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As a result of intense application he is president of the National Bank of the Republic, at Main and Second South streets, Salt Lake City. In addition to this he is manager of the Salt Lake Ice Company and also general manager of the Victoria Consolidated Mining Company of Eureka, Utah.
He is married and has five children: Robert, 20 years of age; John, 17; Courtney, 18; Mary, 13; and Dorothy, six years of age.
Mr. Lynch is a member of the Alta club, the Rotary club and of the Salt Lake Commercial club. He is a firm believer in the doctrines of the Republican party.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
WILLIAM MARTIN ROYLANCE
ITHOUT the advantages of classical training, having had only those educational opportunities offered by the common schools in his boyhood, and from which he was not graduated, William Martin Roylance of Provo has risen to the top by sheer force of charac- ter and indomitable pluck.
Mr. Roylance was born in Springville, Utah, in 1865, of parents who came to Utah from England. He attended the com- mon schools, primitive as they were in his boyhood, but early in life began to make his own way.
His worth was recognized by his associates and he soon entered public life. His Democratic friends elected him city recorder. Then he moved to Provo, county seat of Utah county, and became mayor of that beautiful and prosperous city, serving in 1904 and 1905.
Mr. Roylance was a member of the second and third legis- latures of Utah, and was speaker of the house of representatives in the third session.
He has been a leader and an authority on matters of agri- culture and horticulture, and owns the most valuable orchards in Utah. He is, too, the largest independent produce dealer in Utah, being president and manager of the Wm. M. Roylance company of Provo. He also is a stockgrower and merchant.
Mr. Roylance has married twice, his first wife, Laura Tur- ner Roylance, having died. His second wife, Mrs. May Zabris- kie, is living. Mr. Roylance has the following sons and daugh- ters: Martin W., Merline, Endi and William C. Roylance. Two children, Hazel and Ellis, died in infancy.
Mr. Roylance is a member of no fraternal organizations, but is active and progressive in the work of the Provo Commercial club and the Commercial club of Salt Lake City.
His parents were William Roylance and Lucy Clucas Roy- lance, both of English birth.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
KARL A. SCHEID
HEN a vacancy occurred in the office of city recorder of Salt Lake, and Karl A. Scheid was named to fill that important position, early in the summer of 1914, there was general satisfaction, because Mr. Scheid is known throughout Utah as one of the best equipped men in the city for such an important office. Mr. Scheid is a son of Valentine and Lena Fox Scheid. He was born at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1872. His ancestry is German, the family having lived in their ancestral home at Munsterapfle, near Bingen-on-the-Rhine, for generations.
Mr. Scheid is one of the best known insurance men in the west. For twenty years, until February, 1910, he was with the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, and during six years of that time was in a managerial capacity for Utah and southern Idaho.
During 1910 and 1911 he took a long vacation, making a world tour of eighteen months. Though Mr. Scheid had at- tended no college, his actual school days having ended when he completed the graded school work at Ouray, Colorado, in his boyhood, he had always been a close student and a general reader. His tour, therefore, was of especial value to him.
Mr. Scheid is a member of Mt. Moriah lodge of Masons, at Salt Lake, and is a member also of the Alta club of Salt Lake. He is married, Mrs. Scheid's maiden name having been Blanche L. Kimball. The family home is at 1127 East South Temple street, Salt Lake.
Mr. Scheid is nonpartisan in politics. He is a member of the Karl A. Scheid company, which has a large general loan and insurance business in Salt Lake City. He was elected city com- missioner of Salt Lake November 2, 1915, for a four-year term.
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GEORGE ALFRED SMITH.
