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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

GEORGE LE ROY REES, M. D.

    Dr. George Le Roy Rees, a physician and surgeon of Smithfield, was born in
Benson, Cache county, Utah, July 18, 1883, a son of John and Sophronia (Molem)
Rees. The father was born at Merthyr Tydvil, South Wales, while the mother was a
native of Illinois. She arrived in Utah in October of 1847, while Mr. Rees
reached this state about 1853. He lived for a time at Salt Lake and afterward
removed to Bountiful, where he resided for three or four years, when he came to
the Cache valley, being one of the first settlers at Hyde Park, where he engaged
in farming, following that pursuit throughout his entire life.

    Dr. Rees acquired his early education in the public schools of Benson and
was afterward graduated from the Brigham Young College at Logan in 1904. Through
the succeeding winter he taught schooi at Benson and in the spring of 1905
started to England on a mission which covered twenty-six months. Following his
return he again taught school for two years and in the spring of 1911 he won the
Bachelor's degree at the Utah Agricultural College at Logan. In the fall he
entered Rush Medical College, the medical department of the University of
Chicago, and was graduated therefrom in 1915. For a brief period he served as
interne at the Dee Hospital in Ogden, after which he practiced for eighteen
months in Welisvilie [sic]. He then opened an office in Smithfieid, where he has
since engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, and his capability and
recognized powers have won for him a liberal patronage.

    On the 5th of July, 1911, Dr. Rees was married to Miss Veda M. Munk, a
daughter of Andrew and Mary Munk, and they have two children: Vincent L. and
Mabel Alda. Dr. Rees joined the Medical Corps during the great World war but was
not called upon for active service. He was also a contract surgeon and treated
the soldier boys at the Utah Agricultural College during the influenza epidemic.
He keeps in close touch with advanced professional thought and methods and his
powers are increasing through his wide experience, making him one of the capable
physicians of Cache county. He is the president of the Cache Valley Medical
Society, to which office he was elected for the year 1918-19, and he is now
county physician for the central district.
 he is conducting an important business, was born September 9, 1890, in the city
which is still his home, his parents being David and Ellen (Stoddard) Eccles.
The latter was a daughter of the late John and Emma Stoddard, who were pioneer
residents of Cache valley. The father, David Eccles, Is mentioned on another
page of this work.

    Mariner S. Eccles is indebted to the public school system of Baker City,
Oregon, for the early educational opportunities which he enjoyed, while
subsequently he completed his studies in the Brigham Young College at Logan,
Utah. He was then called to serve on a mission, going to Scotland, where he
labored for the church. He spent two and a half years in that country and was
quite successful in his work there. It was during his residence in Scotland that
he met the lady whom he later made his wife. Six months after his return his
father died and Mariner S. Eccles gradually took over part of his father's vast
business interests. In 1915 the Eccles interests at Logan were incorporated
under the firm name of the Eccles Investment Company, of which Mrs. Ellen
(Stoddard) Eccles is the president, with M. S. Eccles as the vice president and
general manager. They have control of important and extensive property and
investment interests which are carefully directed through the efforts of Mr.
Eccles of this review. He was also the organizer and is the president of the
Hotel Eccles Company, which erected a fine four story hotel building in Logan
and which fully sustains the slogan of the company: "More than a hotel-a home."
Furthermore the Eccles hotel interests and management have been extended, for
the company is also owner of an excellent three story brick hotel at Blackfoot,
Idaho, and an attractive three story hotel at Rexburg, Idaho. Mr. Eccles of this
review is a-man of keen business sagacity and sound judgment who readily
recognizes the essential in all business affairs and makes wise use of his time
and opportunities. Aside from the interests already indicated which have
profited by his cooperation he is the vice president of the Thatcher Brothers
Banking Company, is the president of the Hyrum Bank, vice president of the
Richmond Bank, vice president of the Blackfoot City Bank of Blackfoot, Idaho; a
director of the Amalgamated Sugar Company; a director of the Ogden, Logan &
Idaho Electric Railway; a director of the Lion (Wyoming) Coal Company; a
director of the Oregon Lumber Company and of the Anderson & Sons Lumber Company.
The recital of his investments and business connections indicate how important a
part he has played in the industrial, commercial and financial development of
his state. He is likewise vice president of the Trenton Bank and is the
president of the Vitamin Wholesale Grain Company of Logan.

    On the 9th of July, 1913, M. S. Eccles was married in Logan Temple to Miss
May Campbell Young, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and a daughter of John H. and
Sarah (McDonald) Young. They have become parents of two children: Mariner
Campbell, who was born in Logan, April 7, 1914; and Eleanore May, born in Logan,
November 17, 1916. Mr. Eccles found his wife in Scotland, from which country
came his grandfather in the maternal line, while the latter's wife was a native
of England, and both were pioneer residents of Utah.

    The religious faith of Mr. Eccles is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. His political endorsement is given to the republican party
and he is a stalwart advocate of its principles, believing firmly in the party
platform as a factor in good government. He acted as chairman of the City
Council of Defense during the period of the war and his earnest support and
cooperation were given to every movement calculated to advance the interests of
the country in its relations with the allied army and in the work of supporting
the soldiers in the field. The objective and subjective interests of life have
in Mariner S. Eccles been carefully balanced. He has never allowed the
accumulation of wealth to so monopolize his time and attention as to exclude his
cooperation with movements having to do with the general progress of community
and state. On the other hand, in all business affairs he has displayed keen
discernment and unfaltering enterprise and has carried forward to successful
completion whatever he has undertaken. The worth of his work in both connections
is readily recognized and the consensus of public opinion places him in the
foremost rank of business men in this section of the state. He is yet but a
young man, having only passed the twenty-ninth milestone on life's journey, and
his future career will be well worth the watching.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
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1920


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