Dr. Isaac Samuel SMITH - Utah Since Statehood

Isaac Samuel SMITH known as 'Ike' is the oldest brother of George Ensign SMITH.
'Ika' Smith is the Uncle of Camilla SMITH.

Utah since statehood: historical and biographical By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, Pg. 295. Chicago-Salt Lake, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1920.

ISAAC S. SMITH, D.D.S.

Dr. Isaac [Samuel] Smith, engaged in the practice of dentistry in Logan and associated in the work of the profession with Dr. A. W. Ensign [Adam Wesley ENSIGN brother of Harriet Camilla ENSIGN SMTIH], was born in Brigham, Utah, in 1878, a son of Isaac [SMITH] and Harriet Camilla (Ensign) Smith, of whom mention is made on another page of this work.

Dr. Smith acquired his early education in the public schools of Logan and afterward attended the Brigham Young College and the Utah agricultural College, in which he completed his high school work. He then filled a mission to the southern states, where he labored for a year, after which he filled a mission in England covering fourteen months. Upon his return to his native land he entered the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, in which he studied for three years, being graduated with the class of 1903. He afterward returned to Logan, where he opened an office, and after practicing alone for eight years, was joined in a partnership by Dr. W. H. Petty, with whom he was associated for two years. He afterward again practiced alone for two years, on the expiration of which period he was joined by Dr. Ensign and the partnership relation between them has since been maintained. Dr. Smith keeps in close touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress, is quick to adopt the most improved processes of the profession, and his work is ever of a scientific and also of a satisfactory character. He served for a period of four years, from 1913 to 1917, as a member of the Utah state board of dental examiners to which position he was appointed by Governor William Spry.

In 1904 Dr. Smith was married to Miss Lula Yates, a daughter of Frederick and Sarah Yates, natives of England, whence they came to Utah, arriving in this state at an early day. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have become parents of five children; Luther, Virginia, Ruth, Norman and Lula. The family is one of prominence in the social circles of Logan and Dr. Smith has attained a most creditable position in the ranks of his chosen profession.

Isaac SMITH - Utah Since Statehood

Isaac SMITH is the grandfather of Camilla SMITH.

Utah Since Statehood, By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p. 352-353.

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ISAAC SMITH

Utah was still in the period of its earliest development when Isaac Smith entered upon life’s pilgrimage within the borders fo the state. He was born at Brigham city, December 31, 1857, a son of Samuel and Sarah Jane (Inghram) Smith. Who were natives of England, the former born in London and the latter in Worcester. Becoming pioneer residents of Utah, the father was for many years county judge of Boxelder county and was a very prominent and influential citizen, connected with many public enterprises.

Isaac Smith when fourteen years of age had largely mastered the cabinetmaker’s trade and then went out with a surveying party as peg boy. He soon was advanced to the position of rod man and in that capacity went on a surveying trip with Joseph A. West when the Utah & Northern Railroad Company was making a survey through Bear River canyon to Soda springs. When about sixteen years of age he had charge of the level party under Joseph A. West in making the preliminary survey for the railroad to Black rock and to E. T. City, west of Salt Lake. On his return to Brigham city he was given charge of the Brigham Cooperative Lumberyard and served in that capacity until the fall of 1876, when he went to Salt lake to attend the university. He there pursued his studies during the first and last quarters and during the two winter quarters taught school in order to earn the money to meet the expenses of his course. On account of impaired health, however, he was obliged to seek outdoor work and during that summer was employed at the Brigham Cooperative Steam Mill, shipping lumber and acting as bookkeeper.

On the 14th of august, 1869, Mr. Smith was baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and on the 13th of February, 1876, was ordained a priest by William Box. On the 11th of August, 1877, the Boxelder stake was organized with Oliver G. Snow as president and Elder box as first counselor, while Isaac Smith, then only nineteen years of age, was made second counselor. At that time Mr. Smith was also ordained high priest and set apart to the office named by Apostle Lorenzo Snow.

On the 28th of December, 1877, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Harriet Camilla Ensign, a daughter of Martin L. and Mary (Dunn) Ensign. At the April conference of 1875 he was called on a mission to Great Britain, leaving home on the 5th of May. He was assigned to the Herefordshire and Bedfordshire districts, where he labored until the spring of 1879, and was then sent to the Channel Islands, spending about three months on the island of Jersey. Later he was appointed president of the Leeds conference, where he remained until April 10, 1880. When he returned to Brigham city.

