TITLE PAGE PION EER (full name) Albert Edward Chishol m BIR TH (date a nd place) 12 June 1880 - London, Engl and DEA TH (date and place) 9 May 1980 - Salt Lake City, Utah PAREN TS . MARRIED (wh o and date) ARRIVAL IN UTAH (date) (Company arriv ed with) HIST ORY (who wrote) (date written) (who s ubmitted) (addr,ess) · · • Henry Edward Chisholm E llen M. Roberts Lovina Fitzge rald 30 September 1903 1887 (Came by t r ain) Vera Chishol m Har dman 1978 Do r ene Rowse r Morgan, Utah 84050 r CAMP &t COUNTY.SUBMITTING _s_o_ut_h_M_o_r...;g;;;_a_n_ _______ Camp _Mo_r_g_a_n_ ___________ County . ( Camp Historian Ir address )_ ___L _.o;..;;..al_D...;a.;.w....;.s;...;..o.n;.;;.;.P.__;;e.t;. .e.;;;.r;:.i..s:...o;...n;;;; ________ P . O. Box 13, Mor,gan, Uta h 840 50 County Historian &i addres s)._ ___v_ e_lo_y_ T_o_n_k_s_D_ic_kis_o_n_ ________ P. O. B ox 203, Mor gan , Utah 84050 SOURCE OF- INFORMATION.& PAGE NUMBERS: A l b ert Edwar d Chis holm t old t his to a daughter, Ver a Chi shol m Har dma n , in S alt L ake City, Uta h . e LIFE HISTORY OF ALBERT EDWARD CHISHOLM ON THE DAY OF HIS 98TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION June 12, 1978 I was born in London, England on J une 12, 1880, but my father brought us to America when .I was seven years old and my sister, Florence was five. The only thing~ remember about that trip by ship was when there was a big wave; and I went with the wave. I almost went over the edge, but the man who tended the hold of the ship grabbed me and said, "Now will you stay dow, in the hold when I tell you?" We landed down South. I remember there were a lot of colored people where J was. Our father said, "You stay right • here until I get back, 11 but when he got back it was closed and everyone was gone. We managed to stay put at the gate outside so he found us quite easily; but he was scared to death. They have quite a "bull pen" they herd you into and you stay there until they tell you to move. We came on the train right to Salt Lake City, Utah (16th ward). We lived with my father and his sister, ~unt Emily, for a while. My father was a stage manager and dyed clothes. I was about nine years old when he passed away. I continued to live with Aunt Emily, who had four children at that time. She had ·Several more later, several boys I believe. My sister went to live with Aunt Lottie (Giles) in Provo. I -~ went to school in 16th ward, but not too many years (8th grade ._.., education). I didn't like it. At age 13, I had typhoid fever and lost the hearing in my left ear. We moved around I . -2- half a dozen times as I remember. Then finally I went to Provo and went to school there . When I was 13 or 14 I got my first job with a photo - graph galary on West Temple and First South. I polished the pictures and also carried picture equipment up to take pictures of Angel Moroni on top of the temple, One time I was sick and Aunt and Grandma didr-_'t know I had something like wal ki ng pneumonia. Grandma t ook off my . shoes and that's the last thing I remember for t hree months. Grandma gave me whisk ey and nursed me back to health. Everyday I would just drink th : whisky and two doctors would come out to check me . When I was getting better I got in the Alfalfa field and sat in the sun. Grandma gave me some new clothes • and shoes. After going to school in Provo for a while, I returned to Salt Lake City. By that time, Aunt Em's was getting quite crowded so I got a job at a floral-- Evans Floral--the wife was a grey-haired lady, and he was a grey-haired, very strict. Englishman. He used to give me a dime and send me to do the deliveries. He said"If the car (street car) comes you take it and if it doesn't come you walk." I would walk to save the dime and run to get there faster. I also helped to design wreaths, and earned $1.50 a week. They had coal-burning heaters for their greenhouses. Later they moved to Tenth East and Fourth South to a bigger floral there, then to Denver. I moved back to Provo, where I lived with Aunt Lottie and went to public school at the old depot. Whenever I got a c hanc e e -3- I would draw. I would draw everything. My teacher would walk around .the class, take my picture, . go to the front of the class and say it was perfect. · · My· favorite treat was Morrison Meat Pies with sauce. I used to be a fry cook at one of the restaurants there, too . • A man by the name of Jepperson ~n Provo had a couple of sons--! used to go with those sons sometimes. They made guitars. This man was an artist--painted ships on curtains for when they came down in the Opera Hous e. They let me watch them making guitars and I got interested in what they were doing. I quit Provo and moved back to Salt Lake City and started making violins. I read books and watched people and • that's how I learned to make them. I lived on North Temple and Sixth West at that time with Aunt Em. Then she moved out toward Redwood Road. They bought a lot there, and he bought some lumber and his sons put together and built a house. They built it all in one day just about. Then I went to work for a man named Dyer--a very staunch church man. He let me run the greenhouse while he turned to other things, so I learned to tend the greenhouse rather well ~. I remember one time he told me to clean up the room so I cleaned the desk and put all the white,all the blue, all the pink paper together and the boss didn't want it because he couldn't find anything. In 1908, I built the home I now live in and have always ·~· lived in since. (1759 Fourth East in Salt Lake City.). e -4- I learned how to play violin, clarinet, baritone trumpet, trombone, harmonica, and Auto harp. The first band I played with was the farmers Ward band for children . We played at different wards, poor people's homes and went to the old prison on 21st South. 'Later I played in a . band but didn't get paid so I started my own band . This was the Chisholm Concert Band and we worked for the City playing in the Park. When we were at Camp Slone, we had an orchestra. We used to go down the street and seranade; the people would feed us cake and things. This was Burt Rand, Charlie Wa lker, I myself, and one or two others that would come and go all the time. We also used to play at Saltair. I learned to play by instruction books. I never had any lessons. 