Show JOHN CLARK ENDS AN ACTIVE CAREER GAREE OO i Piol Pioneer eer Business Man Politician Poli Poll f j and Church Leader t rt Is Dead i i i DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME f H Heart alt Failure Takes Off Well- Well f. f t. t Known Salt Lake I g d C. C Citizens Citizen I r. r I I After Uter a iI life 0 of 7 1 4 years spent In the Service or ar t lifa f family lila Ills church and his city John Clark J J ex ox ex e cx- treasurer an and ex-councilman ex passed J Lay away at Dot t h Ii hIlS at n First avenue i it tt cr oclo k last night Mr Ir Clark seemed in splendid spirits and health when he ht joined hl hI his family at breakfast yesterday morning and spent most of the tiny dav In his I Jn tim tho afternoon he attended a IL political l and returned home homo about 5 50 0 I. I cloCk o'clock In company with a long life friend lna alid companion Major Richard 1 W. W Young whose home adjoins l the tho ho i Clark residence Major Young left his friend nt at the tho gate gute and Mr Ir Clark after entering entering- hi hl his homo went to tit tho lit bath baui bathroom room to 10 bathe bath before dinner Ho lie ha hat hadt had t be been n there thele but a no short whilo when he lie complained of or feeling faint nn and asked e that a chair be bo brought to the bath to room rn rt 4 After fter r the bath he ho was taken III ill anti and the members of ot the family faintly found lound him about G Ci I o'clock sitting in tho ho chair partially dressed an and gasping tor for breath I Dr Francis P. P was hastily summoned but life was extinct before lie he arrived Dr Richards pronounced pronounce death ath duo due to heart failure Lenten Leave Children The deceased Is la survived sur by a a. widow I 4 1111 nine children The surviving chilI children children chil chil- I dren are Arc as 38 follows rs Julia Tay riy lot Jar Mrs Mra Janle Janic Barlow ot of O Ogden en John Johi E. E Clark Mrs l Charles J p. p Madsen Mrs r j J. J TV W W Clawson of or Los Angeles 4 William lIlIam WilliamX i X N. Clark of or Portland Ore Oro Vaughn ft Clark of ot Seattle Genc Geneve e Clark Clarl ant and Mrs f i t. t Dana T T. Smith All 11 ll of ot tho the children were present save AVO Mrs rs Clawson V WN W W. I 1 r N N. Clark and alid Vaughn V j Xo No arrangements for tor the lie funeral will willbe be lie made matle until the tho other children can canI I r reach Salt Lake Mr Clark was born in Chilton Berkshire Berkshire Berk Derk- shire England April S S. S 1831 1 and emigrated emi emlI I grated rated to America 4 with his ills parents one year car car later Soon afterwards s his mother muther died lct and his father joined the Mormon church an and removed c to Nauvoo III John was baptized III in the lie Mississippi i river cr when nine years ears of or Ills j father died in 1849 and lie he removed remo to tc the Salt Lake valley two years cars later Ho lie located locate In the Fifteenth ward where ho he lived for many years ears lie was a a mem member cr of or Captain Robert T T. r Burtons Burton's command that thal went to Devils Devil's Galo Gate o to Lb watch the tho movements mo of or the army I Ill Political Service lee i 1 i In lii 19 he was appointed to fill cm an anIn unc dl rm In thu Salt alt Lak Iak Council and an was foe tor or seven cn rt 8 In 1831 f. f 1 he lie served a member of the Utah Ulah legislature Jn In 1897 he was waa elected mayor of ot Salt SoH Luke Ity It on the lie Citizens Citizens' ticket lie He ha had been a prominent business inan man luau since IS For many zany years ears he hel was l assistant superintendent of or the Z C. C M. M I. I and his last active business connection was as ns president of thE this Clark Eldredge company compan a concern with fUh a n. remarkably h- h successful business throughout hout the mountain Inter countr country |