JUDGE NORMAN W. HAIRE.
Judge Norman W. Haire has since 1912 been actively and prominently identified with mining interests of Utah and is now the president of the Utah-Michigan Mining Company, with offices in Salt Lake City. Upon his removal to Utah he brought with him broad experience in the field of mining and this supplemented a successful career as a distinguished member of the Michigan bar.
He was born in Jackson county. Michigan. February 24, 1855. a son of Frederick H. and Lucy J. (Smith) Haire, who were natives of the state of New York but became residents of Michigan in 1840. The father afterward engaged in farming and stock raising and remained a resident of that state until called to his final rest in October, 1897, when seventy-three years of age. The mother is still living at the age of eighty-seven years and makes her home in Auburn, New York. Both were representatives of old New England families. The father's people were of Scotchish descent, coming from the north of Ireland to the new world at an early period in the colonization of America. Mr. and Mrs. Haire had a family of four children, of whom the Judge is the eldest. The others are: Perry J., who is connected with mercantile interests in Chicago. Illinois; Mrs. Marsha C. Hunt, living in Allegan county, Michigan; and Mrs. Kate M. Eddy, a resident of Auburn, New York.
In his boyhood days Judge Haire attended the public schools of the place of his nativity and later entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated on completion of the literary course in 1880. He then taught school for three years, after which he entered the law department of the University of Michigan and was graduated there from with the class of 1885. During his college days he was a classmate of Hon. J. H. Moyle, now assistant secretary of the United States treasury at Washington. D. C" also of Waldemar Van Cott, a prominent attorney of Salt Lake City, and others who have gained distinction. Following his graduation from the law school Judge Haire located at Ontonagon. Michigan, where he engaged in practice for four years, and in 1891 he was appointed to the circuit court bench of that state and served with honor and dignity for a period of fourteen years, his course being distinguished by a masterful grasp of every problem presented for solution, while his decisions were marked by the utmost justice and equity. At the end of fourteen years he resigned his position on the bench and turned his attention to mining in the copper fields of Michigan, becoming a stockholder in and the general manager of the Bigelow Mines Syndicate, owners of the Tamarack, Osceola, Ameek and Isle Royal mines and smelters located in Houghton county, Michigan. He remained the general manager for five years, at the end of which time his companies disposed of their interests there to the Calumet & Heel a Mining Company and he came to Salt Lake in 1912, attracted by the rich mineral fields of this state. Here he at once became a factor in mining projects, being chosen general manager and president of the Utah-Michigan Mining Company, owning silver, lead and copper properties at Alta, Utah, in the Cottonwood district. He is now devoting his energies to the development of these properties with good success and his long experience in connection with mining in Michigan well qualified him for the important duties which he assumed on coming to Utah.
On the 3d of July, 1880, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Judge Haire was married to Miss Lydia Moore, a daughter of Parley P. and Abigail Moore, who were natives of New England and representatives of prominent families of Connecticut and of New York. Parley P. Moore was one of the pioneer settlers of southern Michigan, where he engaged in farming. Two daughters have been born to Judge and Mrs. Haire. Mildred M., born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1884, is a graduate of Smith College of the class of 1907 and is now engaged in teaching music at the Scoville school and in the Greenwich settlement of New York city. Paula L., born in Ontonagon, Michigan, in June, 1890, was graduated from Smith College of Massachusetts in 1911 and is now the wife of Robert R. Van Valkenburgh, a well known mining engineer, by whom she has two children: Robert R., who was born at Juneau, Alaska; and Norman W., born in Salt Lake. Judge Haire maintains an independent course politically. He manifests a citizen's interest in all vital issues and keeps well informed on all the leading problems and questions of the day. His liberal education, his native talents and his determined spirit have well qualified him for positions of leadership, but he has not sought prominence and advancement outside of the profession to which he earlier gave his attention and out-side of mining circles, in which his name is now well known.
GEORGE E. HALE.
George E. Hale, president and manager of the Salt Lake Telegram, is a western man by birth, training and preference and exemplifies in his life the spirit of western progress and improvement. He was born in Portland, Oregon, June 27, 1881, a son of Charles H. and Julia Ann (Stout) Hale, both of whom were natives of the east but in early life removed to Oregon. The father was a minister of the Baptist church and for many years engaged in preaching in Portland. His widow still resides in the Rose City.
George E. Hale came to Salt Lake City in 1905. His first journalistic venture here was in connection with the Intermountain Republican, of which he was manager, and he was identified with that paper until it became consolidated with the Herald in 1909, the name being then changed to the Herald-Republican. He continued as manager of this paper until 1913. when he purchased the controlling interest in the Telegram and reorganized the business.
On the 5th of April, 1903. Mr. Hale was married to Miss Jessie M. Irvine, of Spokane, Washington. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Irvine.
NATHANIEL M. HAMILTON.
Nathaniel M. Hamilton was born February 7, 1866, in Burlington, Iowa, a son of Milton C. and Elizabeth (Shotwell) Hamilton. His father was born in Indiana, and his mother in Pike county, Missouri. Milton C. Hamilton spent his entire life in the middle west, where he was a very well known railroad contractor. Both of Mr. Hamilton's parents died when he. was comparatively young, leaving three children, Mrs. W. S. Worsham, of Port Morgan, Colorado; Nathaniel M.; and Mrs. J. G. Cash, of El Centro, California.
After receiving his education, Nathaniel M. Hamilton engaged in the furniture business for three years in Peoria. Illinois. On the expiration of that period he became associated with his father in railroad construction work and devoted his time for two years to mechanical engineering. He afterward followed railroad building for ten years. He then decided to give up that particular line of work and embark in the mercantile business.
In 1901 Mr. Hamilton came to Salt Lake City, where he opened the first exclusive ladies' ready-to-wear house between Chicago and San Francisco. This business, conducted under the name of "Hamilton's Smart Shop," has so grown and prospered that it has become known from coast to coast as one of the smartest and most exclusive ladies' furnishing houses in the entire country.
Mr. Hamilton was married to Miss Cora Bruce, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bruce, of St. Joseph, Missouri, the Bruce family being one of the oldest and best known in that city.
Mr. Hamilton's political views are republican. Fraternally he is Mason, being both a Knight Templar and a thirty-second degree Mason, also a Shriner. He is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Country Club, the Bonneville Club and the Salt Lake Commercial Club. His social qualities make for personal popularity among all who know him. He has a wide acquaintance among Salt Lake's most prominent and leading citizens and enjoys the high regard and warm friendship of those with whom he has been brought in contact. His progressiveness has been his dominant feature in all of his business career and has led him to a position of prominence in the mercantile circles of his adopted city.
J. A. HANDIN.
Among automobile dealers and agency
managers throughout the west the name of J A Handin is
well known, for he was selected to come to Salt Lake,
choose a site and erect show and assembly rooms for the
Ford Motor Company. He has most successfully directed
the affairs of the company throughout the intervening
period and because of the place which he has been able
to win in business circles here he has decided to
remain, making Salt Lake his home. Mr. Handin is a
native of Chicago. Illinois. He was born June 28, 1882,
a son of John and Hannah S. Handin.
He was the eldest of a family of
three children in early life he attended the public
schools of Chicago, passing through consecutive grades
to his graduation from the high school. He then entered
the Commercial National Bank of Chicago in a clerical
capacity and there remained for three years. He
afterward came to Salt Lake City, where he entered
banking circles as a representative of the National lank
of the Republic. He remained with that institution for
several years after which he resigned and returned to
his native city, where he secured the position of sales
manager for toe Aurora Automatic Machine Company. He
left that position a year later, however, to become
retail sales manager for the Ford Motor Company. This
was in 1912 He made good in his new position and was
selected from among a number of others to come to Salt
Lake in 1916 to select a site and erect the building
that would house a branch of toe Ford Motor Company.
This he has successfully accomplished and has since been
general manager of the business for this territory. He
has greatly developed the trade during to period of his
residence here, the Ford interests at Salt Lake having
been promoted through his careful management, his keen
business discernment and his initiative. On May 20.
1919, he was promoted by the Ford Motor Company to be
their branch and assembly plant manager at Cincinnati,
Ohio
In May 1907 Mr. Handin was married
to Miss Helene M. Shepard, of Salt Lake a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Shepard, of this city. He belongs to
the Commercial Club and is interested in all of its
plans and projects for the up building and welfare of
Salt Lake, the extension of its trade relations and the
maintenance of high civic Standards He is a thoroughly
progressive young man, alert and enterprising and at all
times watchful of opportunities for advancement in
relation to public as well as private affairs His
business career is a most creditable one, for his
advancement is the direct result of individual effort
and ability.
NELS P. HANSEN.
Nels P. Hansen is the vice president
of the Union Oil & Gas Company of Utah and in this
connection is active in the development of one of the
state's greatest natural resources. Professor R. G.
