San Juan-Utah County UT Archives Biographies.....Redd, Lemuel H. Jr. 1856 - 
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LEMUEL H. REDD, JR.

    Lemuel H. Redd, Jr., is the owner of the largest farms in San Juan county.
He also has a good modern residence at Blanding and he carries on general
agricultural pursuits and cattle and sheep raising together with merchandising.
He is an alert and energetic business man whose cooperation is proving a
forceful and resultant factor in the successful conduct of a number of important
business interests. He was born at Spanish Fork, Utah, October 25, 1856, and is
a son of Lemuel H. and Keziah Jane (Butler) Redd. The father, a native of
Tennessee, crossed the plains with ox teams in company with his parents in 1851
and settled at Prove Later he removed to Spanish Fork. The grandparents brought
with them four slaves, to whom they were much attached, and gave them their
freedom; but they would not leave the family, three of the number staying with
them until death claimed them, while the fourth, Luke, went to California. The
other three were named Cheney, Venus and Marinda. About 1860 Lemuel H. Redd,
Sr., was called to settle New Harmony and after twenty years was one of those
who pioneered the way to Bluff. He later returned to New Harmony, where he lived
for a few years more and then again went to Bluff. In 1892 he went to Mexico,
where he passed away in 1910. While at Spanish Fork he was called to fill a
mission to Las Vegas, Nevada, In 1856, the plan being to proceed to the lead
mines and there secure lead to supply Utah troops in order to enable them to
fight the Indians in the Black Hawk war. Mr. Redd was counselor to the bishop at
New Harmony for twenty years. He was an exceptionally public-spirited man and
filled many minor offices both of a civic character and In the church. He died a
patriarch.

    Lemuel H. Redd, Jr., whose name introduces this record, obtained a common
school education at New Harmony and afterward attended the Deseret University,
which met in the old council house for a year. He was sent as the first normal
pupil from Kane county in order to qualify for teaching at the expense of the
county. He worked with his father until twenty-two years of age and his first
business was at Silver Reef, where he was engaged in butchering from 1877 until
1879. In the fall of the latter year he was called to settle San Juan and joined
the Silas Smith company, which made a five months' trip, covering four hundred
miles, their slow progress being due to the many difficulties which confronted
them. Mr. Redd arrived at his destination, now Bluff, in April, 1880, and built
the first house in the town- a log cabin with a dirt floor. The Silas Smith
company was the first organization of whites to go there for settlement. Navajos
and other Indians had previously lived in the district and they were preceded by
the Cliff Dwellers. The smaller valleys today show indications of these
primitive people having irrigated their land, on which they raised corn and
cotton, evidences of this being found in their dwellings upon the sides of the
cliffs. Mr. Redd remained at Bluff until 1910, when he removed to Blanding.
where he is interested in various business enterprises. He has the largest farms
in the county and is most successfully cultivating his land and developing his
herds of sheep and cattle. He is also identified with merchandising, Is the
president of the Grayson Cooperative Company, the president of the Monticello
Cooperative Company at Monticello, president of the Lasal Live Stock Company and
the president and one of the stockholders of the San Juan State Bank. His
interests are thus varied and important, constituting factors in the substantial
upbuilding and development of the section of the state in which he lives.

    In April, 1877, Mr. Redd was married to Miss Eliza Ann Westover, a daughter
of Charles and Eliza Ann (Haven) Westover. Her people were early-day settlers
who went to St. George, and Mr. Westover assisted in building the town of Pinto
He afterward returned to St. George, where he and his wife now reside, having
reached the ages of eighty-eight and ninety years respectively. Mr. and Mrs.
Redd are the parents of eight children, as follows: Lula, who was born at Leeds
in 1879; Hattie Ellen, who was born at Bluff in 1882 and became the wife of J.
F. Barton, Jr., by whom she has five children; Lemuel H. (III), who was born at
Bluff in 1884 and wedded Lavina Nicholson, by whom he has five children; Herbert
H., whose birth occurred at Bluff in 1886 and. who married Myrtle Porter and has
three children; Edith, who was born at Bluff in 1888 and is the wife of Oren
Lewis and the mother of one child; Charles, whose birth, occurred at Bluff in
1890; Marian, born at Bluff in 1892; and Amy, who was born at Bluff in 1894.

   Mr. Redd is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
for twenty years was counselor to the bishop at Bluff, while for five years he
occupied the office of bishop there. He has been president of the San Juan stake
since 1910 and, like all of the older and active members of the church, has
filled many minor positions. His political endorsement is given the democratic
party and he was the first assessor of San Juan county, occupying the position
for five years. He has filled other local offices and twice has he represented
his district in the state legislature. His record has at all times measured up
to high standards of manhood and citizenship and his work has constituted a
valuable element in the upbuilding and improvement of San Juan county.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

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VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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