Carbon County UT Archives Biographies.....Smith, G. B. 1870 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

G. B. SMITH.

    G. B. Smith, who since April 1, 1918, has been foreman for the Independent
Coal & Coke Company at Kenilworth, was born in Nova Scotia, August 8, 1870.
There he mastered the branches of learning taught in the common schools and
afterward he pursued a correspondence course in mining with the correspondence
schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, thus gaining broad knowledge concerning not
only the practical but also the scientific phases of the work. He had become
familiar with activities in the coal fields when a lad of but eleven years, at
which time he began earning his own living as a slate picker in and about the
mines. He was employed in mining districts of Nova Scotia until twenty-four
years of age, when he made his way westward and secured employment in the mines
of Alberta, Canada. A year later he crossed the border into the United States
and obtained employment in the coal mines of Wyoming. He subsequently worked in
the same way in Colorado, New Mexico and British Columbia and thence came to
Utah. He filled various positions and since coming to this state has served as
deputy mine inspector under J. E. Pettit for a period of four years. He was also
government instructor in the Knight Mine School for a year and in 1917 he
removed to Kenilworth, where since the 1st of April, 1918, he has occupied the
responsible position of foreman with the Independent Coal & Coke Company. He is
a man of broad experience and wide knowledge concerning everything that has to
do with the coal fields from the time the first shaft is sunk until the product
is placed upon the market. He is especially well qualified as a practical miner
and is therefore certainly capable of directing the interests of the corporation
which he represents in the capacity of foreman.

    At Clearcreek, Utah, on the 24th of December, 1900, Mr. Smith was united in
marriage to Miss Ellen C. Mower, by whom he has seven children, as follows:
Norman, who is eighteen years of age; Gordon, a youth of sixteen; Donna, a
maiden of fourteen summers; Orfa, who is twelve years old; and Adelaide, Adele
and Muriel, who are ten, eight and two years of age respectively.

    Fraternally Mr. Smith is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and is a faithful follower of the teachings of that lodge. He may truly be
called a self-made man and deserves all the praise implied by that term, for he
started out to provide for his own support when he had scarcely passed the
eleventh milestone on life's journey. At a period when most boys are concerned
with the duties of the schoolroom and the pleasures of the playground he was
meeting the responsibility of providing for his own support and continuously to
the present time he has depended upon his own resources, his advancement being
won through Industry and merit.


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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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