Stevens of Pennsylvania went on record as saying: "Never
before in all my travels in the interest of the oil
business, and I have visited every state which has given
promise of oil, have I seen such marked surface
indications for oil as there exist today in Utah. I do
not mind going on record as saying that in my opinion
Utah will become one of the real oil producing states of
the Union." The company of which Mr. Hansen is the vice
president is actively engaged in promoting property that
is in the center of a great oil producing
district.
Mr. Hansen is a native son of Utah,
having been born in Brigham July 10, 1861.
He is a son of Christian and Hansena C. (Hansen)
Hansen, both of whom were natives of Denmark. They came
to America in 1854 and crossed the plains to Utah,
traveling with an ox-team outfit to Salt Lake City,
where they arrived after several months of hardships and
privations. The entire trip from their native land
consumed one year.
On their arrival in Utah, Mr. Hansen
obtained a plot of land, on which he erected a log
cabin, but as nails were very scarce, he had to secure
the logs with wood cleats. Later he removed to Brigham,
where he also built a log cabin, after which he engaged
in farming and cheese making, spending his remaining
days in Brigham. The mother of Nels P. Hansen still
survives and is now a resident in Newdale, Idaho. Their
family numbered eight children, of whom Nels P. is the
eldest of those yet living. The others are: Hyrum, who
died at Teton, Idaho; Ephraim, a resident of Logan;
James, living at Randolph, Utah; Alma, of Salt Lake
City; Zina, who has passed away; Anna, also deceased;
and Lester, of Newdale, Idaho. The half brothers of Nels
P. Hansen are: W. S., living at Fielding, Utah; and
Lorenzo, of Logan.
In his boyhood days Nels P. Hansen
attended the schools of Brigham, spending one year as a
high school pupil. He then took up the business of
raising cattle and other live stock and also carried on
farming at Teton, Idaho, where he successfully continued
his operations for a long period. During the last twelve
years of his residence in Idaho he made his home at
Rexburg. He owned and conducted a large farm and stock
ranch in that vicinity but eventually sold his holdings
in Idaho in 1917 and removed to Salt Lake City, where he
turned his attention to the brokerage business. He
joined Senator David O. Rideout of the Rideout Brokerage
Company, of which he has since been the vice president.
He is also the vice president of the Union Oil & Gas
Company and a director and vice president of the East
Antelope Mining Company and of the Leonora Mining
Company, both having properties in Utah. While the Union
Oil & Gas Company is a new proposition, there is
every reason to believe that it will prove a most
profitable one because of the favorable situation of its
property to flowing gas and oil wells. There are
splendid gas wells less than a half mile from the
proposed No. 1 well of the Union Oil & Gas
Company.
On the 2d of February, 1882, Mr.
Hansen was married in Salt Lake City to Miss Rhoda A.
Shelton, a daughter of John and Mary Shelton, of Cache
county, Utah, who resided at Mendon. Mr. and Mrs. Hansen
have become parents of twelve children. Clara, born in
Brigham and educated in Idaho, is now the wife of Walter
Riggs, of Teton, Idaho, and they have three children:
Garda. Grace and Edith. Cora, born in Brigham, Utah, but
educated in Idaho, is the wife of John L. Ballif, Jr.,
mayor of Rexburg, Idaho. Edith, born in Teton. Idaho,
was educated in the Rexburg Academy and resides with her
parents. Hazel, born in Teton, Idaho, and educated in
the Rexburg Academy, is the wife of Walter Walker, of
Pocatello, Idaho, and they have three children: Fae,
Leah and Addison. Zina, born in Teton, Idaho, and also a
student in the Rexburg Academy, is now the wife of Lew
W. Pool. She is county auditor, and recorder at Rigby,
Idaho, and clerk of the district court. Clissa, born in
Teton, Idaho, and educated in the Rexburg Academy, is
now in Salt Lake City. Ruby, born in Teton, Idaho, is
also at home. Osman C, born in Teton, Idaho, was
educated in the public and high schools of Salt Lake
City. Ethel and Mabel, twins, died in infancy. Clinton
and Lorenzo have also passed away.
Since becoming a voter Mr. Hansen
has always been a republican. While in Idaho he was
somewhat active in public affairs. In 1901 and 1902 he
served as sheriff of Fremont county and in 1907 and 1908
was assessor and collector of that county. He also
served as a member of the city council of Rexburg. In
church work he has been very prominent, serving as
bishop's counselor of the Teton ward, while for eighteen
years he was high councilor of the Fremont stake. In a
business way his progress has been substantial and rapid
and his success is the direct result of his own labors
and energy.
NEPHI J.
HANSEN.
Nephi J. Hansen, president of the
Sugar Banking Company, the Granite Lumber & Hardware
Company and the Hansen Auto Company, is thus closely
associated with the financial and commercial interests
of Salt Lake City, where his gradually developing powers
have brought him into prominence. He is a native son of
Salt Lake, born December 5, 1869. His parents were Peter
and Rosanna (Jenney) Hansen. The father, a native of
Denmark, was born August 31, 1836, and came to America
in 1854, then a young man of eighteen years. He at once
set out on a trip across the plains with an ox team and
wagon, journeying thus to Salt Lake and walking the
entire distance. The trip required four months and he
suffered many hardships and privations before reaching
his destination. He was unacquainted with the customs
and ways of the people but was taken into the family of
Parley P. Pratt, being treated as a member of the family
and there remaining for ten years. After he had learned
the English language he went to work, being employed
along various lines and with several companies.
Subsequently he and several companions took a contract
to finish up a part of the Union Pacific Railroad the
connecting link between the east and the west, the line
being completed on the 10th of May, 1869. He afterward
was sent by Brigham Young to Arizona to explore a route
for a proposed railroad through a rich farming country
and when he had completed his task he returned to Salt
Lake and engaged in farming near the city. He is still
the owner of a part of that farm, which has become a
very valuable property, and he yet makes his home
thereon. This land was on Sixth East street, between
Twenty-first and Twenty-seventh South streets and now
comprises one of the attractive residential sections of
the city. He was a participant in the famous Black Hawk
war and he also served with Johnston's army on the
latter's first trip to Utah. The mother, Mrs.
Rosanna Hansen, was born in Pennsylvania and is
descended from the same ancestry as Abraham Lincoln. She
died in Salt Lake in 1874. By her marriage she had
become the mother of five children, two of whom have
passed away, while those still living are; W. L., Mrs.
O. S. Hardy and Nephi J., all of Salt Lake.
The last named was a pupil in one
of the old adobe school houses that stood on the site of
the present Irvine Junior high school. In his early
business career he was employed along mercantile lines
and he was also one of the organizers of the Pacific
Lumber & Building Company, which, however, failed
while he was away on a mission to Europe. On his return,
learning of his loss, he decided upon another course of
action he leased a store on Mill creek and there opened
a stock of groceries. In the conduct of the business
there he was successful and with his savings he bought
out the receivership of the old Pacific Lumber &
Building Company and began the development of the
present prosperous business. The capital stock of the
parent company was ten thousand dollars. In 1903 Mr.
Hansen incorporated the business under the name of the
Granite Lumber Company, of which he has been the
president since 1915, with Joseph E. Jensen as vice
president, George S. Dixon, secretary, and A. J. Strong,
treasurer. This company employs from twenty-five to
thirty people and the business has long since been
placed upon a profitable basis. Mr. Hansen is also the
president of the Portable House Construction Company,
manufacturers of portable houses, and is the president
and one of the organizers of the Sugar Banking Company,
also president of the Hansen Automobile Company of the
sugar district. His business interests have thus become
extensive and important, constituting features in the
commercial development of the district in which he
operates.
The mission on which Mr. Hansen was
engaged at the time the Pacific Lumber Company went into
the hands of a receiver took him to France and Germany,
where he continued his labors from 1891 until 1893, and
he has always been an active worker in support of the
church and the promotion of its influence.
On the 8th of May, 1893, Mr. Hansen
was married to Miss Laura Free, of Salt Lake, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Free. They have become parents
of eight children: Clyde Free, born February 8, 1894,
and a graduate of the Salt Lake high school, married
Miss Marion Andlin, of Provo, Utah, and they now reside
at Highland Park. He is in business with his father in
the Granite Hardware Company. Nephi Emeral, born in Salt
Lake, November 3, 1895, and also a high school graduate,
is now manager of the Hansen Automobile Company. He
married Miss Lexie Southwick, of Lehi, Utah, and they
reside in Salt Lake. Mary Josephine, born February 24,
1897, is a graduate of the high school and of the
Agricultural College at Logan and is now attending the
University of Utah. Louis Free, born December 1, 1898,
is also a student in the University of Utah. He was
postmaster for the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Utah
Regiment under Major Young and was in France for a long
period during the recent great European war. Rofanna La
Rue, born July 19, 1900, and Clifton Free, born
September 29, 1902, are both high school pupils. Lincoln
Litcomb, born, December 22, 1903, is a pupil in the
Junior high school, and William Lawrence, born March 22,
1907, is still in the grades.
