Ezra Shoemaker

Birth: Mar. 20, 1843, Adams County, Illinois, USA

Death: Sep. 21, 1922, Manti, Sanpete County, Utah, USA

Burial: Manti Cemetery, Manti, Sanpete County, Utah, USA, Plot: PA-B01-L04-G02

Ezra Shomaker, president of the Central Utah Wool Company of Manti, was a native of Adams County, Illinois, where he was born March 20, 1843. He was a son of Jezreel, who was a farmer and stock raiser and a native of Pendleton County, Kentucky, born October 29, 1796. His father was born in the same county, and his father, Ezra's great grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania.

In 1847 his parents immigrated to Utah and spent the winter in Salt Lake City, and in the spring of 1848 they moved to Bountiful, Davis County, his father and Perigrene Sessions being the first two men to settle and locate that place, which long went by the name of Sessions. In the fall of 1849 the family moved to Manti, arriving on the 19th of November, when they went into camp with others of the company and located themselves for the winter on the south side and at the foot of Quarry hill, where the Manti Temple now stands. They engaged in farming, stock raising, etc. His father was a prominent man in the early settlement of Manti and was a member of the first High Council—chosen to that position May 1, 1851. Ezra was brought up to the farming industry and engaged in stock and sheep raising. He had a valuable farm of about sixty acres near Manti. In 1891, when the wool company was organized, he became a director and was vice-president two years, and in 1894 was elected its president. In 1897 the company did an annual business of about $250,000 in buying and shipping wool, and in addition handle wagons, agricultural implements, etc.

He was a prominent member of the Mormon Church, member of the High Council ten years; was a member of the City Council terms of 1875, 1877, 1879 and 1885; was Mayor 1891-2, and again in the Council in 1893. His repeated elections showed the esteem and confidence in which he was held by his constituents.

He married in Salt Lake City, while a resident of Manti, December 1, 1866, Miss Abigail Tuttle, daughter of Azariah, born October 13, 1818, in Pottawattamie, Iowa. They had seven children, two still alive in 1898, viz.: Leonard A. and Azariah O., associated in business together in sheep and cattle industry in Alberta,Canada.

Parents:

Jezreel Shomaker 1796 - 1879

Nancy Golden Shomaker 1808 - 1879

Spouse:

Abigail Louisa Tuttle Shomaker 1848 - 1916

Children:

Ezra Shomaker 1867 - 1867

Leonard Adelbert Shomaker 1869 - 1914

Azariah Orlando Shomaker 1870 - 1936

Elizabeth Evelyn Shomaker 1873 - 1881

Ethel Shomaker 1881 - 1882

William Shomaker 1887 - 1887

Delila Shomaker 1889 - 1891)

Created by: Dawnetta

Record added: Jul 27, 2009

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