and afflicted in her community. Countless night vigils have been cheerfully rendered
in behalf of parturient mothers and victims of contagion when amateur nurses
through fear were hard to obtain. She has nobly filled a treasured niche in life.
ANDREW HOOD.
Andrew Hood, who for many years has been identified with the Utah Fuel Com-
pany and the Scofield Coal Company, and is a valued resident of the city of Scofield, was
born in Scotland, May 19, 1860, a son of Nicol and Angeline (O'Neal) Hood, who became
members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but never emigrated to
Utah. Both passed away in the land of hills and heather, where the father followed coal
mining.
Andrew Hood obtained his education in the common schools of his native country
but his opportunities in that direction were somewhat limited as before he was ten
years of age he began working in the coal mines. He continued in the mines until
1878, when he emigrated to the new world, making his way to Utah. He first settled
at Spanish Fork, and being a miner, found that farm work was too slow for him. He
then went to the silver mines of Alta city, on the Little Cottonwood, in the same year
and after two years removed to Scofield, then known as Pleasant Valley. Here he has
since remained, with the exception of five years spent in Wyoming, where he also fol-
lowed mining. Throughout the period of his connection with Scofield he has been em-
ployed by the Utah Fuel Company and the Scofield Coal Company. He has prospered
as the years have passed and is now the owner of excellent property in Utah county,
which returns to him a fair income.
At Salt Lake City, on the 29th of May, 1884, Mr. Hood was united in marriage to
Miss Rachel Richards, who was born in Llantrissant, Wales, a daughter of Edward and
Rachel (Llewellyn) Richards. Her parents on coming to the United States settled in
Missouri. Her father was a steel worker and in order to have better opportunities
along that line went to Pueblo, Colorado, and afterward removed to western Wyoming,
settling on the Bear river. He there remained until 1886, when he became a resident
of Provo, where he and his wife continued to make their home until called to their
final rest. They, too, were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mr. and Mrs. Hood have become the parents of nine children. Rachel A., born in
Wyoming, April 27, 1885, is now the wife of Wells O. Mecham, by whom she has five
children. J. Oliver, who was born in Scofield, January 30, 1890, married Guilda G.
Smith, by whom he has one child. Rupert Leo, who was born in Scofield, September
11, 1891, married Eliza Burch and they have four children. Milton R. was born in
Winterquarters, May 21, 1893. Armorel V. was born in Winterquarters, November 23,
1895. Ardath M. was born in Winterquarters, October 3, 1902. Harold A., Francis and
Delia are deceased. The son Milton R. joined the United States army September 19,
1917. He was at Camp Lewis for training and was afterward sent to France, making
the trip across the Atlantic to England, where he arrived August 1, 1918, and thence
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proceeded to the French front. He was in the Three Hundred and Forty-eighth Field
Artillery and was held in reserve near the firing line for two weeks when the armistice
was signed. He was then sent into Germany with the army of occupation, remaining
in that country for four months, after which he was released to return home, arriving
April 20, 1919. During the period of the war the daughter Armorel V. was also very
active in the Carbon County Chapter of the Red Cross at Scofield.
Mr. Hood remains a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and filled a home mission in Spanish Fork canyon to non-members of the Utah
stake. He was clerk for several years of the Winterquarters "ward near Scofield, also
superintendent of the Sunday school, and has been very active in church work in both
Utah and Wyoming. At the present time he is choir leader in Scofield. He has filled
the office of county commissioner of Carbon county for two years, was on the school
board at Winterquarters and at Scofield for twenty years and in 1918 was elected town
clerk of Scofield. He is devoted to the welfare and interests of the community in
which he resides and his cooperation is always a tangible element in the development
and improvement of the region.
WILLIAM LINDSAY.
William Lindsay, instructor in accounting and business practice at Utah Agricul-
tural College, Logan, was born in New Zealand, July 26, 1884, a son of Alexander and
Mary (Keysell) Lindsay, the latter of English birth, while the former was born in
Belfast, County Armagh, Ireland. The father is now living in La Grande, Oregon,
where he is actively following the occupation of farming. He became a member of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand and thence made his
way to the United States, settling in Oregon in the spring of 1903, since which time
he has made his home at La Grande. The mother also survives.
