User:Thelema12/James Ivers
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James Ivers(year - year) was a silver-mine owner in Park City, Utah, and a member of the 3rd Utah State Legislature. He started working in Park City as a teamster and blacksmith, and worked his way up to director of the Silver King Mines.[1]
Ivers was born in Canada[2] in 1846. He lived in New Hampshire before moving to Utah. When he got to Park City, he was hired as a blacksmith at the Daly mines. 1892 county convention [3] He married Bridgit Welsh, the sister of four-term Park City mayor John F. Welsh and grocer Henry Thomas Welsh of Welsh, Driscoll and Buck. He was a parter of David Keith and Thomas Kearns in the Silver King Mining Company,[4] for which he served as director[5]
References
- ^ "Treasure Mountain Home: Park City Revisited" by George A. Thompson
- ^ "Utah's Immigrants at the Turn of the Century" at Utah History to Go
- ^ "Precinct Caucus," Park Record, 1/23/1892
- ^ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94898986 James Ivers I page at Findgrave
- ^ http://liveauctions.holabirdamericana.com/UT-Parleys-Park-Summit-County-Oct-13-1894-Park-City-Mining-Company-Stock-Certificate_i10679777
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