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V. 2.

LATTER-DAY SAINT

BIOGRiPIlCiL ENCYCLOPEDIA.

A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent

Men and Women m the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints

BY

ANDREW JENSON,

ASSISTANT Church Historian.

72^u27

VOLUME II

Published by the Andrew Jenson History Company,

AND printed by The Deseret News,

Salt Lake City, Utah.

1914.

Copyiighted 1914 by Andrew Jenson.

l^REFACJi:.

After years of patient labor and after traveling thou-
sands of miles in many lands and climes for the pur-
pose of obtaining necessary data and general infor-
mation, the undersingned now takes pleasure in
presenting to the public the second volume of the Latter-
day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, which contains
one thousand one hundred and eighty two biographical
sketches of prominent men and women in the Church.
These added to the six hundred and ninety sketches of
a similar nature contained in Volume I makes one
thousand eight hundred and seventy two sketches com-
piled, edited and published in the two volumes. The
filling of a three and a half years' mission by the
author to Scandinavia in 1909-1912 has somewhat de-
layed the publication of Volume II, but otherwise the
original plan in regard to the work has been carried
out conscientiously in all its details.

Active work on Volume III is now going on, and,
according to present plans and calculations that volume
will complete the first series of Latter-day Saint Bio-
graphical Encyclopedia — the first work of its kind ever
pubhshed in the Church.

Trusting that Volume II of the Encyclopedia will
meet with the same favor as its predecessor. Volume I,
the author now submits the yolume to the friendly
criticism of the people at large as a work of reference
on the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints.

ANDREW JENSON.

LATTER-DAY SAINT

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

AINSWORTH, Joseph, a counselor
in the Basin Ward Bishopric for nine
years, is the son of Joseph Ainsworth
and Mary Huff, and was born Jan. 22,
1848, at Woodgreen, Staffordshire,
England. He was baptized into the
Church Oct. 26, 1862, by James L.
Hamilton, his parents being members
of the Church when he was born. His
ordinations to the Priesthood took
place in the following order: Ordain-
ed a Teacher in 1877, by Lorenzo
Snow; an Elder July 4, 1897, by Thos.
C. Stanford, and a High Priest May
8, 1898, by Moroni Pickett. Besides
having labored nine years (up to the
spring of 1897) in the Bishopric, he
has been an active worker and officer
in the Sunday school and mutual
improvement associations. He mar-
ried Hannah Maria Hanson, May 15,
1877, and is the father of eleven
children, five boys and six girls, nine
of whom are living. Elder Ainsworth
served as justice of the peace lor
fifteen years and as a school trustee
for about twelve years at Little Wood
River, Blaine county, Idaho. By trade
he is a carpenter, but has also engaged
in farming and other employments.
Together with his mother and her
family of two sons and one daughter,
he emigrated to Utah in 1862, crossing
the plains with ox-teams, under many
difficulties, owing to the sickness of
his mother. He not only walked
nearly the entire distance across the
plains and mountains, but, being the
oldest and therefore the head of the
family, had to do the cooking and

most of the rough work. Brother Ains-
worth took an active part in military
affairs in early days, having been a
member of the militia in Salt Lake
county. In 1866 he did service in
Sanpete county during the Indian
troubles, and during the Black Hawk
war he did a considerable amount of
scouting. In 1883, he moved to Little
Wood River, Idaho, where he was one
of the pioneers, and he has done his
lull share of work to develop that
country into its present splendid con-
dition.

HAMMOND, Francis Peepy, Bishop of
Union Ward, Union Stake, Oregon, was
born March 3, 1879, at Huntsville,
Weber county, Utah, the son of
Fletcher B. Hammond and Oliva
Chlista Bronson. When about Six years
old he accompanied his parents to
the San Juan county, and spent his
boyhood days at Bluff. When seven-
teen years old he moved with his
father's family to Moab, Grand coun-
ty, Utah, where he engaged in the
mercantile business. In 1898 he took
a commercial course in the B. Y.
Academy at Provo; in 1899-1901, he
filled a mission to the Southern
States, laboring in the East Tennes-
see conference, and afterwards in
Ohio. After his return home he re-
sumed his labors in the store andl
presided over the Y. M. M. I. A. la
1901 (Dec. 11th) he married Lena D.
Decker of Bluff, with, whom he has
had three children, and in 1903 he
removed to LaGrande, Oregon, where

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a position awaited him in a general
mercantile establishment. At La-
Grande he has presided over the Y.
M. M. I. A., acted as a member of the
Stake Sunday school board, and in
1905 (July 23rd) he was called by
the Stake presidency to move to
Union, Oregon, to preside over that
Ward. This position he still occupies;
there also he is the proprietor of his
own mercantile establishment.

HARRIS, John Riley, second counse-
lor to Bishop David Nelson, of the
Emmett Ward, Union Stake, Oregon,

was born Oct. 11, 18CG, at Harrisburg,
Washington county, Utah, the son of
Silas Harris (a member of the Mor-
mon Battalion) and Sariah Aldridge.
When five years old he moved with
his parents to Glendale, Utah, where
he lived for thirty years. At the age
of nine he was baptized and confirmed
a member of the Church, and when
fourteen years old he was ordained a
Deacon by Bishop Royal James Cutler.
"Early in life he became interested in
Sunday school work, first as a pupil
and later as a teacher, which interest
has increased with age and experience.
In 188G (Sept. 25th) he was ordained
an Elder by Bishop Royal J. Cutler
and received his endowments in the

St. George Temple the same month.
In 1886-1887 he was a student of the
B. Y. Academy at Provo, Utah, and in
1890-1891 he studied at the L. D. S.
College at Salt Lake City. In 1891
(Dec. 4th) he married Laura E. Webb,
daughter of Willis Webb and Beulah
A. Allen, in the Manti Temple. Nov.
6, 1898, he was sustained as secretary
of the Glendale Sunday school, which
position he held until Dec. 30, 1899,
when he was honorably released to
respond to a* call from the Kanab
Stake presidency, to labor in. connec-
tion with his wife as ordinance work-
er in the St. George Temple. Owing
to ill health they were honorably re-
leased, after laboring in that capacity
about one year, and in the spring of
1901 they removed to Preston, Idaho,
where Elder Harris was chosen as
clerk of the Second Ward of Preston,
and assistant suferintendent of Sab-
bath schools. In the summer of 1904
he removed to Emmett, Canyon
county, Idaho, and the following year
(March 26th, 1905) he was ordained
a High Priest and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop David Nelson.
His wife died childless at the L. D.
S. Hospital in Salt Lake City, Nov. 16.
1905, from the effects of an operation.

SALISBURY, Joseph Hoskin, Bishop
of Imbler Ward, Union Stake, Oregon,
was born Aug. 3, 1863, at Wellsville,
Cache county, Utah, the son of Joshua
Salisbury and Elizabeth Hosk'n. He
was baptised in August, 1870, in Wells-
ville; ordained a Priest when four-
teen years old; ordained an Elder
Dec. 28, 1884; ordained a Seventy
Feb. 15, 1886; and ordained a High
Priest and Bishop and set apart to
preside over the Imbler Ward June
10, 1901. In 1891-1893 he filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain, laboring prin-
cipally in the Leeds and the Chelten-
ham conferences. In the Harrowgate
district, where he labored about ten
months, he met with great opposition,
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success, as seven persons were bap-
tised and a branch of the Church organ-
ized. At home Bishop Salisbury has act-
ed as secretary and president of Y. M.
M. I. A., Sunday school teacher, Ward
teacher, etc. In 1900 he moved from
Wellsville, Utah, to Baker City, Ore-
gon, and later settled in Imbler. At

cupation of the people was hand-
loom linen weaving. There he at-
tended the common school, where
the Bible was used as a text book
and impressed upon his young ^nd
tender mind the beautiful lessons of
the gospel. He served a two years'
apprenticeship at linen weaving, but

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Wellsville he served as a councilman
in the city government and has al-
ways been active in public affairs.
Farming has been his main occupa-
tion. In 1885 (Jan. 1st) he married
Matilda Jane Gibbs, with whom he has
had five children, four sons and one
daughter.

WATSON, Andrew A., survivor of
the hand-cart immigration of 1856, a
Patriarch in the Utah Stake of Zion,
and a resident of Provo, was born
at Kettlebridge, Fifeshire, Scotland,
Oct. 13, 1832, the son of Jas. Watson
and Janet Rumgay. The family were
in humble c'rcumstences, the father
working for weekly wages as enginer-
tender at the Burnturk Collieries. The
position was one of care and responsi-
bility for the safety of his fellow-
workmen. At eight years of age
Andrew moved with his parents to
Balmalcoln, another village, where,
as at his birthplace, the principal oc-

had a natural liking for mechanism
and the supervision of machinery.
At his fathers death, in 1850, '^e
took his place. Two years later he
moved to Lumphinan's Coal and Iron
Works, where he continued to labor
as engine-tender. He was religiously
trained, led a Godly life, and was
acquainted with the Scriptures and
the doctrines of different churches,
though he joined none until he be-
came a, member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
This was when he was about twenty-
one. He was ordained a Priest Dec.
18, 1853, and an Elder June 25, 1855.
During the latter year he was called
into the ministry, and labored for
nearly twelve months among saints
and strangers prior to coming to
Utah. Upon leaving his mother's
home at Lumphinan April 28, 1856,
he received from her the sum of ten
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the saints with whom he had labored
as a missionary. By way of Edin-
burgh and Glasgow he reached Liver-
pool, sailed thence to New York, pro-
c« »■ ed to Chicago, and left that city
on the 23rd of June for the outfitting
camps on the frontier. It was the
great hand-cart emigration. Young
Watson was enrolled in Captain
James G. Willie's company, one of
those that suffered most severely
while dragging their hand-carts
through the piercing winds and heavy
snow of the succeeding autumn. He
records that on the 19th of October
the last morsel of food was served,
and that the relief wagons arrived
on the 21st, just in time to resuce the
starving companies. At Rocky Ridge
and South Pass a fierce storm was
encountered, and again the heroic
little band were thrown into terrible
danger. Fifteen died from fatigue
and exposure. Bro. Watson himself
was thoroughly exhausted, and would
have perished but for the kind ef-
forts of some of his companions who
encouraged and urged him on. He
makes special mention of a Sister To-
field, a Sister Evans, and of William
Leadingham. captain of the guard,
who proved themselves in that awful
extremity devoted and self-sacrificing
friends. The date of his arrival at
Salt Lake City was the 9th of Novem-
ber. Patriarch Watson settled per-
manently at Provo, to which place he
was sent by Bishop Edward Hunter.
He did much pioneer work in that
part, and helped to build the Woollen
Mills, in which he is still a stock-
holder. In 1860 (Oct. 16th) he mar-
ried Jane Allen, by whom he was the
father of five children; he has two
others by adoption. He married his
gecond wife. Miargaret Purvis, in
January, 1881, and his first wife died
March 21, 1882. From May 17, 1857,
to June 20, 1877, he held the office
of a Seventy, and was connected with
the forty-fifth quorum. He was then
ordained a High Priest and set apart

as first counselor to Bishop John E.
Booth, of the Provo Fourth Ward,
serving also as first counselor to his
successor, Bishop Joseph B. Keeler,
until December 9, 1900, when he was
released, owing to age and declining
health. Meantime, from 1877 to 1879,
he had visited his native Scotland as
a missionary. He was ordained a
Patriarch under the hands of Apostle
Reed Smoot, June 24, 1902. A friend
of the subject has said of this good
and worthy man: "Andrew Watson's
life has been so close an exemplifica-
tion of the divine injunction, 'Let not
thy right hand know whiat thy left
hand doeth' that it would be almost
impossible to get from him a resume
of his life further than matters of
name and date." The writer has
seen hdm in conversation with friends,
when his face has becanie animated
and tears streamed down his aged
cheeks, as he bore testimony to the
goodness of God and the divine mis-
sion of Joseph Smith. H's boyhood
days were spent in an almost constant
struggle for the support of himself
and his father's family. His greatest
joy was that brought by the gospel.
His hardships in crossing the plains
with; a hand-cart company came very
near costing him his life. One of his
greatest desire now, as he nears the
close of life, is to thank those good
sisters, his traveling companions, for
the sacrifices tbey made for him
when strength failed and he became
stiffened with cold and fatigue. To
their kindness and God's mercy he
owes his life, — that beautiful life
which has been an example of true
Christian piety to all who know him.
The pioneer residents of Provo re-
member him as a young man of
twenty-five, toiling in a blacksmith
shop, where plow-shares were made
from wagon tires; again making
ditches, grading canyon roads and
carding wool at Holdaway's carding
machines and the new Woollen Mills,
thus helping to make and increase

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the industries of the growing town.
In the "move" from Salt Lake City
in 1858 he was a prominent worker,
and through many nights of that
perilous time he stood guard. Through
his liberal contributions the emigra-
tion funds were often swelled, though
his mother, the dearest emigrant to
him, did not live to use the means
he provided for her journey to Zion.
Through the long years that have
followed those pioneet days, whether
years of adversity or of prosperity,
Brother Watson and his devoted help-
mates. Sisters Jane and Maggie, with
one accord have held open their
hearts and their home for the poor
that need aid and the distressed that
need comfort. Their home has al-
ways been a home for the widow and
the orphan and many such have found
shelter therein. When the books are
opened before the Eternal Judge,
Andrew Watson shall not lack for
the good testimony of men and of
angels. The Father will surely say,
"Good and faithful servant, enter
thou into my rest."

GILLISPIE, Alexander, Bishop and
Patriarch in the Utah Stake of Zion,
was born Marcb 12, 1830, at Redding,
Stirlingshire, Scotland, the son of
George and Agnes Gillispie. He re-
moved with his parents to Fifeshire,
where his father died, and the boy
went to work in coal mines at eight
years of age. Becoming a convert
to "M'ormonism" he was baptized
April 4, 1847, by Priest Andrew Young
and confirmed April 7, 1847, by Elder
Wm. A. McMaster, in the Dunfermline
branchi In the summer 'Of 1848 he
was ordained a Priest and in Novem-
ber, 1849, he was ardained an Elder
and presided over the Lochgallie
branch in 1860 and 1861. In the lat-
ter year, 1861, he emigrated to Utah,
with his family (having married Mary
MicKinley, Feb. 11, 1849). While
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Underwriter" their little twenty-one

months old daughter died. They
crossed the plains in Captain Homer
Duncan's company, which arrived in
Salt Lake City Sept. 13, 1861, and
located at once in Provo, where Elder
Gillispie resided most of the time
until his death. He labored as a
Ward teacher, was ordained a Sev-
enty Feb. 19, 1862 (becoming a mem-
ber of the 45th quorum of Seventy),
and served as a member of the city
council of Provo. He worked in the
Temple quarry. Little Cottonwood
canyon, Salt Lake county, fourteen

years, getting out rock for the Salt
Lake Temple. After his return to
Provo in 1887, he labored as a Ward
teacher, and was chosen one of the
presidents of the 45th quorum of
Seventy, and when the Pleasant View
Ward was organized Jan. 18, 1891, he
was chosen as Bishop of the new
Ward, in which capacity he labored
fourteen years. Under his Bishopric
a meeting house was built and the
grounds surrounding it planted with
trees. Failing ibealth caused him to
sell his farm and house and remove
to Provo in March, 1905. There, on
April 16, 1905, he was ordained a Pa-
triarch by Pres. Joseph P. Smith, and
he died at Provo of general debility
Aug. 14, 1908.

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BEAN, James William, Stake ec-
clesiastical clerk of Utah Stake, Utah,
and a High Councilor, was born Nov.
19, 1853, at Provo, Utah county, Utah,
the son of James A. Bean and Harriet
C. Fawsett. He was baptised in
Provo about 1862; ordained an Elder
in 1874; ordained a Seventy March
12 ,1875, by John E. Booth, and or-

parents became converts to "Mormon-
ism' in 1854 and emigrated to Utah' in
18621, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Antonio," and the plains in
Captain Joseph Home's Church train.
Bengt went with the family to Provo,
where they bought a home in the
First Ward and located on Fifth
South and Third West streets, where

(laned a High Priest Dec. 28, 1888,
by David John. The following is
from Brother Bean's own pen:
"I was raised as a farmer's boy
under the conditions and circum-
stances peculiar to the early settle-
ment of Provo, participating with my
parents in the labors and hardsihips
incident to those times, in procuring
our living from the soil."

JOHNSON, Bengt, junior, a High
Councilor in the Utah Stake of Zion,
was born June 13, 1850, in Sodervid-
inge, Sweden, the son of Bengt John-
son and Gunili Benson. He was bap-
tised Nov. 27, 1861, by Nils Elison;
ordained a Priest soon afterwards;
ordained an Elder June 13, 1868, by
Alonzo H. Raleigh; ordained a Sev-
enty by Edward Peay in 1875, and
ordained a High Priest Jan. 16, 1898,
by Apostle John Henry Smith. His

the father still lives. As a boy Bengt
worked on the farm with his father,
and received but a meager education,
but a naturally bright and enquiring
mind enabled him to educate himself
and to acquire a good business educa-
tion. In 1867 he hauled rock for the
Temple in Salt Lake City, hauling one
of the largest rocks used in that
structure by ox-teams. In 1868 he
went to Laramiet Wyoming), las a
Church teamster, to meet the incom-
ing emigrants. In 1875 he bought a
farm of his own west of Provo and
has ever since been a successful
farmer, though for fourteen years he
was employed as section foreman on
different railroads. He has taken a
lively interest in all irrigation mat-
ters, and been foremost in the work
of assisting to develop his section
of the country. In Church matters he
has displayed remarkable zeal and

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energy. In 1888-1900 he filled a mis-
sion to Scandinavia, laboring in the
Sk^ne conterence. In 1898, he was
chosen as an alternate member of
the High Council of the Utah Stake
of Zion and in 1903 (July 31st) he
was set apart as a regular member
of that body. He has also been active
in home missionary, Ward and Sun-
day school work, ever ready to re-
spond to any call from the heads of
the Church. Elder Johnson married
Betsy Christofferson in 1871. The
issue of this marriage has been eight
children, namely four boys and four
girls.

SCOTT, Andrew Hunter, second
Bishop of the Provo Second Ward,
Utah Stake, was born Aug. 21, 1815,
in Mlddleton, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, the son of Joshua Scott and
Ann Keen. His parents were well-to-
do farmers, who occupied their own
homestead in Middleton. At the age
of eighteen Andrew learned the trade
of a tailor, which he followed suc-
cessfully for many years. In 1838
(Feb. 18th) he married Sarah L.
Sleepe, of Vincent town. New Jersey
(She was born July 21, 1816, and died
Sept. 7, 1900). Becoming a convert
to "Miormonism" he was baptized
Sept. 17, 1843, by William L Appleby,
and on Oct. 22, 1843, he was ordained
an Elder by Joseph Newton, and
called by Jedediah M. Grant to travel
and preach the Gospel in Philadelphia
and surrounding country. Later, he
filled another mission to the south-
western part of New Jersey. In 1845,
together with Jedediah M. Grant, he
re-organized the Woodstown branch.
New Jersey, which had been visited
by Sidney Rigdon, who persuaded all
the members to follow him as leader
and guardian of the Church. After
continuing his labors until the fall
of 1845, Elder Scott gathered with a
company of Saints to Nauvoo, 111.,
where he subsequently passed through
the mobbings and tribulations that

were heaped upon the Saints there.
He returned to the East after his
family, and remained with them until
the spring of 1850, when he started
west once more with a part of his
family, his wife refusing to come. He
located temporarily in Pottawattamie
county, Iowa, where he (Jan. 12, 1851)
married Sarah Ann Roe, who was
born Sept. 24, 1832, and died June 7,
1904. She proved a true and faithful
companion to him and was the mother
of s'x sons and five daughters. Elder

Scott came to the Valley with his
family in 1852 and located at Provo,
where he resided continuously till his
death. There he became known as
a successful farmer and as an im-
porter of sheep. He also commenced
the manufacture of woollen cloth to
supply his family with clothing, manu-
factured brooms and engaged in bee
raising and silk culture. He is also
credited with having planted the
first fruit trees in Utah county. In
1859, when the Deseret Agriculture
and Manufacturing Society of Utah
county was organized In Provo, Broth-
er Scott became a director and one
of the most active members of that
society. In 1854 (Jan. 5th) he was
ordainel a Seventy by David W.

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Rogers and acted as clerk and teach-
er in the 34th quorum of Seventy
until May 10, 1857, when he was set
apart as a president of said quorum.
In April, 1856, he married Martha
Ann North, who bore him seven
children. As a military man and a
member of the Nauvoo Legion he took
part in the Echo Canyon campaign
and in military affairs in the territory
generally. In 1861 he was ordained
a Bishop and placed in charge of the
Provo Second Ward, which position
he filled with honor and ability about
twelve years, or until his death. In
1864 he married Hannah Miller Clark,
and in 1866 he went to the Missouri
river as captain of an ox-train to
bring emigrants to Utah. Bishop
Scott was throughout a self-made
man and a natural leader in public
affairs. He served Provo City with-
out compensation as recorder, asses-
sor, collector and water master for
several years; be also superintended
the erection of the first County court
house in Utah county in 1860-61;
he was very active in collecting
means and superintending the build-
ing of the Provo meeting house. In
1870-73 he gave all of his time to
superintending the building of the
Provo Woollen Mills. He was ever in-
dustrious, liberal and kind to the poor,
and always paid a full tithing. He
was an earlj^ riser, temperate in all
his habits and scrupulously honest in
all his dealings. During his life he
married six wives, by whom he be-
came the father of twenty-three chil-
dren; he was an indulgent husband
and a kind father. Bishop Scott died
suddenly at his home in Provo Oct. 11,
1874.

SCOTT, Walter, first counselor in
the Bishopric of the Second Ward of
Provo, Utah county, Utah, was born
March 17, 1853, at Provo, Utah coun-
ty, Utah, the son of Andrew Hunter
Scott and Sarah Ann Roe. During his
early childhood he suffered the pangs

of hunger at the time that the crops
in Utah were destroyed by grasshop-
pers and floods. He was baptized
May 21, 1860, by Edson Whipple, was
of a studious nature as he grew up
and was ordained a Deacon when fif-
teen years old. In 1873 (Dec. 5th)
he was ordained an Elder by Patriarch
John Smith, received his endowments
and was married to Martha J. Taylor,
who, after giving birth to three chil-
dren, died Oct. 29, 1877. In 1880
(April 9th) he married Harriet Bread-

head who was born Nov. 14, 1853. In
1880-1882 he filled a mission to the
Southern States, during which he
passed through some extraordinary
experiences and presided over the
Georgia conference. He rendered
efficient aid in building a meeting
house for the Harolson branch at
Felton, in which the first Latter-day
Saint Sunday school in the Southern
States was organized Aug. 21, 1881.
Subsequently the meeting house was
burned by mobs. After his return
home in the early part of 1882 he con-
tinued his labors in the Priesthood
and took an active part in the Sun-
day schools, the Y. M. M. I. A., and
Religion Classes. In 1904 (June 12th)
he was ordained a High Priest and

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set apart to his present position.
Prior to that he had acted as a presi-
dent of the 34th quorum of Seventy.
Elder Scott is a well-to^do farmer and
is surrounded by a large family of
sons and daughters, being the father
of fourteen children.

HENRICHSEN, Erik Christian, a
prominent Elder in the Utah Stake of
Zion, and a resident of Provo, was
born Dec. 30, 1847, in Vejle, Jutland,
Denmark, and became a convert to

"Mormonisni" at the age of twenty.
He was ordained a Deacon March 8,
1868: later he was ordained a Priest
and still later an Elder, and called to
labor as a local missionary in his
native country; afterwards he per-
formed missionary work in Norway
under the name of Christian Gron-
beck, laboring principally in the
Frederikstad and Drammen branches.
He emigrated to Utah in 1871 and
located in Provo, where he still re-
sides. In 1872 (July 22nd) he mar-
ried Albine Jensine Pauline Jensen,
by whom he has had eleven children.
He has been engaged in the pottery
business ever since he came to
Utah, and owns the largest pottery

plant in the Stato known as the Provo
Pottery. In 1896 he organized the
Henrichsen Mercantile Company and
acted as president of the same until
1903, when he sold out the business
prior to going on a mission. In 1875
he was ordained a Seventy, acted as
first counselor in the presidency of
Scandinavian meetings in Utah Stake
for several years, or until the organ-
ization was dissolved, and became a
president of the 34th quorum of Sev-
enty in 1902. In 1903-1906 he filled
a successful mission to Scandinavia,
laboring principally as president of
the Bergen conference in Norway.
He has also labored as a home mis-
sionary several times, served one
term in the city council of Provo, and
held various offices of trust in the
community.

HILL, George Richard, Bishop of
Springville Third Ward, Utah Stake,
Utah, is the son of George Washington
Hill and Cynthia Stewart, and was
born Aug. 22, 1846, at Mount Pisgah,
Iowa. He was baptized in September.
1855, by Lewis D. Wilson: ordained
an Elder Feb. 16, 1865; ordained a
Seventy Feb. 25, 1865, by Benjamin F.
Cummings (sen.) and ordained a High
Priest and Bishop and set apart to
preside over the Springville Third
Ward April 17, 1892, by Francis M.
Lyman. In 1866 he went east to the
Missouri river after a company of
emigrants and freight. In 1879-1881
he filled a mission to the Southern
States, laboring in East Tennessee,
Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama.
In 1871 (Dec. 18th) he married Eliza-
beth N. Burch, who has borne him
five children, and in 1883 (Nov. 3rd)
he married Charity J. Shelton. who is
the mother of four children. Brother
Hill has labored faithfully as a Ward
teacher. Ward clerk, Sunday school
superintendent, home missionary and
a Bishop. He emigrated to Utah
with his parents in 1847, crossing the
plains in Abraham O. S moot's hun-

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dred. After living two years in Salt
Lake City, the family settled on the
Weber river and in 1889 Brother Hill
moved to Springville, Utah county,
where he has since resided. Farming,
school teaching, rail roading and book-
keeping have been his main occupa-
tions, and since 1903 he has had charge
of the Bishop's store house in Spring-
ville. He has held several offices,
among which that of comimissioner
of Utah county.

ANDERSEN, Anders Nielsen, an

active Elder in the Timpanogus Ward,
Utah Stake, Utah, was born Oct. 30.
1857, at Stenum, Hjorring amt, Den-
mark. He was baptized Feb. 10, 18-
80, becoming a convert to "Mormon-
ism" wbien he heard the first Gospel
sermon preached by Elder Andrew
Jensen, the Historian. He served as
a soldier in the Danish army about
fourteen months and married Trine
Nielsen Aug. 8, 1881. After bearing
him three children, his wife died
Sept. 16, 1887. He emigrated to Utah
in 1888 with two of his children (one
died before hie emigrated) and mar-
ried Louisa Julia Moller May 15, 1889.
By this marriage he became the fath-
er of seven children. Elder Andersen
was ordained a Teacher before emi-
grating from Denmark; was ordained
an Elder May 4, 1889; acted as a
Teacher in the Fourteenth Ward,
Salt Lake City; removed to Parley's
Park, Summit county, in 1893, where
he acted as Ward teacher, superin-
tendent of the Sunday schiool and
president of Y. M. M. I. A. In 1896,
(May 30th) he was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as second counse-
lor to Bishop George Page. After the
death of Bishop Page, Elder Andersen
acted as second counselor to Bishop
Hans O. Young, which position he
filled till he removed to Pleasant
Grove, Utahl county, in August, 1898.
Soon afterwards he located on the
Provo Bench (in the Timpanogus
Ward), where he acted as second

counselor to Bishop Ottis L. Terry
until April 1906. He has acted as
secretary for the branch organization
of the High Priests Quorum of Tim-
panogus Ward since its organization
(March 23, 1902), and has always been
a diligent worker in the interest of
the Church.

RITCHIE, John McAffee, Bishop of
Charleston (Wasatch Stake of Zion),
Utah, is the son of John Ritchie and
Sarab McAffee, and was born Oct. 30,
1867, at Heber City, Wasatch county,
Utah. He was baptized Aug. 14, 1876,
by Emanuel Richmond ; ordained a
Teacher in 1885; ordained an Elder
Oct. 31, 1891, by Nymphas C. M.ur-
dock; ordained a Seventy Jan. 29,
1893, by James Price, and ordained
a High Priest Aug. 13, 1899, by
Joseph F. Smith. In 1897-1899 he
filled a mission to Australia, where
he presided over the New South
Wales conference and afterwards
over the Queensland conference. At
home he has acted as president of a
Deacons quorum, president of Y. M.
M. I. A., and first counselor to Bishop
Nymphas C. Murdock. In 1904 (Nov.
7th) he was ordained a Bishop by
Apostle George A. Smith and set
apart to preside over the Charleston
Ward. Bishop Ritchie is the husband
of one wife and the father of five
children. His principal occupations
have been farming and school teach-
ing, and he has served his fellow-
citizens as justice of the peace, presi-
dent of the town board and school
trustee.

CLYDE, Edward D., second counse-
lor in the presidency of the
Wasatch Stake, Utah, was born
Sept. 19, 1864, at Heber City, Wasatch
county, Utah, the son of George
Washington Clyde and Jane McDon-
ald. His early life was spent on his
father's farm, attending cattle, and
he was educated in the common
schools and in the B. Y. Academy at

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11

Provo. In 1885-1887 he filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain, laboring two
years in Ireland and later six
months in the London conference.
In 1889 (Nov. 20th) he married Clara
Prudence Alexander, and in 1897-1898
he labored as a mutual improvement
missionary in Juab and Millard
Stakes. In 1901-1903 hie filled a mis-
sion to the Eastern States, where,
after laboring in New York and
Brooklyn about six months, he was
placed in charge of the work in New

England. His greatest success in
missionary life was in open air
speaking. He was a member of the
High Council and an efficient worker
in the auxiliary organizations in the
Wasatch Stake for several years, and
in 1903 (Aug. 9th) he was ordained a
High Priest and set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Robert Duke, of
Heber First Ward, which position he
held until Aug. 12, 1906, when he was
set apart as second counselor to Jos.
R. Murdock, president of the Wasatch
Stake.

McDonald, John, a Patriarch in
the Wasatch Stake of Zion, Utah, was
born at Crawford's Burn, county of
Down, Ireland, Dec. 12, 1833, the son
of James McDonald and Sarah Furge-

son. With the tamily he emigrated
to America in 1844, and setted first
at Nauvoo, 111., where he lived for
two years, and while at this place he
worked his father's tithing on the
Nauvoo Temple, being so young that
be was allowed only half time. From
this place he moved to Bonaparte,
on the Desmoines river, Iowa, where
he lived for three years and assisted
the family in obtaining an outfit with
which to come to Salt Lake Valley.
In thie spring of 1849, the family began
their journey across the plains with
three yoke of oxen, three yoke of
cows and two wagons. They stopped
at Kanesville during the following
winter and in the spring of 1850
moved on to the Valley. His father
died of cholera on this journey at the
first crossing of the Platte river after
being sick only one day. He dug a
grave and assisted in burying a mem-
ber of their company the morning
previous to his death. After viewing
the place where Salt Lake City now
stands and its vicinity, it appeared
that there was not sufficient feed to
be had for their animals, so the sub-
ject of this sketch went in search of
a better pasture and found it in the
bottom lands near where Lehi, Utah
county, is now located. He built a
log house at the place now called
Alpine and lived there during the
winter of 1850 and 1851, then moved
on to what is now Springville and
lived there till 1866. He served in
the Walker Indian war in 1853 as a
cavalryman and with thirteen other
men and eighty head of cattle he
was sent by Pres. Brigham Young to
make peace and conclude what is
known in history as the Black Hawk
war. This mission was a success.
These agents met the Indiane in the
Ashley valley and after several days'
discussion peace was declared; no
formal battle has ever taken place
since that time between whites and
these Indians. In the spring of 1857
he was called by Pres. Brigham

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Young to assist in carrying the mail
from Utah to the Missouri river; he
served in that calling till the fall of
1857, when he was released on ac-
count of the Johnston army troubles.
In 1856, responding to another call,
he went back to assist the hand-cart
companies, then on their way to the
Valley, and he still bears the marks
of the hardships of that notable
event. In 1856 (Dec. 16thi) he mar-
ried Mary Lucinda Cole, by whom he
is the father of thirteen children.
Being called by Pres. Brighara Young
in 1857 to go with the "Y X Company"
and build roads and bridges, he re-
sponded and served till he was (honor-
ably released. Elder McDonald was
baptized in 1842; ordained an Elder
by Heber C. Kimball in 1857; ordain-
ed a High Priest by David Wood Feb.

10, 1866; was set apart as a High
Counselor in 1888, and ordained a
Patriarch by Francis M. Lyman Feb.

11, 1901. He served two terms as
county commissioner of Wasatch
county, and his home has been at
Heber City since 1862. Most of his
time has been spent on the farm
and in giving attention to "his God
and his home."

HICKEN^ Thomas, a Patriarch in
the Wasatch Stake of Zion, was born
June 15, 1826, at Burton Wolds, Lei-
cestershire, England, the son of Thom-
as H'icken and Ann Ward. He was
baptized Feb. 15, 1845, by Thomas
Efield; ordained a Priest and subse-
quently an Elder by Crandell Dunn
and presided over th© Whitick branch
until 1851, when he emigrated to
America. He was ordained a Seventy
by Henry Rogers in 1855, at Prove,
Utah; ordained a High Priest Aug.
19, 1861, by Elisha Everett at Heber
City, and ordained a Patriarch Nov. 7,
1880, by Daniel H. Wells. In 1868
he labored as a special missionary
in Summit and Morgan counties, ad-
vocating the keeping of the Word of
Wisdom. He acted as presiding

teacher in Heber City about eight
years and was chosen as first counse-
lor in the presidency of the High
Priests quorum in Wasatch Stake in
1884, whicli position he still occupies.
In 1845 he married Catharine Feweks,
by whom he became the father of
seven children. Margaret Powell,
whom he married Aug. 15, 1865, has
borne him five children. Elder Hicken
has been a resident of Heber City
since 1860. While residing at Provo
prior to that date he took an active
part in military affairs and served in
the Black Hawk War.

MURDOCK, John Murray, a Patri-
arch and president of the High
Priests quorum of the Wasatch Stake
of Zion, Utah, was born Dec. 28, 1821,
at Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland,
the son of James Murdock and Mary
Murray. He was baptized Nov. 29,
1850, by Thomas Hittly; ordained a
Priest in 1851, by Andrew Ferguson;
emigrated to Utah in 1852, and resided
in Salt Lake City until the time of
the "Move" in 1858, when the settled
temporarily in Goshen, Utah county,
but located permanently in Heber
City, Wasatch county, in 1860, where
he still resides. He was ordained a
High Priest by Bishop Edward Hunt-
er, in Salt Lake City, in 1858, and
set apart as first counselor to Bishop
Jacob Weiler, of the Third Ward. In
other respects 'he has always been
a diligent Church worker and has
filled many offices both of an ecclesi-
astical and civil nature. He partici-
pated in the Johnston army campaign
in 1857-58, served in the Walker and
Black Hawk Indian wars and shared
in the privations incident to pioneer
life in the early days in Utah. He
married his first wife '(Ann Steel)
Feb. 25, 1848, at Kirklannel, Dumfrie-
shire, Scotland; she bore him fifteen
children. At the time of his emigra-
tion to Utah, he was accompanied by
his wife and two children. A third
child, a daughter (Mary), was born

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to them en route, at what is now
Kansas City, Mo., which at that time
was the outfitting place for the emi-
grants crossing the plains to Utah.
In 1862 (Aug. 8th) Elder Murdock
married Isabella Crawford, by whom
he is the faither of seven children. In
civil affairs, and in public life gener-
ally, Brother Murdock has always
taken a most active part, and has
filled many offices of responsibility
and trust; thus he served as treasurer
of Wasatch county and was county
surveyor one term. He has presided
over the High Priests quorum in the
Wasatch Stake since 1877. Prior to
that time (Jan., 1861 to 1877) he pre-
sided over the High Priests in a more
local capacity. He was ordained a
Patriarch May 14, 1899, by Apostle
Francis M. Lyman.

CROOK, John William, a member
of the Wasatch Stake High Council,
was born April 9, 1858, at Provo, Utah
county, Utah, the eldest child of John
Crook and Mary Giles. The year
after he was born his parents located
in Provo Valley among the first set-
tlers of Heber City. He attended the
district schools in Heber City and,
being born of goodly parents, he was
raised in the fear and admonition of
the Lord. Early in life he became
identified with the Y. M. M. I. A. In
1877 (Aug. 19th) he was ordained a
If-acher and during the years l'<7;^'-
1881 he attended the Erigbam Yoang
Academy at Provo. During the fcllow-
'wg six years he spent mos:, of his
time in the canyons and at the saw-
mills. He was ordained an Elder in
1886 and a few days later (Nov. 10,
1886) he married Sarah E. Bond, by
whom he has had six children. In
1890 (Nov. 2nd) he was ordained a
Seventy and in 1893-1895 he filled a
mission to Great Britain, laboring in
the Newcastle and Manchester con-
ferences. He also obtained a great
deal 'of genealogy while on that mis-
sion. After his return home, he acted

as a Sunday school teacher, as a
Ward clerk, and as an aid in the
Sunday school Stake organization
until he was chosen as an alternate
member of the High Council Feb. 10,
1901. At the reorganization of the
Wasatch Stake in 1906 (Aug. 12th)
he was set apart as a regular member
of the High Council, and in 1907 ihe
was elected a member of the city
council in Heber. Elder Crook is a
farmer and stock-raiser by avocation;
he is also in the stone business.

PROBST, Jacob, Bishop of the Mid-
way Second Ward, Wasatch Stake,
Utah, was born Jan. 3, 1864, at
Habstetten, Canton Bern, Switzer-
land, the son of Ulrich Probst and
Anna Barbara Kiener. He was bap-
fzed Sept. 9, 1872, by George Dab-
bling; ordained a Deacon, April 5,
1885, by Attewall Wootten; attended
the B. Y. Academy, at Provo, during
the winters of 1888-89 and 1889-90;
ordained a Seventy Nov. 2, 1890, by
Ethan A. Duke, and ordained a High
Priest Feb. 17, 1901, by Abraham O.
Woodruff. He emigrated to Utah, in
1872 and located at Midway, where
he has resided continuously ever
since. In 1891-1894 he filled a mis-
sion to Switzerland and Germany,
and during the winter of 1898-1899 he
labored in Utah county as a special
Y. M. M. I. A. missionary. He acted
as secretary of the 96th quorum of
Seventy from 1895 to 1900, president
of the Y. M. M. I. A. of Midway from
1894 ito 1896, president of the 96t'h
quorum of Seventy from 1899 to 1901,
and a High Councilor from Feb. 17,
1901, to Feb. 8, 1903; on the latter
date he was ordained a Bishop by
Mathias F. Cowley and set apart to
preside over the Midway Ward.
Bishop Probst is a farmer and sheep-
raiser and has served his fellow-
citizens as justice of the peace from
1896 to 1898, and as county commis-
sioner of Wasatch county since 1904,
acting at the present time as chair-

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man of the board. In 1891 (Sept.
23rd) he married Mary M. Huber, in
the Manti Temple. Five children are
the issue of this marriage.

HUBER, Johannes, Ward clerk and
leader of the choir of the Midway
Second Ward, Wasatch Stake, Utah,
was born Nov. 1, 1840, at Dodtnacht,
Canton Thurgau, Switzerland, the son
of Johannes Huber and Anna Eliza-
beth Huber. He was baptized May 4,
1860, by Christian Moosmann; or-
dained a Teacher June 27, 1860, by
Jacob Vollenweider; ordained an
Elder Sept. 8, 1860, by Jabez Wood-
ard, and ordained a High Priest
March 10, 1867, by John H. Van
Wagoner. Prior to emigrating from
his native land, he labored as a local
missionary in the Swiss and German
Mission from 1860 to 186.3. In the
latter year he came to Utah and set-
tled in Midway the following spring.
In 1871-1874 he filled a mission to
Switzerland and Germany, presiding
over the mission from 1872 until he
was released. He acted as clerk of
the High Priests in Midway for a
number of years, was Sunday scho'ol
superintendent from 1868 ito 1870,
labored as a home missionary for
several years and has been Ward
clerk since 1878. Since 1882 he has
also acted as choir leader. In a civil
capacity he has served as county
assessor, justice of the peace, mem-
ber of the local school board, been
United States census enumerator,
etc. He has resided in Payson, Mound
City and Midway and his main avoca-
tions in life have been farming, fruit-
raising, bookkeeping, railroading and
saw-milling. As a military man he
participated in the Blackhawk war in
1866, suffered arrest and imprison-
ment a number of times for the sake
of his religion while on his missions
and was also mobbed several times.
In 1863 (Oct. 18th) 'he married Mary
Magdelena Munz, who has borne him
four sons and five daughters.

BUEHLER, John Ulrich, first
counselor to Bishop Henry T. Cole-
man of the Midway First Ward, Wa-
satch Stake, Utah, was born Sept. 21,
1859, at Gunten, Canton Bern, Switzer-
land, the son of Ulrich Buehler and
Anna Burgderfer. He was baptized
Oct. 23, 1870, by his father; emigrated
in 1812 with his father to Utah and
settled in Midway, where he still re-
sides; ordained a Deacon April 3,
1881, by Bishop David Van Wagoner;
ordained a Seventy May 1, 1887, by
Franklin Fraughton, and ordained a
High Priest June 30, 1901, by Wil-
liam H. Smart. He filled a colonizmg
mission to St. Johns, Arizona, in
1884-1885, and a treadling mission to
Switzerland in 1894-1897. At home he
acted as president of Y. M. M. I. A.,
from 1887 to 1889, secretary of the
96th quorum of Seventy from 1890 to
1894, second counselor to Bishop John
Watkins, of Midway, from June 30,
1901, to Feb. 8, 1903, seconl counse-
lor to Bishop Joseph Francom from
March 10, 1903, till December, 1904,
then as first counselor to Bishop
Francom, and since May 7, 1906, as
first counselor to Bishop Henry T.
Coleman. While on his miss'ou to
Switzerland he presided over the
Zurich branch and now presides over
the German meetings in Midway.
Elder Buehler is a farmer and stock-
raiser by avocation. In 1884 (Aug.
28th) he married Magdalena Hauter,
who has borne him seven children,
four sons and three daughters.

WOOTTON, Attewall, senior mem-
ber of the Wasatch Stake High Coun-
cil, was born Dec. 26, 1839, at Tun-
stall, Staffordshire, England, the son
of John Wcotton and Ann Turner. He
left England when a child (in 1842)
with his parents, and after residing
temporarily in St. Louis, Mo., arrived
in Nauvoo In the spring of 1843. Here
his father died in 1845. In 1846 his
mother married Edward Robinson and
moved to Burlington, Iowa. They

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came to Great Salt Lake Valley in
1849 and settled in American Fork,
Utah county, in 1852. In 1862 (Aug.
9th) Attewall was ordained an Elder
and married to Cynthia Jane Jewett,
by whom he has had seven sons and
two daughters. In 1865 he became a
permanent settler of Midway, Wa-
satch county, and in 1877 (July 15th)
he was ordained a High Priest and
set apart as a High Councilor in the
Wasatch Stake by John Taylor. In
1898-1900 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, laboring as assistant editor
of the "Millennial Star." At home
he acted as the first president of the
Y. M. M. I. A. of Midway and was
for many years superintendent of
the Midway Sunday school. His
leading occupation has been school
teaching; he taught almost continu-
ously in the district schools from
1861 to 1906.

JACOBS, John C, a faithful Sun-
day school and Y. M. M. I. A. worker
in the Wayne Stake of Zion, was born
Dec. 27, 1858, in Toquerville, Wash-
ington county, Utah, the son of
Christopher Jacobs and Mary M.
Dodge. He was baptized in January,
1866, by Isaac Duffin and was ordained
to the Priesthood when young; was
one of the pioneer settlers of Escal-
ante, Garfield county, and also one
of the founders of Torrey, Wayne
county, where he acted as presiding
Elder and later as second counselor
to the Bishop, and presided over the
Ward Y. M. M. I. A. in the Teasdale
Ward eiglht years. During the past
five years he has acted as a Stake
aid in the Y. M. M. I. A. He has also
labored as a Sunday school officer in
Teasdale and Torrey. While laboring
as a Y. M. M. I. A. missionary, he
was miraculously healed by the power
of God Irom heart failure and stomach
troubles, with whioh he had suffered
for twenty years, and been given up
by doctors to die. He has served his
fellow-citizens as justice of the peace.

notary public, school trustee for
years, etc. Stock-raising, farming,
merchandising and mail contracting
have been his chief occupations, and
he has resided successively in Toquer-
ville, Panguitch, Escalante, Thurber,
Teasdale and Torrey, all in Utah.
While residing in E'scalante, he mar-
ried Parahann Halt, by whom he is
the father of four sons and four
daughters.

TILLOTSON, Ephraim, a member
of the Weber Stake High Council,

was born Sept. 30, 1835, at Great
Horton, near Bradford, Yorkshire,
England, the son of John Tillotson
and Mary Rycroft. He was baptized
in 1847; ordained a Priest in 1851;
ordained an Elder in 1855 and a High
Priest by Armstead Moffett in
1883. From 1855 to 1856 he labored
as a local missionary in England,
principally in the Bradford confer-
ence; he emigrated to America in
1856, remained in St. Louis, Mo.,
where he engaged in a milling busi-
ness, until 1877, and then emigrated
to Utah, locating In Ogden, where he
has resided continuously ever since,

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in the Fourth Ward. Elder Tillotson
has acted as a Ward teacher, as
superintendent of Sunday school, and
counselor and president of an Elders
quorum. He has also served as an
alternate High Councilor and since
August, 1890, been a regular member
of the High Council of Weber Stake.
In 1856 (Sept. 30th) he married Ruth
Callinson, who has borne him six
children. By trade Brother Tillotson
is a machinist and millwright. He
owned and operated a saw and flour
mill in Lincoln county. Mo., for about
thirteen years, and he has also con-
ducted milling since bis arrival in
Utah. Since 1891 he has occupied the
responsible position as night watch-
man in the Ogden branch of Z. C.
M. L

McQUARRIE, Robert, Bishop of
Ogden Second Ward, Weber Stake of
Zion, was born Aug. 17, 1832, in North
Knapdale parish, Argyleshire, Scot-
land, the son of Allen McQuarrie and
Agnes Mathieson. He became a con-
vert to "Mormonism" in 1853, and
being baptized Oct. 9th of that year,
in the river Clyde, by Elder Robert
Baxter, he became a member of the
Greenock branch. He was ordained a
Teacher March 19, 1855, ordained a
Priest June 5, 1856, and emigrated to
Utah, together with his father's
family in 1857, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "George Washington," and
the plains in Captain Jesse B. Martin's
company. Soon afterwards he located
in Ogden, v^^hich has been his perma-
nent home ever since. During the
"move" of 1858 Brother McQuarrie
was one of the brethren who were
left to destroy the property of the
people in case the army should prove
hostile after entering the Valley. He
was ordained a Seventy Feb. 17, 1859,
and became a member of the 60tih
quorum. In 1860 (April 29th) he mar-
ried Mine Fink, a native of Denmark,
and in 1861 he was appointed a special
policeman of Ogden City and water

master on the Weber Canal. In 1862
(Dec. 4th) he was ordained a High
Priest by Lester J. Herrick and set
apart as his second counselor, he be-
ing Bishop of the Ogden Second Ward.
Elder McQuarrie labored in that posi-
tion about seven years. In 1863 (April
14th) he was appointed 1st lieutenant
in a battalion of the Weber icounty
militia. In 1865 (May 20th) he was
appointed Sunday school superintend-
ent of Weber county, which position
he held for seven years. Later in
the same year he was called to take
charge of the Sunday school in the
Ogden Second District. In 1870 (Feb.
20th) he was aiPipointed president of the
Ogden Second District, and in 1871
(Feb. 18th) he was chosen second coun-
selor to Bishop Lester J. Herrick, of
Weber Ward; he acted in these two
ecclesiastical positions till the spring
of 1872, when 'he was called on a
mission to Great Britain, during which
he presided over the Newcastle con-
ference and later over the Glasgow
conference. After his return home in
the spring of 1874 he resumed his
labors as president of the Ogden
Second District. In 1875 ihe was ap-
pointed treasurer of Weber county,
and the following year he was regu-
larly elected to that office for four
years. In 1877 he was elected a
councilman of Ogden City and on May
28, 1877, ordained a Bishop by Apostle
EraS'tus Snow and setapart to preside
over the Ogden Second W^ard. In
1885 be married Hester Summerhays
as a plural wife, which act ended his
political career. Bishop McQuarrie is
one of the noble men of the earth
and has served his people both ec-
clesiastically and civilly in many more
positions than those enumerated in
the foregoing. He has presided as
Bishop thirty-one years and has ever
discharged his duties with honor
to himself and to the perfect satisfac-
tion of all whose interests were
guarded by his integrity, wisdom and
ability.-

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WOOLF, John Anthony, Patriarch,
was born Feb. 27, 1843, in thie town
of Pelham, West Chester county.
New York. He is a sou of John
Anthony Woolf and Sarah Ann Devoe,
and they emigrated to Nauvoo short-
ly after his birth. They were driven
out with the rest of the Saints in
184G, wintered at Council BluiYs and
crossed the plains in 1847, arriving
In Salt Lake City in November. In
1852 the family moved to and set-
tled at Willow Creek, Juab county,
going to Nephi about two years later
on account of Indian troubles. They
helped bu:id a wall around the town
and rexaiiied there nine years, go-
ing to Hyde Park, Cache county, in
the spring of 18G1. There the subject
liereof became acquainted with Mary
L. Hyde and was married to her
Dec. 31, 1866. In 1871 he went on a
short mission to New York. He has
filled a number of positions of honor
and trust, among them superintendent
of Sunday schools. In 1876 he be-
came the husband of Celia Hatch. In
the same year he filled a mission to
the western States, laboring in Iowa
and Nebraska, where he baptised
fourteen persons into the Church. Re-
turning he was appointed second
counselor to Bishop Daines of Hyde
Park and in 1887 went to Canada. In
1888 he was ordained Bishop of
Cardston Ward by Apostle Francis M.
Lyn.an, w! ich position was held near-
ly seven years, after which he became
counselor to President Charles O.
Card of Alberta Stake, this .losition
being held until 1899, when he was
ordained a Patriarch by Apostle John
W. Taylor. He has held the office
of mayor of Cardston two terms and
been postmaster there for four years,
po.-^it'ons in whicii he gave general
satisfaction.

LOW, Sylvester, Stake tithing clerk.
Is a son of David and Jane Oliver
Low. and was born March 12', 1836,
in the parish of Tealing, Forfarshire,
Scorland. His parents were poor and

at the age of seven he had to help
making a living, working on a farm in
summer and going to school in win-
ter, gaining a tolerable education. At
fourteen he went to work for him-
self by farming and serving a term of
apprentice to a miller, receiving
therefor $17.50 a year. In 1854, while
working in Arbroat'i, he heard the
Gospel for the first time. Having
been brought up in the Free Church
of Scotland and partaken more or
less of its traditions and prejudices,
it was more than he could compre-
hend the (then) a.stounding doctrine

that God and His only begotten Son
had again spoken to the people of
the earth and restored the Gospel in
its fullness badly jarring the young
man's spiritual ideas. After much re-
flection and prayer he became con-
verted and was baptised Jan. 24,
1855, by Elder .John Gillis. A storm
of opposition and abuse from friends
and relatives followed, from which
he escaped by embarking for Zion,
sailing from Liverpool April 22, 1855.
arriving at New York thirty days
later. After many vicissitudes he suc-
ceeded In reaching Salt Lake City
Noveml)er 13th of the same vear. He

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was variously employed in different
places and took an active part in the
"Buchanan war" of 1857, spending sev-
en weeks in the campaign of opposi-
tion to the approach of Johnston's
army. He was maried Feb. 28, 1858,
to Ann A. Paton and in 1860 moved
to Cache valley, setlling in Provi-
dence, where in 1863 he was called to
help settle Bear Lake valley and took
an active part in that work, return-
ing to Cache valley in 1865. In No-
vember, 1886, he was called on a mis-
sion to Great Britain, arriving there
November 19th following and labor-
ing diligently in several fields, being
released Aug. 6, 1888. For some time
following he engaged in the work of
obtaining genealogical information,
with good success, having secured
for himself and others the great num-
ber of 44,000 names of the dead, with
particulars and dates. He returned
home in April, 1899, and in the spring
of 1892 went to Alberta, Canada,
where for the first few years his la-
bors were such as is common in pio-
neer life, but of late have consisted
chiefly in attending to the duties of
Stake tithing clerk. Stake ecclesias-
tical clerk and other similar busi-
ness, in all of which he takes great
pleasure, being blessed with health
and vigor of mind, and body beyond
the average of people at his time of
life. He has had twenty-one children
born to him. seventeen of whom are
living, and sixty grandchildren, forty-
four, of them being alive, and finds his
greatest delight in happy comming-
ling with them and his brethren.

HANSEN, Niels, Bishop of Aetna
Ward, Alberta Stake of Zion, Canada,
was born at Trostrup, Island of
Fyen, Denmark, Aug. 11, 1832, being
the sixth child of Hans .Torgensen and
Maren Christine Petersen. They
were strict Lutherans and the boy
was nurtured in that faith. When
seven years old he was attacked by
scrofula, which clung to him for eight
years, thus interfering with his scool-

ing. He finally recovered, and al-
though not advanced in book learning
his mind was alert and concentrative.
Being unable to engage in laborious
work he became a tailor, and while
so engaged he met for the first time a
"Mormon" preacher in the person of
Elder William O. Anderson. Upon
hearing him the young man was at
once convinced of the truth of the ut-
terances and was baptised in Decem-
ber, 1851. his parents and several
others doing likewise. Friends then

became enemies and persecution be-
came so active that the brethren for
a season had to vacate. In 1852 he
was ordained a Teacher, and later
that year he went with his brother to
Copenhagen to work, the same year
being called on a mission to Norway,
proceeding with others to his field of
labor at once. At Moss the authori-
ties sought the Elders' expulsion, hav-
ing previously expelled Brother Folk-
man, an associate; but Brother Niels
so vigorously protested and defend-
ed his rights with such convincing ar-
gument that finally he was permitted
to stay and much good work was

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done. After varying experiences em-
bracing a seven months' term of im-
prisonment, the latter part of which
was greatly mitigated through unfore-
seen friendly intervention. At the
conference held in Copenhagen in
August, 1853, he was ordained an El-
der and appointed to preside over
Trostrup-Korup branch, where he re-
mained a year and was then sent to
take charge of Hvissel and Grejs
branches in Jutland. In the fall of
1855 he was released and sailed from
Liverpool December 12th, following?.
The ship was eleven weeks on the
ocean, and was the means of saving a
ship-wrecked crew of forty-two per-
sons. The company landed in New
York and went to St. Louis, Mo.,
where in April, 1856, he was called to
go on a mission to some Norwegian
settlers in Clay county, Mo., after
which he crossed the plains, reach-
ing Salt Lake City, Sept. 20, 1856.
Circumstances necessitated various
residences thereafter, but finally he lo-
cated in Cache county. In 1862 he
was ordained a Seventy, joining the
64th quorum. When Cache Stake was
organized in 1877 he was ordained a
High Priest and set apart as a High
Councilor. In 1886 he was called to
preside over Providence Ward and
was ordained a Bishop by .lohn W.
Taylor. In October of that year he
was gathered in by the U. S. mar-
shal's dragnet on the prevailing
charge — unlawful cohabitation — and
subjected to repeated trials, but all
to no purpose; they could not con-
vict. In 1889 he went to Alberta, lo-
cating in Cardston, where he became
fo popular that when a man was
wanted to open up the Manitoba mis-
sion, the lot fell on him and he served
the cause well and faithfully; upon
returning he was appointed Bishop of
Aetna Ward, .which position he held
until his death, which occurred at
Aetna, Dec. 13. 1902. Under his
supervision the Ward had increased
numerically and flourished spiritually.
His labors were incessant and in-

valuable. His whitened hair and
beard gave him a venerable and
fatherly appearance, which the Saints
admired and respected. He left a
good family.

BEAZER, Mark Ephraim, Bishop of
Beazer Ward, Alberta. Stake (Cana-
da), was born near Chimney Rock,
Nebraska, Aug. 10. 1854. while his
parents were crossing the plains en
route for the west. His father, Mark
Beazer, on hi? arrival in Utah, settled

in Kaysville, Davis .county, where the
subject of this sketch also lived most
of the time, until he was Ihirty-six
years old. He was baptised when
about nine years old and ordained a
Priest. Sept. 1877, by John R. Barnes.
In that capacity and in that of Ward
teacher, he labored among the peo-
ple for about twenty years. In the-
meantime, he had married Miss Ellen
Burton (on January. 1888), and set-
tled on a small farm in the upper part
of Kaysville. He was ordained a
Seventy by his father. Aug. 17, 1884.
In 1889 he visited Canada and as he
liked the country, he moved thither
with his family in 1890, and located
in Cardston, where he was ordained
a High Priest and set apart as a
member of the High Council of Alber-

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ta Stake June 9, 1895. He acted in
that capacity until Dec. 9. 1900, when
he was ordained a Bishop by Charles
O. Card and set apart to preside over
Beazer Ward, which was organized at
that time. Previous to this he acted
as presiding Elder of a branch which
■constituted a part of Leavitt Ward.
Beazer was the tenth ward organized
in Alberta Stake and at the close of
1902 the ward contained 130 members
of the Church of twenty familes of
Sain;s.

FRANK, Christopher, Biihop of
Frankburg Ward, Alberta Stake, Can-
ada, first opened his eyes upon thi-:
■world in Sweden, the place being
Stormfelt and the time Oct. G, 1840.
He received the ordinance of baptism
at the place of his birth in February,
1S02. and became an Elder in June,
1806, at the hands of Jo:.n Fagerberg;
he was ordained a High Priest by S.
Hinman July 10, 1904, and a Bishop
by Apcstle Francis M. Lyman in
August, 1904. His father's name was
Peter M. Frank, and his mother's Bo-
tilda Agren. Brother Christopher en-
tered the miss^ion field in June, 18G6,
and occupied it continuously till July,
1S09. laboring in the Skane confer-
ence. Sweden; the following month
witnessing his departure from his na-
tive land as an emigrant bound for
Zion. arriving in good time and with-
out special incident. He has been
thrice married, his wives being Betre
Jonquist. Hannah Pehrson and Ellen
Larson, and is the father of four sons
and five daughters. He is not un-
known to official duties of a civil na-
ture, having held the position of jus-
tice of the peace for four years at
Santaquin, Utah, and postmaster at
his present place of residence. His
labors in the missionary field, not
only as a disseminator of the Gospel,
but as a colonizer as well, have been
attended with results which were
highly gratifying to him as well as to
those among whom he labored. He left
his former residence in this State —

Santiquin— in April, 1902, to fill the
station w„ich he now occupies, that of
building up a colony in the dominions
of King Edward, which received the
name above stated. Accompanied by
three sons and two daughters, with
lour wagons and teams, the pioneer-
ing work was begun and is now in a
thoroughly prosperous condition. The
Church organized there is a growing
and progressive one, receiving the
Bis'hop's constant attention and care.

ROBERTS, Walton A., Bishop's
counselor in Frankburg, Canida, was
born March 17, 187;!, and baptised
March 30, 188.3. His labors in the
Church commenced when West Lay-
ton Ward, Davis Stake, Utah, was or-

ganized, he being chosen second coun-
selor in the conjoint Young Men's
and Young Ladies' Mutual Improve-
ment Association; later he was chosen
president of the former, which posi-
tion he held until released to take a
mission to the Southern States, on
which he departed Jan. 13, 1907. in
company with several other Elders.
He was assigned to labor in the south-

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west Virginia conference, which was
later transferred to the Eastern States
Mission, laboring in this conference
until released and returned home
Feb. 27. 1899. Soon after arrival he
was called to act as a home mission-
ary in the Stake and Ward teacher.
He filled these places for about a year
when he was married to Olive E.
Carbudge March 14, 1900. Soon af-
ter they started by team for Canada
and settled at Spring-Coulee, where
a branch of the Cinirch wa^f organ-
ized. He was chosen superintendent
of the Sunday school and a year later,
when Manley Brown, presiding Elder
of the branch, moved away. Bro. Rob-
erts was chosen to that place. He
remained in those positions until mov-
ing to Frankburg, where he resides
at present. When that place was or-
ganized into a Ward, July 10, 1904,
he was chosen first counselor in the
Bishopric, which position he now oc-
cupies.

STEWART, Vincent Isaiah, Bishop
of Mountain View Ward, Alberta
Stake, is one of several whose nativ-
ity is to be credited to Ogden, Weber
county, Utah. The date of his birth
was May .^. 1865. and he entered the
Church by baptism at tae earliest age
permissible under the rule — eight
years: the exact date is Aug. 9, 1873,
the offirinting Elder being James M.
Thomas. The Bishop's father's name
is Isaiah Lawrence and his mother's,
before mirriage, Elizabeth Shurtliff.
Brotiier Vincent was ordained a Dea-
con and a Teacher at his birthplace;
became an Elder March 20, 1893, at
the hands of Bishop J. W. Woolf ; and
was ordained a High Priest March
20. 1893. by Apostle John W. Taylor.
In addition to these positions he has
presided over Mountain View Sunday
school one year, and has been Bishop
of that Ward from Dec. 24, 1893,
to the present time; he also acted as
a home missionary in Alberta Stake
during 1888 and 1889. On Nov. 21.
1889, he was united in marriage to

Ann Mary Webb of Logan, Utah, and
five children have been born to them.
In a civil capacity also he has beea
quite useful to his neighbors, having;
been village overseer of Mountaia
View for two terms, and director
and judge of the Cardston agricultur-
al fair as well as being in charge of

the horse department since 1905. He
has been se'.fsupporting from a very
early age. having as a boy worked on
the Union Pacific Railway and for
some time past has been engaged in
stock raising and farming. He resided
in Ogden until 1886; then in Rock-
land, Idaho, till 1891; Logan, Utah,
till 1892, proceeding from there to
Canada in 1892. He was a pioneer
of his present place of re.*idence, hav-
ing helped survey the townsite and
built the first house; here he has had
the pleasure of witnessing the place
grow from an open prairie to a beau-
tiful town, a model ward and a pros-
perous community.

PARKER, James Slack, Bishop's
first counselor, in Mountain View,
Canada, was ushered into this life
March 13. 18C8. at Salt Lake City.

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LATTER-DAY SAINT

He was baptised May 18, 1884, by
Judson A. Tolman. His father's name
was Robert George Parker and his
mother's Harriet Ann ,31ack. Brother
James S. became an Elder May IG,
1887, at the hands of Apostle Mar-
riner W. Merrill, and a High Priest
Nov. 2, 1897. In addition to these po-
sitions he is now first assistant in the
Stake Sunday school superintendency,
and has held the offices of first coun-
selor in the Y. M. M. I. A., also treas-
urer and librarian; Sunday school
superintendent, and Bishop's second

counselor, as well as other appointive
places. Besides these he has held
several civil stations, among them be-
ing census enumerator for Mountain
View district and judge of election for
the same. He was married to Ra-
thenia Davids .Jan. 19, 1897, and has
been the father of nine children, eight
of whom are living. As previously
suggested, his present place of resi-
dence Is Mountain View, Alberta Can-
ada; previously, besides his place of
birth, he resided in Chesterfield, Ban-
nock county, Idaho, from 1882 to
1885, when he bade that State fare-

well and took up his line of march
for his present abode, where he is
doing well in all respects and giving
a good account of himself and his
stewardships.

TOLLEY, George W., Bishop of Or-
ton Ward, Alberta, Canada, was born
at Nephi, Utah, June 27, 1883, being
a son of Victor and Sarah Jane Picton
ToUey. The boy lived at his birth-
place until seven years old, then
went with his parents to a farm near
Nephi, where he remained until six-
teen years of age. He obtained a
limited education, attending school a
few weeks in the winter until four-
teen. After his people moved to
Mountain View, Alberta, he attended
Sunday school and meetings and was
ordained a Teacher, June 27, 1901, by
Joseph H. Gold and acted en-
joyingly in this callin^ until ap-
pointed to the mission field. He
v.'as ordained an Elder Sept. 27,
1902, by Jonathan Hunt. In com-
pany with nineteen other Elders on
Jan. 11, 1903, he set out for Great
Britain on a mission, his assignment
being Belfast, Ireland, after eight
months being transferred to County
Armagh. The people were nearly all
Roman Catholics and did not become
greatly interested in the labors of the
young missionaries; however, it con-
tained gratifying expriences. A man
named Alex. McLean, who had been
deaf for years, was administered to
for his affliction and in three days
his hearing was completely restored,
although not a member of the Church
at the time. After working in other
parts of the "Emerald Isle," he was
transferred to the Leeds conference,
being placed with Elder Cecil Wood-
ward in charge of the Halifax branch.
His mission terminated with happy
remembrances and he set sail for
home April 27, 1905, being placed in
charge of a company of emigrants at
Montreal, Canada. He reached Moun-
tain View in May and had just got
work on his farm fairly begun when

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he received a call to go to Orton and
be Bishop of the Ward. He reached
there June 24, 1905, and was ordained
a High Priest the same day by Henry
L. Hinman, Patriarch. Brother ToUey
was only twenty-one years old when
he became a Bishop, being one of
the youngest if not the youngest offi-
cial of that class in the Church. Not-
withstanding this, he has so far failed
to observe Apostle Paul's declaration
as to the marriage qualification but
in other respects is doing good work.

ORR, Josiah, first counselor to Bish-
op Riis of Orton Ward, Alberta Stake,
Canada, is a native of Utah, having
been born in Morgan City Sept. 11,
1870. He was baptised into the
Church on June 3, 1883, by Evan S.
Morgan. His father was Richard
Charles Orr, his mother was Caroline
Derrick. Brother Josiah was ordained
a Deacon Feb. 5, 1886; a Teacher Dec.
30, 1895, an Elder on Sept. 11, 1895.
by James Hart, Sr., and a High
Priest June 23, 1903, by Apostle John
W. Taylor. In addition to these he
has held the position of first assist-
ant superintendent of Sunday schools
in Sharon, Bear Lake county, Idaho,
where he was also president of the
Y. M. I. A., and became presiding El-
der at his present place of residence
on Jan. 14, 1902. One secular office,
that of school trustee for Orton, com-
pletes the roll as to public service.
On June 17, 1895, he took unto him-
self a wife and as a result thereof
i& the father of five children. He has
followed the occupation of farming,
ranching and poultry raising, in all
of which he has been quite success-
ful. He has had but one missionary
assignment, this being to the north-
ern part of Alberta, Canada, having
been set apart on Feb. 18, 1906, by
Thomas Duce. Previous to his pre-
sent residence he has lived in Mor-
gan City and Manti, Utah, and Sha-
ron and Liberty, Bear Lake county,
Idaho. For his years Elder Orr has
had a tolerably ample measure of col-

onizing and community building ex-
periences. He is a pioneer of Orton,
where he built the first house, raised
the first crop of wheat, established
the first merchandise store, and
brought in and operated the first
threshing machine. Besides this ex-
perience at initiation of substantial
things he was also the town's first
postmaster, and when the Sunday
school was established, he was in
charge at its inception, the same be-
ing true as to the Ward meetings. The
first barn erected in Orton was by the
labor of his hands and the expendi-
ture of his means, and the first grove
of trees which came to beautify and
make glad the landscape was set out
and cultivated by Brother Orr, from
which as well as other things it may
easily be understood that he is a use-
ful as well as faithful member of his
Ward.

DERRICOTT, Joseph Thomas, of

the Seventies' quorum, was born Sept.
13, 1872, at Liberty, Bear Lake coun-
ty, Idaho. He was baptised on May
29, 1881. by Elder William A. Hymaa.
His father's name was Joseph Derri-
cott and his mother's maiden name
was Marintha Althara Lydia Watkins.
Brother Joseph T. received his first
official station in the Church Feb.
5, 1886, when he was ordained a Dea-
con, also by Elder Hymas; Sept. 30,
1897, he became an Elder; and on
Oct. 20, 1897, he was made a Seventy
through the ordination of Apostle
John Henry Smith. He has held and
holds several local stations under the
Church, these being Ward clerk, first
counselor in the presidency of the Y.
M. M. I. A., and Sunday school super-
intendent at his present residence.
In Liberty Ward he was Sunday
school librarian, M. I. A. librarian,
first eounselor in the Deacons' quor-
um and Ward teacher. He has filled
a mission to the eastern States from
October, 1897, to April, 1900, during
which — on September, 1899 — his

mother departed this life. Feb. 18,

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LATTER-DAY SAINT

1893, he was married to Lydia Ann
Slight, tne ceremony being performed
In the Logan Temple by Elder Thom-
as Morgan. One child named Marin-
tha Abigail was born to this union and
lost soon after by death, the dates
being respectively Feb. 12, 1904. and
the day following. Brother Derricott
follows the honorable and useful oc-
cupation of farmer and has not drift-
ed to any extent into political life,
having held but one civil position,
and it not elective — secretary and
treasurer of the Orton, Alberta. Can-
ada, school district, this being and
having been since the spring of 1901
his place of abode and of which he
was one of the first settlers. While
engaged in the ministry he was fortu-
nate enough to witness some mani-
festations of the power of the Priest-
hood exercised in behalf of mankind.
Under the ministrations of the El-
ders he has seen the sick healed in-
stantly and the power of Satan over-
come, and enjoyed many other testi-
monies to the truth of the Gospel
whose words of eternal life it was
his duty and pleasure to convey to
his fellow men. Young as he is. he
has not altogether escaped the pio-
neering experiences which in the ear-
lier days of the people's abode among
the mountainous regions of the west
were common, his first and for some
time his only place of residence be-
ing a tent, but like all his associates
he is happily past all that now.

BROMLEY, William Michael,

president of the High Priests' quo-
rum of Alpine Stake. Utah county,
resides at American Fork. He is a
son of John Bromley and Mary Oxen-
bold. Wm. M. was born Oct. 13,
1839, near Worcester. Eng., and bap-
tized by Elder John Lyon in 1849.
The family left for Utah in January,
1851, arriving at New Orleans after
a long voyage and proceeding to St.
Louis, where his parents and all but
three of the family died. After work-
ing for some time he proceeded to

Atchison, Kansas, where he engaged,
with Hooper & Williams to drive a
merchant team to Salt Lake City,
the company becoming stalled at
Fort Bridger by reason of snow,,
where the goods were unloaded and
tiie train moved on until Echo can-
yon was reached; where another sno\r
blockade was encountered. He be-
came one of a party to proceed to
Salt Lake and obtained aid, which
was successfully accomplished and
the company got through safely after
many hardships. In 1855, the year

of the grasshopper raid, with the
others he had a hard time of it, living
on roots, greens, fish and wild game
when these could be had, not tasting,
wheat bread for three months. In
1855 he walked from Salt Lake City
to Springville where he went to work
at blacksmithing, farming and book-
keeping; here he held several Church
positions — president of Elders' quor-
um, member of the 51st quorum of
Seventy, president of the High
Priests, second counselor to Bishop
Aaron Johnson and later holding the
same position with Bishop William

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Bringhurst. He went on a mission to
England in 1871 and presided over
the Bristol conference, and in 1880
was called to preside over the Aus-
tralasian mission, being there nearly
three years, during which many new
members were added to the Church,
and the Gospel introduced amona;
the Maoris. Returning to Springville.
he held several secular offices, among
them captain of militia in the infan-
try, then being commissioned colonel
by Gov. Durkee, in which capacity
he served in the "Black Hawk war."
In 188.3 he was ordained Bishop of
American Fork and soon after got
entangled in the mesnes of the Fed-
eral court, charged with unlawful co-
habitation, being fined $500 and serv-
ing seven months' imprisonment. He
was subsequently arrested on the
same charge, but it came to naught
finally, after he had engaged in ex-
tensive travel in Mexico and Canada,
keeping out of the way because of
the improbability of getting a fair
trial. Returning home after the man-
ifesto was issued, his case was end-
ed "for want of evidence, ' and he
was appointed to preside over the
High Priests' quorum of Alpine
Stake, which position he holds at the
present time.

CLARK, George Sheffer, first Bish-
of of Pleasant Grove, Utah county,
was ordained to that position in 18!il
by Prest. George A. Smith ; previou.s-
ly, the same year, he was appointed
to the Bisliopric of the northern end
of Utah county by Prest. Brigham
Young. Brother Clark's parents were
Richard and Ann Elizabeth Clark.
and he was born to them in .Jeffer-
son county, Ohio. Nov. 7, 1816,
His early years were passed on a
farm. Without opporttinities for an
advanced education, he made the
best use of the chances he had. for
some years walking three mile? in
the winter time to school. In 1842. at
Indianapolis, he heard the Gospel for
the first time, an Elder having visited

that place, and Bro. Clark became
convinced at once. In the spring of
184:i he was baptised in the Mississip-
pi river at Nauvoo, by Bishop Hale.
Soon after he was ordained an El-
der. Returning to Indiana he suc-
ceeded in selling his farm worth
$2,(1(10 for a tenth of that sum, and
after varied experiences he returned
to Nauvoo, where he was made a city
guard. In 1845 he was ordained a
member of the Thirteenth quorum of
Seventy by George A. Smith and oth-
ers, and in 1846 he crossed the Mis-
sissippi river with the body of the
Saints headed for the western wilds.

When at the Missouri river the call
was made for troops to go to Mex-
ico in the service of the United
States, he became one of the noted
Mormon Battalion, serving in Com-
pany B; but at the Mexican line he
was put on the sick list and returned
to Pueblo. In the spring of 1847 he and
the others of the sick detachment
again started for the mountains, over-
taking the pioneers at Green river,
and arrived here with them. He was
one of the company that returned to
Winter Quarters soon after reaching
Salt Lake valley, and the following
year located on a farm in Iowa,
where he remained two years, during

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which he was married to Miss Susan
Daly. They finally reached Salt Lake
City Sept. 13, 1850. In 1853 he was
elected probate judge of Utah coun-
ty. In the fall of 1853, the Indians
being very troublesome, he was called
to go to Cedar City to help strength-
en that outpost, and made numerous
sacrifices to respond. He remained
there eighteen months and in 1856
was called on a mission to Australia,
where he spent nearly three years.
Returning, he engaged in various en-
terprises at Pleasant Grove, encoun-
tering some discouragements but in
the main doing well, having left con-
siderable property of different kinds.
His wife died April 9, 1891, at the
age of 60 years, leaving the husband
and five sons and one daughter. The
boys, like their father, are strictly
honest and decidedly enterprising in
their business methods. He was also
the grandfather of twenty-seven chil-
dren, all of whom but four are alive.
Elder Clark died in Pleasant Grove,
Utah. August 20, 1901.

ATWOOD, Millen Dan, first coun-
selor to Bishop Charles P. Warnick,
in Manila, Utah county, Utah (Alpine
Stake of Zion), is a son of Miner G.
Atwood and was born in Salt Lake
City, May 16, 1853. He was baptized
when about eight years old by his
father and ordained an Elder, in 1878,
by Bishop Alexander C. Pyper. In
1887 he removed to Pleasant Grove,
Utah county, where he still resides,
and where he filled the position of
Ward teacher for many years. He
has also been a diligent Sunday
school worker and been a home mis-
sionary both in Utah and Alpine
Stakes. In 1898 he was set apart as
second counselor to Bishop Charles
P. Warnick of the Manila Ward by
Apostle Reed Smoot, which position
he held until 1902 when he was pro-
moted to the postion of first counse-
lor in the Ward Bishopric. This posi-
tion he still holds. When the Alpine
Stake of Zion was organized in 1901,

he was set apart as a member of the
High Council in said Stake by Apos-
tle Heber J. Grant. Elder Atwood
has followed the avocation of stock

raising and merchandising, and act-
ed for a number of years as vice-
president of the Pleasant Grove Mer-
cantile company.

POND, Joseph Thorn, second coun-
selor in the Stake Presidency of Ban-
nock Stake, was born in Spanish
Fork, Utah, Sept. 19, 1859, and
is a son of Skillman Pond and Abi-
gail Thorn. The family moved to
Richmond, Utah, in the spring of
1860, where he was baptized at about
eight years of age. He was married
to Amanda Hendricks April, 1879,
and settled in Lewlston, Utah, in
1883. Was ordained an Elder Dec.
18, 1898. by Bishop William H.
Lewis; a Seventy by C. H. Monson
in 1889; a High Priest and set apart
as second counselor to Bishop Wm.
Waddoups, in June, 1901, by Apostle
Rudger Clawson, and acted in that
capacity till March 20, 1903; was set
apart as a High Councilor in Ban-
nock Stake in May, 1903, by Prest.
Lewis S. Pond and counselor to him
in the Stake presidency in Bannock
Stake by Apostle John W. Taylor; was

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ordained a Bishop under the hands
of Apostle Charles W. Penrose Sept.
12, 1905, which important position he
now holds in association with the
Stake Presidency. In civil affairs he
held the position of countv commis-

sioner of Cache county in 1895, and
was elected to the Utah legislature
In 1900. Bro. Pond has been in the
mission field, having honorably filled
an assignment to Kentucky from 1896
to 1899.

HART, James Henry, first counse-
lor in the Presidency of the Bear
Lake Stake, was born in Huntingdon
county, England, July 21, 1825. His
father was Thomas Hart and his
mother's maiden name was Elizabeth
Merritt. They were a highly re-
spected family; the subject of this
sketch was the youngest and has out-
lived them all. He was baptized into
the Cuurch of England when a few
weeks old, with which he severed his
connection when seventeen and join-
ed the Baptists, causing thereby no
little commotion. In 1845, when
twenty-one years old, he made his
way to Lx)ndon with strong testi-

monials of good standing. Here he
had the good fortune to read 'some
'Mormon" publications and soon be-
came convinced of the truthfulness of
the message thus borne to him, the
result being his baptism December
17, 1847, by Elder John Banks; he
was ordained a Priest Feb. 27,
1848, the same year being ordained
an Elder and appointed to preside
over Britton branch which he had
been largely instrumental in creating,
being honorably released therefrom
November 30, 1850, with permission
to go to Zion. In the meantime his
missionary labors had been very ex-
tensive and fruitful and he was after-
wards appointed to several important
stations in the mission field, France

being among them. While thus en-
gaged, at Havre de Grace, December
3, 1851, Louis Napoleon executed his
famous coup d'etat changing the form
of government. December 20th of
that year he was, at a conference in
Paris presided over by Prest. John
Taylor, ordained by him a High
Priest, having previously (July 31st)
become a Seventy under the hands of
John Pack. December 31st, in com-

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pany ^with President Taylor, Bro.
Hart reached the island of Jersey,
having in the meantime been appoint-
ed president of the Channel Islands
conference, and several months later
was appointed first counselor to Cur-
tis E. Bolton, president of the French
mission, which position he held until
March, 1854, when he was again re-
leased. He came to Utah August 24,
1852, after having married Miss Em-
ily Ellingham, in London; she had
been an invalid for several years, but
upon receiving the Gospel was healed
at once. Four children were born
to them, only one, James E., surviv-
ing. The faithful wife and mother,
after undergoing hardships beyond
number to reach the promised land
and after reaching it, joined the chil-
dren on the other shore May 11, 1892,
in her 71st year. The departure for
Utah toolt place from Liverpool,
April 4, 1854. Reaching St. Louis,
sickness and other troubles, a Stake
Mo., via New Orleans after much
was organized November 5, 1854,
when I51der Hart became a member
of the High Council, and soon after
was appointed by Apostle Erastus
Snow to edit the St. Louis "Lumi-
nary." August 3, 1855, by the same
authority, Bro. Hart was appointed
president of the Stake under the di-
rection of Elder Orson Spencer. The
subject hereof had a varied and an
active experience in the Missouri me-
tropolis, being finally released in
1857 and placed in charge of an ox
train headed for the Valley, which
was reached in safety. He had some
frontiering and military experiences,
operating chiefly against hostile sav-
ages, that were trying and danger-
ous, but performing them all with full
credit, and after variously residing
and engaging in different callings in
April, 1864. upon the advice of Pres-
ident Brigham Young, Bro. Hart
went to Bear Lake county, Idaho,
settling in Bloomington, where he
was appointed acting Bishop. Pre-
vious to this, in Salt Lake City, he

was ordained a High Councilor, and
in 1861 was married to Babina
Schide. nine children being born to
them, two of whom died. When Bear
Lake Stake was organized, he be-
came counselor to Brest. David P.
Kimball. Subsequently, having met
with many misfortunes, he accepted
a position as bookkeeper in Provo. lu
187.3 he was married to Mrs. Eliza-
beth M. Keen and became president
of a branch of the Church in Iron
county, returning in 1875 to Bloom-
ington. He served as representative
in the Idaho legislature of 1876 and
1877, in 1878 as councilor therein,
and was returned to the House in
1880; was admitted .o the bar ia
April, 1880: was prosecuting attor-
ney in 188.3-4. October 25. 1877, he^
became first counselor to Brest. Wm.
Budge, but continued his labors iu
New York as emigration agent. He
paid a visit to his native land in
July, 1885, returning in August fol-
lowing. All in all, his was a most ac-
tice, voluminous career briefly told.
Elder Hart died in the fall of 1906.

RICH, William Lyman, second
counselor to Pre?t. William Budge,
of the Bear Lake Stake of Zion, is a
son of the late Apostle Charles C.
Rich, and Mary Ann Paelps and was
born August 7. 1852. in San Bernar-
dino, Cal. He came to Utah in 1857
with his parents and was baptized
April 30. 1860, by his father in Cen-
terville. where the family resided
temporarily: in 18G4 he went to Bear
Lake valley. Idaho, with his parents
and became one of the first settlers
of Paris, that State, passing through
all the trials and vicissitudes of pio-
neer life. He rec>eived as good an
education as the schools in the coun-
ty afforded at this time, finishing his
studies in the Deseret University,
which he attended in 1875. 1876. 1881
and 1882. He served as the first
pre'ident of the Y. M. M. I. A. in
Paris and was chosen a member of
the High Council ot Bear Lake Stake.

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He acted as second couuselor to Bish-
op Henry J. Home, later to Bishop
George B. Speneer of Paris First
Ward, and still later as first couu-
selor to Bishop West ot the same
"Ward. In 1886 he was called to pre-
side as Bishop of Montpelier, being
ordained and set apart to that posi-
tion December 11, 188G, by James H.
Hart. After serving in that capacity
■for upwards of six years he was chos-
en and set apart as second counselor
to Prest. Wm. Budge, of the Bear
Lake Stake ot Zion, which position
he held until recently. In 1898-1900
he filled a mission to the eastern

States and presided for most of the
time over the western New York
conference. Elder Rich engaged in
mercantile business while yet a
young man and had stores both in
Paris and Montpelier. He started
the first implement house in the lat-
ter place under the name of Rich
Bros, and WooUey, of which he was
the manager. At present he is en-
gaged in the stock business and Is
manager of the Paris Roller Milling
Company. Among the numerous
civil offices with which he has been
entrusted and which he has honor-
ably filled are those of county treas-
urer of Rich county, two terms (of

two years each), as assessor and
collector of Bear Lake county, chair-
man of the first town board of Paris
and later as mayor of the city, and is
now serving his third term in the
latter capacity.

STUCKI, John Ulrich, president of
the High Priests' quorum and senior
member of the High Council in Bear
Lake Stake, is the kou of Johannes
Stucki and Elizabeth Canter and was
born June 8, 1839, in Ober-Neunforu,
Canton Thurgau, Switzerland. He
was baptised, Nov. 1, 1856, by Elder
Daniel Bonelli, this being within the
year he first heard the Gospel. He
was ordained an Elder July 19, 1867,
by John L. Smith, a Seventy, by Jo-
seph Claire, a High Priest in 1872 by
Apostle Chas. C. Rich, a Patriarch by
John Henry Smith, Dec. 2, 1901.
He left his native land for this coun-
try Aug. 8, 1852, and arrived in
Salt Lake City, Aug. 31, 1860, hav-

ing remained in Williamsburg, N. Y.,
from 1852 up to that time. Arriving
here he located at Providence, Cache
county. From April, 1874, to July,
1876, he filled a European mission,
where he labored as president of the
Swiss, German and Italian missions.
Bro. Stucki went on another mission

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in 1888-90, when he filled the posi-
tion of president of the Swiss and
German missions, with headquarters
again in Berne, Switzerland, return-
ing from this in charge of a company
of emigrants. He presided over the
German meetings in Providence, was
High Councilor in Cache Stake, first
counselor in Paris First Ward Bish-
opric, tithing clerk of Bear Lake
Stake since 1870, home missionary.
Ward teacher and president of act-
ing teachers' quorum; also member
of the High Council from 1872 to
1882, counselor in High Priests' quo-
rum several years, president of Bear
Lake High Priests' quorum and Pat-
riarch since 1900. Bro. Stucki was
married Aug. 19, 1859, to Margaret
Huber; and to Jane Butler in Feb-
ruary, 1870, who bore him nine chil-
dren, seven of whom are living; he
was also married to Anna Clark Spori
In 1890 and two children were born
to them, both living. His foreign
labors were not altogether cast in
pleasant places, having been arrested
and imprisoned for preaching the
Gospel in Canton Graubendten, Swit-
zerland, in 1852. At home he was
arrested, in 1891, on the charge of
unlawful cohabitation, but the case
never came to trial. His chief occu-
pation has been that of farmer and
stockraiser; he was also one of the
chief promoters of the pioneer cream-
ery of Paris. He has held a number
of public stations, among them jus-
tice of the peace in Providence, first
mayor of Paris, several terms as
treasurer of Bear Lake county, one
term as county auditor and recorder,
school trustee and notary public, in
all of which he gave the most com-
plete satisfaction. He was also ap-
pointed by the late Governor Hunt
to a six-year term as trustee of the
Idaho Academy.

MINSON, Thomas, Stake ecclesias-
tical clerk and historian of Bear
Lake Stake since its organization in

1877, is a son of John Minson and
Ann Baker, his birth occurring at
Leamington, Warwickshire, England,
July 26, 1841. He entered the Church
by baptism Jan. 16, 1856, Robert
F. Neslen officiating, was ordained a
Deacon Feb. 4, 1857, by Russell
D. B. Dilley, a teacher by James
Evans in 1859, an Elder by Alexan-
der Stalker in 1866, a Seventy by
Apostle Abraham H. Cannon May 11,
1884, and a High Priest by James
Nye Aug. 5, 1900. In addition to
these he has been clerk in the El-
ders' quorum. Stake ecclesiastical
clerk since 1877, being set apart by

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teacher, home missionary. High Coun-
cil clerk for ten years, and Sunday
school teacher. Bro. Minson filled a
mission to Great Britain 1892-94, la-
boring in Cheltenham conference
over which he presided. Previously
he was Sunday school superintendent
there for five years, branch and con-
ference clerk, and superintendent of a
tract distributing society. He came
to Utah in 1862, crossing the plains
in Capt. Homer Duncan's company
and located in Centerville, Davis
coimty, till 1864. when he moved to
Bear Lake valley, Idaho, with Apos-
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the mountains in winter in a most
severe stress of weather; one inci-
dent of the trip is the making of but
one mile of progress in one day, up
the big mountain between Franklin
and Blooniington and three days be-
ing required to make the trip of
twenty-three miles, numerous hard-
ships being encountered. Bro. Min-
son was married Aug. 10, 1882, to
Sarah Ann Taylor, and one child, de-
ceased, was born to them. He is a
boot and shoemaker by trade and is
at present conducting an establish-
ment in that line at Paris, Idaho.

HUMPHRIES, Samuel, Bishop of
Dingle Ward, Bear Lake Stake, Ida-
ho, since 18G0, was born Jan. 31,
1846, at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,
EJngland, and is a son of Thomas

Humphries and Mary Sudbury. He
received the ordinance of baptism in
February. 1857, at the hands of Elder
Everett. He has held several posi-
tions in the Church, that of Elder be-
ing conferred in 1875 by Bishop Hen-
ry Home; High Priest in 1885 by
Prest. William Budge; Bishop, Dec.
28, 1886. by Prest. William Budge,
and set apart to preside over Dingle
Ward. He has also been Ward
teacher, president of Deacons' quo-

rum. Sunday school teacher for thir-
ty-five years, counselor in the Ward
M. I. A., member of Bear Lake Stake
High Council, and Bishop's counselor
of Paris Second Ward. He was en-
tertained by the Government in the
Idaho penitentiary from June to No-
vember, 1886, for unlawful cohabita-
tion, his marriage being to Mary Ann
Clifton, Oct. 2, 1876, and Hannah
M. Clifton, Sept. 3, 1884. He

is the father of fifteen children, all
living but one. His occupation is
that of farmer, stock raiser and dairy-
man. In the civil line, he has served
as justice of the peace for one term.

GRIMMETT, John Henry, second
counselor to the Bishop of Dingle
Ward in Rear Lake Stake since 1894,
is a native of Utah, having been born
at what was once known as Pond
Town, but of late years- Salem, Utah,
county, May 16, 1858. His father's
name was John Grimmett and his
mother's Sarah Passey. He was bap-

tised Jan. 17, 1887, by John Sutton, and
his ordinations to the Priesthood were:
Elder, 1888, by George Humphries;
Seventy, by Franklin D. Richards;
High Priest, Dec. 16, 1894, by Presi-
dent William L. Rich. In addition to
these he was Sunday school and Ward

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teacher, president of Ward M. I. A.,
and during the winter of 1901-2 la-
bored as a missionary in Teton Stake.
He was married to Louisa Neat Nov.
21, 1883, and is the father of eight
children, all livins?. He has held thfa
civil positions of probate judge of
Bear Lake county for one term, coun-
ty commissioner foi- one term, and
school trustee for Dingle district for
two terms. He is a carpenter and
builder by trade and at present is en-
gaged in farming and stock raising.
His residences have been in Utah
county, Utah; Sweetwater county,
Wyoming, and Bear Lake county, Ida-
ho, since 186«j.

HAYES, Alma, Hishoi) of George-
town, Bear Lake Stake, Idaho, was
b;:rn on the historic gunmd of Nauvoo.

Hanc(jck county, Illinois. Jan. 12,
1846. His father's name is Thomas
Hayes and his mother's Polly Hess.
He entered the Church by baptism
March 6, 1876, Henry A. Lewis offici-
ating. He was ordained a High Priest
Jan. 8. 1883, afterwards becoming
a Seventy; from 1882 to 1906 he was
counselor to Bishops Lewis and Rich

aids, at Georgetown, where he on
.June 10th was ordained to his present
position by Apostle Charles W. Pen-
rose. He was first married to Ansi-
lena Thomas, Dec. 9. 1867, next
to Louisa Jane Sheffield, July 1, 1892,
and is the father of twenty-two chil-
dren. He satisfactorily filled a mis-
sion to New Zealand in 1887. Brother
Hayes' father and mother both died
through the persecutions of the Saints
and were burled in Mt. Pisgah ceme-
tery, Iowa. Being left an orphan at
the tender age of six years, he was
brousjht to Utah by strangers, bare-
headed and barefooted, Provo being
the first settling place. Afterwards he
went to his grandmcthe:' at Farming-
ton, and he had to assist in making a
living by herding, getting such school
ing as he could. After his first mar-
liage he moved to Morgan City, living
there several years, then going to
Georgetown, Idaho, where he was one
of the first settlers. He took an ac-
tive part in the "Black Hawk war"
in 1866. He has been director in the
Georgetown Irrigation Co. for twenty-
two years and its president part of the
time, and was watermaster for thir-
teen years. He has always taken an
active part in public affairs.

SMART, Abel, Ward clerk of
Georgetown, Hear Lake Stake, Idaho,
IS a native of England, having been
born at Lea Wiltshire, Jan. 30, 1848.
His father's name was William Smart
and his mother's name Jane Stock-
ham. He came to this country in the
s])ring of 1867, remaining for one year
in New Jersey and Michigan, coming
to Utah in 1868, spending the first
winter in Promontory Point, remov-
ing to Wellsville, Cache county, where
he was baptised Sept. 20. 1869. by Ro-
bert Leatham; subsequently removing
to Smithfleld. Brother Smart was
married Sept. 20. 1869, and ordained
an Elder the same day by Samuel H.
Smith; was ordained a High Priest
March 27, 1883, by George Barber, and
was associated with the High Priests'

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«luoruin of Cache county from ^1883 to
1889. inovins then to Ovid, Rear Lake
county, Idaho, where he entered the
High Priests' quorum; he was called
to labor in the Logan Temple by
President .John Taylor, remaining
there till the latter part of 1885, when
the raids of the enemy became so per
sistent that Brother Smart went into
retirement. He had a hard time of

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not sleeping in a house for two years;
at one time he got snowed in between
Bear Lake and Cache counties and
for three days and nights had no food
or shelter; one of his feet was frozen
and he contracted pneumonia, from
which he has never fully recovered.
The deputy marshals were quite active
in searchin'4 his premises and on one
occasion he was within three feet of
thrni, hut their intended victim es-
caped. It is worthy of note that when
Brother Smart left home it was to
make a trip around the world. Hear-
ing at Omaha of Brigham Young and
the Great Salt Lake he headed this
way, heard the truth and embraced
it. His first marriage, above spoken
of. v,as to Sarah Giltens, who bore him

twelve children; the next was to Em-
ma Irene Staley, by whom he has be-
come father to eleven children; and
the third, Annie Christina Jensen, who
became the mother of five children.
The last and six of the children are
dead.

NEBEKER, Ira, Bishop of Lake-
town, Rich county, Utah, was bora
June 23, 1839, in Vermillion county,
Illinois. He is a son of .John Nebeker
and Lurena Fitzgerald, who were
prominent among the pioneers and
founders of Utah. The Nebekers
were among the first settlers of Dela-
ware and the Fitzgeralds originally
settled in Pennsylvania. Both branch-
es of the family are represented
among the builders of the nation and

it is from these source^ that Ira
Nebeker inherited the sturdy simpli-
city, tenacity of purpose and faith-
fulness to duty which characterized
his life. John Nebeker and family be-
came converts to the "Mormon" faith
and in the fall of 1846 joined the Lat-
ter-day Saints, who were gathered
near Council Bluffs on the Missouri
river; the next year they crossed the
plains. He was captain of ten in

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George B. Wallace's Fifty and Abra-
ham O. Smoot's hundred, arriving in
the Great Salt Lake valley on the 26th
day of Oct. 1847. In 1885, Brother
Nebeker joined Captain Robert T. Bur-
ton's company of Minute Men, a mili-
tary body expected to start on short
notice, to protect exposed settlements
from attack or the depradations of
hostile Indians and on other occasions
of emergency, in which service he dis-
tinguished himself for courage and
wisdom beyond his years. In the fall
of 1856, being then only seventeen
years of age, he went with George D.
Grant's company to the relief of the
belated handcart immigrants; from
the exposures and hardships of this
cnp, many times wading in icy cold
Sweetwater and carrying on his back
enfeebled immigrants, he greatly un-
dermined his otherwise strong consti-
tution. In 1861 he married Delia Lane,
and the children of this marriage now
living are John, Hyrum, Frank K., Ho-
race G., Noami, Clara, Ella, EfRe,
Laura and Ruby. With his family he
lived for about two years in southern
Utah and at the general October con-
ference, in 1869. with others, he was
called to remove to Bear Lake valley.
He settled in Laketown and was short-
ly thereafter ordained Bishop of the
Ward by Apostle Charles C. Rich,
then presiding over the Bear Lake
Stake. He held the position of Bish-
op until his death at Los Angeles,
California, on April 29, 1905. He was
an active and successful stockman
and farmer; dignified, but unpreten-
tious, practical, but self-sacrificing,
possessing a keen sense of justice, yet
sympathetic and considerate of others.
He was always respected for his hon-
or and integrity by those with whom
he transacted business and greatly
loved by all who enjoyed an intimate
acquaintance with him. It is said by
those who knew him best that in emer-
gencies he always did the right thing
at the right time, as if by intuition.
While always engaged more or less in
public work, he cared little, if at all,

for pubyc notice, believing, as he often,
expressed it, that a man's deeds
should speak for themselves.

NEBEKER, Delia Lane, was born
at James Town, Grant county, Wis-
consin, on the 30th day of June, 1845,
and is the daughter of Hyrum Lane
and Naomi Chase Lane. Her father
having died at their Wisconsin home
and her mother having joined the
"Mormon" Church, the family came to
Utah in the fall of the year 1853, and
located at Farmington, Davis county.

She becr'.me the wife ot' Ira Nebeker
and labored by his side until her death
from diphtheria at Logan city, Utah,
on the 7th day of February, 1901. She
was the mother of thirteen children,
ten of whom are now alive. She was
always devoted to her husband and
her children, but she found time to
minister to the needs of the aged, the
afflicted and the unfortunate. Al-
though accustomed to the harsh con-
ditions ot pioneer life, she read ex-
tensively from the best literature and
thereby nurtured the lofty ideals and
keen sympathies which controlled her
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SO great but That she would cheerfully
face it for her husband, her children
or for those in need. Like her hus-
band, she was in the highest sense of
the term, religious. Besides being
an effectionate and loving wile and
mother she possessed a kindly and
sympathetic nature which extended to
the worthy among all classes and con-
ditions. She was a noble, cultured,
refined, womanly woman and the
world is better for her livng in it.

CLARK, Wilford Woodruff, Bishop
of Mcnti)elier since May 8, ]89o, was
born at Farmington, Utah, P^eb. 2,
1863. His father's name is Ezra T.
Clark and his mother's maiden name,
Mary Stevenson. He was baptised by

Joseph Milliard, and confirmed by Job
Welling June 25, 1871. His ordinations
to the Priesthood are as follows:
Deacon, January, 1884; Elder, by
Charles Bridges; High Priest, by
President Joseph F. Smith; Bishop,
by Apostle George Teasdale on the
date above named, being set apart to
preside over Montpelier. He has also
been a Sunday school teacher, presi-
dent of M. I. A., Ward teacher, and
acting priest, second counselor in
Georgetown Ward Bishopric. Bear
Lake Stake, from 1892 to 189:i, when

he was called upon to move to Mont-
pelier and take his present position.
From May 24, 1889, to June 2.5, 1891,
he filled a mission to the Southern
States, laboring in North Carolina and
presiding there during the last eigh-
teen months. He was married to Pa-
nielia Dunn July 22, 1885, and ten
children, all boys but one, were born
to them, one being dead. Previous
to his present residence he lived in
Farmington, Davis county, Utah, till
1885, then went to Georgetown, Bear
Lake county, Idaho, moving to Mont-
pelier as previously stated. He was a
member of the lower house in the Ida-
ho State legislature in 1895-9G and a
member of the Senate 1903-4, besides
which he has held several positions of
a commercial nature.

BURGCVNE, Edward Lorenzo, sec-
ond counselor to Bishop Wilford W.
Clark, Montpelier Ward since 1900, is
a son of Edward Burgoyne and Mary
Ann Eyon. He was born on the plains,

near Fort Bridger, while the family
were en route to Utah, Aug. 22, 1861,
and was first ordained a Deacon, and
Elder by Bishop Charles Robinson In
1882, a Seventy by Christian D. Fjeld-
sted, a High Priest by President Jas.
H. Hart, Jan. 21, 1900, and set apart

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as counselor iu the Bishop. ic. During
1888-90, Brother Burgoyne filled a mis-
siou to Great Britain, being occupied
in the Welsh conference. He has
held a number of ecclesiastical posi-
tions—Sunday school teacher, presi-
dent of M. I. A.. Ward teacher and
priest, home missionary, and since
1900 has been second counselor in the
Montpelier Bishopric. Oct. 9, 188-, he
was married to Binnie Cederlund and
has ten children, all living. In busi-
ness he is a merchant, being engaged
in the clothing and men's furnishing
goods business at Montpelier, Idaho.
His arrival in Utah occurred soon af-
ter his birth, and he previously lived
in Salt Lake and Logan, going to
Montpelier in 1865, where he has lived
ever since.

JENSEN. Peter, Bishop of Ovid,
Bear Lake Stake, Idaho, from 1877 to
1888, is by nativity a Dane, having ar-
rived upon this sphere of action July
6, 1831, at Bybjerg, Frederiksborg,

anit, Denmark. His father's name
was Jens Andreas Christensen, and
his mother's Johanna Larsen. He was
baptised in 1862 by Wilhelm Poulsen
and under the same hands in the
same year was ordained an Elder;
he became a High Priest by Elder

Anderson iu 1863 and a Bishop Aug.
25, 1877, by Wilford Woodruff and was
set apart to preside over Ovid Ward. He
has also held the positions of Ward
teacher, and a worker in the Sunday
schools. He emigrated to America
in 1863 and located in Mendon, Cache
county, Utah, going to his present
place of residence as above stated the
following year. He was married to
Maria Olsen in 1859, by whom he be-
came father of seven children, and to
Mary Sorensen in 1870, who bore him
five children. He was arrested, tried
for and convicted of unlawful cohab-
itation, and imprisoned in Blackfoot,
Idaho, for several months, being final-
ly released without much injury done.
He was one of the very first settlers
of Ovid, where he has successfully
followed the occupation of farming
and stock raising.

PRICE, Robert, Bishop of Paris
Second Ward, Bear Lake county,
Idaho, since 1877, was born June 19,
1835, and is the son of Simon Price
and Mary Louis.i Stanners. He was
baptised at his birthplace. Great Mis-
seuden, Buckhamshire, England, in
September, 1853, by Frederick Smith.
He was ordained a Teacher by Eli
Sutton Isacke Feb. 5. 1854; a Priest,
an Elder, a Seventy at Salt Lake
City in 18G2, by James Jack; a High
Priest Feb. 5, 1876, by John U. Stucki,
and a Bishop in August, 1877, by
President John Taylor. He has also
been a Sunday school teacher, Ward
teicher. home missionary. Bishop's
counselor in Paris Ward from 1872 to
1877, clerk to Bishop Edward Hunter
in Salt Lake City, and the position
first named above (Bishop) since the
Ward's organization in 1877. He took
a special mission for genealogy to
England in 1898. His first marriage
occurred in 1855, the wife's maiden
name being Mathilda Kelsey. six chil-
dren having been born to them, three
living; he married Susanna Juchau in
1864, who bore him thirteen chil-
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Shepard in 1879, the issue being nine
children, seven living; and was mar-
ried Ellen Muir in 1887, and served
children being borne by her, both
living. He came to America in 1855
and crossed the plains in 18G1, locat-
ing in Salt Lake City till 18G9, and
then moved to Paris, where he has re-

sided ever since. In the interim be-
tween reaching this country and com-
ing to Utah, he worked in New York
and Connecticut, serving in tae for-
mer as branch clerk under John Tay-
lor. He is a carpenter by trade and
did the first mechanical work on the
Salt Lake Tabernacle, besides being
a lumber manufacturer and dealer,
and is also engaged in farming and
stock raising. He has held two civil
positions — treasurer of Bear Lake
county and city councilman of Paris,

MUMFORD, George, Patriarch in
Beaver Stake of Zion, way born
Sept. 6, 1840, at Castessy, Norfolk,
England. He was baptised in 1852
by his father, whose name was Rob-
ert Munford, that of the mother be-
ing Lydia Murphy. His ordinations
to the Priesthood were as follows:
An Elder in 18G5, by William D.
Hobbs; a Seventy. May 2£; 1885, by
Jonathan Crosby ;a High Priest March

24, 1890, by George Q. Cannon. On
the latter date also he was ordained
and set apart as Bishop of the Sec-
ond Ward of Beaver City, by the last
named, and in June, 1891, as Bishoi>
of Beaver City by Francis M. Ly-
man, and on July 22, 1888, was set
a.part as superintendent of Sunday
schools. Brother Mumford's early
life, like that of h5s more recent
years, was spent on a farm. At 19^
years of age he went to London and
worked as a footman in a gentleman's
family for about five years, and in
June, 18G4, emigrated to Utah. He
crossed the plains in William Hyde's
company, and arrived at Parowan
Nov. 6, 1864, mibsequently set-
tling at Panguitch and living there
till 18GC, when orders came to leave
the place because of the Indian trou-
bles; he then moved back to Paro-
wan and in 18G7 went to Beaver,
which has been his residence ever
since. In addition to farming, he has
followed brick making and has had
a share of military experience, serv-
ing against the red men. Brother
Mumford is the father of eight chil-
dren, three sons and five daughters.
On January 11, 1903, he was ordained
a Patriarch by Apostle George Teas-
dale.

GRIMSHAW, Duckworth, High
Councilor of Beaver Stake, was born
March 3, 1842 at Tottingham, Lan-
cashire, England. His father's name
is John Grimshaw and that of his
mother Alice Whittaker. Brother
Duckworth's baptism occurred June
2G, 18G0. at tlie hands of Thomas
ychofield, at the former's birthplace,
in early life the subject hereof be-
came a cotton weaver. He emigrated
to Utah in 18G2, leaving the father
and four sisters, reaching New York
June 1st and proceeding to Florence,
where an engagement was made to
drive a team across the plains, by
which means Salt Lake City was
reached September 2Gth. Laboring:
on a farm at South Weber, he accu-

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mulated 200 bushels of wheat which
came in good time, his father and sis-
ters having joined him. Prosperity
attended his labors, and in 1865 he
was able to move to Beaver, arriving
June 14th, where he acted as super-
intendent (or assistant) of Sunday
schools twenty -five years; he also be-
came and still is a member of that

Ward choir. He was ordained a Sev-
enty by Jonathan Crosby May 22,
1885; a High Priest the same year
and set apart as a High Councilor ot
Beaver Stake, which he still holds. He
had previou'sly (Feb. 16, 1865),
been ordained an Elder by Chauncy
W. West. Brother Grimshaw was
married April 4, 1867. to Mary Jane
Moyes, who has borne him thirteen
children, all living but one boy, who
died at the age of 22; he also mar-
ried Ellen Muir in 1887, and served
a term of twelve months in the Utah
penitentiary for infraction of the Ed-
munds law. He has had two sons
on missions. Besides active military
service against the Indians, he has
been tlty councilor, school trustee,
and been an active citizen generally.

MURDOCK, John Molen, High Coun-
cilor in Beaver Stake, is one of Utah's
native sons, having reached this
sphere at Lehi, Utah county, Sept.

11, 1852, where also he was bap-
tised into the Church September 23,
I860. His father's name is Orrice
Clapp Murdock and his mother's
maiden name was Margaret Ann
Molen. Brother John has received the
following ordinations to the Priest-
hood: Elder, Jan. 12, 1881, by
William Fawcett; High Priest, Janu-
ary 5, 1902, by Abraham O. WoodrufE,
He has also held the following eccle-
siastical positions: President of El-
ders' quorum about three years; High
Councilor, one year; Bishop of Beaver
Ward, two years; then to the High
Council again. He was twice mar-
ried, in 1877 and 1884, and is the
father of seven children, five living.
In the civil department Brother Mur-
dock has been a city councilman for

four years, county assessor and col-
lector, and chairman of the board of
county commissioners for three
years, his term expiring next year.
He has had some stirring experi-
ences in the missionary field. While
holding forth in Kansas, a mob came
with a rope to hang him and his
associates, but eventually changed
their minds and gave the Elders time
to leave; on another occasion the
meeting was broken up and eggs
were thrown at them. Elder Mur-

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dock's chief occupations are stock
raising and farming.

NOWERS, Wilson Gates, High
Pi'iest and for thirly-one years High
Councilor (now retired), is a son of
Edward Nowers and Susanna Gates,
and was born at Dover, Kent, Eng-
land, March 8, 1828. He was baptised
March 2, 1851, by John Tippets; was
■ ordained an Elder and a Seventy,
April G, 1852, by Zera Pulsipher, and
Henry Harriman, and a High Priest
and High Councilor of Beaver Stake,
by John R. Murdock, March IC, 1879.
Brother Nowers has filled industrial
missions to Provo, 1853; Iron county.
1853-G; then to Beaver, where he was
a pioneer settler, Feb. G, 1856.
He was also a home missionary for
several years and went on a mission
to Great Britain in 1882. In addition
to the above named Church positions,
he was a Ward teacher in Parowan,
and Beaver for several years. High
Councilor, clerk ^nd historian, Stake
clerk, and is now High Priests' quo-
rom clerk and Ward clerk. In the
civil department he ha's been city
councilor and recorder, county re-
corder,, county surveyor, justice of the
peace, and first treasurer of Beaver
;COunty, serving gratuitously until
.1880. He has also had an extensive
military experience, and in Parowan,
in 1853, made the first bass drum ever
made in Utah. Brother Nowers was
married June 28, 1855, at Parowan,
Utah, to Sarah Anderson, by whom he
became the father of six sons and two
daughters, three of the former hav-
ing died. His principal occupations
have been farmins, stock raising,
mill and house building, besides being
interested in the mercantile and wool-
en Rianufacturing business.

ASHWORTH, William Booth, Bish-
op of Frisco Ward, Beaver Stake, is
the son of Robert B. Ashworth and
Mary Pickup, and was born March
10. 1845, in England. Brother Ash-
worth was successivelv ordained to the

following offices in the Priesthood:
Deacon, Teacher, Elder, High Priest
and Bishop. During the years 1878-
1879 he performed missionary work
for the Church in Europe, where he
labored jjrincipally in England. At
home he has always taken a deep and
active interest in Church work, hav-
ing labored for many yeai.s as a
High Councilor, as Bishop's councilor
and subsequently as Bishop of Frisco
Ward, in all of which positions he has
served with credit and honor. In
185G he settled in Beaver county, be-
ing among those who pioneered that
section. He spent one year on the
frontiers, helping the emigrant trains
to reach Utah, and he assisted in
the erection of Fort Sanford in 1863.
Brother Ashworth has twice been
married and has eleven children liv-
ing. His chief occupations have been
farming, milling and that of a machin-
ist. When the Deseret Telegraph
lines were first opened he worked
one year as an operator, — doing the
work as a missionary. Two civil po-
sitions, viz., coroner and school
trustee, are the only public offices he
has held in that line. He served a
term in the Utah penitentiary for
"conscience sake."

MURDOCK, Gideon A., Bishop's
councilor, in Frisco Ward, Beaver
Stake of Zion, son of John and Electa
Allen Murdock, was born at Lima,
Adams county, Illinois, Aug. 1,
1840. When about one year old he
was taken by his parents to Nauvoo,
III., the family being expelled with
the rest of the saints in 1846. His
elder brother having gone with the
Mormon Battalion to the Mexican
war, at the age of six and a half
years, he had helped his father drive
an ox-team freighting to Winter
Quarters, leaving there June 10, 1847,
and reaching Salt Lake valley Sept.
24th, following, the boy driv-

ing an ox-team all the way. All the
hardships of that trying time were ex-
perienced but can scarcely be told.

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In the spring of 1851 his father went
on a mission to Australia and the
mother having died in the boy's
fourth year, he went to live with a
brother at Lehi. At fifteen, he was
enrolled in the military and served in
the Walker Indian war; he after-
wards became a captain in the mili-
tia. Freighting east and west was
followed and in 18G4 he went with a
Church train to the Missouri river for
emigrants, and the following year
moved to Beaver, where, besides mak-
ing a location, he again served exten-
sively as a military officer and
took part in the Blackhawk war. In
1872 he made an exploring trip to
Arizona, and the same year, Dsc.
7th, was ordained a High Priest by
Bishop John R. Murdock, serving al-
so as a member of the High Council.
In 18GG Brother Gideon moved into
Sevier county and July 22, 1877, was
ordained Bishop and set apart to pre-
side over Joseph Ward by President
Wilford Woodruff and apostle Eras-
us Snow, holding the position for six-
teen years. In 1894 he returned to
Beaver countj'^ and for the last nine
years has been Sunday school sup-
erintendent and is now Bishop's coun-
selor in Frsco Ward, thougii hs fam-
ily lives in Minersville. Brother Mur-
dock was married March 1, 186G, to
Lucinda C. Howd, and fifteen chil-
dren have been born to him.

MARSHALL, George, coun-elor in
the Bishopric of Minersville Ward,
Beaver Stake of Zion, for eleven
years. Is the son of George Marshall
and Elizabeth Woomsley and was
bom Jan. 5, 1855, in Tooele,
Tooele county, Utah. Elder Marshall
has always been a consistent Church
worker as the following will show:
For several years he served as a
counselor in the Deacons quorum;
was for a number of years president
of the Mutual Improvement Associa-
tion of Minersville, and for eleven
years was counselor to the Bishop of
that Ward. In civil affairs he has

taken a leading part, having served
as school trustee fifteen years, coun-
ty commissioner four years, and
president of Town Board four years.
He has followed farming, stock raising

and merchandising with good suc-
cess. On Dec. 13, 1875, he mar-
ried Rachel Thrower, who has borne
him eleven children, four girls and
feven boys. In 1889-1891 he filled a
successful mission to Great Britain.

JACOBSON, Christian, clerk of the
Benscn Stake of Zion, is the son of
Jorgen Jacobson and Bertha Christine
Petersen and was born Nov. 30,
1846, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His
baptism occurred in Draper, Utah,
when he was a boy. He was ordained
a Priest Jan. 24, 18G7, by A. W.
Smith, and later an Elder; then he
was ordained a Seventy Jan. S,
1884, by A. C. Brower, and finally, he
became a High Priest, Feb. 10,
1891, being ordained by Samuel Rosk-
elly. Elder Jacobson is an energetic
Church worker as the following
shows: He was Ward teacher, clerk
and president of the Mutual Improve-
ment Association of Lewiston for sev-
eral years, clerk of the Seventeenth
quorum of Elders and clerk of
the Thirty-ninth quorum of Sev-
enty, and since August 4, 1901, he has

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served as Stake clerk of Benson
Stake. His chief occupations have
been herding sheep, school teaching,
merchandising, and since 1891 he has
been postmaster of Lewiston, Cache
county. Utah. He emigrated to Utah
from Denmark in 1854, and in this
State resided as follows: Salt Lake
City, to 1855: Draper. Salt Lake
county from 1855 to 1875: from 1875
to 1877 in Logan. Cache county, and
since 1877 in Lewiston, Cache coun-
ty. He married Mary Pauline Litz,
March 31, 1881, who has borne him
four children. It is a sorrowful record
that his family made, while emigrat-
ing to Utah,- most of them, including
his father, having journeyed to the
other shore.

RAWLINS, .Franklin Archable, a
member of the High Council of Ben-
son Stake, is a son of Harvey M.
Rawlins and Margaret Frost and was
born .Ian. 22, 1857, at Draper, Salt
Lake county, Utah. He was baptised
into the Church July 18, 1875, by El-
der J. E. Layne, and was ordained
to offices in the Priesthood in the fol-
lowing order: An Elder, Dec.
15, 1879, by Wm. H. Lewis; a Sev-
enty Jan. 4, 1885, by Andrew L.
Hyer; a High Priest, June 30, 1901.
by Wm. H. Lewis. During 1897-1899
he filled a mission to California, where
he labored in the southern part of
that State. While on this mi'ssion he
had a number of interesting experi-
ences, and at one time witnessed a
remarkable case of the healing of a
sick man, who was suffering with
hemorrhage of the brain, who after
being administered to regained his
normal health. After having served
as a Ward teacher for several years
he was chosen counselor to Bishop
Wm. Waddoups. of Lewiston Ward,
in which position he served till he
became a High Councilor in Benson
Stake. Elder Rawlins is married and
has 11 children. In his youth he was
employed at farming, railroading and
freighting with team, but during la-

ter years he has engaged successfully
in farming and dairying.

BRIGHT, John Wesley, alternate
High Councilor in Benson Stake, is
one of Utah's sturdy sons, having
been born in Richmond, Cache county.
Jan. 12, 1873. He became a mem-
ber of the Church by baptism June
2, 1882, and was ordained as a Priest
in the lesser Priesthood when thirteen
years of age; he was ordained an
Elder when twenty-three years of age,
and a Seventy April 10, 1899, Chris-
tian D. Fjeldsted officiating. At the
same time Bi'o. Bright was set apart
for a mission to the northwestern
States, and labored in the Baker con-
ference, State of Oregon for fifteen
months; aJsoi presided over the
Blaine conference, Idaho, for nine
months. He has acted as second as-
sistant to the superintendent of reli-
gious classes in the Benson Stake
since its organization. Aug. 1.
1903, he was ordained a High Priest
and set apart as alternate High Coun-
cilor at his present place of residence,
where he is doing, as he has all along
done, good and faithful work in all
the walks of life.

POND, Brigham, first counselor in
the Lewiston Ward Bishopric, Ben-
son Stake, was born June 9, 1883, in
Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a son
of Stillman Pond and Abigail Thorne.
His ordinations in the Priesthood oc-
curred in the following order: an El-
der, by Pres. Wm. H. Lewis; a Sev-
enty, by Harvey M. Rawlins, Jan.
4, 1885, and a High Priest, by Brig-
ham A. Hendricks, Aug. 4, 1901. In
January, 1890, he left home to fill a
missionary assignment to the north-
ern States, where he labored principal-
ly in Kansas, as president of a con-
ference. But on account of sickness
his mission was of short duration and
he returned home in August, 1890.
Among the ecclesiastical positions
held by Brother Pond, it may be men-
tioned that for several years he work-

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ed as a Ward teacher, and as presi-
dent of the 39th quorum of Seventy;
subsequently, he labored as a Stake
High Councilor. He married Arvetta
Whittle Jan. 13, 1876, and Catha-
rine Whittle Dec. 31, 1885, and
he is father of seventeen children.
His chief occupation has been farm-
ing, but has been associated in sev-
eral industries and business con-
cerns, being at present a direcior in
the People's Mercantile Co., Rich-
mond, a director in the Utah Con-
densed Milk Co., and a director in
the Lewiston State Bank. He is also
president of the town board at Lew-
iston. Elder Pond is a native of Utah
and has resided there always, having
lived in the following places : Salt Lake
City, Point of West Mountain, Span-
ish Fork, Richmond (Cache county)
from 1860 to 1876 and since the lat-
ter date in Lewiston, Cache county.
Elder Pond is known for his loyalty
to his friends and for his faithfulness
to principle.

FUNK, James William, first coun-
selor to the Bishop of Richmond Ward,
Cache county, was born at that place
Feb. 19, 1874. His father's name
was Christopher Funk and his moth-
er's. Annie Kofoed. His status in the
Church began with his baptism June
1, 1882, at his birthplace ,and he be-
came a Seventy Nov. 17, 1897.
and a High Priest April 30, 1900, C.
D. Fjeldsted officiating on the former
and Francis M. Lyman on the latter
occasion. Other ecclesiastical sta-
tions held by him were Sunday school
teacher, president of the Y. M. M. L
A., aid in Cache Stake M. I. A., and
presiding teacher of the High Priests'
quorum in Richmond Ward. Besides
these, he has been deputy county
treasurer of Cache county, justice of
the peace, member of the city council
and is at present mayor of the city.
He was on a mission to the southern
States from Nov. 17, 1897, to Dec.
18, 1899, beginning in MissiB-
ippi; and when work in Georgia was

begun, was transferred to that con-
ference. Later, when Ohio was made
part of that mission, he was sent
there and became president of the
Ohio conference. He was married on
June 20, 1900, to Lucy Merrill, and has
two children, a son and daughter. He
has served three years in the Utah
militia, being first sergeant the lat-
ter part of the time; has been mana-
ger of the Richmond Co-operative In-
stitution since 1902, and has followed
the occupation of clei'k and farmer.

BURNHAM, Wallace Kendall, first
counselor in the High Priests' quorum
of Benson Stake, is a son of Mary Ann
Huntley, and was born Jan. 24, 1838,
at Woodstock, McHenry county, 111.

He was baptised June 10, 1846, by
William Anderson; was ordained a
Seventy by Joseph Young Feb. 6, 1858,
and a High Priest by Bishop William
B. Preston, Aug. 9, 1897. Other
Church position held were those of
Teacher and Deacon in Richmond till
Aug. 9, 1877, when he became sec-
ond counselor to Bishop M. W. Mer-
rill of that place, and continued in
that place till March 4, 1879, when
he became second counselor to Bish-
op W. L. Skidmore, serving till 1900,
when the Ward was reorganized. He
became a High Councilor in Benson

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Stake when it. was organized in May,
1901. In 19U5 he became first coun-
selor to Prest. W. L. Skidmore in the
High Priest quorum of Benson Stake,
as above stated. He was married to
Phillnda Standley Nov. 30, 185G,
and to Lydia Standley April 11, 1865,
being the father of seventeen chil-
dren, seventy grand children and sev-
en great-grandchildren. He came to
Utah the year following the Pioneer's
advent, with his brother George, aged
eight, traveling hence with strangers
In Heber C. Kimball's company. He
located with Daniel Wood, in Boun-
tiful, Davis county, where he remain-
ed till 1860, when he went to Rich-
mond, Cache cotmty, being among the
first white settlers of that place, and
that has been his residence ever
since. He went through the trying
ordeals of "breaking in" a new coun-
try and did his full share. He has
been mayor of that place for two
years, city councilman for two years,
city treasurer four years, besides
holding the office of county select-
man, precinct justice of the peace and
deputy county assessor. He was a
member of the Nauvoo Legion and
was enrolled in the standing army
during the approach of Johnston's
command in 1857, going with the oth-
ers who engaged in the "move" at
that time. He has held the position
of first counselor in the High PrieBts
quorum since 1905.

MATHER, Thomas, a High Priest in
Benson Stake, was born April 28,
1846, in Lancashire, England, being
the son of James and Mary Mather,
who came from the same place and all
arrived in Salt Lake City in 1855. He
was baptised by Samuel Broadhurst
in 1854 and ordained an Elder in
March, 1866. He went to the Mis-
souri river on a mission to bring in
emigrants in 1866. He became sec-
ond councilor to the presidency of the
Ward Teachers' quorum of Smithfield
Ward Nov. 12, 1877, which place
was held for several terms, and

Sept. 2o, 1881, was made president
of the quorum; was appointed one of
the board of directors of Smithfield
Ward in 1882; was ordained a Seven-
ty Jan. 7, 1874, and a High Priest
and High Councilor in Benson Stake
Aug. 5, 1901, in which he is work-
ing as he has previously worked as a
missionary and performing such oth-
er duties as are required. After
reaching Salt Lake City Bro. Mather
did not at once proceed to his present
place of abode; on the contrary he
had quite an experience in the mat-

ter of locations prior thereto. He
went first to Cedar Valley and in 1857
removed to Lehi; thence to Plain City
in 1859 and to Logan in the summer
of the same year, and then to Smith-
field, in the same year, where he has
resided ever since and where he has
acted as one of the local lawmakers.
Aug. 10, 1893, he went on a mission
to England, returning Sept. 6,
1895. He was married Dec. 6,
1870, to Mary Ann Cantwell, and has
been an active citizen all along.

WELSCH, Charles Arthur, second
counselor in the Stake Presidency of
Big Horn Stake, was born Oct.
4, 1860, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and
is the son of Thomas R. G. Welsch
and Harriet Nash. His father bap-

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tised him into the Church when he
was eight years old. He was or-
dained a Deacon by William Henning
July 23, 1877, a Priest by Robert Hogg
Dec. 14, 1877, an Elder Jan.
7, 1883. by James McNiven, a Seventy
May 31, 1885, by Daniel Bertoch, and
a High Priest by Richard Fry Oct.
4, 1899. Elder Welsch filled a mission
to the Southern States in 1883, and in
1884 was transferred to Great Britain,
where he labored in Eingland. Again
in 1897 he entered the missionary
field, going this time to the eastern
States. At home he has had an active
career in the performanace of Church
duties, having labored in the follow-
ing capacities: President of Dea-
cons quorum, assistant superintendent
of Ward Sabbath school, counselor
and president of Stake Mutual Im-
provement associations, a president in
a quorum of Seventy, and at present
second counselor in the Big Horn
Stake presidency. He married Mary
L. Hinckley April 5, 1883, and is the
father of five children. In civil life
he has been a prominent citizen and
has held many oflBces of trust, the du-
ties of which he discharged in a ca-
pable and efficient manner. He ser-
ved as county superintendent of public
schools during 1885-1890, was county
clerk in 188G-1890 and again during
1892-1896. In 1899 he was a member
of the House of Representatives in
the State legislature. All these posi-
tions were held in Morgan county,
Utah. Brother Welsch has had a
goodly amount of pioneer experience,
being in his boyhood a pioneer into
Morgan county and in hi's manhood
among the first pioneers to build up
settlements in the Big Horn country,
Wyoming. His chief work has been
farming school teaching, railroad
contracting and merchandising, in all
of which occupations he has been em-
inently successful.

CROSBY, George Henry, a Patriarch
in Big Horn Stake of Zion, was born
in Clinton, Kennebeck county, Maine,
Oct. 25, 1846. He received the or-

dinance of baptism at the hands of
his father, Jesse W. Crosby, his
mother's maiden name being Hannah
Eiida Baldwin. He was ordained an
Elder by David H. Cannon at St.
George, Utah, in 1867, and a High
Priest by Erastus Snow at the same
place in 1869. Brother Crosby was
set apart as Bishop of Heber Ward,
Washington county, Nov. 9, 1869;
was called to the Bishopric of
Leeds Ward, in the same county, in
1877. of Union Ward, Arizona, 1886,
and Torrey Ward, Wayne county,
Utah, in 1899. Two or three secular
stations have been filled by him,
namely, sheriff of Washington coun-
ty from 1868 to 187d, selectman of
the same county in the early part of
1880 and representative in the Arizo-
na legislature in 1895. He was mar-
ried at Salt Lake City, April 5, 1869,
to Sarah H. Brown, and at St. George
May 2, 1885, to Amelia Laney, and is
the father of fourteen children, five
of whom have passed away. He en-
joys the distinction of being one of
the Utah Pioneers, having reached
Salt Lake valley, Sept. 25, 1847,
and among the valued possessions is
a badge attesting the fact. He set-
tled in St. George when it was "in
the raw," in 1861, and among other
trying experiences' served as an In-
dian fighter in the cavalry during the
troubles with the natives of that sec-
tion, up to 1869. He made a trip
from that place to the Missouri river
in 1863, driving four yoke of oxen and
repeated the trip in 1866. In 1867 he
was called on a mission to the South-
ern States and promptly responded,
but was released soon after to enter
the Bishopric, where he remained for
thirty-two years. Brother Crosby was
among those w>ho became the in-
voluntary guests of the United States
marshal, his term in the Utah peni-
tentiary being from Dec. 10,
1890, to Feb. 23, 1891, having
been sentenced at Beaver for "adul-
tery," committed with his wife. Judge
Anderson officiating.

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SNELL, Rufus Phillips, president
of the High Priests' quorum
in the Big Horn Stake of Zion, was
born at Saclvville, New Brunswick,
May 27, 1810. His father's name was
Cyrus Phillips and his mother's
maiden name was Rhoda Barnes.
While living at Sackville, Conn., in
1836, they first heard the Gospel, it
coming from the mouths of three mis-
sionaries— Lyman E. Johnson, Milton
Holmes and John Herrit. These made
the Phillips home their headquarters
and a mill belonging to the fatlier was
improvised as a meeting house. Here
the Elders spent some three weeks
in mission work, durin-g which time
they baptised eighteen persons, among
them Brother Rufus' father and
mother and others related to him. It
is worthy of note that at this same
place the late Apostle Marriner W.
Merrill also received the Gospel, at
a subsequent time. After trying for
some time to find a purchaser for
his property, the father finally succeed
ed, and in April, 1853, with his fam-
ily, set their faces toward Utah, arriv
ing at Salt Lake City Aug. 27, 1854,
having spent the intervening time
chiefly among apostate relatives in
Wisconsin and strengthening their
equipment tor the journey. At Elk-
horn river Elias Williams and family
were picked up and brought on, they
having lost their animals, but with the
exception of this, some little sicknesb
and an occasional "hold-up " by the
Indians, the trip was made, witliuut
special incident. The subject hereof
was baptised in the spring of 1855, bj
Jonathan Midgley. The family left
Salt Lake City in 1855, and went to
Spanish Fork, being among the first
settlers there, the occupation being
chiefly farming and other things inci-
dental to pioneer life, having numer-
ous vicissitudes and many experien-
ces long to be remembered. Brother
Rufus has held every civil position in
the gift of Spanish Fork municipality
from mayor down, and has honorably
filled many offices in the Church. Ht

was ordained a Priest by A. K. Thur-
ber and G. W. Wilkin, in 1857; an El-
der by Philip Sykes in 1867; president
of the Spanish Fork Elders' quorum in
1873 by G. W. Wilkin; a Seventy in
1892 by Wm. Stokes; a High Priest in
1892 by A. O. Smoot; counselor to
Bishop Henry Gardner; High Council-
or of Utah Stake in 1896 by Abraham
H. Cannon; High Councilor in Nebo
Stake in 1901 by Hyrum Lemon; ana
president of the High Priests' quorum
of the Big Horn Stake in 1901 by Abra-
ham O. Woodruff. He has had two
wives , but not coincidently, the first,
Ellen C. Hillman, to whom he was
united Feb. 8, 1869, and who bore
him ten children, having died June
11, 1887; in March. 1892, he married
Mrs. Emma H. Moore, a widow with
three children who bore four to him.
His lesidence is Cowley, Wyoming,
a'.id his occH] ation that of a farmer.

LINDSAY, David Ephraim, a mem-
l):^r of Big Horn Stake High Council,
is a son of Ei)hraim Lindsay and Jane
Parish and was born Nov. 20,
1885, at Nauvoo^ Hancock county, Il-
linois. He became a member of the
Church in May, 1853, being baptised
by Wm. Meirs. In March, 1866, he
was ordained an Elder by Oliver Nich-
ols. In 1881 he was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as second coun-
selor in the Bennington Ward Bishop-
ric, Bear Lake Stake. He went east
in 1866 and brought in a company of
emigrants, being captain of the com-
pany. Elder Lindsay married Char-
lotte Ann Dunn, Sept. 7, 1874,
who has borne him eleven children,
nine of whom are now living. His
chief work has been lumbering and
mining. He came to Utah in 1852 and
has successively lived in Box Elder
and Davis counties, Utah. Bear Lake-
county, Idaho, and in 1900 he went to
the Big Horn valley, Wyoming, being
among those who ])ioneered that sec-
tion of country.

HATCH, Wilder True, first assistant
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the Big Horn Stake, Wyoming, was
born Nov. 14, 1873, at Bountiful,
Davis county, Utah, and is a son of
Orrin Hatch and Elizabeth M. Perry.
In September, 1882. he was baptised In-
to the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter-day Saints and was ordained to the
Priesthood in the following order:
Deacon by Orrin Hatch, Elder by Gil-
bert S. Hatch, April 2, 1893, and a
Seventy by Apostle Abraham H. Can-
non, Jan. 26, 1894. In February,
1894, he left home for a mission to the
Hawaiian Islands, where he labored
faithfully till May, 1897, when he
returned home. President Lorenzo
Snow called him, together with others,
to settle and colonize the Big Horn
country, Wyoming, and in answer to
that call Brother Hatch left Utah in
May, 1900, for the Big Horn. He was
elected captain of one of the colonist
companies, and while en route they
encountered a severe blizzard which
lasted two days and nights, during
which time the colonists were obliged
to share their bedding with their
horses in order to keep them from
perishing with cold. That Elder Hatch
has been active in Church work, the
following record will attest. He was a
teacher in Sabbath school three years;
a home missionary one year. Ward
teacher eight years. Mutual Improve-
ment worker two years, and for several
years past has been first assistant Sup-
erintendent of Sabbath schools in the
Big Horn Stake. He married Pattj
Orillo Sessions Feb. 23, 1898, who
has borne him two boys and two girls.
Farming has been his chief occupation,
and he removed the first scraper ol
dirt from the Sidon canal.

WILLIS Lemuel Josiah, first coun-
selor to Bishop Wm. C. Partridge, of
Cowley Ward, Big Horn Stake, was
bom Aug. 15, 1863, at Kanarra, Kane
county, Utah, and is the son of John
M. Willis and Francis Reeves. When
eight years old he was baptised by Jo-
seph Day. His ordinations in the
Priesthood occurred in the following

order: Ordained an Elder in 1883 by
Daniel H. Cannon; a Seventy Dec.
14, 1898, by Francis M. Lyman,
and a High Priest by Abraham O.
Woodruff, May 28, 1901. In 1898 he
filled a mission to the Southern States.
He also performed two missions in
Utah in the interest of Mutual Im-
l)rovement work. Brother Willis has
always taken an active interest in

Church work, having been prominent-
ly identified with Mutual Improve-
ment work in different Stakes. He
married Artie Stratton Oct. 24, 1883,
and is the father of eleven children.
For four years he served as county
commissioner in Garfield county, Utah,
and in a like capacity for six years in
Big Horn county, Wyo. Farming and
stock raising have been his main
occupations. As a pioneer he has had
an ample amount of experience, hav-
ing been among the first Utah colo-
nists to locate in Arizona, and later a
pioner into Big Horn county, Wyo.
Elder Willis writes: "I was invited to
colonise the Big Horn county, accepted
the invitation, and have passed
through all their 'ups and downs' in
this country and have taken great
pleasure and satisfaction in the work.

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COOK, Hyrum Howland, was boru
May 6. 1866, at Swan Creek, Rich
county, Utah. He was the sixteenth
and youngest child of Phineas W.
Cook and Ann Elisha Howland. He
had some of the hardships of the
early days in Bear Lake valley, to con-
tend with, thought nothing to compare
with what his i)arents had to undergo
in the settling of Salt Lake valley.
He lived with his parents at Swan
Creek until he was seventeen years of
age. His father being over-burdened

with the cares of a large family, the
son was called to the responsibility of
looking after his aged mother, and
lived with her at Garden City, Rich
county. When twenty-two years of
age he married Miss Annie Catherine
Vaterlaus, daughter of Conrad and
Catherine Schmid Vaterlaus, the issue
of which marriage was two sons and
four daughters. In the fall of 1894 he
was called to fill a mission to Aus-
tralia. He left Salt Lake City D^c.
11th of the same year with the
first company of Elders, going by
Hudard Parker S. S. line. He was
placed in charge of the company on

leaving Vancouver, B. C, and arrived
at Auckland, N. Z., Jan. 12, 1895.
He received his ajjopintment to laboi
in the Wairau conference, by Presi-
dent Wni. Gardner, where he labored
in the field with others of the Elders
and assisted in. opening up the work in
the city of Nelson. Was heard in pri-
bate, in ])ublic and thi'ough the press.
He was released to return home July
2, 1897, and called to bring his sick
companion, J. G. Casper, home, which
they reached in September, 1897.
W^hile on this mission his mother was
called to the great beyond May 17,
1896. He was ordained a High Priest
and set apart to act as counselor to
Samuel Weston, Bishoi) of Garden
City Oct. 26, 1897, by William L.
Rich, which position he labored in
until April, 1900. He was then re-
leased to go with the pioneers to the
Big Horn country, and assisted in
the early work of the Mormon people
in that place. He was the first to
reside in the townsit^ of Cowley. May
30, 1905, he was called to part with
his beloved wife and was left with,
four children to mourn the loss.

JOLLY, Haskel Shurtliff, Bishop of
Mt. Carmel Ward, Kanab Stake, Utah,
from 1892 to 1900, and Bishop of Lovell
Ward, Big Horn Stake, since 1891, is
the son of H. B. M. Jolly and was born
in Salem, Utah county, Utah, May 17,
1861. In a brief sketch prepared for
this work Elder Jolly writes. "I was
baptised by my father, when eight
years of age, and confirmed a member
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter-day Saints by Bishop Wilson Pace.
At the age of about seventeen years,
I did Temple work with my father,
at the same time receiving my own
endowments and was ordained an El-
der in the St. George Temple. I lar
bored as assistant superintendent of
the Mt. Carmel Sabbath school for sev-
eral years. In response to a call from
the Church authorities, I left Salt Lake
City Oct. 11, 1887, to fill a mission
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by Apovjlle Heber J. Grant, where I
labored until September of the tollow-
ing year, when I was honorably re-
leased to return home on account ot
my father's sudden decline in health.
I was ordained a High Priest and Bish-
op of the Mt. Carmel Ward, in Kanab
Stake of Zion, Sept. 1, 1892, by
Apostle Anthon H. Lund. Here I pre-

sided until May. 19U0. when I resigned
to move with my family and others in-
to the Bi? Horn country, Wyo., in the
fall of 1900, where a Stake was or-
ganized the following spring. On the
25th of May, 1901, I was chosen ana
set apart as Bishop of the Lovell Ward
of the Big Horn Stake of Zion by Apos-
tle Abraham O. Woodruff, where 1 still
reside. On account of the scattered
condition in which those residing on
the south side of the Shoshone river
were living, I purchased a townsite of
a Mr. Strong, paying $4,000 for 100
city lots, which now are nearly all
taken, and the town rapidly building
up.

HOUSTON, John Cooper, High
Priest, is a resident of Lovell, Big
Horn county, Wyoming, and a native
of Panguitch, Utah, where he was
born Aug. 24, 1876. He became a
member of the Church by baptism Aug.

24, 1884, Martin W. Fox officiating.
His father and mother were respec-
tively James Houston and Lucy Coop-
er. He was ordained a Deacon in
August, 1894; an Elder Aug. 30,
1896, by Apostle Francis M. Lyman; a
Seventy Oct. 13, 1897. by Elder
Seymour B. Young; a High Priest
Nov. 6, 1898, by Elder John E.
Woolley. While attending the Utah
University he was called by Apostle
.Tohn W. Taylor (October, 1897) to the
Colorado mission, from which he re-
turned Dec. 15. 1899. In Pan-
guitch Stake he has held the posi-
tions of assistant Stake president of Y.
M. M. I. A., Stake secretary and sec-
retary of Sunday schools; and in Big
Horn Stake, besides the position first
above mentioned, he has been assistant
superintendent of religion classes and
member of the State Union Board of
Sunday schools. In the civil list he
has been deputy assessor and collec-
tor of Garfield county, Utah, and the
same position at his present residence.
He was married to Eliza Adelaide
Asay May 2, 1901, and four children
have been born to them. Along with
Elder Jesse W. Washburn he had a
somewhat thrilling experience while
in the West New Mexico conierence,
of which he was president; they were
lost for three days and nights on thy
St. Augustine desert. His occupaticn
is school teaching, to which he has de-
voted nine years, five of them at
Lovell.

NIXON, Thomas Alonzo, High Coun-
cilor in Bingham Stake, Idaho, is a
native of Utah, having been born at
Wanship, Summit coimty, Sept.
21, 1861. His parents were Thomas
Stephen Nixon and Harriet Rushton.
His grandparents on his father's side
joined the Church while he was a lit-
tle child, and the whole family came
to America while headquarters were
in Nauvoo; here the grandfather be-
came a member of the Prophet Jo-
seph's body guard and remained in
that position until the latter's death.

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The family were driven out with the
hody of the Saints, and the grandmoth-
■er, giving birth to a child during the
ordeal, lost her life. After a trip re-
plete with hardships they reached Salt
Lake City in 1851, afterwards going
to Prove, where this subject's father
and mother were married, soon after
going to Wanship. His grandparents
on the mother's side were also mem-
bers of the Church, natives of New
York, and emigrated to Utah at an
■early day. Thomas A. was baptised
Nov. 24, 1874, by his granfather

Stephen Nixon, having previously,
through an oversight, been ordained
a Deacon; this unusual state of things
caused the boy some trouble of mind
and body and was soon made right,
the act of ordaining being repeated
subsequently to his great satisfaction.
He became a Teacher in 1875; an
Elder Jan. 7, 1878, under the hands
of Daniel Lewis; a Seventy June 1,
1882, by Josiah Reed; was set apart
as one of the seven presidents of the
106th quorum of Seventy by Seymour
B. Young, serving thus until ordained
a High Priest Aug. 14, 1893, James
E. Steele officiating. Bro. Nixon has
acted in many capacities in the Y. M.
M. I. A. in Wanship Ward, and Summit
Stake, serving first as treasurer, assis-
tant secretary, secretary, assistant su-

perintendent and president; he also
acted for some time as second assist-
ant in the Stake presidency of tb© or-
ganization. He served as a Ward
teacher until he removed from Utah;
also as home missionary and superin-
tendent of Sunday schools. In 1883
he went to Idaho Falls, Eagle Rock
Ward, Idaho, which he made his home
from 1884 to 1892. He was married
to Emma Jane Cantwell Dec. 29,
1888, and eight children were born to
them. In his present residence he has
served extensively as a home mission-
ary in the then Bannock Ward. In
Eagle Rock Ward he acted as superin-
tendent of Sunday schools and presi-
dent of the M. I. A. He accepted a
call to what was then the Northwest-
ern States Mission and left home
Jan. 15, 1890, returning home, after
extensive service during which he
presided over the Indiana conference,
in April, 1892. During this mission
eleven persons were baptised under
his hands. Taking up a brief resi-
dence in lona, Bro. Nixon was set
apart as president of the Y. M. M. I.
A. in October, 1892; May 7, 1893, as su-
perintendent of the Ibna Sunday
school; Aug. 14, 1893, he was or-
dained a High Priest and set apart as
first counselor to Bishop Joseph S.
Mulliner, of lona Ward. In the fall of
that year he returned to Idaho Falls,
and in 1899 was set apart as Stake
aid in the Y. M. M. I. A. of Bingham
Stake, acting thus till 1903, when he
became second assistant to Supt.
Robert Anderson. June 8, 1896i.'at the
organization of the Bingham Stake, he
was set apart as a High Councilor
by Apostle John Henry Smith, which
position he still holds. Previously, in
1893, he was again called into Sunday
school and M. I. A. work, acting as
superintendent of both, and also labor-
ing as a home missionary. In March,
1890, he again moved to lona and set-
tled down there.

DENNING, James Henry, a High
Councilor in the Bingham Stake of

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Zion, since June 8, 1895, is a son of
James Denning and Sarah Merrifleld,
and was born Jan. 25, 1853, at
Abersychon, Monmouthshire, South
Wales. He joined the Church July 15,
1866, being baptised by his father. He
was ordained an Ellder Dec. 21,
1874. and a High Priest Aug. 2, 1884,
by Francis M. Lyman. For several
years he labored as a counselor m tne
Bishopric of St. John's Ward, Idaho.
He has also served as a Ward teacher.
Elder Denning married Rosanna Wil-
liams Dec. 21, 1874, and Anna J.
Squires March 23, 1882, who have

borne him nineteen children. In No-
vember, 1886, he was sentenced to
serve a term of six months in the
Boise penitentiary for "conscience
salce." From his youth he has had :i
full share of pioneer worlt to do, be-
ing among those who settled and pion-
eered Bountiful, Davis county, Logan,
Cache county, Utah, and Montpelier,
Idaho, and the Snake River country,
Idaho, in all of which places he has
done his share to build up the country
in a satisfactory manner. His present
place of residence is lona, Bingham
county, Idaho. From 1875 to 1883 he
followed freighting by team, and since
then has been engaged in farming.

BROWNING, George Andrew, Bish-
op of Annis Ward, Bingham Stalce,
Idaho, was born June 27, 1865, in Og-
den, Utah, and is a son of James.
Greene Browning and Ann Wood. At
the age of eight years he was bap-
tised into the Church by Job Pingree,
Sr. His ordinations to the Priesthood
took place in this order: Ordained a
Teacher by B. C. Critchlow, a Priest
by Robert L. Bybee, an Elder by W. F.
Walker, a High Priest and a Bishop
by Apostle Hyrum M. Smith, Nov.
5, 1904. Elder Browning has been
a consistent church worker since his
youth, and -has taken a very lively in-
terest in Sabbath school and Mutual
Improvement work. He married Em-
ma Christine Matson Nov. 11.
1891, and has seven children. His
main vocation has been farming. In
1884 he moved to Idaho and settled in
the Snake River valley, which at that
time was entirely undeveloped, and he
has done his share of pioneer work in
building up and settling that now
pleasant country.

GUDMUNDSEN, Isaac, first coun-
selor to Bishop C. W. Rockwood, in
lona Ward, Bingham Stake, Idaho, was

born March 3, 1861, in Salt Lake City,
Utah, his father being Gudmund Gud-
mundsen, and his mother Mary Ja-

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cobsen. At the age of eight, years he
was baptised into the Church by Lau-
ritz Smith, at Draper, Utah. He was
ordained a High Priest June 9, 1895,
by Apostle John Henry Smith. In
Church work he has taken an active
part, having labored in the presidency
of the Ward Mutual Improvement As-
sociation, also as an alternate Stake
High Councilor, and since 1S95 has
been identified with the Bishopric of
lona Ward as a counselor to the Bish-
op. On Aug. 1G, 1883, he married
Fanny A. Mulliner, who has borne
him nine children, seven of whom are
living. Most of his life was spent in
Utah till 1891, when he moved to
lona, Bingham county, Idaho, where
he still lives. For a number of years
he followed the trade of a gold- and
silversmith, but in 1891, together with
others, he entered the mercantile
field, by organizing the lona Mercan-
tile Co., which has now grown to be a
most flourishing institution; it has al-
ready three branch houses, and an im-
plement store. Brother Gudmundsen
is general manager of the entire busi-
ness, which position he has held since
1897. He has also served as post
master of lona for ten years. In a
letter for this publication. Elder Gud-
mundsen writes, "God has blessed me
In every way, and many times in my
life a power has held me in check. I
could relate experiences that have
been great testimonies to me in regard
to the truth of 'Mormonism.' My
great desire is to remain firm in the
faith to the end of my days, and my
fondest hope is that my posterity may
never step aside from the path of this
work, as it is all and everything in
this life. This is my testimony to
the world."

JEFFS, David William, second coun-
selor to Bi-shop C. W. Rockwood in the
Bishopric of lona, Idaho, is the son ot
William Y. Jeffs and Alice Ward and
was born " at Farmington, Utah,
Sept. 25, 1873. He was baptised in
1881, by Jonathan D. Wood. At the

age of twelve he was ordained a Dea-
con, a few years later a Priest; and at
the age of seventeen was called to
labor as a Ward teacher. In the year
1893, he was ordained an Elder by
J. H. Robinson, and Jan. 17, 189G,
was ordained a Seventy and set apart
for a mission to the Southern States,
by Apostle John Henry Smith. While
on this mission he labored as a travel-
ing Elder in the East Tennessee con-
ference. He received many great tes-
timonies of the Gospel, and greatly en-
joyed his labors and received the gifts
of healing, faith and knowledge, to a
marked extent. In a sketch prepared
for this work, Elder Jeffs writes: "I
went into the mission field with very-
little knowledge of the Bible, and I
had to study very hard and depend

greatly upon the inspiration of the-
Holy Ghost to guide and sustain me iu
my labors; I had no experience ia
preaching. The Lord, however, came
to my assistance many times. I re-
member on one occasion, when de-
fending the principles of the Gospel,
I quoted a passage of Scripture that
I had heard my companion repeat; the
minister with whom I was conversing
asked me where such a passage of
Scripture was, as he had never read
it in the Bible. I told him to let me
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there appeared, a certain verse, in
very large letters which I read to him.
It was the very passage that I had
quoted to him. After reading the pas-
sage referred to, it did not appear any
larger print than the rest of the chap-
ter; this is one example out of many
like testimonies. As I have said, my
experience in public preaching was
very limited; yet I resolved in my
heart that I would not refuse to take
my turn in any part of the missionary
work. My companion and I had ap-
pointed a meeting at a friend's house,
in Chearokee county, North Carolina.
Some of our enemies, hearing of the
meeting, sent for one of the leading
preachers of the State of Georgia to
-defeat the "Mormons." I had heard of
this preacher, whose name was Manuel
Henry. However, I did not learn
of his coming to our meeting until we
were arriving at the house and heard
/some one say, "There comes Manuel
Henry;" my heart seemed to stop
beating for a minute, my mind was a
perfect blank and I trembled like a
leaf. We called the meeting to order
and I had to take hold of a chair in
front of me in order to arise to my
feet. Just as we commenced singing
all fear left me, and as I arose to my
feet to speak I was as cool and col-
lected as if I had been in the work
for years; the Spirit of God rested
upon me in mighty, power and by the
help of my Father in Heaven, I spoke
for one hour and twenty-five minutes,
and quoted Scripture that I could not
remember ever having read and my
mind was filled with knowledge. This
was a testimony and a strength to me
all through my mission. After my
return home, which was in July, 189S,
I was called to labor as a home mi"s-
sionary. Stake secretary of Y. M. M.
I. A., and a Sabbath school teacher. 1
was also called to labor as Ward teach-
er and religion class teacher. On the
8th of July, 1900, I was set apart as
second assistant superintendent in the
Farmington Sabbath school. A little
previous to this date I had been called

anil set apart as first counselor in the
Stake superintendency of religion
class'--s, which position I held until I
moved to Zona, Idaho, with my brother
John, in September, 1901. On June
27, 1900, I married Phebe Woolley, of
Granteville, Utah. In November, 1901,
two months after arriving at lona,
Idaho, I was called and set apart
as superintendent of the Sa-
bath school. On Jan. 28, 1902,
was appointed Ward chorister. In the
spring of 1903, I was set apart as sec-
ond assistant in the Stake superinten-
dency of Sabbath schools, which posi-
tion I held until November, 1905. when
I was released from Stake work and
called to labor in the Ward. I was
again called to take charge of the
choir, also to be theological class
teacher in the Sabbath school, and
teacher of the senior class in the Y.
M. M. I. A. I was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop C. W. Rockwood, of
lona, Idaho, Dec. 30, 1906, being
ordained a High Priest and set apart
for this position by James E. Steele.
I started to learn the carpenter and
also the brick mason trade at the age
of fourteen; and for seventeen years
in partnership with my brother Sam-
uel I followed the contracting anJ
building business. In the spring ot
1900, my brother John joined us; and
in September followiing, we moved to
lona, Idaho, continuing in the same
business. In the spring of 1905, we
entered the brick business, and on<^
year later, we also entered the lumber
business, which we are now follow-
ing."

JONES, John F., first counselor in
the Bishopric of Irwin, Ward,
Bingham Stake, Idaho, is the 'son
of David D. Jones and Ann
Jones, and was born June 23, 1S54,
in Glan Avon, South Wales. He be-
came a member of the Church in 1862,
being baptised by David' Jones. In
1895 he was ordained an Elder and on
Dec. 3, 1904, ordained a High

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Priest by James J. Chandler. Brother
Jones is married and has eleven chil-
dren. He has followed mining mosi
of his life, having been employed in
nearly every great mining camp in

later in a similar capacity in the 130th
(luorum. He married Elizabeth P.

Utah, Since moving to Idaho he has
chiefly been engaged in stock raising.
Together with his family he settled in
Swan Valley, Idaho, being the first
Latter-day Saint family to locate there.

OSSMEN, August Williann, superin-
intendent of religion classes in Bing-
ham Stake, Idaho, is a son of Johan-
nes Ossmen and Anna Lena Peterson,
and was born Aug. 10, 1860, at Al-
brona, Fjarstard Soken, Sweden, hi
1884 he became a member of the
Church, being baptised by George Oss-
men. Subsequently he was ordained
to the Priesthood in the following or-
der: Teacher in 1885; Elder May J,
1888, by Bishop D. F. Thomas; a Sev-
enty Nov. 8, 1889, by President
Jacob Gates. In 1898-1900 he filled a
mission to Scandinavia, where he la-
bored chiefly in Sweden. Elder Oss-
men has led an active life as a Church
worker, having been closely identified
with Sabbath school and religion class
work. He has also officiated as a Ward
teacher and a home missionary. For
several years he served as a president
in the lOGth quorum of Seventy and

Romrell May 10, 1888, who has borne
him eight children. His occupations
have been sailing, farming, fruit-rais-
ing and that of a honey producer, la
all of which lines he has been prosper-
ous.

MISKIN, James Richard, clerk of
High Priests' quorum, Bingham Stake
of Zion, Idaho, was born Nov. 6,
1846, at Woolwich. Kent, England, and
is a son of William Miskin and Martha
Minor. He accepted the Gospel and
was baptised into the Church Jan.
9, 1889, by Fred T. Gunn, at St. .lohn,
Kansas. After coming to Utah he
filled several home missions and in
1905, he went to Europe on a genealo-
gical mission. He has twice been mar-
ried and is the father of nine children.
In civil life he has served as justice
of the peace and postmaster, and has
followed farming, stockraising and
merchandising. In a sketch written
for this work. Elder Miskin says: "I
was in Western Kansas surveying
with Col. Moonlight in September,
1874, at the time the Shorts party was
killed. In the spring of 1875 I settled
in Barton county, Kansas, on Rattle-
snake creek, now St. John. "When Wm.
Bickerton, so-called successor to Sid-

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ney Rigdon, came there in 1875, to
start the "true Zion," he called the
place Zion valley and ordained me his
legal successor, and sent me out to
preach to the Indians. I went, but af-
ter baptising five I was taKen 111, and
returned to St. John. There I met
Elder Fred T. Gunn, who converted

me to "Mormonism," and I came to
Utah, where I was employed by Geo.
Q. Cannon to solicit subscribers for
the "Juvenile Instructor" and keep the
people posted when the marshals were
cominig to raid them. We certainly
had some lively times and experi-
ences in those days."

HUFFAKER, Louis Albert, presi-
dent of the High Priests' quorum of
Bingham Stake, Idaho, was born in
Bureau County. Illinois, March 9,
3S41. being the third child of Simp-
son David Huffaker and Susan Green
Robinson. He has a vivid recollec-
tion of some of the awful scenes of
the Saints' persecutions during his
younger days, when the mob came
to take posse'ssion of Nauvoo, seized
some of the wagons and threw the
brethren into the river, and has seen
the blood on the floor of Carthage
jail. Another distinct recollection is
that of hearing Joseph Smith the
Prophet Breach. Bro. Huffaker's

family crossed the plains In Jedediah
M. Grant's company, reaching Salt
Lake City in safety; here the youth
attended the first Sunday school and
the first public school. During the
second year in Utah they moved to
South Cottonwood, Salt Lake county,
where he was baptized by acting
Bishop Jonathan Wright. Bro. Huf-
faker joined the Utah militia at the
age of sixteen and rendered service
in the Johnston "war," and acted as
one of Robert T. Burton's escort to
Governor Cummings. In response to
a call of President Lincoln, Bro. Huf-
faker became one of the 100 troops to
go East to restore the Wells-Fargo
fctage line which had been broken up
by the Indians, and was through the
greater part of the "Black Hawk
war." He was married to Martha Sarah
Murry, July 24, 1863, by Bp. Andrew

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Cahoon, becoming thereby the father
of eleven children, and is the grand-
father of twenty-one children. In
1863 Bro. Huffaker went to Peoa,
Summit county. Utah, remaining
there 20 years, then moving to Wil-
low Creek, Bingham county, Idaho,
where he still resides. His wife died
July 3, 1890, and Oct. 8, 1897, he was
married to Sarah Ann lies. He has
done considerable home missionary
work and started on a mis'^ion to

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England Oct. 10, 1!)(I0, where he spent
twenty-seven months in active
and useful lahor. Returning,

he was appointed second coun-
selor to Reuben Belnap, presi-
dent of the High Priests' quorum of
Bingham Stike; subsequently,

through a division of the Stake, Da-
vid Ryall was chosen president and
Bro. Huffaker became his first couji-
selor, the former resigning in about a
year and the latter being then called
to the acting presidency.

KIMBALL, Elias Sm th, sen., presi-
-dent of the Blackfoot Stake of Zion,
Idaho, is a native of Salt Lake City,
where he was born May 30, 1857. His
fathjer was that revered and goodly
man. Heber Chase Kimball, and his
mother was Christeen Golden. He
was baptised at his birthplace in the
spring of 1865. He was ordained an
Elder by Bishop .Joseph Kimball at
Meadowville, Utah, 1877; a Seventy

"by Brest. Joseph F. Smith twice, in
the years 1884 and 1894, at Salt Lake
City; a High Priest by Apostle John
Henry Smith at lona, Idiho. Feb. 1,
1903. Besides these he has been
president of the Eas; Tennessee con-
ference. Southern States Mission, also
•secretary of the mission, from 1896 to
1897; first counselor to Prest. J. G.
Kimball of Bear Lake Stake Y. M.

M. I. A., during 1888-89-90; acting
president and teacher. First Ward,
I^gan, 1899; Sunday school superin-
tendent of same, 1901-02. He en-
tered upon his present position Jan. 1,
1903. He filled his first mission to
the Southern States under John Mor-
gan for two and one-half years from
1884 to 1886; he was a traveling El-
der the first year and president of
the East Tennessee conference the
last year and a half, and also acted
as secretary of the mission. He filled
a second mission to the Southern
States from 1894 to 1898, this time
presiding over the mission. During
that time 1750 Elders came into the
mission field, 580 of them being in
the field when he was released, June
28, 1898, to accept an appointment by
President McKinley as chaplain of
the Second regiment of volunteer en-
gineers in the war with Spain, the
designation carrying the rank of
captain, mounted, and rendered other
service that usually pertains to
the position. The colonel of the regi-
ment was our well known Willard
Young. The service began at Fort
Sheridan, 111., and continued for ten
months, part of it being on foreign
soil. This was quite a distinction,
being so far as known the only case
in which a "Mormon" has filled such
a position in the U. S. army. The ex-
perience, on the whole, was valuable
to him. Since that, his time has been
variously taken up, until called to his
present station. He was married
Dec. 18, 1889, to Luella Whitney, and
has five children. Bro. Elias S. has
also made his mark upon the civil
records as an official, having been a
member of the Utah legislature for
1888-9 and a member of the Logan
city council 1883-4; and during the
year 1890 he was constable at Mead
owville, Rich county. His occupa
tions have been numerous and var
led, such as delivery boy, ranch cow
boy. horse and cattle raiser, farmer
merchant, real estate and loan agent
insurance agent, etc. He was a pio-

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neer of Meadowville at seventeen
years of age, remaining fourteen
years from 1874.

BENSON, Andrew Peter, Patriarch,
is a native of Denmark, having been
bom at Bornholm Oct. 13, 1844. He
became a member of the Church
March 16, 188G, the ordinance of bap-
tism being performed by Elder Chris-
tian Hansen. Bro. Benson's father's
name is Hans Benson and that of his
mother Ane Marie Rees. He was or-
dained a Priest Feb. 20, 1887, by
Peter C. Green; an Elder Feb. 8,
1889, by Peter Ham; a High Priest
March 3rd, of that year, by Bishop
Alfred K. Dabel; set apart as a High
Councilor Feb. 4, 1904, by Apostle
Hyrum M. Smith; and ordained a
Patriarch July 16, 1905, by Apostle
George A. Smith. He entered the
state of matrimony May 5, 1873, his
wife's maiden name being Mathilda
Caroline Aaberg, and seven children
have come to bless their home, the
names being Ane Dorothea, Mattie,
Julius, Hans, Andrew, Berty and Ed-
ward Daniel. They constitute a
goodly family group, the residence
being Blackfoot, Idaho.

JENSEN, Andrew Christian, Patri-
arch, was born April 17, 1843, at
Hjoring amt, Denmark. His im-
mediate ancestors were Lars Chris-
tian Jensen and Marie Jacobsen.
Brother Andrew C. was baptised in
1855 by James Downs and was or-
dained a Teacher in 1858, a Priest in
1862, an Elder in 1873 by John D. T.
McAllister, a Seventy in 1884 by Rob-
ert Baxter, a High Priest in 1899 by
James E. Steele, and a Patriarch in
1902 by Apostle John Henry Smith.
In 18G3 he accepted a call to go to the
Missouri river for emigrants, and
filled a mission to Scandinavia in
1895-6. Besides the positions above
named he has held several others —
president of the first quorum of El-
ders in Box Elder Stake, president
of Sunday schools in the Second

Ward of Brigham City, and Ward
teacher, counselor to Bishop Lind-
say in the Moreland Ward, Patriarch
in Bingham Stake, Patriarch ia
Blackfoot Stake and home missionary
in both of the latter. Feb. 13, 1866,
he was married to Anna Maria Carl-
sen, and is the father of ten chil-
dren. Brother Jensen has not en-
gaged extensively in the civil service
department, and his occupation chief-
ly is that of farmer, his present ad-
dress being Groveland, Bingham
county, Idaho; previously he lived at

Brigham City and Hyrum, Utah, but
has taken part in the building up of
many places in our State, although
not physically robust, having once
been shot through the body, having
both hands crippled and several bones
broken. He is a pioneer in the best
sense and a stalwart citizen in what-
ever community he may be found.

CHRISTENSEN, Wilford M., Bishop
of Goshen Ward, Bingham county,.
Idaho, became a member of the
Church Nov. 3, 1887, the ordinance of
baptism by Elder Andrew Allen. His
father's Christian name was Niels
and his mother's maiden name was
Christine Andersen. He first ap-
peared on this stage of action at Hy-

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rum. Cache county, Utah, Oct. 24,
1879. He was ordained a Deacon in
1891, a Priest by A. M. Nielsen in
1897; an Elder Oct. 17, 1900; a Sev-
enty Oct. 19, 1900, by Anthon H.
Lund; a High Priest Jan. 13, 1904,
by John W. Taylor; and received his
present appointment of Bishop at the
hands of Rudger Clawson Jan. 14,
1906. Notwithstanding this extensive
array of Church positions filled, he
has been superintendent of religion
classes in Goshen Ward, member of
the High Council of Blackfoot Stake,
and assistant superintendent of relig-
ion classes for Blackfoot Stake. Sept.
15, 1900, he received a call to go on a
mission to Scandinavia and left Salt
Lake City Oct. 20th, arriving at Cop-
enhagen Nov. 16th following, being as-
signed to the Copenhagen conference.
He was honorably released Feb. 16,
1903, and returned home March 11th,
Bro. Christensen took unto himself a
wife Nov. 11, 1904, and is the father
of one child. It is proper here to re-
mark that, notwithstanding the
somewhat hasty reference to his mis-
sionary service, it was by no means
free from incidents showing the oc-
casional power of the adversary. In
company with Elders Jensen, Plow-
man, Oliver Christiansen and F. G.
Nielsen, the experience of being
mobbed was added to the record of
his labors abroad. This occurred at
Hillerod, Denmark, Nov. 25, 1901.
His present residence is Goshen,
Idaho, his previous one having been
Hyrum, Utalf. By occupation he is a
farmer.

BENNETT, Thomas, president of
the 106th quorum of Seventy, al"so
Stake superintendent of the Y. M. M.
I. A. of Blackfoot Stake, Idaho, is a
resident of Shelly, Idaho, but has pre-
viously resided in Beaver, Utah,
Provo, Utah, and Idaho Falls, Idaho.
He was born Sept. 17, 1872, at Con-
nak's Quay, Flintshire, North Wales,
and became a member of the Church
by baptism at Beaver, Utah, Dec. 4,

1884. His father's name was Edward
Bennett, that of his mother Mary Ann
Coffack. He holds and has held
many Church po'sitions. Thus he was
ordained a Deacon in 1886 by Samuel
Baker; an Elder Oct. 25, 1896, by
Frank Herbert, and a Seventy, Oct.
25, 1896, by Apostle George Teasdale.
He has also acted as Stake aid to the
Y. M. M. I. A. of Brighain City, super-
intendent of Eagle Rock Sunday
school, superintendent of religion
class at the same place, president of
Shelly Y. M. M. I. A., and superin-
tendent of same for Blackfoot Stake.
He has also been a member of the
Shelly town board for three years.
Oct. 31, 1896, he left home on a mis-
sion to England, laboring in the Liver-
pool conference, and returned Dec. 4,
1895. He was married to Catherine
P. Smith Sept. 17, 1893, and is the
father of five children. His first ap-

pearance in Utah was at the early age
of eleven years and as an orphan, his
father having died the same year and
the mother seven years previously.
He was brought here by his cousin,
Benjamin Bennett, with whom he
lived until his marriage.

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TANNER. Benjamin Franklin, a
member of the 146th quorum of Sev-
enty, is a native of Ogden, Weber
county, Utah, where he was born
March 4, 1883, a yon of Nathan Tan-
ner, Jr., and Margaret Grenwell Har-
rington. He was baptised April 23,
1891, by James M. Thomas. Young
as he is, he has held a number of
Church positions besides the one
above set out, among them Deacon, to
which he was ordained by John Scow-
croft; Priest, through the ordination
by Warren G. Child; Elder, by Henry
W. Hill: and Seventy, by Joseph Em-
pey. After attending the missionary
classes he was called on a mission to

Germp.ny and left for his post June 25,
1902, laboring wholly in the city of
Spindan, Berlin Conference, being
president thereof during the latter
part of the term. Although civil of-
ficers were after him considerably, he
managed to elude them and concluded
a good mission satisfactorily, return-
ing home Sept. 3, 1903. During his
absence his father removed to Black-
foot, Idaho, to which place he al^so
proceeded, and in 1906 went to Til-
den, Bingham county, Idaho, where
he now resides when at home. He
was appointed to a second mission,
also to Germany, but th? assignment
■was subsequently changed to the
Northern States Mission to labor

among the German people there, be-
ing located at Milwaukee, Wis., at
which place he has worked and is
working with good success. Brother
Tanner has at all times been toler-
ably busy, having held a number of
Church positions, requiring no little
care and attention, in addition to
those named above, among them be-
ing clerk of Blackfoot Ward, Stake
secretary and treasurer Y. M. M. I. A.,
Blackfoot, Stake missionary, home
missionary, secretary of Elders' quo-
rum, Sunday school teacher and
Ward teacher. His principal occupa-
tion of a material character is the
very useful and profitable one of
farmer.

SNOW, Oliver Goddard, president
of the Box Elder Stake of Zion from
1877 to 1887, is the son of Brest. Lo-
renzo Snow and Mary Adaline God-
dard and was born Feb. 20, 1849, iu
Salt Lake City. He was baptised by

Elder William Neeley when eight
years old and was confirmed by his
father. Brest. Snow. At the age of
fifteen he became a member of the
5Sth quorum of Seventy, and when
not much older entered the militia
service as standard bearer on the
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1868 he went East with a company
to convoy an emigrant train across
the plains and had some exciting ex-
periences at Indian fighting. The fol-
lowing fall he worked on the Central
Pacific railroad and after the driving
of the last spike at Promontory, in
May, 1869, he carried the mail from
Bonneville to Brigham City and back
and also hauled freight, attending the
University of Deseret during the fall
and winter. In May, 1870, he went on
a mission to Great Britain, being ap-
pointed president of the Leeds Con-
ference in 1871, where he labored for
eighteen months. One evening he at-
tended a meeting where a lecture was
delivered by an apostle of the "Apos-
tolic" church and became a target for
the speaker's remark's, abusing him
and his people without stint and final-
ly challenging him to come forward
at the close and deny the charges if
he could. Upon accepting the chal-
lenge, however, the apostle refused to
let him speak; the audience demand-
ed that he have that privilege, and
rather than precipitate disorder Bro.
Snow accepted the declination also;
but the incident made the apostle lose
prestige and finally he had to give up
his lectures, while many who were
previously indifferent began to in-
quire and investigate. During 1872
Bro. Snow visited Scotland in com-
pany with Elder George Reynolds,
temporary president of the European
Mission. They visited many points
of interest and many of the greater
English cities. After two and a half
years' service, during which Bro.
Snow baptised some forty persons, he
was released and returned home Nov.
1.3, 1872. Soon after he became a
member of the High Council of Box
Elder Stake and was employed in the
Brigham City Mercantile and Manu-
facturing A'ssociation. In October,
1875, he went on a mission to the
United States. In August, 1877. upon
the reorganization of Box Elder
Stake (Apostle Lorenzo Snow being
released from the presidency), the

son was named by Brest. Brigham
Young as president, with Elijah A.
Box and Isaac Smith as his counsel-
ors. In this position Bro. Snow re-
mained for over ten years. In Jan-
uary, 1878, he became a .director of
the above-named association, remain-
ing such for several years and becom-
ing the largest individual stockholder.
In August, 1880, he was chosen as-
sessor and collector of Box Elder
county, also representative in the
legislature, to which place he was re-
turned several times. In 1881 he es-
tablished a successful business, which
subsequently became incorporated as
the Box Elder Wagon and Implement
Co. In 1882-3 he was assessor and
collector of Brigham City and two
years later was elected county treas-
urer. In October, 1889, he estab-
lished the Bank of Brigham City and
afterwards became a partner in the
Utah Loan and Trust Co. During
1889 he performed important work in
promoting the Bear River canal. His
banking business was closed out and
he purchased the Brigham City Elec-
tric Light plant, and in 1900 became
president of the Western 100,000 club
of the New York Life Insurance Co.,
because of having written more ap-
plications than anyone else. The fol-
lowing year he became general agent
of the Prudential Insurance Co. of
America, removing to Salt Lake City
meanwhile. While president of Box
Elder Stake he was ever active and
faithful in the discharge of his mani-
fold duties. He helped to lay the cor-
ner stones of the Logan Temple and
was on the committee to draft a
"declaration of grievance and protest"
against the raid then going on. He
built several of the best buildings in
Brigham City and has continued his
energetic career in his present abode.
He resigned the Stake presidency in
the fall of 1887.

BOX, Elijah Arnold, acting presi-
dent of the Box Elder Stake from
July, 1887, to January, 1888, and first

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counselor to Prest. Oliver G. Snow of
Box Elder Stake from 1877 to 1887, is
a son of William Box and Olivia Ar-
nold, and was born Jan. 4, 1844, in
Nauvoo, 111. His baptism into the
Church tooK place in July, 1854. In
1857 he was ordained an Elder, in
1868 a Seventy, and in 1875 a High
Priest by Prest. Lorenzo Snow. El-
der Box filled a mi'ssion to England
from 1871 to 1873, where he traveled
mostly in the Birmingham, Bristol
and Manchester conferences. Brother
Box served as president of the first
Mutual Improvement Association of
Brigham City, and continued to hold

that office for about eleven years; he
labored successively as teacher, as-
sistant superintendent, and superin-
tendent of Sunday schools, and was a
member of the Box Elder Stake High
Council from 1875 to 1877; also a
home missionary in the same Stake
for a number of years. For a period
of ten years he was first counselor in
the Stake presidency and for six
months he acted as president of the
Box Elder Stake pro tem. In May of
1866 he married Roxey A. Snow, and
was married to Sarah Hadley in 1878.
These wives have borne him nine
children, six of whom are living. The
subject of this sketch was educated

in the public schools and in the Des-
eret University. For a number of
years he followed school teaching suc-
cessfully and has also been engaged
as an expert accountant and book-
keeper. There are few men who have
taken a more active part in civil af-
fairs than he, as the following will
attest: He served for six years as a
city councilman of Brigham City; was
superintendent of public instruction
for Box Elder county for three years,
held the office of county attorney in
the same county for two years, and
is at present deputy state auditor of
Utah. In 1852' he emigrated to Utah
and located in Salt Lake City, where
he remained till 1855, when he moved
to Brigham City, where he has con-
tinued his residence till the present
time.

SNOW, Lucius Aaron, first coun-
selor to President Oleen N. Stohl of
Box Elder Stake, is a native of
Utah's metropolis, where he was born
Dec. 11, 1849, his parents being the

late President Lorenzo Snow and Har-
riet Squire. He entered the Church
by baptism when about eight years
old and was ordained a High Priest
by Jonathan C. Wright Sept. 9, 1877.
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bility which Bro. Snow has filled un-
dei' the Church are the following:
President of Mutual Improvement As-
sociation, Ward teacher. Sabbath
school teacher, home missionary in
Box Elder Stake, first counselor in
Bishopric of Brigham City First
Ward, and since November, 1899, he
has labored as first counselor in the
Box Elder Stake presidency, being set
apart therefor by Apostle John Henry
Smith. Bro. Snow was married Nov.
14, 1875, his wife's maiden name be-
ing Elizabeth Wilson, and thirteen
children have been born to them, sev-
en of whom are living. His chief oc-
cupation has been farming, but he has
also engaged in commercial affairs,
being for several year's manager of
the Co-op lumber yard of Brigham
City and vice president of the First
National Bank of Brigham City. In
the civil service he has been city
councilman and assessor and collector
of Box Elder county, in which call-
ings he has shown marked efficiency
and uprightness.

BURT, John Davidson, second
counselor to Prest. Oliver G. Snow of
Box Elder Stake lor several years, was
a native of Scotland, his birthplace
"being Dumfermline, Fifeshire, and the
time Jan. 12, 1827. His parents were
Andrew Burt and Isabella Hill. He
entered the Church by baptism May
19, 1848, John Sharp officiating. Bro.
Burt was ordained an Elder by Parley
P. Pratt in 1853, a High Priest by
Lorenzo Snow Nov. 25, 1855, and un-
der the same hands being made a
Bishop in 1875; besides these he has
been Ward teacher, secretary of Dea-
con's quorum, secretary of the High
Priests' quorum and the High Coun-
cil of Box Elder Stake for many
years; secretary of Bishop's court,
Bishop of First Ward of Brigham
City for five years, second counselor
in the presidency of Box Elder Stake
and from 1895 to 1906 president of
the High Priests' quorum of that
Stake. He returned to his native

land as a missionary, being asvsigned
to Great Britain, and was president
of the Scottish conference. Being
honor-ably released, he returned horhe
in charge of a company of Saints and
in 1887 performed a special mission
to Canada. He went to the Sandwich
Islands as a missionary and labored
there steadily from 1888 to 1895, also
presiding over mission work in Oahu.
He was ordained a Patriarch Nov. 26,
1900, by Apostle George Teasdale,
which position he held until his
death. He was married to Elizabeth
Patterson Aug. 27, 1848, to Elizabeth
Snowball March 7, 1862, and to Ann
Howell in August, 1875, and was the
father of 22 children, 13 of whom sur--

vive him; he was also at the time of
his demise grandfather to over 50
children and had five great-grand-
children. For four years he was in
immediate charge of the stonecutting
for the Salt Lake Temple under John
Sharp, though he has been chiefly a
farmer for several years. He was
marshal of Brigham City for eight
years, deputy sheriff for ten years,
and probate judge for five years. His
arrival in TTtah was in 1851, living in
Salt Lake City till 1855, when he went
to Brigham City, where he lived as a
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citizen until his death, which oc-
curred at that place May 6, 1906.

WATKINS, William (Lampard), a
Patriarch in the Box Elder Stake of
Zion, is a son of William Watkins and
Hannah W. Lampard, and was bom
in Islington, London, Middlesex, Eng-
land, Feb. 7, 1827. He was baptised
into the Church by Jas. Albon in
May, 1841, and his ordinations to the
Priesthood have been as follows:
First a Teacher, then a Seventy in
April. 1844, by Jos. Young, next a
High Priest in March, 1863, by Lor-
enzo Snow, and becoming a Patriarch
Nov. 7. 1896, being ordained to that
office by Prest. Lorenzo Snow. The
first missionary experience of Bro.

Watkins was in 1844, when he went
on an electioneering tour through
Kentucky in the interest of Joseph
Smith's candidacy for President of
the United States. In 1875 he per-
formed a special mission to England.
His activity in ecclesiastical work is
attested to by these facts: He has
been a teacher in Sabbath school,
president of an Elder's Quorum for
ten years, a High Councilor in Box
Elder Stake, a. coimselor to Presx,
Rudger Clawson of the Box Elder

Stake presidency from 1879 to 1899,
and since 1896 has served as a Pat-
riarch in that Stake. The record of
his civil positions is as follows: City
councilman and recorder of Brigham
City and treasurer and selectman of
Box Elder county and some minor of-
fices. His chief occupations have
been school teaching and merchan-
dising. For a period of thirty years
he worked as secretary and treasurer
of what is now the Brigham City Mer-
cantile and Manufacturing Associa-
tion. Elder Watkins married Mary
E. Hammond Dec. 4, 1844, and he
took to wife Teah Jensine Johnson,
July 13, 1867. He is father of
twenty children, fifteen of whom are
living, and he has eighty-four grand-
children and twenty great grand-chil-
dren. In 1842 he emigrated to Amer-
ica, settling in Nauvoo, Illinois
(where he was in 1844, at the time
of the Prophet Joseph Smith's martyr-
dom). He came to Utah in 1852 and
located in Salt Lake county, where
he remained till 1861, when he went
to Brigham City, Box Elder county,
and has resided there ever since.

CHENEY, Nathan Beebe, A High
Councilor in the Box Elder Stake, is
a son of Nathan Cheney and Eliza A.
Beebe, and was born Aug. 19, 1843, at
Nauvoo, 111. Together with his par-
ents, he came to Utah in 1851, and lo-
cated in Centerville, Davis county,
where he lived till 1865, when he went
to Carson City, Nevada. In 1866 he
went to California and in 1888 moved
to Canada, where he resided till 1892,
when he came to Box Elder county,
Utah, where he has remained ever
since. Bro. Cheney was baptised
Sept. 29, 1856, by Wm. R. Smith. His
ordinations to the Priesthood are as
follows: Ordained a Seventy July 1,
1859, by Prest. Joseph Young, or-
dained a High Priest and a Bishop
July 22, 1877, by Apostle Franklin D.
Richards, and at the same set apart
to preside over the Centerville Ward,

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Davis Stake. PJlder Cheney has al-
ways been an active man in Churcn
circles and also as a pioneer. In 1864
he went East to the Missouri river
with an ox team company to bring
emigrants to Utah. During an In-

dian outbreak in Sanpete valley, in
1866, he was called to do military duty
there. Being called by the Church
authorities, he accompanied Lot
Smith and company to Arizona on a
mission to settle and develop that
country. He remained in Arizona five
months, when he returned to Utah,
and he was honorably released from
further labors in that territory by
thorou'2:hly fitting out and equipping
another family for that mission.
Among the ecclesiastical positions in
which he has served can be mentioned
the following: He was a Ward
teacher in Centerville for eighteen
years, superintendent of Sabbath
school and superintendent and direct-
or of the United Order organization
at Centerville. From July 22, 1877, to
August, 1888, he served as Bishop of
that Ward at which latter date he
was released from that position on ac-
count of the stringent persecutions
for unlawful cohabitation prevailing
at that period. He then went to Can-
ada, where he remained till 1892,

when he returned to Utah and located
in Box Elder Stake. In 1894 he was
set apart to act as an alternate High
Councilor in F?ox Elder Stake by Pres-
ident Rudger Clawson, which office
he still holds, together with being a
home missionary in that Stake.
Bro. Cheney married Mary Ann Wal-
ton Jan. 28, 1867, and Ann Elizabeth
Whitaker Feb. 12, 1886. He is the
father of eleven children.

PETERS, John Da\ id, a High
Councilor in Box Elder Stake, is the
son of David Peters and Laura J.
Davis, and was born May 10, 1850. in
Salt Lake City, Utah. From his ear-
ly youth he has been an energetic
worKer in Church circles, having la-
bored as a teacher and superintend-
ent of Sabbath schools, and Stake
superintendent of Sunday schools;

president of Mutual Improvement As-
sociation; counselor in Ward Bishop-
ric, and a Stake High Councilor. In
1869 he was ordained an Elder and
subsequently a High Priest, by Elijah
A. Box. In 1895-97 he filled an honor-
able mission to Great Britain, where
he labored principally in Wales as
president of the Welsh conference.
He took to wife Louise E. Bingliam

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Nov. 22, 1869, who has borne him ten
children, nine of whom are living.
Bro. Peters has engaged in various oc-
cupations, and for many years he fol-
lowed school teaching and farming.
In 1893 he became cashier of the
Bank of Brigham City. At the organ-
ization of the First National Bank of
Brigham City he was chosen to be
cashier and director of that institu-
tion, which positions he still holds.
From 1888 to 1896 he was a member
of the Deseret Agricultural and Man-
ufacturing Association. That he has
been a public man also in secular af-
fairs is seen by what follows: He was
■county superintendent of schools for
six years; county clerk two years;
probate judge two and a half years,
all In Box Elder county; served as
mayor of Brigham City three years,
and he was a member of the Terri-
torial legislative council in 1892, rep-
resenting Weber and Box Elder coun-
ties, and was a member of the con-
stitutional convention that framed
the Utah State Constitution in 1895.
In discharging the duties of these
public offices he always conducted
himself honorably and worked dili-
gently so that he won the good wall
and esteem of his fellows.

MADSEN, Peter Frederick, a High
Councilor in the Box Elder Stake of
Zion, was born on the island of Lol-
land, Denmark, Aug. 10, 1843, his par-
ents being Niels Madsen and Martha
Marie Hansen. He was baptised Nov.
7, 1856; was first ordained an Elder,
then a Seventy, and became a High
Priest in 1877. He has been a suc-
cessful missionary, going to the
western States in 1869-70, laboring
chiefly in Iowa and Illinoi's. He went
to Scandinavia in 1870 and up to 1873
labored chiefly in Copenhagen, Den-
mark, where he presided over the
conference and also worked in the
office of the mission headquarters.
Having returned to Utah, in 1864 he
went East with extra cattle to help a
belated company of emigrants to get

through. He has held a number of
ecclesiastical stations, among them
secretary of the first Mutual Improve-
ment Association in Brigham City,
and counselor in the Bishopric of the
Third Ward for "several years. For
some time he has served as a mem-
ber of the Box Elder Stake presidency
and for an extensive period has faith-
fully discharged the duties of Stake
High Councilor in said Stake. He
was married. Nov. 10, 1873, to Emela
Dahlgren, and eleven children have
been born to them, seven living. His

occupations have been that of a
farmer. Stake tithing clerk, etc. He
was one of the first operators on the
Deseret Telegraph line, being 'sta-
tioned in Brigham City. He has held
several civil offices, among them that
of justice of the peace, county re-
corder, county clerk, county commis-
sioner and probate judge, all in Box
Elder county, and he gave a good ac-
count of himself in all these posi-
tions.

McMASTER, John Brigham, Bishop
of the First Ward, Brigham City, Box
Elder Stake of Zion, is a son of Wm.
A. McMaster and Margaret D. Fer-
guson and was born Aug. 17, 1843, at
Dumfermline, Fife'shire, Scotland.

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65

He was baptized into the Cliurch Aug.
25, 1851, by Wm. Stewart. His or-
dinations to the Priesthood are as
follows: Ordained a Deacon when
but a youth; an Elder Nov. 27, 1861,
by Bishop Alexander McRae; a Sev-
■enty by Justin C. Wixon Feb. 21,
1884; a High Priest June 25, 1896, by
Apostle Lorenzo Snow, and was at
the same time ordained a Bishop and
set apart to preside as such over the
First Ward of Brigham City, in which
position he has continued ever since.
During 1895 and 1896 he filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain, laboring mostly

In Scotland. He married Elizabeth
Forrest Dec. 27, 1869, and Vere For-
rest Feb. 18, 1887, who have borne
him seven children, six of whom are
living. His activity as a Church
worker will be seen by the following:
For several years he was a Sunday
school teacher and superintendent:
served as counselor in the Mutual
Improvement Association presidency;
was a Ward teacher and clerk of the
"Ward, and since 1896 has served as
Bishop of Brigham City First Ward.
In 1861 he went to the Missouri river
with an ox-train to bring emigrants
to Salt Lake Valley. He learned the
carpenter's trade and followed it
twenty-five years. In 1888 he fonned

the partnership of McMaster & Fors-
gren, dealers in lumber and hardware,
Brigham City, in which business he is
still engaged. In civil affairs he has
served as justice of the peace in Brig-
ham City, also as county treasurer
and county commissioner of Box El-
der county, in all of which capacities
he acquitted himself ably and satis-
factorily. He was a member of the
militia in early days and achieved the
rank of lieutenant. Bro. McMa'sters'
emigration to Utah occurred in 1851
and he located in Salt Lake City but
since 1869 has resided in Brigham
City.

STOHL, Lorenzo Nelson, fourth
Bishop of the Third Ward, Brigham
City, Box Elder Stake, is a son of Die
N. Stohl and Christina Johnson, and
was born April 7, 1873, at that place.
His baptism into the Church occurred
Oct. 15, 1882, at the hands of Ole N.
Stohl. At an early age he was or-
dained a Deacon, and a Teacher Dec
19, 1891, by Jens Hansen. Next he

became an Elder under the hands of
Rudger Clawson, Oct. 22, 1894; theij
a Seventy March 23, 1895, being or-
dained by Seymour B. Young. In
November 1899, Elder Stohl was oi-
dained a High Priest and a Bishop

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by Rudger Clawson and set apart to
preside over the Third Ward of Brig-
ham City. Among his many Church
callings, which have been faithfully
filled, may be mentioned: Counselor
in the presidency of the Deacons' and
the Teachers' quorums of his Ward,
also assistant superintendent of Sun-
day schools; for several years he
was a home missionary and a Ward
teacher in Box Elder Stake, and since
1899 he has acted as Bishop of his
Ward. He filled a mission to the
Southern States from March 22, 1895,
to April 3, 1898, laboring chiefly in the
North Carolina conference, first as
traveling Elder and later as coun-
selor in the conference presidency.
Bro. Stohl's manied life began Oct.
24, 1894, when he was united to Vin-
nie Ralph's, and he is the father of
three children. He is a highly suc-
cessful business man, being presi-
dent of the First National Bank of
Brigham City, director of the Stohl
Furniture Co., president and manager
of the Brigham City Opera House,
and also engaged in the real estate
and loan business in Brigham City. He
is also one of the six incorporators of
a land company which has large hold-
ings of land in Juab county, and has
the honor of being a trustee of the
Agricultural College, which came to
him unsought. He is now president
of the board. He was also one of the
promoters and organizers of the
Beneficial Life Insurance Co. and is
its vice-president.

WRIGHT, Brigham, Bishop of the
Fourth Ward, Brigham City, Box El-
der Stake, is a son of Jonathan C.
Wright and Mary Nealey and was born
Dec. 3, 1857, at Brigham City, Utah.
He was baptized July 29, 1866, by
Jonathan Packer. His first ordina-
tion to the Priesthood was to the of-
fice of Deacon; next he became an
Elder, then he was ordained a Sev-
enty by Apostle John Henry Smith
Nov. 13, 1894, and he was ordained a
High Priest and Bishop Nov. 20, 1899.

by Apostle John Henry Smith, at the
same time being set apart to preside
over the Fourth Ward, Brigham City.
Bro. W^right was married to Jennie
Hadley in 1879 and to Elizabeth Han-
cock Dec. 18, 1884. He is the father
of ten children. From 1894 to 189G he
filled a mission to the Southern
States, where he labored principally
in North Carolina with good success.
As a Church worker he has always
been active, having served as a coun-
selor and as president in the Ward
Mutual Improvement Association; as
a counselor in the M. I. A. superin-

tendency of Box Elder Stake; as
teacher and superintendent of Sun-
day school, as Ward teacher, as
Stake home missionary, as president
in the 58th quorum of Seventy, and as
Bishop since 1899. His chief occupa-
tion has been farming and stock rais-
ing. In civil life he has held but two
offices, being a policeman for two
years and a city councilman for four
years in Brigham City.

PETERSEN, Oluff, senior president
of the 133d quorum of Seventy, re-
siding in Brigham City, Utah, is a
son of .lens Petersen and Sidse 01-
sen, and was born Nov. 20, 1859, at
Oreby, Soro Amt, Denmark. He emi-

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67

grated to Utah with his parents in
1870 and settled at his present place
of abode. He was baptized by Chris-
tian Hansen in September, 1870, and
ordained an Elder March 18. 1879, by
John D. Burt, and a Seventy Feb. 14,
1890, by Lorenzo Snow. Bro. Peter-
sen was married June 23, 1892, to
Rozilla Knudsen. He filled a very suc-
cessful mission to Scandinavia from

1902 to 1904, and has been an active
worker in the Y. M. M. L A., being
at present counselor to the Stake
presidency of that organization. He
has held several civil places of trust,
such as postmaster, assessor and col-
lector, city recorder and deputy
county clerk, besides responsible
clerical positions in business con-
cern's.

PETERSEN, Rozilla, Knudsen, wife
of Oluff Petersen, is the daughter of
William and Laura Amelia Christen-
sen Knudsen, and was born in Brig-
ham City, Utah, Feb. 14, 1872. They
were among the first who embraced
the Gospel in Denmark, the father b^-
ing one of the very first "Mormon"
emigrants from Scandinavia, leaving
Copenhagen Jan. .31, 1852. She has
been an active worker in the various
auxiliary organizations, and was
president of the Brigham City Third

Ward Primary Association when she
received a call to go on a mission to
the land of her forefathers which she
filled satisfactorily during the years
1903-4. On returning home she was
chosen a member of the Stake board
of Primary workers, which position
she still holds.

SIGGARD, Peter Petersen, a promi-
nent Elder in Brigham City, Box El-
der Stake, was born Nov. 30, 1844, in
Tolstrup, Ikast parish, Ringkjobing
amt, Denmark, his father being Pe-
ter Petersen Siggard and his mother
Margrete Petersen. In a brief auto-
biography Elder Siggard writes: "I
worked on my father's farm till I
was seventeen, when I entered busi-

ness as a traveling salesman. At the
age of about twenty-one years I first
became acquainted with the doctrines
of the Gospel as taught by the I>at-
ter-day Saints, and on Jan. 29, 1866,
I was baptized into the Church by
Elder Carl K. Hansen, thus becoming
the first and only member of a large
family to accept the Gospel. Soon
after my baptism I was ordained a
Deacon and sent out to assist the

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missionarie's in their work. In 1867
i emigrated to Utah, crossing the
ocean on board the first steamboat
that ever crossed with a company of
Latter-day Saints emigrating to Zion,
and arrived in Salt Lake City in Oc-
tober of that year. Immediately after
toy arrival in Utah I moved to Brig-
ham City, Box Elder county, where I
have continued to reside till the
present time. I married Nielsine
Joiis:ettsen Aug. 7, 1871, whq has
borne me eight children, five boys
and three girls. My main occupation
has been fruit raising. From 1896 to
1898 I performed a mi"ssion to Scan-
dinavia, where I labored in the Aar-
hus conference, Denmark. While on
this mission I succeeded in obtaining
my family genealogy back for about
200 years. At home I have labored
for many years as a Ward teacher.
I was ordained a Seventy in 1896 by
Prest. Edward Stevenson and a High
Priest June 7, 1902, by James Pett."

CHRISTENSEN, James Peter, first
counselor in the Elwood Ward Bish-
opric, Box Elder county, Utah, is the
son of Rasmus Christensen and Anna
Petersen and was born at Kappen-
drup, Hjadstrup parish, Denmark,
July 12, 1853. In a brief sketch pre-
pared for this work Elder Christen-
sen writes: "My parents belonged to
the Lutheran Church and consequent-
ly I was brought up in that faith. In
18C4 the Mormon Elders came to our
home and presented the Gospel to
my parents. My father investigated it
and became convinced of its truth.
He labored with hiB family, but with
little success, because my mother was
bitterly opposed to the new doctrine.
At length I became convinced that
the Gospel was true and on March 11,
1869, my father and I were baptized
into the Church by M. Mortensen. In
the spring of 1870 my father sug-
gested that I go to Utah and gather
with the Saints, thinking that it
might have some influence with my
mother, and that my coming here and

writing to her and explaining all In
truth, as I found conditions here,
would cause her to investigate the
doctrine's. Accordingly on July 11,
1870, I bade farewell to my father,
mother, brothers and sisters, and left
for Zion. It was the last time I ever
saw my mother. She died in her na-
tive land June 23, 1875. I arrived in
Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 10, 1870,
and the next day, together with my
uncle, I went to Ogden, where I soon
obtained work with the farmers. I

did not forget to write to my family
in Denmark, and my frequent mes-
sages had to a certain extent the de-
sired effect, for one year later my
father, a sister and a brother joined
me in Utah. In 1872 I was ordained
a Teacher, and in the fall of 1872 I
was called to fill a mission to 'Dixie,'
in the interest of the United Order.
After a pleasant journey we reached
our destination and finally located on
the banks of the Rio Virgin river,
about five miles east of Washington,
where we did pioneer work. In the
spring of 1875 I together with several
others were released and returned
home. I was married to Maria R.
Ericson Jan. 17, 1876, being ordained
an Elder by Peter O. Hansen the same

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day. Among the local offices which
I have filled I may mention, that I
have labored in the Sunday school
as assistant superintendent. I acted
as manager of Ward amusements for
fifteen years. For about nine years
I served as a counselor in the presi-
dency of the fourth Elders quorum of
Box Elder Stake. I was ordained a
Seventy by Christian D. Fjeldsted
Dec. 7. 1890. On Nov. 24, 1881, I mar-
ried Gertrude Katrine Gunnerson.
During 1897-98 I acted as president of
the M. I. A. of Bear River Ward.
From October, 1898, to August, 1900,
I filled a mission to Scandinavia,
where I labored chiefly in the
Aarhus conference. On my return
home I again toolv up my work in the
Sunday school and M. I. A. On Nov.
30, 1900, I was ordained a High Priest
by Brest. Chas. Kelly and set apart
as an alternate High Councilor in the
Box Elder Stake. At the organization
of the Elwood Ward (formerly the
Fairview branch of the Bear River
Ward), Dec. 16, 1900, I was chosen
to be first counselor to Bishop P. M.
Hansen. I am still laboring in the
two last mentioned positions at the
present time."

ROHWER, Charles Julius, clerk of
Thatcher Ward, Box Elder Stake is
the oldest son of Claus and Margaret
Christine Rohwer, and was born near
Rendsburg, Holstein, Germany April
10, 1838. In his fifteenth year he went
to a place near Hamburg and three
years later moved to Copenhagen, go-
ing from there to Jylland, where, in
1862, he heard the Gospel and em-
braced it being baptised Nov. 12th of
that year. After a perilous trip he
reached Liverpool, England, where he
was kindly received by Prest. George
Q. Cannon, and three days later
sailed for New York, where he ar-
rived after a stormy voyage Feb. 1,
1864. Soon after he accepted an op-
portunity to work on a farm and in a
sawmill at Hornellsville, where he
remained for a time, then made his

way to Chicago by a Lake Michigan
steamer from Buffalo, eventually
reaching the Missouri river. Here he
met Soren Christofferson, of Manti,
ITtah, who was in need of a teamster
to drive an ox-team, and thus engag-
ing reached Hoytsville, Summit coun-
ty, Oct. 8, 1864. Here he obtainefl
employment by S. P. Hoyt at stone-
cutting, afterwards working for John
Sharp at building railroad bridges in
Weber canyon, going from there to
Tooele county, and in 1876 to Park
Valley, Box Elder county. In all the
Wards in which he had lived up to
that time he acted as Ward teacher,
in the last named place being set
apart as first counselor to Bishop E.
D. Mecham, and here he remained un-
til his removal to Thatcher, where he
now resides. It might be mentioned
here that Bro. Rohwer put in three
years of time in old Mexico during the
ever-to-be-remembered crusade, living
at the time in Colonia Diaz.

RICKS, Joel, junior, son of Joel
Ricks and Sarah B. Fisk, was born at
Farmington, Davis county, Utah, July
21, 1858. In July, 1859, the family re-
moved to Logan, Cache county, and
were among the pioneer settlers of
that city. During his boyhood he at-
tended the public schools at Logan
and obtained the rudiments of an edu-
cation. At the age of fifteen he be-
gan the study of telegraphy and at six-
teen went to Mendon as operator on
the Utah & Northern railway. At
eighteen he was called on a mission to
the northern States and labored in
Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa.
In 1878 he was in the employ of M. D.
Hammond in his farm implement busi-
ness in Logan and on Jan. 1, 1879,
entered the employ of the Utah &
Northern railway as agent at Frank-
lin, Idaho. He remained in the rail-
way's employ until 1882, serving in
the capacity of agent at various
points and later as dispatcher at Lo-
gan. Jan. 18, 1881, he married Susette

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Cardon, daughter of Paul and Susan-
uah Cardon, of I.ogan. In 1882 he was
secretary of the U. O. M. & B. Co. of
Logan and a selectman of Cache coun-
ty. In 1883 he was called on a mis-
sion to the Southern States and la-
bored in Kentucky and Tennessee. In
1884 he entered the employ of the Rio
Grande Western railway, first as
agent at Bingham Junction, then at
Murray and Provo. With the excep-
tion of four years, when he was en-
gaged in business in Logan, he was
with the Rio Grande until the spring
of 1901. During this time he was
agent at Springville, Salina, Richfield
and Castle Gate, and during the ex-
tension of the Marysvale branch he
served the company in the capacity of
right of way agent. In 1901 he en-
gaged in the produce business in Og-
den, and in the fall of 1902 he sold his
interests in Ogden and returned to
Logan, where he has since resided.
During his life Elder Ricks has held
several political offices under the Re-
publican party. He was chairman of
Ixjgan City in 1891-92, and of Cache
County in 1892-93. He was secretary
of the first Republican convention in
Utah. Was engrossing clerk of the
council of the last Territorial legis-
lature and was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention elected
from Sevier county. From 1904 to
190G he was deputy treasurer of
Cache county. In the Church he has
always been an active worker and
has held numerous minor positions.
He was a member of the Cache Stake
Sunday School Board during 1877-78.
For more than two years he was
ounselor to Bishop W. M. T. Lamph,
of Castle Gate, and superintendent
of the Sunday school there three
years. He was a member of the
Weber Stake Sunday School Board in
1902, besides having held many other
positions at various times. Elder
Ricks has always been a close stu-
dent of the Book of Mormon and of
American antiquities where they have
a bearing on Nephite histoiy. Dur-

ing the winter of 1903-4 he visited
South America and traveled over the
greater part of what he believes to
be the Land of Zarahemla in order
to familiarize himself with the coun-
try formerly occupied by the
Nephites. While there he visited the
sites of many old cities, temples, etc.,
and made a careful study of the geo-
graphy of the country. On his re-
turn to Utah he published the first
descriptive map of Nephite lands ever
published by a member of the Church.
He has at other times visited Ari-
zona, Mexico and various parts of
the eastern States in pursuance of
his Book of Mormon studies and has
at times written articles for the local
periodicals on these topics.

RICKS, Joel, a Patiiarch in the
Church, was born near Donaldson,
Creek, Trigg County, Kentucky, Feb-
ruary 18, 1904. He descended from
a line of English ancestors, one of
whom, Isaac Ricks, came to America
about 1G60 and settled in Warrasguy-
eake county, Virginia. He was a
member of the Quaker church. In
1752 Benjamin Ricks, a grandson of
Isaac, i-emoved to North Carolina and
settled in Edgecomb (now Nash)
county. Lewis Ricks, a son of Ben-
jamin and grandfather of Joel, was
killed at the battle of Guilford court
house during the revolution. Jona-
than Ricks, father of Joel, removed
from North Carolina in 1802 and set-
tled on Donaldson Creek, in what was
then Christian county, Kentucky, but
which has since been cut off to form
the county of Trigg. That part of
Kentucky was a wild country in those
days and Father Ricks grew up in-
ured to all of the trials of a frontier
life. By dint of perseverence he ac-
quired the rudiments of a common
school education. It was the custom
of the farmers along the rivers in
those days to market their products
in New Orleans, floating down the
Mississippi on flat boats and return-
ing by steamboat. Father Ricks

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made several trips to New Orleans
in this manner. Ou May 17, 1827, he
married Elenor Martin, the daughter
of a neighbor, and on July 21, 1828,
a son, Thbmas Edward, the founder
of Rexburg, Idaho, was born to them.
On July 15, 1829, Father Ricks left
Kentucky on horseback for the pur-
pose of exploring the Illinois country
and being pleased with the new coun-
try he located a farm on Silver
creek, in Madison county, a few
miles east of Alton, and returned to
Kentucky for his family. On Sept.
12, 1829, he again left Kentucky for
his new home. He continued to re-
side on Silver creek for sixteen years,
during which time eight children —
four boys and four girls — were born
to him. He was a hard working, in-
dustrious man and accumulated con-
siderable property. Some time after
his arrival in Illinois he joined the
"Campbellite" church with which
sect he was associated until 1841, at
which time a "Mormon" Elder came
into his neighborhood and held sev-
eral meetings. Father Ricks became
converted and was baptised June 6,
1841, by Elder George Boosinger.
On March 20, 1842, he set out for
Nauvoo to see the Prophet Joseph
Smith. On his return home he be-
gan preparations to remove to Nau-
voo and in August, 1845, took his fam-
ily to the City of the Saints. He
bought a farm at Appanoose, above
Nauvoo, and a house and lot in the
city. He began at once to take an
active interest in Church affairs
which he continued to do to the time
of his death. When the exodus came
he sent two teams to convey Church
property to the Missouri river. On
April 27, 184G, he crossed the Mis-
sissippi river at Fort Madison and
commenced his journey westward.
He located on Silver creek, opposite
Winter Quarters, until the spring of
1848, when he began his journey to
the Rocky Mountains. He sent a
team with the pioneer company in
1847. He reached the E'lkhorn with

one span of horses, eight yoke of
cattle and six wagons. While at the
Elkhorn Thomas Edward was shot by
the Indians and seriously wounded
and Father Ricks had a very narrow
escape from death while trying to
recover him. When the great com-
pany at the Elkhorn was ready to
move it consisted of 2,417 souls and
792 wagons. Father Ricks was cap-
tain of ten, John Pack of fifty and
President Herriman of 100 and Heber
C. Kimball of the company. They
reached Salt Lake City in Septem-
ber, 1848. Father Ricks passed the
first winter at Bountiful and then lo-
cated on a farm, just north of Cen-
terville. Later, he secured land near
Farmington and started a tannery
there. On Oct. 26, 1852, he mar-
ried Sarah B. Fisk Allen, widow of
Ezra Allen, who had gone with the
Mormon Batallion and who had been
killed by Indians while returning
from California. In May, 1859, Fath-
er Ricks visited Cache Valley and be-
ing pleased with the country sold out
at Farmington and in July, 1859, re-
moved his wife, Sarah B., to Logan,
and later brought his entire family
to Cache Valley. He continued to re-
side in Logan until his death, which
occurred Dec. 15, 1888. Patriarch

Ricks was always an active, progres-
sive citizen and was identified with
every move for the growth and de-
velopment of the country. On reach-
ing Logan he engaged in the tanning
business and was identified with the
first saw mill and flour mill in Lo-
gan. He was an officer of the Lo-
gan Canyon Road Company, and
treasurer of Cache county for nearly
tv/enty-five years. He was a devout
Latter-day Saint and was always
ready to answer any call, and hardly
a year passed that some of his teams
did not go east for emigrants. He
was identified with the erection of
every meeting house or school build-
ing in the city. He was a member
of the High Council for years and
was ordained a Patriarch some years

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before his death. His posterity at
his death num])ered 377 souls.

LINFORD, James Henry, Junior,
president of the Brigham Young Col-
lege, Logan, Utah, and first assistant
superintendent cf Cache Stake Sun-
day schools, is the son of James
Henry Linford, sen., and Zillah
Crockett, and was born Aug. 27, 1863,
in Centerville, Davis county, Utah.
In March, 18G3, he moved with his
parents to Kaysville, In the same

county, where he grew to manhood.
His early life was spent on the farm,
but his desiie for an education led
him to enter the University of Utah,
then called the University of Des-
eret, from which institution he grad-
uated in June, 1890. Soon after
graduating, he was elected school
trustee of District No. 8. of Davis
county, and in July, of the same year,
he was selected by the board of tiust-
ees as principal of the Kaysville pub-
lic schools; in 1893, at the general
election, he was elected county sup-
erintendent of public instruction,
which positions he held till he re-
moved from the county. While re-
siding in Kaysville, he took an active
part in the local Sunday school, act-
ing as its secretary, and for a num-

ber of years a teacher in the theolo-
gical class; was an active member of
the Young Men's Mutual Improve-
ment association from its organiza-
tion, and for a number of years its
president, and was closely associated
with the work of the Ward choir,
brass band, and dramatic associa-
tions. He held the offices of Deacon
and Teacher in the Aaronic Priest-
hood, was ordained an Elder Feb. 29,
1884, by Pres. Jno. W. Hess; and a
Seventy Feb. 9, 1890, by William
Blood. For a number of years he
was secretary of the 55tli quoium of
Seventy. In civil positions he was
deputy recorder, recorder and asses-
sor and collector of Kaysville from
1884 to 1891. On Feb. 24, 1892, he
was married in the Logan Temple to
Mary Hooper Blood, daughter of Wil-
liam Blood, and Jane Wilkie Hooper.
Early in the year 1892 he was offered
a position as teacher in the Brigham
Young College at Logan, Utah, then
presided over by Brest. Joshua H.
Paul. This offer was accepted, and
in August of the same year he moved
his family to Logan and entered upon
his labors with the same zeal that
had characterized his efforts in form-
er positions. In his new field of labor
he was assigned to teach biological
subjects, and through close applica-
tion to his work he soon succeeded in
building up a strong department.
The summers of 1895 and 189G were
spent in the Hopkin's Seaside Lab-
oratory, a department of the Leland
Stanford University, located at Pa-
cific Grove, California, in studying
marine life and in making collections
for the college biological laboratory
and museum.. In 1898 he studied his-
tology and bacteriology in the Uni-
versity of Chicago. On July 28,
1900, the board of trustees of the
Brigham Young College elected him
by a unanimous vote president, tu nil
a vacancy caused by the resignation
of Presi.ient W. J. Kerr. In this po-
sition he has pursued a progressive
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as fast as possible, with the means
placed at his disposal, the wishes of
the great founder, Brigham Young.
Already a.^ a result of this policy, ex-
cellent commercial and domestic de-
partments have been organized, well
equipped carpenter shops and
thorough ccurses in agriculture es-
tablished. April 30, 1900, he be-
came a member of the Cache Stake
Sunday School Union board and on
July 28, 1902, was chosen to act as
first assistant Stake superintendent.

SMITH, Ralph, a veteran Elder
in Cache Stake, is the son of Tho.nas
Smith and Mary Usher, and was born

June 24, 1835, at Reckington, coun-
ty of Durham, Eligland. In a brief
article prepared for this work, Elder
Smith writes: "I was baptised by
Henry Campbell Jan. 4, 184G, and was
ordained a Priest Dec. 28, 1853, by
Thos. Squire?. Later, I was appoint-
ed to labor as a missionary, and I had
the privilege of leading several souls
to the waters of baptism. On April
1, 1854, r was ordained an Elder by
C. G. Webb. In November, 1854, to-
gether wit'.i other members of my
family, I left for Liverpool to emi-
grate to Utah. We crossed the ocean
in the "Clara Wheeler" and landed in
New Orleans; Jan. 11, 1855. Thence

we continued the journey overland to
Great Salt Lake City, Utah, where
we arrived Sept. C, 1855. En route
over the plains I suffered with a se-
vere attack of mountain fever. Soon
after my arrival in the Valley I ob-
tained employment, working on the
Big Cottonwood canal and in the
stone quarries. I married Hannah
Hodgetts Nov. 8, 1856. On March IG,
1857, I was ordained a Seventy, and
in the fall of the same year I engaged
in the Echo canyon campaign. Dur-
ing the "move" in 1858 I sent my wife
and child to Payson, Utah county,
while I remained in Salt Lake City as
a guard and helped to cover up the
foundation of the Temple and cache
away many things of value. Having
been called by Brest. Daniel H. Wells,
together with a number of others, to
settle in Cache Valley, we left for
thai part of the country in May, 1859.
We located at Maughan's Fort (now
Wellsville). In June following many
of us met on the banks of the Logan
river and cast lots for parcels of land
as the first settlers. Jan. 10. 18G0,
we had a son born to us who was the
first white male child born in Cache
Valley. I was appointed one of the
building committee in the Logan 2nd
Ward, in August, 18G5, and assisted
in the erection of a school house and
a meeting house. I married Susann-
ah Jolly, Mai'ch 30, 1867. In Janu-
ary, 1873, the first railroad came
through to Logan. I had done con-
siderable construction work on that
road. I married Mary Ann Routledge
Dec. 28, 1874. In September, 1875, I
made and furnished 7,000 adobes for
the Logan tithing office. For a num-
ber of years I labored as a home mis-
sionary in Cache Stake and as as-
sistant Sunday school superintendent.
In 1877 I had charge of the work of
excavation for the foundation of the
Logan Temple. I was chosen second
counselor to Bishop Ballard, and was
ordained a High Priest and set apart
for that office May 30, 1877, by Wm.
B. Preston. In October, 1878. I was

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called on a mission to the Southern
States, where I labored in Alabama
and Georgia till April, 1879, when I
was transferred to Great Britain,
where I labored in the Liverpool con-
ference. I was honorably released
and returned home in September,
1879, and was appointed the same
month to work in the office of the Lo-
gan Temple. In 1880 I labored as a
special missionary among the High
Priests of Cache Stake. While con-
fined at home with sickness in March,
1887, I was arrested, charged with
unlawful cohabitation, and placed un-
der $2,500 bonds; my two wives were
placed under $200 bonds each. In
November I stood trial at Ogden, and
was sentenced to six months' impris-
onment and fined $140 and costs. In
May, 1888, I moved to Alberta, Can-
ada, where I soon made a comfort-
able home for my family. I returned
to Logan in September, 1889. On
March 22, 189G. I was chosen to take
charge of the religion class work in
the Greenville Ward, and in Novem-
ber the same year I was elected jus-
tice of the peace of Greenville pre-
cinct." Elder Smith has been a Sun-
day school worker for forty years.
He did active work in the building of
the Logan Temple and Tabernacle
and also helped erect several school
and meeting houses. As a pioneer
he has done his full share of building
bridges, killing snakes and fighting
Tiostile Indians.

MERRILL, Heber Kimball, a

High Councilor in Cache Stake, is a
son of Apostle Marriner W. Merrill
and Almira J. Merrill and was born
at Richmond, Cache county, Utah,
Sept. 23, 18G9. He is the third child
of a family of twelve, eight sons and
four daughters. His early life was
spent on the farm, attending the dis-
trict school in the winter. From 188G
to 1892 he attended school in the win-
ter and worked on the farm during
the summer. The first two years
were under Miss Ida I. Cook at a

private school, one year at the Brig-
ham Young College, at Logan, and
three years at the University of
Utah, where he graduated in the
normal course in June, 1892. The
ne.xt year he taught a district school
at Lewiston, Cache county, Utah.
Later he returned to the University of
Utah and took the degree of B. Pd.
He taught a district school at Rich-
mond the next year. April 13, 1894,
he was set apart for a mission to
Germany by Apostles Geo. Teasdale
and Franklin D. Richards, in Salt
Lake City. He went as an Elder and
successfully labored for nearly three
years in Nurenberg, Frankfort-a-
Main and Dresden, Germany, and
Geneva, Switzerland, returning home
Feb. 4, 1897. He was married to Or-
etta A. Dudley of Oxford, Idaho, June
30, 1897, and began teaching in the
Brigham Young College at Logan in
September of same year, where he is
still laboring and now has charge of
the theological department. During
the summer of 1897 he acted as home
missionary for the Y. M. M. I. A. and
in the winter he was in charge of the
first intermediate department in the
First Ward Sunday school of Logan,
in the summer of 1898 he served as a
Stake home missionary for six
months. That winter he had charge of
the theological department in the
Seventh Ward Sunday school of Lo-
gan. Jan. 29, 1899, he was chosen a
High Councilor of Cache Stake and
was ordained a High Priest by Apos-
tles Marriner W. Merrill and Geo.
Teasdale. In June, 1899, he received a
Church degree of B. D. From May
to November, 1900, he labored as a
home missionary and on Oct. 22. 1900,
was chosen as an assistant in the
Brigham Young College Sunday
school and was also appointed a
teacher in the same.

ROBBINS, Charles Burtis, a High

Councilor in Cache Stake since its

organizaticm, is the son of John R.

Robbins and ^Slaiy Burtis, and was

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born Sept. 21, 18o4, at Reckles, Bur-
lington county. New Jersey. He was
converted to the truth of the gospel
;it an early day by Apostle Orson
Hyde, but was not baptised into the
Church till he came to Utah, where
Orson Hyde baptised him. His or-
dinations to the Priesthood took
place as follows: Elder in 1855,
Seventy in Salt Lake City, and a
High Priest in Logan. Young Rob-
bins moved with his parents to Nau-
voo. 111., where he lived till 184G,
-svhen he went to California via Cape

Horn on board the sailing vessel
"Brooklyn." He remained in San
Francisco, and worked as a printer's
apprentice, and assisted in getting out
the first number of the "Califoniia
"Star," which was the first paper ever
Xiublished in San Francisco. While
in San Francisco he drove the first
horse that ever worked in a harness
there. He also worked in tiie gold
fields on Mormon Island "cradeling"
gold. In 185U he returned to New
Jersey via the Isthmus of Panama,
and came to Utah in 1853, crossing
the plains with a mule team. On
arriving in Utah he settled in Salt
Lake City, where he lived during the
trying times of those early days;
passing through "grasshopper wars"

and famines. During the Echo can-
yon campaign in 1857 he served as
a cavalryman in the Utah militia, in
which organization he later achieved
the rank of major. At an early date
he came to Logan, Cache Valley, with
a lead of merciiandise, and opened a
store there for W. S. Godbe, which
•he conducted fur many years, till he
went into merchandising for himself.
In 1855 he m.arried Jane Adeline
Young, who bore him nine children;
later he took to wife Martha Allen,
who bore him three children, and on
Jan. 24, 1878, he was united in mar-
riage with Harriet Vilate Pitkin
(Robinson), the issue of which union
iS' three children. He has twenty-
five grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren. Bro. Robbins has
served Logan as a city councilman,
postmaster, special police, jailer,
school trustee, and since 189G has
acted as chief of the fire department.
Elder Robbins is a typical type of the
western pioneer, and has done h.is
share toward making Utah a pros-
perous commonwealth.

LARSEN, Christian, a High Coun-
cilor in the Cache Stake of Zion, is a
son of Christian J. Larsen and Dor-
thea Hansen, and was born Aug. 5,
1842, at Longelse, Svendborg amt,
Denmark. He was baptised into the
Church May 2G, 18GG, by Elder Jens
Jen?en. His ordinations to the Priest-
hood were as follows: Ordained an
Elder in January, 18G7, by Chas.
Frank; ordained a Seventy Jan. 20,
1855, by Paul Cardon, and ordained a
High Priest March ;i, 1887, by Apostle
Franklin D. Richards. During 1882-84
he filled a mission to Scandinavia,
where his chief field of labor was in
the Aarjus conference. Elder Larsen
has always taken an active interest
in ecclesiastical work. In Sabbath
schcol and Mutual Improvement work
he has been an energetic worker, hav-
ing served as a teacher and assistant
superintendent of Sunday school and
as a counselor and president of the

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Mutual Improvement association. For
several years he served successively
as secretary of the Teachers', Elders'
and Seventys quorums. He has also
labored as a Ward teacier, a home
missionary, an alternate High Coun-
cilor and a regular High Councilor in
the Cache Stake; the latter position
he 'has filled since 1901. In 18GG he
emigrated to Utah, crossing the plains
in Henry W. Lawrence's ox com.pany.
On his arrival in the Valley he lo-
cated in Logan, Cache county, virhere

he has continued to reside ever since.
Bro. Larsen married Emma Barratt
Dec. 7, 18C8, who has borne him
eleven children. In 'his early youth
he was a sailor, but since coming to
Utah he has engaged ohiefly in farm-
ing and stock raising. In Logan city
he has served as councilman, alder-
man, assesser, and member of school
board.

CARtJON, Paul, first counselor in
the Bishopric of Benson Ward, Cache
Stake, is the son of Philip Cardon and
Marlha Mary Tourin, and was born
in Italy, in the vallies of the Wal-
denses, Dec. 28, 1839, where he passed
his boyhood days. In the year 1851
(Feb. 7th) he was baptised int:) the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latti rday

Saints by Elder George D. Keaton.
The Cardon family was one of the
first to join the Church in that coun-
try. Shortly after joining the Church
the fam.ily decided to emigrate to
Utah, and in February, 1854, they left
their native land and arrived in Salt
Lake City in October of the same year.
Paul drove an ox team across the
plains. He settled in Mound Fort, We-
ber county, Utah, where he remained
for one year. Thence he moved to
the settlement known as MaiTiotts
Ward, in the same county, where he
lived until the early spring of 1860.
In the fall of 185G he was ordained an
Elder and was set apart as an acting
Teacher and home missionary. He
spent the fall and winter in Echo Can-
yon and Lost Creek, building fortifica-
tions to stay the progress of Johnston's
army. He was a member of Capt. Lot
Smith's company most of the time.
On the IGth day of March, 1857, he
was married to Susannah Goudin. In
the spring of 1858, when the people
were called upon to leave their homes
and go south, he sent hiS' wife and
child to Spanish Fork, Utah county,
and he was detailed to stand guard
over property in Ogden, Weber coun-
ty, under the direction of General C.
W. West. In the fall of 1859 .he went
to Cache valley and there selected
property and started to build a home.
In the spring of 18G0 .he moved his
family to Cache county, where he ha&
lived ever since. Shortly after arriv-
ing in Cache valley he was selected
as one of the famous body of so-called
minute men. This company of minute
men was organized for the purpose of
protecting themselves and families
against the attacks of the Indians. He
held a commission, signed by the gov-
ernor, as first lieutenant of cavalry.
In December, 18G2, he was ordained
a Seventy, and at the same time set
apart as an acting teacher in the
Fourth Ward of Logan and also as a
home missionary. In the year of 18G8
he was chosen and set apart as one
of the seven presidents of the G4t'.i

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quorum of Seventy. In 1887

he was compelled to go Into
exile, where he remained for about
five years. This left him in financial
straights and he was obliged to sell
his home and property in order to
pay his debts. In 1892 he left Logan
and went to Benson Ward to build
up another home for himself and
family. Feb. 10, 1895, he was ordained
a High Priest by Apostle Marriner W.
Merrill and set apart as first counsel-
or to Bishop Henry W. Ballard, of
Benson Ward, which position iie still
holds. In 1899 he was called on a
mission to Switzerland and Italy for
the purpose of gathering genealogy;
in this labor he was very successful
and returned home in March, 1901.
Elder Garden's life has been a very
busy one and he has helped build up
Cache valley from its beginning, hav-
ing been public spirited and held many
public offices in Logan city and Cache
county. He is the father of a large
family, fifteen of his children are still
living.

SMITH, Thomas X., Bishop of
Fourth Ward, Logan, Cache Stalte,
was the son of George Smith and
Patience Timpson, and was born Dec.
25, 1828, at Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire,
England. He was baptised March 28,
1849, by John Mead, and was ordained
a Deacon by Benjamin Johnson; later
he became president of the Eaton
branch. In 1853 he sailed for Ameri-
ca, on board the ship "Falcon," and
crossed the plains in an ox-train, ar-
riving in Salt Lake valley after a very
hard and trying journey. Bro. Smith
writes: "My wife was very sick for
several weeks after our arrival in the
Valley, having been confined with a
child en route over the plains. We
felt that we were strangers in a
strange land, but we knew that the
Lord was with us. I soon found em-
ployment with Dr. Willard Richards,
for whom I worked till his death,
when I went to Farmington, Davis
■ county, and took charge of his grist

and saw-mill. While at Farmington I
was ordained a Seventy. After living
in Farmington for about two year* I
moved to Logan, Cache county, where
I was in 1855-5G, during the "grass-
hopper war," and did all in my power
to check the damage being done. Be-
fore we were entirely through fighting
grass-hoppers we had to meet the
United States army, in what is known
as tiie "Utah war." At an early day
I was cho:jen as a president of the
G4th quorum of Seventy. When Logan
city was divided into four Wards, I

wa?i called to preside as Eishop of
the Fourth Ward, and was later or-
dained a High Priest and Bishop by
Prest. Geo. Q. Cannon. In 1880 I went
on a mission to England, where I la-
bored principally in the Nottingham
and Manchester conferences, serving
as president of the latter. My wife
died Sept. 23, 1880, leaving a large
family to be cared for, and so I was
honorably released and returned to
Logan in 1881. When Presidents'
Chas. O. Card and Thos. B. Ricks first
went to Canada, I accompanied them
and assisted in doing the first plow-
ing ever done in Alberta, where so
many of the Saints have since locat-
ed. For three terms I served as a
city councilman in Logan, and have
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I have had three wives, two of whom
are living, and I am the father of
twenty-two children, six of whom are
dead." Bishop Smith was one of
those unassuming men who believed
rather in deeds than words, and was
respected by all classes as a man of
sterling worth. His death occurred
in Logan early in 1907.

TOLMAN, Judson, a Patriarch in
the Davis Stake of Zion, is a son of
Nathan Tolman and was born July 14,
1826, in Kennebec, Maine. He comes
from old Puritan stock, his ancestors
having arrived in America in 1630.
Judson Tolman writes, in a brief arti-
cle, prepared for this volume, as fol-

lows: "In 1837 I moved with my par-
ents to Iowa, where I was baptised
Jan. 12, 1845. I gathered with the
Saints at Nauvoo in the following
March and was ordained a Seventy
June 5, 1845. I received my endow-
ments in the Nauvoo Temple Jan. 27,
1846, and left Nauvoo with the Saints
under Brigham Young in Hosea
Stout's company as guard and contin-
ued with the company to the Missouri
river, helping to build all the bridges,
and make roads, and raft wagons over
all the streams that could not be
forded. I remained with the company

until the Mormon Batallion was or-
ganized and left for Mexico. We were
then organized into a company of 200
wagons under the leadership of George
Miller and eleven other men and
started for the Mountains, but were
stopped by President Brigham Young
and wintered on the Puncah river,
near the Missouri river, about 150
miles above the present Omaha. We
then went to Winter Quarters in the
spring, whence we continued the jour-
ney to the Valley, where we arrived
in September, 1848, in Brigham
Young's company, and Daniel Garn's
fifty. I helped to fight the crickets in
1849, and in that year, together with
two other families, I settled in Toellt
valley, where Tooele city now stands.
We were the first three families to set-
tle in that valley. In 1850 I was one
of a company of thirty-one called by
Gov. Brigham Young to serve as a
guard on the southwestern frontiers
of Utah, under Captain Phineas R.
White. I served three and one-half
years in that capacity and was in
three battles with the Indians, where-
in sixteen Indians and one white man
were killed. In 1852 the Indians took
the last yoke of oxen and the last cow
I had. In the fall of 1854 I moved to
Bountiful, Davis county, where I have
lived ever since. I might add that I
helped to herd Uncle Sam's army in
the "Echo Canyon war." In Septem-
ber, 1877, I was sent on a missoin to
the State of Maine. In 1885 I was or-
dained a High Priest, and in 1897 a
Patriarch. I have had three families.
My first wife was Sarah Holbrook,
who has 301 descendants, namely,
fourteen children, 131 grandchildren
and 155 great grandchildren. There is
also one great great grandchild. My
second wife, Saptia Merrill, had four
children, ten grandchildren and five
great grandchildren. My wife, Jane
Stoker, who now lives, has eleven
children, and twenty grandchildren.
My total posterity is 351 at the present
time.

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BRIGGS, Thomas, a Patriarch in
Davis Stake, is the son of .James
Briggs and Ann Ordoyno, and was
born Aug. 20, 1832, at Newark, Not-
tinghamshire, England. He joined
the Church by baptism Jan. 27. 1849,
Henry Beecroft performing the cere-
mony. His ordinations in the Priest-
hood occurred in the following order:
Ordained a Priest in 1849, an Elder
Oct. 8, 1853, a Seventy in 1865, by

Joseph Young, a High Priest in 1884,
by Job Welling, and a Patriarch
March 20, 1906, by Prest. Antbon H.
Lund. In May, 1882, he left home to
fill a mission to the northwestern
States, but returned during the same
year on account of illness. Brother
Briggs has ever been a faithful work-
er in the Church and for over forty-
four years he acted as a Ward teach-
er, first for two years in St. Louis,
Mo., and then for forty-two years in
Bountiful, Utah. He has been three
times married, and is the father of
nine children. For five years he
served as a city councilman in Boun-
tiful. By occupation he is a gard-
ner in which capacity he has been en-
gaged during most of his lifetime.
He emigrated from England, together
with his parents, in 1851, crossing the
ocean on the sailing vessel "Ellen,
which arrived at New Orleans March

19, 1851. The family proceeded to
St. Louis, Mo., the same month.
While in that city his father and
mother died, and consequently his
journey to Utah was temporarily de
ferred. While at St. Louis he mar-
ried Ann Kirkham and soon after-
wards moved to Hebron, Wis., where
he remained till 1864 when, together
with his family, he started for Utah
with an ox train. They arrived in
Salt Lake City in September of that
year and soon afterwards moved to
Bountiful, Davis county, where they
have lived continuously ever since.

SESSIONS, David, a pioneer of Da-
vis county, Utah, was a son of Davia
Sessions and Patty Bartlett, and was
boin May 9, 1823, in Newry, Oxford
county, Maine. His father was
"what most men well to do would

call." Besides a large farm, he
owned a saw mill and a grist mill.
As soon as David was able to do so.
he began to assist his father on the
farm. Then the family heard the
Gospel, and yielded obedience to it
willingly. In 1837 they set out to
join the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio.
The journey was made with ox teams
and occupied about three months.
Later, they moved to Far West, and
finally to Nauvoo, where David began

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to clerk for his brother-in-law, Win-
sor P. Lyons. While in Nauvoo he
became intimately acquainted with
the Prophet Joseph Smith, for whom
he formed an undying love. When
Mr. Lyons moved from Nauvoo to
Iowa City, David accompanied him,
engaging again in the mercantile
business. In 1850 he made up his
mind to come to Zion. He had a
good four-horse team, wagon and
harness; the latter he made with his
own hands. He came with a com-
pany of immigrants who were going
to California. The company was un-
der the command of Perrigrine Ses-
sions, a brother of David, the subject
of this sketch, who was appointed one
of the hunters, to assist in procuring
meat for the party. On his arrival
in the Valley in 1850, he settled in
what was later known as Sessions'
Settlement, now Bountiful. His fath-
er died about a month after their ar-
rival. On Dec. 30, 1852, David Ses-
sions was united in marriage to Miss
Phebe Carter Foss, by whom he had
the following children: Sarah

Phebe, Cerdenia Estelle, David, Olive
Cordelia, Fabian Carter, Darius, Rho-
da Harriet Calvin Elizabeth Foss and
Annie Sylvia. Calvin and Rhoda
died while they were quite young.
David worked with his brother Perri-
grine on a farm till 1860, when he
moved into a home of his own, and be-
gan farming on his own account. He
devoted his spare time to harness
making, and to the manufacture of
boots and shoes, in both of which
trades he became quite proficient, not-
withstanding that he had never
served one day's apprenticeship iu
either. In 1865 Elder Sessions was
called to go on a mission to the Mud-
dy river. The following spring he
returned and disposed of his posses-
sions, intending to return with his
family to the Muddy; but on account
of Indian troubles, he was advised to
remain at home. Elder Sessions was
known for his benevolent disposition;

he contributed liberally of his means
from time to time to charitable ob-
jects. Being averse to notoriety, he
never sought for public office, but
contented himself by treading in the
quiet paths of life. He was for many
years postmaster of Bountiful, Utah.
Feb. 2, 1846, he was ordained a Sev-
enty, in Nauvoo, and this office he
held at the time of his demise, which
took place April 19, 1896.

DRAKE, Horace, a Patriarch in the
Davis Stake, is the son of Daniel
Drake, and was born April 19, 1826,
in Trumbull county, Ohio. He was
baptised March 8, 1841, by Zenos H.
Gurley. His ordinations in the

Priesthood took place as follows:
Ordained a Priest March 5, 1845, a
Seventy Feb. 8, 1850, by Jedediah M.
Grant, a High Priest and Patriarch
Oct. 3, 1904, by Prest. Joseph F.
Smith. Brother Drake came to Utah
Sept. 19, 1847, and passed through
those hard and trying times incident
to the settlement of this western wil-
derness. He was always found ready
and willing to do his full share of
work and bear his just proportion of
burdens. He married Diana E. Hoi-

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brook, daughter of Chandler Hol-
brook, Oct. 3, 1850; she died Jan. 11,
1906, being the last woman survivor
who was a member of Zion's camp.
Elder Drake is the father of twelve
children. He holds a commission as
drum-major of the first regiment band
of the Nauvoo Legion,
the Davis Stake of Zion, is the son of
WALSH, John, a High Councilor in
Wm. Walsh and Alice Fish and was
born Aug. 22, 1852, at Over Darwen,
Lancashire, England. He was bap-
tised May 1, 1861, by Wm. Ostler, and
ordained to the Priesthood in the fol-
lowing order: Ordained an Elder
March 30, 1869, by Samuel H. B.
Smith, and a High Priest Dec. 2, 1894,
by Abraham H. Cannon. That he has
ever been an active Church worker
will appear from the following record:
He labored for many years as a teach-
er and officer in the Sabbath school,
also as a Ward teacher and a coun-
selor in the presidency of the 2nd
Quorum of Elders in Salt Lake Stake.
For eleven years he was a Stake home
missionary. From December, 1894, to
September, 1902, he was an alternate
High Councilor in the Davis Stake
and since the latter date he has been
a regular merriber of that body. He
was married to Adella R. Long July
10, 1879, who has borne him four chil-
dren. Together with his parents he
emigrated to Utah in 1856 in one of
those ill-fated handcart companies in
which so many perished en route on
the plains. Two of his family, name
ly, his father and brother, died of
cold and starvation, and John be-
came so weak and emaciated that
when he reached the Valley he had to
learn to walk anew. He settled in
Salt Lake City, where he lived till
1894, when he moved to Farmington,
Davis county, where he still resides.
In civil life he has had a somewhat
active experience, having held the
following 'positions: Justice of the
peace, school trustee, city council-
man and mayor, all in Farmington.

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His chief occupations have been log-
ging, lumbering, farming, etc. For
fourteen years he was an employe of
the General Tithing Store House in
Salt Lake City. He is interested in a
number of business enterprises and
has been a director in the following
concerns: People's Equitable Co-op.
(Salt Lake City), Steed Creek Irriga-
tion & Water Co., Farmington Cream-
ery Co., Davis County Bank, etc.
Elder Walsh is universally known as
a consistent Church member and a
progressive citizen.

KING, Thomas Franklin, a High
Councilor in the Davis Stake, is the
son of Thos Jefferson King and Re-
becca E. Olin, and was born in Por-
tage county, Ohio, May 1, 1842. In a
sketch prepared for this work. Elder
King writes: "My parents joined the
Church in September, 1830. They both
died in 1876, and were previous to
their death the oldest living couple be-
longing to the Church. They were in-

timately acquainted with the Prophet
Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum,
and passed through all the trials and
persecutions that were heaped upon
the Saints in the early rise of the
Church. In 1845 they moved from
Ohio to Illinois and bought a farm in
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from Nauvoo. They raised one crop
there when they were told by some of
their neighbors that the mob intended
to drive all the "Mormons" out. My
father was sick at the time. Previous
to this the mob had driven out all the
able bodied men among the Saints, in-
cluding my brother George E., who
was about seventeen years old. When
the mob came, they told my mother to
leave at once. Father was not able to
help. All the team my parents had at
that time was one horse and a one-
horse wagon. My mother moved some
of the furniture into the cornfield, and
put the beds and some of the light
things into the wagon, after which we
all got on top of the load. As soon as
we had started, the mob set fire to the
house. We went to Nauvoo and found
shelter in a large frame house that
ivas already occupied by three other
■families. After we were housed, my
mother took my brother Alma, who
was twelve years old, and returned to
the farm to get the balance of our fur-
niture. There was a good crop of corn
on the farm ready to gather. As we
had no bread, my mother and brother
went again to the farm to get a load
of corn. The mob threatened her at
that time, but she told them she had
no bread for her children and must
have it. They threatened to shoot her
if she did not leave, but she told them
to shoot away, as she would just as
soon die as to starve. When she re-
turned the third time one of the mob-
bers put a gun to her breast and said:
■"If you return again, I will shoot you."
As she thought she had secured
enough to last us through the winter
she did not return any more. The
first recollection I have in this life was
the parching of this same corn, that
my mother risked her life to obtain for
the sustenance of her children, which
was parched and ground in a coffee
mill and eaten with milk on our jour-
ney westward. Two cows which we
owned at that time, were a great help
to us. My father was with us on the
journey; he owned a wagon but no
team, as the team we used belonged
to my grandfather. He and his wife,

not my grandmother as she died some
years before, were traveling with us,
or we with them. My grandfather was
quite aged, and as his wife had not
much faith in the Gospel, they soon
concluded to go no further. Thus,
when they took the team of the wa-
gon, we were side tracked. This took
place forty miles from Mount Pisgah,
in Iowa. My brother George E. then
started out on foot for Mount Pisgah
and secured a team which landed us at
that place all right. We moved into a
log cabin which had no floor, and the
roof was of bark which curled up, so
that when it rained it was just as wet
inside as it was outside. My father
being a carpenter and builder soon ob-
tained employment, but at some dis-
tance east of Mount Pisgah. In a short
time he hired a man to move us to
a place called Stringtown, where quite
a number of our people had settled
temporarily for the winter. The next
year we moved to Black Hawk and in
a short time to lowaville; both these
places were on the Des Moines river,
less than a hundred miles from Nauvoo
and there were quite a number of our
people in these places, among whom
was Judge Elias Smith and his aged
father and mother. We remained here
about seven years and found some
very warm friends, a great contrast
with the way we had been treated in
Illinois. One man in particular, whose
name was John Baker, should be men-
tioned in Church history as a ram in
the thicket, for when our people went
into that neighborhood in poverty, he,
being the village store-keeper and hav-
ing the only store in the village, said
to our people: "Come to the store and
get what you want and pay for it when
you can." He also gave our people a
great deal of work to do. Many
others of the citizens were very good
to our people. A. J. Davis, subsequent-
ly the great Montana millionaire, fur-
nished a great deal of work for our
people. My father and Judge Elias
Smith became very intimate friends.
As they were both industrious they fi-
nally secured some ox teams and did
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lowaville and some other towns and
Keokuk. A. J . Davis, among his many
other enterprises, had a large distil-
lery, where he converted great quanti-
ties of corn into whiskey, which had
to be hauled from the distillery to Keo-
kuk to market. My father and Elias
Smith did a great deal of this hauling.
They would take a load of whiskey for
Mr. Davis and return with a load of
merchandise for Mr. Baker. On one
of those trips my brother Wm. J ac-
companied them. One night they
camped in a hollow where there was
a stream of water, and slept on the
heads of the barrels of whiskey stand-
ing in the wagons. They went to bed
as usual, but during the night it com-
menced to rain, and many of the read-
ers of this well know what a rain
storm in Iowa means. The result was
that the downfall soon formed a good-
sized river. Sometime during the night
my brother straightened out, when his
foot went into the water. This caused
him to be very much awake. He knew
what it meant. In a moment he rous-
ed the others who were soon wide
awake too. My brother and father
were both good swimmers, but Elias
Smith could not swim. My father took
him on his back and svam across
with him. Returning to the wagons
he got the log chains and fastened the
wagons to some trees that were stand-
ing near by. On another occasion my
father and my next younger brother.
Alma, were hauling salt to Keokuk on
a pair of low bob-sleds. The weather
being bitter cold, they took turns in
going into houses to warm themselves.
Thus one of them would go into a
house to warm and the other drive on,
When the one in the house got warm
he would run and catch up with the
team and drive, while the other went
into another house to get warm. On
one of these turns Alma had been in
to warm himself, and catching up with
the team he took the whip while my
father went into another house to get
warm; on coming out he ran to catch
cp with the team, but soon found the
lifeless form of Alma. It was supposed
that in trying to jump onto the

sled his foot slipped and that he was
thrown under the sled which crushed
the life out of him. Father left his
team there and hired a man to take
the body home. It was a most heart-
rending scene that took place when he
reached home, as Alma was the model
brother of the family. In the spring
of 1850 my father concluded to go to
to California to make a raise, as he
thought we were too poor to under-
take to move to the Valley as a family.
He therefore built a double log house
and left us quite comfortable. In the
spring of 1851 a great freshet wiped
out nearly the whole town including
our comfortable home. The Des
Moines river, which was only one-
fourth of a mile wide when within its
banks, reached on the occasion men-
tioned a depth of fifty feet and a width
of four miles. The people all moved
out to the higher lands and we were
taken into the house of a man named
Isaac Nelson and treated the same as
members of their own family. We
stayed with Mr. Nelson until the water
went down about six weeks later. The
next thing to do was to build another
house which we did that summer. In
going to California my father went by
way of Salt Lake, reaching California
in the fall of 1850. He went to work
as soon as he arrived and began a
little later to send money home. En-
gaging in merchandising he soon made
some money and in exploring the
Feather river he found there were
nuggets of gold in the river bed, so
he thought of a scheme to turn the
river out of its channel and get the
gold. He then went to work and at
a great expense built a dam across
the river and turned the water out
of its natural channel, but he got in
only three days' work when a freshet
came and took out his dam. Conse-
quently he only got gold to the value
of seventeen thousand dollars; this
he took out in three days. Next he
built a quartz mill which I think was
the first mill of that kind built in
California, but I believe he lost money
in that undertaking. In the fall of
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sailing around Cape Horn, and reach-
ed home in the spring of 1854. Sett-
ing to work at once getting an outfit
for the journey across the Plains, he
had one wagon made to order and an-
other fitted up; he also bought more
oxen, making up two teams with two
yoke to each wagon. Then he bought
some good cows and some young
stock, making us a very comfortable
outfit. As all of our people had moved
out except two or three families that
never went to the Valley, we came
with a few of our neighbors who were
going to California. In all we num-
bered eleven wagons. On the second
day of May, 1854, I being just twelve
years old, we took the line of march
for the west, Benjamin Truman being
our captain. My brother, Wm. J., took
charge of one team. He and my sis-
ter Amy Jane, now the widow of Elias
Smith, rode in one wagon and I took
charge of the wagon which my father
and mother and younger sister Ange-
lina rode in. I drove the team the
entire distance of 1400 miles. My
brother, George E., who had married
and had a young family concluded to
go his own way. He fitted himself up
with a first class four horse team and
started a few days ahead of us, for
Washington Territory, and that was
the last we ever saw of him. He
settled in King county, near Seattle,
Puget Sound, in 1857. Soon after-
wards occurred what was called the
White river massacre in which he and
his family were killed by the Indians.
In traveling through Iowa the roads
were very heavy and muddy. We pass-
ed through Garden Grove, stopped at
Council Bluffs a day or two and then
crossed the Missouri river on a ferry
boat near the present site of Omaha.
There were only a few houses on the
west side of the Missouri river at that
time. Omaha Indians lived in the
neighborhood. We traveled on until
we came to the Pawnee nation of In-
dians who called us to halt. As I
remember they were a hard-looking
lot and wanted flour, beef and almost
everything they could think of. Fi-
nally, the captain compromised with

them by giving them a two year old
beef. When we got to a certain river
we found a toll bridge over the stream,
and the toll being very high, the cap-
tain said, "We won't pay the price
asked." Traveling down the river a
short distance to camp, he told the
women folks that they could have a
day to do their washing. There be-
ing tall Cottonwood trees and plenty
of brush there, he told the men to cut
down some trees. They were felled
into the river and men, who were sta-
tioned on the other side of the river,
caught the top as they floated down
and fastened them with ropes. They
were then covered with heavy brush
and thus made into a strong floating
bridge. The men ran the wagons
across the bridge by hand and made
th"e stock swim. In this manner we
got across the river in one day, while
the women folks attended to their
washing, After getting through the
Iowa mud we had fine roads, and I
had a fine time, as all I had to do was
to drive my team, being too young to
stand guard. Everything went lovely
until one day, while traveling up the
Platte over a broad smooth prairie,
when all at once my brother's team
passed by me as though the animals
had been shot out of a gun. I knew
in a moment that it meant a stampede.
I spoke to my near wheeler which was
one of the most intelligent oxen I
ever saw. His name was Darby and I
never said "whoa" to him before when
he would not hold any pair of oxen
that ever looked through a bow, but
on this occasion Darby had the spirit
of the stampede and paid no attention
to me. I immediately jumped from
the wagon and ran to my leaders,
hitting them over the head with the
butt of my whip. In some way my
near leader struck me on the head
with his horn knocking me senseless.
That was the last I saw of the stam-
pede. By the time I regained consci-
ousness it was all over. We caught
up with a company of emigrants going
to California, who had some of their
stock stolen by Indians and were very
much frightened. Fearing that the

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Indians might attack them again and
kill them, they asked our captain if
they could travel with us. The cap-
tain gave his consent and we camped
together that night and put out a
strong guard. Some time during the
night one of the guard accidentally
discharged his gun which was the sig-
nal for " every man to arms." There
was great excitement for a few min-
utes until the mistake was discovered.
When we arrived at the mouth of
Emigration canyon and could see the
valley and city, I being only a lad,
leaped for joy to think we had got to
the place for which my mother had
longed for so many years, where we
could be free from mob violence and
worship God according to the dictates
of our conscience. The next day we
drove down to the city, arriving there
August 6, 1854. Judge Elias Smith
welcomed us all warmly to his home,
as he was acquainted with the whole
company. The company stayed in Salt
Lake City a few days and then went
on their way to California. After they
left, we went over the Jordan river
and camped near the place where
Taylorsville now is. We camped there
about three weeks and then went to
West Bountiful, intending to locate
there. In September, 1854, while at
Bountiful, I was baptized into the
Church by Bishop John Stoker. We
went on the mountain and got out a
set of house logs, but before we start-
ed to build a house, my father took a
walk to Kaysville and concluded to lo-
cate there. So we hauled our logs
thither and buildt the second house
north of Kays Creek, in what is now
Layton Ward. The next spring we
went to work between our location and
the settlements on the Weber river to
get the water on the small farm my
father had taken up, making a ditch
one and one fourth miles through oak
brush and clay as hard as a brick. We
put in four acres of wheat and reaped
a fairly good crop, which my father
and I cut with sickles, threshed with
a flail and winnowed out with the
wind. The years 1855 and 1856 were
known as the hard times. We had

hard winters which killed off the cattle
and the grasshoppers and crickets
took everything green. We got along
nicely, however, during the scarcity, as
we had some good cows. We had
plenty of milk and butter, cheese and
potatoes, but were short of flour. On
one occasion we were without bread
two weeks; but there were plenty
of segoes which helped out wonder-
fully. Many of our neighbors how-
ever, were not as fortunate as we
were. I never saw the time that my
mother had not something to give to
those who were less fortunate than we
were. The Indians often came to her
for something to eat and they never
went away empty handed. During the
winter of 1856-57 I went to school in
the Sixteenth Ward of Salt Lake City.
In the summer of 1857 the Johnston
army was sent out by the government
to straighten out the "Mormons." All
able bodied men were called to arms
to protect ourselves; even the boys in
their teens were not exempt. A boys'
company was organized in Kaysville,
of which I was appointed captain
and R. R. Albred lieutenant. We
were drilled day after day and retain-
ed as a home guard. My father was
out in Echo canyon all winter. In the
spring of 1858 we were all on wheels
again, and went as far south as Provo,
where we stayed until the compromise
was thought about, after which we re-
turned home, but still kept up our
drill. The boys' company was finally
disorganized and I joined the infantry
under Captain Robert Harris, of the
Mormon Battalion. Later, I joined the
Cavalry company or minute men un-
der Major Lot Smith and Col. Phile-
mon Merrill. I participated In the
Morrisite trouble in 1862 and helped
to make the willow battery and roll
it into the fort, which brought about
the surrender of the Morrisites. I be-
longed to the Company until it was dis-
banded by Gov. Doty. As we all were
very hard up for clothing my father
went to Camp Floyd and succeeded in
getting the contract to furnish the en-
tire camp with fire wood, which was
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cord in regular cord or four foot
lengths. He hired some men to chop
the cedars down and I hauled most of
it to the camp, having two yoke of
good oxen and two wagons with wood
racks on; I trailed one behind the
other. In that way I hauled four cords
at a trip. My father built a house at
Camp Floyd and my mother came out
and stopped a while in the fall, but
when cold weather came on, she re-
turned home. As we had no hay, I
was obliged to camp with the men in
the hills where the feed was good. We
tried to camp in a wagon box, but it
was not satisfactory, as we had to
move camp very often, so we slept on
the ground. Sometimes the snow
would fall on us while in bed to the
depth of one foot. When the snow
fell in such quantities it made us too
warm and the warmth of our bodies
melted the snow under us, which made
us feel somewhat uncomfortable. The
next spring we returned home and
I worked on the farm and in the
canyon. The next winter I again
went to school, and the following sum-
mer worked on the farm and in the
canyon as usual. The following win-
ter I taught the first school in the dis-
trict now embracing Layton Ward.
Later, my mother taught school in the
same district for several years. In
1861, when the troops were called east,
they had no teams to move themselves
and consequently had to hire teams.
My father fitted up two wagons with
three yoke of oxen and loaded them
with goods for Uncle Sam and took
them back as far as Atchison, Kansas;
there he unloaded and got his money.
It being quite late in the season, he
concluded to stay there all winter. One
day during a conversation the matter
of mail carrying came up and father
said he would like to get the contract
for carrying the mail between Salt
Lake and Brigham City. Mr. Moulton
who was quite an influential man, told
father that if he wanted the contract
he could get it for him. Consequently
he wrote Washington and succeeded
in getting him the contract. Father
telegraphed me to take the mail from

Brother Henry Miller on the second
day of July, 1862, as his contract
would then expire. On that date I
took the mail and carried it until
father came home in September. Tak-
ing his teams and a fourteen year old
boy with me to drive one of the teams,
I started east loaded with grain for
the Overland mail; we hauled it as
far as Green River. The Indians, who
were very hostile at that time, burned
one of the mail stations the night after
we started for home. When we got
to the coal beds, we loaded our wagons
with coal and hauled it to Salt Lake
City. As soon as father got home, he
bought a carriage and three teams for
the purpose of carrying passengers. Af-
ter my return home I went into the
canyon to get out our winter's wood,
after which I carried the mail and
also carried the first passengers that
were ever taken over the road from
Salt Lake City to Brigham City. We
also carried the Boise express to Brig-
ham City; from there it was carried
by pony. We had to make the trip
from Salt Lake City to Brigham City
in one day with the express. January
1, 1863, I married Lucy Ann Ogden,
and in the spring of 1863 moved with
my wife to Ogden in order to get
nearer the center of the mail route.
In the summer of 1864, I, with my
cousin, Emmett King, went to Virginia
City, Nevada, with loads of potatoes,
eggs, grindstones, etc. We sold pota-
toes there for 35 cts. per pound. In
1865 we moved to South Weber and
lived there a number of years. I was
ordained an Elder by Bishop A. H.
Raleigh February 29, 1868. In 1877,
July 24th, I was ordained a High Priest
and set apart as second counselor to
Bishop David S. Cook, of the South
Weber Ward, Davis Stake, under the
hands of Apostle Franklin D. Richards.
In 1881 I sold out at South Weber and
bought a farm in Farmington. In
September, 1882, my wife died, leaving
nine children. April 12, 1883, I married
Hannah T. Moon, daughter of Bishop
Henry Moon, formerly Bishop of the
First Ward in Salt Lake City. In
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county and served one term. Later,
I was elected Justice of the Peace of
Farmington City and served one term.
About the year 1887 I was called as an
alternate member of the High Council
of the Davis Stake, but was not set
apart to that office until December 2,
1894. I was set apart as a regular
High Councilor March 12, 1898, by
President Geo. Q. Cannon."

MILLER, Jacob, a Patriarch in the
Davis Stake of Zion, is the son of
Daniel A. Miller and Clarissa Pon;I.
and was born December 9, 1835, near
Quincy, Illinois. When about eight
years of age he was baptized into the
Church by Henry W. Miller. He was
ordained a Teacher in 1850 and was
for several years a president in the
Fortieth Quorum of Seventy. In 1877

he was ordained a High. Priest by
President John W. Hess, being at the
same time set apart as a counselor in
the Farmington Ward Bishopric. In
1856 and 1857 he filled a mission
among Indians on the Salmon river.
In 1873 he went on a colonizing mis-
sion to the Little Colorado river in
Arizona. During 1875-1876 he filled a
mission to Australia, and during this
mission he circumnavigated the globe.
Elder Miller's activity in Church work
is seen in the following. For many

years he labored as a Sunday school
superintendent, as a Ward teacher, as
second and first counselor to Bishops
John W. Hess and Jacob M. Secrist,
respectively of Farmington Ward.
Since 1882 he has served as Ward
ecclesiastical and tithing clerk, and
was for several years tithing clerk of
Davis Stake. Elder Miller married
Helen Mar Cheney March 16,1856, and
he took to wife Annie S. Christensen
May 13, 1885. He is the father of
twelve children, seven of whom are
living. Among the civil positions he
has held can be mentioned the follow-
ing: School trustee, county superin-
tendent of schools, notary public,
county selectman, county clerk, etc.;
all in Davis county. The subject of
this sketch has engaged successfully
in school teaching, accountant and
farming. For many years he worked
as clerk, bookkeeper, and treasurer
of the Farmington Co-op., also as treas-
urer and secretary of the Davis coun-
ty Co-operative Co., and later as a di-
rertor of the Farmington Commercial
and Manufacturing Co. Brother Mil-
ler came to Utah in 1848 and his home
has ever since been in Farmington,
Davis county.

WOOD, Jonathan David, second
counselor in the Farmington Ward
Bishoprlo, Davis Stake, sine© 1882, is
the son of John Wood and Fanny
Gobel and was born April 29, 1849, at
Brighton, Sussex, England. The sub-
ject of this writing was baptized into
the Church in his early youth. He was
ordained a Seventy as a young man,
and later, July 29, 1882, he was or-
dained a High Priest by Bishop Leon-
ard G. Hardy and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop J. M. Secrist of
Farmington Ward. For many years
Elder Wood labored faithfully as a
Ward teacher till he was chosen to
be a member of the Bishopric. He was
united in marriage with Blanche Bird
October 9, 1872, and in 1884, he took
'to wife also Eliza Hess. He is the
father of twenty children, nineteen of
whom are living. In 1885 Brother
Wood emigrated to Utah and located

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in Farmington, Davis county, where
he still resides. His chief occupations
have been farming, milling and mer-
chandising in which latter business he

is at present engaged. He served as
constable one year, and as school trus-
tee six years, both in Farmington,
Davis county. Elder Wood is a man
of more deeds than words and is a
valued member of the community in
which he resides.

STEED, Thomas, a Patriarch in the
Davis Stake of Zion since 1900, is the
son of Thomas Steed and Charlotta
Burston, and was born December 13,
1826, at Malvern, Worcestershire,
England. In November, 1840, he was
baptized by Thos. Richardson. He
was ordained a Priest in 1843 by Sa-
muel Williams and in the fall of 1845
he was ordained a Seventy in Nauvoo,
111. President John Taylor ordained
him to the office of a High Priest June
17, 1877, and on March 20, 1899, he was
ordained a Patriarch by President
Geo. Q. Cannon. During 1875-77 he
filled a mission to New Zealand and
during his absence on this mission he
circumnavigated the earth. Brother
Steed has led a very active life in ec-
clesiastical work as his record bears
testimony. For forty years he labored
faithfully as a teacher in the Sabbath
school, an'? vas a member of the local

choir for thirty years. He served as a
Ward teacher for twenty-five years,
and was a counselor in the presidency
of the High Priests Quorum for twen-
ty-six years, and since 1899 he has offi-
ciated as a Patriarch in the Davis
Stake. In 1846 he married Laura L.
Reed; later he took to wife Elizabeth
Baily and Emily Sanders. He is the
father of seventeen children, nine of
whom are living. Elder Steed first
heard the Gospel preached by Apostle
Wilford Woodruff, and was among
those converted at Great Malvern. He
emigrated to Utah in 1850 and in 1851

located in Farmington, Davis county,
where he has since resided. He was
a member of the Nauvoo Legion and
served as one of Joseph Smith's body
guard; he also participated in the In-
dian troubles of early days in Utah.
During the "Johnston Army War" in
1857 he did active service. Elder
Steed has chiefly been engaged in
farming and stockraising; he takes
great satisfaction and pleasure in
bearing testimony to the divinity of
Joseph Smith's mission and the truth
of the Everlasting Gospel.

MUIR, Dan, fourth ordained Bishop
of the West Bountiful Ward, Davis
Stake, is the son of Wm S. Muir and
Jane Robb, and was born in Salt Lake
City, Utat Januarj 27 186e Re was

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baptized when about eight years old
by C. W. Mann, and ordained to the
office of a Deacon as a young man.
Later he was ordained an Elder, and
subsequently, January 12, 1897, a
Seventy by President Brigham Young.
He was ordained a High Priest and
bishop December 3, 1902, by Apostle
John W. Taylor, and set apart to pre-
side over the Bountiful Ward, which
position he still fills. Of other eccles-
siastical positions held by him, the
following may be mentioned: Ward
teacher, teacher and officer in the Sun-
day school, counselor in the presi-
dency of M. I. A., a member of the
council of the Geventy-fourth Quorum
of Seventy, etc. During 1897 and 1898
he filled a mission to Great Britain,
where he labored principally in the
New Castle conference. He married
Lilly May Fisher April 10, 1888, who
has borne him four children, all of
whom are living. He served one term
in his precinct as constable. His chief
occupation is farming.

GRANT, Lewis McKeachie, Bishop
of West Bountiful Ward, Davis county,
Utah, from 1891 to 1902, was born

February 12, 1839, in Elderslie, Ren-
frewshire, Scotland, the son of Wm.
McKeachie and Lindsay Morrison
McDonald. He was baptized in Scot-
land when about eight years old and
emigrated to America about four years

later. His mother died when he was
small and his father departed this life
in St. Louis, Mo.; thus he was left
an orphan early in life. He crossed
the plains in 1852 with Jedediah M.
Grant, in whose family he was subse-
quently adopted and thus became
known in LTtah by the name of Grant.
He received a common school educa-
tion and spent most of his time in Salt
Lake City, until he was nineteen years
old; he then located permanently In
Bountiful. In 1856 he went east as far
as Sweet Water to help the belated
hand cart emmigrants to the valley.
Later, he served as a militia man un-
der Robert T. Burton during the so-
called Echo Canyon campaign. In
1859 he was one of Joseph Home's
company which was sent to Heber-
ville, in Southern Utah, to raise the
first cotton in Utah. In 1862 he was
sent east as far as Platte Bridge, to-
gether with many others to protect the
United States mails against the In-
dians. Being called on a mission to
Europe, he left home June 17, 1868,
to fill the same and was on his arrival
In England appointed to labor in Swit-
zerland. While in that land he learn-
ed the German language and perform-
ed a very successful mission. After
his return to Utah, August 6, 1870, he
was made superintendent of the West
Bountiful Sunday school and for about
twenty years he also acted as presi-
dent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of Bountiful,
being the first man to fill that posi-
tion in said ward. He also served as
selectman in Davis county two terms,
as justice of the peace fourteen years,
and as city justice of Bountiful City
three years. He was the first -to fill
the latter position. October 30, 1876,
he married Elnora Noble, who bore
him eight children, namely Lewis M.,
jun. ; Joseph William, Ernest Roy;
Nellie Mable; Karl Stanley; Florence;
Elnora Maj', and Afton Loretta. From
January 16, 1886, to February 15, 1891,
he acted as counselor in the West
Bountiful Bishopric, and from the lat-
ter date until his death as Bishop of
all walks of life, sempulously honest in
the same Ward. Bishop Grant was a
most exemplary and punctual man In

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his dealings and ever on hand to help
the poor and needy. Firm in the faith
and belovfcd by all who knew him, he
passed peacefully to his final rest at his
home in Bountiful, November 10, 1902.
The Bishop's name was originally
John McKeachie, but when he was
adopted into the family of Jedediah
M. Grant, his given name, John was
changed to Lewis, as there was already
a John in the Grant family.

LINFORD, James Henry, superin-
tendent of the Kaysville Sunday
schools, is the son of John Linford and
Maria Christian. He was born August
16, 1836, in Graviley, Cambridgeshire,
England. His parents embraced the
Gospel in 1842, through the teachings
of Elder Jos. Fielding. They suffered

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considerable persecution and for a
time the family was threatened with
starvation, but through the blessings
of the Lord they were enabled to raise
their family in comfortable circum-
stances. They were careful to instil
the principles of the Gospel into the
hearts of their children as they grew
up, and as a result all became sincere
Latter-day Saints. James was bap-
tized December 5, 1852, by Elder Jno.
M. Brown, was ordained a Teacher,
May 25, 1853, and a Priest, February
20, 1856. His early life was occupied

in working with his father in the boot
and shoe trade. He was zealous in
magnifying the Aaronic Priesthood
that had been conferred upon him, and
as a reward was ordained an Elder
February 25, 1856, by Brother Thomas
C. Griggs. Soon afterwards he was
called to labor in the missionary field
in Great Britain. The first district as-
signed him, on leaving home, was the
Cambridge conference; but soon his
labors were gradually extended to
the Norwich and Bedford conferences.
On completing his missionary work, he
spent eight months acting as assistant
clerk in the Liverpool office, when in
the spring of 1861 he set sail for Zion
in the ship "Manchester." He crossed
the plains in Capt. Eldridge's ox com-
pany, reaching Salt Lake City in Sep-
tember, 1861. His parents and three
brothers had preceeded him to Utah,
coming in one of the handcart compa-
nies of 1856; this journey proved to be
too much for his father who died of
exposure on the "Sweet Water." The
family had taken up its residence in
Centerville, Davis county, and to this
place he soon proceeded. He married
Zillah Crockett, daughter of Edward
Hall Crockett and Sarah Rogers, Jan-
uary 19, 1862. Eight children were
given to them, three boys and five
girls; one of the latter died at an early
age. Soon after settling in Center-
ville, he took up the occupation of
farming. He had not resided in Cen-
terville long before he was ordained
a Seventy by Henry Tingey, and as-
signed to the Seventieth Quorum. In
1866, with Nathan T. Porter, he orga-
nized a society of young men, the ob-
ject of which was to teach its mem-
bers the principles of the Gospel and
to give them practice in public speak-
ing. So successful were they for a
number of years that Bishop Wm. R.
Smith gave the society every Sunday
evening and invited the public to at-
tnd. In March, 1868, he moved with
his family to Kaysville, his present
home. Farming was again chosen as
a means of making a livelihood. In
February 9, 1890, he was set apart as
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Quorum of Seventy which position he
held till December 20, 1903, when he
was ordained a High Priest under the
hands of President Jos. F. Smith. On
September 21st, of this same year, he
had been ordained a Patriarch by
Apostle John W. Taylor. For over
thirty years he has acted as superin-
tendent of the Kaysville Sunday school
and was always found at his post of
duty, except in case of sickness or for
unavoidable reasons. He was twice
elected mayor of Kaysville City, served
five times as a city councilman,
and was once elected justice of the
peace.

NALDER, William New, first coun-
selor in the Bishopric of the Layton
Ward, Davis Stake, is the son of
Stephen Nalder and Esther New, and
was born June 25, 1848, at Dannington,
Birkshlre, England. He was baptized
into the Church February 11, 1865, by
his father. His ordinations to the
Priesthood occurred in the following
order: Ordained an Elder March 24,
1865, by Franklin D. Richards, a
Seventy in 1876, and a High Priest
September 8, 1889, by President Geo.
Q. Cannon. Since 1877 he has been
actively engaged in Church work in
the Ward in which he lived. From
1877 to 1889 he labored as a Ward
teacher, and from September 1889, to
July, 1901, he served as second coun-
selor in the Layton Ward Bishopric,
and since the latter date he has acted
as first councelor in the Bishopric.
His chief occupation has been farm-
ing and stock raising. For fourteen
years he served as road supervisor,
for twenty years as a school trustee
and for four years as county commis-
sioner in Davis county. In 1866, at
the age of eighteen years, he made a
trip across the plains to the Missouri
river with an ox-train to bring wire
to Utah for the Deseret Telegraph
lines. During the troublesome times
in early days he served in Capt. Robt.
W. Burtons cavalry company, known
as the Kaysville Minute Company.
Together with his parents he came to
Utah in 1854 and located in Salt Lake

county, where the family lived till
1857, when they moved to Layton,
Davis county. Here Brother Nalder
has made his home ever since.

WOOD, James Grace, first coun-
selor in the Bishopric of the Syracuse
Ward, Davis Stake, is the son of
Daniel Wood and Sarah Grace, and

was born January 30, 1853, at Bounti-
ful, Davis county, Utah. He was bap-
tized into the Church March 10, 1853,
by Wm. H. Lee. His first ordination
to the Priesthood was to the office of
an Elder; next he was ordained a
Seventy by Lamoni L. Holbrook
February 25, 1890, and then a High
Priest March 4, 1894, by John W. Hess.
From April, 1883, to November, 1SS5,
he filled a mission to the Southern
States, and from November, 1885, to
February, 1889, he was in exile for
conscience sake. Elder Wood has
twice been married, the names of his
wifes being Alice E. Corbridge and
Susan E. Stoddard, who have borne
him fourteen children, eight sons and
six daughters. Besides being identi-
fied with the Bishopric, he has taken
an active part in Sunday school work
and Ward affairs generally. He has
never taken much part in politics, and
has held no civil positions. His chief
occupation has been farming at which
he has been eminently successful. For
several years he acted as superinten-

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dent of the Davis and Weber Reser-
voir Co. Elder Wood is noted for
his devotion to principle and his hu-
mility.

YOUNG, Andrew, acting Bishop of
Castle Dale Ward, Emery Stake of
Zion from 1899 to 1902, was born
August 30, 1842, at Holywell Town,
Northumberland, England. In a brief
autobiography written for this volume
Elder Young states: "As a boy I at-
tended the common schools till my

ninth year, when I went to work in the
coal mines. In my youth I was con-
nected with the Methodist Church.
Being naturally religiously inclined,
and of an inquiring turn of mind, I
soon discovered a vast difference ex-
isting between the doctrines taught
by men and those of the Holy Scrip-
tures. I soon drifted away from the
Churches and associated myself with
those known as "free thinkers"
where I remained till I first heard the
Gospel of Jesus Christ taught by a
Latter-day Saint Elder. On investi-
gating the truth I became convinced
of its divine origin, and was baptized
into the Church April 12, 1879, by
Elder Geo. Crane. A few months later
I was ordained a Priest and on Jan-
uary 23, 1881, I was ordained an Elder
by Wm R. Webb. For a period of
two years I labored as a counselor in

the presidency of the Bebside branch
of the Church. In 1883 I emigrated to
Utah and located in Castle Gate, where
I still reside. For several years I la-
bored in Castle Gate as a Ward teach-
er. I was ordained a High Priest
June 13, 1897, by President C. G. Lar-
sen and set apart to serve as first
counselor in the Castle Gate Ward
Bishopric, in which capacity, I labored
imtil November 12, 1899, when I was
set apart to preside as acting Bishop
of Castle Gate by President Reuben
G. Miller. I was honorably released
from my labors in the Bishopric April
27, 1902, and set apart as president of
Religion Class work in the Ward."

ALLRED, Louis Ephraim, ecclesias-
tical clerk of Clawson Ward, Emery
Stake, is the son of Ephraim L. AUred
and Harriett M. Bruuson. He was
baptized October 7, 1886, by Joshua
Bennett, and was ordained to the
Priesthood as follows: Deacon August
8, 1891, by John Petersin, an Elder
April 20, 1898, by Adolph Madsen, and
a Seventy on the same date by Presi-
dent Jonathan G. Kimball. Among
the ecclesiastical postions held by him
are these: Secretary and assistant su-
perintendent of Sunday school, presi-
dent of Y. M. M. I. A., Ward teacher,
and Ward clerk, in all of which of-
fices he has labored deligently. He ,
married Lydia Belle Henrie June 8,
1898, who has borne him five children.
His chief occupations have been farm-
ing and fruit raising. He has lived in
the following places: Chester and
Spring City, Sanpete county, Ferron,
and Clawson, Emery county, Utah.

OVESON, Lars Peter, Bishop of Cle-
veland Ward, Emery county, Utah, is
the son if Jens Andreas Oveson and
Kjersten Marie Pedersen, and was
born October 25, 18.52, at Taars, Hjor-
ring Amt, Denmark. He was baptized
December 10, 1861, by Jens C. Frost.
His ordinations to the Priesthood oc-
curred in the following order: Elder
May 18, 1874, Seventy November 7,
1884, by Jens Andersen, High Priest
and Bishop August 12, 1890, by PresI-

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dent Anthon H. Lund. Prom October
1882, to September 1, 1884, he labored
as a missionary in Scandinavia, where
his chief field of labor was Aalborg
conference. From 1888 to 1890 he
served as a president of the Eighty-
first Quorum of Seventy, and since
August 12, 1890, he has acted as
Bishop of the Cleveland Ward. He
was married May 18, 1874, to Louisa
Ottestrom, with whom he has had
twelve children. In civil life he has
also been an active worker. He serv-
ed one term, 1893-94, as selectman of

Emery county, and in 1896 he was
elected to the Utah Legislature as a
member of the House of Representa-
tives. By trade he is a carpenter,
which vocation he followed for many
years, but since 1885 he has been
chiefly engaged in farming and stock-
raising. Elder Overson did consider-
able guard duty during the "Black
Hawk war" in Sanpete county. His
places of residence have been succes-
sively the following: Denmark to 1863,
Ephraim, Sanpete county, Utah, from
1863 to 1886, and Huntington, Emery
county, from 1886 to 1890. In 1890 he
was called to Cleveland, Emery county,
to act as Bishop of that Ward, where
he has lived continuously up to the
present time.

SNOW, Mason Levi, second counse-
lor to Bisho]) Lars P. Oveson, of Cle-
veland Ward, Emery Stake, is a son
of William Snow and Jane Maria
Shearer, and was born January 17,
1862, at Lehi, Utah county, Utah. He
was baptized June 17, 1869, by William
Burgess, and ordained to the different
offices in the Priesthood in the follow-
ing order: Elder July 19, 1885, by
Frederick W. Jones, and High Priest
September 13, 1899, by President Reu-
ben G. Miller. The following are some
of the special offices which he has
filled: President of M. I. A., six years,
in Cleveland Ward, and counselor in
the Bishopric of that Ward, since Sep-
tember 13, 1899. He was married May
3, 1893, to Sarah B. Marsing, who has
born« him seven children. Of civil
positions which he has filled, the fol-
lowing may be mentioned: Constable,
justice of the peace, and school trus-
tee. His chief occupations have been
farming, stockraising and saw milling.
He has lived successively in the fol-
lowing places: Lehi, Utah county, Pine
Valley, Washington county, Price,
Carbon rounty. Desert Lake and Cleve-
land, Emery county, Utah.

BLACBURN, Manasseh Julius,
Bishop of Desert Lake, Emery Stake
of Zion, is the son of Jehu Black-
burn and Catherine R. Foy, and was
born at Loa, Wayne county, Utah,
June 9, 1878. In a brief sketch pre-
pared for this volume Elder Black-
burn writes: "My parents, being
among the early settlers of Utah, suf-
fered the hardships incident to those
times, and they have many interesting
stories to relate. Being always on the
frontier, my parents did not accumu-
late wealth, but they raised eleven
children, I being the seventh child.
The resources of this country being
very limited, each member of the
family was obliged to labor for the
neccessities of life, as soon as they
were able. School advantages were
very meager. The first school I attend-
ed was one which was supported di-
rectly by the parents of the children.
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under these circumstances, I attended
the Sanpete Academy, at Ephraijn,
and later the B. Y. Academy, at Provo.
I was baptized April 4, 1889, by Elder
Ole Okerlund and was ordained a
Deacon February 10, 1895, by Michael
Hanson. I was ordained an Elder
April 30, 1901, and on May 14th, of that
year, I was ordained a Seventy by
Apostle Anthon H. I^und. From May,
1901, to August 1903, I filled a mission
to the Southwestern States Mission,
where I labored in the North Texas
conference, first as a traveling Elder
and later as president of the confe-
rence. Soon after my return home I
was ordained a High Priest, (August
31, 1903), and set apart to serve as
second counselor to Bishop Eugene E.
Branch, of Wellington Ward, Emery
Stake. On April 19, 1904, I was or-
dained a Bishop by Apostle Hyrum M.
Smith and set apart to preside over
the Desert Lake Ward, Emery Stake,
which position I held, until quite re-
cently." Elder Blackburn married
Luzetta A. Taylor, August 10, 1904.

WICKMAN, Hans Christian, a High
Councilor in the Emery Stake of Zion,
is the son of Johan Henry Wickman
and Mette Marie Johansen, and was
born May 6, 1853, at Sonder Vilstrup,
Denmark. He joined the Church Jan-
uary 30, 1875, at Ephraim, Utah, being
baptized by Elder J. G. Jorgensen.
His ordinations to the Priesthood were
as follows: Ordained a Teacher in
1876, by Gorge Taylor, an Elder July
8, 1882, by Carl C. N. Dorius, and a High
Priest May 13, 1890, by Heber J. Grant.
Among the ecclesiastical positions fill-
ed by Elder Wickman, are these: Pres-
ident of an Elders Quorum for three
years, a Bishop's counselor for five
years, an alternate High Councilor for
two years, and a regular member of
the High Council. He married Caro-
line Jensen, November 30, 1877, and
is the father of seven children.
Brother Wickman was the president of
the Emery Town board for three
years. He is also president of the
Emery Canal and Resevoir Co. By oc-
cupation he is a farmer. Together

with his parents he emigrated to Utah
in 1873 ; the family settled at Ephraim,
Sanpete county, where they lived till
1889, when they moved to their present
place of residence at Emmery, Emery
county, Utah.

NIXON, James William, Bishop of
Huntington Ward, Emery Stake of
Zion, since 1902, is the son of James
W. Nixon and Johanna M. Schultz,
and was born at St. George, Washing-
ton county, Utah, September 7, 1866.
He was baptized into the Church Sep-
tember 7, 1874, and his ordinations to
the Priesthood are as follows: Ordain-

ed a Deacon January 13, 1878, an El-
der December 24, 1882, and a Bishop
July 29, 1902, by Apostle Rudger Claw-
son. In a brief autobiography, pre-
pared for this work, Elder Nixon says:
"My father died when I was sixteen
years of age, leaving me a large family
to assist in supporting, I being the eld-
est son. I followed the pursuit of
teaming or freighting for two years,
when my health failed me, having con-
tracted chills and fever. I was then
encouraged by my mother to turn my
attention to getting a further educa-
tion which so far had not extended
be von d the high school course of that
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High School at St. George taught by
Prof. J. A. Whitelock. The following
summer, 1885, I was released from my
duties to the family, as my younger
brother George was then old enough
to take my place. My sister Emma
and Hannah had married and were re-
siding at Price, Carbon county. I de-
cided to pay them a visit which I did
and spent the summer of 1885 in the
employ of J. M. Whitmore, my brother-
in-law. Learning that they were
needing a school teacher at Price, I
applied for and procured the position
of district school teacher and taught
the school that winter. In the fall
of 1886, I entered the Deseret Uni-
versity as a county normal of Emery
county. Completing the course of
two years, I accepted a position to
teach at Huntington, Emery county.
September 7, 1888, I married Effle D.
Woolley, the youngest daughter of
Frank Woolley, who was killed by the
Indians while returning from Cali-
fornia. On returning to Huntington,
I commenced teaching the district
school which I taught for ten years
consecutively. In 1889 I was called
to act as second counselor to Bishop
Charles Pulsipher, Peter Johnson be-
ing the first counselor. This position
I filled for two years, when Bishop
Pulsipher resigned and Peter John-
son was chosen Bishop, with Andrew
Allen as first and I as second coun-
selors, which position I held two
years more, when I resigned. I was
then called upon a mission to Cali-
fornia, being set apart for the same
in Ootobpr. 189fi. I labored as a trav-
eling Elder for eia:bteen months,
when I was called to preside over the
Northern California conference,
w'hich position I filled until I was re-
leased to return home October 4,
1898. Before leaving California I had-
been engaged through telegraphic
communication to take the principal-
ship of the Wellington District
school, and on returning home, I re-

moved my family there for the win-
ter. The following year, 1899, I
moved back to Huntington and ac-
cepted my old position as principal
of the District schools of that place.
In 1890 I retired from the profession
of teaching and the succeeding year
engaged in the business of mer-
chandising. July 29, 1902, Bishop
Peter Johnson having resigned, I was
ordained a Bishop and set apart to
preside as such, over the Huntington
Ward, by Apostle Rudger Clawson,
with J. Fleming Wakefield as first
counselor and Peter Nielson as sec-
ond counselor." Bishop Nixon is the
father of six children, two boys and
four girls. From 1899 to 1902 he
served as a member of the Emery
Stake High Council. While laboring
as a missionary in California he
traveled without purse or scrip in
Southern California for a number of
months. That his labors were suc-
cessful is attested to by the fact that
he had the privilege of baptizing
forty-seven souls into the Church.
"To accept and obey the counsel of
the Priesthood is the only way for a
Latter-day Saint to live," writes El-
der Nixon.

