Cache County UT Archives Biographies.....Miles, George E. 1879 - 
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GEORGE E. MILES.

    George E. Miles, who is serving as mayor of Smithfield and is assistant
cashier of the Commercial National Bank of that city, was born December 25,
1879, in Smithfield, a son of Edwin Ruthven Miles, Jr. His father was born in
Big Cottonwood, October 3, 1858, a son of Edwin R. and Jane R. (Wakefield)
Miles, who emigrated to Utah at an early day. They settled at Big Cottonwood and
in 1860 removed to Smithfield, where Edwin R. Miles, Jr., acquired his education
and for several years taught school. He also engaged in farming and at times
followed carpentering. He likewise had charge of the Farmers Union Roller Mill
and was at one period engaged in merchandising. He was a very active business
man who carried forward to successful completion whatever he undertook and his
activities contributed to the material upbuilding of the district in which he
lived. At the time of his death, besides his many business interests and
activities, he was bishop of the Smithfield first ward. He was the president of
the Smithfield Lumber Company, president of the Commercial National Bank,
president of the Smithfield Brick & Tile Company, president of the Smithfield
Improvement Company and at all times was a most energetic, farsighted, sagacious
and prosperous business man whose labors proved a dynamic force in the
improvement and development of his section of the state. He was also a most
earnest churchman and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, December 29, 1867, by Robert Meikle. He was ordained a deacon, May 16,
1868; ordained a priest, January 6, 1878; ordained an elder, January 5, 1879;
and ordained high priest and bishop, November 11, 1906, being set apart to
preside over the Smithfield first ward. During his service as bishop he brought
to a successful conclusion the work on the new tabernacle. In the Endowment
House at Salt Lake City, on the 9th of January, 1879, he married Anna G. Smith.
His children were: George Edwin, Jane, Ruth, Edwin, Ruthven, Leonard Smith,
Johann Pearl, Hazel Verne and Maurice Kent. The father died October 1, 1914.

    George E. Miles acquired his education in the district schools of
Smithfield, in the Utah Agricultural College at Logan and in the Brigham Young
College of Logan, in which he completed a commercial course and was graduated.
In 1901 he was called upon for active church work, being sent on a mission to
California which covered two years. In 1903 he became identified with the Young
Men's Cooperative Company at Smithfield and so continued until 1904. In the
early part of 1905 he became identified with the Cache Valley Implement Company
of Logan and later in the same year, or on the 1st of September, 1905, entered
the Bank of Smithfield as teller, thus serving until 1910. He was then promoted
to the position of assistant cashier and later became a director and so
continues to the present. In 1912 this bank was nationalized under the name of
the Commercial National Bank. In addition to his banking connections Mr. Miles
is the vice president of the E. R. Miles General Merchandise Company, is also a
stockholder in the Smithfield Implement Company and was its president until
January, 1919. He has thus been an active factor in business circles and is an
alert and energetic young man whose future will be well worth watching.

    In 1905 Mr. Miles was married to Miss L. Rae Nelson, a daughter of Joseph
and Lydia Nelson. In his political views Mr. Miles is a democrat and on the 5th
of November, 1918, was elected mayor of Smithfield. He is now chief executive of
the city, to which he is giving a businesslike and progressive administration.
He has closely studied the needs and the opportunities of the city and he works
to meet the former and utilize the latter to the benefit of the entire
community. He is actuated in all that he does by a spirit of western enterprise
that produces substantial results.


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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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