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Show j ! .' Mourned L. I . r-RAMK B. STEPHENS Succumbs t paeainenl, pioiieerI l; attorney dies Frank B. Stephens III Seven Days Friends and associates Thursday prepared to pay last honor to Frank B. Stephens, 84, pioneer Salt Lake City attorney, Who died In a Salt Lake hospital Wednesday at 3:30 p. m. t pneumonia after a seven-day-Ulneas. .j, - r, Funeral services wU be conducted conduct-ed Saturday at i p. m. in the Masonic Ma-sonic temple, 650 East South Temple Tem-ple street, under direction of Mt Horlah lodge No. 2, Free and Accepted Ac-cepted Masons. Interment will be In City cemetery. Mr. Stephens, a resident and practicing attorney In Salt Lake City since 1888, was born In Turner, Tur-ner, Maine, October 14, 1855, a son of Edwin F. and Sarah Ricker Stephens. Ste-phens. After graduation from Doane college In Crete, Neb, Mr. Stephens married Miss Lunette Stebblns on December S, 1883, In Crete. Immediately after coming to Utah, Mr. Stephens began his prac-(Contteuofl prac-(Contteuofl on Pa ft Twlv.l (Column Tbrook PIONEER S. L, ATTORNEY DIES (CoaUniMd Prom Pas On tlce, and In 1890 was appointed assistant to ths United States district dis-trict attorney, serving under Charles S. Varian. Mr. Stephens had charge of all criminal and many civil cases In thVdlstrict now comprising Salt Lake, Tooele, Davis Da-vis and Summit counties. Once City Attorney Hs lster became city attorney for Salt Lsks City and was a staunch advocate of the commission commis-sion form of government. He was appointed by Mayor W. Montague Ferry as chairman of a group to ln- vestlgats the commission form of city government In Des Moines, 1 Iowa, and, with William R. Wallace Wal-lace and the late Carl A. Badger, wrote a report that was Instrumental Instru-mental In the adoption of the present pres-ent form of city government. Mr. Stephens, who, with his wife, resided at 1XU East South Temple street was a leader In educational affairs of the state and was a trustee of Utah State Agricultural college, a position hs had held for 19 years. Previously he had been a member of the board of regents of the University of Utah and during dur-ing that time served on the building build-ing committee that obtained construction con-struction of the John It Psrk building build-ing on ths university campus. Donor of Medal He was donor of the Frank B. Stephens medsl, awarded annually to a boy and girl In each of the city schools who excel In oratory. At the time of his death Mr. Stephens was associsted with Dean F. Brayton and William J. Lowe under the firm name of Stephens, Brayton and Lowe, and during his practice In Salt Lake City he had been affiliated with Benner X. Smith and Robert B. Porter. He was a member of the board of commissioners of the fire and police departments In the early days of the city and was a director of Tracy Loan Trust company. His death removed the last charter char-ter member of the University club. He was an active mason. . In addition to his widow, hs Is survived by two sons. Harold M. Stephens, a Justice of the District of Columbia court of appeals, and E. W. Stephens of , Burllngame, Cal. Judge Stephens reached Salt Lake City several hours aftsr his father's desth. Justice Stephens traveled by train to Salt Lake City from Denver, Den-ver, where the United Air Lines plsne he hsd been traveling on was grounded due to adverse flying condition. |