JOE MELICH.
Joe Melich is well known in business circles at Bingham Canyon as the president of the Serb Mercantile Company, dealers in general merchandise and groceries. He was born August 18, 1882, at Vrebac, in the state of Lika, Serbia, a son of Mitchell and Savka Melich. His father was a prominent farmer and political leader of Serbia. The family numbered five sons, of whom Rade left America for Serbia in 1915 on the Italian steamship Brindizi which was sunk by a submarine off the Albanian coast, and he was drowned. Tom, the second son, lives in Serbia, as also does the father, who is a prominent citizen of that country. Steve is employed by the Serb Mercantile Company of Bingham Canyon.
It was in 1902, when seventeen years of age, that Joe Melich came to the United States. He made his way to Pueblo, Colorado, where he lived for a year and then removed to Bingham. He was employed for a time in the mines and for a number of years has been identified with mercantile establishments at Highland Boy. In October. 1917, he organized the Serb Mercantile Company, of which he became the first president. Through the intervening period a large trade has been developed and under the guidance of Mr. Melich and his associates the business has been most carefully conducted, resulting in the attainment of substantial success.
In 1906 Mr. Melich was united in marriage to Miss Mary Kalember, who was born in Serbia and came to America in 1906. She made her way to Pueblo, where she joined a brother who resided there at the time but who is now a resident of Wakefield, Michigan. To Mr. and Mrs. Melich have been born six children: Grey, Teddy, Mitchell, Rade, Savka and Ellen.
In community affairs Mr. Melich has taken an active, interested and helpful part. He is a trustee and the treasurer of the town of Phoenix, is supreme member of the Serbian Federation Sloga of America, with headquarters at New York city, is president of the Serbian Society, a local organization of one hundred and fifty members, and is a member and president of the Serbian National Defense League, connected with the local branch. -He attended the annual meeting of the latter at New York city in February of 1919, and in August, 1919, he also attended the yearly meeting in New York of the Serb Federation Sloga. Twenty thousand dollars was raised for Serbian relief and the orphan fund by the organization at Bingham, and one hundred and sixty-five volunteers were sent by the Serbian Defense League to Serbia from Bingham. It will thus be seen how active are the people of Serbia in support of those who need assistance in their native land. There were also ten volunteers in the United States Army. Mr. Melich has been most active in all of this work and in fact is the recognized leader among the Serbians at Bingham. He was a member of all five Liberty Loan committees and took an active and valuable part in the success of those patriotic movements in his community. His activities in this direction were extended to the sale of War Savings Stamps also, and in all these connections Mr. Melich showed himself to be one hundred per cent American.
He was one of the organizers of the township of Phoenix, which has no post office. The Highland Boy mine, however, is located there, about two miles from the Bingham post office, and it is near the mine that Mr. Melich and his associates conduct the business now carried on under the name of the Serb Mercantile Company. It is a matter of great worth to the community, being of marked benefit to the people of the district, for they carry everything in the line of general merchandise and groceries, thus supplying the mining population. Connected in the undertaking with Mr. Melich is Steve Bogdanovich, who is the vice president, and Nick Bogdan, who is the secretary. In all business affairs Mr. Melich has displayed unfaltering enterprise and sound judgment and has never had any occasion to regret his determination to come to the new world, for here he has found the opportunities which he sought and in their utilization has made rapid progress to the goal of success.
ALFRED HENRY MEREDITH.
Alfred Henry Meredith, the oldest bicycle dealer in Salt Lake City, was for a number of years president of the Meredith Motor & Bicycle Company until its dissolution in 1919 and is now engaged in business alone. He was born in Birmingham, England, June 9, 1866, his parents being John Child and Ellen (Rose) Meredith, the former a native of Birmingham, while the latter was born in Cornwall, England. They came to America and settled first at St. Louis, Missouri, but afterwards removed to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where the father became city auctioneer, serving in that capacity for ten years. Later he and his wife returned to their native country and both spent their last days in Birmingham, England. They had a family of thirteen children, eight of whom are still living: John Edward, now residing at Birmingham; Oliver R. and Mrs. Ellen Prime, of Salt Lake City; Hubert, now of Birmingham but recently a soldier in the British army during the great European war; Mrs. Lillie Carver, also of Birmingham; Ralph, living in South Africa; Mrs. Grace Sutton, of Birmingham; and Alfred H., of this review.
The last named in his boyhood days attended the public schools of England, also the high school and Saltley College, from which he was graduated in 1880. In 1883 he became a resident of Salt Lake City, where he secured a position in the furniture house of the Sandberg, Burton & Gardner Company, with which he continued for several years. He next took up the carpenter's trade on his own account and afterward engaged in contracting and building with great success. In 1893, however, he disposed of his interests along that line and organized the Meredith Brothers Bicycle Company, with his brother, James A., now deceased, as his partner. The business was continued in that way for three years, at the end of which time the A. H. Meredith Byke Store was organized and later the business was incorporated under the name of the Meredith Motor & Bicycle Company, of which Alfred H. Meredith became the president. Since the dissolution of the corporation in June, 1919, Mr. Meredith has carried on his business alone. He deals in automobiles, bicycles and all motor car parts and tires and has a large trade. Mr. Meredith is also the president of the Blue Point Mines & Milling Company.
