GEORGE ERNEST BARTON.

George Ernest Barton is successfully engaged in business at Provo as president of the Barton Furniture Company, conducting the largest store of the kind in the city.  His birth occurred in Kaysville, Utah, on the 7^th of October, 1871, his parents being John and Sarah (Flint) Barton, both of whom were natives of England. The father, who was born at St. Helens, emigrated to the United States in 1862 and made his way to Davis county, Utah, where he spent the remainder of his life, devoting his attention to mercantile pursuits. He also took an active part in church and civic affairs and in his passing the community lost one of its most prominent and influential citizens. His demise occurred on Thanksgiving day of 1917, when he had attained the age of seventy-six years. His wife, whom he wedded in Salt Lake City, was called to her final rest in 1887. They became the parents of six children, two of whom have passed away. 

George E. Barton acquired his education in the public schools of Kaysville and also attended the University of Utah through one winter season, while subsequently he pursued a course in a business college of Salt Lake City. After putting aside his text-books he became associated with his father in the furniture business at Kaysville and was thus engaged until 1897, when he was sent on a mission to the northern states, where he remained for thirty-three months, serving as conference president. On returning home he again joined his father in business and continued with him until the time of his marriage in 1900, when he removed to Park City, where he engaged in the furniture business as senior partner in the firm of Barton & Phillips. While there residing he was also identified with the bishopric of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as counselor to Bishop Fred Rasband. The year 1907 witnessed his arrival in Provo, where he has since remained active in the furniture trade. He was a member of the firm of Barton & Blake until 1911, in which year he purchased his partner's interest and has since been at the head of the Barton Furniture Company, Incorporated, as its president, with John Barton and John Roundy as directors. The establishment, located at Nos. 32 to 36 North Academy avenue, is the largest of the kind in Provo, Mr. Barton having built up an extensive and profitable patronage by reliable, enterprising and progressive business methods.

It was in 1900 that Mr. Barton was united in marriage to Miss Maud Barnes, of Kaysville, a daughter of John R. Barnes, a prominent pioneer of Utah, who is widely known in connection with Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution. Mr. and Mrs.  Barton have become the parents of four children, namely:          George Byron, who is seventeen years of age and is attending the Brigham Young University; Ruth, a maiden of fifteen years; and Richard and Edgar, twins, who are ten years of age. The three last named are also attending school.

Mr. Barton is a high priest of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has always taken an active and leading part in church and Sunday school work. He is likewise a valued member of the Provo Commercial Club and deeply interested in all matters pertaining to civic welfare and advancement. His entire life has been spent in Utah and during the past twelve years he has been a prominent factor in commercial circles of Provo, where he enjoys an enviable reputation as a representative business man and valued citizen.

BENJAMIN BATES.

Benjamin Bates, mayor of Alpine, was born in Birmingham, England, June 24, 1854. a son of John and Mary Ann (Johnson) Bates. The father was an edge tool maker by trade and the son Benjamin learned the same trade, beginning work in an edge tool factory of his native country when but eight years of age. He continued to work along that line at different factories in England, winning advancement from time to time until he was made foreman at the Eagle Edge tool factory at Chillingham before coming to America in 1881. After crossing the Atlantic he secured the position of master mechanic with the Sanpete Valley Railroad and so served for a period of eight years, at which time Governor Bamberger was general manager of the road. Mr. Bates later spent two years in Salt Lake with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and then removed to Alpine, where he has since made his home. He worked in the sawmills in the canyon for a time and afterward opened a blacksmith shop at Alpine, carrying on the business for three years. He next established a blacksmith shop at American Fork, where he has since carried on the business, making the five mile trip each day from Alpine to American Fork with a horse and buggy until recent years, when he makes the trip by automobile. He is an expert smith and wood worker as well as horseshoer. In fact he possesses marked mechanical skill and ingenuity and is able to do almost anything with wood or iron.

Mr. Bates was married in England in 1876 to Miss Sarah Boddison, a daughter of George Boddison, who became a pioneer farmer and blacksmith of Alpine and was also a very active churchman, serving as president of the Elders' Quorum. Three months after Mr. Bates and his family arrived in Utah his wife passed away, leaving him with three small children: Edith, who died at the age of eight years; Florence, who is now the wife of Thomas B. Smith, who is employed in a smelter at Murray, where they make their home; and Albert Edward, who died two days after his sister's death, both passing away of diphtheria. For his second wife Mr. Bates chose Miss Mary Boddison, a sister of his first wife. They had two children: John Leonard, who lives at Alpine, where he follows farming; and George, who died when but fifteen days old, while the mother died at his birth. Mr. Bates' third wife was Miss Anna Boddison, a sister of his former wives, and to them have been born five children: Sarah, who died at the age of twenty years; Madeline, at home; Benjamin Vernal, who is with his father in the shop; Ethel Marie and Frank Russell, at home. Benjamin Vernal was a member of the American army from December. 1917, until June, 1919, becoming a mechanician in the Aviation Corps. He was stationed at the Waco field at Texas, also at the Carlstrom field in Florida and at the Ellington field in Texas.

Mr. Bates has remained an active worker in the church, is a member of the Seventy and was Sunday school superintendent for a number of years. His wife for a period was first counselor of the Relief Society. In politics Mr. Bates is a republican and he is now serving his fifth term as mayor of Alpine, his re-elections standing as incontrovertible evidence of his capability and fidelity to the duties of the office. He was also a member of the city council for two terms and city recorder for two terms and for fifteen years has been a member of the school board. He is a self-educated as well as a self-made man and has become well informed through wide reading and broad experience.  He enjoys excellent health, which he attributes to his journeying to and from Alpine, enjoying the cool mountain morning air. He occupies a comfortable home at Alpine, which he erected in 1899 and which stands in the midst of a two acre lot.

GEORGE 0. BEEBE.

George 0. Beebe is the progressive mayor of Santaquin, where he is also conducting business as the general manager of the Santaquin Lumber Company. Utah numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Provo, August 12, 1882, his parents being David R. and Nancy D. (Smoot) Beebe, who are mentioned elsewhere in this work.

In the acquirement of his education George 0. Beebe attended the Brigham Young University of Provo and he received his initial business experience as an employee in the office of the Smoot Lumber Company of Provo, there gaining knowledge of a commercial branch with which he has since been familiar. He remained with that company for nine years and then entered the employ of the Salt Lake & Los Angeles Railroad Company, with which he continued for six years. He next came to Santaquin to take charge of the lumberyard of the Santaquin Lumber Company, of which he has since been a stockholder and one of the directors. In this connection he has built up a business of large and gratifying proportions. He is thoroughly conversant with every phase of the lumber trade and, alert and enterprising, quickly recognizes and utilizes every opportunity for the development of the business. He is also a director and the vice president of the Santaquin Marvel Milling Company, which has a plant with a capacity of forty barrels of flour daily.

In 1913 Mr. Beebe was united in marriage to Phoebe Cushing, who was born and reared in Santaquin, a daughter of H. P. Cushing, one of the pioneer farmers of this section of the state. They became parents of two children, David P. and Carroll N., and in April, 1919, the family were called upon to mourn the loss of the wife and mother, since which time Mrs. Beebe's sister has looked after the household, having cared for her sister before the latter's death.

Mr. Beebe is identified with the Masonic fraternity and also with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is loyal to the teachings and purposes of these organizations.  Since 1915 he has been mayor of Santaquin and has made an excellent record in office, as is indicated by his reelection to the position. He gives to the city a businesslike and progressive administration, bringing to bear in the conduct of its affairs the same sound judgment and active interest that he displays in the conduct of his individual business.

