Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-12
Bishop Frederick Kesler Passes
Away After a Long Sickness,
HAD BEEN ILL FOR MONTHS
Was well aud widely Known
Throughout Utah aud Elsewhere
An Active and Uscfui Career.

Another Utah Pioneer and oetorcucr,.
an hla answered the final summons and
surrendered up hiH NE ia the battle fli
earthly existence. This time the hon.
ornd veteran ls Bishop Frederick KcH.
lor OF che Sixteenth ward. who passed
away today at hls residence. surround.
cd by hla family and Immediate friends
IL cannot De- nid that che angel oi
death Invaded his home without warn.
ing. COR Boz hlr boon ga "a prteurioui
state Tor days. preceded by a. so,cu
llInosH. which covered "a period Of roy,
Crnl months. The announcement ui
bic demise. though will D., learned with
regret by very many persons. iiu
closing of llfc were fun % pain and Huf.
foriug. caused by troubles of % neural.
giaC character. Ills career has uy0f
bcon busy and useful one. iiIa lus
thlrty.alx houui on earth were pain
less and peaceful. bile ufe gradually 90.
binE away. lie hrgathod his nat NJ
i.io o'clock this afternoon.
uioGRApmcAL.
bishop Frederick Kcslar was born At
Moadylllg Penn. January eo. 1915. ana
was left un orphan nt "a very tondoi
age, and she family became widely
separated not 90 sec each other again
tlll SOME OF them mot in Ola nEo.
ilo embraced tho Mormon faith
June. 1880. in Nsuvoo. Illinois. and boz.
came an earnest. iudcfatlRable worker
and WIS member 0f the celebrated
Nluyoo Legion and one of the Prophet
Joseph Smiths lntlmatru and body
guard. Was driven from bis home ~
tho expulsion OK the Saints from Nau.
Woo, and won't with them tn Winter
Quarters. on The banks uf the Missouri
he built tho ferry boat al Council
hlunH DO The spring NJ 1850 and assisted
hundreds ~ thH Saints Go CruHI tho
Missouri un thu.r way Co Utah. 10
himself arrived ln Utah October 1851.
ana settled Ia Salt Lake city. the iu.
tUrNal being mostly spent lu aiding IN
emigration matters ca thr fruntlHrs.
Ito was ordained o. bishop and aoi
apart Go preside over thr Sixteenth
ward April g, 1850. and faithfully pof.
formed tho ArduuuH duties 20 bile
hlHhopric up 90 his death.
bishop kgalof was u master mcchnn.
io ANA min builder 90 tho uid school.
and assisted iu the building of nNe
Temples. tho one ut Nnuvul being tho
INIT lie built the nrt Touring mills
iu Iowa. Kansas and Nebraska. had
butt mills lu ten different States. no
constructed the old mill known ua tho
brigham Nouug mlll iu Liberty Park.
SALT l.Hlc CTS.
besllra hs other public labor. no
nllol two business missions Cor the
church Co hU States bHfuru railroads
ram west uf thr Mississippi river uuU OF
which was FOR thH procuring uf the MAJ
ghuHry COR the nail aud sugar fac
turIrH
Bishop kCslor huH u inrrr postrr.ty,
lln was the father ut fifteen SOUS aud
nftren daughter, and hIH strand chile
dren nnl great grandchildren number
upWlrlH OK 2ul
FUNERAL.
The funeral viii br held ut the Six
ternth ward meeting house ou Thurs
da}, the 18TH Inst, ut I o. m,
The romans NJ HlHuup krHlcr may Dc
viewed hy HE friends ut hts tate resl.
deuce lis west Nurth Temple street. on
Thuraduy morning, The 18Th last, from