On the 12th of November, 1888. Mr. Meredith was united in marriage to Miss Annie Eccles, of Salt Lake City, and they have become parents of five children. Ella May, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1889, is now the wife of John Addison Millyard, by whom she has three children: Ruth, John Addison and Calvin. Hazel, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1894, married O. W. Carlson and they reside in Provo. They have two children, Oscar W. and Beth. Grace, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1899, is the wife of Ray B. Mattison. Annie Laura, who was born in 1904, and Alfred Henry, born in 1906, complete the family.
Mr. Meredith gives his political support to the republican party and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but does not seek nor desire office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs. He has worked his way upward entirely unassisted and has become one of the representative business men of the city.
JOHN McCARTY.
John McCarty's place in the business world is one of importance and responsibility as he is general manager for Bisinger & Company, the largest dealers in wool, hides, tallow and furs in the west, with offices in Salt Lake City. Mr. McCarty was born in Ogden, Utah, May 28, 1878, a son of Nelson and Mary Ann (Banford) McCarty. The father was born in Salt Lake City in 1849. The mother, a native of England, came to Utah in early life, crossing the plains after the primitive manner of travel in pioneer times. Nelson McCarty engaged in mercantile pursuits, remaining for many years a well known business man of Ogden, where he passed away in April, 1914. The mother is still living and by her marriage she had five children: William N., a well known business man of Pocatello, Idaho; Samuel, living at Salt Lake; Mrs. Robert Fields and Mrs. George Wahlen, both of Ogden; and John, of this review.
In the public schools of his native city John McCarty pursued his education until he started out in the business world as an employee in a bakery. He learned the trade, at which he continued to work for six years, and in 1893 he became connected with the hide and fur trade at Pocatello, Idaho, as an employee of D. H. McDanield, who conducted an extensive business as a fur dealer there. Mr. McCarty remained with Mr. McDanield for some time and in 1895 went as his representative to Boise, Idaho, while later he was transferred by the same company to Pueblo, Colorado. He acted as manager for McDanield & Company at Pueblo from 1900 until 1902. He later became manager for J. S. Smith & Company, whom he represented upon the road for a year and then opened a hide and fur house at Hastings, Nebraska, which he conducted until 1908. Selling his business at that place, he came to Salt Lake City for Bissinger & Company and since then has been manager of the Pocatello and Salt Lake branches of the business. The house at Salt Lake employs twenty-five people. Mr. McCarty's long experience in connection with the fur trade well qualifies him for the duties that devolve upon him in this connection.
On the 8th of January, 1900, Mr. McCarty was married to Miss Anna Belle Leavitt, of Ogden, a daughter of Jasper and Mary Jane Leavitt of that place. They now have two children: Florence, who was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1905 and is a high school pupil in Salt Lake; and Ruth Jeanne, who was born in Salt Lake, October 23, 1918. Mr. McCarty maintains an independent attitude politically. Fraternally he is well known, having membership in the Masonic lodge and chapter, also in the Elks Lodge, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the United Commercial Travelers. He is likewise a member of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake. His business interests have made him widely known through the west, and in the conduct of the Salt Lake house of Bissinger & Company he has made for himself a creditable place in the commercial circles of Utah's capital.
JOHN JASPER McCLELLAN.
John Jasper McClellan, who stands as one of the highest exponents of the musical art in Utah, being now director of the Utah Conservatory of Music at Salt Lake City, was born in Payson, this state, on the 20th of April, 1874, a son of John Jasper and Eliza Barbara (Walser) McClellan, who came to Utah in early life. That nature endowed him with marked musical talent was early manifest. He began his studies when ten years of age and the following year had made such progress that he became organist of the church in his native town. Until he reached the age of seventeen he continued his practice upon the piano and organ with teachers of only mediocre ability, but in July, 1891, he left Utah and went to Saginaw, Michigan, where for eighteen months he pursued his studies under Albert W. Platte, who could well be termed a "music master." He augmented his studios there by becoming assistant organist of St. Paul's church and occasionally played in the First Congregational church. Later he became a student in the newly created Conservatory of Music at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a pupil of John Erich Schmaal and he also studied theory and organ under Professor Stanley, director of the school. A year and a half later the noted Spanish pianist, Alberto Jonas, became head of the piano school of the Ann Arbor conservatory and greatly encouraged Mr. McClellan, recognizing his unusual talent. The latter was for more than two years chorister and organist in St. Thomas Catholic church. During his studies at Ann Arbor he organized the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra and was also for two terms the president of the Europe Musical Club. He likewise figured prominently in musical circles in other connections, and when he announced his determination of leaving, the directors of the Conservatory of Music put forth every effort to retain him as a member of the faculty.
In September, 1896, however. Professor McClellan opened a studio in Salt Lake City and for two years was director of music in the Latter-day Saints College, to which he devoted one-half of his time. During the following year ho was placed in charge of the musical department of the Brigham Young Academy at Provo, giving half of his time to that institution and the other half to the teaching of piano and theory in Salt Lake. In August, 1899, he started for Berlin, accompanied by his wife, and spent one year in the German capital as a pupil of Xaver Scharwenka, the distinguished Hungarian pianist. He also received instruction from Ernest Jedliczka, the Russian master, and upon his return to the United States, Professor McClellan was tendered the chair of music in the University of Utah and also appointed organist at the Tabernacle. While serving as organist he was instrumental in having the great organ at the Tabernacle improved at an expense of fifty-two thousand one hundred dollars. Many of his own ideas were incorporated in the work and the Tabernacle today has one of the world-famous organs. It was also Professor McClellan's idea to inaugurate a system of free organ recitals, held every week in the Tabernacle, and these have constituted a source of the deepest interest and enjoyment not only to Salt Lake's residents but also to many tourists visiting the city. Not only has Professor McClellan attained eminence as a teacher of music and as an organist but also as a composer, many of his compositions having been most enthusiastically received and endorsed by the masters of music throughout the country. In his teaching he has been truly successful and a number of his pupils have been thoroughly equipped for high professional careers. Some at present are in Europe, studying under eminent teachers of music in the old world, where their work attests the merit of the fundamental training received from Professor McClellan.
