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Show JOHN HENRY SMITH SUDDENLY CALLED One of the Great Leaders of the Mormon Church Dies in Salt Lake ' Married a Daughter of Lorin Farr Counselor to the Presidency Pres-idency Stalwart Republican Vacancy May be Filled by Francis Lyman. John Henry Smith, second counselor counsel-or to Joseph F. Smith and third In succession from tho presidency of the Mormon church, president of tho constitutional con-stitutional convention and one of the eminently groat men of the west, died this morning at 12:15 o'clock, as a result of hemorrhage of the lungs, at the homo of his second wife, Josephine G. Smith, 80 West First North street. Salt Lake. Death was not expected. Mr. Smith retired last night at 10 o'clock feeling feel-ing well and In good spirits. At 11:45 o'clock last night Mrs Josephine G. Smith was awakened by tho sound of labored and heavy breathing which came from the room occupied by Mr. J Smith She rushed td his bedside and discovered ho was suffering from a. hemorrhage of the lungs. -Dr H Z. Lund was summoned and arrived at 12:05 a. m Ho administered adminis-tered a hypodermic Injection to the patient. However, the stimulant had no effect and Mr. Smith passed away ten mlnutcB afterward Mrs. Josephine G. Smith, throe im mediate members of the family and Dr Lund were present at the deathbed. death-bed. The sick man passed away with very llttlo pain He was not conscious con-scious at the end nor did he speak after retiring last night. Had Suffered Long. For the past three weoks Mr. Smith had been suffering from pleurisy However, it Is not considered that this was a factor In Inducing the hemorrhage hem-orrhage of last night Ho had boon ailing s(nca last April, when he suffered suf-fered p. hemorrhage which was considered con-sidered very serious at tho time but tho effects pf 'which ho slowly overcame. over-came. A month ago he returned from a trip through the Yellowstone park and was feeling well in every respect. re-spect. Dr. Lund would not say that the speaking dbno by "Mr. Smith at the rocent conference had induced the illness ill-ness which caused his death, but I members of the family aro inclined to ueiiove laai; no overmxun imueu Mrs. Sarah Farr Smith, first wife of Mr. Smith, is In Chicago. Aside from his church positions Mr. Smith was a director In tho follow, ing enterprises at the time of his death: Z. C. M. I., Salt Lake Knitting works. Utah National bank. Utah-Idu-ho Sugar company, Consolidated Wagon Wa-gon & Machine company, Heber J. Grant company and the Homo Fire Insurance cpmpany of Utah. Heber J. Grant Is next in apostolic succession. John Henry Smith is survived by the following wives and children (he had no own brothers or 6i3ters living): liv-ing): Sarah Farr Smith, widow; sons, Georso Albert, Don C, "E. Chase, Wlnslow F.. Nathaniel L.; daughters. Claire Smith, Mrs. P. S, Langton and Eliza Smith; Josephine G. Smith, w'l-dowf w'l-dowf sons, Nicholas G., Joseph H., Jlon, daughters, Mrs. Sarah S. Pond, Besslo, Zella and Josephlno Smith. Apostle Smith was ill but twenty-Ive twenty-Ive minutes bofore he passed away. Born In CouncH Bluffs. Whltnoy'a. history gives tho follow-ng follow-ng account of John Honry Smith: John Henry Smith Was born at Car-aunca. Car-aunca. Io., -September 18, 1848. He ivas tho son of tho late President Smith and -Sarah .Ann (Llbhay) j Smith. HIs,-paronts had been driven f . from Illinois and Missouri with the i-est of the members of the church and It was while they wero at Carbunca, now Council Bluffs, that their son was born. His father, the late President George A. Smith had accompanied President Brlgham Young and the first company of pioneers to the Great Salt LaV valley. John Henry was Just past . one j ear of age when the family arrived in Salt Lake City. Here, on June 12, 1S51, his mother died of consumption, consump-tion, and after her death, he was placed under the caro of his mothor'B sister, Hannah Marlah, who was also one of his father's wives, and to her he owed much of bis future growth and education. Owing to tho frequent and prolonged pro-longed absences of his father from home, the lad was almost exclusively under the tuition of his aunt. His father's family became widely scpar-atedsoon scpar-atedsoon after their arrivar in Utah, some residing in Salt Lake City and others In Parowan, while his wivos Lucy and Hannah wore, during the summer of 1S52, removed to Provo, in which town the lad spent his early life. Marries Miss Farr. At the ago of IS he married his first wife, Miss Sarah Farr, daughter daugh-ter of tho Honorable Lorin Farr of I Ogdcn and she was ever a .