Utah Since Statehood
Author is Noble Warrum - 1919

BISHOP CHARLES R. DANA.

Charles R. Dana, a bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who is conducting business as a carpenter and florist in Ogden, was born March 10, 1887, in the city which is still his home, his parents being Chauncey R. and Mary Ellen (Clark) Dana. The father was also born in Ogden, his natal day being December 4, 1864, and he is a representative of one of the old pioneer families of this section of the state, his father having been Charles R. Dana, who came from England at an early epoch in Utah's colonization. He located in Ogden, where he engaged in business as a carpenter and stone mason. The birth of Mary Ellen Clark occurred in Nebraska, June 26, 1866, while her parents were crossing the plains en route to Utah. She is a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Barber) Clark, who located at Coalville, where her father worked as a cobbler. In early life Chauncey R. Dana engaged in the painting business and afterward devoted his attention to the raising of garden produce, and from early pioneer times the family has been identified with industrial activity in this section of the state.

Charles R. Dana acquired his early education in the public schools of Ogden and afterward became the active assistant and associate of his father in gardening, being thus employed until he was nineteen years of age, when he turned his attention to carpentering. This he followed until 1918 and at the present writing he is engaged in the mail service. He also is owner of a greenhouse, which he is putting in excellent shape to supply all kinds of plants and flowers to the market.

On the 6th of June, 1906, Mr. Dana was married to Miss Sarah Shore, a daughter of George and Mary Ellen (Coy) Shore, the former a native of England, while the latter was born in Ohio. Mr. Dana remains an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has been Sunday school teacher and counselor, while on the 14th of October, 1917, he was appointed bishop of the West Ogden ward. His entire life has been spent in this locality and he is an alert, energetic man, giving faithful service to the church and to his business interests, which are being carefully, wisely and successfully conducted.

JOHN CHARLES DAVIS.

Dependent entirely upon his own exertions from the age of eleven years, John Charles Davis is today occupying an enviable position at the Ogden bar, with a large practice that is at once indicative of his thorough preparation, his keen analytical power and his devotion to the interests of his clients. Utah numbers him as a native son).  He was born in Willard, September 17, 1878, his parents being Richard J. and Elizabeth (Cozzens) Davis, both of whom were natives of South Wales, the father having been born in Glamorganshire and the mother in Pembrokeshire. It was in the year 1867 that Richard J. Davis crossed the Atlantic to the new world and made his way to Utah, where he took up the occupation of farming, to which he devoted his remaining days, nis death occurring in 1892. He was very active in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, served on two missions, was a high priest and a member of the Seventy. The mother died in October, 1905. In their family were thirteen children.

John Charles Davis acquired his primary education in the schools of Malad, Idaho, and afterward spent two years as a student in the Brigham Young College, then the Brigham Young Academy, covering the years 1897 and 1898. He afterward gave his attention to the general work of ranching and while thus engaged devoted his evening hours to study. It was his ambition to enter upon a professional career and in 1900 he took up the study of law in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He also attended high school during the time which he spent as a law student in Michigan. He was graduated from the university in 1904 with the LL. B. degree and in the same year was admitted to practice at the Michigan bar. In the fall of that year he won admission to the Idaho bar and in February, 1905, was admitted to the courts of Utah. Through the intervening period he has devoted his attention to general law practice and has made steady progress in his profession. In 1912 he was elected district attorney of the second judicial district and occupied that position for four years. His analytical mind, the thoroughness with which he prepares his cases, his devotion to high standards of the profession and his loyalty to the interests of his clients have all been important elements in the attainment of his present standing and success as a member of the Utah bar.

On the 23d of December, 1914, Mr. Davis was married to Miss Zina Thackeray, of Morgan county, and they have become parents of a daughter, Mary Jane, who is now in her second year.

Mr. Davis is a member of the Weber County, the Utah State and the American Bar Associations. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is one of the active workers in its ranks. He is also a most earnest supporter of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he was reared, and he is a member of the Weber Club. His hobby, if he can be said to have one, is cattle, for he is much interested in the raising of fine cattle and devotes considerable of his leisure to that interest.

