Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-04-26 | Page 12 | Former Utahn Dies in East

Former Utahn Dies in East Walter Cluff 66 65 a former Utah resident and prominent insurance man died of a heart ailment Monday Monday Mon Mon- day morning at Hartford Conn where he had been residing for r ra a a. year and a half He was born at atcoal Coalville ille November November No No- o- o i vember 27 7 1876 a a. son of Benjamin Benjamin Benjamin Benja Benja- min and Mary MaryEllen MaryEllen Ellen F Foster 0 s t c r Cluff early Utah p pioneers ion e e r s. s His HisS g S T r ran d fat ather her crossed the plains in 1850 with his family of 12 sons and a daughter Mr 1 Cluff Mr Cluff was a graduate of Harvard university and the head of the English department at the Brigham Young university in 1903 01 Later he became head of the education department of the Kansas City Life Insurance company and conducted the first national life insurance correspondence correspondence dence dente school Mr Cluff was the theauthor theauthor theauthor I I author of three insurance books and was editorial contributor to Life magazine He also was president of the John Cluff Genealogical society of New England which he organized Surviving him are his widow Gertrude Miller Cl Cluff ff a son Dr Max fax Cl Cluff ff of Ohio and two daughters daughters daugh daugh- Mrs Reva Evans New York N. N Y and Merle Cluff Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia Pa Pat