YOUNG, Franklin Wheeler, a Pa-
triarch in Emery Stake, is a son of
Lorenzo Dow Young and Persis
Goodall, and was born in Scott coun-
ty, 111., February 17, 1839. His pa-
rents were driven from their farm
and home into Far West, Caldwell
county. Mo., in the fall of 1838, and
were compelled to leave all their
earthly goods and effects, except a
light wagon and horse team, and
some bedding hastily thrown into the
wagon. They left every other thing
they possessed to their persecutors,
to take and use. As a boy Franklin
was not able to attend school, or get
a start even for an education. Early
in 1846 his people joined the camps
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city and temple they had assisted
in building, and the little boy lent a
hand in the preparations for the
journey in parching corn by the
bushel to be carried along as food
ready cooked. His early recollections
carry him back to the day the Mor-
mon Battallion marched out of camp,
and started away on their famous
march to Mexico. In the spring of
1847 his father, was selected to go
with the first company of pioneers,
and later in the season he went along
with a part of his father's family, in-
cluding his older brother John R.
across the plains, in Capt. Jedediah
M. Grant's company, and arrived in
Salt Lake Valley, October 4, 1847.
His father had a few sheep and a few
cows, and these were put in with
other cows and sheep and made up
two company herds, and these the
two boys, John R. and Franklin W.,
were required to assist in driving.
Franklin W. took his turn as a matter
of course and walked the greater
part of the way from the Missouri
river to Salt Lake Valley in his ninth
year. He was baptized by his father,
Elder Lorenzo D. Young, during the
winter of 1847-8, in City creek. He
is a living, grateful witness of the
Divine power manifested in the de-
struction of the myriads of crickets
that infested the first crops in Salt
Lake Valley, by the sea gulls, which
came in vast numbers, and alighting
in the fields, devoured the crickets
until gorged, when they would fly
away to the two or three little water
ditches that had been made by the
settlers, where they would drink wa-
ter, disgorge themselves and then re-
turn to the slaughter. Thus did they
w^ork from early morning until the
shades of night, from day to lay, un-
til the crickets were destroyed, the
growing crops preserved and the
little colony of exiles saved from star-
vation. From the spring of 1850 to
the spring of 1855 the greater part

of Franklin's time was taken up in
herding his father's cows and sheep,
and he had but very little chance to
attend school. At the April confer-
ence of the Church in Salt Lake
City in 1856, he was called on a mis-
sion to the Sandwich Islands. Leav-
ing Salt Lake City on the 7th of
May, following, he drove an ox-team,
in one of the companies going to
settle in Carson county, now Nevada,
as far as Washoe valley. Thence

he walked, with several of his fellow
missionaries, across the mountains
into Calitoruia. In the harvest field
he labored to earn money to pay his
fare to Honolulu, where he arrived
In company with Elders Alma L.
Smith, Fred A. Mitchell, Thos. Clay-
ton, Wm. France, Wm. H. Wright,
Robert Rose, John Brown, and others,
in the early part of September, and
soon after was assigned to the Ko-
hala district, on Hawaii, to labor un-
der the presidency of Elder Joseph
F. Smith. He soon acquired a know-
ledge of the language and was an ac-
tive, energetic missionary, baptising
a goodly number of natives into the
Church. When all the Elders every
where were called home, because of
the Johnston army troubles, he was

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released from his labors ou the Is-
lands and arrived in San Francisco
January 20, 1858, having vi^orked his
passage, as assistant cook on the sail-
ing vessel that brought him back to
his native land. From San Francisco
he came with a company of returning
Elders and a few California Saints.
The returning Elders referred to
were Wm. W. Cluff, Sextue E. John-
son, Wm King, John R. Young, Frank-
lin W., the subject of this sketch.
Smith B. Thurston, John A. West,
George Speirs, and others, all of
whom walked from San Francisco to
Utiah, by way of the Southern route,
excepting John R. Young, who got an
opportunity to ride with a party
from California. Captain Harbine, the
leader of the party and others,
came to sell President Brig-
ham Young a few million acres of
land they claimed a right to in South
America. Elder J. R. Young came on
through with them as a guide, but
Prest. Young did not care to purchase
from them, nor move the Church to
South America. Brother Young rode
from the Mountain Meadows with
Wm. S. Godbo. who was returning to
the Valley from San Bernardino, in
post haste, with a trunk containing
valuable documents for Col. Thos L.
Kane. He, Elder Godbe and Wm. C.
Lewis, of Parowan, had made the trip
from Pinto creek to San Barnardino,
375 miles, and back to Pinto with
four mules, without change of teams,
in ten days, an average of 75 miles
per day, and with the timely aid rend-
ered by the Bishops of Pinto, Paro-
wan, Beaver, Fillmore, Holden, and
Nephi, in furnishing relays of teams,
made the run from Pinto with Frank-
lin W. to Payson, 230 miles, in 50
hours. At Payson Brother Young
stopped off and returned to Spring
Lake, where his father and his
brother Wm. G. Young were encamp-
ed. The latter was Bishop of Grants-
ville, and he was camping at Spring

Lake with the greater part of the
people of his Ward, during what was
called "the move," they having left
theii- all as a witness to God and all
right thinking people that they were
willing to do so, rather than give up
"Mormonism." Brother Franklin W.
took one of his father's teams and
went at least twice to Salt Lake City,
hauling flour, meat, and grain to
Provo; thus he helped in "the move,"
until the word came that a com-
promise had been agreed upon, and
that all were at liberty to return to
their homes. Franklin W. then joined
with his brother William G. and
returned to Grantsville. At Grants-
ville, Franklin W. was married to
Nancy Greene, and in September,
1859, he got a call from President
Brigham Young to come to Salt Lake
City, prepared to go on a mission.
Dropping everything, he hastened to
to the city, where he on September
14, 1859, was ordained a Bishop and
set apart to preside over Payson. He
was twenty years, six months and
twenty-seven days old when he was
ordained to this office, and he claims
to be the youngest Bishop ever or-
dained in the Church. The Ward of
Payson at that time had about 175
families, besides a branch at Pond-
town, now Salem, of about 25 fam-
ilies. For two years the "Boy
Bishop," as he was often called,
struggled with all his might to do his
duty, and succeeded in bringing
about a better feeling of unity and
good will in the midst of the Saints
of his Ward, but when President
Brigham Young saw that it was
telling on the young man, and that
he was trying to carry too great a
load, he called him on a mission to
the cotton country or "Dixie," to help
to build up the barren wastes there.
Accordingly on November 3, 1861,
Brother Franklin W. in company
with his brothers John R. and Lo-
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out for "Dixie" on December 13,
186i, Brother Young was chosen to
act as Bishop of the Grafton Ward,
including Rockville. This was done
at a meeting held in the camp, then
called Grafton, and presided over by
Apostle Erastus Snow. This posi-
tion he held until October, 1862,
when he removed with his family to
St. George. Here he was chosen
as a member of the High Council.
In October, 1863, Brother Franklin
was released by President Brigham
Young, from the "Dixie mission,"
and called back to Salt Lake City,
and directed by the President to re-
move the next spring to Bear Lake
Valley, and help to settle that coun-
try, which he did, arriving in the
valley May 8, x864. He settled on
Big Creek, afterwards called St.
Charles. Here he laid out the first
water ditch for the irrigation of the
land south of Big Creek. August
8, 1864, he was appointed by the
Probate Judge of Richland county
to be the county clerk thereof, and
was elected a little later county
recorder for Richland county. The
winter of 1865-6 was a very hard
one in Bear Lake valley. The snow
was deep and for weeks there was
no track broken from one town to
another. Brother Young, acting then as
a home missionary went to every
town in* the valley on snow shoes.
In his trip through the north end of
the valley , Elder James H. Hart
accompanied him, and on their way
from Montpelier to Paris by way of
"The Hay Stacks," they were over-
taken by night, at a time when a
dense fog had rested over the valley
for two or three weeks, so that the
sun, moon or stars were not seen,
and snow covered the ground every-
where, with no dark objects outside
the towns. In the darkness of the
night they had turned from their
course, which should have been
about southwest; when all at once

Brother Young saw a star shining
directly ahead of them, and called
Elder Hart's attention to it, observ-
ing at the same time, "That is the
north star." Brother Hart said,
"No, that is impossible, for we are
going nearly south." They stopped
for a moment to discuss it, when to
their great surprise the fog cleared
away and allowed them to see the
"Dipper," just for a minute, when
the fog closed, and shut the stars
from their view. But they were .
convinced they had been turned
around, and they now turned about,
following their back tracks to where
they had turned. Soon afterwards
they heard a dog bark, and going
straight ahead toward the sound,
tney came to the town of Paris, very
nearly exhausted. Had it not been
for the opening or lifting of the fog
they would have perished that
night,, and Elder Young has ever
looked upon it as a direct miracle,
or as a direct manifestation of Di-
vine providence to save two humble
Elders from death. From Bear Lake
to Cache valley, in 1866, and from
Cache valley to Salt Lake City, in
1873, and out to the frontier . again,
in 1875, our pioneer brother settled
on the Sevier just in time to give
Leamington it's name, and from
there he went to Rabbit valley in
October, 1877, as a pioneer again,
and gave names to Thurber and
Loa, now in Wayne county, Utah.

JOHNSON, Peter, Bishop of Hun-
tington, Emery Stake of Zion, is the
son of Jens Johnson and Margrethe
Johansen, and was born in Orum Vi-
borg amt, Denmark, May 1, 1839; he
was baptized into the Church in 1853, |
at the age of fourteen years. In 1854
he emigrated to Utah, together with
two of his sisters, and a company of
Saints. He traveled from Kansas
City to Utah with an ox-train, in which
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walk; thus Brother Johnson had the
experience of walking the entire dis-
tance across the plains and mountains,
arriving in Salt Lake City in October.
During the Echo Canyon campaign in
1857-58, when Johnston's army was en-
route to Utah, Elder Johnson did con-
siderable guard duty in Echo Canyon.
In 1859 he moved to Ephraim, San-
pete county, where he married Anna
C. Andersen. She died at Huntington,
Emery county, Utah, February 27,
1897, leaving seven children. Brother
Johnson did active military service
during the Indian outbreaks in San-
pete and Sevier counties, known as
the "Black Hawk war," In November,
1865, he married Annie M. Hansen.
and in 1867 removed to Fountain
Green, Sanpete county. His social life
has always led along pleasant lines,
and being a violinist his music
brought him in close touch with both
young and old. By ocicupation he Is
a carpenter. Ecclesiastically Brother
Johnson has filled numerous positions.
Thus he has acted as superintendent
of the Sunday school at Fountain
Green, as first superintendent of Stake
Sabbath schools in Emery Stake, as
first superintendent of the Huntington
"Ward Sunday schools, as a member
of the High Council of the Emery
Stake, a counselor to Bishop Chas.
Pulsipher, of Huntington Ward, etc.
On November 4, 1891, he was chosen
Bishop of Huntington Ward, and on
July 29, 1900, ordained a Patriarch. In
all of these positions he has made a
most faithful and honorable record.

BROOKS, George Finly, a Patriarch
in the Ensign Stake of Zion, is a son
of Thomas P. Brooks and Elizabeth
Harper, and was born Nov. 4, 1833, at
Harwich, Essex, England. He had
four brothers, all of whom have pass-
ed away, and one sister, now living
in California. Several years of his
early life, up to the age of twelve,
were mostly spent in the common

schools of England. In IN-I.") he com-
menced a seafaring life and learned
the science of navigation. He passed
a naval examination and followed the
sea until 1855. Thrice he hud mar-
velous escapes from sUipw/ecka. In
July, 185S, ne became a member of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints and was immediately or-
dained to the office of a Priest. Early
in 1855 he was ordained an Elder,
and later, that same year, he emigrat-
ed from England to America, going in-
land as far as Iowa. In August, 1856,
he continued the journey, with a com-

l)any of Saints, from Iowa City, bound
for Utah, and arrived in Salt Lake
City November, 30, 1856, after travel-
ing about three hundred miles through
snow. He crossed the plains in Cap-
tain John Hunt's ox train. On Feb.
16, 1857, he was ordained a Seventy
by Wm. Willis and became a member
of the Twenty-second Quorum of
Seventy. In the fall of 1857, he joined
the Nauvoo Legion and participated
in the Echo Canyon campaign during
the following winter. In February.
1858, he married Hannah C. Bow-
thorpe, of Norwich, England, and later
that year became associated with the
"great move" south, together with his
wife and her parents; they camped
for some time near Provo. In 1862,
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the artillery company of the Nauvoo
Legion and trained with that organi-
zation until 1902. In February, 1887,
he was transferred to the Eigth Quo-
rum of Seventy, and after a while was
set apart fts wue of the council of said
quorum. In 1896 he y:^^xit\ to England
on JE^'^iisi^, being also set apart to do
missionary work. In November, 1902,
he was taken seriously ill and on his
recovery, early in 1903, he was or-
dained a High Priest and Patriarch
by Pres. Joseph F. Smith. Elder
Brooks is the father of eleven children,
nine sons and two daughters. For
forty-three years he has been en-
gaged in the grocery business. Dur-
ing the first few years after his ar-
rival in Utah, he lived in Cottonwood,
but since 1861 he has been a resident
of Salt Lake- City.

CLAWSON, Thomas Alfred, Bishop
of the Eighteenth Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, is the son of Hiram B.
Clawson and Margaret Gay Judd, and
was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
October 19, 18S2. He was baptized

into the Church when about eight
years old. His ordinations to the
Priesthood occurred in regular order:
He was ordained an Elder by Robert
Neslen, a Seventy by Brigham H.

Roberts, and a High Priest by Angus
M. Cannon. During the years 1891-93
he filled a mission to Great Britain,
where he labored chiefly in the Lon-
don conference with good success.
During the latter part of his mission
he presided over the conference. El-
der Clawson has always been an ener-
getic and enthusiastic Church worker,
and has faithfully filled many posi-
tions of trust. He has taken an ac-
tive part in the Mutual Improvement
work, both in Ward and Stake capa-
city. For several years he was as-
sistant stake superintendent to George
Albert Smith of the Y. M. M. I. A. of
Salt Lake Stake. In the Sunday
School he has also been an officer and
a teacher.In March, 1901, he became
a member of the Salt Lake Stake High
Council, in which capacity he labored
for a number of years. Since 1906
he has been Bishop of the Eighteenth
Ward, Ensign Stake, succeeding
Bishop Orson F. Whitney in that of-
fice. On April 30, 1891, he married
Elizabeth Grosbeck, who has borne
him several children. By profession
Brother Clawson is a dental doctor,
having graduated from the New York
College of Dentistry in 1887, with
high honors. He is classed as one
of the most effecifent men in his pro-
fession, and is universally liked as a
man by all who know him.

CUTLER, John C, Jr., an alternate
member of the High Council in t*«
Ensign Stake, was born in Salt Lake
City, Utah, April 19, 1872, the son of
John C. Cutler, the present governor
of Utah. He attended Sunday School
in his youth in the Fifteenth Ward
and also officiated there as a Deacon.
Later he acted as counselor and sub-
sequently as president of the Fourth
Ward Y. M .M. I. A. In 1891-92 he
filled a mission to England. Later, he
was ordained a Seventy and in 1895
and 1896, he labored as a missionary
in Kentucky, in the Southern States
mission. After his marriage in 1899,
he located in the Twentieth Ward,
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children. In 1904, when the Salt Lake.
Stake was divided into four Stakes.
Elder Cutler was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as an alternate
High Councilor by Francis M. Lyman,
in the Ensign Stake. Elder Cutler
was educated at the common schools,
the L. D. S. College and the Univer-
sity of Utah. When his father was
county clerk of Salt Lake county, the
son acted as recorder in the office;
and subsequently served as a clerk

in the Cutler Bros. Company. In 1893,
he went into business on his own ac-
count, selling Z. C. M. I., bank and
sugar stocks on commission. During
the past fourteen years he has been
quite successful as an investment
banker, selling high grade stocks and
bonds. For a number of years he has
served as a director of Zion's Benefit
Building Society.

HARDY, Charles William, first
counselor to Bishop Thomas A Wil-
liams, of the Twelfth Ward, Salt
Lake City, was born July 28, 1842, in
Groveland, Essex county, Mass., tho
son of Josiah G. Hardy and Sarah
Clark Parker. With his parents he
emigrated to Utah in 1852, passed
through the grasshopper famine in
1855-56 and the move south in 1858.
During the following ten years he

worked with his father on the farm.
He was ordained a Deacon March 17,
1861, and an Elder, March 19, 1862.
On April 7, 1862, he was a])i;rentised
to the firm of Hinckley and Stewart,
general blacksmiths, and on May 17,
1869, he took part in the inaugural
services of the Utah Central Railway,
at Ogden, Utah. He continued in the
engineering corps until the completion
of the road to Salt Lake City, March
19, 1870, he was ordained a Seventy
and received into the 36th quorum of
Seventy. August 1, 1870, he was elect-
ed county surveyor of Salt Lake coun-
ty; he served altogether in that capa-
city eight years and held the ofhce
of assistant territorial surveyor-gen-
eral for two years. April 3, 1871, he
was made first assistant engineer of
the Utah Southern Ry., which office
he held to the completion of the road
to the Frisco mines, in southern Utah.
May 4, 1872, he made the first location
of one half mile for the Salt Lake
City Street Ry. Nov. 13, 1872, he was
made chief engineer of the Western
Jordan Valley Ry. March 31, 1873, he
was married to Marinda Andrus.
November 18. 1875, he was set apart
as first counselor in the first Y. M.
M. I. A. of the Twelfth Ward. The
following were appointed officers to
form a central organization for the
Y. M. M. 1.. A. of the Salt Lake Stake
of Zion, March 15, 1878, viz: John
Nicholson, president; Milando Pratt,
first, and Charles W. Hardy, second
counselor; Heber J. Grant secretary,
and George C. Lambert, treasurer. lu
1878 and 1879 Elder Hardy filled a
mission to the Southern States. Jan.
19, 1894, he was set apart as one of
the presidents of the Eigth Quorulu
of Seventy. May, 22, 1904. at the re-
organization of the Bishopric of the
Twelfth Ward, he was chosen first
counselor to Bishop Thomas A Wil-
liams.

MILLER, Daniel G, Bishop of Par-
ker Ward, Fremont Stake. Idaho, is
the son of Daniel A. Miller and Han-
nah Bigler, and was born May 29,

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1859, at Farmington, Davis county,
Utah. He was baptized into the
Church in June, 1859, by Lot Smith,
and his ordinations to the Priesthood
took place as follows: Ordained an
Elder; a Seventy February 3, 1884; a
High Priest in February 1893; and a
Bishop April 26, 1902. From October
1895. to February, 1888, he filled a
mission to the Southern States, where
he labored chiefly in Kentucky. A-
among the ecclesiastical positions in
which he has labored are these: As-
sistant Sunday School superintendent,
President of Y. M. M. I. A., Bishop's
first counselor from 1893 to 1902, and
since the latter date has presided as
Bishop over Parker Ward. On De-
cember 23, 1880, he was married to
Helen M. Smith who has borne him
ten children. By occupation Elder
Miller is a farmer.

PURDIE, William, Presiding Elder
of Lima Branch, Montana, was bom
July 21, 1864, at Greenock, Scotland.
At the age of six years he moved with

pool branch. William was baptized
into the Church at the age of ten
his parents to Liverpool, England; his
parents were identified with the Liver-
years, and lived in Liverpool nine
years. He emigrat»ed with his parents
to Utah in the fall of 1879, and the

family took up their abode in Logan,
Utah, where they lived about two
xears. William, obtained employment
on the Utah and Northern Railway as
fireman, which position he held for
six years, running principally between
Ogden, Utah, and Battle Creek, Idaho.
Subsequently, he was employed as en-
gineer on the same road, now called
the Oregon Short Line, for nineteen
years, running principally between
Lima and Butte, Montana. He is at
present running as passenger engineer
between those points. December 17,
1885, he was married to Sarah Eliza
Evans, daughter of Morgan and Mary
Phillips Evans, of Logan. The mar-
riage cermony was performed in the
Logan Temple by Apoetle Marriner W.
Merrill. Elder Purdle moved to Lima,
Montana, October 16, 1889, and when
the Lima Branch was organized De-
cember 22, 1895, he was appointed
first assistant to Superintendent
Thomas Willmore in the Sunday
school, which position he held for
four years. Later he acted as second
counselor to President W. T, Hopkins
for a number of years, and finally
was set apart as Presiding Elder of
the Lima Branch in 1903. This lat-
ter position he holds at the present
time.

MESERVY, Joseph Roberts, clerk of
Wilford Ward, Fremont county, Idaho.
is the son of Joshua Meservy and Jane
Roberts and was born at St. Johns,
Jersey (British), April 30, 1842. His
early life was principally spent in a
French school. His parents, having
accepted the Gospel, emigrated to
Utah in 1853, leaving Jersey, with
their family, in January of that year.
They crossed the Atlantic on the ship
„Golconda". After an eventful voy-
age, they landed at New Orleans in
April, 1853. The emigrants sailed up
the Mississippi river to Keokuk,
where they remained till wagons, ani-
mals, etc. were procured, when they
proceeded on their journey over the
plains in Joseph W. Young's company.
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many trying ordeals, but reached the
Valley in safety Oct. 10, 1853. The
Meservy family located in Tooele,
Tooele county, Utah; later they assist
ed in building the "Spanish Wall" in
G. S. L. City to protect the settlers
against the attacks of hostile Indians.
In 1855-56, they suffered the pangs of
hunger and privation in common with
other settlers, as the crops had been
destroyed by grasshoppers. In 1856
they moved to Santaquin, Utah coun-
ty, where they remained tilll858,when
they moved to Goshen; thence they
moved to Franklin, Idaho, In 1860, and
helped found that settlement. Joseph
R. went east to Florence, Nebraska,
in Wm. B. Preston's company, to aid
in bringing in a company of emigrants
The family moved to Fish Haven,
Bear Lake county, Idaho, in 1864. On
Christmas day, of that year, Joseph
R. married Augusta P. Cook, who,
after bearing him one child, died in
September, 1867. He married Laura
Southworth March 9, 1869. Elder Mes-
ervy has followed school teaching and
farming as his chief occupations.
Among the civil positions he has held
it may be mentioned that he served
as school trustee for many years and
a justice of the peace for over twelve
years. As a church worker he has
been very active, having labored as
a home missionary, secretary of Eld-
ers Quorum, M. I. A. officer. Ward
ecclesiastical clerk in various Wards
for over 35 years, and a Sunday school
worker over thirty years. During
1895-96 he performed a mission in
Europe, where he labored principally
in the Swiss and German Mission. He
married Mary Ophelia Kingsbury Ja-
nuary 1, 1877, who has borne him ten
children. Since 1887 he has lived at
Wilford, Fremont county, Idaho.

MESERVY, Oliver Kingsbury, a pre-
sident of the 113th Quorum of Seven-
ty, is a son of Joseph Roberts Meservy
and Mary Ophelia Kingsbury and was
born Oct. 8, 1877, at North Hooper,
Weber county, Utah. He was bap-

tized June 3, 1886, by Thos. S. lohn-
son, and was subsequently ordained
to the Priesthood in the following or-
der: Deacon March 30, 1890, by Wm.
.1. Pratt; Teacher March 5, 1893, by
Joseph R. Meservy; Priest January
3, 1895, by Reuben Belnap; Elder
April 11, 1897, by Reuben Belnap, and
Seventy Oct. 18, 1899, by Anthon H.
Lund. From October, 1899, to Novem-
ber, 1901, he filled a mission to the
Southern States, where he labored
principally in the South Carolina con-
ference. Elder Meservy has always
taken an active interest in church
work and has held numerous positions
of responsibility and trust, of which
the following are a few: Missionary,
teacher and officer in the Y. M. M. I.
A. ; officer and teacher in the Sunday
school; Religion 'class worker; Ward
teacher; secretary of Elders Quorum;
Ward clerk of Wilford Ward since
1895, and a president of the 113th
Quorum of Seventy. Of civil posi-
tions he has also held an ample share,
having been road supervisor, post-
master, justice of the peace and depu-
ty assessor in Fremont county, Idaho.
At different times he has engaged in
farming,milling, merchandising, teach-
ing carpentering and bookkeping. His
place of residence has been Wilford,
Fremont county, Idaho, since 1888.

NEFF, Amos Herr, a Patriarch in
the Granite Stake of Zion, is the son
of John Neff and Mary Barr, and was
born May 20, 1825, in Lancaster coun-
ty, Pa. He was baptized into the
Church, by Ezra T. Benson in 1847. His
ordinations to the Priesthood took
place as follows: Ordained a Priest,
then a Seventy, Feb. 2, 1857, a High
Priest by Chilian Miller, and a Patri-
arch by John R. Winder August 23,
1903. Brother Neff emigrated to
Utah in 1847, serving as a captain of
ten on the journey across the plains.
In 1848 he returned to his nativeState
Pennsylvania, but came back to Utah
in 1849. He has always taken an ac-
tive part in the upbuilding and devel-

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opraent of Utah. During the early In-
dian troubles he did active military
service, and held the position of cap-
tain of a company of fifty. In 1858
he participated in the "Johnston Army
War," doing duty in Echo Canyon. El-
der Neff performed a mission for six
months, laboring among the Indians;
later he filled a fifteen months mis-

sion to England. In 1886 he served a
term of imprisonment in the Utah-
penitentiary for "conscience sake".
For many years he labored as a Ward
teacher in the Mill Creek and Cotton-
wood Wards. He has been married
three times; first to Martha Ann Dil-
worth, then to Catharine Thomas and
later to Eliza Annie Hughes; these
wives have borne him twenty-one chil-
dren. By occupation Elder Neff has
chiefly been a farmer and stockraiser.

MACKAY, John Calder, first coun-
selor in the Bishopric of Granger
Ward, Granite Stake, (Salt Lake coun-
ty, Utah) is the son of John Mackay
and Isabel Calder and was born Nov.
30, 1857, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He
was baptized Sept. 5, 1866, by Karl G.
Maeser, and was ordained to the
Priesthood in the following order: An
Elder Dec. 12, 1881, by Geo. White;
a Seventy March 23, 1884 by Wm. W.
Taylor, and a High Priest Nov. 3, 1887,

by Geo. B. Wallace. Besides his pres-
ent position as first counselor in the
Bishopric, he has held the office of
Ward clerk of Granger Ward for a
number of years. His wife's maiden
name is Catharine J Moses, and she
has borne him twelve children, ten
boys and two girls. His civil record is
as follows: He was a member of the
Utah legislature inl891 and has served
two terms as commissioner of Salt
Lake county. His education was re-
ceived in the common schools and in
the Deseret University (now Universi-
ty of Utah) and he is now president
of the Alumni Association of the Uni-
versity of Utah. By occupation he is
a farmer and stockraiser, but has also
engaged in bookkeeping. Brother
Mackay is associated in an official
way with a number of important canal
and agricultural companies, among
which may be mentioned the North
Jordan Irrigation Co., the Combined
Canal Co., and the Uintah County
(Wyoming) Grazing Association.

WAHLQUIST, Anders Johan, Bishop
of Grant Ward, Granite Stake, is a son
of Johannes Anderson and Anna Lisa
Danielsen Grek, and was born Oct.
8, 1858, in Wostorp parish, Jonkopings
Lan, Sweden. He was baptized into
the Church Dec. 8, 1883, by Elder Sven
P. Nelson, and was subsequently or
dained to the Priesthood in the follow-
ing order: Ordained a Teacher in
May, 1884; a Priest in September.
1884; an Elder May 10, 1885, by Oley
Olsen; a Seventy April 29, 1892, by
George Reynolds; a High Priest April
25, 1904, by George Albert Smith, and
a Bishop Feb. 24, 1907, by Pres. Joseph
F. Smith. Elder Wahlquist has spent
several years in the missionary field.
From May, 1884, to September, 1888,
he labored as a local missionary in
the Stockholm conference, Sweden,
and in 1892-94 he filled another mis
sion to his native land, laboring in the
Gothenburg conference, over which
conference he presided during the last
year of his mission. Among the eccle-

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siastical offices he has held are these:
Sunday school teacher and officer,
Ward teacher, Bishop's first councelor
and Bishop of Grant Ward since Fe-
bruary, 1907. He married Anna Ma-
thilda Sandahl April 23, 1890, who has
borne him eight children. One civil
position, that of city councilman of
Murray, during 1906-7, is his record
politically. Brother Wahlquist emi-
grated to Utah in 1S88 and located in
Sail Lake City, where he resided till
1898, when he moved to Murray, Salt
Lake county, where he has continued
to live to the present time. By oc-
cupation he is a carpenter and build-
ing contractor.

JONES, Daniel Brooks, president of
the Religion Class work in the Granite
Stake of Zion, was born Nov. 7, 18rj7,
in the parish of Powick, Worcester-
shire, England. He attended the
village school in his native land, but

as his father had a large family, he
was put to work when^quite young;
his first pay was two Shillings per
week and his work was principally
along the lines of market and land-
scape gardening. He is the fifth child
of James and Ann Brooks Jones. His
father and mother joined the Church
in February, 1855, through the teach-
ings of Elder William Butler. Daniel
B. was born in the Church, so to speak

and always had a strong inclination
for the teachings of the Gospel and a
love for the institutions of theChurch;
and while his parents kept no record
of his baptism, he believes that h".
was baptized near the proper age. Ht'
loved the Elders who came to his
father's home, among whom were
John Henry Smith, Joseph Bull, George
Atkin, Thomas Judd, Thomas A.
Wheeler and many others. Daniel B.
always believed in the power of prayer
and sought the Almighty often to open
the way that he might come to Zion
and that too that ,he might learn of
the ways of the Lord and walk in His
paths. He always desired to mingle
with the Saints and when the Elders
sang "O ye mountains high", his heart
was filled with a longing to gather u])
with the Saints. Through rigid econ-
omy and prayer he left all his folks
and friends and pioneered the way for
his fathers family to come to Zion.
He left his home Oct. 13, 1877, crossed
the Atlantic on board the steamer
"Idaho," and landed in Salt Lake City
Nov. 7, 1877, with but a dollar and a
half in his pocket. His first night in
Utah was spent in the railway car, but
the next morning he made his way to
the Tithing Office, and in less than an
hour he hired out to Thomas E. Jere-
my, who conducted a market garden
in the 16th Ward. He worked for him
just one month, got $3 in cash and
a pair of No. 10 boots, which looked
rather odd on a No. 8 foot. J. A.
Cunningham was the next man he
worked for, and he remained in his
employment until Sep. 1, 1878, when
he secured a situation at the work
he loved best with President Geo. Q.
Cannon, in whose employ he continued
for upwards of five years, during
which time he was trect^d with kind
ness, courtesy, love and respect. Dur
ing the time he was with Pres. Can-
non he su])erintended the Sunday
school and presided over the Mutual
which was held on the farm and which
consisted of Pres. Cannon's families
and the near neighbors; and when

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that neighborhood was joined with the
Farmers Ward, Brother Jones was set
apart as 1st assistant superintendant
of the Sunday school and the next
year as president of the M. I. A. He
was ordained an Elder in May, 1880.
by Robert R. Irvine and Thomas Win-
ter. May 13, 1880, he married Sarah
E. Wheeler, daughter of Thomas A.
and Ann Walker Wheeler. The result
of said marriage is eight boys and
one girl. He presided over the 19th
quorum of Elders for eleven years and
was counselor to Chas. Harper of the
14th quorum of Elders for six years.
He was ordained a Seventy Dec. 26,
1890, by Jonathan G. Kimball, and
sent on a mission to the Northern
States. The following year, when his
Imsiness block was destroyed by fire,
causing him a loss of $5,000, he was
honorably released and returned home
Not daunted or discouraged, he set to
work and in 90 days had his building
ready to re-enter. In November, 1902.
he was called to take a mission in the
interest of M. I. A. in the Juarez Stake
of Zion, in Old Mexico; he was away
on that mission four months. Before
and during this time his son Orson
was in Germany on a mission, and
soon after his return home, his son
Milton was called to England. Of civil
offices. Elder Jones has filled several;
thus, he served as a constable for
five years in the South Cottonwood
and Murray precincts, and deputy
sheriff under A. J. Burt. During the
past twenty-five years he has been
active in the auxiliary organizations
in the Wards in which he lived, either
as superintendant of Sunday schools
or president of M. I. A.; for many
years he held both positions at the
same time and is now one of the
counsel in the 72nd quorum of Seven-
ty. He is still a worker in the Sunday
school and M. I. A., besides his labors
in Religion Class work. His places
of residence has been the 16th and
4th Wards, Salt Lake City, Mill Creek,
Farmers, South Cottonwood, Murray
1st and now Murray 2nd Ward. On

two occasions, at least, he has been
the subject of miraculous manifesta-
tions through the administration of
the Priesthood, being literally snatch-
ed from the power of death.

WILLIAMS, Ira T., first counselor
in the Bishopric of the Hyrum 1st
Ward, Hyrum Stake, Cache county,
Utah), is the son of Thomas Williams
and Elizabeth Mariah Allen, and was
born Feb. 11, 1861, at Hyrum, Cache
county, Utah. He was baptized in
1869 by Jens Lauritzen, and his or-
dinations to the Priesthood took place
as follows: An Elder Jan. 30, 1882; a

Seventy Dec. 3, 1884, by Hans P. Han-
sen, and a High Priest Sept. 22, 1901,
by Pres. Anthon H. Lund During
1891-92 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, wherf he labored in England
and Wales. In Church work, at home.
Elder Williams has officiated as a
Ward teacher, an officer in the M. I.
A., and a counselor in the Bishopric.
He was married in 1883 and is the
father of seven children. His chief
occupation has been farming and
merchandising. Brother Williams re-
lates the following experience: To-

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:sether with another Elder, I sailed
from New York Dec. 13, 1891, on
board the steamship "Abyssinia," to
fill a mission to England On the
morning of the 18th, about one o'clock,
the alarm of fire was sounded, as the
steamer was found to be on fire. I
■shall never forget the scene. People
were wild with excitement, and reason
And judgment seemed to have fled
from everyone. All on board had
apparently lost hope, and my compan-
ion Elder remarked that we were lost.
But I remembered my Patriarchal
l)lessing given a few days prior to
my departure, which said that I
should go in peace and return in safe-
ty; and I felt confident that we would
be saved. Just at the moment when
-the outlook was most dark and gloo-
my, at least two thirds of the ship
being enveloped in flames, and no re-
lief at hand, the good ship "Spree"
liove in sight. We hailed her and
after several hours of hard work our
■entire company, passenger and crew,
were rescued from the burning ship
and quartered safely on board the
^'Spree". In due course of time we
landed safely at Southampton, Eng-
land, Dec. 23, 1891. I look upon this
as an actual fulfillment of the promise
given me in my Patriarchal blessing."

SCHENK, John, second counselor in
the College Ward Bishopric, Hyrum
Stake of Zion, Cache county, Utah, is
the son of Samuel Schenk and Magda-
lena Abersold, and was born Aug. 8,
1859, at Berne, Switzerland. He was
l)aptized into the Church Sept. 12,
1875, by John Shiers. His ordinations
to the Priesthood took place as foll-
ows: Elder November, 1881, by Fred
Theurer; Seventy March 11, 1888, by
F. T. Yates; a High Priest June 2,
1900, by Marriner W. Merrill. In an
ecclesiastical way he has always been
an active worker in the Sunday school
and Religion Class work, having held
offices of trust in both these organiza-
tions. He married Elizabeth Aerch-
bacher Nov. 24, 1881, who has borne

him four children. Two positions —
school trustee and justice of the peace
— are the only civil offices he has
held. His chief occupation has been
farming and stockraising. On emigra-
ting to Utah in 1876, he settled in
Providence, Cache county, where he
resided till 1889, when he moved to
College Ward, same county, where he
still lives.

MOUSLEY, Lewis H., a Patriarch
in the Jordan Stake of Zion, was born
in Delaware Feb. 7, 1333. In a brief
sketch written for this volume Elder
Mousley writes: "I lived in my native
State Delaware, til I was twenty-three
years old, when I had a desire to see
the great "Far West", and in April,
1856, I started on my journey west-
ward. While stopping in Ohio for a
few days I became converted to "Mor-
monism" and joined the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I
then continued my journey and arriv-
ed in Salt Lake City in September,
with Philemon C. Merrill's company.
At once I proceeded to Sanpete coun-
ty, where I secured employment with
Warren S. Snow, tilling the soil. In
the fall of 1857 Major Snow organized
a company of men to go on the road
east and meet Johnston's army, which
was then nearing our borders. I was
one of that number. We experienced
some very interesting times; up
Ham's Fork and then down Ham's
Fork again. We remained with them
till they went into winter quarters at
Fort Bridger. In the spring follow-
ing I joined the standing army, but
it was soon afterward disbanded. On
March 3, 1858, I married Mary A.
Crossgrove, and soon after we went
south to Springville, Utah county,
during the "Move ". Here we remained
till we were permitted to return to
our homes. Soon after returning to
Salt Lake City, I was called to go to
Dixie and settle. After arriving at
St. George, Washington county, I
was sent by Pres. Erastus Snow to
Los Angeles, California, to purchase

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and bring to St. George tools and ma-
terials for de driving of an artesian
well at that place. Altogether I re-
mained in Dixie about three and a
half years, when 1 was released to go
to the relief of my father who was
very ill, and who soon after died in
Sugar House Ward, Salt Lake county.
I continued to live in Sugar House
for a number of years, and on Aug.
29, 1868, I married Sarah L. Cross-
grove. At the organization of Farm-
ers Ward, in 1877, I was ordained and
sustained as its Bishop. I labored in
that capacity till Aug. 8, 1886, when
the Bluffdale Ward was organized,
and I was chosen and set apart to
preside as Bishop of that Ward, which
position I held till .January, 1900, when
I was ordained a Patriarch by Pres.
Anthon H. Lund. In February, 1887,
I served a term in the Utah peniten-
tiary for unlawful cohabitation, and
paid a fine of $300 and costs." Brother
Mousley is a man of sterling qualities
and worth and is noted for his integri-
ty and faithfulness in the Church.

RASMUSSEN, Peter Christian, first
counselor in the Draper Ward Bishop-
ric, Jordan Stake, is the son of Ras-
mus Rasmnssen and Bertha Maria
Pedersen, and was born June 7, 1856,
at Gronfeldt, Randers amt, Denmark.
He was baptized into the Church April
9, 1882, by A. C. Nelson. His ordina-
tions to the Priesthood took place in
the following order: Ordained a
Teacher, in 1882. by Lars Svendsen;
an Elder, by Geo. Whitman; a Seven-
ty by Richard Ballantyne, and a High
Priest by Pres. Joseph F. Smith. From
1893 to 1895 he filled a mission to
Scandinavia, where he labored prin-
cipally in Trondhjem and Tromso,
Norway. He was married to Mette
Marie Jensen, Aug. 9, 1880, and is the
father of seventeen child'-en, eleven
boys and six girls. Ecclesiastically he
has worked as a Sunday school teach-
er, and a counselor in the Bishopric
for many years. Elder Rasmussen
emigrated to Utah in 188,1 and located
in Draper, Salt Lake county, where

he has continued to live ever since.
His chief business is that of live stock
broker, doing an extensive business

in that line under the firm name of
P. C. Rasmussen & Sons. He is re-
cognized as a successful and progress-
ive man of affairs.

GLOVER, Albert, a member of the
High Council in the Jordan Stake,
Salt Lake county, Utah, is a son of
James and Mary Glover, and was born
in Barrington, Somersetshire, England
Feb. 8, 1852. His parents moved to
Monmouthshire (Victoria) Wales, in
1856. While here his parents joined
the Church. He was baptized in the
fall of 1860. His parents emigrated to
America in 1866, leaving Liverpool on
May 30th, on the ship "Arkwright".
landing in New York on the 6th of
July. He moved with his parents to
St. Clara, Schuylkill county, Penn-
sylvania, and remained there until
the fall of 1867. He then moved to
McKeesport, Allegeny county. In
the fall of 1868 the family came to
Utah and settled in West Jordan.
Albert was married to Janette Thayne
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many years he labored as a Ward
teacher. He also labored as a Sunday
school teacher. In 1894, he, with
others, was sent by the West .Jordan
Ward to the model Sunday school held
in the Latter-day Saints college, in
Salt Lake City, under the supervision
of Prof. Willard Done. He was or-

dained an Elder by William Smith
Feb. 10, 1873, ordained a Seventy by
Enoch B. Tripp Dec. 22. 1889; went
to England on a mission early in
1897, laboring in Sheffield conference,
and returned home in May, 1899. When
the Jordan Stake was organized Jan.
21, 1900, he was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as a High Coun-
cilor by Anthon H. Lund. For a
number of years he acted as first
assistant superintendent of the East
Jordan Sunday school.

CRAPO, Charles Collins, second
counselor to Bishop Wm. D. Kuhre, of
the Sandy Ward Bishopric, Jordan
Stake, (Salt Lake county, Utah),, is
the son of Jonathan C. Crapo and Emi-
ly F. Burnham and was born Nov 7,
1862, at Draper, Utah. He was bap-
tized into the Church when about
eight years old. His ordinations to
offices in the Priesthood took place
in the following order: Ordained an
Elder in 1887, a Seventy by Pres.

Seymour B. Young and a High Priest
by Ai)Oste Francis M. Lyman Jan. 21,
1900. Brother Crapo has led an active
life as a Church worker, having been
a teacher and an officer in the Sun-
day school and M. 1. A., prior to his
occupying his present position in the
Hishopric. He married Elizabeth
Orgill March 11, 1887, who has borne
him eight children. His education
was received in the district schools
and in the Deseret University (now
University of Utah). After graduat-
ing from the latter institution, he en-

gaged in school teaching for five years
in his native place. Draper. His chief
occupation is merchandising, being
at present president and general man-
ager of C. C. Crapo & Sons Co., Sandy,
who operates an extensive mercantile
establishment. Among the civil posi-
tions which he has held may be men-
tioned that he has acted as mayor of
Sandy city and member of the school
board of that place.

WALKER, John H., an Elder in
Union Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah,
is the son of Henry Walker and Ann
Preece, and was bom Sept. 6, 1843, at
upper Bullingham, Herefordshire, Eng-
land. His parents accepted "Mormon-
ism" in 1841 and emigrated to America
in 1853, crossing the plains to Utah

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in Claudius V. Spencer's ox company.
They located in the 16th Ward, Salt
Lake City, where they resided for a
number of years, when they moved to
South Cottonwood Ward, Salt Lake
county.. John H. remained with his
father til 1862, when he enlisted in
Captain Lot Smith's company, which
was engaged in guarding the overland
mail, that year. Later he followed

freighting by team through California
and Montana. In 1864 he married
Mary Ann Phillips, and settled in
Union Ward, Salt Lake county, where
he has lived ever since. Elder Walker
is the father of eight children — four
boys and four girls. He was ordained
an Elder in 1869 and later a Seventy,
becoming a member of the 93rd quor-
um. From March, 1895, to May, 1897,
he filled a mission to Great Britain,
where he labored in the Norwich con-
ference, England, serving as president
of the conference during the last sev-
en months of his mission. In civil
affairs he has served one term as
justice of the peace and four terms
as constable.

ROSENGREN, Gustave Larsen, ec-
clesiastical clerk of Sandy Ward,
.Jordan Stake (Salt Lake county,
Utah), is the son of Hans Larsen and

Anna Dahlstrom and was born Feb-
11, 1847, at Hyby, Sweden. He was-
baptized Nov. 28, 1863, by Elder John
Stormfelt, and ordained an Elder in
August, 1867, by John Forsberg. From
August, 1867, to June, 1873 he labored
as a missionary in his native land, his
field of labor being in the Skaane^
conference. During this period he
baptized over one hundred persons
and traveled over 25,000 miles on foot
on proselyting journeys. He emigrat-
ed to Utah in 1873, and was ordained
a Seventy by Richard Howe Dec. 17^
1876, returned to Sweden as a mis-
sionary in 1883. While on this mission

he labored in the Stockholm and Go-
thenburg conferences, with good suc-
cess. During the latter part of the
time he presided over the Gothenburg
conference. He baptized one hun-
dred persons into the Church while-
on this mission, and was released and
returned home in June, 1885. Elder
Rosengren married Anna Sophia Chri-
stiansen Aug. 25, 1873, who has borne-
him ten children. He always led an-
active life as a Church worker, having-
been a Sunday school teacher, Wartf
teacher, choir member, president in

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the council of the 93rd Quorum of
Seventy since 1888. By trade he" is
a baker, but has chiefly followed farm-
ing since coming to Utah. His place
of residence has been successively:
Hyby and Malmo, Sweden; Logan,
East Jordan, Union and Sandy, Utah.
Brother Rosengren relates that while
in the missionary field he has had
many interesting experiences, having
been whipped, driven, stoned and
mobbed, but he has always been able
to see the hand of Providence in all
things. He has acted as first coun-
selor in the presidency of the Scan-
dinavian meetings in Sandy for sev-
eral years.

HOLMAN, Ezekiel Jonathan, a Pa-
triarch in the Jordan Stake of Zion
(Salt Lake county, Utah), is the fourth
son of Joshua S. Holman and Rebecca
Greenleaf, and was born in Genessee

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county. New York, May 30, 1835. When
Ezekiel was about two years old, his
parents moved to Pennsylvania, where
they became converted to "Mormon-
ism" and then went to Kirtland, Ohio,
where he joined the main body of the
Saints. The family then followed the
Church in its pilgrimages to Missouri
and Nauvoo, Illinois. Young Holman
was baptized in 1844 by his father.

who was a prominent Elder and mis-
sionary. The Holman family started
west with the first division of Brig
ham Young's company in February,
1846, but Ezekiel's father and mother
both died en route, leaving him an
orphan of tender years; he finally
reached Great Salt Lake City in the
fall of 1850. He worked in different
places in Utah till March 24, 1873.
when he married Abba Rumel, and
settled in Salt Lake City for a few
months, after which he moved to San-
dy, Salt Lake county, where he still
lives. In 1876 he was ordained a Sev-
enty by Wm. Hyde; subsequently he
was ordained a High Priest and Bish-
op and was set apart to preside over
the Sandy Ward. He labored in that
capacity till 1892, when he was honor-
ably released and ordained a Patriarch
by Pres. .Joseph F. Smith. This or
dination took place June 7, 1892.
Bishop Holman has always been ;i
firm and faithful Churchman, and ha.=i
done much to upbuild this western
country. Some years ago he served
as commissioner of Salt Lake county.
He is the father of nine children, six
of whom are now living.

S60TT, William Richmond, an
Elder in Sandy Ward, Jordan Stake,
(Salt Lake county, Utah) is a son of
Robert Scott and Isabella Richmond
and was born in Belle Rogh, Antrum
county, Ireland. He first heard the
Gospel in 1867 and was baptized Jan.
12, 1868, by John Read. His ordina-
tions to the Priesthood took place as
follows: Ordained a Priest in 1868,
and an Elder in 1870, at which time
he was appointed tO' preside over the
Belfast (Ireland) branch of the
Church. He emigrated to Utah in
1872 and located in Sandy, which
has been his place of residence since
that time. Elder Scott has ever been
an energetic Church worker, having
worked in the Sunday schools and
M. I. A., and is at present a president
in the council of the 93rd Quorum of
Seventy. Among the civil positions
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iirer and councilman of Sandy city.
At present he is operating a success-
ful creamery business.

ORD, John William, second coun-
selor in the Stalve presidency of the
luab Stake of Zion. Utah, is the son of
Thomas Ord and Eleanor Grant, and
was born Oct. 5, 1863, at Nephi, Utah.
He was baptized at Nephi when about
eight years of age, ordained a Deacon
Feb. .12, 1882, by Thomas Ord, ordain-
ed an Elder in 1890, ordained a Seven-

ty Dec. 11, 1893 by Brigham H. Rob-
erts, and ordained a High Priest Oct.
2, 1888, by Apostle George Teasdale.
In 1894-95 he filled a mission to Eng-
land, during which he presided over
the Derby and Leicester branches and
later over the Nottingham conference.
On his return home he was chosen as
counselor in the second Ward Sunday
school and later as Stake superintend-
ant of the Y. M. M. I. A. He became
a member of the High Council .July
16, 1901. In 1890 he married Amelia
Henderson, who has borne him four
children. Elder Ord is a farmer by
occupation, and is also engaged in
stock raising and merchandising. He
has held several positions of honor
and trust in a civil capacity and is a
hihly respected citizen.

UDALL, David A, a Patriarch in the
Juab Stake of Aion, was born Jan. 18,
1829, in Gonghurst, Kent, England, the
son of Jesse Udall and Ann Draw-
bridge. He was baptized June 15,
1848, by John Squires, ordained a

Teacher July IG, 1849 by Elder Jarvis;
ordained' a Priest Oct. 28, 1849, by
Elder Jarvis; ordained an Elder Aug.
16, 1851, by Elder Wrigley; ordained

a Seventy May 18, 1857, by Joseph
Young and ordained a High Priest
and Bishop Jan. 29, 1883, by Joseph F.
Smith. In 1894 he went to England
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obtained a long list of his ancestors
and relatives, for whom he has done
much work in the Temple. For many
years Elder Udall acted as a president
of the 49th puorum of Seventy, served
as Bishop for eight years and filled
the position of Patriarch since Jan.
18, 1891, when he was ordained to
that high and holy office by Apostle
Francis M. Lyman. Brother Udall
arrived in Utah in 1852 and soon after-
wards located in Nephi, where he has
lived continuously since, except four
years (1870-75) when he resided temp-
orarily in Kanab, Utah, having being
called to locate there by ecclesiastical
authority. He participated in the so-
called Walker and Black-hawk Indian
wars and served also in the Echo
canyon campaign in 1857-58. His prin-
cipal occupation in life has been that
of a farmer, gardener and stock raiser.
In 1850 (Dec. 2nd) he married Eliza
King; in 1857 (April 5th) he took to
wife Elizabeth Rowley and in 1864
July 2nd) he added Rebecca May
to his household. With these three
wives he has had eighteen children,
of whom ten are now living. Besides
the many ecclesiastical positions
which he has filled, he has held many
offices of a secular and civil nature
and has in all instances discharged his
duties in an able and conscientious
manner.

BIGLER, Jacob G., a Patriarch in
the Juab Stake of Zion, was born
April 4, 1813, in Harrison county,
Virginia (now West Virginia), the
son of Mark Bigler and Susanna
(Ogden) Bigler. In a biographical
sketch prepared for this voleum. Pa-
triarch Bigler wrote: "My boyhood
days were passed at home with my
parents at the place of my birth. I
remained there till I was twenty-five
years old. My father and I were farm-
ers, to which he also added stock
raising on a small scale. During this
time I heard "Mormonism" taught and
was a believer, but did not join the
Church until I went to Far West, Mo..

in March, 1838. There I investigated
the principles more fully and was
thoroughly convinced of their truth.
On the 10th of June, 1838, I joined the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. After I had been in Far West
ahwile, I bought a farm of 240 acres
for my father and myself. We were to
give $2,000 and paid $200 down to
bind the bargain. In July, 1838, I re-
turned to Virginia We sold our land-
ed property, and I took my mother
and unmarried sisters (I had no broth-
er.s) viz., Sarah, Bathsheba W. and
Melissa Jane, and returned to Far
West. In the meantime Governor
Boggs had issued his exterminating
order and we, with the rest of the
Saints, were compelled to leave the
State or deny the faith. We left Far
West Feb. 11, 1839, traveling through
deep snow, and arrived in Quincy,
111., about the 1st of March. My first
acquaintance with the Prophet Joseph
Smith was in March, 1838. I became
intimately acquainted with him and
his family, also his father and family,
from that time until the martyrdom.
I helped to move him and family, also
his father and family, from Quincy to
Commerce (now Nauvoo) ; the Egypt-
ian mummies were a part of my load.
My father was taken sick and on the
23rd of September, 1839, he died.
Mother and I administered on the
estate and when we got that settled
in the spring of 1840, we moved to
Nauvoo. In March, 1841, I returned
to Virginia, and on the 19th of April,
I was married to Mary Ann Boggess.
In May I, with my wife, returned to
Nauvoo. Oct. 29, 1842, my wife died
with fever and in March, 1843, I re-
turned to Virginia on business. May
24, 1844, I returned to Nauvoo, and on
the 18th of June I married Amy Loret-
te Chase. I worked on the Temple
at Nauvoo from that time, nearly con-
tinously, until its completion. I re-
mained in Nauvoo until June 10, 1846.
when I crossed the Mississippi river
and made a start for the west with a
poor outfit for the journey, but was

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greatly blessed of the Lord and ar-
rived at Winter Quarters on the 18th
of August, 1846. There I remained
until the spring of 1848. Being on the
Indian reservation, we had to recross
the river, not having means to con-
tinue our journey west. We settled
near Kanesville, Iowa, and afterwards
moved into that town. In the spring
of 1849, I was called to take charge
of the general tithing office of Potta-
wattamie county, Iowa, receiving the
tithing from the seventeen Bishop's
Wards or branches of the Church, and
looking after the poor. There were
many poor there who could go no
farther. I acted as Bishop of Kanes-
ville, and also as a member of the
High Council. At the August election,

(1849) I was elected justice of the
peace, and the following August

(1850) was elected probate judge of
Pottawattamie county. From the
spring of 1849 until the spring of 1852
my tinie was almost entirely taken up
with looking after the duties of my
office, both in Church and State ca-
pacities. In 1850 I was preparing to
start west to Utah, but Apostel Orson
Hyde wanted my services in Iowa, so
I remained there till 1852. On June
10, 1852, we crossed the Missouri river
with a moderate outfit for the jour-
ney, and were organized in Captain
Gardner's company, it being company
10. I was captain of the first ten
families. We arrived in Salt Lake
City in September. After remaining
in the city a short time, I left for
Nephi, Juab county, Utah, arriving
there Oct. 18, 1852, where I have lived
ever since, until the present time
(1907). This settlement was com-
menced in 1851. In November, 1852,
I was ordained Bishop of Juab coun-
ty under the hands of Apostle Geo.
A. Smith, which position I held till
1861, when I was called on a mission
to Europe. In June, 1853, the Indian
war broke out; we had to tear down
some of our houses, and move into
closer quarters; we had to do all our
work in companies. At the August

election, 1853, I was elected a member
of the legislative assembly, and be-
tween that and 1868 was elected and
served six sessions in the ligislature.
In 1853 and 1854 we built a wall in
Nephi, 205 rods long, 12 feet high,
6 feet wide at bottom and 2 feet at
the top. In 1859 I was elected mayor
of Nephi and in 1861 called on a mis-
sion to Europe. I left Salt Lake City
April 25, 1861, landed in Liverpool
July 25th was assigned to labor in
Ireland and to take charge of the Irish
mission; arrived in Belfast Aug. 1.
1861. I remained in Ireland until the
9th of May, 1862, and was then called
to Liverpool by Geo Q. Cannon to take
charge of the European mission dur-
ing his absence in Washington, D. C.
While in Europe I traveled and
preached in Ireland, England and
Wales. Being released to come home,
I left Liverpool March 18, 1863, and
arrived in New York April 1st; left
there on the 7th and arrived in Omaha
on the 17th. On the 24th I went to
Florence, remained there about three
months, and assisted with the emigra-
tion; crossed the plains with ox teams,
and arrived in Salt Lake City on the
24th of September and at home in
Nephi on the 26th, late at night. Feb.
24, 1864, I was elected by the legisla-
ture to fill the office of probate judge
and held that office by election con-
tinuously until August, 1876, the last
two years being elected by the voters
of Juab county. In 1863 I was called
and set apart to preside over the
Stake organisation of Juab county.
In 1869 I was a member of the coun-
cil of the legislature to represent Juab
and Millard counties. I held the pre-
.sidency of the Juab Stake until
October, 1871, when President Young
came along and requested me
to join him and company on a trip
south. I expected to go to old Mexico,
therefore I resigned the presidency of
the Stake and went with him as far
as St. George, but on account of hav-
ing been elected to the Legislative
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attend the council, which convened
on the second Monday of January. In
June, 1878, I was ordained a Patriarch,
which position I hold at present, Feb.
14, 1907. Since that time I have of-
ficiated in my office as Patriarch. 1
have given over 200 blessings for
which 1 have not received any remune-
ration whatever. Freely I received;
freely I gave. My scribe received
what was given for her services."
Patriarch Bigler died in Nephi in Fe-
bruary, 1907, a few days after he had
written the above sketch of his life.

SALISBURY, David, a member of
the High Council in the Juab Stake
of Zion, Juab county, Utah, was born
in the fall of 1836 in Packington, Lei-
cester county, England. His parents
(Richard Salisbury and Hannah
Castle) embraced the gospel early in
the spring of 1844 and emigrated to
America in 1849, with three sons and
one daughter of whom the subject of
this sketch was one. David was bap
tized in Oldbury, Worcestershire, Eng-
land, Feb. 23, 1847, by James Bowers.
The family first settled in St. Louis,
Mo. In the fall of 1851 they moved
into La Salle county, Illinois; the elder
Salisbury preached the gospel to the
inhabitants of that county while he
encountered bitter opposition from
Wm. Smith, brother of the Prophet
Joseph, and others who had left the
Church; he succeeded in building up
a small branch of the Church. In the
spring of 18.53 the family stai'ted for
Utah, arriving there the same year,
and located in Tooele county, where
the senior Salisbury acted as presi-
dent of the High Priest quorum and
leader of the choir in E. T. City. While
residing in Tooele county David was
ordained a Seventy and became a
member of the 43rd quorum of Sev-
enty, and he was ordained a High
Priest in Nephi July 19, 1890.

CAZIER, David, a High Councilor in
the Juab Stake of Zion and a resident
of Nephi Juab co., Utah, is a son of

William Cazier and Pleasant Drake,
and was born May 1, 1834, in Oldham
county, Kentucky. The family moved
to Moltry county, 111., in 1840. Elder
Cazier writes: "My father and
mother joined the Church in 1845
and moved with their family to Conn
oil Bluffs, Towa, in 1846, where they
shared with the Saints in the general
hardships of that time. My brothers
James and John enlisted in the Mor-
mon Battalion; my mother died in
the fall of 1846 in a hay shed and
was buried in a coffin made of a hol-
lowed-out log; there were no flowers
in evidence at her funeral. My father
went into Missouri to split rails, there-

by earning corn and pork wherewith
to feed his family. We resided in
Iowa for four years and when we de-
Ijarted from that territory to migrate
to Utah, we left a good house. We
settled in Nephi in 1851, being among
the first settlers of that place. I was
baptized in 1852 and took an active
part in the Walker and Black hawk
wars. Together with my brothers
John and Samuel, I also participated
in the Echo canyon campaign during
the winter of 1857-58. In June, 1857
I married Sarah Francis Mangum, who
has borne me four sons. In 1865 I
married Eliza Naylor as a second wife.
While yet quite young I was ordained

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to the office of a Priest; in 1855 I
was ordained a Seventy and in 1870
I was ordained a Higti Priest and set
apai't as a Higli Councilor, which posi-
tion I still hold. In 1872 I was called
on a mission to Great Britain; during
ray absence 1 presided over theBristol
conference. My occupation is that of
a farmer and I have cut thousands of
acres of grain and hay with a scythe.
In running trashing machines for over
forty years, I have thrashed over one
million bushels of grain. I raised the
first fruit in Nephi and can truthfully
say that I have earned my bread by
the sweat of my brow. I have also
cut and hauled from canyons one
thousand saw-logs. In conclusion I
will say that I never indulged in vice
of any kind. '

CLARK, George Hammond, an ac-
tive young Elder in Colonia Dublan,
Chihuahua, Mexico, was born In St.
Charles, Bear Lake county, Idaho, Oct.
1, 1882, the son of Arthur Benjamin
Clark and Mary C. Rasmussen. He
was baptized Oct. 1, 1890, by Elder
Aaron F. Bracken, ordained a Deacon
Dec. 10, 1895, by Bishop Osborne Low,
an Elder Oct. 1, 1899, by Elder Eli D.
Spaulding, and a Seventy July 18, 1900
by Pres. Jonathan Golden Kimball.
In 1900 to 1902 he filled a mission to
the Southern States. He also labored
two years as a M. I. A. missionary in
Star Valley Stake, Wyo., where he
also labored as a regular home mis-
sionary. At the age of fourteen he
became the president of a Deacons
quorum and when seventeen years old
he was called to preside over the
ward M. I. A. He also acted as an aid
in religion class work, as a Ward
clerk, and chorister, and as a teacher
in the Sunday school and Y. M. M. I.
A. July 5, 1905, he married Lousie
Parker. His occupation hitherto has
been that of a farmer, stock raiser and
steam engineer, and he can also work
at the carpenter bench. He has resided
successively in St. Charles, (Idaho),
Afton and Freedom (Wyoming), Hoop-

er (Utah) and Colonia Dublan, Mexi-
co.

REED, Lemuel Hardison, a veteran
Elder in the Church, was born in
Onslow county. North Carolina, July
31, "836, the second son and sixth
child of John Hardison and Elizabeth
Hancock Redd, both of whom were
born in the county and State men-
tioned. Hii father who was gener-
ally known as Captain Redd (as he
followed a seafaring life) was a man

1

of letters, engaged in the mercantile
business, and was well known and
highly respected in the community
where he lived. The names of his
eight children were: Edward and
Harriet who died in infancy, Ann
Mariah, Elizabeth Ann, Mary Ca-
tharine, Lemuel Hardison, John Holt
and Benjamin Jones. At the age of
six years Lemuel's parents heard and
obeyed the Gospel at Murfreesborough
Tennessee, where they moved in 1838.
The family moved to Great Salt Lake
Valley in 1850; Lemuel, who was then
fourteen years of age, drove an ox-
team across the plains from St. loseph,
Missouri. At this time the Saints
were visited with the cholera plague,
Lemuel and his father both being
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dread disease.. The impressions gain-
ed by seeing hundreds of the company
buried along the roadside, by fearing
the attacks of the Indians, and by
witnessing the stampeding of thou-
sands of excited buffalo, which then
covered the great plains, ever remain-
ed fresh in his memory, and served as
charming stories for his children and
grand-children. Captain Sessions, in
whose company he traveled, arrived
in Salt Lake in October 1850. Lemuel
attended school in Provo, then a
hamlet of about fifty families. The
following spring he, with his father's
family, moved to Spanish Fork, they
and the family of William Pace being
the pioneers of that place. Here his
father helped to build the first saw
mill south of Provo. In 1853, the In-
dian war broke out, causing the de-
struction of the mill and town with
a loss to the family of $6,000. After
this, they moved to Palmyra for safe-
ty. Lemuel was baptized June 2,
1852, by W. W. Willis and confirmed
by Stephen Ivlarkham, who also or-
dained him a. Priest on the same date.
In July, 1853, the Walker war began
and young Lemuel took an active part
in the same and served as 7.n officer
or soldier in all the Indiap wars of
Utah, thus portraying the patriotism
characteristic of his forefathers, being
a direct descendant on his mothers
side of John Hancock, the first signer
of the Declaration of Independence.
Jan. 2, 1856, he married Miss Keziah
Jans Butler, a girl of sterling qualities,
amiable and reserved, who proved a
faithful wif3 and loving mother of
thirteen children, whose names are
as follows: Lemuel Hardison, Mary
Jane, John Wilson, William Alexander,
James Monroe, Caroline Elizabeth,
Amos Thornton (died in infancy),
Sarah Delia, Farozine Ellen, Loraine
Edward (died in infancy), Mariah
Luella, Charity Alvira, (known
as Vilo) and Alice. The marriage
ceremony was performed and solemn-
ized by Bishop William Pace and the
following year they received their

endowments and were sealed by
Daniel H. Wells. Shortly after their
marriage, they, with a company of
others filled an Indian mission to
Las Vegas, New Mexico. On his re-
turn, Lemuel was ordained an Elder
and soon afterwards a Seventy and be-
came a member of the Fiftieth Quo-
rum of Seventy. In 1858, when the
U. S. Army -mder Johnston came to
Utah, he served as a soldier and was
one of the two thousand who were or-
ganized as ihe Standing Army . Soon
after peace was restored, he assisted
with oxen and wagons in bringing the
foreign emigration across the plains
In the sprinft- of 1862, with his wife
and four children, he was again on
the frontier, helping to found New
Harmony, in compliance with the
call made by Brigham Young to settle
"Dixie". At Harmony he held many
offices, such a trustee, justice of the
peace, etc. He was also a member
of the county court for six years. In
1866 during the Black hawk and Na-
vajo wars he went with Captain An-
drus' compary of soldiers to Green
River by way of Potato Valley, to
ascertain the plans of the enemy. The
company was gone one month, during
which they suffered many hardships
and privations and the loss of one
man and a horse killed by the Indians,
The same year he married, as his se-
cond wife, Miss Sarah Louisa Cham-
berlain, an intelligent and ambitious
young lady, who five years previous
had been miraculouly saved from a
flood through her own heroic efforts
by climbing .v tree, and assisting her
aged father. This wife bore him
fourteen children, whose names are
as follows: AVilford Solomon, Mariah
Vilate, (both of whom died in infancy)
Teresa Artimesia, Burton Lemuel,
Teresa Artimestia, Burton Lemuel,
George Edwin, Susan Elizabeth, Par-
ley, John Wiley, Jennie May, Effie
Ancel Ray, and Hazel Lurena. In
the year of 1866 he purchased the
John D. Lee homestead in Harmony
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house which served as a home for
both families for twenty years. In
1871, he wao set apart as first coun-
selor to Bishop Wilson D. Pace under
the hands of Charles Price, which
office he held for nearly twenty years.
In 1847 the United Order was estab-
lished in Harmony bj^ Apostle Erastus
Snow with l.emuel H. Redd vice-pre-
sident and secretary. He also assist-
ed to establish the Kanarra and Har-
mony cattle and sheep herd, and
served as director and treasurer in
each for about twenty years. Jan.
1, 1S77, in company with his wife
Keziah, he attended the dedication of
the lower part of the St. George
Temple. In April of the same year
they attended the 47th semi-annual
conference at St. George, which was
held in the Temple when the whole
building was dedicated. At the open-
ing of the Temple for endowment
work Elder Redd with his family
were the firfft to labor for the dead.
He continued this work of love when-
ever practicable until he was com-
pelled to live in exile after the passing
of the Edmimds bill, and also after-
wards, whenever possible. During
the seven years of persecution Elder
Redd w^as forced to absent himself
from his family, friends and loved
ones for months at a time, leaving his
entire affairs in the hands of mere
children until the return of his son
William from South Carolina, where
he had filled a two years mission.
His sons Wayne and Ben, aged re-
spectively seventeen and fifteen,
narrowly ecaped an awful death in
a blinding snow storm, while caring
for their father's sheep, in his absence,
but through his courageous efforts,
and by the aid of Providence, the
younger made his way to town and
obtained help, thereby being the
means of saving his own and his bro-
ther's life Though he was driven
many times into the hands of the U.
S. marshals. Providence seemed kind
to him in preserving to him his free-
dom, and never once was he known

to falter no)' forsake either family
during all his troubles. During his
peregrinations, in the year of 1887-8,
he moved his cattle and horses along
with his son Monroe's family and
daughters, Delia and Ellen, to Bluff,
San Juan county, for the purpose of
bettering his financial affairs, as well
as to escape the persecutions of the
law which threatened him. This was
an eventful trip, owing to the fact
that they were followed by thewrath-
ful enemy, thus compelling his daugh-
ters to share in the responsibilities of
the journey, Delia riding horseback
and driving cattle, while Ellen drove
one of the teams. This, however,
was only a pleasure to his devoted
daughters, ior they realized, being
seventeen and fifteen years of age.
his precarious condition and were
thankful to be able to assist him. The
following year, they returned, and
soon after he moved his wife Louisa
and family to Bluff. Four of her
children, however, remained for a
while with the other family, Wayne
being left in charge of his affairs in
Harmony. In 1890, accompagnied by
Harvey A. Pace, he made a trip to
Mesa, Arizona, where he spent a
few months with his daughter Jane,
and returned by way of California,
visiting the places of note along the
way. Previous to the persecution in
1879 he helped to move his son Le
muel H. Redd jun. and family to San
Juan, where he had been called on
a mission. His son Monroe accom-
panied them. When they arrived at
the Colorado river, the company en-
camped and an exploring party was
formed for t?ie purpose of finding a
suitable route from the Colorado to
the San Juan river. The party con-
sisted of Lemuel H. Redd sen., Geo.
W. Sevey, George Hobbs and George
Morrell. The trip was a hard and
lont,' one, lasting twenty-five days;
most of the time they traveled through
snow three or four feet deep and many
days through timber so dense that
it was impossible to tell which di-

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rection they were going. During the
last few days of their explorations,
their provisions gave out and they suf-
fered for wa7it of food, but Providence
guided them through it all, and they
came out all right, returned and sub-
mitted a report of their explorations
to the company of which Bishop Jens
Nielsen had charge. Bishop Nielsen
was a man of indomitale courage and
has since served as Bishop of Bluff
for twenty years. A permanent road
was afterwards made over the route
explored by the party. On his re-
turn to the company, Lemuel found
letters bearing news of sickness and
distress in his family; and he im-
mediately made preparations to re-
turn. This return journey was a
dreary one. as he traveled alone.
When he mashed home, he found
seven of his children down with diph-
theria, though in an improved con-
dition. An important event of the
subject's life was that he was cap-
tain of twenty-two men who acted
as an escort to Pres. Brigham Young
on his last trio south. InlSOlElderRedd
thought it was wise for his own peace
of mind to further move his family
from Bluff to Mexico where they have
since remained. Lemuel having pre-
viously made a visit there in company
with his son-in-law James Adams.
The entire iourney with his family
was made by team and alone through
almost unknown wastes and Indian
reservations. As soon as the family
were comfortably located, he returned
to home and family in Utah, where
he remained eighteen months and
has ever since made it a practise of
visiting his family once a year. In
1893, in company with his wife Keziah,
his daughter Ellen and son William,
he attended the dedication of the Salt
Lake Temple, where he met his two
sons Monroe and Lemuel jun., who
live In Bluff, and Caroline now living
in Parowan. In 1895, he was called
from Mexico to the death bed of his
wife Keziah who passed away May
1.5, 1895. During her four months'

illness she displayed a fortitude and
l)atience which could not be surpassed
remaining perfectly rational until
the last breath. During the long pe-
riod of persecution that the family
underwent she remained at the home-
stead acting the part of mother and
father to her own family as well as
the four members of the second family
before mentioned, who remained with
her one year. During the last eight
or ten years of her life ,she suffered
the trials incident to that period of
persecution without murmur or com-
Ijlaint. Six of her children surrounded
her bed sido, three of whom were
unmarried. "Better suffer wrong,
than do wrong" was ever her motto
through life. She lived the life of
a true devoted, brave and generous
woman and her children can truth-
fully say "No harsh word ever fell
from my mother's lips." "Surely such
a life is a benediction!" In 1897, in
company witir his two daughters, Vilo
and Alice, Elder Redd attended the
Pioneer jubilee in Salt Lake City,
where he was joined by his son Le-
muel H. and daughter Hattie, and
sons-in-law James and Thomas Adams.
During a great deal of the time which
he has been from home, his son Wil-
liam A., Bishj.p of the Harmony Ward,
has taken charge of his financial af-
fairs. Eldei' Redd is the father of
27 children, 23 of whom are living.
Lemuel H. Jr. now resides in Bluff.
He has served two terms in the Utah
Legislature and has acted as a coun-
selo'- to the Bishop in that place for
more than twenty years; Jane Spils-
bury now resides in Mexico; John,
after spending a term in the B. Y.
Academy, served as bookeeper for
John W. Young, in Arizona, while the
A. R. R. RaiUoad was being built and
completed; from Arizona he went to
Mexico to engage in mining business.
Monroe and George E. have each filled
honorable missions in the United
States, and I-uella in connection with
her husband, Thomas Adams, filled a
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spending part cf her time there teah-
ing school. Nine others of the same
family have been teachers in the
schools of Utah and Nevada. Vilo
and Alice have both graduated from
the University" of Utah with honors
and are successful teachers. His
daughter Caroline managed his bus-
siness correspondence during his ab-
sence from home in Bluff. Wayne
now resides in Bluff and has acted as
counselor to three presidents of the
San Juan Stake. Delia and Ellen, in
connection Avith their husbands, Wm.
H. Ivins and C. F. Bryner respectively,
are pioneers to the Mormon colonies
In iN'evada. Artemisia, in connection
with her husband Geo. S. Romney, are
now settled in Mexico. Burton L.
has mastered the Spanish language
and has been for five years a clerk
in the Co-op Store of Colonia Juares.
Benjamin resides inMexico and follows
the profession of a carpenter. Louisa,
his wife, resides In Mexico, surround-
ed by all her children except Wayne
before mentioned. Thirteen of Elder
Redd's twenty-seven children are
married and at this date of writing
there are between seventy and eighty
grand-children. He has a very large
record of the dead, all of whom have
been baptized for and many endowed
for. A striking feature of his ances-
try was the fact that both his grand-
fathers had three wifes (separately)
and families for which he has done
the Temple work. Lemuel H. was
educated in the U. of U. as a normal
student under the principalship of
Dr. John R. Park. Ellen attended
the Agricultural College, at Logan,
during the year 1895-96. Elder Redd
has seven unmarried children now
attending tho Church Academy in
Mexico. It is the aim of his life to
live his religion and it can be truth-
fully said that all of his children have
followed in his wake. His present
residence is in Colonia Juares, the
head quarters of the Mexican Mission,
where he acted as first councelor to
Pres. Alexander F. Macdonald of the

Juares Stake of Zion, who presided
over the High Priests, and he has held
the office or High Priest for over
twenty years. In Salt Lake City, in
1902, at the October conference, he
planned a reunion of his first wife's
family and all those living with the
exception of Monroe and Luella, both
of whom were nessessarily detained
away. At this reunion his second
wife Louisa, and baby daughter Hazel
were also present from their home in
Mex'co; also his son Wayne who came
by the urgent request of his father
and the love and respect he had for
the family. Convenient rooms were
rented and all had a happy and a long
to be remembered time for a week.
The visit with each other especially
Jane whom most of the family had
not seen for seventeen years, was a
treat of priceless value. They enjoyed
the i-onferenco and when the Temple
opened Elder Redd, his wife and most
of his children worked a day in the
Temple and attended to other or-
dinances in that holy house. — G.

JOHNSON, Benjamin Julius, Bishop
of Colonia Chuichupa, Chihuahua,
Mexico, Juares Stake of Zion, was
born in the town of Santaquin, Utah
county, Utah, May 10, 1857, the eldest
of eleven children, his father being
the late Patriarch Benjamin F. John-
son, his mother Sarah MelissaHolman
who died some years previous to the
demise of her husband. During the
Blackhawk war the family removed
to Spring Lake Villa, a beautiful lo-
cation between the towns of Santa-
quin and Payson. Here Benjamin re-
mained during his childhood and
youth, receiving an early training in
habits of industry, and taking an
active interest in the many branches
of farming, fruitraising and gardening
carried on at that big homestead.
While quite young he was given al-
most entire charge of the extensive
flower garden, an occupation in
which he took great delight. Later
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ning establishment the first venture
of the kind ever attempted in Utah.
His chances for scholastic education
were very limited — a fact which has
caused him life long regret; but being
naturally observant, and quick to
grasp every opportunity for self edu-
cation, he succeeded in acquiring
much necessary information under
many difficulties. Having a natural
love for music, he spent many mid-
night hours alone and unaided, in an
almost hopeless study of that art.
With the help of a tallow candle and

old violin, and such scraps of music
as he could get hold of, he succeeded
so well that he was made chorister of
the Ward. He remained in Spring
Lake Villa until the year of 1878,
when he was united in marriage to
Isabella M. Russell and removed to
Salt Lake City; four children have
been born to them, three sons and
one daughter. Benjamin remained
in Salt Lake City in the employ of the
Utah Central railroad until 1882,
when having being called on a mis-
sion to Mexico, in connection with
his fathers whole family, he started
for Arizona, by the Union Pacific

railroad, having obtained special
rates and accomodations for a com-
pany of some twenty-three individuals
mostly members of his fathers family.
Not wishing to visit San Francisco, it
became necessary for them to lay
over one night at Lathrop, a small
railroad town in California, in order
to make connections with the South-
ern Pacific. Up to this point the
company had been treated with all
due respect, but here it became known
that a company of "Mormons" was
expected; hence, from the moment
of their arrival, they were assailed
with all manners of insults, jeers, and
vile remarks, by the rabble on the
platform, as well as the railroad em-
ployees, with one or two honorable ex-
ceptions. Such treatment being
wholy unexpected, the women and
children were naturally somewhat
frightened, as well as indignant at
being gazed at, and commented on as
though they were a menagerie of
wild animals. The treatment ac-
corded the company by the Southern
Pacific officials during the remainder
of the journey, was in marked con-
trast to that received on the U. P.
At Fort Yuma, Ariz., special respect
and kindness were shown them,
which was noticeable from the fact
that several of the brethren from
Mesa City wei-e then serving out a
term of imprisonment at that place
for unlawful cohabitation. Elder
.Johnson remained in Arizona, resid-
ing in Tempe, and later in Mesa
(where he was made chorister and
also became leader of the Ward
choir), until 1889, when, in company
with his brother-in-law D. A. Stevens,
and the family of President A. F.
McDonald, he continued his journey
into Mexico. In October of that year
he married Harriet J. Hakes; nine
children have since been born to
them, seven of whom are living. Bro.
Johnson located with his family in
Colonia Juares, and endured many
hardships, having arrived in Mexico
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of a three year draught. While re-
siduig in that colony he put upon
the fruit market some commercial
canned fruit, the first attempt of the
kind ever made in Mexico. He had
charge of the small cannery owned by
Joseph E. Bentley — an enterprise
with which the Mexican officials were
greatly pleased. About this time
Elder Johnson became interested in a
movement to purchase land for coloni-
zation on the Garcia claim, of which
President McDonald was agent. In
1894 he succeeded in obtaining suf-
ficient means to make a purchase of
six thousand acres, comprising the
whole of the Chuichupa Valley — a
beautiful location in the very tops
of the Sierra Madre monutains. In
the spring of that year a small com-
pany of colonists, with their families,
farming implements and stock, moved
onto the wild, but beautiful lands,
and commenced to lay the foundation
for future homes, Bro. Johnson turn-
ing the first furrow in the rich mell-
ow soil. He was detained in Juarez
until 1895, when he moved with his
families to the new colonj'. In October
that year, he was appointed presiding
Elder, over the little colony, by
Apostle Geo. Teasdale; he dischaged
the duties of that calling honoraoly
and faithfully, until the year 1900,
when a Ward organization was effec-
ted with Geo. M. Haws as Bishop, Ben-
jamin J. Johnson as first and Samuel
Brown as second counselor. Later
Bishop Haws resigned his office and
Elder Johnson was chosen Bishop,
which position he still holds.

TAYLOR, Alonzo L., a faithful Sun-
day school worker in the Juarez
Stake, Mexico, was born March 19,
1878, in Santaquin, Utah county,
Utah, the son of Ernest L. Taylor
and Mary Arnesen. In a biographical
sketch prepared for this work, Elder
Taylor writes: "My grandfather Nor-
man Taylor was one of the original
Pioneers of 1847; he drove the second
wagon into Salt Lake Valley. I re-

moved with my parents to Springer-
ville,, Ai)ache co'mty, Arizona, about
the year 1881, where I lived until
1886, at which time I removed with
my parents to Old Mexico and settled
at Colonia Juarez, in the State of
Chihuahua. During the early years
of my life in Mexico I was called to
pass through the hardships incident
to settling a new country, though as
a child I did not feel them so keenly
as did my parents and the I'esponsible
members of the family. March 19.
1886 1 was baptized by Elder Wm.
Haws in the Piedras Verde river. At
about the age of fifteen I was called

to act in various positions in the Y.
M. M. I. A., holding the office of
second counselor in the local organi-
zation and for five years acted as se-
cretary in the same organization. I
was married Aug. 4, 1897, in the Salt
Lake Temple, to Anna M. Eyring. In
1902 I was called to fill a mission to
the City of Mexico, where I labored as
mission secretary and second coun-
selor to the mission president during
my entire stay of two years. During
the latter part of my mission I was
called to pass through a sad and try-
ind ordeal. Apostle Abraham O. Woo-
druff and wife, in company with Pre.
sident Anthony W. Ivins and others.

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visitea the mission and a short time
after their arrival Sister Woodruff
became ill with a most maglignant
form of small pox in the City of Mex-
ico. As help was hard to obtain, Bro.
Paul Hennirig and myself volunteered
to assist Apostle Woodruff through
his wife's illness. Sister Woodruff had
a five months old child with her at
the time; but in order to lessen the
probabillities of taking the disease the
child (Rhoda) was given over to the
care of Sister Kate Spilsbury, a
young lady who went to Mexico City
in Bro. Woodruff's party. Sister
Woodruff gradualy grew worse and
died; she was buried in the American
cemetery in the City of Mexico in
the early part of June, 1904. Bro.
Woodruff had me released from my
mission, as he deemed it wise for
those exposed to go to El Paso where
better help could be obtained. Ac-
cordingly Bro. Woodruff, Sister Kate
Spilsbury, little Rhoda and myself
left Mexico and went north to El
Paso, Texas. Bro. Woodruff became
ill on the train, and on our arrival at
Cinidad Juarez he was taken to the
home of Bro. I. W. Pierce, but
fortunately through the efforts of
Prest. Ivins, who had came from
Mexico a few days previous, arrange-
ments were made with the health
authorities of El Paso, Texas, to get
us into the detention hospital. I
took the disease the day before going
into the hospital, so Bro. Woodruff
and I were placed in the same room,
where we were given every comfort
possible by the nurses, and Prest.
Ivins faithfully looked after our wel-
fare from the outside, sending what-
ever we needed. Prest. C. R. Hakes,
of the Maricopa Stake, who had pri-
viously had the disease came and
faithfully cared for us, being untiring
in his efforts to assist us. June 20,
1904, Bro. Woodruff suddenly grew
worse, and to the surprise of doctors
and nurses and the dismay and
sorrow of his brethren, he passed
away at about 4 o'clock in the after-

noon.Being slightly convalescent from
my illness (which was a severe case)
I was unable to assist much in prepar-
ing the body of Bro. Woodruff for
burial which was attended to by
Bro Hakes. The burial took place
in the Evergreen cemetery June 21,
1904. Bro. Hanneria, who was with
OS during Sister Woodruffs' sickness
and death, remained in the City of
Mexico. He and Sister Kate Spils-
bury fortunately escaped taking the
disease. After returning home from
my mission I spent one year in the
Juarez Stake Academy, taking the
business course. Sept. 19, 1905, I
was chosen as second assistant supt.
of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Juarez
Stake. In a business capacity I have
labored in connection with my father
and brother in stockraising a part of
my time; the balance of my time has
been spent principally in clerical
work, having acted as book-keeper in
the Juarez Co-op Store, in the con-
struction camps of the Chihuahua &
Pacific Railroad and am at present
engaged as cashier of the Corralitos
Cattle Company, a corporation own-
ing 1,000,000 acres of land and 40,000
head of cattle and horses. Since 1886
my home has been continuously in
Colonia Juarez."

BALLINGER. Pearson,, a High
Councilor in the Juarez Stake of Zion
(Mexico), is a son of John Ballinger
and Mary Sparrow and was born in
Leigh, Gloucestershire, England, June
9, 1832. He writes: "I was baptized and
confirmed a member of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Oct. 6, 1853, and crossed the Atlantic
Ocean in the ship "Thornton" in 1856.
With wife and one child I resided in
Quincy, 111., for six years; here I
buried the child 1% years old.
There were born to me at Quincy one
son and two daughters, namely Al-
bert, now residing in Ogden, Emily
(Mrs Emily Ballinger Ware) now
dead and Clara (Mrs. Clara B. Will-
iams) residing in Ogden. We moved

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from Quincy to Florence, Neb., where
we resided six weeks, and then strt-
ed on our journey across the plains
in Captain Brunson's company. We
left Florence with a blind pony and
two cows, the cows furnishing milk
and butter sufficient for our needs.
We got along all right until we were
three hundred miles from Salt Lake
when one of the cows gave out. The
Captain of the company told me to
ask Bro. Williams for another cow
to assist me on my journey, as he
had plenty, but he refused to let me
have one. I then prayed concerning
it, after which my cow was able to
travel and stood the rest of the jour-
ney well. The company followed
along in the old 'Mormon' trail, pass-
ing close to the Carthage jail, and
crossed the river at Keokuk. We
arrived in Salt Lake City Aug. 29,
1862. Here we stayed a few days and
then went to Ogden where I obtained
work with Elder Lorin Farr, assist-
ing to build the first flour mill in We-
ber county. I worked for Elder Farr
several years and also worked for
Elder Peery as a millwright, etc.,
for 10 years. I had seven children
born to me at Ogden, namely Willard.
Frederick James, John, Charles,
George, Sarah and Isaac. Willard and
Frederick died in infancy. Charles
died at the age of fourteen with
small-pox. John, George and Sarah
(now Mrs. Sarah B. Wright), and
Isaac are still residing in Ogden. I
then went to Hooper for a while and
had a farm there. Bishop Belnap
being my near neighbor. I was driv-
en from Hooper and exiled for con-
science sake and went to Mancos,
Colo., where I resided for three and
a half years. Here I worked at the
coopering trade and ran the grist
mill for three years. I also helped
to build the first meeting house at
Hooper. I returned to Ogden and
was arrested and put under $2,000
bonds. I then left Ogden again for
Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico,
Dec. 20, 1880, again enduring necessa-

ry trials incidental to the building up
of a new country, being exiled from
my family. Often I longed for the
leeks and onions of Utah, as at times
I would tire of Mexican mush and
molasses and would wish for some-
thing else for a change. But I still re-
joice that I have passed through
these trials with the Saints, knowing
that the Gospel is true. I have now
resided in Colonia Juarez seventeen
years with wife and one child, Alma
Nephi, and I expect to close my
mortal career here, as I am now 7:>
years of age and quite feeble. I was
ordained a High Priest in Ogden, in
1889, and set apart as a member of
the High Council in Colonia Juarez,
in 1894."

DONE, Arthur J. was bom March
15, 1876, at Payson, Utah co., Utah.
His parents were Abraham and Eli-
zabeth Done. After completing the
usual course of study in the Payson

public schools in 1891, he attended
the Latter-day Saints' College in
1891-92. Another year of study was
spent in the Brigham Young Acade-
my, after which he accepted the po-
sition of teacher in the public schools
of Alpine during the school year of
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age. The following year he had
charge of the school at Fairfield,
Utah county, and in 1896 returned to
Alpine to serve as principal of the
school there. Here he spent a pleas-
ant and successful school year. The
summers of these years of teaching
were spent in summer school at the
Brigham Young Academy. He spent
the school year of 1897-98 most
profitably at the Brigham Young
Academy as a student, taking special
work in the line of literature. While
in attendance at the academy he re-
ceived a call to go on a mission to
Germany and after receiving his
endowments in the Salt Lake City
Temple and being ordained a Seven-
ty, he left Utah July 10, 1898, to fill
that mission. On arriving in England
he spent a month there visiting with
his relatives and seeing places of
historical interest. Upon arriving in
Hamburg, Germany, Pres. Peter Lau-
tensoch appointed him to labor in
the Dresden conference in which city
he spent the first five months of his
mission. He was then called to take
charge of the 'branch in Freiberg, in
Saxony, and while here, though alone
and not understanding the language
very well, he was greatly blessed in
his labors and the spirit of the Lord
often made itsef manifest to help and
encourage him. The attendance at
the meetings greatly increased. In
February, 1899, he organized a Sun-
day school. His time was fully em-
ployed in visiting the Saints and
friends whom the Saints introduced
and which he made by tracting and in
holding meetings. In March the po-
lice commenced to visit the meetings
and after several visits to the court-
house. Bro. Done was forbidden to
hold any meetings under a penalty of
one hundred marks fine. The work
however continued and the number
of friends increased, and during April
and May he baptized and confirmed
four persons. Then Bro. Geo. J.
Cannon was called to labor with
him and during the next two months

five more were baptized. About one
hundred and twenty-five secret meet-
ings for Saints and friends were
held during this time. Being betrayed
by the husband of a lady, who was
investigating, Bro. Done was called
before the police and ordered to pay
a fine of one hundred marks. The
conference president, however, told
him to leave Freiberg without paying
the fine, which he did. His next field
of labor was Sorau, where he had
charge of the branch; here his labors
were blessed with success and during
the ten months he spent there about
ten persons were baptized. Next he
spent a few months in Halle a Saale,
trying to raise up a branch there, but
as permission could not be obtained,
to preach, he was called to Hannover,
where he spent the last year of his
mission. Here also the labors of the
Elders were crowned with success
and he and his companions baptized
about fifteen persons. During his
missionary experiences the gifts of
the spirit were made manifest in
preserving him in times of sickness
and danger, in remarkable instances
of healing, in gifts in the language,
in explaining the truths of the gospel,
and in the privilege of baptizing and
confirming twenty persons members
of the Church. Upon being released
from his mission Elder Done went
to the "Mormon" colonies in Mexico,
where his narents had moved during
the time he was on his mission. While
here he was engaged to teach in the
Juarez Stake Academy; he com-
menced these labors in 1901. At an
early age Bro. Done started to play
the violin under the tutelage of his
father and continued his study of
music for the pleasure he found in it.
The first year at the academy he was
called to take charge of the Juarez
orchestra. In the academy his work
was in English, phonography, and
music. In the summer of 1902 he
and Miss Fannie Slayson went to Salt
Lake City and were married in the
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returning to his labors in the Juarez
Academy, he was given charge of the
choir and was called to be chorister
of the Juarez Ward and the Juarez
Stake choirs. The next year a band
and orchestra were organized In the
academy and Bro. Done was chosen
instructor and leader of these organi-
zations. In 1905 the band was uniform-
ed and became very efficient in play-
ing, and their services were sought
at celebrations and promenade con
certs by the Mexicans as well as the
colonists. Bro. Done is still instructor
in the Juarez Stake Academy.

MARTI NEAU, George A., first coun-
selor to Bishop Benjamin J. Johnson
of Colonia Chuichupa, Chihuahua,
Mexico, was born March 22, 1864, in
Logan, Cache county, Utah, the sou
of James PI. and Susan E. Martineau.
In 1879 he accompanied his brother
Moroni to Arizona, where he became
one of the first settlers of St. John;
later, he took part in founding the
settlement of Concho, afterwards
called Erastus, where his uncle, Sixtus
E. Johnson, was called to preside as
Bishop. In 1882 he returned to Utah,
but went to Arizona again in 1883 and
became one of the pioneer "Mormon"
settlers of St. David, Cochise conuty.
His fathers family also arriving in
Arizona, George A. located with them
on the Gila river Arizona, in 1885, and
thus became an early settler of Pima.
In 1887 he visited old Mexico, where
he assisted in making the first road
into the Sierra Madre mountains. In
that year also he married Emma Pau-
line, daughter of Reuben W. and
Elzadie Allred. In 1893 he purchased
a farm near Thatcher, Arizona, where
he made a comfortable home for his
family. While her he took an active
part in M. I. A. work and also acted
as a home missionary. In 1898 he
again visited Mexico, and the following
year (1899) moved thither with his
family, locating at Chuichupa, where
he has resided ever since. Here he
again took an active part in mutual

and Sunday school affairs. From
1942 to 1905 he filled a mission to the
southwestern States, during which he
acted as mission superintendent of
Sunday schools and also as president
of a conference. Dec. 11, 1904, he was
chosen and sustained as first coun-
selor to Bishop Benjamin J. Johnson,
of the Chuichupa Ward, whicli posi-
tion he still holds.

Cardon, Joseph S., was born Jan.
9, 1858, in Ogden, Weber county, Utah.
In a sketch prepared for this work
Elder Cardon writes: "My parents
were Piedmonters, natives of Italy.
My father joined the Church in 1852
and emigrated to America in 1854; he
started to drive a team across the

])lains before he could speak a word of
English. My mother whose maiden
name was Susette Staley, joined the
Church in 1853 and emigrated in 1856,
crossing the plains in the first hand-
cart company, at the age of eighteen
under Capt. Edmund Ellsworth. Her
father gave out and died on the trail,
leaving her mother, one brother, two
sisters and herself to complete the
journey under many trying circum-
stances. She married my father Louis
Philip Cardon in the A'^alley as a plural
wife. They were both of the old Va-

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dous race who never were converted to
the Catholic faith, although many of
them died at the stake and suffered
every persecution that could be heaped
upon them. My parents located in
Logan when I was two years old, and
five years later they moved to Oxford,
Idaho, then the northern frontier of
the Saints. As a boy I experienced
many incidents pertaining to frontier
life in an Indian country and had seve-
ral times to move in and out of forts
built for protection. I was ordained a
Deacon at the age of twelve by
Bishop Geo. Lake, and though a boy
I sensed to a considerable degree the
responsibility of tha* calling and tried
in my weakness to magnify it. At
the age of fifteen I was ordained a
Teacher and served, with other breth-
ren in the capacity of a Ward teacher.
I was ordained an Elder July 23, 1874
and married the same day by Bishop
Geo. Lake. My father was called to
go with the company of Bishop Lake
to settle on the Little Colorado river
in Arizona, in 1876. He had started to
make a home in Utah, in connection
with Bishop Lake and they were being
persecuted for conscience sake by a
political party known as the Malad
ring when President Brigham Young
saw fit to call them to Arizona. My
younger brother, Emanuel P. Cardon,
accompanied my father and Bro. Lake
to Orderville In southern Utah, there
to await the arrival of the companies;
thence they traveled to the Little Colo-
rado river, where the camps establish-
ed their location at a place called
Camp Obed. My brother returned the
same spring to Oxford, Idaho. Some-
time during the spring or summer
Apostle Brigham Young then residing
at Logan in conversation asked me
if I Intended to go to Arizona. I
answered that I expected to go there
to assist my father to establish himself
and then return to Idaho, as I did not
consider that I was called as an
Arizona missionary. Bro. Young said,
— "I will call you. And I want you to
go and consider yourself, together

with your brother, as much missiona-
ries as if you had been called by the
President of the Church." Had I not
been thus called I would have done
as many others did — left the mis-
sion as soon as I could have got
away. After my brother's return, we
settled up all our business in Idaho
and started Oct. 6, 1876, for Arizona,
our outfit consisting of six mules,
five yoke of oxen, four heavy wagons,
one single team and a herd of sixty
five head of stock. I drove the ox-
team and the responsibility and in-
cidents connected with that journey
made it quite an undertaking. It
took all the time till Christmas to
get there. Finding our cattle worn
out and our stock also I pulled up the
Moan Coppy wash to the fort built
by our Indian missionaries during
the summer, and went into camp for
the winter on Christmas day. While
encamped there, my wife gave birth
to a daughter. The child died and its
mother came near losing her life
also. We were the first to start a
graveyard in what is now Tuba City.
My father and my brother came back
as far Moan Coppy in March, 1877, to
meet me and I moved to Camp Obed
After staying there a few weeks, I
moved up the river and located Woo-
druff in connection with father, Ema-
nuel P. Cardon, and Wm. Walker who
had accompanied us from Idaho, We
were the first families to locate at
Woodruff, and were joined later by
Elder Nathan Tenney and others. We
could not utilize the land there, until
we could construct a dam some thirty-
five feet high; consequently, we rented
some land from one Mr. Stinson who
owned the ranch where Snowflake
now stands. The next summer we
were joined by Lorenzo Hatch and
others. We organized for the putting
in of the Woodruff dam under the di-
rection of a committee of which I was
a member, and was appointed foreman
of the work. We labored during the
fall and winter and had the dam com-
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when a sudden freshet came down the
Little Colorado river and washed
around our work, leaving it a much
larger job than it was in the first
place. It now became evident that
something must be done to obtain
supplies for the camp. Consequently,
I was called by Bro. Hatch, who was
then counselor to Pres. Lot Smith and
presiding Elder of Woodruff, to make
up an outfit of three six-mule teams
and go with some of the brethren to
earn provisions, to assist the people
until we could put in the dam and get
out the water. We freighted wool
from the White Mountains near by, to
Elmon, near Trinidad, which was then
the terminus of the railroad in the
State of Colorado. The Lord greatly
blessed our labors, and we returned to
Woodruff loaded with supplies both of
food and clothing, but it being now
late in the season we decided to go to
some place where we could raise a
crop. We accordingly went up Silver
creek, about three miles above what is
now Snowflake, where three of the
brethren, James Pierce and Jesse and
William Walker, had located at the
place since known as Taylor. As
soon as we had become established.
President Hatch, who was now coun-
selor to Pres. Jesse N. Smith of Snow-
flake Stake, appointed me presiding
Elder at Taylor, and we were made a
branch of Snowflake Ward under Bish-
op Hunt. I was also appointed
chairman and foreman to build a dam
and canal, to take out the water at
Taylor on the west side of the creek.
Two years later, at the organization
of the Taylor Ward, I was ordained a
High Priest by Pres. Jesse N. Smith,
and chosen as first counselor to Bish-
op John N. StanisfoM; I worked in
that capacity until I moved to Old
Mexico. At the same time I was
given a special responsibility in re-
gard to the young people, having
charge of all their amusements, dan-
ces etc. During this time I was pri-
vileged to make a trip to the St.
George Temple, which was afterwards

the cause of my move to Old Mexico
(thank the Lord), at the time of the
raid on those brethren who were liv-
ing in the order of plural marriage,
and during which Ammon M. Tenney
and others were sent to Detroit, Mich.,
and others to Ft. Yuma, Ariz. This led
to the move into Old Mexico. I
started with the company from Taylor
and Snowflake Feb. 9, 1884, and on
the way met the brethren from other
settlements. We organized for the
journey and late in March we arrived
on the Casas Grandes river, near the
Mexican town of La Assension and
Colonia Diaz. We remained in camp
a few weeks to make arrangements
to pass the custom house etc., during
which time Apostle George Teasdale,
visited us. The camp was divided,
part going up the river to farm some
of the Mexican lands, near Casas
Grandes, and part remaining near
Colonia Diaz. I went with the camp
up the river, Bro. Wallace Roundy
being appointed president of the camp.
When President Lyman made his first
visit to the camps, I was called to
take my team and accompany Pres.
Jesse N. Smith to bring him in from
the San Jose station on the Mexican
Central. In the fall I went back to
Taylor and moved the rest of my
family to Mexico; I was among the
first Saints to locate at Colonia
Juarez, and at the organization of the
Juarez Ward I was appointed presi-
dent of the M. I. A. — the first organi-
zation of that kind in the mission,
and labored in that capacity several
years. I also had special charge of
the amusements of the young and
was made a member of what was
termed the Juarez Town Council, con-
sisting of. the mission presidency, the
Bishopric and myself. At the orga-
nization of the Juarez Stake I was
chosen as a member of the High
Council, first counselor to Stake pre-
sident of the Y. M. M. I. A., D. H.
Harris, and second counselor to Stake
President of High Priest quorum,
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positions in the Stake until I was
called into the Bishopric of the Du-
blan Ward at its late organization as
first counselor to Bishop S. J. Robin-
son which position I hold at present.
And during all this time I have al-
ways taken a responsible and active
part in the temporal developments."

HARRIS, Hyrum Smith, president
of the Mexican Mission, is a son of
Dennison L. Harris and Sarah Wilson
Harris, and was born at Smithfield,
Cache county, Utah, Oct. 2, 1860. He
graduated with the normal class at
the B. Y. A., at Provo, under Profes-
sor Maeser, in 1884, and taught school
the following winter in his home
town, Monroe, Sevier county, Utah.
In the spring of 1885 he left home to
fiil a mission in the northwestern
States, and was assigned to labor in
Illinois. Just a month after leaving
Salt Lake City, his father died. Two
months later, he experienced one of
many severe spells of sickness,
brought on by a severe cold which
settled in his face in a wound, he
having been accidentally shot July 24,
1878. Durtng his sickness President
King, of the Indiana conference, of-
fered him an honorably release, but
when he refused to accept it, he was
promised that he should never suffer
again with his broken jaw. Although
several fragments of bone later work-
ed out, they were unaccompanied with
pain. Elder Harris writes: "Being
clerk of the Indiana conference, I
had written out releases for several
Elders who had finished their two
years, and was just finishing my own,
when President Palmer suddenly in-
terrupted me by saying: "We cannot
let you go home yet; we would like
you to go either to Beaver Island,
among the Strangites, or to St. Johns,
Kansas, and open up a mission among
the Bickerton and Cadmanites, off-
shoots from the Rigdonites. In com-
pany with Elder Swenson I went to
St. Johns, where we made many
friends and baptized three of the

apostles and their wives, of the Bicker
ton church. July 11, 1889, I married
Lexia A. Curtis, in the Logan Temple.
I graduated from the University of
Michigan with the title of L. L. B. in
1894. In 1895 I was called to Mexico
to study the Spanish language and
the laws. I completed the six years
course in the National School of Jur-
isprudence, in the City of Mexico, but
while waiting for the legalizing of my
diploma, a new law was enacted
which barred me from passing without
taking seven technical examinations.
In 1903 I was called to preside over
the Mexican Mission, which position
I held for a year and a half. After
my release I returned to the colonies
in Chihuahua, and there remained for
ten months; then I was recalled to
preside over the Mexican Mission and
to represent the "Mormon" colonies
in Mexico before the Government,
which position 1 stiil have the honor
of filling. During the past ten years
I have met in business relations the
greater number of the cabinet of
President Diaz and have had three
interviews with the president him-
self. I have also had the privilege of
explaining the social and religious
ideas of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints to quite a number
of the leading men of the Mexican
nation. The Lord has blessed me
with five children, four sons and one
daughter. The three youngest boys
were born in Mexico's national capital.'

BROADBENT, Reuben, a Patriarch
in the Kanab Stake of Zion, was born
Dec. 23, 1817, at Kexby, near Gains-
boro, Lincolnshire, England. His re-
ligious training was in the Episcopal
Church. He learned the trade of
house carpenter from his father and
followed that trade all his life. At
the age af twenty-nine he married
Harriet Otter. He embraced the
Gospel, being baptized Oct. 26, 1849,
and was at once appointed to preach
in his home village, with Elder Joseph
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this he came to America. After spend-
ing three years in Saint Louis, Mo.,
where his wife died, he came on to
Utah and settled at Farmington, Davis
county. Here he designed and super-
intended the building of the "Rock
Meeting House", and helped to build
a grist, saw and shingle mill. He
belonged to the Farmington Band,
which at that time was one of the
best bands in Utah. He had now
two wives and was just getting in
comfortable circumstnces when Pre-
sident Young called him to move with
his family to the Muddy. After the

where he still lives and works in his
shop, he superintended the building of
the Social Hall. Besides these public
buildings, there are homes of his de-
signing in every town in which he
has lived. He was ordained president
of the Eighty-fifth Quorum of Seven-
ty by Elder Jacob Gates, and was
later ordained a High Priest; finally
he was ordained Patriarch by Apostle
Francis M. Lyman.

HARRIS, Silas, a High Councilor in
the Kanab Stake, was the son of
Moses Harris and Fannie Smith, and

Muddy Mission was abandoned, he
went north once more and settled at
American Fork, where he put up an
addition to the meeting house. Then
a call came to go to Kanab and help
Brother James Leithead to build a
grist mill. The mill was built, but
a flood came that cut a deep channel
through the canyon and left the mill
high and dry. He then joined Bro.
Leithead and others in buying a di-
lapidated grist mill at Glendale. The
mill was refitted and put in good
shape, and was doing well till it burn-
ed down. The owners, however, re-
built it, and in time made a roller
mill of it; it is now the only flour
mill in , Kane county. At Kanab,

was born in Lawrence county, Indiana,
Oct. 14, 1824. At the age of ten years
he was healed of a severe illness by
the administration of the Elders, it
being the first meraculous menifesta-
tion of the power of God that he had
witnessed. At the age of fourteen he
was baptized by Elder Harvey Green
and confirmed a member of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints by Elder Wm. Hawk. In

October, 1838, he moved with his par-
ents to a place near Montrose. Iowa,
where they lived until the exodus of
the Saints from Nauvoo. The family
joined the camps of Israel in the
spring of 1846. A few days prior to
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reached them that the Saints were
called upon, by the U. S. Government,
for a battalion of soldiers to fight
Mexico. Without any serious thought
on the subject Silas said he was go-
ing. The saying uttered lightly prov-
ed prophetic. Joining Company B
under Captain Jesse D. Huner, he re-
mained with the Battalion, sharing
its hardships.until they were disbanded
at Los Angeles in 1847. At Fort
Leavenworth he was taken ill with
the mumps, but rather than go on the
sick list in care of an unfriendly
doctor, he continued in the ranks, not
fully recovering until they reashed
Santa Fe. Much of the time during
the march he served as teamster. Re-
maining in San Francisco during the
winter of 1847-48, he, in connection
with his uncle Wm. Hawk, advertised
to take a mail to the Missouri river
at the rate of 50 cents per letter. The
enterprise proved a success. The
party consisting of sixteen men left
San Francisco Apr. 1.5, 1848, and ar-
rived in Salt Lake City about the
middle of June. Here Silas remained
until August,Wm. Hawk going on with
the mail. With a party of twelve
other men he started forCouncil Bluffs
Iowa, with pack animals Aug. 20th,
meeting Pres. Brigham Young and a
company of Saints on the head of
Sweetwater; they were unloading
part of their teams and returning
them to the Missouri river to assist
other emigrants the following spring.
The two parties traveled together the
balance of the way, arriving at their
destination about the middle of
October. Here Silas rejoined his
parents (near Council Bluffs) where
he attended school the following year.
In June, 1849, the family started for
Great Salt Lake City in Capt. Taylor's
company. Sept. 2, 1849, he married
Sariah Aldridge, daughter of Wm.
Aldridge and Betsey Vanblaricum, at
Laramie, Elder Reddick N. Allred per-
forming the ceremony. Arriving in
Great Salt I>ake Valley, he settled at
Bountiful. In the spring of 18.51 he

moved with his family to San Bern-
ardino, Cal., in company with Chas.
C. Rich and Amasa M. Lyman, locat-
ing on the Bernardino ranch, he hav-
ing purchased a portion of the same
from the Church. Apr. 19, 1855, he
started on a mission to Washington
Territory, in obedience to a call from
Apostle Amasa M. Lyman. He trav-
eled a distance of sixteen hundred
miles with a pack horse. On Lewis
river, Washington Territory, he and
his companions organized a branch of
the Church, having baptized a number
into the fold. He returned home the
following November, 1855. In 1857
San Bernardino was broken up. Elder
Harris sold his property at a great
sacrifice and moved to Utah, settling
at Washington, Washington county.
In the spring of 3 858 he was a member
of an exploring expedition to the
White Mountains,to find a location for
the Saints, in case they should be driv-
en out by their enemies. He left his
family encamped in a wagon Apr. 19.
1858, explored Paranagate Valley and
went to Meadow Valley, where he put
in a crop; returned home about the
beginning of August. In the spring
of 1859 he moved his family from
Washington and assisted in founding
Harrisburg, in Washington county;
here he was chosen and appointed pre-
siding Elder over the branch. In
1872 he moved to Glendale, Kane
county, Utah, at which place he was
ordained a High Priest and set apart
as a High Councilor of the Kanab
Stake of Zion by Apostle Erastus
Snow. This position he held up to
the time of his death, which occurred
at his home at Glendale March 12,
1897. Elder Harris was the father
of twelve children, six sons and six
daughters, all but one of whom sur-
vived him.

ADAMS, Nathan, a veteran Elder
in the Kanab Stake of Zion, and a
counselor in the presidency of the
High Priests in said Stake, was born
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hurst, Canada, the son of Arza Adams
and Salina Clark. His parents removed
from Canada to Missouri, where they
were exposed to the persecutions and
drivings by the mob in 1838-39. Thence
the family removed to Nauvoo, 111,
where the father worked on the
Temple and the son carried water for
the workmen to drink. His parents
received their endowments in the
Nauvoo Temple and subsequently
participated in the exodus of theSaints
which commenced in 1846. In 1849
the family came to Utah and soon af-
terwards located in American Fork,
Utah county, where the elder Alams
died. Nathan married Mary Malinda
Plunkett Feb. 15, 1855, with whom he
had eight children living, namely five
boys and three girls. In 1870 he was
called to the Dixie Mission. For
many years Elder Adams was a mem-
ber of the 84th quorum of Seventy and
was ordained a High Priest by Apostle
Francis M. Lyman Sept. 2, 1894^ In
1904 he was ordained a Patriarch by
Pres. Joseph F. Smith.

PUGH, Edward Kelly, a High Coun-
cilor in the Kanab Stake of Zion and
a resident of Kanab, Kane county,
Utah, was born April 18, 1868, in Mill
Creek, Salt Lake county, Utah,
the son of Edward Pugh and Eli
zabeth Kelly. He was baptized
May 3, 1877, by James L. Bunting.
As a youth he was ordainel to the
office of a Deacon and afterwards re
ceived the offices of Elder and High
Priest. Among the many positions he
has held in the Church may be men-
tioned that of president of Deacons,
president of Elders, second counselor
in the presidency of the High Priests'
quorum, secretary of M. I. A., Ward
teacher, and home missionary. March
1, 1892, he married Ann Eliza Carling,
with whom he has eight children. He
has filled a two-years mission in the
St. George Temple. By occupation
he is a farmer and stock and sheep
raiser.

MEEKS, Heber Jesse, a High Coun-
cilor in the Kanab Stake of Zion, is a
sturdy product of Utah's frontier life.
He was born May 9, 1869, in Harris-
burg, Washington county, Utah, where
he lived for eight years, after which
he moved with his parents, Priddy
and Mary Jane McCleve Meeks, to
Orderville, Kane county, Utah, which
place has since been his home. The
educational advantages of the boy
were meagre. In common with others
who participated in frontier life, the
farm instead of the school demanded

most of his time. He, however, ob-
tained an excellent schooling in the
Orderville United Order. There he
received a discipline, while a boy,
that brought out the strongest traits
of the man and made him public
spirited to a high degree; also gener-
ous and full of brotherly interest and
love. In 1889 Brother Meeks married
Clarissa Amanda Bowers in the St.
George Temple. Three years later
he was set apart as a missionary to
the northern States. He spent two
years laboring in Indiana, West Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania, and also
visited places of interest in Washing-
ton, D. C, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
After returning from his mission he
attended school one year at the Brig-

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ham Young University in Provo. He
has labored as a carpenter, cattle-
raiser, sheep-grower and farmer, be-
sides working faithfully in the Ward
as assistant Sunday school superin-
tendent, president of Y. M. M. I. A.
and Ward teacher. He has also serv-
ed as constable and filled many ap-
pointive ofices. He has been secre-
tary of the Kane County Sheepmen's
Union, State sheep inspector, coun-
ty vice president for Utah Wool Grow-
ers Association, and attended two na-
tional live stock conventions, one at
Portland, Oregon, and one at Denver,
Colo. The main work of Brother
Meeks, however, has been in the M.
I. A. He served four years as Stake
counselor and was then sustained as
Stake president of Y. M. M. I. A.,
which position he has now held for
eight years. The works of Brother
Meeks are characterized by faithful-
ness and earnestness. His heart is
in his labor, and his zealous efforts
are crowned with success. He is also
a member of the High Council, and
a useful citizen in his community,
judicious and enterprising. Public im-
provements never fail to receive his
support. He has a comfortable home
in Orderville, where he lives happily
with his wife and six children.

HARRISON, James Parry, Bishop
of St. John Ward, Malad Stake
(Oneida county, Idaho,) is a son of
James H. Harrison and Angelina
Parry; and was born Jan. 22, 1846,
in London, England. He was baptiz-
ed on his birthday, Jan., 22, 1854
by his father, emigrated to Utah in
1861, located in Malad Valley in 1868,
was ordained an Elder Dec. 13, 1869,
by John D. T. McAllister and ordained
a High Priest by Elijah Box Nov. 20,
1880. In 1886 he went to the South-
ern States on a mission. Prior to his
calling to the office of a Bishop he
acted as a Ward teacher, a Sunday
school superintendent, an officer in
the Y. M. M. I. A. and a president of
an Elders quorum. In 1869 (Dec. 13th)

he married Elvira Ann Williams who
has borne him three sons and five
daughters. Nov. 26, 1884, he married
Emma Dredge as a second wife, in
consequence of which he became a
victim of the anti polygamy procecu-
tions in 1888 and served his six
months in the Boise penitentiary.
Elder Harrison is by occupation a
farmer and stock raiser.

BENNION, Wilford, Bishop of Nee-
ley Ward, Oneida county, Idaho, was
born May 16, 1870, in Taylorsville,
Salt Lake county, Utah, the son of

Samuel Bennion and Rhoda Jones,
He was baptized by Archibald Frame
Aug. 1, 1878, ordained a Deacon Nov.
20, 1882, by Samuel Bennion, an Elder
Oct. 11, 1891, a Seventy Dec. 15, 1898.
by Apostel Heber J. Grant and a High
Priest and Bishop of Neeley Ward
June 8, 1901, by Apostle Rudger Claw-
son. After being ordained a Seventy
in 1898 he filled a mission to the
Southern States. Prior to his ordina-
tion to the Bishopric he was a diligent
Sunday school worker, and acted as
a teacher and secretary in that organi-
zation. He also labored as a Ward
teacher. Feb. 25, 1891, he took to
wife Florence Houtz.but has only one
child (Erna Bennion, born Feb. 5,
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taken an active part in public affairs,
both ecclesiastically and civilly, and
has served two terms in the Idaho legis
lature. Otherwise he is a stock raiser,
farmer, miller and merchant; his
residence is in Neeley, Idaho.

RICHARDS, Myron John, Bishop of
Riverside, Malad Stake (Box Elder
county, Utah), is a son of the late
Apostle Franklin D. Richards and
Mary Thompson, and was born May
22, 1858, in Provo, Utah county, Utah.
He was baptized in May, 1866, and or-
dained an Elder in the Endowment

House, Salt Lake City, when he was
about sixteen years old. In 1874 (Jan.
20th) he was ordained a Seventy by
Truman Leonard, of Farmington, and
became a member of the ^6th quorum
of Seventy. He was ordained a High
Priest and Bishop, Jan. 27, 1884, by
Pres. Wilford Woodruff, and at the
same time appointed to act as Bishop
of Plymouth Ward. When the Ply-
mouth Ward was divided he became
Bishop of South Plymouth, which later
was named Fielding, and since Oct.
14, 1904, he has acted as Bishop of
Riverside Ward. In 1879 (July 3rd)
he married Julia Ann Petersen and
on May 27, 1885, he took to wife Isa-
bella M. Young. The names of his

children are: Mary Ann (now dead),
Myron J., Mabel (now dead), Ralph
C, Julia, Maggie, Hyrum Y., Elmer T.,
Florence Glenn and Legrand (now
dead). His wife Isabella M. died Nov.
10, 1901. Bishop Richards is a farmer
but has also tried his hand at mer-
chandizing; his record as a civil
office-holder includes a four year
term as a deputy registration officer,
and that of school trustee, notary
public etc. The first three years of
his life w^as spent in Salt Lake City,
the next fifteen years in Farmington,
Utah, followed by three years in Almy,
Wyo. After that his home for fifteen
years was in Plymouth (now Fielding),
and Riverside has been his place of
residence during the last thirteen
years. He was one of the first sett-
lers on what is locally known as Bear
River Flat (Plymouth), and the re-
sponsibility of locating townsites,
meeting houses, school houses and
county roads has repeatedly rested
on him. Bishop Richards is a kind-
hearted man, gentlemanly in his bear-
ing, and highly respected by the com-
munity in which he lives.

BOWEN, David John, president of
the Arbon branch, Samaria Ward,
Malad Stake, (Oneida county, Idaho)
was born Dec. 5, 1861, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, the son of David Bowen
and Annie Shackleton. He was bap-
tized June 10, 1870, on Henderson
creek, Malad Valley, ordained a Priest
in April, 1878, by Bishop George Dun-
ford and ordained a Seventy April
12, 1884, by Seymour B. Young. In
1887 he was set apart as second as-
sistant in the superindendency of the
Samaria Ward Sunday school, where
he also acted as Ward clerk, for a
number of years. After removing to
Freedom. Uintah county, Wyoming,
he acted as a Ward clerk at that
place from 1889 to 1891. He was
also president of Y. M. M. I. A. in
Freedom Ward, during the winter of
1890 to 1891. Early in 1894 he was
chosen first counselor in the presiden-

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cy of the Y. M. M. I. A. in the Plea-
[sant View branch of the Samaria
I Ward, and was also teacher of the
religion class. In 1895 he became an
officer in the Y. M. M. I. A. in the
Samaria Ward, and also teacher of
tthe religion class. Dec. 17, 1884, he
larried Mary Sophia Smith, of
Spanish Fork, Utah, with whom he
'has ten children. His principal oc-
cupation hitherto has been that of
a farmer and stock raiser.

JOHN, Levi, a counselor in the pre-
sidency of the High Priests Quorum
of the Malad Stake, was born Feb.
4, 1849, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, the
son of Thomas John and Margaret
Thomas. He was baptized Feb. 4,
1857, by Elder Edward Miles, ordain-
ed an Elder Nov. 14, 1869 by Thomas
Green in Portage, Box Elder county,
Utah, ordained a Seventy April 12,
1884, by James C. Chandler, and or-
dained a High Priest Dec. 13, 1896,
by Lorenzo Snow. In 1891-93 he filled
a mission to Great Britain, laboring
in Wales. From 1886 to 1897 he acted
as one of the seven presidents of the
57th quorum of Seventy, and on Dec.
13, 1896, he was set apart as a High
Councilor in the Malad Stake. Elder
John came to Utah with his parents
in 1862, being then only thirteen years
old, and located in Wellsville, Cache
county. In 1861 he became one of
the pioneer settlers of Portage, Box
Elder county, Utah. During his in-
teresting experience in Wales he was
mobbed on a certain occasion by
about 150 people. Since 1893 he has
labored as a home missionary in the
Malad Stake. Elder John has been
married twice; he married his first
wife (Mary Ann Hall) Oct. 28, 1872;
she died Dec. 21, 1873. In 1874 (Oct.
13th) he married Helen Green. He
is the father of thirteen children,
namely nine sons and four daughters;
two of the sons are dead. By occupa-
tion Bro. John is a farmer and stock-
miser.

JONES, David Pressor, was born
July 29, 1836, in Breckndckshire,
Wales, the son of David Jones (a
miner) and Elizabeth Prossor (a
farmer's daughter). In a biographical
sketch prepared for this work, Bro
Jones writes: „My parents were
married in 1835 and I was their first
child, and now also the only one of
my father's children living. Thus I
am practically the alpha and omega
as it were, of their family group on
earth. In 1840 they moved to a min-
ing district in Monmouthshire, where

a few years later my father fell down
a mine pit in the night and was killed.
I was then between nine and ten years
of age. Thus I was fatherless, with a
widowed mother and one brother born
thi'ee months after father's demise.
When old enough to choose my own
occapation, I adopted the coal mining
vocation in the subteranean chambers
of the coal fields of that region. In
1850, or 1851, I was baptized into the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, and joined the Beauford and
Rasa branch, where I was ordained
a Deacon soon afterwards. I was or
dained a Teacher in the Victoria
branch, whereunto I had moved to
obtain better remuneration for my

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labor and where I was ordained an
Elder. When I embraced the Gospel
I was unschooled and very unlettered.
I could neither read nor write, but by
studious efforts in a brief period I was
able to read and write in two langu-
ages and was chosen secretary for
two branches of the Church in succes-
sion who spoke in two different ton-
gues— English and Welsh. I was
highly blessed of the Lord and became
famous for laying hands on the sick,
for they invariably recovered. The
adversary, too, vacated his temporary
human dwelling under my administra-
tion. My usefulness was soon re
cognized and I was chosen counselor
to the president of the English branch..
When called upon, I took great plea-
sure in distributing tracts, preaching
the Gospel and superintending the
Sabbath school. W^hen the law of
tithing was introduced to the Saints
in Wales, I became a tithe payer as
well as a liberal contributor to other
Church funds then in vogue. Having
reached my majority, I took a wife —
aSaint and a model housekeeper — and
we began to invite the Elders to share
our hospitality, which they did in our
neat but rented home on Brieryhill
Victoria. Subsequently we moved to
Tredegar, where we found superior
facilities to accumulate or save emi-
gration money; where also I was
made president of the Tredegar
branch and book agent for the Mon-
mouthshire conference. We kept the
conference house too, where the local
Elders and missionaries from Zion
delighted to call and refresh them-
selves on their missionary tours. As
I was a natural born singer, I studied
music, lead the branch choir and made
concerts in the distinguished towns
of Tredegar, Newport and Cardiff for
the benefit of the conference presi-
dents whose headquarters were in
these localities. In 1866 we bade fare-
well to the remainingSaints and to the
hills and dales of lovely Wales, land
ever dear to me, and embarked at
Liverpool, on a sailing vessel named

in honor of the distinguished states-
mand John Bright. After a voyage
of five weeks and three days we ar-
rived in New York June 5, 1866. As
a Saint was more appreciated for his
absence than for his presence in the
United States in those days, our route
was pointed out by the Church emi-
gration agent, Thomas Taylor, part
way through Canada to our destina-
tion.Our emigrant company had rode
on the train but a short distance when
the baggage car caught fire,and many
had the contents of their traveling
wardrobes extremely damaged. In
Canada our train was stopped by a
body of armed soldiers who searched
the cars in vain for hostile Fenians.
We had left the Canadian frontiers
when we experienced a train wreck
in Michigan where spectators expect-
ed to find hundreds of the Saints
killed, but as the kind hand of Pro-
vidence guided our destiny, none of
us were seriously injured. We reached
the frontiers in safety and my wife
and I crossed the plains in Capt. John
Holliday's oxtraiu. I was chosen
secretary of the commissary depart-
ment. Many were sick and eight died
by the way. An acquaintance of ours,
a young sister, whose mother had
tried many things in vain to alleviate
he suferings.I laid hands on her, and
she recovered. She is now the mother of
a large family and testifies that the
Lord, through my administration,
saved her life. We arrived in Salt
Lake City Sept. 25, 1866. Our family
settled in Willard city. Box Elder
county, where I was ordained a Sev-
enty that winter and joined the 59th
quorum of Seventy, presided over by
Elder Geo. Marsh. I adopted mason-
ry as my chief trade for the time be-
ing. In 1868, I was placed in charge
of the Willard choir, where Prof.
Evan Stephens received some of his
early impressions in the Divine art —
music — and where Elder Daniel Tovey
now ex-commissioner of Oneida coud
ty, Idaho, preceeded me as a teacher
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service in the Ward and in the Stake,
together with teaching a great num-
ber of choir selections furnished by
Prof. Geo. Careless, I took the choir
to Salt Lake City, where in common
with fourteen other choirs from the
rural districts it was amalgamated
with the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir
during two conferences. Not having
a farm, and land having reached a
high valuation, with the advent of the
railroad, I resigned the leadership of
the Willard choral fraternity in favor
of Brother Evan Stephens, who now
had grown to manhood and bid fair to
make a good record in the musical
line, and settled in Malad Valley,
where a broader field of usefulness
awaited me. Here I was given charge
of the Malad choral organization,
which now was enlarged to nearly
double its former number of singers
and became a power for great good
in the valley. I kept horses and
wagons and hauled freight from Cor-
rinne for the Malad co-operative com-
pany for nearly six years. On winter
evenings, when free from other more
important duties, I delivered lectures
on interesting subjects and also ora-
tions on celebration days. In 1880, I
was chosen first counselor to Bishop
John D. Jones of Cherry Creek and or-
dained a High Priest under the hands
of Oliver G. Snow at the organization
of that Ward, to which I afterwards
moved and where my intense longing
for a farm was gratified. In 1889 my
wife died, and having no issue I was
illy prepared to endure the solitude
in my home that followed her demise.
But I drew nearer then ever unto the
Lord and he blessed me accordingly.
In 1890, I was called and later set
apart as conductor of the Malad Stake
choir.which was organized at this time
and by traveling as vocal musician I
succeeded in gathering from the vari-
ous Wards a strong and conservative
body of singers who by their sweet
and devoted musical efforts elicited
many laudatory enunciations from

President Lorenzo Snow and several
of the Apostles during their periodical
visits to the Malad Stake conferences.
In 1893, without relinquishing any of
the ecclesiastical positions which
through my integrity I had meritori-
ously acquired during the past thir-
teen years, I was called and set apart
to preside over the Y. M. M. I. A. of
Cherry Creek which I waited upon
about seven years, and the association
received laurels of praise from the
Stake presidency at the spiritual
banquets they made when they visited
the Ward. In 1900, I was appointed
acting Bishop to succed Bishop John
D. Jones who after many years of
energetic efforts in building up the
Ward had now passed away from
this stage of action. Elder H. H. Miff-
lin, my fellow counselor to Bishop
Jones, was appointed my assistant.
We labored very harmoniously to-
gether and the union and friendship
we formed will not soon be forgotten.
Later, I turned over the social, moral
and devotional care of the Ward to
my successor Bishop Geo. Facer, but
was solicited by the Church Bishopric
to receive the tithes of the people till
the close of the year 1901, which I
did, and received their encomiums for
the wise management of the Ward's
finances. It has been my prerogative
to hold many other trustworthy posi-
tions for years, such as school trustee,
road overseer and trustee for our sub-
stantial rock meeting house. The mu-
sical interest of Cherry Ward too,
where I have lived more than twenty
years, I have never forgotten. To
those to whom this sketch shall come
— my cotemporaries or those yet un-
born— my testimony is: I know that
my Redeemer liveth, for the inspira-
tion of his spirit is in my soul and
His kind hand on sea and land has
been over me for good."

Pomeroy, Franklin Thomas, second
counselor in the presidency of the
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first saw the light of day at Paris,
Bear Lake county, Idaho, Sept. 15,
1870. He is the son of Francis Martin
Pomeroy (one of the 143 original pio-
neers who under the leadership of
Brigham Young journeyed across the
plains and mountains in 1847 ) and
Sarah Matilda Colburn. When six
years of age his parents moved to
Arizona and settled in the Salt River

valley, where, they, together with
the colony accompanying them, con-
structed the Mesa canal and located
the town of Mesa, where he has since
resided. Elder Pomeroy was brought
up under difficulties attendant on
settling a new country and very early
in life, owing to the death of his
father in 1882, he was compelled to
do his share towards supporting his
mother's family. He was of a studi-
ous nature and with his meager ear-
nings in his purse he went to Salt
Lake City and entered the Salt Lake
Stake Academy, where he remained
two years. He graduated from the busi-
ness course and received the first
certificate of graduation ever pre-
sented by that school. July 11, 1891,
he was ordained an Elder and on
March 24, 1893, he married Sophia
Isadora Morris; on their wedding
tour the young couple visited Salt

Lake City and attended the dedication
of the Salt Lake Temple. In October,
1893, Elder Pomeroy was called to
preside over the Y. M. M. I. A. of the
Mesa Ward and was successful in
introducing the first manual publish-
ed into the association. After labor-
ing in that capacity until March, 1895,
he responded to a call for a mission
to the Southern States, going direct
from Mesa to Chattanooga, Tenn. He
was appointed to labor in the Missis-
sippi conference and two months later
appointed president of the same. This
position he filled with honor and
credit until he was honorably releas-
ed to return home in March, 1901.
During this mission he had many re-
markable experiences in the mani-
festations of the goodD'^^s of God, and
he became thoroughly grounded in
the faith of the Gospel. On his return
home, his earthly possessions con-
sisted of a wife and child, but within
a year he engaged in business in
which he has been very successful. In
1902 he was elected justice of the
peace in Mesa precinct. As a Church
worker Elder Pomeroy has ever
distinguished himself, having labored
as an officer in the M. I. A., acted as
superintendent of the religion classes
and class teacher. He has also filled
many other offices of responsibility
and trust.

PHELPS, Hyrum Smith, a High
Councilor in the Maricopa Stake of
Zion (Arizona), was born Feb. 26,
1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock county,
111., the son of Morris Phelps and
Sarah Thompson. His birth took
place immediately after the last of
the first company of the exiled Saints
had crossed the Mississippi river on
the ice, to come west. His parents
sold their home in Nauvoo for a mere
trifle and traveled as far west as
Winter Quarters, where his father
worked at wagon making, helping
the Saints to migrate to the Rocky
Mountains. In the spring of 1851 his
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63 wagons, loaded with Saints. Arriv-
ing in G. S. L. Valley the following
September, he soon afterwards settled
in Alpine, Utah county. At the age
of eight years the subject of this
sketch commenced herding sheep be-
longing to the settlers of Alpine dur-
ing the summer and went to school
in the winter. This he did until he was
large enough to work steadily on the
farm. Part of his time was also oc-
cupied working in the canyons. He
was baptized when eight years old
and ordained a Priest some seven
years later. Ih the spring of 1864
his father sold his farm in Alpine and
moved to Bear Lake valley, Idaho,
settling in. Montpelier where he lived
till he died in May, 1876. In 1866
(Sept. 26th) Hyrum S. married Cla-
rinda Bingham, daughter of Calvin
Bingham and Lucretia Thorn, after
which he secured a home of his own.
In the spring of 1864 he was ordained
an Elder and received his endow-
ments. In 1873 (Sept. 8th) he marri-
ed Mary Elizabeth Bingham as a plur-
al wife. In August, 1877, he was or-
dained a High Priest and set apart
as second counselor to Bishop Charles
Robison, of Montpelier. Losing his
crops successively on acount of the
long cold winters and hard frosts,
lie decided to make a change of cli-
mate. Consequently, he sold his
home in Montpelier and moved to
Arizona. In 1879 he located in Mesa,
where he took up a farm and made
his living by farming. In the fall
•of 1884 he was indicted by the U. S.
grand jury for polygamy and unlawful
cohabitation. Together with five
others, namely, George T. Wilson,
James Wilson, Charles I. Robson,
Oscar M. Stewart and Almon Salis-
bury he pleaded guilty to the lesser
charge, April 11, 1885, and was sent
to the Territorial prison at Yuma
for three months. In 1890 to 1892
he filled a mission to the Southern
States, traveling mostly in the South
Carolina conference. At the organiza-
tion of the Maricopa Stake of Zion

he was set apart as a High Councilor
by Apostle Erastus Snow, which po
sition he still holds. Elder Phelps
is the father of 26 children, 12 by his
first and 14 by his second wife.
Eleven of the children are married
and all living in Mesa, except one,
who is living in Los Angeles, Cal.
Nine are dead. He has 28 grand-child-
ren.

HORNE, Henry James,, a High
Councilor in the Maricopa Stake of
Zion, was born July 24, 1838, in
Chariton county, Missouri, the son of
Joseph Warren and Mary Isabella
Hale. As a child he passed through
the persecutions of the Saints who
were driven from place to place and
came to Utah in 1847. He was baptiz-
ed by Apostle John Taylor in the
Platte river, while journeying west-
ward in that year. After the arrival in
the Valley, he attended school in the
Old Fort the first winter, the teacher
being Mary Jane Dillworth. He also
attended the first Sabbath school
taught in Salt Lake City by Richard
Ballantyne, was ordained a Teacher
in the 14th Ward, received his endow-
ments at an early day and was or-
dained a Seventy by Pres. Heber C.
Kimball. In 1856 he went out to meet
the handcart companies and in 1857
he was one of the expedition sent out
under Col. Robert T. Burton to meet
Johnston's army. In the spring of
1858 he took a load of provisions out
to the men who had wintered in the
mountains. His father being called
to Dixie to raise cotton, young Henry
James assisted in moving the family
south. In July, 1860, he married Mary
Ann Crismon and lived in Salt Lake
City till 1864, when he removed to
Paris, Bear Lake county, Idaho. Here
he took an active part in public affairs
and was ordained a High Priest by C.
C. Rich. When the Bear Lake Stake
of Zion was organized Aug. 25, 1877,
he was ordained a Bishop of the Paris
1st Ward, by Franklin D. Richards.
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labors in Idaho, in the spring of 1880,
he removed to Arizona and located in
Mesa in December, of that year. In
1882 he removed to the San Pedro
river and was set apart as second
counselor to Bishop David P. Kimball.
When Bishop Kimball was called to
be President Christopher Layton's
counselor, Elder Home was chosen
as Bishop of the St. David Ward.Later,
he was made Bishop of the Mc-
Donald Ward, and when that Ward, on
June 3, 1883, was attached to the St.
David Ward, he was chosen a mem-
ber of the High Council. In 1885 he
moved back to Mesa, and in 1886 he
was sustained as first counselor in
the presidency of the High Priest's
quorum and also a member of the
High Council in the Maricopa Stake.

LISONBEE, James T., an alternate
member of the High Council of the
Maricopa Stake of Zion (Arizona),

was born Sept. 30, 1863, a son of
James T. Lisonbee and Ellen Amalia
Johnson. His father laid down his
life for the cause of truth, soon after
filling a mission to the Southern
States. He had received an honorable
release and was returning home when
at Springville, Utah, (where he met

his family, who had gone there from
Monroe, Utah, to meet him) he was
taken down with pneumonia and lived
only twelve days. Feb. 2, 1896, James
T. was sustained as president of the
first Quorum of Elders of the Mari-
copa Stake. He officiated in this ca-
pacity until 1899, when he left home
to fill a mission to Colorado. He re-
mained in the missionary field about
twenty-eight months and returned
home in the latter part of 1901. Dur-
ing his mission he labored three
months in Laramie county, Colorado,
and was also sent to Diamondville,
Wyo., where he, together with Elder
Christian Peterson, labored three
months and baptized fourteen per-
sons. After that he operated as a
missionary in New Mexico, the latter
part as president of the New Mexica
conference. In that territory he bap-
tized seven new members and organiz-
ed a branch of the Church at Angus
with B. R. Land as presiding Priest.
He was ordained a High Priest and
set apart as an alternate High Coun-
cilor Nov. 27, 1905, by Apostle Francis
M. Lyman.

ALLEN, Charles Hopkins, president
of the High Priests quorum in the Ma-
ricopa Stake, Arizona, was born Oct.
15, 1830, at Burton, Catteraugus coun-
ty. New York, the son of Andrew Lee
Allen and Clarinda Knaijp. His father
became a member of the Church at
an early day in Catteraugus county.
New York, and moved with his family
to Kirtland, Ohio, where he purchased
considerable property and became well
acquainted with the Prophet Joseph.
Later the family started for Missouri,
but through force of circumstances
stopped in Illinois, and lived for sev-
eral years east of Carthage inHancock
county. While residing there the sub-
ject of this sketch visited Nauvoo
several times and heard the Prophet
Joseph preach. On one of his visits
to Nauvoo he came near freezing to
death on the prairie. His parents re-
ceived their blessings in the Nauvoo

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Temple and the family joined the
general exodus of the Saints in the
early part of 1846. At Mount Pisgah
they built a log house and put in some
wheat and corn. Their bread giving out.
they left their improvements there
and traveled on to Winter Quarters,
on the Missouri river. Afterwards
they identified themselves with a
branch of the Church on Keg creek,
18 miles south of Kanesville, Iowa,
where they lived four years. In 1852
they crossed the plains and mountains

In John M. Higbee's company, arriv-
ing in Salt Lake City Aug. 13, 1852.
Soon afterwards the family located
in Provo, Utah county. In the fall of
1855 Charles H., together with his
brothers Andrew and James, went to
southern California and located, with
the Saints at San Bernardino. Two
years later he visited his relatives in
Utah and still later he went by way
of San Francisco to Carson Valley,
where a settlement of the Saints had
been founded and where one of his
sisters resided. After spending the
winter in Carson Valley, he returned
to San Bernardino, accompanied by
his sister. In the mean time others of
the family had settled in San Bernar-
dino. In 1862 Charles H. returned to
Utah, accompanied by his mother who

died soon afterwards. In 1863 he went
to the Missouri river after immigrants.
After his return he and his brother
Andrew decided to go back to Califor-
nia to sell their property and then lo-
cate permanently in Cache valley,,
Utah, which they did. June 15, 1864
the subject of this sketch marriedEli-
zabeth Adelaide Hoopes at Richmond,
Cache county, Utah, and lived after
that in Richmond until five children
had been born to them; they then
settled on a ranch north of Richmond
and thus became numbered among the
first settlers in what is now Coveville
Ward. Suffering with rheumatism,
Bro. Charles H., who in the mean time
had been ordained an Elder, decided
to locate in a warmer county; hence,
he moved with his family to Mesa,
Arizona, in 1882, where he made his
home. Dec. 10, 1882, he was ordained
a High Priest by Charles I. Robson,
and set apart as a High Councilor in
the Maricopa Stake of Zion. He was
chosen as first counselor to Jesse
Steele in the presidency of the High
Priests quorum, and in 1885 he became
the president of said quorum. He
was appointed to labor as a missiona-
ry among the Lamanites, in which
capacity he became a comjianion of
Bro. Henry C. Rogers. As an Indian
missionary he traveled up and down
Salt river and Gila river preaching
the Gospel to the Indians; he assisted
in baptizing many of them and wit-
nessed several remarkable cases of
healing among them. His wife died
Nov. 19, 1889, after having borne him
fourteen children, the youngest being
only six days old when she passed
away. In 1890 Elder Allen went to
Utah to work in the Logan Temple;
here de spent ten weeks working
for the dead. He also became ac-
quainted with Annie Eliza Jones
whom he married in the Logan Tem-
ple Oct. 30, 1890. After that he re-
turned by railroad to his family in
Mesa, Arizona. In the spring of 1898
he again went to Utah, traveling by
team and taking two of his daugh-

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ters with him; again he worked for the
dead in the Logan Temple. Sep. 15,
1898, a reunion of the Allen family
took place in the Coveville (Cache
county) meetinghouse, after which
Elder Allen returned to Arizona. In
1900 he made another trip to Utah
for the purpose of attending to Tem-
ple ordinances. By his second wife,
ElderAllen has had seven children.who
were all living in 1906. At that time
eleven of his children by his first wife
were also living, and he had eighteen
living grand-children.

HORNE, James M., Bishop of Mesa
Ward, Maricopa Stake (Arizona), was
born Sept. 26, 1866, in Salt Lake City,
Utah,the son of Henry J. Home and
Mary Ann Crismon.He was baptized
in 1874 in Paris, Bear Lake county,
Idaho, ordained a Seventy March 28,
1886, by George Passey and became
a member of the 90th quorum of Sev
enty. After receiving his endow-
ments in the Logan Temple, he re-
sponded to a call for a mission to the
Sandwich Islands, going there in the
latter part of 1889. He spent the first
five months on the Island of Oahu
and then labored as a traveling Elder
and companion to Willard Allen in
the Hawaii conference. In October,
1890, he was chosen president of the
Kohala, Hamakua and Hilo confe-
rence. In the following spring he was
appointed overseer at the Laie plan-
attion. He returned home in October,
1892. Jan. 12, 1893, he married Per-
melia J. Hill, and in the following
April attended the dedication of the
Salt Lake Temple. May 10, 1894, he
was ordained a High Priest and Bish-
op of Mesa Ward by Apostle John
Henry Smith.

ALLEN, Warner Hoopes, first coun-
selor to Bishop James M. Home, of
^lesa Ward, Maricopa Stake (Arizona),
was bom Oct. 17, 1866, at Richmond,
Cache county, Utah. He was raised
on a farm, and when sixteen years
of age moved with his parents by

team to Arizona, becoming identified
with the Mesa Ward. In the fall
of 1886 he returned to Cache valley,
Utah, on a visit and attended the
B. Y. College at Logan during the
winter. In the spring of 1887, to-
gether with his uncle, Andrew Allen,
from Coveville, he went to Canada,
and spent the summer in what is now
known as Cardston. Here he assisted
in the first plowing and in making
roads into the canyons etc. In the
fall of 1889 he returned to Mesa,
Ariz., and in the spring of 1891 re-
sponded to a call to fill a mission to
the Southern States. He labored in
South Carolina, and though exposed
to mobs and rough handling at times
he enjoyed his mission very much.
He returned home Aug. 7, 1893. The
same year (Oct. 24th) he married
Fanny B. Petersen, since which he
has been engaged in farming. Bro.
Allen was ordained a Deacon when
thirteen years old by Robert Gregory,
a Priest in the fall of 1883 by Bishop
Elijah Pomeroy and a Seventy March
28, 1886, by Talma E. Pomeroy. May
10, 1894, he was chosen second coun-
selor to Bishop James M. Home, of
Mesa Ward, being ordained a High
Priest and set apart by Apostle John
Henry Smith. Owing to the vacancy
in the Bishopric caused by the death
of David LeBarron, he was chosen
and set apart as first counselor to
Bishop Horne June 15, 1899.

LEWIS, George William, a president
of the 90th quorum of Seventy, was
born Oct. 29, 1864, at Paris, Idaho, the
son of John M. Lewis and Martha
Jane Crismon. He was baptized in
June, 1872, by James Salmon, ordained
a Priest in October, 1883, by John
M. Lewis, and a Seventy April 7,
1885, by Apostle John Henry Smith.
In 1885-87 he filled a mission to the
Southern States, attended the Sun-
day school course at Provo, Utah,
in 1894 and filled a M. I. A. mission
in the St. John Stake during the win-
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as a Ward teacher, Priest, assistant
Stake Sunday school superintendent
and superintendent, and president of
Seventies. Sept. 21, 1889, he married
Olina D. Kempe, of St. John, Ariz.,
who has borne him four children.
Elder Lewis is by occupation a farmer
and stockraiser and has also taught
school. His place of residence have
been Paris, Idaho, Richmond and
Coalville, Utah, and since .January 30,
1879, Mesa, Ariz.

ALLEN, Elijah, first counselor in
the presidency of the Southern Ari-
zona Indian Mission, was born Janua-
ry 22, 1878, at Richmond, Cache coun-
ty, Utah, a son of Charles H. Allen
and Elizabeth A. Hoopes. He was
baptized Feb. 4, 1886, by Wm. Passey,
ordained a Deacon by Bishop James
M. Home, a Priest March 2, 1898,
by Bishop Home, an Elder Oct. 9,
1901, by James Sharp, a Seventy Sept.
22, 1906, by O. S. Stapley and a High
Priest Feb. 27, 1907, by Francis M.
Lyman. Among the ecclesiastical
positions held by Elder Allen may be
mentioned: Assistant Ward and
Stake clerk, counselor in the Deacons
quorum, counselor in the Elders
quorum, counselor in the Stake
mutual organization. Ward mutual
class teacher, Ward teacher and Sun-
day school teacher. In 1907 he mar-
ried Pearl Nielsen, by whom he has
had three children. By occupation he
is a merchant, dairyman and farmer,
He graduated from the B. Y. U. com-
mercial department in Provo, Utah,
in 1901. His only places of residence
so far has been Richmond. Utah, and
Mesa, Ariz.

SMITH, Joseph Daniel, Patriarch in
the Millard Stake of Zion, is the
son of Samuel Smith and Elizabeth
Cheek, and was born May 6, 1846, in
Essex, England. He was baptized
May 3, 1854, by Henry Squires, emi-
grated to Utah in 1866, and located in
Fillmore, where he has resided ever
since. After receiving ordinations as

Elder, Seventy and High Priest, he
was ordined a Patriarch in 1888 by
Aposle Francis M. Lyman. In 1885-
87 he filled a mission to Great Britain
where he labored in the London con-
ference and afterwards presided in
Ireland. At home he has acted as
Ward teacher. Ward clerk, superinten-
dent of Sunday shool, member of the
Stake Board of education. High
Councilor, Bishop in Fillmore etc..
July 16, 1866, he married Mary Ann
Frampton and in 1888 Adeline Brun-
son. With these wives he is the fath-

er of twenty children, eight girls
and twelve boys, of whom thirteen
are now living. Patriarch Smith has
also held a number of civil offices,
such as member of the city council
and assessor and colector of Fill-
more city and of Millard county,
and mayor of Fillmore. Otherwise he
is a farmer and stock raiser and has
also been engaged in merchandizing.
As a commercial traveler he has
visited all parts of southern Utah.
He was one of the founders and di-
rectors of the Fillmore Roller Mills,
director of the Fillmore Dairy Co.,
and director in the Fillmore Mercan-
tile Co. While on his mission toEng-
land, he was the first "Mormon" Elder
who addressed a public meeting in

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Toppesfield, Essex county, England.
This was on Aug 30, 1885. He was
told by old residents that no „Mor-
mon". Elder had ever been heard in
that town prior to his visit.

COOPER, John, president of th'^
High Priests' quorum in the Millar J
Stake of Zion, Utah, is a son of James
Cooper and Ann North and was born
May 27, 1834, in Loughborough, Lei-

cestershire, England. He was ba )-
tized Nov. 5, 1849, by Elder Langl-^y
Algood, was ordained a Priest in IS.-iL,
an Elder in 1852, a Seventy in Sep-
tember, 1857, by Hyrum Mace, and a
High Priest in February, 1894, by
Francis M. Lyman. He labored as a
missionary in 1854-55 in England,
mostly in the Leicester and Sheffield
conferences. He filled another mis-
sion to England in 1880-82. At that
time he traveled in and presided over
the Leeds, ?\ottingham and London
conferences. Among the many posi-
tions filled by him at home may be
mentioned that of president of Seven-
ties, superintendent of Sunday school,
choir leader. Ward clerk, Ward teach-
er and home missionary. He has mar-
ried three wives, with whom he has
had sixteen children, fourteen of whom
are stil alive. Of civil offices Elder

Cooper has served as a member of the
city council in Fillmore, water master,
deputy county clerk, county treasur-
er, member of the Fillmore school
board etc. Otherwise he is a boot and
shoemaker by trade and has also
followed farming and gardening. His
permanent residence is in Fillmore,
Millard county. In 1856 he was de-
tailed to meet and follow up the be-
lated hand-cart companies While out
on this expedition he was called to
stop at the Devil's Gate, together with
nineteen others, to protect the proper-
ty of the emigrating Saints. He re-
mained there all winter. As a mem-
ber of the Nauvoo Legion he did mii-
tary duty during the Blackhawk War
and holds a medal for bravery during
his Indian campaigns.

ROBISON, Franklin Alonzo, a High
Councilor in Ihe Millard Stake of Zion
and a resident of Fillmore, Milard

county, Utah, was born July 29, 1801,
at Creet, Will county. 111., the son of
Joseph Robison and Lucretia Hancock.
He was baptized in 1859 by Lorenzo
D. Rudd. November 15, 1876, he was
ordained a Seventy by Apostle Orson
Pratt. At the October conference,
1876, he was called on a mission to the
United States, during which he labor-
ed in the northern part of Michigan.

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At home he has acted as counselor to
Bishop Josepii D. Smith and president
of the Y. M. M. A.; also as a coun-
selor to Bishop Christian Anderson,
of Fillmore, from January, 1901, to
December, 1906. With his three wives
(Isabella Eleanor Pratt, Harriet Eli-
zabeth Thorpe and Lois Thorpe) he
has had twenty-seven children, name-
ly, sixteen sons and eleven daughters.
Of these eleven boys, and eleven girls
are still living. Of civil offices Elder
Robison has acted as sheriff of Millard
county for two years and also as one
of the city council of Fillmore. With
the exception of five years' residence
in Woodruff, Apache county, Arizona,
he has resided in Fillmore since July,
18.54.

ANDERSON, Nephi A., a member of
the High Council in the Milard Stake
(Utah) and president of the Y. M. M.

I. A., Fillmore Ward, was born Nov. 7,
1881, in Fillmore, Millard county,
Utah, the son of Christian Anderson
and Anna D. Christiansen. He was
baptized Aug. 7, 1890, by Nelson S.
Bishop and ordained successively a
Deacon, a Teacher, a Priest and a Se-
venty. The latter ordination took
place Nov. 1, 1899, by Apostle John
Henry Smith, and on the same occa-

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sion he was fc,et apart for a mission to
the southwestern States. On this mis-
sion he labored as a traveling Elder in
the Lone Star conference, Texas, as
first counselor to the conference presi-
dent, and as a clerk of conference and
superintendent of Sabath schools in the
same conference. He returned home
in March, 1902, and was soon efter-
wards (May 2G, 1902) ordained a High
Priest and set apart as a member of
the High Council of Millard Stake by
Apostle George Teasdale. At home
Elder Anderson has acted as president
of a Deacons quorum, president of
a Teachers quorum, member of the
Sunday school board of Millard Stake,
and president of Y. M. M. I. and class
teacher in tne Sunday school in the
Fillmore Ward. Early in life he re-
ceived a common school education in
the district schools of Fillmore and a
commercial course in the „Ecclectic
Business College" of Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia. He has also held several civil
offices such as recorder of Fillmore
city, county and district clerk of Mil-
lard county, and member of the cen-
tral committee of the Rcpublicaii
Party in Millard county. His general
occupation hitherto has been that of
a farmer, stock raiser and steno^'.o-
pher. In 1907 (Oct. 9th) he marrir-ri
Miss Delores Pyper, of Salt Lake C'^v
in the Salt Lake Temple.

REEVE, William Arthur, Stake clerk
of Millard Stake, Utah, and a presi-
dent of the 21st quorum of Seventy,
was born Nov. 18, 186.3, at Virgen City,
Utah, the son of Robert W. Reeve and
Emma Burgess. He was baptized
June 11, 1876 by David B Ott, ordain-
ed a Teacher in June, 1876, an Elder
Feb. 27, 1886, by Thomas Burgess, and
a Seventy Nov. 18, 1877, by Samuel
K. Cifford. In 1888 to 1890 he filled
a mission to the Southern States,
laboring in South Carolina and Geor-
gici Concerning this mission, he
writes: ,.I could stand but little
walking. Some of my friends thoght
I ought not to go on this mission, but

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I wanted to go and looked upon this
call as the means of relief from my
afflictions. On request, when being
set apart, I was blessed in my afflic-
ted limb and promised I should be
blessed of the Lord to perform the
labors of the call. On arriving in the
mission field, I was only able to walk
a sliort distance, but gradually gained
strength in my leg and was able to
walk, and did walk as long distances,
and as many of them, as most of the
Elders in our conference. My life
was sought many times by mobs
while on my mision, but the Lord led
me cut of trouble and thwarted the
plans of wicked men many times in
a most marvellous manner. And it
has been through the mercy and bless-
ing of the Lord that my life has been
spared, even from infancy. I believe
few persons have passed through
greater experiences in suffering or the
hand of the Lord been more visibly
manifest than in my life." At home
Elder Reeve has acted as superinten-
dent of the Duncan Retreat branch
of the Virgen Sunday school, where
he also acted as a president of the
9th quorum of Seventy, from June,
1901, to February, 1902. He has been
a member of the council of the 21st
quorum since May, 1897, and has
also acted as ward clerk and as a
teacher in Hinckley Ward. Jan. 19,
1888, he married Hannah M. Wright,
with whom he has had three sons
and seven daughters, all living. He
was appointed Stake clerk Jan. 30,
1904; otherwise his occupation has
been that of a farmer. He has been
a student in the Agricultural Colege
at Logan and a resident of Hinckley
since 1902. He was also one of the
pioneer farmers of Abraham, Millard
county, Utah.

tenseu. He emigrated to Utah with
his parents and was baptized June
5, 1890, by Joshua Bennett. He was
ordained a Teacher by Ira N. Hinck-
ley, when the Oasis Ward wals first
organized; ordained an Elder April
9, 1891, by Elder Joseph Damron, a
Seventy May 4, 1898, by Christian D.
Fjeldsted, and a High Priest Feb. 24,
1902, by Mathias F. Cowley. In 1898-
1900 he filled a mission to the north-
western States. At home he has ac-
ted as counselor and president in the
Y. ?,l. M. I. A., counselor in the 7th
quorum of Elders of Millard Stake,
etc. June 15, 1890, he married Mary
D. Andersen, who died Dec. 30, 1906.
Eight children (seven boys and one
girl) were the issue of this marriage.
Six cf the children are yet alive. Elder
Christen sen has served as school
trustee and road supervisor; other-
wise his occupation is that of a far-
mer.

OVERSON, Christian, second coun-
seloi- to Bishop Rodney B. Ashby, of
the Leamington Ward, Millard county,

CHRISTENSEN, Anthon Christan,
second counselor in the. Bishopric of
the Oasis Ward, Millard county, Utah,
was born April 28, 1853, in Sonder-
skov Hjorring amt, Denmark, the son
of Christian Madsen and Johanne Mor-

Utah was born June 11, 1840, in Den-
mark. He joined the Church in April,
1859, together with his step-father,
mother, three brothers and two sis-
ters, and emigrated to Utah in 1862.
He located soon afterwards in Millard

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county, where he has resided ever
since. In Decenaber, 1862, he was or-
dained a Seventy in Mt. Pleasent, San-
pete county, by David Candland and
a High Priest in April, 1891, by
Apostle Francis M. Lyman, on which
occasion he was also set apart as se-
cond counselor to Bishop Ashby.

RANDALL, Orrin Harley, a High
Councilor in the Morgan Stake
(Utah), was born Jan. 11, 1850, in
Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Al-
fred Randall and Margarette Harley.
He was baptized in 1858, ordained an
Elder in the early 70's, and a Seventy
in :'889, by Andrew Dalrymple, at
Centerville. In 1889-91 he filled a
mission to the United States, laboring
principally in Pennsylvania and West
Virginia. June 3, 1884, he was or-
dained a High Priest by John H. Rich,
at Morgan, and set apart as an alter-
nate member of the High Council.
Two years later he became a regular
member of that body. Of the many
ecclesiastical positions held by Elder
Randall at home may be mentioned
that he has acted as a counselor in
the presidency of an Elders quorum,
and president of Y. M. M. L A., and
Ward teacher. In 1877 (March 12th)
he took into himself a wife, by whom
he has had eight children. His princi-
pal occupation in life has been farming
and dairying. In his younger days
he drove team considerably, hauling
ore in Little Cottonwood Canyon and
othoi" places. As a boy he was a
member of marshal bands. In con-
clusion it may be mentioned that he
has served as county commissioner
in Morgan county four years. He has
also labored as a home missionary.

ROBISON, Daniel Alexander, Stake
clerk of Morgan Stake (Utah), is a
son of William Robison and Margaret
Smith and was born July 18, 1853,
in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. In
the summer of 1854 his parents be-
came converts to ,,Mormonism," his
father being baptized by Elder Angus
M. Cannon and his mother by Elder

William Tarman. In the spring of
1860 they emigrated to Utah, crossing
the plains in Oscar B. Stoddard's
hand-cart company, which arrived in
Salt Lake City Sept. 24, 1860, and
soon after located in Farmington,
Davis county, Utah, where they resi-
ded three yars; they then removed
to Weber Valley, settling in what is
now Morgan city, where they have
resided ever since. The subject of
this sketch was baptized in August,
1863, by Philemon C. Merrill. Aug.
31, 1873, he married Mary Morris,
daughter of Isaac Conway Morris and

Elizabeth Williams, the marriage
ceremony being performed in Salt
Lake City (in the Endowment House)
by Ivaniel H. Wells. By this wife he
had ten children, four' boys and six
girls. His wife died Feb. 14, 1895,
leaving seven children; three had pre-
ceded her to the spirit world. Aug.
31, 1899, Elder Robison married Louisa
Winnetta Grover, daughter of Thomas
Grover and Louisa Picton, the marri-
age ceremony being performed by
John R. Winder, in the Salt Lake Tem-
ple. By this wife he has had two
children. He was ordained a Seventy
Dec. 8, 1899, and has held many offices
of trust, both ecclesiastical and civil.
In 881 he was appointed clerk of

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the North Morgan Ward, and in De-
cember, 1900, he was called to act as
clerk of the Morgan Stake of Zion,
which position he still holds. He has
traveled much as a home missionary,
and also in the Interest of the Y. M.
M. [. A. and the Sunday schools, and
taken an active part in the Ward as
a counselor and secretary of Y. M.
M. I. A. and principal teacher in the
theological class in the local Sunday
school. From 1890-91 and 1894-1897
he served as a member of the city
council of Morgan city, and in 1893
he was appointed road supervisor.
In 1894 he was appointed deputy regi-
stration officer for Morgan precinct
by the Utah comission. Later, the
same year, he was elected coroner.
In November, 1896, he was elected
county clerk of Morgan county and
ex-officio clerk of the district court,
In January, 1899, he was appointed
city recorder. At present he also acts
as secretary af two canal companies.

PORTER, Joseph Rich, Bishop of
Porterville, Morgan county, Utah,
from 1877 to 1898, was born March

29, 1844, at Charleston, Lee county,
Iowa, the son of John P. Porter and
Nancy Rich. He was baptized in
March, 1852, in Centerville, Davis
county, Utah, ordained an Elder by

John D. T. McAllister Jan. 4, 1868, a
Seventy Oct. 9, 1876, by Apostle
Brigham Young, and a High Priest
and Bishop July 1, 1877. In 1876 he
went on a mission lo the United
States, laboring principally in Illinois
and Kentucky. He came to Utah in
1847 and located in Porterville in 1860.
He married Eliza Jane Bratton Jan.
1, 1868, and Electa E. Porter May 8,
1876. By these wives he has had
nine children. He has held several
civil offices in Morgan county, such
as county superintendent of schools
county commissioner, probate judge,
and county attorney. In 1890 he also
represented Morgan county in the
Utah legislature. His principal occu-
pation has been farming and shool
teaching. In early days he served as
major in the Utah militia under Colo-
nel Philemon C. Merrill. Bishop Por-
ter was the first school teacher in
Morgan county, teaching at Porter-
ville in 1862, when he was only 18
years old.

DURRANT, Joseph, Bishop of the
Portervile Ward. Morgan county,
Utah, was born June 29, 1851, at Deans-
hunger, Northamptonshire, England,
the son of William Durrant and Phebe
Hoar He was baptized Nov 7, 1864,
by James Durrant, and ordained to
the different positions in the Priest-
hood in the following order: Teacher,
Dec. 11, 1872, by Henry Olpin; Elder,
July 13, 1874, by Elias Smith, and
High Priest, Feb. 25, 1883, by Richard
Fry. Ecclesiastically he has acted
as Teacher, Sunday school superin-
tendent, first assistant Stake superin-
tendent of Y. M. M. I. A., second as-
sistant Ward superintendent of Sim-
day schools, first counselor to Bishop
Samuel Carter, and now Bishop. Of
civil offices he has held that of school
trustee (for eight years), county com-
missioner, etc. in early Utah days
he did military duty as a member of
the Nauvoo Legion, and belonged to
an infantry company in IMorgan coun-
ty, of which Steward Dickon was cap-

I tain. By his first wife (Elizabeth Ann
Geary) he has had three children, by
his second wife (Margaret Cottam)
seven children, and by his third wife
(Hattie A. Carter) five children. His
occupation has ever been that of a
farmer, and Porterville has been his
permanent home since he first come
to Utah.

' DURRANT, Lorenzo Heber, Ward
clerl'. of Porterville, Morgan comity,
Utah, was born Dec. 2, 1856, at Deans-
hunger, Northamptonshire, England,
the son of William Durrant and Phebe
Hoar. He was baptized Nov. 17, 1867,
by James Durrant, ordained an Elder
June 13, 1878, by Apostle George Teas-
dale, a Seventy May 6, 1886, by Daniel
Burtosh, and a High Priest Feb. 17,
1890, by John W. Taylor. In 1887-89,
he filled a mission to Great Britain,
laboring successively in the Scottish,
Newcastle and Birmingham conferen-
ces. At home he has acted as first
counselor to Bishop loseph R. Porter,
teacher, chorister and superintendent
of Sunday school, and Ward chorister
and historian. He has also acted as
school trustee for six years. Porter-
ville has been his permanent home
and farming his principal occupation.
In 1878 (June 13th) he married Sarah
Jane Norwood, by whom he has had
twelve children, three sons and nine
daughters. Elder Durrant was once
prominent in military affairs, serving
three years in the National Guard of
Utah (from 1894-97) He entered the
service as a corporal and was pro-
moted to second sergeant. In theatri-
cal affairs he has also been prominent
and served for a number of years as
president and manager of a local dra-
matic club. In the numerous positions
held by Elder Durrant, both ecclesi-
astical and civil, he has ever tried to
do his duty and has given entire satis-
faction.

MECHAM, Joseph Lyman, clerk of
Milton Ward, Morgan county, Utah,
is a son of Joseph Mecham and Sarah

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Mariah Tuttle, and was born Sept. 26,
1856, in E. T. City, Tooele county,
Utah. He removed with his i)arents
to Milton, Morgan county, in 1861,
and was baptized Sept. 7, 1865, by
Lar.s Peter Christiansen. His ordina-
tions to the Priesthood took place in
the following order: Ordained a
Priest Aug. 6, 1876, by Joseph Mech-
am; an Elder in September, 1880, by
Willard G. Smith; a Seventy in Oc-
tober, 1887, by Thomas Grover, and
a High Priest in August, 1888, by

Willard G. Smith. In 1887, hewas
called on a mission to New Zealand.
Prom 1870 to 1881 he served as a
Sunilay school teacher, and from 1877
to 1895 as a Ward teacher. For many
year:j he also labored as a Priest, and
acted as secretary and counselor in
the Y. M. M. I. A., and as assistant
superintendent of Sunday school. In
a civil capacity he has acted as school
trustee for thirteen years, road su-
pervisor four years, sexton of Milton
cemetery, etc. He has also repeated-
ly been elected delegate to political
conventions. His principal occupa-
tion has been farming, sheep and
cattle raising and school teaching.
In 1882 (Feb. 16th) he married Anna
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eleven children, seven sons and four
daughters.

RICHARDS, Evan Alvin, a Patri-
arch in the Morgan Stake of Zion and
a resident of North Morgan, Morgan
county, Utah, was born May 10, 1822,
at Llanvabon, Glamorganshire, Wales.
He embraced the Gospel in his native
land in 1849 and emigrated to Utah
in 1861. Before emigrating he trav-
eled many year in the ministry,
preacheh the gospel with power and
witnessed many marvellous manifesta-
tions of the power of God in his be-
half. For many years after his arri-
val in Utah he was a member of the
21st quorum of Seventy, filled a mission
to, Wales in 1863 and was ordained a
High Priest a number of years ago;
later he was ordained a Patriarch.
Since his last ordination he has given
patriarchal blessings to hundreds of
faithful Latter-day Saints. Like many
of his country-men, Elder Richards is
a natural musician and plays on differ-
ent kinds of Instruments. His favor-
ite instrument, however, is the harp,
and he is the happy possessor of what
is believed to be the only harp ever
manufactured in Utah. He made the
instrument with his own hands. In a
brief biographical sketch prejDared by
himself and which is now on file at
the Historian's Office, he relates a
number of very interesting incidents,
where the sick have been healed under
his administrations and where his own
life has repeatedly been saved by the
interposition of a kind and al-seeing
Providence.

Page, Jonathan S., Junior, president
of the Nebo stake (Utah county,
Utah), is the son of Jonathan S. Page
and Mary Leaver, and was born May
14, 1856, at Salt Lake City, Utah. He
was baptized May 4, 1865, by Wm.
Whitehead, ordained a Deacon at the
age of 14, Ordained an Elder Nov. 8,
1876 ordained a Seventy Nov. 15,
1876, by Apostle Charles C. Rich, and
ordained a High Priest and Bishop

Dec. 13, 1901, by Apostle Abraham
H. Cannon. On the latter occasion
he was set apart as Bishop of the
Payson 2nd Ward. In 1876-77 he filled
a mission to the Southern States, la-
boring principally in Arkansas and
Texas; he returned home in charge
of c, company of emigrating Saints
from Texas. At home he has acted
as a Ward teacher for many years,
also as a Sunday School teacher for
about 20 years, president of Y. M. M.
I. A., of Payson etc. From Dec. 13,
1891, to Jan. 20, 1901, he acted as
Bishop of the Payson 2nd Ward. On
the latter day he was set apart as

president of the Nebo Stake by Presi-
dent Joseph F. Smith. While acting
as liishop of the 2nd Ward a $6000
meoting house was built and a smaller
one in Spring Lake, which at that
time was a branch of the Payson 2nd
Ward. Since he became president of
the Nebo Stake, a new Council House
and a spacious Stake Tabernacle has
been erected in Payson. May 23,
1878, Elder Page married Lillyus Cur-
tis, with vhom he has had eigth chil-
dren. His chief occupation has been
merchandising and farming. He has
held a number of civil offices, such as
justic of the peace, city recorder, city
councilman and postmaster of Payson.

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LEMMON, Hyrum, first counselor
in the presidency of the Nebo Stake
(Utah county), Utah, was born Nov. 23,
1849, near Quincy, Adams county, III.,
the son of Washington Lemmon and
Tamar Stevens. Together with his
parents he came to Utah in 1852; the
family located in Mill Creek, Salt Lake
county, where Hyrum resided till 1876,
when he removed to Payson, Utah
county, which has since been his per-
manent home. He was baptized March
25, 1860, by John Long in Mill Creek,
ordained an Elder Dec. 3, 1864, and
a High Priest Jan. 2, 1892, by Abraham
O. Smoot. In 1888-89 he filled a mis-

sion to the northern States, laboring
principally in Indiana. At home he
has acted as a Sunday school teacher
and as an officer in the Y. M. M. I. A.,
in Payson. Jan. 2, 1892, he was set
apart as first counselor to Bishop John
E. Huish, of Payson 1st Ward, which
position he held until February, 1901,
when he was chosen as first counselor
in the Nebo Stake Presidency. Jan.
11, 1883, he married Mary E. Douglas.
In 1889 he became a member of the
Payson city council. He served as
mayor of Payson from 1891 to 1893,
and as a member of the city council
from 1894 to 1895, and from 1903 to
1907. In 1905 he was a member of

the constitutional convention which
framed the constitution under which
Utah was admitted to Statehood. He
served as a representative in the first
and second State legislature, as a
house representative from Utah coun-
ty. Elder Lemmon was educated in
the common schools of Utah, the Mor-
gan Commercial College and the Des-
eret University; for several years he
followed the vocation of school teach-
ing in various districts of Utah. Subse-
quently he engaged in sheep and
stock raising, and in 1891 entered
into mercantile Dusiness, which he
still follows.

TANNER, William Smith, a Patri-
arch in the Nebo Stake of Zion, is
the son of Joshua Tanner and Rebec-
ca Smith and was born March 28,
1839, in Adams county, 111. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1851 and located
in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake coun-
ty, where he resided till 1858, when
he removed to Payson, Utah county,
which ever since has been his per-
manent home. He was baptized in
1855 by Joseph Hammond, ordained
an Elder March 31, 1867, ordained a
High Priest and set apart as a High
Councilor in Utah Stake by Franklin
D. Richards and ordained a Patriarch
Oct. 20, 1895, by Francis M. Lyman.
In 1882-84 he filled a mission to Eng-
land, laboring chiefly in the Liverpool
and Nottingham conferences. At home
he presided 18 years over the Elders
in Payson, where he also acted as
presiding Priest about ten years and
as Ward teacher. He has also labored
as a home missionary in Nebo and
Utah Stakes and since 1901 as a mem-
ber of the High Council of the Nebo
Stake. Jan. 19, 1868, he married
Clarrisa J. Moore, who has borne
him fourteen children, seven boys and
seven girls, nine of whom are yet
living. Elder Smith has also served
as city councilman, while his chief
occupation has been that of a farmer
and stock raiser, but he has also been
prominently connected vith a number

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of local business enterprises.. As a
military man he participated in the
so-called Johnston Army war in 1857-
58, serving in Lot Smith's company.
He also served in the Blackhawk
war in 1866-67 under Captain O. P.
Miles and achieved the rank of lieu-
tenant in the ITtah militia.

NEBEKER, AMMON, an alternate
member of the High Council of Nebo
Stake (Utah county), Utah, is the son
of Henry Nebeker and Ann Van Wag-
gener and was born Feb. 29, 1848, in
the Old Fort, Great Salt Lake Valley,
being one of the tirst white children
born there. He was baptized when

enterprises. In 1874 (Feb. 23rd) he
married Mary A. Dixon who has borne
him eigth children, six of whom are
living.

REECE, Joseph, a High Councilor
in the Nebo Stake (Utah county,
Utah), was born Aug. 1, 1871, in Pay-
son, Utah county, Utah, the son of
James Reece, and Sarah Ann Gunner.
He was baptized and confirmed Nov.
6, 1879, when eight years old, ordain-
ed a Deacon in 1884, ordained an El-
der Sept. 4, 1898, by John Person,
called to act in the presidency of the
Elder's quorum in Payson 1st Ward
April 12, 1899, set apart as president

eight years of age and oidaiued suc-
essively to the office of Deacon, Teach-
er, Elder, Seventy and High Priest.
The latter ordination tock place in
1901, when he was chosen as an alter-
nate member of the High Council of
Nebo Stake. He came with his parents
to Payson when about four years old
and there he has practically resided
ever since. Elder Nebeker has served
as school trustee in Payson six years,-
also as policeman and city council-
man, and one term as mayor. His
chief occupation is that of a farmer
and stock raiser, though he followed
freighting as a youth. He is also
associated with se /eral local business

of Y. M. M. L A. of the same Ward
In Sei)tember, 1901, ordained a High
Priest and set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop Justin A. Loveless
Feb. 23, 1902, and appointed a mem-
ber of the Nebo Stake building com-
mittee in the erection of the new
Stake Tabernacle, which was built
in Payson in 190'i. For a number of
years he acted as a teacher in the
Ward Sabbath scool and was a sup-
porter of all the local organizations. In
1892 (Nov. 30th), he married Estrella
Depew, who has borne him three sons,
namely Wm. Ethabert, born Sept. 24,
1893; Joseph Enos, born Sep. 9, 1895,
and James Byron, born July 25, 1900.

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Elder Reese was elected mayor of Pay-
son Nov. 5, 1907, and set apart as an
alternate High Councilor in the Nebo
Stake Feb. 23, 190S.

PAGE, Jonathan S. a veteran Elder
in the Payson Ward, Nebo Stake (Utah
county, Utah), is the son of Daniel

Page and Mary Socwell, and was born
June 4, 1833, at Newport, Cumberland
county. New Jersey. He was bap-
tized Sep. 18, 1850, by Joseph Bartho-
lomew at Council Bluffs, Iowa, ordain-
ed a Seventy in 1857, and ordained a
High Priest in 1877. He served as
second counselor in the Payson Ward
Bishopric from 1877 to 1891, and acted
as Sunday school superintendent for
many years in Payson. Since 1901,
he has served as first counselor in the
presidency of the High Priests quorum
of Nebo Stake. Elder Page has been
very prominent in public affairs. Thus
he has served as a member of the
city council of Payson eighteen years,
as mayor of Payson two terms (1875-
78), as justice of the peace two terms,
as member of the Territorial legis-
lature in both houses, as selectman
of Utah county from 1879 to 1894, as
a member of the constitutional con-
vention, prior to Statehood, etc. As
a military man he did much service

during the Blackhawk war, having
charge of a company of sixty men
which were stationed in Sanpete and
Sevier counties. From captain he ad-
vonced to the rank of major. Elder
Page is a tanner and currier by trade
and was employed in the first tan-
nery operated in Utah by Samuel Mul-
liner. He followed the tanning and
leather manufacturing business for
ten years, and for a long time he has
been engaged in merchandising, being
very prominently connected with a
number of leading business enter-
prises in Payson. During the John-
ston army tioubles in 1857-58 he did
active military service in the moun-
tains and on the plains in Captain
Wm. B. Maxwells company of mounted
men. In 1855 (Aug. 26th) Elder Page
married Mary Leaver in Salt Lake
City; she died March 4, 1896 after
bearing thirteen children, all of whom
are still alive, exept one.

TANNER, Joseph Smith, Bishop of
Payson Ward, Nebo Stake (Utah coun-
ty, Utah), is the son of John Tanner

and Eliza Beswick, and was born
June 11, 1833, at Bolton, Warren coun-
ty, N. Y.^ He was baptized in the
Missisippi river at an early day and
ordained successively to the office of

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Elder, High Priest, and Bishop, the
latter ordination taking place in 1871,
when he was appointed to preside over
the Payson Ward. For some time
Santaquin, Spring Lake, Salem and
Benjamin were also under his juris-
diction. He labored faithfully as Bi-
shop of Payson for twenty years and
was honorably released in 1891 on
account of ill health. Elder Tanner
went to southern California in 1851,
being called together with his mother
and three brothers to settle and colo-
nize San Bernardino. Returning from
there in 1858 he settled in Payson.
where he has resided continuously
ever since. On his return from Califor-
nia in 1853, he, together with George
Clark and John Mayfield, accom-
panied Col. Thomas L. Kane from San
Bernardino to Salt Lake City, Utah.
From 1868 to 1870 he filled a mission
to the Muddy, in Nevada. In 1884-85
.he labored as a home missionary in
the Utah Stake, and filled a short
mission to California in 1895. Feb.
17, 1860, he married Elizabeth Clark
Haws, who, after bearing him thirteen
children, died in April, 1882. Some
time afterwards lie married Jenette
Hamilton, who bore him twelve chil-
dren. Inl886 he married Helen Eli-
zabeth Fogelstrand, who is the mother
of six of his children. Altogether he
is the Father of thirty-one children,
seventeen of whom are living. Bro-
ther Tanner served as mayor of Pay-
son two terms (1879-82) and was a
member of the city council about ten
years. He has been very succesful as
a farmer and stock raiser and is as-
sociated with a number of business-
enterprises in Payson. He has acted
as president of Payson Co-op twenty
years, vice president and member of
Utah County Herd Association ten
years, member of the board of direc-
tors of Utah Woollen Mills ten years,
president of the board of Payson Stock
raising Assosiation fifteen years,
member of the board and pVesident of
Payson Butcher and Stock Associ-
ation twenty years, president and

member of the board of directors of
Payson Creamery Company, vice-pre-
sident and member of the board of
Payson Exchange and Savings Bank,
etc. Bishop Tanner is a warm friend
of education and all his children are
well educated.

LANT, David, first counselor in the
Payson Ward Bishopric from 1877-
1891, is a son of Thomas Lant and
AnnPointer, and was born March 14,
1830, at Romsey, Hampshire, England.
He was baptized July 9, 1852, by Char-
les Longston, ordained a Priest Feb.
6, 1853, by Wm. Glover, ordained an
Elder June 3, 1853, by J. H. Haine,.

and emigrated to Utah in 1855. cross-
ing the plains in Milo Andrus' compa-
ny. He located In Provo where he
remained until 1858, when he removed
to Payson, where he has resided ever
since. He was ordained a Seventy
May 17, 1857, by E. G. Riggs and or-
dained a High Priest and set apart
as first counselor in the Payson Ward
Bishopric June fi. 1877. by Apostle
Erastus Snow. For many years he
served as a Sunday school teacher,
a Ward teacher and home missionary
in the Utah Stake, always being an
earnest worker in the Church and"
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called upon to do. He has also held
a number of secular offices of a local
nature In 1850 (Feb. 25th) he mar-
ried Elizabeth Earley; in 1869 (April
5th) he married Elsie Tanner; in 1888
(Aug. 12th), he married Elizabeth
Davidson and in 1884 (Jan. 24th) he
married Susanna Worth. With these
wives he became the father of nine
children, six of whom are now
living. Early in life (in 1844),
by an accident Brother Lant lost
his left arm and all the fingers
of the rigth hand eccept the fore-
finger and thumb. At the time of
his conversion to "Mormonism" he
held a good position with a railroad
company in England, and after his
arrival in Utah he had quite a struggle
to make a living. At one time he
taught school in Provo. but finally
took to herding which avocation he
followed for thirty years. Now, in his
old age, he is comfortably situated fi-
nancially. Bro. Lant's life should
serve as an inspiration to many who
think their lot in life is hard.

HUISH, John Edvard, Bishop of
Payson First Ward, Utah county,
Utah, from December. 1891, to Febru-

ary, 1902, is the son of Walter H. and
Ann S. Huish and was born May 7,
1852, in St. Louis, Mo. He came to

Utah with his parents in 1859 and
lived in Salt Lake City till the spring
of 1860, when he moved to Payson,
his permanent home since. He was
baptized in Payson by Wm. G. Mc
Mullen, and ordained a Priest by Bish-
op John D. Fairbanks. In 1876 (Oct.
29th) he married Annie M. Moore,
whith whom he had eleven children,
nine of whom are still living. He was
ordained an Elder June 27, 1878, by
Wm. J. Smith, and ordained a Seventy
Sept. 19, 1886, by George W. Han-
cock. In 1889-91 he filled a mission
to England, laboring chiefly in the
Birmingham and Leeds conferences
He was ordained a High Priest and
set apart as Bishop of Payson 1st
Ward Dec. 13, 1891, by Abraham H.
Cannon and served in that capacity
till Feb. 16, 1902. when he was set
apart as a High Councilor. Otherwise
Bishop Huish has served as a Sunday
school teacher in Payson for a num-
ber of years; he has also labored as
a Ward teacher, counselor in the first
Y. M. M. I. A. in Payson, etc. In
business circles he is well and favor-
ably known. He was director of the
Payson Co-operative Mercantile Insti-
tution for a long time, and since 1899
he has conducted an extensive furni-
ture establishment, including under-
taking and embalming, at Payson. He
is also interested in farming and stock
raising.

LOVELESS, Justin Anderson, Bish-
op of Payson First Ward, Nebo Stake
(Utah county, Utah), is the son of
John Loveless and Mary P. Gauge,
and was born Dec. 18, 1867, at Payson,
Utah. He was baptized Aug. 2, 1877,
by Wm. Whitehead; ordained a Dea-
con Jan. 17, 1881, by David Lant; or-
dained an Elder April 13, 1890, by
Jesse S. Taylor; ordained a Seventy
Oct. 30, 1893, by John B. Fairbanks and
ordained a High Priest and set apart
as 2nd counselor in the Payson 1st
Ward Bishopric Jan. 20, 1901, by Apos-
tleReed Smoot, and ordained a Bishop
to preside over the Payson First

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Ward Feb. 16, 1902, by Apostle John
Henry Smith. In 1896-98 he filled a
mission to California, laboring prin-
cipally in San Francisco, Sacramento
and San Diego. At home he has serv-
ed as an officer in Y. M. M. I. A., la-
bored as Sunday school teacher and
assistent superintendent, president of

the 9th quorum ol Elders, secretary
af the 46th quorum of Seventy (1895-
96); Ward teacher and home missi-
nary (in Nebo Stake). Elder Loveless
married Alice Stark April 17, 1890;
she died Oct. 30, 1898, and he married
Ann E. Jones Sept. 5, 1900; Bishop
Loveless is the father of four children.
Having learned the trade of a harness
maker, he followed that avocation
for eighteen years, and is still enga-
ged in that business as senior member
of the firm of Loveless and Stark, of
Payson. ^ Since March, 1904, he has
acted as tithing clerk for both Wards
in Payson. Of secular offices Bro.
Loveless has also had his share, hav-
ing served as city recorder from 1893
to 1896, as city councilman for several
years, and as mayor of Payson from
1900 to 1905,

TANNER, John Joshua, a member
of Zion's Camp, was born Dec. 22,

1811, at Bolton, Warren county, N. Y.,
the son of John Tanner and Lydia
Stewart. He was baptized in New
York State about 1832, when the first
"Mormon" missionaries visited that
part of the country; he was ordained
to the different offices in the Priest-
hood and finally became a president
in one of the quorums of Seventy.
Having moved to Kirtland, Ohio, he
married Rebecca Smith in July,
1835, in Kirtland. She bore him nine
children. Emigrating to Utah in 1861,
in Isaac AUred's company, he located
in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake coun-
ty, where he resided the remainder of
his days. In 1854 he married Mary
Ann Nickerson and on March 13, 1856,
he married Mahlie Chase, who bore
him three children. He also married
Nancy A. Ferguson March 13, 1856,
with whom he had nine children. In
his early days he was pei'sonally ac-
quainted with the Prophet Joseph
Smith • and was associated with him
under many perils and trials, and on
one occasion imprisoned with him in
Missouri. Bro. Tanner passed through
the trying ordeals to which the
members of the Church were exposed
in Missouri, Ohio and Illinois and al-
ways remained faithful and true and
bore his trials without murmuring.
In the early days of Utah he partici-
pated in the Indian wars, serving as
captain of a company of men who
guarded the canyon entrances. He
also participated in the Echo Canyon
campaign in 1857-58, doing active mili-
tary duty on the Weber river. His
death occurred in the South Cotton-
wood Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah,
Sept. 9, 1896, at the age of eighty-five
years. At the time of his demise he
had sixteen children, over eighty
grandchildren and several great
grandchildren living. Bro. Tanner
was always active and faithful as an
Elder in the Church, and while he did
not perform foreign missions he was
always busily engaged in Church af-
fairs at home.

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PATTEN, Geoi&s, a pioneer and
veteran Elder in the Church, was born
Oct. 26, 1828, in Chester county, Penn-
sylvania, the son of Wm. C. Patten
and Julianna Bench. In a sketch pre-
pared for this work, Elder Patten
writes: "My mother died when I was
six years old. Two years later, I was
put out on a farm in the State of
Delaware, sixty miles south of Phila-
delphia, with one of my father's
cousins. There I lived till the fall of

1842, receiving in the meantime two
months' schooling yearly for several
years. In the fall of 1842 we removed
to Nauvoo, Illinois, where I attended
school the following winter. In June,

1843, I was baptized by Edson Whip-
pies, at the foot of Main street, by
the side of the Nauvoo Mansion. Dur-
ing the summer of 1843 I worked in the
Temple stone quarry at Nauvoo; later
I learned stone cutting under Jerome
Kompton. I also became acquainted
with the Prophet Joseph Smith and
often heard him preach. I was pre-
sent at the grand meeting held in
Nauvoo Aug. 8, 1844, when Brigham
Young was accepted as the leader of
the Church, and I, together with so
many others present on that occasion,
received a strong testimony as to who
it was the Lord had appointed to lead
his people and upon whom the mantle
of the Prophet Jof5eph had fallen. In
the spring of 1846 I participated in
the exodus from Nauvoo, and father
placed me in the care of Bro. Charles
C. Rich. Soon afterwards, though on-
ly eighteen years old, I was ordained
a Seventy and became a member of
the 34th quorum of Seventy. In Fe-
bruary, 1846, we crossed the Miss-
issippi river and traveled on to Sugar
Creek, In Iowa, when the ground was
covered with snow about a foot deep.
In journeying through Iowa in slush
and mud I drove loose stock and be-
ing exposed to the inclemency of the
weather I caught a very severe cold
and came very near losing my life;
but I was healed by the prayer of
faith and the administration of the

Holy Priesthood. During the summer
of 1846 I made two visits back to Nau-
voo, my father's family being among
those who remained behind till the
driving out of the remnant of the
Saints. I was present to witness the
latter part of the so-called Nauvoo
battle. We disposed of our house and
lot in Nauvoo, worth about $.500, for
a cow valued at $15.00. Remaining
in Iowa during the winter of 1847 to
1848, we hurried on to Winter Quar-
ters early in the spring of 1848 and
put in a crop. Being ordered to
vacate Winter Quarters as the
land on which it stood belong-
ed to the Indians, my father moved
his family over the river and made a
temporary home on the Big Pigeon,
nine miles north ot Kanesville, Iowa.
Here we struggled hard to get an
outfit with which to cross the plains
and the mountains to G. S. L. Valley.
We started for the Valley in the spring
of 1850 with two old wagons, three
yoke of cows, one yoke of three-year-
old steers, one yoke of three-year-
old heifers and a yoke of two-year-
old heifers. My team consisted of
three-year-old steers, a yoke of cows,
a yoke of three-year-old heifers and
a yoke of two-year-old heifers. Fa-
ther's teams consisted of two yoke
of cows and an old light wagon. We
left Florence June 21, 1850, in Wil-
ford Woodruff's hundred and Edson
Whipple's fifty, arriving in Salt Lake
City, Oct. 3rd. In the fall of the
same year (1850) I settled at what
is now called Alpine, Utah county,
assisting my brother-in-law Charles
S. Peterson in building log houses.
We were among the very first sett-
lers of Alpine. In 1851 (lEi^eb. 20th),
I married Mary Jane Nelson and
moved into a house that had dirt floor
and roof. In 1853 I participated in the
Walker war as a member of Samuel S.
White's compa;iy. In the fall of 1854
I moved to Payson, where my father
had located in the fall of 1850 as one
of the first settlers. In the spring
of 1856 I was called out to partici-

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pate in the so-called Tintic war by
order of Col. Peter Cownover, of Pro-
ve. Later in the year I went out as
far as Fort Bridger to meet the hand-
cart emigrants. During the winter
of 1857-58 I participated in the Echo
canyon campaign, part of the time
under the command of Captain Lot
Smith. In the Spring of 1858 I as-
sisted in the general move south and
later in the year took up a tract of
land just north ot Payson. In 1862
I went to the Missouri river in Homer
Duncan's company, to assist emigrants
across the plains. We made the round
trip in 130 days; it was the quickest
trip every made by oxteams. In 1865
I was called on the Muddy Mission and
thus became one of the founders of
St. Thomas, going there in 1866 to
put up a molasses mill and a cotton
gin. 1 built a race and flume and
put in a small overshoot wheel which
I attached to the gin and thus ginned
out their cotton, '^here being a moun-
tain of nice salt a few miles south
of the settlement, I bought a small
pair of burrs which I put up and
ground salt, thus supplying all south-
ern Utah with fine table salt. In the
breaking up of the Muddy mission,
later, I lost a thousand dollars. The
settlers on the Muddy being compell-
ed to tramp out their grain with
horses and clear it up in the wind, I
took a fanning mill down to the Mud-
dy on one of my trips, which caused
great rejoicing in the colony. After
vecating the settlements on the Muddy
I located temporarily in St. George,
where I fenced in a lot and planted
vines and trees. Later, I located in
Harrisburg, where I built a house,
but later I settled at Levan, Juab
county. In 1866 I was elected major
in the Nauvoo legion and in early
days in Payson I served in the police
force and was also a member of the
city council. In 1870, together with
about 300 others i filled a short mis-
sion to the States, visiting Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware and Indiana. I helped
to build the first telegraph linf^

from Provo to Payson. In 1873 I was
elected constable of Payson. I also
helped to build the Provo WoUen
Factory and took a contract for grad-
ing a part of the Utah Southern Rail-
way. Later, after the grading was
done, I, together with my son, helped
to get out ties and bridge timbers
from the canyons. In 1874 I helped
to finish the St. George Temple and
took a small contract for grading on
the railroad from Provo to Payson.
In 1883 I bought a ranch of 300 acres
in Juab county, three miles north of
Mona, then known as the Cheeny
Ranch, which I greatly improved dur-
ing the following year. I planted
about 4000 trees and named the place
Poplar Grove, as I set out a row of
poplar nearly half a mile long. I also
built a small frame house, a camp
house and a barn and shed for camp
ers, and drove three flowing wells.
In 1888 I went to Mexico, and located
the following year with two of my
sons at Colonia Dublan. I remained
there about four years, buying out
thirteen Mexican claims, and as the
brethren moved in, I sold them this
land with only a small advance on
the price I had paid. In 1893 I re-
turned to Utah. In summing up my
busy life, I will say, that I have built
eightteen dwellings for myself and
sons. Thus I helped to build two
houses at Alpine, eight in and around
Payson, one at Salem, one at Clinton
(Thistle Valley), two at St. Thomas,
on the Muddy, one at Harrisburg,
one at the ranch, at Poplar Grove, and
two at Dublan, Mexico. I have done
my share of hard work to build up
the country even if I have not done
much preaching. 1 have been a teach-
er in Sunday schools for fifteen years
and a Ward teacher about forty
years. My first wife died July 6,
1896, and I married my present wife
(Mary Burton) Oct. 10, 1901, in the
Salt Lake Temple."

SCHRAMM, Carl CHRISTIAN, pre-
sident of the German meetings in

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Payson, was born May 15, 1835, in
•Calw, Wurttemberg, Germany, the son
of Carl G. Schramm and Christine
Augusta Fritz. He was baptized May
26, 1861, at Durlach, Baden, Germany;
ordained a "Priest June 5, 1861, by
Serge L. Ballif; ordained an Elder
in December, 1861, by John L. Smith;
emigrated to Utah and located in
Payson, where he was ordained a
Seventy in 1873 by McLellan, and
ordained a High Priest in 1893 by
Jonathan S. Page. Prior to emigrat-
ing to America he labored three years
as a local missionary in Baden, Wurt-

Elizabeth Dalder, in November 1864,
Louise Schaab, in 1883, and Frede-
rikke Walton , in 1884. With these
wives he has had eigth children. His
places of residence have been Lehi,
Richfield and Payson, Utah.

JOHNSON, John, Bishop of Ben-
jamin, Nebo Stake (Utah county),
Utah, was born April 20, 1864, bap-
tized Sept. 12, 1886, ordained a Priest
in 1886 by P. J. Hanson, and ordained
an Elder in 1887 by Carl H. Nord-
berg. He emigrated to Utah in 1889
and resided in Ogden, Richmond and

temberg and Switzerland. In 1880-
82 he filled another mission to Ger-
many, during which he opened the
first branch of the Church in Stutt-
gart, the capital of Wurttemberg, where
he baptized twelve persons in one day.
Among these were Sister Louise Ha-
gue. In confirming her, he told
her that she should come to Zion
with all her children, which prophecy
was fulfilled, though it was only made
possible by a miraculous healing
through the faith in the ministra-
tion of the Elders. Besides raising
up the branch in Stuttgart, he bap-
tized a number in other towns and
cities in Wurttemberg, and also some
in Baden and Bavaria. Elder Schramm
has married three wives, namely.

Murray till 1892, when he located in
Benjamin, where he still resides. In
1899 (April 21st) he was ordained
a Seventy by Seymour B. Young; he
was ordained a High Priest Sept. 11,
1904, by Jonathan S. Page jun., and
ordained a Bishop Feb. 18, 1905, by
Apostle George A. Smith. Before
emigrating to America he labored as
a local missionary in the Stockholm
conference, Sweden, for about two
years, and in 1899-1902 he filled
another mission to Sweden, laboring
chiefly in the Stockholm conference,
part of the time as its president. At
home he has labored as a Ward teach-
er, a counselor in the Y. M. M. I. A.,
a member of the Ward ecclesiastical
board and Bishop's counselor from

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Sept. 11, 1904, to February, 1905,
when he became Bishop of Benjamin.
With Edle Wilhelmina Lundell, whom
he married Nov. 22, 1889, he has had
eight children, seven of whom are still
living.

RICHARDSON, Shadrach Montgom-
ery, alternate High Councilor in the
Nebo Stake of Zion (Utah county,
Utah), was born March 11, 1848, on
Keg creek. Mills county, Iowa, the son
of Shadrach Richardson and Lavina
Stewart. He crossed the plains in
the summer of 1852 and settled at
Payson, passing through some of the
trials of early Pioneer life. He
attended the common schools of Pay-
son during the winter seasons until
he was eighteen years old; he also
studied surveying in the field by
practical work. During the Black-
hawk war he served in the militia
under Captain Thomas Daniels. Bro-
ther Richardson was baptized March
22, 1857, by George W. Hancock, of
Payson; ordained an Elder June 6,
1875, by Benjamin F. Stewart; or-
dained a High Priest by President
Abraham O. Smoot and set apart as
counselor to Bishop A. J. B. Stewart,
of Benjamin Ward, June 22, 1886, and
set apart as an alternate member of
the High Council of the Nebo Stake
Jan. 20, 1901. In 1875 (May 30th) he
married Keturah Hand, by whom he
has had twelve children. Of civil
offices held by Bro. Richardson may
be mentioned that he has acted as
constable of Benjamin, justice of the
peace four terms, U. S. deputy sur-
veyor etc. Otherwise his chief occu-
pation has been that of a farmer.

OKELBERRY, Peter, Bishop of
Goshen, (Utah county, Utah), was
born Sept. 2, 1845, at Genarp, Malm0-
hus Ian, Sweden, the son of Paul
Okelberry and Christina Nilson. He
emigrated with his parents to America
in 1863, crossing the Atlantic in the
sailing wessel "John J. Boyd" and
the plains in John R. Murdock's ox-
train. After spending the winter in

Goshen, Utah county, the family re-
moved to Moroni, Satipete county,
where Peter worked with his father
as a carpenter. After the death of
his father the family moved to
Grantsville, Tooele county, where the
mother died. The subject of this
sketch was the fifth of ten children,
and was eighteen years of age when
he came to Utah. He participated
in the Blackhawk war in 1866-67, and
in the latter year he located in Gosh-
en where he resided till the time of
his death, which occurred there Dec.
8, 1906. From the beginning he was
one of the leading spirits in Goshen
and associated himself with most of
the business enterprises in which the
citizens there are engaged; for many
years he followed merchandising as
his principal occupation. In 1870 he
married Catharina Morgan, a native

of Utah of Welsh parentage; ten chil-
dren were the issue of this marriage.
His second wife, Julia Jespersen, was
also a native of Utah; he married her
in 1886 and she bore him four chil-
dren. Bro. Okelberry was ordained
an Elder in 1877; later he was or-
dained a High Priest and on July 17,
1896, he was ordained a Bishop and
set apart to preside over the Goshen
Ward by Francis M. Lyman. For
twenty years he also served as super-

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Intendent of the Sunday school in
Goshen and for a number of years as
leader of the choir, and as second
counselor to Bishop Wm. Price. He
rose to his high and holy calling as
Bishop through the exercise of his
own native ability and merits, and
by following a course in life which
was ever honorable and exemplary.

MONEY, Albert Thurber, Bishop of
Palmyra, (Utah county, Utah), is the
son of Richard Money and Margaret
Armstrong, and was born Aug. 5, 1865,
in Spanish Fork, Utah county. Utah.
He was baptized when about eight
years old by Charles Monk; ordained
a Priest by James Robertson; later
ordained a Seventy by Wm. Stoker

and finally ordained a High Priest
and Bishop Aug. 11,1901, by Apostle
Reed Smoot, and set apart to preside
over the Palmyra Ward. Prior to
that time he was actively engaged
in the Spanish Fork Third Ward, prin-
cipally as president of the Y. M. M. I.
A. In 1889 (Jan. 9th) he married Ann
Malinde Jex, who has borne him eight
children, all living. Elder Money has
also acted as city policeman nine years
and as watermaster and street super-
visor four years, in Spanish Fork.
His chief occupation is that of a farm-

er, but for several years he also fol-
lowed railroading for a living.

PETERSEN, Peder Andersen, a
prominent Elder of Salem, (Utah
county, Utah), was born in Hadeland,
Christiania amt, Norway, Sept. 2,
1837, the son of Anders Petersen and
Marie Rolffsen. He was baptized
May 22, 1861 and soon afterwards
ordained a Teacher. In the spring of
1862 he was ordained a Priest and
appointed to labor as a local missio-
nary in the city of Christiania. In
the fall of 1864 he was called to pre-
side over the Langesund district, and
two years later his field of labor was
extended to Arendal. He was the
first "Mormon" missionary who
preached in Farsund. In the fall of
1868 he was released from his missio-
nary labors, with permission to emi-
grate to Zion. He stopped on the way
to labor on the Union Pacific Rail-
way In Echo Canyon. In 1895-97 he
filled another mission to Norway,
laboring principally in Drammen, Fre-
drikshald, Aalesund and Christiania.
On his first mission he was known as
Peder Andersen, but through the influ-
ence of certain parties he was induced
to change his name by adding Peter-
sen, a circumstance which he very
much regrets and which should serve
as a warning to others. Peder Ander-
sen is universally known, both in
Norway and Utah, as a faithful, hum-
ble Latter-day Saint, who is ever on
hand to do good.

WILKINS, George Washington, a
Patriarch in the Nebo Stake of Zion,
was born in Petersboro, Hillsboro
county. New Hampshire, Oct. 20, 1822,
the son of Abraham Wilkins and Mary
Emmons. He was baptized Oct. 9,
1842, by Elder Eli P. Maginn, at Peters-
boro, New Hampshire, and ordained
an Elder under the hands of Apostle
Brigham Young and Orson Pratt, the
latter being mouth, July, 14, 1844, soon
after the death of the Prophet Joseph
Smith. He was ordained a Higli

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Priest and set apart as a counselor to
Bishop John L. Butler, of Spanish
Fork Ward, June 6, 1866, by Zebedee
Coltrin, and ordained a Patriarch Aug.
18, 1901, by Aposle George Teasdale.
He went to California in 1852 and
remained there till 1855. In 1871-72
he filled a mission to England, labor-
ing in Bedford and Norwich confer-
ences, part of the time as conference
president. He returned home as
leader of a company of 602 emigrants.
In 1876 he filled a mission to Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire. July

4, 1846, he married Catharine A. Lov-
ett who bore him eight children. He
also married Caroline E. Butler, in
April, 1857, and Mary M. Moyer, Sept.
17, 1886; the later became the mother
of four children. Bro. Wilkins' occu-
pation has been that of a farmer, but
he has also filled offices of a public
nature and served as a member of the
city council of Spanish Fork. He
bears a strong testimony of the truth
of the Gospel and relates that prior
to his baptism he had acquired a habit
of using profane language and that
all his efforts to cease the bad habit
seemed vain; but immediately after
his baptism he felt no more inclination
to swear, and to this day he has never
been tempted to use an oath. One
of Elder Wilkins' neighbors testifies

of him as follows: "We have known
him as a wise and careful counselor,
a kind and affectionate husband, a
true, loving and devoted father and
an honorable citizen, neighbor and
friend".

MOORE, John, a High Councilor in
the Nebo Stake of Zion, was born Oct.
4, 1838, in the village of Borrowash,
Derbyshire, England, the son of
Thomas Moore and Ann West. His
mother died in 1840 and his father
in 1844. Thus he was left an orphan

to be raised by his grandfather,
William West, who with his family
embraced "Mormonism" and emigrated
toAmerica in 1851. They finally reached
Great Salt Lake Valley in September
1853, and after residing temporarily
in Bountiful, Davis county, Grants-
ville, Tooele county, and Provo, Utah
county, they located in Spanish Fork
in 1856. The subject of this sketch
was baptized in October, 1854, by
Jesse West; ordained a Priest, in 1855,
by David Fullmer; ordained an Elder
Dec. 1, 1857, by James Youd, at Span-
ish Fork; ordained a Seventy by An-
drew Ferguson March 10, 1873, and
ordained a High Priest and set apart
as a High Councilor in the Nebo Stake
Feb. 7, 1901. Inl860 (Oct. 1st) Elder
Moore married Caroline Hicks who

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"bore him eight children, three sons
and five daughters. His wife died
May 9, 1878. In 1891-93 he filled a
mission to England, laboring in the
Nottingham conference and afterwards
presiding over the Scottish confer-
ence. In returning home in 1893 he
had charge of a company of Saints
and returning Elders. Elder Moore
served Spanish Fork city for twenty
years as councilman, alderman and
city recorder. He also served as pre-
"Cinct justice of Spanish Fork four
years and as a representative in the
31st session of the Territorial legis-
lature in 1893, He labored as a Sun-
day school teacher for nearly thirty
years, served as captain in the Nauvoo
legion, in Utah county, and advanced
to the rank of major. He has labored
in many other positions, chief of which
has been salesman in and officer of
the Spanish Fork Co-operative Institu-
tion, which he assisted in organizing
in 1867; he now acts as its secretary.
For a number of years he served on its
board of directors. This co-operative
institution claims the distinction of
being the first of its kind ever orga-
nized in Utah.

HICKS, George Barton, a veteran
Elder in the Church and a former re-
sident of Spanish Fork, Utah county,
Utah, was bom Dec. 15, 1803, near
Enniskillen, county of Fermanagh,
Ireland, the son of Robert Hicks and
Frances Armstrong. He emigrated to
America in 1820 and settled in Canada.
In 1834 (Jan. 25th) he married Martha
Ann Wilson, by whom he had three
sons and four daughters. July 16,
1837, he and his wife were baptized
into the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints by Priest Theodore
Turley and confirmed the same day
by Elder Almon W. Babbitt. In No-
ember, 1839, he, with his family, came
to Nauvoo (then called Commerce)
Hancock county, Illinois, where they
remained until the final expulsion of
the Saints in 1846. The family came
to Utah in 1852, arriving in Salt Lake

City Oct. 3rd, of that year. Ever after
that he was a resident of Utah and
died Jan. 13, 1885, at the town of
Spanish Fork as a High Priest in the
Church, who had ever lived faithful
and true to the Gospel of Christ. His
wife died April 2, 1885.

CHRISTENSEN, Christen, Bishop of
Chester Ward, North Sanpete Stake of
Zion, was born June 27, 1848, at Lyng-
aa, Aarhus amt, Denmark, the son of
Soren Christensen and Maren Niel-
sen. He was baptized in 1862 and
emigrated to Utah in 1862, crossing

the plains in John R. Murdock's com-
pany. On his arrival in Utah he first
located in Provo, Utah county, but
subsequently (in 1865) he moved to
Mount Please-nt, Sanpete county, where
he resided till 1884, when he made
his permanent home at Chester, where
he resided until his death. He was
ordained to the Priesthood in the fol-
lowing order: Teacher, Elder (in 1866),
Seventy (by Levi B. Reynolds) and a
High Priest and Bishop Sept. 16, 1889,
by Apostle Francis M. Lyman. On
that date he was also set apart to
preside over the Chester Ward. Prior
to this, however, Bro. Christensen had
twice presided over the Ward as pre-
siding Elder. He always took an ac-

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tive interest in Church work and held
such positions as teacher and superin-
tendent of Sunday schools, counselor
in the Y. M. M. I. etc. He went to
Arizona in 1876 on a colonizing mis-
sion. After the mission was closed,
he returned to Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete
county. In 1873 he responded to a call
to work in a rock quarry, getting out
building rock for the St. George Tem-
ple. Bishop Christensen was during
his life time engaged in various oc-
cupations, such as freighting, sheep
raising and farming. He was a highly
respected citizen and held a number
of local offices, in which he enjoyed
the utmost confidence of his brethren
and fellow citizens. His death oc-
curred in Chester June 11, 1906.

CHRISTENSEN, Thomas Christian,
second counselor to Bishop Christen
Christensen of Chester Ward, North
Sanpete Stake, was born April 19,
1863, at Lendum parish, Hjorring
amt, Denmark, the son of Berthel D.

dained a Teacher, later an Elder,
still later a Seventy and finally a
High Priest April 28, 1901, by Chris-
tian X. Lund; on the latter occasion
he was also set apart as second coun-
selor in the Chester Ward Bishopric.
Elder Christensen is the father of six
children, all alive. When he first
came to Utah he settled in Spring
City, where he lived for eight years
and then removed to Chester, where
he has since resided, engaged in
farming and stock raising. He is a
director and superintendent of the
Chester Reservoir and Ditch Compa-
ny and share holder in the Sanpete
Ditch Company and the Moroni Ditch
Company. In 1885 (July 3rd) he
married Maria Peterson, who was
born in Denmark, July 23, 1860. The
issue of this marriage is four child-
ren, namely, James C, Berthel C,
Thomas A., and Johanna M.,

BAGNALL, Joseph, first counselor
to Bishop Christen Christensen of the

Christensen and Johanna M. Thom-
sen. He was baptized June 18, 1882,
by Jens P. Jensen and emigrated to
rtah in 1883. Before leaving Den-
mark he was ordained a Deacon and
after his arrival in Utah he was or-

Chester Ward, North Sanpete Stake,
was bom Dec. 27, 1839, in Wakefield,
Yorkshire, England, a son of George
Bagnall and Ann Rawling. He learned
the trade of a scythe-stonemaker and
worked at that trade fourteen years.

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He was baptized Feb. 10, 1S62, or-
dained a Teacher, emigrated to Utah
in 1865, crossing the plains in an ox-
train, and located in Moroni, Sanpete
county. Here he was engaged for
eleven years in ttonecutting and farm-
ing and worked six months cutting
stone for the St. George Temple. In
1867 he was ordained an Elder by
Joseph F. Simth. In 1876 he located
in Chester, where he has resided
ever since and taken an active part
in public affairs. In 1893 he was or-
dained a High Priest by Henry Beal
and set apart as first counselor in
the Chester Ward Bishopric. He
has also acted as a Ward teacher,
Sunday school and Y. M. M. I. A. of-
ficer, school trustee etc. During the
Blackhawk war he took an active
part in military affairs, performing
his share of work in guarding the
homes and property of the people.
Elder Bagnall was married in Eng-
land Dec. 27, 1864, to Sarah A. Fro-
bisher, who was born in Heath, Eng-
land, May 6, 1841; they have two
children, namely, Joseph F. and Wil-
liam H.

NIELSEN, Lars, a High Counselor
in the North Sanpete Stake, and
Ward clerk of the Fountain Green
Ward Sanpete county, Utah, vas born
May 3, 1849, in Sonder Yinge,
near Randers, Denmark, the son of
Jens Nielsen and Mette Christensen.
He was baptized May 18, 1857, by
Peter C. Madsen, emigrated to Utah
in 1859 and located in Spanish Fork,
Utah county, where he resided until
1863, when he changed his place of
residence to Fountain Green, Sanpete
•county; where he still resides. As a
member of the Nauvoo Legion or
Utah Militia from 1865 to 1870 he
served in the Blackhawk War. He
was ordained an Elder Nov. 27, 1871,
by John D. T. McAllister, a Seventy
Aug. 5, 1884, by Carl C. A. Christen-
sen and a High Priest Dec. 9, 1900.
by Anthon H. Liind. He filled a
mission to Scandinavia in 1880-82.

At home he has held many local po-
sitions in the Priesthood and in the
auxiliary organizations of the Church.
Thus he acted as president of a quo-
rum of Seventies eight years, super-
intendent of the Fountain Green Sun-
day school eight years and president
of the Y. M. M. I. A. two years. He
has also held the offices of justice
of the peace eight years, president of
the town board four years, town trus-
tee six years and school trustee five
years. His chief avocation has been
that of a farmer and salesman. In
1871 (Nov. 27) he married Maria M.
Christensen who has borne him four-
teen children, twelve of whom are
now living.

BRADLEY, Orlando, Bishop of Mo-
roni Ward, North Sanpete Stake of
Zion, is the son of George H. Bradley
and Elizabeth Glove and was born
Dec. 25, 1862, at Moroni, Sanpete
county, Utah. He was baptized when
about eight years of age, ordained an

Elder in 1884 by Peter Olsen, ordained
a Seventy by Jens C. Nielsen and be-
came a member of the 37th quorum of
Seventy, and ordained a High Priest
and set arart as an alternate member
of the High Council in the North
Sanpetf^ Stake Feb. 3, 1900, by Pres.

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Christian N. Lund. He labored in
the later capacity till November, 1901,
when he was ordained Bishop of Mo-
roni by Apostle Reed Smoot. In 1894-
96 he filled a mission to the Southern
States, laboring principally in West
Virginia. Bishop Bradley has al-
ways taken an active part in Church
work, having held such positions as
teacher and superintendent in the
Sunday school in Moroni, president
and Stake aid in the Y. M. M. I. A.
and Ward teacher. In 1884 (Dec.
4th) he married Irene Draper, the is-
sue of which union is six children,
four of whom are living. Bishop
Bradley is highly respected by the
citizens of Moroni as an honest and
industrious man. In proof of this
it may be said that he has been
honored with many offices within the
gifts of the people, such as marshal,
city councilman and mayor. Other-
wise he is engaged in successful
sheep business and is a thrifty and
industrious farmer.

HARDY, Aaron, Stake tithing clerk
of North Sanpete Stake, is the son
of George Hardy and Merah Beard,

and was born Dec. 27, 1839, at Duck-
infield, Cheshire, England. He was
baptized Feb. 28, 1854, ordained a Priest
soon aftejward;^j and ordained an El-

der Feb. 19, 1857, by James G. Brown-
ing. He married Elizabeth S. Prest-
wich Sept. 11, 1861, and emigrated to
Utah in 1863, crossing the plains in
Captain Nebeker's ox-train. He loca-
ted in Moroni, Sanpete county, where
he has resided ever since. He was
ordained a High Priest by Zebedee
Coltrin and set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop George W. Bradley,
of Moroni, in which capacity he ser-
ved till 1877. For nearly twenty
years he also acted as superintendent
of the Sunday schools in Moroni. In
1870 (Dec. 19th) he married Emma J.
Warner. In 1872 (Oct. 2nd) he mar-
ried Amy S. Faux, and in 1880 (Sept.
8th) he took to wife Anna M. Ander-
son. For a number of years he la-
bored as a home missionary in the
Sanpete Stake,, and at the organiza-
tion of the North Sanpete Stake in
December, 1900, he was chosen and
set apart as a High Councilor by
Apostle John Henry Smith; subse-
qently, he was appointed Stake ti-
thing clerk. For about five years he
also served as Ward clerk of Moroni.
He was the first city recorder in Mo-
roni, served six years as mayor of
the city, acted one year as county
commissioner in Sanpete county, ser-
ved twelve years as justice of Moro-
ni, and was a member of the House
of Representatives of the Utah Le-
gislature in 1897 — 98. Because of his
family relations Elder Hardy was ar-
rested June 27, 1887, and later sen-
tenced to six months imprisonment
in the LTtah penitentiary for unlaw-
ful co-habitation, his term of impris-
onment being from Oct 14, 1887, to-
March 14, 1888. He was arrested a
second time June 28, 1890, and on
Oct. 6, 1890, sentenced to six months
imprisonment and $300 fine for the
same offence: he was finally re-
leased April 5, 1891. Elder Hardy is
the father of sixteen children, seven
of whom are now living.

CHRISTENSEN, James Miller, jun.,
second counselor to Bishop Orlando

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167

Bradley, of Moroni, Sanpete county,
Utah, was born Oct. 27, 1868, at Mo-
roni, Sanpete county, Utah, the son of
Jens M. Christensen and Annie K.
Zachariason. He was baptized in
1877, ordained successively a Deacon,
Teacher and Elder (by Andrew Chris-
topherson Nov. 25, 1894) and ordained
a High Priest Nov. 3, 1901, by Peter
Matson and set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop Bradley. Prior to
that ordination he acted as a Ward

teacher, secretary of the Sunday
school and secretary and counselor
in the Y. M. M. I. A., Stake aid in the
Y. M. M. I. A. and Ward Teacher.
In 1894 (Dec. 5th) he married Nancy
Elizabeth Bradley, with whom he has
had five children. Elder Christensen
graduated from the University of Utah
in 1902, since which he has followed
school teaching for a living, being at
present principal of the public school
of Moroni. He is also engaged in
farming and sheep raising and has
held a number of civil offices. Thus
he has already served three terms as
city councilman.

ALLRED, Reddick Newton, Bishop
of Chester Ward, Sanpete county,
Utah, from 1877 to 1887, was born
Feb. 21, 1822, in Bedford county,

Tenn., the son of Isaac Allred and
Mary Calvert. He was baptized in
1833, and in 1840 he removed to Nau-
voo, 111., where he remained with the
Saints until their expulsion in 1846.
He was ordained an Elder in Nauvoo,
by Seymour Branson in 1840 and or-
dained a Seventy in 1842, when he
also filled a preaching mission in In-
diana. In 1843, while living in Nau-
voo, he married Lucy Hoyt, who sur-
vived him. After the exodus from

Illinois, he enlisted in the famous
Mormon Battalion and marched to
California and back to Winter Quar-
ters in 1846 — 47. He came to Utah
in 1849 in charge of a company of 73
wagons and located in Salt Lake
county. In 1852 — 55 he filled a mis-
sion to the Hawaiian Islands, presiding
part of the time over the Maui con-
ference. Upon his return home he
removed to Kaysville, Davis county,
Utah, where he remained until "the
move in" 1858. In 1856 he went out
to meet the hand-cart companies, and
in that same year he was ordained a
High Priest by Bishop Edward Hun-
ter and set apart to act as a counse-
lor in the Kaysville Bishopric. In
1858 he located at Nephi, .Juab coun-
ty, remaining there one year; thence

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he removed to Spring City, making
his home there in the fall of 1859.
From that time until his demise he
was a resident of Spring City and
Chester. He took a most active part
in the Blackhawk war in Sanpete
county and served as a colonel in the
Nauvoo Legion. In 1867 he was or-
dained a Bishop by Pres. Canute Pe-
terson and set apart to preside over
the Chester Ward; he held that po-
sition for ten years. He was or-
dained a Patriarch by Apostle Geo.
Teasdale, May 15, 1898. In 1857 he
married Amelia J. McPherson and in
1861, he married Celestia W. War-
wick. By his several wives he be-
came the father of twenty children
and because of his family relations
he served a term of sixty days in the
Utah penitentiary in 1888. He filled
many positions of honor and trust be-
sides those already mentioned. Thus
he served as justice and postmaster
in Spring City, served five terms in
the Territorial legislature, was a mem-
ber of the first city council in Spring
City, etc. His principal avocation
in life, however, was that of a farmer.
In all his associations Col. Allred won
the respect and esteem of his fellow
men among whom he was a natural
leader. In all his labors his integri-
ty to the truth, his humility and pur-
ity of life and his obedience to pro-
per authority were characteristic of
his nature, that exacted the respect
and admiration of all. He died in
Chester, Oct 10, 1905, leaving a nu-
merous posterity, among whom were
seventy grand-children and forty great
grandchildren, all of whom are proud
of the life record of their illustrious
father.

HALE, Solomon Henry, first coun-
selor in the Presidency of the Oneida
Stake, Idaho, was born at Quincy, 111.,
April 30, 1839, while his parents,
Jonathan and Olive (Boynton) Hale,
then recent converts to "Mormon-
ism", were on their way to join the

great body of the Church at Nauvoo,
where he was later appointed Bishop
of one of the Wards in the City. The
Hales belongs to the distinguished
family of the name that has a glorious
record in both English and American
history, and numbers among its
renowned men Sir Matthew Hale, lord
chief justice of England, and Nathan
Hale, one of the early martyrs to liber-
ty in America. There are now some
23000 members of the family, and
its name has adorned every ele-
vated and admired walk of life
with the noblest traits of man-

hood and womanhood, the learning of
the scholar, the eloquence of the orator,
the courage of the soldier, the patriot-
ism of the statesman, the genius of the
writer and the daring of the pioneer,
all being set down to its credit, and
all repeated many times in its mem'
bership. The immediate ancestors ol
Solomon H. Hale were natives of
Massachusetts, and could trace their
ancestry back in an unbroken and
distinguished line ~to the year 1400,
and through all the variations of colo-
nial history in New England. In 1830
they moved from their native State
to Ohio, but after a short residence
there went to Nauvoo, 111., where they
remained until 1846, and then joined

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the first company of saints for the far
West. They reached Council Bluffs,
Iowa, in the summer and crossed over
the Missouri river to Winter Quarters
in September of that year; the father
soon died ,and the mother followed
lim to the better world a few days
later, as did two daughters, their
youngest children. Four children were
left in orphanage, namely Aroet L.,
Rachel S., Alma H., and Solomon H.
The oldest son was a young man and
the sister was also nearly grown at
this time and they were able to keep
the four together and continue the
journey to Great Salt Lake Valley,
•which they did in the spring of 1848
Avith the second company. They re-
mained in Salt Lake City four years,
and during this time Solomon secured
Tvhat education he could under the
•circumstances. In 1852 his two brothers
moved to Tooele county, where they
•engaged in farming on land which
they still own and occupy. The sister
was married and moved to San
Bernardino, California, where she died
some time in the seventies. Solomon
went to Farmington, north of Salt
Lake City, to make his home with his
imcle, Jonathan H. Holmes, and
■worked on his farm until 1854, when
he began the battle of life for himself
in earnest by going to Utah Valley,
near Lehi, and securing employment
■on a stock ranch. He remained there
until 1856 and then removed with the
first settlers with a herd of Church
cattle to the site of Logan, in Cache
Valley. They all intended to remain
there, but in the spring of 1857 United
States troops came along under the
command of General Johnston, and
the settlers, by order of President
Brigham Young, moved south. In the
fall of the year they returned and Bro.
Hale came with them. He passed the
winter near Logan and in the ensuing
spring of 1858 went to Salt Lake to
work for William H. Hooper, then one
of the most extensive stock-growers
and dealers in Utah, with his principal
ranches located obout thirty miles

north of Salt Lake City, where the
town of Hooperville now is.. .Bro. Hale
continuel his work on the ranch until
the spring of 1861, when he left Hoop-
er's employ to break horses for the
Pony Express Company in Deep Creek
Valley. There was such a demand
for riding horses on the express route
at this time that Bro. Hale, who, by
the way, had the reputation of being
the best rider in the county, was re-
quired to ride ten bronchos a day.
This he kept up for five months,
when he was broken down in health
and returned to Salt Lake City, spend-
ing the ensuing winter in Centerville.
These were very troublous and dan-
gerous times with the Indians. Some
of the station keepers were killed, and
express riders shot and a general state
of terror was kept up. Bro. Hale was
among those who suffered some very
narrow escapes. One incident that
showed well his bravery and adventur-
ous spirit, which were so characteristic
of him, was when he volunteered to
go at the head of nine men in pursuit
of two savages who were known to
be the principal cause of their trouble.
For days they kept a close watch upon
their trail in the mountains, when,
on their way to do further deeds of
terror, the two braves passed the fatal
spot where Bro. Hale and four others
were successful in capturing and after-
wards killing them. On May 1, 1862,
Mr. Hale enlisted in the government
service in Captain Lot Smith's com-
mand of Utah Volunteers and was ap-
pointed wagon-master and assigned to
do duty in protecting the mails on the
overland route, all the government
troops having been called off the
plains, leaving the Indians in almost
full control and using their opportunity
to murder emigrants, burn stage
houses, destroy coaches, kill the
guards and generally keep up a state
of terror throughout the country. The
Utah volunteers were used in restrain-
ing the savages and preserving order,
putting up wires, protecting stage
coaches and keeping up as far as

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possible communication with the east.
They enlisted for ninety days, but
were kept in service 115, and on their
way home, three days before their
term expired , they reached Fort
Bridger, where Indians had made a
raid on the ranch of the old moun-
taineer, John Robinson, and taken off
136 horses and mules. Yielding to the
appeals of the settlers, the forty volun-
teers set out upon the trail of the
savages, following them in swift pur-
suit for eight days into the Snake
River region, the then heart of the
Indian country. Not being successful
in overtaking the hostiles, they gave
up the chase after having reached the
vicinity of the Three Tetons. They
crossed Snake River at Meek's Ferry,
north of Blackfoot, and went on to
Pocatello; thence they passed through
Malad Valley back to Salt Lake City,
where they arrived on the 9th of Aug.
and were mustered out of service on
the 14th. This expedition, in which
only one life was lost and that by
drowning in the Lewis Fork of Snake
River, has been recorded as being
"one of the most hazardous in the an-
nals of local Indian warfare". During
the eight days of their pt.rsuit they
were almost without food and also
suffered untold hardships in other
ways. They subsisted principally upon
what few birds and animals they could
kill by the way and were at one time
driven to the extreme measure of
killing for food one of their pack
horses. Brother Hale remained in the
vicinity of Salt Lake until April 17,
1863, when he was married there to
Miss Anna Clark, a native of Ohio,
daughter of Samuel and Rebecca
(Garner) Clark; her father was. born
in New Jersey and the mother in
Tennessee. They came to Utah in
1848, and after a short residence in
Salt Lake City moved to Provo, where
the father started the first tannery in
the Territory. The mother died in
southern Utah and the father at the
home of a son at Whitney, Idaho.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.

Hale settled in Skull Valley, Utah,
where he was in the employ of Wil-
liam H. Hooper, having charge of all
his interests in that region. Mr.
Hooper was one of the famous men of
early Utah history, being prominent
in public life as well as in business
circles. In the autumn of 1865 Bro.
Hale moved to the Bear Lake country,
which then contained but few settlers.
He bought land near the present town
of Liberty and engaged extensively
in the stock industry, raising, buying
and selling cattle. He remained there
until the spring of 1872, when he
changed his base of operations to Soda
Springs, where he, in partnership with
Brigham Young jun., opened a livery,
feed and sale stable. He kept up
right along big stock interests, procur-
ing hayland in Gentile Valley for the
raising of winter feed. He did the
freighting from Logan, Utah, for the
branch of the Z. C. M. I. in Soda
Springs and acted as their Indian in-
terpreter and trader. In the latter
place he built two fine residences and
a billiard hall, which was the best
equipped of any north of Ogden City.
These buildings are still standing and
occupied. In the spring of 1875 he
sold his interest in Soda Springs and
procured other tracts of land in the
central portion of Gentile Valley,
where the town of Thatcher now is.
Here he started a new enterprise and
went quite extensively into the stock
business and soon became one of the
leading stock men of that whole valley.
A peculiar incident in his locating in
Gentile Valley was that the ranch
lien and trappers then living on the
west side of the river forbade "]\Ior-
mons" locating among them: they
claimed that the valley should be kept
exclusively Gentile. It will be plainly
seen from this whence Gentile Valley
derived its name. Mr. Hale gained
the friendship of his neighbors and
before a great while a number of other
"Mormons" settled there and finally
a Ward of the Church was organized,
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w^hile living here he served his county
(Oneida) for two years as one of its
commissioners, during which terms
funds were appropriated for the build-
ing of the county house in Malad City,
the Bear River bridge in Gentile Val-
ley, etc. In April, 1890, he was called
by the Church to superintend the
erection of the Oneida Stake Academy,
at Preston, to which town his family
moved the following July, retaining
their possessions in the Gentile Val-
ley. It took about five years to build
the Academy and in 1894 Elder Hale
traded land in the Gentile Valley for
the ranch on which he now lives, about
two miles south from the center of
Preston. Here he has since main-
tained his home and carried on an
extensive cattle and dairying business,
also raising and selling large quanti-
ties of hay and handling pure breeds
of sheep. Throughout his life he has
been active in the Church works. He
was a member of the High Cqmicil of
Bear Lake Stake from its organization
until the formation of Mormon (now
Thatcher) Ward, in Gentile Valley,
when he became Bishop of that Ward,
holding the position until the Oneida
Stake was formed, in May, 1884, when
he was made first counselor to Pres-
ident William D. Hendricks. In
August, 1887, he was called as first
counselor to President George C.
Parkinson, of the Oneida Stake, and
filled the office until recently. In
politics he is a staunch Republican and
is active in the service of his party.
His family consists of eight children
in all. Their names in order of birth
are as follows: Solomon H., Jonathan
J., S. Clark, Hattie V., Arta D., Heber
Q., A. Alma and Lavinna, of whom
three are deceased, namely, Jonathan,
Clark and Arta.

GOASLIND, Charles David, second
counselor in the Stake presidency of
the Oneida Stake af Zion, Idaho, was
born Nov. 18, 1860, in Richmond, Cache
county, Utah, the son of John Goas-
lind and Susan Allen. He was bap-

tized in Franklin, Idaho, by Robert
Gregory, ordained a Priest by Bishop
Lorenzo H. Hatch, ordained an Elder
in March, 1885, in the Logan Temple,
ordained a Seventy April 3, 1885, by He-
ber J. Grant, and ordained a High
Priest April 25, 1898, by George C.
Parkinson. In 1885-1887 he filled a
mission to Great Britain, laboring in
the Durham and Newcastle conferences
as a traveling Elder. In 1893 he la-
bored as a Sunday school missionary
in the Malad Stake; he also took a
Sunday school course in the B. Y,
University of Provo, and taught the
Sunday School teachers in Oneida
Stake. In 1889 he was appointed

clerk of the Oneida Stake and in 1896
he became the tithing clerk of said
Stake. In 1897 he was chosen as an
alternate member of the High Council
and became a regular member of that
body in 1898. For seven years he
was Stake president of Religion clas-
ses, from which position, in Septem-
ber, 1907, he was chosen as second
counselor in the Stake presidency of
the Oneida Stake. At present he is
State Examiner and ex-officio Insur-
ance Commissioner for the State of
Idaho. In 1885 (March 12th) he mar-
ried Clara C. Parkinson and in 1898
(February 23rd), his first wife having
previously died, he married Caroline

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C. Parkinson. He is the father of one
son by his first marriage and three
•daughters by his second marriage. El-
der Goaslind has been prominent in
all public affairs and has filled many
positions of honor and trust, among
which may be mentioned that of justce
'of the peace in Preston and United
States commissioner in Oneida coun-
ty, Idaho. His parents were pioneers
■of Franklin, Idaho, where Elder Goas-
lind also resided until 1896, when he
removed to Preston.

NELSON., Joseph G., a High Coun-
'Cilor in the Oneida Stake, Idaho, is

the son of Lars Nielsen and Martha
Benson, and was born at Goshen, Utah
county, Utah, March 10, 1864. He
was baptized when about ten years
old by Peter Roberts, ordained a Dea-
con soon afterwards by Carl Olson,
ordained an Elder by Peter Okelberry,
ordained a Seventy by Apostle Abra-
ham H. Cannon June 19, 1887, and
ordained a High Priest, Nov. 9, 1903,
by Apostle John Henry Smith. In 1888
he was called on a mission to the
Southern States, but was released
to labor in the Church schools at
home. After his return he organized
the Summit Stake Academy at Coal-
ville and was principal of that school
for two years. In 1890 he organized

the Oneida Stake Academy at Preston,
Idaho, and had charge of the same
for three years. Inl898 he filled a
short mission to the northwestern
States, laboring in Oregon. Aside
from his teaching in the public schools
of Utah and Idaho he has been a
zealous worker in Sunday schools and
Religion classes. At the organiza-
tion of the 116th Quorum of Seventy
he acted as one of its presidents until
called into the High Council, which
position he now holds. In 1888
(June 27th) he married Almenda A.
Giles, by whom he has ten children,
five boys and five girls, all now living
(July 21, 1908).

HART, Arthur William, a member
of the High Council of the Oneida
Stake, Idaho, was born Oct., 16, 1869,
at Bloomington, Bear Lake county,
Idaho, the son of James H. Hart and
Sabina Scheib, both of London, Eng-

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land. He was baptized when about
eight years old and later ordained a
Deacon and an Elder. He attended
the University of Utah in 1889-1890.
and later was a student at the B. Y.
College, at Logan; he also spent two
years in the Bear Lake Stake Acade-
my and took a course in M. I. A. and
Sunday school training at the B. Y.
the University of Utah in 1889-1890,

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he filled a mission to Germany, during
which he was appointed the first presi-
dent of the Stuttgart conference. Af-
ter his removal to Preston in 1899 he
commenced the practice of law and
was elected county attorney of Oneida
county, Nov. 6, 1901. In 1900 he was
ordained a High Priest by George C.
Parkinson and chosen as an alternate
member of the High Council. In
1898 he was chosen assistant super-
intendent of Religion classes, in the
Oneida Stake, and in 1900 Stake super-
intendent of M. I. A. which position he
still holds. In 1901 he married Ada
D. Lowe, by whom he has four children.
In 1902 (May 2nd) he was set apart
as a regular member of the High
Council. Elder Hart is also a leading
business man in Oneida county and
is associated with a number of busi-
ness enterprises.

CROCKET, Ozro Ozias, a High Coun-
cilor in the Oneida Stake of Zion, was
born Nov. 29, 1856, at Payson, Utah,
the son of Alvin Crockett and Mary

Sophia Reed. He was baptized July
16, 1865, by Thomas X. Smith in Lo-
gan, Utah; ordained a Deacon Jan.
29, 1869, by Elder James P. Jensen;
ordained a Priest about 1872; ordained
an Elder Jan. 12, 1874, by Samuel
Holt; ordained a Seventy .Tan. 11, 1882,

and ordained a High Priest Aug.
27, 1899, by Apostle Marriner W.
Merrill. He filled a mission to the
Eastern States in 1897-1899 and has
acted as a High Councilor in the
Oneida Stake since 1899.

JENSEN, David, a veteran Elder in
Preston, Idaho, was born April 15,
1835, at Oster Toten, Norway, the son
of Jens Johnson and Gulline Olsen,.
He was baptized Feb. 21, 1861, by Hans
Poulsen. Two years later, he em-
igrated to Utah and resided for a short
time at Lehi, Utah county, but he soon
removed to Franklin, Idaho, at which
place he was ordained an Elder under

the hands of Bishop Lorenzo H. Hatch.
For many years he acted as a Ward
teacher in Franklin and Preston, Ida-
ho, resepctively. He also filled with ■
honor the possition of first counselor
to Bishop Nahum Porter, of Preston
Ward, and also acted as superintendent
of the Sunday schools, an alternate
member of the High Council,etc. In the
year 1868 he married Bertha Serine-
Petterson and subsequently Julia
Constance Petterson and Leonora Fin-
land. With these wives he became the
father of twenty-one children, of whom
thirteen are now living. Elder Jensen
has served as trustee and filled many-
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He came to Preston in the year 1871,
at which place he still resides. Elder
Jensen being one of the very first
settlers of this section of country nat-
urally chose as his occupation that of
farming and stockraising, both of
which he has made a success; he is
also identified in the butcher business.

PORTER, Nahum, Bishop of Preston
Ward, Oneida Stake, from 1878 to 1883,
was born June 16, 1831, at Ossian,
Livingston county. New York, the son
af Abraham Porter and Marcia Bisbee.
His parents embraced the Gospel in
the summer of 1840 under the admin-
istration of Elder David Candland,
who at that time labored as a mis-
sionary in the east. Nahum was mar-
ried Oct. 22, 1861, to Rachel A. Murray

and with his wife and his father's
house he emigrated to Utah in 1863,
locating in Ogden. In 1871 he filled
a mission to the States, and in 1877
he removed with his family from
Ogden to Preston, Idaho. The follow-
ing year he was made Bishop of the
Preston Ward, which position he held
for five years. In 1885 he served three
months in the State prison at Boise,
Idaho, for conscience sake. He died
as a faithful Elder in the Church Feb.
12, 1894, at Preston, Idaho, leaving a
fine record behind him.

ROGERS, Henry Tooles, Bishop of
Preston First Ward, Oneida Stake,
Idaho, was born Jan. 19, 1862, at Hyde
Park, Utah, baptized when thirteen
years of age; ordained a Deacon when
young; ordained an Elder Feb. 3,

1884 ,by Bishop Alma Harris; ordained
a High Priest Oct. 2, 1898, by Mathias
F. Cowley and ordained a Bishop Feb.
3, 1902, by Apostle Rudger Clawson,
when he was also set apart to preside
over the First Ward of Preston.

JOHNSON, Lorenzo, second coun-
selor to the Bishop of -the Preston
Second Ward, Oneida Stake, Idaho,
was born Sept. 18, 1871, at Brigham
City, Utah, baptized Sept. 19, 1879, at
Hyde Park, Utah; ordained to the
lesser Priesthood between the age of
12 and 14 years; ordained an Elder
Nov. 15, 1891, by David C. Eames, and
ordained a High Priest Aug. 14, 1905.

CUTLER, Allen Riley, Bishop of
Preston Fourth Ward, Oneida Stake,
was born Sept. 22, 1862, in American
Fork canyon, Utah county, Utah, the
son of Royal J. Cutler and Theda Ann
Morton. He was baptized at the age of
nine years by Andrew Gibbons and
ordained a Deacon and afterwards an
Elder in 1886. In 1901 (March 31st)
he was ordained a High Priest by

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Apostle Mathias F. Cowley and was
ordained a Bishop Feb. 3, 1902, at the
organization of the Preston Fourth
Ward, by Arostle Marriner W. Merrill.
In 1887 to 1888 he filled a mission to
the Southern States, laboring in Ten-
nessee and North Carolina. During
his residence in Glendale, Kane coun-
ty, Utah, he acted a superintendent of
Sunday school. He organized the
Panquitch Stake Academy in 1888 and
served as principal of that Institution.
After that he was principal of the
Sevier Stake Academy and later of
the Oneida Stake Academy, having
receivel his own education in the com-
mon schools of Utah and in the Brig-

convention in Utah in 1896. He has
also served as a member of the Board
of Health at Preston and as school
trustee during the erection of the
Central School house etc. He was a
member of the firm of Daines, Cutler
and Co. (merchants at Preston), direc-
tor in the Co-op Drug Store, and is a
director of the Idaho State and Sav-
ings Bank of Preston. In 1907 he was
honorably released from his position
as Bishop and chosen as a member of
the High Council of the Oneida Stake.

MONSON, Walter Peter, first coun-
selor in the Bishopric of Preston
Fourth Ward, Idaho, was born June

ham Young Academy at Provo, and
in the L. D. S. University of Salt Lake
City. In 1899 he graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons
in Baltimore and has practiced as a
medical doctor in Preston ever since.
In 1890 (May 28th) he married Lucy
M. Hardy and is the father of nine
children. His places of residence has
been American Fork canyon, the
Muddy (Nevada), Glendale, Richfield,
and Salt Lake City, Utah, and Pres-
ton, Idaho. He located in the latter
place in 1899. Bishop Cutler acted as
superintendent of public schools in
Kane county, in 1895-1897, and was a
delegate to the first State Republican

30, 1875, at Richmond, Cache county,
Utah, the son af Chi^istian H. Monson
and Ellen Monson. He was baptized
July 5, 1883, at Richmond, ordained a
Deacon by Christian Hyer in 1889,
ordained an Elder by Wm. G. Daniel-
son, Nov. 3, 1895; ordained a Seventy
Jan. 25, 1898, by Marriner W. Merrill,
and ordained a High Priest Feb. 3
1902 b> Solomon H. Hale. In 1888-1900
he filled a mission to the northwestern
States, laboring chiefly in Oregon and
Washington. Of the many ecclesias-
tical positions held by Elder Monson
are these: Treasurer in the M. I. A.,
counselor of Deacons quorum, pres-
ident of Elders quorum, ward choir

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leader, Stake choir leader, president
of a conference in Oregon, counselor
to the president of the Northwestern
States Mission and Bishop's counselor
in Preston since 1902. In 1895 (Nov.
6th) he married Leona Smart Parkin-
son and is the father of 7 children.
He has served as constable, member of
the village board, and president of the
Preston Commercial Club, and county
commissoner. He is a manufacturer
by occupation and manager of the
firm of Superior Lumber Company.
Elder Monson was one of the first
missionaries in the northwestern
States and practically tracted every
home in the Grand Ronde Valley,
Oregon, before any "Mormon" had
ever thought of settling there. When
he entered that valley in March, 1898,
he predicted that it would be the home
of many Saints. He also organized
the first branch and Sunday school in
Portland, Oregon, and was the first
president of the Portland conference.
He held the first street meeting in
Portland, May 11, 1899, and organized
a branch at Hood River, Oregon, Dec.
24, 1899. Dec. 17, 1899, he was called
by the mission precidency to labor as
first counselor to F. S. Bramwell, pres-
ident of the Northwestern States Mis-
sion.

SKIDMORE, William Alonzo, second
counselor to the Bishop of the Fourth
Ward, Preston, Idaho, is the son of
Wm. L. Skidmore and Sarah Armina
Knapp, and was born March 29,. 1869,
at Richmond, Cache county, Utah. He
was baptized Aug. 22, 1877, at Rich-
mond; ordained a Deacon Feb. 11, 1885,
by W. L. Skidmore ; ordained an Elder
Dec. 10, 1890, by W. C. Burnham;
orained a Seventy May 15, 1892, by
Christian H. Monson, and ordained a
High Priest, Feb. 3, 1902, by Wm. C.
Parkinson and set apart to his present
position in the Bishopric. He has
acted as Deacon, Ward teacher, sec-
retary of Seventies, president of the
Y. M. M. I A., member of choir, etc. In
1893 ('Dec. 13th) he married Ellen

Marinda Monson and is the father of
five children. He has also been prom-
inent in military circles, having served
as 2nd lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment
of Infantry, National Guard of Utah.
For some time he acted as marshal of
Richmond. By occupation he is a
farmer, carpenter and lumber man,
and his places of residence have been
Richmond, Utah, and Preston, Idaho.
Elder Skidmore left Salt Lake City for
a mission to Great Britain April 18,.
1906; he labored in the London confer-

ence until released May 21, 1908.
While there he baptized fourteen per-
sons, made many friends, and had a
time of thorough satisfaction. Whil&
on his mission the 4th Ward of Pres-
ton was reorganized with an entire
new Bishopric. Elder Skidmore having
received an honorable release with the
others is now laboring in company
with a member of the Oneida Stake
High Council as a regular home mis-
sionary.

JENSEN, Junius Charles, a Bishop's^
counselor in Preston, Idaho, was born
Jan. 21, 1877, at Preston, Idaho, the
son of David Jensen and Julia K. Pe-
terson. After having officiated as a
Deacon and afterwards as an Elder,,
he was ordained a Seventy Feb. 17^

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189J), by George Teasdale and ordained
a High Priest Feb. 3, 1902, by Joseph

S. Geddes; he filled a mission to the
northern States in 1899-1901.

PARKINSON, Samuel Rose, a Patri-
arch in the Oneida Stake, was born
April 12, 1831, in Barrowford, Lancas-
shire, England, the son of Wm. Parkin-
son and Charlotte Rose. In 1839 he
went with his parents to the Cape of
Good Hope, Africa, thence to Sydney,
Australia, thence to New Zealand in
1842, thence to Valparaiso, Chili, and
then back to England in 1846. The
family came to America in 1848 and
located in St. Louis, Missouri, where
the subject of this sketch accepted
the Gospel, and was ordained a
Teacher. He emigrated to Utah in
18,54 and located in Kaysville, where
he resided till 1860, when he changed
his residence to Franklin, Idaho, being
one of the pioneer settlers of that
l^lace, where he has lived ever since.
He assisted in locating the present site
of Franklin and was one of three men
who surveyed the farming land and
made allotments to the settlers. He
was ordained a Seventy in 1857 (when
the 55th quorum of Seventy was or-
ganized in Kaysville, Utah) ; ordained
a High Priest by Moses Thatcher in

1877 and ordained a Patriarch by
.Joseph F. Smith April 29, 1892. .Elder
Parkinson acted a first counselor to
IMshop Hatch, of Franklin Ward, filled
a colonizing mission to Arizona in
1873 and crossed the plains several
times to help immigrating Saints to
the Valley. In 1852 (Jan. 1st) he mar-
ried Arabella Ann Chandler. In 1866
(Dec. 16th) he married Charlotte H.
Smart and in 1867 (Feb. 15th) he mar-
ried Maria H. Smart. By these wiv^s
he became the father of 32 children,
of whom 27 are now alive. In June,
1877, he was tried in Malad, Idaho,
for unlawful cohabitation, but was
acquitted for lack of evidence. In
1886 he was convicted for unlawful

cohabitation at Blackfoot, Idaho, and
served six months in the Boise peni-
tentiary. In the year 1879 he built and
operated the first woollen mill in
southern Idaho. This mill, which was
known as the North Star Woollen Mill
of Franklin, did an extensive business
for many years. Elder Parkinson has
filled many civil positions in Franklin,
where he is known as a successful
farmer and merchant. He has also
imported a great deal of machinery
from the East and is engaged exten-
sively in sheep business.

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Parkinson, Samuel Chandler, Bishop
of Franklin Ward, Oneida Stake of
Zion, Idaho, since 1907, was born Feb.
23, 1853, at St. Louis, Missouri, the son
of Samuel R. Parkinson and Arabella
Chandler; ordained a Deacon, a Tea-

cher and an Elder successively, the
latter ordination taking place in May,
1885, by Pres. Daniel H. Wells. He
filled a mission to the Southern States
in 1885 — 1886 and was ordained a
High Priest in 1886. He filled another
mission to the northwestern States
in 1898.

DAINES, William Moroni, a Patri-
arch in the Oneida Stake of Zion, is
the son of Robert Daines and Jemima
Seamons and was born Dec. 6, 1862, at
Hyde Park, Cache county, Utah. He
was baptized June 11, 1871, at Hyde
Park; ordained an Elder in 1883 by
Bishop Robert Daines; ordained a
High Priest July 13, 1884, and ordained
a Patriarch Nov 19, 1905, by Apostle
Charles W. Penrose. In 1884—1885
he filled a mission to the States, labor-
ing in the Virginia conference; he
finished his mission in England, where
he labored in the Norwich conference
and returned home in 1886. At home
he has acted as president of Y. M. M.

T. A. and as Sunday school super-
intendent at Hyde Park, Sunday
school officer at Colonia, Diaz, Mexico,
Sunday school officer in Franklin, Ida-
ho, first counselor to Bishop Geddes, in
the Preston Second Ward, from 1902
to July, 1905, and member of Oneida
Stake Sunday School Union board in
1906—1907. In 1883 he married Eliza-
beth Ann Hatch and later he took
Chloe Viola Hatch to wife. By these
wives he became the father of seven-
teen children, ten girls and seven
boys. Elder Daines has served as
school trustee in Hyde Park, clerk of
Franklin village and clerk and treas-
urer of Preston village. He has taught
school in Colonia, Diaz, Mexico, St.
Joseph, Arizona, and Franklin, Idaho.
His princi);al occupation has been
that of a salesman and merchant.

NASH, Isaac B., a Patriarch in the

Church and a resident of Franklin.
Idaho.

BUCKLEY, Edmund, a member of
the High Council in the Oneida
Stake of Zion, was born April
25, 1839, in Saddleworth, Yorkshire,
England, the son of James Buckley
and Emma Waterhouse. He was bap-
tized Dec. 13, 1856, by Elder Wm.
Schofield, in the Oldham branch of

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the Manchester conference, and was
turned out of home and employment
because he joined the "Mormons".
Nov. 25, 1860, he was ordained an El-
der and sent out to preach the Gos-
pel; in 1862 he was appointed to pre-
side over the Oldham branch which
position he held till the spring of 1863,
when he emigrated to Utah, crossing
the Atlantic in the "Antarctic" and
the plains in Captain Peter Nebeker's
company. He settled in Bountiful,
Utah. In 1864 he operated a carding
machine in Big Cottonwood, Salt Lake
county, making wool rolls. In 186.5
he removed to Richmond, Cache coun-

years Elder Buckley has been actively
engaged in home missionary labors,
and in performing his duties as a mem-
ber of the High Council. He also
holds the position of second counselor
in the presidency of the High Priests
quorum of the Oneida Stake. To
Bro. Buckley belongs the honor of
having started the first woollen ma-
chinery in the States of Idaho and
Wyoming. •

1

HATCH, Lorenzo Lafayette, Bishop

of Franklin Ward, Idaho, from 1877

to 1907, was born Dec. 25, 1851, in Le-

hi, IHah count V, Utah, the son of T o-

ty, where he also operated a carding
machine. Here he remained several
years, after which he labored in the
Brigham City Woollen Mills, and later
in the Woollen Mills at Logan, Cache
county. In 1878 he started a Woollen
Mill in Franklin. Later he purchased
machinery for a woollen mill in Order-
ville, southern Utah. From 1879 to
1884 he acted as president of the 11th
quorum of Elders in Cache Stake.
When the Oneida Stake of Zion was
organized he was chosen a member
of the High Council. In October, 1888,
he was sentenced to four months im-
l)risonment in the Boise penitentiary,
for unlawful co-habitation. For manv

renzo H. Hatch and Sylvia S. East-
man. He was baptized at an early
age and ordained an Elder by his fa-
ther. In 1876 he was ordained a High
Priest and appointed to preside over
the ecclesiasiical affairs in Franklin.
On Sunday, May 20, 1877, he was or-
dained a Bishop by Orson Pratt. In
1873 (December 1st) he married Miss
Annie Scarborough and ten children
(four boys and six girls) were the is-
sue of this marriage. A second marri-
age to Miss Sarah Doney took place in
1863. He filled a mission to Great
Britain in 1884 — 86. Having been
honorably released as Bishop July 14,
1907, he was set apart as a High Coun-

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cilor in the Oneida Stake by Francis
-M. Lyman Dec. 1, 1907.

Durrant, Thomas Hoar, second coun-
selor in tlie Franklin Ward Bishopric,
Oneida Stake, is the son of William
Durrant and Phoebe Hoar, and was
born March 27, 1849, at Deanshunger,
Xorth Hamptonshire, England. He
was baptized Sept. 28, 1851, by Alfred
Henson, ordained a Teacher and later

an Elder. On July 11, 1877, he was
ordained a High Priest by Bishop Wm.
B. Preston and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Lorenzo L. Hatch
of the Franklin Ward, which position
he held until quite recently. Elder
Durrant acted as president of the first
Y. M. M. I. A. ever organized in Idaho,
this organization being effected in
1875 at Franklin. He also acted as
secretary of the Sunday schools in
Franklin for several years, was Stake
secretary of Sunday schools in the
Oneida Stake twelve years, acted as
Ward clerk in Franklin and served as
acting Bishop of Franklin from 1885 to
1886. He married Agnes Nish Dec. 28,
1874, and is the father of eleven child-
ren, five boys and six girls. He has
acted as justice of the peace in Frank-
lin, as village police judge, member
of the 6th Idaho State legislature,
clerk of Franklin, member of the city

council and member of the village
board at the organization of the Frank-
lin village. After his arrival in Utah
in 1868 he located in Morgan, together
with his parents, and settled in Frank-
lin in 1870, where he has resided con-
tinuously ever since. He is widely
known as a railroad man, being pro-
minent during the construction of the
Union Pacific, the Utah Central
and the Utah Northern railroads. He
was station agent and operater at Cor-
rinne, in 1872 — 73 and at Franklin
from 1874 to 1875. He engaged in lum-
l)er dealing and saw-milling business
in 1875; otherwise he is a farmer by
occupation.

LEATHAM, James, second counse-
lor in the presidency of the High
Priests quorum in the Pioneer Stake
Salt Lake City, is the second son of
Robert Leatham and Janet Urquhart,
and was born in the town of Hugan-

field, Lomarkshire, Scotland, Dec. 15.
1830. He heard the glorious tidings of
the Gospel in 1843, and was at that
early age impressed with its Divinity.
He was baptized May 19, 1848, by El-
der James Jordan, ordained a Deacon
in the fall of 1848 and a Priest in the
spring of 1850. Filled with youthful
enthusiasm and love for the truth, he
did telling missionary work in the sur-

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rounding cities and towns, and through
his diligence and perseverance was
able to add many new members to the
cause of salvation. He was ordained
an Elder April 9, 1851, and at the Glas-
gow Conference, held in the month of
October, he w'as called to labor as a
traveling Elder in that conference.
In 1852 (Dec. 31st) he took to wife
;\Iargaret Irvine, a faithful member of
the Church. He continued his mission-
ary work with uniform success nutil
March, 1853, when he was honorably
released for the purpose of emigrating
to Zion. He sailed from Liverpool on
board the ship "Falcon" March 28,
1853, and arrived in New Orleans May
18th of the same year; thence he pro-
ceeded up the Mississippi River as far
as Keokuk, Iowa. Here, after stop-
ping several weeks, he joined Capt.
Appleton Harmon's wagon train bound
for Zion. The Missouri River was
crossed at Council Bluffs, and the
transferring of the wagon train, from
one side to the other, was a task re-
quiring skil and judgment, and in
which he took an active part. At Green
River, where a halt was made, he with
five other brethren, was called to go
ahead of the train on foot and carry
a special message to President Brig-
ham Young at Salt Lake City, for the
puri:ose of obtaining provisions and
relief for the rest of the company.
They pushed on, and after fording nu-
merous creeks and several rivers they
finally arrived in the City Oct. 5, 1853.
Bro. Leatham attended conference, on
the following day, and on the 9th day
of October, he was ordained a member
of the 37th quorum of Seventies.
, Soon after entering the Valley he was
employed by President Young, and in
all his life's work he has adhered strict-
ly to his advise, to stay at home and
assist in building up the material wel-
fare of City and State. He was one
of the first to break ground for the
erection of the "Lion House", which
work was commenced in January, 1854,
and was actively engaged on the con-

struction of many of the prominent
buildings, including the Salt Lake Tem-
l)le, Tabernacle, Assembly Hall and
Salt Lake Theater. He also helped
to construct the wall of masonry,
buildings, including the Salt Lake Tem-
ple Square. That famous old land
mark, the "White Bridge", which spans
the Jordan River on North Temple
street, is another structure, on which
he put in many busy days. Soon after
his arrival in Salt Lake Valley, he
made arrangements for the emigra-
tion of his wife and her family, includ-
ing her father, mother, four brothers
and two sisters, who arrived in Salt
Lake City, Oct. 24, 1855. He drove
the "Kitchen" carriage for President
Young and his company on his annual
tour through the southern settlements
in the spring of 1854. They journeyed
as far south as Cedar City and Harmo-
ny, and on the return trip located the
site for the present town of Goshen,
at the south end of Utah Lake. Par-
ley P. Pratt and President Joseph F.
Smith were distinguished members
of this party, the former on a mission
and to locate a southern route to Cali-
fornia, and the latter on his first mis-
sion to Hawaii. Elder Leatham has
worked for the Church, in the aggre-
gate, over thirty years. He also helped
to quarry rock for the construction of
the Temple in Red Butte and Little
Cottenwood canyons, and was employed
in building a wagon road in Big
Cottonwood canyon as far up as Sil-
ver Lake. In the fall of 1854 a relief
expedition consisting of three four-
mule teams was organized and sent
out to meet Incoming emigrant trains,
which very often ran short of provi-
sions and supplies. He drove one of
the teams which went out as far as
the "Sweetwater". In 1857, he re-
ceived his blessings and endowments
in the House of the Lord. He was
l)resent at a celebration of July 24,
1857, at the lake in Big Cottenwood
canyon, when word was received of
the approach of ".lohnston's Army".

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The following fall he was appointed
as a member of the guard, stationed
in Echo Canyon, and served faithful-
ly through those dark and trying days.
He was one among a force of men who
plowed up the ground, and carefully
covered up the walls of the Temple
prior to the famous "move south'.
He accompanied his family, including
all their earthly effects, as far south
as the town of Payson. After seeing
them located as comfortable as the
circumstances would allow, he return-
ed to Salt Lake City and stood guard
until all trouble was amicably settled,
and the United States soldiers had
passed through the city to their camp
over the Jordan River. In 1859, he
met with a very serious accident, while
working on the Temple Block, having
his left leg badly fractured below the
knee. This misfortune proved very
serious, and kept him in confinement
the better part of a wiiole year.
Through his industry and frugality, he
was able, in the year 1860, to pur-
chase a home, located in the Sixth Ward
where he was oppointed asst. superin-
tendent of the first Sunday school or-
ganized in that Ward in 1865; later he
was the first president of Y. M. M. I.
A. in the same Ward. He has done an
unusual amount of work in the Tem-
ple for relatives and friends who have
passed beyond. June 12, 1870, he be-
came a member of Pres. John Tay-
lor's Prayer Circle, and remained an
active and faithful member of the
same until the division of the old Salt
Lake Stake of Zion which took place
in 1904, when he joined the High
Council Circle of the Pioneer Stake.
In June, 1877, he journeyed by wagon
to St. George and in the St. George
Temple took to wife Emma Nielsen.
He has seen long and faithful service
as a Ward teacher, and has never lost
an opi:ortunity to bear witness to the
truth of the Gospel, to the many
strangers with whom He has come in
contact in his long and varied career.
He w'orked eighteen consecutive years
on the Temple Block, meeting, dur-

ing that time, hundreds of strangers
and tourists. He distributed innu-
merable "Tracts" bearing on the prin-
ciples of the Gospel, and by his na-
tural tact and diplomacy sent many
a stranger on his way with a much
higher opinion of the sincerity and
honesty of the "Mormons" than they
previously held. Feb. 16, 1882, he
took to wife Rachel H. Hill, and on
the 11th day of Oct., 1866, Isabella
Harris. During the troublesome time
he was one among the many who suf-
fered for conscience sake, being impri-
soned for six months in the Utah peni-
tentiary for "unlawful cohabitation" in
1890. He is the father of nineteen
children, eight boys and eleven girls.
Jan. 31, 1891, he was ordained a High
Priest, and in April, 1904, when the
original Salt Lake Stake of Zion was
divided, he was called and set apart
as second counselor to David McKen-
zie, president of the High Priests
Quorum of the Pioneer Stake of Zion.
Since that time he has been actively
engaged in home missionary work in
this Stake, besides attending to the
numerous duties which attach to his
office.

Hatch, Meltiar, a High Councilor in
the Panguitch Stake, Utah, was born
July 15, 1825, at Farmersville, New
York, the son of Ira S. Hatch and
Wealthy Bradford. He became a
member of the Church in 1844, and
was ordained an Elder by Pres, Brig-
ham Young about 1852. Latef he was
ordained a High Priest. In 1856 he
was called from Bountiful, Davis coun-
ty, Utah, to settle Carson valley, now
in Nevada. After his return, he lo-
cated in Salt Lake City, and settled
in Dixie, southern Utah, in 1862. Af-
ter residing in different valleys, he
finally located at Panguitch where he
served as a member of the High Coun-
cil and died July 8, 1895. Elder Hatch
was intimately acquainted with the
Prophet Joseph Smith and heard him
deliver his last speech before going
to Carthage. He also carried mes-

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sages to and from Carthage while the
Prophet and his companions were con-
fined in jail. Bro. Hatch attended
the funeral of the martyrs and was
present at the famous meeting in Na-
voo, where Pres. Brigham Young was
acknowledged the head of the Church.
He witnessed many trying scenes in
the early days of the Church and as
a pioneer of the west. He was also
])roniinent in military affairs, being a

lieutenant in the Nauvoo Legion. In
1846 (January 1st) he married Per-
melia Snyder and in 1856 (May 8th)
Mary Ann Ellis. He was the father of
nineteen children and in 1906 his
grandchildren numbered 137 and his
great grandchildren 220.

Riding, Alfred Hall, first counselor
in the Bishopric of the Panguitch
Ward, Garfield county, Utah, was born
July 11,1848, in St. Louis, Mo., the son of
Christopher L. Riding and Mary Ann
Hall. His birth took place six weeks
after the arrival of his parents at St.
I^ouis from England. The family came
to Utah in the fall of 1852. In 1859
his father was called to southern Utah,
to strengthen the setlements there,
and he located with his family in St.
George about 1863, where the subject
of this sketch labored as a Ward teach-

er and as assistant superintendent of
Sunday schools for a number of years.
In 1866 he made a trip to the Missouri
river after the poor. In 1869 he
married Mary E. Hall and moved to
Panguitch in 1883, where he was
called to act as one of the presidents
of the 86th quorum of Seventy. March
29, 1887, he was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as first counselor
to Bishop Allen Miller, of the Pan-
guitch Ward, of the Panguitch Stake
by Jesse W. Crosby. In August, 1900,
he was set apar*-. as first counselor
to Bishop James B. Heywood of the
Panguitch Ward by Apostle Abra-
ham O. Woodruff which i)osition he
still occupies.

Snow, Joseph Homer, first counsels
in the Bishopric of the Kingston Ward,
Piute county, Utah, was born Jan. 21,
1860, in Provo, Utah county, Utah, the
sou of James C. Snow. He was bap-
tized in July, 18G9, and accompanied

a part of his father's family to south-
ern Utah. In December, of the same
year, (1869) they settled at Belview,
the first settlement reached in Dixie
after crossing the Black Ridge from
the north. Here the family lived six
years, during which time the subject of
this sketch i;assed through many hard-

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ships owing to the lack of sufficient
clothing and food; many times he had
to subsist on a little corn ground on
a coffee mill, stirred up in cold water,
and baked over the fire; and fre-
quently he had not enough of that to
keep the pangs of hunger away. Much
of this suffering was caused through the
settlers not being able to cross Black
Ridge in the winter and also through
failure of crops. Joseph spent most
of his time while in Dixie herding
cattle. After six years of hardship
his father was released from his mis-
sion to Dixie and settled then in San-
pete county, where he lived until the
time of his death in 1884. Joseph was
ordained to the office of a Deacon when
sixteen years old by Bishop Petty, of
Petty ville Ward (now called Sterling).
In October, 1884, he was ordained an
Elder and set apart as Sunday school
superintendent of the Sterling Ward;
he served in that capacity until Oc-
tober, 1888, when he removed to
Emery county, Utah. The same year he
married Mary Nielsen and lived in
Emery county one year and acted as
first counselor to Bishop Casper Chri-
stensen in the Muddy Ward. The
water and climate disagreeing with
his health, he moved back to Sterling,
where he resided two years; thence
he removed to Kingston, Piute count} ,
where he still resides. In liis new
home he acted as a Ward teacli s f >;•
several years, after \/hich lie was
chosen second counselor to lii^hoji
Rufus A. Allen. A couple of years later
he was chosen and set apart to tiis
present position. He is the father of
nine childi'en, five boys and four girls.

PETERSON, James Ephraim, Bish-
op of the Circleville Ward (Panguitch
Stake) Piute county, Utah, was born
Nov. 16, 1855, at Ephraim, Sanpete
county, Utah, the son of Jens K. Peter-
sen and Helene Christine Hansen. He
was baptized by Jens Thomsen Balle
when about nine years old; ordained
a Priest by Isaac W. Pierce; ordained
an Elder by Jacob Gates, March 8,

1877; ordained a High Priest by David
Cameron Nov. 25, 1883, and ordained
a Bishop by Apostle Heber J. Grant.
March. 29, 1887. In 1880 he settled
on Clover Flat, in Grass Valley, and
when the Marion Ward was organized

^

he was chosen second counselor to
Bishop Culbert King. In 1885-86 he
filled a mission to the northwestern
States. He moved to Circle valley in
1887 and was chosen Bishop of the
Circleville Ward at the time of its
organization. Bishop Peterson has
followed farming, stock raising and
merchandising for a living. In 1877
(March 8th) he married Caroline Gott-
fredson, with whom he has had twelve
children. Among the public positions
held by Bishop Peterson may be men-
tioned that he has served as school
trustee, county commissioner, post
master, State representative, notary
public, etc. He also acted as Ward
teacher for eleven year.

STEWART, William A., Bishop of
Inverury. Sevier county, Utah, from
1880 to 1900, was born June 2, 1839.
in Tuscaloosa county, Alabama. His
parents joined the Church about 1839.
and cast their lots with the body of
the Church in eastern Iowa. They

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18."

participated in the exodus from Nau-
voo, 111., in 1846 and arrived in Great
Salt T-,ake Valley in September, 1847.
In 1848 William was called to the We-
ber, to assist in making a settlement
there. In 18.50 he married Jane N.
Browning, daughter of .James G.
Browning. He acted as a Ward teach-
er and as a counselor in an Elders
quorum and participated In the Echo
Canyon expedition in 1857-1858, as a
captain of infantry in the Nauvoo
Legion. In 1865, responding to a call
from the president of the Church, he

went to Dixie, in southern Utah, and
settled in St. George, where he acted
as a Ward teacher. In 1869 he mar-
ried Cyntha P. Terry, daughter of
Charles A. Terry, an.', in 1869 he was
released from his southern mission,
owing to ill health, when he settled
at Inverury, Sevier county, where
he acted as Ward teacher, post
master, justice of the peace, presiding
Elder and Bishop. Being released from
the latter office he labored as a Sun-
day school superintendent and as a
home missionary. In 1890 he served
a term in the Utah penitentiary for con-
science sake and again in 1894 to 1895
far the same "offence". Being in-
volved in debt, owing to these i)rose-
cutions, he was obliged to sell his

home on the Sevier and move to Cir-
cleville, where he still resides.

KING, Culbert, Patriarch in the
Panguitch Stake, Garfield county,
Utah, was born Jan. 31, 1836, in the
State of New York. His parents
joined the Church and moved to Illi-
nois, where the family became inti-
mately acquainted with the Prophet Jo-
seph Smith. They joined the general ex-
odus of the Saints in 1846 and crossed
the plains in 1851, settling at Fill-
more, Millard county, where they built
the first house erected at that place.
The subject of this sketch served as
a soldier during the Indian troubles
both in the Walker and the Black Hawk
wars, but afterwards became a great
friend to the Indians and quite pro-
ficient in speaking their language. In
1863 he was called to Kanosh, where
he acted as Bishop for fifteen years,
after which he moved with his famil\-
to Circleville, Piute county, where he
lived in the United Order for a number
of years and also served as a member
of the Bishopric there until the break-
ing up of the order. He then moved
to Grass valley and in 1882 was made
Bishop of the Marion Ward. From
December, 1885, till June, 1886, he
served as a prisoner in the Utah peni-
tentiary for conscience sake. He
labored as Bishop at Marion until 1901,
when he was honorably released and
ordained a Patriarch by Apostle Fran-
cis M. Lyman. Patriarch King has
ever been a true and staunch friend to
the cause of truth, kind to his family
and loyal to the Priesthood of God.

HILTON, Joseph, an active Elder in
the Church, was born in Lehi, Utah
county, Utah, March 17, 1860, the son
of Hugh Hilton and Isabella Pilking-
ton. His parents emigrated from
Lancashire, England, to Utah about
1852 and resided in the Ninth Ward.
Salt Lake City, until the "Move" in
1858, when they moved to the Point
of the Mountain south and later to

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Lehi, Utah county. Being called on
the Dixie mission they settled at Vir-
gen City, where they encountered
7nany hardships through Indian de-
]iredations, grasshopper ravages and
lack of food. The subject of this
sketch was baptized when nine years
old: ordained a Teacher by Bishop
.John Parker, March 21, 1877; ordained
an Elder by Bishop John Parker Oct.
11, 1881; received his endowments
in the St. George Temple Oct. 12, 1881;
married Ellen May Richards, daughter
of Samuel W. and Mary Ann Rich-
ards, of Salt Lake City, in the St.
George Temple, March 21, 1883; or-
dained a Seventy by Edward Steven-
son June 7, 1885, and ordained a High
Priest and set apart as 2nd counselor
to Bishop Leroy W. Beebe in Virgen
City by Henry Eyring Nov. 17, 1886.
This latter position he filled till 1893.
He also acted as second assistant
superintendent in the local Sunday
school from Jan. 13, 1877, to Sept. 2,
1888, and as superintendent from Sept.
2. 1888, until released Oct. 1, 1893. He
removed to Tropic, Garfield county,
Utah, in the spring of 1893 and thus
became one of the original settlers
of that place. He acted as presiding
Elder of the Tropic branch from Aug.
13, 1893, to Aug. 28, 1894; as chorister
for some time; as Ward clerk from
Feb. 20, 1897, to June 7, 1903; as first
assistant superintendent in the Sun-
day school from July 7, 1895, to .July
22, 1900; as superintendent from July
22, 1900, to May 1, 1904, and as first
counselor to Bishop Joseph A. Tippets
from April 24, 1904, to Oct. 7, 1906.
From 1904 to 1906 he labored as an
instructor in the theological depart-
ment of the Sunday school, and has also
labored much for the redemption of the
dead in the St. George and Salt Lake
Temples He has buried his father
and mother (being left an orphan at
fifteen years of age), sisters, brothers,
a child and last an affectionate and
devoted wife (who passad away Oct.
16, 1900) and many relatives and dear
friends. He has an abiding faith in

the plan of salvation and the divinity
of the Prophet Joseph Smith's mission.

ARTHUR, Christopher Jones, a Pa-
triarch in the Parowan Stake of Zion,
was born in the village of Abersyc-
chan, near Pontypool, Monmouth-
shire, South Wales, March 9, 1832. In
a sketch prepared for this work Elder
Arthur writes: "I was born of good-
ly and God-fearing parents. Baptists
by profession. My father was the
deacon and pillar of the church. I
was stricken with smallpox at the
age of two, although vaccinated. The
scab covered me from head to foot,
no good flesh being visible; but I es-
caped with little marking through care
and attention. When three years old

I took down with measles. At four
I went to the infant school and re-
mained there until I was eight,
when my parents took me many miles
from home to an academy, my older
brother Joshua being there also. I
stayed at this academy eighteen
months, and was then placed in the
district school until I was thirteen
years old, when my father took me
into his business of shopkeeper and
baker. I remained in this business until
I was seventeen, when I was strick-

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eij down with a liigh fever. The dor-
tor attended me six weeks and gave
me vii; to die, but through the admin-
istration of my father, wi'o w;. ;
an Elder in the Church of .Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (he ha\
ing joined the Church a short time
j)reviousIy) I was instantly healed, al-
though not yet a member of the Church.
After recuperating my health I was
sent to another academy in Gloucester-
shire, where I stayed eighteen months
and completed my education. At the
expiration I was given charge of my
father's business. At nineteen, not
finding work enough at home I ac-
cepted a position in the British Iron
Works store as warehouseman, baker
and store clerk, where I stayed until
the day before leaving for Utah, J
again took charge of my father's
funds, which he lavishingly spent in
giving to the Elders, and was the
second heaviest stockholder in the
Deseret Iron Company. He also paid
■emigration fare for forty persons to
Utah. On the ship "International"
that brought us to New Orleans, I
was made under-secretary. I also
acted as assistant to Elder John
Lyon, who from New Orleans to St.
Louis had charge of the 10-pound
company and from there to Keokuk,
Iowa, the starting and fiitting-out
point for Utah. I drove two pair of
oxen and wagon across the plains
and was made secretary of the com-
pany, arriving in Salt Lake City,
Sept. 26, 1853. Father bought a 110-
acre farm in Big Cottonwood of
.James Huntsman. In March, 1854,
he was instructed to move to Cedar
City, Iron county, Utah. Consequently,
he sold the farm (for which he had paid
gold) for "chips and whetstones" and
started for Cedar City with his chil-
dren, my mother having died in
Abersychan, Wales, in November, 1852.
We arrived in Cedar City in March.
1854. Father was assigned to superin-
tend the IronCompany's farm, and I was
appointed under-secretary to Secre-
tary Franklin D. Richards, under-

treasurer to Thomas Tennant, and
to take charge of the Iron Company's
books and the com])any's store, where
I remained until the Iron Company
closed their business in the spring of
1858. I then went into the making
of furniture; afterwards I engaged in
farming, and when co-operation start-
ed in 1869, I went into the business
wholesouled and have been in it
more or less up to the present time
(1908) serving as secretary, treasur-
er and superintendent, and made a
success. I held position twenty years
as city councilman and alderman,
and served one term as mayor. I
was baptized into the Church April
9, 1853; ordained an Elder by Bishop
P. K. Smith in December, 1857; or-
dained a Seventy and president of
the Sixty-third Quorum of Seventy by
President Henry Harriman, April 18,
1863; ordained a High Priest by in-
struction of President Brigham
Young in December, 1857, by Bishop
Henry Lunt; set apart as Bishop of
Cedar Ward July 29, 1877, by Apos-
tle Erastus Snow and Wilford Wood-
ruff, and ordained Patriarch Sept, 18,
1893, by Apostle Francis M. Lyman.
I have held the position of tithing
clerk over forty-two years, and at the
same time acted as Bishop's agent's
assistant and Stake tithing clerk
twenty-nine years, and Ward clerk
twenty years. I have married four
wives, my first wife, Caroline E.
Haight I married Dec. 30, 1854; she
bore me eight children, and died in
1874 in childbed. My present first
wife living, Ann Elizabeth Perry, I
married Feb. 17, 1875; no children.
My next wife, a widow, Marion
Brown, with two children, I married
Nov. 22, 1875; no children. I mar-
ried my next, Jane Condie, on the
18th of January, 1877; she bore me
seven children. The last three wives
are stil living,, and all have com-
fortable homes. I have buried one
wife r.nd eight children, five by the
first and three by the last. I have
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the Church with all my heart and I
haAe a burnmg testimony of the Gos
pp. and enjoyed it ever sUce I be-
came a member. The acts of men
never trouble me. My reliance is on
God my Father. I am 77 years old,
hale and hearty and v^'ork hard ev
ery day. I am promised to live lo
see my Savior and look forward with
a glorius anticipation of the event.
The Gospel to me is worth more than
all the world can bestow. I love it
and cherish its principles. I filled a
two years' mission to Europe, labor-
ing five months in the Sheffield con
ference, and nineteen months in tne
business department of the Liverpool
office. I served a six months' sen-
tence in the Utah penitentiary, paid
.$320 fine and costs, spent an enjoyable
time, receiving kind treatment, met
150 of my brethren coming into the
"Pen" and parted with the same num-
ber in going out. My experienf"?
there will never be forgotten.

MATHESON, Alexander Gordon,
an alternate member of the High
Council of the Parowan Stake, and a
resident of Cedar City, Utah, was

He was baptized May 9, 1873, by Wm.
C. McGregor, ordained a Deacon and an
Elder early in life, ordained a Sev-
enty by Edward Stevenson May 24.
1885, and afterwards acted as one
of the presidents of the Sixty-ninth
quorum of Seventy, which position he
held till Sept. 17, 1900. In 1898-1899
he filled a mission to the Northwest-
ern States, laboring part of the time
as president of the Missoula confer-
ence. In 1879 he went to Snowflake.
Ariz., where he endured some hard-
ships through cold and the lack of
the necessaries of life; he returned
to Utah in the year 1880. In 1887 (July
14th) he married Mette Katrine Ras-
fnussen, with whom he became the
father of five boys and four girls.
Elder Matheson has followed farm-
ing, sheepraising, sawmilling, shop-
keeping, and fiour milling as a means
of living and has filled, a number of
local offices of a civil nature. At
present he is first counselor in the
Bishopric of the East Cedar Ward.

KAY, Hyrum, Stake ecclesiastical
clerk of the Pocatello Stake, Idaho.

born May 9, 1865, at Panguitch, Gar-
field County, Utah, the son of Alex-
ander Matheson and Elydid Evans.

was born June 10, lSt31, in Christiania.
Norway, the son of Bernt Olaus Kay
and Anne Engelbretsen. He was

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baptized Aug. 7, 1873, by Daniel H.
Wells; ordained a Deacon in Logan,
rtali, when about eighteen years old;
ordained a Priest at Pocatello, Idaho,
Aug. 16, 1896, by Bishop Carl J. Can-
non, and ordained an Elder Nov. 14,
1897, by Bishop Cannon. In 1897
and 1898 he labored as a. home mis-
sionary in the Oneida Stake. For a
number of years he was an active
Sunday school officer and an officer
in the Y. M. M. I. A., and is still a
member of both organizations; he
has also acted as Ward clerk since
1899, as tithing clerk since 1902, and
clerk of the High Council of the Po-
catello Stake, and from March ] ,
1907, till February, 1908, he filled the
important position of Stake clerk of
The Pocatello Stake. In 1889 (Dec.
12th) he married Henriette Emelia
Larsen, by whom he has had four
children. Elder Kay possesses musi-
cal abilities and belongs to a musi-
cal family. In order to earn a live-
lihood he has labored considerably as
a railroad employee, and in the dif-
ferent localities where he has been
►employed he has always taken an
active part in Church affaii-s.

RALPHS, Ephraim, Bishop of Rock-
land Ward, Pocatello Stake, Idaho,
was born April 19, 1848, at Bonaparte,
Van Buren county, Iowa, the son of
Thomas Ralphs and Sarah Johnson.
His parents joined the Church in
England, emigrated to America in
1842, and shared in the persecutions
of the Saints in Illinois; the subject
of this sketch was boi'n while his
))arents were en route as exiles from
Nauvoo to the Rocky Mountains. Ar-
riving in G. S. L. Valley, he lived
with his parents in the Tenth Ward,
G. S. L City, until 1855, when they
moved to Brigham City, Box Elder
couny, Utah. His father died when
he was between ten and eleven years
old, but he was left in the care of a
i?ood and wise mother, whose teach-
ings impressed liim early in life for
good. His schooling was limited, but

early in life he became a diligent
student in the Sunday schools of
the Church, and in 1888 he was ap-
pointed superintendent of the Brig-

ham City Third Ward Sunday school.
He acted in that position until 1895,
when he, with his family, removed to
Rockland, Idaho, where he acted as
supeiintendent of the Rockland South
Fork Sunday school from 1897 to
1900. In the latter year he was or-
dained a High Priest and Bishop and
set apart to preside over the Rock-
land Ward. Bishop Ralphs shared in
the privations of early pioneer days
in Utah and subsisted, together with
many others, for some time on segos.
After being baptized June 26, 1859,
by Abraham Hunsaker, he was or-
dained a Teacher; subseqently he
was ordained a Seventy and became
a member of the Fifty-eighth Quorum
of Seventy. From 1886 to 1900 he act-
ed as one of the seven presidents
of said quorum. In 1900 (June 17th)
he was set apart as Bishop of the
Rockland Ward by Apostle Matthias
F. Cowley. From 1881 to 1884 he
filled a mission to New Zealand, la-
boring principally among the Euro-
l)eans. Elder Ralphs married Karen
Sophia Nielsen Oct. 24, 1870, and the
result of that union has been "happi-

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ness and contentment and thirteen
bright children, six boys and seven
girls."

COX, Thomas Levis, president of
the High Priests quorum, Pocatello
Stake, Idaho, was born April 1, 1846,
at Countesethorpe, Leicestershire,
England, the son of Nathan Cox and
Jane Pretty. He was baptized at
Auckland, New" Zealand, March 20,
1880, by Elder John P. Sorensen;
ordained a Teacher March 21, 1880,
by John P. Sorensen, and ordained an
Elder June 6, 1880, by Thomas A.
Shreeve. He labored as first counse-
lor to the president of the Auckland
branch. New Zealand, and also as
superintendent of the branch Sun-

day school; afterwards he presided
over the Waikato conference, and was
one of the first Elders to preach the
Gospel to the Maoris. He emigrated
to Utah in 1888, and located in Logan:
thence he moved to Ogden, where he
was ordained a Seventy July 5, 1891,
by F. S. Holveran. Later (Aug. 7.
1897,) he was ordained a High Priest
by Alonzo De Bell, at lona, Idaho. In
1892-1894 he filled a mission to New
Zealand and in 1902-1904 he la-
bored as a missionary in Great
Britain. He has also labored
as a home missionary in the Weber

Stake, Utah, and in Bingham and Po-
catello Stakes, Idaho. For many years
he served the Church as head Ward
Teacher and also as superintendent
of Religion classes. In 1865 (June
6th) he married Hannah Harris, with
whom he has had thirteen children,
ten boys and three girls. Elder Cox
is a shoemaker by trade, and has
also been engaged in mercantile busi-
aess for years. He has held many
offices of trust and served his native
country under Queen Victoria.

ARMSTRONG,. David, president of
the First Quorum of Elders, first
counselor in the Bishopric of the Gar-
den CreekWard, Pocatello Stake,ldaho,
and a resident of Robin, Idaho, was
born Nov. 2, 1866, in Randolph Coun-
ty, West Virginia, the son of Z. P.
Armstrong and Willana Amos. He
was baptized Oct. 4, 1892, by John S.
Curtis; emigrated from Old Virginia,
near Richmond, to Utah in 1893; was
ordained a Teacher in 1894 by John
C. Marley, and ordained an Elder Dec.
l.j, 1895, by William Jenkins. He has
labored as a home missionary in the
Pocatello • Stake, and locally as a
Ward Teacher; has also filled the po-
sition of first assistant Sunday school
superintendent, class leader in and
president of an Elders quorum, etc.,
and since October, 1907, he has acted
as counselor in the Garden Creek
Bishopric. He was married to Vir-
ginia E. Powers April 24, 1888, by
whom he has had eleven children.
His principal occupation is that of a
farmer.

