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Men of Affairs int The State of Utah
UTAH STATE CAPITOL
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COMPILED BY AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE PRESS CLUB OF SALT LAKE
1914
WESTERN PRINTING CO. SALT LAKE CITY
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HE transformation of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake and the State of Utah from barren and desolate desert to boun- T teous and wealth-giving verdure; the de- velopment of those hidden riches that have &been torn from the rock-ribbed grasp of the mountains; the outpouring of wealth and the building of populous, happy com- munities in the realm of the Queen of the Intermountain West, have attracted the admiring attention of the world.
This transformation has been made by men whose initiative and courage have overcome all obstacles and have given to this commonwealth a fame that extends throughout the world.
That we may know these men as they are, and that we may realize what they have accomplished, The Press Club of Salt Lake presents this work.
While Men of Affairs in The State of Utah is primarily a work for newspaper libraries, it is designed, without giving any one man undue publicity, to show the marvelous opportunities that still exist in this field, and to show, by citing the examples of the sucess of these men, what may be done by persistent effort and a de- termined spirit.
The events of today are history tomorrow. Newspapers re- cord the history of the world from day to day. Newspapers re- quire pictures of persons and places for reproduction with current happenings. Although they exhaust every source to secure up-to- O date photographs, they often are compelled to reprint old style line cuts or wash drawings, and in the majority of cases have no picture at all.
The facts regarding men are often jumbled owing to the necessity of gathering them from whatever source available on a moment's notice.
Every precaution has been taken to have the facts herein cor- rect in every detail and the photographs of recent date.
The work will be the ready reference work for the newspaper editor, writer and artist. The publication will go to all news- papers in the State of Utah, to the Associated Press, the Inter- national Press and other news agencies, and to the public libraries of this state.
"The history of the world is the biographies of great men."-THOMAS CARLYLE.
HE lives of the men in this publication stand out as T notable examples of the types of men who have lent their force or capital, or both; to the upbuilding of the great Intermountain West. Many of them pio- neered through the hardships of the early days, while others battled bravely against the disappoint- ments of early development, when the growth of the broad and permanent foundation of this great commonwealth seemed slow; still others of more recent arrival have aided in the structure to its present wonderful development.
"All men are to an unspeakable degree, brothers, each man's life a strange emblem of every man's; the human portraits, faith- fully drawn, are, of all pictures, the welcomest on human walls." -THOMAS CARLYLE.
"Let the record be made of the things of today, lest they pass out of memory tomorrow and are lost. Then perpetuate them, not upon wood or stone that crumbles to dust, but upon paper, chron- ieled in picture and words that endure forever."-KIRKLAND.
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Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
JOSEPH F. SMITH.
HE life of President Joseph F. Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, may be epito- mized in two words: "Action" and "Service." Though he is now seventy-seven years of age, these words describe his life today as they did in the stir- ring days of his pioneer boyhood. He has survived many adventures to give to his people the benefit of a wonderful range of experience.
Joseph Fielding Smith was a son of Hyrum Smith, second patriarch of the church and brother of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He was born November 13, 1838, at Far West, Mo.
The early life of President Smith was filled with the priva- tions suffered by the loyal Saints in the days of the persecution. His mother fled with him from Nauvoo, Ill., in 1846, and at the age of eight years he drove an ox team across the desert. He reached Salt Lake with his mother September 23, 1848. In the year 1854 he was called on a mission to the Sandwich Islands, returning to Utah in 1858. He joined the militia and participated in the interception of Johnston's Army. He went on a mission to Great Britain in 1860, returning in 1863. He returned to the Sandwich Islands in 1864, and then was employed in the office of the Church Historian. He was in charge of the Endowment house after the death of President Young until it was closed. He was ordained an apostle July 1, 1866. He served in England on a mission in 1874, and 1875, and went to England in 1877 on his third mission. On account of the death of President Young he was chosen second counsellor to President John Taylor in October, 1880; holding the same position under Presidents Wood- ruff and Snow. Upon the death of President Snow he became President of the Church.
He has exercised wise and discerning judgment in the weighty affairs of the church that have come under his jurisdio- tion, and is beloved of his people.
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JESSE KNIGHT.
F English and German descent, and of American birth and training, Jesse Knight is a typical Amer- ican.
