COLONEL DANIEL COWAN JACKLING.
Colonel Daniel Cowan Jackling, vice president and managing director of the Utah Copper Company, operating the world's greatest copper mine at Bingham, Utah, is one of the leading figures in mining circles throughout the world. The position which he occupies is unique, not only for the rather brief period of time in which it has been attained. but because in some respects it stands singularly alone. Most mining men of the day owe recognition to their ability in determining the existence and value of ore bodies and their relation to mineralogical and geographical conditions. Colonel Jackling's preeminence is due to his work in making commercially profitable bodies of ore which, until produced by the advanced methods introduced by the Utah Copper Company, were almost worthless. In fact his success in this respect has been so stupendous as to make the works directed by him unrivaled in their kind. It may be said that the Utah Copper Company, because of his metallurgical knowledge, covering the widest and most practical grasp of the subject, was really the pioneer in making commercially profitable the handling of large bodies of copper ore of such low grade as had previously been looked upon as almost waste. From a three hundred ton mill which he erected for experimental purposes in 1903, the Arthur mill and Magna mill in 1917 treated more than twelve million tons of ore. When the small quantity of copper in the ore is considered, the vast tonnage of copper produced is little less than marvelous. The history of the Utah Copper Company from its organization in 1903 to the present time, its stupendous growth and development represent the genius and dynamic personality of Colonel Jackling.
He was born in Appleton City. Missouri, August 14, 1869 a son of Daniel and Lydia Jane (Dunn) Jackling, the father being a merchant of that place. The parents died when Colonel Jackling was but a small child and he was reared in the family of a relative. He attended the common schools, the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Missouri, and later the Missouri School of Mines, from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Science and Metallurgical Engineer in 1892. For several years, or until 1896, he was engaged as a chemist and metallurgist at Cripple Creek. Colorado, and in that year came to Utah to take charge of the construction and operation of the metallurgical works of the Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines at Mercur, then operated by the late Captain Joseph U. De Lamar. Colonel Jackling continued there until 1899, when he resigned and went to Republic. Washington, where he designed and built a mill for a group of Canadian capitalists. Going then to Colorado Springs. Colorado, he became consulting engineer to the United States Reduction & Refining Company. In 1903, in company with Charles M. MacNeill and Spencer Penrose, he organized the Utah Copper Company to develop the property at Bingham. Colonel Jackling becoming vice president and general manager, in which capacity he continued until May 1913, when he became vice president and managing director. His headquarters were in Salt Lake City until January, 1915, when he removed to San Francisco, California.
He is also president of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company; president of the Butte & Superior Mining Company; vice president and managing director of the Ray Consolidated Copper Company and the Chino Copper Company ; vice president and general manager of the Ray & Gila Valley Railroad and the Bingham & Garfield Railroad; vice president of the Nevada-Northern Railroad and the Alaska Gold Mines Company; president of the Utah Power & Light Company; director of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Company; director of the Chase National Bank of New York; director of the Utah Fireclay Company; and director of the Pacific Steamship Company. This is a list of corporations which indicates the great breadth and extent of his activities and the soundness of his business judgment in matters of Investment.
Colonel Jackling was married in April, 1915, at San Francisco, to Miss Virginia Jolliffe, a member of one of the leading families of that city. In politics a stanch republican, he was during his residence in Utah a forceful and leading figure in the councils of the party. While In Colorado he served for two years on the staff of Governor James H. Peabody. In selecting his official family, Governor William Spry of Utah appointed him inspector general of small arms practice, with the rank of colonel. He is a member of the American Mining Engineers and the Metallurgical Society of America and In club circles is well known, having membership In the Alta Club of Salt Lake City, of which he was president in 1909; the University and Commercial and Country Clubs of Salt Lake City; the Rocky Mountain and New York Yacht Clubs of New York; the California Club of Los Angeles; the El Paso Club of Colorado Springs; the Pacific Union and the Bohemian Clubs of San Francisco; and the Rainier Club of Seattle.
During the war Colonel Jackling was one of the captains of industry that offered his services to his government and was appointed director of United States government explosive plants. Under his masterful direction the great plant at Nitro, near Charleston, West Virginia, was erected, which at the time of the signing of the armistice, and less than one year after its construction was begun, was producing more than one hundred thousand pounds of explosives per day. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by direction of President Wilson "for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service as Director of United States Government Explosive Plants." A contemporary writer has said: "Mr. Jackling is a man of broad views and is mentally equipped far beyond the average. He has a truly remarkable grasp of subjects (not confined to his special line) in their relation to the interests of mankind generally. It is difficult to imagine a vocation in life, or a calling, in which Mr. Jackling with his intellectual force, would not be eminently successful. In this respect he is distinguished from most notables, who are capable of doing only one thing very well. Upon whatever subject the force of his mind is turned, a clarity of vision is developed and a direction of energy that assure successful results."
ALFRED 0. JACOBSON.
Alfred 0. Jacobson, of Salt Lake, is widely known as a representative of the mining interests of Utah, having operated extensively in the Tintic and Alta districts, directing his attention to silver, copper and lead mining. There is perhaps no man in the state more thoroughly familiar with every phase of mining operations from the time the first drill is put to work until the smelted metal is upon the market than is Alfred 0. Jacobson.
Salt Lake numbers him among her native sons. He was born May 28, 1871, his parents being Anton and Matilda (Norine) Jacobson, who were natives of Sweden, whence they came to the new world in early life, casting in their lot with the pioneer settlers of Utah in 1860. They took up their abode in what is now the tenth ward of Salt Lake City and the father was connected with various lines of business, including farming, mining and contracting. In the latter connection he did much to further the up building and improvement of Salt Lake, where he passed away in 1915 at the age of seventy-four years. He had long survived his wife, whose death occurred in 1873. They were the parents of six children, three of whom are still living, namely: Mrs. R. J. Jarvis, of Salt Lake; J. Alexander, who is living in Pomona, California; and Alfred O.. the youngest of the family. The others were: Tony, who died in 1914; Matilda; and one who died in infancy.
Alfred O. Jacobson was a pupil in the public schools of Salt Lake and also attended St. Mark's School for a year, while later he spent one term in study in Nevada. He has been dependent upon his own resources from the early age of thirteen years, when he began working in the mines of Utah, which at that time were just beginning to attract the attention of the world. He acquainted himself with every phase of the mining industry as he worked his way steadily upward and thoroughly learned the lessons taught in the hard school of experience. He is one of the best informed mining men in Utah today, and his knowledge and experience have enabled him to develop properties in an expert manner. He has continued throughout his entire life a factor in the mining fields of the west and while he has done much to develop the property of others, he has also used his opportunities for judicious investments in mines on his own account. For twelve years he was identified with a number of mining interests in the Tintic district and at the same time became the superintendent of the Columbus Consolidated Mines at Alta. He has done much to further develop old mines in the Alta district and became the president of the West Toledo mines, also of the Sells Mining Company and the Pioneer Leasing Company. He is likewise interested in other properties in the Alta district, including silver, copper and lead mines. If one would know any thing of mining conditions and opportunities in Utah he may well seek that information of Alfred O. Jacobson, who by reason of his broad and practical experience and wide study has an accurate knowledge of the mining interests of the state.
On the 18th of April, 1890. Mr. Jacobson was married to Miss Marie Keil, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Keil, of Santaquin, Utah. Mrs. Jacobson died April 8, 1919 aged forty-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson had sixteen children. Those living are as follows: Jennie is wife of G. Bryant Morton, living at Salt Lake; Tony A., who was born at Santaquin and resides in Salt Lake, married Miss Eva Kay, a representative of a pioneer family of the state. Ruby is wife of Heber J. Warburton, of Salt Lake. She was born at Eureka and was educated in Notre Dame University. LeRoy is attending the Latter-day Saints' College. Leah is a high school pupil in Salt Lake. Ollie, Raymond, Alta, Aoh, and Junior Gilbert are all pupils in the schools of Salt Lake. Mildred and Walter Woodrow complete the family. Four children are deceased; Laura and Goldie. who died in Eureka; and Dewey and Marie, who passed away in Salt Lake. Mr. Jacobson gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and has served as justice of the peace in the Little Cottonwood district. He is a life member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, also of the Knights of Pythias; belongs to the Commercial Club; and is a charter member of Patriotic Order Sons of America. A man of broad intelligence, he keeps abreast with the times on all questions of national policy as well as of community interests. The honesty and integrity of his purpose are above question and Utah ranks him with her most useful and valuable citizens. She has brought to the attention of the world the possibilities for development of the rich mineral resources of the state and in practical effort has demonstrated Utah's advantages in this connection.
WILLIAM JENNINGS.
Few men during their lives have participated more actively in the building up and development of Utah, transforming it from an absolutely primitive condition to a commonwealth of importance, than has the subject of this sketch, the late William Jennings. He was one of the real pioneers and the work which he accomplished during his life will last throughout many generations yet to come, and the name he made and the place he won in the annals of Utah forms an important part of its historical record.