BISHOP OLE HENDRICKSEN BERG

Among the highly honored citizens and prominent churchmen of Utah was Bishop Ole Hendricksen Berg, of Provo. When death called him, his passing was the occasion of deep and widespread regret, for he had endeared himself to those who knew him and moreover had left the impress of his individuality and ability upon the upbuilding and development of his city along many lines. He was born in Smaalenine, near Fredrickshald, Norway, September 12, 1840, and enjoyed the educational opportunities afforded by the schools of that locality until he reached his fifteenth year, when he became a resident of Christiania and there entered business circles by learning the cabinet maker's trade.

It was while thus engaged that he first met the Mormon elders, whose teachings influenced his life throughout his remaining days. Becoming a convert to the faith, he was baptized in the church in October, 1861, and soon thereafter was ordained to the priesthood and sent out as a local missionary to Odalen and other towns in the neighborhood. His effective work in the church led to his ordination as elder and he was called to preside over a branch of the church at Risor, Norway, and also to labor as traveling elder in Dramen and other districts. In 1864 a call came for him to go to Denmark to labor in the Islands Conference, first as traveling elder and later as conference president.

While engaged in that work Bishop Berg formed the acquaintance of Anna Nielsen, who became his wife soon after his emigration to Provo in 1866, she having taken up her abode in Utah a year earlier. For fifty-two years this worthy couple traveled life's journey together, sharing with each other its joys and sorrows, its adversity and prosperity. As the years passed they became parents of ten children, three sons and seven daughters. The eldest son, Henry W. Berg, died February 21, 1900, while laboring as a missionary in Norway, he being the first missionary from Zion to lay down his life while engaged in the ministry in that land. Seven of the children are yet living, namely: Mrs. George Nuttall, of Provo; Mrs. Enoch Jorgensen; Mrs. W. W. Beckstead; Mrs. James Prestwich; Mrs. Walter Jenkins; Mrs. Oscar E. Groshell; and Wyman Berg.

After coming to the new world Bishop Berg continued a most active and earnest worker in the church, in which he held many positions of honor and trust. From 1889 until 1891 he performed a second mission to his native land and again in 1914 did valiant service there while making a last visit to his old home to gather genealogy. He served at different periods as high counselor, as stake president of the Scandinavian organization, as bishop of the Provo first ward and was ever at his post of duty. He was ever justly proud of the fact that under the direction of President Brigham Young he superintended the interior construction work of the St. George Temple in the years 1876 and 1877.

During his residence in Provo, Mr. Berg served as county coroner, was also a member of the Provo city council and member of the school board, while he likewise served his district as representative in the state legislature and gave thoughtful and earnest consideration to the vital questions which came up for settlement during that period.  For many years he was a contractor and builder and many structures in this community stand as monuments to his ability. In later years his business interests and activities concentrated upon undertaking and embalming and he was senior partner of the firm of O. H. Berg & Son. He built up a business of extensive proportions.  At his demise it was said of him: "Many of the best older buildings in Provo, including this building (the Tabernacle), reflect the work of his hands. During the past eighteen months he has acted as chairman of the building committee of the Bonneville ward, and as such he has devoted a large portion of his time to the supervision of the designs and construction of the building now nearing completion. It is to be regretted that the new building is not now sufficiently completed to enable us to assemble there to pay our last respects to him in a place which will stand as a monument to the service he has rendered his ward and community.  Bishop Berg will always be remembered and loved by the community in which he lived and labored. The members of the ward over which he so long presided will retain and cherish his instructions and advice. It will be with pleasure that they will recall the visits which he so frequently made to their homes. His life was one of service. In this he exemplified a fundamental principle of the religion which he espoused and which has been the guiding star of his life."

Bishop Berg was the first chairman of the central community of the old folks' organization in Utah stake and did much to promote the society and help make it interesting and entertaining to its members. This position he held to the time of his death.  He was ever a man of kindly sympathy and of generous spirit, continually reaching out a helping hand and ever holding to high ideals, which his family are endeavoring to perpetuate. His good deeds are enshrined in the hearts of those who knew him and his memory remains as a blessed benediction to his family and friends. His demise occurred on the 23d of February, 1919.

At his passing Dr. George H. Brimhall wrote of him: "The call of death that summoned Bishop 0. H. Berg to the great beyond has created a vacancy that can never be filled. It may be consistently said of him, 'There was but one 0. H. Berg.' His Individuality was of a type that defied duplication, and this sturdy single selfness in his makeup forbade any camouflage of character. Through his purpose and proceedings he said to all the world: 'I am myself struggling to become my better self.' Along the trail of life he left the footprints of a man, a gentleman, a nobleman. His exit from the earthly existence retired a toiler from the ranks of industry; a scholar from the school of wide reading and extensive travel. When he stepped off, a lover of art left the platform.  In his going there went forth from the home a provider that kept the wolf of want ever away from the door, a husband whose fidelity was like the Rock of Ages, a father possessed of those rare qualities of parenthood which made of him a champion in the estimation of his daughters and a chosen comrade of his sons. In church affairs there will be missed one whose consistency of conduct guided him safely between the dangers of fanaticism on the one hand and skepticism on the other. His discretion never failed him, his faith never fled, nor did his religious fervor ever grow cold. Our civic commonwealth will miss one of its best citizens, the state has lost a strong builder; from the nation has departed a patriot and from humanity a friend. He has gone; sadness lingers over his departure, and yet there is a sweetness in that sadness, a joy side to our sorrow. We are bereaved, but behind the cloud of grief there is the glow of his life and labors, a blaze so luminous and warm that none of us would call him back.  His work is done. It finished well. He ripened sweet, and nature gathered him with gentle hands and passed him on to life and joys here unattainable."

OSCAR WYMAN BERG.

Oscar Wyman Berg, engaged in the undertaking business in Provo, was born August 4. 1886, In the city in which he still makes his home, and is a son of Bishop Ole Hendricksen Berg, mentioned at length on another page of this work. He attended the public schools of Provo and the Brigham Young University prior to entering the University of Utah. He afterward became a student in the Philadelphia Training School of Embalming and further continued his preparation for his present work as a student in Chicago.  After completing his university course and his studies in the embalming school Oscar W. Berg joined his father as a member of the firm of O. H. Berg & Son leading funeral directors of Utah county, and since his father's death has carried on the business. 

In 1911 Mr. Berg was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Thomas, of Scofield, a daughter of T. H. and Eliza (Hawley) Thomas, the latter the daughter of a prominent churchman of Springville. The father was a pioneer settler of Utah and the family has long been highly esteemed in the state. Mr. and Mrs. Berg have become parents of two children, Max Wyman and Marian.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr. Berg of this review is a member of the building committee of the Bonneville ward. He is also a member of the stake board of the young: men's organization of the church and a member of the Thirty-fourth Quorum of Seventy. His interests arc broad and varied and of a helpful character in relation to public welfare. He Is an active member of the Provo Commercial Club, serving on various committees, and he has done valuable work in connection with the Red Cross and the Liberty Loan drives.

He promoted the first Chautauqua held in Provo and has made the Chautauqua assemblies most successful, he displays untiring industry and unfaltering determination in carrying forward to successful completion anything that he undertakes. He is greatly interested in civic matters and supports all plans and measures which he deems of value in the up building and development of his section of the state. His connection with any organization, society or movement indicates his earnest belief therein and his hearty support is always given there to. His position is never that of the indifferent on looker but that of the active and effective worker. Widely known in Provo, where he has spent his entire life, he has a circle of friends that is almost coextensive with the circle of his acquaintance. Through the careful, conscientious and painstaking manner in which he has conducted his business he has gained distinction as the leading funeral director of Provo and this part of the state.

CHARLES M. BIRD.

