| Show DR R. R J. J HY A IT VETERAN TRAN Of US U.S. U. U S. S WEATHER S BU tAU IS S DEAD DAD AT AI T HIS HOME HERE S 5 5 S c 5 a aS S g 2 I 5 5 t a aI e I 44 1 c 7 I Js 5 a t 4 4 A AS A'S d S 'S A k M S 4 S S. S S r S 5 5 S S S v fr tt S S t. t S S S S. S SS S S S SS S 4 S. S S S J. J Former Weather Observer in Salt Lake who died tad today aYe Dr Da 11 It J. J Hyatt for six years ears director of oC the local office of or the United States weather bureau bum Is dead After a ye year r of oC suffering which reduced him from Crom a a. state of ot good health and strength to a tl mere shadow shado ho poised passed away this morning at athIs athis hIs ils home 1010 South Ninth East street With his passing went one ono of oC the oldest i men In point of or service in the weather bureau of the tho United States StateR Ho To was 51 54 years old and had been beers been In the tho bureau continuously since his carl early boyhood when tho the service ser was known as the signal signal sig sig- nal corps of or tho ho United States army Dr Hyatt was wai a born In Washington V D. D C. C November 11 1856 and spout P nt his boyhood boyhood boy boy- hood days daK there Being of ot a wealthy wealth southern family he W was 8 enabled to get tho the best of ot education Ho Joined the signal corps and was WIlS thus able to at attend attend attend at- at tend the Fort Myer military school at nt which t ho graduated at an early date In his life liCe Without severing his connection connection connection tion with the tho sl signal al corps ho attended the Georgo Washington university and recel received d two degrees ono one as doctor of oC dental surgery and another as doctor of or medicine He was wal married soon afterward afterward afterward after after- ward and one daughter was born who Is now Mrs l Emma Dent Denty of ot Washington D D. C. C Later he was wag married In Washington Wash Wash- ington to Ida Wild who ho with three children children chil chil- dren survives Dr Hyatt When the government weather bureau was wag established Dr Hyatt Hatt was offered a good position and he accepted leaving the dental practice In which he was en engaged engaged en en- aged and going to Cincinnati as weather observer He soon received cd a n promotion and nd was wn sent to Pensacola Fla Fin After a 1 year ear there he was promoted promoted pro- pro to tho the position of ot observer at Vicksburg Miss 1 He was then transferred transferred trans trans- erred to Hannibal but was soon sent back to Vicksburg when the tho station of or that city was changed to a climatologIcal cal center for Cor the weather bureau After Arter eight years in Vicksburg he ho was wan sent to St. St Louis where ho spent nine years cars Ho went ent to o St. St Louis In 1894 In 1003 1903 Dr Hyatt came to Salt Lako Lake CIt City and took the tho position of ot observer succeeding L. L H. H Murdock then observer er or A year ear and a A. half halt ago Dr Hyatts Hyatt's health began to fall fail and every effort to recover was WM in vain aln A year ago his condition became so serious that the thA government go placed tim him on the retirement retirement retirement retire retire- ment list and made A A. II H. Thiessen of oC In Indianapolis In- In observer at the local office Dr Hyatt has been in the tho service since ho be was was retired from the position of ob observer observer observer ob- ob server but has haJ been unable to do much actual work Ills His surviving children b by his second marriage are arc Margaret a aged ed 16 Louise aged agell 15 and Clara Clarn aged 13 Dr Hyatt was a I. I member of oC the tho Masonic Masonic Masonic Ma Ma- sonic order and was also a Woodman of tho the World Tho funeral arrangements have ha not been completed but the services services ser ser- vices Ices probably will be bo held tomorrow afternoon afternoon af at- under tho direction of or the Ma Ma- sons |
