The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-18
FINAL TRIBUTE TO
HON. LORIN FARR
Oreat Gathering of Friends and Relatives Hundreds Turned
Away Salt Lake, Brigham City and Logan Represented
atFuneraI of Widely Known Highly Respected
and Much Beloved Pioneer of Utah.

1t is estimated that the funeral OF
Hon. Lorin Farr at the tabernacle
yesterday afternoon was the largest
in the history of Ogden. The large
| tabernacle was filled to overflowing
hundreds of people being turned away
for lack of room. The third ward
| meeting house. Immediately west of
the tabernacle, was brought into req
| uisition and an overflow meeting was
held there
There were about three hundred rel
atives OF the deceased in attendance
and many people from Salt Lake,
Brigham city and Logan who had
known Mr.. Farr in his lifetime, came
TO the city TO attend the last sad
rites. The deceased was perhaps the
best and most widely known man in
the state of Utah and the western
country, he having been among the
sturdy pioneers of Utah and having
been identified with the better civic
and religious interests OF the country.
The deceased was the first mayor
OF Ogden and served in that capacity
Tor many years. Mayor Brewer and
the members of the city council at
tending the funeral in q body as did
other organizations in which the de-
ceased held a membership at some
time during his life
The funeral services were impress
slve, calling forth the reflections OF
a vast audience upon life well spent
and one that had been active during
the greater portion Of a century of
time. The presiding officer oil the
services was Bishop Z. A. Olsen OF
the Fourth ecclesiastical ward of the
city. the speakers being President Jo-
seph F. Smith of the Mormon church,
Apostle George A. Smith, EX-Apostle
Moses Thatcnor Patriarch David o.
the Weber stake, Elder Joseph Parry
and the Hon Fred j. Kiesel
The speakers paid a glowing tribute
to the worth of the honored dead.
speaking of him as one of the stall
wart workers for the betterment Of
the community in civic, religious and
commercial affairs. Mr.. FaTr was
spoken of as a man whose life is
worthy of emulation, and the young
of the congregation were exhorted to
profit by his example.
President Joseph F. Smith spoke
OF him as a man OF pronounced in
tegrlty. frugality and straightforward
ness in all the things he undertook to
accomplish. He said Elder Farr had
been successful man in his life time
and had left posterity that would
forever mold his name in highest rev.
erence and point with pride to the
of his life, and the cx-
ample he had set for them. The speak
er endearingly spoke of the deceased
as one of the men who had with
stood the hardships Of pioneer life and
as one who had embraced the gospel
OF Christ as enunciated by the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
in its inception and had withstood all
the tribulations and prosecutions
through which the church had been
called to pass. He said Elder Farr
had been n godly man in every sense
of the term and tnat his reward in
the Great Beyond was assured; that
he would come forth on the morning
of the resurrection crowned with
glory and unstinted honor and that he
would be reunited with his family in
the other world to enjoy their soci-
ETY. and they his during all the count