His entire life has been a most active and busy one, for from a very early age he has depended upon his own resources. He soon recognized the fact that industry wins and industry became the beacon light of his life. He saw that success tauntingly slips away from the sluggard and plays as a will-o'-the-wisp before the dreamer but yields its rewards to the man of resolute purpose and determination. These qualities therefore have characterized the life of John Charles Davis, who planned for his own education, who utilized every means for promoting his knowledge and who through unfaltering energy and intelligent direction of his time and labors has reached a position among the able lawyers of the Ogden bar.

THOMAS DUNCOMBE DEE
The contribution of Thomas Duncombe Dee to the world's work was real and creditable. The vigor which he lent to the pioneer region in developing its resources and the aid which he contributed to the work of up building the state rendered his life one of signal service to Utah. These, however, constituted but one phase of his activity, extensive and important as were his business connections. He remained throughout his life a most earnest and helpful supporter of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, did everything in his power to promote the intellectual and moral progress of his city and was withal a man of the broadest humanitarian spirit. Starting out in life on his own account when still comparatively young, working for his living and dependent on his own hands for whatever the world had to bring him of enjoyment and honor, he died not only possessed of great wealth and past political honors but of exalted social position, with a mind enriched by study, travel and experience; and while he started with nothing, he ended with almost everything that men covet as of value.

Thomas Duncombe Dee was born at Llanelly, Caermarthenshire, South Wales, November 10, 1844 a son of Thomas Hill and Elizabeth (Reese) Dee. He came to Utah with his parents in 1860, when in his sixteenth year, the family home being established in Ogden. On the 10th of April, 1871, he married Miss Annie Taylor, of Salt Lake City. They became the parents of two sons and six daughters, namely: Thomas Reese, who has passed away; Mrs. Richard B. Porter; Mrs. Ambrose A. Shaw; Mrs. Frank E. Higginbotham: .Mrs. C. R. Green; Mrs. George S. Barker; Mrs. Joseph F. Barker; and Laurence T. Dee.

In his business life Mr. Dee made a notable record through his ready recognition and utilization of opportunities. His strength and capacity seemed at all times to measure up to the demands made thereon and as the years passed he became connected with some of the most important manufacturing, industrial and commercial enterprises not only of Ogden and Utah but of the entire west. He was an officer in the Eccles Lumber Company, the Oregon Lumber Company and the Sumpter Valley Railway Company. He was vice president of the First National Bank of Ogden and also an officer in the Ogden Savings Bank. He became one of the promoters and incorporators of the Ogden Sugar Company, the Logan Sugar Company, the Le Grand Sugar Company and the Lewiston Sugar Company, all of which later combined to form the Amalgamated Sugar Company, of which Mr. Dee was the first vice president, taking an active part in its management. He also promoted and assisted in building the Utah & Pacific Railway, now a part of the Salt Lake Route. That his activities were ever of a character that contributed in marked measure to the development and up building of the state is indicated in the fact that he was connected with the Ogden Rapid Transit Company, the Ogden Water Works Company, the Utah Canning Company, the Ogden Pressed Brick & Tile Company, the Glenwood Park Company, the Ogden Furniture & Carpet Company, the Dee Stanford Shoe Company and the Utah Construction Company and of each of these be was the president.

Such mammoth interests alone would seem to have occupied the entire time and claimed all of the attention of even such a forceful and resourceful man as Thomas D. Dee. and yet he found opportunity to render valuable aid in public office and to the church. He was continuously active in school affairs from  1870 until his demise, being elected in 1870 as school trustee, while from 1895 until his death    he was president of the board of education of Ogden and was often spoken of as the "father of the public school system of Ogden.  He also served as assessor and collector of Ogden, was Justice of the peace In Ogden precinct for six years, was alderman and later councilman and for the nine years preceding his death was a member of the state hoard of equalization. Always a consistent and loyal member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he was active in Sunday school work for thirty-five years, serving as superintendent for twenty-one years. He was likewise high priest and counselor to Bishop James Taylor of Mound Fort ward, holding that position at the time of his death.

