Show PRESIDENT SMITH ANSWERS SUMMONS I SIXTH PRESIDENT OF CHURCH CLOSES REMARKABLE CAREER AFTER LONG ILLNESS Lead Leader r in Church and Civic Affairs I Broad in His Sympathies His I Passing Will Be Sincerely Mourned by All Creeds Salt Lake City Joseph Fielding Smith si sixth th president of the time Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter Saints died at 4 1 GO 50 o'clock Tuesday morning November 19 following an nn Illness of several months' months duration against which he lie had made a n determined fight and had on several sc occasions rallied sufficiently to permit his appearance In public The end came peacefully as he lie lay at the official residence r of ot the time church president surrounded b by members of his bIs family and church dig dig- In the time death of President Smith the time state loses one of Its best known ant and most constructive leaders Broad in his sympathies sighted far-sighted In his imis judgments an and tolerant to a marl marked ed degree his passing will be mourned by men of all nil creeds In Utah and In the lying far-lying missions of ot the church to which he lie had Imad been a frequent visitor The Tile church ChUlCh loses in his death the thelast thelast thelast last of her leaders whose birth occurred occurred oc oc- occurred oc- oc prior to the settlement of the time I church ChUlch In Utah President Smith had just passed Ills his eightieth birth birthday ar when the end came For 17 years and IC days President Smith laid had been the supreme head of he Jie Mormon church to which he lie had devoted the greater time greater part of his liEs life liCe and for which he hc had endured in his Imis earlier da days s 's hardships almost be beyond on the belief of the effete generation of I Itoda toda today During ng his term the church has witnessed witnessed wit wit- flossed th time the greatest prosperity of its history More meeting houses have p z CI- CI k 5 tj I. I President Joseph Fielding Smith been constructed In the time course of his mis reg regime lue than titan were built during the time catire entire en cn- ca- ca tire previous history of the time tion While President Smith is known principally as time thc churchman churchman- that he lie was he leaves behind him an nn enviable record as a public citizen lie jie serve served several terms in the time territorial ana early state was president i of the constitutional assembly and served several terms In the time Suit Stilt Lake I city council councH as well as one term in the time city of Provo Pro Joseph Fielding Smith was born bom In lb Far West Vest Caldwell vell county Mo November November No No- vember 13 1838 He lie was the son of Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith His childhood da days s 's were spent amid scenes of persecution and hardship hardship hardship hard hard- ship which resulted In the time death of his father and his uncle the time prophet Joseph Smith June 27 1844 With his mother who left Nauvoo r as asan asan an nn In 1810 1816 he lie drove an nn ox team for her across the time state of Iowa to Winter Quarters where the time family spent the time winter of 1840 He To was then only 8 S years ears of age but while at Winter Quarters was employed c as a herd berd bo boy and it is said that during the time that lint he was herding cattle at Winter Quarters and after his arrival in Salt Lake lie he never lost a hoof On the tue d death of George Q Cannon in April 1901 1001 in California Joseph F. F Smith acted as first counsellor to President Snow Time The latter died October October Oc Oc- Oc tober 10 IDOL 1901 When lien the time first presidency of the church and the tite twelve apostles met on October 17 1001 1901 the first presidency ency was reorganized with Joseph F. F Smith as president John It R. Winder as first counsellor and Anthon H. H Lund as second counsellor |