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Show UTAH COUNTY'8 REpnESENTA-TIVE8. REpnESENTA-TIVE8. Wo print below sketch of thn Utah county reproenlntivos In the State Legislature, taken from the Suit Lake Tribune of Sunday. W may Sny that so fur as wo learn llie icspectlvu bio-graphics bio-graphics aro correct: BKNATOR A. O. S5IOOT. Hon, Ahrahaui Owen Snmot wns horn In Sugarhuuso ward, Salt Luke oninty, March II, 1830. II Is early years wero spent In Bait Lake City, wheru lie uttended school In winter and in tho sninmer worked on his father farm mid assisted In lnnlln catllo and horses. In November, 1807, ho moved to Provo with Ills father, and the first labor In wieh ho engaged lit thu Garden Gar-den City was hauling rock nod other material for the Provo woolen mills mid Ilio couuiy courthouse, then In course of erection. Ills next employ, muni was In the Provo Co-operative limitation, under thn tnauiiement of S. S. Jones and .James Dunn. He also intended tho Tiiiipunogos branch of tho Dosorot Uulvcrlty. At tho age of 10 hu formed a partnership with tho lalo William P.ixinan In tho lumber and con business, out of which grew thu Provo Lumber, Manufacturing and Building company. Ilo spoilt two years In England engaged in missionary work, nud on his return, In November, 1877, ho occupied tho olllce of denuly assessor and collector for Utah county under II. II. CI 11 If. Iu 1878 ho was o.ected assessor, ppi) In 1870 appointed collector; lu i860 ho was elected assessor as-sessor und collector, und resigned In 1881 to tnko tho management of tho Provo Woolen Mills company's niur-cantllp niur-cantllp department. From thg position posi-tion ho resigned in J882 to accept tho position of assessor nud collector of Utah county, which oillco ho hold till J ii nn, 1888. Senator Smoot's Icgl-latlvo expertencu cpiimunued p 1888, whan ho served ns a member of thu Lcghdn-tlvo Lcghdn-tlvo Council. Iu 1805 hu wns elected to thu House of thu First Statu Legislature, Legisla-ture, and In 1800 was ch-cteil to thu Senate of the Second Statu Legislature. This year hu was rc-ulcuted to (hu Sun-ate, Sun-ate, and will represent Ulah county In that body for tho next four years. He was ono ot tho leaders In tho Sagebrush Sage-brush Democracy uf 1888, which nominated nomi-nated Hon. S. It. Thurman for Con-ureas. Con-ureas. SUN ATOIt AI1EL J. EVANS. Hon Abel J. Evans, was bom In Lehl, Utah, December 20, 1853. His boyhood yns spont In tho rnaunor incident in-cident to pioneer duys, hard work In tliu Held In summer nud but 1 It t Iu lime ulven to schooling In thu winter. So lit I lo time and so poor facilities for Imparling instruction that It was no trouble in forget during thq summer that wilch wns Iniirced In the winter. In spite of limited opportunities, Mr. Evens hus been nn earnest student of history and thu law, and hus hud experience ex-perience In public affairs. When Ml. Evans was 12 years of age his father died, and loft tho ruspnindbllity for thu care of nine children wiih thu widowed mother. Young Evnns from Unit time, nn became a help 10 his mother nnd Ids younger brothers und sisters. Ills ability ann" dm-oilon to ditty attracted tho intention of his neighbors and hu becaiuo a member of thu Lehl city council while a. very young man, and cuniluucd to survu thu people fui tunny terips In that capacity. Ho wns tho llrst Democratlo mayor of Lehl, uud tilled that olllce two terms. Ilu was aiso onu uf thu llrst Democratic 6oleot-piuu 6oleot-piuu of Utah county, and served two terms. He was a member of the Con-sittuilunul Con-sittuilunul prevention and has been elected to thu Seimto of tho Legislature twice sine Statehood. Senator Evans was n Sinjcbi it'll Democrat In 1888,aitd has, With uiuny others of thu clan, received re-ceived recognition since, which they fulled to obtain then. 1805 hn was tho chali man ot his party In Utah county. Senator Evruis has been piom-liiently piom-liiently connected with ecclesiastical ulTalts In the county, devoting iiuch tltuo to mutual improvement work und lllllng a mission lo England. Economy Econo-my in public expenditures is onu of the primal articles of his chin fuiili. This gues to Ihu extent of being unalterably opposed to n city, county or Statu going go-ing Into debt. Ills vocation Is farming, and yhlle ho dues not lay claim to any great financial ability, ho Is one of tho substantial citizens ot tho community. JIEPKKSENTATIYE aOSEl'll 6. LAVISH. nun. Joseph S. Laptsb, Ropresontat tlya Jtrom Utah county, Is tho sou of, Josep'n aud Iliiunuh Lnpls.li, who came to'Uuh In ISQ0. They sottlud In