Show I OF WILLIAM H II FOLSOM I Builder and Citizen Dies at nt Ills His Home Last Jg t to Celebrate His tIIs Birth irth He tie Would Not See It ItI ItA Ite 1 I i HH H l I HH t tr A e i r r it i i f I a t u IW 1 i rr a il i 5 o o j i ft I i ii S r j t ll 1 i C ii J JT M r T 4 iL fr cc i Q F et eta A P 1 f t I a t iI tL iU 0 1 f i iJ J t I i t 7 i qi i fH V n t tf i Jirl i I 0 I fl t L f x j jil I il I U Ux i iI ll f x r I I t k 4 WILLIAM H FOLSOM L t I 11 a I t I died at nt his hi home In Ibl J at itt the age ase of 83 sa S Ills death it III tho the termination t of an unac life feh Sh in which W I I much wits was uc tIC d d Ills His skill and anal energy aie tue express ln In the sacred und en endi di II rID of ot it utah anal for Jor all nil time t amo will tin io held beld In love by many litany and In honor by all nil H II Folsom was born at nt Portsmouth HI N K H It In March 1815 If he hid bid lived until ul UI next Monday MoMa he lie would have reached l d his hili milestone As 40 II lateus late ns yesterday pro word made to the anniversary of ot of his birth by hb t IJU but ho h ensured them them that lull he lue Q Uye to t ice ce that day IRY He lit i was lots of the Ito work of ot titan lion thu tho nar fUI I at death as 1 3 serenely as 1111 though i It II sleep Bleep that was him thus Wr FOe years ho has with asthma but hut he ho never YI lI the thon hand of ot death had maM all of IsIs his vitality Within the th lie hoo of his Ii is death I Ii ho Ia Pus nt C up u p In 1 n bed nod find ad to be anti and finally nank tunk shear exhaustion and l qU awaited the lie end lie He U el to Buffalo with his par ito 9 ws WItS u boy years yearn of age ugo lie he heard a it 1 Elder f I r preach and was vas con coil M at l once He lie 11 was Vats a Il wan India sad Ind physically and auth he lie joJn Church h At 8 11 a I hN tile by of he ha was waa ostracised I Fe took his family fat y om and moved mOeL to tat and established himself as ute asan architect Und Md guilder Ho lie an tat tn in n n tru qt of tho tha Nauvoo Tau l went on 11 It an un III e Smith f the Prophet JI eph tOUt our W n a for tor President nt when hwa h was He lie was lUS In th the States g of if tho th heart of ot tho the turmoil the death and und des destruction that raged In and Rill no na danger threat or deprivation d shook look hoo hIt his fealty y to the people with VUlt whom he lie had hall cast his hl lot He lie WOH sas expelled from froni at ot the time of u the general exo elO dun dua nut and settled nettled at lIe He sube a moved to t Council Bluffs and n In 1860 came on to Ufah Ulah Ills His ability os as osan osan ason an on architect t and builder was waa soon SOOIl re rt required required quire by BrIgham Young While It was the genius of the th great Pioneer leader lender that conceived d the tho wonderful Tabernacle It was wall William Folsom who took the suggestions of his chief and perfected the plans plan pin nil While others other scouted the thi Idea of ot the structure Folk Kol ol corn eam had faith In liz It and HS as a I s conse he lie has ham associated his name In Inseparably Inseparably with a II building that stands as one line of f the worlds centers of ot Interest and curiosity IlY He lie was wall the architect and aUth a superintendent of construction of the Mantl Monti Temple and anal was an able as assistant n assistant In tn the construction of all nil of the He lIe was the tho designer of ot the tho Salt Lake LIlle Theater and many other buildings that are to this day dlLY admired for their architectural grace and dur utilIty lie lid was the head hert of the firm of ot Fol rol soft som aid Romney for tor years The linn Is Isnow Isnow isnow now Romney and ond Armstrong William 11 H Folsom Folsons was always alway a useful man lain As At 11 late Inte as ns 1893 and 1859 1899 18 9 hf lie h acted su n h building Inspector In this city and he performed that office as aM he heIt did It edt others other In his Ills life lite with ability Ono Gnu year ago UIO he was surrounded by b of his descendants Ie who gathered to felicitate him him on luis his birthday Inel although he reached the tIte shadow of another r birthday no gathering was needed to keep I green the love loc his chil til ln en bore for him for tor It will wIl live on onI unabated so long lon as all their memory of him tulsa shall last The fh funeral will probably probably I ably be held from the tho Fourteenth Four ward meeting bouse on Sunday n |