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Show HUNDRED ANDONE YEARS OLD Grandfather of Well Known Attorney to Celebrate Anniversary. Dr Joseph H. Hnlstcnd, 101 jenra of nge, fonnerly the fnmilv tihysicinn l Hi nrv Clnv nnd grnndfnther of J . Ilorzcllc, Salt Iikc City attorney vho was in I'nco Monday lait on huincss before tho district court, will relihrnle his birthday nnniversary at his home at Ilreckcnndge, Mo , March ilh, next Tuesday. Attorney llor-rrlle llor-rrlle while here slated that he would leave Zion tomorrow to ho present nl the celebration One of the fcntunM of tho birthday parly will bo the dis (ilny of aomo of the documents Dr. llnlstend hns df Henry Clay "tho tnnn who did not live long enough lo be president," nnd n enno Hint is closely nssocintcd with the entrance or MlMoiin into the union. Dr llnlstend, who raised Attornoy l.'omllo from lohood, wns living in Kentucky during the height of Henry Clny's enreer, except In 1841 nnd 1112, when he went up the river in I earner nnd stopped nt Ilichmonu, Mo. He practiced medicino there, for n while nnd returned to Kentucky, where he remnined until 1800. Then he went bnik to Missouri nnd houcht n section of Innd near Drcckenndgc, of which he still owns two hundred nnd fort) ncres. Thnt was the lime when Missouri wns the western rail, road terminus in the United States. The doctor is reisirtcd to have said of his farm. "One thing thnt I ran iiv of in) farm that few can honst. There have never been but four owners. own-ers. One was the king of .Spain. The next wns KoHileon llounpnrte. The t nitcd Slates wns the third nnd I am Iho fourth." To tho Cla home Dr. llnlstend was called many time nnd he is said to have a iv nl rememhranro of the occasion oc-casion when the "great pacifirator" made his faimms remark. " would Mllur he tight than he president " ll is related a pnrty of New Ilnglaud rniiilnllsta ami manufacturers had lulled iimiii him lo induce him to lumlif.v his views in some particulars. "It will defent von if jou don'l," thev snid. He (lieu dismissed them with the stntiment that has become histor.v. |