Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-01-13 | Page 3 | News of Utha and Adjoining States

I NEWS OF UI AU II AND ADJOINING S STATES TATE i I LORIN FARR FAU F DIES FROM APOPLEXY First Mayor of Ogden Expires Suddenly at Utah Hot lot Springs CONVERTED WHEN ELEVEN i Sat t at at Feet of Orson Pratt and Lived With Nith Joseph t t- Smith Smiths b. b 2 1 LORIN F PARR FARE Special S Service 1 Ogden Jan Lorin 1 12 Lorin Farr th the tir first st t mayor maor of or Ogden and tho first president of Weber stake was stricken e with a apoplexy while bathing at Ui the Utah tah Hot Springs s resort at 33 o o'clock this afternoon and died b be before be- be fore tore he could call for assistance tance HI His HI bod body was vms discovered b by Sheriff WIl nEwn n non on and Joseph Josfph Wallace who were were- bathing bathing- In an adjoining pool Ho was wa found at the edge edgo of or the pool 1 leaning leaning- against the railing railing- and In all probability proba proba- bUIt life was extinct before they reached him Although remarkably active considering con con- his SS years yean Mr 11 Farr had hat been troubled with rheumatism several several sev rev eral oral years ars and had been accustomed to take tako occasional baths luthS at the Hot liol Springs Lorin l Farr arr was the son of Winslow Parr arr and Olive Freeman Farr Parr and was war born July Juh 27 1820 at Waterford Vater Vermont Later the family moved to Charleston Vermont The mem members of the family Including Lorin Farr t then 1 n 11 years ears old were converted to b by Orson Pratt and Lyman Ly- Ly man E. E Johnson and und In tho the fall tall of ot 1837 moved to KIrtland Ohio Lived Joseph Smith In the spring of ot 1838 Lorn Tx started J Wet T r Mo io na ana mae made hf Jib Ills home home it tJi Sv w Joseph Joeph Smith mth rounder founder or t f tile tho 1 Mormon church ChUlch When tho tiLo colony coony wa wan 8 driven from Missouri ho went to Quincy and hi ln th the spring o ot 1840 settled at Nauvoo Ho He was sent on a am m lon to the tho Central states In 1843 where here ho remained until after Joseph and aud Hyrum Byrum Smith had been killed returning to Nauvoo In 1841 ISH 1 In tho spring of 1847 ho started for Salt Lake arriving September 20 0 0 He Ho remained there until 1850 wh when n of or the Young Young- president church sent rent him to Ogden as president dent of the stake then comprising the northern part of ot the tho territory territory- He lIe served as president of the stake until 1870 an antI and served two terms a. a as mayor of ot Ogden He was also a mem- mem bet bar of the constitutional convention Mr r. Farr Is survived by two widows and of his 40 or 50 60 children 27 are living He was preceded to the grave by four wives Sarah Earah Giles Glies Farr Olive Jones Tories Farr Mary Iary Brigham Farr arr 3 and NIcholine Erickson No o arrangements for the funeral have been made malic