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Show QUICK DEATH CGIS TO IMGilER Edward P. Jennings Stricken Strick-en With Heart Failure; Dies in Few Minutes. Edward P. Jennings, 62 years of age, 76 U street, one of the best kuown mining min-ing experts and engineers in the west, died Friday night at the family residence resi-dence of heart disease, to which he was subject. He was stricken suddenly sudden-ly shortly after he finished his evening even-ing meal and expired within a few minutes. The body is at the chapel of S. D. Evans, undertaker, pending funeral arrangements. Mr. Jennings suffered an attack of heart failuro about three weeks ago. but rallied and was confined to his room only a few days. His condition of general health has apparently been improving and during the week he attended at-tended to his business as usual, putting put-ting in his regular office hours Friday Fri-day and returning to his home late in the afternoon for dinner. "Mr. Jennings seemed happy and in good spirits at dinner Friday evening," saidj. Mrs. Jennings yesterday. "He laughed and chatted as usual during the meal and when we finished dinner went into an adjoining room and reclined re-clined on a couch. We heard a struggle strug-gle that lasted only a moment, but no cry. of pain, and when we reached his side he was dead." At the time of his death Mr. Jennings Jen-nings was con suiting engineer of the Utah Metals 6c Tunnel company, extensive ex-tensive mine operators at Bingham. He had been identified with the larger mining companies of the great copper camp almost continuously since his coming to Salt Lake eighteen years ago, and was known both here and in the Lake Superior region as a man of high attainments in his chosen line of work. Mr. Jennings was born in Becket, Mass., August 24, S5o, the son of Joseph Jo-seph and Harriet Chapman Jennings, both members of old New England families. fam-ilies. He was graduated from Union ; college, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1873,! and for the next six years was in-j structor in chemistry in Cornell univer-j sity. He entered the service of P. L. Kimberly, iron and copper mining mag-1 nate. in 1S70, in the Lake Superior! region, and remained identified with, the Kimberly interests until he died. Mr. Jennings was one of the charter ; members of the Rotary club of Salt Lake, a member of the American Tnsti- ; tute of Mining Engineers, also of the , Canadian institute, and was a fellow ! of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mr. Jennings is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Fitzgerald Jennings, formerly former-ly of New York City; two children,! Miss Edna Jennings, a teacher in the East bipdi school; one son, Edward, a freshman at Stanford university ;t one brother, Frank W. Jennings, residing in Salt Lake, formerly mill man at the Utah Apex mines, Bingham. A number of distant relatives reside in the east and funeral arrangements will not be announced pending word from them. |