To write a history of Utah or attempt to describe its development without any mention of the part which William Jennings played would be almost impossible, inasmuch as his life work formed a very part of its growth period. Mr. Jennings was born September 13, 1823, at Yardley, near Birmingham, England, the son of Isaac and Jane (Thorington) Jennings. His father came of a good family and made himself wealthy in the butchering business. When William was seven years old he accidentally broke his thigh bone and for fifteen months was on crutches. His five brothers and five sisters went to a boarding school and were well educated. William left school at the age of eleven and at fourteen plunged into business as an assistant to his father. Even at that early day he manifested the keenness, sagacity and business promptitude that made him in time one of the leading merchants and financiers of the west. It is related how he went to Coalsell Market on a certain occasion to buy cattle. Having made some first class selections, he asked the owner his price. Amused at the lad's precocity, the farmer in a bantering spirit, put a very low figure upon the cattle. "I'll take them," said Jennings, and the farmer, still in jest, concluded the sale: whereupon William, taking out his scissors, quickly cut the Jennings mark on each of the beasts and paid the money. The joking farmer then tried to recede from the transaction, but the boy, un-awed by his bluster, appealed to the bystanders, who sustained him in the fairness of his purchase. Chagrined at having paid so dearly for his whistle the seller reluctantly yielded the point and surrendered the cattle.
William Jennings came to America the year that Salt Lake valley was settled. He was not at that time a Latter-day Saint, and in leaving home and beginning life for himself in a foreign land among strangers, was actuated purely by that spirit of independent enterprise which was so notable a characteristic of his nature. His parents and other members of the family did not approve of the step but offered no strenuous opposition. In leaving home at such a time he forfeited his family portion, but the fortune afterwards amassed by him was much larger than that divided among his father's heirs.
He landed in New York early in the month of October. There he remained through the winter, working at six dollars a week for a Mr. Taylor, a pork packer of Manchester, England. The next year he made his way to the state of Ohio, where he was robbed of all the money he possessed-some four or five hundred dollars-and in absolute destitution sought and found employment as a journeyman butcher at a small salary. In March, 1849, he left Ohio for Missouri, staying a while at St. Louis, and then proceeded to St. Joseph, where he worked at trimming bacon and butchering. In the fall an attack of cholera prostrated him for four weeks and on recovering he found himself again penniless and two hundred dollars in debt. In this extremity he was befriended by a Catholic priest, one Father Scanlon, who loaned him fifty dollars, which small but timely loan, judiciously handled, put him on his feet again and gave him his first successful start in the new world. Mr. Jennings' well known friendly feeling for the Catholics is thus explained.
While at St. Joseph he married Jane
Walker, a "Mormon" emigrant girl, on her way to Utah
from her native England, and though he did not
immediately join the church of which she was a member,
this marriage was the beginning of his relations with
the Latter-day Saints, and it undoubtedly led to his
settlement in the Rocky Mountain region. The date of the
marriage was July 2. 1851. The young couple left St.
Joseph in the spring of 1852 and arrived at Salt Lake
City early in the fall. Mr. Jennings brought with him
three wagons loaded with groceries in which all his
means was invested. These goods he sold in Utah at a
handsome profit and paid his tithing from the sale. Soon
after his arrival in Utah he joined the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and on July 28, 1855,
married his second wife, Priscilla Paul, another young
English girl, who had recently emigrated from the land
of her birth.
During the first three years of his
residence at Salt Lake City, Mr. Jennings devoted
himself exclusively to the butchering business, a line
of industry that had made his father wealthy and which
he himself had followed in a small way with varying
success after his arrival in America. At the expiration
of that period he added to his meat shop a tannery, the
first In Utah, manufacturing leather from the hides of
his slaughtered beeves, then working up the leather into
saddles, harness, boots and shoes. His original venture
and each succeeding extension of his business was a
success. During a mission to Carson valley in 1856, he
supplied the mining camps of that region with
meat.
He built himself a substantial house
of logs, which he had cut from the surrounding
mountains. In his humble abode his wife Priscilla
lived and there her first child, Frank W. Jennings, was
born February 25, 1857. The father was absent upon this
mission sixteen months, returning to Salt Lake City in
the summer of 1857. On arriving in Salt Lake City, he
found the people greatly excited over the prospect of a
collision with the general government. Johnston's army
was on its way to Utah, industry was paralyzed and
business almost at a standstill. Undaunted by the
prospect of invasion and devastation, which was the
common talk, the returned missionary embarked in
business on quite an extensive scale, building on the
spot afterwards occupied by his Eagle Emporium, a large
meat establishment, which he maintained as best he could
during the absence from the city of almost its entire
population. The Jennings family spent the period of "the
move" at Provo. In the year 1860 the head of the house
branched out in the mercantile business. He purchased
from Solomon Young a stock of dry goods amounting to
forty thousand dollars. He was now the leading merchant
of Utah. In 1861 he contracted to supply poles upon
which to stretch the wires of the Overland Telegraph
Line between Salt Lake City and Ruby valley. He also
took a large contract to supply grain for the Overland
Mail Company. The same year found him in San Francisco,
purchasing merchandise for his store. After the
establishment of Fort Douglas the commissariat relied
upon him for much that it consumed. In 1863 he added to
merchandising banking and brokerage. He exported Utah
products to the mines outside of the territory and is
said to have been the first Salt Lake City merchant to
buy and ship Montana gold dust. He was also the owner of
the first steam flouring mill in Utah. In 1864 he built
the Eagle Emporium in Salt Lake City and during that
year purchased large quantities of goods in New York,
St. Louis, San Francisco and Salt Lake City. In addition
to these purchases, and against the advice and protest
of his business managers, he also bought from Major
Barrows a mammoth train load of goods, amounting to a
quarter of a million dollars. This bold and hazardous
venture proved to be the luckiest hit of his mercantile
career. He not only reaped handsome profits from a ready
sale of his merchandise, but enhanced his prestige as a
merchant and indirectly the commercial standing in Utah,
by the extensive and successful deal.
Two anecdotes told of Mr. Jennings
aptly illustrate his native shrewdness and sagacity. The
first pertains to his grain contract with the Overland
Mail Company in 1861. Seventy-five thousand
bushels-about all the grain the territory then
produced-was needed by that company, and the contract to
supply it was made binding upon Mr. Jennings by a
forfeiture of five thousand dollars if not fulfilled.
The company itself was not placed under bonds. The
merchant at once began to buy grain, and contrary to his
understanding at the time of signing the contract, the
company began buying also. He protested but his protest
was unavailing, and Mr. Jennings soon saw that it would
be Impossible for him to fulfill his contract if the
company persisted in buying in opposition to him.
However, he kept on buying and filling his bins and
cellars with grain. The company also continued buying.
Finally Jennings, seized with an idea, asked the other
parties if the payment of the five thousand dollars
forfeiture would satisfy the contract.
There was a prompt answer in the
affirmative and no less prompt payment of the
forfeiture. The contract was cancelled and the merchant
was free, with thirty thousand bushels of grain on hand,
nearly half the grain product of the territory and
nearly half the amount needed by the Overland Mail
Company. Both parties continued to buy. but Jennings,
having the inside track as a member of the community, as
well as his native push and ability as a trader, soon
distanced his competitor and succeeded in corralling the
greater part of the grain product. And now came the
climax, with a triumph for Jennings, which his opponents
might have foreseen had they been anywhere near his
equals in business acumen. The Mail Company, which
needed the grain, must either purchase it from Jennings
at his own price-which was now a high one-or else
freight grain from the Missouri river or the Pacific
coast. Distance and delay forbade the latter course and
at length they came and bought the merchant's grain at a
much higher price than he had paid for it, thus wiping
out the forfeiture and giving him a heavy margin
besides. "When a boy," said Mr. Jennings, "my father
told me always to look for a thing where I had lost it.
I had lost five thousand dollars on that grain contract,
and it was to the Overland Mail Company that I had to
look for it. The experience taught me, however, never to
bind myself in a contract unless I bound the other party
equally." The other incident happened in 1865. For two
years Mr. Jennings had been engaged in buying gold dust
and had bought as high as ten thousand dollars worth in
a single day. Mr. Halsey, the superintendent of Ben
Holladay's local banking house, was also in this
business, and in order to get rid of the Jennings
competition, he went to the merchant and requested him
to stick to his legitimate vocation and not buy any more
gold dust. Jennings replied that he was the oldest gold
dust buyer in the country, and he did not propose to
retire that early from a branch of business which had
been so profitable to him. "Well," said Halsey. in
anger, "If you do not quit buying. I will run you out of
business." "How?" asked the merchant. The banker
replied: "I carry the express and I express for whom I
choose." Jennings retorted: "I don't care a d-n for you
or your express either." They parted each resolved upon
financial fight. Jennings led out by paying for gold
dust twenty-five cents more an ounce than previously.
Halsey retaliated by paying fifty cents more an ounce,
and thus they went on until gold dust was worth more in
Salt Lake City than in New York. Jennings, through
another person, then sold all his gold dust to Halsey at
the greatly advanced figure. He quit buying for a few
days till the price fell to its former level, when he
revived the competition until gold dust again ran up
above the New York figures. Again he sold to Halsey
through another man until finally the banker, getting
wind of the game, cried quits, acknowledged himself
beaten and asked Jennings to come to terms by signing an
agreement between them. The merchant refused to sign but
verbally agreed upon a cessation of financial
hostilities. In 1867 Mr. Jennings purchased from Hon.
Joseph A. Young, who had previously purchased it from
William C. Staines, the property afterwards known as the
Devereaux House and grounds in the sixteenth ward,
adding to the original lot several pieces of realty on
the same block, and superseding the handsome Staines
cottage with a more pretentious mansion, while retaining
and improving the rare orchards and flower gardens which
the original owner had planted and cultivated. The
Devereaux House was called after the Jennings family
residence in England. It became noted for its
hospitality, especially as a place where distinguished
visitors were entertained. With one exception, it was
the only private home honored by President Grant with a
personal call during his brief stay at Salt Lake City in
1875.
