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Show i If ' GEORGE T. ODELL i i A real industrial leader in the state whose 'j name has been linked -with its progress from the A f ' , real beginning of his career, is George T. Odell, $1 who, since the inception of the Consolidated rT Wagon & Machine Company, has been a director j! and general manager of that company. 1' He was born in London, England, the son of $t GEORGE T. ODELL & I Thomas George and Ann Odell, who came to this Ej I! country as Mormon emigrants, bringing him and fc P his sister, who is now Mrs. Annie Wright, of m I , Idaho Falls, in 1861. The family arrived In Utah wj;i September 30, coming by ox team from Winter jijj Quarters at Florence. They settled in Ogden and lived there from 18G1 to 1879, Mr. Odell's first work being as a brakeman and conductor on , the Central Pacific railroad between Ogden and ii 4 San Francisco, from the day the golden spike was ill I driven at Promontory until 1878. He then entered Jmh ' the mercantile business at Ogden, where he re- f$ ! mained twelve years, then accepting a position as lj manager of the commercial interests for the ' in Bullionville Smelting company at Bullionville, Ne- ju vada, at the time Messrs. Godbo and Hampton If Hi . were operating that plant, ji 1880 to the win- i ter season of 1883-4. That same winter he left , fll J and coming to this city organized Gran t-0 dell & Company, which was later succeeded by the Cooperative Co-operative Wagon & Machine Company, and then merged into the Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company In 1900. It will be seen from this data that Mr. Odell has spent nearly thirty-three years in agricultural agricul-tural implement, machinery and vehicle business in Salt Lake. The Consolidated Wagon & Machine Ma-chine Company, now operating some fifty-five M, M. WARNER stores in Utah, Idaho, western Wyoming and eastern east-ern Nevada, with a capital of $2,500,000. The above outline, while giving a brief synopsis synop-sis of Mr. Odell's business life, which lead to his present position, does not, by any means, give a comprehensive idea of his various interests which he is prominently identified. He is the vice-president and a member of the executive committee of the Farmers' & Stockgrowers' bank, and has been since it was organized. He is the president and a director of the Odell-Wright Investment company, and the Richland Irrigation Company, also of the Farmers' and Merchants' Savings Bank, Logan. He is a director In the Columbia Trust company, the Home Benefit Building Society, the Heber J. Grant Company, the Rexburg Drug Company, the Utah Cereal Food Company, the Opex Mines Company, Com-pany, the National Savings & Trust Company, the Wright Mercantile Company and the First National Na-tional Bank of Montpelier, Idaho. He is the vice-president vice-president and a director of the American Fuel Company, the Utah Asphalt Company, and the Intermountain Life Insurance Company. Mr. Odell is also a trustee of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural College, a Knight Templar, Shriner in Free Masonry, and a prominent member of the Alta, Commercial and Rotary clubs. Mr. Odell was married in 1887, to Miss Florence Flor-ence C. Grant, of Woods Cross, whose parents were Joshua Grant and Louise M. Grant, and five children have blessed their union. They are: Mrs. J. H. Richards, Mrs. Clarence Bamberger, Mrs. H. P. Kirtley, Dr. George T. Odell, and J. Fred Odell. Theirs has always been one of the most hospitable hospit-able of the homes of prominence In the city and their friend" are a host. There is no finer man in the state than George T. Odell and none held in higher regard by all wlio have had business or other dealings with him. |