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In the spring of 1881 he moved to Logan and accepted a clerkship in the wholesale department of Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution On the 5th of June, 1884, he was then called upon for active church service, being appointed bishop of the seventh ward. In secular affairs, too, he made his life one of usefulness to the community. He was invoice clerk with Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution, having charge of the grocery, hardware and crockery departments and later of the clothing department. He also went upon the road as traveling salesman for the house for five years and later conducted a branch store on Main street in Logan. On the 3d of August, 1890, he was sustained as second counselor to Orson Smith, president of the Cache stake. In February, 1891, he was given charge of the Logan branch of Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution, which position he filled until the business was closed out in 1897. For several years he filled the office of president of the Cache stake and in 1913 was made a patriarch, so continuing until his death, which occurred on the 30th of March, 1914.

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Charles Welch DUNN son of Charles Oscar DUNN son of Simeon Adams DUNN

The Charles Oscar Dunn Family - Leticia SMITH is on his right and 'Janie' [Marth Jane] WELCH is on his left.

Charles Oscar DUNN is the great-grand uncle of Camilla SMITH.

Charles Welch DUNN and Camilla SMITH are 1st cousins 2 times removed. Their common ancestor is Simeon Adams DUNN.

Utah since statehood By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p. 331-332.

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Charles W. DUNN

[Charles W. Dunn’s father was Charles Oscar DUNN he was the son of Simeon Adams DUNN and Harriet Atwood SILVER. Charles O. DUNN first wife was Letitia SMITH - half sister of Isaac SMITH.]

Charles W. Dunn, a member of the Cache county bar practicing at Logan was born in Brigham, Utah, April 16, 1885, a son of Charles O. and Martha Jane (Welch) Dunn. The father, also born at Brigham, has devoted his life to the occupation of farming but is now living retired in Logan. For twenty-one year he has been bishop of college ward, or from 1891 until 1912, and he was also superintendent of the Mutual Improvement association and assistant superintendent of the Sunday school at Brigham. In 1882 he labored in St. George’s Temple. It was in the same year that he

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Removed to Cache county and in Logan Temple he labored in 1884-5. The mother of Charles W. Dunn is a native of Centerville and a daughter of John Welch. She was born February 24, 1859, and is still living. The ancestry of the Dunn family can be traced back in the United States as far as 1620.

Charles W. Dunn accompanied his parents on their removal to Cache county in his youth. He attended the schools of the county and also Brigham Young College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1905. He afterward became a student in the Utah Agricultural College and in early manhood he devoted four years to teaching in the schools of Cache county, imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge that he had acquired. He afterward filled the office of clerk of the district court for a period of four years, having been appointed to that position by the country commissioners. His work in that direction awakened his interest in the profession of law and while serving as court clerk he devoted all of his leisure time to the mastery of the principles of jurisprudence and successfully passed the required examination for admission to the bar on the 25th of March, 1916. In the meantime he had also pursued a correspondence course through the University of Southern California, which conferred upon him the LL. B. degree. Since his admission to the bar he has continued active in the practice of law in all of the courts of the state, making a specialty, however, of ti[t]le and probate practice. He is likewise associated with the Utah Mortgage Loan Corporation of Logan but concentrates the greater part of his time and attention upon his practice, which is now extensive and of an important character. He does all of the title and probate work for the Utah Mortgage Loan Corporation, which is one of the largest and most successful loan companies of the west.

On the 19th of September, 1906, Mr. Dunn was married to Miss Lulu Schenk, of college ward, Cache county, a daughter of John Schenk. They have six children: Charles O., twelve years of age; Meryl, aged ten; John Eldon, eight; Lulu, six; Vera; and Edith. Those who have attained sufficient age are in school.

Reared in the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mr. Dunn has always been one of its loyal members and succeeded his father as bishop of College ward, having been ordained in July, 1912, by Patriarch Hyrum M. Smith. In politics he is a republican and is active in the local councils of his party. He belongs to the Cache County Bar Association and to the Utah State Bar Association and he enjoys the highest regard of his fellow members of the profession. He is recognized as a man of admirable character, highly respected fro his ability and loved for his kindly, genial personality. He was extremely young to hold the position of bishop, his service making the mane of Dunn connected with the bishopric of college ward for twenty-two years. In this work he is proving the worthy son of a noble sire. It has been said that fortunate is the man who has back of him an ancestry honorable and distinguished and happy is he if his lines of life are cast in harmony therewith. In person, in talents and in character Charles W. Dunn is a worthy scion of his race displaying the qualities which have made his ancestors valuable factors in American citizenship since the earliest period in the colonization of New England.

