Thomas Duncombe Dee
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Thomas Duncombe Dee (1844-1905) was born in Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, South Wales on November 10, 1844. His parents converted to the Mormon faith in 1856, and the family relocated to Ogden, Utah in 1860.
Dee had been working as an apprentice carpenter in Wales, and soon was building residential and commercial buildings in Ogden. In 1876, Dee joined industrialist David Eccles and Hiram Spencer in founding businesses in the western U.S. ranging from sugar to lumber to water and shoes and banking.
In 1900, Dee became an investor and first president of the Utah Construction Company of Ogden, Utah. On July 3, 1905, Dee slipped into water while inspecting a potential site for a dam. He contracted pneumonia and died on July 9, 1905.
