FERD J. FABIAN.
The spirit of modern business enterprise finds expression in the record of Ferd J. Fabian, who is the president of the Ferd J. Fabian Company, conducting a brokerage business in Salt Lake City, president of the Twin Peaks Canning Company and president of the Draper Canning Company. He has gained a most creditable and enviable position in business circles by reason of his undaunted energy and ready adaptability. Opportunity has ever been to him the call to action and in the conduct of his business affairs he has followed constructive measures, never making his success the cause of another's failure.
Mr. Fabian was born in St. Louis, Missouri, August 8, 1857. In his early life he attended the public and high schools of St. Louis and afterward continued his education in the Washington University of that city. On leaving school he became an employee of the St. Louis Bridge & Tunnel Company in the capacity of paymaster and cashier, remaining with that corporation until 1882, when he came west and cast in his lot with the residents of Salt Lake City. For several years he was identified with stock raising in Wyoming and then organized the Ferd J. Fabian Company for the conduct of a brokerage business. He has since been the president of this company, which has operated most successfully in the intermountain country. Mr. Fabian is also closely associated with the canning industry, having been the organizer of what is known as the Twin Peaks Canning Company and the Draper Canning Company, engaged in the canning of fruit and vegetables. Mr. Fabian is also the vice president and a director of the Improved Brick Company, located in Salt Lake City and at Bountiful, Utah. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Security Storage & Commission Company of Salt Lake City and is the vice president of the Old Scotia Mining Company and vice president of the Big Cottonwood Consolidated Mining Company.
On the 24th Of June, 1884, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Fabian was united in marriage to Miss Minnie S. Pegram, a daughter of Captain Rush Pegram, a well known Mississippi river steamboat captain and owner of the early days. Mr. and Mrs. Fabian have two children: Harold P.. who was born in Salt Lake City in 1885; and Stella F., born in Salt Lake City in 1888.
Mr. Fabian has always given his political allegiance to the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He has served as a member of the board of public works under President Dooley and he is interested in all that has to do with the substantial up building and civic progress of Salt Lake City. He is a prominent figure in club circles, belonging to the Alta, Commercial and Country Clubs of Salt Lake City and to the Weber Club of Ogden.
WILL G. FARRELL.
Will G. Farrell, general agent for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, is one of Salt Lake City's best known citizens and a native son of Utah. He was born May 24, 1864, in Logan, the oldest child of George Lionel and Charlotte Marie (Lundberg) Farrell, both of whom were pioneers in the Salt Lake valley. Charlotte Marie Lundberg was born December 15, 1842, at Trolhattan, Sweden, a daughter of Solomon and Christiana (Anderson) Lundberg. pioneers of Utah, who crossed the plains to Salt Lake with their family in 1861.
Will G. Farrell was reared in Logan to the age of thirteen years, when he came alone to Salt Lake City and started upon his business career in the humble capacity of cash boy in the Walker store. He afterward resumed his studies by becoming a pupil in the University of Utah, where he pursued a normal course, passing the required examinations in 1880. Soon after leaving school he accepted a clerkship under Hon. John T. Caine, in the city recorder's office at Salt Lake, where he was employed until he went on a mission to the Sandwich Islands. During his stay there Mr. Farrell became proficient in the Hawaiian language. Returning to the United States in 1885, he afterward served as secretary and treasurer of the Oneida Mercantile Union of Franklin. Idaho.
For several years he occupied the position of recorder of deeds in Cache county and when five years had passed in that connection he was made United States court commissioner at Logan under President Grover Cleveland, in which capacity he continued to serve until 1895 and at the same time conducted an abstract business. Mr. Farrell then took a trip to the Sandwich Islands for his health, remaining there one year, and on his return to Utah again took up his residence in Logan. Soon afterward, however, he removed to Ogden and became traveling auditor for the Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company, occupying that position for two years. He next became traveling auditor for the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company of Utah and thus served until 1900, when he turned his attention to the life insurance business, first representing the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont. In 1904 he became connected with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, being made general agent over the territory comprising Utah and southeastern Idaho. He has built up the business of the agency to extensive proportions and is justly accounted one of the ablest insurance men of the west. Formerly Mr. Farrell was successively secretary, treasurer and president of the Iosepa Agricultural and Stock Company, a Utah corporation, and vice president of the George L. Farrell Corporation, "dry farmers," having charge of the business interests of both companies.
Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, while in the club life of the city he is well known, holding membership in the Alta, the Country, the Bonneville, the Commercial and the Salt Lake Rotary Clubs. Of the latter he has been president and of the Commercial Club he has been secretary, in which capacity his duties were discharged with the same interest, zeal and fidelity as had he been directing his own private business interests.
Politically his allegiance is given to the democratic party in national affairs, but in local matters he looks to the issues and fitness of the candidate rather than to party lines. His entire career has been actuated by the dominant elements of advancement and development, at all times displaying that type of public spirit that is genuine and helpful. He is a member and vice president of the board of education of Salt Lake City. Few, if any, men outside of public life have as wide an acquaintance among the leading people throughout the state. At all times a gentleman with a natural politeness and courtesy that creates friendship and respect and contributes to personal popularity, his friends are coextensive with his acquaintance. What he has undertaken he has accomplished. At the present time, however, he concentrates his efforts and attention largely upon his insurance business, with every phase of which he is thoroughly familiar. Careful organization and the systemization of all of the work have enabled him to build up an agency of extensive proportions, the business of which is constantly growing, and there are few men more widely known in insurance circles in the intermountain country than is Will G. Farrell.
