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Show HISTORY OF EMERY COUNTY. able management of J. University of Deseret J. 629 Anderson, a graduate of the Emery is the trading and outfitting point for cattlemen and sheepherders grazing their flocks and herds on the deserts soutJi and west, and that trade amounts an immense sum every year, insuring a home market farm products. The natural resources of vast coal deposits, extensive timber forests, and large farming areas yet unreclaimed from desert aridity give Emery a future of development and progress not surpassed by any similar town in Utah. Alonzo Brinkerhoff is the present to for all bishop. the town The people are industrious home builders and is filled with groves of fruit and shade trees. PROMINENT CITIZENS OF EMERY. A NDERSON, NEILS r\ June 5, 1840. 0., farmer, was born in Denmark raised on a farm, and in '63 He was entered the army and fought for one year in the war between his country and Austria and Prussia. After the war he worked in a brewery for eight vears, being superintendent the last three years. He was married in Denmark to Mary Larsen, who died, leaving two children jStene and Maria. Was married again December 27, 1872, to Martina Christensen, who has had eight children: Hannah, Clara, Arthur, Agnes, Laverna and Bessie, living; Neils, burned to death in Mayfield, and Christian, died at the age of seventeen months. He came to Utah in '73 and settled in Ephraim, and later located at Mayfield. In '89 he came to Emery, where he has ninetysix acres of land; is clerk of the ward and an active man in church and Sunday-school. / : |
