was one of the presidents of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Quorum of Seventy
for ten years, or from 1900 until 1910. He was also secretary of the One Hundred
and Nineteenth Quorum, filling the position for six months, and was acting stake
clerk for three years. He became associated with the Logan temple in 1910 aa
recorder and has since remained in this position.
Mr. and Mrs. Scholes have become parents of eleven children, seven sons and
four daughters: Frederick Burnham, who was born at Logan, December 3, 1894, and
passed away in Salt Lake City, September 10, 1897; Lucile, whose birth occurred in
Salt Lake City, May 14, 1897; Elinor, who was born in Salt Lake City, February 20,
1899; Standley Fishburn, who was born at Logan, July 6, 1901; Sarah Jane, born
at Logan, June 10, 1903; Wallace Burnham, born at Logan, April 13, 1905; Abbie,
born at Logan, July 8, 1907; Francis Newton, born at Logan, November 16, 1909;
Joseph Frederick, born at Logan, August 20, 1911; Edward Burnham, born at
Logan, March 30, 1913; and Harold Burnham, who was born at Logan on the 29th
of August, 1914.
NEWELL W. KIMBALL.
Newell W. Kimball is the president of the Kimball Auto Company of Logan, which
business he established in 1915 and which through the intervening period, by reason
of his close application, his earnest purpose and his indefatigable energy, has been
developed to extensive proportions. Mr. Kimball was born in Salt Lake City, May 19,
1852, a son of Heber Chase and Sarah Ann (Whitney) Kimball. His father was born
in Sheldon, Vermont, June 14, 1801, and was a son of Solomon Farnham and Anna
(Spaulding) Kimball, the former a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Plain-
field, New Hampshire. The Kimball family is of Scotch descent. Heber C. Kimball
was reared and educated in Vermont and came to Utah in 1847. Fifteen years before
this, or late in 1832, he had visited Kirtland, Ohio, and there met the prophet, Joseph
Smith on the 8th of November. In 1834 he went to Jackson county, Missouri, with
Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and about two hundred others and on the 14th of
February, 1835, was made a member of the first body of the twelve apostles and accom-
panied them in their first preaching mission in the eastern states and Canada. In
1837 he was placed at the head of the first mission to England and returned in 1838.
He then went to Far-West, Caldwell county, Missouri, but in 1840 again went on mis-
sionary work to England, founding the London conference with Wilford Woodruff
and George A. Smith. He performed various missions to eastern states and constantly
sustained President Young as the rightful successor to Joseph Smith after his death.
In "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah" appears the following: "Left Nauvoo and
joined the migrating church members at Sugar Creek, Iowa, January 14, 1846. That
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summer he recruited the Mormon Battalion on the Missouri river; came to Utah with
Brigham Young, July 24, 1847; and returned with him to Winter Quarters. December
27, 1847, when the first presidency of the church (unorganized since the death of the
Prophet) was organized, he became first counselor to President Brigham Young, and
Willard Richards second counselor, May, 1848, started on return trip to Utah, arriv-
ing there September 20. First chief justice of the provisional government of Deseret,
and lieutenant governor. He introduced at the general conference the subject of the
Perpetual Immigration Fund Company, which was forthwith organized. President of
the council branch (senate) of the State of Deseret legislature March, 1851, and again
of the Territory of Utah September, 1851. Assisted President Brigham Young in
laying the southeast cornerstone of the Salt Lake Temple April 6, 1853, and offered
thereon the prayer of consecration. During the famine of 1856 he fed hundreds from
his provisions, having to put his own families on short rations to feed those who were
destitute. Sent his sons, William H. and David P., with wagons of food and bedding
in connection with the relief corps to assist the belated handcart companies caught in
the early snows along the Platte and Sweetwater rivers, thus saving hundreds of lives
from perishing, as their companions had. Whitney, in his history, says of him:
'Preaching, colonizing, traveling through the settlements, encouraging the saints in
their toils and sacrifices, sitting in council with church leaders, ministering in sacred
places, and in various other ways playing the part of a public benefactor so wore
away the remaining earthly years of President Kimball. His name is a household
word wherever his people dwelt, and Brother Heber was everything honored and
beloved even the Gentiles esteemed him, admiring his high courage and outspoken
candor.' He died at Provo, June 22, 1868, principally as the result of an accident,
by the overturning of a vehicle in which he was riding at night."
