Herbert S. Auerbach

Auerbach was born on October 4, 1882, in Salt Lake City,[1] where his father ran a department store. At age 15 he went to Germany to study at J. J. Meier School in Wiesbaden, then Lausanne, Switzerland.[1] He then went to Columbia University where he received a degree in metallurgy in 1906.[1]

He spent the next five years working with mines in Colorado, but from 1911 on spent his time running the family department store in Salt Lake City.[1]

Auerbach also served as a member of the University of Utah board of regents, a major in the Ordnance Section of the United States Army during World War I,[1] and a member of the Utah State Legislature from 1925–1929.

Auerbach also pursued studies in Utah history and was a poet and songwriter.

Auerbach died on March 19, 1945.[1]

Although a Jew, his funeral was held at the Salt Lake Assembly Hall of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Frank W. Asper as organist and Jessie Evans Smith singing at least one solo.

• bio of Auerbach

• Herbert S. Auerbach Collection on Mormons and Indians at Princeton University