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Show Page 20 TI IE DAILY HERALD, A CENYL'RY OF ACHIEVEMENTS, (www.heraldextra.com), Provo, Utah. Thursday, November 18, 1999 UTAHNS OF THE CENTURY 'Mi Business interests put Eccles in Utah forefront The Daily Herald i In Utah, Marriner Eccles' name was a synonym for power. Born in September of 1890, Eccles began working when he was 8 and did not stop until his death in December 1977. By mm - Mm He was also director of Utah Construction, UtahIdaho Central Railroad, Lion Coal Company, Anderson Lumber Company, Mountain States Implement, Utah Power and Light and Pet Milk Company. But the onset of the Great Depression forced Eccles to rethink his traditionally conservative business tactics. He had the opportunity in 1933 to relate his revamped views in Washington, D.C. His ideas were later developed into President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" program that helped draw America from the Depression. In 1934, Eccles was appointed governor of the Federal Reserve Board. The Fed would become his base of operations for the next 17 years. Throughout his career as a business leader, Eccles advocated a minimum family' income, minimum wage, maximum age for retirement, decent and safe working conditions, profit sharing and protection for the aged and unemployed long before any of those economic ideals were ever considered by the masses. Eccles was also in the forefront in U.S. foreign policy. He was one of the first to advocate slowing population pragmatic con(jv&tiv who espoused sometartlingly liberal views, Eccles was born m the oldest of nine children to David Eccles' second wife, Ellen Stoddard Eccles. Marriner's father migrated to Utah in 1863 from Glasgow, Scotland. After the family's arrival, David Eccles' created a family fortune in lumber. Because David's life had been cruel and hard in the slums of Glasgow and then in the dirty and dry west, he believed all his sons should know work at an early age. In the book "Marriner S. Eccles, Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant " Eccles was described as being "raised on a Mormon diet of hard work, honesty, respect for money and service to the church." Eccles served a mission for the LDS Church in Scotland. But at the age of 22, Marriner's father died, forcing him to return from his tour of Europe. Because David Eccles had two wives and two different families, the family fortune was divided evenly. Despite extensive quarreling among the two Eccles family factions, within two decades of assuming control of his half of i iUi: t? ' ft fate? Courtesy photo Business genius: Marriner Eccles rose to financial power and later worked closely with President Franklin growth in underdeveloped nations and reopening economic and diplomatic relations with China. Eccles was also one of the first business giants to lead the charge against the "establishment"' for its shortsightedness in the American involvement in Vietnam. He also founded the Marriner S. Eccles Library and Graduate Fellowship of Political Economy at the University of Utah, and the Marriner S. Eccles Foundation, Building Your own hornet;; D. polygamy. He had six wives1"" and 48 children (five were" adopted). One of his sons, Special to The Daily Herald Company, Sego Milk Company and Stoddard Lumber Company. that time he had created a family business worth iun-dred- s of millions offaoftr$. J A 0 ( the fortune, Marriner Eccles had made Eccles banking and sugar interests the largest in the West. By 1928, just 16 years later, he was the president of Eccles Investment Company, First Security Corporation, First National Bank, First Savings Bank of Utah, Eccles Hotel By KURT FRIEDEMANN Joseph E Smith part of much of Utah's change?. in Utah Roosevelt. Eccles was described as being "raised on a Mormon diet of hard work, honesty, respect for money and service to the church. which has funded numerous charitable, scientific and educational organizations in Utah, Joseph F. Smith had a major impact on how the nation perceived Utah and the LDS Church. Smith's life spanned two centuries and he was deeply involved in the founding stages of the church, the settling of Utah and carrying the church's message to foreign countries. His "Vision on the Redemption of the Dead" eventually became Section 138 of the Doctrine and Covenants. Born on Nov. 13, 1838, the son of Hyrum and Mary Fielding Smith, he was named for two uncles, Joseph Smith and Joseph Fielding. At age 5, he watched his father leave for Carthage with his uncle, Joseph, a journey to their eventual martyrdom. Four years after his father's death, Joseph F. drove a team of oxen 200 miles from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters, and then a thousand miles on to Salt Lake. He helped his widowed mother and family as they crossed the plains to Utah, maturing quickly from child to a man. Orphaned when his mother died from malnutrition in 1852, he had to fend for himself and the remainder of the family. Smith was first called on a mission to Hawaii at age 15. He later served five other missions. At age 27, he was ordained an apostle and served as a General Authority for 47 years as an Apostle, additional counselor of the First and then as Presidency President for 17 years. Smith was ordered by Brigham Young to enter into Joseph Fielding Smith, served as president of the church.'." With polygamy an the Utah territory: from becoming a state, Snn&i voluntarily went into exile; issue-preventi- from 1884-91- . He was gra ted amnesty. President Benjamin Harrispft, and established the Second,, Manifesto in 1904, stating,, again that the church had,irri abolished polygamy. During his life Smith witnessed the Mexican War, Civil War, and World WaT I, the industrial revolution,!th borders of the US. pushing'" west, the first airplane, car; Shd (1838-191,8;- ;: railway. cross-continent- al :'v 1918. yisit 118 online (fW www,heraldey&! Consider This! S.I 1 ' F ft s YOU ASKED FOR IT m ft : SSJ te mm) mmm mis mil m B. i! J YOU DESERVE IT 0 -J " r I Cllft ft A fr-ls- , f " jfW ill ii ,i ii t I m .(( illtl ! km, tmi ion I1A1J a in Ml 1 W0 Itejn Orem Lunchm $4" Catering Jr Both Provo and Orem locations ypen 175 1004 Co. Serial Road, fci J JVfrtToi 1545 S. j rays a week SMW PROVO Mtim&et .- i-, B ;1 -- Chiytese Btiffet t, J " In various ways, he was'"1" involved in Utah history ""H through polygamy, the Utafli War, Johnson's army, tempted building and the miracle ofcv kL the crickets. Smith also was an advocate of the fine arts. He had an ' excellent singing voice, and enjoying music and drama umh At the age of 80, on Oct. 1918, Smith received the vision which explained the redemption of the dead and the Savior's ...v visit to the spirit world. u Six weeks later, he hadiaii V attack of pleurisy which turned into pneumonia, rfe died in his sleep on Nov. OREM |