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Show FEED G. TAYLOR, (ibove), now! manager of the Ar'-lLU.'.ated j Sasar coxpany, and Stephen SI. Ed'elL third vice prescient and! treasurer, elected at directors' I', meeting in Oden. ; a : T-- I i, ; ::.-;-... ; ' i N I - . -' .. .. . ., ; - ' !' i ?,!; '.: v - h. -:.l,'J I rv;:'';li"'-,; ':.'i . .'. . .' - ' ': -4 FRED G. TAYLOR SUGIRWEUEER ; New Head of Amalgamated Plants Began Career Shoveling Eeets. Horace Havemeyer New Director Di-rector and Stephen M. Edgell, Treasurer. 0( ',Kyt, Aug. 19. Important Wianga were m;i de ly the A n laiai nat"d Suk;' r company at liin (r---t .rr mc'.Ung iu-.d hero tor Jay when I-Y"d i i. Taylor w ;i :j elected i-nernl manag'-r and Stephen M. UdKell v.an elected third vit-e pr';id.-!it and ti-.-.-mrf'T. lioth of tiie.no officers were alt") added to the dir.;ef urate and made- iiH'inluM'.i of the exfcurive committee. com-mittee. Tiie third additional director ridded waa Horace Havemeyer of New York. I'Jdgell and Taylor nro cnnsld"red two of tlie tnoft effli'l-mt sugar experts in tho country. Their ri';e In the industry has been rapid n nd comes an a reward for excflleiit. ftcrvlei-.s rendered. At tho directors' iiu-eting today, at which President Anthon H, Jund presided, pre-sided, the following officers werfi elected. Mr. i.und, president ; David J-eies, fiiMt vice president ; Joseph Scow croft, second vice presid'-nt; Stephen M. lodged, third vice president rfiid treasurer; l-'red G. Taylor, general manager; Joseph Cjuinney, Jr., Hecretaiy. Executive Committee. Thn executive committee was named na follows: Mavid ('. lOccles, chairman; Joseph f-Vow.M-oft, M. S. Hrownlng, H. M. lOdg'dl and J'Yed Ta.'lor. The additional directors are Horace Ha ve m oyer. New York ; S. M. Edgell and Kred (J. Taylor. Tho number of directors di-rectors has been increased to fifteen, as was authorized by tho stockholders in a resolution adopted at their meeting two weeks ago. The action by tho directors was In conformity con-formity with the resolutions of the stockholders. stock-holders. It marks the addition of Horace Havemeyer and assocla tes to the company. com-pany. In add it Ion to becoming heavily interested in the company, Mr. Havemeyer Have-meyer agreed io- aid the company in securing se-curing new blood in its ope rat Ions. Ho filled this obligation by securing Mr. Kdgell, Ueorgo He inks and John Comer, experts in the. executive anil operating departments. In tho selection today of Fred Q, Taylor Tay-lor as director, the Amalgamated Sugar company rewarded one of its most faithful faith-ful and efficient employees, who during tho past twenty-one years has risen from tho position of beet ahoveler at fi.SO per day at tho Ogden factory to tho position of general manager of eight factories. Frior to his advent In the sugar industry, indus-try, when ho started shoveling his way to the top, he was an expert sheep shearer, cowboy In Idaho and stagecoach driver in tho Yellowstone park. 1 Hiring the winter win-ter months Taylor was a student in tho Ogden public schools and later at the Weber academy. Taylor Interests Eccles. After two years with the sugar company, com-pany, the present general manager at- j traded the attention of the late David Pedes, who, at the young man's re- t quest, setit hiin east to study sugar making at tho big refineries of the east. , t'pon his return to Ogden, Taylor was made superintendent of the Ogden fac- tory. La ter he went to the Dewiston 1 factory and then to the Logan factory. He I was next sent to the La Grande factory. ' Later he was brought to Ogden as gen- j eral superintendent. A year later lie I succeeded Henry H. Rolapp as secretary and treasurer of the company. Two years ; ago ho was made assistant general man- j ager. Today he was advanced to gen- ' eral manager. j Stephen Maurice Edgell, who comes to ' i ' ' 1 I ; ; i & yc Tja the company as third vice president, was tho second vice president of the Great Western Sugar company at Denver until un-til a month ago, when he resigned the position to accept the position in Ogden. lie comes from tho school of sugar experts, ex-perts, having gained a knowledge of the industry from working his way up with the big companies of the nation. He was born in St. Louis, Mo., October Octo-ber 1SS-V, son of George Stephen and Isabella (Corbin) Edgell. HU grandfather, grand-father, Austin Corbin, was former president pres-ident of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad, rail-road, the Elmira, Courtkind & Northern railroad and the Long Island railroad. Ilis father and grandfather were former presidents of tlie Corbin Banking company com-pany of New York. Mr, Edgell was educated edu-cated at the Cutler school in Xew York. He graduated from Harvard in 11)07, with the degree of bachelor of arts. Upon his graduation from Harvard, Mr. Edgell went with the American Sugar Refining company at Jersey City, and with the Great Western Sugar company at Fort Collins, Colo in ll'OS. The following fol-lowing year he was back with the American Amer-ican and then returned in 1903 to the Great Western in the capacity of manager man-ager for four j-ears. The next two years he was director of the sales department. In 1915 he was made third vice president of the company and in 1918 was made the second vice president. On December 10. 1914, Mr. Edgell was married to Miss Klsie Aldrich, daughter of United States Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, Al-drich, Providence, R. I. He is a member mem-ber of a large number of Denver and New Y'ork clubs. |