NIELS LARSEN.
Niels Larsen is now living retired at Vineyard. He was for many years active as a farmer and now occupies a five acre tract of land, on which is a good brick residence. Here he is taking life easy after many years of arduous toil. He has advanced far on life's journey, having reached the seventy-eighth milestone. He was born at Kallehave, Praesto Amt, Denmark. March 13, 1841 a son of Lars Pedersen and Johanne Nielsen. When but a boy he went to sea and for eleven years lived the life of a sailor, making long voyages during that period. He also participated in the Danish-Prusrian war in 1864. He became a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and. being very desirous of emigrating to Utah, started to work his way to Zion, leaving his wife and four children besides his parents and friends in their native country. His wife agreed to let him go, believing that he would soon return to her once more, as she did not hold a very good opinion of the "Mormons." He gave her a deed to their house and four acres of land, also gave her all the money he had and on the 11th of September 1870 he embarked as a sailor on a Norwegian vessel which weighed anchor at Liverpool, bound for New Orleans. From that port he afterward returned to England and thence sailed for New York, where he received his discharge from the ship after serving for nine months and earning about one hundred and eighteen dollars. He paid fifty one dollars for his passage to Salt Lake City and crossed the plains in Captain Robert F. Neslen's company. He sent twenty dollars to his wife in Denmark and she then became desirous of joining him, telling him in a letter that if he would come to Denmark she would return with him to America, for she was afraid to travel alone. After obtaining counsel from President Brigham Young Mr. Larsen decided to return to Denmark, starting with just enough money to pay his passage to New York. He then shipped as a sailor on a German steamboat and on his arrival at Bremerhafen received a salary of about ten dollars, which was enough to take him to Copenhagen. On arriving there he reported to Canute Peterson, the president of the Scandinavian mission, who appointed him to labor as a traveling elder, which he did until the following year, when he once more sailed for America, this time accompanied by his wife and three children, his eldest son having died the previous year.
On the 24th of July. 1873. Mr. Larsen arrived in Salt Lake City and soon afterward located with his family on the Provo river, near the lake. Having previously been ordained an elder, he received his blessings in the Endowment House of Salt Lake City, May 4, 1874. when also his wife, Anne (Matbiasen) Larsen, was sealed to him. He was sent by the church authorities to work on the St. George Temple during the winter of 1874-6. When the Lakevlew ward was organized in 1877 he was chosen as second assistant in the ward superintendence of Sunday schools. He also presided over the deacons in the ward and in 1880 was set apart as first counselor in an elders quorum.
In August, 1888, Mr. Larsen was called upon to mourn the death of his wife, who had been the mother of thirteen children, six of whom have passed away, namely: Mathias, Hans, Peter, Christine, Matilda and Niels. Those who still survive are as follows: Oline, the eldest, is the wife of Harry Gammon, mentioned elsewhere in this work. Joseph married Madora Raddel, who is deceased and by whom he had two children, Joseph and Kenneth, and for his second wife chose Sarah Shirts. He resides at Escalante, Garfield county, where he is engaged in stock raising. Benjamin, twin brother of Joseph, married Elizabeth Stewart end they reside at Vineyard. They have seven children: Epiquis, Virgil, Ina, Rulon, Beth, Cleona and June. Hyrum, living at Murray, married Henrietta McClay and has four children. Hyrum, Thelma, Elmo and Zileta. Anna is at home. John, residing at Vineyard, married Nancy Stiekelberger. Mary is the wife of Hans C. Christensen, a farmer living on Provo bench. and they have seven children: Ira, Alvin, Anne, Jerda, Reed, Reva and Lloyd. Eleanora married Victor Anderson, residing at Provo, and their children are Anne, Mabel. Iris. Howard, Bernard, Lena, Lester and Naomi.
On the 5th of September, 1889, Elder Larsen married Sine Pedersen, who was born in Hormested, Hjorring Ami, Denmark, March 31, 1844. She had reared two children. Christian and Bine. Christian married Adelaide Prestwich and they reside in Huntington, Utah. They have eight children: Adelaide Ardell, Viola S.. James Rego, Herbert O., Zina A., Ida L., Alma L., and Alean S. Bine married Frederick Carl Linck and their children are Lucille, Frederick. Marie Irene, John Henry. Emma Adilie, Edmond Culbert and Helen Vilate. They make their home in Salt Lake City.
Elder Larsen was ordained a high priest January 14, 1900, and became second counselor to Bishop William Lewis of the Vineyard ward. In May, 1901. he was set apart as a home missionary and on the 25th of January 1902, he left home for a mission to Scandinavia and on his arrival at mission headquarters was appointed to labor in the Bergen conference of Norway. He spent the first year of his mission laboring in the Stavanger branch and the last year in the Copenhagen conference at Denmark, returning to Utah in 1904. This was the nineteenth time that Elder Larsen crossed the Atlantic ocean. In January, 1908. together with his wife, he commenced work for the dead in the Salt Lake Temple, which labor he has continued each winter during the past eight years. He has already done ordinance work for some eighteen hundred dead relatives, some of whom lived as far back as the year 1630.
Elder Larsen continued to reside near Provo Lake until 1892, when he removed to Vineyard, becoming one of the pioneers of that district. He was the first man to use drain tile, also the first to put down an artesian well in Vineyard and was the first in his neighborhood to build an enclosed barn for cows. He farmed quite extensively until recent years, when he sold his land, retaining possession of only five acres. On this he has a comfortable brick cottage and is now enjoying much of the ease of life with plenty of the world's goods to promote his comfort, in 1915. When seventy-five years of age in company with many young people from Provo, he climbed the Timpanogos mountain, which is twelve thousand feet high. That this was not too strenuous for him is shown by the fact that the next day be was able to go to work on his farm in the afternoon. At that time he was the oldest person that had ever ascended the mountain. In the Book of Mormon mention is made of eight barges described as carrying both the human beings and stock. The description speaks of an opening in the bottom and one on the top. To think of a vessel so constructed worried Mr. Larsen, so he sot about to try to demonstrate whether such a vessel were possible, for he believed that if it were not. It would not be mentioned by the prophet. Accordingly he sot about to make a model and soon discovered that it was very simple. He built a splendid model which shows very clearly how such a barge could be built. The little structure
was made in 1904 and was given by him to the Salt Lake
Museum on the 19th of
September 1912. His life has been one of great activity
and usefulness. In his business affairs he has carefully directed his labors, and success in substantial measure has come to him. As a worker in the church he has been most goalous and untiring and he became the founder of the Utah branch of the family, which is now a most numerous one, its members having contributed throughout the years to the substantial up building and development of the state along material, intellectual, social and moral lines.
GEORGE LE
BARON.
With various phases of business
activity George Le Baron is connected at Santaquin,
where he is engaged in general merchandising and dealing
in hay, grain and provisions and is also carrying on
farming and cattle raising. He was born in Salt Lake in
1863, a son of David and Esther M. (Johnson) Le Baron.
The family is of English lineage and was founded in the
new world by Francis Le Baron, who came from England to
America with the Pilgrims who settled in Massachusetts.
Today the Le Barons are numbered by the hundreds
throughout the United States and Canada. David Le Baron
was left an orphan when quite young and was at Nauvoo.
Illinois, at the time of the martyrdom of the prophet
Joseph Smith, he and his wife being caretakers of the
mansion where Joseph Smith lived at the time. In 1852
they came to Utah and for years Mr. Le Baron was in
charge of a carding mill owned by Heber C. Kimball.
