Deseret Evening News | 1900-07-07 | Page 11 | Old Salt Lakers

OLD SALT LAKERS l H i i 1 ii i Y I 3 X f I s1 11 t tT T J v i iJ h 1 l I k ei E t 1 I 1 f T I i 4 1 i I 1 t f f f y t y y yI yf I f t t X t t y T Y y T T Y f t y 1 1 1 MoRAl a Th The above furnishes a very ey good Illustration o of te Ui wen wail known fee e tur tures of Bishop Alexander MeRte U as he appeared shortly hort before hi his Ie lie y In this city on SatUrday Jun 1511 at t tie the age of I Ier years er 11 wu born In North carolina on Sept Ih 11 1507 He 1 came to Uta Ut m I among tIme the earliest allt settlers though he be w was not one ot of th the Olal original company Illon Ue lie hd bad lU through many ot of the trying experience li in tl Use hit hii tor tory ot of the Church and w was on one of oC the CIO close ad and friend of oC JO Joset Smith the having bean a fallow ellow prisoner with lh him li In Liberty JI Jail i ithe th the tm time ot of the noted episode 1111 recorded b by Parley P Prat Pratt when mi al areas and rebuked his hll ar for tor the their bl blasphemous utterances r was wa appointed Bishop of ti the Eleventh ward In this city It In 1 iU a ii which h he Md 1 ti till the time ot of hll hi death I lie filled other positions e sit a warden ot of the penitentiary for or two yer year hal having been at J pointed about but the year 11 Ills le 11 11 Wa note noted for tor hi bl upright and nd rP rugged ter he had and embraced for the vigorous In which be upheld the principles of th faim