He was born at Nauvoo, Ills., in 1845. His father was Newell Knight and his mother Lydia Golthwait Knight. It is on his father's side that Mr. Knight traces his parentage to England, while on his moth- er's side he comes of German stock. His father died in Janu- ary, 1847, when Mr. Knight was only two years of age. This was at Ponca, Nebraska, while the pioneer was on his way west.
Mr. Knight is a typical self-made man. Attending no uni- versity, securing the elementary training as best he might while earning a livelihood in driving oxen and other rugged work.
Mr. Knight is married. His wife was formerly Miss Amanda MeEwan. Six children have been born to them. One danghter, Minnie, is dead. Those living are Oscar Raymond Knight, J. William Knight, Mrs. Inez K. Allen, Mrs. Jennie Mangum and Mrs. Iona K. Jordan.
Mr. Knight is an admirer of Salt Lake City and of its won- derful growth, and for four years, when a boy, made his home in the capitol. He is now a resident of Provo, Utah, where are lo- cated the headquarters of his numerous mining and other in- terests.
Mr. Knight is a Democrat and a staunch believer in the policies of the party. He is most deeply interested in mining and some idea of the diversity of his interests may be gained from the following list of concerns with which he is closely allied :
Provo Woo'en Mills, Iron Blossom Mining Company, pres- ident of the Knight Trust Company, president of the Spring Canyon Coal Company, president of the Knight Sugar Com- pany, and associated in the Aurora Mining Company, the Colo- rado Mining Company, the Tintie Mining Company and the Dragon Consolidated Mining Company.
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J. WILLIAM KNIGHT
ORN at Payson, Utah, Angust 20, 1874, J. William Knight is a genuine Utalm. His father, "Uncle" Jesse Knight, of Provo, Utah, is one of the best known residents of this state. Mr. Knight at- tended the public schools and later in the commer- cial department of the Brigham Young University, in 1904. He took up commercial life soon afterwards and be- came interested in mining and banking. His home is at Provo, Utah, but he is as well known in the capitol, and throughout Utah generally, as in Provo.
Mr. Knight is married, his wife having been Miss Jennie Brimhall. They have one child, a son, Richard Knight, three years of age. Mr. Knight is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He also belongs to two clubs, the Salt Lake and the Provo Commercial Clubs. His business in- terests are large and diversified. Although still a young man, some idea may be gained of the scope of his commercial inter- ests by looking over the following list of concerns with which he is connected :
He is a director of the Knight Investment Company and of the Knight Trust & Savings Bank, he is vice-president of the National City Bank and of the Iron Blossom Mining Company, a director of the Ellison Ranching Company and vice-president of the Spring Canyon Coal Company, a director of the Aurora Consolidated Mining Company, vice-president and director of the Eureka Hill Railroad, vice-president and director of the Knight-Christensen Metal Company, director of the Utah Ore Sampling Company, and also a director of the Western Ore Purchasing Company, the Knight Woolen Mills Company, and the Knight Sugar Company.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
DANIEL COWAN JACKLING.
NE of the most prominent men in the entire western country, Daniel Cowan Jackling, son of Daniel and Lydia Jane (Dunn) Jackling, was born in Appleton City, Bates county, Missouri, August 14, 1869. After completing the course in the common schools, Mr. Jackling attended the state normal school at War- rensburg, Missonri, and later the Missouri school of mines, from which he received his degree of bachelor of science and metallur- gical engineer in 1892. He came to the Cripple Creek district in Colorado as chemist and metallurgist in 1894. He remained in Cripple Creek until 1896, and then came to Utah to take charge of the construction and operation of the metallurgical works of the Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines, Mercur, Utah.
Mr. Jackling was prominent in the organization of the Utah Copper Company in 1903 and since that time has been vice presi- dent and manager director of that company. He is also vice president and managing director of the Ray Consolidated Cop- per Company, Chino Copper Company; director Butte & Supe- rior Copper Company; vice president and general manager Ray & Gila valley railroad, and the Bingham and Garfield Railroad; vice president Nevada-Northern Railroad and the Nevada Con- solidated Copper Company, and Alaska Gold Mines Company; president of the Utah Power & Light Company, and Hotel Utah Operating Company ; director General Petroleum Company, vice president McCornick & Company, Bankers, and of the Utah State National Bank, vice president of the Garfield Banking Company, director Salt Lake Security & Trust Company, Utah Hotel Com- pany and the Utah Fireclay Company.
