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Show 4 JOHN HENRY SMITH, COUNSELOR TO Mij, SMITH, IS DEAD T Wat Prs.ld.nt Cf Con,t!t,t!efll ' vtntlon ,Wh.n UUh w State-Prom- ln.nt In MttttP Concarnad Davalopmtnt of Salt Iiike nty.-Ju- hn n,n t w,. . feeimd counselor to Vretlivu r. Kmlth. and one of the rnt meu of the wcst, tllt-c- l at 'i ,T' X m, j,-- In J3I na lungs. rOHND. GRANT HE great event of war, Itevolutlonnry vent that nmrkfil end of dnH(lc Brltlnh rule In thlH country and tnndo Independence dojr a reality. I lo be celebrated this year with ft greater dlaplay of patriotic enthusiasm than U usual In the commemoration of (rrat historic , events In this country. The 130tb anniversary of the surrender of Cornwal- . lit will be observed at Yorktowii. V on October 1 with an Inspiring naval and military display. The country's srentcst t talesmen will partlrlpate In the exercises In wblcb the lofty aplrlt or true patriot-lawill ba tba predominating feature. Tb pretty little city of Yorktown la with many memories of this country's deMprate ttruggle for liberty and of Ita final triumph. Buildings which figured prominently lu the negotiations between Washington and Cornwall!, which practically resulted In ending the wir, are still standing, preserved as monuments to the patriots wbo erected on this continent a free and Independent commonwealth. The downfall of Cornwallla, which also pelted the end of Diltlsb hopes for retaining M ' this c , J f,! rwult of hemorrhas, 0f' cty Friday momlnc President Smith had leeD r last April, when he suffered t v.? on base which waa connldered t crlous at the time, but the effeK, which be alowly overcame. A tnoa bso he returned front ft trln thrr.,! the Yellalone park and was wen jn every respect until about tk weens !. John llcnry Smith waa born atu. oimcft, ia, oepiemuer II, j was tne son or the late Prmj.,1 ..... re r ta ana raran Ann smun tUMayj ga.., Ilia parents had been driven fft,' Illinois and .Missouri with the rett . the members of the church aaj t was wnue mey were at Carbui now Council Bluffs, that their was born. Ills father, the late ft. Went George A. Smith, had acconj led President llrlghatn Young aa tn flrst company of pioneers to the Cm Salt Lake valley the year berore, in with some of them had aluo return to the Missouri river. I'poo bli rival there he proceeded to cai preparations for the removal of family to the new headquarter! t tbe church, but It was not onto b summer of IS 19 that the ramlirw f.. trt All I ;1 .. -aV... . K I f ft .. A sCT PV QtSM ! wl:SSa. 1 , A fir CORMAUJS' . HADQUMT3- T t. . the borne of algner Nelson, Thomas l of the Declaration of in dependence, ft governor of Virginia, and finally ft k the In l American army. This aturdy relic of many ware waa the offlclal headquarters of Lora gan their Journey westward from Cornwallla as bead or. Missouri river; and John llcnry is the British army during Just past one year of age when r the siege of 1751. Alter amiir arrived in sail uike city. : vthA close of tbe war It At tbe aire of 18. John Henry gala . I ! ' . . J' .. i .. 4k marked the renewal not was married to Miss Sarah Fin; Ml HI' HI J I I I 11 J only of ft friendship be daughter of the Honorable Loren Fn tween soldiers, but tbe of Ogdcn. Soon after h's marrin, of nations. friendship The French ftnd the United States were close together ly cemented through the visit of Gen eral Lafayette to bis old time war friend. Major AT YDJZXWWft General Nelson. In 1S81 a centennial celebration of the victory over Cornwallls was held at Yorktown and the cornerstone of the national monument waa laid with elaborate ceremonies in the presence of ft arent concourse of people. On the base of tne monument the following inscription is engravea: : n x, "At York on October 19, 1781, after ft siege or ' W. nineteen days, by 5.500 Americans and 7.000 French troops of the line. 3.500 Virginia militia under command of General Thomas Nelson and 38 French ships of war, Earl Cornwallls, com mander of the British force at York and Glou cester, jr&rrendered bis army, 7.251 officers and YOrfKTOWf SViST ClSTQff iOVS ' y- a- 'x f-t-?' . :A i, , Vv' i; men, 810 seamen, 244 cannon