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Identifier: utahsincestateho02warr (find matches)
Title: Utah since statehood, historical and biographical
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Warrum, Noble Morse, Charles W Ewing, W. Brown
Subjects: Utah -- Biography Utah -- History
Publisher: Chicago--Salt Lake, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hasgained comprehensive knowledge of the banking business and has made his laborsof great value and worth to the institution which he represents. He is also prominentlyknown in mining circles, being one of the directors of the Grand Central Mining Com-pany, also of the Gold Chain Mining Company and the Iron King Consolidated MiningCompany. He is likewise the treasurer of the Utah County Jersey Association. On the 23rd of January, 1889, Mr. Buttle was married to Miss Mary Bezzant, adaughter of Luke and Ella Bezzant. They have become parents of four sons and haveadopted two sons. The boys adopted, at the ages of three and five years respectively,were orphans left destitute and alone and Mr. Buttle took them into his own home and hasreared them as members of his family. These are Joseph W. and Raymond L. Freckleton.The four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Buttle are; Joseph A., Jr., who was born March25, 1897, and died on the 17th of May, 1898; William, who was born July 30, 1891, and is I
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JOSEPH A. BUTTLE I UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD 737 the fourteenth William in the Buttle family in successive generations; Leland Bezzant,thirteen years of age; and Grant Bezzant, a lad of ten. The three surviving sons arenow in school. Mr. Buttle has been a most zealous and active worker for the faith of the Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since his boyhood, laboring earnestly in the Sundayschool in the Young Mens Mutual Improvement Association of which he has beenpresident, and in other branches of the church work. He has occupied all offices inthe priesthood and on the 12th of September, 1912, was ordained a high priest byPresident Amos H. Merrill and became a member of the high council of Utah stake.He was ordained and made one of the seven presidents of the Thirty-fourth Quorumof Seventy and was ordained a bishop by Apostle George A. Smith on the 27th of April,1913, now serving as bishop of the first ward in Provo. He was an unusually success-ful missionary for the church in E

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