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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 256 a course of bookkeeping and obtained a commercial education. Was employed as a clerk in the Union Mercantile Company's store for six and a half years, then promoted to the position of manager. The}- carry a #20,000 stock of dry goods, groceries and everything kept in a large commercial retail house. The Union Mercantile Company was sold to A. Madsen & Sons November 30, IS97. He is an active, energetic young man, being proprietor of the Union Parlor Company, where he keeps a manager selling" ice cream and confectioneries. Is also secretary of the Union Wool and Live Stock Commission Company, which position he fills with perfect satisfaction. fY\ ADSEN, NIELS ill ' I in '55, P., farmer and stoekraiser, son of Lars and Bodel, was born in Denmark December The family, consisting of parents and 17, 1832. seven children, emigrated to the United States stopping in St. Louis, Mo., for the winter, thence across the plains in ox-train under Canute Peterson, arriving in Salt Lake City September 20, 1856. Father died on the road at Devil's Gate, family locating in Brigham City, then in Ephraim and came to Mt. Pleasant in '59. Niels assisted in constructing the fort, took up 160 acres of land and began farming and stockraising. During the Black Hawk war he was active and gave five horses to those who had none to help in chasing Indians. He served three terms as member of the City Council. Was bishop of the North Ward from '78 to '81 and has always been interested in road improvement. His wife was Lena, daughter of Rasmus and Maria Jorgensen, born in Denmark Janury 3, 1840. They w ere married near Salt Lake City January 3, 1857, and have nine children: Mary, Elizabeth S., Peter H., Rasmus L., Lena. George G., David, Alonzo and Berta. r ALFRED H., druggist, son of Henry and Flora L. Maddison, was born in Provo, July 30, ' ' 1873. His father was a druggist, painter and artist, also an actor, quite well known throughout Utah. Alfred attended the district schools of Provo and Salt PT\ AIBEN. ill |
