Excerpt from Biographical Record of Salt Lake City and Vicinity: Containing Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present

In presenting this work to the citizens of Salt Lake City and vicinity, we do not aim to per petuate every feature worthy of perpetuation in this notable locality; such an effort would be be yond us in a work of this character, but we have tried to faithfully portray some of the leading characteristics of the people who have made Utah and especially this section of it, famous throughout the known world. Other States and cities are renowned for their great beauty of seen ery, unsurpassed climate or wealth of mineral and agricultural productions; Utah' has all these and more - she came into existence as the home of the Mormon Church, settled at a time when railroads were unknown to the West; her solitudes undisturbed by any foot save that of the savage red man and the wild beasts who had their lairs in the mountain crags or roamed the valleys and plains at will, far remote from the outposts of civilization. Since then Salt Lake City, as the headquarters of the Church, situated near the great lake whose name she bears, has become the Mecca to which the footsteps of many tourists turn every year. In the early days many sorrows and dissensions came to disturb the peace and harmony that had long prevailed among this people, but that condition has long since passed, and today the stranger may find people of every shade of religious and political belief living in the most pleasant relations, jealous only of the well -being of the State of which all are justly proud, and as she has grown in wealth and importance, people from every State and country are realizing more and more the desirability of this city as a permanent home.

We have endeavored to exercise the greatest care in the compilation of this work, employing men of wide experience in this line, who have spent months of conscientious endeavor in se curing reliable data. Care has been taken to have it as correct as possible, and we trust that in 'the main it will be found true to facts and the reliable record of the people of this time that we have sought to make it. We regret that the work will not contain biographies of all the representative men of this city and vicinity, but owing to some of them being absent from home and others not being able to appreciate the value and scope of such a work, a few have necessarily been omitted. However, there will be found within these pages the biographies of a large majority of the leading eitzens of Salt Lake City and vicinity, some of whom came here in early manhood from Eastern States and other countries, and many are native born; men whom any State might well be proud to claim as sons.

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