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Show iS. 1. HENRY DIES' AT EARLY HOUR THIS 111 Charles A. Henry, for the past 30 years joint ticket agent of the steam I railroads entering Ogden, died short-j ly after 3 o'clock this morning at ! his residence, 2511 Adams avenue. He , was born in Davenport, la , and is survived sur-vived by his wife and two brothers, George F. and Howard Henry, of Des AfAlnA T . . rnu A r . . 1 . . 1 1 U- .woines, la. i ne iunerai win dp neia j Friday at 2:?A p. m , in the Masonic-temple, Masonic-temple, under the auspices of Weber lodge No. 6, F. & A. M., and interment inter-ment will be In the city cemetery. In the passing ol Mr Henry, Ogden Og-den loses one of the best known nu n locally; and the traveling public, the Weber club. Elks lodge and Weber lodge No. 6, F. & A. M. lose one ot their most popular members. Charles A. Henry left the parental home in Iowa in the late seventies, journeyel to Idaho, and there became one of the pioneer traffic men of that state. His first agent's office was in la box-car at Pocatello, when that town j was only a wild western hamlet and ! I for several years he took care of the traffic on the old Utah Northern in that section of the vuntry. With a far-seeing eye, he recognized the strategic position of Ogden as a future railroad center of greal import, ance some thirty years ago and in 1887, he accepted the position of joint ticket agent of .the Oregon Short line. Cnlon Pacific, Central Pacific and Den. ver &: Rio Grande Western railroads in this city. That position, which; grew in imporlance every year, he held up the time of his death, being jone of the few men, actively associat ed all that time with the growth of Ogden as a trans continental railroad center, who have died in the harness har-ness Railroad traffic officials in Ogden and Salt Lake today expressed deep regret over the demise of Mr Henry, who had been offi ially known Bince the erection of the present union depot as the Ticket Agent of the Ogden Union Railway and Depot company. 1 |