Cache County UT Archives Biographies.....Smith, John P. Jr. 1883 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

JOHN P. SMITH, JR.

    John P. Smith, Jr., is a partner in the firm of J. P. Smith & Son,
conducting business under the name of The Quick Printers in Logan. The name
chosen is indicative of the spirit of enterprise which characterizes the firm in
the conduct of their business. They have a well equipped plant and their
promptness, reliability and excellent workmanship have been the basic principles
on which have been built their success. Mr. Smith is one of Logan's native sons.
He was born August 15, 1883, a son of John P. Smith, a native of Salt Lake City,
Utah, and a grandson of John P. Smith, who was the founder of the Utah branch of
the family, taking up his abode in Salt Lake county when the work of development
and improvement had scarcely been begun there. He engaged in agricultural
pursuits and his life was guided by his belief in the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, of which he was an active and faithful representative.

    His son, John P. Smith, was reared and educated in Salt Lake and when a
young lad was apprenticed to the printing trade in the office of the Junction,
published at Ogden. He there learned the trade, which he followed as a
journeyman for about twelve years. He resided for a time iii Ogden and in 1878
removed to Logan, where he was interested with the Logan Journal for a number of
years and afterwards established his present business. This was started in a
small shop and originally was equipped with hand and foot power presses and
machinery, but later a steam engine was installed and other modern machinery of
the thoroughly up-to-date printing office was secured. From a small beginning
the business was developed until theirs was the largest job printing shop in
northern Utah. Mr. Smith, like his father, is a consistent member of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in politics he is a democrat. He served
as justice of the peace for several terms and his decisions were strictly fair
and impartial, "winning him golden opinions from all sorts of people." He passed
away April 14, 1919. The mother, who prior to her marriage was Liza Ann
Stratford, is a native of Iowa and is of English lineage. She survives, and to
them were born ten children, five sons and five daughters.

    John P. Smith, Jr., the eldest of the family, after attending the public
schools of Logan, continued his education in the Brigham Young College and at
sixteen years of age entered his father's shop to learn the trade. He acquainted
himself with every branch of the printing business and has since been associated
in the business, becoming a member of his father's firm in 1909, at which time
he took up the duties of general manager. His thorough knowledge of the trade,
his close application and his unremitting diligence continue the business in the
position which it has long occupied in the front rank of similar enterprises in
the northern part of the state.

    On the 5th of August, 1903, Mr. Smith was married in Salt Lake Temple to
Miss Clara Jones, a native of Logan and a daughter of Cyrus and Sarah (Worley)
Jones, who were representatives of pioneer families of the state. Mr. and Mrs.
Smith have five children, two sons and three daughters: Ivy Lillian, Kate, John
P., Stratford J. and Ruth.

    The family have always been loyal adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and John P. Smith, Sr., provided for three of his sons to go
on missions, making considerable sacrifice of his own interests to provide for
their support while they were thus engaged. One of the sons, Leslie A. Smith,
was a member of the Yale Laboratory School and was graduated from the Utah
Agricultural College with the Bachelor of Science degree. He is now a member of
the United States Medical Reserve Corps, stationed at Camp Jackson, South
Carolina. During the years 1917 and 1918 he served on a mission for his church
in the northwestern states, while his brother Edwin spent the years 1911, 1912
and 1913 on a mission in Germany. John P. Smith, Jr., of this review, served in
the central states from 1903 until 1905 and was very successful in his labors
there. He has been particularly active in Sunday school work in the first ward
of Logan. He belongs to the Logan Commercial Club and he gives his political
allegiance to the democratic party but has never been an aspirant for office,
preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs,
for which he was thoroughly trained and in the conduct of which he has displayed
sound judgment and, keen discrimination. The Quick Printers therefore have a
trade which Is most gratifying and their establishment is one of the leading job
printing houses of northern Utah.


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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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