(Utah since statehood By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p. 331-332.)

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Martin Luther ENSIGN - Utah Since Statehood

back row left Martin Luther ENSIGN Jr. and Martha WRIGHT E.,
center Siveren Nelson LEE and Emma Lovinia E. LEE,far right Isaac SMITH and Harriet "Camilla" E. SMITHmiddle row left Georgianna E. and William John HILL,
center - parents Mary DUNN ENSIGN and Martin Luther ENSIGN,
right Mary Adaline E. ROBERTS and John Lloyd ROBERTS
front center Adams Wesley ENSIGN, Effie Celestia ENSIGN.

(not pictured John Henry ENSIGN died Aug 1866 age 2, Horace ENSIGN died Mar 1866 as infant.)

Martin Luther ENSIGN is the great-grandfather of Camilla SMITH.

Martin Luther ENSIGN and Kirt DeMar WOOD are 7th cousins 3 times removed. Their common ancestors are John HOSKINS Immigrant and Ann FYLER Immigrant.


Utah since statehood By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p.370-371
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MARTIN LUTHER ENSIGN

No history of Utah would be complete were there failure to make reference to Martin Luther Ensign, whose eighty years of life were crowded to the full with activities of a most useful character in relation to the material and moral development of this state. He was born in Little river Village, near Westfield, Massachusetts, March 31, 1831, a son of Horace [Datus] and Mary (Bronson) Ensign who were converted by the preaching of Edwin D. Wooley and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints in 1845. In the following spring they started for Nauvoo, Illinois, their son, martin Luther, being then fifteen years of age. The residence of the family upon the western frontier precluded the possibility of his acquiring an education, yet in his life of eighty years he accomplished a marvelous amount of work that resulted for the benefit of his fellowmen as well as his own interest. Before the family reached Nauvoo most of the people of their faith had been driven out and they continued their journey to Winter Quarters. There the father died at the age of forty-eight, leaving six children to the care of the widowed mother. About the 15th of May, 1847, Mrs. Ensign and her family started for Utah and Martin L., then between sixteen and seventeen years of age, drove three yoke of oxen from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake City for John Eldridge, arriving at his destination on the 15th of September. His eldest brother, Datus Ensign, helped to plow the first furrow turned in Utah, bringing the plow ready for use from Winter Quarters. This plow is now in the museum at Salt Lake. The mother’s home was built on logs from Immigration canyon and covered with poles and canes. It was located in the north section of Salt Lake, which was added to the first ten acre tract of the city. Their first crop of wheat was raised just north of where the City and County building now stands.

On the 8th of January, 1852, Martin L. Ensign wedded Mary Dunn, daughter of Simeon A. Dunn, who was born in Ypslianti, Michigan, November 18, 1833 [correction needed here - Simeon Adams DUNN father of Mary DUNN ENSIGN was born in Groveland, Williamstown, Ontario, New York, August 7 1803]. That spring the young couple moved to Centerville, at which time their furniture consisted of a table, a long bench, a bedstead and two stools, which Mr. Ensign made. They borrowed a bake kettle and the mother furnished a set of knives and forks and some bedclothes. From Centerville they moved to Ogden and thence to North Ogden with the intention of making a home there, but Simeon Dunn had already become a resident of Boxelder county and there Mr. Ensign and his wife joined him in 1853. Their first home was made of logs, which were cut, hewed and nailed together in North Ogden and then moved on the running gear of a wagon to where Brigham stands. They occupied that primitive dwelling for about six weeks and were then advised to move into the fort. Mr. Ensign said that he was obliged to move his house three times in one year. In 1854. Accompanied by Simeon Dunn, he went by ox team three hundred miles to the Humboldt river to get iron left there by California Immigrants. Part of this iron was afterward sold to buy flour, which cost ten dollars per hundred pounds. In 1854 or 1855 Mr. Ensign built a home at the corner of Second South and Third North streets, which has since been known as Ensign’s corner. In 1855 he was called to go to the Cache valley and build houses on the church farm. He built the first house in Cache valley. In 1856 he aided in building the grist mill in Brigham and the following

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year was called to fill a mission to England. He walked from Salt Lake to the Mississippi river and pulled a handcart filled with provisions. There were seventy-two in the company and they made the trip in forty-eight days, traveling without purse or scrip.

