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Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
WILLIAM GEORGE FARRELL
NHERITING the proverbial persistence of his Scotch, Irish and Swedish ancestors, William George Farrell, former secretary of the Salt Lake Commercial club, has achieved a singular degree of success in Salt Lake and in Utah. His father was George Lionel Farrell and his mother Charlotte Marie Lundberg. He was born at Logan, Utah, though his ancestors on his father's side were the O'Farrells of Ireland and the McFarrels of Scotland. They were of the middle class, artisans. His mother's forbears were Swedish blacksmiths, inventors, tailors and rope makers. None distinguished himself in literature, arts or politics, but all were of the substantial working types.
Mr. Farrell owns stock in the George L. Farrell corporation, owners of 2000 acres in Cache county; and in the Dry Farm and Stock company, owning 6200 acres in Rush Valley, Utah. He is also general agent for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance com- pany in Utah. His occupation is that of life insurance sales- man. His corporation affiliations are as vice-president of the George L. Farrell corporations, farmers ; president of the Iosepa Agricultural & Stock company, owners of a townsite, a water system, stock ranch, general merchandise store and a 1000-acre farm; and he is a director of the Dry Farm and Stock Company.
Mr. Farrell is a Democart in national politics, and independ- ent on local issues. He attended the University of Utah in 1878, 1879 and 1880, but was not graduated. He came to Salt Lake City in 1899. His wife's maiden name was Florence N. Caine, and his children are William Caine and Frederick Nightingale Caine Farrell. Mr. Farrell is a member of B. P. O. E., the Utah Association of Life Underwriters, the Commercial club, the Rotary club, Advertising club, Thistle club, Bonneville elnh, and the Passenger association.
Mr. Farrell has lived in Utah, Idaho and the Hawaiian Islands, and speaks three tongues: Swedish, Hawaiian and En- glish. He is especially proficient in English, particularly in telling of the advantages of residence in Utah
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WILLARD DONE
HE wheelhorse of the Republican party in Utah is a term which has been applied accurately to Willard Done, former state insurance commissioner of Utah. Mr. Done has been honored many times with public offices of great importance, but perhaps the most notable part of his career has been as an organizer for his party. Also well known in the insurance world, he would this year have been elected president of the national convention of insurance commissioners had not his term of office expired just before the convention's meeting.
Mr. Done was born in Moroni, Sanpete county, December 10, 1865, the youngest son of John and Sarah Barker Done, Utah pioneers. The young man was graduated from Brigham Young academy in June, 1883. For seventeen years thereafter he was in educational work at his alma mater, at the Salt Lake academy and at the Wesleyan university at Bloomington.
He gained his intricate knowledge of insurance work as an agent for the New York Life between 1900 and 1906, leaving the work to become the private secretary to Governor Cutler. In 1903 he had served a term in the legislature and in 1909 became minute clerk of the senate.
The offices of assistant, acting, and finally insurance com- missioner followed in rapid succession. His brilliant and pains- taking work in the insurance field brought him an offer from the San Francisco Underwriters, which he accepted to take effect June 30, 1914.
Mr. Done was married December 23, 1885, to Miss Amanda Forbes of American Fork. They have eight children.
Mr. Done returned to make his headquarters in Salt Lake in November, 1915.
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WIGGO FREDERIK JENSEN.
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RESIDENT of one of the largest and best known creameries in the world, W. F. Jensen is also a stockholder in the California Central Creameries of San Francisco, the Telegram Publishing Company of Salt Lake, and the Jensen Manufacturing Com- pany of Topeka, Kansas.
Wiggo Frederik Jensen, son of Marie Wieland and Jacob Olsen Jensen, was born November 28, 1871, in Oster- linnet province, Schleswig Holstein, Germany. His father and mother are of Danish nationality, his grandfather having been a member of the first constitutional parliament in Denmark in 1848. His mother's father was known as the "old miller from Gram," having conducted a flour mill for fifty-six years. Mr. Jensen is now the president of the Mutual Creamery Company which has fourteen plants, located in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Kansas, and which do an annual business of three million dollars. The company deals in all products of cows and hens. Mr. Jensen attended Skibelund College, Wejen, Demark, from 1883 until April 18, 1889, at which time he was graduated from the institution. He first came to Salt Lake in June, 1908, previous to which time he was married to Matilda R. Brandt. He has one boy, Ethelbert Wiggo Jensen, twelve years of age. He has been a member of the B. P. O. E. since 1898. After joining the Masonic order in 1898 he because a member of the Knights Templar and of El Kalah shrine, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is also a member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club, the Alta Club and the Country Club. After serving on the board of directors of the Commer- cial Club for three years he was elected president of that organ- ization for 1914. Mr. Jensen is also an extensive property owner, among his possessions being his home on Third avenue and a half block of property facing the Denver & Rio Grande station, Fourth South and Fourth West Streets.
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SAMUEL NEWHOUSE.
AMUEL NEWHOUSE, city builder, has won his place in the hearts of Salt Lake City's residents, be- cause of his intense loyalty to that city, and his in- spiring evidences of confidence in her future. He has done his great part in a masterly way to make Salt Lake City the Queen of the West.
Possessed of a proud confidence that this city was destined to become the greatest in the west, and with capital to carry out his big ideas, Mr. Newhouse erected the first skyscraper in Utah. In the Boston and Newhouse buildings, twin structures of re- markable beauty, and other business blocks that shelter cities within themselves, Mr. Newhouse built an enduring monument that will outlive the ages. The value of this example and the im- petus it gave building operations can never be measured. It is appreciated by the people.
Samuel Newhouse's life in brief is a story of titanic struggle and of big success. He was born in New York City in 1854. In 1883 he married Miss Ida H. Stingley, descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia; read law; was attracted to Colorado in 1879; engaged in the newspaper business; made successful in- vestments in Colorado mines; built the camps of Idaho Springs and Central City; constructed the Newhouse bore; opened great silver mines; and earned a place in the hearts of Coloradans which he still retains.
He moved to Utah in 1896, when his vast holdings here re- quired personal attention. He went into Highland Boy, one-half interest in which was sold to Standard Oil for $6,000,000; then into Boston Consolidated and made another fortune in that mountain of ore. He founded and built the model industrial town of Newhouse, Utah. He has offices in New York and Lon- don as well as Salt Lake City. He is a member of the Com- mercial Club, the Alta Club, the Country Club, the Salt Lake Mining Exchange; and many of the most exclusive clubs of New York and London.
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EMERSON FRANK ROOT
ORN at Hartford, Wisconsin, November 1, 1858, to Alonzo D. Root and Emeretta Root, Emerson Frank Root spent his boyhood amid the beautiful surround- ings of the place of his birth. By a peculiar coinci- dence, his mother's maiden name was Root, though she came of a family not related in any way with his father's family.
He attended the Western Reserve college, at Cleveland, Ohio, until 1880, when he was graduated, attaining exceptionally high marks after an unusually honorable college career. His steady and earnest work during all the period of his school life, gave him an excellent start on his professional career.
Dr. Root is married and has a family of one daughter and two sons. His wife was Kathleen W. Speight, and his daughter is Clara Louise Elkins, twenty-seven years of age. His sons are Frank K. Root, twenty-five years of age, and Emerson R. Root, twelve years of age.
Though Dr. Root is a Republican in politics, he takes no active part in the political game, being content to exercise his franchise and watch the game from the outside.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity in this city, and is a member of the University Club and the Commercial Club.
The family home is in Salt Lake City, and while not devot- ing a great deal of time to society, Dr. and Mrs. Root entertain frequently, gathering about them men and women who have accomplished things.
Dr. Root is a keen student, both of books and of men, and his insight into human nature is considered remarkable. He has many warm friends both in and out of his own profession, and his opinions are often sought by his associates.
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J. G. McDONALD.
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OUBLE honors belong to James G. MeDonald. * In addition to having built up a business which is known throughout the west as one of the best in its line, Mr. McDonald is president of the Utah State Fair Association, one of the largest "boosting" undertakings of this commonwealth.
The Utah State Fair Association is growing steadily and is known every year in a constantly widening territory. The suc- cess of the fair association is due in no little measure to the in- itiative and resourcefulness of this executive, who has been aided in this work by excellent lieutenants as department chiefs.
In his own business enterprise, as well, Mr. McDonald has shown a remarkable gift for organization and a boldness in car- rying out the plans which he has conceived. As a result the J. G. McDonald Chocolate Company is an ever growing mercantile institution and is one of the leading manufacturing enterprises of the state and the west. Hundreds of persons are employed by this firm, and the quality of the products turned out from the establishment form its best advertisement.
In addition to this Mr. MeDonald is a director of the Utah State National Bank of Salt Lake City, and takes an active in- terest in the banking affairs of the community. He is married, his wife's maiden name having been Miss Lilly Neal.
Mr. McDonald is a member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club. As president of the State Fair Association he finds his work linked with that of the Commercial Club, as the two or- ganizations are working constantly to advertise Utah to the world. He also is a member of the Bonneville Club of Salt Lake City.
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ELMER I. GOSHEN
HERE probably is no more widely known clergyman in Utah than the Rev. Elmer I. Goshen, pastor of the First Congregational church of Salt Lake City. He was born at Farmington, Illinois, in 1872. He comes of Revolutionary stock, his paternal great-grand- father having served under Marquis de Lafayette in the struggle of the colonies against British oppression. His father was Levi Goshen and his mother was formerly Miss Har- riett Thornton.
The Rev. Dr. Goshen is a graduate of Northwestern Uni- versity, Evanston, having received his degree in 1894. The west called and he answered in 1899, when he came to Salt Lake City to accept the pulpit which he has filled continuously since that time. His fame has spread throughout the Rocky Moun- tain region, as one of the most magnetic, virile and eloquent preachers in the west.
But it is not his oratory and power as a speaker alone that has won fame for Dr. Goshen. He has given a helping hand to hundreds of men and women, the victims of the drug habit and other unfortunates, and with the aid of his mental treatment has won them back to health and respectability. Fully twelve hundred cures have been recorded within the last few years.
Dr. Goshen is married. His wife was formerly Miss Jene Melvin. They have one child, Harriett, three years of age. Dr. Goshen is independent in politics, putting the party policy above the party emblem. His reform and social work have added largely to his reputation. He is a member of the University club, and of Salt Lake lodge No. 85, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the K. C. C. H. of the Masonic fraternity, and is also a member of the Delta Upsilon Greek letter fraternity.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
EDWARD W. CLARK
MONG Utah's "captains of industry," probably the most noted are those engaged in the mining business. Edward Woodman Clark is one of those who has gained reputation and wealth in this line of endeavor. He was born at Osceola, Wisconsin, of Scotch-Irish descent. His parents were Rufus W. Clark and Mrs. Katherine Clark. His forbears left Scotland in 1600 and settled in Maine. Mr. Clark's father was a prominent lumberman of Taylors Falls, Minnesota, for many years.
It was in the common schools of Taylors Falls that Mr. Clark received his education. He came west to Montana in the year 1880. HIe located in Butte in 1887.
Already he had begun to make a marked success of his chosen calling, being then manager of former Senator Clark's reduction works. He later became associated with the senator in a number of mining enterprises. Mr. E. W. Clark, it will be remembered, was one of the discoverers of the noted Mayflower mine, which was purchased by Mr. Clark afterward, and proved to be a truly wonderful mining proposition.
Mr. Clark has acted as mining expert for Senator Clark for a number of years, and is still associated with him.
He is vice-president and manager of the St. John & Ophir railway; treasurer and manager of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Mining company; treasurer and manager of the Clark Electric Power company, and also a director in these companies.
Mr. Clark is married. His wife was formerly Miss Maude I. Piatt. This union was blessed with one child, a daughter, Eleanor Clark, 11 years of age. In 1889 Mr. Clark came to Utah. Ilis home is at Ophir. He is a member of the Alta club of Salt Lake City.
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WILLIAM FREDERICK ADAMS
ILLIAM FREDERICK ADAMS was born at Utica, New York, June 27, 1862. His parents were Richard and Sarah A. Thomas Adams. He was educated in the public schools, the High school and the Academy of Utica. He passed his entrance examinations for the second year at Harvard, but because of ill health ne was unable to continue his college work.
Mr. Adams then began the study of law, and was employed by the Oneida County Bank of Utica, New York.
In 1882 Mr. Adams went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was engaged in the grain and lumber business, and was one of the earliest members of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. He took an active part in all large movements for the npbuilding of Minneapolis and her commercial interests.
Six years later Mr. Adams came to Salt Lake City, and en- gaged in the banking business, in which profession he has been interested since his introduction to that business in Odeida County. He has for twenty-five years been an officer in national banks of Ogden and Salt Lake City.
Mr. Adams is married. His wife, before her marriage, was Miss Corinne Damon. Adams is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity, the Alta club and the Commercial Club of Salt Lake. He was one of the organizers and now is vice-president of the National City Bank of Salt Lake City.
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F. W. PAGET.
MONG the traveling public no one perhaps is known better throughout the United States as the subject of this sketch, Frederick W. Paget. His manage- ment of some of the principal hostelries, especially in the Western and Southern States, has proven his keen ability in his special line of business. His stanneh friends are numbered among those who have had the opportunity of meeting him in business as well as social channels.
Mr. Paget was born November 25, 1870, in Warwickshire, England, his parents having been well-known residents of that section of the British Isles. After receiving a common school education he was attracted by the hotel business, which he has followed practically all his life. He has also seen much active military service, having served as a member of the First Colo- rado Infantry Volunteers during the Spanish-American war. He was in the Philippine Islands with his regiment from June, 1898, until September, 1899. He married Miss Kathryn E. Ban- croft, and has one daughter, Dorothy Aurelia Paget.
On August 18, 1914, Mr. Paget came to Salt Lake City, ac- cepting the management of the Newhouse Hotel. In 1901 and 1902 he held the position of chief clerk of the Sheldon Hotel at El Paso, Texas. Was manager of the Columbian Hotel at Trinidad, Colorado, from 1902 to 1908, and manager of the Albany Hotel at Denver, Colorado, from 1908 up to the time that he came to Salt Lake City. He is a prominent member of fraternal orders, among which are the Woodmen of the World and the Elks.
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CHARLES NETTLETON STREVELL. President Independent Coal & Coke Company
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
LEWIS EDWIN ABBOTT
MAN who since his early life has been closely iden- tified with business and legislative affairs in Utah. Lewis Edwin Abbott, son of Jenette Smith and Thomas Morse Abbott, was born at Farmington, Utah, April 12, 1868. Both his parents were among the earliest settlers of the state. His father came here in 1847, and his mother in the following year. Both are living.
After attaining a public school education, Mr. Abbott at- tended the University of Utah. He follows the business of rail- roading, and has always been a strong advocate of "safety first" principles. Previous to his railroading career he was for sev- eral years a school teacher. His political views are in accord- ance with those of the Democratic party.
Mr. Abbott was married to Miss Jane Hess. His children are Lewis E., Camille, E. Marsh, Pauline, Alice, Lawrence and Florence. He is a worker in club and fraternal organizations. is a member of the local B. P. O. E., and of the Transportation club of this city.
Among the positions held by Mr. Abbott are: City council- man and mayor of Farmington; sheriff of Davis county for three terms; special agent on the Lucin cut-off; Oregon Short Line claim adjuster for eight years, and for a long period was Oregon Short Line safety commissioner. His home is at Farm- ington.
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SAMUEL L. UPSON
ORN of Quaker or Friends stock, Samuel L. Upson, the subject of this short biography, comes of typical American ancestry. Mr. Upson was born at Grand Island, Nebraska, on August 27, 1881. He was reared and educated there until young manhood, when he went to Chicago and entered the famous Northwest- ern University. He attended that institution of learning from 1902 to 1903, and then returned home.
He became a druggist, this profession appealing to him more than any other calling. In 1907 he removed to Salt Lake City, where he entered into the commercial activities of the city with a determination and spirit that soon spelled success, and marked him among his business associates as one worthy of esteem and respect.
Mr. Upson is now engaged in advertising lines, and is a prominent figure in that typically modern American line of busi- ness.
Although reared in the middle west of good old Quaker stock, he has adapted himself to western methods with wonder- ful facility, and with marked success. His forbears came from Connecticut. His great-grandfather and great grandmother were Quakers, as was his grandfather.
Today Mr. Upson is traveling representative engaged in advertising lines. He represents five firms : The Gerlach Bark- low company of Joliet, Illinois; H. B. Hardenburg & Co. of Brooklyn, New York; the Shedd & Wright Manufacturing Co. of Minneapolis; the Javert & Ticket Co. of Chicago, and the Griffin Cutlery Co. of New York. Mr. Upson is a member of the Fra- ternal Order of Eagles.