Later he removed to the southern part of Utah county,
where he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres and
began the development of a new farm. His family numbered
eight children, of whom George was the sixth in order of
birth, the other children being David, Jr., Ella,
Willism J., Don M.. Benjamin F., George, Mary and
Edna. When but eight years
of age George Le Baron began providing for his own
support by peddling fruit. His father owned two acres in
Salt Lake City, where Salt Air station now stands and
thereon had an orchard and vegetable garden.
Later George Le Baron located on
his father's homestead and is now manager of his
father's estate. From time to time he
has purchased land until the possessions of himself and
sons amount to seven hundred acres. They are among the
largest cattle raisers of Utah county and have most
carefully, wisely and successfully conducted their
business. Through an active
career, however, Mr. Le Baron has met with hardships and
difficulties but these he has overcome by determined and
persistent effort. Starting out as he did as a fruit
peddler, he was thus employed until he reached the age
of sixteen years and then took up the painter's trade
but abandoned it later for the work of the farm, since
which time he has been continuously connected with
agricultural pursuits and stock raising. In 1909 he
entered the commercial field, purchasing a general
mercantile business at Santaquin, and this he conducts
in connection with his ranch. He carries all branches of
general merchandise and likewise deals in hay, grain and
provisions, paying the highest market price for all
kinds of produce. In business affairs he displays sound
judgment and keen discrimination and whatever he
undertakes is brought to a successful issue. His sons
have remained in business with him and they are among
the prominent as well as prosperous farmers and stock
raisers of this section of the state, producing several
thousand bushels of grain each year and feeding and
fattening a good number of cattle annually. They have a
tractor upon their place and full farm equipment and
four hundred acres of their land is under cultivation.
In 1885 Mr. Le Baron was united in
marriage to Miss Mary A. Oppenshaw, a daughter of Roger
Oppenshaw, a farmer and sheep man, who also engaged in
merchandising, and it was after the death of Mr.
Oppenshaw that Mr. Le Baron bought his business from the
heirs of the estate. To Mr. and Mrs. Le Baron have been
born eight children who are yet living. May, the eldest,
is the wife of Elmer Morrill, a farmer residing at
Tridell, Utah, and they have six children: Le Von,
Wilda, Delia, Alton, Wayne and Oren. George W., Jr.,
married Levina Greenhalgh and they have three children,
Phyllis, Wendell and Merton. David R. married Hazel
Bennett and has one child, Lilah. Edna is the wife of
Arthur Hendricks, a farmer of Santaquin, and they have
four children: Lamar, Welton, Lanita and Rulon. Olive is
the wife of Dan Greenhalgh, a farmer of Utah county, and
their children are three in number, Delsa, Carroll and
Velda. Vera is the wife of Thomas Robbins, an
electrician at the power plant at Santaquin. and they
have one child, Le Baron. Ella and Raymond are at home.
David has served on a two years' mission to the southern
states. Mr. Le Baron is a
member of the Seventy. He has served for two terms as a
member of the town board and for nine years as a school
trustee. He is deeply interested in all that has to do
with the material, intellectual and moral progress of
his community and his cooperation can be counted upon to
further any project or enterprise for the public
good.
ENOCH
LUDLOW.
One of the attractive features in
the landscape near Spanish Fork is the highly improved
farm of Enoch Ludlow, whose home is at Benjamin. He is
one of the substantial citizens that England has
furnished to Utah, his birth having occurred in
Yorkshire on the 20th of January, 1853, his parents
being Nathaniel and Mary Ann (Niblett) Ludlow. The
father was a mason by trade, following that pursuit in
England, where he also engaged in contracting. At length
he determined to come to the new world and in September,
1878, arrived in Utah, bringing with him his wife and
three children. The life record of
Enoch Ludlow is the story of earnest endeavor, for when
but seven years of age he began work in a woolen
factory, where he was employed for seven years. He war
afterward apprenticed to a butcher and for a short time
before he came to the new world he owned and operated a
shop devoted to the manufacture of sausage, but having
embraced the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, the family decided to cast in their
lot with the people of that religious belief in Utah.
For sixteen years the father remained a resident of this
state, passing away in 1894 at the age of seventy-two
years. He had been an active church worker and his
business interests were those of
farming.
Since coming to Utah, Enoch Ludlow
has given his time and energies to agricultural pursuits
and is numbered among the pioneers of the vicinity of
Spanish Fork. His brother Paul homesteaded in this
district and Enoch Ludlow paid the costs of securing the
homestead and became owner of the property. His first
home was a log cabin and he also lived for a time in a
dugout. He then built a residence of adobe brick, which
was destroyed by fire in 1888, together with a granary
that contained eight hundred bushels of grain, leaving
Mr. Ludlow and his family without anything except the
clothing which they wore. With characteristic energy,
however, Mr. Ludlow faced the situation and at once
began the building of a good brick residence, which he
now occupies. As the years have passed he has continued
his farm work with good success and in connection with
his sons, Thomas E., Enoch, Jr., Richard and Fred, he is
extensively interested in sheep and cattle raising,
having two bands of sheep and thirty-four hundred ewes.
He also has sixty-five head of cattle on the range.
There are large shade trees upon Mr. Ludlow's farm, and
it is one of the most attractive and beautiful places of
the district. He has fifty acres in his home place and
at one time was the owner of several hundred acres but
has divided his holdings among his children. There are
no modern improvements lacking upon his ranch, which has
been brought to a very high state of cultivation. Upon
it are all kinds of fruit and berries, which were
planted by him.
In 1872 Mr. Ludlow was married to
Miss Levina Horsefall, a daughter of Richard Horsefall,
who was a native of England, where he engaged in
business as an architect. Mrs. Ludlow was the
only one of her family to come to America and is the
only one now living. By her marriage she became the
mother of ten children, nine of whom survive, John
having been accidentally killed when but eight years of
age. The others are: Thomas E., Paul, Nathaniel, Jesse,
Walter H., Enoch Jr , Richard, Fred and Priscilla.
The last named is the wife of Moroni Bingham. All
of the sons are farmers of Utah county, as is the
husband of the daughter. There are now forty-one
grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.
In the work of the church the
family has taken a most active and helpful part.
Mr. Ludlow served on a mission to England from
1904 until 1906 and had charge of the branch for a time.
His son Paul was on a mission to the northern states and
was president of the Illinois conference. Another son,
Walter, was a traveling missionary in England for two
years and Nathaniel also spent a similar period in that
country in missionary work, while Enoch was recently on
a mission to the southern states and was president of
the Texas conference. Mr. Ludlow is president of the
Seventy at Benjamin and is ward teacher. For twenty
years he was choir leader and organized the Benjamin
brass band, in which he played the tuba and drum. His
children have inherited his musical talent and tastes
and his son Paul was leader of the band, while Mr.
Ludlow was its manager. All of the sons have farms of
their own but work together more or less and Richard
lives with his father upon the old homestead, while the
others occupy homes of their own. In politics Mr. Ludlow
is a democrat and keeps well informed on the questions
and issues of the day, but the honors and emoluments of
office have no attraction for him as he prefers to
concentrate his efforts and attention upon other
interests, especially his business and his church
affairs.
CHARLES D.
MAAG.
Charles D. Maag is one of the
enterprising farmers living in the vicinity of
Provo. His home is at
Vineyard and he is associated with his brother Henry in
the cultivation and development of a valuable farm
property of one hundred and eighty acres. Mr.
