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Alfred Alder

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Alfred Alder

Birth
Switzerland
Death
21 Jun 1931 (aged 79)
Manti, Sanpete County, Utah, USA
Burial
Manti, Sanpete County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
PA-B10-L15-G06
Memorial ID
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ALFRED ALDER farmer and grain shipper of Manti, and brother of the Hon. Mayor, was born in Schwellbrun, Switzerland, September 4,1851. Came with the family in 1860, and to Manti in 1862. He was raised on a farm and became engaged in freighting produce to the mining camps of Utah and Nevada, and followed that business ten years. For the last six years he has been buying and shipping grain. Owns a farm of thirty acres, and has a comfortable residence. Has been City Water Master for five years; is also a stockholder and director of the Manti Printing and Publishing Company, which company does all kinds of job work and issues the Messenger weekly.

He married, in Spring City, February 5, 1877, Miss Elvira J. Cox, daughter of Frederick W. and Jemima, who were old settlers here. He has four sons and four daughters, viz., Ella, John A., Byron F., Frank M., Ferdinand, Merle, Hettie and Reba A.

Mr. Alder, although of foreign birth, is a whole-souled American, loves his adopted country and reverences the Constitution, and is always on hand to march under" Old Glory" and defend his country.
ALFRED ALDER farmer and grain shipper of Manti, and brother of the Hon. Mayor, was born in Schwellbrun, Switzerland, September 4,1851. Came with the family in 1860, and to Manti in 1862. He was raised on a farm and became engaged in freighting produce to the mining camps of Utah and Nevada, and followed that business ten years. For the last six years he has been buying and shipping grain. Owns a farm of thirty acres, and has a comfortable residence. Has been City Water Master for five years; is also a stockholder and director of the Manti Printing and Publishing Company, which company does all kinds of job work and issues the Messenger weekly.

He married, in Spring City, February 5, 1877, Miss Elvira J. Cox, daughter of Frederick W. and Jemima, who were old settlers here. He has four sons and four daughters, viz., Ella, John A., Byron F., Frank M., Ferdinand, Merle, Hettie and Reba A.

Mr. Alder, although of foreign birth, is a whole-souled American, loves his adopted country and reverences the Constitution, and is always on hand to march under" Old Glory" and defend his country.


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