S assistant general manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., which is now conducted from its Salt Lake City offices, George Alfred Smith first became iden- tified, through efforts and advancements covering a period of many years, with the sugar industry of this state in 1898. George Alfred Smith, son of Mary Ann Price and Jesse Smith, was born at Lehi, Utan, September 11, 1869. The parents emigrated from England during the year 1866, crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel. They came across the western plains by ox team, enduring the privations and vicissitudes incident to pioneer life. Dur- ing his boyhood days Mr. Smith attended the public schools at Lehi, after which he became a student at the Brigham Young University at Provo. At that institution he attended one semester each year from 1890 to 1898, working the first part of the term in the Lehi sugar factory to get funds to com- plete his education. He was graduated from that school in 1898, and immediate'y became identified with the Utah Sugar Company at Lehi as stenographer for the general manager. About five years later he was promoted to the chief clerkship of that company, and when the main office was moved to Salt Lake was given the position of private secretary to the gen- eral manager. While holding that position he did all the pur- chasing for the company, until that department grew to such proportions that it became necessary to organize a regular purchasing department. As the sugar industry expanded Mr. Smith's duties became chiefly those of assistant to the gen- eral manager. and overseer of the purchasing department, which duties he now performs. Mr. Smith is also secretary of Austin Brothers association, Austin and Sons Live Stock Company. Heber Land and Live Stock Company and the Price River Irrigation Company. He has always been a Republican and is a member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club. His wife was formerly Emma Fenton, included in the family being four children. George LeRoi. Emma Loraine, Fenton and Verviene, twelve, ten, six and three years of age, respectively.
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FRANK GILBERT JANNEY.
HE present prosperity of Utah is the result of the life work of many men who have given their entire energies to the building up of the commercial re- sources of Utah and have assisted in many ways to develop the mineral wealth and industries of the western country.
Frank Gilbert Janney, a native of Salt Lake, has taken an active part in such development. He is now connected with several of the largest financial institutions in the world, and has at the same time brought about the right results by his strict adherence to business. Mr. Janney was born October 12, 1866, at Salt Lake City. His parents, Mary A. Janney and Thomas A. Janney, are well known to Utahns. They were among the early settlers, his mother coming from Illinois in Oc- tober, 1850. She is still living in Salt Lake. His father came from Virginia to Salt Lake in 1857, and died in this city Decem- her 15, 1886. Mr. Janney was in business in Salt Lake for sev- eral years before his death.
Frank Gilbert Janney obtained his early education in the puhlie schools of Salt Lake City, but did not take a collegiate course due principally to his great desire to enter npon a busi- ness career.
Following his school days Mr. Janney immediately took up the profession of mechanical and metallurgical engineer. He is now manager of the Utah Copper Company, consulting engineer for the Chino Copper Company, the Ray Consolidated Copper Company, and the Butte-Superior Copper Company.
Like his father Mr. Janney is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is well known and highly esteemed by the mem- hers of that body. In addition to being a member of fraternal organizations Mr. Janney is a respected member of the Alta Club. the Salt Lake Commercial Chib, the Country Chib and the Salt Lake Tennis Club.
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NAT LEVI.
HE man who has had few of the advantages offered by the wonderful educational system of today, be- cause of conditions in his boyhood, but who, regard- less of that handicap has struggled to the top, is designated as a self-made man.
To this class belongs Nat Levi, who as a pro- moter of oil and gas concerns in Utah and Wyoming has achieved financial and industrial success.
Nat Levi is a son of Nathaniel and Margaret Willis-Levi. He was born at Dangerfield, Texas, June 9, 1866. His father was a native and a well known merchant of Palestine, Germany, and his mother was a native of Tennessee.
His youth was spent in Texas where he attended the public and High school, but obtained a broader education from his as- sociation with the men of Texas. He was married in 1890 to Miss Agnes Kendrick of Bastrop, Texas, and three children have been born to them. These children are Kendrick, Decie and Colly Levi.
Mr. Levi has followed the profession of promoting with un- usual success, his enterprises having fulfilled the promises made for them when the various enterprises were in the period of for- mation. Among his promotions are the British American Pe- troleum Company, and the Bear River Bay Oil and Gas Com- pany. He has also been closely identified with the formation of several companies in the Green River district, organized for the purpose of developing the oil and gas deposits in that section.
Mr. Levi is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and the Commercial Club of Brigham City. He has been particularly active in the work of the latter organization in developing the commercial power of Brigham City and Box Elder county. Big oil propositions at Cooper, Douglas and Lusk, Wyo., are being developed person- ally by Mr. Levi. He is a Democrat in politics.
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WILLIAM R. TYNDALE.
ILLIAM ROBERT TYNDALE comes of sturdy stock. His father was Stephensen Tyndale and his mother Mrs. Susan Brock Tyndale. He was born at Council Bluffs, Ia., June 4, 1873. His paternal grandfather was an Englishman who was a stout ad- herent of the British empire and loved English methods and manners. Incidentally he disliked things Ameri- can. Dr. Tyndale's paternal grandmother was a Protestant Irish, who was as stoutly enthusiastic in support of the Protest- ant faith as the grandfather was of the British government. The maternal grandparents of Dr. Tyndale were Scotch Coven- anters, proud of their ancestry and tracing it back to Holland in the seventeenth century.