After he had passed away there was erected in his honor by his widow and children the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital of Ogden. Later a home for the nurses connected with the nurses' training school of the hospital was erected and to "A Retrospect," written by Warren L. Wattis in commemoration of the completion and opening of this home on the 24th of August, 1917, we turn for the more intimate account of the life and character of Mr. Dee. "With his parents he came to Utah in 1860, settling in Ogden, where the sphere of his influence steadily extended. He was accustomed to hard work from his boyhood and learned the carpenter's trade. From this, he progressed to building contractor, advancing step by step in his industrial and financial career until later he was building mills, equipping mercantile establishments, constructing railway systems, founding and operating sugar factories and planning other industrial enterprises of far reaching importance. Notwithstanding the constant and exacting demands of business upon his time, knowledge and energy, he nevertheless gave freely of all these for the public good. He was police judge in the early days of Ogden at a time when that position had more perplexities than financial rewards. He was also city councilman for a number of terms and. as chairman of the building committee, supervised the construction of Ogden's first city hall.

Heber M. Wells, the first governor of Utah, selected Mr. Dee as a member of the first state board of equalization. He entered into his work with his usual energy and persistence and was of inestimable value to the new state In systematizing Its methods of taxation and establishing its finances on an enduring basis. He was reappointed to the position by Governor Cutler and continued to serve until his death.

No citizen of the community gave more freely of his time and talents for the advancement of the public schools than did Judge Thomas D. Dee. For thirty-five years he was in practically continuous service as a school trustee or member of the board of education. Of all his varied activities no enterprise received more constant or loyal service. He was ready, at any time, to neglect his personal business, if need be, to advance the interest of the schools. No detail was too trivial, no task was too large to receive his personal attention Ability and loyalty such as he brought to bear on the management of the public school system could not have been purchased at any price. At one of the very few meetings of the board of education when he was not present, his associates took occasion to christen a fine new building, the Dee school. This was a fitting compliment to his splendid services for the city school system.

From his earliest manhood. Judge Dee was a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He gave at all limes his stanch support to the activities of the ward and stake in which he lived. For more than thirty years he served as Sunday school superintendent and only illness or absence from the city ever prevented his being at his post on Sunday morning. At the time of his death he was counselor to the bishop of the Mound Fort ward and a member of the High Priests Quorum of the Weber stake.

The death of Judge Dee was brought about through an especial effort made by him for the up building of Ogden. While inspecting a site proposed for a new reservoir in South Fork canyon, looking toward the development of additional water supply for Ogden and Weber county, he slipped into a stream. From this accident a cold was contracted. resulting in pneumonia. In the early hours of a July morning, 1905, in the home he had built with such pride; his children about his bedside; his wife's arms about him, with his head on her shoulder and her name on his lips, he passed into the silent shadows of the dreamless sleep.

A few days later when the funeral was held, business was practically suspended in the principal cities of the state. The governor and other state officers were in attendance; likewise the president and other distinguished officials in the church organization in which he had so long been an active worker, as well as leading men from other localities in this and other stales. Hundreds of Ogden school children formed a guard of honor to the casket and literally buried it in blossoms. The mourners were of all creeds and conditions. The rich and the poor, the young and the old, the learned and the un-learned. the high and the humble, all united to do him honor. His strong hands were folded in their final rest just at a time when their continuous labors during forty-five years were yielding their richest results in the form of prosperity to the community in which he made his home. From the quiet hillside, where stands today his honored grave, may be heard the ceaseless hum of industrial activities which his foresight planned and his genius guided. His clear judgment, his vigorous mentality, his tireless industry and the splendid loyalty given as his due by every business associate, made his progress easy and rapid during the later years of his life. He deserved success and he achieved it. Years before his untimely death he had amassed a competence and might have retired, assured of every material comfort that money could purchase; but he worked on steadily, carefully, persistently. Wealth came to him but what he received in the way of profits from his labors and investments, was small indeed compared with the benefits they yielded the community in return. Every acre of land in Weber County received a good measure of its value because of enterprises established and conducted by Thomas D. Dee and his associates.

His material successes, notable though they were, are the least in importance of the results of his life and its beneficent effect on the people of his city and state. He was a harmonizer of differences. He showed his associates that questions over which they were differing were really unimportant in principle and that all might work happily together regardless of varying political beliefs or religious creeds. His was always the bright smile and the cheery word, no matter what were the perplexities and exactions of the hour.

