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Show DEATH 07 Z. L. SLOAN ' It b-:-;uiii.-a jur JiinfuI this uorniiig to am:'i:iin;e to the numer-j I -is rendt-rs f this journal the deceas- ,f uur fi! ! iw I I'urLT, EJwird L '-loan, E-..fc on-: of thi original ditijraand proprietors of tho SaIl l.aku IIkuald, which nrilan-jholy . vent u ;ourred at hid r.--sMince in th l'wontk-th Ward a little befuro mid niglit &u Sunday last. He hac . .CL-n jraewhat unwell for -veral wee-ki, and his friimds noticed vithin the lat few days that he wa.-rradually wa.-rradually growing worse, yet his de-nise de-nise w w unctpected; and wlien ii ecame known eirly yesterday morn ng it cat a glujm over the whol. ouimunity. Late Sunday evening iG w;w altack.-d wltii eullent'lon O lie brain, iou btc.uu im-'iisil -le, ind when the end carno p Hied awa j an infant going to a!eip without a airuigle. As deceasevl ha-Ujod ha-Ujod promiu'.-ntly b,;furo this com nunity a.i a u ihhc iourtrtiist for sev-rat sev-rat year-, a rl-X rctfi;.v ot the prin-iple prin-iple events of hii hfo will doubtle-.jrovc doubtle-.jrovc inleri r.ting to our renters. K Iwanl L .-qiiox Slo an was bjrn at 'onlig, County Djwn, Ireland, Nov Ul), l'O, and coiivq1 tontly at hi loath ho wai agel 43 years, II month? ind day-. When eighteen year-if year-if age he beeanu connected with tin Mmreh of Jesus Christ of Latter da faints, w;w ordained an Elder anr vent forth ad a missionary to preacl Jiot-Ja-pcl. Iletir-,t laUired in Ire and, an.l snbjetpiontly in England Scotland and the Ide of -Man. Rung Ru-ng his miuiatL-rial labors ho heli-everal heli-everal prominent positions in the nission, among others the presidency if the Nottingham, Sheffield, aud Liverpool Conferences. He wa.-icxt wa.-icxt connected with the Liverpool .ffice, the headquarters ol the Euro-ican Euro-ican mission, and labored upon tho Millennia! Stir, to the columns oi hich his valuable contributions gave in additional interest. While in .his position he asitcd for some time in forwarding the Church Emi . ration and was otherwise aclivoh ngaged in advancing the interests ot :he Church and people with whom ie had cast his lot. In the Fall ol the year ISoJ ho im-nigrated im-nigrated to Utah and was immedi-itely immedi-itely employed in President Young's ffice, whence he went to the theatre w box kceper.lle was next engaged n the Jcscret Xsws as assistant :ditor, and afterwards on the Daibj lt'yrap?t where he occupied a simi-.ar simi-.ar position. In 1800 he published :lie Salt Lake City Directory, which .vaa the first work of the kind issued is-sued in this Territory. In the year 1870, in conjunction with W. C. Dunbar, Esq., he started the Salt Lake Daily II Kit a ld, the first number if which w.ts issucel on the 5th ol' I une, since which time his labors are well known to the public. Born in a land where it is ditlicult i'o rise to any degree of eminence, jwitheut money to purchase that emi-Enencc, emi-Enencc, he struggled manfully against ipposition, and early made his genius icknowledged iu his own local circle.-LTrged circle.-LTrged onward by an inorxliuate lovi of books, and being withal ainbitiou? to acquire an education, he applied himself in his leisure moments tt tudy; and although he never attended attend-ed school after his eleventh year, when Mr. Sloan had grown to man's estatf uis education was fa superior to tliat of his fellows. Possessing a powerfu .magination his inclination and de- iSircs were naturally literary.and when but a boy he had become the authoi )f numerous poems of ackuowledgal merit. His genius was of no ordinary ordi-nary character, but towered above ihat of common humanity commanding com-manding for its owner the respect of all who knew him. But he ha-i'cen ha-i'cen cut off in his youth, as it .vere, and in 'his death .the ountry lose one who had the capacity and the ability to make :iimself great by his accomplishments. In this Territory few men were more ghvidely known or respected than the I ieceasal, and hi-j s:. demise will oc I -asion deep grief and geueral sorrowing sorrow-ing throughout the length and breadth B Utah. He was kuown to be an ardu-K ardu-K us laborer for and anient defender o: Ethe rights of the people, and it is the Ri:eople who will mourn his loss. It has peMom fallen to our lot to pen H'.he obituary of one so dear to us a; i .vas the deceased, and never have wt I more fully realized our incompetency :o do justice to the memory of the leail. During years of intimate asso-cifttioa asso-cifttioa with Mr. Sloan as fellow laborers labor-ers and mutual advisers we haw 'earned to love him almost as a broth -g-r in the flesh, and it is with sad heart-Emd heart-Emd deep grid that we now write. j.Vnd while we bow to the decrees o :hat inscrutable Providence whom wv gall reverence, aud would not rccal g:he dead to life and his spirit Iron: B hat rest to which it lias flown, w. -hal! ever mourn his loss with heartfelt heart-felt sorrow. Tiie bereaved family j.iave our heartfelt sympatiiy in their rreparable !o;s. and the re-adcrsof j;he Heilu.u will condole with them in ;;his hour of deepest sorrow. |