Bertrand N. Matthews, county prosecuting attorney of Uinta county and a well known resident of Evanston, entered upon his professional career well qualified for active work at the bar and is making for himself a most creditable position in this connection. He was born in Devonshire, England, March 18, 1873, and is a son of William H. and Emeline (Tucker) Matthews. William H. Matthews was superintendent for the Great Western Railroad Company in Newton Abbott, Devonshire, England, and in the year 1885 he bade adieu to friends and native country and sailed for the new world alone. Having sent for his family, they made their way westward and became residents of Evanston, Wyoming, but afterward removed to Salt Lake county, Utah.
    Bertrand N. Matthews was the seventh in order of birth in a family of fourteen children. In his boyhood days he attended Catholic parochial schools of England and at the age of twelve years came to the new world, after which he was a pupil in the graded schools of Utah, and eventually he was graduated from the State University of Utah on the completion of an academic course in the class of 1899. He had determined upon the practice of law as his life work and in preparation for the profession read law at every available opportunity and also acted as assistant to Judge William R. Hall during his spare time while attending school. He took up the profession of teaching in Utah and followed it for ten years, proving a capable educator, imparting readily and clearly to others the knowledge that he had acquired. He then pursued a course of law lectures on the Pacific coast, after which he came to Uinta county, Wyoming, and accepted the position of principal of the high school at Lyman, where he remained for two years. On the expiration of that period he successfully passed the bar examination with a very excellent mark of efficiency and was accordingly admitted to practice on the 11th of September, 1916. In the fall of the same year he became a candidate for the office of county attorney of Uinta county, was elected and is now acting in that capacity. At the same time he engages in the private practice of law and in his professional work displays the same thoroughness that ever characterized his efforts in the educational field. He is advancing steadily in his chosen profession, winning a creditable name and place for himself at the Uinta bar.
    On the 1st of June, 1901, Mr. Matthews was united in marriage to Miss Anastasia Martin, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Martin, of Salt Lake county, Utah, where her father is a well known rancher and stock raiser. Mrs. Matthews passed away on the 19th of June, 1904, leaving two children: Miss Theo Matthews, who was born in Salt Lake City, March 10, 1902; and John B., who was born in Salt Lake City, December 25, 1903. On the 19th of August, 1906. Mr. Matthews was again married, his second union being with Miss Frances Smith, of Los Angeles, California, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Smith, who were pioneer residents of Beaver county, Utah. The children of this marriage are: Thelma J., who was born in Salt Lake City, June 16. 1907; Gilbert B., born in Salt Lake City, August 28, 1908; Lucille, born in Salt Lake City, May 23, 1910; Immanuel A., born in Lyman, Wyoming, May 18. 1915; and Dorothy, born in Evanston, July 5, 1917.
    Mr. Matthews is an elder in the Mormon church and has filled various other positions in the church, in the work of which he is deeply and actively interested. He is chairman of the Industrial Order of American Patriots and is identified with the Woodmen of the World, in connection with which he is widely known. He is at present identified with the democratic party and is state committeeman from Uinta county. He is actuated in all that he does by a spirit of enterprise and progressiveness and laudable ambition has pointed out to him the way whereby he has attained his present enviable position in the legal circles of Uinta county.