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Show 460 HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. nison. He is a very earnest church worker and served as a ward teacher for twenty years. Is a member of the Seventies quorum and a conscientious worker. He owns 1 a nice farm of fifty-five acres, which is under cultivation, and seventy-five acres in hay meadow. Is a shareholder in the Gunnison Co-op store and the Gunnison Irrigation Company. Was married in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City, in 1873, to Louisa C. Lundeen, born July 17, 1845. They have four children: Edith C, Sentie, Emily and John A., living; Andrew F. and Carl O., deceased. CARSEN, HOX. JOHN, merchant and president of the town board, was born in Sweden August 27, 1848. He learned the trade of a carpenter, joined the Mormon church in 1866 and in 1869 the family came to Utah and located in Gunnison. Father died the same year of their arrival; mother is still living. John followed his trade and in the fall of 1869 purchased an interest in a sawmill, built that year by H. H. Kearnes. He ran the mill several years and in 1886 they built a new and larger one. He was a stockholder in the Co-op store, organized in 1869, and from 1883 to 1886 was the manager. He has always taken an active part in irrigation enterprises, being secretary of the Gunnison Irrigation Company six years, and a director two years. He took part in the Black Hawk war and assisted in building roads, ditches and general public enterprises in early days and is now one of the prominent, energetic and highly respected men of the town. In the fall of 1897 he was elected president of the town board, which position he fills with honor. Is second counsellor to the bishop and interested in all church matters. In 1890 he opened a general store, where he buys and sells grain and produce. Was married in Salt Lake City May 29, 1870, to Annie Erickson, born in Sweden in June, 1845. They have four children: John A., Joseph CARSEX, A., Lillian mark, October Utah and Rosalind. OLE, farmer and 6, 1839. freighter, He was born in Den- served as coachman for the royal family several years. He emigrated to in 1863, driving six yoke of cattle, bringing mer- |
