Utah Since Statehood
Author is Noble Warrum - 1919

LEWIS L. HAINS.

Lewis L. Hains, well known as an automobile dealer of Ogden, conducting business under the name of the Ogden Motor Car Company, was born in Perrysville, Indiana  February 24, 1878, a son of Samuel and Rose E. (Drollinger) Hains, who were also natives of the Hoosier state. The father was of English lineage and devoted his life to the occupation of fanning, thus providing for the support of his family. He carefully cultivated and improved his fields throughout his entire life and passed away in Indiana in 1891. His widow survives and yet occupies the old home place. 

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof. Lewis L. Hains attended the public schools of Perrysville until he completed the high school course as a member of the class of 1895. He made his initial step in the business world as a clerk in a general merchandise store, in which he continued for two years and then went to Topeka, Kansas, where he remained until his removal to Utah. On reaching this state he settled at Sandy, where he spent a year and a half, and later engaged in railway work at Milford and Frisco, Utah, and at Nampa and St. Anthony, Idaho. He was with the Oregon Short Line as station master and operator, devoting the years from 1896 until 1905 to railroad service. He afterward occupied various positions until 1907, when be became connected with Tom Botterill of Salt Lake in the automobile business. He came to Ogden in March. 1915, at which time he established the business that has since been conducted under the name of the Ogden Motor Car Company. He is today a prominent figure in automobile circles and is conducting a large and important business, handling the Hudson, the Essex and the Chevrolet cars, and in connection with his sales department he maintains a splendid service, storage and repair department. He has extensive and well appointed showrooms and has been very successful in the conduct of the various branches of his business, which is located at Nos. 2345 to 2355 Hudson avenue. Moreover he maintains a wonderful record as a driver of motor cars. He drove in a trans-continental trip and covered the distance in five days, three hours and thirty-one minutes in a Hudson Super Six car. Mr. Hains, because of his long experience in connection with motor interests, is able to speak with authority upon matters relative to the value, durability and upkeep of motor cars and all questions concerning motor transportation.

In 1900 Mr. Hains was married to Miss Sarah Dunn, of Frisco, Utah, a daughter of Joseph W. Dunn, and to them have been born four children: Lewis  LeRoy, eighteen years of age; Cleve D., a lad of fifteen; Ben B., twelve years of age; and Rose L.. a little maiden of seven summers. Mr. and Mrs. Hains are widely known in Ogden, where they have gained an extensive circle of warm friends during the period of their residence.

GEORGE HALVERSON

For twenty-five years George Halverson of Ogden has been an active practitioner at the Utah bar and not only occupies an enviable position in professional ranks but is also a recognized leader in republican circles. Utah numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Weber county, November 25, 1868. His parents were Simon F. and Torbor K. (Gunnarson) Halverson. He attended the public schools of his native county and afterward became a student in the University of Deseret. from which institution he was graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1888. He later devoted two years to teaching school and then entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he won the LL. B. degree as an alumnus of t8S4. He was then admitted to practice before the supreme court of Michigan. Returning to Utah, he was admitted to practice in the courts of this state in October, 1894, also in the United States district court and in the United States supreme court on the 23d of April, 1901. His initial professional experience came to him as junior partner in the firm of Gideon & Halverson, an association that was maintained for a year, at the end of which time Mr. Halverson entered into partnership with Judge W.  L. Maginnis, under the firm name of Maginnis & Halverson. a relationship that was maintained for three years. In 1899 Mr. Halverson became county attorney of Weber county, which position he capably filled for three years, and in 1903 he was appointed district attorney of the third judicial district to succeed Colonel A. D. Hayes. In 1905 he was elected to that position and remained the incumbent of the office until January.  1909. his entire service covering a period of six years. It was characterized at all times by the utmost devotion to duty and by marked capability in the discharge of the important tasks that devolved upon him. In January, 1910, he entered into partnership with A. E. Pratt, under the firm style of Halverson & Pratt, and the relationship was maintained until February, 1915. Mr. Halverson enjoys an extensive practice and stands very high as a representative of the Utah bar. His success in a professional way affords the best evidence of his capability in this line. He is a strong advocate with the jury and concise in his appeals before the court. Much of the success which has attended him in his professional career is undoubtedly due to the fact that in no instance will he permit himself to go into court with a case unless he has absolute confidence in the justice of his client's cause. Basing his efforts on this principle, from which there are far too many lapses in professional ranks, it naturally follows that he seldom loses a case in whose support he is enlisted.

On the 17th of November, 1897, Mr. Halverson was united in marriage to Miss Evelyn Whitaker, by whom he has two sons: George Byron, eighteen years of age, who is now attending the University of Utah preparatory to taking up the study ot law; and Spencer Lyndon, a youth of fifteen years, who is pursuing a high school course in Ogden.

In his fraternal relations Mr. Halverson is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World, while along strictly professional lines he is identified with the Weber County and Utah State Bar Associations. The republican party receives his earnest political allegiance and he was unanimously nominated for the position of state senator on the republican ticket in 1916 but was defeated with the others on the ticket His interest in affairs vital to the welfare of community and common wealth is manifest in many tangible ways. He is a man of fine personality, broad minded and public-spirited, and strongly endorses every plan or project that has to do with upholding the high ideals of citizenship or which leads to the worth-while development of the state along any line.

OWEN WALTER HALVERSON, D. C.