In 1896 Professor McClellan was married to Miss Mary Estelle Douglass, of Payson, Utah, and to them have been born five children. Mary Genevra is now the wife of Henry Gordon Jennings, who has been with the American Expeditionary Force in France and by whom she has one child, Genevra McClellan Jennings, born April 14, 1918. The others of the McClellan family are Madeleine Estelle, Douglass Jasper, Dorothy Maxine and Florence D. All were born in Utah.
Aside from his work as teacher, composer and organist at the Tabernacle. Professor McClellan was conductor of the Salt Lake Opera Company from 1902 to 1912, and has been conductor of the Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra since 1908. He has been the official accompanist of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, touring from Salt Lake to New York, and he was the state president of the National Association of Organists for Utah. He is a fellow of the American Guild of Organists and he is the composer of the National Ode to Irrigation. Following his return from Berlin, where he studied under four of the eminent teachers of the old world, he wrote his ''Modern Music Study," a course for self-teaching covering the first two years of music. Public opinion and musical critics rank Professor McClellan as one of the eminent musicians not only of Utah and the west but of the entire country.
WILLIAM M. McCREA
William M. McCrea. attorney at law practicing at the Salt Lake City bar was born in Oakland, California. December 28, 1878, a son of William and Mary S. (Cass) McCrea. The father was a native of Summitville, Columbiana county, Ohio, while the mother's birth occurred In Utica, New York. It was in the early '50s that William McCrea went to California, where he engaged in cattle raising, and subsequently he removed to Utah, settling at Salt Lake City. His last years were spent in retirement from active business. During the later part of his business career he was identified with mining. He passed away in 1915, at the age of seventy-one years, but the mother is still living and makes her home with her son, William M. her only child. In the acquirement of his education William M. McCrea attended the public schools of Salt Lake, passing through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school with the class of 1897. Subsequently he entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, for the study of law and won his LL. B. degree there in 1900. He then returned to Salt Lake for active practice and through the intervening period has been connected with the work of the courts.
On the 12th of June, 1907, Mr. McCrea was married to Miss Beatrice O'Conner, of Salt Lake City, and they have two children: William Francis, who was born in Salt Lake in 1908: and Beatrice Louise, in 1912.
Mr. McCrea is a Mason, belonging to Argenta Lodge. A. F. & A. M. He is also a member of the Utah State and the American Bar Associations. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and for eight years he was assistant United States attorney. In 1905 he was elected a member of the lower house of the Utah legislature and thus took active part in framing the laws of the state.
JAMES WILSON McHENRY.
James Wilson McHenry is a capitalist of Murray who has served as mayor of the city and has otherwise been actively identified with political and with business interests in his section of the state. He was born at Lebanon, Tennessee, October 23, 1864, and is a son of James Burton and Diantha (Freeman) McHenry, representatives of old southern families, the father being of Scotch-Irish descent and the mother of English lineage and a descendant of Bishop Riddley of' England. James B. McHenry was a man of prominence in Tennessee both before and after the Civil war. He owned a large plantation and many slaves and engaged extensively in farming and stock raising. Before the war he built the Lebanon-Murfreesboro turnpike, a distance of twenty-six miles, with toll gates every five miles, and controlled the pike for a number of years after the war. During the period of hostilities between the north and the south he served in the Confederate army. All of his brothers were prominent attorneys of Tennessee and his wife's brothers all attained eminence as members of the medical profession in that state. The war caused heavy losses to James Burton McHenry, but with resolute spirit he set to work to recuperate his fortunes and engaged extensively in the raising of mules and hogs and also built and operated saw and grist mills. Some of his former slaves remained with him after their freedom was declared, showing that he had been a kind and just taskmaster. Mr. McHenry passed away in 1882, at the age of sixty-three years. His first wife died when their son, James W., was but three years of age and the father afterward married again.
James Wilson McHenry was an only son but had five sisters-all older than himself. Early in life he manifested an independent and self-reliant spirit and when but twelve years of age left home rather than render obedience to his father's command. He walked forty-one miles to the outskirts of Nashville on the first day and slept the first night in a culvert on the main road, over which he could hear teams crossing in the night. The next day he secured employment from one of his father's friends, beginning work in the sawmills and doing a man's work while yet a boy. He was thus employed for a period of two years and then was transferred to the Cumberland mountains and was given charge of one hundred and twenty-five men in the logging camps until he came to Utah in 1884. He educated himself by study at night, taking life seriously and determining that he would amount to something in the world. He wished to do this, however, his own way, and although his father had regained much of his lost fortunes, at the time of his death, Mr. McHenry would not accept anything from his father's estate, signing his share over to his sisters. However, he returned to the old home during his father's last illness and was reconciled to the family that he had left many years before.
