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The enterprising, successful and public-spirited ranchman of the
vicinity of Grace, Bannock county, Idaho, who is the subject of this
memoir, was born at Tooele City, Utah, on June 29, 1861, being the
eldest of nine children born to the marriage union of George and Martha
(Craner) Tanner. Both paternal and maternal ancestors were English, the
grandfather, Thomas Tanner, being a shoemaker. The parents came to the
United States about 1851 and engaged as pioneer fanners in Utah in
Tooele City, where the father died on April 17, 1872, the mother now
residing at Mound Valley, Idaho. On the maternal side the ancestors were
farmers and stockmen in Utah, and a brother of the mother has been a
highly distinguished official of the Mormon church, being a member of
the first Utah battalion crossing the plains in 1847 and for years a
counsellor of the bishop of Tooele City, where he is now living.
George Tanner, of this review, attained an excellent education at
Tooele City, and in 1879 began life for himself as a teamster,
conducting this occupation with commensurate success for years. In 1880
and 1881 he was engaged in railroad construction on the Utah Northern
Railroad, passing two summer seasons in Montana in this labor,
thereafter in 1882 going to Canada to engage in the same work on the
Canadian Pacific, thence returning to Philipsburg. Mont., in 1883,
thereafter making his permanent home in Idaho.
In 1890 he
commenced his ranching operations in his present location near Grace,
Bannock county, which is his postoffice address and here he owns 200
acres of eligibly located and desirable grazing land, a portion of it
being generously irrigated and responding to its culture with bounteous
crops. Mr. Tanner has given much time and attention to the irrigation
question, and is a stockholder in the Last Chance Canal Co., in which he
served as a director and as its secretary.
Mr. and Mrs. Tanner
are loyal and consistent members of the Mormon church, and he has been
honored with various official positions in its service, being at present
the efficient clerk of his ward and the first assistant superintendent
of the Grace Sunday school.
On December 21, 1893, Mr. Turner was
united in marriage with Miss Nellie Peck, a daughter of Hezekiah and
Mary (Nowlin) Peck, who are prosperous ranchers of Bannock county, their
home estate consisting of 320 acres of land. Mrs. Tanner was born in
Salt Lake City on January 5, 1876, but attained womanhood in the county
of her present residence, her parents removing hither soon after her
birth. She has presented her husband with six children, namely: Mary
Fern, born October 9, 1894; George W., deceased; Martha A., born April
3, 1897; Hezzie P., born August 26, 1899; Iris, born July 27, 1901, and
Ardell, born May 9, 1903. The family is highly esteemed in the church
and the community and a genial hospitality pervades the home, where
their numerous friends are frequently and cordially entertained.
Extracted from Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida Counties, Idaho, published in 1904, pages 434-435, contributed 2021 Jun 15 by Norma Hass
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