and valued citizen of the town.

Mr. Swenson has been twice married. His first wife, who bore the maiden name
of Ella Culmore and resided at Pleasant Grove, passed away leaving a daughter, Vanice,
who is a graduate of the Salt Lake City Business College and is now employed as a
stenographer. In 1916 Mr. Swenson wedded Gem Gardner, of West Jordan, by whom he
has two children, Alma G. and Ariadne P. '

Mr. Swenson has been president of the Commercial Club at Magna and is widely
recognized as a most public-spirited and loyal eitizen whose aid and influence are
always on the side of improvement and upbuilding. He belongs to the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and is one of its elders. His life has been upright and
honorable in every relation and exemplifies the spirit of western enterprise and progress
that has been the dominant factor in the wonderful development of this section of the
country.



A. A. ALLEN.

A. A. Allen, one of the managers of the Allen Brothers store at Hyrum and thus
closely connected with the mercantile interests of the city, while at the same time as
bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints he is proving most active
and helpful in church work, was born at Cedar City, Utah, August 25, 1858, his parents
being A. A. and Sarah Ann (Cartright) Allen, the former a native of Woodstock, Con-
necticut, while the latter was born in England. The grandfather in the paternal line was
Ira Allen, of whom one of the local papers wrote: "He was one of the builders of
Hyrum, and his sons and daughters and their children and children's children have
always been and still are among the foremost in ecclesiastical and civil activities in
this and other communities, a credit to their country and their church wherever their
labors are required. Ira Allen -was the son of Simeon Allen and Elizabeth Leavens
and was born in Thompson, Windham county, Connecticut, April 27, 1814. He was of
the seventh generation from his fourth great-grandfather, James Allen, who settled in
Medfield, Massachusetts, in 1637. He lived at home with his parents until he was
twenty-one years of age, working at farming and brickmaking. He was married to
Calista Bass, daughter of Luther Bass of Ashford, Connecticut, November 23, 1834. He
lived in Connecticut until the spring of 1837, when he and his family removed to Hills-
dale count}', Michigan. It was here he heard Mormonism and embraced it. February 9,
1845. In June of the same year he moved with his family to Nauvoo, Hancock county,
Illinois. He left Nauvoo, June 15, 1846, and went to Winter Quarters, arriving there
November 5th of the same year. He lived there until May, 1848, when he moved to Har-
ris Grove. By this time his family consisted of himself, his wife and five children.
Through the persecution and driving of the Mormons he had become very poor. All
they had to eat that winter was bread and one-quarter of a deer. Both he and his
children were without shoes all that winter. In the spring he picked up two odd
shoes that some one had thrown away, and with these to wear he walked fifty miles to
St. Joseph, Missouri. Here he got work baling hemp. He worked twenty days, receiv-
ing twenty-one dollars after paying for his board. Knowing his family would be out
of provisions, he went back home. When he arrived there he learned that the only
food his family had had to eat for four days was roots that the two older boys. Andrew
and Frank, had dug. While living at Harris Grove he made a wagon in which to cross
the plains. Iron being scarce, he was unable to get any tires for the wheels. With
this wagon, a yoke of oxen and a cow, he started for Utah, June 6, 1850, arriving in
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plains, and when it arrived in Utah the fellies were half worn out. He had been in
Salt Lake City but three weeks when he was called by President Brigham Young to go
south and help build what is now known as Springville. On December 1, 1852, he married
Keziah (Benson) Judy, daughter of Alva Benson and Cynthia Vail. In 1853 he was again
called to go south to help build another settlement in Iron county. This town is now
Cedar City. He here married Cynthia Benson, another daughter of Alva Benson, August
25, 1858. He remained in Cedar City until 1860, when he took part of his family and
came to Cache Valley, where hie and others founded the city of Hyrum. After plowing,
sowing and harvesting a few acres of land he went back to Cedar City. The next spring
he moved the rest of his family to Hyrum, where the majority of them still reside. His
first wife died here in 1863. He was the father of twenty-five children, of whom twelve
are still living. He now has one hundred and twenty-four grandchildren, one hundred
and forty-four great-grandchildren and twelve great-great-grandchildren. He was a
stanch Latter-day Saint, always setting a good example before his children. He and
his posterity have done a great work in the Temple for some eight hundred of his dead
relatives. He died in full faith of the gospel on December 21, 1900, being in his eighty
seventh year."

