Show WAS A PIONEER IN INI I i INDUSTRIAL UTAH Death of John McDonald Re Removes Removes Removes moves Active Spirit From Development A NATIVE OF IRELAND I CAME OAME WITH PARENTS FROM PROM PITTSBURG TO UTAH IN 1849 i 11 F s i s iR M I nt 1 jW I I i I I i I i i I I JOhN John Joint McDonald sr known through lOUt out the state as aa one of the first manu maim of Utah died yesterday morn ing at 1015 at his country home bome Browning avenue and Twelfth mat East street Death was caused by old age and general debility Born in Lurgan county of ot Armagh Ireland on April 11 iII 1830 the son of John McDonald and Rachel Kurk Burk urk Taffe John McDonald came to Amer lea ica two years later with his hili hI parents The family landed at Quebec and moved in 1834 to Philadelphia then to Pittsburg In 17 The parents ac ae the Mormon faith while living In Pittsburg and in 1842 moved to Nauvoo Ill Hi being among the first of ot the Pittsburg converth to assemble in the western gathering place 1 lace of ot the church The McDonalds lived In Nau 00 and there the young oung man became acquainted with the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith And it was at Nauvoo where here he met John Smith present pa pit of ot the church with whom he lie remained ned a c close ose friend to the end Though young Mr McDonald bored the stirring scenes In Nauvoo at the time the th Mormons were driven out aad and he crossed the plains with his parents guiding two yearling claves over the long stretch of ot country to Utah The family arrived here on Sop Sep 19 HI 1849 Mr McDonald was always an active spirit In ln the commercial life lite of ot Salt Lake and Utah and aAd was the leader of some of ot the earliest of ot the state Upon the advice adIce of ot President Brigham Young he started the manu facture of candy crackers and other articles which found a ready read market Before this he had manufactured fur alture and other wooden ware The business of ot John McDonald as a candy man was waa taken up by b his son sons J G McDonald ald and has been boen developed In to one of the largest chocolate cocoa and candy cand industries in the west The foundation toun for this thia Industry was laid by br the elder McDonald aa a were several severa other manufacturing now ing in Utah A history of ot his life Is I much a history of ot the development and growth of ot Utah for tor he was prominent through his life lite in all activities of ot the empire building John McDonald was the father of at eight Bight children moat most of ot whom were wore at the bedside when death came For many mallY years the McDonald homestead was waa on Fourth South street Just east of ot Main streets street str t and it was there that the first manufacturing was done The plant was not large enough however and his son later started in larger quarters on West est Third hird South street The ha children ar are nil all WAn mu rn now men and women who have been prominent in the development of ot the country countr during the last years They are art Mrs Fannie R It Mar getts getta John McDonald Jr Mrs Rachel James G McDonald Juntas Juntus McDonald William G McDonald Mrs Eleanor Chamberlain and George W McDonald Captured by b Indians Indiana One of the dramatic Incidents of ot the career of ot Mr McDonald was his return to Salt Lake during the famine of at 1858 1856 when whan he hastened back from San Slin Ber for nardino Cal tJ with four friends and remained through the bitter struggles of those thoe years and did not again leave leae faUt iut Sl t Lake for any considerable period Mr Yr McDonald had been attracted to California with several others of ot Salt Lake by the gold crate cease on the coast Early in 1859 1851 he learned of the famine in Salt Lake At the time his father tather was waa on a mission ml for tor the Mormon church in England and his mother was left lett alone in Salt Lake I I As Aa soon as he be learned of ot the condi here Mr McDonald John Hunt William Crismon and nd two others started for Salt Lake Mr McDonald packed fOo 00 pounds of flour upon a white horse aad and began the long iong Journey When near Las Vegas Vegan the party was attacked and captured by a baud band of 01 Indians but whoa when the Indian chief learned of ot their mission he be spirited them across the desert 20 e miles during the night and started them again on their way Piti Pit ful conditions were found when they arrived and the flour proved a God Godsend Godsend Godsend send for many especially eap his mother moth or Mr McDonald became devotedly at to the old white horse borse and It was upon this Uli animal that he was married par mar nod ried at the Point of ot Mountain by Jesse C Little long since dead IId Mr Yr McDonald was a member of ot the Old Folks Folka Central committee and this body will attend the funeral The funeral tun will be held Thursday afternoon at in the As hall hail in the Temple grounds ground and aud the body ma may be viewed between 10 and Burial will take place plue in the City 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