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Show I CO. F0L11D1ES I AT HOME OF HIS I OAUGHTEB m jjr Christopher Olson Folkraan, a pio-nj pio-nj jr ncer of Weber county and one of its mi& hest known citizens, died at 5 a. m. ffl'n yesterday at the home of his daugh-mh daugh-mh ter, Mrs. John S. Painter of Farr KfflH West. The deceased was nearly 89 IL'tM years old and his death was duo to Wim general debility. He is survived by IBm' the following children: George D. fmli Folkman, Weber county representa-ttajji representa-ttajji tive in the state legislature; C. O. lju Folkman, Jr., Ogilen; Mrs. Blea WJiiM Browning, Blackfoot, Ida.; Mrs. Caro-ijljg Caro-ijljg line A. Wiggins, Ogden; Mrs. Annie Hnj; Hunt, Baker City, Ore.; Mrs. Eliza-ks Eliza-ks both Ipson, Blackfoot; Joseph Folk-lull Folk-lull man, North Ogden; Mrs. Goria Brown flfyR' and Mrs. Godella Painter of Farr i villi West. He Is also survived by thlrty- IiSJ two grandchildren, three grcat-grand- ?w children and one brother, Jeppe G-. r2j Folkman, aged 2 years, of Thatcher, fifty Ida. The funeral' will be held in the Irani Plain City meeting house Wednesday W0d noon and interment will be in the pj Plain City cemetery. jHnjS Mr. Folkman was born on the isl-l!i isl-l!i and of Bornholm. Denmark, February Ijijj 8, 1827, and came to Utah in October, Kjfjj 1858. On March 17, 1859, he accom-S accom-S 'IE rcanied a colonization Dartv to the ii present site of Plain City and helped '! U? to erect the first homes in that settle- y m ment. After a reason of farming, WWa which proved a failure, he came to a Ogden and lived a little more than a Mb year in this city, being employed by mm Bishop Chauncey W. West as a black- Wi smith. He then returned to Plain -Iff ty anc mace tnat t0'n h8 perma- nent home. During his lifetlmo, Mr. Folkman performed three foreign missions mis-sions for the 'Mormon church, in addition ad-dition to being an officer and activo member of different organizations of the church at home. Ho was an expert ex-pert blacksmith and at the Weber county fair held in 1SG2, exhibited a plow that he had forged, which took a premium above all other entries which included factory made articles. arti-cles. A biographical sketon from the Scandinavian Jubilee Album, a book containing photographs and sketches of prominent men of the Mormon church from 1850 to 1900, is as follows: fol-lows: "Christopher Olsen Folkman was born on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, Den-mark, February 8, 1827; baptized by Jens Jorgensen, November 28, 1S51; ordained to tho priesthood, July 11, 1852; labored about six years as a missionary, alternately, on the islands of Bornholm, Lolland, Falster and Moen and also in Jylland, where he presided one year over tho Frederlcia conference: at different times, and particularly on his native island, he suffered considerable persecution. On one occasion he was nearly beaten to death by a mob. He emigrated to Utah in 1858. In the following year ho located at Plain City in Weber county, being one of the pioneer settlers set-tlers at that place. He filled a mission mis-sion to Scandinavia in 1S65-68; labored la-bored first as "a traveling elder in Norway and later as president at the Gothenburg conference, Sweden; filled a second mission to Scandinavia from 1886 to 1888, laboring in Denmark Den-mark and Norway." oo |