Owen Walter Halverson, a well known chiropractor of Ogden, who prepared for his professional career by thorough study in the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic at Los Angeles. California, was born in Marriott, Weber county, Utah, March 21, 1878.  His father, Simon Frederick Halverson, was a native of Frederikstad, Norway, and on coming to the United States in 1856 made his way to Utah, where he followed the occupation of farming. The mother bore the maiden name of Torborg Christina Gunnerson, and she, too, was born in the land of the midnight sun. Both have now passed away.  They are survived by eight children.

Dr. Halverson, whose name introduces this review, attended the public schools of Marriott and Ogden and afterward became a student in the Weber Academy. Through the period of his boyhood and youth he was upon the home farm with his father and aided in the work of the fields, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the farm-bred boy. He was afterward associated with his brother in the plumbing business, under the firm style of Halverson Brothers, and in January, 1916, he entered the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic and won his professional degree there. He next went to Chicago and took a course in dissection in the National School of Chiropractic. He subsequently pursued a course in X-Ray work at the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, and thus thoroughly trained for important and responsible professional duties, he returned to Ogden, where he opened an office in the Eccles building and has since engaged in practice. Through the intervening period he has won a liberal patronage, for he soon demonstrated the worth of his professional work and his devotion to the best interests of his patients. 

On the 18th of September, 1907, Dr. Halverson was married to Miss Geneva Driggs, a daughter of Benjamin W. Driggs, a pioneer resident of Utah, who has been very active in church work. Dr. and Mrs. Halverson have one child, Geneva Ruth. Dr. Halverson is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was on a mission from January, 1904, until July, 1906, in Christiania, Norway. He is a member of the Seventy-seventh Quorum of Seventy and does everything in his power to promote the work of the church and extend its influence. He turns to fishing and hunting for recreation and greatly enjoys a trip in the open but allows nothing to interfere with his professional duties. He is a member of the Utah Chiropractic Association and keeps in close touch with the most advanced thought of the profession and utilizes in his practice all the latest improved scientific appliances which have been invented to assist in chiropractic work.

LARS HANSEN.

Lars Hansen has left his impress indelibly upon the history of business development and progress in Ogden, where he is now the president of the Hansen Live Stock & Feeding Company, Incorporated, and also an officer of the Ogden Packing Company.  He was born in Denmark on the 11th of December, 1862, a son of Christopher and Maria Hansen. The father came to the United States from Denmark in 1869, accompanied by his family, and settled upon a farm in Weber county, Utah, where his remaining days were devoted to agricultural pursuits, whereby he contributed in substantial measure to the development and up building of the county. Both the parents have now passed away.

Lars Hansen attended the schools of Huntsville, Utah, through his boyhood days, having been but six years of age when brought by his father to the new world. When his education was ended he turned his attention to business life and became connected with the Ogden Packing Company, entering the employ of that firm in 1892. He has since been associated with the business, covering a period of twenty-seven years, and working his way steadily upward, he was advanced through intermediate positions to the presidency and remained as the chief executive officer of the company for some time or until 1918. He is still one of its officials. He is now an officer of the Hansen Live Stock & Feeding Company, Incorporated, and they have fed at times from six to eight thousand head of cattle owned by the company and from twenty to twenty-five thousand head of sheep owned by others. Mr. Hansen is acting as yards man at Ogden and the company employs from fifty to one hundred people. In addition to his interests in the Hansen Live Stock Company and in the Ogden Packing Company, Mr.  Hansen is also the owner of ranch and farm properties end is likewise proprietor of a feed mill which daily grinds about three hundred tons of feed.

In 1885, Mr. Hansen was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Jenson, of Utah, and they have one child, Lawrence, ten years of age, now attending school. Mr. Hansen is a member of the Weber Club and he is greatly interested in charitable work, contributing generously of his success toward worthy benevolent projects and charitable organizations.

He is a very energetic and capable business man, controlling large and growing interests. He has been a hard worker and every dollar that he has, he has made himself without assistance. He left school when twelve years of age and through the intervening period has not only provided for his own support but has generously assisted others and step by step he has worked his way upward until he now occupies a commanding and enviable position among the business men of Ogden. Moreover, the course he has pursued is such as will bear the closest investigation and scrutiny, winning for him an honorable name, and his record should serve as a stimulus and an inspiration to others, showing what may be accomplished when there is a will to dare and to do.

JAMES HARBERTSON.

James Harbertson has for more than a third of a century been identified with farming interests in Weber county. He now largely specializes in fruit growing and makes his home at South Weber. He was born in England in 1856 a son of James and Elizabeth (Hannah) Harbertson, who came to Utah in 1874 and settled in Ogden, where they resided for many years. A removal was afterward made to South Weber, where Mr.  Harbertson purchased land and engaged in farming, spending his remaining days upon that place. He died in the year 1910.

James Harbertson of this review spent the period of his boyhood and youth in his native country and was about nineteen years of age when he came to the new world and made his way to Utah. He joined the family in Weber county, locating with his father upon the farm, and has since continued to reside thereon. His attention is now largely given to fruit raising and he is very successful in this connection, for he follows modern scientific methods and is most practical and progressive in the care of his orchards. He annually gathers a large amount of fruit and his business is bringing to him substantial success.

