Cache County UT Archives Biographies.....Benson, E. Taft 1882 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

E. TAFT BENSON.

    E. Taft Benson, cashier of the Farmers' & Merchants' Savings Bank of Logan,
was born September 29, 1882, in the city which is still his home. His father,
Brigham Young Benson, is a native of Salt Lake City and a son of Ezra Taft
Benson, who was born at Mendon, Massachusetts. The father is still living and is
yet an active business man, identified with various interests. He has a farm of
eleven hundred acres, is the president of the Trenton Clarkston Mill & Elevator
Company and president of the B. Y. Benson & Sons Company of Trenton, Utah. He
has developed his interests until they have become extensive and important
projects in the commercial and industrial life of the community. The mother of
E. Taft Benson bore the maiden name of Margaret Adams and was the third female
child born in Logan, her father being Hugh Adams, a native of Scotland, who
became one of the pioneer settlers of Logan and one of the promoters and
upbuilders of Cache county, and who passed away in July, 1917.

    E. Taft Benson acquired his early education in the district schools of
Trenton and continued his studies in the public schools of Logan, being
graduated from the high school with the class of 1907. He completed a course in
the University of Utah as a member of the class of 1911 and thus was well
qualified by thorough training for life's practical and responsible duties. He
took up the banking business and was first associated along that line with James
Pingree, of Ogden. For two years he filled the position of deputy state auditor
and had charge of the auditing work in public institutions. He next became
connected with the Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank of Logan and is now cashier
of that institution. His labors have contributed to its reputation as a
substantial and thoroughly reliable financial concern and there is no phase of-
the banking business with which Mr. Benson is not thoroughly familiar, for he
has made a close study of the business and has constantly broadened his
knowledge by investigation and experience. He is always a popular, courteous and
obliging official, doing everything to promote the interests of depositors to
the extent of not jeopardizing the safety of the bank.

    In 1914 Mr. Benson was united in marriage to Miss Burdette Clawson, a
daughter of Sidney B. Clawson, of Salt Lake City. They have three children:
Richard Taft, Robert B. and Jack. While a prominent banker and active business
man, efficient and popular along the line of his chosen life work, Mr. Benson is
also widely known in various other connections. He belongs to Phi Delta Theta,
national college fraternity. He is a member of the Red Cross and has been active
in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was sent on a
mission to England for thirty months and was secretary of the European mission
from 1911 until 1913 inclusive. He is a member of the high priests quorum and is
keenly interested in all branches of church work. He is likewise a member of the
Commercial Boosters Club of Logan and his active aid and cooperation can be
counted upon to further any Interest that will promote the upbuilding of the
city. He has been an extensive traveler in European countries. He finds his
chief hobby and recreation in travel abroad. He has visited many points of
ancient, modern and historic interest in the different European countries,
gleaning much valuable knowledge concerning various lands and their peoples, and
his well stored mind makes association with him a matter of expansion and
elevation.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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