Charles M. Bird is living upon a small place at Mapleton, where he is now erecting a fine modern residence. He still retains the ownership of a large farm which is occupied by his son. He was born at Springville, Utah, June 15, 1856, a son of Richard and Emeline (Crandall) Bird. The father was born in Chemung county, New York, October 20, 1820, and was a son of Benjamin Freeman Bird and the mother's father was David Crandall. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bird were natives of Pottawattamie county, Iowa. In 1852 they removed westward to Springville, Utah, the father's being one of the first wagons to arrive at that place. Richard Bird afterward removed to Dixie and in 1868 became one of the pioneers of Clover valley. He was prominent in the work of the church and served as the first presiding elder at the latter place. Subsequently he returned to Springville, where he engaged in farming, and he reached the age of seventy-three years, passing away in 1893. The mother survived for two years, her death occurring in 1895. She was born in Chautauqua county, New York, June 27, 1824. 

Charles M. Bird of this review was the fourth in order of birth in a family of nine children, eight of whom reached adult age and reared families, while four are still living. He acquired a common school education and in 1880 filed on eighty acres of land at Mapleton and has since added to his original possessions until he now owns three hundred and thirty acres in one of the fine farms of the district, of which ninety acres is irrigated land. He brought his farm to a high state of cultivation, adding to it many modern improvements, and continued to devote his attention to the further development of the fields until a recent date, when he removed to Mapleton, leaving his son upon the farm. He is now erecting a fine residence at Mapleton and will here reside practically retired, spending his days in the enjoyment of the fruits of his former toil. He has been a stockholder in the Farmers Cooperative Store since its organization in 1911.

In 1878, at Springville, Mr. Bird was united in marriage to Miss Abble Whiting, who was born in Manti but was reared in Springville, a daughter of Edwin and Hannah (Brown) Whiting. Her father was one of the pioneer residents of Manti and later removed to Springville, where he engaged in the nursery business, being the first man to raise roses at that place. He was also the first commercial nurseryman in Utah county and raised all kinds of choice shrubbery and flowers. He was a pioneer of Manti and in the early days was twice robbed by the Indians of his herd of cattle. Mr. and Mrs.  Bird have become the parents of eight children, seven of whom are yet living. Bessie is the wife of Hyrum Manwaring, a school teacher and farmer residing at Rexburg, Idaho, and they have four children: Lawrence, Lucile, Eugene and Gladys. Hannah is the wife of Richard Lovell Mendenhall, a son of Richard L. Mendenhall, mentioned elsewhere in this work. Jennie is the wife of Leonard Hill, a farmer of Payson, and their children are six in number, Maurine. Margaret, Edna, Leroy and Ruth, twins, and Louie. Elmer W. married Lenora Banks, of Spanish Fork, and with their daughter Lillian they reside upon his father's farm, which he cultivates. Freeman, a farmer residing at Payson, married Eva Marchbanks and has two children, Robert and Norman.  Emogene is the wife of Walter Manwaring, a brother of her sister Bessie's husband, and they reside at Rexburg, while he is engaged in farming in partnership with Hyrum. Merrill is at home. Both Elmer and Merrill have been on missions to the eastern states and Mr. Bird was on a mission to St. George to help build the temple there.  He is a high priest and for thirty-five years he was ward clerk. For seventeen years he filled the position of superintendent of the Sunday school and was the first secretary of the Sunday school at Mapleton, which position he held up to the time he was made superintendent. His wife is stake aid in the Relief Society and he has been president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, while Mrs. Bird has served as president of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association. They served at the same time for five years, each being the first president of their organization at Mapleton,  and for three terms he filled the office of road supervisor also served for three terms as school trustee, in Harrisville and Farwest but has not been an aspirant for political position, as he has always preferred to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs which have been wisely and carefully directed and have made him one of the prosperous agriculturists of his section of the state.

Mrs. Bird is also president of the primary class. Mr. Bird has known each of the presidents of the church, from Brigham Young down to the present time, and all of the apostles and can name them in their respective order. In politics Mr. Bird is a democrat and is serving as precinct chairman. For fifteen years he was a trustee of the schools. He has always taken a keen interest in everything that has to do with public welfare and progress and has been active in behalf of the church. His labors too in the business world have been productive of excellent results, making him the owner of a valuable farm property.

MARTIN W. BIRD.

Martin W. Bird, agent at Springville for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and also manager for the Western Union Telegraph Company, was born September 1, 1873, in the city in which he still makes his home. His father, Martin W. Bird, was born in Winter Quarters, now Council Bluffs, Iowa, at the time when his parents were emigrating to Utah. He reached this state in 1850 and after attaining adult age gave his attention to freighting and to farming, making his home at Springville. He was an elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was greatly interested in the church work. He passed away in that faith in 1889. The mother of Martin W.  Bird of this review was Harriet Adelaide Huntington arid was one of the first children born in Springville. By marriage she became the mother of eight children, only three of whom are living The mother, however, survives and makes her home in her native city.

Martin W. Bird was early thrown upon his own resources and upon him also devolved the care of his younger brothers and sisters. His educational opportunities were confined to a few years' attendance at the district schools and he was for two years in early manhood employed in a photographic studio. He then entered the employ of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, which he has served in various capacities, being continuously connected with the road to the present time. He Is now agent at Springville for the railroad and also an agent for the American Railway Express Company. He early took up the study of telegraphy and has developed expert powers in that connection, representing the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad & Express Company at Springville as agent for the past ten years. 

In 1897 Mr. Bird was united in marriage to Miss Mary Groesbeck. a daughter of N. H. Groesbeck, of Springville. Mr. and Mrs. Bird have become parents of five children: Carol, twenty years of age, now a student in the University of Utah ; Martin W, Jr.. eighteen years of age, attending the Brigham Young University at Provo;Nicholas G., a youth of fifteen; Mary G., thirteen years of age; and Margaret, aged nine. The last three are pupils in the schools at Springville. 

Mr. Bird is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served two terms as a member of the Springville school board of education, one term as a member and treasurer of the Consolidated school board of education, and is now serving his third term as a member of the Nebo school board of education. He is popular and efficient as a railroad representative and his many sterling traits of character have gained him the friendship and kindly regard of all with whom he is brought in contact.

WILLIAM BJORK.

William Bjork has come to an honored old age after a life of intense activity and great usefulness. He has been actively identified with railroad building in the west and is now the owner of an excellent farm on Provo Bench, where notwithstanding his advanced age he is still able to do a full day's work. However, he has turned over the management and further development of the farm to his son-in-law and takes up active work only when so inclined. Indolence and idleness, however, are utterly foreign to his nature and there are few days in which he does not do some active work.  He was born in Skaraborglan. Sweden, April 6, 1837, a son of John and Catherine (Erickson) Bjork. His educational opportunities were very limited. During most of his life the father was a soldier in the Swedish army but he was a carpenter and mason by trade and did all kinds of manual work.

William Bjork was early trained along the same lines, contributing to the support of himself and his father's family. In 1855 he was converted to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, being one of the first to embrace that religion in Sweden. He began earnestly to study the Bible, together with the Book of Mormon, and was soon ordained an elder. He served as a missionary in his home country and presided over two different branches of the conference prior to coming to Utah in 1868. He belongs to one of the old families of Sweden and his father was a corporal in the Swedish army for a time, while his grandfather served in the army when Sweden was at war with Germany early in the eighteenth century. As far back as the ancestry can be traced, the Bjorks were military men.  At length William Bjork determined to leave Sweden and establish his home in Utah. He brought his sweetheart with him to the new world and they were married in Salt Lake City soon after their arrival. It was their desire to be married here in order to be strictly in accord with Mormon principles. The first wife of William Bjork was Gustava Anderson and they became the parents of a daughter, now Mrs. George Dittmore.

