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Show GEORGE F. WASSON, For the Lower House. Mr. Wasson comes of English parentage. Ho was born in the Bermuda islands in 1875. His father was then a chaplin in the British army. Later the family came to this country and the father became a subject of the United States. George was reared in the state of New York. He received his education in the New York City schools, in the College of the City of New York, and in the New York state university. He is essentially es-sentially a self-made man, and whatever advancement advance-ment he has made is due entirely to his own efforts. ef-forts. He read law for a while in the office of Chaun-cey Chaun-cey Shaffer of New York City and studied for a year in the New York Law School. Then he came west and spent a few years on the Denver mining exchange. From there he went to Houston, Hous-ton, Texas, and organized the mining exchange at that place. He then went east and for several years was secretary and manager of the Acme Roller Bearing Company of New York. The call of the west came to him again and he went to Goldfield. From that place he came to Utah six years ago. For a while he called on the local stock exchange and read law at the University of Utah during his spare moments. Ho was adm ed to the bar in 1911, and has since engaged actively in the practice of the law. |