Glenn Porter Weeter

Glenn Porter Weeter was the son of Joseph Warren Weeter and Anna Belle Jones Weeter. He was born in Rushville, Nebraska on March 19, 1887. He had one sister and seven brothers. The Weeter family lived in Ohio, Iowa and Nebraska.

They came to Utah in 1895. Glenn was eight years old at that time. Glenn and his father came before the rest of the family. They brought a car load of cattle with them. They first settled in Park City where Mr. Weeter worked for his brother J.C. in the lumber yard. When the rest of the family came out they settled on the outskirts of Park City. They sold milk.

They moved to Provo in May 1898. Glenn received his education in Park City and Lincoln School and Proctor Academy in Provo. He also studied Law, Mathematics and Bookkeeping through a corresponding school.

For several years he lived at the present home (1669 Jordan Ave) and worked on different farms in Grandview. He worked at the Summit Lumber Co in Park City in 1902 for 10 months. He left home at the age of fourteen and went to Pocatello, Idaho and worked at the Weeter Investment Co, a lumber yard, in 1903 for his Uncle J.C. Weeter. He started as a janitor, then yardman and finally a bookkeeper.

He went to Yellowstone for the first time in 1905 and built cabins and other buildings. He came back down to the lumber yard in 1905, and then did cement work. He laid many sidewalks and foundations in Pocatello, Idaho and three farms in Montana.

In November 1908 he went to work on the railroad as a brakeman. He was 20 years old. He worked on the railroad during winter and cement work in the summer.

He had his jaw broken in the year 1910.

In the spring of 1911 he drained ten acres of his Father's farm west of Nelson's Grove. Then he went to Yellowstone in the summer of 1911 and on into Gardner, Montana, then Livingston working on the railroad in 1912 and 1913. Then went back to Yellowstone and hired out to Milwaukee, Chicago and St. Paul in 1914.

He married Laura M Jacobson, May 3, 1915 in Salt Lake City.

They moved to West Yellowstone for one year. He had six horses and rove a stage coach for tourist.

Then moved 8 miles south of Ashton to Squirrel, Idaho and farmed on the Highland Ranch till 1920. On eight hundred acres, he raised grain. They lived there for five years. Then moved to Marysvale, Idaho and farmed on two hundred acres, irrigating. They lived there for two years.

He was always interested in public buildings and roads. While in Idaho, he and several neighbors built a road from Squirrel, Idaho to Drummond, Idaho in order to make shorter distance to haul their gran to elevators.

He came to Provo in November 1922 and bought the old Weeter home at Grandview. In 1923 he built a grocery and feed store on his property. He handled a great deal of fruit which was trucked out of Provo.

In 1928 he bought the Bean property on 1300 North 500 West and built the Riverside Motel which he rebuilt several times. Also built and ran a Cafe for five years, which was moved when the State road went through his property. He operated until his health caused him to retire.

Glenn was always very active and ambitious. He never started from capital. He earned all by hard work and good management. He loved to work and see progress.

He was very devoted to his family. To him, his grandchildren were his pride and wealth. Together we have three children and fifteen grandchildren.