People and their place in the History of Lehi E­H Earl, Alma ● Office Manager of the Utah Power and Light Office in 1941. Earl, Jennie ● Charter Member of the Athenian Club in 1909. East, Henry ● Lehi City Marshal 1901­1903; 1908­11 ● Utah County Sheriff 1913­1918 ● Lehi Fire Chief 1902­1903 ● One of the Founders of the short lived Socialist Party in Lehi 1901 Eastmond, Frank H. ● Purchased and Operated Saratoga in 1930 until he had a stroke in 1953. Eastmond, Mick ● Owned with his brothers Saratoga 1953­1963 ● Owner/Operator of Saratoga from 1963 ● Expanded Saratoga with midway and amusement rides. ● Survived a devastating $100,000 fire. ● Expanded pools to include slides. ● Donated the slide from Saratoga to the Lehi Outdoor Swimming Pool. Eckersley, Beverly ● Charter Member of the Serimpian Club 1949 Eckersley, Lorenzo ● Lehi City Judge 1963­66 Eddington, Elmo Dr. ● Born March 19, 1895 in Morgan ● Graduated from Latter­Day Saint High School in Salt Lake ● Graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelors of Science ● Served in the Medical Corps of the Navy during World War I. ● Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1924 ● Began his Doctor career in Chicago Illinois. ● In 1931 he purchased the Lehi Hospital and the practice of Dr. F. W. Worlton in Lehi. ● Has served several times as member of the House of Delegates; Utah State Medical Society and also the American Medical Association throughout his entire practice. ● Past President of the Lehi Lions Club ● Past President of the Lehi Riding Club ● Director of the State Bank of Lehi ● Vice­President of Eddington Canning Company. ● Charter Trustee Member of the John Hutchings Museum 1956 ● Turned over the Lehi Hospital to the City so they could obtain Federal Funds for the Hospital. ● Led the successful campaign for Sewer in Lehi with Mayor Frank Sharp. Eddington, Rhea Felt ● Attended the Manti Elementary, Manti and Moroni High schools, Agricultural College of Logan and the University of Utah. ● She is past President of the Auxiliary to the Utah County Medical Society. ● She has served as secretary to the Utah State Medical Auxiliary. ● On September 15, 1922, she married Elmo Eddington ● Mother of three children. Eddington, Richard Hale ● Born May 11, 1926 in Lehi. ● Lehi Second Ward Bishop 1983­1987 Edwards, Arley ● Ran a Barber shop at 60 West Main from 1951­52 Edwards, Edward William ● Member of the First Mormon Handcart Company. Edmund Ellsworth was the Captain. Arrived September 26, 1856 ● Worked at Camp Floyd as a Tailor for the soldiers. ● Shot in the leg by a drunken Camp Floyd soldier. ● Moved to Lehi in 1859 ● Was assistant choir director in Lehi for many years. ● Member of the First Lehi Choir in 1852 ● Led an expedition to White Mountains in Nevada to explore as a Mormon settlement. ● Member of the 68th Quorum of the Seventy Edwards, Frank W. ● Born in Mississippi in 1892 ● Enlisted in the Infantry, 91st Division. ● He became a casualty of World War I on October 26, 1918. Died of wounds in France. Edward, Wayne L. ● Lehi Fourth Ward Bishop 1988­1989 Ekins, Abel ● Worked in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack during World War II. ● Purchased Lehi Drug Store from his father­in­law Gerald Taylor in January 1959. ● Owner of the Lehi Drug Store and pharmacist ● Grand Marshal Lehi Roundup 1998 Ekins, Dale ● Lehi City Fire Chief 1995­Current ● Lehi Businessman­Lehi Drug and Pioneer Party and Copy ● Lehi High School Hall of Fame 2013 Ekins, Geraldine Taylor ● Artist ● Founding Member of the Lehi Serimpian Club in 1949. Still a member in 2014 ● Captain of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers ● Worked at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack during World War II. ● Grand Marshal Lehi Roundup 1998 Ellingson, David ● Original Owner of Lehi Drug Store. ● He died in 1897 Ellingson, Oley ● Built a home on the west side of the Old Lehi Fort in 1854. ● Part of the Lehi Militia called to defend Fort Limhi against the Indians March 8, 1858 ● City Hall Building Committee 1877 ● Served as City Treasurer 1867­68; 1875­77. ● Served as City Councilor 1867­74; 1877;1891­93; 1896­97 ● Served three terms as Mayor. The first two he was elected on the Peoples party. ● Was the first Republican Mayor of Lehi in 1894­95. ● As a monogamist, he helped provide leadership at a time when other men of prominence were in jail or in hiding. ● Served on the Board of Directors of the Lehi Irrigation Company. ● Mayor Ellingson directed the Lehi City Quarantine Board during the Diphtheria epidemic in 1885. ● Founder of the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank in 1891. Ellingson, Oley Jr. ● Lehi City Treasurer 1894­95 Ellison, Arthur Earl (Bud) ● 39th Mayor of Lehi 1982 ● Born in Nephi. ● Served in the Navy as Chief Petty Officer during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. ● Traveled