A. A. Allen, Sr., came to Utah in 1850 in company with his father, Ira Allen, the
family home being established at Cedar City. A removal was made to Hyrum in 1860
and there they took up the occupation of farming and were promoters of many projects
which contributed to the development and upbuilding of the district, including the
work on canals, roads and other public enterprises. Ira Allen served as postmaster of
Hyrum for several years and was accounted one of the leading and progressive resi-
dents of his section. A. A. Allen, Sr., served as ward clerk before the division into
three wards for several years, and for seventeen years acted as Sunday school super-
intendent, while for several years he was high counselor in the Hyrum stake, the
work of the church being greatly advanced through his activity and zeal.

A. A. Allen, whose name introduces this review, received his education in the
public schools of Hyrum and in the Brigham Young College at Logan. He then took up
farming and railroad work and in 1901 he became one of the managers of a mercantile
store. Through the intervening years he has been identified with commercial interests
and from the beginning he has ever recognized the fact that satisfied patrons are the
best advertisement. He has therefore put forth every effort to please his customers and
his fair prices and honorable dealings have also been potent factors in the attainment
of his success.

In 1889 Mr. Allen was married to Miss Lovisa Hammond, a daughter of Milton and
Lovisa (Miller) Hammond. They have become parents of six children: Hazel L.,
Mabel, Milton A., Norene, Helen Lenore, who is deceased, and Lucile.

Throughout his life A. A. Allen has remained a consistent member of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the faith of which he was reared. He has been
ward teacher and home missionary and in 1899 he filled a mission to the northern states,
returning in 1901. He was ordained bishop in August, 1901, and has since served in
that office, covering a period of more than eighteen years. He has also been active in
connection with secular affairs, serving as school trustee, as member of the city council
and for three terms as mayor of Hyrum, his last term covering the year 1913. His de-
votion to duty is one of his marked characteristics. Everything which he undertakes
he does with a sense of conscientious obligation that has produced excellent results for
the benefit of the district in which he lives.



JOSEPH M. ZUNDEL.

Joseph M. Zundel, superintendent of mails at the Logan postoffice, was born in
Willard, Utah, December 23, 1881. His father, Abraham Zundel, was a native of Penn-
sylvania and devoted his life to farming and blacksmithing. He came to Utah in 1856
with his parents, Jacob and Sarah (Forstner) Zundel, who came from Wurtemberg,
Germany, as converts to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and settled in Ogden, Utah, and later in Willard, Boxelder county. The father
was one of the first missionaries to the Salmon river in Idaho, with headquarters at
Port Lemhi, and he was also one of the pioneers in promoting the work of irrigation
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was postmaster at Willard for a number of years. In addition to his missionary labors
in the Salmon river district he spent several years with the Indians at Washakie, as-
sisting in the establishment of that village in Boxelder county. He spoke the Indian
language fluently. Throughout his life he remained an active worker in the church
and was counselor to the president of the Malad stake, while for fifteen years he filled
the position of bishop's counselor and for eight years occupied the office of bishop. In
political circles, too, he was a recognized leader and filled various positions of public
honor and trust. He was justice of the peace, was mayor of Willard, served as a member
of the state constitutional convention and was the first state senator from Boxelder and
Tooele counties after the admisison of Utah into the Union. Thus along the lines of
material, political, social and moral progress he left the impress of his individuality
and ability upon the history of his district and his state. He was called to his final
rest on the 20th of March, 1917. The mother, Abigail (Abbott) Zundel, was born in
Illinois and, surviving her husband, now makes her home in Willard, Utah. There are
six brothers and four sisters in the family, all of whom are living, Joseph M. being the
next youngest.