Accepting the teachings of the church concerning the plurality of marriage, Heber
Chase Kimball had seventeen wives who bore him children and altogether had forty-
five wives, while his children numbered sixty-five. Again we quote from "Pioneers
and Prominent Men of Utah:" "Heber C. Kimball was a man of industry, a man of
virtue, of self-denial, who would sooner have thought of severing his right hand from
his body than to have cherished an unchaste sentiment, or sacrificed a principle to sin
or selfish ease. * * * Family prayer was an institution in the Kimball household.
Morning and evening the members were called in to surround the family altar and
offer up praise and petitions to the Throne of Grace. It is a common remark to this
day that such prayers are seldom heard as were wont to issue from the heart and lips
of Heber C. Kimball. Reverence for Deity was one of the noticeable features that the
God to whom he prayed was a being 'near at hand and not afar off.' He worshiped not
as 'a worm of the dust,' hypocritically meek and lowly, or as one conscious of naught
but the meanness of his nature, and the absence of merit in his cause. But in a spirit
truly humble, confessing his sins, yet knowing something of the nobility of his soul,
he talked with God 'as one man talketh with another"; and often with the ease and
familiarity of an -old-time friend. * * * Heber loved his children and was justly
proud of his numerous noble posterity. If at times he appeared stern and was severe
in his correction, it was not that he loved them less, but their welfare and salvation
more. He made no compromise with sin, but nipped it in the bud, though the soil
wherein it grew were the hearts of his dearest friends and relations. His greatest
desire for his family was that they should be humble, virtuous and God-fearing. The
riches, fashions, and even culture of the world were as nothing in his eyes, compared
with honesty, morality and the treasures of eternal truth. Nor was he morose and
sullen, because thus sober-minded and religious. Mingling with his deeply earnest,
profoundly solemn nature was a keen sense of humor, a continuous play of mirth, like
'sunlight gilding the edges of a cloud.' "
The mother of Newell W. Kimball was Sarah Ann Whitney, a native of Victor,
New York, born March 22, 1825, and a daughter of Newell Kimball Whitney, who was
ordained the first bishop of Kirtland, Ohio, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Mrs. Kimball came to Utah in 1848. She was the mother of seven children,
six sons and one daughter, of whom two sons and the daughter have passed away,
while four of the sons are yet living. The mother's death occurred in Salt Lake in
1879, when she was forty-five years Of age.
Newell W. Kimball is the second oldest of the living children of Heber C. and
Sarah Ann (Whitney) Kimball. After attending the public schools he became a stu-
dent in the Deseret University of Salt Lake and when nineteen years of age he was
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married and removed to Bear Lake, Utah, where he remained for nine years. During
that period he was engaged in stock raising and farming. He afterward removed to
Logan, where he has made his home since 1880. During the early years of his resi-
dence here he was a contractor and builder and also engaged in the implement busi-
ness. For sixteen years he was manager of the Cooperative Machine Company and
was also manager for the Studebaker Company for several years. In 1915 he founded
the Kimball Auto Company, distributors for the Oakland and Chandler cars, and they
also handle a complete line of atuomobile supplies and accessories and conduct a
garage and modern repair shop. In this line they have the leading establishment in
Logan by reason of its excellent situation and the business methods of the house.
On the 19th of May, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Kimball was married to Miss
Martha W. Winder, who was born in Lancashire, England, July 7, 1852, and was
brought during her infancy to Utah about 1853 by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R.