William Lindsay attended Brigham Young College after completing his public
school education in New Zealand. He was a member of the class of 1913 in the Brig-
ham Young College and later he studied in the Utah Agricultural College and in the
University of Chicago. He has given his life to educational work and from the spring
of 1915 until spring of 1919 he filled the position of secretary-treasurer and registrar
of Brigham Young College doing excellent work in that connection.
Mr. Lindsay is also active in church work. He has ever been much interested
in current history and for recreation turns to tennis. He is a young man of progres-
sive spirit, alert to the questions and interests of the day, and at all times keeps
thoroughly informed concerning matters of public moment.
JOHN OSCAR ANDERSON.
John Oscar Anderson, one of the most progressive citizens of Sevier county, con-
tributing much to the upbuilding of this district and of the state at large, was born
in Salina in 1879, his parents being John and Edla S. (Homer) Anderson, who were
natives of Sweden and came to Utah in 1876. Their son, John Oscar, was educated in
the common schools of Salina, in the Snow Academy and in the University of Utah,
and after the completion of his education he took up the profession of school teaching
and also became the assistant of his father on the home farm, where he remained until
twenty-seven years of age. He then purchased a ranch and began raising cattle on
his own account. As the years have passed he has prospered, owing to his industry,
close application and indefatigable enterprise. He now has three hundred acres of
land and a large herd of range cattle and his affairs have at alf times been most
carefully and wisely controlled. He has likewise given much time and effort to
aiding his county and state along many progressive lines. For six years he filled the
office of county surveyor and is now a member of the city council of Salina. He has
done much in behalf of irrigation projects in his home section and he has cooperated
in all plans for the benefit of the community. At the present writing he is the
president of the Farmers' Equity Milling & Elevator Company, operating a mill at
Salina which is conceded to be the best equipped and most modern establishment of
the kind south of Salt Lake City and which has no superior even in that city. The
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mill has a capacity of seventy-five barrels daily, producing "Our Pride" brand of flour,
which by reason of its excellence finds a ready sale. The output also includes Graham
flour and cereals. The mill is located west of the railroad and has become one of the
important productive industries of Salina. Mr. Anderson was also the builder and
promoter of the Skookum Paugh reservoir and canal from the Rocky Ford canal to
Poverty Flats, a project that supplies water to more than one thousand acres. He
is likewise the secretary of the Lost Creek Irrigation Company and is identified with
many other important projects.
In Manti Temple, September 7, 1904, Mr. Anderson was married to Miss Alvilda
Scorup, of Salina, and to them have been born four children: Helen, Vivian, Brice O.
and Phil R. Mr. Anderson and his family occupy an enviable position in social circles
and with the public interests of Salina he has been closely associated as president of
the Salina Commercial Club. He has also been a prominent worker on all war com-
mittees in behalf of the Liberty and Victory loans, the War Savings Stamps and the
relief associations. There is no public enterprise of merit that does not find on its
list of supporters the name of J. Oscar Anderson. He was a member of the first school
board under the consolidation of school districts, this being before such a consolidation
was made a state law, and he and his associates soon demonstrated to the public the
great benefit to be derived therefrom, so that it was eventually incorporated into the
laws of Utah.
CARL J. OLSSON.
Carl J. Olsson, a painting contractor of Logan whose business is of an extensive
and important character, was born in Sweden in 1864, a son of Carl Gustave and Anna
(Arvadson) Olsson. He came to the United States in 1893, settling first in New York
city, where he resided until 1897, and then came to Utah, establishing his home at
Logan. He took up the business of contracting in painting, paper-hanging and decorating
and his first work was on the Brigham Young College. He also received a contract
for work of that character in the Nibly Hall and for several years he did all the
painting and decorating on the buildings of the Utah Agricultural College. He also
had a contract for outside work on the temple in the year 1909. He had charge over
the extensive paint-ing and decorating which was done in the years 1916 and 1917 and
as this work was destroyed by fire in December, 1917, Mr. Olsson again had charge of
the work in his line to restore it. He likewise did both inside and outside work on
the tabernacle when it was remodeled in 1917, received a contract for work in his
line on the new high school in 1919 and on barracks No. 2 of the Utah Agricultural
College.
