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Show ing was torn down in 1917, Mr. Van Harten moved out to Sugar Sug-ar House . . . and he has been here ever since. Comes to Sugar House Henry Van Hartn's first shop in Sugar House was opened for business on July 3, 1917. It was located where the entrance way to the apartments just north of the Ideal , Furniture Co. now stands. After one year he moved mov-ed to his present location, 1107 East Twenty-first St. where for 29 years he has worked at his trade, made many friends, and has watched Sugar House grow. Introducijifi; - Henry VanHartcn From his sunny windows he has watched the transition take place. When he first moved to 1107, his shop faced the old Bamberger coal yards. . He could plainly see the old sugar mill, whence came the name "Sugar House." It was then being be-ing used as stables and a storage stor-age place for garage equipment by the coal company. Sugar House has, literally "grown tip" while he has been in business. Gardener and Fruit Grower For 30 years Henry Van Hart-en Hart-en and his wife have lived at 2524 Dearborn. One of Mr. Van Harten's greatest pleasures in life is "puttering around" that home. This puttering he calls his "peaceful pursuit of happiness." As a gardener and fruit grower Henry Van Harten lives up to his Hollander heritage. His neighbors and friends marvel at the results of his "puttering." A man of strong and definite ideas, he firmly believes in tiie solid virtues of truth and righteousness. right-eousness. His philanthropic deeds have, for the most part gone unnoticed. unrecorded But there are many people in Europe who know him and his wife as two very kind and generous gen-erous people. Suffice to say th;it if there were more Henry Van I Harten in the vnrld tortny, I there would be no leerl of aiiv i UNRRA's, CAREs r the other European relief organizations. HENRY VAN HARTEN, Sugar Sug-ar House barber for thirty years and one of the best known figures fig-ures in the community. A gentleman gentle-man with a keen sense of humor. Mr. Van Harten is an authority on a number of subjects (a statement state-ment he would vigorously deny). His thirty years' business experience ex-perience in Sugar House places him in the local "blue book" of early settlers, along with Jack Burt, Nephi Hansen and Glen Dixon, to name a few. He was born in Holland and spent his young manhood there. For 13 years he was a resident of Cape Colony, South Africa. He was a civilian in England and Europe for several weeks at the outbreak out-break of World War I. A com- Opetent observer and a student of contemporary history, his authority on these subjects is that of an eye witness. Began Work at Eleven Born in Gouda. Holland (11 miles from Rotterdam), Henry , Van Harten was a son of a pottery pot-tery marker artist. At ll1" years of age. he began a three-year apprenticeship in the trade he still is practicing, barbering. At 15 he was on his own, working in Holland and Belgium border J towns. By the time he' was 18 he was the owner of his own shop in Rotterdam. At the age of 19 he joined the L. D. S. Church, and thus began his role as "Brother Van . . . friend to the missionaries." In January, 1903, he sailed to South Africa the hard way . . . steerage. He practiced his trade in the Transvaal, Johaanesburg, the Cape Colony.' He had his own business in Bloenfontein for 13 years. It was in this town that he married in 1903. His wife was a Hollander by birth. Six of their children were born in South Africa. His is. as he says, a "cosmopolitan family": parents born in Europe, children in Africa, and they've lived for the greater part bf their lives in America. Returns to Holland In the latter part of 1915, Henry Van Harten returned to Europe. The rest of his family came to America, while he returned' re-turned' to Holland ' for a short period in the war-disturbed days of 1915. In December he sailed from Rotterdam, arriving in New York. He came directly to Salt Lake, arriving here Dec. 26. i Before the New Year he again had his business under way, opening op-ening a shop in the old Deseret Bank Building on First South and Main St. When the old build- |