To the circle of younger business men. who gathered about him, he was not merely a financial sponsor and associate, but an inspiring example, judicious advisor and loyal friend. To them, as to the members of his family, his taking away brought the keenest of sorrows. To them, his place can never be filled. He had the rare capacity of discerning merit in those with whom he worked and of bringing the possessor of that worth under his forceful leadership. He led men by persuasion and the winning power of his fine personality hut his domination was none the less active and complete. His character was many sided; his sympathies boundless. In times of stress and adversity he was calm, alert, active and never discouraged. In times of achievement and success he was likewise complacent, generous and sparing in criticism of those with whom he differed. He brought out the very best in energy and effort that was in the people with whom he worked.

Judge Dee was a man quick in sympathy but slow in bestowing his full friendship. Once placed, it remained steadfast. The friends of his youth were the friends of his later years and all his associates will remember, so long as they may live, the beauty and the strength of his noble character. In the years that have passed since the earth closed over his coffin, success after success has come to the numerous enterprises which he helped to found and foster. And Judge Dee is not forgotten. The keenest regret of those with whom he was associated, now that time has dulled the sense of personal loss, is that he did not live to witness the triumphant fulfillment of their mutual plans. The Thomas D. Dee Company, formed, owned and managed by members of his family, perpetuates his influence in business affairs. In Oregon, under the shadow of magnificent Mount Hood, his name is borne by a thriving community which his foresight helped to redeem from the forest wilderness; in Ogden, too there is the Dee school and the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital. This hospital was provided by the heirs of Thomas D. Dee and turned over to the community to be operated solely for the public good. Founded on sound financial principles. yet seeking to relieve suffering, restore health and unite all creeds, classes and factions in the service of humanity, it forms a fitting monument to  "Thomas Duncombe Dee." Mrs. Dee was made the first president of the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital and in 1916 was appointed to the life position of honorary matron thereof. For the past eleven years she has been president of the Latter-day Saints Relief Society of the Ogden eighth ward and she was also a member of the Utah State Council of Defense. Her activities have ever been in keeping with the high purposes of her honored husband, of whom it may well be written:

"His life was gentle. And the elements

So mixed in him that Nature might stand up

And say to all the world 'This was a  man."

ALFRED DIXON.

Alfred Dixon, who carries on ranching in Weber county, his home being near Harrisville, was horn January 3, 1869, in Harrisville, his parents being William W. and Sabra (Lake) Dixon, the former a native of Cumberlandshire, England, while the latter was born in Canada. The father, on coming to the United States, established his home in New York. Prior to this time he had been a sailor for a number of years. He left England when a lad of twelve and spent a number of years upon the sea. While in the state of New York he became acquainted with his wife's parents and through their influence and teachings joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He afterward removed to Ohio, where he wedded Sabra Lake and soon afterward they went to Missouri, becoming residents of that state about 1842. There they remained until 1850, when they came to Utah with ox teams in the company commanded by Green Taylor. They settled first at Five Points, on a stream which was named Dixon creek, and afterward removed to Harrisville, where Mr. Dixon took up land and built a home, there spending his remaining days. He was one of the first associated with Mr. Harris in the promotion of the irrigation work and he was likewise a successful farmer. At the same time he remained an active worker in the church and Sunday school and passed away in the faith of the church in June, 1890. 

Alfred Dixon acquired his education in the schools of Harrisville and in the high school of Ogden. Through the period of his boyhood and youth he remained upon the old homestead and afterward took over the property and continued its cultivation. He spent one summer in Wyoming, shipping ties and timber to Harrisville, but has devoted the greater part of his life to his agricultural interests and is one of the successful ranchmen of the district.

In 1891 Mr. Dixon was married to Miss Ida Ellen Harris, a daughter of Martin H.  and Louisa (Sargent) Harris. They have become the parents of two children, Fern Louise and Alfred Harris. In the work of the church Alfred Dixon has been active and is a member of the high council of the North Weber stake. He also filled a mission to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, from March, 1897, until August, 1899. In civic affairs he has also been active, prominent and influential and has served as justice of the peace. He stands at all times for progress and improvement in public affairs and his influence is ever on the side of right and justice.

STUART P. DOBBS.

Stuart P. Dobbs, the efficient district attorney of Weber county and a resident of Ogden, was born in Beatrice, Nebraska, July 26, 1887, a son of Hugh J. and Louisa A.  (Piper) Dobbs. The father is an attorney of. Beatrice, Nebraska, and is the author of several historical works, notably a history of Gage county, Nebraska. He has figured prominently in connection with political and public affairs in that state, doing not a little to shape public thought and action. He is descended from one of the first governors of the Carolinas, the family coming of English lineage. His wife was horn near Windsor, Ontario, and she, too, is living. Their family numbers five children: Florence, Stuart P., Evelyn E., Louise J. and Hugh J., the last named a lieutenant in the United States army.