Mr. Ensign remained in England until June 1, 1858, when he returned to Brigham and worked in the canyon and at framing until 1862. The following year, in association with Jarvis Johnson, he built a shop on Boxelder creek and installed machinery, which was operated by water power. They did carpenter work, wagon repairing and wheelwright work and they also built a sawmill at the head of Boxelder canyon. In 1866 Mr. Ensign organized a company which sent east for a portable sawmill, which was set up on Paradise creek and operated for a year. In 1869 Mr. Ensign built tent frames, houses and camp furniture for the railroad company and in this way earned as high as twenty-five dollars per day. In 1873, associated with Mr. Johnson, he built a sawmill in Paradise canyon and from 1874 until 1877 he had charge of the Brigham Young cooperative carpenter shops and also built a bridge over Bear river at Bear River City. He likewise had charge of a steam sawmill in the Logan canyon and he did the finishing carpenter work on the Logan Temple. From 1877 until 1884 he assisted in building bridges over Bear river at Hampton and Corinne. His industrial activity contributed much to the development of the districts in which he operated. He possessed much mechanical skill and ingenuity and could do almost any kind of work in wood or iron. Mr. Ensign was elected justice of the peace in 1882 and filled that office until 1892 and from 1886 until 1892 he was also county coroner. On retiring from that position he organized a company and built a creamery on North Main street in Logan at a cost of five thousand dollars. From 1894 until 1911 he did grading work and thus continued in a life of activity and usefulness until he had reached the advanced age of eighty years. He never ceased to feel the keenest interest in the work of the church and for many years was high counselor. He was likewise associated with the Fife and Drum Corps of Brigham city in the early days He passed away May 18, 1911, survived by forty-three grandchildren and sixty-six great-grandchildren. Three [four] of his grandsons, Carl, Lee and Horace Ensign of Brigham, and George Ensign Smith of Logan, served in the World war It would be impossible to overestimate the value of the life work of Martin Luther Ensign, who from earliest pioneer times was connected with the development of the state. He was closely associated with those first activities that marked the colonization and settlement of Utah and as the years passed be bore his part in the task of continued progress and improvement. He came indeed to an honored old age and left behind a memory that is revered and cherished by all who knew him.

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Adams Wesley ENSIGN with history of his parents Martin Luther ENSIGN and Mary DUNN

Adam Wesley ENSIGN is the grand-uncle of Camilla SMITH.

ADAMS W. ENSIGN, D.D.S

(Utah since statehood By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p.260-261.)

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With thorough professional training and constantly broadening experience, Dr. Adams W. Ensign has won for himself a very enviable position as a representative of the dental fraternity in Logan. He keeps in close touch with the advancement that is continually being made in the profession and he is ever most careful to conform his practice to the highest standard of professional ethics.

Dr. Adams Wesley ENSIGN DDS

Dr. Ensign was born in Brigham, Utah, January 1, 1875. His father, Martin L. Ensign, was a native of Massachusetts, where his ancestors had lived through several generations. The family is of English origin but has long been represented on this side of the Atlantic, the progenitor of the family in the mew world coming to America in order to enjoy civil and religious liberty. Martin L. Ensign was reared and educated in Westfield, Massachusetts, and in 1847, with his widowed mother and six children, crossed the plains and from pioneer times the family has been identified with the development and up building of the state of Utah. They settled first at Salt Lake but subsequently removed to Centerville in 1852 - the year in which Martin L. Ensign was married to Miss Mary Dunn, a native of Michigan, in which state her people lived from early days. The Dunn family is also of English lineage. Mrs. [Mary] Ensign came to Utah in 1848 and, as stated, the marriage was celebrated in 1852. The following year Mr. Ensign removed to Brigham, where he resided throughout his life. He was a carpenter by trade but also engaged in agricultural and stock raising in the section. He likewise built a number of sawmills in the part of the state and he erected the first house in the Cache valley, it being built originally on what was known as the Church Farm, about three miles south of the city of Logan. He also built a number of bridges and many of the early homes of the district and his activities as a carpenter and builder contributed much to the development of the county. He and his wife for a long time had the distinction of being the oldest couple in the country. Mr. Ensign was very zealous and earnest as a churchman serving as a member of the high council for many years, and in 1856 he was sent to England on a mission. He left his wife and three children to go on a mission and he suffered many hardships and privations. He had but scanty means and his family lived in a little log cabin on one room. Mr. Ensign turned over to them everything that he possessed in the way of money and left without funds. He pushed a handcart across the plains from Salt Lake to the Missouri river and traveled on across the country, eventually making his way to Liverpool in the streerage of one of the eastern bound vessels. It was during his absence that Johnston’s army came and interfered with the settlers. Mrs. Ensign with her children then removed to Sanpete county, where she was largely cared for by the Indians. When Mr. Ensign again came to Utah they returned to the Cache valley, where his death occurred May 18, 1911, when he had reached the advanced age of eighty years. To Martin L. and Mary (Dunn) Ensign were born nine children, four sons and five daughters, of whom two sons died in infancy, while Adeline, the eldest daughter, died in August, 1892. She was the wife of John L. Roberts and died at the birth of her tenth child. The others of the family are: Georgeanna, the wife of William J. Hill, a resident of the Cache valley; Emma L. the wife of S. N. Lee , of Brigham; Harriette C. [Harriet Camilla], the wife of Isaac Smith [son of Samuel Smith and Sarah Jane INGRAM], a resident