Winder, representatives of one of the old pioneer families of the state. The grand-
parents in the paternal line were Richard and Sophia Winder, of Beddington, Kent,
England. John Rex Winder was also born in Beddington, his natal day being Decem-
ber 11, 1821, and he came to Utah, October 10, 1853, as a convert to the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On the 24th of November, 1845, in London^ Eng-
land, he wedded Ellen Walters, by whom he had ten children, Mrs. Martha W. Kim-
ball being the fourth in order of birth. To Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have been born nine
children, six sons and three daughters, of whom one son and one daughter have
passed away. The family residence is at No. 365 West Center street in Logan, a very
attractive and beautiful place which Mr. Kimball owns. Whatever success he has
achieved in life is attributable entirely to his own labors. He has made his way in
the world unaided since the death of his father, which occurred when the son was
fifteen years of age, and from that time he not only provided for his own support
but also assisted in the care of his widowed mother and the younger sons and daugh-
ters of the family. He has membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints of the first ward, in the work of which he has been most active, serving in the
bishopric of the second ward of Logan for sixteen years, as counselor to the stake
president, as first counselor and previously as a member of the high council. In 1882
he was sent on a mission to the southern states. In politics he is a democrat and his
-fellow townsmen, appreciating his worth and ability, have frequently called him to
public office. He has been a member of the city council for two terms, a member of
the board of county commissioners for three terms and mayor for one term. He is
keenly interested in everything that has to do with the welfare and progress of the
county along political and civic lines and cooperates heartily in any plan or measure
for the betterment of the community or the commonwealth. He also belongs to the
Logan Commercial Boosters Club. His activities have thus been broad and varied,
touching the general interests of society, and his labors have always been directed
along lines which mean progress and advancement.
WILLIAM DOUTRE.
William Doutre, an automobile dealer of Logan, was born in Gandy, Millard
county, Utah, December 2, 1891. His father, Alfred Doutre was a native of Canada
and with his arrival in Utah established his home in Millard county where for many
years he engaged in sheep raising. However, he is now living in Montreal, Canada.
His wife, who bore the maiden name of Malvina Yelle, was born in Quebec, Canada,
and also survives.
William Doutre pursued his education in the district schools of his native county
and of Nevada prior to entering the Utah Agricultural College, from which he was
graduated with the class of 1916. He then entered insurance circles in Logan and
was active in that field until the spring of 1917, when he established his present
business as an automobile dealer. In the spring of 1918 Fred Lundburg became as-
sociated with him and they are conducting their interests under the corporation name
of the North Utah Auto Company and they handle the Oldsmobile and Franklin cars
and also the Wallace tractor. They have built up a good business in this connection,
annually placing many cars, for they can thoroughly recommend these two automo-
biles, which are of superior make and workmanship. The company has an extensive
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showroom at No. 34 Federal avenue, near the postoffice, and they handle also tires and
accessories.
In 1914 Mr. Doutre was married to Miss Edith Davidson, who passed away in
1917, leaving two children, William Max and Edith. Mr. Doutre is a member of the
Commercial Boosters Club of Logan and he holds to the faith of the Church of Jesus'
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interested and active in the church work, he is now an
elder in the seventh ward of Logan. He is a young man and brings to the church
work the same thoroughness, enterprise and earnestness which he manifests in the
conduct of his business affairs, whereby he has won a creditable place among the
substantial merchants of Cache county.
LESLIE SMART.
Leslie Smart, who has devoted much of his life to stock raising and also carries
on ranching, makes his home in Logan. He was born at Franklin, Idaho, in 1880, a
son of Thomas S. and Minnie (Shrives) Smart, who were natives of England. They
came to Utah in 1856, settling at Provo, where they resided for some time but in 1860
removed to Idaho, where they lived until 1900, Mr. Smart then passing away. The
mother afterward returned to Utah and now makes her home at Salt Lake City. Mr.
Smart had followed farming as a life work.
Leslie Smart acquired his early education in the schools of Franklin, Idaho, and
afterward attended the Brigham Young College at Logan, from which he was graduated
in 1907. He later engaged in the live stock business and has since been devoting his
attention to buying, raising, feeding and selling live stock, keeping now about eight
thousand head of sheep. He also develops his ranch in the cultivation of various crops
and he is likewise a director of the First National Bank. His sheep raising interests,
however, constitute the most important phase of his business and he has gained
prominence in this connection.
