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Show NFS Form 10-900a (Rev. 8-86) 0MB No. 1024-0018 Utah Word Processor Format (02741) Approved 10/87 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 2 (Fairview Apartments, Weber County, Utah) brothers branched out into banking, mining, stockraising, railroad, sugar and coal industries. With David Eccles, a prominent local banker, they developed the Utah Idaho Central Railroad, the largest electric railroad in the West. Samuel served as mayor of Ogden from 1918 to 1919, and as a member of the state legislature. He died in 1948. The city directories for 1925 and 1930 provide a general profile of the occupants of the Fairview during the 1920s. In 1925 Jonathan S. Browning of the famous Browning Firearm family lived at the Fairview. He was then working in Browning Brothers Sporting Goods. The rest of the inhabitants covered a wide range of occupations, including business managers, lawyers, salesmen, and engineers. Joseph Martin, who was one of the original residents, was still there in 1930. That year showed many more couples largely in clerical and sales positions. (doc 02361) |
