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JONATHAN H. HALE. Jonathan H. Hale is
residing at Grantsville and has retired from active business
life. He was born at Salt Lake City on the 19th of January,
1854, a son of Aroet Lucius and Olive (Whittle) Hale. The
father was born May 18, 1828, at Dover, New Hampshire, and in
1848 came to Utah with the Heber C. Kimball company. He was a
drummer boy in the Nauvoo Legion at the time of the martyrdom
of Joseph and Hyrum Smith and he served as scout and hunter on
the journey to Utah. He first settled at Salt Lake but later
removed to Grantsville in Tooele county, and he participated
in the Walker Indian war. He was commissioned by Brigham Young
on the 10th of June, 1854, a second lieutenant of Company A,
Battalion of Life Guards Cavalry of the Great Salt Lake
military district. On the 16th of May, 1868, he was
commissioned by Governor Durkee adjutant of the Second
Battalion Infantry of the Nauvoo Legion in Tooele county. He
became paymaster of the Great Salt Lake military district and
in company with Dimick B. Huntington he secured the body and
papers of Lieutenant Gunnison after the latter was killed by
the Indians in southern Utah. He assisted in the settlement of
Muddy and Las Vegas, Nevada, and served as a member of the
bishopric at the former place. He was later a member of the
bishopric at Grants ville and for twenty-four years was a
member of the Grantsville high council. He was a patriarch
many years and died in 1911. The mother of Jonathan H. Hale
was born in Canada, December 9, 1833, and died September 14,
1860.
Jonathan H. Hale has spent his entire life in Utah and Idaho
and has given his attention to farming and cattle raising. He
pursued a public school education and throughout his business
career has made wise use of his time, talents and
opportunities. In 1882 he removed to Idaho from Tooele county,
Utah, settling in Gem valley, formerly Gentile valley. There
he resided until 1910 and was extensively engaged in farming,
cattle raising and ranching and also carried on dairying. His
business affairs were characterized by marked industry and
determination, and he won a substantial measure of success. He
has also been a stockholder and one of the directors of the
Bank of Grantsville and is now a stockholder in the Peoples
Trading Company. Soon after his return from Idaho he erected a
large brick residence in Grantsville and now has one of the
attractive modern homes of the city. The house is supplied
with artesian water and is equipped with every up-to-date
comfort and convenience.
In 1876 Mr. Hale was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Clegg, a
daughter of Benjamin Clegg, who was born in Oldham,
Lancashire, England, September 1, 1827, and came to Utah with
the Ezra T. Benson company in 1849. Her mother was born in
England, August 1, 1813, and died December 12, 1881, in
Tooele. Mr. and Mrs. Hale had a family of ten children, of
whom two died in infancy. Jonathan Herman, now living in the
Gem valley of Idaho, where he is engaged in farming and
ranching, married Rosetta Keller, of Mink Creek, Idaho, and
they have eight children: Zella, Franklyn, Bessie, Rowetta,
Herman, Helen, Jeniel and Everett. Olive Amelia, who died in
1910, was the wife of Elmer Wells, who resides at Oakley,
Utah, where he is engaged in ranching. They had two children,
Hazel and Bertha. Elizabeth is the wife of Sidney A. Judd, a
sheepman and rancher living at Rose View, near Blackfoot,
Idaho, and their five children are Annona, Nathan, Reed. Edith
and Roma. Frank Benjamin was killed at the age of twenty
years, being thrown from a hay derrick. Aroet Lucius died at
the age of twenty years, while on a mission in Arkansas. Cora
E. married Frederick Mark Cooper, a resident of Gem valley,
Idaho, where he is engaged in farming and ranching, and they
have two children, Mark A. and Irene. Parley W., a carpenter
by trade, living at Burmeister, married Olive Cassidy and they
have one child, Donald. Maylon A. is employed by the potash
plant at Burmester. He enlisted in the marines October 27,
1918, went to Mare Island, California, and was honorably
discharged in March. 1919. Jonathan H. went on a mission to
Indiana, covering the years 1897 and 1898. Aroet L. was
engaged in missionary work in Arkansas in 1907 and 1908, and
Parley W. was on a mission in California in 1913 and 1914.
The family has always been very active in the work of the church
and Mrs. Hale served as the first president of the Relief
Society in Gem valley, Bannock stake, Bannock county, Idaho,
and later was president of the State Relief Society of Idaho
until the removal of the family to Grantsville. At the present
time she is a member of the state board of the Relief Society
of Idaho. Mr. Hale has served as high counselor in Grantsville
and also in Idaho. While in the latter state he did much
missionary work and there are many who remember his great
kindness and helpfulness while he was among the people of that
region. He was one of the seven presidents of two different
Quorums of Seventy in Bannock stake, Idaho. In 1889 he was on
a mission in the southern states and went on a mission with
his son to California, during which time he was superintendent
of the Sunday school at Ocean Park. In politics he has always
been a republican, giving stalwart allegiance to the party and
its principles, yet never seeking nor desiring office as a
reward for party fealty. His aid and influence, however, are
always on the side of progress and improvement and in matters
of citizenship he manifests a public-spirited devotion to the
general good.
~Source: Utah Since Statehood: Historical and
Biographical, Volume 2, by Noble Warrum, 1919