While in Sweden, Mr. Bjork worked on the railroad and on account of his ability to handle men and also his efficiency in putting down a perfect grade without the aid of instruments, he was made foreman of a grading gang notwithstanding the fact that he was the youngest man in the gang. He worked on a railroad first in Weber canyon and later out of Salt Lake, now the Western Pacific Railroad, almost immediately after his arrival in Utah and his capability was soon recognized by Heber C. Kimball, who was at that time superintendent. Mr. Bjork was made foreman and was given contracts for grading, his work in grading being so nearly perfect that engineers in charge used to say that it was not necessary to check up after him. During his early residence in Utah he also worked on the Union Pacific in Weber Canyon, east of Ogden, until the road was completed. Following his marriage he lived in Grantsville, Tooele county, for fifteen years and there engaged in farming and carpentering after abandoning railroad work, his early training with his father in all kinds of work proving of great advantage to him during the pioneer period of his residence in Utah. In 1884 he removed to the Provo Bench, where he now resides, purchasing there twenty acres of land. Today he owns a seventeen-acre farm, which his son-in-law cultivates for him, although Mr. Bjork is still very active for one of his years, able even now to do a full day's work in caring for the crops. The farm is largely given to the raising of garden produce and they also keep a few cows. Mr. Bjork has put all of the improvements upon the farm and he is now comfortably fixed in life.

His second wife was Eva Anderson and they became parents of two children: Wilma, the wife of C. G. Kalendar, of Salt Lake City; and Beatrice, the wife of Merville Walker and living upon her father's farm.

Mr. Bjork has ever been a most sincere believer in the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has served as high priest and has always been most willing to do his part in support of the church. He is a man of the highest moral worth and his many admirable characteristics have gained for him the respect, confidence and good will of young and old, rich and poor.

HENRY GUSTAVE BLUMENTHAL.

Henry Gustave Blumenthal, conducting a plumbing business at Provo, was born in Woodford county, Illinois, February 4. 1872, a son of August and Caroline (Brau) Blumenthal, both of whom were natives of Germany. The father was a sheet metal worker and tinner and devoted his life to activity along those lines. He came to Utah in 1890, settling in Salt Lake, and in 1891 he removed to Provo, where his remaining days were passed, his death occurring in 1902, when he had reached the age of fifty-four years. The mother is still living. In the family were thirteen children, five of whom survive.

Henry G. Blumenthal removed with his parents to Webster county, Nebraska, when the family left Illinois. There the father homesteaded and the son continued upon the farm in that locality until 1883. when the family removed to Blue Hill, in the same state, where the father engaged in the tinning business. In 1887 our subject took up his abode in Hastings, Nebraska, where he learned sheet metal and cornice work. In 1891 he became a resident of Provo, Utah, where he established business on his own account in a small way. Through the intervening period, covering more than a quarter of a century, he has developed an extensive trade and has one of the oldest and most successful sheet metal and plumbing establishments of the city, his place of business being at No. 474 West Center street.

In 1897 Mr. Blumenthal was married to Miss Myrta M. Dodd, of Nebraska, and they have four children: Earl B., who was with the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Infantry of the United States army until recently, when he was honorably discharged; Myrle, who is in school; and Harold and Rhea, who are also school pupils.  Mr. Blumenthal belongs to the Provo Commercial Club. In his fraternal relations he is connected with the Masonic order being identified with Story Lodge, No. 4, A. F. & A. M., also with the Royal Arch Chapter, the Knight Templar Commandery and the various branches of the Scottish Rite. He has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of El Kalah temple of Salt Lake. In the blue lodge he has filled all of the chairs and he was the first king in the Royal Arch Chapter of Provo. He is likewise a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias and served as grand chancellor of the order in Utah and also as representative to the Supreme Lodge. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, having membership in Provo Lodge, No. 849, of which he has been exalted ruler and also representative to the national organization at Los Angeles. He has served as district deputy and is a well known figure in fraternal circles, at all times adhering to the high principles upon which these orders are based. Mr. Blumenthal has likewise been very active in charitable work, contributing generously to benevolent and philanthropic projects, and has been an active worker for the Red Cross. At the same time he is a progressive business man who has developed high efficiency along his chosen line. He is now conducting his interests under the name of the Architectural Sheet Metal Works and does all kinds of cornice, sheet iron and skylight copper work besides heating and ventilating and sanitary plumbing. His patronage has now reached extensive proportions, and he is regarded as one of the foremost representatives of industrial activity in Provo.

ELISHA HENRY BOLEY.

Elisha Henry Boley. who is engaged in business at American Fork as a dealer in meats, groceries, hardware, crockery ware and farm produce, was born December 10.  1888, in the city in which he still makes his home, his parents being Elisha Hilderbrand and Maacah (Mercer) Boley. The father was born at American Fork and was a son of Henry Boley, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and a representative of one of the old families of that state. The grandfather became one of the pioneer settlers of Utah, where he took up his abode in 1848 removing in 1852 to American Fork.  Both he and his son Elisha were active in farm life and were prominent churchmen.  During his early life the father gave his attention to the raising of live stock but in the latter part of the '80s established the business that is now carried on under the name of E. H. Boley. The father remained an active factor in the conduct of the business until his death, which occurred February 16. 1908. when he had reached the age of fifty-two years. He was serving at the time as a member of the city council and was an active factor in republican politics. The mother was born at American Fork, a daughter of John and Mary Mercer, who were pioneer settlers of this section of the state. Her father was for years in the bishopric. Elisha H. and Maacah (Mercer) Boley were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are yet living. The family numbered two sons and seven daughters, of whom Elisha H. Boley of this review was the fifth in order of birth. The mother survives and makes her home at American Fork.

E. H. Boley after attending the public and high schools of his native city continued his education in the Brigham Young University at Provo from which he was graduated with the class of 1910. He also spent one year in the Latter-day Saints school there and in 1910 he was called on a mission to the eastern states, with headquarters in eastern Pennsylvania and in Maine. He acted as traveling elder and upon his return he took charge of the business which he has since conducted. He is engaged in dealing in meats of all kinds and also handles an extensive line of Staple and fancy groceries, together with hardware, crockery ware and farm produce. He makes a specialty of buying and shipping all kinds of farm produce and his business is one of gratifying proportions.

On the 26th of June, 1918, Mr. Boley was married in Salt Lake Temple to Miss Edna Sharp, a native of Lehi and a daughter of William Sharp. Mr. Boley and his wife are members of the Second Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at American Fork. His political endorsement is given to the republican party. For a time he took an active interest in promoting Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives and then responded to the call of the colors, becoming connected with the Two Hundred and Eighteenth Field Signal Battalion of the Nineteenth Division as a private. He thus served for six months and was stationed at Camp Travis. Texas. His determined purpose and energy are constituting the basis of his growing success in business and along legitimate lines he is building up a trade of satisfying and gratifying proportions.

JOHN EDWIN BOOTH.

John Edwin Booth, successfully engaged in the drug business at Spanish Fork under the name of the World Drug Company, was born June 1, 1895  in the city in which he still resides, his parents being Charles W. and Annie L. (Beale) Booth. The father was born in Leicester, England, and came to the United States about 1882 at which time he settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he engaged in the manufacture of shoes. In 1885 he removed westward to Utah and established his home at Spanish Fork, where he first engaged in the shoe business but is now engaged in the grocery business, remaining an active factor in the commercial circles of this city. He is also the chief of the fire department and an active worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, having served as high counselor and also on a mission. His wife was born in London, England, and died in the year 1908. They were married in the Temple at Salt Lake City. Their family numbered eight children, five of whom are yet living.

