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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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niels) Faux. Thefather came from England to Utah in 18.60 and the mother from Sweden in 1861. Bothsettled at Moroni. The father established a store which was afterward merged into thecooperative store, of which he was superintendent for a number of years. He also didtemple work in Manti Temple and for fourteen years was superintendent of the Sundayschool. He was likewise a member of the High Priests Quorum and at the present timehe is living retired at the age of eighty-two years. Notwithstanding his advanced age,he is one of the greatest baseball enthusiasts of Moroni and goes with the boys to allthe surrounding towns to witness games except on Sunday. His wife, Mrs. HannahFaux, died at the age of seventy-seven years. Their family numbered six chil-dren, as follows: Jabez, of this review; Mary, the deceased wife of Aaron Hardy, bywhom she had two children: Joseph, who wedded Miss Hannah Nielson and has sixchildren; John, who married Esther Malinson and had two children but is now de-
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W. K. LOVERING UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD 1077 ceased; Hannah, the wife of S. Earl Gaboon, by wbom she bas five children; and George,who has passed away. Jabez Faux acquired a common school education at Moroni and afterward spenta year as a student in the Snow Academy. He then turned his attention to clerking andfor eight years was thus employed in the cooperative store. In 1896 he went to thesouthern states on a mission as traveling elder and was absent from Utah for twenty-nine months. In 1899 he opened a store conducted under the name of Faux & Companyand later incorporated the Consolidated Mercantile Company, of which be is the man-ager. Under his wise guidance the business bas grown to substantial proportions andthe enterprise is now one of the profitable commercial concerns of the city. Mr. Fauxis also a stockholder in the Peoples Sugar Company and in the Bank of Moroni. Inbusiness affairs his Judgment is sound, his enterprise keen and his diligence unfaltering. In 1891 Mr. Faux w

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