The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-16
WILLIAM JENNINGS.

This familiar name and he who boz
it will be familiar no more save IN HI
tory. He is dead. His living form hf
been looked upon for the last time. n
one can measure or weigh the grief ths
this announcement will cause; no on
can tell the sorrow which will follo'
the going out of the spark of life on Fri
day when the mortal and the immorta
of William Jennings took long fare
well. The grief and the sorrow will no
be confined to the bereayed wife, weary
with anxious watching, broken from
failed hope, crushed from severed ties
the dearest, the strongest and the pur
est on earth-the widow, whose tear:
will flow and whose lonely heart viii
mourn while life continues; not the
sons and daughters who have been
orphaned by an incrutable ProVl-
dence, and deprived OF the
love, the fostering care, the
Jealous affection and the best wisdom
of a father whose indulgence was lin
tied only by sound judgment, whose
devotion was restrained only by rational
discretion, whose attachment to his
children knew no bounds; not to the
near relatives of the dead nor to the
many who knew him as their benefac-
tor and comforter. The mourning for
him will extend throughout the COM
munity, filing this Territory and
spreading into the neighboring COM
monwealths, and grief will aflict those
in distant States and foreign lands. He
was blessed with one of those full and
generous hearts-all too rare in this
world-a heart that goes out towards
humanity and brings mankind nearer to
the possessors-a heart that could feel
for his fellows, and which beat in SYM
pathetic harmony with the better
strains of the human soul = a
heart which recognized a common
brotherhood in the race. Seldom as
such hearts are found, it is more rare
that their possessors are favored with
the material means for gratifying their
longing to do good. Mr.. Jennings was
so blessed, and it was through the abil-
ity to indulge his kind and generous
impulses that he endeared himself to so
many, and left name which will ever
be held in personal reverence by hun
dreds of this generation, and IN high
esteem by the public.
The all too brief story Of the life of |
Mr.. Jennings is told in another part of
to-day's HERALD. 1t is the epitomized |
history of a remarkable man; the tale
of a man who, from obscurity and pov-
erty, crowded himself by his inherent |
force into prominence and afiuence;
OF an upward march from the start, but
net an advance that was marred and |
made inglorious oy crowding others
back; it is story efn &C
tivity of mind and body, of
mental toll and physical effort without
cessation, of exertion which knew no
relaxation, for he did not and could not
rest. Yet laborious and troublesome
and anxious as his life must have been,
now that we look back over it, there are
not many who make labor easier,
trouble less vexatious and anxiety less
annoying than he made them. 1t was
that big heart of his, the humanity that |
was in him, which tempered the toll
and sweetened the bitterness of what
otherwise would have been a burden
some existence filled with crushing
cares and beset by trying torments.
One of the grsndest facts standing out
in bold relief all through the career OF
William Jennings is that which found
him ever the same; the poor young
man struggling for an existence,
the active, bustling merchant and
Of affairs. the millionaire courted
and bowed down to, he was the
same IN heart, the same in his
associates and associations. the same
kind, approachable friend and doer of
good deeds.
The public will miss William Jen-
nings. He gave much of himself TO the
public, and the impress OF his mind, the
evidences of his genius. the monuments
of his progressiyeneSs, are seen on
everyhand, and feltfrom one end OF the
Territory to the other Aspeople look
s. what he has done and reflect upon
his achievements they will grieye that
he has gone, and lament that his enter
prise, his spirit ofprogress, his philan
thropy and his ability were not spared a
little longer to a community that needs
all its able, energetic, progressive and
good men.
The sympsthies OF the true-hearted
people with whom the lot of the dis
tinguished dead was cast,.and for whom
he entertained such warm and sincere
affection, will go out towards the be-
reayed family, in an earnest offer to
sooth the sorrow and assuage the grief
OF the afflicted.