Maag was born September 6, 1898, on the farm
where he still resides and where he has always lived,
his parents being Conrad and Anna (Brachbuhl) Maag, both
of whom were natives of Switzerland, his father having
been born at Zurich and the mother in Bern. They came to
America as young people at the same time with their
respective families. The Maag family established their
home in Salt Lake, while the Brachbuhl family became
residents of Willard. Utah. It was in the fall of 1876
Conrad Maag and Anna
Brachbuhl were married and they began their domestic
life in Payson, where they resided until 1879. They then
took up their abode upon the old homestead farm where
Charles D. Maag now resides. The father homesteaded one
hundred and sixty acres of land. He remained active in
the cultivation and development of the farm until 1905,
when he turned it over to the care of his son. He died
in April, 1916, and the mother is now living with her
sons, Charles and Henry. She has been quite active in
the work of the church and is president of the Relief
Society at Vineyard. The boys were given common school
privileges while spending their youthful days in the
home of their parents. Charles D. Maag was the fifth in
order of birth in a family of six children who are yet
living. Conrad, the eldest, is a farmer and well
driller, residing at Vineyard and married Emma Johnson,
by whom he had one child, Wesley. He afterward married
Anna Williamson. Caroline, the next of the family, is
the wife of Mathias Robinson, of American Fork, and they
have five children, Maria, Earl, Glenn, Fern and Ray.
Joseph is with the army in France, having arrived in
that country just before the armistice was signed. Annie
is the wife of William Madsen, a resident of Idaho, and
they have three children, Ray. Louis and Bert. Charles
D., whose name introduces this review, married Aretta
Patton and they have two children, Dora and Benjamin.
Henry married Leverne Forbes and they have three
children, Harold, Tate and Helen.
The two brothers, Charles D. and Henry, have won
a well earned reputation as most enterprising and
progressive farmers. They now own the old home place
which today comprises one hundred and eighty acres of
excellent land, of which they have seventyfive acres
planted to diversified crops, while the remainder is hay
land. They are engaged very extensively in the raising
of hay and annually harvest a wonderful crop.
They also conduct a dairy business, keeping
twenty cows for this purpose. The farm is splendidly
improved according to modern methods and scientific
ideas of farming They have over two miles of drain tile
on the place, they use a tractor and have full farm
equipment. There is an immense silo upon the place, also
a hay barn one hundred and eight feet in length. They
have fifty-five acres of their land planted to beets and
annually gather a good crop. They keep Holstein cattle,
with a full blooded registered sire at the head of the
herd. Every progressive feature of farm life is found
upon their place and the brothers are regarded as most
capable and energetic business men, carrying forward to
successful completion whatever they undertake. Each has
his own home upon the place and their mother divides her
time between the two
households.
JESSE
MANWARING.
Jesse Manwaring, chief of police of
Provo, prompt and efficient in the discharge of his
duties, was born in England, on the 26th of June, 1862.
His father, Henry Manwaring, was one of the early
settlers of Utah who arrived in 1872, coming to this
state as a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter day Saints. He established his home in
Springville and continued to reside there until called
to his final rest, his death occurring in 1905, when he
had reached the age of seventy-five years. In early life
he had learned the trade of shoemaking, which he long
followed as a source of livelihood. He was ever an
active and earnest member of the church and was
president of a branch in England, serving also as a
traveling elder. The mother, Sarah (Barbar) Manwaring,
came to America with her husband and children, the
family numbering seven sons and two daughters, of whom
Jesse Manwaring was the sixth in order of birth. The
mother died in this state in November, 1918, at the very
advanced age of eighty-seven
years.
Jesse Manwaring supplemented his
public school training received at Springville, Utah, by
a course of study in the Brigham Young University. From
the age of fifteen years he has been dependent entirely
upon his own resources and whatever success he has
achieved or enjoyed has been attributable to his
individual labors. He was apprenticed to the harness
maker's trade and for thirty-five years engaged in work
along that line. In fact he followed harness making
until 1907. In 1911 he became connected with the police
force as an officer and was appointed in April, 1915, to
the position of chief to fill out the unexpired term of
W. F. Giles. He was again appointed in 1917 and has
since continuously filled the position. His thorough
understanding of the work of the department, his desire
to be of real service and benefit in crushing out crime
and his resourcefulness in methods have made him largely
an ideal officer in this
position.
In 1885 Mr. Manwaring was married
in Salt Lake Temple to Miss Louisa E. Jacques, a native
of Utah and a daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Philipps)
Jacques, representatives of one of the old families of
Nova Scotia. Mr. and Mrs. Manwaring are the parents of
three children: Jesse Vernon, Grace and Leona. The
family reside at No. 592 West Third street, North, where
they own an attractive home.
Mr. Manwaring is a member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints of the third ward, in which
he has served as elder. His political endorsement is
given to the democratic party and he has been an earnest
worker in its ranks because of his firm belief in its
principles. Having spent the greater part of his life in
Utah, he is well known in this section of the state and
the substantial traits of character which he has always
displayed have gained for him warm friendship and high
regard.
EDWIN J.
MARCHBANKS.
One of the garden spots of Utah
county is the farm of Edwin J. Marchbanks. It has been
transformed from an arid waste into a most rich, fertile
and productive tract of land and the labor bestowed upon
it by the owner has made it a splendid property. Mr.
Marchbanks is a native of Essex, Wales. He was born
January 18, 1853, of the marriage of James and Mary Ann
(Ordcastle) Marchbanks. The father's birth occurred at
Portsea, England, March 30, 1824. He came to America
September 16, 1868, making his way to Utah. His early
life from boyhood had been spent upon the sea until he
accepted a position as policeman in England, so serving
for eighteen years. He represented one of the old
families of that country. The Marchbanks as far back as
known were seafaring men and the great-grandfather of
Edwin J. Marchbanks was born at Tweed, in
Northumberland, England, in 1760, while the grandfather
was born at Plymouth, England, June 9, 1800. His son,
James Marchbanks, was the first of the family to embrace
the Mormon religion and it was this that brought him to
the new world. After two years spent in Salt Lake City
he went to Springville, where he took up the occupation
of farming. His family numbered but two children, his
daughter being Mrs. John Stewart, of Salt Lake
City.
Edwin J. Marchbanks was a youth of
fourteen years when the family home was established in
Utah. His educational opportunities were limited, owing
to the fact that he preferred to work rather than attend
school and the only whipping that his father ever gave
him was his punishment for hiring out to work in a
printing office at the age of eleven years. He worked
there for a time and later was employed in a leather
factory until he came to America. He had been in Salt
Lake for but a brief period when he hired out to drive
stage for Gibb Spencer, making the trip with a mule team
from Salt Lake to Echo canyon, and as he was
unacquainted with the ways of mules he had some exciting
times with them. In 1869 the family went to Springville
and Edwin J. Marchbanks entered
the employ of Milan Packard, hauling lumber from the
sawmills in Hobble creek canyon to Provo, this lumber
being used in the construction of woolen mills. During
those days he had several narrow escapes from the
Indians. Later he was employed by Bishop William
Bringhurst for five years, working at farming and at
hauling timber from the canyon. He thus became well
acquainted with the Indians and they called him the
bishop's boy and liked him, for the bishop was very good
to the Indians in many ways and won their friendship,
which was extended to his employment.
Thus through the period of his boyhood and youth
Edwin J. Marchbanks continued to work. He was the only
son in the family, for his elder brother, George, had
disappeared at the age of twenty-one years and was never
found, and a younger brother, John had been killed in a
molasses mill in 1871, when nineteen years of age. For a
time Edwin J. Marchbanks worked on the Oregon Short Line
and on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, spending
fifteen years in that way. He assisted In grading and
building the railroad from Springville to Pleasant
Valley and afterward commenced as engine wiper for that
road and gradually won advancement, serving as engineer
at the time when he left the railroad. During this
period he lived at Springville and in 1890 he purchased
the fifty acre farm upon which he now resides at
Mapleton. He has a modern bungalow upon his place, good
barns and all modern conveniences and his land has been
converted into a most productive tract. His life has
been one of untiring activity and his diligence has
constituted the basis upon which he has builded a
substantial success.