The following year Mr. Jennings,
with his daughters. Jane and Priscilla, while on their
way to Europe, called upon President and Mrs. Grant at
the White House in Washington and were cordially
received and entertained. William Jennings was one of
the organizers of the Utah Central Railroad Company in
1869, at which time he became the vice president of the
road, holding that position during the remainder of his
life. He also helped to organize the Utah Southern
Railroad Company and succeeded Brigham Young as its
president. Prior to this he had sat in the legislature
under the administration of Governor Doty, who
commissioned him a lieutenant colonel in the
militia.
In later years he was a director
and vice president of the Deseret National Bank. At the
inception of Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution,
when the Gentile merchants of Utah were in open
hostility to the movement, and many "Mormon" merchants
were hesitating, William Jennings threw the weight of
his wealth and influence into the scale with President
Young and those who stood by him in the inauguration of
the mighty enterprise, thus contributing greatly to its
success. He was the first to lease his premises and sell
his stock to the institution in which he became a
stockholder to the amount of seventy-five thousand
dollars, and in later years saved the institution from
financial wreck by personally endorsing their paper in
New York for large sums. From October, 1877, to the date
of his death Mr. Jennings was its vice president and was
also superintendent for several years. The year 1882
witnessed the election of Mr. Jennings as mayor of Salt
Lake City, in which office he served until 1885. He made
a good record in that capacity and one that gave general
satisfaction. It was during his administration that
Liberty Park was formally opened to the public. He was
urged by Gentiles as well as "Mormons" to run again for
the mayoralty, but owing to polygamous conditions he
felt that he should decline. Mr. Jennings died January
15, 1886, in Salt Lake City.
In a resume of what William
Jennings did for Utah it can be said: He devoted his
energies and means to developing Utah and laying the
foundation for a future state of great magnitude;
developed its manufacturing interests in producing
leather and manufacturing shoes; owned and operated a
woolen mill; built and operated flour mills; mined and
smelted ores; built railroads; farmed, and was among the
first to grow wheat on dry land; was a canal builder;
banker; merchant; imported and bred thoroughbred cattle
and turned them on the public ranges; gave liberally of
his wealth to the poor and was the largest tithing payer
to the Mormon church to the time of his
death.
J. S. JENSEN.
J. S. Jensen, the founder of the
firm of J. S. Jensen & Sons, leading jewelers of
Sale Lake City, has long resided here, being connected
throughout the entire period with the commercial
development of the capital. He was born in Aalsrode,
Denmark. April 3, 1852, a son
of Jens and Christane (Christensen) Jensen, who were
likewise natives of Denmark, where they spent their
entire lives, the father being the town blacksmith. He
died in Aalsrode in 1854, while the mother, who survived
for more than half a century, passed away in 1906, at
the age of ninety-three years. In their family were ten
children, three of whom are yet living, the brother and
sister of J, S. Jensen being Elias,
who now makes his home in Brigham, Utah, and Mrs. Judith
Bruun, living in Denmark.
J. S. Jensen attended the village
school of his native town and afterward became an
apprentice at the jeweler's trade, with which he
thoroughly familiarized himself in his native country.
On attaining his majority he bade adieu to friends and
native land and sailed for the new world. He at once
crossed the continent to Salt Lake City, where he worked
at the jeweler's trade for two years and then decided to
engage in business as a watchmaker. He rented space in a
barber shop in 1875, securing the front part of the shop
for his workroom, and after a short period he had built
up a gratifying trade. In fact the growth of his
business necessitated larger quarters and with his
removal to another building he purchased a modest stock
of jewelry, to which he added from time to time as his
trade warranted. He later rented a larger store and
throughout the passing years his business has steadily
grown along substantial lines.
In 1911 he was compelled to move once more to a
still more commodious building.
At his present location, No. 71 South Main
street, he has ample floor space and show room and is
now well qualified to meet the needs and wishes of the
public along the line of his trade. His patronage has
steadily grown as the years have passed and today his
establishment shows the finest and best that is brought
forth by the jeweler's art. The firm of J. S. Jensen
& Sons was formed in 1901, with J. S. Jensen as the
head and principal owner. Theirs is a most attractive
establishment, carefully managed, and the trade brings
to them a most gratifying figure annually.
On the 8th of November, 1875, Mr.
Jensen was married to Miss Mary Orlob, of Salt Lake
City, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Orlob. Mr. and
Mrs. Jensen have become parents of eight children.
Thorwald S., born in Salt Lake City and educated in the
University of Utah, afterward went on a mission for the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was in
Europe during the Paris exposition. He is now engaged in
business with his father. He married Mercy Tucker and
they have three children: Marian Bernice and Rhea.
Holger O., the second of the family, born, reared and
educated in Salt Lake City, pursued a course in an
optical college of Chicago, in 1901, and is now one of
the most prominent opticians in the state. He married
Miss Emma Savage and they reside in Salt Lake City with
their three children: Delone, Richard and Ruth. Bertha
is now the wife of Joseph G. Nielsen, of Salt Lake City,
and they have three children: George, Theron and Ruby.
Oscar, born in Salt Lake City, attended business college
and is now bookkeeper for Cohn & Company, of Salt
Lake City. He married Dorothy Lundgren and they have one
child, Allen. Victor, born in Salt Lake City and now in
business with his father, married Miss Bessie Brooks and
they have two children, Don and Betty. Maria, born in
Salt Lake City, is connected with the jewelry firm of J.
S. Jensen & Sons. Viola is the wife of Claude
Wilkins, of Salt Lake City. She occupies a responsible
position in the Federal building of this city. Walter,
born in Salt Lake, is in business with his father.
For many years Mr. Jensen was a trustee of the
eighteenth ward school. He has been active in the work
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
was assistant to President J. M. Sjodahl for many years.
In 1911 he paid a visit to his native land, spending a
most pleasant time in visiting the scenes and renewing
the acquaintances of his youth. He has never had
occasion to regret his determination to come to the new
world, however, for here he has found the opportunities
which he sought and by progressive and constructive
methods has reached an enviable place in the business
circles of Salt Lake City.
WIGGO FREDERIK
JENSEN.
Wiggo Frederik Jensen, recognized
as one of the leading creamery men of the United States,
has been one of the forceful factors in the development
of Salt Lake City and of the west. His powers of
organization and his executive ability are demonstrated
by his successful operation of the Mutual Creamery
Company, of which he is the president and which operates
nearly four score of plants in the eight northwestern
states. Various other business enterprises of importance
have benefited from his unusual powers as an
organizer.
Mr. Jensen was born November 28,
1871, in Schleswig, the Danish province which was held
by Germany before the war but which has now again become
a part of Denmark. His birthplace was the city of
Osterlinnet. His parents were Jacob Olsen Jensen and
Marie Wieland Jensen, both of Danish nationality. The
grandfather in the paternal line was a member of the
first constitutional parliament of Denmark in 1848. The
grandfather in the maternal line was known as the "old
miller of Gram," having conducted a flour mill for
fifty-six years. The father, who was engaged in farming
and in the creamery business is dead, but the mother is
still living in Copenhagen.
The parents were ambitious to give
their children every possible advantage and Wiggo F.
Jensen, who was one of a family of seven, made good use
of his opportunities. In 1883 he became a student at
Skebelund College at Wejen, Denmark, from which he was
graduated April 18, 1888. He spent two years in his
father's creamery and then came to America, landing in
1891. Mr. Jensen first
located in Denver, Colorado, where he continued in the
produce business until 1893. In that year he took charge
of a creamery at Superior, Nebraska, where he remained
until 1895, then removing to Beloit, Kansas, where he
established the Jensen Creamery Company, continuing for
five years. In the spring of 1900, Mr. Jensen went to
Topeka, Kansas, where he became the vice president of
the Continental Creamery Company, later assuming the
presidency of the concern, which at that time conducted
the largest creamery organization in the world. While a
resident of Topeka Mr. Jensen joined his brother in
forming the Jensen Manufacturing Company, manufacturers
of dairy machinery. It is also interesting to note that
while with the Continental Creamery Company Mr. Jensen
conceived the idea of giving butter a brand name, being
the first manufacturer in that line to recognize the
value of a standardized product. Through a Philadelphia
concern an advertising campaign was launched which was
so successful that the brand then formed is still one of
the great sellers; of the nation.
Mr. Jensen remained in Topeka until
June, 1908, when he came to Salt Lake City and
incorporated the Jensen Creamery Company, of which he
became president. This business grew rapidly from the
start, a large part of the success being due to the'
policy adopted by Mr. Jensen of lending his assistance,
both financial and executive, in the pioneer development
of many sections of Utah and neighboring states suitable
for dairying. When the Mutual Creamery Company was
formed in the spring of 1915.
the Jensen Creamery Company became a part of the
new organization, which owns and operate.; thirty-six
plants located in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana,
Colorado, Washington and Oregon, doing an annual volume
of business of more than seven million dollars in all
creamery and dairy products and eggs.
In 1901 Mr. Jensen was married to
Miss Matilda R. Brandt of Kansas, and they have one son,
Ethelbert Wiggo Jensen. In 1901 he was initiated into
the mysteries of Masonry and has advanced through the
York Rite, becoming a Knight Templar Mason, and he
crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of El
Kalah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is well known in
club circles as a member of the Alta Club, the Salt Lake
Commercial Club, the Rotary Club and the Country Club.
