BIOGRAPHY: Charles R. Mabey; Bountiful, Davis co., Utah Transcribed by W. David Samuelsen for The USGenWeb Archives Project ************************************************************************ The USGenWeb Archives Project notice Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ut/utfiles.htm *********************************************************************** History of Utah The Storied Domain A Documentary History of Utah's Eventual Career by J. Cecil Alter Vol. 2, published 1932 (expired copyright) The American Historical Society, Inc. CHARLES R. MABEY, whose administration as governor of the State of Utah for the term of 1921-25 is a subject for the general historical volume, has many other interesting activities to his credit. He represents the pioneers of the Mormon Church in Utah. His grandparents, Thomas and Esther (Chalker) Mabey, arrived in Utah October 5, 1862, having crossed the plains with wagons and ox teams. Thomas Mabey enjoyed the opportunities of this new country only a short time before his death, which occurred March 8, 1863. His son, Joseph Thomas Mabey, was born at Wraxall, England, June 30, 1845, and was a youth of seventeen when he came to Utah. In after years he was distinguished by his success as a rancher and his activities in his church. He had a fine farm at Bountiful, Utah, and also owned a large sheep ranch near Bancroft, Idaho. He was one of the organizing directors of Woods Cross Canning Company. Politically he was a Republican and was one of the first constables of Bountiful, was town marshal and county commissioner from 1900 to 1905. As a churchman he was president of the One Hundredth Quorum of the Seventies, was superintendent of both East and West Bountiful Sunday Schools, was ordained a high priest and was president of the Young Men's Improvement Association. The mother of. Governor Mabey was Sarah L. Tolman, daughter of Judson and Sarah L. (Holbrook) Tolman. Both of them came to Utah in 1848. Judson Tolman was the first settler in Tooele county and city, was a veteran of the Indian wars and had been a member of the Nauvoo Legion before coming to Utah. He was sent as a missionary to Maine, his native state, in 1877. He held the rank of high priest, patriarch and president of the High Priest's Quorum. Charles R. Mabey was born at Bountiful, Utah, October 4, 1877, and his training in the common schools was supplemented by practical work on the farm and in various lines of business. From 1893 to 1896 he was a student at the University of Utah and a number of years later, in 1908-09, took special work at the University of Chicago. As a young man he organized a company of state militia at Bountiful, and was its captain until the spring of 1898, when the Spanish-American war broke out. He resigned his commission to enlist as a private in Battery A of the Utah artillery and was promoted to sergeant. He accompanied his battalion to the Philippines, participating in the campaigns of 1898 and 1899. Thirty years later the war department gave him belated recognition when it awarded him a silver star citation for an act of gallantry performed May 14, 1899, in action against insurgent forces while on reconnoissance up the Rio Grande de Pampagne River on the gunboat Covadonga. During the World war Governor Mabey held the rank of major in the One Hundred Forty-fifth Field Artillery, the Utah National Guard Artillery Unit. As a young man Governor Mabey served on a mission for his church in Germany. He taught school at his native town of Bountiful and in the State Normal at Cedar City. In 1906 he entered the banking business, being cashier of the Bountiful State Bank until 1921. In 1912 and again in 1914 he was elected state representative from Davis County, served on the town council and as mayor of Bountiful and in 1920 came the climax to his political honors when he was chosen governor of the state. Since leaving the office of governor he has been president and manager of the Builders Finance Corporation of Salt Lake City. Governor Mabey is a Republican, is a member of the B. P. 0. Elks, the Commercial and Exchange Clubs and the G. A. R. He married in 1905 Miss Afton Rampton, of Bountiful. His children are Rendall N. Charles Pace, Robert Burns and Edward Milo.