Hle is a member of American Mining Engineers and the Met- allurgical Society of America. Among the clubs with which he is connected are: Alta (president in 1909), University, Commer- cial and Country, Salt Lake; Rocky Mountain and New York Yacht, New York; California, Los, Angeles; El Paso, Colorado Springs; Pacific Union and the Bohemian, San Francisco; Rai- nier, Seatle.
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CHARLES WALTER WHITLEY.
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IRECTOR and manager of several wealthy and wide- ly-known corporations in the east and west and a man who has no peer in the mining and smelting business from the ground up, Charles Walter Whit- ley has worked his way up to his present offices of trust.
Mr. Whitley is the son of Elizabeth Holbrook Whitley and John Whitley. He was born June 20, 1870, in Chicago. After acquiring a general school education in Chicago Mr. Whitley en- tered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1887, and after spending four years there as a student was graduated in 1891.
Shortly after his graduation he entered the street railway business in the capacity of electrical engineer for the Chicago City Railway Company, and built for them their first electrical installation. Subsequent to the completion of this work he as- sumed the management and construction of the Canyon Ferry Dam on the Missouri River twenty-two miles from Helena, Mon- tana. While in Montana he became identified with the smelting and mining business and shortly became manager of the United Smelting & Refining Company's plants at East Helena and Great Falls. Subsequently he gave up his electrical engineering work and assumed the position of general manager of the American Smelting & Refining Company's interests in Utah. He married Miss Dorothy K. Kinney, dangh- ter of Mr. Timothy Kinney, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, and they have two children. Although not a member of any fraternal organization he is a well-known member of the Salt Lake Commercial club, Alta club, Country club, Salt Lake Tennis club and the Engineers' club of New York City. Among the corporations with which he is vitally interested and of which he is a director are, the American Smelting & Refining Company, the American Smelters Securities Company, MeCornick & Com- pany Bankers, Garfield Banking Company, Hotel Utah Operat- ing Company. the Garfield Improvement Company and the Gar- field Water Company.
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THOMAS G. WEBBER.
HE position in Utah business circles, occupied by Thomas G. Webber is pre-eminent. He was associ- ated with T. H. Stenhouse in publishing the first daily paper in Salt Lake City, "The Daily Tele- graph," which was first printed July 4, 1864. He also published the first daily in Ogden, "The Tele- graph," May 11, 1864.
His parents were Thomas B. Webber and Mrs. Charlotte D. Burgh Webber. Col. Webber was born at Exeter, England, Sep- tember 17, 1836. In 1857 he came to America, crossing the con- tinent to California in 1858.
He sailed for New York at the opening of the Civil War in 1861, and served with the Federal army in the Peninsular, Vir- ginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania campaigns.
In 1863 he came to Salt Lake City, and published "The Daily Telegraph." Governor Dooty appointed him Lieutenant Colonel and Adjutant of the Second Brigade, in 1865. Mr. Wen- ber married Miss Mary E. F. Richards, May 25, 1863. Six chil- dren were born: Mrs. James L. Franken, Georgena M. B. Web- ber, Mrs. George L. Nye, Shirley T. B. Webber, William T. F. Webber and Mildred R. Webber, the last two having died.
Mr. Webber was assistant secretary of Zion-s Co-operative Mercantile Institution to June, 1869; secretary to 1871 ; secretary and treasurer to 1875 and secretary general manager from 1888 to date. Ile was a member of the city council from 1884 to 1885 and alderman from 1886 to December 31, 1889. He was presi- dent of the Zion's Benefit Building Society from June 26, 1883 to date: president of the Salt Lake & Ogden Gas & Electric Light Company, 1896 to 1898; president of the Salt Lake City public library, 1897 to 1904; director of the Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company, 1873 to date; of the Home Fire Insurance Com- pany, 1886 to date; Utah Sugar Co., 1899 to 1902; Postal Tele- graph Co., 1899 to date; Utah Light & Railway Co., 1904 to date; Utah Hotel Co., 1909 to date; Utah State National Bank, 1913 to date; and was vice-president of the Utah Light & Power Co., 1898 to 1903.
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WILLIAM S. McCORNICK.