After three years' able service on the board of
directors of the Commercial Club he was chosen to the
presidency of that organization in 1914 and capably
directed its efforts for the up building of the city,
for the extension of its trade relations and the
maintenance of high civic standards. In 1918, after a
service of five years as a member of the board of
directors, he was chosen as the president of the
Manufacturers Association of Utah. He has for four years
been a director of the Commercial Club Traffc Bureau,
where he has been especially welcomed because of his
great knowledge of western traffic conditions. Mr.
Jensen also was a member and the vice president of the
Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress and is a member of
the executive committee of the American Association of
Creamery Butter Manufacturers.
During the period of the World war
Mr. Jensen was a member of the Utah State Council of
Defense, was designated as the commissioner of
commercial economy for Utah and the chairman of the
increased crop production committee of the Federal Food
Administration for Utah, serving conspicuously and
fearlessly in each instance. In the various war
activities Mr. Jensen also took a prominent part. He was
chairman of the first Soldiers Relief Fund campaign
which was made in November, 1917, and in which one
hundred and ten thousand dollars cash was raised in two
days. Mr. Jensen personally and all of his employees at
the Mutual Creamery Company was a subscriber to each of
the Liberty loans and the Victory loan and to all other
forms of Red Cross and similar war campaigns. The
company also is listed on the honor roll of those
concerns which reemployed each of its workers who
entered the service of the government during the
war.
In his public life Mr. Jensen has
exhibited the same able foresight as he has in his
business, the Mutual Creamery Company being nationally
recognized as an example of a big step in advance in
corporation and cooperative organization. Mr. Jensen is
an acknowledged authority upon many subjects relative to
trade interests and the development and uplifting of the
west. Opportunity has ever been to him a call to action,
to which he has always made ready response and in which
he has never failed to reach his objective.
JOHN ELDRIDGE JONES
John Eldridge Jones, of Salt Lake,
local manager for the Western Newspaper Union, was born
in Dallas, Texas, October 30, 1886, a son of John B. and
Nellie (Rust) Jones, the former a native of Ohio or
Illinois, while the latter was born in Michigan. In
early manhood, however, John B. Jones became a resident
of Texas and there entered the newspaper field, becoming
connected with various companies engaged in newspaper
publication. He is now general purchasing agent and a
member of the board of directors of the Western
Newspaper Union, with offices at Omaha, Nebraska. His
wife is also living. They reared a family of six
children: John E., of this review; Adeline, who is now a
teacher of music at Columbus, Tennessee; Milton H.,
living at Charlotte, North Carolina; Philip G., whose
home is in Lincoln, Nebraska; Dorothy, who resides in
Omaha, Nebraska; and Marion, who is attending the
Northwestern University at Evanston,
Illinois.
Through his youthful days John E.
Jones was a pupil in the schools of Dallas and of
Houston, Texas, and then entered the University of Texas
at Austin. He left that institution, however, before
receiving a degree and entered upon educational work as
a teacher of history at Cleburne, Texas. After a short
time he turned from the profession to enter into the
wholesale paper and supply business in the city of
Mexico and also at Monterey, but on account of the
Mexican war and the unsettled conditions of the country
he left there in 1914 and located at Wichita, Kansas,
where he entered a wholesale paper and supply business.
In 1916 he accepted a position as a representative of an
export paper supply house, also handling newspaper
machinery. This was a New York city concern and Mr.
Jones was employed by it until 1917, when he came to
Salt Lake City as local manager for the Western
Newspaper Union, dealers in printers' machinery,
printers' paper and newspaper service. This is the
supply house for all the inter- mountain states and in
fact for the district between Denver and the Pacific
coast The business has been developed to extensive
proportions and as manager Mr. Jones is in control of
very important interests.
On the 24th of May, 1910, in Kansas
City, Missouri. Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss
Lyda Schnelle, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schnelle
of that place. They have become parents of two
sons: John
Schnelle, who was born in Monterey, Mexico. February 20,
1914; and William Eldridge, whose birth occurred in Salt
Lake City on the 11th of February, 1918. Mr. Jones
belongs to the Commercial Club and to the Kiwanis Club
and he also has membership with Delta Tau Delta, a
college fraternity.
A. F. JUDD.
A. F. Judd was born in Rockford,
Illinois, June 8, 1857, his parents being Nelson and
Lucy (Hemmingway) Judd, who were natives of Ohio and of
Vermont respectively. The father went to
Illinois in 1839, settling at Rockford, where he engaged
in farming. He and his wife
continued residents of that state throughout their
remaining days, both passing away in Rockford. They had
a family of ten children, of whom eight are living: E.
N., O. H.. Fred J., E. J., Mrs. Louis Dowd, Mrs. Emma
Ulrici, Mrs. Hattie Wallace and A. F., who was the sixth
in order of birth.
In his boyhood days A. F. Judd
attended the district schools and later became a high
school pupil at Rockford, Illinois. He then took up the
printer's trade and followed it for twenty years in
Illinois and other sections of the country. In 1896 he
located permanently in Utah and afterward conducted
various lines of business until 1916, when he became
connected with the Utah Casket Company as a director and
general manager, in which capacity he remained until
1919, when he became identified with other business
activity. Among his different interests may be mentioned
the Wasatch Marble Company, of which he is secretary and
treasurer, and the Milford Magnolia Mining Company, of
which he is a director and the vice president.
On the 4th of December. 1881, Mr.
Judd was married to Miss Liberty C. Howe, of Rockford,
Illinois, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Howe. They
are parents of five children. Robert H" born in
Rockford, Illinois, and a graduate of the Salt Lake high
school, is married and is now in the employ of the Utah
Copper Company, making his home in Salt Lake City.
Margaret Lucy, born in Rockford, Illinois, and educated
in the Salt Lake high school and in the University of
Utah, is the wife of a Mr. Wilcox and has one child,
Judd Elden. A. F. Judd. Jr., born in Rockford, was in
the employ of the Utah Casket Company as a cabinetmaker,
but with the declaration of war against Germany he
enlisted in the aero department of the United States
army, becoming a member of the Seventh Company of the
Second Air Service Mechanics Regiment. He has seen
continuous service in France on the fighting front and
has recently returned to his home with a most honorable
and creditable record, of which his parents have every
reason to be proud. Virginia Eleanor, born in Rockford,
Illinois, is a high school graduate of Salt Lake City.
Olive Estelle, born in Salt Lake, was also graduated
from the high school of this city and is now holding the
position of treasurer with the Citizens Ice & Coal
Company of Salt Lake.
Mr. Judd is the owner of a fine
home and a highly developed ten-acre farm located about
six miles from Salt Lake City. He takes great pleasure
in agricultural and horticultural pursuits and finds
rest and recreation in the development of this property.
He has worked persistently and energetically in the
conduct of his business affairs and the strong purpose
which has actuated him at all times, combined with his
straightforward dealing, has constituted the measure of
his success.
GEORGE P. KELLER.
George P. Keller, principal owner
of the George P. Keller Manufacturing Company of Salt
Lake City, is well known as a manufacturer of balances
of precision for assayers, chemists and others engaged
in scientific research. His work in this line is of the
most expert character in the making of the most
delicately constructed weighing machines that are
produced not only on the western hemisphere but also
throughout the world.
The output of his manufacturing
plant is known throughout the world in the mining
districts and centers of chemical activity, his balances
being used in every quarter of the globe. The
instruments which he manufactures have received the
grand prize and gold medal in a number of world
expositions, including a gold medal won at the St. Louis
exposition in 1904, a gold medal at the Lewis and Clark
exposition in Portland, Oregon, in 1905 and a gold medal
at the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco in
1915.
ALBERT H. KELLY.
Albert H. Kelly was the organizer
and is the vice president of the Kelly Company of Salt
Lake City, manufacturers of office supplies, stationery
and blank books. He was born at Douglas, on the Isle of
Man, March 14, 1851, a son of John and Helena (Quirk)
Kelly, both of whom were natives of the Isle of Man,
whence they came to America in 1853. They crossed the
plains to Utah with an ox-team outfit, arriving in Salt
Lake, where the father established the first printing
and bookbinding business in Utah. At length he sold the
business to the Deseret News, then a part of the church
organization, but continued in the bindery and printing
business. He died in Salt Lake City and the mother of
Albert H. Kelly also passed away in the capital. They
had a family of twelve children but only four are yet
living, the others being: Lucretia, the wife of B. H.
Goddard, of Ogden, Utah; Mrs. George Sims and Mrs. Agnes
Kimball, both of Salt Lake City; and Albert H., of this
review.
During his boyhood days Albert H.
Kelly enjoyed such educational opportunities as the
schools of that period afforded. His mother, however,
was a highly educated lady and through her patience and
teachings he acquired excellent knowledge, giving him
the equivalent of a liberal education such as could have
been secured in the schools of the older east. He
learned the bookbinding business under his father's
direction and after completing his apprenticeship worked
as a journeyman in various parts of the country,
traveling extensively in this connection. He first went
to San Francisco and after spending some time in various
other places he returned to Salt Lake City on the 1st of
July, 1873, and in connection with his brother George,
now deceased, established the business that was later
developed under the name of the Kelly Company. Their
trade grew steadily to large proportions and was
incorporated in 1899, with Albert H.
Kelly as the first president. Later he retired
from that position to make room for his son, A. H.
Kelly, Jr., while he took the position of vice president
and is acting in that capacity. This is a close
corporation, the stock being all owned by the family.
Mr. Kelly was
instrumental in building up the business to its present
extensive proportions and is familiar with every phase
of the trade, while in the conduct of the enterprise he
has in spirit followed the slogan "None but the best is
good enough." In other words he has turned out work of
the highest order and this, combined with his reasonable
prices, has constituted the feature of his growing
success.
