minister whose salary amounted to as little as $200 per annum. Harriman quit school when he was 14 years old, and entered a broker's office. His school reputation was: the worst boy and the smartest of his class. During the first year of his service in the office of the broker he earned $5 per week, and this amount, mark you, he turned over to his father to keep the family. Harriman was a boy's man. He unbent to children, and when a man loves children, he can not be all bad, and was at the head of a boys' combined gymnasium club and debating society for more than 25 years. At his home he frequently loaded his automobile with little ones and took them for a spin about the countryside. Here, in the country, he was as God made him; but when doing business in the great city, he was as Wall street made him. Harriman was a great constructive genius. He took the Union Pacific Railway, just after the western boom of 1890, when it was run down and bankrupt, and going over the line saw its possibilities. Then with courage and energy he spent millions in making it safe and straight from Omaha to Ogden. Later he bridged the Great Salt Lake and so erected a monument in Utah to his daring, unequalled in this or any other land. His achievements at the Salton sea are fresh in the memory of all. Though a New York man, with great grasp of things he saw America from the western viewpoint, as well as from the eastern; and had such faith in the west that he clearly beheld its possibilities for empire building, and threw his wonderful energies to meet the matchless growth that has practically only begun. His railroads were not only made fit to meet the demands of this growth, but were improved and made instruments therein. Whatever may be said of his methods of thinking in millions, dealing in systems, and his audacity to plan and execute great undertakings, on small capital, his mighty work on the Pacific empire, on land and sea, will continue to fire the imagination and command respect. He is said to have controlled 18,000 miles of railroad, enough to run six lines across the continent, that employed 80,000 men; and he directed 54,000 miles of steamship lines. One could go from New York to Hongkong without leaving the Harriman system and return nearly al] the way by another route on his lines also. It would take a page to enumerate his directorships, and he generally controlled whatever he touched, illustrating the good business principle never to take stock in any concern that you can not control or have a strong influence in its management. He owned 35,000 acres near Arden overlooking Tuxedo Park, and it was here he was building a great castle, unequaled in America, where he hoped to spend his last days, when death came to frustrate his still unfinished plans. He was buried at Arden on Sept. 16, and for one minute at a certain time on that day every railroad train on his vast system stood still in his honor. The Deseret News building where the Oregon Short Line officers are located, was draped in black. This road was a leading factor in making him the greatest railway power this country has ever known. For his wonderful ability, displayed as a builder and organizer, and not for the hundred million dollars he amassed, and left to his wife, history will long remember him.

Moses Thatcher.—On Saturday, August 21, 1909, Hon. Moses Thatcher died at his home in Logan City, Utah. He was born in Sangamon county, Illinois

February 2, 1842. His childhood was spent in Nauvoo during the troubles between the Latter-day Saints and the mobs in that city and surroundings. With his father, Hezekiah Thatcher, he crossed the plains in 1847. They did not set. tle in Utah, but went to California during the rush for gold in the days of 1849. The family settled in Yolo county, California, where they engaged in cattleraising and in searching for the precious metal. His father kept an eating house in a small mining camp, and through the influence of some "Mormon" elders he was baptized into the Church in 1856, and in the year following was ordained an elder and sent out to preach through the mining districts in the vicinity of Auburn. It was about this time that Johnston's army came to Utah, and all the Saints were called home. The Thatchers, with others, set out for Utah, Moses and his four brothers with them. The brothers joined the Utah militia, and Moses served as night-guard on the special police force of Salt Lake. In the winter of 1860, he joined his father who came out from California in the meantime to his sons in Utah, and became a pioneer of Cache valley, where Moses lived almost continuously the remainder of his life. In 1861 he attended the University of Deseret, now Utah, and in the summer of that year married Miss Lettie Farr, a niece of the late Lorin Farr, the first mayor of Ogden. From 1861 until recent years he was identified with the religious and political history of the community, being a zealous worker for the Church. He was ordained a Seventy by President Brigham Young in 1861. In the protection of the settlements of Cache from Indians, he served as a "minute man'' in the company of Captain Thomas E. Ricks, and when later the county was organized into the Cache Military district he became a captain of a company of fifty cavalrymen, and afterward served on the staffs of Colonel Ricks and General Hyde. He served a short time as an employee in a mercantile house in Salt Lake, but soon returned to Logan and became associated with his father in the mercantile business under the firm name of Thatcher & Son. He went to Salt Lake City in 1862 to learn telegraphy, but shortly thereafter was sent to Europe on a mission. After two years he returned and reentered the mercantile business in Logan, and became manager of the co-op. institution there, which was afterwards merged with Z. C. M. I.. becoming the Logan branch, of which Moses Thatcher continued manager until 1879.

In 1870 he was elected a director of the Utah Northern Railway which company built the road from Ogden to Logan. He later became superintendent of the line, and while acting in that capacity built lines into Idahɔ. For ten years he represented Cache and Rich Counties in the Territorial Legislature and later advocated statehood for Utah, laboring diligently to secure the admission of our state into the Union. In 1895-6 he took an active part in Democratic politics. being at that time the choice of his party in convention for United States Senator. At about this time a difference of opinion arose between him and the Quorum of the Twelve, on politics and other affairs, and at the April Conference, in 1896, he was not sustained as a member of his quorum to which he had been selected and ordained April 9, 1879, by President John Taylor. In the fall of the same year he was candidate for United States Senator from Utah but was defeated; but

again tendered the nomination by a majority of the legislature, in 1898, which he declined to accept.

Since that time he had not been active in public life. His health has been poor and he devoted his entire time to his business interests in Logan where he was president of the Thatcher Brothers Bank and the Utah Farmers Loan Association, and president and manager of the Thatcher Milling and Elevator Company. When the Cache Valley Stake of the Church was organized, in 1877, he was chosen president of the stake and held that position and the confidence of the people until in 1879, when he was chosen a member of the Quorum of Twelve. While a member of that Quorum he pioneered the first party of "Mormon" missionaries into the republic of Mexico where, under his leadership, prominent colonies have been established, and continued until the present. In all he made twenty-three visits to Mexico during the seventeen years that he acted in the quorum of the Apostles, traveling on an average of 18,000 miles a year.

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Moses Thatcher was dearly beloved by the people of Cache valley and generally respected and admired throughout Utah and the intermountain country. acted for many years as assistant superintendent in the General Superintendency of the Y. M. M. I. A. He possessed marked talent as a writer and speaker. His writings on "Confidence" and "Mexico and the Mexicans" which appeared in the early volumes of the Contributor are fine examples of his ability to produce good literature. His action in accepting the decision of his brethren, by which he retained his membership in the Church but was dropped from all activity in the priesthood, goes far to prove that he dearly valued that membership; for, while he accepted the decision, it is evident he was never reconciled to it.