and 24 standards, 11 i to his excellency. George Washington, com' ( th rntnnlpa nniler th IW1T of KlDST GeorKO'S jnander-in-chie- f of the combined forces of Amer 5'rannlcal power, was brought about by the ican and France; to his excellency, the Comte JOHN HENRY SMITH. de Rochambeau, commanding the auxiliary masterly tactics of General Washington. Tbe American commander led hla adversary to betroops of his most Christian majesty In America lieve he Intended to make an attack on New and to his excellency, the Comte de Grasse, com. he moved to Provo, where he York. Cornwallla, completely fooled by the roanding in chief the naval army of France In employed as ft telejrrapher, and later movements of tbe revolutionary army, was Chesapeake.' assisted in the completion of C caught In a trap. Itemmed in on all sides, seGrace church, which figured prominently Is Central Pacific railway. curely bottled up in Yorktown with communthe historic events Junt related, Is still used ai At the session of the terrttorru A700?F SfOlJF WA&fYCrOt . ications and food supplies cut off, tbe British a place of worship. The edifice Is of marl rod of 1872, John Henry Smiu legislature commander waa forced to aurrender. construction and was built In 1700. The old bet was assistant clerk of Uw appointed Cornwallls Invasion of Virginia followed a was a gift from Queen Anne' in 1725. The orig Governor under Nelson Tbe at house of to a Williamsburg. Caroclose Washington brought by having the lnal communion service Is still In use. CurlouBli representatives, ond froa long and unsuccessful campaign In North draft of the agreement copied, sending It on carved this dated time the beginning of hiJ lina. The British general made up his mind French fleet, September 6, defeated the British designs of a bead and a lion are easlli Admiral under Chesheld and then the the Graves, of the and would It career morning In 19th, civil matters. In the tu prove demanding that that his exhausting fibors there discernable, but the emblems on the service an should be signed by eleven, and tbe garrison apeake to prevent British reinforcements. was he chosen assistant clert year unprofitable until Virginia was subjugated. On Indistinct On the quaint tombstones In the 'march out at two o'clock. Washington took position before Yorktown of convention. the April 25. 1781. he started northward from constitutional are names the of churchyard of the famoui many Rochambeau describes the surrender: "The September 28, and the night of the 29th CornIn addition to his duties in tl Wilmington, N. C. He reached Petersburg, Va, Nelson family. wallls abandoned outer his before works the Americans and French took possession of the May 20, and during the next two weeka atThe oldest custom house in the United State work of developing the church, Ap town. The first of October finds our engineers two batteries at noon. The garrison marched tempted to capture Lafayette, who was In comis situated at Yorktown and Is one of the most tie Smith took an active part In or and the works the out at two o'clock between the two armies, reconnoitering position mand of the small American forces for the de.i interesting or the historic buildings. It was built political affairs of the Btnte. In fa i fense of Virginia. Lafayette successfully evadenemy. The 2d witnessed the gallantry of tbe drums beating, carrying their arms, which were in 1781 and was the port of entry for New York, ruary. 187C. he was a member of t Duke Lauzun de his and in back with legion about driving stacked, Corntwenty flags. Lord ed the Britiah and. June 10. was reinforced by Philadelphia and many other of our great cities Salt Lake City council and served for whose so bad been raids 111, Tarleton, the wallls being long General O'llara marched out Cenernl Anthony Wayne with 1,000 Infantry terror when they were In their infancy. of Virginia and the Carol Inas. On the six years as a councilman. In Auf at the head of the garrison. When he apand six guns. The British commander o far was also the scene of ennRt.iarnhia Yorktown , allied the 6th. s,t irsi broke armies for their me ground intn,! a menitef proached (Rochambeau) he presented his foiled