On the 8th of September, 1897, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Farrell was married to Miss Florence Nightingale Caine, who was born September 5, 1873, in Salt Lake City, a member of one of Utah's most prominent families. Her father, Hon. John T. Caine, represented Utah in the congress of the United States by a longer period than any other man, serving in that body as a member of the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second congresses. He was prominent and influential in securing the admission of Utah as a state and was unanimously the choice of the democratic party as its candidate for the first governor of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Farrell have two sons: William Caine, born September 28, 1898; and Frederick Nightingale, born April 20, 1903
JOHN FARRINGTON.
John Farrington, proprietor of the Farrington Garage. Incorporated, of Salt Lake City, was born at Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. May 29. 1852, a son of Richard and Mary (Bunting) Farrington, both of whom were natives of England, where they spent their entire lives. The father was a sawyer and in the latter part of his life engaged in the iron business. Both he and his wife passed away in Liverpool, England. They had a family of five children, three of whom are living: Joseph, whose home is in Southport, England; Mrs. Jane Sawyer, of Salt Lake City; and John, of this review. The last named attended school in Cheshire and in Liverpool, England, and afterward began to learn the printer's trade, at which he worked for two and a half years.
On the 25th of August, 1869, he sailed for America on the steamship Minnesota, and without tarrying on the Atlantic coast continued his journey across the country to Salt Lake. He reached his destination on the 17th of September 1869, and began working for the Desert News. After a short connection with that paper he assisted in the building of the Utah Central Railroad from Ogden to Salt Lake and then printed the first and second numbers of the Ogden Junction on an old hand press. Later he worked at various trades and assisted in building the first car line in Salt Lake. Eventually he turned his attention to the livery business, in which he continued for thirty years and then sold out, establishing the Farrington Garage on the 5th of November, 1916. This business has since continually grown and developed and was incorporated under the name of the Farrington Garage, Incorporated, with John Farrington as president, Richard C. Farrington as vice president. John S. Farrington as secretary and treasurer, and Albert H. Farrington and Franklin D. Farrington as directors. One garage is situated at No. 123 South State street, with a repair shop, and another garage and repair shop is at No. 43 East First South. Mr. Farrington is also a member of the corporation of the Farrington Service Company.
On the 4th of May, 1874. Mr. Farrington was married to Miss Elizabeth Brooks, a daughter of Richard and Mary Jane (Heddon) Brooks. They became the parents of eight children, one of whom has passed away. Richard C., the eldest, born May 24, 1875, in Salt Lake City, and now the vice president of the Farrington Garage Company, married Miss Rella Pratt and has two children. Richard C., Jr., and Ferndon Phelps. John S.. born November 18, 1878, in Salt Lake, married Miss Nettle Snowball, of this city, and has two children; Helen, born September 12, 1909; and John S., born December 31, 1918. Lillian Elizabeth, born in Salt Lake, June 4. 1882, is now the wife of Davis M. Kemp and has four children: Davis Marcus, Jr., born March 28, 1909; Ethel, born December 24, 1910; Ruth, born December 18, 1915; and Dewey Farrington, born December 18, 1917. Albert Henry, born June 28, 1884, in Salt Lake, married Miss Eleanor Winberg and has two children: Louise, born in 1912; and Virginia, in 1918. Ethel Hayden, born in Salt Lake, February 10, 1889, married George L. Snow and has three children: Ethel Eva, George W. and Lucille. Franklin David, born September 5, 1892. married Miss Leonore Kimball and has one child, Calthorp. Ella Louise, born September 7, 1897, is at home.
Mr. Farrington is a member of the Kiwanis Club. His has been an active business career and the success that is his has been attained entirely through his own efforts.
WILLIAM MONTAGUE FERRY.
William Montague Ferry, mayor of Salt Lake City, is indeed a man of affairs. His interests and activities are of the broadest scope. He has proven his ability for successful management of important business interests but has never made the attainment of wealth the sole end and aim of his life. On the contrary he has been an untiring worker in behalf of many plans and projects to ameliorate the hard conditions of life for the unfortunate and he has recognized his duties and obligations as well as his privileges of citizenship in important public service. Continually reaching out along broadening lines, he has made his life one of usefulness and of helpfulness to the individual and to the community at large. His friends-and they are legion-know him as "Mont" Ferry and they esteem him for those personal traits of character which draw man to man in ties of friendship that naught but dishonor can sever. The public, too, holds him in the highest regard because of the excellent record which he has made as a business man and as a public official.
Mr. Ferry was born at Grand Haven, Michigan, March 12, 1871, his parents being Edward Payson and Clara V. (White) Ferry. After mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools of his native state he continued his education at Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan, where he prepared for subsequent training in the State School of Mines at Golden, Colorado, there winning his professional degree in 1891. He has been identified with Salt Lake City since 1898 and through the intervening years has figured prominently in connection with the development of mining properties and the conduct of important financial interests. That his activities have been wisely and carefully directed is shown in the success which he has attained. He is now a director of the Walker Brothers bank, the vice president of the Utah Savings & Trust Company and a director in the Silver King Coalition Mines Company and the Mason Valley Mines Company of Nevada.
Mr. Ferry was married to Miss Ednah Truman and they have become parents of twin sons, William Montague and Sanford Truman, who were born October 4, 1898.
