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Show SAMUEL DOXEY'S I SUDDEN DEATH Falls in Epileptic Fit and Body is Discovered by a Teamster; Was Well Known In Salt LaKe. 8amuel Doxey, a well-known resident of Salt Lake, died late yesterday afternoon after-noon as the result of an epileptic fit. Mr. Doxey has been engaged for several days in building a barn for D. H. Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, superintendent of the public schools. About 4 o'clock yesterday J. W. James, an employee of the Granite Lumber company, drove up to the Phristensen residence with a load of lumber. He noticed a man lying on the ground face down. James jumped from his wagon and ran to him. When he turned the body he discovered that it was that of Mr. Doxey, who had evidently evi-dently been dead for some time. .The police were notified and the patrol wagon wag-on sent to the place. The bodv was removed re-moved to the undertaking parlors of E. G. O'Donnell. Mr. Doxey was graduated from the University of Utah in 1S90, and for several sev-eral vears taught in the public schools of Ogden. Later he went to the Uni-versitv Uni-versitv of Illinois, where he equipped himself in a course of schoolhouse architecture. archi-tecture. Returning to Ogden, he again entered the public schools as a teacher, and was soon elevated to the position of princi pal of the Grant school. This position he held until 195, when Superintendent Frank B. Cooper of the Salt Lake public pub-lic schools, realizing Mr. Poxev's abil- ! itv, made him principal of the Hamilton ! sehoool. i The Board of Education in the win ' fer of 1P02-3 created the manual training train-ing department and decided upon Mr. Doxey as the most capable person to fill the position of supervisor of this new branch of learning. After receiving the appointment Mr. Doxev made a trip to N'aas, Sweden, where Vie made a tho- rough study of manual training at the j famous school of that place, and before returning went to Germany, where he received other valuable instruction. Becoming master of his subject. Mr. Doxey came back to Salt Lake and organized or-ganized the manual training department, depart-ment, which under his subsequent supervision super-vision became a pronounced success. Last winter Mr. Doxey "s health ' failed him and he was compelled to give up the work so well begun. Mr. Doxev was 40 vears old. and was the son of the late Thomas Doxey, a pioneer pio-neer of Weber county. He is survived bv his widow and two children, nine sisters and sven brother. |