Cache-Salt Lake County UT Archives Biographies.....Needham, Sylvan Eugene 1878 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

SYLVAN EUGENE NEEDHAM.

    Sylvan Eugene Needham, a jeweler of Logan, whose active identification with
the business interests of the city covers a period of almost a quarter of a
century, was born in Salt Lake City, May 25, 1878. His father, John Needham, was
a native of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and coming to the United States made his
way to Utah. where he was well known as a member of the firm of Stains & Needham
of Salt Lake City. In the work of the church, too, he was very prominent and
became a patriarch. He has passed away, while the mother of S. E. Needham, who
in her maidenhood was Martha Rose Turner, of England, is likewise deceased.

    Sylvan E. Needham pursued his education in the public schools of Midvale,
formerly West Jordan, Utah, and in the Agricultural College of Utah at Logan, in
which he completed a course with the class of 1895. He started upon his business
career as an employe of the Logan Dry Goods Company, a business formerly owned
by R. K. Thomas, and for many years was associated with that house. At length he
embarked in business on his own account, taking over the jewelry store
established by the Johnston Jewelry Company. He is now sole proprietor of this
business, in connection with which he carries a large line of jewelry of
American and foreign manufacture. In fact he has the leading jewelry store of
Logan-a handsomely appointed establishment in which he is accorded a very large
trade, owing to the reliability of his business methods, the fine line of goods
carried and his earnest desire to please his patrons.

    On the 28th of June, 1905, Mr. Needham was married to Miss Lulu Holt, a
daughter of Samuel Holt, one of the pioneers of Logan who was born in England.
Mr. and Mrs. Needham have one son, Sylvan Eugene, Jr., now eight years of age.
Mr. Needham belongs to the Commercial Boosters Club-a fact indicative of his
interest in Logan and her commercial and municipal welfare. His religious faith
is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1901 he went
on a mission to England and Scotland. He has always been an. active worker in
the church, in which he is now an elder. His salient traits of character are
such as have ever commanded for him the respect, confidence and good will of his
fellowmen and as a merchant and citizen he stands, high in public regard.


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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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