Dr. Tyndale's parents were born in Canada. His mother was educated at McGill University, Montreal. His father moved to Iowa where he married, and then became a farmer.
The boyhood of Dr. Tyndale was spent on a farm. After gaining a common school education he entered the University of Chicago and attended that institution from 1896 to 1898 and afterward attended the Rush Medical College from 1898 to 1900. He was graduated from the latter institution with a medical de- gree in the summer of 1898 and in August, 1904, came to Salt Lake City.
He is devoting his entire time and study to internal dis- eases and especially chronic diseases.
It is with justifiable pride that Dr. Tyndale looks back on his early days, having largely earned his way through college and medical school. He has had eighteen months' post gradu- ate work in Berlin and Vienna. He taught night school for three years in Iowa, beginning at the age of 19 years. He was an interne at the Cook county hospital, Chicago, from December 1, 1900 to June 1, 1902. He is a Republican in politics and a great admirer of Theodore Roosevelt.
He is married, his wife formerly having been Miss Elsie P. Honn. They have one child, Hamilton Il., eight years of age.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
HENRY S. KLEINSCHMIDT.
MONG the prominent yonng civil engineers of the state, Henry S. Kleinschmidt, has taken an active part in developments during the last ten years. His father, A. A. Kleinschmidt, came from Germany to the United States in the days of sailing vessels and settled at Georgetown, D. C. His mother was Car- rie Schwing of Baltimore of a family noted as musicians and artists.
Mr. Kleinschmidt was born at Memphis, Tenn., May 28, 1882. With his parents he removed to St. Louis in 1890 and completed the common and high school work there. He then entered the engineering school, University of Missouri at Colum- bia, and completed a full four-year course, graduating with a degree of B. S. in civil engineering in 1903.
While there his attention was attracted to the newly organ- ized U. S. Reclamation Service and passing the civil service examinations he was appointed engineering aid. Ile served on various projects in this state and Idaho as assistant engineer, resigning in 1906 to enter the Utah state engineer's office as location and construction engineer. In these positions he ac- quired an unusually thorongh knowledge of the resources of the state. He resigned this position in the fall of 1911 to form a partnership with Mr. C. F. Brown, under the firm name, Brown & Kleinschmidt, which has taken a leading part in municipal work in land reclamation by irrigation and drainage in Utah and the surrounding intermountain states.
Mr. Kleinschmidt is married, his wife having been Miss Belle Peterson. They have one child, a son, Henry Anthon, born in November, 1913. Mr. Kleinschmidt is a member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club, a member of the Utah Society of En- gineers and an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is and always has been a staunch Demo- crat. He is an officer and director in the Bear River Valley Farm & Orchard Company and in the Southern Utah Arid Farm and Development Company.
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CHARLES TYNG.
MONG the professions which aid directly in the growth and development of a community, that of real state is particularly to be mentioned.
Among the real estate men of Salt Lake City, one of the leading members is Charles Tyng.
Mr. Tyng has great originality and daring in his work, his methods are ever new and he is looked up to as a leader in the realm of realty.
But Mr. Tyng is a native Californian, having been born in 1870 at Santa Barbara. His parents were George and Mrs. Elma A. Thompson Tyng. His father was a New Englander, a native of Newburyport, Mass., while his mother was born at Santa Barbara.
After receiving his common schooling, Mr. Tyng entered Cornell University in 1892 and took the civil engineering course. He came to Utah after concluding his studies, on March 17, 1906. Ilis marriage to Miss A. Vivian Mayer occurred on June 21. 1904. They have two children: Vivian, 6 years of age; and Virginia, 4 years of age.
Mr. Tyng is a member of Chi Psi fraternity ; he is a Knight Templar and a Shriner. He is also a member of the Alta Club, the Commercial Club, the Country Club, the Rotary Club and the Automobile Club of Utah. He is a member of the Honston Real Estate Investment Company. Mr. Tyng is a staunch Re- publican.
He was one of the candidates in the city election of the fall of 1913 for commissionership.
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EDWARD C. MANSON.