On the 26th of October, 1874, in
Salt Lake City, Mr. Kelly was married to Miss Josephine
Evans, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Evans, of Salt
Lake City. They have become the parents of ten children.
Albert H., Jr., the president of the Kelly Company, was
born in Salt Lake City and married Miss Pearl Pratt, of
Ogden, daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Larsen Pratt.
Josephine, who was born, reared and educated in Salt
Lake City, where she still makes her home, is the wife
of Alma Lindberg, by whom she has two children, Ruth and
John. Arthur, who was born in Salt Lake City and is now
manager of the Western Printing Company, married
Josephine White. Maisel, who was born in Salt Lake City,
where she yet resides, is the wife of R. B. Rankin and
the mother of one child, Ronald B., a native of
Louisville, Kentucky. Irene is the wife of Frank
Williams, of New York city, and is an accomplished
musician, occupying a very prominent place in musical
circles in the metropolis. Gertrude is the wife of W. H.
White, of Salt Lake
City, by whom she has one child, Virginia White. Claire
is the wife of E. J. Donough and lives at Britannia
Beach in British Columbia. Edith, who was born, reared
and educated in Salt Lake City, gave her hand in
marriage to R. J. Shipway and now
resides in Sioux City, Iowa. Verna, also born in Salt
Lake City, is a graduate of the University of Utah of
the class of 1918, having completed a course in history,
English and stenography. David, who was born in Salt
Lake City, died in 1916. He was the inventor of the
Kelly filter press, now being used all over the
world.
In politics Mr. Kelly is a
republican and in 1892 and 1893 served as a member of
the city council. He does not seek nor desire office,
however, although keenly interested in matters of
citizenship and giving his earnest support to all plans
and projects which he believes will prove of public
benefit. He is one of Utah's prominent citizens,
broadminded and public spirited and of a most
philanthropic nature, ever ready to extend a helping
hand and aid in bringing men to higher levels of
material success and moral progress.
EUGENE
WALLACE KELLY.
Eugene Wallace Kelly is the
president and manager of the Mullett-Kelly Company,
dealers in clothing, men's furnishings, shoes and hats.
They cater to the better class of trade and are enjoying
a liberal patronage, indicative of the progressive and
reliable business methods of the owners. Mr. Kelly was
born in Fillmore, Utah, March 18, 1873, a son of John
and Margaret (Melville) Kelly, the former a native of
Scotland, while the latter was born in Council Bluffs,
Iowa. They were numbered among the Mormon pioneers of
Utah, settling at Fillmore, where the father entered
mercantile lines and continued active in business to the
time of his death. His wife also passed away in
Fillmore. They had a family of
seven children: Alexander, Lincoln G.. Quinten Blair,
Viola, Mrs. Eva Holbrook. Mrs. Irene Townsend and Eugene
Wallace.
The last named was the fourth in
order of birth. He was a pupil in the public schools of
Fillmore and afterward attended the Brigham Young
Academy at Provo. He next entered the Normal College at
Lincoln, Nebraska, and was graduated from that
institution, subsequent to which time he took up school
teaching in Millard county, Utah, there devoting his
attention to educational work for four years. At the end
of that time, however, he decided to enter upon a
commercial career and removed to Salt Lake, where he
organized what was known as the Rowe-Kelly Company. This
was in 1902 and that firm style continued until 1912,
when the business of the Mullett Clothing Company was
absorbed and the present firm name was adopted, with Mr.
Kelly as president and manager. Through the intervening
period the business has made wonderful strides. The
establishment is today recognized as one of the leading
furnishing goods stores of the state. They carry the
finest lines of ready-to-wear men's clothing, also
shoes, hats, neckwear, shirts and in fact everything
needed by the good dresser. The firm has ever recognized
that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement and
they have put forth every effort to please their
customers.
On the first of January, 1897, Mr.
Kelly was united in marriage to Miss Anna L. Dillon, of
Fillmore, Utah, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy
Dillon. They have become parents of six children:
Wallace Blaine, born in Fillmore in 1898 and a graduate
of the high school and the University of Utah; Roland
Dillon, who was born in 1899 in Fillmore and after
completing his high school course entered the University
of Utah; Thomas Eugene, who was born in Fillmore in 1901
and entered the Annapolis Naval Academy after completing
his high school course; Maurine, who was born in Salt
Lake in 1903 and is attending high school; Florence,
born in 1905; and Alice, in 1907. The two younger
daughters are also in school.
Mr. Kelly is a republican and in
1900-01 was representative from Millard county to the
state legislature. He also served as mayor of Fillmore
and was county chairman of the republican state central
committee. Fraternally Mr. Kelly is connected with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, of which he is past
exalted ruler. He also belongs to the Kiwanis Club and
is a member of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City,
interested in all of its well defined plans and measures
for the development of Salt Lake, the advancement of its
business connections and the promotion of all those
things which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic
pride.
EMANUEL KEMPNER.
Emanuel Kempner is the secretary
and manager of the Kempner Insurance Agency Company of
Salt Lake, one of the well known insurance concerns of
the city. He was born in Pana, Illinois, February 15,
1871, a son of Isaac and Emma Kempner, both of whom were
natives of the state of New York. In an early day they
removed westward to Illinois and the father was one of
the forty-niners who crossed the plains to California
during the gold rush. He made has way to the new
Eldorado in the hope of winning a fortune in the gold
fields on the Pacific coast and in the course of years
was known as one of the successful miners of that
district. He then returned east, settling in Chicago,
Illinois, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits and
there built up a substantial business. When the
memorable Chicago fire destroyed much of the business
district of the city his large fortune was wiped out. He
afterward removed to Pana, Illinois, and in the '80s
became a resident of Litchfield, that state, where he
resided to the time of his death, which occurred March
10, 1889. His widow subsequently removed to St. Louis,
Missouri, and surviving her husband for a decade, there
passed away on the 7th of January, 1899. They had a
family of five children: A. L., a resident of New York;
M. W. and P. H.. also living in the Empire state; Mrs.
M. A. Alias, of New York; and Emanuel, of this
review.
The youngest of the family, Emanuel
Kempner, obtained his education in the schools of
Litchfield, Illinois, and after completing his high
school course started out in the business world as a
cotton buyer in Arkansas, Mississippi and other southern
states. He was thus engaged for eight years and
conducted the business successfully.
He then decided to enter insurance lines and
opened a general insurance agency in Omaha, Nebraska,
where he continued for twelve years. At the end of that
time he determined to make a change in location and in
October, 1910, arrived in Salt Lake City. After a
careful survey of the territory he decided to remain and
in April, 1911, organized the Kempner Insurance Agency,
which in the passing years has been very successful. He
carries on a general insurance business and his policies
reach a large figure annually.
Mr. Kempner was married to Miss
Corinda A. Marquardson, of Salt Lake City, the wedding
being celebrated January 24. 1906. They have become
parents of three sons: Wilbert Darwin, born in Omaha,
Nebraska, March 31, 1907, and now attending the Ensign
public school; Maurice, who was born in Omaha, May 2,
1908, and is a student in the same school; and Norman,
who was born in Salt Lake City, June 2, 1912, and is a
pupil in the grades.
Mr. Kempner belongs to the
Commercial Club and is keenly interested in its plans
and projects for the up building of the city. He is
likewise a Mason of high rank, having attained the
thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, while with
the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has also crossed the
sands of the desert. He certainly deserves credit for
what he has accomplished, as he has depended upon his
own resources from an early age and he is now state
agent for the Adjuster Insurance Company and for other
forms of insurance. At the same time he is the secretary
and manager of the Kempner Insurance agency, which since
1912 has conducted a most profitable and growing
business.
ARCHIBALD
ANGUS KERR, M. D.
Dr. Archibald Angus Kerr, physician
and surgeon of Salt Lake, was born in Harrington,
Ontario, Canada, September 26, 1869, a son of Norman and
Katherine (McKenzie) Kerr, both of whom wore natives of
Scotland. The father was born in the northern part of
that country, while the mother's birth occurred in
Edinburgh. In early life they emigrated to Canada, and
the father afterward engaged in farming, remaining in
Canada throughout the residue of his days. He passed
away at the age of seventy-six years, while his wife
died in 1910 at the age of seventy-nine years.
In their family were ten children. Those living
are: Dan, now a resident of Ontario, Canada; John, whose
home is in Chicago, Illinois; Dr. Norman Kerr, a
physician and surgeon, of Chicago. Illinois, who is now
serving with the rank of major in the United States army
at Staten Island, New York; Archibald Angus, of this
review; Mrs. Mary Campbell, living in Ontario. Canada;
and Mrs. Margaret Lockhart, who resides at Fort Francis,
Canada.
Dr. Kerr attended the district
schools in his boyhood and afterward became a student in
the Owen Sound Collegiate Institute. Subsequently he
took up the profession of teaching in the schools of
Ontario but regarded this merely as an initial step to
other professional activity, for it was his desire to
become a physician and surgeon.
Accordingly in 1893 with that end
in view he entered Rush Medical College of Chicago, from
which he was graduated in 1896. He then accepted a
position as house physician and surgeon in the
Polyclinic Hospital at Chicago and remained there for a
year. In 1897 he removed to Salt Lake City, where
through the intervening period of twenty-two years he
has built up a large and successful practice. Anxious at
all times to attain the highest efficiency possible in
his chosen profession, he has done post graduate work in
New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cleveland
and Rochester, Minnesota, hospitals. He is a member of
the American Medical Association, the Utah State Medical
Society, the Salt Lake County Medical Society and the
Western Surgical Association. He is likewise a member of
the staff of Holy Cross Hospital and he organized the
staff of the Judge Mercy Hospital. He is regarded as an
expert on gynecology and in his practice largely
specializes in that field. Aside from his professional
interests he is one of the directors of the Victoria
Gold Mining Company of Eureka, Utah, and served as
president for twelve years until 1918, when he resigned
and was succeeded by E. J. Raddatz.
