The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-13

The people OF Ogden we're mex
| pressibly shocked yesterday after
| noon to learn of the sudden death OF
| Hon. Lorin Farr, one of the Oldest
and most respected citizens Of Ogden,
and the state as well. 1t was first re-
| ported that he mad been drowned at the
Hot Springs. his death having occur
red there. 1t was later ascertained,
| however. that death had been probably
| due TO apopleXy.
AS had been his weekly custom for
many years, he mad gone to the springs
| to battle in the warm waters there,
| it being his belief that he was much
| benefited thereby. He went into what
| Is known as the south plunge, which
Is Of medium temperature, about 80
D. m He went alone, but was in the
company of Sheriff Wilson and Recor-
| der Joseph Wallace for some time,
until the latter gentlemen left for the
hot plunge.
They had been there about 10 min
utes. when an attendant came running
in eNclaiming that all was not right
with Mr.. Farr Mr. Wilson and Mr.
Wallace ran at once to the other
plunge and discovered Mr.. Farr stand
Ing rigidly in the pool about two feet
from the enclosure, where the water
was about four feet deep. His head
had dropped forward upon his breast,
and when taken from the water mis-
body was vet warm. His face and
head were entirely dry, showing that
his death was not due TO drowning,
and it was later decided that he had
succumbed to heart failure or apopleNy
The sanitarlum physician was called
and examined the body Immediately
after 1t was taken from the pool 1t is
thought that death came instantly and
only moment or two before tne at-
tendant discovered him.
The long, useful life of this promi-
nent citizen Is finally ended, despite
his oft-expressed determination 10
live to be at least a hundred years OF
age. AS he was so widely known
throughout the state, a brief sketch OF
his active life will be of Interest to
our readers.
Than he, none of the founders of our
state has made more honorable rec
ord. To speak Of greater gifts
and larger opportunities is not to
disparage those possessed by man
whose abilities as scholar, law
maker and an executive are so wei
known and recognized.
The simple fact that for % years
Hon. Lorin Farr was mayor OF TINS
city. is an eloquent tribute to his
worth and the esteem in which be was
held by nis fellow citizens. Those
we're times, too, when the best men
were sought for and put in office. Men
of honesty and integrity who could be
relied upon to expend the public rev.
enues wisely and economically and ao-
minister the affairs OF government IN
the interests Of the entire people.
No man was given Office for political
service: partisan politics were almost
unknown and the spoils system had
no place in public life. For period
of equal length to that during which
he was mayor of Ogden, Mr.. Farr pre-
sided over the Weber Stake of Zion,
and for 2S years he represented Weber,
Rox Elder and Cache counties and
some of the time, Carson county, In the
territorial legislature.
Lorin Farr was born July 27. 1870,
in Waterford, Catalonia county, yer
mont. His parents were Wlnslo% ana
| Olive Hovey Freeman Farr, and MS
earliest American ancestor was Geo.
| Farr, who emigrated from LONDON
England, in 1929, as a shipbuilder for
| a Boston company. His father was a
| ;gell-to-do farmer, prominent and In
| fluential. holding the Office of judge oil
| the county. When Lorln Farr was
about s years old the family moved To
Charleston, Orleans county, 40 miles
north of their former home. and II was
| there they became connected with
Mormonism.
They were converted under the
preaching Of Orson Pratt. who. by the
LAYING on OF hands, was instrumental
in healing Mrs, Farr Of consumption
and other ailments, from which sne
had been sufferer for five years
The healing was instantaneous and
permanent: she VINO was then an In
valid 80 years of age, living until she
was o.
Lorin was baptised a Latter Day
Saint in the spring of 1882, being then
~ years Of age. Five years later. he
removed with his parents TO northern
Ohio, and in the general Mormon mi
grafton from tnat part to the state OF
Missouri, he and his brother Aaron
walked the whole distance from Kirt
land, Ohio, to Far West, Mo- This was
in the spring of 1898. The following
winter he was in the exodus Of his peo
pie from Missouri to Illinois and wnllt
in both of these states, he lived gooc
deal of the time in the family OF th'
Prophet Joseph Smith. Hitherto
farmer and a carpenter, Lorin, wh'
had received good common education
now turned mis- attention TO schoo
teaching, He taught for a number o
l years at Nauyoo and vicinity, the chill
1 dren of the Prophet and those Of Brig
: ham Young, Heber C. Kimball JONI
< Taylor and other leading men beinl
among his pupils.
r In the spring of 1912, by the dtrec
6 ton OF the prophet he was ordalne.
= an elder of the church and in the fal
of 1914, under the hands Of Eide
Charles C. Rich. was ordained to tn
Office Of high priest, While still a
a Nauvoo. on New Years day, 1S45, n
I married his first wife, Nancy L
Chase. Early the next year he bad
i. farewell TO that city and the state Q
Illinois. and with the main body O
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