John Edwin Booth was a pupil in the schools of Spanish Fork, passing through consecutive grades to the high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1913.  He afterward attended the University of California, in which he took up the study of pharmacy, completing his course in April, 1914. In July of the same year he became a registered pharmacist of Utah and locating in Spanish Fork, he became interested in the City Drug Store but eventually sold out and in August 1917 bought the business of the World Drug Company at Spanish Fork. He was active in its control until July, 1918, when he joined the United States army and was sent to Camp Lewis, Washington. He was there active as medical sergeant of the Thirty-seventh Field Artillery until honorably discharged on the 21^st of January 1919.

Mr. Booth was married November 21, 1917. to Miss Beatrice J. McKell, of Spanish Fork, a daughter of Joseph G. McKell, city marshal. He is the treasurer of the Spanish Fork Commercial Club, is a member of the Utah Pharmaceutical Association and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In these connections are indicated his interests and the rules that govern his conduct. He is a self-made man who has been very successful. He worked his way through school, saved his money and made judicious investment of it in business and is today the owner of one of the fine drug stores of Spanish Fork.

J. E. BONE.

J. E. Bone, a farmer and cattleman living at Lehi, where he was born in 1876, is a son of William and Fannie (Wagstaff) Bone and a grandson of William Bone, Sr., who in turn was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Ollengos) Bone. The grandfather was born at Beeston, Bedfordshire, England, November 8, 1812, and left that country for America in 1861, reaching Salt Lake City in September of the same year. Soon afterward he removed to Lehi, becoming one of the builders of the town, and he was noted as one of its most liberal and philanthropic citizens, giving generous support to all worthy causes, his name being ever found near the head of the list in support of any worthy public project. He served Lehi as general water master for several years and was also a director of the People's Cooperative Institution for a number of years. He was likewise one of Lehi's foremost farmers and his business career was characterized by the utmost integrity as well as by enterprise and progressiveness. He passed away October 2, 1902.

William Bone, Jr., father of J. E. Bone, was born in Upper Caldecot, Bedfordshire, England, November 16, 1841, and came to America with his father on the sailing vessel Underwriter and thence across the plains with ox teams. In 1S63 he made a return trip to the Missouri river after emigrants, aiding in bringing them with ox teams to Utah and also hauling a part of the famous Salt Lake tabernacle organ. In 1866 and 1867 he was in Sanpete and Sevier counties, aiding in quelling the Indian troubles and participating in what is known in history as the Black Hawk war. In July, 1866, he married Fannie Wagstaff and they became the parents of eleven children. Mrs. Bone was born in Bedfordshire, England, a daughter of John and Sarah (Hunterston) Wagstaff, who made the voyage across the Atlantic on the ship William Tapscott and then crossed the plains with their own outfit as members of the Captain Camfield company.  Mr. Wagstaff worked for Apostle Smoot in Salt Lake City upon a farm where Pioneer Park of the capital is now seen and for a time he lived at Lehi. As stated, his daughter Fannie became the wife of William Bone, Jr. The latter devoted his attention largely to farming and was also president of the irrigation company at the time of his death, which occurred at Lehi, November 19, 1912. He had served as a member of the city council for six years and was keenly and helpfully interested in all plans and projects for the general good.

After acquiring a high school education at Lehi, and attending the Agricultural College at Logan, J. E. Bone became interested in farming and cattle raising with his brother, Albert H., and their father, the association thus being maintained till the father's death, since which time the brothers have remained partners in the business and are now large operators in this line. They own several hundred acres of farming land, which they have brought under a high state of cultivation, their land being located at Lehi and in the Cedar valley, where they produce a great variety of crops. They also have several sections of grazing land and they feed several hundred head of cattle in the winter, feeding hay and grain which they raise on their farms. The home of J. E. Bone is pleasantly and conveniently situated a mile west of Lehi, where he has an attractive new residence. His brother, Albert H. Bone, lives upon a farm three miles north of Lehi. J. E. Bone is also a stockholder in the Lehi State Bank.

On the 11th of August, 1908, J. E. Bone was married to Miss E. Mae Campbell, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have four children: Ronald, Lois, Marjorie and William. In politics Mr. Bone is a republican and he remains a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which his forbears became early adherents.  He served on a mission to the eastern states from 1903 until 1905, having charge of the branch at Brooklyn, New York. He is a member of the Seventy Quorum. His life record is in harmony with that of an honorable ancestry and he takes a justifiable pride in the fact that his father and grandfather figured so prominently and honorably in connection with the history of Utah, its development and subsequent growth.

LE ROY BOREN.

Le Roy Boren, an expert electrician, who is now president and manager of the Provo Electric & Hardware Company, Inc., doing business at No. 84 North Academy avenue in Provo, has spent his entire life in Utah, his birth having occurred at Wallsburg on the 3d of July, 1882. He is a son of Ephraim and Eliza R. (McAffee) Boren.

The grandfather in the paternal line was Coleman Boren, who came from New England to Utah when the work of development and progress in this state seemed scarcely begun. He took up the occupation of farming and thus provided for the support of his family. His son, Ephraim Boren, became a contractor and builder and was closely and actively associated with building operations in this state for many years. He passed away in California in 1908 but his remains were brought back to Provo for interment.  The mother, Eliza R. (McAffee) Boren, who resided at Charleston, Wasatch county, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and is now living in Los Angeles, California. By her marriage she became the mother of four children: Joseph E., a resident of California; Le Roy, of this review; Mrs. Ray Pierson, whose home is in San Pedro, California; and Otto, who enlisted for service in the United States army, joining the Aero Squadron and being stationed on Kelly's Field, in Texas.

Le Roy Boren was educated in Brigham Young University, having been graduated with the class of 1905. In early manhood he was sent upon a mission to the state of New York and eastern Canada and devoted two years to that work. He has also served as a member of the Seventy in the fifth ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Through an active commercial career Mr. Boren has been identified with electrical interests. He was foreman of the old Provo Electric Company for nine years and has long maintained a well earned reputation as an expert electrician. He is now the president and manager of the Provo Electric & Hardware Company, Inc., doing business at No. 84 North Academy avenue, dealers in electrical supplies, batteries, guns, ammunition, light hardware and sporting goods. They have the largest stock in their line in Utah south of Salt Lake City. The business was incorporated in 1916 with Mr. Boren as the president and manager, with John W. Lierley as vice president and J. William Knight, secretary and treasurer.

On the 11th of April, 1908, Mr. Boren was married to Miss Ethel Haws of Provo, a daughter of W. W. Haws, a resident of Utah for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Boren have become parents of two children, Ada and Don L. Roy.  Mr. Boren is a sportsman who takes great delight in fishing and baseball. He is genial, affable and popular, highly respected as a business man and highly esteemed by a legion of friends.

DELL DELOS BOYER, D. O.

Dr. Dell Delos Boyer, an osteopathic physician of Provo, enjoying a large practice in that city, was born in Springville, Utah, on the 25th of June, 1879. His father, John S. Boyer, is a native of Pennsylvania, born near Harrisburg, and is still active in business at Springville at the age of seventy-eight years. He has filled the office of justice of the peace; has also been connected with probate work there; and was a member of the constitutional convention of Utah. A consistent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he has served as high priest, has also been sent on missions and in other ways has done much to further the interests of the church and promote its influence. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Julia Crandall, was born in Quincy, Illinois, and she, too, survives. Their family numbered ten children, eight of whom are yet living.

Dr. Boyer of this review attended the public schools of Springville until he reached the age of twenty years and afterward became a student in the Presbyterian Academy at that place. Later he entered the Brigham Young University high school and won his diploma on the completion of a six years' course in that institution. He afterward went east to the McFadden School of Physical Culture at Physical Culture City, New Jersey, and later in New York he took a naturopathic course under Dr.  Benedict Lust. Returning to Utah, he made his way to Ogden and for a year was physical director in the Weber Academy. He afterward engaged in professional activity in Salt Lake City as a chiropractor, spending a year in that city. At a subsequent date he entered the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy & Surgery, being enrolled as a student there in 1911 and winning his D. O. degree with the class of 1914. He then passed the examination before the state board in April of that year and soon afterward located at Provo, where he opened an office and has since engaged in practice. Through the intervening period his practice has steadily increased until it has now assumed extensive proportions and he is recognized as a man of very high professional standing and ability.

