Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-11-12 | Page 2 | Pioneer Manufacturer Answers Last Call

I PIONEER MANUfACTURER I ANSWERS LAST CALL William Cooley Neal Passes Away After Nearly Two Score Years Illness William 1 Coole Cooley XeaJ S 84 years cars old pioneer of 1862 who helped finance the Ogden woolen mills when In ing Industries first were cro Introduced In Utah died last t night at his residence W. W First North street of heart failure Stricken with paral paralysis In 1893 ho had hila been bedridden nearly tw nt twenty years ears Mr Ir Neal was WIlf born In Cambria Niagara ara county N. N Y Jul July 1 I 1323 1828 Ho He came of a w wealthy althy family Converted to the Mormon faith Mr l Neal Noal oal came to Salt Lake valley valloy In ii 1862 Efforts then were wel-e made to build up homo home Industries and find at It the request of ot President Brigham Young Young- Younghe he be Invested In in the Ogden Olden woolen mills with which ho was Connected connected con Con- as an official from to 1888 When rhen Indian wars vars broke out in Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San- San I I pete count county Mr h Neal volunteered to I assist In putting down the uprising uprIsing- He participated In e every fight against the Indians winning a reputation for fOl heroism During later years ears Mr 11 Neal I gave politics attention at one time sc serving r as selectman of ot Salt Lake I Co count county u a ty Mr 11 Neal eal Is survived b by his widow I Mrs drs Ann Elizabeth eth Neal eal and and- anda a n. son and daughter William D. D Neal eal Center i street and aid Mrs Irs William j W. W First North orth street I Funeral services will be held at 2 I o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the chapel of or tho the Seventeenth Seventeen th ward The body may bo be viewed at tho the family resi resl- dence between 12 m. m and 1 30 p. p m m. on tho the da day of thin the funeral Interment will bo 10 In the city cemetery I