In 1903 Mr. Smart was married to Miss May Hess, a daughter of D. W. and Eliza
(Bacon) Hess, of Georgetown, Idaho. Four children have been born of this marriage:
Gene, Helen, Lowell and Margaret. Mr. Smart is a member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1901 filled a mission to the western states, while
at the present time he is filling the office of elder. His has been an active and useful
life. He has always resided in this section of the country and the spirit of western
enterprise and progress which has been the dominant factor in the upbuilding of Utah
has found expression in his business career, bringing him to the front as one of the
leading sheep raisers of his section of the state.
CHARLES PERRY OKERLUND.
Sweden has furnished a large quota to the substantial citizenship of Utah and
to this class belongs Charles Perry Okerlund, a valued resident of Salina. He was
born in Sweden, May 27, 1856, but was brought to America in 1861 by his parents,
Ole and Benjta Okerlund, who had become members of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and desired to cast in their lot with the people of that faith in
Utah. The family first settled at Mount Pleasant, but they were soon called to Circle
Valley. The party to which they belonged could not agree as to various details and in
1864 the Okerlund family removed to Marysvale, while later in the same year they
settled at Salina. The constant menace of Indian attack, however, forced them to
leave that place and they removed to Gunnison and afterward to Scipio, where they
spent the succeeding five years, struggling for a living.
No man in southern Utah has known through personal experience more concerning
the struggles, hardships and privations of Utah's pioneer days than has Charles P.
Okerlund. He has seen men, women and little children killed by the red men and the
Indian warfare has left an indelible impression upon his mind. After the family
had lived for five years in Scipio, the parents took up land at Loa and for many
years resided there. The father's home in Salina was the only house in the village
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in the early '60s, dugouts constituting the dwellings of the sturdy .pioneers of that
period.
Charles P. Okerlund attended school at such places where his parents found teachers,
but in those early days educational opportunities were very meager. In 1883 he took
up farming as his life work and on a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land
he engaged in the cultivation of crops and in the raising of shorthorn cattle, meeting
with success in his undertakings. On the 3d of May of that year he was married by
Daniel H. Wells, in the Endowment House at Salt Lake City, to Miss Harriet Elizabeth
Blackburn, of Loa, a daughter of Elias H. Blackburn, one of the early churchmen
of Utah and the first bishop of Provo, who served his church with zeal and died as
one of its patriarchs. Mr. and Mrs. Okerlund have had a family of six children but
only two are living: Charles Hicks and Mrs. Homer Dastrup, of Sigurd. Claude died
at the age of sixteen years; Myrtle died at the age of eleven days; Hazel died at the
age of six weeks and three days; and Howard P. died at the age of eleven days.
Mr. Okerlund of this review has served his church with the same fidelity and zeal
as did his parents. In 1891 he was called on a mission to Sweden but after serving thero
for eight months was recalled on account of ill health. He has occupied the position
of superintendent of Sunday schools and has been active in the Young Men's Mutual
Improvement Association. He has also passed through the priesthood, has been bishop's
counselor and high counselor. In civic life, too, he has answered every call, being
especially helpful in the development of irrigation canals, reservoirs and roads. He
was a member of the first school board and under the direction of this board many
of the modern schools of the county were erected. There is no phase of Utah's
pioneer life and development with which he is not thoroughly familiar, experience
bringing him into contact with many of the conditions and hardships of the early
days, while with the passing years, as the result of his industry and perseverance, he
has prospered. Business, however, has been only one phase of his career, as he has
ever found time and opportunity to aid in promoting public progress and welfare and
in advancing the interests and work of the church.
HENRY CLARK JACKSON.
When Henry Clark Jackson passed away on the 9th of January, 1905, he was a
highly respected citizen of Utah who was a patriarch in the Hyrum Stake of Zion.
A native of England, his birth occurred at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, June 3, 1819,
his parents being Robert and Hannah (Clark) Jackson. As a youth he was appren-
ticed to learn the blacksmith's trade, which he successfully completed, becoming an
expert in that line.' In early life he had become a member of the Primitive Metho-
dist church and often occupied the pulpit as a lay preacher, but on hearing the teach-
ings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1846, he became convinced
of their truth and was baptized into the church on the 19th of September of that year
by Elder George Robbins. At the same time he was ordained to the office of priest
and began his active labors, for the church a work in which he continued to the time
of his death.