In 1911 Dr. Boyer was married to Miss Grace Guymon, a native of Colorado and a daughter of Lafayette Guymon. They have become the parents of four children, Louise, Margaret, Dell Roy and Paul Delos. The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Dr. Boyer has been an earnest and helpful supporter thereof. He has served as president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association and at all times he gives active support to any plan or measure that is calculated to advance the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of the community in which he makes his home.

JOHN S. BOYER, Jr.

John S. Boyer, Jr., identified with farming interests in Utah county and making his home at Springville, is a son of John S. Boyer, Sr., whose birth occurred in Union county, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1840. His father, Augustus Boyer, was born in the same county on the 25th of May, 1816, and he was a son of Francis Augustus Boyer, who was born in Freeburg, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1870. His father was John Philip Boyer, who was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1746, and was a son of John Henry Boyer, who was born in the Palatinate of Germany on the 5th of January, 1724. His father was Christopher Boyer, also a native of the Palatinate. The name was originally spelled Bayer in Germany, but different branches of the family in America have spelled the name Boyer, Bayer and Bowyer. The first records of the family found on this side of the Atlantic are in Augusta county, Virginia, but nothing is known as to just how or when they came. It is probable that they were of the same family as the Bowyers, who came in connection with the John Smith settlement, at Jamestown. The Bowyers, Bayers and Boyers now number hundreds in America and are found from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf. There were at least one hundred of the family who served in the Revolutionary war and thirty-three were soldiers of the War of 1812, while the family was represented supposedly in the Civil war and in the great World war. Rev. Charles Clinton Boyer, of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, compiled a work that has been issued in three editions, of the Boyer family in America, which is a comprehensive compilation of several hundred pages in each edition. He is the vice principal of the State Normal School at Kutztown, Pennsylvania, is also well known as an institute lecturer and the author of a number of books for teachers. Augustus Boyer, grandfather of John S. Boyer. Jr., died in 1850, leaving a widow and six children, who in 1853 came to Utah with a private company, having the means to secure their own outfit. The family lived at Salt Lake for two years and then John S. Boyer, Sr., removed to Springville. where he devoted the summer seasons largely to herding cattle, while in the winter months he was in Salt Lake. In 1856, however, the family removed to Springville and John S. Boyer, Sr., made his home with his mother until 1866, when he was married and built one of the first adobe houses of Springville. He largely devoted his attention to the occupation of farming and thus provided for the support of his family.

He wedded Julia H. Crandall, a sister of Myron H. Crandall. one of the pioneers of Springville. They became the parents of ten children, of whom eight reached adult age. John S., Jr., being the eldest. The others are: Myron, Earnest and Harlan, all of whom are farmers of Utah county; Julia, the wife of A. L. Porter, likewise a farmer of Utah county: Dell, who is a practitioner of osteopathy at Provo; Triphene, who became the wife of Francis Child and died at Twin Falls, Idaho, April 24, 1919; and Ira Wayne, engaged in the abstract business at Alco, Idaho.

The father, John S. Boyer, Sr., became a high priest in the church. In 1870 he went on a mission to Pennsylvania, where he labored for seven months. He proved a potent factor in shaping many public interests, being elected city magistrate of Springville in 1872 and filling that position for thirty consecutive years, acting as both city and county magistrate throughout all that period. He rendered many hundreds of decisions, many of which were carried to the higher courts, yet such was his wisdom and justice that no decision of his was ever reversed. He served for several terms as a member of the city council and he was one of the original "sagebrush" democracy. He served as a member of the constitutional convention under which statehood was granted and in many ways he left the impress of his individuality and ability upon Utah's history. His interest along business lines was that of farming and he became one of the prominent agriculturists of the community, owning at one time one hundred acres of fine farm land, from which he derived a very substantial and gratifying income.

ARTHUR BRADDER.

Arthur Bradder. conducting a substantial business as a dealer in monuments at Lehi, was born in Mansfield, England, August 1, 1855. His father, Alfred Bradder. also a native of that country, came to the United States in 1865, landing at New York, where he remained until the succeeding year. He then returned to England but again came to the new world in 1870 and once more established his home in New York, where he resided for eighteen years. He then removed to North Carolina and came to Utah in 1883 but afterward located in Kansas City, Missouri, where his death occurred in 1886. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Ann Bramwell, was also of English birth and died in 1864. They were married in England and had a family of eleven children. 

Arthur Bradder largely acquired his education in the schools of England, and although he became a resident of New York in 1865, he returned to his native land in 1866. After spending another decade there he became a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 6th of October, 1877.

In South Wales, Mr. Bradder was married to Miss Mary Jane Chappell, who is of French descent in the paternal line and of Welsh lineage in the maternal line. They became the parents of twenty-four children, of whom three are still living: Henrietta, the wife of Joseph J. Gill, of Lehi; Jane Elizabeth, now Mrs. St. Jeor, of Lehi; and Mabel Catherine, the wife of William St. Jeor, of Salt Lake City.  It was in 1874 that Mr. Bradder joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has been active in its work, has served as high priest and was on a mission to England in 1914 and 1915, spending the time in Hull, Yorkshire, and Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Since his return to the new world he has given his attention to monumental work and to the building trade in Lehi. He does fine work in stone and marble and has turned out some of the finest monuments seen in the cemeteries of the surrounding district. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he was a candidate for the office of representative in the first year after the admission of Utah to the Union. He keeps well read not only on political topics but on all questions of vital interest of the day and he is a public-spirited citizen who cooperates heartily in all well defined plans and movements for the up building of the district in which he makes his home.

RICHARD W. BRERETON.

Richard W. Brereton. an honored citizen and capitalist of Provo, was born in Cheshire. England, December 1, 1852, a son of Richard and Elizabeth (Carr) Brereton, whose ancestral history is given on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of William H. Brereton. The parents, espousing the cause of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, determined to cast in their lot with the people of their faith in Utah and made their way to the new world when their son Richard was but four years of age. At Florence. Nebraska, they outfitted for the long journey to the west and made the trip over the plains with ox teams. Mr. Brereton of this review, although so young, remembers many incidents of that memorable trip and recalls seeing many Indians while they were en route. After the family home was established in this state he attended the district schools through the winter months and in the summer seasons worked upon the home farm, early becoming familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. Sheep raising constituted an important feature of the business and after his textbooks were put aside he became identified with the sheep industry in partnership with his father and brother, W. H. Brereton. They had as many as eight thousand head of sheep at a time. While Richard W. Brereton became well known in this connection, he has largely devoted his attention to horticultural pursuits and is regarded as one of the most capable fruit growers of the state. He was a member of the Fruit Growers Association for years while it was in existence. He raises a large variety of fruit and produces much fancy fruit. He has closely studied everything pertaining to the question of successful horticulture in Utah and is able to speak with authority upon many problems that confront the fruit raiser in this section of the country.  He is a life member of the State Fair Association and has been an exhibitor of fruit at the state fairs for nine successive years. He filled the office of deputy county fruit inspector for four years and was county horticultural inspector for four years. In addition to his valuable work in this connection he has been a director of the State Bank of Provo for many years.

