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Mr. Christensen is one of Utah's most enthusiastic "boost- ers" and believes in the future of Salt Lake City, as well. It is natural, therefore, that he is a member of the Salt Lake Com- mercial Club.
Mr. Christensen went from Gunnison to Denver in 1881 and lived there and in Wyoming until 1900 when he chose Utah's capi- tal for his future home.
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WALTER J. BURTON.
ALTER J. BURTON is a native son, having been born in Salt Lake City February 15, 1865. His career has been a steady rise in commercial lines. Today he is president of the Burton Manufacturing Company, of the Burton Coal & Lumber Company and of the Burton- Cotton Lumber Company. His business is that of wholesale lumber and the manufacture of tar products.
As a lumberman he is an enthusiastic member of the Hoo- Hoos, the "Shriners" of the Lumbermen's Association, and as a loyal Utahn and Salt Lake City "booster," he is an energetic member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club.
Mr. Burton comes of excellent lineage. His father was Rob- ert Taylor Burton and his mother, Susan McBride Burton. He is a son of pioneers. His mother came to Utah in 1848 and his father in 1849, the year of the California "gold fever." His par- ents suffered hardships which the other pioneers of those early days endured in crossing the plains and risking their lives in mortal combat with the Indians. His father was of English descent and his mother of Scotch.
Mr. Burton is a graduate of the University of Utah, which he attended in the years 1884 and 1885.
He is married, his wife's maiden name having been Miss Lucy Brown. This union was blessed with four children: Lucile, 23 years of age; Walter B., 21 years of age; Sarah, 16 years of age, and Rebecca, eight years of age.
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ALFRED FRANK.
F OURTEEN years ago Alfred Frank came west from his native Cincinnati after graduating in 1898 as a min- ing engineer from Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. He located first in Butte, Mont., in 1900, as assistant mine surveyor in the mines of the Montana Ore Purchasing Company and other properties of F. Augustus Heinze. For ten years he served in the Heinze prop- erties in various capacities, from mine surveyor and foreman to superintendent and manager. In 1910 he came to Utah as consulting engineer and mine manager for the Ohio Copper Company, the large holdings of which are located in Bingham canyon, Salt Lake County.
Mr. Frank was born January 27, 1879, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was Charles Frank and his mother Amelia Binger Frank. Mr. Frank is unmarried.
He is a member of the B. P. O. E. and the Alta, University, Commercial and Country Clubs of Salt Lake. For several years he has also been a member of the Silver Bow ("lub of Butte, Mont. In politics his sympathies are with the Republican party.
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RICHARD L. CONELY.
A SSISTANT cashier of McCornick & Co., bank- ers, an institution that is recognized in every state in the Union as one of the strongest of its kind; a man who has worked himself up from a hum- ble position to one of power by his untiring efforts, his integrity and honesty and his faculty of making and retaining
the friendship of his associates, is Richard L. Conely. He was born at Brighton, Mich., in 1868. His parents were.Amelia Meyers-Conely and Samuel H. Conely. His school- ing was gained in his native state, but his collegiate course was finished in Utah.
Mr. Conely is a Republican. He can at any time be called upon to take an active part, as his friends know that he is al- ways to be depended upon.
At the age of 14 years Mr. Conely came to Utah. Shortly after his arrival he entered the Collegiate Institute in Salt Lake City. He was graduated with honors from that institution in 1886. Mr. Conely is an active club man, and is a member of both the Alta and the Salt Lake Commercial Clubs. He is an active booster.
His wife's maiden name was Rhoda Mullett. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Conely: William Conely, 22 years of age; Fred Conely, 20 years of age; Gladys, 18 years of age, and Richard Conely, Jr., 10 years of age.
Mr. Conely has achieved high honors in connection with his membership in the Masonic fraternity. In 1904 he was grand master of the Masons in Utah. Following his admission to mem- bership in the order he soon became a member of the consistory.
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EDWARD ROBINS ZALINSKI.
DWARD R. ZALINSKI was born at Fort Monroe, Va., E May 13, 1879. He was the son of Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, Major U. S. A., and Anna Hall Zalinski. His father was the inventor of the pneumatic dynamite tor- pedo gun and other military devices; also of the pris- matic diffusing reflector, combining diffusion with re- flection in the modern system of lighting.