Lehl, where Mr. Liiplsh ws born November, 4, 18l. In. 1803 Mr. Laplsh, with his' parents, moved to Salt Luke City and, resided thera till when they I (Concluded from pugc 2.) tnjved to Umjilmm Junction, Ih 1882 they moved to American Fork, whmo thfj' liavo sl c resided. Mr. La pish Jud an attack of scarlet fover whon tan and oue-lialf yeara of ngo, nnd as s reult of thai dlseaso ho becamo Hind, irom which n miction he. has nercr recovered. This, howover, litis not prevented Mr. Luplsh fr m gathering gath-ering a largo store nf Information, do-Tflciplmr do-Tflciplmr his natural abilities and Iwuiog abrcut wjth thu polltleai .eieDts of tlio limes. Ho has n wonderful wonder-ful memory, nnd rotilns tenaciously thojnforiuatlon Imparled to him. Ho has wonderful mechanical genius, and JilsJupcraHnsltlvo bch of touch seems lo fully supply his ntwnc" of sight. When ho lived in Uitighain Junction ho iwctnie Interested In railroad machinery, machin-ery, and has now applications for pttents for Improvements In the nip-brake nip-brake in tho patent oniao In Washington Washing-ton Mr. Lnplr.li whs elected vhalrniau of the first Denincratlc club organized In American Fork, after tho division ?n party lines. He. has slnco bceu I .twice elected to (hat position. RKl'lttSENTATIAE JOHN E. UFJTS. Hon. John E. Belts was born In England Eng-land Almost 17. 1843. In I8.'il, his mother, who wis widowed, ni'd her jchlldien camo In tho United States and settled In MIfsouiI, npd Mr. H uts con-eiders con-eiders hlinsejf a Mlfsourlnn. Itrouslit his molticr to TJiuh lu 1802, and (1ml-Idu' (1ml-Idu' but few opportunities hero at that lime returned to Missouri, where hu remnlned. barilug brief Intervals spent intravellnit through, other States, till 1663, when ho letumed to Utah, arriving arriv-ing the day before his mother's doatli, Slnco that time ho has resided lu Pay-eon Pay-eon and cugnged In a variety of Indus-trial Indus-trial ptirsc'iU. Ho was tho manager of tho. Payson opera house for several years. Ho ;Uo liarJ charge of tho timbering tim-bering In t!i Centcunlal-Eurekn mine foratlmo'sM loft that employment In order to bo with his boys and direct them In thu work on. the farm. Mr. Belts was one of tho tlrst, fifteen Democrats to effect at organization in P.iyon after tho division movemont, and has been chairman of the Demot crailc club of Payson slnco that tlmo. Ho was elected, justico of tho peaco, hut failed to qualify, by reason of his employment at that time iu Eureka. HEr-UESEKTATIVE MAKIKU3 I.AItSEN. Hon. Marlnus Larsen was horn No-Tember No-Tember 15, 1849, near Hump, AlsSogn, Aalhoig Anit, Denmark. In 1801 his Parents joined tho Mormon church, old tholr homo, nnd on tho fifth of April, 180!;, loft tholr native Jand to como to "Utah. Tho trip fro.m Hamburg Ham-burg to New York tnok from April (Ith totheSlh or Juno. Tho family proceeded pro-ceeded lo Flpronco, Neb., whloh whs tben tho outfitting point for tho trip "cross thu plains. ' On September 28th be arrived at Spanish .Fork and has tnado that town his homo slnco that time. In 1885 Mr. Larson wns elected a member of tho Spanish Fork City Council, slnco that tlmo tilling tho office of-fice of Alderman ono term and tlipt of Inyor two terms, Ho was also a Rep-resenatlvo Rep-resenatlvo of tlio Flrpt State Legislature, Legisla-ture, fljr. Larson la a farmer, anil Alnce 1801 he has presided over the Third ward of Spanish Fork us Bishop, 9 Jn which capacity ho is highly re-pected re-pected and below. ItEPllESESTATIVK V3r. 51. ItOVLANCK. non. William M. Roylancp, tho speaker of tho House, was born In .fiprlngvllle, Utah, March 31. 1805.. His parents, WiiIhiu nnd Lucy. Roylance, wro nmong tho frt settlers of Spring,, villi-. fJCho early part of Mr. Royluuoe's J"o was spent on tho stock much and ind bo received but a )iwlt,ed. "'""" ' 1 1 ! r- ' t ulueiit ion In ih disiriet ni.iis. 4i the nut- of 10 ho iiecmuc a clerk in i, V ral "t"'", nnd whs i.e?i einp njc,. by the R Grando Western rnltv,,, company. At .u.i n of 20 bo enni ino.icfd business for li'.tusHlf lu thn wliole-nle fnili, produce and Rr.iln business, bus-iness, In which he has been engaged ever - co. Mr. lto.vl pen was eW'od one of the flrt Democratic tout clliuon orSprlng. vllle, In 1801, and n'to erved a lonu ns city reeonti-r. Ho hns declined the nouiltintlon of mayor of his city. That Sprlngvillo is considered onn or the strong Democratic towns of the Statu Is lu a largo dngrofi attributed to thu energy of Mr Royh.nce. who is con-sld-red by all who know him ns a leader mid orgnnlzer. Ho served in the Second Stiuo Leglslnfttro. TTT. i |