In 1883 Mr. McHenry became interested in the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Moreover, he had always had a desire to go west and in 1884 made his way to Utah, becoming a citizen of Murray. Here he took up the occupation of farming and later conducted a livery and boarding stable on an extensive scale.
For several years he has been the industrial agent and stock salesman for the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad, better known locally as the Orem line, and as agent has been active in promoting industries to be located along this line with the result that many live and growing concerns are now in evidence as the outcome of his activities, and not a failure has occurred among businesses so established. Mr. McHenry has been largely instrumental in securing the establishment of a sugar factory and also of canning factories, and alfalfa mills as well as in promoting the building of an electric line to Magna from Salt Lake.
Mr. McHenry has been married twice. He first wedded Katie Barrett and they became the parents of nine children, Oscar, Stella. James, Alice, Irene, Preston, Samuel, Earl and Pearl. He was separated from his first wife in 1902 and afterward married Livydell P. Felker of Chicago. Illinois.
Recognition of Mr. McHenry's ability on the part of his fellow townsmen led him to become mayor of Murray and in that position he rigidly enforced laws, particularly with respect to prohibition laws. As mayor and president of the Commercial Club he aided in securing a municipal electric light plant for Murray. In 1911 he began the agitation for the opening of Main street from Salt Lake to Murray. This will be accomplished in the near future, being a much needed project. In 1916 and 1917 he was president of the Affiliated Clubs of Salt Lake City and County, which brought about radical reforms; principally in regard to telephone service. He is now the vice president of the Utah Development League Board, its activities being confined to the promotion and development of Utah's resources. In this capacity he traveled hundreds of miles at his own expense, advocating and agitating the building of a Railroad Into Eastern Utah. He is serving on the advisory board of county commissioners in the expenditure of a million and a half dollars from the improvements of roadways in Salt Lake county. He is the president and manager of the Valley "View Mining Company, having gold, silver and copper properties in Idaho which have been productive since 1917. He also owns farming and sheep interests and his business affairs have at all times been an element in promoting public prosperity as well as individual success. In 1914 he erected a modern bungalow, which is one of the attractive residences of the district in which he lives. It has been through his public activities, however, that he has become chiefly known, for his efforts have been untiring in behalf of general progress and improvement, with a recognition of the possibilities and opportunities of the state. His breadth of view has not only recognized chances for his own advancement but for the city's development and his lofty patriotism has prompted him to utilize the latter as quickly and as effectively as the former. In his own career one is led to a recognition of the fact that when determination, perseverance and talent are arrayed against drawbacks, poverty and trials, the result is almost certain. The former are invincible-they know no defeat.
AMBROSE N. McKAY.
Ambrose N. McKay, general manager of the Salt Lake Daily Tribune, was born in Ontario, Canada, May 5, 1868, a son of Donald and Alice (Noble) McKay. The father in his childhood removed from Scotland, his native land, to Canada in company with his parents, and the mother was born in Canada, her father having been a native of Massachusetts, while her mother was from New York state. Donald McKay was active in public affairs. He was the treasurer of Ontario county for thirty years prior to his death, which occurred in 1914. His widow still survives. In their family were six children, of whom Ambrose N. was the second in order of birth and the eldest son.
In his early life A. N. McKay attended the public schools of his native country and afterward became a student in the University of Toronto, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1890. Entering the newspaper field in his student days in Toronto, he later became city editor of the Cheyenne, (Wyo.) Leader and later came to Salt Lake. He was reporter on the Salt Lake Tribune for some years, leaving this position to become managing editor of the Salt Lake Herald: With the exception of a few months on the Denver Post of Denver, Colorado, he held this post for eleven years. He became general manager of the Salt Lake Tribune on January 1, 1911.
On the 23d of October. 1897, Mr. McKay was married to Miss Mary Cope, of Minneapolis, and they have .one son, Donald Cope, born February 14. 1902. In politics Mr. McKay maintains an independent course. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, and fraternally he is a Mason and an Elk. He is a member of the Masonic, Rotary, Alta, Commercial and Bonneville Clubs and he also has membership in the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Associated Press. He is at present first vice president of the Associated Press.
ALBERT MERRILL.
Albert Merrill, of the Merrill Keyser Company of Salt Lake, was born in Richfield, Utah, February 16, 1881, a son of Clarence and Belle (Harris) Merrill, the former a native of Norwalk, Connecticut, and a representative of one of the old New England families. Nathaniel Merrill was the first of the Merrill family to settle in the new world. He was born in England in 1610 and came to the United States in 1634 on the good ship Mary and John. He located at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635 and there passed away March 16, 1665. There is also a record of his business activities in the genealogy of the Merrill family, a volume which Albert Merrill has in his possession. Nathaniel Merrill had a son, John Merrill, who was born in 1635 and died in Newbury, Massachusetts, July, 18, 1712. He married and had a son, Abel Merrill, who was born January 25, 1680, and died August 8, 1759. His son, Thomas Merrill, was born at West Hartford, Connecticut, November 25, 1715, and died January 6, 1814. He was the father of Titus Merrill, who was born August 27, 1756, and passed away August 11. 1785. His son, Valentine Merrill, born at South Norwalk, Fairfield county. Connecticut, in 1783, was the father of Albert Merrill, born on Long Island, New York, July 17, 1815. The latter was the grandfather of Albert Merrill of this review.