On the 28th of January, 1875, Mr. Brereton was married to Miss Florence Emmer Reidhead. a daughter of John and Lucretia (Henderson) Reidhead, who were natives of Maine and were married at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The father was a seafaring man until he moved to Minnesota, at which time he took up his abode near Minneapolis, where Mrs. Brereton was born. While the family were there residing a brother and sister of Mrs. Brereton were burned to death at the ages of seven and six years respectively when the family residence was burned to the ground. Mr. and Mrs. Brereton have become the parents of five children, all of whom are yet living. Florence is the wife of Adelbert Glazier, of Pleasant View, and they have nine living children; Eugene married Amelia Olsen and has seven children; John Austin married Jane Ashton and they have seven children; William Elmo wedded Nora Walton and has two children; Clarence married Emma Turner. All of the sons reside at Pleasant View, where they are devoting their attention to farming, their father owning valuable farm property in that district. Mr. Brereton, however, makes his home at No. 607 North Second East street in Provo, where he occupies a good brick residence, and he also has good buildings on his farm at Pleasant View. All of the children are graduates of the high school. Clarence was on a mission to the eastern states, spending most of the time in Maryland and West Virginia, and assisted in building the Mormon church on Capitol Heights in Baltimore.  It was while there that he met the lady whom he made his wife.

Mrs. Brereton is an active church worker, belonging to the Relief Society.  In politics Mr. Brereton is an earnest republican. He was one of the organizers of the party at Pleasant View at the time of the division on party lines and has since been active in its support but is not an office seeker. He continued to reside upon his farm at Pleasant View from 1887 until 1906, when he removed to Provo, where he is now most pleasantly located. He has been a witness of the development and growth of the state, watching its transformation from a barren waste to its present productiveness. He has borne his full share in the work of general progress and improvement, his cooperation being counted upon at all times to further any plan or project for the general good.  He has ever been active in promoting irrigation work and is the heaviest stockholder in the Timpanogos Canal. There is nothing that has to do with the work of general development and improvement in the state that is not of interest to him and there are few men who stand in equal prominence in connection with the horticultural interests of Utah. His work in that direction has indeed been of great value and the success which he has achieved has made him one of the heavy taxpayers of his county. In his vocabulary there is no such word as fail. When one avenue of opportunity has seemed closed he has carved out other paths whereby to reach the desired goal. Obstacles and difficulties in his path seem but to serve as an impetus for renewed effort on his part and his life record should well serve as a source of inspiration and of emulation to others, proving what can be accomplished through individual effort when there is a will to dare and to do.

WILLIAM H. BRERETON.

William H. Brereton is the president of the State Bank of Provo and one of the most prominent and influential residents of that city. He was born in Cheshire, England, November 1, 1859, and is a son of Richard and Elizabeth (Carr) Brereton. His direct ancestors in the three preceding generations bore the name of Richard Brereton and the ancestral record is traced back in direct line to the time of the conquest of England by William of Normandy. The family history, as written by John Brereton of San Francisco, in a volume entitled "History of Brereton Family," states that definite records were found on file of a landed estate known as Brereton near Cheshire, England. The family comes of Norman stock and the Domesday Book, prepared by command of the king in 1086. A. D., includes the name of Brereton, while the next record, made in 1087, in the reign of William Rufus, was witnessed by Ralph de Brereton. In 1176 Ralph de' Brereton, grandson of the first Ralph, was witness in a grant of estate to Richard de Davenport, and the name appears prominently on the pages of English and Irish history down through the centuries. The coat of arms illustrated is that found in Brereton Hall and is the recognized standard of the family. Brereton Hall has been located on the estate known as Brereton since the Norman conquest in 1066 and was so recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The first representative of the family to come to America was John Brereton, of Chester, England, who made a voyage of discovery to Virginia with Captain Gasnold in 1602. They touched at points on the New England coast, at Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. Captain John Smith speaks of Master John Brereton and in his adventure with Powhatan and Pocahontas tells of Edward Brereton. who was a soldier and was captured by savages. In 1628 Sir William Brereton was promoted and made a director of the settlement of Charlestown. In the Massachusetts Historical Collection there is also mention of the Breretons and down through the history of the colonies the name frequently appears and there were colonels and captains of the name in the Revolutionary war, while William Brereton served as governor of Rhode Island in 1786. The name is found with equal prominence in connection with the history of the War of 1812, the Civil war, the Spanish-American war and again it stands as a synonym for patriotic service in the great World war.

Richard Brereton, father of William H. Brereton of this review, was likewise a native of Cheshire, England, and under the direction of his father learned the shoemaker's trade. Richard Brereton and his wife were converted to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1860 and with their two children crossed the Atlantic and made the long journey to Utah with ox team and wagon, the outfitting being done at Florence, Nebraska. After resting for a few days in Salt Lake City they proceeded to Provo, where resided Mrs. Esther Burnett, a sister of Mr. Brereton. The Burnetts, however, removed to California the following year. Mr. Brereton followed his trade at Provo for a time and then built a tannery in connection with Thomas Beasley and also conducted his shoe shop over the tannery. The partnership with Mr.  Beasley was maintained for a few years in the operation of the tannery, after which a company was organized. Mr. Brereton also became interested in farming and won success in that connection. During boom days at Provo he erected several houses in the city. He was active in both church and political affairs, giving his allegiance to the republican party. His demise occurred in the year 1897. To Richard and Elizabeth (Carr) Brereton were born five children that reached adult age: Richard W., William H., Mary Ellen, Sarah E. and Martha Ann.

William H. Brereton pursued his education in district schools during the winter seasons, while in the summer months he worked upon his father's farm, driving an ox team to one of the old-time plows when but a young lad. His early training and experiences well qualified him to take up farm work on his own account when he attained his majority, at which time he leased one of his father's farms and began business independently, feeding cattle for the market in addition to tilling the soil. In 1884 he entered into partnership with his father and brother, Richard W. Brereton. in sheep raising and continued active in that business for eleven years. He then again concentrated his attention upon farming, specializing in the raising of sugar beets. Once more, however, he became identified with the sheep industry in 1899 as a member of the firm of Brereton & Hone. They kept four bands of high grade Merino sheep for ten years and Mr. Brereton was actively engaged in farming until 1913, since which time he has devoted his attention to the bank and other interests. He was one of the organizers of the State Bank of Provo, became its first vice president and since 1907 has continuously served as president. He is also the vice president of the Provo Meat & Packing Company, a director of the Ashton Theatre, a director of the Utah Valley Gas Company, the Utah Timber & Coal Company, the Pioneer Coal & Lumber Company of Ogden and the Inter-Mountain Life Insurance Company of Salt Lake. His business activities and investments are thus extensive and important and he figures as one of the leading business men of his section of the state.

In 1889 Mr. Brereton was married to Miss Sarah P. Randall, a daughter of F. C.  Randall, of Weber county, and they have one child. Evelyn Luella, who is a student of the Brigham Young University. In politics Mr. Brereton is a republican and has served as a member of the city council, but official honors and emoluments have had little attraction for him, as he has preferred to give his time and attention to his business affairs and other interests. His concern in matters of progressive citizenship, however, is manifest in his membership in the Commercial Club. He is a prominent representative of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has attained all of the higher branches in the encampment and canton. In 1912 and 1913 he was grand master of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows for the state of Utah and has been representative to the sovereign grand lodge on two different occasions, once at Atlantic City and once at San Francisco.

He was also representative to the grand encampment held at Salt Lake City in 1919 and he is the possessor of the twenty-five year jewel, awarded to him by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife is connected with the Daughters of Rebekah. The record of Mr. Brereton is one of continuous advancement and by individual effort and ability he has worked his way upward to a position of wealth and influence. His entire career has been that of an honorable, straightforward man who receives and merits the confidence and respect of all who know him. His life work has been of value to the community and the state in which he lives. Aside from his important farming and stock raising interests and the various corporate interests with which he is connected, he is now active in the field of mining and in his earlier days he gave much attention to irrigation and assisted in promoting and building the Timpanogas canal. Fully recognizing the opportunities and possibilities of the state, he has labored to the best advantage in utilizing the natural resources of Utah and his work has been far-reaching and effective.

