Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-05-16 | Page 3 | Duncan M' Allister Dies at Home Here

DUNG DUNCAN N DIES U HOM HERE HE Friends throughout Utah Saturday y mourned the death of or Duncan M. M McAll McAllister t r. r 89 records custodian at atthe the tho L. L D. D S. S temple tern tem r pIc and a patriarch S 'S of the church who i died at Ws his home F. F In Ln the Kensington rL apartments F r I iday i I. day night of ot In Infirmities In- In incident to old ag age Mr t r. r McAllister underwent an operation op op- several severa sy 1 wee weeks ago and appeared ap ap- ap 4 4 t to be on the t road to recovery reco q bu but suffered a re relapse rc- rc 44 lapse which j terminated s' s In de death th Coming CominS' to Salt D. D McAllister Lake in 1865 two years ears after his arrival in the thc United States Slates from Scotland Mr McAllister McAllis ter had a a. varied and colorful career He Ho worked as u an upholsterer actor compositor clerk and teacher until 1893 when hen he was appointed assistant assist assist- ant recorder of ot the Salt Lake temple He was born bom in Glasgow Scotland April 18 1842 Joined the L. L D. D S. S church while a youth and served f ed for tor two years in the Liverpool office of ot the tile organization WE WENT VENT T ON STAGE On hIs Ws arrival in Salt Lake b bas he worked as an upholsterer in the Salt Lake theater then new The stage attracted him Wm and he be became a a. member member mem mem- ber of ot the old Deseret Dramatic a as association as- as He w was also active acUre in th the tabernacle choir After working In the composing room of ot a Salt Lake newspaper for fora a time Mr McAllister went to Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- I ham City where he clerked in a astore astore store worked in the postoffice and andI was a n teacher Four years rears after his I return to Salt Lake during which period he was a clerk under Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- master T I B B. B H H. Stenhouse he Joined the Z C C. C M M. I. I When the S Salt U Lake t temple mple opened he was appointed assistant recorder In 1906 he succeeded John Nicholson on onas as chief recorder and retained the position until 1916 when he went to St. St George orse to standardize church records there OPENED RECORDS He opened the records in the theL L L. D. D S S. S temple at Late Laic T T. H. H in 1918 and anti on his return to Salt Lake be became became became be- be I came custodian of ot the record holdIng holdi hold- hold i Ing lug that position until his death His wife Ue Catherine Esther II died a quarter o of a century ago Surviving Surviving Sur Sur- are arc two sons and two daughters daugh daugh- George S. S McAllister William WilliamD D. D McAllister Miss Kate P. P McAllister McAllis McAllis- ter and Mrs N. N L L. Wilson all of Salt Lake Funeral services will wilt be held at 1230 p. p m m. m Sunday at th the Seventeenth Seven Seven- ward chapel in charge of Bishop Nicholas G. G Smith Interment Inter Inter- ment will wUl be In City cemetery Friends may view the body at the Larkin undertaking parlors Sunday morning after 9 I S I I