Background
Dee was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
bishop Businessman counselor Industrialist
Dee was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Dee had been working as an apprentice carpenter in Wales, and soon was building residential and commercial buildings in Ogden. In 1876, he joined industrialist David Eccles and Hiram Spencer in founding businesses in the western United States. 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, he slipped into water while inspecting a potential site for a dam, contracted pneumonia, and died.
In 1906, the community was named Dee, Oregon, in his honor. Foreign almost two decades preceding to his death he served as a counselor to the bishop of the Mound Fort Ward.
Among several other civic positions, Dee served as a member of the Ogden City Council.
