Show I HAS REACHED A I RIPE OLD AfiE Garrett E. E Conover Celebrates I the Ninth Ninety-Ninth Anni- Anni 11 of Birth OLDEST WHITE MAN HEREIn HERE Served In Mexican War and In Command of John C. C Fremont Garrett 13 E. Conover the tho oldest odest white whiteman man In Utah celebrated the ninety ninety- ninth anniversary ersary of his birth birth Tuesday Tues da day at his homo home No 13 1 West Vest Fourth South street Salt Lake ke He lie was waR born born In Now New Jersey March 30 1810 was a veteran of or the Mexican war a a. hunto huntor and fur Cur buyer buer on tho the upper Mississippi and on the 8 before he ho on enlisted listed under General Scott for Cor tho the Mexican war During Durin the last w week k ho he had boon II Ill III Illand and Monday Monda It was wan thou thought ht It H would be necessary to send him to the bios hoa pital but before the anniversary o ohis or of his birth dawned ho had overcome hi his ailment entirely and was able ester esterday day to enjoy enJo a birthday dinner lIe Ito made the tho march from Cram Fort FOIt Ul c Kansas In the tho command of oC John C L C. C 1 Fremont to Call California Cornia and back and participated In all tho tio movements of ot that great reat American soldier I When Fremont Fromont was ordered back hack backI Conover er returned I to For POI t Riley I with him This was vas at the beI beginning be bo- of or tho Civil war Conover cr had hadI I I ginning D 1 A th tha n o limit but hUt In nowise v. v 10 0 tho the disability limit However ho was US mustered out and w was s denied tho the privilege liege of enlisting for the Civil war lIe He went to Columbus Ohio and ond married married mar mar- J I ried tied Rebecca Hunter of Colonel Robert Hunter one nn of oC the tho able abio I American commanders In the tho War ar ar or of 1812 and his son on William C C C. Conover er I now sixty years old and living lIvins- with his I father was born there Captain William Conover cr tho father tather of oC the centenarian lost his life bite In tho the War of ot In action at Sword Creek Creele near Ohio L Garretts Garrett's mother mother lived to be 10 years old and died In 1882 She was a contemporary contemporary con con- temporary of oC Washington ton saw his hla first Inauguration as us President and was an Intimate friend of th the rust of ot the theelder theelder theelder elder Commodore Vanderbilt the two women having having- known each other from G girlhood Garrett Garrott Conover for tor ono twenty Windsor tho the great years cars manager farm fum near Denver that grow all the produce furnished all tho the eggs poultry poultry poultry poul poul- for tho the try dairy stuff sture and moats meats Brown Palace and tho the ho ho- ho Twenty-four Twenty years ears ago alo his wife died lied In Denver being CS years old Seven Sc years ago ho came to Salt It Lake Lato to get set relief from flom asthma and has lived hero since Ho Tie Is still sturdy has voted for tor o cr every Republican President since and Including William Henry lenry Harrison and thinks ho has a n good chance to vote for tor tho next j dent I Oct I |