BIOGRAPHY: Charles R. Mabey; Bountiful, Davis co., Utah

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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.