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of Logan; Martin L., living in Brigham; Effie C., the widow of Louis A. Merrill, a resident of Logan; and Adams W., who completed the family. The mother still survives and is now living in Logan in her eighty-sixth year.

Dr. Ensign was educated in the public schools of Brigham and in the Utah Agricultural College, which he attended for two years. Determining upon a professional career, he then went east and matriculated in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1903, the degree of D.D.S. being then conferred upon him. Prior to his graduation he was engaged in dairying and followed that pursuit for about two years. After his graduation he began practice in Brigham, where he remained until 1914 and since that time he has maintained his office in Logan. He enjoys a very extensive practice by reason of the fact that he is most skillful in the use of the delicate little instruments which form a part of the equipment of the dentist. He understands all of the scientific phases of the profession as well and his work has been extremely satisfactory.

On the 20th of December, 1901, in Logan Temple, Dr Ensign was married to Miss Winifred Boden, a native of Brigham and a daughter of Heber C. and Charlotte (Welsh) Boden. The Welsh family was founded in Utah in 1855, while the Boden family came to this state in the early ’60s. Dr. and Mrs. Ensign are parents of eight children; Hugo Boden, Wesley Boden, Coleman B., Olive, Mary Winifred, Ellis Boden, Bernice and Luther Boden. Dr. Ensign owns a residence at Tenth North and Eighth East streets, where he and his family reside. During the period of the great European war he was a member of the Cache County Council of Defense. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of the sixth ward of Logan and in 1896 was called on a mission to the southern states, serving for two years. While there he was one of the superintendents of the conference and he is still as active in the work of the church as his time permits. He belongs to the Logan Commercial Booster Club and cooperates heartily in all of its well defined plans and projects for the interests and up building of the city. In politics he is a republican and formerly served as a member of the city council of Brigham. In addition to his previously mentioned church work he was one of the presidents of the One Hundred and Thirty-third Quorum of Seventy and also connected with the Stake Mutual Improvement Association and Sunday school work. His life measures up to high standards in all that concerns the individual in relation to his fellowmen and in relation to his country. His course has been marked by steady progress. He worked his way through school and his high professional standing is due to his own efforts. While in college he was employed in various ways, working in restaurants, washing dishes and doing anything that would add to his financial resources and enable his to continue his course. His success is indicated in the fact that he today owns one of the finest homes in Logan - a most beautiful residence standing in the midst of five acres of land. It is equipped with all modern comforts and conveniences and, standing on the outskirts of the city, is most attractively situated, with a splendid view of the mountains. The outbuildings upon the place are models of convenience and utility and include one of the finest stock barns in the county. In association with his sons Dr. Ensign is starting in the dairy business with thoroughbred cattle, in with they expect to specialize, and they also handle high grade chickens. In time Dr. Ensign hopes to retire from the arduous duties of an extensive office practice and give his attention to these outdoor interests. His patrons, however, recognizing his superior ability in dental practice, are loath to give up his service, for his broad study and wide experience have placed him in the front rank of the dentists of this section of the state. In manner he is always courteous and genial and his marked characteristics are such as make for personal popularity with all who know him.

(Utah since statehood By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p.260-261.)

