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He is a member of the Salt Lake aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles ; and of the Loyal Order of Moose. One of his strongest characteristics is his honesty of word and of purpose. His ao- quaintances and his friends know that when he passes his word, it will be kept.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
CHARLES C. DEY.
A N ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and a representative of the Utah State legal profession who has gained hundreds of friends throughout the West as a hard and ardent worker and one who can be depended upon at any and all times in whatever capacity he may be placed, is Charles C. Dey. His clientele is second to none in the state. He is the senior member of the Salt Lake City law firm of Dey, Hoppaugh & Fabian, lawyers, with offices in the Kearns building. The firm is one that is well known to the law profes- sion of Utah, and ranks with the best. Mr. Dey, whose parents originally came from Holland, is of Dutch stock and is descend- ed from a family that is well known throughout Europe. He was born in the little town of Varick, Seneca county, New York. Aug- ust 15, 1854. His education was received in the public schools of the town in which he was born.
Following his school days in Varick, Mr. Dey attended school at Geneva, New York, and at Carroll College, Wisconsin.
Shortly after finishing his course at Geneva, and early in the year 1877, Mr. Dey engaged in the study of law at the city of Milwaukee, Wis. In that city he was admitted to the bar in 1880. He then entered upon the active practice of his profession in Mil- waukee, where he continued successfully until the spring of 1889. Early in 1889 Mr. Dey came to Utah, where he has since remained. After remaining for a little more than a year in Ogden, where he was engaged in special legal work, Mr. Dey moved to Salt Lake City, where he permanently established himself. He has since that time lived in Salt Lake City, where he has devoted himself exclusively to the practice of his chosen profession. He was for- merly city attorney for Salt Lake.
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DR. ROSS ANDERSON.
A MONG the Utah surgeons who hold prominent positions in the ranks of that profession, is Dr. Ross Anderson. Dr. Anderson is a native of Utah, born at Manti, Utah, April 23, 1879. His parents were Peter H. Anderson and Mrs. Esther Smith Anderson. He received his early medical training at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons at Baltimore, Md. He attended there from 1901 to 1905. Upon being graduated from the Baltimore institution in 1905, Dr. Anderson came direct to Salt Lake City, where he took up his medical practice, and is now well-known throughout the state as a physician, surgeon and pathologist.
He is married, his wife's maiden name having been Miss Eu- phemia Olson. They have three children: John Ross, 10 years of age; Elliott Vernon, seven years of age, and William Ray, five years of age.
Dr. Anderson is a member of the Woodmen of the World, and is an active member in the Salt Lake County Medical Society, the Utah State Medical Society and the American Medical Associa- tion. He belongs to two clubs: The Salt Lake Press Club and the Utah iClub, and is an active worker in the welfare of these organizations.
He was senior surgeon of Judge Mercy Hospital in 1912, and was also surgeon at the Central Utah Hospital from 1910 to 1912. He is a member of twenty-three corporations.
Ever active in his profession, Dr. Anderson has studied and taught in various branches and lines of the medical calling. He was professor of comparative anatomy and embryology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore from 1903 to 1905; was professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Uni- versity of Utah from 1906 to 1909 inclusive, and was senior path- ologist at the L. D. S. Hospital from 1905 to 1909, inclusive.
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C. H. CARLQUIST.
ELIEVING that Utah's greatest future lies in the de- velopment of the dry farm, C. H. Carlquist, of the firm of Burt & Carlquist, devotes much of his great energy to dry farm exploitation and development. Mr. Carl- quist has spent the greater part of his time in the last two years in the development of dry farm lands in Box Elder County. He is interested personally with his broth- ers in a large ranch in Box Elder County. Mr. Carlquist be- lieves that since all irrigable lands in Utah are already under the plow, and since all other industries depend upon agrculture, the dry farm is the solution of Utah's problem of permanent prosper- ity.
Mr. Carlquist is a son of Carl A. Carlquist and Hulda Oster- green Carlquist. He was born in Salt Lake City August 24, 1878. He attended the public schools but was unable to attend college, entering business at an early age. He married Miss Ethel Rich, and they have four children: Mary E., 7 years of age; Phillip, 4 years ; and Richard and Natalie, twins, 2 years of age.