in his objects, had to march back to final parallel, and proceeded to mount their aurlnS the Civil war. of the territorial lejtislature. sword. I pointed to, General Washington opRichmond and thence to Williamsburg, near batteries on the 7th and 8th. On the 9th, two posite to me 'tis the head of the American the Penln8"l Vpon the division of the People' tbe coast, thus practically abandoning control camnai batteries were opened Washington himself '. K . P.'1 "e found Yorktown for- army, and said to, him that as the French army over any part of Virginia' except where naval the torch to the first gun; and on the was an auxiliary on this continent, that it was 8Cr0B8 f 13)6 " 'forces gave possession. Lafayette effected a applying P0"caI ln V0 WarWlck he penlnsJla to 10th three or four more were In play, silencing now from the American general that he must the Re to of Junction with Baron Steuben on June 18, and the advocate principles enemy's works. On the 11th, the Indetake orders." command of the publican J?;!;:.-- ?: J R an thus Increased bis force to about 4.000 men. was and always party Steuben was breaking the ground for The manner of the capitulation was modeled IOrces, naa nardly more than 11.000 The Americans had now become the pursuers fatigable He vu tlve In worker that party. our second 400 within less than on the harsh terms Cornwallls had imposed on parallel, yards instead of the pursued, and followed tbe Brit-Jsof the enemy, which was finished the next General Lincoln, at the siege of president of the convention that Charleston, the harassing their rear and flanks. formed the constitution under which morning, and more batteries were mounted on . previous year. : The colors were cased. The Soon afterward the British army concen13th the 14th. Utah was admitted Into the Union But and the great achievement defeated army was not permitted to play an , trated at Portsmouth and preparations were of the At th, still a its awaits siege American or French accomplishment and It was to Lintune, under way to transport a considerable portion ' W"lo 115.. state. Two advanced British redoubts are blocking . line UCUi tlUBrDQ h! .Inhnatnn ...... "m Klnpa hla nail in. tfia jmnalleshlD coln himself that the formal surrender was t- -j -of it to New York, when Cornwallla received IIU UilU "-, ... ARKltmarl J to any further approach, and they must the way made. der commaSmith devoted practically a" British lDe the orders from General Clinton, forces on tonfedte 17 Anrl be stormed. danallied The divide (his In the troops his time to nubile duties. Except general orders of the 20th Washington nder-in-chief, niore than 50.000 men on to fortify Old Point Comfort and the giory between them, and emulate congratulated tbe army on the the peninsula. .iiit when ger absent from the country on mis If advisaand events Fortress glorious Monroe, was at the present ady to sions, he traveled almost constnnw onen fir. in each other the of One assault. redoubts the of the and day previous, expressed his warm ble, Yorktown. Obeying these Instructions, 3. amonsr tha Is assigned to the French grenadiers and chasHis inkp nt tha church, B gratitude to the French king and his officers, , ttKen Cornwallls ordered a survey of Old Point Com"ear Williams. seurs "T nn w. under asde Viomesnll. Instructing The Is conferences. other In each tending o ... his u. nn naming with inriAntnt..A orders mid suitable his of advice icauie was engineers was, phrase fort, but on tbe signed ta the American light infantry under and commendation, and requested the Count de fought. encouraging the members, organm" obliged to represent to Clinton that it was and setting in order the staKes Yorktown is the rnnn. Lafayette. Both redoubts were soon captured . Rochambeau "to present in bis name to the . . wholly unfit and Inadequate for a naval sta" rorK and wards. He visited every stane i of was the fate Cornwallls .., t sealed. "A Deux-Pont- s Virginia, of and and regiments to Agenols be the two tion. Then, foflowlng what he believed church in Utah, many of thorn severs' small and as of east sortie," precipitate Washington Richmond pieces of brass ordnance captured by them (as the