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Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
ROBERT JAMES GLENDINNING
ERCHANT and manufacturers' agent and a member of several western organizations, a man identified with clubs and fraternities throughout the western states, a man who has won for himself the highest respect among his fellow men, Robert James Glen- dinning has been a resident of Salt Lake for the last quarter of a century, and during that period has made a decided success of every business venture with which he has identified himself. His friends are numbered by the hundreds throughout the western states and through his upright dealings has become identified with many big financial enterprises.
Robert James Glendinning, son of Barbara Halliday and John Glendinning, was born September 19, 1866, in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is the son of Captain John Glendinning of the Seventy-ninth Highlanders, New York volunteers, and the nephew of the late James Glendinning, mayor of Salt Lake in 1896. He has for many years followed the business of manu- facturers' agent, although he is as well a merchant in connection with many local enterprises. He is also president of the firm of R. J. Glendinning & Co. His polities have always been Repub- lican, and he is a staunch worker in the party. His early school days were spent in the place of his birth, he later attending the Hasbrough institute in Jersey City. From that institution he was graduated in 1885. Mr. Glendinning came to Salt Lake in 1887, and has remained here since. His wife's maiden name was Bertha L. Reed, whose family is well known in social circles. For several years he has been a member of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Ohio Commandery. His membership in the Alta club, the Country club and the Salt Lake Commercial club has made for him many friends, as it is conceded by those that have made his acquaintance that he is one of the foremost when it comes to being a good booster for anything that will in any manner assist or tend to uplift the community in general.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
DR. CHRISTIAN NEPHI JENSEN
R. CHRISTIAN NEPHI JENSEN, president of Brig- D ham Young college at Logan and one of the most prominent educators of the state, was born in Eph- raim, Utah, June 18, 1880. He is the son of Jens Peter Jensen and Dorothea Gregerson Jensen. Dr. Jensen's early education was obtained in the public schools of Ephraim. Later he attended the University of Utah, the Utah Agricultural college and Cornell university. He re- ceived the degree, M. S. A., from Cornell in 1909 and that of Ph. D. from the same institution in 1912.
Dr. Jensen's scholastic ability has been recognized by a number of prominent educational societies. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the American Phytopathological society, active meni- ber of the National Educational association and member of the Utah Academy of Sciences. He also is a member of Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta and other college and honorary frater- nities. He is a member of and actively interested in the Com- mercial club of Logan. Ile is a Republican in polities.
Dr. Jensen married Miss Marian Lee Choate and their union is blessed with two children: Frank C., 4 years old, and Lee G., 3 years old.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
EMMETT MELLYNN BAGLEY
NE of the strongest defenses of a railroad corpora- C tion against injustice and unfair claims, is the claims attorney. A man holding this position for a big cor- poration must be not only a clever lawyer, but a keen student of human nature, able to pierce through the masks of sham and hypocriey at a glance. Emmett Mellynn Bagley, claims attorney for the Oregon Short Line, the Southern Pacific lines west of Sparks, and for the Utah Light & Railway company since 1907, possesses the qualifications re- quired by these positions, in a marked degree.
Mr. Bagley is a son of Dominic Bagley and Mary E. Bagley, and was born at Seattle, Wash., November 20, 1877. He is mar- ried, his wife formerly having been Miss Agnes Swan. The family home is in the Boulevard apartments, Salt Lake City.
Mr. Bagley entered the law department of the Southern Pacfie company at San Francisco, February 15, 1893. Three years later he became assistant claims attorney for the Sonthern Pacific railway and for the Market Street Railway company, San Francisco, remaining in that capacity until Jannary 1, 1905, when he came to Salt Lake City to take up his larger duties with the corporations that have been named.
Mr. Bagley has the distinction of launching the now nation- wide "Safety First" movement on the Oregon Short Line rail- road. This was the first movement of its kind launched in Utah, and it was followed quickly by many other great corporations who saw in it a splendid safeguard against accident and conse- quent loss of lives and property.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
WILLIAM W. WILSON
ILLIAM W. WILSON, postmaster and mayor-elect of Sandy, is one of the most prominent men of affairs in Salt Lake county. He was born in Hull, York- shire, England, September 18, 1858, and came to Utah in October, 1871. Mr. Wilson is a Republican in national politics and was honored by the voters November 2, 1915, by election to the mayoralty of Sandy. He is interested in many enterprises throughout the county, and always has been an active worker for anything that would prove of benefit to the county.
