Show Ae L He T CALL CALlE BY PROMINENT RESIDENT OF NORTH OGDEN DIES OF Wealthy Sheep Man survived by Wife a Son and a Known Character A R il C Smith a prominent sheep shoop man of the tho state died 1 at his rest resl nence In North Ogden morn mornIng Ing about abouL 0 after suffering for I about aboul six weeks r m diabetes Mr Ir Smith came to Ogden In his early arl manhood Dr economy and In ho he became one of the solid men of this region lie He was born In Castle Morton lollon Eng England England land August i 1 1852 and was the son of Samuel and Mary Elizabeth Smith Both his parents fire are dead the tho father died In England at the ago age of and the mother at the tho ago age of sevont seventysix An uncle John JohnC C Smith lives In Davis cotin ty tyMi Mi h Smith remained at home and at al attended tended tho ho parish schools He was naturally studious and apt In mathe mathematics matics He loft homo home In and round found with a In Wells a village about three and a half miles distant Ho He stayed there thore only a short time and then start started od ed out to see seo more of the tho world After Arter traveling about Europe lie ho loft England and sailed to America and upon his hi arrival here hore came dl di to lo Utah He remained with his for a arear year rear ani then thon wont to Lo Shah Valley Valle and worked on IL a much lie He lilted liked the tho work and with the possibilities of sheep raising and in inthe If Y the carl early lOs began hegan to familiarize with the best motho methods s of handling sheep In 1880 he was Wag ready to tl start In iii business for himself lie He started with lL a thousand head hend of sheep and the derived from this small nock flock used lit In buying more Ho continued thus until at the time of his hi death lie he owned man many thousand head of sheep and owned tracts of the beSt grazing lands In North Ogden he buIlt a most beautiful home bome In Alvord Lane In 1892 Mr r Smith married Miss Re Rebecca becca Nichols or of Bishop A AC AC C Nichols of Brigham City There were four children Two of these thelie died With the widow ono Olio boy bo and ono one girl survive him |