The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-13
TRAGIC DEATH OF LOREN
FARR, UTAH PIONEER
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the Prophet Joseph Smith. From that
time on he took prominent part in the
affairs of the church. He was engaged
in church work in Missouri and Illinois,
and in 1s4f he went to Nauvoo, Ill. In
1912 he was sent on a mission to Wis
consin and northern Illinois, and in the
following spring went on a mission to
the eastern and middle states, and was
in Massa ehusetts when the prophet was
killed. Mr.. Farr returned home in 1874
and, on Jan. /, fs45, was married to
Miss Many B. Chase. One son was
born to them in Nauvoo.
With his family, Mr.. Farr moved to
Winter Quarters at the time of the ex-
odus in 1s46. He crossed the plains
with the first company that followed
Brigham Young, reaching Salt Lake
City in September, 1s4T.
Built First Flour MIL.
Mr.. Farr was a natural mechanic, and
for three years after coming to Utah
was engaged in that line of work; also
doing a little farming. He came to
Ogden in the spring of 1850, and super
intended the construction of the first
grist, -four and sawmills built in north
ern Utah He was the first man to tap
the Ogden river for power purposes.
For several years he conducted a flour
and sawmiH business, doing his own
millwrighting. During the thirty-five
years he was in the milling business he
supplied many of the Montana mining
camps with flour.
In 1858 Mr.. Farr turned his attention
to railroad contract z, and during the
summers Of 1858 and 1859 he graded 300
miles of the Central Pacific railroad
now the Southern Pacific, from Ogden
west, doing most of the grading between
Ogden and Humboldt Wells, New. He
became one of the prominent men in
public life in ogden, and in 1851 was aD-
pointed by the state of Deseret, as Utah
was then called, to be mayor of Ogden.
For ten consecutive terms of two years
each he served as mayor of this city.
In 1877 he was again elected, and served
one term Of two years.
He organized the first military organ
ization in ogden in 1851. He exerted q
general supervision over this Organiza-
ton, but occupied no official position.
For twenty-eight years he was a mem
Der of one of the branches of the terri
torisl legislature. In the church he as
held in high esteem, travelling over the
territory with Brigham Young and as
sisting in organizing new wards. There
was little of Importance in the life Of
the church or Of public affairs connect
ed with Ogden with which Mr.. Farr
was not prominently identified, and to
which he did not give his hearty slip
/ port and cooperation. He has held
every Office in the church with the ex-
! ception of being ordained an apostle.
Despite his advanced age, he was sill
vigorous and active at the time o. his
untimely death. During the past few
/ years he has made repeated trips 10
/ California and other distant POINTS.
/ While he was practically retired from
active life, he took a keen interest in
/ some of the church work, holding inn
| portant ecclesiastical positions up to
/ the time of his death.
Mr. FAIR became the husband Of six
wives. who bore him thirty chill
dren. He leaves two wives and twenty
seven children. in addition to many
/ grandchildren and great-grandchildre