NAME to conjure with is that of William S. Me- Cornick. For many years a commanding figure in the western mining and smelting industry, and for nearly as many years an equally commanding figure in the western financial world, Mr. McCornick is considered as one of the biggest financial powers be- tween the Mississippi and the coast.
He is a son of Mary Vance MeCornick and George MeCor- nick, and is a native of Ireland, but does not know definitely the date of his birth. He attended no college in his youth, but de spite the lack of such opportunity, acquired his education along financial lines upon which he centralized, until he is considered a wizard.
Mr. MeCornick came to Utah in 1873, and has made his home in Salt Lake City since that time. His beautiful home on npper Main Street is one of the most elegantly furnished, with an eye to pure comfort, of any in the city.
Mrs. McCornick's name before her marriage was Hannah Keogh, and there are eight sons and daughters ranging in age from twenty-five years to forty years.
Mr. McCornick is not fond of social life save as a diversion from business, but the entertainments given by Mrs. MeCornick and by their family are lavish and in perfect taste.
In addition to his banking interests, he being president of MeCornick & Company, bankers, and being interested in many other financial institutions, he still retains his interests in mines and smelters, and in the stock raising industry.
He is a member of the Alta and Commercial Clubs, but of no fraternal or secret societies.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
MATHEW H. WALKER.
ATTHEW H. WALKER was born on January 16, 1845, at Yeadon, Yorkshire, England, of good Eng- lish stock, his father being Matthew Walker and his mother Mrs. Mercy Lang Walker.
The family has an honorable history more than the usual interest being attached to it, inasmuch as Grandfather Walker fought in the British army which defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo.
M. H. Walker was only seven years of age when he came to America with his parents in 1852.
He was educated in the common schools of Salt Lake from 1855 to 1860 and with that humble preparation had made for himself a name in the new country of his adoption.
Slowly and steadily he climbed the ladder of success until today Mr. Walker is president of Walker Bros. Bankers con- cern, one of the leading financial institutions not only of Utah but of the entire intermountain region.
Patriotic in his Americanism, having been naturalized and taking their rights of citizenship in the United States seriously and as inenrring certain obligations as well as advantages, Mr. Walker has shown the same patriotic feeling in behalf of his state and city. He is a member of the Commercial Club in fact as well as name. His keen insight into business and financial affairs has been of the greatest aid to that organization, the Salt Lake Commercial Club having no more enthusiastic "booster" than Matthew H. Walker.
In addition to this he is a member of the Alta and the Coun- try Clubs, being a figure in the social life of the state's capitol. He is a Mason of high standing.
Prominent also in the state's society is his wife, Mrs. An- geline Andrews Walker, who is a power in the social and bene- volent circles of the city and state.
They have two children: John H. Walker, 47 years of age, and F. Glenn Walker, 15 years of age.
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P. W. DUNYON.
R EARED in Utah, Phares Wells Dunyon is a typical citizen of this growing commonwealth. His parents were Newton Isaac Dunyon and Eveline Wells Dunyon. Mr. Dunyon was born at Tooele, Utah, on October 21, 1874. His mother was born at Nauvoo, Ills., and crossed the plains with an ox team, enduring those hard- ships which the early pioneers of Utah had to pass through. His father was born in Ohio and came to Utah with the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Dr. J. Dunyon, in the early days. Dr. Dunyon was a member of the first council of Salt Lake City.
P. W. Dunyon went through the district schools of Tooele and then took up the normal course at the State University, being graduated from the latter institution in 1892. He became prin- cipal of schools at Tooele, Utah, after leaving college, and then came to Salt Lake City in August, 1904.
Mr. Dunyon is a member of the Mormon Church and filled a mission to the Southwestern States for two years. For one year he was an instructor at Snow Academy at Ephraim, Utah. He is a Republican.
He is manager of the P. W. Dunyon Company, a mail order house and manufacturers' agent. He is also interested in mining in Deep Creek and Nevada.
Mr. Dunyon is married, his wife being formerly Miss Lois V. Lyman, a daughter of President F. M. Lyman of the Mormon Church.
Theirs is a musical family. One daughter, Melba, 13 years of age, is making excellent progress with the 'cello. The other daughter, Dorothy, 10 years of age, is making rapid progress in studying the violin. Mrs. Dunyon is an excellent soprano, while Mr. Dunyon himself is a pianist of excellence. Thus they have a regular orchestra at home.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
WILLIAM ROBERT CALDERWOOD.