In 1884 Mr. Olsson was married to Miss Emma Larsen and they became parents
of ten children, of whom five are still living. The names of those living are as follows:
John Emil, Carl Hugo, Sarah Matilda, Lillie Elizabeth and Alice Ollive.
Mr. Olsson is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
filled a mission to Sweden from 1910 until 1912, while at the present writing he is
a member of One Hundred Nineteenth Seventy Quorum. In the, line of his chosen
vocation he is a man of superior workmanship, thus capable of directing the labors
of those who serve under him, and since his arrival at Logan he has built up a
business of extensive proportions.
HENRY WINKEL.
Henry Winkel, proprietor of the Richfield Bakery, was born in Holland in 1876,
the con of a shipbuilder, Geert Winkel. After having attended the public schools of
his native country he there learned the trade of a baker and confectioner. In 1904,
when about twenty eight years of age; he was converted to the faith of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and disposing of his business interests in his
native country, he carne to Utah, first settling for a brief period in Salt Lake City.
Socn afterward, however, he removed to Monroe, Sevier county, where he established
a bakery which he afterward sold. He then became a resident of Richfield and there
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purchased a business property on Main street and established the Richfield Bakery,
which is one of the best in southern Utah. It is equipped with the most modern
machinery, including an electric mixer which has a mixing capacity of one hundred
and sixty sacks of flour per day. In addition to a large output of bread the bakery
turns out cakes, pies arid various candies and confections. Mr. Winkel has always
maintained the highest standards in the excellence of his product and his patronage
has steadily grown by reason of the fine goods which he sends out and the reasonable
prices which he maintains, together with the integrity and reliability of his business
methods.
A member of the church from early manhood, Mr. Winkel has served as elder
and Sunday school teacher. In politics he is a democrat but is not actively interested
in party work. He is a progressive citizen, however, and stands for all that tends to
benefit or improve Richfield in any way.
When quite young Mr. Winkel was married to Miss Everdiena Van Ojen, who
was converted at the same time as her husband and has shared all of his fortunes, good
and bad, in' their adopted land and in their native country. Their children are: G^ert,
Anton, Thys, Henry, Dena, John, Rose, William and Francis, all of whom have been
educated in the common schools of Sevier county. The family is well known in Richfield
and Mr. Winkel has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the
new world, for here he has found the opportunities which he sought and in their
utilization has made steady progress.
GEORGE E. GREEN.
George E. Green, manager of the Rolfson Sporting Goods Company, having the
only exclusive sporting goods house in northern Utah, conducts his business at No.
24 West First, North, in Logan. The store was established by R. M. Rolfson and Mr.
Green was called to the management about two years ago. He is a native of Logan,
his birth having here occurred on the 28th of May, 1897. His father, John C. Green,
was a native of England, who came to America with his parents, the family home
being established in Salt Lake during the era of early development there. The grand-
father was associated with President Brigham Young and was very active in church
work. The father, John C. Green, was reared and educated in the capital city and in
young manhood removed to Logan, where he resided to the time of his death, which
occurred when he was forty-five years of age. He married Martha Hobbs, a native of
Franklin, Idaho, and a daughter of Charles and Mary Hobbs, who were among the
early settlers of this state. Mrs. Green survives her husband and is now living in
Logan.
George E. Green was the third in order of birth in their family of six children,
five sons and a daughter. He obtained his early education in the public schools of
his native city and then entered the Utah Agricultural College. When his college
days were over he became connected with mercantile pursuits and since 1912 has
been identified with the sporting goods trade. He secured the position of clerk with
the Rolfson Sporting Goods Company and has since worked his way steadily upward,
having for almost two years been the manager of the business, with voice in its
direction and executive control. The establishment carries a very large and carefully
selected line of sporting goods, representing the leading manufacturers of the country,
and the trade is extensive and gratifying.