On the 4th of June, 1904. Dr. Kerr
was married to Miss Margaret R. Robertson, of Salt Lake
City, who is a graduate of St. Mary's Academy and of the
Sherwood School of Music of Chicago, Illinois. She is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Robertson, the
former prominent in mining circles. Dr. and Mrs. Kerr
have become parents of three children: Margaret M.. born
in Salt Lake in 1906, is now attending St. Mary's
Academy. Katherine Marie, born in Salt Lake in 1913, and
Morgan Edison, born in 1916, are the younger members of
the family.
The religious faith of Dr. and Mrs.
Kerr is that of the Presbyterian church. In politics he
maintains an independent course, while fraternally he is
connected with the Masons and the Knights of The
Maccabees. He has attained the thirty-second degree of
the Scottish Rite in Mount Moriah Consistory. He has
also been a member of the Commercial Club since 1915.
His personal qualities make for popularity wherever he
is known, while his professional attainments have given
him high rank as a practitioner of medicine and
surgery.
AMBROSE
B. KESLER. D. C.
Ambrose B. Kesler, a chiropractor,
of Salt Lake City, who in the year of his practice has
made rapid professional advancement, was born in
Milford, Utah, June 12, 1888, a son of Fred P. and
Isabel G. Kesler and a great grandson of Bishop Kesler,
one of the pioneers of Utah. After mastering the
branches of learning taught in the common schools he
attended Beaver Stake Academy and the Latter-day Saints
University, pursuing a high school and business course.
Starting out in the business world, he turned his
attention to insurance and continued active in that
field until he became interested in the chiropractic
profession, whereupon he completed his arrangements to
enter the Palmer School at Davenport, Iowa, from which
he was graduated in 1918. Dr. Kesler worked his way
through the Palmer School and his student practice,
after school hours, was the largest of any student ever
attending that institution up to that time. He then came
to Salt Lake City to practice, opened an office here and
a branch office at .Midvale at the same time, and is
meeting with very pronounced success in his chosen
calling.
On the 5th of October, 1910 Dr.
Kesler was married to Miss Andrea J. F. Enholm.
who was born in Norway, a daughter of Andreas and
Maren (Christiana) Enholm. Mrs.
Kesler came to the United States in 1896 and to
Utah in 1898. By her marriage she has become the mother
of two children, Orson and Fred P. Mrs. Kesler is a
representative of the chiropratic profession, a graduate
of the Palmer School in 1918, and practices with her
husband under the firm name of Kesler & Kesler.
Both filled missions to the eastern states for
twenty-two months, covering the years 1911 and 1912. and
they have always been members of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. They also belong to the
Salt Lake County Chiropractic Association and they are
interested in everything that has to do with the
advancement of their profession.
MALCOLM
AARON KEYSER.
Malcolm Aaron Keyser, a Harvard man
who has become an influential figure in Business circles
of Salt Lake City and is well known as a clubman and
sportsman, was born on the 17th of July, 1887, in the
city which is still his home, his parents being Aaron
and Henrietta (Depue) Keyser. The father came to Utah in
1870 and was married in this state. Through the period
of an active life he devoted his attention to real
estate dealing, to the raising of sheep and cattle and
to investments. In his business affairs he displayed
sound judgment and unremitting industry, which combined
with keen sagacity brought him to the goal of success.
He died December 24, 1914, and the mother has also
passed away. Their family numbered four children, three
sons and a daughter.
Malcolm A. Keyser, who was the
third in order of birth, attended the public schools of
Salt Lake, eventually became a high school student and
in due time was graduated.
He afterward spent one year in Colorado College
and then entered Harvard, where he studied for three
years, winning the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon his
graduation with the class of 1909. Following his return
to his native city he established the M. A. Keyser
Fireproof Storage Company of Salt Lake, of which he is
now the president. In the conduct of the business there
is utilized a five-story and basement building and
employment is furnished to fifteen people. This does not
indicate, however, the scope of Mr. Keyser's activities
along commercial and business lines, for he is a
director of the Walker Brothers Bank, also of the
Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company and of the A.
Keyser Company. He is a director and secretary of the W.
K. Lovering Company, and trustee and secretary of St.
Mark's Hospital.
On the 13th of April, 1909, Mr.
Keyser was married to Miss Bess Callison, of Salt Lake,
and their children are Malcolm Aaron, Jr., born February
4, 1910; Helen Margaret and Elizabeth Virginia.
Mr. Keyser turns to hunting and
fishing for recreation and is also fond of other phases
of outdoor life. His political allegiance is given to
the republican party and his religious faith is that of
the Congregational church.
He belongs to the Salt Lake City Commercial Club,
to the Bonneville Club, the Country Club, the University
Club and the Sigma Chi, a college fraternity. His
membership relations extend also to the Harvard Club of
Utah and of the University Club and he has been the
president of both. He is likewise a member and has been
president of the Salt Lake Rifle and Revolver Club, of
the Utaida Rod and Gun Club, and is a member of the
Duckville Gun Club, serving as secretary of the last
named. He is state secretary of the National Rifle
Association and was, by appointment of the governor,
captain of the Utah Civilian Rifle Team which
represented Utah in the National Rifle Matches at
Caldwell, New Jersey, in August, 1919. These
associations indicate much of the nature of his
interests and activities. He is a man of high purpose
and sterling worth, appreciative of the social amenities
of life, recognizing the duties and obligations of
citizenship and holding to high standards in all
business affairs.
PAUL F. KEYSER.
Paul F. Keyser. one of the best
known of Salt Lake City's younger business men, is a
native son and was born November 9, 1889. His parents,
Aaron and Henrietta ( De Pue) Keyser, were both natives
of New Jersey and were married in Belvidere, that state.
Aaron Keyser came to Utah in 1868 and was first engaged
in cattle raising in different parts of the territory,
later locating in Salt Lake City, where he was engaged
in the mercantile business. Subsequent extension of his
interests included the lumber business, mining and real
estate. During the latter years of his active life he
gave considerable attention to real estate and became a
large holder of business and suburban property. Aaron
Keyser was included among Salt Lake City's most
substantial citizens, whose success had been achieved
through his business foresight and good judgment. His
death occurred in December, 1914, having survived his
wife a number of years. Her death took place in 1897.
Their family consisted of three sons and a daughter, the
latter, Helen, is deceased, while the sons, Malcolm A.,
George D. and Paul P., are all residents of Salt Lake
City.
Paul F. Keyser received his
education in the schools of Salt Lake City, after which
he attended Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and
Amherst College, Amherst. Massachusetts.
Selecting a business rather than a professional career,
he returned to Salt Lake in 1910 and soon afterward
entered the merchandise brokerage business, in which he
continued until 1914, when he disposed of his interest
therein and became connected with A. Keyser Company, of
which he has since been general manager and treasurer.
Among his other business interests, he is treasurer of
the F. S, Murphy Lumber Company, vice president of the
McFarland Lumber Company, and vice president of the
Merrill-Keyser Company, merchandise brokers, all being
representative business houses of Salt Lake
City.
Mr. Keyser is prominent in the club
life of Salt Lake, having membership in the Alta,
University, Commercial, Rotary and Country Clubs. He
served in the Sixty-third United States Infantry from
1917 to 1919. He was married, December 1, 1915, to Miss
Margaret Dunn, of Salt Lake City, and they have a
daughter, Margaret Ellen. Mr. and Mrs. Keyser are well
known in the best social circles of the city.
W. SCOTT
KEYTING, M. D.
W. Scott Keyting, engaged in the
practice of medicine and surgery in Salt Lake City, with
offices in the Judge building, is a native son of this
city, his birth having occurred here on the 24th of January 1887. His
parents were William and Caroline (Frank) Keyting, both
natives of Ohio, who came to Utah in 1880 and settled in
Salt Lake. The father was engaged in mining and was
connected with the Stock Exchange of Salt Lake, but for
the past several years has been a lieutenant in the Salt
Lake police department. The mother died in 1911 at the
age of fifty-three years. They had a family of four
children: William Frank, now a resident of California:
Ella, of Salt Lake; Mrs. J. M. Snow, of Salt Lake: and
W. Scott, of this review.
Dr. Keyting, the youngest child of
the family, attended the public schools, passing through
consecutive grades to the Salt Lake high school, after
which he entered the University of Utah, in which he
spent three years. In 1908 he matriculated in the
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia for the study
of medicine and was graduated in 1912 with the M. D.
degree. He afterward had the benefit of two years'
experience in the Polyclinic Hospital of Philadelphia,
where he occupied the position of house surgeon. He then
returned to Salt Lake, where he has since remained, and
in 1916 and 1917 he was city physician of Salt Lake and
also police surgeon. He is serving on the staff of St.
Mark's Hospital, practices in all the various hospitals
of the city and at the same time conducts a large
general practice, which attests his ability by reason of
its volume and importance. In the summer of 1919 Dr.
Keyting took a post graduate course in diseases of women
and obstetrics in Philadelphia and New York. He belongs
to the Salt Lake County, the Utah State and the American
Medical Associations. He is also a director and the
editor of the Paul Jones, a paper owned by I. Wolf and
Judge Harold M. Stephens.