The interests and activities of Mr. Hansen's life
have been broad, varied and helpful in character. He
belongs to the Business Mens's League of the Sugar House
District, to the Commercial Club, is a member of the
civic planning committee on highways and parks, and also
on the advisory board of the county commissioners for
the expenditure of a million and a half dollars on road
improvements throughout Salt Lake county. His aid and
influence are always on the side of progress and
improvement and while holding to high ideals he utilizes
practical methods in their achievement.
ALBERT
N. HANSON. M. D.
Dr. Albert N. Hanson, one of the
representative physicians of Utah, practicing at Salt
Lake City and throughout the entire period of his
professional career holding to the highest standards and
ethics of medical practice, was born in Fillmore, Utah,
January 14, 1871, a son of Hans and Hannah (Sorenson)
Hanson, who were natives of Denmark. They came to
America in early life and crossed the plains with ox
team and wagon, making the trip from Florence, Iowa,
where they were married on the 4th of July, 1863. From that
point they started on their honeymoon trip with wagons
across the plains and over the mountains to Utah,
remaining continuously upon the road until October 1863
when they reached the end of their journey. The father
was an expert mechanic and builder and immediately
erected a home for himself and after its completion his
services were in constant demand in that locality. He
built over one-half of the buildings, both business
blocks and residences, in Fillmore and fully half of the
buildings in Kane, Millard and Morgan counties. He was
active in that connection until about twenty years ago,
when he decided to retire from active life, but remained
a resident of Fillmore county. At a recent date his son,
Dr. Hanson, took him for an auto drive around the
various parts of the county, on which occasion he
remarked that in the early days it would have taken him
more than a week to cover the entire distance,
traveling, as he would have had to done, with horse and
wagon. He died December 24, 1918 at the age of
eighty-four years, having for a considerable period
survived his wife, who passed away in Fillmore in 1906
at the age of sixty-seven years. They had a family of
six children: Mrs. G. R. Huntsman; John M., living at
Salt Lake; George M., in the consular service; Frank, of
Fillmore; and Willard, who is engaged in the practice of
law at Salt Lake.
The other member of the family is
Dr. Hanson, who was the fourth in order of birth.
Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, he
attended the public schools and also the Mormon church
school and high school at Fillmore. He afterward became
a student in the Brigham Young University at Provo and
in the University of Utah, where he pursued a normal
course. He then entered the educational field as a
teacher and became principal of the schools at Fillmore,
where he continued teaching successfully for six years.
For four years thereafter he was principal of the
schools at Beaver, Utah, and in 1897 he pursued a
preparatory course in the University of Utah preliminary
to taking up the study of medicine. He then entered the
College of Physicians & Surgeons at Baltimore.
Maryland, and was graduated from that institution in
1908 with the M. D. degree. He afterward returned to the
University of Utah, where he taught in the medical
department in 1908 and 1909, and then entered upon
private practice. In 1912 and 1913 he was county
physician of Salt Lake county and while thus engaged
aided in supervising the building of the County
Hospital. He is physician to all the loading hospitals
of Salt Lake and a member of the staff of the Latter-day
Saints Hospital. His ability in the line of his chosen
profession is pronounced. His colleagues and
contemporaries attest his skill and his liberal practice
is proof of the confidence reposed in him by the public.
He belongs to the Salt Lake City Medical Society, the
County .Medical Society, the State Medical Society and
the American Medical Association. He also has membership
in the Medics Club, an organization composed exclusively
of physicians, and aside from his practice he has
business interests as one of the directors of the Boston
Metal Mines Company.
On the 7th of October, 1891, Dr. Hanson was
married to Miss Virginia Holbrook, who was born in
Fillmore, Utah, in 1872 a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orson
Holbrook, pioneer residents of that locality. They have
become parents of five children: Rae
C., who was born in Fillmore. August 14, 1892,
and is a graduate of the arts department of the
University of Utah, is the wife of Lieutenant Earl C.
Rice of the United States army, stationed at Louisville,
Kentucky. They have one son, Robert Earl Rice, born in
Salt. Lake City, January 10, 1919. Leland A., born in
Fillmore in December, 1895, was attending the University
of Utah, where he was pursuing an engineering course,
but after America entered the World war he enlisted in
the army and saw service in France. Eugenie, born in
Fillmore in July, 1900 is attending high school. George
M.. born in Salt Lake
City in September, 1910, and Theodore, born in December,
1911, are both pupils in the schools of this city. Dr. Hanson belongs to
the Commercial Club of Salt Lake and is deeply
interested in all that has to do with the progress and
prosperity of the city, the extension bf its business
relations and the advancement of its civic standards, he
deserves much credit for what he has accomplished in
life, for he started out to provide for his own support
when a lad of only ten years. He has since made steady
advancement, actuated by a laudable ambition and
determined purpose, and is now justly accorded
recognition as one of the able physicians of the capital
city.
OSCAR R. HARDY, M.
D.
Dr. Oscar R. Hardy, physician and
surgeon of Salt Lake, enjoying a large and growing
practice, was born June 14, 1880 in the city which is
yet his home, his parents being Oscar H. and Esther A.
(Margetts) Hardy. The father was born in Salt Lake City
and represented one of the pioneer families of the
state. The mother's birth occurred in Salt Lake City,
Utah. She was a daughter of Richard Margetts, who came
to this state among the earliest settlers who located in
Salt Lake and was very prominent in the early days of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was
likewise active in business circles and in young manhood
learned and followed the blacksmith's trade but later
operated the first sugar mill of Utah. In the days when
he was the "village blacksmith" of Salt Lake a part of
his task was the shoeing of oxen for California gold
seekers of 1849 and 1850, who passed through Salt Lake
on their way to the mines of California. It was
necessary to shoe the oxen because of their becoming
footsore as they crossed the plains. In the paternal
line Dr. Hardy is descended from one of the oldest
American families, his ancestors having come to the new
world on the Mayflower, after which representatives of
the name became prominent members in the New England
colony. Leonard W. Hardy was a close friend of Bishop
Hunter, of Salt Lake City. He was the grandfather of Dr.
Hardy and the father of Oscar H. Hardy, who engaged in
mercantile lines and mining and contracting.
The firm of Hardy, Young & Company were well
known merchants. Mr. Hardy, as a member of the city
council, laid the foundation of the present city and
county building of Salt Lake. He died in Salt Lake in
1901, at the age of fifty-five years. Dr. Hardy was the
eldest of a family of six children, three of whom have
passed away, while the sisters who are living are Mrs.
N. A. Naylor and Mrs. J. R. Thomson, both of Salt Lake
City.
Dr. Hardy was a pupil in the public
and high schools of his native city and pursued his
professional course in the Northwestern University of
Chicago, from which he won his M. D. degree upon
graduation with the class of 1912. He then returned to
Utah and located for practice at Riverton, where he
remained for seven years. He next removed to Salt Lake,
where he is now engaged in successful practice, being
regarded as one of the representative physicians and
surgeons of the city. On the 1st of April,
1903, Dr. Hardy was married to Miss Laura M. Madsen, a
daughter of P. W. Madsen, well known in business and
public circles in Salt Lake City.
Dr. and Mrs. Hardy have become parents of eight
children, four of whom have passed away. The family
record is as follows: Oscar Roy, who died in 1904: Peter
W., who died in infancy; Esther, who died at the age of
nineteen months; Laura Marian, who was born in Salt Lake
City in 1906 and is a student in the Bryant Junior high
school; Esther. Elise and Estelle, triplets, born in
1914; and Oscar, who was born in Riverton in
1916.
Dr. Hardy belongs to the University
Club and is held in high esteem in those circles where
intelligent men are met in the discussion of vital
public problems. Along professional lines he has
membership in the County and City Medical Society of
Salt Lake, in the Utah State Medical Society and in the
American Medical Association. He has taken post-graduate
work at the County Hospital of Cook County, Illinois,
and has remained throughout his professional career a
close student of everything that bears upon that complex
mystery which we call life.
HON. CHARLES H.
HART
High on the roll of distinguished
legists and jurists of Utah appears the name of Hon.
Charles H. Hart, now engaged in the practice of law at
Salt Lake as a member of the firm of Hart, Van Dam &
Lund. He has at various periods been on the bench of the
district and supreme courts of the state, has also been
a member of the territorial council and of the
constitutional convention of Utah and has left the.
Impress of his individuality and ability ineffaceably
upon the history of the state.
