Deseret Evening News | 1908-04-25 | Page 5 | The Late Thomas Pierpont

i i Y Y Y 1 Y Y Y Y Y V Y s f Y X T s Y 1 1 S 1 I f X I Y 1 Y 3 Y Y 1 l THE LATE THOMAS PIERPONT Thomas Pierpont horn born in III r England I November fl 6 1836 Ills father tuther John Pierpont wap WUI one of the first locomotive In III tho lit world on Oil tho Liverpool Manchester Hallway He lle received tho gospel In ISU lS J and in emigrated to 0 New Yirk where whelo ho completed his lils apprenticeship aa nil a Il machinist In III the m o family moved to Hamilton Canada whore his father wax InH a railway master ma tr mechanic In III ho returned to York und mid there married King of ot Leeds Grell county count X Y He lie soon returned to Toronto and on In in III the brass foundry business Ho and lInd his family und 1111 1 mother came to Utah tah crossing the plains with wit h Captain Lawry and arriving in III Salt alt Lako LallO October 21 His home has been beell In Salt Lake lalle City from that time Ihn e until the tho present excepting a cw years yem spent In Provo 1100 In 1ST In hl was Wa made master maste mechanic of or the Central railroad In 1876 he h organized the Snit Salt Lako Foundry I ft Company und and many years ears conducted a It under that name nume Ho He was a n linn believer In the ospel and accepted all principles s ot or tho faith In III 1873 ho married J liven t a Hecl Ho suffered privations and Im Imprisonment for tOI his adherence to the tho faith he ho had accepted He lie died as IS he had lived lIed In full fl th to the gospel highly esteemed by b u wide of friends and endeared to his hi numerous family Ho IlIe April 16 1 lOS Tho jho funeral was wll held helt In the Fourteenth I ward wald chapel April 10