FOTHERINGHAM, William, a Pa-
triarch and a veteran Elder in the
Church, was born April 5, 1826, at
Clackmannan, Scotland, the son of John
Fotheringham and Charlotte Gentle.
He was baptized in the fall of 1847
by Elder John Sharp; ordained a
Teacher March 19, 1848, by Elder
Wm. Gibson; ordained a Seventy in
the winter of 1849-50, by Joseph
Young; ordained a High Priest Dec.

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'■i, 1870, by Jehu Blackburn; ordained
a Bishop in 1877 by Apostle Erastus
Snow to act as Bishop's agent in
Beaver Stake, and ordained a Patri-
arch Jan. 22, 1905, by Francis M. Ly-
man. He was one of the first set-
tlers of Lehi, Uah county, locating
there in 1850, and in the spring of
1852 he accompanied President Br!&-
ham Young on an exploring tour
through Utah, Juab, Sanpete, Millard,
Beaver and Iron counties. In 1852 .3 '>
he filled a mission to Indiana, during
which he traveled more extensively
than any other Elder who has over
i;« •■♦'ornied missijnary labor for iiio
Church in that country. He traveled
2 I'C't n.iles in a bullock wagon. ; tkI

ni"it ab far inland as the Himalaya
1'^ til? ifins. In the province of Oiissa
he resided six months close to the
Temple of Juggernaut. After his re-
turn to Utah he accompanied Presi-
dent Brigham Young on an exploring
expedition to Salmon River (now in
Idaho), and the following winter par-
ticipated in the Echo Canyon cam-
paign. In the spring of 1861 he left
Salt Lake City on a mission to South
Africa. In crossing the plains he as-
sisted Captain Ira Eldredge in taking
charge of fifty wagons to the Missouri
River, and was ninety-nine days mak-
ing the voyage from London, England,

to Cape Town, South Africa. He
presided over the mission until 1864,
when he returned to Utah. At the
Missouri River he assisted in the im-
migration of the Saints and acted as
assistant captain to Warren S. Snow
in leading the last company of the
season (84 wagons) to Zion. The trip
was a severe one, as nearly all the
teamsters were inexperienced in han-
dling oxen. At home Elder Fothering-
ham has been a very diligent and
zealous Sunday school worker, spend-
ing about forty years of his life, more
or less, in the Sunday school service.
He has also labored considerably as
a home missionary, and is at present
filling a mission in the St. George
Temple from Beaver Stake as an or-
dinance worker. Of civil oflfices he
has held quite a number; thus he has
acted as alderman of Lehi City, may-
or of Beaver City, probate clerk of
Beaver county for sixteen years, a
justice of the peace of Beaver pre-
cinct, and been a member of of the
Utah Territorial legislature from
Beaver and adjacent counties. In his
youth he learned the trade of ship
carpenter and after his arrival in
TTtah he helped to build the old Tith-
ing Office in G. S. L. City, and other
buildings. Of ecclesiastical positions
at home he has acted as a president
of the Forty-fourth Quorum of Sev-
enty, was Stake tithing clerk in the
Beaver Stake twenty-four years, act-
ed as a member of the High Council
and as first counselor in the presi-
dency of the Beaver Stake, and was
also Sunday school superintendent
twenty years. He married his first
wife in April, 1856, a second wife
May 25, 1857. and a third wife Oct. 10,
1865. By these three wives he has
had thirty children, namely, eighteen
sons and twelve daughters. On ac-
count of his family relations he serv-
ed three months in the Utah peniten-
tiary as a prisoner for conscience
sake. Through the providence of God
he was saved from a long term of im-
prisonment later on. Elder Fothering-

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liam is one of the staunch Eldei's of
the Church who has- ever been true
to his God, to his friends, and to his
family, and is universally beloved and
respected by all who know him.

ORTON, Joseph, a High Priest and
clerk of the High Council in the St.
CJeorge Stake, Utah, was born Oct.
4, 1833, at Amington, Warwickshire,
England, the son of William M. Or-
ton and Mary Welton. He was bap-
tized in 1855 in Birmingham, Eng-
land; ordained a Priest Feb. 10, 1856,
by Joseph Howard, in ;Birmingham;
emigrated to America in 1856; was

ordained an Elder in 1858 by Edward
Cox m New York; came to Utah in
1858; was ordained a Seventy in 1859
l)y Gilbert Clements in Salt Lake
City; called to the southern Utah
mission in 1861, arriving in St.
George valley Dec. 3, 1861; ordained
a High Priest April 17, 1877, by John
D. T. McAllister in St. George; filled
a mission to Great Britain in 1880,
and another mission to the same
country in 1886. He has also labored
as a home missinary, and acted as
clerk of the Twenty-third Quorum of
Seventy, Ward clerk. Bishop's counse-
lor, superintendent of Sunday schools,
theological class teacher, ])arents'
class supervisor, ordinance worker,

and now a recorder in the St. George
Temple, a district watermaster, al-
derman, justice of the peace, school
trustee, county superintendent of pub-
lic schools, etc. By occu])ation he is a
,boot and shoemaker, and as a military
man he has done service as corporal
first sergeant and first lieutenant with
rank of captain. In 1866 he married
Emma Webb, and in 1884 he took Re-
becca H. Wilkinson to wife. While on
missions he traveled 9,500 miles with-
out purse or scrip and besides doing
regular missionary work he searched
thirty-two sets of parish church rec-
ords, culling therefrom 9,000 names
for himself and others. For at least
fifteen hundred of these he has done
Temple work.

WOOD, John, Jun., Bishop's coun-
selor in Grafton Ward, St. George
Stake, Utah, was born Sept. 27, 1858,
at Lehi, Utah County, Utah, the son
of John Wood and Ellen Smith. To-
gether with his parents he moved
from Lehi to southern Utah in 1862;
he resided in Long Valley from 1865
to 1866, and then located at Duncan,
where he was baptized. In 1869 he
moved to Rose Valley, Lincoln county,
Nevada, and in 1877 moved to Graf-
ton, Washington county, Utah. He
was ordained an Elder by Bishop
Charles N. Smith in 1882, and ordained
a High Priest at St. George, Utah, in
December, 1887, by Brastus Snow and
set apart as first counselor to Bishop
James M. Ballard, of the Grafton
Ward. He served in that capacity
until May 18, 1907, when Bishop Bal-
lard resigned. In 1882 (June 30th) El-
der Wood married Sarah J. Gibson,
by whom he has had nine children, five
boys and four girls. He is a farmer
and stockraiser by avocation, has
served as justice of the peace in the
Grafton precinct and as county com-
missioner in Washington county, and
now resides at Hurricane, Utah

EARL, Joseph Ira, Bishop of Bunker-
ville Ward, Lincoln coimty, Nevada,

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(St. George Stake), was born Sept. 6,
1852, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son
of Sylvester H. Earl and Lois Caro-
line Owen. He was baptized Sept.
6, 1860; ordained to the Lesser Priest-
hood soon afterwards; ordained an El-
der in 1874, and ordained a High
Priest Aug. 26, 1888, by Daniel D.
McArthur. He acted as superintendent
of the Pine Valley Sunday school
about three years; served as superin-
tendent of the Bunkerville Sunday
school from March 29, 1885, to
March 31, 1907, was set apart as sec-
ond counselor to Bishop Edward Bun-
ker, jun., Aug. 26, 1888, set apart as
first counselor to the same Bishop
Sept. 16, 1906, and chosen Bishop of
the Bunkerville Ward Jan. 9, 1908.
In 1880 (March 15th) he married Miss
Elethea Calista Bunker, by whom he
has had nine children, six girls and
three boys. In 1885 (Dec. 11th) he
married Agnes Viola Bunker, by
whom he has had eight children, two
boys and six girls. Elder Earl is
a carpenter and blacksmith by avo-
cation and has also engaged in farm-
ing and bee keeping.

LEANY, Hyrum, first counselor to

is the son of Wm. Leany and Eliza-
beth Scearce ,and was born Aug. 26,
1852, at Parowan, Iron county, Utah.
He was baptized when about eight
years old; ordained a Deacon, a
Teacher, an Elder and a Seventy
successively, and finally ordained a
High Priest June 17, 1894, by Daniel
D. McArthur, and set apart as second
counselor in the Leeds Ward Bishop-
ric. Later he became first counselor.
In 1899 (May 15th) he married Mary
Margaret Woodbury, who has borne
h-i-m nine children, eight of whom
are living. Elder Leany is a sturdy
and thrifty Church worker and has
done much for improving conditions
in southern Utah. He moved with
his parents from Parowan, where he
was born, to Harrisburg, Washington
county, in 1862.

PETERSON, Brigham Y., first
counselor to Bishop Ove E. Overson of

Bishop Brigham Y. McMullin, of the
Leeds Ward, St. George Stake, Utah,

the St. Johns Ward, Arizona, was born
April 17, 1879, at Brigham City, Ariz.,
and removed with his parents to St.
Johns, Ariz., (where he still resides),
when about eleven months old. At
the age of eight years he was bap-
tized by Eder N. P. Johnson; was or-
dained a Deacon at the age of thir-
teen and an Elder when twenty

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years old; attended the B. Y. Uni-
versity at Provo, Utah, from October,
1901, til May, 1904; was married to
Stella Jarvis May 25, 1904; was chos-
en first assistant to Superintendent
L. R. Gibbons of the St. Johns Sun-
day school Feb. 19, 1905, and chosen
superintendent of said school June
11, 1905. In the year 1905 (Nov. 19th)
he was ordained a High Priest and set
apart to his present position.

GIFFORD, Samuel Kendall, a Patri-
arch in the St. George Stalie of Ziou,
(Utah), was born Nov. 11, 1821, at
Milo, Yates county, New York, the
son of Alpheus Gifford and Anna
Nash. He was baptized in the spring
of 1833 in Jackson county, Mo.,
ordained a Teacher in 1844 by Isaac
Morley; ordained a Seventy of the
25th quorum in 1845 by Joseph Young;
became a president of the 28th quorum
of Seventy in 1857 and was ordained
a Patriarch in September, 1902, by
Matthias P. Cowley. Elder Gifford
passed through the drivings and mob-
bings to which the Saints were ex-
posed prior to their coming to Utah.
He was one of the early pioneers of
Utah and one of the founders of
Manti, Sanpete county. In 1863 he re-
moved to southern Utah and passed
through all the trying scenes in the
early days, of that country, while
building up the Dixie mission. For
several years he acted as presiding
Elder of the Shunesburg branch of the
Rockville Ward, and also arted as su-
perintendent of the ^nringdale Sunday
school for many years. As a military
man he saw rough service in the
field, and served as a captain of a
company during the Walker war;
later he served in the Navajo Indian
war in southern Utah. Oct. 1, 1848,
he married Uora Ann Demill, by whom
he had ten children. Patriarch Gif-
ford died June ?;'., 1907.

GIBBONS, Andrew Smith, one of
the Pioneers of Utah, was born March
12, 1825, in Ohio. When an infant

his father gave him away to a family
by thenameof Smitl', a relative of the
Prophet Joseph Smith. This circum-
stance, no doubt, caused him to be-
come a member of the Church and to
become well acquainted with the
Prophet Joseph. In 1845 he married
Rizpah Knight, a daughter of Bishop
Vinson Knight, and left Nauvoo in
1846, at the time of the expulsion of
the Saints; the following year he came
to the Great Salt Lake Valley as one
of the original pioneers under the
leadership of Prea. Jrfrigham Young.
He returned east the same year to
his family in Iowa and arrived in the
Valley a second time in 1852. He
located in Bountiful, Davis county,
and later moved to Lehi, Utah county,
whence he, in 1854, was called to
Iron county to strengthen the settle-
ments which were being made there
at that time. Here he became iden-
tified with the Indian mission, then
in charge of Jacob Hamblin. In 1858,
in company with ten other men, he
visited the Pueblo Indian villages,
east of the Colorado river; in making
this journey tliey traveled through a
country then unknown to white men,
and crossed the Colorado river at the
old Ute Crossing. In the spring of
1861 Bro. Gibbons moved to St.
George, where he was elected sheriff
of Washington county. In 1865 he
was called to the Muddy (now in Ne-
vada) by Apostle Erastus Snow, to
locate and mediate between the white
and the red men. In 1868 he repre-
sented Piute county, Arizona, in the
Arizona legislature, which met at
Tucson. This necessitated a very
long and dangerous journey through a
country infested with hostile Indians.
At the breaking up of the settlements
on the Muddy, Brother Gibbons moved
to Glen dale, Kane county, Utah, from
which point he made several trips of
exploration with Jacob Hambliji and
James S. Brown into Arizona and New
Mexico, looking to the colonization of
Saints in those territories. In 1880
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he passed through the trying scenes
connected with the settlement of that
place. At the time of his death,
which occurred at St. Johns, Feb.
9, 1886, he was a member of the High
Cuncil of the Eastern Arizona Stake
of Zion. He died, as he lived, a faith-
ful Latter-day Saint.

ECHOLS, Samuel, Bishop of the
Franklin Ward, St. Joseph Stake,
Arizona, was born Jan. 13, 1856, in Tal-
lapoosa county, Alabama, the son of
Lewis B. Echols and Emily J. Echols.
In 1860 his father moved to Shelby
county, Alabama, where the family
lived during the war of the rebellion.
After the war the iamily moved to
Georgia, where the subject of this
sketch married Mary Minerva Vincent
Nov. 31, 1879. (They subsequently
separated). In 1881 (Aug. 31st) Sam-
uel was baptized, having, together
with his father and mother and oth-
er relatives, become converts to
'Mormonism.'' In December follow-
ing he was ordained a Priest by El-
der Walter Scott, and after that his
home was ever open to the Elders.
In the spring of 1882 he emigrated
to Colorado and settled, together with
his parents, at Manassa, Conejos
county. In 1883 he went back on a
mission to the Southern States and
labored in the Georgia conference.
He returned home to Colorado in
1884, and soon afterwards went to
Utah, where he received his bless-
ings in the Logan Temple, and was
married to Arminta M. Lee, Oct. 16,
1884. After returning to Colorado, he
labored as a Ward teacher in Manas-
sa Ward, and as a home missionary
in the St. Luis Stake, Colorado. In
1896 he removed with his family to
Arizona, settling on the Gila River,
in Graham county, where he assisted
in the founding of a new settlement,
about four miles above Duncan. Here
a branch of the Church was organ-
ized March 21, 1897, with himself as
presiding Elder. The branch was
named Franklin. The following

year the branch was given a Ward
organization with Elder Echols as
Bishop. After serving in that capa-
city about three years, he moved to
Thatcher, where he is still taking an
active part in Church matters.

.MOODY, William Alfred, Bishop of
Thatcher Ward, St. Joseph Stake,
Ariz., was born June 28, 1870, in Dry
Valley, Lincoln county, Nevada, the
son of Wm. C. Moody and Cynthia
Elizabeth Damron. He was baptized
in the summer of 1878 in Eagle Val-
ley, Nevada; ordained a Deacon by
James Hucchison, and later ordained
a Priest and still later a Seventy by
James R. Welker. In 1894 (June
4th) he married Ella Adelia Williams
and soon aiterwards, together with
his wife, left home on a mission to
Samoa, where he labored diligently
and successfully about four years, but
while on this mission his wife died
May 24, 1895. He returned to Ari-
zona in 1898. The next year (May
17, 1899) he married Sarah E. Blake.
By his two wives he is the father of
six children. In 1902 (Nov. 25th) he
was ordained a High Priest and Bish-
op by Hyrum M Smith and appointed
to preside over the Thatcher Ward.
Bishop Moody is a successful banker
and merchant, and has acted as pro-
oate judge and county school super-
intendent of Graham County, Ariz.
He has always been .faithful and
devoted to his religion, and is at the
present time presiding over the Sa-
moan mission.

ALLEN, John Matthew Johnson,
second counselor to Bishop Wm. A.
Moody, of the Thatcher Ward, St,
.loseph Stake, Arizona, was born Nov.
22, 1849, in Pottawattamie county,
Iowa, the son of Matthew Johnson
and Elizabeth Ann Berkett. In 1850
his mother left her husband to join
the Saints, the father not believing
in "Mormonism"; subsequently, his
mother married O. M. Allen. In 1852
the family emigrated to Utah and lo-

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catea in Springville, Utah county; af-
terwards they became residents of
Palmyra, in the same sounty, and
when that place was abandoned, they
located in Spanish F'ork. In 1861 the
family removed to southern Utah, and
after residing a few years in St.
George located iuToquerville, where
the subject of this sketch was or-
dained a Deacon, having been baptized
Nov. 24, 1857, in Spanish Fork. In 1870
(Nov. 3rd), he married Hannah Batty.
The following spring (1871) he was
ordained an Elder and in 1885 (June
28th) he was ordained a Seventy by
S. K. Gifford. His wife died Feb. 3,
1887, after bearing him nine children.
In 1888 (Sept. 7th) he married Ann

Marshall and in 1884-96 he filled a
mission to the Southern States. After
his return he was chosen to act as
president of the 9th quorum of Se-
venty, and in 1898 he removed, with
his family, from Toquerville, Utah, to
Thatcher, Arizona, where he still re-
sides. In 1900 he was set apart as
a president of the 89th quorum of Sev-
enty and appointed head teacher of
the Thatcher Ward. In September,
1903, he was chosen as second coun-
selor to Bishop Wm. A. Moody, which
office he still holds.

CARPENTER, Erastus Snow, a
High Councilor in the St. Joseph

Stake, Arizona, was born March 31,
1845, at Centerville, Newcastle county.
Delaware, the son of John Steel Car-
penter and Margaret McCullough
When about eight years of age his
father died, leaving his mother with
four small children, the subject of
this sketch being the eldest. In 1857
the family emigrated to Utah and the
following spring participated in the
"great move south". After his re-
turn to Salt Lake City he hauled rocks
for the Salt Lake Temple, and labored
on the Tabernacle, the Salt Lake
Theatre and other buildings. Later,
he delivered material and provisions
to the St. George Temple and labored
on the foundation of the Manti Tem-
ple. In 1868 he went to Laramie as a
Church teamster after immigrating
Saints in Capt. Joseph S. Rawlin's
company. In the fall of the same
year he went as a missionary to the
Muddy (now in Nevada), where he
remained till the settlements in that
locality were broken up in 1871, when
he moved to Long Valley. Kane coun-
ty, T^tah. Here he became identified
with the United Order, in Glendale.
and acted as vice president of that
association. In the meantimp he had
married and had now quite a family.
In 1883 he removed with his family to
Arizona and located at Thatcher,
which, at that time was a wilderness
of mesquit and other brush. After
awhile he was chosen first counselor
to Bishop Samuel Claridge, but in
1885, because of existing circumstan-
ces, he was compelled to go into Old
Mexico for a season, and in 1891 found
it ncessary to go there a second time.
In 1892 he went to Utah, but returned
to Arizona the following year. At
the re-organization of the St. Joseph
Stake with Andrew Kimball a^ pre-
sident, he was set apart as a High
Councilor, which position he still
holds and magnifies the same with
marked ability.

BARNEY, Danielson Buran, a vet-
eran Elder in the St. Joseph Stake,
Arizona, was born Sept. 14, 1831, at

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Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio, the son
of Edson Barney and Lillis Balou.
His father's family, who had joined
the Churi;h in the spring of 1831, re-
moved to Kirtland, after his father
had returned from Missouri, whence
he went as a member of Zion's Cami).
The subject of this sketch learned to
read in the school taught in the Kirt-
land Temple and as a child moved
about with the Saints until they
reached Nauvoo, 111, where he was
baptized by the Prophet Joseph Smith
in the Mississippi river. He expe-
rienced the mobbings, incident to the

called to Arizona, but stopped tem-
porarily in the San Juan country,
Utah, where he helped to build a
canal. He finally reached Thatcher,
Arizona, in 1886, where he has resided
ever since, with the exception of mak-
ing an underground trip to Mexico in
1890.

DAVIS, William Charles, a promi-
nent Elder in the St. Joseph Stake,
Arizona, was born Aug. 12, 1848, in
Fladbury, Worcestershire, England,
the son of Wm. Davis and Sarah
Hayden. He emigrated, with his par-
ents, to America, in 1866, crossing the

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Hlfes.

Saints being driven out of Illinois,
participated in the exodus from Nauvoo
in 1846, spent the following winter at
Winter Quarters and afterwards re-
sided temporarily in Pottawattamie
county, Iowa. In 1851 the family emi-
grated to Utah and located at Provo,
where Elder Barney experienced hard-
ships and danger during the wars
with Indians and grasshoppers. In
1855 he was called on a mission to the
States, where he met and married
Laura Matthews. From Provo he
was called to Dixie in 1861 and settled
in St. George, where he resided for
many years and helped to build the
St. George Temple. In 1879 he was

Atlantic in the ship "John Bright,"
and the plains in Captain Wm. H.
Chipman's train. After residing tem-
porarily in Mill Creek, the family
moved to Rockport, Summit, county,
in the spring of 1868, where the
subject of this sketch met Annie Jo-
hanna Williamson to whom he was
married Nov. 22, 1869, in the Endow-
ment House, Salt Lake City. In 1876
he was called on a mission to Arizona,
but on account of sickness he stopped
in Panguitch and thence returned to
Midway, Provo "Valley. Later he
settled in Heber City, whence he was
called on a mission to St. Johns, Ari-
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as a president of the 104th quorum of
Seventy, Sept. 6, 1891. In 1892 (Sept.
6th) he was ordained a High Priest
by Apostle Anthon H. Lund and set
apart as first counselor to Bishop
Charles P. Anderson, of the St. Johns
Ward. This position he held until he
moved to Clifton, Arizona, where he
was chosen superintendent of the Sun-
day school in the branch organization
effected there May 25, 1905. Elder
Davis is the father of eleven children;
two of his sons have filled honorable
missions and they are all firm in their
belief in the Gospel. Elder Davis is
now a resident of Layton, Graham
county, Arizona.

MONTEIRTH, Alvin Moroni, a Pa-
triarch in the St. Joseph Stake of
Zion, Arizona, was born Dec. 29, 1824,
in Wiscasset, Maine. When about
sixteen years old he went to Cape
Cod, Mass., and hired out to a retired
sea captain, who lived on his farm.
He joined the Church when young
(about eighteen years old) and married
Caroline Hardy. In 1846 Ezra T. Ben-
son gave him a special mission to
gather his wife's family to the head-
quarters of the Church. He went to
St. Louis, Mo., where he remained
two years, and then moved to Kanes-
ville, Iowa, where his wife died after
giving birth to two children who both
died at birth. In 1852 (Aug. 1st) he
married Harriet W. Crapo at Kanes-
ville, Iowa. She bore him eleven
children, namely Alvin B., Mary A,
Annie M., Marion W., CharlesW.,
Harriet A., Eugene E., Clarence C,
George F., Caroline K., and Eva M.
In 1853 he arrived in Salt Lake City,
where he was ordained a Seventy by
Joseph Young. After rc-^iaing there
about four years he was called to
Brigham City by Lorenzo Snow to ta'io
charge of the public works at that
place. During the winte • of 1857-.")3
he participated in The Echo Canyor
campaign and at the time of "tU-
move" he located at Springville, Utah
county. Later he settled in Draper,

and still later he became one of the
early settlers of Paradise, Cache
Valley, where he resided until 1884,
when he removed to Arizona and
located on the Gila river. For fifteen
years he acted as a member of the
High Council of the St. Joseph Stake,
and in 1903 (June 7th) he was or-
dained a Patriarch by Apostle Mat-
thias F. Cowley. In March 1866, he
married a plural wife (Susan Griffin)
by whom he had two children (Mel-
vin G. and Adaline).

PERKINS, Abraham Junius, a prom-
inent Elder in the Layton Ward,

St. Joseph Stake, Arizona, was born
Aug. 11, 1848, in Harris Grove, Pot-
tawattamie county, Iowa, the son of
Abraham Perkins and Sarah Loring.
The father died when Abraham was
only ten months old. Through the
assistance of friends his mother emi-
grated to Utah in 1853 with her two
children, and soon afterwards she be-
came the wife of Henry Harriman,
one of the first seven presidents of
Seventies, who in 1861 was called on
the southern Utah mission. Bro.
Harriman went there with his whole
family, consisting of himself, three
wives and seven children. The mother
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a weakly woman succumbed to the
hardships of pioneer life and died
Dec. 20, 1865. In 1863 Abraham went
to San Bernardino, California, to live
with relatives. In 1867 he returned
to Utah with his aunt and went on
to the Missouri River with Crisman
Bros. Afterwards he spent sometime
in Nevada, but returned to Utah in
1871, and after being ordained an Elder
he located in Washington, southern
Utah. In 1872 (July 23rd) he married
Elzabeth Gubler. During the construc-
tion of the Temple in St. George, he was
one of the permanent workers on the
building. In 1877 he was called on
the Arizona mission and arrived at
Sunset, or Lot Smith's camp, on the
Little Colorado river, in May of that
year. Here he joined the United Or-
der, but the lower valley of the Little
Colorado not being very suitable
for settlements the Saints moved
further up and Elder Perkins located
in Taylor, on Silver Creek. The first
white child born at that settlement,
Feb. 25, 1879, was his. Here he also
engaged in succesful farming and mill-
ing. In 1887 he went to Utah with
his wife, who had become somewhat
^demented, and after spending eight
years in the asylum at Provo, she
died. Brother Perkins returned to
Arizona, and was soon afterwards
called on a mission to the Apache
Indians. He was appointed by the
government officials to take charge
of a small flouring mill, near Port
Apache, belonging to the Indians.
While grinding grain for the Indians
he gained great influence over them,
which caused the government officials
to become jealous and order him to
leave the Indian reservation forthwith.
Complying with the order, he went
to the Gila Valley, where he ran a
flouring mill for Pres. Christopher
Layton. In 1889 he visited Utah and
for the last time saw his wife at the
Provo asylum. In 1889 he married
Hannah Salisbury. In 1890 (March
22nd) he was ordained a High Priest
by Apostle Francis M. layman and

set apart to act as second counselor
to Bishop John Welker; later (May
27, 1893) he was set apart as first
counselor to the same Bishop. When
the St. Joseph Stake was re-organized
(Feb. 1, 1898) he was set apart as
a member of the High Council, which
position he filled about two years. He
was then released to go to Sonora,
Mexico. From this mission, however,
he was released because of his age.
Elder Perkins has acted as Ward
clerk of the Layton Ward since Oc-
tober, 1899, has been Sunday school
teacher of the theological and other
classes for many years, and also
superintendent of the Ward religion
classes. He is the father of nine chil-
dren, four by his first and five by
his second wife.

Welker, Adam, a High Councilor in
the St. Joseph Stake of Zion, Arizona,
was born Feb. 19, 1841, in Adams coun-
ty, 111., the son of James Welker and

Elizabeth Welker. In 1852 he emi-
grated to Utah and located in Willard,
Box Elder county. His father having
died when he was very small, and
he being the youngest child of the
family, he was constantly engaged in
making a living for himself and moth-

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er. He was baptized in June, 1855,
ordained a Deacon in 1857, and or-
dained a Seventy in the 59th quorum,
Feb. 8, 1859. In 1864, responding to
call, he went back to the Missouri
river as a Church teamster in an ox-
train, to bring emigrants to Utah,
in 1865 (Feb. 22ud) he married Agnes
Dock and in the same year moved to
Bloomington, Bear Lake county, Idaho,
where he resided until 1883, passing
through many trials and hardships in
helping to subdue that cold and in-
hospitable country. His health fail-
ing in the high altitude, he concluded
to move south, which he did in No-
vember, 1883, and located at Safford,
Graham county, Arizona, on the Gila
river, where he purchased a good
farm, on which he still resides. By
the foregoing it will be seen that El-
der Welker has always been ener-
getically engaged in helping to con-
vert desert lands into farms and
beautiful homes. In 1898 (Dec. 5th)
he was ordained a High Priest and set
apart as a High Councilor in the St.
Joseph Stake, in which calling he still
labors faithfully. Elder Welker has
twelve living children, seven sons and
five daughters, all of whom are mem-
bers of the Church and some of them
occupying prominent positions.

WELKER, James R., Bishop of Lay-
ton Ward, St. Joseph Stake, Arizona,
was born .Jan. 25, 1866, in Blooming-
ton, Bear Lake county, Idaho, the son
of Adam Welker and Agnes Dock.
He lived with his parents in Blooming-
ton until 1883, during which time he
received a common school education.
In 1875 (Sept. 5th) he was baptized
by Peter Greenhalgh and confirmed by
George Osmond. In the fall of 1883,
together with his parents, he moved
to Safford, Graham county, Arizona,
and thus became one of the pioneers
in helping to settle that part of the
country. Soon after his arrival in
Arizona he was called, in company
with other men, to follow a band of
Indians who had stolen a number of

horse.s belonging- to the citizeiiH
During the night they overtook three
of the Indians and secured about
twenty-five head of horses, but failing
to get all the animals, they pursued
the savages until ten o'clock the next
day, when they were ambushed by the
Indians, and two of the boys, Lorenzo
and Seth Wrig]it> were shot and
killed, while riding side by side of
BrotherWelker. He was ordained a
Deacon in 1884, and labored faith-
fully in that calling until Jan. 24,
1886, when he was ordained an Elder
and set apart to preside over the Y.

M. M. M. I. A. of the Layton Ward.
In 1886 he was ordained a Seventy
and set apart as a president in the
89th quorum of Seventy by Seymour
B. Young; two years later he became
the senior president of said quorum.
Sept. 16, 1886, he married Louisa
Peel. In 1894-1897 he filled a mis-
sion to the Tongan Islands, where he
labored for two years and eight months,
during which time he visited many
islands and encountered a variety of
dangers on the sea. On one occa-
sion, when visiting some of the islands
of the Tongan group, he was caught
in a great storm, during which the
boat sprang a leak and he and his
missionary companion. Elder Robert
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crew, drifted to the Fiji Islands, after
having been on the water eight days.
Elder Welker finished his mission as
president of the Tongan Islands and
arrived home May 11, 1897. After
his return he engaged in mercantile
business. In 1898 (Feb. 5th) he was
ordained a High Priest and Bisho])
of the Layton Ward. by Apostle John
Henry Smith.

McMILLEN, William, Bishop of the
Twenty-eighth Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born Aug. 1, 1852, at Dal-

ston, Cumberland county, England,
the son of John McMillan and Eliza-
beth Adams. He was baptized Nov.
2, 1862 at Carlisle, England; ordained
an Elder at South Shields, North
Cumberland, in August, 1872; appoint-
ed president of the South Shields
branch in 1873, and presided over the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne branch from
1876 to 1879, when he emigrated to
Utah, and located in Milford, Beaver
county. The following year (Oct,
29th) he was ordained a High Priest
and set apart as Bishop of the Milford
Ward. He presided in that capacity

until Dec. 8, 5 884, when he was honor-
ably released, as he was moving
away to Salt Lake City. Here, on
Feb. 9, 1902, he was chosen and set
apart as Bishop of the Twenty-eight
Ward by Apostle Kudger Clawson.
Bishop McMillan has been married
twice, first to Emily Newton and
second to Agnes Newton; he has six
living children. The Bishop has served
in the fourth session of the Utah State
legislature and is now serving as a
member of the seventh session. He
is also representative-elect of the eight
session of the legislature. While serv-
ing his first term he became the author
of the anti-compulsory vaccination law,
which was passed over the governor's
veto. He has held many other re-
sponsible positions in a busines capa-
city.

CHRISTIANSEN, Hans Jacob, spe-
cial missionary to the Scandinavian

Saints, was born Jan. 9, 1848, at St.
Jorgensbjerg, near Roeskilde, Den
mark, the son of Christian Hansen
and Margrethe Jacobsen. He was
reared by his grandparents, and his

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grandfather being a sailor, Hans be-
came attached to the sea from his
early youth. Having a great desire to
see the world, he hired out, when
abouth fifteen years old, to make a
voyage with the bark "Valkyrien" as
a deck boy, and with that vessel he
visited different parts of the world,
including America. In South America
he witnessed a cruel treatment of the
black slaves by their white masters
(the Portugeese), and on one occasion
he had a narrow escape from being
devoured by a shark. In New York
he was taken sick with typhoid fever
and robbed of all his money and cloth-
ing. After recovering from his sick-
ness, he hired out to a big American
bark, with which he visited the north-
ern part of North America and had
throughout a very hard experience
before he returned to his native land.
His father, who had been an employee
of the Roeskilde post office for twenty-
seven years, died at the age of forty-
seven years, leaving his wife and six
children; Hans, the oldest son, now
about eighteen years of age, succeeded
to his father's place in the post office.
At the age of twenty-one he entered
the Danish army and served a part
of his time as a corporal. While yet
in the army he married Nikoline
Emilie Steffensen, who died after hav-
ing given birth to a little girl. In
the meantime his mother became a
convert to "Mormonism" and under
her influence Hans began to investi-
gate the principles of the restored
Gospel, believed and was baptized
Dec. 26, 1871, in Copenhagen, by El-
der Martin Willumsen; he was con-
firmed by Anthon H. Lund. Six
months later, in .lune. 1872, he emi-
grated to Utah, together with 396
other emigrants, crossing the Atlantic
in the steamship "Nevada". On the
voyage he acted as captain of the
guard and arrived in Salt Lake City
July 17, 1872. He now learned the
harness and saddle business and in
October following his arrival in Utah
he married Laura M. Larsen, and was

on the same day (Oct. 28, 1872) or-
dained an Elder. In 1873 he moved
with his family to Logan, Cache coun-
ty, where he worked at his trade
and soon became a possessor of a
little home of his own. He also took
a prominent part in Church matters
and acted as a Ward teacher. In
1875 (Jan. 17th) he married Elise
Haraldsen, and in 1880-1882 he filled
a mission to Scandinavia where he
labored in Copenhagen conference, first
as president of a branch and later as
president of the conference. During
this mission he endured many hard-
ships and trials, witnessed numerous
marvelous manifestations of the power
of God, and baptized eighty-five per-
sons. Returning home from this mis-
sion in August, 1882, he led a company
of emigrating Scandinavian Saints to
Liverpool. After his return to Logan
he engaged again in his former occu-
pation and responding to a call he
labored as an ordinance worker in the
Logan Temple from May 30, 1884, to
March 23, 1885. In 1883 (Aug. 30th)
he married Inger Marie Larsen, and
in 1885-1888 he filled a second mission
to Scandinavia, during which he pre-
sided over the Christiania conference
(comprising at that time all Norway)
for upwards of three years. On this
mission he was summoned before the
courts several times for having ad-
ministered the ordinances of the Gos-
pel; he also encountered considerable
opposition on the part of the Lutheran
clergy, bu*-, was blessed with the priv-
vilege of adding one hundred and
twenty-six souls to the Church by
baptism. Returning home in July,
1888, he had charge of a company of
emigrating Saints, which crossed the
ocean in the steamship "Wisconsin".
Once more at his home in Logan, he
engaged in mercantile business with
Bishop Isaac Smith as partner. In
1893-1895 he filled a third mission to
Scandinavia. On the outward .iourney
he visited the world's Fair in Chicago,
Illinois, and reached Denmark by way
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he was made president of the Christi-
ania conference, but he had only been
absent from home about a year when
the sad news of the demise of his wife
Laura was received, and one week
later he was informed that his eldest
daughter Emilie was dead. This filled
his heart with inexpressible grief, as
it all came to him so unexpectedly.
On this mission he visited all the
branches of the Church along the coast
of Norway between Christiania and
Tromso and beheld the midnight suu.
After a successful mission and after
beptizing sixty-four persons, he re-
turned home in August, 1895, in charge
of another company of emigrating
Saints. While laboring as a missio-
nary in Norway he became very muca
attached to the inhabitants of that
country. In 1897 (Nov. 14th) he was set
apart as one of the presidents of the
32nd quorum of S.eventy. From Nov.
14, 1897, to June 30, 1898, he
acted as superintendent of the religion
class in the Logan Sixth Ward. In
May, 1898, he was called to preside
over the Scandinavian meetings in
Logan, having previously acted as
counselor to his predecessor, Niels C.
Edlefsen. When the 119th quorum of
Seventy was organized and located
in the Sixth and Seventh Wards, Lo-
gan, Feb. 7, 1899, Elder Christiansen
was chosen as senior president of the
same. In 1902 he removed with his
family to Salt Lake City, where he
still resides. In 1902-1905 he filled a
fourth mission to Scandinavia and 'a-
bored as president of the Copenhagen
conference. Having the privilege of la-
boring together with some of his best
friends such as Anthon L. Skanchy,
C. D. Fjeldsted and Andrew Jenson,
he enjoyed his labors very much. He
visited all the branches of the confer-
ence, made a host af friends and bap-
tized fifty-four persons. In 1905 he
made a business trip to California, and
in October of the same year he was
called to labor as a special missionary
among the Scandinavian Saints in all
the Stakes of Zion. He has recently

been ordained a High Priest, and since
the beginning of 1906 he has acted as
assistant editor of "Bikuben".

NIELSEN, Jens, Bishop of Bluff
Ward, San .Juan county, Utah, was born
April 26, 1820, on the island of Lolland,
Denmark, the son of Niels Jensen and
Dorthea. M. Thomsen. He was bap-
tized March 29, 1854, by Johan Sand-
berg, and after being ordained a Priest
and susequently an Elder he labored
as a local missionary in his native
land about one and a half years, and
emigrated to Utah in 1856, crossing
the plains in Captain Willie's handcart

company. He located at Parowan, Iron
county the same fall and lived there
until the spring of 1864, when he, to-
gether with seventy-five other families,
was called to settle Panguitch, where
he was appointed the presiding Elder
and held that office until the infant
settlement was broken up in 1866 be-
cause of Indian troubles. Elder Niel-
sen then located in Coder City, where
he acted as a High Councilor, and af-
terwards as first counselor to Bishop
Christopher J. Arthur. In 1879 ho
was called by Apostle Erastus Sno\/
to assist Silas S. Smith in establishin:?
a mission and settlement on the San
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relations with, tlie Navajo Iiidiaiis
who at that time were committing a
great many depredations in souilMjru
Utah. This company of missionaries
consisted of about two hundred and
forty souls, all told, and traveled ove'-
a very rough, unexplored country
through which they had to make roads,
and thus they spent six months in
traveling three hundred miles. The/
finally arrived at the present site of
Bluff City, on the San Juan x-iv--'-,
April 6, 1880. Soon after their arrival
there. Elder Nielsen was ordained a
Bishop under the hands of Apostl'-'S
Erastus Snow and Brigham Young
junior and set apart to preside over
the Bluff Ward, which position he
held until Jan. 6, 1906, when he was
honorably released because of failing
health. His death occurred in Bluff
April 24, 1906. During his whole life
Bishop Nielsen was faithful and true
to the cause of God, and was ever
obedient and willing to labor as he
was directed by those placed over him
in the Priesthood. His zeal, integrity
and wisdom was universally acknowl-
edged and he was indc:t.a a father
to his Ward, honest and true in all
the walks of life. Surely he was one
of God's noblemen. Before he em-
braced the Gospel in his native land,
Elder Nielsen married Else Rasmus-
sen and after his arrival in Utah he
married two other wives, namely,
Kirsten Jensen (in October, 1857) and
Katrine Johnson (in March, 1874).
By these wives he became the father
of sixteen children. Besides the many
ecclesiastical positions filled by Bishop
Nielsen, he also acted as city council-
man in Cedar City ten years and as
county commissioner of San Juan
county four years. His main avoca-
tion was that of a farmer and stock
raiser.

WHEELER, Joseph Edward, a High
Councilor in the San Juan Stake, was
born Aug. 22, 1856, at Ogden, Utah,
the son of Joseph Wheeler and Alice
Reed. He was baptized in 1866, and

when grown ordained an Elder. His
mother died when he was about a
year old. For several years he lived
in Huntsville, whence he was called
to settle in the San Juan Stake in
1885. In the fall of 1886 he was or-
dained a High Priest and chosen as
first counselor to Bishop George Halls;
later he was chosen as a member of
the High Council of the San Juan
Stake. Elder Wheeler's first marriage
took place March 14, 1878; he was
married a second time Oct. 9, 1881,
and is the father of twenty-eight chil-
dren, tiiteen boys and thirteen girls.
Elder Wheeler has been a diligent
worker in the Sunday schools and Mu-
tual Improvement Associations, and
has filled many positions of honor and
responsibility.

HALLS, William, first counselor in
the presidency of the San Juan Stake
of Zion, was born May 25, 1834, in
the village of Orsett, county of Essex,
England, the son cl John Halls and
Susanna Selstone. Becoming a con-
vert to "Mormonism" at the age of
fifteen years, he was baptized Jan.
26, 1851 ; subsequently he was ordained
a Teacher, then a Priest and later an
Elder, and called to preside over the
Orsett branch. In October, 1854, he
was called to labor as a traveling
Elder in the Essex conference; in
June, 1858, he was called to preside
over the Lincolnshire conference and
in August, 1859, he was called to
preside over the Bradford (now Leeds)
conference. In April, 1861, he married
Louisa C. Enderby, and emigrated to
Utah, crossing the sea in the ship
"Underwriter," and the plains in Cap-
tain Ira Eldredge's ox-train. He located
in Kaysville, Davis county, where he
taught school during the winter of
1861-1862. In December, 1862, he re-
moved to Huntsville, Weber county,
where he again taught school. In
1864 he went to the Missouri river as a
Church teamster after emigrants,
traveling in Captain Wm. B. Preston's
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Seventy and set apart as one of the
presidents in the 76th porum of Sev-
enty. In 1871 he married Johanna
M. Frandsen. In 1877 he was ordained
a High Priest and set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Francis A. Ham-
mond in the Huntsville Ward. In 1880
he married Eleanor Howard. In
March, 1885, he left Hmatsville for
Bluff, San Juan county, and in June,
of that Year, he was set apart as
first counselor to Pres. Francis A.
Hammond of the San Juan Stake. In
February, 1886, he settled at Mancos,
Colorado where he still resides. Nov.
25, 1900, while traveling with Pres.
Hammond, he was thrown from a
carriage and badly bruised, while Pres.
Hammond was injured fatally. After
Pres. Hammond's death he took tempo-
rary charge of the San Juan Stake
until August 1901, when he was chosen
first counselor to Platte D. Lyman,
who died a few weeks later, leaving
Elder Halls in temporary charge of
the Stake once more. In May, 1902,
he was chosen first counselor to Wal-
ter C. Lyman, which position he still
holds. Elder Halls is the father of
nineteen chillren, eighteen of whom
are now living.

LARSEN, John Parley, Bishop of
Moab, Grand county, Utah, (San Juan
Stake), was born Jan. 7, 1865, at
Spring City, Sanpete county, Utah,
the son of Christen G. Larsen and
Anetta Johnson. He was baptized
in 1873 ; ordained a PriestApril 22, 1883,
at Castle Dale, Emery county, Utah,
by his father, and ordained a High
Priest May 21, 1900, by Francis A.
Hammond, and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop D. A. Johnson,
of Moab Ward. He filled that position
until Jan. 7, 1904, when he was or-
dained to his present position. In
1889 Brother Larsen married Alice
Dotson, by whom he has had six chil-
dren. He lived in Spring City, San-
pete county, until 1880, when he moved
with his father's family to Emery
county and lived at Castle Dale until

May, 1889, when he moved with his
family to Moab, where he still resides.
Elder Larsen has been an activ work-
er in the Y. M. M. I. A., and has
served two years as town councilman
at Moab. At present he is chairman
of the school board at Moab.

SORENSEN, Andrew Philip, first
counselor in the Bishopric of Moab,
San Juan Stake, was born April 4,
1861, in Denmark, emigrated, when
two years old, with his parents, to
Utah, and settled in Smithfield, Cache
county, where his youth was spent. He
attended the district schools as a boy,
and also the B. Y. College at Logan
for two seasons; after that he at-
tended the University of Deseret two
years and graduated in the normal
department in 1885. He followed the
profession of school teaching for eight
years and then engaged in mercantile
business, which he followed for ten
years. His health failing, he engaged
in out-door work and has since been
working on his farm in Moab. His
parents being poor, he was obliged to
make his own way through school,
borrowing money with which to
pay his tuition, and defray his other
expenses, returning the same as he
earned it by teaching. Elder Soren-
sen has filled various positions in the
Church, commencing, when fourteen
years of age, with the office of coun-
selor to the president of a Deacons
quorum. He also acted as secretary
of Sunday schools and teacher of the-
ological classes in the various Wards
where he taught district schools and
acted as secretary and president of
Y. M. M. I. A. in several places. In
1889 (Aug. 20th) he was ordained an
Elder by Robert A. Bain, and married
Mary A. Hammond, daughter of Pres.
Francis A. Hammond, Aug. 28, 1889.
He moved to Bluff, San Juan county
in 1888, where he taught school for
four years, filling various callings in
the Sabbath schools, Y. M. M. I. A.,
and also acted as Ward teacher. He
then moved to Montecello, San .Tuan

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county, where he was ordained a
High Priest Aug 21, 1893, and set apart
as first counselor to Bishop F. I.
Jones. In 1896 he moved to Moab,
Grand county, where he was chosen
first counselor to Bishop D. A. John-
son in the spring of 1897. When the
Bishopric of Moab was re-organized
Jan. 7, 1904, he was chosen as first
counselor to Bishop John P. Larsen,
which position he still occupies. Be-
sides the almost continuous work in
the ministry. Elder Sorensen has
filled a number of civil offices. Thus
he acted as county attorney in San
Juan county, superintendent of district
schools and as the representative of
that county in the first Utah State legis-
lature. From Grand county he has
also been sent as a representative to
the legislature and has served as coun-
ty assessor, member of the town coun-
cil, probation officer of Grand county,
etc.

BERTHELSEN, Soren Christian, a
High Councilor in the San Luis Stake
of Zion, Colorado, was born Aug. 11,
1844, in Jutland, Denmark, the son of
Christian Berthelsen and Anna Soren-
sen. He was baptized June 2, 1859,
by Ingward Hansen, and labored as a
local missionary in the Aarhus con-
ference, under the name of Soren
Christiansen, from 1861 to 1865, when
he emigrated to Utah. He was or-
dained a High Priest Oct. 28, 1878, by
Bishop Hans Jensen Hals and was
chosen as a High Councilor in the San
Luis Stake when the Stake was first
organized. In 1888 (April 25th) he was
ordained a Bishop by Apostle John
Henry Smith, and set apart to preside
over the Sanford Ward. He acted in
that position for eleven years, when
he was returned to the High Council.
In 1865 he married Mariane Sorensen,
and on Oct. 15, 1884, he married
Josephine Echols. He is the father
of six children. Brother Berthelsen
has also acted as justice of the peace
and filled other responsible positions.
He is a potter by trade and followed

that business in Utah for fourteen
years; otherwise he is a farmer. He
first came to San Luis Valley in 1878.

WITHNEY, Ira Blanchard, a High
Councilor in the San Luis Stake,
was born Dec. 6, 1856, at Parowan,
Iron county, Utah, the son of Francis
T. Whitney and Clarissa Alger. His
father was a member of the Mormon
Battalion and one of the first settlers
of Parowan, where the subject of this
sketch was raised. During his young
manhood he acted as a Deacon of the
Parowan Ward and later was ordained
a Teacher. In 1880 he was ordained
an Elder and married Julia M. Burton
Oct. 27, 1880. He was also an active
member and officer of the Y. M. M. I.
A. In May, 1882, he removed to
Huntington, Emery county, where he
son became an officer in the Y. M. M.
I. A. and Sunday school. In 1884-
1885 he studied as a normal student
at the University of Deseret, and in
1885 he was ordained a Seventy. In
1889 he removed with his family to
Colorado and became a member of
the Sanford Ward, and an officer in
the the Y. M. M. I. A. From January to
April, 1904, he attended the B. Y.
Academy at Provo, Utah, as a Sunday
School normal, and on his return home
he became assistant superintendent of
the Sunday school of the St. Luis
Stake of Zion. In 1894 (Nov. 18th)
he was set apart as Stake superinten-
dent of Sunday schools, which position
he still holds. He was ordained a
High Priest May 26, 1894, by Apostle
John Henry Smith, and set apart as
a High Councilor in the San Luis
Stake. In 1898-1900 he filled a mission
to the Northern States, laboring
twenty-six months in the State of
Michigan. Since his return home
from this mission, he has been busily
engaged in Sunday school work.

HORNE, Joseph Smith, first counse-
lor in the Sevier Stake presidency, is
the son of Joseph Home and Mary
Isabella Hales, and was born in Nau-

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voo, Hancock county. 111., May 14,
1842. He emigrated to Utah with his
parents in 1847 and was baptized
.June 15, 1851, by Bishop Abraham
Hoagland. When about sixteen years
old he was ordained a Teacher, and
a few years later he was ordained an
Elder by Samuel L. Sprague. In 1863
he was ordained a Seventy by his
father. In September, 1878, he was
ordained a High Priest and Bishop
and set apart to preside over the
Richfield Second Ward by Pres. John
Taylor. In this capacity he labored
until 1894, when he was chosen and

set apart as second counselor in the
Sevier Stake presidency; subsequently
(November, 1894) he was called to
act as Stake Tithing clerk and on
June 29, 1902, he was set apart as
first counselor to Stake President Wm.
H. Seegmiller, in which office he is
at present serving faithfully and with
marked ability. In 1868 (Sept. 7th)
he married Lydia A. Weiler; in 1879
(Dec. 5th) he married Maria Baum,
and in 1880 (Feb. 14th) he took Martha
M. Morrison to wife. By these wives
he is the father of fifteen children, of
whom all but three are now living.
Pres. Home has earned his daily
bread mostly as a house carpenter
and wheelwright and is at present en-

gaged in the undertaking business in
which he has had twenty-five years
experience. He has always been a
zealous Church worker and has ever
proven himself faithful and true in
all cases where trust and confidence
have been reposed in him. In 1865-
1868 he filled a most successful mis-
sion to Europe, presiding a part of the
time over the Swiss and German Mis-
sion; he returned to Utah in 1888 in
charge of a company of emigrants.
In 1868, soon after his return from
Europe, he was called by Pres. Brig-
ham Young to go to Gunnison to take
charge of the affairs of that Ward. In
1876-1877 he filled a second mission to
l']urope, during which he again pre-
sided over the Swiss and German
Mission. In 1898 (Aug. 21st) he was
ordained a Patriarch by Anthon H.
liUnd and is at present officiating in
that capacity. At various times he
has held responsible civil offices; thus
he has served one term in the terri-
torial legislature, has acted as county
selectman, superintendent of district
schools in Sevier county, as mayor of
Richfield one term, and as city coun-
( ilman in the same place three times.

ENZ, Gottleib, senior member of
the Sevier Stake High Council, was
born Aug. 24, 1840, at Itobel, Canton
Thurgau, Switzerland, the son of Jacob
Enz and Elizabeth Wegman. He was
baptized in February, 1860, by John
Keller, ordained an Elder in 1862,
later ordained a Seventy by Horace
S. Eldredge, and ordained a High
Priest in 1873 by Joseph A. Young.
In 1878-1880 he filled a mission to
Europe, laboring principally in Switzer-
land and Germany. In 1862, and
again in 1863, he went to the Missouri
river as a Church teamster, after emi-
grants. In 1866 (Dec. 16th) he mar-
ried Elizabeth James, who bore him
five children, four sons and one daugh-
ter. In 1873 he married Caroline
James as a plural wife, who bore him
seven children, s.x sons and one
daughter. On account of this mari-

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tal relations he served a term of im-
prisonment in the Utah penitentiary
for "conscience sake'' in 1887-88. Eld-
er Enz has always been a diligent
Church worker. As a choir member
for forty years, a Sunday school
teacher for thirty-five years, a coun-
selor to Bishop Poul Poulsen in Rich-
field three years and a member of
the High Council since 1873; he has
always performed his duties faithfully
and true. Having emigrated to Utah
in 1860 from his native land, he resi-
ded first in Salt Lake City, next in
Tooele valley, but moved back ta Salt
Lake City, on account of Indian trou-
bles; since 1872 he has been a res-
ident of Richfield. By trade he is a
miller, and after following that voca-
tion for fifteen years, he engaged in
farming. Since 1892 he has been in
the implement business for Studeba-
ker Bros. During the Black Hawk
war in 1865 and following years he
took an active part in military affairs
and had some very interesting ex-
periences in fighting Indians. He is
still a well preserved man, considering
the hardships he encountered in early
days in Utah and the many accidents
through which he has passed. All his
children are alive, except the oldest
son, who was accidentally killed. Four
of his sons have filled honorable mis-
sions.

LAURITZEN, Jacob Marinus, Stake
superintendent of Sunday schools of
the Sevier Stake, was born Sept. 9,
1869, in Aalborg, Denmark, the son of
Niels Lauritzen and Larsine Jacobsen.
He was baptized June 2, 1878, by
Elder Anders Frederiksen and emigra-
ted to Utah at the age of nine years,
in company with his younger brother
John, and located at Richfield, where
he has resided ever since. From
his early youth he has been active in
Church work. He has held every
grade of Priesthood, having been or-
dained a Deacon Dec. 17, 1884; a
Teacher in December, 1886; an Elder
April 29, 1888, by Elder William H.

Seegmiller; a Seventy May 26, 1888,
by Apostle John Henry Smith, and a
High Priest Sept. 8, 1907, by Elder
Henry N. Hayes. For twelve years
he served as secretary of the 36th
quorum of Seventy. He has been an
active worker in the auxiliary organi-
zations, but more especially in the
Sunday school, having acted as teach-
er, secretary, treasurer, librarian,
assistant Ward superintendent, Ward
superintendent, assistant Stake super-
intendent and Stake superintendent.
In 1899-1901 he labored successfully
as a missionary in Scandinavia, his

principal field of labor being the
Trondhjem conference, Norway. From
June 29, 1902, to March 18, 1906, he
served as Stake clerk an historian
and clerk of the High Council of the
Sevier Stake. Jan. 27, 1904, he was
set apart as Stake superintendent of
Sunday schools of the Sevier Stake
by Elder Joseph S. Home. Elder Lau-
ritzen received his education in the
public schools and in the Sevier Stake
Academy. In January, 1889, he was
engaged as principal of the Richfield
Public Schools, which position he oc-
cupied for a period of two years. He
has filled a number of civil positions
in Sevier county, among them being
that of county recorder one term.

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county treasurer two terms, referee
in bankruptcy four years, justice of
the peace for Richfield city six years,
manager of the Sevier Valley Absstract
Company and manager of the Richfield
Real Estate Exchange. In the fall of
1906 he purchased the furniture busi-
ness of Joseph S. Home & Co. and
six months later incorporated the
business under the name of the Peo-
ple's Emporium. He has taken an
active part in the development of the
Sevier Valley, being largely instrumen-
tal in inducing the State to undertake
the building of the Piute Reservoir
and Canal by means of which 20,000
aci'es of land in Sevier Valley will
be irrigated. He was one of the o -
ganizers of the Western Constriirition
Company, which now has the contract
from the State to build the Piute
Canal. In 1889 (June 19th) a-^; mar-
ried Annie Pratt Gardner, who has
borne him nine children, five boys and
four girls.

HAYES, Henry Nephi, first counse-
lor to Bishop Archibald G. Young of
;;he Richfield Ward, Sevier county,
Utah, is the son of John J. Hayes and
Rachael Wagstaff, and was born at
Pleasant Grove, Utah county, Utah,
Jan. 28, 1867. He was baptized Aug.
27, 1875, by Thomas Woolley and con-
firmed the same day by Bishop John
Brown; ordained a Deacon in 18SC:
ordained an Elder Jan. 10, 1891, by
Wm. H. Seegmiller; ordained a Sev-
enty June 25, 1893, by J. Golden Kim-
ball, and afterwards became a presi-
dent in the 56th quorum of Seventy.
He was ordained a High Priest and
set apart as a High Councilor in the
Sevier Stake in 1897 by Apostle Abra-
ham O. Woodruff. In 1899 <>Ic<rcn
25th) he was set apart as first counse-
lor in the Richfield Ward Bishopric
by Apostle Anthon H. Lund. From
his earliest youth Elder Hayes has
been an active Church worke:- He
has served as secretary of .a r>yaco!;s
quorum, secretary, counselor aud iics.

dent of a Ward Y. M. M. I. A., assist-
ant superintendent and superintendent
of a Sabbath school and later assist-
ant in the Stake Sunday school super-
intendency. For a number of v ars
he was a member of the Sevier Stake
High Council. In 1892 (Aug. 21th) he
married Emma Heppler, who has
borne him nine children, six boys and

three giiis. Elde<' Hayes was ediica-
ted in the district schools at P-e^sant
Grove, the B. Y. Academy at Provo,
and the University of Michigan; in
the latter institution he graduated
with honor from the law department.
For a number of years he followed
successfully the profession of school
teaching. He hat also acted a? ( lerk
of Sevier county, county super 'itind-
ent of schools, county attorney, chair-
man of the Richfield school board, a
member of the city council of Rich-
field, a member of the State l.aad
Board, etc.

BEAN, Virginius, Bishop of P'"*^
field Second Ward, Sevier Stake.
Utah, was born July 21, 1872, at Prov<i
Utah county, Utah, the son of
George W. Bean and Mary Jane Wah
(the daughther of Captain William W.

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Wall). He was baptized June 1, 1881,
by Hans Hansen; confirmed June 2,
1881, by William Ogden; ordained a
Deacon Jan. 5, 1886, by Theodore
Brandley; ordained a Teacher Dec. 16,
1892, by Joseph S. Home; ordained a
Priest Dec. 20, 1893, by Joseph S.
Home, and ordained an Elder Nov. 28,
1894, by Simon Christensen. In 1895
(May 22nd) he married Leah A.nnie
Bartlett, taught school for five years,
filled a mission in the Southern States
from 1900-1902, and when set apart for
that mission June 13, 1900, he was

also ordained a Seventy by Christian
D. Fjeldsted. Jan. 17, 1904, he was or-
dained a High Priest and Bishop by
Hyrum M. Smith and set apart to his
present position. In 1907-08 he filled
a second mission, laboring in the
Northwestern States. Bishop Bean is
the father of five children. He receiv-
ed a common school education in the
public schools of Utah and finished his
studies in the B. Y. Academy at Provo.
For many years he was an active
member and officer in the auxiliary or-
ganizations of the Church,

COONS, George William, Bishop of
Richfield Third Ward, Sevier Stake,
was born Sept. 17, 1876, at Richfield,
Sevier county, Utah, the son of John

W. Coons and Eliza A. Ogilvie. He was
baptized Oct. 1, 1884, at Richfield, by
Elder John W. Coons; ordained a
Deacon Jan. 14, 1890, by Elder W. C.
B. Orrock; ordained an Elder Feb. 11,
1891, by Elder William H. Seegmiller;
ordained a Seventy Feb. 20, 1901, by
Seymour B. Young, and ordained a
High Priest and a Bishop Jan. 17,
1904, by Apostle George Teasdale.
From Feb. 23, 1901, to June 1, 1903,
he filled a mission to the Southwest-
ern States, laboring chiefly in the
State of Kansas. At home he has la-
bored as an officer in the Y. M. M.
I. A., as Ward teacher, and four years
as city councilman. In 1898 (Jan. 5th)
he married Annie S. Larsen, who has
borne him three children. He has
followed the occupation of merchan-
dizing for a living, having worked for
local firms, and being at present man-
ager of the Model Mercantile Com-
pany at Richfield, Utah.

CHRISTENSEN, Lars Peter, a
prominent Elder of the Sevier Stake

of Zion, was born Jan. 17, 1837, in
Gunderup, Vreiley parish, Hjorring

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amt, Denmark, the son of
Christen Larsen and Gjertrud
Hansen. Becoming a convert to
"Mormonism" he was baptized Sept.
S, 1858, by Elder Jens C. Ostenkjar.
His parents rejected the Gospel, but
the son rented a blacksmith shop and
soon learned means which enabled
him to emigrate to Zion. Soon aftsr
his baptism he was ordained an Elder
and appointed to preside over the
Taars branch. Later he presided over
the Harritslev branch. He also la-
bored one year as a local missionary
and baptized eleven persons. lu 1861
he emigrated to Utah, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Monarch of the
Sea," and the plains in Captain Sam-
uel Woolley's Independent Company.
After spending about one and a half
years in Davis county, he settled in Mil-
ton, Morgan county, where he presided
over that branch of the Church about
ten years, and also acted as a Bish-
op's counselor. In 1875 he removed
with his family to Richfield, Sevier
county, where he still resides. Hav-
ing previously been ordained a mem-
ber of the 65th quorum of Seventy,
he was ordained a High Priest in
Julj'-, 1877. For twelve years he acted
as counselor to Bishop Poul Poulsen
in Richfield First Ward, and was
president of the United Order in
Richfield from November, 1876, till
the order was dissolved in March,
1881. In 1881-1883 he filled a mission
to Scandinavia, during which he pre-
sided over the Hjorring branch one
year, and baptized 41 persons; after
that he presided another year over
the Aalborg conference. Returning
home in 1883, he brought with him
from Aalborg conference one hun-
dred and twenty-two emigrants. In
1861 (May 16th) he married Anna
Marie Lee, who bore him eight chil-
dren; in 1866 (Sept. 8th) he married
Anna Marie Pedersen (generally call-
ed Mary), who is the mother of nine
children, and in 1883 (Dec. 13th) he
married Karen J. A. Jacobsen, who
is the mother of eight children. In

1889 he served three months in the
Utah penitentiary for unlawful co-
habitation. Subsequently, in order
to avoid arrest, he went into exile
and established himself as a black-
smith in Pioche, Nevada, and later at
Delamare. While visiting his fami-
lies occassionally, he was twice ar-
rested by U. S. deputies, but was
discharged on both occasions. He re-
turned to his families at Richfield
in 1898, but on the instigation of ene-
mies he was again arrested and fined
for unlawful cohabitation. Bro.
Christensen is the grandfather of fifty
children and has done considerable
labor in the Temple for the dead.

FAIRBANKS, Joseph Warrant,
Bishop of the Annabella Ward, Se-
vier Stake, Utah, was born Jan. 2,
1856, in Payson, Utah county, Utah;
baptized when eight years old; mar-
ried to Estella V. Dixon July 27,
1880; moved to Richfield, Sevier
county, in 1880; moved to Annabella,
same county, in 1881; was ordained
a High Priest and set apart as firsv
counselor to Bishop Joseph S. Staker,
of the Annabella Ward, July 7, 1888;
acted as superintendent of the Sun-
day school for a number of years,
and was chosen Bishop of the Anna-
bella Ward Jan. 14, 1893; he was or-
dained a Bishop Feb. 20, 1893, by
Apostle John Henry Smith.

ANDERSEN, Frederick, second
counselor in the Bishopric of the
Inverury Ward, Sevier Stake, is the
son of Anders Mortensen and Maren
Jacobsen, and was born June 29,
1860, at Viemose, Praest0 amt, Sjael-
land, Denmark. He was baptized
July 3, 1879, by Elder Andrew Jen-
son; ordained a Deacon Sept. 3.

1879, by Andrew Jenson; ordained a
Teacher Dec. 3, 1879. by Andrew
Jenson; ordained a Priest Nov. 12,

1880, by Herman i". F. Thorup; or-
dained an Elder Sept. 11, 1887, by
Daniel B. Jones, and ordained a
High Priest May 25, 1S91, by Apostle

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Ajithon H. Lund. Ever since he
joined the Church in his native land,
Elder Andersen has been a diligeu*
Church worker. He was an officer
in the first Y. M. L A. organized in
Scandinavia, commenced to distribute
tracts in the city of Copenhagen
soon after his baptism, and later la-
bored two years as a local mission-
ary in the Copenhagen conference.
He emigrated to Utah in 1883 and lo-
cated in Salt Lake county, where he
acted as a Ward teacher in South

Baptists, but about 1856, together with
his parents, he joined the Church and
became a member of the Abersychan
branch of the Herefordshire confer-
ence. In 1857 he wa^ ordained a
Deacon ; later he was oraained a Teach-
er, still later a Priest and finally an
Elder. For a number of years he led
the singing in the Abersychan branch.
In 1867 he emigrated to America and
arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 5, 1867.
He located in Washington, southern
LUah, where he labored as a Ward

Cottonwood. In 1891 he moved to In-
verury, Sevier county, where he was
-;oon called to the position of a
coun.selor in the Ward Bishopric, and
later (in 1893) called to act as
Ward clerk. In 1887 (Sept. 28th) he
married Leah H. C. Myer. In 1892
(Sept. 7th) he married Christine J.
fensen. and in 1900 (Jan. 17th) he mar-
ried Annie M. Lundgren. He is the
father of len children.

GOOLD, Samuel William, Bishop of
.Monroe Ward, Sevier Stake, Utah, was
born Sept. 3, 1845, in Pontenwindde,
Monmouthshire, England, the son of
Robert Franklin Goold and Emma
Watts. T£e received early religious
lyainine fiom hip oarents. who were

teacher, Sunday school teacher and a
member of the Ward choir. After
three years' residence in Washington
he moved to St. George, where he re-
sided the following ten years, laboring
as a gardener for Pres. Brigham
Young. He testifies that Pres.Young was
the most honorable man he ever knew,
always good as his word ; whenever he
made a promise or an agreement with
any one, he would always fulfil it to
the very letter. He was associated
with the President at his dining table,
in his parlors, prayer circles and priv-
ate office, and never heard or saw
anything unworthy of a man of God.
His example was worthy of imitation
in every instance. In 1873 (July 28th)
Elder Goold married Miss Sarah Ann

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Lewis, late of the Abersychan branch,
and continuing his residence in St.
George, he worked considerably on the
Temple and was present at its dedica-
tion. While a member of the Third
Ward, St. George, he served as a Ward
teacher, Smiday school teacher and
leader of the Ward choir. In 1877
(July 15th) he was appointed super-
intendent of the Third Ward Sunday
'chool, which position he filled for
.wo and a half years. He then moved
into the St. George Fourth Ward,
where he served as first assistant
superintendent in the Sunday school,
Ward teacher and member of the
choir, in the spring of 1880 he moved
to Bellview, where he remained three
years. In the spring of 1883 he moved
to Graves' Valley, now called Hanks-
ville (in Wayne county, Utah), being
one of the first pioneers to that place.
He only remained there a few months,
in 1883 he moved to Monroe, Sevier
county, where he at once became
associated with ecclesiastical labors
and acted as a Sunday school teacher,
teacher of the Theological class, and
as assistant Sunday school super-
intendent for five years, being appoint-
ed to that position Dec. 2, 1889. In

1893 (.Tune 4th) he was appointed
superintendent of the Ward Sunday
school, which position he filled for
eight years, serving at the same time
as Ward teacher, member of the Ward
choir and Sunday school choir. In
1884 (Oct. 26th) he was ordained a
Seventy and became a member of the
41st quorum of Seventy, and assistant
secretary. The following year (March
28th) he was set apart as one of the
seven presidents of said quorum. In

1894 (Dec. Ifith) he was ordained a
High Priest and set apart as first coun-
selor to Bishop Orson Magleby, which
position he filled for seven years.
After Bishop Magleby'^ resignation.
Brother Goold was appointed acting
Bishop of the Monroe Ward. Dec. 15.
1901. Soon afterwards (Dec. 29th) he
was ordained Bishop by Apostle Rudger
Clawson. Bishop Goold has been a

Sunday school worker for forty years
and has officiated extensively in the
ordinances of the Gospel. He has also
l)een intrusted with many civil offices;
and has been a i)ublic servant through-
out for forty-five years. He has a
family of nine children, three sons
and six daughters.

RICHARDS, Joseph Hill, a Patri-
arch in the Snowflake Stake, Arizona,
was born Dec. 5. 1841, in Canada, the
son of .Tohn Richards and Agnes Hill,
His parents, who were of Scotch
descent, belonged to the Church
when the subject of this sketch was
born and gathered with the Saints
to Nauvoo, 111., in 1842; they passed
through the persecutions, trials and
hardships which befell the Saints at

that time and assisted in building the
.\auvoo Temple. The father was
among the first of the exiles who left
Xauvoo for the west as a pioneer
early in February, 1846, and crossed
the Mississippi river on the
ice. Returning to Nauvoo he
started with the family in
.July of the same year. They stop-
ped temporarily at Winter Quarters
and in Iowa, until 1851, when they
reached the Valley. .Toseph was then
nearly ten years old. With his par-

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ents he became a pioneer to Cache
Valley, Utah, and assisted in building
the first house in the old fort at Men-
don. He was a member of a com-
pany known as "minute men," whose
duty it was to guard the property
and the lives of the settlers against
the raid of the Indians, and was often
exposed to great dangers. In 1864 he
made a trip to the Missouri river as
a Church teamster after emigrants.
In February, 1876, he was called on
a mission to Arizona, and located on
the Little Colorado river, where lie
assisted in building forts, dams
and water ditches and where he
has had thirty years expprience in
trying to solve the very difficult prob-
lem of controlling the waters of that
treacherous stream, the Little Colo-
rado. In 1892-1893 he filled a mission
to Great Britain, presiding over the
Scottish conference a part of the
time. In September, 1878, he was or-
dained a Bishop and acted In that of-
fice ten years; during that time he
presided over the Little Colorado
Stake nearly three years. When the
Snowflake Stake was organized in Dec,
1887, he was called to the posi-
tion of second counselor in the Stake
':!residency, which position he held
until Feb. 10. 1907, when he was or-
dained a PaUiarch. Elder Richards
holds the commission of captain in
the first militia of Arizona, served as
postmaster in St. Joseph, Arizona,
twenty eight years and a half, and has
also held the offices of county treasur-
er and coumy commissioner.

SMITH, Samuel Francis, presi-
dent of the Snowflake Stake, was
born Nov. 21, 1873, at Parowan, Iron
county, Utah, the son of Jesse N. Smith
and Emma S. West. His father was
a son of Silas, who was a son of
Asahel Smith, the common ancestor of
the Smiths of early Church history. On
his mother's side his ancestors were
thrifty, sturdy Southerners, though his
grandfather, Samuel West, was the
only member of the West family to ac-

cept the Gospel and cast his fortune
with an unpopular people. His par-
ents were both good, noble people. Sam-
uel Francis is the youngest of his
mother's nine children, while he num-
bers the fifteenth of his father's forty-
four. At the age of six years, or in
the spring of 1880, he left his birth-
place and with his parents moved to
Arizona, settling in Snowflake, Apache
county, since called Navajo county.
He was baptized by his father Dec.
9, 1881, and in due time he received
the Priesthood and magnified his call-

ing in every step of the same. From
1889 to 1898 he held numerous posi-
tions of honor and trust, such as
secretary and counselor in the Ward
Mutual, teacher in the Ward and Sab-
bath school,Ward clerk.and secretary of
the Snowflake and Taylor Irrigation
Company. When but a small lad he
became of much use on his father's
farm; he did farm work in the sum-
mer and attended school in winter,
acquiring thus considerable knowl-
edge. He attended the common district
school ; also the Snowflake Stake Acad-
emy. In 1898-99 he fllled a mission to
the Southern States. After reaching
Chattanooga, Tenn., he was appointed
to labor in the State of Mississippi ,and
served a short time as first counselor
to Conference President Osmer D.

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PMake. Early in May, 1899, he con-
tracted a severe case of malarial fever
from which he did not recover until
after reaching home. After his return
home he was chosen as second as-
sistant superintendent of the Y. M.
M. I. A. of the Snowflake Stake. In
February, 1900, he was called to act
as junior president of the S3rd quorum
of Seventy and also as Stake Sunday
school secretary. April 5, 1900, he mar-
ried Miss Lula J. Hatch, daughter of
Lorenzo H. Hatch, in the Salt Lake
Temple. He taught school very suc-
cessfully for several years, then his
occupation became varied, such as
farming and clerking in the A. C. M.
L, the largest business house in this
part of Arizona. He was appointed
Stake tithing clerk in January of 1905,
which position he filled with honor, un-
til Feb. 11, 1907, when, at the quar-
terly conference of the Snowflake
Stake, he was appointed and sustain-
ed as president of the Snowflake
Stake, a place made vacant by the de-
mise of his honored father. He was
ordained a High Priest by Apostles
Jno. H. and Hyrum M. Smith. His labors
in life so far have brought him in
close contact with men of different
views and abilities, thus enabling rriu
to study men's character. Rearel in
a new country and in a large family,
he has learned valuable lessons in
economy and self-denial. Industry
and thrift characterize his every-dav
labors. He is a kind, considerate hus-
band and father, obliging and kind to
friend and stranger, and has gainel
the respect and confidence of the hon-
orable men and women over whom he
is called to preside.

FISH, Joseph, a High Councilor in
the Snowflake Stake, Arizona, was
born June 27, 1840, at Twelve Mile
Grove, Will county, Illinois, the son of
Horace Fish and Hannah Leavitt. Hor-
ace Fish was born Jan. 6, 1799. The
grandfather, Joseph Fish, was a native
of New Hampshire, and was born April

17, 1770, a son of Nathan Fish, whose
birth occurred in Massachusetts. The
Fish family descends from English an-
cestry, but has long been identified
with American history, and one of the
name served under Captain Churchill
in King Philip's war. Several mem-
bers of his grandmother's family serv
ed in the colonial army during thfc
Revolution and fought under Morgan
as sharp.-shooters, assisting in the cap-
ture of General Burgoyne at Saratoga.
One of his uncles (Joseph Fish) en-
listed in the United States army dur-
ing the war of 1812-15, but died soon
after. The boyhood days of Horace Fish
were spent in Canada, where his fath-
er resided from early manhood until
death; one branch of the Fish family
resided in the State of New York. In
1836 the mother, Hannah Fish, joined
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints, and shortly after the fam-
ily with many relatives started to
join the Saints in the west, but be-
fore gaining the object of their jour-
ney the Saints were driven out of
Missouri, and the family located in
Will county, 111., for a time. Here the
subject of this sketch was born and
the father Horace was baptized. In
the fall of 1840 the family moved to
Nauvoo, where the father built a home
in the eastern part of the city, rented
lands from Bishop Edward Hunter,
and worked for some time on the
Temple. He went through the hard-
ships that the people endured in
building up that city and guarding
against their enemies. When the ex-
odus of the Saints from Nauvoo came,
the family followed, crossing the Mis-
sissippi May 1, 1846. Not having team
or an outfit for moving, the jouraey
across the State of Iowa was slow
and attended with many hardships;
they, however, reached the banks of
the Mi.=;souri river, early in 1847,
where tney remained until the spring
of 1850. Here Joseph, the subject of
this sketch, was baptized by Brother
Clark in June, 1849, and while here

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attended school for a period during the
winter months. In the spring of 1850
the family started for the Valley, trav-
eling in Milo Andrus' company, which
was the first of that season. On ar-
riving in the Valley they located at
Centerville,Davis county. Brother John
C. L. Smith, who had married Sarah,
'.he second daughter of the family,
being called to settle in Iron county,
the family moved to that place, start-
ing in the fall of 18.52; but storms
came on so severe that they spent
the winter at Provo and continued
their journey in the spring of 1853.
The family located at Parowan. Hor-
ace Fish died July 6, 1870, at his
daughter's, at Beaver, and was buried
at Parowan. His wife Hannah passed
away some six years later. They had
six children (Julia, Sarah, Jane, Jo-
seph, Anna Maria and Franklin R.)
Joseph Fish was ordained an Elder
by F. T. Whitney March 11, 1856; or-
dained a Seventy by W. C. McGregor
Feb 22, 1865, and ordained a High
Priest and set apart as a member of
the High Council by Pres. Joseph P.
Smith March 14, 1869. He has oc-
cupied the position of High Councilor
most of the time since that period.
March 22, 1859, he married Mary
Campbell Steele, daughter of John and
Catherine (Campbell) Steele. Prom
Scotland, their native land, this famly
came to America and in 1846 enlisted
with the Mormon Battalion. Turning
off at Santa Fe they went to Pueblo
and the next year entered Great Salt
Lake Valley close behind the Pioneers.
Mary C. died Dec. 11, 1874, leaving six
children, four daughters and two sons,
in 1869 (July 26th) Bro. Fish mar-
l-led Eliza Jane Lewis, daughter of
David and Elizabeth (Carson) Lewis.
(Brother Lewis was one of the few
Rurvivors of the Haun's Mill mas-
sacre). Eliza never had any children of
her own, but she merits a great re-
ward for her devotion to her husband
and the tender care and attention she
gave to his children to whom she was
even more than a mother. During

Bro. Fish's residence in Parowan of
twenty-five years he was engaged in a
variety of labors, such as lumbering,
farming, mercantile business, etc. Nor
was his labors in the Gospel neglected.
He often acted as teacher and labor-
ed in the Sunday school. From 1865
to 1871, during the Indian campaigns,
he was a member of the Utah militia,
serving in the Tenth Iron County Regi-
ment, commanded by Col. William H.
Dame. At first he held commission as
lieutenant, later being promoted to the
rank of major and aide-de-camp to the
colonel. While in the service he took
part in a few skirmishes with the In-
dians. After studying law he was ad-
mitted to the bar in October, 1874, and
served for some time as justice of the
|)eace; he was also treasurer of Iron
county for one term, and served as
county clerk for some time. May 1,
1876, he married Adelaide Smith,
daughter of Jesse N. and Margaret
(West) Smith. By this marriage he
had three sons. Dec. 3, 1878, he start-
ed to Arizona with a part of his fam-
ily and in January, 1879, located at
Snowflake; the same fall he returned
to Utah for the rest of the family.
During the latter part of 1880 he had
fharge of th3 commissary depart-
ment for John W Young, contractor
in building the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad through the western part of
New Mexico and eastern Arizona. In
1881 he became connected with the
Arizona Co-operative Mercantile Insti-
tution (helping to start that business) ;
this has claimed most of his time ever
since, with the exception of some four
years spent in Mexico and on the Gila.
In 1883 (April 19th) he married J''i:a
Ann (York) Reidhead. The fruits of
this marriage has been eleven ohil-
iren; five of them, however, died while
infants. On account of the persecu-
tions that the Saints underwent in
1884, Elder Fish and manv others went
to Mexico, where he remained a year;
then returned and resumed his labors
:n the store at Holbrook. In 1893, with
a part of his family, he went to the

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Gila Valley, where he entered into the
mercantile business with I. E. D. Zun-
del. While there he was elected on
the Republican ticket, a member of the
house of the eighteenth Arizona leg-
islature, and while in that body served
as chairman of the committee on irri-
gation and a member of the judiciary
and ways and means committee. While
in the Gila Valley he also visited the
different settlements as a home mis-
sionary. In 1896 he returned to Hol-
brook where he again took up the job
of bookkeeping for the firm (Arizona
C. M. I) . In 1905 he and others were
arrested for living with their wives,
but through the clemency of Judge
Robert E. Sloan they were permitted
to send in the fine of $100 without
appearing in court; this saved much
expense and annoyance. When the
Eastern Arizona Stake was organized,
he was chosen a member of the High
Council. At the organization of that
Stake he was also chosen Stake Re-
corder, a position he held until he
moved to the Gila; in this labor he
gathered up considerable historical
data. In 1896 he began the collection
of data for a historical work on
Arizona, and later all works and items
treating upon the early history of the
Rocky Mountain region (down to 1850)
that fell in his way were gathered up
(nearly 400 volumes of books and mag-
azines). From this collection and great
numbers of letters, interviews, etc.,
etc., he has written a history of Ari-
zona which contains about 700 pages of
typewritten matter, but as he lacks the
means to get it published, the work
may never be presented to the public.
About 1902 he commenced on a work
which he entitles, "The Pioneers of the
Rocky Mountains." This he estimated
would take ten years of bis spare
time; he has already about 800 pages
written.

HANSEN, Joseph Christian, counse-
lor in the Bishopric of St. Joseph
Ward, Snowflake Stake, Arizon?i, vva^
born Jan. 16, 1854, in Liverpool, Eng-

land, the son of Jens Hansen and
Marie Katrine Christensen. At tjie
time of his birth his parents were
on their way to Utah as converts to
"Mormonism." His mother, like so
many others, was unable to stand the
hardships of crossing the plains. She
was at times so weak that she could
not stand the jolting of the wagons,
but had to be carried. At last sh<>
succumbed to her sufferings in death,
leaving her husband with an infant
child to care for as best he could.
His father made his home in Salt
Lake City until the time of the move
in 1858, when he located permanently
at Spanish Fork. When Joseph was
eleven years old, his father, who then
had four wives, and 17 children, .was
called on a mission to Scandinavia;
the following years were hard, try-
ing times for the family. In 1877
Joseph was called to go to Arizona as
a pioneer settler. He arrived at St.
Joseph on Christmas eve of that year,
and there he made his heme on t!.e
banks of the Little Colorado river. In
1881 (May 2Sth) he wp.s set ap.i '. .is
first counselor to Bishop Joseph H.
Richards, .ind when Bishop Richards
was nr.5moted to a position i:j vli^
Stake presidencj^ Elder Hansen be-
can.e first counp*'or to *^he new Bi ■ .
op, John Bushman. Elder Hansen has
put forth much energy and skill and
spent much of his time in building
dams in the treacherous Little Colora-
do river. Many dams were washed
away in the earlier days of the set-
tlement, but now the people of St.
.Joseph believe they have a permanent
dam built of cement on a rock founda-
tion, which they think will stand.

OWENS, James Clark, Bishop of
Showlow Ward, Snowflake Stake, Ari-
zona, was born Jan. 14, 1857, at Pill-
more, Millard county, Utah, the son of
James Clark Owens and Lucretia P.
Robison. He was baptized and con-
firmed a member of the Church when
about eight years old. His chances
for education were limited. In 1878

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he went with his father and family
to Arizona and the following year
(1879) he married J. Cecilia Cluff,
daughter of Moses Cluff, and made his
first permanent home at Woodruff,
now in Navajo county, Arizona. In
1880 he was ordained a High Priest
and set apart as second counselor to
Bishop James C. Owens, his father.
Later, he acted as counselor to Bishop
E. M. Webb, and still later as first
counselor to Levi M. Savage. In 1890-
190J he filled a itiission to tiie East-
ern States and in 1903 (Aug 2nd) he
was ordained a Bishop by Apostle
Rudger Clawson, and set apart to pre-
side over the Showlow Ward, which
position he still occupies.

WHIPPLE, Willard, second counselor
to Bishop James C. Owens of Show-
low Ward, 3rio.%i^ake Stak^^ Arizona,
was born March 16, 1858, at Provo,
Utah 'jouncv, C c: h, tiio son of Edson
Whipple and Harriet Yeager. He was
baptized when eight years old by Eld-
er lames Hardy, was ordained a Dea-
con six years later, went to Arizona
in 1882, and at the organization of
the Showlow Ward (May 13, 1884) he
was ordained a High Priest and set
apart to act as second counselor to
Bishop Hans Hansen by Lorenzo H.
Hatch. He acted in that position until
the death of Bishop Hansen in 1901,
and at the reorganization of the Bish-
opric Aug. 18, 1903, he was chosen
and set apart as second counselor
to Bishop James C. Owens. Before
being chosen as a member of the Bish-
opric, Elder Whipple acted for several
years as superintendent of the Sunday
school of the Adair branch of the
Show"'- w War * .

FLAKE, James Madison, first coun-
selor in the Stake presidency of the
Snowflake Stake, Arizona, was born
Nov. 8, 1859, in Beaver, Beaver covm-
ty, Utah, the son of William Jordon
Flake and Lucj Hannah White. His
principal occupi>,tion in early life was

that of dairying and riding on the range,
looking after cattle. In 1877 he went
to Arizona in answer to a call made
upon his father's family. In 1887-1889
he filled a successful mission to Great
Britain, laboring in Scotland and the
north of England. At home he has
acted as Ward teacher, member of the
Old Folks' Committee, a teacher in
the Sunday school. Ward Sunday
school superintendent, and Stake Sun-
day school superintendent, and at the
re-organization of the Snowflake Stake
with Samuel F. Smith as president.
Elder Flake was chosen as first coun-
selor in the Stake presidency.

WILLIS, William Wesley, a High
Councilor in the Snowflake Stake of
Zion, was born May 14, 1846, in Nash-
ville, Lee county, Iowa, the son of
William W. Willis and Margaret Jane
Willis. He arrived in Great Salt Lake
City, Sept. 28, 1847; was baptized in
1857 bv Richard Harrison; ordained a

Deacon in 1863 by Bishop Philo T.
Farnsworth; ordained an Elder in
1865 by Alfonzo Farnsworth; ordain-
ed a Seventy Dec. 14, 1884, by Heber
K. Perkins; ordained a High Priest
Dec. 18, 1887, by Lorenzo H. Hatch,
and set apart as an alternate member
of the High Council; set apart as a

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regular member of the High Council
Dec. 10, 1900, by Apostle Abraham O.
Woodruff. In 1886-87 he Allied a mis-
sion to the Southern States, laboring
principally in the State of North Caro-
lina. He filled a mission among the
Mutual Improvement associations in
southern Utah and Nevada from Oct.
29, 1897, to March 25. 1898. He has
also acted as first counselor in the
presidency of the High Priests
quorum. In his younger days he dis-
tinguished himself in military cir-
cles and served as first sergeant in
the Utah militia during the Black
Hawk War. He also served as an In-
dian interpreter in the settling of the
Muddy in Nevada. His places of res-
idence have been Salt Lake City,
Cedar City, Beaver, and Yirgen City,
Utah, and Brigham City and Snow-
flake, Arizona. In Virgen City he
served as justice of the peace and has
held a similar position in the Snow-
flake precinct. In 1870 (March 22nd)
he married Gabrilla Stratton, by
whom he has had fourteen children.
Elder Willis has followed farming and
brick making for a living.

OWENS, Clarence Edward, an al-
ternate member of tlie High Council
of the Snowflake Stake, Arizona, was
born Jan. 12, 1865, at Fillmore, Mil-
lard county, Utah, the son of James
C. Owens and Lucretia P. Robinson.
He was baptized Aug. 25, 1877, by
Francis M. Lyman, and was ordained
to the different grades of the Priest-
hood as he advanced in years. He
was ordained a Seventy Feb. 29, 1892,
by Joseph W. Smith; ordained a High
Priest Nov. 14, 1898, by Abraham O.
Woodruff, and left home on a mission
to the Southern States in November,
1894; he labored twenty-eight months
in Alabama and Mississippi. At home
he has labored as a Mutual improve-
ment association missionary and as first
assistant in the Stake superintendency
of Sunday schools. He first came to
Arizona in 1879 and spent one summer
in Bush Valley; he then located in

Woodruff and subsequently (in Septem-
ber, 1906) in Snowflake, where he still
resides. In July, 1889, he married
Sarah Ella Hatch, daughter of Loren-

zo H. Hatch; they were married in the
Logan Temple. Seven children are the
issue of this marriage.

WILLIS, John Henry, counselor to
Bishop John Hunt of Snowflake Ward,
Snowflake Stake, Arizona, was born

May 15, 1858, in Toquerville, Kane
(now Washington county), Utah, the

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eldest soil of John Henry Willis and
Frances Reeves; he was the first
white child born in Toquerville. His
father was the eldest son of Lieut.
William W. Willis of the "Mormon"
Battalion, who was one of the earliest
members of the Church. The family
came to Utah in the fall of 1847. The
subject of this sketch was ordained
an Elder in the St. George Temple
in 1878 and was married to Fanny
Jane Roundy, daughter of Bishop Lor-
enzo W. Roundy, of Kanarra, Utah,
Nov. 29, 1878. In the spring of 1879
he was called to Arizona, together
with quite a number of other young
men, called from southern Utah. To-
gether with his father's family, he
settled in Snowflake, in December,
1879. In the spring of 1885 he was
ordained a Seventy and became a
member of the 83rd quorum of Seven-
ty; afterwards he acted as the
quorum secretary. He was ordained a
High Priest in December, 1885, and
chosen as second counselor to Bishop
John Hunt, which position he still oc-
cupies. In 1891 lie filled a special
mission in the interest of Sunday
schools to the Maricopa Stake of Zion
and in 1897-1900 he filled a mission to
the Southern States, laboring as pres-
ident of the South Alabama confer-
ence the last year of his mission. At
home he has served as county com-
missioner of Navajo county, Arizona,
five years. He is now engaged in
farming and merchandising and is the
father of eleven children.

SMITH, Joseph West, a president
of the 83rd quorum of Seventy and a
resident of Snowflake, Arizona, was
born Sept. 6, 1859, at Minersville,
Beaver county, Utah, the son of Jesse
N. Smith, and Margaret T. West. The
greater part of his youth was spent
in Parowan, Iron county, Lita!i, where
he was baptized Sept 8, 1867. His
first ordination to the Priesthood was
to the office of a Teacher and his sec-
ond ordination to the office of an Eld-
er, May 3, 1877, by Jacob Gates. In

1879 he married Miss Sarah Ellen
Marsden, and the young couple imme-
diately set out for Arizona, arriving at
Snowflake Dec. 14, 1879, where they
have resided ever since. Soon after-
M-ards Bro. Smith was appointed a
home missionary, and at the organiza-
tion of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Eastern
Arizona Stake, he was chosen as a
member of the presidency, which posi-
tion he held for many years, and also
acted as head teacher in the Snow-
flake Ward. For four years (from

.luly 1, 1894, to July 1, 1898) he
served as government mail contractor
and proprietor of the Holbrook and
Fort Apache Stage Line. He has.
served two years as justice uf the
peace in the Snowflake precinct, ani
is now officiating as notary public in
Navajo county. In 1884 (Dec. 14th)
he was set apart as a president of the
S3rd quorum of Seventy, which posi-
tion he still holds. In 1898-1900 he
filled a mission to Great Britain, la-
boring principally in Ireland and at
the mission office in Liverpool. Soon
after his return, he became an active
worker in the Y. M. M. I. A. and was
soon appointed Stake superintendent
of that organization in the Snowflake
Stake, which position he still holds.
For thirteen years he taught school

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in different localities, and in 18.8G
(Oct. 29th) he married Delia Fish. In
financial matters Elder Smith has
been very successful and has ever
exhibited liberality and energy in all
matters where the Church was con-
cerned,. In January, 1908, he was in-
strumental in effecting the organiza-
tion of the Bank of Northern Arizona,
at Snow flake, Arizona, and is at pres-
ent its cashier, and most active sup-
porter.

SHUMWAY, Wilson A., an active
Elder in the Snowfiake Stake, Ari-
zona, was born April 22, 1877, at
Johnson Kane county, Utah, the son
of ^^'ilson G. Shumway and Maria
Averett. His parents were both of
good pioneer stock and his grand-
father Shumway was one of the one
hundred and forty-three original pio-
neers who first entered Salt Lake
Valley. Elder Shumway, in a sketch
prepared for this work, writes: "In
1880 Grandfather Shumway received a
call to go to Arizona, and my father
and his family at that time, consisting
of a wife and two children, preceded
him with the cattle, arriving at the
small settlement of Concho, Apache
county, in the spring of 1881. Here
my parents lived for two years, the
poorest of the poor pioneers, in a
dugout for a house and living on barley
bread for a time, but later they were
able to build a small log cabin and
provided themselves with corn bread
and molasses, sandwiched with flcwur-
bread on Sundays. In the spring of
1883 we moved to the town of Shum-
way, where we still reside. I was six
years old at that time, but did not have
the advantage of attending the dis-
trict schools for ten years later. Dur-
ing those ten years there was about
as many months taught in terms of
two or three months by some of the
neighbors. I was baptized in April,
1866, by Israel Call, and was ordained
to the different offices of the Lesser
Priesthood in their regular order. Dur-
ing these years T was quite an active

worker in the auxiliary organizations,
acting as the president of the Y. M.
M. I. A. from 1897 to June, 1899,
when I received a call to go on a mis-
sion. I was ordained an Elder July 23,
1899, by Prest. Jesse N. Smith and
started the next day on my mission,
in company with Elder Chas. H. Bal-
lard of Snowfiake. We went by way
of Salt Lake City, where I had the
privilege of going through the Tem-
ple and being ordained a Seventy and
set apart for my mission by Apostle
George Teasdale. I arrived in Brook-
lyn, New York, the mission headquar-
ters, Aug. 15, 1899, and was assigned
to the West Pennsylvania conference,
where I labored as a canvassing Elder
until January, 1901, when I was taken
ill with the typhoid fever. After a
long and severe illness at Clearfield,
Clearfield county, I took the train for
the conference headquarters at West
Elizabeth, where I labored as confer-
ence clerk until I was honorably re-
leased to return home in September,
1901. Like many other returned Elders
I can say the time spent in the mis-
sion field was the best part of my life.
After my return home I was placed
on the home missionary list and called
to act as Stake aid in the Sunday
schools, one of the superintendency of
religion classes and also in Ward ca-
pacities. I have spent my winters in
teaching school and in the summer I
have worked on the farm. In 1905 I
was married in the Salt Lake Temple
to Miss Ruth Smith, daughter of Pres.
Jesse N. Smith and Jr-net M. Johnson.
Our union has been blessed with two
children. From that time I have oeen
busily engaged in securing for us a
home at Shumway."

REIDHEAD, John, a Patriarch in
the Snowfiake Stake of Zion, was born
June 9, 1825, at Castine, Hancock
county, Maine, the son of John Reid-
head and Louisa Peabody, both natives
of Maine, and descendants of the old
Puritan stock. John followed sea-far-
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made several voyages to the Banks
of Newfoundland. In 1849 he con-
cluded to go west and landed at length
in Minnesota, where he engaged in
lumbering and farming. Returning to
Maine, he married Lucretia Henderson
and took her to Minnesota in the
spring of 1850, locating at St. An-
thony Falls, where he started the first
meat shop; later he lost his property
and two of his children by fire. After
that loss he and his wife returned to
Maine once more, going by way • of
California and Cape Horn. Later he
visited Colorado at the time of the
gold excitement at Pike's Peak. While
living temporarily in Nebraska he
first became acquainted with the
"Mormons" and was, together with his
wife, baptized at Florence, Nebraska,
after which he emigrated to Utah, lo-
cating at Provo in the fall of 1860.
Here, and subsequently at Richfield
and Gunnison, he engaged in mer-
cantile business. In 1861 his wife Lu-
cretia died, after giving birth to six
children. In 1862 he married Julia
York, who subsequently became the
mother of seven of his children. En-
tering the plural order of marriage he
took Sarah Huggins to wife in 1864;
she becama the mother of two children.
In 1876 Elder Riedhead removed to
Arizona, and after residing a short
time at Showlow he settled perma-
nently at Woodruff, where he still re-
sides. He helped to build the first
dam in the Little Colorado river at
Woodruff and has taken a most active
part in both ecclesiastical and secular
matters at that place. In 1898 he was
ordained a Patriarch. For years he
labored as superintendent of Church
schools in Woodruff and as a mis-
sionary in Arizona and New Mexico.
He has also filled a mission to the East-
ern States, and was at one time a
president of the 31st quorum of Sev-
enty.

ANDERSON, Lewis, president of
the South Sanpete Stake of Zion, is
the son of Anders Anderson and Anna

Olson, and was born Oct. 24, 1850, at
Hickeberg, Malmohus Ian, Sweden. He
was baptized when about ten years
of age by Elder Lars N. Larson ; was
ordained a Deacon in 1863 and subse-
quently ordained a Teacher; ordained
an Elder Nov. 14, 1870, by Samuel H.
B. Smith ; ordained a Seventy Oct.
30, 1875, by George Q. Cannon, and or-
dained a High Priest and set apart
as president of the South Sanpete
Stake Nov. 16, 1902, by Pres. Joseph
F. Smith. Ever since his arrival in
Utah, Pres. Anderson has been an act-
ive worker in Church affairs, having
held such offices as teacher in and su-
perintendent of Sunday schools, Ward

and Stake officer ofY. M. M. I. A.,
and a home missionary and Temple
worker. In 1875-1876 he filled a mis-
sion to the Northwestern States, la-
boring principally in Wisconsin, Min-
nesota and Illinois. In 1884-1885 he per-
formed a second mission to the North-
western States, laboring successfully
in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Togeth-
er with his missionary companions.
Elders C. W. Peterson and Harry A.
Young, he was one of the first Elders
of late years to preach the Gospel to
the Strangites in Wisconsin, many
of whom after vards joined the

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Church. In 1870 (Nov. 14th) Bro.
Anderson married Mary Ann Crowth-
er, who has born him six children.
Together with his parents he emi-
grated to Utah in 1859, crossing the
plains in an ox train, Lewis walking
all the way across ths plains. The
family first located on Little Cotton-
wood, Salt Lake county; later they
removed to Payson, Utah county,
where they resided till the fall of
1859, when they removed to Moroni,
Sanpete county, being among the pio-
neer settlers of that place. In 1866
they moved to Fountain Green, San-
pete county, where his parents contin-
ued to reside. From 1877 to 1883 Elder
Anderson, responding to call, la '..red
in connection with the construction of
the Manti Temple. In 1888, respond-
ing to another cafl, he returned to
Manti to resume Temple work, and
here he has since resided. In early
youth Elder Anderson engaged in
farming and merchandising. From
1877-1884 he had charge of the tele-
graph office in Manti, and was also
general bookkeeper in the Manti Tem-
ple. At the opening of the Temple,
May 28, 1888, he was called to labor
as assistant recorder of the Temple, a
position which he has eiflciently filled
for many years. He has also served
as treasurer and member of the board
of directors of the Manti Temple As-
sociation. He is now the acting presi-
dent of the Manti Temple. From 1894-
1900 he served as tithing clerk of San-
pete Stake. Pres. Anderson is exten-
sively interested in several large
business enterprises and is universally
known as a thrifty and progressive
citizen.

JENSEN, Hans (Hals), first Bishop
of the Manti South Ward, South San-
pete Stake, Utah, was born June 24,
1829, at Hals, Aalborg amt, Denmark,
the son of Peter Jensen and Anna M.
Petersen. He was baptized Feb 17,
1853, by Johan P. Bent; ordained a
Teacher in March, 1853, by Johannes

Larsen; ordained a Priest in May,
J 853, by Johannes Larsen; ordained
an Elder March 15; 1854, by Christian
J. Larsen; ordained a Seventy in
April, 1857, by Joseph Young, and or-
dained a High Priest in November,
1869, when he was also set apart as
a member of the Sanpete Stake High
Council by Apostle Orson Hyde. He
was ordained a Bishop in June, 1877,
by Daniel H. Wells and set apart to
preside over the Manti South Ward,
which position he held until recently.
Before joining the Church he served
as a marine soldier in the Danish-Ger-
man war in 1848-1849, and participated
in hard service. After joining the
Church he labored as a local mission-
ary in Thyland in 1853. The following
winter he emigrated from his native
land and arrived in Utah in October,
1854. He located at once in Manti,
Sanpete county, where he still re-
sides. In 1865-1868 he filled a success-
ful mission to Scandinavia, laboring
principally as president of the Aalborg
and Aarhus conferences and as trav-
eling Elder in Denmark. In returning
home he had charge of the last com-
pany of Latter-day Saint emigrants
which ever crossed the Atlantic ocean
in a sailing vessel. In 1878 he went
on a colonizing mission to Colorado,
where he had charge of the colony,
which subsequently grew into the San
Luis Stake of Zion. He was called
home in 1879 to complete the Manti
Tabernacle. In 1854 (March 15th)
Elder Jensen married Maren Eriksen;
in 1858 (July 24th) he married Sis-
sil M. Rasmussen and in 1859 (Nov.
20te) he married Cecilia M. Jorgensen.
By these wives he became the father
of seventeen children and served a term
of five months in the Utah peniten-
tiary for "unlawful cohabitation" in
1888. Bishop Jensen is univerrally
known as a prosperous farmer, a pub-
lic spirited citizen and one of the most
faithful and useful members of the
Church who have emigrated to Utah
from the lands of the north.

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SMITH, Azariah, a veteran Elder in
the Church, was born Aug. 1, 1828, at
Bolyston, Oswego county, New York,
the son of Albert Smith and Esther
Butcher. In 1835 the family moved
to Ohio, where they joined the Churcfe
in 1837, and gathered to Nauvoo, 111.,
in 1840, where they resided until the
exodus of 1846, during which Azariah,
together with his father, joined the
"Mormon" Battalion, leaving the
mother and three children in the
"Camps of Israel", and made the fa-
mous overland march to California in
that body. After their discharge in
1847, they, with others, traveled north
about 500 miles to Suffers Fort,
whence they turned east toward Great
Salt Lake Valley, but on the way they
met an express, informing them that
food was scarce in the Valley, so it
was considered best for a portion of
their number to return to California.
Azariah, with one horse and a little
food, left his father and went with a
small company back to Suffers Fort,
where they hired out to a Mr. Mar-
shall, to help build a saw mill in the
mountains. While thus employed they
found gold in the tail race of the mill ;
this was Jan. 24, 1848. In the fall of
that year Azariah arrived in Great
Salt Lake City, where he found his
father, mother, two sisters, and a
brother. In 1849 (April 10th) he mar-
ried Camilla Augusta Taylor and the
following fall became one of the first
settlers of Sanpete Valley, and one of
the founders of the present city of
Manti, which has been his home ever
since His first wife leaving him in
1855, he married Johanna Maria Chris-
tensen Oct. 9, 1871. For many years he
was a faithful worker in the Manti
Temple, together with his father, who
died Oct 21, 1872; Azariah continued
his work in the Temple after his
father's death, and up to the present he
has taken endownients for 2,100 of his
dead relatives and friends. In 1903 his
second wife died and later the same
year he married Sevilla Stoy Mitchell.
In 1898 he visited California (together

with three others from Utah) as a
special invited guest at the Golden
State Jubilee held at San Francisco,
he being one of the four "Mormon"
Battalion boys who first discovered
gold in that State fift> years before.

MYRUP, Lars Christian Nielsen,
a High Councilor in the South Sanpete
Stake of Zion, was born March 26,
1845, in Jutland, Denmark, the son of
Niels Larson C.Myrup and IMette Marie
Petersen. After joining the Church in
his native land (being baptized in
October, 1856) he labored as a local
missionary for several years (from
1860 to 1866) and emigrated to Utah in
1866, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Kenilworth," and the plains in
Captain Abner Lowry's ox-train. Prior

to leaving his native land he was or-
dained a Priest March 12, 1861, and
an Elder Oct. 6, 1862. After residing
in Salt Lake City one year, he remov-
ed to Manti, Sanpete county, where
he lived three years, and then settled
permanently in Gunnison, Sanpete
county, where he took an active part
in the Black Hawk war and served

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225

as a home guard. Taking up a beau-
tiful piece of farming land in au early
day, he is now one of the prominent
farmers of the town. In Church mat-
ters Elder Myrup has always been an
earnest, conscientious worker. He was
ordained a Seventy, Sept. 19, 1884, and
a High Priest Feb. 15, 1894. For two
vears he labored in the Manti Temple
as an ordinance worker, and in 1902
he was called to act as a High Coun-
cilor in the South Sanpete Stake of
Zion, which position he still holds.
He also acted as a home missionary
for twenty-five years in the Sanpete
Stake. Also in secular matters he has
been a prominent factor. He is a
shareholder in the Gunnison Reser-
voir Company, and has served said
company six years as president and
also as a director. Elder Myrup has
married three wives. His first marriage
took place in Denmark, April 22, 1866,
to Maren Christensen, who was born
Feb. 14, 1849, and died in 1882, leav-
ing five children, namely, Mary, Lars,
Niels, Adolph and Joseph H. He mar-
ried a second time in 1876 and this
wife died Oct. 19, 1882, leaving three
children, Mette M., Josephine and
Meria G. In 1877 (Feb. 15th) he
married Mary A. Pond, daughter of
Soren Pond and Annie Peterson, born
Sept. 15, 1858. With this last wife he
has seven living children, namely,
Ella O., Annie M., I-ars Q.. Ranie M..
Stella P., Leah Y. and Levi Z. Elder
Myrup is universally known as an
honest, industrious and enterprising
citizen, possessing the good will and
confidense of all who know him.

PETERSEN, Niels R., Bishop of
Manti North Ward, South Sanpete
Stake, was born June 2, 1858, in Tue-
strup, Soro Amt, Denmark, the son of
Rasmus Petersen and Ane K. Chris-
tensen. He was baptized March 26.
1874, by Andrew A. Bjorn; ordained
a Teacher Aug. 1. 1875; ordained a
Priest Nov. 15, 1875, and called to la-
bor as a local missionary in the Co-

penhagen conference; ordained an El-
der Sept. 20, 1876, and continued to
labor as a missionary till 1880, when
he emigrated to Utah and located in
Manti, Sanpete county, where he has
resided ever since. He was ordained
a Seventy Aug. 8, 1884, by Seymour
B. Young, and became a member of
the council of the 48th quorum of Sev-
enty, in 1892. After taking a mission-
ary course at the B. Y. Academy at
Provo, he filled a special mission in
the interest of mutual improvement
to Emery and Uintah Stakes of Zion..

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In 1901 (Nov. 3rd) he was ordained a
High Priest by John B. Maiben and
set apart to serve as a Bishop's coun-
selor in the Manti North Ward, in
which capacity he labored until March
27, 1904, when he was sustained as
Bishop, and on May 8, 1904, he was or-
dained a Bishop, and set apart by
Pres. Anthon H. Lund to succeed the
late Bishop Wm. T. Reid, in the Manti
North Ward. In 1880 (Oct 21st) El-
der Petersen married Jensine C. Han-
sen, who has borne him seven chil-
dren. In 1881 he began work in the
Manti tithing office as assistant clerk,
and in 1893 he became chief clerk,
which position he still occupies. He
has always taken an active part in

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Church affairs, having labored as
Ward teacher, teacher and assistant
superintendent of Sunday schools,
treasurer, counselor, president and
Stake aid in the Y. M. M. I. A., and
secretary and treasurer of the 48th
quorum of Seventy.

BEAL, Henry, a Patriarch in the
South Sanpete Stake of Zion, gives the
following data, in addition to the
sketch of his life published in Vol.
1, page 521, of this work: "I was a
representative from Ephraim to the

Trans-Mississippi Commercial Con-
gress at St. Louis, Mo., in November,
1894, and. in Salt Lake City in June,
1897. I was ordained a Patriarch by
Reed Smoot in Ephraim Nov. 16, 1902,
and on the same occasion I was chosen
by Pres. Joseph F. Smith to be presi-
dent of the Snow Academy, and super-
intendent of the building until it was
completed. My first wife, Mary
Thorpe, died Sept. 12, 1905, and my sec-
ond wife, Anna C. Bjerregaard, died
March, 23, 1906. At the present time
(Nov. 23, 1908,) I am enjoying good
health and strength, although nearly
seventy-four years old.''

BURTON, WiIM=im Walton, first
counselor in the Stake presidency of

the Star Valley Stake, Wyoming, was
born March 23, 1833, in Bradford,
Yorkshire;, Enelfnd, the son of James
Burton and Isabell Walton. As a
lengthy sketch of his life was publish-
ed in Vol 1, pp. 349-351, we will only
add here that in 1861 (Nov. 2nd) he
married Ellen Fielding and in 1870
(May 23rd) he married Sarah Ann
Fielding. By his three wives Elder
Burton is the father of thirty children
and (up-to-date) sixty-four grand-
children. His wife Ellen died April
S, 1906. About 1870 he took the posi-

tion of bookkeeper in the Ogden
branch of Z. C. M. I. During the
latter part of the time, he was credit
man of the firm. On leaving that
position, David H. Peery, Lester J.
Herrick and himself entered into part-
nership to carry on the milling and
general merchandise business of
which he took the management. About
1880 the firm of Burton, Herrick &
Whits was organized, of which he also
had the management. About 1889
this firm, with others, organized the
Consolidated Implement Company.
Bro. Burton served as a director, also
as vice president of the company; fi-
nally he sold his stock and organized
the present firm of Wm. W. Burton &
Sons Co. of which he is president.

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BURTON, Thomas Fielding, a mem-
ber of thi High Council In the Star
Valley Stake, was born May 12,
1871, in Ogden, Weber county, Utah,
the son of William Walton D-rioii
and Sarah Ann Fielding. In a sketch
prepared fu' this work Elder Buviou
writes: "My mother was my father's
third wife, he having married her
two elder s sters — daughters of Jose )1i
Fielding and Hannah Greenwood I
was baptized in 1879 by Henrv J.

Newman, and confirmed by jDhi'
Hastings in the Third Ward, Ogden. In
1884 (Augas- 14th) I was ordain il ":
Deacon by John Hastings. About this
time the anti-polygamy raid came and
my father was compelled to leave
lome; lanjr on my m<jther and '<:(y.
family were driven into exile, :i..r.
»ividly do > remember thos? '.ryiui;
times. Ji'ly 24, 1886, we left Og-'on t"
nake our lome in Star Valley, Uinta
county, Wyv ming. where we arrived
after a teui-us journev^ over a rour.h
country a;i i almost impassable )"o:i'ls
Tbere weic but few people w!i) li;id
entered before us. We underwent the
trials and hardships incident to
pioneer life in blazing the way for
civilization, establishing homes and
reclaiming the wilderness. In the fall

of 1888 I returned to Ogden and at-
tended school. Shortly after my ar-
rival I was ordained a Teacher by
Bishop Thomas J Stevens of the
Fourth Ward, and labored as a Ward
Teacher until spring, when I returned
to Star Valley. Here, also, I was call-
ed to labor as a teacher in the Afton
Ward after my arrival home, which
position I filled for four years when,
on August 14, 1892, the Star Valley
Stake was organized and I was chosen
second counselor to Bishop Charles D.
Cazier of the Afton Ward, Archibald
Gardner, ex-Bishop of West Jordan
Ward.being the first counselor. I was or-
dained a High Priest and set apart
as Bishop's counselor by Joseph F.
Smith oil che above date. I laborcvi
in this capacity for two years. In 1894
(Aug. 12th) the Afton Ward was re-
organized with George Waite as
Bishop, myself as first and Clarence
Gardner as second counselor. I filled
this position five years, until August
14, 1899, when Bishop Waite was re-
leased and Osborne Low sustained in
his stead. In 1899 (Nov. 13th) I was
ehosen an alternate member of the
High Council. In 1898 (June 22nd) I
married Alice Maud Call, in the Salt
Lake Temple. In the fall of 1901, in
accordance with a call from the First
Presidency for a Mutual Improvement
mission. I left my home for Salt Lake
City preparatory to entering upon my
labors, and was assigned to labor in
the Alberta Stake, Canada, Elder Louis
D. King being assigned to labor with
me. While laboring in that Stake, I
assisted Apostle John W. Taylor in
organizing the Raymond Ward with
Jesse William Knight as Bishop. In
1903 (Sept 12th) I was set apart as a
member of the High Council by Anson
V. Call, and still hold this position,
besides which I am also a member of
the Mutual Improvement and Sunday
School Stake boards. I have been
blest temporally and spiritually and I
feel to give my best efforts in the
establishment of God's work in the
earth."

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LOW, Osborne, Bishop of Afton, Star
Valley Stake, Wyoming, was born April
1, 1865, at Ovid, Bear Lake county,
Idaho, the son of Sylvester O. Low and
Annie A. Payton. He was baptized
when about eight years of age and
was ordained successively a Deacon,
a Teacher, a Priest, an Elder, a Sev-
enty, and finally a High Priest on Aug.
14, 1892, by Apostle John Henry Smith,
and set apart as second counselor in
the Freedom Ward Bishopric. In 1894
(Aug. 12th) he was ordained a Bishop
by Apostle Francis M. Lyman, and set

he is manager of the R.
Afton Exchange.

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KENNINGTON, William Ha-iry,

Stake ecclesiastical and tithing clerk
of Star Valley Stake, was born Aug. 7,
1842, in South Lincolnshire, England,
the son o' Richard Kenn "pfton and
Mary Davison. He was baptized in
October, 1856, by Thomais Ijee, ordain-
ed an Elder and subseqiyntlv ordain-
ed a Seventy by SeymDur P. ycir.g,
and ordained a High Pri.^rf: i)y Joseph
F. Smith in August, 1892, when he

apart to preside over the Freedom
Ward, Star Valley Stake. Being call-
ed to preside at Afton, he was set
apart as Bishop of that Ward Aug. 14,
1899. In his early life Bishop Low was
a diligent worker in the Y. M. M. I. A.
and as a Ward teacher. In 1887 he
married Sylvia Merrill and in 1893
(Nov. 8th) he married Mary A. Ken-
nington. By these wives he is the
father of five children. Bishop Low
is a farmer and stock raiser by oc
cupation, but has filled manv public
offices, suci^ as city councilor three
terms, mayor of Afton one term, school
trustee at Freedom, etc. His places
of residence have been Ovid. Idaho,
Smithfield, Utau, and Freedom • and
Afton, Wyoming. At the present time

was set apart to his pr^sen;: poslt'on.
While residing in Libert v. Bear j.iite
Valley, he acted as War . "Icrk -aiii
since 1892 he has held rlu posit iiii of
Stake clerk at Afton, Star Va!l"y. In
1865 (April 1st) he marri-.'J Annie R.
Seward and in 1874 (Jul^- Vith) he
married Elizabeth L. rraoke.i. By
these wives he is the I'a . km- of !i<'v
enteen children He is <i farnior and
stock-raiser by occupation, and has
held several posif'o"'?; as :i civil of-
ficer, such as tOA'u clerk U S orii-
missioner, etc. He ■'•mig'ilfti to Uif»h
in 1856, crossing the plains in Daiupl
D. McArthur's hand-cart company. Aft-
er residing a few /o>,-o in To(m lo < lly.
Tooele county, he moved to Liberty,
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ed his residence to Afton, Wyominfi
in 1886. Here he still remains. Ha
has also done service as a militai »
man, took part in the Indian troubleis
and made a trip to the Missouri riv-
er as a Church teamster in Hosel
Hyde's company after emigrants.

JENSEN, James, first Bishop of
Grover, Wyoming (Star Valley Stake),
was born Oct 3, 1833, in Ryby, Gjorlov,
parish, Holbaek Amt, Denmark, the
son of Jens Jensen and Maren Larsen.
He was baptized in 1859 by Christo-
pher J. Kempe, emigrated to Utah in

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John R. Murdock's ox-train, and locat
ed in Brigham City, Box Elder coun
ty; subsequently he resided in ]\Tan
tua and Snowville, the same county
and from 1885 till his death, he was
a resident of Grover, Star Valley
Wyoming. He was ordained a Dea
con when quite young, ordained an
Elder July 6, 1869, in Salt Lake City,
and ordained a High Priest and
Bishop July 1, 1889, by Apostle Heber
J. Grant, and set apart to preside over
the Grover Ward. Prior to this or-
dination he had acted as Sunday
school teacher and presiding Elder of
the branch. In 1862 (April 20th) he

married Bodil Larsen, who died after
bearing two children. In 1869 (July
6th) he married Henrietta Christen-
sen, by whom he had three boys and
one girl. His second wife died in
1876 and in 1879 (Sept. 25th) he mar-
ried Albine Jensen. By his respective
wives he became the father of eighteen
children, of whom fourteen are now
living. On account of old age he
was honorably released from his of-
fice as Bishop June 3, 1905, but was
still enjoying a fair degree of health.
Farming and stock-raising were hs
principal occupations.

JENSEN, James, Jr., second Bishop
of the Grover Ward, Star Valley
Stake, Wyoming, was born April 16,
1864, at Brigham City, Box Elder
county, Utah, the son of James Jensen
and Bodil Larsen. He was baptized
when about eight years old, ordained
a teacher at the age of fourteen years,
ordained an Elder Nov. 1, 1889, by
Hans J. Hansen, ordained a Seventy
Oct. 11, 1890, by Wm. V. Bunderson,
ordained a High Priest and set apart
as a High Councilor of the Star Val-
ley Stake, Aug. 12, 1900, by Wm. W.
Burton. In 1897-1900 he filled a mis-
sion to Scandinavia and labored in
Norway a little over twenty-seven
months. At home he has worked dili-
gently as an officer in the Y . M. M.
I. A., been Sunday school teacher, mem-
ber of the Sunday School Stake board,
etc. In 1889 (Nov. 8th) he married
Hannah Eliza Hepworth, with whom
he has had seven children, four boys
and three girls. He has served as
school trustee about fourteen years,
district assessor, etc. His occupations
have been that of a farmer and stock-
raiser. Bishop Jensen was raised in
Brigham City and Mantua, Box Elder
county, Utah, spent three and a half
years in Wellsville, and located as a
pioneer settler of Star Valley in Grov-
er, in 1885. He was called to succeed
his father as Bishop June 3, 1905,
and ordained by Apostle George Al-
bert Smith in August of that year.

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HYDE, Wilford Andrew, alternate
member of the High Council and Stake
superintendent of Sunday schools in
the Star Valley Stake (Wyoming),
was bom July 20, 1869. at Hyde Park,
Cache county, Utah, the son of Wm.
Hyde and Phoebe Ann Griffith. He
was baptized Feb 13, 1878, by Benja-
min Hymas; ordained a Teacher by
Robert Daines; ordained an Elder

and stock-raiser by occupation, and
has held a number of civil offices.

TURNER, William A., a High Coun-
cilor in the Star Valley Stake (Wyo-
ming), was born July 28,1844, in Lon-
don, England, the son of James Turner
and Mary Ann Finch. He was bai*
tized April 6, 1852, by James Higgins;
emigrated to Utah in 1853, and resided

Aug. 18 1891. by Robert H. Daines, and
ordained a High Priest in 1899 by
George Osmond. Elder Hyde has al-
ways been an active and successful
worker in everything that pertains to
the progress of the Church. As a mem-
ber of the Stake board of Sunday
schools, Sunday school teach-
er, superintendent of Sun-
day schools in Star Valley Stake,
Ward teacher, Y. M. M. I. A. mis-
sionary and officer, Bishop's counselor
in Grover, and an alternate member
of the High Council in the Star Val-
ley Stake, he has ever done his duty
as an Elder in the Church. In 1898 he
took a Sunday school course in the B.
Y. Academy at Prove. In 1891 (Aug.
19th) he married Mary M. Hymas, who
died March 21, 1893, after bearing him
one child. In 1893 (Oct. 12th) he mar-
ried Dorothy Jensen who has borne
him several children. He is a farmer

in West Jordan, Salt Lake county, till
1890, when he moved to Grover, Wyo-
ming, be ng among the very earliest pio-
neers of that place. He was ordained an
Elder in 1864; ordained a Seventy by
Seymour B. Young at West Jordan
and ordained a High Priest Aug. 14,
1892, by Anson V Call, and at the same
time set apart as a member of the
Star Valley High Council. In 1864
he went to the Missouri river as a
Church teamster after emigrants. '!<'
made a similar trip to the terminus
of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1868.
At home he has done considerable
missionary labor. By occupation he is
a farmer, but has also followed team-
ing and the lumber and milling busi
ness. In 1865 (Nov. 25th) he mar
ried Mary Elizabeth Gardner, daugh-
ter of the late Bishop Archibald
Gardner, who has borne him ten chil-

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dren. Elder Turner died at his home
in Grover, Wyoming, Oct. 17, 1906.

HEMMERT, Hans Jorgen, Bishop of
Thayne Ward (Glencoe), Star Valley,
Wyoming, was born Nov 15, 1847, at
Haurup parish, Soro amt, Denmark,
the son of Peter Nielsen Hemmert and
Dorthea Jensen. He was baptized at
the age of thirteen years and ordain-
ed an Elder when about eighteen years

in the Church. His principal occupa-
tions in life were those of cooper,
blacksmith, farmer and stock-raiser.

PACK, Silas Mosher, Bishop of
Kamas Ward, Summit county, Utah,
was born Oct. 20, 1849, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, the son of John Pack (one
of the original one hundred and forty-
three pioneers of Utah) and Ruth

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old by Jens P. Sorensen. After labor-
ing three years as a local missionary
in Denmark, he migrated to Utah in
1867, crosssing the plains in Leonard
G. Rice's company Elder Hemmert
was a diligent worker in the interest of
the Church from the beginning and
filled many positions of responsibility
in the different localities where he
resided, such as Ward teacher, Bish-
op's counselor, and Bishop. The later
position he occupied from Nov. IS,
1895, to November, 1901. In 1869
(Sept. 20th) he married Frederikke
Petersen; in September, 1875, he mar-
rid Anna Katrine Nielsen Back, and
in 1903 (July 15th) he married Elise
Fluckiger. By these wives he be-
came the father of ten children, seven
of whom are now living. Bishop Hem-
mert died in Logan, Cache county,
Utah, Jan. 18, 1907, as a faithful Elder

Mosher. He was baptized in August,
1857, by Judson Tolman, at Bountiful,
Davis county; ordained an Elder Jan.
5, 1874, in the Endowment House, Salt
Lake City, and married the same day
to Sarah Amelia Lambert, a daughter
of John Lambert, who crossed the At-
lantic ocean in the ship that brought
the first company of emigrating British
Saints to America. Silas acted as a
Ward teacher in Kamas from 1878 to
1888, labored as a Sunday School super-
intendent in the Kamas Ward Sunday
school from 1879 to 1895, served as an
officer In the first Y. M. M. I. A.
organization of that Ward; was or-
dained a president of the 22nd quorum
of Seventy June 1, 1884, and acted in
that capacity till May 19, 1901; acted
as a home missionary in the Summit
Stake from 1898 to 1901; was superin-
tendent of Religion classes of Kamas

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Ward from 1898 to 1900; labored as a
Y. M. M. I. A. missionary in Morgan
county, Utah, and Oneida county,
Idaho, during the winter of 1899-1900;
was ordained a High Priest and set
apart as a High Councilor in the Sum-
mit Stake May 19, 1901, by Reed
Smoot; filled a short mission to Cali-
fornia in 1907-1908, and was ordained
a Bishop of the Kamas Ward March
14, 1908, by John Henry Smith, as he
returned home from California, having
previously been chosen and sustained
for that office by the people of Kamas.
Brother Pack is the father of twelve
children, Js by occupation a farmer,
ranchman blacksmith, wheelwright,
and house-builder; has served as jus-
tice of the peace three terms, and as
a military man in the Utah militia dur-
ing the Black Hawk war, and filled
other positions of honor and responsi-
bility. For efficient service in expedi-
tions against Indians he wears a
badge of honor.

VERNON, James, fourth Bishop of
Rockport, Summit county, Utah, was

resided till 1869, and then moved to
Rockport, where the subject of this
sketch still lives, though he resided
five years at Marion, Summit county.
He was baptized when about ten
years old and ordained successively
a Deacon, Teacher, Elder, High Priest
and Bishop, the latter ordination tak-
ing place June 5, 1901, under the
hands of Joseph P. Smith; on the
same occasion he was set apart to
preside over the Rockport Ward.
Prior to the latter date he acted as
president ofY. M. M. I. A., Ward
teacher, etc. In 1886 (Jan. 1st) he
married Emma Maria Staker, by
whom he is the father of ten children.
Farming and stock-raising have been
his chief ocupations in life. He has
also served as school trustee and
filled other local positions.

HORTIN, John, a High Councilor in

the Summit Stake of Zion from 1877
to 1901, was born March 29, 1335, at
Leamington, Warwickshire, England,
the son of Edmund Hortin and Maria

born April 19, 1862, in Derbyshire
England, the son of Francis Vernon
and Elizabeth Cottrell. He emigrated
with his parents to Utah in 1868 and
located at Coalville, where the family

Meads. He emigrated to America in
18.5.5, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
".Juventa," and came to Utah in 1860,
crossing the plains in Captain Frank-
lin Brown's ox-train; located as one

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of the first settlers at Rockport, in
August, 1860, and resided there until
his death. In 1862 and 1864 he made
trips back to the Missouri river as a
Church teamster after emigrants. He
made a similar trip to Benton, the
terminus of the Union Pacific Rail-
road, in 1868. In 1864 (Dec. 3rd) he
married Maria Wilkinson by whom
he has had eleven children.
In 1883 (Feb. 22nd) he mar-
ried Fanny Ann Probert, who has
borne him four children. Elder Hor-
tin served as Ward clerk in Rockport
about twenty years and also acted as
school trustee, constable and justice of
the peace in Rockport precinct. Bro.
Hortin died Dec. 3, 1907, in Salt Lake
City, and was buried in Rockport Dec,
6, 1907.

MARCHANT, Franklin William, a
High Counselor in the Summit Stake
of Zion from 1893 to 1901, was born
Sept. 20, 1853, in Birmingham, Eng-
land, the son of Abraham Marchant

and Lydia Johnson. He was baptised
Nov. 9, 1862, ordained successively to
the office of Deacon, Teacher, Elder
and High Priest; filled a mission to
the Hawaiian Islands in 1881 to 1884.
Later he labored as a special mis-

sionary among the natives of Hawaii
in Skull Valley.,At home he has taken
an active part in Ward affairs, Sunday
School and Mutual Improvement
Association matters. With Anna
Pearson, whom he married Feb. 15,
1875, he has had six children. By oc-
cupation he is a farmer and stock-
raiser and has resided in Peoa, Sum-
mit County, since 1862.

REYNOLDS, Henry, a Patriarch in
the Summit Stake of Zion. was born

Nov., 18, 1822, at Himbleton, Worcest-
ershire, England, the son of John
Reynolds and Martha Edwards.. He
was baptised Dec. 21, 1841; ordained
a Teacher in March, 1842; a Priest in
,July, 1842; on Elder in Aug. 1854, and
appointed to preside over the Budeley
branch, (Worcestershire) ; emigrated
to America in 1856, crossing the At-
lantic in the ship "Samuel Curling'',
and, after residing in the States four
years, crossed the plains in 1860 In
Capt. Walling's Independent Company,
which arrived in Salt Lake City Aug.
9, 1860. Locating at Rockport, on the
Weber, Aug. 13, 1860. he became the
first settler of that place, but moved
to Wanship in the spring of 1866.

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Here he acte d as second counselor
to Geo. G. Snyder, the president of
the Wanship branch, and subsequent-
ly presided over that branch himself
for one year. He was ordained a
High Priest May 18, 1873, and set
apart as a member of the High
Council of the Summit Stake when
that Stake was first organized. He
also acted as second counselor to
Bishop Roundy, of the Wanship Ward,
and later as second counselor to
Andrew Petersen, president of the
High Priests Quorum of the Summit
Stake of Zion. He was ordained a
Patriarch by Rudger Clawson in
1904.

. ALLRED, J Urban, Stake super-
intendent of Sunday schools In the
Taylor Stake, Alberta, Canada, was
born May 21, 1874, at Lehi, Utah,
the son of James Allred and Kate
Jones. He was baptized Oct. 10, 1882,
at Lehi; ordained a Priest Dec. 22,
1891, by Andrew Fjeld; ordained an
Elder Feb. 18, 1898, by George H.
Brimhall; ordained a Seventy June 15,
1898, by Francis M. Lyman, and filled
a mission to the Southern States in
1898-1900, presiding eighteen months
as president of the Middle Tennessee
conference. At home Elder Allred has
acted as a member of the Stake Sun-
day School Union Board in the Alpine
Stake, Utah, and in the Taylor Stake,
Canada, served as a member of the
Stake board of education (Taylor
Stake) and been a member of the
145th quorum of Seventy. In August,
1906, he was set apart as Stake super-
intendent of Sunday schools. In 1901
(June 15th) he married Amelia May
Hammond, by whom he has had four
children. He has acted as a teacher
in the public schools in Utah and
in Church schools in Canada, whence
he removed from Lehi, Utah, in 1903,
and is at present engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits at Raymond, Alberta,
Canada.

Mcmullen, Bryant Ross, first
counselor in the Bishopric of the Tab-
er Ward, Alberta, Canada, is the son
of Albert E. McMullen and Nancy Jane
Ross, and was born at Heber City,
Wasatch county, Utah, Jan. 24, 1874.
He worked upon the farm and at var-
ious kinds of team work, helping to
support his father's families, until he
was twenty-two years of age. When
a young boy he moved, with his fath-
er's family, to Castle Valley, Emery
county, where his father was called to
preside over the Wellington Ward.
With his brother Albert he spent con-
siderable time freighting from Price to
the Uintah Reservation with his fath-
er's teams. In 1898 to 1899 he attended
the B. Y. Academy at Provo; later in
1899 he became an active worker in
the Sunnyside Sunday school, and still
later in 1899 he was called on a mis-
sion to the Southwestern States. He
was gone on that mission about two
years and labored principally in Arka^i
sas and Missouri. In 1904 (Jan 13th)
he married Miss Minerva M. Ellis of
Wellington, Utah, and in the spring
of the same year he moved with bis
wife and part of his father's family
to Canada, making their home at
Taber. After laboring as a Sunday
school officer in the Taber Ward and
as a home missionary In the Taylor
Stake, he was chosen as second coun-
selor to Bishop Ransom Abram Van-
Orman, in the Taber Ward, and la-
bored in that capacity until July, 1907,
when he was sustained as first counse-
lor to the same Bishop.

GORDON, Robert John, counselor In
the Bishopric of the Stirling Ward,
Alberta, Canada, is of Scotch descent,
his parents being William and Annie
Frater Gordon. His mother, with her
little children, came to Utah in the
summer of 1803, crossing the plains
in a company of ox-teams. Her hus-
band was then presid'ng over the Glas-
gow conference and he came to Utah
to join his family two years later. The

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subject hereof was born in Salt Lake
City, June 18. 1869. When three years
old, his parents moved to Meadowville,
Rich county, Utah. While very young
he filled the position of secretary of
the Primary association there and lat^
er was president of the Deacon's
quorum. When he was seventeen years
old he was ordained an Elder. His

boyhood was spent on the farm, where
he was instructed in the principles of
eternal truth by his faithful parents.
At the age of twenty-six he entered
the Agricultural College at Logan,
Utah, in November, 1895, graduating
from the civil engineering denartment
of that institution with the degree of
bachelor of science in June, 1899. June
23. 1897, he was married in Logan
Temple to Fannie V. Schutt, daughter
of Henry Schutt and Elza Vernon.
Immediately after leaving college, he,
with his family and his brother James
P. and family, went to Canaf^ia, filling
a call made upon them by President
Lorenzo Snow, to assist in colonizing
southern Alberta. They settled In
Stirling, where they have resided ever

since. Feb. 24, 1901, Brother Gordon
was appointed president of the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A., and in September,
1903, he became a Stake aid. Jan. 29,
1905, he was ordained to the office of
High Priest and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Arthur E. Fawns
in the Stirling Ward, which position
he now holds. He passed the Cana-
dian government examinations pre-
scribed for those becoming dominion
land surveyors and received his com-
mission as such March 12, 1902; re-
cently he received the appointment
from the Provincial Government as dis-
trict surveyor and engineer for
southern Alberta. He is a widely known
and respected citizen.

..DRIGGS, Don Carlos, president of
the Teton Stake of Zion, Idaho, was
born Nov. 20, 1864, at Pleasant Grove,
Utah county, Utah, the son of Ben-

jamin W. Driggs and Olivia Pratt
He was baptized June 12, 1874, in
Pleasant Grove, and ordained succes-
sively a Deacon, a Priest, an Elder,
and a Seventy. In connection with the
latter ordination he became a presi-
dent of the 84th qourum of Seventy
Aug. 24, 1892. He was ordained a-
High Priest and Bishop June 8, 1901,
by Anthon H. Lund, and set apart as

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Bishop of the Driggs Ward. Prior to
that he acted as superintendent of the
first Sunday school at Driggs and filled
many other local positions. He acted

as Bishop of the Driggs Ward from
June 8, 1901, to Sept, 2, 1901, and
when the Teton Stake was organized
Sept. 2, 1901, he was chosen and set
apart as its president. Brother Driggs
settled in Teton Valley in 1888. The
country was then uninhabited except
for a few trappers and frontiersmen.
In the winter season the valley at that
time was entirely isolated from the
rest of the world and there were no
roads. The town of Driggs derived
its name from the subject of this
sketch, he being the only resident in
that part of the Teton Valley for a
number of years. Pres. Driggs was
from the beginning the leading spirit
in all colonizanon schemes in the
valley. Farmins, stock-raising and
merchandising have been his princi-
pal occupations. He has served as
county commissioner in Fremont
county, and was the first postmaster
at Driggs when the postoffice at that
place was first established in 1894. In
1889 (July 3rd) he married May Robi-
son, by whom he has had seven chil-
dren.

GRIGGS, James Foreman, Stake
superintendent of Sunday schools in
the Teton Stake, Idaho, was born
March 9, 1874, in Salt Lake City,
Utah, the son of Thomas C. Griggs
and Jeannette Ure. He was baptized
when eight years old, obtained his edu-
cation in the common schools of Utah,
and the L. D. S. College; commenced
the study of music under Prof. Clive
when about fourteen years old, and
after serving as organist of the Fif-
tenth Ward Sunday school four years,
he was chosen as Ward organist,
which position he held until 1898, when
he became Ward chorister. He studied
on the Tabernacle organ under Prof.
Joseph J. Daynes in 1893, and was a
member of the Tabernacle choir

from 1893 to 1900. When a mere boy
he was ordained to the Lesser Priest-
hood and advanced gradually (not

missing a step in the Priesthood) until
he was ordained an Elder in April,

1897, and was married to Maude Pratt,
grand-daughter of the late Orson Pratt.
He was ordained a Seventy Aug. 10,

1898, and called on a mission to Colo-
rado, laboring first in Pueblo, subse-
quently in the West Colorado confer-
ence and finally in Denver. In the
beginning of 1899 he took charge of
the Colorado mission during the tem-
porary absence of Pres. John W. Tay-
lor. In May, 1899. he was called to
act as second counselor to Pres. Taylor
and held that office until released from
his mission in August, 1900. In Jan-
uary, 1901, he took the management
of the Western Co-operative Associa-
tion in Salt Lake City, which position
he held until he left the city to make
a new home in the Teton Valley, Idaho.
At the organization of the Teton Stake
in September, 1901, he was sustained as
Stake superintendent of Sunday
schools. In 1903 (May 3rd) he was
set apart as second counselor to Bish-
op Fred W. Morgan of the Pratt
Ward, Teton Stake, and in November,
1902, he was sustained as Stake or-

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ganist. He was set apart, in May, 1905,
as an alternate High Councilor and
in August, 1908, was set apart as a
regular High Councilor. Brother Griggs
is one of the leading business men
of Teton Valley and has been success-
ful as such.

ANDERSON, August Kull, Bishop of
Grantsville, Tooele county, Utah, was
bom April 20, 1843, in Elfsborg Ian,
Sweden, the son of John Anderson
and Stina Maja Eliason. He was bap-
tized April 1, 1863, by Ole Hansen;
served in the Swedish army from 1860
to 1864; 'Ordained a Priest in Septem-

has served four terms as a city coun-
cilman of Grantsville and filled other
positions of responsibility. In 1869
he married Emily Walgren and in
1883 he married Ellen A. Jonson; he
is the father of twenty children.

ANDERSON, John C, a member of
the Tooele Stake High Council, was
born Oct. 22, 1836, at Viken, Dahis-
land, Sweden, the son of Anders
Anderson and Carrissa Anderson. Aft-
er working on a farm for a number
of years he became a convert to "Mor-
monism" and was baptized Oct. 22,
1860, by Sven Rosengreen, he and his

her, 1863, by C.J. Sundbeck;ordaned an
Elder Sept. 13, 1865, by Wm. Lee; emi-
grated to Utah in 1864, and located
in Grantsville, where he has resided
continuously ever since; ordained a
Seventy Oct. 7, 1884, by Abraham H.
Cannon; set apart as a president of
the 21st quorum of Seventy Dec. 25,
1886; ordained a High Priest July 30,
1889, by Hugh S. Gowans; set apart
as a High Councilor in the Tooele
Stake Jan. 24, 1897, and ordained a
Bishop Jan. 20, 1906, by Francis M.
Lyman. He filled a successful mission
to Sweden in 1885-1886. At home he
labored for a number of years as as-
sistant Sunday school superintend-
ent. He is a farmer by occupation.

mother being the first baptized in
that part of Sweden. Shortly after-
wards he was ordained a Priest and
appointed to labor as a local mission-
ary. He also presided over the
Rostock branch about two years. Dur-
ing that time he was arrested and
brought before a council of Lutheran
priests, with a bishop at their head,
and subsequently arraigned before the
civil authorities, who after a most
rigid examination and trial sentenced
him to death for the sacreligious use
of the Sacraments, as he had both
baptized and administered the Lord's
Supper. He escaped from that sea-
fence by the providence of God and
money supplied by his father, who was

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a wealthy farmer and who after-
wards used his means for emigrating
poor Saints from Sweden. Emigrating
to Salt Lake City in 1862 Jfhn C.
stopped in Salt Lake Citv on^ yerr
and then made his perm.imiiit l:oiii«j
in Grantsville. He wa-v ordaJnod a
Seventy in 1862 and filled a mission to
Sweden in 1873-1876. Ln ISS'J (.NTov.
•Ah) he was ordained a High Priest
and set apart as a member of tlic
High Council of Tooele Stake.

DAVID, George A., a High Councilor
in the Uintah Stake of Zion, Utah, was
born August 22, 1842, in Lowell, .\Tas-
sachusetts, the son of Eliakim S.
Davis and Orpha Hopkins. He writes: "I
was baptized when a boy of aocit
eight years old, but when I came to
Utah in 1861, I was rebaptized. I wx;?
ordained an Elder in February, ISm".
when I received my endowments and
was married, and ordained a Hi^h
Priest, May 9, 1887, by Apostle John
W. Taylor and set apart as a High Coun-
cilor in the Uintah Stake. I have never
had the privilege or honor of filling
a foreign mission, but have b^ea a
member of the Church from my bov
hood days, and cannot remember the
time that I did not believe the Gos-
pel to be true. The first thing, how-
ever, that brought its truth forcibly
to my mind was the trip from Flor-
ence, on the Missouri river, to the
valleys of the mountains, a trip of six
weeks by ox-train. The sight of the
aged brothers and sisters walking
every foot of the way was an evidence
to me that there was something con-
vincing in the Gospel, or these people
would not do what they did. In 1884 I
was called to act as presiding Elder
in what was then a part of the Ash-
ley Ward (which included all of the
Ashley Valley), afterward becoming
the Merrill Ward at the organization
of the Uintah Stake. It is now called
Naples. I held that position until the
organization of the Stake, when I was
ordained a High Priest and set apart
as a High Councilor, which position

I now hold. I have labored as a
home missionary and as assistant
clerk of the High Council for a
number of years. I have labored in
the Sunday school cause for a period
of about sixteen years, most of the
time as superintendent of different
schools, and it is a labor of love to
me."

SHAFFER, James Marion, Bishop
of Naples Ward, Uintah Stake, Utah,
was born Jan. 7, 1861, at Slaterville,
Weber county, Utah, the son of Joseph
R. Shaffer and Gillead Taylor. He

was baptizgd by Franklin Weaver
when about ten years old; ordained
an Elder Sept. 22, 1885, by Jeremiah
Hatch; ordained a High Priest May
17, 1887, by Samuel R. Bennion, and
ordained a Bishop May 7, 1891, by
Pres. Bennion and counselors. From
May, 1887, to 1891 he served as a
Bishop's counselor. He has also served
as a secretary of Y. M. M. I. A., assist-
ant superintendent and superintendent
of Sunday schools, and held offices as
school trustee, register of vital statist-
ies, president of Ashley Central Irri-
gating Co., etc. He is a farmer,
freighter and clerk in a general mer-
cantile house and a stock raiser, came
to Ashley Valley Nov. 2, 1882, and has

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taken an active part in its growth and
development ever since. Bishop Shaf-
fer married Lydia Rolfe March 31,
1884, who has borne him ten children,
five sons and five doughters.

SLAUGH, George Alfred, comiselor
in the Neaples Ward Bishopric, Uintali
Stake, Utah, was born at Pleasant
Grove, Utah county, Utah, Sept. 24,
1868, the son of John Jacob Slaugh
and Matiida Smuin He was baptized
May 6, 1877, by Henry Dittmore; or
dained a Deacon Feb. 22, 1885; oi--
dained a Seventy Nov. 9, 1890, by Ed-
ward J. Longhurst, and ordained a
High Priest May 17, 1891, by James
Hacking. He has acted as president

his birthplace, in 1884. For several
years he has been a pioneer farmer
on Green river, pumping water from
the river for irrigation purposes.
Among the many civil offices which
he has held, may be mentioned that
he served as county commissioner of
Uintah county in 1896-1897. In 1892
(Sept. 29th) he married Rachel Maria
Goodrich, who has borne him seven
children.

REMINGTON, Lydia Ripley Badger,

a prominent Church worker in the
Uintah Stake, Utah, was born March
16, 1831 at Charleston, Orleans county,
Vermont, the daughter of John Badger

of a Deacons quorum, assistant super-
intendent of Sunday schools, president
of Y. M. M. I. A., secretary and treas-
urer of the Uintah Stake Academy
and Bishop's counsleor. In 1S9S-1899
he filled a special mission to the
Emery Stake in the interest of Y. M.
M. I. A. He has followed farming,
gardening, and school teaching, and
has also tried his hand as a confec-
tioner and horticulturist. He was one
of the first class which ever graduated
from the Uintah Stake Academy, and
has been an officer in canal companies
almost continously since he first came
to Ashley Valley from Pleasant Grove,

and Lydia Chamberlain. Her parents
received the Gospel in 1832 and gath-
ered with theSaints to Kirtland, Ohio,
in 1856, where Lydia attended school
in the upper story of the Temple, and
became well acquainted with the
Smith family; the oldest brother,
Rodney Badger, lived with Hyrum
Smith's family and drove Hyrum's
carriage team to Missouri. At Far
West, Mo., Lydia's father and brother
(Rodney) were called out to help pro-
tect the Saints against the mob. The
Badger family were driven out of Mis-
souri, together with the rest of the
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at Montrose, Lee county.Iowa, where
Lydia was baptized in the spring of
1840 and where her mother subsequ-
ently died through exposure, brought
about by persecutions. Lydia was
present when the corner stones of the
Nauvoo Temple were laid in 1841 and
often saw the Prophet at the head of
the Nauvoo Legion. She came west
at the time of the general exodus in
1846. While living with her uncle,
Bphraim Badger, seven miles above
Winter Quarters, she was married to
Jerome N. Remington. After resid-
ing temporarily in Missouri her hus-
band, who was sickly, went to the
mountains with a sutler's train and
returned to Missouri efter his wife.
Thev both came to the Valley in 1850.
After residing in Salt Lake City ten
years they removed to Paradise.
Cache county, in 1860. While resid-
ing in Cache Valley, Bro. Remington
died, after which Sister Remington
worked considerably in the Logan
Temple for the dead. She also be-
came an officer in the Relief Societies
in Cache Valley from the beginning
and continued as a Relief Society of-
ficer until 1879, when she, with her
family, moved to tbe White river
country, and finally moved to Ashley
Valley in 1881. When the Merrill
Ward was organized Sept 28, 1884, she
was chosen president of the Relief
Societies, in which capacity she acted
until March, 1888 Her death ocurred
in Merrill Ward May 9, 1906. She was
the mother of twelve children and at
the time of her demise the had sixty-
two grand-children and seventy-one
great grandchildren. She died in full
fellowship in the Church.

MECHAM, Moses Moroni, first coun-
selor to Bishop Geo. Billings of the
Jensen Ward, Uintah Stake, Utah, was
born July 8. 1845, at Nauvoo, Hancock
county, 111., the son of Moses Mecham
and Elvira Derby. He was baptized
in the summer of 1854, the year after
his arrival in Utah, and has ever been

on the frontiers, taking an active part
in killing the snakes and building the
bridges. He has resided successively
in Nauvoo, 111., Kanesville, Iowa, and
Lehi, Provo, Wallsburg, and Ashley
Valley, Utah. He was ordained a
Priest by John C. Parcell, at Walls-
burg; ordained an Elder in August,
1885, by Geo A. Davis, and ordained
a High Priest Aug. 7, 1894, and chosen
as first counselor to Bishop Hunting
of the Riverdale Ward. He worked
in that capacity until that Ward was
disorganized, when he was chosen first
counselor to Bishop Billings, of the
Jensen Ward, and acted in that office
until Bishop Billings was released in
1908. Elder Mecham has followed
farming, stock raising and fruit rais-
ing as principal occupations. In 1875
(Dec. 26th) he married Almira Jane
Duke, with whom he has had ten
children.

BODILY, Joseph Henry, first counse-
lor to Bishop Sterling D. Colton, of
Maeser Ward, Uintah Stake, Utah,
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Glines; ordained a Priest Feb. 15,

1898, by Sterling D. Colton; ordained
an Elder Jan. 27, 1899, by Charles H.
Glines; ordained a Seventy May 5,

1899, by Gorge Teasdale; filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain in 1899-1901; and
ordained a High Priest May 25, 1902,
by Reuben S. Collett. He has Labored
as president 6f a Priests quorum,
Sunday school teacher, president of Y.
M. M. I. A., served as justice of the
peace and in other offices, and has
resided in Ashley Valley since 1879,
arriving there with the pioneers to
that Valley when only three years
old. During his mission in Great
Britain he labored in the Liverpool,
the Birmingham and the London con-
ferences and baptized eight persons.
In 1899 (April 3rd) he married Mary
Alice Pisher, who has borne him
four sons. He is a farmer and stock-
raiser by occupation.

GOODRICH, Albert Gardner, first
counselor in the Naples Ward Bisho-
pric, Uintah Stake, Utah, was born
May 1, 1871, at Mount Carmel, Kane
county, Utah, the son of George A.
Goodrich and Harriet Taggart. He
was baptized Sept. 21, 1879, by Bishop
Albert D. Dickson; ordained succes-
sively a Deacon, Teacher and Elder;
ordained a Seventy Nov. 9, 1890, by
Matthew Caldwell; ordainel a High
Priest and set apart as an alternate
High Councilor in the Uintah Stake
May 25, 1903, by Apostle Owen A.
Woodruff; became a regular member
of the High Council May 30, 1904, and
was set apart as first counselor in the
Naples Ward Bishopric Dec. 9, 1906.
Otherwise he had labored as a Sun-
day school officer, leader of the Ward
cihoir, and principal of the Ward
religion classes. He took a Sunday
school normal course of six months
in the B. Y. Academy at Provo in
1894 and filled a mission to the North-
ern States in 1897 - 1899, laboring
principally in Michigan. He has also
served as school trustee, registration

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agent, etc. For seven years he worked
as a miller, and his present accupa-
tion is that of a farmer. In 1892
(April 12th) he married Lydia Mer-
rill, with whom he has six children,
two sons and four daughters.

HALL, Joseph', a member of the
Weber Stake High Council, was born
Aug. 6, 1825, at Birmingham, War-
wickshire, Eingland, the son of John
Hall and Sarah Edge. His mother
died when he was very young, and
his father embraced the Gospel in
Birmingfham, England, in November,
1841, and labored faithfully as an
Elder until his death May 23, 1852.
The subject of this sketch was bap-
tised Dec. 25, 1841, by Wm. Brothers;
ordained a Deacon and subsequently
a Priest and labored as a local mis-
sionary off and on till March, 1847,
when he was ordained an Elder and
called to devote all his time to the
ministry. After travelling and preaclh-
ing in the Birmingham conference,
principally in Wolverhampton, he was
called to labor in the Worcester con-
ference, where he organized several
new branches. In the spring of 1850
he was appointed to labor in the
Derbyshire and Leicestersihire confer-
ences, and in December, 1852, he was
called to preside over the Land's End
conference, which position he oc-
cupied until he emigrated to Zion in
1855. In the meantime (Oct. 16, 1854)
he married Ann Matilda Worley
Hooper, with whom he emigrated,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Juventa." After arriving in Salt
Lake City Oct. 24, 1855, he located in
Weber county and after wintering in
Bingham's Fort, he located perma-
nently in Ogden, where he resided
until the time of his death. He par-
ticipated in the EJcho Canyon cam-
paign and was in the great "move"
south in 1858; was ordained a Seventy
June 14, 1857, by Josepfb Young and
enrolled in the 4th quorum of Sev-
enty. In 1867 he was appointed as-

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sistant superintendent of the Ogden
Second Ward Sabbath school, and
during the rest of his life he was a
zealous Sunday school worker. In
1868 he was commissioned post-master
of Slaterville, and became a special
newspaper correspondent, and after-
wards figured prominently as a news-
paper man. For several years he
served as postmaster of Ogden, was
Ward clerk of the Second Ward for
many years, labored as a home mis-
sionary in Weber Stake, and was on
July 23, 1882, ordained a High Priest
and set apart as a member of the
Weber Stake High Council, which
position he filled until a short time
before his death. In 1866 he served
as chaplain of the lower house of the
Utah legislature. He was elected
coroner for Weber county in 1896, ap-
pointed justice of the peace for the
First Ogden Precinct in 1898, and
elected police judge of Ogden City in
1899. By his wife, who died Nov. 19,
1897, he had nine children. Elder
Hall died in Ogden Sept. 1, 1906, aged
81 years and 25 days.

BURCH. James, a High Councilor
in the Weber Stake of Zion, was born
Dec. 10, 1835, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the
son of Daniel Burch and Anna W.
McClellan. He was baptized in 1853,
in Ogden, Utah; ordained a Priest
soon afterwards; ordained a Seventy
in 1856; ordained a High Priest in
June, 1877, and set apart as counselor
to the Bishop of the Second Wiard in
Ogden; was set apart as first counse-
lor in the Ogden First Ward Bishopric
Dec. 7, 1878; set apart as an alternate
member of the High Council Jan. 19,
1891, and set apart as a regular High
Councilor Oct. 18, 1897. Brother
Burch served in the Utah militia dur
ing the Johnston Army troubles in
1857-1858, and took part in the defences
in Echo Canyon and elsewhere; he
carried several express messages be-
tween the settlements and Gen. Daniel
H. Wells' headquarters in Echo Can-

yon. In March, 185V, he was detailed,
together with fifty others, under com-
mand of Major Cunningham, to go to
the Salmon river and rescue the mis-
sionaries from the Indians. On their
return he was one of the ten men who
found the body of Bailey Lake, who
had been killed by Indians. Brother
Burch came to Great Salt Lake Valley
in 1848 and was one of the early
pioneers of Weber county. His gen-

eral occupations have been that of
a farmer and broom-maker. He has
served on the police force in Ogden
and as a school trustee for many
years. Ecclesiastically he has done
considerable home missionary labor.
By his wife, whom he married Dec.
18, 1861, he is the father of eight
daughters and two sons.

FERRIN, Josiah Marsh, Bishop of
Eden Ward, Weber Stake of Zion,
Utah, was born Jan. 22, 1834, in
Chautauqua county. New York, the
son of Samuel Ferrin and Sally
Powell. He was baptized July 15,
1844, by Samuel Ferrin, was ordained
successively a Deacon, a Teacher, a
Priest, an Elder, and a Seventy, the
latter ordination taking place in
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38th quorum of Seventy. After being-
ordained a Higti Priest in 1857, he
served as a member of the High Coun-
cil until 1868; otherwise he has acted
as teacher and superintendent of
Sunday schools, president of Ward Y.
M. M. I. A., etc. He acted as Bishop
of Eiden from 1877 to 1882 and again
a second term lor eleven years, com-
mencing in 1885; alter that he moved
to Ogden where he was called to act

as an alternate member and later as
a regular member of the High Council.
In 1868-1870 he filled a successful mis-
sion to Great Britain, laboring in the
Manchester and Leeds conferences,
presiding for a short time over the
latter. In 1856 (Feb. 10th) he mar-
ried Martha Ann Brunson, who bore
him twelve children, nine sons and
three daughters. In civil affairs
Bishop Ferrin was ever active and
served his fellow-citizens faithfully in
many different capacities, such as
sehool trustee, constable, and member
of the legislature. His principal a,c-
cupations in life were farming, saw
milling, railroading, contracting and
stock raising. Since his first arrival
in Utah (from Pottawattamie county,
Iowa) in 1852 he was a hard worker

and a natural leader of men. In 1862
he settled in Ogden Valley, becoming
one of the first settlers of Eden. He
also had his share of Indian fighting,
while serving as a member of the
Utah militia with the rank of captain.
He raised a large family of faithful
Latter-day Saints and finally died,
highly respected and beloved, at
Ogden, Utah, June 20, 1904.

BROWN, James Moorehead, a High
Counselor in the Weber Stake of Zion,
was born Nov. 17, 1834, in Adams
county, 111., the son of James Brown
and Martha Stevens. He emigrated
to Utah in 1848, joining his father,
who 'had served in the Mormon Bat-
talion, at the Goodyear Fort (the
present Ogden) where he located and
has resided ever since, and partici-
pated in all the pioneer labors con-
nected with the development of Weber
county; his brothers were the f.rst
white men who ever plowed in that
valley. James was baptized when
about nine years old; ordained a Sev-
enty in 1853, and later ordained a
High Priest. In 1855 he filled a mis-
sion among the Indians at Fort Supply
(now in Wyoming). He also labored
as a missionary among the Indians in
Mialad valley; otherwise he has acted
as a Ward teaicher for many years,
and served about forty-two years as a
member of the Weber Stake High
Council, being the senior member of
that body for some time. Brother
Brown is a carpenter by trade, but
has followed farming successfully of
late years. He has served as a police-
man in Ogden for many years and
filled other responsible positions. In
1855 (July 24th) he married Adelaide
Exervia and in 1902 (Oct. 8th) he
married Matilda Hornsby. By these
wives he is the father of eleven
children, of whom two only are living.
Elder Brown was released from t'he
High Council in 1906 on account of
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BLUTH, John VitaMs, first counse-
lor in the presidency of the North
Weber Stal^e of Zion, was born Jan.
24, 1863, at Stockholm, Sweden, the
son of John M. L. Bluth and Augusta
Wilhelmina Wallin. He was baptized
March 5, 1876, by Carl A. Ek at
Stockholm, Sweden, was ordained a
Teaoher in 1881, an Elder Sept, 24,
1884, by Joshua Small, and a Seventy
Nov. 16, 1885, by John Crawford. He

emigrated to Utah in 1877 and located
at Grantsville, Tooele county. After
a temporary residence in Logan and
Smithfield, Cache county, he located
permanently in Ogden in October,
1879, where he still resides. EJlder
Bluth is perhaps one of the most
diligent and able Church workers in
Weber county and 'has earned the
confidence and good will of all his
associates both among ecclesiasts and
citizens generally. For several years
he served successively as an efficient
officer in the Y. M. M. I. A. of the
Fourth Ward, Ogden, corresponding
secretary of the Stake Y. M. M. I. A.,
assistant superintendent of the Stake
Board of Y. M. M. I. A., Stake ecclesi-
astical clerk. Stake tithing clerk, sec-
retary and treasurer of the Church
Association of the Weber Stake of

Zion, and Stake 'historian. Since
he first came to Utah he has worked
at farming, brickmaking and clerking,
and has also been warehouse man,
and city editor of the "Ogden Stand-
ard," possessing considerable literary
ability. In 1886-1887 he filled a mis-
sion to the Southern States, laboring
principally in eastern Tennessee, and
in 1893-1894 he filled a mission to
Great Britain, during which he was
assistant editor of the "Millennial
Star," under the direction of Pres.
Anthon H. Lurid. In a civil capacity
at home he served as messenger of
the legislative council in 1888, was
county tax icollector in 1889-1890, city
recorder in 1900-1901 and is at present
chief deputy county clerk. In 1884
(Oct. 1st) he married Annie Farley,
by whom he has ibad two children.
When Weber Stake was divided into
three in July and August, 1908, he
was chosen first counsellor in the
North Weber Stake presidency.

MOENCH, Louis Frederick, a promi-
nent eduicator and superintendent of
Religion Classes in the Weber Stake
of Zion, was born July 29, 1847, at
Neuffen, Germany, the son of Chris-
tian Moench and Elizabeth Barbara
Hess. He finished his primary educa-
tion in the grade schools and then
entered a German gymnasium or
hiigh school. Like Dr. Maeser, he
received the inspiration of teaching
from German schools, but was com-
pelled to leave before graduation be-
cause ihis parents emigrated to Amer-
ica. After he icame to America his
father's straightened circumstances
compelled him to struggles for self-ed-
ucation. Under these conditions he
had great difficulty to advance, but by
hard self-application and by attend-
ance at night schools in the best of in-
stitutions these obstacles were over-
come. He took a course at Bryant
and Stratton's college at Chicago and
was acknowledged the best penman of
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in this branch is acltnowledged by all
who know him. He was on his way
to California to teach when he was
converted to "Mormonisni," and re-
mained in Salt Lake City. In 1868
and 1869 he taught in the first Church
school of that city. From 1869 to
1871 he was a teacher in the Deseret
University. The next year he came
to Ogden. From 1872 to 1902— a
period of thirty years — he was con-
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longest period of time any one man
has been a teacher in the same town
in Utah. Professor Moench. was
principal of the Ogden city schools
for nine years, and while holding
that position he brought the first
school desk into Weber County. He
was the first principal of the Central
School and for ten years he acted as
superintendent of the schools of Weber
county. In 1882 the Edmunds law was
passed and Professor Moench was
debarred from holding office, in con-
sequence of which he was compelled
to resign his position. He assisted
in founding the Weber Stake Academy
and drew the plans for the erection
of that institution. He became the
first prncipal and 'held the position
nine years. At first the school had to

struggle against adversity for lack of
means, but it had a gradual growth
and increase until it was acknowl-
edged to be one of the best in the
State. Improvements were made at
the Academy externally with lawns,
flowers, iand shrubbery, and internally
with apparatus and furniture, until
not only the interior of the building
was well equipped, but t'he exterior
also presented a most beautiful ap-
pearance. Professor Moench was
deputy assistant superintendent of
Utah Territory under Superintendent
John Taylor. He was also a member
of the Weber Stake Board of Educa-
tion. For twenty-five years he was
assistant superintendent of Sunday
schiciols to Supierintendent Richard
Ballantyne, and for five years acted
as clerk of the Weber Stake of Zion.
He aided in establishing the Religion
Classes in this Stake and was superin-
tendent for four years. In 1884 he
was called on a mission to Germany.
He was absent four years one month
and a half, during whic^h time he acted
as secretary of the Swiss and German
mission and as assistant editor of
' Der Stern." For a number of years
he was one of the presidents of the
53rd quorum of Seventy, and is
now senior president of the77th quor-
um of Seventy. Professor Monech
was to the north of Utah what Dr.
Carl G. Maeser was to the south and
Dr. John R. Park to Salt Lake City.
He is a natural teacher and his
students are found throughiout the
State, who praise him for ihis excellent
work. His efforts in education place
him among the leading educators of
Utah.

ENSIGN, Datus Horace, Bishop of
Ogden First Ward, Weber Stake of
Zion, was born July 23, 1853, at Ogden,
Weber icounty, Utah, the son of
Horace D. Ensign (one of the orginal
pioneers of Utah) and Eliza J. Stew-
art. He was baptized June 2, 1804,
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Priest Oct. 4, 1877, by Edwin Strat-
ford; ordained an Elder Aug. 2, 1882,
by Thomas Doxey; ordained a Sev-
enty Jan. 21, 1884, by Nathan Tanner,
jun.; ordained a High Priest May 4,
1890, by Pres. Charles F. Middleton,
and ordained a Bishop July 24, 1898,
by Pres. Joseph F. Smith Otherwise
he has acted as an officer in the
Y, M. M. I. A. and Sunday schools
and as a counselor to Bishop Moroni
Brown from 1890 to 1898; since 1898

Stake of Zion, is the son of Nat/han
Tanner, jun., and Margaret G. Har-
rington, and was born Jan. 14, 1870,
at Salt Lake City, Utah. He was
baptized in 1879 at Ogden; ordained a
Deacon Feb. 20, 1883; ordained a
Teacher Nov. 23, 1886; ordained a
Priest Nov. 20, 1888; ordained an
Elder Feb. 25,1891, by Bishop Robert
McQuarrie; ordained a Seventy March
2, 1895, by Edward Stevenson, and
ordained a High Priest Nov. 11, 1900,

he has served faithfully in his
position as Bishop of Ogden First
Ward. In 1888-1890 he filled a suc-
cessful mission to the Southern States,
laboring principally in West Virginia,
Virginia and Maryland. In 1881 (Sept.
1st) he married Wealthy Dewey
Richards, by whom he is the father
of ten children, five boys and five
girls. In his youth Bishop Ensign
worked at railroading; later he en-
gaged in the implement business, and
at length became manager of the
Ogden Implement Company. He is
at present engaged in fruit-raising on
a large scale in Davis county.

TANNER, Nathan Amasa, first
counselor to Bishop Datus H. Ensign
of the Ogden First Ward, Weber

by Lewis W. Shurtliff. In 1895-1896
he filled a mission to California. At
home he has served faithfully as sec-
retary and counselor in a Deasons
quorum, as first counselor to the
president of a Teaobers quorum, first
counselor to the president of the
Ogden Second Ward Y. M. I. A.,
president two years of the Ogden
First Ward Y. M. M. I. A., president
of the Ogden First Ward choir, and
second counselor to Bishop Datus H.
Ehsign of the First Ward from Nov.
11, 1900, to Feb. 24, 1907, and first
counselor since then. His secular
occupations in life were those of cloth-
ing salesman and manager of the Z.
C. M. I. clothing department until
Marcih 1, 1906, when he and John
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Clothing Company of which he be-
came vice-president and manager. By
Ellen Hinchcliff, whom he married
March 4, 1891, he is the father of
eight children, four sons and four
daughters.

TORGERSON, Gilbert, first counse-
lor in the Bishopric of the Ogden
Third Ward, Weber Stake of Zion,
was born Jan. 18, 1846, in Lunder,
Hadeland, Norway, the son of Torger
Gudmansen and Barbara G. Olsen.

He was baptized Feb. 17, 1SG4 by
Ole Rustad, and confirmed by L. E.
Larsen; ordained a Deaccn n April,
1865, by Ole Hansen; ordained an
Elder July 22, 1867, by Carl Wider-
borg, and called on a mission to
Nordland, where he labored till 1869;
he then presided over the Stavanger
branch from 1869 to 1870 and next
presided over the Drammen branch.
After finishing his missionary labor
in Hadeland and Hedemarken, in 1871
and 1872, he emigrated to America
In 1872; and after stopping in the
States one year he continued the
journey to Utah in 1873. Being a
tailor by profession, he soon obtained
labor and did fairly well financially.
In 1874 (April 1.3th) he married

Karen Larson, by whom he has had
eight children, five sons and three
daughters. In 1884 (Jan. 3rd) he was
ordained a Seventy by Louis F.
Moench, and in 1891 (Feb. 7th) he
was ordained a High Priest by Nils
C. Flygare and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Barnard White,
of the Ogden Third Ward. He labored
in that position until Jan. 13, 1901,
when he was chosen as first counselor
to Bisihop James Wotherspoon. In
1904-1906 he filled a mission to Scan-
dinavia, being called by Pres. Anthon
L. Skanchy to succeed the late C. D.
Fjeldsted as president of the Chris-
tiania conference, which position he
held from July 10, 1904, to July 1,
1906.

BELNAP, Hyrum, a member of the
High Council in the Weber Stake,
Utah, was born March 24, 1858, at

Ogden, Utah, the son of Gilbert Bel-
nap and Adaline Knight. As a babe
he accompanied his parents south in
the "great move" of 1858; after that
the family became permanent resi-
dents of Weber county, and were
numbered among the first settlers of
Hooper, where Gilbert Belnap was
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was baptized June 6, 1867; orda'.ned a
Teacher by John Flinders and at-
tended High school in the county
court house in 1878-1879; later, in
1879, together with others, he explored
that part of Snake river valley, which
subsequently became known as Pool's
Island, and its immediate vicinity,
where settlements of the Saints were
started soon afterwards. In 1879-1881
he filled a mission to the Southern
States, • and in company with Martin
Gam baptized the first (converts to
the restored Gospel on Cane Creek,
Lewis county, Tennessee, where
Elders Berry and Gibbs afterwards
were murdered. Elder Belnap pre-
sided a part of the time, while on
this mission, over the Tennessee con-
ference. After his return home he
attended the Central school, in Ogden,
and subsequently the University of
Deseret, in Salt Lake City. In 1882
he was appointed assessor and collec-
tor for Weber county by the county
court and at the general election in
August, 1883, he was regularly elec-
ted to this position, which he held
until 1889. In that year (1887) he
was also appointed deputy county
clerk. Hyrum Belnap married Chris-
tiana Rasmussen Sept. 20, 1883. This
union has been blessed with seven
children, in 1888 fFeb. 7:-in he mar-
ried Annie C. Bluth, by whom he has
had five children. Two months after
his last marriage (April 22, 1888) Le
was released as a home missionary
and appointed second counselor to
BishioiP Edwin Stratford, of the Ogden
Fourth Ward. In 1890 he purchased
an interest in the Utah and Oregon
Lumber Company, of which he be-
came the bookkeeper and afterwards
the manager. In July, 1899, he com-
menced business as a retail lumber
dealer in Ogden, which business he
still carries on successfully. Bishop
Stratford died in 1899 and in January
of the following year (1900), Hyrum.
Belnap was chosen as second counse-
lor to the new Bishop. E. T. Woolley.

He is now a High Councilor in the
Ogden Stake.

STEVENS, Thomas Jordan, Bishop
of Ogden Fifth Ward, Weber Stake of
Zion, Utah, was born Jan. 24, 1848,
at Bristol, Elngland, the son of Jacob
Stevens and EJliza Symons. He was
baptized when about eight years of
age, and emigrated to Utah in 1864,
crossing the plains in Captain War-
ren S. Snow's company. Two years

after his arrival in Utah (in 1866) he
joined the militia, organized for the
purpose of defending the people
against the pilferings and aggressions
of the Indians, and was sent to San-
pete and Sevier counties to ass'st in
quelling' uprisings in those sections
and to protect the settlers from the
depredations then being made. In
1872 he was sent on a mission to
Arizona, remaining there about one
year. Having previously been or-
dained a Seventy (1865), he was or-
dained a High Priest Jan. 21, 1883,
by Joseph F. Smith and set apart as
a counselor to Bishop Edwin Strat-
ford, of the Ogden Fourth Ward, and
on the organization of the F'fth Ward
of Ogden, he became its Bishop and
held that office continuously until the

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time of his death. He was city re-
corder of Ogden for six years, three
consecutive terms, commencing in
1885. Prior to that he 'had served as
sheriff of Weber county. He was for
a long time director of the "Weber
Stake Academy, was also a director
of the Utah Loan & Trust Company's
bank at Ogden and its cashier until
compelled to resign on acount of ill
health. In politics he was a Republi-
can, and was elected to the first State
legislature of Utah. He possessed a
well-developed liking for military
life, the inclination dating as far
back as the sixties, and he served as
a member of Governor West's per-
sonal staff, being made commissary-
general with the rank of colonel. So
creditably did he discharge the duties
of his office, that Gov. Heber M.
^V'fclls, on his succession to th^ ex-
ecutive chair, re-appointed him to the
position. Bishop Stevens married
Maria Stringham Dec. 27, 1871, and
Mercy R. Burton in December, 1885.
By these wives he became the father
of eleven children. Bishop Jordan
died In Ogden Aug. 31, 1900.

SANDERSON, Owen Moroni, Is the
son of Henry W. Sanderson and Sarah
J. Cole, and was born at Fairview,
Sanpete County Utah, Nov. 23, 1863.
He was baptized Aug. 6, 1871, by
Andrew Rasmussen, at Fairview,
where he attended the common
schools, and assisted his father on a
small farm, and in slerical work as
t'lthing clerk. Oct. 2, 1885, he married
Mary Anderson of Fairview, in Logan
Temple. He was lessee of the San-
pete Coal and Coke Co. Mine, east of
Fairview, and their toll road for two
or three years, which he managed
very successfully; he also contracted
on the Sanpete branch of the Rio
Grand Western R. R., and spent a
year in the study of law in the office
of Richards and Moyle at Salt Lake
City. He was ordained a Teacher and
later a Seventy by C. D. Fjeldsted and

was set apart as one of the presidents
of the 2Gth quorum; he was called to
fill a mission to the State of Tennes-
see. With but two weeks notice he
left home Feb. 1, 1895, returning
April 1, 1897, having fulfilled a very
successful mission, with many pleas-
ing experiences, full of testimony and
fruitful of much good; he presided in
the Middle Tennessee conference the
last year of his labors there and bap-
tized many. On his return he took

a course in the B. Y. U. at Provo, and
took up the iprofession of school teach-
ing; he taught in Provo, Oakley
(Idaho), and Mona, and during this
period he occupied many prominent
Church positions such as Mutual presi-
dent, assistant Stake Sunday school
superintendent, of the North Sanpete
Stake, etc. He also took a civil
service examination and received an
appointment in the Federal employ as
meat inspector. First he was sent to
Tacoma, Washington, then got a
transfer to Ogden, where he now re-
sides, having erected a nice little
modern house and has been called to
take active part in the Stake and
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as other duties. Success has attended
Brother Sanderson all along in his
various labors. He is of a spiritual
nature, and is devoted to his labors
for the spread of truth, living care-
fully the laws of the Gospel; as a
consistant Latter-day Saint he is a
natural friend to children, although
he has none of his own.

ANDREASEN, Jens Peter, a presi-
dent of Seventies in the Weber Stake
of Zion, Utah, is the son of Andreas
Petersen and Christine Jensen, and
was born March 23, 1840, at Arnager,

filled a mission to Scandinavia, labor-
ing principally on his native island
(Bornholm, Denmark). In August,
1905, when the 75th quorum of Sev-
enty was divided, he was chosen as
one of the presidents of the 131st
quorum. In August, 1905, he moved
to Ogden. In 1907 (Dec. 29th) he
was ordained a High Priest. His
wife died March 23, 1908, and he is
again a resident of Eden, where he
acted as Ward clerk from 1895 to 1905.

MARTIN, James, Bishop of Farr-
West Ward, Weber Stake of Zion,

Bornholm, Denmark. He lost his
parents by death while he was very
young, and becoming a convert to
"Mormonism" he was baptized Oct.
7, 1863, by Jens Larsen, and confirmed
the next day by Jens Hansen. After
being ordained to the Priesthood he
labored as a local miissionary in 1869-
1871 on the Island of Sjaelland, Copen-
hagen conference, Denmark, and mar-
ried Kathrine Mouritsen June 11, 1871.
After that he resided in Copenhagen
until July, 1879, when he emigrated to
Utah and located in Eden, Weber
county. About 1880 he was ordained
a Seventy, and in 1885 (July 12th)
he became a president of the 75th
quorum of Seventy. In 1891-1893 he

Utah, was born June 7, 1846, at Prin-
cess Rock, Devonshire, England, the
son of James Martin and Mary Ann
Stockdale. He was baptized when
about eight years old, in Cadown,
England. With his widowed mother
he emigrated to America in 1856,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Thornton," and the plains in Captain
Milo Andrus' Independent company,
arriving in Salt Lake City Sept. 12,
1861. In 1866 James went to south-
ern Utah to defend the settlers
against the Indians. In 1868 (Nov.
16th) he married Lydia Flint, by whom
he has had ten children, two sons and
eight daughters. He acted as as-
sistant superintendent of the Farr-

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West Sunday school about sixteen
years, was counselor in an Elders'
quorum for several years, and filled
the position of counselor in the Y. M.
M. I. A. about eighteen years. In
1884 (Oct. 15th) he married Elizabeth
D. Brofwn, and in 1886 (Nov. 8th) he
was arrested for polygamy, placed
under bonds for three months, and
then acquitted for lack of evidence.
He was arrested a second time in
the fall of 1889 and fined $100 for un-
lawful cohabitation in 1891, after ihis
plural wife had given herself up.
After the organization of the Farr-
West Ward, Nov. 30, 1890, he was
chosen second counselor in the
Bishopric of the new Ward; he was
ordained a High Priest and set apart
to that position by Charles F. Mid-
dleton, Dec. 6, 1890. In 1898 (July
17th) he was chosen and sustained as
Bishop of the Farr-West Ward, and
ordained and set apart to that posi-
tion July 24, 1898, by Apostle Frank-
lin D. Richards.

West Pennsylvania conference. After
his release he visited the large cities
of the east in search of the genealogy
of his forefathers, and was rewarded
by obtaining several hundred names
of his early ancestors, thus ascer-
taining that his branch were pioneers
to America and came from England
to Boston in 1630, in the ship "Lyon,"
along with Roger Williams, who
founded Providence, Rhode Island, in
1636. In 1888 Brother Harris married
Alice Jensen, daughter of Hans P.
Jensen, of Brigham City, by whom
he had three children. They were
divorced in 1898, while he was on his
mission to Pennsylvania. In 1900 he
married Eliza Bai^low, by whom he
has four dhildren. For many years
Elder Harris was a diligent Sunday
school worker, commencing to labor
as a Sunday school teacher when only
sixteen years old.

GARNER, Henry James, Bishop of
Plain City Ward, North Weber Stake,

HARRIS, Leander Sargent, first
counselor to Bishop Levi J. Taylor,
of the Harrisville Ward, Weber Stake
of Zion, Utah, was born in Harrisville,
Weber county, Utah, April 20, 1860,
the son of Martin H. Harris and
Louise Sargent. He was 'tihe grand-
son of Emer Harris, who is men-
tioned in the Doctrine and Covenants,
Section 75, and who was a brother
of Martin Harris, one of the Three
Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.
Leander was baptized June 14, 1868;
became a member of the first quorum
of Deacons organized in Harrisville
in 1877, and afterwards presided over
the quorum for five years; acted as
secretary of the first Y. M. M. I. A.
in Harrisville; was ordained a Sev-
enty in 1883, becoming a member of
the 60'tih quorum of Seventy, and was
called to act as first counselor to
Bishop Levi J. Taylor, Oct. 1, 1895.
In 1897-1899 he filled a mission to
the Eastern States, laboring in the

Utah, is the son of Henry Garner
(whose father was Philip Garner, a
member of the Mormon Battalion)
and Mary M. Browning, and was
born June 9, 1855, at Ogden, Uta)h.
He was baptized June 6, 1865, by
Bishop Robert McQuarrie; ordained

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an Ellder Jan. 31, 1884, by John Pack;
ordained a Seventy Dec. 30, 1883; or-
dained a High Priest in 1903, by
Lewis W. ShurtlifE, and ordained a
Bishop Jan. 28, 1906, by Apostle
Charles W. Penrose, and set apart to
preside over the Plain City Ward.
For many years he acted as a teacher,
an officer in the Plain City Sunday
school, and was superintendent for the
same from 1901 to 1903. He was also'
a worker in the Ogden City First
Ward Y. M^ M. I. A. from its first
organization and labored as a Ward
teacher for a number of years. From
1903 to 1906 he acted as first coun-
selor in the Plain City Bishorrio,
In 1884 (Jan. 31st) he married Eliza
A. Ballantine, who has borne him
eight children, four boys and four
girls. He followed farming in his
youth, but during the last twenty-
four years has chiefly been engaged
in mercantile business, and is at
present conducting a store in Plain
City. He lived in Ogden from the
time of his birth to 1878, when he
went to the Snake river country in
Idaho. He remained there till 1881,
engaged in freighting between Black-
foot and Challis. After his return to
Utah he resided in Ogden till Febru-
ary, 1894, when he became a perma-
nent resident of Plain City.

BINGHAM, Sanford (senior), Patri-
arch in the Weber Stake of Zion, was
born May 3, 1821, in Concord, Essex
county, Vermont, the son of Erastus
Bingham and Lucinda Gates. He and
h's parents joined the Church in
1833, being among the first converts
to "Mormonism" in Vermont, and in
1836 they moved west and spent the
summer near Kirtland. Ohio. That
fall they went on to Caldwell county,
Missouri, where they remained until
the governor of Missouri issued his
proclamation of extermination against
the "Mormons," in 1838, when they
moved to Hancock county, Illinois.
When the exodus from Nanvoo oc-

curred in the spring of 1846, the
family followed the man body of the
Churcih into Iowa and spent the win-
ter on the Missouri river, 150 miles
above Winter Quarters. In the spring
of 1847 they went back to Winter
Quarters and made preparations for
the long trip across the plains. They
were among the hundred commanded
by Daniel Spencer, the father of the
subject of this sketch being captain
of ten wagons which arrived in Great

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er Bingham was reared up to the age
of fifteen years in Vermont and New
Hampshire. He was twelve and a
half years of age when he became a
member of the 'Mormon" Church,
and as such endured his share of the
persecufons to which the Saints were
subjected during the early life of the
Church. When he crossed the plains
with his parents he was twenty-six
years of age, and made the trip on
horseback, driving loose cattle. He
was married by Apostle Parley P.
Pratt when a little above Grand Isl-
and, on July 18, 1847, to Miss Miartha
Ann Lews. After remaining a short
time in Salt Lake City he came to
Ogden in 1850 at the time his father
did, and there Brother Bingham lived

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until 1862, when he settled in River-
dale. He served in t'he early daj's in
Weber county, Utah, as constable and
justice of the peace, and in 1856 vi^as
ai; pointed by the county court as as-
sessor and collector of Weber county,
in which office he continued up to
1873. For four years he was school
trustee and connected with all public
enterprises. Brother Bingham has
been twice married. His first wife,
Martha Ann Lewis, died Nov. 18, 1898,
leaving eleven children. His second
wife was Agnes Fife, who bore him
thirteen children. Brother Bingham
has been most active in all Church
work, holding almost every office with-
in the gift of the Church, in all of
which he has rendered faithful service.
He was orda'ned a High Priest and
High Councilor in 1861 and made
president of the Riverdale district of
the Weber Ward. In 1877, when the
Wards were organized, 'he was or-
dained a Bishop and set apart to
preside over the Riverdale Ward, and
held that office till Jan. 20, 1902, when
he was released owing to his age and
infirmities, and ordained a Patriarch
in the Weber Stake. He acted as
president and Bishop in Riverdale
over thirty-three years.

BINGHAM, Adam Aranthon, Bishop
of Riverdale Ward, Weber Stake,
Utah', was born Nov. 14, 1865, at
Riverdale, Weber county, Utah, the
son of Sanford Bingham and Agnes
Fife. He was baptized Sept. 6, 1874,
by Wm. Stimpson ; ordained a Deacon
Jan. 15, 1883, by John Russell; or-
dained a Teacher and later a Priest;
ordained an Elder Oct. 24, 1889. by
Sanford Bingham, and ordained a
High Priest Jan. 20, 1902, by Hyrum
M. Smith; filled a mission of 26
months in Colorado in 1897-1900,
presiding a part of the time over the
West Colorado conference. At home
he has labored as president of Y. M.
M. I. A., Ward teacher, Sunday school
teacher and home missionary. In

1889 he married Ann e Stratton, by
whom he has had seven children,
two sons and five daughters. Bishop
Bingham is a farmer by occufaticn
and has always resided in Riverdale.

STIMPSON, William, second coun-
selor in the Bishopric of Riverdale
Ward, Weber Stake of Zion, Utah, was
born June 15, 1821, at Hampstead,
Norfolk, Eingland, the son of William
Stimpson and Mary Smith. He was

baptized April 29, 1849, at Bast Rus-
ton, Norfolk, England; ordained a
Teacher in 1849, and later became
an Elder; emigrated to Utah in 1856,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Horizon," and the plains in Edward
Martin's hand-cart comipany. His
wife was among the many who
perished in that company. She died
at Independence Rock, and his little
boy died a few days before her. He
located at Riverdale soon after his
arrival in Utah, where he still resides.
As a member of the Utahi militia he
participated in the Echo Canyon
campaign in 1857. For many years
he acted as a Ward Teacher in the
Second Ward of Ogden City, and
later as counselor to President San-
ford Bingham in the Riverdale
branch. When that branch was or-

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ganized as a Ward in 1877, lie was
set apart as second counselor to
Bishqp Bingham, which position he
held until Jan. 20, 1902. His first
wife, Rebecca Loubbock (who died
on the plains in 1856) he married in
England, Nov. 19, 1848. In 1858
(Miay 1st) he married Edna Hinch-
cliff, and later he married Marj' Ann
Christian. By these wives he became
the father of fifteen children, seven
sons and eight daughters. Brother
Stimpson has followed farming all
his life, and also served his fellow-
citizens in different positions as a
civil officer. He died Jan. 12, 1907,
at Riverdale, Utah.

FERNELIUS, Charles Adolph,

counselor in the Bishopric of the
South Weber Ward, Davis county,
Utah, was born Feb. 6, 1850, at
Karlsdahl, orebro Ian, Sweden, the
son of Peter Adolph Fernelius and
Marie G. Kilstrom. He emigrated
to America in 1867, and after resi-
ding temporarely in Pennsylvania,
^rinnesota and Michigan, he finally
settled in Minnesota, where he em-
braced the 'Qospel, being baptized
Feb. 26, 1882, bv Elder Mads Ander-
sen, of Mount Pleasant, Sanpete
county, Utah. He was ordained a
Priest in March, 1882, by Elder
Woolfenstein; removed to Utah in
1883; was ordained an Elder March
30, 1884, by Wm. P. Jones, and or-
dained a High Priest March 27, 1896,
by Thomas Steed, senior, of Farming-
ton, Davis county, and set apart as
Bishop's counselor Nov. 17, 1902, by
Pres. Joseph H. Grant, of the Davis
Stake. Otherwise he has labored as
a home missionary in the Davis Stake,
Ward teacher, Y. M. M. I. A. officer,
Sunday school teacher and superin-
tendent, and Ward clerk. He has
also acted as road supervisor, pound
keeper, justice of the peace, water
commissioner, school trustee, coun-
ty commissioner, and director in
several business institutions. In

1872 he married Mary F. Lindberg,
by whom he has had eleven children,
all living.

BLIGHT, James, first counselor to
Bishop William Beveridge, of Almy,
LTintah county, Wyoming (Woodruff
Stake of Zion), was born Nov. 12,
1845, in Devonshire, England, the son
of Philip Blight and Jane Britton. He
was baptized in 1869, emigrated to
America in 1870, and came to Utah

in 1871. He located in Salt Lake
City, where he resided until 1873,
when he removed to Almy, Wyoming,
his present place of residence. He
was ordained an Elder in Salt Lake
City in 1871, acted as Ward teacher
for seven years, was then ordained a
High Priest and set apart as second
counselor in the Almy Ward Bisho-
iFTic, in September, 1898. In 1901
(Nov. 17th) he was set apart as first
counselor in the same Bishopric. He
married Eliza Overbury Nov. 13, 1868,
and nne children are the issue of
this marriage, namely, four sons and
five daughters. Brother Blight is a
carpenter by trade, but is at present
engaged in stock-raising. He has
served his fellow-citizens as school
trustee and in several other positions.

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BROWN, Adin Ebed, seciond coun-
selor in the Bishopric of Almy Ward
(Woodruff Stake), was born December
19, 1853, in Derbyshire, England, the
son of William Brown and Hannah
Clark. He was baptized May 27, 1870,
by Jose,ph Rawson; ordained a Dea-
con and subsequently a Teacher in
England; emigrated to America in
1871 and after residing in Coalville,
Utah, for six months, he made his
permanent home at Almy, Uinta
county, Wyoming. In 1878 (Sept.
26th) he married Harriet Hannah
Davis Bower, and was ordained an
Elder in the Endowment House, Salt
Lake City. By this marriage he had
thirteen children. Elder Brown was
always diligent in Church mat(ters,
and labored as a Sunday school teach-
er and superintendent, as president
of an Elders quorum, president of
Y. M. M. I. A., Ward teacher, and
second counselor in the Almy Ward
Bishopric from 1902 until his death
in 1904.

BURTON, William Gilbert, a Patri-
arch in the Woodruff S'take of Zion,
was born May 9, 1828, at Fowey,
Cornwall, England, the son of Rich-
ard Burton and Mary Gilbert. At the
age of fourteen he was apprenticed
at Plymouth, Devonshire, to learn the
baking business. After learning that
trade, he remained in the same em-
ploy until he was twenty-three years
old. Becoming a convert to "Mormon-
ism," he was baptized Jan. 2, isr»2,
by Elder James Caffel, and confirmed
Jan. 4, 1852, by Elder Wm. G. Mills.
May 9, 1852, he married Hannah
Tregale, who had been baptized by
Wm. C. Dunbar Dec. 14, 1849, at St.
Heliers, Island of Jersey. Brother
Burton was ordained a Prie.-' .fune
6, :852, by Wm. G. Mills; crdained an
Elder Dec. 19, 1852, by Elder \Vm. G.
Mills, and appointed to preside over
the Plymouth branch of the Lands-
end conference. He afterwards pre-
sided over the Devonport branch.

and from June, 1866, to July, 1867,
he presided over the Lands-end con-
ference. In 1867 he emigrated with
his family to America, crossing the
Atlantic in the steamship "City of
Washington." After remaining at
Williamsburg, New York, about a
year, he emigrated to Utah, traveling
by rail to Benton, the terminus of
the Union Pacific railroad; thence he
continued the journey by team to
Salt Lake City. He located tempor-

arily in that city, where he stood
guard for three nights to protect Mrs.
Marie Jarman from her divorced
husband, the notorious Wm. Jarman,
who had threatened to sh'oot her. In
1869 Elder Burton located at Pied-
mont, Wyoming, where he organzed
a Sunday school, and in the fall of
1871 he moved his family to E'vans-
ton. In 1874, when a branch of the
Church was organized at Evanston,
Elder Burton was chosen as its presi-
dent, and held that position until
May, 1877, when the branch was or-
ganized into a Ward of the Summit
Stake of Zion, with himself as
Bishop. He was ordained a Bishop
May 13, 1877, by Apostle Franklin D.
Richards. In 1881 he resigned his
position as Bishop and moved to

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Logan, where he was chosen as a
High Councilor in the Cache Stake
of Zion. For several years he also
acted as clerk of the First Ward of
Logan, and for eleven years as clerk
of the High Priests quorum of the
seven Wards of Logan. In 1897 he
again took up his residence in Evans-
ton, Wyoming, and when the Wood-
ruff Stake was organized in June,
1898, he was ordained a Patriarch of
that Stake June 6, 1898, by Heber J.
Grant. In 1900-1902 he filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain, laboring in the
Bristol conference. Brother Burton's
wife died June 14, 1892, leaving three
sons and six daughters. At the pres-
ent time (September, 1903) Brother
Burton's direct descendants number
nine children, thirty-two grand chil-
dren and ten great gi-and-chiklreu.

BROUGH, Samuel Richard, Bishop
of the Lyman Ward, Woodruff Stake
of Zion, is the son of Thomas Brough
and Jane Patterson, and was born
Aug. 20, 1857, in Madison county,
Illinois. The father was a native of
Elngland and the mother a native of
Scotland. Samuel emigrated with his
parents to Utah in 1864, and settled
in Morgan county. Here he was
baptized and ordained to the Aaronic
Priesthood, and became an active
member in several Church offices;
thus he served fifteen years as a
Sunday sdhiool secretary, lanid also
acted as Bishop's clerk for a numbetr
of years. In 1882 (June 2nd) he mar-
ried Pheba A. Cherry, and in 1886-
1890 he filled a mission to Great Bri-
tain. After labdring in the Welsh
mission thirty-one months, and pre-
siding over said mission the latter
half of this time, he was called to
preside over the Irish mission, where
he labored zealously eleven months;
then he was called to preside over
the Scottish mission, where he finish-
ed his labors, and returned home
Dec. 31, 1890. During his mission he
baptized over sixty persons. In May

1891, be was ordained a High Priest
by Apostle Abraham H. Cannon, and
called to labolr as one of the High
Council in the Morgan Stake of Zion.
In 1893 he moved to Fort Bridger,
Wyoming, and took up a homestead
on the bench formerly included in
the Fort Bridger reservation. When
a branch of the Church was subse-
quently organized there, he was call-

ed to preside over it. In 1898, when
the Owen Ward was first organized,
he was ordained a Bishop and ap-
pointed to preside over the same. He
still holds this position, though the
name of the Ward has been changed
from Owen to Lyman. His occupa-
tions through life have been general
merchandising and farming. He is
the father of twelve sons and five
daughters.

MUIR, Wm, Stewart, a Higb Coun-
celor in the Woodruff Stake of Zion,
was born Oct. 14, 1849, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, the son of Wm. Smith
Muir and Jane Stewart Robb. He
was baptized in June, 1859, at Bounti-
ful, Davis county, Utah; ordained a
Teacher and labored as such in a
local capacity in Bountiful, and when
that Ward was divided in 1877, he

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was chosen and ordained Bishop of
the West Bountiful Ward. He held
this position until 1885, when he re-
moved to Randolph, Rich county,
Utah. Since the organization of the
Woodruff Stake in ISitS he has acted
as a High Councilor and as a coun-
selor to Wm. H. Lee in the presidency
of the High Priests quorum of that
Stake. In early lUah days he was
a member of the militia, and served
in the Indian wars of 1865 and 1866

in England when about eight years of
age, and emigrated to Utah in 1854.
His parents and an older sister died
on the plains, and on his arrival in
Utah he was the older of four
orphans. He resided in Salt Lake
City until 1871, when he settled at
Riandolph, where he has lived ever
since. For many years he was a
member of the Utah militia and fol-
lowed the plains in early days as a
freighter and worker for the over-

as an escort to Pres. Daniel H. Wells.
He went east with the last Church
train sent out after emigrants to the
terminus of the Union Pacific Rail-
road in 1868. Elder Muir has mar-
ried two wives, namely, Susan V.
Grant and Jane F. Barlow, by whom
he tas had seventeen children. In
1892 he was arrested on the charge
of unlawful cohabitation and was
fined $428, including costs. He is a
carpenter, dairyman and farmer by
occupation.

SNOWBALL, John, Ward clerk and
historian of Randolph, Rich county,
Utah, (Woodruff Stake), was born
Aug. 22, 1840, at Newcastle-on-Tyne,
England, the son of Thomas Snowball
and Elizabeth Carr. He was baptized

land mail comipiany, etc. He wag
also a member of the first surveying
party of the Union Pacific Railroad
in 1864. Elder Snowball was ordained
an Elder Oct. 21, 1880, by James W\
Cummings, ordained a Seventy July
19, 1890, by Christian D. Fjeldsted,
and ordained a High Priest Sept. IZ,
18.:)5, by Wm. Budge. Ho has acted
as Ward le?cher about twenty years,
labored as a home missionary in the
Bear Lake Stake, bien a Y. M. L
A. officer, president of an Elders;
cuiorum, and Ward clerk and historian
of Randolph Ward since 1893. In 1865
(Dec. 5th) he married Mary S0ren-
son, by whom he has had eleven
children. By occupation he is a
farmer and stock-raiser. He . has
served as abstractor and notary pub-

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lie for twenty years, and has also
served as constable, deputy sheriff,
justice of the peace, county recorder,
county clerk, county attorney, pro-
bation officer for Rich county, etc.

YOUNGBERG, Carl Gustaf, Bishop
of the Woodruff Ward, Woodruff
Stake of Zion. was born March 2G,
1876, near Norrk0ping, Sweden, the
son of Carl L. Youngberg and Johan-
na M. Petterscn. He emigrated to

I'tah in May. 1893, was baptized Aug.
3, 1893, by Wm. Drage, in Big Cotton-
wood, Salt Lake county; ordained a
Deacon in December, 1894, by Bishop
David Brinton, and an Elder April 12,
1897, by David O. Olander; moved
to Fort Bridger, Wyoming, in 1898,
and helped to build up that country.
In 1898 (June 8th) he was ordained
a High Priest and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Samuel R.
Brough, of the Lyman Ward, by
Abraham O. Woodruff. He married
Augusta E. Olend Oct. 12, 1898;
acted as surerintendent of the Lyman
Ward Sunday school from 1899 to
1902; filled a mission to Scandinavia
in 1902-1904, laboring a part of the
time. in the Halmstad branch, Sweden,
and later as president of the Gothen-
burg conference. In returning home

he had charge of a company of emi-
grants and returning Elders. After
his return he again acted as superin-
tendent of the Liman Ward Sunday
school, until he, m August. 1905, was
called to act as Bishop of the Wood-
ruff Ward. He was ordained to that
office August 0, 1905, by Apostle
Rudger Clawson.

CALL, Anson Charles, a High Coun-
cilor in the Woodruff Stake of Zion,
was born March 29, 1854, in Fillmore,

Millard county. Utah, the son of
Josiah Call and Henriette C. Wil-
liams. His father was killed by the
Indians in 1858 and Anson moved to
Bountiful, Davis county, in 1859. He
married Charlotte L. Brown in
December, 1872, and settled in 1874
at Woodruff, Rich county, where he
engaged in farming and stock-raising.
He has acted a^ sheriff of Rich coun-
ty twelve years, and as county com-
missioner three terms. In Church
positions he has labored as a Ward
teacher, Sunday school teacher, a
home missionary, and president of
Y. M. M. I. A. In 1886 (July 25th)
he wias ordained a Seventy, and
later set apart as one of the presi-
dents of the 102nd quorum. In 1889
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Northwestern States, but released on
acount of important home duties. He
was ordained a High Priest June 7,
1898, and set a,part as a High Coun-
cilor in the Woodruff Stake. For
several years he has been a member
ef the Old Folks committee of the
Woodruff Stake. He is the father
of elevon children.

BALL, Thomas, a Patriarch in the
Summit Stake of Zion, was born
March 29, 1822, at the small town of
Ibstock, Leicestershire, Eng'land, the
son of Thomas Ball (a comb-maker)
and Ann Sheriff, who was a native of
Worcestershire. His grandfather,

whose name was Joseph Ball, was a
noted wrestler of his time, and for
several years won the wrestler's
prize (the cutting and use of a small
piece of meadow land, worth about
eight pounds a year.) Hi.s j;randmohh-
er's name was Bessie Shaw. These
grandparents owned and occupied the
"Old Farm," situated on the road be-
tween "Ashby De La Zouch" and
"Ravenstone," Leicestershire. Thomas
was married to Miss Susannah
Chamberlain of Earl Shilton, Leices-
tershire, Nov. 1, 1847. A number of
children were born to them, five of
whom grew to manhood and woman-
hood. Thomas Ball and his wife

joined the Church in 1848 and be-
came members of the Whitwick
branch in Leicestershire. Subse-
quently he presided over said branch
for nineteen years (from 1850 to
1869) or until he emigrated to Utah.
He was a sawyer by occupation and
had charge of a small steam saw-
mill at the Whitwick colliery during
half a lifetime. Soon after joining
the Church he had rather an impres-
sive dream, which portrayed to him
some scenes of Church history, and .
the personalities of the Prophet Jo-
seph Smith and his brother Hyrum,
laying in their coffins, and others. In
his dream a hymn was sung to him,
the tune and words of which he was
utterly unacquainted with. The
dream having impressed him greatly
he called the next day upon a Sis-
ter Bailey, to whom he related the
dream and kindly asked her to sing
over what Church hymn tunes she
could think of. She did so, and at
length came to the hymn commencing
with "When we came to the place
where the two martyrs lay." "That
is the very tune and the very words
that I heard in my dream," he said.
He had never heard them before. In
the early days when a great deal of
out-door preaching was done in Eng-
land by the native Elders, Brother
Ball, as president of the Whitwick
branch, took a very active part in
these meetings, devoting nearly every
Sunday in the summer season to
preach the Gospel in the villages and
towns adjacent to his place of resi-
dence. Thus he became the means of
bringing many to a knowledge of the
truth. While thus engaged he and
his associates were frequently sub-
jected to rough usage from the hands
of the populace. Emigrating to Utah
in 1869, Brother Ball located at Coal-
ville, Summit county, and was for a
number of years employed by the
railroad company as a transfer agent
for the coal shipped from the old
Summit county railway to the Union
Pacific railroad at Echo. After act-
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missionary and High Counselor, etc.,
in the Summit Stake of Zion, he was
finally chosen as a counselor to Wm.
W. Cluff, the president of the Stake.
In 1876-78 he filled a successful mis-
sion to England, presiding a part of
the time over the Nottingham con-
ference. Soon after his return home
he was ordained a Patriarch in the
Summit Stake of Zion. During his
residence in Coalville he filled several
civil offices, such as school trustee,
•justice of the peace, etc. In 1882 he
was elected county treasurer for
Summit county and also served as a
city councilor in Coalville, where he
resided at the tinie of his death,
which occurred July 17, 1905. His
wife, Susannah, preceded him to the
great beyond, she having died Sept.
14, 1893.

COPLEY, Thomas, a Patriarch in
the Summit Stake of Zion, was born
Sept. 18, 1827, at Pilley, Yorkshire,
England, the son of Joseph Copley
and Susan Harper. When about sev-
enteen years old he heard an Elder

of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints preach for the first
time, but he did not embrace the gos-
pel until he was nearly twenty-one
years old, being then baptized, Aug.

7, 1848, by James Wadsworth, and
confirmed Aug. 12, 1848, by Mordeci
Travis. Later he was ordained a
Teacher and subsequently a Priest.
From this time on he was an active
worker in the Pilley branch of the
Church, until he emigrated from Eng-
land in January, 1851. He sailed from
Liverpool in the ship "Ellen," going
by way of New Orleans, and was on
the ocean ten weeks. He traveled
from New Orleans to Alton, 111.,
where he with some others found
work and stayed for one year. Some
of the company returned to England.
Speaking of this he says, "I am
thankful I came to Utah." He ar-
rived in Utah in 1852 and was or-
dained an Elder. He was ordained
a Seventy April 9, 1853, and became a
member of the Seventh quorum. In
1855 he engaged himself to work for
Bryant Stringham, who at this time
had charge of the Church cattle and
horses. After this he always had a
home to go to, and of this time he
says: "I worked fifteen years for the
Church, and this time of my life was
as pleasant as any of my earthly
career." Bro. Copley was one of
those who responded to the call for
men to go to Deer Creek in 1857.
Early in May, before this call came,
he with three companions were at the
Church ranch in Cache valley one day
when forty Snake Indians on the
war path came upon them, but an
afwise Providence overruled their de-
cision and they rode away leaving
their white brother unharmed. Bro.
Copley served on the Deer Creek Mis-
sion during the summer of 1858, or
until the United States took the mail
from the people, when the brethren
"moved in." In May, 1858, Bro. Cop-
ley attended the funeral of Pres. Jo-
seph Young's oldest son. During the
services Bro. George Grant came to
him with a letter, saying, "Take this
to William Godbe and tell him that
he is called to go with you and that
you are to go on until you get what
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the letter they learned that they
were instructed to j?o to San Bernar-
dino for certain articles belonging' to
Col. Kane. They went as far as Ce-
dar City and here they met Apostles
Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C.
Rich, who advised Wm. Godbe to con-
tinue the journey with John Hunt and
Bro. Copley to return to Salt Lake
City with a letter to Pres. Brigham
Young. On this trip Bro. Copley
traveled six hundred miles in six days
on horse-back. From 1858 to 1864
he lived in Salt Lake City and on An-
telope Island in the Great Salt Lake.
He married Mary A. Wignall March
18, 1861. In 1864 he was sent to take
charge of the Church mine in Grass
Creek Canyon. Here he lived and
worked until 1873, when the man-
agement of the mine was changed.
He then moved to Coalville, where
he still resides. April 5, 1869, he
married Mary Ann Beard, who is the
mother of eight children, but only
two of them are living. Later Bro.
Copley was set apart as senior pres-
ident of the twenty-seventh quorum
of Seventy by Seymour B. Young. He
held this position for eighteen years.
He has also acted as teacher and as-
sistant superintendent of Sunday
schools at different times and was a
Ward teacher 40 years. He was or-
dained a Patriarch Aug. 4, 1902, by
Apostle Rudger Clawson. In 1911 he
was called by the Bishop to act as
a special teacher to visit the people
in their homes whenever he could.
This calling he is still filling with
pleasure. Although Bro. Copley is
nearing his eighty-sixth birthday his
health is good, his mind bright and
active, and his testimony of the di-
vinity of the Gospel as revealed to
Joseph Smith grows brighter as the
years advance, with a full assurance
of its final triumph on the earth.

CHANDLER, James Jarvis, a Patri-
arch in the Rigby Stake of Zion,
Idaho, was born July 16, 1849, at
Eynesbury, Hunts, England, the son
of Samuel Chandler and Mary Jarvis.

His Parents joined the Church in 1854
and the subject of this sketch was
baptized in the spring of 1858. Al-
though very fond of studying, he was
obliged to leave school and go to
work when less than eight years old.
In the spring of 1866, being assisted
by friends in Utah, the Chandler fam-
ily left England for the gath'u-ing
place of the Saints in the Rocky
Mountains. They crossed the Atlantic
in the ship "Caroline," and the plains
in Horton D. Haight's ox-train. They
settled at Willard City, Boxelder
county, where James J. resided until
1901. By hard study and a little
schooling he acquired sufficient edu-
cation to take up school teaching,
which avocation he followed the
greater part of the time from 1875
to 1905; since that time farming has
been his avocation. Soon after his
arrival in Utah he was ordained an
Elder and acted for several year? as
the clerk of his quorum. He also
acted as secretary of the Willard
Sunday school and subsequently was
teacher of the Theological class. For
four years, commencing with J 882,
he taught school for the Lamanites
at Washakie, Malad valley. While
there he was ordained a Seventy,
Nov. 12, 1883, by Seymour B. Young,
and appointed one of the presidency
of the 52nd quorum. In 1886-88 he
filled a mission to England, laboring
in the Norwich and London confer-
ences; he presided a part of the time
over the Norwich conference. In 1893
he became a president of the 59 th
quorum of Seventy. In 1901 he
moved to Rigby, Idaho, where he, on
May 11, 1903, was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as a m"emb-3r
of the High Council of the Bingha!n
Stake by Apostle A. O. WoodrulT. In
1874 (Oct. 7th) he married Harriet
E. Cordon (daughter of the late Bish-
op Alfred Cordon), who has borne
him ten children, seven of whom are
now living. In 1884 (May 21st) he
married Mary Ann Williams, of Sa-
maria. She died Sept. 5, 1893, leav-
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are still living. The elder has filled
a mission to the Northern States. P'or
ten years Elder Chandler acted as
Ward clerk in Willard and has held
the same position in Rigby since
1901. When the Rigby Stake of Zion
was organized Feb. 3, 1908, he was
set apart as a member of the High
Council, and in 1912 (June 2nd) he
was orlained a Patriarch by Apostle
George F. Richards. He has also
been principal teacher of the Parents
Class in Rigby ever since its or-
ganization.

CHRISTOFFERSON, Rasmus, first
counselor in the Bishopric of the
Lynne Ward, North Weber Stake,
Utah, is the son of Christoffer
Rasmussen and Karen Clauson,
and was born Dec. 23, 1837,
tized Feb. 8, 1859, at Silestrup,

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Denmark. He was baptized Feb.
8, 1859, at Silestrup; ordained
a Priest in 1859 by Mads Jor-
genscn; ordained an Elder in
1859 by Rasmus Nielsen, and
labored as a local missionary in
Jutland, Denmark, from 1859 to
1861. In 1861 he emigrated to Utah
and located in Salt Lake City, where
he remained until 1863. He was or-

dained a Seventy in 1862. In 1863 he
;ivent to Sanpete county, where he re-
sided for one year, after which he
moved to Weber county, where he has
resided continuously ever since. On
Sept. 13, 1863, he married Bodil
Christine Jensen Bosen, who has
borne him one son. In 1864 Elder
Christofferson responded to a call to
settle Circle Valley, in southern
Utah, and during the years of 1881-
1883 he filled a successful mission to
Scandinavia, laboring in the Copen-
hagen conference, Denmark. At
home he has labored diligently as a
Ward teacher, as president of Scan-
dinavian meetings at Lynne for a
number of years, and as Bishop's
counselor from 1877 to 1908; other-
wise he has served as water master
in Lynne twenty-six years, as a
school trustee six years, as constable
four years and as juror seven terms.
He participated in the Black Hawk
Indian war in Sanpete county and in
Circle Valley in 1864-1867. He was a
farmer by occupation, and his home
was always known for its hospitality.
Thousands of travelers, beside the
local residents who have been in
need; have had their wants liberally
supplied through the kindness and
hospitality of Brother and Sister
Christofferson. On Nov. 26, 1908,
(Thanksgiving day). Elder Chris-
toflTerson was honoi-ed with a visit
from his two associates in the re-
tiring Bishopric, two members of the
High Council of the North Weber
Stake, 'the succeeding Bishopric and
a number of prominent members of
the Ward. The occasion was to pre-
sent him with a beautiful arm chair
as a token of remembrance from the
people of the Lynne Ward as con-
stituted while he was a member of
the Bishopric. Respected and be-
loved by all, Elder Christofferson de-
parted this life Sept. 17, 1910, at his
home in Lynne, Utah.

GREEN, Niels Frederik Haahr
Nielsen, an active elder of literary
ability in Ogden, Utah, was born Jan.

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28, 1863, at 01p:od, Ribe amt, Den-
mark, the son of Jens Christian Niel-
sen Green and Else Cathrine Haahr.
He joined the Latter-day Saints in
Copenhagen, Denmark, beinjr baptized
Feb. 2, 1885, and at once became an
active member of the Copenhag:en
branch, laboring as secretary of the
Copenhagen conference and of the
branch Sunday school, etc. He was
ordained successively to the office of
Deacon, Teacher and Priest, and he
was ordained an Elder Sept. 7, 1890,
by Christian D. Fjeldsted. In 1893
he emigrated to Utah and the next
year (April 11th) he married Dagmar
Holgine Ingri Hansen, with whom
he has had five children, two boys
and three girls. Bro. Green received
a liberal education in his native land,
and acted as a school teacher in the
Romdrup and Clarup combined
Church schools one year after having
graduated from the Blaagaard Semi-
nary in Copenhagen. After his ar-
rival in Utah he located in Ogden,
where he soon became an active
Church worker. As a contributor to
current literature he has written
many excellent religious and politi-
cal articles and poems, most of which
have appeared in the "Improvement
Era" and "Bikuben." Elder Green is
still a resident of Ogden and con-
tinues to write articles for the
papers.

HANKS, Walter Ernest. Bishop
and Patriarch, was born June 19,
1865, in Provo Valley, Wasatch coun-
ty, Utah, the son of Ephraim K.
Hanks and Tisbe Read. He was bap-
tized in 1874 by Joseph Snider at
Parley's Park, Utah, ordained a Dea-
con in 1880, a Teacher in 1881, an
Elder in 1883 by Ephraim K. Hanks,
a Seventy April 9, 1887, by Franklin
D. Richards, and a High Priest April
8, 1893, by Francis M. Lyman. In
1887 to 1888, responding to a call
from the authorities of the Church,
he settled at Caineville, where he
presided as Bishop from 1892 to 1909.
Prior to his removal to Caineville he

acted as Sunday school teacher, sec-
retary of Y. M. M. I. A. in the Teas-
dale Ward, Ward teacher, home mis-
sionary, etc. In 1887 (April 15th),
he married Mary E. Stewart, with
whom he has had eight children. He
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Valley, Pleasant Creek, Teasdale and
Caineville. He has practically been
a pioneer all his life and was with
the first wagon that ran through Cap-
ital Wash in 1883. He also ran the
first electric street car that made a
regular trip in Salt Lake City, in
1889. Bro. Hanks has principally fol-
lowed farming and stock-raising for
• a living and was for a number of
years a forest ranger on the Aqua-
rius Reserve. In 1909 Caineville suf-
fered severely from the effects of a
flood, after which Bishop Hanks
moved to Grover, Wayne county, his
present residence, having been Hon-
orably released from his position as
Bishop in Caineville after serving in
that capacity eighteen years. For
three years after this he served as
Stake president of Y. M. M. I. A. in
the Wayne Stake and has been a
member of the Stake High Council
for four years. He was also presi-
dent of the High Priests' Quorum
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■the Wayne Stake in August, 1912, by
Apostle Francis M. Lyman.

HODSON, William, Bishop of the
Coalville North Ward, Summit coun-
ty, Utah, from 1889 to 1895, was
born Aug. 30, 1841, at Quarrington,
county of Durham, England, and be-
came a member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Dec. 5, 1853, at Schinkliff, county of
Durham, England. Soon after he
njoved to Kelloe and was made
branch clerk. Together with his fa-
ther and mother, one brother and one
sister, he left Kelloe Nov. 16, 1856,
set sail from Liverpool Nov. 18.
185G, in the ship "Columbia," with a
company of Saints numbering 223, in
charge of John Williams, and ar-

rived at New York Jan. 1, 1857. He
attended a conference in New York
City April 6, 1857, presided over by
Apostle John Taylor, Apostles Parley
?. Pratt and Geo. A. Smith also being
present. In April, 1857, he, with his
family, moved to Maryland, to a place
called Eckhart-Mines. About that
time Elder Angus M. Cannon or-
jjanized a branch of the Church in
which Bro. Hodson was appointed
clerk. After residing there about two
years he moved with his father's fam-
ily to Mason City, West Virginia.

While there he was ordained a Priest
and made president of the local
branch. Times being dull, he, in pur-
suit of work traveled by river and
rail in the States of Kentucky, Mis-
souri and Illinois during the winter of
1859-60, returning home to Mason
City April 16, 1860. During the civil
war he had to leave home on two oc-
casions as tha Confederate army was
invading the country near by. He
married Isabella Williamson Dec. 25,
1861. In the year 1862 he moved to
Syracuse, Ohio. After a short time
the work slackened and being very
anxious to obtain means with which
to purchase an outfit to go to Utah,
he decided to leave home and go to
Ironton, where he could earn more
means. While there he met with an
accident which disabled him from
work for one week. He went home
and after resuming work at Syra-
cuse he did exceedingly well finan-
cially. A certain reader of the fu-
ture at this time told his wife that
she and her husband would soon take
a long journey by water and would
meet a man and woman who, accord-
ing to the description given, were
thought to be Bro. Hodson's uncle
and aunt, John and Margaret Robin-
son. The four of them would then
join a large company and travel by
land a long distance. When about
half way on this journey a mob would
arise and all in the company would be
killed except six and he would be one
of that six and would reach his des-
tination in six months. June 2, 1863
Bro. Hodson took steamboat passage
on the Ohio river, together with his
wife, and, traveling down the Ohio
and up the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers, they arrived in Omaha, where
they met his uncle and aunt, John
and Margaret Robinson, as predicted.
At Florence the four of them joined
John R. Young's independent com-
pany and started for Utah, July 7,
1863. While on the plains and near Ash
Hollow the cattle stampeded, first in
the night and then on the following
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women and one man were killed and
several others hurt. The company
reached Coalville, Utah, which place
Bro. Hodson made his home, and here
he was blessed with a family of four-
teen children — twelve by his first
wife and two by his second wife,
Julia Marie Christopherson, whom he
married June 10, 1872. In 1870 his fa-
ther's family came to Coalville, where
his father and mother lived until their
death. The father died Jan. 6, 1879,
and the mother Nov. 14, 1895. Both
were buried at Coalville. The brother
now resides in Idaho and the sister
in Salt Lake City. Elder Hodson
held many important positions in
Coalville. He acted as school trustee
for several terms and was city sur-
veyor two years (1877-78). He was
elected city councilor three successive
tei-ms, from 1877 to 1893, and acted
as one of the school board to exam-
ine school teachers as to their quali-
fication for the years 1879-80. He
assisted in organizing the Coalville
Co-op. Mercantile Institution, where
he worked several years, fii'st as as
salesman and afterwards as book-
keeper. He figured in the develop-
ment of the coal mines, being a half
owner in the Robinson coal mine, and
in the Fletcher-Hodson coal mi,ne on
Grass Creek. He also opened and
worked what is known as the Hod-
son-Olson coal mine in Coalville,
thereby employing many miners and
coal-haulers. He took an interest in
every enterprise that was started in
Coalville, for the building up of the
country, to the fullest extent of his
means; such as the Summit County
Railroad, running from Echo to the
mines in Coalville, also the Utah
Eastern Railroad, which runs from
Coalville to Park City. These roads
gave considerable employment to the
citizens of Summit county, which was
a much needed help. To the own-
ers, however, these roads wei-e fail-
ures financially, as the U. P. Rail-
road paralelled those lines by building
a railroad from Echo to Park City,
necessitating the former lines to cease

business. Elder Hodson also took
part in organizing a cattle company
and a grist mill company, expending
considerable means therein, which
also proved a loss financially, but all
tended to the building up of the
country and in the end was a great
benefit, and he does not regret help-
ing to start those enterprises. He
acted as secretary and treasurer for
the Summit Stake Tabernacle from
its commencement in 1878 to its com-
pletion in 1898; this building cost
about $60,000. He officiated as coun-
selor to Bishop Robt. Salmon, of the
Coalville Ward, from the organiza-
tion of the Summit Stake July 9,
1877, until Coalville was divided into
three Wards, when he was made
Bishop of the Coalville North Ward.
He was ordained Bishop by Apostle
Franklin D. Richards Feb. 17, 1889,
and acted in that capacity until the
north and south Wards were joined
together in February, 1895. He acted
as Stake tithing clerk for several
years, acted as superintendent of the
Coalville Sunday school during the
absence of Supt. John Boyden while
on a mission to England and for
some time after his return, when
Elder Boyden resumed his position.
Bro. Hodson acted as Ward teacher
many years and also filled the posi-
tion of Ward clerk. He did the first
day's work on the Coalville tithing
office foundation; with his compass
he also gave the corners for the
Summit Stake tabernacle at Coalville.
The reorganization of the Summit
Stake took place April 21, 1901. On
Monday, May 6, 1901, he was sus-
tained as a High Councilor and on
Sunday, May 19, 1§01, was set apart
as such by Pres. Joseph F. Smith.
This position he still holds. He has
taken great interest in Temple work
and has officiated for many of his
dead relatives. At present (1913) he
resides at Kamas, Utah, with his
daughters, Margaret Elizabeth Pack
(who has four children), Mary Isabell
Shepherd (who has three children)
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children). Both his wives died many
years ago at Coalville. Of the re-
mainder of his family Ann W. Rhead
resides at Plain City, Utah (she has
three boys); Sara J. Carruth resides
at Blackfoot, Idaho (she has four
boys); John T. Hodson resides in Salt
Lake City (he has three girls and
tviro boys); Benjamin F. Hodson
(has one boy), and Edward E.
Hodson is as yet unmarried.

IRONS, John Wilbert, Bishop of
Moroni, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Nov. 21, 1823, in New Jersey,
the son of John W. Irons and Hes-
ter Applegate. He was raised on a
farm and became a Latter-day Saint

KING, Thomas Owen, Bishop of

Almo Ward, Idaho (Cassia Stake of
Zion), is the son of Thomas King^
and Hannah Tapfield, and wa.s born
April 27, 1840, at Dernford, Dale
farm, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, Eng-
land. He was baptized in 1852 by-
Claudius V. Spencer. Together with
his parents he emigrated to America
in 1853, crossing the ocean on board
the sailing vessel "Golconda," land-
ing at New Orleans. They crossed
the plains in Claudius V. Spencer's ox-
team company and on arriving in
Utah they settled in the Seventeenth
Ward, Salt Lake City. Early in 1857
Thomas was employed with the Young
Express company in carrying mail

in 1860. In 1863 he came to Utah,
crossing the plains in Capt. Wm. B.
Preston's ox train. After spending
the winter in Salt Lake City he set-
tled in Moroni, Sanpete county, in the
spring of 1864 and resided there until
the time of his death. He took an
active part in the Black Hawk war
as captain of a company of infantry.
In 1877 he was appointed Bishop of
Moroni, which position he filled until
his demise at that place Sept. 17,
1901. With Deborah P. Lippincott,
whom he married April 24, 1844, he
had four children.

and express across the plains. Dur-
ing the so-called "Johnston War" he
remained in active service from the
beginning to its close, performing
military duties under John D. T. Mc-
Allister and Thomas Rich at Fort
Bridger, Green river. Fort Supply and
Hams Fork. In 1860 he was engaged
with the Pony Express as a rider.
He also did his full share of pio-
neer work, and participated in the
Indian troubles and wars of those
days, having been especially active in
1858, when a band of horse-thieving
Indians were pursued to the west by
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of whom he was one. Again in 1867,
while at the South Pass mine, in com-
pany with James Brown and others,
they were surrounded by hostile In-
dians and four of the company were
killed. As a young man (in 1856-57)
Brother King was engaged with the
surveying parties doing work in San-
pete valley and on the Sevier river,
but his chief occupation has been that
of a farmer and stockraiser. Bro.
King, at the age of seventeen, was
ordained an Elder by Hiram Mikesell,
the ordination taking place March 7,
1857, and for a number of years he
acted as a Ward teacher in the Sev-
enteenth Ward. He was ordained a
Seventy Sept. 22, 1860, by John V.
Long. From September, 1860, to No-
vember, 1864, he performed mission-
ary work in Great Britain, where he
labored in the Wiltshire, London and
Bedfordshire conferences, serving as
president of the latter conference. In
1878 he moved to Idaho, settling on
Governor Emery's ranch on Raft
river. Cassia county, where he re-
mained till 1880, when he took up
a ranch for himself, where Almo is
now located; here he still lives.
After taking an acting part in the
building up of that new settlement,
both spiritually and temporally, he
was finally ordained a High Priest
and Bishop in 1887 by Apostle John
W. Taylor and set apart to preside
over the Almo Ward. Bishop King
married Dorcas Debenham May 23,
1868, who bore him eight children, five
of whom are still living.

LINDSAY, Philemon, Bis-hop of the
Ovid Wai'd, Bear Lake county, Idaho,
is a son of Wm. B. Lindsay and Per-
melia Ann Blackmun and was born
Aug. 23, 1867, at Kaysville, Davis
county, Utah. In July, 1866, he was
baptized by Thos. Slight. Subse-
quently he was ordained a Deacon and
later an Elder, became a Seventy in
1884 and a High Priest and Bishop
July 15, 1888, being ordained by Wm.
Budge and set apart to preside over
the Ovid Ward, in which capacity he

still serves. In 1886-88 he filled a
mission to the Southern States, la-
boring in Tennessee, North Carolina
and Virginia. At home he has al-
ways been a consistant Church work-
er, having acted as Sunday school and
Ward teacher for many years. In
1881 (Sept. 29th) he married Marin-

tha Atbay, who has borne him ten
children, five boys and five girls.
Since 1886 he has been a resident of
Ovid, having previously resided in
Davis county, Utah. His chief occu-
pations have been saw-milling, farm-
ing and stock-raising; for five years
he was foreman of the Temple saw-
mill in Logan canyon. He has also
served his fellow-citizens as county
coroner and county commissioner in
Bear Lake county.

MECHAM, Leonidas Smart, a High

Councilor in the Bannock Stake of
Zion, is the son of Leonidas A. Me-
cham and Eliza Smart, and was born
May 10, 1877, at Franklin, Idaho.
When eight years of age he was bap-
tized by Peter Preece. His ordina-
tions to and promotion in the Priest-
hood took place in the following or-
der: He was ordained an Elder Nov.
4, 1896, by James A. Leishman; a
Seventy Nov. 9, 1896, by Pres. Sey-
mour B. Young and a High Priest
Oct. 27, 1901, by Wm. H. Mendenhall.

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From 1896 to 1898 he filled a mis-
sion to the Northern States, where he
labored chiefly in Nebraska and South
Dakota. He labored as a Mutual Im-

on March 5, 1865, he was ordained an m\
Elder. The same year (1865) he em-B
igrated to Utah with his wife and six
children. On arriving in Utah he set-

provement missionary in the Salt
Lake Stake from November, 1898, to
February, 1899. In 1900 (Dec. 5th)
he married Charlotte May Tolman.
His bread-winning occupations have
been herding, ranching, clerking and
sheep-raising. He has formerly re-
sided in Franklin, Chesterfield and
Riverdale, Idaho, and Cardston, Can-
ada.

NIELSEN, Christen (Miller), an

active Elder in the Pleasant Grove
Ward, Alpine Stake, Utah, was born
Jan. 3, 1832, in Hormested, Hjorring
amt, Denmark, the son of Niels C.
Cbristensen and Magdale Christen-
sen. His parents being poor he had
to seek employment in his early
youth, and he became apprenticed to
learn the miller's trade. In 1851 he
first heard of the doctrines of "Mor-
monism," but was not baptized until
Feb. 14, 1864. For eight years he
managed a commission store in the
city of Hjorring. During the war be-
tween Denmark and Germany in 1864
he served as a corporal in the Danish
army. On Nov. 6, 1864, he was or-
dained a Teacher in the Church and

tied in Salt Lake City, where he lived
about seven years; he then moved to
Pleasant Grove, Utah county, where
he resided continuously till his death.
He was ordained a Seventy March 30,
1884, by Wm. W. Taylor. In 1885-87
he filled a mission to Scandinavia,
where he labored chiefly in the Aal-
borg conference, Denmark. From May
8, 1890, till his demise he presided
over the Scandinavian meetings in
Pleasant Grove. He married Chris-
tine Marie Nielsen in 1856, who, after
bearing him thirteen children, died
Dec. 8, 1905, in Pleasant Grove, be-
ing seventy-six years old. At the
time of his wife's death he had fifty-
one grandchildren and twenty-five
great grandchildren. Elder Nielsen
died in Pleasant Grove Sept. 19, 1907.

MOODY, Francis Winfred, presi-
dent of the High Priest's quor-
um in the St. Joseph Stake, Arizona,
was born Aug. 26, 1858, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, the son of John Monroe
Moody and Elizabeth Pool. He was
baptized in 1866 in St. George, Utah,
whence he had moved in the fall of
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sided about twenty years, participat-
ing in all the hardships encountered
by the Saints in settling southern
Utah. He was ordained to the lesser
Priesthood and subsequently to the
office of an Elder and assisted in
the building of the St. George Tem-
ple. He completed his education in
the B. Y. Academy at Provo. In the
spring of 1881 he removed to Arizona

and was one of the first settlers of
Thatcher. While residing temporarily
in Pima Ward he acted as a Sunday
school officer, and later as Sunday
school superintendent in Thatcher
Ward, where he also labored as the
first acting teacher. In 1884 (Nov.
4th) he was ordained a High Priest
by Brigham Young, Jr., and set apart
to act as second counselor to Bishop
Samuel Claridge, which position he
held until January, 1898. From 1884 to
1890 he acted as Ward clerk in
Thatcher, and as Stake clerk from
1892 to 1898. As a Sunday school
worker, as an active Ward teacher, as
a member of Ward choirs, as clerk
of the High Priests quorum and as a
home missionary Elder Moody has
ever been diligent and efficient in his
labors. In 1882 (Nov. 7th) he mar-
ried Melinda Gimlin Lewis, who died
July 24, 1903, after giving birth to'
eleven children, five boys and six
girls. Four boys and five girls, who
survived her, are still living.

SORENSEN, Niels, a prominent
Elder of the Blackfoot Ward, Idaho,
was born March 10, 1859, at Klarup,
Aalborg amt, Denmark, the son of
Soren Mikkelsen and Kirsten Nielsen.
He was baptized in Denmark, Aug.
21, 1884, and emigrated to Utah in
1885. He settled in Chesterfield,
Idaho, where he resided sixteen years
and thence removed to Blackfoot in
the fall of 1902. While residing at
Blackfoot he has been active as
Ward clerk, president of the Ward
teachers, home missionary, etc. In
1880 (May 3rd) he married a wife
who bore him nine children, eight
boys and one girl. Bro. Sorensen is
a farmer and stock-raiser by occupa-
tion and still resides at Blackfoot,
Idaho.

TUFTS, Josiah, presiding Elder at
Meadowville, Rich county, Utah, from .
1870 to 1877, v/as born July 30, 1838,
in the State of Maine, the son of
Elbridge Tufts and Elmira Pinkham.
In the spring of 1843, when about
five years old, he removed with his
parents to Nauvoo, Illinois, and
throughout his life he had a distinct
recollection of the Prophet Joseph.
Smith. The Tufts family partici-
pated in the migration westward in
1846, being expelled from Nauvoo by-
the mob, together with their co-re-
ligionists. They came to G. S. L.
Valley in 1848 and located in the
Eighth Ward, where the father died
Nov. 27, 1850. Josiah participated as
a young man in many of the hard-
ships incident to pioneer life. In 1851
he became one of the settlers of Brig-
ham City, working there as a boy for
the pioneer, Harvey Peirce. In 1856
he accompanied his mother on a visit
to the States and returned to Utah
in 1860. Later he crossed the plains
again as a teamster, and still later
hired out with a company of twenty-
five others to help construct the tele-
graph line between Fort Bridger and
Salt Lake City. In 1864 (Feb. 13th)
he married Charlotte Spriggs, who-
bore him eight children. In 1869 h&
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ley, together with about two hundred
and fifty others. He located at Mea-
dowville, where he was appointed p^'e-
siding Elder by Apostle Charles C.
Rich. He filled that position about
eight years, or until the Meadowville
branch was regularly organized as a
Bishop's Ward. From the tim« he
joined the Church until the day of
his death, Sept. 24, 1912, at Basalt,
Idaho, Elder Tufts labored faithfully
in the interests of the Church and
raised a large family. Some of his
children are, at the present time, ac-
tive and faithful members of the
Church. Bro. Tuft's main occupation
was farming and stock-raising and
as a public-spirited man he was
elected to a number of civil offices.
Thus he acted several terms as school
trustee, justice of the peace, etc.

TAYLOR, Levi James, Bishop of
Harrisville, North Weber Stake, Utah,
was born May 20, 1851, at Kaysville,

Davis county, Utah, the son of Pleas-
ant Green Taylor and Clara Lake. He
was baptized May 20, 1859, by his
father, ordained a Teacher in 1866,
ordained an Elder when yet a youth,
ordained a Seventy by his father,
ordained a High Priest March 4, 1893,
by Franklin D. Richards and ordained
a Bishop Sent. 1, 1895, by Franklin D.

Richards. On the later date he was
also set apart to preside over the Har-
risville Ward. In 1873 he went to
Arizona on a colonizing mission in
Horton D. Haight's company. He
spent about four months on that ex-
pedition, during which time he en-
dured many hardships. In 1882-84
he filled a mission to the Southern
States, where he labored chiefly in
Virginia and West Virginia. From
May to October, 1887, he served a
term in the Utah penitentiary for
"unlawful co-habitation" and in 1893
he was again incarcerated for "con-
science sake." For many years he
labored as a Ward teacher and also
acted as president of the Ward Y.
M. M. I. A. Being a member of the
original Sunday school organized in
Harrisville in 1865, he has been a reg-
ularly enrolled member of that or-
ganization ever since and for eight
years he acted as superintendent of
the school. From 1884 to 1893 he filled
the position of president of the 60th
quorum of Seventy, and from 1893 to
1895 he acted as second counselor to
his father. Bishop Pleasant Green
Taylor, of the Harrisville Ward. In
1871 (Nov. 13th) he married Nancy
J. Gates. In 1873 (Feb. 3rd) he mar-
ried Flora G. Bingham, and in 1875
(Nov. 30th) he married Josephine
Bingham. By these wives he became
the father of twenty-three children,
sixteen of whom are still living. Bish-
op Taylor is a farmer by occupation,
but followed school-teaching for about
ten years. For three terms he served
as justice of the peace of the Har-
risville precinct, where he has re-
sided since his infancy, having set-
tled there when only six months
old, with his parents.

Ward, David Henry, first counselor
in the Bishopric of the Elba Ward,
Cassia Stake, Idaho, is the son of
George Welton Ward and Mary Haw-
kinson and was born March 16, 1860,
at Willard, Box Elder county, Utah.
His baptism into the Church occurred
July 1, 1875, Shadrach Jones officiat-

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ing. He was later ordained an El-
der and subsequently a Seventy, and
he was ordained a High Priest Nov.
24, 1887, by Seymour B. Young-. From
July, 1901, to July, 1903, he labored
as a missionary in the Colorado mis-
sion. He has always been an active
Avorker in Church circles, having been
an oflBcer in the M. I. A. of Elba till
he became associated as a counselor
in the Bishopric of that Ward. He
married Synthia Matilda Zundell Feb.
6, 1880, who has borne him nine
children, five boys and four girls. In
civil positions his experience is con-
fined to having served one term as
county commissioner of Cassia
county. His chief occupation has been
farming and stock-raising. Elder
Ward lived in Willard City, Utah,
till 1882, when he moved to Cassia
county, Idaho, being among the first
settlers in that county. He has re-
sided continuously at Elba, Cassia
county, since 1883.

WEGGELAND, Danquart Anthon
(familiarly known as Dan Wegge-
land), a faithful Elder and Church
worker in the Second Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born March 31,
1827, in Christianssand, Norway, the
son of Aanon Samuelsen Weggeland
and Anne Norman. The following
sketch was prepared by Elder Wegge-
land himself for publication in the
Biographical Encyclopedia: "My
parents had a family of ten children,
four girls and six boys; three of the
girls and one of the boys died in
early childhood. My father died
when I was five years old, and my
mother was thus left a widow in 1832.
Father was a teacher in the public
schools and a choir leader in the state
church of Norway. After his death
a small yearly pension was granted
to my mother by the Norwegian gov-
ernment. I attended school from my
seventh to my ninth year, after which
I was sent to the city of Stavanger,
where my oldest brother and uncle re-
sided, and to which place my mother

and youngest brother also removed.
At the age of sixteen I commenced
to take lessons in drawing from an

old artist, Mr. Philip H. Kriebel, as I
had a natural desire to learn draw-
ing and painting. I made some
progress by practical labors and
studies in that line, and when I was
twenty years old I went to Copen
hagen, Denmark, where I was ap-
prenticed to a decorative painter by
the name of Gunzelnech. My money
allowance was very small indeed, but
my situation gave me an opportunity
to attend the drawing classes in the
Royal Art Academy during the win-
ter months. I received my painter's
certificate from the alderman, Mr.
Tilly, after completing the drawing
and painting of an ornament in plas-
ter of paris, which I sent to Stav-
anger, where it was exhibited in the
mechanical institute, and was greatly
admired. After sojourning two years
in Copenhagen I returned to Stav-
anger and took lessons in landscape
painting from Bernhardt Hansen and
I made a number of trips into the
Hardanger country and also crossed
the mountains to the eastern prov-
inces of Norway, painting and draw-
ing national costumes from Nume-
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engsfossen in Hardanger. This was
in the years 1851, 1852 and 1853. On
my travels I became acquainted with
two young artists of note, namely,
Adolph Tedeman and Hans Gude, who
had been studying the fine arts in
Germany, and had earned great fame
for these early days, but I was not
to enjoy the privilege of studying in
Dusseldorf or Munchen, where the
leading painting schools of Europe
were situated at that time. In 1855
I overheard a discussion on religion
between two persons, one of whom
was Elder Canute Peterson, a Mor-
mon missionary from Utah, and the
other an actor from Bergen. I did
not take much interest in religion at
that time, but I sought an interview,
nevertheless, with Elder Peterson,
who had just organized a small
branch of the Church in Stavanger,
and I bid him farewell as he left
the west coast of Norway to cross
over the mountains to Christiania. As
I had traveled through that country
the same way, I naturally felt inter-
ested in his journey, but otherwise
never expected to see him again. El-
der Peterson was succeeded in the
missionary field in and about Stavan-
ger by another Mormon Elder by the
name of Carl C. N. Dorius. who in-
vited me to attend the Mormon meet-
ings. At first I felt disinclined to ac-
cept of the invitation, but concluded
to attend once anyway, and I was
soon favorably impressed by the
forceful and spirited preaching of
Elders Dorius, who presented the first
principles of the Gospel of Christ by
an abundance of Bible proofs. After
a closer investigation, and after at-
tending a number of meetings, I took
a decided step toward "Mormonism"
by following Elder Dorius to Oster-
risor, a little city situated on the
south coast of Norway. Here I met
Elders Canute Peterson and C. C. A.
Christensen, at the residence of Sis-
ter Rolfsen, where some of the first
members of the Church in Norway
gathered for worship, and while so-
journing in this little city I was bap-

tized in the sea by Elder Peterson,
Sept. 21, 1855, and confirmed the
same night by C. C. A. Christensen.
I enjoyed myself thoroughly in the
society of mj' newly-made brethren
and Saints in Osterrisor, and I then
returned to Stavanger, where the
nev/s of my baptism had preceded me
and the consequence was a general
enmity and hatred toward me on the
part of my former friends and rela-
tives. This bitterness of feeling con-
tinued the whole winter. Having a
brother at North Shields, England,
who was engaged in the shipment of
coal by Norwegian ships, and who
had become a very popular man, I
decided to visit him, but when I met
him in England my experience was
similar to what I imagine it would be
if I, figuratively speaking, had
jumped from the frying pan into the
fire, as my brother did not take kindly
to the new religion which I had es-
poused. My acquaintance with the
Latter-day Saints in North Shields
commenced in the summer of 1856. I
painted portraits with great success
for the Jews, of which there were
quite a number in the city, but the
so-called Christians were here, as in
Norway, embittered against the Mor-
mons; this was not confined to the
members of the state church of Eng-
land, but the Methodists and other
sects also opposed us to the utmost.
In the spring of 1857 I received a
call from Pres. Orson Pratt to do mis-
sionary work in connection with El-
ders in Newcastle, Burham and Car-
lisle conferences, over which the late
William J. Smith, of Salt Lake Citj-,
presided as pastor. Early in 1858 all
the American Elders laboring in Eng-
land were called home on account of
the Johnston army troubles. I re-
mained in England till the spring of
1861, when I, with a company of em-
igrating Saints, sailed from Liverpool
on board the ship "Undei'writer,"'
which landed us safely in New York
May 22, 1861. This was only a few-
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South. Times were hard and work
scarce in the United States; paper
money had but little value and the
country seemed to be alive night and
day with military affaii-s and expe-
ditions. I remained in New York un-
til the summer of 1862, when I made
my way to Florence, Nebraska. Here
I met a great number of immigrants
from Europe and the United States,
who were making preparations to
cross the plains. I secured passage
in Captain Henry W. Miller's Church
train, which left Floi-ence Aug. 8,
1862, with sixty wagons and about six
hundred and sixty emigrants, and ar-
rived in Salt Lake City Oct. 17, 1863.
In crossing the plains and mountains
eighteen of us "inhabited" the same
tent and had our baggage hauled by
the same wag'on, but all able-bodied
men and women walked across the
plains, though there were four ox-
teams to each wagon. On our arrival
in the city we encamped on the
Eighth Ward square, where the City
and County building now stands. I
soon obtained employment in the
new theatre which had recently been
built and opened, and I worked at
painting stage scenery for that play-
house with much success. Quite a
number of Scandinavian Saints re-
sided in Salt Lake City at that time,
and we enjoyed many sociable gath-
erings together. In the spring of
1865 I married Andrine Mathea
Holm, with whom I had eight chil-
dren, six boys and two girls. She de-
parted this life in 1905 and four of
her children have also gone with her
beyond the veil. Ever since my first
arrival in Salt Lake City I have been
a resident of the Second Ward, and
though I am now over eighty-six
years old, I am still able to do some-
thing in my artistic line to earn a
living and to please my friends. My
present wife, Marritt P., is a great
help to me in my old age. I often
feel the loss of my dear old friends
and close associates, most of whom
have gone to the great beyond. I
hope and pray that I myself may re-

main faithful to the end and be
worthy to meet my former co-la-
borers in the ministry and a host of
dear friends that I have made dur-
ing my long sojourn in mortality."
Bro. Weggeland was ordained an
Elder in England in 1857 under the
sands of Elders William J. Smith and
Henry Lunt. He was ordained a
Seventy by Hyrum Mikesell and Alex-
ander Wright in 1869 and became a
member of the Fifteenth Quorum of
Seventy; subsequently he acted as a
counselor in the presidency of said
quorum. A number of years ago he
was ot'dained a High Priest and is at
present a member of the High
Priests quorum in the Liberty Stake
of Zion. Elder Weggeland is a man
of strong and marked individuality
and is also universally known as an
honest, industrious and zealous Lat-
ter-day Saint, ever true to his God,
his family, his brethren and the
cause which he espoused in his early
youth. He is not endowed with
much worldly goods, but he has al-
ways been on hand to respond with
his time and talent in beautifying the
temples of the Lord and other houses
of worship, and as an artist he stands
in the front rank of the artists of
Utah, hailing from the countries of
the north.

WHITING, Edward Lucian, a High
Councilor in the Union Stake of Zion,
Oregon, was born Jan. 28, 1846, in
Nauvoo, Hancock county. 111. He was
the first son of Edwin Whiting and
Almyra Meacham and among the first
polygamist children born in the
Church. Shortly after his birth, his
father's house and other buildings
were burned by a mob and the fam-
ily were driven out of Nauvoo. They
took up temporary quarters at Mt.
Pisgah, Iowa, with other exiled
Saints. In the spring of 1849 the
family started across the plains for
Utah and the mother had to drive her
own team much of the way. The
journey was completed late in the fall
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few days' rest the travel-worn family
with fifteen or twenty others was sent
as pioneers into Sanpete valley, a dis-
tance of about one hundred and fifty
miles. They were the first settlers
south of Salt Lake City. The first
winter was spent in dugouts on the
south side of the hill where the Tem-
ple now stands. The snow was so
deep that the cattle nearly all per-
ished and the emigrants almost
starved from lack of food. Edwin
Whiting carried timber on his back
and made chairs during the winter,
and as soon as the road was passable
in the spring he hauled his furni-
ture to Great Salt Lake City, where
it was bartered for grain seed, etc.

In 1861 the family moved from Manti
to Springville, Utah county, where
Edward was required to work in the
canyons, on the farm and at other
similar occupations. He also freighted
with a six-mule team to Montana, en-
listed as a home guard in the Black
Hawk war and worked on the rail-
road between Ogden and North
Platte. From 1869 to 1874 he worked
on a ranch in Nevada. After his re-
turn to Springville he married Martha
E. AUeman, Aug. 3, 1874, by whom
he is the father of four children. Dur-
ing 1899 he was a member of the
Springville city council. He bought

a farm in Springville and tilled it un-
til 1900, when he sold it and moved
to La Grande, Oregon, where he pur-
chased a ranch. When the Union
Stake was organized he was selected
as an alternate member of the High
Council and soon after became a reg-
ular member of that body, which po-
sition he still holds. As a Ward la
borer Bro. Whiting has been en-
gaged in Sunday school. Mutual Im-
provement and Ward teaching ca-
pacities, and was a home missionary
for several terms. His life has been
spent in almost unceasing hard work
as farmer, gardner, carpenter, etc. He
is generous and hospitable to a fault,
and has often stated that but few
days of his married life have been
spent without some one ofher than
his family eating at his table. The
testimony he bears is that Jesus is
the Christ and that Mormonism is the
restored gospel of the Redeemer.

YOUNG, John Ray, president of
the High Priests quorum in the San
Juan Stake of Zion, was born April

30, 1837, at Kirtland, Ohio, the son
of Lorenzo D. Young and Persis
Goodell. While an infant the family
moved to Missouri, where his father
bought one hundred and sixty acres
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from it under the exterminating or-
der of Gov. Boggs. The family next
settled in Nauvoo, 111., whence they,
together with the rest of the Saints,
were driven into the wilderness in
1846. His father was one of the
original pioneers of Utah in 1847,
while the subject of this sketch and
his brother, Franklin W., crossed the
plains in Jedediah M. Grant's com-
pany, reaching Great Salt Lake Val-
ley Oct. 2, 1847. His father, with his
family, were the first of the pioneers
who left the fort to build on their
city lots. He erected a two-roomed
log house in 1847 on the lot where
the Beehive and Lion Houses now
stand. In the early days of Nauvoo
John Ray suffered with chills and
fever until he was quite feeble. "One
day," writes Elder Young, "father
had taken me out for a little exer-
cise and sunshine. While walking,
we met the Prophet Joseph and Hy-
rum Smith and also Sidney Rigdon.
Joseph asked if I was the little son
the Elders had been requested to
pray for. Being answered in the af-
firmative, he took the hat from my
head, ran his fingers for a moment
through my curly locks and then
said: 'Brother Lorenzo, this boy will
live to be a man and will help carry
the gospel to the nations of the
earth.' I believe I grew stronger from
that minute." In 1854 John Ray was
called on a mission to the Sandwich
Islands, together with about twenty
other young men, among whom was
Joseph F. Smith, now the President of
the Church. He crossed the southern
desert to California and filled a suc-
cessful mission to the islands, where
he passed through a number of extra-
ordinary experiences and witnessed
the miraculous manifestations of the
power of God on many different occa-
sions. He returned to America in
1857 and arrived in Salt Lake City in
the early part of 1858. That year he
witnessed the passing through Great
Salt Lake City of the Johnston army.
In 1859 (Jan. 1st) he married Albina
Terry and made a home in Payson,

Utah county. In 18G1 he was called
on a mission to Dixie. At Santa
Clara he bought an Indian farm,
which was washed away by the
floods the following spring. In 1862,
again responding to a call from the
Church authorities, he went to Omaha
to gather the poor, crossing the moun-
tains and plains in Capt. John R.
Murdock's company, driving his own
team of four yoke of cattle. Re-
turning, he was captain of a Church
train, consisting of thirty wagons,
which left Florence Aug. 17, 1862,
and reached G. S. L. City Oct. 29,
1862; it was the last train of the
season. In 1863 he was again called
• to the States and drove his own team
in Captain Daniel McArthur's com-
pany. On reaching Florence he was
appointed captain of a Danish Inde-
pendent company of forty wagons,
which left Florence July 7, 1863, and
reached G. S. L. City Sept. 12th of
that year. During the journey across
the plains ( on July 28th) the company
had a fearful stampede, in which one
man and two women were killed. By
request of Pres. Erastus Snow he
moved with his family to St. George,
southern Utah. Being called on a sec-
ond mission to the Sandwich Islands,
he left home March 20, 1864, traveling
by stage to Sacramento, California.
While on that mission Elder Young
visited all the branches of the Church
on the islands of Hawaii and Maui,
reorganizing them and helping to put
a stop to Walter M. Gibson's imposi-
tions. He returned home from that
mission in the spring of 1865. Im-
mediately after his return home he
was enrolled in Willis D. Copeland's
company of scouts and elected first
lieutenant. As a member of J. D. L.
Pierce's company he had charge of
moving the loose stock from Berry-
ville, Winsor and upper Kanab. In
the fall of 1867 he was ordained a
High Priest and set apart to act as a
High Councilor in the St. George
Stake. For two years he labored in
Pres. Brigham Young's factory in
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build a saw mill in Long Valley and
in 1874 assisted James A. Leithhead
and Wm. M. Black to erect a grist mill
. in Kanab. In 1877-79 he filled a mis-
sion to England, during which he
baptized fourteen souls. Being the
husband of four wives he moved to
Mexico a few years later, in order to
avoid arrest. After Pres. Woodruff
had issued the manifesto he returned
to the United States and made his
home at Fruitland, New Mexico.
Here he acted as postmaster for eight
years and as assessor of San Juan
county two years. In 1905 (April
30th) he was set apart to preside over
the High Priests of the San Juan
Stake of Zion. Elder Young has al-
ways been an energetic and faithful
Elder in the Church. He has raised
a large family and as he ripens in
years he can rejoice in the integrity
and faithfulness of his many sons
and daughters -and grand-children,
who are endeavoring to serve the
God of their fathers.

EARDLEY, Bedson, an active El-
der of the Seventh Ward, Salt Lake
City, was born Nov. 20, 1832, in
Swadlingcote, Derbyshire, England,
the son of Edward Eardley and Eliza-
beth Grocet. He was baptized in
March, 1847, and was subsequently
ordained an Elder, taking an active
part in Church labors in his native
land. In 1852 (Feb. 16) he married
Louisa Cooper at Burslem, England,
and eimgrated to Utah in 1856, cross-
ing the Atlantic in the ship "Enoch
Train," and the plains in Daniel Mc-
Arthur's hand-cart company, which
arrived in Salt Lake City Sept. 26,
1856. Just before starting out on
the plains he accidentally broke his
collar-bone and suffered a great deal
in consequence thereof while pulling
his hand-cart over the plains and
mountains. After his arrival in Utah
he located in Salt Lake City, where he
resided until the time of his death.
As a military man he participated in
the Echo Canyon War in 1857-58.
In 1874-75 he filled a successful mis-
sion to England, presiding part of

the time over the Liverpool and sub-
sequently over the Norwich confer-
ences. He returned home as leader
of a company of Saints, which sailed
from Liverpool, England, in the
steamship "Dakota" Oct. 14, 1875.
After his return home he married
Mary Ann Holding, May 8, 1875. She
bore him seven children, namely,
Bedson H., James H., Edward H.,
Frank H., Arthur H., Sarah H., and
Alice H. In 1886 (Aug. 3), he was
arrested on the charge of unlawful
cohabitation. He pleaded guilty and
was sentenced Feb. 21, 1887, by Judge
Zane, to six months' imprisonment
and to pay a fine of $300 and costs of

court. Having served his term of im-
prisonment and paid his fine, he was
released from the Utah penitentiary
Aug. 22, 1887. He served a second
term in prison in 1889-90 for so-called
unlawful cohabitation. In the Sev-
enth Ward, where Elder Eardley re-
sided, he was always active in Church
matters and figured prominently as a
member of the Ward choir, block
teacher, Sunday school teacher, etc.
For many years he was a member of
the 23rd quorum of Seventy. His
avocation was that of a potter, which
business he carried on for many
years in the Seventh Ward, together
with his brother James Eardley.

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EARDLEY, Louisa Cooper, wife of
Bedson Eardley, was born July 14,
1829, in Staffordshire, England, the
daughter of James and Mary Cooper.
She joined the Church when about

twenty-one years old, married Bedson
Eardley in 1852 and came to America
with her husband. Sister Eardley is
now 84 years of age and resides in
the Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City.

EARDLEY, JAMES, a Patriarch
in the Liberty Stake of Zion, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born Feb. 25,
1830, at Swadlingcote, Derbyshire,
England, the son of Edward Eardley
and Elizabeth Grocet. He was bap-
tized Feb. 25, 1846, by Daniel Oakley
and emigrated to America in 1850,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Hartley." On the voyage the ship
encountered a terrible storm, during
which the captain of the vessel lost
all hope of being able to reach land
with his precious cargo, and expressed
himself to that effect to some of the
brethren, but Brother Eardley, with
a significant look, assured the cap-
tain that the vessel would not go to
the bottom of the sea, but reach New
Orleans in safety. Brother Eardley
remained in the States four years, and
finally came to Utah in 1854, cross-

ing the plains in Horace S. Eldredge's
ox train. While residing in the States
he married Zurviah G. Fuller, who
subsequently bore him ten children,
Edward A., James W., Eunice E.,

Adaline Z., Bedson M., Mary E., Ru-
ben H., Anna Z., Delia A., Louisa E.
Soon after his arrival in Utah he
became associated with the Terri-
torial militia and rose to the rank
of captain, and as such he partici-
pated in the so-called Echo Canyon
campaign. In the general move in
1858 he went as far south as Pay-
son, Utah county. He also estab-
lished himself as a potter in Salt Lake
City, which business he followed for
twenty years. He was ordained to
the office of a Teacher in England and
was ordained a Seventy soon after his
arrival in Utah. He also became
identified with the Sunday school or-
ganization of the Third Ward at an
early date and was superintendent of
the school for thirty-three years. He
also labored with great diligence and
much success as a Ward teacher for
a number of years. In 1872 he yielded
obedience to the higher law of mar-
riage by marrying Martha Preece,
with whom he had five children (John
A., Albert W., Martha M., Ernest L.,
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was ordained a High Priest and in
1912 (Sept. 11th) he was ordained
a Patriarch by Charles W. Penrose.
In 1884-86 he filled a successful mis-
sion to Great Britain, on which he
was gone from home twenty-seven
months. While on this mission he
received word from his wife that the
officers were looking for him and in
a meeting a certain Patriarch arose
and said that he would like to give
Bro. Eardley a blessing. He did so
and in that blessing said that when
Bro. Eardley came home, he would be
arrested on the charge of unlawful
cohabitation, but the law would not
have power to touch him. They would
never put him inside prison walls.
Just after his arrival home he was
arrested and tried; his children were
brought to the court and many testi-
fied against him; but the judge and
jury became so confused that they
dismissed them all and the prosecut-
ing attorney advised the judge to set
Bro. Eardley free, as he didn't want
any more to do with him. Elder
Eardley is a man of sterling integ-
rity, loves the work of God, and has
ever been a faithful laborer in the in-
terest of the cause which he espoused
while a boy in his native land.

KENNER, Scipio Africanus, an ac-
tive Church member, author, editor
and lawyer, was born at Saint Fran-
cisville, Missouri, May 14, 1852, the
son of Foster Ray Kenner and Sarah
Catherine Kirkwood. His ancestors
were Virginians, but his parents were
natives of Kentucky. The family was
Southern in its tastes and sympathies,
and the father, at the outbreak of
the Civil war in 1860, was intent upon
raising a regiment for the Confed-
erate army. He was only dissuaded
fi*om his purpose by the pleadings of
his mother, a devout and zealous Lat-
ter-day Saint, and his own convic-
tions of the truth of "Mormonism,"
whose founder, Joseph Smith, had
prophesied of the great conflict then
pending. His wife was a blood re-
lation of the noted Confederate raid-

er, John Morgan, and other dis-
tinguished Southerners. From his
fourth year up to the time of the
family's removal west, Scipio went
to school, and after his arrival at Salt
Lake City in 1860 he continued his
education as best he could in those
primitive non-scholastic times. The
migration of the family to Utah was
mainly due to the influence of Scipio's
grandmother, who for many years
had been trying to get her children to
"pull out for the valleys of the moun-
tains." The family crossed the plains
in Captain Warren Walling's train,
commencing the journey from Flor-
ence, Nebraska, May 30, 1860, with
160 persons and 30 wagons, mostly
drawn by oxen. Florence was at that
time, in the language of the subject
of this sketch, "a promising place.

with as much as seven houses and
twenty-four inhabitants." On the
journey across the plains Scipio was
a bosom companion of C. Edwai-d
Loose and his brother Warren, who
subsequently gained renown as lead-
ing business men of Utah. Scipio
made the most of the romantic jour-
ney across the plains, and enjoyed
himself frequently by hunting. His
arrival in the Valley he describes in
his own unique style as follows: "One
night the pilgrims reached a place

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not far from where is now the world-
renowned Park City, and were in-
formed that early next day we would
obtain a view of the glorious valley,
toward which we had been toiling.
Next morning, without waiting for
breakfast, the writer set out hot-
footed for the summit, and reached
it a long time ahead of the train, so
much so that he felt something like
one of the oldest inhabitants when it
came lumbering along. The valley
burst upon the vision all at once —
Beautiful spectacle! Glorious pano-
rama! Delightsome consumation!
The end of travel and its attendant
travail for three leaden-footed
months outspread before the longing
yet satisfied gaze! So absorbed was
the youth in his reflections and emo-
tions that for a time the customary
method of expressing exuberance was
unthought of, but not for long; and
when it did come the outburst of en-
thusiastic hurrahing would have
have scared an Indian into retire-
ment." Captain Walling's train
reached Salt Lake City Aug. 9, 1860.
It was the first company of emigrat-
ing Saints which crossed the plains
that season. Scipio's first employ-
ment in Utah was as an apprentice in
the "Deseret News" establishment,
where he served out his time and
became a journeyman printer. At dif-
ferent periods after that he served in
almost every position in the establish-
ment, including the editorial chair.
He was baptized into the Church by
Elder Lyman O. Littlefield in 1864,
and subsequently ordained an Elder.
Fond of the drama, with other youths
of his acquaintance, he early took to
the local stage, and while thus con-
nected, was associated with the lady
who became his wife and the other
of his nine children — Miss Isabel
Park, of Salt Lake City. They were
married in 1871. While in the east
Scipio had acquired some insight into
telegraphy, and being apt and quick
to learn, he completed the mastery of
that art in Utah and became a skilful
manipulator of the electric keys.

Upon the completion of the Deseret
Telegraph Line he was stationed as
operator at Beaver, and afterwards
served at Pioche and at Salt Lake
City. Subsequently he edited the
Provo "Times," the Ogden "Standard"
and other country papers, all outside
of Salt Lake City being country at
that time; and later, while working
as a printer, he took up the study of
law, in which he was assisted to some
extent by Judge J. C. Sutherland. In
1877 he was admitted to the bar of
the Supreme Court of the Territory
of Utah. Up to that time his was
the only application of its Hind first
passed upon by the highest tribunal,
and afterwards by the lower tribunals
of the commonwealth. His first cer-
tificate gave him permission to prac-
tice in any State in the Union, which
is of course out of the ordinary. After
his admission to the bar Bro. Kenner
practiced with success at Salt Lake
City and in southern Utah. He held
at various times, in addition to the
offices named, those of city attorney,
county attorney. Church attorney and
assistant United States attorney.
Among the' leading papers for which
he did editorial work are the "Ogden
Junction" and the "Salt Lake .Her-
ald. He was the author of the
"Union Pacific Hand Book of Utah,"
"The Practical Politician," "Utah as
It Is," etc., the last named book, his
most pretentious literary work, be-
ing issued from the press in 1904.
After a lingering sickness of many
years. Elder Kenner passed into the
great beyond March 15, 1913, in Salt
Lake City. Among the speakers at
his funeral was Pres. Joseph F Smith
who paid a high tribute to the ability
and rare qualities of the deceased.
Of versatile gifts. Elder Kenner suc-
ceeded not only as a lawyer, but as a
journalist, in which lines he had a
wide and varied experience in this
western country. In his several books
he exhibited literary merit and was
a natural humorist, possessing much
o± the gift and considerable of the
personal appearance of that king of

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<4

American humorists, the late Mark
Twain. He held various civic offices,
from justice of the peace up to a
member of the legislature, and was
as much at home in politics as a fish
in water. His tongue was as fluent
as his pen; he was witty and eloquent
in argument and on all occasions a
ready and fearless debater. Courage
was one of his personal traits. One
of his sons served in the United
States army in the Philippines, and
another filled a mission to Holland
.during the years 1904-1906.

SUDBURY, Samuel John, a vet-
eran Elder in the Church, was born
Sept. 9, 1829, at Egmonton, County
of Notts, England, the son of Samuel
Sudbury and Mary Wardell. He was

baptized in April, 1853, by Cyrus S.
Wheelock and emigrated to America
in 1853, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Golconda," which sailed from
Liverpool Jan. 23rd and arrived at
New Orleans March 25th. He crossed
the plains in Capt. Joseph W. Young's
company, which arrived in Salt Lake
City Oct. 10, 1853. On the ocean
voyage the ship encountered a ter-
rific storm, which cleared the deck
of its entire rigging, and while the
storm was raging some of the Saints
began murmuring because of their
condition and expressed fears that
they would never reach shore. Bro.

Sudbury, being very much annoyed,
remarked: "If you are going to the
bottom of the sea, go like Saints that
you profess to be. I started for Salt
Lake, and to Salt Lake I'm going, let
this ship sink or swim." They re-
mained at anchor for several weeks
until they finally succeeded in rigging
up new sails. Bro. Sudbury in his
young days was a man of great phy-
sical strength, and when the emi-
grants forded the rivers he carried
many women and children across.
Frequently he would take a woman in
each arm and tell them to hold on
to their babes. In going down steep
hills he often walked along side of
the wagons, and with a firm grip on
the spokes of each wagon, he would
practically lock the wheel and thus
prevent it from sliding down the
mountain side. After his arrival in
the Valley, he was engaged by Pres.
Brigham Young as a miller and ran
the mill in Parley's Canyon, which
was afterwards turned into a woolen
factory. He also had charge of the
Liberty Park mill, the Empire mill (in
City Creek Canyon) and another mill
in Tooele county. For a number of
years he acted as superintendent of
all Pres. Young's mills. At the time
of "the move" in 1858 Bro. Sudbury
was retained at the mill in Parley's
Canyon grinding flour, boxing it and
sending what he could to the Saints
and storing the rest in the hillside.
His faithful wife Emma and his
daughter Lovine remained with him.
For two weeks he was grinding flour
so continuously that he had no time
left for sleep. By Emma Lovine
Crossland (daughter of John and
Caroline Crossland) whom he mar-
ried in Sheffield, England, about two
weeks before sailing, he had eleven
children. About 1857 he married
Lydia Franklyn, who became the
mother of two children, and about
1878 he married Wilhelmine Damcke
(daughter of Frederick Clement
Damcke and Christine Wilckin), who
was born Aug. 21, 1851, at Rhod-
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only had one child. Altogether Bro.
Sudbury was the father of fourteen
children. He visited England in 1875
and again in 1904. While on this last
trip he performed considerable mis-
sionary labor. During the anti-
polygamy i-aid Bro. Sudbury had
charge of the Gardo House, where he
lived with his family for five years.
He was a trusted employee of Pres.
John Taylor and also Pres. Woodruff,
and had many thrilling experiences.
Jos. F. Smith told him that his faith-
fulness surely would secure him a
martyr's crown. Bro. Sudbury was
ordained a High Priest Dec. 13, 1901,
by Jos. F. Smith, and died in Salt
Lake City Dec. 26, 1910.

WOOLLEY, Albaroni Harrar, sixth
Bishop of the Ninth Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, is the son of John Mills
Woolley and Caroline P. Harrar, and
was born in Salt Lake City, Utah,

April 2, 1862. He was baptized Feb.
22, 1872, by Samuel A. Woolley, or-
dained to the Aaronic Priesthood
when twelve years old, and at the
first organization of the Deacon's
Quorum in the Ninth Ward was called
to preside over the same. On Novem-
ber 3, 1882, he was ordained an Elder
by Thomas Garrard, and on April 25,
1884, he was ordaiend a Seventy by

Robert Campbell, and became a mem-
ber of the Tenth Quorum, afterwards
being bhosen one of the presidents of
this quorum. On April 15, 1900, he
was ordained a High Priest by Pres.
Angus M. Cannon and set apart as
counselor to Bishop Jabez W. West,
o fthe Ninth Ward. On September
12, 1909, he was ordained a Bishop un-
der the hands of Pres. Anthon H.
Lund and set apart to preside over the
Ninth Ward, which position he held
until March 10, 1913, when he was
honorably released on account of ill
health. At one time he was secre-
tary, also counselor, and afterwards
president of the Ninth Ward Y. M.
M. I. A., and served several years as
assistant superintendent of the Ward
Sunday school. He was a home
missionary in the Salt Lake
Stake from December, 1884, till
October, 1887, when he was called
to take a mission to the Northwest-
ern States (now called the Eastern
States Mission). He labored in Ful-
ton county, Pa., until May, 1889, when
he was sent to Long Island, New
York, where he labored until Septem-
ber, 1889, being then released to re-
turn home. He began working at the
age of twelve, going first with the
Walker Bros, grocery department,
afterwards with the Remington- John-
son Co., and in 1886 he accepted a
position in the grocery department of
the Z. C. M. I. In 1885 he was made
buyer and manager of the wholesale
grocery department of that institu-
tion, which position he now holds. In
1884 (Oct. 22nd) he married Jose-
phine L. Groo, daughter of Isaac Groo
and Eliza Lyons. Bishop Woolley's
home is and has always been in the
Ninth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah.

AHLANDER, Anders Frederik, an

active Elder in Provo, Utah Stake,
Utah, was born Sept. 13, 1856, at
Krogstad parish, Bohus Ian, Sweden,
the son of Jonas Ahlander and Bretta
M. Jacobsen. He was baptized March
10, 1877, by Elder Andreas Peterson,
ordained a Deacon soon afterwards,

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and a Priest and an Elder still later.
He emiR-rated to Utah in 1886 ^and lo-
cated in Ogden, where he resided un-
til 1889, when he moved to Riverdale,
Weber county, remaining there until
1895, when he became a permanent
resident of Provo, Utah county. He
was ordained a Seventy Oct. 27, 1899,

and in 1899-1901 he filled a mission
to Scandinavia, laboring in the Chris-
tiania conference, Norway. At home
Elder Ahlander has always been a
faithful Church worker; thus he has
acted as Ward teacher, president of
a Ward Y. M. M. I. A., president of
an Elders quorum and president over
the Scandinavian meetings in Provo
for a number of years. In 1879 he
married Karen Johansen, who bore
him four children, and in 1888 (March
oth), after his first wife's death, he
married Ludovica A. Herman, who
has borne him seven children. Bro.
Ahlander is by trade a carriage-mak-
er and blacksmith and is operating a
business in those lines in Provo.

BANKS, John Elmer, superinten-
dent of Religion Classes in the Ban-
nock Stake, is the son of William F.
Banks and Letitia A. Davis and was
born Sept. 8, 1882, at Spanish Fork,
Utah county, Utah, When eight years
old he was baptized, and subsequently
he was ordained to the various de-

grees of Priesthood as follows: Or-
dained a Deacon in 1894, a Teacher
in 1898, a Priest Sept. 16, 1900, by
F. H. Reddish, and an Elder Sept. 20,.
1902, by Wm. H. Mendenhall. Elder
Banks filled a 29-months' mission in

the Northern States in 1902-1905. He-
has always taken a keen interest in
Church duties, having been especially
active in Sabbath school and Religion
class work, and has held important
positions in those organizations. His
chief occupation has been railroading
and farming. He has lived in Span-
ish Fork and Lake Shore, Utah coun-
ty; also at Logan, Cache county,
Utah, and at Lund, Bannock county,
Idaho. The last named place is his
present place of residence.

BROWN, Austin Cravath, a High
Councilor in the Weber Stake of
Zion, was born April 30, 1850, in
Pottawattamie county, Iowa, the son
of Alfred Brown and Eliza Doty. He
was baptized in 1866 by William
Neeley, ordained a Deacon, afterwards
an Elder, and became a High Priest in
1884. He has acted as Ward teacher,
president of an Elders quorum, Sun-
day school superintendent. Stake
clerk, first counselor to Bishop Wil-
liam Neeley, of the Neeleyville Ward,.
Idaho, Stake superintendent of Y. M.

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M. I. A., etc., and after officiating as
an alternate member of the Weber
Stake High Council, he became a reg-
ular member of that body in 1893. In
1874 (Feb. 2nd) he married Meriah
C. Ballantyne, who has borne him
thirteen children, and in 1886 (May
8th) he married Mary Fairbanks, who
became the mother of one child. Elder
Brown has followed school-teaching
and farming for a living and since

in 1838. His wife died in 1840, leav-
ing him with eight sons and one
daughter. Subsequently, he married
again and took up his residence at
Nauvoo, Illinois, from which place he
filled a mission to the Southern States
and also spent some time in gather-
ing means for the Nauvoo Temple-
He was with the Saints in their ex-
odus from Illinois, and at Council
Bluffs, in the summer of 1846, he en-

1887 he has been engaged in business
of different kinds. On his mother's
side Bro. Brown is a descendent of
the pilgrim fathers, and his great-
grandfather was an officer in the
Revolutionary War under George
Washington.

BROWN, James, a prominent Elder
in the Church and a pioneer of Utah,
was born Sept. 30, 1801, in Roan
county, North Carolina, the son of
James Brown and Mary Williams. His
father was a veteran of the Revolu-
tionary war. James received a com-
mon school education, was inclined to
literary pursuits, taught school in his
early manhood, was a Baptist preach-
er for a time and served several terms
as sheriff of Roan county. He mar-
ried Martha Stevens in 1823, migrated
to Illinois in 1834 and became a mem-
ber of the Church (Latter-day Saints)

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listed in the Mormon Battalion, be-
coming captain of Company C. At
Santa Fe he was placed in charge of
the sick detachment of the battalion
and ordered to Pueblo, where the win-
ter of 1846-47 was passed. The next
spring (1847) he marched with his
detachment by way of Fort Laramie
and the South Pass to G. S. L. Val-
ley, arriving there July 29, 1847.
Early in August he set out for Cali-
fornia for the purpose of drawing the
pay due from the government to the
men in his command, the Battalion
having been honorably discharged at
Los Angeles. Returning from Cali-
fornia late in 1847, he purchased from
Miles M. Goodyear, an old frontier's
man, a log fort and lands, on the We-
ber river, paying for them the sum
of three thousand dollars. Thither he
removed in January, 1848, and thus

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became the founder of Ogden. Cap-
tain Brown built the first bridges over
the Weber and Ogden rivers, acted as
assessor and collector in Weber coun-
ty, and was a member of the Ogden
city council from 1855 till the time of
his death. In the fall of 1852 he went
upon a mission to British Guiana, pro-
ceeding to San Diego, California,
thence by sailing vessel to the Isth-
mus of Panama. Finding conditions
unfavorable for the introduction of
the gospel in British Guiana, he re-
turned home by way of St. Louis, Mo.,
where he assisted in the Church emi-
gration of 1853 and 1854. Captain
Brown's main characteristics were
honesty, truthfulness and integrity.
After the death of his first wife he
married four times, the names of his
wives being Susan Foutz, Esther
Rapier, Sally Wood and Mary Black.
He was the father of twenty-eight
children, sixteen of them boys. A
number of his sons have risen to
prominence, both in ecclesiastical and
civil capacities. His death, which oc-
curred in Ogden Sept. 30, 1863, was
the result of an accident. He died on
the sixty-second anniversary of his
birth.

BUSHMAN, Ellas Albert, an al-
ternate member of the High Council
in the Alpine Stake of Zion, is a son
of Martin Bushman and Elizabeth
Deagek and was born Dec. 6, 1849,
in Pottawattamie county, Iowa. He
came to Utah with his parents in 1851
and settled in Lehi, where he was
baptized in June, 1858. He was or-
dained an Elder March 27, 1879, a
Seventy Jan. 4, 1884, by William
Southwick, and a High Priest April
26, 1903, by Hyrum M. Smith. In
1891-92 he filled a mission to the
Southern States and in 1896-97 a mis-
sion to California. On another oc-
casion he made a trip to the States
in the east, where he visited Nauvoo
and Carthage (in Illinois), Kirtland,
in Ohio, and the State of Pennsyl-
vania, his father's native State. He
also visited the L. D. S. mission head-

quarters in the cities of New York
and Chicago. At home Bro. Bushman
has always been an active worker and
has filled positions as school trustee,
city councilman. Ward teacher, etc.
With Margaret Zimmerman, whom he
married March 27, 1879, he has had

eleven children, nine of whom are
still living. Ever since he came to
Utah Elder Bushman has been en-
gaged in farming and Lehi, Utah
county, has been his permanent place
of residence. ^

CARVER, John, a Patriarch in the
Weber Stake of Zion, was born Aug.
6, 1822, at Dorstone, Herefordshire,
England. He was baptized May 14,
1842; ordained a Teacher in 1844 by
Richard Blake; ordained a Priest in
1846, by Ebenezer Williams, and or-
dained an Elder in 1847 by William
Henshaw. In 1847-50 he labored as a
missionary in England and South
Wales, emigrated to Utah in 1853, lo-
cating in Kays Ward, Davis county,
moved to Plain City in 1859, and
became a resident of Eden in 1872.
In the latter place he still resides.
After his arrival in Utah he was or
dained a Seventy by Benjamin L.
Clapp; ordained a High Priest in 1888
and a Patriarch the same year byj
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he acted as first counselor to the pre-
siding Elder in Plain City, and for
three years he presided over the
branch himself. He also served four
years as first counselor in the Bish-
opric of the Eden Ward and labored

as a home missionary. In 1850 (March
10th) he married Mary Ann Eames;
in 1864 (Dec. 10th) he married
Rachael F. Petersen and in 1871 (Jan.
9th), he married Sarah Ann Eames.
By these wives he became the father
of twenty-one children.

BUCK, William Foulds, a High
Councilor in the Woodruff Stake,
Utah, was born Feb. 11, 1856, in Not-
tinghamshire, England, the son of
William Buck and Mary Foulds. He
was baptized Jan. 17, 1880, by William
Henningway; ordained a Deacon May
30, 1880, by William Horsley; or-
dained a Teacher Aug. 3, 1880, by
Oscar F. Hunter; ordained a Priest
Nov. 5, 1884, by Charles Wright; or-
dained an Elder Oct. 4, 1885, by Lang-
ley A. Bailey, and ordained a High
Priest June 5, 1898, by John Henry
Smith. Since his arrival in Utah in
1885 he has acted as Sunday school
teacher. Ward teacher, officer in the
Y. M. M. I. A., home missionary, al-
ternate High Councilor in the Wood-

ruff Stake, etc. In 1878 (Nov. 2nd)
he married Emily Matilda Copeland»
by whom he has had ten children
(eight boys and two girls). He has
resided successively in Almy (Wyom-

ing), Glenco (Wyoming) and Wood-
ruff (Utah), in the latter place since
1901. Mining and farming have been
his principal occupations.

DE LA MARE, Philip, a Patriarch
in the Tooele Stake of Zion, Utah, was
born April 3, 1823, on the island of
Jersey, England, the son of Francis
De La Mare and Jane Esther Hier. He
was baptized in February, 1849, by
Wm. C. Dunbar; ordained an Elder
soon after his baptism by Wm. C.
Dunbar; ordained a Seventy in 1850,
by John Taylor and John Pack and
•became a member of the 8th quorum;
ordained a High Priest April 24, 1891,
by Francis M. Lyman; ordained a
Patriarch in 1902, by Francis M. Ly-
man. In his youth Elder De La Mare
performed much successful missionary
labor. Thus, in 1850, he accompanied
Apostle John Taylor to Paris, France,
where he assisted in founding the
French Mission and translating the
Book of Mormon. In 1852 he emi-
grated to America, crossing the At-
lantic ocean in the ship "Kennebec."
Before leaving Europe, Bro. De La

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Mare, together with John Taylor and
others, purchased beet sugar manu-
facturing machinery, which they im-
ported to America at great cost. El-
der De La Mare personally purchased
the animals and wagons and con-
ducted the train carrying the ma-
chinery across the plains to Utah. The
train was composed of about fifty ox-
team wagons. This machinery was the
first beet sugar machinery ever im-
ported into the United States. It was

partly set up and operated in Salt
Lake City, but through lack of funds
and support it was never placed in
complete running order. In 1853 El-
der De La Mare settled in Tooele
county, where he passed through the
hardships of pioneer life and those of
fighting Indians. Being an expert
blacksmith by trade, he was engaged
to take mechanical charge of Col.
Steptoe's army outfits and finally ac-
companied the expedition into Ne-
vada and Oregon. On returning to
Utah at the time of the famine, he
brought several thousand dollars
worth of provisions from California,
which he gave away freely to relieve
the distressed in Tooele county. In
1860-6.3 he filled a mission to Europe
and had charge of the Channel Isl-
ands conference. At home Elder De

La Mare was always an energetic and
consistent Church worker. For many
years he labored as a Ward teacher,
a home missionary and a High Coun-
cilor. In a civil capacity he served two
terms as a member of the Tooele city
council and as a tradesman he excelled
in his work. Thus he built a large
hay weighing scales for Johnston's
ai-niy, machinery for a saw mill, etc.
In 1857-58 he participated in the Echo
canyon campaign. In 1846 he mar-
ried Mary Parkin in Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, England; in 1852 he married
Mary Chevalier and in 1857 he mar-
ried Jeanette Mickeljohn. By these
wives he became the father of twen-
ty-one children, eleven sons and ten
daughters. Elder De La Mare be-
longs to a type of men whose lives
should prove an inspiration to pos-
terity. He was always able to adjust
himself to conditions as they con-
fronted him.

DYE, Richard, a prominent Elder
in the Weber Stake of Zion, was born
Jan. 2, 1832, at Hertford, Hertford-

shire, England, the son of Thomas Dye
and Sarah Gower. He was baptized
Aug. 23, 1852, by William Hart; or-
dained a Teacher in 1853 by Charles
W. Penrose; ordained a Priest in 1854
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America in 185(5, ci'ossing the Atlan-
tic in the ship "Horizon"; stopped
awhile in the States and presided over
the Saints in Charleston, near Boston,
Mass., being ordained an Elder by
James F. Clary in 1856. He came to
Utah in 1858, crossing the plains in a
small company of Danish Saints in
charge of Iver N. Iverson. On the
journey they encountered Col. John-
ston's army. Bro. Dye located near
Ogden in October, 1857, and married
Mary M. Peck, by whom he had sev-
eral children, some of whom have be-
<;ome prominent in the Church. Bro.
Dye followed farming and fruit-rais-
ing and filled a number of civil of-
fices. Thus he acted for ten years as
justice of the peace, and for many
years as assessor and collector for
school taxes. For forty years he
acted as Ward choir leader and for
thirty-one years as Sunday school
superintendent.

COX, William James, a High Coun-
cilor in the Woodruff Stake of Zion,
was born May 31,' 1863, at Basing-
stoke, Hampshire, England, the son of

Seventy ( being a member of the 102nd
quorum) and High Priest. In 1900-01
he filled a mission to Great Britain,
laboring in the Birmingham confer-
ence. At home he has acted as presi-
dent of Y. M. M. I. A., president of a
Deacons' quorum, Ward teacher,
home missionary and High Councilor.
Emigrating to Utah in 1866, he first
resided in Davis county, later in Salt
Lake county, Utah, and he is now a
resident of Woodruff, Rich county,
Utah.

HICKENLOOPER, Charles A.,
Bishop of the Pleasant View Ward,
Weber Stake, Utah, was born Jan. 23,
1862, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son
of Bishop William H. Hickenlooper of
the Sixth Ward. He was baptized
when about eight years old; ordained
a Deacon Dec. 22, 1877; ordained a
Priest Dec. 19, 1879; removed with
his mother to Pleasant View, Weber
county, where he subsequently la-
bored as a Ward teacher, Sunday
school teacher, etc. He was ordained
an Elder Dec. 9, 1883, by William
Jones; married Medora Blanchard

John Cox and Annie Stiff. He was
baptized when about eight years of
age and was ordained successively to
the offices of Deacon, Teacher, Elder,

Dec. 13, 1883; labored for years as
president of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A.;
ordained a Seventy Jan. 27, 1884, by
John Ellis; filled a mission to the
Southern States in 1895-97; ordained

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a High Priest and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop E. W. Wade July
19, 1897, by Lewis W. Shurtliff, and
became Bishop of the Pleasant View
Ward Feb. 24, 1901.

DYE, Samuel Gower, first coun-
selor in the Bishopric of the River-
dale Ward, Weber county, Utah, was
born Oct. 10, 1876, at Riverdale, We-
ber county, Utah, the son of Richard
Dye and Mary M. Peck. He was bap-
tized Sept. 9, 1885, ordained a Dea-
con July 14, 1889, by John C. Child;
ordained a Teacher Jan. 24, 1897, by
Richard Dye; ordained an Elder May
30, 1898, by Richard Dye; ordained a
Seventy June 16, 1898, by Francis M.
Lyman, and ordained a High Priest
Jan. 20, 1902, by John Henry Smith.
In 1898-1900 he filled a mission to the
Northwestern States, laboring in
Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Wash-
ington; for eight months he acted as
a conference president. At home he
has officiated as president of a Dea-
con's quorum. Ward teacher, Y. M.
M. I. A. officer, superintendent of Sun-
day school, both in the Ward and in
the Weber Stake, and set apart as
first counselor to Bishop Bingham
Jan. 20, 1902. In 1902 (Oct. 22nd)
he married Lydia M. Hodson. Bro.
Dye is a farmer by occupation.

HERRICK, Lester James, first
counselor to David H. Peery, of the
Weber Stake of Zlon, Utah, was born
Dec. 14, 1827, at Nelson, Portage
county, Ohio, the fourth son of Sam-
uel and Sally Herrick. His parents
embraced the gospel at Nelson about
1831, and the family soon afterwards
removed to Jackson county, Missouri,
being expelled by the mob; they sub-
sequently settled at Far West, Cald-
well county, Missouri, and later in
Nauvoo, Illinois. They shared all the
sufferings of the Saints and during
the persecutions the mother died. The
rest of the family emigrated to Utah
in 1850, and were numbered among
the first settlers of Ogden. In 1856
Lester J. Herrick was appointed sec-

ond counselor to Bishop Edward Bun-
ker, of the Second Ward, Ogden, and
in 1861 he succeeded Bro. Bunker as
Bishop of that Ward. From 1869 to
1875 he acted as general Bishop of
the Church in Weber county. In 1873,
responding to a call from the Church
authorities, he went to England on
a mission and had temporary charge
of all missionary affairs in Europe
during the absence of the president.
In 1877 he was chosen first counselor
to President David H. Peery of the
Weber Stake of Zion. He served sev-
eral terms as mayor of Ogden and
under his administration Ogden rose
to a place of considerable impor-
tance. He also sei-ved as sheriff and
selectman of Weber county. Failing
health occasioned his temporary re-
moval in 1885 to the Pacific coast, as
he suffered from throat disease, con-
tracted from exposure in early days.
His death occurred in Ogden April 18,

1892. Brother Herrick was a capable
man in the affairs of life; courteous,
yet firm, as a public officer; wise and
capable in Church work; a kind and
indulgent husband and father, and a
man respected by all classes for his
sterling qualities. He left eight sons
and four daughtei's; three children
had preceded him into the world be-
vond.

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EVANS, Henry, a Patriarch in tht
Summit Stake of Zion, Utah, was
born Oct. 25, 1830, in Richland coun-
ty, Ohio, the son of David Evans and
Mary Beck. He was baptized when
about eight years old by Rosel Hyde
and ordained successively to the of-

Chesterton, near Cambridge, Cam-
bridgeshire, England. He joined the
Church in England and came to Utah
at an early day. He was ordained an
Elder Nov. 17, 1863, by John D. T.
McAllister; oidained a Seventy Dec.
30, 1883, by William F. Critchlow; or-

fices of Deacon, Elder, Seventy, High
Priest and Patriarch, the latter or-
dination taking place in 1900, by John
Henry Smith. Brother Evans acted
as Sunday school teacher. Ward
teacher, home missionary, second
counselor in the Bishopric of the
Coalville Ward, member of the High
Council, etc. In 1854-56 he filled a
mission to the Ute Indians. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1850; lived in Salt
Lake and Utah counties fifteen years,
and located permanently in Coalville,
Summit county, in 1865, following
farming and stock raising as his prin-
cipal avocations. In the interest of
his fellow-citizens he served thirteen
years as county treasurer, and was
also city assessor and collector, road
supervisor, etc. Bro. Evans married
two wives, one in 1856 and one in
1858, by whom he became the father
of twelve children.

LARKIN, George William, a Patri-
arch in the Weber Stake of Zion,
Utah, was born April 1, 1848, at

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dained a High Priest May 29, 1887, by
Fi'anklin D. Richards and ordained a
Patriarch July 21, 1901, by Joseph F.
Smith. In 1886 (Feb. 17th) he mar-
ried Barbara Anna McKenzie and in
1869 (Aug. 2nd) he married Ann
Lane. By these wives he became the
father of eight children.

SHUPE, James Wright, a member
of the Mormon Battalion, was born
Feb. 23, 1823, in the north end of
Rich valley, Wythe (now Bland) coun-
ty, Virginia, the fifth child of Peter
Shupe and Sarah Wright. His father
was a blacksmith and farmer and the
son received only a limited education.
His father's family joined the Church
in 1841 and emigrated to Nauvoo, Illi-
nois, in 1843. Here James (in 1846)
married Sarah Prunty, who subse-
quently bore him ten children, six
sons and four daughters. Brother
Shupe and wife shared in all the per-
secutions of those days and were num-
bered among the exiles from Nauvoo
in February, 1846. Arriving on the

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Missouri river, James enlisted in the
famous Mormon Battalion, serving in
company C, under Captain James
Brown, and spent the winter of

and came to Utah in 1850, locating in
Ogden, where he has resided ever
since. Here he was ordained a Sev-
enty and became a member of the 38th

1846-47 in Pueblo, on the Arkansas
river. In Capt. Brown's detachment
he followed the pioneers to Great Salt
Lake valley the next year, arriving
in the valley July 29, 1847. In 1852
he located at Ogden, where he fol-
lowed the avocation of a blacksmith.
In 1856, responding to a call from the
Church authorities, he went east to
meet Edward Martin's hand-cart com-
pany, and in 1867 he made another
trip to the east, going as far as Fort
Laramie to meet emigrants. In 1868
he married Louisa Crabtree, by whom
he begat six sons. Brother Shupe
filled a number of important and re-
sponsible positions in the Priesthood
and in 1890 removed to North Ogden,
where he died, Jan. 5, 1899.

OWEN, James, a High Councilor in
the Weber Stake of Zion, was born
Oct. 11, 1825, in Potter county, Penn-
sylvania, the son of Nathaniel Moore
and Parmelia Colgrove. He was bap-
tized Dec. 17, 1884, by George Cham-
berlain; ordained a Priest in 1846 by
John Taylor; marched to California as
a member of the Mormon Battalion

quorum. Later he was ordained a High
Priest. He labored as a Ward teach-
er in Ogden at an early day and also
served as Sunday School teacher,
school trustee, chief of police, con-
stable, etc. By trade he is a stonema-
son and assisted in building the first
school house ever erected in Ogden.
He has also followed farming suc-
cessfully for many years.

SMUIN, George, Bishop of the
Lynne Ward, Weber Stake, Utah, was
born Nov. 11, 1844, in Eatonbray, Bed-
fordshire, England, baptized in 1853
in England by William Hall; emi-
grated to Utah in 1864, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Hudson," and
drove a team for Brigham H. Young
across the plains, arriving in Salt
Lake City Dec. 6, 1864. He located at
once in Weber county, where he re-
sided until the time of his death. In
1868 he was sent back as a Church
teamster to meet emigrants. In 1869
(April 11th) he married Eliza Gais-
ford, by whom he became the father
of nine girls and five boys. He was
ordained an Elder in 1886 and a High

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Priest soon afterwards, served as first
counselor to Bishop D. F. Thomas, of
the Lynne Ward, until Jan. 19, 1891,
when he was ordained a Bishop by

to Bishop Nils C. Flygare of the Og-
den First Ward from 1877 to 1883.
After that he presided as Bishop of
said ward from 1883 to 1887 and was

Franklin D. Richards and appointed to
preside over said Ward. Besides be-
ing a diligent Church worker, Bishop
Smuin served his fellow-citizens in a
number of civil offices. His principal
occupations were farming and horti-
culture. Respected and beloved by all.
Bishop Smuin died at Lynne, Utah.

STRATFORD, Edwin, Bishop of the
Ogden Fourth Ward, Weber Stake of
Zion, Utah, was born Feb. 6, 1833, at
Maldon, Essex, England, the son of
George Stratford and Eliza Barwell.
He joined the Church in 1851, labored
five years as a local missionary in
England, married Marianna Crabb in
1855 and emigrated to America in
1856. He pi'esided over the Saints in
Iowa, while residing temporarily in
the States, and came to Utah in 1861.
After residing in Farmington and
Providence for a number of years
Bro. Stratford became a permanent
resident of Ogden in 1872. Here he
established a flourishing furniture
business. He was ordained a Seventy
in 1862, ordained a High Priest June
6, 1877, and acted as first counselor

Bishop of the Fourth Ward, Ogden,
from 1887 till the time of his demise,
which occurred in Ogden, Oct. 8, 1899.
He left a wife, seven sons and two
daughters.

WRIGHT, James Arthur, third
Bishop of the Bingham Ward (Jordan
Stake) Salt Lake county, Utah, was
born Oct. 12, 1875, at American Fork,
Utah county, Utah, the son of
Frederick Wright and Margaret E.
Thornton. He received a common
school education and studied two
years in a business college. He was
baptized June 14, 1885, by Wm. S.
Robinson, ordained a Deacon and
subsequently an Elder; still advancing
in the Priesthood he was ordained a
Seventy Nov. 17, 1897, by Seymour B.
Young and filled a mission to the
Southern States in 1897-1900. After
returning home he has acted as an
officer in the Y. M. M. I. A. and Sun-
day school at American Fork. He
also acted as a president in the 67th
Quorum of Seventy. After moving to
Bingham, Utah, he labored for six

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years (1907-1913) as Sunday school
superintendent and as second counsel-
or to Bishop William B. Waters for
three yars (1911-1913), being ordain-
ed a High Priest April 30, 1911, by

has resided ever since, his occupation
being that of a farmer. Being bap-
tized when about ten years of age, he
was ordained an Elder in 1870 and a
High Priest May 12, 1901, by John

James W. W. Fitzgerald. He was
finally ordained a Bishop and set
apart to preside over the Bingham
Ward May 18, 1913, by Apostle Rudger
Clawson. In 1901 (April 18th) he
married June Shelley, by whom he
has became the father of three child-
ren, namely Stephen J., Glen A. and
Joseph S.

COLEBROOK, Charles, third Bishop
of the Butler Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born Dec, 20, 1854, in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the son of Charles
Colebrook and Virtue Ann Bow-
thorpe. His parents separated when
he was but a child and he was raised
on a farm by his step-father, Preston
Lewis. For several years he followed
railroading in Utah, Wyoming, Mon-
tana and Washington. In 1884 (March
18th) he married Sarah McGhie
(daughter of Wm. McGhie and Mary
McBlaine), born Nov. 11, 1866, in
Provo Valley, Utah. After his marri-
age he settled in Butler, where he

Henry Smith, and on the same occa-
sion, he was set apart a second coun-
selor to Bishop Alva Butler. This
position he held for ten years, until
the death of Bishop Butler. Aug. 17,.
1913, he was ordained a Bishop^
and set apart to preside over the
Butler Ward. Prior to this last ordin-
ation he acted as first assistant super-
intendent of the Ward Sunday school
and subsequently as superintendent.
He also acted as school trustee,
member of the Jordan district school
board for three years, constable, etc.

STAKER, William Henry, a veteran
Elder of the Butler Ward, (Jordan
Stake), Salt Lake county, Utah, was
born Feb. 20, 1832, near Toronto,
Canada, the son of Nathan Staker and
Jane Richmond. He was baptized
when eight years of age and emi-
grated with his parents from Canada
to Illinois in 1839. Subsequently he
settled temporarily in Pottawattamie
county, Iowa, where he met Catherine

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M. Parsons, whom he married Jan. 1,
1851. She afterwards bore him ten
children. In 1852 the family emigrat-
ed to Utah, crossing the plains in Henry
W. Miller's ox train, which arrived
in Salt Lake City Sept. 27, 1852. They
settled in the Sugar House Ward. In
1857 Brother Staker married Sarah

Marchant, who became the mother of
nine children, three boys and six girls.
Brother Staker graded up, like other
"Mormon" boys, in the Priesthood
from one office to another, and he
held the office of a Seventy when
he died in Salt Lake City Dec. 31,
1907. Brother Staker filled no for-
eign missions during his life time, but
he was a prominent frontiersman and
helped to locate settlements on the
Muddy (Nevada) and other places.
During the Black Hawk war, in which
he took a prominent part, he was cap-
tain of a military company and spent
some of his later years in Rockport,
Summit county, Utah.

STAKER, Catherine Maria Parsons,
wife of Wm. H. Staker, was born Oct.
6, 1832, at Windsor, Hartford county,
Connecticut, the daughter of Avery
Parsons and Sarah Burr Hoyt. She

was baptized in August, 1847, at Win-
ter Quarters (now in Nebraska) by
Elder Benjamin L. Clapp. While liv-
ing temporarily at Pigeon Grove,
Pottawattamie county, Iowa, she
married Wm. H. Staker and came
with him to Utah in 1852. In the
Sugar House Ward, where the family

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resided for some time, she taught
Sunday school and also took an active
part in the Relief Society from the
time of its first organization; in the
Butler Ward she presided over the
Relief Society for a number of years.
Sister Staker is the mother of ten
children, five boys and five girls, and
at the present time (1913) she has
fifty-four grand-children and fifty-
three great grand-children living.

TUCKER, Edward Charles, first
counselor to Bishop Charles Cole-
brook, of the Butler Ward, (Jordan
Stake), Salt Lake county, Utah, was
born Sept. 26, 1868, in Salt Lake City,
Utah, the son of Stephen Tucker and
Eliza Ann Mercer. He was baptized
in the spring of 1877 by Bishop
Samuel Peterson, ordained a Deacon
in 1886, a Teacher in 1890, an Elder
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1910, by J. Golden Kimball, and a
High Priest Aug. 17, 1913, by Anthony
W. Ivins. As a boy he worked in the
dairy business, and when eighteen
years of age he accompanied his older
brother to Ashley, Utah, where he en-
gaged in farming; afterwards he
helped to build the Salt Lake and
Fort Douglas Railway. In 1886 he
went to Colorado, where he again
worked on the railway and after his
return the following year he studied
at the Salt Lake Academy. Returning
to Ashley, he began learning the trade
of a mason and became a Sunday
school worker. After that he resided
three years in Provo, where he finish-
ed learning his trade and finally
located permanently in Butler, where
he married Jane Elizabeth Butler,
daughter of Bishop Alva Butler, by
whom he became the father of seven
children, four boys and three girls.
For several years Brother Tucker act-
ed as president of an Elders quorum,
and also as superintendent of the
Ward Sunday school and president
of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. In August,
1913, when ordained a High Priest, he
was set apart as first counselor to
Bishop Charles Colebrook. Bro. Tucker
has also held a number of secular
offices, among others that of a justice
of the peace.

STAKER, Nathan Henry, second
counselor to Bishop Wm. W. Butler,
of the Butler Ward (Jordan Stake),
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born Jan.
1, 1861, in the Sugar House Ward,
Utah, the son of Wm. Henry Staker
and Catherine M. Parsons. He was
baptized when eight years old, ordain-
ed a Teacher, afterwards an Elder
and finally a High Priest in 1910,
when he was set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Butler; he held
this position until the Bishopric was
changed in 1913. For a number of
years Bro. Staker acted as a counselor

in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. and also as
first assistant superintendent of the
Ward Sunday school. For several
years prior to the burning of the
paper mill, at the mouth of Big Cot-
tonwood canyon, he acted as foreman
at the mill. Since 1892 he has been
engaged in farming and fruit-raising.
In 1884 (Dec. 29th) he married
Mathilda E. Wagstaff (daughter of
Wm. Wagstaff and Mathilda E. Limb),
who was born Dec. 16, 1864. She
has borne him seven children, three
boys and four girls, and at the present
time (1913) she acts as secretary of
the Butler Relief Society.

WOOTTON, Charles Robert, a
prominent Elder in the Butler Ward,
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born

July 4, 1847, at Eatonbray, Bedford-
shire, England, the son of Wm.
Wootton and Deborah Roe. In his
boyhood days he assisted his father
on his farm and received a limited
education. He emigrated to America
with his parents in 1861, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Manchester"
and the plains in David H. Cannon's
ox-train, which arrived in Salt Lake
City Aug. 16, 1861; Brother Wotton

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walked the whole distance across the
plains. After residing two years in
Farmington, Davis county, he settled
in Mill Creek, Salt Lake county, and
after a short sojourn in southern
Utah (1863-64) he moved to South
Cottonwood and finally settled at
Butlerville in 1880. He was ordained
a Seventy March 4, 1866, by Joseph
Young and became a member of the
72nd quorum of Seventy. In 1878
(Dec. 23rd) he married Ester Ballard,
daughter of Richard Ballard and
Sarah Cogger, who was born Aug. 14,
1852, at Madistone, Kent, England,
emigrated to Utah in 1877 and was
baptized in 1878. She bore her hus-
band six children, namely, Wm. C,
Vincent P., Deborah, Sidney, Grace
and Esther. Sister Wootton acted as
president of the Primary association
of the Butler Ward for a long time
and now acts as first counselor in the
Butler "Ward Relief Society. Brother
Wootton was ordained a High Priest
Sept. 29, 1906 by James Jensen, is a
farmer by occupation and has been a
faithful Church worker all his life.

MASON, Ambrose Todd, first coun-
selor to Bishop Wm. C. Crump, of
Bluffdale, Jordan Stake, Utah, was
born Dec. 12, 1864, at San Francisco,
California, the son of Wm. H. Mason
and Clarissa Moses. He came with
his parents to Utah in 1871 and settled
in the 8th Ward, Salt Lake City; was
baptized June 5, 1873, by Stephen
Alley, ordained a Priest Dec. 6, 1894,
by Lewis H. Mousley, ordained an
Elder June 10, 1895, by Samuel L.
Howard, ordained a High Priest Jan.
21, 1900, by Francis M. Lyman and
set apart as an alternate High
Councilor in the Jordan Stake. Final-
ly he was set apart as Ward clerk of
the Bluffdale Ward July 14, 1895, and
set apart as first counselor to Bishop
Wm. C. Crump Dec. 17, 1905, by
Hyrum Goff. Since 1891 Bro. Mason
has been a resident of Bluffdale,

where he is engaged in farming. In
1907 (July 1st) he was placed in
charge of the Jordan Narrows Power
Station belonging to the Utah Power
and Light Company. He also acted

as justice of the peace in Bluffdale.
In 1891 (Dec. 10th) he married Sophia
Christensen, daughter of Christian G.
Christensen and Cecelia S0rensen,
who was born Jan. 29, 1868, at Veile,
Denmark. By her Bro. Mason became
the father of four chjldren, namely,
Wm. M., Ambrose S., Cecelia and
Alice. In his boyhood Bro. Mason re-
ceived a good public school education
which has enabled him for years to
act as a very accurate and efficient
Ward clerk. He has also been an ac-
tive Ward teacher for many years.

FAIRBOURN, William, second
Bishop of the Crescent Ward (Jordan
Stake), Salt Lake county, Utah, was
born Nov. 11, 1861, in Mill Creek,
Salt Lake county, Utah, the son of
Edward Fairbourn and Eliza Ann
Wright. He was baptized May 1,
1870, by James C. Walker, received a
common school education ,and at the
age of nine years, went to southern
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ranch with his uncle about four years,
after which he returned to Mill Creek
and resided there until April, 1885,
when he settled permanently in that
part of the Great Salt Lake valley

which is now included in the Crescent
Ward. He was ordained successively
to the office of Teacher, Priest, Elder,
Seventy and High Priest; the latter
ordination he received March 29,
1896, under the hands of Angus M.
Cannon, and at the same time he was
set apart as first counselor to Bishop
James P. Jensen, of the Crescent Ward.
In 1896-97 he filled a mission to the
Southern States, laboring principally
in the East Tennessee conference.
He returned home in January, 1897,
on account of sickness, and resumed
his duties as counselor to Bishop
Jensen, acting in that capacity till
May 6, 1913, when the Bishop died.
Four months later, August 18, 1913,
Bro. Fairburn was ordained a Bishop
by Apostle Anthony W. Ivins, and set
apart to preside over the Crescent
Ward. Prior to that he had acted as
superintendent of the Ward Sunday
school for a number of years, and he
had also served two terms as justice
of the peace in the Crescent precinct.

In 1885 (April 8th) he married Hannah
M. Rynerson in the Logan Temple;
she was the daughter of Andrew Ry-
nerson and Ann Herbert and has
borne him five children, namely, Wm.
R., Edward, Nellie, Leslie D. and
Alma. When Bro. Fairbourn first
settled at Crescent, the place was a
perfect wilderness covered with sage
brush. Together with several others
he first turned Jordan river into the
East Jordan canal, which he had
helped to dig. Now the desert blos-
soms as the rose in that part of Great
Salt Lake Valley. Bishop Fairbourn
has earned the distinction of having
cleared and cultivated more land than
any other one man in the Crescent
Ward.

FAIRBOURN, Richard Matthew, a,
High Councilor in the Jordan Stake
of Zion, and a resident of the Cres-

cent Ward, Utah, was born Dec. 12,
1869, at Mill Creek, Salt Lake Co.,
Utah, the son of Edward Fairbourn
and Eliza Ann Wright. He received
a common school education and
worked on his father's farm at Mill
Creek until 1901, when he moved to
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was blessed April 7, 1870, by Reuben
Miller, baptized Aug. 25, 1877, by John
F. Snedeker, ordained a Deacon, later
a Teacher and still later (Jan. 9, 1898)
an Elder. He married Myrtle Rhodes
Jan. 26, 1898; she became the mother
of three children and died March 3,

1906. He married again June 12,

1907, by taking to wife Ida Jensen,
daughter of the late Bishop James P.
Jensen and Anna Petersen; she has
borne him two children. In 1907-1910
he filled a mission to Great Britain,
laboring in the Grimsby conference.
Prior to taking his mission he acted
as first assistant supertintendent in
the Ward Sunday school, and since
his return he has acted as president
of the Y. M. M. I. A. In 1906 (Aug.
19th) he was ordained a High Priest
by John Henry Smith and set apart
as an alternate High Councilor in the
Jordan Stake. In 1903 (Feb. 13th) he
became a regular member of said
council. The names of Bro. Fair-
bourn's children are Vera L., Delbert
R., Rulon R., Ruth M. and Carol.

SMITH John Eddins, second coun-
selor to Bishop Wm. Fairbourn of the
Crescent Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born March 29, 1881, at
Crescent, the son of Wm. H. Smith
and Harriet Susannah Eddins. He
was baptized when about eight years
old and ordained successively to the
offices of Deacon, Teacher and Priest.
He was ordained an Elder March 3,
1913, by Wm. Fairbourn and a High
Priest Aug. 18, 1913, by Anthony W.
Ivins, who on the same occasion set
him apart as second counselor to
Bishop Fairbourn. As a boy Brother
Smith worked on his father's farm
and received a common school educa-
tion and also studied one year in the
L. D. S. College in Salt Lake City.
After following mining eight years, he
turned his attention to farming which
is at present his avocation. In 1907

(March 13th) he married Annie
Nielsen (daughter of S0ren Nielsen
and Karen M, Jensen), with whom he

has had four children, namely, Cecil
J., Margaret, Helen and LeRose.

SMITH, William Henry, a veteran
Elder in the Crescent Ward, Salt
Lake county, Utah, was born Feb. 22,
1853, on the banks of the Delaware
river, in Delaware, the son of Henry
Smith and Elizabeth Mercer. He was
baptized in 1866 by Elder Francis
Brown. His mother died when he
was an infant and as a boy he had
no opportunity to attend school. Emi-
grating to Utah in 1862 with his father
and step-mother (his father having
married a second time, when William
was five years old) the family crossed
the plains in Captain Ansel P. Har-
mon's ox-train. After spending one
winter in Salt Lake City they moved
to Cottenwood, afterwards to Farm-
er's Ward, and became permanent
settlers in Crescent in 1876. Here
William married Harriet Susannah
Eddins Oct. 7, 1877, and by her be-
came the father of four children,
namely, Henry E., John E., Charles
E., and William E. Brother Smith

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was one of the first settlers in that county, Utah, was born Oct. 2, 1843,
part of Salt Lake valley which is now at Tawstock, Devonshire, England,

embraced in the Crescent Ward, and
he has done his share to make the
"wildernes blossom as the rose".

SMITH, Harriet Susannah, wife of
Wm. H. Smith, was born Aug. 14,
1854, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the
daughter of John Eddins and Harriet
Newman. She was baptized at the
age of ten years and married Thomas
Parkinson Jan. 25, 1873, by whom she
had two children, namely Albert C.
and Samuel E. Parkinson. Her hus-
band met with a severe accident,
breaking his back, while working in
a mine at West Tintic, and died in
April, 1876. He was born in England
March 6, 1849, emigrated to America
in 1858, and continued the journey to
Utah in 1860, crossing the plains with
handcarts. Sister Harriet being left
with the two children by her first
husband was married a second time,
Oct. 7, 1877. With Wm. H. Smith,
her second husband, she is the mother
of four children.

WELLINGTON, John, an active
Elder in the Crescent Ward, Salt Lake

the son of John Wellington and
Emily Bouse. His education as a
boy was limited, and early in life he
was apprenticed to learn the trade of
smelting and refining copper. He
worked in the copper works for fif-
teen years. In September, 1863, he
married Maria Williams, a daughter
of Richard and Betsy Williams, who
was born in 1840 and became the
mother of four children, namely, John
H., William R., Mary E. and Bert-
chiram A. His first wife died in 1873,
and in 1874 he married Isabella Craw-
ford Hodgen, a Latter-day Saint lady,
(born in 1846) and through her in-
fluence Mr. Wellington began to in-
vestigate the principles of the gospel
and was finally baptized in 1879 by
Peter Reid. For about five years he
kept an open house for the Elders.
Three weeks after his baptism he was
ordained an • Elder and appointed
to preside over the Hepburn branch,
in the Newcastle conference. He held
that position until 1882, when he
emigrated to Utah, arriving in Salt
Lake City May 1, 1882. After re-
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wood, he removed to Crescent, where
he has resided ever since and taken
an active part in the building up of
that place. He has for many years
been an acting teacher, both in the
Ward and Sunday school. By his
second wife he became the father of
one child. This wife died at Cres-
cent March 11, 1913. Bro. Wellington
was ordained a High Priest by James
Jensen, Aug. 29, 1908.

OLSEN, Frederick August, an Elder
in the Crescent Ward (Jordan Stake),
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born
Oct. 10, 1849, at Christiania, Norway,
the son of Jacob P. Olsen and Ellen
Olsen. He emigrated to Utah in

1869 and resided in Salt Lake City,
until 1876, when he was called to
Arizona as a colonization missionary.
He resided there 21 months, and after
his return to Utah, he located tempo-
rarily in Park City, where he remain-
ed til 1884 when he settled in Cres-
cent, where he still resides. He joined
the Church in his native land when
about twelve years of age, and after
his arrival in America, he was or-
dained an Elder, and received his en-
dowments. In 1875 (June 28th)

he married Hannah Mathea Baltzer-
sen, who was born Feb. 14, 1851, in
Norway, and emigrated to Utah in
1871. By her Bro. Olsen became the
father of six children, namely,
Hannah M., Geo. F., Charles H.,
Annie L., Joseph W. and Ellen S. His
wife died June 27, 1892, and in 1893
(Sept. 29th) he married Sarah Ann
Hodgson who was born Feb. 4, 1867,
at Sunderland, England, the daughter
of Anthony C. Hodgson and Isabella
Crawford. She is the mother of five
children, namely, John B., Isabell,
Frederick L., Lucinda M. and Emily
M. Bro. Olsen's occupation is that of
a farmer, but he has always been an
active Church worker, having been an
officer in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. two
years and also acted as first counselor
in the seventh quorum of Elders. He
has also been a Ward teacher and a
member of the Ward choir. In a
civil capacity he has served his fel-
low-citizens as constable for six years
and road supervisor for four years.

STOKES, Thomas, a veteran Elder
in the Draper Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born Nov. 13, 1842, at Bols-
over, Derbyshire, England, the son of
Jeremiah Stokes and Fanny Walker.
When but a young boy he was taken
to school by his mother. When the
teacher saw the mother, he inquired:
"Does this boy belong to the "Mor-
mons?" And when the mother re-
plied "Yes," he said "We cannot re-
ceive him into this school." There-
fore, Thomas had to receive his edu-
cation at home. When ten years of
age he was baptized by Charles
Longston. In 1856 he emigrated to
Utah with his parents. They crossed
the ocean in the ship "Horizon," and
the plains with Captain James
Brown, arriving in Salt Lake City in
the later part of September, 1856.
During the winter of 1859-60 Thomas
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stone wall around the tithing yard in
Salt Lake City. In the spring of 1859
he moved to Draper, where he has
lived ever since, being engaged in
farming and stock-raising. In 1865
he went to Green river and in 1866
back to the Missouri river after emi-
grants. In 1867 he took part in the
Black Hawk war. He was ordained
successively to the office af Deacon,
Teacher, Priest and Elder, the latter
ordination taking place in April, 1866,
under the hands of Heber C. Kimball.
He was ordained to the office of a
Seventy Feb. 9, 1868, by Thomas
Wheeler and to that of a High Priest
July 31, 1909, by Pres. Hyrum Goff.
He has been an active Ward teacher
since 1866,and was first assistant
superintendent and later superinten-
dent of the Draper Ward Sunday
school for a number of years. On
March 8, 1905, he left for a mission to
Great Britain and was appointed to
labor in the Sheffield conference. He
returned home in May of the same
year on account of sickness. In
1882 he met with an accident in which
he lost his left hand, and while on his
mission his right hand became dis-
abled, this being the cause of his early
release from the mission field. In
1870 (Sept. 26th) he married Ellen L.
Canfield (daughter of Cyrus Canfield
and Clarissa Jones) who was born
Sept. 2, 1850, at Ogden, Utah. She
became the mother of eleven chil-
dren.

GROSSGROVE, James Ashburton
Bayard, a High Priest in the Jordan
Stake of Zion and a resident of Drap-
er, Utah, was born Dec. 31, 1831,
in Chester county. Pa., the son of
Charles W. Crossgrove and Therissa
Raymond. He received a common
school education and learned the
trade of a mason. He followed this
avocation, first in the States and
later in Utah, after his arrival there.
In 1861 (August 31st) he married

Martha Ellen Mousley, the daughter
of Titus Mousley and Ann McMinimie,
who was born in Ireland. She bore
him five children, namely Willimina,
Mary E., Martha E., Bayard M. and
Chas. M. Bro. Crossgrove was bap-
tized in the fall of 1856 by Angus M.

Cannon (who also ordained him an
Elder) and he emigrated to Utah it
1857, arriving in Salt Lake City, Sept.
21st of that year, crossing the plains
in Capt. Jacob Hoffeins company.
After residing in the City and vicinity
till 1872, he removed to Draper, where
he has been engaged in fruitraising
and farming until the present time.
Bro. Crossgrove is an active Church
worker, having served as Ward teach-
er for many years.

GREEN, Benjamin, an active
Church worker in the Draper Ward,
Jordan Stake, Utah, was born July
24, 1814, at Sutton, near Ashfield,
Nottinghamshire, England. His fath-
er's name was William Green and he
learned the trade of a stockinger
when quite young. He first heard
the fulness of the gospel preached in
1849 and became a member of the
Church by baptism, Feb. 7, 1850. He

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emigrated to America in 1854 and
settled in Draper, where he followed
the occupation of a farmer. Crossing
the plains he acted as captain of ten
under Capt. Wm. A. Empey. While
a resident of Draper he labored very
faithfully as president of the lesser
Priesthood and as superintendent of
the Ward Sunday school. Advancing
from one degree of the Priesthood to
another he was finally ordained a High
Priest. During his life he married
two wives. His first wife was Ann
Shellcrosslee and after her death he
married Harriet Cook. Before emi-
grating from England he kept an open
house for the Elders, who labored as
missionaries in his native land. He
passed to his final rest at Draper,
Utah, Feb. 1, 1896.

GREEN, William, a prominent
Elder in the Draper Ward, Jordan
Stake, Utah, was born Feb. 12, 1840,
at Sutton, near Ashfield, Nottingham-
shire, England, the son of Benjamin
Green and Ann Shellcrosslee, togeth-
er with his father and brother, he
joined the Church Feb. 7, 1850, being
among the first baptized in Sutton,
and in 1854 the three of them emigrat-
ed to America, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "Marshfield" which sailed
from Liverpool, April 8, 1854, and
arrived in New Orleans May 29, 1854.
They crossed the plains in Captain
Wm. A. Empey's company, arriving
in Great Salt Lake valley, Oct. 24,
1854; they made their home in Drap-
er. In 1861 William went back to the
Missouri river as a Church teamster
after the poor. In 1861 (Nov. 18th)
after his return he married Jane
Jeffery, (a daughter of William and
Mary Jeffery), who was born April
7, 1839, and who bore him seven chil-
dren, six boys and one girl. In 1877
(Jan. 30th) Bro. Green married Eliza-
beth Garnett, who bore him two chil-
dren, namely, one boy and one girl,
he did military service in defense of

the people. Elder Green has always
been an active member in the Church.
In 1863 he made another trip to the
Missouri river after emigrants. Dur-
ing the move in 1858 he made his
temporary home in Alpine, across the
mountains from Draper, and in 1866,
during the Black Hawk Indian war.

He was ordained successively to the
offices of Deacon, Priest, Elder,
Seventy and High Priest. His ordina-
tion to the office of Elder took place
in 1862 under the hands of Dr.
Sprague, and he was ordained a High
Priest Nov. 26, 1898, by Geo. B.
Wallace. For many years he has
served the people as a Ward teach-
er. While Draper has been his per-
manent home, he also resided for a
couple of years (1868-70) in Paradise,
Cache Co., Utah, and six years in the
seventh Ward, Salt Lake City. He
is now (1913) 73 years of age, but is
hale and hearty and able to perform
his secular and ecclesiastical duties.
For sixteen years he has been a
widower.

ANDERSON, John, an active Elder
in the East Jordan Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Dec. 30, 1836,

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at Oneslov, Malmohus Ian, Sweden,
the son of Andrew Olson and Elner
Jorgenson. He was baptized in the
summer of 1857 by Elder Jens Jenson,
ordained to the office of as Elder
and in 1859 was set apart to preside
over the Lyngby branch. After pre-
siding there two years he labored nine
months as a missionary in the Sk§,ne

conference. As a passenger on board
the ship "Franklin" he sailed for
America from Hamburg April 15,
1862, and arrived in New York May
29, 1862. Journeying on to Utah, he
crossed the plains in Christian A.
Madsen's ox-train, and arrived in
Salt Lake City Sept. 23, 1862. In
1863 he went back over the plains
for the Mail Company, returning in
the fall. After that he remained in
Salt Lake City two years. In the fall
of 1865 he married Ellen Anderson
(daughter of Per and Ellen Ander-
son), born in June, 1843, in Orup
Malmohus Ian, Sweden; she emigrated
to Utah in 1864. After their marri-
age they settled in West Jordan. Bro.
Anderson has been an active Ward
teacher for many years and was or-
dained a Seventy and finally a High

Priest. He is the father of eight chil-
dren, seven of whom are alive today.

BENDIXEN, Knud, an active Elder
in the Midvale Ward, was born May
30, 1850, at Sellerup, Veile amt, Den-
mark, the son of Bendix Pedersen and
Johanna Stephensen. His mother
joined the Church in 1862, but Knud

did not become a member until April
5, 1877, being baptized by Carl
Frederiksen, and confirmed by Jens
Christian Nielsen. In 1872 (Oct. 3rd),
he married Jutine Caroline Thorsen
(daughter of Carl P. Thorsen and
Jutine C. Lynge), who was born May
22, 1850, at Kors0r, Sorpf amt, Den-
mark. This union has been blessed
with ten children, all of whom are
living today. In 1881 Bro. Bendixen
emigrated to America with his family.
After living seven years in Fountain
Green, Sanpete county, Utah, he
moved to Sandy, Salt Lake co., where
he lived for fifteen years and then
settled permanently at East Jordan.
Brother Bendixen received the Priest-
hood in his native land, being ordain-
ed a Teacher in 1878 and a Priest in
1880. In 1904 (June 12th) he was

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ordained an Elder by Thomas Crow-
der, and in 1810 (May 15th) he was
ordained a High Priest by Chilion L.
Miller. While residing at Sandy he
acted for some time as counselor in
the Elders quorum and is at the pre-
sent time a teacher in the Religion
Class in the East Jordan Ward. He
has been an active Ward teacher for
over twenty years and is still acting
in the same capacity. He has also
acted as a Sunday School teacher at
different times. His principal secul-
ar occupation has been farming, but
for a short time he worked in the
Sandy smelter and there, on May 2,
1900, he met with an accident which
resulted in the amputation of his
right arm.

BENNETT, William Barnabe, an
active Elder in the East Jordan Ward,
was born Dec. 13, 1840, in Brinley Hill,
Worcestershire, England, the son of
Thomas Bennett and Ann Lacey. He
was baptized by his father March 20,
1850, and confirmed March, 1850, by
his Uncle James Barnett. Learning
the trade of a brick mason he worked
at his trade in England. Emigrating
to America in 1861, he met his father
in the States, he having emigrated
two years previous; they both came
to Utah in 1862 and setled temporari-
ly in Dry Creek (now Crescent).
Subsequently he moved to West Jor-
dan, where he in November, 1866,
married Sarah Chappie (daughter of
John Chappie and Ann Ford) who
was born Nov. 16, 1844, in South
Moulton, Devonshire England. Bro.
Bennett was ordained an Elder in
March, 1866, by Samuel L. Sprague,
and in April, 1866, he started back
across the plains as a mounted guard
in a Church train, returning in Sep-
tember. He was ordained a Seventy
Jan. 3, 1877, by James Crane. From
April, 1883, to November, 1884, he filled
a mission to England, laboring in the
Birmingham and Nottingham con-

ferences. He was ordained a High
Priest March 25. 1899, by Elijah
Sheets. For several years he was an
active Ward teacher, and he acted as

postmaster for four years. He was
the father of eleven children and died
a faithful Latter-day Saint March 9,
1906, at Midvale, Utah.

HIGGINS, James, a veteran Elder
of the East Jordan Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Feb. 10, 1820,
at Lenham, Kent, England. He joined
the Church in his native land and
married Mahala Baines in 1853. With
his young wife he emigrated to Utah in
1862, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Manchester" and the plains in Cap-
tain Joseph Home's company, which
arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 1, 1862.
The family settled in West Jordan
and resided a short time with James
Turner whose son, James F. Turner,
had been their teamster while cros-
sing the plains. Here they have re-
sided ever since, but became members
of the East Jordan Ward when that
Ward was organized, as their home
was on the east side of the river.
Brother Higgins was ordained to the
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and acted for several years as super-
intendent af the West Jordan Sunday
school. Obeying the higher law of
marriage, he took Mary Foreman to
wife about 1875, and in 1886-87 he
served six months for consience sake
in the Utah penitentiary. Elder Hig-
gins died in East Jordan Feb. 8, 1904.

HIGGINS, Mahala Baines, wife of
James Higgins, was born Nov. 7,
1827, in England, the daughter of John
Baines and Hannah Steadman. She
was baptized in her native land, mar-
ried James Higgins in 1853 and emi-
grated with him to America in 1862.

As a resident of West Jordan Ward
and afterwards of the East Jordan
Ward, she has taken a leading part
in Relief Society work and through-
out been a zealous Church worker.
Since 1904, when her husabnd died,
she has earned her own living.

HOBBS, William, a veteran Elder
in the East Jordan Ward, Salt Lake
CO., Utah, was born March 16, 1837,
at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Eng-
land, the son of William Hobbs and
Ann Owens. In 1851 he joined the
Church, being baptized July 28th by

James D. Ross. May 21, 1856, he was
ordained to the office of a Teacher
and for one year he helped the Elders
to distribute tracts, hold meetings,
etc. March 27, 1859, he was ordained
to the office of an Elder by Robert
Jones. He emigrated to America in

1859, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"William Tapscott," which sailed
from Liverpool April 11th, and arrived
at New York May 15, 1859. While
on board the ship, he met Miss
Matilda Barrett, who afterwards be-
came his wife. He crossed the plains
in George Rowleys' handcart company,
arriving in Salt Lake City Sept. 4,
1859. In 1860 (Oct. 3rd) he married
Matilda Barrett, who has borne him
ten children, eight of whom are liv-
ing today. He was in the employ of
Pres. Brigham Young as a body guard
during 1862-1863. After settling tem-
porarily in the Tenth Ward, he moved
with his family to Franklin, Idaho, in
1864. There he took an active part
in defending the settlers from the
ravages of the Indians. In 1865 he
moved to Helena, Montana, where he
was engaged in mining for eight
years. He then moved to Great Salt
Lake Valley and settled at West

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Jordan, now in JMidvale, where he has
been engaged in contracting and ship-
ping slag from the smelter dumps,
shipping thousands of tons. Brother
Hobbs has been an active Ward teach-
er for many years.

HOBBS, Matilda Barrett, wife of
William Hobbs, Avas born May 28,
1843, at Pontepool, Monmouthshire,
England, the daughter of Wm. Barrett

and Phoebe Coburn. She was bap-
tized in 1853 by Henry Thomas and
emigrated to America in 1859, cros-
sing the Atlantic in the ship "Wm.
Tapscott". On board tnis vessel she met
her future husband for the first time.
She crossed the plains in George
Rowley's handcart company, helping
to pull a cart all the way and fording
the streams and rivers. When she ar-
rived in Great Salt Lake City, she was
very much fatigued after the long
and tiresome journey. She lived
temporarily in the Ninth Ward at the
home of Bishop Woolley. Oct. 3, 1860,
she was married to Wm. Hobbs, to
whom she has borne ten children, and
proven herself a faithful wife and a
firm Latter-day Saint. Her parents
joined the Church in England and

came to Utah in 1875, settling at
Provo, where they lived until their
death. Her father died in 1883 and
her mother in 1899.

JENSON, Peter, a veteran Elder in
the East Jordan Ward (Jordan Stake),
Salt Lake county, Utah, was bom
Nov. 3, 1835, at Sandby, Malmohus
Ian, Sweden, the son of Jons Peter
Jenson and Anna Pehrson. He learn-
ed the trade of a brickmason and
afterwards became the foreman of a
brick kiln. In November, 1862, he
married Burtilde Nilson (daughter of
Nils and Inger Pehrson) born March
27, 1842, at Togorp Malmohus Ian,
Sweden, and died at East Jordan Oct.
26, 1910. Brother Jenson was ordain-
ed a Teacher in 1868 and an Elder the
same year. He then presided over
the Lund branch for three and a half

years. In 1877 he emigrated to Utah
and settled at West Jordan, where he
has been engaged in smelting-work and
farming. He was ordained a Seventy
March 20, 1887, by Edwin D. Holt, and
in 1891-93 he filled a mission to
Sweden, laboring in the SkS,ne confer-
ence and presiding over the Blekinge
branch for one year. He was ordain-

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ed to the office of a High Priest by
Bishop Elijah F. Sheets, and has been
an active Ward teacher for twenty-
eight years. He has also acted as a
school trustee. Bro. Jenson is the
father of six children.

NILSON, James Anderson, a veteran
Elder in the East Jordan Ward, Salt
Lake county, Utah, was born May 21,

dained successively to the different
offices in the Priesthood and holds
the office of a High Priest at the pres-
ent time.

Nilson, Cecilia Larson, wife of
James A. Nilson, was born May 5,
1835, in Hyby Malmohus Ian, Sweden,
the daughter of Martin Larson and
Kjersti Gibson. When a girl she

1823, in Sweden, the son of Anders
and Eva Nilson. In his native land
he learned the trade of a carpenter
and in 1853 he married Cecilia Larson.
Feb. 2, 1862, he was baptized by Elder
Paul Okeson, and in 1868 he emigrated
to Utah with his wife and four chil-
dren, sailing from Liverpool June 24,
1868, in the ship "Constitution" which
arrived at New York Aug. 5, 1868, and
crossing the plains in Capt. John G.
Holman's ox-train which arrived in
Salt Lake City Sept. 25, 1868. While
crossing the plains his eight-year old
daughter Anna died, and three days
after arriving in the Valley their
daughter Johanna died. Bro. Nilson
settled in that part of the West Jordan
Ward which now constitutes Midvale.
where he has taken an active part in
the affairs of the Ward. He was or-

learned from her mother to weave and
sew and manufacture clothes, which
they sold to the neighbors, and since
their arrival in Utah she has made
and sold many suits of clothes. She
married James A. Nilson in 1853 and
has borne him nine children, of whom
five are living to-day. Sister Nilson
has been a faithful and active Relief
Society worker, and has lived togeth-
er with her husband sixty years. Both
are still in good health and enjoying
life.

SMITH, Albert, an active Elder in
the East Jordan Ward, was born Aug.
24, 1837, at Lumberville, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, the son of John Pearson
Smith and Jane H. Opdyke. His fath-
er was born in Smithville, Bucks
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married Jane H. Opelyke Aug. 27.
1835, was a cabinet maker by trade
and came to Utah in 1852. His wife
bore him seven children, and he died
June 20, 1885, in Salt Lake City. While
yet a boy Albert moved to Philadel-
phia, where his youngest sister, Ella,
died, and in 1849 he went to Burling-
ton, Iowa. After staying there one
winter, he went to KanesvfUe, where
he remained until July 4, 1852, when

he started for Utah in Captain Curtis's
company, arriving in Salt Lake City
Oct. 12, 1852, in company with his
parents, three brothers and a sister.
His sister, Mary Frances, died on the
plains July 29, 1852, about three
hundred miles west of the Missouri
river. Bro. Smith lived in Salt Lake
City until 1890 and then moved to
East Jordan, where he has resided
ever since. He was ordained an Elder
in 1856, a Seventy in 1857 by John
Needham and a High Priest in 1899,
by Wm. C. Dunbar. In 1857 he went
out to meet Johnston's army, and in
1858 again went to Echo canyon. He
was a lieutenant in the Nauvoo Legion,
was a faithful member of the Taber-
nacle shoir and has been connected
with the Old Folks choir since it was

first organized in 1875. In 1859 (Nov.
28th) he married Josephine Rowe, who
bore him nine children.

SMITH, Josephine Augusta Rowe,
wife of Albert Smith, was born July
6, 1841, in New York City, New York,
the daughter of John Rowe and Jane
Scofield Smith. When Josephine was
a young girl, she was taken very ill,
but was miraculously healed by the

anointing and administration of the
Elders Trough this manifestation
the mother believed the gospel, but'
the father refused tc accept it, thus
causing a separation between husband
and wife, and the mother and daughter
came to Utah in an independent com-
pany, arriving in Salt Lake City in
September, 1851. They settled in the
Seventh Ward, and while there Jose-
phine met Albert Smith, to whom she
was married Nov. 28, 1859, and became
the mother of nine children. She has
taken an active part in the Relief
Society, both in the Seventh and East
Jordan Wards, ani has proven herself
to be an affectionate mother and a
faithful Latter-day Saint.

DESPAIN, Soloman J., first Bishop
of the Granite Ward, Salt Lake co..

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Utah, was born Dec. 3, 1823, in Lauder-
dale county. Alabama, the son of
Solomon and Nancy Despain. When
a young boy, he moved with his par-

ents into Tennessee; afterwards he
lived in Kansas and later in Calhoun
county, Illinois, where, in 1842 (June
30th), he married Ruth Newell
(daughter of Asael Newell and Eliza-
beth Bushnell), who was born Sept.
21, 1822, at Brookfield Madison county.
New York. Soon after Brother
Despain's marriage he joined the
Campbellites, with whom he remained
until Aug. 30, 1851, when he and his
wife were baptized into the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He
was ordained a Priest Nov. 16, 1851,
by James R. Thorpe and an Elder
May 2, 1852, by J. T. Griffith, who
was presiding over a branch of the
Church in Illinois. For a short time
he acted as first counselor to James
R. Thorpe and later was first coun-
selor to Wm. B. Corbett, who presid-
ed over the same branch. Nov. 21, 1853,
he was called on a mission to Ar-
kansas, where he labored until April
11, 1854, and then visited his relatives
in that State and succeded in baptiz-
ing quite) a number of them. Agree-

able to the counsel of Orson Pratt,
who at that time was publishing "The
Seer" in Washington, D. C, Brother
Despain moved his family to Arkansas
and there resumed his labors in the
Church, presiding over one of the
branches for seven years. In 1861 he
emigrated with his family to Utah,
crossing the plains in David H. Can-
non's company, which arrived in Salt
Lake City Aug. 17, 1861. Bro. Des-
pain settled in the Granite Ward, Salt
Lake county. In 1862 (May 17th), he
married Susan Dean; later he married
Charlotte Lundstedt. In 1877, when
the Salt Lake Stake of Zion was re-
organized, Brother Despain was chos-
en Bishop of the Granite Ward, which
position he held until 1886, when he
removed to Arizona and located at
Thatcher where he resided until his
death, which occured at Thatcher
Feb. 17, 1895. Bishop Despain was
the father of twenty-seven children,
seventeen boys and ten girls.

DESPAIN, Ruth Amelia Newell, wife
of Solomon J. Despain, was born
Sept. 22, 1822, in the State of New

York, the daughter of Asael Newell
and Elizabeth Bushnell. She joined

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the Church in 1852, being baptized by
John Sharp. Shortly afterwards she
moved with her parents to Callioun
county, Illinois, and while there she
met and married Solomon J. Despain,
with whom she emigrated to Utah in
1861 in David H. Cannon's company.
They settled in the Granite Ward,
where Sister Despain subsequently
acted as president of the Relief Socie-
ty from 1877 to 1896. She was the
mother of eleven children, seven boys
and four girls. She died Aug. 20,
1901, at Granite.

DESPAIN, Susan Dean, wife of Solo-
mon J. Despain, was born Nov. 17,
1843, in the State of Arkansas, the
daughter of William Dean and Nancy
Mullin. She was baptized in 1861,
while crossing the plains in David H.
Cannon's company. Arriving in Salt
Lake City Aug. 17, 1861, she settled
in the Granite Ward, where she mar-
ried Solomon J. Despain May 17, 1862,

and subsequently bore him ten chil*
dren (six boys and four girls), eight
of whom are living today and are
married. Following are the names of
the children: Martha E., Lewis E.,
Effie E., George F., Annie L., Charles

R., DeBart, Frank P., Angus R. and
Ida E. Sister Despain has been a
most diligent Relief Society worker
since 1877 and has held in succession
the offices of teacher, treasurer, coun-
selor and president in the Granite
Ward Relief Society.

DESPAIN, William Joseph, one of
the seven presidents of the 93rd
quorum of Seventy and an active
Elder in the Granite Ward, Salt Lake

county, Utah, was bom April 9, 1843,
at Calhoun county, Illinois, the son of
Solomon J. Despain and Ruth Amelia
Newell. He was baptized July 3,
1853, by his father. In the fall of the
same year he went with his father
to Arkansas, where he remained six
years and then went to Tennessee.
After remaining there two years, he
went to Utah in 1861, crossing the
plains in David H. Cannon's sompany, .
which arrived in Salt Lake City Aug.
17, 1861. He settled in the Granite
Ward, where he has practically resid-
ed ever since, excepting two years,
when he lived in Tooele county. In
1864 (June 18th) he married Ann Hill
(daughter of Thomas Hill and Ann
Stratten), who was born in Leicester-

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shire, England, in 1848, and emigrated
to Utah in 1863. She became the
mother of three children and died in
Granite Feb. 2, 1872. In 1874 (Sept.
14th) Brother Despain married Sarah
Catherine Egbert (daughter of Robert
C. Egbert and Seviah Cunningham),
who was born Aug. 29, 1859, at Fill-
more, Millard county, Utah, and be-
came the mother of thirteen children.
The subect of this sketch received the
Melchesidec Priesthood June 18, 1864,
being ordained to the office of air
Elder. He was ordained a Seventy in
1871 by Alma Hale and a High Priest
Jan. 1, 1911, by Willard C. Burgon.
When the Granite Ward was organiz-
ed in 1877, he was set apart as presi-
dent of the Y. M. M. I. A., which posi-
tion he held four years. He also
acted as superintendent of the Granite
Ward Sunday school from 1878 to 1881
and was a president of the 93rd
quorum of Seventy from 1895 to 1911.
In 1901-1902 he filled a mission to the
Northern States, laboring principally
in the South Illinois conference. He
and his present wife have both been
very diligent Church workers in the
Granite Ward. During the building
af the Salt Lake Temple, he was one
of the many who worked in the
quarry getting out rock for the same.

DESPAIN, Hyrum Smith, second
counselor to Bishop Solomon J. Des-
pain, of the Granite Ward, was born
May 7, 1846, in Calhoun county, Illi-
nois, the son of Solomon J. Despain
and Ruth Amelia Newell. He was
baptized in March, 1856, by Isaac M.
Coombs and came to Utah with his
father in 1861. He was ordained to
the different offices in the Priesthood
and in 1877 was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop Solomon J. Despain
of the Granite Ward. After holding
this position four years he moved to
Idaho. In 1870 he married Ruth
Amelia Griffith, daughter of Jonathan

T. Griffith and Nancy Despiin. This
^nion was blessed with eight children,
three boys and five girls. After liv-

ing in different localities he finally
setled at Oakley, Cassia county, Idaho,
where he resided untill his death,
which occurred in 1902

DESPAIN, David Alvin, an active
Elder in the Granite Ward, Salt Lake

county, Utah, was born Sept. 1, 1861,
at Granite, Utah, the son of Solomon

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J. Despain and Ruth A. Newell. He
was baptized in 1S73. While a young
man he worked in the canyons at his
father's saw mill. He was ordained
a Deacon at twelve years of age, a
Seventy June 1, 1884, by William W.
Sharp and became a member of the
93rd quorum of Seventy. In 1887
(Jan. 28th) he married Luella Miranda
Butler (daughter of Neri Butler and
Emmeline Hutchins), who was born
April 1, 1869, at South Cottonwood
and is the mother of twelve children,
five boys and seven girls, nine of
whom are living today. She is an
active Relief Society worker, at
present holding the position of Stake
aid. In the year 1887 Brother Des-
pain moved his family to Arizona. In
1903-1905 he filled a mission to the
Eastern States, laboring principally
in the West Pennsylvania conference.
After returning from his mission he
settled again in Granite, his wife hav-
ing moved there sometime previous to
his return. Here he has been en-
gaged in hauling freight, ore, etc., from
Alta to the railroad station at Sandy.

DESPAIN, Lewis Edgar, an alter-
nate member of the Jordan Stake
High Council, was born Sept. 28, 1864,
in Little Cottonwood canyon. Salt
Lake county, Utah, the son of Solomon
J. Despain and Susan Dean. He was
baptized June 7, 1877, by Christian
H Steffensen. While a boy he worked
in his father's saw mill and in the
canyon. Nov. 4, 1877, he was ordained
a Deacon by Niels Graham; Dec. 10,
1882, he was ordained a Priest by
Alva Butler; Sept. 18, 1887, he was
ordained a Seventy by Wm. R. Scott
and became a member of the 93rd
quorum of Seventy. May 12, 1901, he
was ordained a High Priest by Hyrum
Goff and set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop James A. Muir, of
the Granite Ward, which position he
held until November, 1911, when he
was released and set apart as an

alternate High Councilman in the
Jordan Stake by Francis M. Lyman.
Prior - to acting as a Bishop's coun-
selor he was secretary of the Granite
Ward Y. M. M. I. A. for two years,
and he labored in the presidency of
the same for three years. In 1889

(Feb. 20th) he married Hanna E. A.
Butler, (daughter of Bishop Alva
Butler and Jane E. Labrum), who
was born April 24, 1868, at South
Cottonwood. This union has been
blessed with eight children, namely,
Lillias H., Elva A., Hannah E., Lewis
E., Alva J., Erma E., Elbert G. and
Verne L. Sister Despain has been
an active Relief Society worker, being
secretary of the same since 1892 and
a Stake board member since 1909. She
has been in the presidency of the Y.
L. M. I. A. for five years. For the
past fifteen years Brother Despain
has been engaged in contracting and
hauling freight, ore, etc., from the
Alta mines to the railroad. He has
been very successful in financial af-
fairs, and has also been an active and
faithful Church worker. At the pre-
sent time he is chairman of the Old
Folks committee of the Granite Ward.

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DESPAIN, George Francis, an active
Elder in the Granite Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Sept. 21, 1869,
at Granite, the son of Solomon J.
Despain and Susan Dean. He was
baptized in the spring of 1878 by-
Niels Graham. During his early
years he helped his father on the
farm and in the saw mill. He was
ordained successively to the office of
a Deacon, Teacher and Seventy, the
latter ordination taking place Aug. 30,
1890, by James A. Muir, and he be-
came a member of the 93rd quorum
of Seventy. In 1899 (Sept. 20th) he
married Prudence G. Butler (daughter
of Bishop Alva Butler and Jane E.
Labrum), who was born July 2, 1871,
at South Cottonwood. This union has
been blessed with eight children,
namely, George E., Mabel L., La
Vaughn, LeRoy, Genevie B., Wayne
B., Beryl B., and Harold B. In 1894-
98 Bro. Despain filled a mission to the
Society Islands laboring principally in
the Tuamotu group. In June, 1904, he
was set apart as the president of Y.
M. M. I. A., which position he still
holds. For the past fifteen years he
has been engaged in teaming, hauling
ore, freighting, etc, from the Alta
mines to the railroad at Sandy, Utah.

HAWKINS, Riego Stay, second
counselor to Bishop James A. Muir, of
the Granite Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born Aug. 30, 1879, in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the son of Riego
Hawkins and Charlotte Elizabeth
Stay. He was baptized Aug. 30,
1887, by his father, received a com-
mon school education and learned the
trade of a carpenter. He was ordain-
ed successively to the offices of
Deacon, Teacher and Priest; he was
ordained a Seventy in November, 1898,
by Brigham H. Roberts and later a
High Priest by President Hyrum Goff,
and set apart as second counselor to
Bishop James A. Muir of the Granite
Ward. In 1898-1900 he filled a mis-

sion to the Southern States, laboring
principally in the Middle Tennessee
conference. In 1905 (Sept. 27th) he
married Miriam Young Hardy,
(daughter of Leonard G. Hardy and
Miriam Young), who became the moth-
er of four children, namely, Miriam C,
Lilian Y., Riego C, and Eugene Y.
Brother Hawkins has always been ac-
tive in Ward duties; thus he has
officiated as second counselor in the
Y. M. M. I. A. for two years, as a
Ward teacher and as a Y. M. M. I. A.
teacher. In 1907 he moved to Arizona,
where he lived about one year, but
returned to Salt Lake City the latter
part of 1907. May 5, 1908, he moved
to Granite. His entire life until 1907
was spent in Salt Lake City.

BUTLER, Alva, first Bishop of the
Butler Ward, Salt Lake co., Utah,

died May 12, 1909, at his residence at
Butler, after a protracted illness,
leaving a wife and nine children (See
Vol. I, p. 578).

BUTLER, Alva John, a member of
the High Council of the Jordan Stake,
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born
Aug. 26, 1869, at South Cottonwood,
the son of Alva Butler and Jane

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Elizabeth Labrum. He was baptized
in May, 1879, by Christian H. Steffen-
sen, received a common district school
education, and graduated in a busi-
ness course from the L. D. S. College
in 1890. Prior to entering college he

worked in the lumbering business
with his father. During the winter of
1890-91 he taught school and from
1891 to 1894 he filled a mission to the
Samoan and Friendly Islands. While
there he and Brigham Smoot opened
up a new mission to the Tongans.
After his return he taught school
again for one year, and then followed
the lumber business for four years,
mining for five years in the mechanical
department, was salesman for Stude-
backer for four years and foreman in
opening up a quarry bed at Pellican
Point, Utah county; in 1913 he worked
as salesman for the Utah Implement
Co. In 1883 he was ordained to the
office of a Deacon and later to that
of a Teacher. He was ordained a
Seventy Aug. 30, 1890, by Wm. J. Des-
• pain and a High Priest Jan. 21, 1900,
by Francis M. Lyman and set apart as
an alternate High Councilor in the
Jordan Stake of Zion. In November,
1912, he was sustained as a regular

member of the High Council. Prior
to this he acted first as secretary,
then as counselor and then as presi-
dent of the Y. M. M. I. A. in the
Granite Ward, and was also teacher
in the Granite and Sandy Ward Sun-
day schools for some time. In a civil
capacity he has acted as justice of the
peace for four years, been school trus-
tee for six years and city councilman
for two years. In 1895 (Feb. 20th)
he married Anna Laura Despain
(daughter of Solomon J. Despain and
Susan Dean), who was born Sept. 1,
1871, at Granite, Salt Lake county,
Utah. This Union has been blessed
with nine children, three boys and six
girls.

BRAND, Alexander A., president of
the 9th quorum of Elder and a mem-
ber of the Granite Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Oct. 18, 1863,
at Cowdenbeath, Fifeshire, Scotland,
the son of Alexander Brand and
Jennet Adamson. In company with
his mother, two brothers and one
sister, he came to Utah in 1869, ar-
rived in Salt Lake City in August, and
settled in South Cottonwood. He
learned the trade of a butcher and
has worked at this trade in a number
of places ; finally he settled in Granite,
in 1893, where he has ben engaged in
farming and mining. May 31, 1901,
he was baptized by James A. Muir.
In 1906, (Jan. 3rd,) he married Sarah
A. Kershaw (daughter of Squire Ker-
shaw and Priscilla Emsley), who was
born June 20, 1865, in Great Horton,
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, baptiz-
ed in February, 1901, and emigrated
to Utah the same year. In 1903 Broth-
er Brand was set apart as superinten-
dent of the Ward religion class and
was for eight yars secretary of the Y.
M. M. I. A. He was set apart as first
assistant superintendent of the Sun-
day school in 1908. Dec. 26. 1903, he
Was ordained to the office of an Elder
by John A. Maxfield and in 1913 he

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was set apart to preside over the 9th
quorum of Elders in the Granite Ward.
He served as constable in the Granite
precinct for six years and has filled
the position of justice of the peace
since 1912.

THOMSON, Andrew Wilson, Ward
clerk of the Granite Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Oct. 23, 1859,
at Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, Scot-
land, the son of William Thomson and
Margaret W. Wilson. He was bap-
tized March 22, 1868, by Thomas Rus-

sell and ordained a Deacon in his na-
tive land Sept. 27, 1874, by Wm. Dyet.
In 1875 he emigrated to Utah, arriv-
ing in Salt Lake City Oct. 5, 1875.
After living one year in Salt Lake
City, he moved to the Granite Ward,
where he was shortly afterwards
chosen as president of the Deacon's
quorum. He was ordained to the of-
fice of an Elder in 1881, and ordained
a Seventy June 1, 1884, by Thomas H.
Smart. In 1881-83 he presided over
the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. and in June,
1894, he was set apart as clerk of the
Granite Ward. He was also assistant
superintendent of the Sunday school
for fourteen years. In 1883 (Feb.

15th) he married Clara L. Despain
(daughter of Solomon J. Despain and
Ruth A. Newell) who was born June
24, 1866, at Granite. She was an ac-
tive worker in the Y. L. M. I. A. and
Relief Society and died in Granite
June 26, 1910. In 1900-1902 Brother
Thomson filled a successful mission to
the Northern States, laboring princip-
ally in Central Illinois. In a civil
capacity he has served as justice of
the peace for two years and as school
trustee for five years. He also car-
ried the mail between Sandy and Alta
from June, 1913, to July, 1906. In 1887
he visited Arizona. Brother Thomson
is the father of twelve children, seven
boys and five girls. His principal
avocation in life has been farming.

MILLER, Charles Eugene, first
counselor to Bishop Gordon S. Bills,
of the Riverton Ward, Salt Lake co.,
Utah, was born Aug. 26, 1852, in the
"Old Fort", Great Salt Lake City,
Utah, the son of Reuben Miller and
Orrice Burnham. He was baptized
when eight years of age by Edward

Guest; ordained an Elder in 1867 by
Wm. Smith; ordained a Seventy April
20, 1898, by Seymour B. Young and
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in 1898-1900, laboring principally in
the State of Kentucky. Prior to this
he had acted as secretary in the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A., secretary of an Elders
quorum for five years, justice of the
peace for fifteen years, director of the
South Jordan Canal, etc. In April,
1900, he was ordained a High Priest
and set apart as first counselor to
Bishop Bills. In 1874 (April 27th) he
married Christian G. McAllister
(daughter of Daniel McAllister and
Mary Mclntyre), who was born April
9, 1856. By her he became the father
of nine children, namely, Eugene C,
Mary Edith, Lewis E., Julia, Christine
S., Agnes E., Jeanette G., Hazel and
Elmo Rex.

BUTTERFIELD, Almon Thomas, an

alternate member of the Jordan Stake
High Council and an active member
in the Riverton Ward, Salt Lake co.,
Utah, was born July 5, 1868, at Herri-
man, Utah, the son of Almon Butter-

field and Elizabeth A. Farmer. He
was baptized June 9, 1878, by Thos.
Mumford, ordained a Deacon in 1880
and subsequently presided over the
Deacon's quorum, ordained a Teacher
in 1886, ordained an Elder Nov. 18,

1894, by Chr. Petersen, ordained a
Seventy, Dec. 3, 1896, by Seymour
B. Young, and filled a mission to New
Zealand in 1896-1900, laboring prin-
cipally in the Wairarapa district.
Prior to going on this mission or on
Oct. 15, 1896, he married Sarah J.
Crump (daughter of Wm. C. Crump
and Sarah Cornick) who was born
Sept. 2, 1873. By her he is the father
of seven children, namely, Tira A.,
Amy L., Marva, Almon F., Chas. O.,
James E. and Thos E. In 1904 he
was set apart as a president of the
94th quorum of Seventy which posi-
tion he held till 1911. In 1908-1911 he
filled a mission to the Central States,
presiding a part of the time over the
St. John conference; later he acted
as secretary of the mission and still
later as acting president of the Mis-
souri conference. While on this mis-
sion he visited Adam-ondi-Ahman,
Carthage, Nauvoo and other places
closely associated with the history of
the Chuch. After his return from that
mission, he was chosen a member of
the Jordan Stake Sunday School
Board and in 1911 (Nov. 26th) he was
ordained a High Priest and set apart
as an alternate High Councilor by
Francis M. Lyman. Bro. Butterfield's
occupation is that of a farmer and
stock-raiser and he has always been
successful in financial matters.

HAMILTON, Reuben Seaburn, seni-
or president of the 94th quorum of
Seventy and an active Elder of the
Riverton Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born Nov. 26, 1870, at Mill
Creek, Salt Lake county, Utah, the son
of John D. C. Hamilton and Maria S.
Nott. He was baptized Nov. 11, 1881,
by Oliver Mosson, was ordained a
Deacon, subsequently a Priest by
Daniel H. Lund and ordained an Elder
in January, 1894, by George Saville.
In March, 1888, he was ordained a
Seventy by Apostle George Teasdale,
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the 74th quorum of Seventy in 1891.
Prior to this he had acted as president
of a Deacon's quorum and as a coun-
selor in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. In
1888-1890 he filled a mission to the
Indian Territory. His traveling com-
panion for a long time while on that
mission was Wm. Jordan and he pre-
sided over the Austin conference six
months. In 1910-1911 he filled a mis-
sion to California, presiding part of

the time over the Oakland branch.
In 1894 (Jan. 24th) he married
Matilda E. Winder (daughter of John
R. Winder and Elizabeth Parker) who
was born Dec. 9, 1871. By her he be-
came the father of eight children,
namely, Florence M., John R., Norma,
Eldred R., Elmo W., Lola E., Ralph
W., and Kay A. Soon after his marri-
age Brother Hamilton moved to
Riverton, where he follows farming
and dairy busines for a living.

PIXTON, Seth Silcock, a president
of the 94th quorum of Seventy and an
active Elder of the Riverton Ward,
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born
June, 1875, in Leeds, Washington
county, Utah, the son of Robert Pixton
and Martha Silcock. He was baptized

June 20, 1883, by Nicholas T. Silcock;
was ordained a Deacon, Priest, Elder
and Seventy, the latter ordination tak-
ing place March 31, 1899, under the
hands of Joseph W. McMurrin. In
1899-1901 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, laboring first in the Birming-
ham conference and later presided
over the Norwich conference. After
his return from that mission he was
called to act as second assistant
superintendent of the Riverton Sun-
day school. For two years beginning
with August, 1902, he labored as se-
cond counselor in the Stake Y. M. M.
I. A. In 1905 he became a president
of the 23rd quorum of Seventy. In
1906 he was chosen president of the
Riverton Y. M. M. I. A. and in Novem-
ber, 1911, he was set apart as presi-
dent of 94th quorum of Seventy. From
1883 to 1904 Brother Pixton resided
in Riverton. In the latter year he
moved to Salt Lake City, where he
served as chief assessor and collector
of Salt Lake county for one term, and
returned to Riverton in June, 1906, to
take position as cashier of the Jordan
Valley bank, which position he still
holds. Brother Pixton has also acted
as justice of the peace and school
trustee, and is a member of the local
Board of Education at present. In
1897 (April 28th) he married Ellen
Weaver who has borne him five chil-
dren, namely, Martha N., Helen, Seth
W., Dorothy and Robert E. Brother
Pixton has had the advantage of a
good education. After finishing his
studies in the common schools, he
attended the B. Y. Academy at Provo
and graduated from the Latter-day
Saint's college in Salt Lake City in
1894. His principal avocations have
been clerking, farming and stock-
raising. For six years he acted as
Ward clerk of the Riverton Ward.

SEAL, Franklin Edward, superin-
tendent of the Riverton Ward Sun-
day school, Salt Lake county, Utah,

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was born Jan. 6, 1856, at Bridport,
Dorsetshire, England, the son of Hen-
ry Seal and Elizabeth Wheadon. He
was baptized Dec. 21, 1865, received
a common school education and learn-
ed the trade of a weaver, working
at the Stephen's mill a few years,
and moved to Lancashire when about
eighteen years of age. He emigrated
to Utah in 1876 and settled at South
Jordan. Subsequently he moved to
Riverton, where he has resided ever
since, working principally at stock-
raising, fruit-growing and building. In

dent of said school and still holds that
position. Elder Seal has been an ac-
tive Ward teacher ever since he came
to Utah. He was ordained a High
Priest Jan. 25, 1908, by James Jensen
and is at present a member of the
Ward Old Folks committee and a
member of Ward choir.

ORGILL, Edward, an active Elder
of the Riverton Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Nov. 25, 1849,
in Derbyshire, England, the son of
Joseph Orgill and Elizabeth Loo. He

1882 (Aug. 10th) he married Mary
Ellen Bills (daughter of Wm. A. Bills
and Emmeline Beckstead) who was
born June 15, 1867, at South Jordan.
He was ordained a Seventy Feb. 10,
1884, by Wm. Freeman and filled a
mission to Great Britain in 1899-1901,
laboring principally on the Channel
Islands (Jersey and Guernsey) ; for
four months he acted as presiding
Elder on these islands. After his re-
turn home he acted as president of
the Riverton Y. M. M. I. A. (being
set apart to that position Sept. 8,
1901) and also as assistant superin-
tendent of the Ward Sunday school.
In 1910 he was chosen as superinten-

was baptized in June, 1859, and emi-
grated to America in 1868, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Colorado,"
which sailed from Liverpool, Eng-
land, July 14th, and arrived at New
York July 28, 1868. He crossed the
plains in Captain Daniel D. McAr-
thur's ox-train which arrived in Salt
Lake City Sept. 2, 1868. Brother Or-
gill settled at Draper, Salt Lake
county, and in 1876 (Oct. 24th) he
married Mary A. Farmer (daughter of
James M. Farmer and Mary Ann
Biddle), who was born Aug. 19, 1860,
at Herriman, Utah. After their
marriage they resided two years in
Herriman and then located per-

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manentlyinthatpartof the West Jor-
dan Ward which is now a part of River-
ton. For many years Brother Orgill
taught school and led the Ward choir.
He has also filled the position of
assistant superintendent of the Ward
Sunday school, has acted as counselor
in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A., been an
active teacher and filled many other
positions of honor and responsibility.
He was ordained a Deacon when
quite young, an Elder Oct. 24, 1876, a
Seventy at a later date and a High
Priest May 4, 1902, by Anthon H.
Lund. From 1909 to 1912 he acted as
superintendent of religion classes in
Riverton and also acted as first coun-
selor to Gordon S. Bills in the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A. Bro. Orgill is a stone
cutter and mason by avocation and
worked on the Salt Lake Temple as a
stone cutter for many years. He is
the father of twelve children and has
adopted two other children, making
his family consist of eleven girls and
three boys. Although somewhat
physically maimed, Brother Orgill has
been a most active and zealous work-
er and been a good provider for his
family.

wards as first counselor in the Bishop-
ric of the Schofield Ward. Still later
he acted as a second counselor in the
Bishopric of the Pleasant Valley
Ward. In 1899-1901 he filled a mis-
sion to Turkey and in 1908, respond-
ing to call, be filled a short mission
to report the condition of the Ameri-
can Saints in Turkey. In 1911-1912
he made a trip around the world,
visiting Japan, China, the Phillipines,
the Straits Settlements, Burmah, In-
dia, Ceylon, Egypt, France, England,
etc. Of civil offices Brother Page
has filled several; thus he acted as
coroner in Emery county from 1886
to 1891, and as justice of the peace
at Riverton, Salt Lake county, from
1895 to 1898. In 1873 (Nov, 9th) he
married Emma Harms and in 1882
(Nov. 16th) he married Harriet E.
Frankland. By these wives he be-
came the father of twelve children,
namely Phoebe, Alice, Thomas I.,
Gwynne, Harriet, Pauline, Maud,
Marchell, Marmaduke, Roland, Mere-
dith and Leice. Brother Page has
followed merchandising, surveying,
farming, etc , for a living and has been
very successful in financial affairs.

PAGE, Thomas Phillips, an active
Elder in the Riverton Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Dec. 22, 1850,
in London, England, the son of
Thomas Gwynne Page and Jennet
Scott. Brother Page comes from an
old Welsh family and can trace his
descent for forty-eight generations
through the Gwynnes of Garth, Bre-
conshire, Wales, to Gwvaldeg, king of
Garthmadyrn (now Brecknock), who
was born A. D. 230. Brother Page
was baptized in March, 1871, by
Edward Farns; ordained a Deacon in
1871; ordained a Priest in 1872 by
James Leishman; ordained an Elder
in 1873 and ordained a High Priest in
1885 by Heber J. Grant. He acted as
second counselor in the presidency of
the Pleasant "Valley Ward and after-

JENSEN, Hans Brigham, an active
Elder in the Riverton Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Feb. 5, 1864,
in Fredericia, Denmark, a son of
Henrik Peter Jensen and Johanne M.
J0rgensen. He emigrated to Utah in
1875, arriving in Brigham City, Box
Elder county, July 23, 1875. Some
time during the summer of that year
he was baptized. For nearly two
years he lived with his parents in
Brigham City, and in 1877 he settled
temporarily at Huntsville, Weber
county, but moved to Provo, Utah
county, in the fall of 1878. Here he
received a good common school edu-
cation. He was ordained successively
to the office of Deacon, Priest and
Elder, and in 1896(Sept. 27th) he was
ordained a Seventy by Christian D.

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Fjeldsted, and he filled a mission to
New Zealand in 1896-1900. He labor-
ed a year and three months in the
Hawkes Bay district, one year as pre-
sident in the Wairarapa district, one
year in the Waiapu district, and the
last three months as president of the
same. While in New Zealand he bles-
sed twenty-two children, baptiz-
ed forty-eight and married two coup-
les. Before going on this mission he
acted as president of the Y. M. M. I.
A. in the Pleasant View Ward, near

Provo, and he also took an active part
in the Ward Sunday school. After re-
turning from his mission, he located
temporarily in Mercur, where he
worked faithfully as a teacher. After
residing at Mercur two years he
moved to Provo and finally settled at
Riverton in 1905. While living in
Mercur he married Mary E. Butter-
field Jan. 29, 1902. She is the daught-
er of Almon Butterfield and Eliza-
beth A. Farmer and was born June
12, 1877, at Herriman. This union
has brought them five children,
namely. Myrtle M., Nona E., Mahonri
B., Pearl M., and Mary E.

MYERS, Jacob, and active Elder in
the Riverton Ward, Salt Lake county,

Utah, was born May 21, 1847, at Lyd-
0re, Copenhagen amt, Denmark, the
son of Carl C. Meyers and Anne Jacob-
sen. He was baptized in 1859 by his
father, received a common school edu-
cation in his native land and emi-
grated to Utah with his parents in
1862, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Athenia", which sailed from Ham-
burg, Germany, April 21st, and arriv-
ed at New York June 6th. The voyage
across the ocean being prolonged by
storms and contrary winds, food be-

came very scarce on board, and sever-
al of the passengers practically
starved to death, or perished for the
want of good nourishment. Among
those who died was Bro. Meyer's two
year old sister Josephine Caroline.
His sister Inger died at Florence. The
rest of the family crossed the plains
with an ox-team in Capt. Joseph
Home's company, which left Florence,
Nebraska, July 20th, and arrived in
Salt Lake City Oct. 1, 1862. The
family settled in South Cottonwood
and Brother Myers married Annie M.
Johnson in August, 1879, by whom he
became the father of fourteen chil-
dren (seven boys and seven girls).
He was ordained a Seventy March 4,
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from South Cottouwood to Riverton in
1880. In the latter place he has re-
sided ever since and been an active
Ward teacher for many years. He
has sent three of his sons on mis-
sions and is a firm believer in the
gospel of Christ. Some years ago he
was ordained a High Priest by John
W. Taylor. Brother Myers was a
merchant in Salt Lake City three
years prior to his removal to River-
ton; since then he has worked at rail-
roading, canal digging and farming.

SHARP, John William, presiding
Elder of the Sandy branch of the
Union Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah,
from 1877 to 1882, was born July 22,
1836, at Northampton, England. He

was baptized at Northampton Oct. 16,
1852, By Samuel Parks, by whom he
was confirmed the following day, and
ordained a Deacon Feb. 4, 1855; and
on May 25, 1856, he was ordained an
Elder under the hands of James Lav-
ender and Wm. Bayliss, and called to
labor as traveling Elder in the Bed-
fordshire conference, under the presi-
dency of Elder Wm. Bayliss. He con-
tinued in this conference until Jan.
1, 1858, when he was appointed to

labor and travel in the Norwich con-
ference. He worked there under the
direction of Elders Edwin Scott and
Wm. Jeffries, until June 20, 1859,
when he was sent to the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne pastorate, to travel under
the presidency of Thomas Wallace
and Joseph Stanford. There he labor-
ed in the Durham , Newcastle-upon-
Tyne and Carlisle conferences until
April, 1861, when he was released to
emigrate to Utah. He crossed the
sea on the clipper ship "Underwriter",
which sailed from Liverpool, England,
April 23, 1861, and the plains in Capt.
Ira Eldredge's company, which arriv-
ed in Salt Lake City on the 15th day
of September following. May 16, 1863,
he was ordained into the 23rd Quorum
of Seventy and subsequently set apart
as one of the presidents of that quo-
rum. Aug. 9, 1866, he was called to
go to Sanpete county on an Indian
expedition, and left Salt Lake City
in Major Andrew H. Burt's company,
for the purpose of protecting the in-
habitants of that county from the rav-
ages of the Indians, who had been
preying upon the settlers there for
years. He was gone on that expedi-
tion about two months. At the elec-
tion at Sandy in August, 1874, when
Robert N. Baskin ran against Geo. Q.
Cannon for delegate to Congress, the
Liberals took the ballot box by force
from Judge Harrison; Bro. Sharp, at
the risk of his life, jumped into the
midst of the crowd, secured the box
and returned it to the judge. In re-
turn Bro. Sharp received a terrible
beating from the mob, but neverthe-
les remained at his post all day. At
the general conference held in Salt
Lake City in October, 1876, he was
called to go on a preaching mission to
the Southern States, and on the 20th
of November following he left Salt
Lake City, in company with Elders
Henry G. Boyle, Wm. Calder, Joseph
Argyle and a number of other breth-
ren destined for the same field. He

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was appointed to labor in the State
of Tennessee, with headquarters at
R. R. Church, at Shady Grove on Duck
River. He prosecuted his missionary
work in that State for about one year.
In January, 1877, his companion.
Elder Wm. Calder, had to return home
because of sickness, and Elder Sharp
then traveled alone until Feb. 24, 1877,
when he was joined by Joseph Argyle
and appointed to labor in Tennessee.
In that State he was treated very
kindly by the people, baptized quite
a number, organized a branch at Tot-
ty's Bend, and experienced the power
of God on several occasions, and
especially in one particular instance
when a sister was miraculously
healed. Finally, Elder Sharp himself
was taken sick with ague and fever,
and was brought down very low, so
much so that nothing short of the
power of God saved his life; in conse-
quence of this he had to return home
and did not fully recover from this
attack until several years afterwards.
In June, 1877, and while he was yet
in Tennessee, he was appointed to pre-
side over the Sandy branch of the
Union Ward of the Salt Lake Stake
of Zion. In October, 1878, he was set
apart os one of the home missionaries
of the Salt Lake Stake, continuing
that calling until the close of the year
1884. In 1881 he married Ann Maria
Bailey, by whom he had six children.
She died Feb. 23, 1910, at Union. Elder
Sharp presided over the Sandy branch
until it was organized as a Ward,
Sept. 3, 1882, and Ezekiel Holman ap-
pointed and set apart as Bishop. In
1862 Elder Sharp was sworn in as
a special policeman in Salt Lake City,
and was once appointed deputy city
marshal by J. D. T. McAllister. He
went on the regular force of police in
October, 1883, and was in the city
marshal's office many years. He act-
ed as policeman until 1890, and in
that capacity he was for seven years
the right hand man of the chief of

police. He stood "No. 1" on the roll
of honor as an officer who could al-
ways be relied upon and one who al-
ways performed his duties well and
conscientiously. At the time of the
anti-polygamy raid Elder Sharp was
always on hand to render what aid
he could to the brethren who were
in danger. For twelve years he ac-
ted as registration agent for the 66tli
precinct of Salt Lake county, and for
three years he acted as deputy asses-
sor under B. B. Quinn. While
Brother Sharp acted on the
police force in Salt Lake City
at the time of the anti-polygamy
raid, his wife also rendered efficient
service in protecting the brethren
who were sought by the deputy mar-
shals. As an officer in the Church,
Elder Sharp is universally known
among the Saints for his zeal and in-
tegrity to the truth. For six years he
labored as a home missionary in the
Salt Lake Stake of Zion and two
years in the Jordan Stake. At the
time of the dedication of the Salt
Lake Temple (1893) he was appointed
to examine all recommends at the en-
trance and while thus engaged he
caught a number of persons who were
trying to get in on false pretences,
among others a regular tramp with a
recommend which he had found on
the street. Brother Sharp was or-
dained a High Priest March 26, 1910
by Robert Elwood. Since 1890 he has
followed farming for a living at Union,
Salt Lake county, Utah.

THOMPSON, Niels, superintendent
of the Sandy Ward Sunday school,
Salt Lake county, Utah, and first coun-
selor in the High Priests' quorum of
the Jordan Stake, was born Feb. 24,
1856, at Aalborg, Denmark, the son of
Palle Thomasen and Inger Marie^
Madsen. He emigrated to America
in 1861, sailing from Liverpool May
16th in the ship "Monarch of the
Sea", and arriving at New York June

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19th. While crossing the plains he
walked nearly all the way. He arriv-
ed in Salt Lake City Sept. 12, 1861,
in company with his parents, two
brothers and one sister. After sett-
ling temporarily in Mill Creek, he
moved to Bear River City, Box Elder
county, where he remained until 1872
and then moved to Draper. In 1877,

(Sept. 15th) he married Mary A.
Fitzgerald (daughter of John Fitzge-
rald and Sarah Williams), who was
born July 31, 1859, in Mill Creek; she
has borne her husband seven children.
After their marriage, they moved to
Salt Lake City and lived in the 16th
Ward for sixteen years. Here Broth-
er Thompson acted as clerk of the
sixth quorum of Elders for eleven
and a half years, and also assistant
Ward clerk for a number of years. In
1894 he moved back to Draper where
he acted as second assistant superin-
tendent of the Sunday school for two
years. In 1896 he moved to Sandy
where, in September, 1898, he was sus-
tained as second assistant superin-
tendent of the Sunday school and be-
came first assistant Feb. 25, 1900.
Aug. 11, 1907, he was sustained as
superintendent of the same organiza-

tion. Bro. Thompson was ordained a
Priest in 1874, an Elder in February,
1877, by Charles M. Peterson, a Seven-
ty July 13, 1890, by Joseph W. Sum-
merhays and a High Priest in 1907
by James Jensen. Aug. 21, 1910, he
was set apart as first counselor in the
High Priest's Quorum of the Jordan
Stake by Joseph F. Smith, jun. July
5, 1905, he was elected clerk of the
Jordan School District and still holds
this position. Bro. Thompson's father,
Palle Thomasen, was born March
24, 1828, in Jutland, Denmark, and
baptized March 30, 1857. He married
Miss Inger Marie Madsen June 4,
1853, came to Utah in 1861 and died
at Draper March 8, 1882; his wife died
Feb. 21, 1903. They had three chil-
dren.

NIELSEN, Oloff, an active Elder in
the Sandy Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born March 6, 1851, at
Jyderup, Sjaelland, Denmark, the son
of Niels Andersen and Anna C. Peter-

sen. At the age of seven he started
to earn his own living, his parents
being very poor. He worked at farm-
ing for a while and then at the mer-
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the Church in 1852, being one of the
first in that neighborhood to embrace
the gospel. Oloff was baptized in
1869 and ordained to the office of a
Teacher in 1870; in 1871 he was or-
dained a Priest and sent out as a local
missionary; he labored as such for
two yars. In 1884 he emigrated to
Utah, settling in South Cottonwood,
where he married Anna Sophie Han-
sen April 8, 1892 and then moved to
Sandy and began his career as a farm-
er. In 1887 he was ordained to the
office of an Elder by Bishop Joseph
S. Rawlings, of South Cottonwood
and in 1911 he was ordained a High
Priest. He is the father of two chil-
dren, namely, Alfred N., and William
O.

HARDCASTLE, Levi, an active
Elder in the Sandy Ward, Salt Lake
county Utah, was born May 25, 1849,
at Handsworth, Woodhouse, York-
shire, England, the son of William
Hardcastle and Ann Hall. In his na-
tive land he learned the trade of a
Britannia mettle smith which he
worked at for several years. His
parents joined the Church in 1844, and
when Levi was eight years of age he
was baptized. In 1862 his father
sailed for America in the ship
"William Tapscott." Not being able
to stand the journey, he died on the
ocean. In 1866 Levi, with his mother
and two sisters, Jane and Emma,
sailed for America in the ship "John
Bright," arriving at New York June
6th. They crossed the plains in Cap-
tain White's mule train. After ar-
riving in Utah they moved to Provo
valley where they lived a short time.
In the spring of 1867 Levi's sister Jane
died, after which he went to live in
West Jordan. In 1874 (June 8th) he
married Mary Astill of Nottingham,
England, and then settled permanent-
ly at Sandy, where he has been an ac-
tive Ward teacher. Bro. Hardcastle
was ordained successively to the of-
fices of Deacon, Teacher, Elder and

High Priest, the latter ordination tak-
ing place April 27, 1912, under the
hands of Pres. Hyrum Goff.

HOLT, Samuel Elijah, Bishop of
the South Jordan Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Aug. 30, 1868,
at South Jordan, the son of Matthew
Holt and Ann Harrison. He was bap-
tized July 28, 1877, by Bishop Wm. A.
Bills. When about twelve years old
he was ordained a Deacon and later a
Teacher; subsequently he was or-
dained a Priest and in August, 1893,
he was ordained an Elder by Gordon

S. Bills. He married Margare
Geneva Beckstead Aug. 16, 1893; sh
is the daughter of Henry B. Beck
stead and Catherine M. Egbert. Th
union has been blessed with ten chi
dren, whose names are: Samuel A
Ivy G., Orel A., Verda C, Rosamund,
Mabel, Byrum M., Reola, Allan L.
and James E. In 1898 (Oct. 10th)
Brother Holt was ordained a Seventy
by Anthon H. Lund, and he filled a
mission to the Northern States in
1898-1901. He labored principally in
the State of Missouri, being president
of the Missouri conference the last
six months of his mission. While on
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of historical interest to the Saints,
such as the site of the old Haun's
Mill, Adam-ondi-Ahman, Far West,
Carthage, Nauvoo, etc. In 1903 (July
1st) he was ordained a High Priest by
John R. Winder and set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Thomas Blake.
He filled this position until Oct. 24,
1911, when he was ordained a Bishop
and set apart to preside over the
South Jordan Ward, which position
he still holds. Brother Holt is a
farmer and stockraiser by occupation
and also interested in sheep business.
Before he was a member of the Bishop-
ric he acted as superintendent of the
South Jordan Ward Sunday school
and filled many other positions of
honor and responsibility.

BECKSTEAD, Byram Henry, first
counselor to Bishop Holt in the South
Jordan Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah,
was born April 5. 1870, at South Jor-
dan, the son of Henry B. Beckstead
and Catherine M. Egbert. He was
baptized Sept. 28, 1878, by his father,
and as a boy he worked on his fath-
er's farm and drove team, hauling ore

Priest, ordained a Seventy Oct. 13,
1889, by Edward 0. Holt, sen., ordain-
ed a High Priest July 19, 1903, by
Reed Smoot, and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Thomas Blake.
He filled this position until Oct. 24,
1911, when he was set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Samuel E. Holt.
Prior to this he had served as an
officer in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A., a
teacher in the Sunday school and been
an active Ward teacher. In 1893-96
he filled a mission to Canada, labor-
ing in Leeds, Lanark and Dundas
counties in the province of Ontario.
In 1889 (Nov. 20th) he married Annie
Jane Holt (daughter of Edward D.
Holt, sen. and Emma B. Billings j,
who was born Aug. 26, 1870, in Salt
Lake City. By her he became the
father of ten children, namely, Olive
G., Henry, Daniel E., Vera C, Royal
v., Edward B., Jessie E., Reed H.,
Leonard C. and Fern R. Brother
Beckstead's principal occupation has
been that of a farmer.

MORTENSEN, Christian, second
counselor to Bishop Samuel E. Holt,

from Bingham to Sandy. He received of the South Jordan Ward, Salt Lake
a common school education, was or- county, Utah, was born June 23, 1877,
dained a Deacon and afterwards a m Hasseris, near Aalborg, Denmark,

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the son of Peter Mortensen and Anna
D. Justensen. He came to Utah in
1SS2 (liis parents came later) and
lived a short time in Pleasant Grove,
Utah county. After that he lived
with his parents in Salt Lake until he
was thirteen years of age, when he
located permanently at South Jordan.
He was baptized in June 1885, by
Bishop Samuel M. T. Seddon, of the
Fifth Ward, Salt Lake City, ordained
an Elder in November, 1901, by Nephi
Hutchins, and ordained a Seventy
Dec. 11, 1904, by Brigham H. Roberts.
He filled a mission to Scandinavia in
1905-1907, laboring principally on the
island of Bornholm, and in Randers,
Denmark. Oct. IV , 1911, he was or-
dained a High Priest by Apostle
Francis M. Lyman and set apart to his
present position in the South Jordan
Ward Bishopric. Brother Mortensen
is by occupation a farmer and sheep-
raiser. In 1901 (Dec. 11th) he married
Christine Hemmingsen, daughter of
Hans P. Hemmingsen and Marie Chri-
stine Jacobsen. This union has been
blessed with seven children, whose
names are Russell C, Vera C, Grant
H., Reed P., Ruth, Rorland and
Rachel.

IFF, Jacob, an active Elder in the
South Jordan Ward, Salt Lake coun-
ty, Utah, was born May 16, 1844, at
Rohrbach, Canton Berne, Switzer-
land, the second son of Johannes Iff
and Anna Barbara Iff. He can trace
his genealogy back over 350 years, he
being the sixth great grandson of
Hans Iff, wiio was born in Switzerland
about 1560. The subject of this sketch
received a good school education in
his native land, where he studied
French and German. He also learned
the trade of a file maker, at which he
worked until he joined the Church.
He was baptized by Gottlieb Enz Nov.
12. 1S7S, and emigrated to America in
1882. Arriving in Salt Lake City in
June of that year he stayed in that
city about three years and then
moved to South Jordan where he

since has been very successful as a
farmer. He was ordained to the
office of a Priest by John Alder in
1880 in Switzerland, and ordained an
Elder in the spring of 1883, after his
arrival in Utah. Under the hands of
Abraham H. Cannon he was ordained
a Seventy March 20, 1887, and he was
ordained a High Priest Dec. 31, 1910,

by J. W. W. Fitzgerald. In 1892-94
he filled a mission to his native land,
laboring his whole time in the Central
Swiss conference. At home Elder
Iff has also been a diligent and effi-
cient Church worker, which is proven
by the fact that he has been an acting
Ward teacher th.; past twenty-eight
years and is also an ardent Temple
worker, having performed Temple or-
dinances for upwards of eight hundred
of his relatives. In 1880 (May 7th)
Bro. Iff maried Mary Bangerter;
their only child is an adopted daught-
er named Mary.

FORBUSH, Rufus, a veteran Elder
in the Union Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born July 12, 1788, at
Royalston, Massachusetts, the son of
David Forbush and Deliverance
Goodell. He joined the Church in the
early days and vas with the Saints

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during their perpecutions in Illinois.
He married Polly Clark, who was also
a native of Royalston. In the year
1S47 one of his sons, Loren, went
with the famous Mormon Battallion,
and in 1850 Rufus emigrated with his
family to Utah and settled in Union,
where he lived until 1864, when he
moved to Santaquin, Utah county,
Utah; there he lived the remainder of
his life. He married two other wives
and became the father of thirteen
children. His death occurred Sept. 7,
1875, at Santaquin, Utah.

assisted materially in the great irriga-
tion system and also in clearing the
land for cultivation. In 1866 he took
part in the Bliack Hawk war in San-
pete and had some very narrow es-
capes, one, especially, in the Thistle
Valley skirmish with the Indians. In
1868 (Jan. 4th) be married Isabella
Briinhall, who became the mother of
eight children. Feb. 28, 1886, he mar-
ried Catherine McCay Milner, who be
came the mother of six childrt^n. Bro.
Forbush was ordained a Seventy
n -iiiy \ears ago.

FORBUSH, Loren Ezra, an Elder
in the Union Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born Sept. 7, 1846, in Coun-
cil Bluffs, Iowa, the son of Rufus For-
bush and Sarah Beckstead. Rufus
Forbush sen. was born in Massachu-
setts June 3, 1818, and died in Union,

OBORN, John, Ward clerk of the
Union Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah,
and a handcart veteran, was born
Nov. 17,1843, at Bath, Somersetshire,
England, the son of Joseph Oborn and
Maria Strading. He received a com-
mon school education and worked

Salt Lake county, Utah, May 30, 1901.
His wife was born Nov. 1823, in
Canada and died while crossing the
plains July 26, 1S52. At the age of
six Loren E. emigrated with his par-
ents to Utah, crossing the plains in
Capt. Jolley's company which arrived
in Salt Lake City Sept. 7, 1852. He
settled in the Union Ward where he
has lived ever since. Here he has

with his father in the dairy business.
He joined the Church in Bath in 1851,
and in 1856, he emigrated to America
in the ship "Thornton", sailing from
Liverpool May 4th, and arriving at
New York June 14, 1856. Thence he
continued his journey to Iowa City,
arriving there June 26, 1856, and
crossed the plains in Capt. James G.
Willie's handcart company. His par-

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ents were with him on the journey,
and for want of food and by over exer-
tion in pulling the cart, his father
weakened and died at Green River,
Wyoming. John and his mother con-
tinued on, suffering greatly from cold
and hunger, but finally arrived in
Salt Lake City Nov. 9, 1856. Bro.
Oborn settled in the Union Ward,
where he was ordained to the Priest-
hood. Thus he was ordained a
Deacon and a Teacher, and in 1865 he
was ordained a Seventy by Robert
Maxfield; he was ordained a High
Priest in 1903 by Apostle Abraham O.
Woodruff. Since 1878 Bro. Oborn has
held the position of Ward clerk in
the Union Ward. In 1877 he, togeth-
er with Jacob G. Pate, organized
a Sunday school In the Union Ward,
Brother Pate being chosen superin-
tendent, and Brother Oborn his first
assistant. After the Y. M. M. I. A. was
organized, Brother Oborn was secre-
tary in that organization for many
years. In 1862 (Aug. 31st) he mar-
ried Emma Ann Worlton and in 1869
he married Emily Worlton. By these
wives he became the father of seven-
teen children, nine by the first wife
and eight by the second wife. July
24, 1887, he was arrested for unlawful
cohabitation and subsequently served
five months in the Utah penitentiary.
Brother Oborn is still true to the faith
and has been a great pillar in the
upbuilding of the Union Ward.

SHARP, John George, a High Coun-
cilor in the Jordan Stake of Zion, was
born Feb. 6, 1862, at Union, Salt Lake
county, Utah, the son of John W.
Sharp and Ann Maria Bailey. He was
baptized May 29, 1870, by his father;
was ordained a Priest Dec. 10, 1877,
by Bishop Ishraael Phillips; ordained
an Elder June 4, 1882, by Willard C.
Burgon; a Seventy June 1, 1884, by
William W_ Taylor, and a High Priest
Jan. 21, 1900, by Anthon H. Lund and
at the same time was set apart as a
High Councilor in the Jordan Stake.
He acted as president of the Ward

Y. M. M. I. A., Stake aid and Sunday
school teacher for many years and
was one of the presidents of the 93rd
quorum of Seventy from July, 24,
1887, to Jan. 21, 1900. In 1908-1910 he
filled a successful mission to Great
Britain, laboring in the Irish confer-
ence, where he acted as conference
clerk and president of the Belfast
branch for eight months. In a civil
capacity Bro. Sharp has acted as

school trustee for three terms; he
was manager of the Union Co-operative
Store in Union about ten years, and
since March, 1901, he has been manag-
er of the Working Men's Store at
Murray. In 1882 (June Sth) he mar-
ried Eliza Snow Richards (daughter
of Silas Richards and Keziah F.
Brady) who was born March 14, 1866,
at Union. This marriage has been
blessed with six children.

RICHARDS, Silas, Bishop of the
Little Cottonwood Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, from 1851 to 1864, w^as
born Dec. IS, 1807, in Highland coun-
ty, Ohio, the second son of Augustus
Richards and Francis Lee Doggett.
When Silas was about fifteen years
old the family moved to Shelby coun-
ty, Ohio, wliere his father practiced

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medicine, and togetlier with liis broth-
er Milton he ran a farm, attending
school in the winter, until he was
married Nov. 5, 1829, to Elizabeth
McClenahan, daughter of Elijah and
Elizabeth McCleniihan. They started
their married life in a humble way,
living for a short time on a rented
farm. Their first Children, Frances
Marie and Elizabeth Ann, were born
Dec. 20, 1830. In 1835 Mr. Richards
moved to Illinois, where his father-in-
law had gone three years previous,
settling in Stark county, where he
bought two hundred acres of rich land.
He soon had a good farm thoroughly
established and was not long in gath-

ering around him the comforts of life.
He was prospered in the accumulation
of means, which in after years he
used unsparingly in helping to estab-
lish Zion and roll forth the work of
the Lord. In 1S39 the true gospel of
Jesus Christ was introduced into the
neighborhood by Elder Joshua Grant
and others, who, having been driven
from the State >f Missouri the pre-
vious year, settled in the vicinity. Mr.
Richards' house was used to hold
meetings in, and in the spring of 1840
he and his wife were baptized by
Elder Peter Nichol. A large branch

of the Church was subsequently raised
up in which Mr. Richards' parents
and most of their children were num-
bered; also some of his wife's brothers
and sisters. Of his father's large
family Silas wa.s the only one who
came with the saints to Utah. In
1844 Bro. Richards exchanged his farm
in Stark county for a valuable one
near Nauvoo, 111, where he moved in
the ensuing spring. During his nine
years' residence in Stark county he
held the office of justice of the peace
and postmaster a greater part of the
time, giving general satifaction. Jan.
22, 1846, he was ordained a High
Priest by Patriarch John Smith. Soon
after this, when the Temple was so
far completed that some of the saints
could receive their washings and an-
ointings therein, Brother Richards
and wife were among the number,
they having contributed liberally of
their means for the erection of that
building. Together with the rest of
the saints the Richards'es were com-
pelled by the hand of persecution to
leave their homes in Illinois. Bro.
Richards, however, was more fortun-
ate than many others, being able to
sell his farm (which one year before
was worth $3,000) for $800. The fami-
ly crossed the Mississippi river May 4,
1846, arriving in Council Bluffs the fol-
lowing June 24th. Soon after Bro.
Richards was appointed counselor to
Elder Moses Clawson, president of a
branch of the Church, and counselor
to Bishop Daniel Miller; he was also
chosen as a member of the High
Council in Pottawattamie county, and
in 1848 he was ordained a Bishop. In
1849, having prepared to follow the
saints to Great talt Lake Valley,
Brother Richards was appointed by
Elder Geo. A. Smith to lead a com-
pany across the plains. They left
Winter Quarters July 10, 1849, and ar-
rived in the Valley Oct. 25th, having
had a prosperous journey with but
little sickness and only one death.
Elder Richards settled on the Little
Cottonwood creek, where he remained

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until his death. Here he assisted in
building the rort at Union, for pro-
tection against the Indians, taking an
active part in the move south at the
time of the Johnston army troubles in
1858. He held the office of Bishop
from the first settlement of Union
until the early part of 1864, he hav-
ing been called some time previous
to this to assist in settling up the
Dixie country, which he did by estab-
lishing ware houses in St. George, put-
ting out trees, and starting a vineyard,
assisting the people by giving emploj^-
ment to many. Having been advised
by Pres, Brigham Young not to move
his family, his work in St. George was
conducted by Brother B. F. Pendleton.
Nov. 1, 1869, Bro. Richards, in com-
pany with about one hundred others,
started east on the U. P. R. R., having
been called on a special mission for
the winter. He visited relatives and
friends in the States, wherever op-
portunity permitted, teaching the prin-
ciples of life and salvation and re-
moving much prejudice which existed
toward the Latter-Day Saints. Meet-
ing many influential men who exhib-
ited an interest in the doctrines taught
by the Elders, Bro. Richards spared
no means in leaving a favorable im-
pression on their minds toward the
people whom he represented. He re-
turned home in the spring of 1870,
having done a good work, besides
gathering some genealogy of value to
himself. Elder Richards died March
17, 1884, in the Union Ward, where he
had lived so long, endearing himself
to the people by his good works and
friendly council. His noble deeds and
integrity will ever live a monument to
his name, and an example worthy of
emulation by his numerous posterity
•^•= well as by every Latter-day Saint.

GARDNER, Archibald, second
Bishop of the West Jordan Ward,
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born
Sept. 2, 1814, in Kilsyth, Sterling-
shire, Scotland, the son of Robert
Gardner and .Margaret Calinder.

When Archibald was nine years of
age, his parents moved to Canada, he
of course accompanying them. In
1839 (Feb. 19th) he married Miss
Margaret Livingston, and in the
spring of 1845 he was baptized into
the "Mormon" Church with nearly
every member of his family. The
same year he moved to Nauvoo, 111,
in company with his father, brothers,
one sister and their families, 24 souls
in all. He reached the illfated city

just as the Saints were being expelled
from their homes, so he went with
his relatives across the river and
settled temporarily at Winter Quar-
ters in the latter part of 1846. Remain-
ing there all winter (1846-47), the
Gardner's prepared their outfits in
the spring, and in June, 1847, they
joined Bishop Edward Hunter's
hundred and Joseph Home's fifty and
set out for Salt Lake Valley, arriving
there Oct. i, 1847. The following
spring Bro. Gardner moved to Mill
Creek, where he lived for ten years
At the time of the move south in 1858
Bro. Gardner took his family to
Spanish Fork, Utah county, but he was
not permitted to remain there long,
as he was called to be Bishop of the
West Jordan Ward. Being a man of

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sterling worth, he held that position
with credit for 32 years. While in
the East he had learned the trade of
mill-building, and after coming to the
West he followed that vocation and
erected some of the first mills in
Utah, two of them being in Mill
Creek. In 1880 he was elected a mem-
ber of the territorial legislature, and
was an intelligent and able member
of that body. A few years later he
moved to Star Valley, in Wyoming,
and did an immense amount of good
in assisting to build up that country.
A few years before his death he re-
turned to West Jordan and lived the
remainder of his life in the bosom of
his family Bishop Gardner was the
father of 48 children and had 201
grandchildren and 34 great-grandchil-
dren when he died. During his use-
ful life he built 36 mills; some of these
he erected in Canada before he had
reached the age of twenty. The last
one he built at Spanish Fork when he
was 85 years of age. Despite his ven-
erable age, he never outlived his use-
fulness, having ever been one of the
most valuable members of the com-
munity. He Avas a typical pioneer
possessing to a large degree the wis-
dom, courage and industry that are
essential in the founding of a com-
monwealth. The Impress of his strong
and rugged character had been made
opon th State and time can never ef-
face it His was a large and generous
heart and planning something for the
public good was, with him, a passion.
He was the principal promotor of the
Jordan canal system, which made
homes for hundreds of people. He
died at St. Mark's Hospital, Salt Lake
City, as an ordained Patriarch in the
Church Feb. S, 1902, of strangulated
hernia. It is a fact of more than pas-
sing interest that Bishop Gardner died
almost on the very spot where he
spent his first winter in Great Salt
Lake Valley.

LEAK, William, an active Elder in
the West Jordan Ward, Salt Lake

county, Utah, was born June 15, 1849,
at Balkholme, Yorkshire, England, the
son of John Leak and Mariah Pousom.
He was baptized in 1867 by his broth-
er, Robert Leak, and emigrated to
Utah in 1868, crossing the Atlantic in
the ship "Constitution", which sailed
from Liverpool, England, June 5,
1868. The company with which he
traveled spent six weeks and two

days on the ocean. Traveling by
rail as far as Laramie city, Brother
Leak came with an ox team in Cap-
tain Gillespie's company as far as
Echo canyon, where he stopped to
work on the Union Pacific Railroad
until Christmas, when he came to the
Valley. After staying a short time in
Salt Lake City and in Weber county,
he obtained employment on the Cen-
tral Pacific Railroad at Promontory,
and in the spring of 1870 he settled
permanently at West Jordan, Avhere
he soon became an active Church
worker and labored for many years
as a Ward teacher. In 1876. (June
19th) he married Ann Brown, by whom
he became the father of eight chil-
dren, five of whom are now living.
The names of his children are:
William J., Martin A., Lily A., Maria
E., Angus, Ren M., Walter B. and

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Olive E. His wife is the daughter of
John Brown and Elizabeth Matthews.
Brother Leak is a farmer by occupa-
tion.

LEAK, William John, superintendent
of the West Jordan Sunday school,
one of the presidents of the 33rd
puorum of Seventy, and a resident of
West Jordan Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born June 24, 1877, at West
Jordan, Utah, the son of Wm. Leak
and Ann Brown. He was baptized by
Archibald Gardner, Aug. 6, 1885, con-
firmed the same day by Hyrum Goff,
and ordained successively to the office

special missionary at Lark, Bingham.
and other parts of the Jordan Stake.
In 1906 (Sept. 20th) he married Esther
Pearson, who has borne him three
children, namely, Lorentz W., Kenneth
W. and John R. Brother Leak is a
farmer by occupation.

RICHARDS, Emanuel Holman, a
High Councilor in the Jordan Stake,
and an active Elder in the West Jor-
dan Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah,
was born Dec. 16, 1851, at Camborne,
Cornwall, England, the son of Charles
Richards and Jane Pendray. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1874 and after re-

of Deacon, Teacher, Priest, Elder (or-
dained Jan. 5, 1^02 by D. R. Bateman)
and Seventy (ordained Dec. 12, 1909
by J. Golden Kimball). In May, 1912,
he became a president of the 33rd
quorum of Seventy. In 1902-1904 he
filled a mission to Texas and presid-
ed over the Lone Star conference. At
home Bro. Leak has always been an
active Church worker. Thus he labor-
ed for many years as a Ward teacher,
and for three years as a home mis-
sionary. At one time he was in the
superintendency of religion classes
and a member of the Mutual Board in
the Jordan Stake. He labored as a

siding five years among the "Mor-
mons" he was converted to the faith
of the Latter-day Saints, was baptized
Jan. 3, 1879, and has ever since been
a firm believer in the divine mission
of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Prior
to joining the Church he was a mem-
ber of the United Methodist denomin-
ation. He was ordained to the office
of an Elder May 4, 1897; ordained
a Seventy Jan. 13, 1884, by Wm. W.
Taylor, and ordained a High Priest
Jan. 21, 1900, by Francis M. Lyman
and set apart as a High Councilor in
the Jordan Stake. From 1893 to 1899
he acted as Sunday school superinten-

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dent: he served one year as president
of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A., acted as
Ward clerk from 1'j03 to 1912, officiated
as Ward teacher for many years and
also filled many appointments as a
home missionary. His principal oc-
cupations have been mining, milling,
and farming, and his places of resi-
dence Bingham, Ophir and West Jor-
dan. In 1875 (July 18th) he married
Mary Catherine Pope, by whom he
became the father of twelve children,
namely, Beatrice V., John C, Emanuel
H., Mary E., Lily H. P., Frederick A.,
Franklin J., Anna M., Wm. W., Robert
H., Thomas A. and Edgar B. Elder
Richards has taken an active part in
secular affairs since his early youth.
He has served his fellow-citizens as a
school trustee for several years and
filled other positions of honor and
responsibility.

GLOVER, Joseph, an active Elder
in the West Jordan Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born July 29, 1854,

1909, by Robert Ehvood. Brother
Glover emigrated to America when
about twelve years of age, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Arkwright" in
1866, and resided temporarily in Penn-
sylvania. He came to Utah in 1869
and settled at West Jordan, where he
has lived ever since, following min-
ing, smelting and farming for a liv-
ing. His father died as a Patriarch
in the Church in October, 1904. Broth-
er Joseph has always been an active
member in the West Jordan Ward;
thus he served for many years as a
Ward teacher and a choir leader. In
1876 (March 27th) he married Ellen
Louisa Walters, daughter of Henry
Walters and Sariah Smalley. This
union has been blessed with fourteen
children, nine of whom are now liv-
ing.

BATEMAN, James Morgan, a faith-
ful and active Elder in the Church and
for many years a resident of the West
Jordan Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah,

at Langport, Somersetshire, England,
the son of James Glover and Mary
Rowswell. He was baptized July 29,
1862, by his father, ordained an Elder
about 1873 by John D. T. McAllister
and ordained a High Priest Aug. 28,

was born March 3, 1842, at Augusta,
Lee county, Iowa, the son of Thomas
Bateman and Mary Street. He emi-
grated together with his parents to
Utah in 1850 and settled first in Salt
Lake Citv. Later he moved to West

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Jordan, where he resided first in the
so-called White's Fort and later on a
farm. From the time of his baptism
as a ten-year old boy (March 21, 1852)
until his death, he was an active and
efficient Elder in the Church and also
an enterprising citizen. In 1866 he
went back as a Church teamster to
bring poor emigrants into the Valley.
In 1869 (Nov. 1st) he married Maria
Louisa Watkins, daughter of Wm L.
Watkins and Mary A. Hammond. This
union was blessed with eleven chil-
dren, namely, James A., Mary E.,
William H., Joseph C, Louis W. and
Alonzo W. (twins), Thomas E., Reinet-
ta M., Lafayette, Leslie E. and Ezra
M.; four of the children are now liv-
ing. Brother Batcman was ordained
to the different degrees of the Priest-
hood, his last ordination to the office
of a High Priest taking place May 6,
1900, under the hands of Hyrum Goff.
For many years Bro. Bateman acted
as a Ward teacher and died firm in
the faith at West Jordan June 18,
1904. His occupation in life was that
of a farmer and stockraiser.

GARDNER, Neil Livingston, an ac-
tive Elder in the West Jordan Ward,
was born Dec. 17, 1843, at Warwich,
Canada, the son of William Gardner
and Jane Livingston. He was bap-
tized when about twelve years of age
by Bishop W. Maughan, ordained an
Elder Feb. 18, 1869, by Samuel H. B.
Smith, ordained a Seventy Jan. 5,
1890, by Hyrum Goff; ordained a
High Priest June 30, 1901, by Orrin
P. Miler, and served as second coun-
selor to Bishop John A. Egbert of the
West Jordan Ward from 1901 to 1911.
Brother Gardner is a pioneer of Utah,
arriving in Great Salt Lake Valley
with his parents in 1847, crossing the
plains in Edward Hunter's hundred.
He passed, through all the trials and
hardships incident to pioneer life, be-
came acquainted with the cricket and
grasshopper experiences and helped in
every way to develop the resources
of this western country. Brother

Gardner has resided successively in
Big Cottonwood and Cache Valley
(Utah), California and West Jordan
(Utah). Many years of his younger
life were spent working around saw
mills; otherwise his main occupation
has been that of ;i farmer. In 1894-96
he filled a mission to the Eastern

States and Canada, laboring princip-
ally in the province of Ontario, Cana-
da. In 1869 (Feb. 18th) he married
Mary Ellen Gardner, who has borne
him ten children, namely, Neil L.,
William, Margaret A., Robert R.,
Janet, Sarah G., Archibald, Henry C,
Duncan and Vernal.

PEARSON, Hans, an active Elder
in the West Jordan Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Nov. 24, 1860,
in Malmohus Ian, Sweden, the son of
Peter Johnson. He was baptized at
the age of eighteen, ordained to the
Priesthood and sent out as a local
missionary. After laboring in that
capacity in the Malmo conference
three and a half years, principally in
the province of Blekinge, he emigrat-
ed to Utah in 1876 and settled in West
Jordan, where he engaged in sheep
business and farming. Nov. 5, 1890,
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(daughter of Jas A. Nielson and Ceci-
lia Mortenson) who was born March
31, 1872, at Midvale, Utah. This
union brought them three children,
namely, Elva R. (who died in infancy),
Ivan R., and Elmer T, Brother Pear-
son was ordained to the office of a
Seventy Dec. 22, 1889, by Seymour B.
Young, and labored as an active Ward
teacher for many years. He died
Aug. 26, 1910, at Midvale, Utah.

FARRELL, John, second Bishop of
the Eden Ward, Weber county, Utah,
was born Jan. 13, 1834, in the town
of Ayr, Scotland, the son of Malcolm
Farrell and Mary Banks. He joined
the Church at the age of fourteen and
in 1856 (Dec. 31st) he married Jen-
uette Lindsay (daughter of Walter
Lindsay and Jennette McClean), who
was born in the town of Cardor Bray,

Scotland, March 1, 1839. With his
wife, Brother Farrell emigrated to
America in 1857, crossing the Atlan-
tic in the ship "George Washington",
which sailed from Liverpool, England,
March 28, 1857. They resided tempo-
rarily in Illinois two years and in
Lexington, Missouri, three years,
being residents there at the time of
the battle of Lexington. While living

in the East they earned money enough
to send to England for nine of their
relatives (four of Brother Farrell's
and five of Sister Farrell's kins-
people), and came to Utah in 1862.
After residing three years at Ogden,
they made Eden their permanent
home in 1865. Before emigrating from
England, Elder Farrell labored among
the people as a teacher and after his
arrival in Utah he was ordained an
Elder and subsequently a Seventy.
From 1869 to 1874 he acted as a coun-
selor to Brother Ballantine (presiding
Elder at Eden), and when a reorgani-
sation of the Eden Ward took place
in 1881 Bro. Farrell was ordained a
High Priest and Bishop and set apart
to preside over Eden Ward by Frank-
lin D. Richards. He also acted as an
officer in the Eden Sunday school
and was the first president of the
Elder's quorum in Eden organized in
1866. Of secular offices Bro. Farrell
served as justice of the peace, con-
stable, road supervisor, etc. His wife
has been a very faithful Relief Socie-
ty worker and acted for several years
as first counselor to Christine Thomp-
son, president of the Eden Ward Re-
lief Society. By his first wife Broth-
er Farrell became the father of eleven
childrn, six of whom are living today.
In the year 1865 Bro. Farrell married
Marian Lindsay, who bore him six
children, three of whom are now liv-
ing; she died at Eden in 1904, Bro.
Farrell died Oct. 5, 1901.

FULLER, Edmund Burk, an active
Elder in the Eden Ward, Weber Stake
of Zion, Utah, was born June 16, 1830,
at Dover, Kent, England, the son of
John Fuller and Ann King. The Ful-
ler family was wtU-to-do people and
Edmund, when quite young, felt very
desirous to see the world; hence, he
set out for America as a young man,
and while crossing the Atlantic he
met a young '"Mormon" girl by the
name of Adelaide Jelley, who was
born in Bedfordshire, England, April
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and when they reached St. Louis, Mis-
souri, Edmund joined the Church and
married Adelaide. They crossed the
plains in Aaron F. Farr's sompany in
1854, and after residing temporarily
in Salt Lake City and Ogden they
located permanently at Eden in July,
1862. Here they raised a large fami-
ly of children and Bro. Fuller took
leading parts in both ecclesiastical
and secular affairs. For a number of
years he acted as justice of the peace
in Eden, was book-keeper for Pres.
Taylor and also book-keeper for the
Stephenson Implement Company at
Ogden. His wife died Oct. 19, 1885,
and Bro. Fuller himself passed away
Nov. 26, 1902.

FULLER, George Arthur, Bishop of
the Eden Ward, Weber county, Utah,
was born April 16, 1871, at Eden,
Weber county, trtah, the son of Ed-
mund B. Fuller and Adelaide Jellv.

in the Ogden Stake. Finally he was
ordained a Bishop and set apart to
preside over the Eden Ward Jan. 31,
1911, by David O. McKay. He served
as a member of the seventh and eighth
Utah State legislatures, being a mem-
ber of the House of Representatives.
In 1898-1900 Bro. Fuller filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain, laboring in the
London conference. In 1898 (Oct
12th) he married Margaret C. Pritch-
ett, by whom he is the father of eight
children, namely, Lavon M., Arthur B.,
Platte W., Norah F., Beatrice A.,
Theodore E., Braxton C, and Doretha
E. Bro. Fuller has justly earned the
distinction of being one of the most
active and successful Bishops in the
Church.

STALLINGS, Virgil Byron, first
counselor to Bishop Fuller, of the
Eden Ward, Webor county, Utah, was
born Nov. 8, 1874, at Eden, the son

He was baptized in 1880, was ordained
successively to the office of Deacon,
Priest, Elder and Seventy, the latter
ordination takin? place Nov. 11, 1898,
under the hands of J. Golden Kimball.
In 1900 (May 8th) he was ordained a
High Priest by Heber J. Grant and set
apart as an alternate High Councilor

of Joseph Stallings and Charlotte J.
Hussey. He was ordained a Deacon,
as a boy. In 1897 (Sept. 4th) he was
ordained an Elder by Henry J. Fuller,
and he was ordained a High Priest
May 9„ 1909 by Apostle Hyrum M.
Smith and set apart as a alternate
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When eighteen years of age Bro.
Stallings was called to labor as a
teacher in the Sunday school; also as
Ward teacher; later he was appointed
2nd assistant superintendent of the
Ward Sunday school, which position
he held for eight years. He was also
called to labor as a teacher in the
religion class when it was first organ-
ized in 1901, and for two years he
acted as second counselor in the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A. In the fall af 1S96 he
received a call to attend the Weber
Stake Academy, to prepare foir Sun-
day school work; he attended this
school one winter. Subsequently he
was called to act as second counselor
to Bishop Henry J. Fuller, and was
set apart as first counselor to Bishop
Geo. A. Fuller Jan. 31, 1911. Agreeable
to call from the Stake presidency he
labored as a Stake Ward teacher in
Huntsville, where he introduced the
new sustem of teaching. Subsequently
he performed a similar mission in the
Liberty Ward. Bro. Stallings has also
been an active man in secular matters.
Thus he served four years (1900-1904)
as a school trustee and served ten
years as a trustee in the Eden Irriga-
tion Company. In 1898 (June 29th)
he married Isabelle Burnett, the
daughter of Wm. Burnett and Sarah
J. Wild; this union has been blessed
with five children, namely, Byron E.,
Violet I., Mammie E., Edna M. and
Mildred J.

WALKER, Daniel Cox, senior presi-
dent of the 131st quorum of Seventy
and an active Elder in the Eden Ward,
AVeber county, Utah, was born April
28, 1854, at Cedar Fort, Utah county,
Utah, the son of Edward R. Walker
and Ann M. Cox. His father was son
of John J. Walker and Elizabeth Ro-
bertson and was born Jan. 25, 1817,
in St. Clair county, Illinois, joined the
Church in 1840, passed through many
of the persecutions through which the
saints were subjected in Illinois, re-
moved to Iowa in 1848, married Ann
M. Cox (a widow with two children)

Sept. 13, 1S49. by whom he became the
father of ten children, six boys and
four girls, emigrated to Utah in 1852,
but moved back to Illinois in 1869. and
finally died tliere in 1877. Daniel C,
the subject of this sketch, moved
with his parents when three years of
age to Lehi, Utah county; later he
went to Provo and still later to Mill
Creek; thence to Ogden Valley in
1861. He was baptized in Huntsville
July 3, 1864, removed to Malad Valley
in 1866, residing there till 1869, and
then moved with his parents to Pot-
tawattamie county, Iowa. He re-
turned to Utah in 1873 and settled in
Ogden Valley, where he resided until
1876, when he removed to Cache Val-
ly, settling at Weston, Idaho. He re-
turned to Ogden Valley in 1879 and
then settled permanently at Eden. He
was ordained a Deacon in 1879, acted
as secretary of the Y. M. M. I. A. two
years, was ordained an Elder in Oc-
tober, 1881, and married Emily Slater
Nov. 3, 1881; she bore him eleven chil-
dren, namely, Daniel T., David,
William L., Elizabeth A., Laura P.,
Clarence E., John. Wallace O., Emma
L., Minnie M., and Clyde L. Eight
of these are still living. In 1883 (Jan.
3rd) Bro. Walker was ordained a
Seventy by Job Pingre. He filled a
mission to the Northern States in
1895-1896, and was set apart as one
of the seven presidents of the 131st
quorum of Seventy when that quorum
was first organized. He also acted
for many years as a Ward teacher,
has labored as a home missionary and
filled many other positions of re-
sponsibility.

GOULD, Robert, a veteran Elder in
the Eden Ward, Weber county, Utah,
was born Jan. 22. 1832. at Dullhoy,
near Eidinburgh, Scotland, the son of
Robert Gould and Mary Boyd. He
was baptized in November, 1849. by
John Anderson, ordained to the office
of a Teacher in the early fifties, and
emigrated to America in 1854, crossing
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residing temporarily in Philadelphia,
he was ordained an Elder by Jeter
Clinton. In January, 1S55, he married^
Annie Simpson, by whom he had five
children. He migrated to Utah in
1862, crossing the plains in Homer
Duncan's company. In 1871 he mar-
ried Elizabeth Euley, who also bore
him five children. He settled per-
manently in Ogden Valley in 1871 in
that part of the Valley which is now
included in the Liberty Ward. He
was ordained a High Priest by Chas.
Welsh about 1900.

GOULD, William, a president of the
131st quorum of Seventy and an active
Ellder in the Eden W^ard, Weber coun-
ty, Utah, was born Nov. 13, 1866, at
F2den, Utah, the son of Robt. Gould

the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. In 1889 (Jan.
5th) he married Ann M. Lindsay, a
widow with five children, who after-
ward bore her second husband eight
children. Bro. Gould has labored
considerably as a home missionary
and as a Ward teacher. He has filled
the office of constable in the Eden
precinct since 1900.

SCHADE, Christian Fischer, a veter-
an Elder in ihe Huntsville Ward,
Weber county, Utah, was born April
13, 1827, at Kornum, Aalborg amt,
Denmark, the son of Frederik Ludvig
Schade and Marie M. Ravn. He was
ordained a Teacher shortly after his
baptism, ordained an Elder Oct. 7,
1863, by Apostle Geo. Q. Cannon, and
emigrated to America in 1864, crossing

and Annie Simpson. He was baptized
Aug. 26, 1874, by Peter Jonhson, or-
dained a Deacon soon afterwards and
ordained an Elder March 19, 1866,
by Josiah L. Ferrin. He was
ordained a Seventy Sept. 13, 1891, by
Peter C. Geertsen and later chosen
as a president oi the 131st quorum. In
1898-1900 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, laboring principally in Scot-
land. After his return to Utah he
labored three years as president of

the Atlantic in the ship "Monarch of
the Sea", which arrived in New Y'ork,
June 3, 1864. While crossing the ocean
with a large company of emigrating
saints the measles broke out among
the emigrants and nearly fifty of the
children died. Bro. Schade crossed
the plains in John Smith's indepen-
dent company which arrived in Salt
Lake City Oct. 1, 1864. On the plains
Bro. Schade's wife, Ablone Thorsten-
sen (whom he had married Aug. 15,

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1856) was very sick and had to ride
eight hundred miles. That she re-
covered and reached the Valley was
nothing short of a miracle. Elder
Schade located at Huntsville and mar-
ried Sophia Hedcr Sept. 15, 1866. He
was ordained a Seventy March 27,
1869, and filled a mission to Scandi-
navia in 1872-74, during which he pre-
sided over the Aarhus conference,
Denmark. After his return from
Europe he was ordained a High Priest
and called to act as second counselor
to Bishop David McKay; he filled this
position for fifteen years. In 1888
(June 23rd) he was arrested on the
charge of unlawful cohabitation and
sentenced to pay a fine of $300 and
$150 as cost of suit. Bro Schade is
the father of five children, namely,
Stina M. A., Chr. F., Adam W., Mate
E.. and Maria E. At home Elder
Schade has always taken a leading
part in all matters pertaining to the
interests of the Church; thus for a
number of years he served as first
assistant superintendent of the Hunts-
ville Sunday school and acted as a
home missionary. In secular affairs
he has also been very active, serving
for many years as director and treas-
urer of the Ward ecclesiastical organ-
ization, school trustee, sergeant in the
State militia, etc.

SCHADE, Adam, W., second coun-
selor to Bishop John Halls, of Hunts
vill, Weber county, Utah, was born
.Sept. 5, 1878, at Huntsville, Utah, the
son of Christian F. Schade and Sophia
Heder. When a boy he worked with
his father on a farm, but commenced
business as a merchant In 1902 and
now, together with his brother, C.
Fred, he is managing the Schade
Brothers Mercantile Company, which
owns two stores, one at Huntsville and
one at Ogden. Brother Schade was
Tsaptized by his father Sept. 5, 1886,
and was ordained successively to the
offices of Deacon, Teacher, Priest,
Elder, Seventy, and High Priest, re-
ceiving the latter ordination in Sep-

tember, 1909. He presided over a
Deacon's quorum, was secretary of a
Seventy's quorum and secretary and
assistant superintendent of the Hunts-
ville Sunday school. In 1907-1909 he
filled a mission to Sweden, presiding
a part of the time over the Sunds-

vall conference. Brother Schade has
also filled a number of secular offices
at home ; thus he acted for some time
as city recorder and a member of the
city council at Huntsville. In 1910
(June 15th) he married Lillie Jensen,
who has borne him two children,
namely, Armand W., and Gloria J.

ALLEN, Alanson David, a Utah
pioneer of 1847, was bom May 2, 1829,
in the State Vermont, the son of Al-
bern and Marcia Allen. He joined the
Church when a boy and migrated to
the West, together with his mother,
his father having gone to California
with the Mormon Battalion. He met
Alanson and his mother in G. S. L.
Valley in the fall of 1847. Alanson D.
was ordained an Elder and subsequent-
ly a Seventy; he held the latter office
at the time of his death. In 1850 he mar-
ried Christine Hadlock, who was born
April 2, 1828. By her he became the

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father of fourteen children. In the
seventies, at the time of the John D.
Lee' trials, Brother Allen filled a
short mission to Independence, Mis-
souri, to settle difficulties and dis-
putes. He died in March, 1888.

ALLEN, Ammon, president of the
75th quorum of Seventy, was born
April 23, 1860, at Ogden, Utah, the son
of Alanson D. Allen. He accompanied
his parents to Cache valley and re-
sided at Hyruni till the spring of 1866,
when he came to Huntsville. Here
he was baptized in June, 1869, by
S0ren L. Petersen and confirmed by
Bishop Francis A. Hammond. He was
ordained a Teacher and an Elder by
Bishop Hammond, and a Seventy (irf
the summer of 1885) by Seymour B.
Young. He filled a mission to the In-
dian Territory in 1885-87 and was set
apart as one of the seven presidents
of the 75th quorum of Seventy in
1911. In 1881 (Nov. 3rd) he married
Isabelle Hislop (daughter of John
Hislop and Agnes Rogers), who was
born Sept. 22, 1863, at Birkenhead.
England. By her he is the father of
thirteen children. Brother Allen has
always been a faithful and able Church
worker and takes an active part in
the Huntsville Ward, where he now
resides.

McKAY, Angus, a prominent and
active Elder in the Huntsville Ward,
Weber county, Utah, was born June
3, 1839, in the parish of Far, Suther-
landshire, Scotland, the son of William
McKay and Grace Gunn. He was
baptized Aug. 27, 1860, by William
McKay, emigrated to Utah in 1863,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Cynosure" which sailed from Liver-
pool, June 3, 1863. and arrived in
New York July 6, 1863; crossed the
plains in Capt. Thomas E. Ricks'
Church train which arrived in Salt
Lake City Oct. 4, 1863. While resid-
ing temporarily in Salt Lake City, he
worked on the Temple and also as-
sisted in digging the foundation for

the Tabernacle. In the spring of
1864 he located permanently at Hunts-
ville and helped to make a good road
through Ogden canyon. He was or-
dained an Elder in 1863 by John A.
Smith, a Seventy in 1869 by Jos.
Young, and a High Priest in 1909 by
Hyrum Belnap. In 1873 he filled a
colonization mission to Arizona, serv-
ing under Horton D. Haight, and
again went to Arizona with Geo. Lake
in 1876. He filled a mission to the
Southern States in 1882 and another
to- Scotland in 1883. At home he has

acted for twenty-five years as a Ward
teacher, as a Sunday school officer for
fourty-five years, as an officer and
president of the Ward M. M. I. A. fif-
teen years, as senior president of the
75th quorum of Seventy twelve years,
and filled two home missions. Of se-
cular officess may be mentioned that
he has served as treasurer of the
Ward Ecclesiastical Board, as Scool
trustee for nineteen years, as justice
of the peace for six years, as president
and director of the Mountain Canal
and Irrigation Company, president and
director of the Huntsville Irrigation
Company, road supervisor, farmer,
stockraiser, sergeant and lieutenant in
the Nauvoo Legion, Indian scout dur-
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also served one term in the Utah State
legislature. By Wilhelmina McKay,
whom he married Dec. 14, 1866, he
became the father of ten children.

MORTENSEN, Niels Christian, a
prominent Elder in the Huntsville
Ward, Weber county, Utah, was born
July 4, 1834, in Denmark, the son of
Martin Nielsen and Inger Nielsen. He
was baptized in 1856 by Hans Peter
Lund, emigrated to Utah in 1864 and
settled soon afterwards at Huntsvi c,
where he married Mariane Christen-
sen (a daughter of Christian Morten-
sen and Anna K. Petersen), who bore
him seven children; later (Oct. 28,
1876) he married Thora Edmeline
Christensen, by v,hom he became the
father of six children. For many
years Bro. Mortensen acted as second
counselor to Bishop Francis A. Ham-
mond at Huntsville and in a secular
way Bro. Mortensen was also one of the
leading business men in Ogden Val-
ley. Thus he was the first butter
merchant in that valley and took but-
ter and eggs to the market in Salt
Lake City for many years. In Church
matters Bro. Mortensen was very ac-
tive both at home and abroad. Before
leaving his native land he labored as
a local missionary in 1856-1864, and in
1883-1885 he filled a successful mis-
sion in Scandinavia as an Elder from
Utah. For a number of years he acted
as president of the Scandinavian
meetings in Huntsville, where he died
Sept. 26, 1898, firm in the faith as a
Latter-day Saint.

WOOD, Charles, a Utah pioneer of
1848, was born June 9, 1837, in Huron
county, Ohio, the son of Samuel
Wood and Sarah Stedwell. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1848, settled at
Ogden and became one of the first
settlers of Ogden Valley in 1860. Prior
to that (March 31, 1858) he married
Alice Horrocks, daughter of Edward
Horrocks and Alice Houghton. By
her he became the father of fourteen
children, six boys and eight girls.

Bro. Wood labored for many years as
an Indian missionary and was one of
the founders of Ft. Supply, near Ft.
Bridger, Wyoming, where he remain-
ed two years. He also served as a
scout in the Black Hawk war, in a
regiment commanded by Pleasant

Green Taylor. Being able to speak
the language of the Indians, he ren-
dred efficient service as an Indian
interpreter during the hostilities. He
was also a great friend of the Indians,
a number of whom visited him from
time to time. Among these were the
chief Washakie r.ud other Indians of
note. Bro. Wood held the office of
a Seventy and died at Provo, Utah,
Aug. 13, 1905.

WOOD, Charles S., an active Elder
in Huntsville, "W^eber county, Utah,
was born July 11, 1861, at Ogden,
Utah, the son of Charles Wood and
Alice Horrocks. He was baptized
June 6, 1872, by Peter C. Geertsen; or-
dained a Teacher Dec. 6, 1878; or-
dained an Elder Oct. 26, 1884, by
Hans Schow; ordained a Seventy
Aug. 10, 1887, by Erastus P. Bingham
and set apart as a president of the
75th quorum of Seventy July 9, 1893,
by Rulon S. Wells: ordained a High

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Priest July 22. 1900, by Lewis W.
Shurtliff and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop David McKay.
He served in that capacity five years.
In 1895 (Sept. 10th) he was set apart
as first counselor to Bishop Andrew
P. Renstrom, by Anthon H. Lund, and
served in the latter position three
years. In 1888-1890 he filled a mission
to the United States, laboring princip-

farm and reared in the Lutheran reli-
gion. When a youth he was pre-
served from an untimely death by a
miraculous manifestation of the power
of God. Becoming converted to "Mor-
monism", he was baptized May 23,
1857, by C. E. Lindholm and passed
through considerable persecution on
account of his religion. He was or-
dained a Teacher, Oct. 14, 1857, and

ally in West Virginia and Maryland.
After his return he acted two years
as the president of the Ward Y. M.
M. I. A.; he has also been a member
of the local old folks committee and
filled many other positions of re-
sponsibility and trust. In 1884 (Dec.
12th I he married Emma E. Morten-
sen, daughter of Niels C. Mortensen
and Mariane Christensen, by whom
he became the father of ten children,
three boys and seven girls. His wife
was the first secretary in the primary
association in Huntsville and she
acted for ten years as president of
said association.

ANDERSON, Andrew Hugo, a pro-
minent Elder in the Huntsville Ward,
Weber county, Utah, was born Aug.
5, 1830, in Fjelgeme, Enslo, Halland
Ian, Sweden. He was raised on a

appointed to preside over the prayer
meetings in the Halmstad branch.
Being ordained an Elder Nov. 15,
1885, he was called to preside over
the Falkenborg branch in 1860 and
over the Halmstad branch Feb. 17,
1861. In May, 1805, he was called to
labor as a traveling Elder in Jonkop-
ing. He emigrated to Utah in 1866,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Humboldt", which arrived in New
York, July 19, 1866, and the plains in
Capt. Peter Nebeker's ox train which
arrived in Salt Lake City, Sept. 29,
1866. Soon afterwards he located
permanently at Huntsville, where he
resided until the time of his death,
taking an active part in all matters
within his jurisdiction pertaining to
the Church until the last. In 1856'
(Feb. 16th) he married Christina
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married Elena Pehrson, a widow with
five children. By a third wife (Emma
Fagerstrom (whom he married Oct.
22, 1886) he became the father of
seven children, namely, Adina C,
Andrew C, Ellen M., Hilda S., Joseph
A., A. Elizabeth and Thomas O. For
many years Elder Anderson presided
over the Scandinavian meetings at
Hunts ville.

BERLIN, Andrew Emanuel, a prom-
inent Elder of Huntsville, Weber
county, Utah, was' born Nov. 5, 1849,
at Trelleborg, Malmohus Ian, Sweden,

the son of Berlin and Regina Dorthea
Silverlos. He was baptized May 5,
1860, by Paul Okason, ordained a
Teacher when twelve years old and
subsequently set apart to preside over
the Trelleborg brynch. Later he was
ordained a Priest and sent out to do
missionary labor, together with Elder
Niels Berggren in the Lund and
GS.rdst&,nga branches, laboring there
one year. Then he was called to the
Christianstad and Viggarum branches
for one year and a half.After that he
was ordained an Elder by Conference
President John Holmgren. He was
called to preside over the Ystad and

Cimbritshamn branches. Afterwards
he presided over the Helsingborg and
Landskrona branches for one year
and a half; after that he labored as
a traveling Elder in the Skane con-
ference. After thus laboring for .six
years and a half as a missionary, he
emigrated to America in the summer
of 1872, arriving in Salt Lake City
July 17th, that year. After residing
in Salt Lake City nearly two years he
settled permanently at Huntsville. in
1874. From that date until the pre-
sent he has taken an active part in
Church affairs. For a number of
years he held the office of a Seventy,
having been ordained to that office by
Peter C. Geertsen in 1885. He was or-
dained a High Priest in January, 1910,
by Bishop E. r. Woolley. In 1872
(Oct. 28th) Elder Berlin married Mary
F. Bjorkholm who bore him thirteen
children. He married a second wife
(Caroline Tangren) May 20, 1876. who
bore him five children. On a charge
of unlawful cohabitation he was ar-
rested June 6, 1887; he was subse-
quently convicted and served six
months in the State penitentiary.
Bro. Berlin's occupation has been that
of a farmer and a plasterer.

BINGHAM, Erastus Perry, a veter-
an Elder of the Huntsville Ward,
Weber county, Utah, was born March
20, 1846, at La Harpe, Hancock coun-
ty, Illinois, the sen of Erastus Bing-
ham and Olive H. Freeman. He was
baptized in March, 1854; ordained a
Seventy in 1865 by Franklin Cum-
mings and a High Priest May 5. 1910
by Adam L. Peterson. Emigrating to
Utah in 1847 with his parents he
crossed the plains in Daniel Spen-
cer's hundred, arriving in the Valley
in September. 1847. After spending
the winter in the Old Fort, he located
in Cottonwood in the so-called HoUi-
day Settlement, where he remained
until the spring of 1850. In 1866 he
went to the Missouri river after emi-
grants under Captain Horton D,
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telegraph wires and three families of
emigrants. Since his early youth
Bro. Bingham has been a diligent
Church worker. For more than twen-
ty years he acted as one of the pre-
sidents of the 75th quorum of Seven-
ty, and for the same length of time
he acted as a president of a teacher's
district in the Huntsville and Middle-
ton Wards. He has practically been

a Ward teacher since 1866. He has
also been superintendent of the East
Huntsville Sunday school when that
branch was yet a branch of the Hunts-
ville Ward. Among the many civil
offices which he has held may be
mentioned that he served as const-
able of the Huntsville precinct for six
years and as school trustee in the
Huntsville school district five years.
His occupation, otherwise, has been
that of a lumber dealer, farmer and
stockraiser. On different occasions
he has changed his places of resi-
dence. Being born at La Harpe, 111.,
he has since resided in Punca, Nebra-
ska, Salt Lake City, Cottonwood,
Ogden, Bingham's Fort, Farr West,
Slaterville and Huntsville. He be-
came a settler of Ogden valley in the
spring of 1864. During the Black
Hawk Indian war he made a trip to

the Missouri riv^r after telegraph wire
and emigrants, although he at that
time served as a cavalry man in the
Utah militia. Often since the Indian
wars has he done military duty as a
home guard.

L5FREEN, Niels, a prominent
Elder in the Huntsville Ward, Weber
county, Utah, was born Dec. 17, 1855.

in Billeberga, Sweden, the son of
Anders Lofgren and Kathrina Lof-
gren. He emigrated with his parents
to Utah in 1862, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "Manchester", which
sailed from Liverpool, England, May
6th and arrived in New York June 12,
1862. He crossed the plains in Homer
Duncan's company which arrived in
Salt Lake City Sept. 24, 1862. After
spending the winter in Mill Creek,
Salt Lake county, the family settled
permanently at Huntsville, where Bro.
Lofgreen soon became an active
Church worker. For a number of
years he took leading parts in the
Ward Sunday school, acted as a Ward
teacher and was president of the Y.
M. M. I. A. He was ordained an
Elder July 29, 1880, a Seventy in
June, 1886, and a High Priest by
Gustaf A. Olson Jan. 24, 1909. In

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1900-1902 he filled a mission to Scan-
dinavia, laboring in Sweden, part of
the time as president of the Goteborg
conference. After his return home
he was again apointed a Ward teach-
jr, and also acted as superintendent
of the Ward Sunday school from
1904 to 1913. In secular occupations
Bro. Lofgreen acted as mayor's coun-
sel four years and mayor of Hunts-
ville two years. He has also acted
as a home missionary. He is at pre-
sent (1913) on a mission to the West-
ern States. In 1S80 (July 29th), he
married Jane A. Burrows, daughter
of Joseph and Emma Burrows, by
whom he became the father of eight
children, namely, Jane C, Mary B.,
Nils S., Jesse E., Benjamin F., Eliza-
beth A., Elmina It. and Lee B.

NIELSEN, Jens, an active Elder in
the Huntsville Ward, Weber county,
Utah, was born July 21, 1852, at As-
nses, near Kallundborg, Holbsek amt,

Denmark, the son of Niels Jensen and
Mette J0rgensen. He was baptized
May 17, 1875, by Theodore Christen-
sen, emigrated to Utah in 1875, was
ordained an Elder in 1883 by Bishop
Francis A. Hammond, ordained a
Seventy July 12, 1885, by Seymour B.

Young and ordained a High Priest in
January, 1909, by Samuel G. Dyer. In
1877 (Jan. 1st) he married Juliane
Petersen, daughter of Jacob Petersen
and Petrine R0rstr0m, who was born
in Randers, Denmark, March 27, 1859,
baptized in Aarhus, Feb. 25, 1872, by
S0ren Madsen, and emigrated to Utah
in 1876. She acted as a teacher in
the Huntsville Relief Society from
1884 to 1893, and was a member of
the Board of Directors together with
Sister Eliza Tracy, acted as president
of mother's work, was first counselor
in the Ward Relief Society, first to
Pres. Eliza Tracy and later to Pres.
McFarland. In 1911 she was chosen
as secretary of the Ward choir. Bro.
Nielsen filled a mission to Scandi-
navia in 1896-9S, laboring in the
Copenhagen conference, part of the
time as president of the Holbsek
branch. While on this mission he or-
ganized a Sunday school at Holbaek.
After his return to Utah in 1898 he
labored diligently as a Ward teacher,
as a member of the Ward old folks
committee, as first counselor to An-
drew H. Anderson, in the presidency
of the Scandinavian meetings in
Huntsville, and as superintendent of
construction in the building of a Re-
lief Society hall which was erected
in Huntsville in 1895 and following
years. Bro. Nielsen is still laboring
diligently in Church affairs.

PETERSON, Christian, an active
Elder of the Huntsville Ward, Weber
county, Utah, was born Sept. 18, 1845,
at Bj0rup, Maribo amt, Denmark, the
son of Hans Petersen and Margrethe
Larsen. He was baptized May 29,
1858, and emigrated to Utah in 1862,
crossing the plains with an ox train.
After residing in Farmington, Davis
county, three years, he settled perm-
anently at Huntville in 1865. In 1869
he married Emma M. Backman, by
whom he had twelve children, six
boys and six girls, namely, Anna M.,
Amelia M., John C, Emma M.,
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Carl A., Frederik W., Helga A., Adam
E. and Moroni. In 1879 (July 31st)
Elder Peterson married Marie S.
Christensen, who bore him five chil-
dren, namely, Niels W., Hans C.
Elvina M., Mary J. and Minnie M.
Bro. Petersen served six months in
the Utah penitentiary for so-called
unlawful cohabitation. He was al-
ways a faithful Latter-day Saint and
an active Church worker, advancing
from one degree of the Priesthood to
another. He finished his earthly
career as a Seventy. His principal
avocations in life were those of a
blacksmith, farmer, lumberman and
merchant. He was accidentally
killed in a sawmill March 13, 1893.

PETERSEN, Jens, an active Elder
in Huntsville, Weber county, Utah,
was born March 21, 1818, at S0holm,

PraestO amt, Denmark, the son of
Peter Jacobsen and Anne Marie
Nielsen. While ? youth he learned
the trade of a carpenter and wheel-
wright and built several mills in Den-
mark. Later he served as a soldier
in the Danish army for eleven years.
He joined the Church in 1862, emi-
grated to Utah in 1863 and located
temporarily in Weber Valley, where

he engaged in various occupations,
until 1872, when he located perma-
nently in Huntsville and began his
career as a successful farmer. As an
active Church worker he advanced
from one degree in the Priesthood to
another and for several years he
acted as president of the Elder's
quorum. He was finally ordained a
High Priest. His first wife's name
was Mette Marie Jensen, who was
born Feb. 19, 1822, in Gr0nfelt, Ran-
ders amt, Denmark, and was married
to Bro. Petersen June 12, 1851. She
became the mother of two children
and died Jan. 15, 1897. In 1882 (Dec.
28th) Bro. Petersen married Caroline
Petersen as a plural wife, who bore
him three children, two of whom are
still living. In December, 1887, Bro.
Petersen was arrested on the charge
of unlawful cohabitation and subse-
quently served six months imprison-
ment in the Utah penitentiary. Elder
Petersen died at Huntsville, Utah,
Sept. 15, 1904, as a faithful and high-
ly respected member of the Church.

PETERSEN, Lars, a prominent
Elder in the Huntsville Ward, Weber

county, Utah, was born Feb. 27, 1837,
at Systofte, Denmark, the son of Hans
Petersen and Margrete Larsen. He

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was baptized April 17, 1861, by Ole
Petersen; ordained a Priest Sept. 1,
1861, and an Elder by Jens Hansen
Nov. 3, 1861. In October, 1861, he was
called on a mission to the island of
Falster and during the following three
and a half years he labored as a mis-
sionary on the islands of Falster,
M0en, Lolland and Fyen. He also
spent nine months in the Danish army
during the war between Denmark and
Prussia in 1863-64 In 1865 he emi-
grated to Utah, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "B. S. Kimball", which
sailed from Hamburg, Germany, May
8, 1865, and arrived in New York June
15, 1865. He crossed the plains in
Captain Miner G. Atwood's company,
which arrived in Salt Lake City Nov.
8, 1865. After spending the winter of
1865-66 in Ogden he settled perman-
ently in Huntsville in the spring of
1866, where he has resided ever since.
In 1866 (April 7tli) he married Anne
Larsen Jensen, daughter of Lars Jen-
sen and Maren I.asmussen. She bore
him six children (three boys and three
girls), whose names are: Mary M.,
Lauritz, Rosanna, Peter A., Sarah E.,
and Joseph H. Elder Petersen acted
as Ward clerk, subsequently as coun-
selor and still later as president of
the 6th quorum of Elders in the
Weber Stake, and in 1902 (Dec. 27th)
he was ordained a High Priest by
Lewis W. Shurtliff. For fifteen years,
commencing with November, 1882,
Brother Petersen acted as postmaster
of Huntsville; otherwise his occupa-
tion has been that of a basket maker,
gardener and farmer.

TRACY, Eli Alexander, an active
Elder in the Huntsville Ward, AVeber
county, Utah, was born Nov. 25, 1833,
inEUesburg, Jefferson county, N. Y.,
the son of Moses Tracy and Nancy M.
Alexander. He came to Utah in 1850.
driving two yoke of cows and one
yoke of steers across the plains. On
this journey his father was captain of
ten in Thomas Johnson's company,
which arrived in G. S. L. City Sept.

12, 1850 The parents settled per-
manently at Ogden in 1850, where
Eli and his wife also remained till
1864, when they settled permanently
at Huntsville. Bro. Eli was baptized
March 20, 1842, by Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and ordained an Elder, Nov.

3, 1855, by Heber C. Kimball. About
two years later he was ordained a
Seventy by Benjamin Franklin Cum-
mings, and became a member of the
38th quorum of Seventy. In 1855 he
filled a mission to the Lamanites, ac-
companied by 'lis wife, during which
he spent most of his time at Ft. Sup-
ply. In 1891 he f:iJed a mission to the
Southern States. As a participant in
the Echo Canyon episode he served
as a musician, and he organized the
first martial band in Ogden Valley.
He also built the second sawmill in
Ogden Valley on Beaver Creek, a
tributary of the South Fork of the
Ogden river. For forty years Bro.
Tracy has acted as a Ward teacher.
His occupation generally is that of a
stockraiser and lumber man. In 1854
(Dec. 25th) he married Eliza Sprague,.
the daughter of Richard D. Sprague
and Louisa M. Rose; she was born
May 12, 1837, at Castile, Broome co.,
N. Y. For thirty years she acted as

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president of the Huntsville Relief
Society, and bore her husband four
children, namely, Eliza J., Eli M.,
Charles A. and David 1.

BINGHAM, Francis, Bishop of the
Middleton Ward, Weber county, Utah,
was born July 19, 1874, at Huntsville,
Weber county, Utah, the son of
Erastus P. Bingham, and Emmeline
C. Allen. He was- baptized July 30,
1882, by Peter C. Geertsen; ordained
a Deacon Dec. 6, 1899, by David Mc
Kay; ordained a Teacher March 28,
1896, by Christian F. Schade; ordained

dent of Sunday school, and president
of the Y. M. M. 1. A. A few years ago
he filled a mission to the Western
States, laboring principally in Colo-
rado and New Mexico. He was gone
on this mission thirty months and
acted as president of a conference
about two years.

BURRASTON, John,aUtah Pioneer,
was born April 2i, 1837, in Hereford-
shire, England, the son of William
Burraston and Sarah Mason. Having
joined the Church in his native land,
he emigrated to America in 1352, cros-

a Priest in 1S88 by David Mc
Kay; ordained an Elder March 4,
1899, by Lars Petersen; ordained a
Seventy Feb. S, 1906, by Erastus P.
Bingham, and ordained a High Priest
and Bishop in June, 1909, by Orson P.
Whitney. In :'.r<t,7 (March 6th) he
married Anna S. Hansen, daughter of
Christian C. Hansen and Stine Ras-
mussen, by whom he has four chil-
dren, namely. Walter F., Golden H.,
Amos A., and Owen W. From his
early youth Bishop Bingham has been
a faithful Church worker; thus he
acted as counselor and subsequently
as president of the Deacon's quorum
in Huntsville, assistant superinten-

sing the Atlantic in the ship "Ellen
Maria", whicii sailed from Liverpool
Feb. 10th, and arrived at New Orleans
April 6, 1852. In the Irish channel the
ship ran into another vessel and was
nearly wrecked; the wind blew them
into Cardigan Bay, on the shores of
Wales, When they finally set sail
again, they were eleven weeks and
three days on the sea. Having trav-
eled up the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers to the frontiers, Bro. Burras-
ton crossed the plains in Capt. Cum-
mings company, arriving in Great Salt
Lake Valley Oct. 9, 1852. Through
the lack of provisions the company
suffered hunger and fatigue in cros-

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sing the plains. Ero. Burraston re-
mained in G. S. L. Valley until 1854,
when he went back to the States as
far as St. Joseph, Mo., with a mule
train for merchandise. On the journey
the company he traveled with was at-
tacked by Indians, but none were
killed. After his return to Utah in
1855. he moved to Pleasant Grove,
Utah county, where he married Mary
Stewart in 1856. In 1859 he settled at
Mount Pleasant, Sanpete co., but
moved to Goshe:i, Utah co., in the
spring of 1861. In 1887 he removed
to Sevier county, where he lived ten
years: thence he moved back to
Goshen. He married Elizabeth Ann
Dell Oct. 24, 1864, and Hannah Poul-
sen in October, 1869; with his two
wives he became the father of twenty-
one children. His occupation has been
that of a farmer continuously. In
his youth he took an active part in
the Indian wars, mainly in the so-
called Walker and later the Black
Hawk war.

GARDNER, James, a president of
the 15th Quorum of Seventy from 1884
to 1902 and an active Church worker
in the Goshen Ward (Nebo Stake),
Utah county, Utah, was born Dec. 19,
1837. in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of
Alexander Gardner and Ann Knox.
Together with his mother's family of
five children he emigrated to America
in 1856, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Enoch Train", which arrived
at Boston, May 1, 1856, and crossing
the plains in Daniel D. McArthur's
handcart company, which arrived in
G. S. L. Valley Sept. 26, 1856. When
the handcart company reached the
mouth of Emigration canyon, James
and his brother Alexander, together
with other young men, who were fired
with enthusiasm because they at
lenght had reached the place of their
destination, engaged in a foot race
with their handcarts to see who could
reach the city first. While running
they forgot all about their having

lived on short rations for a month or
so; in fact the boys were in excellent
trim for running, not carrying any
superflous flesh. En rou:e for tne
Valley James was baptized in June,
1856, on the camp ground near Iowa
City, and soon after his arrival in the
Valley he was ordained to the office
of a Priest. Soon the family located
temporarily in Tooele city, and stayed

there till the time of the "general
move" in the spring of 1858, when
they moved to Goshen, Utah county.
There on Dec. 25, 1860, James married
Eliza Rogers, by whom he became the
father of seven children, whose names
are: Mary Ann, James A., Elizabeth,
George, Charles, John W. and Walter.
In the spring of 1857 Bro. Gardner
was ordained a Seventy by John
Shields and became a member of the
43rd quorum of Seventy. Later in 1884,
he was chosen as one of the presi-
dents of the 15th quorum of Seventy.
Commencing with 1876 he worked as
a quarryman at the Temple Quarry in
Cottonwood canyon. He was thus en-
gaged for ten years, and during the
following four years he furnished
charcoal for the Temple blacksmith
shop, which the blacksmiths used un-
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laid in 1892. At present and for the
last twelve years Bro. Gardner has
been chairman of the school board,
and he has served as justice of the
peace for fifteen years. He fought in
the Tintic Indian war during the years
1857-58, also in the Indian war at
Goshen and in the Black Hawk war in
Millard county. He was ordained a
High Priest Nov. 15, 1902, by Rudger
Clawson. Bro. Gardner still resides
at Goshen and is yet an active Church
member, although advanced in years.

GARDNER, Eliza Rogers, wife of
James Gardner, was born April 28,
1838, in London, England, the daught-
er of George Lock and Hannah Upton.
She was baptized by John B. Maiben
in 1853 and emigrated to America in
1860, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Underwriter" and the plains in
Captain Daniel Robinson's handcart
company, which arrived in Salt Lake
City Aug. 27, 1860. She emigrated to-
gether with her two brothers, George
and William, and their respective
wives, and in crossing the plains she
pulled a handcart the entire distance.
On the journey they were attacked by
Indians a number of times and Sister
Gardner's experience in fording
streams and walking at times beyond
her strenght taxed her physical pow-
ers to such an ertent that the has been
somewhat crippled ever since. In
1860 (Dec_ 25th) she became the wife
of James Gardner and subsequently
bore him seven children, namely,
Mary A., James A., Elizabeth, George,
Charles, John W. and Walter. Sister
Gardner has been a zealous Relief
Society worker for many years.

GARDNER, Ann Knox, a Utah hand-
cart immigrant of 1856, was born April
27, 1805, in Shionen, Lanarkshire,
Scotland, joined the Church in 1852
and emigrated to America in 1856,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Enoch Train," and the plains in Cap-
tain Daniel D. :\IcArthur's handcart
company. Sister Gardner married

Alexander Gardner in Scotland about
1833, but he left her as the mother of
seven children in 1853 and emigrated
to America; he v/as never heard from

afterwards. After arriving in Utah,
in September, 1856, Sister Gardner
moved to Tooele valley, where she
married Peter Gillespie. Later she
moved to Goshen, Utah county, where
she resided until her death, which oc-
curred June 1, 1895, she being ninety
years old at the time of her demise.

LEWIS, Rufu«, an active Elder in
Goshen, Utah county, Utah, was born
Oct. 2, 1830, at Liannelly, Wales, the
son of Wm. Lewis and Mary Price. He
became a Latter-day Saint in his na-
tive land in 1850 and emigrated to
Utah in 1856, crossing the Atlantic in
the ship "Samuel Curling" which
sailed from Liverpool April 19, 1856,
and arrived at Boston May 23, 1856.
He crossed the plains in an indepen-
dent wagon company the same year.
Through being overtaken by storms in
the mountains the company lost near-
ly everything and had to be helped
into the Valley by a relief train which
the Church had sent out for that pur-
pose. After his arrival in Utah Bro.
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where he met Ann Llewellyn whom he
married April 16, 1861. Eight years
later he moved with his family to
Goshen, where he lived until July 8,
1889, when he was called beyond the
vail, leaving a wife and ten children.

in Salt Lake City until the time of
the move in 1858, when she located at
Provo and stayed there five years,
working for several families. In 1861
she became the wife of Rufus Lewis,
to whom she subsequently bore ten

During his entire life Bro. Lewis was
a diligent worker and always took
an active part in Church affairs, ris-
\.,T from one degree in the Priesthood
to another. For many years he led
the Ward choir at Goshen and was
also an active Sunday school teacher
at the time of his death. The names
of his children are: Rufus W., Ed-
mund. John T., Annie M., Lewis E.,
Caleb R.. Mary A., Thos. J., Dan F.
and Nettie.

LEWIS. Ann Llewellyn, wife of
Rufus Lewis was born April 21, 1839,
at Myrther Tydvil, Wales, the daught-
er of Edmund Tjlewellyn and Mary
Howells. She became a member of
the Church in 1847 and emigrated to
America in 1856, crossing the ocean
in the ship "Samuel Curling," and,
together with her brother Edmund,
pulled a handcart all the way across
the plains, in Capt. Edward Bunker's
handcart company, which arrived in
Salt Lake City, Oct. 2, 1856. She lived

children. After the removal of the
family to Goslien in 1868, Sister Lewis
took an active part with her husband
in raising a large family of children,
and after the death of her husband in
1889, the whole responsibility of rais-
ing and taking care of the family
rested upon her. She has been a dil-
igent worker in the Relief Society and
throughout taken a most active part in
Church matters.

HANCOCK. Gecrge Washington, a
Pioneer and leading business man of
Payson. Utah, was born March 8, 1826,
in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Solo-
mon Hancock and Alta Adams. He
was baptized in 1834 by Levi W. Han-
cock, was baptized in Clay county,
Missouri, after being driven from
Jackson county. Later he moved
with his father's family to Far West
and later (1839) to Commerce, Han-
cock county, Illinois, whence he came
west in April, 1846. Having arrived
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the Mormon Battalion in July, 1846,
and marched all the way to California.
After being dicharged in 1847, he
came to G. S. L. Valley, arriving there
in October, 1847. Continuing the
journey thence eastward, he reached
Council Bluffs about New Year, 1848.
Two years later he returned to the
Valley and settled at Bountiful, Davis
county. After returning from Cali-
fornia, being then 20 years old, he
married Betsey Jane Fackrell. Subse-
quently he assisted in the surveying
of a road between California and Utah.
In 1856 he was called by Pres Young
to settle at Payson, Utah county, and

every description in exchange for his
goods, thus proving a great benefac-
tor to many who otherwise would
have suffered for the natural necessi-
ties of life. In his earlier days he
was ordained a Seventy and acted as
a president of his quorum. Later he
was ordained a High Priest. His first
wife died in 1851, and a year later he
married Amy Hancock By his two
wives he became the father of fourteen
children. Bro. Hancock died Nov. 15,
1901.

HANCOCK, Amy, wife of Geo. W.
Hancock, was born May 12, 1835, near

start a store and other mercantile
enterprises. Among other things he
started a tannery, a shoe and harness
factory, a lumber yard and a butcher
shop. He also built a grist mill, and
later a creamery and canning estab-
lishment. He built the first electric
plant in Payson and also helped to
build the Opera House in that city.
At the time of his demise he was par-
ticularly engaged in the coal and
lumber business. All throughout his
busy life Bro. Hancock endeavored to
find employment for the poor, and in
his dealings with the people in early
Utah days he took their produce of

Liberty, Clay county, Missouri, the
daughter of Joseph Hancock and Ex-
perience Wlieeler Rud. She moved
to Far West and passed through the
persecutions together with her par-
ents until driven out of Missouri.
Later the family settled at Montrose,
Iowa, opposite Nauvoo, where Sister
Amy saw the Prophet Joseph Smith a
few days before his martyrdom. She
also witnessed his departure for Car-
thage when he bid the saints farewell,
saying that he was going to Carthage
like a lamb to the slaughter. She
witnessed the bodies of the martyred
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in the Mansion House in Nauvoo. To-
gether with her parents she partici-
pated in the exodus from Nauvoo in
1846, and after tlie arrival of the
family at Council Bluffs, Sister Amy
was baptized by Elder James Harme-
son. Finally the family emigrated to
Utah, 1851, arriving in G. S. L. Valley
in September, 1351, crossing the plains
with ox teams. After spending a
short time in Payson, they moved to
Provo, expecting to make that place
their permanent home. Exposed to
the trials and hardships incident to
pioneer life, the mother took sick and
died Sister Amy was married to Geo.
W. Hancock in 1852 at Bountiful,
Utah, he being at that time a widover
Avith two small children which she
raised to man and womanhood. She
is the mother of 12 children of her
own. She also raised an Indian girl
who became the wife of Kanosh, an
Indian chief. The family moved to
Payson in 1856, where lister Hancock
labored diligently in the Relief Socie-
ty, from the time said society was first
organized in April, 1858. She was set
apart as second counselor to the- pre-
sident of the First Ward Relief Society
and later she was chosen as president
of the Primary i^ssociation and teach-
er in the Sunday school. Still later,
1885, she was chosen as an assistant to
Annie K. Smoot, Stake president of
the Primary associations, and finally
chosen as vice-president to Sister
Peterson, president of the Payson First
Ward Relief Society. Sister Hancock
has done work for the dead In three
Temples, and performed ordinances
for a great number of her dead rela-
tives. Though she is now 78 years of
age, she is still an active worker in
the Relief Society of the Payson First
Ward.

FAIRBANKS, John Boylston, Bishop
of the Payson Ward, Utah county,
Utah was born April 28, 1817, in
the town of Queensbury, Washington
county. New Yo:-k, the son of Jeseph
F'airbanks, and Polly White. In a

short autobiography, written by John
B. Fairbanks, we cull the follow-
ing: "I removed from Queensbury
with my parents in the spring of
1826 to the township of Paquannock,
Morris county, New Jersey. In the
spring of 1828 w; removed r.o Fort
Lee, Jersey county. New Jersey, and
in the fall of 1830 we remover] ta
Meads Basin (Mountain View), Ber-
gen county. New Jersey. In the
spring of 1832 I obtained employment
as a clerk at M'ads B.isi a by JacoK

am; Nathaniel \Yilson, with, wliom I
liv^d for twelve ? cars. I wa- bapti.:^!!
into the Church oe Jo?u^ Christ of
Latter-day Saints Mari-h IG, 134.''., at
Meads Basin, by John Leach. In 1844
Aug. 31st) I married Sarah Van
Wagoner, of Pompton, New Jersey. In
company with my wife,father, mother,
sister and brother-in-law (Dr. Henry
I. Doremus) I left New York Sept. 27,
1844, for Nauvoo, 111., where we ar-
rived Nov. 1, 1844. Here I was or-
dained into the 70th quorum of Sven-
ty Jan. 12, 1845. Following are the
names of the relatives of the Fair-
banks family which left Meads Basin,
New Jersey, for Nauvoo, 111., in 1844:
Joseph Fairbanks, father of John B.;
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John B.; David Fairbanks, brother of
John B.; Susan Mandevie Fairbanks,
sister-in-iaw of John B.; John B. Fair-
banks; Sarah Van Wagoner Fair-
banks, wife of John B,; Henry I. Dore-
mus, brother-in-law of John B.;
Harriet Fairbanks Doremus, sister of
John B.: Nathaniel Fairbanks, brother
of John B.; Henry Fairbanks, brother
of John B.; Helmat Van Wagoner,
father-in-law; Mary Van Houton Van
Wagoner, mother-in-law; John Van
Wagoner, brother-in-law; Clarisa Van
Wagoner, sister-in-law; Hannah Van
Wagoner Smith, sister-in-law; James
H. Smith, brother-in-law and Ann Van
Wagoner Haven, sister-in-law. In
the winter of 1844-45 John B. Fair-
banks worked on the Nauvoo Temple.
Jan. 21, 1846, he and his wife received
their endowments and on the 23rd
they were sealed. In 1846 they came
out to Winter Quarters during the
general exodus. On Feb. 26, 1847, the
father of John B. Fairbanks died; his
wife's mother and their first child also
died at Winter Quarters. In June,
1847, John B. Fairbanks was chosen
captain of the 4th ten of the second
fifty of the 3rd hundred, Willard Snow
being captain of the fifty and Jedediah
M. Grant captain of the hundred. The
company arrived in Great Salt Lake
City Oct 6, 1847. On their way they
met the pioneers returning to the
East. The first home of J. B. Fair-
banks and his wife in Salt Lake City
was a covered wagon box, the front
end gate having been removed and a
piece of carpet hung up for a door;
at the rear was the bed under which
were the trunks; in front was a small
stove, and a piece of carpet covered
the floor. One chair was the extent
of their furniture; but Mrs. Fairbanks
has often said that she never passed
a happipf winter than she did in this
quiet humble home. On the 20th of
March, 1849, their third child, Henry,
was born. While residing in Salt Lake
City Brother Fairbanks acted as Ward
clerk, David, his brother, being Bishop

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of the First Ward. In 1851, John B.,
with others, moved south to Payson,
Utah county, but the fifteen families
then residing on Peteetneet creek ob-
jected to others settling there, on ac-
count of a scarcity of water; hence
Bro. Fairbanks with his brother David,
his brother-in-law Henry Nebeker
(husband of his wife's sister Ann)
and David Crockett with their fam-
ilies, went three miles east to a place
where the water from a large spring
flowed down a ravine. They made a
dam accross the ravine and took the
water out onto the land which secured
them good crops. This place was
called Pondtown (now Salem); subse-
quently these pioneer settlers of
Pondtown were compelled to move to
Payson for safety on account of some
troubles with the Indians. In 1853-56
Bro. Fairbanks was a member of the
city council. March 5, 1855, he was
set apart as second counselor to
Bishop Hancock of Payson; he also
acted as Ward clerk. In 1858 (March
25th) he left home on an exploring
mission to the White Mountains. Feb.
15, 1862, he was ordained and set
apart as Bishop of Payson. A few
years later he was called on a mission
to the ]\fuddy, but later was told by
Pres. Brigham Young that he did not
want him to go, but that he might
furnish a substitute. He accordingly
equipped George Jackson with a team
and wagon and farm implements and
hired him to go; he kept him there
until George A. Smith about four years
later told him to send for him to come
home. Bro. Fairbanks was a great
friend to the Indians; he often gave
them flour and beef, and they appre-
ciated his kindness; many times they
were seen to put their arms around
him and hug him to their bosoms, and
pat him on the back and shoulders.
When told of his death tears would
come to their eyes and they would
turn away sorrowing. Nov. 19. 1869,
Bro. Fairbanks started on a mission
to the Eastern States to visit his rela-

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lives and preach the gospel. He re-
turned April 10, 1870, after allaying
much prejudice, and having a good
visit. In 1871 (April 20th) he left
home for a mission to Great Britain.
He traveled in Liverpool a few months
and was then transferred to Notting-
ham to preside over the Nottingham
conference, later he was transferred
to London to preside over the London
conference which position he occupied
until he was released to return home.
Returning home he was given charge
of a company of 510 Saints (291
British and 219 Scandinavian), which
sailed from Liverpool Sept. 3, 1873.
They came near being shipwrecked
near Sable Island, as the ship ran on
a sand bar and stuck fast there sever-
al hours. The coolness of Brother
Fairbanks upon this occasion was such
that it inspired faith and confidence
in the saints as well as many of the
other passengers and the ship's crew.
He told them not to fear, as they
would not go down. The captain him-
self took courage from his remarks
The ship began to leak, but the pumps
proved sufficient to keep it from fil-
ling. They landed safely in New
York Sept. 29, 1873, and arrived in
Salt Lake City, Sept, 29, 1873. When
Bro. Fairbanks returned home, friends
met him in vehicles between Spanish
Fork and Payson, to escort and wel-
come him home where a banquet had
been prepared by his friends and rela-
tives. When he returned he was no
longer Bishop, as one of his counselors
had refused to act in his absence and
the other was not living at Payson.
It being iieccessary to have a presiding
officer, Josep S. Tanner had been ap-
pointed in his stead. Bro. Fairbanks
was elected a member of the city
council in 1875, which position he oc-
cupied until his dnath, which occurred
May 14. 1875; the cause was typhoid
pneumonia. The attendance at his
funeral was the largest that Payson
had ever known. He left a wife and
eight children, four sons and four
daughters, to mourn his loss.

FAIRBANKS, Henry, a member of
the Mormon Battalion, was bom Dec.
3, 1826, at Pequanuock, Morris coun-
ty. New Jersey, the son of Joseph
Fairbanks and Polly White. He moved
from Pequannock in 1828 and went
to Ft. Lee, Bergen county, in 1830;
removed to Meads Basin, Pasaic co.,
N. J., and lived there until Aug. 1,

1842, he then removed to Glens Falls,
Warre.a co., N. Y., to learn the trade
of a mason, in company with his
brother Jonathaa W. He stayed
there until Sept. 10, 1843, when he
left for New Jersey, in company with
his brother Nathaniel; they arrived
at their destination July 5, 1844.
While there Henry was beptized July
19, 184 1. He became a member of
the 16th quorum of Seventy Jan. 5,
1845, participated in the general ex-
odus of the Saints from Illinois and
was mustered into the United States
service July 16, 1846, as a private In
company A of tlie Mormon Battalion,
to participate in the war with Mexico.
He marched all the way to California
and when the Battalion was dis-
charged in California in the summer
of 1847, Bro. Fairbanks, together with
many of his fellow-soldiers, made his
way to the G. S. L Valley where he

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joined a number oi his relatives who
had arrived that year from the East.
In 1851 he returned to the States and
located temporarily at Quincy, Illi-
nois, where he married and raised a
family of five children. Afterwards
he moved to Kansas, where he is
supposed to have died many years
ago.

FAIRBANKS, Nathaniel, one of the
original pioneers of Utah, was born
May 10, 1823, at Queensbury, Wash-
ington county, N. Y., the son of Joseph
Fairbanks and Polly White. He
moved in the Bpnng of 1828 with his
parents to Pequannock, Morris coun-
ty, New Jersey. From there he moved

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to Ft. Lee, Bergen co., N. J., and
in the fall of 1830 he moved
to Meads Basin, bergen (now Pasaic)
county. Leaving his father May 28,
1830, he started for Glens Falls, N. Y.,
arriving there June 2, 1839. While there
he served a two years' apprentice-
ship at the mason and stone cutting
trade, as did also his brother Jona-
than W. Fairbanks, who was a
Methodist. "I partook somewhat of
the same spirit', writes Bro. Nathaniel
"and returned ro my father in the
summer of 184.3, where I first heard
the sound of the everlasting gospel.

I stayed there about four weeks and
then weni to New York City, accom-
panied by my Brother John. Here I
listened to several discourses by
Elders Orson Pratt, Brigham Young,
John E. Page and others and believ-
ing their testimony I was baptized in
the Church of Jpsus Christ of Latter-
day Saints Aug. 28, 1843, by John
Cairns; confirmed by Reuben Hed-
lock. On the same day I returned to
Glens Falls, where I stayed about
four weeks, and then returned to New
Jersey, where I remained till May 16,
1844. Starting with my Bro. David
and Henry for Nauvoo, 111., I arrived
in that city July 4, 1844. I was or-
dained into the original 19th quorum
of Seventy Jan. 12, 1845." Bro. Fair-
banks participated with his co-re-
ligionists in the general exodus from
Nauvoo in 1846, and was chosen in
the spring of 1847 as one of the pio-
neers to seek a new home for the
Saints in the Rocky Mountains. Under
Pres. Brigham Young he left Winter
Quarters in April, 1847, and entered G.
S. L. Valley in J\ily, 1847. The same
fall he started for the East, but meet-
ing his brother John B. and family en
route he returned with them to the
Valley, and thus became one of the
real founders of G. S. L. City, partici-
pating in the hardships and trials of
pioneer life. While driving a herd
of cattle from the Valley to Sacra-
mento, California, he was accidentally
thrown from a mule and drowned in
a river, near Sacramento. This sad
accident happened in 1853. Bro.Fair-
banks was universally known among
his associates .is a brave man and a
great hunter. Viio day, while en-
gaged in hunting, he heard some
rustling in the brush. With rifle in
hand he crawled silently into the
brush and soon spied a bear with two
large cubs. He shot one of the
cubs, while the mother and the other
cub escaped. In a short time Natha-
niel surprised the company by drag-
ging the dead cub into camp.

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CHRISTENSEN, Niels Christian,
Bishop of the Salem Ward, Utah co.,
Utah, was born Jan. 5, 1868, in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the son of Chr. L.
Christensen and Gretha S. Frantzen.
He was baptized Aug, 10, 1876, or-
dained an Elder in January, 1891, by
John A. Olsen; ordained a Seventy,
by Seymour B, Young, later a High
Priest and ordained a Bishop Nov. 27,
1910, by Orson F. Whitney, and on
the latter date also set apart to pre-
side over the Salem Ward. In 1908-

1910 he filled a mission to the North-
ern States, laboring in northern Illi-
nois and part of the time as president
of the northern Illinois conference.
During his mission he visited Car-
thage, Nauvoo, and other places of
historic interest. Bishop Christensen
came with his parents to Salem in
1872 and has taken an active part in
Church matters as well as secular af-
fairs. He was a member of the Straw-
berry Valley Board, also of the Salem
Irrigation Canal Company and the
Salem Pond Company Board. His
main occupation is that of a farmer.
In 1891 (Jan. 27th) he married Martha
Pierce, by whom he has had five chil-
dren, namely, Helen, Priscilla, Chaur-
oey, Claudia and Mark.

CHRISTENSEN, James P., second
counselor to Bishop Niels C. Christen-
sen of Salem, Utah county, Utah, was
born March 26, 1885, the son of Si0ren
P. Christensen and Elizabeth Jensen.
He was baptized June 22, 1893, by
Jens Jensen, ordained successively to
the offices of Deacon, Teacher,
Priest, Elder and High Priest. To
the latter office he was ordained Nov.
27, 1910, by Orson F. Whitney and eet
apart as second counselor in the Salem
Ward Bifihopric. In 1905-1907 he filled

a mission to Scandinavia, laboring
two years in the Christiania confer-
ence. After his return, he acted as
assistant superintendent of the Salem
Sunday school three years, and was
also secretary in the Y. M. M. I. A.
March 17, 1909, he married Effie A.
Stone, by whom he is the father of
two children (Howard J. and Glen
A.). At precent he is a member of
the city council and a successful mer-
chant.

OLSON, Randine Qundersen, wife
of Lars L. Olson, of Santaquin, Utah,
was born in Naes, Hedemarken, Nor-
way, Sept. 6, 1S4S, the daughter of
Gunder Larsen and Antonette Poul-
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by Niels Petersen and was married to
Lars L. Olson in Christiania May 9,
1866. Together with her husband,
mother and aunt the emigrated to
Utah in 1866, and after the family
had settled permanently in Santaquin,
she became an i ctive Church worker,
especially in the Ward Relief Society,

when he began traveling among the
people telling merchandise; and while
in Norway on tlds business he heard
the gospel as preached by Latter-day
Saints and believed it, but he did not
join the Church until five years later.
In the meantime he purchased a home
and a small farm in Norway and be-

in which she acted as a counselor for
many years, or vntil the time of her
death, June 4, 1906. Sister Olson
was a very faithful, energetic Latter-
day Saint, always ready and willing
to administer to the sick and poor of
the Ward; she was a very optimistic
woman, a kind and loving wife and
mother and was beloved and respect-
ed by all who knew her.

OLSON, Lars Larson, a veteran
Elder of the Santaquin Ward, (Nebo
Stake) Utah county, Utah, was born
June 18, l}sS2, in Yttermalung, Koppar-
berg lap. Sweden, the son of Lars Ol-
son and Kiersten Nilson. His father was
born at the same place Nov. 26, 1787,
and diel there April 11, 1851. His
mother was born at the same place
Sept. 13, 1795, and died Dec. 28, 1858.
Lars worked on liis father's farm un-
til he had reached the age of twenty.

came a Norwegian citizen. In 1862
(Aug. 22nd) he was baptized by Elder
Niels Petersen and was soon after-
wards ordained to the office of a
Priest by Carl F. Grundtvig. During
the following four years he tended
his farm and jJso did considerable
missionary labor by traveling around
with the Elders. The missionaries
always found a home in his house,
where he also raet his future wife
(Randine Gundersen), to whom he
was married in Christiania May 9,
1866. After having sold his property,
they were sooa on their way to
America. They crossed the Atlantic
in the ship "Humboldt" (which sailed
from Hamburg, Germany, June 2nd,
and arrived in New York July 18,
1866), and the plains in Capt. Andrew
H. Scott's train, which arrived in Salt
Lake City, Oct. S, 1866. On this long
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weeks on the ocean, 12 days on the
train and rivers and two months on
the plains. While crossing the plains
they encountered a severe snow storm
near the South Pass Sept. 18th. After
arriving in Utah tliey settled at Provo,
where they lived a year and a half.
In the spring of 1868 they made Santa-
quin, Utah co., fheir permanent home.
There Bro. Olson was ordained an
Elder and subse'iuently a High Priest.
He followed the occupation of a farm-
er. He was a faithful and energetic
Church worker and raised a family of
eleven children. The names of these
are: Lauritz (born Nov. 30, 1867; died
June 17, 1868); Joseph L., born Jan.
24, 1869; Thea C, born May 26, 1871;
Lars L., born May 14, 1874; Olof G.,
bom Oct. 28, 1876; Amanda J., born
Jan. 13, 1879;Dina L., born May 24,
1881, died Nov. 16, 1895; Alvin E.,
born Aug. 5, 1883; Clara M., born Sept.
20, 1885; Anna Pearl, born Sept. 7,
1888, and David M. born Jan. 11, 1891.
All his children have hitherto been
faithful members of the Church. Bro.
Olson died Dec. 2Z, 1913, at Santaquin.

PIERCE, Isaac Riley, a veteran
Elder in the Church, was born July 13,
1844, in Nauvoo, 111., the son of Jos.
W. Pierce, and Amanda Mary Heath.
He came to Utah in 1853 with his
parents, crossing the plains with an
ox team. His mother heard the
Prophet deliver his last public address
and said in her last days that the
death of the Prophet caused her more
grief than anything else she had ex-
perienced in her whole life. After
arriving in the Valley in 1853, the
family settled in the Tenth Ward,
Salt Lake City. While yet young Bro.
Pierce hauled timber from the moun-
tains and also learned the trade of a
mason. In 1866 he went back to the
Missourri river in Capt. Abner Low-
ry's train to bring the poor saints to
the Valley. He also participated in the
Black Hawk war. In 1868 (Feb. 1st)
he married Mary Jane McRay, and in

1882 he took Eleanor Thomas to wife.
By these wives he became the father
of eight children. In 1888 he moved
to Salem, Utah county, where he re-
sided at the time of his death, which
occurred Dec. 20, 1911. His second
wife died in Salem, Aug. 15, 1897, and
his first wife helped to raise the

second wife's family as well as her
own and is still living. This good
lady was president of the Y. L. M. I.
A. in the Tenth Ward, Salt Lake City,
for eleven years, and acted as presi-
dent of the Relief Society in Salem
twenty years. Bro. Pierce served a
term in the Utah penitentiary in 1886-
87 for socalled unlawful co-habitation

JERMAN. Daniel Smith, second
counselor to Bishop John M. HoUaday,
of the Santaquin Ward, Utah county.
Utah, was born heh. 21, 1867, at Mona.
Juab county, Utah, the son of Daniel
Smith Jerman and Irena Carter. He
was baptized wheii eight years of age
by Olaf Andelin. When five years of
age he moved v.ith his parents to
Santaquin, where he has lived ever
since. He received a common school
education and worked at farming un-
til a short time ago, when he com-

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menced in the mercantile business.
He was ordained a Deacon when
twelve years of age and shortly after
that a Priest; in 1891 he was ordained
an Elder by Eli Openshaw, and in
June, 1911, a High Priest, by Jonathan
S. Page, jun., and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Holladay. In 1887
(March liith), he married Miss Mary
E. Smith (daughter of Wm. R. Smith
and Sarah J. Niswonger) who became
the mother of two children, namely,
Jesse S. and Florence, and died in

March, 1891. Brother Jerman mar-
ried Elizabeth Openshaw (daughter
of Rodger Openshaw and Elizabeth
Ramsbottom), who was born Dec. 22,
1867, at Fountain Green, Sanpete co.,
Utah. She is the mother of five shil-
dren, namely. Lemon S., Reed, Ira D.,
Laura and Norma. Brother Jerman
was president of the Elders quorum in
the Santaquin Ward a number of years
and assistant superintendent in the
Sunday school four years. He has
been a member of the school board
since January, 103 3.

BUTLER, Job, an active Elder in
the Spanish Fork Fourth Ward (Nebo
Stake), Utah county, Utah, was bom

Oct. 10. 1845. at St. Brides, in South
Wales, the son of Thomas L. Butler
and Dina Davis. He was baptized
June 5, 1870, by Thos. L. Butler and
emigrated to Utah in 1875, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Wyoming"
which arrived nt New York May 24,
1875. He arrived in Salt Lake City
June 3, 1875, and soon afterwards
located in Spanish Fork, Utah county,
where he still resides. There he has al-
ways taken an active part in both ec-
clesiastical and secular affairs. He
was ordained an Elder by David Gill
in his native land in 1873 and was or-
dained a High Priest May 7, 1900, by
Albert Jones. He has been twice
married. His first wife was Ann
Mathews whom he married June 19,
1865; and he married Katrine Thor-
lakson Dec. 24, 1S98. By these wives
he became the father of four children,
namely, Mary J., Katrine A., Thomas
and Job D.

BUTLER, Thomas Lambroke, a
veteran Elder in the Church, was
born at Swansea, Wales, May 24, 1813,
was baptized Feb. 4, 1849, emigrated
, to Utah in 1875, ind settled in Spanish
Fork, Utah county, Utah, where he
resided for twenty years and died
there as a High Priest July 29, 1895.
Prior to his emigrating to America he
presided over a branch of the Church
at St. Brides, South Wales, for sever-
al years.

EVANS, Thos. David, a Utah hand-
cart pioneer of 1856, and a resident of
Spanish Fork, Utnh county, Utah, was
born Feb. 14, 13o:?, in Myrther-Tydvil,
Wales, the son ol David Evans and
Jane Morris. When about sixteen
years old he heard the first Later-day
Saint Elder preach on a street corner
and he believed the testimony he
heard at once and was baptized April
16, 1849. After his baptism Bro.
Evans received the Priesthood and
labored as a missionary in Pembroke-
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that time he met Miss Priscilla Merri-
man and married her April 3, 1856.
With his young wife he emigrated to
Utah, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Samuel Curling", which sailed
from Liverpool April 19th and arrived
at Boston May 23, 1856. They cros-
sed the plains in Capt. Edward Bunk-
er's handcart company, which arrived
in Salt Lake City Oct. 2, 1856. Though
Bro. Evans had lost one of his legs
when a boy, he and his faithful wife
pulled a handcart all the way across
the plains. He came directly to

financial aid from home. Bro. Evans
was the father oi twelve children,
whose names follow: Emma P., Jennie
A., Caroline L., David T., Joseph J.,
Thomas A., Charles A., Sarah, Mary
E., John W., Ada M. and Clara A.
They were all bcrn in Spanish Fork
and they are all alive except Thomas
who died at the ape of six months.

EVANS, Priscilla IVIerriman, wile of
Thos. David Evaus, was born May 4,
1835, in Pembrokeschire, Wales, the
daughter of Joseph Merriman and

Spanish Fork, where the people acted
very kind to him and his wife, giving
them plenty of food to eat, but on
account of the hunger and fatigue he
had suffered while crossing the plains
the food thus given him proved too
rich for his body and sickness fol-
lowed. In 1857 (May 19th) he was
ordained a Seventy and became a
member of the 50th quorum of Seven-
ty. He remained in that quorum, un-
til his death which occurred in Span-
ish Fork, Utah, Aug. 2, 1896. For a
nember of years Bro. Evans acted as
superintendent of the Sunday school
in Spanish Fork and in 1875-77 he
filled a mission to Wales; while away
on that mission he never received any

Ann James. Her mother died in 1851
and the following year Priscilla first
heard the gospel as taught by Latter-
day Saints and received it. She soon
became acquainted with Thos. D.
Evans, whom she married April 3,
1856, and emigrated with him to
America, helping him to pull a hand-
cart across tlie plains. After her ar-
rival in Utali, sb>; became a dilligent
and successful Church worker. For
many years she a 'ted as secretary in
the Spanish Fork Relief Society and
also acted as a ' oacher in said society
for about thirty years. Of her twelve
children, eleven are still alive. Though
advanced in years, Sister Evans is
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the affairs of life. She gives the fol-
lowing as the motto of her life. "I
always thanked the Lord for a con-
tented mind, for a home and some-
thing to eat. I have thanked him
that I have had the privilege of hear-
ing and embracin?; the gospel and be-
ing privileged to come to this
glorious "Land of Promise", and that
I have my family around me. For
had we remained in our native coun-
try (it was on the sea shore) we
never could hav.^ owned a foot of
land. This is a glorious country,
though it is but little appreciated by
many people wlio know nothing of
the old world."

HANSEN, Jens, one of the pioneer
missionaries in SIcandinavia and a
prominent Elder at Spanish Fork.
Utah county, Utah, was born Oct. 13,
1823, at Otterup, Odense amt, Den-

mark, the son of Hans J0rgensen and
Maren K. Petersen. Being one of the
early converts to "Mormonism" in
his native land, he was baptized Aug.
25. 1851, by Elder Chr. Christiansen.
A few month later (Nov 15, 1851), he
was ordained a Priest by Erastus
Snow and the following year he was
ordained an Eldor. He labored faith-

fully as a missionary in Denmark
about two years, being among the very
first Latter-day Saint Elders who
preached the fulness of the gospel on
the islands of Fyen and Langeland,
and quite a number of people were ad-
ded to the Church under his administra-
tion. In the midst of the persecutions
to which the firjt saints in Scandi-
navia were subjef;ted Bro. Hansen
escaped personal violence on the part
of mobs and others on account of his
services in the war between Germany
and Denmark, during which he dist-
inguished himself for his bravery,
and was rewarded by the Danish
government witn the bestowal upon
him of the cross ^'f Dannebrog. Only
a few of the Danish subject were thus
honored, and it was distinction which
everybody in that country respected.
After his arrival in Utah he settled at
Spanish Fork and soon became a pro-
minent citizen of that place. In 1854
(Nov. 18th) he was ordained a Seven-
ty by Stephen Hales, and later (May
29, 1884) he became one of the presi-
dents of the 19th quorum of Seventy;
he was senior president of that
quorum when h^ died. Bro. Hansen
filled three succei^sful missions to his
native land as an Elder from Zion.
The first of these was in 1865-1867,
the second in 1873-1877, and the third
in 1885-lSSS. On all these missions, as
well as on the missions which he
filled prior to emigrating to Utah in
1853, he labored with dilligence and
success. For many years he was pre-
sident of the Scandinavian meetings
at Spanish ForK and built a special
meeting house on his own premises
for the holding of these meetings.
Of all the Scandinavian brethren who
have figured prominently in the
Church Bro. Hansen distinguished
himself by marrying more wives
than any other of his countrymen in
modern times. He married his first
wife (Maren K. C Hansen) April 24,
1853, his second wife (Karen P. Han-
sen) Nov. 11, 1854, his third wife

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(Caroline I. Hansen) Feb. 3. 1856, his
fourth wife (Karen A. Hansen) Dec.
20, 1857, his fifth wife (Mary S.)
March 8, 1862, his sixth wife (Maren
K. L.) Jan. 25, 1S68, his seventh wife
(Maren B.) Jan. 25, 1868, his eight
wife (Mette Mario) Jan. 25, 1868, his
ninth wife (Karen F.) April 5, 1868,
his lOtL wife (Dorthea J.) April 5,
1868, his eleventh wife (Camille L.)
Nov. 4, 1880, and his twelfth wife (Mary
K.) Nov. 4, 1880. Later he married
a thirteenth and fourteenth wife
(Martha C, and Annie E.). By these
wives he became the father of thirty-
six children. As a result of a lament-
able accident Bro. Hansen died at
Spanish Fork June 28, 1897. Most of
his child'-en are faithful and active
members of the Church.

JENSEN, Hans Peter, an active
Elder at Spanish Fork, Utah county,
Utah, was born June 20, 1844, in Asaa,
Hjorring amt, Denmark, the son of

Jens Peter Petersen and Karen Han-
sen. He was baptized March 5, 1871,
by Christian S0rensen, and emigrated
to Utah in 1871, crossing the Atlantic
in the steamship "Minnesota" which
sailed from Liverpool, England, June
28th and arrived in New York July

13, 1871. Before leaving his native
country, he married Karen Marie
Nielsen, Nov. 5, 1S69. She came with
him to Utah and they settled at
Spanish Fork, Utah county, residing
there fourteen years. They then
moved to Mapleton, where they re-
sided twenty-seven years and finally
returned to Spanish Fork. Soon after
his arrival in Utah, Brother Jensen
was ordained an Elder by Geo. Schultz
and many years later he was ordained
a High Priest by Wm. D. Huntington.
At home Bro. Jensen has been an ac-
tive Church worker, filling various
positions of honor and responsibility.
He has filled two missions to Scandi-
navia, the first one in 1899-1901 and
the second in 1J.)06-1907. On both
these missions lit labored in the Aal-
borg conference, Denmark. In his ad-
ministrations both at home and
abroad he has been greatly blessed
with the gift of healing, and has been
an instrument m the hands of the
Lord in raising many from their bed
of affliction. His occupation has ever
been that of a farmer. He is the
father of eight children, whose names
are: Caroline, Jens P., Erastus Joseph.
Mary Eliza, Peter, Niels C, Allie and
Mv^rris.

MURDOCK. John, the first Bishop
of the 14th Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born July 15, 1792, at Kort-
right, Delaware county. New York,
being the third son of John and Elea-
nor Murdock. His father was the
son of Samuel who with his father and
two brothers (Wm. and Eliphalet)
emigrated from Scotland to America
about the middle of the 18th century.
John Murdock came west when 27
years old and settled in Orange town-
ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, married
Julia Clapp when 31 years old, was
baptized by Parley P. Pratt Nov 6,
1830, at Kirtland, Geauga county.
Ohio, and was confirmed and ordained
an Elder the Sunday evening follow-
ing by Oliver Cowdery at Mayfield.

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Cuyahoga co. He preached and or-
ganized a brancli of the Church of
some seventy 04 eighty members at
Orange and Warrensville in about
three or four months. His wife Julia
was baptized Nov. 14, 1830, and died
in Warrensville April 30, 1831, leaving
him with five small children, two ot
them but six hours old. The Prophet
Joseph and wife received the two in-
fant twins to raise in their family.
Bro. Murdock was ordained a High
Priest at Kirtland, June 6, 1831, by
Joseph the Prophet. In company with
Hyrum Smith h^ filled a mission to

Missouri, where he was sick for five
months and returned to Kirtland in
June, 1832, in company with Elder
Parley P. Pratt. In 1832 he sent his
three oldest children to Bishop Par-
tridge in Missouri with some means
for their support. Joseph kept Julia,
whose twin brother (Joseph) died in
the Hiram persecutions in March,
1832. Bro. Murdock sold his proper-
ty, and sent some of the money ob-
tained tJiereby to Bishop Partridge in
Missouri for the support of his chil-
dren, and he also gave some to Brother
Joseph. Thus he was prepared to
preach the gospel. He preached, bap-
tized, and built up a branch of the

Church that fall and winter in the
east part of Geauga county, received
instructions and the washing of feet
in Kirtland, and beheld the face of
the Lord, according to the promise
and prayer of th.^ Prophet. In April,
1833, he started into the Eastern
country on a preaching mission, on
which he built up a small branch of
the Church in Delaware county, N. Y.,
the place of his birth; he returned
west in December, 1833, and after
visiting Livingston county, N. Y,, he
arrived at Kirtland early in 1834. He
went to Missouri as a member of
Zions Camp in 1834, suffered with
sickness, saw his children and re-
turned to Ohio in February, 1835. He
started on another mission March 5,
1835, to the East, visiting New York
and Vermont, and returned to Ohio
early in 1836. He married Amoran-
da Turner Feb. 4, 1836, and went on
foot to Kirtland, where he arrived
Feb. 24th. He received his washings
and anointings in the Kirtland Tem-
ple, March 3, 18jti. His wife arrived
at Kirtland May 28, 1836, and they
soon afterwards started for Missouri,
where they passed through the perse-
cutions at De Witt, Far West, etc.
Bro Murdock was the oldest member
of the High Council at Far West. His
wife Amoranda died of fever Aug. 16,

1837, and Bro. Murdock left Missouri
in 1839. After stopping temporarily
at Quincy he settled at Nauvoo, 111.
Here he was ordamed and set apart
as Bishop Aug. 21, 1842, and he pre-
sided over the Fifth Ward at Nauvoo
till Nov. 29, 1844, -when he was called
to travel, visit and set in order
branches of the Church abroad. He
continued in this calling till March,
1845. In October, 1845, his wife Electa
Allen, whom he had married May 3,

1838, d:ed. She left one son.
Gideon. A. Murdock, who acted
for many years as Bishop at Joseph,
Sevier c.j., Utah, and is now (1914) a
resident of Minersville, Beaver coun-
ty, Utah. He married the fourth

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time March 13, 1846; this time he
took Sarah Zufelt to wife and left
Nauvoo soon afterwards for the West;
two of his sons, Orice and John, were
called into the Mormon Batallion. He
emigrated to Salt Lake Valley in
1847, arriving on the site of Salt Lake
City Sept. 24, 1S47. Here he acted
as a High Councilor and he was set
apart as Bishop of the 14th Ward Feb.
14, 1849. In December, 1849, he took
his seat in the legislative body for the
State of Deseret and acted as such
and as Bishop til Feb. 6, 1851, when
he resigned to go on a mission to the
Pacific Islands. He traveled with
Parley F. Pratt to the Pacific coast,
startin,'^ on this mission from Salt
Lake City March 12, 1851, with others
and traveled to San Francisco; he
was then called by Apostle Parley P.
Pratt to open up a mission in
Austral!''. Together with Charles W.
Wandell he landed at Sydney,
Australia Oct. 30, 1851, as the first
Latter-day Saint laissionairies to that
land and Bro. Murdock labored in
Australia till June 2, 1852, when he
left for home, leaving Elder Wandell
to preside. On his return to Utah he
found his family at Lehi, Utah county,
and at the April conference, 1854, the
Saints voted for his ordination to the
office a Patriarch. At Lehi he pre-
sided over the High Priests and filled
other important positions. In his
last days he was feeble and lived with
his children. He received his second
anointing.-; June 7, 1867, and died Dec.
23, 1871, at Beaver, Utah.

HOAGi-AND, Abraham, second
Bishop of the Fourteenth Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born March 24.
1797, in the town of Hillsboro, Som-
merset county. New Jersey, the son
of Lucas and Mary B. Hoagland. He
was baptised March 31, 1841, by Elder
Asaph Blanchard, migrated to Nau-
voo, 111., and was ordained an Elder
under the iiands of the Prophet Joseph
Smith. In 1846 he was driven awav

from Nauvoo in the general exodus of
the Saints, and, by direction of Pres.
Brigham Young he was ordained a
Bishop under the hands of Elders
Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff,
and set apart to preside over the
Eleventh Ward of Winter Quarters,
when that plase was founded as a
temporary abiding place for the
Saints iu Setember, 1846. In 1847 he
migrated to Great Salt Lake Valley,
where he resided the remainder of his
days. When the people moved out of
the forts, and G. S. L. City in 1849
was organized into Wards, he was
chosen ap a counselor to Bishop John
Murdock of the Fourteenth Ward.

.y^'

The latter was elected as a mis-
sionary and left for Australia early
in the spring of 1851, and Abraham
Hoagland was then chosen as Bishop
of the Fourteenth Ward, being or-
dained .luly 13, 1851. From that time
till his death Bro. Hoagland acted as
Bishop of the Fourteenth Ward, en-
joying to a remarkable extent the love
and confidence of the people to whom
he was a kind and affectionate father
and leadi'f. He died in Salt Lake
City, Feb. 14, 1872. Bishop Hoag-
land married four wives. His first
wife wa.^ Margaret Quick, his second

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wife Ae;riOS Taylor, his third wife
Hester Loose and his fourth wife Re-
becca Merrill, an English girl. He
had ch Idren by all his wives.

HOAGLAND, John, a Utah pioneer
og 1847, was born May 22, 1833, at
Detroit, Michigan, the son of Bishop
Abraham Hoagland and Margaret
Quick. He was with his parents dur-
ing the'r exodus from Nauvoo, 111., and
in their temporary sojourn on the
frontiers and came to G. S. L. Valley

in 1847, driving and ox team into the
Valley, ihough only 14 years old.
While hauling logs for building pur-
poses near Parleys Park, Aug. 17,
1853, together with others, he was
attacked by Indians, who killed John
Dixon and John Quyale. He himself
was wounded in the arm, but he suc-
ceeded in unhitcching his horses and
riding ever the mountains to Moun-
tain Dell, where he found friends who
dressed : is wounds and raised a com-
pany of men to recover the bodies of
Bros. D;xon and Quayle. In 1857
(Jan. It.th) Bro. Hoagland married
Miss AleMa M. West, who bore her
husband ten children. In 1862 he
took aa active part in protecting the
mail rou+a between Salt Lake City

and the East against the Indians, act-
ing as lieutenant in Capt. Lot Smith's
company. In 1866-1869 he filled a
mission tc Switzerland, during which
he became a fluent speaker in the
German language and returned home
in charge of a large company of
Swiss and German Saints. After his
return from that missin he became
the proprietor of the Ogden House,
the first large hotel in Ogden. In
1872 he moved to Salt Lake City and
engaged in farming, teaming and con-
tracting. Before the advent of the
railroad to Park City he took the con-
tract of delivering all the water piping
for Park City's first water works.
Bro. Hoagland died in Salt Lake City
Sept. 3, 1893; he held the office of
a Seventy at the time of his demise.

HOAGLAMD, Louis Gerald, Bishop
of the Twenty-sixth Ward, Salt Lake
City, from 1901 to 1905, was born
March 30, 1870, at Ogden, Utah, the
son of John Hoagland and Adelia

M. West. He removed to Salt Lake
with his parents when two years old,
was baptized in the "Old Endowment
House", en the Temple square in 1879,
and confirmed by Bishop Thos. Tay-
lor, of the Fourteenth Ward. He at-
tended the Fourteenth Ward school

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and Pres. George Q. Cannon's private
school during childhood and later the
John Morgan school, worked on a
farm with his father during the sum-
mer time till he was eighteen, at
which ago he commenced to learn the
builders' trade and also took up the
study of architecture. In 1891 (April
22nd) he married Miss Clara Amelia
Rushton in the Logan Temple. He
was ordained an Elder April 5, 1891,
by William Hyde, called on a mission
to New Zealand April 21, 1892, or-
dained a Seventy by Apostle Abraham
Hoagland, Cannon, Sept. 10, 1892, and
left on his mission Sept. 10, 1892. On
Ms arrival in New Zealand he was ap-
pointed to the Wairarapa conferencce
and subsequently presided over the
Wairarapa and Mahia conferences; he
returned home in 1896. In December,
1901, hii was ordained a High Priest
and Bishop and set apart to preside
over th3 rewly organized Twenty-
sixth Ward, Salt Lake City, by
Apostle Matthias F. Cowley. He pre-
sided over that Ward four years and
was then called to preside over the
New Zealand mission, for which field
he left home May 14, 1905. He pre-
sided o*'er said mission till May 14,
1907, when he was released to return
home, after turning over the affairs of
the mission to Elder Rufus K. Harly.
During his presidency he established
a mission paper called the "Tekarere",
(or "Messenger"), part of which is
printed in English and part in the
Maori language. He also worked for
the establishment of a Maori agri-
cultur?.! (tollege. and before his re-
lease he succeeded with the assistance
of the Maori association at home in
getting the Trustee in Trust to ap-
propriate $40,000 toward the building
of this school He arrived home June
10, 1907. In June, 1907, he was called
to act as a member of the Pioneer Stake
Hig Council. The same year he was
called tc lepresent that body as par-
ent class supervisor in the Sunday
schools of the Stake. In 1908 he was

called to act as a first assistant to
Tho. T. Burton, Stake superintendent
of Sunday schools in the Pioneer
Stake. Since Brother Hoagland's re-
turn from his last mission he has been
engaged in building, contracting, and
representing an insurance agency.

TAYLOR, Thomas, third Bishop of
the Fourteenth Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born July 26, 1826, at Old-
ham, Lancashire, England, the son
of Samuel Taylor and Sarah White-
head. He was baptized May 16, 1840,
by William Stott, emigrated to Utah
and located in Lehi, Utah county.

and was ordained a Seventy in I
January, 1S51, by Jedediah M. Grant.
He filled a very saccessful mission to
Great Britain in 1862-1865. After
returning from that mission he acted as
Church emigration agent in New
York, and succeeded in getting the
large emigration of Saints in 1866
through the States, nothwithstanding
the efforts of a number of railway
companies who combined for the pur-
poses of exacting advance prices for
railway transportation from the coast
to the frontiers. In 1871 he succeded
Abraham Hoagland as Bishop of the
Fourteenth Ward, Salt Lake City, and

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acted in that capacity till 1886, when
he was succeded by Geo. H. Taylor.
For many Years Bishop Taylor was a
leading merchant in Salt Lake City,
but moved to Cedar City, Iron county,
where he identified himself with coal
and iron interests and railway mat-
ters. He worked indefatigably for a
railway to Los Angelos, Cal., to devel-
op southern Utah. He died suddenly
at Los Angeles, Cal., Dec, 8, 1900. His
body was brought to Salt Lake City
for interment.

WOODRUFF, Elias Smith, fifth
Bishop of the Fourteenth Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born Dec. 15,
1S73, at Randolph, Rich county, Utah,
the son of Wilford Woodruff, Junior,
and Emily Jane Smith. He was bap-
tized Dec. 15, 1881, by his father and
ordained successively to the office
of Deacon, Elder, Seventy and High

Priest, the latter ordination taking
place under the hands of Pres. Anthon
H. Lund; at the same time he was set
apart as a High Councilor in the Salt
Lake Stake of Zion. He was ordained
a Bishop Feb. 1, 1907, by John R.
Winder, and set apart to preside over
the Fourteenth Ward. Prior to this
he filled a mission to the Southern

States, laboring principally in West
Virginia and Kentucky, part of the
time as president of the East Kentucky
conference. For a short time he act-
ed as a president in the third quorum
of Seventy; he also acted as a coun-
selor in the Y. M. M. I. A. in the
Seventeenth Ward, and as assistant
superintendent of the Seventeenth
Ward Sunday school. In 1901 (June
20th) he married Nellie M. Davis
(daughter of Edwin W. Davis and
Elizabeth Derrick), who was born
May 5, 1872. Bishop Woodruff learned
the trade of a printing pressman
when a boy, and for some time also
was engaged as' salesman for the Z.
C. M. I. For five years he acted as
advertising manager for the "Deseret
News" and is now engaged in the local
coal business. He is at present pre-
sident of the Advertising Club of Salt
Lake City and president of the Jordan
Credit Association. Throughout Bishop
Elias S. Woodruff is a man of tact and
energy and has always been a faith-
ful Church worker.

MORRIS, George Quayle, sixth
Bishop of the Fourteenth Ward, Salt

Lake City, Utah, was born Feb. 20,
1874, in Salt Lake City, the son of

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Ellas Morris and Mary Lois Walker.
He was baptized Feb. 28, 1882, by John
Cottam; ordained a Deacon Feb. S,
1889, by Willard C. Burton; ordained
a Teacher Feb. 27, 1892, by Thos. D.
Lewis; ordained a Priest June 18,
1894, by Elias Morris; ordained an
Elder April 13, 1896, by Andrew S.
Gray; ordained a Seventy Sept. 13,
1899, by Geo. Teasdale; set apart as
a president in the seecond quorum of
Seventy Aug. 19, 1904; ordained a
High Priest March 8, 1908, by
Rudger Clawson and ordained a
Bishop June 21, 1914, by Chas. W.
Penrose and set apart to preside over
the Fourteenth Ward. In 1899-1902
he filled a mission to Great Britain,
laboring first in the Welsh confer
ence and afterwards presided over the
London conference. At home he has
acted as president of a Deacons and
later of a Teachers quorum in the Fif-
teenth Ward, secretary and president
af the Fifteenth Ward Y. M. M. I.
A., secretary of Fifteenth Ward Sun-
day school, home missionary. Stake
president of Y. M. M. I. A., first coun-
selor to Bishop Elias S. Woodruff from
March 8, 1908, to June, 1913, and as
a member and secretary of the Cen-
tral Betterment Committee, operating
in Salt Lake City in 1908-1909. In
1905 (June 30th) Bro. Morris married
Emma Ramsey, who has borne her
husband three children, namely,
Marion Ramsey, Marjory Ramsey and
Helen Ramsey.

JONES, Nathaniel Vary, the second
Bishop of the Fifteenth Ward, Salt
Lake City, was born Oct. 13, 1822, in
the town of Brighton, (afterward
Rochester), Monroe county. State of
New York, the son of Samuel Jones
and Lucinda Kingsley. He worked as
a ship-carpenter until about seventeen
years of age, when he went to live
in Potosi, Wisconsin. He was there
baptized into the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints by Elder
William O. Clark. In the spring of

1842 he went to Nauvoo, Illinois. There
he was ordained an Elder in June,
1843. He immediately left Nauvoo on
a mission to the Eastern States, from
which he returned in September, 1844.
In 1845 (March 14th) he married
Rebecca M. Burton, at Nauvoo. He
remained in Nauvoo, working most of
liis time on the Temple, until May
1846, when he, with his wife, moved
west with the Saints, who were being
expelled from Nauvoo, Illinois, to
Council Bluffs, Iowa. July 16, 1846, he
enlisted in the Momon Battalion, and

marched to California under command
of Colonel P. St. George Cooke. While
in California he was selected, in com-
pany with three men from each of the
several companies in the Mormon
Battalion, under direction of General
Kearney, commanding the U. S. Army
on the West coast, to act as an escort
for the general and to take Colonel
John C. Fremont, then under arrest
by order of General Kearney, back to
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The par-
ty accomplished its march and arrived
at the Missouri river, in the later
part of August, 1847. General Kear-
ney with his party crossed the north-
east corner of what afterwards be-
came the Territory of Utah, traveling

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along Bear River, between the 17th
and 22nd days of July, 1847. They
campd on Green River, July 12,
1847. May 6, 1849, in company with
others, he started by team from Coun-
cil Bluffs, Iowa, for the Great Salt
Lake Valley, arriving there in August,
1849. He resided in Utah the rest of
his life. In November, 1850, he was
eiectea 1st lieutenant of a cavalry oat-
talion of life guards, Nauvoo Legion.
In April, 1851, he was elected the first
alderman of the 2nd Municipal Ward
of Salt Lake City. In September,
1852, he was ordained a Bishop and set
apart to preside over the 15th Ward
of Salt Lake City. In August 1852,
he was called by the authorities of
the Church to take a mission to Hin-
doostan, India, to establish the Church
in that country. He acted as presi-
dent of that mission until 1855, when
he returned to Salt Lake City. In
November, 1855, he was appointed ci-
ty councilor in Salt Lake City, and in
the spring of 1856 he was called by
Pres. Brigham Young to go to Los
Vegas (now in Nevada), to manufact-
ure lead, which he did and brought
back many wagon loads of bullion at
that time called lead, but which con-
tained large quantities of silver; re-
turned to Salt Lake City in March,
1857. In April, 1857, he was again
elected city councilor in Salt Lake
City. In the summer of 1857 he was
detailed to carry the U. S. Mail from
Salt Lake City as far East as Deer
Creek, Wyoming, and to build a sta-
tion at that place for the protection
of those carrying the mails; he re-
turned the following August. He
was then appointed a colonel and
detailed to take part with the Utah
Militia in what was then known as
the "Echo Canyon war"; he remained
on duty until the Utah Militia was
recalled. In the spring of 1858 he
was detailed to remain in Salt Lake
City, as one of the guards in charge

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of the city which had been practical-
ly evacuated by its inhabitants. In
August, 1858, he was elected select-
man for Salt Lake County. In April,
1859, he was elected alderman of the
Second Municipal Ward of Salt Lake
City. In the fall of 1859 he was call-
ed to go to England on a mission by
the First Presidency of the Church;
he returned in the fall of 1861. In
November of the same year he went,
by request of Prs. Brigham Young, to
Parowan, Utah, with a view to erect
a plant and machinery for the manu-
facture of iron. After manufactur-
ing a limited quantity of iron, which
was found to be of superior quality,
he returned from Parowan by request
of Pres. Brigham Young in the sum-
mer of 1862, with a view to undertake
the manufacture of iron at a point
nearer Salt Lake City. Remaining in
Salt Lake City until the month of Fe-
bruary, 1863, he was taken ill with
pneumonia, and died Feb. 15, 1863,
at the age of forty years. Bro. Jones
was survived by four wives with their
children. The children of his first
wife (Rebecca M. Burton) were Clara
L., Harriet C, Nathaniel V., jun., Mary
A., Frederick B., and William B,
The only child by his second wife
(Caroline M. Garr) was Mark V. Jones.
His children by Mary E. Brown were
Charles B., Seth C, and an adopted
daughter (Eliza F.). The only child
by his wife Eliza Reed was Maria A.

MITCHELL, Benjamin Thomas,

second Bishop of the Fifteenth Ward,
Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Jan.
12, 1816, in Muncy township, Lycom-
ing county, Pa., the son of Abraham
and Anna Mitchell. He joined the
Church at an early day and migrated
to Great Salt Lake Valley in 1848,
crossing the plains in charge of a
company of emigrants. In 1851-53 he
filled a mission to Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada. On his return to Utah he led
another company of emigrants across

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the plains. He was one of the first
settlers of the Fifteenth Ward (Salt
Lake City) and became Bishop of said
Ward, Dec. 24, 1856, succeeding
Nathaniel V. Jones. During this time
he was appointed captain of a com-
pany of fifty of the Nauvoo Legion
which held drills west of the Jordan
river. He served in that office until
the companies were disorganized. He
afterwards moved to the Sixteenth
Ward, where a portion of his family
still reside. Bro. Mitchell was closely
associated with Pres. Brigham Young,
Truman Angell and others in drawing

the plans for the Salt Lake Temple.
He sesrved as one of the committee
appointed to decide whether sandstone
or granite should be used in the con-
struction of the foundation of the
building, and he lad active charge of
the stone cutting for a number of
years, more particularly from the year
1861 to 1863. He also assisted in the
construction of various other impor-
tant buildings in the city, among
which were the Deseret National Bank
building and the old city jail. He
was also a stockholder of the Zioins
Co-operative Mercantile Institution
and was interested In the establish-
ment of the paper mills, in what is now

known as Sugar House. Bro. Mitchell
was master of four different trades
and very active in the up-building of
Zion. He had a very large family
consisting of sevon wives and forty-
two children. Some of his boys worked
for a great number of years in cutting
stone for the Temple, learning their
trade under his guidance. He with
some of his family were instrumental
in the settlement of Kamas, Summit
county, commonly known in the ear-
ly days as Rhodes's Valley, where he
was interested kt the tilling of the
soil and the raising of cattle and
sheep. A number of his descendants
are inhabitants of that place at the
present time. Bro. Mitchell left a
large posterity, numbering into the
hundreds and scattered in various
parts of Utah. He died March 9, 1880,
in Salt Lake City, and was buried in
the city cemetery, where a number of
beautiful headstones bear evidence of
his skill as a stone cutter to this day.

CUNNINGHAM, Andrew, third Bish-
op of the i5th Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born Sept. 22, 1816, near

Clarksburg, Harrison co., Virginlajl
(now in West Virginia). His ancest-.
ors on both sides were Virginians!

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from the Colonial period, and his
mother's progenitors were of Dutch
descent. His parents were farm
owners in a small way, and Andrew's
boyhood was spent upon his father's
farm. He had very little schooling,
— about four winters in all, at the
only school taught in his neighbor-
hood. About the year 1829 his father
was accidentally drowned while re-
turning from Clarksburg with a
marriage license for his daughter Sa-
rah, who was about to marry Jacob
Bigler. Ten years later Andrew went
West to grow up with the country. He
proceeded to Western Illinois, and
settled near the town of Quincy, re-
turning thence to Virginia in the fall
of 1840 to move his mother and her
family to his new home. The next
spring found them on their way west,
the party consisting of Andrew, his
mother, his four brothers (John,
William, Addison and Granville) and
his two sisters (Susan and Sarah).
About July, 1841, he married Lucinda
Rawlins. His residence in Illinois
brought him into contact with the
Latter-day Saints, who in the winter
of 1838-39 were driven out of Missouri
and for a while congregated in and
near Quincy in large numbers. An-
drew Cunningham and his wife were
both converted to "Mormonism" and
joined the Church not long efter their
marriage. Their eldest child, James
Alma Cunningham, was born June 14,
1842. Six years later the Cunning-
hams emigrated to the Rocky Moun-
tains, starting in the spring of 1848,
from Council Bluffs. The head of
the family was captain of a company
of ten, who were the owners of 27
wagons. His own outfit consisted of
two wagons, one drawn by a pair of
horses and the other by a yoKe of
oxen and a yoke of cows. They ar-
rived in Great Salt Lake Valley Oct.
12, 1848, and settled first near the old
Pioneer Square. They became iden-

tified with the 15th Ward, where Bro.
Cunningham from 1851, to 1852 acted
as counselor to Bishop Nathaniel V.
Jones, and after Bishop Jones went
on his mission to India in 1852, Bro.
Cunningham was acting Bishop of the
Ward until September, 1855, when he
went upon a mission to Illinois, and
the neighboring States; from this
mission he returned in August, 1857,
after making Florence (formerly Win-
ter Quarters) an outfitting place for
the Saints crossing the plains. Prior
to going upon his mission he was
deputy sheriff under Sheriff Robt, T.
Burton and the two built by contract
the Salt Lake County court house.
Contracting, freighting and farming
were Bro. Cunningham's principal oc-
cupations. The year he returned
from his mission was the year of
the "Echo Canyon war," which began
in the latter part of September, 1857,
so far as Utah was concerned, with
the investment by the militia of the
mountain passes of the Wasatch, in
response to Gov Young's proclama-
tion placing the Territory under mar-
tial law. About the time of this
movement a small company of men
numbering about fifty were called to
go to the Snake River country to
form a new settlement there and to
watch any movement that might be
made by Johnston's army or other
hostile forces in that direction. At
the head of this company was Capt.
Andrew Cunningham. They settled
near the present town of Blackfoot,
Idaho, but returned to Salt Lake City
the same winter. In the move that
preceded the arrival of the govern-
ment troops at this point the Cunn-
ingham family went to Lehl, Utah
CO., but returned to their former
home in the summer of 1858. InJa-
nuary, 1859, Andrew Cunningham be-
came Bishop of the 15th Ward and
served in that capacity for about nine
years, until early in 1868. From

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1859 to 1862 lie was marshal of Salt
Lake City and he also served two
terms as a member of the city coun-
cil. Among his business associates
were Robt. T. Burton and Robt. J.
Golding. He had just resigned his
office as Bishop, owing to fast failing
health, when he died at his home in
the 15th Ward, March 2, 1868. Bishop
Cunningham was the father of several
children, five of whom are living,
namely: James Alma (the well known
mining man), Mrs. Lucinda Ann Ure,
Hyrum R., Joseph R., and Mrs. Eusta-
cia Weiser. His widow, Mrs. Lucin-
da Rawlings Cunningham, died in
October, 1901.

BOUD, John Wallace, Bishop of the
15th Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Nov. 11. 1854, in Keokuk,
Iowa, the son of John William Boud
and Rebecca Bailey. He was bap-
tized when eight years of age, and
in 1877 he emigrated to Utah and
settled in Salt Lake City. He was or-
dained an Elder June 17, 1879, by
James W. Ure; ordained a Seventy
in 1888 by William H. Gaboon, and
ordained a High Priest April 17,
1898, by Joseph E. Taylor and set a-
part as first counselor to Bishop Ed-
ward T. Ash ton of the 15th Ward.
June 19, 1910, he was ordained a
Bishop by Joseph P. Smith and set a-
part to preside over the 15th Ward.
In 1878, (Aug. 7th) he married Eliza-
beth Pollard, the daughter of Joseph
Pollard and Mary Ann Bailey. This
union has been blessed with eight
children, three boys and five girls,
namely: John W., Joseph E., Wallace,
Florence, Rebecca, Ella, Hazel and
Elizabeth.

KIMBALL, Hiram S., an Elder who
died away from home as a missionary,
was born May 31, 1806, in West
Fairlee, Orange county, Vermont, the
son of Phlneas and Abigail Kimball.
He was baptized July 20, 1843, by Eli

Maguin and came to Utah in 1850.
March 1, 1863, he was set apart for
a mission to the Sandwich Islands
under the hands of Apostles John
Taylor and Wilford Woodruff, and the
following day he left Salt Lake City
for his field of labor in company with
Elder Thomas Atkinson. On April
27, 1863, at San Pedro, Cal., the two
missionaries boarded the "Ada Han-
cock", a small steamer employed as

a tender in carrying passengers from
the wharf to the steamer "Senator",
which was at anchor in deep water,
five miles from the landing. While
making the voyage April 27, 1863, the
"Ada Hancock" boiler exploded, kill-
ing forty of the passengers on board,
among whom were the two Elders.
They were the first Elders of the
Church who lost their lives by such
accident on land or on water.

KIMBALL, Sarah Melissa, wife of
Hiram S. Kimball, was born Dec. 29,
1818, in Phelps, Ontario county, New
York, the daughter of Oliver Granger
and Lydia Dibble. Her parents moved
to Kirtland, Ohio, soon after the
Church was established there, and be-
came closely associated with the
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with the Church from her early girl-
hood and figured in its history up to
the time of her death. She attended
the Hebrew school in Kirtland togeth-
er with the Prophet Joseph and
others who were among the foremost
leaders of the Church. As a young girl
she had excellent opportunities for
advancement and cultivation, and the
knowledge acquired served as a good
foundation for her subsequent career
as a teacher and as a leader among

women. When the Saints were gath-
ering to Nauvoo Miss Granger became
acquainted with Hiram S. Kimball,
who was a resident and land owner
of the town of Commerce, as it was
then called. They were married in
Kirtland, Ohio, but came to dwell in
Nauvoo, where they had a lovely
home, and Mr. Kimball figured con-
spicuously in business and was very
prosperous. Sister Kimball was am-
bitious in good works and especially
anxious to contribute towards the
Temple which was to be erected in
that City, and her zeal in this respect
was .one of the factors in bringing
about the organization of the Relief
Society, which has since become such
a large and flourishing institution.
She was present at its organization in

the Masonic Hall in Nauvoo March
17, 1842, and in fact the preliminary
meeting was held in Sister Kimball's
own house. Sister Kimball came to
the Valley in 1852. and settled in Salt
Lake City, where she resided until the
day of her death. When the Relief
Societies were organized in Utah,
Sister Kimball was chosen to preside
in her own Ward, the Fifteenth. This
was on Feb. 9, 1857, and she was from
that time one of the most able presi-
dents and indefatigable workers
in the cause throughout all Zion.
Perhaps there was no more judi-
cious economizer of means, yet
withal liberal in bestowing to
the needy and unfortunate, than
she was. Her own Ward can testify
to her good words, her unbounded
charity and motherly care of the sick
and afflicted, better than those who
knew her in a wider sense. Notwith-
standing the many public duties Sister
Kimball performed and the positions
she filled, her hove was never neglect-
ed; she was a model housekeeper and
knew the art of making home attrac-
tive; yet there was no stronger-
minded woman in all Israel than
Sister Kimball. She maintained the
principle of equality of the sexes and
contended for it with all the advan-
tages pertaining thereto. She did not
believe in half measures. She stood
solidly for the largest freedom of
opinion and of the press, without
waiting to see what other people
thought. As a public speaker she
was concise and always to the point,
never made long speeches, but said
what she felt forcibly and always with
effect. She was especially gifted in
conversation, was well read, had trav-
eled m.uch, met many celebrated
people, and at one time quite familiar
in Washington society. Sister Kim-
ball taught school in Salt Lake City
for several years, and under very try-
ing circumstances, and while thus en-
gaged in teaching she became even
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of changed conditions for women en-
gaged in work that came in compe-
tition with men, and determined to
push the matter to the utmost. And
she knew there was no other method
that could be so effectual as the elec-
tive franchise. She was an ardent ad-
mirer and champion of Susan B. An-
thony and after her active work as
president of the Utah Suffrage Asso-
ciation, her name was on the roll of
honor of the National American Suf-
frage Association as honorary vice-
president. Sister Kimball was a
member of the Utah Constitutional
Convention of 1882 and was for some
years a member of the Territorial
Committee of the People's Party. She
was one of the foremost in all pro-
gressive work of elevating, uplifting
and advancing society and humanity.
After the Relief Society had been or-
ganized throughout Zion in Stakes
and branches a central organization
was effected and Sarah M. Kimball
was chosen by Sister Eliza R. Snow
(the president) as secretary, June
19, 1880. When the society was in-
corporated Oct. 10, 1892 she was elect-
ed one of the vice-presidents, which
position she occupied at the time of
her death which occurred Dec. 1, 1898,
in Salt Lake City.

BACKMAN, Samuel Christian, an

active Elder of the Fifteenth Ward,
Salt Lake City, was born at Odevalla,
Bohuslan, Sweden, Dec. 7, 1835. In
1859 (March 1st) he married Anna J.
Anderson (daughter of Anders Ander-
son and Martha Benson), born May
13, 1830. He was baptized July 28,
1861, at Goteborg, Sweden. A year
later he was ordained to the office of
a Priest and subsequently to that of
an Elder. He presided over the
Goteborg branch of the Goteborg
conference, Sweden, four years and
preached considerably in the neigh-
borhood where he resided. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1878, crossing the

Atlantic in the steamship "Nevada"
(which sailed from Liverpool, Eng-
land, June 29, 1878) and arrived in
Salt Lake City, July 18, 1878. In
1880 (March 1st) he married Britta
Maria Carlson in Salt Lake City. For
a number of years Bro. Backman was
an employee of the U. C. Railway
Company, and was foreman of the
company's? tin shop a long time at the
Salt Lake City railway depot. During
the last twenty years of his life he was

engaged in the plumbing business. As
an able mechanic he made copper
spires for the Salt Lake Temple. He
was ordained a High Priest prior to
his death which occurred in Salt Lake
City Jan. 20, 1913. Bro. Backman was
the father of seven children; their
names follow: Sven, Andrew S.,
Gustaf H., George S., Jacob W.. .Anna
W. and Bertha C.

MCKEAN, Theodore, a High Coun-
cilor in the Salt Lake Stake of Zion,
was born Oct. 26, 1829, at Allentown,
Monmouth co., New Jersey, the son
of Washington McKean and Margaret
Ivins. He received a good educa-
tion at Tom's River, New Jersey, and

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other places, married Mary P. Gulick,
daughter of Capt. Stephen J. Gulick,
and made a home at Tom's River. His
mother joined the Church in 1839, but
Theodore was not baptized till Nov.
27, 1851. He was ordained an Elder
Dec. 10, 1851, made his first trip to
Utah in 1853, arriving in Salt Lake
City, Aug. 11, 1853, after crossing the
plains with a mule team. Leaving
Salt Lake City by mail stage In Sep-
tember, 1853, he recrossed the plains
to Independence, Mo., whence he con-
tinued the journey to Tom's River,

N. J., arriving there Oct. 8, 1853. In
the spring of 1854 he purchased mer-
chandise in Philadelphia together
with his uncles, Thomas and Anthony
Ivins, and made a second Journey to
Salt Lake City, arriving there June
27, 1854. After spending a little
over two months in the Valley he
once more turned his face eastward,
leaving Salt Lake City Sept. 2, 1854,
and traveled by mail stage to West-
port, Mo., whence he continued the
journey to Tom's River, N. J. In the
spring of 1855 he purchased more
goods for his uncle, Anthony Ivins,
and shipped them to Kansas City;
but in consequence of Indian diffi-

v-aities on the plains they were ujw
shipped from that point to Utah. Hence
he was compelled, late in the year 1855
to make a journey to Kansas City, to
look after these goods; he returned
to Tom's River, Dec. 2, 1855. From
1855 to 1857 Bro. McKean presided
over the Tom's River branch of the
Church, having been appointed to
that position by Elder John Taylor,
who at that time presided over the
mission in the Eastern States and
published the "Mormon" in New York.
Bro. McKean was appointed a deputy
sheriff of Ocean county. New Jersey,
and labored as clerk, surveyer, etc.,
to provide for his family. Selling
his home at Tom's River, he once
more started for the West in June,
1857, together with his wife and three
children. They traveled by railroad
to St. Louis, Mo., and thence by rail-
road and steamboat to Kansas City.
Purchasing an outfit at Westport, Mo.,
they started across the plains alone
June 13, 1857, with a carriage and
four mules. The Indians were very
troublesome on the plains that year
and many emigrants were killed. Af-
ter traveling alone on the plains for
several days Bro. McKean was over-
taken by Col. F. W. Lander, who had
charge of a government exploring ex-
pedition. Bro. McKean and family
traveled with the colonel to Sweet-
water, whence they continued the
journey to Salt Lake City, where they
arrived July 22, 1857. In 1858. Bro.
McKean participated in an expedition
against the Indians in Tooele coun-
ty and took part in the general move
that same year, going as far south
as Springville, Utah co. Returning
to Salt Lake City, he located in the
16th Ward on 4th West street, where
he resided the remainder of his life.
He was ordained a Seventv April !?.
1859. bv .John Pack and bef^arne a
member of the 8th nuorum of Seven-
ty. In 1859 he was annointed citv

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councilor iu Salt Lake City to till
a vacancy, and in 1860 he was elected
to the office of Territorial road com-
missioner by joint vote of the legisla-
tive assembly. In 1860 (Feb. 8tn) he
was elected city councilor, and in
March, 1860, he was appointed by the
city Council of Salt Lake city chair-
man of the board of inspectors of
school teachers. In June, 1860, he ac-
companied Brigham Young on a trip
to Cache Valley, and in August, I860,
he was elected county surveyer of
Salt Lake county. In September,
1860, together with Pres. Daniel H.
Wells, Robt. T. Burton and others, he
went on an exploring expedition for
Goal, on which he was one of three
men to discover a vein of coal, 10 feet
11 inches in thickness, in Grass Creek
Canyon. Sept. 14, 1860, he was ap-
pointed county treasurer of Salt
Lake county, to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the resignation of James "W.
Cummings; he occupied that position
until August, 1876. In 1860 also he
was appointed and commissioned by
Gov. Alfred Gumming as marshal
for the Territoy of Utah. In 1862 he
was reelected territorial road com-
missioner and deputy territorial mar-
shall and also city councilor. In
June. 1862, he accompanied Robt. T.
Burton with a posse comitatus to ar-
rest Joseph Morris and others who
were encamped on the Weber river.
In November, 1862, he was appointed
TJ. S. collector of internal revenue for
TTtah. which position he filled until
June 1, 1879. In March, 1863. he
was made a president in the 8th
quorum of Seventy. Tn 1864 he was
reelected city councilor and recom-
missioned road commissioner. In
Pebruar. 1868. he was commiss-
ioned by Governor Charles Durkee
as colonel and adjutant of the
first division of the Nanvoo Leerlon
and on Nov. 23, 1868, he was set a-

part as a High Councilor at Pres.
Brigham Young's office. In 1869-
70 he filled a short mission to the
States, during which he visited New
York, New Jersey, Washington, D. C,
and other places; returning to Salt
Lake City Feb. 3, 1870, he brought
with him his aged mother, who lived
with him until her death April 11,
1886. In 1870 he was reelected city
councilor of Salt Lake City, and in
1872 (Jan. 17th) he was set apart as
counselor to Bishop Frederick Kesler,
of the 16th Ward. In 1872 he was
reelected city councilor and appointed
by the city council to visit the East
in the interest of the water worKs
in Salt Lake City. He acted as sup-
erintendent of water works until
October, 1875, and was elected a di-
rector of the Z. C. M. I. Oct. 15, 1872.
In 1873 he went east in the interest
of water works and was elected vice-
president of the Z. C. M. I. In 1874
he was reelected city councilor, thus
acting in that capacity continuously
for fifteen years. He was also re-
elected road commissioner by the
legislative assembly and reelected a
director of the Z. C. M. I. In 1875-
76 he filled another mission to the
United States, during which he visit-
ed New York, New Jersey and Penn-
sylvania. In August, 1876, he was
elected sheriff of Salt Lake county,
which position he held until 1^583.
He acted as counselor to Bisl. '"^ Kes-
ler from January, 1882, to December,
1884, and labored also as a teacher,
superintendent of Sunday school,
school trustee, tax collector, etc., in
the 16th Ward. In 1883 he made
another visit to New Jersey. For
several years he labored as a home
missionary in the Salt Lake Stake of
Zion and was also a member of the
central committee of the People's
Party for a number of years. In
1891 he filled a short mission to

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Great Britain. Elder McKeaii died
July 9, 1879, in Salt Lake City, highly
respected by all who knew him.

MCKEAN, Mary Page Guiick, wife
of Theodore McKean, was born Aug.
6, 1825, at Tom's River, Ocean co.,
New Jersey, the daughter of Stephen
J. Guiick and Deborah Homes Page.
She was married to Bro. McKean in
1847 in her native town, migrated

with her husband to Utah in 1857,
and became the mother of eight chil-
dren, namely, George, Theodore, Sa-
rah I„ Mary G., Stephen G., Margareth
I., Ruth G., and Maud G. After in-
vestigating "Mormonism" for many
years, she was baptized March 20,
1900, by Angus M. Cannon in Salt
Lake City. She was a diligent
housewife and practically all her time
was given to the raising and develop-
ment of her children and her home.
She died Feb. 8, 1910, in Salt Lake
City.

NEWMAN, William Jackson, a
member of the Salt Lake Stake High
Council was born Feb. 25, 1842, in
South Witham, a village of Lincoln-
shire, England, the son of William

Newman and Mary Ann Jackson. He
was baptized in July, 1850, by his
father William Newman, and emi-
grated with his parents to America
in 1850, crossing the Atlantic in the

ship "Jaseph Badger". He arrived in
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 5, 1850, where his
father died Feb. 11, 1851, and his
brother Thomas, Feb. 13, 1851. While
the family resided temporarily at St.
Louis, William J. went to school a
short time, but worked most of the
time for a hatter on Broadway, St.
Louis. Continuing the journey to
Great Salt Lake Valley in June, 1853,
the family went by steamer to Keo-
kuk, Iowa, thence by wagon to Coun-
cil Bluffs, and thence across the plains
to Utah, traveling in Claudius V.
Spencer's company, which arrived in
Salt Lake City Sep. 22, 1853. William
J. drove a team part of the way across
the plains. He attended school the
following winter in Pres. Brigham
Young's school house, in Salt Lake
City, and in the spring of 1854 went
to work for Harrison Burgess making
shingles and hauling timber and at-
tending school in the winter. He
worked at adobe making several sum-
mers and otherwise did all kinds of
labor including farming. He was or-

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dained a Teacher, Dec. 25, 1856, and
a Seventy Feb. 22, 1858, becoming en-
rolled in the 57th quorum of Seventy.
He was also active in military mat-
ters and was commissioned as first
lieutenant in the Utah militia of the
Nauvoo Legion. For several winters
he taught school in the City Academy
and in the Sixteenth Ward school
house. In 1869 he became a book-
keeper in the employ of John W.
Young & Co., who had a railroad con-
tract on the U. P. R. R. He was pre-
sent on the Promentory when the last
rail of the Great Pacific Railroad was
laid May 10, 1869. In 1870 (Nov. 14th)
he married Mary Gulick McKean,
daughter of Theodore McKean and
Mary P. Gulick. For several years
Bro. Newman acted as Ward clerk in
the 16th Ward and was also superin-
tendent in the Sixteenth Ward Sunday
school. For twenty-two years (1872-94
he worked as salesman for S'. P. Teas-
del and Company. In 1896 he went
in business for himself at 120 Main
Street (Newman Shoe Co.). Of the
many ecclesiastical positions which
Bro. Newman has filled may be men-
tioned that he for a number of years
acted as a president in the 57th
quorum of Seventy. He was ordained
a High Priest Aug. 13, 1899, and set
apart as first counselor to Bishop
Geo. R. Emery, of the 16th Ward. Bro.
Newman served as a school trustee in
the Sixteenth City School District
from 1882 to 1890 and at the consolida-
tion of the district schools he was
eelcted a member of the Board of
Education. During his term of office
he was busily occupied in settling
difficulties and in paying claims of
ecclesiastical Wards for their rights
in school property, and also in the
erection of new school buildings. He
was again elected a member of the
Board of Education in 1897 and acted
as president of the same during the
years 1901 and 1902. Since May,
1904, he has been a member of the
Salt Lake Stake High Council.

. ISAAC, John Phillips, an active El-
der of the Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born Feb. 3, 1833, at
Trevon, Whitland, Carmarthenshire,
Wales, the son of Reese Isaac and
Margaret Phillips. He was baptiz-
ed in 1849 by Henry Evans, leo-rned
the trade of a mason from his father
and worked at his trade until he emi-
grated to America. In 18'>5 he mar-
ried Rachel Williams and emigrated
to America in 1856, crossing the At-
lantic in the ship "Caravan"", which
sailed from Liverpool Feb. 13, 1856.
Their first ai^d only child (a girl)
was b'jrii in Wales Jan. 10, I'Soti aufl
died in Liverpool just bef-fi the
parents sailed for America. The
"Caravan" la ided at New York March
27, 1856, aftur a terrible hard and
rold trip. The family sett'el teni-
1/orarily in Piiiston, Pennsylvania,
and continued t.:o journey to Utah in
IS* ''. crossin? il e plains mi Joi .
Siii.tl/s comcHi.-,, which arrived in
^^^^t Lake Va"i.^\' Sept. 3rd. Brother
Isaac settled nt once in the Sixteenth
Ward, where lie acted as a Ward
teacher and took an active part in
Church and secular affairs. la 'SS-?
(Oct. 11th) he married Ellen .\elson,
by whom he had four children
namely, Rachel, John, Niels and Ella
Mary. In 1891, accompanied by his
wife. Brother Isaac made a risi*. to
his native land in search of genealogy.
For a number of years he labored as a
mason on the Temple Block. Salt
Lake City, and passed to his final
rest as a faithful Latter-day Saint and
a High Priest. Nov. 25, 1895.

ISAAC, Rachel Williams, wife of
John P. Isaac, was born Aug. 27, 1835,
at Saint Clair, Carmarthenshire,
Wales, the daughter of Theophllus
Williams and Mary Wilkin. She was
baptized Sept. 27, 1848, by Henry
Evans. While a young girl she help-
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also assisted the Elders in tracting.
She had great success in selling
"Mormon" literature to the people
and after becoming the wife of John
P, Isaac, she emigrated to Utah with
him and settled in the Sixteenth
Ward, where she has been an active
Relief Society worker for many years.
She was called to act as a counselor
to President Hampton In 1868 and
retained that position until the death
of Sister Hampton. After that she
acted as first counselor ro Sister
Vienna Reid, filling that position un-
till the death of Sister Reid. Then
Sister Isaac was chosen president of
the society, and acted in that capaci-
ty until 1913. Sister Isaac has been
a resident of the Sixteenth Ward for
fifty-three years, and is respected and
beloved by all who know her.

SELANDER. Julius, an active EUder
in the Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was bcTn Sept. 10, 1843,

ing at his trade. While there he
joined the Church in. 1865 and emi-
grated to Utah in 1871, settling in
Salt Lake City. In 1872 (June 3rd)
he married Clara Wahlquist, who was
born in ostergotland, Sweden, Jan.
3, 1846, joined the Church in Stock-
holm in 1870 and emigrated to Utah
in 1871. Brother Selander was an ac-
tive Ward teacher for several years.
He was ordained to the office of a
Seventy May 2, 1876, and a High
Priest Aug. 27, 1905, by Wm. B.
Dougall. Bro. Selander died as a
faithful Latter-day Saint June 1, 1906,
in the Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah.

GULDBRANSEN, Die, jun., a coun-
selor in the presidency of the Scandi-
navian meetings i>n Salt Lake City,
Uta'h, was born Feb. 5, 1873, at
Frederikstad, Norway, the son of Ole
Gulbrandsen and Anna Marie Halvor-
sen. By the death of his father in
May, 1884, his mother was left a

a Tielleborg, Skine, Sweden, the son
of .Martin Selander and Ann Morten-
sen. While a youn»? man he learned
tht. trade of a tailcr and went to
Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1864, work-

widow with nine children, six boys
and three S'irls, the youngest being
only six months old. By this unex-
pected circumstance all hopes of th«
family emigrating to Zicn at an early

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day was despaired of, but the Lord in
his kindness opened the way so that
the whole family in less than six
years were safely gathered with the
saints in the Rocky Mountains. Ole
was the second member of the family
to emigrate; he arrived in Salt Lake
City May 4, 1886, 13 years of age.
While working for Andreas Hintze, in
Big Cottonwood, he was ordained a
Deacon by Bishop David B. Brinton,
and in 1899 (Feb. 13th) he was or-
dained an Elder by John H. Burton,
A month later (or on March 15,
1899) he married Halvorine O. Hal-
vorsen and settled in the 16th Ward,
Salt Lake City, where he acted as a
counselor in the 6th quorum of
Elders and afterwards as president
of said quorum, being set apart for
the latter position May 24, 1904. In
1908-10 he filled a mission to Scandi-
navia, laboring in the Christiania
conference, Norway. Soon after his
return from that mission he was set
apart as second counselor to John
Lawrence, president of the Scandi-
navian meetings in t'he Salt Lake
Stake of Zioo.

FELT, Nathaniel Henry, a prominent
Elder in the Church, a successful
missionary and one of Utah's earliest
legislators, was born Feb. 6, 1816,
at Salem, Essex county. Mass, the
son of Nathaniel Felt and Hanna
Reeves. He was the youngest ot
twelve children. The father, a mer-
chant trader with the West Indies,
died when Nathaniel was seven years
old, leaving his family in straitened
circumstances, having lost his prop-
erty, even to his family home, through
misfortunes in business, added to an
unusually liberal disposition and a
conscientious desire to satisfy every
claim made agains him and the firm
of which he was a member. Nathaniel
attended the common schools of his
native place, and before and after
school hours acted as errand boy for

a draper and tailor's establishment.
He was not very robust, but full of
ambition to gain a collegiate educa-
tion. He worked hard in that direc-
ion, but owing to the reduced cir-
cumstances of the family had to a-
bandon his purpose just as he was
about to enter the high school and
was apprenticed to a tailor at Lynn,

five miles from Salem. He was then
fifteen years of age. Six months be-
fore attaining his majority, an<l
through the help of his only surviv-
ing brother, he bought out an estab-
lishment in Salem, and was soon em-
ploying twenty hands. He increased
his means by some fortunate ventures
in the African and China trade, it
being the intention of himself and
brother to found a commercial busi-
ness. He also became interested In
military matters, joining the "Divisi-
onary Corps of Independent Cadets,"
whi("h was oreanized with the Boston
cadets in Colonial times under Brittsh
rule. Under their charter they were
required to wear scarlet coats, and
were entitled to the right of line in
parade, much to the annoyance of
several other volunteer organizations.
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Nathaniel became acquainted with
Miss Eliza Ann Preston, a member of
another of the old New England
families, whom he married on the
third day of October, 1839. His
mother's family was divided in re-
ligious belief, but he, though often
solicited to do so, would not identify
himself with any of the popular
churches . After carefully investigat-
ing "Mormonism," however, he was
converted and baptized a Latter-day
Saint; his wife also joined the Church.
In the winter of 1843-44 he was ap-
pointed president of the Salem branch.
During this period he became ac-
quainted with such men as Brigham
Young, Orson Pratt and Heber C.
Kimball," who were frequent and
welcome visitois at his home, and
left it the morning that word was
received of the martyrdom of the
Prophet and the Patriarch, Joseph
and Hyrum Smith. He had been ad-
vised by President Young to remain
at Salem for the present; but as the
clouds gathered around Nauvoo, and
the mobs grew more threatening, he
determined to join the main body of
the Church at that place. According-ly,
on the 5th of June, 1845, after clos-
ing out his business at a great sacri-
fice, he with his wife and son, Joseph
Henry, set out for Nauvoo. There he
entered into business, and continued
his labors in the ministry, being or-
dained one of the presidents of fhe
29th quorum of Seventy. Meantime
the completion of the Nauvoo Temple
was being hurried on, and his bag-
gage having arrived from Salem, b>
way of New Orleans, some of his
furniture, such as carpets, tables,
chairs, sofa and mirrors, were used
to furnish' the sacred house prepara-
tory to the performance of ordinances
therein. He took part in the defense
of Nauvoo and was under fire as well
as on regular guard duty. Through
ff-exertion in assisting the remnant

of his co-religionists across the Mis-
sissippi, after the departure of the
vanguard — which he was preparing to
follow — he was taken down with fever
and ague, and his physical condition
became such that he was counseled
to take his wife, t'hen almost an in-
valid, to St. Louis and postpone his
journey to the West. Accordingly he
turned over his wagon outfit to Jobn
Taylor, one of the Twelve Apostles,
and with his wife and two sons pro-
ceeded to St. Louis, arriving there
early in November. Feb. 14, 1847, he
was appointed president of the St.
Louis conference, then numbering
from seven tc ten thousand Latter-
day Saints, and the only organized
conference in the United States. St.
Louis was not only a gathering place
Oi. the Saints driven from Nauvoo,
where they wen* to remain until a
more permanent place was selected
by the pioneers, but it became the
outfitting point for those traveling
westward, and also where the mis-
sionaries, still sent out by the Church,
looked for anid received substantial
assistance to take them on their
journey, both going and returning. At
that point the immigrating Saints
were received from foreisjn lands, by
water from New Orleans, and there
secured their outfits for the crossiag
of the plains. Upon Nathaniel H.
Felt devolved almost entirely the
duty of advising these immigrants,
purchasing outfits and supplies for
them, and chartering the necessary
steamboats tO' take them to Kanes-
ville. It was always a matter of con-
gratulation with him that no accident
occurred to and no scourge of sick-
ness prevailed on any of the vessels
thus engaged by him. There were in-
stances, however, in which steam-
boats were secured by other persons,
contrary to his advice, and in one of
these instances, as soon as he learned
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the Saints to come ash-ore, tellinig-
them the boat was unsafe. Many
took his advice, w'hile others remained
on board, and the steamer had hardly
left her moorings when she blew up,
several lives being lost, and much
baggage destroyed. At St. Louis
President Felt opened a correspond-
ence with Colonel Thomas L. Kane,
who afterwards mediated between
Utah and the General Government. In-
cluded in the St. Louis conference
were the branches of Alton and
Gravois; the latter his especial pride.
There were gathered the coal miners,
sturdy, reliable men, such as John
Sharp, Adam Sharp, Adam Hunter
and others. In 1848 President Felt
took his family on a visit to their
old home in Massachusetts, where he
was received very kindly by friends
and relatives, and every inducement
offered him, but without avail, to in-
duce him to give up "Mormonism"
and remain. After his return to St.
Louis the city was visited by that
terrible scourge, the cholera. Etvery
morning was heard from the "dead
wagoin," as it passed around, the
awful cry, "Bring out your dead." Ac-
companying these wagons were im-
munes, who would enter, take the
corpses, sometimes without any pre-
paration, to the vehicles, and thence
to the cemetery, Vhere they were
buried in trenches, hundreds at a
time. The president of the confer-
ence was constantly called for by the
afflicted people, and respicnded by
visting, addministering to and com-
forting them, scarcely taking time to
eat or sleep. While many thousands
of the citizens died, and many lof the
Saints were attacked, not one of the
latter died through this scourge at
that time. During the great fire
which followed, net one of the Saints
was burned out, although, as in the
case of President Felt, the fire came
right up to their houses. He lived
in a frame building, and the fire, skip-

ping it, destroyed a brick building
opposite. The conflagration while it
swept away much property, was
looked upon as a great scavenger,
whic'h purified the city after the
plague. In the sipring of 1850 the
Felt family, consisting of father,
mother, two sons and an infant daugh-
ter, started for Salt Lake City, es-
corted as far as Council Bluffs by
Ballou's band discoursing sweet music
in their honor. At the Bluffs, with
twc wagans, four yoke of oxen and
two cows, they joined Heywood and
Woolley's Church merchandise train,
which arrived at t'heir destination on
the 6th of October. They located on
Upper Main street (just opposite
Pres. Heber C. Kimball's residence)
which is still the old family home-
stead. During the following winter
they lived in wagons and tents, and
in the spring built an adobe house of
twc rooms. Brother Felt's appoint-
ment as alderman of Great Salt Lake
City came Jan. 9, 1851, from Governor
Brigham Young, under the dharter in-
corporating the city. Later, he was
elected alderman from the Third
Municipal Ward, which he repre-
sented for years. In August, 1851, he
was elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives in the first Legislature of
the Territory of Utah. Both in the
Territorial and City governments, "he
served on many important commit-
tees, receiving dignitaries from the
East, arranging for memorial services
on the day of President Loncoln's
funeral, and taking preliminary steps
for establishing the water and light-
ing systems of the municipality. Nor
was he idle in ecclesiastical matters.
In 1851 he wias appointed a traveling
Bishop, and as such visited nearly all
the settlements and towns in Utah,
instructing the Ward Bishops relative
to tithing methods, records, reports',
etc. In the militia he was commis-
sioned by Governor Young, April 12,
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the Legion, with the rank of colonel.
He had previously accompanied
George A. Smith to juittle Salt Lake
Valley, where they laid out the town
of Parowan. The winter of 1854-5
found him in New York City, assist-
ing John Taylor to establish the paper
known as "The Mormon," and labor-
ing in emigration matters. During
this mission, in company with Apostle
Taylor and Delegare Bernhisel, he
called on President Franklin Pierce,
in Washington, D. C, at whicli time
the President made the following
statement relative to his recent ap-
pointment of Colonel Steptoe to suc-
ceed Brigham Young as Governor of
Utah: "Gentlemen, you are well ac-
quainted with the immense outside
pressure that popular prejudice has
arrayed against your people; this
obliges me as Chief Magistrate to
make some s'how in responding to it,
so I have appointed Colonel Steptoe
as Governor of Utah; but you will
readily conceive that Colonel Steptoe,
holding an honorable position in the
United States army, will not be will-
ing to resign that position for the un-
certain tenure of a four years Gov-
ernorship of that distant Territory."
Elder Felt returned to Salt Lake City
in October, 1856. Having secured
Government contracts to furnish sup-
plies for the troops at Camp Floyd,
he now engaged in the grain and pro-
duce business, with. David R. Allen,
establishing stores at Salt Lake City,
Nephi and Ephraim. In the years
1865-6-7, he was upon a mission in
Great Britain, where he labored In
the office of the "Millennial Star,"
and later as pastor of the London
district. From November, 1869, until
May, 1870, he was a missionary to the
New EIngland States, laboring princi-
pally in his native State, Massa-
chusetts. For a long period he was
a member of the High Council, and
was actively engaged in public affairs,
both of State and Church, until 1873,

when he was stricken with a severe
illness, from the effects of which he
never entirely recovered. During his
remaining years he acted as a home
missionary and cdntributed various
articles to the press. He died Jan-
uary 27, 1887, leaving- a posterity of
eight sons, five daughters and six-
teen grandchildren. He was the hus-
band of three wives — Eliza Ann Pres-
ton, who died June, 19, 1875; Sarah
Strange and Mary Louisa Pile, whom
he married respectively March 17,
1854, and Dec. 7, 1856. In addition to
his first wife, two sons and two
daughters preceded him into the great
beyond.

SMITH, Josph Harmon, an alter-
nate member of the Hig'h Council in
the Salt Lake Stake, Salt Lake City,
was born Dec. 17, 1884, in Salt Lake
City, the son of John Henry Smith

and Josephine Groesbeck. Being born
at the time of the "underground"
episode he was partly raised under
peculiar circumstances and had to
move about from place to place, to-
gether with his mother. One year of
his infancy he spent at Snowflake,
Ariz., and afterwards lived for sev-

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eral years in Conejos county, Colo-
rado. He finally returned to Salt
Lake City when eight years of afe.
He was baptized April 4, 1892, by his
father; subsequently, he was ordained
a Deacon amd later an Elder by his
father; he was ordained a Seventy by
J. Golden Kimball and a High Priest
by Nephi L. Morris. In 1910 he mar-
ried Sarah McKinnon (a daughter of
Archibald McKinnon and Jane
Brough), who was born Nov. 10, 1884,
at Randolph, Rich co., Utah. After
bearing him two sons, she died in
Salt Lake City Oct. 3, 1913. Josepih
H. received a good education, study-
ing at the L. D. S. College in Salt
Lake City six years. For four years
he labored as a clerk in the Salt Lake
Temple. In 1907-1910 he filled a mis-
sion to the Netherlands, laboring part
of the time as president of the Rotter-
dam conference. Since his earliest
youth he has been known as an
athlete and is an expert at playing
basket ball, fcot ball, etc.

HOWiE, Amos, a member of the
Church Auditing CommLttee for sev-
eral years, was born Feb. 19, 1830, in
the State of New York, the som of Eli
Howe and Hannah Cock, and removed
when a boy to St. Louis, Missouri,
where he attended night schools and
became a mechanical engineer. He
also learned the art of pattern mak-
ing. While here he became acquainted
with Julia Cruse, a young Mormon
girl wbo had just arrived from Ebg-
laindi; she became his wife in June,
1850. For 14 years after that the
family lived in St. Louis and New
York, where Bro. Howe was engaged
in construction work involving great
responsibility and where his superior
abilities along that line wliere highly
appreciated. Burins: these years five
children were bora to Bro. and Sister
Howe; the eldest two died in infancy,
leaving three sons, Edgar, George ana
Charles. The Howes kept an open

house for the Elders and had the
pleasure of entertaining many dis-
tinguished members of the Church,
amoiDig them being Apostles Erastus
Snow, Geo. A. Smith and Joseph F.
Smith. In 1865 the family came to
Utah, crossing the plains in Captain
Jcs. A. Young's company, which ar-
rived in Salt Lake City, Oct. 25, 1864.
They located in Salt Lake City, where
they found a warm welcome awaiting
them by the many whom they had so
hospitably entertained in the Eiast.

Bro. Howe soon became one of the
strcng-est business men of the com-
munity. Ncit long after his arrival in
the Valley, 'he was sent to Ephraim,
Sanpete county, to commence a mer-
cantile business. After moving back
to Salt Lake City, he went east with
one of Pres. Young's sons and brought
back a train of merchandise. Later,
he went to the States after a thresh-
ing machine, which was onie of the
first horse power machines ever
brought to 'Salt Lake Valley. In 1876
(Oct. 19th) 'he married Amy Mellor.
He became a member of the first
Church Board of Education and
served as school trustee in the
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eral terms. He began a foundry busi-
ness in the 17th Ward (Salt Lake
City) in 1872, a business whicli soon
grew to great dimensions and was
l<no\vn at the time of his death as onie
cf the most successful foundries in
the State. Bro. Howe died in Salt
Lake City, June 16. 1908, as a. member
of the Third Quorum of Seventy.

HOWE, Julia Cruse, wife of Ames
Hcwe, was born June 17, 1823, in Box-
ford, near Newbury, Berkshire, Eng-
land, the daughter of James Cruse
and Mary Joyce. When a youmg girl
she was spiritualy-minded and had
very high ambition. It was hard for
her to believe the teachings of the
Church that her parents belonged to,
and on-e diay as she came home she
fcund her mother in tears, v/eeping
on acccunit of the oldest sister bavimg

joined the "Mormons." The father.
being spiritual-minded, said to the
mother: "He that judgeth a matter
before hearing, is 'not wise." It was
not long after this that Julia became
a Latter-day Saint, being baptized
April 6, 1849. Soon after that both
hier parents joined the Church. Julia
and her sister left England for

America in June, 1849. Before Uieir
departure they were blessed by their
father and Julia was given a promise
that she should live to do. a woik of
great importa'nce. Upcn arrivin'i in
America they located in St. Louis,
Mo., where they passed through many
interesting and some tryin,? experi-
ences. While there Julia met Amob
Hcwe, a skilled mechanic, who was
iclientified with the Iccal bianch of rhe
Church. In June, 1850, she became
his wife and for fourteen years lived
in Sit. Louis and New York, v/here
Brother Howe was engaged in con-
struction work. During these years
five children were born tC' them.
(Oine child born after arrivijig hi
Utah.) The eldest two died in in-
fancy, leaving three sens, Edgan
George and Charles. Bro. and Sister
Howe kept open house for the EliJers.
and entertained many distinguished;
members of the Church, such as
Apostles Erastus Snow and George A.
Smith and Elder Joseph F. Smith lind
others. In 1864 they came tc Utan;
and located m Salt Lake City, bister
Howe took an active part in the
Seventeerbth Ward Relief Society for
many years. In this association she
organized a sewing class, to assist the
Relief Society, which was called the
Junior Retrenchment Association, and
afterwards became a regular Y. L. M.
I. A.,- of which Sister Howe was presi-
dent for a number of years. When the
Ward Primary Association was estab-
lished, she was made president of the
same, and she also seived as an aid
in the Relief Society board of the old
Salt Lake Stake, and was a Sunday
School teacher for many years. She
has also done a great Jeal of Temple-
work for her kindred.

HOWE, Amy Mellor, wife of Amos
Howe, was born Dec. 4, 1853, in
Leicestershire, E*ngland, the daughter
of John Mellor amd Amy Bellamy. Im
1865 she became a member cf the

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Church by baptism, her fathei- officiat-
ing, and she was confirmed by James
Townsend. In 1874 she emigiated to
Utah, settling in the 17th Ward, Salt
Lake City, ajndi while living tbiere she

met Amos Howe, to whom she was
married Oct. 19, 1876. By him :;he be-
came the mother of three children,
namely, Julia M. (born Aug. 31, 1877),
Cora M. (born Nov. 27, 1889) and
Amy M. (born Jan. 8, 1894). Sister
Howe lived in the 17th Ward until ihe
death of her liusband, which occurred
June 16, 1908. Since then she has been
a resident of the Eleventh Ward.

HOWE, Charles Ross, a president of
the 3rd quorum of Seventy and an ac-
tive member of the 17th Ward, Salt
Lake City, was born Aug. 28, I860,
in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of
Amos Howe and Julia Cruse. He came
to Utah with his parenits in 1864. was
baptized Sept. 2, 1868, by Ihos.
Higgs, ordained a Deacon in 1874 by
John Hernxy Smith, and acted as a
president of the Deacons quorum in
the 17th Ward, Salt Lake City, from
1876 to 1884. He was ordained an
Elder in June, 1884, by Edward Davis,
and a Seventy Oct. 12, 1885, by

Erastus Snow. From his earliest
youth Charles took an active part an
local affairs generally, and in 1885-8»>
he filled a ten months' mission to the
Southern States, laboring principally
in Virginia and West Virginia. Being
released because cf ill health, he re-
turned home in August, 1886. During
his mission he was threatened by
mobs a number of times and had
some narrow escapes from receiving
personal violence at their hands. His
missionary companion in West Vir-
ginia was Jos. U. Eldridge. At home

Bro. Howe has acted as a counselor
in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A., as a
librarian and teacher in the theologi-
cal class of the Ward Sunday school,
and as secretary of the 3rd quorum
cf Seventy for about ten years, prior
to his becoming a president of said
quorum. In a secular way Bro. Howe
has acted as city councilman, school
trustee, etc. His occupation ha^ been
that of a machinist and iron founder
and he is now the assistant manager
of the Howe Iron Foundry in Salt
Lake City. In 1884 (Sept. 11th), he
married Nettie Taylor, a daughter of
Pres. John Tayloi', by whom he is the

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father of eight childrea, namelj', Chas.
C, Ralph, Sophia T. (wlio died in
infancy), Harold T., Cruise T., Lucile
T., Jeanetta T., Bessie T., and Amos
Ross.

HOARDING, Charles Den. one of the
seven presidents of the .'.rd qi'orum of
Seventy, and an active Elder in the
17th Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born Nov. 10, 1868, at Willard', Bex
Elder cournty, Utah, the son of Charles
Harding; and Matilda Zundell. He was
baptized June 17, 1876, by Benjamin
Jones, received a common district
school education and attended the B.
Y. U. at Provo for one and a half
years. While a boy he helped his

father on the farm and also in the
Willard co-op. store, of which he was
superintendent. He was ordained a
Deacon by Solomon B. Warner, Feb.
7, 1883, and ordained a Seventy by
Heber J. Grant, March 11, 1890. In 1890
(Feb. 27th) he married Emma Jane
Lloyd, daughter of Benjamin Lloyd
and Mary Palmer. Shortly after theii
marriage they were both called on a
mission to the Sandwich Islands.
They departed April 1, 1890. Brother
Harding received a special calling to

teach school and after successfully
passing the examinations at Honolulu
he commenced teaching at Laie, in the
district of Koolauloa, on the island of
Oahu. Here he labored three and a
half years. His wife having studied
abstetrics, she devoted the major por-
tion of her time among the sick. Bro.
Harding aind wife returned home July
21, 1893. About this time a number
of Hawaiians who had emigrated to
Jcsepa, Skull Valley, Utah, were re-
turning disheartened to their native
land and the rest of the Hawaiian
Saints were also feeling discouraged;
hence, Brother Hardin.'? re( -ivei a
cpecial call to labor among them, to
teach school and al.^o take charge of
their mercantile business. This posi-
tioim he held for about ovi year and
was the means of doing a great deal
of good in pacifying theie foreign
sainjts. Brother Harding has followed
merchandising since he came to Salt
Lake City in 1889. He acted in the
presidency of the 17th Ward Y. M. M.
I. A. for five years, and since the
spring of 1912 has been one of the
seven presidents of the third quorum
of Seventy. Hte is the father of
seven children, four boys and three
girls.

LAKE, James, a Patriarch m the
Church, was born Oct. 7, 1788, at
White Creek, Vanrencelor co.. New
York, the third son of James Lake
and Mizabeth Hagerman. The family
had descended from the early Ger-
man colonists of New Jersey. James
Lake was a perfect type of the sturdy
New England farmer and the ener-
getic citizen who had contributed to
the strength and progress of the great
republic, which was yet in its in-
fancy at the time of his birth. While
yet a boy, his parents moved to
Canada, and he became inured to the
hardships incident to a pioneer life.
He married at twenty-one, but in a
few short years was bereaved of his

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wife and left a widower with three
small children, namely, Dennis, Cyrus
and Mary. His second wife, Elizabeth
Stover, died after bearing three cLi)-
dren, Julia, Lawren'ce and James. In
1823, he married Philomela ?-'iTiith
This union was blessed with six more
children when they became members
of the Church. At Kirdand, Ohio,
Bro. Lake, with his sons, helped ito

haul the stone and to build the Tem-
ple, receiving their blessmg therein.
Dennis and Cyrus Lake were mem-
bers of Zioni's Camp. When ^'he Saints
were expelled from Kirtlai.d, the
family went to Scoitt county, Illinois,
where they rented laind to enable
them to gather with the Saints at
Nauvoo, which city ithey 'helped to
build and to beautify, sharing with
the Saints in all the privations and
suffering at that place. They crossed
the Mississippi river om the ice in the
month of February, 1846, with a com-
pany of about six hundred wagons.
At CouTicil Bluffs, Iowa, Bro. Lake
arranged a hand mill on the stump of
a tree, and day after day ground corn
to the relief of many who would
otherwise have suffered. In 1850 he
was appointed captain of fifty to cross

the plains and arrived with his com-
pany in safety in Salt Lake Valley,
Oict. 7, 1850. He settled at Ogden.
Subsequently 'he chose Ogden Valley
as his home, and was later a mem-
ber of the High Council of the Weber
Stake. He was also' ordained a
Patriarch, because of his undaunted
faith, amounting to great power in the
exercise of 'his Priesthood insomuch
that many sick were healed, and many
received blessings umder his hands.
Bro. Lake and his wife were highly
esteemed by the authorities of the
Church, and the love and reverence
of their posterity toward them \\ii&
akin to adoration; their memory and
the faithful testimonies which they
bore to the truth will brighten for-
ever as they are burnished by the
stream of time. Bro. Lake died at the
age of eighty-five and was buried be-
side his wife, Philomela, at Oxfoic.
Idaho, in 1873. (Samantha T. B.
Foley, a granddaughter.)

LAKE, Philomela, wife of James
Lake, was born April 13, 1794, at
Brookfield, Prince co., Vermont, the

I

daughter of Parker Smith and Sally
Loomis. She descends from noble
ancesty, those of her kindred beiaj

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some of the leading- fai.iilies uf New
Ensland. The faith cf the Pilgrim
parents had been kept l)iiniing in the
souls cf her progenitors, from
whence she had inherited a gcodly
pcrtion, whicli being blended A'ith a
love of home and a good practical
education in every branch of in
dustry had a te'ndency to develop in
her these womanly instincts wJilch
made her the queen-of-hc me- woman
that she was in very deed. At an
early age she was bereaved of bet
mother and left to the guidance of
her aged g-randmother, Sarah Hunt-
ington Loomis, whicse influence a. as
to implant in her daughter's children
an implicit faith in Gol; therefore,
several articles wiaich she wrote are
yet preserved in the genealogy of t'he
family. At the ago of eighceen years
Philomela married Ira Smith. Their
childreni were Lyman, .James Hiarvey,
Elizabeth Bcardman, Josiah William
and Esther. Ira Smith died in the
thirty-sixith year of his age and
Philomela married James Lake, Sept.
8, 1823; he was a widower with sev-
eral children. By this marriage two
families of children were united with
the loving care of fond parents, who
were afterward blessed with other
children; namely, Sabra, William
Bailey, Barnabas, Clarissa, Jane,
Lydia, Moroni, Saman/tha, George ana
Sarah. Amanda. Their prosperous
home was in Camden, Canada, where-
in they were visited by the Latter-day
Saint Elders in the year 1832. Among
these Elders were Brigham, Joseph
and Phineas Young. The Lake family
were all obedient to the message of
the gospel, and were .baptized by
Elder Eleazer Miller. Their home be-
came a place of rest and comfort fcr
the Elders traveling in Upper
Caoiada until a company of Saints
were led from that place by Brigham
Young in 1833, with which company
they came to Kirtland, Ohio, where
two of their children, Moroni and

Samanitha, were born, the former
(lyin-x- in his infancy. A no less noble
and dignified woman than Philomela
Smith Lake could have been adequate
to the management of so large a
familly cf children as theirs. Thougu
delicate and sensitive to every hard-
ship, her skill in household economy
enabled her to overcome privation,
whilst her husband and sons assisted
in building the Temple at Kirtland.
Their four younger children were
born amd reared amid the turmoil of
persecuticm incident to those days.
They followed faithfully in the foot-
steps cf the Prophet. They had em-
braced the gospel as a thing worthy
of all earthly sacrifice; they loved the
Truth; they sought the Truth, and
they knew the Truth when it was pre-
sented to them. After the awful
scene at Nauvoo, when they saw the
forms of the Prophets they had loved
So well laid in the grave, they sought
a testimony from God as to their fu-
ture procedure, and this testimony
they received at the great meeting
held itt ithe grove at Nauvoo, Aug. 8,
1844, where they witnessed the sub-
lime personality of Joseph Smith as
it cast its mantle of splendor around
the chosen form of Brigham Young,
he being transformed before the eyes
of the people, as a heavenly witness
to them that God 'had caused the
Majesty cf His High Priesthood to
fall upon "whom 'he would," that His
work might continue. Father and
Mother Lake received that testimony
and took up their march as-ain with
the Saints. Their son, Barnabas, was
a member cf the Micrmon Batallion,
and their son, William Bailey, died a
martyr whilst performing a mission
amomg the Indians on Salmon River
in 18.58. Their son George filled an
honorable mission to England in 1870-
73. while members of their numerous
posterity are found in almost every
settlement among ithe Saints. (Sani
antha T. B. Foley, a granddaughter.)

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LAKE, William Bailey, a martyr of
the Church, who lest his life while in
the discharge of his duty, was born
Feb. 16, 1826, in Camden, Ontario, or
Upper iCJanada, the eldest son of
James Lake and Philomela Smith. Hu
came with his parents to Kirtlan<i,
Ohio, when he was seven years of
age, and grew to manhood in the
early days of the Church. He was of
a kind and obedient disposition and a
igreat help to^ his parents in those
days when they, in common with the
rest of the Saints, were being driven
from place to place, and it has been
said of him that at times, when they
were almosit disheartened on account
of their suffering, he would cheer
them on •with words of comfort in
which he always displayed an abiding
faith in God. Seme of the facts in
this article are gleaned from his life-
long friend Pleasant Green Taylcr of
Harrisville, Weber Co., Utah, who
was his brother-in-law. As young
men they often/ obtained employment
together in order that they might as-
sist their parents tO' gather with the
Saints, and the two came to Utah in
the company of James Lake. After
the arrival in the Valley, Bailey Lake
married Sarah Jane Morler. He be-
longed to many organizations of the
Prie&thcod, and was a member of the
38th quorum of Seventy. In the year
1856 he and his friend Pleasant
Green Taylor were called to go
among the Indians on Salmon Rivei,
where a mission hadi been established
under the direction of Pres. Brigham
Young. They had been in the mission
about two years when trouble arose
with the Indians, and the lives of
many men, women and children be-
ing in danger (two of the brethren
having already been killed), Bailey
Lake was sent with nine others of the
brethren to bring the news to
Brigham Young. These brethern were
overtaken by the Indians on Bannock
Creek, March 31, 1858; several of the

brethren were wounded, but Bailey
Lake was the only one lefit asleep in
death upon the glittering ^ snow.
Several days passed before the main
company of the returning refugees
found his lifeless form, almost be-
yond recognition, but for his friend.
Pleasant Green Taylor, who drew the
arrows from his body and placed him
in a bed of snow and took him home
tO' his wife and four children and
aged parents. Bailey William Lake
was five feet eight inches in height
and 180 pounds in weiglht; he had a
clear complexion, brown eyes and
hair, regular features and a pleasant
face. He was a man of great faith
and purity of mind and character.
His faithful wife became a member
of the family of Pleasant Green
Taylor, with whom she still lives, sur-
reunded by a numerous posterity.

MERRILL, Albert, a Piatriarch in
the Church, was born July 17, 1815, on
Lcng Island, New York, the son ot

Valentine Merrill (who was born Jan.
30, 1783, and died Sept. 23 1854) and
Lydia Sisson (born Oct. 18, 1786. and
died July 19, 1852). In 1818 Albert's
parents moved to South Norwalk,

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Conn., where he lived until 1821, when
he moved to Newark, Essex county,
Conn., and commenced learning the
hatters' trade with Wm. Rankin. In
1823 he went to Wteaton, Ckann., where
he fcUcwed the same trade until he
became a journeyman hatter. In 1826
he moved to Wilton, Conn., where he
married Margaret Ann Richardson,
Nov. 21, 1836; she was the daughter
of William Richardson and Ann
Jcnes and was born Nov. 15, 1816, in
New York City. She became it'he
mother of twelve children, eight boys
and four girls. In the spring of 1840
the family moved to South Norwalk,
Ccnn., where Albert and his wife
heard the gospel and were baptized
Dec. 19, 1841, by Chas. W. Wandell.
They were the first converts to "Mor-
monism" in that locality. Albert was
ordained a Priest April 10, 1842, and
appointed to preside over the newly
organized branch at Norwalk. He was
ordained an Elder May 18, 1843, and
appointed president of it'he Norwalk
branch Nov. 2, 1843. In April, 1844,
he gathered a company of thirty
saints and went to New York City,
where he was joined by about thirty
others and sitarted for Nauvoo, 111.,
April 26, 1843; he arriving at Nauvoo,
Mlay 18, 1843. Being ordained a
Seventy May 26, 1844; be became a
president of the 16th quorum cf
Seventy Dec. 31, 1844. He acted as
first lieutenant and later as captain
iin. ithe Nauvoo Legion, and at the
time of the exodus in June, 1846, he
started for the west. He and his
family experienced much sickness on
the plains and also suffered from the
lack( of provisions. Three of his
children died in a place called Lost
Camp, near Mt. Pisgaa, Iowa. In the
spring of 1847 he continued withi his
family to Winter Qoiarters and in the
spring cf 1848 he recrossed the Mis-
souri river into Iowa, where 'he fol-
lowed farming until the spring of
1852, when he started for Utah with a

four-yoke ox team. After his arrival
in the Valley in September, he settled
at Provo, Utah Co., Utah, but moved
to Salt Lake City in the fall of 1854
and' commenced a bat business in the
ITith Ward. Thus he became the
pioneer hatter of Utah. In the fall
of 1857 and in the spring of 1858 he
participated in the Echo Canyon ex-
pedition, and Ln 1869-1870 he filled a
mission to the Eastern States. He
was ordained a Patriarch May 7, 1873,
by Brig;ham Young- and died Nov. 1,
1873, in Salt Lake City.

MERRILL, Clarence, a veteran
Elder in the Church, was born May
18, 1841, at South Norwalk, Fairfield
CO., Conn., the son of Albert Merrill
and Margaret Ann Ricliardson. He

moved with his parents to Nauvoo,
111., at the age of three years, and
suffered with the Church during all
the hardships and tribulations of
these earlly days until the family
reached Salt Lake Valley in the fall ol
1852. Clarence was baptized by his
father May 19, 1849. While at Provo
in 1853 he helped his father to build
the wall around that city as a protec-
tion against the Indians. In the sum-

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nier cf 1854 he commenced freight
ing, together with his faither, and the
next year the family moved to Salt
Lake City, w'here Clarence helped his
father in the hat business. He was
crdained a Seventy Feb. 22, 1857, and
became a member of the 16ith quorum
of S^eventy. Hie was present at the
celebration in Big Cottonwood Can-
yon July 24, 1857, when the word
came that the U. S'. Army was invad-
ing Utah and the fcllowing- winter he
participated in the Echo Canyon cam-
paign. In 1861 (Jan. ordi), he married
Bathsheba Smith, daughter of Gee. A.
Smith and Bathsheba Bigler Smith,
and settled in the 13th Ward, Salt
Lake City. In 1864 he moved to
Smihfield, Cache county, Utah, and
commenced farming, but in 1865 he
moved to Fillmore, Millard co. In the
winter of 1866 he opened a telegraph
office at Cove Creek and in the fol-
lowing spring he was oalledi to F'ill-
more tC' run the telegraph office in
that town. In 1877 he moved to
Marysvale and commenced farming
asain. He taught school in 1877 and
1878. In 1878 he was elected superiu-
tendenit of schools for Piute county.
In July, 1879, he moved to^ Richfield,
Sevier co., and the following year
took charge cf the Richfield Co-op.
After residing again in Salt Lake City
from 1883 to 1892, he located once
more at Fillmore, where he served
two terms ac city councilman. In
1899 he went tC' Old Mexico, where
he engaged in farming till 1901,
when he returned to Salt Lake City
and was ordained a High Priest Sept.
17, 1905. Bro. Merrill has been a
frontiersman since he was a boy and
passed through all the trials incident
to piomeer life in the west. He mar-
ried two other wives, namely, Julia
Felshaw, Dec. 7, 1867, and Isabella
Maria Harris Oct. 8, 1879, and he is
the father cf 18 children, 11 sons and
7 daughters.

MERRILL, Bathsheba Smith, wife
cf Clarence Merrill, was born Aug. 4.
1844, at Nauvoo, Hancock co.. 111., the
daughter cf Geo. A. Smith and
Bathsheba W. Bigler. In 1849 she
came to Utah with her parents. She
was baptized in August, 1852, by her
father and confirmed by Patriarch
John Smith. In 1861 (Jan. 3rd), she
was married to Clarence Merrill, by
whom she became the mother of
fourteen children, eighc boys and six
girls. Sister Merrill has been an ac-
tive Relief Society worker for many
years amd during the past six years
she has labored faithfully as an ordin-
ance worker in the Salt Lake Temple.

SMITH, George Albert, Jun., one of
the martyrs of the Church, was born
July 7, 1842, at Nauvoo, Hancock co.,
111., the son of George A. Stoith and
Bathsheba W. Bigler. He was baptized

by his father when eight years old
and confirmed by his grandfaithei
Patriarch Jc'hn Smith. When twelve
years of as-e he started to learn the
printer's trade, he graded upward un-
til he acquired the position of a
pressman; he was also a natural

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musician. Having been ordained to
the office of a Seventy, he was sent
en a mission to the Moquis Indians,
in Arizona, and became a member of
Jacob Hamblin's exploring company.
While discharging the duties of that
calling he was murdered by Navajo
Indians Nov. 2, 1860, about twenty
miles souitheast of Mean Coppy, New
Mexico (now Arizona).

