Cache County UT Archives Biographies.....Stoughton, Lionel Augustus 1878 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ut/utfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 January 14, 2012, 1:48 am Source: See below Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher LIONEL AUGUSTUS STOUGHTON. Lionel Augustus Stoughton, vice president and manager of the Central Garage on Federal avenue in Logan, was born in Quebec, Canada, August 11, 1878. His father, Peter Stoughton, now deceased, was also a native of Quebec and belonged to one of the old families of that country that was of Scotch lineage. The grandfather, William Stoughton, was the first of the name to come to the new world and took up his abode in Canada in the early part of the nineteenth century when the district in which he settled was a wild and undeveloped region. He followed agricultural pursuits, carving out a farm in the midst of the forest, and throughout his remaining days his interests were identified with those of the Dominion. His son, Peter Stoughton, was reared and educated in Canada and he, too, took up farming as a life work. During the last two years of his earthly pilgrimage, however, he resided at Whitefield, New Hampshire, where he passed away in 1898, his death occurring in the month of August, when he was sixty-seven years of age. He was an active member of the liberal party while in Canada and filled various local and county offices. In business affairs, too, he was very successful owing to his close application and unremitting energy. He married Charlotte Fairfield, a native of Quebec, whose ancestors, however, were early residents of Fairfield, Maine, and it was in their honor that the town of Fairfield was so named. The Fairfield family is also of Scotch origin. The death of Mrs. Peter Stoughton occurred in Whitefield in 1903, when she was sixty-six years of age. By her marriage she had become the mother of nine children, seven sons and two daughters. Lionel A. Stoughton, the youngest of the family, is indebted to the public school system of Canada for the early educational opportunities which he enjoyed and later he attended the Burdett Business College of Boston, Massachusetts, from which he was in due time graduated. When fifteen years of age he left home and started out to provide for his own support, since which time he has depended entirely upon his own resources and may well be called by the proud American title of a self-made man. He began learning the plumber's and steamfitter's trade in Whitefield, New Hampshire, and afterward worked as a journeyman for three years. It was subsequent to this time that he completed his studies in the business college at Boston, Massachusetts. His studies qualified him for office work and he took up bookkeeping and accounting, to which he devoted two years. In 1900 he entered the automobile business in Boston and has since been continuously and successfully engaged in business of that character. On the 3d of May, 1913, he arrived in Logan, Utah, removing to this city from Portland, Maine, where he was associated in business with his brother, P. T. Stoughton, their interests being conducted under the firm style of the Stoughton-Folkins Company. Lionel A. Stoughton came to Logan to assume the management of the Logan Garage Company and successfully conducted the business for three years. During the following year he was at Preston, Idaho, where he also engaged in the automobile business on his own account. At length, however, he disposed of his interests there and on his return to Logan on the 1st of February, 1919, established a garage in this city. He has since been the president and manager of the Central Garage and carries on a business in tire vulcanizing and high grade auto repairing. They are also dealers in automobile accessories and supplies and already the trade of the Central Garage has reached very gratifying proportions, the business being now of considerable volume. Mr. Stoughton's military record was that of instructor from August until November, 1918, in the small arms firing school at Camp Perry, Ohio. In politics he maintains an independent course, voting for men and measures rather than party. He is well known as a faithful follower of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Corinne Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M., of Corinne, Utah. He is also a member of the Logan Commercial Club. He started out in life a poor boy at the age of fifteen years and whatever success he has achieved and enjoyed is attributable to his own labors. His record indicates what may be accomplished through persistent and earnest effort, intelligently directed. For diversion and recreation he turns to hunting and fishing and is a great lover of outdoor life. He does not allow these things, however, to interfere with the conduct of his business and laudable ambition and persistency of purpose have brought to him a very substantial trade since he established the Central Garage on Federal avenue in Logan. Additional Comments: Extracted from UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATED VOLUME IV CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1920 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ut/cache/bios/stoughto74gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/utfiles/ File size: 5.5 Kb