Mr. Carlquist is not a member of a club or fraternal organ- ization. His entire time is taken up by his business and by his family. He is a Democrat but is not active in polities, save to keep a weather oye on the ticket, and to work for those men in whose principles he can find satisfaction.
Mr. Carlquist is interested largely in the Meadowview Land & Stock Company, in addition to his other holdings as a real estate dealer and broker. His headquarters are at 40 South Main Street, Salt Lake City.
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WILLARD ANDELIN.
A MONG those who help build up a state are its artists and musicians, as well as those who construct its build- ings and develop its commercial activities. Willard And- elin is among the many Utah musicians who have helped develop the fine arts in this western country, and he is well known in the Inter-mountain region as one of the foremost western musicians. Mr. Andelin was born at Manti, Utah, August 15, 1883. He is of Swedish descent. His parents came to Salt Lake City about the year 1860, as converts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints.
Mr. Andelin attended the common schools of Manti, and then attended the Brigham Young university at Provo, from 1899 to 1904.
In October, 1904, he began special work in music at the Royal College of Music at London, where he remained one year, and then went to Berlin. There he studied for fifteen months with Alexander Heinemann. After visiting home for nine months Mr. Andelin returned to Germany. He remained four years, being leading basso for two years at the Royal Opera at Hanover. Then for a year he was in London, singing in concerts and ora- torios. He sang with Mme. Tetrazzinio, the world-famous prima donna, in concert at Glasgow, Scotland.
Mr. Andelin now is teaching music in Salt Lake City.
He is married, his wife being formerly Miss Arvilla Clark, also a musician of great talent. They reside at apartment B-4 Midgley apartments, this city. They have three children: Will- ard Clark, 6 years of age; Berlin, 4 years of age; and John Philip, 16 months of age.
Mr. Andelin has a wonderful basso profundo voice. His friends declare his future in music to be brilliant with promise.
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WALTER J. COOPER.
NE of the best known architects of Salt Lake City is Walter J. Cooper. Mr. Cooper was born in 1879 at Auburn, New York. His parents were David B. and Mrs. Frances F. (Freeman) Cooper. He completed the graded school work and then entered college, at- tending Syracuse University at Syracuse, N. Y., from 1899 to 1902. He made a good record for himself at that institu- tion and specialized along the lines of architectural work.
After leaving college he practiced architecture in the East, doing his first work at Syracuse. In January, 1904, he moved to New York City to study further the technical and the practical sides of the work. He was in the employ of various architects and was engaged in New York City and Boston until 1910.
He then started out for the west, coming to Salt Lake City in March, 1910. He came here in the interest of Henry Ives Cobb, the well-known architect of New York City.
Mr. Cooper was immediately associated with one of the largest structural undertakings in Utah, the Newhouse hotel. He was connected also with other enteprises under construction in Salt Lake City and in Denver. He then returned to New York City.
In January, 1911, he returned to Salt Lake, where he opened an office with C. S. McDonald, under the firm name of McDonald & Cooper. This concern is one of the leading architectural com- panies in this state; it is making a most creditable record and is well known throughout the intermountain region. Mr. Cooper is unmarried, and a Republican.
He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and also belongs to the Pan Hellenic Association of Utah and to the Onondega Society of New York.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
GEORGE AMES.
EORGE AMES is a member of the Utah mining men's colony which has done much to advertise the state to the world. Born in Texas, October 23, 1880, Mr. Ames later removed with his parents to New Jersey, where he received his early education. That his training was thorough is proven by the success made by Mr. Ames in Jate years. He came to Salt Lake City in 1898.
Mr. Ames is married, his wife's maiden name having been Miss Florence Dow. They have one child, Katherine Ames, who is now two years of age.
The subject of this sketch is well known in Utah's capital as a mining man and a dealer in mining supplies. He is well ac- quainted with the leading men in that profession, which has done so much to bring this commonwealth to the front.
The Ames agency, of which he is proprietor, has an enviable record in the mining world. The present successes achieved by Mr. Ames are the result of untiring effort and thorough-going preparation in the mining field. He began in the mining business in the iron mines of Minnesota, in 1897, and came to Utah in 1898. Practical training of real mining was one of the things which has given him a foundation in all the essentials of his profession. From 1898 to 1910 he mined in the Bingham and in the Park City fields, scoring a success in each place. He entered the mining sup- ply business in 1910 and during the past three years and longer, has built up a large and still growing concern.