On March 3, 1871, Mr. Marchbanks
was married to Miss Mary E. Allan, a sister of Charles
E. Allan, mentioned elsewhere in this work. They have
become parents of six children, of whom four are living:
Emma, the wife of Earl Hamond, a farmer near Mapleton;
Hilda, the wife of Charles Everett, also farming in the
same locality; Zillah Ann, who died in infancy; Eva, the
wife of Freeman Bird, a farmer residing at Lake Shore;
Willis, who died at the age of twenty years; and Leo,
who cultivates the home
farm.
Mr. Marchbanks is very active in
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was
choir leader for some time and for some years has been a
teacher in Springville. He is also elder in
the church and his wife is a teacher in the Relief
Society. They are people of genuine worth, enjoying the
warm regard of all who know
them.
JAMES F.
McCLELLAN.
James F. McClellan, of Provo, is
identified with farming interests. He was born in
Payson, Utah, in 1859 and is a representative of one of
the old pioneer families of the state, his parents being
Samuel W. and Almeda (Stewart) McClellan. The father was
born in Tennessee and the mother in Missouri, and James
F. McClellan is a representative of old southern and
Yankee families. His father came to Utah in the early
'50s and was a pioneer settler of Payson, where he
served for several terms as a member of the city council
and otherwise was prominently associated with public
affairs, being regarded as one of the valued and
substantial residents of that community. He followed the
occupation of farming and was for a time a partner of
Jesse Knight at Tintic. He was also interested at Dixie
in the early days during the settlement there.
James F. McClellan acquired a
common school education and followed mining at Park
City, Utah, for several years. He was also engaged in
mining at Tintic for Jesse Knight for a number of years
and from 1892 until 1897 was in Montana, acting as
foreman at a quartz mill for a year and as watchman
during the remainder of the time spent in that state. He
afterward proved up on land in the Uinta reservation,
where he resided for several years. He now resides at
No. 407 North Seventh street, West, in Provo, in a
comfortable residence, and is devoting his attention to
farming, owning a half interest with Frank Eastman in
sixty-five acres of rich and valuable land.
In 1890 Mr. McClellan was married
to Miss Hattie Taylor, a daughter of George and Eliza
(Nichols) Taylor, who still survive. Her mother is now
president of the Taylor Brothers Dry Goods Company, the
largest business in Provo. Mr. McClellan is the oldest
representative of his family in Utah and is the
possessor of a gold badge which was originally given to
his mother in 1897 by the Pioneer Association of Utah,
at which time she was the oldest representative of the
family in the state. Mr. McClellan
formerly gave his political allegiance to the populist
party but now votes with the democratic party. For sixty
years he has been a resident of Utah and therefore a
witness of the greater part of its growth and
development, his influence and aid being at all times
given on the side of progress and
improvement.
D. P.
MCDOWELL.
D. P. McDowell, who is the owner of
fifty acres of irrigated land three miles west of
Payson, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, February 4,
1862, a son of William and Elizabeth (Pierce) McDowell,
who were also natives of that county, where the father
followed the occupation of farming. Their family
numbered seven children, of whom D. P. McDowell was the
third in order of birth. Those elder than himself were:
Marion, who died at the age of twenty-three years; and
J. H., while the younger members of the family were
Frank, Mary, Claire and
Lottie.
D. P. McDowell acquired his
education in the public schools of his native state,
where he resided until he attained his majority, when he
removed to Henry county, Missouri. He afterward went to
Guthrie county, Iowa, and later to Smith county, Kansas,
working in these various sections by the month as a farm
hand until 1885, when he began learning the stonemason's
trade in Smith county, Kansas. There he followed that
pursuit for a time and also at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and at
Ogden, Utah. In 1894 he took up his abode in Payson,
Utah, where he became a mason contractor, continuing in
the business there until within a few years. At the
present he gives his entire attention to farming, but
for several years he was in partnership with Henry
Erlandson in the contracting and building business. They
executed many important contracts, including that of the
Payson high school and other large buildings.
Concentrating his efforts and attention upon
agricultural pursuits, Mr. McDowell is now the owner of
a fifty-acre farm under a high state of cultivation,
pleasantly and conveniently located within three miles
of Payson. The entire tract is irrigated and is devoted
to the raising of sugar beets, wheat, oats and lucerne.
Mr. McDowell makes his home in Payson, where he occupies
a modern brick residence that was built in 1902. Aside
from his farming interests, he is a director of the
State Bank of Payson and has been one of its
stockholders since its organization.
In 1901 Mr. McDowell was married to
Miss Lizzie Powell, a daughter of William Powell, a
pioneer of Payson and a leading contractor and builder.
Mr. and Mrs. McDowell have become parents of four
children: Lottie, Emma, Powell and Frank.
Fraternally he is connected with Payson Lodge,
No. 19, I. O. O. F., of which he is a past grand, and he
has also been representative to the grand lodge of the
state. His political allegiance is given to the
republican party where national questions and issues are
involved but at local elections he casts an independent
vote. He is an enterprising farmer whose methods are at
all times practical and progressive and whose labors
constitute an element in the utilization of the natural
resources and the substantial development of the
county.
SHERMAN
McGARRY.
Sherman McGarry is one of the
owners of a seventy-two acre fruit farm at Spanish Fork
and is very extensively and successfully engaged in
horticultural pursuits. He was born at Beaver, Utah,
September 8, 1885, a son of James and Elizabeth
(Twichell) McGarry. The father was a native of Vermont
and a son of James McGarry, who was born in Ireland,
whence he emigrated to America. James McGarry,
responding to the call of the country for aid to
preserve the Union, fought under General Sherman In the
Civil war and for ten months and two days was held as a
prisoner in Andersonvllle prison. He was afterward with
Sherman on the celebrated march from Atlanta to the sea
and in battle was wounded in both ankles. After the war
he removed to Beaver county, Utah, settling near
Milford, where he engaged in mining and later
concentrated his efforts and attention upon farming and
stock raising. He was a very prominent and influential
resident of his community, doing much to mold public
thought and action and shape the history of the
district. He served as probate Judge and as district
judge and was also United States deputy marshal during
the enforcement of the Tucker polygamy law for a period
of eleven years. He likewise filled the position of
county clerk. Although a Gentile, he was well liked by
his Mormon neighbors and was always fair and just in his
dealings with them. He became a large owner of mining
and iron claims in Iron county, holding valuable
property of this character at the time of his death,
which occurred in 1902. His widow survives and yet makes
her home at Beaver. In the family were five sons and two
daughters:
James C, who is now a veterinary
surgeon practicing at Burley, Idaho; Lillian, the wife
of Samuel Wilson, a resident of California; E. C, a
mining engineer of Salt Lake City; Edna, the wife of
Russell Westerman, of Beaver; Sherman and Sheridan,
twins, the latter a farmer of Beaver; and Ambrose, who
is one of the professors in the University of Utah at
Salt Lake City.
Sherman McGarry was reared upon his
father's farm and obtained a high school education,
which was supplemented by two years' study in the
University of Utah, where he pursued a course in mining
engineering. He afterward following mining for three
years and has since devoted his attention and energies
to farming. In 1916 he disposed of his interests at
Beaver and removed to his present place of residence,
which is situated near Spanish Fork. Here he now owns
seventy-two acres of fruit land in connection with his
brother, E. C. McGarry, and they also have some farm
land. Twenty-five acres of the home place is planted to
peaches and ten acres to apples and cherries. There are
altogether seven thousand trees upon this property and.
in the year 1919 they harvested a very extensive crop of
cherries, peaches and apples, producing many thousands
of bushels. Mr. McGarry is most progressive in the care
and propagation of his orchards and is making a most
careful and scientific study of fruit production.
