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Show Frank A. Beckwith, Editor of Chronicle Since 1919, Dies of Heart Ailment Final Rites Will Be Held Friday in Delta v . r JL. .. 4 r i ' FRANK A. BECKWITH. a favorite fav-orite picture of his, taken about ab-out the time Mr. Beckwith was presented an Honorary Tenderfoot Tender-foot Badge in the Boy Scouts of America by the late President George Albert Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, at a ceremony in Salt Lake City. ed in the Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret Des-eret News, Desert Magazine, Improvement Im-provement Era and a national bankers' publication. STUDIES MILLARD I He had studied the geology of the area, and the Indian lore, and found it so interesting that he passed it on to his readers in many articles and pictures. He knew the country well, and studied it first hand, and will be long remembered remember-ed from his tours in his small open truck, camping out with his pet dog. He was interested in and studied stud-ied the lava formations in east Millard, the geological formations in west Millard, and especially the story of the Indians before and after the early settlers. Of great interest to him were the many Indian pictographs in the area. He had made a collection of a number num-ber of his finding, or pictures of them, that he kept in the Chronicle Chron-icle office. Countless visitors have viewed them there, both young and old, and Mr. Beckwith enjoyed enjoy-ed telling of them. A source of great pride to him was the fact that in the National Museum, Washington, D. C, was a fossil named after him. That was the "Beckwithia", now exhibited exhib-ited at the museum. Charles E. Eesser, curator, Div-ison Div-ison of Stratigraphic Paleontology, United States National Museum, sent Mr. Beckwith in early 1932 his pamphlet on a new middle Cambrian merostome crustacean, known as Beckwithia Typa. It was autographed with compliments of Dr. Resser, and opened with the words: "Frank Beckwith, of Delta, Utah, recently sent to the United States National Museum for identification identifica-tion a photograph of a fossil collected col-lected by Emory W. John, of Clear Lake, Utah, in the banded argillaceous argill-aceous limestones of the Marjum formation in Weeks Canyon, House Range, Utah, stating that if the animal represented was not a tril-obite, tril-obite, or if it was rare, he would be rjleased to nresent it tn the Frank Asahel Beckwith, 74, editor ed-itor of the Millard County Chronicle Chron-icle since 1919, died Monday, June 11, at 10:30 p. m. at the Fillmore hospital of a heart ailment. He had been a patient there since Friday night when it became apparent ap-parent his heart was weakening rapidly. He had helped last Wednesday, Wed-nesday, as usual, in putting the Chronicle onto the press and into the mails. He was bom Nov. 24, 1876, at Evanston, territory of Wyoming, a son of Asahel Collins and Mary Stuart Rose Beckwith. His early life was lived in Evanston, where he was graduated from high school at the age of 16, the only boy in the class. As a young man he learned lear-ned the banking business under his father. August 25, 1898, he was married to Mary Amelia Simister, of Coalville, Coal-ville, and the couple made their home in Salt Lake City until 1902. They returned to Evanston at that time, and Mr. Beckwith was employed em-ployed in the Beckwith banking Company until 1907. That year the family returned to Salt Lake City. There Mr. Beckwith was employed in various companies, including McCornick banking company, Utah Savings, Tracy Loan & Trust Co., and for a period was a teacher at Henager's Bussiness College. He had been a secretary for the late Judge C. C. Goodwin, on Goodwin's Weekly. COMES TO DELTA Mr. Beckwith came to Delta in February, 1913, as cashier of the Delta State Bank, first bank in the new community. He was there until 1917, and then went to Oakley, Oak-ley, Idaho, for a year as bank cash ier. ! In February, 1919, he returned to Delta to edit and publish the Millard County Chronicle, which he purchased from Charles O. Davis. Dav-is. Since that time he had been editor of the Chronicle and was joined in 1927 by his son, Frank S. Beckwith, business manager. Mr. Beckwith early established himself with the interests of Mil- National Museum. Since this is the first example of a merostome from either the horizon or geographic geogra-phic region, it is, naturally, a rare form, and Mr. Beckwith's generous offer was accepted at once." All who knew Mr. Beckwith knew of his interest and searches of trilobites, and which he had an interesting collection in his office. BOOK FOR BOY SCOUTS In 1947 he compiled a number of his writings into the book, "Millard and Nearby", of which a thousand copies were printed. Editor Ed-itor Beckwith turned them over to the Boy Scouts to be sold, with all profits going to the Boy Scouts. That was his way of helping the organization. Many times he had accompanied a group of Boy Scouts to tell them in the field what he knew of the geology of the area. And many times he had talked on a favorite subject of his, astronomy. as-tronomy. Mr. Beckwith had had no college col-lege education. But he had studied (CONTINUED ON BACK PAGE) lard county, and especially tne new and growing community of Delta and surrounding farming lands. In his early years in Delta he was identified with the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce and their efforts to publicize and point out the potentialities of the area. Mr. Beckwith was well-informed on such diversified subjects it is difficult to tell of all that engaged his interest. As a young man he patented an invention that is being be-ing used to this day, although he received small revenue from it. He was a Latin and Greek scholar, by himself, and his field o'f reading was unlimited. His volumes of Plato, Socrates, Homer and Shakespeare Shakes-peare and Emerson are but a few of the books he had read and reread, re-read, and marked them with his notes. He liked to write of the things he knew and understood, to arouse enthusiasm in his readers for the same subjects. That he had done so is evinced in the number of people, friends and strangers, who called on him in his office for further information. Many of his writings and pictures have appear- |