Jesse Bennion SHARP

                   BIRTH: Sharp Family Bible.
BLESSED: Sharp Family Bible, by Henry Lutton.
MARRIAGE: F.H.L. Film #186,207, #4972  SLAKE.
DEATH: F.H.L. Film #313, Deceased Member File & F.H.L. Film #027,174 Deseret News,

BAPTISM: F.H.L. Film #026,862, Cannon Ward Records, by Leo Clawson.
ENDOWMENT: F.H.L. Film #184,069.
SEALED TO PARENTS: BIC
SEALED TO SPOUSE: F.H.L. Film #186,207, 4972. SLAKE.

FUNERAL RITES DATED FOR JESSE B. SHARP
     Funeral services for Jesse Bennion Sharp, 60, of 719 Kinsington Ave., president and founder of the Jesse B. Sharp and Son insurance Agency, who died Tuesday at 11 p.m. in a Salt Lake Hospital of a heart ailment, will be conducted Friday at 12:30 p.m. in Prnceton Ward chapel, 1140 Ninth East St.
     Friends may call from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at 125 North Main St. Burial will be in Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Native Salt Laker
     Mr. Sharp was born March 6, 1887 in Salt Lake City, a son of John and Rebecca Bennion Sharp. He attended University of Utah and was graduated fromL.D.S. Business College, where he was a student body president. He was married to Minnie Creer Dec. 14, 1910, in the Salt Lake Temple.
     Associated with the insurance business forr 22 years, Mr. Sharp had previously been in the furniture business.
     He was the first president of the Salt Lake Amateur Baseball Association, a position he held for 15 years. Mr. Sharp also headed the Salt Lake Fish and Game Association for two years. He was among the instigators of Derks Field and other baseball parks. He was a member of the International Footprint Association.
    A former Republican state representative, Mr. Sharp was a chairman of the Salt Lake Republican committee in 1928. At the time of his death he was a member of the Salt Lake City zoning board.
     Mr. Sharp filled a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Saints from 1906 to 1908. He served in the Thirty-First Ward MIA, on the Liberty Stake MIA board and as superintendent of the Thirty-First Ward Sunday School.
     Survivors include his widow, four sons and daughters. Mrs. Virginia Bird, Mrs. Kathryn Olsen and John Creer Sharp, Salt Lake City, and Dr. Scott C. Sharp, Philadelphia: two brothers and a sister, June B. Sharp, president of the South African Mission; Ira B. Sharp, Salt Lake City and Mrs. Mary E. Sanders, Hayward, California, and eight grandchildren.  F.H.L. Film #027,174 Deseret News, Section B, p.1 col. 6,cont. on p.19,

JESSE B. SHARP, INSURANCE EXECUTIVE, DIES
     Jesse Bennion Sharp, 60, 719 Kensington Avenue, died in a Salt Lake hospital Tuesday at 11 p.m. of a heart ailment. He was president and founder of the Jesse B. Sharp Insurance Agency.