DAVIS, Edward! WiHiam, president
of all the Elders in the Church from
1874 to 1877, and later president of
the first quorum of Elders in the
Salt Lake Stake of Zion, was born
Nov. IS, 1826, in Islington, London,

England. He was baptized March 15,
1849, by Edwin Sutherland, emigrated
from England in 1851, crossing the At-
lantic in the ship "Ellen," and arrived
in G. S. L. City, Oct. 15, 1851, in Or-
son Pratt's company. He was ordain-
ed an Elder Oct. 19, 1852, by J. W.
Cummings, was a member of an ex-
pedition sent out to Sanpete county
against the Indians in 1853, and dur-
ing the "Buchanan war" cf 1857-58,
he made two trips to Echo Canyon on
foot. At the October conference, 1874,
be was nominated as president of the

Elders quorum and ordained on the
9th. Previous to this he had occupied
the position cf first counselor to Ben.
L. Peart, president of the quorum,
which at that time included all the
Elders in the Church. At itibe re-
organization of the Stakes in 1877,
Elder Davis was called to the posi-
tion of president of the first quorum
of EUders. In 1873 he performed a
mission to Arizona; he returned the
same year, having been as Ear as the
Mican Coppy. Commencing with 1855
he acted as clerk of the 17th Ward
for many years. He also assisted in
laying the north-east corner stom of
the Logan Temple Sept. 17, 1877.
Bro. Davis labored as a Ward teacher
acted as superii .endent of the Ward
Sabbath scho 1, was captain in the
Nauvoo Legion, served as a special
police officer, etc. He died Sept. 10,
1906, in Salt Lake City, where he had
resided since his first arrival in the
\ alley in 1851.

DAVIS, Sarah Elizabeth Hyder, wife
of Edward W. Davis, was born March

5, 1829, in London, England, the
dauehter of Richard Hugh Hyder and
Sarah Jarrold. She was baptized

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March 17, 1849, in Cambridge, Eng-
land, by James H. Flanigan, emi-
grated to America in 1851, crossing
the Atlaintic in the ship "Olympus,"
which sailed from Liverpool, March
4th, and arrived at New Orleans,
April 27, 1851; she crossed ithe plains
in Orson Pratt's Fifty (Alfred Cor-
don's Ten) and arrived in Salt Lake
City, Oct. 1, 1851, together with her
mother and two sisters, Charlotte and
Martha. In 1852 (Mar6h 22nd) she
became the wife of Edward Wtm.
Davis, to whom she bore inine chil-
dren, five sons and four daughters.
Sister Davis has always been a faith-
ful member of the Church and for
over twenty years labored diligently
as a Relief Society teacher. She has
raised a fine family of children, who
are all faithful members of the
Ohuroh. In the evening of her life
Sister Davis can rejoice in her pos-
terity and in a well performed mis-
sion in mortality.

DAVIS, Jamimta NigMingale, wife of
Eldward W. Davis, was born No\'. 19,

try and emigrated to America in 1856,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Horizon" andi the plains in Captain
Edward Martin's handcart company
together with her mother, Jane
Nightingale, her brother Joseph,
and her elder sister Sarah Ann. In
1857 (Feb. 26th) she became the wif©
of Eldwiard W. Davis. Together with
her husband she passed through many
hardships incident to pioneer life in
Utah and went to Nephi, Juab co., at
the time of the move in 1858. She
bore her husband eight children, and
died in Salt Lake City July 4. 1885,
highly respected and beloved by all
who knew her. For many years she
siang alto as a member of the 17th
Ward choir.

FREE, Sarah Jarrold Hyder, a faith-
ful Latter-day Saint and a member of
the 17th Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born July 20, 1800, in Summer-

1834, at Salford, near Manche>ier
England. Wlhen a girl she worked in
a calico print factory in England. Sh<;
joined the Church in her native coun-

hill, Ireland, the daughter of William
and Elizabeth Jarrold. She was mar-
ried to Richard Hugh Hyder about the
year 1827; he died in 1836 at the age
of 31. Becoming a convert to "Mor-
monism" Sarah, now a widow, was
baptized in 1849, being the second
person to join the Church in 0am-

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bridge, England. She emigrated from
her native country In 1851, togethei
with her three daughters Charlotte,
Sarah and Martha (having boiried her
husband and three children vn Eng-
land), and arrived in Salt Lake City
Oct. 1, 1851, after crossing the plains
in Orson Pratt's Fifty. After her ar-
rival in Utah, she became the wife
of Absolom Free. She resided in Salt
Lake City the remainder of her days
and died at the home of her eldest
daughter Sarah in (the 17th Ward,
Salt Lake City, as a faithful member
of the Church.

DAVIS, David Lazarus, a member of
the Salt Lake Stake Higih Council and
a resident cf the 17th Ward, Salt

Lake City, Utah, was born Jan. 31,
1841, in the parish of Llanwenog,
Car<Ji,ganshire, South Wales, the son
of Titus Davis and Mary Bowen. He
was raised under the influence of the
Baptists, and when fourteen years of
age he was apprenticed to learn the
grocery business, following that until
he left his native land. In November,
1857, he was baptized as a convert to
"Mormonism',' being then sixteen
years old. Soon afterwards he was
ordained to the Priesthood and com-

menced out-door preaching; labored
in various capacities, and also as sec-
retary of the branch. After being
ordained an Elder, his field cf labor
was extended, and subsequently he
presided over the Carmarthen confer-
ence, occupying that position uintil 'he
emigrated to Utah in 1864. He crossed
the Atlantic in the ship "General
M'Clellan" and drove a 12-ox team
over the plains in a freight train,
which arrived in G. S. L. City in Oc-
tober, 1864. He located in that city
where he has resided ever since.
After bein,g- in the employ of Wm.
Jennings and Z. C. M. I. for several
years, he became a member of the
firm of Barnes & Davis, which carried
on an extensive business on East
Temple Street. At the dissolution of
the Barnes and Davis Co. Bro. Davis
started in business for himself. In
1865 he joined the 24th quorum of
Seventy and in May, 1887, he was
ordained a High Priest by Angus M.
Gannon, and set apart to act as an
alternate member cf the Salt Lake
Stake High Council; in 1889 he be-
came a regular member of S'aid Coun-
cil and when the Salt Lake Stake of
Zicn was divided in the spring of 1904,
he became the senior member of the
new High Council in the Salt Lake
Stake. For a number cf years Elder
Davis acted as a home missionary
and he also served two terms (1886-
1888) as a member of the City Ccuncil
of Salt Lake City. Bro. Davis has
been engaged m the mercantile busi-
ness for many years. In November,
1865, he married Hanna Jeremy, a
daughter of Tbcs. E. Jeremy and Sarah
Evans. In 1866 he married Esther
Jeremy, a sister of his first wife. Bro.
Davis is the father of eleven children;
five of these are living today.

HOLLADAY, John Davis, the first
Bishop of Big Cottonwood or Holla-
day's Settlement, Salt Lake co., Utah,
was bcrn in Marion county, Alabama,

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about the beginning of the 19th cen-
tury. He was a southern farmer from
his youth and after his arrival in Utah
he became kncwn as one of the most
successful farmers in G. S. L. Valley,
w'here 'he arrived in 1847 as one cl
the so-called Mississippi company of
Saints which had spent the winter of
1846-47 at Pueblo, on the Arkansas
river, waiting for the pioneers to
cress the mountains. Accompainyin^
him to the Valley ciame also his wife
and five children. The names of his
children who came to Utah with him
were Karen H., Kezia D., David H.,
Thos. N. W., and Leonora M. who in
1847 were 17, 15, 13, 11 and 8 years
eld respectively Bro. Holladay set-
tled on the Big Cottonwcod Creek,
near the mouth of the canyom by that
name, in 1848, and resided there about
three years, or until the spring cf
1851, when he moved tO' Cialiforniii,
goin.i' there in Amasa M. Lyman's
company. Thus he became one of the
earliest settlers of San Bernardino,
Cal., and centinued a resident of that
place till 1858, when he, together
with nearly all the rest cf his co-
religionists who had founded San
Bernardino, returned to Utah. He
then located with his family at Spring
Lake Villa, a small settlement situ-
ated between Payson and Santaquin,
Utah CO., where he died about the
year 1864. At Spring Lake Villa he
was a neiglibor cf Joseph E. Johnson
and the Indians used to call him
Bishop because he was the most
corpulent or biggest man in the little
settlemetnt.

HOLLADAY, Thomas Middleton
Wiley, a Utah pioneer of 1847, was
bern Sept. 2, 1836, in Marion county,
Alabama, the so'n of John Holladay
and Catharine Beasley. He came
with his parents to G. S. L. Valley in
1847 and later accempanied them to
San Bernardino, Cal., where he in
January, 1856, married Ann C.

Matthews, who subsequently bore him
ten children. When he arrived in the
Valley in 1847 he brcught with him
one bushel of wheat, which he ob-
tained according: to instructicns from
his father at a place called Taos in
the State of Miisscuri, carrying the
same on horseback a distance of
about 50 miles, tc his father's camp.

This was a superior grade of wheat
and after the arrival in the Valley
Bro. Hclladay planted the wheat on
t" ^ family farm at Big Cotto'nwood in
the spring of 1848. It yielded 110
bushels in the fall of that year. The
wheat was trailed by the Holladays
who distributed the same tO' other
settlers fer seed wheat the following
year (1849). From that small hegin-
ning commeinced in Utah the so-called
Taos wheat which is universally
known in the great West as the best
wiheat that has ever been sewn in the
inter mountain region. Great credit
is due to the Hclladays for brinHing
this cereal into the Valley. After
residing in Utah for many years Bro.
Holladay removed with his family to
Arizona and is now a resident cf Fair-
view, Graham co., Ariz. The names
of his children are: Geo. Thomas,

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Daniel Wiley, Archibald David, Julia
Ann, David Hollis, Lecnora, Charles
Eiugene, Heni-etta, R'hcda Polley, ana
Hollis.

HOLLADAY, Ann H. Matthews,
wife of Thos. Middleton Wiley Holla-
day, was born Dec. 15, 183S, ixi
Neshcba county, Mississippi the
daughter of Joseph Matthews and
Rhoda Carrol. She was baptized in
the spring of 1846 by Benjamin L.
Clapp and came to Utah in 1847 im
the so-called Mississippi company

with her parents. She accompanied
the Hlolladays tO' San Bernardino in
1851. There ^he became the wife of
Thos. M. W. Holladay. Throughout
life Sister Holladay has been a
genuine helpmate to her husband and
also been a faithful worker in the
Relief Societies, especially among the
sick wherever she has rersided. Her
home is now (1914) at Pima, Arizona.

HOLLADAY, George Thonnas, a

member of the 3rd quorum of Seventy
and an active Elder in the 17th Wlard,
Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Jan. 10,
1857, at San Bernardi'no', Cal., tihe son
of Thos. M. W. Holladay and Ann H.
Matthews. He was baptized' when

about eight years of ag-e by David H.
Holladay and confirmed by Wm. Mc-
Bride. As a young man he com-
menced the brick making business and
in the second year of his avocation in
*hait line he took charge of a brick
yard at Tintic, Utah. Later, he tcok
charge of a brick yard at Ogden. Bro.
Holladay was ordained a Deacon
when quite young and in August, 1879,

he was ordained an Mder by Thois.
B. Hellis. In 1878 he went to Frisco,
Utah, and ran a feed yard for the
firm of GrO'dbe and Hampton. While
residing temporarily at that place he
met Miiss Alveretta C. Jones, whom he
married Sept. 18, 1879. After making a
trip to Arizona, he settled temporarily
vi'ith his young wife at Hooper, Weber
CO., Utah, after which he resided at
Park City, Summit co., and later at
St. George, Wlashington eo. In Siouth-
ern Uta'h he was superintendent of
the so-called Tutzequibt mine, and in
1884 took a contract for the govern-
ment to deliver hay in Arizona.
Changing his place of residence after
that several times he finally became
a permanent resident in the 17ith
Ward, Salt Lake City. In 1898 he
opened a coal mine and organized the
Holladay Coal iComp-any, now known

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as the Sunnyside Coal mine. During
the gold excitement in Alaska he
made a trip to that country with two
car loads of animals. At the present
time he is working? for different min-
ing companies. Bro. HolUaday was
ordained a Seventy April 24, 1911, by
Jonathan G. Kimball.

HOLLADAY, Alveretta Cynthia
Jones, wife of Geo. Thomas Holladay,
was born Jan. 4, 1847, at Kaysville
(now Layton), Davis county, Utah, the
daughter of Thos. E. Jones and May
Ann Mails. She was baptized when
about eight years of age by Jehu
Martin, and in 1879 she was chosen

as an aid in the Young Women's RJe-
trenchment Association in the Hooper
Ward. Slhe 'has been a diligenit Re-
lief Society worker since her girlhood
days. In 1879 she became the wife
of Bro. Geo. T. Holladay, to whom
she has borne five children, namely,
Mary A., George T. jun., James Engine,
Effie A., and Catharine.

RICHIINS, Mary Ann Holladay, one

of the noble daughters of Zicn, was
born Sept. 17, 1880, at Hooper, Weber
CO., Utah, the daughter of Geo. T.
Holladay aind Alveretta C. Jones. She

was baptized when about eight years
of age, received a good education and
was from her earliest youth a very
studious and intelligent child; for
three years she never received a
tardy or absent mark in school. Hier
favorite studies were those of pen-
manship, painting and drawing; she
also possessed musical talent and be-
came a member of the Tabernacle
choir when only fourteen years old.
She made two trips Tvith said choir
to California, during whicJi she
helped the Elders to tract and do mis-
sionary work. She possessed a great
deal of magnetism and her smiling
face and happy disposition gained

friends for her wherever she wenit.
Possessing also dramatical ability,
she took leading parts in several local
opera plays, and when the Book of
Mormon play known as Corianton
was put on the boards, she went with
the compaoiy East, visiting Denver,
Independence, Oimaha and Sit. Louis.
On this trip also Sister Mary took
great delight in assisting the Elders
in their missionary labors. After ac-
companying the Coriantcin company
to California Mary remained in that
State for some time studying and
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Utah she gave music lessons for two
years, after ■which she spent a year
and a lialf in Arizona. In 1909 (June
25tih) she became the wife of Osborne
Ricfhins, a returned missionary wliose
acquaintance she made while in
Arizona. After her marriage she set-
tled with her husband at Unioin,
Oregon, where she resided for nine
months, during which time she gained
the love and respect of all classes,
especially the young people in whose
interest she labored to the utmost
extent of her ability. S^he became the
Tnother of one child and by fulfillliag
the great law of motherhood she
gave her own life, as she died in
childbed March 12, 1910, at her home
in Union. Her remains were sihipped
to Salt Lake City for intermemt.

HOLLA DAY, James Eugiene, an ac-
tive Elder in tihe 17th Ward, Salt
Lake 'City, Utah, was born Feb. 9,
1885, at Saint George, Washington

CO., Utah, the son of George Thomas
Holladay and Alveretta C. Jones. He
was baptized at the age cf eight years
in Salt Lake City, and attended the
dedication of the Salt Lake Temple
in 1893. Exhibiting a religious dispo-
sition from his early youth, he was

a regular attendant at the Ward Sun-
day scihool and Y. M. M. I. Whem
eleven years old 'he was ordained a
Deacon and acted as second counselor
in the presidency of the Deacons
Quorum vn the 16th Ward. He was
also secretary and treasurer of the
31st quorum of Mders. In 1907-09 he
filled a most successful mission to
Stweden, 'where he made a inumber of
converts and a multitude of friends.
As a member of the Tabernacle choir
he accompanied that body on its
famous itour through the States and
was chosen to go with the ohoir to the
National Irrigation Congress to New
York in 1911. In the 17th Ward, Salt
Lake City, he acted as an efficiemt
Sumday school teacher, possessing, as
he did, an extraordinary influence
over the children. Having become
very much attached to the Swedisb
saints he became a member of their
local cihicir vn Salt Lake City and
afiterwardi leader of the same. The
Scandinavian saints especially loved
the young man, who always spoke in
praise of the people of the Nicrth
with whom he 'had become so well
acquainted on his mission. Hie also
taught a Swedish Bible class in the
city, which was a great ihelp to the
Swedish emigrants. While repairing
an electric automobile in the Studie-
baker Brothers garage, in Salt Lake
City, the machine in some unaccount-
able manner backed into an open
elevator shaft, whereby Bro. Holladay
was fatally injured and died soon
afterwards, June 17, 1911. Only a few
young men have been held in higher
esteem than Elder Holladay; every-
body w'ho knew him seemed to love
and respect him.

MUM FORD, Thomas, a veteran
Elder of the Church and a member of
the 17t'h Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Dec. 24, 1829, in Essex, Eng-
land. He joined the Church in his
native land, was ordained to the

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Priesthocd and labored tor a number
of years as a local Elder, part of the
time as president of the DcrsetsTiire
coiHference. Emigrating to Utah in
1862 he crossed the ocean in the ship
"John J. Boyd" (which sailed from
Liverpocl, April 23, 1862, and arrived
at New York June 1, 1862) and the
plains in Homer Duncan's compamy,
which arrived in G. S. L. City Sept.
24, 1862. In 1860 (Ncv. 8th) he mar-
ried Elizabeth Moore, who became the
mother cf three children, namely,
Gideon M., John W., and Elizabeth
Ann. Bro. Mumford resided fcr a
number of years at Herriman, Salt
Lake co., where he acted as a Ward
teacher. In his younger days he was
a successful farmer and stcckraiser,
but has been a resident of Salt Lake
City since 1891.

MUMFORD, Elizabeth Moore, wife
of Thomas Miumford, was born Feb.
11, 1827 in Beaminsiter, Dorsetshire,
EIngland', the daughter of William

faithful to the principles of the gos-
pel. She died Dec. 3, 1893, in Salt
Lake City, Utah.

MUMFORD, Gideon Mccre, a presi-
dent of the 122nd quorum cf Seventy
from 1900 to 1909, and a residemt of
Murray, Salt Lake co., Utah, was tern
March 7, 1848, at Beaminsiter, Dcrset-
f'hire, England, the son cf Thos. Mum-
ford and Elizabeth Moore. He was
baptized about the year 1860 and emi-
grated with his parents to Utah in
1862, crossing the plains in Capi.
Hcmer Duncan's compamy. Aftei
passing the Devil's Gate en this
journey the company encountered
snow and rain most of the way and
young Gidecn had to walk barefooted
in the snow the remainder of the
journey. For several years after his
arrival in Utah Bro. Mumford wcrkea
at farming, freighting- and legging. In
1872 (Feb. 5th) he married Martha
Edanor Crump who bore her husband
twelve children, and in 1885 (Aug.

Micore. She was married Nov. 8, 1860,
and bore her husband three children.
She emigrated to Utah in 1862 and
passed throu.2"h all the trials incident
to early pioneer life, ever remaining

7th), yielding obedience to the higher
law of marriage, he married Sarah
Ann Crump, who become the mother
cf eigtht children. In 1875 he began
teaching school as a self-educated

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man who had but 20 weeks sc'hooli'ng'
in the University of Deseret. He con-
tinued teaching in Salt Lake county
until 1912. Fcr five years he was
superintendent cf the L. D. S. Semi-
nary in the ISth Ward, and from
1902 to 1912 he held t'he positio-n of
superintendent of the Murray city
schools. After leaving the school
room in 1912 Bro. Mumford entered
on a career as probation officer in
the Juvenile Court and is ait the pres-
ent time also the recorder of said
court. In November, 1913, he was
elected city auditor of Murray City.
For many years Bro. Mumford has
been a diligent Sunday school worker
and is now first assistant superin-
tendent of the Murray 1st Ward Sun-
day school. He was ordained a
Deacon in 1860, an Elder in 1866, a
Seventy a few years later and set apart
as a president of the 122nd quorum of
Seventy Dec. 13, 1900. He was
ordained a High Priest June 20, 1909.

JACOBS, Zebulon, an active Elder
of tlie 17th Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born Jan. 2, 1842, at
Nauvo'o, Illinois, during a crucial
period of Church history. He was the
oldest son of Henry Bailey Jacobs and
Zina Diantha Huntington and in the
exodius of the saints left Nauvoo Feb.
9, 1846, with his parents and reached
MIt. Pisgah, Iowa, the following May,
where his grandfather, William
Huntington, died. At this place 'his
father was called on a mission to
Europe and respcnded, although so
weak from hardship and exposures
that it was necessary to carry him to
the missionary wagon in a blanket.
His faith was sufficient, however, and
he performed a good mission. The
family continued the journey to
Winter Quarters, where a stay was
made; later the plains were crossed,
aoid with his beloved mother, his baby
brother (Chariton), who was born
during the journey, and relatives.

Zebulon reached Salt Lake Valley,
when six years of age, in 1848. Ht.
endured the privations of the early
years in the Valley with a light
heiart, and such peculiar experiences as
trudging barefooted six blocks in the
snow to school, catc'hing fish and trap-
pins' game, on which to subsist,
taug;ht him to care for himself at an
early age. In; 1861, 1862 and 1863 he
made three trips tO' the Missouri river.

assisting in the emigration of the
saints. March 17, 1866, he was mar-
ried to Frances Woods Carrington
(daughter of Albert and Rihoda M.
Carrington), by whom he became the
father of five children. Soon after he
was married 'he was called to Sanpete
county for duty in the Black Hawk
Imdian war and; rendered effective
service as sergeant of cavalry. In
1867-68 he filled a successful mission
to England, laborin.? in the Birming-
ham ccnference. For eighteen years
Brother Jacobs was a valued em-
ployee cf the Utah Central Railway
Co. (afterward the Oregon Short
Line), the greater part of the time as
passenger comductor, in which posi-
tion he was extremely popular with
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the railway service he acted as guard
at the State penitentiary for many
years until the fall of 1903, when he
was severely Injured, being brutally
beaten on the head by a convict who
was the leader of a jail break at the
State prison. From the effects of
this attack he has never fully re-
covered. The log cabin, now in the
Deseret Museum, known as the "old-
est house in Utah," in wlhich his wife
was born in 1849 and' where he and
his wife lived for a short time, was
transferred to the Museum in 1910
by Brother Jacobs. Many generous
offers had been made for the old
cabin, but he felt that the best place
for so valuable an historical relic was
the Museum. Zebulon Jacobs has
resided continuously in Salt Lake
City since his first arrival in the Val-
ley and "has always been a loyal mem-
ber of his Cburch.

BOWiMAN, Andrew Gray, an active
Elder in the Salt Lake Stake of Zion
and a residetnt of the 17th Ward,
Salt Lake City, Utah, was bom Feb.
10, 1843, in Dysart, Fifeshire, Scot-
land, the son of John Bowman and
Margaret Piggott. He was baptized
in 1862 by Alexander Latham in Scot-
land. In his native land he worked
at tailoring and mining. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1865, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Belle Wood,"
which sailed from Liverpool, England,
April 29, 1865, and arrived at New
York June 1, 1865. Bro. Bowman re-
mained in the States four years, liv-
ing- principally in Pennsylvania. In
1867 (May 6th) he married' Elizabeth
Fife, daughter of John Fife and
Elizabeth Fife, who was bom April
7, 1846, in Scotland. Bro. Bowman
emigrated to Utah with his young
wife in 1869, arriving at Taylor's
Switch, near Ogden, Aug. 29, 1869.
They settled temporarily in West
Weber and Brother Bowman worked
on the Utah Central Railroad, helping

to make the grade between Ogden and
Salt Lake City, after which he en-
gaged in railroading as section hand,
section foreman and roadmaster. His
first home in Utah was a dugout,
quite a contrast to the comfortable
home the family left in Pennsylvania.
He was ordained successively to the
offices of Deacon, Teacher, Elder and
Seventy. To the latter office he was
ordained by Archibald McFarlandand
became a member of the 75th quorum
of Seventy. In 1875 he was ordained
a High Priest by Franklin D. Richards
and set apart as second counselor to
Bishop John I. Hart, of the West
Weber Ward, occupying that position
until 1878. He also acted as Ward
clerk in the West Weber Ward, as-
sisted in Mutual Improvement work
and acted as superintendent of the
Suinday school in the Taylor Ward.
From 1896-1903 he acted as president
of the religion class in the Shelley
and Basalt Ward, Idaho, where he
resided for a niimber of years. In
1879 Bro. Bowman married Hannah
Clayton, and a few years later he was
arrested on a charge of unlawful
cohabitation and placed under bonds,
but when his case was called in court,
the legal papers needed could not be
fouod; consequently his case never
came to trial. Bro. Bowman settled
permanently in the 17th Ward in
March, 1902, and has for several years
been kept busy working as a special
missionary in the 19th and 14th
Wards, besides taking an active part
in the Ward in wihich he resides. Bro.
Bowman is the father of thirteen
children, seven boys and six girls.

WALLACE, Geo. Edward, a faith-
ful and energetic Elder, was born
July 24, 1853, in Salt Lake City, Utah,
the son of George Benjamin Wallace
and Lydia Davis. He was baptized
Oct. 19, 1861, by Bishop Nathan
Davis and ordained an EUder April 18,
1869, by Elias Smith. For many years

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he acted as superintendent of the
17th Ward Sunday school. He was
also clerk of the High Ccuincil in tihe
Salt Lake Stake of Zicn, recorder in
the tithing office, etc. Otherwise he
was a carpenter and builder. He was
also a fine penman and always ener-
getic in the performance of Church
duties. In 1873 (Nov. 24th) he mar-

ried Frances E. Folsom, by whom he
had nine children, namely, Harriet,
Edward, Emma, Stewart, George B.,
Richard, Rhea, Ruby and Lewis. He
remained faitlhful and true to the
Ohurch and to his family and friends
until the time of his death, which oc-
curred in Salt Lake City, Nov, 19,
1904. Bro. Wallace enjoyed the dis-
tinction of being the first child born
in Utah on Pioneer day. In his youth
he also enjoyed the benefits of the
best schools in the territory of Uitah,
and he finally became a teacher him-
self, bookkeeping and penmanship
being his specialties. He was an
architect and builder of great ability,
which is attested by several edifices
in Salt Lake City and • Otgiden, the
design and work on w'hich were the
products of his mind and hand.

HENDRICKS, James, the first Bis-
hop of the Nineteenth Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born June 23,
1808, in Simpson county, Kentucky,
fourth sen of Abraham and Charlotte
Hendricks. He became a member of
the Church in the year 1836, and
moved' to Clay county, Missouri,
whence, in the same year, he moved
wit'h the Saints to Caldwell county.
Mo. Oct. 25, 1838, at the battle of
Crooked river, while defending the
lives and rights of the Saints, he was
shot down by the mob, from the ef-
fects of which he never recovered,
being rendered a helpless cripple for
life. In March, 1839, he moved to
Quincy, 111., and later he moved to
Nauvoo, where 'he resided until 1846,
when he started for the Rocky Moun-
tains, wintering at Winter Quarters.
June 3, 1847, he resumed his journey
westward, arriving in Great Salt Lake
valley the following October. In the
spring of 1866, ihe moved to Rich-
mond, Cache county, where he resided
until his death. He held the office
of Bisihop in the 19th Ward of Salt
Lake City for nine years, and filled
several other important positions.
Bro. Hendricks was a living martyr
to the sacred cause of truth, and died
full of faith in the giorious gospel of
Christ, July 8, 1870, in Richmond,
Cache county, Utah.

WIDTSOiE, Osborne John Peder,
Bishop of the 19th Ward, Salt Lake
City, was born Dec. 12, 1877, at
Namsos, Norway. He was the second
son of John Andreas Widtsoe, a
school master in the seminary of
Namsos, and Anna Karine Gaarden.
Bishop Widtsoe was baptized in April,
1886, in the Logan Temple by Bishop
Christian J. Larsen. He was ordained
a Deacon, Teacher, Priest, E'ldder,
Seventy, High Priets, and Bishop suc-
cessively, the latter ordination taking
place July 4, 1909, under the 'hands of
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Brother Widtsoe acted as secretary
of the Deacons' quorum in the 13ith
Ward of Salt Lake City (in 1893-94).
During the year 1895-96 he served as
second counselor in the Y. M. M. I.
A. of the 1st Ward, Logan. From
1897 to 1901, a period of forty-two
months, Elder Widtsoe filled a mis-
sion ;to the Society and Ocok Islands.

During this time he opened the mis-
sion in the Cook group. On return-
ing from his mission he served as a
member of the Sunday School Union
Board of the Salt Lake Stake from
1901 to 1903. Later, he filled the
position of second assistant superin-
tendent of the Salt Lake Stake Sun-
day School Union Board. In July,

1908, he was made superintendent
of said board, and on July 4,

1909, he was ordained a Bishop,
and set apart to preside over the
19th Ward of the Salt Lake Sitake. In
addition to these activities in the
Church Bishop Widtsoe has contri-
buted freely to the Church maga-
zines. He was associate editor of the
"Juvenile Instructor" from 1906-09.
He has written the lessons for the

Y. L. M. I. A. for four years, 1910-
1914, and has published one book,
"The Restoration of the Gospel." An-
other bock, "The New Revelation," is
ready for the press. Throug-h the en-
couragement, efforts and sacrifice of
his widowed mother, he was enabled
tC' secure an excellent education.
After attending the public schools he
went to the B. Y. College, Logan, from
1889 to 1891. While his brother, Dr.
John A. Widtsoe, was attending Har-
vard University, Osborne worked in
the Z. C. M. I. at Salt Lake City, 1891-
1894. On the return of his brother,
he entered the Utah Agricultural Col-
lege, 1894, from which he was gradu-
ated with the degree of B. S., 1897.
After a mission of three and one-half
years, and the experience of teaching
in the L. D. S. University for two
years, 1901-1903, Elder Widtsoe went to
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
He received there the degree of A. M.,
1905. Since 1905, Elder Widtsoe has
beem head of the department of Eng-
lish in the L. D. S. University; he
has been principal of that school
since 1910. On June 20, 1906, Elder
Widtsoe married Rosetta Raymond
Hcmer, daughter of Wm. H. Homer
and Susannah Raymond. This mar-
riage has been blessed with two
children, Karine and Rosetita.

HUHL, Charles William, president
of the Latter-day Saint German
meetings in Salt Lake City, was born
March 22, 1861, at Schlawa, Schlesien,
Germany, the son of Eiarl Gottlieb
Huhl and Pauline Wilhelmina Gunt-
her. Being a seeker after truth, he
was led to Utah in answer to prayer
and first heard the gospel as preached
by the Latter-day Saints in the
Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. He
was baptized Sept. 2 1890, in Salt
Lake City by Joseph Keddington,
ordained a Teacher Aug. 4, 1893, by
Rodney C. Badger; ordained a Priest
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onlained an Elder July 9. 1894, b.v
James AV. Ure; crdained a. Seventy
March 11, 1898, by Apostle Geo. F.
Richards, and ordained a High Priest
Feb. 4, 1906, by Apostle Chas. W. Pen-
rose For seme time he acted as a presi-
dent of the oOth quorum of Seventy
and later as second counselor to
Bishop Isaac Barton, and still later
in the same capacity to Bishop
Osborne J. P. Widtsoe in the 19th
Ward, Salt Lake City. In 1898-1900
he filled a mission to the Northern
States , laboring principally in Illinois
and Wisconsin; he also labored as a
home missionary in the Salt Lake
Stake in 1904-1906. In 1894 (July
18th ) Elder Huhl married Bmma
Chamberlain, by whom he has four
children, namely, Paulina, Ruth,
Esther and Carl. Dro. Huhl's main
avocation in life has been ithat of a
tailor.

PETTIT, Lorenzo, an active Elder
in the Church and a member of the
19th Ward, Salt Lake City, was born
July 26, 1825, at Hempstead, Long

where he was baptized in July, 1842;
four years later (in 1846) he married
Lucy Ann Merrill, and with his wife
he started west in February, 1846,
with the firsit company of exiles from
Nauvoc bound for the Rocky Moun-
tains. After spending several months
at Winter Quarters, he continued the
journey to G. S. L. V'alley, w:here he
arrived in October, 1848. He lived in
the "Old Forf about two years and
cultivated the landi upon which the
City and County Building ,now stajnds.
Later the Pettits moved west of the
city, living on the present site of the
Copper Plant for nearly forty years.
Bro. Pettit's first wife died Feb. 6,
1879, and in November, 1881, he mar-
ried Eimma Smith Bower. Selling his
Jordan River property in 1893, Bro.
Pettit moved to his 3rd North Street
residence, where he resided uintil the
time of :his death, which occurred
July 18, 1900. He died as a. faithful
member of the Church who had lived
consciensciously up to all its require-
ments. Anything that savored of
ostentation was extremely distasteful
to Bro. Pettit, who strove to keep his
good deeds away from public eyes.
While he never filled a foreign mis-
sion, he assistedi many who did with
means. He also assisted a number
of poor Saints to emigrate from
Sweden and EnglaiU'd. In 1892 be con-
tributed $750 toward the completion
of the Salt Lake Temple. Afiter his
death many poor people missed his
ever extended helping hand. His
honesty and integrity were unsur-
passed. He had no children of his
own, but in the fall of 1855 'he took
two orphan brothers, Wm. E. and
Jeremiah La'ngford, whom he raised
as his own sons.

Island, Queens co., N. Y., the son ol
James and Phebe Pettit. With his pai-
ents he emigrated to Nauvoo, 111.,

PETTIT, Lucy Ann Merrill, wife of
Lorenzo Petitit, was bora July 25, 1828,
at Byron, Genesee cc. New York.
She was married to Bro. Pettit in
1846. came with her husband to I'tah

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in 1848, and shared with him all the
various experiences incident to

pioneer life. She died Feb. 6, 1879, in
Salt Lake City.

PETTIT, Emma Smith Bower, wife
of Lorenzo Pettit, was bom March 21,

1840, at Hempstead, Long Island, N.
Y., the daughter of Richard Bower
and Amy Southard. She was baptized
Jan. 25, 1870, by Benjamin R. Hulse
and confirmed on the same date by
Angus Ml. Cannon. In 1871 she emi-
grated to Utah, arriving in Salt Lake

City, May 7, 1871. In 1881 (Nov 3rd)
she was married to Bro. Pettit. Sister
Pettit has taken an active part in Re-
lief Society work, having been a
teacher for a number of years. In
1892 she contributed $250 of 'her pri-
vate money for the completion of the
Salt Lake Temple. Sister Pettit has
been a widow since 1900.

BEESLEY, Alvin A., second Bishop
of the 22nd Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born April 26, 1873, in Salt
Lake City, the son of Ebenezer
Beesley and Sarah Hancock. He was
baptized Ju-ne 2, 1881, by Robt. Smith

and confirmed the same day by
Ebenezer Beesley; ordained a Deacon
when a bey; ordained an Elder May
7, 1894, by Geo. Whitticar; ordained
a Seventy Aug. 31, 1894, by Heber J.
Grant, and ordained a High Priest
May 10, 1908, by Pres. Jos. F. Smith.
In 1894-96 he filled a mission to the
I'ndian Territory and Kansas. From
1898 to 1908 he acted as senior presi-
dent of the 30th quorum of Seventy.
In 1894 (May 24th) he married Ruby
Pratt, daughter of Otson Pratt, who
has borne her husband eight children,
six boys and two girls, namely, Alvin

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Douglas, Jerrold' Pr^tt, Marian,
Horace Pratt, Irving Pratt, Orson
Pratt, Sterling Etemezer, and Virgil.
Bro. Beesley acted as Sunday Sohool
superintendent in the 19th Ward from
1898 to 1902, assistant Stake superin-
teindant of Sunday schools from 1904
to 1907, Stake president of Y. M. M.
I. A. in 1907-98, chorister of the Salt
Lake Stake from 1904 to the present
time and Stake Sunday school choris-
ter from 1902 to 1904. Bro. Bieesley is
a musician of high standing and has
for years been prominently associated
with every musical event in Salt Lake
City.

HOLT, Robert Mabey, second' Bis-
hop of the 23rd Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born Sepit. 6, 1869, in Salt
Lake City, the son of Albert Holt and
Maria Mabey. Hie was baptized Sept.
6, 1878, by Edward D. Belt. At the

age of nine years he moved with his
parents to South Jordan, where he
worked on a farm and also as a clerk
and pay-master for A. Holt & Sons,
contractors and merchants, from his
twelfth to his seventeenth years.
After ithat he worked with his father,
cointracting andi grading for the rail-
roads. In 1891-93 he attended the

Brigham Young- Academy at Provo, and
graduated in a business course. In
January, 1894 he establisihed 'himself
as a dealer in general merchandise at
South Jordan. He continued thajt
business until 1903. In 1898 he took
charge of the South Jordan Milling
Co. In 1903 his mill was detroyed
by fire and after buying another mill
at North Salt Lake, now known as
the S&lt Lake & Jordan Mill and Eleva-
tor Co., he took charge of the same
and occupies the position of superin-
tendant at the present time. Wlhile
residing at South Jordan he was post-
master for five years. There also he
acted as president of the Ward Y. M.
M. I. A. for about two years, and was
second assistant superintendent of
the Jondian Stake Sunday schools,
when that Stake was first organized
m 1900. Birother Holt was ordained
successively to the office of Deacon,
Priest and Seventy, the latter ordina-
tion taking place in 1889 under the
hands of Brigham H. Roberts. Later
he was ordained a Hig^h Priest by
FVancis M. Lyman and set apart as a
counselor to Bishop Thomas Blake,
of the South Jordan Ward, whicu
position he held until 1904. In 1904
he moved to Salt Lake City, locating
in the 19th Ward. Later he moved
to the 17t'h Ward, where he acted as
senior teacher in the parents class of
the Wlard Sunday school. In Decem-
ber, 1909, he was ordained a Bishop
aind appointed to preside over the
23rd Ward. Aug. 15, 1900, Brother
Holt married Sarah Edna Palmer,
daughter of Morris Palmer and Mary
Frost, by whom he became the father
of four children. At the age of four-
teen years, while conversing with the
block teachers in the South Jordan
Ward, Brother Hlolt was asked by one
of them if he knew that the gospel
was true. He answered "I do not,
and I don't believe some of the boys
who say that they know are telling
the truth." He was advised to pray

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earnestly to the L/crd in crder to
obtahi a testimony for himself in re-
gard to the truth of the gospel as it
had been restored by the instrumant-
ality cf the Prcphet Joseph Smith.
Brother Hollt followed the advice and
commenced to pray, and durin.? the
following five years he received many
great and glicrious testimonies from
the Lordi in regard to the divinity of
the work, and throughout all his life
these testimonies h|aye been multi-
plied unto him. Thus he has wit-
nessed many miraculous cases cf heal-
ing at different times. Before he at-
tended the school at Provo he had
made arrangements to study at the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City,
but suffering with a severe headache
he did not succeed with his studies
as he had expected. This was partly
iO'Wing to the fact that he had fallen
from a horse, after which accident he
lay unconscious for a long' time, but
through the administrations of the
Elders his fractured skull was
restored to its natural shape, after
which he was impressed to attend ttie
B. Y. University of Provo. Following
this impression he scon gained in
strength, his headache spells left him,
and he was able to continue his
studies successfully. Ever since he
commenced praying to the Lord for a
testimony. Bishop Holt has been a
praying man and has witnessed many
remarkable answers to prayer.

WQOD, William, jun., Bishop cf the
24th Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, wab
born Nov. 10 ,1863, in Salt Lake City,
the son of William Wood and Eliza-
beth Gentry. He was baptized in
1874 and ordained suuccessively to
the offices of Deacon, Priest and
Seventy, the latter ordinatio;n taking
place in 1885; at the same time he
was set apart for a mission to the
Southern States. After laboring for
one year in the States he was sent
to En.giand. where he labcred in the

London conference for eight months
and in Ireland for one year. He also
took a trip over the highlands of
Scotland with Brigham H. Roberts
and .James P. Low. Returning home,
he had charge of a company of 137
Saints, crossing the Atlantic in the
steamship "Wyoming," and arrived in
Salt Lake City .June 6, 1888. After
labcrin.g- as president of the 19th
Ward Y. M. M. L A. for one year,
Bro. Wood moved to the 12th Ward,
where he lived until 1893 when on

Aug. 9th he married Mien S. Goddard,
the daughter of George Goddard and
Mary Sutton, and located in the 13th
Ward where 'he acted as 1st assistant
superintendent of the Ward Sunday
school. He also labored in. the
superintendency of the Sunday school
in the 12th and 19th Ward's, and was
for eight years a home missionary in
the Salt Lake Stake. In 1901 he
located in the 19tli Ward where he
resided until Feb. 4, 1906, w'hen he
was ordained a High Priest and
Bishop by Chas. W. Penrose and
called to preside over the 24th Ward,
then organized, which position he
holds today. Bishop Wood is the
father of six children.

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McKEAN, Theodore, jun., first
Bishop of the 29t'h Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born Oct. 10, 1855, at
Terns River, Ocean co.. New Jersey,
the son of Theodore McKeian and
Mary Page Gulick, He came to Utah
with his parents when about three
years old, was baptized when a boy
and ordained successively to different
grades in the Priesthood. In 1900 he
was chosen as presidient of the so-
called 22nd Ward branch, and acted
in that capacity till February 11, 1902,
Avhen he was ordained a High Priest
and Bishop and set apart to preside
ever the 29th Ward (formerly thb

22nd Ward branch) then organized.
Bishop McKean has been twice mar-
ried; his first wife bore him one
dauzhter. In 1884 (Feb. 11th) he
married Sophia Jane Lane, daug'hter
of James Lane and Sophia Sarah
Brown who has borne her husband
nine children, namely (Theodore L..
Howard J., Franklin L., Miargaret,
Alvin, Royal L., Richard. Ivins, Mary
and Edna.) Bishop McKean's present
occupation is that of State sheep in-
spected Bishop McKean and family
were among the very first settlers
•j^'ho located in that part of Salt Lake
City which new constitutes the 29th

Ward. When he settled there in 1884
there was only three houses in that
part of the city. His wife. Sister
Sophia J. L. McKean, has been presi-
dent of the Relief Society in the 22nd
Ward branch and afterwards ia the
29th Wai'd si'nce it was first organ-
ized.

EMERY, Wilford Woodruff, second
Bishop of the 29th Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born Oct. 16, 1880,
in Salt Lake City, the son of Henry
Emery and Louisa Ellen Parry. He
was baptized Oct. 30, 1888, by Josepti
Keddington, confirmed Nov. 1, 1888, by

Frederick Kesler; ordained succes-
sively to the office of Deacon, Teacher.
Priest, Elder, Seventy, High Priest
and Bishop, the ordinatio'n to the two
latter offices taking place May 22,
1910, under the hands of Anthcn H.
I.uud. In his boyhood days Bro.
E'mery was known as an expert gym-
nastic, and when only 18 years of age,
he was head instructor of gymnastics
of the Mutual Improvement League
in Salt Lake City. In 1902-1905 hn
tilled a mission to Samoa, laboring
principally on the islands of Upolu and
Manono, and the last ten months as
secretary of the Mission. At home

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he has always been active in Ciiurch
affairs; thus he was a Sunday schc^'
teacher and officer in the iCrn and
29t'h Wards for a number of years*
he also acted as a counselor in the
29th Ward Y. M. M. I. A, For a
short time he acted as a president of
the 109th quorum of Seventy and
from 1905 to 1908 he labored as a
home missionary in the Salt Lake
Stake of Zion, during which time he
never missed filling an appointment.
From his earliest youth, Bishop
E3mery has been a diligent and faith-
ful tithe payer. He is a printer by
avocation, learning that trade while a
boy in the "Juvenile Instructor"
office. In 1905 (Oct. 26th) he mar-
ried Hannabell Newman, daughter of
Stephen J. Newman and Hannah
Selley, who has bcrne her husband
four chil'dTen.

DAVIS, Allbert Wesley, first Bis-
hop of the Center Ward, Salt Lake
Co., Utah, was born April 25, 1841,

at East Rochester, Cclumbiana co..
Ohio, the son of Nathan Davis and
Sarah Woolley. His parents joined
the Church in 1851 and emigrated
with their children to Utah that same
year. Albert was baptized May 29,

1852, and continued to labor for his
father until the spring of 1861, when
he was called to go to the Missouri
river after the poor, as a Church
teamster. He made the down trip
in Joseph W. Young's company and
returned in Ansel P. Harmon's com-
pany. In the spring of 1862 he went
east as a member of the expedition
sent out to guard the mail lines under
Lot Smith. The following year he
was again called to go to the Missouri
river after the emigration; this time
he made the round trip as a niglit
herder in Capt. John M. Woolley's
company. Again in the spring of 1865
he crossed the plains, going with a
company of missionaries to Omaha,
and returned in Miner G. Atwood's
company in chargie of teoi wagon*
loaded with freight. On their feturn
trip they had an encounter with the
India/Ds about twenty miles west or
Fort Laramie, during w'hich several
men were wounded and one woman
was carried away by the Indians. In
1866 Elder Davis went to Sanpete as
a member of an expedition sent oui
to guard the frontier settlements
against Indian depredations. In the
Pall of 1868 he was called to assist
in making a settlement (West Point)
on the Muddy, in Arizona (now
Nevada). He remained there until
1870, when the settlements on the
Muddy were broken up; he then rt
turned with his family to Salt I^ke
City. Shortly afterwards he was
called to act as a teacher in the
Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake City,
a-nd on June 29, 1877, he was ordained
a High Priest and set apart to act
as second counselor to Bishop John
Henry Smith. Nov. 6, 1880, he was set
apart as first counselor to Bishcp
John Tingey. Having been called on
a mission to the Sandwich Islands,
he left his mountain home Jan. 28,
1885, and returned March 27, 1887,
after performin" a laborious mission
on the Islands. While on this mission.

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he with others witnessed a miracul-
ous healing in the case of a little
girl, a daughter of Elder Geo. A. Wil-
cox, who had accidentally taken a
quantity of strychnine. The accident
was not discovered until the child
was in a dying condition. The Elders
administered to her and she was in-
stantly healed. Elder Davis has wit-
nessedi many other marvelous mani-
festations of the power cf God on
former occasions. In March, 1884,
Bro. Davis moved his families across
the Jordan river, making homes for
them on the west bank of that
stream, and when the Cfenter Ward
was organized, Nov. 22, 1891, he was
ordained a Bishop by Joseph F.
Smith, and set apart to preside over
the same. He held fhat position till
1895, when he was ordained a
Patriarch by Jos. F. Smith. Bro.
Davis has been an ordinance worker
in the Salt Lake Temple since 1893,
and accompanied Pres. Joseph F.
Smith to the Hawaiian Islands in
1899. In 1865 Bro. Davis married
Melissa Jane Lambson, who has
borne her husband nine children.
Later he married Annie Lois Bacon,
wlio is the mother of five of his
children.

BRADFOiRD, Robert Hienry, the sec
ond Bishop of the Center Ward, Salt
Lake Co., Utah, was born Dec. 10,
1871, at South Cottonwood, Salt Lake
Co., Utah, the sooi of Rawsel Brad-
ford and Jane Gardner. He was
baptized April 30, 1882, by Christian
H. Steffensen; ordained a Priest
Jan. 18, 1894, by Thos. A. Wheeler,
ordained an Elder Sept. 9, 1895, by
Daniel B. Jones and ordained a
High Priest and Bishop March 2b,
1905, by JohTi R. Winder and set
apart to preside over the Center
Ward. Bro. Bradfo^rd (received a
good education, graduated from the
University of Utah, and later from
the Columbia Univers-ity, N. Y., with

the degree of Ph. D. Bishop Brad-
ford has followed school teaching for
many years and is now a professor
in the University of Utah. He mar-
ried Nettie M. Davis Dec. 22, 1896,
and settled' in the Center Warcl in
1895.

HUNTINGTON, George William, an
active Elder in the Center Ward, S-alt
Lake City, Utah, was born Sept. !4,
1848, at Cambria, Niagara co., N. Y.,
the son of Oliver Boardman Hunting-
ton and Majry Melissa Neal. He was
baptized when eight years of age,
came to Utah with his parents in
1852, crossing the plains in Capt.
Brown's company, and settled in the

17th Ward, Salt Lake City, where he,
in 1870, married Siarah Elizabeth
Sprouse (daughter of John Sprouse
and Catherine Woldridge) who was
born Oct. 27, 1844, in Texas, and died
Feb. 1 1876. F>our years after their
marriage Bro. and Sister Huutiugton
moved to the Brighton Ward (now
Center), where they have resided
ever since and made farming their
principal occupation. By his tirst
wife Bro. Huntington became the
father of four children. In 187S (Feb.
14th) he married Rosetla Agnes

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Sq'ijres, (daughter of H«nry A.
Souires and Sarah N. Cattlin) who
was born March 14, 1855, and mi-
grated to Utah in 1856, crossing the
plains in Capt. Edward Martin's hand-
cart company. Since his first arrival
in the Valley, Elder Huntington has
been active both in Church mattei&
an! secular affairs.

REED, Levi Ward, first Bisiiop of
the North Point Ward, Salt Lake co.
Utah, was born Nov. 15, 1S31, at
Rome, Ashtabula co., Ohio, the son of
John Reed and Rebecca Barsh. His
parents were among the early mem-
bers of the Church and he was asso-
ciated with "Mormonism" during- his

entire life. He migrated to Utah in
1848. and was one of the first set-
tlers west of the Jordan river. He
was also one of a pait;. that first ex-
plored the western shores of ihe
Great Salt Lake, to ascertain whether
or not it had an cutlet. At the
orga'nization of the North Point Ward,
Dec. 11 1887, Bro. Reed was chosen
and ordained a Bishop and set apart
to preside over the new Ward. This
position he held till the time of his
death, which occurred at North Point
Nov. 30, 1893. The following is from

an obituary published in the "Deseret
New-s" at the time cf his demise:
"Bishop Reed was known and loved
as a good man. Modest and retiring
in his disposition, his associates in
every capacity were drawn to him by
the, affinity which gives attractive-
ness to the honest stalwart and true.
In his capacity of presiding officer of
the W^ard, where he resided, the poor
were the especial objects of his love
and kindness. He extended aid in a
quiet way, his private means being
liberally used for the benefit of oth-
ers, the objects of his generosity not
being confined tO' his own Ward. An
instance of his practical ideas and
method of helpin.? others may be
cited. Hie furnished means for a con-
siderable number of people to emi-
grate from Euroipe. This was ad-
vanced to them in the nature of a
loan. When they came here he would
provide a home for them and find
them employment. He thus enabled
them to earn means to pay off their
endebtedness and become established
in the country. When they became
sufficiently acquainted with the cir-
cumstances in the new land, they
would start out as they chose; but
his kindness did not stop on merely
enabling them to come here; it ex-
tended to opening the way for them to
get a start. The deceivsed leaves a
wife and several children, some cf
them quite young." Bishop Reed was
twice married. His first wife was
Matilda Pettit (daughtPr of Ethan
Pettit and Margaret Elloworth) who
was l>c.rn April 4, 1839; she bore her
husband eleven children, namely,
Maiilda E., Mary R., Ira A., Eliza
beth R., Caroline A., Levi A., Har-
riet A., Tamson R., Clarissa R..
Rachel R. and Laura R. The Bishop's,
second wife was Augusta Larson
(daughter of Lars Johnson) who was
bcrn June 8. 1851; she bore her hu-s-
band five children (three boys and two
2-irls) and now (1914) resides at El-

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.vood. Box Elder co , Utah. The
names of her children are: Charloitte
A.. John W.. Edith B.. I.awrence L.
and Henry.

REED, Ira, a veteran Elder cf the
Church, and a resident of North Point,
Salt Lake co., Utah, was born Jan.
25, 1834, at Kirtland, Ohio, the son
of John Reed and Rebecca Barsh. As
a little boy he started for ('tah in
1848, together with his parents, one
brother (Levi W.) and one sister
(Clarissa), arriving in G. S. L. City
in November, 1848. His two sisters
(Rebecca and Laura) came to the
Valley in 1850. His parents died rUir-

ing the journey across the plains.
His mother was one of the earliest
members of the Church a.nd his
father who was a lawyer, and an able
and earnest defender of the Prophet
Joseph Smith, is mentioned several
times in Church history. Ira and his
brother Levi W. soon after their ar-
rival in the Valley, located west of
the Jordan river and thus became the
first settlers in what is now called
North Point. During the gold excite-
ment of 1849, Ira went to California
and after his return to Utah h.*--
served as a pony express rider three

years. He also made two trips to the
Missouri river after emigrants. In
1859 (Sept. 10th) he was ele'Jted cap-
lain of Company E., second regiment
cf infantry (of the second brigade of
the first division) of the Nauvoc
l-egicn. As a prominent military man,
!:e took an active part in the Black
Hawk Indian war and was always a
prominent figure in all the parades
and sham battles w'hich the Nauvoo
Legion engaged in at an early day.
In • 1858 (June 18th) he married
Margaret Pettit at Clover Creek (now
Mona) Juab co., Utah. She subse-
quently bore her husband eight chil-
dren, three boys and five girls; the
live girls are still alive. Bro. Feed
was killed by lightning at North Point
.May 8, 1872.

REIED, Margaret Pettit, wife of Ira
Reed, was born May 1, 1844, in Lee
ccunty, Iowa, the daughter of Ethan
Pettit and Margaret Ellsworth. She
came to Great Salt Lake Vallley m

1848 with her parents and was bap-
tized in the Jordan river when about
eight years of atge. In 1858 (June
18th) at the time of the move south,
she became the wife of Ira Reed, to

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whom she was a faithful companion
and devoted wife during his entire
life time. In Relief Society circles
Sister Reed was for many years a
most conspicuous figure, acting as
first counselor in that association at
North Point and yielding a great in-
fluence for good with all she has as-
sociated with in life. Since 1894 she
has resided in the 22nd and 28th
Wards, in Salt Lake City.

P'ETTIT, Ethan, a veteran Elder of
the Church, was born Jan. 14, 1810, at
Hempstead, Queens co., New York,
•the son of James Pettit and Mary
Ann Steely. He joined the Church al
an early day and came to Utah in
1848, crossing the plains in Heber C.
Kimball's company; he settled in the
19t'h Ward, near the place where the
copper plant now stands. In 1855 he
filled a mission to the Indians in the
Elk Mountains; later he made two
trips to New York to visit his rela-
tives. Bro. Pettit was twice married.
By his first wife, Margaret Mlsworth,

whom he married Jan. 4, 1835, at,
Lon^ Island, N. Y., he had five chil-
dren, namely, Matilda, Mary, Mar-
garet, Ethan and Elizabeth W. By
occupatioin Bro. Pettit was a farmer

and stockraiser. There was no is-
sue from his second marriage. Bro.
Pettit dieid April 15, 1884, in Salt
Lake City.

PETTIT, Margaret Ellsworth, wife
of Ethan Pettit, was born April 15,
1815, at Hempstead, Queens co., N.
Y., the daughter of Lawrence Ells-
worth and Elizabeth Picket, She be-

came the wife of Ethan Pettit in 1835,
bore her husband five children and
came with him to Utah in 1848. About
the year 1870 she made a trip back to
New York and lived there with her
mother till her mother's death, after
which she returned to Utah. She died
Oct. 9, 1894, at the old homestead
at North Point.

RUDY, Henry, a veteran Elder of
the Church, was born Nov. 8, 1826, in
S'c'huylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, the
son of John Rudy and Anna Maria
Beyer. He married Anna Maria Biehl
(daughter of John Biehl) Oct. 15,
1847. Becoming a convert to "Mior-
monism" Henry Rudy was baptized
Feb. 11, 1856, together with a num-
ber of others in the same neighbor-
hood, who emigrated to Utah in 1862.
They took la round about route, gath-

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erin? ther converts as they traveled
along, until there was a large company
gathered together who went by way of
Eilmira (New York), Niagara Falls,
Hamilton (Canada) and Detroit
(Michigan) to Chicago (Illincois).
Henry Rudy had with him his wife
and seven childrein, and as many of
the other converts had fair sized
families, the children composed the
greater part of the company. At
Quincy, Illinois, the company crossed
the Mississippi river and thence
traveled by rail to St. Joseph, Mo.,
whence they proceeded by steamboat

Bro. Rudy died June 8, 1910, in the
Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake City. He
was a doctor of the old school ana
practiced medicine before he came to
Utah. For several years he was
Pres. Brigham Young's family physi-
cian.

RUDY, Anna Maria BJehl, wife of
Henry Rudy, was born Jan. 27, 1826,
at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill co., Penn.,
the daiig-hter cf John Biehl. She was
married Oct. 15, 1847, to Henry Rudy
and emigrated to Utah in 1862, where
she resided till the time of her death

up the Miissouri river to Florence, six
miles north of Omaha. Crossing the
plains the same year, the company
arrived in Salt Lake City early in
October, 1862. Inside of an hour
Henry Rudy's family were located in
a small adobe dwelling which was
their home until sprinj?, w'hen a more
suitable place was found in the
Seventeenth "Ward. In the spring of
1867 Henry Rudy settled on a tract ol
land across the Jordan river in what
is now the Brighton Ward, and there
followed farming and stockraising. In
1869 he filled a mission to the States,
laboring principally in Pennsylvania.

wihich occurred Feb. 22, 1899, in the
15th Ward, Salt Lake City. She bore
her husband seven children, namely,
three sons (John B., Orson Wm. and
Frank H.), and four daughters (Mary
E., Sarah R., Kate B., and Christie
Annie). At her demise she left seven
children, 34 grandchildren and one
great grandchild In an obituary pub-
lished at the time of her death in the
"Deseret News" the following para-
graph occurs: "In the death of Mrs.
Anna Maria Biehl Rudy, Salt Lake
City has lost one of its early settlers,

puB u'BraoAi. pa^j^aq pnii^ pue ejqou v
one beloved by all who knew her.
Ever since her arrival in Utah in 1862

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she has ardenily labored tor the ccm-
fort and happiness of not only her
immediate family, but on countless
occasions did she administer to the
sick and sore, suffering and wcundet.
She was a very faithful wife and an
affectionate mother, and enjoyed the
highest esteem and veneration fron.
all who knew her. She always loved
truth and righteou&ness, was a faith-
ful Latter-day Saint and died in the
faith, awaiting- a glorious resurrec-
ticn."

RUDY, Franklin Henry, presiding
Elder of the North Point Branch (Salt
Lake Stake) Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Sept. 25, 1856, in Schuylkill
county, Pennsylvania, the son oi

Henry Rudy and Anna Maria Biehl.
He migrated to Utah in 1862, to-
gether with his parents, crossing the
plains in James S. Brown's company,
which arrived in Salt Lake City, Oct.
2, 1862. The family settled tempor-
arily in Salt Lake City and remained
there till the spring of 1867, wheh
chey moved to Brighton (across the
river Jordan from Salt Lake City)
and in 1879 Franklin Henry moved to
North Point with his family and hias
resided there ever since. He was

baptized April 7, 1867, by Joseph Mc-
Murrin and confirmed the same day
l)y Edwin F. Sheets. He was or-
dained a Deacon when about twelve
years of age, ordained an Elder Dec.
5. 1885, by Alonzo H. Raleigh: or-
dained a High Priest Oct. 1, 1911. by
Isaac Barton; acted as superintendent
of the North Point Sunday school two-
years; was second counselor in tht.
Ward Y. M\. M. L A. for a number of
years, and on May 22, 1910, appointed
president of the North Point Branch.
Elder Rudy's residence stands on a
peninsula (owned by himself) and
formed by the river Jordan and the
Great Salt Lake. His occupation is
that of a farmer and stockraiser, and
in these lines he is known as one of
the most successful men in Salt Lake
county. In a civil capacity Bro.
iRudy has filled many positions of
honor and responsibility; thus he has
served as road commissioner during
the last twenty-five years, and is at
the present time superintendent of
the Rudy Gun Club, which controls
one of the best hunting grounds in
the world. Ln 1876 (Feb. 10th) Elder
Rudy married Mary Ann Reed, who
subsequently bore her husband eight
children, seven of whom are still liv-
ing.

RUDY, Margaret Ann Reed, wife of
Franklin Henry Rudy, was born Aug.
31. 1860, in the l&th Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, the daughter of Ira Reed
and Margaret Pettit. She was bap-
tized Dec. 1, 1885, by Jobn Cottam
and confirmed Dec. 3, 1885, by Joseph
Hanson. Becoming the wife of
Franklin H. \Rudy in 1876 (Feb. 10th)
she is the mother of eight children
who are all members of the Church
and married. Thus Sister Rudy is al-
ready grandmother of 29 children, 27
of whom are living. She has passed
through all the trials incident to
pio'neer life, especially when she, to-
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settlers at Toqiierville and St. George,
in southern Utah. She has been an
active Relief Society worker for many
vears and since Mav 22. 1010. she has

filled the position of first counselor
in the Relief Society of the North
Point branch.

BALDWIN, George, a veteran Elder
in the North Point Branch, Salt Lake
CO., Utah, was born May 4, 1838, in
Herefordshire, England, the son of
James Baldwin and Sarah Ann Smith.
His mother died when he was 13
months old, and his father joined the
Church in England. Geo. emigrated'
to America together with his father,
four brothers and two sisters about
1845, and the family settled at
Nauvoo, 111. While residing there
his brother James was accidentally
drowned. During the general exodus
of the Saints in 1846 the Baldtwins
were expelled from their homes in
Illinois, and the father would un-
doubtedly have been one of the earl-
iest pioneers of Utah had he not
taken sick and been compelled to stop
at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa. The family re-
mained at M/t. Pisgah until 1850,
when Geo. migrated to Utah with his
father, and three brothers aod one

sister, crossing the plains in Capt.
Alilo Andrus's company, which ar-
rived in G. S. L. City in August of
that year. The family settled in the
19th Ward, and afterwards in the
17th Wlard where the father died.
Geo. Baldwin moved to Ncrrh Point
in 1858 and was baptized Feb. 15,
18G8, by A'ndrew W. COoley. In 1870
(April 4th) he married Matilda Eve
Reed (daughter of Levi W. Reed and
Matilda Pettit) who was born July
29, 1853. in the 19th Ward, Salt Lake

City. In 1898 Bro. Baldwin was af-
flicted with sickness and lost thb
sight of both his eyes. He was or-
dained an Elder Dec. 5, 1885, by-
James W. Ure; later he was ordained
a Seventy and in November, 1907, he
was ordained a Higb Priest by Wm.
Asper. His principal avocation iu
life has been that of a farmer and
stock raiser.

WORTHEN, Charles Herbert, fifth
Bishop of the Fourth Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born Nov. 26, 1860, in
Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of John
Worthen and Mary E. Midgley. He
was baptized Oct. 1, 1868, by his father
John Worthen; ordained a Priest by
Angus M. Cannon, Nov. 16, 1877; or-

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dained an Elder Jan. 8, 1883, by John
Wilson; ordained a Seventy Oct. 13,
1887, by Geo. C. Lambert; ordained a
High Priest March 25, 1904, by C. W.
Penrose, and ordained a Bishop and
set apart to preside over the Fourth
Ward March 26, 1906, by John R.
Winder. For about ten years he acted
as president of the Ward Y. M. M. I.
A. and was also assistant superinten-

dent and later superintendent of the
Ward Sunday school for a long time.
For about two years he acted as an
alternate member of the Salt Lake
Stake High Council. In 1891-93 he
filled a mission to the Southern
States, laboring principally in Ken-
tucky. While on this mission he had
a significant dream April 24, 1893, in
which he thought that while attend-
ing conference Bro. J. Golden Kimball
told him he would be released to go
home the next day. On that day he
received the letter from his president,
telling him the exact words he had
dreamed the night before; he was re-
leased because of the sickness of his
father who died just before the son
returned home. Bro. Worthen has for
33 years been a staunch advocate of
the Word of Wisdom and he firmly
believes that the excellent health

which he enjoys today is due to the
fact that he has yielded strict obe-
dience to what the Lord says is good or
not good for man. In 1883 (Jan.
11th) Bro. Worthen married Rachel
Whimpey (daughter of Isaac Whim-
pey and Mary Lewis), who was bom
in Glamorganshire, Wales, March 14,
1863, baptized Jan. 2, 1863, by James
Cottam, emigrated to America in 1866
with her parents and went to Utah in
1882. Bro. Worthen is a contractor
and builder by trade, having erected
many substantial homes and business
blocks, churches and school houses in
Utah.

GLEN, Alexander, an active Elder
of the Fourth Ward (Pioneer Stake),
Salt Lake City, was born Oct. 24, 1836,
in Scotland, the son of James Glen

and Agnes Marshall. He joined the
Church in his native land when about
eighteen years of age, being baptized
by Elder Peter St. Clair. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1854, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "John M. Wood,"
and the plains in William A. Empey's
ox train. He settled at once in Salt
Lake City and has for fifty years
been a resident of the Fourth Ward.
In 1863 he married Mary Ann Bowen,

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who, after bearing her husband seven
children, died in 1870. Brother Glen
married a second time and his second
wife, whose maiden name was Lavinia
Haigh, bore him fourteen children
and died July 4, 1900. From the time
when he first joined the Church in his
native land Brother Glen has labored
faithfully in the interest of the cause
which he espoused in his boyhood
days. Being ordained successively to
the offices of Deacon, Teacher, Elder,
Seventy and High Priest, he has ever
been ready to contribute his strength
and energy toward the building up of
Zion and strengthening her cause.
His principal occupation has been that
of a freighter and merchant. In his
younger days he took an active part
in military matters and participated
in the Black Hawk war in Sanpete
county for about six months.

NEEDHAM, James, a prominent
Elder in the Church and a distin-
guished missionary, was born August
20, 1826, in Warrington, England. He

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joined the Church in his native land
and emigrated to Kirtland, Ohio,
where he resided one year and then
removed to St. Louis, Missouri, resid-
ing there three years. Thence he

migrated to Utah in 1854. Prior to
that (Jan. 24, 1850) he married Alice
Warburton. Subsequently he married
Martha Barton and Elizabeth Snalem,
the first Nov. 16, 1856, and the latter
in March, 1857. By these three wives
Bro. Needham became the father of
fifteen children. In 1867-69 he filled
a mission to Great Britain, laboring
in the Bradford and Kent confer-
ences; he returned home in charge of
a company of emigrating saints,
numbering 294 souls, and crossed the
Atlantic in the steamship "Minne-
sota", which sailed from Liverpool,
England, Oct. 6, 1869, and arrived at
New York Oct. 17, 1869. The com-
pany arrived at Ogden Oct. 28, 1869.
In coming across the mountains the
train in which the company traveled
collided with an express train at
Evanston, in which two of the emi-
grants were killed and several others
injured. Bro. Needham was a mer-
chant in Salt Lake City for many
years, and crossed the plains several
times going to the States after goods.
When he went on his mission in 1867,
he purchased a lot of goods and sent
a train west, but it was robbed and
burned by the Indians. By this un-
fortunate affair he lost his business
and all the property he had. After
his return from his mission, he helped
his daughter Mary to teach school
one winter. After that he took em-
ployment with the firm of Teasdel &
Saddler where he remained until his
health gave way. Bro. Needham died
June 7, 1890, in Salt Lake City.

NEEDHAM, Alice Warburton, wife
of James Needham, was born March
10, 1826, in Daresbury, Cheshire, Eng-
land, the daughter of John Warburton
and Martha Wilkinson. She was
married to John Needham, Jan. 24,
1850, and came with her husband to
America the same year. By him she
became the mother of seven children,
namely, Sophia, Mary A., James, John,

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William, Martha E., and George H.
Two of her children were born in St.
Louis, Missouri, and the other five in
the Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City.
One child (Sophia) died in Kanesville,
Iowa, and another (Mary A.) crossed
the plains with their parents, arriv-
ing in G. S. L. Valley in October, 1854.

NEEDHAM, Martha, Barton, wife of
James Needham, was born Jan. 25,
1837, at Dover, Kent, England, the
daughter of Thos. Barton and Martha
Skinner. She was baptized when
about 10 years of age and emigrated
to America with her parents in 1855,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Chimborazo" which sailed from Liver-
pool, April 17, 1855, and arrived at
Philadelphia, May 21, 1855. The
family crossed the plains in Capt. Chas.
A. Harper's company, which arrived
in G. S. L. Valley, Oct. 29, 1855. For
21 years after that the family resided
in the Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City.
They then removed to the Fourth
Ward, which became the permanent
family home. In 1856 (Nov. 16th,)
Sister Martha was married to James
Needham and became the mother of
six children, namely, Thos. B., George
A., Mariel, Louisa, Frank and Albert.
Sister Needham has passed through
many trials and hardships incident to
pioneer life and poverty, but has ever
been faithful and true to her cove-
nants as a Latter-day Saint, taking
great delight in working for the bene-
fit of her fellow man. She succeeded
in raising three children in the ways
of the Lord, while her three other
children were snatched away from her
by death when they were quite young.
Upon her first arrival in Utah, she
settled with her parents in North
Ogden, Weber co., but at the time of
the move in 1858, they went to Nephi,
Juab CO., where the parents died. Her
father was a wheelwright by trade and
died at the age of 65. The mother
died in 1860, 60 years of age, about
three months after her father's death.

Her father was born May 27, 1800, and
the mother June 5, 1805; both were
natives of Ashworth, Kent, England.

PAGE, John, first counselor to
Bishop Thos. W. Winter of the Fith
Ward, Salt Lake City, was born July
1, 1813, in Creekdale, Wiltshire, Eng-
land, the son of Thomas Page (a
Calvinist minister) and Mary West-

lake. He was baptized in Lincoln-
shire, England, May 7, 1846, by Elder
George Eyers, was ordained to the
Priesthood and did considerable mis-
sionary work in the neighborhood
where he resided; he also acted as
book agent for the Lincolnshire con-
ference. In 1849 he emigrated to
America, crossicg the Atlantic in the
ship "Zetland". He located temporarily
in Missouri (about ten miles above
St. Joseph) where he remained about
one year. He then moved to Pot-
tawattamie county, Iowa, locating on
Keg Creek, where he stayed about two
years, and migrated to Utah in 1852,
crossing the plains in Capt. Walker's
company, which was the fourteenth
of twenty-one companies of emigrat-
ing saints which crossed the plains
that year. In June, 1853, after spend-
ing the first winter in the First Ward,

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Salt Lake City, he became one of the
first settlers of the Fifth Ward, where
he resided till the time of his death,
which occurred July 12, 1895. In 1835
Elder Page married Eleanor Esther
Leader, who bore him seven children,
two sons and five daughters, Subse-
quently he married two other wives.
Bro. Page passed through all the ex-
periences incident to pioneer life in
Utah, including the grasshopper
famine. Together with his son William
Henry he also participated in the
Echo Canyon campaign at the time
of the Johnston army troubles in
1S57 and 1858.

PAGE, Esther Leader, wife of John
Page, was born March 22, 1818, in
Manthorp, Lincolnshire, England, the
daughter of Henry Leader and Ann
Loughton. In 1835 (July 1st) she
married John Page and emigrated to
Utah with her husband in 1852, hav-
ing been baptized a member of the

Church May 16, 1848, by George Eyers.
She passed through the trials and
sufferings incident to pioneer life and
took an active part in the Ward Re-
lief Society, being chosen as president
of the society in the Fifth Ward which

position she held for many years.
She became the mother of seven chil-
dren and died a faithful Latter-day
Saint March 30, 1889.

MARCROFT, John, a veteran Elder
in the Church, and resident of the
Sixth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born Feb. 4, 1812, at Middleton,

Lancashire, England, the son of John
Marcroft and Isabella Schowles. She
was baptized March 13, 1842, by Elder
John Druce in his native land, came
to America 1854, stayed on account of
sickness in Missouri for several years
and came to Utah Sept. 1, 1859. In
1834 he married Charlotte Taylor,
who bore him ten children, eight sons
and two daughters. Two of his sons,
namely, John and Robert, fought
Indians at the time of the Black
Hawk war. Bro. Marcroft died as a
faithful Latter-day Saint Oct. 6, 1898,
in Salt Lake City, leaving four sons,
35 grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.

MARCROFT, Charlotte, wife of
John Marcroft, was born March 17,
1817, at Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Eng-
land, the daughter of Robert Taylor
and Mary Whitehead. She married
John Marcroft in 1834, was baptized

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March 13, 1842, and emigrated to
America in 1854. Owing to sickness
she remained with the saints in Mis-

souri until 1859. when she migrated
to Utah. Subsequently she became
the wife of John Marcroft to whom she
bore ten children, eight sons and two
daughters. She died Maj^ 16 1887,
leaving a husband, four sons and four-
teen granchildren to mourn her loss.

CARLQUIST, Carl Arvid, second
counselor to Bishop Jesse R. Pettit, of
the Fifth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Jan. 7, 1857, at Flo, Skara-
borgs Ian, Sweden, the son of Carl
Olson Carlquist and Johanna Larson.
He was baptized Sept. 19, 1865, by
Alfred Dahlman; ordained a Deacon
Nov. 24, 1872, by Niels P. Lindelof;
ordained a Priest Oct. 25, 1874, by E.
G. Johnson; ordained an Elder July
4, 1885, by Samuel Johnson; ordained
a Seventy by Seymour B. Young, and
ordained a High Priest Jan. 5, 1908,
by James Leatham. He has been an
active Ward teacher, served as presi-
dent of a Ward Y. M. M. I. A., and
filled many other responsible posi-
tions in the Wards in which he has
resided. From October, 1874, to June,
1877, he labored as a local missionary

in the Goteborg conference, until he
emigrated to Utah. He filled a mis-
sion to Scandinavia, 1892-94, presiding
a part of the time over the Goteborg
conference and part of the time over
the Scandinavian Mission. He filled
a second mission from Utah to Swe
den in 1910-12, during which he pre-
sided over the Goteborg conference
ten months, and later over the Stock-
holm conference sixteen months. Sept.
3, 1877, he married Hulda A. N. Oster-
gren, who has borne him nine chil-
dren, namely, Karl Hjalmar, Hulda

Therisia, Edith Nathalia, Ernest Nim-
rod, Alice Viola, Walter Rufinus,
Robert Hamlet, Daniel Elsworth and
Myrtle Deborah. At home Elder
Carlquist has taken an active part in
ecclesiastical, civil and political af-
fairs, but never held any political
office. During his last mission to
Sweden he had an interview with
King Gustaf in behalf of the Church
and explained to the King the work
and motives of the Elders who were
laboring in Sweden. Following the
track of an anti-Mormon agitator who
had been employed by the Swedish
Government to lecture against the
"Mormons," Elder Carlquist delivered
a number of lectures in different parts

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of Sweden, answering the falsehoods
of the slanderer, who preceded him,
and followed him to 30 cities and
towns. Brother Carlquist held many
large and well attended meetings in
defense of the Church whose cause he
espoused. Elder Carlquist is a fluent
and intelligent speaker, and on his
various missions he has made many
friends and converts. For a number
of years he acted as counselor to the
president of the Scandinavian meet-
ings in Salt Lake City.

WATSON, James Cowen, Bishop of
the Sixth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
from 1888 to 1906, was born Sept. 4,
1844, at Newark Hill, Scotland, the
son of Robert Watson and Mary

Cowen. In 1850, when only six years
old, he emigrated to Utah, together
with his parents and father's brothers
and located at once in Salt Lake City.
In the earlier days of Utah he figured
as a minute man and was for many
years a trusted servant around Pres.
Brigham Young. From 1871 to 1889
he served as a night watchman in
Salt Lake City. After acting as first
counselor to Bishop Wm. H. Hicken-
looper from 1881 to 1888, he was or-
dained and set apart as Bishop of the

Sixth Ward Aug. 19, 1888, and acted in
that capacity till March 11, 1906,
when he was honorably released.
Soon afterwards he was ordained a
Patriarch. Having yielded obedience
to the principle of plural marriage
Bro. Watson was twice arrested and
convicted on charges of unlawful co-
habitation and served two terms in
the Utah penitentiary, from May 9,
1885, to Oct. 12, 1885, and from Oct.
11, 1887, to March 11, 1888. While
serving his terms in the penitentiary
he was a trusted guard. Bishop
Watson died in Salt Lake City Nov.
13, 1906, survived by twenty children
and a great many grand children.
Altogether he was the father of 24
children by three wives whose names
were Mary Condie, Ellen Riley and
Elizabeth Evans. His wife Elizabeth
Evans Watson died in Salt Lake City
Dec. 24, 1908. Bishop Watson was
a large man in statue weighing nearly
250 lbs. He also had a large heart
and an active brain, and was univers-
ally well liked among his associates,
because of his jovial and happy na-
ture. In his Ward, where he presided
as Bishop, he had the love and good
will of the entire community. He often
visited the homes of the people, par-
ticulary the afflicted and the poor.
Being of a cheerful and sunny disposi-
tion himself he carried brigthness
and hope to those whose lives were
darkened. He was a contractor and
drayman in business. As such he
hauled the Brigham Young monu-
ment, and the machinery for the power
plant in Big Cottonwood; dug the cel-
lar and hauled the stone for the
Deseret News building and the City
and County building, and was sub-
contractor on the gravity sewer.

WATSON, Ellen Rily, wife of
Bishop James C. Watson, was born
Dec. 21, 1854, at Birmingham, Eng-
land, the daughter of William and
Mary Ann Rily. She was the only
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the Church. Being baptized in the
Hockley chapel, Birmingham, she soon
became a prominent member of the
branch choir, and before emigrating
to Utah in 1873 she assisted the Elders
in their missionary labors in Birming-
ham. England. She became the wife of
James C. Watson Aug. 10, 1874. Sister
Watson was a diligent Relief Society
worker for many years. After acting

as a counselor to Pres. Isabella West
in the Sixth Ward Relief Society, she
became the president of that organi-
aztion herself Feb. 25, 1903, and acted
in that capacity till her death, which
occurred in Salt Lake City Oct. 18,
1910. Sister Watson was the mother
of twelve children, eight boys and
four girls. She was universally
known for her kindness to the sick
and poor and did much charitable
work, especially in connection with
the burial of the dead.

REISER, Henry, a prominent Elder
in the Church and a resident of the
Sixth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born July 29, 1832, at Strahlegg
Fischenthal, Canton Zurich, Switzer-
land, the son of Henry Reiser and
Susanna Ottiker. In February, 1850,
he Avent to live at St. Imier, Canton

Berne, to learn the French language
and also the trade of a watchmaker.
In 1856 (June 14th) he married
Susanna Rupp, of Sigriswyl, Canton
Borne, and together with his wife was
baptized by Elder Henry Hugg May
16, 1859. He was ordained a Teacher
June 3, 1859, by Elder Jabez Woodard,
president of the Swiss, German and
Italian mission. Later he was or-
dained to the office of a Priest and
subsequently to that of an Elder, He
started for Utah in 1860, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "William Tap-
scott", which sailed from Liverpool,
England, May 11, 1860. After thirty-
five days' sailing, the company with
which he traveled arrived at New
York, where the emigrants were de-
tained ^ week on account of the small
pox, which had broken out among

them, twelve persons being attacked
by the disease. Finally they were
permittet to land in Castle Garden,
and the next day they started for
Florence. Nebraska, the outfitting
place for the journey over the plains.
There Elder Reiser met an Apostle for
the first time in his life, which made
a deep and lasting impression upon
him. It was Elder Geo. Q. Cannon,

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who had charge of the Church immi-
gration on the frontiers that season.
After a tedious journey over the plains
Bro. Reiser arrived in Salt Lake City,
Oct. 5, 1S60. In December following
he received his endowments and was
also chosen second counselor to Carl
G, Maeser, president of the German
meetings in Salt Lake City. He was
ordained a Seventy Feb. 16, 1861, un-
der the hands of Albert P. Rockwood
and became a member of the 62nd
quorum of Seventy. When the Seven-
ties were reorganized about 1887, he
became a member of the 2nd Quorum.
In 1863, he w^as chosen first counselor
to Pres. Maeser. In 1872, he was
called an a mission to Switzerland,
for which he left home May 1, 1872,
together with 26 fellow missionaries;
he arrived at Berne, Switzerland, May
25, 1872, and was appointed to preside
over the Jura and Berne conferences
by Pres. Huber. While laboring in
that capacity he baptized 102 souls.
His wife died in Salt Lake City Jan.
1, 1874, and on the 3rd of June fol-
lowing he was released to go home.
He traveled in company with Pres.
Huber and 150 Swiss and German
saints, and arrived in Salt Lake City,
July 2, 1874. After his return he re-
sumed his position as first counselor
to Pres Maeser in the presidency of
the German meetings, and when Pres.
Maeser was called to take charge of
the B. Y. Academy at Provo, Elder
Reiser was appointed to preside over
the German meetings in Salt Lake
City. In 1886 when John Q. Cannon
was appointed president of the Ger-
man meetings. Elder Reiser was chosen
as first counselor. He was arrested
under the Edmunds law, Aug. 24, 1886,
on charge of unlawful cohabitation
and on Sept. 17, 1886, he appeared be-
fore the grand jury in the Third Dis-
trict Court; when arraigned on the
28th, he pleaded not guilty. He was
placed on trial Feb. 14, 1887; by ad-
vice of his attorney he then withdrew
his plea of not guilty and pleaded

guilty. When Judge Zane asked him
if he had anything to say before sen-
tence was passed, he replied that he
had eighteen souls depending entirely
on him for their support, and that
about a year ago he was robbed of
about $800 worth of watches; hence
he was pretty well reduced in means.
The judge asked if he would promise
to obey the law in the future. Elder
Reiser replied that he could not give
any such promise consciensciously. He
was then sentenced to six months im-
prisonment and to pay a fine of $300
and cost of suit, the latter amounting
to $43. Having served his term in the
Utah penitentiary, he was released
July 13, 1887. He was ordained a
High Priest Feb. 29, 1892, by Elias
Morris. While he was incarcerated
Elder Arnold Schulthess was appoint-
ed president of the German meetings,
and Henry Reiser chosen as his first
counselor, which position he held un-
til his death, which occurred in Salt
Lake City, Aug. 29, 1904. He died
highly respected by all who knew him.
Bro. Reiser was a man of few words,
but rich in noble deeds. He left a
family of fifteen children, namely
five sons and ten daughters, also nine-
teen grandchildren. Before his demise
Bro. Reiser did work in the Temple
for his relations back to the sixteenth
century, numbering about two thou-
sand souls.

REISER, Susanna Rupp, wife of
Henry Reiser, was born August 10,
1834, at Nylor, Sigriswyl, Canton
Berne, Switzerland. She became the
wife of Henry Reiser in 1856, being
married to him at St. Imier, Switzer-
land. Together with her husband she
emigrated to America in 1860, cross-
ing the Atlantic in the ship "William
Tapscott," which sailed from Liver-
pool, England, May 11, I860. She
crossed the plains in Captain Wm.
Budge's train, which arrived in the
Valley Oct. 5, 1860. Before leaving
Switzerland she gave birth to two

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children, one of whom died in Swit-
zerland and the other at sea while
crossing the Atlantic as an emigrant.
The year before she left her native
land, or on May 16, 1859, she was bap-
tized by Henry Hugg. She was al-
ways a devoted wife to her husband

and assisted him in every way possi-
ble. Her death occurred in Salt Lake
City Jan 1, 1874, while her husband
was filling a mission to Switzerland.
The death of his devoted wife under
these circumstances was a severe trial
to Elder Reiser.

REISER, Magdalena Schneider, wife
of Henry Reiser was born Nov. 19,
1836, at Almendingen, an alpine vil-
lage of Canton Berne, Switzerland. Her
father Johannes Schneider was born
Sept. 7, 1801, at Almendingen, was a
farmer by avocation and died March
22, 1866. Her mother Magdalena
Miller was born March 17, 1799, in
Dierschen, Canton Berne, Switzerland.
Sister Magdalena was the second
daughter of a family of six and re-
ceived a good education. She was an
active worker in the Zwingli church,
and exercised great influence among
the younger church members. She

taught school and was an ardent Bible
student. Ai the age of twenty, while
visiting friends in Thun, she first
heard the true gospel of Jesus Christ
expounded and became converted to
it against the wishes of her parents
and associates. When it was found
that nothing could shake her faith in
her religion, her minister of the old
faith asked that she be refrained from
associating with her former friends
and leave her home town, or give up
her religion. Never thinking that she
would leave her home for any creed,
the sorrow among her loved ones was
great indeed, when she showed them
that she chose the gospel before
everything else. She spent four years
in sorrowful banishment from her
home, during which she frequently
saved the. Elders from bodily harm,
and as she gave the greater part of
her earnings to her invalid mother,
she almost despaired of ever emigrat-
ing to Utah. But on a certain occa-
sion in the fall of 1860, after walking
18 miles to meeting, one of the Elders,
who knew of an invalid sister that
needed a companion on the voyage
to America, offered her the position.
As her mother had recently died. Sister
Magdalena gladly embraced the oppor-
tunity and after a rough voyage
across the North Sea, she reached
England, and thence crossed the At-
lantic in the ship "Underwriter". She
walked all the way from Florence to
G. S. L. Valley, traveling with an ox
train. While on the plains she nar-
rowly escaped death by Indians. Driv-
ing a cow and falling a short distance
behind the rest of the company, she
fell asleep while resting in the shade
of a tree and on awaking she found
that the rest of the company had gone
out of sight. She prayed earnestly to
the Lord and her prayer was answered
by one of the brethren coming back
to look for her. A few minutes after
they had joined the company four or
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the trail and they stopped at the very
point where she had been lagging be-
hind. She always after that felt that
her life had been spared so that she
might devote it to the benefit of her
fellow man and to serve the Lord.
Sister Reiser was baptized in the lake
of Thun, Switzerland, after the break-
ing of the ice in the winter of 1856
by Elder Buhler in Canton Berne. She
married Henry Reiser March 9, 1861,
the ceremony being performed by
Pres. Brigham Young, in Salt Lake
City. She became the mother of seven
children, namely, Joseph, Emma B.,
Josephine J., Ephraim A., Albert S.,
Orson S., and Mary M. Sister Reiser
died Aug. 3, 1893, in Salt Lake City,
where she had spent her married life,
and where all who knew her highly
honored and respected her. Four of
her children preceded her into eterni-
ty. Her son Albert S. died July 9,
1911, and now only two of her children
(Josephine J. Macintosh, and Mary
Reiser Gallager) are living. Sister
Reiser was a diligent Temple worker,
officiating for hundreds in that holy
edifice. She was an ardent worker
in the Relief Soicety and Primary
Associations in her Ward. She was
particularly noted for her sympathy
and kindnes to the poor; hundreds of
hungry souls, some of them Indians,
were fed at her table. A day or two
after her death eleven Indians were
seen around her bier shedding tears
in memory of her kindness to them
while alive.

REISER, Anna Catherine Auer, wife
of Henry Reiser, was born July 19,
1850, at Eichberg, Rhein-Thal, St. Gal-
lon, Switzerland, the daughter of
Jacob Auer and Anna Elizabeth
Dietrich. In the fall of 1859, when
she was nine years old, she left her
home in Canton St. Gallen, together
with her parents, to emigrate to
America, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Emerald Isle" , which sailed
from Liverpool, England, Aug. 20,

1859. While crossing the ocean her
sister Anna C. Barbara died, and after
landing in America, and while stop-
ing temporarily in New York during
the winter of 1859-60, her sister Anna
and her father (Jacob Auer) and
mother (Elizabeth) died. Sister Anna
was thus left an orpan girl in care of
her two brothers, Ulrich and Henry,
who brought her across the plains.

They left Florence June 19, 1860, in
Captain J. A. Murphy's oxtrain , which
arrived in Salt Lake City Aug. 28th,
the same year. Sister Anna walked
all the way across the plains. On her
arrival in the Valley Joseph Toronto
took her and her two brothers to
Pleasant Green, west of Salt Lake
City, where they spent the winter.
In the spring of 1861 Sister Anna lo-
cated in the Twentieth Ward, Salt
Lake City, remaining there two years.
After that she lived two years in the
Eleventh Ward, and in 1865, moved
back to the Toronto home in the
Twentieth Ward, Salt Lake City, where
she met her future husband. Brother
Henry Reiser, to whom she was mar-
ried Feb. 16, 1866. By him she became
the mother of eight children, and as
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ful and devoted wife to him, assisting
him to do Temple work foy a number
of years in the Logan and Salt Lake
Temples. She is now a resident of
the Thirty-third Ward and has been
an active Relief Society worker for
a number of years. The names of
her children are: Hyruro (who died
Sept. 14, 1869), H. Alma, Sidonia
(who died May 5, 1900), Arnold A.,
Theodore G., Heber J. (who died Sept.
19, 1888), D. Paul and Selena M.

REISER, Margaret Von Bergen,
wife of Henry Reiser, was born Jan.
11, 1852, in Understok, Canton Berne,
Switzerland, the daughter of Johannes
Von Bergen and Barabara Kleck. She
was baptized Jan. 1, 1870, by Theodore

names of the children are: Alice,
Susette M., Caroline V., Olga S., Cora
A., Lily J., Marguerite N., and Ruby
P. Caroline died Feb. 9, 1881. Sister
Margaret worked as a Sunday school
teacher in her native land and was
a faithful and devoted wife to her hus-
band as long as he lived. Together
with her husband she labored faitful-
ly in the Temples in behalf of the
dead and is still engaged in that im-
portant labor for her relatives in the
Salt Lake Temple.

WATSON, Hugh, first counselor to
David McKenzie, president of the
High Priests quorum of the Pioneer
Stake from 1904 to 1910, was born
July 20, 1854, in Salt Lake City, Utah,

Brandley in Canton Berne and con-
firmed the same day by Karl G.
Maeser. She emigrated to Utah in
1875, crossing the Atlantic in the
steam ship "Wisconsin," which sailed
from Liverpool June 16, 1875, and ar-
rived in New York on the 27th. The
company reached Salt Lake City July
8, 1875. A couple of weeks later (July
26, 1875) Sister Margaret was married
to Henry Reiser, by whom she became
the mother of eight children (all
girls), seven of whom are living. The

the son of Robert Watson and Mary
Cowan, who migrated to Utah from
Scotland in 1849. Bro. Watson re-
ceived a common school education and
at the age of fifteen he became an
apprentice at the "Deseret News"
office, where he subsequently labored
for seven years as foreman of the
press room. In 1878 he was ordained
to the Priesthood and called on a
mission to Scotland; he returned in
1880. In 1885 he was appointed super-
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the Warm Springs, Salt Lake City,
and under his management the plant
grew rapidly. He also associated
himself with a number of other busi-
ness enterprises and founded what
was generally recognized as the pio-
neer transfer business in Salt Lake
City. He also had the first contract
ever let for sprinkling in said City,
and brought the first sprinkling wagon
into the City. As a contractor he
helped to build the first railroad into
Tintic Valley. In 1876 (Oct. 13th) he
married Sarah J. Williams, and he
subsequently married three other
wives, namely, Mary H. Chapness,
Esther H. Davey and Elizabeth A.
Chapness. By these wives he became
the father of many children. Brother
Watson served one term in the Utah
State legislature and was also a city
councilman for one term. He died
April 10, 1910, in Salt Lake City.

WATSON, Sarah Jane Williams,
wife of Hugh Watson, was born Jan.
8, 1853, in Wales, the daughter of
Evan Williams and Sarah Jeremv.

She emigrated to Utah with her moth-
er in 1861, crossing the ocean in the
ship "Manchester" and the plains in
Ansel P. Harmon's company, wich ar-

rived in G. S. L. City Sept. 23rd. While
on their journey over the plains one
brother and one sister died and were
buried at Florence. Although only eight
years old, Sarah walked most of the
distance over the plains, and as a
young girl she became active in the
Y. L. M. I. A. in the Sixteenth Ward,
being counselor in that association
for some time. She was also a Relief
Society worker for many years and
was appointed a Stake missionary in
which capacity she visrted the differ-
ent Relief Societies in the Pioneer
Stake. In 1876 (Oct. 14th) she was
married to James C. Watson and was
a devoted wife and a loving mother
of seven children. She died a faith-
ful Latter-day Saint April 9, 1908. in
Salt Lake City.

PERKINS, William G., the first
Bishop of the Seventh Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born Jan. 11, 1801, in
South Carolina, the son of Ute Per-
kins and Sarah Gant. His father
moved to Tennessee in 1805 and Wm.
G. lived there until 1829. He married
Dicy Ray Feb. 22, 1818, by whom he
had a son and a daughter. He moved
to Hancock county, 111., in 1829, where
he became a convert to "Mormonism"
and was baptized in 1838 by Joel H.
Johnson. Soon afterwards he was
ordained a Teacher and in 1843 he
was ordained a High Priest under the
hands of Hyrum Smith and set
apart under the hands of President
Brigham Young and Heber C.
Kimball to act as Bishop in
Macedonia, Hancock co.. III. In 1843
he filled a mission to the southern
part of Illinois, together with Andrew
Perkins, and in 1846 he received his
endowments in the Nauvoo Temple.
Going west in the general exodus of
the saints from Illinois, he remained
at Council Bluffs, Iowa, for two years
and in 1848 he migrated to G. S. L.
Valley, where he was chosen as the
first Bishop of the Seventh Ward in
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married Hannah Gold and in 1861 was
called on a mission to St. George,
southern Utah. March 23, 1862, he
was set apart as a counselor to Wm.
Fawcett, president of the High Priest
quorum of the St. George Stake; he
acted in that capacity over 24 years,
or until his death. Bro. Perkins was
ordained a Patriarch under the hands
of Pres. Brigham Young and others
March 27, 1870, and died Nov. 16,
1886, at St. George, Washington co.,
Utah.

WILLIE, James Grey, the second
Bishop of the Seventh Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born Nov. 1,
1814, in Taunton, Somersetshire, Eng-
land, the son of William and Mary
Willie. He emigrated to the United
States when about twenty-two years
of age and joined the Church in
February, 1842; he came to G. S. L.
Valley in the fall of 1847, crossing the
plains in Capt. J. B. Noble's Fifty of
Jedediah M. Grant's Hundred. In 1852-
56 he filled a mission to Great Britain,
and on returning home in 1856 he was
captain of one of the belated handcart
companies which suffered so much
that year in crossing the mountains
In the snow. Many of the emigrants
lost their lives on that memorable
journey, exposed to hunger and cold.
Soon after his return from his mis-
sion Bro. Willie was called to succeed
William G. Perkins as Bishop of the
Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City, which
position he held until the spring of
1859, when he moved to Cache Valley,
making his residence at Mendon. Here
he resided until the time of his death,
which occurred Sept. 9. 1895. Bro.
Willie held many important positions,
both civil and ecclesiastical, which he
filled with honor. At his death he
left a wife, three daughters and two
sons and upwards of thirty grandchil-
dren. He died as he had lived, a faith-
ful Latter-day Saint, and held the
office of a Patriarch when he passed
to the great beyond.

PUGMIRE, Jonathan, jun., the third
Bishop of the Seventh Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born Dec. 7, 1823,
at Carlisle, Cumberland, England, the
son of Jonathan Pugmire and Eliza-
beth Barnes. He was baptized Nov.
14, 1841, in the river Mersey, Liver-
pool, by John James, emigrated to
Liverpool with his father's family in
1844, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Isaac Allerton," which sailed from
Liverpool Feb. 11, 1844. The family
arrived at Nauvoo, 111., April 5, 1844,
and from that day till the saints left
Nauvoo Jonathan shared in common
with his co-religionists the persecu-
tions and mobbings of those memora-
ble days. He was ordained a Seventy
in October, 1844, and became a mem-
ber of the 22nd quorum of Seventy.
April 21, 1846, he left Montrose, Iowa,
with his family for the Missouri river
arriving there on a Monday evening.
On the following day (having enlisted
with the Mormon Battalion), he took
up the line of march with that body
for Ft. Leavenworth and California.
After an absence of 16 months he re-
turned to the frontiers and found his
family at Winter Quarters, and the
following year (1848) he re-crossed
the plains, taking his family with him,
and arrived in G. S. L. Valley in Sep-
tember, 1848. Early in 1849 he was
called by Pres. Brigham Young to
work in the public blacksmith shop,
G. S. L. City, where he continued for
fourteen years; ten years of that time
he was foreman. In 1861 he was or-
dained a Bishop and set apart to pre-
side over the Seventh Ward, Salt
Lake City. In the spring of 1864 he
left Salt Lake City with his family
for Bear Lake Valley and became one
of the first settlers of what is now
St. Charles. In March, 1878, he was
appointed tithing agent for the Bear
Lake Stake of Zion, which position
he held till his death, which ocurred
Sept. 18, 1880, at St. Charles, Bear
Lake county, Idaho. He died sudden-

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ly, leaving a large family and a num-
erous circle of friends and acquain-
tances to mourn his departure. He
was a faithful and true Latter-day
Saint, ever willing and ready to re-
spond to the calls of his brethren to
assist and build up the great Latter-
day work in which he was a firm be-
liever.

McLELLAND, Thomas, the fourth
Bishop of the Seventh Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born March 28,
1819, at Calmore, county of London-
derry, Ireland, the son of Edward Mc
Lelland and Mary Lockhart. He was

left an orphan while young and emi-
grated to Scotland, to reside at Thor-
ney Bank, with his sisters and a
brother. Becoming a convert to
"Mormonism," he was baptized March
28, 1841, by James Miller. Two months
later (May 15, 1841) he was ordained
an Elder and appointed to preside
over a branch of the Church. In 1842
he was sent on a mission to Ardrie,
Scotland, and was blessed in his ad-
ministration. In 1844 he emigrated
to America, together with his wife
Elizabeth, and settled at Nauvoo,
Illinois, where he met the Prophet
Joseph Smith and heard him preach
with great power on the Godhead.

From the time he first met Joseph,
he knew he was a Prophet of God
and he shared in the deep sorrow that
befell the saints at the martyrdom
of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. In 1844
he was ordained a Seventy and be-
came a member of the 9th quorum of
Seventy; he assisted in the finishing
of the Nauvoo Temple and received
his endowments therein. At the time
af the general exodus in 1846, he suf-
fered with the saints and was driven
together with his co-religionists into
the wilderness. He located temporarily
in St. Louis, Mo., but finally migrated to
G. S. L. Valley in 1848. From St.
Louis to Winter Quarters he traveled
with eight wagons and seven fam-
ilies, and acted as a captain of Ten
under Erastus Snow in crossing the
plains; he arrived in the Valley
Sept. 21, 1848. In 1852 he was called
to act as first counselor to Bishop
Wm. G. Perkins of the Seventh
Ward, Salt Lake City, and was also
ordained a High Priest. He held
that position til 1856 and that year he
was sent east to meet the belated
handcart companies. On that trip he
contracted mountain fever from
which he suffered for many months
afterwards. During the general move
in 1858 he located his family at Provo,
Utah CO., and went out in the moun-
tains to meet Johnston's army. From
1864 he was acting Bishop for a short
time of the Seventh Ward. From
1858 to 1864 he acted as a counselor
(first as second and later as first
counselor) to Bishop Jonathan Pug-
mire, and from 1864 to 1865 he was
acting Bishop of the Seventh Ward.
In 1865 he was ordained a Bishop and
set apart to preside over said Ward.
After serving in that capacity five
years he moved to his farm in the
Big Field (which afterwards became
a part of the Farmers Ward). In
1870 he was elected a member of the
Salt Lake council. He also held
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Legion and was commissioned regimen-
tal quarter-master with the rank of
captain by Acting Governor S. A.
Mann. Bro. McLelland died May 12,
1890, in the Farmer's Ward, 71 years
old, surrounded by his family, and
firm in the faith. His wife Elizabeth,
who was the mother of eleven chil-
dren, survived him; eight of these
children reached maturity. He also
left a second wife, Ellen S. Black-
hurst, whom he married in 1855; she
was a pioneer of 1847 and bore her
husband four children.

WOODBURY, Orin Nelson, a Utah
pioneer of 1847, was born Aug. 10,
1828, at New Salem, Franklin county,
Mass., the fifth and youngest son of
Jeremiah Woodbury and Elizabeth

Bartlett, and a descendant of William
Woodbury and Elizabeth Patch, who
came from South Betherton, Eng-
land, to America about the year 1630.
Orin Avas eigth in line from William
Woodbury. His father was a prosper-
ous farmer and active in town and
county affairs, as well as a prominent
member of the Baptist Church until
the fulness of the gospel reached him
in 1841, when, with his family, he
joined the Church and the following

years moved to Nauvoo, 111. Here he
engaged in farming until 1846, when
the people were driven west. Provid-
ing themselves with an outfit and
eighteen months' provisions they
crossed the plains and mountains in
Abraham O. Smoot's Hundred, arriv-
ing in Salt Lake City Sept. 26, 1847.
They built an adobe house in the
pioneer fort. The roof of this primi-
tive building was covered with roots,
grass and dirt, which served a good
purpose except in case of heavy rains.
During the winter of 1847-48 Orin
herded stock on the Mill Creek bench
and in the spring of 1848 the family
moved there for the summer, erecting
a temporary house of poles, willows,
mud and dirt. Just as their crops be-
gan to look promising, the crickets
came in great numbers and began to
devour them, but through the efforts
of the family and the blessings of the
Lord in sending the sea gulls the
crops were saved. The next winter
was spent in the fort and the follow-
ing spring the family located in the
Seventh Ward, where the father re-
sided until his death which occurred
Oct. 8, 1883, at the advanced age of
92 years. In 1853 (Feb. 7th) Orin
married Miss Ann Cannon, daughter
of George Cannon and Ann Quayle and
niece of the wife of Pres. John Taylor,
with whom she lived. Her mother
had died on the ocean in 1842, while
crossing the Atlantic on the ship
"Sidney", and her father died in St.
Louis, Mo., in 1844, leaving her an
orphan at the age of twelve years to-
gether with three brothers and two
sisters. In the spring of 1853 Orin
and his young wife moved onto a farm
south of Salt Lake City, and in the
fall of 1857 Orin participated in the
Echo Canyon expedition, serving in
Lot Smith's company, whom he ac-
companied in many of his daring ad-
ventures in the mountains. They had
some very narrow escapes from being
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my and in some cases Orin had to
ride in the saddle continuously for 4S
hours. Through exposure in this cam-
paign he took sick and contracted
ailments from which he never fully
recovered. In 1861 he was called to
take his wife and four children to
southern Utah to help colonize that
country. He sold his property in Salt
Lake City for almost nothing, and be-
coming one of the future founders of
St. George he made a new home there
while suffering many privations and
hardships incident to pioneer life.
In the fall of 1863 Orin married Miss
Frances Goddard who bore him ten
children, the two eldest sons dying
in their infancy. Bro. Woodbury was
associated with Harrison Sperry in
the superintendency of the Fourth
Ward Sunday school when it was first
organized. In St. George he acted as
captain of the guard and devoted
much of his time to drilling his com-
pany. In 1890 he was arrested on the
charge of having more than one wife,
but he was taken sick with blood
poisoning and died Aug. 25, 1890, the
day set for his trial. He left two
wives, 17 children and 30 living
grandchildren. The names of his
children are as follows: Eleanor, Orin
N., Annie M., Geo. J., John T.,
Leonora, Frank B., Alice C, Angus C.
and Clara; these were the children
of his first wife. By his second wife
he became the father of William.
Abraham, Mary, Florence, Charles,
Elizabeth, Joseph, Clarence and Rose.

WOODBURY, Frank Bartlett, a
High Councilor in the Pioneer Stake,
Salt Lake City, was born Dec. 27,
1867, in St. George, Washington co.,
Utah, the son of Orin Nelson Wood-
bury and Ann Cannon. He received
an ordinary education in the common
schools of St. George, and at the age
of seventeen he became an appren-
tice at the "Deseret News" Office,
and after serving five years he re-
mained in the employ of the "News"

as a journey man printer. In 1S91
(May 27th) he married Lily Druce
Lambert, the eldest daughter of Chas.
J. Lambert and Lily Druce. This
marriage has been blessed with six
children, namely, Geo. L.. Lillian,
Frank Orin, Harvey Charles, Nettie
and Melvin. In 1891-185)3 Elder
Woodbury filled a mission to the In-
dian Territory, laboring in the Chero-
kee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Semi-
nole nations; part of the time he also
acted as clerk of the mission. After

his return home in October, 1893, he
resumed his labors at the "Deseret
News" office. He was baptized March
2, 1876, by Walter Granger, ordained
an Elder March 10, 1882, by David H.
Cannon, acted as secretary of a
Deacon's quorum, was a teacher in
the Seventh Ward Sunday school for
many years, counselor in the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A. from 1887 to 1889, and
president one season. He acted as
Ward clerk from 1894-1906 and was a
home missionary in the Salt Lake
Stake about one year. He was or-
dained a Seventy April 2, 1891, by
Brigham H. Roberts and set apart as
a president in said quorum March 28,
1901; ordained a High Priest and set

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apart a.s a Higli Councilor in the
Pioneer Stake March 25, 1904, by
Rudger Clawson. His wife Lily D.
was set apart as the first Stake Re-
lief Society librarian in the Pioneer
Stake Dec. S. 1906.

GRAHAM, George, the second
Bishop of the Twenty-fifth Ward (Pio-
neer Stake) Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born April 14, 1877, at Rawyards,
Airdrie Lanarkshire, Scotland, the
son of Robert Graham and Margaret
Dornam. When only twelve years of

(Nov. 24th) he was ordained a Bishop
by PYancis M. Lyman and set apart
to preside over the Twenty-fifth
Ward. In 1903 (Sept. 24th) he mar-
ried Anna W. Wilson, daughter of
Alexander K. Wilson and Annie W.
Wilson, who was born Sept. 29, 1877.
Bishop Graham is the father of six
children.

WILDING, Thomas Edward, first
counselor to Bishop George Graham of
the Twenty-fifth Ward (Pioneer
Stake), Salt Lake county, Utah, was

age he commenced to work in the coal
mines and continued thus for eight
years. He was baptized May 9, 1895,
by Orson Pratt Hogan; ordained a
Priest in 1897 by John S. Lathham;
emigrated to Utah in July, 1900; was
ordained an Elder March 11, 1901, by
Chas. H. Hyde; ordained a High
Priest Sept. 10, 1911, by Pres. Wm.
McLachlan, and set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Carl A. Ek. Prior
to that time he acted as an officer in
the Ward Y. M. M. L A. He also ac-
ted as a Sunday school teacher and
as superintendent of the Ward Sun-
day school one year. For a period
of seven years he acted as president
of the 5th quorum of Elders. In 1912

born June 26, 1882, at Fountain Green,
Sanpete co., Utah He was baptized
Aug. 26, 1891, in the Hunter Ward by
Walter Brown; confirmed Oct. 1, 1891,
by Alfred A. Jones; ordained a Teach-
er Feb. 4, 1901, by John C. Bertoch;
ordained a Priest Jan. 12, 1902, by
Laronzo Day: ordained an Elder
March 9, 1908, by H. T. Howse; mar-
ried Esther Hall (daughter of James
R. Hall and Cecelia Ward) June 24,
1908; acted for some time as first
counselor in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A.,
and filled a mission to Great Britain
in 1909-12, laboring in the Birming-
ham conference; also visited Holland
and Paris while in Europe. In 1913
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Priest by Win. McLachlan and set
apart as .second counselor to Bishop
Kershaw X. White of the Twenty-
sixth Ward, ("hanging his place of
residence from the Twenty-sixth to
the Twenty-fifth Ward he was set
apart as first counselor to Bishop
Graham in 1912.

DITTMER, August Anton, second
counselor to Bishop George Graham,
of the Twenty-fifth Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born Aug. 1, 1862, in
the village of Dalliendorf, Mecklen-
burg, Germany, the son of Wilhelm
Dittmer and Wilhelmine Dittmer. As

a boy he learned the trade of a miller
and became the foreman of a mill in
his native town. He was baptized
March 12, 1898, by Campbell M.
Brown; ordained a Teacher in 1899
by Arnold H. Schulthess; emigrated
to Utah in 1901; was ordained an
Elder Nov. 1, 1902, by Alma Wlieadon;
ordained a Seventy Feb. 2, 1908, by
J. Golden Kimball, and ordained a
High Priest May 17, 1914,, by Wm.
McLachlan and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Graham. In 1909-
12 he filled a mission to Germany,
laboring principally in the Konigsberg
and Dresden conferences, most of the

time as president of brandies. For a
number of years Bro. Uittmer acted
as Ward clerk.

JENSEN, Carl, a resident of the
Twenty-fifth Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born July 2, 1851, at Win-
ningdal, Jutland, Denmark, the son of
Rasmus Jensen and Kirstine Baltser-
sen. He was baptized Dec. 20, 1874,
by Jens Peter Meilstrup. At the
time of his baptism, he was badly
crippled with rheumatism, his lower
limbs being almost useless. A hole
was cut in the ice, which at the time
was very thick, and he was

taken out of bed to be baptized.
When he came out of the water he
was perfectly well, and able to walk
home unassisted, the distance to walk
being over a mile. He has changed
residence a number of times, having
lived at Huntsville, Weber co., Levan,
Juab CO., and Mill Creek, Sandy and
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake co. He is
now a resident of the Twenty-fifth
Ward of Salt Lake City. While re-
siding in Juab county, he acted as
first counselor to James Wilson,
president of the Juab branch, being
appointed to that position Aug. 27,
1884. Later he acted as first counselor

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to Elmer Taylor, Bishop of the Juab
Ward, being appointed to that office
at the time of the organization of the
Juab Ward, Jan. 11, 1885. Elder
Jensen married Else Christine Peter-
sen Oct. 18, 1875, in the Endowment
House, Salt Lake City. She bore her
husband nine children, namely, Carl
Peter (deceased), Laura K., Mary A.,
Edna, Minnie J., James E., Frida E.,
Evelyn T., and Earl W. Brother
Jensen is a man of great faith
and devotion to the gospel and
has ever been liberal with his means
in building up the Church. He assis-
ted in the erection of the Manti
Temple. His occupation in life has
been that of a blacksmith and farmer.
The larger part of his time now is
spent in doing Temple work.

White, Kershaw, Noble, Bishop of
the Twenty-Sixth Ward (Pioneer
Stake), Salt Lake City, Utah, was born

July 5, 1874, at Halifax, Yorkshire,
England, the son of William White
and Mary Ogden. He was baptized
July 7, 1900, by Albert R. Lyman and
confirmed the same day by James
Laird at Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng-
land (Leeds conference). He was or-
dained a Deacon Dec. 1, 1900, and a

Priest April S, 1901; emigrated to Utah
in 1902. crossing the Atlantic in the
steamship "Commonwealth" which
sailed from Liverpool, May 8, 1902,
and arrived at Boston May 6, 1902. Bro.
White arrived in Salt Lake City May
21, 1902, and located temporarily in
Mill Creek, Salt Lake county. He
was ordained an Elder Feb. 9, 1903, by
James W. Ure and ordained a High
Priest April 22, 1907, and set apart as
second counselor to Bishop Christen
X. Christensen, of the 26th Ward, Salt
Lake City, by John Henry Smith. Pre-
vious to this he had acted as second
counselor to Pres. Jones of the 6th
quorum of Elders in the Pioneer
Stake. In 1908 (Jan. 12th) he was
set apart as first counselor to Bishop
C. N. Christensen, and in 1910 (Oct.
17th) he was ordained a Bishop by
Pres. Jos. F. Smith and set apart to
preside over the 26th Ward. Bro.
White married Norina Tidswell Oct.
9, 1897, in England; she was born July
27, 1871, in England, the daughter of
Wm. Tidswell and Mary Ann Ban-
croft, and has borne her husband four
children, all girls. Ever since his ar-
rival in Utah Bro. White has taken an
active part in Church affairs. Thus
he acted one year as second counselor
in the presidency of the 6th quorum
of Elders in the Pioneer Stake. He
also acted for two years as first coun-
selor in the 26th Ward Y. M. M. I. A.
As chairman of the Ward amusement
committee he exhibited tact and abil-
ity and in being instructor of the les-
ser Priesthood in the Pioneer Stake
he showed a thorough knowledge of
the gospel.

FENTON, Joseph Jackson, first
counselor to Bishop Kershaw N. White
af the Twenty-sixth Ward (Pioneer
Stake), Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born June 7, 1875, in Salt Lake City,
the son of Thos. Fenton and Anna
M. Wilson. He received a common
school education and was baptized in
1883; was ordained a Deacon when fif-

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teeen years of age and presided over
the Deacon's quorum three years; or-
dained a Priest March 1, 1894, by
James C. Watson, and ordained an
Elder June 8, 1896, by Henry Linell.
In 1896 he married Sarah Jensen,
daughter of Carl H. L. Jensen and
Albertina Rasmussen, by whom he be-
came the father of ten children. Elder
Fenton became secretary of the 6th
quorum of Elders in 1907, officiated

as second counselor for some time in
said quorum and subsequently as Ward
clerk, which position he held when
taken into the Ward Bishopric as
second counselor to Bishop C. N. Chri-
stensen. He was ordained a High
Priest Jan. 12, 1908, by Chas. H. Hyde
and set apart as counselor to Bishop
Christensen at the same time. He
held this position until the Bishopric
was reorganized Oct. 16, 1910; after
that he acted as presiding teacher and
superintendent of the Ward Sunday
school. In 1913 Elder Fenton was
called to act as first counselor to
Bishop White. Since February. 1892,
lip ha.~ been in the mail service.

FENTON, Thomas, a veteran Elder
of the Sixth Ward, (Pioneer Stake),
Salt Lake City, Utah, was born April

7, 1822, at Wheatley, Nottinghamshire,
England, the son of Robert Fenton
and Mary Anderson. His early boy-
hood was passed at Carlton, his native
shire, and what scholastic training he
received was in a village school. His
father was a working farmer in com-
fortable circumstances and Thomas
was naturally inclined to farming and
gardening. In these pursuits and the
kindred pursuit of floriculture he re-

ceived a thorough practical education.
He also had some experience in rail-
road building. Both as a boy and
young man he was an earnest inquirer
after religion, and when about 18
years old he was much impressed with
the principles of the Wesleyan
Methodist church, which he after-
wards joined, becoming a class leader
therein. The more he read the Bible,
however, with the contents of which he
was very familiar, the more dissatis-
fied he become with his religious
status. The first time he heard the
gospel preached by a Latter- day Saint
he was converted and after prolonged
and prayerful consideration was bap-
tized July 19, 1848. From that time
he was not only a firm believer, but
a faitful worker in everything pertain-
ing to his calling and standing in the

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Church. His religion, spiritually and
temporally, was the first thing with
him all the time. Prior to hearing of
the Latter-day Saints he had wanted
to know of life in America, and a few
months after his baptism he emigrated
to New Orleans and thence passed up
the Mississippi river to St. Louis, Mo.
In May, 1851, he started for Utah. His
wife, Emma Alcroft Fenton, whom he
had married in 1843, was with him in
these journeyings. He engaged for
himself and wife part of a wagon
owned by Alexander Robbins and
drove an ox team across the plains.
The company in which he traveled was
commanded by Capt. John Brown, one
of the Utah Pioneers and afterwards
Bishop of Pleasant Grove. He arrived
at his journey's end in September,
1851. The Fentons rented part of a
house in the Fifteenth Ward, but in
1852 they purchased a house and lot
in the 6th Ward. In 1856 they re-
moved to Ogden, intending to settle
there, but after buying a house and
two lots in that city, and finding them-
selves unable to purchase farming
land in the vicinity, they returned in
February, 1857, to their old home in
Salt Lake City. Having purchased
two and a half lots to his home and
planted a good fruit orchard, Mr. Fen-
ton next seeded, planted and establish-
ed a first class nursery. Afterwards,
as his sons grew old enough to go into
business with him, he purchased 30
acres of land a few blocks away for
nursery stock, and kept his green and
hot houses, rose gardens, etc., in the
Sixth Ward. Wliile conducting his
private business Mr. Fenton per-
formed various duties of a public
character, and he was never known
to neglect a duty, secular or ecclesi-
astical. He was ordained a High
Priest in 1853 and took an active part
in the Ward of which he was a mem-
ber. He also served as an officer of
militia in early years. He was thrice
married (twice after coming to Utah)
and was the father of eighteen chil-

dren, twelve of whom are living. He
married his second wife, Emma C.
Fenton, in 1854, and his third wife,
Annie Marie Wilson, in 1866. Bro.
Fenton died in January, 1890. in Salt
Lake City.

BROWN, Austin Milton, a veteran
Elder in the Twenty-sixth Ward (Pio-
neer Stake), Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Aug. 5, 1841, at Kirtland,
Lake county, Ohio, the son of Abra-
ham Brown and Harriet Sheldon. To-
getlier with his father's family he pas-

sed througli many difficullie:? and
trials at Kirtland, Ohio, and his
father's family was the last "Mormon"
family who left Kirtland. They emi-
grated to Utah in 1852, crossing the
plains in Isaac Bullock's company. His
father's family consisted of a wife,
five sons and two daughters. After
residing several years at Lehi, Utah
county, Bro. Brown located at Mur-
ray, Salt Lake county, where he en-
gaged in farming. After that he be-
came a freighter between the Missouri
river and G. S. L. City. This business
he followed from 1862 to 1864. When
crossing the plains the first time as a
thirteen year old boy (in 1852) he
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night the same as a full grown man.
Bro. Brown was baptized in the fall
of 1852 by Bishop David Evans at
Lehi; ordained a Deacon in 1852 by
Chas. Hopkins; ordained an Elder
about the year 1872, by James Ure;
ordained a Seventy April 10, 1896, by
Edward Stevenson and filled a mis-
sion to the Northern States the same
year, laboring principally in West
Virginia. Sometime after his return
from that mission he was ordained a
High Priest by Elder David McKenzie.
While residing at Pleasant Green he
acted as Sunday school treasurer for
six years, was second assistant super-
intendent four years, first assistant
superintendent ten years, and super-
intendent three years. He also acted
as constable in Pleasant Green four-
teen years, and since changing his
residence to Salt Lake City he has
worked at the post office six years.
In 1865 (Oct. 28th) he married Fannie
Stevenson, by whom he became the
father of six children, two boys and
four girls.

BROWN, Fannie Stevensen, wife of
Austin M. Brown, was born Sept. 1,
1848, at Breaston, Derbyshire, Eng-
land, the daughter of John Stevenson
and Mary Vickers. She was baptized
when eight years old and emigrated
with her parents in 1862, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "John J. Boyd",
(which sailed from Liverpool, April
23rd, and arrived at New York June
1, 1862), and crossing the plains in
Joseph Home's ox train which arrived
in Salt Lake City Oct. 1, 1862. After
residing temporarily in Salt Lake
City, she removed to Ogden, where
she lived a year and a half, and after
a short sojourn in Grantsville, Tooele
county, she moved to Pleasant Green,
where she met Austin M. Brown
whose wife she became Oct. 25, 1865.
She subsequently bore her husband
six children, five of whom are now
living. Sister Brown has always
been a public spirited woman; for

several years she acted as treasurer
in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. and was
president of the Primary Association
for eleven years. After moving to
Salt Lake City, she acted as second

counselor, later at first counselor and
still later as president of the Twenty-
sixth Ward Relief Society, which posi-
tion she still holds. She has also
taken a most active part in primary
and religion class work.

CUTLER, Heber Samuel. Bishop of
the 30th Ward (Pioneer Stake I. Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born Aug. 11,
1862, at Sheffield, England, the son
of John Cutler and Elizabeth Robin-
son. He emigrated with his parents
to Utah in 1864, and settled in East
Mill Creek. He was baptized Dec. 6,
1871, by Wm. Harrison, and in 1874
he started to work in a store in Salt
Lake City, which avocation he fol-
lowed for years. He was ordained a
Deacon in 1879 by Samuel Hill: or-
dained a Seventy Oct. 13. 1887, by
Seymour B. Young and became a
member of the 23rd quorum of Seven-
ty; ordained a High Priest March 15,
1900, by Chas. W. Penrose and set
apart as second counselor to Bishop

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Harrison Sperry of the Fourth Ward.
In 1889-92 he filled a mission to
Australasia, laboring principally as
president of the Australian part of
the mission. In returning home from
this mission he circumnavigated the
Globe. He acted as superintendent
of the Fourth Ward Sunday school
from 1897 to 1902 and was president

of the Fourth Ward Y. M. M. I. A.
about three years. Feb. 16, 1902, he
was ordained a Bishop by Rudger
Clawson and set apart to preside over
the Thirtieth Ward. In 1892 (Sept.
14th) he married Mary Amelia Weiler
(daughter of Joseph Weiler and Mary
A. Chaffin) who was born Dec. 12,
1884, in Salt Lake City; she has borne
her husband two children, namely,
Orville W. and Milton W. Bishop
Cutler has officiated two terms as
deputy county clerk, and has been
vice-president of the Cutler Bros.
Company since 1894.

BUCHANAN, Alexander, junior,
Stake clerk and a member of the
High Council of the Pioneer Stake,
Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Feb.
4, 1874, in Glasgow, Scotland, the son
of Alexander Buchanaa and the late
Margaret McCreadie. In his early

childhood he attended the common
schools of his native city and in 1882
emigrated with his parents to Utah,
settling in Salt Lake City, which has
been his home ever since. As a child
he was an apt pupil in the public
schools and was regarded by his
teachers as having an unsually bright
future educationally. At the age of

fifteen, however, at a time when
friends urged him to take a normal
training at the University, Alexander
became possessed of a desire to do
for himself and accordingly entered
the employ of the Star Printing Com-
pany as a printer's devil. He con-
itnued with this firm for a period of
five years, during which time he be-
came a skilled pressman and an ex-
cellent proofreader; but the work of
the printshop being somewhat dis-
tasteful to him he sought a more con-
genial occupation and on July 8, 1895,
entered the employ of the "Deseret
News" Company as proofreader and
general reporter. In the latter capa-
city he soon made many friends, and
when the mining boom struck Utah
he became mining editor of the paper,
which position he filled with marked
ability until called to go on a mission
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hood Alexander was closely associa-
ted witli the auxiliary organizations
of the Church, being for several years
librarian and assistant secretary of
the Fiftii Ward Sunday school, and
later assistant superintendent to the
late Elder George Clark, well known
as a pioneer barber of Salt Lake City.
He was assistant secretary of the
Ward primary association for some
time and will be remembered as the
small boy who read the minutes of
his association at the Relief Society
meetings in the Fourteenth Ward
hall. He was also secretary of the Y.
M. M. I. A. for a period of seven
years. Elder Buchanan left on a mis-
sion to Great Britain July 15, 1899,
and on his arrival at Liverpool was
assigned to labor in the Scottish con-
ference.then under the presidency of
Elder David O. McKay. The first
nine months of his time were spent
in the city of Edinburgh, after which
he was transferred to Glasgow, his
native city, where he became clerk
of the conference, in which capacity
he served for about a year. On the
18th of May, 1901, Elder Buchanan
was called to Liverpool as associate
editor of the "Millennial Star", which
position he filled, under the presiden-
cy of Apostle Francis M. Lyman for
a period of one year. His labors in
the mission field were highly satis-
factory to his presiding officers, and
he left for home May 22, 1902, with
the blessing of all with whom he had
been associated in Great Britain. Re-
turning to Salt Lake City .lune 8,
1902, Elder Buchanan resumed his
position with the "Deseret News",
continuing therein until Feb. 9, 1906,
when he left the newspaper field to
engage in other lines of activity.
When the Pioneer Stake was organ-
ized in 1904 Elder Buchanan became
Stake superintendent of the Y. M. M.
I. A., to which position he was set
apart May 1. 1904, by President Wm.
McLaciiian. This place he filled

with untiring energy for two years,
when he was chosen as a member of
the High Council, being set apart
April 30, 1906, and which position he
still holds. On the first of January,
1910, he became clerk of the Pioneer
Stake, the duties of which office he
still continues to discharge. He
was a member of the council of the
110th quorum of Seventy for four
years, president of the Scottish Mis-
sionary Society, which he was a
leading spirit in organizing, and a
member of the old Salt Lake Stake
Mutual Improvement board, under the
superintendency of Elder Geo. Albert
Smith. In short, his life has been
one of incessant activity in Church
affairs. He was baptized into the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints June 14, 1884, by Elder Robert

F. Turnbow. the ordinance being per-
formed in what was known as the
Fourth West canal, at a point midway
between Seventh and Eighth South
streets. He was confirmed a member
of the Church June 17, 1884, by his
father. His ordination as a Seventy
was under the hands of Apostle
George Teasdale July 14, 1899, and
as a member of the council of Seven-
ty under the hands of Elder Jonathan

G. Kimball June 30. 1902. Elder Bucha-
nan was chief clerk of the House of
Representatives during the seventh
and eighth sessions of the Utah State
Legislature in 1907 and 1909 and has
held a responsible position under the
county administration for several
years. He was married to Miss Rose
Bowers (daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jno. S. Bowers) Sept. 11, 1907, the
ceremony being performed in the
Salt Lake Temple by President John
R. Winder. He is the father of three
children, two boys and a girl, and is
now a member of the Thirtieth Ward,
Salt Lake City.

SHERWOOD, Robert, first Bishop of
the Thirty second Ward, Salt Lake

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City, Utah, was born Jan. 27. 1S58, at
Egham, Surrey, England, the son of
Charles Sherwood and Ann Hubbard.
He was baptized April IS, 1869, by
James Parsons at Hastings, where his
father moved when Robert was six
years old. He emigrated to Utah in
1873, crossing the Atlantic in the
steamship "Wyoming". On the voy-
age the ship was nearly wrecked on a
sandbar, near the coast of Nava Scotia.
Robert was ordained a Deacon in his
native land in 1871 by James Barnes;
ordained an Elder April 16. 1883, by
Richard B. Samson: ordained a Seven-

sion to Great Britain, laboring prin-
cipally in the London conference. At
home he has acted as superintendent
of the Brighton Sunday school, presi-
dent of the Ward Y. M. M. 1. and
second counselor to Bishop Sboen-
feld from 1897 to 1902.

BALFOUR, John, third Bishop of the
Brighton Ward Pioneer Stake), Salt
Lake county, Utah, was born Dec. 3,
1867, in Oakenshaw, Durham county,
England, the son of John Balfour and
Eliza Young. He was baptized March
15, 1884, by Elder Heber Oakey. or-

ty in 1897 and chosen as one of the
presidents of the 110th quorum of
Seventy; ordained a High Priest May
2, 1897, by Chas. W. Penrose, and or-
dained a Bishop May 21. 1902, and
set apart to preside over the 32nd
Ward. He occupied this position till
Sept. 17, 1911. Bro. Sherwood mar-
ried Elizabeth Shaw April 19, 1863,
and in 1887 he married Harriet Shaw,
who has borne him three children,
namely, Almy Leroy, David and John.
In 1890 (June 24th) he married Alice
Schoendfeld, who became the mother
of seven children, namely, Harriet,
Irene, Robert, Carl, Ivins. Albert and
Edna. In 1899-1901 he filled a mis-

dained to the office of a Deacon
March 11, 1894, by Bishop J. A. Tol-
man, ordained an Elder Dec. 31, 1896,
by Elder Denmark Jensen, ordained
a Seventy May 23, 1901, by Brigham
H. Roberts, and ordained a High
Priest and Bishop April 26. 1903, by
Rudger Clawson and set apart to pre-
side over the Chesterfield Ward in
the Bannock Stake of Zion. where he
labored until April, 1905, when he was
released on account of ill health to
move to a warmer climate. Bro. Bal-
four was a member of the Sunday
school board of the Bannock Stake
for a number of years. From May,
1901 to August, 1902, he filled a mis-

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443

sion to Australia, laboring as presi-
dent of the South Australian confer-
ence for fifteen months; he was re-
leased on account of ill health. After
moving to the Brighton Ward he ac-
ted as president of the Y. M. M. I. A.
for three years and acted as first
counselor to Bishop Fred. W. Shoen-
feld three years. March 13, 1912, he
was set apart as Bishop of the
Brighton Ward. In 1897 (Jan. 7th) he
married Minnie Nelson in the Logan
Temple. He is the father of nine
children, seven boys and two girls,
all of whom are still living. He is a
farmer by occupation.

KRISTIANSEN, Edvin Julius, first
counselor to Bishop John Balfour, of
the Brighton Ward (Pioneer Stake),
Salt Lake co., Utah, was born Aug. 31,
1874, at Sels0, Nordland amt, Norway,
the son of Kristian Edvard Johannesen
and Tine Pauline Pedersen. He was
baptized Jan. 8, 1906; emigrated to
Utah in 1907; was ordained a Teacher
and subsequently a Priest; ordained
an Elder April 26, 1909, by Carl P.
Lind, and ordained a High Priest April
13, 1913, by Pres. Wm. McLachlan and
set apart as first counselor to Bishop
Balfour. Previous to that he had
acted as second counselor in the 11th
quorum of Elders and as second
assistant superintendent of the Brigh-
ton Sunday school. Bro. Kristian-
sen is a shoemaker by trade and mar-
ried Anna Marie Poulsen Jan. 6, 1902;
she is the daughter of Paul Paulsen
and Karen Elingsen, who was born
Jan. 22, 1877, in Norway. Brother
Kristiansen is the father of six chil-
dren.

SPENCER, Hiram Theron, second
Bishop of the Pleasant Green Ward,
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born
Nov. 13, 1835, at West Stockbridge,
Berkshire co., Mass., the son of Hyrum
and Mary Spencer. He was baptized
Feb. 5, 1844, and migrated to Utah in
1847, crossing the plains in the compa-

ny led by Daniel Spencer. His father
and sister died in the camps of the
saints while journeying from Nauvoo
to Council Bluffs; both were burried
at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa. In crossing the
plains Hiram and other boys drove
the loose stock and the Bishop re-
lates interesting incidents when the
buffaloes were so plentiful on the
plains that it was difficult for the
trains to pass through them. The
company with which Hiram traveled

arrived in G. S. L. Valley Sept. 23,
1847. The family lived in the fort
two winters. In the fall of 1848
while Hiram was hauling corn fodder
from the farm to the city he was
thrown from his wagon into a ditch
and run over by one of the wagon
wheels which crushed his head most
terribly. He was taken to the fort
and a doctor summoned, who, after
examining the boy, said it would be
impossible for him to live till morn-
ing, and he consequently refused to
dress the wound, saying that sucli an
act would only add more misery to
the boy whose jaw was broken in
five places, his eyes crushed out of
their sockets and the skull crushed;
but in a short time Pres. Brigham
Young came into the house and order-

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ed the doctor (who was again sent
tori to dress the wounds, saying that
the boy should live and not die, and
turthermore that he should live
longer than the doctor himself. Prea
Brigham Young, assisted by Chas. C.
Rich and Daniel Spencer, adminis-
tered to Hiram and Pres. Young, who
was mouth, said the boy should live
to a good old age and do a great work
on the earth— a prophesy which surely
has been fulfilled. Whenever Bro.
Spencer and the doctor met after
that, the physician would always re-
mark that Bro. Spencer was a living
miracle. After residing temporarily
in the Thirteenth Ward, Salt Lake
City, and on the Little Cottonwood
creek (now Murray), Bro. Spencer
moved to the Point of the Mountain
west and settled at a place now in-
cluded in the Pleasant Green Ward.
In 1857 (March 31st) he married Mary
Barr Young who bore him five chil-
dren, four of whom are now living.
Early in 1857 Bro. Spencer went to
the Devils Gate to bring in some goods
that had been left there the previous
fall by the handcart companies. In
1859 and 1860 he made two trips to
the States after freight. In 1857 he
went out into Echo canyon to meet
the Johnston army, and he watched
the army till it arrived at Ft. Bridger.
He was also one of seven men who
stampeded the horses and mules of
the enemy. In 1858 he accompanied
General Burton on an Indian expedi-
tion. He was ordained an Elder Feb.
9. 1858, by Heber C. Kimball, and or-
dained a Seventy May 1, 1866 by
Joseph Young. In 1866-68 he filled a
mission to Great Britain, laboring
principally in Scotland. He was or-
dained a Seventy May 1. 1866, by
Angus M. Cannon and set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Lehi N. Hardman.
Finally he was ordained a Bishop
and set apart to preside over the
Pleasant Green Ward, July 23, 1892,
by Joseph F. Smith. Bro. Spencer

has acted as school trustee twelve
years, president of the Utah and Salt
Lake Canal Company four years and
been a director in the same company
fifteen years.

SPENCER, Mary Barr Young, wife
of Bishop Hiram T. Spencer, was
born May 19. 1841, in Glasgow, Scot-
land, the daughter of James Young
and Janet Carruth. She was blessed
Feb. 12, 1844, by William Gibson; emi-
grated to America in 1848, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Carnatic"
which sailed from Liverpool, Feb.
20th, and arrived at New Orleans
April 19, 1848. She crossed the plains

in Brigham Young's company, to-
gether with her mother and two
sisters (Grace and Janet) and arrived
in G. S. L. Valley Sept. 20, 1848. After
living in that city three years she
moved to Little Cottonwood (now
Murray) and in 1857 married Hiram
T. Spencer, to whom she has borne
five children, namely, Alice J.. Mary
E., Hiram T. (who died at the age of
19 years). Jane E. and Grace M. At
the time of the move (1858) Sister
Spencer went as far south as Lehi and
American Fork. She has been an
active teacher in the Ward Relief
Society for many years and as a

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Bishop's wife she has had opportunity
to show lier hospitality to thousands
of people.

JACOBS, Daniel, second counselor
to Bishop Hiram T. Spencer, of the
Pleasant Green Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Jan. 18, 1831.
He emigrated to America in 1857 and
on Oct. 14, 1858, he married Mary
Hains, daughter of John Hains and
Sarah Powell at Penn Yan, New York.
The following year they crossed the
plains in an ox train and located at
Grantsville, Tooele county, where they

director in the Salt Lake and Utah
Canal Company. His ability in ad-
vanced farming was a great benefit
to the neighborhood. Bro. Jacobs
died Jan. 20. 1899, at Pleasant Green,
highly respected by all who knew
him.

JACOBS, Mary Hains, wife of
Daniel Jacobs, was the daughter of
John Hains and Sarah Powell Hains;
she was born Aug. 13, 1827, at North
Petherton, Somersetshire, England,
joined the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in 1853 or 1854, and

resided until 1864, when they moved
to St. Charles, Bear Lake co., Idaho.
While at St. Charles Bro. Jacobs was
a diligent worker in the Sunday
school, and was president of the
county fair from the time of its or-
ganization till he moved to Utah. He
filled a mission to Great Britain from
1877 to 1879, laboring principally in
the Birmingham and Cheltenham
conferences. In 1833 he settled per-
manently at Pleasant Green. Previous
to being counselor to the Bishop he
acted as one of the seven presidents
of the 14th quorum of Seventy. For
a number of years Elder Jacobs acted
as school trustee and was also a

emigrated to America in 1857, leaving
her parents, brothers and sisters for
the gospel's sake. Some of her people
afterward came to America, settling
in New York. She was married to
Daniel Jacobs Oct. 14, 1858, in Penn-
Yan, New York. In 1859, they were
able to come on to Utah to join the
Saints, Bro. Jacobs having means to
pay his wife's passage and working
to pay for his own way accross the
plains. Sister Jacobs was ill all the
way crossing the plains, but she nev-
er murmured; she was always cheer-
ful and encouraged her husband in
the midst of hardship and want. They
passed through nearly all the hard

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experiences that the saints had to
endure in those days. After residing
a short time in Grantsville they
moved to St. Charles, Idaho, in 1864,
helping to settle up that part of the
country, and they were called to en-
dure many hardships. Sister Jacobs
was called to act as a counselor in
the St. Charles Relief Society, in 1867,
soon after moving there, which office
she held untill 1880, Avhen she was
set apart as president of the society.
This position she held until she
moved with her family to Pleasant
Green. Salt Lake co., Utah, in 1884.
She was active in Relief Society work
the rest of her life, helping many
both in sickness or trouble. In 1883,
she went to New York after her aged
mother, whom she nursed with loving
care until her death in 1884. Sister
Jacobs died March 27, 1892, as a faith-
ful Latter-day Saint, loved by all who
knew her.

REIO, George Alexander, second
counselor to Bishop Hiram T. Spen-
cer, of Pleasant Green Ward, Salt
Lake county, Utah, was born Sept.

12, 1862. in Salt Lake City, the son of
Peter Reid and Dianah Davidson. He
was baptized by his father when eight
years of age and ordained an Elder

in the spring of 1885. April 22, 1885,
he married Eliza Garrick (daughter
of Alexander Garrick and Jane Rily),
who was born Sept. 28, 1863, in
Greenock, Scotland, and emigrated to
Utah in 1878; she bore her husband
eleven children, six boys and five
girls, of whom seven are now living.
Bro. Reid was ordained a Seventy in
1895 by Geo. Reynolds and a High
Priest Dec. 28, 1902, by David L.
Davis. For several years he acted as
president of the Deacons quorum of
the Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake City,
and the Pleasant Green Ward; from
Jan. 14, 1894, to Nov. 3, 1895, he ac-
ted as secretary of the Ward Sunday
school. In 1895-98 he filled a mission
to the Southern States, laboring prin-
cipally in South Alabama. After his
return from that mission he labored
for two years as a home missionary
in the Salt Lake Stake of Zion. Later
he served on the Salt Lake Stake
Sunday School Board for two years.
He also acted as president of the
Pleasant Green Y. M. M. I. A. and as
Ward chorister. Since Dec. 28, 1902,
he has served as second counselor to
Bishop Spencer. From 1880 to 1890
Elder Reid was employed on the Utah
Central and Union Pacific railroads,
working his way up from engine ten-
der to the position of a locomotive
engineer, and since 1890 he has flo-
lowed farming and stockraising for a
living. He has served his fellow-
citizens as justice of the peace and
road supervisor, and also as deputy
sheriff for a short time. At present
he is first vice-president of the West
Side Commercial Club. While filling
his mission in the Southern States
he baptized and assisted in baptizing
fifty-nine souls in the course of six
months. He traveled for two years
without purse and scrip.

COCKERILL, Anthony, a veteran
Elder in the Pleasant Green Ward,
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born

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Aug. 28, I800, at Lubenham, Leicester-
shire, England, the son of Benjamin
Cockerill and Ann Iliff. He emigrated
to America in 1857, locating tempo-
rarily in the State of Delaware and
was baptized in 1858 by Churnson.
He emigrated to Utah in 1860, cros-

sing the plains in Henry W. Law-
rence's company. After residing for
same time in the 19th Ward, Salt
Lake City, he moved to Pleasant
Green, where he became one of the
first settlers in 1868. Bro. Cockerill
was ordained an Elder in 1862 and
has always? been an active member
of the Church. In 1862, he also mar-
ried Sarah Taylor, who died in 1874,
and in 1S75 he married Alice Robin-
son. By these two wives he became
the father of seven children. Elder
Cockerill has the honor of naming
Pleasant Green, or at least suggesting
that name, which was adopted be-
cause of a patch of green meadow
land that pleased the eye of the first
settlers of the place.

COCKERILL, Alice Robinson, wife
of Anthony Cockerill, was born .July
16, 1853, at Stockport, Lancashire,
England, the daughter of Thomas
Hawkins and Ann Collins. She was
baptized when eight years of age by

Wm. Burk, and emigrated to Utah
in 1869, crossing the Atlantic in the
steamship "Minnesota". After resid-
ing for some time in the Sixteenth
Ward, Salt Lake City, she located
temporarily in Cache Valley, but in
1875 she became the wife of Anthony

Cockerill, by whom she is the mother
of six children. Sister Cockerill has
been a diligent Relief Society worker,
having acted both as teacher and
secretary in that society; she was a
member of the First Relief Society
at Pleasant Green and was also a
member of the P^'irst Ward choir.

PERKINS, George Washington, a
weteran Elder in the Pleasant Green
Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah, was
born May 1, 1836, in Hancock county
111., the son of Absalom Perkins and
Nancy Martin. He was baptized in
1844 by Joel Johnson, emigrated to
America in 1848, crossing the plains
in Capt. Allen Taylor's hundred, and
settled at once in the Nineteenth
Ward, Salt Lake City, where he was
ordained a Seventy about the year
1853 and became a member of the
31st quorum of Seventy. Brother Per-
kins' father (Absalom Perkins died
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City in 1S4S and his motlier Nancy
Martin Perkins died at tlie same
place in 1854. In 1S54, George W.
was called, together with others, to
fill a special colonization mission to
Green River, and thus he became one
of the founders of Ft. Supply, where
he helped to build a block house; but

the Indians drove the settlers away
after Bro. Perkins had resided there
about six months. For nine years
Elder Perkins worked on the overland
poney express. In 1864 (Jan. 20th)
he married Alice Mellen. after which
he lived in the Sixteenth Ward. Salt
Lake City, three years; thence he
moved with his family to Pleasant
Green in 1867. There Bro. Perkins
acted for many years as a Ward
Teacher; he is the father of seven
children.

PERKINS, Alice Mellen, wife of
Geo. W. Perkins, was born June 27,
1845, in Hancock county. 111., the
daughter of John Mellen and Jane
Ramsten. She came to Utah in 1848.
together with her parents, crossing
the plains in Allen Taylor's hundred
and settled in the Fifteenth Ward.
Salt Lake City. During the move in
1858 she located temporarily at

Springville. Utah county, but return-
ed soon afterwards to Salt Lake City,
to the Sixteenth Ward, where her
mother died Dec. 13, 1893. and her
father Feb. 16, 1897. Sister Alice
maried George Washington Perkins
Jan. 20. 1864, and became tlie mother
of seven children, six of whom are

yet living. Sister Perkins has been
a most active and successful Relief
Society worker for about thirty years.

COON, James David, a veteran El-
der in the Pleasant Green Ward, Salt
Lake county, Utah, was born Dec. 7.
1842. in Green county, 111., the son of
Abraham Coon and Elizabeth Yard-
brough. He emigrated with his par-
ents to Utah in 1850. and although he
was just eight years of age he walked
most of the way across the plains,
driving a yoke of oxen. After his
arrival in the Valley he worked with
his father in the canyon and on the
farm and also accompanied his father
on a colonization mision to Carson
Valley (now in Nevada) in 1856-57.
He was baptized in 1854; was ordain-
ed an Elder about 1866 by Elias Smith,
and married Mary Horricks, March 11,
1865. Bro. Coon has been an active
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School teacher for many years. He
is one of the oldest residents of

Pleasant Green, settling there with
his father in 1852, and has practically
lived there ever since. Bro. Coon is
the father of sixteen children.

COON, Mary Horricks, wife of
.lames David Coon, was born Feb. 7,
1850, in Macclesfield, England, the
daughter of Edward Horricks and
Eliza Clark. She emigrated with her
parents to Utah in 1857, and while
crossing the plains, the company with
which she traveled experienced a
stampede in which the wagon the
Coons rode in was broken and two of
the inmates were killed. This com-
pelled them to double op with an-
other family and walk the balance of
the way across the plains. After
arriving in Salt Lake City in Sep-
tember, 1857. they located at Hunts-
ville, Weber co. The father was kil-
led in Ogden Canyon in 1864 by a
snowslide. Mary was married to
James David Coon March 11, 1865,
and she subsequently bore her hus-
band sixteen children, ten boys and
six girls, of whom thirteen are now
living, and also forty-six grandchild-
ren.

TAYLOR, Samuel Barnes, a pioneer
of 1S56 and a veteran Elder of the
Pleasant Green Ward, Salt Lake co.,
Utah, was born Oct. 16, 1841, at Ashton,
Underloyd. Lancashire, England, the
son of Joseph Taylor and Harriet
Barnes. He was baptized in May,
1853, by Cyrus H. Wheelock, came to
Utah in 1S56 and made his home in
tlie Nineteenth Ward. Salt Lake City.
He was ordained an Elder at an early
(lay and went bar/k for emigrants in
1862 and 186:]. Bro. Taylor was an
active teacher for many years; he also
acted as secretary of the Pleasant
Green Ward Sunday school, helped
build the Utah and Salt Lake canal, and
liauled water for domestic pourposes
from tlie City in the early days. In

1865 (June 3rd), he married Eliza
Jane West, which union has been
blessed with seven children, namely,
Mary Jane, John W., Harriet, Sarah
Ann, Naomie, Anna E., and Samuel L.
In 1868 Bro. Taylor moved to Pleasant
Green, where he resided until his
death which occurred Nov. 25, 1897.
Bro. Taylor's principal occupation in
life was that of a farmer.

TAYLOR, Eliza Jane West, wife of
Samuel B. Taylor, was born April 20.

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1847. at Barrow, Derbyshire, Eng-
land, the daughter of John West and
Rachel Kelling. She was baptized
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iu 1S51, crossing the Atlantic in a
sailing vessel. On the voyage the
father and three sisters died, leaving
the mother and Eliza as the only
survivors of the family who crossed
the plains; they arrived in Salt Lake
City in the fall of 1851, and after
a while settled in the Nineteenth
Ward. Salt Lake Ctiy, where they
lived until Eliza married Bro. Taylor;
after that they moved to Pleasant
Green, and became some of the first
settlers who located in that district
of the country. Sister Taylor is the
mother of seven children and has
been an active Relief Society worker
for twenty-five years.

WOLSTEN HOLME, Levi, a veteran
Elder in the Pleasant Green Ward,
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born
March 31, 1849, in Lancashire, Eng-
land, the son of Wm. Wolstenholme
and Phoebe Hardgraves. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1852, sailing from
Liverpool, March 20th, and arrived
in Salt Lake City Sept. 3, 1852. cros-
sing the plains in Abraham O.
Smoot's company. He arrived in

Utah with his mother, one brother
and one sister, his father having died
at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Levi was
baptized in 1857 by Wm. Derr and
confirmed by Pres. Brigham Young
and in 1868 he went back as a Church
teamster to the North Platte after
emigrants. He was ordained an El-
der in 1872 by John D. T. McAllister.
In 1872 (Dec. 9th) he married Martha
Hunter, by whom he became the fath-
er of ten children, nine of whom are
now living. Bro. Wolsteholme, after
residing in the 16th Ward, Salt Lake

City, seven years and in the Brighton
Ward seven years, settled permanent-
ly in Pleasant Green in 1889, where
he has followed the avocation of
farming and stockraising. For two
terms he served as a school trustee
and has throughout been a public
spirited man.

WOLSTENHOLME, Martha Hunter,
wife of Levi Wolstenholme was born
Oct. 1, 1854, in Salt Lake City, the
daughter of Isaac Hunter and Ann
Hunter. She was baptized when
about eight years of age by Geo. C.
Riser, resided in the Sixteenth Ward,
Salt Lake City, until she became the
wife of Bro. Wolstenholme Dec. 9,

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1872; by him she is tlie mother of ten
children, two boys and eight girls.
Sister Wolstenholme has gained the
reputation of being a most faithful

wife and Latter-day Saint, who has
raised her children in the ways of the
Lord, and by precept and example
been a pattern to all she has associ-
ated with in life.

STANLEY, Frank, Bishop of the
Poplar Grove Ward (Pioneer Stake),
Salt Lake City, Utah, was born June
11, 1851, at New Orleans, Louisiana.
His parents died of yellow fever when
he was three years of age, and to-
gether with a sister he was left to
fight his way through the world as
best he could. Between the ages of
fourteen and sixteen he traveled con-
siderable and then enlisted in the
army which brought him to Utah,
where he became a convert to "Mor-
monism" and was baptized Oct. 25,
1874, by John Hague. In 1873 (April
26th). he married Sarah R. Hardman,
daughter of Isaac Hardman and Alice
Ratcliffe. who was born Sept. 11, 1856,
in Salt Lake City. In 1880 (April
29th) he married Harriet Ann Hard-
man fa sister of his former wife) who

was born Dec. 27, 186^, in Salt Lake
City; she bore him four children,
while his first wife adopted two chil-
dren. He was ordained successively
to the office of Deacon and Teacher,
Priest, Elder and High Priest, the
latter ordination taking place March
25. 1904, by Joseph E. Taylor, and on
the same occasion he was set apart
as an alternate member of the High
Council in the Pioneer Stake. In
1905 (May 5th) he was ordained a
Bishop by Geo. Albert Smith and set
apart to preside over the Twenty-sixth
Ward, Salt Lake City. From 1908 to

1911 he resided at Lehi, Utah county,
there he married Henrietta L. Lamb
Oct. 20, 1909; she was the daughter
of Abraham Loose and Mary E. Lett
and was born at Lehi Oct. 17, 1863.
Bro. Stanley was sustained as a High
Councilor in the Pioneer Stake in
January, 1912, and was set apart as
Bishop of the Poplar Grove Ward,
Dec. 22, 1912.

BRICKER, William, a veteran El-
der in the Poplar Grove Ward, Salt
Lake county., Utah, was born March
28, 1832, at Studley Green, near

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Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, the
son of Job Bricker and Jane Luciis.
He was baptized in 1850 by Wm. Tay-
lor, was apprenticed to learn the trade
of a carriage builder and emigrated
to America in 1851. He located tem-
porarily in Massachusetts, staying
there two years; after which he moved
to St. Louis, Mo., and was there ap-
pointed president of a Priest's
quorum. In 1854 he was ordained an
Elder and appointed to preside over
the Elders quorum. In 1855-56 he

filled a mission to the Cherokee In-
dians and was released because of
being attacked with the chills and
fever. After his return to St. Louis,
he met Erastus Snow, who desired him
to take another mission, promising
him that if he would do so he would
never suffer with the fever and ague
again. Bro. Bricker promised to
take the mission and the words of
Bro. Snow were literally fulfilled. The
new mission to which he was ap-
pointed was more of a temporal na-
ture, he being sent to Nebraska to
raise means to help the handcart
companies. Here he labored two years
and during his residence in Nebraska
he presided over an Elders quorum.

In 1860 he returned to England and
remained there till 1866, when he
emigrated to Utah. After his arrival
in the Valley he married Elizabeth
Leather (daughter of Wm. Leather)
who was born in 1846 and emigrated
to Utah in 1866. By her Bro. Bricker
became the father of eleven children:
she died in February, 188:3. In 1884
Bro. Bricker married Sarah Goff. a
widow with seven children. Many
years ago Bro. Bricker was ordained a
High Priest by Bishop Reuben Miller.
His principal occupations have been
those of carpenter and farmer. He
is the father of twelve children.

BRICKER, Sarah Goff, wife of
William Bricker, was born April IT.
1842, at Longwatten, Leicesterhire.
England, the daughter of Isaac Goff
and Mary Naylor; she was baptized
in 1851 by her father and emigrated

to Utah in 1862, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "John J. Boyd" and the
plains in Homer Duncan's ox-train,
which arrived in Salt Lake City Sept.
24, 1862. The family settled at
Springville, Utah co., and in 1862
(Oct. 12th) Sarah married John C.
Stevenson, by whom she became the

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iiiotlier of eight children. After re-
siding in Springville seven years, the
family moved to Provo and several
years later to Midvale. While resid-
ing at Provo she was deserted by her
husband, and not hearing from him
for twenty-seven years she obtained
a divorce, and in 1884 (Jan. 17th) she
married Wm. Bricker, who had quite
a family and she had seven children:
but Sister Bricker assisted her hus-
Viand nobly in raising them all in the
ways oi the Lord. She became the
mother of one child by Bro. Bricker.
Sister Bricker has always been a
diligent Relief Society worker, hav-
ing taken an active part in the work
pertaining to that society in all the
Wards were she has resided.

JONES. Nathaniel Vary, Junior,
president of the High Priests ciuorum
01 the Granite Stake, Salt Lake coun-
ty, Utah, is the eldest son of Nathan-
iel and Rebecca M. Burton and was
born in Salt Lake City. Utah, Novem-

ber &. LS-SO. He was baptized into
the Churcli of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints, Sept. 30, 1860, and soon
afterwards ordained an Elder. In
January. 1868, he was ordained a
Seventy, and became a member of the

32nd quorum of Seventy. In De-
cember, 1872, he married Janet Innes
Swan. He served as a deputy sheriff
of Salt Lake county for two or three
years. In November, 1876, he was
called to fill a preaching mission in
the United States and left Salt Lake
City in November, 1876; he labored as
a misionary in the States of Missouri,
Illinois and Ohio, until the month of
May, 1877, wrhen he was called home
on account of the illness of his wife.
,Iune 27, 1877, he was ordained a
High Priest under the hands of Apos-
tle Orson Pratt and set apart as sec-
ond counselor to Bishop Joseph Poll-
ard, of the Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake
City. He occupied that position until
the death of Bishop Pollard in Jan-
uary, 1890. In 1885 he married Eliza-
beth Dwight Barlow and in 1890 he
married Barbara E. Morris. He read
law for several years in the law li-
brary of Senator Arthur Brown in
Salt Lake City, and in the month of
December, 1895, he was admitted to
the bar of the Supreme Court of the
Territory of Utah; he has followed
the legal profession ever since. In
May, 1898, he was set apart as second
counselor to Geo. B. Wallase, president
of the High Priests quorum of the
Salt Lake Stake of Zion, and held that
position until the death of Pres.
Wallace in January, 1900. Jan. 28,
1900, he was set apart as first
counselor to John Cook, president of
the High Priest quorum in the Gran-
ite Stake of Zion. He occupied that
position until June 21, 1908, when he
was chosen and set apart as president
of the High Priests quorum of Gran-
ite Stake, which position he occupies
at the present time.

LAMBERT, Charles John, an active
Elder in the Granger Ward (Granite
Stake), Salt Lake county, Utah, Avas
born Nov. 5, 1845, at Navoo, Illinois,
the son of Charles Lambert and Mary
Alice Cannon. He came to Utah with
his parents in 1849, settling in Salt

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Lake City, and worked Avith his fath-
er at stone cutting, masonry and
farming, until he was married Oct.
26, 1867, to Lily H. E. Druce, the
daughter of John Druce and Julia A.
Jinks. The same year he was called
on a mission to the Muddy. While
on his way he was stopped by Pres.
Erastus Snow and called to St. George
to help erect the tabernacle there.

In 1868 he worked as a foreman on
the railroad; in 1870 he started to
work in the paper mill in the Sugar
House Ward, where he worked as
foreman for a number of years.
Under his direction the paper mill at
Big Cottonwood was built, which cost
one hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars. He was foreman of this mill
until 1888, when he moved to Granger,
where he has resided ever since. In
1866 he took part in the Black Hawk
war in Sanpete. In 1878 (Nov. 28th)
he married Mary L. Hovey, the
daughter of James G. Hovey and
Susannah Goodridge. He was or-
dained to the office of an Elder Dec.
18, 1864, by Apostle Amasa M. Lyman;
ordained a Seventy April S, 1870, by
George Q. Cannon, and ordained a

High Priest May 15, 1910, by Natha-
niel V. Jones. The following exper-
iences in his life are well worth not-
ing: Once, while a boy, he and a
little friend of his were swimming
in a big creek on Sixth West Street,
between Ninth and Tenth South St.,
and while ducking each other under
a large bridge timber, Charles mys-
teriously became lodged under the
timber. His companion searched for
him, but could not find him: hence
he ran about a mile and brought a
man from the neighborhood to help
in the search. After hunting for a
few minutes, they turned the timber
over and there discovered the body
of Charles Lambert, which they car-
ried up on the bank and began work-
ing with it; in a few minutes they
brought it back to life again. Charles
says that he plainly saw the men
hunting for his body, which he could
see through the log, and tried to tell
them where it was, but they did not
seem to hear him. He also saw them
roll his body and saw the water pour
from his mouth. He knew not how
his spirit left the body, nor how it
entered the body again. On another
occasion, Avhile working at the paper
mill, he was kicked by a horse, which
fractured his skull. He was delirious
for a long time and not expected to
live, but through the administration
of the Elders and the prayer of faith,
and then being baptized in the Temple
for his health, he again regained full
control of his mind and body. Many
times in his life's experience he has
been saved from accidents by being
obedient to the promptings of the still
voice. Being the owner of forty acres
of wet. alkali land west of the Jordan
river in Granger. Elder Lambert en-
deavored to drain the same by an
open drain system; but as that was a
failure, he made tile drains success-
fully, thus making the land produc-
tive. That swampy, unproductive
land can now produce 75 bushels of

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oats to the acre and other cereals in
proportion.

BARTON, William Henry, a veteran
Elder in the Granger Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born June 16, 1843,
in Henry county, Illinois, the son of
William Barton and Christian Beaber.
During the time of the Civil War he
served in company I, Fourteenth Iowa
Infantry, for three years (from Aug.
15, 1862, until June 7, 1865) and be-
ing engaged in several battles, his

hearing became affected. He was
also slightly wounded in the battle
at Pleasant Hill, Lousianna. After
leaving the army, he started for the
West with a frighting outfit, intending
to go to Montana, but after arriving
in Salt Lake Valley he liked the place
so well that he remained among the
"Mormon" people and soon became
converted to their faith, joining the
Church late in the fall of 1867. In
1868 (Nov. 7th) he married Florence
Stallings ( daughter of Joseph Stal-
lings and Caroline Hardford), who
was born July 22, 1851, in East Mill
Creek, Utah. They were blessed with
five children, namely, Joseph A.,
Caroline I., Thomas B., William A.,

and Evelyne. Brother Barton was or-
dained an Elder in 1868 by Bishop
David Brinton, and a High Priest June
29, 1901, by James R. Miller. His oc-
cupation is that of a farmer.

BARTON, Florence Stallings, wife
of William H. Barton, was born July
22, 1851, in East Mill Creek, Salt Lake
county, Utah, the daughter of Joseph

Stallings and Caroline Hardford. In
1868 (Nov. 7th) she was married to
Brother Barton and became the moth-
er of five children. For a number of
years Sister Barton has taken an ac-
tive part in the Granger Ward Relief
Society, devoting her labors especially
to the sick among whom she has per-
formed a great work.

BAWDEN, Henry Lambert, super-
intendent of the Granger Ward Sun-
day school, Salt Lake county. Utah,
was born July 9, 1857, in Mill Creek,
Utah, the son of Henry Bawden and
Ann Ireland. He was baptized June
4, 1868, by his father; ordained to
the office of a Teacher Dec. 12. 1876,
by Alexander Hill; ordained an Elder
Dec. 4, 1881, by Alexander Hill; or-
dained a Seventy April 20. 1884. by
Robert Campbell, and ordained a High

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Prie-st March 15, 190S, by Chilion L.
Miller. In 1881 (Dec. loth), he mar-
ried Elizabeth S. Carlisle, daughter
of John Carlisle and Elizabeth Hoguar
Carlisle, wlio was born Dec. 24, 1857,
at Alpine, Utah county, Utah. While
residing in Mill Creek, Brother Baw-
den began his career in the Sunday
school as a teacher and later, moving
to Granger in 1885, he was secretary

of the Sunday school in that Ward for
two years: he was sustained as super-
intendent April .3, 1887. While labor-
ing in this capacity he has been very
successfull and today presides over one
of the most modern Sunday schools
in the Church. He has been chairman
of tlie Ward Amusement Comittee
since 1SS6, and by furnishing amuse-
ments for the different Ward associa-
tions, he has received enough money
to defray the Ward expenses. He has
been a director in the North Jordan
Irrigation Company for twenty-two
years and acted as deputy court
comissioner (with tlie special duty of
dividing the Jordan river) for a num-
ber of years. He is tlie father of
ten children, six sons and four
daughters. Two of his sons have been
on foreign misions.

HILL, Alexander, Joseph , first
assistant superintendent of the Gran-
ger Ward Sunday school, was born
Dec. 12, 1860, at Mendon, Cache coun-
ty, Utah, the son of Wiliam Hood
Hill and Mary Carolina S0rensen.
While a young man he worked on his
fatlier's farm, on the railroads and
canals. He was superintendent and
director of the North Jordan Irriga-
tion Company for twenty-four years.
In 1862 his parents left Mendon and

moved to Mill Creek, and in 1882
Alexander moved to Granger, where
he has resided ever since. He was
baptized June 3, 1869, by William
Luck, and confirmed the same day
by Bishop Reuben Miller. In 1883
(May .31st) he married Betsy Ann
Bawden (daughter of Henry Bawden
and Sarah F. Howard), who was born
Feb. 14, 1861, in Mill Creek, Salt
Lake co., Utah, and became the moth-
er of fourteen children. She has been a
prominent Relief Society worker, hav-
ing acted as secretary of the Ward
Relief society since 1884; she was al-
so first counselor in the Primary
association for a number of years in
Mill Creek Ward. Brother Hill re-
ceived the Priesthood in 1883, being

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urdained to the office of an Elder
March I'tJ, 18815. He was ordained a
Seventy Jan. 25. 1885, by John T. Ev-
ans, and a High Priest Feb. 16, 1908,
by Bishop Orrin P. Miller. He was
president of the Granger Ward M. I.
A. for five years, and has acted as
assistant superintendent of the Gran-
der Sunday school since March 1»5,
1S84. In a civil capacity Bro. Hill
has served as constable for eight
years and school trustee for ten
years. His occupation has been
farming and stockraising.

HEMENWAY, Lachoneus, an active
Elder in the Granger Ward. Salt Lake
':ounty. Utah, was born Jan. 16, 1849,
ill Daysville, Ogle county, Illinois,
the son of Luther Hemenway and Al-
vira Day. In 1852 he came to Utah
with his parents, arriving in Salt Lake
City in October. His father then en-
gaged in a nursery business in the
Fourtli Ward, which he successfully
<_ )nducted for many years. In 1869

county, Utah. In 1869 (Oct. ISth )
he married Annie Roberts, the daughter
of John Sydney Roberts and Martha
Carolina Bowers. This union has
been blessed with eleven shildren.
His wife died Dec. 1, 1912, at Gran-
ger, Utah. In 1869 (Oct. 18th) Bro.
Hemenway was ordained to the office
of an Elder by Daniel H. Wells and
in 1912 (Jan. 21st) a High Priest, by
Chilion L. Miller. He has been an
active Ward teacher for many years.
In a vivil capacity he served as justice
of the peace for eight years and a
director in the Utah and Salt Lake
Canal Company for eight years, tak-
ing a prominent part in its construc-
tion, as well as in several other ditch-
es and canals in Salt Lake county.
For the past two years he has had
work done for about nine hundred of
his relatives in the Logan Temple.

RICARDSON, John, Ward clerk of
the Grant Ward, (Granite Stake)
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born May

he moved to St. George, where he
established a vineyard, wliich he con-
ducted until his death, which occurred
July 15. 1891. Lachoneus' mother died
in January. 1890, at Logan, Cache

22, 1851, in Bedford, Bedfordshire,
England, the son of Charles Richard-
son and Sarah Lavender. He was
baptized in June, 1869, by Peter
Nebeker, attended school until he was

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fourteen years of age, and was then
apprenticed to a tailor, until Septem-
ber, 1869, when he emigrated to Ame-
rica, crossing the ocean in the ship
"Nevada", and arriving in Salt Lake
City Sept. 24, 1869. He settled in
Taylorsville, Salt Lake co., where he
lived three years, and then moved to
that part of South Cottonwood which
is now included in the Grant Ward.
In 1883 (Dec. 13th) he married Eliza-
beth Mackay (daughter of Thomas
Mackay and Sarah Franks), who was
born Jan. 16, 1859, at Taylorsville.
She was a diligent mutual improvement
worker, acting as president of the
Y. L. M. I. A. in the Grant Ward from
Nov. 2, 1902, until her death, which
occurred Dec. 9, 1905. She was the
mother of nine children, five boys
and four girls. Brother Richardson
was ordained to the office of an Elder
in January, 1872, by Wm. Smith, and
ordained a High Priest Feb. 16,
1908, by Orrin P. Miller. He was
clerk of the 12th quorum of Elders
in the Grant Ward from 1901 until
1903, and on Nov. 15, 1903, he was
sustained as Ward clerk of the Grant
Ward, which position he holds today.
He was a school trustee in the 24th
district. Salt Lake county, four years,
and for the last six years has been
registration agent for the 61st district.
His main occupation is farming, but
he also acts as secretary, treasurer
and director of the Gaboon and Max-
field Irrigation Company, having held
these offices for the past three years.

GILLEN, Erick, an active Elder in
the Grant Ward, Salt Lake co., Utah,
was born Sept. 8, 1852, in Hokhuf-
ved, Stockholm, Sweden, the son of
Abraham Gillen and Anna Margreta
Matson. His mother died when he
was eleven years of age, and after two
more years of schooling he was thrown
upon his own resources. He worked
at farming, and receiving the gospel
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

he was baptized a member of the
Church Aug. 11, 1878, by C. P. Larson.
He was ordained to the office of a
Priest Oct. 29, 1878, by C. P. Larson
and ordained an Elder Oct. 5, 1879. by
Niels Wilhelmsen. About the same
time he was sent out as a local mis-
sionary to preach the gospel. He la-
bored principally in the Sundsvall
branch of the Stockholm conference,
until May 23, 1880, when he was re-

leased from presiding over the Sunds-
vall branch and sent to preside over
the Gotland branch. He was released
from the Gotland branch Oct. 3. 1880.
and sent to the Eskilstuna branch,
Sodermanland, where he presided un-
til May 21. 1881. Being released from
that branch he was sent to preside
over the Upsala branch and presided
thus until June 8, 1882. After labor-
ing two and a half years as a local
missionary he received his release
and emigrated to Utah, where he sett-
led in South Cottonwood (now Grant
Ward), Salt Lake co. In 1883 (July
5th) he married Amanda Mathilda
AVestin, daughter of Mats Westin and
Anna M. Hanson, who was born Oct.
1, 1862, in Oregrund, Stockholm Ian,

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Sweden. She came to Utah July 10,
1882, and is the mother of ten chil-
dren, six boys and four girls. Bro.
Gillen labored as a leading teacher in
the South Cottonwood and also Grant
Ward, and was ordained a Seventj^
March 23, 1884, by Robert Campbell.
April 14, 1894, he left for a mission to
Sweden, where he labored as pre-
sident of the Stockholm conference
seven months. Having been honor-
ably released, he returned home Sept.
4, 1896. He was ordained a High
Priest Feb. 16, 1908, by Chilion L.
Miller and at the present time he is
an instructor in the High Priest's
quorum. In a civil waj^ Bro. Gillen
served as school trustee for two years
and is now a successful farmer.

MYERS, Carl Peter, an active Elder
in the Grant AVard, (Granite Stake),
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born
June 5, 1857, in Led0ie, near Copen-
hagen, Denmark, the son of Carl F.

C. Meyers and Anna J. C. Jacobsen.
He left Denmark with his parents and
one brother and four sisters in 1862.
While on board the ship two of his
sisters died, principally through lack

of food, and Carl barely escaped with
his life . He was so faint when he
landed in America that he had to be
carried. The family crossed the
plains in Joseph Home's oxtrain. ar-
riving in Salt Lake City Oct. 1. 1862;
they settled in South Cottonwood,
now Grant Ward, where he has re-
sided ever since. Bro. Myers was or-
dained a Teacher, a Priest, an Elder
and a High Priest (Jan. 19, 1908). the
latter ordination taking place under
the hands of John Cook. In 1882
(Jan. 12th) he married Wilhelmine
Larsen, daughter of Hans Larsen and
Karen Larsen. This union has
brought them nine children, five boys
and four girls. Sister Myers was
chosen first counselor in the Relief
Society when it was first organized
in the Grant Ward in 1900, and in 1910
(Sept. 26th) she was chosen president
of the Ward Primary Association,
which position she holds today. When
a boy. Brother Myers' hearing became
affected; this has made it difficult for
him to hold any special position in the
Church; nevertheless, he has been a
very active Ward teacher, and was
school trustee for four years. Two
of his sons have been on missions.
His occupation is that of a farmer.

LARSEN, Lars, a prominent Elder
in the Big Cottonwood Ward, Salt
Lake county, Utah, was born Sept.
19, 1817, on the island of Lolland.
Denmark, the son of Lars Madsen and
Karen Nielsen. He joined the Church
in his native land in the early sixties
and received a thorough thrashing by
his elder brother because he become
a "Mormon"; he learned the trade of
a tailor and emigrated to Utah in
1862, walking all the way across the
plains. At Big Cottonwood, where he
located, he became a successful farm-
er. He married Karen Sophie
Mathiesen, who was born Nov. 20.
1837, in Denmark, and emigrated to

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Utah in 1862. She bore her husband
two children, both boys (Joseph Y.

and Lars). Bro. Lars Larsen died
June '25, 1880, and his wife died in
1909.

Larsen, Joseph Young, first Bishop
of tlie HoUiday Ward, Salt Lake
county. Utah, was born Sept. 16, 1865.
at Big Cottonwood, Salt Lake county,
Utah, the son or Lars Larsen and
Karen Sophie Mathiesen. He was
baptized by Niels Petersen in 1873,
and while still a lad ordained a
Deacon by Wni. Taylor. In 1889 he
was ordained an Elder by Chas. Har-
per. In September, 1895, he was or-
dained a Seventy by J. Golden Kim-
ball and in 1911 (Feb. 5th) he was or-
dained a High Priest and Bishop by
Hyruni :\I. Smith and set apart to pre-
side over the Holliday Ward, which
was then organized. Prior to this
date, he had acted for 8 years as pre-
sident of the Ward religion class, been
counselor in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A.
and officiated as president of the
Deacons' quorum ten years. In 1895-
1897 he filled a mission to Scandinavia.
After laboring for some time on the
island ol' Bornholm, Denmark, lie was

banished from the country, after which
lie filled tlie remainder of his mission
in the Sk^ne conference, Sweden. In
1889 (Feb. 28th) he married Christine
S. W. Swaner, daughter of John
Swaner and Helena Swaner, who was
born March 29, 1868, and died May 7,
1899. He married Olga W. Hansen Feb.

28, 1900: she was the daughter of
Christian Hansen and Signe O. Gun-
dersen and was born April 1, 1879, in
Denmark: she is now the mother of
five children, four boys and one girl.
Bishop Larsen's principal avocations
in life have been those of farming
and stock raising.

MILLER, William, first Bishop of
the Hunter Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born Aug. 21, 1837, at New
Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, the
son of Geo. Miller and Martha Jane
Courley. He migrated to Utah in
1861, crossing the plains in David H.
Cannon's company and drove a four-
yoke oxteam from Omaha to Salt Lake
City. He located on the present site
of Morgan City, Morgan county, in
the fall of 1861, which settlement at
that time consisted of a few small log
houses. He assisted in building the
first saw- and flouring mills in the

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Weber Valley. In June, 1S62, he was
baptized by Nelson Arava and con-
firmed by Bishop Abiah Wadsworth.
In 1865 (Nov. 12th) he married Lucin-
da M. Wadsworth, by whom he has had
nine children (four sons and five
daughters). At the present time
(1914) they have twenty-si.x grand-
children and one great sran'l child.
Bro. Miller was ordained an Elder
April 25, 1868, by John D. T. Mc
Allister, and a Seventy, by John S.
Gleason Aug. 18, 1869, at Farmington,
Davis CO., Utah. In 1869-70 he filled
a short mission to the Northern
States. After returning from that

■^«»s

mission he settled at Hooper, Weber
CO., where he resided until the fall
of 1881, when he moved to Pleasant
Green, Salt Lake co. Here he follow-
ed farming and also taught school in
the Hunter district several terms. He
was ordained a High Priest and
Bishop Aug. 26, 1888, by Apostle John
W. Taylor and set apart to preside
over the Hunter Ward, with John T.
Evans and Alfred A. Jones as counse-
lors. He acted as Bishop of Hunter
eleven years, his home being across
the road in the Pleasant Green Ward.
He was finally released as Bishop of

Hunter July 23, 1899, and chosen as
a counselor to Bishop Hiram T. Spen-
cer, of the Pleasant Green Ward. In
1901 he filled a short but very success-
ful mission to the Northern States,
laboring principally in Illinois. Iowa
and Missouri. In April, 1902. he
moved to Alberta, Canada, where lie
was chosen counselor to Bishop Frank
D. Grant in the Stirling Ward. He
was also appointed overseer (a civil
office), occupying that position for
two terms. In 1905 he moved toward?
the north and located in the Bing-
liam branch of the Claresholm Ward.
Alberta, where he acted as presiding
Elder until the branch was given a
Ward organization in 1907, when Geo.
W. Pack was chosen Bishop and the
new Ward named Star Line. Whil<-
residing in Canada Elder Miller en-
gaged in farming and stockraising, to-
gether with his sons. By obeying the
counsel of Pres. Jos. F. Smith "to
keep out of debt", writes Elder Miller,
"we have been very successful. I
am today 76 years old. I have at
home and abroad received many great
and true testimonies of the gospel as
revealed through the instrumentality
of Joseph Smith, I know it to be true".
At present Bishop Miller is a resident
of the Fourteenth Ward, Salt Lake
City.

DAY, Laronzo, third Bishop of the
Hunter Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah,
was born Jan. 21, 1858, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, the son of Hugh Day and
Susannah Content Judd. He was bap-
tized July 15. 1866, by Peter Reid. His
early days were mostly spent in
freighting to the different mining
camps. He was ordained a Teacher
Nov. 10, 1882; an Elder Dec. 15, 1882.
by Zadoc Mitchell; a Seventy March
11, 1884, by George Reynolds, and set
apart as one of the seven presidents
of the 14th quorum of Seventy in
1889. He was ordained a High Priest
and Bishop July 27, 1902, by John R.

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Winder and set apart to preside over
tlie Hunter Ward at the same time.
Prior to this lie was president of the Y.
M. M. I. A. for four years, was first
assistant and also superintendent of
the Sunday school twelve years, and
acted as an aid in the Salt Lake Stake
M. I. A. one year. In 1898-1900 he
filled a mission to the Northern
States, laboring principally in the
Dakotas and Iowa. He was a counse-

Germain, Piedmont, province of St.
Segon, Italy, the son of John Bertoch
and Marguerite Bounous. He receiv-
ed a good education, learned the
French and Italian languages and also
studied some music. He joined the
Church in the spring of 1853, being
baptized by John Malan and emi-
grated to America in 1854, leaving
England, in the ship "John M. Wood",
which sailed from Liverpool March

lor to President A. M. Hansen of the
Iowa conference one year. In a
cilvil way Bro. Day has served as a
school trustee for two terms ,and since
coming to Hunter in 1886 his occupa-
tion has been that of a farmer. In
1882 (Dec. 2nd) he married Elizabeth
Jane Russell (daughter of Henry
Russell and Elizabeth Walton), who
was born April 28, 1862, at Coventry,
Warwickshire, England, and came to
Utah in 1869, leaving Liverpol July
28th. and arriving at Ogden, Utah,
x\ug. 20, 1869. She is the mother of
eleven children, five of whom are liv-
ing today.

BERTOCH, James, a veteran Elder
in the Hunter Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born July 29, 18.18, at St.

12th and arrived at New Orleans May
2, 1854. Bro. Bertoch crossed the
plains in Robert L. Campbell's com-
pany and arrived in Salt Lake City
Oct. 28, 1854. While crossing the
plains, he met with an accident near
Fort Laramie, falling from his wagon;
his legs were run over by the wheels,
which pained him severely. Just be-
fore arriving in the Valley, he, to-
gether with his sister and a German
lady, strayed from the train and were
lost in the mountains, which made
them two days late in arriving in the
Valley. Bro. Bertoch obtained em-
ployment from Joseph Toronto and
worked on Antelope Island for two
years, he then moving to Pleasant
Green, where he lived until 1905, when
lie moved to Hunter. In 1866 (May

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463

I'nlu he was married in the Endow-
ment House to Ann Cutcliffe. This
union was blessed with thirteen chil-
dren, nine boys and four girls. Bro.
Eertoch was ordained to the office of
an Elder in 1862 by Elijah F. Sheets,
ordained a Seventy March 22, 1884, by
William W. Taylor and ordained a
High Priest April 30, 1898, by Charles
W. Penrose. In 1891-1893 he filled a
mission to Switzerland and Italy,
laboring fourteen months in Switzer-
land and ten months in Italy. He
has acted as first assistant superin-
tendent of the Pleasant Green Ward
Sunday school for fifteen years and
was counselor in the Y. M. M. I. A. for
a number of years; he has been an
active Ward teacher for thirty-five
years. For about nine years he served
as a school trustee and has followed
the occupation of a farmer continuous-
Iv.

and arrived at New York June 1,
1865. They crossed the plains in
Capt. Wm. S. S. Willis's company, ar-
riving in Salt Lake City Nov. 29,
1865. The emigrants were snowed in
in the mountains for three days, and
would have perished, had it not been
for the mule train sent from Zion to
help them through. After arriving in
the valley Sister Ann lived with her
sister, the wife of Daniel Spencer, un-
til May 19, 1866, when she married
James Bertoch. By him she became
the mother of thirteen children.
Sister Bertoch has been a faithful Re-
lief Society worker, acting as a coun-
selor of the Ward Relief Society for
twenty-five years and president for
three years, while living in Pleasant
Green. She has ever made it her spe-
cial duty to look after the poor and
the sick of the Ward and has been
a great comfort to many.

BERTOCH, Ann Cutcliffe, wife of
James Bertoch, was born July 16,
1*46. in Combartin, Devonshire, Eng-

BAWDEN, Henry, an early pioneer
of Utah, and a faithful Elder in the
Church, was born Aug. 3, 1820, at

land, the daughter of George Cutcliffe
and Elizabeth Jones. She emigrated
to America with her mother and one
sister in the ship "Belle Wood," which
sailed from Liverpool April 29, 1865,

North Molton, Devonshire, England,
the son of William Bawden and
Rebecca Watts. When a boy he learn-
ed the trade of a blacksmith in his
father's shop, and at the age of

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twenty-five he took over his father's
business. In 1848 (in April) he was
baptized a member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Saints and in
1851 he emigrated to America. After
living in St. Louis, Mo., one year, he
came to Utah in 1852, crossing the
plains with an ox-team. He settled on
the Big Cottonwood creek. Salt Lake
county, where he took up his trade
and became the pioneer blacksmith in
that locality. About 1845 he married
Ann Ireland, who became the mother
of eight children, and in 1857, (March
18th) he married Sarah F. Howard,
who bore him ten children. During
"the move" in 1858 he went to Spanish
Fork, Utah co. He was ordained to
the Priesthood and held the office of
a Seventy at the time of his death,
which occurred June 22, 1891, at Big
Cottonwood, Salt Lake City, co., Utah.

BAWDEN, Ann Ireland, wife of
Henry Bawden was born Feb. 3, 1822,
at Ottery, Saint Mary, Devonshire,
England, the daughter of Nathaniel and

Mary Ann Ireland. After her marriage
to Henry Bawden, she with him be-
came a convert to "Mormonism" and
was baptized in April, 1848, at Bristol,
England, by Elder George Halliday and
emigrated with her husband to Ameri-

ca in 1851. Three of her childrei.
were born in England, and one of theni
died while crossing the ocean and Avas
buried at sea. After residing tempo-
rarily in St. Louis, Mo., the family mi-
grated to Utah in 1852 and settled in
Big Cottenwood where Sister Bawden
died about the year 1868.

BAWDEN, Sarah Freelove Howard,
wife of Henry Bawden, was born Aug.
.30, 1838, in Bedfordshire, England. She
emigrated with her parents to America
in 1844, crossing the ocean in the ship
"Swanton". which sailed from Liver-

pool Feb. 11, 1844; the company ar-
rived at Nauvoo, 111., April IS, 1844.
The journey being a trying one, the
mother took sick, on which account
Elder Lorenzo Snow advised the fami-
ly to remain in St. Louis, Mo. There
tlie mother died in 1849 and the father
died in 1854. Sarah was baptized in
1S50 in St. Louis and remained there
until 1856, when she emigrated to
Utah, crossing the plains in Capt.
John A. Hunter's company, which ar-
rived in Salt Lake City Sept. 2, 185'>.
In 1857, (March 18th), she was mar-
ried to Henry Bawden, and is the
mother of ten children. Sister Baw-
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for many years in the Mill Creek
Ward; she was also first counselor in
the Primary for nineteen years. She
has been a widow since 1891.

MAWSON, William Oliver, a veter-
an Elder in the Church, was born Feb.
4. 1828, at Ottley Gill. Yorkshire, Eng-
land, the son of Robt. Mawson and
Hannah Wood. He was baptized June
20, 1847, and emigrated to America in
1860, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Underwriter" and the plains in Daniel
Robinson's handcart company, which
arrived in Salt Lake City Aug. 27,
1860. He pulled a hand cart nearly
the whole distance across the plains
and took turns in standing guard at
night. After his arrival in the Valley,
Bro. Mawson located at Mill Creek,
Salt Lake co., where he resided con-
tinuously, but when the Mill Creek
Ward was divided, he became a mem-
ber of the Miller Ward, where he re-
sided until he died Sept. 4, 1913. In
1870 (Feb. 28th) he married Mary
Gibbs, who became the mother of five
children; she was a native of Wales
and died Dec. 2, 1881. In 1883 (Dec.
23rd) he married Anna Fisher, a na-
tive of Switzerland, who became the
mother of two children; she died Nov.
19, 1898. In 1898 (June 29th) he mar-
ried Elizabeth Fisher, who died March
1, 1908. Bro. Mawson was the father
of seven children, namely, Mary H.,
Wm. O., Joseph A., Robert, Rachel J.,
John and David. Bro. Mawson was
ordained a Priest in 1848 and an Elder
in 1849 and a High Priest in 1870. For
many years he was an active Ward
teacher in Mill Creek. Otherwise he
was a shoemaker by trade and univers-
ally known as an honest, upright man.

BANKS, Cornelius Holmes, second
counselor to Bishop Mauss of the
Murray First Ward, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was bom Sept. 12, 1844, at
Dausby, Lincolnshire, England, the
son of John Banks and Ann Holmes.
He was baptized in August, 1854, by

John Banks, was soon afterwards or-
dained a Deacon and emigrated to
America in 1864, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "General McClelland"
which arrived in New York June 23,
1864. From Wyoming, Nebraska, he
crossed the plains in a government
freight train under Captain Seely.
which arrived in Great Salt Lake
Valley Oct. 30, 1864. Running short
of provisions en route they had to pay
swenty-four dollars a sack for flour
and 50 cents a pound for bacon at Fort
Bridger. After his arrival in Utah
Bro. Banks located in Tooele and was

ordained an Elder by Hugh S. Gowans,
In 1866 he removed to Salt Lake City
and in 1867 (April 27th), he married
Mary Jones, who bore him twelve
children, five of whom are still living.
In 1865 he was called to drive a four-
horse team out on the plains to meet
the emigrants. He went as far as
South Platte, where he met a company
of Scandinavian Saints. In 1866 he
participated in the Black Hawk Indian
war in Sanpete. In 1902-1905 he filled
a mission to Great Britain, laboring
principally in the Grimsby conference.
In the spring of 1905 he changed his
residence from the Eleventh Ward,

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Salt Lake City, to Murray, where he
commenced business as an undertaker,
having previously been connected vtrith
Josep E. Taylor's undertaking estab-
lishment in Salt Lake City for twenty-
four years. From 1906 to 1911 he acted
as assistant superintendent of the
Murray Sunday school; for many
years he belonged to a quorum of
Seventy and was finally ordained a
High Priest and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Mauss.

ERICKSON, Jacob Emil, Bishop of
the Murray Second Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Dec. 20, 1863,
at Karlskrona, orebro Ian, Sweden,
the son of Lars F. Erickson and Chri-
stina Nordstrom. He was baptized
April 3, 1881, by Karl H. P. Nordberg;
emigrated to Utah in 1882 and located

temporarily in Logan, Cache county,
where he worked on the Temple dur-
ing the summer and the following
winter. He finally moved to Murray,
where he has resided ever since. He
was ordained a Seventy Feb. 12, 1892,
by S. M. Lovendahl and married Thea
Bohn Feb. 9, 1887; she was born April
11, 1861, in Moroni, Sanpete county,
Utah. By her Brother Erickson be-
came the father of seven children,

namely, Emil T., Beatrice L., Ella
Pearl, Lulu, Flora and Leona Maria
(who died at the age of six years). In
1899-1901 Brother Erickson filled a
very successful mission to Sweden,
laboring in the Stockholm conference,
where he witnessed many marvelous
manifestations of the power of God,
especially in the healing of the sick.
After his return from that mission he
resumed his ecclesiastical duties in
the Murray Ward and was also chosen
as one of the presidents of the 72nd
quorum of Seventy. . When the Mur-
ray Ward was divided March 6, 1906,
he was ordained a High Priest and
Bishop and set apart to preside over
the Murray Second Ward by Apostle
Rudger Clawson. His wife died June
11, 1913, in Murray. The direct
cause of her demise was leakage of
the heart. She was a most zealous
Latter-day Saint and filled the posi-
tion of second counselor in the Ward
Relief Society when she died.

PARK, Joseph Gordon, first coun-
selor to Bishop Erickson of the Mur-

ray Second Ward
Salt Lake county,

(Granite Stake),
Utah, was born

March 1, 1869, at Mill Creek, Salt Lake
county, Utah, the son of William D.

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Park and Jennette Gordon. He was
baptized when about eight years old
by Bishop James C. Hamilton, and was
ordained successively to the office of
Priest, Elder and Seventy, the latter
ordination taking place in 1889, under
the hands of George Saville. In 1899-
1901 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, together with his wife. Both
labored in the Manchester and Nor-
wich conferences. While in Europe
they also visited France, Belgium, Hol-
land and Scotland. Before going on
this mission Bro. Park labored as an
officer in the Mill Creek Ward Y. M.
M. I. A., and in 1906 (March 1st), he
was ordained a High Priest and set
apart as first counselor to Bishop
Erickson, of the Murray Second Ward.
Brother Park has also been active in
secular matters and served for two
years as councilman of Murray city.
Years ago he married Eva R. Tit-
comb, who bore him four children,
namely, John W., Lily J., Joseph Y.,
and Eva M. Sheep raising, lumber-
and coal business and farming have
been Elder Park's principal lines of
industry.

SWENSON, Oscar Emanuel, second
counselor to Bishop Erickson, of the
Murray Second Ward, Salt Lake co.,
Utah, was born June 7, 1870, in Hobol,
parish of Dalsland, Sweden, the son
of Gustaf Swenson and Matilda Holm-
strom. He was baptized at 0hr, Id
Parish, Norway, Oct. 29, 1884, by C.
J. Christensen and was ordained a
Deacon Dec. 25, 1886, by Louis Hol-
ther. Subsequently, he was ordained
a Priest at Fredrikshald, Norway, He
emigrated to Utah in 1890 and after
residing a short time in Provo, Utah
county, he settled more permanently
in Murray. Here he has acted as a
Ward teacher and filled the position
of second counselor and later as pre-
sident of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. In
1909 he was chosen as second coun-
selor in the Bishopric of the Murray

Second Ward. In 1897 he married
Hilda Constance Anderson, by whom
he became the father of seven child-

ren, six of whom are now living.
Brother Swenson is a farmer by oc-
cupation and has also been employed
at the American smelter at Murray.

WRIGHT, William Herbert, Ward
clerk of the Murray Second Ward, was
born May 21, 1869, at South Cotton-
wood, Salt Lake county, Utah, the son
of Benjamin Wright and Eliza Darton.
He was baptized Aug. 27, 1880, by
Thomas A. Wheeler; ordained a
Deacon when quite young and ordain-
ed an Elder Feb. 5, 1900, by Wm. E.
Bird. In 1900 (Feb 14th) he married
Mina Christina Hartvigsen (daughter
of Emil Hartvigsen and Mina S0ren-
son), who was born June 4, 1880, at
Sandy, Salt Lake county, Utah. She
is the mother of six children. She
has acted as Ward organist in the
Sandy, Grant and Murray Wards, and
as an aid in the Ward Relief Society
for a nember of years. Brother Wright
acted as Ward clerk of the Grant
Ward for two years and was assistant
superintendent of the Murray Second
Ward Sunday school for a long time.

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On March 18, 1906, lie was sustained
as Ward clerk of the Murray Second
Ward. Bro. Wright has been engaged

in the sheep business for thirteen
years and is now employed by the
government as a rural mail deliverer.

GODFREY, Caroline Trott, wife of
Charles Godfrey, was born Sept. 22,
1901, at North Petherton, Sommerset-

shire, England, daughter of Isaac
Trott and Eliza Slocum. She joined
the Church in 1847, being one of the

first converts to "Mormonism" in the
neighborhood where she lived. Two
weeks after her baptism she was ap-
proched by a sectarian minister who
endeavored to poisen her mind against
the gospel, but his efforts only evoked
from her the following reply: "Mr.
Allan, I have learned more from these
people in two weeks than you could
have taught me in forty years." In
1821 (Dec. 21st) she married Charles
Godfrey, with whom she had seven
children. Her husband died in 1843,
and in 1864 she and" her son James
emigrated to America, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Hudson", which
sailed from London June 3, 1864. They
crossed the plains in Capt. Warren S.
Snow's company and arrived in the
Valley Oct. 27, 1864, settling at once
in South Cottonwood. Sister Godfrey
took an active part in the Relief Socie-
ties and served as a counselor in the
Union Relief Society about nine years.
She died in South Cottonwod May 28,
188?. as a faitful Latter-day Saint.

GODFREY, James, a Patriarch in
the Granite Stake of Zion, and a re-
sident of the South Cottonwood Ward,
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born
Jan. 5, 1840, at North Petherton, Som-
mersetshire, England, the son of
Charles Godfrey and Caroline Trott.
He was baptized and confirmed March
2, 1864, by Wm. Willis at Bristol. Eng-
land; ordained an Elder in October,
1865, by John D. T. McAllister; or-
dained a Seventy Oct. 24, 1867, by
James Winchester, at South Cotton-
wood; was set apart as a president of
the 73rd quorum of Seventy, Feb. 7,
1877, and acted as assistant president
of the mass quorum of Seventies,
being appointed to that position Sept.
5, 1880. He filled a short mission to
the Northwestern States in the spring
of 1881, and returned home on account
of ill health in 1882. While on this
mission, he and his missionary com-
panions hired a hall at Montecello,

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Minnesota, to hold meetings in. While
the Elders were preaching they were
attacked by a mob who threw a rope
on Elder Godfrey and dragged him
quite a distance; but fortunately the
rope broke, and Elder Godfrey
escaped unhurt. He brought a piece
of the rope, nine feet long, away with
him as a souvenir. Soon after his re-
turn from that mission he was trans-
ferred from the 73rd to the 72nd
qurum of Seventy and was set apart
as president in the latter quorum Dec.
4, 1890. He was ordained a High Priest

May 20, 1906, by Chileon L. Miller and
ordained a Patriarch Aug. 27, 1911, by
Hyrum M. Smith. Elder Godfrey has
always been an active and faithful
worker in the Church. He was the
first president of the Y. M. M. I. A.
in the South Cottonwood Ward, filling
that position fourteen years; he also
acted as superintendent of the Ward
Sunday school four years. For sever-
al years he presided over the lesser
Priesthood in the South Cottonwood
Ward, kept the fast offering books for
twenty-one years and filled a special
mission by appointment to look after
the poor people of the Ward. Further-
more he acted as school trustee in
Murray for fourteen years and was a

City councilman in the same place
four years. For many years he served
as a cavalry man in the Nauvoo
Legion, and took part in the Black
Hawk Indian war.

GODFREY, Fannie A., wife of
James Godfrey, was born Dec. 9, 1856,
at Powick, Worcestershire, England,
the daughter of James Jones and Ann
Brooks. She was baptized when eight
years old by her father and learned
the trade of dress-making in England;
emigrated to America in 1879, crossing

the Atlantic in the steamship "Mon-
tana" and arrived in Salt Lake City
July 3, 1879. After residing tempo-
rarily in the Seventeenth Ward, she
went to South Cottonwood, where she
met James Godfrey, a widower, to
whom she was married Dec. 23, 1880,
and immediately took charge of seven
children, four of Bro. Godfrey's own
children (his wife having died recent-
ly) and three of his brother's child'
ren. The following year. Elder God
frey left on a mission to the States;
leaving the care of the household
to his young wife. Sister God-
frey has been a very faithful Relief
Society worker for many years,
and has acted as treasurer and coun-

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selor in that organization. She is
the mother of eleven children of her
own, five boys and six girls. She has
also been a diligent Temple worker,
having done all the work for the fe-
males of her husband's family.

LABRUM, John George, first coun-
selor to Bishop Jos. S. Rawlins of the
South Cottonwood Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, from Dec. 22, 1886, to
Sept. 16, 1888, was born Nov. 29, 1849,
at Simpson, Buckinghamshire, Eng-
land, the son of Thos. Labrum and
Elizabeth George. He was baptized
in 1861 by William Turner. While
yet a youth he made straw braids for
hats and later sewed some of these
into hats. He followed the hatter's
business until he emigrated to America
in 1862, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "William Tapscott", which sail-
ed from Liverpool May 14, 1862, and
arrived in New York six weeks later.
He crossed the plains in Joseph
Home's company, arriving in Salt
Lake City Oct. 1, 1862. While jourey-
ing to the Valley and while stopping
temporarily at Florence he undertook
to swim a branch of the Missouri river,
together with some teamster, and was
on the verge of drowning when he was
saved before going down the third
time by one of the teamsters, Robert
Ogden. The family settled first tem-
porarily in Mill Creek; but located
permanently in South Cottonwood in
1863, where John was ordained a
Seventy in the year 1870, and became
a member of the 73rd quorum of
Seventy. At this time he took an
active part in the Church as Ward
teacher. He was ordained a High
Priest Dec. 22, 1886, by Angus M.
Cannon and acted as first counselor to
Bishop Joseph S. Rawlins for two
years, in the absence of counselor
William Boyce, senior, who at that
time was on the underground. He
was finally set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop Rawlins Sept. 16, 1888,

and acted in that capacity until Bishop
Rawlins died Nov. 16, 1900. While

acting as a member of the Bishopric
he had charge of all the amusements
in the Ward. Elder Labrum assisted
in building the Union Pacific Rail-
road through Echo Canyon and later
worked on the Denver and Rio Grande
Railway when it was built through
Utah ; he also hauled rock for the Salt
Lake Temple. As an officer in the
Ward Y. M. M. I. A. and Sunday school
he was a very diligent and successful
worker for many years. He also acted
as first assistant in the Y. M. M. I. A.
and assistant superintendent to Wm.
G. Young in the South Cottonwood
Sunday school.

LABRUM, Ann Elizabeth Wheeler,
wife of John G. Labrum, was born
Jan. 17, 1856, at South Cottonwood,
Salt Lake county, Utah, the daughter
of Thos. A. Wheeler and Ann Walker.
She was baptized in June, 1865, and
for many years she acted as counselor
in the Ward Y. L. M. L A. and also
acted OS secretary in the Relief Socie-
ty six years. Subsequently she be-
came the president of said society
which position she holds at the pre-
sent time. She is the mother of

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twelve children, nine of whom are
still living. She was married to John

G. Labrum in the Endowment House,
Salt Lake City, Dee. 9, 1872.

RICHARDS, Willard Brigham, a
resident of the Sugar House Ward,
Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Jan.
25, 1847, at Winter Quarters, Nebraska,
the son of Dr. Willard Richards (who
was with Joseph Smith at the time of
his martyrdom in Carthage, 111.) and
Sarah Longstroth Richards, and with
his parents entered Great Salt Lake
Valley in 1848. At the age of eight
years he was baptized in Salt Lake
City and as a boy was employed on
Captain William H. Hooper's ranch in
Skull Valley. He attended school at
irregular intervals till 1867, when he
was called to fill a mission to Europe
and in that year was ordained an
Elder by Heber C. Kimball; later (but
before departing for Europe) he was
ordained a Seventy. In order to reach
the mission field he walked most of
the way across the plains; after his
arrival in Europe he spent one year
In the London conference and the re-
mainder of the time in the Swiss and
German Mission, where he acquired a
good knowledge of the German

language. After returning home from
Europe in the fall of 1869, he was
employed by the engineering depart-
ment of the Utah Central Railroad and
the following year did ranching in
Skull Valley. Shortly thereafter he
took charge of the Utah Live Stock
Company's ranch for two years. From
1874 to 1885 he was engaged in farm-
ing and stock raising at Mendon,
Cache Valley, and is known as one
of the leading stock raisers of the
West; one stallion (L. C. Lee) raised
by him is numbered with the world's
record holders. Aug. 22, 1877, he mar-
ried Annie Fairbanks Doremus
(daughter of Dr. Henry I. and Harriet
Fairbanks Doremus) who became the
mother of six children, namely, Wil-
lard (who died in infancy), Willard
B., Preston D., Albert Zabriskie, Alta
May and Annie D. Sister Richards
died May 25, 1888. In 1899 Bro. Richards
married Louie Snelgrove (daughter of
Edward Snelgrove and Mary Joy
Snelgrove) who became the mother
of six children, namely, Sarah L. and
Mary Joy (twins). Pauline, Paul S.,
Martha S. and Louie Gill.

HAIGH, William Henry, second
counselor to Bishop Heber Bennion of
Taylorsville, Salt Lake county, Utah,
from 1890 to 1910, was born July 18,
1844, at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Eng-
land, the son of Abraham Haigh and
Elizabeth Cartwright. William was
but a child when his mother died,
and his father was engaged in the
woolen manufacturing business in
Yorkshire, England. William spent
his boyhood days at home and receiv-
ed a liberal education in the common
schools and academies of his native
land. His father died in 1855 and
William started out in life for himself
at the age of twelve years. After
working in the furnishing department
of the woolen manufacturing business
for a few years, in- the vicinity of his
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years, went to Dewsbury, England,
and took up the same line of work.
Being of an ambitious turn of mind,
and desiring wider fields of operation,
lie left his native home and sailed for
America in 1866, coming by way of
New York. While in that city he
came across some of the "Mormon"
emigrants; at once he took up with
them and crossed the plains in Capt.
Thomas E. Ricks's train, arriving in
Salt Lake City in the fall of 1866. Hav-
ing been converted to "Mormonism",
he was baptized Sept. 30, 1866, by
Joseph Harker and settled west of
the Jordan river, where he has re-
sided ever since. He was ordained an

Elder Dec. 6, 1869, by Samuel H.
Smitli ; afterwards he became a Seven-
ty and was ordained a High Priest
Jan. 30, 1890, by Charles W. Penrose
and set apart as second counselor to
Bishop Bennion, in which capacity he
served for twenty years. He has also
acted as assistant superintendent of
the Ward Sunday school. Ward clerk,
etc. In 1879-1889 he filled a mission
to England, laboring with good suc-
cess in the Liverpool conference,
where he also assisted his brethren in
shipping emigrants to America. El-
der Haigh married May Ann Harker

Dec. 6, 1869; she was the daughter of
Joseph Harker and Susannah Sneath
and was born June 22, 1853, at
Taylorsville. Elder Haigh has from
the beginning taken an active part in
the building up of Taylorsville Ward,
having erected two fine houses. For
a number of years he followed sheep
business and also worked at the
woolen factory at the mouth of Par-
ley's canyon. Bro. Haigh has worked
as a guide in the Bureau of Informa-
tion on the Temple grounds since the
spring of 1911.

LINDSAY, Joseph, Bishop of the
Taylorsville Ward, Salt Lake county.

Utah, was born Sept. 29, 1872, at
Taylorsville. Salt Lake county, Utah,
the son of Joseph S. Lindsay and
Emma Bennion. He received a dis-
trict school education and also studied
in the Latter-day Saints University
and the Logan College. At the age
of twenty-two he commenced mercan-
tile business for himself and has been
successful in that avocation ever since.
When about eight years of age he was
baptized by William J. Spencer, was
ordained successively to the offices of
Deacon. Teacher, Priest and Elder,
the latter ordination taking place

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March 15, 1896, under the hands of
William G. Bateman. Bro. Lindsay
married Ethelyn May Towler Jan. 13,
1897; she is the daughter of Daniel
Towler and Sarah Ann Durnford and
was born April 21, 1872, in Salt Lake
City. By her Bishop Lindsay has had
five children, namely, Vernetta T.,
Lona T., Joseph T., Ethelyn T., and
Lamar T. From 1897-1900 Brother
Lindsay acted as postmaster at Tay-
lorsville. He was ordained a Seven-
ty Sept. 21, 1900, by Rudger Clawson
and filled a mission to Great Britain
in 1900-1903, presiding two years over
the Norwich conference. In 1905 he
was ordained a High Priest and set
apart as second counselor to Bishop
Heber Bennion and in 1907 (Dec. 12th)
lie was ordained a Bishop by Francis
M. Lyman and set apart to preside
over the Taylorsville Ward, a position
which he still holds.

GERRARD, George Ephraim, first
counselor to Bishop Joseph Lindsay,
of the Taylorsville Ward, Granite

Stake, Utah, was born Aug. 27, 1864,
at Blackburn, Lancashire, England,
the son of William Gerrard and Eliza-
beth Mason. He was baptized when
eight years of age by John Tittering-

ton and emigrated to Utah in 1879,
settling at Glenwood, Sevier county,
and in 1881 moved to Taylorsville,
where he has been engaged in sheep-
raising and farming and is now one
of the owners in the Hyrum Bennion
& Sons Incorporation. He is also
connected with the Taylorsville Live
Stock Company, of which he has been
vice-president for several years and
is interested in the Miller Cahoon Co.
In 1892 (Sept. 29th) he married
Blanche H. Cook, daughter of Thomas
and Mary E. Cook, who was born
March 1, 1870, at Taylorsville, Salt
Lake county, Utah, and is the mother
of eight children. Brother Gerrard
was ordained a Deacon in 1881 by
Charles Powell, ordained an Elder
Aug. 14, 1892, by Robert Walters, or-
dained a Seventy Aug. 17, 1900, by
Rulon S. Wells, and ordained a High
Priest Dec. 12, 1907, by Pres. Francis
M. Lyman. In 1900-1902 he filled a
mission to the Northern States, labor-
ing principally in Minnesota; he was
secretary of the Minnesota conference
for a short time. Dec. 12, 1907, he
was set apart as first counselor to
Bishop Joseph Lindsay. He has also
been a diligent mutual improvement
worker, a local missionary and a Stake
aid on the local religion class board,
of the Granite Stake, for a number of
years.

BENNION, Hyrum, jun., second
counselor to Bishop Joseph Lindsay,
of the Taylorsville Ward, Granite
Stake, Utah, was born April 13, 1879,
at Taylorsville, Salt Lake county,
Utah, the son of Hyrum Bennion and
Eliza Ann Harker. He was baptized
July 3, 1888, by L. J. Mantle; ordained
a Deacon while quite young; ordained
an Elder April 9, 1900, by William
Bennion; ordained a Seventy April 13,
1900, by Francis M. Lyman, and or-
dained a High Priest Dec. 12. 1907, by
Pres. Francis M. Lyman. April 14,
1900, he left home for a mission to
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the Nottingham conference and was
president of the same six months; he
returned home after a successful mis-
sion Nov. 9, 1902. Brother Bennion
has been a faithful worker in the dif-
ferent organizations, in his home
Ward. Thus he was counselor in the
Deacon's quorum, assistant secretary
in the Sunday school, counselor in the
Y. M. M. I. A., secretary and treasurer
of the 115th quorum of Seventy (for
two years). Stake aid in the Mutual,

second assistant in the Stake super-
intendency of the religion classes (for
two years) etc. Dec. 12, 1907, he was
set apart as second counselor to Bishop
Lindsay. In 1903 (April 23rd) he
married Nellie J. North (daughter of
Charles A. North and Albertine J.
Johnson), who was born Feb. 17,
1879, at Mill Creek, Utah. This union
has been blessed with five children.
Brother Bennion received a good edu-
cation, which has given him a promin-
ent position in the mercantile and
milling business. He is one of the
firm of Hyrum Bennion & Sons Co.

FRAME, Archibald, a Patriarch in
the Granite Stake of Zion, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born July 2, 1842,
at Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the

son of James Frame and Janet Brown,
He was baptized Oct. 8, 1864, by Joha
V. Hood, received a common school
education and learned the trade of a
stonecutter and mason. He emigrated
to America in 1865, crossing the At-
lantic in the ship "Belle Wood," which
sailed from Liverpool April 29, 1865^
and he crossed the plains from Wyom-
ing, Nebraska, in Capt. S. S. Willis's
ox-train, which arrived in Salt Lake
City Nov. 29, 1865. In 1854 (Sept,

23rd) he married Janet Dick, who was
born March 1, 1836, at Carmile, Lan-
arkshire, Scotland. While crossing the
plains his wife gave birth to a son
Sept. 28, 1865, at a place called Ash
Hollow. This child was named James
Sidney Willis Frame, in honor of Capt.
Willis and is now living at Taylorville.
Bro. Frame settled with his family in
the 11th Ward, where he resided for
eleven years and then settled perma-
nently at Taylorsville, where he has re-
sided ever since. In 1877 (June 17th)
he was chosen as first counselor to
Bishop Samuel Bennion In 1883 he
became superintendent of the Ward
Sunday school, which position he still
holds, and from 1876 to 1897 he acted
as Ward chorister. He was ordained

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a Teacher Dec. 27, 1867, an Elder Feb.
21, 1868, by Bishop Alexander McRae,
a Seventy in 1874 by Edward L. Sloan,
a High Priest June 17, 1877, by Daniel
H. Wells, and a Patriarch Aug. 23,
1903, by Pres. Joseph F. Smith. For
two years (from Nov., 1902, to Nov.,
1904) he acted as justice of the peace
in the Taylorsville precinct. He also
acted as a school trustee and notary
public and filled many other positions
of honor and responsibility. In 1882
(March 13th) Brother Frame married
Ellen D. Dick, who was born in Hill-
head, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Sept. 6,
1846, was baptized in 1866 by Alexan-
der Rankin, and emigrated to Utah in
1868. Bro. Frame is the father of ten
children, five boys and five girls, nine
of whom are living. His first wife
died May 29, 1902.

GERRARD, Samuel, one of the
seven presidents of the 115th quorum
of Seventy and an active Elder in the
Taylorsville Ward, Salt Lake county.

Utah, was born Sept. 29, 1867, in
Blackburn, Lancashire, England, the
son of William Gerrard and Elizabeth
Mason. He was baptized July 27,
1879, by Elder Eli Kirkham and con-
firmed the same day by Ralph Smith.

When ten years of age he commenced
working in a cotton factory at half
time, and at the age of thirteen he
commenced to work full time and then
received $1.75 per week. In 1881 he
left England with his mother and two
brothers (Joseph and John T.) and
emigrated to Utah. After living for
two years at Glenwood, Sevier co.,
Utah, Bro. Gerrard settled permanent-
ly in Taylorsville, Salt Lake co., Utah,
where he was ordained a Priest Jan.
15, 1883, by Franklin Spencer, an
Elder Aug. 14, 1892, by Joseph Glover,
and a Seventy, July 20, 1894, by B. H.
Roberts. The day after receiving his
last ordination he left for a mission
to Great Britain; there he labored in
the Liverpool conference, presiding
over the same from June till Sep-
tember, 1896. He returned home in
charge of a company of Saints. From
1907 to 1909 he filled a mission to the
Eastern States, laboring in the New
England conference, six months in
Boston, and then with the conference
president took a trip throughout the
whole conference. They traveled for
six months, visiting all the branches
in their field of labor. Bro. Gerrard
acted as president of the Y. M. M. I. A.
in the Taylorsville Ward from Oct. 9,
1898, to Oct. 26, 1902, and from Octo-
ber, 1909, to October, 1911. He also
acted as second assistant in the Ward
Sunday school and later was set apart
as first assistant, which position he
holds at the present time. April 22,
1900, he was set apart as one of the
seven presidents of the 115th quorum
of Seventy by George Reynolds. In
1892 (Aug. 31st) he married Elizabeth
Brown Frame in the Manti Temple.
This union has been blessed with eight
children, six boys and two girls.

WEBSTER, John, a veteran Elder
of the Taylorsville Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Oct. 17, 1830,
at Loch Lee, Forfarshire, Scotland,
the son of James Webster and Isabella

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Duncan. He received a good com-
mon school education and learned the
trade of a blacksmith. In 1855 he
emigrated to America in the interest
of freedom and advancement in a
worldly capacity. He settled at North
Prairie, Wisconsin, where he followed
his trade and soon had a large black-
smith establishment in fine running
order. While thus engaged he mar-
ired a "Mormon" girl by the name of
Mary Ann Wright, who was on her
way to Utah, but stayed in Wisconsin

was ordained a High Priest. From
1875 to 1889 he acted as postmaster
in Taylorsville. For eight years he
held the office of justice of the peace
and he acted as school trustee twelve
years. Bro. Webster passed to his
final rest Dec. 30, 1913, at Taylorsville.

WEBSTER, Mary Ann Wright, wife
of John Webster, of Taylorsville, Salt
Lake county, Utah, was born Sept.
17, 1838, at Pointon, Lincolnshire,
England, the daughter of William

for ten years. They were married
July 15, 1858, and in 1867 Mr. Web-
ster sold out his possessions in Wis-
consin and migrated to Utah, crossing
the plains in a private company which
arrived in Salt Lake City Sept. 27,
1867. After residing in Salt Lake
City nine months he moved with his
family to Taylorsville, where he re-
sided the remainder of his days and
took an active part in the building up of
that Ward. Having become converted
to "Mormonism" Mr. Webster was
baptized Ooct. 31, 1869. From 1870 to
1884 he acted as Ward Sunday school
superintendent, and in 1870 he was
ordained an Elder; later he became a
Seventy and in 1904 (May 30th) he

Wright and Charlotte Rouse. When
nine years of age she became a mem-
ber of the Church by baptism, and in
1856, together with her father, she
emigrated to America, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Columbia", which
arrived in New York Jan. 1, 1857. She
settled in Wisconsin, where she re-
mained ten years and there became
acquinted with John Webster, a black-
smith, who was then not a member
of any particular denomination. Agree-
able to her desire, her husband sold
out his possessions in Wisconsin and
migrated to Utah. While in Wiscon-
sin Sister Webster gave birth to five
children, of whom one died in Wis-
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their parents to Utah. After her ar-
rival in Utah she became the mother
of eight children, making her the
mother of thirteen children alto-
gether; ten of these (four boys and
six girls) are still alive. Sister
Webster has been a Relief Society
worker ever since such a Society was
first organized in Taylorsville and
acted for forty-five years as counselor
to the presidents of the same. As a
zealous Church worker, a faithful wife
and a kind neighbor Sister Webster
has gained the love and confidence
of all her associates in life.

WEBSTER, John William, an active
Elder in the Taylorsville Ward, Salt
Lake county, Utah, was born June 15,
1862, at Uorth Prairie, Wisconsin, the
son of John Webster and Mary Ann
Wright. He came to Utah with his
parents in 1867 and settled in Taylors-
ville, where he was baptized when
eight years of age and was ordained a
Deacon by Samuel Bennion in 1877.
Subsequently he was ordained succes-
sively to the offices of Teacher, Priest,
Elder (ordained in 1894 by Wm. L.
Bateman) and Seventy the latter
ordination taking place in the year
1894 under the hands of Seymour B.
Young. In 1894-1895 he filled a
mission to the Southern States,
laboring in the Tennessee con-
ference. At home Brother Webster
has acted as a counselor and secretary
of the Deacons quorum, secretary of
Sunday school, secretary of Y. M. M.
I. A. and Ward teacher. In 1896 (Oct.
15th) he married Jessie Bringhurst, by
whom he became the father of seven
children, five boys and two girls.
While filling his mission in the South-
ern States, Brother Webster, together
with another Elder, was called upon
to administer to a lady (Jane Scalf)
who had been lame for eleven years.
After fasting and praying for twenty-
four hours, the Elders administered to
her and she was healed immediately

and walked at once without crutches.
Soon after this event she joined the
Church.

DAYNES, Joseph J., jun., first coun-
selor in the Bishopric of the Waterloo
Ward (Granite Stake), Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Nov. 7, 187.3,
in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of
Joseph J. Daynes and Mary Jane
Sharp. He was baptized when about
eight years old and after receiving a

common school education he studied
at the L. D. S. University in Salt Lake
City and also the University of Utah.
He was ordained an Elder Dec. 15,
1895, by Levi W. Richards, a Seventy
Sept. 29, 1899, by J. Golden Kimball,
and a High Priest Jan. 29, 1905, by
Frank Y. Taylor. On the latter date
he was also set apart as first counselor
to the Bishop of the Waterloo Ward.
Prior to the last ordination he acted
as chairman of the amusement com-
mittee of the Granite Stake and has
always taken an active part in Church
affairs. For four years he served on
the staff of Gov. John C. Cutler and
also four years on the staff of Gov.
William Spry with the rank of lieuten-
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mission to Great Britain, presiding a
part of the time over tlie Birmingham
conference. With his wife Winnifred
B. Daynes (daughter of Pres. Wilford
Woodruff), born April 9, 1876, he has
liad seven children, six of whom are
living at the pesent time.

GUNDERSEN, Thomas, a veteran
Elder i nthe Church and a resident of
the Big Cottonwood Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born March 1, 1821,
at Drammen, Buskerud amt, Norway,
the son of Gunder Andersen. His
father and grandfather died when he
was ten years of age, after which
Thomas had to shift for himself. His
principal occupation was that of a
woodman, laboring among the timbers
of Norway. In 1842 he married Oline
H. Gundersen, who was born in 1816.
She bore him eleven children. Becom-
ing a convert to "Mormonism" he be-
came a member of the Church in
1852 and in 1866 the family emi-
grated to America and settled tempo-
rarily at LaCrosse, Wisconsin, but
continued the journey to Utah in 1868,
crossing the plains in Capt. John G.
Holman's ox-train, which arrived in
Salt Lake City Sept. 25, 1868. The
family settled in Big Cottonwood,
where Brother Gundersen was ordain-
ed to the office of an Elder and died
Nov. 1, 1900. His wife preceded him
into the spirit world, her death oc-
curring July 9, 1900. Bro. Gundersen
was one of the first converts to "Mor-
monism" in Norway.

GUNDERSEN, Thomas, junior, an
active Elder in the Winder Ward
(Granite Stake), Salt Lake co., Utah,
was born Sept. 25, 1850, at Drammen,
Buskerud amt, Norway, the son of
Thomas Gundersen and Oline H. Gun-
dersen. He emigrated to Utah with
his parents in 1868 and settled in Big
Cottonwood, Salt Lake county, where
he was baptized April 29, 1870, by
Niels Pfcdersen. He was ordained an
Elder Dec. 16, 1872, and married Har-

riet Priscilla Casper, daughter of
William W. Caper (of Momron Batal-
lion fame) and Sarah Ann Bean. She
was born Oct. 29, 1855, in Mill Creek.
This union has been blessed with
eleven children, five boys and six
girls. In 1879 (Feb. 13th) Bro. Gun-

dersen married Jacobine E. Ask,
daughter of Christian E. Ask and
Caroline Fjeldstad. She was born
Sept. 4, 1843, at Fredrikstad, Norway,
emigrated to Utah in 1875, and has
borne her husband three children, all
boys. Brother Gundersen was or-
dained a Seventy April 20, 1884, by
Oliver P. Lemon, and shortly after-
wards he was chosen as one of the
presidents of the 61st quorum of
Seventy. Later, when that quorum
was divided, he became a president of
the 122nd quorum of Seventy. In
1895-97 he filled a mission to Scandi-
navia, laboring in the Christiania
conference and presided over the
Arendal and Larvik branches. He
was ordained a High Priest April 21,
1912, by Edward H. Anderson. Elder
Gundersen has always been a diligent
Church worker and has acted as an
officer in the Y. M. M. I. A. and a
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WELLS, Joseph Smith, first coun-
«elor in the presidency of the Ensign
Stake, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born
May, 25, 1862, in Salt Lake City, the
son of Daniel H. Wells and Martha
•Givens Harris. He was baptized July
6, 1871, by Daniel H. Wells; ordained
a Seventy Sept. 29, 1885, by Francis
M. Lyman, and ordained a High Priest
April 1, 1904, by Geo. Albert Smith.
For a number of years Bro. Wells
acted as one of the presidents of the
13th quorum of Seventy and filled a

mission to Great Britain in 1885-87,
laboring in the Liverpool and Notting-
ham conferences. From 1887 to 1904
he labored as a home missionary in
the Salt Lake Stake of Zion. Bro.
Wells is known universally as one of
Salt Lake City's most successful and
energetic business men. From 1882
to 1883 he was employed as clerk in
the Ogden branch of the Z. C. M. I.
He also served as clerk in Heber J.
Grant and Company's Insurance Office
in 1884-1888, and has been associated
with the Utah Light and Railway
Company since 1889. In that year
(1889) he was appointed secretary of
the Salt Lake City Railway Company;
in 1891 he became the company's
secretary and treasurer and in 1901
he was chosen as secretary and treas-

urer of the Consolidated Railway and
Power Company. In 1904 he became
vice-president and cashier of the Utah
Light and Railway Company and in
1906 general manager of the last
named company, a position which he
still occupies. He is also a director
in Zion's Benefit Building Society and
Utah State National Bank. When the
Ensign Stake of Zion was organized
April 1, 1904, Bro. Wells was chosen
as first counselor to Richard W. Young
and at the October Conference, 1911,
he was sustained as one of the Church
Auditors. His first wife was Anna
Elizabeth Sears whom he married in
March, 1888; she was the daughter of
John Sears and Sarah Wagstaff, was
born Dec. 22, 1863, and died June
1, 1903. In June, 1907, he married
Mamie Ely Lovell (daughter of John
E. Lovell and Harriet Lyman) who
was born Aug. 6, 1884. Bro. Wells
had five children by his first wife and
three children by his second wife.

SHARP, Joseph, a veteran Elder in
the Church, was born July 8, 1830, at
Alvie, Stirlingshire, Scotland, the son
of John Sharp and Mary Hunter. He
married Janet Condie at St. Louis,
Mo., in 1849; she was the daughter of
Thos. Condie and Nellie Sharp and
was born Aug. 4, 1831, at Clochmanan,
Scotland. Joseph Sharp and his wife
came to Utah in 1850 and he died
Sept. 15, 1864, while crossing the
plains as a freighter at a place called
Willow Springs, now in Wyoming. His
wife died Jan. 19, 1859, in Salt Lake
City.

SHARP, John C, a High Councilor
in the Ensign Stake of Zion, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born May 28, 1850, on
the banks of Kaw river, Kansas,
while his parents were journeying to-
ward the mountains. His father's
name was Joseph Sharp and his
mothers maiden name Janet Condie.
The Sharp family arrived in the Valley
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plains in an independent company.
They settled near the present site of
Ft. Douglas near Salt Lake City, and
built a dugout for a home. John was
baptized when about eight years old
by Bishop John Sharp, was ordained
an Elder Feb. 12, 1872, by Daniel H.
Wells and ordained a High Priest June
24, 1877, by Lorenzo Snow and set
apart to preside as Bishop in the
Vernon Ward, Tooele county, Utah.
Prior to this he had acted as presid-
ing Elder at Vernon, having been set
apart to that position Dec. 4, 1875, by
Orson Pratt. For fifteen years Bro.
Sharp acted as Sunday school super-

Brick Company and the Oaker Water
Company, Tooele co., and director of
the Deseret National Bank. Brother
Sharp served as postmaster at Vernon
for twenty-three years. He also served
two terms as Trustee-in-Trust of the
Agricultural College of Logan.

SHARP, Sarah Bethula Palmer,
wife of John C. Sharp, was born Jan.
30, 1851, at Logues Corner, Chester
county, Pennsylvania, the daughter of
Mifflin L. Palmer and Catherine K.
Dolbey; she was baptized in Novem-
ber, 1864, by Bishop William Thorn
in the Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City;

intendent in Vernon. He moved to
Salt Lake City in 1890 and became
a resident of the Twentieth Ward.
When the Ensign Stake was organized
April 1, 1904, he was chosen as an
alternate member of the High Coun-
cil and later he became a regular
member. Bro. Sharp's main avocation
in life has been farming, sheep and
stockraising. In 1904 (May 17th) he
was appointed a director in the Des-
eret National Bank and in 1908 he
was chosen as a director in the Bene-
ficial Life Insurance Company; he was
also appointed as director in the Inter-
Mountain Life Insurance Company.
He is president of the Inter-Mountain

she having emigrated with her parents
to Utah in 1861, crossing the plains
in Joseph Home's company which ar-
rived in the Valley Sept. 13, 1861. The
family located in the Eight Ward, Salt
Lake City, and Sister Sarah married
John C. Sharp Feb. 12, 1872. The
young couple located at Vernon,
Tooele co., where Sister Sharp was
a diligent worker in the Relief Society
for twenty-four years. Being blessed
with a good voice she has assisted
with the singing both at Vernon and
in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City. She
was also a fatihful worker in the
Young Ladies Retrenchment Society
at an early day. Sister Sharp is the

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mother of two children, namely,
Joseph P. and James P.

MIDDLETON, George William, an
alternate High Councilor in the En-
sign Stake and a resident of the Elev-
enth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born Dec. 10, 1866, at Hamilton's Fort,
Iron county, Utah, the son of John
Middleton and Jane Withers. He was
baptized in 1879 by Walter Granger;
ordained an Elder soon afterwards;

ordained a Seventy in 1897, and or-
dained a High Priest in 1913 by Rich-
ard W. Young. Until 1907 he was a
resident of Cedar City, Iron co., Utah,
where he served as mayor one term
(1903-1905). In 1897-98 he filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain, laboring prin-
cipally in the London conference. At
home he has acted as Stake president
of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Parowan
Stake and in a more secular sense he
has served efficiently as school teach-
er, physician and surgeon. In 1894
(Sept. 27th) he married Margaret E.
Palmer who has borne him seven
children, five of whora are living.

SCHOFIELD, Nephi Young, second
counselor in the presidency of the High
Priests quorum in the Ensign Stake,
Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Oct.

22, 1860, at Manchester, England,
the third child of John Schofield
and Susannah Hewitt. He was bap-
tized in 1869 by his father John Scho-
field and emigrated to Utah in 1882.
He was ordained successively to the
office of Deacon, Elder, Seventy and
High Priest. For several years he
served as a president of the 13th
quorum of Seventy and acted nine
years as second counselor to Bishop
Geo. Romney of the Twentieth Ward.

He also acted as counselor and subse-
quently as president of the Ward Y.
M. M. I. A. In 1885-88 he filled a
mission to Great Britain, laboring in
the Manchester and the London con-
ferences. While on that mission he
received a speciel appointment to
labor in connection with Elder B. H.
Roberts, assisting in the fight against
the notorious William Jarman, who
created considerable trouble for the
Elders at that time. Elders Roberts
and Schofield met Mr. Jarman on the
public platform in various parts of
London and secured a great number
of favorable notices in the London
papers. Elder Schofield married
Ellen V. Romney (daughter of Bishop
Geo. Romney and Vilate E. Douglas),
who has borne him eight children, six

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girls and two boys, all of whom, except
one, are still living. Bro. Schofield
learned the trade of a carpenter in
his native land and later became an
employee in a velvet and corduroy
factory in Manchester. In his adopted
country he has gradually attained to
the head of the credit department of the
Z. C. M. I. in Salt Lake City, having
been with said institution for about
thirty years. He also organized the
Co-operative Investment Co. of Salt
Lake City, and is its president at the
present time.

JENKINS, Edward Elmer, a High
Councilor in the Pioneer Stake from
1904 to 1909, was born Nov, 25, 1873,
in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of
Thos. Jenkins and Mahala Elmer. He
was baptized July 31, 1882, by Richard

G. Lambert; ordained an Elder Aug.
9, 1897, by Edward H. Callister; or-
dained a Seventy in 1898 by Geo. C.
Lambert; filled a mission to Great
Britain in 1899-1901; was ordained a
High Priest March 25, 1904, by Chas.
W. Penrose and set apart as a High
Councilor in the Pioneer Stake. In
1898 (Oct. 14th) he married Elizabeth
Cutler, daughter of John C. Cutler and
Elizabeth Taylor, who has borne him

four children, namely, Elmer C, Irv-
ing E., Harold C, and John C. Bro.
Jenkins has been engaged as a steno-
grapher, broker, insurance agent and
real estate agent; he has also been
chief deputy collector of Internal
Revenue for the District of Montana.

ARMSTRONG, Francis, a prominent
Elder in the Church and one of Utah's
most successful and prosperous
business man, was born at Plain Mil-
ler, Northumberland, England, Oct. 3,
1839, the son of William Armstrong
and Mary Kirk. His father was a
machinist and worked for Stephenson
and Hartshorn, in the machine shops
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he helped
to construct the first locomotive made
in England. In 1851 the Armstrong
family, consisting of father, mother

and twelve children, emigrated to
Canada and settled near Hamilton,
Wenthworth county, where the father
carried on his trade of blacksmithing
and was also owner of a large farm.
Francis could have had every advan-
tage of education, had he remained at
home, but at the age of sixteen he
was seized with a desire to travel and
proceeded to the State of Missouri,
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twenty-one. At home he had worked
upon his father's farm, attending the
village school during the winters. In
Richmond, Missouri, he worked for
a Dr. Davis in a flouring mill and sub-
sequently in a sawmill, continuing in
the lumber business with that gentle-
man until he came to Utah. While
residing at Richmond he also formed
the acquaintance of David Whitmer,
one of the three witnesses to the Book
of Mormon, and also the descendants
of John Whitmer, Jacob Whitmer,
Hiram Page and other families well
known to the readers of early Church
history. Mr. Armstrong started for
Salt Lake City in the spring of 1861,
crossing the plains in Captain Homer
Duncan's independent company. This
company had left the frontiers at
Florence, Neb., before Mr. Armstrong
and others from Richmond arrived
there, but they soon overtook it and
traveled with the train to Salt Lake
Valley, where they arrived Sept. 13,
1861. Soon after his arrival in Salt
Lake City, Mr. Armstrong became a
member of the Church and was sub-
sequently ordained to the Priesthood
and became a member of the 13th
quorum of Seventy. His first secular
labor in the Valley was hauling wood
from the mountains, and was next en-
gaged in Pres. Young's flouring mill
at the mouth of Parley's Canyon. In
the spring of 1862 he began working
for Feramorz Little at his lumbering
mill in Big Cottonwood Canyon. He
subsequently purchased the mill from
Mr. Little for twenty-one thousand
dollars and started in business for
himself, forming a partnership with
Charles Bagley, and conducting a
general lumbering business. The firm
of Armstrong & Bagley prospered and
the senior partner next purchased an
interest in the business of Latimer,
Taylor & Romney, manufacturers of
doors and sash. Later he engaged in
other enterprises, which met with
handsome returns. In 1864 (Dec. 10th)

he married Isabella Siddoway, a lady
of sterling qualities. They became the
parents of eleven children and the
family maintained a permanent resi-
dence in Salt Lake City. In 1878 Bro.
Armstrong was elected to the city
council and was re-elected in 1880.
In 1881 and again in 1885 he was
chosen as selectman of Salt Lake
county. In 1886 he became mayor of
Salt Lake City and served as much
for two terms. On the day of his re-
election, Feb. 13, 1888, an attempt
was made by certain real estate
speculators to jump the city lands on
Arsenal Hill and in other parts of
the town. Mayor Armstrong and a
posse of officers promptly ejected the
intruders and effectively vindicated
and maintained the rights of the
municipality, both with physical force
and in the legal proceedings that fol-
lowed. After retiring as mayor he
again served the county as selectman,
and at the time of his death, which
occurred at his home in the Eleventh
Ward June 15, 1899, he was serving
as county commissioner. At this time
also he was president of the Utah
Commercial and Savings Bank, the
Western Loan & Savings Co., the Utah
Power Co., and the Blackfoot Stock
Co.; was vice-president of the Taylor,
Romney, Armstrong Co., a director in
the Salt Lake City Railroad Co., and
the Salt Lake Livery & Transfer Co.,
and prominently connected with the
Utah Sugar Co. and numerous other
business affairs. Francis Armstrong
was emphatically a self-made man.
Pushing, energetic and fearless, he
made his way in life by sheer force
of his native ability, coupled with hard
and persistent toil, for which he was
peculiarly well-fitted, being a man of
powerful physique. Aggressive and
even combative when need be, he was
far from quarrelsome in his disposi-
tion. He was generous-hearted and
liberal, not only in his views, but with
his means, and as a rule was brim-

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ming over with jovial good nature. In
his death at scarcely three score
years the community suffered a dis-
tinct loss. While Elder Armstrong
strictly speaking was mbre of a busi-
ness man than an ecclesiastical his
entegrity to God and to the Church to
which he gave his allegiance, was nev-
er doubted by those who knew him.
He would have given his life for the
cause of Christ, had it been required
of him, and his whole life might be
called the versification of the promise
made by the Savior of. the world:
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and
his righteousness and all other things
shall be added unto you."

Armstrong, Isabella Siddoway, wife
of the late Mayor Francis Armstrong
and the second president of the
Daughters of the Handcart Pioneers,
was born Nov. 28, 1849, in North Cum-
berland, England, the daughter of

Robert Siddoway and Elizabeth
Dawson. Her parents joined the
Church in 1855, and Isabella was bap-
tiezd in 1859. The family being anx-
ious to gather with the Saints in Utah
emigrated to America in 1865, but
owing to sickness they were forced to
stop in the States, living one year in

New York and four years in Penn-
sylvania. In the meantime Sister
Siddoway (the mother of Isabella)
died in Pennsylvania, and the father
found it a difficult task indeed to cross
the plains with his three motherless
children (Isabella, ten years, Richard,
eight years and Robert, six years old).
They left Florence June 7, 1860, in
Capt. Daniel Robinson's handcart
company, which arrived in Salt Lake
City Sept. 27, 1860. Isabella, who
walked nearly all the way across the
plains, gives the following brief ac-
count of the journey- and her early ex-
perience in Utah: "The journey be-
ing longer than we expected, our cloth-
ing, shoes and provisions grew very
scanty long before we reached our
destination. Our shoes were so bad-
ly worn that at night, after a long
day's walk over the rough ground, I
would have to pick the pebbles from
my little brother's torn and bleeding
feet, as well as my own. When we
were near Laramie, Wyoming, our
provisions grew very short, so much
so that each person was rationed to
one-half pound of flour a day. Sister
Hannah Lapish, one of the members
of our company, had some jewelry she
had brought from England with her.
She took it to a trading post, and ex-
changed it for seven hundred pounds
of flour, which greatly relieved our
want until we were met by a relief
party at Green River, sent out by
President Brigham Young, with 2500
pounds of flour and 500 pounds of
bacon which lasted us until we
reached the Valley. We were very
fortunate in only having one death
during our journey, and that being
a little child. After arriving in Salt
Lake Lake City, we looked upon the
then almost barren country, and com-
paired it to the green fields and com-
fortable homes we had left in old
England. Was it any wonder that we
were hart-sick and disappointed with
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band of people, a scattered house and
a green field here and there, very
little to eat and less to wear, the
first few years of our new home-mak-
ing was very trying. But with one
aim, and having been driven from
place to place on account of their
religious belief, which made them al-
most as united as one large family,
this little band of courageous people
turned a desert into the beautiful
city we now have." In 1864 (Dec.
10th) Sister Isabella was married to
Brother Francis Armstrong and be-
came the mother of eleven children,
three boys and eight girls. At the
present time (1914) she is the mother
of thirty-seven grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren. In 1910 the
society known as the Daughters of the
Handcart Pioneers was organized with
Hannah Lapish as president. Two
years later (1912) Sister Armstrong
was chosen president of that society,
and still acts in that capacity. "Of
this position," writes Sister Arm-
strong, "I am very proud, as it has
been one of the greatest pleasures of
my life to help, in a small way, to
build up an organization which will
perpetuate the names of the most
couragesous people the world has
ever known".

LITTLE, Feramorz, mayor of Salt
Lake City three consecutive terms,
was born June 14, 1820, in the town
of Aurelius, Cayuga, county, N. Y. He
migrated to Utah in September, 1850.
His father James Little emigrated to
America from Ireland early in the nine-
teenth century, and family records
show that in the year 1690 his ances-
tors passed over from England to the
Green Isle. The mother of Feramorz
was Susan Young, a sister of Pres.
Brigham Young. When Feramorz was
but four years old his father died,
leaving him with two brothers wholly
dependent upon their widowed mother.
In the early days of "Mormonism"
Susan Little joined the Church and

moved west with her brothers who
were all prominent members of the
"Mormon" community. For a penni-
less youth the Great West had many
attractions and Feramorz Little at the
age of 23 decided to follow his mother
and relatives. In 1843 he left his
native State and traveled on horse-
back to St. Louis, Mo., where he met
his brother after a separation of ten
years. There and in Illinois he en-
gaged in farming, school teaching and
the grocery business. At Nauvoo, in

1846, he married Fannie M. Decker
(sister to Lucy and Clara Decker who
were the wives of Pres. Brigham
Young.) In 1850 Feramorz, desiring
to see his mother and relatives who
had emigrated to Utah, contracted
with Mrs. Livingston and Kincaid,
non-Mormon merchants of Salt Lake
City, to freigth goods to this point from
Ft. Kearney, on the Missouri river.
At that time he was in business at
St. Louis and not yet connected with
the "Mormons". He arrived in Salt
Lake City, Sept. 23, 1850. His objec-
tive point was California, but in find-
ing ample scope for his ambition in
Utah, he became a Latter-day Saint
and subsequently one of the Bishopric
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of the City he resided. In 1858 he
married Miss Annie E. Little and
Miss Julia A. Hampton. Soon after
his arrival in Utah he showed his in-
dustrial activity by building a dam,
the first across the Jordan river, at
a cost of $12,000, and constructing the
first canal that took water from that
stream for purposes of irrigation. In
the summer of 1851 he contracted with
S. H. Woodson to carry the United
States mail between Salt Lake City
and Fort Laramie, a distance of more
than five hundred miles, with no sett-
lement and but one trading post — Ft.
Bridger— between. His partners in the
contract, which lasted until January,
1853, were Chas. Decker and Ephraim
K. Hanks, his brother-in-law. During
the two winters the mail carriers en-
dured the greatest hardships, scarcity
of food and fuel, blinding snow-storms
and almost impassable mountains be-
ing a few of the difficulties encoun-
tered; but the trips were successfully
made. Mr. Little's experience and
forethought often saved his compan-
ions from suffering and death. In
1856 he contracted to carry the mail
between Salt Lake City and Indepen-
dence, Missouri. The carriers now
traveled with mules and a light
wagon; formerly pack animals had
been used. They encountered the
usual obstacles, making at times but
eight miles a day, and subsisting on
parched corn and raw buffalo meat.
The trip to Independence consumed
three months. Arriving here early
in 1857, Bro. Little with Bro. Hanks,
found the inhabitants in a state of
excitement over the sensational anti-
Mormon reports set in circulation by
Judge Drummond, who with other
slanderers of the people of Utah had
made the nation believe that the
"Mormons" were in a state of rebel-
lion against the government. These
reports Mr. Little denounced as false.
Having occasion to go to Washington,
D. C, to collect his money for carry-

ing the mails, he went on to New
York where he wrote to the "Herald"
of that city, refuting the foul calumn-
ies. Continuing his industrial car-
reer, Mr, Little conducted a flouring
mill at the mouth of Parley's canyon,
making his home there in the early
days. In his youth he had worked in
the leather business, and this doubt-
less led him to engage in tanning at
that place, where he had as his part-
ners in this industry his uncle, Pres.
Young, and John R. Winder. He also
carried on blacksmithing and shoe-
making and established a school for
his children and those of his workmen.
He built five saw mills in the canyons
of the Wasatch range, and for years
carried on a prosperous lumbering
business. He was the builder of the
"Utah penitentiary on its present site.
In 1859 he brought large quantities of
merchandise from Omaha to Salt Lake
City and in 1863 was appointed emi-
gration agent for the Church. Under
his supervision five hundred teams
were fitted out, carrying three thou-
sand emigrants, and involving an out-
lay of one hundred thousand dollars.
In 1865 he, with Pres. Young, pur-
chased the Salt Lake House, then the
leading local hotel. It was on the
east side of Main Street, about mid-
way between First and Second South
streets. He remained its proprietor for
several years. When the railroad
came, he engaged as a contractor in
building the Union Pacific Railroad,
and subsequently was superintendent
of the Utah Central and Utah South-
ern lines, holding the latter position
until 1872, when he went abroad with
Pres. Geo. A. Smith and party on their
tour of Europe and the Orient. His
extensive business interests were ably
managed in his absence by his son,
James T. Little. Accompanied by his
daughter Clara (now Mrs. H. B. Claw-
son, jun.) he left home with the Pales-
tine party in November, 1872. The
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to bless it, that the curse of barre-
ness and desolation might be removed,
and it again become fruitful and fitted
for the return of the scattered tribes
of Israel. Accordingly on March 2,
1873, Pres. Smith and party ascended
the Mount of Olives, where the sacred
ceremony was performed. Going and
coming they visited the principal cities
and places of interest in Europe,
Egypt and Asia Minor. In France
they had an interview with President
Thiers and visited the French Assem-
bly. The Littles returned home in
May, 1873. Two years later Feramorz
Little and his brother James filled a
mission to the Eastern States, calling
upon numerous relatives in New York,
and obtaining a genealogical record
of their father's ancestors. Liberal
in their views, they were generally
treated with courtesy while preaching,
and succeeded in removing from the
minds of the people many false im-
pressions concerning "Mormonism".
Among other points of interest
touched by their travels were the Hill
Cumorah, in Wayne county, N. Y., and
the Temple site in Jackson co., Mis-
souri. During the last few years of
his life Bro. Little occupied various
positions of public trust. He was one
of the Board of Regents of the Uni-
versity of Deseret and a member of
the Salt Lake City council. In 1876
he was elected mayor of Salt Lake
City, serving in that capacity, as
stated, for three consecutive terms.
During the period of his mayoralty the
Salt Lake and Jordan Canal was con-
structed under his supervision, the
streets improved, the water works ex-
tended, and the purchase of Liberty
Park and Pioneer Square effected. In
the latter part of his life, he gave
special attention to banking. He was
a director of the Deseret National
Bank and virtually one of its founders.
At the time of his death he was its
vice-president. He was also a direc-
tor of th9 Ogden National Bank, and

was likewise interested in Z. C. M. I.
In June, 1881, Bro. Little sustained a
severe loss in the death of his wife,
Fannie. As already stated, he had
married two other wives; but he was
again a single man when he married
Rebecca E. Mantle. While visiting
the Blackfoot Ranch, of which he was
president, he was stricken with a
severe illness, and it was aggravated
by the journey home, which required
three days. Typhoid fever set in,
terminating his earthly existence Aug.
14, 1887. His death was universally
regretted. He was recognized as one
of Utah's ablest business men and
foremost citizens. As a man of hones-
ty and integrity, he manifested emin-
5nt administrative ability, and marked
devotion to the public welfare. He
was loved by both rich and poor for
his keen sense of justice and great
kindness of heart. Disliking osten-
tation, he distributed large sums in
benevolence and charity of which only
his family and most intimate friends
were aware. Among the evidences of
his philantropic spirit is a row of cam-
fortable cottages, built by him for the
poor of the Thirteenth Ward and still
serving the purpose for which they
were erected. Feramorz Little was
essentially a self-made man, indebted
for his success to a kind Providence
and the sterling qualities of his na-
ture. (Principally culled from Whit-
ney's History of Utah).

LITTLE, Rebecca Ellen Mantle,
wife of Feramorz Little, was born Aug.
12, 1852, on the Church farm. Salt Lake
county, Utah. She was the daughter
of Llewllyn Mantle and Catherine
Watkins and was baptized when about
eight years of age. From her earliest
youth she was of a very ambitious
character, and struggled to obtain an
education, although handicapped in
every way. She worked unceasingly
until she was able to teach school
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pied in teaching and further educating
herself. She was graduated from the
normal school under Dr. John R. Park,
and was teaching a school in the Thir-
teenth Ward when she first met Fera-
morz Little. They ware married in
July, 1882, and two children were
born to them (Vivian L. and Catherine

L.). Sister Little contiued her studies
after her marriage and was graduated
from the University of Utah in 1899,
with the degree of Bachelor of Science.
About this time she became associated
with a number of woman's clubs and
was the founder of the Authors Club.
On one occation Sister Little was
chosen for the National Council of
Woman and gave an address at the
convention in Chicago, 111. She was
a regent of the University of Utah for
about ten years, served on the general
board of the Relief Society and on the
Stake Board of Ensign Stake. The
death of her husband was a great
blow to her and in order to overcome
her sorrow she studied music and art
and became very efficient in those
lines. Sister Little died in Salt Lake
City May 29, 1909. In history she
ranks as one of the best educated
women of Utah; she was unceasing
in her determination to gain an educa-

tion and up to the time of her death
she kept abreast with the educational
systems of the world.

THOMAS, Chas. John, a prominent
and active Elder in the 13th Ward,
Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Nov.
20, 1832, in Burnley, Lancashire, Eng-
land, the son of Joseph K. Thomas and
Margaret Spotswood. When but seven
years of age, he exhibited natural
ability for music and at the age of
nine he played with his father in an
orchestra at the Theatre Royal, New
Castle-on-Tyne. While still a lad he
went to London and" studied harmony
under the tutorship of Professor
Thirwall of the Theatre Royal
Covent Garden, and he graduated

with honors. Soon after becom-
ing a convert to "Mormonism" in
1851, Charles took sick and continued
to grow worse until his life was dis-
paired of and the doctor said he would
die. His father's heart was touched
and he exclaimed: "My son, If there
is anything on earth that you wish
and I can get for you, you shall have
it." Charles asked that the Latter-
day Saint Elders be sent for to pray
for him. The Elders came, and after
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instantly healed. This miraculous
manifestation of the power of God led
his father to investigate the claims of
"Mormonism", and soon afterwards the
whole family joined the Church.
Commencing with 1853 Charles travel-
ed with an Italian opera company for
three years from London to Scotland
under the direction of the great Carl
Anchutze. In 1854 he published some
of his compositions which were played
at several London theatres. In 1856
he was offered the position of band
master on board "H. M. S. Great
Marlborough" but had to decline the
honor on account of poor health. After
being a member of the Church for ten
years, he set sail for America with a
large company of emigrating saints
who crossed the Atlantic in the ship
"William Tapscott" which sailed from
Liverpool May 11, 1860, and arrived in
New York June 20th following. Dur-
ing his temporary sojourn in the State
of New York, he filled a number of
engagements in several theatres in
the city of New York. To Professor
Thomas belongs the distinction and
honor of being the first orchestral
leader for the Salt Lake Theatre and
for being the first to receive a testi-
monial benefit in that historic house.
He was also musical director of the
first male glee club in Salt Lake City,
which was organized, under the name
of the "Union Glee Club", March 17,
1876, with a membership of sixteen,
which soon increased to twenty-four.
Most of the members were considered
at that time the best vocalists in the
City, including Messrs. Henry Gard-
ener, Duncan M. McAllister, William
Foster, A. C. Smyth, Orson F. Whit-
ney, Ebenezer Beesley, and a number
of other well known names ; the object
of the organization was mutual im-
provement in the Divine art of vocal
music and to assist in charitable pur-
poses. From 1875 to 1885 Brother
Thomas had charge of the Temple
block by special appointment from

the presidency of the Church. In 1885
to 1887 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, laboring principally in the
Yorkshire, Birmingham and London
conferences. After his return from
that mission, he was again placed in
charge of the Temple block, which
position he held till 1908. From the
time of the dedication of the Salt
Lake Temple in 1893 to the present
time he has led the Temple choir. In
the musical world Bro. Thomas is
widely known as a composer of music,
having written for orchestral, instru-
mental and vocal works. As early as
1858 he wrote his famous anthem on
the Book of Mormon, commencing
with "Harken, O Gentiles". This was
undoubtedly the first anthem ever
written from that sacred volume. He
also composed "Harken and Lo a
Voice" from the Doctrine and Coven-
ants in 1859, which perhaps was the
first poetical effusion which had that
book for its basis. While yet a young
man he was sent to St. George by
Pres. Brigham Young to teach vocal
and instrumental music, remaining
there about three years. After that
he resided in Beaver two and a half
years, after which he was called back
to Salt Lake City. Soon after his
arrival in Utah in 1861 he attained to
the captaincy of a band which was
called the Thomas band. Before he
left his native country he married
Charlotte Gibbs in London (in 1854),
by whom he became the father of one
son. Bro. Thomas is remembered as
the man who led a male; chorus of
seventy voices to victory in June, 1892,
taking the first prize at a singing con-
test given under the auspices of the
mutual improvement associations in
the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City. One
of his colleagues in the music world,
speaking of Prof. Thomas, says: "In
summing up this noble, earnest teach-
er's work, it may be said that his ad-
vent into these valleys marked an
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Utah." For many years Elder Thomas
has been a faithful and enthusiastic
Temple worker and is well and favor-
able known by thousands of the
Saints for his unflinching integrity
and faitfulness as a servant of God
and as a man of talent and influence.

ENSIGN, Rufus Bronson, a Utah
pioneer of 1847, was born Dec. 28,
1832, at Westfield, Massachusetts, the
son of Harris D. Ensign and Mary
Bronson. His parents joined the
Church in Westfield, about 1840, and
started for the West in 1846. The fath-
er died, at Winter Quarters Sept. 29,
1846, and Rufus, with his mother, five

brothers and one sister, came to
Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847, cros-
sing the plains in Daniel Spencer's
Hundred, which arrived in the Valley,
Sept. 20, 1847. After spending two
years in the "Old Fort", the family
settled permanently in the Twelfth
Ward, where Rufus was baptized in
1853. After participating in the so-
called Walker Indian war, he located
temporarily in Cedar City, southern
Utah. After that he participated in
an expedition to Fort Bridger, being
in the service 81 days. In 1856, to-
gether with his cousin Lorine he

went out to meet the belated hand-
cart company. In 1857 he went to the
States in the B. Y. Express Company,
but returned to the Valley in October,
1858. While on this trip he was taken
sick with malarial fever on the Platte
river, and was left by his comrades at
the old Mormon crossing. Here he
was taken prisoner by Johnston's
army as a Mormon spy and held a
prisoner about one month, but through
proclamation by Gov. Cummings he
was set free in May, 1858. In 1859
he went back into the Indian country,
where he traded with the emigrants
and acted as interpreter for the Sioux
Indians at the agency three miles from
the trail, until 1863, when he returned
to his home in the Valley. In 1874,
(Sept. 25th) he married Sarah Ann
Frost, who was born April 7, 1852, in
Salt Lake City and died July 6, 1894.
Bro. Ensign married Sarah Ann Kelso
Sept. 25, 1895; she was born July 9,
1852 in Pennsylvania. His second
wife is still living in the Twefth Ward.
Bro. Ensign has been a freighter and
farmer his entire life.

MIDGLEY, Joshua, a Patriarch in
the Church and a resident of the
Twelfth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Oct. 15, 1832, at Almondbury,
Yorkshire, England, a son of Thomas
Midgley (who was born April 2, 1897,
and died September 9, 1870, at Nephi
Utah) and Ellen Hinchcliffe (who
was born Dec. 21, 1801, at Al-
mondbury, Yorkshire, England, and
died when crossing the plains
to Utah Sept. 4, 1855). Becom-
ing a convert to "Mormonism", Joshua
was baptized Sept. 20, 1846, by Elder
Henry Whitaker. He left Liverpool
with his father Jan. 10, 1850, and
reached New Orleans March 8, 1850,
after a stormy passage in the ship
"Argo". When making the voyage,
the ship was once about to run
upon an island, but a miraculous flash
of light burst forth from the heavens
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revealing to the sailors their danger-
ous position. By tacking repeatedly,
the captain and crew succeeded in
bringing the vessel out of danger.
Brother Midgley settled temporarily
at St. Louis, Mo., where he remained
two years. He was ordained to the
Aaronic Priesthood May 8, 1851, by
Elder Thomas Wrigley at St. Louis,
and while there he was president of
the lesser Priesthood of the Fourth
Ward. He crossed the plains to Utah
in 1852, arriving at Salt Lake City
Aug. 28, 1852, in Capt. James Jepson's
company. He resided at Salt Lake
City sixty years, where his career.

both business and ecclesiastical, was
marked by unceasing activity and de-
votion. He became a member of the
Tabernacle choir in 1852, when an
orchestra of eighteen instruments
furnished the accompaniments. As
one of Utah's pioneer musicians, he
was also a member of William Pitt's
old Nauvoo brass band and was a
pioneer member of the Salt Lake
Theatre orchestra. He played with
the Nauvoo brass band at the cere-
monies of consecrating the Salt Lake
Temple grounds Feb. 14, 1853, also at
the laying of the southeast corner-
stone, April 6, 1853, — the twenty-third

aniversary of the Church — and thirty-
nine years later, he accompanied the
choir when the capstone of the Temple
was laid. After the exterior of the
Temple had been completed, Brother
Midgley had full charge of the decorat-
ing and painting of the interior. Bro.
Midgley was set apart as a home
missionary in the Territory of Utah,
Dec. 8, 1856, and was released March
2, 1857, by President Young. He was
also one of the presidents of the 8th
quorum of Seventy until the quorum
was moved south. He went to Echo
Canyon as cornet player with the
first company of Life Guards (Capt.
Burton) Aug. 15, 1857. In 1901 (June
20th) Bro. Midgley was ordained a High
Priest and Patriarch by Elder Rudger
Clawson, and passed to his final rest
April 30, 1912, at his home in Salt
Lake City, after a life of unusual
service to the Church, his family and
his community.

MIDGLEY, Jemima Rushby Hough,

wife of Joshua Midgley, was born May

20. 1834, at Wooden Box (now Wood-
ville), Leicestershire, England, a
daughter of William Hough (born in
1766 and died Aug. 27, 1836. at Wood-
ville) and Jemima Drabwell (born in
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1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She
was baptized into the Church in May,
1842, at Liverpool, England, and emi-
grated to America in 1845, sailing
from Liverpool in the ship "Parthen-
ian," March 30, 1845, and arriving at
New Orleans May, 12, 1845. Accom-
panied by her mother, she proceeded
to Nauvoo, 111., arriving there May 23,
1845. Her father died when Jemima
was only two and a half years old.
She remained at Nauvoo one year and
then moved to St. Louis, Mo., where
she and her mother earned sufficient
means to supply themselves with a
comfortable outfit for crossing the
plains. They crossed in 1852 in Cap-
tain James Jepson's company, which
arrived at Salt Lake City Aug. 28,
1852. Sister Jemima married Joshua
Midgley April 8, 1853, with whom she
lived happily for fifty-nine years, until
his death April 30, 1912. She is the
mother of twelve children, six of whom
are now living. Sister Midgley was
a diligent worker in the Relief Society
for twenty-nine years: from 1879 to
1908, she was first counselor to Sister
Julia A. Druce, president of the Twelfth
Ward Relief Society. She joined the
Tabernacle choir in 1852 and was with
it when the Temple was dedicated and
the corner stones laid. Besides rearing
her own family, Sister Midgley has
found time in her life in Utah to minis-
ter to the needs of the sick and other-
wise unfortunate almost daily, a serv-
ice for which her natural abilities and
generous nature have made her especi-
ally valuable. She still lives in the
home at Salt Lake Ctiy to which she
went as a bride more than sixty-one
years ago.

ARNOLD, Orson Pratt, a veteran
Elder in the Church and a noted
frontiersman, was born Nov. 21, 1838,
in Amboy, Oswego county, N. Y., the
son of Joshua Arnold and Elizabeth
Bliss. His parents joined the Church
before Orson was born and settled in
Nauvoo, 111., in 1840. Here they be-
came well acquainted with the Pro-

phet Joseph Smith and many of the
Church leaders. In 1848 the Arnold
family emigrated to Utah, and the fol-
lowing year continued the journey to
California. After residing in that
State, near Sacramento, about three
years, they returned to Utah and lo-
ated in West Jordan. Young Orson
was a sturdy youth, noted for his

generosity and courage, but never be-
came conspicuous until he went out
with Lot Smith's command in the fall
of 1857, to meet and, if possible, to
prevent the entrance into Utah of
Johnston's Army. Of his service on
this expedition Lot Smith on several
occasions declared that a braver man
than Orson P. Arnold never lived.
Bro. Smith had ample chance to ob-
serve not only his courage, but his
patience and endurance, for through
the accidental discharge of the gun
of one of his companions just after
the memorable burning of the train
of army supplies in October, 1857,
young Arnold was shot through the
left leg. The main bone of the upper
leg was so badly fractured that a
part of the bone.five inches in length,
had to be removed. The agony he en-
dured while being conveyed from the
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to express. He was carried by his
companions on a rude litter for a
distance of thirty-nine miles, before
a wagon could be reached, and then
hauled more than 200 miles in a
springless wagon to his home in Great
Salt Lake V^alley. His recovery was
long and tedious ;he was compelled
to use crutches to get about for fully
three years, and when able to aban-
don them, his left leg was rigid at
the knee joint, and he remained so
during the rest of his life. Pres. Brig-
ham Young interested himself in
young Arnold during his convales-
cence and from that time up to the
date of the President's death Orson
was one of the most trusted and con-
fidential men in the President's em-
ploy. He drove the President's car-
riage, journeying with him through the
settlements he visited, and was shown
every mark of confidence that any
person could be by that great man
for whom he had the utmost love and
reverence. As a reinsman and a
handler of horses Bro. Arnold had
few superiors. In 1860 (Nov. 4th)
he married Alicia Read, who bore him
nine children. In 1866, when hostile
Indians were raiding the settlements
in Sanpete and Sevier counties. Bro.
Arnold was among the courageous
young men who volunteered to go to
the relief of the settlers. His most
intimate associates on that expedition
never suspected how he suffered
from pain in his wounded limb while
riding on horseback in the mountains.
His iron will and strong determina-
tion, however, enabled him to sur-
mount that bodily handicap and lead
a very active strenuous life. He was
one of the most prompt and energe-
tic business men in the community. In
Salt Lake City he was active in estab-
lishing the street railway, and for a
great many years he was its superin-
tendent. Bro. Arnold died in Salt
Lake City Nov. 22, 1912, leaving a
large family, who were devoted in
their attention to him during his

long illness. The imediate cause of
his death was leakage of the heart.
During the last few years of his life,
since he retired from active business,
he devoted much time to looking after
the organization of Indian war veterans
in Salt Lake county, of whom he was
post commander. He was a generous
and firm friend and devoted husband,
a kind and loving father and a loyal
and consistant Latter-day Saint.

ARNOLD, Alicia Read, wife of
Orson P. Arnold, was born Oct. 20,
1840, in London, England, the daught-
er of Samuel George Read and Eliza-
beth G. Quilly. She was baptized in

1852 and emigrated to Utah in 1856,
sailing from England in the ship
"Horizon" May 21, 1856. From Iowa
City she crossed the plains and moun-
tains to Utah in Capt. Edward Mar-
tin's handcart company. She left
England together with her father and
mother, two brothers and one sister,
but in passing through Florence, Neb.,
her brother Walter got lost and the
father and one brother remained to
search for him, while Alicia, her
mother and one sister pulled a hand-
cart accross the plains and were ex-
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Capt. Martin's handcart company ex-
perienced. Tlie survivors of the com-
pany arrived in Salt Lake City Nov.
30, 1856. In 1858 the mother, taking
her daughter Thisby with her, went
east to look for her husband and
children, walking for the second time
across the plains, and returned again
to the Valley with her son Walter
and daughter Thisby in 1861. The
father arrived in the Valley in 1859
and the other son in 1862. In 1860
(Nov. 4th) Alicia married Orson
Pratt Arnold, by whom she became
the mother of nine children, seven
of whom are now (1914) living.

READ, Walter Pyrimus, a promin-
ent business man of Salt Lake City,
is the son of Samuel George Read
and Elizabeth Georgian Quilly, and
was born in London, England, Aug. 8,
1848; he lived in that country until he

was eight years old. His father was
a native of London, England, and
was employed as a lieutenant in the
service of the East India Company;
later he was employed in the office
of the general mercantile department
of the docks of that company in Lon-
don. He married Elizabeth Georgian
Quilly (a native of England), and be-

ing converted to "Mormonism" he
was baptized together with his wife
and left England for America in 1856
with his whole family. On their ar-
rival in Iowa the family commenced
the journey toward the Rochy Moun-
tains in Capt. Edward Martin's hand-
cart company, but when the company
reached Keg Creek, a few miles east
of Council Bluffs, Iowa, the boy
Walter P. (the subject of this sketch)
was induced by two men (who had
invited him to take a ride with them)
to leave the company, promising
him that if he would stay with them
until he was twenty-one years of
age, they would give him a large
farm and a pony of his own. The
boy became delighted at this unex-
pected opportunity and ran away
from the camp. He was first taken
to a small town called lenleston,
about fifty miles east of Council
Bluffs, where he stayed with a family
by the name of Hodge; later he lived
with a family named Spoor, and still
later made his home with a Dr.
Williams, who resided a few miles
east of Council Bluffs. Walter's dis-
appearance caused a division of the
Read family in 1856. The mother
and two daughters went forward to
the Valley in Capt. Edward Martin's
handcart . company, while Bro. Read
and his eldest son (Samuel M) re-
mained behind to look for the lost
cfiiia. ihey succeeded in finmufe
him after searching two or three
months, but it was then too late in
the season to cross the plains. In
the meantime Mrs. Read returned
to Iowa with one of her daughters,
and the family then remained to-
gether in Iowa till 1859, when the
father went to Utah and the mother,
with her daughter and her son Walter
P. (who had been lost), came to the
Valley in 1861, crossing the plains in
Capt. Ansel P. Harmon's oxtrain.
Walter P. drove a team all the way
across the plains. Upon his arrival
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secured employment as a bookkeeper
in the office of the "Deseret News",
where he remained until he establis-
ed himself in business, dealing in
books and newspapers under the firm
name of "The London Newsdealer". He
continued a faithful member of the
Church until the time of his death
in Salt Lake City, Dec. 8, 1893. Walter
P. Read received his early education
in private schools in Salt Lake City,
but as he desired to gain his own
livelihood and be independent, he
soon started on his business career.
At the age of sixteen he entered the
harness business and remained in that
vocation for the ensuing sixteen
years. The first six years of this
period he was an employee, and
throughout the latter ten years owned
and controlled the business located
at Nephi. Upon the sale of his har-
ness business, he devoted himself to
railroad building and in the fall of
1879, in connection with Messrs.
Grover and McCune, formed a con-
struction company known as the Juab
Contract Company which in that year
successfully undertook and comple-
ted the building of the railroad line
on the San Juan river, Colorado. In
the spring of 1880 the firm went to
Gunnison county, Colorado, and there
constructed thirty miles of the South
Park Railroad. This firm was known
as Grover, McCune and Read and se-
cured the contract for the Union
Pacific Railroad, and also contracted
for and successfully completed ninety
miles of the road from Pueblo north
on the Denver and New Orleans, now
known as the Denver and Fort Worth
Railroad. This firm operated ex-
tensively in the Western States, and
secured a contract in Montana to
haul wood to the Lexington Mills at
Butte City from the low lands. In
addition to the extensive interests of
this successful firm, Mr. Read found
opportunities for the exercise of
his abilities in other fields, and in
1881 he became interested in stock

raising. In that year he formed a
partnership with Messrs. Alfred W.
McCune and Thos. J. Scofield and
engaged in the cattle business. This
partnership owns an extensive stock-
ranch in southern Utah comprising
about six thousand acres stocked with
upwards of seven hundred head of hors-
es and cattle. The same industry and
ability which he displayed in his
former enterprises has made this
ranch one of the most prosperous in
Utah. In 1885 Mr. Read again turned
his attention to railroad building, and
in Montana the firm of McCune,
Kerkendall and Co. was formed in
Helena. The extensive operations of
this firm were managed by Mr. Read
who had entire charge of its business
in Montana. From railroad building
he turned his attention in a few years
to merchandising and entered into
a partnership at Nephi for the pur-
pose of conducting a general mer-
chandise business, the firm being
known as Read & Bryan. Here he
remained until 1889, when he moved
to Salt Lake Cty and took up the man-
agement of the Salt Lake City Railroad
Company. When Mr. Read took up the
management of this property it was
a poorly equipped crude system. The
cars were hauled by mule teams and
the tracks extended but an inconsider-
able distance. After his incumbency
of the office of general manager the
system made wonderful strides, both
in efficiency and prosperity. Under
his direction mule power was super-
ceded by electricity and in Salt Lake
dent, vice-president and director of
electric street cars west of Omaha.
He filled the offices of superinten-
dent, vice-prisident and director of
this company from 1889 to 1901. The
amalgamation of the Rapid Transit
Company and the Salt Lake City
Railroad Company was effected in 1901
under the name of the Consolidated
Railway and Power Company, and
after the consolidation with the Utah
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became a director and superintendent
of the railway service. He filled these
positions until the purchase of the
Utah Light and Railway Company by
the Harriman system took place.
In 1872 Mr. Read married Miss Martha
A. Pond, daughter of Stillman and
Elizabeth Pond, and his family con-
sists of eight children, five sons and
three daughters. His sons are Still-
man George (dying at the age of two
years), Walter E., Joseph Marion,
Winslow and Lewis Edgar. His
daughters are Gertrude (wife of Fred
Michelson), Martha J. and Erma.
Nothwitstanding his varied and active
business career, Mr. Read found time
to take an active part in the
political affairs of the State. He
is a believer in the principles of the
Democratic party and in 1876 was
elected and served as sheriff of Juab
county, Utah. He also had the honor
of being the first city marshal of
Nephi, being elected to that office in
the spring of 1889, but owing to his re-
moval to Salt Lake City to take up
the management of the Salt Lake City
Railroad, he resigned his office in that
year. The success of all the business
enterprises in which Mr. Read has
been interested and the strikingly
successful career he has made in
Utah are the results of his own ef-
forts. Starting out in life at an age
when most boys are still under paren-
tal guidance, self instructed and self-
made, he has achieved results that
mark him as one of the great captains
in the industrial development of the
West. A man of splendid physique,
undaunted will power, coupled with
the ability to learn from others and
profit by their experience, no matter
how limited, has made his career one
of the most striking illustrations of
what energy, application and industry
can accomplish. Gifted with a pleas-
ing personality and a kind and genial
manner, he has become one of the
best known and most popular men
in the Great West.

DRUCE, John, counselor in the
Bishopric of the Twelfth Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, for twenty years, was
born June 18, 1818, in the parish of
Mitcham, Merton, in Surrey, England.
His father, John Druce, was an en-
graver with an establishment of his
own, where his sons were taught in
that art. His mother, Sophia Bragg
Druce, was for thirty-one years the
matron of the church school at Mer-
ton, where John received his early
education under her tutelage. Later
he attended the Arthur Academy for
boys in Mitcham. Thoughtful and

obedient, he always studied the wishes
and interests of his parents. At twelve
years of age he taught a small class
in the Mitcham Church Sunday school
For a time he worked in a large con-
fectionary establishment, owned by
a cousin in London, but did not like
the employment, and was glad to re-
turn home. He was strongly inclined
to study financial questions, and took
naturally to mathematics and mechan-
ism. In the years 1840 he made his
abode in the city of Manchester;
where he was employed in the Mc
Entire engraving department of the
Ducie print works. He was very much
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workmen and was connected with that
establishment as long as he remained
in his native land. The year of his
removal to Manchester was the year
that "Mormonism'" made that city its
headquarters iu the British Isles. Mr.
Druce, having become acquainted with
the Latter-day Saints and their doc-
trines, was baptized Aug. 4» 1841, by
Parley P. Pratt, who was then presid-
ing in Great Britain. Soon Bro. Druce
was called into the ministry and labor-
ed faithfully in the cause, presiding
at different times over the branches
of Stockport, Crossmore. Sali'ord and
Middleton. He remained in England
until twenty-eight years of age, when
he emigrated to America, sailing from
Liverpool Feb. 17. 184G, and arriving
in New York March 26, 1846. His wife,
Julia A. Jinks Druce, whom he had
married June 19, 1842, in Manchester,
England, sailed for America in August
1846. Bro. Druce went to Haverstraw,
Rockland county, in the same State,
and was ( hosen presiding Elder ot
the Haverstraw branch April 25, 1849.
Mr. Druce was employed at the Gar-
nerville Print Works, where he re-
mained for fifteen year.s. He served
the firm fath fully, gained the confi-
dence of his employers and became
head of the engraving department.
When he was about to leave, they of-
fered him inducements to remain, but
financial considerationr, had no weight
with him, as compared with his re-
ligious convictions. Deeming it his
duty to gather with the Saints, he
started for Utah, accompanied by his
wife and seven children. He also
had with him a cook and two team-
sters, one of the latter his nephew. He
left Haverstraw June 11, 1861, and
by railroad and steamboat, via Chica-
go and St. Joseph, reached Florence,
Nebraska, on the 21st of that month.
Says he: "It was a very critical time
to travel through the States. The
Civil War had just begun and the feel-
ing against the saints was quite bitter.
At Dunkirk, New York, the company
was detained part of a day and all

one night, none being allowed to leave
the depot. At Quincy, 111., men gath-
ered about the train, swearing and ut-
tering threats, but none were harmed.
.\t Hannibal, Missouri, the train of
cars was taken away by soldiers, in
order to clear the road, the guerillas
having set fire to the bridge over
which the train must pass. None
were allowed to leave the depot; all
slept on the station floor"'. Brother
Druce had a good outfit of two Chi-
cago wagons well loaded with sup-
plies, five yoke of oxen and three
cows. He and his party joined Ira
Reed's independent company and
started across the plains (leaving
Florence, on the 4th of July and reach-
ing Salt Lake City Sept. 16, 1861). He
bought a house and lot in the Twelfth
Ward, where he resided continuously
until the day of his death. He also
owned at one time property in Pleas-
ant Grove, Utah county. His Twelfth
Ward purchase was an old adobe
house, cold and leaky, insomuch
that the family had to open umbrellas
and fasten them over the beds to keep
off the rain, which, finding its way
through the mud roof, at times made
matters very unpleasant. As there
was no engraving to be done, he de-
termined to learn some other trade,
and as building seemed to be a most
nescessary occupation, he concluded
to be a carpenter. Aided by Wilford
Woodruff and Daniel H. Wells, he
was employed at the carpenter shops
on the Temple Block, and there learn-
ed the trade in question. Subsequent-
ly he helped to erect the Salt Lake
Theatre and other notable structures.
As builder and contractor he after-
wards formed a partnership with
William Robinson, and later was as-
sociated with his sons, John A. and
Edgar W. Druce. Under great diffi-
culties he built up a business that en-
abled him to support his family in
comparative comfort and made a good
home for himself in his declining
years. He always had the respect and
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him and was ever honest and conscl-
ensious in his dealings. He became
the father of nine children. In the
Church John Druce held the office of
Priest as early as October, 1841, and
in April, 1843, he was ordained an
Elder by Ezra Clark. February, 1862,
witnessed his ordination as a Seventy
and in October, 1866, he was a presi-
dent of the 21st quorum. In 1876-77
he filled a mission to the Eastern
States, presiding by appointment of
Pres. Brigham Young over the States
of New York, New Jersey and Connec-
ticut. Returning home he was chosen,
June 21, 1877, first counselor to the
Bishop of the Twelfth Ward, which
position he held for over twenty years,
under the successive administrations
of Bishop Alexander C. Pyper and
Bishop Hiram B. Clawson. His name
was a synonym for fidelity and devo-
tion to duty. He was particularly atten-
tive to the needs of the poor and helped
them in many ways. During his two
decades of faithful service as Bishop's
counselor he had the unlimited con-
fidence and esteem of the outhorities
and people of his Ward and all others
with whom he was connected. His
death was due to paralysis, the first
stroke of which came on May 18, 1888.
He recovered sufficiently after a few
months to enable him to attend to his
Ward duties again, but on March 12,
1895, he suffered another stroke, which
deprived him of the use of his right
arm. For about two years he was
unable to walk, without assistance,
though his general health remained
good, and he was able to attend to
business affairs at home. He served
faithfully as a counselor in the Bishop-
ric until he was honorably released in
June, 1897. Sept. 29, 1897, he was
taken in a carriage to the President's
office, where he was ordained a Pa-
triarch under the hands of Presidents
Geo. Q, Connon, Joseph F. Smith and
Franklin D. Richards, the second-
named being mouth. This was the
last time that he left his home alive.

A week later to the day (Oct. 7, 1897)
his spirit suddenly departed from its
earthly tabernacle.

DRUCE, Julia Ann Jinks, wife of
John Druce, and president of the
Twelfth Ward Relief Society for twen-
ty-nine years, was born April 17, 1824,
at Stone, Staffordshire, England, the
daughter of John Jinks and Mary
Woodfield. She joined the Church
Apr. 5, 1840, being baptized by Willard
Richards, and in 1842 (June 19th) she
was married to John Druce in the old

Collegiate church in Manchester, Eng-
land. She emigrated to America in
1846, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
^'Montezuma", which sailed from Liver-
pool Aug. 15, 1846. The family resid-
ed at Haverstraw, New York, fifteen
years. The Druce family assisted the
Elders who labored as missionaries
in that part of the country, both
materially and otherwise. Finally the
family crossed the plains and moun-
tains in Ira Reed's independent com-
pany which arrived in Salt Lake City,
Sept. 16, 1861. On the journey John
Druce was captain of ten and chaplain
of the company. The family settled
in the Twelfth Ward, Salt Lake City,
where Sister Druce acted as a teacher
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to July 13, 1879, when she was chosen.
president of the society. Her coun-
selors were Mrs. Jemima R. Midgley,
and Mrs. Eliza D. Hooper. Sister
Druce acted as president until the fall
of 1908. During the period of her pre-
sidency in said society she had left
to them by will, etc., several pieces
of good property, upon which the
sisters built houses to rent. The in-
come from this enterprise helped in
a substantial way to keep the poor of
the Ward. Sister Druce became the
mother of nine children, namely, Julia
A., Mary S., Lily H. A., Eliza J., John
A., Ada E., Amanda M., Edgar W., and
Kate A. After the two Wards (the
Twelfth and Thirteenth) were joned
together, Mrs. Druce, on account of
her advanced age, was honorably re-
leased from presiding over the Twelfth
Ward Relief Society, which she had
served faithfully and well for so many
years, and retired with the love and
esteem of the Ward and her fellow-
workers in the Society.

DRUCE, John Alma, a missionary
who lost his life for the gospel's sake,
was born July 28, 1852, at Haverstraw,

Utah in 1861 with his parents, and was
ordained an Elder Nov. 12, 1876, by
Minor G. Atwood. For a number of
years he labored diligently as a Ward
teacher. In 1880 (Dec. 30th) he mar-
ried Elizabeth M. Kingsbury (daughter
of Joseph C. Kingsbury and Dorcas
Moore) who was born Nov. 3, 1857,
in East Weber, Utah; she bore her
husband two children (Xenia L. and
Ethel D.) In 1883-85 he filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain, laboring in the
London, Liverpool and Brimingham
conferences. While abroad he con-
tracted a disease from which he never
fully recovered, but died soon after
his return home, Dec. 5, 1885, univers-
ally respected as an honest, upright
Latter-day Saint. Bro. Druce had
learned the trade of a carpenter and
was in business with his fathftr when
he was called on his mission.

EVANS, John Alldridge, first coun-
selor to Bishop Thos. A. Clawson of
the Eighteenth Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born March 23, 1865, at
Cedar City, Iron county, Utah, the son
of David WooUey Evans and Eliza-
beth Alldridge. He came to Salt

New York, the son of John Druce and
Julia Ann Jinks. He was baptized
Aug. 7, 1860, by John Druce, came to

Lake City when a child with his par-
ents and received a good education.
He was baptized June 4, 1873, by

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Mark Lindsey and was confirmed
June 5, 1873, by William L. N. Allen;
ordained an Elder March 23, 1879, by
Erastus Snow and acted for many
years as a president of an Elders
quorum. In 1906 he was ordained a
High Priest and set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Clawson, a posi-
tion which he held until the time of
his death, which occurred in Salt
Lake City June 2, 1906. He was
clerk of the Eighteenth Ward for
twenty-eight years. Elder Evans was
a successful business man. He was
an employee of the "Deseret News"
for many years, first as a book keep-
er, afterwards as cashier and finally
as manager. In 1887 (March 23rd)
he married Florence Neslen, (daugh-
ter of Robert Francis Neslen and
Eleanor Stevens) who was born April
6, 1866, in Salt Lake City. This
union was blessed with nine children,
namely, John Elmer, Florence Elea-
nor, Lucile, Elizabeth Louise. David
Woolley, Alldridge Neslen, Ruth.
Mary, and Richard Louis.

STEVENSON, Ezra T., second coun-
sellor to Bishop Thos. A. Clawson,
of the Eighteenth Ward, Ensign
Stake, was born Oct. 29, 1864, in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the son of Edward
Stevenson and Elizabeth J. DuFresne.
He was baptized in June, 1872, by
Edward Stevenson; ordained suc-
cessively to the office of Deacon,
Teacher, Elder and Seventy, the latter
ordination taking place Jan. 10, 1887,
under the hands of Joseph Watson.
For a number of years he was a faith-
ful member of the council of the
third quorum of Seventy, and he also
held the positions of superintendent
of the Fourteenth Ward Sunday school,
was president of the Y. M. M. I. A
and Ward clerk. In 1887-90 he filled
a mission to New Zealand, laboring
among the Maori people of that land,
acquiring their native language. In
1893 (June 22nd) he married Mary
Amelia Burton, daughter of Robert T.

Burton and Maria S. Haven. A son
of this marriage, Edward B., died in
infancy. His wife Mary passed away
July 27, 1887. a devoted wife and
faithful Latter-day Saint. In March,
1898. Elder Stevenson returned to
New Zealand, having been called to pre-
side over that mission. He was accom-
panied by the great Maori chief, Elder

Hirini Whaanga, who had come here
with his family (a representative of
his people in Zion) and now returned
as a missionary to his people, remain-
ing one year. Returning home in
September, 1900, Elder Stevenson
traveled via Egypt, Palestine and
European countries, thereby circum-
navigating the globe. In 1901 he
married Rhoda Richards, daughter of
Heber John Richards and Mary John-
son. The names of his children are:
Mary, Ralph, Ezra, Rhoda and Amelia.
In 1912, together with Andrew Jenson
and others, he organized the Round the
World Club, of which he became vice-
president. His present position in
a secular way is that of teller in the
Deseret National Bank, in Salt Lake
City.