The religious faith of the family is that of the Congregational church. Mr. Ferry has membership with the Sons of the American Revolution, a fact indicative of his descent from one of the old and patriotic American families. He belongs also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise, especially where matters of national policy are concerned, yet at local elections he does not draw tight party lines. He was for a term of four years a member of the city council of Salt Lake, elected on the American ticket in 1905, and serving while on the board of city aldermen as chairman of the finance committee. He was afterward elected to the state senate on the republican ticket, entering upon his duties as a member of the upper house of the general assembly in 1912, and during his term he was an earnest advocate of bills designed to relieve the aged indigent, to provide for orphaned and destitute children, to protect children from unjust labor conditions and to provide adequate wages and proper working conditions for women. In a word his aid and influence have ever been given in behalf of well devised plans for the benefit of his fellowmen and he is continually extending a helping hand where aid is needed. His benevolences are many yet there is no ostentation shown in his giving. Following his service in the senate he was called to the office of mayor of Salt Lake City, to which he was elected on the 2d of November, 1915, for a four years' term. Mayoralty service carried with it unusual conditions and therefore more arduous labors on account of the war. Mr. Ferry rose to the occasion and placed Salt Lake City in the front rank of those cities whose response to every call of the country made them one hundred per cent American. He acted as chairman of the Salt Lake County Chapter of the Red Cross and as chairman of the City Council of Defense and in various other ways gave tangible evidence of his devotion to the interests of the country and his loyalty to the highest American ideals.
KASPAR J. FETZER.
Kaspar J. Fetzer, president of the Salt Lake Cabinet & Fixture Company and thus active in the conduct of one of the representative manufacturing concerns of the state, in fact one of the largest in the intermountain country, was born in Bavaria, Germany, September 24, 1879, a son of Peter and Anna (Seyfert) Fetzer, who were also natives of Germany. The father was there employed in the government service as street supervisor, continuing active along that line to the time of his death in 1917. The mother is still living. In their family were seven children, namely: Marie F. is wife of Henry Mueller, and resides in Salt Lake. Mrs. Mueller is secretary of the Salt Lake Cabinet & Fixture Company. Kaspar J. was the third in order of birth. Louis is a mechanical engineer with the Utah Copper Company of Arthur, Utah; John is a member of the firm of Cannon & Fetzer, prominent architects of Salt Lake. Babetta is still in Europe. Mrs. Annie F. Delier is a resident of Salt Lake. Elizabeth is still in Germany.
In his boyhood days Kaspar J. Fetzer attended the public schools of Germany and afterward went to evening school. Following his graduation he entered the military high school, receiving an officer's training. He was obliged to remain for four years after his graduation and became an officer of the First Regiment of Bavarians. A year later he was detailed as an instructor for the military academy and remained in charge there until 1905, when he resigned and came to the new world. He made his way to Salt Lake City and secured a position with the Oregon Short Line Railroad. After a time he resigned to enter the employ of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad as a car repairer. Within a year he had been advanced to the position of draftsman in the engineering department for the Oregon Short Line Railroad and worked there for five- years. In 1910 he established the Salt Lake Cabinet & Fixture Company, taking up the business in connection with two partners, Mr. Fetzer doing the drafting work. In a short time the partners withdrew and he became sole owner, buying the interests of his former associates in the business. In 1913 he incorporated his interests under the name of the Salt Lake Cabinet & Fixture Company. His business was located at No. 802 South State street but the place became too small and the factory was removed to Richards street. The plant has grown to large proportions to meet the developing demands of the trade. The company now employs thirty people and has one of the best equipped fixture and cabinet making plants in the west. This is a close corporation, with Mr. Fetzer as president and manager, and his thorough training, his practical knowledge of all phases of the work and his initiative spirit enable him to wisely direct the development of the business.
On the 23d day of May, 1906, Mr. Fetzer was married to Miss Bertha Butler, of Salt Lake, and they have become parents of three children: Percy, who was born in Salt Lake in 1906; Leona, born in October, 1909; and John, in January, 1915. In politics Mr. Fetzer is a republican, having supported the party since becoming a naturalized American citizen. He belongs to the Salt Lake City Commercial Club, taking active part in its plans for the development of business conditions here, and he is also connected with the Associated Industries.
ANTONIO FERRO.
Antonio Ferro, vice president of and general manager of the Western Macaroni Manufacturing Company, was born in southern Italy, October 22, 1872, a son of Carmine and Angela (Perri) Ferro. The father remained in his native land, engaged in farming and owning large tracts of cultivable land to the time of his death, which occurred in 1891. His widow still resides in Italy. They had a family of twelve children, of whom three sons and four daughters are yet living, namely: Antonio, who is the eldest; John, yet in Italy; Joseph, living in Salt Lake; Mary, Lucia, Francesca and Carmello, who still reside in Italy.
Antonio Ferro attended the public schools of his native country and then entered a normal school. He came to America in 1894, when a young man of twenty-two years, making his way first to Pennsylvania. After six months there passed, during which time he was employed at mining, he made his way westward to Colorado and took up his abode fourteen miles north of Glenwood Springs. In that state he also engaged in mining through the summer, after which he decided to come to Utah and settled at Mercur. He continued to work in the mines for twenty months and then took up his abode in Salt Lake. He started in business on Second street, South, in 1896 and there continued for seven years, after which he organized the Western Macaroni Manufacturing Company in 1905 and has since been its directing head. From a small concern the business has steadily grown to large proportions. Mr. Ferro was originally the sole owner but has incorporated the business with other stockholders. The company has a modern manufacturing plant, equipped with every labor-saving device, and has five floors of a large building, giving them adequate shipping facilities and ample ground space. The company employs continuously from twenty-four to thirty experienced people in the various departments, and they manufacture forty-three varieties of macaroni and spaghetti, shipping to various points throughout the west.
