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Show AARON KEYSER DIES: FAMILYAT BEDSIDE Prominent and Successful Business Man Succumbs to Old Age. NATIVE OF NEW JERSEY Came to Salt Lake Soon After Civil War; Had Many Interests Here, I i Aaron Kcysor. who for almost a half j century had been one of Ealt Ixikc's ; prominent and moat success ful husiness i men, died at his homo, 1006 Third avenue, ave-nue, last night at S ;30 o'clock. Old age was given as the primary cause of j death. The members or his family wero : at his bedside when he died. Funeral I arrangements have not been fully completed, com-pleted, but will be a nnounced today. Mr. Keyser was born August 22, 1S-P. in Oxford (now FeiviuVre), N. J. His parent k were Ceonre Keyser and Mary FuUmor. who were descended from Revolutionary Revo-lutionary ancestors oi" Dutch and German extraction. At the ape of 21 ho established himself in the hide and leather business at Haynesburg. Ph., and later made another headquarters for this same business at Itlairetown, Pa This was his principal pursuit which he followed with notable success until after tho close of the civil war. During this period he invested in and became connected with other interests inter-ests and enterprises, particularly in timber tim-ber tracts in Georgia and Virginia. Came to Salt Lake. Soon after the close of the civil war he moved to TJricoln. Neb., where as bin principal pursuit he engaged in ranching and cattle raising. About this time he also acquired a tract of coot land in Illinois, but he found it impracticable to develop this In competition with railroad -conlrolled coal companies. About 1ST0 he left to come further west, taking with him a largo herd of cattle and bringing them at first as far as Cheyenne, Wyo. Here he left his cattle and continued his trip westward for the purpose of looking look-ing over the country as far as Kan Francisco, Fran-cisco, stopping en route at Salt Lake 'City. I-iis business interests and Investments were greatly diversified, both as to character char-acter and as to location. He was connected con-nected actively in a large way with the following industries: Hide and leather, i timber, ranching, cattle and s-heep rais ing, wool growing, mining, lumber, real e.sta to and loans, and investments of , every name and nu tore. 1 le helped to establish some and became interested, as j a stockholder or otherwise, in a great many of the industries and enterprises ; of the state. Interests Merged. In 90t be organized the A. Keyser Investment company and became and remained re-mained its president. All of his interests were merged into this corporation. At j tiiia time, feeling the weight of increasing increas-ing years, he began to shift tho burden and responsibility of his affairs first upon up-on his eldest son, George D. Keyser, and then, as they matured, upon his other boys, Malcolm A. Keyser and Paul F. Keyser, who for the last several years, together with II. W. Sturges, his son-in-)aw, have had complete control and management man-agement of the A. Keyser Investment company. In 1S79 he married Miss Henrietta Ayres Depue of I3elvldere, X. J., who 'lied in 1S94. In 189$ he married Annie Opdyke of Plalnfield, X. J. Uesides his sons, grandchildren and his widow, the only other of Mr. Keyser's immediate family now living is his sister, Mrs. Kristina Mackay, of Belvidere, N. J. |