In 1874 Mr. Harbertson was married to Miss Elizabeth Taylor, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Taylor, natives of Northumberland, England. Twelve children have been born of this marriage, seven of whom are yet living. The eldest son. Parley, filled a mission to England from 1911 until 1913.

The family has always been active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr. Harbertson is now a high priest. He was bishop's counselor for eighteen and a half years and his filled home missions. He also served as school trustee for a time and cooperates earnestly and effectively in furthering every plan or measure for the general good or for the advancement of the community along material, intellectual, social and moral lines.

HIRAM H. HENDERSON.

Hiram H. Henderson was born in Onondaga county, New York, July 12, 1862, being the son of George W. and Loraine C. Henderson. He graduated from Onondaga Academy, classical course, in 1880, and later graduated from Syracuse University, classical course, in 1885. After his graduation from college he entered the law office of Jenney, Marshall, Brooks & Ruger, prominent attorneys of Syracuse, and remained in that office for two and one-half years.

In the spring of the year 1887 he was appointed by his cousin, Judge H. P. Henderson, as United States clerk of the territorial court of Utah of the first judicial district, having his offices at Ogden and Provo, Utah. In 1888 he was admitted to practice law in the supreme court of the territory of Utah. In 1905 he was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the United States.

He belongs to the Weber County Bar Association, the Utah State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In 1896 he was appointed city attorney of Ogden, Utah, and held that position for two years. He has also been admitted to practice before the state courts of Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and has been admitted to practice before the district and circuit courts for all states within the eighth and ninth circuits of the United States. At present he is the senior member of the law firm of Henderson & Johnson, with offices in the First National Bank Building, Ogden, Utah.

HENRY G. HESS.

Henry G. Hess is well known in the business circles of Ogden as the president and general manager of the Hess Bakery. He was born in Germany, February 23, 1866, a son of John and Ernestina (Schott) Hess, both of whom have passed away. In 1883, when a youth of seventeen years, he crossed the Atlantic to New York and remained a resident of the south and east until 1890, when he came to Ogden. Throughout his entire business life he has been identified with the baking business and in 1892 was one of the organizers of the Hess Bakery, in which he became associated with his brother, J. A. Hess, who is now secretary of the company. They conduct a wholesale and retail trade and employ twenty-two people.

In 1890 Mr. Hess was married to Marie Brandt, of Ogden, and they have one child, Marie, who is four years of age. They also lost a daughter, Ernestina, at the age of ten years.

Mr. Hess belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the Weber Club. He has always led a most active life and is a public-spirited citizen, who was untiring in his efforts to secure a waterworks site for Ogden and support of other valuable public measures.

ALFRED T. HESTMARK.

Industrial activity in Ogden finds a worthy representative in Alfred T. Hestmark, who for twenty years has conducted a printing establishment in this city. He has ever been actuated by a spirit of energy and determination and has therefore accomplished what he has undertaken. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 22, 1865.  His father, Carl William Christian Hestmark, was a native of Copenhagen, Denmark, and in the year 1861 came to the United States, making his way to Utah, where he continued to reside until his life's labors were ended in death. Through much of the period of his residence in this state he was engaged in the grocery business and in 1917 he passed away. The mother of Alfred T. Hestmark bore the maiden name of Carolina Wilhelmina Jacobson and- she, too, was of Danish birth. She died in 1916 at the age of eighty-one, while the father was eighty-three years of age when called to his home beyond.

Alfred T. Hestmark devoted the years of his early boyhood to the acquirement of an education in the schools of Utah but began earning his own living when only thirteen years of age, entering the employ of a telegraph company. He learned telegraphy and also worked in a brickyard for a time. He afterward sought employment in a printing office in Ogden, taking up that work when a youth of seventeen years. He gradually mastered every mechanical phase of the business and at length felt that his experience and judgment were sufficient to enable him to engage in business on his own account.  As the years have passed he has built up a trade of substantial and gratifying proportions.  He began business under the firm name of Hestmark & Wilcox, but later purchased the interests of Mr. Wilcox, since which time business has been carried on under the name of Alfred T. Hestmark, printer, bookbinder and paper ruler. He has kept in touch with the progress that has been made in the line of his business and turns out most excellent and attractive work. His patronage has steadily increased and he is today at the head of a large establishment, while the income from his business is most gratifying. The plant is splendidly equipped and Mr. Hestmark has displayed marked enterprise in the conduct of his affairs.

In 1892 Mr. Hestmark was united in marriage to Miss Laura Isabelle Jost, a native of Utah and a daughter of Thomas W. Jost. They have one daughter living, Annie Pearl, who is now seventeen years of age and is in school.

Mr. Hestmark belongs to the Weber Club and also to the Elks Lodge, No. 719, which he joined on its organization. He has been very prominent in the order and is a past exalted ruler. In Masonry, too, he takes an interest, holding membership in Weber Lodge, No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and he likewise is connected with the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of Pythias. In the last named organization he has been prominently active for a number of years and has passed through all of the chairs and is now a past chancellor commander. He is deeply interested in public affairs, gives his support to the republican party and does everything in his power not only to promote the welfare of his party but to advance the progress and up building of the community along other than partisan lines. He turns to hunting and fishing for recreation, finding great enjoyment in those sports when he has time and opportunity to make his way to stream and woods, and at this time is president of the Weber County Rod and Gun Club, an organization established for the preservation of fish and game, and he is a member of the state advisory board appointed by the governor. However, it has been by reason of his close application to business that he has developed the excellent printing establishment of which he is now owner and which is bringing to him splendid financial returns.