O NE of the railroads which has helped to develop the intermountain region and the northwest, is the Ore- gon Short Line. Among those holding responsible positions with the Oregon Short Line is Edward C. Manson. Mr. Manson was born at Dayton, Ohio, his parents being Edward Manson and Mrs. Emma Manson. He received his education in Ohio, first in the public schools and then at Oberlin college.
He entered the railway service in 1879 as telegraph operator on the Scioto Valley Railway.
From July, 1880 to May, 1881, he was telegraph operator for the Ohio Central Railway. Telegraph operator and depot agent on the Columbus Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway from May, 1881 to March, 1882; telegraph operator and train dis- patcher, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, from March, 1882 to October, 1887; train dispatcher and train master and chief train dispatcher, Oregon Short Line road, from October, 1887 to June 1, 1895; superintendent of car service of the Interna- tional & Great Northern road from June 1, 1895 to May 1, 1897; chief train dispatcher of the Oregon Short Line road at Poca- tello, Idaho, from May 1, 1897 to December 24, 1898; superin- tendent of the Idaho division of the same road at Pocatello, from December 25, 1898 to June 1, 1905; division superintendent of the same road and the Southern Pacific Company, at Ogden, Utalı, Oregon Short Line road from June 1, 1910 to September 30, 1911; and from October 1, 1911 up to date, assistant general manager of the same road at Salt Lake City, Utah, in charge of the operating department. Politically, Mr. Manson is a Re- publican.
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ANDREW JACKSON HOSMER, M. D.
LEVEN children were born to Andrew Jackson Hos- mer, Sr., and Martha Eldred Hosmer at New Bos- ton, Mich., and one of the eleven was Andrew Jack- son Hosmer, who arrived in 1858. He was a farm boy but the science of surgery won against the fluc- tuations of the grain market and, in due time, he entered the University of Michigan and enrolled in the school of medicine. He spent six years studying for his profession and graduated in 1885.
In 1897 he came to Salt Lake and began the practice of med- icine. He was successful as a practicing physician and is now senior surgeon at the Holy Cross hospital. In addition he is division surgeon of the Salt Lake Route. During his active practice, Dr. Hosmer has taken time of study abroad and has spent about three years in the foreign schools, principally in Vienna.
Dr. Hosmer and his wife, formerly Letitia Fell, have two children, Rawson Fell Hosmer, five years of age, and Geraldine Hosmer, two years of age.
Dr. Hosmer is a Knight Templar and Shriner of the Ma- sonic order and is a member of the Alta and Commercial Clubs of Salt Lake. In politics he is a Republican.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
RICHARD P. MORRIS.
OW and then men are found who are repeatedly hon- ored by their fellow citizens with the public trust of office. Tried by responsibility, they are called upon again and again by their state or city to take up the publie burden. It is thus in the case with Richard P. Morris.
Mr. Morris's name is a household word in Salt Lake and the intermountain region. He is a native son of Salt Lake, hav- ing been born there in December 1857. He comes of English stock, his parents having immigrated to America from the United Kingdom in 1855. He is thus of the old English Morris fam- ily, one of the leading families of the island empire.
Mr. Morris grew up to love his state and city with unwonted devotion. He attended the Morgan Business College and also the public schools of this city. After the years of preparation he entered upon a commercial career, becoming eventually one of the leading merchants of Salt Lake City.
Not long afterward his intense interest in the welfare of the community was rewarded in a most practical way. For Mr. Morris has been elected twice as councilman from the Third Precinct, elected three times as City Treasurer and was elected Mayor of Salt Lake City for the term of 1904 and 1905, and in 1912 was elected to the City Commission.
He belongs to the Commercial club and is an enthusiastic supporter of everything that benefits this city and state.
Mr. Morris is married, his wife having been Miss Florence Dinwoody, a member of one of the prominent families of this state. They have five children: Emma, 26 years of age; Den, 24 years of age; Russell, 14 years of age; Thornton, 10 years of age; and Marion, 8 years of age.
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EDGAR A. WEDGWOOD.
N jotting down a few notes for the information of the compilators of this work, the Adjutant General of Utah stated briefly that his name was Edgar A. Wedgwood; that he was a lawyer by profession; was born in 1856 and was married, and a few other short comments of the like anent himself. The fact is, General Wedgwood is somewhat of a personage and the follow- ing sketch gives something of an idea of his service to his coun- try and his state :
General Wedgwood began public service in 1883 as the sheriff of the county in which is situated Grand Island, Ne- braska. In 1883, at 27 years of age, he began studying law and was admitted to the Nebraska bar while yet in the office of sheriff.
