Sevier-Salt Lake County UT Archives Biographies.....Johansen, Hyrum Christopher 1886 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

HYRUM CHRISTOPHER JOHANSEN.

    In 1904 Hyrum Christopher Johansen entered the employ of the Consolidated
Wagon & Machine Company and such was the progress made and adaptability
displayed that in 1916 he was appointed manager of one of the company's largest
branches, that of southern Utah, over which he is now presiding, with office in
Richfield. He is a young man of exceptional business ability and enterprise,
actuated at all times by a laudable ambition that has found expression in
indefatigable effort, in unfaltering loyalty and keen business discrimination.

   Mr. Johansen was born in Denmark in August, 1886, a son of Peter R. and Mary
(Olsen) Johansen, who in 1887 came to America, making their way across the
country to Salt Lake. Their son Hyrum attended the common schools of Salt Lake
and completed his studies in the Latter-day Saints University. He was first
employed by the Salt Lake City department of survey, with which he remained for
two years, after which he entered into a partnership relation for the conduct of
a florist's business under the firm style of Madsen & Johansen. In 1904 he
secured a position with the Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company, one of Utah's
giant industries, and for twelve years the young man gave such exceptional
service to the company that in 1916 he was appointed manager of one of its
largest branches, though barely thirty years of age at the time. The southern
Utah branch, over which he presides, covers a territory of sixty by two hundred
miles and embraces the counties of Sevier, Piute, Garfield and Kane and extends
from Sevier to the Arizona line, with six special agencies, two of which, Mount
Carmel and Fredonia, are located in the state of Arizona. The headquarters in
Richfield occupy a store room on Main street sixty by one hundred and fifty feet
in dimensions and the warehouse covers twelve thousand square feet of space. The
Marysvale branch is second only to that of Richfield. Mr. Johansen Is well
qualified to fill the onerous duties of the office to which he was appointed by
his firm. He does not know the meaning of the expression, "I'll try to do it."
His motto is: "I'll do it," and he does. This is the reason that at thirty-three
years of age he is manager of a large branch of the biggest concern of its kind
in Utah, with supervision over many employes, most of whom are older men than
himself.

    Mr. Johansen is a consistent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, is a teacher and home mission worker and a member of the
Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. He is also the counselor of the
Elders Quorum of the third ward.

    In 1905 Mr. Johansen was united in marriage to Miss Mabel C. Poulson, whose
father, Andrew Poulson, is a prominent farmer of Salt Lake county. They have
become the parents of four children: Orville, Clarence, Phyllis and Mary. Such
in brief is the history of Hyrum C. Johansen, who has left and is leaving the
impress of his individuality and ability upon the history of southern Utah as a
business man, as a churchman and as a citizen. His sterling worth is attested by
all who know him and his acquaintance is a very wide one.


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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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