. Utah since statehood, historical and biographical . nd the rapid he is making argues well fora successful future. RALPH E. BRISTOL. Various important business enterprises are profiting by the cooperation and alertmethods of Ralph E. Bristol, who is now president of the Utah Sales Company at Ogdenand an official of various other business concerns. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri,April 24, 1881, a son of Charles H. and Belle (Martin) Bristol. The father was bornin Ithica, New York, and became a construction expert with the Western Union Tele-graph Company, to which line of bu
. Utah since statehood, historical and biographical . nd the rapid he is making argues well fora successful future. RALPH E. BRISTOL. Various important business enterprises are profiting by the cooperation and alertmethods of Ralph E. Bristol, who is now president of the Utah Sales Company at Ogdenand an official of various other business concerns. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri,April 24, 1881, a son of Charles H. and Belle (Martin) Bristol. The father was bornin Ithica, New York, and became a construction expert with the Western Union Tele-graph Company, to which line of business he devoted his entire active life. He is nowliving retired, enjoying the fruits of his former labor, making his home in wife, who also survives, is a native of Louisiana, Missouri. Ralph E. Bristol, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, attended theschools of St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago. Illinois, passing through consecutive gradesto his graduation from high school with the dags of 1897. He turned to the occupa-. RALPH E. BRISTOL UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD 321 tion to which his father had devoted many years, taking up telegraph work as linemanand operator and also submarine (cable) work, in which connection he did diving forsome time. He also spent considerable time in the Maine woods, buying telegraph poles,and was purchasing agent for the Western Union between the ages of twenty-five andtwenty-eight years. On the expiration of that period he came to Ogden and turned hisattention to the cement and lumber business. Throughout the intervening period hehas been closely associated with the commercial and industrial development of thiscity. He is the president of the Utah Sales Company, also the president of the Inter-mountain Concrete Company and of the Ideal Sand & Gravel Company. The Utah SalesCompany is a corporation for the distribution of cement in the western states and thebusiness has been built up to extensive proportions. Mr. Bristol is wat
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