Judge Hart was born in Bloomington,
Idaho, July 5, 1866, a son of James H. and Sabina
(Scheib) Hart, who were natives of England and came to
America in early life, the mother crossing the Atlantic
in 1852 and the father in 1857. They were among those
emigrants who journeyed by ox teams to Salt Lake City
and later were called by President Young to settle the
Bear Lake country of Idaho. The father was the first
settler of that district, taking up his abode there in
1864, and the mother became a resident of that region in
1865. He was the first probate judge of Rich county,
Utah. Subsequent to that time he served as prosecuting
attorney and later was a member of the legislature. He
afterward served as Utah immigration agent for the
Mormon church, during which time he was located at New
York city. There he remained until the department was
abandoned, after which he returned to Idaho and was one
of the presidency of the Mormon stake in that section,
filling the office until his death, or for a period of
thirty-five years. He passed away in November, 1906, at
the age of eighty-two. while the mother of Judge Hart
died March 1, 1919, at the age of eighty years They had
a family of nine children: Mrs. Alice Osmond, living at
Ogden; Charles H.; Eugene S.. who resides at Franklin,
Idaho; Arthur W., of Preston. Idaho; Alfred A., who
makes his home at Bloomington and is a state senator of
Idaho; Mrs. Hermoine Roberts,
deceased; Mrs. Rose Woodward, whose home is at Franklin,
Idaho; and two who died in infancy.
Judge Hart, after attending high
school, became a student in the normal department of the
University of Utah, from which he was graduated with the
class of 1887 with valedictorian honors. He then entered
the University of Michigan, in which he pursued his law
course, winning his LL. B. degree in 1889, Following his
graduation he returned to the west and entered upon the
practice of law at Paris. Idaho, where he remained for a
year. He then removed to Logan, Utah, where he continued
in the practice of his profession, and his marked
ability and devotion to the interests of his clients won
him quick recognition in a large practice. He was
elected to the office of county attorney and later was
chosen a member of the last territorial council. He was
then elected a member of the constitutional convention
which framed the organic law of Utah, and he took a part
in preparing the state constitution, his knowledge of
law being of immense benefit in this direction. He was
afterward elected judge of the first judicial district
of the state and served upon the bench for nine years,
his record as judge being in harmony with his record as
a citizen and a lawyer, characterized by a marked
devotion to duty and by a masterful grasp of every
problem presented for solution. While he was serving
upon the district bench he was called upon lo serve as a
member of the supreme court of the state many
times. He later formed a
partnership with Hon. Frank K. Nebeker, under the firm
name of Hart & Nebeker at Logan, Utah, and was there
successfully engaged in practice until called upon to
fill a church mission. Following his return he removed
from Logan to Salt Lake and in 1910 entered into
partnership relations as a member of the firm of
Richards, Hart & Van Dam, which later became the
firm of Hart, Van Dam & Lund.
It was during his practice at Logan
that Judge Hart was called upon for active church work
as a member of the Council of Seventy in April. 1896. He
has since been a most earnest and effective worker in
advancing the interests of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and is a member of the Sunday school
general board, which has charge of a Sunday school
membership of one hundred and ninety-five thousand. He
is a member of the general hoard of the Young Men's
Mutual Improvement Association, an organization
comprising about forty-five thousand members.
He was appointed by Governor Bamberger as a
member of the Mormon Battalion Commission, in which
office he served without compensation.
On the 25th of October, 1889, Judge Hart was
married to Miss Adelia Greenhalgh
of Bloomington, Idaho, a daughter of Peter and
Sarah Greenhalgh, representatives of a pioneer family of
that state. They became parents of ten children:
Lucille, now Mrs. W. D. Pack, who was born at Bear Lake,
Idaho, and was graduated from the Brigham Young College,
afterward became a student in the University of Utah and
is a violinist of marked proficiency. She now resides at
Rose, Idaho. Leona, now Mrs. Willard Ashton, born in
Logan, was graduated from Brigham Young College, also
studied in the University of Utah and is an accomplished
pianist. She makes her home in Salt Lake. Genevieve,
born in Logan, was graduated from the Latter-day Saints
University and the University of Utah and is now a high
school teacher of public expression. Lieutenant Charles
J. Hart, born at Logan, was graduated from the Granite
high school, and was a missionary in the northwestern
states before he became a student in the Agricultural
College of Utah. While thus engaged he collated in the
army and he received his commission at the Presidio near
San Francisco. He was discharged at the close of the war
from the Students Army Training Corps. Harold H., born
in Logan, was graduated from the Granite high school and
is now on a mission in the northeastern states. Paul
Eugene, Dean Eldon, Melvin G., Raymond G, and Phyllis
were all born in Logan. The mother passed away in Salt
Lake in March. 1913, and in June, 1915, Judge Hart was
again married, his second union being with Miss Lalene
Hendricks of Logan, Utah, a daughter of B. A. and Mary
Hendricks, of Lewiston, Utah. Mrs. Hart was a student in
the Simmons School of Economics of Boston,
Massachusetts, and later had charge of domestic science
work in Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah.
Judge Hart gives his political
allegiance to the democratic party and his position upon
any vital question is never an equivocal one. The
offices which he has filled have been largely in the
direct path of his profession, as he has preferred
always to concentrate his attention upon the law, and he
is a valued member of the Utah State and American Bar
Associations. His close study has made him a man of
pronounced ability, recognized today as one of the
eminent members of the Utah bar.
RICHARD A. HART.
Richard A. Hart Is occupying a
position of the utmost importance in connection with the
reclamation and development of the west as United States
drainage engineer, in which capacity he has served with
office at Salt Lake City since 1908. He is a western man
by birth, by training and preference, early recognizing
the immense possibilities of this great section and
wishing to bear his part in its up building. He was born
in York, Nebraska, in 1884, a son of Ira A. Hart, whose
birth occurred at Brighton, Iowa, in 1856. In 1883 the
latter was married in York, Nebraska, to Miss Melissa
Alice Booker, a native of Illinois, and in 1900 they
removed to Salt Lake City, where the father is still
actively engaged in business as a contractor. The
ancestral line is traced back to New England through Ira
A. and Ambrose Hart to Amos Hart.
The last named was born in Connecticut and
removed to Ohio, where he was living at the time of the
birth of his son, Ambrose. Later he took his family to
Iowa and his last days were spent in Brighton, that
state. It was there that his son Ambrose was reared and
eventually established a home of his own. The next step
in the westward removal of the family was when Ira A.
Hart went to York, Nebraska, followed by his coming to
Salt Lake in 1900.
Richard A. Hart was a pupil in the
public schools of Iowa, Nebraska and of Colorado and
completed his preparatory work in Salt Lake City. He was
graduated in 1907 from the University of Utah with the
degree of Bachelor of Science, having completed the
electrical engineering course. In 1912 he received the
degree of Civil Engineer from the University of Utah but
had entered upon the active practice of his profession
in 1906 with the state engineering department as water
commissioner. He served continuously in that capacity
for three seasons and then secured employment with the
General Electric Company of New York, being stationed at
Schenectady, that state, for a period of five months. He
afterward received a government appointment in the
drainage investigation and was sent to Salt Lake, where
he is now senior drainage engineer of a territory that
comprises twelve western states and has to do not only
with the question of drainage but also with irrigation.
His work is of a most important character, contributing
in substantial measure to the reclamation, development
and up building of the west.
On the 17th of June, 1914, in
Kaysville, Utah, Mr. Hart was united in marriage to Miss
Hazel E. Barnes, a daughter of the late John R. Barnes,
who was born in England in 1834 and was a prominent and
well known banker of Utah. He has been identified with
the development of this state since pioneer times,
having crossed the plains in the early '50s. Mr. and
Mrs. Hart have one son, John R., whose natal day was
June 7, 1916. Politically Mr. Hart is a democrat, having
supported the men and measures of that party since age
conferred upon him the right of franchise. He belongs to
the Sigma Chi fraternity and the Timpanogos Club and is
popular in both professional and social circles of his
community.
NATHAN
HAWKES.
Nathan Hawkes is the owner of an
excellent farm property at Taylor but is now practically
living retired, leaving the management of his business
affairs to his son. He deserves much
credit for what he has accomplished, for he started out
to earn a living when but seven years of age, working
for six cents per day. He is a self educated man, never
being able to attend school a day in- his life, on
account of the limited circumstances of his family. The
death of his father occurred when our subject was only
thirteen years of age and for a few years previous to
this he was not able to work much and the burden of the
family fell on the son Nathan, who had to support them.
The inherent force of his character and his laudable
ambition have brought him steadily to the front and he
is now comfortably situated in life, so that in the
evening of his days he is able to enjoy all of the
comforts that go to make life worth the living.
He was born at Hockley, Essex
county, England, November 15, 1840, a son of Peter and
Ann (Brookman) Hawkes. He left London on the 15th of
May, 1866, when a young man of twenty-six years, and
arrived in Utah on the 15th of September of the same
year. He first settled at Farmington, where he remained
for a short time, and in March, 1867 removed to West
Weber, where he did various kinds of work. He was
employed on the irrigation ditch that was under
construction at that time and later he became one of the
directors of the irrigation company.
On the 15th of December, 1869, Mr.
Hawkes was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Bowman
at Salt Lake City. In 1868 he had begun farming on his
own account but by reason of the grasshopper scourge
raised but little at first. However, with persistent
energy he continued his work and in the course of years
his diligence and enterprise have triumphed over
difficulties. Because of his crop failure in 1868 he
went to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad and was
thus employed until April 10.