WELLS L. BRIMHALL.

Wells L. Brimhall. engaged in the brokerage business in Provo. was born at Spanish Fork, April 26, 1882, his parents being George Henry and Alsina (Wilkins) Brimhall.  The father is an eminent educator, being president of the Brigham Young University of Provo, and is mentioned at length elsewhere in this work. After attending the public schools Wells L. Brimhall continued his education in the Brigham Young University.  For several years thereafter he engaged in ranching in Canada and then went to Europe on a mission, his labors in behalf of the church there covering the period from 1904 until 1907. He spent the time in Holland and was very successful in promoting the work of the church in that country. With his return to America he engaged in the brokerage business in Provo, in which he has now continued for twelve years. He handles a large amount of commercial paper annually and has gained a very gratifying clientage

In 1908 Mr. Brimhall was married to Miss Fern Smoot. a daughter of A. O. Smoot and a sister of A. O. Smoot, Jr., the postmaster of Provo. They now have two children: Sina B., eight years of age; and Smoot B., a lad of five. 

Mr Brimhall is a member of the Provo Commercial Club, with which he has been connected for ten years. He has won notable success for a man of his years and is now conducting a most profitable brokerage business at No. 19 North Academy avenue in Prcvo. In addition he is much interested in stock raising, giving his attention to Jersey cattle, and he is likewise the owner of valuable mining stocks.

CHARLES BURROWS.

Charles Burrows is the owner of the business at Provo conducted under the name of the Utah County Mattress Factory. He has made steady progress in his business career, advancing steadily step by step, his developing powers making possible his present-day achievement. He was born in Nottingham, Leicestershire, England, July 27, 1860, his parents being Thomas and Ann (Carr) Burrows. The father was a stocking maker by trade and died when his son Charles was but fifteen months old. The boy had but very limited educational opportunities, for owing to his father's early death it was necessary that he provide for his own support when still quite young.  He began work in the woolen mills of England and for six years prior to his emigration to America engaged in burning lime. He left England, however, in 1887 and, crossing the continent, arrived in Utah on the 6th of July of that year. His mother, a brother and a sister had come to Utah prior to this time. After reaching Salt Lake City, Mr. Burrows worked on the Temple for a year and afterward spent six years at the Deseret woolen mill, while subsequently he removed to Provo and was employed in the. Provo woolen mills for twelve years. His next business connection was with the Utah Bedding Company of Salt Lake City, with which he remained for a year. He then returned to Provo, where he began mattress manufacturing on his own account and has continued in the business to the present time. He now maintains a well equipped factory which furnishes employment to from six to ten people and is largely devoted to the manufacture of mattresses to order. He does custom work for people from all parts of Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada, they sending to him rags from which to make mattresses. He does high class work and his business has steadily grown. Mr. Burrows was the youngest of a family of five children, the others being Harriet, Fannie, Abimuleck and William.

It was in 1880, in England, that Mr. Burrows wedded Lydia Shaw and they had two children: Emma, who is the widow of Ambrose Murray and resides in Provo; and Ethel, the wife of Carl Anderson, of Provo. The wife and mother passed away and Mr. Burrows afterward wedded Isabelle Percival, of Provo, a representative of one of the old families of the state and also one of the old American families. Her great-grandmother carried bullets to Revolutionary war soldiers in Massachusetts. The ancestral line is traced back to Robert of Normandy, who was the father of William the Conqueror, of England. The founder, of the Percival family in America came to the new world on the Mayflower.  Mr. Burrows was reared in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which his mother joined in 1842. He is now one of the presidents of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Quorum of Seventy. He has done home missionary work and was Sunday school missionary in Salt Lake county while there residing. His political endorsement is given to the republican party, but he has never been an office seeker. He is now serving on the genealogical board of his church. His religious faith is demonstrated in his life, for he never deviates from a course which he believes to be right and is most faithful to every duty. He is frequently heard as a speaker on church subjects and the sterling worth of his character is recognized by all and gains for him the respect and confidence of those with whom he is associated.

MARTIN B. BUSHMAN.

A busy and useful life in which keen intelligence has wisely directed labor has brought Martin B. Bushman to a position in the ranks of the capitalists of Lehi, where he is now largely living retired, although still giving supervision to his personal interests.  He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1841, a son of Martin and Elizabeth (Degen) Bushman, who belonged to one of the old families of Pennsylvania.  The father and the grandfather of Martin B. Bushman were both natives of the Keystone state and the great-grandfather, Henry Bushman, was born in Germany, whence he came to America prior to the Revolutionary war. The Bushmans were farming people of Pennsylvania and Martin Bushman, Sr., was born in Lancaster county April 1, 1802. His boyhood days were spent upon a farm and at the age of twenty-five years he married Elizabeth Degen, a native of Switzerland. In 1840 he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and traveled by wagon to Illinois, a distance of one thousand miles, accompanied by his wife and four children. They prospered at Nauvoo but fell victims to mob violence and fled with the others of their religious faith, leaving their standing crops behind. They proceeded westward by slow stages and in the winter two of their children died from exposure while in Iowa. They lived in western Iowa for a few years and in 1851 came to Utah, having crossed the plains with ox teams. After a week spent in Salt Lake City they continued their journey to Lehi, arriving there almost destitute and famished. The father took up farming and through his life remained true to his religious belief, passing away in that faith in 1870. His wife survived him for eight years.  Martin B. Bushman of this review was but a year old when his parents left Pennsylvania and when the family were at Council Bluffs, Iowa, he had the care of a team and chopped wood although but eight years of age. His father and elder brothers went away in order to earn money to support the family and the period of Martin B. Bushman's youth was one of earnest and unremitting toil, in which he shared in the hardships and trials of the family as they journeyed westward. After reaching Lehi he and his father and brothers were active in building ditches and canals, in building fences and houses and in plowing land. They also stood guard against the Indians. When twenty years of age Martin B. Bushman went to Florence, Nebraska, for immigrants, driving ox teams across the plains. Farming, however, has been the main occupation of his life and for many years he successfully carried on agricultural pursuits until he had acquired a handsome competence. He was also one of the original stockholders of the Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution at Salt Lake and was a stockholder in the Provo Woolen Mills at an early day. He likewise became a stockholder in the original telegraph company and in the Cooperative Store of Lehi.

In 1863 Martin B. Bushman was married to Lucinda Goodwin, a daughter of Isaac Goodwin, one of the earliest of the pioneers to settle at Lehi. Mr. Bushman was the seventh in order of birth in a family of ten children and to his first marriage there were born ten children: Mary Elizabeth, Martin Isaac, Laura Ellen, Nancy Lucinda, Sarah, Lewis Jacob, Edith, Rhoda and Esther, twins, and Emerett. His second wife was Martha Worlton, whom lie married in 1867, and they, too, have ten children: James Albert, John Benjamin, Alva Alonzo, Flora Elizabeth. Eugene W., Anna Lois, Martha Emma, Cyrus William. Drucilla Jane and Vera.

Mr. Bushman is still the owner of sixty acres of land and gives his attention to the cultivation and further development of ten acres of the property, while his sons operate the remainder. He thus remains an active factor in the world's work although now seventy-eight years of age. He has been keenly interested in public affairs and served on the city council, also as marshal of Lehi, as policeman for eight years and as road supervisor. He is a representative of one of the old pioneer families of the state and went through all the difficult experiences which the Latter-day Saints in an early day had to endure. Of his father's family of ten children, five reached adult age and came to Utah with their father and were all living until within two years ago, but two of the number have now passed away, the survivors being Mr. Bushman of this review, and two brothers John and Albert. He can relate many interesting incidents of the early days and Lehi numbers him among her honored men.

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