Mr. Zalinski attended school in New York and Massachusetts. He was graduated from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1900, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in mining and metallurgy. He took post graduate work in petrography, geology, physics, and chemistry at the University of Leipsig, Leipsig, Ger- many, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in February, 1904. While abroad he visited and studied European mines.
He was field assistant to F. L. Ransome of the United States Geological Survey in work on the mines of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho, during the season of 1904. Later he was engineer and assaver at the De Soto mine, Middleton, Arizona, and super- intendent of the Azure Mining Company in the Burro Mountains, near Silver City, New Mexico.
He came to Salt Lake in 1906, and has since been engaged in mining engineering, chiefly in examination and in the directing of development work. He was married in 1908 to Agnes de Schweinitz.
Mr. Zalinski is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, the University ('lub of Salt Lake, the Engineers' Club of New York, and the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
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JOHN HICKEY.
NE of the foremost mechanical engineers in Utah today is John Hickey. Born in Ohio is 1852 Mr. Hickey gives another instance of where an eastern man has sought the West as a land of promise. His father was D. B. Hickey and his mother Mary Hickey. In early life Mr. Hickey took a decided inclination to mechanical engineering, and after finishing the common schools, he entered the Upper Canada College at Varig and later pursued his profes- sional training at the Hoboken School of Technology. He was graduated from the latter institution in 1873 as master me- chanie and came to Salt Lake City in 1889.
Mr. Hickey is a mechanical engineer, superintendent of mo- tive power and master mechanic.
So well has he followed the study of the problems of his calling that he is now vice-president of the Salt Lake Security & Trust Company in addition to being one of the foremost men in the engineering lines in the Inter-mountain country. He is also president of the Interurban Construction Company.
Mr. Hickey is an enthusiastic "booster" for his adopted state, being a member of the Salt Lake Commercial club. He also belongs to the Salt Lake Transportation Club.
Ile is married, his wife having been Miss Mary Melody. This union was blessed by one son, D. B. Hickey.
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DR. C. C. SNYDER.
T HERE is no more widely known physican in the state of Utah than Dr. Crayton C. Snyder, of Salt Lake. He was born at Wanship, in 1875, and is a descendent of a family among the oldest settlers in Utah. His O parents, George G. Snyder and Mrs. Caroline K. Snyder came to Utah in 1849, at the time of the dis- covery of gold in California.
Dr. Snyder attended the graded schools at Ogden, and was graduated from the Inter-Mountain Business College, where he took a special course in literature. He then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at San Francisco, pursning his stud- ies from 1898 to 1902. After receiving his degree of M. D., he served as interne for four months, in the City and County hospital of San Francisco, and for ten months as interne in the French hospital in that city.
Dr. Snyder has been a member of the medical staff of Holy Cross hospital; surgeon in chief for the same institution; and is a director of the training school for nurses in that hospital.
An unusually fine opportunity was given Dr. Snyder, at one time, to pursue foreign studies, when he went to Europe as pri- vate physician for a prominent Nevada man, caring for him at Carlsbad, and at the leading medical centers of Europe.
Dr. Snyder is a member of Weber lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M., and of El Kalah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also is a member of the University Club of Salt Lake. He is a Republican. Dr. Snyder has two children, Gor- don M., 8 years of age, and John C., 4 years of age. Mrs. Snyder formerly was Miss Flora MacDonald.
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HARDY K. DOWNING.
D EAN of the athletic fraternity of Salt Lake City is a title which passes without challenge to Hardy K. Downing, athlete, promoter and sport writer. Mr. Downing although yet a young man, he was born in California December 10, 1878, has had an eventful career in which he has figured as a cowboy, pioneer frontiersman and finally as a recognized authority upon inter- mountain and national sports of all kinds.
For 18 years Mr. Downing was, as he puts it, "in the bicycle game." A rider of great power, he traveled the world's race circuit visiting Australia and Europe. Much of his rid- ing, however, was done at the old Salt Palace track in Salt Lake City, and it was his popularity established here as a rider that made him become a citizen of the city. Among other notable rec- ords Mr. Downing secured while in the "racing game" was the world's mile tandem record which with Vic Benson he held for a number of years.
To the followers of boxing affairs, Mr. Downing is well known as the manager of the events that are held each Monday night at the Garrick theatre under the auspices of the Manhattan Club.