1869. He also worked on the Utah Central in 1871
and he was one of the pioneers who participated in the
celebration of the anniversary of the driving of the
golden spike at Ogden. May 10, 1919. After discontinuing
his railroad work Mr. Hawkes concentrated his efforts
and attention upon farming and was thus engaged until
July. 1876, when he went to
Salt Lake, where he worked on the Temple block until
October, 1881 He then filled a mission to the state of
Indiana, returning on the 31st of May, 1882 after which
he once more took up the occupation of farming and so
continued until he turned over the business to his sons.
He built a large store on the corner of his property and
carried on general merchandising for several years in
connection with his farm work hut since 1909 has leased
his store to his sons.
Mr. and Mrs Hawkes became parents
of six children: Margaret; one who died in infancy;
Sarah E.; Julia E.; Nathan A.; and Heber B. Nathan A.
filled a mission to New Zealand for twenty-eight months
and Heber B went on a mission to the northwestern states
and labored there for two years.
In the work of the church the
family has been quite active. Mr. Hawkes was
superintendent of the Sunday school and first assistant
for about thirty-five years. He went on a mission to
England on the 25th of April, 1896, reaching Liverpool
on the 14th of May. 1895. He has also filled a mission
at home from December, 1891, until April, 1892, and in
the latter year he spent all of his time on home
missionary work on a special call for thirteen weeks.
For about six years he served as school trustee and for
some time he was one of the irrigation directors. He has
always labored as a ward teacher except during the time
spent on his missions in the states and in England In
1908, he was called to be stake superintendent of
religion classes in the North Weber stake. On the 14th
of September. 1914, he was ordained a patriarch. For
more than half a century he has made his home in Utah,
taking active part in promoting its material and moral
development, and he is justly classed as one of its
representative citizens.
HENRY J. HAYWARD.
Henry J. Hayward, widely known
among the energetic, farsighted and successful business
men of Salt Lake, where he is the vice president and
director of the Salt Lake Mill & Construction
Company, was born in London, England, September 2, 1852,
a son of Gamon and Sarah (Cripps) Hayward, who were also
natives of England, whence they came to America in 1853.
By way of the overland trail they proceeded westward to
Salt Lake City, where they resided until a few years
ago. The father engaged in contracting and building
throughout his active life and passed away in San
Francisco. California, in 1898. The mother survives and
is now living in San Diego, California. They were the
parents of six sons and three daughters, of whom Henry
J. was the third in order of birth. The others are
William G., Charles E.. Ernest M., Frank, one who died
in infancy, Elizabeth, Keziah and Clara.
Brought to the new world when only
about a year old, Henry J. Hayward attended the public
schools of Salt Lake City, after which he learned the
carpenter's trade and followed it for many years. Later,
or in 1879, he organized the Salt Lake Mill &
Construction Company, which started with a small
contracting business and mill on West Temple street.
Since that time the patronage of the company has grown
to extensive proportions and throughout the entire
period Mr. Hayward has been the active head of the
business, directing its policy and shaping its growth.
H. M. Rhodes is now president of the company and since
January 1, 1919. Mr. Hayward has been vice president,
with E. T. Dalstrom as secretary and treasurer. The
company today employs from twenty-five to thirty men.
Its mill occupies an acre and a quarter of ground on
West Temple street. It is a splendidly equipped planing
mill, the plant being thoroughly modern in every
particular. The success of the business is due in no
small measure to the capable management, thorough
workmanship and unfaltering determination of Mr.
Hayward, who has spent practically his entire life in
Salt Lake City and has continuously and steadily worked
his way upward to a most creditable position in
industrial circles.
On the 23d of December, 1875, Mr.
Hayward was married in Salt Lake to Miss Elizabeth
Pugsley. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pugsley,
pioneer people of Salt Lake. They now have a son and two
daughters. John E. Hayward, born in Salt Lake in 1895,
pursued his education in the public schools, passing
through consecutive grades to the high school and later
becoming a student in the University of Utah, where he
was pursuing his course at the time war was declared. He
is now with Dr. Sprague in the Ambulance Corps of the
Eighty-sixth Division in the Three hundred and Eleventh
Sanitary Train in France. Mrs. Henry Westman was born in
Salt Lake in 1889, was graduated from the high school
and is still living in her native city. She has seven
children. Mrs. Elizabeth C. Edwards is the wife of L. R.
Edwards and was born in Salt Lake in 1893. She also
pursued a high school course, attended the University of
Utah and is now residing in Washington, D. C, her
husband being a lieutenant in the financial department
of the national capital.
Mr. Hayward has already given his
political allegiance to the democratic party and
occupied the position of city councilman as a member of
the first council after the admission of the state into
the Union. He belongs to the Salt Lake Rotary Club and
he is well known through business, political and social
relations, everywhere commanding high respect by reason
of his sterling worth, fidelity to principle and his
splendid traits of character.
JAMES HENDRY.
James Hendry, president of the
Sugar House Mercantile Company of Salt Lake City, was
born in Airdrie, near Glasgow, Scotland, on the 6th of
June, 1861, and is a son of John Allen and Christina
(McKain) Hendry, who were likewise natives of the land
of hills and heather. Coming to the new world, the
father followed mechanical engineering, with which he
had become familiar in his native country. He worked
along that line throughout his entire life and both
parents passed away in Salt Lake City. They had a family
of six children, three of whom are living: Mrs. Mary
McKeller, of Eureka, Utah; Mrs. Frank Hardman, living in
Salt Lake City; and James.
The last named was the third in
order of birth in the family and he pursued his
education in the schools of Scotland to the age of
nineteen years, when he crossed the Atlantic to the new
world. He made Salt Lake City his destination and at
once sought employment. He worked along various lines
until 1906, when he purchased from the Rockwood Brothers
the Sugar House mercantile business, which under his
capable and wise direction has steadily grown to
proportions that made it necessary to increase the
capital stock and secure larger quarters. On the 1st of
February, 1910, Mr. Hendry incorporated the Sugar House
Mercantile Company, of which he has since been the
president, with J. M. Madsen as vice president and
George B. Freeze as the secretary and treasurer. These
gentlemen are making of their business one of the
important commercial interests of the city and at all
times conform their interests to the highest commercial
ethics.
Mr. Hendry has always been active
in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, serving as a member of the bishop's council in
the Forest Dale ward. He has also been interested in
community affairs as a member of the town council of
Forest Dale, a suburb of Salt Lake, now incorporated in
the city. He likewise belongs to the Commercial
Club.
On the 5th of January, 1885, Mr.
Hendry was united in marriage to Miss Mary Telitha Free,
of Salt Lake City, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston S.
Free, pioneer people of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Hendry
had six children, two of whom have passed away. Allen
J., born in Salt Lake City in 1898, was graduated from
the graded schools of Forest Dale and the Salt Lake high
school and was a private with the One Hundred and Sixth
Engineers in France during the recent World war. Alice,
now Mrs. George Hanson, born
in Salt Lake City in 1899, was graduated from the Latter
day Saints high school and is still a resident of the
capital city. She and her husband have one child,
Russell George. Marian, born in Salt Lake City in 1905,
and Sanford J., born in 1910, are attending school. Two
other children died in infancy.
Such in brief is the history of
James Hendry, who from the age of nineteen years has
made his home in Utah. Here he has found the business
opportunities which he sought, and at the same time,
recognizing his obligations concerning the public
development and moral progress of the community, he has
cooperated in all well defined plans and measures which
look to the betterment of the district or to the uplift
of the individual. He has never had occasion to regret
his determination to come to the new world, for he has
been most happily located here.
J. ALMA
HESS.
J. Alma Hess is the president and
manager of the Consumers' Warehouse & Storage
Company of Salt Lake City, in which business are
embodied most progressive ideas in relation to buying
and selling and to cooperation in all manner of business
enterprises. This business seems
to be the necessary step forward to relieve the high
cost of living by bringing the consumer and producer so
together as to have them own and control the forces that
manipulate the consumer's and producer's needs, the
Consumers' Company furnishing a warehouse for all kinds
of produce, mill stuffs, seeds, sugar, potatoes and in
fact any and all goods necessary for the consumer. Mr.
Hess was the first child born in Georgetown, Idaho,
August 15, 1871, a son of David and Elizabeth (Fretwell)
Hess. The father was born in Ray county, Missouri,
February 18, 1837, and came to Utah in 1851. The mother
was born in Hancock county, Illinois, March 18, 1844,
and came to Utah in 1850. David Hess first went with a
colony of Latter-day Saints to Mount Pisgah, Iowa, and
thence came across the plains in 1851, settling in the
Salt Lake valley. He was afterward detailed by Brigham
Young to colonize the town of Georgetown, Idaho, and
assist in the settlement of that section of the country.