Stuart P. Dobbs, pursuing his education in the public schools of his native city, was graduated from the high school with the class of 1904. He next entered the University of Nebraska, where he won his Bachelor of Arts degree as an alumnus of 1909.  He then entered upon preparation for the bar and pursued his law course in the University of Nebraska, in which he gained the LL. B. degree. During his college days he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In June, 1911, he was admitted to practice at the Nebraska bar and in February, 1914, at the bar of Utah. He had previously had wide and interesting experience in newspaper work all through his college days and afterward from 1909 until he entered upon the practice of law. He came to Utah as assistant city editor of the Salt Lake Herald-Republican and so continued until February 15, 1914. He was with the Associated Press while in Nebraska and had some large and important assignments in that connection. He was given the case concerning the escape of three prisoners from the state prison on the 14th of March, 1914, at which time the convicts killed three wardens and wounded others. They then succeeded in making their escape in a blinding snowstorm. One of the victims died in Mr. Dobbs' arms and Mr. Dobbs afterward assisted in the capture of the convicts, which was made a week later, two of them being killed, while the third was captured alive. Mr. Dobbs covered this matter for the Associated Press. He had many other important assignments and continued his newspaper reporting for the Lincoln Daily Star until his removal to Utah.  As stated, he went to Salt Lake City to become assistant city editor of the Herald Republican and on leaving that city removed to Provo, Utah, where he entered into partnership with Judge J. W. N. Whitecotton, one of the most eminent lawyers of the state, for the practice of his profession. That association was maintained until March, 1915, when Mr. Dobbs removed to Ogden and entered upon the practice of law in this city. In the fall of 1916 he was elected on the democratic ticket to the office of district attorney for the second judicial district and is now serving in that position. He throws himself easily and naturally into the argument. There is a self-possession and a deliberation which Indicate no straining after effect but on the contrary a precision and clearness in his statement, an acuteness and strength in his argument which speak a mind trained in the severest school of investigation and to which the closest reasoning is habitual. The greatest characteristic of his mind is strength, his predominant faculty is reason and the aim of his eloquence is to convince.

On the 29th of January, 1913, Mr. Dobbs was married to Miss Beatrice C. Longtin and they have become parents of two daughters: Beatrice Deirdre, a little maiden of three summers; and Marie Louise, five years of age.

Mrs. Dobbs is a leader of St. Joseph's choir and has been very helpful in Red Cross and other war activities. Mr. Dobbs has served as a member of a sub-committee of the Council of Defense and has been chairman of the four-minute men of Ogden. His political endorsement is given to the democratic party and he served as secretary of the democratic county central committee. He belongs to the University Club, has membership in Weber Lodge, No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and is identified with several college fraternities, including Delta Sigma Rho, Phi Alpha Tau and a senior society called The Innocents. He reads broadly not only along the line of his profession but upon all subjects of general interest and is familiar with the classic and the modern in literature.  In a word he is a man of liberal culture, well descended and well bred, with whom association means expansion and elevation.

DANIEL N. DRAKE.

Daniel N. Drake, of Ogden, who is engaged in ranching, was born near Five Points, in Weber county, February 20, 1853, a son of Daniel Newell and Hannah (Kempton) Drake. The father was a native of New York, born June 27, 1819, and the mother's birth occurred in Ohio, October 23, 1833. The paternal grandfather was Daniel Drake, who was born in the Green mountains of Vermont in 1789 and came to Salt Lake on the 19th of September, 1847. He helped to build the Lynn canal to Bingham Fort and was otherwise actively identified with the early development of the state.