In March, 1905, Mr. Ferro was married to Miss Giovannina Calfa, of Salt Lake, and they have three children: Rosa, who was born in Salt Lake in 1906, and is now attending St. Mary's Academy; Ariosto. who was born in 1908; and Mary, born in 1913. In politics Mr. Ferro has ever maintained an independent course. He belongs to the Commercial Club, to the Manufacturers Association, to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Sons of Italy and the Roman Catholic church, associations which indicate the nature of his interest and the rules which govern his conduct. He has become one of the representative citizens of Salt Lake, progressive in his business affairs and loyal in his support of measures for the general good. Those who know him and he has a wide acquaintance speak of him in terms of warm regard.
MOYLAN C. FOX.
Moylan C. Fox. a Salt Lake City capitalist, who has been a forceful factor in the development and up building of the west, identified with commercial, mining and agricultural interests, was born in Columbia, South Carolina. August 26, 1847, a son of Stephen Moylan and Louisa (Linton) Fox, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. In early life they located in South Carolina, where the father followed the business of civil engineering. He was a graduate of the West Point Military Academy and engaged extensively in bridge building throughout the southern and eastern states. Both he and his wife have passed away, and Moylan C. Fox of this review is the only survivor of a family of five children.
At the time he was of school age his parents resided in Cleveland. Ohio, so that he attended the public schools of that city. At the age of eighteen, however, his textbooks were put aside and he started out in the business world. He was employed in various ways and later he turned his attention to commercial pursuits. In 1875 he arrived in Salt Lake City and became identified with mining in various districts of this state. He also engaged in other business ventures, all of which have been successfully conducted. In all things he has displayed sound judgment and keen discrimination, readily recognizing the difficulties as well as the opportunities of a business situation and therefore bending his energies to the task of overcoming the former and of utilizing the latter. He became superintendent of a number of profitable mining interests and is now the president of the Silver King Coalition, president and director of the Eureka Hill Mining Company; vice president of the Judge Mining & Smelting Company; a director of the Daly West Mining Company; a director of the Park-Utah .Mining Company; a director of the Daly Judge Mining Company; and a director of the Continental National Bank of Salt Lake City. He is likewise extensively engaged in cattle ranching, having very important interests of that character, including large ranches in both Utah and Idaho.
In 1879 Mr. Fox was united in marriage to Miss Emilie C. Regnard of Salt Lake City, the adopted daughter of Joab Lawrence, a well known and prominent resident here. To them were born four children, two of whom are living, while one son, Moylan J., died young, and another son recently passed away, a victim of the influenza epidemic. This was Moylan C. Fox, Jr.. who died December 1, 1918 at the age of twenty-seven years. He was a young man of fine character and of athletic build. He was well known as an expert horseman and was devoted to outdoor life. He acted as manager of one of his father's large ranches in Idaho. He was stricken with the dreadful malady while accompanying his wife to Salt Lake, where she was to receive medical attention. She survives together with their two children, Moylan and Nadine. Lawrence Fox, who was born in Salt Lake City, was educated in the schools here and is a graduate of Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. He is married and resides in Salt Lake with his wife and two children, Lawrence and Marie. Jessie L. is now Mrs. Edson Adams, of Piedmont. California. She was born In Salt Lake, is a graduate of the public schools and also of a school for young ladies at Boston, Massachusetts. By her marriage she has become the mother of two children, Frank P. and Emilie C. Adams.
Mr. Fox is a member of the Alta Club and of the Commercial Club. He is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, being a great-grandson of General Stephen Moylan of Philadelphia, who enlisted in the Continental Army in 1775 and soon afterward became an aide-de-camp to General George Washington, and was later promoted to the rank of brigadier general. Mr. Fox has won for himself a position of distinction in mining and business circles and his life is indicative of the possibilities for successful achievement on the part of the individual.
ANTHONY H. GODBE.
Anthony Hampton Godbe, president of the Prince Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, is one of the well known mining men of the intermountain country, and as a resident of Salt Lake is numbered among that city's most substantial citizens. He was born in Salt Lake, November 22, 1862, the eldest son and second child of William S. and Mary (Hampton) Godbe, of whom extended mention will be found elsewhere in this work.
Anthony H. Godbe attended the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute of Salt Lake City, after which he took a special chemistry and scientific course at the Deseret University. When his textbooks were put aside he turned his attention to practical mining and metallurgy. He has continued actively in those fields ever since and has successfully developed and operated a number of mining and milling properties, chief among which is the Prince mine, situated near Pioche, Lincoln county, Nevada, and now owned by the Prince Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. He and his brothers, Murray C. Godbe and the late Ernest L. Godbe, developed this property from the prospect period to its present condition of profitable working. They induced the railroad company to build its branch line from Caliente to Pioche, Nevada, thirty-three miles distant, and from that point the brothers extended the road nine miles further to their property so that they now have a well equipped, standard gauge railroad to the mine. This property has proved a source of great profit and, besides employing a large force of men daily for the past several years, has yielded over a million dollars in profits in ore already taken there from and five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars has been paid in dividends to the stockholders. The mine yields iron, lead and silver, producing yearly over one hundred thousand tons of un-smelted ore which is shipped three hundred and sixty-eight miles to the Salt Lake Valley smelters and transformed into silver-lead bullion. Of the Company A. H. Godbe is president; W. S. McCornick, treasurer; Murray C. Godbe, general manager and secretary.
