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Show ! j GENERAL PENROSE DEAD. Brigadier General William 1L Penrose, U: S. A., retired, died of typhoid fever at his home in this city last Sunday night. For days the aged veteran fought the fever as he fiad fought the. enemy in the field, in the hope that his eyes would gaze upon the forms of absent sons ere they closed forever, but the struggle, was in vain, Captain Charles W. Penrose of Fort Brady, Mich., and Major George IT. Penrose of Port Townsend, Wash., did not arrive until a day after the death of the father.. General Penrose was commissioned from Michigan Mich-igan as second lieutenant in the regular army in 1SGJ, became colonel of the Fifteenth Xew Jersey volunteer infantry in 1S63 and at the close of the was was a brigadier-general of volunteers. lie reentered re-entered the regular service in 1S66 and was retired re-tired as colonel of the Sixteenth in 18SS. The Six teenth at that time was located at Fort Douglas," outside our city limis. It is as a citizen that General Penrose has won the esteem of our people in Utah, for he cast his , lot among us the day he retired from the service ' of his country. . He was anxious to win through the promises these hil?s around us hold out to the one who is persevering, but too often does the hope die out with breath just when hope bids perseverance persever-ance to take courage. General Penrose is an example ex-ample of the 'men who let not misfortune shake their resolution, the "kind to build an empire in a wilderness. Without this kind there would be 110-Colorado. 110-Colorado. There would be a Utah,, but not the Utah that men like Penrose would establish. The funeral was a military one, chiefly, and reminded re-minded us of that wintry day when the Sixteenth' General Penrose's old command, with guns" reversed, re-versed, buffeted the storm of snow and' marched ahead of the hearse wherein lay that grim old warrior, war-rior, General Pat Connor. |