Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-05 | Page 1 | Delegates-Elect to the Constitutional Convention

I 1111 I DELEGATESELECT TO THE II I L CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION I ELIAS MORRIS Of Salt Lake city a Second precinct delegate del-egate was born in Llanfair Talhairm X > eibi hshire Ifortli Wales June SO 1S25 President Tohn Taylor while on a visit I to Wales in 1S51 engaged Mr Morris to 11 I i I I 1L I 1 73 l ELIAS lrOnRIS come to Utah to set up machinery for the manufacture of beet sugar President Presi-dent Taylor having purchased the machinery ma-chinery In Europe Mr Morris reached Provo where the plant was to bet set up In November 3S52 but as the sugar company com-pany lalled lie went to Iron county where he was employed by an iron company com-pany He soon came to Salt Lake where he worked at his trade as a mason and in ISt ereftted the Eagle Emporium building build-ing for William Jennings and the drUgstore drUg-store building of W S Godbe In May IfiSS he went on a mission to Wales and I returned in 1863 with 365 converts In 3STO he formed a copartnership with Samuel L Evars in the building and fire brick manufacturing Business They built numerous furnaces and smelters in Utah Xevada and Montana and many buildings in this city In connection with Houlahan Griffith Mr Morris constructed con-structed the city and count building He served in the city council from 1888 to 1EBO sind as a member of the chamber of comjrterre for one term Mr Morris was t married at Council Bluffs Iowa In May t IE49 to Miss Mary Parry of Newmarket oZ If