Son of James and Aura Atwood Cummings. He was their third child, the first to be born in Utah and the first to survive infancy.
Laron was born and raised in Salt Lake and was considered to be one of the most widely known men of the area. According to the Salt Lake Telegram (June 3, 1899): "He was of excellent parentage, but his great weakness, an addiction to the liquor habit, had all but ruined him and his once powerful constitution."
Married Theresa Birdie Clawson around 1879 or 1880. They had two children, Wallace and Marguerite. Laron and Theresa had separated in 1882 before Marguerite was born in early 1883. Theresa soon after married Governer Heber Manning Wells. Wallace died at the age of five in 1885.
In the early 1880's, Laron was secretary to LDS President Brigham Young.
For many years, Laron worked for the county clerk's office, and was also a stage actor. He had been one of the first and leading members of the original Home Dramatic company of Salt Lake City.
In the early 1890's, Laron was involved in a horseriding accident, injuring his leg and causing him to become a local of the Sanitarium hot sulphur baths, the only relief he could ever find for his injury.
Shortly before his death, he had gone to Kansas City with the Warde-Kidder-James company and acted as an understudy. It soon disbanded, and he returned to Salt Lake City. He became a despondant man, and his friends and family could do little to help him.
On the evening of June 1, 1899, he went to his landlady Mrs. Johnson, and told her of plans to end his life, giving her his watch and chain and instructing the woman to give it to her mother, who had been admiring it for some time. He then turned to Mrs. Johnson's twelve-year-old daughter and said, "Goodbye, little one. I'm going away tonight."
He left a letter, stating how much he loved his mother, and that the money had had coming from the county would happily be left to her. He also left his coal mining interests in Emery County to his daughter Molite (who, according to newspapers, was a step-daughter of Governor Wells).
Laron left this earthly existance in the early morning hours of June 2, at the Sanitarium he had frequented so much over the past few years. He was forty-seven years old.
Laron was born and raised in Salt Lake and was considered to be one of the most widely known men of the area. According to the Salt Lake Telegram (June 3, 1899): "He was of excellent parentage, but his great weakness, an addiction to the liquor habit, had all but ruined him and his once powerful constitution."
Married Theresa Birdie Clawson around 1879 or 1880. They had two children, Wallace and Marguerite. Laron and Theresa had separated in 1882 before Marguerite was born in early 1883. Theresa soon after married Governer Heber Manning Wells. Wallace died at the age of five in 1885.
In the early 1880's, Laron was secretary to LDS President Brigham Young.
For many years, Laron worked for the county clerk's office, and was also a stage actor. He had been one of the first and leading members of the original Home Dramatic company of Salt Lake City.
In the early 1890's, Laron was involved in a horseriding accident, injuring his leg and causing him to become a local of the Sanitarium hot sulphur baths, the only relief he could ever find for his injury.
Shortly before his death, he had gone to Kansas City with the Warde-Kidder-James company and acted as an understudy. It soon disbanded, and he returned to Salt Lake City. He became a despondant man, and his friends and family could do little to help him.
On the evening of June 1, 1899, he went to his landlady Mrs. Johnson, and told her of plans to end his life, giving her his watch and chain and instructing the woman to give it to her mother, who had been admiring it for some time. He then turned to Mrs. Johnson's twelve-year-old daughter and said, "Goodbye, little one. I'm going away tonight."
He left a letter, stating how much he loved his mother, and that the money had had coming from the county would happily be left to her. He also left his coal mining interests in Emery County to his daughter Molite (who, according to newspapers, was a step-daughter of Governor Wells).
Laron left this earthly existance in the early morning hours of June 2, at the Sanitarium he had frequented so much over the past few years. He was forty-seven years old.
Son of James and Aura Atwood Cummings. He was their third child, the first to be born in Utah and the first to survive infancy.
Laron was born and raised in Salt Lake and was considered to be one of the most widely known men of the area. According to the Salt Lake Telegram (June 3, 1899): "He was of excellent parentage, but his great weakness, an addiction to the liquor habit, had all but ruined him and his once powerful constitution."
Married Theresa Birdie Clawson around 1879 or 1880. They had two children, Wallace and Marguerite. Laron and Theresa had separated in 1882 before Marguerite was born in early 1883. Theresa soon after married Governer Heber Manning Wells. Wallace died at the age of five in 1885.
In the early 1880's, Laron was secretary to LDS President Brigham Young.
For many years, Laron worked for the county clerk's office, and was also a stage actor. He had been one of the first and leading members of the original Home Dramatic company of Salt Lake City.
In the early 1890's, Laron was involved in a horseriding accident, injuring his leg and causing him to become a local of the Sanitarium hot sulphur baths, the only relief he could ever find for his injury.
Shortly before his death, he had gone to Kansas City with the Warde-Kidder-James company and acted as an understudy. It soon disbanded, and he returned to Salt Lake City. He became a despondant man, and his friends and family could do little to help him.
On the evening of June 1, 1899, he went to his landlady Mrs. Johnson, and told her of plans to end his life, giving her his watch and chain and instructing the woman to give it to her mother, who had been admiring it for some time. He then turned to Mrs. Johnson's twelve-year-old daughter and said, "Goodbye, little one. I'm going away tonight."
He left a letter, stating how much he loved his mother, and that the money had had coming from the county would happily be left to her. He also left his coal mining interests in Emery County to his daughter Molite (who, according to newspapers, was a step-daughter of Governor Wells).
Laron left this earthly existance in the early morning hours of June 2, at the Sanitarium he had frequented so much over the past few years. He was forty-seven years old.
Laron was born and raised in Salt Lake and was considered to be one of the most widely known men of the area. According to the Salt Lake Telegram (June 3, 1899): "He was of excellent parentage, but his great weakness, an addiction to the liquor habit, had all but ruined him and his once powerful constitution."
Married Theresa Birdie Clawson around 1879 or 1880. They had two children, Wallace and Marguerite. Laron and Theresa had separated in 1882 before Marguerite was born in early 1883. Theresa soon after married Governer Heber Manning Wells. Wallace died at the age of five in 1885.
In the early 1880's, Laron was secretary to LDS President Brigham Young.
For many years, Laron worked for the county clerk's office, and was also a stage actor. He had been one of the first and leading members of the original Home Dramatic company of Salt Lake City.
In the early 1890's, Laron was involved in a horseriding accident, injuring his leg and causing him to become a local of the Sanitarium hot sulphur baths, the only relief he could ever find for his injury.
Shortly before his death, he had gone to Kansas City with the Warde-Kidder-James company and acted as an understudy. It soon disbanded, and he returned to Salt Lake City. He became a despondant man, and his friends and family could do little to help him.
On the evening of June 1, 1899, he went to his landlady Mrs. Johnson, and told her of plans to end his life, giving her his watch and chain and instructing the woman to give it to her mother, who had been admiring it for some time. He then turned to Mrs. Johnson's twelve-year-old daughter and said, "Goodbye, little one. I'm going away tonight."
He left a letter, stating how much he loved his mother, and that the money had had coming from the county would happily be left to her. He also left his coal mining interests in Emery County to his daughter Molite (who, according to newspapers, was a step-daughter of Governor Wells).
Laron left this earthly existance in the early morning hours of June 2, at the Sanitarium he had frequented so much over the past few years. He was forty-seven years old.
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