EDWIN S. HINCKLEY.

Edwin S. Hinckley has for many years been numbered among the ablest educators of Utah and is now the superintendent of the State Industrial School situated in Ogden near Five Points. He was born at Cove Port. Millard county, Utah, and acquired his early education in the grammar schools at Fillmore and afterward attended the high school at Provo, Utah. He received his college education in the Brigham Young University and also in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has devoted his life to teaching and was professor in the Brigham Young University at Provo for a period of twenty years. He was also dean of the Church Teachers College in the Brigham Young University from 1908 until 1915, when he resigned to take charge of the State Industrial School, entering upon his duties at this institution on the 1st of February of that year.  The school had previously been known as the Territorial Reform School, but with the admission of Utah into the Union the name was changed to the State Industrial School.  There is an average of about one hundred and forty-four pupils in the school, with one cottage for girls and three cottages for boys. There is also a hospital building which is moderately equipped according to modern scientific and sanitary methods. The grounds of the place cover about two hundred and fifty-five acres. There is a large dairy barn and about thirty cows are kept upon the farm. At the present time there are one thousand chickens, which number will be doubled in the present season. All of the boys and girls are given a half day's schooling with a half day for work. The buildings upon the place have been erected largely with the aid of pupils, who have assisted in the concrete and masonry work. There is a carpenter shop, a blacksmith shop, a machine shop, a plumbing shop, a shoe shop and a printing shop and all are splendidly equipped for carrying on efficient work along those lines. The school maintains a high standard in agriculture, horticulture and gardening. The school raises all the pork used and sells large numbers of pigs. General farming and horticultural pursuits are carried on and the school has made an excellent record for the efficiency of its methods, both in instruction in textbooks and in the training along the various lines of industrial and agricultural activity. Twelve per cent of the boys of this school who were here from 1896 until July, 1918, enlisted in the United States service and at least sixty-five per cent of this number "went across," being represented in all branches of the service. The grounds which surround the school buildings are most beautifully kept, the place being conveniently situated near Five Points at the foot of the Wasatch mountains.

In September, 1891, Mr. Hinckley was united in marriage to Miss Addie Henry, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Bacon) Henry. Eleven children have been born to them: Robert Henry, Leonore. Edwin Carlisle. Claudius W.. Paul. Frederick R., John. Evelyn, Gordon, Marion and Angela. Of these Edwin C. and Claudius W. were members of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery, doing active duty in France was Paul in the Officers' Training Corps at Waco, Texas. Robert Henry served as a member of the state legislature, being connected with the general assembly which has just closed Leonore is now teaching school in the Hawaiian Islands and thus the record of the family is one of which the parents have every reason to be proud. Their religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr. Hinckley gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He is a man of broad vision who has closely studied sociological and economic problems and who is splendidly qualified for the care and careful direction of the young people under his control-children who need most wise guidance that the "seeds of good" in every individual may in time bear fruit

LESLIE S. HODGSON.

Leslie S. Hodgson, one of the leading architects of Utah, having advanced far in his profession, has his offices in the Eccles building in Ogden. He is a native son of Salt Lake City, born December 18. 1879, one of the ten children of Oliver and Mary E.  (Simmons) Hodgson, who are still living. The father, a native of Yorkshire, England, became one of the early residents of Utah, arriving in Salt Lake City in 1850. He is there engaged at the present time in the business of contracting and building, having for many years been one of the leaders in that field of activity in Utah. He is now completing the new administration building of the Mormon church in Salt Lake and also one of the large school buildings of that city.

Leslie S. Hodgson took up the study of architecture in the office of S. C. Dallas and later continued with Richard K. A. Kletting and was employed along that line by various concerns until 1905, when he began the practice of the profession on his own account.  He had for some time been chief draftsman with the firm of Hebbard & Gill of San Diego. California, and his experience was of a most broad and useful character, well qualifying him to undertake the work in which he is now engaged. He located for the practice of his profession in Ogden, Utah, and is the official architect at the present time of the Ogden school board, a position which he has occupied for the past eignt years. He was the architect of Lincoln school of Brigham and others in Boxelder county.  Many fine structures have been erected after designs which he has made. He has been the architect of many of the finest private homes, among which should be mentioned the Eccles and Bristol residences. He has drawn the plans for a great many of the large buildings and warehouses of the John Scowcroft Company, the Shupe-Williams Candy Company and others, Thomas D. Dee Hospital, Elks Club house of Ogden, chapel for the deaf, the James Pingree residence and private gymnasium, store buildings of George A.  Lowe Company and Ogden Furniture Company, and the primary hall, hospital and dairy barn of the State School for the Deaf and the Blind. He was likewise the architect of the Eccles building, the finest and most modern office building in Ogden. He has made steady advancement in his profession, his constantly expanding powers bringing him into prominence in this connection. He has studied broadly and is familiar with the history of architectural development from early ages down to the present time. His skill enables him to combine utility, convenience and beauty in most attractive form and his work indicates that architecture has a right to its classification among the fine arts. 

