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Show PROMINENT CITIZENS OF MANTI. f\ LDER, ALFRED, farmer and grain shipper of Manti, ry and brother of the Hon. Major, was born in / Sclrwellbrun, Switzerland, September 4, 1851. Came with the family in 1860, and to Manti in 1S62. He was raised on a farm and became engaged in freighting produce to the mining camps of Utah and Nevada, and followed that business ten years. For the last six years he has been buying and shipping grain. Owns a farm of thirty acres, and has a comfortable residence. Has been City Water Master for five years; is also a stockholder and director of the Manti Printing and Publishing Company, which company does all kinds of job work and issues the Messenger weekly. He married, in Spring City, February 5, 1877, Miss Elvira J. Cox, daughter of Frederick W. and Jemima, who were old settlers here. He has four sous and four daughters, viz., Ella, John A., Byron F., Frank M., Ferdinand, Merle, Hettie and Eeba A. Mr. Alder, although of foreign birth, is a wholesouled American, loves his adopted country and reverences the Constitution, and is always on hand to march under "Old Glory'' and defend his country. f\ r\ LDER, HON. FERDINAND, son of John and Anna born in the city of Schwellbrun, Switzerland, I May 24, 1850. His father was a merchant and came to Utah in IMiO and to Manti in 1862; was a clerk in the Co-op, worker in the Manti Temple, and of late years bookkeeper for L. T. Turtle Co. Mr. F. Alder was engaged five years as sawyer in Frank Armstrong's Mill D, near Salt Lake City, returned to Manti, bought a B., & small farm and married, April 26, 1875, Cecelia Mad sen, daughter of Hans and Annie, who came to Manti in 1853, both now deceased. Mr. Alder was elected Mayor of Manti in the fall of 1802 and re-elected in 1893, again in |
