| Show VETERAN GONE BEYOND john broom one of history makers dead john broom one of earliest ph pioneers 1 and ono of the men who by t their air herculean efforts have made this territory tho the fairest spot on earth died at his adams avenue residence yesterday afternoon at I 1 after an ill DI nala of about seven months the veteran was 70 years of age on the da day olAl of march areli this year and his name wih I 1 bo inseparably connected with the history 0 of this city and territory iio ile was one ono of these history makers and ins his name will live aliko alike in monuments of stone and mortar and of good deeds death did no not t find him unprepared on tho tile contrary ho lie lias bas waited for the release with tho the greatest re a t e s t patience and resignation all 0 of af h his i s e earthly a rn affairs have received tho tile proper attention and even tile minutest details for the funeral which he desired to bo be of tho the most simple character did not escape him U up P to the early bours hours of yesterday morning he be was conscious and his mind was in tho the best of shape but as the grim reaper made his ills first advances the deceased bank into a comatose condition from which lie did not emerge until deahl 1 came and sohn broom had gone before ins maker tho the deceased was born in sheffield E england rig landl march I 1 1823 fin and with his wife left I 1 his native land for america and utah in 1849 tho the ocean voyage consumed three M months in those days and it was conse lato late in the year when tho the company with which mr ir broom and his wi wife fe were traveling reached council bluffs having landed at new orleans and taken a river boat they remained at tho the bluffs ono year and then came west with ono one of the regular c emigrant m agrant trains at ogden the couple ma made de their home and since that time this city has been tho the only real homo home il they ley have 1 known through his wonderful ener energy v mr broom overcome over como what to oilier other men would hava have been insurmountable barriers and laid for himself the foundation of an inee independent pendent fortune what was subsequently and is still known as brooms bench was his first home in 1882 he lie built tho the broom hotel at a cost of 70 this being the tile first real hotel over ever built bulli in ogden the others being merely taverna ernp all although iio lie lias lilts never lild bild public office it was not the fault of his ills I 1 host 1 ost of friends and political admirers who on many occasions have admonished him to accept nominations to offices of trust mr broom lias has gone till through ough this life without show or blast of tru trumpets 1 m ta but thousands bless him for tile 9 good 0 oge lie be lias has dono done for tho the widow for t the I 1 ie fatherless and all in distress above his last resting place can bo be truthfully written here lies an honest man the noblest work of god alie deceased leaves a difo and two daughters mrs george F brown ana and A mrs airs irs fians madson all of whom were wl th b him in when the end came the tile funeral will be held at the famil family y residence on sunday afternoon at 3 and according to tho the wishes of the dead the services will bo be very plain and sim PIC to tho the family and the widow the heartfelt sym sympathy pithy of a host of friends and acquaintances acquaintance i will go out |