On the 7th of August, 1916, Dr.
Keyting was married to Miss Margaret Mary Lee, a
daughter of Harry Lee, the manager of the Silver
Consolidated Mining Company, and they have become
parents of two children:
Margaret Caroline, who was born July 5, 1917, and
died in October of the same year; and W. Scott, Jr.,
born November 16, 1918.
Dr. Keyting belongs to the
University Club, and he and his wife have membership in
the Country Club. He is also connected with the Masonic
fraternity and has taken the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Kite. He is also an honored member of the Sigma
Xi. He is very conscientious in the performance of his
professional duties and loses no opportunity to promote
his knowledge and advance his efficiency in checking the
ravages of disease.
SAMUEL
ANDREW KING.
Samuel Andrew King, one of Utah's
best known and prominent men and the peer of the state's
ablest lawyers, occupies a foremost position in legal,
political and military circles. A native son, Mr. King
belongs to one of the most prominent pioneer families,
whose identification with Utah's history dates back to
1851, in which year his grandfather, Thomas Rice King,
crossed the plains with his family as a member of the
Vincent Shurtliff company. Thomas Rice King was born
March 9, 1813, at Marcellus, Onondaga county, New York,
wedded Miss Matilda Robinson on the 25th of December,
1831, and was among the first settlers at Fillmore,
Millard county, Utah, where he was a member of the
Millard stake presidency and for years was probate
judge. He died at Kingston, Piute county, February 3,
1879.
William King, the father of Samuel
A., was the eldest child of Thomas Rice and Matilda
(Robinson) King and was born April 8, 1834. He came to
Utah in 1851 and died at Salt Lake City on the 17th of
February, 1892. He was prominent in the affairs of the
church as member of the high council and as bishop,
while for eleven and a half years he was a missionary,
and for a time was in charge of the mission in the
Sandwich Islands and at the time of his death was
president of the Hawaiian settlement in Skull Valley,
Utah. In his business connections he was a merchant,
manufacturer and stock raiser.
The mother of Samuel A. King,
Josephine Henry, was the only daughter of Andrew and
Margaret (Creighton) Henry. She was born at Nauvoo,
Illinois, In July, 1845, and as a child came with her
parents to Utah in 1850, arriving at Salt Lake. Andrew
Henry was then called by Brigham Young to go to Fillmore
and assist in the construction of a state house, the
first capital building in the state of Utah. Mr. Henry
was born in Sligo, Ireland, and as a boy emigrated with
his family to Montreal, Canada, where as a young man he
was converted and baptized into the Mormon church by the
late President John Taylor. Shortly there after he was
sent on a mission to Ireland and there met and converted
Margaret Creighton, who was born at Hillsboro, Ireland.
She soon became his wife and upon the completion of his
mission they returned to the United States, landing at
New Orleans. From there they went up the Mississippi to
St. Louis and later to Nauvoo. As pioneers, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry endured all the hardships of frontier life and
assisted in the settlement of Fillmore and southern
Utah.
Samuel A. King was born January 9,
1868, at Fillmore, Millard county, Utah, the second son
of his parents. Mr. King's mother died at his birth and
he was then reared and educated by his mother's parents,
who were both people of strong character, well educated,
and of the usual Irish brilliancy and temperament. Mr.
King, as well as his brother, Senator William H. King,
are both indebted to their grandparents, and
particularly to their grandmother, for their education,
and today they give her the principal credit for their
education and position in life.
In his boyhood days Samuel A. King
worked on the ranch and farm and attended the schools at
Fillmore until 1883. Later he entered Brigham Young
University, which he attended from 1885 until 1887. In
the following year he matriculated in the University of
Utah, in which he pursued his studies for two years. In
December, 1889, he went to England on a mission and
spent the years 1890 and 1891 traveling through England,
Ireland and Scotland, with an extended trip through
France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Italy.
Returning to Utah in December, 1891, he at once began
the study of law and entered the University of Michigan
in September, 1892, completing his course with the class
of 1893, at which time the LL. B. degree was conferred
upon him. He was admitted to the Utah bar at Provo in
1892 and entered upon the practice of his chosen
profession in that city in September following his
graduation. No dreary novitiate awaited him. Almost
immediately his power as a lawyer was recognized. Nature
endowed him with keen analytical ability which,
supplementing his thorough preliminary study and
preparation, placed him at once among the strong and
forceful members practicing at the Provo bar. Public
recognition of his ability came to him in 1896 in an
election to the office of county attorney of Utah
county, in which he served during the succeeding two
years. During the same period he filled the office of
city attorney of Provo. In May, 1899, he was appointed
district attorney of the fourth judicial district of
Utah and occupied that position until the 1st of
January, 1901. In the meantime, or in 1897, he had
formed a partnership with his brother, Hon. William H.
King, and John W. Burton for the practice of law under
the firm style of King, Burton & King, with offices
in both Provo and Salt Lake City. In 1906 he withdrew
from that partnership and removed to Salt Lake City,
where he entered into partnership relations with his
brother, Claudius L. King, under the firm style of King
& King, a connection that was maintained until 1912.
The firm enjoyed a very large practice. During the years
1906 and 1907 they maintained an office at Rhyolite,
Nevada, as well as at Salt Lake, but the continuous
growth of their practice forced them to concentrate
their entire efforts and energies upon the interests of
their clients at Salt Lake City. In 1916 Mr. King formed
a partnership with Mark P. Braffet as the law firm of
King & Braffet, which in 1917, upon the admission of
Russell G. Schulder, became King, Braffet &
Schulder, now one of the leading law firms in Salt Lake
whose practice is large and important.
In addition to his professional interests Mr.
King has since 1896 been actively identified with mining
enterprises in Utah, Colorado and Nevada.
On the 14th of September, 1892, Mr.
King was married to Miss Maynetta Bagley, who was born
at Mill Creek, Salt Lake county, a daughter of Charles
Stewart and Julia (Hansen) Bagley. The four children of
Mr. and Mrs. King are as follows: Creighton Grant was a
member of the class of 1918 at the University of Utah
but did not graduate, as his university work was
interrupted by his entrance into the army. He was a
member of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Field
Artillery (Utah), attended the Officers' Training Camp
at Camp Kearney, California and was later transferred to
Camp Zachary Taylor at Louisville. Kentucky, where he
received his commission as second lieutenant in the
Artillery Division. At the time of the signing of the
armistice he was attending the School of Fire at Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, where he was graduated' in December,
1918. After being mustered out of the service he resumed
his uncompleted work at the University of Utah and
graduated from that institution with the class of 1919,
winning the Bachelor of Arts degree. Renan, who was
graduated from Wheaton Seminary of Norton,
Massachusetts, married Walter David Johnston, a Cornell
graduate and now engineer in charge of the Bell
Telephone System of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The
other two children are Karl Vernon and Margaret.
The political allegiance of Mr.
King is given to the democratic party, of which he has
always been a stalwart champion, and for four years he
served as chairman of the Utah county central committee.
In 1908 and 1909 he was chairman of the democratic state
central committee. In 1900 he was alternate to the
national democratic convention at Kansas City; in 1904
was delegate to the St. Louis convention; in 1908 an
alternate to the Denver convention; and in 1916 a
delegate to the St. Louis convention. His opinions have
carried great weight in the councils of his party and he
has been untiring in his advocacy of its principles. For
five years he served on the staff of the brigadier
general of the Utah National Guard, serving as judge
advocate with the rank of major. He belongs to the Utah
State Bar Association and in every field into which he
has directed his activities he has attained a place of
prominence and influence-a fact indicative of the
strength and sterling worth of his marked
characteristics and qualities.
HON.
WILLIAM HENRY KING.
Hon. William Henry King, of Salt
Lake City, United States senator from Utah for the term
1917-1923, has carved his name high on the keystone of
the legal arch of the state and is today leaving the
impress of his individuality and ability upon the
legislative records of the country. Utah is proud to
claim him as a native son. He was born in Fillmore City,
June 3, 1864 his parents being William and Josephine
(Henry) King.
He completed a course in the
Brigham Young Academy when seventeen years of age and
afterward entered the University of Utah, subsequent to
which time he spent two and a half years on a European
mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Upon his return to his native land he entered
the State University of Michigan for the study of law
and completed his course there with the class of 1887,
at which time the LL. B. degree was conferred upon him.
He located for the practice of law in Fillmore City and
afterward removed to Provo. While advancement at the bar
is proverbially slow, no dreary novitiate awaited him.
The thoroughness of his preparation and his laudable
ambition, prompting the most careful study of his cases,
enabled him to win immediate success in law practice and
since that time he has made steady advancement at a bar
that has numbered many distinguished representatives. He
became the senior partner in the firm of King &
Burton, which soon won recognition as one of the most
prominent law firms of the west. His knowledge of law is
comprehensive and exact and he is seldom if ever at
fault in the application of a legal principle. His
professional brethren have from the first acknowledged
his ability but it is through activity in public life,
perhaps, that Mr. King has become best known throughout
Utah and the country at large. Almost from the time when
he completed his studies in the University of Utah has
he been active in public office. Again and again his
fellow townsmen have called him to positions of public
honor and trust, recognizing his capability for the
performance of important public duties. He has served
for three terms as a member of the state legislature and
was the president of the upper body for one term. He has
been city attorney of Provo, also county attorney of
Utah county and in 1894 he was appointed by President
Cleveland associate judge of the state. In 1897 he was
chosen to represent his district in the fifty-fifth
congress, where he served for two years and then
declined a re-nomination. He was, however, elected a
member of the fifty-sixth congress to fill a vacancy
caused by the unseating of Brigham H. Roberts, and
served from April 25, 1900, until March 3, 1901. He
received the democratic nomination for election to the
fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth congresses but on each
occasion was defeated. He was a member of the democratic
legislative caucus for the United States senate from
1905 until 1909 and in 1917 was elected one of Utah's
representatives in the United States senate for the
usual term of six years. He has been connected with many
important legislative measures which have come before
the national body and he is the champion of progress,
reform and improvement along many lines. He has again
and again been sent as a delegate to the national
conventions of the democratic party and his opinions
carry weight in its councils.
