Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-11-19 | Page 18 | Francis M. Lyman

I Francis ill I. Lyman cIs M. M LYMAN'S death removes FRANCIS 1 one of ot the few feW remaining survivors sUI of ot the strong men who wrestled wrested with wih forbidding forbidding forbid forbid- i ding ding nature In her stronghold and laid the fou foundations of or this magnificent common common- wealth Reaching with wih the thc earliest that vir virgin virgin 11 vir- vir gin territory which was destined to be tho the Utah we know ho he lived to see soo the fruition of ot his hi fondest dreams dreas In the thriving inS cities cites the smiling countryside and tho the happy happ bus busy people who are laboring as ho labored To tho the growth of ot the country with which he ho ht cast his fortunes at nt atan atan an nn age ago scarce scarcely beyond babyhood Mr Sir Lyman Lyman Ly Ly- Ly- Ly man contributed much and his career was wast t typically American Teamster at eight years and herdsman and amid cowboy before his twelfth birthday anniversary he was waa wa successively suc sue mechanic agriculturist and business business business busi busi- ness man man holding at his death directorships In tho the most and Important commercial commercial com coin mercial undertakings Utah boasts boast The experiences ex ox- and lessons lesson of his youth Insured t the tho o success of his manhood for tor the tho pioneer early emly learns that lifo life Is struggle struggle and that tat intelligent persistence is the handmaiden of ot success s Neither tIle the task of amassing a competency competency compe compe- lenc tency nor the tho duties of the high ecclesiastical cal positions to which he ho succeeded absorbed all al of oC his Ills attention He found Cound time timo to participate participate participate par par- officially In the tho government go of oC the growing territory serving sOlving in Its it Legislature LegIslature and holding various varJo s county positions The Tho place ho lie held In the governmental machinery machin machin- er ery of ot the Mormon church at the tho time of ot his death was first In succession slon to tho the dency To It i he had hInd grad al gradually made his b by successful endeavor In wa way lesser leser posts posts It I was characteristic of ot Francis Fancis M. M I Ly Lyman Lyman Ly- Ly man that the death stroke e came through his devotion to duty Braving weather younger young and less self exacting seU men would have considered considered considered con con- as ample excuse for Cor Inaction he contracted con con- his 1115 hi last Illness but remained at his l post st with wih a a fidelity j elty his 1113 age uge uSe and condition r rendered Imprudent