| Show GEO W 1 born in ill 1310 1810 near spring 1 neld illinois moved with his 1 1 rents to nauvoo in 1814 1844 to co council uncil bluffs in IS 16 and to utah in 1847 in ili 1849 sir mr thatcher went with his parents to california and returned to utah in the ho fall of 18 1857 1837 37 in time to take part in tho the campaign known as tile the utah anvar V ar in in 1857 8 in 1858 lie he went avi with th indian agent abent Torn torney zy accompanied by in an escort from camp floyd to make treaties with the Sli shoshone Sho hone bannock and indians indian and re establishing the overland mail route between salt lake city and nevada which the indians had destroyed dest roved going ii as far aca as the sink of the humboldt came to logan in 1850 1830 returned to salt lake and engaged as one of the riders of the great pony express s carrying dispatches across across the continent in that year in he was tas called out by the government in company with others to establish reestablish re the tha overland mail route under the co command of general robert T burton the indians having destroyed the sam from fort arid bridger er to deer creek a distance m miles iles on oil his return lie he engaged with president brigham Brig liam young to take chargo charge 1 of his mill and farm also saw mills in big cottonwood canyon afterwards taking a charge of his supply ot of stores b lie e th then en en engaged 0 with w i t h jofe joseph ph A young 0 to build the toll road down parleys canyon canavon Par parleys levs park and silver areja creel to Wan manship wanship an anstie ship taking charge i of the road and mr youngs mills this was in 1865 en J 9 in connection with john W young lie he took large lame contracts from the union pacific Ruil wiy company for grading 0 aal yelling getting out ties for the cons construct rin of 0 alir U P road lie ile came to ceclie valley and engaged edgag irl with president young 11 1 1 to booe fence his lind land of soule some ten thousand acres a e r es known now as 13 tile the brigham young v college 0 farm ile he then engaged in merchandising 0 in logan loan 0 with his bis father ind and brother purchasing chasing cha sitio 0 the interest of W V H sherman in in the business here was afterwards made a 1 I birin bra li 1 I 1 house of Z CM C M 1 I and in 19 he returned to salt lake city ile he was one of the of the deseret national dank bank in the spring of 1871 11 in connection with john W you 1 and mr joesph richardson of new york city he came to loan 0 for the purpose of organizing 11 1 a L company to build the utah and northern railway from ogden north which was effected went to L europe drope the same year fil filling linga 3 a mis mission sion there and returned in 1872 on his return he be engaged with 7 C M K 1 I salt lake city in the wholesale dry goods department in 1871 1874 john W V young 0 geo IV thatcher and heber C kimball organized a company of which mr thatcher was vice president and built the utah western road to tooele thoele city laying the found foundation a of the great bathing resorts garfield and lake point mr thatcher was a member of t the be salt lake city council in 1876 he was appointed superintendent of the utah and northern Rail railway rray company and came caine to logan to take charge of the road tile the terminus of which nas then at franklin in 1877 mr jay gould bought the utah and northern railroad forthe for the union pacific railway co and mr thatcher was elected by the doard board of directors of the U 1 as its superintendent continuing with it during which chich period the utah and northern road was built through to garrison montana and during this period also in connect connection i oil with his brother hs he had large contracts for getting out ties and timbers for the central pacific union pacific and utah western railroad in addition to which having purchased the interest of the heirs of the late ezra 1 I benson in the union flouring floering Flou ring mills he remodeled mid and re fitted it u up p as a merc nant mill mr thatcher also organized the banking house of thatcher bros banking company in 1883 and was made its Preg president ident ile he also is a director of the first national bank of ogden 0 n in 1889 lie he associated with frith others organized an electric light company for logan and was elected its president mr thatcher was appointed with francis francia armstrong ArmE trong elias 11 morris orris amos ilowe and arthur stayner stayner to visit san francisco and coast for the purpose of ofin investigating vesti gating the beet sugar industry and afterwards went to fort scott kannai and looked into the matter of the manufacture of sugar 6 from the au sugar ar cane it was on their report and recommendations that the sugar plant at lehi ans built and ho he was a member of the first board of directors of the utah sugar company mr was one of the organizers gani of the home fire insurance company of utah and a director of the same lie 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