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GEORGE JAY GIBSON.
ORN on the shore of the Great Lakes at Cleveland, Ohio, on St. Patrick's day, 1873, George Jav Gibson is now living by the Great Salt Lake at Salt Lake City, Utah. His father was George J. Gibson and his mother Caroline Scovill. After receiving the grade school education Mr. Gibson entered Yale University, and attended the law school of that institution after finishing the regular four years' collegiate course. He entered the institution in 1891 and was graduated from the collegiate department with the degree of B. A. in 1895, and then entered the law school, being graduated from there with the degree of L. L. B. in 1897.
Two years afterwards he came to Utah. He soon took a prominent part in the activities of the legal profession and to- day is a leading member of the Utah bar.
He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, being Past State Deputy of that organization. He also belongs to two Greek letter fraternities : Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Delta Phi.
Mr. Gibson is married. his wife's maiden name having been Miss Eloise Sherman. They have one child, Eloise Sherman Gibson, seven years of age.
Mr. Gibson, in addition to his legal practice, is a member of several mining corporations. He also belongs to the Uni- versity Club and to the Graduates ( 'Inh of New Haven, Conn.
He is past president of the Utah State Society Sons of the American Revolution, and is a member of the American Bar Association and of the Utah Bar Association.
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M. M. WARNER.
NE of the most distinguished members of the bar in Utalı is M. M. Warner of Salt Lake City. Mr. Warner lives at his family home, 1324 South West Temple street, and his offices are at 319, 320 and 321 Boston Building, Salt Lake City. Mr. Warner was born June 12, 1856, at Leon, Iowa, and is a son of John W. and Mary W. Warner. He was married November 8, 1892, to Miss Eleanor C. Nuttall at Provo, Utah.
In his boyhood Mr. Warner had the advantage of a high school education, and was graduated from the Leon, Iowa high school. He then attended the law school at the University of Wis- consin at Madison, during 1881, and the following year. Upon . leaving the law school Mr. Warner was associated for the next three years, in the offices of M. J. Gordon, a prominent attorney of Aberdeen, Dakota. In 1885 he was admitted to practice before the South Dakota bar in 1885.
Mr. Warner's first official position was that of city attor- ney for Frederick, South Dakota, from 1885 to 1887. He then moved to Aspen, Colorado, when that great silver camp was in the height of its glory, and was assistant district attorney for the Ninth Colorado judicial district during 1889, 1890 and 1891.
In the latter year Mr. Warner moved to Provo, Utah, and engaged in the practice of law with the Hon. D. D. Houtz of Provo until 1904. He was a member of the first State Senate of Utah from that district in 1896 and 1897. In 1904 Mr. Warner moved to Salt Lake City, and has continued in the general prac- tice of law in the State and Federal courts. He is now senior member of the law firm of Warner and Maginnis. He was exalted ruler of Salt Lake Lodge No. 85, Benevolent and Protective Order Order of Elks in 1911. He is also a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and of the Utah State Bar Association.
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HENRY C. DENHALTER.
ENRY C. DENHALTER was one of the sturdy types of citizens whose energy and ambition could not find a proper outlet in the old world and who sought a larger field of success in the new, and there made their mark. 0 He was born in Neuekirche, Holdedorf, Germany, June 6, 1832. He was a son of Herman Henry and Molina Denhalter. He emigrated to the United States in 1849, landing in San Francisco, and a short time later went to St. Louis, Mo. He was a steamboat captain and was associated with many of the famous captains and pilots in the days when the river traffic was at its height. He later engaged in business in St. Louis for two years, and was afterward in business in New York one year. He then returned to California, remaining there until 1868, when he came to Utah. He established the Denhalter Bottling Works in 1870, incorporating the business in 1907. Until his death he was president of that company, conceded to be one of the largest and most modern soda water manufacturing plants in the West. Mr. Denhalter earned the title of "Father of the Utah Militia," when in 1890, during the first Liberal party campaign he organized the Denhalter Rifles and Band, a campaign marching organization. This was the first step taken in the territory toward the organiza- tion of state troops.