In 1899 Mr. Hodgson was united in marriage to Miss Louie M. Taylor, a representative of a prominent Salt Lake family, and they have become parents of eight children, of whom four are living, namely: Phyllis, Norma, Robert Dare and Louie.  The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mr. Hodgson is a member of the Weber Club, the leading organization of the kind in Ogden and is also identified with the Ogden Golf and Country Club. He represents his profession as a member of the Ogden Rotary Club and has served continuously for five years on the state board of architecture. The major part of his time and energy, however, is devoted to his professional interests and, actuated by laudable ambition, his career has been marked by that steady progress which indicates the mastery of all the scientific principles which underlie his work as well as of every practical phase of the business. In his building operations, too, he has ever considered not only the structure to be built but also the surroundings with a view to adding to the improvement and beauty of Ogden.

ELI HOLTON.

Eli Holton has largely devoted his life to those activities which contribute to the intellectual and moral progress of the community in which he lives. He has made his home in Ogden since 1913 and is a native of England, his birth having occurred in Northampton on the 27th of September, 1877. His father, Richard Holton, was born in England and learned and followed the printer's trade. He came to the United States, settling at Brigham, Utah, and his death occurred about seventeen years ago. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Ellen Ward, was also a native of England and they were married in that country. She still survives and now makes her home at Brigham.

To the age of ten years Eli Holton was a pupil in the schools of England and after the emigration of the family to America attended the public schools at Salt Lake City and the Latter-day Saints high school. He also pursued a course in the Latter-day Saints Business College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1907. He entered upon his business career as a clerk with the Deseret News and so remained for two years. He then turned his attention to other interests. He became identified with banking and with lumber interests as a bookkeeper and afterward took up the profession of teaching, spending five years as a member of the faculty of the Latter-day Saints Business College. He afterward removed to Ogden, becoming connected with the Weber Academy, and for five years has been a teacher in the Weber Normal College, having charge of the commercial department, with from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pupils under his charge. He has from the beginning of his connection with the profession proved an able educator, imparting readily and clearly to others the knowledge that he has acquired. His ability is pronounced and he holds to high educational standards.

On October 11, 1905. Mr. Holton was married to Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Gibson, a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Christian) Gibson. They have become the parents of four children: Elizabeth Ellen, twelve years of age; Jennie Violet, aged eleven; Joyce Pansy, a little maiden of seven summers; and Ralph Gibson, who completes the family and is three years of age.

Mr. Holton has taken an active interest in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has filled a mission in the Society Islands in the South Pacific, leaving Salt Lake City June 28, 1898, and returning in October, 1901. He has served as clerk of the Ogden stake and has done everything in his power to promote the cause of the church and extend its influence. He is interested in everything that pertains to the welfare and progress of the community along the lines of material, intellectual, social, political and moral progress.

JOSHUA HOMER.

Joshua Homer is the judge of the juvenile court in the second judicial district of Utah. The sessions of his court are held in Ogden, Farmington and Morgan, and in this connection he is performing valuable public service. He was born in Salt Lake City, February 3. 1863, his parents being Russell King and Eliza (Thornton) Homer, the former a native of Onondaga county. New York, while the latter was born in Leeds, England. The father followed the occupation of farming and stock raising as a life work. He came to Utah in 1849, making his way to Salt Lake and bringing with him the first load of merchandise that was placed on sale at Salt Lake City, this state. He died in the year 1890. while the mother passed away in 1873. They became the parents of six children, of whom five are living, the sisters of Judge Homer being: Mrs. John B. Jardine. of Clarkston, Utah; Mrs. John P. Clark, also living at Clarkston; Mrs. R.  J. Costley, of St. Anthony, Idaho; and Mrs. John A. Crockett, who makes her home in Logan.

Judge Homer attended the district schools of Cache county and spent his youthful days upon the farm with his father, early becoming familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He is still interested in farm life and lives upon an excellent farm in Weber county. Throughout his business career his attention has been given to agricultural pursuits until his appointment to his present position and in all of his farm work he has been actuated by the most progressive methods, resulting in the development of splendid crops and in the attainment of substantial success in this work.

In 1887 Judge Homer was married to Miss Olena Jensen, of Trenton, Cache county, a daughter of Nels Jensen. They have become parents of six children who are yet living and have lost one. Nels Russell, twenty-six years of age, residing at Farwest, Utah, married Tessie Wiseman, of Salt Lake City. Joshua Wendell, twenty-four years of age, is in the United States army with the Ninety-first Division in France and has been in the hard fighting that turned the tide of German advancement and set the faces of the Huns toward the Rhine. He has served with the rank of corporal. Donald J., twenty-one years of age, now living at Farwest, married Esma Taylor, of Plain City, and they have one child. Donald Joshua. Ella Eliza is now a student in the Weber Academy.  Melvin Wilford, fourteen years of age, is connected with the Smithsonian Business College. Edmund, a lad of nine, is attending the district school of Farwest. It was the seventh member of the family, Leland, who passed away at the age of six months.  Judge Homer is a consistent and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was ordained high priest of the Weber stake. In 1887 he went upon a mission to Maryland and West Virginia, spending two years in his work in behalf of the church in that district. He is deeply interested in the cause of education and for a number of years has been an active and helpful member of the Weber county school board. In 1917 he was appointed by Governor Simon Bamberger to the office of judge of the juvenile court for the second judicial district, thus having care and jurisdiction over neglected children of tender age. He loves his work and has done much good in this connection, his services giving general satisfaction. Through his wise counsel, his fatherly advice and his appeal to the better nature of those who have come under his care he has saved many unfortunate children and turned their faces in the right direction toward higher living.

