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Charles Rendell Mabey (1877-1959) —
also known as Charles R. Mabey —
of Bountiful, Davis
County, Utah; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Bountiful, Davis
County, Utah, October
4, 1877.
Republican. School
teacher; served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War;
author;
banker;
president, Bonneville Irrigation District; president, Triangle Drug
Company; director, Bountiful Lumber and Building Association;
director, Bountiful Light and
Power Company; mayor
of Bountiful, Utah, 1910; member of Utah
state house of representatives, 1913-16; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Utah 2nd District, 1916; Governor of
Utah, 1921-25; defeated, 1924; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Utah, 1924
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Mormon.
Member, American
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; United
Spanish War Veterans; Navy
League; Rotary.
Died in Bountiful, Davis
County, Utah, April
26, 1959 (age 81 years, 204
days).
Interment at Bountiful
Memorial Park, Bountiful, Utah.
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Elijah Sells (1814-1897) —
of Scott
County, Ill.; Sweetland, Muscatine
County, Iowa; Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.; Palmyra, Douglas
County, Kan.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Franklin
County, Ohio, February
5, 1814.
Republican. Stoneware
manufacturer; lumber business; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Muscatine County,
1844; secretary
of state of Iowa, 1856-63; member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1870; secretary
of Utah Territory, 1889-93.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, March
13, 1897 (age 83 years, 36
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Sells and Elizabeth (Ebey) Sells; married, March
10, 1835, to Isabella Watt; married to Harriet Jacques Wetmore;
father of Elijah Watt Sells. |
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Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895) —
also known as Abraham O. Smoot; A. O.
Smoot —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Provo, Utah
County, Utah.
Born in Owenton, Owen
County, Ky., February
17, 1815.
Mayor
of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1857-66; mayor of
Provo, Utah, 1868-81; banker;
lumber business.
Mormon.
Died in Provo, Utah
County, Utah, March 6,
1895 (age 80 years, 17
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Washigton Smoot and Nancy Ann (Rowlett) Smoot; married, November
11, 1838, to Margaret Thompson McMeans; married, February
17, 1856, to Anna Kirstine Mauritzdatter; father of Abraham
Owen Smoot (1856-1911) and Reed
Owen Smoot; nephew of Daniel
Owen Rowlett and Joseph
Rowlett; grandfather of Abraham
Owen Smoot III and Isaac
Albert Smoot. |
| | Political families: Bullock
family of Massachusetts; Clinton-DeWitt
family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | The Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building
(opened 1962), at Brigham Young University,
Provo,
Utah, is named for
him. |
| | See also Wikipedia
article |
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