He and Henry A. Lewis were the first to go into that
part of Idaho, there remaining until 1886, when Mr. Hess
returned to Utah and located again at Farmington. He
there engaged in general agricultural pursuits. Although
now well advanced in years, he retains his physical and
mental faculties unimpaired and personally supervises
his farming and other business interests. The mother of
J. Alma Hess died in Georgetown, Idaho, in 1884. The
family consisted of four boys, two of whom, Ferris and
Ezra, died at the ages of six and eight years
respectively. Those living are Charles E. and J.
Alma.
J. Alma Hess attended the district
schools and also the Davis Stake Academy, while later he
became a student of the Utah Agricultural College at
Logan, where he remained for three years, doing work on
the college farm, part of the time, to maintain himself
at school. During his last year there he became ill and
was obliged to return home. In connection with farming
he took up the profession of teaching in the schools of
Bear Lake county, Idaho, where he taught seven years and
still owns a farm at the place of his birth. From July,
1898. until April, 1901, he was in Germany as a
missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. For a year following his return he again taught
school and then, giving up educational work, entered the
furniture business at Montpelier, Idaho, in connection
with a partner, but the dishonest methods of the latter
forced the business into a receiver's hands. Mr. Hess
then turned his attention to the insurance business,
becoming state manager for the Security Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York, in which connection he
built up a large and lucrative business, being
considered one of the best agents in the company's
employ and having to his credit the safest class of
risks. He devoted four years to his insurance agency
work but branched off into the hay and grain business,
which was more to his liking, and in four years built up
at Montpelier. Idaho, the largest business of the kind
in the entire valley. This latter business he turned
over to his brother at Montpelier, and it is now known
as Williams & Hess. The same year, or in 19n\ J Alma
Hess came to Salt Lake City and two years later John M.
Cannon and he organized the J. A. Hess Produce Company.
J. A. Hess buying Mr. Cannon out at the end of three
years. Three years after that he sold out to devote his
entire time to ihe formation and development of the
Consumers' Warehouse & Storage Company, which is
steadily growing. This is a buying, selling and storage
agency both for the consumer and the producer. Its
limits are devoted entirely to the kind of material or
produce that either party may need. In fact it is
possible that the company will reach out to every branch
of business known, its stockholders to receive the
benefits of the proper marketing of its products. The
business was incorporated in 1917, with J. A. Hess as
president. A. L. Larsen as vice president, Hugh .1.
Cannon as treasurer and George Hess as secretary. Mr.
Hess of this review is also a director of the Elevator
Safety Appliance Company and is vice president and one
of the directors of the Machinery Manufacturers'
Company, both of Salt Lake City.
On the 17th of July, 1902, in
Montpelier. Idaho, Mr. Hess was married to Mrs.
Caroline Weingand, a lady with two children with
whom he became acquainted while in Germany. Their only
child, Veda Hess, died at the age of three months. In
politics Mr. Hess is a republican but votes for men and
measures rather than party. He belongs to the Commercial
Club and also to the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. He is a most alert and progressive
business man who in the development of his interests has
utilized opportunities that others have passed
heedlessly by, and step by step he has worked his way
upward, a forward step bringing him a broader outlook
and wider opportunities.
CHARLES U. HEUSER.
Charles U. Heuser is the president
and manager of the Heuser-Packard Company, prominent
public works contractors of Salt Lake City, who have
done much toward beautifying and improving various towns
and villages of the state, while many of the public
improvements of Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo, Logan and other
cities stand as monuments to their constructive genius.
Mr. Heuser was born in Vernon county, Missouri, July 4,
1878, a son of Ulrich and Sophia (Pheningner) Heuser,
both of whom were natives of Switzerland. They came to
America in early life, following their marriage, and
settled in Vernon county, Missouri, where the father
engaged in farming and where both he and his wife spent
their remaining days. They had a family of four
children: Emile, living in Vernon county, Missouri;
Sophia, the wife of Charles Roodhouse, of Fort Scott,
Kansas; Mrs. Pauline Wise, of Vernon county, Missouri;
and Charles U., of this review.
The last named in his boyhood days
attended the public schools of Vernon county and pursued
preparatory work at Fort Scott, Kansas. He later entered
the University of Kansas and was graduated in 1904 with
the degree of Civil Engineer. He then entered into the
contracting business in Kansas and Missouri, being thus
engaged from 1904 until 1907, when he came to Salt Lake
City. Soon after his arrival he entered into partnership
with Oscar Davis in a general contracting business that
included municipal work, irrigation, drainage and
paving. They did much work in various sections of the
state and were the successful contractors on a large
amount of Salt Lake sewerage system. Mr. Heuser remained
as a partner of Mr. Davis for some time and in 1916 the
Heuser-Packard Company was incorporated. They have since
taken many large contracts and are operating extensively
as public works contractors in Salt Lake City and other
sections of the state.
On the 20th of June, 1908. Mr.
Heuser was married to Miss Ada Bechtel, of Hiawatha,
Kansas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bechtel, of
that place. He is Scottish Rite Mason, a loyal exemplar
of the craft, but his activities and interests are
largely concentrated upon his business affairs, which,
wisely directed, have brought him to a place in the
front rank among the public works contractors of the
state. He has had much to do with work of a most
progressive character and in his chosen field of labor
is widely known.
ANDREW J. HOENES,
M. D.
Dr Andrew J. Hoenes, whose ability
in the practice of medicine and surgery is widely
recognized in Utah, where he has his office at Murray,
was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 6, 1860, a son
of Andrew and Catherine (Conrad) Hoenes, who were
natives of the Rhine Province, Bavaria, Germany, and in
1852 came to America with their respective parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Hoenes were married in New York city and
afterward lived for two years in Syracuse, New York,
where he followed the tailoring trade. He then removed
to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where for many years he
conducted a photographic studio, continuing in the
business to the time of his death. In that city he
reared his family, numbering five children: Jacob E., a
graduate in medicine now located in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Charles S., who died at Milwaukee at the
age of forty-seven years; Andrew J., the third son, now
practicing medicine at Murray, Utah; Dora, the wife of
Fred Lorenz, of North Dakota; and Julia, the wife of
William Ellis, of New Haven, Connecticut.
Dr. A. J. Hoenes of this review
obtained a high school education in Milwaukee, where he
taught in the public schools for seven or eight years
and then entered the State University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, where he graduated on the 27th of June, 1889,
after the completion of a thorough course in medicine
and surgery. For six years thereafter he served on the
medical staff of the Sanitarium at Battle Creek,
Michigan. He was married there
to Miss Julia Bucher, a graduate nurse of the sanitarium
training school. They removed to Hot Springs, South
Dakota, where they lived for four years, the Doctor
having charge of the medical and surgical work of the
Dakota Hot Springs Company. He then removed to Germany,
where he built a large sanitarium at Friedensau, near
Magdeburg, and conducted the same for eight years.
When eight years had passed he disposed of his
interests in the institution, traveled extensively,
visiting the Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople. Athens,
Rome and other places of interest on the Asiatic and
European continents Returning to America, he remained
for a brief period in Wisconsin, afterward lived for a
short time in Iowa and then came to Utah, arriving in
Murray in September, 1910. Here he opened an office and
has since successfully engaged in practice. In 1916 he
established the Utah Sanitarium, with Mrs. Hoenes as
medical matron. This institution is located at No. 2320
South State street, at the corner of Truman avenue, in
Salt Lake. It contains ten rooms and Dr. Hoenes there
ministers to surgical and medical patients, with his
wife as active assistant.
To Dr. and Mrs. Hoenes have been
born six children. Walter A., is now a progressive
photographer and proprietor of the Link Studio at Ogden,
Utah, James A.is engaged in the restaurant business in
Salt Lake city, Victor C. served in the United States
army with the Three Hundred and Sixty-second Infantry of
the Ninety-first Division, Medical Corps, and saw active
service in the Argonne forest and in Flanders.
In France he suffered a fracture of the collar
bone but with efficient hospital treatment he returned
to his home in Utah at the close of the war in good
health and is now in Ogden, where he is engaged in
photographic work. Evangeline, graduate of Granite high
school, is the wife of Clifton Winward, who is serving
in the army and is stationed at Fort Douglas. William A.
and Theodor R. were born in Germany and are now
attending school.
Dr. Hoenes is a member of the
American Medical Association, the Utah State Medical
Society and the Salt Lake County Medical Society. He is
also a member of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps, a
branch of the Council of National Defense. He is medical
examiner for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of
New York, the Occidental Life Insurance Company of Los
Angeles, the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen
of America and of the last named he is a member. He is
also examiner for the Ljfe Extension Institute of New
York, a national association, the object of which is the
prevention of disease and prolongation of human life. Of
this organization Professor Irving Fisher of Yale is the
president and ex-president William H. Taft is chairman
of the board of directors.
Dr. Hoenes has invented an improved
medical electric current regulator, which he has named
the Electrotone and which was patented in 1913. By the
introduction of his Electrotone and other physiologic
therapeutic methods in his practice and sanitarium he
has been able to achieve otherwise unattainable
results. My name, though quite
unknown to fame, A Badge of Honor just the same.-A. J.