Mr. Downing, who lives at 177 East Ninth South Street, was married to Miss Bessie L. Price. They have one child, Hardy K., Jr. Mr. Downing's parents were Californians. His father was Lorenzo D. Downing a well known citizen of San Jose. His mother's maiden name was Delia M. Allen.
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FREEMAN P. BASSETT.
ORN in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 28, 1882, Free- man Phippen Bassett received his elementary education in the schools of this city. The Bassett family came to America on the ship "Fortune," one year after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Later they settled in Western New York. In 1852 Charles H. Bas- sett, father of Freeman P. Bassett, settled in Utah. Mr. Bassett's mother was Mrs. Millie Phippen Bassett.
The Bassett family has been identified closely with the busi- ness growth and commercial development of Salt Lake City.
Freeman P. Bassett is a product of the University of Chi- cago, where he was a special student in 1902. Ile took up the calling of a salesman after leaving that institution and returned to Salt Lake.
He is today the manager of the Salt Lake City store of the A. G. Spalding & Bros. Athletic Goods Company.
Formerly he was coach and military intrnetor at All Hal- lows College. Ile has been referce at many of the Rocky Moun- tain conference games.
He is a member of the Native Sons of Utah, and of the Salt Lake Commercial (Inb and is chairman of the membership com- mittee of that organization. He is also vice-president of the Inter- Mountain Association Amateur Athletic Union of America, mem- ber of the Salt Lake Commercial (lub local committee and vice- chairman of the field sports committee.
Politically Mr. Bassett is non-partisan.
He is married, Mrs. Bassett formerly being Miss Helen Santschi. They have one chill, a daughter, Helen Gene, four years of age.
Mr. Bassett is a first lieutenant in the National Guard of Utah and is battalion adjutant.
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LEWIS M. CANNON.
EWIS M. CANNON has been a resident of Salt Lake L City since he was six months of age. He is a son of Angus M. Cannon and Amanda Mousley Cannon, and was born at St. George, Washington county, Utah, April 1, 1866. During his early life he attended the public schools of Salt Lake City and after his gradua- tion, attended the Brigham Young University at Provo, Utah. He also attended the University of Utah, after which he served as a missionary for the Mormon Church in England, and Germany, re- maining abroad in this work for three years.
After completing his work in the mission field Mr. Cannon en- tered the banking business in Salt Lake City, with the Zion's Sav- ings Bank & Trust Company, with which he remained in various capacities for twenty years.
When Uncle Jesse Knight opened his first coal mine at Storrs, Carbon county, Utah. Mr. Cannon was selected for the po- sition of general sales agent for the products of the mine.
Mr. Cannon is bishop of the Cannon ecclesiastical ward of the Mormon Church, having been selected for this responsible po- sition in 1896. He lives in Cannon ward with his family.
Mr. Cannon is an active and deeply interested worker for the interests of the Republican party. He has never sought po- litical office. He is a most amiable and pleasant man, who has won hosts of warm friends. The earnestness of his convictions is fully recognized by his friends, and he is recognized also as a friend of the needy and the oppressed.
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GEORGE T. HANSEN.
A MONG Salt Lake City's business men are many who are local representatives of big eastern concerns who sell their products through local agencies scattered throughout the West. One of these is George Troup Hansen. He is of Danish descent, and was born in Logan, Kansas, February 21, 1881, of parents who were natives of Denmark. His father was Peter Hansen and his mother, Mrs. Alpha A. Hansen. Both are living. His father is the younger son of a Danish landlord and came to America at the age of 16 years.
Mr. Hansen received the common schooling afforded by the grade schools in the vicinity of Logan, Kan., and from there went to the University of Kansas, at Lawrence. He was there from 1900 to 1905, being graduated after having done most cred- itable work.
He then took up the profession of mining engineer and came West. He settled in Salt Lake City in June 1, 1911.
Mr. Hansen, before locating in Salt Lake, was metallurgical engineer for the Allis-Chalmers Company with headquarters in Milwaukee. In 1905 and 1906 immediately following his college graduation, he was with the Cananea Construction Company of Cananea, Mex. In 1906 he started in the foundry of the Allis Chalmers Company, holding various positions. He was ap- pointed metallurgical engineer in 1910.