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William John WORLEY with history of his parents Catherine WILLMORE and Henry WORLEY

William WORLEY at age 90

William John WORLEY (Bishop) is the great-grand uncle of Camilla SMITH.

(Utah Since Statehood, By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p. 456-459.) [photo p. 457]

William WORLEY

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William Worley, a contractor and builder of the firm of Worley & Nelson at Logan, was born July 19, 1864, in Birmingham, England. His father, the late Henry Worley, was also a native of Birmingham and emigrated to the new world in 1869. He at once made his way to Logan, Utah, where he resided until his death, which occurred December 21, 1914, when he had reached the venerable age of eighty-eight years. He came to America with his wife and nine children and before leaving his native country he learned the trade of making glass buttons. Upon his conversion to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, however, he gave up everything in his native country and with his family started for the new world that he might cast in his lot with the people of the faith. After reaching Utah he followed agricultural pursuits and stock raising and in this was very successful. He was a most devout man and by reason of his integrity and enterprise in business and his loyalty to every cause which he espoused he commanded the respect of all with whom he came in contact. The mother of William Worley was Catherine (Willmore) Worley, a native of Staffordshire, England. They had a family of twelve children, nine of whom reached adult age. Five of the sons and four daughters came to America with their parents. The mother, who was born August 4, 1822, died at the age of eighty-four years.

William Worley whose name introduces this review was educated in the public schools of Logan and in the Brigham Young College, which was then located in the fourth ward and was called the Lindquist Hall school. It contained several rooms, with the city jail underneath, and this school constituted the start of the Brigham Young Academy. When seventeen years of age Mr. Worley began earning his own living and was first employed at the carpenter's trade, which he has since followed. For the past twenty-six years he has been engaged in contracting and through this entire period has been associated with Mr. Nelson. They constitute the oldest contracting firm of northern Utah and have a business second to none. They have erected all of the principal public and industrial buildings and churches in this section. As contractors they have erected the following which in part stand as monuments to their skill and handiwork. They were the builders of Nibley Hall, the Eccles residence, the Whittier school, the Woodruff school, the Richmond and Lewiston tabernacles, the mechanical arts building of the Utah Agricultural College. They had the contract for the paving of the Logan city street, which was the first paving done in the city, the contract amounting to ninety-four thousand dollars. They also built the addition to the county courthouse.

From 1883 until 1893 Mr. Worley was employed on the Utah Northern Railroad, later the Oregon Short Line, beginning as a helper, and prior to the time when he resigned his railroad position he had been advanced to foreman, acting in that capacity for a considerable period. His ability in the line of carpentering and building has brought him prominently to the front, and in addition to his work in this connection he is now the president of the Logan Hardware Company.

On the 10th of December, 1885, Mr. Worley was married in Logan Temple to Miss Alice Pearson, a native of Logan and a daughter of John and Mary Ann (Potts) Pearson, both of whom have passed away, the father dying in Logan at the very notable old age of ninety-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Worley have become parents of twelve children, eight of whom survive: La Verne; Dr. W. R. Worley, of Salt Lake, who served on a mission in London for twenty-six months; Dr. Eugene Worley, of Hyrum; Margaret; John Clyde, who was a lieutenant in the United States army during the recent European war; Catherine Blanche; Dorothy; and lrma. One son, Lester, died November 20, 1918, at the age of twenty-seven years.

The family home is at No. 338 West First South, and in addition to owning this property Mr. Worley conducts a large farm adjacent to Logan, which is well stocked with thoroughbred cattle. He was a member of the board of directors of the Cache Valley Condensed Milk Company which later was taken over by Bordens Condensed Milk Company. He certainly deserves much credit for what he has accomplished. He started out a poor boy and worked at all times at hard labor without the assistance of influential friends or capital. Step by step he has worked his way upward and his orderly progression has brought him to a most creditable position as a representative of the industrial activity of his part of the state. ln politics he is a democrat and has twice been elected a member of the city council of Logan. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the first ward and has been first counselor to Bishop N. W. Merkley and also served as counselor to Bishop Anthon Anderson for twelve years. He was superintendent of the second ward school prior to serving in the bishopric, with Bishop Anderson. His activities have been broad and varied in character, touching the general interests of society, his aid being always given on the side of reform, progress and improvement.

[William Worley, was Bishop of the Logan 1st Ward, Logan Stake, Utah, from 1920 to 1930.]