Already he is ranked among the leading horticulturists
of his section of the
state.
In 1916 Mr. McGarry was united in
marriage to Miss Alverda Jones, daughter of Thomas
Jones, a cattleman of Spanish Fork. They have two
children, Mary E. and Fred
J.
In politics Mr. McGarry is a
republican and was an active worker in party ranks while
at Beaver but is now concentrating his energies and
attention mostly upon his farm work, leaving political
activity to others. His father was a thirty-second
degree Mason and a man of prominence and influence in
the district. Sherman McGarry has guided his life
according to the teachings of his father and mother who
gave all her attention to the rearing of her family, and
in his business career has made steady advance, winning
not only success but an honored name. He is today one of
the capable fruit raisers of Spanish Fork, his place
constituting one of the fine fruit farms in this section
of the state.
EMERY
McKELLlP.
Emery McKellip, one of the trustees
of the Orem town site and a prominent fruit grower of
Utah county, was born at Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1865, a
son of Darwin and Martha (Wittekiend) McKellip. The
father was a native of Buffalo, New York, while the
mother was born in Germany, whence she was brought to
America by her parents when a small child. Darwin
McKellip was twenty years of age when he accompanied his
parents on their removal westward to Princeton,
Illinois, whence they afterward went to Carthage and
later to Nauvoo, that state. On leaving the last named
place he became a resident of David City, Nebraska,
where he homesteaded and engaged in farming and fruit
growing. He was a very successful horticulturist and
took great pleasure in raising all kinds of fruit, in
which work he won very substantial
prosperity.
The early training which Emery
McKellip received was obtained in his father's orchards
and has constituted the foundation upon which he has
built his later success. He acquired a common school
education and remained at home to the time of his
marriage. He then took up farming at Albion, Nebraska,
where he was engaged in business for seven years, at the
end of which time he came to Utah and made his way to
the reservation in the Uinta valley, where he continued
for a year. He next purchased his present place, which
consists of twenty acres planted to apple orchards,
containing about sixteen hundred trees. He devotes his
entire time and attention to horticultural pursuits and
is also a chicken fancier, keeping several hundred hens.
His business affairs have been wisely, carefully and
successfully conducted and in the year 1918 he sold over
seven thousand bushels of No. 1 apples, largely
Jonathans and Winesaps, highly renowned for their
excellent
quality.
In 1897 Mr. McKellip was married to
Miss Emma Moon, who was born in Marion county, Iowa, a
daughter of J. E. and Mary Jane (Newell) Moon, who
removed to David City, Butler county, Nebraska, when
Mrs. McKellip was but six years of age and there she was
reared and married. To Mr. and Mrs. McKellip have been
born four children: Bernice, now a student in Whitman
College at Walla Walla, Washington, where she has
entered upon the second year of a four years' course;
Bernard, who is at home; Marion, attending high school;
and Raymond, who is also in
school.
Mr. McKellip is a progressive
citizen, interested in everything pertaining to the
welfare and up building of the community in which he
makes his home, and his genuine worth, his business
enterprise and his progressiveness are recognized by all
with whom he comes in
contact.
WILLIAM A.
McKENZIE.
William A. McKenzie, a cattle
raiser and bank director living in Springville. was born
in this city, August 14, 1860, a son of George and
Elizabeth (Wood) McKenzie.
The student of history cannot carry his
investigations far into the records of Utah county
without learning of the close connection of the McKenzie
family with this district.
The grandfather, Murdoch McKenzie, was born near
Perth, Scotland, February 8. 1805, and came to Utah with
his family in 1852. He was one of the first city
councilmen of Springville but remained in Utah only
until 1858, when he removed to California, where he
resided until his death, passing away in San Bernardino
on the 9th of April, 1890. George McKenzie was a youth
of seventeen years at the time the family home was
established in Utah. He became a freighter and railroad
contractor, freighting to and from Montana, California
and Nevada. With the building of the railroad he took up
contract work in connection with the Union Pacific and
the Denver & Rio Grande.
When his son, William A. McKenzie, was fourteen
years of age he and his brother.
G. L. McKenzie drove mule teams for their father
in freighting, hauling salt from Snake valley, Juab
county, Utah, to the smelters at Cherry creek, Pioche
and Ward, Nevada. Our subject was thus
engaged during the greater part of each year for a
period of seven
years.
William A. McKenzie remained at
home with his father up to the time of his marriage and
was engaged in freighting and railroad construction work
with him. He then became interested in farming and also
in railroad contracting in connection with Joseph Thorn,
of Springville, and for ten years the partnership
between them
continued.
Later he and others organized the
Ely Construction Company, in which he was active for
eight years, and during this period they took big
contracts in several of the western states, securing
grading contracts for smelters at Ely, Nevada, at
Tooele, Utah, and railroad contracts in Arizona and New
Mexico for the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad and
for the Denver & Rio Grande in Colorado. The nature
of their work was of a most important character and
contributed much to the development of the west. Mr.
McKenzie is still interested in contracting with the
Reynolds Ely Construction Company, and is also devoting
considerable time to his farming and stock raising
interests. General farming claims the greater part of
his attention but he also feeds about a hundred head of
cattle in the winter seasons and has an equal number
upon the range in the summer. He has been quick to
recognize the business opportunities of the west and to
utilize them not only for the benefit of himself but for
the up building and development of the district as well.
Aside from his agricultural and stock raising interests
at the present time he is well known in other business
connections, being a director of the Springville Banking
Company, a director of the Utah Wholesale Grocery
Company and a stockholder in the Springville-Mapleton
Sugar Company. His father died December 8, 1915, having
remained active to within the last ten years of his
life, continuing throughout the entire period in
railroad contract work. During his declining days he
took special care of his home, having one of the finest
yards to be found in the state.
The same neatness and care was manifest in the
back yard as well as on the front lawn and it was said
that he had the cleanest back yard in Utah.
The home of William A. McKenzie is
a most comfortable brick residence in Springville, built
in 1893. On leaving home Mr. McKenzie was united in
marriage in 1888 to Miss Ella Falkner, of Springville, a
daughter of John Falkner, who was a shoemaker and
gardener. Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie had two children. Their
son Willis, an accountant with the Utah Wholesale
Grocery Company of Salt Lake, was graduated from the
Brigham Young University at Provo and enlisted in the
aviation branch of the Signal Corps in December, 1917.
He was honorably discharged February 13, 1919, at Fort
Logan, having been trained in Texas. Bertha is a
graduate of the Brigham Young University at Provo, where
she specialized in art and music. She taught art in the
Manti school tor a year and has since been a teacher of
art in the graded and high schools of Utah. When at home
she has classes of piano students. Having lost his first
wife, Mr. McKenzie was married in 1897 to Grace Sumsion,
of Springville, a daughter of George Sumsion, a pioneer
of that place. They have four living children:
Leland. a student in the
Brigham Young University at Provo; Thelma and Ray, who
are attending high school; and Electa, who completes the
family. One daughter, Clara E., born May 27, 1907, died
September 15,
1910.
The foregoing record indicates that
the McKenzies have long been actively and prominently
associated with the up building of this state, and the
work instituted by the grandfather and carried on by the
father is now being continued by William A.
McKenzie, who is reaching out into still broader
fields of usefulness, cooperating heartily in every plan
and project for the benefit of his city and the
commonwealth at
large.
JAMES L.
MELDRUM.