In the "nineties," he came to Utah and located at Provo, engaging in the practice of law. In 1895 he enlisted as a private in Company "M" of the National Guard of Utah. With the out- break of the Spanish-American war in the spring of 1898, he was commissioned as first lientenant of Battery B, Utah light artil- lery.
During his service in the artillery, General Wedgwood saw the fall of Manila and went through the campaigns ineident to the extension of American occupaney of the north shore of the island of Luzon to San Fernando. He returned home in July, 1899, and was mustered ont August 16, 1899, as captain of Bat- tery A, Utah light artillery.
General Wedgwood has been snecessful in the practice of law and has for many years been one of the firm of Thurman, Wedgwood & Irvine of Salt Lake. March 8, 1907, he took the oath as Adjutant General of the National Guard of Utah, and is to be credited with nich of the present high efficiency of the militia of this state. In July, 1913, he was appointed a member of the National Militia Board by the Secretary of War.
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ALFRED E. TOURSSEN.
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NE of the leading members of the automobile busi- ness in Utah today is Alfred E. Tourssen, manager, secretary and treasurer of the Randall-Dodd Auto Co., Ltd.
Mr. Tourssen was born at Chicago, Ills., June 14, 1879. His parents were John and Mrs. Ellen Johnson Tourssen, natives of Trondheim, Norway, where the elder Tourssen was engaged in the shoe business, emigrating to America in 1871.
A. E. Tourssen spent his boyhood in Chicago, attending the public graded schools and one of the high schools. He was graduated from high school in 1897 and on September 21, 1907, he came to Utah.
Mr. Tourssen married Miss Wilhelmina Norman in Salt Lake City on September 6, 1911. They have one child, Norman Alfred, eight months of age.
Mr. Tourssen has made a marked snecess in the antomobile trade. His position as manager of the Randall-Dodd Anto Co. is one of responsibility. The company has a branch at Boise, Ida., and employs agents and dealers in every town in the inter- mountain country.
Mr. Tourssen is also secretary and treasurer of the King Mining Company of Cherry Creek, Nev., and is intermountain distributor for the Buick-Oldsmobile and National cars.
He is active in the promotion of the Midland Trail and is a member of the Utah Automobile Trades Association; the Utah Electric Club; the Salt Lake Auto Club, and the Commercial Club of this city. He belongs to the Chicago lodge of Knights of Pythias and to the Royal Arcanum. Politically Mr. Tours- sen is an independent.
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GEO. J. FIELD.
ROBABLY no more enthusiastic admirers of their native state are to be found in the confines of the United States than the Missourians. They are proud of their commonwealth, its history and its elime and soil and of its sons and daughters.
But in many instances, the sons of Missouri step into newer fields for the purpose of carrying on their life work.
Such is true of Dr. Geo. J. Field. Dr. Field was born at Platte City, Mo., May 7, 1867.
His choice of calling is fitting, for his father, Dr. Geo. W. Field, was a doctor before him, practicing in Platte City, Mo., until the time of his death.
Tlms the great law of inherited inclination, which so often bequeathes to the son the talents and inclinations of the parent. was proven true in this case.
When still a young man, Dr. Field entered the Missouri State University in 1884 and was graduated from that institu- tion in 1887, having made a good record for himself in the fa- mons institution at Columbia.
From there he went to the Missouri Medical College at St. Lonis, being graduated from that school March 5, 1889.
He heard the call of the west, and came to Utah in 1891. practicing medicine at Eureka for fourteen years, as a general practicioner.
Dr. Field is a widower, and has an only son, Julian W. Field who is fourteen years of age.
Dr. Field is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge No. 12 of Eureka, Utah, and of the Maccabees, as well as being a member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club.
He also is a member of the American Medical Association. the Salt Lake County Medical Association and the Utah State Medical Society.
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OSBORNE J. P. WIDTSOE.
D REPARED by many years of study in some of the best schools and universities of America, Prof. Os- borne J. P. Widtsoe, formerly of the Latter-day Saints University, Salt Lake City, is qualified for the responsibilities of his position as educator. He is a member of the faculty of the University of Utah.
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