Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-15 | Page 20 | President Lund , 75, Today Friends will Pay Respects

President Lund, 75, Today j CS $ 3 S 3 Friends Will Pay Respects I"' JRESIDENT ANTHON H. LUND leaving tlie church ofi'ico -building forji his home. This picture was especially posed for The Tribune, and I was taken on the eve of President Lund's seventy-fifth birthday anniversary. ! . ' i ' i ', , . : A ,'' ' - y? ''"' " ' v : -' ' ' f h ' Ml I , v p ft t: . -'- '- :. ;;. i ' '' l'' - -A, i , , A ' if I - it I , k J. M , " t I t ' - s ' t ' $ ' . . ' i r i : j ''if, 1 ' ' . . ftfrln-ttl m-i" 'fi",f illry 'TTi-tel'ifhilill ihlaYhtlW.li--'!..1!: i. i Venerable L. D. S. Official to Celebrate Event Working Work-ing at Desk. SEYLNTY-PrvE milestones liave been passed by President Anthon L". Lund, first counselor In the first presidency of tlie Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Today being the anniversary of his birth, he is celebrating the event working at his desk in tlie . church office building. Hundreds of his friends will call to pay their official respects and messages of love and tribute will be received by him. This day also commemorates sixty-three years of active church service, as lie joined the L. D. S church May 10, lSfni. Uecentiy President -Lund met with a painful accide.it. breaking: a bone in his left leg and dislocating his ankle, which confined him to his home for some time, but he is back at 'his. work again, though j he has to walk with crutches. Denmark, the place of nativity of President Presi-dent Lund, can well be proud of the record rec-ord of her native son. On May jr, IS-M, he was born in the citv of Aa'lborg. Plis father, llenrik Lund, fought in tho Danish army at Schleswig, when, in 1S48 to 1851, this little land fought bravelv against her foul oppressors, Prussia arid German v. President Lund remembers tho victorious return of his father from war. as he has a remarkable memory. Being a natural-born natural-born scholar, he speaks several languages. He emigrated to Utah In ISC?, being seventy-one days on the plains, lie first settled in Sanpete county. r.ater, when President Young built the first telegraph line in the territory, he was one of the ! first young men called to learn teiegra- phy, which trade he worked at for several . years, having charge of a telegraph office of-fice at Mt. Pleasant. Later in HTe, as a member of the territorial ter-ritorial legislature, he drafted the law which created the- Agricultural college and State Industrial school. Me is a member of the hoard of regents of the University of Utah. He has filled numerous numer-ous positions In the L. D. S church, having hav-ing been chosen an apostle in ISSa, later. In ISM, acting as president of the European Eu-ropean mission, and in 1901 he was chosen a member of the first presidency by the late President Joseph F. Smith, and 'holds the same position with President Hcber J. Grant He is a director of several prominent Utah institutions and president of tho Amalgamated Sugar company. President Lund has six sons and one daughter.