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Show WILLIAM 1 RITER IS GALLEDBEyOND PRESIDENT OF SALT LAKE BANK AND PIONEER OF UTAH END8 LONG USEFUL CAREER Ono of Great Intcrmountaln Financier, Railroad -Builder and Progressive Citizen Answer Call at Age of Eighty-three . Salt Lake William Wollerton Itlter, S3 years of ago, president of the Dca-eret Dca-eret Savings bank and vice president of the Desert Nntlonnl bank, died nt the h. D. S. hospital at Salt Lake, nt 0:55 o'clock Tuesday morning, following follow-ing n severe Illness of nlmost throe months. Denth was due to a compll-cntlon compll-cntlon of diseases resulting from old ncc. Ills life was closely Interwoven with tho early history of Utah and its industrial in-dustrial and financial growth. He was versatile in his career to n great de-gree de-gree nnd was by turns, soldier, pioneer, construction engineer, merchant, investor inves-tor nnd hanker. Ho wns one of tho founders and owners of llltor Hrothora Drug Company Com-pany with branches In Utnli and Idaho. Ida-ho. He was nt various times vice president of tho Ogden Savings bnnk, tho First Nntlonnl bank of Itexhurg, Ida. ; tho Oregon Lumber company, tho Utali IJnfcl company and n director In many' other corporations. Ho was born In Chester county, PeniiBvlvnnla, on September 4, 3038. He came to Utah with Ills parents nt 0 years of ago, In tno second pioneer carnvan, which renched this state In September, 117. no was educated In tho public schools nnd tho University of Deseret, and was said to have been tho only "Surviving Btudent of that Institution In-stitution at the time of his death. Ho servod as n cavalryman In militia expeditions against the Indnins in 1S5S. lie went on two missions to Europe, spending most of his tlmo In Germany and Switzerland. Ho wns twice speak, cr of the Utah houso of representatives. Ho served in tho Utah territorial legislature leg-islature from 18S0 to 1888. He wns one of the founders of the present streetcar system nnd ono tlmo general superintendent of tho Utah division di-vision of the Union Paclilc railway. He was n director of whnt wns then known as tho Itocky Mountnln Bell Telephone company. He was a member mem-ber of the Salt Lnko City council for eight years. Mr. Itlter wns one of tho bulldora of tho Salt Lake & Western railway; the Utah & Nevada railroad and tho road to Stockton and Tooee.l Ho founded nnd constructed tho Garfield Bench and Amusement company In 1885. The Union Pacific folders still carry a small town named In his honor. It was orlghinlly the site of a postofflec erected for his construction camp. The Utah & Nevada roadbed is still used as a part.of the Salt Lake Itoute track. He was chairman of tho hoard of regents re-gents of the University of Utah nt tho time of his death. Ills first marriage took place In New York March, 1871, when ho wnB wedded to Miss Susan Denton. Her denth oc-cured oc-cured In 1RS0, Ui was married In Salt Lake In April 1SS3, to Miss Prlscilla Jennings. There were threo chlldron of the first marringe and six from tho second. |