Mr. Green gives his political allegiance to the democratic party but has never
been an aspirant for office. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in the first ward and is a member of the choir. His military record covers
service during the Mexican troubles on the border as a member of Troop H of the
Utah Cavalry. He was on duty on the border for a year and was honorably discharged
June 17, 1917. In the great World war his brothers were active, Raymond Green
being a member of the Third Regiment of Field Artillery at Camp Taylor in Louisville,
Kentucky, while Clyde Green was a member of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Utah
Field Artillery, in active service in France for six months. Another brother, William
Green, was likewise a member of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Utah Field Artillery
and was with the troops across the water.
Mr. Green of this review belongs to the Logan Commercial Boosters Club. He
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is also a member of the Cache Valley Duck Club and he finds his chief diversion and
recreation in hunting and fishing. He is a progressive young business man whose
uniform courtesy, capability and personal worth have won him popularity among his
fellow townsmen.
OLOF NELSON.
Olof Nelson, contractor and builder, of Logan, Utah, was born in Sweden, of
Swedish parentage, December 19, 1866. He attended the schools of Sweden and,
when sixteen years of age, commenced learning the bricklayer's trade, in the mean-
time regularly pursuing his general education. Both his father, Johannes Nelson, and
mother, Gunilda Nelson, lived to a ripe old age.
Mr. Nelson came to this country in 1886 and remained for a short time in the
east, coming to Utah in 1887. He removed almost immediately to Montana, returning
in 1889 and locating in Logan, Utah, where, in 1890, he married Miss Hilda Olson,
also of Swedish nativity. This union has been blessed with the following eight
children: Elida; Olof H.; Mamie; Agnes, who died at the age of nineteen; Carl E.,
who served his country in France; Cecelia; Irma and Wilmar J.
At the age of twenty-four Mr. Nelson entered into the business of contracting
and building and has rapidly progressed in this occupation until at present he is one
of the most prominent and dependable general contractors in the state. Among his
principal achievements is the completed Logan water works extension and reservoir.
The laying of the first street paving in Logan was due much to his earnest effort to
further all such improvements in the community, and many of the finest buildings
and improvements in Logan city and Cache county stand as monuments to his genius.
In recent years he has undertaken more general contracting in the way of street
and road paving, and is at present engaged on an extensive contract for road paving
for the state of Utah. Mr. Nelson is a member and director of the Commercial Club
of Logan, and a director of the Cache Knitting Works.
JAMES W. NIXON, JR., M. D.
Dr. James W. Nixon, Jr., physician for the United States Fuel Company at Hiawatha,
was born at Huntington, Utah, June 5, 1889, a son of James W. and Effie (Woolley)
Nixon, both of whom are natives of St. George, Utah, their parents having been pioneers
of the state. James W. Nixon was married at St. George and afterward became one
of the pioneer settlers of Huntington, Emery county, in 1888. He also filled a mission to
California and was actively connected with the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in many ways. After removing to Huntington he took up mer-
chandising, which he followed for nineteen years, but has recently disposed of his
store, giving his attention to several other interests that now occupy his time. For
several years he filled the bishopric and with the development of his community has
been actively associated as president of the Commercial Club of the town and county
organizations. He has long been a recognized leader in democratic circles, being a
delegate to all the democratic conventions of both county and state. He was nomi-
nated for state auditor on the democratic ticket in 1914. He is regarded as the most
prominent and influential resident of Huntington and he also owns a beautiful home
in Provo, where his family resides.
James W. Nixon, Jr., acquired his early education in the common schools of
Huntington and in the Brigham Young University at Provo, taking a scientific high
school course of four years and a two years' additional college course. He afterward
epent two years in the University of Utah at Salt Lake City and won the Bachelor
of Arts degree in 1913. He likewise studied for thirteen months in Munster College
of Germany but in consequence of the inauguration of the war returned to America
and entered the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, from which institution
he was graduated in 1917, the M. D. degree being at that time conferred upon him.
