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Show jv Dies From Miners' Consumption John Urynnt died nt his home In tills city of minors' consumption, March 21, ill 9 o'clock p. m... being 40 yenrs, 2 months nnd 20 dnys old. Ho wus taken sick about three months ago whllo nt Tlntlc and was sent to tho ProVo hospitals Just one month ngo ho wns brought from Provti to American Amer-ican Fork. Funoral services were hold from the Presbyterian church, Tuesday, Rev. W, Murphy In charge. Tho Bpcokors were John II. Davis, O. Holmstoad, presiding presid-ing olllcer of tho Odd Fcllpwa' lodge of Lehl, nnd Rev. Mr. Murphy, who preached tho funeral sermon and read ho following biographical sketch: John R. Urynnt was born In England Inn. 1, 1808. At tho ngo of C yenrs ho was carrying tools for his fnthor In a mlno In noITh England when a cave-In nt tho mlno killed his father boforo his oyoB. In 1870 ho wns brought to tho United States as n child of 8 years. When 10 yenrs of ago ho was living In old California Gulch, Colo., at Oro. This was tho year, tho great strlko In tho corbonnto silver mines of Lcadvllle reached tho outside world. Ho was on tho Bpot nnd snw tho fow scattered cabins along California Gulch grow Into Lendvlllo with 30.000 people Tho gront rush wns In 1878. 1879 nnd 1880. Ho lived In Lendvlllo cloven veora, growing to manhood; Baw hor comb up nnd run her tromeudouB ,-oiirso nnd begin her decline. Ho wns raised and lived for years In tho homo nnd family of a Mr. Jeffrlec of Lendvlllo, Lend-vlllo, with whom ho camo to Utah Ini - 1889. -'M Ho wns then 21 years of ago andWM find him In Bingham Canyon, whoffl he was married, and lived fore)ghteM years, purchasing hliTho'mo here In American Fork seven years ago, but working In the mines at our canyon, Tlntlc nnd elsowhcro most of the time. |