Cache County UT Archives Biographies.....Fonnesbeck, Leon 1886 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ut/utfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 1, 2011, 5:20 pm Source: See below Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher LEON FONNESBECK. Leon Fonnesbeck, attorney at law of Logan and also an inventor, was born February 2, 1886, in the city which is still his place of residence. His father, Christian Fonnesbeck, is a native of Denmark and came to the United States in 1877. He at once made his way to Logan, where he carried on business as a shoemaker and farmer for a number of years. He is now living in Boxelder county. He has long taken an active and helpful interest in public affairs and church work, serving as postmaster and in ether official positions and putting forth effective effort as well in behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which he has represented in missionary labors. He married Anna M. Jacobson, also a native of Denmark and still living. Their son, Leon Fonnesbeck, began his education in the public schools of Logan and passed through consecutive grades. He entered the Agricultural College of Utah, in 1901, and there-he pursued his high school and college studies from 1901 until 1909. In the meantime he taught school in 1906 and 1907 and upon his graduation from the Agricultural College won the degree of Bachelor of Science. He next entered the University of Chicago in preparation for a career at the bar and was accorded the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence on his graduation with the class of 1912. On the 2nd of August of the same year he was admitted to the bar in Salt Lake City and has since engaged in active practice. In the fall of 1918 he was elected county attorney on the democratic ticket by a good majority and has since ably defended the legal interests of Cache county. He belongs to the Cache County Bar Association and aside from his profession he is well known by reason of his inventive genius. He possesses a mechanical trend of mind and has been allowed patents on various inventions, notably on farm machinery. These include improvements on the rotary plow and a motor plow. He is actively interested in farming, being the owner of land which he has brought under a high state of cultivation. In 1915 Mr. Fonnesbeck was married to Miss Jean Brown, a daughter of Frank and Amy Brown, of Cedar City, Utah. They met when students in the University of Chicago, Mrs. Fonnesbeck there winning a Master's degree. She is a woman of marked culture and capability who is a well known contributor to magazines, and she is now engaged in writing a history of the Mormon Battalion. She gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Fonnesbeck in Salt Lake City and they have become the parents of one chiid, Marguerite, who was born November 13, 1916. It would be impossible for a man of Mr. Fonnesbeck's native powers, qualities and mental trend to remain indifferent- to questions of public concern. In fact he has done not a little toward promoting public progress and improvement along various lines, leaving the impress of his individuality upon the material, intellectual and moral as well as the professional development of his part of the state. The extent of his interests is shown in the fact that he is now a member of the legal advisory board of Cache county, that he belongs to the Commercial Boosters' Club of Logan, that he is an active worker in democratic circles and equally active in Sunday school work and in the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. All this is in addition to his professional interests and his researches and experimental work resulting in various valuable inventions. He is a man at all times alert and energetic, awake to the possibilities for advancement in city and state affairs, and his achievements have ever been of a character valuable to the community at large. Additional Comments: Extracted from UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATED VOLUME IV CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1920 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ut/cache/bios/fonnesbe20nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/utfiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb