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Show I SOL. STEPHENS PASSES AWAY Pioneer Builder and Contractor Con-tractor of Ogden 71 Years Old Solomon S Stephens. Ogden pioneer, and a prominent figure In many business busi-ness enterprises, died at the family home, 36S0 Adams avenue. Sunday morning -'i &:i& o'clock. .ir. Staph n' parents became mem-hers mem-hers of the Mormon church In Illinois uid were among the builders of the . Itv and also the Nauvoo temple. They lived a few years In Iowa, assisting in the establishment of Kaneavllle, low There on September 1. 1800. Solomon C, Stephens was horn. Tin- family syon started for the west again. IfflV' Ing in Ogden when Mr. Stephens was ..ne ear old. During his entire life he bad resided In Ogden. . - H young man, ho taught school, .ifter which he filled a mission to the southern states I'pon his return he md his brothei- VY. .lesse Stephen-, on-gaged on-gaged m farming and wholesale i tie buying. They shipped the CI rat car of cattle loaded on tin rulli ccl at Eagle Rock, now Idaho Kails. Before Be-fore that time cattle Was -trailed many miles to market. They began building and contra, ting early in life, taking the contract and constructing the first sidewalk In Ogden Og-den a board walk from the Broom hotel ho-tel on Washington avenue to the depot on the north side of Twenty-fifth street. Thev also built the first business busi-ness house thai was tor rent In Ogden on Twenty-fifth street. Stephens Brothers built over lutm houses and apartment:" In Ogden ana-other ana-other cities and platted and opened many of the additions to ogden City. They operated at various times a sawmill, lime kiln. brick plant and mercantile stores. Mr. Stephens was alw .i .catad-ocate .catad-ocate of the preservation ol water for the irrigation of the west. His father, fa-ther, John Stephens built the Hi ' reservoir res-ervoir built for irrigation purposes. Since that time these same reservoirs have been Increased in capacity anu number by the two brothers and their larnllles. Mr. Stephens was one of a family or 12 and is survived by the folio; ing brothers and sister . Daniel M . and J. Stephens of gden. mid T. Jefferson Jeffer-son Stephens of Canada, and Con--tanco Ann McBrlde of American fork, and the following children: Lottie Lot-tie M. Stephens. Mr- Belle S. Coleman. S. Clinton, John P.. William P.. and rearl and Rubie Stephens "t Ogden, and Mrs. Jennctta S. Barber of Salt Lake. Mr. Stephens' wife. Marv Ellen I in-cock in-cock Stephens, died during the Influenza Influ-enza epidemic three years ago. The body may be viewed at the family fam-ily residence 36S0 Adams avenue from Tuesday afternoon until the time of the funeral Wednesday, which will be held at 2 o'clock in the Fourteen! n ward chapel. oo |