Joseph Stras Peery

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Joseph Stras Peery

Birth
Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA
Death
8 Dec 1946 (aged 78)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Burial
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
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PARK 26-2-2E
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Joseph Stras Peery was born October 5, 1868, in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, the second of ten children born of David Harold Peery and Elizabeth Letitia Higginbotham Peery. His parents had emigrated from Tazewell County, Virginia, during the Civil War, after six family members had died, mostly of typhoid, over an 18-month period. They crossed the plains in 3 covered wagons, arriving in Salt Lake City on August 31, 1864. In late 1867, they settled in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, where they became a prominent family, his father a leading Business, Church, and Civic leader.


Joseph was highly educated. He went to Local and private schools in Ogden, Utah, and attended Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia when 18. He attended the University of Nebraska in Omaha, where he became class president. At 22, he became Superintendent of Schools for Weber County, introducing college-educated teachers and graduation exercises for the first time. After he received a law degree from Yale University, Class of 1895, he became Weber County Attorney in Ogden.


He practiced law for many years until he chose to enter the sheep business. He became one of the largest grazing land and sheep owners in Weber and Morgan counties in northern Utah, each year shipping carloads of sheep to midwestern markets. During the Great Depression, as sheep prices plummeted, he lost his entire sheep business, grazing land, and all. He nevertheless adjusted. At 64, with being a stalwart character, with integrity and a strong personality, he survived to live to December 8, 1946, when he died at home in Salt Lake City, asleep in bed, at 78, having remained strong in his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints faith.

Joseph Stras Peery was born October 5, 1868, in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, the second of ten children born of David Harold Peery and Elizabeth Letitia Higginbotham Peery. His parents had emigrated from Tazewell County, Virginia, during the Civil War, after six family members had died, mostly of typhoid, over an 18-month period. They crossed the plains in 3 covered wagons, arriving in Salt Lake City on August 31, 1864. In late 1867, they settled in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, where they became a prominent family, his father a leading Business, Church, and Civic leader.


Joseph was highly educated. He went to Local and private schools in Ogden, Utah, and attended Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia when 18. He attended the University of Nebraska in Omaha, where he became class president. At 22, he became Superintendent of Schools for Weber County, introducing college-educated teachers and graduation exercises for the first time. After he received a law degree from Yale University, Class of 1895, he became Weber County Attorney in Ogden.


He practiced law for many years until he chose to enter the sheep business. He became one of the largest grazing land and sheep owners in Weber and Morgan counties in northern Utah, each year shipping carloads of sheep to midwestern markets. During the Great Depression, as sheep prices plummeted, he lost his entire sheep business, grazing land, and all. He nevertheless adjusted. At 64, with being a stalwart character, with integrity and a strong personality, he survived to live to December 8, 1946, when he died at home in Salt Lake City, asleep in bed, at 78, having remained strong in his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints faith.

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