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"He celebrated his 93rdbirthday with members of his family Nov. 15. He hecame ill the next day and had been bedfast most of the time since." "In 1932 Mr. Jones accepted one of the most important positions of his carreer. Then 7 8 , he was named president of the Bank of Southern IJtah after a reorganization which was effected after the institution ran into depression difficulties. He was Utah's oldest bank president." "Mr. Jones was born Nov. 15,1854, three years after Cedar City was founded as a base for development of the iron ore deposit? nearby. He was the son of Thomas and Sage Treharne Jones, Welsh immigrants." " At the age of 16 he took a contract for delivering mail by pony express between here and southern Nevada mining towns, a job he performed daily for six years prior to entering the old University of Deseret. After completion of his mail contract, he traded the horses he had accumulated for cows and calves and entered the cattle business. He was associated with the cattle business during the remainder of his life." "He ran one of the last great cattle herds in this part of the southwest. When his brother, Kumen Jones, was called as a member of the San Juan mission which made the historic trip across the Colorado through the Hole-in-the-Rock, Mr. Jones assisted hy driving two herds of cattle from here to the new mission." "He was one of the founders of the Branch Normal School, now the Branch Agricultural College, in 1897, and was an organizer of the first elertric power company in Cedar City about 1905. He served as president and manager of the company until it was sold in 1919." "In 1905 he was elected first president of the Cedar City Comn~ercial rluh, now the Chamber of Commerce, in which he held honorary memhership at the time of his death." "Mr. Jones had been mayor of Cedar City, member of the city council, as Iron County Commissioner, and in numerous other positions. In 1921, he donated ground to Iron county for erection of a county hospital. He was active in promoting its establishment and served a chairman of the hospital for many years." "He was chairman of the committee which in 1923 raised $75.000 hy popular subscription to purchase right-of-way as an inducement to the Union Pacific railroa~dto build a branch line into Cedar City. H e was one of the organizers of the old Cedar lfercantile and Livestock Co., a widely known Southern UGh cooperative for many yean." "hlr. Jones served a mission to the Southern States in 1888 for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was a member of Cedar L.D.S. ward bishopric and worked on construction of both the hfanti and St. George L.D.S. temples." 234
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| Title | Lehi Willard Jones: Biography |
| Creator | Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah |
| Description | Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah |
| Source | Lehi Willard Jones |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1972 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Woodruff Printing Company |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1334.cpd |
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