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LORENZO CHARLES McALISTER.

    Lorenzo Charles McAlister was for many years a well known citizen
 of Logan and his
death, which occurred November 23, 1914, occasioned deep regret among
 his fellow
townsmen. He was born in Logan, March 3, 1874, a son of John A. and
 Clarissa C. (Snow)
McAlister. The mother was born August 19, 1854, and was a daughter of
 the distinguished
Lorenzo Snow. The father was born in England, August 22, 1851, and came
 to Utah when a
small boy with his parents, the family home being established in Logan,
 where the father
engaged in the harness making business, a pursuit to which John A.
 McAlister also turned
his attention.

    Lorenzo C. McAlister acquired his education in the public schools
 of his native city
and in the Brigham Young College and the Agricultural College. He
 afterward took up the
occupation of farming, which he followed for a time, and in 1900 he
 entered the
postoffice as a clerk. He rose from that position to assistant
 postmaster and later
received appointment through civil service examination to the position
 of civil service
examiner on the 7th of August, 1908. He remained in the office to the
 time of his death
and made a most excellent official by the prompt and faithful manner in
 which he
discharged his duties.

    It was on the 30th of March, 1894, that Mr. McAlister was united in
 marriage to Miss
Sarah A. Zollinger, a daughter of Ferdinand and Louisa (Myer)
 Zollinger, who were natives
of Switzerland. Coming to the new world as converts to the Church of
 Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, they crossed the plains in. 1862 and established
 their home in
Providence, Utah. To Mr. and Mrs. McAlister were born eight children,
 all of whom are yet
living: Irvine L.; Venice, who married William Lindsay of Logan;
 Louise, who married C.
Durrell Hendricks, of Lewiston, Utah; Grace; Sara; Dorothy; Dean F.;
 and Clarissa.

    Mr. McAlister was always a devout churchman and was a member of the
 Seventy. He
possessed many sterling traits of manhood and of citizenship and all
 who knew him spoke
of him in terms of warm regard, while deep regret was felt at his
 death.

Extracted from:

UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

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