Clarence Merrill, the father of Albert Merrill, in young manhood crossed the plains with his parents to Utah, making the trip in 1852. The family had resided for a time in East Orange, New Jersey, before removing to the West. Clarence Merrill became one of the first telegraph operators on the line of the Utah Telegraph Company after its system was completed by Brigham Young and his associates. He afterward resigned this position and became connected with the livestock industry and ranching, to which he devoted many years. During the latter period of his life he lived retired from business cares and passed away in Salt Lake City in 1918. The mother is still living and yet makes her home in Provo, Utah. They had but two children, one of whom is Dr. H. G. Merrill, of Provo.
The elder son, Albert Merrill, attended the public schools of Provo, also the Brigham Young University of that city and was graduated from the commercial department with the class of 1897. He then entered the Latter-day Saints University of Salt Lake City for a two years' course and subsequently secured a position with the Oregon Short Line Railway under J. H. Young, superintendent. He remained in that position for a time and then resigned to become connected with the Salt Lake branch of Armour & Company. Later he formed a partnership with John C. Howard, now president of the Utah Oil Refining Company, to conduct a brokerage business, which they operated successfully for a year, at the end of which time Mr. Howard withdrew to engage in the oil refining business. Mr. Merrill in 1911 entered into partnership with Paul P. Keyser and the association has since been maintained with mutual pleasure and profit. The business was incorporated in 1911 with Mr. Merrill as the president and manager and Paul P. Keyser as vice president, with other members of the family in other offices. This is a close corporation. Mr. Merrill is also a director of the Mojac Realty & Investment Company of Salt Lake.
On the 18th of April, 1906, Mr. Merrill was married to Miss Zella Seely, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Seely, of Mount Pleasant, Utah. They have become parents of five children: Dorothy, born March 20, 1909; Albert, July 21, 1911; Margaret. July 22, 1914; Madeline, June 16, 1916; and Lorraine, October 5, 1918. In club, circles Mr. Merrill is widely known, holding membership in the Rotary, Commercial, Bonneville and Country Clubs. He is an alert and energetic citizen, a splendid typo of western progress, and in business circles occupies an enviable position. Through individual effort he has worked his way steadily upward and is now conducting a very extensive and profitable wholesale hay, grain and merchandise brokerage business, controlling one of the largest trades of the kind in Utah.
MILES E. MILLER.
Miles E. Miller, an architect of pronounced ability, practicing as the head of the firm of Miller, Woolley & Evans in Salt Lake, his native city, has by reason of his developing power and ability come to rank with those to whom the capital stands as a monument of professional skill. Many of the finest structures here found were erected by him or by the firm with which he is connected.
Mr. Miller was born on the 8th of April, 1886, a son of Orrin P. and Elizabeth (Morgan) Miller, who were also natives of Salt Lake county, Utah, where their parents had settled at a very early period in the colonization of this section of the country, the paternal grandfather being Reuben Miller and the maternal grandfather Edward Morgan. Orrin P. Miller became one of the presiding bishops of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and so continued until death called him on the 7th of July, 1918, when he was fifty-nine years of age. In early life he had devoted his attention to farming, but called to churchly office, he served as bishop of Riverton for eighteen years. The mother is still living in Salt Lake. The family numbered eleven children, nine of whom survive: Orrin L., of Salt Lake; Mrs. Eleanor M. Williams, living at Tremonton, Utah; Miles E.; and Austin P., Jesse M., Irene, Elva, Elred and Vera, all of Salt Lake. Those who have passed away are Durwood and Gladys.
Miles E. Miller was the third in order of birth in the family. He attended the schools of Salt Lake county and afterward entered the Latter-day Saints University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1906. Subsequently he spent two years as a student in the University of Utah and in 1908 he took up the profession of architecture, which he practiced independently for a number of years. In February 1917, however, he joined Messrs. Woolley and Evans in organizing the firm of Miller, Woolley & Evans. Their handiwork is seen in many of the finest buildings of Salt Lake, including the Price Carnegie library and the Greek church, also the Catholic church and Lowenstein Mercantile Company building at Helper, Utah; the Price school at Price, Utah; the Thatcher school and the Thatcher meeting house at Thatcher, Idaho; the San Juan State Bank and the San Juan ward chapel at Blanding, Utah; the New Temple Hotel and the Joseph William Taylor building of Salt Lake; the Carbon stake tabernacle and the Parowan stake tabernacle, the Carey meeting house, the Mesa ward meeting house and others. Since February. 1917, the firm has designed the Bank of Iron County at Parowan, the Farmington ward meeting house, the Glade-Strickley Candy Company's building at Salt Lake, the new million-dollar automobile center at State street and Social Hall avenue, the new nine-story Ensign apartment house near the public library and others.
In January, 1907, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Ellis Grant Bagley, of Salt Lake, who passed away January 26, 1919. She was a daughter of Hyrum A. and Harriet (Brinton) Bagley, of Salt Lake county. Four children were born to them: Loraine, who was born in Salt Lake in 1907; Irvine, born in 1909; and Viola and Zola, twins, who were born in Salt Lake in March, 1912. The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Miller is the secretary of the Utah Lake Commission and he belongs to the Salt Lake Commercial Club and also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, while in politics he maintains an independent course. He was the secretary of the Association of Utah Architects for the year 1915-16 and his high professional standing is further indicated in the fact that he was honored with its presidency in 1917-18. He is one of the progressive young men of professional circles in Salt Lake. He has held to the highest standards, has been actuated by a laudable ambition and his persistency, energy and capability have constituted the foundation upon which he has built notable success.
PATRICK J. MORAN.
Patrick J. Moran is actively identified with the industrial development of Salt Lake and Utah as the president of the business conducted under the name of P. J. Moran, Contractor, Inc., and also is president of the Moran Paving Company. He carries on a general contracting business and is one of the most extensive contractors of the Intermountain country. A native of Yorkshire, England, he was born January 23, 1864, and was early thrown upon his own efforts, for he was but seven years of age at the time of his father's death. He began providing for his own support when a lad of ten and throughout the intervening years has worked his way steadily upward, each forward step bringing him a broader outlook and wider opportunities. His parents were Laurence and Bridget (Durkin) Moran, both natives of Ireland, the former born in County Mayo and the latter in County Sligo. The father died in 1870 and the mother passed away in 1902. They had become residents of Yorkshire, England, in 1853 and there Patrick J. Moran spent the period of his boyhood and youth, the necessity of providing for his own support limiting his educational opportunities. However, in the school of experience he has learned many valuable lessons, to which he has added by wide reading and by contact with men.
Mr. Moran was a youth of fourteen when he crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Baltimore in April of that year. Four months later he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he entered upon an apprenticeship to a steamfitter, and thoroughly qualified in that trade. He afterward took up his abode in Chicago, where he worked as a journeyman steamfitter until 1887 and then became a resident of Omaha, Nebraska, where he continued to follow his trade until September of the same year, when he removed to Salt Lake City, where he has since made his home. He followed steam fitting here for two years and then started in business on his own account as a contractor in steam heating and ventilating work. While thus engaged he installed many heating plants in the public school buildings of Salt Lake City, also in the State University in Salt Lake, in the Agricultural College at Logan and in many of the leading business blocks and fine residences of the capital and also in churches and schools throughout the state. In 1900 he was awarded the first contract let by the city for the installation of water works and in 1903 he turned his attention to asphalt paving. He has had the contract for most of the paving of this kind in Salt Lake and his work has ever been of the highest character. He has a splendidly equipped plant and his paving business has grown to such proportions that in 1919 he incorporated it under the name of the Moran Paving Company, of which he is president. In addition his general contracting business is carried on under the style of P. J. Moran, Contractor, Inc. In Ogden Mr. Moran has built many miles of concrete and asphalt roads. He has built the East high school building, one of the finest educational buildings in the country, and the central building of the University of Utah, which Is a model of its kind. In 1917 he had the contract for the Elke National Home at Bedford City, Virginia, which was erected at a cost of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and is one of the finest in the country. In 1918 the building of the state road out of Ogden to Logan, Utah, was done by the P. J. Moran Company, which now has the contract for the paving of North Washington street in Ogden, to connect with the state road, and also a contract for the paving of Twenty-fourth street in Ogden. One important work awarded Mr. Moran was the construction of the conduit which extends along the side of the Wasatch range, a conduit through which one can walk for a distance of eight miles. It carries a part of the water supply for Salt Lake City. This is known as the Big Cottonwood conduit and is regarded as the greatest piece of work of its kind on the western slope of the Rocky mountains and among the largest in the country. Mr. Moran did the concrete masonry work for the plant of the American Smelting & Refining Company at Garfield, Utah, which is the largest plant Of the kind in the United States. He is a director of the Utah Power & Light Company, Tice president and director of the Keith O'Brien Dry Goods Company and president of the Portland Cement Company of Utah.
In 1891 Mr. Moran was united in marriage to Miss Dollie Shoebridge, of Salt Lake, and they have become the parents of six children, four sons and two daughters. The family occupies an attractive home at No. 1106 East South Temple street. In the club circles of the city Mr. Moran is well known, having membership in the Alta and Commercial Clubs. He is likewise connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and his political allegiance is given the republican party. In 1891 he was elected on the liberal ticket a member of the territorial council and in February, 1892, was elected on the same ticket a member of the city council, representing the fourth precinct of Salt Lake City for two terms. These are the only times that he has held public office. He has preferred to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs, and the enterprise that he has displayed, the keen business judgment and sagacity and unfaltering industry have been the basic elements of his success. He was appointed by Governor Bamberger as a member of the Utah Council of Defense and was also a member of the Red Cross executive committee in the campaign for raising Utah's quota. On the 18th of January, 1918, he was appointed federal director of the United States employment service and in this capacity recruited and sent thousands of mechanics and laborers to the various shipyards on the Pacific coast as well as to the munitions plants throughout the eastern and southern states and also supplied local industries with laborers and mechanics.
NICHOLAS G. MORGAN.
Nicholas G. Morgan is a well known attorney of the bar of Salt Lake City, practicing as a member of the firm of Morgan & Huffaker, which was formed in 1913.
He was born November 9, 1884, in the city in which he still resides, being the fifth in order of birth in a family of four sons and seven daughters. He belongs to one of the oldest and most prominent of the pioneer families of the state. His grandfather arrived in Utah in 1856 and as the years passed became a leading factor in the development of the natural resources of this state, particularly in. connection with its mining interests. He opened very large mines at Alta, particularly the Flagstaff mine, and by the careful direction of his business affairs became one of the wealthiest men of his day. The father of our subject. John Morgan, was born in Greensboro, Indiana, and during the period of the Civil war fought with the Union troops under General Grant. Removing to the west, he settled in Utah and established the first business college in this section of the country. Many of his students afterward became very prominent and influential business men who owed their success in no small measure to the thorough foundation which they received as pupils in Morgan's College. A leading churchman, he was the president of the Southern States Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a member of the first Council of Seventy of the church. To him and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Helen M. Groesbeck, were born eleven children. The father died August 7, 1894, but the mother is still living.
