Arizona republican., 1904-05-25
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Death of Mir. I. W. Pem.
 bertOn at Los Angeles
He Passed Away on Monday Night. The Body Will be Brought to Phoe- nix Tomorrow.

Thomas w. Pemberton died at Los Angeles on Monday night. A brief an nouncement of his death was rece. .vNd in telegram yesterday morning and later in the day c message was received at the Phoenix National hank from Cashier II. J. McClung- of the bank, who was with MT. Pemberton when h a died, saying that friends would leave with the body for Phoenix tonight. It is presumed that the funeral will take place here on Friday.
 The cause of the death of MT. Penn berton is supposed to have been can cer of the stomach, with which he had long been afflicted. He had been q very sick man for the greater part of the time for the last year and he real iZed perhaps more fully than his friends that he had not long to live.
 About six weeks ago his decline be- came so rapid that it was decided to remove him to Los Angeles for treat ment. The decline continued With such alarming rapidity that after he had been there a short time his friends arranged for his return. MT. F. B. Gage and MT. McCylung went after him in -AA- N4ett7N Sl9SNldl NtAI. LII Ilelr aI~ rival in, Los Angeles the ephysiciansin at tendance did not believe that MT. Penn berton could be brought back at that time and they further believed that the climate there would be more favorable | to him than the approaching warm season of the valley.
 At that time, too, it was not agreed that his condition was the immediate result of cancer of the stomach, and while recovery seemed hopsless the physicians thought it possible that MT. Pemberton might live for months. There were with him at the tirne of his death Mrs. Pemberton, his sen. William PembertJn, his daushte s Mrs. c. s. BirdseH and Mr.. Meade Coodloe and his younger children, Frances and Howard.
 Mir. Pemberto1 was almost fifty-nine years of age He was born in-NIilwau- kee Wis, but most of his life to his eighteenth year, was spent in Sinner set county. N J. He went to New York [ in 1863 and three years later 10 Chi caSo, where he engaged in mercantile business.
 Mir. Pemberton came 10 the Salt Riv- CT valley with his family in 1888. He bought what is known as the Pember- ton place, and what will probably long be known by that name. By the int1o- ductiOn Of new methods he made it ona of the show places in the vicinity of Phoenix. To the energy of MT. Penn berton perhaps more than to any oth- CT man is due tie reputation this val- ley now enjoys throughout the coun- try as the home of good horses
 In 1894 Mir. Pemberton became inter- ested in the Phoenix Light ard Fuel company, and he began a series of i'm provements continuing up to the pres ent time, so that experts who have in vestigated the system which has been constructed by him. say that it is per haDs the best in the United States In a town of this size. For several years he devoted his entire attention to tte building up of the light plant Not long ago he told the writer that by next fall the improvements would be com plete. He added sorrowfully that he might not see the completion and that he was quite certain that he would not enjoy the benefits which might reason- ably be expected to result from his years of tell. He said, however, that Ilc was dlItduN StlllIS d pS1TL Ol IHe en . jcyment in the realization of the fact that the town would have an institu- ton of which it would be proud.
 MT. Pemberton had. for long time, been connected with the Phoenix Ma tional bank and when he died he was its vice president and member of the board of directors. He was a director in three of the north side canals and if may be said that he was identified in some way with almost every movement for the betterment of Phoenix.
 MT. Pemberton was republican and though he was too busy a man to de- vote a great deal of time to politics, he always performed the duties of I good and public spirited citizen. The last and most important public office held by him. was that of territorial treasurer, to which he was appointed by Governor Murphy in 1898, and which he occupied for three years.
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