Joseph M. Zundel was a pupil in the district schools of Willard and two years at
Washakie, where he was the only white male pupil. He next spent two years at the
Agricultural College of Utah, at Logan. He then took up the occupations of farming and
blacksmithing, which he followed at Willard and Salt Lake City. In July, 1903, he
came to Logan and on the 1st of September entered the postoffice as one of the first city
letter carriers, spending fifty-seven months as such, when he was transferred as a clerk.
He served for nine years as a clerk, filling every clerical position therein, and was on
July 1, 1917, promoted as superintendent of mails. He is making a very efficient officer
in this position, being most careful, prompt and systematic in the discharge of his duties.

In 1903 Mr. Zundel was married to Miss Kate Bench, daughter of Edwin and Mary
Ann (Anson) Bench, early settlers. They have three children: Joseph La Monte, born
November 13, 1905; Blanche Kate, May 23, 1908; and Pearl, February 12, 1913. The two
oldest are now in school.

Mr. Zundel is active in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
having served as assistant superintendent of the Sunday school and president of the
Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. His political allegiance is usually given
to the republican party yet he maintains a somewhat independent attitude. He turns
for recreation largely to the study of engineering, accountancy and systematic business
methods, in which he is intensely interested. During the period of his residence in
Logan he has made many friends and all who know him speak of him in terms of warm
regard.



JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH HANSEN.

Josephine Elizabeth Hansen, filling the office of city recorder of Richfield, was born
in 1878 in the city which is still her home, a daughter of Peter Erick Westman. Her
father was a native of Sweden who, following his conversion to the faith of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, came to America in 1872. After residing in May-
field, Utah, for three years he removed to Richfield in 1876. He was a very devout wor-
shiper in the church and filled the office of high counselor to the president of the stake
for a number of years.

Mrs. Hansen was educated in the common schools of Richfield and in the Sevier
Stake Academy and at an early age evinced a decided taste for music. Following her
graduation she took up the work of teaching music and proved most capable in that di-
rection. In 1897 she became the wife of David Hansen, of Richfield, a son of Hans O.
Hansen, one of the well known and honored pioneers of Sevier county. Mr. Hansen is
engaged in the manufacturing of harness in Richfield. They are the parents of five living
children: Q. David, Elva M., Merlin M., Allen, and Donald E. Although but a youth,
Q. David volunteered for service in the war with Germany while a student in the Utah
Agricultural College.

Mrs. Hansen has ever been faithful to her church work and has been president of
the Primary and the Young Women's Mutual and was for eighteen years the organist
of the Richfield tabernacle choir. No public gathering in which music has been a pre-
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known as Richfield's musical standby, her services being in demand in all parts of the
stake. In the summer of 1917 she was appointed recorder of the city of Richfield and
showed such ability in the work that at the succeeding election in the fall of that year
she was chosen for the full term of two years, beginning January 1, 1918. The duties
of this position have very much increased during the past year as the city was bonded
for street paving besides other special improvements and this very technical work
falls mostly on the recorder and treasurer but so ably has Mrs. Hansen filled the office
that she was reelected in November, 1919, for another two year term. She has been
ever true to her duties in all stations to which she has been called and x her fellow
citizens have shown their appreciation of her worth and fidelity by electing her to the
important office of city recorder of Richfield.



GOTTLIEB BERGER.

