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Show OLDEST MEMBER OF MORMON CHURCH DEAD PROVO, Feb. 3. EdFon Hartley, the oldest member of the Mormon church, is dead here at the age of 99 years. He was born June 6, 1S05. In New York, and Joined the Mormon churih in 1831, and was ordained a seventy by Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdry and David Whlt-mer Whlt-mer In 1S35. He attained considerable notoriety as manager of the campaign of Joseph Smith for the Presidency of the United States. He crossed the plains in I860, and in 1858 explored the White mountains. moun-tains. He lived in Provo until 1862, and then went to southern Utah, remaining until 1893, when he returned to Provo. |