Hoenes.
ROBERT WALTER
HOGGAN.
Robert Walter Hoggan, state
veterinarian and member of the state live stock board of
Utah, with offices in Salt Lake, was born in Glasgow,
Scotland, September 13, 1884.
a son of Thomas and Mary (Kearney) Hoggan, who
were also natives of Scotland, where they spent their
entire lives, the father being engaged in cabinet work
and carriage manufacturing for many years. He died in
Glasgow in 1890, while his wife passed away in 1894.
Their family numbered four children: Thomas, who died in
infancy; A. A., living in Salt Lake; Robert Walter; and
Janet, who makes her home at Moore, Idaho.
Robert W. Hoggan attended the
schools of Scotland until his tenth year and then came
alone to America. He made his way to Manti, Utah, where
he afterward attended school and also engaged in herding
sheep and cattle. In this way he earned enough to pay
his tuition in the Agricultural College at Logan, where
he spent the years from 1907 until 1909 in preparatory
work. In 1910 and 1911 he was a student in the State
University of Ohio at Columbus and was there graduated
in 1911 on the completion of a course in veterinary
surgery. He then returned to Utah, locating at
Richfield, where he engaged in the practice of his
profession for six years, or until 1917.
During the years 1910 and 1911 he also took post
graduate work and a special course at the Pasteur
laboratory. For three years Mr. Hoggan was the president
of the Sevier County Fair Association and it was through
his efforts that this fair became one of the most
successful in the state both from a financial standpoint
and as an advertising medium for that section of Utah.
In 1917 Dr. Hoggan gave up his private practice at
Richfield to fill the appointive position of state
veterinarian, in which capacity he has served with
credit to himself and to the satisfaction of all who
know aught of the office. He received
reappointment in March, 1919, for a second term of two
years, so that he will remain the incumbent in the
position until 1921. He was also the secretary and
treasurer of the Utah Veterinary Association from 1912
until 1916.
On the 29th of May. 1909, Dr.
Hoggan was married to Miss Anna Lundberg, of Logan, a
daughter of John P. and Julia Lundberg, representatives
of a pioneer family of Logan. Dr. and Mrs. Hoggan have
four children: Lucy, who was born in Columbus, Ohio, in
1911 and is attending school; Leah, born in Richfield,
Utah, March 23, 1914; Robert Walter, born in Richfield
in May, 1916; and John T., born in Logan, Utah, in July,
1917.
Dr. Hoggan gives his political
allegiance to the democratic party, which he has always
supported since attaining adult age. He belongs to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and for two terms
served as noble grand of the state. He is also a Master
Mason and is a loyal exemplar of the teachings of the
craft. He likewise has membership with the Kiwanis Club,
the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association, the
American National Live Stock Association, the Utah
Cattle & Horse Growers Association and the American
Veterinary Medical Association, and he is most
prominently known in all of these different relations.
He has high professional standing and well deserved
prominence and is making an excellent official in the
position which he now occupies.
ANDREW L. HOPPAUGH.
Andrew L. Hoppaugh, a distinguished
representative of the Utah bar, his practice ever being
of a character to bring him prominently before the
public, has made his home in Salt Lake since 1895, or
for almost a quarter of a century. He was born in
Sparta, Sussex county, New Jersey, July 26, 1865, a son
of Morris and Madeline (Leport) Hoppaugh. He acquired a
common school education in the east and after reviewing
the broad field of business and professional life
determined upon the practice of law as a life work and
entered the law school of Columbia University in New
York city in 1885. The reports which reached him
concerning the opportunities of the west led him to seek
a home in Utah in 1895 and, opening an office in Salt
Lake City, he has here since practiced his profession.
He has ever been a close student of the law and has
enjoyed the full reaped and friendship of his colleagues
and contemporaries at the bar, for his strong mentality
and intellectual energy have made him their equal on a
mental plane.
In 1898 Mr. Hoppaugh was united in
marriage at Salt Lake City to Miss Grace Wells, a native
of Fairfield, lowa, and to them have been born two
interesting daughters. Katherine and Madeline. The
family is one of social prominence and Mr. Hoppaugh is a
member of the Alta, University and Country Clubs. He
also belongs to the Commercial Club of Salt Lake and is
interested in its various projects for the up building
of the city, the advancement of its trade relations and
the development of its civic standards. A man of
studious nature, he has kept abreast with the best
thinking men of the age along the great political,
sociological and economic problems which have engaged
the attention of the country, and lie is a popular
public speaker, his virile thought and oratorical power
enabling him always to hold the attention of his
bearers.
ARNISON
HOSKISSON.
Arnison Hoskisson, of Salt Lake, is
the president of the A. Hoskisson Company, controlling a
chain of eleven stores in Salt Lake City and one in
Richfield, Utah. His business development is the story
of steady progression at the hands of one who is master
of himself, his capabilities and his powers. Actuated by
a laudable ambition, he started upon his mercantile
career and has utilized every opportunity for legitimate
and honorable advancement. He was born in Middlesboro,
Yorkshire, England, June 3, 1881, a son of William and
Mary (Dodd) Hoskisson, who are also natives of England,
where they are still residing. The father engaged in
railroading in an official capacity for many years but
is now living retired. In their family were three
children: John William, who still resides in England;
Arnison, of this review; and Evelyn, the wife of W. B.
Dicks, of England.
Arnison Hoskisson spent his early
boyhood days as a pupil in the public schools and after
putting aside his textbooks entered upon an
apprenticeship to learn the meat business. After serving
his term of indenture he took up work at his chosen
trade and became manager of one of the retail meat
establishments that constituted a feature of the
Eastmans Limited, stores, one of the largest concerns in
England, comprising over a thousand stores. At length
Mr. Hoskisson resigned his position to come to America.
He made his way to Salt Lake in 1906 and established his
first store in 1914. This was the humble
beginning of a business that has steadily grown and
developed until he is now proprietor of twelve large
stores and has one of the most extensive and best
patronized retail grocery and meat trades in the west.
Mr. Hoskisson is constantly adding to the number of his
stores as fast as a favorable location and lease can be
secured and the company is in a highly prosperous and
thriving condition. R. W. Eardley is the secretary and
treasurer of the company, the business being
incorporated in 1917 after three stores had been added
to the original establishment. Mr. Hoskisson went upon a
mission for the Mormon Church in which he is a most
ardent worker and faithful follower. In December, 1915,
he was sent to England, where he spent eight months in
missionary labor, in the Newcastle conference, which
locality, during that time was several times raided by
the Zeppelins. Mr. Hoskisson was honorably released on
account of the health of Mrs. Hoskisson.He then returned
to Utah to again take up the development of the
mercantile business which he had established and through
the intervening period he has continually promoted his
interests. He caters rather to those people who must
take price into consideration when buying an article,
and it is his object to give full value and the same
class of goods to be found in higher priced
establishments. Something of the volume of business
which he controls is indicated in the fact that the
company, which was incorporated in 1917, is now
employing seventy-five people.
On the 12th of March, 1906, Mr.
Hoskisson was married to Miss Amelia Wilson, of
Middlesboro, England, a daughter of John and Mary Ann
(Richardson) Wilson. Her father is
deceased but her mother resides in Salt Lake City. Mr.
and Mrs. Hoskisson have become parents of six children:
William Arnison, who was born in Salt Lake in 1907;
Evelene, who was born in 1908; Olive, born in 1909;
Clifford, in 1912; John Howard, in 1913; and Amelia, in
1915.
Mr. Hoskisson is a member of the
Commercial Club and is a prominent representative of the
spirit of enterprise and progress which is the dominant
factor in that organization and which is contributing in
such substantial measure to the up building of the city
and the extension of its trade relations. He may truly
be called a self-made man, deserving all the praise
implied in that term, for he started out in the business
world empty-handed and by persistent effort laid the
foundation for his present success, his labors at all
times being intelligently directed ic the utilization of
the opportunities which have come to him.
DELBERT
B. HUGHES.
Secretary and Treasurer of the
Utah-Idaho Brokerage Company Delbert B. Hughes has_ made
a creditable name among his business acquaintances and
associates by reason of his progressive methods and able
management. A native son of Utah, he was born at Spanish
Fork, May 27, 1884, a son of William B. and Louisa
Stewart (McKell) Hughes, who were also natives of
Spanish Fork. The grandparents in the paternal line,
Morgan and Hannah (David) Hughes, were from Wales, while
the maternal grandparents, Robert and Elizabeth (Boyack)
McKell, were natives of Scotland. Both families came to
America in early life and crossed the plains with the
pioneers who were the first settlers of Spanish Fork.
William B. Hughes is mentioned at length elsewhere in
this work.