Mr. Wilson is president of the Sandy City bank, director in the Farmers' Implement company, director in the Salt Lake County Water company, member of the Sandy School board and of the Sandy Commercial club. He was one of the hardest workers for the eight-hour law.
Mr. Wilson enjoys the distinction of having been chairman of the Corporation commission that incorporated the city of Sandy. He was justice of the peace for seven years and was a member of the first State legislature. He served one term as county commissioner and took a prominent part in the consoli- dation of the school district, the first consolidated district in the state. There was much opposition at that time, but the plan is now much in favor. He helped promote the first water system, both at Sandy and at Midvale.
Mr. Wilson married Miss Annie E. Ostlund, and from this marriage there is the following issue: W. W. Wilson, Jr., 25 years old; Wilford M. Wilson, 22; Mrs. Marinda Lundberg, 30, and Pearl Wilson, 22.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
N. P. STATHAKOS
MAN well known in Salt Lake City, and highly re- spected by his numerous business associates, is N. P. Stathakos, a native of Athens, Greece. He first came to America in 1894, locating in Salt Lake City about nine years ago. He came here directly from Chi- cago.
Mr. Stathakos is a man of learning and of vast experiences. As to knowledge of his own people, he knows their traits and is loved by them. He is president and treasurer of the N. P. Stathakos company, incorpoarted for $75,000. His immediate business associates are such prominent men as his son, Peter Stathakos, F. E. MeGurrin, John S. Bransford and E. A. Cul- bertson. The principal stock in the company is the property of Mr. Stathakos. The principal object of the company is to hold, lease, convey and purchase real and personal property and ex- change banking business. This business is conducted by the firm in every part of the world. It also imports goods, wares and merchandise from all points of the globe. Mr. Stathakos is also the agent for transportation lines between this country and other lands. He is perfectly posted as to rates, sailing dates and all manner of accommodations in foreign countries.
Through his position as agent for the American Express company Mr. Stathakos has acquired an exceptionally wide ae- quaintance with merchants far and wide. In addition to the facts mentioned he is the local representative for the Banque- National de Greece, Banque D'Athens and the Ionia Bank, Ltd., of England. His real estate holdings in this state are extensive and valuable.
Mr. Stathakos is vice-president of the Utah Peace society, of which Governor William Spry is president. His activities in that organization are very extensive, it being his personal desire to extend the teachings of The Hague tribunal. One of the many special features of Mr. Stathakos is the fact that he always believes in investing his money in Utah, where he makes his home.
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ROLLA EUGENE CLAPP
HEN Dr. Herman Beerchoff, noted paleontologist, made the remark to his class of young men that the Colorado river basin offered the world's greatest field for geological research, he little dreamed that this remark might eventually change the transportation map of the United States.
One of his students was Rolla Engene Clapp, a native of Bentonville, Arkansas. After his work in the Golden School of Mines in 1898, and after post-graduate work in Columbia uni- versity, Mr. Clapp went to that wonderland and made three trips afoot from Grand Junction, Colorado, to San Diego, California, through the Colorado river basin. He found this the richest empire in the world. He sought to exploit it, and has com- pleted surveys for the shortest transcontinental railroad in the United States, the Southwestern Pacific. This railway will eventually open this prodigious empire to commerce and devel- opment. When constructed it will open the coal and iron fields of southern Utah and will transform the wilderness to thriving manufacturing centers.
Mr. Clapp was born October 19, 1879. His father was Campbell W. Clapp, a native of Springfield, Missouri; his mother was Nellie J. Fowler (Clapp), born in Topeka, Kansas. One of his forefathers landed at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1686; another of his paternal forbears was Chief Knave of the Chero- kee tribe of Indians. Mr. Clapp is one-sixteenth Cherokee In- dian. One of his mother's family was Dr. Woods, the noted Scotch historian. The Fowler branch came from England, landing in Massachusetts in 1750.
Mr. Clapp is a consulting engineer and is a Democrat in politics. Since 1906 he has spent virtually all his time on his railroad project for the Colorado river basin. He is a member of Reno lodge 597, B. P. O. E., and F. & A. M. 13, Nevada; also the Commercial club of Salt Lake. He is a Son of the American Revolution, and his wife, who was Marbeth Baye Hosmer of Cleveland, Ohio, is a Daughter of the American Revolution. Mr. Clapp's home is at the Semloh hotel, Salt Lake City.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
LOUIS HENDERSON FARNSWORTH
NATIVE of Utah is Louis Henderson Farnsworth, who was born on September 1, 1859, at Provo, Utah. Of sterling character and marked business ability, he is a leading figure in the commercial and banking life of his state. He has proven what "a Utah boy" can do.
His parents were Moses F. Farnsworth and Mrs. Elizabeth Jane (Duzette) Farnsworth. He comes of English descent and is of old New England stock. He is a direct descendant of Matthias Farnsworth, who lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1657.
When only six years of age, Mr. Farnsworth moved from Provo to Salt Lake with his parents. He made the most of his opportunities and as he grew into young manhood developed rapidly those keen commercial instincts which in later years made him such a marked success.
He married Miss Agnes W. Forsythe, and the union was graced by four children : Louis D. Farnsworth, 28 years of age; Edna Irene Farnsworth, 26 years of age; Earle F. Farns- worth, 23 years of age, and Ruth Farnsworth, 14 years of age. The Farnsworth home is one of the delightful social centers of the city, it being a typical American home in elegant simplicity and comfort.
Politically Mr. Farnsworth is a Republican and has worked loyaly for the success of that party.
From humble beginnings he has built up a business in bank- ing which is a credit to himself and all those associated with him in the business world. He is connected with many leading mercantile institutions of the city, among these offices being those of director of Walker Brothers Bankers; treasurer and director of Keith-O'Brien company; treasurer and director of M. H. Walker Realty company; secretary and director of Stude- baker Bros. company of Utah; assistant treasurer of the New- house Hotel company, and trustee and treasurer of the Uni- versity club of Salt Lake.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
FRANK GODBE
ON of the late pioneer, William S. and Rosina Godbe, Frank Godbe was born in Salt Lake City, February 13, 1858. He received his early education in the primitive schools of that period, and afterwards was among the first young students of the Deseret univer- sity when it was located on the corner now occupied by the Deseret News.
In 1873 he was taken to England by his father with the object of completing his education there, and after a preparatory course under a private tutor was admitted to Owens college, Manchester, remaining there until the end of 1874.
He was recalled from England to his Utah home, and started in the forwarding business at the terminus of the Utah Western railway. He afterwards acquired a knowledge of assaying, telegraphy and bookkeeping, especially useful in the mining and smelting operations of his father.
After two years as chief accountant and assistant ore buyer for the Germania Lead Works, he held positions of the utmost trust and responsibility in all the mining and smelting com- panies organized and conducted by his father in Rush Lake and Frisco, Utah, and Bullionville and Pioche, Nevada, the com- bined operations of which produced bullion to the amount of approximately $10,000,000.
In 1907 he was appointed deputy city treasurer for Salt Lake City, serving in that capacity until the commission form of government was instituted in 1912, when he received the appoint- ment of city treasurer, and was reappointed two years there- after. His success in the financial department of the city has been noteworthy, his intimate knowledge of modern accounting and long business experience enabling him to greatly improve and simplify the conduet of this office.
In 1883 he was married in Pioche, Nevada, to Miss Mary Louise Pierson. Their children are Tessie (Mrs. J. M. Taylor), Edith, Lawrence, Lucile (Mrs. Wayne E. Smith) and Norman.
Mr. Godbe is a member of the B. P. O. Elks No. 85, and of the Commercial club of Salt Lake City.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
DR. E. C. FAIRWEATHER
MONG the members of the dental profession of Utah. one of the best known is Dr. Earl Chapman Fair- weather. Dr. Fairweather was born at Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. His father was John C. Fair- weather and his mother Elizabeth Evans-Fairweather, both high respected citizens of that community. When he was 6 years of age his parents moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he received both a grammar and high school education. Dr. Fairweather went east to Philadelphia to receive his higher education. He matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1899 and pursued his studies there until 1902, when he was graduated from the dental school of the state in- stitution. His collegiate record was a good one, his work being most creditable.
It was on September 25, 1902, the fall of the year in which he was graduated, that he came to Utah, settling in Salt Lake City. Here he took up the practice of dentistry and has built up an enviable business. He is an ardent student of the science of dentistry and is well known among the members of that calling in the western country, being secretary of the State Dental asso- ciation.
Dr. Fairweather is a widower, his wife having been formerly Miss Emma Hall Fisher. He has one child, a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Fairweather, nine years of age.
Dr. Fairweather is a member of the Mt. Moriah lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and is an enthusiastic Mason.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
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MAURICE STIEFEL
AURICE STIEFEL is a native of Oregon, but has spent the greater part of his life in Salt Lake City, where he has as wide a circle of business and social acquaintances as any other man in the city. Mr. Stiefel is a son of Helen and Alexander Stiefel, and was born at Corvallis, Oregon, October 7, 1867. He came to Salt Lake City in 1883, and attended the old Collegiate institute, which has since passed from existence. During the period of its greatest influence, this school was one of the most important institutions of learning in the western states, and while attending there Mr. Stiefel met many men who would afterward have a broad influence upon his life.
Having lived in Salt Lake City since he was 4 years of age, Mr. Stiefel has watched its development from a frontier town to a mountain metropolis, and he has developed with the city. His wife was formerly Isabel Davidson, and there are eight sons and daughters. They are: Frank, 24 years of age; Valjean, 22; Harold, 20; Helen, 18; Maurice, 16; Henrietta, 13; Virginia, 11, and Isabella, 6 years of age.
Mr. Stiefel is a member of no secret or fraternal organiza- tion, nor is he a member of any club or corporation.
He has been engaged in the tailoring business for many years, specializing in shirts and uniform suits for organizations, as well as in made-to-measure tailored garments.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
A. C. MATHESON
TPICALLY representative of the great west is "the little red schoolhouse." Educational leaders, par- ticularly those connected with the public school sys- tem of this country, are highly honored in this land. A. C. Matheson, former state superintendent of public instruction in Utah, is one of the foremost educators of the intermountain country.
Mr. Matheson was born in Dundee, Scotland, May 17, 1870. His parents immigrated to America in 1878, coming directly to Utah. His father's name was David Matheson, and his moth- er's Mrs. Mary Craig Matheson. It is no wonder that Mr. Matheson, born and reared in Scotland, the land which worships learning, should follow teaching as a life work.
He was educated in the grade schools of the early days, and then entered the L. D. S. U., and later Brigham Young college and then the University of Utah. From 1890 to 1895 he studied at these varions institutions, making a creditable record for himself in scholarship.
His standing today in educational circles of the west is unquestioned, he having been engaged in school work for nearly a score of years. Prior to that time he was engaged in ear- penter work and farming.
Politically Mr. Matheson is a Republican of the "old guard" type, advocated by former President William H. Taft.
He is married, his wife having been Miss Josephine Howard. Three children have blessed this union : Kenneth, 9 years of age ; Romola, 7 years of age, and Virginia, an infant.
Utah's school system today owes much of its present effi- ciency to the capable work of Mr. Matheson, who while state superintendent of public instruction, did much to promote Utah's educational growth.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
ANTHONY H. GODBE
NTERESTED in mines and metallurgy, and a mining man by profession, Anthony H. Godbe is without a peer in his line in thes wesetern states. His connec- tion with several of the largest mining enterprises in Utah has placed him in positions of trust which could not be gained through any other channels than through those of honest, hard and conseentious application of his knowledge to his work. His friends and business acquaintances are numbered among the most influential men of the western states.
Mr. Godbe, son of Mary Hampton Godbe and William S. Godbe, was born November 22, 1862, in Salt Lake. His father was prominent in Utah as one of the early pioneers, and the first to develop the mining resources of the state. His mother was a descendant of a prominent Quaker family of Philadelphia. Mr. Godbe is not only interested in mining and metallurgy, but is also interested in mine investments and promotions.
He is a Progressive Republican. His childhood was spent in the schools of Salt Lake City. He later took a complete course at the Salt Lake Collegiate institute and the Deseret university. He entered that institution in 1876, remaining until 1881. Since 1886 he has followed the profession of metallurgist and mining engineer. He married Miss Ruby Clawson, daughter of the late Hiram B. Clawson, and three children were born, Virginia Godbe, 14 years of age; Margaret Godbe, 12 years of age; Hampton Godbe, 7 years of age, and Anthony L. Godbe, born in 1913. Mr. Godbe is a stockholder in the Prince Consolidated Mining & Smelting company, the Amalgamated Pioche Mining & Smelting company, the Land Irrigation company, and is the owner of the Godbe apartments at 164 East South Temple street. He is a member of the Salt Lake Commercial club. Mr. Godbe started his career as a chemist and assayer, and was later ap- pointed as superintendent of mines and mills. He resides with his family at South Temple and N setreets.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
JOHN T. HAND
MONG the foremost musicians of Utah is John Taylor Hand of 48 East South Temple street. Mr. Hand was born at Benjamin, Utah county, October 30, 1885. His parents settled when mere children in Utah dur- ing the '60s. His father came to Utah when he was only 16 years of age. His mother's parents left Scotland and settled in Johannesburg, South Africa. His moth- er was born there. Her parents brought her to Utah when she was an infant. They settled in Payson.
Mr. Hand received a common school education and then attended the University of Utah. Later he went abroad, study- ing in Berlin under George Fergesson, in vocal, and Alberto Jonas, in piano.
Mr. Hand is a vocal specialist, and is an acknowledged leader in Utah's musical set. He is a member of the Utah Music club, and has achieved remarkable triumphs in his pro- fession. In Berlin, in 1909 and 1910, he was dramatic tenor. In 1911 he was first tenor soloist with the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir when it made its famous tour of the eastern states.
He is principal of the music department in the academies of the Mormon Church schools of Utah. His private vocal pupils are among the foremost professional singers before the Utah public today.
Mr. Hand is married, his wife being formerly Miss Lora Ileen Pratt. They have five children. The home is at 49 East South Temple street. The children are Louis Taylor Hand, Ileen Leola Hand, Reva Hand, Ronald George Hand and Marian Hand.
Mr. Hand is a Progressive, with a marked admiration for President Woodrow Wilson.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
NICHOLAS GROESBECK MORGAN
C OUNTING among the members of his family, pioneers who came to Utah many years before the first loco- motive excited the awe of the Indians and the terror of the wild creatures of the mountain and plain, and born within the state his grandparents helped wrest from the grasp of the desert, Nicholas G. Morgan of Salt Lake City is quite naturally a member of the Native Sons of Utah.
Mr. Morgan was born at Salt Lake, November 9, 1884. His grandfather, Nicholas Groesbeck, for whom he was named, was a pioneer business man. His father was the late President John Morgan of the Southern States mission, who for many years was an active worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nicholas G. Morgan attended the University of Utah from 1901 to 1907, and for the succeeding four years was a stu- dent at Georgetown college, Washington, D. C., where he re- ceived his degree of Doctor of Laws in 1910. He also took a one-year post-graduate course after receiving his degree. He was private secretary to Senator Reed Smoot at Washington for three years.
Mr. Morgan is an enthusiastic and loyal Republican, and has been recognized by appointment as deputy county attorney, hav- ing during his term of office had the handling of many important cases.
Mr. Morgan is married, and has three children. His wife was Miss Ethel Tate, and his children are Dorothy, 4 years of age ; Helen, 2 years of age, and Lucile, born in April, 1914.
Mr. Morgan is a member of the A. F. fraternity, the Native Sons of Utah and the Young Men's Republican club of Salt Lake.
Men of Affairs in The State of Utah
ARTHUR A. PANNIER
HOUGH he has been engaged actively as an engraver during the greater part of the last half century, the hand of Arthur A. Pannier has lost none of its cun- ning, and his eye has lost none of its steadiness. Mr. Pannier, who is one of the pioneer engravers of Salt Lake City, is a native of Berlin, Prussia, where he was born February 16, 1864.
His father, William Julius Pannier, is of French Huguenot stock, and his mother, Clara C. Von Scharchtman, is of the Ger- man-Polish aristocracy. Mr. Pannier came to America in his boyhood, and attended the public schools at Alleghany, Penn- sylvania, passing through the graded schools. He completed the graded school course in 1878, and took up at once the task of learning all the minute details of the engraver's business.
Mr. Pannier came to Salt Lake City in 1892, and has made his home here almost continuously since. He is married, and there are three children in the family. They are Gladys H. Pan- nier, 17 years of age; Karl O. Pannier, 14 years of age, and Clyde A. Pannier, 12 years of age. Mrs. Pannier before her marriage was Miss Anna M. Bier.
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