Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-10
staunch and Talented Church.
man Closes Brilliant Career
AIT Sixty-Eight.
GIFTED AUTHOR AND WRITER.
Becrctary TO First Presidencies for
Many Years and sunday school
81 Worker 40 Years.

SIX In the death Of George Reynolds,
which occurred Monday a fternoon, tAiig
8, 1903. at his residence at the corner
of Wall and Apricot streets on Capitol
s#l1lll, this city, he state loses one Of
4 its best known citizens and the Nor
mon Church one of its stanchest de-
tenders and prolific writer's. About two
4 years ago lie had a breakdown due to
oyerW.orl, from which he never fully
recovered, and after long suffering
3 passed peaceful " to rest surrounded by
{ his family, at the time stated, general
debility being assigned as the cause
I or death.
Elder Reynolds wa born ian. 4, 1912,
e NiIaf'yl ehone, London, England, and
In hts youth Identified himself withgtha
SEA -atter-day Saints in his native land
I lie came to u tab In the summer of
1866, making Salt Lake city his home.
1 He survived by Ill wife and rs chill
K dren.
Through his extensive 4 teraly work,
and through his long association. II
third Of a century or more, with the
4 Sunday school work and other prom
& sinent Church activities, he was MS
& Widely known as any man In the state,
and wherever known was universally
esteemed for his honor and Integrity
and Kindness of heart.
TEN sIVIs II I1RARY 3yyoR k,
Elder Reynolds was gifted writer
: Besides writing a number of smaller
Il works he Is the ait thor of 8N"Th he Story
5etof the Book OF Mormon y the d lction-
AIRY Of the Book of Mormor.,' and the
IN. esoncorda lance OF the Book OF Mormon"
IT.1r
sSdency of the Church during a part of
Stfle administration of Brigham Young.
I and has filled the same position for all
3 the first presidencies since being con-
stantly in the employ Of the Church.
For MANY years he was superlnte ndent
of the Twentieth ward Sunday school,
Y He wasi one OF the senior members Of
4 the First council OF seventies and Mt
\ the time Of his death was the oldest
member of the DeSeret Sunday school
union board being one OF Its officers
since its inception. For many years
8 he was a member of the general sup
4 erIntendencY, y and Its treasurer. He
was also deeply Interested in the af-&
I fairs of the state schools. In 1859 he
was elected by the legislative assem-
4 blyy of the territory as II regent of the
4 University of Deseret, now the Univer-
i. sity of Utah, and was later re-elected
by following legislatures.
a5s He was a lieutenant In the territorial
militia and secretary of the regiment
! He has been for many years as 4
rs sistant editor of the Juvenile Instructor,
4 be IN g. enc Of its first writer's In the
giearIS 7e's he filed a mission to Eng
" land, as associate editor OF the Millen-5
\ NAL s tar al was a director of 2. c.
4 nj Il q of lions Savings bank, the Sugar
n cpnpany and other local Institutions.
I He was also q member OF the IAmeri- II
can lAssociat ion for the Adpancement{o
x science, being Identified with the de-#
Il par nlent of tarchaeology.
TESTS PoLYGAAiY LAW.
The q rlsr ssional 3la,Yfo 1862 against
I polygairly ssls for many years deemed
unconstitutional and remained unen-
forced. men an agreement was made
for q test OF 4 the law, Elder Reynolds
volunteered I'd offer himself and fur
1iish i liss evidence. He was tried in
tha federal court, the hearing lasting a
week. He was conyicted and sentenced
to one year in prison nd to pay a fine
( of 500. q The jud g1nefit MAS set ASIDE by
! the supreme court OF the territory,
through some errors in the first trial,
4 He was tried again, found guilty and
sentenced in SIS to two years llnpris-
crnlent and fined $500. This time the
58supre me court OF the territory upheld
sthe findings of the slower court. An APP
peal to the supreme court of the Unit
ed States resulted IN elimination of the
hard labor clause. but the rest of the
Judgment was sustained and he was
sent back to the territorial court for
final sentence, June H. 1879, and was
I taken to the Nebraska state penitentia-
ny at Lincoln. where he remained %
days, when he was brought back TO the