introduced the equal suffrage measure and also the measure for the State School for the Blind. He likewise promoted the bill to have the United States senators elected by a vote of the people. On one occasion he was a candidate for congress but was defeated. He is now president of the Pioneer Law Makers of Iowa and is an honored citizen of Newton. His wife there passed away in 1906. They had two children, one of whom, Dr. Harry Perry Engle, is a graduate physician, specializing in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat at Newton.
Bert J. Engle, the younger, attended the State University of Iowa, from which he was graduated with the LL.B. degree in 1901, and later did special work in the University of Chicago. He entered upon the practice of law in his native city, where he was accorded a liberal clientage for fourteen years. He then removed to Salt Lake in April, 1916, and here turned his attention to the brokerage business, in which he continued for a brief time. On the 1st of May, 1918, he organized the Wasatch Oil & Refining Company, operating principally in Montgomery county, Kansas, and he is thus actively identified with the development of the oil resources of the west.
On the 3d of June, 1902, Mr. Engle was married to Miss Jessie Gray, of Newton, Iowa, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Gray, and they have become parents of two children: Edward, born in Newton in 1905; and Edith, born in Newton, January 1, 1906. The parents are members of the Congregational church and in political belief Mr. Engle Is a democrat. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and has attained the Knight Templar degree. He also has membership with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America, Sigma Nu, a college fraternity, the Commercial Club of Salt Lake and the University Club.
ALFRED H. ENSIGN
Alfred H. Ensign, engaged in the general insurance business in Salt Lake, his native city, under the name of A. H. Ensign & Company, was born September 19, 1869.
He is a son of Samuel L. and Mary (Angel)) Ensign, the former a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, while the latter was born in Zanesville; Ohio. The father came to Salt Lake in 1847 with the second company and engaged in freighting between this city and the Missouri river for some time, while subsequently he turned his attention to stone quarrying. In his later years he has lived retired, enjoying the fruits of his former toil. To Samuel L. and Mary (Angell) Ensign, both of whom are living, have been born thirteen children, nine of whom survive, these being Adella, Samuel L., Alfred H., Mary E., Frank V., Louis O., John W" Stanley and lvie J. All are residents of Salt Lake City with the exception of Stanley, who resides at Marysvale, Utah.
Alfred H. Ensign attended school in his native city and after his textbooks were put aside entered the insurance business on his own account. He established an agency in 1894 in a small way and his interests have since grown to large proportions, the business covering the states of Utah and Idaho and a part of Wyoming. He handles all lines, conducting a general insurance business, representing many of the substantial old-line companies. He likewise handles loans and in both departments of his business has been accorded a very liberal clientage. Mr. Ensign is president of the Engineering Sales Company organized in June, 1919, doing mechanical and construction work.
On the 5th of January, 1898, Alfred H. Ensign was married to Miss Edith Lucile Hyde, of Salt Lake, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Hyde, well known and prominent residents of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Ensign have become parents of three children: Frank H. who was born in Salt Lake City in December, 1898, and is attending the University of Utah; Lucile, who was born in 1903 and is a high school pupil in Salt Lake City; and Helen, born in 1906.
Mr. Ensign maintains an independent political course nor has he ever sought or desired office, though he does not hesitate to give hearty and effective plans and measures for the general good. His time and energies, however, have mostly been devoted to his business and it has been by reason of his indefatigable energy, his close study of every situation and his progressive spirit that he is today numbered among the leading representatives of general insurance interests in Salt Lake City.
JOHN W. ENSIGN
John W. Ensign, member of the bar and manager of the Ensign Abstract Company of Salt Lake, was born April 15, 1877 in the city in which he still resides, a son of Samuel L. and Mary (Angell) Ensign and brother of Alfred H. Ensign, mentioned elsewhere in this publication.
In his boyhood days John W. Ensign mastered the branches of learning taught in the public schools and later entered the University of Utah, in which he pursued a course of law being admitted to the bar on the 23d of June, 1913. He had been connected with the abstract department of the Utah Savings & Trust Company for eighteen years, and on the 1st of April, 1914, he entered upon the practice of law independently. Later be organized the Ensign Abstract Company, being sole owner of the business. He has won substantial success in this connection and has a well merited reputation for executing clear titles to properties, handling real estate and promoting loans in all parts of Utah. He also continues in law practice, making a specialty of land law and land titles. He is considered to be one of the best informed men on this branch of law in this section.
On the 15th of November, 1901, Mr. Ensign was married to Miss Florence Hughes, of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Hughes. They have five children: John D., born in Salt Lake City in 1902 and now attending high school; Paul H., who was born in 1904 and is also a high school pupil: Louise, who was born in 1906 and is attending high school: Hugh S.. born in 1908: and Marjorie G., born in 1910.
Mr. Ensign Is a member of the Kiwanis Club. His attention, however, is mostly given lo his professional and business affairs and he is making rapid progress in those connections. He is actuated by laudable ambition and displays a persistency of purpose together with thorough professional training, that has brought him to the front as a member of the bar as well as in the abstract business.
H. COLE EVANS.
H Cole Evans, superintendent at Salt Lake City for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was born in Clinton, Ontario, Canada, in 1864 a son of Henry A and Louisa (Cole) Evans, who were married in Ontario. The father was born in London, England, in 1823 and crossed the Atlantic to Canada with his parents in his boyhood days. He died in that country in 1886 and his widow, long surviving him passed away in Clinton, Ontario, in 1911.
