Show OLD SALT tAKERS LAKERS i 4 1 of H i H tn i 1 H H i f f o H J 14 t t f H I Hf f II I I 1 S I 4 I I Ij I r f 1 t jt F J JN T A ff I I N t 0 f J Jt I Ii i I t t J t te i e r f fi ft I i i i I J t I I t 5 T it i I ij j r Ir I Ii J 1 t S t tf f f 1 t t i J i t f 2 c f of z 4 t r tM M 4 4 4 r I a H i I t 1 w JAM as James Jama Ferguson prea preacher actor orator and I lawyer ff ma he It Is re erred to In the biographical of ff WhitneY History of Itah hu hs heel deed dd nearly year ura but probably none of It the early WhO took an active part In the social life lite ot of Kelt Lake Lak left a tro ImpreSs Impre upOn I his hll times Umea The present generation lIa ha heard of f hi his VUle so 10 often otten that h his name might be amid to be a household word ord In m masy Utah Ulah bom homes H 81 was a one ODe ot of the f few native born IrIshmen who embraced tile the Gospel and nd It h brought to bl his adopted relIgion iii aU 1 the seal ual of and the ot of mind for tor which hI his nation is II celebrated Hf He was wal born In Belfast Itt Feb 1 Ith un itU and joined the Church In Liverpool In He tyas a 11 boy companion cf If Olibert Clement and George Q Cannon and became the ot of Apostle Wilford who sid him In reaching the land Ind of Zion no He came ame to America a In I Il saIling on the sante Mm convoyed Elijah F Sheets and ond III wife t reaching Just the hd had deserted It ar ar tt riving from England April Arli 1 Mr r uon joined his hili company ud M r I I 1 pushed to the West lie He ac panl the celebrated Mormon battalion 0 I it march to California and nel havIng be been n appointed hIstorian iii th the campan H f he kept a graphic account of the movement ot of the volunteer tilt they WIN t 1 j on the Pacific coa Mr Ferguson arrived in n Utah etah In la 1541 mt r 1 I tr from m that time until his bit dt he was al one of the leading In spirits In the active Ive l i life of Salt Lake CIt City He took a front rank among the leading mm ot of f j l tit the legal ws elect elected sheriff riff of Salt Lake was aw ot i j i the Council of the Legislature In and Ind was th the attorney enral when th tha Legislature created that i position If He identified t r I Deseret association and at the ban ball given Iven atthe opening ot of the o I Iclal Hall New Years Year day 1 lit he delivered the address del In behalf ot of that W er I j t H He mode made ble hi Sr ara a appearance as an a actor tol January mho ep i acting the role or of Roth Rolla In at t t the opening ot of the Hall a as a Subsequently he be appeared as Hamlet lago 1110 and Claude t t Melnotte the latter Itter bt being I I Is II belt bett remembered role lie He tilled a mis it sion Ioa to hi native Dative land In 18 remaining till tIM p one ofte of hi fellow labon In London having Mn been Elder William C Dunbar He took toole an active part as 4 3 general en era to LIeutenant Ot General Daniel R H In the famous Echo canyon anon campaign lit la its conjunction with Seth M Blair i and anel Stout lie hp the journal known iu u i I MountaIneer II H had been beeb In failing for lor several verat months Ii in a I ItS and though under I 1 I years of age ae his death W was net 1 4 i unlocked for He Sunday I Auguet of that tbt year at t hit his home bome lit hi h L tile the Fourt Fourteenth ward t ot of thIs cIty HII HI decease eale was a much lamented loAd and him hili fit fa was attended b by President Ii Young and cd other Church dignItaries fl while the members of the bar ot of which ht he wan So brilliant i an ornament j e pae passed ed appropriate to his bit memory A A A |