| Show SUDDEN DEATH or A OSTLE SMITH CHURCH IN MOURNING john henry smith counselor to president Preel dent joseph F smith noted churchman pioneer and business man died last friday morning at hie his salt lake home after an illness of only thirty minutes president smith retired at ten thursday night apparently in good health and excellent spirits he ile slept soundly for nearly two hours being awakened at 11 1145 45 by an hemorrhage at 0 the lungs his wife was attracted by his violent coughing medical aid was summonsed summonses summon sed his family and a few friends were gathered at his bedside and the endgame end came in just half an hour president smith b nith had been buffering suffering for several weeks from f corn pleurisy but it is not thought that this had even a remote connection with his death at the time of the spring conference this year president smith suffered an hemorrhage of the lungs but apparently recovered fully from the effects john henry smith was 1 horn at car bunca buries iowa september 18 1843 he was the eon son of the late president smith and sarah ann labbay Lib bay smith his ills parents had been driven from illinois and missouri with the rest of the members of the church and it was while they were at Car bunca bunea near council bluffs that their son was born his father had accompanied president brigham young and the first company of pioneers to the great salt lake valley the year before and with some of them had also returned to the missouri river upon his arrival there he proceeded proceed d to make arrangements for the removal of his family to the new headquarters of the church but it was not until the summer of 1819 18 19 that the family began their journey westward es from the missouri river and john henry was just past one year of age when the family arrived in salt lake here his mother died in 1821 and he was placed under the care of bis his mothers sister the day days of his boyhood passed in a similar manner to other sons of the pioneers and one of his first oca rations was herding cattle on inn the provo bench and along the botton 9 on the st hares of utah lake r at the session of the territorial legislature of 1872 john henry smith was appointed assistant clerk of the house of representatives and from this time dated the beginning of his career in civil mutters matters in the same yar yi ar hi hf was chosen assistant clerk of the constitutional k convention in may 1874 he was called to go on a mission to europe by president brigham young he left utah on june 29 of that year and arrived in new york on july 4 and before sailing paid a short visit to his mothers brothers brother then residents resi reside deits its of new hampshire he ile arrived in liverpool england on july 26 and reported to his cousin joseph F smith then president of the european mission by him he was assigned to the duty of a travel hg elder in the birmingham conference dundei the direction of elder richard V morns morris while enli enraged aged in this work he ile visited most of the conferences of great critian Eri Frit tian lan and also accompanied president resident joseph F smith elder F M lyman and other high officials of the mission to denmark germany switzerland and france after a lapse of a year he was called to utah by the sican sickness ss of hia his father and reached salt lake in time to spend fifteen days at bis his fathers bedside previous to his death on september 1 1875 he ile again took up the active work of the church in utah and on novem her ber 22 2 1875 was appointed bishop of the seventeenth ward for salt lake city which position he filled with efficiency and zeal for five years tears during this period he was also employed by the utah central railway company at the general conference confer erce of the church in october 1880 the first prest presidency of the church was reorganized and elders francis at lyman find john henry smith were called to fill vacancies in the quorum of the twelve being ordained on the day of that month he was again called to go on a mission to england by president john taylor this time october 1882 to act la as 1 of the european mission while thee he visited the various c a 1 feren ferencek fe ces in england and traveled extensively teni ten ively in france and italy being absent from home a period of twenty nine months VV ba upon the division of the peoples party and the liberals upon national political lines ho he was ore of the first to advocate the principals of the republican party and was always an active worker in that party lie ile we was president of the convention that formed the cor under which utah was admitted into the union aa as a state since his call to the apostleship elder smith devoted practically all of his time except when absent from the country on missions he traveled almost constantly among the stakes of the church attending conferences instructing and en curag ing iniz the members organizing and setting in order the stakes and wards he ile visited every stake of the church in utah ammy of them several times in 1901 at the session of the trana trans misais ippi commercial Commers lal congress held at cripple creak colorado mr smith was elected president of the congress and presided over its dell deliberations ber so closely had his time been devoted to public affairs and to the affairs of the church that he had not had time to devote to any extensive personal busi ness enterprises enter pries he ile was however cc sled with a lumber of the leading institutions of the state as an om and director in which pt positions vitious he exhibited the same ability and enterprise that marked his whole life |