In addition to his extensive mining interests, A. H. Godbe owns the Godbe apartments on East South Temple street. Salt Lake City, Utah. This is a modern apartment building, one of the finest in the city, thoroughly equipped with every convenience known to modern apartment construction.
On the 15th of September, 1896, Mr. Godbe was married to Miss Ruby Clawson, of Salt Lake, a daughter of Bishop Hyrum B. and Ellen (Spencer) Clawson. They have become parents of five children: Virginia, who was born December 13, 1899 in Salt Lake, has graduated from Rowland Hall and is now attending the University of Utah; Margaret, who was born June 18, 1901, is a student at Rowland Hall; Hampton, born in Salt Lake, May 21. 1906, is attending the Salt Lake high school; Anthony LaRiviere Godbe, born November 3, 1913, and Louise, born on the 19th day of April, 1916, complete the family.
In politics Mr. Godbe was a follower of Roosevelt and still maintains an independent course. He belongs to the Commercial Club and is deeply interested in the well devised plans and purposes of that organization to up build the city, to extend its business relations and uphold its civic standards. He is a representative of one of the old and honored pioneer families of the state, and the work instituted by his father, the late W. S. Godbe, in the days of early development in Utah, has been carried forward by him, constituting an important element in the further growth and up building of this section of the country.
WILLIAM S. GODBE.
In taking a retrospective view of the settlement and development of Utah and the men who have been closely identified with its history, the name of no other stands higher than that of William S. Godbe; while in the early development of the state's mineral resources his name stands foremost. For over fifty years he was prominently identified with those progressive and constructive movements that have contributed so largely to Utah's advancement.
William S. Godbe was born in London, England, June 26, 1833, a son of Samuel and Sarah (La Riviere) Godbe. A contemporary biographer has written of William S. Godbe: "He was as a boy bright, sensitive and brave, and while yet a child took in a belief that his own country was the greatest in the world, because his forefathers had, while maintaining themselves against the world, subdued themselves and disciplined themselves until order with them was a rule, and obedience to law a duty which might not be avoided. At the same time he discerned that throughout all the mutations of the centuries, the one paramount thought that had become fixed in every British mind was that the freedom of the citizen and his inherent right to do any legitimate thing, that is, anything which did not trench upon the rights of his fellowmen or the rights of society, was an inalienable birthright.
"It was at a time when England had just begun her mighty expansion. Her triumphs, first under the battle canopy of Trafalgar, then at Waterloo; her lead in the manufacturers of the world; her possession of more ships and money than half the world outside, were all witnesses of a measureless power and incentive for all Englishmen to make the utmost exertion for wealth and place. Then in his childhood, the genius of that mighty array of British intellectual lights, Scott, Burns, Byron, Macaulay, Keats, Coleridge, Campbell and the others, had just attained full voice, and the first splendors of the Victorian era were shining about him. No wonder that an eager, alert soul like his should be surcharged with ambition and enthusiasm. "While yet a youth, he determined to take in the world and so bound himself to a ship company, and when he sailed on the first voyage his soul was in full accord with the wild winds above and the never resting sea that rolled around him. In early youth he had read all the classics, and as he sailed from his native shore he exulted in the thought that the life he had chosen would lead him to the lands where those who had shaken the world in the long ago, the heroes, the orators, the poets, the artists of the early ages, had lived and wrought and died.
"Then the question of the Turk and Greek was stirring the world. Byron, an Englishman, had just died in an effort to help the latter nation, that nation around which so much glory lingers. So he visited the Grecian isles, spent a good while in Constantinopole, went over to southern Russia and up the Danube, then across to Egypt, along northern Africa, across to Brazil, then, returning, took in northern Europe. His journeys were continuous studies; as he neared a coast, all that was famous in the history of that coast was familiar to his mind, and the voyage was but a post graduate course in which to complete his studies. He spent a good deal of time in France, Germany and Denmark. He was more than once shipwrecked. In those years he took in more information than he could have gained in half a century on shore, and the discipline he underwent, in after life, made difficulties which would have baffled the ordinary man seem but trifles to him.
At the same time a life at sea grew, after a long experience, irksome. It was hitching a blood horse to a whim and driving him in a circle day after day, when his real nature was to go out and, through campaigns that taxed all his energies and strength, win his conquests. He was on the swift road to become a captain and to sail his own ship, but that meant simply an enlarged sphere; the old, narrow routine would still have been his, when he held in thought the whole world and its possibilities for him. But who can estimate what the discipline of the sea was to him in after life?
"He returned to England and completed his apprenticeship in a shipchandler's office. That for him consisted mostly of heavy physical labor, the dragging of ship stores to ships along the docks.
"While thus engaged he one day heard the preaching of a Mormon elder. Here was something new-an appeal for a return to primitive Christianity. The imagination of young Godbe was at once enlisted. Before, his vision had been confined to this world; now he took in both heaven and earth. He at once procured some Mormon books and the writings of Parley Pratt kindled a new flame in his soul. He became a convert, attended the Mormon meetings, 'bore his testimony' with passionate fervor, for at the time he hailed the new faith as a miracle wrought for man's salvation, and his youthful fancy surrounded it with all the splendor of that light which comes from the celestial chambers, where divine light is brewed.
