Arthur Stayner
Arthur Stayner (29 March 1835 – 4 September 1899) was an English horticulturist who emigrated to the United States and became important in the founding of the sugar beet industry in Utah.
Beet sugar
The first entrepreneurs to try to make sugar from beets in Utah were the
alkali soils.[1]
Stayner studied the
Utah Sugar Company in 1889 with 20 stockholders. This company was ultimately instrumental in building a $400,000 beet sugar factory constructed by E. H. Dyer in 1891 at Lehi.[2][3] The company was so successful that it encouraged the building of other factories in Utah and Idaho that resulted in great economic growth in the two states from the research and the manufacturing of sugars and sugar syrups.[4]
Death and legacy
Stayner became a prominent citizen of
lead pellet which became embedded in his heel. Although a physician considered amputation of his limb, the infection had permeated his body, and it was too late to save him.[5]
Although Stayner was not interested in financial gain from sugar manufacture, because of the energetic work, he is regarded as the "father and founder of the movement that made the manufacture of sugar in Utah a success."[5]
See also
Notes
- ^ Valerie Phillips (20 October 2009). "Can't 'beet' Utah sugar history". Deseret News. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
- OCLC 30473917, archived from the originalon 1 November 2013
- OCLC 74988178.
- ^ "Utah Idaho Sugar Factory". The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
- ^ a b "Blood Poisoning Causes Fatality". The Deseret News. 4 September 1899. Retrieved 13 February 2010.