Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-16 | Page 1 | State Builder

State Builder 7 r V 4 i it t r r s kr y r P PATRICK J. J MORAN Long Civic Life Ends PIONEER UT UTAH AM OFFICIAL DIES Patrick J J. Moran Is of Illness Patrick J. J Moran 72 retired builder former member of the territorial territorial territorial ter ter- ter- ter council and former city commissioner died Friday Death came at a. a in mat at the Temple Square hotel where Mr Moran Koran made his residence after a lingering ingering illness A resident of Salt Lake City since 1870 much of the city's paving and many buildings stand as monuments to o Mr Moran as a contractor Besides Besides Besides Be Be- sides considerable highway work in northern Utah Mr Moran was the builder of the Big Cottonwood conduit conduit conduit con con- duit of the water supply system j During his During his lang long residence in Salt Lake ake City Mr Moran retained leadership leadership leadership lead lead- in civic affairs all during his life if e. e here In 1891 he was elected to the territorial territorial ter ter- ter- ter council by the Liberal party and the next year he was elected on the he same ticket as a member of the city council from the Fourth precinct precinct precinct pre pre- serving two years Thirty years la later er he returned to the the- city ball mil serving as commissioner of streets and p public improvements from 1926 to 1930 As head of his own contracting com company any Mr Moran p put t in most of the heating he-heating heating plants in to the public school buildings in Salt Lake City and for the University of Utah and the he Utah State college Agricultural college at Logan He built also East high school chool and the administration build build- building Ing ng at the university Mr Moran was president J of the Continued on Page Nine Column Five Fin PIONEER UTAH OFFICIAL DIES Continued from F Par Page c One Oat Portland Portland Cement Company of at Utah for several years until about 18 years ago He retired about 15 years ago his last project being paving of ot the state highway in the Magna re re- re- re gion Mr Moran was a self made man manIn manIn manin In the true sense of Jt the word an example of ot the English immigrant boy of ot Irish parentage who had worked hard sh since ce childhood Born in Yorkshire England January January January Jan Jan- uary 23 1864 he was left fatherless at the age of at 7 and began work when 10 When 14 he came to Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more Md and after four tour months went event to Cincinnati where he was apprenticed to a After mastering his hb trade he went to Chi Chi- Chisago Chicago Chicago cago sago where he ho worked as journeyman journey journey- man fitter until 1887 when he be moved to o Omaha until coming to Salt Lake City After two years here working at he began in business for or himself as contractor in steam stem heating and ventilating work In 1900 when the first contract I was let Jet by the tho city for lor Installation ot of f waterworks construction Mr Moran was awarded the contract Three years later he entered th the asphalt paving business b He constructed constructed constructed con con- the concrete masonry fo forthe for lor the plant of ot the American Smelting and Refining company at Garfield then the largest plant of at Its kind inthe in inthe inthe the United States He had also aho th the contract to build the Weber canyon wooden stave pipe power line an Immense piece of ot work for the Utah Uta Light and Railway company