During his many years' residence in Utah he was promi- nently identified with many manufacturing and commercial enter- prises, and was considered an authority on the mining industry in Utah. There are two sons, Charles Henry, born in 1858, and John Henry, born in 1860. Charles Henry Denhalter has been actively associated with his father's interests since the establishment of the Denhalter Bottling Works in 1870. Mr. Denhalter married Katherine Lesher. He was a Republican in politics, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and president of the Denhalter Bottling Works Company, and the Deer Trail Gold & Silver Milling Com- pany.
Mr. Denhalter died January 26, 1914.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON COWIE.
ANY advantages may be possessed by the State of Utah in mineral wealth, fertility of soil, and in fact, all the resources that go to make up a prosperous community, but so long as they remain unavailable through lack of development their value to the community is limited ; to properly develop these advantages requires the mind of an expert who by his ability to make conditions prosperous makes it possible to change adverse conditions into prosperity. No man has participated more in providing necessary as- sistance in organizing and developing companies for the successful working of these resources than has Alexander Hamilton Cowie.
Mr. Cowie was born February 17, 1879, at Hamilton, On- tario, Canada, where his education was gained from the public schools. His father was Thomas Cowie and his mother was Lu- cinda B. Cowie
The possibilities afforded by the West claimed Mr. Cowie's attention, and in 1890 he arrived in Salt Lake City. Eventually he married Miss Ennna D. Kinsey. The children are Grace Lu- cile Cowie, Ruth Afton Cowie and Leland K. Cowie.
In polities Mr. Cowie favors the Democratic party. Since his arrival here he has identified himself with some of the greatest financial concerns in the West. He has followed the profession of coal and metalliferous mining. He is a members of the Masons and Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Cowie is vice-president of the Utah Fuel Company ; presi- dent of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company; president of the Castle Gate Coal, Coke and Fuel Company; president of the Wasatch Store Company; president of the Wasatch Power Com- pany, and president of the Beaver Gold Mining Company. He is also a member of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City and of the Denver Athletic Club. He was the organizer of the Iron Blossom Consolidated Mining Company. He recently became ac- tively interested in the Little Cottonwood Mining district, in the vicinity of Alta, Utah.
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THOMAS DAVID LEWIS.
ORN in Salt Lake City September 15, 1865, Thomas 23 David Lewis finds his native city the best place on earth to live. He is today one of the leading jurists of the Inter-mountain district, and his position in the legal world is one of honor. His father was James S. Lewis and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Williams Lewis, both natives of Wales. They came to Salt Lake City with the pioneers, reaching here the year 1854. Judge Lewis supple- mented his grade school education with collegiate training at the University of Utah, being graduated from that institution in 1886 wth the degree of B. S. Then he went to the University of Michigan, entering the law school which conferred upon him the degree of L. L. B. in 1891.
He returned to his native city and took up the practice of law. He rose rapidly in the ranks and today is district judge of the Third judicial district, a position which he has held since April, 1903. His term will expire in January, 1917.
Judge Lewis is married, his wife's maiden name having been Miss Ettie Ellerbeck. They have four children: Ralph E., 17 years of age; Marjorie, 15 years of age; Rachel, 13 years of age; and Thomas David, two years of age.
Judge Lewis is a member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club. Politically he is a staunch Republican. An interesting fact re- garding his career is that the year 1886, when he received his degree from the University of Utah, was the first year that degrees were conferred upon students by that institution. He is also the senior living graduate of the state university.
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JOHN FRANKLIN EMMERT.
A S general sales agent and local manager of the Central Coal and Coke Company of Wyoming, one of the larg- est branch concerns of its kind in Utah, John Franklin Emmert has been unusually successful during his three years of residence in Salt Lake City. Mr. Em- mert, son of Sarah Francenia Follett and George Step- hen Emmert was born in Morristown, Henry County, Ill., Novem- ber 12, 1874. Mr. Emmert, Sr., was born in Germany, coming to Pennsylvania at the age of ten years, after which he moved to Illinois and enlisted in the thirty-seventh Illinois volunteers to fight in the Union cause during the Civil war. Mrs. Emmet's ancestry dates to the revolution, and is traced to Captain Will- iam Meacham, who was killed in the siege of Boston, and whose rame appears on the bronze tablets at the entrance to Winthrop square, Boston, close below the name of General Joseph War- ren.