James L. Meldrum, a successful
farmer and horticulturist of Utah county, was born in
Leslie, Scotland, August 5, 1853, a son of George and
Jane (Barclay) Meldrum, who were also natives of the
land of hills and heather, where the father learned and
followed the shoemaker's trade until 1860, when he bade
adieu to friends and native land and sailed for the new
world with Utah as his destination. He traveled across
the plains with a handcart company under the command of
Edward Martin and Daniel Tyler, this being the last
handcart company to make the trip. Mr. Meldrum and five
other men were engaged in manufacturing shoes at Provo
for a period of ten or twelve years. He had removed to
Provo after a month spent in Salt Lake City. Later he
became interested in farming and as his financial
resources increased invested more and more largely in
property until he was an extensive landowner. He
remained an active and earnest worker in the church and
was sent as a missionary to Scotland, where he remained
from 1877 until 1879, while in 1880 he labored as a
missionary in the Shetland islands. He was second
counselor to Bishop John E. Booth for twenty years in
the fourth ward of Provo and put forth every possible
effort to advance the interests of the church. He was
also an active factor in the business development of the
community and was a shoemaker, farmer and fruit grower.
He was likewise connected with the Provo Woolen Mills
and with the East and West Cooperative Stores and other
mercantile
enterprises.
James L. Meldrum acquired a common
school education and remained upon the home farm with
his father to the time of his marriage, which occurred
when he was twenty-one years of age. He has since
followed farming, at first renting land, but, carefully
saving his earnings, was enabled to purchase the tract
where he now lives in Pleasant View in 1879. He owns
forty-five acres in the home place and also a tract of
one hundred and twenty acres devoted to dry farming and
situated adjoining the foothills of the Wasatch range.
This is one of the best dry farms in Utah. The land is
especially adapted to wheat growing and has yielded as
high as fifty and sixty bushels per acre, the yield in
the present year (1919) reaching sixty bushels. The
first home upon the farm was a log cabin but this was
later replaced by a frame dwelling. His work has largely
been of a character that has contributed to public
progress and benefit as well as to individual success.
He planted the first orchard in Pleasant View ward and
helped build all the irrigation canals in his section.
He is now a director of the Timpanogos Canal Company and
one of the stockholders in the Fawcett Field Canal
Company. In early life he had charge of the Holdaway
sawmill and logging interests in Spanish Fork canyon,
furnishing railroad ties and lumber for the Denver &
Rio Grande. He was thus employed for several years,
working on the railroad. He was a most powerful man in
his younger days and at one time on a bet he lifted
eleven hundred and thirty pounds. This was during the
days when he was working on the Denver and Rio Grande.
In recent years he has been engaged at different periods
in the cattle business as well as in general farming. He
has twenty acres planted to orchard, largely pears, and
he also raises cherries and apples. His dry farming
methods are most successful and in all of his business
affairs he is meeting with well deserved
prosperity.
On the 5th of August, 1873, Mr.
Meldrum was married in Salt Lake City to Miss Sarah H.
Haws, a daughter of William W. and Barbara (Mills) Haws,
who became pioneer residents of Utah, arriving in this
state in 1848. Mr. and Mrs. Meldrum have had a family of
eleven children, nine of whom are living. Their first
born, James, died in infancy and Donald W. reached
manhood and was married but has now passed away.
The others are: Lilly May, the wife of Frank
Sackett, a resident of Sterling, Idaho; Elmer Cm who has
charge of a part of his father's farm; Nellie, who
married Owen Hull, a farmer of Idaho; George, who is in
the war risk insurance department of the government
service at Washington, D. C; G. Gilbert; Effie, the wife
of Chauncey Collier, living at Bingham; Calvin, at home;
Fleta, the wife of Thomas Richie, of Salt Lake; and
Vernal, who has been a member of the navy since 1917,
being an engineer and mechanic on one of the battleships
in Pacific waters. All of the children have attended the
Brigham Young
University.
Mr. Meldrum has been quite active
and prominent in community affairs. He was county fruit
tree inspector from 1903 until 1905 and was supervisor
of the Provo-Olmstead county boulevard. His political
allegiance has always been given to the democratic party
and his position upon any vital question is never an
equivocal one, as he stands loyally for any interest
which he believes to be of benefit to the community at
large. His religious faith is that of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he is
serving as an
elder.
RICHARD L.
MENDENHALL.
Richard L. Mendenhall is one of the
prosperous farmers and sheep raisers of Utah county,
making his home at Mapleton. He was born in Nauvoo,
Hancock county, Illinois, August 19, 1845, a son of
William and Sarah (Lovell) Mendenhall. The father was
born in Delaware, while the mother was a native of
England and in Delaware they were married before making
their way westward to Nauvoo. In 1852 they crossed the
plains to Utah, at which time their family numbered five
children. Four others were born in Utah and Richard L.
Mendenhall was the fourth in order of birth in the
family. The others are: Mary;
Thomas; A. H. M., who died in Nauvoo, Illinois, before
the family moved west to Utah; John; Elizabeth; Sarah;
William; and Hannah. The family spent one night at Salt
Lake City and then proceeded to Springville, where the
father worked at his trade as a bricklayer and mason. He
was active in the work of the church and was presiding
teacher of the third ward of Springville for many
years. He died in 1906 at
the venerable age of
ninety-one.
Richard L. Mendenhall had but
limited educational opportunities. When but nine years
of age he began herding sheep in the mountains and was
thus employed until he reached the age of fifteen. He
remained upon his father's farm until he was twenty-five
years of age, when he married and for seven years
thereafter he resided at Springville.
He next went to Mapleton, where he homesteaded
one hundred and sixty acres and built there a small
frame house. In 1888 he replaced this structure by a
large modern brick residence, two stories in height-at
that time the largest house in
Mapleton.
He has prospered as the years have
gone by, by reason of his close application, unfaltering
industry and indefatigable effort. He and his son are
engaged in sheep raising and his son works the home
farm. As the years have passed Mr. Mendenhall has
prospered and there is every evidence of comfort upon
his place. He has a large barn as well as a large
dwelling and there is every equipment for the care of
his stock and his grain. His flocks number two thousand
head and Mr. Mendenhall and his son are regarded as
representative sheep raisers of their section of the
state.
In early manhood Mr. Mendenhall
wedded Maria Catherine Boyer, a daughter of Augustus S.
Boyer. She passed away in 1915, leaving two children,
Irena and Richard Lovell. The daughter is now the wife
of Joseph Jensen, a former teacher in the Agricultural
College at Logan, but now a farmer of Tremonton. They
have four children: Joseph R., Robert S., Eleanor and
May. Richard married Hannah Bird, a daughter of Charles
M. Bird, mentioned elsewhere in this work, and they have
five children: Wendell. Louise, Arthur. Earl and Erma,
the last two being twins. Richard Mendenhall, Jr., was
on a mission to the southern states covering a period of
two years and was president of the conference in
Kentucky during the latter part of that period.
Mr. Mendenhall of this review was
on a mission to Colorado from 1902 until 1904. He is a
high priest in the church and his son is an elder. Mr.
Mendenhall was one of the first to join the republican
party at Mapleton. He is a pensioner of the Black Hawk
war, having served during a part of two years in Sanpete
county with the rank of lieutenant. With almost every
phase of development and progress in this section of
Utah he has been closely associated and the worth of his
work is widely
acknowledged.
ERNEST A.
MENLOVE.
Ernest A. Menlove, of Provo, a
photographer of recognized ability, is of English birth.
The place of his nativity is St. Albans, England, and
the date May 25, 1876. His father, Joseph
Menlove, is a resident of Payson, Utah, having come to
this state in 1889 as a convert to the faith of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He settled in Payson
and through the intervening years has been engaged very
successfully in farming. He remains an active and devout
member of the church and has done everything in his
power to advance its cause. Prior to coming to America
he served in the London conference as a traveling elder.
