| Show I BSlOP 1 MORRIS DEAn Ij Injuries Received on Monday Night Last Terminate tl Ter-minate Fatally This Forenoon I PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY AT 1030 A M I I flew Iran the leMe on Sunday MIo at 2 10 1 I 11111 at ikettli Dlshop Rllas Morris Is dead as the result of the lamentable accident which befell him on Monday right last The en1 came nlnlpKSIy lf and peacefully at Pfd oclock this forenoon In the pro nee of the members of his family who had kept fnlthful vigil at his bedside for nearly sixty ho rs hoping against loops for hill recovery and eololllon to health An foreh owed II loot eVlncs New his condition became mora alormlng as time wore on Once It was thought that ha could not live until midnight In tact that was the Impression Im-pression for hours Hut tho wonderful vitality with which he was possessed I continued to marital itself beyond the expectation of tho sorrowing family and friends who constantly surrounded him and administered to his wants He frequently rallied throughout the night and was quite lucid nt Intervals hut gradually grew weaker as dissolution I approached and finally sank Into that sleet which had been slowly creeping f ever him for so muy hour Ills family had In 0 measure became re 1 signed 10 the Inevitable Yet their grief was i painful to behold solid told In eloquent elo-quent telnut the love that reigned In their henrti for husband arid fathe The dei asccl ws 73 years 01 age and In the field or Industrial activity one or the most energetic and best known or Utah n citizens What ho I accomplished in I material way Is I exemplified ex-emplified In substantial structures I and enterprise that will stand Ili monuments 10 Ills memory lie woe wo-e oldest or five brothers who came Ito I-to Utah SIT f were Mine I William r V Richard V John nnd Hugh of these aft lire dead with the exceftlon of Hugh who resides at Malad Idaho lllclmrd V the IIhrd was father of City Treasurer Morris and Plrtiop of the Nineteenth ward when he died sixteen six-teen yI ago The funeral will he held from the Tabernacle on Sunday arternoon beginning be-ginning at 2 oclock John Morris son or the deceased who was telegraphed tele-graphed to yesterday on ceount of film lalhrs Felloum condition has been notified of his death and as the faller al will take place on Sunday It Is I expected ex-pected thai he will not return Ali this time It being Impossible for him to arrive here In time UIOOHAPHICAL A brief sketch of the bishops busy life will hJ read with real interest hy hIs many friends Ile hd It ap ear intended to write tn fact tied commenced on aUloologralhy hut him I Ile I was 0 very active one and he never Inlhd II What he dId write on that subject hoaeer Is herewith repro ducI 1 lie Paid Jly I parents were born at Llanfnlr Talhalrne Denblgshlrc North Wales They had born to them seven sons and five daughters My father was a mason by trade and a contractor In his native country I learned the trade with my father Emigrated to Utah In the year 185 I IdentllleJ myself with the Lat terJay Sulil in the year ISO In the year 1851 President John TaYlor pall a visit to my homo In North Wales lie had organized 0 company of capitalists to purchase machinery for the manufacture of sugar from beets which ho Intended to establish In Salt Iko City He engaced me to so to Utah In the Interest If this Uth Intrsl sugar company com-pany I left Liverpool In charge of the machinery In March 1852 via New Orleans Or-leans old up the rivers to rort Leav enworth whine was the starting point to cross the Plains arrived In Salt Lake City In November 185 The Sugar company failed to mature in manufacturing sugar for various reason rea-son As there was a company engaged at Iron county to manufacture Ir n I was engaged to go and put up their furnaces Some considerable Ion was made but not of sunick quantity 10 Inake a success and for nant ot funds I the company failed I returned to Salt Lake City and commenced contractIng ling In Ih year 184 put up the Eaglo Emporlum for Mr Jei Jennings and the I drug store for Mr Godbe I In May Hf5 took a mission II lVales returned In June 809 brought i a company 01 3CSalnt back lh me on my return entered into a co partnerelilp with Samuel 1 Ivans as I builders tinder the name ot Morris Ivans Upon the opening of the minIng min-Ing Industry In Uh no mode the manufacture 01 nrbrlck an furnace building a spclly We put up the II I I Oermnla works area mel at Sandy Ulnglun Little Cottonwood Flagstaff East Canyon Stockton American Fork the Ontorlo mill arid Cornish pump at Ontario mine also many Other buildings Including the basement story of the Salt Lake Temple Tem-ple Deseret National Hank block 7 C M I store May I Littles reajdenco and Utah University building AIr the death of 11r Evans I carried car-ried the business In my own name and tok quite an interest In establishing other Industries fit the Interest 01 my I adopted country such as the tannery Salt Lake Foundry Soap Factory Utah Cement company Slate Quarry Utah Sugar Factor In isil In partnership with Houlahan 8 Griffith contracted to lay the cut stone and brick work or the city and county building also the crnvlt sewer or Salt Luke City Served as city councilor for tour years and n dlrectc In the Sat Lake Chamber 01 Commerce one term In a series 01 omewh1 more extended autobiographical nol Appears the tol 10llg When Y commenced 10 learn the I trade of builder and conlnctor under I 1 my father I was J Years ot age When 2 2 > ears old I went to Liverpool and worked on the St George Town Hall i After a few years I returned t Wales father had several contracts as my lalhe contacl ion i-on his hands and while at work on a hanging scaffold on a threestory ol building on the top story the scaffold ga e way and 1 fell 35 tt onto the V pavement Those who witnessed my fall cried out