"Then the martyr's spirit absorbed him; the glory that was to be in founding and building up his faith in the wilderness of America engrossed him, and he sailed from his native land to join the work, "He left London as a sailor and, reaching New York, he had only what money he had earned on the voyage. He struck out on foot for Utah. He walked to Buffalo, then worked his passage on a boat to Chicago, then again started on foot and walked to the frontier, where he obtained employment in a train loaded with merchandise for Salt Lake in 1851.
"He engaged in business with a merchant, Mr. Thomas S. Williams, and in a few years, by incessant industry and through that courage of his which never faltered, amassed a comfortable fortune.
"In those early days a man who understood the needs of the city and who likewise understood the art of purchasing the best goods at the lowest prices, was essential in Salt Lake, and Mr. Godbe was exactly the man for the place.
"So he made annual journeys east to purchase his own goods and to act as the commercial agent of the people. The day of his starting was advertised annually, and then for days his office was thronged with men and women from all over the territory, giving their individual commission for him to fill, and in the autumns when the trains arrived with these goods, the rush for them made a periodical sensation. "Before the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad Mr. Godbe had crossed the plains twenty-four times to the Missouri river, besides making several trips to California by the northern, central and southern routes. These trips he made by horseback generally, but always by his own conveyance, and in some instances only one man accompanied him. This was when the Indians were bad, and he deemed it safer to travel without attracting too much attention. He also crossed the Atlantic seventeen times. "Mr. Godbe, too, was the first man in Utah to bring down the price of merchandise, adding but a reasonable percentage to cost and freight.
"As his fortune accumulated he built the Godbe building, corner of First South and Main streets, which, with Mr. William Jennings' emporium across the street, were really the first substantial buildings erected in the city. The Walkers Brothers store, corner of Second South and Main, was soon after erected. "By his enterprise and generosity and public spirit Mr. Godbe had drawn to him the affection of thousands of people and the good will of all the rest. But he had at the same time become disillusioned regarding many things in relation to the church to which he had devoted his life. He found that it really was a theocracy as implacable as fate, and that its chiefs would brook no divided authority in matters either spiritual or temporal. He thought of King John and the barons, and while his devotion to the religion was as sincere as ever, he revolted at the thought that under the guise of religion any man should place any other man's mind in thralldom. "The time had come when Utah was falling behind because her greatest resource, her mines, lay dormant. The church had discouraged, almost or quite forbidden the Mormon people to engage in mining. Godbe believed this was tyranny and he, with Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Harrison, determined to advocate mining. They had already started the Utah Magazine to begin to introduce a higher standard of literature than had before been encouraged in Utah. They at last determined to publish in this magazine an article advising the pursuit of mining.
"This was followed by a summons to appear before 'the high church council' to show why they should not be deemed apostates. It was a furious meeting and the lives of the men really hung upon a thread while it lasted, so fierce did the waves of fanaticism roar and rave about them.
"But they stood their ground, insisting that, under the laws of the land and of civilization, and under a fair interpretation of their creed, they had done nothing which any American and good Mormon had not a right to do.
"The result was excommunication for them all, and, by the persecutions that followed, a loss not only of the greater part of their patronage, but of half their fortunes. "But the publication was kept up until it was changed from a magazine into the Daily Tribune. In this effort toward a greater freedom for Utah Mr. Godbe expended fifty thousand dollars, but he never begrudged one cent of the money. Some time the children of the men who pursued him then will expend that amount upon a monument to his memory. What the persecution was may be understood from the fact that in two years not only was the wealthy merchant stranded, but left more than one hundred thousand dollars in debt.
"Under that burden there were only two things left open to him, either he must leave Utah and begin anew somewhere else or he must turn to the mines, the opening of which he had advocated in the magazine. He chose the latter and, with all the energy of his nature, began the work.
"It was a new occupation; to prosecute it on a large scale special knowledge and much money were needed but he did not hesitate a moment. For some years he did more than any other man to advertise and open and work the mines, and toiled on with unabated energy, confidence and enthusiasm until there came the complete breaking down of his health, and after some months of suffering his worn-out heart finally ceased to beat.
"To the last he was a friend and brother to the Mormon people. To the last he had no meaner thought toward them than to see them more prosperous, more enlightened and happier. For all the wrongs done him he never aimed one blow in retaliation, he never nursed one thought of retaliation or vengeance. "Of his mining career some items are of public interest. In 1865 news reached Salt Lake that gold had been discovered in the Sweetwater region in Wyoming. He was among the first to respond. There was no railroad in the west then. He secured deeds or options on some claims; he went to San Francisco; bought the first quartz mill that was ever sent to Wyoming, shipped it by sea to San Pedro and then hauled it by wagon via Salt Lake to Wyoming-more than twelve hundred miles-set it up and went to work.
"In 1871 he went back to his native city, organized the Chicago Silver Mining Company, Limited. Returning, he opened and operated the Chicago and Queen of the Hills mining group in Dry canyon, Utah, near Stockton, with a capital of seventy-five thousand pounds sterling, the first prominent mining company, save the Ontario, Emma and Flagstaff in Utah.
"He erected a fifty ton lead smelting furnace at Rush Lake and later added more furnaces; he gave employment to one hundred and fifty miners and smelters for years, and the men needed to supply two thousand bushels of charcoal to the furnaces daily. The company shipped over thirteen hundred carloads of base (silver-lead) bullion to eastern refineries, of a value of about three million dollars. "This company also erected a wire tramway sixty-five hundred feet long in Dry canyon, with a capacity of ten tons per hour, the first Halliday tramway erected in Utah. The smelting plant was the first plant of the kind in the territory and was fifty miles from any railroad.