The mother of Ernest A. Menlove was prior to her
marriage Miss Ann Streaton, also a native of England.
She came to America with her husband and children, the
family numbering seven sons and five daughters, ten of
whom survive and are residents of
Utah.
Ernest A. Menlove, the sixth member
of the family, was educated in the schools of England
and was graduated from the Payson public school. He
afterward spent a year in study in the Brigham Young
University of Provo and when eighteen years of age took
his initial step in the business world. He was first
engaged in mining and followed that pursuit, working as
a miner for twelve years and spending the last two years
of that period as foreman of the Centennial Eureka
mines. While thus engaged he utilized his leisure for
the study of photography and in 1909 he established a
photograph studio, which he has since continuously and
successfully conducted. He has developed his business
until he has now the leading photographic establishment
in Provo. He keeps in touch with the latest approved
methods and inventions having to do with photography and
the work that he turns out is of such excellence that
his patronage is most liberal. From 1912 until 1917 he
was also engaged in the notion and novelty business,
handling pictures and other goods of that
character.
On the 22d of December. 1897, in
Salt Lake Temple, Mr. Menlove was united in marriage to
Miss Ines Selman, a native of Payson, Utah, and a
daughter of M. B. and Jane (Daniels) Selman, the latter
now deceased. She belonged to one of the old and well
known pioneer families of Payson. To Mr. and Mrs.
Menlove have been born seven children: Beulah, Ernest
Lavon, Clyde Harold, Roy Alfred, Walden S.. Cleon Thomas
and Ruth Ines.
The parents hold membership in the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the sixth
ward and Mr. Menlove is first counselor of the elders
quorum. He is identified with the Provo Commercial Club
and stands for all that works for the up building and
improvement of the city, for all that makes for civic
cleanliness and righteousness or advances its material
and moral progress. His personal characteristics, his
geniality, his unfeigned cordiality and uniform courtesy
make for popularity among all who know him and he and
his wife occupy an enviable position in social circles,
while in the line of his chosen art he has gained well
deserved prominence and
success.
EPHRAIM ARTHUR
MITCHELL.
There are many attractive shops in
Provo carrying a well selected line of goods and
bespeaking the enterprise and progressiveness of the
proprietors. A leading merchant tailoring establishment
is that of Ephraim Arthur Mitchell, who is conducting
business at No. 101 North Academy avenue. He has been a
lifelong resident of Utah, his birth having occurred at
Payson. August 4, 1874. His parents were David A. and
Christiana Gertrude (Frost) Mitchell. The father was
born in South Africa of Scotch parentage and became an
early settler of Utah county, Utah, where he resided to
the time of his death, which occurred in 1891, when he
was fifty-four years of age. He was a shoemaker by trade
but through much of his life followed farming and stock
raising and was very successful in the conduct of his
business affairs. He belonged to the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter day Saints, becoming a convert to that
faith in Grahamstown, Africa, where he was born. On
leaving that country he sailed from Port Elizabeth with
the intention of taking up his abode in the colony of
people of his own faith in Utah. He was president of the
Elders Quorum and of the Seventy and was very active in
Sunday school and church work. The mother was also born
in Africa and was of English lineage. She came to
America with her husband and they reared a family of
eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of whom
Ephraim Arthur Mitchell was the youngest son and the
seventh child. The parental grandfather, David Alexander
Mitchell, went to Africa with a Scotch regiment, serving
with the rank of captain in the British army. The
maternal grandfather, Mr. Frost, went to Africa when on
a whaling expedition and there the grandparents in both
lines remained to the time of their demise. The mother
of Ephraim A. Mitchell passed away in Utah in 1895, at
the age of fifty-five
years.
When a lad of six Ephraim A.
Mitchell entered the public schools of Payson and after
mastering the branches of learning therein taught he
became a student in the University of Utah, from which
he was graduated with the class of 1896, having
completed a course in the normal department. Following
his graduation he took up the profession of teaching in
Utah county and was thus engaged for three years. He was
afterward apprenticed to the tailor's trade, which he
thoroughly learned, and subsequently he began business
on his own account. He first opened a tailoring
establishment in Payson and continued there successfully
for three years. In 1901 he removed to Provo, where he
has since carried on business with gratifying success.
He has today the largest establishment and enjoys the
most liberal trade in the city and he ranks among the
leading merchant tailors of southern Utah. The
workmanship of his shop is ever of the highest order and
his earnest efforts to please his customers, combined
with his thoroughly reliable business methods, have
gained for him a most gratifying
patronage.
In Salt Lake City, on the 16th of
June, 1898, Mr. Mitchell was married to Miss Kate
Johnson, a native of England and a daughter of William
Johnson. They now have three children, namely: Harold,
who was born in Payson on the 27th of March, 1898;
Donald, whose natal day was February 7, 1905; and
Leicester, whose birth occurred February 17,
1915.
The parents belong to the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr.
Mitchell also has membership with the Knights of
Pythias, in which he has held all of the offices,
including that of grand chancellor of the domain of
Utah. He is likewise identified with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks and is a past exalted ruler of
Lodge No. 849. He is a most active and earnest worker in
the Provo Commercial Club and has taken the initial step
in bringing about many interests which have had the
strong backing of the club. His political support is
given to the republican party and during the European
war he served on all important committees in connection
with the Red Cross drives, with the sale of bonds and
War Savings Stamps. He has delivered many addresses in
support of these organized projects for the upholding of
the government, speaking in many different sections of
the country, while his logic and his arguments have
carried conviction to the minds of his
listeners.
HENRY IVEN
MOORE.
Henry Iven Moore, vice president of
the Orem lines, which he has also represented as general
counsel since 1912, has through the years of an active
business career made for himself a creditable position
in legal circles and as a representative of railway
interests.
He was born in Austin, Texas, on
the 9th of March, 1878, and is a son of M. S. and
Elizabeth H. (Richards) Moore. His youthful days were
spent in the Lone Star state and he was graduated from
the high school at Brackett, Texas, with the class of
1894. He afterward matriculated in the University of
Texas, taking the Bachelor of Arts course but left
school without graduation in 1896. The following year he
was admitted to practice at the bar of Texas and opened
an office in San Antonio, after which he removed to Del
Rio, Texas, where he was living when he volunteered for
active service in the Spanish-American war. He joined
the Eighteenth United States Infantry, as a member of
Company I, and aside from his duties with that command
in defense of American interests in the Spanish-American
war, he also saw service in the Philippines In 1909 he
was admitted to the bar of Nevada and in 1913 secured
admission to the Utah bar. In the meantime he was called
upon for public service in the line of his profession,
filling the office of prosecuting attorney at Del Rio
from 1900 until 1905. In 1905 he became county and
probate judge of Val Verde county, Texas, and in 1906 he
was nominated for the office of district judge of the
sixty-third judicial district of
Texas.
It was in September, 1912, that Mr.
Moore became a resident of Salt Lake City and through
the intervening period he has not only been a
representative of the legal profession here but has also
become actively identified with railroad and mining
interests of the west. He is now general counsel and
assistant general manager for the Nevada Copper Belt
Railroad Company, also for the Nevada Douglas Copper
Company and vice president of the firm of A. J. Orem
& Company of Boston, Massachusetts. He is likewise
general counsel for the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad
Company and since 1912 has been general counsel for and
vice president of the Orem lines. His activities through
these relations are of an important character, having to
do largely with the development of the natural resources
of the state and the improvement of general business
conditions
On the 25th of December, 1910, Mr.