It was in the fall of 1848 that Daniel Newell Drake arrived in Salt Lake and in connection with his father he followed farming and also became an active assistant in the building of the Lynn canal and also of the Wilson canal. The land which he first took up as a claim was covered with sagebrush, not a furrow having been turned nor an improvement made, but with characteristic energy he began the development of the property, cleared away the brush and in course of time brought the land under a high state of cultivation.  Daniel N. Drake of this review was reared to manhood upon the homestead farm and early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops, working in the fields when not busy with the duties of the schoolroom. For three years he was employed in the Bingham mines and then returned to the farm.  When fifteen years of age he drove a team and helped on the railroad when the line was being built through Ogden. He had a ride on the first passenger train that entered Salt Lake City. He also in the early days took part in several Indian skirmishes, yet the Drake family were friends of the Indians, always ready to share with them and give them shelter, and therefore they won the friendship of the red men. With all of the experiences of frontier life Mr. Drake is familiar and he has lived to witness a remarkable transformation in Utah as the work of development has been carried steadily forward. Not only has he been identified with farming and other interests but has also engaged in contracting for several years. He is now the owner of excellent ranch property, which is highly developed and improved, and he has for the past four years been field superintendent of the canning factory of the Utah Canning Association. He was also the field superintendent of the Van Allen Canning Company in Boxelder county.

In 1872 Mr. Drake was married to Miss Mary J. Cheney, a daughter of Ziekel Cheney, who was born in New York and came to Utah in 1849. Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Drake, of whom eight are still living. Ira M. was in the army during the great World war, located at Camp Kearney, California.  The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to which the father and grandfather of Mr. Drake adhered, and because of their faith they came as pioneers from Vermont to Utah. Daniel N. Drake has spent his entire life in this state and is numbered among the early residents who have been witnesses of almost the entire growth and development of Utah. He can tell many an interesting tale concerning the early days, knows of the hardships and privations endured by the pioneers and through the passing years he has borne his share in the work of up building. He is now classed with the progressive and representative business men of Ogden, having important ranching and commercial connections.

WILLIAM H. DRANEY.

Various important business interests have felt the stimulus and profited by the cooperation of William H. Draney, who in all business affairs displays sound judgment, readily discriminating between the essential and the non-essential in the management of commercial and industrial interests. Moreover, he is a most public-spirited man, interested in all that has to do with the welfare and progress of his city, and his labors along this line have been most beneficial and resultant.  Mr. Draney was born in Plain City, Utah, August 12, 1885, a son of James and Mary (Gampton) Draney, who are residents of Ogden. The father is a farmer by occupation and for many years devoted his attention to the tilling of the soil but is now living retired, having attained a measure of success that enables him to put aside further business cares.

The son, William H. Draney, was a pupil in the public schools of Plain City and of Ogden and following his graduation from the high school of Ogden he attended the Smithsonian Business College and is also numbered among its alumni. Turning his attention to newspaper work, he became a reporter on the Morning Examiner, but after serving in that capacity for a short time he entered the employ of the Volker Lumber Company of Ogden. He was afterward associated with the Eccles Lumber Company for eight years and then embarked in business on his own account as a wholesale dealer in lumber. In 1911 he established his present business under the name of the Badger Coal & Lumber Company, Incorporated, with yards and offices at No. 2069 Washington avenue. Through the intervening period his interests have been gradually developed until his business is one of the important enterprises of the kind in Ogden. A liberal patronage is accorded him by reason of his progressive spirit, his fidelity to the interests of his customers and his thoroughly reliable methods.  His activities, however, have been extended to various other lines. He is the president of the Lincoln-Kemmerer Coal Company, is the president of the Mountain States Motor Car Company and is the secretary, treasurer and manager of the Badger Coal & Lumber Company. His business affairs thus make constant and heavy demand upon his time and energies, but his life record indicates the truth of the saying that "activity does not tire-it lends resistance and develops energy." Each forward step that he has taken and each experience that has come to him has qualified him for further activity and he meets every obligation and condition of life with the consciousness that comes from a right conception of things and an habitual regard for what is best in the exercise of human activities. 

In 1903 Mr. Draney was married to Miss Ethel Skeen, of Ogden, and they have become parents of five children: Virginia, Florence, Dee, Frank and William. The first four are in school.

Mr. Draney is a valued member of the Weber Club and also belongs to the Publicity Bureau. In this connection he has done good work for the city, making known to the general public the opportunities and advantages to be secured in Ogden, which as a railroad center of the west makes it particularly advantageous as a manufacturing center. Mr. Draney belongs to the Ogden Golf and Country Club and also to the Modern Woodmen of America. When opportunity permits he enjoys trap shooting, fishing and hunting, thus finding his recreation. His is indeed a busy and useful life and he has met with notable success in business through his own efforts, which have ever been most intelligently directed. He is an aggressive man in both business and citizenship and withal is popular wherever known.

