| Show AX IIOMHIAUIi CAniKIt 1112 Loalf sad AUn Mernlce In the Church Motes Thatcher wai born on the 2nd day of April 184 In Sangamon county III Ills father and family moved to I F Utah In 1847 settling In the old ortn TV Here they remained until the time of V the California gold excitement In the day of 49 when they departed for the new KIDorado and stayed for tome time on the present site of Sacramento 41 which was then but a tlraggllng village of tents Afterward the family went to A Auburn where Heieklali Thatcher the t father kept an eating house At the 11 age of n years young Motet Thatcher obtained his first schooling but Ills wan P ot brief duration Although a man of scholarly MtalnmenU he hat been prln ploy pally tell educated as with the u Asp ccillon ol two I year at the Deieret Iron unlversltr and noo 1861 1862 when It could only be classed and at a high school the brief opportunists aflordei for a short Mile term at the primitive school at Auburn o1 was all the schooling he had Par In lStS the family returned to Utah wife and In lW turned 110 Cache valley then unn In his Inne and min Infancy It wa at that time his Ilfes work commenced lie wa an Inju active participant In the labor and trial Utal ol the pioneer and wa one ol the minute n am tt min-ute men who guarded Die then new set The tlentent of the IronIng Iogan against dcpreda dons nt Indian In l9fii he married Ing l Iellle Parr of Ogden from that lime llgl until 157 he was busily engaged In 11 1 canal digging and mill building the beln family owning the first aw mill and mile limit grist mill In Cache county In Pus 1867 he and his father ilarteda mercantile win mercan-tile buttnett Logan which was luc Ir ceulully continued under his super semi hllln until It ttat absorbed It y Iheto The of which l he was superintendent i i until heat 1879When to gt When the Utah Northern Railway Hire Corn pany wa organlied he was chosen the I secretary and shortly afterward president exlir presi-dent of the company lie was continued It con-tinued a < tuperlntendent alter theab And torptlon ot the new road by the Union cote Pacific until hr resigned lie has held ted b many nfllcal rnhlono and hU islnes TV successes have been so treat that the were nucleus obtained In CalllnrnU hisa of dl welled In a considerable fortune He any It president or director of numcruu two I i banking and other organliatloni totu Mr Thatcher was a member of all mint the constitutional convention held In gold Utah after he attained his majority thee ills Illness prevented him Irom attendIng men attend-Ing the last one held In the spring of menMi iSo < except during a few day of the tend tcstlon It It I an Interesting fact at this were Ime that he submitted the clause ol the they constitution providing that there shall In abe a-be no union nl church and slate nor Inoph hall any church dominate the stale or have Interfere with Itt functions It l8y5 he was nominated hy the den otratlc parry ai one of Its candidate for Mi the United States senate Last spring Crlsj he was chosen one ol the delegate to mi Irom Ulah to the democratic national Odll convention but did not attend his cent health being extremely poor at that I year time |