Gottlieb Berger was elected city commissioner when Murray first adopted the com-
mission form of government and since 1912 has continuously filled the position, doing
splendid work in behalf of public progress. He was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland,
on the 15th of February, 1857, his parents being Christian and Magdalene (Zaugg)
Berger. The father was a farmer, well-to-do, and had sufficient funds to pay his way to
Utah in 1860, when he crossed the Atlantic on the ship Underwriter, which dropped
anchor in the harbor of New York. He then proceeded by railroad to Omaha, Nebraska,
and afterward crossed the plains with an ox and cow team in the Captain Ross company,
for he had become a convert in his native land to the faith of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and it was his desire to join the people of that faith in
Utah. He brought with him his family, which included four sons and two daughters, all
born in Switzerland, namely: Christian, Anna Lizzie, John, Godfrey, Gottlieb and Rosetta.
All lived to adult age, were married and had families, and all are yet living save Godfrey
and Anna Lizzie. With the arrival in Utah the family home was established in what is
now Berger town, where the father erected more than twenty houses, thus contributing
in substantial measure to the development and improvement of that place. While he
was thus engaged in building operations his real occupation was that of farming. He
was a devoted member of his church and filled the office of high priest. He always
adhered most loyally to the teachings of the church, paid an accurate tithing and did
everything in his power to promote the church work. He passed away in 1883 at the
venerable age of eighty-three years.

Gottlieb Berger acquired a common school education, pursuing his studies through
the winter months, while in the summer seasons he worked upon his father's farm to the
age of eighteen years. He then began working for the railroad as a brakeman and after-
ward as freight conductor, thus spending five years on the Bingham Canyon & Camp
Floyd Railroad and on the Wasatch & Jordan Valley Railroad. He afterward secured
employment at a smelter and was thus engaged for thirty-six years. At first he was em-
ployed at the Old Germania smelter and afterward was with the American Smelting &
Refining Company when they took over all smelters in Utah. For many years he acted
as engineer and following the time when the smelters were consolidated as the property
of the American Smelting & Refining Company he operated a mill. He purchased four-
teen acres of land where he now resides a few years after his marriage and in 1896
erected a good brick residence of six rooms. He also built good barns, planted fruit
and otherwise improved the property, which is now one of the desirable homes of
Murray. During the years in which he worked at the smelter he also carried on his
farm with the assitance of his son and erected all of the buildings thereon himself save
thk house.

On the 2d of December, 1880, Mr. Berger was married to Emma Arnold, a native of
Leicestershire England, who was brought to Utah when but five years of age by her
father and grandparents. She also had a sister in the party. She is a daughter of
Richard and Elizabeth Jordan. The father was a farmer of England, but after coming
to America in 1868 engaged in railroad work. Ten children have been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Berger: Emma Eliza, who 'died at the age of two years and four months; Gottlieb
R., who is with the smelter at Murray; Magdalena, who became the wife of Wallace
H. Rider and died at the age of twenty-eight years, leaving three children; Lilly M.,
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Mirelda, who is a clerk in the Thornton-Anderson Drug Store at Murray and resides
at home; Albert F., who died at the age of ten years; Ruth, who died in infancy and
who was born on the twentieth wedding anniversary of her parents; Godfrey A., who
is employed at the smelter; and Clarence E., in school.

Mr. Berger has long been a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints. He was at one time called upon for missionary service but about that time
was seriously injured by a fall at the smelter. On the 2d of March, 1911, he received a
badge in honor as being the oldest resident of the second ward of Murray. He was
ordained a high priest in 1904, was a member of the Elders Quorum for nine years and
was counselor and high priest of the Murray Second Ward Quorum, filling the last
named position since the organization of the ward. He has also been assistant Sunday
school superintendent and for a number of years has been ward teacher. His wife has
been first counselor of the Reilef Society for twelve years, or since the ward was organ-
ized.

Mr. Berger has also been very prominent in community affairs. He was first elected
city commissioner in 1911, again in 1915 and once more in 1919 for a four years' term.
He is known as a socialist candidate and such is his personal popularity and the confi-
dence reposed in him that in 1919 he was accorded the largest vote given anyone on the
ticket. He was active in building the city power plant during his first term, at which
time it was receiving eleven cents per kilowatt, while five cents is now being paid under
the city owned plant. Mr. Berger was also the promoter of the water agitation and the
city voted one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for a water plant. He is a thor-
oughly upright and reliable man whose word is as good as any bond, and the people
know that they can trust him under ariy and all circumstances. Moreover, he possesses
capability of a high order, and thus it is that he is able to command the large vote
that has been accorded him.



GEORGE A. JENKINS.