'v'le' used to call I I Saltair Spiderville because there were so many spiders in the pavilion. They used to fall down the ladies' necks. I My son Ralph used to go with me many a Sunday Afternoon. The bandleader was .John Montgomery, and then I took ove. for eight years. This was in the "Twenties" or before--before the depression--plenty of money and life was plenty good. I led the Post Office Band and in 1915 went to Los Angeles and San Francisco by train for the "Federation Days" held by the National Federation of Post Office Clerks . (The men were quite wayward.) I played at the dedication of the Capital Building with 145 people. After that, I went to the Mayor and said "I won't be playing anymore because I'm going on the farm. That was a bad decision. - - - - -- - - - - - - -.... _.,,,,, -5- I did some plowing in Scipio when Ralph was eleven or twelve years old. Did it for seven years while I lived in a tent and just about broke even . I remember thinking how funny it was that down there when something was bad they said it was a piece of cheese instead of a piece of cake. I • bought a tractor from Twin City (bran.d name made in Minnesota) • It had big metal wheels and I had a lot of trouble with it. (It seemed it would only go on the road.) I plowed 1200 acres, breaking hard ground there in Scipio. l plowed 20 acres with a car pulling the plow. I mortgaged my home to buy the tractor, and even though the tractor wasn't any good the mortgage stayed on. I was a cook for Knutsford Hotel until one of the cooks took a cleaver and struck the other cook with it so I left there. He hit him broadside against the face, but that was enough for me. Then I went to the Bismark on 30 West and Second South for years until 1916 when they passed the Prohibition Act. It was a Cafe and Bar where I was a cook and then a b!rtender until Prohibition closed the Bismark down. My boss there was Mr. Sigmund Simon, a German Jew and a very nice man. He had bartenders from all over the country that he would send for because he wanted good men to handle the bars. Later he opened a diffe~ent place. My sons, Harrold and Ralph, as children, used to go in the Bismark many times for their oyster crackers. When I left the Bismark, I took up a job setting up bowling pins downstairs from the Bismark. I was originally -6- hired for that, but they found out I knew about cooking and soon I was in charge of all the cooking. In 1917 during the First World War, I worked as a time keeper on the Garfield- Bingham Railroad. I worked the Railroad for quite some time. I quit that and started my own c• afe in 1922 on first South. I met my wife, Lavina Fitzgerald, in Provo when I was 19. She was coming around the block, and I saw this woman coming around so I went around the other way because I didn't want to meet her. Then her sister wanted me to come and meet her at her home, so I brushed up and went out to her home. Lovina lived in Draper but was staying with her Sister Delia Fitzgerald \ Bonnett in Provo. Her mother was working at the insane asylum and I was carrying the food around. Her husband, Jack Bonnett worked in a silver mine up Provo Canyon. When ~e returned to Salt Lake City, I would ride a bicycle from town to her home in Draper--3/4 hour on cow trails. I married Lovina at t he City ~nd County Building when she was 27 and I was 23. (Sept. 30, 1903) Laura, Clo, and Grandma went with us. We were later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. One time I worked as a cook up Provo Canyon for the crew who were working on the power plant. Two fellows were the • ones who started electrical energy from water in this area. They started Telluride Power Company. 'There still is an out-fit in Colorado that carries the Telluride name, but at that ~ time it was all through southern Utah. They had this hydroplant in Provo and I cooked for their crew. I was probably under 20 at the time. .e -7- After they were through, I was persuaded by some guy to go over into Colorado and sell clothing . I sold suits up in Silverton, Colorado , and through that area and made more money than I had in my whole life. I've been driving a car since 1913 when I had a Model T • Ford--with straight fenders, brass radiator, window curtains, and fold-down top. When it didn't run right you would fiddle with the coils in front. The coils intensi f ied the spark. To start it it had a crank. I remember once my son, Harrold, pushed down on the crank instead of pulling up and broke his arm. It barely got healed before he did the same thing and broke it again. I t hen had a Dodge, and then an old black ford-- I remember I had trouble with the radiator so took it into a place to have it soldered. They soldered it up so there was no return. I got about a block away and it blew up--like a steam engine. I never had a new car. Now I have a red, '53 Ford. What gets my goa t is that my next-door neighbor, when I ran into their house by mistake and scraped a little paint off, had me arrested. The policeman came, and I told him I did it. He told me I would have to take some driving instructions. The man didn't give me any instructions, just drove me around and said I should take my • car home and leave it there. Then I got a letter saying I was prohibited from driving. I worked in toys, lamps, and ran the stock room at ZCWJ for about 25 years from about the beginning of Second World War • I worked as custodian at night for them before I went into the stock room. ' 1 retired in 1960 at age 80, I now get retiremen~ from them. ($25 per month). .. • •• -8- We had four children--Harrold, Ralph, Lois, and Vera-- of which only Ralph and Vera are now living. Lois died at age 43 from cancer; and Harrold suffocated when he fell into a storage bin of insulation wher e he worked, one year just before Christmas. • As of this date, I have 13 grandchildren, 53 great grand-children, and 6 great, great grandchildren •