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Show WM. H. ROWE IS CALLED BY DEATH William Henry Row, 72 yenrs of i age, former resident of Ogden and ( known to all his friends as "Billy" Rowe died at his home in Salt Late yesterday afternoon At one time he was in charge of the, waterworks which supply this city and made his headquarters here AB manager of the Bear River Land and Irrigation company Mr Rowe was born in Portsmouth, ED l t rid , February 14, 1841. In carh life he learned the art of shoe manufacturing, manu-facturing, first working with his father fa-ther and later a6 an employe and man a;;er of larger factories than the one operated by his father in Portsmouth itc arrived in Salt Lake in 187.1, and! for four j ears was employed as a salesman and later as foreman of the shoe department of the Z. C M I j In March, 1877, he bought the Working Men's Co-Op. and started a i phoe lactory. known as the Big Boot 1 In the fall of 187R his business was taken oer by the Deseret Tanning & Manufacturing company, and he vns made superintendent of the largo i business In March of 1S79. the new Industry was amalgamated with the Z C. M I and Mr Rowe. continuing as superintendent of the manufacturing manufactur-ing department, began the development develop-ment of hat was the predecessor of the present manufacturing plant of the Z C M 1 According to his plans and under his direction, the Z C M 1 shoe fac-; tory was built and equipped Lfctet tho overall department was added while he was still associated with the institution Mr Rowe remained with the Z C M I for many years, constantly con-stantly developing the factory and in many ways proving himself able to solve the problems that faced local manufacturers He did much to make the expression, "home manufactured ' a recommendation rather than a sttg ma for goods During the last years that he was associated with the in stitutiou. he was assistant to Superin tendent T. C, Webber. During the past few years his health has been gradual falling His mind continued bright however, and as secretary of the good roads com mission ind of the last two state fairs, he was active until a few months be-1 fore his death Mr. Rowe's life had marked him asl one of the men whose genius for organization or-ganization together with tireless industry, in-dustry, have made Utah a great com-1 monwealth instead of a barren waste-Besides waste-Besides his widow. Mrs Hanna Francis Rowe, who was associated closely with her husband in his successes, suc-cesses, as adviser and often as actu-; al participant, Mr. Rowe is survived by a son and four dnughters The son is Lorenzo W Rowe of Corinne Utah The daughters are Mrs E. J. Smith, Mrs. Walter E Maddison and Amy Rowe Houtz of Salt Lake and Mrs. A A. Greene of Spokane, Wash Funeral services will be held at the Eighteenth ward chapel, corner of A street and Second avenue, Salt Lake, at 12 o'clock Friday. |