"In 1877, negotiating with the Horn Silver mine at Frisco, Utah, he erected a fifty ton smelter at the mine, one hundred and thirty miles from a railroad, for smelting the company's ores.
"Later he bought other mines, notably the Cave mines, across the valley, east of Milford; also the Carbonate and Rattler mines, near Frisco, on which he erected a one hundred ton per day concentrating plant, and from these shipped twelve hundred carloads of silver-lead bullion of a value of more than two and a half million dollars. To work the mines, mill and smelter and to supply wood and charcoal several hundred men were given employment at high wages for years.
"In 1879-80 he organized the Bullionville Smelting Company and bought the Raymond & Ely tailing dump at Bullionville, Nevada, containing over one hundred and seventy thousand tons of rich mill tailings, valued at about twenty dollars a ton, and erected a fifty ton smelter and a one hundred ton capacity concentrator and worked forty thousand tons of these tailings, producing in bank over a million dollars in silverlead bullion. Here again he employed many hundred workers and consumed twelve hundred bushels of charcoal a day. His operations here were over one hundred and forty miles from railroad facilities and all hauling was done in wagons. "From 1880-1886 he was the mainspring in the work of developing the gold placers of Osceola, White Pine county, Nevada, one hundred and fifty miles from the railroad, where thirty-eight miles of mountainous ditches and flumes were constructed. The ranches were bought outright, to get the water needed to hydraulic the gravel, which averaged about fifteen cents per cubic yard. This work cost quite four hundred thousand dollars and was the only enterprise which failed to be profitable. It was a fight against the desert just when the late dry cycle was coming on and the desert wou. Not enough water to wash the gold from the gravel. All of his other enterprises were brought to successful terminations.
"In 1882 he took hold of the antimony mines in southern Utah, one hundred and sixty miles from the railroad at that time. Here he pushed development to a point of running a forty ton concentrator plant and made star metal, shipping it by ox teams to the railroad.
"His mining experiences in early days covered Cottonwood, Bingham and Tintic districts in this state and in 1880 he became heavily interested in the Alice mine in Montana. In 1885 he turned his attention to the source of the rich Bullionville tailings namely at Pioche, Nevada, and organized the Pioche Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, capitalized for five million dollars, which acquired the famous Raymond & Ely, Meadow Valley and most of the other mines in that celebrated district, and later those at Jack Rabbit and other surrounding districts. He readily saw that the millions of dollars contained in these mines could be profitably extracted with railroad facilities, and got the Union Pacific Railroad Company to build a grade from Milford, Utah, to Pioche, Nevada, a distance of one hundred and forty miles, but owing to the great panic of 1893 the rails were never laid until the last few years. "This company employed hundreds of men for several years, erected smelting works, concentrating works, and a large milling plant, built a narrow gage railroad twenty miles long and distributed a large fortune among the people of that section. "Early in 1902 he was stricken with a fatal illness, and on the 1st of August of that year he died.
"The foregoing is a brief synopsis of the life of a man who from boyhood to the day that the lights of earth went out for him-more than half a century-toiled incessantly, toiled only with high purposes and in the hope of making all around him happy, of seeing his fellowmen of all stations in a way to make them happier, which path through life was lined by generous deeds; who despised anything dishonest or petty, or mean; whose invincible spirit was never broken; whose courage was never shaken; whose dreams of good held all his fellowmen in their scope; who loved life and its enjoyments, but always made both subordinate to duty; who outlived the execrations of his fanatical traducers and so reinstated himself that those who had been taught to believe he was untrue gathered tearfully around his bier and with choking voices sounded his praises. He was always, after 1851, a tower of strength to Utah, and Utah people should always hold that his grave marks a sacred spot in Utah's soil."
Mr. Godbe was father of the following children: Samuel T., a mining engineer of Los Angeles, California; Frank, who has served as city treasurer of Salt Lake; Millicent Amelia, who became the first wife of Charles P. Brooks and died September 27, 1889; Nellie, the wife of Richard H. Browne, a mining engineer of Salt Lake; Anthony Hampton, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work; Alfred, who was engaged in mining at Pioche, Nevada, where he died; Miriam, who is the widow of Charles P. Brooks, of Salt Lake; Theresa, a teacher in the public schools of Salt Lake City; Ernest Lacy now deceased, who married Sally Wertheimer and was one of the promoters of the Prince Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company and the Ohio-Kentucky Mining Company, being a well known mining man and metallurgist; and Murray Charles, of Salt Lake City, who married Alta Young. The last named is prominently identified with mining interests, being general manager and secretary of the Prince Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, which property he and his brother, Anthony H., developed from the exploration period. William S. Godbe also had an adopted daughter, Elva B., who married Patrick Sheahan and resides in Salt Lake City.
PATRICK H. GOGGIN.
Patrick H. Goggin is now at the head of the Independent Ice Company of Salt Lake City, of which he was the organizer and is the president and manager. It is not only in this business connection, however, that he is well known, for through many years he was one of the most successful drivers and trainers in racing circles, driving horses in harness. He was born in Greencastle, Indiana, April 10. 1873, a son of Patrick and Mary (Fitzgerald) Goggin. both of whom were natives of Ireland. They came to America in early life, the mother crossing the Atlantic with her parents, who settled in Massachusetts. The father became a resident of Ohio and in 1857 went to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He engaged in mining on the Pacific coast for several years and then returned to the Mississippi valley, taking up his abode in Indiana, where he turned his attention to farming near Greencastle. Both he and his wife passed away in that state. In their family were thirteen children, six of whom are yet living. Patrick H. being the fourth in order of birth. The others are: John, living in Salt Lake City; David, whose home is in Butte, Montana; Mrs. Nora Alves, a resident of Metz, California; Rosa, also of Metz; and Nell Thayer, who is residing in Mesopotamia, Ohio.
