User:Thelema12/James Ivers

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James Ivers(year - year) was a silver-mine owner in Park City, Utah, and a member of the 3rd Utah State Legislature. He started working in Park City as a teamster and blacksmith, and worked his way up to director of the Silver King Mines.[http://books.google.com/books?id=ghZdXqgHaBAC&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=%22James+Ivers%22+%22Park+City%22&source=bl&ots=pitr_Fg6Zo&sig=813nu0cBGBXkEzuZbpUyLzuW2HE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NEwqUo-dK4LfiALm2IH4BA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%22James%20Ivers%22%20%22Park%20City%22&f=false "Treasure Mountain Home: Park City Revisited" by George A. Thompson]

Ivers was born in Canada[http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/statehood_and_the_progressive_era/utahsimmigrantsattheturnofthecentury.html "Utah's Immigrants at the Turn of the Century" at Utah History to Go] in 1846. He lived in New Hampshire before moving to Utah. When he got to Park City, he was hired as a blacksmith at the Daly mines.

1892 county convention [http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/park/id/26672/show/26699/rec/6 "Precinct Caucus," Park Record, 1/23/1892]

He married Bridgit Welsh, the sister of four-term Park City mayor John F. Welsh and grocer Henry Thomas Welsh of Welsh, Driscoll and Buck. He was a parter of David Keith and Thomas Kearns in the Silver King Mining Company,http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94898986 James Ivers I page at Findgrave for which he served as directorhttp://liveauctions.holabirdamericana.com/UT-Parleys-Park-Summit-County-Oct-13-1894-Park-City-Mining-Company-Stock-Certificate_i10679777