Delbert B. Hughes was a pupil in
the public schools of Spanish Fork and in the Weber
State Academy at Ogden and in 1906 came to Salt Lake,
then a young man of twenty-two years. He was one of the
organizers of the Utah-Idaho Brokerage Company on the
1st of June, 1916. Prior to this time he was with the
William B. Hughes Grain Company, but ambitious to engage
in business on his own account became one of the
organizers of the brokerage company, of which he is the
secretary and treasurer, with William G. Crawford as the
president, W. L. Crawford, vice president, and Albert
G. Brockbank, manager.
The company engages in business as wholesale dealers in
hay, grain, flour, feed, produce and bags, and they now
enjoy an extensive patronage. Mr. Hughes is also a
director and the secretary of the Elevator Safety First
Appliance Company, manufacturing and elevator device
which can be used on any kind of an elevator and is now
being introduced throughout the United States. Mr.
Hughes was one of the incorporators of this company and
has greatly promoted the interests of the business,
which has now assumed gratifying proportions. He is also
the secretary and treasurer of the Ben Bolt Mining
Company, operating in the Tintic district, and is a
director and vice president of the Machinery
Manufacturing Company of Salt Lake City.
On the 16th of August, 1905, Mr.
Hughes was married to Miss Emma Lois Wright, of Ogden, a
daughter of William H. and Alfaretta (Herrick) Wright,
of that city. They now have three living children and
have lost one, their first born, Zelma Lois, who was
born April 6, 1910, having passed away on the 16th of
August, 1917, in Salt Lake. The others are: Erma, born
in Salt Lake, August 18, 1912; Delbert Wright, August
16, 1915; and William Edward, November 22,
1918.
Mr. Hughes belongs to the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His career is
illustrative of the possibilities for successful
achievement through individual effort.
He started out in the business world empty
handed, but, actuated by strong purpose and laudable
ambition, gradually he has worked his way upward, wisely
utilizing every opportunity that has come his way. He
carefully considers every question and is willing to
match his judgment even in the face of discouraging
circumstances by positive constructive action. Such a
course leads to higher achievements, and Mr.
Hughes has made continuous progress until he is
today a prominent figure in commercial, manufacturing
and mining circles in Salt Lake.
WILLIAM B. HUGHES.
William B. Hughes, of Salt Lake,
who is serving as county commissioner, was born at
Spanish Fork, Utah. February 27, 1859. His father,
Morgan Hughes, was a native of Wales and in 1850 came to
the new world, making his way to St. Louis, Missouri,
from which point he crossed the plains in 1851. Settling
at Spanish Fork, he afterward engaged in farming and
there remained until his death, which occurred January
11, 1890. The mother of William B. Hughes, Mrs. Anna
(David) Hughes, was also born in Wales and in 1852 made
the trip across the plains. She is still living at a
venerable age for her birth occurred March 3, 1837. In
the family were thirteen children, eleven sons and two
daughters, and of this number nine are yet living,
namely: Morgan J., William B.. David F., John B.. Henry,
George D., Benjamin, Joseph and Ephraim.
In his boyhood days William B.
Hughes enjoyed such educational advantages as could be
secured in pioneer times. Later he had the benefit of
instruction under Professor George H. Brimhall and
eventually became a student in the Brigham Young
University, where he remained for twenty-three weeks.
After putting aside his textbooks he took up railroad
contracting and a little later was made secretary of the
Malcolm & Thomas Construction Company, building the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.
This position he retained for a short period,
after which he withdrew to enter business at Spanish
Fork, becoming manager of a large mercantile
establishment in 1883 and thus continuing until 1890. He
was associated with D. T. Malcolm in the establishment
of a business on their own account, in which they
continued successfully for five years.
Mr. Hughes later purchased the business, and
during this time was one of the commissioners of Utah
county, filling that position from 1898 until 1900. In
the latter year he went to Ogden, where he was connected
with the C. A. Smurthwaite Produce Company, and in 1906
came to Salt Lake City and entered the wholesale grain
business, in which he has since continued under the name
of the W. B. Hughes Grain Company. He has built up a
trade of gratifying proportions, for he is watchful of
every indication pointing to success and has always made
obstacles and difficulties in his path an impetus for
renewed effort on his part.
On the 18th of December, 1879, Mr.
Hughes was married to Miss Louisa S. McKell, of Spanish
Fork, who there passed away August 30, 1889. She was a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
McKell. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hughes,
three of whom are yet living. William M., born December
5, 1880, at Spanish Fork, was educated in the Brigham
Young University of Provo and is now a deputy sheriff of
Salt Lake county. Delbert B., born May 27, 1884, at
Spanish Fork, is now in business at Salt Lake in
connection with the Utah-Idaho Brokerage Company. Jennie
M.. born in Spanish Fork. December 12. 1886, and
graduated from the high school there, is now the wife of
Albert G. Brockbank and resides in Salt Lake City.
On the 20th of July, 1892.
William B. Hughes wedded Mrs. Margaret (Moore)
Black, of Spanish Fork. Utah. She was a daughter of John
and Margaret Moore of Catron. Scotland. Mrs. Hughes
passed away May 3, 1896, at Spanish Fork. She became the
mother of two children: Janet Louisa, who was born at
Spanish Fork. July 5. 1891, and is now the wife of
Leslie H. White, of Salt Lake
City; and Morgan John, whose birth occurred August 8,
1895, and who passed away on the 30th of September.
1911.
On the 4tb of August, 1897,
Mr. Hughes wedded Miss
Alice E. Payzant, of Spanish Fork, a daughter of John
and Mary Emma (Bucher) Payzant. Six children have been
born of the third marriage. George D.. born at Spanish
Fork, April 22, 1898, was graduated from the East Side
high school of Salt Lake and on the 21st of April. 1917
enlisted in the Fifth Regiment, United States Marines,
and was attached to the Twentieth Company, being one of
the brave fighters who met the onslaughts of the Germans
at Verdun, Chateau Thierry, Beileau Wood. St. Miliiel.
Soissons. Champagne and in the Argonne forest, together
with other points along the battle front. He was awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross of the American
government. The particular act of bravery which brought
George D. Hughes to be promoted to sergeant and the D.
S. C. was performed on the night of October 4. 1918. The
citation, which was embodied in a personal letter to
Hughes from Major General George Barnett, commandant of
the marine corps, reads as follows:
"Extraordinary heroism in action near St.
Etienne, France. October 4. 1918. Corporal Hughes
conducted a patrol to the front, located machine gun
nests and gained contact with the enemy under very
severe artillery fire and machine gun fire, and set an
example of calmness and courage under these hazardous
conditions." The presentation of this medal was made in
Salt Lake on June 25, 1919. and is the third D. S. C. to
be awarded in Utah, two having been presented to
officers at Fort Douglas. Sergeant Hughes should have
received his decoration in Coblenz, Germany, but was
ordered home before the award could be made.
Mary E., born November 18. 1899. at Spanish Fork;
Gladys, born In Ogden, April 2, 1904; Myrtle A., born
November 27. 1906, in Salt Lake; Ronald E.. born
September 19, 1909, in Salt Lake; and Albert O., born in
Salt Lake, December 13. 1914, complete the
family.
Mr. Hughes and his family are
members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, he belongs also to the Commercial Club and to
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, associations
that indicate the nature of his interests and the rules
that govern his conduct. His political endorsement is
given to the democratic party and in February, 1918, he
was appointed one of the county commissioners of Salt
Lake county, which position he is now most acceptably
and efficiently filling, acting as chairman of the
committees on finance, public grounds and buildings. His
endorsement of any measure is proof of his firm belief
in its worth and in all matters of citizenship he stands
for progress and improvement. His ltfe has indeed been
an active and useful one. resulting in public benefit as
well as in the advancement of his own fortunes, and his
aid and influence can always be counted upon to further
material, intellectual, social, political and moral
progress in the communities in which he has
lived.
WILLIAM ROSS
HUTCHINSON.
Residence 1105 3rd Ave., Offices 512-13-11
Atlas Block. Salt Lake City. Utah. Born and reared on a
farm near Bellaire, Belmont county. State of Ohio.
Scotch ancestry, universally styled "Scotch-lrish." Son
of Joseph Fulton and Eliza Jane Bell Hutchinson.
Married, has three daughters and one son. Attended the
country schools and high schools of Belmont county,
Ohio. Attended and graduated from Muskingum College. New
Concord, Muskingum county, Ohio, with the degree of B.
S. Taught in the country and town schools of Belmont
county, Ohio, for a period of three years, as one of the
means of obtaining an education. Read law in the office
of Congressman Lorenzo H. Danford at St. Clairsville,
Ohio while engaged in teaching. Entered the law
department of the University of Michigan and graduated
with the degree of LL. B. Was admitted to the bar
supreme and other courts, in Michigan, Nebraska and
Utah. Practiced law at Broken Bow, Nebraska, before
moving to Utah in March, 1894. Has resided permanently
in Salt Lake since said date and engaged exclusively in
the practice of the law. Always has been a republican in
politics and radically opposed to third party political
organizations. In favor of the present judicial system
wherein the people select the judiciary. Is a member of
the National Bar Association and the Utah State Bar
Association.