Mr. Emmert, Jr., received his high school education at Marysville, Kan., after which he attended Rohrbaugh Brothers' business college at Omaha, Neb. His introduction to Utah was in April, 1910. His wife's maiden name was Florence Elaine Parker.
Mr. Emmert is a member of the local B. P. O. E., and is prominent as a member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club and the Press Club of Salt Lake. After graduating from the busi- ness college in Omaha in 1897, Mr. Emmert accepted a position with the western office of the New York Central lines, continu- ing in railroad work with the same people for seven and one half years. He then went with the Central Coal and Coke Company in Omaha as general office man, being promoted to a road position. After four years he accepted the presidency of the Omaha branch of the company, and was transferred in 1910, to Salt Lake City.
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A. W. COWAN.
A MONG the native sons of Utah is Al W. Cowan. Mr. Cowan was born at Salt Lake, November 4, 1880, when the city was far from presenting the prosperous condi- tion which marks it today. He entered the graded schools and then entered the Salt Lake high school, where he completed the course of studies offered by that institution.
He has succeeded in the business world, being today at the head of one of the prosperous commercial concerns of the inter- mountain metropolis. He is president of the Western Barber Sup- ply Company. As manager of that concern, he handles a trade of peculiar needs and requirements, and one of vital importance in any large city. Guns and sporting goods are also some of the materials which Mr. Cowan is thoroughly familiar with in the trade sense.
His career has been of an interesting nature. He started at fifteen years of age as a messenger boy and gradually built up for himself a reputation with his various employers that aided his development and his advancement and he gained the confi- dence of his associates in the business world. Mr. Cowan entered the business field for himself at a comparatively early age.
Ile has an ideal home life, his companion in his successful career being Mrs. Jennie Lynn Cowan, who like her hus- band, is a native of Salt Lake City. His parents are William and June Stower Cowan.
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HARRY P. CLARK.
T RACING his ancestry back to his great great grand- father, Captain James Clark of Braintree, Mass., a rev- olutionary hero, Harry Percy Clark, former president of the Merchants Bank of Salt Lake City, is eligible to membership in almost any of the exclusive historical societies of the country. Mr. Clark is a native of Ohio. He was born in Cincinnati, February 9, 1859, a son of Elizabeth Borton Clark and Asa Allen Clark. He had no opportunity to attend college in his youth, but regardless of that was enabled, because of his powers of keen observation to acquire a broad and liberal education.
Mr. Clark came to Salt Lake City in June, 1903, and engaged at once in the banking business, and has gained a prominent place in the front rank of that business. The rapid and steady growth of the Merchants Bank is due largely to his progressive but safe and sane banking methods and to his keen business ability.
Mr. Clark has an interesting family. His wife, before her marriage was Fannie Grace Hood. Their sons and daughters are: Asa Allen Clark, 28 years of age; and Florence Margaret Clark, 24 years of age.
Mr. Clark is a member of Wasatch Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Utah Commandery, Knights Templar; of El Kalah Temple, An- cient Accepted Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Scottish Rite. He is also a member of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake, the Weber Club of Ogden, and of the Press Club of Salt Lake City. He is a Republican in politics, and his home is in Salt Lake City.
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RICHARD FRANKIN NESLEN.
ROM office boy to general agent is the record R. F. "Neslin during the past twenty years. Mr. Neslin now holds the latter position in the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad. His territory covers, Montana south of Butte, Idaho and Nevada, as well as Utah. His con- tinuous service with the road covers a period of a quarter of a century. Mr. Neslen was born, June 22, 1870, and educated in the Salt Lake public schools and at the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, entering the service of the Burlington the year of his graduation, 1887.
His parents, Robert Francis Neslen and Elinore Stevens Neslen, were born in England, but were among the pioneer set- tlers of Utah, arriving at Salt Lake in 1852. Mr. Neslen was married to Mary Alice Stone. They have no children.
Mr. Neslen, who lives at 372 First Avenue, has his offices at 307 Main Street, Salt Lake City. He is a member of the Commer- cial Club and of the Salt Lake Transportation Club.
Before his promotion to the general agency Mr. Nesten served as contracting agent and as traveling freight and pas- senger agent for the system which now regards him as a fixture and as elligible for higher honors.
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