-ue and devoted helpmeet to hor husband. Ten years later he married Miss Josephine Groesbeck, daughter of Nicholas Groesbeck, an older in the church. ' Upon his marriage to Miss Farr, the I young couple removed to Provo. where John Henry Smith was employed as ' a telegrapher. While residing there ' ho was chosen as a counselor to Bish-1 op "W. A. Folletf of the Fourth AVard of that town. When the transcontinental transcontin-ental railway was nearlng completion ho loft Provo and entered, tho services ser-vices of Bensin, Farr & West, and assisted as-sisted them In qompletlng two hundred hun-dred miles of line of the Central Pacific Pa-cific railroad, which they had con- tracted to build. Upon the comple- 12J tlon of this work, Governor Leland . Si Stanford of California offered the f M young man a good position in Sacra- j- 5? mento, but as his father desired him I is! to return to Salt Lake City, he de- T JS clincd the offer. ' J MIcBlon In Europe. j W In May, 1S71, he was called to go on V s a mission to Europe bv President f- Jj Brlgham Youns He left Utah on ;sr June 29 of that year and arrived in 9 New York on July -1, and before sail- j Hi Ing paid a short visit to his mother's , brothers, then residents of New Hamp- j- Hj shire. Ho arrived in Jiverpool, Eng- H land, on July 26 and reported to his r9 cousin, Joseph F Smith then pres- r; M ident of the European mission. By j; tijl him he was assigned to tho duty of a t L' traveling elder in the Birmingham con- (r 1J ference, under the direction of Elder ! K Richard V Morris. While engaged on B this work, he visited most of the con- H ferences of Great Britain, and also ac- H companied President Joseph F Smith, IH Elder F M Lyman and other high JH officers of the mission to Denmark, cj Germany, Switzerland anil France. Af- jltl, ter a lapse of a year he was called to ' It Utah by the sickness of his father. - Kj and reached Salt Lake City in time - Hi to spend fifteen days at his father's Kj bedside previous to his death on Sep- ' tembor 1, 1S75. ? V.I He acain took up the active work , Hj of the church in Utah, and on Novem- ;: ber 22, 1875, was appointed bishop of ' H the Seventeenth ward for Salt Lake aj Citv, which position he filled with of- Wft flclenoy, and zeal for five years Dur- , Jh. Ing this period he was also employed k by the the Utah Central Railway com- 'J mj pany V Ijr. At the general conference of tho j! g church in, October. 1SS0, tho first prcsl- J jJ dency of the church was reorganized f "L and Eldors Francis M. Lyman and " jg!? John Henry Smith wore called to fill jjfj the vacancies In the quorum of the jS Jj twelve apostles, being ordained on tho Sfi 27th day of that month. i fig" Tn the first months of 1SS2, when j Tll, the Edmunds-Tucker anti-polygamy Kg bill was before congress, Apostles ' j,( John Henrv Smith and Moses Thatch- ' fffaf. er were sent to "Washington to as- ' SJef sist George Q. Cannon, the delegate - Jtfo! from Utah, in preventing the passage '. jSfcfc , of this act, but their labors were un- " j ' successful. Upon three subsequent .; occasions. Apostle Smith , visited ; S Washington in the interest of the ;. ) people of Utah. In 1S92 he went to ; lij" the capital to aid In securing the ad- -j SVcg, mission of Utah as a state, and In the ! Stjc T early part o 1900 he again visited $ that city in the endeavor to modify 7: lja) the sentiments of tho leading men of ; fjjj (Continued on Page Five.) j- I JOHN HENRY SMITH I SUDDENLY CALLED f I" - (Continued from Pago Four) f the country nnd their attitude in re- ,i sard to tho members of the church. If Mission In England. 1 He was again called to go on a ;J mission to England by President John Taylor, this time. October. 1SS2, to act 1 as president of the European mibsion. Jj "While there he visited the various conferences in England and traveled f extenshely in France and Italy, be- i ing absent from homo a period of -g twenty-one months. ..Upon his return I he found the whole state in a turmoil. ' , due to the arrests and prosecutions v then being' made undor authority of -I the Edmund6-Tucker-act. He was ar-m ar-m L rested upon tho prevailing charge Vj t unlawful cohabitation but was dls-jlf dls-jlf charged on account of the lack of ovl-l ovl-l . dence. L In addltipn to his duties in the I ,t work of developing the church. 1 .j Apostle Smith took an active part in' yl j the political affairs of tho state In : February, 1K7C, ho was a member of E j the Salt Lake City council and serv-sti; serv-sti; ed for six years as a councilman. In August, 1SS1 he was elected a mem-sfc; mem-sfc; ber of the territorial legislature. rji Upon the division of the People's ja I party and the Liberals upon national w. ( political lines, he was one of the first fSftV to advocate the principles of the Re- "5?" publican party and was always an ac- a& tive workor in that party He was IS president of the convention that form- f -f ed the constitution under which Utah S . was admitted into the union as a jjc -J state. J ', Since his call to the apostleship El- It j- der Smith devoted practically all of !j& hla time to public duties. ' Except !j5 ', when absent from the country on 3 - missions, ho traveled almost constant- in : ly among the stakes of the church IFg' attending conferences, instructing an 1 R-' encouraging the members, organizing .' and setting in order the stakes anl m ;. wards. He visited every stak'e of thv 2 church In Utah, many of them several '.. timos, Includ'ng those in Old Mexico and different states and territories of r& . L the UnitPd States and Canada. lie in also made a tour of the southern j"' states misslin In 1S9P, doing consid-,, consid-,, erablp preaching both there and on '. his wav. I "r In 1901. at the session of iho Trans- , ' Mississippi Commercial congress, held J ,i at Cripple Creek. Colo., Mr. Smith was y elected president of the cougrcas and presided over its deliberations. fin |