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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 450 stockholder in the Gunnison City and Antelope Valley Canal Company, being one of the board of directors. Is one of the wealthy and most influential men of the southern part of the county and is one of the heaviest taxpayers, and in all his business career has been upright and straightforward and is well liked by the people of the county. Was all through the Black Hawk war in all the engagements and was the main express rider through those troublous times. EMBLEY, CHARLES H., farmer, son of Samuel and was born in Springfield, Illinois, January 9, 1859. He came to Utah w ith his mother in 1875, and in 1879 joined the Mormon church. In 1893 he went Annie, r New Zealand on a three and a half years' mission and in gaining a number of converts to the church, having baptized thirty-one subjects. He is counsellor to Bishop Fjelsted, chairman of the board of school trustees and one of the ecclesiastical trustees. Is a member of the Y. M. M. I. A., and for a number of years was the president He owns a small farm of twenty-two and one-half acres and takes good care of it. Is a stockholder in two of the local stores and the Gunnison Irrigation Company, and a prominent and representative citizen. Was married in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City, October 16, 1879, to Sarah A., daughter of Edward and Margaret Duffin, born October 10, 1860. They have five children: Dellie D., Margaret A., Charles E., Junius S. and Myrtle. to was instrumental FJELSTED, BISHOP ANDREW C, farmer and stock- son of Lars P. and Maria, was born in Denmark October 14, 1855. His parents came to Utah in 1862, crossing the plains in an ox-train under Bishop Madsen, and located in Mt. Pleasant till 1863, when they moved to East Gunnison, from which they afterward came to the present site of Gunnison. Father died here and Andrew grew up to the occupation of farmer and stockraiser. He took part in the Black Hawk war as a home guard and was present when the treaty of peace raiser, |