Moore was united in marriage to Miss Mabel Shirley, of
Dallas, Texas, and they have two sons, Aubrey I. and
Henry I., Jr. Mr. Moore belongs to the Salt Lake City
Commercial Club and along fraternal lines is connected
with the Masons and with the Elks. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party and he has
been a stalwart worker in its ranks but has neither
sought nor desired office outside the strict path of his
profession. As the years have advanced and he has
recognized opportunities in the business world he has
extended his efforts into railway and mining circles,
where his legal knowledge has been of great worth, while
his executive ability has also constituted an important
element in successful administration of railroad and
mine affairs.
A. T.
MONEY.
A. T. Money, president of the
Farmers Cooperative Association of Spanish Fork, who is
also engaged in farming and cattle raising, is
identified with the moral development as well as the
material progress of Utah county inasmuch as he is
serving as bishop of Palmyra ward of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was born at Spanish
Fork, August 5. 1865, a son of Richard and Mary
(Armstrong) Money. The father was born
in Edinburgh and the mother in Dundee, Scotland, and
they started for America in 1856. bringing with them a
little daughter, who died while they were en route and
was buried in the ocean. On landing on American soil
they made their way at once across the country to Utah.
The father was a carver and cabinet maker by trade and
on reaching this state took up carpenter work, in
connection with which he also followed farming. The
family numbered five children who yet survive, of whom
A. T. Money is the third in order of birth, the others
being Margaret S., Richard W., Euphemia and
Andrew.
A. T. Money acquired a common
school education and when eighteen years of age started
out in the business world by entering the employ of Deal
Brothers & Crandall at Springville in connection
with railway contract work. He remained with that firm
in its operations in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico
and subsequently became a. partner in the Springville
Grading Company, engaged in making grades for the
railroad into the Tintic district. Subsequently Mr.
Money did business as a member of the firm of J. O.
Thomas & Company and afterward became senior partner
in the firm of Money & Roach, engaged in building
railways and doing irrigation and canal work in Idaho.
They also represented the Cache Valley Land & Canal
Company. At a later period Mr. Money was employed by the
city of Spanish Fork as street supervisor and also
served as policeman and water master, his public duties
in these connections covering a period of thirteen years
save that during a part of the time he was away on
contract work. In 1899 he purchased the farm upon which
he now resides. It was then an undeveloped tract of land
with no improvements save that there was a small log
house upon the place. He now has a beautiful home,
standing in the midst of fine shade trees, while in the
rear are substantial barns and all the necessary
outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock. He
engages quite extensively in raising fruit upon his
place and its present fine appearance is attributable
entirely to his labors, persistency of purpose and sound
judgment. He owns sixty-five acres in this place and
also has one hundred and eighty acres in a farm on Lake
Utah and is interested in seven hundred acres of cattle
range in the mountains. He is regarded as a big operator
in farming and stock raising and is one of the most
progressive agriculturists of this section of the state.
He has thirty acres of his land planted to beets. He
follows the most progressive and scientific methods in
the care of his crops and his labors are bringing to him
justly merited success. He is also a director of the
Commercial Bank of Spanish Fork and was the vice
president of the Jex Lumber Company for several years.
He is the president of the Westfield Irrigation Company
and is deeply interested in the subject of irrigation.
Upon his own place he has artesian wells which furnish
water for the home with good pressure. His residence is
at Palmyra, three miles northwest of Spanish
Fork.
In 1889 Mr. Money was married to
Miss Ann M. Jex, a daughter of William Jex. a pioneer
settler of Spanish Fork, mentioned at length elsewhere
in this work. They have become parents of the following
children, eight of whom are still living: Albert Edward,
who is manager of the Jex Lumber Company at Spanish
Fork; Margaret, the wife of Ammon Ferguson, of Spanish
Fork; Ann: William J.; Richard B.; Reed J.; Miles: Myrl
and Zina.
The family is identified with the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr.
Money was the first bishop of Palmyra ward, which was
organized August 11, 1901, and still fills that
position. His wife is president of the Relief Society
and was counselor in primary work previous to taking her
present office. Mr. Money was president of the Third
Ward Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association at
Spanish Fork before he removed to Palmyra. He is now
high priest and his son, Albert E., served on a mission
to Ireland covering two years and was secretary to
Rodger Clawson while there and also conference clerk.
Mr. Money gives his political allegiance to the
democratic party and keeps well informed on the vital
questions and issues of the day but does not seek nor
desire office as his time and attention are fully
occupied by his business interests and his church
duties.
LARS
NIELSEN.
Lars Nielsen, president of the
Spanish Fork Cooperative Institute and at one time mayor
of Spanish Pork, where he is regarded as a most
progressive citizen and an outstanding figure in public
affairs, was born in Denmark, June 5, 1857, a son of
Peter and Kersten (Larson) Nielson, who on coming to
America in 1865 made their way at once across the
country to Utah. He had been thirty-five days in
crossing the Atlantic ocean on the sailing vessel
Kimball from Hamburg to New York city and then he made
his way across the plains in Captain Atwood's company.
He and a man by the name of Huffany bought ox teams at
Wyoming Hill, Nebraska, to make the journey, which they
completed with only one skirmish with the Indians, who
shot one man and took his wife away with them, nothing
being heard of her afterward. On their emigration to
America Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen brought with them three
children: Lars, the eldest of the family; Mary, the
deceased wife of William Vier, of Salt Lake; and Mrs. L.
L. Bailey, of Salt Lake.
The father became a pioneer farmer of Utah county and
for years he was president of the old cooperative store.
He exercised considerable influence over public thought
and opinion in his community, and his worth was widely
acknowledged by all, so that his death, which occurred
in 1913, was the occasion of deep and widespread regret.
The mother had passed away a few years
before.
Lars Nielsen remained with his
father upon the home farm until he had attained his
majority, when he was married and took up farming and
cattle raising on his own account. As the years have
passed he has become recognized as one of the big
cattlemen of the state and now has two hundred head of
cattle upon the range. His farm comprises one hundred
and ten acres of rich and productive land, of which
forty acres is planted to beets. The place is thoroughly
modern in its equipment and in the methods of farm work
carried on. His residence is a modern brick dwelling,
which was erected in 1913 and is one of the most
attractive homes of Spanish Fork. Aside from his farming
and stock raising interests Mr. Nielsen during the
building of the Strawberry irrigation project by the
government was a director on the board of the Water
Users Association. He is also a
stockholder in the Gem Roller Mills at Spanish Fork, and
was elected president of the Spanish Fork Cooperative
Institute in March. 1919, which position he still
holds.
Mr. Nielsen was united in marriage
to Miss Mary J. Beckstrom, a native of Sweden, who came
to Utah with her parents when young, her father being
Hogan B. Beckstrom. a carpenter by trade.
To Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen have been born eleven children:
Lars, who is principal of the school at Bingham, Utah;
James, who is employed by the Consolidated Wagon &
Machine Company at Spanish Fork; Peter, who died at the
age of eighteen years; Mary, the wife of David H. Jones,
of Spanish Fork; Rebecca, now the wife of Arthur McKell,
of Spanish Fork; Annie; Eleanor, now Mrs. Rulin J.
Creer; and Harvey, Ralph, Clarence and Ardella, all at
home.
Mr. Nielsen is a republican in his
political views and served for three successive terms as
mayor of Spanish Fork. Upon public questions he brought
to bear the same keen scrutiny and sound judgment that
he displayed in the management of his personal business
interests, and his administration was characterized by
various needed improvements in the municipality. He has
served as school director for three years and cooperates
most heartily in any plan or project which has to do
with the up building and advancement of his district or
the welfare of the
state.