He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Royal Arch Masons, a member of the Commandery and of the Shrine and also be- longs to the Greek letter fraternities of the Sigma Chi and the Theta Nu Epsilon. He is a member of the Alta Club, the Uni- versity Club, both of Salt Lake City and of the Silver Boy Club of Butte, Mont. Mr. Hansen is unmarried. He is a Republican.
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SAMUEL CULVER PARK.
A S the first mayor of Salt Lake under the commission form of government, Samuel C. Park has made so unusual a record that a sketch of his life is of interest. He was born in Cheyenne, Wyo., November 16, 1869. His par- ents were Boyd Park and Jane E. Culver-Park They came to Utah in 1871. Mayor Park was for many years engaged in the jewelry business with his father, Boyd Park now deceased, who established what was perhaps the first high class jewelry house in Salt Lake City. The mayor is presi- dent of the corporation, Boyd Park. Ine. Jewelers.
While he is a Republican in politics, Mayor Park was elected on a business men's ticket, which drew support from all parties. Under the commission form of government commissioners cannot be nominated or elected upon party platforms.
Mayor Park, as mayor, is commissioner of public safety and has jurisdiction over the police, fire and the health departments. Since taking office he has effected a complete reorganization of the police department upon metropolitan lines.
Mayor Park was a student at Phillips-Exeter academy, the University of Michigan, graduating from the last named insti- tution in 1891. He is married. his wife having formerly been Miss Ella Thomas. There are two sons and a danghter: Boyd Thomas, Eleanor and Sammel Culver Park, Jr., Mayor Park is a Mason, a Shriner. an Elk and a Son of the American Revolution. He is a member of the Commercial Club and the University Club; be is a member of the National Guard of Utah, and retired briga- dier general in the same organization. He was a member of the state senate, and of the board of education of Salt Lake City be- fore becoming mayor. His home is at 405 Second Avenne.
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JOHN DERN.
O CITIZEN of Utah or Salt Lake City is better known in connection with mining, banking, merchandising and farming matters than is John Dern . He was born October 24, 1850, at Hanssen by Giessen Oberhesses, Germany. His parents were Katherine Hoffman- Dern and John Dern. The Dern family was prominently known in the privince of Oberhesses for two centuries. The grand- father was Mayor of Hansson for more than twenty-five years. His father, who died at the age of forty-six years, was a mem- ber of the town council for a period of ten years. Mr. Dern came to the United States when about fifteen years of age. His school- ing was acquired at the academy at Giessen, Germany. This institution he attended during the year 1863 to 1865, inclusive. He came to this country in 1865. After passing a great many years in the eastern states, Mr. Dern came to Salt Lake in 1894. His political views have always been and are in favor of the Democratic principles, and he has been prominent in the party councils of Utah. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have reared a large family. The children of the family are: Mary E., George H., Fred C. and Elizabeth A.
Besides his interests in mining and other industries, Mr. Deern is a trustee of the Agricultural college of Utah and a men- ber of the Utah State Capitol commission. As a club member Ma. Dern is known to be a man who can be depended upon to act as well as to propose. He is well known as one of the best "boost- ors" that the Salt Ike Con mercial (Inh has. He is also a re- spected member of the Masonic fraternity and of the order of Elks. Mr. Dein's connection with local institutions include the vice-presidency of the National Copper Bank of Salt Lake, vice- president of the Bankers Trust Company. president of ('alloway- Hoock & Francis Company, director of the Miners' Mercantile Company of Bingham, director of the Mason Mercantile Com- pany, Mason, Nev., director of the Salt Lake llardware Company and the president and a director of several mining companies.
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DAVID KEITH.
ROM boss of a gang of laborers in the construction of 3F the Southern Pacific railroad near Reno, Nev., in the late "sixties," to one of the most prominent mining men and capitalists in the West, is the broad jump made by David Keith since coming to the West as a young man. He was born in Mabou on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. His father was John Keith and his mother was Margaret Ness Keith. Leaving Novia Scotia, David Keith ar- rived in Salt Lake in the early sixties. He married Mary Fer- guson of Salt Lake and moved to California in 1867.
Railroad construction work occupied his time until he en- tered the employ of the Comstock mines in Nevada and became superintendent. In 1883 he returned to Utah as foreman of the Ontario No. 3 group of mines at Park City. Later he formed a partnership for the leasing of mining claim.