He often speaks of the credit due his guardian under whose care he was reared: Frank L. Slaten, manager of the New York department of the North British and Manchester Insurance com- pany of London and Edinburgh. Mr. Upson is married, his wife having been formerly Miss Josephine Bair.
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O. R. DIBBLEE
S A land operator, corporation organizer and general business promoter, Oliver Richard Dibblee has been identified with many of the largest Utah enterprises. He was born at Kankakee, Illinois, August 22, 1880, son of Harriett A. Skeels and Richard Harvey Dib- blee. His great-grandfather was a well-known Epis- copal clergyman of Boston, Massachusetts, and was dragged on Boston Common by Continental soldiers of King George. He had two sons, one of whom fought imder Washington and the other in the British army.
After having acquired a common school education, Mr. Dib- blee came to Utah, in 1904. He is married to Miss Winnifred Candland, and has two children-Virginia Ann and Winifred. He is especially known in club circles as an ardent worker in the local order of Elks, and holds the office of Esquire in that order. He is also a member of the Press Club of Salt Lake.
Mr. Dibblee's political activities are with the Republican party, having been nominated on that ticket, for the last election, as a representative for the lower house. He is vice-president of the Commercial Realty company, and is secretary, manager and trustee of the State Reclamation company. Is also a member of several other corporations. The State Reclamation company is an organization incorporated for the reclamation of several thousand acres of Salt Lake Valley alkaline lands. Associated with Mr. Dibblee in this work are Governor William Spry, M. H. Walker and W. D. Candland. Is also a promoter of Utah rock asphalt for city streets, and is the inventor of a well-known trench machine. He is a resident of Salt Lake City.
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ADOLPH SIMON
THE small city of Thorn, West Prussia, Adolph Simon was born in the year 1864. There he passed his boyhood days, and when ten years of age, he moved with his parents to the city of Strassburg, where he attended the local high school, or gymna- sium, as it is called in Germany. At the age of four- teen, he left home to enter an apprenticeship with a merchant who was carrying on a general dry goods business in a neigh- boring town.
After serving his apprenticeship of four years, Mr. Simon followed his older brother to America, arriving in Salt Lake City in March, 1884. He then joined his brothers in the millinery business which they had already established in Salt Lake City, and has continued in that business ever since.
Besides being a partner in the Paris Millinery Company, which is one of the largest retail millinery and women's apparel establishments in the west, Mr. Simon is also a member of the firm of L. & A. Simon Company, conducting a large wholesale millinery business.
Mr. Simon has always been and is still a firm believer in the future of Salt Lake City, and has evidenced his faith by invest- ing heavily in Salt Lake real estate. He is a member of several clubs, including the Commercial, Rotary and Country clubs. He is also a member of the Masonic order, the local order of Elks and various other fraternal organizations.
In 1900 Mr. Simon married Miss Stella Furchgott of Charleston, South Carolina, and by this marriage has had three sons.
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P. M. RANDALL
O NE of the strong and practical type of business men. engaged in the implement and vehicle business, is Pearl Martin Randall. Born at Catawba, Ohio, Feb- ruary 16, 1868, he moved to the middle west with his parents when a child. His father was Thomas H. Randall and his mother Mrs. Martha J. Randall. He entered the Southwestern Business College at Wichita, Kansas, in 1887, and later in life took up work as a commercial salesman.
In August, 1909, Mr. Randall came to Salt Lake. He is now engaged as a jobber of agricultural implements and vehicles, and has made an unqualified success of this work. He is manager of the Western Moline Plow company, one of the foremost agri- cultural implement concerns in the country.
He is married, his wife's maiden name having been Carrie A. Pratt. Three children were born to them: Walter H., 20 years of age; Leslie P., 18 years of age, and Harold M., 9 years of age.
Mr. Randall is a member of five fraternal orders: Albert Pike lodge No. 303, A. F. & A. M .; Wichita consistory No. 2, A. & A. S R .; Ivy Leaf chapter No. 75, O. E. S .; Wichita council No. 39. U. C. T., and El Kalah Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Salt Lake Commercial Club.
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