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Show JAN 1 4 1980 1907 to 1913, and Superintendent of Beaver County Schools from 1902-1906. In 1912 he was appointed juvenile judge of the Fifth Judicial District, serving until 1916. In 1915 he was elected to the Utah State Legislature, serving one'term then, and another from 1921-1923. In 1922 he was appointed by Governor Charles R. Mabey to the Utah State Industrial, Commission. He remained a member of it until his death in 1949 and served as its chairman for several years. While on the Commission, he became a nationally recognized authority on the administration of industrial law. His wife, Mary J. McShane, was born at Adamsville, Beaver County, in 1875, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth R. Emerson. She married Orrice McShane in Beaver, Utah in 1895. A graduate of Utah State Agricultural College at Logan, she taught school for a time, before retiring to raise a family. Following Mrs. McShane's death in 1964, the house was converted into several small apartments. |
