Show PASSED AWAY elder horace K X whitney gone to the spirit spirl t world it ia is with feeling feelings of pled with resignation that vie we chronicle the drath of brother horned K Whitt whittled lej he ile based away as the clock struck eleven saturday katurd a Y morning at hia his residence in the ward salt lake city the rhe readers of the deveret neus are familiar wh the fact of his loop lour illness which commenced last J june and c continued with little respite spi te up to the hour he died his di aae was of the heart principally pally though dropsy and rheumatism were ere the ultimate cause of death aspea speaking king generally it was the breaking down of a constitution naturally strong under the pressure of years of faithful and incessant toil the deceased the eldest child of newel K whitney late presiding biho bishop of the church and elizabeth inn ann whitney both of whom whom preceded him to the spirit world was born july 1823 at kinland kirtland ohio where be he was alfo aleo baptized his parents having embraced the gospel there when he lie was a boy seven or eight veara years of age he attended the hebrew school atje taught aught in kirtland where the prophet joseph smith and other notable elders were his big fellow students and 1 attained marked proficiency in hebrew greek and latin as well as his mother tangue besides mastering other branches branche i of education he fie left kirtland with his fathera fathers family in the fall of 1838 bishop whitney having been summoned to missouri to preside at adam adami i ondi aliman Ahman autere but ere they reached their destination the saints driven and scitt scattered ered from the state and they stopped at carrol ton greene county I 1 illinois Ili nois where the deceased while hile his father returned to kirtland on busi bushes nem taught school and helped to support por t the tile family later on bi hop whitney and hid his family fled from carrolton to escape mobbing the pe people pie there having found out that they were cormons mormons Mor IMor mons and next settled at commerce or nauvoo in 1843 jut ju it t before starting on oil a mission ml wion to the eastern states stave the deceased was ordained an elder under the tile hands of the et joseph smith the tile prophet with whom horace was a favorite was murdered while he ars away away ho ile left nauvoo in 1846 in the exodus and early in the following year went from winter Quarter sas one of the A mormon lormon pioneers to hunt a home for fit his people in the wilds of the rocky mountains arriving in this valley july 24 1847 he made nide it his permanent abiding place he fie taught school here in early days and when the deseret news was established in 1850 was one of the original force of compositors he had previously set type on oil the times tim and in nauvoo one of ills his earliest fellow laborers in that office was president george Q cannon president john taylor being editor fur far over thirty years he has ben a clerk in the trustee in trusts office during the lifetime of president brigham young since bis his death and up to the hour when his ow own it health broke down he fie was says the des derret rei neuf a man of more than ordinary y ability but very retiring in disposition and though one of the most sociable and genial of natures in private life he instinctively shrank from the glare of publicity he lie was one of the original members of the dt drw ter ct et dramatic Dra matis association and after leaving the stage played the flute for many yeara years in in the theater orchestra cli estra in business he was the soul of and anti uprightness punctual and faithful and conscientious almost to a fault his private life was equally above rp he was a devoted and jut ju t husband and a loving and good father if ho he had an enemy weare we are not away of it he ile leaves a large family and a wide circle ot of friends who while regretting gret tiny tho tile loss of his society and labors will to learn that liia his sufferings Buffe rings are at an end |