The fifth child, Nicholas G. Morgan, was the eldest son and in the public schools of Utah pursued his early education, which was supplemented by a course in the University of Utah. He pursued his college work there and then entered the Georgetown University of Washington, D. C., in preparation for the practice of law and received his LL. B. degree in 1910. In the following year he was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. He had been admitted to practice at the bar of Utah in November 1910, and has since given his attention to his professional duties. While in Washington he served as secretary to Senator Reed Smoot and also spent one year in the office of William Howard Taft when the latter was secretary of war.
Returning to Salt Lake, Mr. Morgan entered upon the active practice of his profession. He served for three years as the first assistant county attorney of Salt Lake county and has since engaged in the private practice of law, his marked ability carrying him steadily forward In his professional relations. In 1913 he entered into partnership with S. D. Huffaker and the firm of Morgan & Huffaker has since been maintained. They are accorded a large and distinctively representative clientage that connects them with much important litigation heard in the courts of the district, and as the years have passed Mr. Morgan's devotion to his clients' interests has become proverbial. Aside from his professional work Mr. Morgan has mining interests and is president of the Sunset Mining Company, a lead and silver producer, located at Leadore, Idaho; and Secretary and treasurer of the Cottonwood Grand Central Mining Company, operating at Mill D, Big Cottonwood canyon.
On the 18th of January, 1909. Mr. Morgan was married to Miss Ethel S. Tate, a daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Tate. Their children are four in number: Dorothy, Helen, Marjorie and Nicholas G., Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr. Morgan is serving on the general board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. He was one of the originators of Boy Scouts of America organization in Utah, and is a member of the Salt Lake City Local Council of Boy Scouts of America, a member of the executive committee of said local council and a member of the Court of Honor of Boy Scouts. In politics he is a most active republican, giving unfaltering support to the party and U S principles, in which he most firmly believes, and he is the president of the Young Men's Republican Club of Utah. Of studious nature and prompted by a laudable ambition, Mr. Morgan has made steady progress along professional lines and at the same time has given hearty aid and cooperation to definitely defined plans and measures for the general good. His attitude is that of a public-spirited and progressive citizen-one who looks beyond the exigencies of the moment to the opportunities of the future.
CHARLES MEYER MORRIS
Charles M. Morris, senior member of the law firm of Morris & Calister, is one of the best known attorneys of Salt Lake City, where he was born on the 18th of June, 1882. He is a son of Robert and Josephine (Meyer) Morris. The father came of English ancestry, having been born at Barrowden, Rutland, England and came to Utah in August 1861, as a member of the David H. Cannon company. He participated in the Indian expedition into the Sanpete country in 1867. The mother of Charles M. Morris is of German descent, daughter of Frederick H. G. Meyer of Schleswig-Holstein and came to Utah in 1862. Robert Morris was one of the first men in the state to engage in the wool, hide and tanning business and contributed to the development and progress of the district as the years passed by. His death occurred April 23, 1913, and in his passing Utah mourned the loss of one who had long been a valued and representative citizen of the state. He was bishop of the eleventh ward for more than twenty years and also served as a member of the city council in 1897 and 1898. The mother of Charles M. Morris is still living. She has reared a family of five sons, of whom Charles M. was the second in order of birth.
After mastering the elementary branches of learning in the public schools Charles M. Morris continued his education in the Latter-day Saints College and in the University of Utah, but left the latter institution in his junior year in order to matriculate in the George Washington University at Washington. D. C. There he pursued his law course and received his LL. B. degree with the class of 1907. For three years in the capital city he served as private secretary to United States Senator Reed Smoot and then returned lo his native state. He was admitted to the bar of Utah on the 1st of July. 1908, and entered upon the practice of the profession while still secretary to Senator Smoot. He made a creditable record as deputy county attorney of Salt Lake County from 1911 until 1913 and as the years have passed he has gained a high position in professional circles. He has been admitted to practice at the bar of the United States supreme court and has been connected withC of the republican party in Utah, and his activities in various capacities have been no small factor in the party's success. He formerly served as president of the Young Men's Republican Club of Salt Lake county and has been for two terms and still is chairman of the republican county central committee, to which position he was chosen in August 1916. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a member of the Native Sons of Utah, the Bonneville Club and the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City. Cooperating heartily in all the well defined plans and movements for the benefit and up building of the district, Mr. Morris is keenly interested in everything that features in connection with the development of municipal interests and with the advancement of the commonwealth. He is a man of strong purpose, forceful and resourceful, and Salt Lake City has profited by his cooperation in many ways.
RICHARD P. MORRIS.
No history of Salt Lake City and of Utah would be complete without extended reference to Richard P. Morris, whose name is almost a household word in Salt Lake and the intermountain country. His identification with the state dates from early pioneer times, in fact he is one of the native sons of Salt Lake, where his birth occurred December 23, 1855. He is descended from English ancestry and is a son of Richard V. and Hannah (Phillips) Morris, who came to Utah in 1855 from England, in which country the family is one of long standing as well as of prominence and distinction.