NE of the most consistent believers in the ultimate greatness of Utah, who pins his faith to the future of the state and who declares that with the development of the partly developed and undeveloped resources of the state, Utah will become one of the most wealthy in the nation, is Dr. William Robert Calderwood. Dr. Calder- wood is a native of Utah, and the greater part of his life has been spent in Utah. He has watched the steady and phenomenally rapid development of the state from a wilderness to a wide do- main of fertile farms and bounteous orchards, wealth-producing mines and smelters and factories, since his boyhood.
He was born at Coalville, Utah, April 12, 1866. His parents were Alexander and Margaret Salmon Calderwood. His father came to Utah in 1855, eight years after the pioneers' arrival, and his mother followed in 1862, when conditions were less primitive, but far from what they are today. His father was a leader, and fought in the Black Hawk war, when the Indians were driven back, and the seed of civilization was given an opportunity to develop and grow.
Dr. Calderwood attended the primitive schools of the terri- tory, and later the University of Utah. He remained in the latter institution from 1889 to 1892, and from 1899 to 1903 was a student in the University of Chicago, where he secured his degree of doc- tor of medicine. He taught school seven years in the interim between his college experiences.
Dr. Calderwood is married and has three daughters. His wife was formerly Miss Emily K. Dean; and his daughters are Edna, 17 years of age; Mildred, 11, and Katie, six years of age. Dr. Calderwood is medical director of the Beneficial Life Insur- ance Company ; and is a director in the Utah Investment & Trust Company, in addition to his large medical practice. His home in Salt Lake City is at 321 North Main street.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
JOHN W. CLARK, JR.
HAT Morse was to telegraphy, Bell to the telephone and Edison to electricity, John W. Clark, Jr., promises to be to future railroad construction, the leader in the safety first movement for the track of the roads over which steam, electric or other cars run. By the inven- tions of Mr. Clark, train wrecks from spreading rails and other causes may become practically impossible. Leading railroad men who have made careful investigation of the Clark inventions, are united in their opinion that they solve some of the greatest railroad problems.
For over 20 years Mr. Clark has given attention to inven- tions. The Clark metal tie and rail is but one of many products of his brain.
It is of this kind of stamina that great inventors are made. Failures, such as come to the lot of all inventors, have come to Mr. Clark, but he has fought them down with faith that the world will yet acknowledge him, and the world is beginning to under- stand what he has accomplished. Those who know him best pre- dict that he is just entering into a wonderful career.
Mr. Clark is a native of Utah, born at Kanah, Kane county, October 29, 1875. His mother was Ellen Young and his father John W. Clark. Mr. Clark entered the Brigham Young Univer- sity at Provo in 1889. He moved to Salt Lake City in 1908, where he now resides. Mr. Clark married Susa Wilkins, and has four children.
He is president and manager of the Clark Metal Tie & Rail Company.
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JOHN F. BENNETT.
OHN F. BENNETT was born in England, July 11, 1865, the family emigrating to Utah in the fall of 1868. His father walked from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and the son also walked part of the way. Mr. Bennett at- tended school at Social Hall until 14 years of age. The first work he undertook was to carry charcoal for the blacksmiths where tools were sharpened for the work on the Temple.
Mr. Bennett is a member of the Mormon church, working par- ticularly in the departments for the young. He is general treas- urer for the church Sunday schools and is one of the board of control of the Deseret gymnasium. He is associated with the Zion's Benefit Building Society and has served that company for thirty years. He is regarded as broad and public spirited. He is one of the charter members of the Salt Lake Commercial Club and is a member of the governing board. He is president and manager of the Bennett Glass & Paint Company, where seventy- five persons are employed in manufacturing paints, art glass and mirrors and in marketing these products. Mr. Bennett is vice- president of an affiliated company in Ogden in the same line. He refers to these positions as his "bread and butter game."
In addition to these he occupies positons of trust as follows: Vice-president of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Provo; one of the directorate of Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institu- tion, of Zion's Savings Bank, of the Utah State National Bank, of the Home Fire Insurance Company of Utah, of the Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company, of the Saltair Company and the Saltair Railroad Company, and also of many smaller concerns. He says that his life is busy enough without politics.
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