H. Cole Evans was reared in Clinton to the age of eighteen years and during that period attended the public schools of the city and also the Collegiate Institute there Ambitious to start out in the business world, he left home when a youth of eighteen and went to Manitoba, where he remained upon a farm until 1888. He then crossed the border into the United States, locating in St. Paul. Minnesota, where he remained for a year, during which time he was employed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. Making good in this position, he was transferred to St. Louis in 1889 and there represented the same company until 1893. In that year he was promoted to the position of superintendent and sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he remained until 1895. He was then made superintendent at Yonkers, New York, continuing at that place for a decade, when in 1905 he was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where he spent a year for rest. On the expiration of that period he entered the employ of the Union Life Insurance Company of Canada and was stationed at Halifax and Vancouver until 1913. In the latter year he again entered the employ of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which he represented in California until 1915, when he was transferred to Spokane, Washington, where he continued until 1917, when he came to Salt Lake City as superintendent at this place. During the greater part of his business career he has been in the service of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and is one of its most valued and trusted representatives. Familiar with every phase of the insurance business, he is able to carefully and wisely direct the activities of the agents under his supervision and the business of his district has shown a steady growth under his guidance.
On the 3rd of June, 1891, in St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Evans was married to Miss Mary E. Oehler, a daughter of the late John P. Oehler, and they now have two children, Florence A. and Dorothy O.
In his political views Mr. Evans is a republican, having supported the party since becoming a naturalized American citizen. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and his interest in Salt Lake and her welfare is shown in his connection with the Commercial Club and as a director of the Utah Public Health Association. He is a member of the board of trustees of the community clinic and vice president of the Life Underwriters Association. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church and the many sterling traits of his character have gained for him the high respect and warm regard of those with whom he has been associated.
SALATHIEL EWING, M. D.
Dr. Salathiel Ewing is one of the oldest and most highly honored members of the medical profession in Utah. He resides in Salt Lake, where he still engages to some extent in practice, although he has now passed the eighty-fourth milestone on life's journey. He was born in Union county. Ohio, December 24, 1834, a son of Thomas Maskel and Nancy (Gibson) Ewing, who were also natives of the Buckeye state, the father having been born in the same house in which the birth of Dr. Ewing of this review occurred. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Ewing, emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1718 to New Jersey. The great-grandfather, Joshua Ewing, was chairman of the Joshua Ewing safety committee during the Revolutionary war and was a member of the colonial legislature of New Jersey. The grandfather, James Ewing, became the first settler in Union county, Ohio, in 1788. The father, Thomas M. Ewing, was a farmer by occupation and he and his wife continued to reside in Ohio throughout their entire lives. After devoting a number of years to agricultural pursuits the father became identified with newspaper interests as editor and manager of the Covington (Ohio) Republican and was occupying that position at the time of his death. His wife also passed away in Ohio.
Dr. Ewing is the only survivor of a family of three children. In his boyhood days he attended school in his home county and later became a pupil in a select school for boys at Plain City, Ohio, under Professor Seth Washburn. He next entered the Marysville (Ohio) Academy and subsequently became a student in the Starling Medical School at Columbus, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1871. In the meantime, however, he had also studied medicine under a preceptor, being thus engaged until the outbreak of the Civil war, when his patriotic spirit became a dominant factor in his life and he became a minute man subject to the call of Governor David Tod, of Ohio, and under command of General Lew Wallace. He was present at the time the well known rebel raider, General John Morgan, was captured in eastern Ohio, in which capture Dr. Ewing assisted. The general had a very fleet and fine bred horse, which he rode at the time he was taken prisoner and which was greatly admired and was often ridden by Dr. Ewing, who offered to buy the animal from the owner who had taken it as a prize of war but who would not part with it. Dr. Ewing served as sergeant major of his regiment. He entered upon the practice of his profession in Ohio and there continued until 1883, when he came to Salt Lake, where he has been in active and continuous practice to the present time. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday he was tendered a reception, on which occasion he was presented by the Salt Lake County Medical Society with a large silver loving cup beautifully engraved with his name and the date on which it was received. It is a memento of the occasion which he prizes most highly.
Dr. Ewing was married in Plain City, Ohio, in 1858 to Miss Anna Whitman, who died in 1864, leaving an only child, Walter Ewing, who is now deceased. At Plain City, Ohio, in 1870, Dr. Ewing was again married, his second union being with Miss Josephine Baker, who also passed away there. They were the parents of three children, all of whom are deceased. The present wife of Dr. Ewing was in her maidenhood Miss Ella Black, of Salt Lake, and they were married in 1908. Dr. Ewing belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is a past exalted ruler of Lodge No. 85. He also has membership in Maxwell Post, G. A. R., and thus maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades. In politics he is a republican, and while living in Pleasant Valley, Ohio, served on the town council and was also mayor of that place in 1862 and 1863. Along professional lines his connections are with the Salt Lake Medical Society and the Utah State Medical Society, being past president of both organizations, and the American Medical Association, and since 1887 he has served on the Utah pension board of examining surgeons. His has indeed been a useful, active and honorable career, and today he Is one of the most venerable members of the medical profession in his adopted state, and throughout the entire period of his residence here he has enjoyed the confidence and respect not only of colleagues and contemporaries but of all with whom he has been brought in contact.