FRED A. HUISH.

Fred A. Huish is the senior partner in the firm of Huish & Thomas, prominent and successful florists of Provo and Ogden. where they are now conducting an extensive business. Mr. Huish was born in Payson, Utah, in 1866, a son of James W. and Helen (Niblett) Huish, both of whom were natives of England, the latter being a daughter of William Niblett, who was one of the leading contractors and builders of England, where he conducted a very extensive business. He belonged to one of the families of prominence in that country. The paternal grandfather of Fred A. Huish was Edwin Huish, whose two sons. James W. and Walter H., brought the first woodworking and iron machinery from St. Louis, Missouri, to Utah. Walter Huish invented the first solid head pin in Birmingham, England, and was a man of notable mechanical skill and ingenuity.  The brothers came from Gloucestershire, England, to the new world and made their way to Missouri in 1859. James W. Huish left his wife in England until 1860, when, having prepared a home for her in the new world, she joined him in Hannibal, Missouri.  The following year they made their way westward to Utah and settled at Payson.  James W. Huish drove a team of cows, which he used as oxen in conveying his goods from Missouri to Utah, and the cows also furnished the family with milk while en route. Mrs. Huish walked the greater part of the way and carried a child in her arms. After settling in Utah she was a midwife and was frequently called upon for service in that connection in the early days before a physician located in Payson. With the development of that city and the surrounding district James W. Huish took an active part. He made all of the buildings used in the early days and in connection with his brother established the first blacksmith and machine shop in Payson. The brother was a noted machinist and did all the repair work for the surrounding country. Mr.  Huish of this review now has in his possession one of the first chairs made by his father and uncle. All of the Huish family possessed musical talent and skill and were of a literary turn of mind. They had a band of their own equal to any found in the state and likewise formed a family theatrical troupe and played in the leading towns of the state. The religious faith of the family was that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and James W. Huish was serving as high priest at the time of his death, which occurred December 1. 1895. His widow survived him for a number of years, passing away about 1908. James W. Huish was a most highly respected citizen, his capability, his progressiveness, his loyalty in friendship and his devotion to high ideals winning him the respect of all with whom he came in contact.

Fred A. Huish acquired his early education in the public schools of Payson and in 1891 entered business circles of the city as proprietor of a grocery store. The same year he was elected to the office of city recorder for a term of two years, running on an independent ticket and having only one vote cast against him-a notable record, indicating his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him. This constituted the beginning of the end of the elections promoted by the Latter-day Saints church, which up to that time had selected candidates for the office from the founding of the church in Utah. On the expiration of his two years' service Mr. Huish retired from the position of recorder and also disposed of his grocery business and went upon a mission to Turkey, the Holy Land, Egypt and Asia Minor. He spent about three years in that section of the world and saw many points of historical and biblical interest and bathed in the waters of the famous Jordan river and the Dead Sea.  In 1895 Mr. Huish returned to Payson, where he took up newspaper work, establishing the Header, which is now known as the Globe Header. He continued the publication of that paper for two years, during which time his nephew, C. E. Huish, learned typesetting under the direction of the uncle, and at the end of two years went to Eureka, Utah, where he established the Eureka Reporter, which is today one of the leading newspapers of the state. Through the columns of his paper Fred A. Huish succeeded in breaking up one of the toughest gangs of the state and greatly promoted law and order in other forms and advanced public prosperity, making his paper the champion of all valuable public interests. After two years he sold his newspaper plant and turned his attention to contracting and building, in which business he continued successfully for a number of years, or until 1902, when he removed to Provo, where he organized the Provo Floral Company. Later he was associated with O. R. Thomas in establishing the Provo Greenhouse Company and in the spring of 1916 they removed to Ogden and purchased the business of the Weber County Floral Company. They have since greatly enlarged their establishment, having now about ten thousand feet of glass and a floor space eighty by one hundred feet. The business is now conducted by the firm of Huish & Thomas and they have everything that can be found in the leading florists' establishments of the country. They make a specialty of spring goods, including carnations and geraniums, and their business has now reached very extensive and gratifying proportions. 

On the 14th of November, 1888, Fred A. Huish was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Jane Hill in the Manti Temple. She is a daughter of A. H. Hill, one of the earliest of the pioneer settlers of Utah and one of the first boys to drink out of Peteetneet creek, being a member of the first company that landed in that district. He was a farmer by occupation and came to the west from New Hampshire, his native state.  The mother was a native of Vermont and a member of the celebrated Chase family that has figured so prominently in connection with events of national importance. To Mr.  and Mrs. Huish have been born six children. Otera is now the wife of J. L. McEwan.  Roscoe E., was a member of the quartermaster's department of the United States army, having served for nineteen months. He was kept at Fort Douglas as bookkeeper until just before the armistice was signed and handled the pay roll at that place. He enlisted on the 17th of May, 1917. Hurrl N., the next of the family, enlisted June 1, 1918, and became a member of Motor Truck Company, No. 453. of Motor Supply Train, No. 415. He was immediately sent overseas and arrived in time to enter the action in the St. Mihiel sector, participating in the famous drive at that place. It was the first all American drive. He was likewise in the hotly contested engagement of the Argonne forest, where the Americans forced their way forward inch by inch in the face of the deadliest machine gun fire. He went with the army of occupation through Luxemburg, into Germany, where he is now stationed, his command being just across the river from Coblenz. Zora Majeda, the next of the family. Zaza and Norda, are all at home.  The religious faith of the Huish family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr. Huish is now a member of the Seventy. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of the World. Formerly he was a progressive republican but is now giving his political allegiance to the democratic party. A wide-awake and alert business man, he has made steady progress, especially since taking up the florist's business, and is today at the head of one of the leading establishments of the kind in the northern part of the state.