spirit of his orders, Cornwallls, before was calls times, It. made folon one of the oldest Including those in Old w"' a testimony of their gallantry) In the by the British Alinougn h .m.V, storming the hearing from Clinton, moved up to Yorktown co and different states and terrltoriw In In The next lowing evening, has" W?8 nothing. redoubt on resulting country, enemy's the night of the 14th inst.. torktow, t t and began to fortify It In connection with day a vain attempt to evacuate their works when """'uea ' prom- - of the United States and Canada. officers and men so universally vied with inence .Gloucester, on the opposite shore. also made a tour of the utnV,. to and escape by crossing over to Gloucester founders each other In the exercise of every soldierly r HtRtoa mlsotnn Iti 189. doing COnSW Meanwhile Washiugton and Rochambeau. and was defeated by a violent storm. a t has ca virtue." L .' t population of erable preaching both there and icw nunured. with the allied French and American forces, At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of . The victors found the little town of York, his way. were at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., menacing New October, 1781, the British beat a parley, and which at that time contained about sixty houses .. York city and awaiting the arrival of the prom..-- . l"SW n Honda Lord Cornwallls proposed a cessation of hosa in state of absolute dilapidation. They were " " u,e Britain. Kidnapers Draw Life Sentences. Amntivth. ised French fleet under Admiral de Grasse. tilities for twenty-fou- r hours that commission" balls. The British literally honeycombed Nicolosl ;lar by main rearchaeological GuiseDno to for found Chlcam. sail in he wrote that officer expected That ers might meet at the house of a Mr. Moore in officers complimented the Frnch on 'ritaln are ine n the dew Ponds, the constrnVt his brother,, Camello Nicoiu anclent Chesapeake Bay on August 13, but that he the rear of the first American parallel. Wash-- " of their fire, and confessed that of Which ta oo nnntTif.,l tn. Hf Imnrifinn .v.. scribed would remain In American waters only a shorty Ington replied with a grant of two hours' cessawere the first artillerists in Europe, while they the these had been fonMa ThursdaV pUrpos of V? after was furnlT; ponds they time. to tion, that terms might be proposed in writing. French were equally amazed at the wonderful cattle. An .u.Bn drinking wator f,,i. guilty of kidnaping ! ' cAiiiiNun nnriti Finding their general tenor admissible, Washington, who had heretofore resisted enproficiency the Americans had acquired with absent was selected rl"Ss were gelo Marino August 5. York New from were remove the to army for he J and treaties suspended their .n, limited night, ! experience. The house of Secreace was ll0Wed coBur-o- r ' T to formed covered determined in own the terms. Commissouth, Washington proposed his for operations tary Nelson of Virginia, which had served as ver w,h Author's Wife Gets Divorce. some other raw i operate with Admiral de Grasse in an attack sioners were appointed, Colonel Laurens, the Cornwallls' headquarters, and the most stately MUi--l New York.-M- rs. George R dive-fr""lc""'- Above Vlcomte de Noailles, and M. de Grandchaln on With about 4,000 French spread a thick lnv, upon Cornwallls. buildlug In the town, remained for years a siga y stones. 8trewn been Chester has .i. granted New across with the part of Washington; Lieutenant Colonel nificant witness of the accuracy of the tire During i ) and 2.000 continentals he started of t"e clay caused the ft shrt Bt'f c'd ra fcer 26 husband, had iBrtftr. Dundas of on and of Ross and . Cornwallls. an that 19, . by Major the September allies. Jersey August In The 18th was consumed In negotiations, which joined Lafayette and additional Virginia militia T. 0 nultt'"' e to- writer. Mrs. Chester namedshe d This rre specimen of architecture, built In condense from lower etdew whom suit a young woman w hor husband introduced as hla i - ')Tv--- m mnlnr-cenera- r J .ill w- b1Wpo 1740, waa ' .?Mt? t r: .' IT L&$L "AT 1 WfiJT S?l?'0A?rCJ!.jEJ,Of'5VJ??tDJit . 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