Show P KARL MAESER EH HEAD Pioneer Educator Passes Away Awny A my j USEFUL CARE R ENDED 4 WITH THE TEE UTAH ii SCHOOLS 1800 1880 1 Peacefully the spirit of Dr Karl KarI G Maeser who for years has haa ha beez the theu u director of the educational system m of the Mormon church and d who woo y 1 has haz been the organizer of church acad cad academics emea emi s and nd nd colleges over the tate state left its it earthly temple of clay clayto and pawed to the great be beyond ond He flied led at the age of 73 at t his hs home at ho 10 Center street sl after 3 o lockye yester yesterday yesterday ter i day morning as u a result of heart fail U uti ur His passing pa was vas so tranquil that his wife nife who was at his side did not noL know of it for some after the j sad bad event Thursday ay night Dr Maeser er retired in la 1 his usual health but hut at about bout 3 I yesterday morning he awakened hl A L I 0 i 1 I I I i 5 I JL 4 I B 7 i 1 H sol 1 d DR DE KAHL G HAESER MAESER L wife and complained of a sensation sen in Ma hI ebest Mrs Mra gave gaye Jthn some tea and d applied ap a poul poultice tice after which he said he felt easy ea y yand and his Ills wife retired again apin A few ew minutes s later Mrs Maes Maeser r Discovered r that he hr r husband was dead I J Dr Maeser er whose ho e influence I a as aa been felt not alone In an educational I line Hue all alt allover allover over the state was a man PI naTure t ie e dominated his every act r in life and his hie loss wU net nt only be strongly felt In hi the educational j I branches of the Mormon Morma ormon church but hut I strongly in hi the church itself The qualities j of an educator were inborn and he devoted every effort of his life to i his calling Native Nati of Germany Ge ny Dr Maeser was born on Jan IS 1 1828 in iu Saxony Germany His Bi Bi 1 lather tather an artist hy by y profession was WU in the works where the fa famous famous far r mou Dresden china is i produced and while not wealthy was in comfortable Karl received his early j education in the public schools of Meis Meissen Hen sen en finishing and graduating from the Dresden normal school in 1848 For a time he was connected with the public schools in Dresden as teacher then acted as a private I tutor in families of or Protestants tants in Bohemia finally return returning returning returning ing to the Dresden Dreaden schools and securing ing the position of or head teacher in the Hie Budig institute While connected with the latter in institution institution he married the tae daughter of or orthe the principal of the normal college who for half balf a century shared his joys joy and ad I sorrows She was also the sister stater of ot Mrs Edward of East Brighton I Iton ton and of Camilla Cobb who was wa waa adopted opted a and raised by Dr Maeser It was in 1855 that Dr Mae Maeser met three missionaries from the Mormon church and embraced that faith being I baptized baptised in the historic bl river rivet Elba Ib by Apostle Richards I Came to America i Shortly Sh afterward Dr Maeser Maer re le resigned resigned signed his position tUon po in the Budig institute Institute I tute and went to London where h I he labored among the German pimple people and succeeded in establishing a banch bi anch of I the Mormon church among amone them He then sailed to the United States land landing landing landi i ing inc at Philadelphia where he was wu kept f as a missionary under President Angus M Cannon Cannoa until the panic of 1967 1857 when he in company with our elders made the trip by foot toot to Virginia In Rich lUch Richmond mond he secured the position po of musto teacher cher te in m the family of Tyler Six months later he was called to over the Philadelphia con conference conference ference feren and held bed he d that position po until June Dr Maeser came to Salt Lake in lift 1 With his hla natural talent for teaching which had Md already manifested itself be he turned t his attention to educational work opening a school In the Fifteenth ward where he remained until at the request of Bitmap nu i p Sharp and others he be beal heS S accepted al l a position po in the Twentieth nard school In 1834 lie he accepted the position of private tutor in the family of President Brigham B kam Young acting as organist for the tabernacle at the tile same me time He lie took charge of oC the Swiss and German mission minion in 1167 and while en engaged eng engaged g td in that work started the Stern Sterna a mission miN paper that is siu Em nourishing Established hed B Y Academy The crowning point in the education educational 1 al career of f Dr Maeser came in 1876 when hEn he was commissioned by Prel P I Id c d nt Young Y Ung to go to Provo and organize the Brigham Young Yoking Yo ng acad academy academy academy emy The Tho task was one that would have bave discouraged a less sturdy man but out Dr Maeser Maese with his hs undaunted ambition and the experience to guide ude it It 1 set Bet about the work with a determine determination tion that was warded regarded with the sue suc success cons cess not only of that school but Out of oth other other er or institutions that stand as a monument merit ment to his indefatigable efforts In an effort was made to t place him at a t the head of the state school schools and he was nominated for that position tion by the Democratic party but he h hAI 4 AI was wab as not destined to fill the position He lIe however wa was given tt x seat in the tb constitutional convention The remains of If the educator now lie lier r at the late residence of the deceased The arrangements for the funeral have not yet been completed as his family I here bele are W to hear from a daugh daughter ter and son who live Un in Nevada It Is probable though that it will take tak place next Tuesday |