Mr. Glasmann is of a very positive character, and since he has been installed as Mayor has insisted on economy and strict business methods. He believes the public business should be con ducted with the honesty and tact of private business, and for the benefit of the whole people. He is absolutely fearless, and does what he thinks is right, regardless of the consequences. He is enterprising and energetic, and ever ready to advance the interest of his home city. No enterprise or industry is too great for his undertaking. In 1897 Hon. David Eccles offered to subscribe $50,000 toward building a sugar factory if the citizens of Ogden would raise $350,000. The business men' s association undertook to raise the money, but abandoned the proposition, and it was immediately taken up by Mr. Glasmann, who personally visited the people, made public addresses in each precinct in the county, and in thirty days' time the whole sum was secured, and the mammoth Ogden Sugar Factory stands as a monument to the push and energy of the subject of this sketch.

In 1900 he was a candidate for member of Congress on the Republican ticket, but was defeated by the treachery of supposed friends. The vote was very close. Since 1892 Mayor Glasmann has been one of the prominent figures in the State in Republican ranks, having stumped some parts of the State at each election since that time. Mayor Glasmann is a familiar figure in politics throughout the State. During his career as a newspaper man, he has made many enemies. Every wrong doer fears his paper, the Ogden Standard. Every public servant who puts his hands in the public treasury is a watched man, irrespective of party affiliation. Mr. Glas mann has a record for chastising rottenness and wrong, and the sting of his lash has been so severe that few he finds himself compelled to attack ever forget or forgive, he has fought valiantly for what he believed to be right, and as a consequence of the stand he has taken numerous libel suits have been filed against him, all of which, however, he has won. As an editor, he has always taken the stand "that it was right to publish the truth, no matter who it hits."

HITFORD B. WILSON, Superintendent of Public Schools for Weber County. One of the noblest uses to which a man can devote his life is the training of the minds of the young, moulding their characters and fitting them for lives of noble endeavor, whether they sit in high places or fill the humbler walks of life, and, thanks to the efficient corps of educators in Utah today, the youth of this State are being sent out into life's battle equipped with an education second to none furnished by the public schools of older States. Among these men, the subject of this sketch, while still young both in years and in the work, is displaying an ability for the work of no mean order, and bids fair to rank with the prominent educators of our country.

Whitford B. Wilson was born in Wilson's Ward, a suburb of Ogden, on November 10, 1868, and is the son of Whitford G. and Jane (Matthews) Wilson, who were among the first settlers of Ogden. Our subject was educated in the public schools of this place, and upon graduating from the High School received his certificate to teach. He began as a teacher in the Hooper school in 1884, and has since been associated with the schools of Weber county, teaching most of the time up to 1898, when he was unanimously elected to his present position, there being no one nominated to run against him, and receiving the hearty support of both parties. He was re-elected in the same manner in 1900, and again July 14, 1902.

Since his election in 1898, Mr. Wilson has devoted his entire time to the problem of bettering the school facilities, and has during that time added a number of new school buildings to the list. He has at this time under his charge twenty-four school districts and a corps of fifty-two teachers. By virtue of his position as Superintendent he is President of the Weber County Teachers' Association, and also a member of the Utah State Teachers' Association.

Ecclesiastically Mr. Wilson has been prominent in his Ward, having passed through all the branches of the Lesser Priesthood up to High Priest, and was for several years Second Coun-