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HISTOBY OF SANPETE COUNTY. DORIUS, JOHN, JR., merchant, son of 309 John F. and Caroline Frantzen, was born in Spring City June The family removed to Ephraim when 20, 1860. John was a small boy. He attended the public schools and was engaged several years in freighting produce to Salt Lake City and mining camps. Was engaged as local agent for the Consolidated Implement Company for three years, afterwards opening a general store. He has a nice place of business and a good trade. Carries about $4000 stock of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes and clothing. Also owns a good farm of sixty acres. Has been deputy City Treasurer for the past four years. Was married in Salt Lake City October 10, 1879, to Maria S., daughter of Bishop L. S. and Sophia Anderson, born in Ephraim December 11, I860. They have had eight children: Ruth M., Mattie S., Seymour R., Hazel, Grace and Scena, living; John C. and Marie, deceased. DORIUS, JOHN F. F., son of Nicalai and Anna S. Christoffersen, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 15, 1832. He learned the trade of a shoemaker, joined the Mormon church in 1850 and was a traveling elder for seven years in Norway and Denmark. In 1857 he came to Utah, crossing the plains in a handcart company under Capt. Christiansen, pulling a handcart from Iowa City to Salt Lake City. He remained in Salt Lake till 1858, when he came to Ephraim. In 1860 he returned to Norway on a mission, remaining till 1863. Was counsellor to his brother, C. C. N., who was president of the Christiania conference. On his return he stopped one year in Spring City and returned to Ephraim. Was clerk several years in the Co-op. store and engaged in farming. In 1876 he went on a second two years' mission to Norway and presided over the conference. In 1896 he performed a mission to Chicago, 111., returning December, 1897. Is senior president of the forty-seventh quorum of seventies and has always been an active churchman. His first wife was Caroline Frantzen. She had five children: Martha M., John, Caroline, Heber and Orson. She died in Ephraim in 1895. Second wife was Gunnell Torgesen.