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Show Lally Mary said, "I'm mxious to have Jonas fe, but if he has to do e you than anyone I i Isabella were married ad a daughter that did In about 1907, the brothers with Howe, Sanders, Caldwell, and other stockholders combined several stores in Murray and started the Emporiam Store. William also worked in banks as an accountant and sold automobiles. 'ity, but their two sons :rekson and William III grew up in the old originally located in the In 1920 William became sale owner of the fish hatchery. Later, as the hatchery business waned, William had a silver fox farm and even later a mink farm . f course. (See Benbo?+). . d W'll' In 1920 John and his wite Marguerite ~re son an I lam . d h J h Oberlander (see Oberlander) bought on receIve teo n ,. the fItty acre farm at 5419 South 900 rty through their mother East from his half-brother Norman 'vv. ish hatchery. John and Erekson and brought four cows to his d twenty-two flowing new home. Thev increased their herd Latchery. They shipped to about thirty head of dairy cattle and :JVer the country. They built a milk house. They would place .e Erekson Brother's ten gallon cans of raw milk in tank Ight from Orson Sanders. water to chill. Commercial dairies would pick up the cans and process ~ k the milk for retail sale in Salt Lake City. His son Arion Erekson graduated from the University of Minnesota in dairy bacteriology and biochemistry, and after the Second World War returned to live and operate the family dairy. John's son Arthur also was recognized tor his achievements in the diary industry. Receiving a degree in Dairy Manufacturing from Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, he made his way to the center of the nation's Swiss Cheese industry. He became an instructor in Food Bacteriology and a internationallyknown purveyor of a wide range of food products for Borden Company. An inventor of si.xteen manufacturing and mechanical procedures tor use in the dairy industry, Arthur was awarded the MHS Outstanding Alumnus Award in 1988. rothers General Merchandise Store Second home still stands today, built 1869. (ourtesy Erekson family. |
