This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ECCLES Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nZB.2ACE/304 Message Board Post: The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., December 11, 1912, page 1 DAVID ECCLES IS STRICKEN SUDDENLY David Eccles, president of the Oregon Lumber Company and owner of a controlling interest in the Mt. Hood Railroad, died suddenly of heart trouble in Salt Lake City last week. Mr. Eccles and his associates went into the timber business in Hood River in 1888 and have operated extensively in and near Hood River ever since. Although Mr. Eccles was a resident of Utah, he spent a great deal of his time in Oregon and was well and favorably known in Hood River and around the state. He was in Portland recently and had just advised the management of his Hood River interests that he would be here to visit them this week. Few men, if any, have contributed more to the development of Hood River county and the State of Oregon than Mr. Eccles and he had many personal friends in this city who feel his death keenly. Besides his interests here, Mr. Eccles was president of the Amalgamated Sugar Company and of the Sumpter Valley Railroad. He was president of several banks in Utah and was also interested in the Ogden street Railway company and other electrical lines. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon. ------------------------------------- The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., December 12, 1912, page 1 DAVID ECCLES DIES AT SALT LAKE CITY David Eccles, president of the Amalgamated Sugar Company and one of the wealthiest citizens of Utah, died suddenly at the Emergency hospital here tonight of heart disease, was the statement of the dispatch received here last Thursday evening from Salt Lake City. Mr. Eccles was president of the Oregon Lumber Co. and of the Mount Hood railroad leading out from this city to Dee and Parkdale. He was heavily interested in lumber properties in Baker and Columbia counties and in a beat sugar factory at La Grande. Mr. Eccles came here frequently and was well known to many Hood River people. Although he had built up one of the largest fortunes of any businessman in the west he was very unostentatious and practiced the same frugal methods of living that enabled him to think clearly in his earlier life, when he was working hard to lay the foundations of his fortune. Charles T. Early, manager of the Eccles interests in this county, left last Friday afternoon for Salt Lake to be present for the funeral of Mr. Eccles, which was held Tuesday. During the funeral service of Mr. Eccles, which was held at the Tabernacle in Ogden Tuesday afternoon, all traffic was stopped on the lines of roadways of which he was chief owner at Baker and at this city. The funeral was one of the most largely attended ever held in Ogden, the railways running in special trains from points in Idaho and Utah. The commercial organizations of Salt Lake and Ogden passed resolutions on the death of Mr. Eccles. --------------------------------------- The Hood River Glacier, Hood River., OR., December 19, 1912, page 8 DAVID ECCLES FINANCIAL GENIUS David Eccles, president of the Oregon Lumber Co. and the Mount Hood RR. Co. of this county and head of a score or more other large business enterprises in Utah, Oregon and Idaho, was one of the shrewdest financial geniuses in the northwest or the intermountain region. His great success was due to his keen perception of business relations, his understanding of man and his unceasingly application. The committee of the Ogden Clearing House association consisting of A.R. Heywood, E.A. Hoag and A.P. Bigelow, secretary, adopted the following resolutions on Mr. Eccles’ death: Whereas it has pleased an all wise Providence to take from our midst Ogden’s leading citizen and financial captain, Hon. David Eccles, and, Whereas it has been ordered that suitable expression be made of the great loss and public grief, Now be it resolved by the Ogden Clearing House association that while obediently bowing to the hand of our Divine Father, we testify to the great worth and distinguished character of the deceased. By his commanding genius as a man of affairs he hewed into conspicuous greatness an array of industrial and fiscal institutions that arrested the attention of the country. His magnificent touch breathed life into legitimate promotions, and his dynamic energy and far seeing courage driven on with an executive ability that was a marvel to an intelligent public produced results that not only brought rich rewards, but also built up and developed the intermountain section. To those who come after him we call attention that the people of three great states and more assemble to pay honor to his memory and to register a page in the history of time that shall never grow dim or become effaced. The laurels which rightly belong on his brow are and shall be placed there by his fellow townsmen who appreciate what he has done for the upbuilding of Ogden and the west, record their testimony with grateful and continuing appreciation. A.P. Bigelow, Secretary. This was posted for reference only. I am not related to, nor am I researching this family. If you have additional information about the person or event listed above, please post it as reply to this message.