In 1848 Mr. Jackson left his native land for America, landing at St. Louis, Mis-
souri. There he remained, working at his trade, until 1850, when he removed to Coun-
cil Bluffs, Iowa, where he continued until 1852. In that year he crossed the plains
in Captain James C. Snow's company, arriving in the valley on the 7th of September,
1852. He first located in the Fourteenth ward of Salt Lake City, where he followed
his trade, and he also traveled to a considerable extent over northern Utah, being em-
ployed in blacksmithing at various points. In 1865 he removed to Paradise, Cache
county, and in every locality in which he lived he continued a most earnest and zeal-
ous worker in behalf of the church.
It was in 1847 that Mr. Jackson was ordained an elder by James Ure and on the
15th of February, 1853, he was ordained to the office of a Seventy by Alexander Mc-
Rae. On the 5th of June, 1877, he was ordained a high priest and set apart to act
as first counselor to Bishop Orson Smith of the Paradise ward by Apostle Moses Thatcher,
while on the 8th of May, 1898, he was ordained to the office of patriarch by President
Joseph F. Smith and so continued until his demise. He labored as a teacher in Rich-
ard Ballantyne's Sunday school in the fourteenth ward of Salt Lake City, was for mayj
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years a president in the Thirty-sixth Quorum of Seventy and from 1877 until 1884
served as first counselor in the Paradise ward bishopric, while from April, 1873, until
1876 he officiated as acting bishop of that ward. He also presided over the High
Priests' Quorum of Paradise from 1894 until his death.
While untiring in his efforts to promote the growth of the church and extend its
influence, Mr. Jackson also proved himself a forceful and resourceful factor in the
business life of the community, leading to the material development and upbuilding
of his section of the state. He took a most keen and helpful interest in promoting
home industries and in developing the resources of the country. He successfully fol-
lowed his trade as a skilled blacksmith during a large part of his life and in 1860,
associated with a brother David James and Samuel McMurdie, he built a sawmill in
old Paradise. In 1865 he with Joseph G. Crop erected a flour mill at the same place
and there conducted a prosperous milling business for many years, displaying sound
judgment and indefatigable enterprise in the conduct of his business activities. In
military affairs, too, he became well known through his service as captain of lancers
and was on active duty in the Echo Canyon war of 1857 and 1858, assisting in heading
off Johnston's army. In civil life, too, he was called upon for active service, filling
the positon of justice of the peace in Paradise for nine years.
On the 3d of February, 1843, Henry Clark Jackson was united in marriage to Miss
Ann Oades and they became the parents of six children: Henry William; Elizabeth
Sarah; Alma Oades; John Clark; Hannah Ann, who died at about the age of two years;
and Frederick Walter. Mrs. Ann Jackson passed away March 29, 1886. On the 4th
of May, 1861, Mr. Jackson wedded Mary Gilmore White and their children were five
in number, as follows: Mary Jane, who died in infancy; Bessie W. ; Amanda, who
passed away at the age of two and a half years; Robert William; and Thomas Frank-
lin. Henry Clark Jackson had reached the very venerable age of eighty-five years
and six months when he was called to his final rest. His entire life had been con-
secrated by devotion to duty and faithfulness to every cause which he espoused. He
never wavered in his allegiance to the church from the time when he was converted to
its teachings in 1846 but for almost sixty years continued one of its earnest workers,
doing whatever he was called upon to do with willingness and zeal. He continually
advanced in the honor and respect of his fellow townsmen and those who knew him
and his memory remains as a blessed benediction to those who came within the radius
of his influence.
JAMES RUSSELL WARE.
James Russell Ware is president and manager of the Farmers Cooperative Mill-
ing Company of Monroe and is also identified with farming and banking interests,
his activities placing him among the representative business men of his district.
He was born in Manti, Sanpete county, in 1870, a son of Samuel and Caroline A.
(Sorenson) Ware. The father was an Englishman by birth, who, having been
converted by the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, came
to America, and following his long and arduous trip across the ocean made his way
westward until he had completed the journey over the sandy plains and mountain
passes to Utah. He then settled in Sanpete county in 1856, and, being a miller
by trade, he established at Ephraim the first mill in southern Utah. He was a