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Show Oldest University of Utah Alumnus Dies Recently The oldest known alumnus of the University of Utah, Jacob Fors-bery Fors-bery Gates, 87. died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Albert E. Bowen, (Emma Lucy Gates Bow-en Bow-en I Thursday, Jan. 22, after three days suffering from a fall, from which complications set in. Known to many people in St. George and vicinity because of his activities in the early days of this cotton mission, where he came as a lad of 10 with his parents, Jacob F. Gates holds a place of high personal regard. He was born in Salt Lake City, July 30, 1854. Funeral services were held in the Eighteenth ward chapel in Salt Lake City at noon Saturday, with many tributes paid by the speakers and through the press to this almost nonogenarian of church and state recognition. |