Richard P. Morris was reared in Salt Lake and grew up to love his city and state with unwonted devotion. He attended the public schools and later was a student at the Morgan Business College, preparing himself for a business career, which has been characterized by steady progress and has brought him to a point of leadership in the lines where his activities have led. He was a telegraph operator and in railroad work for twenty-five years, being local freight agent of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1888 to 1890. In 1890 he engaged in the coal business under the firm name of Woolstenholme & Morris, while in later years in this same line of business he organized the Citizens Coal Company.
His advancement was based upon the principle of industry. He may not have been familiar with the old Greek writers at that age, yet he exemplified in his life the admonition of Epicharmus: "Earn thy reward; the gods give naught to sloth." Diligence and determination carried him steadily forward until his business interests and activities became extensive and important. He was a director of the Merchants Bank and is now a director of the Farmers & Stockgrowers Bank as well as of the Dinwoodey Furniture Company, with which he has been connected for years and is also director and one of the organizers of Mount Nebo Marble Company. All through the years Mr. Morris maintained a deep interest in the general welfare, manifesting at all times a public-spirited citizenship. On every possible occasion he labored for the welfare and up building of his city and while holding to high ideals employed most practical methods for their accomplishment. The recognition of his devotion to the public good led to his selection for various offices. He was twice elected a councilman from the third precinct and for three terms was city treasurer of Salt Lake, proving a most faithful custodian of the public funds. In 1904 appreciation of his previous service came to him in his election to the office of mayor of Salt Lake City for a two years' term and in 1912 he was elected one of the city commissioners. He has ever exercised his official prerogatives in support of valuable plans and measures for the city's advancement and welfare and over his public record there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. He belongs to the Commercial Club and is an enthusiastic supporter of every project put forth by that organization for the benefit of the city or state.
Mrs. Morris, previous to her marriage, was Miss Florence Dinwoodey, a representative of one of Utah's prominent and influential families. To Mr. and Mrs. Morris have been born three children: Russell P., Thornton D. and Marion, while by a previous marriage there are two children, Emma and Benjamin P. Mr. Morris is now sixty-four years of age. Throughout this entire period he has been a resident of Salt Lake and has witnessed its growth from a small village in the midst of the western desert to a great metropolitan center with ramifying trade interests reaching out to all sections of the west, while the surrounding country has been converted into a rich agricultural district. The history of the region and its development is indeed well known to him and his own life record constitutes an integral chapter therein. The last important event in his record came to him through the word of the assistant secretary of the treasury of the state of Utah, who notified him of his appointment by President Wilson as a member of the mint commission of Salt Lake and calling him to a general meeting of the mint commissioners in Philadelphia on the 12th and 13th of February, 1919.
EDWIN L. MURPHY.
Among the younger manufacturers who have made remarkable strides in the development of a chosen industry there are none who have come to the forefront in so short a period as the subject of this review, Edwin L. Murphy, who is one of the two owners of the Salt Lake Boiler & Sheet Iron Works that has been developed until it is now one of the big institutions of this character in the state. Mr. Murphy and his partner are sole owners of the plant, and the business in its entirety represents an investment of upwards of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. It was started on a small scale but has been rapidly developed within a few years by the honest and painstaking efforts and unremitting diligence of the owners. The new building just completed and equipped is one of the most substantial of this character to be found in the west.
Edwin L. Murphy is a native of Laramie, Wyoming. He was born April 8, 1885, of the marriage of James E. and Lillian (Ward) Murphy, both of whom were natives of Cleveland, Ohio. In early life they removed westward to Laramie, Wyoming, and there the father engaged in various lines of business, accumulating considerable means by the careful conduct of his affairs. In his later years he has lived retired and now makes his home in the town of Northport, Washington. His wife, however, passed away in Laramie.
Edwin L Murphy, their only son, attended the public schools of his native city and afterward entered upon an apprenticeship to the boilermaker's trade at Pocatello, Idaho. When he had completed his preliminary training he came to Salt Lake in 1905 and for a number of years worked at his trade in various boiler making shops. In 1911 he concluded to establish a shop of his own and on a very small capital he began business, of which his present splendid establishment is the outgrowth. Today the company is employing between fifty and sixty people. Mr. Murphy's partner in the undertaking is Edgar A. Duncombe, and both are representative young business men, closely watching every opportunity for legitimate advancement and winning success by this most progressive and straightforward measures. They manufacture vacuum pans and evaporators weighing approximately one hundred and ten tons. These were manufactured for the Beet Growers Sugar Company of Rigby, Idaho, for installation in their new factory. They were the first to be manufactured in the intermountain country, but the plant of the Salt Lake Boiler & Sheet Iron Works is thoroughly equipped to handle all classes of such work. They have recently erected an addition to their building in order to enable them to handle the construction of the Heine type of marine boilers for the Emergency Fleet Corporation, for which the company held contracts to the extent of three hundred thousand dollars. These contracts, however, were cancelled upon the signing of the armistice. The plant is equipped with up-to-date machinery, including an electric traveler crane. One of the recently installed machines is a hydraulic riveter weighing twelve tons, which is the only machine of the kind in the intermountain country.
On the 1st of January, 1907, Mr. Murphy was married to Miss Ida Johnston, of Salt Lake, and they have four children: Hazel, born in 1909; Evelyn, in 1911; Everett, in 1913; and John, in 1916.
Mr. Murphy is a member of the Manufacturers Association but is not a club man, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs rather than to take active part in club life or in politics. He is making steady progress for one of his years and his course is highly commendable, showing what can be accomplished by the alert, energetic young man of the present day.