WILLIAM HULL.

William Hull was a lad of twelve years when with his parents he crossed the ocean and a youth of seventeen when he crossed the plains. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, September 13, 1842, a son of Thomas and Mary (Benson) Hull. The father was born in the north of Ireland, of English parents, and in young manhood removed to Scotland, where he engaged in coal mining. In 1840 he and his wife became converts to the Mormon faith and in 1854 came to the United States with the ultimate purpose of joining the people of their faith in this country. They settled first in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, where they remained for two years, and in 1856 removed to Peoria county, Illinois, where they resided for three years. They drove with ox teams across the country to Utah with Captain William Stevens' train in 1859, spending the winter at Kaysville, and in April, 1860, establishing their home at Franklin, Idaho. They were one of the first four families to settle there. The father engaged in farming and with his family remained in that locality for ten years. In 1870 removal was made to Hooper, Weber county, Utah, where the father built the first adobe house in the ward. There he resided to the time of his death, which occurred in 1886, and he became one of the most prominent and influential residents of his community, successfully carrying on farming and stock raising. He gave freely of his time and means to advance the interests and promote the up building of Weber county and his cooperation was most effective and resultant. The mother of William Hull passed away in 1877, when sixty-four years of age. The family numbered six children: Thomas, a resident of Hooper; Robert, who was killed by Indians on the Snake river in 1890; William; Isabel, the widow of Jonathan Smith, of Brigham; Ann, who is the widow of James Mitchell, and resides in Burley, Idaho; and Brigham, who has also passed away.

William Hull spent the first twelve years of his life in the land of hills and heather and then made the long voyage to the new world. The period of his youth was fraught with many interesting experiences as the family moved from place to place and ultimately crossed the plains to Utah. He drove an ox team the entire distance from Peoria, covering eighteen hundred miles to Salt Lake, where he arrived on the anniversary of his birth-September 13th. He went with his parents to Franklin, Idaho, and also to Hooper, Utah, and took up his abode just across the road from his present home. He homesteaded land and bought other land from the railroad company and concentrated his attention upon general farming. He also engaged in stock raising and in the conduct of his affairs was quite successful. In 1892, however, he gave up active farm work, admitted his son Robert to a partnership and turned his attention to his orchard, planting seventy-five hundred trees. The new venture proved a success and the firm expanded its activity and developed its fruit growing interests until they now have the largest and best orchard in Weber county. Their place is devoted to the production of apples, prunes and pears. Mr. Hull has not only won many prizes at the State Fair on fruit which he has raised but also on cattle raised upon his ranch in an early day. He is one of the stockholders in the canal project and at all times is actuated by a most progressive spirit that promotes his successful accomplishment of any plan which he formulates.

In 1864 Mr. Hull was married to Miss Eliza Lowe, a daughter of Thomas and Eliza Lowe. Mr. and Mrs. Hull have become parents of six children: Thomas B., Willard, James S., Robert, John H., and Joseph A., who passed away in November, 1918. All are well educated and have been assisted by their father on starting out in business life and all are now owners of farms.

In politics Mr. Hull was a. populist but is now a republican. However, he was a warm admirer of Bryan and supported him during his "sixteen to one" campaign.  He has ever been a stalwart champion of the cause of temperance and does everything in his power to advance that interest. He has made a success of life, his prosperity being attributable entirely to his perseverance and energy. He passed through all of the hardships and dangers of pioneer times here and was an eyewitness to the Bear River battle, in which three hundred Indians were killed. From the battlefield he took three papooses and two squaws, all of whom were wounded. His mother reared one of the little Indian children, who later married Heber Riley, of Ogden. In 1863 Mr. Hull made a trip back across the plains under command of Captain William B. Preston for immigrants. There is no phase of the settlement and development of Utah with which he is not familiar, and at all times he has borne his part in the work of general progress and improvement.

EDWIN P. HUNDLEY.

A modern philosopher has said: "Success does not depend upon a map but upon a time-table." In other words it is not place but the recognition and utilization of opportunity that determines one's position in the business world. Early recognizing this fact, Edwin F. Hundley has cultivated those qualities which make for advancement and he is now the secretary-treasurer and manager of the Ogden Furniture & Carpet Company and also the secretary and treasurer of the Goddard Packing Company, one of the large and important corporations of northern Utah. He was born at Commerce, Texas, March 15, 1878, a son of C. J. and Caroline (Jackson) Hundley, the former a native of Virginia, while the latter was born in Tennessee. The father became a physician and surgeon and during the Civil war he served with the Confederate army. He has now departed this life.

Edwin F. Hundley pursued his education in the schools of Texas and afterward spent sixteen years in Mexico. He was during that period a resident of the City of Mexico, where he was connected with railroad interests in the traffic and operating department of Mexican lines. He was also at Vera Cruz as general superintendent of the Terminal Company, thus representing a British corporation which controlled four roads.  At a later period he was with the American troops when they landed at Vera Cruz. He speaks Spanish fluently and was thus able to render valuable assistance to the troops when President Wilson found it necessary to send the American forces into the city.

