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Show W. E. CREED IS DEAD ON COAST President of Columbia Steel Corporation Dies After Week's Illness Word was received here Saturday Sat-urday of Ihe suddfii death early Saturday morning of Wigginton E. ( reed, president of the Columbia Steel Corporation. Mr, Creed had been ill iu his home in San Francisco Fran-cisco for a week. : A lew weeks ago Mr. r,nd Mrs. j Creed as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. I W. W. Armstrong visited here on j Ibeir return trip to the senie won-! jjerlands of southern Utah. Mr. ('reed had luiiiinited faith in the ind list rial development of this section. As one of tbe leading busi-- busi-- iioxs and, industrial men kjf ;the Pacific region and the lincky Mountain Moun-tain territory, h? h;id done much towards the d-evelopment, of ( lie manifold resources of this section. Selects Steel Site Becoming interested in the iron md co;il deposits iu Utah by L ,F. Rains, Mr. Creed, as president of rhn Columbia Steel Corporation, tame to Utah a few years ago and selected a site between l'rovo and Springville for the establishment f a blast furnace and coke oven for his company. Under his direction direc-tion the local plant has enjoyed tremendous tre-mendous success. Creed was born in Fresno, Cal,, in 1S77. lie graduated from the University of California with an A. B. degree in SiO!. A widow and four children survive him. Creed was organizer and president of the Fast Bay Water company, president of the C. A. Hooper Lumber company, president of the Columbia Steel company, director of the Wclls-Fargo and Nevada National Na-tional bank of San Francisco, the Associated Oil company of California, Cali-fornia, and several other corporations. corpora-tions. lie was a member of the San iVancisco and California Bar associations as-sociations and also many clubs. |