George A. Jenkins, who is engaged in the undertaking business at Murray, Mid-
vale and Sandy, was born at Midvale, May 19, 1877, his parents being George Wash-
ington and Rebecca (Roberts) Jenkins. The father was born in Pennsylvania and
died in 1913, while the mother was born in Iowa, in which state they were mar-
ried, and she passed away in 1915. It was in the year 1849 that Mr. Jenkins came
to Utah, where he was joined by his wife in 1852. They settled first in Ogden and
afterward removed to Midvale, while their last days were spent at Sandy. Mr.
Jenkins engaged in hauling freight across the plains in the early days by mule team
from the Missouri river, making several trips in this way. He was a son of Johnson
J. Jenkins, who was one of the bodyguard to the prophet Joseph Smith at Nauvoo.
The mother of George A. Jenkins was a relative of General Roberts of Boer war
fame, her father being a first cousin of the English general and a representative of
a very prominent family of England. The grandfather was born in Pennsylvania
and was of Scotch and Welsh descent. Becoming converts to the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Jenkins family took active part in promoting the
cause of the church and it was this that led them to become residents of Utah. The
family of George W. and Rebecca Jenkins numbered four sons and two daughters,
these being Ida, William, Samuel, George A., Manuel and Amelia.

George A. Jenkins acquired a common school education and was reared upon his
father's farm to the age of nineteen years. He then learned the barber's trade and
for a few years conducted a shop at Midvale. He had previously worked at the
smelter for three years. Later he opened a barber shop at Midvale which he still
owns. It is a four chair shop and he was actively connected with the conduct of
the business until he turned his attention to the undertaking business at Murray in
1916. He became manager for Banks' undertaking rooms at Midvale, which position
he occupied for a short time and was later their manager at Murray. He is a gradu-
ate of the Barnes School of Embalming of Chicago. At length he engaged in the
undertaking business in Murray on his own account. In May, 1918, he bought out
the Taylor branch at Midvale and also established a branch at Sandy in 1919. He is
thus conducting business at these various points and is accorded a liberal patronage
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for the dead. His establishment at Murray is new and thoroughly modern and in-
cludes fine show rooms, a chapel, rest rooms and all modern fixtures and equipment
such as are found in the leading undertaking establishments of the larger cities. The
branches at both Midvale and Sandy are under competent managers and Mr. Jenkins
also gives supervision to both places. He still owns the barber shop at Midvale, which
is conducted by one whom he employs to manage the business.

In 1897 Mr. Jenkins was married to Miss Annette Williams, of Ogden, and they
have become the parents of ten children: Mazle, who was accidentally killed at the
age of seven years; Blanche, a student at the University of Utah; Grace, who died
at the age of nine years; Viola, a high school pupil; Arthur, who died in infancy;
Arvle, who died when three years old; Eunice, who died in infancy; Amy, in school;
Mary; and George Weston.

Mr. Jenkins built a home at Midvale soon after his marriage and is still the
owner of that property. He now resides at No. 253 East Forty-eighth street, South,
in a brick bungalow, of which he is also the owner. Mr. Jenkins retains his mem-
bership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a member of the
Seventy. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. He was elected a
councilman of Midvale on the first city ticket put' in the field after Midvale was in-
corporated and was reelected for a second term. During a part of both terms he
acted as mayor of the city. He is deeply interested in all that pertains to the wel-
fare and progress of the community in which he makes his home, and his aid and
influence are always given on the side of advancement and improvement. He has
made good use of his time and opportunities and has thus steadily worked his way
upward until he is now numbered among the substantial citizens of this section.



CHARLES MACLEAN ANDERSON.

The call of opportunity has found instant response in Charles Maclean Anderson,
whose alertness has brought him steadily to the front in commercial circles. He is now
the manager of the five, ten and fifteen cent store of the F. W. Woolworth Company at
Salt Lake City, where he is employing between fifty and sixty clerks. His life record
is the expression of modern commercial enterprise intelligently directed. Mr. Anderson