JENNINGS, William, mayor of Salt
Lake City from 1882 to 1885 and one
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born Sept. 13, 18Jo, at Yardley, near
Birminshani. England, the son of
Isaac Jennings and Jane Thorington.
His father came of a good family and
made himself wealthy in the butcher-
ing business. When William was
seven years old he accidentally broke
his thigh bone and for fifteen months
was on crutches. His five brothers
and five sisters went to a boarding
school and were well educated.
William leit school at the age of elev-
en, and at fourteen plunged into busi-

ness as an assistant to his sire. Even
at that early day he manifested the
keenness, sagacity and business
promptitude that made him in time
one of the leading merchants and
financiers of the West. It is related
how he went to Coalsell Market on
a certain occasion to buy cattle. Hav-
ing made some first-class selections,
he asked the owner his price. Amused
at the lad's precocity, the farmer, in
a bantering spirit, put a very low
figure upon the cattle. "I'll take
them", said Jennings, and the farmer,
still in jest, concluded the sale; where-
upon William, taking out his scissors,
quickly cut the Jennings' mark on
each of the beasts and paid the mon-
ey. The joking farmer then tried to
recede from the transaction, but the

boy, un-awed by his bluster, appealed
to the bystanders, who sustained him
in the fairness of his purchase. Cha-
grined for having paid so dearly for
his whistle, the seller reluctantly
yielded the point and surrendered the
cattle. William Jennings came to
America the year that Salt Lake
Valley was settled. He was not at that
time a Latter-day Saint, and in leav-
ing home and beginning life for him-
self in a foreign land among strangers,
was actuated purely by that spirit
of independent enterprise which was
so notable a characteristic of his na-
ture. His parents and other members
of the family did not approve of the
step, but offered no strenuous opposi-
tion. In leaving home at such a time
he forfeited his family portion, but the
fortune afterwards amassed by him
was much larger than that divided
among his father's heirs. He landed
in New York early in the month of
October. There he remained through
the winter, working at six dollars a
week for a Mr. Taylor, a pork-packer
of Manchester, England. The next
year he made his way to the State
of Ohio, where he was robbed of all
the money he possessed — some four
or five hundred dollars — and in ab-
solute destitution sought and found
employment as a journeyman butcher
at a small salary. In March, 1849,
he left Ohio for Missouri, staying a
while at St. Louis, and then proceed-
ing to St. Joseph, where he worked
at trimming bacon and butchering. In
the fall an attack of cholera prostrat-
ed him for four weeks and on recov-
ering he found himself again penni-
less and two hundred dollars in debt.
In this extremity he was befriended
by a Catholic priest, one Father
Scanlan, who loaned him fifty dol-
lars, which small but timely loan,
judiciously handled, put him on his
feet again and gave him his first
successful start in the New World.
Mr. Jennings' well-known friendly
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plained. While at St. Joseph. he mar-
ried Jane Walker, a "Mormon" emi-
grant girl, on her way to Utah from
her native England, and though he
did not immediately join the Church
of which she was a member, this mar-
riage was the beginning of his rela-
tions with the Latter-day Saints, and
it undoubtedly led to his settlement
in the Rocky Mountain region. The
date of the marriage was July 2, 1851.
The young couple left St. Joseph in
the spring of 1852, and arrived at
Salt Lake City early in the fall. Mr.
Jennings brought with him three
wagons loaded with groceries, in
which all his means was invested.
These goods he sold in Utah at a
handsome profit and paid his tithing
from the sale. Soon after his arrival
in Utah, he joined the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, and on
July 28, 1855, married his second wife,
Priscilla Paul, another young English
girl, who had recently emigrated from
the land of her birth. During the
first three years of his residence at
Salt Lake City, Mr. Jennings devoted
himself exclusively to the butchering
business, a line of industry that
had made his father wealthy, and
which he himself had followed in a
small way with varying success after
his arrival in America. At the ex-
piration of that period, he added to
his meat-shop a tannery, manufactur-
ing leather from the hides of his
slaughtered beeves, then working up
the leather into saddles, harness,
boots, and shoes. His original ven-
ture and each succeeding extension
of his business was a success. Dur-
ing a mission to Carson Valley in
1856, he supplied the mining camps
of that region with meat. He built
himself a substantial house of logs,
which he had cut from the surround-
ing mountains. In this humble abode
his wife Priscilla lived, and there her
first child, Frank W. Jennings,was born
Feb. 25, 1857. The sire was absent
upon this mission sixteen months, re-

turning to Salt Lake City in the sum-
mer of 1857. On arriving in Salt Lake
City, he found the people greatly ex-
cited over the prospect of a collission
with the general government. John-
ston's army was on its way to Utah,
industry was paralyzed and business
almost at a standstill. Undaunted by
the prospect of invasion and devasta-
tion, which were the common talk,
the returned missionary embarked in
business on quite an extensive scale,
building on the spot afterwards occu-
pied by his Eagle Emporium, a large
meat establishment^ which he main-
tained as best he could during the
absence from the city of almost its
entire population. The Jennings fami-
ly spent the period of "the move" at
Provo. In the year 1860 the head
of the house branched out in the mer-
cantile busines. He purchased from
Solomon Young a stock of dry goods
amounting to forty thousand dollars.
He was now the leading merchant of
Utah. In 1861 he contracted to sup-
ply poles upon which to stretch the
wires of the Overland Telegraph Line
between Salt Lake City and Ruby
Valley. He also took a large contract
to supply grain for the Overland Mail
Company. The same year found him
in San Francisco, purchasing merchan-
dise for his store. After the establish-
ment of Ft Douglas, the commissariat
relied upon him for much that it con-
sumed. In 1863 he added to mer-
chandizing banking and brokerage. He
exported Utah products to the mines
outside of the Territory, and is said
to have been the first Salt Lake City
merchant to buy and ship Montana
gold-dust. He was also the owner of
the first steam flouring mill in Utah.
In 1864 he built the Eagle Emporium
in Salt Lake City and during that year
purchased large quantities of goods in
New York, St. Louis, San Francisco
and Salt Lake City. In addition to
these purchases, and against the ad-
vice and protest of his business mana-
gers, he also bought from Major Bar-

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rows a mammoth train-load of goods,
amounting to a quarter of a million
dollars. This bold and hazardous
venture proved to be the luckiest hit
of his mercantile career. He not on-
ly reaped handsome profits from a
ready sale of his merchandise, but
enhanced his prestige as a merchant
and indirectly the commercial stand-
ing in Utah, by the extensive and suc-
cessful deal. Two anecdotes, told of
Mr. Jennings aptly illustrate his na-
tive shrewdness and sagacity. The
first pertains to his grain contract
with the Overland Mail Company in
1861. Seventy-five thousand bushels
— about all the grain the Territory
then produced — was needed by that
company, and the contract to supply
it was made binding upon Mr. Jennings
by a forfeiture of five thousand dol-
lars, if not fulfilled. The company it-
self was not placed under bonds. The
merchant at once began to buy grain,
and contrary to his understanding at
the time of signing the contract, the
company began buying also. He pro-
tested, but his protest was unavailing,
and Mr. Jennings soon saw that it
would be impossible for him to ful-
fill his contract if the company per-
sisted in buying in opposition to him.
However, he kept on buying and filling
his bins and cellars with grain. The
company also continued buying. Fin-
ally Jennings, seized with an idea,
asked the other parties if the
payment of the five thousand
dollars forfeiture would satisfy the
contract. There was a prompt
answer in the affirmative and no
less prompt payment of the forfeiture.
The contract was cancelled and the
merchant was free, with thirty thou-
sand bushels of grain on hand, nearly
half the grain product of the Territory
and nearly half the amount needed
by the Overland Mail Company. Both
parties continued to buy, but Jennings,
having the inside track as a member
of the community, as well as his na-
tive push and ability as a trader, soon

distanced his jompetitor and succeed-
ed in corralling the greater part of
the grain product. And now came the
climax, with a triumph for Jennings,
which his opponents might have fore-
seen, had they been anywhere near
his equals in business acumen. The
Mail Company, which needed the
grain, must either purchase it from
Jennings at his own price — which was
now a high one — or else freight grain
from the Missouri river or the Pacific
Coast. Distance and delay forbade
the latter course and at length they
came and bought the merchant's grain
at a much higher price than he had
paid for it, thus wiping out the for-
feiture and giving him a heavy margin
besides. "When a boy," said Mr. Jen-
nings, "my father told me always to
look for a thing where I had lost it.
I had lost five thousand dollars on
that grain contract, and it was to the
Overland Mail Company that I had to
look for it. The experience taught
me, however, never to bind myself in
a contract, unless I bound the other
party equally." The other incident
happened in 1865. For two years Mr.
Jennings had been engaged in buying
gold-dust and had bought as high as
ten thousand dollars' worth in a single
day. Mr. Halsey, the superintendent
of Ben Holladay's local banking house,
was also in this business, and in order
to get rid of the Jennings competi-
tion, he went to the merchant and
requested him to stick to his le-
gitimate vocation and not buy any
more gold dust. Jennings replied that
he was the oldest gold-dust buyer in
the country, and he did not propose
to retire that early from a branch of
business which had been so profitable
to him. "Well," said Halsey, in anger,
"If you do not quit buying, I will run
you out of business. "How", asked
the merchant. The banker replied:
"I carry the express and I express for
whom I choose." Jennings retorted,
"I don't care a d — n for you or your
express either." They parted, each re-

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solved upon financial fight. Jennings
led out by paying for gold dust twenty-
five cents more an ounce than pre-
viously. Halsey retaliated by paying
fifty cents more an ounce, and thus
they went on until gold dust was
worth more in Salt Lake City than in
New York. Jennings, through an-
other person, then sold all his gold
dust to Halsey at the greatly advanced
figure. He quit buying for a few days
till the price fell to its former level,
when he revived the competition until
gold dust again ran up above the New
York figures. Again he sold to Halsey
through another man until finally the
banker, getting wind of the game,
cried quits, acknowledged himself
beaten and asked Jennings to come to
terms by signing an agreement be-
tween them. The merchant refused to
sign, but verbally agreed upon a cessa-
tion of financial hostilities. In 1867
Mr. Jennings purchased from Hon.
Joseph A. Young, who had previously
purchased it from Mr. William C.
Staines, the property afterwards
known as the Devereaux House and
grounds in the Sixteenth Ward, adding
to the original lot several pieces of
realty on the same block, and super-
ceding the handsome Staines cottage
with a more pretentious mansion,
while retaining and improving the
rare orchards and flower gardens
which the original owner had planted
and cultivated. The Devereaux House
was called after the Jennings family
residence in England. It became
noted for its hospitality, especially as
a place where distinguished visitors
were entertained. With one excep-
tion, it was the only private home
honored by Pres. Grant with a person-
al call during his brief stay at Salt
Lake City in 1875. The following year
Mr. Jennings, with his daughters, Jane
and Priscilla, while on their way to
Europe, called upon President and
Mrs. Grant at the White House in
Washington and were cordially re-
ceived and entertained. William Jen-

nings was one of the organizers of the
Utah Central Railroad Company in
1869, at which time he became the
vice-president of the road, holding
that position during the remainder of
his life. He also helped to organize
the Utah Southern Railroad Company
and succeeded Brigham Young as its
president. Prior to this he had sat
in the Legislature under the adminis-
tration of Gov. Doty, who commis-
sioned him a lieutenant-colonel in the
militia. In later years he was a di-
rector of the Deseret National Bank.
At the inception of Zion's Co-operative
Mercantile Institution, when the Gen-
tile merchants of Utah were in open
hostility to the movement, and many
"Mormon" merchants were hesitating,
Wm. Jennings threw the weight of
his wealth and influence into the
scale with Pres. Young and those who
stood by him in the inauguration of
the mighty enterprise, thus contri-
buting greatly to its success. He was
the first to lease his premises and sell
his stock to the institution, in which
he became a shareholder to the
amount of seventy-five thousand dol-
lars. From November, 1873, to May,
1875, he was superintendent of Z. CM.
1. and from October, 1877, to the date
of his death v/as its vice-president.
He was also superintendent from
February, 1881, to May, 1883. The
year 1882 witnessed the election of
Mr. Jennings as mayor of Salt Lake
City. He made a good record in that
capacity and one that gave general
satisfaction. It was during his ad-
ministration tliat Liberty Park was
formally opened to the public. He
was urged by Gentiles as well as
"Mormons" to run again for the mayor-
alty, but owing to polygamous con-
ditions he felt that he should decline.
Bro. Jennings died Jan. 15, 1886, in
Salt Lake City He was the father
of twenty-five children, thirteen of
whom, with his widow, survived him.
To these he left the bulk of his for-
tune. He had eleven children by his

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first wife and fourteen by liis second.
His eldest living child, the son of his
first wife, is Thos. W. Jennings, Esq.,
of Salt Lake City. His surviving
daughters, Jane, Priscilla and May, are
respectively Mrs. James A. Eldredge,
Mrs. Wni. W. Riter and Mrs. Scott
Crismon. The first Mrs. Jennings was
a very estimable lady, and the present
Mrs. Jennings, the mother of Mrs.
Riter and Mrs. Crismon, is no less so.

JENNINGS, Priscilla Paul, wife of
William Jennings, was born March
25, 1838, in the borrough, (now the
■city) of Truro, parish of Kenwyn,
County of Cornwall, England. Her
father, William Paul, was born May
2, 1803, in the parish of St. Agnes,

county of Cornwall, England. He was
an architect and builder by profession
in his native country, and in Utah
among the principal of his architec-
tural works may be named the Jen-
nings "Eagle Emporium" and the
Devereaux House. William Paul
joined the Church about the
year 1845, when Mrs. Jennings
was seven years of age. His family
were, therefore, trained up in the
faith of said Church. Previous to
joining the Latter-day Saints, he was

a Methodist local preacher and a
class leader. He bore the reputation
of being a pious good-living man, and
sustained a highly respectable social
standing in his native country. The
mother. Elizabeth Goyne Paul, was
born March 13, 1804, in the parish of
St. Agnes, county of Cornwall. Eng-
land. She was an excellent pious
woman and a fine friend to every one.
In Liverpool, her house was ever open
to the Saints, and the emigrants going
on ship board had often ctiuse to bless
her. The family residence was also
constantly full of the traveling Elders.
There were eight children in the
family, four sons and Tour daughters.
Mary Jane married Mr. James Lin-
forth, who at that time was chief
clerk of the Liverpool office. He was
a man of exquisite refinement, of a
keen brilliant intellect, with consider-
able literary culture. His work—
"Route from Liverpool to the Great
Salt Lake," illustrated, is even today
the most complete book in existence
upon "Mormon" emigration. For
many years he was known as one of
the principal men of California and
a leading merchant of San Francisco.
His wife, Mr. Jennings' sister, Susan
Paul, later became Mrs. Brooks of
Salt Lake City. Wm. Paul's whole
family emigrated to Utah. His daugh-
ter, Elizabeth Paul, married Henry
W. Naisbitt, the well known writer,
who eventually became the head of
the grocery department of the Z. C.
M. I., but Mrs. Linforth, at an early
day, about 1857, left with her husband
for California, where she died. The sub-
ject of this sketch, Mrs. Priscilla, emi>
grated with her parents to Utah in
the year 1854, and in 1855 (July 28th)
she was married to Wm. Jennings.
Previous to this he had married a
Miss Jane Walker at St. Joseph, Mo.,
through which relationship he became
acquainted with the Latter-day Saints;
and was led to Utah before joining
the Church. Wm. Jennings therefore
had two wives. Being called on a

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mission to Carson Valley, with a num-
ber of others, he was accompanied
by his second wife, (Priscilla Paul
Jennings) and their company was the
first that traveled down the Humboldt
river that season. The Indians had
been very troublesome that year, but
the company of missionaries with
their wives got through safe. This
was also the year of the Utah famine
and their supply of provisions were
estimated at barely enough per family
to last them to Carson Valley. They
had not gone far before Governor
Young, in consequence of the famine,
released all the prisoners then in the
Penitentiary, on condition of their
leaving the Territory for California.
The governor sent the released after
the company with instructions for
each family to take one of them to
provision on the way. One of the re-
leased prisoners fell to the lot of Mr.
Jennings, who with his young wife
generously provided for him on the
journey out of what was considered
their scant rations. This benevolence
appeared to them providentially re-
warded, for their supplies seemed
not to diminish, which was often, on
the way, the subject of conversation
between Bro. Jennings and his wife.
While in Carson Valley, Frank W.
Jennings was born Feb. 25, 1857. He
is the eldest son of the subject of
this sketch and was a member of the
great commercial firm of Jennings
and Sons. After being on this pioneer
mission eighteen months, the family
prepared for their return to Salt Lake
City. It may be observed, by the
way, that this episode in their lives
entitled William Jennings to rank as
one of the founders of Nevada, as
well as of Utah, and to Frank W.
Jennings a peculiar State distinction
attaches, he being one of the first
native born sons of Nevada. In this
early period of her married life. Sister
Priscilla Jennings was a principal
personage in the action of a number
of romantic incidents as well as the

usual hardships which attend pioneer
families in their career of State-found-
ing, among which were some thrilling
Indian adventures on the way home,
it being at the time of the Utah war.
After the return of the people of Utah
Territory from their exodus south in
1858, the two branches of the Jen-
ningses lived together in most perfect
harmony in one house, — first in their
old family residence near the spot
where now stands the Walker Hotel,
It was this family residence that the
Colfax party visited in 1865. The two
Mrs. Jennings were to each other as
affectionate, considerate sisters, the
distinction of first and second wife
never being made by their husband,,
and so much were the children re-
garded as one family, that even their
city visitors hardly knew which of
these companion wives was the moth-
er of the different children met in
this harmonious home circle. Thus
united, the family removed to Dever-
eux House, where the two wives lived
together in sisterly bonds until the
death of Mrs. Jane, about 1870, when
Mrs. Priscilla became as mother to
both branches, fostering for some
months, till its death, the babe which
the first Mrs. Jennings left to her
motherly care. The children of the
first wife were eleven and of the
second fourteen. Of Jane Jennings'
children there are still four living,
namely, Jane, Isaac, William and
Maye. Of the second Mrs. Jennings'
children there are seven living, name-
ly, Frank, Joseph, Priscilla, James,
Walter, Harry and Harold. Many
years ago Sister Priscilla P. Jennings
formed a sewing club and gave work
to many who were in destitute cir-
cumstances. She solicited work from
the stores and also gave free sewing
lessons to girls. Thus this small fac-
tory was a wonderful help to the
community. Sister Jennings has also
been a diligent Relief Society worker
from the early days and has been a
member on the General Board of the

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Relief Society since the time Sister
Bathsheba W. Smith became president.
She has also been an earnest Temple
worker and served on the Committee
appointed to furnish the Temple
when getting it ready for dedication.
She was one of the first sisters called
to officiate in the Temple as an or-
dinance worker, and is still devoting
a part of her time to that work.
Sister Jennings has always been a
public-spirited woman, ever willing to
take part in such work which has
been assigned her to do.

GILES, Henry Evans, organist of
the Ensign Stake and an active Elder
of the Eighteenth Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born March 26, 1859,
in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of

Thomas Davis Giles and Hannah
Evans Giles. He was baptized Nov. 4,
1866. In 1886 he moved to Provo to
take charge of the music in the B. Y.
Academy and to preside at the organ
in the Provo Tabernacle. Subsequent-
ly he was appointed Stake chorister
for the Utah Stake and conductor of
the Provo Tabernacle choir. While
filling these positions he brought his
combined choir to Salt Lake City to
sing at the M. I. A. concert and confer-
ence. His choir also sang at the dedi-

catory services in the Salt Lake Tem-
ple April 14, 1893, and gave a concert
in the Tabernacle in the evening.
During the dedicatory services one of
the sisters gave birth to a male child
which was blessed under the hands
of Pres. Joseph F. Smith and Bro.
Giles. The child was named Joseph
Temple Bennett. In 1904 Bro. Giles
was appointed Stake chorister for the
Malad Stake, he having temporarily
changed his place of residence from
Salt Lake City to Malad Valley, Idaho.
After holding that position about five
years, he returned to Salt Lake City
and was appointed Stake organist in
the Ensign Stake and Ward organist
in the Eighteenth Ward. Since 1911
he has been engaged as manager of
the Giles Engraving Company. Bro.
Giles has held a number of offices in
the Priesthood, being ordained an
Elder by Joseph W. Smith, a Seventy
by John Morgan, and a High Priest by
Joseph S. Wells. In 1879 (June 29th)
he married Catherine Evans, who has
borne him twelve children.

GILES, Thomas Davis, popularly
known as "Utah's blind harpist", was

born Nov. 28, 1820, at Blan, Avon,
South Wales, the son of Thos. Giles
and Maria Davis. He was one of the

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early converts to "Mormonism" in
Wales, and soon after his baptism in
1S44, he became a zealous worker in
the Church. After laboring in differ-
ent capacities he became president of
the Welsh conference. At a meeting
of saints held in Bro. Giles' native
town, in 184S, a member of the Church
arose and spoke in an unknown
tongue, prophesying that something
of a very serious nature would shortly
happen to some of the leaders of the
Church in Wales. A spirit of dread
took possession of the little branch, as
it was feared that the calamity predic-
ted would come through mob violence,
and as a precaution the Elders of the
Church from that time ceased going
out to labor singly as missionaries.
The prediction sure enough came to
pass, Bro. Giles, being the victim. One
day, while working at his trade, dig-
ging coal in a mme, a large piece of
coal fell on him, striking him on the
head and inflicting a wound nine inches
long, rendering him totally blind. The
injured man was carried to his home
and medical aid hastily summoned.
The doctor then bound up the wound
in Bro. Giles's head and rendered him
other assistance. In taking his leave,
the doctor said he did not believe the
injured man would live longer than
twenty-four hours. News of the sad
accident was carried to two Elders of
the Church, who hastened to the bed-
side of their unfortunate brother,
whom they annointed with oil, and
then prayed for his recovery. He
was promised that he would get well
and even if he would never see again,
he would live to do much good in the
Church. A month later he was out
traveling through the country attend-
ing to his ecclesiastical duties. In
the spring of 1856 Bro. Giles received
word that he and his family could
emigrate to Zion. They crossed the
Atlantic in the ship "Samuel Curling",
which sailed from Liverpool, England,
April 19, 1856. Before leaving Wales
the saints there presented Bro. Giles

with a splendid harp which he learned
to play skillfully. While crossing the
plains he lost his wife and two child-
ren by death. His sorrow was great
and his heart almost broken, but his
faith did not fail him. In the midst
of his grief he said as did one of old,
"The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh
away; blessed be the name of the
Lord". At Council Bluffs he joined a
handcart company and started again
for the Valley. Though blind he pul-
led a handcart from Council Bluffs
to Salt Lake CiXy, Bro. Alfred Reese,
who pulled the handcart with him,
leading the way. At a certain stage
of the journey Bro. Giles became very
ill and being unable to keep up with
the company, he and his partner were
left behind for a day or so, until
Apostle Parley P. Pratt came along
and administered to Bro. Giles; under
the powerful administration of Apostle
Pratt, he was miraculously healed,
and reached the City of the Saints in
safety. Pres. Brigham Young had in
his possession at that time a valuable
harp, the use of which he feelingly
tendered Bro. Giles. Id due course of
time Bro. Giles's own harp arrived, and
then, carrying a letter of introduction
from Pres. Young to the Bishops, Bro.
Giles traveled from settlemeAt to settle-
ment in Utah, giving concerts and
gladdening the hearts of the people
with his sweet music. This was his
avocation for many years. "In 1895
(Nov. 2nd) the harp of the old blind
musician Avas hung up on the willows!
Bro. Giles, its owner, was dead."

ALLEY, George, a faithful Elder in
the Churdi. was born Dec. 30, 1792,
in Lynn, I'Jr-sex couniy. Mass.. the son
of Joseph Alley and Hannah Batch-
elor. He married Mary Symonds
Sept. 15, 1822, by whom he became
the father of seven children, namely,
George H., Margaret M., Lydia Ann, .
Susan H., Stephen W., Elizabeth R.,
and Charles H. Together with his wife
he was baptized in 1842 by Erastus

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Snow, migrated to Nauvoo, 111., in
1842-43, and passed through the per-
secutions of the Saints in Illinois.
In the summer of 1846 the Alley fami-
ly left Nauvoo for the west, and Bro.
Alley found employment at different
places in Iowa as they journeyed west-
ward. Late in the fall of 1846 the
family arrived at Winter Quarters,
where they spent the winter of 1846-
47; the following year (1848) they
continued the journej^ westward in
Pres. Young's company, which arrived
in Great Salt Lake Valley Sept. 20,
1848. They settled on North Canyon
Creek (Bountiful) for the winter,
where Bro. Alley built a log cabin,
into which the family moved in
December, 1848. During the winter
of 1848-1849 the family suffered con-
siderable through lack af sufficient
food. In the spring of 1849 Bro.
Alley moved his family to the City
and lofated permanently in the Eighth
Ward. Here be died as a faithful
Elder in the Church in November,
1859. At the time of his death he
held the office of a Seventy.

ALLEY, Mary Symonds, wife of
Geo. Alley, was born Aug. 7, 1896, at

Salem, Mass., the daughter of John
Symonds and Susan Webb. She was

baptized at Salem in 1842 by Erastus
Snow and in 1842-43 removed with her
husband and children to Nauvo, 111.,
where she received her endowments
and a patriarchal blessing under the
hand of Patriarch John Smith. The
family arrived in Salt Lake City in
1848 Sister Alley was the mother of
seven children. She was numbered
among the first in the town of Salem,
Mass.. who believed the testimony of
Elder Erastus Snow who held his first
meeting in their home. Sister Alley
died as a faithful Latter-day Saint
in the Eighth Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, Aug. 3, 1880.

ALLEY, George Hubbard, a faith-
ful Elder in the Church, was born
June 14, 1823, in Lynn, Mass,, the son
of George Alley and Mary Symonds.
He migrated with his father's family
to Nauvoo, III., in 1842-43, was bap-
tized in Nauvoo by Erastus Snow, and
came to Utah in 1848 with his parents.
His early life was spent freighting
to California and he also helped
his brother Stephen on the farm. He
was ordained to the office of a
Seventy and later to that of a High
Priest. He died in Salt Lake City,
April 6, 1910.

ALLEY, Stephen Webb, an active
Elder in the Thirty-first Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born Dec. 12,
1832, in Salem, Mass., the son of
George Alley and Mary Symonds. He
was baptized in 1844, came to Utah
in 1848, and was ordained an Elder
March 31, 1854. Later he was or-
dained a Seventy by John Needham
and became a member of the 13th
quorum of Seventy. Finally he was
ordained a High Priest by David Mc
Kenzie. He passed through all the
hardships incident to pioneer life in
Utah and had with the rest of his
people trying experiences with crick-
ets, grasshoppers, etc. In 1863-66 he
filled a mission to England, and at
home he acted for many years as

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a Sunday school teacher. In 1868 he
married Emma Turner, by whom he
became the father of six children,
namely, Stephen W., Ellen M., Kate
L., George, Edna E. and a daughter
who died at birth. Bro. Alley acted
as watermaster in the Eight Ward
for a number of years, belonged to
the territorial militia and acted on

New York July 13, 1868. Continuing
the journey by rail as far as Laramie
City, on the Union Pacific Railway,
she left that place July 27, 1868, in
John R. Murdock's mule train which
arrived in the Valley Aug. 19, 1868.
About six weeks after her arrival in
the Valley, on Oct. 3, 1868, she married
Stephen W. Alley, by whom she be-

different occasions as one of the
guards in Salt Lake City. His oc-
cupations have been those of a farm-
er, cooper and musician. He was a
member of the first theater orchestra.
From 1849 to 1890 he resided in the
Eighth Ward. He then located in
the First Ward, and when that Ward
was divided in 1902 he became a
member of the new Ward, the Thirty-
first.

ALLEY, Emma Turner, wife of
Stephen Webb Alley, was born Jan. 5,
1845, in Sheffield, England, the daugh-
ter of Geo. Turner and Hannah Walles.
She was baptized in England when
about nine years of age and emi-
grated to America in 1868, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "John
Bright", which sailed from Liverpool,
England, June 4th, and arrived in

came the mother of six children.
Sister Alley has spent her time princi-
pally in her home, raising her children
in the ways af the Lord. She has
always been a most devoted wife to
her husband with whom she is still
living very happily in the Thirty-first
Ward, Salt Lake City.

ALLEY, Charles Henry, a faithful
Elder in the Church, was bom
April 15, 1839, in Salem, Mass., the
youngest son of George Alley and
Mary Symonds. He was baptized
Aug. 7, 1847, at Winter Quarters by
Phineas Richards, and came to Great
Salt Lake Valley with his father's
family in 1848. In 1872 (July 15th)
he married Nancy Adaline Yorke, in
Salt Lake Ctiy, and by her became '
the father of four children. Bro. Alley'
died July 27, 1901.

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WELLS, Lydia Ann, wife of Daniel
H. Wells, was born Jan. 1, 1828, at
Lynn, Essex county, Mass., the second
daughter of Geo. Alley and Mary
Symonds. Her American ancestors
came over from England in 1634. Her
father's family hailed from London
and settled in Lynn, Mass. Her moth
er's family were from Kent, Eng-
land, and settled in Salem, Mass.,
When she was about three years old
her father's family moved to Salem,
Mass., where they first heard the ful-
ness of the gospel preached by Elders
Erastus Snow and Benj. Winchester
in 1841. In the fall of that year
the family started for Nauvoo where
they arrived in January, 1843. Sister
Lydia writes in 1905: "In Nauvoo we
had the privilege of seeing the
Prophet Joseph and of listening to
the words of inspiration which fell
from his lips. I shall never forget
them; they are as vivid to my mind
now as if they had been uttered only
yesterday. I can testify of the Di-
vine mission of the Prophet Joseph
and I know for a surity that he was
a servant of the Most High God. I
was in Nauvoo at the time of his
martyrdom and shared in the great
sorrow which befell the saints on
that occasion. In 1844 I was baptized
in the Mississippi river at Nauvoo by
Elder Erastus Snow and confirmed
by Amasa M. Lyman.'. In 1852 Sister
Lydia was married to Daniel H. Wells
by whom she had six children, three
of whom have passed to the other
side and three are still living. When
the Ward Relief Society was organ-
ized in 1858, Sister Wells became a
member of the same and later acted
as a teacher. In 1873 she was chosen
as second counselor to Pres. Rachel
Grant, of the Thirteenth Ward Relief
Society. In 1882 she was promoted
to the position of first counselor,
which position she held until 1890.
For five years, commencing with
1882, she presided over the primary

association of the Thirteenth Ward.
Later she was called to act as second
counselor to Ellen C. Clawson' presi-
dent of the Salt Lake Primary Asso-
ciation, which office she held until
Sister Clawson's death. After that
she acted as first counselor to Pres.
Camilla Cobb, occupying that position
until the Salt Lake Stake was divided
in 1904. In 1877 Sister Wells attend-
ed the dedication of the Temple in
St. George; she was also present
when the Temple site at Manti was
dedicated, and attended the dedica-
tory services of the Manti Temple.
In 1893 she was called to officiate
as a worker in the Salt Lake Temple,
a position which she occupied until
the time of her death which occurred
in Salt Lake City, Aug. 6. 1909.

WELLS, Susan Hannah Alley, wife
of Daniel H. Wells, was born May
3, 1839, at Lynn, Mass., the daughter
of George Alley and Mary Symonds.
She was baptized in Nauvoo, 111., in
1843, emigrated to Utah with her
lather's family in 1848, crossing the
plains in Pres. Brigham Young's
company. Together with her brother
Stephen, Sister Susan drove an ox
team across the plains. At a crossing
of one of the rivers this teame, which
was quite wild, attempted to run
down a steep embankment which
easily could have caused loss of
life, but she and others were saved
by Pres. Brigham Young who grabbed
the oxen by the yoke and directed
them in their course. Sister Susan
became the wife of Daniel H. Wells,
(being married April 18, 1852)
and subsequently the mother of four
children by him, namely, Susan
Annette, George A., Stephen F. and
Charles H. Sister Susan's mission
has principally been in her home,
attending to the duties of her house-
hold. Yet, she has done considerable
Temple work for her kindred. She
attended the dedication of the Manti
Temple.

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JENSEN, Jens Severin, a prominent
Elder of the Eighteenth Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was born April 3,
1852, at Aasrode, near Grenaa, Ran-
ders amt, Denmark, the son of Jens
Jensen and Christiane Christensen.
Becoming a cc/ivert to "Mormonism"
he was baptized Jan. 11, 1872, by
Elder S0ren Madsen and confirmed

by Elder Oluff B. Andersen. He was
ordained a Teacher in 1872 and emi-
grated to Utah in 1873, arriving in
Ogden, Sept. 28th. Having learned
the trade of a watchmaker in his
native land, he established himself
as a watchmaker and jeweler in Salt
Lake City, in 1875, which business
he has carried on successfully ever
since. He was ordained a Seventy
Feb. 17, 1875, and acted as a trustee
of the Eighteenth Ward L. D. S.
Seminary for four years. From 1881
to 1899 he acted as a Ward teacher
and for several years (1898-1905), he
acted as a counselor in the presiden-
cy of the Scandinavian meetings in
Salt Lake City. In 1911 he made a
visit to his native country, during
which he preached the gospel to
many af his relatives and former
friends, both in public and private.
After his return he was ordained a

High Priest Dec. 10, 1911. by Joseph
S. Wells. In 1875 (Nov. 8th) he
amrried Johanne Marie Mathilde Orlob
(daughter of August Orlob and
Mathilde Brautsch), who was born
Feb. 19, 1856, at Odense, Denmark,
and emigrated to Utah in 1874 By
her Elder Jensen has had eight chil-
dren, namely, five boys and three
girls, all of whom are now (1913)
alive.

SNOW, Elizabeth Rebecca Ashby,
wife of the late Apostle Erastus
Snow, was born May 17, 1831, at
Salem, Mass., the daughter of Na-
thanial Ashby and Susan Hammond
(of Marblehead, near Salem, Mass.).
Her parents were among the first
converts to "Mormonism" at Salem.
In 1842 the family migrated to Nauvoo.
111., where Elizabeth was baptized
in 1842 by Erastus Snow. She passed

through and witnessed the persecu-
tions of the saints in Hancock coun-
ty, 111., and as a fourteen year old
girl became a participant in the
exodus of the Saints from Nauvoo
and was with them in their travels
in the wilderness. During the per-
secutions her father weakened and
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children. After many trials, the fam-
ily reached Winter Quarters, where
they spent the winter of 1847-4S.
After the return of the pioneers from
G. S. L. Valley Sister Elizabeth be-
came the wife of Elder Erastus Snow
Dec. 19, 1847. She accompanied her
husband to the Valley the next year,
arriving there Sept. 20, 1S4S. Sister
Snow drove a horse team all the
way across the plains. This was a
trying task to her in the beginning,
but before she reached her destina-
tion, she became quite an expert as
a teamster. The winter of 1S4S-49
was spent in the old fort, and in
the spring of 1849 Erastus Snow
moved his families out upon lots
in the Thirteenth Ward. Sister Eliza-
beth was provided with a small adobe
house. The following fall her hus-
band left her on a mission to Scandi-
navia, he returned in 1852. During
his absence she lived with her broth-
er-in-law's family Bryant Stringham
and went out sewing for a livelihood.
During the "move" in 1858 Sister
Snow went as far south as Provo.
In 1861 she accompanied her hus-
band to southern Utah, where he
was called to preside and there
Sister Elizabeth resided until her
husband's death. At St. George
Erastus Snow built a big house in
which Sister Elizabeth for years en-
tertained the many visitors who cal-
led on Elder Snow, and thus be-
came the hostess of hundreds of
prominent people in the Church. In
1884 she accompanied her husband
to Mexico, where Elder Snow went
to locate towns for the people who
at that time were driven into exile
and were seeking homes beyond the
borders of the United States. Her
husband died in Salt Lake Cty May
27, 1888. Two weeks before his de-
mise Sister Snow came to Salt Lake
City to care for him and remained
with him till the end. She then
went to Mexico Avith her daughter

and son-in-law, Moses Thatcher, and
after a short stay there returned to
her home in St. George, where she
lived for a number of years and
then moved to Salt Lake City. Her
present home is in the Eighteenth
Ward.

BARTON, Ellen Bechall, wife of
Wm. B. Barton, and second president
of the Eighteenth Ward Relief So-
ciety, (Salt Lake City), was born

March 24, 1836, at Rainford, in the
township of Windall, Lancashire.
England. She was baptized May 3.
1856, by Wm. B Barton and became
his wife March 13, 1860. Together
with her husband she emigrated to
Utah in 1860. She subsequently be-
came the mother of nine children,
seven of whom are still living. Sister
Barton was a teacher in the Eigh-
teenth Ward Relief Society while
Eliza R. Snow was president of the
same, and in 1881 she succeded Sister
Snow as president. After holding
this important position for twenty-
five years, she resigned on account
of impaired health.

STAINES, William Carter, emi-
gration agent for the Church and a

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promment citizen of Utah, was born
Sept. 26, 1818, at Higham Ferries,
Northhamptonshire, England, the son
of Henry Staines and Blanche Potto.
When yet very young his parents
moved to Beddenham, near Bedford,
about 40 miles from London, there
he went to school much against his
will, for he had little liking for
books when a boy, and hated the
confinement of the school room. He
had a passion for floriculture and
horticulture, manifested most practi-
cally in after years, when also he
deeply regretted his early indifferen-
ce to education. What helped to
make school distasteful to him was

an accident which befell him when
he was 13 years of age. While play-
ing on the ice, he fell, injuring his
spine and causing a deformity, at-
tended with much pain, from which
he suffered severely for twenty years.
In fact, he was never * entirely free
from it. This misfortune, while it
materially lessened his statue, did
not detract from the pleasant im-
pression made by his frank, open
countenance and kindly manner. As
a youth he worked with other labor-
ers in his father's garden. It was
on the twenty-third anniversary of

his birth that he first heard of
"Mormonism", from one of its au-
thorized representatives — Elder Geo.
J. Adams. He believed, was baptiz-
ed and confirmel and at his confir-
mation was promised the gifts of
prophecy, healing, tongues and their
interpretation; which promise was
amply fulfilled. Among the Elders
met by him in England was Lorenzo
Snow, who presided over the London
conference and was afterwards one
of the presidency of the British Mis-
sion. Mr. -Staines testifies to cer-
tain predictions made to him by
Pres. Snow, which were marvelously
verified. Until January, 1843, he
labored in the ministry in his native
land, and then sailed for America,
reachng Nauvoo, by way of New
Orleans and St. Louis, on April 12,
1843. A note of his journey up the
Mississippi, illustrates a mistaken
notion had in England respecting
the conditions of the negro slaves in
this country. When about nine
years of age he had been informed
that these slaves all worked in
chains upon rice and sugar planta-
tions in the Southern States. His
sympathies were so aroused by the
woeful tale that he refrained from
eating sugar in order that the money
thus saved might go to a fund that
was being raised in England for
the emancipation of slaves in Ame-
rica. Concerning his observations at
New Orleans and along the Missis-
sippi, he says: "Here, to my sur-
prise, I found them driving fine
mule teams, being trusted with cart-
loads of valuable merchandise, tak-
ing the same to all parts of the city
and country, apparently squal with
the free white man, except in being
slaves and owned by some one. I
found them working as porters, ware-
housemen, firemen on steamboats,
etc., and their food was as good
as that of white men performing like
labor. I must confess that this sur-

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prised me and for the first time
I regretted that I had quit eating
sugar to help free the negro. I
found him in slavery having all the
sugar he needed and with a bet-
ter breakfast than any farm la-
borer in England could afford to
eat. The negro fireman on the
steamship informed me that they
all belonged to one master, who
lived about fifty miles from New
Orleans and he allowed them to
work out and gave them one-third
of what they earned. They received
?24 a month and board and the $8
with board that went to them was
better wages than a man working
on a farm in England was getting
at that time. They said they had
a good master and did not want to
leave him." Mr. Staines, however,
while undeceived as to the actual
condition of most of the slaves in
the Southern States, was not con-
verted from his opposition to slave-
ry, for he realized that grave abuses
attended the system. The day after
landing at Nauvoo he met the Pro-
phet Joseph Smith, whom he re-
cognized instantly, having seen him
in a vision while crossing the sea.
The next day he heard him preach
for the first time. At Nauvoo he
was employed a good deal upon the
Temple. He happened to be in St.
Louis when the Prophet and his
brother were slain, and when told
of the tragedy was unable to speak
to his informant for some moments,
so deep was his emotion. Return-
ing to Nauvoo, he beheld the bodies
of the martyrs lying in state. He
says: "I have seen England mourn-
ing for two of her kings and for
the husband of her queen, when
every shop in London was closed,
when every church bell tolled, when
every man who drove a coach, cab
or conveyance of any kind had a
piece of crape tied to the handle of
his whip. Accompanied by Brother

Amasa Lyman, I rode for miles
through the city, while the burial
services were being performed at
Windsor Castle. It was indeed a
solemn sight. I have seen this na-
tion mourn for its chief magistrate
— Pres. Lincoln. But the scene at
Nauvoo was far more affecting. The
grief and sorrow of the Latter-day
Saints was heartfelt. It was the
mourning of a community of many
thousands, all of whom revered these
martyred brethren as their fathers
and benefactors, and the sight of
their bleeding bodies — for their blood
had not ceased to flow as they lay
in their coffins — was a sight never
to be forgotten. The mourning I
witnessed for king and for our na-
tion's chief was only here and there
manifested by tears, but for the two
who suffered for their religion and
their friends, the whole people wept
in going to and from the scene — all,
all were weeping." Mr, Staines was
one of those who attended the mem-
orable meeting where Brigham Young
was recognized and accepted by the
Saints as the lawful successor to
the martyred Prophet. "Brigham's
voice," says he, "was as the voice
of Joseph, I thought it was his, and
so did the thousands who heard it."
In the exodus from Nauvoo, Wm. C.
Staines was in Chas. Shumway's com-
pany of fifty, the first to cross the
Mississippi river and start westward.
He was also at Sugar Creek, Garden
Grove, Mt. Pisgah and Winter Quart-
ers. Three weeks before reaching
the last-named place, he was pro-
strated with fever and ague. His
narrative thus continues: "I was
traveling at the time in Bishop Geo.
Miller's family, and they were all
very kind to me in my affliction.
By the time we reached the Missouri
river we got entirely out of meat
and very short of breadstuffs. Our
company had been selling and ex-
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spared, even to feather beds, for pro-
visions and many had become dis-
couraged, not knowing where to
get future supplies. Bishop Miller
called a meeting of the company,
raised sufficient means to purchase
grain and flour for temporary relief,
and prophesied that there would be
an abundance of corn in camp be-
fore we crossed the river. This pre-
diction was fulfilled a few days later,
when an Indian trader, Mr. Sarpee,
came into camp and made a con-
tract with the Bishop to bring a lot
of robes and skins from a point up
the river, where he and his fellow
traders had been bartering from
the Indians. It was usual to bring
these articles down in boats made
of buffalo skins, but this season
the rains had been insufficient to
swell the river, so that the boats
could pass over the shallow places.
Hence it was proposed to bring
them in wagons. Mr. Sarpee pledg-
ed himself to forfeit several wagon
loads of corn if anything should oc-
cur to break the contract. Something
did occur, for about three o'clock
the next afternoon, just as the
wagons were ready to start, Mr.
Sarpee came and informed the Bishop
that a messenger had arrived from
his traders, stating that heavy rains
had fallen and that they were bring-
ing their robes and furs by water
and had no use for teams. He then
told the Bishop to send his wagons
to the trading post and he would
pay the forfeit. The Bishop protest-
ed that under the circumstances he
had no claim, but Sarpee insisted
and the wagons were sent and re-
turned loaded with corn. The Bish-
op afterwards made another predic-
tion of the same kind, which was
remarkably fulfilled. Mr. Staines's
interesting account of his subse-
quent experience among the Indians
is here summarized: Soon after the
organization and departure of the

Mormon Battalion, a company led
by Bishop Miller left Winter Quarters
with the intention of crossing the
Rocky Mountains that season (1846),
but upon reaching the Pawnee Indian
Alission, which they found deserted,
they received instructions from Pres.
Young and the Apostles, still on the
Missouri, to winter on Grand Island.
About the same time eight Ponca
chiefs, whose tribe had been at war
with the Pawnees, arrived at the
mission for the purpose of making
peace with their foes, whom they
expected to find there. These chiefs
proposed that the "Mormon" com-
pany winter with them in their coun-
try, Avhich they said was "three
sleeps" or three days travel from
the mission. They promised the emi-
grants timber for houses and fuel
with pasturage for their cattle. Pre-
ferring this prospect — interpreted to
him by James Emmet — to a stay on
Grand Island without the consent
of the Pawnees, who were far away
and were said to be "mad", Bishop
Miller called a council of his breth-
ren, and a majority favoring the
Ponca proposition, it was accepted
and acted upon. The "three sleeps"
proved to be three days and nights
traA'el with ponies, or eleven days for
the wagons, over hard, rough roads.
Having reached their destination.
Miller's company camped near the
junction of the Running Water and
the Missouri rivers, and there formed
a settlement named Ponca. Early
in October the Indians informed their
white friends that they would soon
leave for their winter hunting
grounds, and would like some of the
brethren to accompany them. They
ware especially desirous that Wm.
C. Staines should go, he having part-
ly learned the Indian tongue and
made himself popular with them by
acting as cobbler, mending their
pouches, bridles, etc. Bishop Miller
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member of his family and in delicate
health, but the latter, who was
much interested in these Indians
and desired to do them good, pleaded
so earnestly for the privilege of go-
ing, that the Bishop finally consen-
ted. In all six white men went with
the Indians on this hunt, but three
soon returned and finally all left
excepting Mr. Staines, who slept in
the chief's tent and was named by
him "Waddeskippe", meaning a steel
to strike flint for fire. He remained
with them six months, instructing
them in the principles of the gospel
and acquainting them with the his-
tory of the Latter-day Saints. He
taugh the squaws how to braid their
hair, witnessed some wonderful buf-
falo hunts and passed through a
variety of experiences. The Indians
were very kind to him, receiving his
instructions with interest, and he
became quite proficient in the Ponca
language. Upon his departure, he
left with the chief a copy of the
Book of Mormon. During eighteen
weeks of his life among the Poncas,
Mr. Staines ate no vegetables or
bread, subsisting almost entirely on
fresh meat; as a result he suffered
terribly from scurvy. In February,
1847, he bade his Indian friends
farewell and rejoined his brethren.
They received him with joy and
astonishment, it having been repor-
ted to them that he was dead. The
date of Bro. Staines' arrival in Salt
Lake Valley was Sept. 15, 1847.
During the first years of his resi-
dence here he engaged in various
avocations. As an expert gardener he
not only cultivated fruits and flowers
upon his own premises, but superin-
tended at one time the gardens and
orchards of Pres. Brigham Young,
He had a farm of 300 acres in Davis
county, and his home in Salt Lake
City, which he sold to Wm. Jennings,
who there built the Devereaux House.

His connection with the D. A. & M.
Society began in January, 1856. His
interest and success in fruit culture
is partly indicated by the fact that
on one occasion — Sept. 18, 1857 — he
had upon his table from his own
orchards six kinds of peaches, some
of them measuring nearly ten inches
in circumference; also grapes of his
own raising. Wm. C. Staines be-
came the Territorial Librarian, by
appointment of the Governor and
Legislative Assembly, in the winter
of 1851-52. The library, for which
Congress had appropriated $5000, was
opened in the Council House at Salt
Lake City. In 1853 he was one of
a posse to guard the Overland Mail
route against hostile Indians, and in
1857 he served in Echo Canyon.
Two years later he became one af
the mercantile firm of Staines, Need-
ham and Company, whose stock of
merchandise cost $75,000. In April
of that year he was elected to the
city council, and in December, of
the year following was called upon
a mission to his native land where
he remained until 1863. He was
then appointed Church Emigration
agent and faithfully and efficiently
served in that capacity during the
remaining eighteeen years of his life.
He made regular annual trips be-
tween Salt Lake City and New York,
his duties requiring his presence in
the East during the spring, summer
and fall, after which he would return
to spend the winter Avith his family
and friends in Utah. Elder Staines
was twice married, but died with-
out issue. One of his latest acts,
after providing liberally for his wid-
ows, was to deed a large amount of
valuable property to the Church of
which he had been for so many years
a zealous and exemplary member.
He died Aug. 3, 1881, in Salt Lake
City. (Whitney's History of Utah,
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STAINES, Lillias Thompson Lyon,
wife of Wm. C. Staines, was born
Aug. 22, 1836, in Kilmarnock, Ayr-
shire, Scotland, the daughter of John
Lyon and Jeanette Thompson. She
was baptized in 1844 by John Kelley
and migrated to America, together

with her parents, in 1853, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Interna-
tional", which sailed from Liverpool,
Feb. 28, 1853, and arrived at New
Orleans April 23, 1853. She crossed
the plains in Jacob Gates' company,
arriving in Salt Lake City Sept. 30,
1853. In 1854 (Oct. 3rd) she was
married to Wm. C. Staines, to whom
she became a devoted wife. Sister
Staines has been a Relief Society
worker for many years, and her
home has ever been one of hospitali-
ty in which many have enjoyed
pleasant and memorable visits.
Among her many guests were some
prominent visitors from the States,
including several men of note in
political life. Sister Staines has al-
ways been engaged in public work
and her entire life so far has been
spent for the welfare of her people
and the promotion of everything
that has tended to build up the
Church of which she is a devoted

member. In 1876, the United States
centennial year, she made a trip to
New York and spent some time with
her husband while he was attending
to emigration affairs in that city.
Since about 1860 she has been living
in the Twentieth Ward, Salt Lake
City.

NESLEN, Robert Francis, a mem-
ber of the Twentieth Ward, Salt Lake
City, is a son of Samuel Neslen and
Eunice Francis, and was born at
Lowestoft, County of Suffolk, Eng-
land, Dec. 10, 1832, joined the Wes-
leyan Methodists when a young man
and became a local preacher in that
denomination. In November, 1852,
he was baptized into the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and
two weeks later ordained to the
Priesthood and sent out to labor as
a missionary in the counties of
Norfolk and Suffolk. He continued
thus until 1853, when he emigrated
to Utah, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Golconda", which sailed from
Liverpool, England, Jan. 23, 1853, and
arrived at New Orleans March 26th
following. On the arrival of the
company on the frontiers he was
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emigration, and traveled from Keo-
kuk, Iowa, to Fort Bridger in C. V.
Spencer's company. At the latter
place Elder Neslen remained about
five weeks doing military duty, after
which he continued his journey to G.
S. L. City, where he arrived Sept.
30th. He located in the City and
passed through all the hardships in-
cident to pioneer life. He was a
member of the Tabernacle Choir, a
member of the Nauvoo Brass Band,
a member of the Deseret Dramatic
Association, etc. In November, 1853,
he was ordained into the 19th quo-
rum of Seventy, and in April, 1855, he
was called to go on a mission to Europe.
He started from G. S. L. City, May
5, 1855, with a company of other mis-
sionaries, and arrived in Liverpool,
England, Aug. 15, 1855. He labored
as a traveling Elder in the Norwich
Pastorate, embracing seven counties
in the eastern part of England. In
1856 he was appointed president of
the Cheltenham conference, and dur-
ing his labors there a great number
of people were baptized and two new
branches organized. In January,
1867, he was appointed pastor of the
South Pastorate, extending from
Land's End to Wiltshire. In 1858
all the Utah Elders were called home
on account of the "Buchanan war,"
and Elder Neslen sailed from Liver-
pool, together with about twenty-
seven other missionaries in the ship
"Underwriter", Jan. 21, 1858. Arriv-
ing at New York, he tarried to wait
on his sick brother, Samuel F. Neslen,
who was returning from a mission,
but who died in Williamsburg, May
13, 1858. After burying his brother
he was appointed to labor as a mis-
sionary in New Jersey and Connec-
ticut, until he received word from
Church headquarters to return to
England and resume his missionary
labor in that country. He did so,
and after his arrival in Liverpool,
June 17, 1858, was appointed to labor

in the Glasgaw conference, Scotland.
Afterwards he presided over the
Edinburgh conference. Being re-
leased from his missionary labors
to return home he married Eleanor
Stevens Trewella March 10, 1859, and
together with his young wife he
sailed from Liverpool in the ship
"Wm. Tapscott", April 11, 1859, hav-
ing charge of a large company of
Saints. On the voyage, which was
quite pleasant, he solemnized nine-
teen marriages. On reaching the
frontiers he was appointed to assist
Geo. Q. Cannon in the general emi-
gration business, and finally crossed
the plains as a captain of a company
of Saints, which arrived in Salt Lake
City, Sept. 15, 1859. After his return
home he was appointed a Bishop's
agent to collect tithing in Utah,
Juab and Sanpete counties. When
the Salt Lake City Theatre was
opened in 1862, he was engaged as
costumer and actor, being thus em-
ployed until 1870, when he was called
on another mission to Europe. In
the meantime he had lost his wife
by death, and in starting to fill this
last mission he left five children at
home without a mother. Brother
Neslen arrived in Liverpool June
5, 1870, and was appointed to
labor in the London conference;
five weeks later he was placed
in charge of that conference. He
also visited nearly all the other con-
ferences in the British Mission. Re-
turning home he sailed from Liver-
pool in charge of a company of
Saints in the steamship "Wyoming",
on the 21st of June, 1871, and ar-
rived in Salt Lake City July 12th
following. In August next, after his
return, he married Eliza Saville. May
9, 1873, he was ordained a High
Priest and set apart to act as an
alternate member of the Salt Lake
Stake High Council, occupying that
position until May, 1874. For many
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missionary, in which capacity he be-
came popular with the Saints as an
earnest preacher. In early Utah
days he was a captain in the Nau-
voo Legion, and performed consider-
able military service. During his
ministerial labor at home and abroad
he baptized and re-baptized be-
tween one and two thousand per-
sons. In 1890 he filled a short mis-
sion to Europe. For many years he
was engaged in the mercantile busi-
ness in Salt Lake City and was
usually known to the community by
the familiar name of Uncle Robert.
He died in Salt Lake City June ?,.
1912.

NESLEN, Charles Clarence, fourth
Bishop of the Twentieth Ward,
Ensign Stake, Salt Lake City, Utah,

was born April 17, 1879, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, the son of Robt. F Nes-
len and Eliza Saville. He Avas bap-
tized May 3, 1887, by James Leatham,
ordained to the office of a Deacon
Nov. 19, 1894, ordained an Elder Feb.
9, 1902, by Levi W. Richards, and
ordained a High Priest in 1907 by
Wm. McLaughlan. The ecclesiastical
position which Bishop Neslen has
held are as follows: President of a
Deacons quorum, superintendent, sec-
retary and teacher in the Ward

Sunday school. Stake superintendent
of the Pioneer Stake Sunday schools,
secretary and president of the Twen-
tieth Ward Y. M. M. I. A., a mem-
ber of the High Council of the Pio-
neer Stake from 1909 to 1910, and
first counselor to Bishop Lyon of
the Twentieth Ward from 1912 to
1913. He was ordained a Bishop and
set apart to preside over the Twen-
tieth Ward. Aug. 17, 1913, by Pres.
Anthon H. Lund. In 1902-1904 he
filled a mission to Germany, laboring
as president of Koenigsberg confe-
rence. During the banishment of the
Elders in Germany, he was impris-
oned in Danzig, Prussia. In a civil
capacity Bro, Neslen has served as
secretary of the Salt Lake Real Es-
tate Association and is at the present
time engaged in the real estate busi-
ness. He was a delegate to the Nati-
onal Democratic Convention in 1912
at Baltimore, Md., in which Woodrow
Wilson was nominated for president
of the United States. For fifteen
years he was employed at the Deseret
News: starting as a delivery boy
and working his way up through
most of the department to the posi-
tion of cashier. He is a director of
the Deseret Building Society in Salt
Lake City. In 1905 (Oct. 26th) he
married Grace T. Cannon, daughter
of Pres. Geo. Q. and Martha Telle
Cannon. This union has been blessed
with three children, namely, Clarence
Cannon, Robert Cannon and Gertrude
Cannon Neslen.

RUSSELL, John Hastie, first coun-
selor to Bishop C. Clarence Neslen of
the Twentieth Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born March 17, 1879, in
Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland,
the son of John Russell and Margaret
Hastie. He was baptized when about
eight years of age in Glasgow and
emigrated to America in the spring of
1895, crossing the Atlantic in the
steamer "Furnessia". He located in
the Twentieth Ward, Salt Lake City,
where he was ordained a Deacon in
the fall of 1895. He was ordained an

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Elder Sept. 17, 1900, by Levi W.
Richards and three days later (Sept.
20, 1900) he married Susie Alberta
Reynolds in the Salt Lake Temple. In
1902-04 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, laboring in the Scottish con-
ference. At home Bro. Russell has
exhibited great diligence and activity
as a Church worker. Thus he acted
as a counselor in the Deacons quorum,
was a teacher in the Sunday school
for a number of years, was also a
teacher in the senior class of the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A. and acted as second
counselor to Pres. David R. Lyon. He

also presided over the Elders quorum,
first known as the 10th and after-
wards as the 3rd quorum of Elders,
acting in that capacity for four years.
He was ordained a High Priest Aug.

11, 1912, and set apart as first coun-
selor to Bishop David R. Lyon. After
filling that position about one year the
Twentieth Ward was divided, the
northern part being organized as the
Ensign Ward with David R. Lyon as
Bishop. C. Clarence Neslen was cal-
led to succeed Bro. Lyon as Bishop of
the Twentieth Ward and Bro. Russell
was then chosen as his first counselor,
being set apart to that position Aug.

12, 1913. In his youth Bro. Russell,

having learned the trade of a baker,
followed the bakery business fourteen
years; afterwards he engaged in the
insurance business, and is at the pres-
ent time associated with the firm of
Kimball & Richards in the real estate
business.

WELLS, Louis Robison, second
counselor to Bishop C. Clarence Nes-
len of the Twentieth Ward, Salt Lake
City, was born Dec. 21, 1862, in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the son of Daniel
H. Wells, and Lydia Ann Alley. He
was baptized July 6, 1871, by his
father, ordained to the office of an

Elder Aug. 10, 1885, ordained a
Seventy April 11, 1892, by B. H.
Schettler and ordained a High Priest
Aug. 17, 1913, by Jos. S. Wells. For
seven years he was one of the presi-
dents of the 13th quorum of Seventy.
From 1906 to 1911 he acted as first
counselor in the presidency of the
Ensign Stake Y. M. M. I. A. He
also served as a member of the
Salt Lake Stake Y. M. M. I. A. Board
for eight years, and as secretary of
this board during Geo. Albert Smith's
presidency. He was second as-
sistant superintendent of the Twen-
tieth Ward Sunday school for a short
time. In 1892-95 he filled a mission
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the Kentucky conference, most of
the time as conference president. In
1901 (April 30th) he married Inga
J. Hansen, daughter of O. C. Hansen
and Annie Rasmussen. This union
has been blessed with three children,
namely, Daniel L,, Horace H. and
Lowell A. Bro. "Wells is a book-
keeper by occupation and is at
the present time employed at the
Elias Morris and Sons Co.

MURDOCK, David L., senior pres-
ident of the 13th quorum of Seventy,
was born at Cronberry, parish of
Auchinleck, county of Ayr, Scotland,
January 13, 1852, the son of Wm.
Murdock and Janet Lennox. He re-
oceived his education at the school
in connection with the iron and coal

works at Muirkirk. At the age of
fourteen he entered the service of
the Eglinton Iron Co., at their Port-
land iron works at Hurlford, Scot-
land, in the officce of the works.
After four years' service there he
was transferred to the Gartsherrie
iron works office of William Aird &
Co., and after some two years ex-
perience there was again transferred
to the head office in Glasgow. At
the general election in 1873, M. Alex-
ander Whitelaw, the senior member
cf the firm, was returned to Parlia-

ment for the city of Glasgow as a
Conservative, and he chose as his
private secretary, the subject of this
sketch. He remained with him in
this position till early in 1878, when
he emigrated to Utah. He lived in
Heber City for three years after his
arrival in this country, and at that
time was offered a position in Zion's
Co-operative Mercantile Institution,
Salt Lake City, which he accepted.
In 1905-1907 he filled a mission to
Scotland, laboring in Edinburgh, Ayr-
shire and Glasgow and was during
the last nine months president of
the Scottish mission. After an ab-
sence of a little over two years he
returned home, having enjoyed his
labors in his native country. May
16, 1878, he was baptized in the river
Clyde by Alexander F. McDonald, and
was confirmed a member of the
Church the Sunday following. He
was ordained a Priest March 30, 1879.
ordained an Elder May 19, 1879, and
ordained a Seventy July 20, 1885, by
Elder B. Y. Hampton and became
a member of the 13th quorum of
Seventy, located in the Twentieth
Ward, Salt Lake City. For sometime
he acted as clerk of the quorum and
on Aug. 14, 1893, was set apart as
a president of that quorum by the
late Elder John Morgan and during
the past ten years he has been
senior president, succeeding to that
position on the death of James Sharp
in 1904. He married Elizabeth Pink-
erton Thyne April 18, 1878. Eight
children have been born through
that marriage, five of whom are sur-
viving.

BURROWS, John Holmes, a pres-
ident of the 13th quorum of Seventy
and an active Elder of the Twentieth
Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born April 7, 1856,at Nottingham,
England, the son of Wm. Burrows
and Elizabeth Holmes. He was bap-
tized Sept. 6, 1865, by Benjamin
Bowler; received the Priesthood at
the age of thirteen, being ordained
a Teacher April 11, 1869, by Geo.
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12, 1870, by Geo. H. Peterson; or-
dained an Elder April 24, 1871, by
Thos. Morley, and ordained a Seventy
April 4, 1876, by John Needham.
Elder Burrows has always been an
active Church worker, both in Eng-
land and America, and before he
was sixteen years of age he preached
"Mormonism" on the streets of his
native town. When sixteen years

1876 (March 20th), Bro. Burrows
married Mary J. Maynes, of Hull,
Yorkshire, England, and in 1895-97
he filled a mission to Great Britain,
during which he labored for two
years under the direction of Presi-
dents Anthon H. Lund and Rulon S.
Wells, taking charge of the business
department of the European mission.
Bro. Burrows has been an enthusi-
astic Sunday school worker in Salt
Lake City for thirty-five years. He
was the first secretary of the Twenty-
first Ward Sunday school at its or-
ganization in 1877, and afterwards
became assistant superintendent of
the Fourteenth Ward Sunday school
for several years. April 17, 1904, he
was appointed first assistant super-
intendent in the Twentieth Ward
Sunday school and on July 22, 1906,
he became superintendent of the
same school, which position he held
until Oct. 20, 1907, when he was
honorably released to devote his ac-
tive services to the 13th quorum of
Seventy. In addition to these reli-
gious duties Bro. Burrows is actively
engaged as a block teacher and a
member of the choir in the Twentieth
Ward, where he now resides.

old, he left his home in Nottingham
to take a position as assistant book-
keeper at the headquarters of the
British Mission, 42 Islington, Liver-
pool, and there labored under the
immediate direction of Elder Geo. F.
Gibbs, while Apostle Albert Carring-
ton and later Joseph F. Smith pre-
sided over the European Mission. In
September, 1875, after laboring thirty-
nine months in the Liverpool office,
he emigrated to America and made
his home in Salt Lake City, residing
successively in the 8th, 14th, 20th,
and 21st Wards. He commenced
work for the Z. C. M, I. as an
invoice clerk Oct. 23, 1875, and has
been in the employ of that institution
for nearly 39 years, filling very res-
ponsible positions in the clerical de-
partment until reaching his present
position as assistant treasurer. In

CHAMBERS, Nathaniel George, a
High Priest in the Ensign Stake, Salt
Lake co., Utah, was born Dec. 31,
1S36, in Detroit, Michigan, the son
of George Henry Chambers and Mary
Hyde. He left home in the fall of
1858 for St. Louis, Missouri, where
he remained until the spring of 1859,
when he and another young man by
the name of Alonzo Corkans heard
of the big boom in Pike's Peak, near
Denver, Colorado, and they decided
to go there, but owing to the hostile
attitude of the Indians on the way,
they concluded to travel on foot. In
order to have food on the journey.
Brother Chambers bought a cow, on
the back of which he and his com-
panion tied two sacks of provisions
which they had purchased. One
day's journey from the Missouri
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with an ox team, who invited them
to travel with him to his ranch,
called "The Big Blue," about one
hundred miles further west. Conse-
quently, they unloaded their pack
animal, put their sacks in the man's
wagon and traveled on. About two
days before they reached the man's
ranch, one of the oxen gave out,
so they put the cow under the yoke,
but she laid down bellowing, refusing
to pull. After parting with their
friend, they happened upon a freight

train belonging to Hiram T. Spencer
and Y. Greene on its way to Utah.
Mr. Corkans with American nerve
asked the clerk of the train if they
would be kind enough to haul their
sacks, and received a warm welcome
into the new company. Soon Natha-
niel was given a mule to ride, while
his partner's special business was to
drive the cow. Both stayed with the
train, and instead of landing at Pike's
Peak, as they had intended, they
came through to Salt Lake City. Af
ter their arrival in the Valley, they
traded their cow for a horse and
saddle, and while Alonzo Corkans
went to California. Mr. Chambers
became a "Mormon" and remained
in Zion. In 1866 he made a trip to
the States, from which he returned

the same year, crossing the plains
in Captain White's mule train. His
place of residence has been Salt Lake
City and the point of the moun-
tain west, near where Garfield now
stands. He also lived in the Eighth
Ward and the Twentieth Ward, Salt
Lake City. In 1861 (Feb. 17th), he
married Mary Leon Spencer, eldest
daughter of Daniel Spencer and Sarah
Lester, by whom he has had three
children. In 1882 he went on a pleas-
ure trip to the States.

CHAMBERS, Mary Leone Spencer,

wife of Nathaniel George Chambers,
was born Feb. 17, 1843, in Nauvoo,
Illinois, the daughter of Daniel Spen-
cer and Sarah Lester. Together with
her father she left Nauvoo in Febru-
ary, 1846, and after spending the
winter of 1846-47 at Winter Quarters
she came to Utah in 1847, crossing
the plains in Daniel Spencer's
Hundred That part of her father's
company in which she traveled ar-
rived in the Valley, Sept. 23, 1847.
At that time Mary Leone was only
four years old. She passed through
all the hardships connected with
pioneer life in the Valley and in 1861
(Feb. 17th) she became the wife of
Nathaniel G. Chambers, by whose
side she has ever stood as a faith-
ful and noble ompanion; she also
bore him three children (Sarah
Leone, Hattie Eliza and George).

CANNON, Martha Telle, wife of
George Q. Cannon, was born May 28.
1846, at St. Louis, Mo., the daughter
of Louis Telle and Amelia Ann
Rogers, who was a direct descendant
of the John Rogers who was burned
at the Stake. Her father came to
Nauvoo, 111., in the early forties from
the State of New York and being a
mechanic he went to St. Louis, Mo.,
to seek employment ; while residing
in that city temporarily Martha was
born. The parents returned to Nau-
voo, 111., the same year. Her mother
died in Nauvoo in 1847 and her father
in 1856. Martha being thus left an
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sister, Hester Ann Rogers Beebe, into
the back woods of Iowa where they
remained until 1859, when they emi-
grated to Utah. In 1860 her uncle
became disatisfied and took his fami-
ly back to the States, Martha being
one of the number; but she returned
to the Valley again in 1857, this time
alone, and located in Salt Lake City,

where she married Geo. Q_ Cannon,
March 16, 1868, and subsequently be-
came the mother of nine children,
six boys and three girls. Sister
Cannon has taken an active part in
Relief Society work in the Farmers
Ward, the Fourteenth Ward (Salt
Lake City) and the Cannon Ward,
having acted as secretary in each
society of these Wards. She has also
been a Temple worker from the time
the Salt Lake Temple was first
opened in 1893 and has performed
ordinance work for her ancestors
as far back as to the celebrated
John Rogers.

LAPISH, Hannah Settle, of hand-
cart fame and a resident of the Twen-
tieth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Nov. 2, 1834, at Beeston,
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the daugh-
ter of William Settle and Hannah
Strickland. The following life sketch
was prepared by Sister Lapish her-
self: "I am the youngest of eight

children, born to my parents; the
seventh child died prior to my birth.
My parents, not believing in infant
baptism, were refused a ('hristian
burial for their child. Father died in
my early infancy, and mother sur-
vived him only two years. During
her widowhood, Sectarian ministers
and others persuaded mother to have
all her children christened, and yield-
ing at length to their pressure she
permitted the same to be done Feb.
28, 1836, her children at that time
ranging in age from two to eighteen
years. The Rev. Thos. Wardle, vicar
of Beeston, Leeds, officiated in
making us all members of the Church
of England. When about seventeen
years of age I heard the gospel
as preached by the Latter-day Saints.

^^^

I believed it implicitly and was bap-
tized Feb. 29, 1852. The following
year (July 3, 1853) I married Joseph
Lapish, a member of the "Mormon'
Church. By this union I became the
mother of nine children, five of
w horn survive to the present time.
Emigrating to America we embarked
May 30, 1857, on the ship "Tuscarora"
at Liverpool and arrived in Phila-
delphia July 3, 1857. This being the
year of the great panic, my husband,
together with others, went to Rich
mond, Virginia, to obtain employ-

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nient, and in the mean time I took
in sewing from a knitting factory
which proved quite providential at
the time, as I was left with a three-
months old babe. After the elapse
of three months I joined my hus-
band in Richmond where we resided
about three years. During our resi-
dence at that place the socalled
Harper Ferry raid occurred, and dur-
ing the excitement we received a
letter from Geo. Q. Cannon counseling
us (according to instructions which
he had received from Pres. Brigham
Young, to leave for the West, as war
in the east seemed inevitable. We
took the council and joining a
number of other saints at Philadel-
phia we traveled to Florence, Ne-
braska, where we joined Capt. Daniel
Robinson's handcart company and
started on our journey to Utah June
7, 1860, with our two children, aged
respectively two and a half years
and six months. On the journey
there was considerable suffering,
owing to the scarcity of provisions,
and as I had some jewelry which
I thought could be spared I went to
a trading post on our route of travel
and asked the proprietor of the store
if he would trade me some flour for
my jewelry; the price of flour at
that time and place was $10 per
hundred. I soon perceived that the
store keeper was not inclined to
make the trade, but I noticed a very
tall man, perhaps a trapper or a
miner, dressed in a beaded buckskin
suit, standing in the store who turned
to me and asked: "What do want
for that thing" (meaning my jewelry).
I answered him as if by inspiration,
saying . "700 pounds of flour. Sir."
He took my piece of jewelry and sent
700 pounds of flour to our camp. I
gave it to the commissary of the hand
cart company who dealt it out judi-
ciously to the hungry travelors, the
last measure, being half a pint to a
person, being distributed on the day
we crossed Green River. While we
were being ferried across that stream
a shout of joy went up from our

company as the word was passed that
a relief train sent by the Church
authorities had just arrived with pro-
visions for us. With this relief our
main troubles were over, and we ar-
rived safely in Salt Lake City Aug.
27, 1860. One birth and one death
(that of a baby) happened on our
overland journey. The arrival of our
company in Salt Lake City ended
forever that most pathetic mode of
traveling by the Latter-day Saints,
namely, the crossing of the plains
with hand carts. Our family made
our home at Lehi, Utah county, from
1860 to 1868 and then returned to
Salt Lake City in 1868 and located
in West Jordan in 1872, My hus-
band found employment at the Galena
smelters and I kept a boarding and
rooming house for the company.
When the rumor first reached us to
the effect that a railroad would bfc
built to Bingham Canyon, I invested
in a piece of land on the line of the
Utah Southern Railroad with money
I had earned by selling sewing ma-
chines. On this land the Bingham
Canyon Railroad Company located
their depot and machine shop without
first obtaining my permission to do
so. I built a boarding house which
became known as the Junction House
and two cottages on the land. In 1876
my husband moved south to Salina,
Sevier co., where he made his home.
Being unable to effect a settlement
with the railroad company for the
use and occupancy of my ground, I
commenced suit against the Bingham
Canyon Railroad Company in 1879,
which suit was continued until 1881,
when the court quited my title and
awarded me damages against the
company. In 1882 we moved to
American Fork, where I resided until
1898. During my residence at that
place I became interested in Wo-
man's Suffrage and in December,
1892, I was elected president of the
Suffrage Association of American
Fork. I held this position until 1898.
While acting as president I took the
initiative in raising a subscription to

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build a house for a worthy widow
with four children, the people res-
ponding generously, and the suffrage
association gave a liberal donation.
My efforts in this good cause was
ably seconded by Sister Orphia
Robinson. In the spring of 1892 I or-
ganized a Ladies' Civil Government
Class in American Fork; the meet-
ings of this class were well attended,
and the city council granted us the
use of the city hall to hold our
meetings in, free of charge. In Sep-
tember, 1892, I was elected chairman
of the World's Fair Committee of
American Fork. This committee
planned a beautiful clock, 7 ft. high
and 18 inches wide, made of wood
and Utah onyx. This clock was ex-
hibited at the World's Fair exposi-
tion in 1893 and was presented by
myself to the Alpine Stake Taber-
nacle, at its opening Sunday, Sept.
13, 1914. In March, 1895, I was
elected by the Women's Suffrage
Association of Utah County one of a
committee of three to attend the
Constitutional convention in Salt
Lake City, to plead for woman's
recognition in the constitution.
About this time I was presented with
three calf-bound volumes of the His-
tory of Women Suffrage by Mrs.
Clara B. Holby (editor of the "Wo-
mans Tribune"), as an appreciation
for services I had rendered the Na-
tional Women's Suffrage cause. In
1898 I moved to Salt Lake City,
where I built a home and continued
to take interest in the cause of
Woman's Suffrage and also in Relief
Society work. In 1903 June 14th) I
was elected secretary of the Board
of Directors of the 20th Ward Relief
Society, which position I held for
seven years, and I am still a member
oi said board. For many years I
have been treasurer for the Utah
State Suffrage Council of Women,
and in 1902 I was elected by the
State Suffrage Council as a delegate
to the national and the first inter-
national suffrage convention held at
Washington, D. C. From Feb. 14th

to 18th I acted as chairman of the
^^oman's suffrage delegation from
Utah, and I read a paper before the
convention on the result of woman
suffrage in Utah. While at Washing-
ton I was introduced to Pres. Roose-
velt through the courtesy of Senator
Thos. Kearns and was shown through
the White House. Senator Kearns
also presented me with a permit to
the reserved gallery of the U. S.
Senate for the session. We attended
several receptions given in honor of
the delegates while at Washington,
and I also visited Mt. Vernon and
many other points of interest. In
the year 1910 I felt an inmost de-
sire to form a society which would
particularly honor the memory of the
hand cart pioneers. The daughters of
Utah pioneers had specialized only
the pioneers from 1847 to 1853, but I
felt that the same great faith which
prompted Utah's first pioneers also
actuated those of latter years, and
especially those who pushed and
pulled hand carts across the plains
and mountains in the years 1856,
1857, 1859 and 1860. Why should
their history and their hardships and
sufferings be relegated to oblivion?
Before taking any decided step, how-
ever, I counseled with Pres. Jos. F.
Smith, April 5, 1910, who gave me
his approval, and as the semi annual
hand cart reunion was then in ses-
sion I went to the meeting and
through the courtesy of Bro. Thos.
Dobson I was permitted to introduce
a resolution to the effect "That it
be the sense of the meeting that a
society of the Utah hand cart pio-
neers be organized." The resolution
was adopted unanimously and on the
14th day of April, 1910, a number
of hand cart pioneers and daughters
met at my home at 381 4th Ave., Salt
Lake City, and organized the society
of the Daughters of Utah Handcart
Pioneers with fifty charter members.
I was elected president with Sarah
Swift and Emily V. Beebe as vice-
presidents and Mary Van as secre-
tary. Isabella Armstrong was se-

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lected chairman of a committe on
constitution and bylaws. Six other
officers were also elected and I be-
ing the originator of the society was
given the title of founder-general.
In this undertaking I was encouraged
and ably assisted by Sister Maria Y.
Dougall, The society is now (1914)
in a flourishing condition under the
presidency of Sister Isabella Arm-
strong. In 1885, while visiting my
daughter in Montana, I was led in a
most remarkable way to discover the
location of a lost "Mormon" burial
ground in Iowa — a cemetery which
guards the remains of some of the
Latter-day Saints who were expelled
from Xauvoo in 1846, among Avhom
was Wm. Huntington, the father of
Zina D. H. Young. This is the fa-
mous Mt. Pisgah. I brought my dis-
covery to the attention of the Hun-
tingtons and the burial ground at
Mt. Pisgah was subsequently pur-
chased by the Church and a monu-
ment erected thereon. A full account
of this circumstance was published
in the May, 1914, number of the
"Improvement Era." At the annual
outing of the handcart pioneers at
Saltair July 14, 1913, Edward T. Fair-
child, president of the National Edu-
cation Association, delivered a speech,
to the hand cart pioneers to which
Sister Lapish responded Avitli a few
choice remarks, at the close of which
she unfastened her hand cart society
badge and presented it to Mr. Fair-
child, saying: "Allow me, dear Sir!
to present you with my hand cart
badge which will remind you that
it was not for wealth, but for the
love of Christ, that we crossed the
plains with hand carts." Mr. Fair-
child was deeply moved by the sen-
timent and the gift. This was per-
haps one of the most dramatic tell-
ing incidents in creating in the minds
of all present mutual respect and ad-
miration for the visiting Easterners
and the descendant of the notable
hand cart companies. Sister Lapish
on November 2nd, 1914, will be eighty
years of age; she is possessed of all

her mental and physical faculties,
find her energies are still bent on
philantropic measures. She always
feels that her first duty is to her
family and the grandest and noblest
aim of a woman is to make her home
bright and happy.

KINGSFORD, Elizabeth Horrocks
Jackson, a Utah handcart pioneer,
was born Aug. 5, 1826, at Maccles-
field, Cheshire. England, the daughter
of Edward Horrocks and Alice
Houghton. She was the oldest of
a family of eleven children and com-
menced to work in a silk factory
when only seven years old. In her

girlhood she attended the services
of the Wesleyan Methodists, to which
denomination her parents belonged.
Becoming converted to "Mormonism"
she was baptized in 1841 by James
Gallay. In 1848 (May 28th) she mar-
ried Aaron Jackson who was born
Sept. 30, 1823, at Eyme, Derbyshire,
England, and died Oct. 25, 1856.
This marriage was blessed with three
children, namely, Martha Ann, Marj''
Elizabeth and Aaron. In 1856 the
family emigrated to America, cros-
sing the Atlantic in the ship "Hori-
zon" and the plains m Edward Mar-

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tins handcart company. She do-
striboy the journey across ihe plains
as a long and tedious one. "We r-' n
tinued our toil day after day", she
writes, "pulling our handcarts with
our provisions and rations, our little
children, etc., through deep sand,
rocky roads or lording streams. It
was a dreary journey. Many miles
each daw were traveled, ere with
tired limbs we reached camp, ate
and retired for the night to rest,
to pursue our monotonous course the
following day. After toilsome and
fatiguing travel, we reached Lara-
mie on the 8th of October. Here we
rested for a short time. Our provi-
sions by this time had become very
scant and many of the company went
to the fort and sold their Avatches
and other articles of jewelry. With
the proceeds they purchased corn
meal, flour, beans, bacon, etc., with
which to replenish their stores of
food which had become very scant.
Hitherto, although a ration of a
pound of flour had been served out
daily to each person, it was found
insufficient to satisfy the cravings
of hunger, but the weary pilgrims
were then about to experience more
privation in this direction. Shortly
after leaving Ft. Laramie it became
necessary to shorten our rations that
they might hold out, and that the
company be not reduced to starva-
tion. The reduction was repeated
several times. First, the pound of
flour was reduced to three-fourths
of a pound, then to half a pound, and
afterwards to still less per day. How-
ever, we pushed ahead. The trip
was full of adventures, hair breadth
escapes, and exposure to attacks from
Indians, wolves and other wild beasts.
When we reached the Black Hills,
we had a rough experience. The
roads were rocky, broken and diffi-
cult to travel. Frequently carts were
broken down and much delay caused
by the needed repairs. In crossing

the Platte river some of the men
carried a number of the women on
their backs or in their arms across
the stream, while others of the
women tied up tlieir skirts and wad-
ed through like heroines that they
were. My husband also attempted
to ford the stream, but he had only
gone a short distance when he reach-
ed a sand bar in the river on which
he sank down through weakness and
exhaustion. My sister, Mary Hor-
rocks Leavitt, waded through the
water to his assistance. She raised
him up to his feet. Shortly after-
ward, a man came along on horse-
back and conveyed him to the other
side of the river, placed him on the
bank and left him there. My sister
then helped me to pull my cart with
my three children and other matters
on it. We had scarcely crossed the
river when w-e were visited with
a tremendous storm of snow, hail,
sand and fierce winds. It was a
terrible storm from which both the
people and teams suffered. After
crossing the river, my husband was
put on a hand cart and hauled into
camp; and indeed after that time he
was unable to walk and consequently
provision had to be made for him
to ride in a wagon. As soon as we
reached camp, I prepared some re-
freshments and placed him to rest for
the night. From this time my worst
experience commenced. The com-
pany had now become greatly re-
duced in strength, the teams as well
as the people. The teams had become
so weak that the luggage was reduced
to ten pounds per head for adults
and five pounds for children under
eight years. And although the weath-
er was severe, a great deal 6f bedding
and clothing had to be destroyed —
burned — as it could not be carried
along. This occurrence very much
increased the suffering of the com-
pany, men, women and children alike.
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almost wallowed, for about ten miles
through the snow. At night, weary
and worn out, we camped near the
Platte river, where we soon left it
for the Sweetwater. We were visited
with three days more snow. The
animals and emigrants were almost
completely exhausted. We remained
in camp several days to gain strength.
About the 25th of October, I think
it was — I cannot remember the ex-
act date — we reached camp about
sundown. My husband had for sever-
al days privious been much worse.
He was still sinking, and his con-
dition became more serious. As soon
as possible, after reaching camp, I
prepared a little of such scant ar-
ticles of food as we then had. He
tried to eat, but failed. He had not
the strength to swallow. I put him
to bed as quickly as I could. He
seemed to rest easy and fell asleep.
About 9 o'clock, I retired. Bedding
had become very scarce, so I did not
disrobe. I slept until, as it appeared
to me, about midnight. It was ex-
tremely cold. The weather was bit-
ter. I listened to hear if my hus-
band breathed — he lay so still. I
could not hear him. I became alarm-
ed. I put my hand on his body, when
to my horror I discovered that my
worst fears were confirmed. My hus-
band was dead. He was cold and
stiff — rigid in the arms of death. It
was a bitter freezing night and the
elements had sealed up his mortal
frame. I called for help to the other
inmates of the tent. They could
render me no aid; and there was no
alternative but to remain alone by
the side of the corpse till morning.
The night was enveloped in almost
Egyptian darkness. There was noth-
ing with which to produce a light
or kindle a fire. Of course I could
not sleep. I could only watch, wait
and pray for the dawn. But oh, how
those dreary hours drew their tedious
length along. When daylight came,

some of the male part of the com-
pany prepared the body for burial.
And oh, such burial and funral ser-
vice. They did not remove his cloth-
ing— he had but little. They wrap-
ped him in a blanket and placed
him in a pile with thirteen others who
had died, and then covered him up in
the snow. The ground was frozen
so hard that they could not dig a
grave. I will not attempt to describe
my feeling at finding myself thus
left a widow with three children,
under such excruciating circumstan-
ces. I cannot do it. But I believe
the Recording Angel has inscribed it
in the archives above, and that my
sufferings for the gospel's sake will
be sanctified unto me for my good.
My sister was the only relative I
had to whom I could look for as-
sistance in this trying ordeal, and she
was sick. So severe was her afflic-
tion that she became deranged in
ner mind, and for several days she
ate nothing but hard frozen snow.
I could therefore appeal to the Lord
alone — he who had promised to be
a husband to the widow and a father
to the fatherless. I appealed to him
and he came to my aid. A few days
after the death of my husband, the
male members of the company had
become reduced in number by death;
and those who remained were so
weak and emaciated by sickness,
that on reaching the camping place
at night, there were not sufficient
men with strength enough to raise
the poles and pitch the tents. The
result was that we camped out with
nothing but the vault of Heaven for
a roof and the stars for companions.
The snow lay several inches deep
upon the ground. The night was
bitterly cold. I sat down on a rock
with one child in my lap and one on
each side of me. In that condition I
remained until morning. My sick
sister, the first part of the night,
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.some men had built a fire. She
remained there until the people made
down their beds and retired, to sleep,
if they could. She then climbed or
slid down the hill on the snow to
where there was another fire which
was kept alive by some persons who
were watching the body of a man
who had died that night. There she
remained until daylight. It will be
readily perceived that under such
adverse circumstanses I had become
despondent. I was six or seven
thousand miles from my native land,
in a wild rocky mountain country,
in a destitute condition, the ground
covered with snow, the waters cover-
ed with ice, and I with three father-
less children with scarcely anything
to protect them from the merciless
storms. When I retired to bed that
night, being the 27th of October, I
had a stunning revelation. In my
dream, my husband stood by me, and
said, "Cheer up, Elizabeth, deliver-
ance is at hand." The dream was
fulfilled for the next day (Oct. 28,
1856) Joseph A. Young, Daniel Jones
and Abel Garr galloped unexpectedly
into camp, amid tears and cheers
and smiles and laughter of the emi-
grants. These three men were the
first of the most advanced Relief
Company sent out from Salt Lake
City to meet the belated emigrants.
Though the sufferings after that still
continued, yet the worst was over
and the survivors of that ill-fated
handcart company arrived in Salt
Lake City Nov. 30, 1856. I have a
desire to leave a record of those
scenes and events, through which I
have passed, that my children, down
to my latest posterity, may read
what their ancestors were willing to
suffer, and did suffer, patiently for
the gospel's sake. And I wish them
to understand too, that what I now
word is the history of hundreds of
others, who have passed through
like scenes for the same cause. I

also desire them to know that it was
in obedience to the commands of
the true and living God, and with
the assurance of an eternal reward
— an exaltation in his kingdom —
that we suffered these things. I
hope, too, that it will inspire my
posterity with fortitude to stand firm
and faithful to the truth, and be
willing to suffer, and sacrifice all
things they may be required to pass
through for the sake of the Kingdom
of God." Sister Elizabeth Horrocks
Jackson was married to William R.
Kingsford, a widower, July 6, 1857,
and afterwards became an active and
successful business woman of Ogden.
She was a long and diligent worker
in the Relief Society and helped the
poor and needy whenever a good
cause was shown. Her various rela-
tions with the Church in its organiza-
tion were all that could be expected
of a person who had home and busi-
ness to attend. Sister Kingsford
passed to her final rest Oct. 17, 1908.
at Ogden, Utah.

GLOVER, Betsy Clark Williams, a
handcart pioneer, was born Nov. 5,

1821, in Devonshire, England, the
daughter of William Williams and

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Sophia Sheen. She was married to
William Fewens .in England, and be-
ing determined to gather with the
Saints to Zion she left her husband
and emigrated to America in 1857,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"George Washington". After remain-
ing in the East three years, she came
to Utah in 1860, crossing the plains
in Capt. Daniel Robinson's handcart
company, which arrived in Salt Lake
City Aug. 27, 1860. While in the East
she met Henry Tempest, a widower
with two children, and married him.
They came to the Valley together,
but after living together for about
ten years, they separated. Sister
Betsy married again after the lapse
of five years, becoming the wife of
James Glover, a blacksmith, who died
in 1905. She was the mother of one
child (William W. Fewens) by her
first husband. Sister Betsy followed
her husband to the grave, April 2,
1911, being ninety years of age at
the time of her demise. Sister Glov-
er was an ardent Relief Society
worker, being a member of that asso-
ciation ever since she came into the
Valley. She was agent for the
"Woman's Exponent" for a number
of years and also a member of the
Ladies Handcart Club.

KNIGHT, Charlotte Mares, a faith-
ful Relief Society worker in the
Twentieth Ward, Salt Cake City, was
born March 17, 1824, at Devonport,
England, the daughter of Robert
Mares and Elizabeth Ellis. She was
among the first who received the
fulness of the gospel in the town
of her birth. In 1850 she married
Thomas Sargent Knight, by whom
she became the mother of four child-
ren. Her husband died in 1856, leav-
ing her to meet the struggles and
trials of life in raising her child-
ren. Before her husband's death, he
desired her to emigrate to Utah,
which she did in 1864, bringing five

of her children with her, two hav-
ing died in England. She left Lon-
don June 4, 1864, and crossed the
Atlantic in the ship "Hudson",
which arrived at New York July
19, 1864. She crossed the plains in
Capt. Warren S. Snow's company,
which arrived in <ilalt Lake City
Nov. 2, 1864. Some years afterwards

she married Harmon Wickel, who
died in 1875, leaving her a widow the
second time. Sister Knight labored
as a teacher in the Twentieth Ward
Relief Society when it was first or-
ganized. She performed the duties
pertaining to that calling as long
as her health permitted. She died
in the Twentieth Ward, Salt Lake
City, April 15, 1882. The names of
her children are as follows: Thomas.
Robert J., William T., Elizabeth L.,
Brigham, John Thomas and Jesse
The three first named are children
by a former husband.

WILLIAMS, David, the first Bishop
of the Pleasant Valley Ward, Utah
county, Utah, was born Dec. 16, 1827.
at Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales.
the son of David and Sarah Williams.
He became a convert to "Mormonism"
in 1847 and was soon afterwards or-

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dained a Teacher: later he was or-
dained a Priest and in 1849 he was
ordained an Elder and called to the
ministry. He traveled as a local
missionary four years, principally in
North Wales, with marked zeal and
success. He married Miss Sarah
"Williams May 29, 1847, emigrated to
St. Louis, Missouri, in 1855, being
president of the Welsh Saints who
constituted a large part of the com-
pany on the trip. After remaining
at St. Louis about one year, he went
to Kingston, 111., and located more
permanently at Canton, 111, in 1856.

At this time he was in very poor
circumstances financially, but he
went to work with a will as a coal
miner and was successful. After a
while he purchased a tract of coal
land in the town of Canton, which
subsequentlj'^ became valuable pro-
perty. He also acquired two other
tracts of coal land near the same
town. In November, 1875, Elder
Benjamin V. Cummings, jun., who at
that time traveled as a missionary
in Illinois met him and revived his
interest and faith in "Mormonism",
and at his request he was re-baptized
by Elder Cummings Jan. 8, 1876. He
immediately took an active part in

extending missionary work in Canton
and vicinity and owing to the facili-
ties which Bro. Williams had for
furnishing employment, a number of
scattered sainte gathered into Can-
ton, where a branch of about fifty
members soon sprang up with Bro.
Williams as president. At the open-
ing of the year 1876 he was a weal-
thy man, using his means generously
to forward the work of the Lord,
but business reverses overtook him
in rapid succession and in a short
time he was left with only a little
means. Still with his scanty funds
he generously assisted a score of
members of the Church to emigrate
to Utah, where he himself wended
his way, arriving at Ogden, Aug. 5,
1877 A few days later he landed
in Salt Lake City without a dollar,
but he and his family were happy
and cheerful. He began the busi-
ness of a retail coal dealer in a
small way and was again success-
ful. In 1878 he filled a short mission
to the Southern States. He was
an excellent geologist and an ex-
perienced coal operator. Soon after
his return from his mission he be-
came a contractor of the D. & R. G.
coal mines at Pleasant Valley. The
mines were rapidly developed under
his control and soon quite a com-
munity of miners and their families
were gathered in Pleasant Valley.
Many of these being Latter-day
Saints, a branch of the Church was
organized, of which he was made
president. In 188.3 the Pleasant Val-
ley Ward was organized, he being
ordained a Bishop and set apart to
preside over it. He presided in
Pleasant Valley as Bishop till Decem-
ber, 1885, when he was called on a
mission to Wales. After laboring a
short time as traveling Elder he
became president of the Welsh con-
ference with an energetic corps of
missionaries under him. During his
administration that conference as-

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sumed an activity which it had not
known for many years. He spent his
own money freely to forward the
good cause and labored with great
zeal and energy. During his presi-
dency in Wales, the Jarman excite-
ment prevailed in that country. Bro.
Williams was repeatedly surrounded
by howling mobs, who apparantly
thirsted for his blood, but physical
fear was an emotion unknown to
him and he never shrank from either
danger or duty. During his three
years' mission the asthma, a disease
from which he had long suffered
more or less, became deeply seated
and he never obtained relief from
it. He returned to Utah in Novem-
ber, 18SS, but though broken down
in health he could not stand inac-
tivity ; hence, in May, 1889, he open-
ed a general mercantile business at
Price, Emery county, Utah. From
that time until his death he suffered
terribly at frequent intervals. He
passed away like a child falling to
sleep Dec. 6, 1889, at Price, Utah.
.\t the time of his demise a long
obituary was published in the "Dese-
ret News", from which the following
is extracted: "Brother Williams was
a good and a remarkable man. He
was a natural leader, and gifted with
rare abilities in some directions. To
look into his clear, blue, earnest eyes
and doubt his honesty, was impossi-
ble. He decided the most important
matters instantly, and was generally
guided by a correct intuition. In
his business plans and enterprises
it was nearly always a leading ob-
ject to provide employment or aid
for others, and he has planned for
and helped to feed thousands. In-
gratitude, which is so often the re-
ward of the philanthropic worker,
never swerved him from his purpose
to labor for the welfare of others.
He was a father to liis employees.
As a parent he was solicitous for
and devotedly attached to his child-

ren; as a husband he was tender
and affectionate; as a business man
he was intelligent and thoroughly
reliable; and as a Latter-day Saint
he lived and died faithful to the
obligations of the gospel, having a
firm assurance of his election to a
glorious resurrection. He leaves two
wives and was the father of fourteen
childen, seven of whom survive him.
He also had a large number of
grandchildren. These, with hundreds
of his countrymen living in this re-
gion, and a host of other friends and
acquaintances, will cherish his mem-
ory as that of a man worthy of their
esteem and affection. Peaceful be
his rest/'

WILLIAMS, Sarah Thomas, wife of
David Williams, was born Nov. 9
1827, in Merthj-r Tydvil. Glamorgan
shire, Wales, the daughter of Danie
Thomas and Sarah Thomas Bowen
She was called Sarah Thomas up to

the time of lier marriage. Her child-
hood was mostly spent in her native
city, though she often visited an aunt
who lived in the village of Grosvan.
nearby. On one of these visits she
became converted to the gospel and
was baptized in 1844. a short time
before the death of the Prophet .lo-

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seph and while Elder William Hen-
shaw presided over the Saints in
Wales. She was then only fifteen
years old, and her parents were much
opposed to her baptism, but gave a re-
luctant consent. Being eager to make
known to others the truth she had
embraced, she often walked miles dis-
tributing tracts and books, and aided
in converting many persons. In 1847
she met and married David Williams,
a member of the same branch. For
a time they lived in the same house
with Captain Dan Jones, and both
were active in missionary work. At
one time an East Indian called at
the house as a testimony meeting was
about to begin. She spoke inquiringly
to Captain Dan Jones, who presided,
about the strange caller, and was
told to invite him in. During the
meeting, the spiritual gifts were ex-
ercised and one man, by the gift
of tongues, spoke in the native lan-
guage of the East Indian, telling him
he ought to be baptized. The stran-
ger asked to have the ordinance per-
formed at once, but was persuaded
to wait till the close of the meet-
ing, when it was attended to. Sarah
Williams at first supposed he was
a Lamanite, and was anxious to have
him hear the gospel. David and
Sarah Williams always kept an open
house for the Elders, and the promise
was made to them that though tliey
might have to pass through trials
they would never want for the necess-
aries of life, which promise was ful-
filled. They were eye witnesses to
the miraculous setting of bones in
the case of D. Richards, who was
so badly crushed in a coal mine
that a doctor said he could not live,
as related in Orson Pratt's "Divine
Authenticity of the Book of Mormon".
They had planned to migrate to
Utah in 1850, but Bro. Williams was
called on a mission to North Wales,
where he labored four years, his fam-
ily accompanying him. They finally

started for Zion on the "Clara Wheel-
er", whi{;h sailed from Liverpool Nov.
27, 1854. David Williams had charge
of a company of Welsh Saints on
the ship. At Liverpool, Sister Sarah
Williams was taken very sick and
seemed near death, when she was
administered to by Elder Daniel Spen-
cer and almost instantly healed. He
promised her that she should live
to a good old age, which promise was
fulfilled, and was always a great
comfort to her ; it gave her faith to
recover from many other dangerous
attacks of disease which she after-
ward passed through. David and
Sarah Williams reached St. Louis,
en route for Utah, in January, 1855,
Sister Williams was in delicate health
and had lost two children at sea,
and Elder Erastus Snow, who was
presiding at St. Louis, advised the
family not to travel further that year.
Soon afer reaching St. Louis, David
Williams went to Kingston, Illinois,
in search for work. Here he became
very sick from malaria, and was ad-
vised to go from there to Canton,
Illinois, for his health. He took his
family to Canton, and resided there
many years, where he was a mer-
chant and coal mine owner. In 1876
a branch of the Church was organized
in Canton, of which David Williams
was president. His wife, Sarah Wil-
liams, was chosen president of the
Relief Society, which position she
held until the family removed to
Utah in 1877. They first located in
the Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake City,
but in 1880 went to Pleasant Valley,
then in Emery, now in Carbon coun-
ty, where David Williams became the
contractor and operator of the coal
mines. About 1881 the Winter Quar-
ters Ward was organized in Pleasant
Valley, and David Williams was made
Bishop, and his wife, Sarah Williams,
was made president of the Relief
Society, a position she held several
years. In 1886 Sister Williams ac-

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compauied her husband on a misbion
to Wales. She returned the following
year, having obtained, while in her
native land, a large amount of genea-
logical data. From her return until
her death, she resided in the Fif-
teenth Ward. Her husband died in
1889. During her widowhood, she
constantly labored for the relief and
comfort of others, and the number
of persons entertained in her home
was surprising. Ever devout and de-
voted, she was like a ministering
angel, loved and reverenced by all
who knew her. and idolized by her
children and grandchildren. She was
the mother of twelve children and
died Dec. 3rd, 1905, at the home of
her daughter Emily (wife of B. h\
Cummings 1 at 295 Center Street, Salt
Lake City.

WILLIAMS, David Joseph, a prom-
inent Elder in the Twentieth Ward.
Salt Lake City. Utah, was horn May
5, 1862, at Canton, Fulton county,

Illinois, the son of David Williams
and Sarah Williams. He was bap-
tized Jan. 8, 1876, by Benjamin F.
Cummings, jun., ordained a Deacon
March 4, 1876, by .lunius F. Wells,
at Canton. Til : ordained an Elder

about 1882 by David Williams at
Winter Quarters, Utah; ordained a
Seventy about 1887 by John P.
Wimmer at Price, Utah, and ordained
a High Priest Oct. 10, 1895, by Ed-
ward Partridge at Provo, Utah. He
acted as clerk of the branch at
Canton, 111., from 1876 to 1877, was
clerk of the branch and Ward at
Winter Quarters, or Scofield, Utah,
from 1881 to 1886, first counselor to
the Bishop of the Provo First Ward
from 1895 to 1902, member of the
High Council of the Utah Stake from
1902 to 1905, and member of the
High Council of the Pioneer Stake
from 1906 to 1908. Of secular posi-
tions he is an accountant by profes-
sion and in business has followed
mining, merchandising, banking, etc.
He was deputy county clerk at Provo,
Utah, from 1894 to 1895. In 1883
(Aug. 30th) he married Martha A.
John, (daughter of David John, of
Provo, Utah), who has borne him
eleven children, namely, Rula, David,
John, Joseph Leland, Martha, Edith,
Mary, Emma, Sarah G., Ralph Nen-
dell, Daniel Melvin, and Bernice Mar-
jorie. Bro. Williams was one of the
first settlers of Winter Quarters, or
Scofield, going there with his par-
ents. In connection with his father
he opened up the coal mines at
Winter Quarters Oct. 1, 1880, and
took the initiative in getting
the first precinct and school dis-
trict organized in Pleasant Val-
ley, he suggested the name of
Winter Quarters. Bro. Williams was
the first school trustee and the first
justice of the peace in that precinct.
He also tried the first case ever
tried there in a court and performed
the first marriage ceremony in Pleas-
ant Valley. He was also one of the
earlier settlers of Price, where he
located in 1886 and engaged in the
mercantile business before any pat-
ents or titles were issued to any
homeseekers in that part of the

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lountry. Elder Williams has done
considerable home missionary work
and possesses a strong testimony of
the truth of "Mormonlsni."_ He has
witnessed marvelous and miraculous
manifestations of God's power in
the healing of the sick, the casting
out of Devils, etc. Bro. Williams is
one of the leading men of the com-
munity and has since 1905 been a
resident of Salt Lake City, living in
the Seventh and Twenty-first Ward,
and at the present time is the gene-
alogical agent of the Ensign Stake.

LANGFORD, Jeremiah Euchlet, a
prominent Elder in the Tventy-first
Ward. Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born Sept. 18, 1848, at Rome, Georgia,
the son of Jeremiah E. Langford and
Mary Jane Jackson. His parents

moved to Texas in 1851, where they
joined tiie Church. In 1855 the family
started for Utah, but the parents both
took sick with cholera and died on
Grasshopper Creek, in Kansas, while
crossing the plains in Seth M. Blair's
company. Jeremiah was then only
seven years old, and upon him rested
the responsibility of helping his three
younger brothers the rest of the way
to the Vallev, where they arrived

Sept. 11, 1855. The boys were sepa-
rated and placed in different families.
Thus Jeremiah and his brother Wil-
liam went to live with Lorenzo Pettit,
where Jeremiah remained until four
years after his marriage. With his
young wife he then moved to Salt
Lake City, where he has since resided
though living in different Wards.
Bro. Langford was baptized Aug. 28,
1864, by Lorenzo Pettit, was ordain-
ed an Elder March 16, 1880, by Thos.
Slight, ordained a Seventy April 11.
1892, by Geo. Reynolds and ordained
a High Priest Jan. 13, 1912, by Hamil-
ton G. Park. In 1880 (March 8th)
he married Miss Sarah Ellen Olson,
by whom he has had seven children,
three sons and four daughters. Bro.
Langford was the promoter of the
Inland Crystal Salt Works in 1885.
He was the first man in Utah to
put in a dryer and a sieve to gran-
ulate and manufacture a salt that
could preserve butter and meat. He
was manager of the Salt Lake and
Los Angeles Railroad and Saltair
Beach for eleven years; later he built
the Majestic dancing parlor (150 ft.
wide and 264 ft. long), the largest
dancing pavillion in the world. Prior
to entering these important enter-
prises Bro. Langford had been engaged
in farming, freighting, mining and
stockraising. He spent four years in
Montana, freighting, and four years
in Nevada and California, engaged in
mining. During the years 1900 and
1901 he made two trips to Alaska. His
present residence is in the Twenty-
first Ward, Salt Lake City.

LANGFORD, Sarah Ellen Olson,
wife of Jeremiah E. Langford and
counselor In the presidency of the
Ensign Stake Relief Societies, was
born Dec. 30, 1854, in Salt Lake City,
the daughter of Shure Olson and
Ellen Jacobs. Sister Langford has
held the position of Stake chorister
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worker for many years. She married
Bro. Langford March 18, 1880, and has
borne him seven children. She was
a member of the Tabernacle choir

for many years and took a leading
part in the soprano singing after the
death of sister Careless for several
years.

ROMNEY, Margaret A. Thomas,
wife of Bishop Geo. Romney, and
president of the Ensign Relief Socie-
ties, was born Jan. 22, 1845, in Lon-
don, England, the daughter of Joseph
Knowles Thomas and Margaret Spots-
wood. She was baptized in January.
1853. Her father was born Nov. 1,
1800. in London, joined the Church
in 1851 and died in London Sept. 15.
1856, as a faithful Latter-day Saint,
holding the Priesthood of an Elder.
Her mother was born Feb. 6, 1807,
in Northumberland, and after her
husbands death, she emigrated to
Utah in 1861, with her two children
who were then living; seven of her
children had died in England. The
family crossed the o<ean in the ship
"William Tapscott" and the plains in
Joseph Home's ox train, which ar-
rived in G. S. L. City Sept 13. 1861.
Soon after the arrival in the Valley

the mother married again and Mar-
garet lived with her brother, Prof.
Charles J. Thomas, for a short time.
When the Salt Lake Theatre was
opened in 1862, she commenced play-
ing on the stage, taking the part of
the comediana. She followed that
avocation for about two years, bur
had in the mean time made the ac-
quaintance of Geo. Romney, to whom
she was married Aug. 29, 1863. On
several occasions after her marriage
Sister Romney, feeling herself at-
tracted by the stage, took part in
the plays in the Salt Lake Theatre,
and in 1869-70, while her husbano
was filling a mission to Great Britair..
she played in the theatre considerably
and at the present time (1914) is

the only survivor of the first actor?
who played on the stage of the Salt
Lake Theatre. Since she was twenty
years of age Sister Romney has beer,
a most diligent and successful Relief
Society worker, first as a teacher and
later as president of the Twentieth
Ward Relief Society. When the Salt
Lake Stake of Zion was divided in
1904, Sister Romney was chosen as
president of the Ensign Stake Relief
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holds. Sister Ilomney is the mother
of eleven cliildren.

BARTON, James, a veteran Elder
of the Twenty-first Ward (Ensign
Stake), Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born July 21, 1836, at Sutton Mills
on tlie Douglas river, near Wigan,
Lancashire, England, the son of John
Barton and Elizabeth Bell. He was

baptized Dec. 11, 1848; ordained a
Deacon in 1852; ordained a Priest in
1853, and ordained an Elder by James
Marsden in 1856. As a boy he made
several trips with the Elders to
preach Sunday afternoons. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1860, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Underwriter",
and the plains in Capt. Wm. H.
Hooper's freight train. In 1862 he
went back to the Missouri river to
meet emigrants. In 1863 (July 4th ^
lie married Eliza Barton and located
with his young wife at Kaysville
Davis county, where he lived for
fourteen years. Obtaining employ-
ment at the Silver Bros. Iron Works,
Bro. Barton changed his residence
to Salt Lake City, and he has prac-
tically worked at the Silver Bros.
establishment ever since. In 1861
he was ordained a Seventy: later he

was ordained a High Priest. Bro.
Barton has been an active Ward
teacher for many years; he is the
father of eleven children.

BARTON, Eliza, wife of James
Barton, was born July 15, 1844, at
St. Helens, Lancasliire, England, the
daughter of Josiah Barton and Mar-
garet Wood. She was baptized in

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1S52 by David Grant and emigrated
to America in 1862, crossing the At-
lantic in the ship "Manchester" and
the t>lahis in Ansel P. Harmon's
train, which arrived in G. S. L. City
Oct. 5, 1862; she walked all the way
across the plains. Soon after her ar-
rival in the Valley, or on July 4.
1863, she married James Barton and
is the mother of all his children.
Sister Barton has been an active
Relief Society worker for many years
and since 1896 has acted as president
of the Twenty-first Ward Relief So-
ciety. She is known for her extreme
kindness to the poor and sick, and
is devoting so much of her time in
the interest of the public good that
she is seldom at home. Possessing
a doctor's certificate she is able to
administer to the sick and afflicted
both temporally and spiritually.

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LYON. David Ross, first Bishop of
the Ensign Ward (Ensign Stake), Salt
Lake City, Utah, is a native son of
Utali, having been born in Salt Lake
City Aug. 16, 1864. The city at that
time had a population of about 17,000.
He has lived to see the city grow to
a city nearly six times as large as it
was then. Ever since he was old
enough to do so. Brother Lyon has
taken an active interest in the pro-
gress and welfare of the Church. His
father, John Lyon, was the well-known
Scotch poet, author of "The Harp of
Zion". one of the earliest, if not the
first book of poems published by a
member of the Church. Bro. David
R Lyon was baptized in the Endow-
ment House, Salt Lake City, Nov. 16,
1876, by Elder (now President) .Joseph
F. Smith, and was confirmed by him
on the same day. In addition to his
present office, he has also held the
office of Deacon, Priest, Elder and
Seventy. When about fifteen years
old. Brother Lyon was called to act
as a block teacher, and labored in this
capacity for nearly thirty years. At
the age of twenty, Bro. Lyon was
called to be assistant secretary of the
old Salt Lake Stake Sunday School
Union Board and acted in this capaci-
ty for several years, until called to
be first assistant to John C. Cutler in
the superintendency of the Stake
schools. In both capacities Brother
Lyon served about ten years. For a
number of >ears Bro. Lyon was second
counselor to Levi W. Richards in the
presidency of the 10th (now the 3rd)
quorum of Elder) ; also first counselor
to Heber J. Romney in the same
fiuorum, until called to be a Seventy;
he was also vice-president and chair-
man of the program committe in the
Twentieth Ward Institute for several
terms and president of the Twentieth
Ward Y. M. M. I. A. for nearly twelve
years. Brother Lyon married Mary
Cairns in the Logan Temple on Sept.
30. 1885, from which union ten children
have been born — eight boys and two

girls. Bro. Lyon has the uniciue dis-
tinction of having been twice set
apart as Bishop in a little over a year:
Aug. 11, 1912, he was ordained a Bish-
op and set apart to preside over the
Twentieth Ward (Ensign Stake) un-
der the hands of Pres. Charles W. Pen-
rose, and on the creation of the En-
sign Ward, Aug. 18, 1913, he was chos-
en as Bishop and set apart to preside
over said Ward, under the hands of
Pres. Anthon H. Lund.

NIELSEN, Hans William, the first
presiding Elder at Axtell, Sanpete
county, Utah, was born April 12, 1846,
at Skovby, Falster, Denmark, the son
of Rasmus Nielsen and Caroline Han-
sen. He was baptized in 1860 by
Niels Christian Heiselt; ordained a
Deacon in 1861; ordained a Priest in
1863 and ordained an Elder by Sven

J. Jonassen. He labored nearly
three years as a local missionary
on the island of Fyen, until 1867
when he went to Germany, where he
sought and found employment and
also did considerable missionary labor
in a local way. He emigrated to
Utah in 1877 and settled at Oak
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parents, who had preceded him to
Utah, already lived After that he
resided a short time at Scipio and
later at Leamington, and he finally
moved to Axtell in 1906. In 1881 he
married Miss Magdaline Rasmussen
(daughter of Rasmus S0rensen H0j-
rup and Else Marie Nielsen), who
was born March 24, 1861, at Sabro,
Aarhus amt, Denmark, and came to
Utah in 1881. Bro. Nielsen was or-
dained a Seventy Sept. 19, 1894, by
Francis M. Lyman and later ordain-
ed a High Priest. He acted as pre-
siding Elder at Axtell from 1906 to
1912 and has been postmaster at
Atxell during the past eight years.

ANDERSEN, S0ren, a veteran
Elder of the Centerfield Ward, San-
pete county, Utah, w'as born May
14, 1801, at Astrup, Hj0rring amt,
Denmark, the son of Anders Christen-
sen and Anna Christensen. In 1828
he married Anna Marie Jensen

(daughter of Thos. Jensen and Marie
Jensen), who was born May 22, 1801.
After giving birth to six children
she died in Denmark. Bro. Andersen
was baptized June, 14, 1853, by Chris-
tian Mikkelsen and emigrated to Utah

in 1854, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Benjamin Adams", which sailed
from Liverpool, England, Jan. 22,
1854, and arrived at New Orleans
xMarch 22, 1854. From Westport.
Jackson county, Mo., he crossed tk*
plains in Hans Peter Olsen's copany,
which arrived in Salt Lake City Oct.
6, 1854. He settled at Ephraim. San-
pete county, and in 1856 he married
Hannah Nielsen who bore him six
children . she was born in 1834 and
died May 1, 1873, in Ephraim In
1860 Bro. Andersen was called by
the Church authorities to settle in
Circle Valley (now in Piute coounty.
Utah), but had to return to Ephraim,
on account of Indian troubles. He
took a prominent part in the Black
Hawk war during the years 1865-
1867 and was one of the first settlers
of Sterling, Sanpete co., where he
lived about ten years. About 1885
he located permanently at Center-
field, where he resided till the time
of his death, which occurred Jan. IS.
1901, he being nearly one hundred
years old. His long life Avas to some
extent due to his great care of diet
and the leading of a pure, exemplary
life.

ANDERSEN, Andrew S0rensen, a
veteran Elder in the Centerfield
Ward, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Dec. 21, 1833, at Vinnebjerg,
Hj0rring amt, Denmark, the son of
S0ren Andersen and Anna Marie
Jensen. He was baptized Aug. 10,
1873, by August Jensen; ordained an
Elder April 8, 1883, by Jens Jensen, and
ordained a High Priest Sept. 24, 1899,
by John B. Maiben. In 1865 (Oct.
15th) he married Johanne Marie
Johansen, who was born Sept. 15,
1841, and died in Denmark, Nov. 3,
1871, after giving birth to three chil-
dren. In 1872 (March 2nd) Brother
Andersen married Marie Larsen, who
subsequently bore hime five children.
He emigrated to Utah in 1873 and

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settled at Epliraim, Sanpete county,
where he resided until March, 1877,

when he settled permanently at Cen-
terfield, his present home.

ANDERSEN, S0ren P., one of the
presidents of the 65th quorum of
Seventy and a resident of Center-
field, Sanpete county, Utah, was born
May 9, 1869, at Seilflod, near Aalborg,
Denmark, the son of Anders S. An-
dersen and Johanne Marie Johansen.
He emigrated to Utah in 1873 with
his father and settled at Ephraim,
Sanpete county. In 1877 he moved
to Centerfield, where he was baptized
in the summer of 1878 by Niels Niel-
sen and was subsequently ordained a
Teacher and an Elder. In 1891 (Dec.
2nd) he married Stine Petersen,
(daughter of Mads C. Petersen and
Gertrude N. Petersen), who was born
March 5, 1871, at Aalborg, Denmark,
and emigrated to Utah in 1881. In
1901-03 Bro. Andersen filled a mission
to Scandinavia, laboring in the Ber-
gen conference and presiding suc-
cessively over the Aalesund, Stav-
anger and Egersund branches. Prior
to going on this mission he was
ordained a Seventy, June 11, 1901,
by Anthon H. Lund, and became a

member of the 65th quorum of
Seventy in 1905. In 1908-10 he filled
a second mission to Scandinavia,
during which he presided over the
Trondhjem conference and later over
the Christiania conference. In 1913
he was chosen president of the
Centerfield Ward Y. M M. I. A.

Elder Andersen has also at home
taken a most active part in both
ecclesiastical and civil affairs. For
several years he served as president
of the Willow Creek Irrigation Com-
pany. He is a successful farmer
and sheepraiser. His family con-
sists of a wife and nine children;
seven of his children are now living.

JENSEN, Andrew, president of the
Scandinavian meetings at Centerfield,
Sanpete county, Utah, wag born July 14
1844, at Horsens, Aalborg ami, Den-
mark, the son of Jens Andersen and
Ane Marie Rasmussen. In 1872 (May
31) he married Anna Petersen, daugh-
ter of Peter Jensen and Maren Adam-
sen, who was born Sept. 18, 1845,
at N0rre Tranders, Aalborg amt,
Denmark, and bore her husband
seven children. Bro. Jensen was bap-
tized Feb. 21, 1877, by .Tohn E. Chris-

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fiansen and emigrated to Utah in
1S78. After residing temporarily at
Levan, Redmond, and Little Salt
Creek, he located permanently at
Gunnison, Sanpete co., of which Ward
he was a member until the Ward
was divided, when he became a
member of the Centerfield Ward,
where he still resides. Bro. .Jensen

Ward, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Feb. 28, 1855, at 01und, Odense
amt (island of Fyen), Denmark, the
son of Henrik Christiansen and Anne
Marie Petersen. He learned the
trade of a plasterer and brick layer
and worked at the trade for seven
years in his native land. Becoming
a convert to "Mormonism", he was

was ordained a Priest in March,
1877, by Knud H. Bruun, was or-
dained an Elder in 1878 by Jens
Ghristensen, ordained a Seventy Jan.
26, 1884, by J. P. Jacobsen and or-
dained a High Priest Aug. 11, 1901.
by Henry Beal. In 1891-93 he filled
a mission to Scandinavia, laboring
in the Aalborg conference. After
his return home from that mission
he was chosen as president of the
Scandinavian meetings in the Gunni-
son Ward (now Centerfield). In May
1910, he went to Denmark on a
visit, but was soon after his arrival
there called into the missionary
field and labored diligently and suc-
cessfully in the Aalborg conference
about eighteen months; he returned
home in 1911.

CHRISTIANSEN, Christian Henry,
an active Elder in the Centerfield

baptized Oct. 6, 1878, by Christian
Hansen, emigrated to Utah the same
year and settled at Fillmore, Millard
county, where he resided three years.
In 1881 (April 7th) he married
Sophia Jeppesen (daughter of Jens
Jeppesen and Marie Petersen) who
was born Jan. 24, 1864, at Moroni,
Sanpete county, Utah. Commencing
with 1880 Bro. Christiansen (re-
sponding to call) worked on the
Manti Temple and remained at that
work till the Temple was completed.
At that time he was a resident of
Gunnison, but moved to Centerfield
in 1886, where he still resides. Bro.
Christiansen was ordained a Priest in
1879 by J. G. Smith, ordained an
Elder in March, 1881, and ordained a
Seventy in 1887 by Seymour B.
Young and ordained a High Priest
Nov. 3, 1907, by Joseph P. Smith. In

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1900-1902 he filled a mission to
Scandinavia, laboring in the Aarhus
conference. Bro. Christiansen has
always been an active and faithful
Elder both at home and abroad: thus
he acted as president of the Gunni-
son Ward Y. M. M. I. A. for two years
and later over a similar organization
in Centerfield for two years. He
also acted as assistant superintendent
of the Ward Sunday school for a
number of years. Among the secular
positions held by him has been that
of a member of the Gunnison town
board. Bro. Christiansen's avocation
is that of a farmer.

ANDERSON, Niels O., an alternate
High Councilor in the South Sanpete
Stake and a resident of Ephraim.
Sanpete county, Utah, was born
Sept. 20. 1845, at Slimminge, near

Lund, Malmohus Ian, Sweden. He
emigrated to America in 1854-55,
leaving Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov.
27, 1854, and arriving in Salt Lake
City, Sept. 7, 1855, after crossing
the plains in Capt. Noah T. Guy-
man's company. He settled at
Ephraim the same fall and in Octo-
ber, 1855, was baptized by Frederik

C. S0rensen. He was ordained an
Elder Nov. 2, 1867, and on the same
day married Josephine Overlade.
Avho bore him seven children. In
1885 (Dec. 18th) he married Matilda
Nielsen, who became the mother of
one boy. At an early day Elder
Anderson was ordained a Seventy
by Parley McFarland, and ordained
a High Priest Nov, 20, 1902, by
Henry Beal, on which occasion also
he was set apart as a High Councilor
in the South Sanpete Stake. In 1865
he participated in the Black Hawk
Indian war. In 1866 he went to the
^lissouri river as a Church teamster
after emigrants, and in 1867 he again
served as a military man in the
Indian war. In 1880-82 he filled a
mission to Scandinavia, laboring in
the Sk&ne conference and presiding
over the "Christianstad, Helsingborg
and Blekinge branches. Returning
liome in 1882 he had charge of the
Scandinavian Saints who crossed the
Atlantic in the ship "Nevada", which
sailed from Liverpool, England, June
21, 1882, and arrived at New Y'ork
July 2, 1882. The company arrived
at Ogden, July 9, 1872. After his
return home from that mission. Bro.
Anderson served fifteen years as
a member of the Ephraim city coun-
cil; he also acted as assistant super-
intendent of the Ward Sunday school
and was president of the Y. M. M. I
A. for a short time. He spent a
great deal of time, working in the
canyon; otherwise he is a farmer
by occupation.

CHRISTENSEN, Frederick William.
second counselor to Bishop Chas.
R. Dorius, of the Ephraim South
Ward. Sanpete county, Utah, from
1908 till 1911, was born Aug. 25,
1863, at Mt. Pleasant. Sanpete county,
Utah, the son of Carl A. Christensen
and Elizabeth Sternen Shale. He
was baptized Aug. 4, 1872, by John
G. J0rgensen and confirmed by Henry

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Beal; ordained an Elder in January,
18S8, by Carl V. N. Dorius, and or-
dained a High Priest Jan. 4, 1908,
by Lewis Anderson and set apart
us second counselor to Bishop Charles
R. Dorius. In ISSS (April 11th) he
married Amelia Jensen (daughter of
Capt. Johan .\ndreas Jensen and
.\ndrea Petersen) who was born Feb
IL'. 1867. at Epiiraim: she became
the mother of seven children. In
1900-1902 Elder Christensen filled a

rely an his own resources, he started
life without money, but soon obtained
a farm and made himself quite com-
fortable. Becoming a convert to
"Mormonism". he was baptized in
1S.^j2 by Elders Christian Christiansen
and left Denmark in December, 1852,
emigratins to America, together with
liis wife Karen Sorensen whom lie
liad married in Denmark April l'.
18.51. They crossed the Atlantic in
the ship "Eorest Monarch" and the

mission to Scandinavia, laboring in
the Bergen conference, Norway, princi-
pally in Stavanger. At home he has
taken an active part in both Church
and secular affairs. For several
years he presided over the Epiiraim
South Ward Y. M. M. I. A., and also
served as councilman at Epiiraim,
one term. Brother Christensen died
at Ephraim May, 5, 1912, a good and
faithful Latter-day Saint.

WILLARDSEN, Christian, one of
the pioneer settlers of Ephraim, San-
pete county, Utah, w^as born near the
city of Skive, Viborg amt, Denmark,
April 6, 1811. Being left an orphan
when very small and sonipelled to

plains in John E. Forsgren's company,
which arrived in Salt Lake City,
Sept. 30, 1853. Together with others
of the same emigrant sompany, Bro.
Willardsen and wife first located in
the socalled AUred Settlement (now
Spring City), but were driven away
by the Indians and spent the winter
of 1853-54 in Manti. In the spring of
1854 he settled permanently at
Ephraim, being one of the first sett-
lers of that place, where he helped
to build the first forts erected as
a protection against the Indians. He
was a member of that community
the remainder of his life, becoming
one of the most prosperous citizens
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the first burr mill at Epliraim, and
finally organized a company, wliich
built the Climax Roller Mill, of which
he was president and the principal
stock holder till the time of his
death. Later he bought a burr mill
in Mayfield and changed it to tlie
present roller process; that mill is
now owned by the family. Brother
Willardsen also engaged in merchan-
dizing at Ephraim at an early day,
his store being later incorporated
as the Ephraim Co-op. He construct-
ed a tannery, carried on farming and
freighted produce to market. He took
an active part in the Black Hawk
war and passed through all the trials
of grasshopper and Indian incidents
in early days. In 1871 he filled a
short mission to Scandinavia. Re-
turning home he assisted quite a
number of poor Saints to emigrate
to Utah, he being a man of means.
On many other occasions he contrib-
uted very liberally to the Church for
public purposes. Being the founder of
home industries, he gave employment
to many people When he passed
to his final rest at Ephraim, June
29, 1897, he left three wives and
fourteen children. His first wife
(Karen) bore him five children,
namely, Willard, Christian, Erastus
C, Joseph and Maria. His second
wife (Mary Larsen) bore him four
children (Christian. Caroline, An-
drew and James) ; she had two child-
ren, Mary A. Allred and Mena Oviatt,
by a former marriage. His third wife
(Anna Katrine S0rensen) bore her
husband four children, namely, Annie,
Lorinda, Peter and John.

WILLARDSEN Karen S0rensen,
wife of Christian Willardsen was born
April 4, 1830, in Viborg amt, Den-
mark, the daughter of S0ren and
Dorthea Petersen. She became the
wife of Christian Willardsen April
5, 1851, joined the Church together
with her husband in 1852 and emi-

grated to Utah in 1852-53, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Forest
Monarch" and the plains in John E.
Forsgren's company. Soon after her
arrival in Utah she became identified
with Church affairs and became an
active worker in the Relief Society
during the remainder of her life.
She was one of the head teachers
of the Ephraim Relief Society for
about thirty years. While residing

temporarily in Spring City (origin-
ally the Allred settlement) she suf-
fered great anxiety and hardship on
account of Indian troubles. Sister
Willardsen became the mother of ten
children, and her sons and daughters
have, like herself, been faithful and
diligent workers in the Church. Her
daughters have labored long and
faithful as Temple workers, in which
they have been greatly aided through
the sacrificing and liberal disposi-
tion of the mother at home. Sister
Willardsen died in January, 1902, at
Ephraim, Sanpete county, Utah.

WILLARDSEN, Mary Larsen, wife
of Christian Willardsen, was born
Aug. 2, 1836, at Greis, Vejle amt, Den-
mark, the daughter of Lars Johansen

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and Anna M. S0ren.sen. She was bap-
tized in December. 1851, by Knud
H. Bruun and emigrated to Utah in
1854-55, In crossing the North Sea
from Frederikshavn to England she
was exposed to one of the worst
storms that ever made the life of
an emigrant company upon waters
miserable. During the fury of the
rtorm the ship was compelled to
.-.eek shelter at Mandal, Norway, and
Frederikshavn, Denmark, but the emi-

WILLARDSEN, Anna Katrine S0-
rensen, wife of ("liristian Willardsen,
was born Nov. 10, 1849, at Guddum-
lund, Aalborg amt, Denmark, the daugh-
ter of Jens Chris. S0rensen and Anna
Christine .Jensen. She was baptized
Feb. 23, 1861, by Poul Christian
Petersen and emigrated to Utah in
1871, arriving in Salt Lake City
Sept. 21st. Nov. 13, 1871, she mar-
ried Christian Willardsen, to whom
she subsequently bore four children,

grants finally arrived in England and
sailed from Liverpool on board the
ship "James Nesmith", Jan. 7, 1855,
and arrived at New Orleans Feb. 23,
1855; thence the journey was con-
tinued tp Salt Lake City, where the
emigrants arrived in September. Af-
ter residing temporarily in Weber
Valley and Ogden, Sister Mary lo-
cated at Ephraim, Sanpete county,
where she in 1868 married Christian
Willardsen, by whom she became the
mother of twelve children. Sister
Willardsen has been a faithful and
successful Relief Society Avorker for
upwards of thirty years, being a
woman of great faith.

two boys and two girls. After resid-
ing in Ephraim until 1898, she moved
to a place called Brooklyn, Sevier
county, Utah, where she presided
over the branch Relief Society about
ten years. Sister Willardsen has
done a great deal of Temple work
for her departed relatives and friends
in the Manti and Salt Lake City
Temples.

WILLARDSEN, Christian, junior,
mayor of Ephraim City, Sanpete
county, Utah, and second counselor to
Bishop John S. Beal, was born Nov. 6,
1870, the son of Christian Willardsen
and Mary Larsen. He was baptized

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Aug. 10, 1879, by Andrew C. Nielson
and ordained successively to the of-
fices of Deacon, Teacher, Priest and
Elder, the latter ordination taking
place March 25, 1894, under the hands
of George Taylor, March 28, 1894,
he married Mary Lillie Larsen
(daughter of George Larsen and Kisty
Larsen) who became the mother of
seven children, namely, Mary Adella,
Kisty Omera, Ida Lillian, Arthur C,
George Cannon, Spencer Christian,
and Howard Oral Willardsen. In the

spring of 1898 he was called on a
mission and was ordained to the
office of a Seventy under the hands
of Apostle George Teasdale. He
labored for two years in the North-
western States Mission, principally In
the State of Montana. Shortly after
entering the mission field he was
called to preside over the Butte
conference and later over the Ana-
conda conference. While on this mis-
sion he organized one branch of the
Church and two Sunday schools and
had the privilege of baptizing 23
into the Church. Before going on
a mission he took an active part
in the Church, laboring as a Ward

teacher and counselor to the presi-
dent of the Ward. He was also a
very active worker in the Sunday
school and labored as a missionary
aid in the Sanpete Stake of Zion.
When the Sanpete Stake was divided
into the North and South Sanpete
Stake he was chosen as second coun-
selor in the Stake organization .of
Sunday schools. Prom 1903 to 1908
he acted as superintendent of the
Ephraim North Ward Sunday school:
in the fall of 1900 he was chosen
to act as the president of the Y. M.
M. I. A., and acted in that capacity
for two years. Dec_ 9, 1901, he was
ordained a High Priest and set apart
as second counselor to Bishop John
S. Beal, which position he held for
eleven years, or till Dec. 30, 1912.
In 1895 he was one of the organizers
of the Equitable Creamery Company
and acted as president of that
company for two years; he also acted
as justice of the peace of Ephraim
City from 1904 to 1906, was elected
two terms on the Ephraim School
Board (serving in this capacity for
six years), was on said school board
when the present magnificent public
school building was built and was a
member of the building committee
when the Snow Academy was erec-
ted. Being elected mayor of Ephraim
City, he has acted in this capacity
since Jan. 1. 1914. At the presant
time he is vice-president of the Bank
Ephraim. In fact he is one of
Ephraim 's most substantial and pro-
gressive business men, his principal
occupation being the buying and ship-
ping of farm produce in car load
lots. Brother Willardsen has always
taken an active part in all home
industries and was one of the promo-
ters of the present Ephraim Sani-
tary Canning Co., just built at
Ephraim. During the short time he
has acted as mayor, Ephraim's main
street has been paved all through
the city, and the city of Ephraim un-

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der his administration is building a
magnificent Carnegie library.

THOMSON, Andrew, a prominent
Elder of Ephraini Sanpete cc, Utah,
was born Dec. 4, 1831, on the island
of Falster, Denmark, the son of
Tiromas NMelsen and Dortliea An-
dersen. His father died when An-
drew was a boy and his mother
was married again to Peter Petersen
Thomsen. He received a common

school education in liis native land,
and helped his fosterfather on the
farm. Becoming converted to "Mor-
monlsm," he was baptized June 28,
1852, by Johan Swenson and emi-
grated to America in December, 1852,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Forest Monarch" and the plains
with oxteam in Captain John E.
Forsgren's company which arrived in
Salt Lake City. Sept. 30. 1853. To-
irether with many others of the same
company, Brother Thomson located
tit the AUred Settlement in Sanpete
county (now known as Spring City),
but in December following the sett-
lers were advised by the leaders
of the Church to move to Manti
for safety from the Indians. Here
they spent the remainder of the

winter, but early in the spring of
1854, a number of them, among
whom was Andrew Thomson, settl-
led on Pine Creek, where they built
a fort for their protection, giving
it the name of Fort Ephraim. In
1864, responding to call. Brother
Thomson became one of the first
settlers of Circleville, but pursuant
to order returned to Ephraim In
1866 on account of the Black Hawk
war. During this war he stood guard
and assisted whenever duty called
for the protection of the settlers
against the red men. He held the
offices of Elder and Seventy, being
a member of the 47th quorum of
Seventy. In 1877 he was ordained
a High Priest and chosen as second
counselor to Bishop Lars S. Ander-
son, of the Ephraim North Ward.
Later, he became first counselor to
the same Bishop and remained in
that position till the death of Bishop
Anderson, thus serving in the Bishop-
ric twenty-four years, Brotljer Thom-
son has consequently been a resident
of Ephraim from the beginning and
has taken an active part in all
spiritual and temporal matters per-
taining to the growth of the settle-
ment. He married Christiana Jensen
Nov. 21, 1857, Bishop Kofford offi-
ciating. Brother Thomson is the
father of ten children (five sons
and five daughters) of whom four
sons and three daughters are still
living.

THOMSON, Christiana Jensen,
wife of Andrew Thomson, was born
Aug. 6. 1837, on the island of Lol-
iand, Denmark, the daughter of
Anders Jensen and Anna Rasmussen.
In September, 1855, she was bap-
tized by Peter Thomsen and in 1857
she emigrated to Utah, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Westmoreland,"
which sailed from Liverpool, England.
April 25th, and arrived at Phila-
delphia May 21, 1857. Thence the
company with which she traveled
continued the journey by rail to
Iowa City and crossed the plains

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in a hand cart company under the
leadership of Christian Christiansen
which arrived in Salt Lake City
Sept. 13, 1857. This journey across
the plains was indeed a trying one.
Her mother being poor in health
most of the time. Sister Christiana
had to help her along continuously.
Soon after arriving in Great Salt
Lake Valley she went to Ephraim,

where she met Andrew Thomson,
to whom she was married Nov. 21,
1857. She bore to her husband ten
children, seven of whom are now
living. Sister Thomson has been an
active worker in the Relief Society
of the Ephraim North Ward for
years, having filled the position of
head teacher and subsequently first
counselor to the president.

BREINHOLT, Jens Peter Larsen,
a prominent Elder of the Ephraim
South Ward, Sanpete county, Utah,
was born Feb. 1, 1844, at Winding
Strand, Veile amt, Denmark, the son
of Laurs Jensen and Anna Sophia
Nielsen. According to the prevailing
system in those days, he, together
with his brothers and sisters, was
surnamed Laursen after his father's
given name Laurs, but in the year
1884 the whole family adopted the

name of Breinholt, which was granted
them by the legislature of Utah.
Becoming a convert to "Mormonism",
Jens P. L. Breinholt was baptized
and confirmed Jan. 10, 1864, by
Elder Gustav Pegau. He was or-
dained a Teacher Sept. 25, 1864, and
at a conference held at Veile, Oct.
23, 1864, he was ordained a Priest
by Pres. Chas. Widerborg and at the
some time called to labor as a mis-
sionary in the Nyby branch. He
was ordained an Elder April 30.
1865, by Elder W. F. O. Behrman.
and continued to labor as a mission-
ary in the Fredericia conference till
the spring of 1867, when he was
released to emigrate to Zion. He
crossed the North Sea in the steamer
"Waldemar" and the Atlantic In the
steamship "Manhatten"' which sailed

from Liverpool, England, June 21.
1867, and arrived at New York July
4, 1867. Thence the company in
which he traveled went by rail to
North Platte, 391 miles west of
Omaha, and continued the journey
across the plains in Capt. Leonard G.
Rice's independent oxtrain, which ar-
rived in Salt Lake City Oct. 5, 1867.
WHiile journeying in this company

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Brother Breinholt became acquainted
with Miss Ane Sophia Madsen from
the Vendsyssel conference, Denmark,
and after their arrival in Utah, she
became his wife. Feb. 14, 186S.
After his marriage he became a per-
manent resident of Ephraim, where
his wife has borne him ten children
four boys and six girls; the youngeKt
of these (a boy^ died when sevei
years old. Brother Breinholt was
ordained a Seventy Aug. 7, 1884, and
a High Priest Dec. 11, 1911. For a
number of years he was one of the
presidents of the -ivth quorum of
Seventy (senior president for about
six years). As a resident of the
Ephraim South Ward he has held
many ecclesiastical positions. He
also labored as one of the leading
masons on the Manti Temple, work-
ing at his trade on that sacred t difice
from the time its foundation was
laid till the capstone was placed in
position and dedicated. He took
charge of the stone and brick work
on the Snow Academy at Ephraim
and has done a great dea^ of other
important labor in building up hi?
home town. In 1904-06 he filled a
successful mission to his native coun-
try (Denmark), laboring one year
in the Aarhus conference and one
year as president of the Aa'l>org
conference. At Aalborg he took
charge of the building of the Latter-
day Saints chapel under the (lirec-
tion of Pres. J. M. Christensen. T)ie
gospel as revealed to Joseph Smith
the Prophet has shaped Bro. Brein-
holt's destiny in life and through
that has come to him all the spiritual
and temporal blessings which he has
enjoyed, the Lord liaving rewarded
him liberally for his obedience to
the same.

BREINHOLT, Ane Sophia Madsen,

wife of .lens Peter L. Breinholt, was
born Sept. 19. 1844, at .Jerslev, Hj0r-
ring amt, Denmark, the daughter of
Christen and Karen Marie Thorsen.

Her parents were good and honest
people who taught her correct and
moral principles. They both died in
Denmark. Ane Sophia learned the
profession of a seamstresss and be-
came very efficient in that line.
While laboring at her profession she
made a great many acquaintances and
warm friends among the people. When
in her eighteenth year she became
acquainted with the true gospel as
revealed to Joseph Smith the Prophet
and becoming a believer, she was
baptized in April, 1862, by Elder Jens
C. Astrup. She rejoiced greatly in
the gospel trutlis and bore her testi-

«^

mony to many people. Finally she
bade goodbye to her parents, relatives,
friends and native country to emi-
grate to Utah in the spring of 1867.
traveling in the same company as
the young man who afterwards be-
came her husband. Soon after her
arrival in Salt Lake City, she at-
tended the first conference held in
the new Tabernacle Oct. 6, 1867,
and heard Pres. Brigliam Young and
Apostle Orson Hyde preach. She
selected Ephraim, Sanpete county,
for her home, and was married to
Jens P. L. Breinholt Feb. 14, 1868,

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Pres. Daniel H. Wells perfonning the
ceremony in the old Endowment
House. In Salt Lake City. Besides
tenderly caring for her husband, her
children and lier home, Sister Brein-
liolt has for twenty years taken an
active part as a teacher in the AVaru
Relief Society where she resided.
Her love for her family, her people,
her religion and her God are her
greatest riches.

ISAACSON, Peter, Bishop of the
Meadow Ward, St. Johns Stake, Ari-
zona, was born May 30, 182S, at S0n-
derholm, Thisted amt, Denmark, the
son of Isaac Olsen (born May 4,
1769, and died Dec. 3, 1840) and Anna
Margrethe Pedersen (born Nov. 11,
1905. and died in the year 1877. Peter

y/f^ ^^

learned the trade of a carpenter and
worked at the same in his native
land. He served as a soldier in the
Danish army two years, during the
war between Denmark and Germany.
Becoming a convert to "Mormonism"
he was baptized by Peter Poulsen
in 1854 and labored as a local mis-
sionary a short time, prior to his
departure for America. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1854-5B and crossed

the Atlantic in the ship "James
Nesmith", wliich sailed from Liver-
pool, England, Jan. 7, 1855, and ar-
rived at New Orleans, Feb. 23, 1855.
Proceeding up the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers to Mormon Grove,
near Atchison, Kansas, he remained
on the frontiers one year and finally
crossed the plains in Bishop Abraham
O. Smoot's company, arriving in G.
S. L. City Nov. 9, 1856. While cros-
sing the mountains in deep snow
part of the way the emigrants suf-
fered extremely from cold and over-
exertion. While residing in the
States, he married Anna Marie Poul-
sen at Weston, Mo., April 1, 1855;
but his wife died soon after her
marriage. In 1857 (April 21st) he
married Martha K. Clemensen : and
the next year he participated in
the expeditions to the mountains
to check the approch of Johnston's
army. During his absence his wife
went to Sanpete, whence he followed
her later and settled at Ephraim. In
1876 he was called to Arizona, to
help colonize that country and to
labor as a missionary among the
Indians. He was absent on this mis-
sion sixteen years, after which he
returned to Ephraim. In 1878 (Sept.
3rd) he was ordained a High Priest
by Erastus Snow and set apart to
act as second counselor to Bishop
Geo. Lake, of Brigham City, Navajo
CO., Arizona. In the year 1880 he was
ordained a Bishop and set apart to
preside over a small branch of the
Church at a place called The Mead-
ows, about seven miles north of
St. John. After presiding there
about four years the settlement was
abandoned, and Brother Isaacson re-
turned to Ephraim, where he has
lived ever since. He is now (1914)
a Church veteran. 86 years of age.
Bro. Isaacson is the father of four
children.

ISAACSON, Martha K. Clemensen.
wife of Peter Isaacson, was born

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May 7. 1S22, on the island of 'Jegind0,
Tliisted anit. Denmark. Slie became
A member of the Church in 1854 and
-n)igrated to America in 1854-55,
Tossing the Atlantic in the ship
".lames Xesmith, which sailed from

Liverpool, England, Jan. 7, 1855, and
arrived at New Orleans Feb. 23, 1855.
She crossed the plains in Noah T.
Guyman's company, which arrived in
Salt Lake City Sept. 7, 1855, and lo-
cated at Epliraim, Sanpete county,
Utah, where her brother lived, and
in 1857 (April 21st) she married
Peter Isaacson, to whom she subse-
juently bore four children, namely,
Peter. Isaac, Maria and Martin. Sister
Isaacson was an active Relief Society
worker both in Utah and Arizona and
died as a faithful Latter-day Saint
Dec. 13, 1913. at Epliraim.

PETERSON, Niels, a veteran Elder
'f the Church and a pioneer settler
it Epliraim, Sanpete county, Utah,
vas born Oct. 29, 1814, at Seilflod,
near Aalborg, Denmark, the son of
Peter Nielsen and Sine Pedersen.
He joined the Church in 1851; was
~oon afterwards ordained to the
Priesthood and labored for some time
IS a local Elder in the Aalborg con-

ference. He emigrated to Utah in 1852-
53, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Forest Monarch", under the leader-
ship of .lohn E. Forsgren, in whose
company he also crossed the plains
and arrived in Salt Lake City Sept.
30, 1853. After arriving in the Valley
he located at the AUred Settlement
(now Spring City), but moved to
Manti the following December, owing
to Indian troubles, and in the spring
of 1854 he was one of the company
of fourteen that first settled Ft.
Ephraim. He was the first Dane
who plowed a furrow in that settle-
ment. In 1866 he took a prominent
part in the Black Hawk war. During

the Indian raids he lost a number
of animals which were stolen by
the savages. He was ordained a
High Priest soon before his death,
which occurred at Ephraim, March 28,
1897. He died as a faithful Latter-
day Saint, highly respected by all
who knew him.

PETERSON, Mary Jensen, wife of
Niels Peterson, was born Dec. 20,
1830, on the island of Sjaelland, Den-
mark, the daughter of Jens Jensen
and Kirsten Nielsen. She became a
convert to "Mormonism" in 1851 and

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emigrated to Utah in 1S52-53, crossing
the Atlantic Ocean in the ship
"Forest Monarch" and the plains in
John E. Forsgren's company, together
with her father, one brother and one
sister. While on this journey she
was married to Niels Peterson, to

ing among the very first members of
the Church in the city of Aalborg. Soon
after his baptism Bro. Petersen was
ordained an Elder and in September.
1851, sent on a mission to Norway,
as the first Elder of the Church
to take the fulness of the gospel

whom she subsequently bore nine
children, namely. Jens P., Mary C,
Christian, Sina. Annie E., Joseph,
Maria, Ephraini and Gertrude; five
of these children are still living.
Sister Peterson was a faithful Relief
Society worker and acted as a teach-
er among the sisters for many years.
She died as a faithful Latter-day
Saint Aug. 30, 1900, at Ephraim.

PETERSEN, Hans Frederik, a
prominent Elder of the Church and
for many years a resident of
Ephraini, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Feb. 7, ISn, near Aalborg.
Denmark, the son of Peter Petersen
and Marie Petersen. In 1845 (June
25th) he married Helena Matilda
Denker, who was born Nov. 22, 1821,
near Aalborg, Denmark. Becoming
converted to "Mormonism" he and
his wife were baptized at Aalborg
Oct. 27, 1850, by Geo. P. Dykes, they be-

to that country. .A.fter laboring for
some time in Norway, visiting a
nember of cities along the coast and
baptizing a few, he returned to
Denmark and labored as a local mii?-
sionary on the island of Sjaelland.
His wife shared his labors and priva-
tions to a great extent on his mis-
sions, especially in Aalborg. To-
gether with his wife and infant
daughter, Bro. Petersen emigrated to
Utah in 1852-1853, crossing the At-
lantic in the ship "Forest Monarch".
Avhich sailed from Liverpool. Eng-
land, Jan. 16, 1853, and arrived at
New Orleans March 12, 1853. Cros-
sing the plains in Capt. John E.
Forsgren's ocmpany, Bro. Petersen and
family arrived in Salt Lake City
Sept 30, 1853, and, together with
many others of his fellow travelers.
Avent to Sanpete Valley, where he
became one of the first settlers of
Ephraim early in the spring ol

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1854. Here he practically spent the
remainder of his life. He was the first
postmaster in Ephraim, holding that
position as well as that of tithing
clerk for about twenty-five years.
Elder Petesen died at Ephraim Jan.
9, 1882, highly beloved and respect-
ed by all who knew him. He presid-
ed over an Elders quorum sixteen
years until 1870, when he was or-
dained a High Priest. His wife is
still alive, nearly 93 years old, and
resides in the old family home at
Ephraim.

KEARNS, Hamilton Henry, first
Bishop of the Gunnison Ward, San-
pete county, Utah, was born Sept.
17, 1817, in Brown county, Ohio, the
son of Matthew Kearns and Mahala
Frazier. His father being a United
States trapper, the family resided
in tlie woods most of the time. They
moved to Iowa, where the senior

Kearns opened a carpenter .shop on
the Des Moines river, and while re-
siding there he befriended the "Mor-
mons" who at that time were fleeing
from persecution to the West. On
this account the enemies of the
saints called him a Jack Mormon,
and he was subjected to considerable

persecution on that account. In the
mean time he studied Parley P.
Pratt's "Voice of Warning", became
a convert to "Mormonism", and was
baptized in 1849. In 1850 he emi-
grated with his faimly to Utah and
settled at Springville, Utah county.
Later he was called by the Church
authorities to Cedar City, Iron co..
to assist in building the Iron works
at that place. He returned to
Springville in 1857 and during the
following summer he went to Fort
Leavenworth in the Y X Company.
In 1860 he moved to Gunnison. San-
pete county, where he worked at
farming and blacksmithing ond also
built three saw mills. When the
Saints at Gunnison were organized
as a Ward. Bro. Kearns was chosen
as the Bishop and he held that posi-
tion until 1869. Elder Kearns mar-
ried four wives. His first wife
was Charlotte White, whom he mar-
ried in 1840; she bore him six
children. In 1851 he married Aurilla
Coal, who bore him nine children.
In 1857 (Feb. 4th) he married Fran-
ces Mendenhall, who bore him eight
children, and Emma M. Guyman, who
bore him eleven children. Bishop
Kearns died Feb. 2S, 189.3, at Gunni-
son.

KEARNS, Austin, a High Councilor
in the South Sanpete Stake of
Zion and a resident of Gunnison.
Sanpete county, Utah, was born
Sept. 2, 1845, at Bonneparte on the Des
Moines river, Iowa, the son of Hamil-
ton H. Kearns and Chorlotte White.
Together with his parents lie mi-
grated to Utah in 1850 and lived
with his father's family at Spring-
ville, Cedar City and Gunnison. He
was baptized in 185.3 by Joseph Bar-
tholemew, was ordained a Teacher
at an early day and became an Elder
about 1864, serving also as a coun-
selor in the local Elders quorum for
a number of years. In 1865 (Jan.
29th) he married Mary Jorgensen.

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During the years 1865-67 he took
an active part in the Blackhawk
Indian war and had many narrow
escapes from losing his life. Once
he was cought in some oak brush
with. bis horse and nearly surrounded
by Indians. His escape through a
shower of bullets was almost raira-
rulous. In 1888 (Dec. 27th) he was or-
dained a Seventy by John Larsen

1856, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Thornton" and the plains in
Capt. Willie's handcart company
which arrived in Salt Lake City
Nov. 9, 1856. While crossing the
plains her mother went blind, but
regained her sight after her arrival
in the Valley. Nearly all the mem-
ber of the family had their hands
and feet frozen most terribly, but

and became one of the presidents
of the 65th quorum of Seventy. In
1894-95 he filled a mission to the
United States, laboring principally in
the State of Missouri. In 190:!
I March 7th) he was ordained a High
Priest by .John B. Maiben and sus-
tained as a High Councilor in the
South Sanpete Stake. Prior to that
he acted as president of the Gunnison
Ward V. M. M. I. A. for about eight
years and was also a diligent Sun-
day school worker and officer for a
long time. Pro. Kearns is the father
of eleven chiklren.

KEARNS, Mary J0rgensen. wife
of Austin Kearns, was born July 15.
1846, on the island of Falster, Den-
mark, the daughter of Anders J0rgen-
-sen and Elizabetli Nielsen. She emi-
^irated to I'tah with lier parents m

the hands soon healed up after ar-
riving in the -Valley. Mary and her
brother Hans, in order to assist the
family in making a living, were able
to spend a great deal of time in
knitting stockings. The family settled
at Ephraim, Sanpete county. Utah,
where Mary was baptized in 1857 by
Fred C. S0rensen. They located at
Gunnison, Sanpete co., in 1861, and
on Jan. 29, 1865, Mary became the
wife of Austin Kearns, to whom she
bore eleven children, , five boys and
six girls. For thirty-five years Sister
Kearns has been an active Relief
Society worker in the Gunnison
Ward, and she spun the yarn to
clothe all the family for fifteen years.
She also knitted all the stockings
used by her husbands whole family.
All her children are faithful Latter-
dav Saints.

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GARRICK, Hamilton Morrison, a
president of tlie 4Stli (luorum of
Seventy and an early settler of
Gunnison, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Nov. 29, 1834, in Gallowanshire,
Scotland, the son of John Garrick and
Esther Whitford. He was baptized
in 1851 by Robt. Hislop. learned the
trade of a boiler maker and worked
at this avocation for some time in
Glasgow, Scotland, and Belfast, Ire-
land. In 1856 he was ordained an
Elder by James Ferguson and labored
as a local missionary at Gilford,
Lurgan, Portadown and the City of

Armaugh, Ireland. He raised up a
branch of the Cliurch at Tullyan,
Ireland. After laboring about one
year in this locality. Elder Robt.
McQuarry offered to pay for his
passage to Utah, if he would help
his father's family across the sea
and plains. Bro. Garrick accepted
of this offer and was honorably re-
leased from further missionary labors
in Great Britain. Thus emigrating
to America, he crossed the ocean
in the ship "George Washington",
which sailed from Liverpool, Eng-
land March 28, 1857. He crossed the
plains in Capt. Jesse B. Martin's

company, on which interesting
journey he was one of three hunters-
selected to supply the camp with
game. On one of his many hunting-
expeditions he was fortunate enough
to kill a large buffalo which proved
a great boom to the company who
were short of meat. He also passed
through the e.xperience of a stampede
and only saved his life, while the
cattle were running at full speed,
by grabbing the bow on the yoke
of a team which ran and carried
him clear out of danger. One man
was killed by his side. The company
arrived in Salt Lake City Sept. 12.
1857. After his arrival in the Valley.
Bro. Garrick commenced hauling logs
from the canyon, but after working
a whole month for nothing (being
cheated out of his wages), he went
to Sanpete Valley and settled at
Ephraim. In 1857 (Dec. 8th) he
married Elizabeth Tilley, daughter of
Richard and Phoebe Tilley, and
moved to Manti. The honeymoon
trip of the newly married couple
consisted of a walk of seven miles
through seven inches of snow fronj
Ephraim to Manti. After working in
a tannery at Manti about four year?.
Bro. Garrick changed his place oi
residence to Gunnison in the year
1862, and here commenced farming,
being one of the early settlers oi
Gunnison. When the Indian trouble?
commenced, he took an active pan
in the defence of his home and the
homes of his neighbors from the red
men of the desert. He served as
base drummer in one of the battalion^
and was captain of the night guard.
In due course of time he became
well acquainted with the Indian chief
Black Hawk, to whom he gave many
a meal. Bro. Garrick was ordained a
High Priest in July, 1875, by Anthon
H. Lund, having previously been or-
dained a Seventy and becoming a
member of the 48th quorum of
Seventy. For some time he also
acted as one of the presidents of

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said quorum. In a secular way Bro.
Garrick has always been an active
and prominent citizen, taking part
in public matters generally and filling
.several positions of honor and trust
within the gifts of his fellow-citizens.
For twenty years he acted as
choir leader at Gunnison and he
officiated as pound keeper and post-
master about eight years. He moved
to Salt Lake City years ago where
he is now spending the evening of
his life working in the Temple in
the interest of his progenitors.

GARRICK, Elizabeth Tilley, wife
of Hamilton M. Garrick, was born
March 9, 1837, at Liverpool, Eng-
land, the daughter of Richard Tilley
and Elizabeth Phoebe Dukes. When
a young girl she became a convert
to "Mormonism" and was baptized
in Liverpool, England. She emi-

grated to America in 1857, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "George
Washington" and the plains in Jesse
B. Martin's company. She walked
all the way across the plains, fording
the streams and exposed to all the
hardships incident to a long journey
with teams. While crossing the
plains she met her future husband,

to whom she was married at
Ephraim, Sanpete co., Dec. 8, 1857.
Both she and her husband had but
very little of this world's goods at
the time they decided to become man
and wife ; so scarce indeed was
clothing with them that Elizabeth
found it necessary to sell a dress
which she had brought with her
from the old country, and for the
money obtained by the sale of the
same buy her husband a pair of
black trousers to be married in. She
proved a true and faithful wife and
helpmate to her husband, to whom
she bore nine children, six girls and
three boys. Sister Garrick was for
many years an active and successful
Relief Society worker. She was also
a good singer and was for a number
of years a prominent member in her
husband's choir at Gunijison. She
died at Gunnison Aug. 29, 1907, as
a true and faithful Latter-day Saint.

LUDVIGSEN, Frederik, an active
Elder in the Gunnison Ward, Sanpete
county, Utah, was born Oct. 5, 1836,
at Albaek, near Randers, Denmark,
the son of Ludvig Nielsen Sennels
and Dorthea Frederiksen. He was
baptized in 1856 by Frederik Lyng-
berg, was ordained a Priest soon
afterwards and labored as a local
missionary more or less for two
years in the Aarhus conference. In
1862 he emigrated to Utah, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Electric",
which sailed from Hamburg, Ger-
many, April 18, 1862, and arrived at
New York June 5, 1862. From Flor-
ence, Nebraska, he crossed the plains
in Capt. Christian A. Madsen's com-
pany, which arrived in Salt Lake
City Sept. 23, 1862. On the day of
his arrival in the Valley he married
Anna Marie Myrup, daughter of Lars
C. Myrup and Mette Marie Berthel-
sen, who was born July 16, 1842,
near Thisted, Denmark, and emi-
grated to Utah in the same company
as Bro. Ludvigsen: she died Jan. 3.

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iy06. at Gunnison, after giving birth
to fourteen children, six of whom
are now living. On their arrival in
Utah Bro. Ludvigsen and wife went
direct to Ephraim, Sanpete county,
where tliey spent the winter of 1862-
6.] and then resided three years at
Manti. Finally they made Gunnison
their permanent home, arriving there
April 12. 1865. Bro. Ludvigsen took
au active part in the Black Hawk
Indian war; his arrival in Gunnison

SHOMAKER, Ezra, second coun-
selor to Pres. Lewis Anderson, of
the South Sanpete Stake, Sanpete
county, Utah, was born March 20,
184.3, in Adams county, 111, 20 miles
from Quincy. He is the son of Jez-
reel Shomaker and Nancy Goldwin,
and came to Utah in 1847, crossing
the plains in Perrigrine Sessions'
company. He lived in the "Old
Fort" over winter, and in the spring
of 1848 moved to Bountiful. In the

happened on the same day that the
Indians killed two men in Salina
canyon. For several years he found
employment as a trader, traveling
between Gunnison and Salt Lake
City. In 1883-85 he filled a mission
to Scandinavia, laboring in the Aar-
hus conference. In 1892 he paid
his native country another visit, this
time going there to bring his mother
to America, his father having died
in Denmark in 1887. His mother
came with him to Gunnison, where
she died May 27, 1901. At home
Elder Ludvigsen has ever been an
active worker and has filled many
positions of trust and responsibility.
For twelve years he acted as school
trustee at Gunnison.

fall of 1849, his parents were called
to settle Sanpete Valley and thus
the family became numbered among
the first settlers of Manti. In 1851,
in the spring, he was baptized by
Orville S. Cox and in 1861 he went
with John R. Murdock to Florence to
help bring out the emigrants. Just
after his arrival home that year he
was called to haul corn from Provo
to Salt Lake City to feed the teams
that were hauling rock for the Salt
Lake Temple. In 1864, he made
another trip to the Missouri river
In Captain Canfields company after
emigrants. In 1865-67 he took an
active part in the Black Hawk Indian
war. He was in the first skirmish in
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really shot at by the Indians. During
the summer of 1S66 he made a
third trip to the Missouri river after
emigrants. In 1S66 (Dec. 1st) he
married Abigail Tuttle. being among
the first five couples tliat went from
Manti to be married in the En-
dowment House in Salt Lake City.
About the year 1859 Bro. Shomaker
was ordained to the office of an
Elder; later he was ordained a
Seventy by John Crawford and on
May 14. 1887, he Avas ordained a
High Priest by Pres. Henry Beal
and set apart as an alternate High
Councilor in the South San-
pete Stake of Zion. Nov. 9, 1900, he
was chosen second counselor to Pre-
sident Lewis Anderson, being set
apart to this position by Pres.
Anthon H. Lund. In a civil capacity
Bro. Shomaker was a member of the
city council at Manti for a number
of years; he also served as mayor
of Manti two terms. His principal
occupation is farming and stockrais-
ing; he is also a wool merchant.
Since 1893 he has been president
of the Central Utah Wool Company
and for thirteen years he was ranch-
ing with his sons in Alberta, Canada.

SHOMAKER, Abigail Tuttle, wife
of Ezra Shomaker and president of
the South Sanpete Stake Relief Soci-
eties, was born Oct. 13, 1848, in Pot-
tawattamie county, Iowa, the daugh-
ter of Azariah Tuttle and Ann Ma-
bloot. Her parents were on their way
to the Valley when she was born.
The family located at Mt. Pisgah,
Iowa, that year (1848) and remained
there until 1852; they then crossed
tre plains in Capt. Howell's company,
arriving in Salt Lake City in Sep-
tember, 1852. After a temporary stay
at Provo, Bro. Isaac Morley induced
the Shomakers to move to Manti.
which they did that same fall. Sister
Abigail was baptized in 1856 and in
that year also (Dec. 1st) married to
Bro. Shomaker, whom she has borne

seven children, four boys and three
girls. Sister Shomaker has been a
diligent Relief Society worker for
many years, first as a Teacher, and
then as second counselor to Mary
Ann Hyde in the Sanpete Stake. Af-
ter Sister Hyde's death she wa~

chosen to act as first counselor to
Sister Alvira Cox. After Sister Cox:;
death (which occurred May 21, 1912 1
Sister Shomaker was chosen pre-
sident of the South Sanpete Stake
Relief Societies. She has been ;.
Temple worker in Manti for about
twenty-two years and has served as
matron in the Temple for the past
seven years.

ANDERSON, Lewis Robert, Stake
superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A.
in the South Sanpete Stake, Sanpete
county, Utah, was born March 26,
1872. at Fountain Green, Sanpete co..
Utah, the son of Lewis Anderson and
Mary Ann Crowther. He was bap-
tized March 26, 1880, by his father:
ordained to the office of a Deacon
and later ordained a Priest; or-
dained an Elder by John D. T. Mc
Allister Dec. 11, 1895, and ordained
a Seventy March 16, 1898, by J.
Golden Kimball. Later (Dec. 18.
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of the 48th quorum of Seventy by
Joseph W. McMurrin. Bro. Anderson
has spent a great deal of his time
in the advancement of the mutual
improvement association cause, hav-
ing held about every office in the
Ward mutual and also served as
Stake aid, secretary, and assistant
superintendent of the Sanpete Stake.
When the Sanpete Stake was divided
in 1900, he was set apart as superin-
tendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of
the South Sanpete Stake by Pres.
Joseph P. Smith. From March, 1898,
to April, 1900, he filled a mission
to the Southern States, laboring as

with six children. In a civil capacity
Brother Anderson has served as
mayor of Manti three times, being
the youngest mayor in the State of
Utali at the time of his first election.
He was a member of the Utah Board
of Sheep Commissioners eight years,
president of same four years, and a
member of the tenth regular session,
of the Utah Legislature in 1913.
Wool business and ranching has been
his principal occupation in life.

CARPENTER, Joseph Hatten. sec-
ond counselor to Bishop Niels R.
Petersen, of the Manti North Ward,

a traveling Elder in the Middle
Tennessee conference about four
months, and acted as counselor to
Pres. Ben E. Rich twenty months.
When the Chattanooga confer-
ence was organized. Elder Ander-
son was chosen president, and he
also assisted in getting out and
publishing the first number of the
"Southern Star" which was first
issued from the press in Chattanooga
Dec. 3, 1898. In 1895, (Dec. 11th)
he married Clara M. Munk, daughter
of Peter Munk and Eunice Ann
Brown. This union has been blessed

Sanpete county, Utah, was born April
4, 1861, in Devonport, co. of Devon,
England, the son of Rev. Robert
Wright Carpenter and Elizabeth Link
Hatten. He is a descendant of the
old Dukes of Normandy, his maternal
ancestry being cousins to William
the Conqueror. Brother Carpenter's
father was a Congregational minister,,
therefore Joseph was educated in
the Congregational school at Lewis-
ham, Kent, which was a special school
for the education of the sons of
ministers. After leaving this school,.
Joseph went to Greenwich, where

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he lived for three years; he then
moved to London and was an em-
ployee in the mercantile firm of
Messrs. I. & R. Morley, of Wood St.
E. C, for seven years. In March,
1886, he left England for West
Australia in a sailing ship, round the
Cape of Good Hope, and after visiting
most of the Australian colonies he
started for San Francisco. While
on board the ship "Zealandia" he
met two Mormon Elders, Wilson
Ross Pratt and Wm. C. Mellor. After
hearing the gospel as taught by
them, he believed it and went direct
to Salt Lake City, where he was
baptized March 1, 1887, by James
Leatham and settled in the 19th
Ward. In August, 1887, he went to
Elsinore, Sevier county, and became
clerk of the Ward. Nov. 6, 1887, he
■was ordained a Priest by Bishop
Joshua W. Sylvester and in February,
1888, he was ordained an Elder by
August Kotter. In March, of that
year, he moved back to Salt Lake
City, where he worked with Geo.
M. Cannon in the county recorder's
office until the fall of 1890. He
was also clerk of the 22nd Ward
under Bishop Alfred Solomon. June,
12, 1889, he married Matilda Sophia
Alder, of Manti, the daughter of
John Alder, of Canton Appenzell,
Switzerland, and Matilda Sophia
Schramm of Wurtemberg, Germany.
This union has been blessed with
seven children, four boys and three
girls. Joseph Gerald, the oldest son,
is now (1914) filling a mission in
Germany. In August, 1890, Brother
Carpenter left Utah on a mission
to Samoa, where he labored as con-
ference president on the Island of
Sawaii, and returned to Utah in Sep-
tember, 1893. In Manti (which has
been his home ever since) he be-
came an active Y. M. M. I. A. worker,
being secretary and president of the
Manti North Ward Y. M. M. I. A.,
also Stake corresponding secretary
and treasurer and second counselor

in the Stake superintendency of the
South Sanpete Stake Y. M. M. I. A.
In 1894-95 Bro. Carpenter held the
position of city recorder of Manti
City, and in February, 1895, he be-
came assistant cashier of the Manti
City Savings Bank, where he labored
until March, 1911, when he was
called to be assistant recorder in the
Manti Temple. He was ordained a
Seventy Aug. 19, 1890, by Apostle
Francis M. Lyman, and ordained a
High Priest May 8, 1902, by Gustave
A. Iverson and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Niels R. Peter-
sen, of the Manti North Ward. For
some time prior to this he was one
of the presidents of the 48th quorum
of Seventy. Of late years Brother
Carpenter has been very much in-
terested in genealogical research and
has been quite successful in gather-
ing a great deal of data pertaining
to the Carpenter and the Hatten
families of England and the United
States and he has accomplished a great
work in the Temples for their redemp-
tion, being the fulfilment of a bles-
sing pronounced upon his head by
Patriarch Geo. W. Hill, March 12,
1899, in Salt Lake City, 12 days
after his baptism into the Church.
Bro. Carpenter has been a life mem-
ber of the Genealogical Society of
Utah for some years and is their
Stake representative in the South
Sanpete Stake. In his case it has
been a veritable fulfilment of the
prophecy of Jeremiah III: 14, wherein
it states: "I will take one of a
city and two of a family, and I will
bring you to Zion," etc. The No. two
of the family is his brother Geo.
Eustance Carpenter, who came to
Utah from South Africa and joined
the Church in September, 1893; he
was associated with the "Deseret
News" for many years, being their
city editor before resignation, and is
now a journalist of high repute. These
two brothers are the representatives
in the United States of the Somerset

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County Carpenters of England, who
were yeoman and lived since 1687
at Bradford-on-Tyne, near Taunton,
Sommerset, and were a younger
branch of the Hereford Carpenters,
who lived at Dilwyn, Hereford, be-
fore 1300 A. D., and whose ancestor
fought in the crusades for the recov-
try of the Holy Land from the Sara-
cens and Turks, as their armorial
bearings and crest will indicate.

COX, Frederick Walter, a promin-
ent Elder in the Church, was born
Jan 20, 1812, in Plymouth, New York,
the son of Jonathan Upham Cox
and Lucinda Blood. He was the third
son of a family of twelve children,
nine sons and three daughters. All
were born in New York State, except
the oldest, William Upham Cox, who
was born in Boston, Mass. The fath-
er died April 21, 1830, in Oswego,
New York. The widowed mother
with her large family moved to Nel-

son, Portage county, Ohio, where
she died Dec. 25, 1838. Frederick
W. Cox being the older of the boys
tried hard to be a father to his
younger brothers and sisters. He
was married to Miss Emeline Whit-

ing in 1835, in Portage county, Ohio,
the Prophet Joseph Smith performing
the ceremony. Their son, Frederick
W. Cox, jun. was born in Portage.
The family journeyed to Far West,
Caldwell co., Missouri, in 1839. Thence
they went to Lima, Adams co., Illi-
nois, where they lived four or five
years and where Bro. Cox was coun-
selor to Isaac Morley, but the Saintg
were burned out and driven from
their comfortable homes. The Cox
family with others fled to the shelter
of Nauvoo, where Fred W. njarried
Miss Jemima Losee and Cordelia
Morley Jan. 27, 1846, in the Nauvoo
Temple, President Brigham Young
and Heber C. Kimball officiating.
They then made their home at Sil-
ver Creek, Pottawattamie co., Iowa,
where Bro. Cox worked to get teams,
wagons and means to bring his large
family on to Utah. They left Kanes-
ville for Utah June 20, 1852, and
reached Salt Lake City Sept. 28,
1852. Then they came on to Manti,
arriving there Oct. 4, 1852. Here he
went to work to build forts, bridges,
roads, homes, mills, etc., necessary
for the making of a new country. He
did much in developing this sterile
State and in an ecclesiastical way
he was a power. He was counselor
to President Chapman, performed a
successful mission of 27 months in
England, held the office of presiding
High Priest and officiated in laying
the northwest corner stone of the
Manti Temple. He was also chosen
to the Territorial legislature. He
held the office of county treasurer
for many years along with other of-
fices of trust. In the year 1855 he
married Miss Lydia Losee and in
1869 he married Miss Emma Peterson.
AUtogether he was the husband of
five wives who bore him four-
teen sons and twenty-two daughters.
His wives were all noble women,
who acted well their part in helping
to maintain their i^milies and in
educating them. The present gener-

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ations have no conception of the
sacrifices made by them and the toil
they had to endure in the spinning
wheel and the loom. If written it
would make a large and interesting
volume. Bro. Cox died June 5, 1879,
at Manti. He was a man of more
than medium height and weight. He
had brown hair, blue eyes, a mild
and kind temperament and a loving
disposition. He was a father in the
community and every one wished
him near them in time of sickness or
sorrow. If ailing, one could not help
but feel the good spirit and know
that they were better. There was
something about Bro. Cox to inspire
one to better thoughts and better
deeds. He seemed to read the coun-
tenance of people like an open book,
and unless their lives were clean
few came to trouble him. He was
always able to look every one in the
eye, speak his mind and give his
advice and counsel which was sought
in all the affairs of life. The poor
and the downtrodden looked to him
for comfort. Even the savage Indian
found in him a true and lasting
friend. Hours of patient conversa-
tion were spent with those treacher-
ous, cruel savages and the miracle
was they never left him in anger.
His talk to them was so forceful and
the right so plainly pointed that they
were usually willing to follow his
directions. He read things with so
clear an eye and understood cause
and effect so well that his word
was almost prophetic. His sublime
faith, his unfaltering integrity in all
the walks of life made him a hus-
band, a father, a friend and a good
citizen to be loved, honored and
respected by all. His life was a suc-
cess and the bond of affection which
still continues unbroken among his
descendants is one of the forceful
evidences of his worth. All their
highest ideals, their greatest achieve-
ments, their loyalty to the principles

and faith of their fathers are tributes
to his memory.

COX, Frederick Walter, jun., one

of the presidents of the 48th quorum
of Seventy and a resident of Manti,
Sanpete county, Utah, was born Nov.
6, 1836, at Windom, Portage county,
Ohio, the son of Frederick W. Cox and
Emeline Wliiting. He was bap-
tized in November, 1844, by his
father, in the White Oak branch (about

20 miles south of Nauvoo). To-
gether with his parents he passed
through the Missouri and Illinois
persecutions, and at the time of
the exodus in 1846 located tempo-
rarily at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa. The
family came to Utah in 1852 and
soon afterwards settled at Manti,
where Frederick engaged in farm-
ing, timbering, etc. He was or-
dained a Seventy in the fifties, and
later became one of the presidents
of the 48th quorum of Seventy,
which position he held until he was
ordained a High Priest. In 1862
he went back to the Missouri river
after emigrants in John R. Mur-
dok's Church train. In 1865 and
following years he participated in

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the Black Hawk war, and in 1868
he made a visit to the Wliite Pine
country, Nevada. At home Brother
Cox has also served at city coun-
cilman and police officer. In 1S57
(April 23rd) he married Lucy
Allen (daughter of Joseph S. Allen
and Lucy Morley), who was born
In 1840, in the Morley settlement,
Hancock county, Illinois, and emi-
grated to Utah in 1847. She was
the mother of twelve children. In
1873 (March 3rd) Bro. Cox married
Alvira Cooledge, who became the
mother of five children.

COX, Alvira Coolidge, wife of Fre-
derick Walter Cox, jun., was the
eldest daughter of Joseph Coolidge
and Rebecca Atwood, and was born
Feb. 11, 1848, in Florence, Nebraska,
where she received a common school-
education. Later, she did some higli
scliool work and was given the high-
est praise for her ability. In 1864
she came to Manti, Sanpete county,
Utah, with her motlier and brother;
she taught school in Manti, Salt Lake
City and Provo very successfully
for some years prior to her mar-
riage to Frederick W. Cox in 1870.
Her students, now (1914) scattered
over the State, remember her for
the efficient teaching and instruc-
tions in the noblest and best which
she gave them. She was always
one of the leaders in the city and
county and did very efficient service
in religious and social organizations.
She was one of the leaders in the
Suffrage movement and did much
towards promoting equal suffrage.
She was a faithful Relief Society
worker and acted for twelve years
as Stake president of Relief Societies
in the South Sanpete Stake, during
which time she brought the Relief
Societies in the Stake up to the
front rank in point of excellence.
At her death, which occurred in
Manti, May 2, 1913, she was mourned
by her husband and five children

who deeply appreciated her sterling
worth and so also did many relatives
and friends who were better for
her association.

COX, William Arthur, a veteran
Elder of the Church and a resident
of Manti, Sanpete county, Utah, \«as
born Dec. 27, 1840, in the Morley
settlement, Hancock co., Illinois, the
son of Frederick Walter Cox and
Emmeline S. Whiting. His parents
joined the Church at an early day
and settled in Illinois. In the fall
of 1845 the settlement where the Cox
family resided was burned by the
mob, and the inhabitants were forced
to flee to Nauvoo for protection.
The next year (1846) the Cox family
shared in the general exodus of the

Saints from Illinois, and traveled as
far as Mount Pisgah, where two of
Bro. Cox's sisters and his mother's
parents died. Later the same season
the family continued the journey to the
Missouri river and spent the winter
of 1846-47 at Winter Quarters. The
next year (1848) they re-crossed the
river into Iowa and located at
the Cutler settlement, where the
family remained until 1852, when
they migrated to Utah, crossing the

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plains in Capt. Walker's company
which arrived in Salt Lake City in
October, 1852. They settled at once
at Manti, Sanpete county, Utah. Bro.
Wm. A. Cox went back to the Mis-
souri river as a Church teamster in
1861 after emigrants, and in 1866
he went back as assistant wagon
master in Abner Lowry's company
to Wyoming, on the Missouri river, on
a similar mission. After his return
from this last trip he married Mary
Christina Anderson Dec. 1, 1866 • she
was the daughter of Wm. Anderson
and Henriette L. Barnson and was
born June 3, 1848, on the island of
Falster .Denmark, and emigrated to
Utah in 1852-1853 in John E. Fors-
gren's company. Sister Cox bore
her husband eight children and died
at Manti Aug. 6, 1906. Bro. Cox
was baptized in 1848 by his father
and was ordained an Elder at Manti
in 1866. Later, he was ordained a
Seventy and still later a High Priest.
In 1865-66 he took an active part
In the Black Hawk war and was
several times exposed to the fire
of the savage Indian. He partici-
pated in the skirmishes and had
many narrow escapes. In 1887 he
was called to fill a colonization mis-
sion to Colorado, on which he became
one of the first settlers of Manassa,
in the San Luis Valley. He plowed
the first irrigation ditch which was
made in the new settlement. Dur-
ing his residence in Colorado for
about a year he taught the people
from the south the principle of
farming. Bro. Cox is by occupation
a farmer and has also been engaged
in the lumber business. In 1909
Elder Cox married Margaret A. Mc
Mahon (daughter of James McMahon
and Lucinda Atcherson) who was
born Sept. 17, 1874, at Holden, Mil-
lard CO., Utah. Sister Cox has acted
as a Stake officer in the Millard
Stake primary associations and has
also been a Sunday school worker
in the Fillmore Ward, Later she

acted as an aid in the South San-
pete Stake primary associacion. She
is now president of the primary as-
sociation in the Manti North Ward.

KJ/ER, John Christian, an alter-
nate High Councilor in the South
Sanpete Stake of Zion, and a resident
of Manti, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Jan. 12, 1849, at Hals, near
Aalborg, Denmark, the son of Lars

Christian Kjaer and Mette Marie
Christensen. His parents joined the
Church in 1851 and emigrated from
Denmark in the latter part of 1854
bound for Utah, together with his wife,
three sons and one daughter. While
crossing the North Sea the wind be-
came so furious that the vessel on
which they had secured passage
was driven on to the coast of Nor-
way, where the emigrants remained
about a week; and when at last
a new start was made, another storm
was encountered which drove the
vessel back to Frederikshavn for
repairs. A final start was made
Christmas eve and this time the
emigrants succeeded in reaching
England, whence they sailed from
Liverpool Jan. 7, 1855, on board the
ship "James Nesmith" and reached

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New Orleans Feb. 23, 1855. The
journey was continued up the Mis-
sissippi river to P^t. Leavenwortli and
the journey across the plains com-
menced from Mormon Grove in Noah
T. Guyman's company, which arrived
in Salt Lake City Sept. 11, 1855,
After residing temporarily in the
Second Ward, Salt Lake City (where
the Kjasr family lived about one
year) they moved to Manti, an uncle,
Niels Peter Domgaard, taking them
with an ox team to Sanpete Valley.
Here John Christian Kjser was bap-
tized by John Crawford, in 1857,
and in 1872 (Jan. 8th) he married
Margaret Weibye. He was ordained
a Seventy Aug. 8, 1854, by Jens
Hansen, and has always been an
active member in the Ward in which
he has resided. In 1886-87 he filled
a mission to Minnesota and Dakota,
after which he acted as president
of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. for one
year. While crossing the plains he
tried on a certain occasion to climb
into the wagon when in motion, but
was tripped and fell, one of the
wheels af the vehicle passing over
him, breaking an arm and bruishing
one of his legs. In the absence of
a doctor friends set the arm, which
was perfectly healed. Bro. Kjaer is
a farmer by occupation.

KJ>ER, Margaret Weibye, wife of
John Christian Kjaer, was born May
25, 1854, at Rakkeby, Hj0rring amt,
Denmark, the daughter of Jens C. A.
Weibye and Secilie Marie Pedersen.
She was baptized Feb. 14, 1862, and
emigrated to Utah in 1862 together
with her parents, crossing the At-
lantic in the ship "Franklin" and
the plains in Christian A. Madsen's
company, which arrived in Salt Lake
City, Sept. 23, 1862. After staying
one year in the 10th Ward, Salt
Lake City, she resided successively
at Gunnison, and Manti, Sanpete co.,
and Riechfield, Sevier co. In the
latter place the family remained un-

til 1867, when the Indians drove
away the inhabitants from their
homes in Sevier Valley. After that
the Weibye family settled permanent-
ly at Manti, where Sister Margaret
met John Christian Kjaer, whose
wife she became Jan. 8, 1872. She
has borne her husband two children,
John C. and Margaret (twins); both
died in infancy. Sister Kjaer has
also raised two orphan-children. For
a number of years she acted as
caunselor to the Stake president of
the Y. L. M. I. A. of the Sanpete
Stake. ,

OTTOSEN, Jens, a veteran Elder
in the Church and a resident of
Manti, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born in 1813, at Aalborg, Denmark,
the son of Otto Jensen and Kjer-
stine Jensen. He was baptized June
20, 1854, and emigrated to America
in 1857. After staying at Ft. Lara-
mie during the winter, he continued
the journey to Utah in 1858. Before
leaving his native country he mar-
ried Ane Jensen Jan. 1, 1852; she
came with him to Utah and bore

him five children, namely, Jens,
Niels, Marie, Emma and Joseph,
who all died while young, and the

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mother died shortly after the arrival
of the family in Utah. Bro. Ottosen
married Johanna E. Nielsen Nov. 18,
1860, and moved with his new wife
to Salina, Sevier co., in 1863. There
he comenced to make a new home
for his family, but the Indians drove
him and all the other settlers away;
thus losing everything he possessed
in the shape of earthly possessions,
Bro. Ottosen moved back to Manti
"Where he engaged in farming until
his death, which occurred there April
27. 1884.

OTTOSEN, Johanna E. Nielsen,
wife of Jens Ottosen, was born Oct.
15, 1839, in Malmohus Ian, Sweden,
the daughter of Niels S0rensen and
Anna Maria Andersen. She emi-
grated to Utah in 1860, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "William Taps-
cott" and the plains in Capt. Oscar O.
Stoddard's handcart company which

arrived in Salt Lake City Sept. 24,
1860. Locating temporarily at
Goshen, Utah county. Sister Johanna
married Jens Ottosen, Nov. 18, 1860.
With her husband she shared the
hardships of pioneer life and Indian
difficulties at Salina. where the In-

dians stole their stock and all they
had. .Sister Ottosen is the mother
of four children, namely, Anna Mar-
tine, Otto, Christina and Nephi. For
thirty years she has been a widow,
but through her diligence she man-
aged to support her family when the
children were young.

NIELSEN, Christian Rod, a prom-
inent and active Elder of the May-
field Ward, Sanpete county, Utah,
was born June 22, 1852, at Mygdal,
Hj0rring amt, Denmark, the son of
Niels Christian Nielsen and Caroline
Andersen. He was baptized Dec. 1,

1861; ordained a Deacon June 14,
1872; ordained a Priest Nov. 10,

1872, and soon after that called in-
to the ministry as a local missionary.
He was ordained an Elder Jan. 6,

1873, by Peter C. Christensen and
after laboring in the Aalborg branch
for about six months he was appoin-
ted president of the Frederikshavn
and Flauenskjold branches; later he
presided over the Aalborg branch,
which position he held until he emi-
grated to Utah in 1877. He arrived
in Salt Lake City, July 14, 1877, and
in Manti July 21, 1877. In 1878 (May
9th) he married Dine Christensen

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•(daughter of Peter C. Christensen)
in the Endowment House, Salt Lake
City. Six children were the issue
of this union, four of whom are still
living. In August, 1878, Bro. Nielsen
and wife settled permanently in May-
field, Sanpete co., Utah, which has
been their home ever since. Here
Bro. Nielsen has always taken an
active part in both Church and sec-
ular affairs. He was ordained a
Seventy March 1, 1885, by Christian
D. Fjeldsted, and on May 8, 1892,
he was called to act as second coun-
selor in the Ward Bishopric; he was
ordained a High Priest and set apart
to this office by John B. Maiben
March 21, 1892; later (Jan. 13, 1897)
he was set apart as first counselor
to Bishop Parley Christiansen and
Tield that position until Feb. 1, 1906;
thus he was a member of the Bishop-
ric nearly fourteen years. Since
Dec. 11, 1899, he has served as post-
master and since July, 1909, as mayor
of Mayfield. For twenty-two years
he has acted as clerk of the Mayfield
Ward..

CHRISTANSEN, Frederik Julius,
one of the early local missionaries in
Denmark and now a veteran Elder of
Mayfield, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Dec. 25, 1826, in Hj0rring, Hj0r-
Ting amt, Denmark. He was raised on
his father's farm, received a com-
mon school education and learned to
make spinning wheels when quite
young. Later, he learned the trade
of a carpenter and followed that
avocation for a number of years.
As a Danish soldier he was drafted
for the war which raged between
Denmark and Northern Germany in
1849 and 1850, and participated in
the historic battle of Isted, Schles-
vig, July 25, 1850, where he was
"wounded in the leg. Becoming a
convert to "Mormonism" he was bap-
tized July 5, 1853, by Peter Christian
Jensen (subsequently Bishop of Man-
tua, Utah). Soon afterwards (Dec.

15, 1853, he was ordained a Teacher
and sent out to labor as a local
missionary in the Vendsyssel con-
ference. In 1854 (May 2nd) he mar-
ried Johanne Marie Larsen. After
his marriage he continued his mis-
sionary labors in the little city of
Saeby and vicinity. He was ordained
a Priest Jan. 31, 1855, and an Elder
July 29, 1855. Soon afterwards (June
27, 1855, his wife died, after suf-
fering with a severe sickness for
six months. Bro. Christiansen con-
tinued his missionary labors until
Nov. 25, 1855, when he left his home

in the parish of Taars and emigrated
to America. At Kiel he joined a
large company of Scandinavian saints
who were emigrating to Zion under
the direction of Elder Canute Peter-
son and crossed the Atlantic in the
ship " John J. Boyd," which sailed
from Liverpool, England, Dec. 12,
1855, and arrived in New York Feb.
15, 1856. On the voyage Bro. Chris-
tiansen married Kirstine Marie Ander-
sen Jan. 13, 1856. From New York
the company of emigrants continued
the journey to Iowa, after which most
of the emigrants scattered to seek
employment, but Bro. Christiansen
crossed the plains the same year in

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Canute Peterson's company, which ar-
rived in Salt Lake City Sept. 20,
1856. Bro. Christiansen located in
Brigham City, where he labored as
a cooper and built a house. Later
he resumed the trade of his youth,
making spinning wheels. When the
saints in the Northern settlements
were counseled to move south in the
spring of 1858, Bro. Christiansen and
his family went as far as Ephraim,
where he arrived May 22, 1858. Here
he made a permanent home and soon
became a diligent and faithful Church
worker in that new settlement. In
1861 (April 13th) he was ordained
a Seventy and became a member of
the 47th quorum. He built a house
in Ephraim and established himself
as a carpenter and spinning wheel
manufacturer. He also engaged in
house building and took an active
part in public affairs. In 1864 (July
16th) he yielded obedience to the
higher law of marriage by taking
Kirstine Marie Jensen as a plural
wife, and on Jan. 25, 1868, he mar-
ried Else Margrethe Larsen. In the
spring of 1877 he bought a farm on
Twelve Mile Creek and thus became
one of the early settlers of Mayfield,
whence he removed with his family
in the year 1878. From 1878 to 1808
he labored as a Ward teacher, part of
the time as head teacher. He also
served as assistant superintendent of
the Mayfield Ward Sunday School
from 1880 to 1883 and acted as school
trustee. In 1883-84 he filled a mis-
sion to Scandinavia, laboring in the
Aalborg conference. After his re-
turn home, he became one of the
presidents of the 56th quorum of
Seventy, filling that position from
Feb. 16, 1885, to Oct. 28, 1894, when
he was ordained a High Priest. In
1888 he was arrested on a charge of
unlawful cohabitation and being con-
victed he served four mouths in the
Utah penitentiary where he was a
prisoner from Oct. 9, 1888, to Jan. 20,
1889. He also paid a fine of fifty

dollars. Elder Christiansen has al-
ways been a faithful and consistent
Latter-day Saint, and is now looked
upon with reverence and respect by
all his associates. By his four wives,
he s the father of twenty-one chil-
dren and seven step-children and at
the present date (1914) he has ninty-
nine grandchildren. He has made
211 trips to the Manti Temple to do
ordinance work for his dead relatives.

CHRISTIANSEN, Frederik JuIiuSr

jun., a High Councilor in the South
Sanpete Stake, and a resident of
Mayfield, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Aug. 7, 1859, at Ephraim, San-
pete CO., Utah, the son of Frederik
Julius Christiansen and Kirstine
Marie Andersen. He was baptized

Oct. 27, 1867, by Frederik C. S0ren-
son and some years afterwards ordain-
ed a Teacher. He was ordained an
Elder June 9, 1880, by Ole C. Olson,
ordained a Seventy Dec. 13, 1891, by
Austin Kearns, and ordained a High
Priest in 1897 by Anthon H. Lund.
He acted as president of the Mayfield
Ward Y. M. M. 1. A. from 1852 to
1884 and as president of the 9th
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Stake from 1884 to 1891. He also acted
as secretary, assistant superintendent
and superintendent of the Mayfield
Sunday school. In 1894-96 he filled a
mission to the Northern States, labor-
ing principally in Iowa and Wisconsin,
and part of the time as president of
the Wisconsin conference. From 1897
to 1905 he acted as second counselor to
Bishop Parley Christiansen, of May-
field. In 1906 he was set apart as an
alternate member of the High Council
in the South Sanpete Stake, and in
1912 he became a regular member of
that body. In 1880 (June 17th) he
married Margrethe Martine Poulsen
(daughter of Jens Poulsen and Chris-
tine Christensen), who was born
March 2, 1862, at Voxlev, Nibe, Aal-
borg amt, Denmark. This union has
been blessed with twelve chil-
dren, eight sons and four daught-
ers. Brother Christiansen is a farm-
er by occupation. For several years
he served as constable of the May-
field precinct and he also served
as school trustee twelve years.

MERZ, Adolph, the second presi-
dent of the North Sanpete Stake of
Zion, was born May 8 1869, at Zu-
rich, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, the
son of Sabastian Merz and Susannah
Forster. He was baptized in October
1880, by Ferdinand Oberhansli; or-
dained a Priest Aug. 5, 1888, and an
Elder Oct. 21, 1888, by Thos. Biesing-
er. He emigrated to Utah in June,
1889, crossing the Atlantic in the
steamsip "Wyoming", and after resid-
ing temporarily in the 14th Ward, Salt
Lake City, he became a permanent
settler at Mt. Pleasant, where he has
resided ever since. In 1890 (March
12th) he married Ida Rutishauser in
the Logan Temple. This marriage
has been blessed with one child,
which was born at Mt. Pleasant, Utah,
March 16, 1892. From August, 1888,
to June, 1889, he labored as a local
missionary in the Cantons Appenzell
and St. Gallen, Switzerland, baptizing
several people. He was ordained a

Seventy March 27, 1893, by John
Carter, and in 1900 was ordained one
of the presidents of the 66th quorum
of Seventy. In 1897-1900 he filled a
mission to Switzerland and Germany.
After laboring a short time in Swit-
zerland, he moved with the mission
office to Hamburg, Germany, where
he was assistant editor of "Der Stern."
Later he presided over the Frank-
furt-a-Main conference, and was fin-
ally banished from Germany. He fill-
ed a second mission to Germany in
1908-1910 and again presided over the

Frankfurt conference; he returned to
Utah on account of ill health. At
home Elder Merz has ever been dili-
gent as a church worker; thus he act-
o.d for a number of years as War
clerk and afterwards as Stake clerk.
He also acted as secretary and sup-
erintendent of the Mt. Pleasant South
Ward Sunday School and as president
of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. For
twelve years he was Stake superin-
tendent of religion classes and for
some time also Stake representa-
tive of the Utah Genealogical Society.
Among the secular offices held by
him may be mentioned that he served
two terms as a member of the Mt.
Pleasant city council and was also

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justice of the peace. He was ordained
a High Priest and Bishop Dec. 14,

1913, by James E. Talmage, and set
apart to preside over the Mt. Pleasant
South Ward, and in 1914 (Sept. 13th)
he was set apart as president of the
North Sanpete Stake of Zion, by Pres.
F. M. Lyman. Bro. Merz is a man
who has come to the front on his
real merits, having been a faithful
Church worker and a diligent laborer
for Zion and her cause since his
early youth.

ANDERSON, James William, first
counselor in the presidency of the
North Sanpete Stake of Zion, was
born Feb. 28, 1875, at Fairview, San-
pete CO., Utah, the son of Archibald
A. Anderson and Caroline Johanson.
He was baptized July 15, 1884, by
Parley R. Young; was ordained an
Elder March 28, 1897, by Owen N.
Sanderson; was ordained a Seventy
April 12, 1897, by Geo. Reynolds and
married Martha Amelia Allred April
2, 1897, in the Manti Temple. In 1897-
99 he filled a mission to the Indian
Territory and Kansas; served as sup-
erintendent of the Spring City Sun-
day School from July 31, 1904, to
Aug. 9, 190?; was Stake superinten-
dent of Sunday schools in the North
Sanpete Stake for five years, (from
June 14, 1908, to June, 1913) ; was or-
dained a High Priest Dec. 14, 1913,
by Elder James E Talmage and set
apart as second counselor to Bishop
Adolph Merz, of the Mt. Pleasant
South Ward and was set apart as
first counselor to Pres. Adolph Merz,
of the North Sanpete Stake, Sept. 13,

1914. This latter position he still
holds. During the years 1910-1911
Bro. Anderson served as a member
of the Mt. Pleasant city council, and
was elected mayor of Mt. Pleasant in
November, 1911, serving two years.
In November, 1914, he was elected
county superintendent of schools in
Sanpete county; he has also served
four years as principal of the Mt.
Pleasant public schools. For a number

of years he acted as a president ol
the 80th quorum of Seventy and also
as first assistant superintendent of
the North Sanpete Stake Y. M. M, I.
A. Bro. Anderson is the father of
six children, two girls and four boys,
whose names follow: Beulah A., J.
Clair, Vernon H., A. Boyd, A. Owen
and Eva Maurina.

RASMUSSEN, Daniel, second coun-
selor in the presidency of the North
Sanpete Stake of Zion, is the son
of Morten Christiansen, and Karen
Marie Christiansen, and was born
Feb. 25, 1876, at Mt. Pleasant, San-
pete CO., Utah. He was baptized
Oct 11, 1885, by John Carter; ordain-
ed an Elder Oct. 18, 1896, by Peter
Matson; ordained a Seventy June 14,
1899, by Rudger Clawson; and filled
a mission to the Eastern States in
1899-1901, presiding over the New
England conference the last year of
his mission. He graduated from the
Brigham Young Academy in 1896,
served as principal of the Parowan
Stake Academy, and later as princi-
pal of the Cedar City public scools
and also of the Mt. Pleasant public
schools. He was elected and served
three times as city recorder of Mt.
Pleasant. He acted as Ward clerk,
as superintendent of Ward Sunday
school and as counselor in the Stake
Y. M. M. I. A., was chosen a president
in the 66th quorum of Seventy and
acted as first counselor to Bishop H.
C. Jacobs, jun., of the Mt. Pleasant
North Ward, to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the death of Bishop Lars P.
Madsen ; he was ordained a Bishop
and High Priest March 5, 1904,
by Rudger Clawson. When the presi-
dnecy of the North Sanpete Stake
was reorganized Sept. 13, 1914, he
was chosen and set apart as second
counselor to Pres. Adolph Merz. Bro.
Rasmussen married Annie J. J0r-
gensen July 30, 1902. He has five chil-
dren, namely: D. Irvine, Mary, L.
Paul, J. Howard, and Esther.

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ALLRED, Wilford Leroy, the third
Bishop of the Chester Ward, Sanpete
CO., Utah, was born Sept. 7, 1876,
at Spring City, Sanpete co., Utah,
the son of Reddick N. Allred and
Amilla Jane McPlierson. He was bap-
tized Sept. 14, 1884, by William D.
Candland. When about two years
old he removed with his parents from
Spring City to Chester, Utah, where
his home has been ever since. He
was ordained a Priest Feb. 3, 1895,
by Bishop Christian Christensen and
set apart as assistant superintendent
of the Chester Ward Sunday school.
Later be became superintendent of
said school and still later he acted as
president of the Ward Y. M. M. I.

A. He was also secretary in an
Elders quorum and acted as a Ward
teacher. In May, 1900, he was or-
dained an Elder and on June 6, 1900,
he married Roselinda Abigail Chri-
stensen (daughter of Bishop Christian
Christensen and Philanda Clark)
who has borne him seven children,
Bro. Allred was ordained a High
Priest and Bishop Sept. 17, 1906, by
Apostle Reed Smoot and set apart to
preside over the Chester Ward. At
the time of his ordination to this
latter office he was filling the posi-

tions of Sunday school superinten-
dent, president of the Ward Y. M.
M. I. A., secretary of an Elders
quorum and Ward teacher. Brother
Allred is a farmer and merchant by
occupation and has since his early
youth taken a most active part in
public affairs; his success in the
building up of Chester, in connection
with his brethren, has given him
great satisfaction.

HANSEN, Hans Peter, the fifth
Bishop of Fairview, Sanpete county,
Utah, was born Jan. 21, 1876, at
Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete co., Utah, the
son of S0ren Jocobsen Hansen and
Maren Nielsen. He was baptized
June 15, 1884, by Thos. C. Christen-
sen. His father died in 1884 acd
the following year (1885) Hans Peter
moved with his mother to Fairview,
which place has been his home con-
tinuously ever since. He was or-
dained a Deacon Feb. 20, 1888, by
Fred. G. Williams; ordained a Teach
er Jan. 13, 1890, by Mormon Miner .
v/as set I part as president of tha
second quorum of Teachers in Fair-
view Dec. 22, 1891; acted as secre-
tary of the Primary Association when
about eleven years old; served as
secretary and treasurer of the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A. from 1892 to 1S94;
took a Sunday school normal course
in the B. Y. A. at Provo early in
1894; acted as secretary and treasur-
er of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. from
October, 1895, to January, 1896; was
ordained an Elder Dec. 5, 1897, by
Bishop James C. Petersen; ordained
a Seventy May 17, 1899, by J. Golden
Kimball and was set apart as a
president of the 26th quorum of
Seventy Nov. 27, 1911. Finally he
was ordained a High Priest and
Bishop Sept. 13, 1913, by Anthony
W. Ivins and set apart to preside
over the Fairview Ward. Among the
many other local positions held by
Elder Hansen, we may mention tliat
he was for a number of years a

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member of the Ward choir, a teacher
in the Sunday school, a leader of
the Ward brass band, an assistant
leader of the Ward choir and Sun-
day school choir, chorister in the
y. M. M. I. A., secretary of the
Fairview Library Club, etc. In 1897-
1898 he filled a mission to the Juab
Stake in the interest of Y. M. M. I.
A. In 1899-1901 he filled a mission
to the Southern States, laboring in
the Georgia conference, a part of
the time as president of said con-
ference. After his return from that
mission he labored as president of
the Y. M. M. I. A., a home missionary,
ward chorister, and second counselor
to John S. Blaine in the presidency
of the North Sanpete Stake Y. M. M.
I. A. From 1904 to 1908 he acted
as Stake superintendent of Y. M.
M. I. A. In a secular way he has
served his fellow-cftizens as a mem-
ber of the Fairview city council,,
justice of the peace, city treasurer,
etc. In 1902 (March 12th) he mar-
ried Selma Nyberg, daughter of
August Nyberg and Christina Jacob-
sen. This marriage has been blessed
with five children, namely, John C,
Mary Vondella, Allan L., Edith M.,
and Ned LeRoss.

STEWART, James, a member of
the Mormon Battalion, as born Feb.
14, 1827, at Columbia, Greene co.,
Indiana, the son of Nathaniel Stew-
art and Darkus Hewey. His parents
became members of the Church when
he was but a small boy, and he
went through the early day persecu-
tions in Missouri and Illinois. On
his mother's death lie was taken into
the family of Hyrum Smith, the
Prophet's brother. He was baptized
when about eighth years old and
gathered with his parents to Nauvoo,
111., where he passed through the
persecutions, which befell his people
at that place. After the arrival of
the exiles on the Missouri river in
July, 1846, James enlisted in the

Mormon Battalion and marched to
a point beyond Santa Fe, whence he
went to Pueblo in Wm. W. Willis
company and arrived in the G. S. L.
Valley in July, 1847. Here he assisted
in making adobes for the building
of the old fort. He returned to
Winter Quarters and came to the
Valley a second time in 1850. After
residing in Provo and other places
he settled permanently at Fairview,
Sanpete co., where he resided until
the time of his death. He was
among the oldest settlers of Fair-
view. Bro. Stewart was married

twice, his first wife being Elizabeth
Hoops who bore him twelve child-
ren, six sons and six daughters. His
second wife was Anna Christine
Jensen (daughter of James Mogen-
sen Jensen and Maria S0rensen),
whom he married April 30, 1890;
she was born July 22, 1838, in Den-
mark and emigrated to Utah in
1879. Bro. Stewart died Oct. 18,
1908, at Fairview, Sanpete co., Utah;
54 of his grandchildren were then
alive and about the same number
had died prior to that date. He also
had twenty-four great grandchildren
at the time of his demise.

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STEWART, Elizabeth Hoops, wife
of James Stewart, was born June 8,
1833, in Greene county, Ohio, tlie
daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca
Hoops. She was baptized wlien
about eight years of age and re-
moved with her parents to Nauvoo,
111., where she lived at the time of
the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph
and his brother Hyrum. As long as
she lived she had a vivid recollec-
tion of viewing the remains of these
two noble men, as they lay in state
at the Nauvoo Mansion. Being driven
out of Illinois, together with her co-

JM m\

religionists, she resided with her
parents at Winter Quarters, and af-
terwards in Pottawattamie county,
Iowa, and came to the Valley in
1850. She was married to James
Stewart July 23, 1852, and became
the mother of twelve children,
namely, James W. (now the Bishop
of Milburn, Sanpete county, Utah),
Edmond R., Francis M., Emily R.,
Selena M., Henrietta, Jonathan,
George, Hyrum, Sarah E. Melissa
and Eva; eight of these children are
still alive. Sister Stewart died Sept.
7, 1888, at Fairview, Sanpete co., Utah,
as a faithful and respected member
of the Church.

HANSEN, Carl Kjeldgaard, a veteran
Elder of the Fairview Ward, San-
pete county, Utah, was born Sept.
15, 1833, in Frederikshavn, Hj0rring
amt, Denmark, and moved to the
city of Aalborg in 1851. Here he
worked until the year 1853, when he
journeyed through the principal parts

of Denmark as a tradesman, and
finally enlisted as a soldier in the
Danish army in 1856. He married
Caroline Martine Andersen in 1860
and made his home in Randers in
1861. Here he first heard the gospel
and believed it. Together with his
wife he was baptized Dec. 1, 1861, by
Priest Peter Larsen. Soon after-
wards he was appointed to act as
secretary of the Aarhus conference.
He was also ordained a Teacher and
assigned to labor as such in the
Randers branch. In 1864 he sent
his wife to America, but she took
sick and died on the plains on her
way to Utah. Bro. Hansen was or-
dained an Elder, and in that capacity
presided over the Aarhus branch
for three years. In 1867 (April 7th)
he married Karen Rasmussen and
together with his wife emigrated to
Utah that year, crossing the Atlan-
tic in the steamship "Manhattan",

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which was the first steamer which
took a company of Scandinavian
Saints across the ocean. The com-
pany witli which Bro. Hansen cros-
sed the plains arrived in Salt Lake
City Oct. 5, 1867. He located in
Fairview, Sanpete county, which has
been his family home ever since.
Bro. Hansen was ordained a High
Priest Dec. 1, 1876, by Jehu Cox, and
for 25 years he has acted as presi-
dent of the local High Priests of
Fairview. In 1909 he made a visit
to Denmark in the interest of genea-
logy; he succeeded in obtaining about
eleven hundred names of dead rela-
tives and friends, for whom he and
his wife performed ordinances in the
Manti Temple, laboring for that pur-
pose almost continuously for three
years (from 1910 to 1913).

HANSEN, Karen Rasmussen, wife
of Carl K. Hansen, Avas born March
15, 1842, in Skanderborg amt, Den-
mark, the daughter of Rasmus Ras-
mussen and Ane Nielsen. She was

baptized Feb. 29, 1864, by J0rgen
Petersen in Aarhus and became the
wife of Carl K. Hansen April 7, 1867.
Together with her husband she
emigrated to America in 1867,

crossing the Atlantic in the steam-
ship "Manhattan" and the plains ia
an independent company under Capt.
Leonard G. Rice. Sister Hansen is
the mother of ten children, namely,
Charles, Joseph, Hyrum, Anna,
Caroline, Oscar K., Herbert E., Orson
P., Lewis W., Hannah C, and Geo.
A. For many years she has been
a faithful teacher in the Relief Soci-
ety, and together with her husband
she has done ordinance-work in the
Manti Temple for 1100 souls in three
years.

CHRISTENSEN, Andrew, a veteran
Elder in the Fairview Ward, San-
pete county, Utah, was born Dec. 16,.
1839, at Skuldelev, Copenhagen amt,
Denmark, the son of Christian Peter-

sen and Karen Petersen. Becoming
a convert to "Mormonism" in 1855,.
he emigrated to Utah in 1860, cros-
sing the Atlantic in the ship "William
Tapscott", which sailed from Liver-
pool, England, May 11, 1860, and ar-
rived at New York June 20, 1860;
he crossed the plains in Reuben
Eldredge's freight company which ar-
rived in Salt Lake City in September,
1860. Bro. Christensen was ordained'
a Seventy in 1861, and in 1862 he-

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married Anna Rasmussen (daughter
of Syver Rasmussen and Ingeborg
Haldorsen) who was born April 19,
1835, at Krokstad, Trondhjem amt,
Norway; she emigrated to Utah in
1861, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Monarch of the Sea", which
sailed from Liverpool May 16, 1861,
and arrived at New York, June 19,
1861; crossed the plains in Samuel
A. WooUey's company, which arrived
iu Salt Lake City Sept. 22, 1861. In
1883-85 Elder Christensen filled a
mission to Scandinavia, where he
labored in the Copenhagen confer-
ence. In 1902 he was ordained a
High Priest by John B. Maiben.

B/ERENTSEN, Andrew Marius, a
veteran Elder in the Fountain Green
Ward Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Jan. 22, 1833, at Rovsth0je,
Grimstrup parish, Ribe amt, Denmark,
the son of Christian Baerentsen and

Susanna Berthelsen. Becoming a
convert to "Mormonism" in his na-
tive land, he was baptized Nov, 20,
1861, by Jens Nielsen; ordained an
Elder Oct. 19, 1862, by Hans C.
H0gsted, and served as a local mis-
sionary in the Vendsyssel conference.
He emigrated to Utah in 1863, cros-
sing the Atlantic in the ship "B. S.

Kimball", which sailed from Liver-
pool, England, May 8, 1863, and ar-
rived at New York June 15, 1863;
crossed the plains in John F. Saun-
der's company, which arrived in Salt
Lake City Sept. 5, 1863. After re-
siding two years in Pleasant Grove,
Utah county, he moved to Richfield
in 1865, and thus became one of
the early settlers of that town. In
1867 Indian troubles compelled him
to leave his home in Richfield, after
which he settled permanently in
Fountain Green, and took an active
part in the Black Hawk war. Both
at Richfield and at Fountain Green
he acted as a counselor in the pre-
sidency of the Elders quorum; in
1883 he was ordained a High Priest
by Canute Peterson and set apart
as second counselor to Bishop James
J0rgensen. In 1884 he became first
counselor in the Fountain Green
Bishopric. In 1890 he was chosen
and set apart as first counselor to
Bishop Christiansen, which position
he held till 1908, In 1854 he mar-
ried Gertrud Marie Eriksen, in Den-
mark; she was the daughter of Erik
Eriksen and Maren Nielsen and was
born Jan. 28, 1819, at Nyb011e, Svend-
borg amt, Denmark, and died at
Fountain Green in February, 1901,
She was the mother of four children.
In 1873 (Nov. 3rd) Bro. Bserntsen mar-
ried Petrea J0rgensen, who was born
Sept. 11, 1856, in Denmark; she bore
her husband five children. Brother
Baerentsen is known as a most de-
voted and faithful Latter-day Saint,
who has always been on hand with
time and means to spend liberally ' a.
the interest of Zion and her cause.

CHRISTIANSEN, Christian John,

the fourth Bishop of Fountain Green,
Sanpete county, Utah was born
April 17, 1855, at Solbjergmark, Aar-
hus amt, Denmark, the son of S0ren
Christiansen and Caroline Loft.
Bro. Christiansen emigrated together
with his parents to Utah in 1860,

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crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"William Tapscott", which sailed from
Liverpool, England, May 11, 1860,
and arrived in New York July 1,
1860. The family settled in Fountain
Green in 1861. Here Bro. Christian-
sen was baptized in May, 1864, by
Wm. Huggens and confirmed by Wm.
Woodard; ordained an Elder May
24, 1876, by Cornelius CoUard; or-
dained a Seventy Aug. 4, 1884, by
Seymour B. Young, and ordained a
High Priest and Bishop Nov. 22, 1890,

by Anthon H. Lund and appointed to
preside over the Fountain Green
Ward. Prior to this he had acted
for five years as superintendent of
the Fountain Green Sunday school
and as a Ward teacher. In 1886 and
1887 he served as a member of the
Fountain Green town council. He
also worked in the Manti Temple as
an ordinance worker about one year
(1888-89). In 1882-84 he filled a good
mission to Scandinavia, laboring
principally in the Veile branch of the
Aarhus conference. In 1876 (May
29th) he married Ellen Jane Oldroyd
(daughter of Peter Oldroyd and
Catherine Micklejohn), who was born
Nov. 14, 1856, at Ephraim, Sanpete
county, Utah. She is the mother of

thirteen children, nine boys and four
girls.

TAYLOR, Martin Van Buren, the
second Bishop of the Draper (Free-
dom) Ward, Sanpete county, Utah,
was born Dec. 26, 1835, in Loraine
county, Ohio, the son of Benja-
min Franklin Taylor and Ann
Menels. His parents joined the
"Mormon" Church in 1841, and in
1842 the moved to Macedonia, 111.,
one of the "Mormon" settlements.

They passed through all the perse-
cutions raging against the Saints in
that State, and in 1846 they moved to
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Martin was bap-
tized and confirmed March 18, 1849,
by Wm. Terry. In 1850 the family start-
ed for Utah in Capt. Foote's oxtrain.
Many of this company died of cholera
while en route, but the Taylor family
reached Utah in safety, and located
at Little Cottonwood, Salt Lake co.
The next year they went to Cali-
fornia with Apostles Lyman and Rich
and founded the colony of San Ber-
nardino. In the year 1854 Martin
married Amanda M. Hart, and in
1863 he and his wife returned to
Utah and located at Santaquin, Utah
county. While residing there he

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married Marry A. Clemens, and three
years later he moved to Springville,
where he married Cornelia Mount
and Joanah Jennings. About the
year 1871 he moved to Little Salt
Creek, Juab county, where he en-
gaged in farming and stockraising.
In 1883 he settled at Freedom, where
he engaged in farming, stockraising
and wool growing. About the year
1893 he, in company with others
started the Meadow View Creamery,
of which he was manager, and made
it a success. When the Freedom
Ward was organized Sept. 5, 1897,
Bro. Taylor was ordained a High
Priest and Bishop by Anthon H.
Lund and set apart to preside over
the Freedom Ward. He gave general
satisfaction as a presiding officer, be-
ing well liked by everybody; was an
enterprising and upright citizen, and
was very thoughtful of the sick and
needy. Bro. Taylor was the father
of thirty-two children. With his first
wife, Amanda Hart, he had ten child-
ren; his second wife, Mary A. Clem-
ens, bore him four children, his
third wife, Cornelia Mount, was the
ens, bore him four children; his
fourth wife, Joanah Jennings, gave
him eleven children. Highly respec-
ted by all who knew him Bro. Taylor
passed to his final rest April 4,
1900, at Freedom, leaving a large
posterity.

TAYLOR, Lee, the sixth Bishop of
the Freedom Ward, Sanpete county,
Utah, was born May 1, 1873, at Levan,
Juab county, Utah, the son of Martin
V. Taylor and Cornelia Mount. He
was baptized in 1881 by Andrew
Petersen, resided with his parents
at Moroni and came with them to
Draper or Freedom in 1883. He was
ordained an Elder Dec. 4, 1898, by
Joseph L. Jolly and ordained a High
Priest Dec. 5, 1909, by Francis M.
Lyman and set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop Andreas Jensen.
Finally he was ordained a Bishop

June 16, 1912, by Francis M. Lyman
and set apart to preside over the
Freedom Ward. Prior to this he had
acted as president of the Ward Y.
M. M. I. A. and had also been assis-
tant superintendent of the Ward
Sunday school. He acted as justice
of the peace in the Freedom precinct
one term. In 1893 (Nov. 20th) he
married Emily Christensen, daughter
of Niels Christensen and Christiana
Christensen, who was born sept. 28,
1894, and died Oct. 28, 1907, after
bearing her husband four children.
In 1909 (May 17th) Bro. Taylor
married Vina Christensen.

STEWART, James William, Bishop
of the Milburn Ward, Sanpete county,
Utah, was born April 27, 1853, at
Provo, Utah county, Utah, the son
of James Stewart and Elizabeth
Hoops. He was baptized May 26,
1861, by Samuel Keel; ordained an
Elder in 1873 by Wm. J. Smith;
ordained a Seventy by C. C. A.
Christensen, and ordained a High
Priest April 20, 1890, by Anthon H.
Lund. In 1873 (Jan. 1st) he married
Almira L. Allred (daughter of Wm.
A. Allred and Almira Aldrich) who
was born Sept. 20, 1854, at Kaysville,
Davis county, Utah. This marriage
has been blessed with ten children,
namely, James W., Albert M., Willard
M., George E., Preston R., Eva E.,
Almira Estella, Arthur M., Lyman E.,
and Francis R. Bro. Stewart settled
at Fairview, Sanpete county, and
moved to Milburn with his family in
1878; since April 20, 1890, he has
acted as Bishop of the Milburn
Ward.

ANDERSEN, Joachim Christian, a
High Councilor in the North Sanpete
Stake, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Sept. 13, 1852, at Store Aistrup,
Aalborg amt, Denmark, the son of
Anders Christian Nielsen and Anna
Katrine Joachimsen. He emigrated
to America in 1881, and becoming
a convert to "Mormonism" he was

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baptized ia St. Paul, Minnesota,
Oct. 3, 1884, by Mads Andersen. In
the fall of 1885 he emigrated to
Utah and found employment as
a carpenter on the Manti Temple
for about two and a half years.
While thus engaged he married
Anna C. Andersen Oct. 21, 1886, in
the Logan Temple, having previ-
ouslj' been ordained an Elder by
Bishop Wm. K. Reed at Manti. His
wife, who was born Sept. 2, 1867,
at Mt. Pleasant, Utah, is described
as one of the purest and loveliest
of women. She bore her husband
seven children, five boys and two

girls, whose names follow: Abner,
Joachim (born Sept. 5, 1887), An-
drew Festus (born Oct. 7, 1889),
Irvin Valentine (born Feb. 14, 1892,
and died in April, 1897), Raphel
Mads (born Oct. 13, 1894), Iva Ca-
trena (born June 7, 1897), Byron
Merrill (born Nov. 29, 1899), and
Anna Carolina Andersen (born Jan.
7, 1906). Brother Andersen was
ordained a Seventy Feb. 12, 1892,
by Brigham H. Roberts and or-
dained a High Priest July 1, 1905,
by Geo. Teasdale. He was set
apart as an alternate member of
the North Sanpete Stake High Coun-
cil March 6, 1913. After the com-

pletion of the Manti Temple he
went to Moroni, to finish the mee-
ting house there, and moved his
family to Moroni in the spring of
1888; he finished the carpenter work
of the Moroni tabernacle in a year
with what local help he could get.
In 1892 he was elected school trustee
and served in that capacity for
seventeen years; he also served a
term in the Moroni city council. In
1902-1904 he filled a mission to Scan-
dinavia, laboring in the Copenhagen
conference. While there he assisted
in the removal of the mission office
from St. Poulsgade No. 14 to the
new building in Korsgade No. 11.
On Jan. 22, 1906, his wife died in
childbed, leaving a baby fifteen days
old, and on Oct. 9, 1907, he married
Johanna Svenson, who was born
Dec. 15, 1859, in Sweden, the daugh-
ter of Sven Olson and Anna Maria
Strandberg. Brother Andersen has
w-orked at his trade as an architect
and builder and has erected many
private dwellings, school houses, and
churches. The tower and gallery of
the Moroni tabernacle are samples
of his work. At present he runs
a lumber yard at Moroni and is
the Ward clerk of the Moroni Ward.

LARSEN, James, the second Bish-
op of the Mt. Pleasant South Ward,
was born Jan. 18, 1858, at Ephraim,
Sanpete county, Utah, the son of
Jens Larsen and Maren Andersen.
As a boy he passed through many
scenes connected with the Black
Hawk Indian war. He was baptized
in 1866; was ordained a Teacher and
later (1881) an Elder; was ordained
a Seventy Aug. 7, 1884, and acted
as a president in the 66th quorum of
Seventy from 1890 to 1900. In 1888-
1890 he filled a mission to the
Southern States, laboring principally
in Georgia, Alabama and Florida. On
several occasions he was subjected
to mob violence, -and once he was
captured by a mob and held a pris-
oner all night. He was stripped to

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the waist and given one lash with
a buggy trace. The mobbers had in-
tended to give each of the Elders
fifty lashes, but were persuaded to let
one suffice. At home Bro. Larsen
has been a most active Churchman
and also a leader in secular mat-
ters. He served one term as a mem-
ber of the city council. In 1900 (Dec.
9th) Mt. Pleasant was divided into

two Wards a second time and Bro.
Larsen was then ordained a High
Priest and Bishop by Pres. Anthon
H. Lund and set apart to preside
over the Mt. Pleasant South Ward.
He held this position until 1913. In
1881 (July 28th) he married Eliza
Maria Tidwell (daughter of James
H. Tidwell and Elizabeth Harvey),
who was born March 1, 1864, at Mt.
Pleasant. This marriage has been
blessed with four children, namely,
Alberta M., Edith E., Ila F. ana
Hellen A.

MclNTOSH, Abraham Edward, the
fourth Bishop of the Mt. Pleasant
South Ward, Sanpete county, Utah,
was born March 4, 1860, at Clover
Creek, Tooele county, Utah, the son
of William Mcintosh and Maria
Caldwell. When Abraham was seven

years old, his father was called to
settle Panaca, Nevada, where the
family resided about seven years.
They then moved back to Rush
Valley and located at St. John.
Abraham was baptized when about
eight years old, and ordained suc-
cessively to the offices of Deacon,
■^eacher, Priest, Elder and Seventy.
For a number of years he was a
president of the 66th quorum of
Seventy. In 1884 (Jan. 1st) he
married Mary Louise Guhl (daugh-
ter of S0ren Peter Guhl, of Scan-
dinavian missionary fame) who was
born May 27, 1862, on the Weber,
while her parents were temporary
residents in the camp of Joseph
Morris. Brother Mcintosh's mar-
riage has been blessed with seven
children, namely, Abraham Vance,
William Edward, Annie Estella, Elvin
Peter, Franklin Vaughan, Vernon
Marinus, and Grace Maria. Soon
after his marriage Brother Mcintosh
settled permanently in Mt. Pleasant,
where he was ordained a Seventy.
He filled a mission to the Eastern
States in 1905-1907, laboring prin-
cipally in Pennsylvania. Prior to
this he had acted as president of
the Elders in Mt. Pleasant. In 1913
he was ordained a High Priest by
James E. Talmage and set apart
as first counselor to Bishop Adolph
Merz; he served in that capacity
until Sept. 13, 1914, when he was
ordained a Bishop by Francis M.
Lyman and set apart to preside
over the Mt. Pleasant South Ward.

J0RGENSEN, Jens, a veteran El-
der in the Church and for many
years a resident of Mt. Pleasant,
Sanpete county, Utah, was born
April 18, 1823, at Hellevad, Hj0rring
amt, Denmark, the son of J0rgen
Jensen and Maren Jensen. He was
baptized Feb. 16, 1851, by Hans
Peter Jensen and confirmed by Geo.
P. Dykes. Later he was ordained
to the Priesthood and called to
labor as a local missionary, in
which capacity he traveled much

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on the islands of Bornholm, LoUand,
Falster, Fyen and Langeland, and
also in the province of Schlesvig.
From December, 1853, till the spring
of 1857 he presided over the Fre-
dericia conference. He emigrated
to Utah in 1857, and spent the
winter of 1857-58 in Salt Lake Citj'.

Later he was ordained a Seventy
and became a member of the 41st
quorum of Seventy. In 1858 he lo-
cated at Ephraim, Sanpete county,
and in 1859 he removed to Mt.
Pleasant, thus being one of the
first settlers of that place, where
he resided the remainder of his
life. He married Christiana Chris-
tensen in Denmark before emi-
grating by whom he was the father
of eight children. In 1863 (Feb.
21st) he married Kjersten Berthel-
sen, by whom he had nine children.
Brother J0rgensen was a military
man and took an active part in
the Black Hawk war, holding a
commission as major in the Utah
militia. He was also a most ac-
tive Church laborer and acted as
Ward teacher for many years. In
1890 he was ordained a High Priest,
and he passed to his final rest
Jan. 13. 1905, at Mt. Pleasant, as
a faithful and consistent Latter-day
Saint.

J0RGENSEN, Kjersten Berthelsen,
wife of Jens Jprgensen, was born
Jan. 21, 1839, at Hyslev, Viborg
amt, Denmark, the daughter of
Niels Berthelsen and Maren Larsen.
She was baptized May 1, 1853, and
emigrated to Utah in 1861, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Monarch

of the Sea" and the plains in John
R. Murdock's company. She became
the wife of Jens JOrgensen Feb.
21, 1863, by whom she was the
mother of nine children, seven of
whom are now living. For many
years Sister J0rgensen was a faith-
ful teacher in the Mt. Pleasant
North Ward Relief Society.

ALLRED, Samuel, the fifth Bishop
of Spring City, Sanpete county, Utah,
was born June 3, 1851, in Potta-
wattamie county, Iowa, the son of
Isaac Allred and Mary Henderson.
He came with his parents to Utah
in the fall of 1851, crossing the
plains in James AUred's train. The
family located at Kaysville, Davis
county, from which place bis father
Isaac Allred (who had been a
member of Zion's Camp) filled a
mission to Great Britain. After his
return, the family moved to Slater-
ville, near Ogden: thence they re-
moved to Ogden, and at the time

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of the general move in 1858 they
located at Ft. Ephraim, Sanpete
county, where they remained one
year. They then settled at Mt. Pleas-
ant, where the father was killed
by Thomas Ivie. Soon after this
tragedy the widow with her four
children moved to Springtown (Spring
City), which in 1060 became the per-
manent home of the Allreds. Here
Samuel grew up and participated
in pioneer life, his principal occu-
pation being sheep herding, ranching
and farming. In 1868 he was or-
dained an Elder and afterwards
acted as an assistant superintendent
in the Ward Sunday school. He
was also an officer in the Ward
\. M. M. I. A. and a counselor
in the Stake presidency of the
y. M. M. I. A. He labored as a
Ward teacher for forty years and
was a High Councilor in the North
Sanpete Stake from 1900 to 1913.
Prior to that he had been ordained
a Seventy in 1884 and was a mem-
ber of the 80th quorum of Seventy.
In 1893 he was ordained a High
Priest by Canute Peterson. He was
ordained a Bishop Dec. 13, 1913,
and set apart to preside over the
Spring City Ward, to succeed the
late Bishop Lauritz O. Larsen.
Bishop Allred has been twice mar-
ried; his first wife, Elizabeth Dian-
tha Allred (whom he married Sept.
19, 1870) bore him ten children.
His second wife, Isabella Blain,
(whom he married Nov. 18, 1880)
bore him two children. For in-
fringement upon the Edmund's law,
he served six months in the Utah
penitentiary from March 6, 1888, to
August 6, 1888.

REES, John Evans, the first Bishop
of Wales, Sanpete county, Utah, was
born Nov. 16, 1821, in Merthyr,
Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, the
son of John Rees and Elizabeth
Evans. He married Mary Williams
April 13, 1849, and becoming a
convert to "Mormonism" he emi-
grated to America in 1850. After

stopping about two years in Illinois,
he continued his journey to Utah
in 1852, crossing the plains in Cooley
and Miller's ox train. After living
temporarily in the Sessions settle-
ment (Bountiful) the family moved
to Manti in December, 1853, and
participated in the Indian difficul-
ties that winter. Early in the spring
of 1854 they associated themselves
with others in the settling of Ft.
Ephraim, where they resided until
1S59, when they located at Wales,

becoming thus also some of the first
settlers of that place. Here Brother
Rees spent the remainder of his
days. He acted as presiding Elder
of the infant settlement from the
beginning and was Bishop from 1877
until the time of his death. Brother
Rees filled a mission to Wales in
1870-72. By his wife (whom he
married in Wales) he had eight
children, seven of whom are now
(1914) alive. Bishop Rees died
March 24, 1903, at Wales, Utah, at
the advanced age of eighty-one years
and five months, leaving a widow,
two months his senior and blind,
two sons and five daughters, be-
sides a large number of grand chil-
dren and also great grandchildren.
Bishop Rees remained a faithful and
devoted Latter-day Saint to his last

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moments and was highly respected
by his family and the people gene-
rally in the Ward where he had
presided so long.

AAGARD, Andrew James, first
counselor to Bishop C. J. Christian-
sen, of Fountain Green, Sanpete co.,
Utah, was born Jan. 8, 1875, at
Fountain Green, the son of Andrew
Jensen Aagard and Anne Jensen. He
was baptized when about eight years
old by Geo. Crowther and ordained
successively to the office of Deacon,
Teacher, Priest, Elder, Seventy and
High Priest, the latter ordination

taking place in 1909 under the hands
of Francis M. Lyman. In 1902-05
he filled a mission to Ohio and
Kentucky, presiding sixteen months
over the Kentucky conference. At
home he has served as secretary
of a quorum of Priests, a quorum of
Elders, and the Ward Y. M. M. I. A.
He has also acted as a member of the
Fountain Green town council. For
been president of said council. For
three pears he was superintendent
and manager of the Aagard Store
in Fountain Green. Otherwise he is
a farmer and sheep raiser byavoca-
tion. In 1908 (April 1st) he married

Anne Luvina Jensen ( daughter of
Jens M. Jensen and Caroline An-
dersen), who was born June 13,
1881 ; she has borne her husband two
children (James Conard and A. J.
Arvard).

ALLEN, Andrew Stephen, second
counselor to Bishop Francis Bingham
of the Middleton Ward, Weber co.,
Utah, was born Feb. 23, 1874, at
Huntsville, Weber co., Utah, the
son of Alanzon David Allen and
Chastina Hadlock. He was baptized
July 30, 1883, by Peter C. Geertsen;
was ordained a Deacon in 1887;
married Mary Elizabeth Hislop Oct.
18, 1895 ; was ordained an Elder in
1895; labored as superintendent of
the Middleton Sunday school from
1906 to 1909; was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop Bingham, which po-
sition he still occupies.

ALLEN, Samuel A., counselor in
the Bishopric of Teasdale, Wayne
county, Utah, was born in the year
1865, at Parowan, Iron county, Utah,
the son of Daniel Allen and Louisa
Jane Berry. His father was a native
of the State of New York, joined
the Church in 1832, was closely
associated with the Prophet Joseph
Smith and came to Utah in 1849
with his family. He built the first
tannery and made the first leather
manufactured in Utah. Samuel came
to Utah with his parents when fif-
teen years of age. When nineteen
years old he went to Rabbit Valley,
Wayne county, and helped to found
the little settlement of Grover. There
he acted as superintendent of the
branch Sunday school and afterwards
became presiding Elder. In the fall
of 1892 he married Thisbe Hanks,
daughter of Ephraim K. Hanks. In
1896-1898 he filled a mission to the
Southern States. After his return
to Utah he located at Cainville,
where he took an active part in
the Sunday school. In the summer
of 1905 he moved to Teasdale, where

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he was chosen as second counselor
to Bishop Wilson.

ANDERSON, John Forbis, Bishop
of Raymond, Alberta, Canada, was
born April 4, 1863, at Woodside,
near Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of
John Anderson and Catherine Smith.
He was ordained a Teacher Jan. 26,
1879; ordained a Priest Nov. 1, 1880;
ordained an Elder Oct. 5, 1882, by
Geo. D. Snell; ordained a Seventy
April 2, 1888, by Andrew Ferguson;
ordained a High Priest Dec. 15, 1896,
by Wm. H. Seegmiller, and ordained
a Bishop Dec. 29, 1900, by Anthon
Scofield, Utah county, and Burrville,
Ae resided at Spanish Fork and
Sevier county.

ANDERSON, Ole, an active Elder in
the Pleasant Grove Ward, Utah Co.,
Utah, was born July 26, 1852, at
Hyurod, Christianstad Ian, Sweden
the son of Anders Anderson (who
was born in Viggarum, Malmahus
Ian, Sweden, Dec. 24, 1824, and died

in Wilmington, 111., in March, 1911)
and Anna Larson (who was born in
Vebak, Christianstad Ian, Sweden,
July 5, 1826, and died at Pleasant
Grove, Utah, in 1906). In 1867 Ole
went to Denmark, where he sought
and found employment for about

thirteen years. There he married
Rasmine Nielsen of Ormslev, Aarhus
amt, Denmark, Nov. 6, 1880. Together
with his young wife he was baptized
Aug. 20, 1882, and became a member
of the Aarhus branch. With their
two children they emigrated to Utah
in 1884, leaving Aarhus June 6th and
arriving in Salt Lake City June 29th
of that year. Two weeks after their
arrival they located at Pleasant Grove
Utah CO., where they have resided
ever since. Taking hold of manual
labor in his adopted country Bro.
Anderson was ably assisted by his
wife, and succeeded in getting a
home of his own the same season. In
1895-97 he filled a mission to Den-
mark, laboring most of the time in
the Aarhus conference. On this oc-
casion he left his wife with six
children, the oldest being only twelve
years old and the youngest three
weeks old. In July, 1913, he left on
a second mission to Scandinavia and
is at the present time (1914) pre-
siding over the Bergen conference,
Norway. He is the father of fifteen
children.

ANDERSON William, one of the

martyrs of the Church, was the son
of Wm. and Mary Anderson and was
born March 29, 1809, in Lewiston,
Lincoln county, Maine. When three
years of age, his father moved to
New Vineyard, Somerset county,
where he resided till he grew to
manhood. In early life he was the
subject of spiritual manifestations.
He dreamed he was to be a minister
of the gospel. Searching the Scrip-
tures for proof in favor of Universal-
ism (the faith that his father taught
him) he discovered so many passages
irreconsilable with that doctrine that
he dicarded Universalism and re-
viewed the faith of the Methodists,
Congregationalists and Baptists, but
found himself in the same dilemma
as before. In the summer of 1827, he
was engaged in a marble factory in

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Thomaston, Knox county, and his re-
ligious impressions were ol' such p
nielancholy nature, that death would
have been hailed by him as a happy
release. He prayed to God fervent-
ly, and obtained relief from his un-
happy state of mind. In 1829 or
1830, he read Thomas Paine's works
which, for a time, caused him to lay
all his thoughts on religion aside.
He married Emeline T. Stewart,
daughter of Hugh and Martha Stew-
art, born Sept. 25, 1812, in Kenne-
beck county, Maine. In 1839 he be-
gan again to reflect on the existance
of God, futurity, etc. The idea of
intelligent man passing from this
state of existance into a world of
darkness, looked to him irreconcilable
with the works of an intelligent
Creator. He concluded that if there
was any truth in revealed religion,
or any law by which he could gain
any intelligence of a hereafter, and
that if the Lord would turn his
mind, so that he could look upon the
Bible as a record of truth, he would
take it for granted that there was a
law by which he could be saved. His
mind was entirely changed. He at-
tended the Baptist church, but would
not join. He asked God to tell him
what religion was true. The spirit
manifested to his mind that they were
all wrong, that none were acceptable.
From this time he took no part
in their meetings. Brother Stephen
Richardson was his nearest neigh-
bor in Bureau county, Illinois, upon
whom the Elders called. In July,
1841. Elders Joshua Holman, Noah
Pachard and Winslow Farr called and
preached in his house • with them
he reasoned and conversed on the
principles of the gospel and the Lat-
ter-day work. After the Elders left
he prayed to God and was confirmed
in his belief of the authenticity of the
Latter-day work, and was sorry that
he had not gone forward in baptism.
August 14, 1841, in answer to prayer.
Elders Moses Smith and William

Burton visited Bureau county, and
on the 15th Wm. Anderson was bap-
tized and confirmed and enjoyed a
spiritual manifestation. He attended
the October conference in Nauvoo,
was ordained to the Priesthood and
received from Hyrum Smith his
Patriarchal blessing. Shortly after
returning from that conference, he
commenced to preach; he also bap-
tized twenty-four persons. In the
winter of 1842-43 he went to Chicago
as a missionary. After preaching
for some time to the few who at-
tended the meetings (which he adver-
tised in the "Chicago Democrat"), the
spirit manifested to him, that an ex-
citement would soon take place which
wauld call the people together. Short-
ly after, John C. Bennett came along
and challenged him to a discussion,
which he accepted, and by this means
an excitement arose which called the
people out and thereby he found an
opportunity to preach the gospel to
them. He baptized twelve persons.
In March 1843, he left Chicago for
Bureau county, and continued to
preach through the northern part
of Illinois until September, 1844,
when he removed to Nauvoo. He re-
ceived his endowments in December,
1845, in the Nauvoo Temple, and took
an active part in the defence of
Nauvoo against the mob in 1846.
Finally he fell as a martyr for Zion
Sept. 12, 1846, being killed in the
so-called battle of Nauvoo. (See
"Eventful Narratives", 13th Book of
the Faith-Promoting Series, p. 40.)

Andrus, James, Bishop of St. George,
Washington county, Utah, was born
June 14. 1835, in Florence. Huron co..
Ohio, the son of Milo Andrus and
Abigail Jane Daley. He was blessed
as a child under the hands of Sid-
ney Rigdon, his parents being already
members of the Church. When about
eigth years of age, he was baptized
and soon afterwards ordained to the
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of 1S46 he left Nauvoo, III., together
with his parents for the far west,
en route for the mountains. Having
proceeded as far as the Pawnee
village, near Grand Island, the com-
pany with which he traveled received
word from Pres. Brigham Young to
go into winter quarters at or near
that place; but, being under the di-
rection of Bishop Geo. Miller, the
company. Instead of obeying the
council of Pres. Young, turned north,
traveling as far as the Runnmg
Water, in the Ponca nation. Here
thev stayed for several months and

then returned to Winter Quarters,
settling temporarily above that
place, where they remained till the
summer of 1847. In the spring of
1848 ,when James was about thirteen
years old, he started across the
plains, together with his mother,
one sister older than himself, two
younger sisters and a younger broth-
er, having two yoke of oxen and a
yoke of cows at their disposal. The
father left his family on the prairie,
starting for England on his first
mission. Bro. Andrus writes: "We
have all of our possessions for the
family of six in one small wagon,
and I took my part, although but a

child, in all the guards of both
camp and cattle." In 1857 Brother
Andrus was ordained a Seventy by
Joseph Young, and in 1895 he was
ordained a High Priest by Francis
M. Lyman and called to act as a
High Councilor in the St. George
Stake, which position he filled till
1896, when he was ordained a Bishop
by Franklin D. Richards, and set
apart to preside over the St. George
Ward. He discharged his duties
faithfully in that office until he was
honorably released. Bro. Andrus
spent the winter of 1855-56 in Wash-
ington Territory, as a trader among
the Flat Head Indians. In 1857 he
married Laura A. Gibson, who has
borne him nine children. In 1863 he
married Manomas L. Gibson, with
whom he had eleven children. In
1857-1858 he filled an honorably mis-
sion to Great Britain, returning home
in 1858 because of the Johnston
army troubles. In going out on this
mission he was one of a company
of missionaries, who traveled all the
way from Salt Lake City to the
Missouri river with handcarts. His
second mission was with an explor-
ing expedition to the Uintah country
in 1861. In the fall of 1861 he was
called (together with many others)
to settle Southern Utah, where he
passed through all the trials and
privations incident to pioneer life
in a barren desert country, but he
was eminently successful in his la-
bors of developing the wilderness
and turning it into a fruitful garden
spot. In 1862 he filled a short mis-
sion to the Moquis Indians. In 1863
he made a trip to the Missouri river
with an ox team after emigrants.
The following year he made a sim-
ilar trip east after merchandise,
traveling with a mule team. In 1870
he crossed the mountains to South-
ern California for freight for the
Co-operative Store in St. George
and in 1869 he made a trip from
Los Angeles, Cal., to Helena, Mon-

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tana, with freight. During the Black
Hawk war he took a most active
part in protecting the settlers in
southern Utah from Indian depre-
dations. In 1871 he took charge
of the Canaan Co-operative Stock
Company and managed that concern
for twenty-five years. For many
years he owned and operated a
large mercantile establishment in
St. George, known as James Andrus
and Sons. Prior to that he was a
member of the WooUey, Lund and
Judd Company. Bro. Andrus is also
engaged extensively in farming and
stockraising.

ARCHIBALD, David, an Elder in
the Granite Ward, Salt Lake co., Utah
was born Aug. 24, 1849, at Dalrye,
Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of David
Archibald and Jessie Allen. He was
baptized in January, 1868, by James

Bruce, received a common school
education and began working in the
coal mines at the age of twelve
years. After joining the Church, he
was ordained a Deacon in 1869 by
Joel Grover, and a Teacher in 1870
by Hamilton G. Park. He emigrated
to Utah in 1871, together with his
mother, three sisters and two broth-

ers, his father and one brother hav-
ing preceeded him to Utah two years
before. The family lived a short time
in the Eleventh Ward, Salt Lake City,
and then moved to the part of
South Cottonwood which is now
included in the Granite Ward. In
1878 (Dec. 25th) he married Agnes
Young (daughter of Archibald Young
and Ellen Inches) who was bom Feb.
14, 1858, at Edinburgh, Scotland, and
emigrated to Utah in 1873. She bore
her husband eight children, namely
Charles, Ellen D., Jessie, David,
Agnes M., Ejla J., Annie V. and Jen-
nie M. Bro. Archibald was ordained
an Elder in 1879 by Wm. Thompson,
located temporarily in the 21st Ward,
Salt Lake City, in 1879, but moved
back to Granite in 1891. He was
ordained a Seventy April 8, 1884,
by Wm. H. Tovey and filled a mission
to Scotland in 1896-98, laboring in the
Glasgow conference. While on this
mission he received great aid by
listening to the still small voice.
On one occasion when he was about
to accompany Elder Peter Allen to
Aberdeen, they planned to go part
of the way by rail and a part of the
way by steamboat, but a voice told
Elder Archibald not to go by boat.
He could not, however, persuade his
companion to go all the way by rail,
so they took the boat, but were
caught in a terrible storm and the
captain barely saved the boat by
returning to Leith, the place of
departure. The Elders then took
the train to their destination. Elder
Archibald was ordained a High Priest
by James Jensen in March 1911.

ARGYLE, Benjamin, Bishop of the
Spanish Fork Second Ward, Utah,
county, Utah, was born Aug. 17. 1843,
at Birmingham, England, the son of
Joseph Argyle and Jane Finch. He
was baptized when about eight years
of age and emigrated to Utah in
1856, crossing the Atlantic in the
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ill Edmund Elsworth's handcart com.
pany. He resided a number ot
years in Bountiful, Davis county;
was ordained an Elder about 1880;
married Jane Robertson Jan. 6, 1881,
married Jane Robertson Jan. 6, 1881,
and settled in Spanish Fork; was
and filled a mission to Great Britain

in 1891-93. In April, 1893, he was
ordained a High Priest by Geo.
Teasdale and later set apart to act
as second counselor to Bishop Geo.
D. Snell; he filled this position
about four years. In 1902 (Aug.
7th) he was ordained a Bishop by
Joseph F. Smith and set apart to
preside over the Spanish Fork Sec-
ond Ward. Bishop Argyle is the
father of nine children.

AUSTIN, Mark, the third presi-
dent of the Fremont Stake of Zion,
Idaho, was born Oct. 3, 1864, at
Studham, Bedfordshire, England, the
son of John Austin and Emma
Grace. He emigrated to Utah with
his parents when a boy and located
at Lehi, Utah county, where he
was baptized in 1872 by Mons An-
derson. He was ordained succes-
sively to the offices of Priest, Elder,
Seventy and High Priest and Bishop,

the latter ordination taking place
under the hands of Hyrum M. Smith
July 31, 1904, when he was set apart
to preside as Bishop of the Sugar
City Ward, Fremont county, Idaho.
Prior to this he had filled a mis-
sion to England (1896-98) and was
a president of a quorum of Seventy.
After serving for some time as a
member of the Fremont Stake pre-
sidency, he was chosen and set
apart as president of the Fremont
Stake, Dec. 18, 1910. Since his first ar.
rival in America Bro. Austin has re-
sided at Lehi, Utah, Loveland, Colo.,
and Idaho Falls, Sugar City and Rex-
burg, Idaho. For a number of years
his occupation were those of farmer
and stock raiser, but of late years
he has taken a most active part in
the sugar manufacturing business in
Utah and Idaho. In March, 1887,
he married Maria Vaughan, which
marriage has been blessed with six
children, namely. Hazel, Ruby, Fran-
cis, Mark, Lillian Millard, Michael
John and Robert Roy. President
Austin is a man of great influence
and worth, and ranks high among
the business men of Southern Idaho.

BALDWIN, Caleb, one of the early
Elders of the Church, was born Sept.
2, 1791, at Nobletown, Orange co.,
New York. He served as an ensign
under Captain Chas. Parker in the
war of 1812. Becoming a convert to
"Mormonism" he was baptized Nov.
14, 1830, by Parley P. Pratt. Soon
afterwards he gathered with the early
saint to Jackson county, Mo., and
took part in the so-called battle on
the Big Blue. In 1833 he was driven
out of Jackson county with the rest
of the saints, and subsequently set-
tled in Caldwell county, Mo. In the
fall of 1838 he was arrested on a
trumped up charge and shared a pri-
son cell with the Prophet Joseph
Smith and others at Liberty, Clay co..
Mo., during the winter of 1838-39.
When the prisoners were detected in

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trying to make their escape by cut-
ting a hole through the wall of the
goal, and Judge Tillery was about to
have them ironed and chained to the
floor of their cells, Bro. Baldwin said
to the judge: "Judge Tillery! If
you put these chains on me, I will kill
you, so help me God." The judge
left without putting on the chains.
Bro. Baldwin emigrated to Great Salt
Lake Valley in the year 1848 and died
in Salt Lake City June 11, 1849.

BANKS, John, one of the ablest
and most eloquent local missionaries
of the British Mission, was born
Jan. 2, 1806, at Colne, Lancashire,
England. He was baptized Sept. 8,

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1840, by Parley P. Pratt and soon
afterwards ordained to the Priest-
hood and sent out to do missionary
work. As early as January, 1844,
he presided over the Preston branch,
in Lancashire, and at the general
conference of the British Mission
held at Liverpool, April 6, 1844, he
represented the Preston conference.
He was ordained a Seventy June 4,
1844, by Reuben Hedlock and in
March, 1845, he was appointed to
preside over the Edinburgh confer-
ence, Scotland, which conference he

represented at the general confer-
ence of the British Mission held at
Manchester, April 6, 1845. At an-
other general conference held at
Manchester, Dec. 14, 1845, he was
called to act as second counselor
in the presidency of the British
Mission, after which he traveled a
great deal, attending conferences in
different parts of the mission. He
continued to act as counselor until
Reuben Hedlock was succeeded in
the presidency of the mission by
Orson Spencer. In September, 1847,
he was appointed president of the
Manchester conference, but before
the end of the year (1847) his field
of labor was changed to London,
where he presided over the con-
ference until early in 1850, when he
emigrated to America, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Argo", jvhich
sailed from Liverpool Jan. 10, 1850,
and arrived in New Orleans March
8, 1850. He crossed the plains the
same year, and the following is re-
corded in the Journal History of the
Church of Oct. 6, 1850: "The after^
noon meeting held in the Bowery
(G. S. L. City) was addressed by-
Elders John • Banks (lately arrived
from London, England), Orson
Spencer and Parley P. Pratt. In the
course of his remarks Elder Banks
said that the work in England had
made marvelous progress in the last
two years; in London alone 2,569
had been baptized during that time
and 30 flourishing branches organiz-
ed. He believed a thousand Elders
could find plenty to do in that city
alone in promulgating the principles
of the gospel". Before leaving Eng-
land, Bro. Banks married Ellen E.
Kendel, who bore him six children,
three boys and three girls; they are
all dead now, except Franklin C.
Banks, who lives at Pleasant Grove,
Utah. Almost immediatelv after ar-
riving in Utah, Elder Banks settled
with his family at Pleasant Grove,
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lers of that flourishing town, and
there he resided the remainder of
his life. In 1862 he became in-
fluenced by the teachings of Joseph
Morris, with whom he located tem-
porarily on the Weber river, near
Ogden, and during the fracus which
took place between the expedition
under Capt. Robt. T. Burton and the
Morrisites Joseph Morris, John
Banks and others were killed, June
15, 1862.

BARTON, George Ernest, second
counselor in the Park City Bishopric,
was born Oct. 7, 1871, at Kaysville,
Davis county, Utah, the son of John
Barton and Sarah Flint. He was
baptized Aug. 15, 1880, by Wm.
Blood, at Kaysville, and ordained a
Deacon Feb. 24, 1884; subsequently
he was ordained a Teacher and

still later a Priest. He was or-
dained an Elder Feb. 11, 1894, by
Thomas F. Rouche; ordained a Seven-
ty April 28, 1897, by George Rey-
nolds, and ordained a High Priest
and set apart as second counselor
in the Park City Bishopric April
12, 1903, by Thomas L. Allen. Prior
to his last ordination he acted as
president of a Deacons quorum, was

secretary of the 55th quorum of
Seventy, labored as a Ward teacher,
Sunday school teacher, and secre-
tary of Y. M. I. A., (at Kaysville >,
and was president of the Y. M. M. I.
A. and Sunday school teacher (at
Park City). In 1897-1899 he filled
a mission to the Northern States,
laboring principally in Indiana, a
part of the time as president of the
Indiana conference. In 1900 (June
14th) he married Emily Maud Bar-
nes, daughter of John R. Barnes
and Emily Stewart, of Kaysville.
Elder Barton is a merchant and
undertaker in Park City and has
served in several civil offices; in
Kaysville he acted as city recorder.
He changed his residence from Kays-
ville to Park City in 1902.

BATE MAN, Thomas, a veteran
Elder in the Church, was born Sept.
17, 1808, in Bolton, England, and emi-
grated to America about 1838. He
married Mary Street, Aug. 12, 1829,
at Manchester, England. Thos. Bate,
man and wife passed through the
persecutions at Nauvoo and helped
to build the Nauvoo Temple. They
emigrated to Utah in 1850. Brother
Bateman returned to his native land
in 1852 to look after his property,
but on his way back to America he
was accidentally drowned in the At-
lantic Ocean. Thomas Bateman Avas
the father of twelve children. His
wife died March 4, 1891, in West
Jordan, Salt Lake county, Utah.

BATEMAN, William Lehigh, a
veteran Elder in the Sandy Ward,
Salt Lake county, Utah, was born
in Lee county, Iowa, Jan. 1. 1844,
the son of Thos. Bateman and Mary
Street. Together with his parents,
who were members of the Church,
he emigrated to Utah in 1850, cros-
sing the plains in Feramorz Little's
company. The family located in
Salt Lake City where William was
baptized when eight years of age
by Bishop Abraham Hoagland. Soon

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afterwards he was ordained to the
office of a Teacher and after was
made an Elder in the Church. From
1858 to 1900 Elder Bateman resided
at West Jordan, where he took an
active part in the affairs of the
Church: thus he served for many
years as an officer in the Ward Y.
M. M. I. A. and as Ward teacher.
He also presided over the 12th quo-
rum of Elders for some time and was
for many years an active Sabbath

school teacher. As a military man
he participated in the Black HaAvk
war and was throughout a minute
man, ever ready to render his breth-
ren and the Church generally all the
aid his physical and mental powers
commanded. He has always been
recognized as an industrious member
of the community, having labored
diligently to build up the country.
Thus he has served his fellow-
citizens as school trustee, road super-
visor, juryman, etc. Elder Bateman
married Miss Sophronia A. Watkins
Dec. 26, 1870; the issue af this union
is twelve children, ten of whom are
still living. From 1900 to 1914 Bro.
Bateman was an energetic Elder of
the Sandy Ward. In June, 1914, he,

together with his wife, moved to
Raft river. Cassia county, Idaho,
where they have taken up land and
where they expect to reside for a
short time.

BATEMAN, Sophronia Almina Wat-
kins, w'ife of William L. Bateman,
was born Sept. 5, 1852, on the banks
of Bear river, while her parents were
journeying across the plains and
mountains. She was the daughter
of William L. Watkins and Mary

Almina Hammond. The parents
reached the Valley Sept. 11, 1852,
with their infant, having crossed the
plains in Wm. Whitehead's ten and
in a wagon drawn by one ox and a
cow. During the move in 1858 the
Watkins family went as far south
as the Provo bench, but returned
to their home in Big Cottonwood,
where they first settled. In 1862
they moved to Brigham City, where
Sister Sophronia was baptized by
Wm. Neeley at the age of nine years.
She married Wm. L. Bateman Dec.
6, 1870. As his wife she acted as
a teacher in the Relief Society for
a number of years and in 1912 was
sustained as second cojinselor in the
Sandy Ward Relief Society. She is

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the mother of twelve children and
has reared five other children to
man- ond womanhood. At the pre-
sent time she has 52 grandchildren.
In the early Utah days Sister Bate-
man was kept busy at the spinning
wheel. She also manufactured straw-
hats and stockings.

BEAL, John Samuel, Bishop of the
Ephraim North Ward, Sanpete co.,
Utiaih, was born June 29, 1857, at Eph-
raim, tbe son of Henry Beal and
Mary Thorpe. He was baipit'zed when
about eight years old and ordiained an
E'lder a few years later; ordained a
Seventy in 1877 by Niels Benson and
a Hight Priest in 1900 by Henry Beal;
on the latter occasion he was set
apart as an aliternate member of the

High Council in the South Sianpete
Stake. He labored in that capacity
till Dec. 9, 1901, when he was or-
dained a Bishop and; set apart to pre-
side over the BptiTaim North Ward
by Anthoii H. Lund. Firom May 5,
1898, to June 4, 1900, hie filled a suc-
cessful mission to the Northern
States, laboring principally in Minne-
sota. He marriedi Emma Thursby
Jan. 11, 1877, and is itibe father of five
children. For many years Bishop

Beal hais successfully followed farm-
ing and stock raising.

BEATIE, Phoebe Louisa Young, a

member of the General B:ard of the
Relief Societies of the Church, was
born Aug. 1, 1854, .n Salt Lake City,
Dtah, the daughter of Pres. Brigham
young and Clarissa Ross. Her mother
died when Pho'ebe was three years old.

and Zina D. H. Young, another wife
of Presidemt Brigiham Young, reareia
the family of Phoebe's mother. Sis-
ter Phoebe was baptized Aug. 1, 1852,
by James Works, and at the age ot
fifteen S'he became one of the charter
members of itihe Young Ladies Re-
trenchment Association, which after
wards was merged into the Y. L. M.
I. A. of the Church. In 1872, (Ja.n.
17th), she married Walter J. Beatie,
to wihom she has borne seven chil-
dren. In 1890 she was chosen one of
the miembers of the General Board lOf
the Relief Societies, and from 1902 to
1910 she was chairman and secretary
of the Relief Society Nurse School.
This class was originated by Margaret
C. Roberts under the direction of the
Relief Society General Board. In this
cause SisteT Beatie has traveled ex-
tensively throughout the Stakes of Zion

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to give instructions to the sisters and
encourage classes of them to attend
this school. For several years Sister
Beatie acted as a counselor to Sister
Julia Howe, in the presidency of tihe
Seventeenth Wiard Primary Associa-
tion, and on a certain occasion she
conducted a performance of. the Pri-
mary at her own house, by which
she cleared a nice sum, which amount
was donated to the Temple as a spe-
cial gift from the Primary children
of the 17th Ward. In 1891, she wenit
as a delegate from Uitali to the In-
ternational Cou;ncil of Women which
was held at Washington, D. C, bear-
ing her own traveling expenses. While
ait Washington sihe met Susan B. An-
thony, and' gained her friendship
and ocnfidence. When Mrs. Anthiony
several years afterwards visited Utah
on her western lecture tour, she be-
came the honored guest of Sister
Beatie. As a charter member of the
Daughters of the Revolution and as
a member of several other organiza-
tion in Salt Lake City, Sister Beatie
filgures as one of the most aative
women in the Churcih.

BECK, Joseph Ellison, a veteran
Elder of the Spanish Fork Ward, Utah
CO., Utah, was born May 31, 1810,
in the State of Pennsylvania, the son
of James Beck and Mary Beck.
He was raised as a Pennsylvani-
an farmer and joined the Church
in 1847. In Pennsylvania he married
Hannah Forsyth (daughter of John
Forsyth and Margaret Hodson) who
bore her husband seven children.
Emigrating to Utah in 1850 Bro.
Beck located temporarily in Salt Lake
City and resided there till 1852,
when he moved to Spanish Fork,
Utah CO., where he resided until the
time of his death. In 1858 at the time
of the "move" he furnished two
teams for moving purposes, and he
and his son, John F., went to Salt
Lake City and helped to move the
saints into Utah Valley. Joseph was
ordained to the different offices in

the Priesthood and held the office
of a High Priest at the time of his
demise. His first wife having died,
he married Margaret Robins (daught-
er of Isaac Robins and Margaret Rob-
ins) who became the mother of eight
children. Elder Beck took part in the
so-called Walker Indian war in 1853

and also in the Tintic war a few
years later. During the Black Hawk
war he did considerable military ser-
vice as a guard. Bro. Beck was al-
w-ays energetic in performing his
duties as a member of tlje Church
and as a citizen of the community
in which he resided. His main avo-
cation in life was that of a farmer.
He died Oct. 12, 1903, at Spanish
Fork, Utah.

BECK John Forsyth, first counselor
to Bishop Geo. D. Snell, of Spanish
Fork, Utah co., Utah, from 1891 to
1903, was born May 12, 1844, in Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, the son of
Joseph Ellison Beck and Hannah For-
syth. He emigrated with his parents
to Utah in 1850, and after a short
sojourn in Salt Lake City, located
permanently at Spanish Fork. He was
baptized in 1851, ordained a Deacon
by Bishop John L. Butler in the win-

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ter of 1856-57; ordained an Ejder in
1868 by John D. T. McAllister, or-
dained a Seventy by Andrew Fergus-
on, and still later ordained a High
Priest by Abraham O. Smoot; on the
latter occasion he was also set apart
as a counselor to Bishop Geo. D.
Snell of Spanish Fork, in which of-
fice he served nine years. In 1865-66
be participated in the Black Hawk
war by standing guard and carrying
express messages. In 1866 he went
back to the Missouri river as a
freighter and assisted Capt. Andrew
H. Scott with his company of emi-
grants. On a certain occasion, when
Capt. Scott's horse was stolen, Bro.
Beck was asked if he could spare a
mule for the captain. Bro. Beck
answered promptly in a practical
manner by unhitching one of his

mules from his load for Bro. Scott,
and with the other five mules Bro.
Beck hauled his load to the Valley.
In 1868 he married Mary Hopkins
(daughter of Morgan Hopkins and
Hannah "Williams) who was born
Jan. 23, 1847. She became the moth-
er of fourteen children; later Bro.
Beck married Miss Grace Robinson
(daughter of James R. Robinson and

Matilda Graham) who bore her hus-
band three children. As a con-
sequence of taking a plural wife Bro,
Beck was arrested and convicted of
unlawful cohabitation and served a
term in the Utah penitentiary from
Oct. 10, 1889, to Feb. 14, 1900. Elder
Beck has ever been a typical pioneer
and has spent a great deal of his
time in building homes, meeting
houses, Stake houses and Temples.
He has ever been willing and ready
to perform any labor which has been
assigned him by the authorities of
the Church. For two years he labor-
ed as a home missionary in the Utah
Stake of Zion. Among the civil of-
fices held by him may be mentioned
that he served eight years as a peace
officer at Spanish Fork, six years
on the police force and two years
as marshal.

BELL, Herbert Horace, the second
Bishop of Glenwood, Sevier co., Utah,
was born Feb. 26, 1859, at Ephraim,,
Sanpete co., Utah, the son of Tihomab
Bell and Mahla Elwood. He lived in
the tcwn of his birth until five years

of age, when his parents moved' to
Glenwood, where Herbert attended
school and assisted ihis father on the
farm, remaining at ihome until eight-

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een years of lage, when he started
to make his own way in the world.
He began as a farmer, buying a small
tract cf land, to which he added from
time to time, as he was able, and also
engaged in cattle raising, iln 1879,
in the St. George Temple, he married
Lucy Payne, who was born in Durham,
Eng., March 15, 1860, the daughter of
Hdward Payne, and Emma Powell;
this marriaige has been blessed with
fourteen children, namely Herbert,
Minnie, Emma P., Myrtle E., Lucy E.
Maittie F., Qaiinton C, Ivan E., Iris M.,
Rulon E. and Rodney T. (twins),
Iretta, Montez and Jennie Lapreal.
B>rother Bell was ordained an E31der
April 18, 1875, by Edward Payne. In
1884 he was ordained a Seventy and in
1886 ihe was ordained a High Priest
and Bishop and set apart to preside
over the Glenwood Ward, whicih posi-
tion he still holds. In 1884-85, he filled
a mission to the States, laboring prin-
cipally in Illinois. In 1907-08, he filled
a mission to Great Britain, laboring
principally in the London conference.
He returned Thome early on account of
poor health. For many years Bishop
Bell was a diligent Sunday school
worker and. also took an active part
in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. He is a
mian of pleasing personality, broad
minded and charitable in his views
and enjoys a wide circle of friends
and acquaintances.

BELNAP, Reuben, the third Bishop
of the Wilford Ward, Fremont co.,
Idaho, was born June 14, 1851, at
Ogden, Utah, the son of Gilbert Bel-
nap and Adeline Knights. He was
baptized in 1863 by Isaac Furnis,
ordained an Elder in 1870 by John
D. T. McAllister, ordained a Seventy
March 16, 1884, by Wm. W. Child,
and ordained a High Priest Sept.
3, 1887. by Thos. E. Ricks. After
acting as first counselor to Bishop
George Davis, af Wilford, Fremont
county, Idaho, from 1887 to 1893,
he was ordained a Bishop and set

apart to preside over the Wilford
Ward, July 16, 1893. He acted as
Bishop five years, after which he
moved to the Blackfoot Stake, where
he became president of the High
Priests quorum. He filled a short
mission to California in 1899. In
1870 (Jan. 11th) he married Lucine
V. Hammond, ho bore him nine
children. Bro. Belnap is a farmer
and stockraiser by occupation.

BRADY, Marion Hendrickson, coun-
selor in the Bishopric of the Unioa
Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah from
1877 to 1900, was born Dec. 15, 1834,
in Calloway county, Kentucky, the
son of Lindsay Anderson Brady and
Elizabeth Hendrickson. His parents
were baptized Nov. 15, 1835, by Wil-
ford Woodruff in Calloway county,
and Marion was baptized by Thomas
Woolsey Sept. 1, 1844, in the Missis-
sippi river. The family migrated to
Nauvoo, Illinois, at an early day and
there associated with the Prophet
Joseph and other Church leaders:
Marion attended school together with
the Prophet's children. During the
exodus from Nauvoo in 1846 the
family went to Winter Qarters, and
afterwards the father purchased a
farm on Mosquito Creek, Iowa, where
the family resided until 1850, when
they migrated to Utah, arriving in
Salt Lake City Sept. 19, 1850. They
settled on the Little Cottonwood
Creek, and Marion married Francis
Maria Richards, Feb. 6, 1855. By her
he became the father of three chil-
dren. In 1856 he was chosen captain
of fifty men in the Utah militia and
participated in the Echo Canyon cam-
paign in 1857. In 1858 (March 22nd)
he married Lucy Ann Richards, who
bore him eleven children, four sons
and seven daughters. During the
"move" in 1858 the family went as far
south as Spring Lake Villa, in Utah
county. In the year 1877 (July 1st) Bro.
Brady was chosen first counselor to
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Ward, being ordained a High Priest
and set apart to this position (which
he held until Feb. 11, 1900) by Daniel
H. Wells. His wife Lucy acted as
a counselor in the Ward Relief So-
ciety for two years and was treasur-
er of that society for thirty-six years.
Elder Brady died at his home in
Union March 9, 1914, survived by
his wife, eight children, 61 grandchil-
dren and 31 great grandchildren.

BRACKENBURY, Joseph Blanchett,
the first Elder in the Church who
died as a martyr in the missionary
field, was born Jan. 18, 1788, in
Lincolnshire, England, and emigrated
to America when quite young. Be-
coming a convert to "Mormonism",
he was baptized and confirmed April
10, 1831, by John Corrill and Solomon
Hancock. He was ordained an El-
der the day after his baptism and
started on a mission in 1831. While
filling that mission he died suddenly
Jan. 7, 1832, at Pomfret, Chautauqua
CO., New York, from the effects of
poison administered by his enemies.
The doctors attempted to dig him
up to use his body as a subject for
dissection, but were hindered in their
intentions by Elder Joel H. Johnson,
who was warned in a dream of the
matter in progress, and rose from
his bed at 11 o'clock at night. To-
gether with his brother David he
went to the grave and succeeded in
arresting one of the parties while at
work with a spade and a hand sledge.
The Intended grave robber was bound
to appear at court, being placed un-
der $1000 bond, but his case never
came to trial. He is first mentioned
as an Elder at the June, 1831, con-
ference held at Kirtland, Ohio, and
was ordained a High Priest Oct. 25,
1831, by Oliver Cowdery.

BRIM HALL, Noah, a Patriarch and
veteran Elder in the Church, was born
Feb. 14, 1826, at Olean, Alegany co.,
New York. His parents, Sylvanus
Brimhall and Lydia Gyteau, had

eight sons and three daughters. Noah
being the seventh son. Bro. Brim-
hall is tall and straight in statue,
having in fact a military appear-
ance; his height is six feet, his com-
plexion fair and his weight 167 lbs.
The eight sons of Sylvanus Brim-
hall were versed in mechanical arts
and farming, each receiving the best
benefits of the school systems of
their State, and some of them special-
izing in military tactics. The true
gospel, which was born in their native
State, attracted the attention of the
family, and four of the brothers
joined the Church, namely, Norman,
George W., John (who went with
the Mormon Batallion) and Noah,
who was baptized in the Missouri

\

river at Council Bluffs, Iowa, by
Elder William Hyde in 1848, and
was soon after ordained a Seventy
by Charles Bird and Albert P. Rock-
wood, at Council Bluffs. Noah came
to the Valley with the family of
William Hyde, arriving on July 27,
1850. In the month of June, 1853,
he married Samantha Lake, who
bore him six sons and five daugh-
ters ; subsequently he married Meli-
na Zundell (who bore him one son)
and Lavina Jones (who became the
mother of fifteen children). In Octo-

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ber, 1856, he was appointed captain
of a rescuing company sent out from
Ogden, consisting of thirty men and
teams, who went to bring in the
rest of the handcart companies. He
participated in the Echo canyon ex-
pedition at the time of the coming
of Johnston's Army in 1858, and
was among the first settlers of
Hyrum, Cache county, where he
acted as counselor to Bishop Ola N.
Liljenquist, of that Ward, and was
also set apart as a member of the
High Council of the Cache Stake by
Ezra T. Benson. He is also the
first pioneer (settling with his family)
in Oxford, Idaho. He continued to
be of great service in the military
organizations of Cache county, hold-
ing the rank of major, and was a
teacher of military tactics until he
removed to Arizona in the year
1876. Through his whole life Bro.
Brimhall has ever been one of the
foremost and most energetic citi-
zens in the communities where he
has lived, filling many positions of
trust and honor in the Church. Some
years ago he was ordained a Pa-
triarch and now (1914), at the age
of eighty-nine, he is in the enjoy-
ment of health and revered by a
numerous and faithful posterity, num-
bering upwards of two hundred,
among whom not one instance of
mental or physical defect has ever
occurred. For a period of many
years one or more of his children
have been serving continuously in
the mission fields of the Church.
Bro. Brimhall's place of residence is
Tempe, Maricopa county, Arizona.
(Samantha G. B. Foley).

BROWN, Albert George, first coun-
selor to Bishop Wm. Fairbourn, of
the Crescent Ward, Salt Lake co.,
Utah, was born Dec. 13, 1859, in
South Cottonwood, Salt Lake county,
Utah, the son of Jonathan Brown
and Sarah Cousins. He was bap-
tized Sept. 12, 1868; received a

common school education; married
Anna Thomson, April 24, 1881, and
was ordained a High Priest March
22, 1896, by Joseph E. Taylor and
set apart as second counselor to
Bishop James P. Jensen, of Cres-

cent. In 1900-1902 he filled a mis-
sion to the Northern States, labor-
ing principally in Michigan and Illi-
nois. He was set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Fairbourn Aug.
18, 1913.

BROWN Samuel, 9ne of the mar-
tyrs of the Church, was born Oct.
29, 1832, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son
of Samuel Brown and Harriet Cooper.
He was baptized when very young
and (as near as can be ascertained)
ordained an Elder at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, in 185"1 by James C. Snow, and
migrated to Utah in 1852. He mar-
ried Helen B. Mc Bride July 6, 1854,
at Fijlmore, Millard co., Utah. He
was ordained a Seventy April 22,
1857, by Albert P. Rockwood and
became a member of the 42nd quor-
um of Seventy. In 1855 he went on a
mission to the White Mountains as
an Indian interpreter. In 1857 he
went on a mission to the States and
took charge of the mail for the carry-
ing company under the direction of

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Levi Stewart. In the spring of 1858
he went to the White Mountains and
helped to form a settlement, re-
turning the same spring. He was
finally killed by Indians Oct. 5, 1858,
about two miles south of Chicken
Creek, Juab co., on the hill or divide
as one goes to the Sevier river on
the road leading from Salt Lake City
via Fillmore to California. The further
particulars of his death are the
following: While returning from a
trip north to his home in Fillmore, in
company with Bro. Josiah Call, he was
waylaid by Tom Moke, Topoba, To-
panawich and Panawich, of Peteet-
neet's band of Utah Indians, who shot
him through the left breast, near the
heart, cut his throat and scalped him,
stripped him of his clothes and rob-
bed him of all he had. He was in
company with Josiah Call, who also
fell a victim to their savage cruelties,
and was shockingly mangled. They
were both found thirteen days after
they were killed. Bro. Brown's body
was found covered up in the cedars
by Reuben A. Mc Bride who brought
it to Fillmore. Although the weather
was warm and he had laid so long
after he was killed, there was no
smell or appearance of decay, till
the next day after the body was
brought and laid out.

BULLOCK, Thomas, one of the
original Utah pioneers of 1847, was
born Dec. 23, 1816, in Leek, Stafford-
shire, England, the son of Thomas
Bullock and Mary Hall. His exper-
iences as a clerk, which stood him in
such good stead throughout the latter
part of his life, was obtained under
John Cruso, a solicitor in Leek, and
he was afterwards employed as exise
man in various districts in England.
He was baptized Nov. 20, 1841, and
left his native land to emigrate to
America in 1843, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "Yorkshire." After his
arrival at Nauvoo, 111., he filled the
position as clerk to Joseph Smith the
Prophet until Joseph's martyrdom.

As an exile from Nauvoo he traveled
through Iowa with the camp of the
saints and was selected as one of
the original band of pioneers who
traveled with Pres. Brigham Young

over the plains and mountains, arriv-
ing in G. S. L. Valley in July, 1847.
He returned to Winter Quarters, in
the fall of 1847, but came to the Val-
ley a second time in 1848 and was
elected recorder of Salt Lake county,
a position which he held until he left
on a mission to Great Britain in 1856.
When the "Deseret News" was found-
ed in 1850 he was one of the four
men chosen to turn out the first
number of that paper. He was chief
clerk of the House of Representatives
for several sessions and also chief
clerk in the Historian's office under
Church Historians Willard Richards
and Geo. A. Smith. He moved to
Wanship, Summit co., Utah, in 1868
and there served as clerk of the pro-
bate court and recorder of said coun-
ty. He died at Coalville, Feb. 10,
1885, and his remains were interred
in the Salt Lake City cemetery Feb. 14,
1885. Brother Bullock was married
three times. His first wife was Hen-
rietta Rushton, whom he married in
1838. His second wife, Lucy Clayton,
was married to him in 1843. His

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third wife was Betsey Howard, whom
he married about 1856. By these
three wives he had twenty-five chil-
dren.

BULLOCK, Lucy Clayton, wife of
Thomas Bullock, was born March 26,
1820, at Parrington, Lancashire, Eng-
land. She was baptized in 1837, being
one of the first Latter-day Saint con-
verts in England, and emigrated to
Nauvoo, 111., in 1842. She was mar-
ried to Thomas Bullock Jan. 23, 1843,
and received her endowments in the
Nauvoo Temple. Being driven from
her home by the mob in September,
1846, she with her husband traveled

westward to Winter Quarters, where
she lived through the winter of 1847-
48 and the summer of 1847, while
her husband as a pioneer made his
trip to G. S. L. Valley and back. Both
then migrated to the Valley, arriving
there Sept. 22, 1848. In South Cot-
tonwood, where she made her per.
manent home, she acted as first coun-
selor to the president of the Ward Re-
lief Society and officiated successfully
as a mid-wife in said Ward and other
Wards, until the time of her death,
Avhich occurred at South Cottonwood
April 16, 1879. The immediate cause
of her demise was dropsy and other
complaints. She passed away without

a struggle or a groan, surrounded
by her husband, their children and a
few of her numerous friends, being
59 years and 26 days old when she
died.

BUNNELL, Stephen Ithamar, an
active Elder of the Lake View Ward,
Utah county, Utah, was born Feb.
1, 1834, in Detroit, Michigan, the

son of David Edwin Bunnell and
Sally Conrad. He was baptized in
July, 1846, by Salmon Warner and
came to Utah in 1852, crossing the
plains in James C. Snow's company.
Until he was forty years of age
Bro. Bunnell was an invalid, unable
to work, and spent most of his time
hunting. About the year 1874 a
personage appeared to him and
promised that he should live to a good
old age and perform a great work
in the Temple. From that time his
health improved and he has never
been sick since. Bro. Bunnell was
ordained a Teacher in 1854; later
he was ordained an Elder and in
1909 he was ordained a High Priest
by John E. Booth. In 1856 he mar-
ried Parcia Grover, who bore him
fourteen children; in 1869 he mar-
ried Ann Cable, who bore him two
children.

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BUSHMAN, Homer Frederick,
Stake superintendent of religion
classes in the Snowflake Stake of
Zion, Arizona, was born Aug. 6,
1868, at Lehi, Utah county, Utah,
the son of John Bushman and Louis
A. Smith. He was ordained a Deacon
about 1880, a Teacher in 1884, a
Priest about 1888, an Elder in 1891,
and a Seventy about 1892 (by John
R. Hewlett). He filled a mission
to Germany and Switzerland in 1894-
97, presiding over the Frankfurt-a
Main conference. At home he has
acted as Ward president of Y. M.
M. I. A., and assistant Sunday school
superintendent; also as Ward choris-
ter. Ward superintendent of religion
classes, etc. In 1891 (Nov. 19th) he
married Sariah A. Smith, who bore
her husband six sons and two daugh-
ters. Bro. Bushman has followed
farming, school teaching and mer-
chandising for a living, first at Lehi,
Utah, and later at St. Joseph, Ari-
zona.

BUSHMAN, Preston Ammeron, an
active Elder in the St. Joseph Ward,
Snowflake Stake, Arizona, was born
Dec. 11, 1875, at Lehi, Utah county,
Utah, removed with his parents to
Arizona in 1878 and has resided at
St. Joseph ever since, taking an
active part in the building up of that
town. In 1898-1901 he filled a mis-
sion to the Southern States. After
his return he labored as a home
missionary and took an active part
in the Y. M. M. I. A. work as a
Stake officer. In 1902 (Oct. 1st) he
married Anna Smith, daughter of the
late Pres. Jesse N. Smith and Augu-
sta Outzen.

BUTLER, Henry, a High Coun-
cilor in the St. Johns Stake, Arizona,
was born June 15, 1844, at Redbourn,
Hertford, England, the son of John
Butler and Elizabeth Archer. His
parents joined the Church when he
was a boy, and he emigrated to

America with his parents in 1853,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"International" and the plains in
Jacob Gates' company. After spend-
ing several years in Kaysville, Davis
county, Salt Lake City, and other
places, he settled more permanently
at Payson, Utah county, but after-
wards moved to Arizona. He was or-
dained an Elder Dec. 2, 1872, by
Samuel H. B. Smith and married
Harriet Belinda Russell. In 1885
(Feb. 1st) he was ordained a Seventy
by John R. Hewlett, and he was or-
dained a High Priest March 9, 1901,
by David K. Udall, and set apart
as an alternate High Councilor in
the St. Johns Stake. He afterwards
became a regular member of said
High Council.

BUTLER, John Low, the second
Bishop of Spanish Fork, Utah co.,
Utah, was born April 8, 1808, in Ken-
tucky, the son of James and Charity
Butler. He was baptized March 9,
1835, gathered with the saints to
Ray county, Mo., in 1836, and moved
to Daviess and Caldwell counties. To-
gether with the rest of the saints
he was expelled from Missouri in the
winter of 1838-39. Next he settled
in Illinois in 1840 and there passed
through the difficulties and perse-
cutions which the saints had to en-
counter in that State. He migrated to
Utah in 1852 and was ordained a
Bishop and set apart to preside over
the Spanish Fork Ward in 1856. This
office he filled at the time of his
death, which occurred April 10, 1860,
at Spanish Fork, after a lingering ill-
ness. He was 52 years and 2 days
old when he died, and left a large
family to mourn his loss. He car-
ried with him to the grave the affec-
tions and confidence of all the mem-
bers of his Ward.

BYBEE, Robert Lee, first counse-
lor in the presidency of the Bing-
ham Stake, was born May 4, 1838,

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in Clay county, Indiana, the son of
Byram Bybee and Betsy Lane. He
came to Utah with his parents in
1851, was mail carrier for a number
of years, and resided at Manti, San-
pete county. In the spring of 1858
he went to Salmon river to rescue
the settlers who were in danger of
being killed by Indians. He also
took an active part in the Echo
Canyon campaign. In 1857 (March
19th) he married Jane Miller and in
1869 (Oct. 31st) he married Harriet
Raymond, who bore him twenty-one
children. Bro. Bybee became a
settler of Menan, Bingham county,
Idaho, in 1883. Here he acted as
presiding Elder of the branch and
afterwards became Bishop of Menan.
When the Bingham Stake of Zion
was organized June 9, 1895, he
was chosen as second counselor
to President James E. Steele.
Bro. Bybee also served in the Idaho
legislature. He has followed mer-
chandising, school teaching and
farming for a living and resided
successively in Smithfield, Logan,
Ogden, Salt Lake City and Manti
(Utah) and Menan (Idaho).

