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Show PRESIDENT CANUTE PETERSON. Hla Death Rcmoeg One of the Well-Known Well-Known Men of Centnl Utah Eplirulm ttuh tut irThe death of 1'reslclont I'inute Peteison who died lost 1uedn iemoes one of the best known tlsuies from central Utah As president nnd ne prliote cltlien lie wan beloed b all he tmlni In fact been the main factor In liulMlnR up the (oiniminlt) Ills Illness due to rheumatic feei has confined him to his bed for a ear past and his pislnir awaj had mniiientnrllj been exi ected for man months He has been a power for Rood In the communis commun-is He was horn In Wdfjord Itardaiiner Norwo Ma j la 1M4, his parents be Ins Peter IoIuifoii nnd llerborg 1'eler son At 12 enrs his pirents re-moed re-moed to La, Salle count) III? liter dlnB there .No educational odin-tages odin-tages were cer affouled him set he was a ery lndutrlous bo as at 11 he had pnj 1 all emlBratlnn fares which was nearly $no In 1849 ho tame to flan haWiiK Joined the Mormon chui'h In 1S12 set tllnB In Silt Iike He was mirrled the same sear to Sirnh Ann Nelon who died In 1S9 He later loc-ued In iaaitaalaMia'vJJ' i M BIBIBIBIBIBKr1'TO.V --! MSI Canute Peterson. I.ehl, where he mi married to fler-trudo fler-trudo Marie rtolfson and Charlotte l.k-strom, l.k-strom, who suiW.o him, beluK residents resi-dents of thl city, ln 1R13 he left for a mission to Norwn, where he spent four Jf.ir., and ORiln In 1871, remain InK another two cnrs In 1M7 he located nt I.plirilm, now presiding us bishop, rcmalnlUB In that capacity until 1577, when he was ordained or-dained as president of Mn etc stnke, which Ins since been comerted Into tho North nnd South Sanpete stakes, he lemilnliiR as pusldent of tho latter. lat-ter. In 1S92, CleorKC CI C aniion ordained or-dained him n pitrlarch, remilnlnc; so until hli de-ith Never a politician however, he smed as a member of tho I.phralm I'll Council Coun-cil liter serlnu am a member of the Territorial Legislature for three terms. One of bis pet projects was to seo Iho completion of the Snow academj. InauRiirated by him, nnd of which he was president. It Is still In ourse of erection und will ever remain us a testimonial tes-timonial to him From the October conference at Salt Lake last ear he leturned ery III but It did not keep him fiom nttendlnR special conf. renco held as Mantl In November from which he returmd to take to Ills bed tie.er helm; able to leave It nfleinird lie died at a ripe old br. 78 veirs, 5 month; He leives a family of sixteen children. slxt Rrandchlldren and eight great-grandchildren AlHulle John Henry Smith Heed Pniocit Pusldent A. 11 Lund and piobablj Teas Hie nnd Preslduit Smith nre expected at tho funeial whlih occurs oc-curs lomorruw at li o clock |