Identifier: utahsincestateho02warr (find matches)
Title: Utah since statehood, historical and biographical
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Warrum, Noble Morse, Charles W Ewing, W. Brown
Subjects: Utah -- Biography Utah -- History
Publisher: Chicago--Salt Lake, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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s conduct andshape his course in all the relations of life. He has worked his way upward unassisted,dependng upon individual effort for the attainment of success, and his close studyand earnest purpose have enabled him to reach a prominent position as one of theyounger representatives of the state judiciary. WILLIAM I. HARGIS. William I, Hargis, general manager at Brigham for the Bonneville Lumber Com-pany of Salt Lake City and recognized as a wide-awake and progressive business man,was born in Kansas City, Missouri. September 10, 1869. He was one of a family of eightchildren, seven of whom are yet living, his parents being M. V. and Sarah (Fisher)Hargis, the former a native of Kentucky, while the latter was born in Ohio. Removingwestward to Kansas, the father there settled upon a farm and gave his attention togeneral agricultural pursuits for many years. At the time of the Civil war he respondedto the countrys call for troops, enlisting with the Union army, and he afterward proudly I
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HON. WILSON McCarthy I UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD 919 wore the little bronze button that proclaimed him a member of the Grand Army of theRepublic. He passed away in Troy, Kansas, in 1903 and is still survived by his widow,who yet makes her home in Troy. At the usual age William I. Hargis became a pupil in the district schools of Kansasand later entered the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, from which hewas graduated with the class of 1891. He later became a teacher in the schools of thatstate and devoted several years to the profession, proving a most able educator. Heentered commercial circles as cashier of the Wyeth Hardware Company of St. Joseph,Missouri, with which he thus remained for three years, and he then became identifiedwith the lumber business as an employe of E. W. Ray, of St. Joseph, Missouri, whomhe represented for twelve years as general manager. He next removed to Fort Collins,Colorado, for the benefit of his Iiealth and also for the purpose of enabling his so

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