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About
About
Monson Lumber Co. was a building service business in Richmond from about 1879 to 1955. It was a family owned business for three generations until it was sold to the White family in 1955.
History
History
Christian Hans Monson was born June 16, 1837 in Varteig Kirke, Norway. Soon after his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 14, Christian was kicked out of his family. After some time of being homeless, Christian was brought into the home of Mr. & Mrs. Ragnild Moen Hotvedtvien, who were also members of the Church. Ragnild taught Christian the trade of carpentry and treated the young boy as their child.
Christian stayed with the Hotvedtvien family until he was 19, when he had enough to move to the United States and live among the Saints. He sailed from Liverpool, England on April 25, 1857 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on June 15. After some time in the Salt Lake Valley, Christian moved to Richmond in 1861.
It can be assumed that Christian began his carpentry business soon after he arrived in Richmond, but the only documented date is in the 1879 Utah Directory with his planing mill.1 When the construction of the Logan, Utah Temple began, he and his son Joseph were hired to help with the interior carpentry work.
After Christian's death in 1896, Joseph took over the business. In 1906, Joseph and his half-brother Brigham organized the business into Monson Lumber. In 1909, Monson brothers reorganized the business to Monson Lumber Co. with Charles A. Monson, President; Hyrum M. Monson, Secretary; and Brigham Monson, Manager.2
By 1915, Charles and Hyrum stepped out of the family business, and Brigham continued to operate Monson Luber.3 He operated the business until his death in 1938, at which point his son, Brigham Cyril Monson, began operating the business.
On Sep 24, 1955, Cyril sold Monson Lumber to Floyd White, who renamed the company White Builders Supply
The exact check the White family used to purchase Monson Lumber, 1955.
Property of Cache Valley Cabinet & Tops
(Jan 2, 1952). Logan Herald Journal. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Utah Digital Newspapers. Source
Cabinet makers and finish carpenters making stairway posts and martials for the Logan, Utah Temple. Christian H. Monson sitting in the middle and his son Joseph Monson sitting to his left.
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Constructed Buildings
Constructed Buildings
Logan, Utah Temple
Sources
Sources
Utah Directory and Gazetteer for 1879-1880, (H.L.A. Culmer, Ed.), H.L.A. Culmer & Co., Publishing, J.C. Graham & Co., Book and Job Printers, Pg 350. DonsList.net, Directors. https://www.donslist.net/PGHLookups/Utah1879M.htm
R.L. Polk and Co. (1909). Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1909, Pg 200 [Online Resource]. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, COLL V, BOOK 308 1909. USU Digital History Collection. Retrieved from: https://libraryusu.access.preservica.com/index.php/IO_49c46fa4-d083-42fe-82b9-6ac32b4759df/
R.L. Polk and Co. (1915). Utah Polk's Logan City Directory 1915, Pg 163 [Online Resource]. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, COLL V, BOOK 308 1915. USU Digital History Collection. Retrieved from: https://libraryusu.access.preservica.com/index.php/IO_cf9e3c2a-8233-4819-9757-694e02c9c653/
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