BYWATER, George Gwillym, a
prominent and talented Elder in
the Church, was born Nov. 15, 1828,
in the parish of Bedwelly, Glamor-
ganshire, Wales, the son of George
Bywater and Elinor Gwillym. Be-
coming a convert to "Mormonism"
he was baptized and confirmed Dec.
20, 1848, by John E. Jones at Garnd-
duffaith, Monmouthshire, England.
In February, 1849, he was ordained
to the office of a Deacon and to
that of a Priest in April following.
At a general conference of the Welsh
Mission held at Merthyr Tydfil, May
29th and 30th, 1849, a conference
was organized in the county of
Brecknockshire, and Elder John E.
Jones, Phillip Sykes and G. G. By-
awter were appointed to preside over
it, the former as president and the
two latter as his counselors. Brother

Bywater labored in that conference
until July 13, 1851, when he was
appointed general book agent, secre-
tary and treasurer of the Monmouth-
shire conference, under the presi-
dency of Elder Thomas Giles. He
continued in those positions until
Jan. 4, 1852, when he was called
to labor in the Western Glamorgan-
shire conference. Jan. 18, 1852, he
attended a quarterly conference held
in Trades Hall, Swansea, where he
received the appointment of first

counselor to Robt. Evans, who at
the same meeting was appointed
president of that conference. He
occupied that position until Feb. 4,
1854, Avhen he, having been released
from all his labors in his native
land with permission to gather with
the Saints to Utah, embarked with
a company of Saints on board the
ship "Golconda" at Liverpool. He
was appointed clerk of the company
over the ocean, and commissary for
that years' emigration. He arrived
in Salt Lake City Oct. 24th of the
same year. Nov. 27, 1854, he was
married to Martha Jones, eldest
daughter of Rees and Martha Jones,
by Bishop Shadrach Roundy, of the
Sixteenth Ward, and afterwards,
(Oct. 11, 1855) sealed in the En-

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dowment House. By her he had five
sons and two daughters. He was
ordained an "Apostle of the Seven-
ties" Dec. 29, 1855, under the hands
of William Carmichael and made
a member of the 25th quorum. He
participated in the various services
incident to the Echo Canyon cam-
paign and the "general move" during
the fall and winter of 1857, and the
spring, summer and fall of 1858.
Sept. 4, 1860, he was called upon
to take a mission to Europe. To fill
this he left Salt Lake City Sept.
28, 1860, and arrived in Liverpool
Dec. 12th following. Dec. 29th, he
received his appointment to labor in
the Cheltenham District, under the
direction of Elder William Gibson,
but was shortly afterwards appointed
to labor in Wales, his native country,
and the Cardiff conference was as-
signed him as his local field of
labor, under the presidency of Elder
Thomas E. Jeremy, president of
the Church in the principality of
Wales. May 14, 1862, he was as-
signed the presidency of the Gla-
morgan conference, as well as that
of counselor to Elder Jeremy. In the
latter capacity he traveled through
the conferences of North and South
Wales as circumstances required.
May 22, 1864, he was released from
his labors abroad to return home
to Zion after an absence of four
years. He sailed from Liverpool with
a company of Saints on board the
ship "Manchester," in charge of El-
der Jeremy; himself and Joseph Bull,
sen., assisting him as counselors. He
arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 4,
1864. Here he resided until March
22; 1868, when he was called on a
home mission and appointed to
labor in Utah county, in connection
with Elders Abraham O. Smoot,
Elijah F, Sheets, Joseph F. Smith
and others. During the two years
he remained in Utah county he dis-
charged the duties of city council-
man, director in the Provo Co-ope-
rative Mercantile Institution, presi-
dent of the Provo Library and Lite-

rary Association and vice-president
of the Mechanics' and Gardeners'
Club. July 27, 1869, he was called
to fill a vacancy in the council of
the 34th quorum of Seventy, created
by the death of Elder Taylor. Feb.
23, 1870, he was called from that
field of labor by Pres. Brigham
Young, to enter the service of the
Utah Central Railway as conductor,
which position he filled until May 9,
1870. He was then called to go on
another mission to Europe, to which
call he responded, leaving Salt Lake
City June 6th and arriving in Liver-
pool June 27th of that year. The
first appointment he received after
his arrival in Europe was to preside
over the Sheffield conference, but in
consequence of ill health he was
removed to Wales. August 1st, he
was appointed to preside over the Gla-
morgan conference, but continued ill
health necessitated an early release
from his labors abroad. Nov. 16,
1870, he embarked with two other
Elders and a small company of
Saints on board the steamship "Man
hattan," and arrived in Salt Lake
City Dec. 11th of the same year.
At the April conference, 1872, he
was called with nine other Elders
to labor as home missionaries in
the Salt Lake Stake of Zion. He
filled, with but few exceptions, all
his appointments in that capacity
for a period of twelve years. Dec.
9, 1878, he was chosen to fill a
vacancy in the council of the 8th
quorum of Seventy, and when the
reorganizations of the quorums were
effected, he was removed from the
8th quorum to the 3rd quorum to
fill a vacancy in the council of the
the latter quorum, where he remained
until his death. Upon his return from
Europe, Pres. Brigham Young de-
sired him to re-enter the service
of the Utah Central Railway Com-
pany, which he did. From March
18th to June 12th, 1871, he labored
as machinist, then as locomotive
engineer to May, 1862, then as ma-
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15, 1883, from which time he was
master mechanic of the Utah Cen-
tral Railway. Brother Bywater died
suddenly at his home in the Seven-
teenth Ward Dec. 18, 1889. Elder By-
water was universally known as a
great reader, a profound thinker, an
able speaker, a true friend and an
honest man; his integrity as an Elder
in the Church was never quest-
ioned.

BYWATER, Henry Gwillym, a
member of tlie 3rd quorum of
Seventy and an active Elder in
the Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake
City, is a son of George Bywater
and Elinor Gwillym, and was born
at Peny-daren, near Merthyr Tydfil,
Glamorganshire, South Wales, Dec.

26, 1834, and baptized on the 7th
and confirmed on the 9th of March,
1848, by Elder John E. Jones, at
Garnddif faith, Monmouthshire, Eng-
land. He was ordained to the office
of a Deacon in 1851, and to that
of an Elder at a conference held
at Newport, Monmouthshire, England,
April 6, 1856. He was appointed a
traveling Elder in the Herefordshire
conference, where he labored one
year, and in 1857 was appointed to
succeed Andrew P. Shumway as
traveling Elder in the Cheltenham

conference, in which capacity he
labored twelve montlis. He also
labored six months in a new field,
where there were no Saints, and
baptized fifteen persons. In 1858 he
was released to go home to sustain
his father's family. From that time
until 1868, he acted as a local Elder
and Teacher in the Abersychan and
Hereford branches. In September,
1868, he emigrated with his family
to New York, acting there as a
Teacher in the different wards, and
as president of the first district of
the Williamsburg branch until the
spring of 1872, when he was ap-
pointed president of the branch, then
numbering about four hundred Saints,
succeeding Elder William Serial, who
emigrated to Utah in 1873. Subse-
quently he was appointed president
of the New York conference by
Pres. Wm. C. Staynes, who was then
in charge of the Eastern States
Mission. The conference embraced
New York, Long Island, Rhode Is-
land, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Connecticut. Sept. 11, 1883, he left
New York with his family and a
company of Saints under the presi-
dency of P. S. Goss, and arrived
in Salt Lake City on the 17th.
Oct. 30, 1883, he and his family
were rebaptized and in Feb., 1884,
he removed to the Nineteenth Ward,
where he acted as Ward Teacher,
counselor to the president of the
7th quorum of Elders, president of
the Y. M. & Y. L. M. I. A., etc.
In April, 1885, he and his wife, to
whom he was first married in Eng-
land, Dec. 26, 1860, received their
endowments in the Logan Temple.
April 19, 1885, he was received into
the prayer circle which met at
the Historian's Office, Salt Lake
City, under the presidency of Elder
A. M. Musser. Jan. 14, 1887, he was
ordained into the 3rd quorum of
Seventy by Rodney C. Badger. In
September, 1886, he moved back to
the Seventeenth Ward, where he now
acted as Ward teacher. Brother By-
water died May 16, 1898, in Salt

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Lake City. His wife (Sarah Jane
James By water), who bore him two
sons and three daughters, died of
exophthalmic goitre and heart disease
in Salt Lake City, Feb. 18, 1888.

CANNON,, Sarah Jane Jenne, wife
of Geo. Q. Canmon, was barn Sept.
11, 1839, ait Campden, Caniaida, the
daughter of Benjamin Jenne and
Sanah Snyder. She migrated to Utah
in 1848, crossing the plains in Wii-
lard Richard^s company with Frank-
lin D. Richards as captain of

fifty. En rouite for the Valley she was
baptized in Willardi Riaha.rd'is com-
baptized in the Platte river in the sum-
mer of 1848, and arrived in the Val-
ley Oat. 10, 1848, and settled in the
14th Ward. tSIhe was married to Geo.
Q. Cannon April 11, 1858, and subse-
quently became the mother of seven
of his children. Sister Cannicn has
been a dil'igent and successful Relief
Sicciety worker for many years. Sihe
belonged to the first icrganization of
that kind in the 14th Ward and after
sih^e moved to the Farmer's Ward in
1878, and located on tihe Cannon Farm,
'she was chosen second counselor to
Elmma S. Woodruff in the Farmer's
Ward Relief Society. Commencing
with 1893, when the Salt Lake Tem-

ple was dedicated, she was called to
labor as a Temple worker and contin-
ued in that calling for twenty years.
When the Cannon Ward was organized
in 1896, she was chosen president of
the Relief Society in that Ward, and
continued in that office till 1901, when
she became first counselor to Sister M.
tsabiella Home in the Salt Lake Stake
Relief Society organization. This posi-
ti.cn she held until 1904. In 1892, she
was chosen as a member of the gen-
eral board of National Wpmen's Relief
Society, which position she still holds.
From 1891 to 1901 she held the posi-
tioin of 3rdi vice-president Sn sal "i cr-
ganization. Sister Cannon bias trav-
eled very extensively in the various
Stakes of Zion in the interest of Re-
lief Society work. In 1902, sih« was
a delegate to Washington, D. C, rep-
resting the women of Utah. Sister
Cannoin is the mother of seven chil-
dren, namely, Frank J., Angus J., Hugn
J., Rosannah O Irviine, Joseph J., Pres-
ton J. and Karl Q.

CHAMBERLAIN, Solomon, one of
the original Utah pioneers of 1847,
was born July 30, 1788, at Old Canaan,
Connecticut, son of Joel and Sarah
Chamberlain. He became a member
of the Church at an early day and
was one of the first Saints who set-
tled in Jackson county. Mo., where
he became subject to the mobbings
and persecutions in 1833 and was
expelled from the county. He pro*
cured a rifle, three pistols, a broadsword
and six dirks with which he armed
himself. He also procured a full
suit of buckskin with a wolf skin
cap, tanned with the ears on to
resemble that animal. In this rig he
was ready to go back to Jackson
county and execute vengeance on
God's enemies, and he styled him-
self "old buckskin." The mobocrats
of Missouri took him prisoner; he
told his persecutors that if they
would give him a good supper and
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the morning. After he awoke, he
went out and told them he was
ready for his fate, but as they had
been drinking and carousing all night,
they damned him and told him to get
out of their way. In 1847 he was
selected as one of the original pio-
neers and traveled under the direc-
tion of Pres. Brigham Young to G. S.
.L. Valley. On the journey he suf-
fered considerable with sickness. Bro.
Chamberlain was also one of the
pioneers of Southern Utah, being one
of the first settlers of Parowan, Ce-
dar City, Beaver and Santa Clara. At
the latter place his house was wash-
ed away in the flood of 1862, and he
saved his own life by climbing a tree.
Subsequently h emoved to Washing-
ton, Washington co., Utah, where
he died March 26, 1862.

CHIRISTENSEN, Arnfred John, the

sixth Bishop of Joseph, Sevier" co.,
Utalh, was born Dec. 15, 1882, at Co-
penhagen, Denmark, the son of Ohris-

tian L. Christensem and Marie Skaroe.
Together with his parents he emi-
grated to Utah in 1884, and located at
Ephraim, Sanpete co., where Arnfred
was reared and educateid. He was
baptized by SUmon T. Beck in the
Manti Temple when about eight years

of age, and soon afterwards ordained
to the lesser Priesthood. For years
hie acted as secretary of tlhe lesser
Priesthood in the Ephraim North
Ward. After graduating from the
Snow Academy at Ephraim in 1902,
he taught school one year at Manti,
after which he went to Joseph, Sevier
CO., as principal of the Joseplh public
scihools. He has already served in
this capacity eleven years. Ffom tht;
beginning Brother Christensen (who
was ordained an Elder in 1904, by
John S. Beal) tock an active part in-
the affairs of the Joseph Ward. Thub
he presided over the Ward Y. M. M. I.
A. and also acted as assistant super -
intendient in the Ward Sunday school.
Finally, on Dec. 11, 1909, he was or-
dained a High Priest and Bishop b\
Francis M. Lyman and set apart to
preside over the Joseph Wlard. In
1904, (Sept. 14th) Brother Chris*en-
sen married Elizabeth Hyatt, who has
borne him three children. The Bishop
is active also in secular matters, hav-
ing filled a numbeir of positions in
the interest of his fellownciiitizens,
thus (he served four years as president
cf the Joseph town council.

OHRISTENSIEN, James Arthur, the
fourtih Bishop of Redtnond., Sevier co.,
Ulbaih, was born Oot. 7, 1883, at Red-
mond, Sevier co., the son of Lewis P.
Christensen and Anna M. Hansen, He
was baptized Otat. 9, 1892, by Andrew
Halvorsen and confirmed the same day
by Hans Rasmussen. He was ordain-
ed an Elder by Joseph S. Thome and
crdained' a Seventy Stept. 18, 1904, by
Elrigham H. Roberts. In 1905-07 he
filled a mission to the Southern States,
laboring principailly in the State of
Kentucky, a part of the time as presi-
dent of the Kentucky iconference.
After his return home, he was chosen
as a ipresident of the 107t)h quorum of
Seventy and also appointed president
of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A., superin-
tendent of the Sunday school and Ward
clerk. He held these posiiticms till March
23, 1912, when he was ordained a High ;

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Priest and Bishop by Joseph F. Smitlh,
jun., and set apart to ipreside over the
Redmond Ward, succeeding Bishop
Martin Jensen; he had presided three
months before he was ord'ained. In

enty; filled a missiom to the North-
western States in 1891-93, laboring
principally in Kansas and Iowa. After
his return from that mission he la-
bored as a home missionary, and pres-

1904, (Sept. 7th), he married Ethel ident cf the Ward Y. M, M. I. A. In

Pearl Jensem (daughter of Charles
Jensen aind Annie Jensen) who has
borne her iiusband three children. By
avocation Bishop Chrisitetosen is a
farmer and stock raiser.

CHRISTENSEN, Johin, sieocnd coun-
selor in the presidency of the Sevier
Stake of Zion, was born Nov. 2, 1863,
at Miltoin, Morgan co., Utah, the son
of Hlans Christensen and Johanna M.
Poulsen. He was baptized June 6,
J872, by Peter O. Geertsen at Hunts-
ville, ordained a Teacher Jan. 7, 1877,
and lOrdained an Elder Oct. 19, 1881.
He removed with his parents to
Huntsville, Weber co., and thence to
Richfield, Sevier co., about 1873, which
has been his (permanent residence
ever since. Here he attended school
and was ordaimed to the lesser Priest-
hood, taking an active part in Church
matters from his early youth. He
was ordained a Seventy by Seymour
B. Young May 26, 1890, and became
a member of the 36th quorum of Sev-

1904-06, he filled a second mission
to the States, laboring principally in
Illinois and Michigan, ipresiding a part
of the time over the Mlichigan con-
ference. He returned home and be-
came superintendent of the Richflela
3rd Ward Sunday school. He was or-
dained a Higih Priest Dec. 20, 1908,
by John Henry S^mith and set apart as
a High Couincllor in the Sevier Stake;
served in that oapaeity till Sept. 18,
1910, when he was cihosen as second
counselor in the Sevier Stake presi-
dency. In 1898, (July 21st) he mar-
ried Francetty Butler, who has borne
him seven children, six of whom are
sit ill alive. Also in secular matters
Birother Cihristensen has been verj'
active and successful. He has labored
as a member of the Richfield city
council and is at the present time one
of the leading merchants of RicihfieW.

CHRISTENSON, Joseph, Bishop of
the Tenth Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born April 19,1865, at Ameri-

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can Fork, Utah county, Utah, the son
of Joseph Christenson and Johanna
Harling. He was baptized June 4,
1873, by James Hanson and confirmed
the following day by Simon Hanson.
He was ordained a Deacon in 1875
by Bishop Christian August Madsen
at Gunnison, Utah, a Priest July 29,
1877, by John Christenson (his fath-
er), a Seventy Aug. 9, 1884, by Rob-

ert G. Fraser, a High Priest Dec. 31,
1902, by Charles W. Penrose and a
Bishop Aug. 21, 1904, by Anthon H.
Lund. In 1886-88 he filled a success-
ful mission to Sweden and from
March, 1890, to December 6, 1896, he
labored as a home missionary in the
Salt Lake Stake of Zion. In 1894
he filled a special mission in the
Salt Lake Temple district in the in-
terest of Temple work. In 1896 and
1897 he acted as a counselor to Jos-
eph H. Felt, in the presidency of
the Salt Lake Stake Y. M. M. I. A.
He again labored as a home mission-
ary from 1897 to Dec. 31, 1902, when
he became a second counselor to
Bishop Adam Speirs of the Tenth
Ward. In 1890 (Sept. 24th) he mar-
ried Lillian R. Brown, by whom he
has had nine children, namely, Jos-
eph B., Lillian J., Harold J., Kenneth

B., Gertrude C, Anna Lucile, Ralph
H., Gordon B., and Milton B. For
many years Bishop Christenson has
been in the employ of the Church,
and is now the assistant recorder in
the Salt La/:e Temple. While on his
mission to Sweden he traveled most-
ly without purse or scrip and on his
missionary travels he learned to
know the Lord and His ways to a
higher degree of perfection than at
any other time. Under his adminis-
tration a number of people embraced
the gospel. He labored in the Carls-
krona, Christianstad and Helsingborg
branches. While he traveled as a
missionary in Sweden without money,
he was only asked to pay for one
meal, and this he settled for satisfac-
torily by letting the party have some
Church literature. Whenever he ask-
ed the people who entertained him
what he owed them, the answer
would almost invariably be "Nothing,
you are welcome." One of his ex-
traordinary experiences as a mission-
ary was the privilege granted him on
a certain occasion to preach in one
of the Swedish Lutheran churches
in SmS,land, Sweden. The pastor
happened to be out of town, and
Brother Christenson, who introduced
himself as a missionary from America,
was cordially invited to speak in the
church. His preaching on that oc-
casion, and his conversations after-
wards, seemed to leave a splendid
impression upon the people.

CHRISTIANSEN, S0ren, a member
of the High Council of the Sevier
Stake, and a resident of the Richfield
First Ward, was born March 23, 1868,
at Holdemsgaard, Albaek parish, Hj0r-
riing amt, Denmark, tihe son of Hans
Christensien and Maline Nielsen. He
emigrated with ihis parents to Utah
in 1869, crossing the Atlantic in the
steamship "Minnesota" and arrived at
Taylor's Switch, near Ogden, Sept. 6,
1869. After residing two years ai
EJphraim, the family located perraaji-

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ently at Richfield, Sevier co., where
Si0ren received a limited education
and helped his father on the farm.
He 'was baptized Aug. 18, 1872, by
J0rgen L. Hansen. Several years later
he was ordaiined a Priest by Bishop
Po'Ul Poulson. April 3, 1884, he was>
ordained an Elder by Elias Bilackburn,
andi shortly afterwards (April 9, 1884)
he wias ordained a Sevenity by Geo.
Teasdale and set aparc for a mission
to the Northern States. On this mis-
sion he labored principally :.n Minne-
sota and Dakota, returning home in

December, 1885. After his return, he
labored as a home missionary and
a Sunday school teacher. He was also
active in the 36tlh quorum of Seventy,
of which he was a member. Flor ten
years he served as chief clerk in the
mercantile house of James M. Peter-
son and Clcmipany at Richfield, and in
1898 he bought Tlheodore Brandley's
furniture store. Since that time he
has been a successful furniture
dealer. He is also a stock holder in
several home enterprises. Brother
Christiansen was ordained a High
Priest March 21, 1901, by Mathias F.
Cowley, and set apart as an alternate
member of the Sevier Stake High
Council; he became a regular member

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of tihat body Dec. 13, 1903. In 1907-09,
he filled a mission to Scandinavia,
laboring in tlie Christiania conference,
Norway. While on this mission he
wi}tnessed many marvelous manifesta-
tions of the power of God, principallv
in the healing of the sick, in fulfill-
ment of prophecies and promises
made to him by the Elder who set
him apart for his mission. In secular
'matters Biro. Christiansen has also
been very active and served a term
as city councilor in Riohfield. In 1887
(Nov. 18th) he married Amanda T. E.
Lund (daughter icf Niels R. Lund and
Henrietta L. Lorenzen) who has borne
him twelve children, nine of whom
are now living.

COOPER, Thomas, Bishop of Monroe
Sevier co., Utaih, was born June 17,
1834, at Hingham, Norfolk, England.
His father, Robert Oooper, was a
brick mason, and his mother, Ann
Thompson Cooper, helped to sup-
port the family by working in the
field. One of their son's learliest re-

collections is dncpiping wheat and other-
wise assisting his mother in farm-
ing. This was when he was seven
years old. Even at that tender age
his school days were over and he had
entered upon a life-long career of hard

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work. The father had less school-
ing than the son, for he could neither
read nor write. Bro. Cooper speaks
of his extreme youth as a period of
adversity, 'during which he often
lacked the common necessities of life.
His constitution was rather weak,
hiardly fitted for the kind of labor
that fell to his lot. At the age of
twelve he was apprenticed to a shoe-
maker, though he naturally inclined
towards carpentering and building.
After mastering ihis trade his labors
alternated between shoemaking ana
farming until he was sixteen, when on
June 26, 1850, he joined the Latter-day
Saints. He then settled down as a
shoemaker and resided for some
time at Norwich. On Sept. 5, 1853, he
married Eliza Ward, and in 1864 he
moved to London. Bound for Utah,
he sailed on the sihip "Hudson" June
3, 1864. The company of saints in
which he emigrated was presided over
by Elder John Kay. The Civil War
was in full blast at that time and'
Confederate cruisers were playing
hajvoc with Uniom commerce upon the
sieas. One of these cruisers, the
"Florida," ran the "^Hludson" diowiii:
three times in two days, but finding
that sihe was a British vessel did not
attempt to injure her. From New
York the emigrants proceeded to
Florence, Nebraska, where they were
met by Capt. Warren S. Snow with
ox teams. Bro. Cooper was very sick
on the plains, but recovered and
reached Salt Lake City, Nov. 3, 1864.
He spent the winter at Bountiful, liv-
ing with Thos. Bottrel, and then re-
turned to Salt Lake City, where ihe
went to wtcrk at shoemaking for Wil-
liam Jennings. living meanwhile with
Robt. Dye in the 20th Ward. The
summer of 1867 found him serving
in the Blackhiawk war in Sanpete
county as a member of Capt. Wm.
L. Binder's company. At Gunnison
ho quarried rock, burned lime and
helped to build a fort and barracks,
besides doing military duty. While

burning lime he and his comrades
were attacked about 10 o'clock one
night by Indians, who came down
upon them under cover of heavy ce-
dars and shot and killed Jolin Hay,
an estimable young man, whose death
was mucih deplored. Bro. Cooper re-
turned home in ithe fall. In the militia
he was first sergeant, then lieutenant,
and finally captain. He still worked
at shioemaking as an employee of
James L. Bunting, Knock B. Tripp and
others. During the excitement of the
"McKlean period" he served on the
special police force. September, 1872,
saw him on his way to Sevier county,
where 'he permanently settled. At
Monroe, he worked for the co-ox>erative
store and for John B. Hesse. He be-
came head teacher of the Ward and
seccnd counselor to Bishop Harris and
after the latter's death in 1884 swc-
ceeded him as Bishop of Monroe, hold-
ing that office until 1891. Bro. Cooper
held every grade of Priesthood up to
the loffice of a Higji Priest except-
ing that of Deacon, and was always
an earnest worker in the Sunday
schools. He was a member of the
county court one term, and justice
of the peace three terms. He was
the husband of three wives, two ot
whom, Mary Ann Riae Winters and
Mary Ann Funnell, he married in the
summer lOf 1868. He had no living
children, but reared nine. Bishop
Cooper died Nov. 12, 1910, at Mon-
roe.

COOPER, Eliza Ward, wife ot
Thomas Cooper, was born May 18,
1830, at Hemwell, Norfolk, England,
the daughter of Benjamin Ward and
Hannah Jex. She was baptized in
Amgust, 1852, by James Hart, became
the wife of Thomas Cooper Sept. 5,
1853, and emigrated to Utali in 1864,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Hud-
son," which sailed from Liverpool,
June 3, 1864, and arived at New York,
July 19, 1864. From Wyoming, Ne-
braska, she crossed the plains in Ciapt

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Warren S. Snow's company, which ar-
rived in Salt Lake City, November 2,
1864. After spending the first win-
ter at Bountiful, the family resided
for some time in Salt Lake City, ana
came to Monroe, Sevier co., in 1872.

Here Sister Cooper ihias been an act-
ive tea'cher in the Wlard Relief So-
ciety for many years, and for &ome
time she acted as first coumselor in
the presidency of the Ward Relief So-
ciety.

CRISMON, Charles, jun, a Utah
pioneer of 1847, was born June 14,
1844, at Macedonia, Hancock county,
III., the son of Charles Crismon and
Mary Hill. When but about two
years of age he came to G. S. L. Val-
ley with his parents in 1847, and
his life has ever since been identi-
fied with the State of Utah. The
Crismon family remained in the
Valley about two years, and then
went to California in 1849, settling
temporarily on the American river,
where the senior Crismon engaged
in mining. In 1851 he became one
of the pioneer "Mormon" settlers of
San Bernardino, Cal., and was among
its leaders in subjugating that part
of California to the needs of the

people, building mills and aiding in
many ways in the development of
the resources of the country. When
the San Bernardino settlement was
broken up in 1858, owing to the
Johnston Army troubles, the Cris-
mons and the majority of the other
"Mormon" settlers at San Bernar-
dino returned to Utah. Charles Cris-
mon, jun, the subject of this sketch
received as good an education as
the settlements of San Bernardino
and Salt Lake City afforded in the
fifties. At the age of fifteen he brought
a drove of sheep from the Missouri
river across the plains and moun-
tains to G. S. L .Valley, arriving
with them in Salt Lake City in the
fall of 1862. In 1862, when Pres Lin-
coln called for volunteers from Utah,
Bro. Crismon enlisted in Lot Smith's

company whch went out to protect
the mail route from the Indians,
leavipg Salt Lake City May 1, 1862,
destined for Chimney Rock. Later
Charles Crismon turned his atten-
tion to sheep raising. He went to
California and brought a drove of
sheep from that State to Utah in
1863. In addition to the sheep he
also brought with him a quantity of
bees which are said to be the first

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bees introduced into Utah. On his
trip he was for seven days and seven
nights without water ,and the hostile
attitude of the Indians compelled
him to push on at his best speed to
Utah. Besides the torture and
thirst which he and his animals suf-
fered in crossing the desert, he lost
1500 head of sheep, famished by
the want of water and stolen by
the Indians. Charles Crismon and
his brother George, together with his
father and Elisha M. Weiler, were
the first to recognze the possibili.
ties attending the raisng of sheep in
Utah. They established the migra-
tory movement of sheep from one
range in summer to another in win-
ter, which has proved to be a great
success to the sheepraisers of Utah.
In 1868 he made a second trip to
the East and successfully brought
another large drove of sheep across
the mountains and plains from Iowa.
In addition to his sheep business,
Bro. Crismon successfully undertook
the business of railroad contracting.
Thus the firm of which he was a
member built twenty miles of the
Bitter Creek division and sixteen
miles of the Muddy division of the
Union Pacific Railroad, and later
built 75 miles of the Oregon Short
Line Railroad and a large portion
of the Park City branch from Park
City to Echo; still later they built
a part of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railway. Bro. Crismon is also known
as a successful mining man and was
among the first to develop the re.
sources of the Tintic District; he
purchased from prospectors and de-
veloped the great Mammoth Mine
at Tintic to a depth of over 400 feet.
At Coalville, Summit co., he opened
up valuable coal mines, one of
which was known as the Crismon
mine, now owned by the Ontario Coal
and Mining Co. In June, 1871, Bro.
Crismon married Elizabeth Cain
(daughter of Joseph Cain and Eliza-

beth Whittaker) who bore her hus-
band six children. Bro. Crismon is
universally known for his generosity
and good will toward his fellow-
man. Of late his health has beea
failing.

CRilSMON, Elizabeth Turner Cain,

a member of the General Board of
Relief Socieities and the wife of
Charles Crimson, jun., was born Aipril
14, 1849, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She
was baptized by Joseph Home wihen
about eight years of age and has
always taken an active part in Ch.urci>
affairs. She has been a Sunday school

teacher for many years and a Relief
Society worker since she was a little
girl. In June, 1871, s(he was a little
girl. In June, 1871, she became the
wife of Chas. Crismon, to whom she
bore six cihiUdren, namely, Wm. C,
Caiarles C, Florence E., Joseph C.^
Geo. W. and Alene S. Sister Crismon
is a charter member of the Utah Kin-
dergarden Association, and on May 8,
1910, she was chosen as a member
of the General Board of Relief So-
cieties.

DASTRUP, John, Bishop of the
Sigurd Ward, Sevier co., Uta<h, waS"
born Feb. 18, 1867, at Moroni, Sanpete

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CO., Utah, the son of Hans Lorentz
Dastrup and Anna Marie Andersen.
He was baptized April 19, 1877, by
3-ars Svendson ?t Moroni, ordained a
Priest while young, came with Ihis
father's family from Moroni, 1877, and
settled in the Sevier Valley, where
subseqiuently the Sigurd Wkrd came
into existence, being originally a part
•CT Vermillion. This was in 1877. For
many years he took an active part in
Sunday school work and was assistant
superintendent of the Vermiillion
Ward Sunday scihool; he also acted
as secretary, treasurer and president
of the Vermillicn Irrigation Company,

served as school trustee, road super-
visor, member of the Board of the
Otto Creek Reservoir Company, etc.
He was ordained a High Priest May
22. 1887, by Albert K. Thurber and
set apart as a counselor to Bislhop
Peter Godfredsen, of Vermillion; he
filled that iposition until the Sigurd
Wlard was organizd in 1895, when he
was ordained a Bishop by Francis M.
Lyman and set apart to preside over
said "Ward, which position he still
holds. In 1899 (Feb. 20th) the married
Minnie Snow, daughter of Bernard
Snow and Sarah Gledhill. This mar-
riage has been blessed with five

clhildren, namely, Mida, John Owen,
Mary Beatrice, Reed amdi Richard
Harvey. Ttoe Bishop is a farmer and
stock raiser by occupation.

DAVIS, Elizabeth Llewelyn, a hand-
cart pioneer of 1856, was born June
30, 1845, at Merthyr-Tydfil, Wales,
the daughter of Edward Llewelyn
and Mary Howells. She became a
member of the Church in 1853 and
emigrated to Utah in 1856, crossing
the Atlantic in the steamer "Esterlin"
and the plains in Capt. Edward
Bunker's handcart company. To-
gether with her mother, two brothers
and one sister she walked all the
way across the plains. After stop-
ping a few days in Salt Lake City,
she moved to Spanish Fork, where
she resided five years. Thence she
went to Wales, Sanpete co., where
she lived another five years, and
then removed to Goshen where she
has resided ever since. In 1876
(April 16th) she married Wm. Ben-
jamin Davis, by whom she had four
children, namely, Mary, Arthur, Ed-
mund and Ethel. Her husband died
Jan. 25, 1889. During the past
twelve years Sister Davis has been
an active worker in the Relief So-
ciety of the Goshen Ward.

DAVIS, William Rees, the second

Bishop of Wales, Sanpete co., Utah,
was born Aug. 13, 1869, at Wales, San-
pete CO., the son of William Davis and
Maria Rees. He was ordained a
Deacon when about fifteen years old
and acted as secretary of tihe Deacons
quorum; subsequently he filled the
iposition of secretary in the Ward
Sabbath school and Y. M. M. I. A. He
was ordained an Elder when 21 years
cf age and acted as secretary of the
Elders quorum, was ordained a
Seventy Oct. 23, 1896, by Geo.
Reynolds in Salt Lake City, and filled
a mission to Great Britain in 1896-98,
laboring as a traveling Elder in the
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home he renewed his labors in the in-
terest of the Church, acting in the
Sabbat/h school as superintendent un-
til 1903, when he succeeded the late
John E. Rees as Bishop of Wales,
which position Ihe still holds.

DESPAIN, Henry Waters, an active
Elder in the Church, was born Sept.
28, 1847, in Calhoun county, 111., the
son of Solomon Joseph Despain and
Ruth Amelia Newell. At the age of
eight years ihe moved with his parents
to Arkansas, where he was baptized
in February, 1857, by Isaiah M.

Ct>ombs, and came with Ihis parents
to Utah in 1861, crossing the plains in
David H. Cannon's company. He
settled in that part of Cottonwood
which is now known as Granite and
worked in the canyons, hauling loigs,
etc., for a number of years. He was
ordained an Edder in 1870 and mar-
rifcd Grace Probes July 17, 1873. In
1880 he married Johanna Westover.
By these two wives he is the father
of twenty children. In 1876 he was
called on a colonization mission to
Arizona and became one of the
founders of Snowflake. While resid-
ing in Arizona he labored considerably
as an Indian missionary. He returned

to Granite in 1907 and was ordained
a High Priest Feb. 17, 1912, by
Willard C. Burgon. During the past
two years he has been busily engaged
in doing Temple work.

D I MONO, Thomas Walter, Bishop
of the Bennion Ward, Salt Lake coun-
ty, Utah, was born March 22, 1867,
at Crewkerne, Somersetshire, Eng-
land, the son of Henry Dimond and
Elizabeth Jane Webber. He was bap-
tized in Sept., 1880, by John Lee Jones,
went to school until he was twelve
years of age, and after working one
year in a web factory, he emigrated
to America in the ship "Wisconsin,"
leaving England Oct. 23, 1890, and
arriving in Salt Lake City Nov. 11,
1880. After settling temporarily in
West Jordan, he came to Taylorsville
in 1881, and after a few months'
stay in Taylorsville, he went to Wyo-
ming and started in the sheep busi-
ness, which he followed for about
twenty-nine years. In 1910 Ue took
charge of the Murray Implement Co.
and is now carrying on a successful
business in Murray City, Utah. He
was ordained to the office of a Priest
in 1892 by Bishop Heber Bennion; an
Elder March 15, 1896, by Wm, Bate-
man; a Seventy Oct. 15, 1908, by
Seymour B. Young, and a High Priest
Oct. 16, 1905, by President Joseph P.
Smith, and at the same time set
apart as Bishop of the Bennion Ward.
In 1896 (Oct. 15th) he married Nora
Bennion, the daughter of Samuel R.
Bennion and Mary Panter. She be-
came the mother of seven children,
three boys and four girls, and died
at Bennion Dec. 29, 1909. Brother
Dimond left for a mission to Great
Britain Oct. 15, 1898, laboring in the
Bristol conference; he also presided
over the Channel Islands (Jersey
and Guernsey) for six months; was
secretary of the Bristol conference
one and one half years and returned
home Jan. 2, 1901. He was assistant
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for a few years, and was superinten-
dent of the Ward Religion Class for
one year. In 1913 (June 26th) he
married Laura Bennion, a sister of
his former wife.

DORIUS, Charles Riolfson, the sec-
ond Bishop of the Ephraim South
■Wjard, Sanpete co., Utalh, was born
July 10, 1858, at Ephraim, the son of
Carl C. N. Dorius and Ellen Goirine
Rolfson. He was baptized when
about eight years old, married Miss
Margrethe Nielsen Dec. 11, 1879,

the Ephraim South Ward, succeeding
his father in that capacity. Bro.
Dorius has filled a number of secular
offices, and has from his early
youtih been active in all public affairs
both ecclessiastioal and otherwise.

DOUGALL, William Bernard, a
prominent Elder in the Church, and a
resident in the 17th Ward Salt Lake
City, was bom May 3, 1843, in Liver-
pool, Lancashire, England, the son
of John Dougall and Catherine Mac
Swein. His parents and ancestors

igxaduated from the B. Y. Academy
and filled many positions ecclesiastic-
ally and secularly dn Ephraim. Thus
he has served as city councilor, city
treasurer and school trustee, etc. In
1886-88 he filled a mission to Norway,
during which he walked all the way
froim Hammer to Trondhjem and
back, traveling without purse and
scrip over Dovrefield. He was driveii
out of Roraas in the dead' of winter.
Several years later he was ordained
a High Priest by Canute Peterson and
set apart as an alternate member of
the High Council of the South San-
pete Stake. He was ordained a
Bishop May 13, 1894, by Francis M.
Lyman and set apart to preside over

were Scotch. His mother (then a
widow) embraced the gospel in 1853,
in which year also her son, William,
was baptized. The exact date of his
baptizm was Aug. 5, 1853, and John
S. Fullmer was the administrator.
Two years later he emigrated to
Utah with his mol;Jier, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Juventa", which
sailed from Liverpool, England,
March 31, 1855, and arrived at Phila-
delphia May 5, 1855. He crossed the
plains in Noah T. Guyman's company,
which arrived in Salt Lake City
Sept. 7, 1855. The family settled at
Springville, Utah co., and in 1861
William, responding to a call from
the Church authorities, drove an ox

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team to the Missouri river and back
as a Church teamster, going after
the poor. He made the round trip
in Joseph W. Young's company and
was gone five months. In 1862 and
1863 he made trips to Carson City
and Sacramento, California, and in
the spring of 1864 to Los Angeles,
Cal., all by mule teams. In 1865 he
learned telegraphy and w^as counseled
to perfect himself in that art by
Pres. Brigham Young. In 1866 he
was called on an Indian expedition to
Sanpete and Sevier counties, return-
ing in July. In December of the same
year, he -was called to take a posi-
tion on the Home Telegraph (later
the Deseret) Line, and he was ap-
pointed to take charge of the office
at Parowan, Iron co. He remained
at Parowan till May, 1867, when he
returned to Salt Lake City and was
appointed to take charge of the
Deseret Telegraph Office in July fol-
lowing. From that time he was for
many years continuously connected
with that institution, becoming secre-
tary in 1874 and superintendent in
1876, which position he occupied un-
til March 1, 1900. Bro. Dougall was
ordained an Elder in 1861 and a Sev-
enty in 1875. After serving for fif-
teen yeais as a clerk of the eighth
quorum of Seventy he became one
of the presidents of said quorum in
1890. Bro. Dougall was ordained a
High Priest and served as first coun-
selor to Wm. Asper, in the Salt Lake
Stake of Zion, from 1904 to 1906. In
1900 he filled a mission to Great
Britain. Bro. Dougall was also a pro-
minent figure in military affairs. In
the Nauvoo Legion he acted as bug-
ler to Gen. Robt. T. Burton and
served during the Black Hawk war
under Col. Heber P. Kimball. Dur-
ing the latter part of his life Elder
Dougall was especially interested in
the L. D. S. High School in Salt Lake
City, being one of its founders. The
following is extracted from his own
writings: "In July, 1886, being great-

ly interested in having a school in
Salt Lake City, similar to the B. Y.
Academy at Provo. I had several
conversations with Karl G. Maeser
on the matter. He agreed to supply
a teacher, if a suitable hall could be
had, as he was greatly in favor of
such a school being started. We
concluded to secure Bro. Daniel H.
Well's old school house, situated
near the Z. C. M. I., if nothing better
could be had. I then drafted a sub-
scription paper as a preparatory step
to raising funds wherewith to buy
the needed furniture, and I headed
the list myself with $75. The first
person I handed it to was Wm, Ros-
siter who put down $50 as his dona-
tion. I then went over to the Gardo
House to interview Pres. Angus M.
Cannon, who resided there tempo-
rarily on the underground. He heart-
ily endorsed the movement. Next I
started out soliciting subscriptions on
general principles and met with ex-
cellent success, the amount of $970
being raised, which was sufficient
to start the school. I then wrote
to Pres. Geo. Q. Cannon, who was
also on the underground, informing
him of what we had done. He also
approved of our actions and sent me
a subscription, suggesting also that
I communicate with Pres. Taylor
and ask for a part of the Social Hall
for the school. Writing Pres. Taylor,
as had been suggested, he replied
by expressing himself much pleased
with our actions and proposed that
the lower room in the Social Hall be
placed at the disposal of the school.
My next move was to inform those
who had subscribed money and a
number of us met at James Dwyer's
store, on which occasion Alonzo E.
Hyde and I were apointed a commit-
tee to wait on Angus M. Cannon, in
order to have him accept of the
proposal made by the First Presi-
dency and appoint a committee from
the subscribers to take general
charge of matters. Bro. Cannon ap-

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pointed Wm. B. Dougall, Wm. A.
Rossiter, Alonzo E. Hyde, Spencer
Clawson, Frank Cope, Wm. H. Rowe
and Rodney C. Badger (with Angus
M. Cannon as chairman) as a com-
mittee to take charge. An executive
committee was also named, consisting
of Wm. B. Dougall, Wm. A. Rossiter,
Alonzo E. Hyde and Spencer Clawson.
We ordered the necessary furniture
for opening school and on Nov. 15,
1886, the Latter-day Saints College
was opened in Salt Lake City with
Karl G. Maeser in charge, assisted by
Willard Done." The growth and suc-
cess of this school now known as the
Later-day Saints University stands as
a grand monument to the earnestness
and faithfulness of Wm. B. Dougall,
who, as stated, took the initiative
step in founding that noble institu-
tion of learning: it has indeed proven
a great blessing to thousands of the
youth of Zion. Bro. Dougall served
as a member of the board of trustees
of the school and took a most active
part in the affairs of the same until
the time of his death, which occurred
in Salt Lake City April 9, 1909.

DOUGALL, Maria Young, counselor
in the General Presidency of the
Y. L. M. I. A. of the whole Church,
was born Dec. 10, 1849, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, the daughter of Pres.
Brigham Young and Clarissa Ross.
The following sketch of her life is
principally culled from the History
of the Y. L. M. I. A. Sister Maria Y.
Dougall descends on both sides of
her parents from old New England
stock, her ancestors on the father's
side being among the colonizers of
Massachusetts as early as 1720; on
her mother's side, Betsy Ross, one
of her family was the fashioner of the
first American flag. Sister Dougall
was raised in the Lion House, Salt
Lake City, and her childhood was
passed amidst the difficulties and
hardships among the early settlers of
Utah, although her education, even

under these circumstances, was not
neglected; the wisdom of her illus-
trious father having provided a pri-
vate teacher and school-room for
his children, where an excellent rudi-
mentary education could be acquired.
Among the studies taught was physi-
cal culture, with the early appliances
invented by Dr. Dio Lewis. The

quaint, single seats are now all de-
stroyed; but there are still extant
some of the back-boards which were
used in those early and primitive
"gymnastics." A private music teach-
er was always a part of the family
life, the first piano and organ having
been drawn across the plains with
ox teams. Not a daughter of Pres.
Young lacked the musical ear, and
most of them were, for those days,
superior musicians. Mrs. Dougall was
one of David O. Calder's solo singers
in his famous pioneer singing school.
All this was before high schools in
Utah were known, and Mrs. Dougall
was married before it became pos-
sble to pursue the so-called "higher
education." When eight years old,
little Maria's mother died, and her
subsequent life-training, until she was
married, was under the judicious care
of that excellent and beloved mother

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in Israel, Sister Zina D, H. Young,
to whose teachings she is indebted
for much of the solidity of character
and the good judgment which she
possesses. June 1, 1868, she became
the wife of Wm. B. Dougall, who
was for years superintendent of the
Deseret Telegraph Company, a young
man of great sagacity and refine-
ment. Her marriage was a happy
one, and five children were born to
her. Sister Dougall has lived all
her life in Salt Lake City and from
her early years has been earnestly
engaged in doing good, both in public
and in private life. She was present
at that memorable meeting in the
Lion House, Nov. 28, 1869, and was
chosen as one of the counselors to
her sister, Ella Y. Empey. In 1879
she was made president of the 17th
Ward K- L. M. I. Association and
acted as such till she was chosen
as first counselor to Mary A. Freeze,
the first president of the Salt Lake
Stake Y. L. M. I. A. from this
position in 1887 she was called to
become first counselor to Pres. El-
mina S. Taylor. She acted for six
years as first counselor to Sister
Julia Howe in the Primary Associa-
tion of the 17th Ward, and Sister
Howe deeply regretted the necessity
for her resignation from that position,
to take up the heavier burdens in-
volved in the general work of the
Mutual Improvement Association. She
was also connected for several years
with the Wpman's Co-operative Store,
acting as vice-president to Pres. M.
Isabella Home. In 1893 Sister Dougall
was called to act as a worker in the
Salt Lake Temple at the completion
of that great edifice, and here
she has remained at her post in
season and out of season. When the
Bureau of Information was opened
Mrs. Dougall became one of the
guides who gave their time free of
charge for the instruction of tourists
who visit Salt Lake City. All this,
too, in addition to her duties in the

Mutual Improvement Association and
the many loving burdens which rest
upon her as mother and home-maker.
Sister Dougall has on four different
occasions attended the great con-
vention of Council of Women, once at
Chicago, once at Omaha, and once
at Washington and New York. She
attended also the Suffrage Conven-
tion in 1887 held at Washington, D. C.
in company with Sister Sarah M.
Kimball, Sister Dougall being chair-
man of the executive committee of
the State association. The brief
facts here outlined of a full and beau-
tiful life do not portray the half of
the good deeds done; for it is in
trouble or sickness, in distress and
in poverty that the tender hand of
this wise counselor has been most
often extended. In those offices,
where woman ministers to woman,
her gentle hands have comforted and
blessed hundreds of Zion's daughters.
Her character is one of force and
strength • and yet so calm and equa-
ble is her temperament that a storm-
tossed soul can always find a sweet
refuge in the sheltering love that
knows no distinction between rich
or poor, high or low, only the suffer-
ing and unfortunate. Her beautiful
home has hospitable doors swung
wide to every one who knocks at
the portals; and, together with her
husband, who died April 11, 1909,
she ministered to every traveler who
went their way. For many years the
general officers' meetings of the Y.
L. M. I. A. held at the April and
October conferences, were convened
in Sister Dougall's home. Here the
sisters from every part of Zion gath-
ered and held some of the best spirit-
ual and the most profitable business
meetings ever known in the history
of the Mutual Improvement work.
These meetings outgrew the parlors,
ir. the course of ten years; but those
who attended these interesting meet-
ings in the Dougall home cannot for-
get the hallowed influence of that.

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beautiful and consecrated hearth-
stone! Sister Dougall is also a pro
minent worker in the oSciety of the
Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, she
being chosen as first counselor to
Mrs. Anne T. Hyde, the founder-
general in 1901. She is also a honor-
ary member of the Daughters of the
Handcart Veterans, having the hon-
or of assisting in the organization of
that society in 1910.

DUSEN BERRY, Ida Smoot, a mem-
ber of the General Board of Relief
Societies, was born May 5, 1873, in
Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter
of Abraham O'wen Smoot and Anna
Kirstina Smoot. When five years of
age she became a pupil of the B. Y.
Academy at Provo, and graduated
from that institution in 1897. After
that she attended the Chauncey Hali
College, at Boston, two years (1898-99)

and graduated with honor. After her
return to Provo, sihe became principal
of the Kindergarten Normal Training
school, and organized the first par-
ent's class in Utah. In 1900 sIhe was
chosen vice-president of the Women's
Congress held in Salt Lake City. She
was married in 1891 and became the
mother of two children, a boy and a

girl. During the next three years
death claimed her mother, father and
husband. In 1901 she was chosen as
president of the State Kindergarten
Association and in 1906 she was sent
to Milwaukee, Michigan, as a delegate
to the National Kindergarten Con-
vention. In 1901 she was chosen as
second counselor in the National
Women's Relief Society and served in
that capacity until the death of
Bathsheba W[ Smith. In 1902 she
went to Washington, D. C, as a dele-
gate to the National Council of
Women. In 1905 she went as a dele-
gate to the International Council oi
Wlomen at Berlin, Giermany, on wihich
occasion sIhe traveled abroad four
months and delivered Sipeeches in
many large cities. In 1905 she went
as a delegate to the Executive Session
of the National Council of Women
which met in St. Louis, Mo. Com-
mencinig with 1910 she spent a year
doing post graduate work at the
Columbia College, New York, and dur-
ing that year she spoke at confer-
ences held in New York, Brooklyn,
Boston, Newark, Washington and
Baltimore. The same year she was
sent as a delegate from Utah to the
convention of Charities and Correc-
tions, held at Boston, where she ad-
dressed- two large audiences. In 1910
she was a delegate to the Interna-
tional Council of Women held in
Toronto, Canada, where she read a
paper on the charitable organizations
of Utah. In 1911 she was a delegate
to the National Convention of Chari-
ties and Corrections and delivered an
address. During the Portland Fair
in 1903 she was sent as a delegate and
speaker to the Suffrage Convention
held at Portland and at the same
time went as a delegate to the con-
vention of Charities and Corrections;
she received an appointment as secre-
tary of the State of Utah to the Na-
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she has been principal of the Kinder-
garten Department of Education at
the B. Y. University at Provo. For
thirteen years she was a teacher in a
Wiard Sunday school, and has
tihroughout been a most active mem-
ber of the Ohurch since her early
youth.

ECCLES, William, a Patriarch in the
Weber Stake of Zicn, was born April
6, 1825, at Kilpatrick, Scotland, the
sen of "William Eccles and Marg'aret

England, Nov. 27, 1821, the son of
James Eddingt;c:n and Eliza Seaton.
He married Jane Hayles Feb. 8, 1844,
embraced the fulness of the gospel by
being baptized April 26, 1850, was
ordained an Elder in the Church
Aug. 4, 18^0, and was soon afterwards
called to ipreside over the Portsmouth
branch of the Ohurch, numberimg
over two hundred Saints. He occupied
this position until he emigrated to
Utah in 1853, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "Ellen Maria," whiab

Miller. He was baptized Feb. 5, 1842,
by Andrew Sprowls; ordained an
Elder in 1866; ordained a High
Priest by Lester J. Herrick and
ordained a Patriarch in 1900 by
Apostle Geo. Tea&dale. He emigrated
to Utah in 1863, resiLded in Eden
Wieber co., for twenty years, being
among the first settlers of that place,
and from 1883 until his death he re-
sided in 0.gden. In 1843 (May 5th)
he married Sarah Hutchison, who
bore him 8 dhildren. Bro. Eccles
died in Ogden, Dec. 4, 1903.

EDDINGTON, William, senior mem-
ber of the High Council of the Salt
Lake Stake from 1859 to 1904, was
born at Portsea, Portsmouth, Hants,

sailed from Liverpool, England, Jan.
17, 1853 ; he arrived in Salt Lake City
Oct. 10th of the same year. For sev-
eral years after his arrival in Utah
he taught school and also took a very
active part in helping to establish,
home indus tries, educational institu-
tions, fairs and public demonstrations.
In the summer of 1854 he married
Louisa Clark Barton. In September,
1855, he, in connection with Apostle
Lorenzo Snow, founded the Polysoiphi-
cal Society, which soon became very
popular with the people and afforded
intellectual amusements to hundreds
who turned out regularly to attend
the meetings. In devisiing new features
for making the entertainments inter-
esting, Elder Eddinigton was a most

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indefatigable and successful worker.
In 1860 (Sept. 5, 1860) he married
Sarah Fry, and five years later (Feb.
24, 1865) he married Mary Ann
Littlefield. For many years his
labors as a member of the Old Folks'
Committee was ihighly appreciated by
the general public, and especially by
the aged pecple for whose amusemeni
and comfort he worked with un-
bounded delight. During the "Biuch-
anan war" Elder Bddington took an
active part in the expedition to Echo
Canyon, and for many years he
served as a major in tihe 3rd Regiment
of the famous Nauvoo Legion. He was
ordained to the office of a Seventy
by Robt. Campbell, Feb. 18, 1855, and
became a member of the 8th quorum
of Seventy. Soon afterwards he was
chosen one of the presidents of that
quorum. When a new High Council
was organized for the Salt Lake
Stake, Oct. 16, 1859, Wm. Bddington
was the first man chosen to serve in
the same, and acted' as No. 1 in that
body until the Salt Lake Stake was
divided in 1904. He served longer in
the capacity of a High Councilor by
far than any other man in the
Church. Dec. 24, 1860, he was
elected a regent of the University of
Deseret. For eig*ht years he filled
the position of mayor of Morgan City,
Morgan co., where part of his family
resided. While there he also acted
as counselor to the Bishop. From
the time he first became identified
with the Church, Elder Eddington
•was ever ready to "aid any project,
having for its purpose the redemp-
tion of Zion and the establishment of
Co-d's universal government on the
earth. He endeavored to live accord-
ing to that divine and higher life,
which, altiiough new to the world, is
old as eternity." Ripe in years and
experience EJlder Eddington passed to
his final rest March 3, 1913, leaving
ono widow (Mary Ann Littlefield), 12

sons, 5 daughters, 67 grandchildren
and 7 great grandchildren.

FARNSWORTH, JuJia Permelia
Murdock, was born Dec. 23, 1852, at
Leihi, Utah co., Utah, the daughter of
John R. Murdock and Almira H.

Lott. She comes from the old revolu-
tionary ancesitry. On the four lines,
iher lineal progenitors were staunch
patriots. Her great grand-father
Murdock of Scotch descent emigrated
to America in the early colonial days
and fought in the famous battle of
Biennington under General Stark. Her
igxeat grandfather, Abner Cla^pp, was
of English descent; he came to Amer-
ica lin 1630, and was ain officer in
Massachusetts. Her great igrand-
father Lott was from Amsterdam,
Holland, and did gallant service in
the cause of right in New York City
as cihief of police during its revolu-
tionary struggle. Her grandfather,
€apt. Geo. Darrow, was of English
descent and had charge of Pennsyl-
vania troops during the memorable
winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge
and all through the war. Sister
Farnsworth's father, John R. Miur-
dock, went to California with the

LATTER-DAY SAINT

Mtormon Battalion in 1847-1847 and
reached G. S. L. Valley in October,
1847. Her mother drove an ox team
from Winter Quarters to G. S. L. City
in 1848, traveling with her father's
family in Heber C. Kimball's com-
pany. Julia was baptized in tihe mill
pond at Liehi in July, 1860, by her
grandfather John Murdock, who also
confirmed her. When sihe was
twelve years old her father was
called from Lehi to Beaver, in south-
em Utah, to preside as Bishop; after-
wards he became the president or
the Beaver Stake of Zion. Julia
attended the district sdhool until she
was nearly eighteen years old, after
which she, in company witih other
girl friends, taught a free school for
two years, the first school of that
kind in Utah. In 1874 she married
Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who is also
a descendant of the old revolutionary
peoiple and a son of Utalh. pioneers.
Soon after her marriage, she was
made president of the Retrenohment
Association of Beaver, holding this
office after it was called Y. L. M. I.
A. She became a member of the
Relief Society in Beaver wben she
was only fifteen years old, and she
was the organizer and president of the
second suffrage society ever organ-
ized in Utah. In 1889 she moved to
Frisco, Beaver co., then a great min-
ing camp, in which tlhe Horn Silver
Mine, its largest producer, is located,
and oiver which Mr. Farnsworth was
superintendent. They remained at
Frisco three years, but during the
last 22 years the family has resided
in Salt Lake City. Sister Farnsworth
is the mother of ten children, eight
daughters and two sons. She is a
charter member and State historian
for the Daughters of tihe Revolution
and was first corresponding secretary
of the Daughters of the Utah
Pioneers and also a charter member.
She helped to organize and is now his-
torian for the Daughters of the

Mormon Battalion, She has been a
director of the National Women's
Relief Society for tlhe past s'eventeen
years and has traveled many thou-
sand miles as a missionary for this
organization. Five years ago, in the
conxpany of her husband and four of
her daughters, she spent the summer
and fall traveling in Europe, visiting
over 65 cities. Sister Farnsworth's
strongest attributes are her faith in
the gospel, her love of home and
Utah's people, and patriotism for her
American country.

FAUCETT, William, Bishop of the
Prove Fourth Ward. Utah co., Utah,
from 1854 to 1867, was born Jan 6,
1806, in Tennessee, the son of Rich-
ard Faucett. He was baptized about
the year 1837, and, casting his lot
with the saints in Missouri, he was
driven out of that State by the mob
and subsequently became a settler at
Nauvoo, 111. Together with the rest
of the saints he became an exile for
the gospel's sake in 1846, and while
living temporarily in the AUred branch
of the Church in Western Iowa he
acted as presiding Elder or Bishop
of the branch from 1847 to 1851. He
was ordained and set apart as Bish-
op at Winter Quarters by Brigham
Young in 1847. During the year
1851 he migrated to Utah,
crossing the plains in Roswell
Stevens company. In August 1852,
he was called to preside as Bishop
over the Prove Fourth Ward. He
also acted as a member of the High
Council. Bro. Faucett died Sept. 6,
1896, at Prove, 90 years of age. He
was married three times; his first
wife was Matilda Campbell Buscher,
whom he married March 3, 1826. His
second wife was Ruth Logan Clow-
ard (a widow) whom he married in
1855. Subsequently (abofUt 1865) he
married Elizabeth Boshard and Matil-
da Hardy (a widow) became his wife
in 1894, when he was about 88 years
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FERRIN, Josiah Leaman, first
counselor to Bishop Henry J. Fuller,
of the Eden Ward, Weber co., Utah,
was born Sept. 26, 1856, in Ogden,
Utah, the son of Josiah M. Ferrin and
Martha A. Bronson. He was baptized

March 19, 1878; she has borne her
husband six boys and five igirls. Dro.
Finlayson is a farmer by occupation,
and while occupying a splendid farm
in New Zealand, his house was a
most popular home for the "Mormon"

by A. Moffett; ordained a Deacon hy
Wlm, Halls Sept. 30, 1877; ordained
an Elder Dec. 27, 1877, and ordained
a Higji Priest in September, 1895. He
married Enien Dale Stallings Dec. 27,
1877.

FINLAYSON, Thomas, an active
Ell-der in the West Jordan Ward,
Salt Lake co., Utah, was born Oct. 31,
1855, at Marysborrow, county of
Ross, Scotland, the son of Evan Fin-
lay&cn and Isabella Chislholm. He
emigrated to New Zealand, where he
Wecame a convert to 'IMormonism,"
and was baptized Dec. 13, 1889, ai
Opuawhanga, by Joihn T. Waldron.
He was ordained a Priest Feb. 15,
1891, by Milto>n Btennion; ondained
an Elder May 14, 1893, by Edward
Atkins; ordained a High Priest Dec.
30, 1911, by Wlillard C. Burgon, and
filled a mission to New Zealand in
1909-11. While residing in New Zea^
land he married Laura B. Going,

missionaries, wiho were the recipients
of much hosipitality at fche Finlayson
home.

FOLKERSEN, Hans Peter, presi-
dent of the Scandinavian meetings in
the Liberty Stake of Zion, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born July 28, 1858, at
Fuglebjerg, Sor0 amt, Denmark, the
son of Folker Christensen and Inger
Hansen. His parents being poor
peasants, Hans Peter had to work for
his own living from his early child-
hood. Becoming a convert to "Mor-
monism" he was baptized Jan. 12,
1879, by Lars P. Andersen. His par-
ents and two sisters had joined the
Church about four years previously.
Soon after his baptism he was or-
dained a Teacher by Jens Hansen
and on Nov. 5, 1879, he was ordain-
ed a Priest and called to labor as a
local missionary in the Copenhagen
conference. The island of Bornholm
was assigned him as his field of la-
bor, and while thus engaged he was
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Niels R. Petersen. Early in 1880 his
field of labor was changed from the
island of Bornholm to the southern
part of Sjaelland, but six months later
he was called back to resume mis-
sionary work on Bornholm and con-
tinued thus until he emigrated to Am-
erica in 1882. On his way to Utah
he lived with his brother in Muske-
gon. Michigan, several months, but
finally reached Salt Lake City in
December, 1882. In 1883 (April 5th)
he married Anna Anderson, who bore
him eight children. In 1885 (Feb.
6th) he married Caroline G. Madsen
who is the mother of seven of his
children. Bro Folkersen was ordain-
ed a Seventy in 1884 by Thomas F.
Thomas and ordained a High Priest

by Briant S. Hinckley Oct. 15, 1911.
In 1905-07 he filled a mission to Scan-
dinavia, laboring as a traveling Elder
in the Copenhagen conference. He
also presided over the Y. M. M. I. A.
in the Copenhagen branch. In 1908 he
was chosen chairman of a finance
committee appointed in connection
with the building of a new meeting
house in the 31st Ward Salt Lake
City. He has labored as presiding
Teacher in the 31st Ward and the
Le Grande Ward, Salt Lake City,

and as president of the Scandinavian
meetings in the Liberty Stake since
1910.

FULLER, Henry John, Bishop of

the Eden Ward, Weber co., Utah,
was born Dec. 18, 1857, at East Mill
Creek, Salt Lake co., Utah, the son
of Edmund B. Fuller and Adelaide
Jelley. He came to Eden with hi&
parents, who were among the first
settlers there, when he was about
seven years of age. He was baptized
June 8, 1868, By Henry Talbot and
confirmed by Armsted Moffett. While
yet a boy he was ordained to the of-
fice of a Deacon and subsequently ta
the office of a Priest. He was or-
dained an Elder Jan. 6, 1880, by Josh-

ua M. Ferrin; ordained a Seventy
Dec. 22, 1883 by Erastus Bingham
and ordained a High Priest in January,
1885, by Chas. F. Middleton and set
apart as second counselor to Bishop
David McKay, which position he held
until July 1, 1895, when he was or-
dained a Bishop and set apart to
preside over the Eden Ward by
Apostle Franklin D. Richards. This
position he filled faithfully until the
time of his death. During his young
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Deacon's quorum, president of the
Y. M. M. I. A. for several years, teach
er and superintendent of the Sunday
school for about twenty years, and an
active Ward teacher. In 1880 (Jan.
stii) he married Mary Jane Simpson
Gould who bore him ten cliildren.
Bro. Fuller's chief occupation in life
were lumbering, saw-milling, farming
and stock raising. He died Jan. 13,
1911, at Eden, Ogden Valley, Utah,
loved and respected by all who knew
him.

GARDNER, Robert, junior, a Patri-
arch in the Cliurch, was born Oct.
12, 1819, in Kilsyth, Sterlingshire,
Scotland, the son of Robert Gardner
and Margaret Calender. He was bap-
tized In January, 1845, by his brother,

William Gardner. He emigrated to
America and came to G. S. L. Valley
in the fall of 1847 as a pioneer; was
ordained an Elder in 1845 in Canada.
Subsequently he was ordained a Sev-
enty and became a member of the
12th quorum of Seventy. In the
summer of 1855 he was ordained a
High Priest and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Miller of the
Mill Creek Ward. In the spring of
1857 he left Salt Lake City, together

with a number of other missionaries
with hand carts, on a mission to
Canada. Responding to a call from
the Church authorities, he went to
St. George as a pioneer missionary in
the latter part of 1861, and in 1862
he Avas set apart as Bishop of St.
George by Pres. Erastus Snow. He
was appointed first counselor to
Joseph W. Young (Stake president)
Nov 7, 1869, and took charge of the
St. George Stake from 1873 (when
Pres. Joseph W. Young died) until
1877. In March, 1872, he was elected
mayor of St. George and served two
terms. At a conference held in St.
George May 6, 1866, he was made
Bishop of Pine Valley, Pinto, Heb-
ron and Mountain Meadows, all these
settlements being organized into the
Pine Valley Ward. When the Price
Ward was organized Jan. 18, 1879,
Brother Gardner was made Bishop
of that Ward. By his four wives,
namely, Jane Mc Cune (whom he
married March 17, 1841), Cynthia Lo-
vina Berry (whom he married Aug.
5, 1851), Mary Ann Carr (whom he
married July 20, 1856) and Leonor
Cannon (whom he married June 23,
1863) he had thirty-seven children,
twenty-one sons and sixteen daught-
ers. Brother Gardner was ordained
a Patriarch Sept. 13, 1900, by Francis
M. Lyman and died honored and re-
spected by all as a staunch and
faithful Latter-day Saint Feb 3, 1906,
at St. George.

GATES, Jacob Forsberry, son of
Jacob Gates and Emma Forsberry,
was born July 30. 1854, in Salt Lake
City, Ut. He was baptized Sept. 4, 1862
by Apostle Orson Pratt, and ordained
an Elder in 1871 by his father Jacob
Gates. In 1876-79 he filled a mission
to the Sandwich Islands. In 1880 he
was ordained a Seventy by President
Wilford Woodruff and in 1885-89 he
filled a second mission to the Sand-
wich Islands, taking his family with
him. During this term he spent much

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of his time as superintendent of the
sugar plantation of the Church at
Laie, on the Island of Oahu. In
June, 1889, he was ordained a High
Priest by Apostle Heber J. Grant and
set apart as an alternate High Coun-
cilor of the Utah Stake of Zion. About
two years later he was chosen a
counselor to Joseph B. Keeler who
was at that time made Bishop of the
Fourth Ward of Provo. In 1902-03
he filled a mission to the Eastern
States, spending most of his time

in the office in New York City. In
1913-14 he filled a mission to Ger-
many, returning just before the
breaking out of the war. In 1905,
Elder Gates was called by President
Joseph F. Smith to get out a new
edition of the Book of Mormon in the
Hawaiian language (which book had
been translated fifty years before by
Pres. George Q. Cannon), he having
on his two missions to Hawaii obtain-
ed a complete mastery of that tongue.
He divided the new edition into
chapter and verse like the later Eng-
lish editions, added the references,
and made a full and comprehensive
alphabetical index. Elder Gates'
early occupation was that of a
farmer. He was also a furniture deal-

er, and later, an insurance and real
estate agent. While living in Provo,
he was elected for two terms as
justice of the peace of Utah county.
In 1880 (Jan 5th) he married Susa
Young (daughter of Pres. Brigham
Young) who has borne him eleven
children, most of whom died young.
His surviving children are Emma
Lucy (the celebrated Utah singer),
Brigham Cecil (musical director in
the L. D. S. University), Harvey H.
(editor of the "Universal Weekly
Magazine", New York City) and Frank-
lin Young (now a missionary on the
Sandwich Islands). Elder Gates is
a man of sterling fntegrity, simple
and domestic in his tastes, a wide
reader, a keen observer and one who
merits and receives the respect of all
who know him. He possesses the
close friendship of President Joseph
F. Smith, they being fellow-mission-
aries on the Sandwich Islands. He
is a tower of strength in the homely
virtues that make of men good citi-
zens and faithful Later-day Saints.
Genealogically speaking the Gates
family line is one of the most unique
and wonderful in the Church. Jacob
F. goes back in direct attested line
on the Gates side to 1250 A. D., and
on the last Clapdow line to William
the Conqueror's time, 1066. They
are a sturdy, intelligent stock ; no
kings and rakes are noted therein,
nor paupers and rogues; just that
splendid yeoman strain which has
produced the leaders of the Latter-
day Saints from New England, Old
England, Scandinavia, Germany, Hol-
land and Switzerland. It is the blood
of Israel.

GATES, Susa Young, corresponding
Secretary of the General Board of
the Relief Societies, was born
March 18, 1856, in the historic Lion
H'cuse, Salt Lake City, Utah, the sec-
ond daughter of Pres. Brigham
Young and Lucy Bigelow. Besides the
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from lh«r father, she is well descendeo
on :her mother's side, the Bigeloivs
being one of America's distinguished
families. Her education was begun
in the private school of her father
and was continued in the Deseret
University (U. of U.), of which she is
an alumnus. Here her literary work
had its beginning. Dr. Park appointed
her associate editor of the first west-
ern college paper, "The College

Lantern." Before reaching the age
of fourteen she studied stenography
and telegraphy, becoming so expert in
the former that she can still act as a
shorthand reporter. In 1870 her
father moved her mother and two
daughters, rightly Susan or Susanna,
and Mabel to St. George. While so-
journing in Dixie, she organized a
large club of both sexes called the
'Union Club." Since that time sihe
has won distinction as an organizer
in intellectual lines. SIhe organizea
the musical department in 1878 in the
Brighani Young Academy at Provo
and the domestic science department
in the same institution in 1897. She
organized the first State chapter of
the Daughters of the Revolution in
Utah. Her bigges.t organization work.

however, was the founding of the
"Young Woman's Journal" in 1889
under the direction of the Y. L. M.
I. A. In 1880 Susa was married to
Jacob F. Gates, the son of Jacob
Gates, who figured prominently in the
early history of Utah. He is a man
of good judgment and sterling char-
acter, possessing that type of
nobility which is generally spoken of
as common sense. Mrs. Gates lac-
companied her husband on a four
years' mission to the Sandwioh
Islands in 1885-1889. Three of her
children were born there. She is the
mother of thirteen children, ten sons
and three daughters, five of these
are living: Leah D., Elmma Lucy,
Brigham Cecil, Harvey Harris and
Franklira Young. The eldest (now
Mrs. Widsoe) is a woman of broad
interest and true culture and the
second daughter, Eimma Lucy, the
Utah nightingale and Gnaind Opera
star, is famous on two continents.
Mrs. Gates is well known as a public
speaker and as an author. To uplift
the youth of tier people with her pen
was a mission given her by Pres. Young.
Much of her writing is therefore of a
doctrinal nature and all of it is im-
bued with the spirit of religion. In
her editorial days the spirit, no less
than the matter, determined whether
or not a manuscript was accepted.
She herself has a natural power of
giving herself to humanity through
her writings; they glow with life and
on that account kindle fires in other
minds and other hearts. Her early
writings were printed in the "Deseret
News," the "Juvenile Instructor," the
"Woman's Exponent," and the
•'Young Woman's Journal" under the
non de plume "Homespun." In
these first efforts she was much en-
couraged by Sisters Eliza R. Snow
and Emmeline B. Wells and her
friends. Orscn F. Wlhitney and Pres.
Chas. W. Penrose. Three books have
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tory," in early days, and recently her
finest piece of fiction "John Steven's
Courtship," a historical romance poi-
traying pioneer life in Utah; and
later the History of Che Y. L. M. I.
A., a volume of nearly 500 ipages.
Sister Gates' creative faculty makes
all her work original. The interest
element is sustained throughout by
forcefiulness. Simplicity of style, cor-
rectness and vivid illustration adapt
her writings to popular audiences.
The 'Journal" editorials cover a
period of eleven years amd are in
many respects her ablest work. Tbey
show the sympathetic insight into
human nature, and the keen percep-
tion of humain needs, which distin-
guiih the world's great writings.
Sister Gates became associated with
the General Boardi of the Y. L. M. 1.
A. in 1889. She is in her elemeni.
when projecting new ideas in the
direction of reform. Mutual Improve-
ment wcrk in tihe General Board and
in local associations provided endless
opportunity for the exercise of her
initiative powers. With characteristic
foresight, she advocated the adop-
tion of a uniform course of study in
tihe Y. L. M. I. A. and it was she who
wrote the first two "Guides." Natur-
ally interested in all forms or
woman's work, she has been a force-
ful figure in the affairs of the Na-
tional Coiuncil of Women of the U. S.
Steven times she represented the Y. L.
M. I. A. at the National Council of
Women of the U. S. The national
leaders honored her by an appoint-
ment to the chairmanship of the
Press committee of the Na;tio'nal
Council of the U. S. for three years.
They also chose her as one of the
speakers at tihe International Quin-
quennial held m London in 1899; and
in 1901 she filled the responsible
position of sole delegate from the
National Council of the United
States to the International Council of
liVlomen held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This was perhaps the highest honor
that was ever shown by the womeu
of the world to a "Mormon" woman.
Her clever character sketches of the
leaders of these big movements, with
the lucid accounts of the work ac-
complished, evoked favorable com-
ment wherever they were read. She
was a U. S. representative at the In-
ternational Council 'held at Rome,
May, 1914, and devoted much time on
this trip to the examination of
European genealogical conditions. Efx-
tensive travel and intimate associa-
tion with famous people of the world
have not lessoned her activity in
Church circles. Through the spiritual
gifts she exerci'^es her sister associ-
ates receive comfort and blessings.
Thousands of school and M. I. A.
girls who have he&n benefited by her
religious instructions hold 'Aunt
iSusa" in loving remembrance. A
few years ago she passed through a
long illness which she is convinced
must have ended fatally, had she
not been healed by faitlh. Keenly
alive to the importance of Temple
work she was apnointed a worker and
recorder in the St. George Temple at
its completion in 1877. For the past
ten years she has been a regular
worker in the Salt Lake Temple. For
a number of years, genealogical re-
search, an important branch of the
Temple work, absorbs a large share
of her attention. Indeed this work
lies nearest her heart, ajnd receives
her best attention. She is an activb
worker in the Genealogical Society of
Utah, and has been president of the
Daughters of the Pioneers, injecting
into thait body her beloved genealogi-
cal work, and she founded and made
successful the Hall of Relics in that
Society. Her ability to grasp things
in the large and to arouse enthusiasm
in others have given a great impetus
to this line of Church work. Sister
Gates (has long been a leader in
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ferred to as the mother of physical
education in Utah. Besides being a
teaiciher of theology, domestic sciemce
ajid music in the B. Y. A, at Provo,
she has been a member of its board
of directors for 25 years, and was aip-
pointed by Goviernor Cutler in 1906 as
a director of the Agricultural CoUeigie
of Utah, which position she held for
six years She is a ccinscientious be-
liever in the practical ihonesty and
fitness of political activity as appliea
to women. Mrs. Gates allied herselr
with the Republican party many
years ago. She is a leader in all politi-
cal movemeoiits of her party, but has
never found time nor inclination for
public office Sister Gates vas ap-
pointed a member of the General
Board of (the Relief Societies, May 8,
1911, and at onoe took up active work
in that oldest and greatest of all
women's organizations. She was ap-
pointed as editor of the "Rielief
Society Bulletin" for 1914, and as
editor of the new "Relief Society
Magazine," which issues its first
number, January, 1915. Mrs. Gates
m:akes a pleasant home for her hus-
band and devoted family; sihe is
noted as a cook and loves to enter-
tain her friends She is a good re-
conteur and knows how 'to make
conversation," as the French phrase
it. Her fath-er once told 'her that if
a woman were to become famous
throughout the world and still fail as
a wife and mother, she would vake
up in the morning of thie resurrec-
tion and find she had failed in every-
thing. So that her devotion as wife
and mother is her first religious duty.
Obedience to authority, and reverence
for thje Priesthood is the foundation
stone of her life. She seeks to
harmonize her activities to the princi-
ples and authority of the Church.
Sister Gates is recognized tcday as a
public spirited woman and one having
extraordinary initiative power, traits
inherited from her father. A vivid

personality is combined in her with
an energetic and somewhat complex
ciharacter. She is engaging and bril-
liant in conversation and possesses
the repletion of sentiment which
naturally accompanies an artistic
temperament, this emotional nature
being held in check by the saving
grace of honor. Her mind is the
versatile, imaginative type, keenly
perceptive and philosophical. Tlhese
qualities have enabled her to attain
to the unique position which she oc-
cupies in the affairs cf Church and
State. All that is written of Mrs.
Gates in her lifetime will be neces-
sarily inadequate, it is only through
the perspective of years that
adhievements and dynamic
will be fully discernible.
Neff Oaldwell.)

her
ipower
(Estelle

GEERTSEN, Peter Christian, one of

the most able and successful mission-
aries who have traveled in the Scandi-
iniaivian mission, was born July 26,

1837, in the village of Gj0tterup, Han-
herred, Thisted amt, Jutland, Denmark,
the son of Geert Larsen and Ane Ma-
rie Knudson. He was baptlized Nov. 5,
1854, by M. C. Christensen and soon
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hood and sent out to labor as a local
missionary. Becoming very efficient
as a speaker and being a man of con-
siderable education, 'he was kept in
the missionary field continuously tor
nine and one-half years, of which
time three and a half years were
spent in t!he Vemdsy&sel conference,
three years in the Fredericia confer-
ence and three years in the Aarhus
confere^nce; he presided over the lat-
ter conference from 1861 to 1864.
Finally he emigrated to Utah in 1864
and located permanently at Hiunts-
ville. He was ordained a Seventy and
became a memhe: of the 75bh quorum
of Seventy. In 1873-75 he filled a mis-
sion to Scandinavia, laboring first as
a traveling Elder in and later as
president of th« Aiarhus conference,
Denmark. In 1886-88 he filled an-
other missiion to Scandinavia, labor-
ing four months in the Aalborg con-
ference and later as translator and
writer for "Skandilmaviiens Stjerne" at
tJhie mission office in Copenhagen.
Having yielded obedience to the prin-
ciple of plural marriage. Elder Geert-
sen was arrested and convicted of so-
called unlawful cohabitation and
served a term dn the Utah peniten-
tiary from Jan. 22, 1889, to June 22,
1899. At home he filled many im-
portant positions of honor and trust.
He followed farming and stockraising
as a means of livinig, but was more
suicices'Sful as p missionary than a
financier. It Is perhaips not saying
too much that Elder Geertsen meaisr
ured by the success attaiined in the
missioiniary field, stands second to
none of all the Elders who have
labored in Sfeandinavia. Im the midst
of a life of usefulness he passed to
his final rest at Huntsville, Aug. 22,
1894.

GILES, Frederick William, first
couaselor in the Bishopric of the
Heber Third Ward, "Wlasatch co., Utah,
was born Feh. 24, 1860, in Provo, Utah

CO., Utah, son of Frederick Giles and
Mlairy Ann Molten. Having ipreviously
been ordained to the offioes of Deacon
and Priest, he was ordaineid an Elder
Oct 30, 1886, by Abraham Hatch. He
was OTdained a Seventy Nov. 2, 1890,
by Samuel J. Wing and ordained a
High Priest Oct. 26, 1894, by Francis
M. Lyman, Ofn the latter occasion he
was set apart as first counselor in
the Bishopric above mentioned. Prior
to that he had presided over the
Ward Y. M. M. I. A. and acted as a
Sunday school officer and Ward
clerk. In 1886 (Nov. lOth), he mar-
ried Sarah Jane Bond, by whom he
became the father of six girls and
one boy. Bto. Giles is a farmer and
stockraiser by avocati'>n.

QLADE, James Richard, first coun-
selor in tihe Bishopric of Park City,
Summit co., Utah was born Oct. 20,
1864, tin Salt Lake City, Utah, the
son of James Glade and Eliza M.

Litson. He was baptized when about
eiglht years old in Salt Lake City by
Bishop John Sharp; ordained a
Deacon by Lorenzo D. Young;
ordained an Elder in 1886 by Joseph
A. Wtest, and ordained a High Priest

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by Moses W. Taylor, and set apart as
first counselor in the Park City
Bishoipric. Prior "^o this he ihad
labored as a t«aoher and assiistant
superintendent of the Sunday school
at Park City and also as a Ward
teia-aher. In 1885 (Feb. 11th) he mar-
ried Annie Louisa Nordberg, by
whom he became the father of six
children. Bro. Glade is a baker by
trade and has r'^sided successively in
Salt Lake City, Ogden and Park City.
He made his residence dn the last
named place in 1894.

GLEDH/ILL, Thomas, the second
Bishop of the Vermillion Ward,
Sevier co., Utah, was born April 17,
1856, at Oldham, Lancashire, Eng-
land, the son of Edward Gledhill and
Betty Hague. He was baptized in
1864 by Miles A. Romney at Oldham;

emigrated with his parents from Eng-
land to Utah in 1868, crcssing the
Atlantic in the ship "Emerald Isle"
and tile plains in Captain Mumford's
mule tran. The family located first
at Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete co., and in
1874 they settled what is now Ver-
million, being among tihe very first
settlers of that neighborhood. Thomas
became a farmer and stockraiser in

early life, and has always been a
leading spirit, both m ecclesiastical
and secular affairs. At Vermillion
he has acted as superintendent of the
Ward Sunday echool and president oi
the Y. M. M. I. A. He was ordained
successively to the offices of Deacon,
Teacher and Elder, and was ordained)
a Seventy Sept. 15, 1892, by Wm. H.
Seegmiller. In 1892-1894 he filled a
mission to Great BHtain, laboring
principailly in the Manchester confer-
ence. In returning home he was tihe
leader of a company of emigrating
saints from New York to Salt Lake
City. In 1881 (Jan. 8th) he married
Llilly Belle Irvine, of Mt. Pleasant, woo
has borne him eight children. For a
number of years Bro. Gledhill has
been ai member of the County Cen-
tral Committee. While stopping ai
Mt. Pleasant on his way to fill his
mission in 1892 he received a
Patriarchal blessing from Cyrus H.
Wheelock who told him that daugh-
ters should be born to him and that
he should have power over the ele-
ments and power to rebuke sickness
and evil. Every word of this
prediction was literally fulfilled.
Several persons who were sick with
small pox and other contagious dis-
eases were healed under his admin-
itratioms, while his own health was
always preserved.

GLEDHILL, Lilly Belle Ivie, wife
of Thos. Gledhill, and president of
the Sevier Stake Relief Societies,
wae born Oct. 13, 1865, in Mt. Pleas-
ant, Utah, the daughter of John L.
Ivie and Mary C. Barton. From her
early girlhood Sister Gledhill hab
been studious aind act've. Before her
marriage to Thos. Gledhill, Jan. 8,
1881, she taught schcol, and later
acted as a counselor in the Vermil-
lion Ward primiary association. Later
she was an aM in the Stake primary
associations. After serving for many
years as a secretary of the Ward
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Stake president of the Sever Stake
Relief Societiies June 22, 1913. which
posirion she ; till hclds. She ihas also
been an active worker in the Sunday
school and mutual Improvement cause
for many years. Sister Gledhill is the
mother of eight children, namely,

crdaiaed a High Priest and Bishop
ly David O. McKay Be:. 22, 1912, and
set apart to preside over che Vermil-

Thomas R., Hugh Lafayecte, John I.,
Alden O., Herbert F., Fred O., Ida B.
and Millie M. A woman of greater
fa!th, hope and charity than Sister
GledhiLll is scarcely known in tihe
Church. She is greatly belcved by
all who know her.

GLEDHILL, John Ivo, fifth Bishop
of the Vermillicm. Wlaird, Sevier co.,
Utah, was born Sept. 3, 1886, at Vei-
million, tlhe son of Tihos. Gledhill and
Lilly Belle Ivie. He was baptized
Sept. 3, 1891, ordained a Deacon, later
a Priest and still later an Elder. Ht
studied three years in the L. D. S.
University in Salt Liaike City, took a
normal course and taught school for
t(hree years, being principal one year
at Glenwood and two yeans at Ver-
million, He also acted as superin-
tetndent of the Ward Sunday school
and secretary of the Ward Y. M. Mi
I. A. In 1907-1909 he filled a missiom
to Great Britain, laboring principally
in the Liverpool conference. He was

lion Ward. In iaiU (Aug. 17th) he
married Sarah Jane Ogden, of Rich-
field, who ihas borne him two children
(Melba and Ivie).

GOOLD, Robert F., a Patriarch iu
the Sevier Stake cf Ziom, was born
:Maroh 29, 1822, :n Wells, Somerset-

shire, England, the son of Abraham
Goold and Mary Binning. He became
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and joined the Baptist Church, re-
maining a devout member of that
body for many years. He married
Emma W*tts (a member of the same
church) who bore him five children.
A few yeairs later ' Mcrmonism"
came across the path of Robt. F.
Goold, and being very qu'.ckly con-
vince:! of its truthfulness he was
baptized June 4, 1853, by Henry Green-
man. At once he became a most de-
voted and earnest Church worker; he
w,as ordained a Priest in 1854 and /^
Mder Miay 13, 1855. Eimigrating ^^
America in 1857 he stopped a short
time in the States and them, crossed
the plains and mountains to Utaih in
Capt. Eiclwaird Stevenson's company,
arriving in Salt Lake City, Sept. 16,
1859. He married Bietsy Ann Tobin
June 17, 1859; "was ordained a
Seventy Jan. 12, 1861; was called to
the Dixie iMssion in November, 1861,
and made his home in Washington,
Washington co., U'taih. Here 'he
lived and labored for over forty
years and acted as first counselor to
two Bishops and as superintendent
of the Ward Sunday school for many
years. He has also filled mainy im-
iportant positions of a civil and politi-
cal nature. In 1879-81 he filled a
successful mission to Great Britain,
and after his return home he re-
sumed his former labors in the Ward,
where he resided. In August, 1895,
he moved to Monroe, Sevier co. Finally
he wiais ordained a Patriarch by
Anthon H. Lund Dec. 30, 1900, and
ihe labored faithfully in that calling
untiil a few days before bis death
which occurred at Monroe, Feb. 27,
1907, at the ripe age of 84 yeiars and
11 months.

GRE'ENE, John Portineus, an early
and prominent Elder in the Church,
was born Sept. 3, 1793, in Herkimer,
Herkimer county. New York, the
fifth (Son and tenth child of John
Ooddington Greene, by his second
wife, Anna Chapman, to whom Ihe

was married Oct. 22, 177S. At Che
early age of nineteen years John P.
Greene married Rhoda Young, a
daughter of John Young and Niaibby
Howe, born Se,pt. 10, 1789, in Plataua
district, New York. This marriage
to-.; place Feb. 11, 1813. About two
years after his marriage, having
impaired his health by inoessiaint
labor in chopping and clearing land,
he took up shoemaking, in which
occupation ihe was very successful,
and resorted to it at different times
dn after years as a meians of support
for his family. At an early day he
became a member cf the Methodist
Episcoipal Church, and for several
years held an exhorter's licensie, but
wiais not satisfied with their travels
and improvements in spiritual things.
Hoping that more light and perfection
would be manifested, he jaiined the
Methodist Reformed Church, wheu
that church was organized, and
traveled about three years preaching
the gospel according to the light he
had received, but not realizing his
hopes of finding that for which his
soul panted, he united with some
twenty or twenty-five others and
formed the Methodist Protestant
Church in 1828, and ihe continued a
traveling ipreacher in that connection
until he received the true gcspel of
Jesus Christ and the New Covenant
of the last days. He was biaiptized in
April, 1832, by Elder Eleazer Miller,
in Mendon, Monroe co.. New York,
and after he was confirmed the
promise of the Father was verified,
he spake in tongues and prophesied.
Shortly thereafter he was ordained an
Elder under the bands of Elder
Mliller and ocmmenced preaching the
gospel in a more irierfect way; where
ever he went the fire was kindled,
many embracing the gospel and re-
ceiving the ordinance of baptism
under his administration. His labors
that year (1832) were chiefly in Mon-
roe, Livingston, Genesee, Allegany
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In Warsaw, Genesee county he as-
sisted in baptizing and organizing a
branch of twenty cr thirty members.
In October, 18^2, he moved to Kirt-
land, Olhlo, where he first becam^a
acquainted with the Prophet Joseph
Smith, and from their first acquaini-
ance he was an intimate friend of the
Proplhet. In the spring of 1833 he
was appointed by the council to pie-
side over the branch at Parkman,
Geauga county, Ohio, where he
moved with his family and staid until
fell, when \he again moved to Kirt-
land and on Sept. 16, 1833, he was
ordained a High Priest and started
on a mission to the EJast (visiting the
branches through the western part
of New York) and Canada, to gather
means for the Lord's House. He re-
turned to Kirtland, Oct. 21, 1833.
Under date of Feb. 25, 1834, he re-
ceived letters of commendation from
Joseph Smith, jun., and Sidney Rigdon
and took a mission again to the west
ern part of New York and Oanada, to
gatiher men and means for the re-
demption of Zion; he returned to
Kirtland and was there when Zion's
Camp started for Missouri. He t-he--^
returned to Canada and labored
there most of the season, after which
he returned to Kirtland and spent
the fall and winter, working at his
trade for the benefit of his family.
May 18, 1835, ihe left Kirtland on a
missiion to the East; he traveled
through to tihe State of New York,
visited the branches in Connecticut
a-nd Rhode Island and in Boston
(Mass.), attended conference at Brad-
ford, Mass., Aug. 7th, at Dover (New
Hampsihire) Sept. 4th, at Sacco
(Maine) Sept. 18th, and at Farming-
ton (Maine) Oct. 2nd. He returned
to Kirtland sometime in the winter.
In March, 1836, he received a letter
of commendation from Jcsepih Smith,
Jun., and spent the forepart of the
year in gathering means to finish the
House of the 'Lord, etc., among elie
branches of the Church in Ohio. He

started on another missicn to the
East again July 13, 1836, visiting the
branches in New York and returned
to Kirtland Sept. 15th. He spent
the winter in Kirtland and in visiting
the branches in the southern part ot
Ohio; he was a firm supjwrter of the
Prophet Joseph's measures this and
the following season. The year 1837
was spent in Kirtland till Nov. 16th,
when he started on a mission ti>
Canada,' in company with Wm.
Marks; he returned to Kirtland in
June, 1838. Early in 1838 he moved
with his family to Far West
(Missouni) where he passed through
the persecutions of that season and
endured all the troubles, privationo
and labors in common with the rest
of the Saints In that regie n, and
when Josepih and Hyrum Smith and
others had been given U(p and Gen.
Clark called on the brethren to lay
down their arms Bro. Greene, in
company with Lorenzo D. Yoang,
P'hineas H. Young and others com-
mitted their famildeis and friends to
the care of the Lord Nov. 1, 1838, and
took to the wilderness; and on the
15th of the same month he arrived at
the house of Judge Cleveland, four
miles east of Quincy, Illinois. As
requisitions had been made by the
authorities of Missouri for him and
others they soon passed over to
Exeter, in Scott county. 111., where
Bro. Greene unexpectedly found has
son Evan M. Greene and family. Soon
after this he returned to Quincy and
found his family which had just ar-
rived from Far West, as there had
been a general break-up, and the
Saints were all fleeing for their lives.
He remained at Quincy during the
winter of 1838-39, and when Joseph
and Hyrum Smith had obtained their
liberty and arrived in Quincy a con-
ference was held near that place in
May, 1839, at which Bro. Greene was
appointed a delegate to visit the
cities of Cincinnati, Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia and New York and

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represent the persecution and condi-
tion of the Saints. He started June
5, 1839. On this miission he gathered
considerable means for the relief of
the Saints. While at Cincinnaiti,
Ohio, he printed and published a
pamphlet of 32 pages, containing an
account of the rupture in Missouri, of
which he circulated 3,000 or 5,000
copies. Besides visiting the above
named cities he visited many inter-
mediate places and branches of the
Church. When he returned to
Quincy, Oct. 27, 1839, ihe found his
wife very sick with the inflammatory
rheumatism, occasioned by her ex-
posure in removing from Missouri dn
the fall of 1838; he sipent the winter
of 1839-40 in Quincy, and in the spring
of 1840 he moved to Nauvoo* (then
Commerce) w-here he remalneid labor-
ing incessently for tlh© gath-ering of
the Saints and the building up of the
Kingdom of Heaven, tiaiklng care of
his wiife wiho was confined to her
room (and mostly to her bed) until
her death, which happened' January
18, 1841. Bro. Greene and Ihfe wife
had lived happily together twenty-
eigiht years, and had raised seven
children, namely three sons (EJvian
Melbourne, Addison and John Young),
and four daughters (Abby Ann, Fanny
Elliza, Rhoda, and Nancy Zervian).
Bro. Greene felt 'his loss severely.
Dec. 6, 1841, he married Mary Eliza
Nelson (his second wife), by whom
he had one child a daughter (Mary
Bmma) wlho subsequently became the
wife of Glilbert Van Sahnohoven;
she studied medicine and became
known as Dr. M. E. Van, of Salt Lake
lOity. She died March 19, 1907, in
Salt Lake City. In August, 1842,
Elder Greene received a letter of
commendation from the hands of
Btigham Young, Heber C. Kimball
andi George A. Smith and started on a
mission to the Bast On this mission
he visited many of the branches in
Ohio and New York and returned to
Nauvoo O'ct. 19, 1843, having been

gone thirteen months. Dec. 23, 1844,
he was chosen marshal of the city oi
Nauvoo and assessor and collector of
the Fourth Wiard of said city which
offices he held till the time of his
death. He was received into the
"Priesthood Quorum in the Kingdom
of God" March 25, 1844. Obeying
the order of the mayor of Nauvoo
(by virtue of the city council having
declared the office of the 'Expositor"
together with the press, type and
fixtures a nuisance) Bro. Greene riro-
ceeded with a possee to abate the
Nauvoo "Expositor" as a nuisance.
During the excitement and troubles
that followed he was constantly at
his post and efficient in all his duties
as marshal and stood shoulder to
shoulder with the mayor. On the
night of June 20, 1844, he, with the
mayor (Joseph Smith), Hyrum Smith
and Captain Jonathan Dunham loft
Nauvoo secretly, passed over into
Iowa, where they remained till the
23rd in the afternoon, when they re-
turned to the city. On the morning
of the 24th ihe started, in company
with Joseph and Hyrum Smith, for
Carthage, to give themselves up to
the State authorities, and on t^.e 25tb
underwent a mock trial in company
with others On the 27th. he was
ordered by Governor Ford to go to
Nauvoo to see that order was kept
wihen the governor should come in,
he hoiving pledged himself and the
fiaith of the State to protect Joseph
and Hyrum and bring them with him
to Nauvoo. Biro. Greene was at his
post of duty when the governor came
in and upbraided him for not keeping
his promise. On the morning of the
28tih, when the news of the massacre
reached the city Bro. Greene ^va?, one
of the first to visit Josepib's wifo
EJmma. From this time his feeblu
constitution sank down rapidly, and
on the 10th of September, 1844, he
departed this life, aged 51 years and
seven days, having been an incessant
laborer in the Kingdom of Gf^d twelve

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years and five moaths. Bro. (ireene
W3S beloved by all his friends and
respected by all who knew him.
(By his son Evan M. Greene)

GREENWOOD, Hartley, the fifth
Bishop cf the jnvorury Ward. Sevier
CO., Utah, was born March 13, 1873,
•'t Beaver, Beaver co., Utah, the sou
of Barnard H. Greenwood and BiiniCb
Howd. In 1876 he came with his
parents to Inverury. He was bap-

tized when a lad and was ordained
successively to the offices of Deacon,
Teaciher, Elder and High Priest, the
latter ordination taking place aiarch
12, 1910, by Anthcmy W. Ivius, and
at the same time he was set apart to
preside over the Inverury Ward.
Prior to this he had labored as an
assistant superintendent of the Ward
Sunday school and president of the
Y. M. M. L. A. In 1893 (Sept. 5tthj
he married Bertha Hawley, whicJi
marriage has been blessed with
seven childTen, namely, Mary E.,
Jennie^ Irine, Priscilla, Bertha S.,
Lavon, and Madge.

HACKING, James, second counse-
lor in the presidency of the Uintah
Stake of Zion, Utah, was born Dec.
23, at Cedar Fort, Utalj county, Utah,

the son of John S. Hacking and Jane
Clark. He was baptized March 22,
1868, at Cedar Fort; ordained a
Deacon when young; ordained an
Elder Aug. 27, 1876, by Samuel A.
WooUey, and ordained a High Priest
Aug. 1, 1883, by John Henry Smith.
He has officiated as a president
of an Elder's quorum, as Ward and
Stake superintendent of Sunday
schools, a stake president of Y. M.
schools, as Stake president of Y. M.

other positions. His principal avo-
cations have been those of a farmer,
stock raiser, miner and bee culturist.
He removed to Uintah county in
1879, at the time of the Meek's mas-
sacre, and passed through what is
known locally as the "hard winter,"
subsisting on cracked corn and wheat,
wliich was ground between stones
set in motion by the assistance of a
horse power detached from an old
threshing machine and propelled by
men. He also ate wild roots and
rabbits, and occasionally a prairie
dog was devoured to sustain life. As
the country filled up with settlers he
held offices as county commissioner,
justice of the peace etc. In 1876
(Aug 28th) he married Annie M.
Glines, with whom he has had thir-
teen children, eight girls and five
boys.

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HALL, Timothy, a veteran Elder in
the Church and a resident of the
Third Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Dec. 12, 1832, at Birming-
ham England, the son of John Hall
and Mary Bates. He commenced work
in a button factory (making pearl
buttons) at the age of seven years.
Later he worked in a gun factory,
and at the age of twenty he joined
the Church and emigrated to America
in 1855, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Charles Buck" and the plains
in Milo Andrus' company, which ar-

rived in Salt Lake City, Oct. 24, 1855.
In 1857 he participated in the Echo
Canyon expedition, assisting to stay
the approaching Johnston Army. At
the time of the move, in 1858, he
went as far south as Pondtown (now
Salem) Utah co. After his return
from the south he engaged in team-
ing and farming. He was ordained
an Elder in March, 1865, and at the
same time married Elizabeth Thome,
daughter of Geo. Thorne and Mary
Dowman, hy whom he became the
father of ten children, namely, John,
Joseph, Frank, James, Elizabeth, Ed-
ward, Lucy, Daniel, Charles and
Annie.

HALL, Elizabeth Thorne, wife of
Timothy Hall, was born about 1839
in Bedfordshire, England, the daught-
er of George Thorne and Mary Do**-
man Luton. She joined the Churcii
in her native land, emigrated to

Utah in 1864 and was married to
Timothy Hall in March, 1865, after
bearing her husband ten children,
four of whom are now living. She
died in Salt Lake City July 25, 1910.

HALL, Mary Bates, wife of John
Hall and a pioneer of 1855, was born
Feb. 22, 1802, in Staffordshire, Eng-
land. About the year 1828 sh, was
married to John Hall. She and her
husband joined the Church in Eng-
land, where they took an active part,
he being ordained to the office of an
Elder. Sister Hall became the moth-
er of six children and one adopted
son, namely, Jane, Timothy, Eliza-
beth, Mary Julia, Fannie, and Robert
Walker. Her daughter Jane emigrated
to America in 1849, and after living
in St. Louis until 1853 she emigrated
to Utah. John Hall died in Birming-
ham in 1852, and the widow with the
rest of the children emigrated to Am-
erica in 1855, crossing the Atlantic in
the ship "Charles Buck," and the

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plains in Milo Andrus' ox train which
arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 24,
1855. Sister Hall lived principally
with her daughter Mary in the
Twelfth Ward, where she died Jan.
22, 1885. Sister Hall was a very
generous and kind hearted mother,
doing good whenever opportunity af-
forded.

HARRIS, Micah Francis, Bishop of
the Henefer Wlarid, Summit co., Utah,
was born Aug. 3, 1848, in Monmouth
shire, England, the son of Thomas
Harris and Ann Williams. He was
baptized in December, 1866, at
Henefer; ordained a Teacher in
1867; ordained an Elder in 1868;
ordained a Seventy in 1876 by Joseph
Young and set apart for a mission b>
Orson Pratt. He was ordaiined a
High Priest In 1889 by William W.
Oluff and ordained a Bishop May 25,
1901, by Apcstle Reed Smoot. Other-
wise he has acted, as a Ward teacher,
first counselor to Bishop John C.
Paskett, of the Henefer Ward, presi-
dent of Y. M. M. I. A., member of the
Summit Sitake High Council and
home missionary. He also filled a
mission to the States in 1876, under
the direct'on cf James A. Little,
laboring in Iowa and Nebraska. As
a public officer in secular life he has
served as oontable, fenoe viewer,
president of the Henefer Irrigiation &
Canal Company, etc. His prinoipai
occupation has been farmiing and
stock raising. During the Walker
and Black Hawk Indian wars he was
an active member of the home
militia. In 1868 (.Jan. 15th) he mar-
ried Mary Jane Bond, who has
borne him eleven children.

HAWKINS, Riego, an active Elder
in the Granite Ward, (Jordan Stake),
Salt Lake co., Utah, was born Jan.
1, 1848, in London England, the son
of Samuel Harris Hawkins and Char-
lotte Savage. He left England in
1849 with his parents, they having
joined the Church about 1844. They

sailed from Liverpool in the ship
"Zetland" Nov. 10th, and arrived at
New Orleans Dec. 24, 1849. Riego's
father being leader of the company.
After wintering at St. Louis, Mo., the
family moved to Pottawattamie co.,
Iowa, and while there the father
died during the winter of 1851-52.
The next year Riego, with his mother
two brothers and two sisters migrat-
ed to Utah in Jacob Biglow's indepen-
dent company, arriving in Salt Lake
City Sept 22, 1852, and settled in the

First Ward. Brother Hawkins was
baptized in 1S56 by James Houston,
ordained an Elder in 1865 by Elder
Samuel L. Sprague, ordained a Sev-
enty in 1870 by Richard McAllister,
and ordained a High Priest in 1907
by Joseph Keddington.. In 187S
(Nov. 28th) he married Charlotte E.
Stay (daughter of Joseph Stay and
Sarah Pierce) who was born Nov. 16,
1852, in England. After their mar-
riage they remained in the First
Ward until May 5, 1908, and then
moved to Granite, where they still re-
side. When the Y. M. M. I. A. was
first organized in the First Ward,
Salt Lake City, Brother Hawkins was
chosen secretary of the same. Later,
he became president of said associa-

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tion. He has also acted as a Sunday
school teacher and a block teacher
for many years. His occupation has
been that of a farmer, carpenter and
contractor.

HENDRICKS, Brigham Andrus,
first counselor to Pres. Alma Merrill,
of the Benson Sitake, Oache co., Utah,
was born Nov. 27, 1857, in Salt Lake
C?ity, Utah, the son of Wim. D.
Hendricks and Mary Jane Andrus.
He was baptized July 12, 1868, by
John AlsO'p; ordained an Elder Jan. 4,
1881, by Wm. H. Lewis; ordained a
Seventy Jan. 8, 1884, by Milo Andrus;
set apart as a president of Seventy

Feb. 5, 1899; ordained a High Priest
May 30, 1901, by Brigham Young,
jun.; filled a mission to tihe Southern
States in 1885-87, and filled another
mission to the States iin 1897-1898 as
president of the Northwestern States
Mission. At heme he has acted as
president of the Lewiston Ward Y. M.
M. I. A. and superintendeint of the
Lewiston Sunday school. He acted as
second counselor to Pres. Wm. H.
Lewis, of the Benson Stake, from
May 30, 1901, to May, 1906, after
which he became first ccun&elor to
Pres. Alma Merrill. In a secular way
Bro. Hendricks has acted as trustee

of the Lewiston School district,
served as commissioner of Oache
county two terms (1903-1907) and as
a represientatiive to the State Legisla-
ture in 1907. From 1881 to 1885 he
was a railroad contractor and since
then ihe has been principally engaged
in farming and stock raising. His
home has mostly been in Richmond
and Lewiston, Utah. In 1881 (Jan.
13th) he married Mary Rebeccia
Stoddard, who has borne her husband
six children, three boys and three
girls. When only eleven years old,
Bro. Hendricks was thrown uipon his
own resources and forced into a
rough, pioneer life. When a young
man he went with an engineering
party, surveying the OTegon Short
Line Railroad from Pooatello, Idaho,
to Butte, Montana. Wlien a mere boy
he also hauled freight from Corrinne,
Utah, to Butte and Helena, Mointana.
He wa,s one of the first young men
tc locate at Richmond and Lewiiston.
By persistent industry and sacrifice
he has succeeded in collecting a good
deal of real estate in Lewiston where
he has an ideal farmer's ihome. Bro.
Hendricks iv a public-spirited man
and has been identified with a great
many public works in Cache county.
At one time he was manager of a
co-op store, a branch of the Z. C. M.
I. He has also taken a most active
part in the building of school (houses,
meeting houses, etc.

HENRY, Arthur John, a prominent
Elder of Oasis, Millard county, Utah,
was born Feb. 25, 1843, at Tetsburg,
Gloucestershire, England, and became
the adopted son of Andrew Henry,
whose wife's maiden name was Mar-
garet Creighton. He was baptized in
September, 1853, emigrated to Utah
in 1851 and spent the first winter in
Salt Lake City. He moved to Fill-
more in the spring of 1852, and dur-
ing the winter of 1853-54 he lived on
wheat ground in a coffee mill, the
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not get to Nephi, which was the
nearest place where there was a grist
mill. As a pioneer settler of D^eret
he worked on the first dam built
across the Sevier river at that place,
and when the dams were washed away
in quick succession one after another,
he was one of the most diligent and
untiring workers in re-building. When
Deseret was resettled he was a pio-
neer passing through all the diffi-

culties with the water there. He
spent about twenty years of his life
or more driving freight teams (oxen,
horses and mules) and probably ten
years looking after cattle and horses
on the Millard county range. Other-
wise nearly half his life has been
spent in the building up of Deseret.
In 1866 he took part in the Black
Hawk Indian war. He was ordained
an Elder in 1874 and a High Priest
March 24, 1913.

HOGAN, Hannah, wife of Eric G.
M. Hogan, was born June 10, 1834, in
the province of Sk^ne, Sweden, the
daughter of Carl Nilson. She joined
the Church when twenty-one years
of age and emigrated to Utah in 1862,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Humboldt" and the plains in an in-

dependent company, arriving in Salt
Lake City Oct. 2, 1862. Becoming
acquainted with Elder Eric G. M.
Hogan, she became his plural wife in
December 1862, and settled in Boun-
tiful, Davis CO., where she gave birth

to five children, namely, Hyrum,
Josephine, Ephraim, Amelia M. and
Chas, F. Only two of these children
are now alive. Sister Hogan became
a widow in 1876, but continued in
her widowhood a faithful and earnest
worker for the Church, raising her
children In the fear of the Lord. She
was an ardent Relief Society worker
and was a teacher in that organiza-
tion for thirty years. By carpet and
cloth weaving she earned enough to
sustain her family. Thousands of
yards of her handiwork were used
to decorate the floors of the homes of
the saints in Bountiful and in other
places. When Sister Hogan crossed
the plains In 1862, she walked all the
way and cooked food for six people
on the journey.

HOGAN, Ingeborg Maria Jensen,
wife of Eric G. M. Hogan, was bom
Jan 13, 1825, in Risor, Norway, the
daughter of Jens Thorsen and Johan-
na Marie Olsen. Becoming a convert
to "Mormonism" she was baptized

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June 13, 1852, by John A. Ahmanson.
She emigrated in 1855, leaving her
native land Oct. 25, 1855, sailed from
Liverpool, England, on the ship "John
J. Boyd" Dec. 12, 1855, and landed at
New York Feb. 15, 1856, under the
leadership of Elder Canute Peterson.
After her arrival in St. Louis, Mis-
souri, March 1, 1856, she remained
there sixteen months and finally took
her departure June 20, 1857, for Utah.
She crossed the plains that year in
Capt. Martin Cowley's wagon com-
pany which left Florence July 8,
1857, and arrived in G. S. L. Valley
Sept 13, 1857. After staying in the
Second Ward, Salt Lake City, for
a short time, she was married to

Eric G. M. Hogan Feb. 7, 1858, and
moved with her husband to Spanish
Fork, Utah co., at the time of the
"move". There they bought a house
and lot from Bro. Hendrik Eriksen
who was also a native of Ris0r, Nor-
way. Later (in 1858) they returned
to Bountiful, where Sister Hogan has
resided ever since, and though she
is now 88 years of age she is able to
do her housework. She has always
been a hard working woman and the
beautiful articles of her knitting and
hand sewing industry will ever stand

to her credit. While yet a girl, thir-
teen years of age, in her native coun-
try she fell under the burden of a
load of hay which she was carrying
and injured her hip, causing hip
disease. This accident has been a
defect in her walking ever since.

HOLLANDS, Thomas, the iirst
Bishop of the Roy Ward, Weber co.,
Ultah, was born March 1, 1863, at

Clhesterfield, county of Kent, England,
the son of John C. Hollands and
Sarah Ann Hills. He was baptized
by David K. Udall, and emigrated to
Utah in 1876, locating at Nephi,
where he was married and ordained
to the different positions in the Priest-
hood. He located permanently with
his family at Roy about the year
1895.

HOiLT, Joseph Mabey, an alternate
member of the High Council in the
Jordan Stake, Salt Lake co.. Utah,
was born Jan. 20, 1872, ia Salt Lake
City, Utalh, the son of Albert Holt
and Maria Mabey. He was ordained
successively to the offices of Deacon,
Teacher, Priest, Seventy and High
Priest, the latter ordination taking
place March 28, 1908, under the
hands of James W. W. Fitzgerald'.

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PcT a number of years he labored
diligently as a teacher in the Wtard
Sunday school and also as a counselor
ard subsequently (1902-1906) as presi-
dent in the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. He
also acted as Ward chorister. In
1899-1901 he filled a mission to the

Umited States, laboring principally in
Kentucky, Illinois and South Dakota.
He assisted to open the mission in
the latter State. After his return, he
was chosen as first assistant to the
Stake superintendency of Sunday
schools and since 1912 he has been
an alternate Higth Councilor. In 1913
he was appointed Stake chorister. In
secular matters Ellder Holt has been
■very active, having received a good
school education; thus he served
t/hiree terms as justice of the peace
in the South Jordan precinct, and
served in the Utah State Legislature
in 1909-1910; since 1898 he has acted
as a notary public. In 1894 (Nov.
28th) he married Emma Margaret
Stocking (daughter of Ensign I.
Stocking and Elizabeth E. Arnold),
who was born Feb. 5, 1876, at Herri-
man, Salt Lake co., Utah. In 1907 he
began his mercantile business as man-
ager of the Jordan Mercantile Co.,
and is at present carrying on a suc-

cessful business. Prior to that his
main occupation was that of a con-
tractor and railroader. Thus he had
charge of the building of the railroad
from Salt Lake City to Saltair. Since
1902 he has been a director in the
Salt Lake and Jordan Milling busi-
ness, and in 1908 he was elected one
of the directors of the People's State
Bank of Midvale. Since 1912 he has
filled the position of president of the
local commercial club.

HOUTZ, Watson Christian, a
veteran Elder of IMount Pleasant,
Sanpete co., Utah, was born April 19,
1840, in Union county, Pennsylvania,
the son of iC^hristian Houtz and
Susan Palan. He emigrated to Utah
with his parents in 1848, crossing tihe
plains in Lorenzo Snow's comipany.
Bn rCTite Bro. Snow married Bro.
Houtz's sister. His parents died in

Salt Lake City, and Bro. Houtz lo-
cated with stranigers at Springville,
Utah CO., where he was baptized
when about twelve years of age. In
1865 he made a trip back to tihe
Missouri river as a freighter. In
1866, while freighting between Utah
and California, he was taken prisoner
by the Indians on the Muddy, but
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his gun and ordered him to scatter
the Indians, wihich action gave Bro.
Houtz a chance to escape with his
life. Altogether Bro. Houtz spent
t"welve years of his life freightinig in
Californda, Utah, Nevada and Moin-
tana. In 1876 (Oct. 2nd) he married
Sophie Bohn (a native of Denmark),
■who bore him seven children, namely,
Sylvia, Roxa, Bertha, Lafayette W.,
Katie, Martin and Nellie. His wife
was born in 1850 in Copenhagen,
Denmark, and emigrated to Utah in
1856, crossing the iplains wiitjh hand-
carts together with her mother and
four brothers.

HOWARD, Wilson Allen, a High
Counselor in the Pioneer Stake, Salt
Lake City, from 1911 to 1913, and at
present a teacher of the High Priest's
quorum in the Liberty Wiard (Liberty
Stake), was born Sept. 30, 1881, at
Huintington, Emery co., Utah, the
son of Wlm. Howiaird and Leonora J.

Perkdns. He was baptized in 1889,
ordained successively ta the offices
of Deacon, Elder, Seventy and High
Priest, the latter ordination taking
place in 1911 by Wm. McLaughlin.
Bro. Howard acted as Stake superin-
tendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the

Pioneer Stake from 1910 to 1913.
From 1905 to 1906 he filled a. mission
to the Eastern States, where he
labored as president of the West
Pennsylvania coinference and the last
year was mdssion secretary in New
York; while on his mission he had
the privilege of visiting several his-
torical places, such as Sharon (Ver-
mont), the Prophet Joseph's birth-
place, being present at tihe first
pioneer celebration held there in
1906. He also visited the hill
Cumorah, Kirtlanid (Ohio) and Nauvoo
(111.). In 1907 (Sept. 19th), he mar-
ried Eva Ridhardson (daughter of
Darwin C. Richardison and Jane
George), wiho was born May 21, 1884.
This union has been blessed with
two children, Allan Q. and Darwin R.
He has acted as counselor in the
Tihirteenth Ward Y. M. Mi. I. A. for
two years and teacher of the 23rd
quorum of Seventy for three years.
Hlis occupation is that of ore buyer
for the U. S. Smelting Co. Formerly
he worked for several years wtih
the Oregon Short Line 'Railroad Co.,
the last three years of this period ais
asisisitant ticket agent in the city of-
fice in Salt Lake City.

HUNTERy Oscar Fitzallen, Bishop

of the Eighth Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born May 8, 1852, in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the sen of Presid-
ing Bishop Edward Hunter aind Laura
Shimer Kaufman. He was baptized
in 1860 by Bishop Edwin D. Woolley;
ordained successively to the offices
of Deacon, Elder, Seventy and Higlh
Priest, the latter ordination taking
place under the hands of John R.
Wllnder June 12, 1904. In 1879-81 he
filled a mission to England, laboring
in tibe Manchester conference and
acting a part of the time as presidenit
of the Norwich conference; still later
he presided over the Nottingham con-
ference. Fbr a number of years he
resided in Americaiii Fork, Utah
ccunty, -tt^here he acted one term as

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alderman and two terms as mayor.
He also served as county commis-
sioner in Utah county. His principal
occupations have been those of
farmer, sheep- and cattle-raiser, mer-
chant, salesman, real estate dealer,
etc. In 1874 (Oct. 5th) he married
Mindwell Chipman and in 1885 (Dec.
23rd) Anna E. Hindley. Following

are the names of his children: Mind-
well C, Liaura C, Amanda C, Oscar
C, Ajnnabelle C, Washburn C, Irentj
C, Hazel C, Edward C, Norris C,
Herbert C, and Spencer C. Bishop
Hunter is a kind-hearted, ben«volenit
man, beloved by the people of his
Ward aind possessing the confidence
of all his associates in life. Recently
he was chosen a member of the Old
Folks Central Committee.

HYDE, Janette A., a member of the
General Board of Relief Societies, was
born Decmber 12, 1865, in Spring City,
Sanpete county, Utah, the daughter
of Abraham Acord and Nancy Frost.
Her parents came to Utah from Iowa,
in 1863, and went through to Califor-
nia, not having accepted the gospel
prior to that time. Her father was of
Pennsylvania Dutch descent, the name
being Akert; later it was Anglicized

and spelled Acord; he was of excellent
lineage, and was known throughout
Utah in an early day as a successf-
ful financier. Her mother, Nancy
Ftost, was a daughter of a fine schol-
ar, who was of Virginia birth and in-
hieritance. Samuel Buchanan Frost,
(the father of Nancy) was in many
ways a remarkable student and pio-
neer, being one of the first judges in
the State of Iowa. Joining the Cihurch
he removed his family to Utah and set-
tled in Spring City, Sanpete oo., just
in time to permit the little Janette
to be born in Utah. Janette grew up
in Spring City, Sanpete county, and
from her earliest youth she was a
leader in her circle She was a teach-
er in the Sunday school anid mutual
improvement association from the time
she was twelve years old, always am-
bitious and a lover of refinement and
culture, attended the Btigham Young

Academy, takinig a course in normal
train'ing in that institution, and grad-
uated in 1883 She taught school in
Wales, Sanpete co., for one year and
one year in Spring City. She was
married to Joseph Smith Hyde, a son
of the celebrated! Apositle Orson Hyde,
in the Logan Temple, July 20, 1886,
and is the mother of seven children,
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Joseph Jay, a college graduate and at
present tihe principal of the high
school in Panguitch, and Orson Acora,
a graduate for the Utaih Business Col-
lege and a fine musician. Her daugh-
ters are Romania (the fanuoius violin-
ist and beloved youthful artist in this
inter-mountain region), Golda (a stu-
dent in tlie Uiuiversity at present)
and Frank, a child of eight years.
Brother^ and Sister Hyde lived in the
22nid Ward, Salt Lake City, for about
twenty years. Here Janette's abilities
of leadership were recognized at oince,
and she was made president of tibe
mutual improvement asosciation of
the 22nid Ward, holding that office for
fifteen years. The family removing
to the 33rd Ward in 1913, Sister Hyde
acted as president of the mutual im-
provement association of said Ward
for four years. During the time of
the greait effort made to establish the
old gymnasium in the old Social hall,
Mrs. Hyde was one of that zealous
committee wlho gathered thousands of
dollars to prepare and equip that fa-
mous building for a gymnasium under
Prof. Maude May Babock, wiho haid
recently come from the east. In 1893
she was a member of the Public Com-
mittee which acted as a relief com-
mittee for the poor and suffering
thousands under the administration of
Grover Cleveland. Mrs. Hyde genei-
ously oipeined her cwn home and as-
isited in preparing food tlhat was given
by the merchants of the city to feed
the destitute. In later years, she was
taken upon the mutual improvement
board of the Liberty Stake, and here
again, her initiative faculties were
brought into active operation. Here,
she developed! and set in operation a
plan to take the working girls froni
the City Wards, during the summer
season into a camip for girls, just out-
side the city. Sister Hyde planned the
work and gave the plans to M'rs.
Elmily J. Higgs, Fred J. Pack and
Hugh J. Cannon, wiho ably carried
out her ideas. A piece of ground was

leased from James Godfrey, a sum-
mer home was built and arranigedl
for the girls to have from a week to
ten days' outing each summer. She,
herself, has acted as chajperon^ for
several companies of girls at different
periods, since its establishment. This
summer camp is still in active opera-
tion, and lit was the first entenprise
of its kind in this State. In March,
1911, Sister Hlyde was appointed a
member of the General Board of the
Relief Societies, and at once she wais
called upon to take active service on
some of the most important commit-
tees of this board, Mrs. Julina L.
Smith chose iher to act upon her com-
mittee for Temple clothing, and the
splendid success that has attended
this committee has demonstrated
anew the capacity cf women to ad-
minister in large affairs, if they are
called to exercise their governing fac-
ulties outside of the home circle. Sis-
ter Hyde was also chosen by Sister
Rebecca N. Nibley to assist iher in; the
establishment of the Relief Society
ihome for women and girls located at
36 West North Temple street. When
the "Relief Society Bulletin" was un-
der discussion, the name of Mirs. Jan-
ette A. Hyde was at once iproposed as
the business manager of that enter-
prise. Assisted by Mrs. Amy Birown
Lyman, Mrs. Hyde has financed that
great undertaking so successfully that
it has beein practically independent of
any assistance from the General
Board. In April, 1914, she was
chiosen as vice-president of the Inter-
national Congress of Learned Women
cf the Utah Division. And now. at
the dose of this year (1914). she has
been sustained as the business man-
ager of the new "Rielief Society Mag-
azine," an undertaking which will tax
all her gifts and mental resources. A
course taken by Mrs. Hyde in the year
1905 in Domestic Science has qualified
iber for that phase of theoretical prep-
aration for home life, while her own
delight in outdoor work has made of

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her a successful gardener in the small
(Plat of grouind which lies at the rear
of her mcidest home on 978 East 4th
South street. Here, she raises flow-
ers, vegetables and fruits, and has
been so successful ithait sihe was placed
in charge of the Home Gardeming De-
partment for women in the "Bulletin,"
and ihas made her customary success of
this department. Mrs. Hyde is gifted
with a beautiful presence, and a re-
fined manner. She is frank and can-
did in her disposition, but possesses
wisdom to itemper the keen which
make her an ideal coiumselor. She is
beloved as a friemd, adored as a wife
and mother and respected as a mem-
ber of society everywhere. ( — X).

IVERSEN, Niels Christensen, a

promiimenit Elder of the Bear River
City Ward, Box Elder co., Utaih, was
born April 7, 1846, at Uldem, Veile
amt, Denmark, itlhie son of Ohristen

Iversen and Anna Elizabeth Jensen;.
Hie was baptized May 5, 1862, hy Lars
Jensen and ordained a Priest October
23, 1864, by Anders W. Winberg. Soon
afterwards he was sent out as a lo-
cal miissionary under the name of
Niels Iversen. He labored in the Hor-
sens branch of the Fredericia confer-

ence until the spring of 1865, wlien
he went back to his farm labors, lu
January, 1867, be married Miaren Oi-
sen, who bore him three children; she
was born May 5, 1839, near Veile, Den-
mark. Brother Iversen emigrated to
Utah in 1871; his wife followed him
the mext year, but died in 1873, about
a year after her arrival in the Valley.
In 1878 Brother Iversen married Mary
B. Nilsoin, who was born May 1, 1854,
at Lunid, Swedien, and came to Utah in
1876. Sioon after his marriage with
this lady Btother Iversen located per-
manenitly in Bear River City. In 1873
he was ordained an EUder by Elias
Smith. In November, 1890, he was
ordained a Seventy by Knuid A, Fri-
dal, and in April, 1899, hie was or-
dained a High Priest by Ohas. Kel-
ley. In 1898 ihe filled, a mission to
Scandinavia, laboring in the Copen-
hagen conference. At home Brother
Iversen has acted as a Waind teacher
for thirty years and been a comnselor
in tihie presidency of the Scandinavian
meetings tin Bear River City for a
long time. He has also been a ciity
couincil member for five years. Broth-
er Iversen is the father of ten ohil-
dren, five boys and five girls, of whom
eight are now living.

IVERSON, Gustave Arnit, president
of the Carbon Stake, Carbom co., Utahi,
from May, 1910, to April, 1913, and
now a resident of the Ensign Wlard,
Salt Lake City, was born November
17, 1871, at Dr0bak, Akershiis amt,
Norway, the son of Miaginus Iverson
and Ingeborg Nielsen. H)e emigrated
to Utah in 1875, and was baptized
May 6, 1880, at Bphraim, Sanpete co.,
Utah, by Niils Anderson and confirmed
by Hans F. Petersen. He was or-
dained a Teacher when twelve years
of age and an Elldier April 26, 1892; oir-
dained a Seventy, May 2, 1892, by John
Henry Smith, and ordained a High
Priest, January 13, 1901, hy Canute
Peterson, and set apart as president
of the Y. M. M. I. A of the Sanpete

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Stake. He also acted as president of the
Manti South Ward Y. M. M. I. A., and
filled a special mission for the mutual
imiprovement cause in the Utaih Stake
during the winter of 1898-99. When
the Sampete Stake of Zion was diviided!
in 1900, he was chosen as second
counselor to President Lewis Andter-
son, of ithe Siouth Sanpete Stake. In
June, 1905, he went to Michigam to
study law, in consequence of which
he was released from his position in
tihat Stake presidency m the fall of
that year. After graduating witih high

honors from the University of Mich-
igan and receiving the degree of L. L.
B., ihe located at Manti, wihere he
was ohosen first assistant Stake su-
perintendent of Sunday schools, filling
thait position until December, 1908,
when he removed to Price, Carbon
CO., Utah. In 1910 he was elected
State isenator representing Carbon,
Emery, Grand, San Juan and Uintah
counties. In 1892-94 he filled a mis-
sion to Scandinavia, laboring in the
Clhristiania conference, principally in
Troms0. After his return from that
mission he married Mary Velettie Ol-
sen October 23, 1895; she is the daugh-
ter of Frederik Oisen and Miathilde
Jensen, and has borne her husband
eight childrein, six of whom are now

living. Since April 1, 1913, Brother
Iverson has acted as assistant attor-
ney general of Utah.

rviE, John, Lehi, a Utah pioneer and
military man, was born June 11, 1833,
in Misscairi, the son of James Ivie.
He shared with the saints in their per-
secutions in Illinois and migrated to
Utah in 1849, becaime a settl'er on
Pleasant Creek, now . Mt. Pleasant,
Sanpete co., in 1853. After marrying
Mary Catherine Barton, of Farming-
ton, Utah, he moved with his family

to Sevier county, wihere he resided un-
til the time of his demise. He died at
Vermillion, May 10, 1909, of old age
anid general debility, at the home of
his daguther, Mrs. Thos. Gledihill. Dur-
ing the latter part of his life Brother
Ivie was known as "Uncle John" and/
"Colonel Ivie." Hie was a fronstiers-
man to all intent and purposes and
did yeoman services in Sanpete, Sevier
and other counties in proitecting the
early settlers from the ravishes of
the red men. As a coloinel in the
Utah militia he was well liked by hiis
men, beinig brave but cautious; he
would never send his men where he
dared net go himself, and always
tried to obey the orders of his su-
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JENSEN, Charles, the second Bishop
of Koosharem, Sevier co., Utah, was
born March 10, 1855, at Sp0ring, Ran-
ders amt, Denmark, the son of Chris-
tian Jensen aud Biarbara Ohristensen.
He emigrated with his parents to
America ia, 1863 The famitly first re-
sided at Gunniscin, next in Ephraim,
Sanpete co., and in the spring of 1877
set'tledi at Redmomd, thus becomiing

some of (the original settlers of that
place. In 1886 Charles moved to
Koosharem, where he acted as Bishoip
from 1885 to 1890. He then returned
to Redmond, wihere he resided till
his dea^h. He was ordained an
Elder September 24, 1879, and in 1882-
84 he filled a mission to Scandinavia.
In 1906-09 he filled a second mission
to Scandinavia, tihis time presiding
over the Aarhus conference. He was
ordained a High Priest by John Henry
Smith in 1886. BTOther Jensen mar-
ried two wives. His first wife was
Annie Rasmuissen, whom he mar-
Sried June 7, 1876, and his second
wife was Brighamiine Joihnson, whom
he married June 2, 1886. On account
of his double marriage he was impris-
oned in the Utah, penttentiairy, (being
convicted of unlawful cohabitation)
from September 24, 1889, to Marcih

1, 1890. He had eight children by his
first wife and five children by his
second wife. For a number ct years
Brother Jensien was a member of the
Sevier Stake High Council. He also
acted as president of the Redmond
Y. M. M. I. A, and filled many other
poisitions of hoin;or and responsibility,
bcth of a seouilar and ecclessiastical
nature. After suffering for years with
ca.ncer. Brother Jensen died Sepitem-
ber 28, 1913, at Redmond. Throughout
h'lS entire career he exhibited to an
eminenit degree the leading character-
istics of a true and devoted Latter-day
Saint He was a natural leader among
men, possessed liberal views, was a
wise couin.selor, a kind husband and
father, and highly respected by all who
knew him. His occupation in life were
thcise of a farmer and stock raiser.

JENSEN, Joseph Young, first coun-
selor to President Lewis Anderson, of
the South Sanpete Stake, Utah, was
born May 21, 1857, at Frederikstad,
Norway, the son of Johan Andreas
Jensen and Andrea Petersen. When six
years old he crossed the Atlamtic with
his parents in a sailing vessel and
crossed the plains in an ox train, walk-
ing the greater part of the way. Af-
ter arriving in Salt Lake City in th©
fall of 1863, the family made Ephraim
their permanent shome. Jcseph wa
baptized when about eight years old
and was ordained successively to the
offices of Teacher, Elder, Seventy and
High Priest, the latter ordination
taking place under the hands of Apos-
tle Francis M. Lyman. At that time
also (he was made counselor in the
Bishopnic of the Koosharem Ward.
May 13, 1894, he was set apart as
second counselor to Bishop Chas. R.
Dorius, of the Ephraim South Ward.
Subsequently heheicame first counselor
to Bishop Doriuis, whicn office he
held till November 10, 1902. when he
was chosen and set apart as first
coumselor to President Lewis Ander-
son, which position he still holds.

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Brother Jensen has always been a dil-
igent Churob worker and has taken
ain active part as an officer in the
Siunday school and Y. Ml. M. I. A,
work. In 1881 (October 20th) he
marriedi Margaret P. Anderson who
bore him firve children. After her death

CO., was ordained an Elder Oct. 23,
1892, and ordained a Seventy May 18,
1898, by Christian D. Fjeldsted. In
1898-1900 he filled a mission to
Scandinavia, laboring as presiding
Elder of the Frederikshavn branch ot
the Aalborg ocnference. On this mis-

which occurred on the 15th of Oiot.,
1899, Brcther Jensen married S'tella
Raismussen June 25, 1902. Bleing of a
studious nature. Brother Jensen took
advantage of th^ oppcrtunities of the
pioneer school room and became a
graduate of the B. Y. Academy in
Provo in the spring of 1889. He was
selecited by the faculty to offer the
valediictory of the normal class of that
year. For a number of years he
taught school successfully and has
taken an active part in Ohoirch mat-
ters generally since he "was very
young.

JENSEN, Martini, the third Bisihop
of Riedmond, Sevier co., Utah, was
born Jan. 7, 1866, at Gunnison, San-
pete CO., Utah, the sen of Ohristian
Jensen and Barbara Christensen. He
was blessed by J0rgen Hansen, Jam.
30, 1866; was baptized in 1874 by John
G. J0rgensen, at Ephraim; removea
witih his parents to Redmond, Sevier

s:on., as well as at home, he has re-
ceived many testimonies of the
divinity of the great Latter-day worK
through dreams and visions, the heal-
ing cf the sick, etc. After his return
heme from his foreign mission, he
served two sessions as a member of
the Utah legislature. He was ordained
a High Priest and Bishop by Josepih
F. Smith June 29, 1902, and set apart
ito preside over the Redmond Ward,
which positicn he held till 1912. In
1887 (May 17th) he married Georgina
J0rgensen, daimgihter of James C.
J0rgensen and Christina S0rensen,
this marriage has been blessed with
twelve children, eight boys and four
girls, eleven of whom are still living.

JENSON, Jens, a veteran Elder in
the Moxroe Ward, Sevier co., Utah
was born February 12, 1829, at Fele-
stad. Ronneberg, Sweden, the son of
Jens Knudscn and Inger Hanson.
She emigrated to Utah in 1860, cross-

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LATTER-DAY SAINT

ing the Atlantic in the sihip "William
Tapscott," which, sailed frcna Diver-
pool, May 11, 1860, and arrived at
New York, Jime 20, 1860. From Flor-
ence she crossed the plains in Captain
O'scar O. Stoddard's handcart com-
pany, which arrived in Salt Lake City
September 24, 1S60. Almost imme-
diately after bis arrival in Utah., lie
fou:nd employmeuat on the Church
farm, after which he spent a few
years in Round Valley, Mtorgan co.
In 1869 'he moved to. Santaquin, Utah

JENSON, Joseph H., (the first Bishopr
of the Monroe North Wlard, Sevier co.,
Utah, was born August 23, 1867, at
Round Valley, Miorgan co., Utah, the
son of Jens Jenson and Cecelia An-
derson. He was baptized September
7, 1876, by John B. Hesse; ordained
an Elder in 1889 by Thos. Cooper, and
ordained a Sevemty August 23, 1892,
by George Reynolds. Prior to this he
acted as a president of a Deacons quor-
um.and president of a Teachers quor-
um; later he was secretary and presi-

co., and in 1870 located permanently
at Monroe, where ihe resided un-
til the time of ihis death. In
1879-81 he filled a mission to Swe-
den, laboring in the Goteborg con-
ference; he had previously been or-
dained a Seventy. In 1862 he married
Cecelia Anderson who was bom De-
cember 28, 1832, in Hlelsingborg, Swe-
den. The issue of this marriage was
three children, namely, Emma C, Alice
M. and Joseph H. In 1888 ihe married
Karen Anderson, a widow. After a
career marked wibh faithfulness and
integrity to the cause of Christ, Broth-
er Jenson died July 2, 1900, at Monroe.
He held the office of a High Priest at
the time of his demise.

dent of the 41st quorum of Seventy
aind acted for twelve years as presi-
dent of the Monroe Ward Y. M. M. I.
A. and later as second counselor in
the presidency of the Sevier Stake
Y. M. M. I. A. He also acted as as-
sistant superintendent of the Monroe
Sunday scihool and was Ward clerk
of Monroe for several years. | In 1889-
1890 he filled a special mission as a
Temple worker in the Manti Temple.
In 1890, (November 5th) he married
Emmeline Hansen (bcrn November
13, 1865, in Manti, Sanpete co., Utah),
who, after bearing six children, died
April 12, 1904. In 1908, (August 12tih)
he married Ellen Louisa Anderson who
was a native of Alsike, Upsala, Swe-

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den, and was born Dec. 31, 1879. This
last marriage has been blessed with
three children In 1901-03 Brother Jen-
son filled a mission to Sweden, labor-
ing in the Stockholm and Sundsvall
conferences. When the Monrcie Ward
was divided into two Wards April 24,
1904, Brother Jenson was ordained
a High Priest ia:nid Bishop by Rudger
Clawson and appointed to preside over
the Monroe North Ward. Im a secular
way Brother Jenson has filled a num-
ber of responsible positions at home;
thus ihe was a member of the Monroe
town board for a number of years and
also served as president of said board
two tefms. For six years he acted as
a school trustee. His principal avoca-
tion in life are those of farming and
stockraising.

JEREMY, Thomas Evans, a Patri-
arch in the Salt Lake Stake of Zion,
was born in the parish of Llanegwad,
Caermarthenshire, South Wales, July

11, 1815. He was raised on a farm
and received a tolerable good educa-
tion. After his marriage he joined the
Baptist denomination, but believed
the principles of "'Mormonism" from
the time he first heard them pro-

claimed. March 3, 1846, he was
baptized by Elder Dan. Jones, he be-
ing one of tihe first who embracea
the fulness of the gospel in Wales.
On the evendng of the day of his
baptism he was ordained to the office
of a Priest and soon afterwards, wheu
the Llanybyther branch of the Churcti
was organized, he was appointed to
preside over the same. By his con-
tinued effor^ts, being assisted also by
other Elders, four new branches were
raised up in ^the immediate neighbor-
hood of where he resided. At that
time Elder Jeremy lived on a large
farm, which he had rented from a
rich land-owner, the same as others
in the same neighbiorhood. This land-
owner, wiho was an enemy to the
"Mormons," became very angry when
he heard that Thomas E. Jeremy had
united himself with them, and further-
more was spreading the doctrines of
his creed among his other renters. On
one occasion when Elder Jeremy
broiuight him the half-yearly rent, this
man commenced to abuse him and
finally broke out in a passion, saying,
"These damned night-dippers (mean-
ing the 'Mormons') will lead you down
to hell." Bro. Jeremy, in his usual
calm and conservative manner, told
him in reply that although he knew
his duty to his laadlord, and would
do what was right to him, he con-
sidered it his privilege to serve God
according to his own conscience; and
he felt it to be his duty to obey God
more than man. This exasperated the
landlord, who commenced to curse
and swear, but was immediately
seized by a strange but mighty power,
\vlhich hurled him back in his chair
and made him speechless, while he
foamed profusely from the mouth,
and his limbs were twisited nearly out
of shape. He finally lost his reason
and never recovered from the attack.
On one occasion Elder Jeremy, on his
way to attend a conference meietiag

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at Myrther T^'dfil, South Wales, was
■crossing a higih, mountain on a cold
Btcrmy day, together with a com-
panion, wiho, in consequence of the
ground being slippery, stumbled and
dislocated his ankle. The young man,
whose name was John Rioe and had
only been a member of the Church a
short time, sat down by the read sidie
and wept, they being about seven
miles from the nearest 'house, where
theij' could procure any help. Elder
Jeremy explained the 'Ordinance of
the laying on of hands to Birother
Rice, and promised him that if he had
faith he could be healed. He itihen
placed his hands upon the young
man's head and commanded in tht
name of Jesus dirist that everytih;ing
in his body wihich had been disilocated
should be restored. He was imme-
diately obeiyed, and the young man,
who was instantly healed, leaped to'
his feet, shouting for joy, after which
the two continued their journey prais-
ing the Lord: for the miraculous
manifestation of His power. The
young man's ankle was as strong and
well as before the accident and Elder
Jeremy testifies that when he was ad-
ministering to the young man, he
plainly heard the bones in the dislo-
cated ankle dick together as if being
set by some unseen physical pcwei.
On another occasion when Elder
Jeremy was shooting at a flock of
crows, the barrel of the gun bursted,
and one piece of it struck E'lder
Jeremy with such force in the fore-
head that 'he lost consciousness, and
it was thought biy those who saw him
itihat he could not possibly live. Among
the visitors on the cccasioin was a
Baptist minister, who, on seeing him,
declared that if he could get well, he
would be willing to acknowledge
that there must be some extracrdi-
nary power connected with him and
his people. Through the faith and
prayers of the EJlders, Bratiher
Jeremy recovered so q'uickly that he

was out preaching to the people
the following Sunday, three days af-
ter the accident had taken place;
one week later he baptized three per-
sons. The Baptistt preacher, how-
ever, refused to believe, and when
Elder Jeremy exhibited several pieces
of bone which had been extracted
from the ghastly wound, this disbe"
liever in miracles wickedly insinuated
that Elder Jeremy must (have found
some siheep bones in his field, and
■was trying to deceive the people.
Elder Jeremy boire the scar from this
accident in his forehead to his death,
but experieDced no inconvenience
therefrom after the time he was first
healed. These instances are but a
few of the many relatedl by Elder
Jeremy, who, on account of his un-
swerving faith and implicit confidence
in the promises of God, was the in-
strument in His hands in (healang the
sick, casting out devils, speaking in
tongues, etc. The latter gift 'he en-
joyed to a great extent and also, on
several cccasiions, had the gift of in-
terpretation of tongues. In 1849,
Elder Jeremy emigrated to Utah, with
his family, consisting of his wife and
seven children and three other |per-
sons (one girl and two young men)
that he paid for, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "Buena Vista," which
sailed from Liverpool, England, Feb.
25, 1849. In crossing the plains, the
company, in which he traveled, was
snowed in, on 'the Sweetwater, and be-
fore relief could be sent out from the
Valley, the emigrants suffered much
from cold and hunger. In one night
seventy of their cattle died from cold
and starvation. Elder Jeremy located
with the Welsh Saints west of the
River Jordan, near Salt Lake City,
but shortly afterwards settled in the
Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake City,
where he resided the remainder of
'his days. In 1849-52 Ihe presided over
the. Welsh meetings, which were held
weekly in the city during that time.

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These meetings were oftea visited by
some of the Apostles and were gen-
erally very spirited and interesting.
In 1852 Elder Jeremy was' called on. a
mission to his native country. He lefitJ
home Sept. 16th of that year, and
after a severe journey across the
plains and a stormy passage over tihe
ocean he arrived in Liverpool, EIngH
land, Dec. 24, 1852. He was appointed
to preside as pastor over three
conferences (Swansea, Llamelly and
Caermarthen), and subsequently acted
as counselor to Dan Jones, iu
the presidency of the Wielsh M'isi-
sion. After a successful mission,
he returned home with a company
of Saints, which sailed from Liver-
pool, England, in thie ship "Chim-
borazo," April 17, 1855. On the voy-
age he acted as a comnselor to Ed-
ward Stevenson, the president of the
company. During the few following
years Elder Jeremy land family suf-
fered considerably from scarcity of
food, tlie grassh-oppers destroying the
crops in -the valleys of Utah.
As long as he ihad any breadr
stuff, he divided liberally "with (his
neiglhbors, and when all was gone,
he stojcd his chance with i the rest
of the people in subsisting on
roots and other things which could
sustain life for a time. ,At the time
of the general reformation in 1856
he t0|0ik a very active part in preach-
ing ito the iWelsh Saints and exhort-
ing them to irenewed diligence. Later
(1857-58), he participated in the ex-
pedtion t,o' Echo Canyon, making
ttwo trips out I in the mountains. Oin
one of these he served as captain
ot ten and an the other as captain
of a company; he suffered con-
siderably from cold and over-exertion,
and frequently ,had to make Ibis bea
on three feet of snow. Ini I86O1 Ihe
was called on a mission to Euirope.
He arrived in Liverpool Dec. ■12tu
of that year and was appointed to
preside over the Welsh Mission.

"While acting in that position for
about three years andl a half several
thousand people joined the Church in
Wiales. Geo. G. Bywater was his
first and David M. Davis bis second
counselor. He finally returned home in
■charge of a large company of Saints,
whicib sailed from Liverpool, on the
ship "General M'Clellan" May 21,
1864. In October following he was
set part to act as a a member of the
High. Council in the Salt Stake of
Zon, a position which Ihe occupied un-
til May, 1887, when he was released
with honor because of his advanced
years. Soon afterwards he was or-
dained a Patriarch. In November,
1875, he filled another mission to
England, arriving in Liverpool Dec.
1st of that year. He traveled among
the branches in Wales, and also at-
tended to some private business; re-
turned home in March, 1876. Elder
Jeremy was one of the faithful and
true Elders wiho shewed the same
noble characteristics in times of pros-
penity as in times of adversity; he
has ever been true to his God and his
brethren and friends; his virtues and
n,oble example will be held in honor-
able remembrance by future generar
tions. Bro. Jeremy died April 17,
1891, in Salt Lake City.

JOHANSON, Olof P., Bishop of Ar-
cher Ward, Fremont Stake, Madison
CO., Idaho, was born May 24, 1862, at
Valby, Elfsborg Ian, S^veden, the son
of Johannes Swenson and Christina
Person. He was baptized Aug. 10,
1882, by Andreas Eliason; ordained a
Priest April 2, 1883, by Andreas Mia-
son; flrdained an Elder May 27, 1883,
by Bengt M. Rafsten and ordained a
Higib Priest Dec. 24, 1899, by John
Henry Smith. In 1883-84 he labored
as a missionary in Sweden, principally
in the Trollhattan branch. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1884, and after resid-
ing temporarily at Logan and Hyde
Park, Cache co., he settled at Lyman,

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Fremont co., Idaho, in 1885. At thait
time that whole region of country was
covered with sage brush and the dis-
tance to the nearest market was about
twenty-five miles. The ipioneer set-
tlers at Lyman had to cross two arms
of Snake river in order to reach Eagle
Riock (now Idaho Falls). In 1910-12
Brother Johanson filled a mission to
Scandinavia, laboring first as travel-
ing Eflder in the Goteborg conference
and lat«r as president of the said con-

Hlolbffik amt, Denmark, Dec. 25, 1836,
baptized by Anton Andersen June 18,
1855, labored as a missionary on Sjael-
land several months, emigrated to
Utah in 1857, crossing the Atlantic in
the ship "Westmoreland" and arrived
in Salt Lake City, Sept. 13, 1857. He
located in Brigham City, where he the
following spring was delegated as a
picket guard to burn the p'r,cperty, if
the soldiers should continue hostilities
after their arrival in the Valley. After

ference; still later ihe labored as a
traveling Elder in the Sundsvall con-
ference. Before being chosen as
Bishop of the Archer Wlard in 1914,
Brother Johanson acted as president
of the Lyman Ward Y. M. M. I. A.,
was superintendent of the Ward Sun-
day school, superintendent of Re-
ligion Class at Lyman, and served
seven years as first Counselor to two
Bishops (Thomas Atkinson and
George Briggis, sen.). Hie has also
served as school trustee and as a di-
rector in canal companies for many
years.

JOHNSON, James H., a prominent
EUder in the Second Ward, Salt Lake
Lake City, Utah, was born at Nidl0Sb,

"the move" in 1858 he located in Salt
Lake City, where he has resided ever
since. In the year 1861 he went to
the Missouri river as a Cihurch team-
ster, after the .poor, making the round
trip in Capt. Jos. W. Young's com-
pany. At the April conference, 1866,
he was siustained as a, counselor to
James Leach, president off all the
Deacons in the Choirch, occupying that
position until 1867, when he was called
on a mission to Scandinavia. He left
home in the spring and arrived in
Copenhagen, Denmark, July 31, 1867.
He presided over the Vendsyssel ana
subseqiiently over the Aalborg con-
ference, and returned home in the
summer of 1869. From 1877 to 1885
he acted as head teacher in the Second

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Ward, and was also a ihome missiou
ary £cir a number of years. In 1886
(May 13th) lie icommenced work as a
member of the Salt Lake police force.
After serving in that capacity about
five years, he moved out on a farm
•which he had purchased in Granger;
■ihere <he lived until 1910, when he
moved back to the Second Ward. In
186(> (Sept. 28th) Brother Johnso;u
married Jensine Jensen, who was born
July 1, 1840, at Hirschholm, Sjaelland,
Denmark, the daughter of Niels Jen-
sen. iSihe was one of the first 28
Scandinavian saints 'Who emigrated
from Denmark to Utah, and bore
Bro. Johnson nine chldren; sihe died
in Salt Lake City, March 7, 1905. In
1870 (Jan. 17th) Bro. Johnson married
Else Marie Petersen who "was born in
Aalbor.g, Denmark, May 28, 1852, bap-
tized Miay 28, 1864, and emigrated to
Utah in 1869. She became the mother of
eleven children, is still alive and labor-
ing as an active teacher in the Second
Ward Relief Society.

JOHNSON, John Peter Rasmus, thb
second Bishop of the Provo Flrsii
Ward, Utah co., Utaih, was born April
10, 1824, in Sindved, Veile amt, Jut-
land, Denmark, the son of Johan Chris-
tensen and Ane Dorthea Johansen.
He was baptized by iGhristian J. Lar-
sen, Dec. 7, 1852, and soon after ot-
dained to the Priesthood. He presideu
over the Greis branch of the Pred-
ericia conference about three years
and emigrated to Utah in 1845, cross-
ing the Atlantic in the ship "Ben-
jamdn Adams." He became a per-
ir.anent resident of Provio in 1856,
•where he took an active part in both
Church and secular affairs and was
at one time cine of the leading busi-
ness men of Provo. Thus he acted as
president of the Ward teachers and a
counselor tO' Bis;hop Blackburn; he
also served as a member of the Provo
city council for a number of years.
In 1861-64 he filled a successful mission

to Scandanavia, during which he pre-
sided over the Fredericia cionference
about two years and subsequently pre-
sided one year in Norway. From 1864
to 1902 ihe acted as Bishop of the
Provo First Ward. In 1886 he filled a
short mission to the Northwestern
States. Having obeyed the higher law

of marriage he was imprisoned in the
Utah penitentiary for unlawful cohab-
itation from Oct. 9, 1888, to Jan. 20,
1889. He died July 9, 1910, at Provo,
Utah CO., Utah, leaving an interesting
family of ten s'talwart sens and eight
daughters.

JONES, Albert Stephen, a counselor
to Bishop Buttle of the Provo First
Ward, (Utah Stake), Utah, was bom
Jan. 15, 1871, at Provo, the son of
Samiuel S. Jones and Julia Ipsen. Ht
was baptized when about eight years
old by Thos. Farrer and soon after-
wards ordained to the lesser Priest-
hood. He was ordained an Elder Ja» .
17, 1894, ordained a Seventy Jan. 31,
1894, and ordained a High Priest April
27, 1913. In 1894-97 he filled a mis-
sion to Samoa, laboring pirincipally
in the Tonga part of said mission. At
home he has been a diligent Churcn
worker. Thus he labored seven years

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LATTER-DAY SAINT

in the superintendency of the Provo
First Ward Sunday school, was clerk
in a qucruni' of Seventy for se^eii
years, and set apart as one of the
presidents of the 134th quorum ot
Seventy Dec. 12, 1909, which positio-i
he held until he was called to labor

has also acted as a Sunday schooi
officer, and been president of the
Ward Y. M. M. I. A. and choir leader.
Bro. Jones emiigrated to America In
1871, spent one year in Ohio and camt.
to Utah in 1872, settling at Rockport,
Summit co., where he married Han-

in the Ward Bishopric. In 1897 (May
12th) he married Sadie E. Fletcher
(daughter of Chas. E. Fletcher and
Elizabeth Miller, of Prov.o,) vho has
borne him four children, namely Veoma
E., Lyle J., Fletcher A. and Alice. For
the past fifteen years Bro. Jcnes has
been engaged in mercantile business.

JONES, Alfred Abraham, second
counselcr in the Bishopric of ihe Hun-
ter Ward, Salt Lake co., Utah, fiom
1888 to 1902, was born Nov. 13, 1850,
at Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Eng-
land, the son of Thomas Jcnes and
Ann Walden. He was baptized in
1859, by David Morgan; ordained a
Deacon, Teacher, Priest and Elder
successively, the latter ordaination
taking place Nov. 8, 1875, under tho
hands of Duncan M. McAllister. He
was ordained a High Priest Aug. 26,
1888, by Josiepih E. Taylor and set
apart as second counselor to Bishcp
Wm. Miller, of the Hunter Ward. He

nah M. Gibbs Nov. 18, 1875. He finally
settled permanently at Hunter. Bro.
Jones is the father of five children,
and is a farmer, iron worker and.
miner by occupation.

JONES, Alfred Thiomas, second!
counselor to Bishop Laronzo Day, at
Hunter, Salt Lake co., Utah, was born
Nov. 29, 1876, at Rockport, Summit
CO., Utah, the son of Alfred A. Jones
and Hannah Maria Gibbs. He was bai>
tized when eight years of age, was
ordained to the lesser Priesthood ass
a boy, received a common school edit-
cation, was ordained an Eldc in
1899, and filled a mission to the
Southern States in 1900-02, after being
ordained a Seventy Feb. 16, 1900. He
was ordained a High Priest July 27,
1902, by John R. Winder and set apart
as second counselor to Laronzo Day.
In 1904 (April 20th) he married
Sarah Jane Lester. Bro. Jones has

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taken an active part in Y. M. M. I. A.
work and has acted as a Ward teachei

■==?Wf«S'--

and Sunday school teacher for a num-
ber of years.

JONES, George Ladiley Martin,

Stake clerk of the Sevier Stake, Se-
vier CO., Utah, was born Jiune 19, 1858,
at Kilmarnock, Ays'bire, S'&citland, tht
son of John R. Jones and Agnes C.
Martin. He emigrated to Utah witn
his mother in 1864, since which, timu
he has resided in Salt Lake City, Hei-
riman, Brighton, and Richfield, the lat-
ter being his present home. Hi&
parents being members of the Church,
George was baptized in June, 1867,
by Wm. Ostler. We was ordained a
Teacher wihen quite yioung and on
June 6, 1882, he was ordained an Ei-
der by John Cummock. Elder Jones
has always been actively engaged in
Church work and has particularly
been a diligent Sunday school officer
and Ward and Stake clerk. While
residing in the Salt LaJke Stake ho
acted as clerk and president of the
Twenty-second ctuorum cf Elders and
since Mlarch, 1902, he has acted as
tithing clerk of the Sevier Stake. In
1882 (Oct. 26th) he married Hortenstr
M. Lang, who has borne him nine chii-

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dren. In a civic way Bro. Jones has
been a railroad worker, filling posi-
tions as chore b.cy, brakeman, car
inspector, ccnductor and office clerk.
He has always taken a great interest
in music and possesses considerable
talent in that direction. For several
years he was a member of the Salt
Lake Choral Society and .cf the TabCi
nacle choir. He also had charge of
the Brighton Ward choir abouc ten

years. At the present time he is fill-
ing the position of Stake chorister
of the Sevier Stake Y. M. M. I. A. and
S'untday scho.ols, and is also director
of the Sevier Stake tabernacle choii.
As a musical instructor in the Richfield
public schools his ability is well recog-
nized.

JOtNES, Robert Elijah, second coun-
selor to Bishop Day of the Hunter
Wlard, Salt Lake co., Utah, was born
Feb. 24, 1881, at Rockport, Summit
CO., Utah, the son of Alfred A. Jones
and Hannah Maria Gibbs. He was
baptized when eight years ot age.
ordained a Deacon in 1897; ordained
an Elder in 1898 by John J. Field,,
and ordained a High Priest Nov. 27^
1904, by Geo. Albert Smith and set
apart as second counselor to Bishop'

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Day, succeeding his Brother Alfred.
From ihis early youth: Elder Jones hao
taken an active part dn Church mat-
ters. Thus he acted as a counselor
in the presidency of a Deacon's quor-
um and later in the presidency of a
Teacher's quorum, wasi an officer in
the Ward Y. Mi. M. I. A. and Sunday
school, and also Wlard clerk for four
years. In 1904 (Nov. ^th) he mar-
ried Mary Ann Haslam, who has borne
her ihusband four children.

J0RGENSEN, S0rine Knudsoni, witt
of Johan G. J0rgen&en, was born Junt
9, 1830, at Jaasund, near Stavanger,
Norway. "Wlhen quite young she mar-
ried Ole Staalesen, with whom she had
five childiren; cne of these died in

infancy, while four of them joined the
Church and came to Utah. One of
her sons (S0ren Staalesen) by this
first husband worked in the St.
George Temple and later while en-
gaged in labor en the Salu Lake
Temple he took sick and died. One
of the daughters (Anna Marie, be-
came the wife of John F. F. Dorius;
another daughter (Amelia) married

Nephi Williams, who lives in Emery
county. The other son (Olof) was sud-
denly killed in February, 1897. S0rine
joined the Church about the year
1859, and from the beginning of her
acquaintance wdth the "Mormons" she
kept an open house tor the mission-
aries and rendered them efficient help
on many occasions. When she finally
emigrated to Utah in 1863, she assisted
a number of persons to emigrate, and
she was one of the most liberal donai-
ors to a certain fund created for the
purpose of erecting a mission buiild-
ing at Osterhausigaden, in Ohristiania.
On her arrival at Florence, Nebraska,
she married Johan Gustaf Jorgensen
and fitted out sieveral teams and
crossed the iplains in an independent
compay in charge of William W.
Cluff. Diiring a stampede on the
plains Sister J0rgensen's hired girl
was killed. After theiir arrival in
Utah, the family located, at E2phraim,
where they passed through all the
trials and difficulties incident to early
pioneer life and Indian troubles. By
her second husband Sister J0rgensen
became the mother of five children,
namely, Johan Caroline, Enoch (wiho is
at present principal of the Jordan High
School), Bertha and Heber. Dro. and
Sister J0rgensiein were among the pio-
neer settlers of Koosharem, Grass
Valley, Sevier cc, Utah, in 1878, and
for many years Sister J0rgensen with
her four children was engaged in dairy-
ing at Fish Lake. Throughout her en-
tire life she was active in all matters
pertaining to Relief Society work and
general social betterment. Respected
and beloved she passed to her final
rest April 1, 1914, at Ephraim.

KEELER, Charles Obed, second
counselor to Bishop James F. Shaw of
the B'rooklyn Wlard, Sevier oo., Utah,
was born Jan. 3, 1865, in Goshen, Utah
CO., Utajh, the son of Jas. Keeler, anid
Emily Sheltoin. He was baptized in
the summer of 1874, by Johan Smith,

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was ordained a Deaccn by Franklin
Spencer at Richfield, Sevier co., Utah,
ordained ,a Teacher and a Priest at
Pima, Arizona, and later ordained an
Elder. When residing in the Provo
Fififch Wiard, Utah co., Utah, he wab
ordained a Seventy July 8, 1902, by
Joseph W. McMuprrin and set a pa.ri
for a mission to the Siouthern States.
Biro. Keeler now holds the offiice .of a
High Priest. He is a farmer by avoca-
tion.

KEMP, James, an active Elder in
the Crescent Wiard, Salt Lake co.,
Utah, was born Jan. 20, 1847, at Carl-
ton, England, the son of William
Kemp and Elzabeth Billam. He was
baptized when about eight years of
age and as a boy assisted his father,
who was a weaver. He emigrated to
Utah wibh his parents in 1862, and

located with them in the Eleventn
Ward, Salt Lake City: in 18G4 he ac-
companied them to St. George. Soon
afterwards he located temiporarily at
Provo, but returned again to St.
George, after which he engaged iu
teaming and freightinig to California
and the States. He was ordained an
Elder and married Etama Papworth,
in the Endowment House, Salt Lake

Cicy, Oct. 30, 1871. She was the daugh-
ter of James Papworth and Elizabeth
Tavener, and was born Dec. 10, 1854,
at Cambridge, England, emigrated to
America in 1864, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "Hudson" and the plains
with ox 'teams, walking all the way.
She became a mother to eleven chil-
dren, eight beys and three girls. After
Brc. Kemp's marriage he worked at dif-
ferent trades and in different localities.
Finally he became a permanent settlei
at Crescent in 1886. Here he has lived
ever since, engaged in farming. He
was ordained a High Priest Dec. 28,
1907, by Hyrum Goff and filled a nine
months' mission to the Central States
in 1910-11. I*rior to his departure on
that mission and also after bis return
he labored as a 'home missionary in
the Jordan Stake. He has also been
president of the 2nd quorum of Elders
of the Jordan Stake for several years.
For six years he acted as constable in
the Crescent precinct.

KEMP, William, a veteran Elder in
the Church and for many years a resi-
dent of St. George, Washington co.,

Utah, was born in England. He joined
the Church in England and laboreu
seven years as a local missionary; emi-
grated to Utah in 1862, crossing the

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Atlantic in the ship 'William Tap-
scott," which sailed from England, Ma.>
14, 1862, and arrived at New York
after a seven weeks' voyage. He
crossed the plains in Capt. Horton
D. Haight's company and arrived in
Salt Lake City Oct. 19, 1862. After resid-
ing a sh.ort time in the Eleventh Wlard,
Salt Lake City, he went to St. George,
in 1864, where h© resided until tthti
time of his death which occurred at
St. George. For many years Bro.
Kemp was chorister in the St. George
Ward and died as a High Priest and
a faithful member of the Church.
Elder Kemp learned the trade of a
weaver at Carlton, Elngland, and mar-
ried when quite young. One evening
while he and his wife were 'Cut hunt-
ing for em.ployment an Elder came to
their house, and being hungry and
tired he asked for something to eat.
The children, who were alone at homifc,
replied that they had nothing iu
the house to eat and had been wiViir
cut food all day. The Elder remarked:
"You shouldn't be 'hungry with bread
lying all around." Securing a light,
the Elder and the children began to
search the house, and to their great
surprise they scon found four loaves
of bread upon the loom. The children
ate their bread and went to bed re-
joticing. On another occasion after
Bro. Kemp and wife had arrived in
America, they experienced hard times
in common with their co-religicnistb.
One evening when Bro. Kemp was re-
turning h.cme, after having hvmted all
day for -work, he heard a man being
refused a night's lodging at the house
of a neighbor, and w'hen the same
s'tranger a few minutes later met Bro.
Kemp and asked him for lodging, he
was told that if he would walk a mile
with him he could share his bed with
him. The stranger accepted the of-
fer, and upion entering Bro. Kemp's
house, they engaged in a conversation
about gospel principles, on which the
visiter seemed to be exceedingly well

posted. The stranger also discovered
that the family were in very poor cir-
cumstances, in fact almost destitute
of food. The stranger left the house
early the next morning, but abonlt
8 o'clock he came back with a wagon
load of vituals and unloaded the same
a*" the house of Bro. Kemp. The moth-
er then made breakfast and as the
stranger sat down to eal, he began to
pull money out of his pockets, and
toss coins on the floor for the children.
He seemed to have money in every
pocket. After the meal, the man left,
but prior to his doing so he was asked
to give his name. He simply replied
that he just went wherever he wias
sent, upon which the stranger myster-
iously disappeared

KJ/^R, Louis Christian, the second
Bishop of the Manti South Wiard, San-
pete CO., Utah, was bom Oct. 9, 1857,
at Manti, the son of Lars Christian
Kjser and Mette Marie Christensen.

He was baptized in 1865 and became a
Church worker from his early hoy-
hood. In due course of time he was*
ordained a Seventy and he acted as
secretary of the Mahti South Ward
Sunday school four years and also
as secreitary and president of the

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Ward Y. M. M. I. A. for some time.
In 1903 he was ordained a High Priest
and Bishop by Anthon H. Lund and
set apart to preside over the Manti
South Ward', succeeding the late Hans
Jensen Hals. Bro. Kj^r has resided
in Manti all his days, where ihe has
been engaged Ln farming and stock
raising. He has served three termns
as a member of ibhe Manti city coun-
cil, dn 1884 (Nov. 14th) he married
Anna E. Jensen, which marriage has
been blessed with five boys and three
girls, whoi-e names follow: Liouis Mlil-
roy, Clinton, Aldred Claudius, Edith
Pearl, Curtis Anthon, Ruth Gelean,
Florenice Cathrine and Leonard Jen-
sen.

KL'EINMAN, Konratf, one of thu
original Utah pioneers of 1847, was
born April 19, 1815, at Bergwater, Laii-
da)u, Germany, the son of Konrad
Kleinman and OdeMa Wissing. He
emigrated to America when quite
young and becoming a convert to
■"Mormonism" he was baptized hy
Dominicug Carter Aug. 26, 1844, in
Indiana. When he first jo'ined the
Church his mother was very much
embittered against him, but having a
testimony from the Lord regarding
the divinity of "Mormonism" he paid
no attention to the ill feeling of bis
relatives. He migrated to Nauvoo in
1844, and worked on the Temple with
his team, hauling rock. He purchased
a log house and a lot in Nauvoo, and
lived there until he was driven away
"by the mob. During the exodus iu
1846, he went as far as Winter Quar-
ters, where he built a log house, and
lin the spring of 1847, he was chosen
as one of the original pioneers who
made the famous journey to G. S. L.
valley that year, under Pres. Brigham
Young. Fnom the very beginning Bro.
Kleinman took an active part in the
upbuilding of this western country,
and after residing temporarily in Salt
Lake City he located at Lehi, Utah
CO. In 1855-56 he filled a mdssion to

New York and he was called on the
Dixie miss-ion in 1861. After residing
at St. George and Toquerville, south-
ern Utahi, he removed to Mesa, Ari-
zona, but soon returned to St. George,
to spend his last day's working iii
the Temple. There he performed ordin-
ance work for micire than 4,000 of his
dead relatives. Bro. Kleinman was
ordained to the different grades of
the Presthood and was ordained a
High Priest as early as 1855, when he
was appc'inted to act as a counselor
to Bishoip Pettigrew of the Tenth
Ward, Salt Lake City. Later he actea
as counselor to O. N. Stewart and
Alexander Hunsaker of Mesa, Arizona.
In 1839 he married Elizabeth M. Hol-
land, and in 1856 he married Anna
Benz and Mary Ann Garner. By these
three wives he was the father of
thirteen children, nine boys and four
giirls. Bro. Kleinman was ordained a
Patriarch in September, 1891, and
died Nov. 12, 1907, at St. George,
Utah.

LAMBERT, John Carlos, clerk of the
Kamas Ward (Summit Stake) Summit

c ., Utah, was born Sept. 20, 1849, at
Kansas City, Jackson co., Missouri, the
son cf John Lambert and Adelia Glroes-

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beck. Ho was baptized in April, 1861,
by Jolm Lambert in Salt Lake City;
ordained successively a Deacon, Teach-
er, Priest and Elder, the latter ord-ina-
tian taking place in 1882 by Andrew
Peterson. Elder Lambert came to
Utah in 18&0, and resided in Salt Lake
City till 1861, since which he has lived
in Kamas. He has acted as a Sun-
day school teacher, "W^rd teacher, Y.
M. M. I. A. officer and Ward clerk of the
Kamas W!ard. He is a farmer, stock
raiser and saw mill man by occupa-
tion and has served the peciple as con-
stable, justice of the peace, count>
commissioner and school trustee. In
1882 (Feb. 23rd) ihe married Margaret
A, Woodard and in 1886 (April 14*h)
he married Olivia F. Andersen; he is
the father of eight children.

LAYTO'N, Oscar T., first counselor
in the Bishopric of the Thatcher Ward,
Graliam co., Arizona, was born May
12, 1874, at Kaysville, Davis co., Utah,
the son of Christopher Layton and
Septemma Simms. The following
brief sketch of his life was prepared
by himself: "My father was Bishop
of Kaysville for seventeen years and
counselor in the Stake ipresidency of
the Davis Stake for a number of years.
He was then called to Arizona to pre-
side over the St. Joseph Stake at itb
organization. He held this position
until his health was so impaired that
he could no'L attend to his duties. In
the fall of 1882, I with my mother
. came to Arizona to join father. After
remaining a few years I returned^ to
Utah and stayed there until after the
dea'th of mother. I then returned to
Arizona, and at the age of eighteen
years I married Lula Lewis, a daugh-
ter of one cf the Mormon Battalion
boys. I have been a teacher in the
Sunday school since I was about six-
teen years old, and w'hen the religion
class work was first begun in the
Church, or in St. Joseph Stake, I was
set apart as cne of the first instruct-
ors. In the fall of 1898 I was called to

Old Mexico, in the interest of Y. M. M.
I. A. work. After returning from
Miexico I took up my work in the Sun-
day school again and also that of
Ward teacher. In October, 1899, I left
home, agreeable to call, to labor as a
missionary in the Colorado mission.
For the first six months I worked in
the State of Wyoming with the con-
ference president, Elder Cihris Peter-
son. We worked the greater ipart of
the eastern portion of the State, ana
were quite successful in getting the
gospel before the people. I was then
called to labor in the eastern part or
Colorado, where we met with much in-
difference. In the early part of the
winter of 1900, I wcrked in 'the city
or Denver, as a canvassing Elder. In
January, 1901, I was called to Ne-
braska to work as conference pres-
'Lent. While there I organized a class
for the benefit of the Elders who were
laboring in Omaha, and set the Relief
Society and Sunday school in order.
My attention was also directed to the
genealogy of the Saints of that con-
ference. I found that labor very diffi-
cult, but was able to collect some
data in regard to it and sent it in
to mission headquarters. My family
'having been sick most of the time
since I left home, I was released July
12, 1902, to return home. I was or-
dained a High Priest and set apart
to act as first counselor in the Bishop-
ric of the Thatcher Ward, Nov. 25,
lb02. During the administration of
the ipresent Bishopric the Ward has
built a white sand stone meeting-
house at a cost of $21,000' and fur-
nished to the amount of $1,300."

LEMON, John Kinox, a Patriarch in
the Summit Stake, Summit co., Utah,
was born Aug. 19, 1845, in Cass county,
Indiana, the son of Wm. M. Lemon an^l
Catiherine Myers. H© emigrated to
Utah in 1847, and after residing in
Salt Lake City for several years, he
moved to Cache Valley in 1868, and
thence moved to Kamas, Summit co..

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where he still resides. He was bap-
tized April 15, 1855, by Alexander A.
Lemon; ordained an Elder by J. "V.
Long in May, 1865; ordained a High
Priest by Lorenzo Snow in July, 1877,
and ordained a Patriarch May 16, 1903.
B'ro. L«mon has acted as a Ward
teacher, Sunday school superintend-
ent and home missionary. He of-
ficiated as presiding Elder in the Mar-
ion branch from 1871 to 1877, was
second counselor in the Kamas Ward
Bishopric from 1877 to 1901, and be-
came a High Councilor in 1901. In
1868 (March 7th) he married Jane E.
Burbidge who bore him nine children,
five girls and four boys, eight of whom
are still alive. Bro. Lemon is a farmer
and stock raiser by occupation.

LI'NDSiAY, Edgar Monroe, Bishop ol
Nounan, Bear Lake co., Idaho, was
born Jan. 17, 1857, at Kaysville, Davis
CO., Utah, the son of Wm. B. Lind-
sey and Julia Parks. He moved with
his parents to Paris, Bear Lake co.,
Idaho, in 1864, and passed through the
hardships incident to the settling of
that cold country. He was baptized
in 1868 by T-hos. Sleight and labored
in the different callings of the Priest-
hood from the office of Deacon tO' that
of a High Priest. He was ordained to
the latter office Aug. 7, 1897, by Wm.
Bhidge. Sept. 30, 1880, he married
Sarah Ann Beach of Logan, Utah, and
soon afterwards located at Nounan,
where he still resideis. In 1894-96 he
filled a mission to <j*reat Britain, labor-
ing in Belfast (Ireland) and surround-
ing country. On his return home
he was appointed Bishop of the Nou-
nan Ward, Btear Lake Stake, Aug. 7,
1897, which position he still holds.
Bishop Lindsay's principal occupations
in life have been those of farmer and
dairy man.

LORENTZEN,, Godtfred, the first
Bishop of the Salina Second Ward,
S'evier co., Utah, was born December
23, 1862, at Wjesterlinnet, Gramm par-

ish, Haderslev amt, Schlesvig, the son
of S0ren Lorentzen and Ane Helene
Roager. He was raised in Schlesvig,
and went to Denmark when about
seventeen years old, to avoid military
service. Locating at Hjarup, near
Kolding, he became a convert to 'Mor-
monism" and was baptized by Lars
Nielsen in May, 1881. He emigrated
to Utah in June, 1884, and located ax
Fountain Green, Sanpete county. Sub-
sequently he made his home at Moroni,

where he married Christine B'. Smith,
who bore him five children. She was
bom in Terp, 0sterlinnet, Sichlesvig.
In 1896 the family located permanently
in Salina where Bro. Lorentzen's first
wife died in May, 1900, and he mar-
ried Elmer Olivia Johnson, Sept. 29,
1903. Some time after his arrival iu
Utah, Bfo. Lcrentzen was ordained
an Elder and laiter a Seventy and be-
came a member of the 107th quorum
of Seventy. He was ordained a High
Priesc and Bishop and set apart to
preside over the Salina Ward, June
19, 1908, and when the Salina Ward
was divided into two Wards, Dec. 14,
1911, he was set apart as Bishop of
the Salina Second Ward.

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LYMAN, Amy Brown, Secretary oi
the General Board of Relief Societies,
•was born Feb. 7, 1872, in Pleasant
Grove, Utah co., Utah, the daughter of
John Brown. Her father was a
pioneer of sturdy charaoter and un-
faltering loyalty to the gospel of
Jesus Christ. He was one of the original
Utah pioneers, and he and Orson Pratt
were the first of this band to catch a
glimpse of the Great Salt Lake Valley.
With a few ccmpanions, John Bl-own
ascendedi the Twin Peaks soon after this
early entrance into the valley. They
were the first pioneers and probably

the first white men who ever planted
their feet on these peaks. He was
known and dearly beloved by the early
settlers of Utah, and held many posi-
tions of prominence and trust. He was
unusually well read, and he put forth,
during the whole of his life-time, every
possible effort to induce young people
to go to school. Amy Brown had the
good fortune also to be the grand-
daughter on her mother's side of Geo.
Zimmerman, who was a graduate of a
German university, and a linguist of
rare ability. She was very fortunate
to come from parents both of whoni
had been trained in such an educa-
tional atmosphere, and it is not sur-

prising, therefore, that as a result she
has exhibited unusual interest and
talent in education work. There were
twenty-five children in this famous old -
Utah family, nine sons and sixteen
daughters. From the public schools
of Pleasant Grove the subject of this
sketch went to the Brigiham Young
University at Provo, and was grad-
uated with the class of 1890, the last
normal class to receive personal in-
struction from the late Dr. Karl G.
Maeser. After graduation Miss
Brown was employed four years as
a teacher in the training school of
the Brigham Young University. She
was one of the first students trained
umdier the direction of Prof. Mlaiud
May Babcock in physical education.
She afterwards taught this subject, as
well as domestic art, in the Brigham
Young University. During the last
year of her stay in that institutic'n,
although very young, she discharged
the duties of matron with such dig-
nity and modest self-control as to "win
the respect and loyal support of every
girl in the school. The marked soic-
cess with which she served as teacher
in the public schools of Salt Lake City
during the next two years, under the
superintendency of Dr. J. F. Mills-
paugh, is but another evidence of the
unusual talent which she possesses.
After leaving tihe school room as a
teacher Miss Brown took special
courses in English and History both
in the University of Utah and also in
the University of Chicago. Miss Browu
was married to Richard R. Lyman, son
of President Francis M.Lyman, in the
Salt Lake Temple by President Jo-
seph F. Smith, Sept. 9, 1896. Two
children have been born of this union,
namely, Wlendel Brown Lyman (born
Dec. 18, 1897, in Salt Lake City) and
Margaret (born Sept. 15, 1913, in
Ithaca, New York). Sister Lyman ha©
traveled all over the Eastern centers
and has visited the treasures of art
and information to be found in the

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great cities in this country. She sipent
one summer in Chicago and three
years in Ithaca, New York, while her
hnjsband was pursuing graduate stud-
ies, fcr which he was giauLed the de-
grees of Master of Civil Elngineering
and Doctor of Philosophy by the
g;raduate faculty of Cornell Univers-
ity. Sister Lyman has been a devoted
worker in the various Churohi or-
gianizations, especially as a teacher
in the mutual improvement associa-
ticns and Sunday schools. She
wasi elected a member of the Gen-
eral Board of the Rtelief Society, Oct.
5, 1909, and was made assistant sec-
retary May 25, 1911. Upon the resig-
nation of Mrs. Olive D. Christensen in
Augusit, 1913, she was appointed Gen-
eral Secretary of the Society. In ad-
dition to her work as secretary. Sister
Lyman has served as assistant to Mrb.
Janette A. Hyde, business manager of
the "Relief Society Biilletin." S'he alsu
prepared the literary studies for this
publication. Sister Lyman is spon-
taneous and sparkling in spirit ana
speec'h. Quick spoken she is, but noi
with the quick temper that often ac-
company this characteristic; yet there
is a snap attached to the siparkltr
which is not withouit its salutatory re-
sults upcin her friends. With 'her artis-
tic temperament and love of the beau-
tiful, she would perhaps be somewhav
worldly, if it were not for the sav-
ing graoe of the gospel, which is a
part of her very life. She is attract-
ive, with abundant brown hair and
soft liquid brcwn eyes, and very win
some indeed. With it all she makes
hos'is of friends and succeeds in keei>
Ing attached to 'herself most of those
•whom she wins. She possesses con-
siderable executive ability which is
manifested in the excellent house-
keeping and. home-making qualities su
necessary to a wife and mother which
she possesses and also in the diligence
and dispatch with which she carries
forward the labors of her office of

General Secretary. She is a favorite
with all who know her. Her possibil-
ities for good lie largely in the future,
judging from what the achievements
of her past promise. Among the many
students who were taught and trained
by the master mind of Dr. Karl G.
Maeser few, if any, have made mere
enviable records in the school
room than has Sister Amy Bi-own Ly-
man. ( — X)

MADSEN, Niels, an active Elder in
the Riverton Ward, Salt Lake co.,
Utah, was born Ja.nuary 18, 1853,
at Meilby, Randers amt, Denmark, the
son of Mads Madsen and Ane Nielsen
Simonsen. He was baptized March 3,

1886, came to Utah in Novembei,
1886, and settled i-n Riverton. He
married Mary Larsen, December 10,
18S1, and engaged in farming at Riv-
erton. In 1903 to 1905 he filled a suc-
cessful mission to Scandinavia, labor-
ing in the Aalborg conference. Bi-oth-
er Madsen is the father of seven chil-
dren.

MAGLEBY, Jacob, first counselor to
Bishop Heber Swindle, of the Mon-
roe South Ward, Sevier co., Utah, was
born Jan. 15, 1867, at Milton, Morgan

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CO., Utah, the son of Hans O. Maglebj'
and Eliza Olsen. He was baptized
Sept. 10, 1876, by Jchn B. Hesse, ana
ordained successively to the offices ot
Teacher, Priest, Elder and Seventy,
the laitter ordination taking place on
Aug. 20, 1893, by Seymour B. Young.
He was ordained a High Priest in Au-
gust, 1894, and set apart as Stake su-
perintendent of relig'on classes in the
Sevier Stake. Prior to this he hiad
acted as ipresident of a TeacTiers
quorum, counselor in a Ward Y. M.. M.

I. A., etc. During the pasit six years
he has presided over the High Priests
at Monroe. In 1907-09, he filled a mis-
sion to California, where he acted as
president of the Los Angeles, and
latter of the San Francisco confer-
ence. While filling this mission in
California he also attended the Uni-
versity cf California one year, study-
ing during the day and doing mission-
ary work in the evening as well as
on Sundays. At home Bro. Magleby
has principally been eagaged in school
teaching. For twelve years he was
principal of the public schools in
Monroe and subsequently >he was a
teacher in the High School three
years. He also acted as county su-
perintendent of schools nine years. As

a business man he has been quiet
successful and is now the manager of
(the Monroe creamery. In 1896, (Sept.
9th), he married Mary Anderson, wiho
has borne him six children, namely,
Rulon T., carl J., Herbert A., Sterling
H., LaRu and Dean Everett.

MALIN, John McGuckin, Bisihiop of
Rockport, Summit Stake, Summit co.,
Utah, was born Aug. 16, 1833, ajt East
Nantmeal, Chester county, Pennsyl-
vania, ithe son of Elijah Malin and
Sarah McGuckin. He was baptized.
Ncv. 16, 1841, in the Btandywine river
by Elijali Malin. With Jiis father's
family ihe gathered with the Saints at
Winter Quarters in 1846, and re-
mained on the frontiers until 1851,
when the Malins came to Utah. In
1851, John married Alice M. Smith in
Salt Lake City and removed to Rock-
pert in 1864, where he acted as coun-

selor to Pres. Bryant for many years.
In 1877 he was chosen and ordained
Bishop cf the Rockport Ward, which
position he occupied until tho time of
his death which occurred Sept. 2, 1896,
at Rockport. Bishop Malin was ever
on (hand to protect and defend his
people: he w'as a good citizen, a typi-
cal picneer and lived and died a faith-
ful Latter-day Saint.

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McEWAN, Daniel Dean, the first
Bishop of the Sharon Ward, Utah co.,
Utah, was born> Aug. 14, 1878, at
Provo, Utah co., Utah, the son of Jo-
seph T. McEwan and Irinda Crandall.
He was baptized Sept. 12, 1888, when
about twelve years of age by Geo.
Meldrum, and ordained successively to
the offices of Deacon Teacher and
Elder, the latter ordination taking
place in 1898 by Bisihiop Peter M.

Wentz. He was ordained a Seventy
in 1906 by William T. Clayton, and
ordained a High Priest and Bishop
Jan. 28, 1912, by David O. McKay. In
1908-10, he fill'ed a mission to the
Eastern States, laboring principally
in Massachusetts, Vermont, New
Hampshire and Rhode Island. During
this mission he organized the Lynn
branch in Massachusetts and was the
presiding Elder in that bra.nch, where
he also organized a Sunday school aiio
held the first meeting ever held in the
new branch. At home Biro. McEwan,
has acted as president of the Tim-
panogas Ward Y. M. M. I. A., ana
as assistant superintendent of the
Ward Sunday school. In 1898 (Nov.
16th), he married Emily Mecham,
daughiter of Amasa L. Mecham and
Lorina Boren. This marriage has

been blessed with seven children,
namely Kenneth E., and Gilbert D.,
(twins), Murray W., Vivien L., Inez,
Marvin D., and Amy.

McCUNE, Elizabeth Ann Claridge,

a m'ember of the General Board of tihe
Relief Socitties, was born Feb. ''9,
1852, at Leighton Buzzard, Bedford-
shire, England, the daughter of Sam-
uel Claridge and Charlotte Joy. Sh3

was an infant of eleven moniths when
her parents, who had become Latter-
day Saints, emigrated to America.
The Claridge's were comfortably sit-
uated, but like many other families
of the same religious faith, they sac-
rificed present conditions and future
iprospects in the old world and un-
derwent the toils and privations inci-
dent to the settlement and building
up of a new country, in order to be
loyal to their convictions. They came
directly to Utah, arriving here in the
fall of 1853, and settled at Nephi, Juab
CO. A few years later Samuel Cla-
ridge was called on a colonization mib-
sion to the Muddy. This proved a
very trying and hazardous experience,
and the family l:st the accumulations
of years, when the settlements on the
Muddy were finally broken up in 1871.

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While her father's family resided on
'the Muddy, Sister Elizabeth returned
ito Nephi and married Alfred MoCune.
WlhMe her husband was railroading in
Colorado she maintained her resi-
dence at Nepihi, but in 1885 sbe and
her children went to Montana, where
Mr. McCune was then engaged in his
large wood contract. After a resi-
dence of three years in that nart of
the country, itihey returned to Utah,
taking up th'eir residence in Salt Lake
Oity. Sister McCune became a reg
ular worker in the Salt Lake Temple,
W'hen that sacred edifice was finished
and dedicated in 1893, and she became
prominent among the woin-on of ihe
Church. She was placed on the gen-
eral board of ithe Y. L. M. M. I. A., as
an aid to Pres. Elmima S. Taylor. Her
chief deligfht has ever been in attend-
ing to the duties imposed by her re-
ligion. Though wealthy and suirroumded
with luxury, she has never forgj ten,
and is proud to remember, v/hen :h'e
■was a poor "girl, one of a family who
was struggling for a bare existence.
In February, 1897, the McCunes startea
on an extended tour of Eiurope, visit-
ing Great Britain, France and Italy.
Sister MicCune spent much of her time
in the British Missicin, where her sou
Raymond and her nephew, George W.
MdCIune, were then laboring as mis-
sionaries. In England the McCunes
located at Eastbourne, a fashionabl-
waterng -place, leasing an elegant res-
idence belonging to a gentleman who
was traveling; the Elders laboring in
those .parts of England were invited
to make Eastbourne their home. Sis-
ter McCune and her eldest daughter.
Fay, would often take part in the
outdoor meetings held by the Mormon
missicnarieis. Sister McCune and her
daughter attended the Queen's Jubilee
in London, and at a conference of tha
saints held in that city Sister Mc-
Cune bore a powerful testimony of the
truth of "Mormonism" to a very large
congregation, in which she depicted
particularly the condition of woman

in Utah, thus refuting successfully a
number of falsehoods which had been
circulated in Great Britain concerning
the condition of women generally
among the "Mormcns." During her
stay at Eastbourne Sister McCune was
instrumental in converting two of her
English relatives to "Mormonism." A
year of traveling and sight-seeing
made the MicCunes all long for home
and in March, 1898, they returned to
Salt Lake Oty. The next year Sister
McCune made another trip to Europe
to attend the Inter-national Coingress
of Women held in London in 1899. While
in London isihe was voted in as a patroii
of t'he I. C. W. and at the close of its
sessions went with the other members
tO' Windsor Castle, where they weru
entertained by Queen Victoria, iln 1903,
Sister McCune and three children ac-
comipanied her husbanidi to Peru, South
Ainerica, remaining therel nearly a
year. Sister McCune is still active
in women's work, and no lady is more
highly or more worthily esteemed.
Tliough the wife of a rich mining man,
she is a zealous Latter-day Saint. Sht^
is also a faithful and devoted wife,
wiho has shared with 'her life's ipartner
poverty and hardship as she now
shares with him prosperity and
wealth. Through her influence her
husband gave $5,000 to the Salt Lake
Temple, when that magnificent edifice
was being pushed to completion. This
is only one of the many munificent
donations made by the McCunes to vai-
ious worthy causes. Sister McCune
has always been deeply interested in
Temple work, and has not only been
a worker in the Sa't Lake Temple for
twenty years, but has consistently and
faithfully sought after 'her own kin-
dred dead. Her father. Patriarch
Samuel Claridge, ^s a noble worker in
this cause and spends the evening or
his life in recording all the informa-
tion he can possibly secure into family
records for Temple use. The work is
done by his daughter, Sister McCune,

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ill the Salt Lake Temple. She has
been for a number of years chair-
man of the Womein's Committee for
the Genealogical Society of Utah, and
she and her beloved friend, Mrs. Susa
Young Gates, have traveled over the
Church, speaking on the subject of
genealogy and Temple work, and
teaching classes in this difficult art.
She is chairman of the committee ou
Temple "Wtork and Genealogy In the
General Board of the Relief Societieis,
and gives to this work her deepest at-
fections, and her most ardent atten-
tion. In May, 1914, Mrs. McCune went
with Mrs. Susa Young Gates, Mrs.
Alice K. Smith and other ladies, to
attend the Inter-national Ctouncil ol
Women at Rome. With Mrs. Gates,
she devoted much of the time of this
European trip in searichiing out geneal-
ogical conditions in Englaind, Ger-
many, and other parts of Elurope. After
the other ladiies left for Uta^h in June,
Mrs. McOune remained for some time
at Deseret, in London, joining Mtrs.
Stewart Bocles in the beautiful work
of tracting from house to homse in the
neighborhood of the mission head-
quarters. Mrs. McCune is a clear,
oftentimes witty and eloquent speak-
er— ^simple, yet vivid in her illustra-
ticins; she possesses a keen sense of
humor, and has a remarkable gift of
story telling. She is exceedingly gen-
erous and charitable, faithful to her
friends, loyal to her family and is,
above all, an Isrealite in whom there
is no guile. "Of such are the King-
dom of Heaven." ( — Xj

McGHIE, Robert Lindsay, a mem-
ber of the General Sunday School
Bicard, was born April 14, 1874, in the
Sugar House Ward, Salt Lake countj,
Utah, the son of James McGhie ana
Isabella Lindsay. He was baptized
April 14, 1882, by his father and or-
dained successively to the offices of
Deacon, Teacher and Elder. He
served as chorister in the Sugar
House Ward three years and in the

Farmers W!ard three years, and also
labored, as a teacher in the Ward
Stinday school and Y. M. M. I. A. Ht
received a good common school educa-
tion in the Stig:ar House Ward and
afterwards entered the preparatory
department of the University of Utah.
Continuing his work there he secured
a normal certificate in 1894 and the
bachelor of science degree in 1897.
After graduation he was made an in-
structor in Bngliah, which position he
held until 1900, when he became an
instructor in Latin. In 1905, he be-
came assistant professor and in 1911

associate professor of ancient lang-
uages. He secured his master of arts
degree from the Chicago institution
in 1905, and did some additional work
towards his doctor's degree. All of
his scholastic work was characterized
by a thoroughness and a comprehen-
sive grasip that marks a true scholai.
He was universally beloved by
his students and was throughout a
very successful teacher. Bro. McGhie
married Angeline M. Gabbot, June
16, 1899; she bore her husband six
children, five of whom are living.
After a short but useful career Elder
McGhie died June 22, 1913, in Salt
Lake City.

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McGUIRE, Patrick Henry, Bishop ot
Daniels "Wkrd ("\Ma&atch Stake), Wla-
satch CO., Utah, was born June 14,
1844, in Derrylahan, county of Cavan,
Ireland, the son ■at Bernard McGuire
and Susan McHugh. He was baptitzed
Jan. 1, 1873, .by Lucius W. Peck; emi-
grated to Utah in July, 1872; ordained
an EJder March 24, 1873, by Wm. J.
Smith; ordained a Seventy Mtay 2,
1886, by Rasmus Andersen, and or-
dained a Bishop Nov. 12, 1898, by
Apostle Francis M. iLyman. He has
acted as Ward teacher in the Ninie-
teemth Ward, Salt Lake City; been
superintendent of Sunday schools iu
Waishington, Utah, from 1879 to 1882,
was president of the 5th quorum of
Elders in St. George Stake in 1881-82;
labored as presiding Elder of Daniels
branch (Center Ward, Wasatch
Stake), and been superintendent ot
Sunday schools and Bishop of Daniels
Ward since 1898. By Saraih Elizabeth
Parcell (whcim he married May 31,
1875) and Ann Eliza Lee (whcm he
married Jan. 1, 1881) ihe is the fathar
of fourteen children, ten sons and
four daughters. He was also the first
recorder of Washington, Washington
coun'ty, Utah, and acted as secretary
of a United Order Company at Price,
six miles from St. Oeorge, from the
time of its organization till its disso-
lution and the winding up of its busi-
ness. This organization existed d^iring
the years 1876-7 with Milo Andrus as
its superintendent. Bro. M'cGuire was
set apart as Bishop of the Daniels
Ward May 10, 1903, by Rudger ClaW'
sen. He has also served his fellow
citizens as county assessor of Wia-
satch county for six successive terms,
and has followed clerking, teaming,
farming and lumbering for a living.
HSs places of residence have been
Price, St. George and Wlashington
(Washingtoin county), and Wallsburg
and Daniels (Wasatch county), Utah.

McKENZIE, David, president of the
Higli Priests quorum in the Pioneer

Stake of Zion, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Dec. 27, 1833, in Edinburgh,
Scotland, the son of David McKenzie
and Elizabeth White. His parents
kepit a liquor sitore at Edinburgh; his
father who served in the Britis'h army
and fought under the Duke of Well-
ington at the battle of Waterloo, died
in 1844. His mother continued to run
the business until her death in 1847.
At the age of eleven and one-half

years David was bound apprentice foi
seven years to learn the engraver's
trade. After serving his time he was
employed as a letter engraver. Be-
coming a convert to "Mormonism" hb
was baptized Feb. 11, 1853, was or-
dained a Teacher and labcred as a lo-
cal missiionary, and emigrated to Utah
in 1854, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship 'John M. Wood." After his ai
rival in Utah he learned the business
of house painting; afterwards he en-
graved the so-called Deseret Currency
plates and assisted in printing the
same. Wihile thus engaged he lived
with Pres. Brigham Young in the Bee-
hive House. March 2, 1857, he wa&
ordained a Seventy by James M. Bar-
low and became a member of the 7th
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1857, he participated in the Echo
Canyon expedition against Johnston's
army as a lieutenant and assisted in
building barricades and fortifications,
to stop the advance of the enemy.
Together with seventeen others he
•was ordained a High Priest May 9,
1873, and was set apart as an alter-
nate member of the Salt Lake Stake
High Ciouncil. The following year he
became a regular miember of that body.
In 1874-76 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, laboring in the Scottish con-
ference, and afterwards had charge of
the publishing of the "Millennial Star."
In 1859 (Feb. 28th) he married Mary
Ann Crowther and settled perman-
ently in the Seventh Ward, where he
soon became one of the most active
and leading citizens. In 1861, he suc-
ceeded James Jack as disbursing clerk
at the Preisddinig Bishop's Store House
and labored in that capacity until
1866, when he commenced to devote
his entire time to the Salt Lake
Tlheater, Avhich at that time was play-
ing three nights a week. This be-
came his leading occupation until De-
cember, 1868, when he was employed
by Pres. Brigham Young as private
secretary and occupied that position
until called on a mission to Great
Britain. After his return he was
again engaged at the President's of-
fice as a chief clerk under the man-
agement of James Jack, and served
also for a short time as secretary of
the Deseret Telegrapih Company. In
1884, 'he succeeded Horace K. WHiitney
in the keeping of the Church books,
and from 1879 to 1887 he managed the
Salt Lake Theater. From 1889 to 1891,
he acted as bookkeeper at the Presid-
ing Bishop's office, after which he re-
turned to his old position of book-
keeper for the Trustee-in-Trust, under
the direction of James Jack. Feb. 24,
1900, he was set apart as president of
the High Priests quorum of the Salt
Lake Stake of Zion, and when the
Salt Lake Stake was divided in 1904,

he was chosen as president of the High
Priests quorum in the Pioneer Stake.
His wife died June 14. 1910, and his
own death occurred in Salt Lake City,
March 10, 1912.

McKIElE, Joseph Allen, Bishop of tht
Glines Ward (Uintah Stake), Uintah
CO., Utah, was bora April 3, 1859, at
Sipainish Fork, Utah co., Utah, the sou
of Wm. McKee and Sarah Ann Hod-
son. He was baptized at Spanish
Fork; ordained a Deacon by Albert
K. Thurber; ordained an Elder by
Bishop Geo. Billings; ordained a High
Priest by R. S. CoUett, and a Bishop
May 31, 1904, by John Henry Smith.

Bro. McKee settled, at Ashley Valley
in 1884, being among the first settlers
of that region of country, where he
passed through many hardships inci-
dent to pioineer life. For many years,
he acted as Ward teacher and a bomb
missionary; he also acted as presi-
dent of the Y. M. M. I. A. in the Jen-
sen Ward, was Stake aid in the Y. M.
M. I. A. two years and acted as second
counselor to Bishop Workmiam, of the
Glines Ward. In a civic caipacity Bro.
McKee has served as county commis-
sioner seven years and president of
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stock raising are liis principal avoca-
tions. Bro. McKee's first wife was
Laura Orser. After her death, he mar-
ried Saraih Priscilla Henry. He is the
father of six children.

MILLER, Eleazer, one of the early
Elders of the Church, was born Xo\.
4, 1795, in Albany, New York, the son
of John and Sadiner Miller. Becoming
a convert to "Mormonism" he was
ba;i;'tized in December, 1831, by Elder
Levi Gifford, and was soon afterwards
ordained to the Priesthood and called
to preach the gospel. He became a
successful missionary and among the
many to whom he adminisitered the

ordinance of baptism was the late
Pres. Brigham Young, whom he bap-
tized April 14, 1832. He emigrated to
G. S. L. Valley in 1848. Frcm 1849 to
1859 he acted as a member of the High
Council in the Salt Lake Stake of
Zion, and took an active part in
Church affairs generally. Locally he
was an acting teacher in the Twelfth
Ward for many years. There he died
April 12, 1876. The "Deseret Evening
News" of that date announces his
death as follows: "Father Eleazer
Miller of the Twelfth Wlard died at 8
o'clock this mcrning at his residence.

He was well known to many Latter-
day Saints, having been connected
with the Church almost from its or-
ganization in this dispensation. He
was a true and honest man and main-
tainedi his integrity to the work of the
Lord to his last moments." Bro. Mil-
ler marriedi Rebecca Rathbone, who
bore her husband seven ichildren,
namely, Gilbert, Van Rensler, Harri-
son, Elliott, Subrina, Baby and Wil-
liam.

MILLER, William, a veteran Elder
of the Church, was born June 10, 1832,
in Pennsylvania, the son of Eleazer
Miller and Rebecca Vanza.nt. He wa&

baptized in March, 1857, by Bishop
Leonard W. Hardy in Salt Lake City
while en route to California to see his.
brother. He participated in the Echo
Ca;nyon campaign in 1857-58, filled
several home missions, helped to
loicate settlements on Snake river,
Idaho, acted for many years as a
Ward teacher, superintendent of Stin-
day schools, etc. In 1856 he married
Margaret Neibaur and in 1882 he mar-
ried Christine Edholm. By these two
wives he had sixteen children, namely,
nine sons and five dauigihters by his
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wife. Three of his sons were killed
in the Scofield coal mine disaister.
Elder MilUer died as a High Priest
July 5, 1910, in Castle Valley, Utaih,
seventy-eighiu years of age. He lived
for a number of yeairs in the Twelfth
Ward, Salt Lake City; after that he
resided 18 years in Coalville, Summit
CO., and finally 23 years in Castle Val-
ley, Emery oc, Utah.

MilLLER, Margiaret Neibaur, wife of
William Miller, was born Feb. 20, 1836,
at Pre&t'Cn, Lancashire, England, the
daughter of Alexander Neibaur amia
Ellen BTeakel. At the age of eight
years she was baptized in Nauvoo,
111., and as a young girl passed
through the persecutions and tribula-
tions which the saints underwent
prior to their exuulsion from Illinoiis.
She remembers all the scenes connec-
ted with the martyrdom of thb
Prop'het Joseph and his brother Hy-
rum. Participating in the general

exodus of the saints from Nauvoo, the
fa.mily traveled tC' Winter Quarters,
where they spent the winter of 1847-
48 and then crossed the plains and
mountains in Pres. Young's company,
arriving in the Valley in the fall of
1848. The family resided in the 13th

Ward, Salt Lake City, until Margaret
became the wife of Wm. Miller June

5, 1856. Together with her husbaind
she then became a resident of tihe
12th Wiaird and subsequently bore her
husband fourteen childrein, nine boys
and five girls, of whom eight are still
living. In 1858 she and her husbana
participated in the general move
scuth. Sister Miller has been a dili-
gent Temple worker for several years
and whereever she has resided she
has taken an aictive part in Church af-
fairs. While reiSiding at Spring Gleu
for 23 years she was a successful
worker in the Ward Sunday school
and piresided over the Relief Society
at (that place for 13 years. After the
death of her husband in 1910 sho
chamgedi her residence from Carbou
county to Salt Lake City, in order that
she might officiate for her dead kin-
dred in the Salt Lake Temple.

MdFFETT, William A., a member
of the Hijgih Council in the Alpine
Stake, Utah co., Utah, was bom Aug,

6, 1850, at Ash Hbllow, Nebraska, on
the way to Uta^h, the son of Armstead
Moffett and Mary Jane Bmmett. He
resided in Weber county until 1884,
when he, responding to call, went on
a mission to St. Johns, Arizona, 'takinig
his family with him. After spending
about two years in Arizona he was
honorably released and returned home
to Utaih (on account of his brother's
death) to take care of his aged par-
ents. His father died in 1891, and in
1897 Bro. Moffett moved to American
Fork, Utah co., where he was or-
dained a High Priest Jan 20, 1901, by
James H. Clark, and chosen as a mem-
ber of the High Council in the Alpine
Stake; and when American Fork, in
1907, was divided into four Wards, he
was set apart as first counselor to
Bishop C. G. Patterson of the Amer-
ican Fork First Ward.

MORTENSEN, Johan Peter, an ac-
tive Elder in the Second Ward, Salt

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Lake City, was born April 23, 1833, iu
H0stervang, Skanderborg amt, Den-
mark, the son of Morten Jensen and
Johanne Drapis. He "was baptized in
May, 1859, by Peter C. Geertsen, and
emigrated to Utah in 1862. Soon af-
ter his arrival in Utah, 'be settled
temporarily at Paris, Idaho, thus be-
coming one cf the first settlers in
Bear Lake Valley. In 1864 he removed
to Salt Lake City, where he resided
duTing most of his siubsequent life,
though he also resided for a short
period of time at Logan (Utaih), the
Snake river country (Idaho), and Big
Ccttonwood (Utah). In 1877, respond-

ing to a call from the Church author-
ities, he went on a mission to the
States, laboring, principally in Iowa,
Nebraska, Dakota and Minnesota. In
1886-88 he filled a mission to Scandi-
navia, laboring in the Aarhus con-
ference. He filled a second missian to
Scandinavia in 1899. At home he was
for many years an aotive Ward
teacher and also served for a number
of years as counselor to Anders W.
Winberg, in the presidency of th©
Scandinavian meetings in Salt Lake
City. He was a plasterer by trade
and worked considerably on the Matiti,
the St. George and the Lagan Tem-

ples. Mder Mtrtensen, during his
life, married four wives, namely, Eva
Rasmussen, Caroline Rasmussen, Anna
Hilgreen and Christine S0rensen. By
these wives he became the father of
eleven children, namely, two with the
first wife, two with the second wife
and seven with the fourth wife. He
was arrested for unlawful cohabita-
tion for which he served six months
in the Utah penitentiary in 1887. Bro,
Mortensen was am enterprising citi-
zen and worked himself up from com-
parative poverty to quite a degree of
affluence. He b^uilt the so called Al-
pine Avenue in the Second Wiard and
Mortensen's Court in the Eighth
Wlard, and was considered well off
financially when he met w^ith an acci-
dent in Salt Lake City which cost him
his life Sept. 23, 1911.

MOYLE, Henry, a Patriarch in the
Alpine Stake, Utah co., Utah, was
born Jan. 3, 1844, at Plymouth, Devon-
shire, England, the son of John R.
Moyle and Philippa Beer. He traces
his anicestry back on his father's side
to am old Norman French family
named Mool, who assisted William the
Conqueror in the conquest of England
and settled in Kent, England, in 1066.
The family emigrated to America in
1856, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Samuel Curling," which sailed from
Liverpool, England, April 19, 1856,
and arrived at Boston May 23, 1856;
they crossed the plains in E'dmimd
Ellsworth's handcart company and
settled temporarily in Salt Lake City,
wihere they remained until the time of
the general move in 1858, when they
moved to Alpine, Utah co., which has
been the family home ever since.
Henry worked at his father's farm
when a boy and obtained such school-
ing as the new settlements of Utah at
that time afforded. In 1867 (Jan.
11th) he married Mary Moss (daugh-
terof John Moss and Rebecca Wood),
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eleven children, ten of whom are still
livinig. Hie has filled a number of
public offices in Alpine, such as city
marshal, member of the city icouncil,
county coinistable, jusitice if the peace
and post master. He was baptized in
1S52, while his father filled a mission
to Great Britain, was ordained a Dea-
con by 'his fatheir July 29, 1860, and
late in the same year ordained a
Teacher; was ordained an Elder July
19, 1862, by Daniel H. Wells; ordained
a Seventy Dec. 7, 1862, by John C.
Naile, and was set apart as a presi-
dent of fhe 67th quorum cf Seventy
Oct. 28, 1883, by Wtm. W. Taylor. In
1890-92 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, presiding a part of the time
over the Bristol conference. In 1901
(Jan. 20th) he was ordained a High
Priest and Patriarch by Heber J.
Grant. He passed through, the trou-
bles aiDidi hardships connected' with the
early settling of Utah, participated in
the Black Hawk war, and made a suc-
cessful and honorable career througb-
out. He has been associated with the
Sliniday school work from the begin-
ning.

NBLSON, Thomas Billington, a vet-
eran Elder im the Church, was born
May 9, 1835, in Jefferson oounty, 111.,
the son of Bdmond Nelson and Jane
Taylor. He was baptized wihen eight
years old by Joseph Stoith the
Prophet in the Mississippi river, his
parents being already members of the
Church. Bro. Nelson has a vivid re-
collectiion of tihe Prophet Joseph and
the scenes through which the saints
passed in Illinois. During the exodus
of 1846 the Nelson family traiveled
westward, together with the rest ot
their co-religionists, and Thomas,
though a small boy, assisted all he
could in yoking up the cows and
steers and doing general work around
the Camps of Israel. At Mt. Pisgah,
the father put in a good crop of corrn
and the whole family came to the
Valley in 1850, crossing the plains in

Thos. Johnson's company. They set-
tled in Salt Lake City, and in due
course of time Thomas married Mary
Cathrine Welker, who bore her hus-
band eleven children, six sons and
five daughters. In 1862 Bro. Nelson
organized the first marshal band in
Cache Valley and was commissicned
band majcr in the Utah militia. In
1864 he settled in Bloomington, Bear
Lake Valley, where he organized a
band (the first in Bear Lake Vlalley).
In 1867 (June 23rd) he married Dorthea
Christina S0rensen who bore her hus-
band nine chldren, two boys and seven
girls . In 1878 he worked at the Logaiu
Temple mill, and later took charge of
the timber business in the canyon.
During the anti-polygamy prosecutions
ihe was hunted for four years, his
house being se/arched by deputy mar-
shals many times, but he escaped ar-
rest. In 1890 he moved to Arizona,
where he, in 1892, was ordained^ a
High Priest and set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Alma W. Bryce,
of the Bryce Ward, by Johlni Henry
Smith, After Bishop Bryce's release,
Bro. Nelson acted as first counselor to
Bishop David H. Cliarridge. Bro. Nel-
son has also been a diligent Sunday
school worker.

NIBLEY, Rebecca Neibaur, a mem-
ber of the General Board of Relief So-
citeties, and the wife of Bishop
Charles W. Nibley, was born in the
dawn of Utah's history — March 30,
1851, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her
father, Alexander Neibaur, was the first
man cf Jewish blood to enter the war
ters of baptism in this dispensation,
and he was the friend of the Prophet
Joseph Smith, as of Pres. Brigham
Young and the other great and good
men and women who composed the
founders of the Church. Her mother,
Ellen Breakel, was of English birth,
and the parents had emigrated to
Nauvoo in the brightest period of that
beautiful city's history. With the

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body of the Church they came West
to make new homes in the forbidding
valleys of the Wasatch, andi their
children were born into the comm'cn
heritage of pioneer poverty and strug-
gle. Rebecca remembers vividly the
grasshopper devastatiom, and the food
scarcity which followed. Br(aii bread
was bread if cnly there was enougih of
it. Hungry children are not easily sat-
isfied, yet these were taught net to mur-
mur, nor to be dependent on any one
but themselves and their Heavenly
Father. Privation a;nd hardship oftein
dulls the senses; yet it sometimes

quickens the faith; these pioneers
were of the stock that never turns
back whein once the plough handle has
been grasped. When the general move
/Slouth came in 1858, owing to the en-
trance into the valleys of Johnson's
army, Rebecca was a small child, bait
S'he helped to drive the pigs down,
much to her dismay. Her memory is
still crowdied with the scenes of in-
cidents icf that sojourn in the sou-
thern city of Provo, where the most
of the saints campedi for a short time.
She was baptized March 30, 1859, on
the anniversary of her birthday, in
City Creek, just above the Kimball
mill, by John Woolley. That day,

by-the-way, has been a red-letter day
—or otherwise — for Rebecca Nibley.
Many events have happened to mark
her life's course on that fateful day.
R'ebecca Neiblaur was a keen-witted,
siinny-dispositioned, lively, magnietic,
popular girl, with a host of friends
and many admirers. She was "Beck"
to her friends, and they numbered
nearly all the city, while she is still
"Aunt Beck" to her inumerous friends
today. She was gay, full of repartee
amd laughter, and wias "good com-
pany" as that phrase went. She was
never worsted in an argument 'or
found beaten, iia any sort of wordy
skirmish; with her own colors flying
anid banners aloft, her witty sallies
left her amtagonists behind her si-
leiDiced and dismayed. Sihe had small
schooling at books and schools, hue
what she lacked in pedagogical knowl-
edge she amply made up in native in-
telligence and quick apprehension.
Her intellect is of the practical order,
yet keen to a repier's point in that
quick comiprehension which makes of
the men and women of today "self-
miaide." Withal, this brilliant girl was
filled to the brim with a burning testi-
mony of the truth of the gospel be-
queathed toi her by her dievoted par-
ents. She knew to the core of her
heart that Joseph Smith was a
Prophet of God, and nothing ever so
filled her soul with- joy as to hear that
testimony borne by another, or to
voice it herself. That testimony has
never left her, nor been overlaid with
the cares of home life, the joys of
travel, or the pleasures of society. To
labor for the cause of Truth, in what-
ever field her powers and calling may
lie, is still the greatest happiness
known to this faithful woman. Re-
becca was present and stood near Pres.
Brigham Young wheini he drove the last
sipike in the Utah Central Railroad in
Salt Llake City, Jan. 10, 1870, she
being in the capital on a visit from
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her sister, Mrs. Morris Riosenbaium, at
Btigham City, in the large boarding
house which that thrifty Hebrew, Mr.
R-osenbaum, kept for the men who
were engaged in the finial work on the
railroads. There sat at that boarding
table such men as Collis P. Hunting-
don, O. J. Salisbury, Col. Grey, Col.
Hurd, with Governor Leland Stanford,
and many others not so well known,
but of local repute. The merry-voiced
girl was popular with all the board-
ers, and on one occasion she received
an offer of marriage, which was re-
peateidi at sundry and several occa-
sions from one of the men just men-
tioned. But "Beck" Neibaur was a
"Mormon," first, last, and all the time.
Her suiters offered her gold, houses,
residence away from her people, etc.,
upon which the girl arose to her small
height and announced her loyalty to
her father, her faith, a^nd her people.
She was not again molested on that
point. But Governor Stanford had
mlarked well the swift-footed, capable,
careful, baby-loving, prudent girl, and
he entreated her on numeroois occa-
sions to accept c position in his fam-
ily as comipanion to his children. He
too painted r.csy pictures of life away
from her people and in the great world
west of the Valley, but "Beck" had
built her house upon the rock; and
when the winds ciame and the storms
of entreaty tried to hatter down her
citadel, her roottree never shock, her
knees never faltered. It mig'ht be
threats, it might be coaxing, but the
girl simply tossed them all aside as
things of no moment. She was a
"Miormon," and she would marry one
of her own peciple or nc' one. And
when she was rallied by Gov. Stanford
on the possibility of being the wife
of a man who would tlake other wives,
she answered decisively, "Sir, I would
not marry a man who had net the
courage of his convictions, and who
would not enter into that celestial
order of marriaige." On March 30th,

1869 — fateful day— she was married in
the old Endowment House, by Pres.
Dlaniel H. Wells, to Charles Wilson
Nibley, a young and promising Scotch-
man, already an important figure
among the young men of northern
Utah. Tihie young couple married and
moved to Brigham City, where they
lived ficr four years, and where then
first two children were born, and the
little daughter died. From there they
moved up to Logan, in 1873, remain-
ing there for twenty years, and then
moved to Baker City, Oregon, in 1893;
while livittg there Sister Nibley was
chosen president of the first Relief
Society organized in that State, March
30, 1896; she filled that position for
seven years and then moved to Salt
Lake City in 1903. Mrs. Nibley is the
mother of ten children, four girls and
six boys. All her living children are
married and all have been married in
the Temple. The sons have filled mis-
sions and are active men in their
various fields of endeavor. She has
buried two children in Logan, and one
in Brigham City. Her husband entered
into the celestial order cf marriage,
his first marriage occurring in that fate-
ful date of March 30, 1880. Before this,
however, Elder Nibley went en a mis-
sio to England, leaving her with twu
children. She had a piece of hay land,
a cow, some chickens, and a pig; and
like the brave woman she wlas, she
managed, by carefully husbanding her
resources, to get through with the
whole term without contracting one
cent of debt. In fact, when he re-
turned, the three hundred dollars
which had been paid the little wife
on a debt owed her husband was still
hidden in the clock where it had re-
posed untouched sinice its receipt. Dur-
ing bbat time, the young wife took care
of her own glarden, planted, harrowed,
hoed and harvested her vegetables and
fruits, even growing her own winter
potatoes. Sinioe the blessing of
prosperity has visited their heme Sib-

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ter Nibley has taken many pleasant
and profitable trips both east and
west. She has been to California sev-
enal times, and has traveled in Europe
three times. She was at the Salt
Lake and, Log'an Temip'le dedications,
ihas worked for her dead in both Tem-
iples, and was at the dedication of the
Canada Temple site in June, 1913.
When she removed to Salt Lake City
in 1903, she loiclated in iher present
comfortable home opposite the Tem-
ple Block to the west. Soon after this
(October, 1909) she was placed upon
the General Board of the Relief So-
ciety, which position she still cocupies
to the credit of herself and the great
benefit of dhat body of women. O'ne
of her important activities is her
chairmanship of the committee for
the Relief Society Home, as general
manager and lactive head of that splen-
did institution. Sbe is also at present
a member of the Relief Society advis-
ory and finance committee. All in all.
Sister Nibley is a woman of good ex-
ecutive ability, of pleasing presence,
with much latent talent which only
lacked opiportunity to develop into
wider fields of activity. She is hcs-
pitlable, a delightful travelinig com-
panion, prudent and economical, with
a broad charity which is exercised in
secret, but is none the less generous
and tender, a true friend, a faithful
mother and an obedient and loyal wife,
and above all, she is a saint who
knows and lives the gospel according
to the light that is withinj her. Her
children show much of their mother's
charm and vitality, while her friends
know her worths and love her for her
noble prudence and her wide sym-
pathy.

NIELSiEN, Charles M., an active
Elder of the Forest iTale "Ward, Slalt
Salt Lake cc, Utah, was born Jan.
2*6, 1856, in Christiania, Norway, the
son of Christopher Nielsen and Maren
Ola.fseni. He was baiptized March 2,

1872, by J0rgen Larsen, in, Christiania,
and two months later lordained to the
lesser PriestTiood, and appointed as a
home missionary to distribute tracts
on Sundays. In 1873, he was ordained
a Priest and appointed to labor as a
missionary in the Arendal branch;

later the same year he was ordained
an Elder by Oluf J. Andersicn. Em
1874, he became president of the Aren-
dal branch. Later he Labored in the
Drammen branch and still later pre-
sided over the Odalen branch; in the
latter place 'he baptized a Baptist miinr
ister and his family. He emigrated to
Utah in 1816, arriviinig in Salt Lake
City July 18, 1876. In 1884-1885, he
filled a mission to the Northwestern
States where he labored one winter
and two summers. He baptized eleven
persons and held a great number of
meetings in the States . of Minnesota
and Wisconsin. After his return he
was ordained a Seventy by Homer
Duncan. Commencing with 1890 he
labored as a home missionary in the
Salt Lake Stake of Zion for several
years. After studying llaw for nearly
four years in a law office and at-
tending evening law scihool, he was ad-
mitted to the bar Jan,. 18, 1895, as an
attorney. One year later he was ad-

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mitted to practice before the U. S.
Supreme court. He served as justice
of the peace in Salt Lake City four
years. Hie acted as a counselor in the
presidency of the Scandinavian meei-
ings in the Salt Lake Stake of Zion
a number of years until he moved to
Forest Dale in the year 1911. There he
bought a home, and was soon after-
wards appointed to preside over the
Scandinavian meetings in the Granite
Stake, which position he held till
March, 1912, when he left home to
fill a mission to Scandinavia, and he
presided two years over the Chrid-
tiania conference. During his presi-
dency in Christianila, 139 persons were
added to the Church by baptism. He
returned home in 1914, and is now a
home missionary in the Granite Stake.

NIELSEN, Niels, a president of the
94th. quorum cf Seventy, and a resi-
dent of JRiiverton, Salt Lake co., Utah,
was born Sept. 6, 1868 in Horning,

Randers amt, Den,mark, the son of
Jens Nielsen and Mathilda K. ■NL Bach.
He was baptized in 1880, camj to Utah
the same year and settled in the Mill
Creek Ward, Salt Lake co. I:: 1882
the family moved to Farmers Ward,
where he was ordained a Deacon. In

1883 he moved to Riverton (then a
brlanch of South Jordan) where he
was ordained to the office of a Priest.
He entered the B. Y. Academy, Dec.
19, 1890, as a normal student, a".d dur-
inig his school career he completed a
Sunday school normal course. He also
took a special course in penmanship,
and, after receiving his diploma, held
the chair of penman in the foUege
for three years. He was ordained an
Elder by Samuel L. Howard Aug. 3 5,
1879, and ordained a Seventy Oct. 7,
1897, and set apart for a mission to
Great Bi-itain by Christian D. Fjeldsteu.
Leaving Salt Lake City Oct. 9, 1897,
he landed in Liverpool, Etngland, Oct.
27, 1897. After laboring eight months
in the Newcastle conference, he (with
three others from England and Scot-
land) was called to labor in th^ Irish
coinference, where he spent two years
successfully. After being honorably
released, he accompanied Pres. James
L. McMurrin to the continent of E3u- .
rope and spent some months in his
native country, Denmark, visiting rel-
atives. B!e returned home from his
misiom in July, 1900. In 1901 (June
14th) he married Dagmar A. W^ Lyb-
bers in the Salt Lake Temiple. She
became the mother of two girls, Leonia
and May. After eleven momths' illness
she died Feb. 28, 1905. March 19,
1905, B'ro. Nielsen was set apart as a
president in the 9th quorum of Seventy
by Brigham H. Roberts. In 1908 he
was chosen a member of the Jordan
gitake Sunday School. In this capac-
ity he filled the offices of assistiant
secretary board, thecloigical supervisor
anid Stake librarian. While laboring as
assistant secretary he invented,
through the inspiratidn of the Lord, an
appointment device, which gives the
officers their correct appointments,
so that no two officers visit more thau
two Wards together and all Wards
will be visited every six months by
all the officers. While acting as Stake
librarian he also originated plans for

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Stake and Wlard libraries, whioh- were
approved by the presidency of the
Stake. He was chosen as a member of
the Lecture Biureau, and in 1910 he
moved! into the Bast Jordan Ward. Sept.
13, 1911, ihe married Jemima Cliffman
Wilson in the Salt Lake Temple. His
present wife is the mother of two
childremi, James and Helen. He was
set apart as Stake missionary by
Pres. J. W. W. Fitzgerald Dec. 31,
1913, and labored in that capacity un-
til 'hciiorably released. Bro. Nielsen
has faithfully filled many other local
positions

7, 1874; she became the mother of
ten children, namely, Eimmia C, John
R., Joseph S., Annie B., Hyrum D..
Vira, Martha E., El-nest A., Ivie C, and
Bverena H. Having been convicted <:<n
a oharg© of unlawful cohabitation
Bro. Nielsen served six months in the
Utiah penitentiary. He was ordained
a Deacon early in life; ordained am El-
der Sept. 19, 1867; ordained a Seventy
later and ordained a High Priest in
February. 1898, by Geo. B. Wallace.
Bro. Nielsen is a farmer by oocupation
and has been la resident of Hunter
(fcirmerly Brighton) since April, 1877.

NIELSEN, Rasmus, a veteran Elder
of the Hunter Ward, Salt Lake co.,
Utah, was born June 24, 1842, in
Aarhus amt, Denmark, the son of
Niels Rasmussen and Karen Si0renseiu.
Hie was baptized June 11, 1863, by
James Petersen and emigrated to

NILSON, Nils Mats, superintenderut
of the Sandy Ward Sunday school
Salt Lake co., Utah, was bcrn Aug.
5, 1853, in Vanneberga, Christianstads
Ian, Sweden. He embraced the gos-
pel imi June, 1870; emigrated to Utah
in 1874, iand located in Sandy, Salt

Utah in 1865, crossing the Atlantic in
the ship "B. S. Kimball" and the
plains in Capt. Thos. Taylor's com-
pany. He married Bengta Johnscm
Oct. 19, 1867. She became the m-cther
of one child (Niels) land died May 18,
1901. Bro. Nielsen married a second
wife (Anna Charlictte Johnison) Dec.

Lake co., where he has resided ever
since. He was ordained a Seventy
iini 1884 and filled a mission to Siwedem
m 1891-93, laboring in the Skane con-
ference. At home he acted as Sunday
schacl superintendemt for twenty-five
years. He has also acted as Ward
teacher ever since the Siandy Wlard
was first organized in 1882; for sev-

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•eral years he was secretary of the
93rd quorum of Seventy aiuJ was set
apart as a president iii said quorum
April 1, 1900. In 1876 he married Anna
Swenson and in 1884 he miarried Emily
Jarvis. He is the father of two ohil-
drem. Eld'er Nielson was ordained a
High Priesit, 1910, by Robert Elwocd.

NIXON, William, a pioneer mer-
chant icf Salt Lake City, Utaih;, and a
resident of the Fciurteenth Ward, was
born Feb. 4, 1817, at Brampton, Cum-
berland, England, the son of Robert
and Isabella Nixon. Hie emigrated to
America when quite young anid came
to Utah in 1852, where he established
himself in business, and later became
known as one of the pioneer mer-
chamts of the Valley. Bro. Nixon was
married three times. As an Elder iu
the Church he was called on a mis-
sion to Clarscn Valley about 1856, but
returne:! to Salt Lake City in 1858, on

acour.t of the Johnstom, army troubles.
Bro. Nixon died in Salt Lake City,
Aug. 18, 1862.

NIXON, Mary Ann Hall, wife of
William Nixon, was born June 17, 1837,
in Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng-
land, the daughter of John Hall and

Mary Bates. She was baptized in 1849
and endeavored to cross the Atlantic
ocean to America in 1854, embarking
for that purpose at Liverpool, together
with her mother, two brcthers and
three si&ters, ini the ship "Elias," but
soon after leaviag the coast of Eng-
land the ship was struck by another
vessel aiEid compelled to return to
Liverpool. The Hall family finally
sailed from Liverpool on the ship
"Charles Buck" Jan. 17, 1855, and ar-
rived at New Orleans March 14, 1855.
They crossed the plains in Milo Au-
drus' company which arrived in Salt
Lake City Oct. 24, 1855, amd settled in
the Fourteenth Ward. In 1856 (May
11th) Mary became the wife of Wm.
Nixon ;she is the mother of one child
(Charles Alma) who died at the age
of ten yiears and six months. Im 1856
she accompanied her husband to Car-
son Valley (now in Nevada), but re-

turned to Salt Lake City in 1858, just
in time to participate in the move
south, she going as far as Springville,
Utah CO., Aflter retunning to Salt
Lake City, she settled in the Twelfth
W/ard, ■where she has lived ever since
and taken an active part in Relief
Scciety work.

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OLDROYD, Archibald Todd, Bishop
of the Gleniwocd Ward, Sevier co.,
Utah, from 1875 to 1886, was born
Jan. 4, 1844, at Glasgow, Scotland, the

son of Andrew Todd and Catherine
Micklejohn. His father died when
Archibald wias very ycung and the
mother married Peter Oldroyd which
•name the step-son also bears. Archi-
bald emigrated with his mother and
step-father to Utah in 1853, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Falcon,"
v/hich sailed from Liverpool, Marcti
28, 1853. He crossed the plains in
Appleton Ml Harmlcn's traini. The
family settled lat Maniti, Sanpete co.,
ir December, 1853, and spent the win-
ter there, but in the spring of 1854
they asisted in settling Ft. Eiphraim,
where the mother became widely and
favorably known as the first midwife
of that infant settlement. At Ephraim,
young Archibald was active in all
kinds of pioneer work pertlaining to
the building up of the settlement, and
here also he married Mary Anderson,
a native of Sweden, by whom he be-
came the father of eleven children.
In 1862 he made a trip to the Missouri
river after emigrants. In 1864, tC"
gether with others, he was called to
settle the Sevier Valley, and he ar-

rived on the present site of Glenwood
in February, 1864. Wath the excep-
tion of the evacuatioini on account of
Indian troubles Glenwood has been
his home ever sinice. In 1882 BrO'.
Oldroyd yielded obedience to the high-
er law of marriage by taking to wife
Amillieent Jacksoin, by whom he has
had six childrem. In consequence of
this marriage he was arrested on a
chlaxge of unlawful cohabitation, and
being convicted he served a term in
the Utah penitentiary from Oct. 13,
1888, to Jan. 24, 1889. In 1891 he
served aniother term (30 days) for the
"same offence." When he emerged
from the penitentiary the first time he
betook himself to Colonia Diaz, Mex-
ico, where he resided two years. It
was on his return tO' Utah that he
was arrested the second time. Bro.
Oldroyd has the siatisfaetion that all
his children at the present time are
members of the Church anid some of
them occupying prominent positions.
In 1874 (May 24th) Bro. Oldroyd was
ordained a High Priest and Bishop
and set apart to preside over the
Glenwood Ward, which positioia he
held until 1886, when he was suc-
ceeded by Herbert H. Bell. When a
bra:nch of the United Otder wias or-
ganized in Glenwood, Bro. Oldroyd
was chosen as president of the same.
During the Indian wars Bishop Old-
royd was very active, being a captain
of cavalry in the Utau i:nilitia, and
he participated in two engagements
with the Indians (July 26, 1865, and
March 21, 1867) at Glenwood, and
took part in several expeditions into
the mountains after the savages.
When Jens Peter Petersen and wife
and Miss .Simith of Richfield wero
killed by the Indians between Rich-
field and Glenwood, Bro. Oldroyd as-
sisted in loading the bodies of the
sllain in the wagcn and witnessed with
horror the terrible conditions of the
mutilated corpses. Bishop Oldroyd
has been a sample pioneer settler,
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to the municipality of Glenwood his
best efforts — the strength 'Cf his youth
and manhood. He has held a number
of secular positioms in the interest
of his fellow-citizens, and has always
given satisflaction in his endeavors to
deal out justice to all. For two terma
he served as ociunty selectman, was
constable in the Glenwood district,
fish and game warden of Sevier co.,
etc. Otherwise he is a farmer and
stock raiser by occupation. Under
his direction a successful co-operative
store wias started in Glenwood, also
a grist mill, saw mill and cabinet
shcip. These were mainly the prod-
ucts of the United Ordier, which was
run successfully in Glenwood for sev-
eral years under the direction of
Bishop Oldrcyd.

OLPIN, Edwir Dee, Bishop of the
Pleasant Grove First Wlard (Alpine
Stake) Utah co., UtaJh, is the son of
J'dseph Olpin and Ann Dee, and was

born May 9, 1865, at Rockport, Sum-
mti CO., Utah. He was blessed by
Edwin Briant Juime 11, 1865,. baptized
Aug. 3, 1873, by Wm. Wiest, and con-
firmed the same day by Lewis Harvey.
In his boyhood he was ordained a

Teacher and later a Priest. He was
ordained lan Elder Nov. 18, 1889, by
John R. HIalliday, and married Inez
M. Robison Nov. 27, 1889, in the Manti
Temple. He was called tOi preside
over the third quorum of Deacons
Jan. 22, 1898, was ordained a Seventy
May 3, 1899; filled a mission to the
Southern States in 1899-01; liabored
twice as a home missionary in the
Alpine Stake; acted as first counselor
In the Y .M. I. A. and afterward as
president cf the same. He was elected
a councilman of Pleasant Grove City,
Nov. 7, 1901. In 1903 (Feb. 1st) he was
ordained a High Priest by James H.
'Clark, at which time also he was
called to labor as first counselor to
Bishop Sweiffi L. Swenson of the
Pleasant Grove Ward. Finally he was
ordained la Bishop Mlay 16, 1909, by
Pres. Jos. F. Smith and set apart to
preside over thie Pleasanit Grove First
Ward. Bro. Olpin is the fathier of
eight children, namely. Lacy M., Lewis
E., Ann Belle, Joseph, Mary I., Emma
E., 'Roy D., and Donna.

OVERSON, David Patten, a member
of the High Council of .the St. Johns
Stake, Arizona, was born Oct. 11,
1869, at Ephraim, Sanpete co., Utah,
the SOD) of Ove C. O'vesen and Maren
Christine Christensen. He came
with his parents to the Little Col-
orado river in 1876, and later helped
to settle the town of St. Johns, being
among the first "Mormon" settlers at
that .place in 1880. He was baptized
April 8, 1877, by P. J. Jensen, at
Brigham City, Arizona, ordained a
Deacon in December, 1884, by J. L.
Hales; ordained a Teacher April 4,
1886, by W. H. Gibbons; ordlaimed au
Elder Dec. 6, 1891, by W. F. Lesseur;
ord'ained a Seventy Jan. 25, 1895, by
Brigham H. Roberts and ordained a
High Priest Nov. 19, 1905, by Francis
M. Lyman. In 1895-97 he filled a mis-
sion to the Southern States, laboring
principally in Texas. At home he has
acted as president cf the Ward Y. M.

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M. I. A. land as seccind assistant to the
Stake president of the Y. Ml M. I. A.
In 1898 (Feb. 27th) he married Anjna
P. Jarvis.

OVERSON, Ove Ephraim, Bishop of
the St. Johns Ward, Arizona, was
born July 17, 1879, in Brigham City,
Apache CO., Arizona, the son of Ove
C. Ovesem and Maren Christine
Ohristemsen. He moved with his par-
ents to St. Johns, Apache co., Arizoinia,
in 1880. Here hp received a gcod
common school education and as he
grew older he held a number of cffioes
in the different Ward organizations,
principally as secretary. He was bap-
tized Oct. 6, 1887, by Swen M. Jensen,
and in 1902-05 :he filled a mission to
the Southern States, laboring first in
the Mississippi conference and later
on the island of Key West, Florida,
a new missionary field. Subsequentlij-
he labored in the States of Florida,
Gieorgia and Tennessee. He baptized
the first converts on the island of Key
West March 5, 1905. Altogether he
spent 29 months in the missionary
field, d'uring which time he crossed
the Gulf of Mexico four times, traveled
on water 1,250 miles, traveled by ve-
hicles 13,938 miles and walked 3,712
miles. He also baptized eleven per-
sons. Bro. Overson bears testimony
to the following instances of his la-
bors In the missionary field: The ele-
ments were controlled by the power
of the Priesthood; evil men were con-
fc^inded and humbled by the testimony
of the gospel, and the sick were in-
stantly healed. In Jume, 1905, Bro.
Overson was appointed Stake clerk of
the St. Johns Stake, and he was or-
dained a Bishcip and set apart to pre-
side over the St. Johns Ward Nov.
19, 1905.

PACE, Harvey Alexander, a prom-
inemt Elder in the Church, was born
O'ct. 12, 1833, in Retherford county,
Tennessee, the son of William Pace
and Margaret Nichols. He emigrated

to Utah in 1848, and after residing
for some time in Sipacdsh Fork, Utah
CO., Utah, he was called as a coloniza-
tion settler to the Dixie mission in
1861, arriving at Harmcny just as Johm
D. Lee was moving up from the old
fort. In 1857 (June 7th) ihe was cr-
dained a Seventy and became a mem-
ber of the fiftieth quorum of Seventy.
He was ordained a High Priest July
2, 1882, by John D. T. McAllister, acted
as Sunday school superintendent and
Bishop's counselor seven years, and
also acted as justice of the peace
three terms. As an (Indian fighter he
gained considerable distinction, serv-
ing in the Indian wars of 1849-50 and
in the Walker war in 1853. In token
of these services he was granted a
land warrant for 160 acres. Bro.
Pace's principal ocupations have been
these of farming and stockraising. He
married Anini Elizabeth Redd, Aug. 28,
1853, arnd Susan Elizabeth Keel July
11, 1870.

PACKARD, Noah, one of the early
Elders of the Ohurch, was born May
7, 1796, at Plainfield, Hampshire co.,
Mass. He married Sophia Bundy June
29, 1820, and migrated to Ohio,, where
he became a convert to "Mormonism"
and was baptized June 1, 1832, in Park-
man, G^eauga co., Ohio. Soon aiter
ward he was ordained a Priest and
was called on a short mission in Ohio;
to fill the same he left hicme Jan. 3,
1833. A few momths later (April 22,
1833) he started on a mission east. He
was ordained an Elder May 6, 1833.
After his reburni from this mission he
presided crver a branch of the Church
in Parkman, and in course of time he
sold his possesions in Parkman ana
gathered witih the saints at Kirtland,
Ohio, where he was set apart as a
High CouiEicilor Jan. 30, 1836. From
Kirtland he started to gather with the
saints in Missouri, but failed to get
there previous to their expulsion from
the State. Subsequently he met the
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1840, he was chosen as a counselor to
Dan Carlos Smith, president of the
High Priest's quorum, m Commence
and gathered with the saints there in
May following In the years 1841, 1842
andi 1845, he performed missions in
different States, -where he preached
the igospel and transacted business
for the Church. He started on his
several missiors without purse or
scrip, traveling in all about 15,000
miles on foot, and preached 480 dis-
courses; he was successful in baptiz-
ing fifty-three persons lairad suffered
much persecution for the gosipel's
sake, as well as ntuany privations and
much bodily iniconvenience. In 1850
he migrated to Utah amid early in the
spring of 1851 located at Springville,
Utah CO., where 'he was chosen a
counselor to Asahel Perry, president
of the Springville branch, March 20,
1851. Here also he buried his ccui-
panion, the wifs of his youth, a son
and soa's wife, and lastly laid down
his own body to await the resurrec-
tion of the just. His death tcok place
Feb. 17, 1860, at Springyille. He died
as he had lived firm and unshaken in
the gosipel of Christ, being in fellow-
ship with his brethren aintd leaving
many friends to lament his loss.

PARRY, Joseph, a High Councilor
in the "Weber Stake, Weber co., Utah,
was born April 4, 1825, at New Marke-,
Flintshire, North Wales, the son of
Eldward Parry and Mary Foulkes, and
the yoiuingest child of thirteen chil-
dren. He was baptized Dec. 31, 1846,
by Thomas Thomas, ordained a Priest
in the spring of 1847 by Simeon Carter
at Liverpool, ordained an Elder in the
spring of 1852 by Johu u. Reese at
Kanesville, Iowa, ordained a Seventy
in the spring of 1853 in Salt City and
ordained a High Priest by John Henry
Smith in Ogd'en in 1877. In/ 1855-57 he
filled a colonization mission to Sal-
mon river (now in Idaho). In 1870-71
he filled a mission to Great Britaiiu,
during which he presided over the

Swansee conference in Wkles. In
1863-64 he acted as counselor to the
presiding Elder of the Third District
in Ogden, after whi'^h he presided

over siaid district until 1876. From
1877 until the time of his diemise he
served as a High Councilor in tlie
Weber Stake of Zion. He emigrated
to Utah in 1852 and settled tempor-
arily in Salt Lake City, but the fol-
lowing year (1853) he became a per-
manent residemit of Ogden. He partici-
pated in the Johnston army trciubles
in 1857 and 1858, serving under Lot
SJmith in Echo canyoa In 1848 (Sept.
1st) Bro. Parry married Jane Payne,
who died April 18, 1849, en route to
Utah. Subsequently he married a
number of other wives and became tbe
father of twenty-two children. Bro.
Parry served sev'eral terms as an ald-
ermlan and city councilman in Ogden.
He was a builder by trade and built
and owned the Parry Block cm Wash-
ington Ave., Ogden. He was also a
director of the Consolidated Imple-
ment Company. Bro. Parry died in
Qigden, Aug. 6, 1911.

PATRIDGE, Ernest De Alton, the
eighth Bishop cf the Fourth Ward, of
Prcvo City, Utah, was borni June 13,

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1869, at Fillmore, Millard co., Utah,
the son cf Edward Partridge and Saraih
Lucretia Clayton. He was baptized
about 1877; ordained a Deacon and
afterwards a Priest; crdained an Elder
Jan. 8, 1891, by Vernee L. Hiolliday,
and ordair-'ed a High Priest April 20,
1902, by Rudger Clawson. Bro. Part-
ridge, when >tihirteen years of age, ac-
companied his father to the Hawaiian
Islands, where the family sipent about
three years. Locating in Provo in
1885, Bro. Partridge attended the B. Y.
Academy, and he has spent most of his
time in the school room e-ver since. In
1886 he settled on the Prcvo Bench,
where he acted as an officer in the
Wlard Y. M. M. I. A., he being sec-
ond coun'selcr. From 1892 to 1896 he
studied in the Michigan Agricultural
College and graduated with the de-

gree of B. S. He was also chosein' as
the first man out of the class to join
the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, which so-
ciety is crganized for the purpose of
keeping track of the best mem who
enter the scihool and enroll them iu
this honorary fraternity. He was
chosen because he had the best two
years' reccrd of any man in the col-
lege. He became a favorite athletic
and won sieven gold and silver metals

for racing, etc. He was also hcmored
at graduation with the privilege of
delivering the commencement oration.
In 1896 (Aug. IGth) he married Eliza-
beth Truman of Lansing, Michigajn,
the daughter of Abraham K. Truman
and Gertrude Harrison, who was born
Jan. 23, 1872. This union has been
blessed with five children, namely,
Ruth L., Truman B., E:rnest D., G«i-
trude E., ainid Lyman M. In 1896 Bro.
Partridge commenced teaching in tine
B. Y. University in Prove, and has
taught in that institution ever since,
except three years. From the fall
o£ 1893 to the spring of 1902 he was
principal of the Beaver branch of the
B. Y. U. ; he also acted as presidLng
Elder of the Beaver branch from Oct.
22, 1899, till the spring of 1902. He
spent most of the year 1908 in Knights-
ville, Juab co., Utah, assaying and
surveying. For three years ihe acted
as ta member of the city council in
Fourth Ward, Provo, from April 20,
1902, to 1907. Since his release from
the Bishopric he has acted as an alter-
nate member of the High Council of
the Utah Stake. He acted as first
ccunsel'cr in the Fourth Ward Y, M.
M. I. A. in 1896-97 and second coun-
selor in the Utah Stake Y. M. M. I. A.
from 1897 to 1898. He holds three
degrees, one (B. S.) from the Michigan
Agricultural college, one degree (B.
P.) from the B. Y. U. of Provo, anw
one (D. B.) from the Church Beard of
Education.

PEIRCE, Eli Haryey, one of the orig-
al Utah pioneers of 1847, and the sec-
ond Bishop of Brigham City, Utah,
was born July 29, 1827, in Uwchland,
Chester co.. Pa., the son of Robert
Peirce and Hannah Harvey. He moveu
to Nauvoo -with his father in 1841, and
was baptized March 27, 1842, by Jo-
seph Smith the Prophet. He received
his endowments in the Nauvoo Temple
Jan. 24, 1846, was ordained a Sevenity
May 18, 1845, and became a member
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f'crced awiay frcm Illinois by the mob
he started for the camp of tihe saints
J'une 3, 1846, togethier with his father
anid located temporarily at WSnfter
Quarters. In April, 1847, he started
for the Rocky Mountains as one of the
pioneers under Pres Brigham Young.
Id August, 1847, he started east with
President Young, but on meeting
his mother and others of his relatives
(who traveled in Edward Hunter's
companiy) on the Swe^etwater, he re-
turned to the Valley with the emigra-
ticin, bearing a commission frcm Pres.
Young to organize a company and go
to Califcrnia the same fall for seed
grain to be used in thie Valley the
fcllowinig spring. He made this trip
a successful one in company witin
Capt. Jefferson Hunt and others. In
the fall of 1850 he married Susannaih
Neff, by whom he had four children,
■namely, Eli Harvey, Mary Barr, Leon-

Salt Lake City April 23, 1857, together
with many other missionaries who
crossed the moumitains and plains with
handcarts. While laboring as a mis-
sionary in Englaind, he contracted a
very severe cold, which continued to
trcaible him until his return heme
June 23, 1858, and he died of consump-
tion at his father's ihouse at Salt Lake
City, Aug. 12, 1858, aged 31 years and
13 days. He passed away in full faith
and fellowshiip and beloved by all his
associates.

PEIRICE, William Andrew, a vet-
eran Elder of Springville, Utah co.,
1 1 tab, was born Jan. 1, 1847, at Du-
buque, Iowa, the son of James Madi-
somi Peirce and Mary Ann Bowman.
He migrated tO' Utah with his parents
In 1866 he made a trip to the Missouri
the plains, and was baptized in the
spring of 1855, by Abraham O. Smoot.

idas Thomas and Susannah Octavia. In
1851 he settled with his family in Box
Elder (new Brigham City) and was
ordained a Bishop at the April con-
ferenice of the Ohiurch in 1855. In the
spring of 1857 he married Emma Zun-
dell as his second wife. In the spring
of 1857 he was called to take a mis-
siom tO' Burcpe, to fill which he left

In 1866 he made a trip to the Misouri
river after emigrants as a captain of
ten ini one of the Church trains. Hav-
ing received a good edudaition, he
taught school for eight years at
Springville and Fountain Greem (San-
pete CO.). He also belonged to the
Springville Dramatic Association, and
took an active part with that organizia-

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tion for a number of years. In 1876-
78 lie filled a mission to Arizona and
New Mexico, laboring among the Int-
diians, duriag which ihe acquired a
pretty thorcugh. knowledge of the
Spanish language. In 1868 (Dec. 19t.h)
he mtarried Julia Wimm, daughter of
Thos. G. Winn and Elizabeth Hansen,
who was born Nov. 7, 1860. She bor«
her husband seven childreu, five of
whom are living today. After their
marriage Sister Peirce accompanied
her husband to Moah, Grand co., Utah,
which place was named by him and he
was the first postmaster cf the place.
Brc. Peirce also acted as superinten-
dent of the Mcab Sunday school for
five years and was president of the
Ward Y. M. M. I. A. for two years,
Ward clerk ten years amd labored as
a home missionary six years. In 1891
he returned with his family to Siprim^-
ville, Utah county, where he still re
ily to Springville, where he still rt-
sides, and during the last twelve years
he has been engaged in mining. Bro.
wiho had been^ ordained a High Priest
early day, was ordained an Elder in
1869 by Geo. EoUand and ordained a
High Priest in 1910 by Albert Jomes.
who had been crdained a High Priest,
by Pres. Brigham Youing.

PEIRCE, James Madison, a veteran
Elder of the Springville Wlard, Utah
CO., Utah, was born June 14, 1814, at
Rochester, New Hampshire, the sen
of Andrew Mitchell and Jane Nutter.
He received a good education and
leanned the trade of a barber. While
he plied that avocation in Boston,
Parley P. Pratt lamd his misionary
companion came to his shop to get a
shave, and thus it was that Bro. Peirce
became acquainted with the "Mor-
mons" and subsequeintly was con-
verted. He was baptized in Bc'ston in
1844 by Parley P. Pratt amd migrated
to Nauvoo the following September.
In the early forties he married Mary
Ann Bowman, who became the mother
of twelve children'. Being driven out

cf Nauvoo, 111., in the general exodus
of the saints in 1846, he went t; Du-
bueque, Iowa, and after remaining-
there about two years, he moved to
Council Bluffs, Iowa, and finally mi-

grated to Utah with has family im'
1853, crossing the plains in Capt. Reu-
ben Miller's company. After spending
the winter in the First Ward, Salt
Lake City, he located on Parley's
Creek, near Pres. Brigham Young's
mill, where he resided four years, un-
til the "general move" scuth in 1858
took place, when he made his per-
manent hicme at Springville, Utah co.,
and took up the avocation of a farmer.
Bro. Peirce was ordained a Seventy
at an early day and afterwards be-
came a High Priest. He served for
many years as a home guard, was a
minute man duriag the Indian wars,
and died at Springville, Feb. 15, 1876.

PEIRCE, Mary Ann Bowman, wife
of James Madiscin Peirce, was born
Sept. 5, 1823, in the city of New
York, the daughter of John and Mar-
garet Bowman. The mother died when
Mary was three years old, and she
was reared by an aunt (her mother's
sister) who took her to WatertowiDi.

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Mass., when she was abcut four years
of age. There she went to school and
worked in a cotton factory. Becoming
the wife cf James M. Peirce, she was
baptized in 1844, and together with
her husband passed through the per-
secutions which the saints eintdured
in Illinois amd ended in their being
driven out' cf Nauvoo in 1846 by the
mob. In 1853, after speinding some

^W^'

years on the frontiers, Sister Peirce
toigether with her husband migrated to
Utah Territcry, where she spent the
remainder of her life and became the
mother of twelve children, six cf whom
are living today. Sister Pierce was a
spiritual-minded woman, blessed with
the gift of toimgues' — la gift which she
o:n several occasions exercised to the
great benefit of her family. She died
Aug. 6, 1894, at Sprinigville, Utah cc,
Utah.

PENDLETON, Daniel S., an alter-
nate member of the Parowan Stake
High Council and a resident cf Cedar
City, Iron co., Utah, wtas born in Pot-
tawattamie county, Iowa, Sept. 16,
1846, emigrated to Utah in 18.52 and
located at Parcwan. While residing
there tie was ordained a Seventy by

J. K. Pararramore Jan. 26, 1870, and
for a number of years he labored as
a "Ward teacher. In 1889 he moved to
Cedar City and was siubsequently or-
dained a High Priest Sept. 18, 1895,
by Francis M. Lyman. He has labored
as a Wiard teacher and a home mis-
sionary iin the Parowan Stake, and
has also filled other ipicsitions of honor
and respoir.'sibility, both of an eccles-
iastical and a secular nature. On July
5, 1870, he married Margaret Benscn
(bom Jan. 3, 1851, in Liverpool, Elng-
landO iini the Endowment House, in
Salt Lake City. In 1883 his wife dieo,
leaving five children. On June lo,
1883, he married Anna Larsen (born
Oct. 13, 1858, in Svedala, Swedan') in
the Sit. George Temple; she bore her
husband seven children.

PERKINS, David Martin, a member
of the MormoQ' Battalion, and presid-
ing Elder at East Weber for several
years, was born Auig. 23, 1823, iini White
county, Tennessee. He migrated with
his parents to Nauvoo, 111., in 1839,
and wias baptized a member of the
Churob of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in 1840. Being exiled from the
State of Illincis, together with his co-
religioindsits in 1846, and having jour-
neyed as far as the Missouri river, he
enlisted in the M'crmon Battalion iu
July, 1846, and commenced the great
overland journey toward California
with that historic body. Through fail-
inig health he became numbered among
thic'se in Captain James Brown's de-
tachment who wintered at Pueblo, oin
the Arkansas river. The following
year (1847) be and many ethers who
had wintered at Pueblo comitinued the
journey to G. S. L. Valley. He re-
turned to the Missouri river with the
piomeers and remained in the Bast till
1850, when he migrated to Sa,lt Lake
City. After making his temporary
hcime in that city a year and a half,
he moved to Kays Ward (iniow Kays-
ville) in Davis county, and becianne one-
of the early settlers of that place.

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Thence he removed to East Weber,
where he ipresided over a branch of
■the Cliurch for a number of years, and
then settled at Ogden; later he be-
came a resident aa Three Mile Creek,
Box Elder co., aind finally settled at
Pleaisant Green, Salt Lake 'OC, where
he spent the remainder of his life. He
died at Pleasant Green April 4, 1874,
of liver complaint, aged 50 years, 7
months and 12 days. Bro. Perkins
was true and faithful as a Church
member till the last and was loved
and respected by all who knew him.

PETERSEN, Niels Mortensen

(Lynge) one of the early ocinverts to
"Mormcnism" in Sicaindinaviai and a
prominent Elder in the Cliurch, was
born Nov. 12, 1819, in Albaek, Hj0rring

amt, Denmark, the sen of Morten
Petersen and Kjersten Ohiristensen. In;
1849 he married Mette OhTistine Ohris-
tensen, who became the mother of
ten children. While residing at Ves-
ter Idskcv, where he owned a fine
farm, he became a convert to "Mor-
monism" and was baptized Oct. 24,
1858, by A. P. Fjeldsted. Soon after-
wiards he was ordained to the Priest-
hood and became very energetic in
spreading the g&sipiel as a local mis-

sionary. For a number of years hu
presided over the Vaar branch and
was the means of quite a number of
'People joinliing the iCIhu'ricto, Being
well to do he was also liberal with
his means and contributed m^uch to-
wardi the temporal support of his oc-
religionists who were less blessed
with this world's goods than he was.
He emigrated to Utah in 1862, and
paid the fare of quite a number of
poor saints. After arriving in Utah
with his family Bro. Peterseini first
lodated in Pleaisant Grove, Uitah cic,
but when the Sevier Valley was
opened for settlement he became one
of the pioneer settlers of Richfield.
H!e surveyed' the Richfield Irrigating
canal ini 1863-64 and subsequently sur-
veyed miO'St of the canals in the Se-
vier Valley. Throughout he was one
of the most successful men in the
whole country in the development of
the Sevier Valley. When the settle-
ments oin, the Sevier were vacated,
owing to Indian troubles, Bro. Peter-
sen located temporarily at Ephraim,
Sanpete co., but refcurinied' to Richfield
in 1870, and resided there the re-
mainder of his days. He was the first
county surveyor of Sevier county, and
when the Sevier Stake of Zion was
organized, he was chosen as the sen-
ior member of the High Gcitncil,
which positioini he held until Februany,
1898, when he was honorably released.
In 1873 he married Johiannai Katrine
Jensen, who became the micther of
nine children. Bro. Petersani was an
active worker and ami officer in the
United Order. In 1876-78 he filled a
mission to Scandinavia, presiding over
the Christiainia conference a ipart of
the time. For many years he presided
over the Scandinavian meetings in
Richfield. At a good old age Bro.
Petersen passed to his final rest Jan.
14, 1903, at Richfield . Throughout Ms
etntire life he was an industrious, mod-
est and uinassuming man, always will-
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low-citizens. Hie was a kind father, an
affecticnate husband, a good citizen
Bind a faithful member of the 'Chiurch.
He was of a sincere, honest andi jovial
character, gained influence whereever
he went and gained friends 'c-n every
hand. He was 'a heavily built maint,
noted for his extraordinary strength
in his younger days, and was through-
out a leading and influential citizen,
both in his native land and in his
adopted country.

PETEiRSEN, Mette C. Christensen,

wife of Niels Miortensen Petersen
(Lynge) of Richfield, Utah, was born
in Denmark. She became the wife
cf Bro. Petersen iin> 1849 and shared
with him ini all his experiences, both
in the old country amd in Utah. S'hie
was an industrious and economical
women and a true helpmate to her
worthy husband. As presidenit of the

Richfield Relief Society for many
years sihe was muich beloved. She
was the mother of tem children, but
her mlarried life was coupled with
many bitter experiences; thus she
hurried three of 'her children in the
eld country; three others, who died
from measles 'Wihile crossing the At-
lantic oceaini, found a watery grave,

and three others died after her ai-
rival in America. One of iher sons
was the late James M. Peterson, who
established the James M. Peterson
Bank & Mlercantile House, both pros-
Eerous monuments to his energy and
foresight. Sister Petersen's only sur-
viving child now is Mrs. Christina
Nielsen of Ricihfield. Sister Petersen
died in 1898 at Richfield.

PETERSON, James Morten, first

counselor iiai the presidency of the S^e-
vier Stake of Zion, was bora July 12,
1879, at Richfield, Sevier cc, Utah,
the son of James M. Peterson, atd
Laura H. C. Hansen. He was raised
and educated in the common schools
of iRiiohfield, aand afterwards .studied
at the B. Y. Academiy at Prove a nu the
L. D. S. College in Salt Lake City. He
was baptized when about tea years
old and took an active part in the
Ward Sunday school and Y. M. M.
I. A. His first ordination to the Priest-
hoicd wias to the office o a Peaconi;
subsequently be was ordained an
Elder, and on March 5, 1901, he wao
ordained a Seventy by Seymour B,
Ycuinig and became a memiber of tihe
36th quorum of Seventy. In 1901-03
he filled a mission to Scaaidiniavia,
laboring in the Trcndhjem conference,
Nicrway. He was ordained a High
Priest Marcih 18, 1906, by EYainicis M.
Lyman and set apart as a member of
the Sevier Stake Higih Couincil. S'ept.
18, 1910, he was set apart as first
counselor to Robt. D. Young in the
presidency of the Sevier Stake of
Zion. In 1903 (Nov. 18th) he married
Louisiana C. Hteppler, who bias borne
ihim a iniumber of children. Bro. Peter-
sciu engaged in mercantile and bank-
ing business with his father when
quite young and at the death of his
father (Aff)ril 9, 1899) he succeeded
to most of his father's business, and
is at present (1914) cashier and man-
ager of the James M. Peterson Bank.
In a secular way, also, Bro. Peterson
has served his fellow-citizens in var-

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ious ways; thus he served two terms
(four years) as a member of the Rich-
field city council and two years as
mayor of the city.

PHULLIPS, Ishmael, first Bishop of
the Uindon Ward, Salt Lake co., Utah,
was born in the parish of Marden,
Herefordshire, England, May 22, 1815.
He was baptized May 29, 1840, and
confirmed by Wilford Woodruff, after
hearing only four discourses preached
on the fulness of the gospel. Two
weeks after his baptism he was or-

daimied to the office of a Priest and
subsequently to that of an Elder. He
presided over the Shucknell Hill
branch of the Froome's Hill (later
Herefcrdshire) conference for thir-
teen years. Occasionally dtiring that
period he also took charge cf the sur-
rounding braniches. He ipreached the
gospel in almost every town and vil-
lage within a radius of ten miles of
Lugwardine. In 1853 he removed to
Birmingham, where he acted aiS an
officer in the Birmingham branch and
also as a local missionary during the
following ten years, or until he emi-
grated to Utah in 1863; he crossed the
Atlantic ocean in the ship "Amazon,"

which sailed from Londoin) June 4,
1863, and crossed the plains in Capt.
John W. Woolley's ox train, which
arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 4, 1863.
He located at once in the Union
Ward, where he resided uinitil the time
of his death. Ftom 1865 to 1877, he
acted as a presiding teacher of the
Union district of the South Oottoii-
wood Ward', and also served as tem-
porary counselor occasionally to
Bishops Andrew Cahoon and Joseph
S. Rawlins. Whea the Uinioin Ward
was organized July 1, 1877, he was oi-
dained a Bishop by Daniel H. Wells
and set apart to preside over the new
Ward. In 1886 (Feb. 9thi) ihe left
home on a mission to Miexico, where
he assisted in the foumdimig of the
town of Juarez. He returned Aug. 1,

1886. Soon afterward (Nov. 12, 1886)
he was arrested on a charge of un-
lawful cohabitation, the grand jury
having found am endictmemt against
him; he was brought before Commis-
sion McKay and placed under $1,500
bonds, and when his case came up
in the 3rd District Court Feb. 13, 1887,
he pleadedi guilty to the charge amd
was sentewced the same day by Judge
Zane to six month's imprisonment and
to pay a fine '^f $300 and cost of suit..
After serving his time and thirty days
for the fline he was releas-ed Aug. 15,

1887. Bishop Phillips died Feb. 5,
1905, at Umion.

PIGGOTT, Georgie Washington!, a
veteran Elder of the Eigthth Ward, Salt
Lake City, L'^tah, was born Jan. 19,
1808, in New York City, New York,
the son of Ceorge Piggott and Sarah
Hull. He was baptized in March,
1850, by Eddisoin Whipple. In 1832
(Oct. 23rd) he married Catherim«
Allen Howland, who became the
mother of five children, namely, Au-
gusta H.. Ahby, Ann, Charles A., Will-
iam H., and Rowena A. Charles A.
died in Massachusetts when sixteen
months old and Rowena died June 7,
1853, while on the journey to Utaih.

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William H. died March 9, 1913, in
Randolph, Rich county, Utiaih. In 1853
Bro. Piggott a.nid his family emigrated
to Utah, crossing the plains in Jes&e
W. Crosby's company as far as Kanes-
ville, lo'wa,, and frtcm there to the
Valley in Cyrus H. Wlieelock's traiini.
He also took charge of a family of
six by the name of Hill, and for his
services sihould have received a team

of oxen; but wnem tihey entered the
Valley, some one of the Hill family
stole the cxen, so that Bro. Piggott
received nothing for his labors. He
settled on Sixth South street, between
Second and Third East streets, hav-
ing purchased two middle lots. Here
he lived until his death, which oc-
curred July 19, 1882. Bro. Piggott
followedl tihie trade of (plaiiiniter ajnd
piano ptclisher. His wife was a de-
scendant of Henry Howland Who came
to America in the early part of the
fifteenth century.

POUL9EN, Andrew, a member of the
High Council of the Sevier Stake of
Zicin, was' boras June 8, 1843, at Veiby,
Hjorring amt, Denmark, the son of
Peter J. Poulsen and Sidsel Katrine
Andersen. He was baptized in 1861
by Stephen Petersen and emigrated

to Utaih in 1862, together with his
mother and several brothers, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Athenia,"
which sailed from Hamburg April 21,
1862, and arrived at New York June
6, 1862. Prom Florence he crossed the
plains in Ohristian A. Mladsen's com-
pany, whicih arrived in Salt Lake Citj-
Sept. 23, 1862. After residing one
year at Gunnisicn, Sainpete co., he be-

came one of the first settlers of Rich-
field, Sevier co., where he resided un-
til the Indians drove him and his fel-
low-citizens away from the prosperous
infant settlement. When the Indians
became peaceiable, he returned to
Richfield, where he then resided con-
tinuously duriinig the remainder of his
life. Bro. Poulsen married three wives
as follicws: Caroline Hansen Oct. 18,
1866, Anna C. Anderson June 15, 1874,
and Acina J. Larsen June 7, 1883. His
first wife be re him four children
and his second wife five ohildreu.
Being arrested and convicted of so-
calledi unlawful cohabitation, accord-
ing tC' the Eldmuind's law, he was fined
$110 March 5, 1889. At the time of
the United Order in Richfield, Bro.
Poulsen was a member of the beard of
directors in said order, and through-
out his whole career he took a lead-

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ing part both in ecclesiastical an*
secular affairs. For several years lie
acted as constable in the Richfield
precinct. He passed to his fi;nal rest
at his Richfield home, Jan. 8, 1913.

POULSEN, Paul, a Paitriiarch in the
Sevier Stake of Zion, was born Sept.
19, 1845, at Veiby, Hjorring amt, Den-
mark, the son of Peder Jensen Poul-
sem and Sidsel Katrime Anders>en. He
was baptized Jan. 29, 1862, and emi-
grated' to Utah in 1862, and located at

Richfield soon afterwards. In 1871-72
he filled a mission to Scandinavia, and
o;n his return home he brought with
ihim his youngest brother (Niels) and
a cicusin (N. P. Nielsen). He was
ordained a High Priest May 24, 1874,
and set apart as a member of the
High Couimcil of the Sevier Stake;
was set apart as first counselor to
Bishop Wm. H. Seegmiller of the
Richfield Ward. April 27, 1877. (He
became a mem.ber of the High Council
again in 1889). He was ordained a
Bishop and set apart to preside over the
Richfield First Ward, July 25, 1877.
He acted in that capacity fcr seven-
teen years, after which he became

first counselor to Bishop Theodore
Brandley, actimig in that calling five
years. Comm^incing with 1884, hie
served three years as superintendent
of the Richfield First Ward Sunday
school, after which he was forced into
exile, owing to the anti-polygamy per-
secutions. Finally he was ordained a
Patriarch Sept. 24, 1899, by Geo. Teas-
dale. Bro. Poulsen is the husbamd
of three wives, namely, Annie M.
Christensen, Olina M. Olsen and Maria
Davidsotni, and the father cf twenty
children, of whicm thirteen are nov*
(1914) living. In 1888-89 he served
135 days in the Utah penitentiary,
having been convicted of so-called uin-
lawful cohabitation. He was arrested
on a similar charge Aug. 19, 1892, but
was discharged. In 1894 he served
thirty days in the Utah penitentiary,
having again beem convicted of unlaw-
ful cohabitation. In October, 1899,
he was fined $150 for unlawful 'co-
habitation. Bro. Poulsen was ordained
a Teacher in 1864 by M):rten F. Mor-
tensen; ordained an Elder March 27,
1871, by Elias Smith, and ordained a
Seventy April 9, 1871, by Jens Han-
seitt.

POPE, George Hamilton, a veteran
Elder in the Church, was born Nov. 9,
1835, on the Isle of Wight, England,
the son of Jacob Pope and Harriet
Hiibbard. Notwithstaindiing the fact
that the Pope family were in very
good circumstances, they left their
home to come to Utah for the gospel's
sake, but a few years later, being
unable to stand the hard>ships of pio-
neer life, returned to their home,
leaving their son ini Utah. He had
married Jane Tibbetts (who was born
Nov. 15, 1838, at Liverpool, ESngland)
May, 1856, by whom he <had twelve chil-
dren, namely, Harriet, Sarah Jane,
Jacob William, John Thomas, Mary
Elizabeth, Lewis Richard, Edna
Theresa, Willard Hibbard, James My-
ron, Laron Roy and Edith M'aria. At

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his parents' death Bto. Pope made a
trip to England to settle up their estate
being an icnly child. Returning home
he waited on the sick and particularly
looking after the widows and orphans.
Brother Pope's main occupation in
life was that of a quarryman a.nd

dained a High Priest in 1910. In 1896-
98 he filled a mission to Great Britain,
laboring in Wlales. In 1870 he mar-

contractcr. He built a road up Emi-
graticn canyon, where he had a rock
quarry. His permanent residence was
the Secondi Ward, Sialt Lake City,
Utah, where he died June 1, 1888.
Throughout his life Bro. Pope was
noted for his faithfulniess as a Church
member and strict honesty; he was
beloved by all who knew him.

PRICE, Edmond, an active Elder in
the "West Jordan Ward, Salt Lake co.,
Utah, was born Aug. 8, 1854, in Wales,
the son of Thos. Price and Mary
Perry. He was baptized Aug. 8, 1862,
by David E. Jones, emigrated to Amer-
ica in 1871, and after resid'ing in Ohio
two years came to Utah in 1873. He
was ordained successively to the 'of-
fices of Deacon Teacher and I*riest;
ordained an Elder Feb. 3, 1878;
ordained a Seventy March 20, 1887,
by William H. Freeman, and or-

ried Emma Brown who is the mother
of nine children.

QUI ST, Albert, Bisliop of the Brin-
ton Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah,
was born Nov. 24, 1873, at Big Cot-

tonwood, Salt Lake co., Utah, the
son of John Anderson Quist and
Mary C. Henden, and was baptized
April 30. 1882, by William Newman.

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He was ordained a Deacon in 1885
by his father; ordained a Teacher
in 1893 by David B. Brinton; or-
dained an Elder Nov. S, 1897, by
Joseph Boyce; ordained a Seventy
Febr. 4, 1904, by F. C. McDonald,
and set apart as one of the seven
presidents of the 134th quorum of
Seventy, Feb. 15, 1905, by George
Reynolds. He was ordained a High
Priest Feb. 12, 1911, by Francis M.
Lyman and set apart as Bishop of
the Brinton Ward. Brother Quist
was counselor in the Deacon's quo-
rum for four years ; secretary in the
74th quorum of Elders, Salt Lake
Stake, for three years, secretary In
the south branch of the Big Cotton-
wood Sunday school for one year and
first assistant superintendent for
three years. He was first counselor
in the Y. M. M. I. A. in Big Cotton-
wood for one year and then presi-
dent of the South Branch Y. M. M.
I. A. for one year. In 1903 (Oct
21st) he married Letitia Neff Eld-
dredge (daughter of Alanson Eld-
redge and Martha Neff) who was
born Sept. 16, 1873 and is the mother
of three children. Since the year
1900 Brother Quist has been fore-
man of the Taylor & Brinton Ore
Sampling Co. (now Utah Ore Samp-
ling Co.) which is his present occu.
pation.

QUIST John Anderson, the first
Latter-day Saint Elder who died in
Sweden while laboring as a mis-
sionary from Zion in that country,
wast born Dec. 9, 1845, at Ytterby,
Bohus Ian, the son of Andreas A.
Quist and Katrine Peterson. He
was baptized June 7, 1863, by F. G.
Bondnevier, and a few years later
was called to do missionary labor
in Norway and Sweden; this labor
he continued for about six years;
during which time he received many
strengthening testimonies of the
gospel. In 1869 he emigrated to
Zion and settled in Big Cottonwood,

Salt Lake county, where he re-
mained until 1877, when he was
called to fill a mission to his na-
tive country. He labored first as a
traveling Elder in and later as pre-
sident of the Goteborg conference.
Returning home in 1879 he was the
leader of a company of emigrating
Saints. In 1884 he was appointed as
a home missionary in the Salt Lake
Stake of Zion and was also made
a president af the 72nd quorum of
Seventy. June 14, 1887, he was set

apart for another mission to Scan-
dinavia, He arrived in Copenhagen,
Denmark, July 19, 1887 and was ap-
pointed to labor in his former field
at Goteborg. Again he was appoin-
ted to preside over the Goteborg
conference (Sept. 6, 1888). Elder
Quist remained on that mission for
nearly three years, visiting among
the branches and setting them in
order according to his calling. March
5, 1890, he was taken sick at Ving-
aker and continued to fail until
March 3, 1890, when he died. Ac-
cording to his dying wish the body
was interred in the city of Goteborg,
where he had labored so zealously
for the kingdom of God.

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RASBAND, Frederick, the first
Bishop of Park City, Summit county,
Utah, was born Sept. 2, 1856, in
Provo, Utah co., Utah, the son of
Thos. Rasband and Elizabeth Giles.
He was baptized when about eight
years old by John M. Murdock in
Heber City, ordained a Deacon when
quite young; ordained an Elder by
Thos. Todd in September, 1881; or-
dained a High Priest in 1896 by
John M. Murdock and ordained a

RASMUSSEN, Hans, the second
Bishop of Redmond, Sevier co., Utah,
was born May 17, 1858, at Ephraim,
Sanpete county, Utah, the son of
Hans Rasmussen and Mary Steffen.
He was baptized when eight years
old by Niels L. Christensen; was or-
dained a Teacher, then a Priest,
next an Elder and finally a High
Priest. After the later ordination
he served as a member of the Sevier
Stake High Council until Dec. 3,

Bishop by Reed Smoot Aug. 20, 1901.
He filled a mission to Great Britain
in 1899-1901, laboring in the London
conference. In his boyhood days he
was president of a Deacons quorum
and later acted as an officer in the
Y. M. M. I. A.; was also second
counselor in the presidency of the
Park City branch from the time of its
organization; later he was superinten-
dent of the Park City Sunday school.
In 1901 he was called to act as Bishop
of Park City. Bro. Rasband has acted
as sheriff of Wasatch county, and
has been a member of the Park
City council. His principal occupa-
tion has been that of a merchant.
In 1891 (Sept. 30th) he married
Elizabeth Hawkins, who is the mother
of five children.

1887, when he was ordained a Bishop
and set apart to preside over the
Redmond Ward by Albert K. Thur-
ber. In this calling he labored faith-
fully upwards of fourteen years. Bish-
op Rasmussen married Josephine
Jensen March 9, 1883, who has borne
him eight children, seven of whom
are now living. Brother Rasmussen
has also taken an active part in
civic affairs and has held such im.
portant positions as commissioner,
treasurer, etc. in Sevier county. Bro.
Rasmussen is at present engaged in
farming and stock raising. In Church
affairs he has always been a con-
sistent and energetic worker, having
labored in the Sunday school and
Y. M. M. I. A., and as a Ward teacher,
etc.

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REID, Alfred Campbell, first Bish-
op of the Garfield Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Dec. 14,
1860, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the
son of Peter Reid and Diana David-
son. He was baptized in the fall of
1867 by John Cottam; ordained an
Elder in 1886 by Zadock Mitchell;
ordained a Seventy April 10, 1899,
by Seymour B. Young, and ordained
a High Priest Oct. 22, 1911, by
Francis M. Lyman. For two years

at Grantsville, Tooele co., Utah. She
is the mother of eight children, five
boys and three girls. Elder Reid
is a farmer and stockraiser by avoca-
tion and helped to build the Utah
and Salt Lake Canal.

RENSTR6M, Andrew Pehrsson, third
Bishop of Huntsville, Weber co. Utah,
was born Dec. 30, 1857, in Viksta,
Upsala Ian, Sweden, the son of Erick
Pehrsson and Katrine C. Erickson.
He was baptized Nov. 14, 1872, by

he acted as secretary of the Elders
in Pleasant Green and was president
of the Ward Mutual Improvement As-
sociation about fifteen years. He
also acted as assistant superintendent
of the Ward Sunday- school four
years, filled the position of presi-
dent of the 14th quorum of Seventy
six years; filled a mission to the
Eastern States in 1899-1901, laboring
principally in Maryland, Virginia
and Vermont. Finally he was or-
dained a Bishop Oct. 22, 1912, and
set apart to preside over the Gar-
field Ward. Bro. Reid, after residing
in Salt Lake City until 1882, moved
to Pleasant Green, and in 1886 (Feb.
23rd) he married Eliza J. Jocobs
(daughter of Daniel Jacobs and Mary
Haines), who was born Jan. 5, 1863,

C. J. Renstrom and emigrated to
Utah in 1873, locating in Huntsville,
Weber co., where he still resides.
He filled a mission to Sweden in
1883-85, laboring in the Eskilstuna
branch and later in the northern
part of Sweden. Early in 1885 he
visited Finland, a province of Russia,
and held meetings with a few saints
residing there. He finished his mis-
sion in Dalarne. He filled a second
mission to Scandinavia in 1889-1891,
laboring in the Stockliolm conference
and afterwards presided over the
Goteborg conference. At home he
acted as assistant superintendent of
the Huntsville Sunday school in 1888-
89, and was set apart as first coun-
selor to Bishop David McKay, of

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Huntsville, July 31, 1898. From
Sept. 10, 1905, to Oct. 25, 1908, he
acted as Bishop of Huntsville. In
1888 (June 27th) he married Caroline
Peterson, daughter of Soren L. Pe-
terson and Anna Nielsen. This union
was blessed with ten children, three
boys and seven girls. Sister Ren-
strom was born July, 29, 1864, and
died July 16, 1907, in Huntsville,

RHODES, William Henry, a Utah
pioneer of 1848, was born July 17, 1842,
in Lancashire, England, the son of
Geo. Rhodes and Ellen Colebridge.
came to Utah with his father in
1842 (being nine months old) and

came to Utah with his father in
1848, crossing the plains in Pres.
Brigham Young's company. The fami-
ly lived on Pioneer Square during the
winter of 1848.49 and then resided
one year in the Thirteenth Ward,
after which they became permanent
settlers in the Mill Creek Ward.
The subject of this sketch was bap-
tized when eight years of age, and
he went back to the Missouri river
with an ox train after emigrants in

1861. In 1862 he served under Capt.
Lot Smith on the plains, protecting
the mail route against the Indians.
In 1866 he was called to Sanpete to
participate in the Black Hawk war,
to protect settlers against the Indi-
ans. In fact, he fought the Indians
from the beginning and in 1858 at
the time of the great move south he
stood guard in Salt Lake City; he
also hauled provisions to the boys in
the canyons during the winter of
1857-1858. He was ordained a Deacon
at an early day and became a member
of the 61st quorum of Seventy in
1861. Bro. Rhodes is still a Seventy
and has been an active teacher for
many years. In 1866 (Jan. 13th)
he married Jane Williams; later he
married her sister Ann Williams.
His wife Jane bore him seven chil-
dren and his wife Ann five children
Ann died in 1871 and Jane in 1880.
Bro. Rhode's occupation was con-
stantly that of a farmer. In his
younger days he passed through the
various trials and hardships of
pioneer life. He died Sept. 3, 1914,
at his residence on 14th South Street
and Main Street ,where he had lived
since 1858. Bro. Rhodes left a family
of seven children as follows: Mary
J. Hill, Mary E. Staten, Vilate Yeager,
Freda A. Wilkins, George W. Rhodes,
Lottie L. Turner, and Oscar E.
Rhodes; he also left thirty-one grand-
children and two great grandchildren.

RHODES, Jane Williams, wife of
Wm. Henry Rhodes, was born in
1846, at New Market, North Wales,
the daughter of John Williams and
Mary Parry. She emigrated to Utah
in 1856, crossing the Atlantic in
the ship "Samuel Curling" and the
plains in Capt. Edward Bunker's
handcart company, which arrived in
Salt Lake City Oct. 2, 1856. After
a short sojourn in the Thirteenth
Ward, Salt Lake City, she moved to
Mill Creek and became the wife of

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Wm. Henry Rhodes Jan. 13, 1866.
She subsequently bore him seven

children and died as a highly respec-
ted woman and Latter-day Saint Jan.
6, 1880.

RICHARDS, Claude, a member of
the General Board of the Y. M. M.
I. A. and a resident of the Sugar
House Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,

was born June 14, 1882, at Mendoi),
Cache county, Utah, the son of Di-.
Stephen L. Richards and Emma

Louise Stayner. He was baptized
March, 18, 1893, by Nathaniel V.
Jones and ordained a Deacon when
a boy. He was ordained a Priest,
Sept. 8, 1902, by John M. Whittaker;
ordained an Elder, Feb. 4, 1907, by
George Crismon, and ordained a
Seventy, March 8, 1909, by J. Golden
Kimball. For three years he acted
as second assistant superintendent
of the Sugar House Ward Sunday
school^ and on June 10, 1912, he was
chosen a member of the Y. M. M.
L A. General Board. He attended
the University of Utah for a number
of years and graduated from the
normal course in 1901. After his
graduation he did college work and
later taught school at Richfield,
Sevier county, and at Parowan, Iron
CO., where he was principal of the
Parowan schools. Since 1905 he has
been engaged in the real estate
business as a member of the firm
of Kimball & Richards. In 1911 (Feb.
22nd) he married Mary C. Taylor,
daughter of Frank Y. Taylor and
Elizabeth Campbell. This union has
been blessed with two children, name-
ly, Claude T. and David T.

RICAHRDS, Emily Sophia, a char-
ter member of the General Board of
the Relief Societies, was born May
13, 1850, at South Cottonwod, Salt
Lake county, Utah, the daughter of
Nathan Tanner and Rachel Winter
Smith. Her father's family were
originally from the State of New
York, where their progenitors were
people of wealth and refinement. The
father was a man of rugged charac-
ter and of pronounced faith in man's
spiritual origin and celestial destiny;
and the mother, likewise, was of
a strong religious nature, possessing
prophetic power, vivacious, yet of
philosophic endurance in days o"
trial. It is not surprising there-
fore, though her early environment
lacked the influence which fashiona-
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their daughter grew up in grace and
graciousness, in knowledge and refine-
ment, partaking as she did of the spi.
ritual element in her devout parents.
In her rural home, at the base of
the snow-crowned Wasatch mountains,
she passed the first six years of her
life, developing into girlhood as a
flower, blossoming in sweet simplicity
and purity, her mind expanding as
her soul grew in grace. She was
then taken by her parents to Salt
Lake City, where teachers of talent
and learning had charge of her educa-
tion. When eighteeen years of age,
she became the wife of Franklin S.