His connection with the Silver King Coalition mining com- pany began while at Park City and he has continued active in af- fairs of the big silver producer. He is president of the company, which was the foundation of his fortune.
Other concerns in which Mr. Keith is associated and the position which he holds are as follows:
President of the Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company ; president of the First National Bank of Park City; director of the National Copper Bank of Salt Lake; Director of the Las Vegas and Tonopah railroad; stockholder in the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad.
Mr. Keith served as a member of the Utah Constitutional Convention. He is a member of the following clubs. Alta, Com- mercial, Elks and Country Clubs of Salt Lake; the California Club of Los Angeles and the Press Club of San Francisco.
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HARRY G. ELLIOTT.
ORN in England, and immigrating to the United States in the year 1870, Harry G. Elliott is one of the many adopted sons of the young republic. Mr. Elliott's na- tive city is London, where he was born May 14, 1868. His parents were born in England and came to Amer- ica in 1870. They were both most estimable people, his father being Henry Elliott and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bishton Elliott. The elder Elliott was a contractor and builder at London, and when he came to the United States, he took up the same lines of work.
They located first in Boston and then in Ansonia, Conn., in the year 1895, where the elder Mr. Elliott remained until his death.
Harry G. Elliott was educated in the common schools and in the high schools of Boston, Muss., between the years 1872 and 1887. In .July 1905 he came ont West, locating in Utah.
He has entered into the business life of the community act- ively and is a salesman for the Bnick Anto Company, being well known in automobile circles in the West.
He is a member of the B. P. O. Elks and is an ardent work- er in connection with charity affairs. He is at present a mem- ber of the sick committee of the Elks. He is non-partisan in politics.
Mr. Elliott is an admirer of his adopted city and is an en- thusiastie "booster" for Salt Lake City and Utah. He is al- ways ready to participate in any function which is gotten up for the public good. Mr. Elliott has never married.
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NEPHI LOWELL MORRIS.
NE of the pioneers in the Progressive party of Utah, was Nephi L. Morris, a former Republican, who saw in the principles expounded by the new political faith, the beacon of liberty and justice. The spirit of fair play had always been a strong component part of his being and he saw in that party's principles, the es- sentials of fair play. He therefore cast his lot with that party. Nephi L. Morris is a native born Utahn. His parents, Mary L. Walker-Morris and Elias Morris were pioneers of Utah. Mr. Morris was born at Salt Lake City, October 2, 1870.
Completing his early education in the then primitive pub- lie schools Mr. Morris attended the State University, and later the Brigham Young University between 1885 and 1891, after which he entered the business field in Salt Lake, with his father, a pioneer tile setter and mantle doaler. He is now president of the Elias Morris & Sons' Company, having for 15 years been manager of that business; president of the Deseret Building Society; president of the Utah Concrete Pipe Company; and president of the Atlas Concrete Pipe Machinery Company.
Mr. Morris married Miss Harriett Young, and they have three children, Lowell Y. Morris, Williard Y. Morris, and May Y. Morris. Mr. Morris is a member of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake.
Active during all the years of his life in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his church has hon- cred him from time to time with positions of increased trust and responsibility. He now is president of the Salt Lake stake of the ecclesiastical organization of the chur h, a position which has its peculiar powers and responsibilities, covering a wide range of territory in the City of Salt Lake.
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JOHN S. CORLESS.
OHN S. CORLESS is one of the best known men in J Salt Lake County, among the men who toil. He is a son of Thomas Corless and Anna Eliza Crowther Cor- less, and was born in Salt Lake in 1872. His parents were natives of England; his father having come to Utah in 1848, the year following the coming of the pioneers, and his mother is 1854. John S. Corless attended the public schools of Utah in his boyhood, Fut began to shift for him- self at an early age. He teamed and freighted, and hauled rock and gravel. Then he branched out on an independent basis, working his own team. He began a small contracting business which grew steadily under his careful and painstaking manage- ment. until today he employs many men, and is a factor in the general contracting business.
Mr. Corless is married, his wife's family name being Green- balgh. They have three children, Fern L., Evelyn and J. Ken- neth Corless.
He is a Progressive in politics, and was elected by the Pro- gressive-Democratic party in 1914, sheriff of Salt Lake County. Mr. Corless is one of the most popular men in the county, and has had a wide experience in police work, having been at one time a member of the police department of Salt Lake City, and later a deputy sheriff.
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