1918-04-Improvement Era—Passing Events

Passing Events

Improvement Era, April 1918, p. 556, 5661

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Dr. Milford B. Shipp, a physician and early settler of Utah, died in Forest Dale, March 14. He was born in Indiana, March 3, 1836, and came to Utah in 1850. He was a lieutenant in the Black Hawk Indian war, and filled several missions to England and the eastern states. He was a graduate of the Jefferson medical college, Pa.

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B. F. Cummings, newspaperman and genealogist, and an early and earnest worker in the Y. M. M. I. A., died on Monday, March 11, in Salt Lake City. He was born in Ogden, Aug. 22, 1855, and was the son of Benjamin Franklin and Catherine Hall Cummings, pioneers of 1847. At the age of ten, he came to Salt Lake City, where for many years he was connected in various capacities with the Deseret News. He founded the Logan Journal and wrote for the Contributor, the Improvement Era, the Juvenile Instructor and other Church publications, and was the first editor of Liahona. He filled three missions, two in the eastern and one in the central states. Being an expert genealogist he compiled the histories of many leading Utah families. He served in three sessions of the Utah legislature, and in other civil positions. He was a true Latter-day Saint, spirit ually strong, and with undying faith in the efficacy of the gospel as a means of spiritual and temporal salvation. His writings were clear and simple, and in every way were as pure and straight-forward as his noble life.

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