Patrick H. Goggin spent the days of his boyhood and youth in Indiana, where he attended the public schools, passing through consecutive grades to the high school. Later he attended commercial college and subsequently worked upon his father's farm until he started out in the business world as a driver and trainer of horses driven in harness. He became greatly interested in this and acquired the ownership of horses, his activities in racing circles making him known from coast to coast. He won the reputation of being one of the best drivers and trainers of racing and trotting horses in the country. He raced his stable principally on the eastern circuit for four or five years, when he was tendered the position of general manager of the Terre Haute Race Track and Fair Grounds and continued in that position until 1900, when he resigned. He then came to Salt Lake City and accepted a position with the Salt Lake Ice Company, continuing to serve as foreman for nine years. In 1910 he decided to engage in business on his own account and organized the Independent Ice Company, having bought out a small business which was then struggling along to maintain an existence. He bent his energies to the building up of the trade and has succeeded far beyond his expectations. At first but one horse was needed in delivery, while today the business has grown to such propor-tions that he utilizes many wagons in the ice trade and employs thirty or more people. The business has been incorporated under the name of the Independent Ice Company, with Patrick H. Goggin as the president and John Goggin as vice president.
On the 16th of February, 1898, in Terre Haute, Indiana. Mr. Goggin was married to Miss Margaret Byrne, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Byrne, of that city. Mr. Goggin belongs to the Knights of Columbus, also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is a member of the Roman Catholic church and is identified with the Kiwanis Club. He has become a well known figure in the business circles of Salt Lake and in the conduct of his affairs has built up an industry which is bringing to him a gratifying financial return.
WILLIAM G. GRIMSDELL, Jr.
William G. Grimsdell, Jr., is proprietor of the Grocer Printing Company, one of the large printing plants of Utah. The business has been conducted in Salt Lake City since 1885 and has been developed to extensive proportions under the able guidance of Mr. Grimsdell, who possesses splendid executive ability and whose administrative direction of the interests of the business has brought to him gratifying success. Mr. Grimsdell is a native son of Salt Lake City. He was born November 10, 1878, of the marriage of William C. P. and Jane (Buckle) Grimsdell, who are natives of London, England. In early life they came to America and made the long and arduous trip across the plains to Utah, where the father still resides. After reaching this state he established himself in the printing business and is still active in conducting business affairs of his own. The mother also survives.
William G. Grimsdell, Jr., received his early education in the public schools of Salt Lake City, after which he entered the office of the city engineer in a clerical capacity, remaining in that position for two years. Having a liking for the printing business, he started working for his father, who was one of the proprietors of the Grocer Printing Company, afterwards acquiring an interest and in 1909 purchasing his father's interest and becoming sole owner. He has developed the business from a small establishment until he has one of the large plants of the kind in Salt Lake City, with twenty-five employees in the various departments. The plant is thoroughly equipped in all the departments with the latest models of machinery and in fact has every facility of producing the highest grade of work, for which it has an enviable reputation.
In Salt Lake City, in 1902, Mr. Grimsdell was married to Miss Edna Swanson and they have become parents of two children: George, born in Salt Lake in 1906; and Frank, in 1908. Both are attending the public schools.
Mr. Grimsdell is known in club circles as a valued member of the Rotary, Bonneville and Salt Lake Commercial Clubs. Through hard work and perseverance he has built up a splendid business and is looked upon as a leader in the printing craft in the intermountain region. He is a director in several successful commercial enterprises. He is interested in everything that has to do with the progress and up building of the city and his support is given to many measures which advance the civic standards.
ROY GROESBECK. M. D.
Dr. Roy Groesbeck, actively engaged in medical and surgical practice in Salt Lake City, where he was born May 10, 1889, is a son of Hyrum and Ann (Maycock) Groesbeck, both of whom were natives of Springfield, Illinois. They came to Utah in 1856, making the long and arduous journey across the plains at a period that antedated railroad travel. The father engaged in mining throughout the entire period of his residence in this state with varying success. Both he and his wife have now passed away. Their family numbered six children, five of whom are still living: Hyrum, Leslie, Ethel, George M. and Roy.
The last named was the fifth in order of birth in the family. He attended the public schools of Salt Lake, passing through consecutive grades to the high school, and later entered the University of Utah, from which he was graduated in 1910. He then went east for preparation for the practice of medicine, entering the Western Reserve Medical College at Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1913, at which time his professional degree was conferred upon him. He later spent two years as an interne in the Lakeside and Charity Hospitals in that city and thus gained broad and valuable experience such as can be secured more quickly through hospital work than in any other way. In 1915 he returned to Salt Lake City, where he has since built up a lucrative practice. He is now surgeon for Emergency Hospital and is serving as a member of the health department of the city. Since 1916 he has been an instructor in surgery at the University of Utah.
On the 7th of June, 1917, Dr. Groesbeck was married to Miss Mary Gennett Price, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Price, who came to Salt Lake in 1871. Dr. and Mrs. Groesbeck hold membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He belongs to the Nu Sigma Nu, a national medical fraternity, and he also has membership with the Salt Lake City Medical Society, the Salt Lake County Medical Society, the Utah State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Through his connection with these organizations he keeps in close touch with the advanced thought of the profession.
