Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-01 | Page 5 | Early Pioneer of Salt Lake Dies

j . . 1! ) O 15 E R T PATRICK, fornwr i iiUInrmrm of Salt L;iko, who died last evening nftcr lingering illness. 1 ;: , ' ' v r A ! ' . . . ) EARLY PIONEER OF SILT LIKE OIES Robert Patrick, Resident of City for Fifty Years, Active Worker. After a linperin illness that has kept him for the iaM five months confined to his bed, Robert Patrick, S5, one of the early pioneers of the state, died last evening at his home, 1GT B street, of general debility incident to old age. Mr. ! Patrick has been a citizen of Salt Lake for half u century, and in that time has been a mn j'ieu. .us figure in important civic movements, al affairs and activities of the Latter-day Saints' chnreh, of whirh he was a member. Robert Patrick va born in Gla.-gow, S.-otlan.l, December -' 1::3. lie spent his hoyhoru years in his native country, where lie had a good elementary schooling. school-ing. At the :i,'e of 1 he joined the Lat-ter-dav Saints" chunh. He married Kaehei F.aird. December 2. IS ."'., and four ears later he emigrated to America. Amer-ica. He op's'-d tne pluns to Salt Luke valley by ox team, arriving in this city, October 4, lS'io, where be has lived ever since. His earliest vocation as a pioneer in this community was carpentry and later merehandi.-mg. He was sficcessful in business and was know n always amang his associates as a man of principle and integrity. Hi" financial affairs were of such nature that he was able to retire from the active m.m.igeinent of his interests inter-ests at the nge of 7r. Mr. Patrick has always been prominent in l-ical church affairs, holding in succession suc-cession several important offices. He was app'c.rTed A counselor to Blsr.op Orson Or-son F. Whitney in 1S7S, and remained In that office for twenty-eiuht years. On his reb-ase from that responsibility he was advanced to the position of patriarch, which was his church rank at the time of his death. In civic affairs Mr. Patrick had been no less active. In 1SS2 he was elected to the city council as an alderman from the Fourth precinct, and re-elected in 1 SS4 and a-ain in lSSs. In J SSS he was appointed by the city council to the office of city sexton. He planted in City cemetery ceme-tery the first 700 shane trees. From lS'.'S to 1?"0 he served again as a city councilman. coun-cilman. Mrs. Patrick died April 27, 191-1. Five years before her death the couple celebrated cele-brated their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. Patrick is survived by the following follow-ing eons and daughters: Robert Patrick. Pat-rick. Jr., William G. Patrick, Joseph H. Patrick, Rachel Patrick. Laura P. Nicholson Nich-olson and Maude P. Barnes, all of this city. ' He had twelve grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 o'clock in ' the Eighteenth ward chapel, bishop Thomas A. Clawson will preside.