Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-17
BISHOP MORRIS DEAD
PASSED PRECAUTIONARY AT ioi3OA A. NJ.


result of the lamentable accident which
befell him on Monday night last. The
emu came palnlessly and peacefully at
iV!3O O'Clock this forenoon in the pres
enee of the members OF his family who
had kept faithful vigil at his bedside
for nearly sixty ho' RS. hoping against
hope for his recovery and restoration
to health.
Az foreshadowed In last evenings
News" his condition became more
alarming as time wore on. once 1t was
thought that he could not live until
midnight. In fact that was the inn
preston for hours. But the wonderful
vitality with which he was possessed
continued to manifest itself beyond the
expectation of the sorrowng family
and friends who constantly surrounded
MIN and administered to his wants. lie
frequently rallied throughout the night,
ana was quite lucid at intervals. hut
gradually grew weaker as dissolution
approached, and finally sank into that
sleep which had been slowly creeping
| over him for so many hours. His
family had. In a measure. become re-
signed to the inevitable. yet their grief
was painful To behold and told in elu-
| quent terms the love that reigned in
their hearts for husband and fathei.
The deceased was 10 years of age
and in the field of Industrial activity
one of the most energetic and best
| known of Utahs citizens. What he
accomplished In n material way is ex-
emplified In substantial structures
and enterprises that will stand as
monuments to his memory. He was
the oldest of five brothers who came
to Utah. They were Elias. william
", Richard ", John and Hugh. OF
| these, all are dead with the exception
of Hugh, who resides at Malad. Idaho.
| Richard V. was the father of city
| Treasurer Morris and Bishop of the
| Nineteenth ward when he died, six
| teen years ago.
The funeral will he held from the
Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon, be-
ginning at o'clock. John Morris.
son OF the deceased, who was tele-
| graphed to yesterday on account of
his fathers serious condition. has been
notified of his death and as the funer-
al will take place on Sunday II is ex-
pected that he will not return at this
time, 1t being impossible for him to
arrive here in time.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
| A brief sketch of the bishops busy
| life will be read with great interest
| by his many friends He had, 1t APP
| pears. intended to write, in fact had
! commenced an autobiography but HIS
life was very active one and he never
finished II. What he did write on that
! subject, however, is herewith repro
duced. He said:
My parents were born at Llanfair
Talhairne. Denbigshlre. North Wales,
] They had born to them seven sons and
/ five daughters. My father was a mason
by trade and contractor in his native
country. / learned the trade with my
father. Emigrated to Utah in the year
1857. identified myself with the Lat
ter-day Saints in the year 1S49 In the
year 1851, President John Taylor paid
a visit to my home in North Wales.
He had organized u company OF
capitalists to purchase machinery for
the manufacture of sugar from beets.
which he Intended to establish in Salt
| Lake City. He engaged me to 60 to
| Utah In the interest IL this sugar COM
pany. / left Liverpool in charge of the
machinery in March, 1852, via New Or
| leans and up the rivers TO Fort Leav-
enworth, whihc was the starting point
! to cross the Plains; arrived in Salt
Lake City in November, 1859. The
! Sugar company failed to mature in
manufacturing sugar. for various rea-
| sons.
las there was a company engaged at
Iron county to manufacture iron, l
was engaged TO go and put up their
furnaces. Some considerable iron was
made, but not Of sufficient quantity to
the company failed. | returned to Salt
Lake City and commenced contract
ing in the year 1864; put up the Eagle
Emporium for Mr.. Jennings and the
drug store for Mr.. Godbe.
I'm May, 1895, took n mission to
Wales; returned In June, 1863: brought
a company of 1866 Saints back with me
on my return entered into a CO.
partnership with Samuel L. Evans as
builders, under the name of Morris s.
Evans. Upon the opening of the min
ing industry In Utah. We made the
manufacture of flre-brick anu furnace
building a speciality. We put up the
Germania works; also shelters at
Sandy. Bingham. Little Cottonwood.
Flagstaff, East Canyon. Stockton.
American Fork, the Ontorio mill and
Cornish pump at ontario mine: also
many other buildings. including the
basement story of the Salt Lake Tenn
pie, Deseret Nationa! Bank block. z. C.
NJ. I. store, May'> Little's residence
and Utah University building.
After the death OF Mr.. Evans car
rled the business in my own name. and
took quite an interest in blishing
other industries in the interest of my
adopted country, such as the tannery,
Salt Lake Foundry. Soap Factory. Utah
Cement company, Slate Quarry. Utah
Sugar Factory In 1891, in partnership
with Houlahan & Griffith. contracted to
lay the cut stone and brick work OF
the city and county building; also the
gravity sewer of Salt Lake City.
SERVED as city councillor for four
years and n director In the Salt Lake
Chamber Of Commerce one term"
In series Of somewhat more extended
photographed notes appears the fol-
lowing:
when commenced to learn the
trade of builder and contractor. under
my father. l was IA years OF age. When
% years old | went to Liverpool and
worked on the st. George Town Hall.
After n few years l returned to Wales
as my father had several contracts
on his hands and while at work on
hanging scaffold, on a three story
bullding-on the top story-the scaffold
gave way and | fell 30 feet onto tho
pavement Those who witnessed my fall
cried out that was killed. But to their
great astonishment as well as to my
own, as soon as ! was raised up
found l could walk without pain and in
fifteen minutes | went up the ladder
10 the third story and made new
scaffold
at was soon after this that I was
engaged by President John Taylor, who
was filling a mission to France, but
who was then on a visit to Wales, to
come to Utah with beet sugar machln-
cry. We set sail from Liverpool where
the machinery was manufactured In
.,a.al Altar ayaplSS' Of sail