On the 17th of April, 1889, Senator
King was united in marriage to Miss Annie Lyman and
their position in the social circles of Salt Lake is one
of prominence. They have membership in the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Judge King is
identified with the Alta and with the Commercial Clubs
of Salt Lake City. He is a man of eminent ability who
has been a close student of the vital political,
economic and sociological problems of the country and he
is always found in those Utah gatherings where men are
met for the grave discussion of these problems. A keenly
analytical mind has been one of the forces which have
gained him eminence at the bar and in legislative
circles.
JOHN M. KNIGHT.
John M. Knight is the vice
president and manager of the Knight Carriage & Auto
Company of Salt Lake City, one of the pioneer
manufacturing concerns of Utah, established here by his
father many years ago and now grown to be one of the
largest of the kind in the state. Theirs was also the
pioneer establishment in making Social Hall avenue the
recognized center of automobile trade in Salt Lake.
Today the firm occupies one of the modern buildings on
that thoroughfare, erected by the father of John M.
Knight. The latter was born in Salt Lake City,
September 14, 1871, a son of John A.
and Isora M. (Atwood) Knight. The father was for
many years an honored and highly respected
representative of industrial activity in the capital,
where he took up his abode in 1864. He was born at Port
Elizabeth. South Africa, on the 10th of January, 1846, a
son of James A. and Charlotte (Allen) Knight, and was
eighteen years of age when he came to Utah. He traveled
by rail as far as Florence, Nebraska, and thence by ox
team to his destination. He was married in the Temple
here to Miss Isora M. Atwood, a native of Willimantic,
Connecticut, who was brought to Utah when but two years
of age by her parents, who also traveled by the ox-team
route. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
Knight was celebrated in the Temple and afterward
he engaged in cabinet making.
Subsequently he turned his attention to the
business of wagon and carriage making In 1876 and thus
instituted an enterprise that was the beginning of the
Knight Carriage & Wagon Company, which later grew
into extensive proportions and since 1909 has also
Included automobiles in its output, the business being
reincorporated as the Knight Carriage & Auto
Company. At that date J. A. Knight, the father, became
president, with John M. Knight as vice president and
manager. John A. Knight maintained his interest in the
business to the time of his death and he is still
survived by his widow, one of the oldest of the pioneer
women of the state. Her mother, Mrs. Mary (Guile)
Atwood, was born in Willimantic, Connecticut,
representing one of the old New England families, and
was among the hardy pioneers who crossed the plains. She
continued a resident of Salt Lake to the time of her
demise, which occurred July 15, 1914, when she had
reached the notable old age of ninety-one years. Her
husband, Minor G. Atwood, had died in Salt Lake in 1889.
In the paternal line the Knight family comes of Irish
and English lineage, for the grandfather, James A.
Knight, was born in Ireland, whence he went to South
Africa and later came from that country to Utah. The
grandmother, Mrs. Charlotte (Allen) Knight, was born in
England and died in Salt Lake City. John A. Knight was
among the most highly respected of the venerable
representatives of industrial interests in Salt Lake and
his death, which occurred in 1919, was the occasion of
deep and widespread regret. He is not only survived by
his widow but also by the following children: Lillie I.;
John M., of this review; Jessie M.; George H; Mrs.
Warren HiUon; Mrs. Harry White; Mrs. Fred Hatt, of Lark,
Utah; Charles L., of Myton, Utah; W. A., of Lehi; and
Millen G., of Bingham. There are also thirty-five
grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
On the 21st of December, 1893, in
Salt Lake City, John M. Knight was married to Miss
Florence Cornell, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Graves)
Cornell. They have become parents of ten children, eight
of whom are living. Minnie May, who was born in Salt
Lake, March 27, 1896, is a graduate of the Latter-day
Saints University. Melvin J., born in Salt Lake. April
7, 1899, attended the high school and the Latter-day
Saints University and is now associated in business with
his father. Florence L., born December 24, 1900, is
attending business college. Arthur Cornell, born June
18, 1905, Is in school Richard K.. born April 4, 1907,
Newell Graves, February 12, 1909, and Ralph D., November
27, 1911, are also in school. James Rodney, born July
15, 1914, in Salt Lake, completes the family.
In his business career John M.
Knight has displayed the spirit of progress that
actuated his father, the founder of the Knight Carriage
& Auto Company. After his school days were over he
became a factor in the business and gradually worked his
way upward in that connection, assuming more and more
responsibility in the management and control of the
business as he mastered every phase of the trade. With
the incorporation of the business in 1909 he became the
vice president and manager and following the death of
his father succeeded to the presidency. The firm now
employs from twelve to twenty expert wagon, carriage and
automobile mechanics and has a large and ever increasing
business. The building now occupied was erected in 1911
against the advice of many of their friends, but the
excellent judgment of the promoter has been endorsed by
time, for this has become the center of the automobile
trade of Salt Lake.
Politically Mr. Knight maintains a
somewhat independent course, although he often supports
the candidates of the republican party. He was nominated
at the election of 1919 for the office of state senator
but was defeated. He Is a member of the Manufacturers
Association and his religious faith is that of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was
associated with R. W. Young, president of the Ensign
stake, from April 1. 1904, until 1919, and has been
particularly interested in the Sunday school work. He
also filled a mission covering two years in the southern
and central states and on April 18, 1919. was called by
the presidency of the church to preside over the Western
States Mission, comprising the two Dakotas, Wyoming,
Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico. He took charge of the
mission, July 1, 1919, and is now located at Denver,
Colorado. He does all in his power to advance the growth
of the church and extend its influence, bringing to bear
in these affairs the same sound judgment and sagacity
which are displayed in his business career and have
brought him to the front as a manufacturer in Salt Lake
City.
WILLIAM KNIGHT.
When Utah was largely an
undeveloped region, when the work of colonization had
scarcely been begun, when great stretches of land were
still unclaimed, when its canyons were unexplored and
its vast natural resources had never been developed,
William Knight entered upon the scene of earthly
activities within the borders of the future state. He
was born near Salt Lake, at Union Fort, or Little
Cottonwood, in the year 1854, his parents having cast in
their lot with the pioneer settlers of Utah. He is a son
of Alonzo and Catherine Meguire Knight, the former a
native of New Hampshire, born October 14, 1830, while
the latter was born in Pennsylvania. It was about the
year 1850, when twenty years of age, that Alonzo Knight
came to Utah and located on the Little Cottonwood, where
he lived for a time and then removed to Plain City.
There he engaged in farming and stock raising, which he
continuously followed until 1900, when he retired from
active business cares. Both he and his wife are still
living at this time and are among the old and well known
pioneer settlers of the state, having for more than half
a century been identified with the development and up
building of this section of the country. Mr. Knight has
served as school trustee and as a member of the water
committee for a number of years. He has been the
promoter of all good work in his locality, cooperating
heartily in every plan and measure for the up building
of the district and the advancement of its moral
progress. A devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, he has been a most active and
earnest worker in its behalf and his salient traits of
character have ever been such as have commended him to
the confidence and good will of all.
William Knight acquired his
education in the common schools and has always followed
farming and the machinist's trade. He has worked
diligently and persistently along these lines as the
years have passed, for indolence and idleness have ever
been foreign to his nature. For a long period he
carefully tilled the soil and produced substantial crops
upon his ranch, but in recent years he has put aside the
more active work of the fields and is now enjoying well
earned rest.
On the 28th of March, 1872, Mr.
Knight was married to Miss Florence Dunne, a daughter of
Daniel and Elizabeth (Keterung) Dunne both of whom were
natives of England. They started for Utah in 1868, but
Mrs. Dunne died while en route for the west. The father
afterward returned east to Minnesota and there lived for
a time but eventually again became a resident of Salt
Lake, where he has since made his home. Mr. and Mrs.
Knight have become the parents of twelve children. Some
of these are married and have children and there are now
five generations of the Knight family represented in
Utah, descended from Alonzo Knight and his wife,
Catherine (Meguire) Knight, the former now almost
eighty-nine years of age, his birth having occurred in
New Hampshire, October 14, 1830. He and his wife were
married in Salt Lake City on the 24th of April, 1853, he
having come to Utah in 1850 under Joseph Young with a
company of one hundred that traveled by ox team across
the western plains and over the mountains and took up
their abode on the Little Cottonwood. His wife was born
in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1833, and
is therefore eighty-six years of age. This venerable
couple are still living and many of their descendants
are now residents of Utah and have carried forward the
work of progress and improvement begun in pioneer times
by this worthy pair. All have been members of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and have been
active in its work. The son, William Knight, is now a
well known resident of Plain City and his connection
with Utah covers sixty-five years, or the entire period
of his life. Within this time he has indeed witnessed a
remarkable transformation in the state and at all times
has lent active aid and cooperation to plans and
movements for the benefit and up building of the
district in which he makes his home. He has served as
road supervisor and also as assessor of Plain City for
several years, making a most creditable record in both
connections.
