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LEHl WILLARD JONES Biography 1854 - 1947 Lehi W . Jones was born November 15, 1854. t h r e e y e a r s a f t e r Cedar City was founded a s a base for development of t h e iron o r e deposits n e a r b y . He was born in t h e 'Old Fort' to Thomas and Sage T r e h a r n e Jones, Welsh immigrants. At the age of 16 h e took a contract for delivering mail by pony e x p r e s s between Cedar City and several southern Nevada mining towns, a job h e performed daily for six y e a r s prior to entering t h e University of Deseret in Salt Lake City. Utah. After completion of his mail c o n t r a c t , he t r a d e d t h e horses he had accumulated for cows and calves and e n t e r e d t h e cattle business. He was in this business his entire life, running one of t h e last great cattle h e r d s in this part of t h e Southwest. When his b r o t h e r . Kumen Jones, was called a s a member of t h e San Juan Mission, which made t h e historic t r i p across t h e Colorado River through t h e hole-in-the-rock, Lehi assisted bv drivina two h e r d s of cattle from Cedar Citv to t h e new mission. Lehi Jones was one of t h e founders of the Branch Normal School in 1897, and was an organizer of the first electric power company in Cedar City about 1905. He s e r v e d a s president and manager of t h e company until i t was sold in 1919. In 1905, he was elected the f i r s t president of t h e Cedar City Commercial Club, now t h e Chamber of Commerce. in which he held honorary membership during his lifetime. He held the position of Mayor from 1886 to F e b r u a r y 1888, and s e r v e d a s Iron County Commissioner, a s well a s City Councilman, Justice of t h e Peace, and City T r e a s u r e r . In 1921, h e donated land t o Iron County for t h e erection of a County Hospital, and s e r v e d a s chairman of t h e hospital for many y e a r s . He was chairman of t h e committee which, in 1923, raised $75,000 t o purchase a right-of-way as inducement to t h e Union Pacific Railroad to build a branch line into Cedar City. He was one of t h e organizers of the Cedar Mercantile and Livestock Company. He did much t o pioneer irrigation in t h i s a r e a , and was a member of t h e Newcastle Reclamation Company which f i r s t attempted to reclaim t h e vast farming a r e a , now being developed successfully with underground water, in t h e Beryl area. In o r d e r to s e r v e an L.D.S. Mission to t h e Southern S t a t e s , Lehi resigned a s Mayor in February of 1888. He s e r v e d a s Bishop over t h e Cedar Ward beginning in 1908, and h e worked on the construction of both t h e Manti and S t . George Temples. He married Martha Henrietta Lunt, daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Wilson L u n t , February 13, 1878. They parented eight sons and daughters-Willard T . , Henry L . , Kumen L . , Lehi M . , Erastus L . , William L . , Ann Jones Gardner, and Henrietta Jones Hintze.
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| 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 | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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