struction, and has done more perhaps than any other individual person to develop and open up the great northwestern country. He owns the second largest vineyard in California, situated near Sacramento, and there manufactures an excellent brand of Cordova wines and brandies. At home he was one of the incorporators of the Ogden sugar factory, since absorbed by the Amalgamated Sugar Company, in which he is a director.

Mr. Kiesel was married in 1873 to Miss Julia Schansenbach, and by her has two children— Fred W., Cashier of the State Bank of Sacramento, California, and also Vice-President and Manager of the California winery. The daughter, Minnie, is now traveling in Europe.

Our subject has for years been one of the foremost political factors in the public life of Ogden. He assisted in founding the Liberal party at Corinne, and was the first Liberal Mayor of Ogden, his term extending from 1889 to 1891. During the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago he was the Commissioner for Utah, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention. After the division on national lines Mr. Kiesel went over to the Democratic party, of which he is still a staunch adherent, and was an active legislator in the State Senate of 1901-02.

Religiously Mr. Kiesel is a member of the Lutheran Church.

ON. WILLIAM GLASMANN, Mayor of Ogden and Speaker of the Utah Legislature, was born in Davenport, Iowa, November 12, 1858, and is the son of William and Catherine (Cramer) Glasmann. His early life was spent in his native State up to the age of thirteen, receiving only the rudiments of a common school education. He then became apprenticed to the saddlery trade at Avoca, Iowa, serving three years, after which he worked as a journeyman at his trade for several years, traveling over nearly the entire country. In 1878 he entered into business in Helena and Fort Benton, Montana, where he manufactured saddles, and remained in this business two years. In 1880 he came to Salt Lake City, Utah, and became associated with the Hon.

John D. Lynch in the real estate and loan business, passing through the "boom" days.

In 1890 he entered into a new enterprise, which was not only new to himself, but new to this section of the country—that of raising the American bison or buffalo, on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, having imported sixty head of buffalo from Manitoba, Canada. which he increased to one hundred and ten, and while thus engaged became interested in the Ogden Standard, and in December, 1892, moved to Ogden and assumed the business management of that journal, and a year later became editor-in-chief, as well as manager, in which position he still remains. His newspaper career is well known throughout the State. When he took charge of the paper in 1892 it was badly run down and in a poor financial condition. The general tone of the paper and its finances have gradually increased under Mayor Glasmann's able management, and it is today one of the strongest journals in Utah, and to which he gives the most of his time, outside of his official duties.

Mr. Glasmann has been identified with the political life of the State under the banner of the Republican forces, and has taken much interest in the work of that party. In 1898 he was a can didate for the State Legislature, but was defeated by the fusion ticket, or Bryan wave, which swept the country at that time. In 1900 he was elected to the House branch of the Legislature, running ahead of the McKinley electors,serving two years, and was the unanimous choice of the Republican caucus for Speaker of the House. During this period he made a phenomenal record for just and fair ruling, and he was the first Speaker of the Utah Legislature whose decisions were never reversed by the body of the House.

Before his legislative term expired, Mr. Glasmann received the unanimous nomination of his party for the office of Mayor. He did not desire the office, but could not refuse his party's call, and after a spirited contest, he was elected by a majority of 330 votes, the largest majority ever given to a mayoralty candidate in Ogden since the division on party lines in Utah, and was the only Republican Mayor elected in Ogden for ten years past.