In 1914 Mr. Hundley came to Ogden and through the intervening period has been identified with its commercial interests. He became the secretary-treasurer and manager of the Ogden Furniture Company and has since been officially connected in that manner with what is recognized as one of the important mercantile houses of the city. He is likewise a director of the Goddard Packing Company, with plants in Ogden, Salt Lake and Provo. The business of the Ogden Furniture & Carpet Company is the largest in Utah and includes both a wholesale and retail department. 

In 1912 Mr. Hundley was united in marriage to Miss Maude Patterson, a daughter of Adam Patterson, a very prominent and influential resident of Ogden. Mr. Hundley belongs to the Weber Club, also to the Ogden Golf & Country Club, and fraternally he is an Elk and a Mason. He belongs to Elks Lodge, No. 719, and to Unity Lodge, No. 19, A. F. & A. M., and that he has attained high rank in Masonry is indicated by the fact that he has membership in El Kalah Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Salt Lake. He is also identified with the Hoo Hoos, a social order of lumbermen. The family is one of prominence in Ogden. Mrs. Hundley occupies a leading social position and has been most active as a Red Cross worker. Mr. Hundley's career has been marked by steady advancement, by sterling integrity and honesty of purpose, and none of Ogden's citizens are more highly esteemed or more deserving of the respect of those with whom they have been connected.

RALPH P. HUNTER

Ralph P. Hunter is well known in financial and business circles in Ogden through his handling of mortgage loans and fire insurance, together with Utah, Idaho and Nevada lands, farms and city properties. He established this business in 1889 and through the intervening period of thirty years has successfully conducted it enjoying a large clientage. He is also a notary public and conveyance. 

While a native of northern Ohio, Ralph P. Hunter was but two years of age when he was taken by his parents to Quincy, Illinois. He is a son of Robert and Harriet (Plumb) Hunter. The father was born in the state of New York and was a representative of a family that removed from Scotland to the north of Ireland in 1670, while representatives of the name emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1720. The mother of Ralph P. Hunter was born in northern Ohio, near Cleveland, and was a daughter of Theron Plumb, who was descended from one of the old families of Massachusetts founded there at an early period in the colonization of that section of New England.  Both parents were active as home missionaries in the Congregational church and both have passed away leaving behind them a memory that is cherished by all who knew them. In their family were four sons and a daughter, but Ralph P. is the only one now living.

When but five years of age Ralph P. Hunter went with his parents to Washington county in southeastern Iowa, where he lived for six years and during that period attended the district schools. The family then removed to Louisa county, Iowa, and at the age of seventeen years he went to Adams county in southwestern Iowa, where he engaged in farming. While residing in that section he also spent four years in the office of county treasurer. In 1882 he entered the employ of the Lombard Investment Company, dealers in western securities, and was cashier in their office at Boston, Massachusetts, where he remained for three years.

On leaving Boston he went to Streator, Illinois, and took charge of the manufacture of steam engines and steam ditching machines, these being the first of the kind ever put upon the market. When his health failed he removed westward to Utah in the fall of 1888 and settled in Ogden in December of that year. He then founded the present business which has been conducted since 1889 under his own name. He has handled mortgage loans, fire insurance and Utah, Idaho and Nevada lands, including both farms and city properties, and he has enjoyed throughout the intervening period, covering three decades, a very extensive and gratifying patronage. He represents large eastern companies in the conduct of his business and has placed millions of dollars of eastern capital in this state. His activities and investments have contributed much to the development of the districts in which he has operated and there arc few men so thoroughly informed concerning property values in the west or who more thoroughly understand financial conditions as exemplified In the banking and business interests of this section of the country.

Mr. Hunter was married in 1882 to Miss Capitola Gustin, a native of Osceola,  Clarke county, Iowa. They are the parents of three daughters: Jeane S.. who was born in Massachusetts; Marilla P., who was born in Streator, Illinois, and is the wife of George W. Barlow, of Ogden; and Helen A., who was born in Ogden and after attending the public schools of this city became a student in the University of Utah, while later she took up the study of music in Chicago and is now a student in the Boston Conservatory of Music. Mrs. Barlow is a graduate of the public and high schools of Ogden and she, too. studied music, spending a year in the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, and one year in the University of Nebraska, while for five years she was superintendent of music in the Ogden high school. The mother, Mrs. Hunter, is a lady of marked musical talent which has been highly developed. She has been a teacher of piano, mandolin and guitar for years in Ogden and has recently returned from the Boston Conservatory of Music, where she was in charge of six young ladies from Utah who were studying in that art center. Mr. Hunter, too, is a lover of music and in young manhood sang as a choir member.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Congregational church, in which Mr. Hunter is serving as treasurer, and in the work of the church they take an active and helpful interest. In politics Mr. Hunter is a republican where national questions and issues are involved, but at local elections he casts an independent ballot. He is the president of the Iowa Club, which is made up of Iowa people now residents of Ogden and who are held together not only through social ties at the present but by reason of kindred and pleasant memories of their past. Mr. Hunter has hunted buffaloes and killed a number on the plains of eastern Colorado and in this way has found recreation and  interest. His health has greatly improved in the splendid climate of Ogden and the city has found in him a representative business man and progressive resident, alert at all times to the opportunities for up building the city and advancing its best interests.

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