He later spent eight months as interne in the Dee Hospital of Ogden and for six
months engaged in practice at Brigham. In September, 1918, he entered the govern-
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ment service as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and was stationed at several
camps, doing most active duty during the influenza epidemic. He was discharged at
Camp Dodge, Iowa, December 4, 1918, and a few days later left for Philadelphia, where
on the 21st of December he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Lea, a daughter
of James W. and Mary E. (Taylor) Lea. Her father is chief engineer on an emergency
vessel and devotes his life to general engineering, making his home in Philadelphia.
He came to America in May, 1891, landing at New York city and later removing to
Philadelphia. Mrs. Nixon during the period of the war was a clerk for the government,
checking the output of the firm of Pilling & Madeley, Incorporated, a stocking corpora-
tion. To Dr. and Mrs. Nixon has been born a daughter, Grace Lea, whose birth
occurred at Hiawatha on the 24th of August, 1919.
Following his marriage Dr. Nixon brought his bride to Hiawatha and has since
here engaged in practice, being physician for the United States Fuel Company and
contract surgeon for the Utah Railroad Company, in addition to which he engages in
general practice.
In religious faith Dr. Nixon is connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and filled a mission to Germany of a year, returning on account
of the war. He is serving as chairman of the board of health of Hiawatha and register
of vital statistics and is medical officer for the United States public health service
in his district. He is recognized as a young man of high professional attainments
and is rapidly winning a place in the foremost ranks of the medical profession in
his 'section of Utah.
HERMAN JOHNSON.
Herman Johnson, engaged in the retail bakery and restaurant business in Logan
and also identified with farming interests, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, August
28, 1861, a son of John Frederick and Josephine (Coleman) Johnson, both of whom
have now passed away. Coming to the new world, the father engaged in the importing
business in Chicago but afterward returned to Sweden and there his death occurred
in 1869.
Herman Johnson arrived in the United States in 1876 and for a brief period was
a resident of San Francisco, California. He later went to Denver, where he was
employed for a time, and in 1884 he accepted a position as a chef in Pueblo, Colorado.
The year 1889 witnessed his arrival in Utah and he made his home at Ogden until
1896, during which period he was engaged in the restaurant business. He then removed
to Logan, where he established a retail bakery at No. 71 West Center street and also
opened a restaurant at No. 15 North Main street. Both branches of his business are
proving profitable, for back of his success lies capable management, a thorough under-
standing of the trade and an earnest desire to please his patrons. His bakery goods
are of most excellent quality and find a ready sale on the, market, while the restaurant
is accorded a gratifying patronage. In addition Mr. Johnson owns a farm of forty
acres on the Camden road. He is regarded as a very substantial and progressive
citizen and one who is keenly interested in every project for the welfare of the com-
munity. It is an understood fact that his aid and cooperation can be secured for any
plan beneficial to the city or the nation. He became a charter member of the Com-
mercial Boosters Club and cooperates heartily in the work of that organization.
FRANK ANDERSON.
Frank Anderson, one of the prominent farmers and sheep raisers of Sevier county,
living in Richfield, was born in Ephraim, Utah, in 1875, a son of Andrew and Elsie
(Troy) Anderson, who were natives of Sweden. It was their belief in the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that led them to leave their native land and cross
the Atlantic to the new world. Making their way westward to Utah in 1863, they cast
in their lot with the pioneer settlers of Sevier county, where they took up their abode
at Monroe. They were soon driven out, however, by the Indians, who resented the
encroachment of the white race upon their hunting grounds, caring not to have the
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seeds of civilization planted on the western frontier. Andrew Anderson was a farmer
by occupation and gave his attention to the work of tilling the soil when it was not
necessary for him to fight the Indians. The family experienced all of the hardships
and privations incident to frontier life but have lived to see great changes as the work