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Show PIONEER MINING MAN DIES AT HOME HERE Isaac Newton Dunyon, Who Came to Utah in 1850, Succumbs at Ago of 81 Years. Isaac Newton Dunyon, pioneer min- , ing and mercantile man of iSalt Lake, died yesterday morniug at his homo, 427 East Ninth South street. Mr. Dun-yon Dun-yon was SI years of age, a native of Aharon, Cayuga county, Ohio, and a son of Dr. John L. and Sarah Dunyon. He came to Utah with his father in ISjO and went on to California the same year, the gold excitement being tho attraction. During the early gold . days in California he was employed by ! the Overland Stage company as a sta- tion keeper at Shell Creek and Egan I On nyon, New He went to Hamilton, ! White Pine county, New, in 1869, dur- ing the days of the minincr boom there, j and in 1870 located at Tooele in the mercantile business. Air. Dunyon was one of the first to acquire property in the Deep creek country and had retained his interests there for more than forty years. He had large interests in mining properties proper-ties in ""the Gold HiH7 Utah; Ferber and Kensley districts in Nevada. He made his home in Salt Lake about j twenty years ago. In lS6-i he married E valine "Wells in this city. He is survived by his widow, 1 two sons, N. A. and P. W. Dunyon, j and two daughters, Mrs. Carrie M. i Ashley and Miss Eva Dunyon. j Funeral services will be held Sun- ' day afternoon at the family residence,! 427 East Ninth South street, at ii o'clock, interment to be at Tooele Monday. |