that I was killed But to their great astonishment as well as to mY owns Penn am I ws raised up I tOln I could walk without pain and In I fifteen minutes I went up the ladder I to the third story and made I new scafrold Bcarold a soon after this that I was I engaged hy President John Taylor mho A I was filling a mission to France but who was then on a visit to Wales to come to Utah with beet sugar machinery core machin-ery We st Pall from Liverpool where the machinery sons manufactured In March W2 Ate seven Weeks of Pall I IB we landed at New Orleans Took the river boat hack to Fort Lan I worth From there 1 wo sent to Coun I I A i 4 1 o t 1 ell Bluffs to get the company warrens with which to be loaded down with Ina 111 I C ry i Ve made I ely for our long and tcdloua journey over the Itocky Mountains I I 11 Moun-tains and started from this point on the I ii I J i 1 I Fourth no July The day we crossd the I I I I j llocky llldge we camped nt Wllluw I 1 c Creek near the Hat crossing of Swtt t water la Ve made camp about 9 A clot kit I I 0 P nt I night Kw ry dnrk and snowIng had hardlyUny provllo I t tng An me i i I i We turned In without Supper In the romlng we found a toot 01 now And i I il it I but cry thallpli co I no In Camp t 1 Odom were glen b Captain DeRIA i Ma nw living In I roole to A and I I gt the cote 11 We found that quite X I I 11 percentago 1 uf the poore F to rI hOI I lad I 1111 1 t don I In I the brush to ret lor the last I thin 01 Ibo Illicit were found dead i I tm P cut out thplr tongue and h ell rta I 11 I 4 1 I I hkh we cooked nd thus athifed our I If I I own hunger When we gathered In nil I I I i ki the other cattle we could find we hud I Ill I I I Just About enouuh left to lake the fam fly wagons to Oieen River At the Mme ly lr i I 1 N Ump the captain toot Plt n messenger I Xil to Green IlHer post and brought six I 4 f4 4 teen head cif rot On the first night k i L from Green River they took n stampede 111 stam-pede and weie either lout 01 stolen I by the Indians I X 1 When we left camp with the I f families we left six single men i I J 11 i I and supplies such as shotguns I tiles and ammunition to hunt I the loot cattle as well on came for their wel k 4 L A I own support as wq had it Irvllon 4 I i r to leaie with them Tile second day l they found tin cattle They followed J 11 T4 I va the next day As they were 1 11 J I 11 strnger to the road 10 our track 1i I mLie covered lh Snow thy took the r I L I I Vining rd by mltnko and wln they f A ill I I struck the Green River the > > found their I mistake They sent I messenger down to tile river to our Camp for provisions 00 11 I i 1 they were near the point of starving i 0 4 Aft we hat secured provisions a at the I I J I t a din ir post we were nblo to supply q c tiJ I t I them t I II thmn two days more our broken camp V I I man April I n United for our journey w yry While here President A O Smoot came 11 1 I i I fU 1 to our her recue w till team unit 1 pro vialons tent our t by President Young I I 1 Whl M ou-r Smt a t clod Ht our camp I I e 4w 1 tire omirplathlidnor life our wrell1ald fre omYlnthlzlng 11 I I I I I i ondIUn he noticed three large White letters painted on the boilers D M C a 1 141 I lie asked us the meaning of the letter I f I I but received no answer He Bald I P I you dont know I think I ran a I tel I you D M C In thlo case meun 11 I jl Dam i Im r abie Comfouly and eWe l t 1 agreed that he wan correct We arrived In Halt Lake City about I 1 14 2 1 I November 10 After n few days we I 4 darted with the sugar machinery fort I lie i Provo which wan selected for the Kite t I i 1 of the plant I took us three wok I y to 1 Like When to reach Provo from Salt Lke Whel I I I VI we got 10 Provo the cml Was Ila I I I I I Solved and the machinery turned over r I i to the Church I 1 I 41 That winter I went around chopping I wood for a living On the IHh of April I I 1813 Brother Wlium Nutol and i f 4 myself storteo on loot it attend tile I I il conference arid witness the loylng 01 It I I 4 1 1 I the corner stone of the Temple nt Salt I Lake City On the night of the Mh MO Vl Slept In a dueout at the Point of the 71 V PolnittO To Mountain and walkid to the cltTf eally 1 411 I In the morning In time for conference t4 A fq At conference I was elected to go I i to Iron county to work on the Iran I works built a furnace there After I t gl 1 i the failure 01 the iron morks I moved to 4 I I 44 I Ii Felt Lake alum < l on the Temple and I I I it it laid the oouthot comer Stone ho c I We commenced the eat tolo work I I i Phis stone was about 3 let square I I I rarved as a box In which was deposited I I o several of the Church works cohered I 0 t it with a lid of cement I 1 4 The deceased had been a High Conn lit I I clor for nearly twenty year having ill I f hn set Apart to that omc April 1 I 1 I ISIS On Sept 1 18i he WAS met apart Ii 1i I I 1 as president of the High Priests I quorum 01 tile Salt Lk Stake and I t qUorlm Sal ono I I 1 I filled that position up to the time of tits I I death On the reorganization 01 the t it k Fifteenth ecclesiastical I watd May 1 toc nhw L 41 if 1880 he was chosen to succeed Hlder 1 i Joseph Pollard who died a short time I F I before That office Klder Morris also filled up to the time of his demise I I I J In 1895 he was elected a member of I the Constitutional Convention which 11 I i drafted the oiganlc law of the State of 1111 1 I e Utah In 1850 on the organization of I Mr Morris 1 C the Utah Sugar company 0 I J Itof was mad president and I held the roller F I t continuously UI to the Pre sent He WR I 113i T 4 q greatly Interested In Klsteddfod matter mat-ter an il woo treasurer and director I Ill I t 01 tile ne emaciation And In the Active HI i I t s discharge of his duty on Monday when I I I I lie met with the unfortunate accident I I t I 3 I i I that resulted In him death |