the World ● Engineer ● Member American Society of Civil Engineers ● Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers ● Member Society of Mining Engineers ● Worked for the Intermountain Power Agency ● Married Anna June Southwick of Lehi in 1975. ● Moved to Lehi in 1975. ● Resigned Mayor after 195 days. Cited conflict of Interest. ● He ran again as mayor and lost in 1985. ● Later years spent the winters in St. George and the Summers in Lehi. Ellison, Harold ● Purchased the Fashion Cleaners from Clyde McKay with Alvin Folkerson in December 1947. (101 West Main). ● Ran Ellison Cleaners from 1947­1971. It was also known as Lehi Cleaners. ● Author of several section in the 1850­1950 Centennial History ● Member of the Jaycees Organization. Engstrom, Chad ● Purchased the Ross Schoolhouse in 1893 and restored the building. Enough, Abraham ● He was born about 1808 in St Jean, Jersey Island, Channel Island, England. ● His name is really spelled Esnouf ● He emigrated in 1855 (see resource for immigration) and came to Utah Territory in Charles A Harper Company. ● He had two of his children with him Thomas (born in 1836) and Elizabeth (born 1832 and died in 1905). ● He is found in the 1860, 1870, and 1880 census living in Lehi, Utah, Utah Territory. ● Entered a contract with Robert Gilchrist to make adobes for him. ● Gilchrist allowed Enough to work for Woodhouse. For this Woodhouse made Gilchrist and his brother each a pair of pants. ● “A portly little Frenchman”. ● Organized and Directed the First Band in Lehi­The Fife and Drum Company in 1860. ● Played the Fife in the Band. ● Was the Mason for the City Hall on Main Street in 1872. ● Played the Bass violin in many early bands. Erickson, George Henry ● Born July 8, 1884, in Koosharem, Utah, ● Moved to Lehi in 1899 to live at his uncle’s home, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Ohran. ● He later attended Brigham Young University at Provo. ● While at the Ohran home he learned the brick mason trade at which he spent a good portion of his life. ● He filled a mission for the Church in the Southern States from 1907­1910. ● He was Ward Clerk of the Lehi First Ward from 1913 to 1916 ● Served as Bishop of the Lehi Fifth Ward 1928­1937 ● He personally supervised the construction of the Fifth Ward Chapel, and it was built, paid for and dedicated while he was Bishop. ● The latter years of his life he worked for the Utah­Idaho Sugar Company, doing repair work on their factories. ● He died on July 20, 1944. Erickson, Myrtle Bone ● On September 14, 1911, he married Myrtle Bone in the Salt Lake Temple. ● Mother of Seven Children Ernst, Klea ● Member of the Lehi Olympian Club Evans, Abel ● Family settled in Lehi in 1852, emigrating from Wales. ● Served as a Counselor to Bishop David Evans in the Lehi Ward ● Supervised the Adobe Pit and the adobe brick production for the Lehi Meeting House with William W. Taylor and William B. Rigby 1855­60. ● Lehi City Marshal 1863­66 ● Served as Lehi City Councilor 1854­55; 1859­60 ● Died on a mission to Wales in 1865 Evans, Abel John ● High Council Utah Stake (Met at Provo Tabernacle­included Lehi) ● Second Counselor Alpine Stake Presidency 1901­1920 ● Lehi Stake Patriarch from 1928 until his death. ● Taught Civil Government classes in the 1880­1890. Class members became the leaders in Politics, Education and Business. ● Lehi’s 13th Mayor 1891­93; First Mayor born in Lehi. First Democratic Mayor. ● Lehi City Alderman 1883­88 ● Lehi City Councilor 1880­82 ● Lehi City Attorney 1908­1911; 1914­1917; 1928­33 ● Ran his Law office from the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank Building. ● Served on the Utah County Court 1892­96. ● Served four terms in the Utah State Legislature­the first four after Statehood. ● Introduced the famous Evans Polygamy Bill which would have legalized polygamy in Utah but was vetoed by Governor Wells. ● President of the Utah Senate last term. ● Self Educated­Admitted to the State Bar in 1901. ● Legal advisor for the Alpine School Board, the People’s Co­op, the Provo Reservoir Company, and the Utah Lake Irrigation Company. ● Director Utah Lake Distributing Company. ● Director People’s Bank of Lehi, Bank of American Fork, the Bank of Lehi, the Inter­Mountain Life Insurance Company of Salt Lake City, Provo Woolen Mills, and the Utah Idaho Sugar Company. ● Promoter of the Salt Lake and Utah Electric Railroad Company (Orem Interurban). ● President of the Lehi United Order of Enoch 1874­1880 Evans, Alva ● Grand Marshal Lehi Roundup 1993 Evans, Barbara Ann Bush ● Served in the first Relief Society Presidency for 11 years. ● Gifted Quilter and spun yarn even on the way across the plains. ● Her family was converted at Shoal Creek in Missouri by Elder David Evans ● Married David Evans in Nauvoo.
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