ALBERT G. DUERR.

Among the business enterprises that give stability to the commercial development of Ogden is the wholesale bakery establishment of Albert G. Duerr, who is an alert and energetic business man, closely adhering to high standards in the conduct of his business affairs. He was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, February 15, 1880. He came to the United States when sixteen years of age, making his way first to Philadelphia, where he resided for five years. He had acquired his education in the schools of his native country and after coming to the new world concentrated his efforts and attention upon the task of laying a good foundation for his later fortune. From Philadelphia he removed to St. Louis, where he remained for a year, and then continued the journey across the continent to the Pacific coast. He spent a year and a half in Los Angeles, California, after which he came to Utah, making his way first to Salt Lake City. He afterward located at Park City, where he remained for eight years, and during that period was engaged in business on his own account. He then came to Ogden and purchased his present property at No. 2258 Grant avenue. He conducts a general bakery business along both wholesale and retail lines. His interests are carried on under the name of the Domestic Science Baking Company, of which he is sole proprietor. His establishment is well appointed, is neat and sanitary, and the excellent quality of his bakery goods, combined with his fair and honorable business methods, has brought to him a gratifying measure of success.

On the 26th of August, 1909, Mr. Duerr was married to Mrs. Hannah (Gueth) Feil, of Germany, who by a former marriage had two children. To the second union has been born a daughter. Mr. Duerr is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  He finds his recreation in long automobile tours, greatly enjoying such trips. He deserves much credit for what he has accomplished. He has made his own way in the world and by hard work, business ability and perseverance has won success, being today the owner of a large bakery business and property. He is esteemed in the community by reason of his thrift and high standards of business honor and has gained many friends during the period of his residence in Ogden.

SAMUEL G. DYE.

Samuel G. Dye. cashier of the Security State Bank of Ogden, was born on a farm at Riverdale, in Weber county. Utah, October 10, 1876, his parents being Richard and Mary M. (Peek) Dye, both of whom are natives of England. It was in the year 1857 that the father came to the United States as a passenger on a sailing vessel which was six weeks in reaching Boston harbor. He remained in the city of Boston for a short time and then removed to Utah, in 1858, settling on a farm in Weber county. He has since been identified with the agricultural interests of this section of the state and is now living retired at his home on the Riverdale road near Ogden. He has been quite active in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has served as Sunday school superintendent for thirty years and as president of the Quorum of Seventy.  He has also been helpful in public affairs, serving as a member of the Board of Education, as justice of the peace and in other local offices. It was in the old Endowment House in Salt Lake City that Mary M. Peek became his wife. 

Samuel G. Dye pursued his education in the public schools of Ogden and in Weber Academy. After his textbooks were put aside he worked upon the home farm, aiding in the cultivation and development of the fields until he was sent on a mission in 1898.  He labored for over two years in the northwestern states and in October, 1900, returned to Weber county, after which he was employed in various capacities by others for several years. He filled the office of county clerk for six years, leaving before the expiration of his term in order to enter the bank in 1914. He has since been connected with the Security State Bank, serving first as bookkeeper and teller, then as assistant cashier, and at this writing as cashier of the bank, winning his promotion by reason of his capability and fidelity.

On the 22d of October, 1901, Mr. Dye was married to Miss Lydia Hobson. a daughter of Jesse D. Hobson, of Arizona, and they have become the parents of four children: Elden Hobson, who is a high school student; Melvin Lewis, who is a junior in the high school; Samuel Wayne, attending the graded schools; and Richard Scott.  Mr. Dye is a member of the Weber Club. He, too, has been prominent in the work of the church, being ordained as high priest at the age of twenty-five years in Ogden and was made a counselor to the bishop of the Riverdale ward. He afterward became high counselor and is now a member of the presidency of the Ogden stake. He has been a very prominent factor in republican politics, served for six years as county clerk of Weber county and acted as a member of the local and state central committees.

His opinions have carried weight in the councils of the party and he has done everything in his power to advance its interests and secure its success. He is much interested in good government and in everything that pertains to the upholding of the legal and moral status of his community. He represents one of the fine old families of Utah and is popular in banking and business circles, the sterling worth of his character gaining for him the high respect which is uniformly accorded him.

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