Show l rTEnEflfl 1IIII1 i LcoNIflTJIjiNJjL CONVENTION I WILLIS Ii ROBISON Of Wayne county was born In Will county IlL March 1 1854 At an early age he emigrated with his parents to TJtah and settled at Fillmore Millard county he was raised to manhood re ceUjtag the limited education that was givep in the district schools of that time His early life was spent in farming freighting caring for stock and such avocations as were common to boys on the frontier At the age of 21 he married and with his wife moved to Sciplo where he resided for twelve years In 1888 he moved to Piute county where land was plentiful That portion in which he settled was organized into a new county under the name of Wayne and to Mr Robison was accorded the honor of naming it He has filled many positions of trust Is now and for some time has been superintendent of schools Served asa as-a member of the territorial Segislature in 1890 Is a member of the Mormon church Spent two years in the southern states advocating its doc I trines Filled the position of bishop for a number of years and now presides pre-sides over the interests of the county t II I I I II I I t ii I I k1p WILLIS E ROBISON in which he resides In political matters mat-ters Mr Robison it a Democrat f L JOHN R MURDCCK Of Beaver Republican Is one of the pioneers of Utah having arrived herein here-in 1S47 He was born September 13 1826 In Orange township Cuyahoga county O Parents from New England Eng-land Was married in 1850 to A H Lott < in Salt lake city Business stock raiser and farmer Left Ohio and wPnt to Missouri 1832 from there 1i If JOn It MTJRDOCK to Illinois left there in 1846 to emigrate to the Ricky mountains Enlisted in i the Mormon Battalion at Council Bluffs and went to California was I discharged in 1847 and returned to 1 t TTtah Took part > in the Indian war during the winter of 184950 Carried II i I the United States mail from Salt Lakn I It city Vi Independence Mo sixty miles I a d2yfwas about the average speed I In th i summer of 1857 traveled from I Salt Lake city to Independence Mo in fifteen days at the rate of eighty miles per jay the distance between r those ppints being 1200 miles The 4 trip wa accomplished with but three If changes of animals grass fed four i twenty miles drives being made each t day Has brought overland five trains of immigrants from the Missouri river t and it is safe to say that he has I brought more immigrants by team to i Utah than any other man HP has been successful In business Was a II I terms member of the legislature for several 1 I t i RICHARD G LAMBERT I I Of Salt Lake city and elected as a F Republican in the Second precinct 11 i was born in Salt Lake city June 2 I iso He is the son of Charles and Iary Alice Cannon Lambert and is II one of seven brothers His early days were sent > amid the trying scenes of pioneer life H toiled on the farm worked in the canyons and in the winter of 1868 he entered the Deseret News printing office where he served until October 1873 He was then sent to the Sandwich islands on a mission and returned in November 1877 He si I i < RICHARD G LAMBERT again entered the business department of the Deseret News and remained there until October 1892 He was quite active in Peoples party and when the division came he joined the Republican ranks Was elected chaplain of the council of the last legislature |