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Show its future that ho Invested largely I" ' real estate, Jn;iST8 Imituilt on Mat' j street, now , Washington avenue, tho Stevens block, a flnv throe-story bnid- j Ing of Improved modern stle. His agricultural Implement business wan conducted ,.n Firth street, now called Twont) -fifth street, purchased and Milrpcd thousands of carloads of I'taJi produce, bringing much money Into the hands of his patrons, the farmers. Hp also conducted a lumlier yard In Ogden City, disposing of tbo product of a number of Haw mills which ho hold to tho purchasers .taking In mli t for his pay, 1I1K giving emplox rnenl to a great number of men. In brief, Mr. Stevens ranked in the business history of Northern I'tah as an enterprising en-terprising man. second to none an1, In the building up of Ogden Cl'y ho was an Influential fartor. In I SOrt the Sidney Stevens Implement Imple-ment company wrw Incorporated, ex-, ex-, lending the Implement. business through branch houses Into northern lTtnh and southern Idaho, establishing branches at Logan, Ctah, and Preston and Mimtepelior. Idaho. At the Mmo of his death. Mr. Stevens Stev-ens was active not only In business nffalrs. but In the affairs of the Mormon Mor-mon church. Ihirlng his residence In North Ogden he Hrvc d In the bishopric bishop-ric and In other capacities and slnco making his residence In Ogdcn ha boon a member of the second ward of Weber stake, a period of more than t wenty years. The funeral services will he held from the Second Ward meeting hou.e Wednesday afternoon, May 2", at 15 o'clock The remains may be viewed by friends at the family residence be-tween be-tween Ibe hours of ten a. m., and 12 in., on Wednesday, BEAT'S : F SIDNEY , STEVENS . The sudden 'ltn of Sidney Stevenr, Utah pioneer and on of Ogdon's most prominent t lens, occurred at the family residence, 2.".t'.'J Adams avenue, at C 1.". o'clock t'oturday evening, after an illness of Only a week. Death was duo to Hri?ht's disease, which had developed during tho paft ten days from an attach of rheumatic neuralgia. Mr. Stevens returned a week ago Sunday Itoin a trip lo Idaho and complained nl not. feeling well. Dr. Rlrh was calM 'nd the pntlep.t did fairly well until Wednesday, when his condition took n turn fnr the wor-e. A consultation of phvhlclans was then held by Dr Kr.ra and IM-ward IM-ward Rich and Dr. Morrell. It being decided thai Mr. Stevens was seriously serious-ly ill with Rrlghfs' disease. Then Drs. Hudge of Logan, who had previously treated Mr. StevenH for similar complaints, wore also called Into the. cage, hul In spite of everything every-thing that could be; done the patient steadily grew worf until his ileal ii. Mr. Stevens was only conscious at brief Intervals since Thursday evening. even-ing. Sidney Stevens is survived hv hi wife and eleven chll'Ii'm, Sidney o. Stevens of Iigan, Frank .1. Stevens of Ogden, Mr. Frank He Puy of Mont-pelirr, Mont-pelirr, Ida, Mrs G. T. Alvord of Ivgan, Mrs A V. Curby of Ios Angeles, An-geles, C. II. S'cvena of Ogden, Lillian Stevens of Ogden, J. W Stevens of Prr-Hlon, Ida.. Mrs. K. P. Jones, los Angecs Albert U. S. Stevens m" Ogden. who returned Saturday from Australia, and Walter F. Stevens of Loean. Albert, above mentioned, waa unacquainted with his father's Illness, but fortunately arrived two hours be-foro be-foro his father passed away. Sidney Stevens was born in the town of Nunney, Summersetshln. England. Ills father was James Stevens, Stev-ens, an lufluentlal business man of the above named country. His mother's moth-er's maiden name was Martin. Sidney was the youngest child, but one, of m familv of six sons and two daughters. daugh-ters. The homestead of the family adjoined ad-joined Nunney castle, which was one of the famous old castles of England that stood tho assaults of Oliver Cromwell's army. Mr. Stevens, tho father of Sidney, purchased his property prop-erty called Castle Green, when he was a young man. He was ft leather scaler and a manufacturer of boots, shoes and harne6S and on his property prop-erty there was a number of houses, ft store and his factory. Sidney Stevens wa educated at the Turner Institute, which was a school of high reputation In the country to which school the sons of the yeomanry anil lesser gentry were sent by their parents from the neighboring villages and towns to obtain their eduactlon as well as the .loimg men of the town of Nunnoy. Mr. Stevens was baptized into the Mormon church on the 2ist dav of December. 3861. In the'fall of 1S52 he aderUsod to sell out his leather business. In February, 1861, he. soM and In the following! month of May he Immigrated to ' Utah, assisting about a dozen families to Immigrate that season. Previous to his departure depart-ure from his native land, Sidney Stevens Stev-ens married Mary .fane Thick, from the town of Hallwell, Dorsetshire T'ney were married at Liverpool Mav 22, 18C3. Crosses the Plains Arriving in New York,' Mr. Slovens and his wife remained there a short time and then proceeded to St. Joseph, Jo-seph, Mr., where heAlfio tarried a while, making purchases of a load of tea and sugar to glvo him a start In Utah commerce. Having sent his merchandise mer-chandise up the river to Florence, ha followed to that place, which was then the rendezvous of the Immigrants to outfit for the journey across tho plains to Utah. From this point he started with two wagons, four yoke of cattle, and two cows, anil traveled in an independent company which Joined Captain McArthur's train, sent down to the frontiers for the poor by the Perpetual Emigration Fund company. com-pany. They arrived In Salt Lake City about the middle of October, and there Mr. Stevens staved during the winter to look around the country to see where to locate, Having thus remained In Salt Lake City a while, he started for Ogden, but on the way, being met by Bishop Lay ton of Kajsvllle, ho was persuaded persuad-ed to stop at that place to strengthen tho business force of the settlement. The bishop said that Kaysvllle necled just such a man as Sidney Stevens to develop Its business and commercial com-mercial Interests and that If lh latter lat-ter would stay and open bin sloro, be would do all In IiIh power to help hU patronage, Thus Induced, Mr. Stevens stopped at Kaysvlllei where ho bought a location lo-cation In tho center of the town with the expectation of going Into the merchandise mer-chandise business In that place. There he remained for a year and sold tho goods which he had brought from the stales, holding himself In abeyance, however, for a permanent location, and be finally chose North Ogden. In 1R(,5 Mr. Stevens came to North Ogden and purchased a piece of property prop-erty In the center of the town, where stands his country' store and residence. resi-dence. Here he built a tannery, purchased pur-chased hides, manufactured them Into leather, which he made up Into boots, shoes and harness, aa well an selling leather to the trade. This hronch of homo manufacture he carried on with fair success for a period of seven years, until the importation of the states' leather at a cheaper rate than It could be manufactured at home, mado thl.i branch of home manufacture manufac-ture an unprofitable business, tho home product not being able to compete com-pete with that Imported from th states by the railroads. Mr. Stevens, during the years of the growth of his business at North Ogden, Og-den, had sold plows and other farming farm-ing Implement. . H aeted sr a commission com-mission agent for tho, ,ieopl.. 0f this country, sending eostr to purchase farming Implements and machinery for them each season. This was one of the hiethods of Utah commerce in the early day-" When the railroad was completed, Mr. Stevens came to Ogden and engaged en-gaged In the line of business In which ho had become well known, not only in surrounding states, mjt to tn) great bouses of the oaM. Builds Up City. In the building up of Ogden Citv Sldney Stevens had so much faith in |