Utah Since Statehood, By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p. 456-459.) [photo p. 457]

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Abraham SMTIH with history of his father Samuel SMITH

Abraham SMITH is the grand-uncle of Camilla SMITH.

(Utah Since Statehood, By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p.146-149) [photo p. 147]

Abraham SMITH

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Abraham Smith, living in the town of Smithfield, is a retired manufacturer but still looks after farming interests of importance. He was born in Brigham city, April 20, 1857, a son of Samuel and Janette Maria (Smith) Smith, both of whom were natives of England. The father came to Utah in 1851 and settled at Little Cottonwood, where he resided until 1855. The following year he married and located at Brigham. He served as counselor to President [Lorenzo] Snow about 1855 and settled for twelve years he filled the office of probate judge and at various times held other public positions. He was not a college graduate in medicine, yet he was considered an excellent physician and surgeon, who on many occasions prescribed for the sick or aided in setting broken bones. He possessed marked skill, ingenuity and adaptability and was ready for any emergency of demand that was made upon him. At the time of the move south he was made colonel of Brigham Company, but his wife was ill at the time, her son Abraham being then but two weeks old, and there fore she could not be moved, so that Mr. Smith and his little family, together with the sheriff, were the only ones left in the town. It was Mr. Smith who first advocated the utilization of the water power in Bear River canyon, which later was accomplished. He was also identified with the building of the Utah Northern Railroad through Boxelder county and in fact was active in support of all public enterprises having to do with the welfare, development and progress of his section of the state. He was associated with President Snow in building the first flouring mill at Brigham and at one time there were thirty-two different manufacturing plants, all operated under the direction of Mr. Smith and President Snow. Samuel Smith was also an active member of the church and president of the High Priests’ Quorum. He observed the law concerning the plurality of marriage and had five wives and fifty-one children. He died in October, 1895, at Smithfield.

Abraham Smith acquired his education in Brigham, where he reached adult age. He was married in 1881 to Miss Laura M. Fishburn, a daughter of Robert L. and Eliza Priscilla (Noble) Fishburn, who were natives of England and came to Utah with the second hardcart company that crossed the plains in 1857. They located at Lehi, where they resided for a time, and in 1860 removed to Smithfield and, after residing there for about seven or eight years, removed to Brigham, where Mr. fish burn was called by President Young to take charge of choir and musical interests in the Boxelder stake. Hr. and Mrs. Smith had a family of eight children four of whom are yet living.

In early life Abraham Smith learned the trade of boot and shoe making, which he followed for several years, working in the Brigham factory. He afterward went to Salt Lake, where he was employed by Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution and later they established a plant at Brigham which employed several men. Subsequently a boot and shoe factory was established at Smithfield, with Mr. Smith in charge, and as the business grew he enlarged the building and added a general mercantile business, which in time became the largest institution of its kind in northern Utah. This enterprise was conducted by Mr. Smith for twenty-five years. Owing to an unfortunate conflagration in 1915 the place was totally destroyed.

In 1891 he also took up the occupation of farming. He is today the owner of a farm in the Cache valley valued at seventy-five thousand dollars, mostly devoted to stock raising. It comprises four hundred acres of land, of which one hundred and eight-five acres is in pasture, and the entire place is well irrigated. Mr. Smith

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Was the organizer of the second creamery in the Cache valley and of this had the management for twelve years, when it was sold to the Faust Creamery Company of Salt Lake. He is now connected with an irrigation project in the Curlew valley of Idaho which irrigates five thousand acres and cost one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. It has been under successful operation for the past nine years.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith are [as] follows: Laura May, now deceased; Abraham Le Roy; Samuel Winn, who has passed away; Lavon; Robert L., deceased; Clifford F.; Eliza Priscilla; and Janetta, deceased.

Mr. Smith has long been a dynamic force in the development and up building of the section of the state in which he makes his home. For twelve years he served as school trustee and the cause of education ever found in him a stalwart champion. For two terms he was a member of the city council and for two terms was justice of the peace. In the church he has also held office, having been first counselor to Bishop Farrell for eight years, and he is now a high priest and ward teacher. His Business activities and confined to the supervision which he gives to his farming interests, for he has retired from manufacturing and mercantile activities and derives his income from his judicious investments and his agricultural interests.

(Utah Since Statehood, By Noble Warrum, Charles W. Morse, W. Brown Ewing, p.146-149) [photo p. 147]

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