Sevier County UT Archives Biographies.....Gilpin, Levi Lamdon 1876 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

LEVI LAMDON GILPIN.

    Levi Lamdon Gilpin, who has proven a dynamic force in the business circles
of Richfield, is now conducting one of the leading commercial establishments of
the town, dealing in hardware, sporting goods and automobile supplies.
Throughout his entire career he has been actuated by a progressive spirit that
has brought splendid results not only for himself but for the corporations which
he has represented. He was born in Adams county, Indiana, in January, 1876, a
son of William P. and Margaret (Ray) Gilpin, both representatives of old
families of that state, where they still make their home.

    Levi L. Gilpin pursued his education in the common schools of his native
county and in the Tri-State Normal College at Angola, Indiana. After completing
his college course he entered the undertaking business at Portland, Indiana, but
not finding that work congenial after a year's trial, closed out his
establishment. During the succeeding eight years he devoted himself to the
profession of teaching school, at the end of which time he entered a hardware
and implement business in Portland and there remained for ten years.

    Mr. Gilpin came west to accept the position of manager with the Beeman &
Cashin Mercantile Company at Evanston, Wyoming, and after remaining in that
state for several years he went upon the road as traveling representative of the
Salt Lake Hardware Company and for nine years covered the middle west as
representative of that corporation. He .next became a traveling salesman for
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Company of Chicago, with whom he was connected for
a year, covering all of the towns of Utah and adjoining states. Mr. Gilpin then
decided to abandon the road and looked over his territory for a suitable
location. Deciding that Richfield held out the most promise on account of the
wide territory covered by its business interests, he decided to locate there and
in 1917 opened his present store as a dealer in hardware, sporting goods and
automobile supplies. His spacious establishments is located on Main street, half
a block from the court house, and he carries a stock valued at from fifteen to
twenty thousand dollars, covering complete and varied lines of the kind indicated.

    In Portland, Indiana, in 1899, Mr. Gilpin was united in marriage to Miss
Belle Shimp, a daughter of Jesse Shimp, one of the best known farmers of that
section of Indiana. They now have one child, Dorothy Helen, who is a student in
the Richfield high school.

    While having no taste nor ambition for political office, Mr. Gilpin is
always prominent in matters tending to civic betterment and the improvement of
the district in which he lives. He is the president of the Sevier County Fair
Association and under. his guidance the Sevier County Fair has become known all
over the state and is conceded to be second only to that of Salt Lake county.
Mr. Gilpin is an active member of the Richfield Commercial Club and is
recognized as a most progressive citizen, one whose aid and cooperation can be
counted upon to promote any project or plan that has to do with the welfare and
upbuilding of this section of the state. He is, moreover, a self-made man who
owes his business advancement entirely to his industry, perseverance and sound
judgment. Step by step he has worked his way upward and is justly accounted one
of the valuable citizens of Richfield.


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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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