Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 11 | Rocky Mountain Pioneer is Dead

ROCKY MOUNTAIN I I j PIONEER IS DEADl r j Eina S?phi Whit tier. Widely Known I in Intr2icunt4in West. D-.es m I t California. - j ! tv T'. e Trtl'ur.e. :iAU0 KAI.1.S. Idaho. IVb. 2. "iV,,ri hss v.:?t bi'j'n rtHt"io-i hero i - t " na aovi::v.t o: the .:o:h nt ln:b ' (,".!-oh, Ci!., PooeirJUT C, ot KJ.win ; i ; xepbn WhiXu'r. tor:r.tr!y of this seo- j t:cc. aui one vt the o::o; ionet'rs ot !, Kvky mo'.mtai'.i country. ; Mr. Whitner whs born in t'anibrule, : Vt.. July lie ou'.is;ei in :.o ; Veriuont mfunrry iu lv.l. ami serve i throv.izh the' civ u war, yartu i- raimj ia thi r:y s.x bsttlo ar. i beir.jj wcuHvlevi ?:x tunc?. After tho war he went ti Leavenworth. Kan., nr.d later t? Per.ver. an-l iolioel the bir.ir.'.r.i; of t e I" n i o n P a o . : ; o r a ! r o a i thr o : n a Wycaiirtjj. finally uvat.r. ii Evauton, where he er.i;;'t .i in l-,:nts. and was S'tvinte-i potiv.aster in I'Vj, serving ilovt fifteeu vear?. He served I'iuta. o::-:y in the territorial Icj.s lature. Ab"ut 17 he Chn.e to I :p.ho. served eo'isty as oov.!.tv attorney, ea- r-e'lo. fina'.'.y seti'mu in Merii'.ian. :jw'.e left there and located in California Li trout six yer.rs ao. In he served as cepirttr.tiit eon:n:auder of the G. A- ftf iaho. '"tVhittir wa a tiistant relative ci y oet. J.vm Vhi:T:er. and his i:;h:er. I ia eiia, now Mrs. Ida C. V. :: i, was h'.ji.iy ecn.v'".T-nted bv the reit toe? uron a vorirr.e of poetry f Ksih she wa the author. ll:s wife :ied B.iriy twenty -:::rs no. 1;- be::i j n-ive by his only darchter and her - t-ro children.