Richards, one of her former school,
mates, now a leading attorney of the
State. The date of their marriage
was Dec. 18, 1868. Five months later
the young couple removed to Ogden,
and there the public career of Mrs.
Richards began. Her first appoint-
ment was to the position of assistant
secretary of the Weber County Relief
Societies. She had previously been
connected with the Relief Societies
Salt Lake City. Next she was
made president of the Young Ladies
Mutual Improvement Association of
Ogden and vice-president of the coun-
ty organization of the same, serving

ten years in that capacity. During
this time she made frequent visits
to the national capital in company
with her husband, who had argued
many important cases before the
Supreme Court of the United States.
There she had the opportunity of
attending many woman's conventions,
and other interesting meetings held
at the seat of the government. In
1885 Mrs. Richards, together with
Sisters Emmeline B. Wells, Josephine
Richards West and Dr. Ellen B. Fer-
guson, presented a memorial of the
women of Utah to the President and
Congress. The anti-Mormon opposi-
tion was then at its height and the
Supreme Court was hearing the case
of the United States vs. Lorenzo
Snow. These ladies listened to the
entire argument. They called upon
Senator Ingalls about the "Mormon"
protest against the tyranny and in-
decency of Federal Officials in Utah,
and against their own disfranchise-
ment without cause. Senator Ingalls
answered: "I haven't read the peti-
tion; I put it into the waste basket;
it was too indecent to read". He
was then asked: "If it was too inde-
cent for you to read, what do you
think about the women, who had to
suffer?" They also called upon
Senator Edmonds and other states-
man and left no stone unturned to
impart correct information upon the
subject of Utah and her people. Had
Congress listened to these ladies'
protest against Congress building an
Industrial home for "Mormon" women
several hundred thousands dollars of
public money spent upon that use-
less institution might have been sav-
ed. In 1888 it was deemed desirable
to make the Relief Societies and
the Young Ladies Associations aux-
iliary to the National Women's or-
ganizations, which was done, and
Mrs. Richards was appointed to re-
present them in the first International
Council. Its sessions lasting a week
were held at the Albaugh Opera

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House, in the City of Washington.
The event is well described in the
following article from the pen of a!n
able newspaper writer of that period:
"The leading woman workers of the
world were present, and the sessions
continued several days, the local
papers being filled with pictures and
speeches of noted women. Just about
that time a committee of Utah men
was in Washington urging Statehood
on the bases of the constitution formu-
lated and adopted by a convention in
Utah in 1887. The Utah admission
question was before Congress and it
had become a subject of public in-
terest) in Washington, being discus,
sed pro and con in the papers and
in private circles. Just at the time
of the Woman's World Convention the
Utah question attained its highest
pitch, the custom of polygamy and
woman suffrage in Utah being at
the moment revived in the public
mind in the most aggravated form.
At this juncture it was announced
that a Utah lady would address the
World's Convention as a represen-
tative of Utah. It was perfectly
natural that the immense concourse
of people attending the Convention
should forecast the character of the
lady who should address them as
some masculine heroine, who could
wield a battleax or any other weapon
in behalf of Utah, in keeping with
their own exaggerated notions of
Utah life. And the lady herself, at
the hour she had to appear, could
but feel the extreme tension in the
public mind; for the morning papers
we^e bristling with denunciations of
Utah institutions. There was an
ominous pause in the great throng
when it was announced from the
platform by the presiding officer
that the lady delegate would address
them. Soon the lady appeared, mov-
ing forward among the throng on
the rostrum and taking her place be-
side the narrow reading desk. What
an apparition! It was not a feminine

Boanerges, not an Amazon, but a deli-
cate, refined lady, trembling sligthly un-
der the scrutinizing gaze of the
multitude, yet reserved, self possess-
ed, dignified, and as pure and sweet
as an angel. Her appearance was a
powerful antithesis to their precon-
ceived impressions and the change
of feeling in the audience was almost
instantaneous. The lady's voice be-
gan its utterance on a scale of
gently tremous pathos, and without
rising into high pitch, its tenderness
subdued every whisper until its words
reached every ear in the auditory.
The tenor of the address was what
might have been expected by Utah
people, an orderly, scholarly presen-
tation, such as would serve to recite
facts and principles and disarm pre-
judice. It was not the words them-
selves, but the gently spirit, that,
like the morning dawn, went with the
words and carried winning grace to
every heart. It was wonderful how
sympathies were engendered and
asperities removed. Wlien the lady
concluded, after half an hour's read-
ing there was many a moist eye, and
many a listener felt thankful that
this gentle appeal had given them
a new, more refreshing and more
kindly impression of Utah people
and institutions. It was the mighty
force of the gentle sunlight, that un-
locks the iceberg from its moorings
and sets it afloat upon the broad
ocean. We sat near the speaker, but
had never seen her before. We
learned afterwards that she was a
Mrs. Richards, wife of Lawyer Rich-
ards of Salt Lake City." Mrs. Rich-
ards herself refers to the occasion
as one of the most interesting, not
to say critical experiences of her life.
Her name, for some reason, had
been passed upon the program, and
another lady announced, who was to
speak upon the Indian question;
whereupon, she sent a note to the
chairman, asking the couse of the
omission. The mistake was at once

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rectified, and Miss Susan B. Anthony,
met Mrs. Richards at the wing and
escorted her to the platform witli
every demonstration of respect. It
was feared that the lady from Utah
would not be able to make herself
heard throughout the hall — other
speakers having failed in that regard
— but to the general surprise and de-
light, her clear tones penetrated to
the remotest recesses of the building
and her speech was a veritable tri-
umph. At an executive session of
the same convention of woman, a
precident and vice-president were
appointed to organize suffrage asso-
ciations in Utah: Mrs. Froiseth, pre-
sident, and Mrs. Richards, vice.presi-
den. A very prominent Southern
woman opposed the nomination of
Mrs. Richards, saying that "Mormon-
ism" and polygamy were synony-
mous terms and feeling that the
nomination of Mrs. Richards, would
mean the sustaining of that prin-
ciple. This was all quite unexpected
by the latter, but she responded in
a short talk refuting the statement,
and giving the names of several
Utah men, including Delegate John
T. Caine, saying that they were
"Mormons", or Latter-day Saints, but
not polygamists. At the close of
Mrs. Richards' talk. Miss Susan B.
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Matilda Joslih Gage and other lead-
ing suffragists spoke in favor of her
nomination, remarking that when
Geo. Q. Cannon sat in Congress, they
did not feel, because of his pre-
sence there, that they were sustain-
ing polygamy. Upon Mrs. Richards'
return to Salt Lake City, Mrs. Froi-
seth declined to act, saying that suf-
frage was not good for Utah, and
Mrs. Richards thereupon issued the
call and organized the associations
with Mrs. Sarah M. Kimball as presi-
dent, herself as vice-president, and
Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells as secre-
tary. At the time of the World's
Fair in Chicago, Mrs. Richards was

appointed president of the Utah Board
of Lady Managers. A Chicago paper
then said of her: "The president of
the World's Fair Board of Lady
Managers from Utah is a handsome
woman, Utahn by birth, but New
York descent. She is Emily S. Rich-
ards, wife of Franklin S. Richards,
a lawyer in Salt Lake City, who
achived distinction in the law and
has argued some very important cases
before the Supreme Court of the
United States. Not even in metro-
politian New York and cultured
Massachusetts can the superior of
Mrs. Richards be found in originality
of work and independence of thought.
While in Chicago, she having a cer-
tificate to preach, teach and ex-
pound the scriptures of the Latter-
day Saints signed by the First Pre.
sidency of the Church, appeared be-
fore the Woman's Branch of the Par-
liament of Religions and read a paper
on "Women of Mormondom", She
also appeared before the Worlds
Congress of Representative Women
and gave a talk on organization.
She was vice-president of the Califor-
nia Mid-Winter Fair in 1893-94. Under
appointment of Gov. Caleb W. West,
she was vice-president of the Board
of Lady Managers of the Cotton
States and International Exposition
at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1895, and was
delegate to the Woman's Suffrage
Association held at the same place.
Sister Richards has a life member-
ship in the National Suffrage Asso-
ciation. She also prepared the me-
morial and led the victorious cam-
paign for equal suffrage at the time
of our Constitutional Convention in
the spring of 1895, the president of
the Suffrage Association, Mrs. Wells,
being absent in Washington. She
was elected an alternate to the Na-
tional Democratic Convention which
at Chicago in 1896 nominated William
Jennings Bryan for president. She
was also appointed a national or-
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spent several weeks in Idaho, work-
ing for equal suffrage in that State.
In 1896 she forestalled by private de-
clination the nomination that would
have made her Utah's first lady
State senator. Among many impor-
tant positions held by her are those
of trustee of the Agricultural College
of Utah; director of the Salt Lake
City Free Library, director of the
National Relief Society; director of
the Orphan's Home (appointed upon
the recommendation of the First
Precidency) ; president of the Moth-
er's Congress; vice.president of the
Press Club; director of the Woman's
Club; and president of the Utah
State Council of Women which she
represented ot the recent Suffrage
Convention in Washington. In 1904
she was a delegate to the Interna-
tional Fruens Congress held in Ber-
lin, Germany, where she read a
paper on the "Political Freedom of
the Women of Utah". In 1909 she
was a delegate from the National
Relief Society to the Convention held
in Buffalo, N. Y., for charities and
corrections. She was appointed al-
ternate representative of the Nation-
al Council of Women of the United
States in the International Council
of Women held in Toronto, Canada,
June, 16, 1909, and has served for
years as chairman of the Peace Com-
mittee of the Relief Society and also
as a member of the State Board for
Peace and is one of the committee
on the celebration of the 100th ani-
versary of Peace among the English
speaking people 1914-15. She is also
a worker in the Red Cross Society.
Mrs. Richards' powers have increased
with the added experience and wis-
dom of the years. While wrapped
up in her public work, she is in no
sense "a new woman", in the com-
mon acceptance of the term. She
seeks not to supplant man in any of
his spheres of activity, but views with
him in his efforts for the welfare
of the race. She is a woman of the

good old fashioned type, whose home
is her earthly paradise. She is the
mother of three sons — Franklin Dewey
Richards and Joseph Tanner Rich-
ards (both attorneys at law) and
William Snyder Richards, who died
in infancy. In addition, two daugh-
ters have blessed the home, Wealthy
Lucile (now Mrs. Oscar Jensen) and
Emily, the youngest of the house-
hold. To her husband Mrs. Richards
is a most congenial companion and
for her children she has all of
mother love that the heart can hold.
Though a leader among women, she
is gentle, gracious and refined, pos-
sessing the esteem and admiration
of her people, and commanding res-
pect in the councils of women through
the world. (Compiled chiefly from
Whitney's History of Utah, Vol. 4,
p. 604).

RICHARDS, Preston Doremus, a
member of the General Board of the
Y. M. M. I. A., was born Sept. 15,
1881, at Mendon, Cache county, Utah,

the son of Willard B. Richards and
Annie Doremus. He was baptized
March 28, 1893, by L. A. Wilson in
Salt Lake City, and ordained a
Seventy Feb. 14, 1900 by Joseph W.
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home for a mission to Great Britain,
where lie labored in the Nottingham
conference and returned to Utah in
June, 1902. From 1902 to 1908 he
acted as principal and supervisor of
schools in Salt Lake county, during
which years he was also registered
as a special student at the University
of Utah, having received his earlier
education in the public schools of
Salt Lake county, and the Salt Lake
High School. In June, 1908, he en-
tered the law department of the
University of Chicago, and after com-
pleting the summer work there, went
to New York and spent the season
of 1908-09 in the Law Department
of Columbia University. He com-
pleted his education in the University
of Chicago, graduating with the de-
gree of L. L. B. cum laude. He was
the winner of the Prof. Floyd R.
Mechem prize in the University of
Chicago law school in 1910, and held
the position as assistant solicitor in
the Department of State, at Wash.
ington, D, C, from 1910-13, after
which he went to El Paso, Texas,
to assist in the preparation of "Mor-
mon" colonist claims against the
government of Mexico. In October,
1910, he formed a law partnership
with J. Reuben Clark, jun.., and
opened a law office in Salt Lake
City. Prior to his going East to
study he acted as president of the
Y. M. M. I. A. of the Sugar House
Ward and as superintendent of the
Y. M, M. I. A, of the Granite Stake.
He was a member of the Utah State
legislative in 1907-08 and was an al-
ternate delegate to the Republican
National Convention to Chicago in
1908. In 1912 (Sept. 12th) he mar-
ried Barbara Howell, daughter of
Congressman Joseph Howell, in the
Salt Lake Temple. A daughter
(Ruth) was born to them Sept. 24,
1913. At the present time Preston
D. Richards is a member of the
American Society of International
Law.

SAUNDERS, Demas Ashdown, ahand
cart veteran and an active Elder in
the Tenth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born April 24, 1834, at Walden
Sussex, England, the son of George
Saunders and Alice Ashdown. He
was baptized Jan. 18, 1866, by Elder
Edward Braby; ordained a Deacon at
Brighton, England, July 13, 1856, by
Thomas Stanford ; ordained a Priest
May 18, 1857, by Bernard Snow; or-
dained an Elder Sept. 12 1858, by C.

R. Jones, and ordained a Seventy Feb.
17, 1861, by Joseph Young. Just
before leaving England Brother Saun-
ders married Hannah Barwell,
March 20, 1860, at Brighton. The
same year they emigrated to America,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Underwriter," which arrived in New
York, May 1, 1860, and the plains in
Capt. Daniel Robinson's handcart com-
pany which arrived in Salt Lake City
Aug. 27, 1860. On the overland jour-
ney Bro. Saunders acted as a cap-
tain of Ten. Atfer arriving in Utah
in 1860, he resided in Ephraim, San-
pete county, two years. Being called
by the authorities of the Church to
settle in Circle Valley, Piute county,
he resided there over two years and
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located permanently on the east
bench, Salt Lake City, where he re-
sided until the time of his death
which occurred in Salt Lake City,
Jan. 8, 1898.

SAUNDERS, Hannah Barwell, wife
of Demas A. Saunders, was born Nov.
7, 1839, at Corby, Northamptonshire,
England, the daughter of John Bar-
well and Ann White. She was bap-

tized in February, 1859, at Brighton,
England, she being the only one of
her father's family who joined the
"Mormon" Church. Two weeks before
her departure from England she bid
her parents good-bye, telling them
she was going to get married and
emigrate to America. After her ar-
rival in Utah, Sister Saunders be-
came a faithful Relief Society worker
and has acted as a leader for many
years in the Tenth Ward Relief Soci-
ety and as a counselor in a similar
association in the Thirty.third Ward,
Salt Lake City. While residing in
Circle Valley at the time of the Black
Hawk war, she was the first on a
certain occasion to give the alarm to
the settlers that the Indians were
coming upon them. Sister Saunders
is the mother of ten children, seven

of whom are now alive. Four of
her sons have filled honorable mis-
sone, one of them, John W. Saun-
ders, twice. Sister Saunders has al-
ways stood faithful and true by the
side of her husband. After helping
him to pull a handcart across the
plains she assisted him as a dutiful
wife in all his pioneer experiences.

SAXTON, Solomon, first counselor
to Bishop Chester Staley and also
Bishop John Clark of the Upton Ward,
Summit county, Utah, was born Feb.
21, 1825, in Leicestershire, England,
the son of Wm. Saxton and Catherine
Hemenway. He joined the Church in
his native land in 1849 and emigrated
to America in 1857, settling in Spring-
field, 111. The next year he opened
a coal mine which is supposed to
be the first coal mine opened in

that State. He migrated to Utah in
1861, crossing the plains in John R.
Murdock's company (driving his own
team), which arrived in Salt Lake
City Sept. 9, 1861. He settled at
Coalville, Summit county, where he
was ordained a High Priest; later he
moved to Upton and was there set
apart as first counselor to Bishop
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held for fifteen years. He was then
chosen first counselor to Bishop John
Clark and held that office about ten
years. In 1896 he moved back to
Coalville. In 1848 (Oct. 26th) he
married Matilda Dexter, by whom he
became the father of ten children,
namely, Brigham, Catharine, Hannah,
Lydia A., Victoria, Sarah E., John S.,
Chas. D., Wm. S., and Maud S. The
five children first named died in
infancy. Elder Saxton died Feb. 19,
1903 in Coalville, Summit co., Utah

SAXTON, Matilda Dexter, wife of
Solomon Saxton, was born Feb. 5,
1827, at Codyner Park, Derbyshire,
England, the daughter of John and
Lydia Dexter. She was baptized March
11, 1847, and came to Utah in 1861,
together with her husband. They lo-

cated in Coalville, Summit county,
where Sister Saxton died July 30,
1908, as a faithful Latter-day Saint.
She was president of the Coalville and
Upton Ward relief societies for sever-
al years. Sister Saxton was the
mother of ten children.

SEEGMILLER, William Adam, the
fourth Bishop of the Richfield Second
Ward, Sevier county, Utah, was born

Feb. 21, 1861, at St. Joseph, Lincoln
CO., Nevada, the son of William H.
Seegmiller and Mary Ellen Laidlaw.
He came with his parents to Rich-
field in the spring of 1873, where he
was raised, baptized and ordained to
the lesser Priesthood. He took an
active part in Sunday school and Y.

M. M. I. A. work in his early youth.
In 1891-95 he filled a mission to
Samoa and the Society Islands. To-
gether with Joseph W. Dameron, he
reopened the Society Islands Misssion,
which had been closed for forty years.
After his return home he was chosen
as Stake superintendent of Sunday
schools. In 1904 (Jan. 17th) he was
ordained a High Priest and set apart
as first counselor to Bishop Virginius
Bean of the Richfield Second Ward.
He was released from that position
to fill a second mission as president
of the Society Islands Mission in 1899.
On this mission he was accompanied
by his wife and four children. While
there he edited the "Heheurua Apr"
(New Revelation), a monthly periodi-
cal, published in native in the inter-
est of that mission, which had been
commenced by his predecessor. After
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missionary and as a Sunday school
teacher, filling these positions until
Dec. 19, 1913, when he was ordained
a Bishop by James E. Talmage and
appointed to preside over the Rich-
field Second Ward. He was post-
master in Richfield from 1896 to
1900. From 1900 to 1909 he was with
the J. M. Peterson & Co. Mercantile
House, being one of its directors and
secretary and manager during the
last three years of his stay with them.
At present he is associated with the
Richfield Commercial and Savings
Bank.

SH REEVE, Thomas Arthur, second
counselor to Bishop John Watson of
the Ogden Fifth Ward, Utah, was born
Feb. 15, 1851, at Norwich. Norfolk,
England. The Shreeve family are
descendents of two brothers who
fled from Germany for religion's sake
in the early days of the reformation
and settled in the town of Thetford,
on the borders of Norfolk and Suf-
folk, England. One day when Thomas
was about twelve years old and
was walking alone through one of
the pleasant lanes of England, medi-
tating on religious matters, he heard
a voice calling him, saying, "Thomas,
if you are a good boy, you shall
hear and see Prophets". He looked
around, but saw no one; yet the in-
cident never left his mind. Soon
afterwards the family became ac.
quainted with the "Mormon" Elders
and were converted to the true gos-
pel. Thomas was baptized in May,
1864 . was ordained a Teacher in
1866 and labored as such in the
Norwich branch until 1869, when he
emigrated to America. He settled
with friends in the Eleventh Ward,
Salt Lake City, where by tint of
hard saving he was enabled in three
years to emigrate his mother and
three sisters. The family then
settled more permanently in the
Tenth Ward, where Thomas attended
school and became a member of a

literary and debating society and
of a dramatic association. In 1875
he was ordained an Elder by William
Smith. Later he was ordained a
Seventy by Parley P. Pratt, jun. In
1878 he filled a mission to Australasia.
After laboring a short time in Aus-
tralia he went to New Zealand where
he organized four branches of the
Church and on Christmas day, Dec.
25, 1878, he organized at Papanui,
Canterbury, the first Relief Society
in the Southern Hemisphere with
sixteen members. Some of the inci-
dents of that mission were after-
wards published in the "Helpful
Visions", one of the Faith Promoting
Series. Returning home in July,
1880, he settled at Ogden, where he
took an active part in the Fourth
Ward Sabbath School. At the Stake
conference held in August, 1885, he
was called into the Central Board of
the Weber Stake Y. M. M. I. A.
He was also called to labor as a
home missionary. Bro. Shreeve has
also served as clerk of the 53rd
and the 77th quorum of Seventy.
When the Ogden Fifth Ward was
organized in May, 1897, he was ap-
pointed clerk of said Ward. Subse-
quently he was chosen as second
counselor to Bishop John Watson.
Bro. Shreeve's favorite study is the
Book of Mormon and his life has
been a most busy one.

SHEETS, Edwin S., Bishop of the
Thirty.third Ward, Liberty Stake,
Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Jan.
23, 1875, in Salt Lake City, the son
of Elijah Funk Sheets and Emma
Spencer. He was baptized Jan. 30,
1883, by John Cottam; ordained a
Deacon when a boy; ordained a Priest
Feb. 15, 1896, by John Gabbott; or-
dained an Elder June 8, 1896, by
Edward H, Callister and ordained a
Seventy July 1, 1896, by Seymour B.
Young. In 1896-98 he filled a mis-
sion to the Northern States, laboring
principally in Central and Southern

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Illinois; for three months he pre-
sided ever the Johnston county branch
and afterwards presided over the
Minnesota conference. From Janu-
ary, 1899, to June, 1901, he acted as
a home missionary in the Liberty
Stake of Zion. After his return from
his mission he taught in the public
schools of Salt Lake City for one
and a half years. After that he ac-
cepted the principalship of the Water-
loo school in Salt Lake county for
one year and next held the principal-

ship of the Burton School until 1907,
when he accepted a position in the
L. D. S. Business College. In the
fall of 1910 he accepted the position
of principal of the L. D. S. night
school and evening missionary class.
Bro. Sheets was ordained a High
Priest and Bishop Feb. 24, 1902, by
John Henhy Smith, and set apart to
preside over the Thirty-first Ward,
which had been organized the day
before. He .acted as Bishop of said
Ward until Aug. 9, 1908, when he
was released at his own request, in
order to attend the University of
Chicago to study law. Graduating suc-
cessfully, he returned to Salt Lake
City in July, 1910, and began to
practice law. He was admitted to

the bar in September, 1910, and
practised law until November, 1911,
when he accepted the principalship
of the L. D. S. Missionary Corre-
spondence School. In 1912 (March
12th) he became a member of the
General Board of Religion Classes
and was sustained as the secretary
of said board. May 13, 1913, he was
appointed treasurer of the L. D. S.
school teachers. Being called to
move to the Thirty-third Ward he
was appointed Bishop of said Ward
June 18, 1911, being set apart to that
position by Pres. Anthon H. Lund.
Ini the summer of 1911 he was ap-
pointed manager of the Salt Lake
Anti-Liquor League. In 1899 he mar-
ried Alice Taylor, who has borne
him two children, namely, Walter
Taylor Sheets (born Nov. 23^ 1902)
and Alice Taylor (born Oct. 19, 1907).

SIMONS, Orrawell, first counselor
to Bishop Fairbanks, of Payson, Utah,
was born April 21, 1821, at Alexander,
Grafton county, New Hampshire, the
son of Aaron Simons and Abigail
Buell. He joined the Church in
Ohio, married Martha Dixon in 1846,
at Kirtland Ohio, and resided in
the later place till April, 1854, when
he and family started for Utah,
After arriving in the Valley, they
settled in Spanish Fork, where they
spent the first winter in a fort which
was built to protect the settlers
against the Indians. In the spring
of 1855 they settled at Payscn, where
they have resided ever since. In
1876 Bro. Simons attended the Cen-
tennial Exposition at Philadelphia
and visited relatives and friends in
the East before returning home. Bro.
Simons was a very active man, both
ecclesiastically and otherwise. For
many years he acted as a Ward
teacher and took an active part in the
erection of public buildings; he was
also a successful fruitraiser and farm-
er. His fellow-citizens entrusted him
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he served eight years as mayor of
Payson. Besides Martha Dixon, he
married two other wives, namely,
Jane Tenny and Catherine Bawlden,
by whom he became the father of
twenty children. He served as first
counselor to Bishop Fairbanks, of
Payson, from 1862 to 1869. In the
early fifties he filled a mission to
the Eastern Stakes. Bro. Simons
died at Payson Oct. 13, 1900.

SIMONS, Martha Dixon, wife of
Orrawell Simons was born June 27,
1825, at Sackville, New Brunswick,
the daughter of Chas. Dixon and
Elizabeth Humphrey. She was bap-
tized in 1837 by John P. Greene, at
Kirtland, Ohio, and married Orrawell
Simons in 1846, by whom she became
the mother of nine children, namely,
Ada, Ida, Elizabeth A., Edward, Orra-
well, Martha, Albert Lee, Emos
Wells and Major G. She came to
Utah in 1854 and settled with her
husband at Payson, where she has
ever been a zealous worker in the
Church and was for a number of
years president of the Relief Soci-
ety • she acted as a teacher in the
Sunday school for twenty-five years.
She Is now eighty-eight years of age
and is still well in mind and body.
Sister Simons has been a most dili-
gent Temple worker.

SMITH, Mary Fielding, wife of
Patriarch Hyrum Smith, was born
July 21, 1801, in Honeydon, Bedford-
shire, Englaind, the daughter of John
Fielding and Rachel Ibbotson. She
joined the Methodist Society when
very young and continued a faithful
and zealous member of that organi-
zation till May, 1836, when by the
instrumentality of Elder Parley P.
Pratt she baceme acquainted with
the principles of the everlasting gos-
pe,l and was baptized in connection
with her brother Joseph and her
siter Mercy Rachel by Parley P.
Pratt near Toronto, Upper Canada,

to which place she had immigrated
in the year 1834. In 1837 she moved
to Kirtland, Geauga county, Ohio,
where she shortly afterwards married
Hyrum Smith, entering upon the im-
portant duties of stepmother to five
children, which task she performed
with unwavering fidelity under the
most afflictive and trying circum-
stances. On the 1st of November,
1838, while she was in a delicate
state of health, her husband was be-
trayed by Col. Gee. M. Hinkle into the
hands of the mob at Far West, and
on the day following she was in-
formed that she had seen her hus-
band "for the last time". From this
time she was confined to her bed of
affliction for four months. November
13, 1838, she gave birth to her son
Joseph F. (now the President of the
Church). In January, 1839, she was
taken in a wagon on her sick bed
to see her husband, then confined by
the mob as a prisoner in Liberty
Jail, Clay county, Missouri. In
February, fcllowing, still confined to
her bed, she was driven from Far
West out of the State of Missouri,
together with the rest of the saints.
After much suffering, she arrived in
Quincy, Illinois, where she remained
until the arrival of her husband, April
22, 1839. In May, following, she
moved with her husband to Commerce
(afterwards Nauvoo). May 14, 1841,
her daughter Martha Ann was born.
Ini 1843 she set on foot the "Sisters'
Penny Subscription" for the purpose
of buying nails and (glass for the Nau-
voo Temple. By the massacre at
Carthage, Illinois, June 27, 1844, she
was left a widow and the sole guard-
ian of a large family and dependents,
for whom^ by her indefatigable exer-
tions, she provided the means of
support and removal from Nauvoo in
the fall (September) of 1846 to
Winter Quarters, and from there to
Great Salt Lake Valley in 1848. In
the spring of 1850 she took up land
and made a farm about six or seven

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miles south of the Temple Block,
Salt Lake City, afterwards Sugar
House Ward, and on what later be-
came the county road, and in the
course of two years she made a
comfortable home and acquired con-
siderable property. While on a visit
to the City in 1852, she was suddenly
taken ill and called at Pres. Heber
C. Kimball's home, expecting soon
to be better, but where she continued
to fail until September 21, 1852,
when she died. Her last wish was
that she might live for the sake of
her children. Sister Smith was a
devout saint and truly a mother in
Israel. She possessed great faith and
all those peculiar qualifications which
support and invigorate • the mind in
adversity. She endured afflictions
and overcame difficulties with a de-
gree of patience and perseverance
worthy of imitation. She was buried
in che cemetery, east of Salt Lake
City, September 23, 1852.

SMOOT, William Cockhorn Adkin-
son one of the original Utah pio-
neers of 1847, was borii' Jan. 30, 1828,

in the State of Tennessee, and be-
came the adopted son of Abraham
O. Smoot and Margaret Thompson.

He was baptized Feb. 8, 1836, by Henry
G. Sherwood and went to Far West,
Mo., with his parents in 1836. Sub-
sequently he passed through all the
mobbings and drivings to which the
saints in that State were subjected.
After locating with his parents in
Nauvoo, 111., he cut stone for the
Nauvoo Temple, and while at Nau-
voo, though young, he received his
blessing in the Nauvoo Temple and
was ordained a Seventy. Some ob-
jection being raised to his ordination,
Pres. Heber C. Kimball remarked:
"Young man, you shall live until all
your enemies are dead". This saying
has been literally fulfilled. During
the exodus of the Saints frcm Nau-
voo in 1846 he came west, driving
his father's team and stood guard.
When the pioneer corps was organi-
zed in 1847, William was chosen as
one of that noble band. He arrived
in the Valley July 24, 1847, at 11 a.
m., being the last person of the Pio-
neer company to reach the camp in
the "Valley. After spending the win-
ter of 1847-48 in the North Fort, he
moved to Canyon creek in 1848 and
commenced farming. In 1850 he

located temporarily at South Cotton-
wood, but went on the range with
stock two and a half years later. In
1854 he settled permanently in the
Sugar House Ward. In 1855 he filled
a mission to the Indians at Los Ve-
gas, laboring there about a year. He
also made several trips to the Mis-
souri river after the poor, and al-
ways had charge of his father's af-
fairs i?. the Sugar House Ward, when
his father was away from home. In
the spring of 1856 he was set apart
as second counselor to Bishop Abra-
ham O. Smoot in the Sugar House
Ward, and when Ira Eldredge became
Bishop of the Ward, Bro. Smoot was
chosen as his first counselor. After
the death of Ira Eldredge, Feb. 6,
1866, Bro. Smoot took charge of the
Ward until 1877. In the meantime
he filled a mission to the Southern

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States, laboring there nearly two
years. Bro. Smoot has been mar-
ried twice. His first wife was Martha
Ann Sessions (daughter of Perrigrine
Sessions) whom he married Jan. 29,
1852; she bore him fourteen children.
After the death of his first wife, he
married Mathilda Garn in 1876; she
is the mother of three children. Bro.
Smoot is still a resident of the Sugar
House Ward.

S0iRIENSEN, Morten, a veterau
Elder of the Monroe Ward, Sevier co.,
Utah, was born O'ct. 13, 1831, at Thors-
lunde, Hclbsek amt, Denmark, the son
of S0ren Morfcensen and Mette Marie
Rasmaissen. Becoming a convert to
"Mormonisnu" he was baptized Dec.
13, 1856, by Niels S0renseQ. He emi-
grated to Utah in 1857, crossing thu
Atlantic in the ship 'Westmoreland,"

which sailed from Liverpool, Elcigland,
April 25, 1857, and arrived at Phil-
adelphia May 31, 1857, crossed the
plains in Christian Christiansen's
handoart comipany which arrived in
Salt Lake City, Stept. 13, 1857. The
family located temporarily at Mianti,
andi in 1858 Bro. S0rensen married
Ella J. Wickland, (a widow) who bore
him four childreim. In 1859 he settled

with his wife at Moroni. In 1862 (July
19th) he married Christina Wickland
who bore him twelve children. That
year (1862) also he mcved to Wash-
ington, Washington co., Utah, being
called by Orson Hyde to help settle
southern! Utah. He lived there until
July, 1872, when he settled' permanent-
ly at Monroe, Sevier co., where he
lived until the time of his death,
which occurred Oct. 21, 1889. He died
as a faithful Elder in the Church.
During most of his life he followed
farming for a living.

S0RENSEN, Christina Wickl'and,

wife icf Morten S0rens'en, was born
Feb. 5, 1848, ia northern Helsingland,
Sweden, daughter of Olcf Jacobson
Wickland and Ella Johnson. S;he ac-
companied her parents from Sweden
to Copenhagen, Denmark, early in

1850, was blessed in Corecthagen Jan.
18, 1851, by Elder C. Christiansen,
left Copenhagen April 24, 1856, for
Utaih, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Thornton," which sailed from
Liverpool, Bnglar.id, May 4, 1856, and
arrived in New York, June 14, 1856.
From Iowa City, Sister Christina
crossed the plains in Capt James G.
Willie's hand cart company. Wlhile

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on the plains her mother gave birth
to a son Oct. 13, 1856, whom they
named Jacob. The family arrived
safely in Salt Lake City. Nov. 9, 1856,
and located in Mianti, Sanpete co., the
same fall, where Sister Christina was
baptized. She was married to Morten
Sorensen July 19, 1869. That year
she and her husband moved to Wasih-
ington, Washington cc, Utah, where
she acted as teacher in the Relief
Society. After removing to Monroe,
Sevier co., Utah, she was chosen (Nov.
30, 1873) as second coniDselor to the
president of the Ward Relief Society
and held that position twenty-five
years, a^nd later (Nov. 26th, 1898) she
became president of the Relief Societ-
ies in the Sevier Stake and held that
position till June, 1913. Her husbaittd
died Oct. 21, 1889 Sister Chrisiiu..
is the mother of twelve children.

S0RENSEN, Peter Christian, an
active Elder of the Ephraim North
Ward, Sanpete co., Utah, was born
May 29, 1847, at 0rum, Thist^d aait,
Denmark, the son of S0ren TLerkel-
sen and Ane S0rensen. He was taij-
tized Feb. 25, 1883, by Jens C. Frost
and emigrated to America in 1883,
crossing tihe Atlaintic in the steam-
ship "Nevada," which sailed from
Liverpool, England, Sept. 29, 1883,
together with his wife Ane K. Chris-
tiansen (whom he married in 1873)
andi five chldren. He located in Eph-
raim, Sanpete co., where he has re-
sided ever since. He was ordained an
Eld«r in October, 1885, by L. M. Ol-
son; ordained a Seventy March 23,
1890, by S0ren Petersen, has labored as
a Ward teacher since 1889, and filled a
mission to Scacdinavia in 1901-03, lab-
oring in the Aalborg conference. After
his return ihome he was chosen second
counselor to S0ren Peterson in the
presidency of the Scandinavian meet-
ings in Ephraim, in March, 1913, and
was ordained a High Priest Dec. 18,
1904, by Gusitave A. Iversen. His wife
died Feb. 24, 1905, at Ephraim. She

was the mother of nine children, of
whom seven are now (1914) alive, all
married. When called on his mission
to Scandinavia Bro. S0rensen' sold all
he had and spent the prcceedis of the
same on his mission; when he re-
turned he was poor, but he says that
the Lord has made it up to him a
huindred fold. Brc. S0reinsen has
served as sexton at Ephraim several
years.

STANDING, James, senior president
of the 28th quorum of Seventy, was
born Nov. 11, 1815, in Lancashire,
England, the son of John Standing and
Nancy Varley. He emigrated with
his parents to America in 1816, and
settled near Buffalo, New York, where
the family resided about seven years,
and tihen moved to Canada, locating
near Toronto, at a place called Boston
Mills. James was baptized into the
Church in 1837, and migrated the
same year with a company of saints
tC' Far West, Missouri, where he
passed through all the persecutioms
that befell the saints in that part of
the country. He became also an early
settler of Nauvoo, Hancock ocunty,
Illinois, and belonged to the famous
Nauvoo Brass Band. He was one of
the iparty kidnapped by the mob near
Pontcosuc, Hancock couo'ty, Illinois, in
the summer of 1846, and suffered much
in the ihands of the lawless gaaig.
Among his fellow-sufferers on that
occasion were Phineas H. Young and
Richard Ballantyne. Brc. Standing
also worked on the Nauvoo Temple,
After the exodus from Nauvoo in 1846,
he went tc^ St. Louis, Mlo., where he
married Mary Standing, his second
cooisin, in 1847. Soon after ihis marriage
he went to Nashville, Tenn., as a stonie
cutter and assisted in building the
State House at that place. In this
manner he earned means to buy an out-
fit for going West. He crossed the
plains in Reddick N. Allred's Fifty of
Allen Taylor's Hundred. After 'hds
arrival in G. S. L. Valley in October,

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1849, Pres. Brigham Youmg assigned
him a lot in the 12th Ward, Salt Lake
City, and gave him a special mission to
work on the Temple. to 1876 he
moved to Box Elder county, but re-
turned afterwards to resume his work
an the Temple. He also worked awhile
on the Logan Temple. In 1879 his
son Joseph was killed by a mob in
Gecrgia, while laboring there as a
missionary. Bro. Standing was
throughout his entire life a very faith-
ful and true Church member and a con-
scientious tithe payer. He died Jan.
16, 1886, at Collinston, Box Elder
county, Utah, and was survived by his
wife and seven children, four others
havings died during his lifetime.

STANDING James Varley, an active
Elder in the Tenth Ward, Salt Lake
City, Utah, was born Sept. 16, 1848,
at _ Nashville, Terunessee, the son of
James Sitanding and Mary Sitanding.
He was baptized in 1856; ordained an

Elder by Olaf F. Due and married
Eliza Baddley Dec. 28, 1874; ordained
a Seventy in March, 1885, by Wm. E.
Hyde, and ordained a High Priest
March 25, 1899, by Wm. C. Dunbar.
He resided in Collinston, Box Elder

county, from 1875 to 1888, and the rest
of the time, since his arrival in Utah
in 1849, in Salt Lake City. As a pio-
neer he has helped to dievelop the
great West, and participated in the
erection of five meeting houses. He
served in the Black Hawk Indian war
in 1867 in Orson P. Miles' Company.
While residing at CollinBton, he acted
as Sunday sehocl superintendent for
thirteen years and as a counselor in
the mutual improvement association
for the same length of time. He also
acted as choir leader. Bro. Standing
is a musician, and has played the flute
since he was twenty years old. Dur-
ing the Tiast fourteen years he has
labored continuously in the Temple
for the dead. He is the father of ten
children.

STAPLES, Joseph Levi, the third
Bishop of Elsinore, Sevier co., Utah,
was bcrn June 22, 1864, at Kanab, Kane
CO., Utah, the sen of Geo. Staples and
Lauraette Rappleye. He was baptized

in 1875 by William Pcrter, moved with
his parents to different places and
finally settled at Elsinore in 1885, where
he acted as a cou:nselor in the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A. He also served four
years as a president of the town coun-

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cil and eight years as a member ol
the town board. Ini 1910 (June 19th)
he was ordained a High Priest by
Heber J. Grant and set apart to act
as second coimselor to Bishop Jens
I. Jensen. He served in that capac-
ity uiDtil May 21, 1911, when he was
ordained a Bishop by Anthon H. Lund
and set apart to preside over the Elsi-
nore "Ward. Bro. Staples married
Matilda Bolette Anderson March 16,
1904, by whcm he is the father of
several children. At present he serves
as county ccmmissioner; otherwise he
is a farmer and stockraiser by avoca-
tion.

STAKER, Joseph Smith, the first
Bishop of An,nabella, Sevier co., Utah,
was born Oct. 7, 1850, at Pigeon Grove,
Pottawattamie co., Iowa, the son of
Nathan Staker and Jane Richmond.
He came to Utah with his parents in

1852 and located with them at Pleas-
ant Grove, Utaib co., where Jcseph
was baptized in 1859, and afterwards
moved to Mt. Pleasant. In 1873 he
settled at Prattville on the Sevier
river, between Richfield, and Glen-
W'Cod, and thus became a pioneer to
Sevier co., Utah. Here he acted as
a cou'n-Helor to Bishop H. C. Jacobs,

but in 1885 he was called to Anna-
bella to preside as Bishop. He filled
that position from 1885 to 1893 when
he was honicrably released. He mai-
ried Sarah Brown, of Pleasant Grove
(daughter of Bishop John Brown, by
whom he raised a large family of chil-
dren. He filled a mission to the North-
western States in 1900; he was taken
suddenly ill at his home at Annabella,
Feb. 29, 1912, and taken' to the L. D.
S. Hcspital in Salt Lake City, w^here
he, on March 1, 1912, was operated on
for perforated gastric ulcer, and died
at said hospital Sunday morning
March 3, 1912. Bishop Staker died,
as he had lived, a faithful Latter-day
Saint. He reared a large family, all
of whom at the time of his demise
were earnest workers ini the Church.
His widC'W, nine daughters and one
son survived him. ,

STEVENS, Walter, presiding Elder
in Hl3lden Milliard co., Utah, from I86i
to 1871, was born Jan. 17, 1830, in
Upper Canada, the son of Wm. Stevens
and Marinda Thomas. He emigrated
from Canada in 1838 with the inten-
tion of going to Missouri, but hearing
of the troubles icf the saints in that
State, he wintered in Illinois ,and
joined the saints in their gathering
place in Commerce (Nauvoo) Hancock
CO., Illinois. Here he became ac
quainted withi the Prophet Jcseph
Smith. During the exodus of the
saints in 1846 he came West and re-
mained, together with sevemty-five oth-
er families, at Council Point (about
five miles below Council Bluffs) where
there was a large branch of the
Church with James Allred as Bishop.
While residing there he was baptized
in 1847, and came to Utah in 1850.
Almost immediately after his arrival
in; the Valley he settled on Battle
Creek (now Pleasant Grove), Utah co.,
Utah, where he built one of the first
cabins. He miarried in 1854 and in
1858 settled at Holden, Millard co.,
his father being a settler of that 'Place

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already. After Thomas Callister came
to Millard county, Walter Stevens was
appointed president of the Holden
branch. He occupied that position
from 1861 until 1871, wihen he was
called en a mission to the Uniteu
States. In 1880 he removed tio New
Mexico, where he became the first per-
manent settler at a place now known
as Burnham. For a number of years
he was a member of the Sian Juan
Stake High Council. In April, 1854,
he married Abigail E. Holman and iu
1868 he married M. E. Mace. Biy these
wives he begot seven sons and tera
daughters. He was ordained a Seventy
in 1858 by Albert P. Rockwood and
crdained a High Priest in Januarj'.
1889, by Jichn Henry Smith. Bro.
Sitevens is a farmer and stockraiser
by avocation.

STEVENSEN, Willard Erastus, sec-
ond counselor to Bishop Hartley
Greenwood, of the Inverury Ward,
Sevier co., Utah, was born Aug. 22,

1885, at South Ccttonwcod, Salt Lake
CO., Utah, the son of Thomas Steffen-
sen, and Josephine Miyers. He was
baptized Aug. 13, 1893, by Niels C.
S0renseni at Inverury, and was or-
dained successively to the offices of

Deacon, Elder, Seventy and High
Priest. His Eldership he received
under the liands of Wm. H. Seegmiller
April 20, 1907, and when he was oi-
dained a High Priest March 12, 1910,
by Jicseph S. Home, he was also set
apart as second counselor to Bishop
Greenwood. In 1907-9 he filled a mis-
sion to Scandinavia, laboring in th«.
Trondhjem conference, Norway. In
1911 (Dec. 20th) he married Rachel
GTeemwocd Ence (daughter of Bern-
ard H. Greenwood and Eunice Howd)
who was born June 6, 1875.

STEVENSON, Elizabeth Jane Du
Fresne, a charter member of the Gen-
eral Board of Relief Societies, and the

wife of Edward Stevenson (a pioneer
of 1847) was born Feb.8, 1838, in the
parish of St. Helliers, Jersey Island,
England, the daughter of Phillip Du
Fresne and Mary iRieman. S'he was bap-
tized in 1850 by vte late Pres. John
Taylor,. The hospitable home of hei
parents (the Du Fresne home) was
ever open to the "Mormon" missionar-
ies as an abiding place on the Island
of Jersey until 1854 when the family
emigrated to Utah, crossing the ocean
in the ship "Marshfield" which sailed
from Liverpool, England, April 8, 1854,

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and arrived at New Orleans Mlay 29,
1854. Durinig the trip across the plains
thiey experienced the hardships and
privations incident to the pilgrimage
of these days. The journey was made
particularly sad and memorable from
the fact that Sister Elizabeth wit-
nessed the laying to rest on the plains
of t"wo of her sisters who died from
cholera contracted en route. On Oct.
28, 1855, she became the wife of Ed-
ward Stevenson. In the days that
followed during territorial develop-
ment Bro. and Sister Stevenson per-
formed their part industrioaisly and
religioiusly, always being found in the
fore icf every gcod enterprise of large
momemt. They experienced the discom-
forts of the move soutb and the re-
turn to Salt Lake City, ini 1858. Hos-
pitality was second nature to Sister
Stevenson; her house was always open
to the saints upon their arrival in
Ziicn am'd to all who needed a place
of shelter and rest. She was a char-
ter member of the Relief Society of
the 14th Ward, Salt Lake City, where
she lived from the time of her mar-
riage until two years before her death.
Here she acted as a Rtelief Society
teaciher for about fifteen years. She
was also a diligent worker in the Salt
Lake Temple from the time of its
opening until she passed to the great
beyond. She was a charter member
of the General Board of Relief So-
cieties, and in that capacity she trav-
eled much among the women of the
Churoh who will remember her for the
words of comfort and encouragement
she gave to them. Sibe was faithful
and true to the end of life's journey
and was literally in the harness when
the summons hence was announced.
Her demise took place April 25, 1906,
at Emery, Emery co., where she had
gone at attend a 'Relief Society confer-
ence of the Emery Stake. Her daugh-
ter, Elizabeth J. (with her husband)
Dr. Charles F. Wilcox and Sister Mat-
tie Harker (her missionary compan-
ion) were with her during her last

moments. Her remains wei'e brought
to Salt Lake City for interment. Sister
Stevensicn was the mother of eight
children, two of whom (ETlizabeth Jane
and Ezra Thomson) survive her.

STEWART, Benjamin Franklin, one
of the original Utah pioneers of
1847, was born Oct. 22, 1817, on the
banks of the Ohio river in Jackson
township, Monroe county, Ohio, the
ninth child and third son of Philan-
der Barrett Stewart and Sarah Scott.
His parents were both of sturdy old

Massachusetts stock. Wlien Frank-
lin was only six years old his father
was drowned, while trying to rescue
others. In the spring of 1828, under
the direction of their intripid mother,
the family emigrated to Morgan coun-
ty, 111., floating about one thousand
miles down the Ohio in a flat boat
and crossing the State of Illinois by
team. In Illinois the family sojourned
for same time. Franklin was not
able to attend school very much,
but throoigh his self efforts and
industry he obtained, nevertheless,
a good education. In 1837 he married
Polly Richardson, of Kentucky origin,
this uniom was blessed with eleven
children, six of whom reached maturi-
ty. The bridal pair emigrated to

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Van Buren county, Iowa, where the
f nines of thie igcspel found them,
and they were bapti;:e(I Feb. 2, 1841.
Franklin was ordained an Elder on
the day of his baptism, and he and
his family joined the exiled saints at
Keg Creek, Iowa, where he was or-
dained a Seventy by Joseph Young
April 6, 1847. Soon after this he
started west with the pioneers under
Pres. Brigham Young, to find a
place of refuge for the exiled saints.
He was one of the seven men left
at the Upper Platte Ferry, in the
midst of danger and Indians, for the
purpose of ferrying the saints, who
followed the Pioneers that season,
across the river. Here he was over-
taken by his heroic wife who came
west with the emigrant company led
by Abraham O. Smoot. She drove
a yoke of oxen the entire distance
and cared for her three children.
The whole family arrived in Salt
Lake City Sept. 27, 1847. In 1851
(Sept. 6th) Bro. Stewart married
Elizabeth Davis as a plural wife; ten
children came from this union, seven
of whom reached maturity. Franklin
was one of the original settlers of
Payson, Utah co., and also one of
ihe founders of Benjamin, which
place was named in his honor. He
was recognized as a leading spirit in
the community, religiously, politically
and otherwise. For years he served
as n "ounio'ci to Bishop .Tohn. B. Fair-
banks of Payson, and later as presid-
ing Elder at Benjamin. He also
served two terms as mayor of Pay-
son; his active and useful life was
brought to an untimely close through
his being struck by lightning at Ben-
jamin June 22, 1885.

STOCKING, Ensign Israel, presid-
ing Elder at Herriman, Salt Lake Co.,
Utah, from 18G6 to 1876, was born
Sept. 6, 1836, in WIestfield, Hampden
CO., Masachiusetts, the son of John J.
Stocking and Catherine Angeline En-
sign. He emigrated to Utah in 1851

and resided successively in Salt Lake
City, Herriman and South Jicrdaitt. In
1863-1866 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, and from 1877 to 1883, he
acted as first counselor to Bishop Wm.
A. Bills icf the South Jordan Ward.
Bro. Stocking was known as a good
speaker, a successful missionary and

a good 'Presiding officer. He died as
a faithful Latter-day Saint at Herri-
man July 11, 1883; his remains were
interred at South Jordan. He left
ten childTen, six boys and four girls.

SULLIVAN, James Henry, first
counselor to Bishop George Graham,
of the Twenty-fifth Ward, Salt Lake
City^ Utah, was born July 20, 1880,
near Fremont, Wayne county. North
Carolina, the son of Ruffin Sullivan
and Mary Mozingo. He was baptized
March 20, 1898, by Lewis Swenson;
ordained a Priest Dec. 2, 1898, by
David H. Elton, ordained an Elder
?\o\-. r,, i>f9 hy Geo. A. Lyman;
ordained a Seventy Feb. 2, 1908, by
Seymour B. Young, and ordained a
High Priest Nov. 24, 1912, by Francis
M. Lyman. Bro. Sullivan has always
been an active Church worker. Thus
he has labored as a Sunday school
teacher, secretary of an Elders' quo-

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rum. president of a Y. M. M. I. A.,
superintendent of religion classes,
treasurer and librarian of the Pioneer
Stake Sunday School Board, a presi-
dent of the llO'tih quorum of Seventy,
and Bishop's counselor. In 1899 and
1900 before migrating to Utah he
labored as a local missionary in
North Carolina. He migrated to Utah
in 1900 and lived in Joseph, Sevier
CO., six months, after v/hich he moved
to Salt Lake City, identifying himself

with the Sixth Ward. When that
Ward was divided and the Twenty-
fifth Ward was organized he became
a member of the new Ward and has
resided there most of the time since.
In 1910-1912 he filled a mission to
the Southern States, laboring six
months as a traveling Elder in Vir-
ginia, and the balance of the time as
bookkeeper and secretary of the
Southern States Mission. Brother
Sullivan was reared on a farm, but
his main avocation in life has been
that of a painter and book-keeper. In
1903 he married Edna Jensen, and
the names of their children are James
Eugene, Carl Adelbert, Mary Lucile,
and Helen Roselle.

SWENSON, Canute, the first Bishop
of the Manila Ward Utah county.

Utah, was born April 11, 1827, in
Veiby, Hj0rring amt, Denmark. His
ancestors were of that sturdy Scan-
dinavian type of which he himself
was a good example. In his youth
he endured the hard and strenous
life characteristic of the Northern
country. At twenty-one he left his
father's roof and entered the service
of his country for two and a half
years, fighting for his fatherland
against the insolent aggression of

Germany. Becoming a convert to
"Mormonism" he was baptized April
28, 1856. Two years later he left
Denmark for America, arriving in
Salt Lake City, July 10, 1858,. He
soon settled permanently in Pleasant
Grove, Utah co., where he in 1877 be-
came the second counselor to Bishop
John Brown. This position he filled
with singular fidelity until 1890, when
the Pleasant Grove Ward was divided
into three Wards, and he was then
made Bishop of the Third Ward (after-
wards called Manila). Bishop Swen-
son died March 14 1902. His life
was simple and free from any osten-
tation. Those who knew him inti-
mately recognized him as a man of
rare homesty and excellent character.
Careless of external forms and social
conventions, he was remarkably sen-

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sitive to the fine spiritual qualities
which lie at the base of life. He
was a loyal and staunch Latter-day
Saint till the last.

TANNERl, George W., Bishop of the
Payson Second "Ward, Utah county,
Utah, was born Jan. 7, 1885, at Pay-
son, the son of Josepihi Smith Tanner
and Janette Hamilton. He was bap-
tized in 1893; ordaiced a Deacon,

Priest, Elder, High Priest and Bishop
successively; filled a mission to New
Zealand in 1905-1909, and presided
over a conference part cf the time.
Ftr many years at home he was an
acting Ward teacher. His avocation
in life is that of a merchant.

TAYLOR, John, a veteran Elder in
the Ohurch, was born April 9, 1823,
at Coleshill, Warwickshire, England,
the son of Charles Taylor and Eliza-
beth Ridden. His micther died when
he was a mere child, and his father
married again and t±ie son remained
at home until he was twenty-two years
old. He then started to work for him-
self. In 1854 he emigrated to America,
crossing the Atlantic en the ship
"Marshfield," and the plains in Wm.
Etnpey's ox train. He settled at Too-
ele City, where he assisted to build the

fort wall around that ^town as a means
of protection against the Indians. He
took an active party in herding stock
and protecting the same against In-
dian depredations. PYom 1860 fc3 1862
he lived in Wellsville, Coache co.,Utah;

"^i^-

^|>^f

cxherwise he has been a permianent
settler of Tooele. Bro. Taylor helped
six persons to emigrate from England
to America. While crossing the At-
lantic in 1854 he married Harriet Lid-
die and in 1859 he married Eliza
Mathews; the lat*er wife had seven
children.

TAYLOR, Thomas Edward, first
counselor to Bishoo' Geo. H. Taylor .of
the 14th Ward, Salt Lake City, was
born Nov. 7, 1849, in Salt Lake City,
the son of the late Pres. Johin Taylor
and Elizabeth Kaighan. He was bap-
tized by his father in 1857, when
about eight years old. His mother
being a professional school teacher,
Thomas received a splendid edoication.
He worked on his father's farm and
also learned the trade of a carpen-
ter. In 1867 he engaged in the lum-
ber business, together with Geo. H.
Taylor, Geo. Armstrong and others,
and in 1868-69 he worked on the Union
Pacific Railroad. In 1870 he began

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working foi' the "Deseret News" as a
clerk and' remained with that institu-
tion till 1885. He advanced from one
position to another until he became
general business manager of that in-
stitution. In 1885 be commenced busi-
ness for himself as a wholesale mer-
chant, handling principally fruits and
grains. Early in life Bro. Taylor was
ordained an Elder; later he was or-
dained a Seventy and became a mem-
ber of the 3rd quorum of Seventy. For
several years he acted' as a president
of said quorum. On Oct. 11, 1886,
he "was ordained a High Priest by

Joseph E. Taylor and set apart as
first counselor to Bishop Geo. H. Tay-
lor, of the 14th Ward, which position
'he held till the death of Bishop G€0.
H. Taylor in 1907. After tlhat be
was chosen as an alternate member
of the High Coumcil of the Salt Lake
Stake of Zicn. In 1893-95 he filled a
mission to Great Britain, laboring most
of the time as clerk in the Liverpool
office. In 1872 (Oct. 28th) Bro. Tay-
lor married Emma Louisa Harris. In
1882 (March 17th) he married Mary
Ann Taylor, and in 1889 (July 19th)
he marrieid Minnie Oliristensen. By
these three wives he is the father of
twenty-one ohildren, thirteeoi' of whom

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are now living. Bro. Taylor has also
filled a number of civic offices and
throughout taken an active part in
financial matters. He served two terms
as a member of the Salt Lake City
council.

THOMAS, Edward, a prominent EJder
in the Bcuntiful East Ward, Davis
county, Utah, was born Jan. 26, 1842,
near Cardiff, Wales, the son of Elben-
e/.er Thomas and Elvira Join-es. At
the age of eig)ht years he became a
member of the Church and emigrated
to ntah in 1856, crossing the Atlantic

in the ship "Siamuel Curling" and the
plains in Edward Biinikers^ ihandcart
oompany. He lived with Capt. Dan
Jones in the 14th Ward, Salt Lake
City, for about two years and went
south in 1858, at the time of "the
move," but returned to the north the
same year and settled at Bbuntiful.
He was ordained an Elder March 3,
1866, and on the same day married
Sarah Frances Crosby, by whom he
had eight children, namely, Edward,
Francis, John K., Elvira J., Hannah
C. and Mary J., two having died in
infancy. In 1859 he received a special
calling to haul rock for the Temple

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ill Salt Lake City, where he labored
all winter. In 1862 he went to the
Missouri river after emigrants; he
met Amasa M. Lyman's company and
helped them into the Valley. He be-
came a member of the TOth quorum
of Seventy at the time of its organiza-
tion July 1, 1865, being ordained a
Seventy on that day by Samuel Bry-
son. In 1872 (July 1st) he married
Emily Adelaide Rounds; later (Dec.
23, 1880) he married Sarah Hulda
Stoddard, by wh'cm ihe became the
father of six children, namely, Ma-
tilda, Anna U., Orvall L., Melvin E.,
Emily V. Oind R'ulon W. In 1885-86 he
filled a mission to Great Britain, labor-
ing in the Birmingham conference.
For forty years he has been a member
of the Bountiful choir and been the
leader of the same for thirty-five
years. In other respects Bro. Tbomas
has alway.s been a faithful worker in
the Church, both at home aind abroad.

THOMAS, Elbert Duncan, the fourth
president cf the Japanese Mission,
was born June 17, 1883, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, the son of Richard K.
Thomas and Caroline Stockdale. He
was educated in the public schools,
the Latter-day Saints' College and the
University of Utah; from the latter
institution he graduated in 1906 with
the degree cf D. A. Duriing his col-
lege days he was a leader in school
politics, being elected president of
the University Student Body twice.
Ke also organized the Associated Stu-
dents of the University of Utah and
wrote the constitution for that organ-
ization. In 1906-1907 he was manager
of the R. K. Thomas Dry Goods Com-
pany. In the spring of 1907 he re-
ceived a commission in the First In-
fantry, National Guard of Utah, frioan
Gov. John C. Cutler, and at the en-
campment of 1907, the company to
which Bro. Thomas was attached won
the cup for the best drilled company
in the National Guard. In 1907 (Juine
2.5th) he married Edna Harker, who

in September, 1907, accompanied ihim
on a n^issiion to Japan, where Elder
Thomas labored for five years, two
years as secretary and three tyears as
president of the mission. Upon being
released in October, 1912, Bro. and
Sister Thomas and their little daugh-
ter C'hiyo (born Dec. 25, 1910, at Tok-
yo, Japam) traveled for six months
through Korea, China, Southern Asia,
Northern Africa and Europe, studying
conditions in these countries, and ©s-
pecially missionary methods wherever
opportunity presented. They visited
eight L. D. S. missions, and maniy
other Ohristiian and nion-Ohristian cen-
ters. On their return home they had
circumimavigated the Globe. Sister

Tihomas is the first Latter-day Saint
woman missionary who traveled
around the world. After his return
to Salt Lake City Elder Thomas was
appointed instructor of ancient lang-
uages im the University of Utah. Dur-
iutg 1913-1914, he was president of
the University of Utah Alumni Asso-
ciation and during the summer gave a
course in Oriental life in the Uniiverb-
ity summer school. Elder Thomas
•was ordained a Seventy Sept. 3, 1907,
by Geo. Albert Smith and became a
member of the 3rd quicrum of Seventy.

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In 1904-06 he acted as president of
the 7th W^rd Y. M. M. I. A. In 1906-
1907 he served as a member of the
Salt Lake Stake Y. M. M. I. A. Board
and in 1913-14 was president of the
17th Ward Y. M. M.. I. A.

THOMAS, Robert T., one of the
originial Utah pioneers of 1847, was
born Jan. 8, 1822, ini Richmond, North
Carolina, the son 'of Henry and Els-
ther Thomas. He was baptized into
the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter-day Saints Feb. 12, 1844, by Ben-
jamin L. Clapp. The same year he
moved with ih;is father's family tjo

Nauvoo, Illinois. In April, 1844, he
was ordained a Seventy and filled a
mission to the States of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama,
returning to Nauvoo the following
year. He was a participant in many
of the persecutions endured by the
saints during their sojourn in Illinois.
He moved with the saints to Council
Bluffs, and in the spring of 1847
started with the first company of pio-
neers from the Misscuri river west-
ward toward the Rocky Micuntains,
helping to make the roads and bridges,
and opening up the way for the gath-
ering of Israel. When Pres. Birigham

Young and others were taken sick
at the iheiad of Echo camyon, Bro.
Thomas was one of those who were
told to go ahead in Orson Pratt's ad-
vance company, and consequently ihe
arrived in the Valley ahead of Pres.
Young. The same fall he went as
far as the Soutih Pass and then re-
turned) to the Valley. He passed
througih the cricket experiences of 184a
and in 1849 he was sent to Prove,
Utah CO., Utali, where he took an act-
ive part in quelling the Indian troubles
during the winter of 1849-50. In April,
1850, he married MJary Ann Turner.
In 1853 he was called to go to Iron
county, but returned to the north
again in 1855. In 1857 (Mlay 10th) he
wiais set apart as senior president of
the 45th quorum (Of Sieventy, which
position he occupied the remainder
of his life. Later, the same year,
when the people of Utah were threat-
ened with an invading army, he went
to Echo canyon in charge of the com-
painy known as the 'Tjost Camp." He
served as justice of the peace for
Pnovo City for eleven years, was ap-
pointed by Gov. Ohas. Durkee major
in the Nauvoo Legion in 1866 a/nd call-
ed on a mission to Nebraska and Iowa
in 1870. Bro. Thomas died Feb. 28,
1892, at Provo. One of the resolu-
tioins passed by the members of ihis
quorum says: "Pres. Robt. T. Thomas
was a man of honesity, benevolence,
symipathiy and integrity, his ear being
open to the plaint of the distressed,
and his hand open to their relief; he
listen^ed to the words of anxiety and
care amd was ever willing to impart
words lot comfort to the weak and
erring, extending, a strong hand to help
them along; and to the Church he was
a pillar of strength."

THOMAS, Robert Henry, a presi-
dent of the 45th quorum of Seventy,
was born Feb. 9, 1851, at Provo, Utah
CO., Utah, the son of Rcbt. T. Thomas
and Mary Ann Turner. He was bap-
tized in 1860 by Bishop John P. R.

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JohiDison, was ordained a Seventy
March 13, 1876, by his father and set
aipart as a president of the 45th quor-
um of Seventy May 15, 1892. In 1875
(May 1st) he married Sarah Ellen
Cluff, Tviho was born at Nephi, Jaub
CO., Utah, Nov. 14, 1853. He served
as a city councilman in Provo City
two years (1890-1891). He died as a
faithful Uatrter-day Saint at Prova,
Oct. 2, 1892, at the age of 41 years,
7 months and 23 days. Bro. Tbomas
was a faithful Datter-day Saint, prompt
in the performance of any duty as-
signed to him. By his example as
well as by preoeipt' ihe won the resi)ect
of his brethren and all who knew him.

THOMAS, Charles Warren, second
counselor to Bishop Joseph A. Buttle,
of the Provo First Ward, was born
Nov. 3, 1877, at Provo, Utah co., Utah,

the son of Robt. H. Thomas and SaraJa
Ellen Cluff, He was baptized Sept.
18, 1866, by Thomas Farrer; ordained
successively to the offices of Deacon,
Teacher and EJlder, and on Oct. 13,
1899, he was ordained a Seventy by
Joseph W. McMiurrin. Oct. 18, 1914,
he was ordained a High Priest under
the hands of Joseph B. Keeler, who
also set him apart as second counsel-

or to the Bishop of the Provo First
Ward. He served as one of the assist-
ants in the superintendency of the
Provo First Ward Sunday school for
three years, and for the past four
years he has served as its superin-
tendent. He was one of the presidents
of the 34th quorum of Seventy and
filled a missiion to the Eastern States
in 1899-1901, laboring m the western
part of New York, and later in New
York City. In the latter city he also
acted as superintendent of the branch
Sunday school. In 1904 (June 8th)
he married Pearl Daniels, daughter
of James E. Daniels and Emma Spaf-
ford. This marriage has been blessed
with four children.

THiOMASSEN, Peter Olaff, an edit-
or and poiblisher of considerable abil-
ity, was born Aug. 29, 1836, m Dram-
men, Norway, the sicn of Johan Jo-
seph Thomassen and Anna Bolette

Brown. He was baptized by Carl Wid-
erborg June 9, 1854, in Norway, and
soon after ordained to the Priest-
hood. Two years after his baiptism
he was called to labor at the Scandi-

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•navian Mission cffice in Copenhagen,
Denmark, as translater and writer for
"Skandinaviens Stjerne," a position
wliich he filled with ability for seven
years. During that time he also en-
deavored to introduce harmony music
in the congregations of the saints and
led the 'Copenhagen branch choir for
six years. He emigrated bo Utah in
1863 and located in Salt Lake City,
"Where he spent the remainder of his
days. In 1870-72 he filled a mission
to Scandinavia, laboring as translator
and writer at the mission office in
Copenhagen. In 1873-74 he edited and
published "Utah Posten" in Salt Lake
City, the first newspaper published in
the Danish-Norwegian language in
Utah. In 1891 he became the editor
of "Bikuben," and while engaged in
the editorial work on' that piaper he
died Oct. 28, 1891, in Salt Lake City.
Bro. Thicmassen was the husbajnid of
three wives and the father of seven
children and was employed for many
years in the Utah Central Railway
offices as a clerk. He was a man
of rare literary and musical ability
and ranks high among tlie converts
to "Mcrmonism" in Scandinavia. Bro.
Thomassen was a member of the 56tih
quorum cf Seventy. Two of his wives
survived him,

THOMPSON, Mercy Rachel Fielding,
a Utah pioneer of 1847, was born June
15, 1807, at Honeydon, Bedfordshire,
England, the daughter of Johm Fielu-
ing and Rachel Abbc'tson. She emi-
grated to Upper Canada in 1832, to-
gether with her brother Joseph. There
she became a convert to "Mormon-
ism," being influenced by the preach-
ing of Parley P. Pratt. She, together
with her brother Joseph, John Taylor
and wife,Robt. B. Thomipson and three
others (nine altogether) were baptized
by Parley P. Pratt in the evening of
May 21, 1836. Sister Mercy removed
to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1836, where shu
became the wife of Rtobert B. Thomp-
son June 4, 1837. In Januarys 1839,

she, with her little babe, accompanieu
her sister Mary, who was takeni on
her sick bed in a wagon from Far
West to Liberty to visit iher husband
who, with his brother Joseph and
others was incarcerated in Liberty
jail. After suffering with the saints
in the persecutions they emdured in
Kirtland and Missouri, Mercy, togeth-
er with her husband, arrived at
Quincy, 111., in the spring of 1839. Here

she resided temporarily until the
Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum
ainid others were released from their
imiprisonment in Missouri. They then
cast their lots with the saints at Com-
merce, Hancock co., 111. There her
husband, Robert B. Thompson, who
was one of the recorders of th»
Church, tcick sick and died, leaving his
widow with one little daughter. Aug-
ust 11, 1843, she was married as a
plural wife, by the Prophet Joseph
Smith, to his brother, Hyrum Smith,
who had previously married her sister
Mary, in Kirtland, Ohio. When the
Naiuvoo Temple was completed, so that
holy ordinances were administered
thereiin. Sister Mercy was called to
labor as a Temple worker and con-
tinued this sacred work almost night
amd day for six weeks during the
winter of 1845-46. In 1846 she accom-

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panied her brother Joseph Fieldimg
and sister Mary, with their families,
t^ Winter Quarters; here she remained
until June, 1847, -when she started
for Great Salt Lake Valley, crossinig
the plains and miountains in Daniel
Spencer's hundred, (also known as
Parley P. Pratt's company). She spent
the winter of 1847-48 in the Old Fort,
and in the spring of 1849 located on
Lot 8, Block 97, Plat A, Salt Lake Oity
Survey (later the Sixteenth Ward)
where she resided till the day of her
death. When the Perpetual Emigrat-
ing Fund was instituted she was a
generous contributor of funds toward
emigrating the peer, giving at ome
time over $800 toward assisting the
poor saints to emigrate to Zion. She
also donated liberally toward the
building of Temples, the assisting of
missionaries and for many other char-
itable purposes. In 1871 she visiteu
her relatives in Upper Canada, and
the following year (1872) she visited
England, traveling part of the way
ini company with Pres. George A.
Smith, who at that time started on
his famous mission to Palestine. Re-
turning to America, she crossed the
AUantic in the steamship "Nevadia,"
which sailed from Liverpool, Elngland,
June 4, 1873. Qia this occasion she
assisted a number of .people to emi-
grate from Great Britain to America.
For many years Sister Thompson was
an active member of the Relief So-
ciety of the Sixteenth Ward, and she
passed to her final rest at her home
No. 103 North Second West street.
Salt Lake City, Sept. 15, 1893. In a
short obituary published in the "Des-
eret News" after her demise, the fol-
lowing occurs: "Sister Thompson was
widely known and highly esteemed
among the Latter-day Saints, with
whom she has been associated for
more than half a century. Sihe was
at the time of her demise one of the
eldest members of the Church, in
connection with which her life has

been one of faith and noble sacrifice.
She was a sister to the mother of
Pres. Joseph F. Smith. Her (husband,
who was private secretary tto the
Prophet Joseph, died August 27, 1841.
About two years after this she be-
came the wife of Patriarch Hyrum
Smith. &he was cne of the first set-
tlers of the Sixteenth Ward of this
city. She has been an invalid for a
number of years past." — "Deseret
News" 47: 435.

THOMSON, Andrew (Junior), first
counselor to Bishop John S. Beal. of
the Bphraim North Ward (South San-
pete Stake) Sanpete co., Utah, was
born Nov. 4, 1858, at E^phraim, Utah,
the son of Andrew Thomson and
Ohristiane Jensen. He was baptized
when about eight years of age and or-

dained successively to the offices of
Teacher, Elder and High Priest. He
served as a member ofl the High
Coumcil for a ooimber of years, and
was chosenj to act as first counselor
to Bishop Beal Dec. 9, 1901. In 1882-
83, he labored as a missionary in tho
St. George Temple and from 1888 to
1896 he officiated as a regular worker
in the Manti Temple. In 1896-97 he
filled a mission to Germany, laboring

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Ini the Hamburg conference. In 1883
(Dec. 20ith) he married Mary Louise
Eyring, who has borne him seven
children. Elder Thomson has always
been a faithful Church worker; ihis
record as a Sunday school teacher.
Ward teacher, president of Y. M. M. I.
A., secretary of different associatioms,
etc., testifies of his ddligence. He has
also filledi a number of civic offices
in the interest of his fellow-citizens.
Otherwise his principal occupations
are those of farming anid stock-rais-
ing.

TOLLEY, George W. (continued
from page 23). After three years of
faithful labors in building up the Or-
ton Ward, Canada, Bishop Tolley
moved to Cialifonmia, owing to sick-
ness and other misfortunes and was

immediately called to act as president
of the Church colonies in that State.
A large social hall andi the largest
Church building in laorthern California
was immediately erected. Bishop Tol-
ley being the architect and builder.
With three other brethren he borrow-
ed from a bank the money needed to
defray cost of construction, and then
waited for the 'people to meet then
apportionments. Bishop Tolley has
been superintendent of Sund'ay schcols

in four different nations, has acted
as president and vice-president of the
Qtridley Chamber of Commerce and
Butte County Board of Trade, been
chairmian of an important school
board, and filledi many other offices
ct importance. He is at present
(1914) the leading contractor and
builder in the seoticn of country in
whicih he lives.

VAN COTT, John (Vol. 1: 198), de-
scended from the first settlers of Long
Island, N. Y., who came from Holland
in 1640, and had for ten generations
back belonged to the nobility of Hol-
land. His parents were Losee Van
Cott and Lavina Pratt (uincle and
aunt to Parley P. and Orson Pratt).
John Van Cott was the only boy in
the family, and when only ten years

old his father died after an illness
of seven years, leaving his widow and
children surrounded with peace and
plenty. Becoming a convert tO' "Mor-
monism" he was baptized in Nauvoo
in) 1844 or 1845, twelve years after
he first heard the gospel; 'his sister
never joined the Church. In 1835
(Sept. 15th) he married Lucy Saeh-
ett, a young lady of a very fine fam-
ily, who also joined the Church. To-

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getiher with his wife and mother, he
left New York, Feb. 3, 1846, starting
fcr Nauvoo, Illinois. Wlhile residing
temporarily at Nauvoo to the home of
Parley P. Pratt, he contributed $400
in gold to the Temple and also do-
nated to the Church a number of lots
wihich he had purchased in Nauvoo;
he received his blessings in the Nau-
voic Temple. In the fall of 1846 he
left Nauvoo for Winter Quarters, where
he spent the winter of 1846-47, hav-
ing built a one-room log ihouse. Here
he became acquainted with Brigham
Young, to whom he became greatly at-
taobed, their friendship terminating
in the miarriaige of ihis daughter to the
President. In the summer of 1847 Bro.
Van Cott, together with his mother,
wife and two icihlildlren (Mary and
Martha) left Winter Quarters for tihe
West in Capt. Daniel Spencer's com-
pany; he fitted up an extra team and
wagon which was driven by a hired
man. In this wagon his diaugihter
Martha, then about nine years old,
rode across the plains. Bro. Van Oott
and his family arrived in the Valley
Sept. 25, 1847. Pres. Young sent Bro.
Van Cctt back to help into the Val-
ley some of the saints, who were de-
layed on the journey. After his ar-
rival in the Valley, Bro. Van Cott
settled in what is mow the Farmer's
Ward, on the corner of Tenth South
street and West Temiple street. In
1852 he was called on a mission to
England, but in 1853 he was trans-
ferred to Denmark as president of the
Scandinavian Mission. After his re-
turn, he yielded ohedience to the law
of celestial marria(ge and took five
wives, by whom he became the father
o* twenty-eight children. At the time
of the move in 1858, he was one of
the men deputized to remain in the
city and set fire to the property, in
case the soldiers on their arrival in
the Valley should prove hostile. In
1859-62 he filled a secoimd mission to
Scandinavia and in 1862 (he was chosen
as one of the First Seven Presidents

of Seventies. He also served as a
member of the House of Representa-
tives, a member of the Salt Lak«
city council, street supervisor and city
marshal. He died Feb. 18, 1883, at
his residence near Salt Lake City.

VAUGHAN, John Harris, an active
Elder in the Hunter Ward, Salt Lake
CO., Utah, was born Aug. 14, 1856, at
IRlhydyronen, Merionethshire, North
Wales, the son of David Vaughn and

Ann Jones. Hie was baptized by his
father when about eight years of age,
and in his boyihocd worked with his
father on a farm. He emigrated to
America in 1869, arriving in Sialt Lake
City July 23, 1869. After residing
tem[porarily at Mill Creek, he found
employmemt on the paper mill in the
Sugar House Wlard and afterward at
the new paper mill at the mouth of
Big Cottonwood canyicn. In 1882
(Sept. 4th) he married Alice! Ann
Hold en (a daughter of John Holden
and Ann Ramsden) who was born in
the town of Over Darwin, Lancashire,
England, S'ept. 7, 1866, and came to
Utah in 1876; Bfo. Vaughini acted as
second assistant sinperintendent of the
Pleasant Green Sunday School for a
number of years and also as president

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729

cf the loth quorum of Elders in the
Granite Stake. In 1910-12 he filled a
missicinj to Great Britain, laboring prin-
cipally in the Sheffield and Bristol
comiferences, a part of the time as
president of the Ystrad branch near
Pontypridd. Previous to this he had
been ordiained a Seventy by J. Golden
Kimball. After his return home he
labored for several years as a home
missiionary. From his earliest youth
Bro. Vaughan has been a diligent
Ohurch worker. While he has labored
diligently as a Ward teacher, his wife
has been a faithful teacher in the
Wiard Relief Society; she is also a
primary association worker and a
class leader in the Y. L. M. I. A.
■V\^ile on his mission Bro. Vaughan
was oinice confronted by a mob con-
sisting fcf several hundred men, led by
eight ministers, who intended to throw
the EJlders into the river, but Elder
Vaughan arose in their midst and
preached the gospel to them, until
several of the most bitter opponents
were won over to his side; after this
occurrence the Elders were left to
tract the fccwn in peace.

WALKER, Henry, one of the early
members cf the Church in Great Brit-
ain, was born Dec. 9, 1806, at Upper
BuUingham, Herefordshire, England,
the son of Thomas Walker and Eliza-
beth Nokes. He was baptized hy Will-
ard Rdchardis abouit the year 1841,
learned the trade of a cooper and
also that of a ship carpenter, and
besides coiniducted a small farm in
England. He emigrated to America
in 1853, sailing from Liverpocl in the
ship "International," Feb. 28, 1853,
and landed in New Orleans April 23rd.
From New Orleans he traveled up the
Mississippi river to Keokuk, whence
he crossed tbe plains in Claudius V.
Spencer's independent train, which ar-
rived in Salt Lake City in September,
1853. Bro. Walker was the means of
bringing about twenty saints to the
Aialley. After residing temiJorarily In

the Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake City,
he located permanently in Union. Be-
fore leaving his native land he was
ordained an Elder and ipresided over
the Akenbury branch a few years. He
also took part in the Walker Indian
war and participated in the Echo con-
yon campaign at the time of the John-

ston army troubles im 1857-58. At the
time of the move south in 1858 he
located temporarily at Beaver. Soon
after his arrivel in Utah, he was or-
dained a High Priest, which office he
held the remainder of his life. He
died March 22, 1879, at Union. Bro.
Walker was married four times and
became the father of eleven children,
three boys and eight girls.

WALKER, Stephen, Bishop of Peoa,
Summit co., Utah, from 1882 to 1901,
was born Oct. 14, 1842, at Fitchfield,
Hampshire, England, the sion of Bdi-
mund Walker and Maria A. Swallow.
He was baptized in May, 1855, by John
Banks in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
also was ordained to the offices of
Deacon and Teacher; later (April 3,
1859) he was ordained a Priest by his
father. In 1859 he emigrated to Utah
and resided in Salt Lake City tin
1861, when he became a permanent

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settler of Peoa. He was ordained an
Elder in Peoa in 1862 by Abrajham
Marchant; ordaiinied a High Priest in
Ctalville in 1877 by PYanklin D. Rich-
ards, and ordained a Bishop May 14,
1882, by Joseph F. Smith. For many
j^ears he took an active part as a
Sunday school officer in Peoa, actios
as superintendent for several years.
He was also an officer in the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A. and a Wlard teachei.

and acted as second oounselor in the
Peoa Ward Bishopric from 1877 to
1882. He also labored as a home
missionary in the Summit Stake. In
1866 (Feb. 12th) he married Lydia
E. Marchant wiho has borne her nus-
band eleven children. In his youngei
days Bto. Wialker was a military man
and held the rank of second lieutenant
in the Utah militia; he did active serv-
ice in the Black Hawk Indian: war.

WALLANTINE, Riobert Wallace,

counsellor to Bishop Robt. Price of
the Paris Second Ward, was born Oct.
21, 1871, at Paris, Idaho, the son of
Christian Wallantine and Elizabeth
Caldwell. He was baptized Sept. 26,
1880, by Bishoip Robt. Price, ordained
a Deacon Jan. 23, 1877; ordained an
Elder Olct. 5, 1883, by Robt. Price;

ordained a Seventy May 19, 1897, by
Jonathan G. Kimball; and ordained
a High Priest May 6, 1900, by James
H. Hart. In 1897-99 he labored as a
missicinary in California. As a Church
worker at home he has always been
energetic and active, having served
as president of a Deacon's quorum and
later as president of a Teacher's quor-
um. He was also president in the
llt)h quorum of Seventy, and a coun-
selor ini the Stake Y, M. M. I. A. Bro.
W)ailantine is a farmer and stock-rais-
er by avocation.

WALTON, Thomas, a High Coun-
cilor in the Star Valley Stake, Wyom-
ing, was born June 26, 1844, in Lan-
cashire, England, the son of James
Walton and Sarah HIalsted He was

baptized Jam. 8, 1865; ordained a Dea-
con in 1865; emigrated to Utah in
1866, crossing the plains in Capt. An-
drew H. Scott's ox train. He was or-
dained am Elder in 1870; ordained a
Seventy a few years later, and finally
ordained a High Priest hy G. Osmond
in 1889. Bro. Wlalton has labored as
a Ward teacher, and as a counselor in
the Ward Bisho'pric at Sinoot. Aug.
16, 1903, he became a High Councilor
in the Star Valley Stake. For some

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time he was acting] Bishop of the
Smoot Ward. He followed school
teaching for fourteen! years; otherwise
he was a sbcck-raiser by avocation. He
has resided in Salt Lake, Davis, Sum-
mit atod cache coumities, Utah, and
Bear Lake <:o., Idaho. He located in
Star Valley, Uinta co., Wyo., in 1887,
being oine of the first Latter-day saints
sellers in that valley.

WiEiLLS, Emmeline Blanche Wood-
ward, the fourth president of all the
Relief Societies in the Ohiurch, was
born Feb. 29, 1828, at Petersham,
Worchester co., MJassaohusetts, the
daughter of David Woodward and
Deiadama Hare. The Woodwards came
from England imi the year 1630. They
were of noble Norman extraction and
fou'giht at Hastings, Agincourt, Edge
Hill aind uipon other fields of famo.

Bmmeliine's sramilather and her father
served respectively in the Revolutiou
ary war and the war of 1812. Her
father died when she was four years
eld, the victim of a run^away accident.
Her literary gifts are largely from the
maternal side. As a child she was
given the best educational advantages
to be obtaimed and was so quick to
learn that she graduated when very

young. At fifteen she taught school.
In 1841 her mother with her younger
children, being coinventied to "Mor-
monism," was baptized, but "Emmie,"
as she was called, was away at the
timie attending a select schicol for
girls, and boardiag with a married
sister. After the school closed "Em-
mie" attended the "Mormon" meet-
ings and was baptized March 1, 1842;
six other persons were baptized at the
same time. Much excitement prt-
vailed; threats were made by the
town authorities, and ministers,
judges and others came to the water's
edge to forbid the baptism, or learn
if she was submitting to it of her own
free will and choice. It was a trying
ordeal for the young girl, but she
told her mother that the crisis was
passed and thenceforth she would ded-
icate her life to the work in which she
had enlisited. She has faithfully kept
her resolve. In 1843 (July 29th) Em-
meline Blainiche Woodward became
the wife of James Harvey Harris, a
son of an influential Elder in the
Church, the ipresident of the local
branch. The bride was but fifteen
years and five moinths old on her
wedding day. The HIarris family be-
gan their westward journey in April,
1844, the objective point being Niaii-
vco, 111. Here Sister Emmeline was
deeply impressed at her first meeting
with Joseph Smith the Prophet. She
was thrilled by his very handshake
anid received at once a testimony of
his divine mission^ This was not
many weeks before the martyrdom,
and she heard him deliver his last
sermons and addresses, and noted the
iwonderous power that accompanied
them» Immediately after the Prophet's
death her husband's father and mother
left the Church and moved from Nau-
voo to La Harpe; they wished to take
their ,son and his •wife withi them, but
the young couple refused to go. They
were both present at the memicrable
meeting held Aug. 8, 1844, when the

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mantle of Joseph fell upon Brigham in
the eyes of the assembled saints. Sept.
1, 1844, Sister Emmeline gave birth to
a beautiful little bey, who w"as named
Eugene Henri Harris; the child died
Oct. 6, 1844, and the mother who was
also brought to the brink of the grave
was healed by the power of faith un-
der the adminstration of Pres. Brig-
ham Young. Nov. 16, 1844, her hus-
band who up to this time had' been
tender, kind and solicitcus, left her,
never to return. Sister Emmeline
then accepted the offer of a home
from a maiden lady, a sister in the
Church, by the name q^ Olive M.
Bishop. Early in 1846 she became an
exile, together with the rest of her
co-religionists, and started for the
great West. On the journey her moth-
er was stricken down with fever and
ague, due *& hardships and exposure
on the bleak and rainy plains of Iowa,
and died and was buried by the way-
side. Her motherless little ones ar-
rived at Winter Quarters, greatly in
need of care and attention. There,
as at Nauvoo Sister Emmeline taugihit
school. In the year 1848 she came
to the Valley with Bishop Newel K.
^V^litney, to whom she had been sealed
as a wife. The Whitneys camped on
the site nicw occupied by the L. D. S.
T'niversity. A few weeks after her ar-
rival in the Valley, or on Nov. 2, 1848,
Sister Emmeline gave birth to a
daughter — Isabel Modelena (now Mrs.
S. W. Sears, of Salt Lake City). Aug.
18, 1850, another daughter was born —
Melvina Caroline (incw Mrs. W. W.
Woods of Wallace, Idaho). Several
weeks later Bishop Whitney died,
leaving Emmeline a widow with two
babes; she had a staunch friend in
the Bishop's first wife, Elizabeth Anii
Whitney, and between her and that
sainted mother in Israel there always
existed a most tender affection. In
1852 Sister Emmeline taught school,
and on Oct. 10, 1852, she married Gen-
eral Daniel H. Wells, by whom she
had three daughters, Emmeline (boru

Sept. 10, 1853) Elizabeth Ann (born
Dec. 7, 1859) and Louisa Martha, born
Aug. 27, 1862). Ftom 1852 to 1886
Sister Wells resided on State Street,
a little north icf where the Auerbach
Department store now stands. While
her children were young she devoted
herself almost exclusively to home.
She sang in the choir at the eld
Tabernacle and her literary work
went quietly on. She was always
deeply interested in people, in the
culture of the youth and the progress
cf communities and nations. The ad-
vancement of her sex was with, her
a favorite field'. When the women
of Utah where enfranchised ia Febru-
ary, 1870, she was one of the first to
wield the ballot and to recognize in
the event one of the indications of a
new era. About this time she began
to devote herself mere to public af-
fairs. Tin 1873 her writings appeared
in the "Women's Exponent," to which
sihe wrote over the uom de plume
f Blanche Beachwood. In 1874 she
lent occasional assistance in the edi-
torial department and on May 1, 1875,
she was regularly installed as assist-
ant editor. Upon the retirement of
Mrs. Richards in July, 1877, Sister
Wells became the editor of the paper,
a positiicn which she filled with signi-
ficant ability until the present year
(1914) when the publication of the
"Womein's Exponent" was suspended.
Early in life Sister Wells became in-
terested in the Relief Society work,
the character and purpose of which
she well understood through her inti-
mate asociations with Mother Whit-
ney, who had been a acunselor in
Nauvoo to Emma Smith, the first pres-
id'ent of the Sciclety. She traveled
extensively in Utah and surrounding
parts with EHiza R. Snow, Zina D. H.
Young and other leading women in
the interest of the Society and aided
also in organizing young ladies and
primary associations. By this time
her well known interest in woman
suffrage had brought her to the at-

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733

tention of the National Woman's Suf-
frage Asociation,* and in 1874 she had
beetoi appointed! its vice-president of
Utah. Thenceforth she was destiimed
to be active in duties of a public
character. In September, 1876, she
received a special mission from Pres.
Brigham Young to take the lead with
the sisters of the Clhurch to g'ather
and save grain. She responded ciheer-
fuUy to this call and ever since that
time tbe saving of grain has been one
of the important topics of iher public
instructicin. In January, 1879, accom-
panied by Zina Y, Williams, she at-
tended the National Wloman's Suffrage
Association, at Washingtoin, D. C,
where they presented a memorial to
Colngress, asking, that the 'children
bom in plural marriage be made legi-
timate. In 1882 Sihe and Zina D. H.
Young attended the National Suffrage
Convention at Omaha, where Sister
Wells gave an exhaustive ipaper ou
conditions in Utah, Three years later,
during the heat iOf the crusade under
the Edmunds Law, she attended an-
other Suffrage Convention in Wash-
ingtoin., and had interviews with prom-
inent members of Congress upon "Mor-
mon" questions. When Zina D. H.
Young was choseai president of the
General Relief Society, Elmmeline B.
Wellsi became its correspcmding sec-
retary, and in 1892, when the Relief
"Society was incorporated, Sihe was
elected general secretary, which posi-
tion she creditably held until she
was elected presideoit in 1910. In
1893, at the time of the Wlorld's Fair
in Chicago, Sister Wtells gave a paper
widely copied and quoted upon "West-
em Women in Journalism," at the Re-
lief Society meeting. In 1895 she rep-
resented Utah at the National Wo-
man's Suffrage Association at Atlanta,
Ga. Her address upcn Utah's pros-
pective admission to Statehood was
enthusiastically applauded, and Miss
Susan B, Anthony came forward and
embraced her on the platform. At
the National Council held at Wlasihing-

tom, D. C, in February, 1895, she read
a paper entitled "Forty Years in the
Valley of the Great Salt Lake," whioQ
was reproduced in the leading jour-
nals. When the people of Utah divided
upon party limes in 1892, Sister Wells
declared herself a Republican and was
selected by that party as chairman.
of the Utah Woman's Repiublican
leaigue. In 1897 she represented Utah
at the National Suffrage Ctinventioin
at Des Moines, Iowa, and with Miss
Anthony amd other ladies spoke on
the suffrage question before the Iowa
legislature in the Senate Chamber.
Up to 1899 Sister Wells' had never
left her native land, but that year
she crossed the Atlantic and attended
the Wbman's International Council
and Congress in Lomdon. With other
delegates she was entertained by
Queen Victoria, the Countess of Aber-
deein, and other British nobility at
various great gatherings. In 1901 she
witnessed the inauguration of Pres.
MicKinley at Washington, D. C. lu
1902 she was again in Washingtcin, at
the National Woman's Suffrage Con-
vention and the Tri-ennial of the
Woman's National Comncil. She was
the first western woman to be elected
ani officer in that council. Feb. 29, 1912,
the honorary degree cf Doctor of Lit-
erature was conferred upon her by thu
Brigham Young University, and an-
other honor was bestowed upon her,
Oict. 1, 1912, in her being selected to
unveil the moinument to the Sea Gulls
erected on the Temple Block, Salt Lake
City. Sister Wells has had a wide ex-
perience and done much literary work
outside of editing the "Wcimen's Ex-
poinent." Besides her many poetical
productions on various occasions, she
edited "Songis and Flowers of the
Wasatch," for the Columibian Exposi-
tion and also a book of prose, entitled
"Charities and Philanthropies." Her
poetic volume appeared in 1896, its
general style is suggested by the title,
"Musings and Memories," a book of
beautiful and tender verse. Sister

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"Ulell's marvelous memory is an en-
cylopedia of facts upaa any subject ou
which she is interested and her office
and home was for many years a niecca
fcr tourists and visitors in quest of
information pertaining to the Liatter-
day Sainits and their institutions. Aft-
er the death of Bathsheba W. Smith,
in October, 1910, Sister Wells was
unanimously chosen as president of
the Relief Societies of the entire
Church, which position she still occu-
pies. Notwithstanding her advanced
age, she is still a very busy woman;
wcrk seems to be her most congenial
atmosphere, her very breath of life.
She is honored aind revered today by
the saints throughout the whole world,

WENTZ, Peter Mastin, the first
Bishop of the Timpanogas Ward, Utalh
CO., Utah, was born July 3, 1831, at
Canaan Corners, Wayne co., Peninisyl-
vania, the son of Peter Wentz and
Mercy Green. He was oine of the
youngest of the family, having four
sisters and three brothers. When
about seven years of age, he moveu
with his parents to Binghamton,
Broome co., N. Y. From this time
until he was eleven years old his op-
portunities for education were fair,
but then they were seriously inter-
rupted by the death of his mother,
which, together with certain financial
reverses of his father, caused the
breaking up of the home and the sep-
arating icf its members. The next few
years of his life were spent in work-
ing for different people, occasionally
attending school and serving as an ap-
prentice in a boot and shoe estab-
lishment. At about the age of twenty
he chanced to hear some of the doc-
trines of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, and after a
great deal of investigation, he became
thoroughly convinced of its truth.
There being no organization of the
Church in that State at the time he
made his way to St. Louis, Mo., where
he on Jan. 21, 1855, became a member

of the 'Mormon" Churcih, being bap-
tized by Elder Gore and confirmed
by Elder Milo Andrus. Shortly after-
ward (April 9, 1855) he was ordained
to the office icf la Priest. He was the
only one of his father's family to
join the Church. In the summer of
1855 he arrived in Salt Lake City, the
most of the journey across the plains
being made in company with a train
of emigrants, some on their way to
Olregicn, others to California, and one
wagon boujnd for Salt Lake City. They
traveled with ox teams. Mlany times
on the trip Bro. Wentz walked long
distances, the conveyances cnly carry-
ing his luggage. Hie arrived ini Salt
Lake City, Aug. 11, 1855. Jiuine 13,
1857, he was ordained a Seventy and
became a member of the 52nd quorum
of Seventy. Later, he was chosen as
a president of that quorum. In 1857
he became a resident of Provo and
during the latter part of that year he
took part in the Echo canyon war.
Flor several years he was engaged in
the boot and sihoe business at Provo.
He spent the summer of 1863 in Mon-
tana, trading, mining and prospecting.
The following winter he made a trip
to California after merchandise. In
1864 (April 20th) at Provo, he mar-
ried Minerva Boren, daughter of Oole-
mian Boren and Melinda Keller. Theh
children are as follows: Wells, Leo,
Ray v., Charles H., Maud E., T. Frank,
Lillian, Lillie M. amd Ralph. The time
from 1864 to 1867 was spent in mak-
ing trips to Virginia City, Montana,
freighting goods, principally flour. 'In
October, 1871, he was called on a visit-
ing mission to his relatives in the
State of New York. He returned home
March 3, 1872. In 1876 he was elected
a member of the city couincil of Provo,
a position ■which he held for ten years.
He was one of the organizers of the
Provo Bench Canal and Irrigation
Company. For sixteen years he acted
as a director and secretary of th's
canal company. He was ordained a
High Priest on Nov. 8, 1885, by Bishop

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Wm. B. Prestcn. On this date also he
was called from the Provo Fourth
Wlard and set apart to act as Bisihop
oui the Provo Bench at the organiza-
tion of ithe Timpanogas Ward. He
held this position for abcut eigh^eeu
years; then he was released on ac-
count of failing health. Bishop Wentz
died Miay 31, 1908, in the Timpanogas
Ward, as a faithful Latter-day Saint
and highly respected by all wiho knew
him. Hie was a strong advocate for
religion and education. His whole
life stood for right and advancemerat.

WEST, William, Bishop of the Paris
First Ward, Bear Lake co., Utah, was
born June 6, 1829, in Hopkins county,
Kentucky, the son of Hardin ajnd Cath-
erine Williams. When two years old

he moved with his parents to Mis-
souri, and assisted 0)n farms until he
was twenty-one years icf agie, without
the advantage of much education. In
1853 he went to Oregon, and after-
ward to California, with a desire to
become a Methodist preacher. Fail-
ing in this, he returned to Oregon and
ran a pack train from the Dalles to
what is now Boise City, a distance of

300 miles. The freight rates were 25
cents per hundred. From Boise he
worked his way to Utah, where he
became a convert to "Mormonism" and
was baptized Feb, 5, 1865, by Wim. G.
Young. In 1868 (Nov. 14th) he was
ordained an Elder and married Ann
Ariniold, Being called, together with
others, to settle Randolph, on the
Bear rivier, ihe became a resident of
that place for a sihort time, but re-
turned to St. Charles, Bear Lake ct, .
where he bought a farm and became
a Ward teacher, a home missionary
and a Sunday school officer. He was
chiC'Sen and ordained a Bishop in 1884.
amd set apart to preside over the
Paris First Ward. He filled a mis-
sion to the Southern States in 1892-94,
returnintg ihome with a sick compan-
ion who died soon afterward. Bro.
West acted as Bishop of the Paris
First Ward about thirteen years or
until 1898, after which he removed to
Mjoumtain View, Alberta, Canada,
where he was chosen as a member
of the High Council of the Alberta
Stake.

WHEATLEY, Thomas, jr., Bishop
of Honeyville, Box Elder co., Utah,
was born Aug. 22, 1853, at Grassmoor,
England, the son of Thos. Wheatley
and Caitherine Varley. He emigrated to-
gether witihi his parents to America
in 1861, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship 'Underwriter" and the plains in
Milo Andrus' company. The family
located in Box Elder county. Thomas
was baptized July 6, 1873, by Thcs.
Harper; ordaiined an Elder about
1875 by Thics. Harper and married
Mary Ellen Gibbs April 11, 1878. This
marriage bas been blessed with nine
children, namely, John Gibbs, Maria,
Catiberine Maud, Thomas Seth, Ellec
Esther Ruth, George Harold, Mabel
Elizabeth and Etihel. Bro. Wheatley
was ordained a Seventy May 3, 1884,
by John Burt; and ordained a Hiah
Priest and Bishop Nov. 16, 1895, by
Lorenzo Snow and set apart as Bishop

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of the Hicne/yville Wlard. In 1890-92
he filled a missioni to Great Britain,
laboring in the Sheffield conference, a
part of the time as president c! said

conference. In 1910 he visited Europe
once more, traveling extensively in
Great Btritain, Denmark, Sweden, Nor-
way, Germany, Switzerland anu
Prance.

WHITE, Catherine Foutz, wife of
Samuel S. White (of "Micrmon" Bat-
talion fame) was bonni Dec. 25, 183T,
in Richland county, Ohio, the daugh-
ter of Jacob Foutz and Margaret
Miainn. From a biographical sketch
prepared by herself we cull the fol-
lowing. "My piaremts joined the
Church in Ohio, when I was about
four years old. The family tben
moved to Caldwell county, M^issouri,
and settled within two miles of Haun's
Mill. I well remember the evening of
the tragedy there, Oct. 30, 1838. On
blearing the firing of guns, mothe^
gathered the children together and
started for the woods. We called
on a Sister Myers who went with us
into the woods. About forty of us
spent the might in the timber, hiding
from the mob. Toward morning some
of the brethren made a fire, as the
weather was chilly. Soon a messen-

ger arrived, bringing the sad news of
the massacre of the brethren. O'Ht our
way back to our homes, we called at
Sister Myers and found her husband
nxcrtally wounded. He had crawled
on his hands and knees a distance
of two and onenhialf miles. I went
with my mother and family to Haun's
Mill and saw the dead and wounded.
M(y father was shot through the thigh,
but he finally recovered. Although I
wias only seven years old, the terrible
sight of the dead and wounded made
am everlasting impression upon me.
The following spring (1839) we moved
out of the State of Mlissouri and set-
tled temporarily in Quincy, Illinois.
Thence we moved to Commerce
(afterwards Nauvoo). I well recollect
the Prophet Joseph aind his brother
Hyrum. I heard them preach while
they were alive and saw them in their
coffins after they were dead. Iin the
spring of 1846, we left Nauvoc for
the West. I remember that while we
crossed the Mississippi river one of
the oxen yoked to his mate jumped
off the boat and swam close to the
boat while crossing the river, without
pulling his mate into the water. Our
family stopped in Garden Grove until
the spring of 1847, when we made
our way to Winter Quarters and were
organized for crossing the plains. We
started from the Elllkhiorn in June,
1847, in Bishop Edward Hunter's hun-
dred. My father (Jacob Foutz) was
captain of fifty. After a long peril-
ous journey we arrived in Great Salt
Lake Valley Oict. 1, 1847. Here my
father died Feb. 14, 1848, leaving my
mother with five ichildren to make her
living as best she could. I became
acquinted with one of the Mormon
Battalion boys by the name of Sam-
uel S. White, in the fall of 1848, and
I became his wife Sept. 27, 1849. We
resided ini Salt Lake City until the
spring of 1851, when we moved to
Pleasant Gtove, Utah county, where
I have resided ever since. My hus-
band died at Pleasant Grove, Oct. 15,

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737

1900. I am the mother of ten obil-
dren, namely, Charles S. "White, Jacob
H. Wthite, Henry Edgar White, Clar-
issa White, Mary A. White, Isaac Har-
vey White, Margaret E. White, Alma
F. Wlhite, Evelyn and Caroline. They
were all born in Pleasant Grove, ex-
cept Charles, who was born at Salt
Lake City.

WILCOX, lEIizabeth Jane Stevenson,
a member of the Gieneral Beard of
the Relief Societies, was born in the
Fourteenth Ward, Salt Lake City, the
daughter of Eldward Stevenson and
Elizabeth J. Du Fresnie. At the time

of her birth the Fourteenth Ward was
known as the star W!ard of the city
aind Sister Wilcox has pleasant recol-
lections of gicing as a child to look
on at some of the fine balls given
in those early days in said Ward, and
of seeing Pres. Brigham Young and
many other dignitaries join in the
dance in their graceful and happy
maniner. Sister Wilcox's father was
the original owner of the corner lot
facing mcrth and east on First South
and First West streets, where she was
bcrn and reared. From early child-
hood she has taken an active interest
in Church affairs. She acted as a
Teacher in the Fourteenth Wlard Sun-

day school from the time she was in
her early teens till her marriage, and
even after that. She was a member
of the Ward choir from her early girl-
hood, and was also a member of the
Tabernacle Choir fcr a few years. In
the Ward Y. L. M. I. Association, she
filled the offices of treasurer, coun-
selor and president. In 1881 she
graduated from the literary department
of the University of Utah. She also
taught a district school for a number
of years, acting both as assistant and
primcipal. Tjais she taught schOiOl
at East Bountiful, Davis co., one year
and in Gunnison, Sanpete co., two
years. She was secretary of the Salt
Lake County Teachers Association
one year. In December, 1884, she was
married to Chas. F. Wilcox, who at
that time was principal of the Four-
teenth District school, one of the most
picnular schools in Salt Lake City.
In 1888 Mrs. Wjilcox, together with
her two children, accompanied her
husband to New York City, where he
continued his study of medicine, un-
til he gratuated from the medical de-
partment of the Umiversity of New
York. For a number cf years the
wife and mother found it necessarj^
to give most of her time and atten-
tion to family and domestic duties,
but nevertheless acted as counselor to
Sister Julia C. Howe, in the Seven-
teenth Ward Primary Association,
Later she held the office of secretary
in the Seventeenth Ward Relief So-
ciety for five years, Mrs. Clarissa S.
Williams theni being the president.
In the autumn of 1904 Sister Wilcox
was called to act as a missionary
with the General Bicard of Relief So-
cieties and in May, 1906, she was
chosen as a member of said board,
to fill the vacancy caused by the de-
mise of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
J. D. Sitevenson. At the National
Council of Women held at Seattle,
Washington, in 1909, she represented
the Relief Societies by appointment
as a delegate. In the interest of the

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Relief Societies she has visited mcst
of the Sitakes of Zion in Utah, Idaho,
Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona. Al-
ways being interested in educational
matters, she acted as vice-president
of the Alumini Association of the Uni-
versity of Utah, for -the years 1913-
1914. Sister Wilcox is the mother of
six children, namely, Charles FTede-
rick, junior, Ramona, Edward 8., Clara
A., Raymond S., and Mary S.

WIILKINS, Oscar, second counselor
in the presidency of ithe High Priest's
quorum of the Summit Stake, Summit
CO., Utah, w:as born Feb. 14, 1851, at
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England,
the sen of George Wilkins and Han-
nah Stoneham. He was baiptized in
England when thirteen years old by
Richard Russell, emigrated to Utah in

1864 and located at Pec a, Summit co.,
where he still resides. He was or-
dained an Elder Oct. 17, 1870; or-
dained a High Priest Aug. 5, 1901,
and set apart as second counselor in
the High Priest's quorum of the Sum-
mit Stake. Bro. Wilkins has acted as
a Sunday school teacher, superinten-
dent of the Peoa Sunday school, pres-
ident of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A., coun-
selor in the presidency of an Elders

quorum. Ward teacher, home misslan-
ary, etc. He ihas also served ihis fel-
low-citizens as justice of the peace,
school trustee and road supervisor.
He is by occupation a farmer, stock-
raiser and merchant, and wias super-
intendent icf the Peoa Co-op Store
nine years. He also served in the
Territorial cavalry during the Indian
troubles in the early days. In 1870
(Oct. 17th) he married Elizabeth Dur-
raih, who became the mother of thir-
teen children.

WILLEY, David Orison, junior, sec-
ond counselor to Bishop Frainklin S.
Tingey of the Seventeenth Ward, Salt
Lake City, Utah, was bcrn Sept. 13,
1869, at Bountiful, Davis co., Utah, the
son of David O. Willey and Mary A.
Barlow. He was baptized Sept. 13,
1877, by his father and ordained suc-
cessively to the offices of Teacher,
Priest, Seventy and High Priest, the
latter ordination taking place in Feb-
ruary, 1902, under the hand of Geo. R.
Emei'y, who also set him apart as
second ocumselor in the Ward Bishop-
ric. Bro. Wlilley was raised in Boun-
tiful, but has resided a number of
years in Salt Lake City. From his
early youth he has taken an active
part in Church affairs. Thus he served
a short time as president of a Teach-
ers' quorum, was a Sunday school
officer, etc. He also served four years
as county superintendent of schools in
Davis county, was counity attorney
in the same county two years, was
city councilor of Bountiful one year
and asistant city attorney in Salt Lake
City two years. He has followed
school teaching for six years and
practiced law for fifteen years. In
1898 (Feb. 16bhi) he married Mary A.
Price, who has borne him six chil-
dren.

WILLIAMS, Clarissa Smith, first
counselor to Emmeline B. Wells, pres-
ident of all the Relief Societies in thfe
Church, is the daughter of the late

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Pres. George A. Smith (Churchman,
pioneer, colonizer, historian and
statesman) and Susan E. West, pio-
neer and Temple worker. Her husband,
Hon. Wlilliiaim N. Williamis, is promi-
nently asocvated with religious, State,
educational and financial affairs. Sib-
ter "Williams was born April 21, 1859,
in thie Historian's office (which was
at that time the residence of her
parents) in Salt Liake City, Utah. Her
education was obtained in the best
schools the Territory then afforded,
acd she graduated from the normal

department of the Deseret University,
now the University of Utah, in 1875.
Being an apt student and a natural
teacher Sister Williams was employed
at the age of fourteen as a pupil teach-
er in a schocl in the old Social Hall,
taught by Miss Mary E. Cook. After
her graduiaticn she successfully can-
ducted a private school and also
taught in the schools of Iron county
and Salt Lake City. She became the
wife of Wm. N. Williams July 17, 1877,
and have had a large, intelligent and
interesting family of eleven children,
eight of whom are living — two sons
and six daughters. Their children
were all born at their present home
opposite the west entrance of the

Temple Block. The lot on which their
home is located, together with the
entire block, was settled on by Sister
Williams' father, George A. Smith,
who was one of the original pioneers
of 1847. From her early girlhood.
Sister Williams has been an active
and faithful Church worker, filling the
positions of Sunday school teacher,
ar.d first counselor in the first primary
organization in the 17th Ward. Later
she becamie actively engaged in iRelief
Society work, a work which she has
ocntinuously and perseveringly car-
ried on. She commenced her labor
in the Relief Society at the age of
sixteen as assistant block teacher; was
secretary and later president of the
17th Wiard Relief Society and was as-
sistant secretary of the old Salt Lake
Stake organization. At the time of
the division of the old Salt Lake
Stake, in 1904, Sister Williams was
appointed president of the Salt Lake
Stake Relief Society. Nov. 7, 1901, she
was appointed treasurer aind member of
the Board of Directors of the General
Relief Society. At the April general
conference of the Church in 1911 she
was appointed first counselor to the
president of the Relief Society, Bm-
meline B. Wells, which position she
now holds. She has traveled exten-
sively in the interests of the Relief
Societies, having visited many of the
Stakes of Zion in Utah, Colorado,
Idaho, Oregon, Arizona, California, the
Northern States Mission, etc. With
Couniselor Julina L. Smith, she or-
ganized a Stake Rielief Society in the
Northwestern States Mission. She
has also traveled extensively in the
interests of the National Council of
Women of the United States (with
which organization the Relief Society
is affiliated) having visited New Or-
leans, La., and Toledo, Ohio. In May,
1914, she attended the International
Couincil of Women in Rome, Italy,
having been elected one of nine dele-
gates from the United States to that
conference. At the close of the ses-

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LATTER-DAY SAINT

sions in Rcme (which lasted twu
weeks) she aind her husband toured
Italy, Switzerland, France, Germanj^
England, and Wales. Sister Williamo
is a charter member of the Daugh-
ters of the Pioneers and was the first
historian of that organization. She
isl also interested in patriotic and
literary work, being an active member
of the society called the Daughters of
the Revolution, in which organization
she has held the office of treasurer and
regent. She is also a member of the
Authors Club and served a term as
president of that organization. Sister
Williams is a devoted wife and lov-
ing mother. Her genial and friendly
disposition, her 'Pleasant personality
and her gentleness instinctively draws
everyone to her. On her many trips
to various carts of the country she
has made thousands of friends who
look forward with pleasure to her
periodical visits. Bro. and Sister Will-
iams delight in entertaining their
mainy friends from home as well as
abroad and their splendid hospital-
ity has been accepted by many.

WILLIAMS, George William, jun.,

presiding Elder at Clifton, Ariz., was
born Jan. 9, 1871, at Tcquerville, Utah,
the son .of Geo. Wm. Williams and Ly-
dia Ferrin. He attended school at
Toquerville and was baiptized at Will-
ard. Box Elder oc, Utah, in the spring
of 1879. In 1880 he went to Arizona,
traveling by team from Willard, Utah,
to Taylor, near Snowflake, Apache co.,
Arizona, a distance of about 1,200
miles. Though only nine years of age
he drove a team nearly the whole dis-
tance, in 1884 he settled at a place
called Luna, in New Mexico, but after
a failure of crops on account of frost
he moved to the Gila valley, in South-
ern Arizona, locating at Pima, flrhere
his father engaged in the brick and
lime business. In May, 1886, he, to-
gether with others, were surprised by
a band of Apache Indians; a skirmish
ensued, in which one of the party

(Frank Thurston) was killed; by tak-
ing to the hills the rest escaped with
their lives. Bro. Williams married
Hattie Thurston June 30, 1899. In
1898-1900 he filled a mission to the
Southern States. Subsequently he set-
tled temporarily at Clifton, Ariz., where
he asisted to organize a branch of the
Church in June, 1892. Together with
others he built a nice little brick meet-
ing house there. In 1903 he succeeded
Albert E. Blair as presiding Elder at
Clifton.

WILLAMS, James Van Nostrand, a
member of the Mormon Battalion, was
born Dec. 13, 1830, in Upper Canada,
the son of Ohristopher Williams and
Mellicent Van Nostrand. He came to
Nauvoo, 111., in 1844 and was baptized
June 8, 1844, in the Mississippi ijver
by Elder Andrew Rose. During the

exodus of the saints, James passeu
through the hardships of those early
days, and on the arrival of the exiles
on the Missouri river he joined the
Mormon Battalion and marched all the
way to California, where he remained
several years after receiving an hon-
orable discharge. He finally came to
Utah in 1855. In November. 1857, he
joined Daniel D. McArthur's battalion
and went out to EJcho canyon, where

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741

he rarticipated in military service on
the approach of Johnston's army. In
1859 he was called by Pres. Orson
Hyde to assist in the settling of Mor-
oni, Sanpete co., Utah, and in 1863
he went to the Missouri river after
emigrants. In 1866 (July 8th) he mar-
ried E'da Pearson, who became the
mother of four children. Bro. Will-
iams was ordained a High Priest Miay
27, 1889, by Francis A(. L'vman and
died at Monrce Miarch 11, 1911.

WILLIAMS, Ed'a Pearson, vife of
James Van Xostrand Williams, was
born Sept. 8, 1836, at Onslunda, near
Malmo, Sweden, the daughter of Per
KnudsoH and Hannah Svenscn. She
joined the Church Aug. 6, 1857, being
baptized by Elder Rosengren. At that

time she was blind, having lost hex
eye sight through sickness when about
twenty years of age. She emigrated
to Utah in 1862, crossing the Atlaintic
in the ship "Humboldt" (which sailed
from Liverpcol, England, April 9, 1862,
and arrived in New York May 20,
1862) and the Elains in John Mur-
dock's Church train (which left Flor-
ence July 24, 1862, and arrived in
Salt Lake City, Sert 27, 1862). Shb
walked most of the way across the
plains, became the wife of Brc. Will-

lams July 8, 1866, and subsequently
bore her husband four children, name-
ly, .lames I., Christopher P., Moses E'.,
and Ida M.

WILSON, Robert Lorenzo, eccles-
iastical clerk of the Oakley Wlard, Cas-
sia CO., Idaho, was born Jan. 11, 1859,
at Kaysville, Davis co., Utah, the son
of Robert Wilson and Ann Blood. He
was baptized when about eigiht years
old; ordained a Priest Sept. 16, 1877,
by Pleasant Green Taylor; ordained
an Elder April 18, 1884, by Robert
Wilson, and ordained a Seventy Aug.
14, 1899, by Jonathan G. Kimball. Bro.
Wilson has always been a diligent
worker in Sunday schools and Y. M.
M. 1. A. He was married July 31, 1883,
and is the father of ten children. By
trade he is a painter and farmer. In
his youth he accomipanied his par-
ents on a colonization trip to Santa
Clara, Washington co., Utah. He was
also one of the first settlers in Gkjose
Creek valley. Cassia co., Idaho.

WOOD, Samuel, a High Councilor
in the San .Juan Stake, was born Jan.
1, 1843, in Yorkshire, E]iigland, the

son of Sterhen Wood and Mary Rable.
His parents joined the Church at an
early day and emigrated to America
in 1849. During a severe attack of

742

LATTER-DAY SAINT

cholera, while traveling up the Mis-
souri river, his father, a brother, ain
uncle, an aunt ''ind a cousin died within
eight days of each other. Samuel and
his mother and two brcthers and au
uncle (Geo. Wood) proceeded on their
journey witb sad hearts, and after
their arrival in G. S. L. Valley in the
fall of 1849 they located temporarily
in Big Cottomwood, Salt Lake oo. lu
the fall of 1850, when the uncle (G«o.
Wlood) was called to settle Iroini
county, Southern Utah, Samuel and
his mother acompanied him. Samuel
was baptized at the time of the Re-
formation and remained with his uncle
in Iron county till he was 28 years
of age, when he moved to Salt Lake
City and married Josephine Ohatterly;
he was ordained an Elder by John
D. T. McAllister, Dec. 25, 1871. After
that he was called to act as a coun-
selor in the presidency of the Elders
in Cedar City. In 1882 he was called
to the San Juan counity, as a pioneer,
where he was ordained a High Priest
by John Henry Smith and set aipart
as one of the High Councilors. Bro.
Wood ihas had quite an experience
wifcb the Indians and has taken part
in quite a number of Indian expedi-
tiO'Hs. He has also tried prcverty and
experienced much hardship as a pio-
neer, having had to live on boiled
wiheat and other coarse foods for
weeks. His avocations in life have
been those of farming,, stcckraising,
aind carpentering. Hie has acted as
Ward teacher in different places up-
wards cf thirty years.

WOODBURY, John Taylor, a mgh
Council in the Saint George Stake
of ZioiDi, was born Jan. 30, 1863, in St.
George, Utah, the son of Orin Nelson
Woodbury and Ann Canncn. He was
baptized May 14, 1871, by Tra Elmer;
ordained a Deacon about 1874; or-
daimed an Elder Mlarch 4, 1877; cr-
dained a Seventy June 2, 1885, by
Jacob Gates a«d ordained a High
Priest in September, 1898. He has

acted as a Ward teacher, Sunday
school officer, Y. M. M. I. A, officer,
clerk of an Elders' quorum and of
a quorum of Seventy, clerk of the
St. George First Ward, a bome mis-
sionary and a member cf the Higih
Council. In 1883 (Oct. 19th) he mar-
ried Elizabeth E>vans of Salt Lake
City. This marriage has been blessed
with nine children. Bro. Wloodbury
has also acted as justice of the peace,
city councilor, city assessor and col-
lector, member of the county board
of examiners, county superintendent
of district schools, county clerk and
recorder, water commissioner on the
Rio Virgen, and secretary of various
companies. He was a student of the
University of Deseret in 1880-82 and
graduated in the normal course and
in English language and literature. He
labored five years in the public schools
and eight years in the Church schools.
In 1896 he again entered the public
school service of St. George and con-
tinued in that service until 1907.
Bro. Wloodbury has always had a lik-
ing for farming.

WOODLAND, James, one of the
martyrs of the Church, was born Feb.
10, 1822, in Edwards oo.. 111., the son
of John and Celia Woodland. He was
baptized in August, 1838, by Eliza H.
Groves in Daviess co., Mo., and left his
friends a.nd family in Caldwell county,
M,o., Jan. 15, 1839, for Illinois, to get
a team with which to move his fath-
er's family out cf the State icf Mis-
souri. As n.cthing was heard of him
after his departure on that journey
it is supposed that he was murdered
by the mob on his way.

WOODRUFF, David Patten, second
counselor to Bishoo I. W. AUred, of
Caldwell, Alberta, Canada, was bom
April 4, 1854, in Salt Lake City, Utah,
the son of Wilfcrd Woodruff and
Sarab Brown. He was baptized m
1862 by Wilford Woodruff; ordained
an Elder in 1870 by Wm. Smith and-

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743

ordained a Seventy Nov. 9, 1890, by
Geo. W. Hislop; ordained a High
Priest by Abraham O. Woodruff July
30, 1899, and became a member of the
High Council of the Big Horn Stake,
Wyo., in 1901. In 1877 he married
Arabell J. Hatch, who bore her hus-
band a number of children. Bro.
Woodruff has resided in, Randolph,
Smithfiekl and Vernal (Utah), Bur-
lington (Wyo) and Caldwell (Alberta,
Canada). He moved to Vernal in 1879
and was among the pioneers of that
region of country. He moved to the
Big Horn Basin, Wyo., in 1893, and
was with the first "Mormon" colonists
who settled there.

WbiOiLLEY, Thomas, counselor to
Bishop John Brown of Pleasant Grove,
Utah county, Utah, was b'^rn Feb. b,
1827 at Great Griddinig Huntington-
shire, England, the son of John Wicoi-
ley and Ann Nighton. He was bap-
tized Feb. 3, 1854, emigrated to Utah
in 1856 and settled in Pleasant Grovt.
For thirty years he acted as counselor
in the Bishopric of the Pleasanc
Grove Ward and was in every way an
active and leading man in the com-
munity. While Bishop Brown was
filling a mission to the Southern!
States in 1867-69, Bro. Wbolley took
charge of the Ward affairs in Pleas-
ant Grove. In 1870-71 he filled a suc-
cessful mission to Great Britain. He
also made several journeys across the
plains to assist the poor in emigrat-
ing to Zion. At home he acted as
alderman in Pleasant Grove for a
number of terms, besides holding
many other positions in the gift of the
people. Ever since he first joined the
Ohurch he was a staunich Latter-day
Saint in all that the term implies.
He died May 16, 1896, at Pleasant
Grove, carrying with him to the grave
the love and esteem of the entire com-
munity.

YOUNG, 'Ebenezer Russell, Bishop
ct the Wanship Ward, Summit co.,
Utah, from 1885 to 1901, was born

Aug. 29, 1842, at Paterson, Passaic co.,
New Jersey, the son of Ebenezer Rus-
sell Youag and Margaret Holdon. He
came to Utah' in 1858 with his fath-
er's family; was ordained an Elder
in 1869; ordained a Seventy in 1874
and ordained a High Priest and Bishop
in 1885. He settled in Wanship, Sum-

mit CO., Utah, in 1867. In 1866 (May
1st) he married Matilda W. Shreeve,
by whom he became the father of five
children. Bishop Young is a miller
and carpenter by trade, but has also
followed farming and stockraising for
a living. For many years he acted as
a Ward and Sunday school teacher,
was a president of a Y. M. M. I. A.,
a home missionary, etc.

YOUNG, Robert Dixon, the fiftn
president of the Sevier Stake of
Zion, was born at KirkeatoUock, Dum-
bartonshire, Scotland, the son of Arch-
ibald M. Young and Mary Graham.
He emigrated^ with his parents to
Utah in 1872, crossing the Atlantic in
the steamship "Minnesota." and lo-
cated temporarily in Salt Lake City.
In the fall cf 1873 he came with his
parents to Richfield, where he was
baptized July 5, 1875, by Christopher
Jensen Kempe and confirmed the same

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day by William H. Seegmiller. Rob-
ert received a commcn school educa-
tion and was ordained to the lesser
Priesthood wihen quite young. He
presided over a quorum cf Deaco'i:s
and subsequently over a quorum of
Teachers. He also served as an ot-
ifcer in the Stake Y. M. M. I. A. In
1891 (May 15th) he was crdained a

Seventy by Francis M. Lyman. He
married Mary ?. Parker Oct. 28, 1891,
in the Mar.ti Temple. This marriago
has been blessed with eight claildren.
Bro. Young was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as a member
of the High Council of the Sevier
Stake July 2, 1896, by Francis M. Ly-
man. In 1901-1904 he filled a mission
to Australia and presided over the
Queensland conference. After Ms re-
turn from this foreign mission, he re-
newed his efforts at home in the in-
terest of the Church and was set
apart as second counselor in the Se-
vier Stake presidency March 11, 1905;
he ha:l been chcsen and accepted for
that position Dec. 31, 1904. In 1897
he was elected president and general
manager of construction for the Otter
Creek Reservoir Company and held
this position until he departed for
his mission ini 1901. On his return

he was elected president of said com-
pany. He has alac served four terms
he was elected 'president of said Corn-
ell. Finally, on Sept. 18, 1910, he was
chosen and set apart as president of
the Sevier Stake of Zion, succeedin\g
Pres. Wm. H. Seegmiler.

MARK AUSTIN.

(Se sketch, p. 589.)

JOHN WALSH.

(Se sketch, p. 81.)

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745

ANDERSEN, Christian, an active
Elder of the Monroe South Ward, and
one of the presidents of the 41st quor-
um of Seventy, was born Sept. 23,
1864, at Rodsted, Aalborg amt., Den-
mark, the son of Anders Christensen
and Maren Pedersen. Becoming a con-
vert to "Mormonism" he was baptized
May 1, 1882, by S0ren C. Peterson. He
emigrated to Utah in 1884 and set-
tled at Monroe, which has been his
home ever since. He was ordained an
Elder in 1902 by J. W. Bohman, and

ordained a Seventy Nov. 22, 1911, by
Rulon S. Wells, and set apart as a
president of the 41st quorum of Sev-
enty. In 1909-1911 he filled a mission
to Scandinavia, laboring in the Aal-
borg conference. In 1898 (June 29th)
he married Ida M. Williams (daugh-
ter of James V. Williams of Mormon
Battalion fame), by whom he became
the father of two children (Ernest V.
and A. K. M. Linden). Bro. Ander-
sen's main occupation is surveying.
At present (1914) he is a home mis-
sionary in the Sevier Stake.

BEAL, David Nelson, the fourth
Bishop of the Ephraim North Ward,
Sanpete county, Utah, was born Nov.
15, 1863, at Ephraim, the son of Henry
Beal and Mary Thorp. He was bap-

tized Aug. 4, 1872; ordained a Teach-
er and presided over a Teachers' quor-
um; ordained an Elder by Lars S. An-
derson, Sept. 19, 1886, and became a
counselor in the presidency of the El-
ders' quorum at Ephraim. He mar-
ried Martha Hanson Oct. 29, 1886; was
ordained a Seventy Feb. 17, 1904, by
Joseph W. McMurrin; filled a mission
to the Northern States in 1904-1906,
laboring principally in Wisconsin and
Minnesota, and presiding eighteen
months over the Minnesota conference.

He was ordained a High Priest in 1907
by Lewis Anderson and set apart as
a member of the High Council; or-
dained a Bishop Sept. 26, 1914, by An-
thon H. Lund and set apart to preside
over the Ephraim North Ward. Bro.
Beal has served as mayor of Ephraim
and filled many other positions of re-
sponsibility, both ecclesiastically and
secularly, at different times.

BECK STEAD, Alexander, a veteran
Elder in the Church, was born March
16, 1808, in Williamsburg, Dundas,
Canada, the son of Francis Beckstead
and Margaret Barkley. His father
joined the Church in the early days
in Canada, and in 1837 was one of a
company of Saints emigrating from
Canada to Illinois, Alexander being
second assistant captain of the com-

746

LATTER-DAY SAINT

pany on the journey. As the com-
pany approached the State of Illinois,
they were surrounded by a vicious
mob and held as prisoners for several
days. Finally the mob planned to
massacre the entire company, but
while they were holding their meeting,
all of a sudden the rain began to fall
in torrents and the storm became so
fierce that the mobocrats were com-
pelled to flee and seek shelter. This
interference from the Lord held the
mobbers at bay until the following

who bore him fifteen children, eight
sons and seven daughters. In 1854
(Nov. 18th) he married Keziah A. Pet-
ty, who bore him ten children, seven
boys and three girls; in 1856 he mar-
ried Clarrissa Ann Brown, who be-
came the mother of seven children, one
boy and six girls. In 1861, 1862 and
1863 he assisted materially in sending
outfits back to the Missouri river
after emigrants. During the hard
times, when flour cost $25.00 per sack.
Brother Beckstead, instead of selling
his flour, divided it among the poor.
He was the main pillar in building the
West Jordan meeting house (the old
rock building), and finally died at
West Jordan Feb. 25, 1870.

morning, when the Prophet Joseph,
who had been notified of their perilous
condition, arrived upon the scene with
fifty armed men and escorted the com-
pany safely to the main body of the
Saints. In 1841 Alexander's father
died in Adams county, Illinois, after
proving himself one of noble charac-
ter. In 1849 Alexander emigrated to
Salt Lake City, arriving there Sept.
15th. He settled in West Jordan,
where he resided until his death. He
helped to dig the first ditch through
which water was taken from the Jor-
dan river (now called the Jordan mill
race); was the originator of the Beck-
stead ditch and helped in many other
projects in the upbuilding of the West
Jordan settlement. In 1823 (January
25th) he married Catherine Lince,

BECKSTEAD, Henry, a veteran El-
der in the Church, was born Dec. 4,
1827, at Williamsburg, Canada, the
son of Alexander Beckstead and Cath-
erine Lince. He was baptized in the

spring of 1837 in Canada and soon af-
terwards migrated to Missouri, ar-
riving there in time to become subject
to the terrible persecutions through
which the Saints passed in that State.
Gathering with the Saints to Nauvoo,
Illinois, he later assisted his father's
family to emigrate to Utah in 1849.
They arrived in the Valley in Septem-

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747

ber and settled at Farmington, Davis
county. In 1851 Henry settled at East
Weber, at a place now known as Uin-
tah, where he laid out plans and took
out the first water for irrigation pur-
poses from the Weber river. He also
assisted to erect a fort at that place
in 1853. In 1854 he removed to Ogden,
where he became sheriff. In 1856 he
was called to go east to help in the
belated hand cart immigrants and the
following spring he was called to go
to the Devil's Gate to bring supplies
to the brethren who had been sta-
tioned there. In 1857 he participated
in the expedition to Echo canyon,
serving in the first cavalry, which
"went out to meet the Johnston army.
He was also a member of Lot Smith's
company at the time the government
wagons were burned and the cattle
stampeded. During the "move" in 1858
he went as far south as Provo, where
he left his family and returned to Og-
den in the fall, to which place his fam-
ily also returned later in the season.
He came to South Jordan in 1861. For
a number of years he acted as a minute
man and was captain of a cavalry com-
pany during the Black Hawk war. He
took an active part i nthe South Jor-
dan branch, then a part of the West
Jordan Ward, and when the South Jor-
dan Ward in 1877 was organized, he
was chosen as second counselor to
Bishop Wm. A. Bills. In 1866 he
went back east again and brought a
threshing machine to the Valley. Bro.
Beckstead attended the school of the
Prophets for a number of years in
Salt Lake City. As a pioneer settler
on the west side of the Jordan river,
he took a leading part in bringing the
canals through to South Jordan. In
1849 he married Luseen Bird Bybee,
who bore him five children, three boys
and two girls. In 1857 he married
Emily B. Williams, who became the
mother of six children (four boys and
two girls). In 1862 (March 2nd) he
married Emma Marsden and Eliza-
beth Woods. Emma bore him five
boys and Elizabeth became the mother

of two girls and a boy. About 1876
he married Mary H. Williams. By all
theses wives Bro. Beckstead became
the father of nineteen children. In
1887 he was arrested on the charge of
unlawful co-habitation and served a
term of imprisonment in the Utah
penitentiary. He was released from
his imprisonment in February, 1888,
but during his incarceration his health
was so completely ruined that he died,
September 3, 1888, at South Jordan.
His occupation was that of a farmer
and stock raiser. For a number of
years he furnished a team for the
Church to send east after poor emi-
grants.

BECKSTEAD, Henry Byram. (See
Vol. 1:593.) Bro. Beckstead served
four years as a Sunday school super-
intendent, commencing with 1897. He
has also served ten vears on the local

Old Folks committee and six years as
a home missionary in the Jordan Stake
of Zion. He has been an acting Ward
teacher since he was sixteen years old
and for forty years he has served his
fellow-citizens as sexton in South Jor-
dan.

BELNAP, Gilbert, Bishop of Hoop-
ei*, Weber county, Utah, was born Dec.

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LATTER-DAY SAINT

22, 1821, in Hope, Newcastle district,
Canada, the son of Rosel and Jane
Belnap. He married Adaline Knight
(daughter of Vincent and Martha
Knight) Dec. 21, 1845. She was born
in Cattaraugus county. New York,
May 4, 1831, and became the mother
of thirteen children. In 1840 Gilbert
visited Kirtland, Ohio, for the purpose
of becoming acquainted with the
"Mormons" of whom he had heard a
great deal. After being restored to
health from severe injuries he had
sustained in an accident, he became

a member of the Church, being bap-
tized Sept. 11, 1842. Soon afterwards
he was ordained to the Piiesthood and
set apart for the ministry. He labored
principally in the State of New York.
He first met the Prophet Joseph in
June, 1842, at Nauvoo, HI., and subse-
quently passed through all the hard-
ships and persecutions to which the
saints in Nauvoo and vicinity were
subjected. At the time of the exodus
in 1846 he came west and arrived in
Great Salt Lake Valley in 1850. He
settled at Ogden, and Weber county
thereafter became his permanent place
of residence. Here he spent his time

on the farm and in helping to redeem
the desert and provide comforts for
his family. In 1855 he was called as
a missionary to the Indians on Sal-
mon river (now in Idaho) and thus
became one of the founders of Fort
Limhi. Here he remained until the
time of Johnston army troubles. He
settled at Hooper in the spring of 1868
and was set apart as presiding Elder
of that settlement June 27, 1868; and
when the place was organized as a
Ward May 28, 1877, he was ordained
a Bishop and set apart to preside over
the same, which position he occupied
until April 20, 1888. He died at
Hooper Feb. 26, 1899, after occupying
many places of honor and responsibil-
ity in the civil government of Weber
county, aside from ecclesiastical la-
bors. Gilbert Belnap was a man of
quiet demeanor, honest, exceedingly
independent, a characteristic obtained
from the varied conditions of his life.
He was clear in judgment and full of
sympathy for the struggling and the
lowly. One of his leading traits was
valor to what his good judgment con-
sidered justice and the right. He
hated sham, dishonesty and oppres-
sion, was plain and outspoken and as
brave as he was true to his convic-
tions. He disliked simulation and
condemned hypocrisy. He was al-
ways faithful to his trusts and could
be depended upon as a true friend un-
der all circumstances. Bishop Bel-
nap was the father of a large family.

BOYCE, John, first counselor to
Bishop James A. Muir, of the Granite
Ward, Salt Lake county, Utah, was
born Feb. 22, 1842, on Madison Island
in the Mississippi river, near Nauvoo,
the son of Benjamin Boyce and Susan-
nah Content Judd. His parents came
from Leeds county, Canada, in May,
18-38, with Captain John E. Page, ar-
riving in Missouri in October. There
they shared in the persecutions of the
Saints and moved to Illinois in 1839
and lived for some time on Madison
Island. While residing there his

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father worked on the Nauvoo Tem-
ple. In July, 1840, his father, with
three others, was kidnaped by a mob
and taken to Tully, Lewis county, Mis-
souri. While there they were impris-
oned and whipped until they were al-
most dead. From this severe treat-
ment he never fully recovered, and
while journeying to Winter Quarters
in 1846 he died near Mount Pisgah.

John and his mother continued the
journey and arrived safely at Winter
Quarters. There his mother married
Hugh Day and moved to Iowa, Potta-
wattamie county, where they lived
until 1850, and then came on to Salt
Lake Valley in Wm. Snow's company.
Although John was but eight years of
age he walked nearly the entire dis-
tance across the plains, helping to
drive the loose herds. He was bap-
tized in 1851 by Benjamin T. Mitch-
ell; ordained a Priest in 1857 and an
Elder in 1858. That same year he
was ordained a Seventy and went
south with "the move" to the Provo
bottoms. After the Johnston army
trouble he returned to Salt Lake City.
In 1865 (Dec. 18th) he married Eliza-
beth Ann Keate, who became the
mother of six children. In 1873 he
moved to Granite. In 1879 (Jan. 30th)
he married Ella Eugenia Despain. By
her he has had eleven children. In

1879 (Sept. 5th) he was ordained a
High Priest and set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Solomon J. Des-
pain. He also acted as first counselor
to Bishop Alva Butler and since 1909
he has been first counselor to Bishop
James A. Muir. In 1861 and 1862 he
went to the States and helped the
emigrants across the plains. Bro.
Boyce acted as justice of the peace
for two years and his occupation has
been that of a farmer and fruitraiser.
He also was county fruit tree inspec-
tor for two years.

BUTLER, Alva. (Vol. 1: 578.) Bish-
op Butler died May 12th, 1909, at But-
lerville. Salt Lake county, Utah, sur-

vived by a wife and nine children. He
remained a faithful and true Latter-
day Saint until the last, and died "in
the harness."

BUTTLE, Joseph Acomb, Bishop of
the Provo First Ward, Utah county,
Utah, was born July 12, 1865, in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the son of Wm. But-
tle and Elizabeth Acomb. He was bap-
tized in 1873 by James T. Snarr; or-
dained a Deacon when foui-teen years
old; . ordained a Priest at the age of
seventeen, ordained an Elder January
20, 1889, by Robert R. Irvine, sen.;

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ordained a Seventy March 9, 1894, by
Seymour B. Young, and became a
president of the 34th quorum of Sev-
enty in 1911. Bishop Buttle received
a good education and attended the
University of Utah. In 1898 he moved
to Provo to enter into the banking
business, and since 1904 he has been
assistant cashier of the Provo Com-
mercial and Savings Bank. In 1899
he was chosen as secretary of the
Utah Stake Y. M. M. I. A. Later he
acted as second counselor and still
later first counselor; finally he was
president of said organization for
about five years. He was ordained a

with offspring (not having been
blessed with children); in answer to
his supplication his first born boy was
shown to him and promised him in
a dream, which promise was fulfilled
soon after his return home; and since
then he has been blessed with three
other sons.

CAIN, Joseph, a Utah pioneer of
1847 was born Nov. 5, 1824, at Doug-
las, Isle of Man, Great Britain, the
son of James Cain Esq. and Ann
Moore. Being converted to "Mormo-
nism" in his native land he joined
the Church about 1840, and was

High Priest Sept. 5, 1912, by Amos
N. Merrill and set apart as an alter-
nate member of the High Council in
the Utah Stake. He was ordained a
Bishop April 27, 1913, and set apart
by Apostle George Albert Smith to
preside over the Provo First Ward.
In 1889 (January 23rd) he married
Mary Bezzant (daughter of Luke Bez-
zant and Ellen Ball), who was born
in Hereford, England, May 7, 1868. In
March, 1894, he departed for a mission
to England and labored in the Leeds
conference, presiding over said con-
ference for fourteen months. While on
this mission he sought the Lord in
earnest prayer, asking to be shown
whether or not he would be blessed

ordained to the Priesthood, and in
1844 he emigrated to America, cros-
sing the ocean in company with his
brother in law, the late Pres. John
Taylor. While residing for a short
time in Nauvoo, 111., he worked in
the printing office with George Q.
Cannon, making his home with Pres.
John Taylor. In the spring of 1846
he was called on a mission to Great
Britain, where he labored until
February, 1847, when he returned
to the United States and joined
the main body of the Saints at
Winter Quarters; he crossed the
plains in company with Pres. John
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Valley in October, 1847. He took up
his permanent residence in Salt Lake
City, and in 1849 he was called to go
on a mission to California under the
direction of Elder Charles C. Rich.
During this hazardous journey they
attempted to reach California by
way of a cut-off; which added great-
ly to the dangers and duration of
the trip. They sufferred terribly,
especially for want of water, so
much so that when they reached
their destination their tongues were
swollen in their mouths, and they
were almost starved. Bro. Cain's
mission in California lasted about one
year. Upon his return to Utah in
1850 he became very active in both
public and private duties, for which
his unusual strong and active mind
peculiarly fitted him, and which
made him generally known among
the saints as a worthy and enter-
prising citizen as well as a true and
faithful Latter-day Saint. He became
associated with the "Deseret News",
in connection with Willard Richards
and Judge Elias Smith, and remained
on the staff of that paper up to the
time of his death, which occurred
April 20, 1857, in Salt Lake City.
Brother Cain possessed rare literary
abilities, and many productions of
his facile pen graced the columns
of the "Deceret News" at an early
day. At times he wrote in the
name of Homer, but often signed his
own name to his articles. During his
missionary trip to England he met
Miss Elizabeth Whittaker, who be-
came his wife Feb. 1, 1847, just prior
to his return to America. She made
the trip with him, and together they
endured all the trials and hardships
incident to pioneer life in Utah.
Mrs. Cain survived her husband and
lived until 1880. Joseph Cain was
the first postmaster in Salt Lake
City to be appointed by the govern-
ment. He joined the Church in op-
position to his relatives' wishes, and

was one af the most faithful and
consistent members, enjoying the
confidence and esteem of the commu-
nity amongst which he lived.

CAIN, Elizabeth Whittaker, wife of

Joseph Cain, was born Aug. 4, 1828,
in Blakedown, Worcestershire, Eng-
land. She became the wife of Joseph
Cain Feb. 1, 1847, and emigrated with
him to Utah in 1847. After residing
temporarily in the old fort and the
Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City, she
became a resident of the Fourteenth

Ward. She bore her husband two
children (Joseph Moore and Elizabeth
T.) and was a diligent Relief Society
worker, being a member of that so-
ciety when it was first organized in
the Fourteenth Ward. Sister Cain
was a woman of a most charitable dis-
position, ever ready to lend a helping
hand in times of trouble to all who
needed succor and support. She had
a most pleasing personality and made
a host of friends. Respected and be-
loved by all who knew her, she passed
to the great beyond March 26, 1880,
in Salt Lake City.

CALL, Anson Vasco, second coun-
selor in the presidency of the Star
Valley Stake, Wyoming, was born
May 2.3, 1855, at Willard, Box Elder

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county, Utah, the son of Anson Vasco
Call and Charlotte Holbrook. He was
baptized June 21, 1863, by Seth Dus-
tin; ordained an Elder Sept. 3, 1868,
by John Staker and ordained a High
Priest May 30, 1880, by Joseph F.
Smith. In 1885-1886 he filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain, laboring prin-
cipally in the Bristol and Norwich con-
ferences, part of the time as presi-
dent of the latter conference. At
home he has acted as teacher, secre-
tary and superintendent of the Ward

Sunday school. Stake superintendent
of Y. M. M. I. A. in the Davis Stake
from 1880 to 1885, president of an El-
ders quorum in Bountiful, Ward clerk
in Bountiful, assistant Stake superin-
tendent of Sunday schools in the Bear
Lake Stake, Stake president of Y. M.
M. I. A. in Star Valley, etc. He mar-
ried Alice J. Farnham May 17, 1876,
Lucy A. King Dec. 28, 1883, and Rosa
P. Stayner Oct. 1, 1884. By these
three wives he became the father of
twenty-six children.

CARLISLE, John Edward, a High
Councilor in the Cache Stake of Zion,
was born March 4, 1858, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, the son of John G. Car-
lisle and Margaret Kewley. He was
ordained an Elder in 1876, filled a mis-

sion to the Southern States in 1881-
1883, visited several Stakes of Zion
in the interest of Y. M. M. I. A. work,
edited the "Utah Journal" three and
a half years, was ordained a High
Priest June 13, 1884, and was set
apart as an alternate member of the
Cache Stake High Council, and be-
came a regular member of that body
in 1889. He has served in the Utah
legislature and was one of the foun-
ders of the Utah Agricultural College
at Logan. He has also served several
terms in the Logan city council. In
1890 he filled a short mission to Eng-
land, laboring as assistant editor of
the "Millennial Star." At home he has
filled a number of important posi-
tions in the Y. M. M. I. A. and Sun-
day school organizations. Finally he
was called to act as superintendent of
the Sunday schools in the Cache Stake,
which position he held for five years.
For several years he was one of the
lecturers in the Logan Temple. Al-
together .Bro. Carlisle is one of the
leading men of the Church in north-
ern Utah, and one of the prosperous
citizens of Cache county.

CASPER, Jedediah Grant, one of

the presidents of the 94th quorum of

Seventy, was born Aug. 18, 1857, at
Mill Creek, Salt Lake county, Utah,

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the son of William Wallace Casper and
Sarah Ann Bean. He was baptized in
July, 1867, by Edward F. M. Gest;
was ordained an Elder in February,
1874; ordained a Seventy March 20,
1887, by Timothy Gilbert, and later
ordained a High Priest by Walter J.
Woolley. He has taken an active part
as an officer in the Bluff dale Sunday
school and Y. M. M. I. A. From 1891
to 1900 he acted as a president in the
94th quorum of Seventy, and in 1896-
1897 he filled a mission to Australia
and New Zealand. In 1880 (Jan. 1st)
he married Annie A. Merrill, who has
borne him ten children.

CHRISTENSEN, Christian, Bishop
of Aurora, Sevier county, Utah, was
born March 6, 1874, at Oak City, Mil-
lard county, Utah, the son of Anthony
Christensen and Casstine Lovel. Both
his parents were true and faithful
Latter-day Saints; hence Bishop
Christensen can say truthfully that

he was born of goodly parents. He
was baptized when eight years of age;
ordained a Deacon when twelve years
old; ordained an Elder when seventeen
years of age (by Frederick R. Lyman)
and ordained a High Priest and Bish-
op June 29, 1902, by Anthon H.
Lund. Prior to his becoming Bishop

Vol. II. No. 48.

he was an active Church worker in
different capacities. He married Mary
E. Jacobsen Nov. 25, 1897, and is
principally engaged in stockraising
and farming.

CHRISTENSEN, Heber Christian,

Bishop of the Richfield First Ward,
Sevier county, Utah, was born May 11,
1870, at Huntsville, Weber county,
Utah, the son of Hans Christensen
and Johanna M. Poulsen, and was bap-
tized June 6, 1878. He came to Rich-
field in 1873 and still resides there.
He was ordained a Deacon Dec. 6,
1881, by P. E. Westman; ordained a
Teacher Feb. 6, 1889, by Gottlieb Enz;
ordained a Seventy May 25, 1891, by
Francis M. Lyman; ordained a High
Priest June 14, 1903, by Rudger Claw-
son, and ordained a Bishop Jan. 17,
1904, by Geo. Teasdale. As a boy he
was president of a Deacons quorum
and later presided over a Teachers
quorum. He also acted as an assis-
tant superintendent of a Ward Sunday
school and president of a Y. M. M.
I. A. He has acted as a Ward teach-
er, as a High Councilor and as a coun-
selor to the president of the High
Priests quorum. He has officiated as
Bishop of the Richfield First Ward
since 1903. In 1901 (April 10th) he
married Anna Petersen. In 1894-1897
he filled a mission to Scandinavia, la-
boring both in Norway and Denmark.

CHRISTENSEN, Simon, a member
of the High Council of the Sevier
Stake of Zion, was born Aug. 13, 1846,
in Bindslev, Hji^rring amt, Denmark.
Becoming converted to the Gospel he
was baptized June 28, 1867, by Elder
Hans Jensen Hals; was ordained an
Elder Sept. 1, 1867, and set apart to
labor as a missionary in the Aalborg
conference, in which capacity he la-
bored for a period of four years. Sept.
1, 1871, he left his native land to cast
his lot with the Saints in Zion, cross-
ing the Atlantic in the steamship "Ne-
vada," and crossing the American
Continent by rail; he landed in Salt
Lake City Sept. 27, 1871. After liv-

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ing there three years, he located in
Richfield, Sevier county (his present
home) in November, 1874. Here he
joined the United Order and remained
a member of the same until it was dis-
solved in the fall of 1877. Later he
worked as a mason and stonecutter.
For several years he held the position
of superintendent and salesman in

the Richfield Co-operative Mercantile
Institution. Previous to this he had
bought a small tract of land which
he added to from time to time, and
during the last twenty-five or thirty
years has devoted himself principally
to farming and dairying. Elder Chris-
tensen was married in Salt Lake City
July 22, 1872, to Bertha Marie Jen-
sen, a native of Denmark, which mar-
riage was blessed with nine children.
He was ordained a Seventy Aug. 6,
1876, by George Campkin, and or-
dained a High Priest April 27, 1877,
by Orson Pratt, and set apart as sec-
ond counselor to Bishop Wm. H. Seeg-
miller; July 15, 1877, he was chosen
as first counselor to Bishop Tarlton
Lewis, and in 1878 he was chosen as
first counselor to Bishop Joseph S.
Home; later he acted as a counselor
to Bishop Theodore Brandley. Thus
he labored in the Bishopric twenty-two
years. March 25, 1899, he was chosen

and set apart as a member of the High
Council of the Sevier Stake of Zion,
which position he still holds. For
seven years he labored in the Stake
superintendency of Sunday schools;
has acted as Sunday school superin-
tendent, president of Y. M. M. I. A.,
was for ten years a member of the
School Board, a member of the city
council for ten years and justice of
the peace for twenty-three years. For
many years he has been closely asso-
ciated with the irrigation projects of
the Sevier country and the promoting
and development of reservoir systems
in the central part of the State. In
1880-1882 he filled a mission to Scan-
dinavia, presiding over the Aalborg
conference. In 1907-1909 he filled an-
other mission to Scandinavia, laboring
as a traveling Elder in the Aalborg
conference. His wife died May 31,
1914, and on October 1, 1914, he mar-
ried Mette Marie Christensen. Bro.
Christensen is still hale and hearty
and busily engaged in public labors.

CHRISTENSEN, Joseph, the fifth
Bishop of Gunnison, Sanpete county,
Utah, was born March 7, 1871, at Gun-
nison, Sanpete county, Utah, the son
of Lars M. C. Christensen and Else
K. Christensen. He was baptized
when eight years of age; ordained a
Deacon and afterwards a Teacher;
was ordained an Elder Sept. 3, 1893,
by James Jensen; ordained a Seventy
Nov. 21, 1893, by Brigham H. Roberts,
and ordained a High Priest Aug. 10,
1902, by George Teasdale, and set
apart as second counselor in the Gun-
nison Ward Bishopric. In 1903 he
was ordained a Bishop and set apart
to preside over the Gunnison Ward.
Bro. Christensen was educated in the
public schools and in the Sanpete
Stake Academy at Ephraim and B. Y.
Academy at Provo; he has followed
school teaching for many years. In
1893 (Sept. 6th) he married Roxey
E. Bartholomew.

CHRISTIANSEN, James, second
counselor to Pres. Wm. H. Seegmiller

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of the Sevier Stake of Zion, was born
April 6, 1871, at Ephraim, Sanpete co.,
Utah, the son of Hans Christiansen
and Melona Nielsen. He was bap-
tized when nine years of age; ordained
a Deacon while yet young- and pre-
sided over a Deacons quorum. He
was ordained a Teacher in 1888, or-
dained an Elder in 1894, by Theodore
Brandley, ordained a Seventy Aug. 4,
1898, by J. Golden Kimball, and filled
a mission to the Northern States in
1898-1900, laboring principally in
Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Nebras-

ka. He presided a short time over
the Nebraska conference and after-
wards served as secretary of the
Northern States Mission, with head-
quarters in Chicago. In December,
1900, he became president of the 26th
quorum of Seventy, and he was or-
dained a High Priest and set apart
as second counselor in the presidency
of the Sevier Stake by Joseph F.
Smith, June 29, 1902. For many years
he was an active officer in the Ward
Y. M. M. I. A.; was also Ward teach-
er, Sunday school superintendent, etc.
He also served Richfield as city treas-
urer and mayor and has from his early
youth been a leading citizen of Rich-
field. In 1894 (Nov. 28th) he married
Oline Olsen.

CLARK, James Cecil, second coun-
selor to Bishop Heber Swindle, of the
Monroe South Ward, Sevier county,
Utah, was born May 5, 1883, at Pan-
guitch, Garfield county, Utah, the son
of Riley Garner Clark and Margaret
Houston. He was baptized and con-
firmed June 28, 1891, by James Hous-
ton; ordained a Teacher Aug. 23, 1898,
by Allen Miller; ordained an Elder
Sept. 7, 1903, by James B. Heywood;
ordained a Seventy Sept. 2, 1906, by
Adelbert Twitchell and ordained
a High Priest June 22, 1913, by
Hyrum M. Smith. On the last named
date he was also set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Swindle. Bro
Clark was educated in the common
schools of Utah, the B. Y. University
of Provo (1897-1902) and the Agri-
cultural College at Logan (1902-1903)
and graduated from the Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia in
1897 as a doctor of medicine. He is
now practicing his profession at Mon-
roe. In 1905 (Sept. 27th) he married
Laura Clark (daughter of Albert D.
Clark and Mary Brown), born March
12, 1887. She has borne her husband
four children (Dacosta, Riley G.,
James Kyle and Cecil).

CLARKE, James Hill, first coun-
selor to President Stephen L. Chip-
man of the Alpine Stake, Utah county,
Utah, was born Dec. 23, 1862, in
American Fork, Utah, the son of
James Clarke and Ellen Drew Gem-
mell. His father was one of the first
settlers of American Fork, locating
there in the fall of 1852. James at-
tended the common schools, being a
student of "Aunt Edithy," Mrs. Grif-
fiths, Eugene A. Henriod and Joseph
B. Forbes, and attended the B. Y.
Aacademy one year. He has always
been active in public affairs, and es-
pecially in Church matters. He was
baptized about 1871 by Thomas Shel-
ley, and was ordained to the Priest-
hood when quite young, was secretary
of the American Fork Sunday school,
and was also secretary, counselor and
president of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A.

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at different times. He filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain in 1890-1892,
serving two years in England and
Scotland. After acting for some time
as one of the presidents of a quorum
of Seventy, he was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as an alternate
High Councilor in the Utah Stake by
Reed Smoot, April 15, 1900, and on
July 15, 1900, was set apart by Geo.
Teasdale as a regular member of the
same council. When the Utah Stake

was divided in 1901, he was chosen as
the first counselor to the president of
the Alpine Stake, which position he
still holds. Dec. 19, 1894, he married
Bertha Harrison Jackson, who has
borne him nine children, namely
James M., Albert H., Willard H., Pe-
ter J., John L., Henry G., Helen Drew,
Robert A. and Bertha E. All of these
children are now living, except Al-
bert H., who died in infancy. As early
as 1887 Bro. Clarke was elected and
served as alderman of American
Fork. He has also served several years
as a city councilor, and was mayor in
1904-1905. While he served as mayor
the first steps were taken to intro-
duce a water system into the city.
During all his service as a public of-
ficer Bro. Clarke made a clean and
honest record. In a business way he

started out as a farmer, his father
having died when the son was but ten
years old. Thus he was left together
with two sisters and one brother to be
cared for by their mother, he being
the oldest of the four; hence quite ear-
ly in life he learned to work to help
support the family. He afterwards
worked in the American Fork Co-op-
erative Store, and was superintendent
of that institution for 14 years, dur-
ing which time it made a steady and
substantial growth. He has been one
of the pioneers of Utah county in the
dry farming industry, and has from
his early youth stood in the front
ranks for everything tending to the
advancement and progress in secular
as well as in ecclesiastical affairs.

CLARK, William Henry, first coun-
selor to Wm. H. Seegmiller of the Se-
vier Stake of Zion, was born Jan. 10^

1838, at Madison, Hancock county, 111.,
the son of Samuel G. Clark and Roxi-
na Frizill. He came to Utah with his
parents in 1849 and as a pioneer he
saw and passed through many trials
and hardships; he also participated in
several Indian wars. He was bap-
tized in 1850; ordained an Elder in
1853; ordained a Seventy in 1857 and
ordained a High Priest by Lorenzo

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Snow June 24, 1887, on which occa-
sion also he was set apart as second
counselor to Albert K. Thurber, pres-
ident of the Sevier Stake. He labored
in that capacity till May 26, 1888,
when he became second counselor to
Pres. Wm. H. Seegmiller, and on May
21, 1894, he was set apart as first
counselor to Pres. Seegmiller. He la-
bored in that position till 1892, when
he resigned.

CLAYTON, Thomas, one of the ear-
ly missionaries of the Church in the
Hawaiian Islands, was born May 15,
1826, near Manchester ,England, the
son of Thomas Clayton and Ann
Critchlow. He was one of a family of
twenty-one children born to his par-
ents, fourteen of whom left England
and came to America in the early
forties and settled in Nauvoo, 111. One

of his brothers was the late Wm. Clay-
ton (one of the original Utah pio-
neers of 1847). The mother of Thos.
Clayton died in Nauvoo in 1848. The
father moved with his family to St.
Louis, Mo., where he died in 1849,
leaving Thomas an orphan at the age
of seventeen. Thos. Clayton came to
Utah in 1849 and passed through all
the vicissitudes of pioneer life. Later
he assisted a number of belated emi-

grant trains over the plains and moun-
tains. In 1856-1858 he filled a mis-
sion to the Sandwich Islands, and at
the time of the Johnston army episode
he was left to guard Salt Lake City
when the populace moved south. In
1861 he was called to St. George,
where he labored zealously to build
up the southern part of Utah. Later
in the sixties he went to Bear Lake
Valley, Idaho, and opened up the pio-
neer butcher shop in Paris. He was
a cai-penter by trade and built a num-
ber of houses in different localities
where he lived. During the Indian
troubles in the early history of Utah
he was valliant in the defence of the
settlers. He participated in the
Black Hawk war and in fighting he
received several scars which he car-
ried till his dying day. At the time
he resided in Paris, Bear Lake Valley,
there were no doctors, but when any
member of a family was sick and
needed asistance, they looked to Thom-
as Clayton to help them, he being a
man of efficient ability as a nurse and
possessed a cheerful disposition. Fre-
quently he would wait upon the sick
for days and night, never getting tired
as long as he could help them; if the
patient died he would wash and dress
them and prepare them for burial, and
in most instances he did his work as
a labor of love, money being the least
consideration. He was tender-hearted
and compassionate, feeling the suf-
fei'ings and misfortunes of others as
his own. He carried the mantle of
charity with him always, never speak-
ing evil even of those who wronged
him most. He met every trial with
resignation, ever seeking to hide the
clouds by a cheerful countenance and
a kind word to someone else. Bro.
Clayton died beloved and respected by
all who knew him, March 17, 1914, at
Murray, Salt Lake county, Utah, leav-
ing eight living children.

COOK, Thomas, an active Elder in
the Noa-th Jordan Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Nov. 14, 1840,
in Gloucestershire, England, the son

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of John Cook and Ann Denley. He
was baptized July 23, 1853, by Wm.
Panter; married Anna Harris in May,
1863, and emigrated to America that
year, crossing the Atlantic in the ship
"Cynosure" and the plains in Thos.

old and emigrated to Utah in 1856,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Hor-
izon" and the plains in Edward Mar-
tin's handcart company. Her father
and two brothers died on the plains,
while the three girls reached the Val-

E. Ricks' company. After residing
temporarily in Salt Lake City, he be-
came a permanent resident of Taylors-
ville in 1865. He was ordained an
Elder in 1864 by Joseph F. Smith,
married Mary Ellen Normington
March 17, 1866, was ordained a Sev-
enty several years later and finally
ordained a High Priest May 27, 1908,
by Joseph W. Musser. For a num-
ber of years he acted as an officer in
the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. and as a
Ward teacher. His special calling has
been to administer to the sick. By
occupation Bro. Cook is a farmer.
Four of his sons have filled foreign
missions.

COOK, Mary Ellen Normington,

wife of Thos. Cook, was born June 5,
1847, at Burnley, Lancashire, Eng-
land, the daughter of Thomas Nor-
mington and Mariah Jackson. She
was baptized when about eight years

ley after untold sufferings; they are
still alive. In 1866 (March 17th)
Mary became the wife of Thomas
Cook, to whom she has borne twelve
children ; eight of these are still living.
Sister Cook has been a prominent and
active worker in the Ward Relief So-
ciety for forty years, and for five
years she acted as a special mission-
ary in the interest of Relief Society
work.

COON, John, a veteran Elder of the
Pleasant Green Ward, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born Nov. 30, 1832,
in St. Clair county, Illinois, the old-
est son of Abraham Coon and Eliza-
beth Yardbrough. He was baptized
when about ten years old; came to
Utah with his parents in 1850; mar-
ried Mary T. York; was ordained an
Elder and later a Seventy by Joseph
Young, and became a member of the
33rd quorum. He was the father of

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ten children and was a farmer and
stockraiser by avocation. He died in

Pleasant Green July 8, 1906.

COON, Mary Tobytha York, wife of
John Coon, was born March 3, 1834,
at Nashville, Tennessee, the daugh-

ter of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth
York. She was baptized in 1841, mi-
grated to G. S. L. Valley in 1847 in
Daniel Spencer's company (Perrigrine
Sessions' fifty). She drove a team
all the way across the plains. After
residing in different parts of Utah,

she was married to John Coon March
12, 1854. By him she became the
mother of ten children, seven of whom
are now living. Sister Coon was the
first white woman who settled near
the West Mountain; she settled there
as early as 1854.

DAVIS, Edward, a High Councilor
in the Star Valley Stake, Wyoming,
was born Nov. 11, 1842, in London,
England, the son of George Davis and
Mary Ann Timson. He was baptized
in the White Chapel branch, London,
England, about 1852; went to Aus-
tralia in 1863, where he remained un-
til 1874, when he emigrated to Utah.

He was ordained an Elder by Thomas
Taylor in Salt Lake City; labored as
a Ward teacher and choir leader in
the Fourteenth Ward; was ordained a
Seventy in the year 1875 by Pres.
Joseph Y'oung and removed to Bear
Lake Valley, Idaho, in 1881. He filled
a mission to England in 1885-1887,
laboring principally in Bedfordshire
and Herefordshire, the last few
months as president of the London
conference. He organized a new
branch called the West London branch.
While in England his wife Ellen
Rhine (whom he had married in
1872) died. In 1881 he married

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Frances A. Goodsall and in 1889 he
married Annie Tueller. By his sev-
eral wives he is the father of eleven
children. In 1888 he was ordained a
High Priest and set apart as a High
Councilor in the Star Valley Stake,
being- set apart to that position Feb.
12, 1898. From 1899 to 1902 he acted
as first assistant Stake superintend-
ent of Sunday schools in the Star Val-
ley Stake. While residing temporarily
in the Teton Basin, Idaho, he acted
as Religion Class teacher and choir
leader. During all his associations
with the Church Bro. Davis has held
positions as chorister, as he possesses
talent in composing music and poetry.
While laboring in the Londen confer-
ence, several of his productions in
prose and poetry were published in the
"Millennial Star."

DAVIS, William K., a Bishop of the
Baker Ward, Union Stake, Oregon,
was born Sept. 2, 1877, at Deleno,
Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, the
son of David D. Davis and Cedy Da-
vis. He was the fourth son and ninth
child of a family of twelve. The elder
Davis and wife had accepted the gos-
pel in Wales, and had started to emi-
grate to Utah, but running short of
means, stopped over in Pennsylvania
twelve years. About a year after
William K. was born the family went
on to Utah, living first in Salt Lake
City. They then moved to Red Creek,
Iron county, remaining there over a
year, when they moved to Logan. Wil-
liam K. shared the lot of the ordinary
boy, working here and there to make
a living, assisting his father, who was
a blacksmith in the employ of the
railroad, and securing but small op-
portunity for scholastic education. But
nature endowed him with wit — and he
learned wisdom, being of a deter-
mined, energetic character, and what-
ever he undertook to do, he did with
all his might. In March, 189(3, he left
Logan for Baker City, Oregon, to en-
ter the employ of the Oregon Lum-
ber Company, and he has, with the

exception of something over two
years spent in the mission field, re-
mained with said company up to the
present writing (Dec, 1902). He so
well filled the various trusts reposed
in him by his employers that on May
3, 1902, he was made manager of the
company's extensive mercantile es-
tablishment at Baker City. Bishop
Davis' nature was always deeply re-
ligious, and he always took an active
part in ecclesiastical affairs. He has
held with honor many positions in the
Church, commencing as librarian in
the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Logan Third
Ward, and was successively music di-
rector of the Logan Second Ward Y.
M. M. I. A., assistant music director
of the Sunday school of the Logan
Second Ward ,etc. When the first Y.
M. M. I. A. was organized in Baker
City, he was chosen as counselor to
the president, holding the same posi-
tion under two succeeding presidents.
Accepting a call to the mission field,
he was set apart June 25, 1890, for
the Northwestern States Mission. He
labored with success in Anaconda,
Montana, and in seven counties of the
State of Washington, baptized a few
souls and made many friends; he was
honorably released Feb. 18, 1900. Af-
ter visiting with his parents for a
time he again returned to Baker. In
1900 (June 27th) he married Emily
Stoddard (daughter of John and Eli-
zabeth Yeates Stoddard). June 9,
1901, he was chosen to act as Bishop
of the Baker Ward, and was ordained
the same date under the hands of
Apostle Abraham O. Woodruff. His
counselors were Wm. J. Wale and
Jens C. Westergaard. Bishop Davis
is progressive, and under his direc-
tion an $800.00 addition to the branch
assembly hall and other improvements
were made.

DORIUS, Carl Christian Nikolai,

the first Bishop of the Ephraim
South Ward, Sanpete county, Utah,
was born April 5, 1830, in Copenha-
gen, Denmark, the son of Nicolai Dor-

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ius and Anna Sophia Christoffersen.
Being a convert to "Mormonism" he
was baptized by his brother, John F.
F. Dorius, Jan. 2, 1853. Soon after-
wards he was ordained to the Priest-
hood and labored most diligently and
successfully as a missionary in Nor-
way and Denmark, nearly five years,
during which time he suffered much
persecution and was imprisoned sev-
eral times for the gospel's sake. He

and Susannah Brearley. He was bap-
tized May 8, 1850, by Joseph Hall, in
Derby; was ordained a Deacon March
16, 1851, by Jacob Gates; ordained a
Teacher Feb. 17, 1852, in Derby; emi-
grated to Utah in 1853; was ordained
a Seventy Feb. 12, 1854, by John Back;
located at Ogden in 1855; served as
clerk and recorder in the Ogden Sec-
ond Ward from 1856 to 1858; labored
as a Ward teacher from 1856 to 1879;

emigrated to Utah in 1857, crossing
the plains in a handcart company, and
settled in Ephi-aim, Sanpete county,
where he spent the remainder of his
days. In 1860-1863 he filled a mis-
sion to Scandinavia, laboring as a
traveling Elder in the Christiania con-
ference, Norway. When the Sanpete
Stake of Zion was reorganized in
1877, and Ephraim was divided into
two Wards, Brother Dorius was or-
dained a Bishop and set apart to pre-
side over the South Ward. He filled
that position ably and faithfully till
his death, which occurred at Ephraim,
March 4, 1894.

DOXEY, Thomas, a High Councilor
in the Weber Stake of Zion, was born
March 27, 1829, at Derby, Derbyshire,
England, the son of Thomas Doxey

was set apart as one of the presidents
of the 60th quorum of Seventy Feb.
11, 1859, by Lyman A. ShurtlifF; or-
dained a High Priest and set apart as
a High Councilor in the Weber Stake
March 19, 1870, by Geo. Q. Cannon,
and was set apart as second counselor
to Bishop Robt. McQuarrie in 1879.
Bro. Doxey served as water master
for Ogden City from 1870 to 1883; was
appointed a councilman for the sec-
ond municipal ward, Ogden, in 1882;
served as superintendent of the Ogden
Second Ward Sunday School from
1867 to 1881; was set apart as first
counselor to Bishop Robt. McQuarrie
July 6, 1884, and served thus till 1889.
He was appointed an alternate High
Councilor Jan. 19, 1890, and became a
j-egular member of that body July 18,
1892. Bro. Doxey died in Ogden,
March 25, 1903.

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DYKES, George Parker, a member
of the Mormon Battalion and an
early Elder in the Church, was born
Dec. 24, 1814, in St. Clair county, Il-
linois, the son of James and Fanny
Dykes. He embraced the gospel in
the days of the Prophet Joseph and
labored extensively as a missionary
after being ordained a Seventy May
12, 1839, under the hands of Joseph

Young and others. While laboring as
a missionary in Illinois he baptized
the first Norwegians who ever joined
the Church, in La Salle county, Illi-
nois. As an officer in the Mormon
Battalion he marched from Fort Leav-
enworth to California in 1846-1847. In
1849 he was called on a mission to
Great Britain, whence he accompanied
Erastus Snow to Scandinavia in June,
1850; he labored principally in the
cities of Copenhagen and Aalborg,
Denmark, and then went to Germany.
Bro. Dykes died at Zenos, Maricopa
county, Ariz., Feb. 25, 1888, about 83
years old.

FIELDING, Joseph, the second
president of the British Mission, was
born March 26, 1797, at Honeydon, a
village about nine miles from Bed-
ford, Bedfordshire, England, the son
of John and Rachel Fielding. He emi-

grated to Upper Canada in 1832,
where he four years later became a
convert to "Mormonism" under the
teachings of Apostle Parley P .Pratt,
by whom he was baptized May 21,

1836. He was ordained a Priest in
April, 1837, and removed to Kirtland,
Ohio, the following May. In June,

1837, he was called by the Prophet
Joseph Smith to accompany Elders

Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde and
others on their first mission to Eng-
land. They left Kirtland to fill this
mission June 13, 1837, sailed from
New York on the ship "Garrick," July
1st, and arrived in Liverpool, England,
July 20, 1837. The successful open-
ing for preaching the gospel in Pres-
ton, England, was partly due to the
fact that Joseph Felding had rela-
tives residing in that city. Together
with his brethren, who had accom-
panied him from America, he com-
menced successful missionary labors
in his native land, and was ordained
an Elder by Heber C. Kimball Oct. 28,
1837. Upon the departure of Heber C.
Kimball and Orson Hyde from Eng-
land for America in the spi-ing of 1838,
Joseph Fielding was placed in charge
of the mission in Great Britain, being
ordained a High Priest April 1, 1838,
by Heber C. Kimball. Bro. Fielding^

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presided over the British Mission with
faithfulness and fidelity until the ar-
rival of Brigham Young and other
members of the quorum of the Twelve
in April, 1840. The following year
Bro. Fielding was honorably released
from his mission in Great Britain to
return to America. He sailed from
Liverpool Sept. 21, 1841, on board the
ship "Tyrean," in charge of a com-
pany of emigrating saints, who ar-
rived in Nauvoo, Illinois, in November,
1841. Elder Fielding remained in
Nauvoo until the general exodus of
the Saints in 1846, when he shared in
the persecutions and hardships that
befell his people who were driven
away from Illinois by mob violence.
After spending about two years on
the frontiers, he arrived in G. S. L,
Valley in the fall of 1848. Soon af-
terwards he located at Mill Creek, Salt
Lake county, where he resided until
the day of his death, which occurred
Dec. 19, 1863, he being 66 years, 8
months and 22 days old when he
passed to the great beyond. As his
life had been virtuous and useful, so
his death was peaceful and happy.
("Deseret News" 13: 204.)

GIBBONS, William Oliver, second
counselor to Bishop James Vernon, of
Rockport, Summit county, Utah, was
born at Rockport, Nov. 6, 1870. He
was baptized when about eight years
old; was ordained a Deacon, Teacher
and Elder successively; acted as a
Sunday school officer for several years,
and as secretary of an Elders quorum,
being ordained an Elder in 1895 by
Daniel Lewis; filled a mission to the
Southwestern States in 1900-1902;
was ordained a High Priest June 22,
1902, and set apart as second coun-
selor to Bishop James Vernon of
Rockport. In 1903 he was set apart as
first counselor to David Seamons of
the Rockport Y. M. M. I. A. and in
1904 he became president of said as-
sociation.

GIBBS, Horace, a Utah pioneer of
1848, was born March 25, 1787, in Al-

bany county. New York, the son of
Lovell and Polly Gibbs. He became a
member of the Church in his early
youth, and migrated to G. S. L. Valley
in 1848, crossing the plains in Brig-
ham Young's company. Soon after-
wards he went to California, but re-
turned to the Valley in 1849 and helped
to build a saw mill in City Creek can-

yon. He became a permanent resident
of the Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake
City, where he died Aug. 18, 1875,
as a staunch member of the Church.
His wife, Charlotte Clark (whom he
married Jan. 10, 1852) was born May
24, 1827, baptized Aug. 13, 1853, and
died Nov. 24, 1878. She was the moth-
er of one child (Hannah M.).

HOLLADAY, Abraham, a High

Councilor in the Utah Stake of Zion,
was born Aug. 25, 1824, at Fillongley,
Warwickshire, England, the son of
William Holladay and Sarah Batchel-
or. He was baptized Jan. 24, 1848;
ordained a Teacher in October, 1848,
by Wm. Bramall; ordained an Elder
in January, 1849, by Alfred Cordon;
emigrated to America in 1849; resid-
ed in Iowa two years, and came to
Utah in 1852. He was ordained a Sev-
enty soon afterwards; acted as second

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counselor to Bishop James W. Love-
less at Provo; filled a mission to the
White Mountains in 1858, and filled
another short mission to England in
1881. Bro. Holladay has always been

a diligent Church worker. In 1845
(Jan. 27th) he married Ella Reese and
subsequently married other wives. He
is the father of 19 children. He was
ordained a High Priest in June, 1876,
bj' Abraham O. Smoot.

HANKS, Ephraim Knowlton, a

Patriarch in the Church and a Utah
pioneer of 1847, was born March 2,
1827, in Maddison, Lake county, Ohio,
the son of Benjamin Hanks and Mar-
tha Knowlton. Until he was sixteen
years of age Ephraim worked with
his father (who was an edge tool mak-
er or blacksmith), after which he left
home and went to Boston, where he
enlisted as a sailor before the mast in
the U. S. man of war "Columbus,"
which carried 74 guns. He served on
board that ship for three years, dur-
ing which time he visited France,
Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Brazil and oth-
er countries. On one occasion he had
a narrow escape from drowning; while
working on top, he fell accidentally
from the fore royal yard into the
foretop, but was saved by his grasp-

ing a rope, while his two companions
were killed. One of these fell over-
board and was drowned; the other fell
to the deck and was mashed. Eph-
raim was discharged in New York in
1844 and returned to his home in
Ohio. In the meantime his father
had died and his brother had joined
the Church. Through being warned
in a dream the latter paid a visit to
his mother's home and there met his
returned brother, Ephraim, to whom
he related how he (the brother) had
been miraculously healed from a bad
case of rupture through the admin-

istrations of the Elders. The mother
being displeased with her son who had
joined the "Mormon" Church, induced
Ephraim to call in three of the ablest
sectarian preachers in the neighbor-
hood. They came promptly and dis-
cussed with his brother, but were
beaten in the argument. As usual in
such cases, the ministers got angry
and commenced to abuse the baptized
brother; they also called Joseph Smith
a murderer, a horse thief, a black
leg, etc., adding that all his followers
were like him. This accusation raised
the ire of Ephraim, who immediately
seized a chair and drove the three
ministers out of the house, declaring
at the same time that henceforth he
would remain a friend and defender

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of Joseph Smith. He kept his word.
Ephraim now went to Chicago, 111.,
and reached Nauvoo in 1845. Here
he was baptized by Horace S. Eld-
redge. He was also ordained a Sev-
enty and went to work on the Nauvoo
Temple. He enlisted in the first com-
pany of pioneers which was sent west
from Nauvoo, but before he could get
ready to start, he was sent to Indian-
apolis, Indiana, after a company of
Saints who returned with him to Nau-
voo. Soon after that he left Nauvoo
with the companies going west and
had got as far as Mount Pisgah, Iowa,
when President Brigham Young came
along raising volunteers for the Mor-
mon Battalion. Ephraim offered his
services at once, enlisted and marched
as a private in Company B to San
Diego, Cal. Thence, after serving his
time, he came to Great Salt Lake
Valley in 1847. He spent the winter
in the "Old Fort" and in the spring
of 1848 located a farm, on Mill Creek,
near the spot where John Neff the
same year built his mill. In the fall
of that year he went east as far as
Sweetwater to meet President Brig-
ham Young's company. After his re-
turn he became the first pound keeper
in Salt Lake City, Horace S. Eldredge
being his assistant. Subsequently, in
the winter of of 1850-1851, he hired
out to Mr. Magers to take mails out
on the plains. Later he took a con-
tract to carry the mail over the plains,
with Feramorz Little and Chas. Deck-
er as partners, and remained in that
business for three years. In 1856 he
rendered very efficient aid in helping
the handcart companies into the val-
ley. (See "Contributor," Vol. 14.)
For all these public services he never
received any remuneration. He took
an active part in the so-called Echo
Canyon war during the years 1857
and 1858. He served as captain of the
life guards and escorted Col. Thomas
L. Kane to Fort Bridger early in 1858,
returning with him safely to Salt
Lake City. During the campaign El-
der Hanks made a most bold and

daring exploit, by which he took a
band of horses and mules from the
soldiers. For many years Elder Hanks
was kept on the frontiers and passed
through some very interesting ex-
periences. During "the move" in 1858
he went to Provo, and after his re-
turn he settled at Mountain Dell, Par-
ley's Canyon, between Big and Little
Mountain. Here he kept a trading
post, doing a good business. He also
built a number of houses and barns,
but finally sold out his improvements
in the canyon, bought a saw mill and
located near Heber City, Wasatch
county. There he lived till the break-
ing out of the Black Hawk war in
1865, when he removed to Salt Lake
City. He spent several months in the
mountains, mainly in Sanpete county,
participating in many daring adven-
tures in Indian fighting, but he was
always proud of being able to say
that he never killed an Indian. Prior
to this he had taken an active part in
the Indian wars of 1848 and 1853. Af-
ter the Black Hawk war he engaged
in stockraising in Parley's Park and
found the first silver quartz on the
spot where the rich mines of Park
City now are situated. Being advised
by President Young to purchase Lee's
Ferry, on the Colorado river, he sold
out his improvements in Parley's Park
in 1877 and made all preparations to
start south when President Young
took sick and died; that altered his
program. President John Taylor,
however, also advised him to go south,
which he did, and settled in Burrville,
Grass Valley. This being a cold re-
gion, he soon changed location and,
moving farther east, he settled in a
box canyon on Pleasant Creek, a small
tributary of the Fremont river. There
the writer of these lines visited him in
June, 1891. His place of abode was a
cozy little nook in an opening in the
mountain where there is a few acres
of land on which Bro. Hanks had set
out about 200 fruit trees and was mak-
ing a comfortable home. At this ro-
mantic mountain retreat Bro. Hanks

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died, June 9, 1896. Prior to his de-
mise he had been ordained a Patri-
arch. (A. J.)

HANSEN, Hans Christian, one of

the original Utah pioneers of 1847,
was born Nov. 23, 1806, in Copenha-
gen, Denmark, the son of Ole Peter
Hansen and Martha Margrete Os-
mundsen. He went to sea as a boy
and during his many voyages he vis-
ited America several times. On one of
these visits, while stopping at Bos-
ton, Mass., he became converted to
"Mormonism," and was baptized there
in the summer of 1842 by Elder F.
Nickerson. The following year he mi-
grated to Nauvoo, 111., where he be-
came well acquainted with the Prophet
Joseph and worked on the Temple.
Afterwards he suffered with the rest
of the Saints during their exodus in
1846 and the subsequent journeyings
across the plains. When the pioneer
corps was organized in the spring of
1847, Brother Hansen was chosen as
one of that body, and arrived in G. S.
L. City July 24, 1847. He was the
only man of Scandinavian birth among
these pioneers. Brother Hansen was
one of the earliest fiddlers of Utah and
lived a lonely life without the care of
a family. In 1862-1863 he filled a
short mission to Scandinavia, earning
his passage across the Atlantic both
going and returning as a sailor be-
fore the mast. For a number of years
Bro. Hansen was a resident of Salina,
Sevier county, Utah, where he died
Oct. 10, 1890.

HANSEN, Peter Olsen, one of the

Elders who introduced the fulness of
the gospel into Scandinavia, was born
June 11, 1818, in Copenhagen, Den-
mark, the son of Ole Peter Hansen
and Martha Margrete Osmundsen. He
went to America in 1843 and being
converted to "Mormonism" he was
baptized by his brother, Hans C. Han-
sen, in Boston, March 7, 1844. Soon
afterwards he migrated to Nauvoo,
111. Brother Hansen was the third

Dane who embraced the fulness of the
gospel. The first person of Danish
birth who was baptized by Divine au-
thority was Peter Clemensen, who em-
braced the gospel in Boston, but apos-
tatized afterwards. The second Dane
to be baptized was Hans Christian
Hansen, a brother of Peter O. Hansen.
While residing in Nauvoo, engaged
in working on the Temple, Bro. Peter
0. Hansen commenced to translate the
Book of Mormon into the Danish lan-
guage. He came west during the ex-
odus of 1846 and arrived in Salt Lake
Valley in September, 1847. In Oc-

tober, 1849, he was called to take a
mission to Denmark as a companion
to Apostle Erastus Snow. He arrived
in Copenhagen May 11, 1850, and
while filling his mission in Sandina-
via, he continued and finished his
translation of the Book of Mormon in
the Danish language, and otherwise
assisted Elder Erastus Snow in found-
ing the Scandinavian Mission. He
also became the first translator and
writer for "Skandinaviens Stjerne."
the Church organ in the Danish-Nor-
wegian language. He returned to Utah
from this mission in 1855. In 1873-
1875 he filled another mission to Scan-
dinavia, presiding a part of the time
over the Aalborg conference. In 1880-

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1882 he filled a third mission to
Scandinavia, during which he labored
a part of the time as writer for "Skan-
dinaviens Stjerne." Brother Hansen
died at Manti, Sanpete county, Utah,
Aug. 9, 1895. During his life time
he married three wives, by whom he
was the father of several children.

HARDER, Willet Shave, a Partri-
arch in the Summit Stake of Zion,
Summit county, Utah, was born June
7, 1822, at Sandford, Hampshire, Eng-
land, the son of John Harder and Eli-
zabeth Shave. He was baptized June

HARDMAN, Lehi Nephi, the first
Bishop of Pleasant Green, Salt Lake
county, Utah, was born June 12,
1841, near Manchester, Lancashire,
England, the son of Richard Hard-
man and Margaret Olden. As an in-
fant he emigrated to America with
his parents, who located at Nauvoo,
Illinois, and participated in the exodus
of the Saints in 1846, but spent sev-

8, 1848, by John Lewis, and was soon
afterward ordained to the Priesthood,
after which he labored for ten years
as a local missionary in his native
land, principally in the Southampton,
Wiltshire and Bristol conferences. He
emigrated to Utah in 1861, crossing
the Atlantic in the ship "Underwrit-
er," and after residing in Coalville,
Summit county, eight years, he moved
to Kamas in 1869, where he acted as
presiding Elder from 1869 to 1877, and
as first counselor to Bishop Samuel
F. Atwood from 1877 to 1901, when
he was ordained a Patriarch. Bro.
Harder died at Kamas May 13, 1902.
By Ann Kerley, whom he mamned May
14, 184.3, he had four children.

eral years in Missouri and came to G.
S. L. Valley in 1852. After residing
a number of years in Salt Lake City
and Huntsville, Weber county, Bro.
Hardman settled permanently in
Pleasant Green, where he was or-
dained a High Priest Sept. 7, 1878, by
Daniel H. Wells, and set apart as pre-
siding Priest of the Pleasant Green
branch. From 1882 to 1892 he acted
as Bishop of the Pleasant Green
Ward. In 1860 (June 15th) he mar-
ried Frances Ann Coon, who bore him
eleven children.

HARDMAN, Frances Ann Coon,

wife of Lehi N. Hardman, was born
Aug. 15, 1843, in Greene county, Il-
linois, the daughter of Abraham Coon
and Elizabeth Yardbrough. She came
to Utah with her parents in 1850 and
was married to Lehi N. Hardman June
15, 1860, by whom she became the

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mother of eleven children, four sons
and seven daughters. For many years

Sister Hardman has been an active
Relief Society worker.

HUMPHREY, Thomas Griffin, first

counselor to Bishop Godtfred Lorent-
zen (the first Bishop of the Salina
North Ward, Sevier county, Utah),

viras born Dec. 6, 1849, at Fayetteville,
Georgia, the son of John Humphrey
and Almina Murphy. He was baptized
May 4, 1870, by Cornelius Green, and
migrated to Utah in 1870. After re-

siding five years in Mill Creek, Salt
Lake county, he became a permanent
settler at Salina, where he still re-
sides. He was ordained an Elder Oct.
21, 1872, by Samuel H. B. Smith; or-
dained a Seventy Oct. 5, 1886, by Hans
O. Magleby, and became one of the
presidents of the 107th quorum of
Seventy June 18, 1893; was ordained
a High Priest June 18, 1908, and set
apart as first counselor to Bishop
Lorentzen by Wm. H. Seegmiller. In
1891-1893 he filled a mission to Great
Britain, laboring in the Manchester
conference. At home Bro. Humphrey
has acted as justice of the pease of the
Salina precinct for eleven years, was
deputy sheriff and deputy assessor
and collector three years, and served
as a member of the town board four
years. In 1873 (Dec. 21st) he mar-
ried Ellen M. Bailey (daughter of Geo.
B. Bailey and Elizabeth Young), who
was born Dec. 10, 1856, in Mill Creek,
Salt Lake county; she has borne her
husband twelve children ( seven boys
and five girls).

JACOBS, Henry Chariton, jun., the

sixth Bishop of the Mt. Pleasant
North Ward, Sanpete county, Utah,
was born March 15, 1876, at Pratt-
ville, Sevier county, Utah, the son of
Henry Chariton Jacobs and Susie
Stringham. He was baptized March
16, 1884, by his father; ordained a
Deacon April 16, 1887, ordained a
Teacher Dec. 22, 1891; ordained an
Elder March 16, 1896; ordained a Sev-
enty March 27, 1896, and ordained a
High Priest March 4, 1903, by John
W. Taylor. In 1896-8 he filled a mis-
sion to England, laboring in the Shef-
field conference. While residing in
Canada he acted as superintendent of
the Religion Class in Magrath Ward
and was also first assistant in the
presidency of the Taylor Stake Y. M.
M. I, A. Afterwards he acted as sec-
ond counselor to Bishop John T. An-
derson, of the Raymond Ward. Since
July 16, 1911, Bro. Jacobs has acted
as Bishop of the Mt. Pleasant North
Ward. He has been engaged in mer-

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cantile business, traveling for John
Scowcroft and Sons Company for a
number of yeax-s. Subsequently he en-
gaged in the retail business both in
Raymond, Canada, and at Mt. Pleas-
ant, Utah. In 1902 (Dec. 18th) he
married Alberta Larsen, daughter of
Bishop James Larsen of Mt. Pleasant.
This marriage so far has been blessed
with three children, namely, Dorothy,
James L., and H. C. Jacobs, jun.

JACKMAN, Levi, one of the orig-
inal Utah pioneers of 1847, was born
in Orange county, Vermont, July 28,
1797,, the son of Moses French Jack-
man and Elizabeth Carr. In 1810 the
family removed to Batavia, N. Y.,
and. in 1830 removed to Portage coun-
ty, Ohio. In 1831 Joseph the Prophet
visited that place, bringing with him
the Book of Mormon, testifying of its
truth and of the great Latter-day
work. After a careful investigation

of the doctrines advanced by the
Prophet, Levi Jackman was baptized
by Harvey Whitlock May 4, 1831. A
few days later he was ordained an El-
der under the hands of Oliver Cow-
dery, and in November, following, he
was ordained a High Priest. In May,
1832, together with about one hun-
dred others, he started from Ohio for

Missouri, as a member of Zion's camp,
and arrived in Independence, Jackson
county, August 14th of the same year.
He suffered with the saints during the
persecutions inflicted upon them by
their enemies, and was one of the
number compelled to surrender their
arms to the relentless mob and move
into Clay county. When Joseph the
Prophet visited Clay county in 1834
and organized a Stake of Zion there,
Bro. Jackman was chosen as a mem-
ber of the High Council. In 1835 he,
together with Caleb Baldwin, traveled
on foot to Kirtland, Ohio, without
purse or scrip, arriving there July 26,
1835. Two days later Bro. Jackman
commenced to labor on the Kirtland
Temple, continuing in that occupation
until the Temple was completed. In
1836 he left Kirtland, returning to
Clay county. Mo., and, in consequence
of persecutions, was compelled to re-
move to Far West, Caldwell county,
where he was elected a justice of the
peace. By continued persecutions he
was constrained to relinquish his farm
in Missouri and with his family left
for Illinois, where he settled at Com-
merce (afterwards Nauvoo), Hancock
county. He performed a mission in
1844, labored on the Nauvoo Temple
and assisted in constructing wagons
for the saints to migrate to the moun-
tains. During the exodus of 1846 he
left Nauvoo for the West, and after
spending the winter of 1846-1847 at
Winter Quarters he went to the moun-
tains, as one of the pioneers under
President Brigham Young, arriving
there in July, 1847. He was chosen
as a member of the first High Coun-
cil organized in the Valley and acted
for many years as a counselor to
Bishop Shadrach Roundy of the Six-
teenth Ward, Salt Lake City. Subse-
quently he was ordained a Patriarch.
Bro. Jackman was a man of integrity,
without ostentation, an earnest advo-
cate of the cause of truth, a friend of
God and humanity, and died firm in
the faith of the gospel in the hopes of
a glorious resurrection, at Salem,

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Dec. 7, 1914.

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Utah county, Utah, on Sunday, July
23, 1876, aged 78 years, 11 months
and 25 days. (See "Deseret News" 25:
439.)

JENSEN, James S., the fifth Bishop
of Salina, Sevier county, Utah., was
born Oct. 2, 1851, in Sp0rring, Aarhus
amt, Denmark, the son of Christian
Jensen and Barbara Jensen. He was
baptized in November, 1862, by Niels

sitions of honor and responsibility in
Salina. For many years he took an
active part in pioneer labor in the
Sevier Valley and built the first house
ever erected in what is now the flour-
ishing settlement of Redmond.

KEELER, Joseph Brigham, presi-
dent of the Utah Stake of Zion, Utah
county, Utah, was born Sept. 8, 1855,
in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of

J0rgensen; ordained a deacon when
about twelve years old; emigrated to
Utah with his parents in 1863; or-
dained an Elder Nov. 27, 1872, by Wil-
ford Woodruff, and filled a mission to
Scandinavia in 1880-1882. After re-
siding at Scipio (Millard county), and
Gunnison and Ephraim (Sanpete
county), he settled at Redmond, Se-
vier county, in 1876, where he acted
as a Bishop's counselor until 1887,
when he was called to preside as
Bishop in Salina, being ordained a
Bishop by Moses Thatcher. Brother
Jensen married Martina Peterson Nov.
27, 1872. After bearing her husband
two children, she died March 24, 1876.
The following year (Dec. 27, 1877)
Bro. Jensen married Sine Breinholt,
who has borne him five children. Bish-
op Jensen is a farmer and stockraiser
by occupation and has filled many po-

Daniel Hutchinson Keeler and Ann
Brown. His parents came to Utah in
September, 1852. Joseph B. was bap-
tized in June, 1864. He was ordained
an Elder by Vernee L. Halliday, Nov.
1, 1873, and was ordained a Seventy
Feb. 25, 1884, by Robert T. Thomas,
and became a member of the 45th
quorum of Seventy. For several years
he acted as superintendent of Religion
Classes in the Utah Stake. He also
assisted in organizing the first Reli-
gion Class in the Church. Bro. Keeler
acted as counselor in the superintend-
ency of the Utah Stake Y. M. M. I. A.,
being associated, respectively, with
the following superintendents: Ben-
jamin Cluff, jun., Joseph M. Tanner,
and George H. Brimhall. He suc-
ceeded the last named in the superin-
tendency in 1893 and continued in that
office till 1895. On June 1, 1889, he

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was ordained a High Priest by Apos-
tle Heber J. Grant, and on the same
day was set apart as an alternate
High Councilor to serve in the Utah
Stake High Council. He was ordained
a Bishop Jan. 13, 1895, by Apostle
Francis M. Lyman, and set apart to
preside over the Provo Fourth Ward,
which position he held until 1901. Dur-
ing the fall and winter of 1874-1875
he performed a six months' mission to
St. George, Utah, working at masonry
and stone cutting on the St. George
Temple. In 1880-82 he filled a mis-
sion to the Southern States. From
Jan. 13, 1901, to 1908 he held the posi-
tion of first counselor to Pres. David
John. In 1908 he succeeded David
John as president of the Utah Stake,
which position he still holds. Pres.
Keeler has been associated with the
faculty of the Brigham Young Univer-
sity of Provo since January 24, 1884,
and is at the present time one of the
presidents of that institution. He
claims the distinction of being one of
the original 29 students of the old
Brigham Young Academy (now the
B. Y. University) at the preliminary
term just preceding the first academic
year (1876) under Dr. Karl G. Mae-
ser. He holds the title of Bachelor
of Didactics (D. B.), conferred by the
General Church Board of Education,
and the title of Master of Accounts
(M. Ac.) conferred by the Eastman
Business College of Paughkeepsie, N.
Y. President Keeler has also gained
some distinction as an author and
publisher. Of his works the following
may be named: "The Student's Guide
to Bookkeeping," "Foundation Stones
of the Earth," "History of the Keeler
Family," "Lesser Priesthood and
Notes on Church Covenants," "A
Concordance of the Doctrine and Cov-
enants," and "First Steps in Church
Government," besides a number of
essays and pamphlets on other sub-
jects. He has also had some exper-
ience in old time journalism. In this
capacity he acted as city editor and
reporter of the "Provo Enquirer" in

1878-1880. President Keeler served
as a member of the Provo city coun-
cil from 1876 to 1879. He was re-
corder of Utah county from 1882 to
1884, and a member of the Board of
Trustees, Utah Agricultural College,
Logan, from 1894 to 1896. He is a
life member of the Genealogical and
Historical Society of Utah, and a
member of the General Church Com-
mittee on Priesthood Outlines. Pres-
ident Keeler from his youth to the
present has been closely identified
with the material development of the
State of Utah. In early days he was
a farmer, a mason, and a contractor,
and helped to build the canals, roads,
etc., in his own locality. At the pres-
ent time he is a director and a pro-
moter of the Provo Reservoir Com-
pany, and also of the Utah Lake Irri-
gation Company. He was lately asso-
ciated with a number of business men
in the promotion of the Salt Lake and
Interurban Railroad, and is now one of
its directors.

KELLY, William, a member of the
Mormon Battalion, was born April 6,
1828, on the Isle of Man, the son of

John Kelly and Elizabeth Quinn. He
emigrated to America when quite
young and became a resident of Nau-

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voo, Illinois, where he passed through
the scenes connected with the perse-
cutions and drivings of the saints from
Illinois. While a lad in Nauvoo he
became intimately acquainted with
the Prophet Joseph Smith, Elder John
Taylor and other prominent men of
the Church. Having traveled as far
as the Missouri river he enlisted in
the Mormon Battalion and marched as
a member of that illustrious body to
California as a private in Company A.
The day before he took his departure
from the camps of the Saints on the
Missouri river he married Ann Far-
aker. After serving his time accord-
ing to the terms of enlistment and
working a short time in or about the
mines on the Sacramento river, Cal.,
he made his way to G. S. L. Valley,
where he rejoined his young wife and
soon afterwards became one of the
first settlers of American Fork, Utah
county, where he became a success-
ful merchant and farmer. During his
residence in American Fork he mar-
ried two other wives, namely, Chris-
tine P. Christensen and Elizabeth
Cunningham. By his three wives he
became the father of 32 children. Bro.
Kelly died at American Fork June 18,
1899, leaving two wives, 26 children
and a host of grandchildren. For a
number of years he was active as a
military man and held the rank of
major in the Nauvoo Legion.

KIMBALL, Ellen Sanders, one of

the three pioneer women who, under
the direction of President Brigham
Young, arrived in Great Salt Lake
Valley in July, 1847, was born in 1824
in the parish of Ten, in Thelemarken,
Norway, the daughter of Ysten Sond-
rasen. Her original name was Aagaa-
ta Ystensdatter. The family emigrat-
ed to America in 1837, when Ellen was
about thirteen years old, and located
in Indiana. Subsequently she removed
to La Salle county, Illinois, where she
joined the Church in 1842. She was
married to Heber C. Kimball in the
Nauvoo Temple Jan. 7, 1846, shared

in the toils and vicissitudes of the
Saints in their exodus from Nauvoo
and the perils of the journey across
the plains and mountains. She died
in Salt Lake City Nov. 22, 1871. Sis-

ter Ellen and the late Hans Christian
Hansen were the only Scandinavians
among the original Utah pioneers of
July, 1847.

KNIGHT, Joseph, one of the ear-
liest members of the Church, was an
American by birth, though the exact
place and date of birth is not known.
He was well advanced in years when
the work of the Lord in these last
days began to come forth. From the
journal of his son. Newel Knight, it is
learned that Joseph Knight, sen., mar-
ried Polly Peck; that he moved into
the State of New York in 1809, and
settled on the Susquehanna river, near
the Great Bend, in the township of
Bainbridge, Chenango county. Two
years later he moved to Colesville,
Broome county, N. Y., where he re-
mained nineteen years. "My father,"
says Newel Knight in his journal,

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"owned a farm, a grist mill and card-
ing machine. He was not rich, yet
he possessed enough of this world's
goods to secure to himself and fam-
ily, not only the necessities, but also
the comforts of life. His family, con-
sisting of my mother, three sons, and
four daughters, he reared in a genteel
and respectable manner and gave his
children a good common school educa-
tion. My father was a sober, honest
man, generally respected and beloved
by his neighbors and acquaintances.
He did not belong to any religious
sect, but was a believer in the Uni-
versalian doctrine." The business in
which Joseph Knight, sen., engaged
made" it necessary at times for him to
hire men, and the Prophet Joseph was
occasionally employed by him. To the
Knight family, who were greatly at-
tached to him, the young Prophet re-
lated many of the things God had re-
vealed respecting the Book of Mor-
mon, then as yet to come forth. So
far at least was the elder Knight tak-
en into the Prophet's confidence that
he purposely so arranged his affairs
as to be at the Smith family residence
near Manchester, at the time the
plates of the Book of Mormon were
given into Josesph's possession. Mr.
Knight had driven to the Smith resi-
dence with a horse and carriage, and
in this conveyance, according to the
statement of both Lucy Smith, mother
of the Prophet (see Lucy Smith's
History of the Prophet Joseph Smith,
Chapter 23), and Josesph Knight, sen.,
Joseph in company with his wife Em-
ma drove away very early — before
daylight — on the morning of Sept.
22nd, 1827 — it is presumed, of course,
the Prophet drove to the hill Cumoi'ah
and there received from Moroni the
plates of the Book of Mormon, etc.
Mr. Knight i-emained at the Smith
residence at Manchester, several days
and was there the day Josesph brought
home the plates, and in company with
Joseph Smith, sen., and Mr. Stoal —
who was also present at the Smith
residence in company with Mr. Knight

— went in search of those men who
had assailed the Prophet while on his
way home with the plates, but they
did not find them. Joseph Smith in
his history of Aug. 22, 1842, refers
to Joseph Knight in the following en-
dearing terms: "I am now record-
ing in the Book of the Law of the
Lord, of such as have stood by me
every hour of peril, for these fifteen
long years past — say, for instance,
my aged and beloved brother, Joseph
Knight, sen., who was among the
number of the first to administer to
my necessities, while I was laboring
in the commencement of the bringing
forth of the work of the Lord and of
laying the foundation of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
For fifteen years he has been faith-
ful and true, and even-handed, and ex-
emplary, and virtuous, and kind, nev-
er deviating to the right hand or to
the left. Behold he is a righteous
man; may God Almighty lengthen out
the old man's days; and may his trem-
bling, tortured and broken body be re-,
newed and the vigor of health turn
upon him, if it can be Thy will, consis-
tently, O God; and it shall be said of
him by the sons of Zion, while there
is one of them remaining, that this
man was a faithful man in Israel,
therefore his name shall never be for-
gotten. There are his sons, Newel
Knight and Joseph Knight, jun., whose
names I record in the Book of the
Law of the Lord with unspeakable de-
light, for they are my friends."
("Mill. Star" 19: 756.)

KNIGHT, Newel, one of the earliest
Elders in the Church, was born Sept.
13, 1800, in Marlborough, Windham
county, Vermont, the son of Joseph
Knight and Polly Peck. Together with
his parents he moved into the State of
New York when he was nine years
old, and lived first in Bainbridge
township and later in Colesville,
Broome county, N. Y. He continued
to live with his father until he was
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(June 7th) he married Sally Coburn,
a woman of rather delicate health,
who held an honorable position in the
choir of one of the most respectable
churches in the vicinity. After his
marriage Newel went a few miles dis-
tant and put in operation a carding
machine, which he soon sold, and af-
terwards engaged in running a grist
mill. During this time his wife gave
birth to a child which did not live and
his wife's sufferings were very great.
Newel's own health gradually de-
clined, and being told by a physician
that he had consumption, he quit the
mill business and moved back to Coles-
ville, settling near his father's place.
In settling up his mill business he
suffered a heavy financial loss. Dur-
ing this time the Knight family was
frequently visited by Joseph Smith,
the young Prophet, in whose divine
mission Newel became a firm believer.
While investigating the principles of
"Mormonism" he was atatcked by an
evil influence which threatened him
with destruction, but by the miracu-
lous manifestation of the power of
God under the hands of Joseph Smith
the Prophet he was relieved. This oc-
currence is referred to as the first
miracle which took place in the
Church. Soon afterwards Newel
Knight and others were baptized and
from that time on Newel was a faith-
ful and staunch member of the
Church, continuing thus until the time
of his death. He was with the Proph-
et during his arrest and trial in South
Bainbridge, Chenango county, and
Colesville, Broome county. In Aug-
ust, 1830, Newel and his wife visited
the Prophet in Harmony, Pa., which
gave occasion for the appearance of
a Heavenly messenger and the revela-
tion on the Sacrament. Soon after-
wards Newel moved Joseph and his
family to Fayette, New York. Later
Newel was ordained to the Priesthood
and appointed to do missionary la-
bors. Early in 1831 he and his wife
accompanied the Colesville branch on
their journey to Kirtland and after-

wards to Missouri, where Newel was
present at the dedication of the Tem-
ple spot Aug. 3, 1831, and afterwards
became a participant in all the im-
portant council meetings held at In-
dependence during the visit of the
Prophet Joseph and other prominent
Elders in the Church. While the
Prophet Josesph and others returned
to Kirtland, Newel Knight and fam-
ily remained in Missouri, and when
the Prophet visited them the next
year (1832) he blessed an infant son,
which had been born to Newel Knight
and wife Oct. 4, 1831. Bro. Knight
was present when the Church met to-
gether at the ferry at the Big Blue
river, Missouri, April 6, 1833, to cele-
brate the birthday of the Church for
the first time. Afterwards he became
subject to the terrible persecutions
which befell the Saints in Jackson
county, and was finally expelled, to-
gether with his co-religionists, from
said county, in 1833. The Colesville
branch, of which Newel Knight and
family remained a member, kept to-
gether during the persecutions and
formed a small settlement on the Mis-
souri bottoms, building themselves
temporary houses. While exposed to
persecutions and hardships in Clay
county. Newel Knight's wife took sick
and died Sept. 15, 1834, and Bro. New-
el's own health also being poor, he
decided to go East, making the best
arrangements he could for the care of
his little son Samuel and an aged
aunt. In company with a number of
brethren, he boarded some canoes and
floated down the Missouri river. They
traveled on said river by day and
camped at night on its shore. Newel
was hardly able to walk when he
started on this journey, but his
strength gradually increased and when
he arrived in Kirtland, Ohio, in the
spring of 1835, he could commence
to labor on the Temple, which work
he continued until the Temple was
finished and dedicated. Nov. 24, 1835,
he married Lydia Goldthwait, Joseph
Smith the Prophet performing the

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marriage ceremony. After receiving
his anointings in the Kirtland Tem-
ple, and having witnessed great mani-
festations of God's power in that
sacred edifice, he left Kirtland April
7, 1836, with his wife Lydia, for Clay
county, Mo., where they arrived May
6, 1836. Soon after his arrival in
Missouri the spirit of mobocracy again
manifested itself, and, under the
threats made by mobs, the Saints were
compelled to leave their possessions
in Clay county, and move out upon
the prairies of what afterward be-
came Caldwell county. There Newel
Knight made a new home for himself
and family, but was driven out dur-
ing the general exodus of the Saints
from the State of Missouri in 1839.
In Illinois, where Newel Knight and
family cast their lot with the Saints,
they again passed through many hard-
ships and persecutions and were final-
ly driven into exile once more in 1846.
Newel and his family traveled west-
ward in Bishop George Miller's com-
pany and wintered among the Ponca
Indians on the Running Water in
what is now northern Nebraska. Here
Newel Knight, exposed to the hard-
ships of the winter, took sick and died
Jan. 11, 1847. His wife Lydia de-
scribes the end of her husband as fol-
lows: "On Monday morning, Jan. 4,
1847, Bro. Knight, whose health had
been failing for some time, did not
arise as usual, and on going to him,
he said, "Lydia, I believe I shall go
to rest this winter." The next night
he awoke with a severe pain in his
right side, a fever had also set in, and
he expressed himself to me that he
did not expect to recover. From this
time until the 10th of the month, the
Elders came frequently and prayed
for my husband. After each admin-
istration he would rally and be at
ease for a short time and then relapse
again into suffering. I felt at last as
if I could not endure his sufferings
any longer and that I ought not to
hold him here. I knelt by his bed-
side, and with my hand upon his pale

forehead asked my Heavenly Father
to forgive my sins, and that the suf-
ferings of my companion might cease,
and if he was appointed unto death,
and could not remain with us that
he might be quickly eased from pain
and fall asleep in peace. Almost im-
mediately all pain left him and in a
short time he sweetly fell asleep in
death, without a struggle or a groan,
at half past six on the morning of the
11th of January, 1847. His remains
were interred at sunset on the evening
of the day he died." (Scraps of Biog-
raphy.)

KNIGHT, Lydia Goldthwait, wife of
Newel Knight, was born June 9, 1812,
in Sutton, Worcester county, Mass.,
the daughter of Jesse Goldthwait and
Sally Burt. When fifteen years old
she was sent to a boarding school in
a village where she met a young man
by the name of Calvin Baily, to whom
she was married in the fall of 1828.
This marriage proved an unhappy one
(though it was blessed with two chil-
dren), and three years after her mar-
riage she was deserted by her hus-
band. She then returned to the home
of her parents. During a visit to Mt.
Pleasant, Upper Canada, she first be-
came acquainted with the Latter-day
Saints, the Nickerson family living
at that place being visited by Joseph
Smith the Prophet and Sidney Rig-
don in October, 1833. A number of
meetings were held, and the Nicker-
son family, Lydia and 9thers were
baptized. When Lydia, in the sum-
mer of 1834, returned to her father's
home in New York State, her rela-
tives did all they could to persuade
her to leave "Mormonism." At length
she grew restless and unhappy on ac-
count of the constant railery and de-
rision showered upon her by her par-
ents on account of her religion, and
therefore decided to go to Kirtland,
Ohio, which at that time was a gath-
ering place of the Saints. Immediate-
ly on reaching Kirtland in the spring
of 1835 she met Vincent Knight, who

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approached Sister Lydia, saying:
"Sister, the Prophet is in bondage and
has been brought into distress by the
persecutions of the wicked, and if you
have any means to give, it would be of
benefit to him." She at once emptied
her purse containing S50, which was
all she had. Bro. Knight looked at it,
counted it and fervently exclaimed,
"Thank God, this will release and set
the Prophet free." The young girl
was now without means, not having
enough to procure a meal or a night's
lodging. For six or eight months af-
ter that she lived a pleasant life in the
home of Vincent Knight. In the fall
of 1835 Hyrum Smith asked Lydia to
come to his house and assist his wife.
She complied with the request and
while living there she became ac-
quainted with Newel Knight, who
boarded at the place while working
on the Kirtland Temple. Newel Knight
(who was not related to the Vincent
Knight previously mentioned) is de-
scribed by Sister Lydia as a tall man
with light brown hair, a keen blue eye
and a verj' energetic and determined
manner; he was a widower, whose
wife, a delicate woman, had died the
previous fall, in consequence of the
trials and persecutions she had suf-
fered, and left an infant only two days
old. Bro. Knight, in course of time,
made Lydia an offer of marriage,
which she after some hesitation ac-
cepted, and the two became man and
wife Nov. 23, 1835, Joseph Smith the
Prophet performing the marriage cer-
emony. It was the first marriage
ceremony the Prophet ever performed.
The young married couple gladly ac-
cepted the offer of Hyrum Smith to
spend the winter at his home. In the
meantime Newel Knight continued his
labors on the Temple and generally at-
tended the school of the Elders in the
evenings. Together with his wife he
also attended the dedication of the
Temple and witnessed many mar-
velous manifestations of the power
of God. After this Sister Lydia and
her husband moved to Clay county,

where a girl was born to them Dec. 1,
1836. In February, 1837, Newel
Knight purchased 40 acres of land
from the government near Far West,
Caldwell county. Mo. A boy (named
James Philander) was born to Lydia
April 29, 1837. She passed through
the persecutions of the Church in
Caldwell county, Mo., and afterwards
in Illinois, and she left Nauvoo with
her familj'^ April 17, 1846, in the exo-
dus of the Saints for the Rocky
Mountains. While on the way, and
while stopping temporarily together
with many other Saints at a place
known as Ponca, her husband died,
Jan. 11, 1847. Thus she became a
widow with seven helpless children
and for several years after that she
battled with all kinds of odds to sup-
port herself and family and to raise
her little ones as best she could on
the frontiers. Finally the way opened
for her to come to the Valley; she
crossed the plains in 1850 in Ed-
ward Hunter's company, arriving in
Salt Lake City Oct. 3, 1850. For sev-
eral years she resided in the City and
on a farm near the City. She subse-
quently located in Provo, where she
taught school. Next she resided at
Payson and Santa Clara, but when
the St. George Temple was finished
in 1877 she was called by President
Brigham Young to labor in that sacred
building as an ordinance worker. She
responded cheerfully, made her per-
manent home in St. George and at-
tended faithfully to her duties in the
Temple till the day of her death,
which occurred in St. George April 3,
1884. Sister Lydia's life was full of
events and her character full of in-
tegrity; she possessed a lovely dispo-
sition, gained the confidence and good
will of all who knew her and died a
most devoted and faithful Latter-day
Saint. (See Lydia Knight's History.)

KNIGHT, Jesse, a prominent Elder
of the Church and a resident of Provo,
Utah county, Utah, was born Sept. 6,
1845, at Nauvoo, Hancock county, II-

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linois, the son of Newel Knight and
Lydia Goldthwait. He participated
as a child with the Saints in the exo-
dus from Nauvoo in 1846 and came
to Utah in 1850, crossing the plains
and mountains in a company led by
Edward Hunter, whose train arrived
in Salt Lake City Oct. 13, 1850. The
family made their home temporarily
in Salt Lake City. Jesse remained
with the family, who resided on the
Church farm, near Salt Lake City, un-
til he was eleven years of age, when
he moved with his mother to Provo.
He started out for himself by herding
cows, gleaning potatoes, etc., and in
due course of time he earned enough
to buj* a horse, the first property he
owned for himself. He also engaged
in freighting with ox teams and fol-
lowed that business for eleven years.
In 1862 he made a trip to the Mis-
souri river after emigrants; in 186.3
he made a trip to Montana, teaming
and freighting, and in 1866 he par-
ticipated in the Black Hawk Indian
war. Bro. Knight was baptized when
about eight years of age and was or-
dained an Elder Jan. 22, 1891, by Ver-
nee L. Halliday. He was ordained a
High Priest March 3, 1907, by David
John. In 1868 (Jan. 18th) Brother
Knight married Amanda McEwan,
who was born Nov. 13, 1851, in Salt
Lake City, Utah. She was the daugh-
ter of John McEwan and Amanda
Higbee. The children of Jesse Knight
and Amanda McEwan are Lydia
Minerva (died Dec. 28, 1887), Oscar
Raymond, Jesse William, Amanda
Inez, Jennie Pearl and Addie lona.
For about twenty years after his mar-
riage Bro. Knight took little interest
in the Church. The loss of confidence
in men, the faithfulness of hix par-
ents, sickness and healing in his fam-
ily led him to seek the Lord In ear-
nestness and humility. Thereby, in
1887-1888, he received a testimony of
the gospel and of the authority of the
Priesthood, and he decided that the
most effectual way to do good was
through the organization of the

Church. Since that time he has de-
veloped numerous mining properties.
Through his efforts three settlements
have been started, namely, Knight-
ville, in Tintic, Utah, Raymond, in Al-
berta, Canada, and Ston\s, in Carbon
county, Utah. Each of these towns
have a branch of the Church, and
none of them have ever had a saloon.
Much has been done by Bro. Knight in
getting water on to dry lands, devel-
oping power plants, and home indus-
tries, and in all things his motive has
always been as much to help others
as to make profits. Brother Knight
built the first sugar factory in the
Northwest Territory, Canada, the sec-
ond sugar factory in Canada. He is
president of all the Knight Investment
Company's industries, including a sug-
ar company, power company, woolen
mills, smelter company, coal and oth-
er mining companies, railroad, reser-
voir, light and irrigation companies
and others. A few years ago he was
unanimously nominated by the Demo-
cratic party as candidate for Governor
of Utah, but he refused to accept. In
June, 1907, he visited the place of his
father's death and burial, which is
seven miles from Mobrara, Nebraska.
He found remnants of the old foi't
which was built by a company of
Saints who wintered there in 1846-
1847. This company was the first to
start from Nauvoo for the mountains
in 1846, but owing to the call for the
Mormon Battalion they could not con-
tinue the journey that year and the
Ponca Indians inviting them to winter
on their reservation they spent the
winter of 1846-1847 on the Running
Water. The place of the fort is still
an Indian reservation. Bro. Knight
erected a monument in commemora-
tion of his father and the other Saints
who died in that place on account of
unusual privation and hardship. Bro.
Knight was the principal contributor
to the Maeser Memorial Hall of the
Brigham Young University at Provo,
which was built under the direction of
the Alumni Association. As his par-

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ents were ready to help the Church
in the beginning, so throughout Bro.
Knight is a liberal contributor to
Church and Charity.

KNIGHT, Jesse AVilliam, first coun-
selor to Joseph B. Keeler, president of
the Utah Stake, and a resident of
Provo, Utah, was born Aug. 20, 1874,
at Payson, Utah, the son of Jesse
Knight and Amanda McEwan. He
was baptized July 5, 1888, by Joseph
Robinson, confirmed a member of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints by Wm. S. Tanner and ordained
successively to the offices of Deacon,
Teacher and Elder, the latter ordina-

tion taking place Oct. 25, 1896, by
Robt. R. Irvine. He was ordained a
Seventy Oct. 27, 1896, by Geo. Teas-
dale, and ordained a High Priest Oct.
10, 1901, by John W. Taylor. In 1892
he changed his residence from Pay-
son to Provo, where he attended the
B. Y. University and graduated in
1894 fi-om the Commercial College
course. After that he spent two years
farming near Milford, Beaver co., and
after his return to Provo he engaged
in mining business together with his
father, in connection with whom he
discovered ore in the so-called Hum-
bug Mine in Tintic. In 1896-1898 he

filled a mission to Great Britain, la-
boring in the Cheltenham conference.
In 1899 (Jan. 18th) he married Lucy
Jane Brimhall (daughter of Geo. H.
Brimhall and Alsina E. Wilkins), who
was born Dec. 13, 1875, at Spanish
Fork, Utah. Bro. Knight and his wife
have adopted a son, Richard, who was
born June 9, 1911. In 1900 Brother
Knight went to Canada, together with
his father and brother, and purchased
a large tract of land from the North-
west Irrigation Company. They built
a sugar factory, stocked the land with
cattle and sheep and organized the
town of Raymond. In 1901 (Oct. 10th)
Bro. Knight was ordained to the of-
fice of a Bishop and set apart to pre-
side over the Raymond Ward. Aug.
30, 1903, he was set apart as second
counselor in the Taylor Stake presi-
dency. He returned to Provo in 1907
and became first assistant superin-
tendent in the Provo Fifth Ward Sun-
day school. Soon afterwards he was
set apart as second counselor in the
Utah Stake presidency and later pro-
moted to the position of first coun-
selor in the same organization, which
position he still holds.

KNIGHT, John Miner, second coun-
selor in the presidency of the Ensign
Stake, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born.
Sept. 14, 1871, in Salt Lake City, the
son of John Allen Knight and Isora
Atwood. He was baptized by his fa-
ther Aug. 22, 1880; ordained success-
ively to the offices of Deacon, Teach-
er and Elder, the latter ordination
taking place in December, 1893, by
Phillip Brooks. He was ordained a
Seventy Sept. 2, 1895, by Seymour B.
Young, and ordained a High Priest
April 1, 1904. Bro. Knight was born
and raised in the Twelfth Ward, which
was his home from 1871 to 1895; he
then became a resident of the Elev-
enth Ward. From his earliest youth
he has been a diligent and successful
worker in the Y. M. M. I. A. in the
Eleventh Ward, and from 1903 to 1904
he was one of the presidents of the

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8th quoi'um of Seventy. When the
Ensign Stake of Zion was organized
April 1, 1904, he was set apart as sec-
ond counselor to President Richard
W. Young. In 1895-1898 he filled a
mission to the Indian Territory (now
in the Central States Mission), during
which he presided over the Arkansas
conference seven months and was sec-
retary of ' the mission seventeen
months. In 1893 (Dec. 21st) he mar-
ried Florence R. Cornell (daughter
of Thos. Cornell and Mary Graves),
who has borne her husband ten chil-
dren, Bro. Knight is a carriage-maker
by avocation.

.LAMBERT, Charles, senior presi-
dent of the 23rd quorum of Seventy
and for 43 years a resident of the
Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City, was
born at Kirk Deighton, York, York-

shire, England, Aug. 30, 1816. He
learned the trade of a stone-cutter and
commenced to v^ork on the London &
Birmingham Ry. when nineteen years
of age. Subsequently he was a con-
tractor and builder on the York &
North Midland Ry. He embraced
"Mormonism" in Lincolnshire and was
baptized July 12, 1843; a few weeks
later he was ordained to the office of
a Priest, and the following year he

started for Nauvoo, 111., crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "Fanny," which
sailed from Liverpool, England, Jan.
23, 1844. After his arrival at Nau-
voo he made the acquaintance of Jo-
seph the Prophet, his brother Hyrum
and other leading men of the Church;
he labored on the Nauvoo Temple un-
til the walls were finished, and sub-
sequently received his endowments in
that building. He was ordained an
Elder in the Church shortly after his
arrival in Nauvoo and married Mary
Ann Cannon in November, 1844. After
the death of his wife's father, he was
appointed guardian of his (Cannon's)
younger children. He was also or-
dained a Seventy and became one of
the original members of the 11th
quorum, and in 1845 became a pres-
ident of the 23rd quorum. He partic-
ipated in the Nauvoo battle in Sep-
tember, 1846, and was with the com-
pany that used the famous steam-
boat shafts, after first helping to
make them into cannons. When the
city of Nauvoo finally capitulated,
Elder Lambert was seized by the mob
and forcibly immersed several times
in the Mississippi river, under the
most hideous oaths and blasphemies
imaginable. At last he succeeded in
getting away and made his escape
across the Mississippi; he was en-
camped with his family on the oppo-
site bank at the time the quails came
to the relief of the Saints. After as-
sisting in getting all the sick and poor
across the river, he traveled to the
Missouri river, arriving there after
untold hardships. He built a small
house in Winter Quarters, and then
went to St. Joseph, Mo., where he
worked at stone-cutting and building
until the spring of 1849, when he
started for Utah, arriving in G. S. L.
Valley in the fall. He built one of
the first adobe houses erected in Salt
Lake City, a part of which is still
standing. For many years he acted
as clerk of the Seventh Ward, and
was always on hand with his means
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God. Bro. Lambert died at his farm
in Granger, May 2, 1892.

LEMON, John Knox, second coun-
selor to Bishop Samuel F. Atwood of
Kamas, Summit county, Utah, was
born Aug. 19, 1845, in Indiana, the
son of William McClure Lemon and

Lake Stake until he became a member
of the General Board. He resided at
Ephraim until 1896, after which he
spent three years at Ann Arbor,
studying law at the University of
Michigan, and became a permanent

Catherine Mayer. He came to Utah
as a pioneer in Sept., 1847, crossing
the plains in Perrigrine Sessions' fifty
and settled at Kamas, Summit county,
in 1869. where he has resided ever
since.

LUND. Henry Cornelius, a member
of the General Board of the Y. M.
M. I. A., was born April 13, 187.3, at
Ephraim, Sanpete county, Utah, the
son of Anthon H. Lund and Sarah Ann
Peterson. He was baptized when eight
years of age by Jens Peter Christen-
sen; ordained successively to the of-
fices of Deacon, Teacher, Elder and
Seventy, the latter ordination taking
place under the hands of J. Golden
Kimball. He acted as superintendent
of the Ephraim North Ward Sunday
school about two years and moved to
Salt Lake City in 1899. He served
as an officer in the Eighteenth Ward
Sunday school and was an aid in the
Y. M. M. L A. presidency in the Salt

resident of Salt Lake City in 1899.
Sept. 20, 1899, he married Julia Al-
mira Farnsworth, who has borne her
husband seven children, namely,
Henry C, Philo F., Anthon F., John
Canute F., Alton F., Julia F. and Mar-
garet F.

MADSEN, Peter, one of the early
converts to "Mormonism" in Den-
mai-k, was born Oct. 11, 1818, at
Thorslunde, Holbaek amt , Denmark.
He learned the trade of a wheel-
wright, and after joining the Church
he emigrated from Denmark in 1852,
crossing the Atlantic in the ship "For-
est Monarch" and the plains in John
E. Forsgren's company. After resid-
ing a shoi't time in Manti, he became
a pioneer settler of Fort Ephraim,
where he has resided ever since. He
was one of the first fourteen men who
founded the settlement of Fort
Ephraim. For a number of years Bro.
Madsen acted as secretary of a
quorum of Seventy and was subse-
quently ordained a High Priest. By

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Ellen Nielsen (whom he married in
Denmark) and Mary Catherine Mad-

sen (who became his wife in Utah)
he is the father of nine children.

MADSEN, Ellen Nielsen, wife of
Peter Madsen, was born Feb. 8, 1827,
at Thorslunde, Holbagk amt., Den-
mark. After her marriage to Peter

came one of the first settlers of
Ephraim, where she acted for a num-
ber of years as first counselor in the
Ephraim Ward Relief Society. She
became the mother of four children.

MADSEN, Lars Peter, the third
Bishop of the Mt. Pleasant North
Ward, Sanpete county, Utah, was born
Dec. 14, 1858, at Ephraim, Sanpete
CO., Utah, the son of Mads Madsen

Madsen, and after becoming a con-
vert to "Mormonism," .she emigrated
to Utah with her husband and be-

and Ellen Hansen. He was baptized
Nov. 1, 1868; ordained an Elder Oct.
2, 1881; ordained a Seventy Aug. 6,
1884, by Jens Hansen; ordained a
High Priest May 20, 1890, by John
W. Taylor; acted as second counselor
to Bishop Christian N. Lund from
1890 to 1900 and was then ordained a
Bishop and set apart to preside over
the Mt. Pleasant North Ward. He
filled a mission to the Southern States
in 1886-1888, laboring principally in
Georgia. In 1881 (Oct. 10th) he mar-
ried Marie Sophie Rasmussen (daugh-
ter of Martin Rasmussen and Karen
Nielsen), who has borne her husband
seven children. Bro. Madsen was ac-
cidentally killed Oct. 10, 1903, while
traveling down Cottonwood canyon,
near Mt. Pleasant, with a load of coal.

MARGETTS, Charles Paunceforte,

the sixth Bishop of the Seventh

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Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born
June 18, 1865, in Salt Lake City,
the son of Phillip B. Margetts and
Elizabeth Bateman. He was baptized
by William Davis when about ten
years old and a few years later or-
dained to the Priesthood. From his
early boyhood to 1892 he was in the
employ of the Dinwoody Furniture
Company; after that he worked three
years in the Z. C. M. I., and from

1898 to 1911 was with the Margetts
and Evans Furniture business. He fi-
nally sold out his interest in that firm
and started in the coal business. He
was ordained a Seventy Dec. 2, 1892,
by Heber J. Grant, and in 1892-1895
he filled a mission to the Southern
States, laboring principally in South
Carolina. In 1895 (Dec. 24th) he mar-
ried Catherine Elizabeth Rigby,
daughter of William Rigby and Cath-
erine Glover. This marriage has been
blessed with seven children, namely.
Aline C, Charles R., Raymond L., Mil-
dred E., Grace A., Marion and Phil-
lip C. In 1904 (June 2nd) Bro. Mar-
getts was ordained a High Priest and
Bishop by Rudger Clawson and set
apart to preside over the Seventh
Ward.

McMULLIN, Albert Orlando, a

president of the 95th quorum of Sev-
enty and a resident of South Jordan,
Salt Lake co., Utah, was born Oct.
14, 1871, at Kanosh, Millard co., Utah,
the son of Albert E. McMuUin and
Nancy Jane Ross. He was baptized
by his father when eight years of
age; ordained a Deacon soon after-
wards; ordained an Elder in 1891, by
George Eldridge; and ordained a Sev-
enty April 20, 1888, by Anthon H.
Lund. He filled a mission to the
Southern States in 1888-90. Locating
at Sunnyside, Carbon co., Utah, he la-
bored in the coal mines and acted as
president of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A.
and later as a Stake Y. M. M. I. A.
officer He was also Ward teacher, a
Sunday school superintendent and a
member of the building committee
when the new church was erected in
Sunnyside. In 1891 he moved to Price
and in 1893 he located on Green River,
where he acted as Sunday school su-
perintendent until 1906. In May,
1890, he was chosen as one of the
presidents of the 131st quorum of Sev-
enty. After his removal to South Jor-
dan in 1906 he was chosen as a pres-
ident of the 95th quorum of Seventy.
In South Jordan he has also labored
as a Ward teacher, home missionary,
president of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A.,
etc. In 1894 (Jan. 1st) he married
Barbara A. Bryner, by whom he be-
came the father of nine children, three
boys and six girls.

MELLOR, James, junior, first coun-
selor to Bishop Bartholomew of Fay-
ette, Sanpete co., Utah, was born Oct.
8, 1848, in Leicestershire, England, the
son of James Mellor and Mary Ann
Pain. He emigrated with his parents
to Utah in 1856, crossing the Atlantic
in the ship "Horizon" and the plains
in Edward Martin handcart company.
He was baptized in 1857 while resid-
ing at Provo, and became a permanent
settler of Fayette in 1861. He was or-
dained an Elder in 1865 by John A,
Metcalf; ordained a Seventy by Sey-

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niour B. Young; acted as a president
in the 56th quorum of Seventy about
twenty years, and in 1902 he was or-
dained a High Priest by Lewis Ander-
son and was set apart as first coun-
selor to Bishop Bartholomew of Fay-
ette. In 1880-82 he filled a mission
to the Western States, laboring prin-
cipally in Kansas. In 1872 (April
10th) he married Eliza Bartholomew;
in 1874 (April 10th) he married Char-

work and to assist in the biological
department. In July, 1897, he was or-
dained an Elder under the hands of
his father. In August, 1897, he was
ordained a Seventy and set apart for
a mission to England, from which he
was honorably released in January,
1900. While on this mission he la-
bored as a traveling Elder in the
Leeds conference and later as presi-
dent of the Liverpool conference, with

lotte Back, and in 1914 (March 18th)
he married Anna M. Larsen. By his
three wives he is the father of seven-
teen children. His first wife died May
10, 1912.

• MERRILL, Amos Newlove, second
counselor in the presidency of the
Utah Stake of Zion, was born March
15, 1875, at Richmond, Cache co.,
Utah, the son of Marriner Wood Mer-
rill and Sarah Ann Atkinson. He was
baptized May 3, 1883, and ordained to
the Aaronic Priesthood in his early
teens. He received his elementary ed-
ucation in the public schools at Rich-
mond and his high school and college
training in the Brigham Young Col-
lege and the State Agricultural Col-
lege at Logan. He graduated from
the latter institution in June, 1896,
with the degree of Bachelor of Sci-
ence. He returned to the college dur-
ing the following year to do advanced

headquarters at Accrington. April 25,
1900, he married Eliza L. Drysdale.
During the following two years he
was in the employ of the Cache Val-
ley Creamery Company at Richmond.
As a Church worker he served in the
superintendency of the Richmond
Sunday school and, upon the organiza-
tion of the Benson Stake of Zion, in
the superintendency of the Stake Sun-
day schools. In August, 1902, he moved
to Logan and became an instructor
in mechanic arts at the Brigham
Young College. Dec. 9, 1906, .having
been called to serve in the Bishopric
of the Logan Second Ward, he was
ordained a High Priest and set apart
to that position by Apostle Reed
Smoot. While connected with the
Brigham Young College he was pro-
moted to professor of agriculture.
During the summer of 1906 he at-
tended the Graduate School of Agri-

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culture at the University of Illinois.
During the following year he returned
to the east with his family to resume
his studies. He graduated with the
degree of master of science in June,
1908, from the University of Illinois,
and remained the following summer
to do post graduate work in his chosen
field, agriculture. Upon his return to
Utah he resumed his work at the
Brigham Young College at Logan. In
the spring of 1909 he accepted the po-
sition of professor of agriculture and
head of the agricultural department of
the Brigham Young University at
Provo. In October, 1911, he was called
into the Bishopric of the Provo Fifth
Ward and a few days afterwards (Oct.
29, 1911) into the presidency of the
Utah Stake of Zion. In the spring of
1912 he was chosen as principal of the
Brigham Young University high
school. At this date (Dec. 8, 1914)
he is the father of five children, to-wit,
Amos Lyman, Vernon Newlove, Erma
Jennett, Sarah Lucile and David Mar-
riner.

MORLEY, Isaac. (Continued from
Vol. 1, page 236.) Bishop Morley was

1848, in Omaha, Neb., and shortly
after his arrival in G. S. L. Valley
he married another wife (Hannah).
By these two wives he became the
father of ten children. Bro. Morley
supervised the building of the first
school house and the first grist mill
in Sanpete Valley. He also made the
first table and ploughed the first fur-
row in Sanpete county.

NEAL, Mary Malissa, a woman of
much experience in the Church and for
many years a resident of the Seven-
teenth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born July 24, 1824, at Cambria,
Niagara co., N. Y., the daughter of
Geo. A. Neal and Asenath Cooley. Her
father belonged to one of the oldest

the son of Thos. G. Morley and Edith
Marsh. His first wife died Jan. 3,

New England families in America.
Her mother was one of the very early
Vermont families. Mary Malissa was
baptized, together with her parents,
April 23, 1843, by Samuel Mulliner.
Her father was the presiding Elder of
the branch at Cambria from 1843 to
1852 and in the latter year the fam-
ily emigrated to Utah. The Neals
were very well-to-do people and con-
tributed liberally to the Nauvoo Tem-
ple and toward the relief of the saints
who were exiled from their homes in
Illinois in 1846. They also helped a
number of missionaries who left

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America for foreign missions, besides
assisting a number of people to emi-
grate to Utah. The Neal home being
near the Canadian border, their house
was a popular rendezvous for many of
the Elders laboring in Canada and the
State of New York. In 1845 (Aug.
17th) Sister Mary Malissa was mar-
ried to Oliver B. Huntington at Cam-
bria, New York. Three children were
born to them at Cambria. The whole
family came to Salt Lake City in
1852, crossing the plains in Capt.
Henry Miller's company. Sister Mary
Malissa's married life not being-
happy, she and her husband separated
in 1852; she then took her maiden
name, by which she was known ever
since. She and her two children lived
with her parents in the Seventh Ward
and endured considerable hardships
during the move at the time of the
Johnston army troubles, and subse-
quent hardships. She died in Salt
Lake City Jan. 9, 1906, as a faithful
Latter-day Saint.

NEBEKER, John L. (Continued
from Vol. 1:683.) Bro. Nebeker
acted as first counselor to Bishop Al-

fred Solomon until 1910, when he was
chosen as an alternate member of the
Salt Lake Stake High Council; this

Vol. II, No. 50.

position he held until his death, which
occurred in Salt Lake City, Nov. 25,
1914. From August, 1897, to the time
of his demise he occupied the impor-
tant position of title clerk at the Pre-
siding Bishop's Office, having charge
of the incorporations of the Wards
and the titles of real estate owned by
the Church.

NEFF, John, a Utah pioneer of
1847, was born Sept. 19, 1794, in
Strasburg township, Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, where he lived until he
gathered with the Saints in Illinois.
In the earlier part of his life he was
moral, industrious and economical
and thereby acquaired a handsome
fortune. Becoming a convert to "Mor-
monism" he was baptized Feb. 7,
1842. In May, 1844, he went to Nau--
voo, Illinois, to visit the Prophet Jo-
seph Smith; there he became acquaint-
ed with many of the leading members
of the Church and returned to Penn-
sylvania well pleased, having unlim-
ited confidence in the Prophet and his
divine mission. In the spring of 1846
he started with his family for the con-
templated gathering place of the
Saints "beyond the Rocky Mountains."
He arrived in Nauvoo just in time to
be driven across the Mississippi river
by the mob; thence he proceeded on-
ward to Winter Quarters, where he
was greatly afflicted, himself and
family all being sick; his son Cyrus,
an amiable youth of twenty, was bur-
ied there. At Winter Quarters Bro.
Neff was ordained to the High Priest-
hood. In the summer of 1847 he
started with many others for the
Rocky Mountains. After a laborious
journey of four months he arrived in
Great Salt Lake Valley in October,
1847. It is said of John Neff by one
who was walking with him, that on
emerging from the mouth of Emigra-
tion Canyon and beholding the desert
valley, he knelt upon the ground and
thanked the Lord that he had found
a resting place. He moved out of the
"Old Fort" (Salt Lake City) and lo-

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cated near the mouth of Mill Creek
Canyon in the spring of 1848; there
he built a flouring mill (the first
of its kind in Utah), under disadvan-
tageous and very discouraging cir-
cumstances. He was very active in
developing the agricultural resources
of the Territory and w^s a man of
great benevolence. It is told of him
that during the famine year of 1856,
when flour was worth one dollar a
pound, he refused to accept more than
six cents a pound ,and declined to sell
at any price except to those who were
in need. Bro. Neff died May 9, 1869,
at his home in Mill Creek, In an
obituary published at the time of his
death the following occurs: "Fa-

mln times of extreme scarcity, when
provisions commanded a high price,
he distributed his means among the
brethren at low figures, when he could
have obtained twice and even thrice
the amount from passing strangers.
The poor called not on him in vain, nor
were the destitute sent empty away.
In Pennsylvania he was called an hon-
est man and a good citizen. He was
an affectionate father and a true and
faithful husband. In short he lived
and died a saint."

NEFF, Mary Barr, wife of John
Neff, was born Dec. 1, 1801, in Bart
township, Lancaster county, Penn-
sylvania, the daughter of Christian

ther Neff was truly devoted to his re-
ligion. The kingdom of God to him
stood paramount to everything else.
His faith was exhibited by his works.
He was liberal with his means. When
assistance was called for, it was forth-
coming. When at Nauvoo he helped
the Prophet and gave a considerable
sum to start the ship "Brooklyn" for
California. During the reign of mob-
ocracy in Nauvoo he also rendered
considerable pecuniary assistance. He
has also done much to gather the poor
from foreign lands, as well as to help
them after reaching their destination.

Barr and Susannah Breneman. She
married John Neff Jan. 22, 1822, and
became the mother of five sons and
five daughters. The names of her
sons are Franklin, Amos H., Cyrus S.
(who died at the age of twenty at
Winter Quarters), Benjamin Barr and
John. The daughters are Barbara M.,
Mary Ann, Susannah, Amanda and
Elizabeth. Sister Neff came with her
husband to Utah in 1847 and suffered
poverty and privation on many occa-
sions, exposed to severe experiences
of pioneer life. Previous to that she
has suffered at the time of the exo-

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dus from Nauvoo in 1846, having been
expelled by mobs, together with her
husband, but not once did she com-
plain or desire to turn back. Sister
Neff died Dec. 1, 1875, at East Mill
Creek, Salt Lake county, Utah. On
the occasion of her funeral Pres. Brig-
ham Young said that a better woman
never lived. Sister Neff was equally
generous with her husband, and al-
though she had left a comfortable
home and all that was desirable in the
East, she endured all the trials of
travel and persecution with patience
and fortitude. She was ever ready
and willing to assist with her time and
means all who were in need.

NEFF, John, the first Bishop of
East Mill Creek, Salt Lake county,
Utah, was born Dec. 28, 1837, near
Strasburg, Lancaster county, Penn-
sylvania, the son of John Neff and
Mary Barr. He came to Utah with
his parents in 1847 and was baptized
by Julian Moses in 1848. For sev-
eral years he acted as presiding Elder
in the East Mill Creek branch of the
Big Cottonwood Ward. In 1857 he
made a trip to Ft. Bridger in Orrin
Porter Rockwell's company, and in
1862 he participated in the expedition
sent out under Captain Lot Smith to
guard the mail route. In 1872-1873
he filled a mission to Great Britain,
presiding over the Liverpool confer-
ence. In 1874 he was set apart as
first counselor to Bishop Wm. G.
Young, of the Big Cottonwood Ward,
and when the East Mill Creek Ward
was organized July 15, 1877, he wa?
ordained a High Priest and Bishop by
Daniel H. Wells and set apart to pre-
side over the same. He filled that po-
sition until 1912, and was ordained
a Patriarch Feb. 6, 1912, by President
Joseph F. Smith. In 1863 (Jan. 31st)
he married Ann Eliza Benedict (the
daughter of Joshua N. Benedict and
Fidelia Moses) who was born Feb. 8,
1845, in Canaan, Litchfield county,
Connecticut. The bore her husband
nine children, all girls.

NIELSON, James Lewis, second
counselor to Bishop Christian J. Chris-
tiansen, of Fountain Green, the son of
Lars Nielson and Marie H. Christian-
sen. He was baptized Sept. 6, 1881,
by James Jacobsen; ordained a Dea-
con Feb. 3, 1887, by Jacob J. H. Jen-
sen; ordained a Priest Nov. 28, 1888,
by A. M. Baerentsen; ordained an Elder
Dec. 31, 1895, by C. J. Christiansen;

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ordained a Seventy Jan. 10, 1896, by
Seymour B. Young, and ordained a
High Priest Sept. 13, 1908, by Rudger
Clawson, and at the same time set
apart as a Bishop's counselor. In
1896-1898 he filled a mission to the
Central States, laboring principally in
Arkansas and Kansas, part of the time
as president of the St. Johns confer-
ence. He has acted as a president in
the 49th quorum of Seventy eight
yoars and was a member and after-
wards president of the Fountain Green
town board. In 1900 (Aug. 22nd) he
married Clara Collard (daughter of
Cornelius Collard and Sarah Booth),
who has borne her husband three chil-
dren.

OLSEN, Edward Arenholt, Bishop
of the Ogden Fourth Ward (Ogden
Stake), Utah, was born April 13,
1855, in Bergen, Norway, the son of

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Ole Gabrielsen and Barbara Kundsen.
He was baptized May 4, 1884, in Ber-
gen, by John Ibsen, and emigrated to
Utah in 1884, arriving in Ogden, June
30, 1884. He was ordained an Elder in
1885, a Seventy by Horace S. Eldredge
a few years later, and became a presi-
dent of the 70th quorum of Seventy.
He was ordained a High Priest and set
apart as second counselor in the Og-
den Fourth Ward Bishopric Feb. 24,
1908, by Joseph F. Smith, and or-
dained a Bishop Sept. 20, 1908, and ap-
pointed to preside over the Ogden
Fourth Ward, which position he still
holds. Prior to this he acted as pres-
ident of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A. for
eleven years and was a member of the
Stake Board of Y. M. M. I. A. three
years; he also labored as a home mis-
sionary in the Weber Stake five years.
In 1895-1897 he filled a mission to
Scandinavia, laboring as a traveling
missionary in the Christiania confer-
ence, Norway. At home Bro. Olsen
has acted as State Dairy and Food
Commissioner and was captain of
Company C in the Utah National
Guard in 1893.

PETERSON, James C, the fourth
Bishop of Fairview, Sanpete county,

grated to Utah in 1855, crossing the
Atlantic in the ship "James Nesmith"
and the plains in Noah T. Guyman's
company. He was baptized in the
Platte river while crossing the plains.
His mother died at Weston, Missouri,
just before the family started for the
mountains. After residing for some
time in Salt Lake county they settled
permanently at Fairview, Sanpete
county. In 1864 Bro. Peterson went
back to the Missouri river after emi-
grants. For several years he was a
member of the 72nd quorum of Sev-
enty and on April 20, 1890, he was or-
dained a High Priest and Bishop by
Anthon H. Lund and set apart to pre-
side over the Fairview Ward. In 1865
(Dec. 31st) he married Sarah Ann
Brown, who has borne her husband a
number of children. After the death
of his first wiie in 1893, he married
Hannah Braby, July 18, 1895.

PETERSON, Peter B., the first
Bishop of the Kanesville Ward, We-
ber county, Utah ,was born Jan. 11,
1841, in Bj0rup, on the island of Fal-
ster, Denmark, the son of Hans Peter-
sen and Margrethe Larsen. He, re-
ceived only a limited education and at

Utah, from 1890 to 1913, was born
April 5, 1842, in Denmark. He emi-

the age of fourteen began to work for
the farmers. In 1858 (May 29th) he

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joined the Church and the same year
emigrated to Utah, crossing the At-
lantic in the ship "William Tapscott"
and the plains in Capt. Geo. Rowley's
handcart company. After residing
temporarily in Salt Lake City and
Farmington he moved to Huntsville.
In 1863 and 1864 he made trips to
the Missouri river after emigrants.
Both at Farmington and Huntsville
he followed the trade of a blacksmith.
In 1869 he was ordained a Seventy
and became a member of the 5th
quorum of Seventy. In 1870 he mar-
ried Ann Powell (daughter of Thos.
and Margaret Powell) and four years
later (1874) he settled in Hooper on a
homestead of 80 acres secured from
th6 government. In 1882 he was set
apart as superintendent of a branch
Sunday school belonging to the Hoop-
er Ward, and also to preside as pre-
siding Elder in said branch. Finally
he was ordained a High Priest and
Bishop April 27, 1886, and set apart
to preside over the Kanesville Ward,
which was then organized.

PORTER, Nathan Tanner, a mem-
ber of the General Sunday School

son of Nathan Tanner Porter, and
Eliza Ford. He was baptized in 1874
by Geo. D. Chase, and ordained suc-
cessively to the offices of Deacon,
Teacher, Priest, Elder and Seventy. He
has acted as Stake superintendent of
the Davis Stake Sunday schools and
also as Stake supervisor of parents
classes. In 1893-1895 he filled a mis-
sion to Great Britain. His main avo-
cations in life have been those of
farmer, school teacher, educator, law-
yer and banker. He has served as
county superintendent of public
schools, principal of the normal school
and dean of the U. of U. law school.
In January, 1888, he married Anna
Adams, who has borne her husband
five children.

PORTER, William Frederick, first
counselor to Bishop B. H. Greenwood
of Invorury, Sevier county, Utah,
from 1882 to 1901, was born Jan. 6,
1845, at Newcastle, New South Wales,

Union Board, was born Oct. 2, 1865,
at Centerville, Davis county, Utah, the

Australia, the son of John Porter and
Mary A. Bryan. He emigrated to
America in 1854, together with his
mother, crossing the Pacific Ocean in
the ship "Julia Ann," which sailed
from Sydney, Australia, March 22,
1854, and arrived at San Pedro, Cal.,
June 12, 1854. After residing four

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years in San Bernardino, Cal., he went
to Utah in 1854 and settled at Beaver.
In 1868 he went east as far as Fort
Laramie as a Church teamster, driv-
ing six mules. He was ordained an
Elder in 1859, and ordained a High
Priest in 1882 by Wm. Ogden and set
apart as first counselor to Bishop B.
H. Greenwood. In 1865-1867 he par-
ticipated in the Black Hawk Indian
war and assisted the people to move
out of Circle Valley in 1867. He
served as a minute man under Capt.
John Hunt and Major Lowe. Locally
he also served as constable and school
trustee at Inverury, where he has re-
sided since 1877. In 1869 (June 27th)
he married Margaret L. Benson.

PORTER, Margaret Lucinda Ben-
son, wife of Wm. F. Porter, was born
May 14, 1847, in Graves county, Ken-
tucky, the daughter of Joseph W. Ben-
son and Mary Lee. She migrated to
Utah, together with her mother, in

1868, crossing the plains in John R.
Murdock's company, and settled in
Beaver. In 1869 (June 27th) she mar-
ried Wm. F. Porter, to whom she bore
nine children, namely, Wm. J., John
F., Thomas Leroy, Margaret L., Mary
A., S. Arthur, George B., James E.,
and Victor B. Sister Porter has been

an active Relief Society worker for
many years, and presided over the In-
verury Ward Relief Society from 1890
to 1894.

POULTON, James, a veteran Elder
of the Sixth Ward, Salt Lake City,
Utah, was born Oct. 13, 1831, at Leo-
minster, England, the son of Oakley
Poulton and Ann Davis. He was bap-
tized Jan. 29, 1849, by Wm. Allen; or-
dained an Elder in 1850 by Geo. B.
Wallace, and a Seventy in 1856 by

John Kelley. Later he was ordained
a High Priest. He emigrated to Utah
in 1863, crossing the Atlantic in the
ship "Amazon" and the plains in Capt.
John W. Woolley's ox train; passed
through the hard times incident to
Pioneer life in early days, and has re-
sided in the Sixth Ward ever since his
arrival in Utah. Here he has served
the Ward as choir leader for 44 years,
helped to organize the first Ward Sun-
day school in 1855 and has taught dif-
ferent classes in said school for about
45 years. Bro. Poulton has been en-
gaged in mercantile business, belonged
to the first company of volunteer fire-
men in Salt Lake City, served on the
special police force and was a ser-
geant in the Nauvoo Legion. In 1852

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(Feb. 8th) he married Caroline Har-
ris and in 1891 (July 5th) he married
Jennie Scott. By these wives he is
the father of thirteen children.

RAPPLEYE, Tunis, one of the orig-
inal Utah pioneers of 1847, was born
in 1807 in the State of New Y'ork, the
son of John Rappleye, and Margaret
Tellie. He joined the Church in his
youth and came to G. S. L. Valley as
one of the original pioneers and as a
teamster for President Brigham
Young, in 1847. He resided for many
years in Kanosh, Millard county.

Utah, where he died Dec. 25, 1883. In
Kirtland, Ohio, he married Louisa Cut-
ler, who was the daughter of John A.
Cutler and Lois Lathrop. This mar-
riage was blessed with eight children,
among whom were Ammon, Lauretta,
Clarissa, Franklin, Ezra T. and Ed-
ward. For several years Bro. Rap-
pleye was employed as a gardener by
Pres. Brigham Young. In 1899 an aid
man endeavored to personate the pio-
neer Tunis Rappleye for selfish mo-
tives, but the fake was quickly ex-
posed. In 1899 three of Bro. Rap-
pleye's sons were living at Kanosh,
Millard county, and one at Tropic,
Garfield county, Utah; one. daughter
(Mrs. Laura Staples) resides at the

present time (1914) at Elsinore, Se-
vier county, Utah. One of his sons,
Tunis Rappleye, jun., has filled a mis-
sion to the Society Islands.

REID, William Taylor, Bishop of
Manti North Ward (South Sanpete
Stake) Sanpete county, Utah, was
born July 21, 1830, at Drumbo, coun-
ty of Down, Ireland, the son of John
Reid and Frances White. He was
baptized Jan. 9, 1848, by John Reid;
ordained a Priest in October, 1848, by
William Gibson; ordained an Elder in
November, 1848, by William Gibson;

ordained a Seventy in November, 1862,
by William Allen, and became a mem-
ber of the 20th quorum of Seventy;
ordained a High Priest in 1870 by Or-
son Hyde and set apart as a member
of the Sanpete Stake High Council;
ordained a Bishop in July, 1877, and
set apart to preside over the Manti
North Ward, by Pres. Brigham Young.
This latter position he filled until the
time of his death, which occurred at
Manti, Feb. 28, 1904. Before he emi-
grated from Europe to America in
1862 Elder Reid performed active and
successful missionary work in Scot-
land. After his arival in Utah he set-
tled in Provo; afterwards he resided
successively in Springville, Payson

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and Spring Lake Villa, teaching school
in some of these places. In 1866 he
moved to Sevier county and became
one of the early settlers of Richfield.
In November, 1887, he located in Man-
ti, Sanpete county, where he lived the
remainder of his days. In November,
1848, he married Jane McEwan and
in 1869 (Nov. 22nd) he married Mary
A. Cox. By these wives he became
the father of thirteen children. Bish-
op Reid passed through many of the
Indian troubles in Utah and served in
the Black Hawk war as adjutant under
Col. Jesse N. Smith. He was also
prominent as a civil office holder,
serving sixteen years as county clerk
of Sanpete county, and ten years as
county recorder and county superin-
tendent of common schools; he also
filled many other minor offices. In
Church labors he was an enei-getic
Sunday school worker, being a Sunday
school teacher for thirty years and a
Stake superintendent of Sunday
schools ten years. From 1873 to 1875
he served as first counselor to Bishop
Andrew J. Moffatt of Manti. His main
avocation was that of a farmer, but he
was also greatly interested in various
business enterprises. For over thirty
years he was president of the Manti
Co-op.

RIGBY, James, a veteran Elder in
the Fairview Ward, Sanpete county,
Utah, was born Oct. 8, 1844, at Augus-
ta, Burlington county, Iowa, the son
of James Rigby and Jane Lovina Lit-
tlewood. He emigrated to Utah in
1850, crossing the plains in Milo An-
drus' company, together with his
mother, one brother and four sisters.
After residing temporarily in the
Twelfth Ward, Salt Lake City, three
years, they settled more permanently
in the Thirteenth Ward and at the
time of the general move in 1858 they
went as far south as Lehi, Utah coun-
ty. They then went to Center, Tooele
county, where they resided nine years
and finally located permanently at
Fairview, Sanpete county, in 1880.

Bro. Rigbj' was baptized in 1852 by
John Woolley and was ordained a
Seventy March 21, 1870, by Wm. J.
Smith. He spent several years as a
freighter, traveling in Utah, Nevada
and Montana. He also participated in
the Black Hawk war. In 1867 he mar-
ried Fanny Jordan, by whom he be-
came the father of ten children, name-
ly, James L., Fanny M., Leroy,
Charles M., Joseph C, Mary E., Wil-
liam F., Samuel B., Franklin E. and
Lewis L. By occupation Bro. Rigby
is a farmer and stockraiser.

RIGBY. Fanny Jordan, wife of
James Rigbj', was born Oct. 8, 1852, in
Ham.pshire, county of Hants, the
daughter of James F. Jordan and
Sarah Cannon. She emigrated to
Utah in 1855, together with her par-
ents, one brother and one sister, cross-
ing the plains in Noah T. Guyman's
company, and settled in West Jor-
dan. At the time of the move (in
1858) the family went to Lehi, after
which they resided in Rush Valley.
After that they lived nine years in
the Tenth Ward, Salt Lake City. In
1867 Sister Fanny was married to
Bro. James Rigby, by whom she be-
came the mother of ten children, eight
boys and two girls. Sister Rigby has
labored diligently as a Relief Society
worker, but she has spent most of her
time at home, endeavoring to raise
her children in the fear of the Lord,
and planting in their hearts princi-
ples which she and her husband hope
will lead them to salvation and exal-
tation in the kingdom of God hereaf-
ter.

SMITH, Amanda, a woman of great
faith and a survivor of the Haun's
Mill massacre, was born Feb. 22,
1809, in the town of Becket, Beck-
shire county, Mass., daughter of
Ezekiel and Fannie Barnes. While
she was but a young girl she moved
with her parents to Ohio, and mar-
ried at the age of 18 years. She
was a member of the Campbellite

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church, together with Sidney Rigdon
and others, until she heard the fulness
of the gospel preached. When 22
years of age she was baptized by
Elder Orson Hyde into the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
April 1, 1831, the Church being then
not quite one year old. Soon after-
wards she moved to Kirtland, Ohio,
where she assisted in building the
Temple, and in 1838, with her hus-
band and family and many others,
she was forced to leave that place,
on account of mob violence. They
wended their way to Missouri, leav-
ing all their property, except what
they could take in a wagon with two
Tiorses. The following interesting nar-
rative is from "The Women of Mor-
mondom," by Edward W. Tullidge, as
writen by Amanda Smith: "We sold
our beautiful home in Kirtland for a
song, and traveled all summer to Mis-
souri— our teams poor, and with hard-
ly enough to keep body and soul to-
gether. We arrived in Caldwell county,
near Haun's Mill, nine wagons of us
in company. Two days before we
arrived we were taken prisoners by
an armed mob that had demanded
every bit of ammunition and every
weapon we had. We surrendered all.
They knew it, for they searched our
wagons. A few miles more brought us
to Haun's Mill, where that awful scene
of murder was enacted. My husband
pitched his tent by a blacksmith's
shop. Bro. David Evans made a treaty
with the mob that they would not mo-
lest us. He came just before the
massacre and called the company to-
gether and they knelt in prayer.
I sat in my tent. Looking up I
suddenly saw the mob coming — the
same that took away our weapons.
They came like so many demons or
wild Indians. Before I could get to
the blacksmith's shop door to alarm
the brethren, who were at prayers,
the bullets were whistling amongst
them. I seized my two little girls and
escaped aci-oss the mill-pond on a
slab-walk. Another sister fled with

me. Yet though we were women, with
tender children, in flight for our lives,
the demons poured volley after volley
to kill us. A number of bullets entered
my clothes, but I was not wounded.
The sister, however, who was with me,
cried out that she was hit. We had
just reached the trunk of a fallen
tree, over which I urged her, bid-
ding her to shelter there where the
bullets could not reach her, while I
continued my flight to some bottom
land. When the firing had ceased I
went back to the scene of the mas-
sacre, for there were my husband and
three sons, of whose fate I as yet knew
nothing. As I returned I found the sister
in a pool of blood where she had faint-
ed, but she was only shot through the
hand. Farther on was lying dead Bro.
McBride, an aged white-haired revo-
lutionary soldier. His murderer had
literally cut him to pieces with an
old corn-cutter. His hands had been
split down when he raised them in
supplication for mercy. Then the
monster cleft open his head with the
same weapon, and the veteran who
had fought for his country, in the
glorious days of the past, was
numbered with the martyrs. Pass-
ing on I came to a scene more
terrible still to the mother and wife.
Emerging from the blacksmith shop
was my eldest son, bearing on his
shoulders his little brother Alma. 'Oh!
my Alma is dead!' I cried, in anguish.
*No, mother; I think Alma is not dead.
But father and brother Sardius are
killed!' What an answer was this to
appal me! My husband and son mur-
dei'ed; another little son seemingly
mortally wounded; and perhaps be-
fore the dreadful night should pass
the murderers would return and com-
plete their work! But I could not weep
then. The fountain of tears was dry;
the heart overburdened with its calami-
ty, and all the mother's sense absorbed
in its anxiety for the precious boy
which God alone could save by his mir-
aculous aid. The entire hip joint of my
wounded boy had been shot away.

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Flesh, hip bone, joint and all had been
ploughed out from the muzzle of the
gun, which the ruffian placed to the
child's hip through the logs of the
shop and deliberately fired. We laid
little Alma on a bed in our tent and I
examined the wound. It was a ghastly
sight. I knew not what to do. It was
night now. There were none left from
that terrible scene, throughout that
long, dark night, but about half a doz-
en bereaved and lamenting women,and
the children. Eighteen or nineteen, all
grown men excepting my murdered
boy and another about the same age,
were dead or dying; several more of
the men were wounded, hiding away,
whose groans through the night too
well disclosed their hiding places,
while the rest of the men had fled, at
the moment of the massacre, to save
their lives. The women were sobbing,in
the greatest anguish of spirit; the
children were crying loudly with fear
and grief at the loss of fathers and
brothers; the dogs howled over their
dead masters and the cattle were ter-
rified with the scent of the blood of
the murdered. Yet was I there, all
that long, dreadful night, with my
dead and my wounded, and none but
God as our physician and help.
*0h my Heavenly Father,' I cried,
'what shall I do? Thou seest my poor
wounded boy and knowest my inex-
perience. Oh, Heavenly Father, di-
rect me what to do!' And then I was
directed as by a voice speaking to
me. The ashes of our fire was still
smouldering. We had been burning
the bark of the shag-bark hickory. I
was directed to take those ashes and
make a lye and put a cloth saturated
with it right into the wound. It hurt,
but little Alma was too near dead to
heed it much. Again and again I sat-
urated the cloth and put it into the
hole from which the hip joint had
been ploughed, and each time mashed
flesh and splinters of bone came away
with the cloth; and the wound became
as white as chicken's flesh. Having
done as directed I again prayed to

the Lord and was again instructed
as distinctly as though a physician had
been standing by speaking to me.
Near by was a slippery-elm tree.
From this I was told to make a slip-
pery-elm poultice and fill the wound
with it. My eldest boy was sent to get
the slippery-elm from the roots, the
poultice was made, and the wound,
which took fully a quarter of a yard of
linen to cover, so large was it, was
properly dressed. It was then I found
vent to my feelings in tears, and re-
signed myself to the anguish of the
hour. And all that night we,a few poor,
stricken women, were thus left there
with our dead and wounded. All
through the night we heard the groans
of the dying. Once in the dark we
crawled over the heap of dead in the
blacksmith's shop to try to help or
soothe the sufferers' wants; once we
followed the cries of a wounded broth-
er who hid in some bushes from the
murderei's, and relieved him all we
could. It has passed from my mem-
ory whether he was dead in the
morning or whether he recovered.
Next morning brother Joseph Young
came to the scene of the massacre.
'What shall be done with the dead?'
he inquired, in horror and deep trouble.
There was not time to bury them,
for the mob was coming on us.
Neither were there left men to dig
the graves. All the men excepting
the two or three who had so narrow-
ly escaped were dead or wounded. It
had been no battle, but a massacre in-
deed. 'Do anything. Brother Joseph,' I
said, 'rather than leave their bodies
to the fiends who have killed them.'
There was a deep dry well close
by. Into this the bodies had to be
hurried, eighteen or nineteen in num-
ber. No funeral services could be per-
formed, nor could they be buried with
customary decency. The lives of those
who in terror performed the last duty
to the dead were in jeopardy. Every
moment we expected to be fired upon
by the fiends who we supposed were
lying in ambush waiting the first op-

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portunity to dispatch the remaining
few who had escaped the slaughter of
the preceding day. So in the hurry
and terror of the moment some were
thrown into the well head down-
wards and some feet downwards.
But when it came to the burial of
my boy Sardius, Brother Joseph
Young, who was assisting to carry
him on a board to the well, laid down
the corpse and declared that he could
not throw that boj'^ into this horrible
grave. All the way on the journey, that
summer, Joseph had played with the
interesting lad who had been so cru-
elly murdered. It was too much for
one whose nature was so tender as
Uncle Joseph's, and whose sympathies
by this time were quite overwrought.
He could not perform that last office.
My murdered son was left unburied.
'Oh! they have left my Sardius
unburied in the sun,' I cried, and ran
and got a sheet and covered his body.
There he lay until the next day,
and then I, .his mother, assisted by his
elder brother, had to throw him into
the well. Straw and earth were
thrown into this rude vault to cover the
dead. Among the wounded who recov-
ered were Isaac Laney, Nathanie K.
Knight, Mr. Yokum, two brothers by
the name of Myers, Tarlton Lewis,
Mr. Haun and several others, besides
Miss Mary Stedwell, who was shot
through the hand while fleeing with
me, and who, fainting, fell over the log
into which the mob shot upwards of
twenty balls. The crawling of my boys
under the bellows in the blacksmith's
shop where the tragedy occurred, is
an incident familiar to all our people.
Alma's hip was shot away while thus
hiding, Sardius was discovered after
the massacre by the monsters who
came in to dispoil the bodies. The
eldest, Willard, was not discovered.
In cold blood, one, Glaze, of Carroll
county, presented a rifle near the head
of Sardius and literally blew off the
upper part of it, leaving the skull
empty and dry while the brains and
hair of the murdered boy were scat-
tered around and on the walls. At

this one of the men, more merciful
than the rest, observed: 'It was a

d shame to kill those little

boys.' 'D n the difference!' re-
torted the other; 'nits make lice!'
My son, who escaped, also says
that the mobocrat William Mann took
from my husband's feet, before he
was dead, a pair of new boots. From
his hiding place, the boy saw the
ruffian drag his father across the
shop in the act of pulling off his boot.
'Oh! you hurt me!' groaned my
husband. But the murderer dragged
him back again, pulling off the other
boot; 'and there,' says the boy,
'my father fell over dead.' After-
wards this William Mann showed
the boots on his own feet, in
Far West, saying: 'Here is a pair
of boots that I pulled off before the

d d Mormon was done kicking!'

The murderer Glaze also boasted
over the country, as a heroic deed,
the blowing off the head of my young
son. But to return to Alma, and how
the Lord helped me to save his life.
I removed the wounded boy to a
house, some distance off, the next day,
and dressed his hip; the Lord direct-
ing me as before. I was reminded
that in my husband's trunk there was
a bottle of balsam. This I poured
into the wound, greatly soothing
Alma's pain. 'Alma, my child,' I said,
'you believe that the Lord made your
hip?' 'Yes, mother.' 'Well, the Lord
can make something there in the place
of your hip, don't you believe he can,
Alma?' 'Do you think that the Lord
can, mother?' inquired the child, in his
simplicity. 'Yes, my son,' I replied,
'he has showed it all to me in a vis-
ion.' Then I laid him comfortably on
his face and said: 'Now you lay like
that, and don't move, and the Lord
will make you another hip.' So Alma
laid on his face for five weeks, until
he was entirely recovered — a flexible
gristle having grown in place of the
missing joint and socket, which re-
mains to this day a marvel to physi-
cians. On the day that he walked
again I was out of the house fetching

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a bucket of water, when I heard
screams from the children. Running
back, in affright, I entered, and there
was Alma on the floor, dancing
around, and the children screaming in
astonishment and joy. It is now
nearly forty years ago, but Alma
has never been the least crippled
during his life, and he has
traveled quite a long period of the
time as a missionary of the gospel
and a living miracle of the power of
God. I cannot leave the tragic story
without relating some incidents of
those five weeks when I was a pris-
oner with my wounded boy in Mis-
souri, near the scene of the massacre,
unable to obey the order of extermina-
tion. All the Mormons in the neighbor-
hood had fled out of the State, except-
ing a few families of the bereaved
women and children who had gath-
ered at the house of Brother David
Evans, two miles from the scene of
the massacre. To this house Alma had
been carried after that fatal night.
In our utter desolation, what could
we women do but pray? Prayer was
our only source of comfort; our Heav-
enly Father our only helper. None
but he could save and deliver us.
One day a mobber came from the mill
with the captain's fiat: 'The captain
says if you women don't stop your

d d prayer he will send down a

posse and kill every d d one of

you!' And he might as well have done
it, as to stop us poor women praying
in that hour of our great calamity.
Our prayers were hushed in ter-
ror. We dared not let our voices be
heard in the house in supplication. I
could pray in my bed or in silence, but
I could not live thus long. This god-
less silence was more intolerable than
had been that night of the massacre.
I could bear it no longer. I pined
to hear once more my own voice in
petition to my Heaven Father. I
stole down to a corn field, and
crawled into a stalk of corn.' It was
as the temple of the Lord to me at
that moment. I prayed aloud and
most fervently. When I emerged from

the corn a voice spoke to me. It was
a voice as plain as I ever hear one.
It was no silent, strong impression
of the spirit, but a voice, repeating
a verse of the Saint's hymn:
That soul who on Jesus hath leaned

for repose,
I cannot, I will not, desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell should en-
deavor to shake,
I'll never, no never, no never for-
sake!
From that moment I had no more
fear. I felt that nothing could hurt
me. Soon after this the mob sent us
word that unless we were all out of
the State by a certain day we should
be killed. The day came, and at evening
came fifty armed men to execute the
sentence. I met them at the door. They
demanded of me why I was not gone ?
I bade them enter and see their own
work. They crowded into my room
and I showed them my wounded boy.
They came, party after party, until
all had seen my excuse. Then they
quarreled among themselves and
came near fighting. At last they went
away, all but two. These I thought
were detailed to kill us. Then the two
returned. 'Madam,' said one, 'have
you any meat in the house?' 'No,'
was my reply. 'Could you dress a fat
hog if one was laid at your door?' 'I
think we could!" was my answer.
And then they went and caught a
fat hog from a herd which had be-
longed to a now exiled brother, killed
it and dragged it to my door, and de-
parted. These men, who had come to
murder us, left on the threshold of our
door a meat offering to atone for
their i-epented intention. Yet even
when my son was well I could not leave
the State, now accursed indeed to the
Saints. The mob had taken my horses,
as they had the drove of horses, and the
beeves, and the hogs, and wagons, and
the tents, of the murdered and exiled.
So I went down into Daviess coun-
ty (ten miles) to Captain Comstock,
and demanded of him my horses.
There was one of them in his yard.
He said I could have it if I paid five

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dollars for its keep. I told him I had
no money. I did not fear the captain of
the mob, for I had the Lord's promise
that nothing should hurt me. But
his wife swore that the mobbers were
fools for not killing the women and
children as well as the men — declar-
ing that we would 'breed up a pack
ten times worse than the first.'
I left without the captain's per-
mission to take my horse, or giving
pay for its keep; but I went into his
yard and took it, and returned to
our refuge unmolested. Learning
that my other horse was at the mill,
I next yoked up a pair of steers to a
sled and went and demanded it also.
Comstock was there at the mill. He
gave me the horse, and then asked if I
had any flour. 'No; we have had none
for weeks.' He then gave me about
fifty pounds of flour and some
beef, and filled a can with honey.
But the mill, and the slaughtered
beeves which hung plentifully on its
walls, and the stock of flour and
honey, and abundant spoil besides,
had all belonged to the murdered or
exiled Saints. Yet was I thus providen-
tially, by the very murderers and mob-
ocrats themselves, helped out of the
State of Missouri. The Lord had kept
his word. The soul who on Jesus had
leaned for succor had not been forsak-
en even in this terrible hour of mas-
sacre, and in that infamous extermi-
nation of the "Mormons' from Mis-
souri in the years 1838-39. One in-
cident more, as a fitting close.
Over that rude grave — that well —
where my murdered husband and boy
were entombed, the mobbers of Mis-
souri, with an exquisite fiendishness,
which no savages could have con-
ceived, had constructed a rude privy.
This they constantly used, with a de-
light which demons might have en-
vied, if demons are more wicked and
horribly beastly than were they."
It was in the depth of winter that
Amanda Smith thus was compelled
to leave the State of Missouri in an
open wagon, and she had to travel
hundreds of miles through snow, frost.

mud and storms, with no help but that
of an 11-year-old boy, with three
other children, and one of them the
wounded lad, suffering untold hard-
ships. She next located in Commerce,
Illinois, where Nauvoo afterwards
was built, and from that city she was
again driven by mob violence a few
years later. She came to Utah in
1850, and resided continuously in Salt
Lake City, until a few months before
her death, when she, having become
too feeble to live alone, went to Rich-
mond, Cache county, to live with her
daughter Alvira Hendricks, where
she died June 30, 1886, being 77 years
4 months and 8 days old. The cause
of death was paralysis, superinduced
by old age. She passed quietly away,
surrounded by children, many rela-
tives and friends. Sister Smith was
the mother of eight children, six of
whom were living at the time of
her death, sixty-seven grandchildren
and thirty-two great-grandchildren.
Amanda Smith was beloved by all
who knew her good works and ster-
ling qualities. She was ever unflinch-
ing and firm in her faith in the gos-
pel, and rejoiced to see her children
emulate her good works.

SNOW, Seymour Bernard, second
counselor in the Bishopric of the Jen-
sen Ward, Uintah county, Utah, was
born May 15, 1859, in Salt Lake City,
Utah, the son of Bernard Snow and
Annie Liveridge. He was baptized
Sept. 15, 1867; ordained an Elder Dec.
26, 1883, by Thos. Childs; ordained a
Seventy Dec. 8, 1889, and ordained a
High Priest April 17, 1892, by Geo.
Q. Cannon. He served as first coun-
selor to Bishop Horner of the Spring-
ville Second Ward from 1892 to 1899,
and became second counselor to Bish-
op Billings of the Jensen Ward in
August, 1901. Bro. Snow is a farmer
and stockraiser by occupation and has
also been in the lumber business. His
places of residence have been Salt
Lake City, Fountain Green, Spring-
ville and (since 1899) Jensen. In 1884
(June 10th) he married Adelia Hall,

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who is the mother of nine children.
Bro. Snow has taken an active part
in secular as well as ecclesiastical af-

fairs and has filled a number of posi-
tions of honor and responsibilities
in the interest of his fellow-citizens.

SWINDLE, Heber, the first Bishop
of the Monroe South Ward, Sevier
county, Utah, was born Nov. 28, 1875,
at Monroe, Sevier county, Utah, the

son of George Swindle and Mary
Witzig-. He was baptized Sept. 18,
1884, by Thos. Cooper; ordained a
Deacon Oct. 22, 1890; ordained a
Priest Nov. 13, 1898, by Orson Mag-

leby; ordained an Elder July 9, 1899,
by Peter M. Lundgren; married Em-
ma Warnock Dec. 19, 1900, and filled
a mission to the Northwestern States
in 1907-1909, laboring principally in
Montana, part of the time as president
of the Bozeman conference. He has
acted as president of the Monroe town
board, and is now (1914) engaged in
the meat, grocery and banking busi-
ness.

TAFT, Seth, the first Bishop of the
Ninth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born Aug. 11, 1796, iv^ Mendon,
Worcestershire county, Mass., the son

of Seth and Lydia Taft. As a young
man he removed to Michigan, where
he married Harriet Ogden and becom-
ing a convert to "Mormonism" he was
baptized in 1843, together with his
wife and two daughters. He migrated
to Nauvoo, ni., in 1846 and at the
time of the exodus the same year he
followed in the wake of the head
camps of the saints to Council Bluffs,
and spent the winter of 1846-1847 at
Winter Quarters. The following spring
he was selected as one of the orig-
inal pioneers who traveled to G. S. L.
Valley under the immediate leader-
ship of President Brigham Young, ar-
riving in the valley in July. Return-
ing toward the East he went as far as

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the Little Sandy, where he met his
wife, who was crossing the plains and
mountains in Daniel Spencer's com-
pany. She drove an ox team all the
way across the plains in Horace En-
sign's Ten and Ira Eldridge's Fifty.
Bro. Taft then returned to the Valley
with his family from the Little Sandy.
Feb. 22, 1849, he was ordained a Bish-
op and set apart to preside over the
Ninth Ward, Salt Lake City, which po-
sition he held until the fall of the same
year, when he was called on a mission
to Sanpete Valley, and thus became
one of the original settlers of Manti.
He returned to Salt Lake City the fol-
lowing spring (1850) having lost all
his s,tock during the severe winter. He
now resumed his duties as Bishop of
the Ninth Ward and continued thus
until 1856, when he was released and
subsequently ordained a Patriarch. He
died in Salt Lake City Nov. 23, 1863,
leaving two wives and four children,
one wife having gone before him to
the other side.

TANNER, John, popularly known
as Father Tanner, one of the earliest
Elders in the Church, was born Aug.
15, 1778, at Hopkinton, Rhode Island,
the son of Joshua and Thankful Tefft
Tanner. Early in the year 1800 John
married Tabitha, daughter of Elisha
Bently, who bore him one son, Elisha
B., born March 23, 1801. His wife
died on the 9th of the following
month. In January, 1802, he married
Lydia (daughter of William and Ann
Stuart), who was born in 1783 and
was of Scotch descent and said to be
of the royal Stuart family of Scot-
land. Her mother was a descendant
of Miles Standish of Pilgrim fame.
Lydia bore her husband twelve
children, namely: Wiliam Stuart
Martha, Willard, Sidney, John,
Joshua, Romelia, Nathan, Edward and
Edwin (twins), Maria, Louisa, Mar-
tin Henry, and Albert Miles. One
evening in the year 1808 two of John
Tanner's children were bitten by his
dog, which had gone mad, and in the
attempt to confine the dog he himself

was also bitten in the calf of the
leg. He at once seized a pair of sheep
shears, cut out the affected part of
his leg and filled the wound with
salt; and by the aid of a prescrip-
tion which he obtained, he succeeded
in curing his children. In the spring
of 1818 he moved with his family to
North West Bay, where his daughter,
Maria Louisa, and son, Martin H.,
were born. In 1823 he moved into
the town of Bolton, Warren county.
New York, where in 1825 his son Al-
bert M. was born and on May 31st of
that year his faithful wife Lydia died.
In November, 1825, at Bolton, War-
ren county, N. Y., he married Eliza-
beth Beswick (daughter of Everton
and Anna Lamb Beswick), who bore
him six sons and two daughters,
namely: Marion, Seth, Benjamin,
Freeman, Everton, Joseph Smith,
Philomelia, David Dan, Sarah and
Francis. Notwithstanding the ex-
pense of raising his large family,
John Tanner became comparatively
wealthy, was extensively known and
universally respected. The poor and
needy always found a friend in him;
he would give them employment
whereby to earn what they needed, if
they were able to work, but would
supply their needs just the same,
whether they were able to work or
not. Father Tanner, as he was rev-
erentially called, was a member of
the Baptist church, and the leading
spirit among the members in his
neighborhood. About a year and one-
half after the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints was organized,
two Elders, Jared and Simeon Carter,
came and preached in his neighbor-
hood. Believing that his church was
the only true church, he naturally
thought that these men were im-
posters, when he heard of their ap-
pointment, and he attended their
meeting for the purpose of exposing
their error to his Baptist brethren.
But on seeing the Elders and hearing
them preach and expound the gospel
and bear their testimonies to the di-
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he was too good a judge of men and
too well versed in the Scriptures not
to be profoundly impressed, and was
too honest to breathe a breath of dis-
credit upon them or their doctrines,
when they did not appear clear to
him. Accordingly, when these Elders
asked him his opinion of them and
their doctrines he simply answered in
the language of the wise and con-
servative Gamaliel to the persecutors
of the primitive Church, "If this work
be of men, it will come to naught;
but if it be of God, ye cannot over-
throw it." But he was too profound-
ly impressed to let them pass without
a thorough investigation, and there-
fore invited the Elders to accept of
the hospitality of his home for the
night. He borrowed and read the
Book of Mormon while they went on
their way, and upon reading it was
convinced of the divinity of the work.
After an absence of two weeks the
Elders returned and Bro. Tanner was
baptized; soon afterwards he was
ordained to the Priesthood. Bro.
Tanner became the instrument in
the hands of God to contribute
means, by which the partially con-
structed Kirtland Temple and
grounds were saved from passing out
of the hands of the Saints by a fore-
closure of the mortgage, and having
assisted to complete the sacred edifice
and fit it for the administration of
holy ordinances Father Tanner was
present at the dedication and partook
of the glorious gifts, manifestations
and hallowed influences of that me-
morial occasion. He also received his
washings and anointings in that, the
first Temple erected to the name of
the Lord, and under the direction of
God in this dispensation, and hallowed
by the personal presence of the
Savior, Moses, Elias, Elijah and other
holy personages. With his charac-
teristic energy. Father Tanner put
forth his best efforts to assist the
Prophet in sustaining the "Kirtland
Bank," and for that purpose bought
and held much of its paper; but there
was a Judas behind the counter and

in spite of the best efforts of the
Prophet, sustained by Father Tanner
and others, the bank went down, and
Father Tanner, like many others, was
completely crippled financially. At
the time that the Saints were com-
pelled to leave Kirtland, Father Tan-
ner, with the journey of one thousand
miles before him and a large fam-
ily, was destitute of the means to
migrate. He had an excellent farm
and home which were exempt to him
from sale by law, and he could have
retained these and remained in Kirt-
land in comfort, but he had signed
as surity for the Church, and no finan-
cial promise of his had ever before
gone unfulfilled; nor would he now
fail to meet his obligations if it took
all he had. He sold his farm and
enough other property to pay his ob-
ligation and was consequently left
with only one horse, a turn-pike cart,
a keg of powder and $20 in cash, with
which to transport himself and fam-
ily of eleven a distance of a thousand
miles. This was quite a change for
Father Tanner; from a condition of
wealth in which he was enabled to as-
sist many people and the Church in
general, he was left in a condition
without means to assist himself at the
age of sixty years. In a financial
way he had staked his all on his
faith, the Prophet and the Church,
and had lost. No doubt this happened
to try his faith, for it was not trace-
able to his lack of business sagacity
or thrift. But all this did not cause
Father Tanner to lose his faith in the
gospel nor in the mission of the
Prophet Joseph Smith, for he had a
firm testimony of the truth of the
gospel and believed firmly in the lat-
ter-day dispensation; hence, he could
not be moved out of the chosen path.
By the aid of his horse and cart and
a wagon and three horses, which he
succeeded in borrowing he was en-
abled to carry his family safely to
Missouri, receiving some help from
the people along the way. But the
journey was not without hardships,,
which caused the death of one of his

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daughters. Arriving: in Missouri, and
relating: his experiences to some of
his friends, he remarked that if oth-
ers had come up to Missouri easier
than he, they had not learned so much
and had not therefore received so
much benefit from the journey, there-
by acknowIedg:ing: the hand of the
Lord in his privations. He arrived
at Far West, Missouri, July 8, 1838,
where, with his characteristic thrift
and the aid of his sons, he soon paid
off the debts and had the means of a
comfortable living. While he and his
son Myron were returning from a mill
in the fall of 1838 and were about
nine miles from home, they saw a
company of state militia coming in
their direction, and their appearance
was so much like that of a mob that,
suspecting their evil intentions.
Father Tanner told his son Myron
to run and secret himself, so that he
could be spared to tell what become
of his father. Myron accordingly ran
and secreted himself beneath a heap
of brush. The mob came up, and, as
Father Tanner had suspected they
would, they sought to take his life.
One, Capt. M. Meyer Odell, snapped
his gun with deadly aim at him and
as it refused to discharge its con-
tents, he seized it by the muzzle and
dealt Father Tanner a heavy blow
upon the head. Had not Father Tan-
ner worn a thick felt hat at the time,
it is very probable that it would have
proved fatal. The mob then took him
prisoner and held him and his team
for several days. In order to wipe
out the evidence of the murderous as-
sault they ordered him to wash off
the blood from his head and face,
but this he refused to do. They killed
one man by the name of Carey, and
upon Father Tanner's word of honor
that he would return, they allowed
him with others to go and take the
corpse to his family, and ever faith-
ful to his promise he returned to
their custody. During the militia raid
Father Tanner lost heavily in stock
stolen by the mob. As soon as he was
released, he went to work »at once

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making preparations to remove to Il-
linois. Together with his family and
the families of his sons he arrived in
New Liberty, about the 1st of April;
here he sojourned for a yeai- and
prospered. About the middle of
March, 1840, he moved to Iowa and
settled upon the "half breed" tract,
about four miles from Montrose, in
Lee county, where his daughter Sarah
was born in July of that year. Here
he opened and cultivated a large farm,
putting 250 acres under the plow, and
about 200 acres into pasture, all under
good fence, and here he lived and
prospered for six years. At the
April conference, 1844, Father Tan-
ner was called to take a mission to
the Eastern States. Before starting
he went to Nauvoo to see the Prophet
Joseph Smith, whom he met in the
street. He held the Prophet's note
for $2,000, loaned in 1835, to redeem
the Kirtland Temple farm, and in the
course of the conversation he handed
the Prophet his note. The Prophet,
not understanding what he meant by
it, asked what he would have him do
with it, and Father Tanner replied:
"Brother Joseph, you are welcome to
it." The Prophet then laid his right
hand heavily upon Father Tanner's
shoulder and said: "God bless you.
Father Tanner, your children shall
never beg bread." He went upon his
mission, and was in the East when the
Prophet aiad Patriarch were assassin-
ated; he fieturned early in the fall of
that year. The Church up to this
time, owing to the extreme adversity
through which it had been called to
pass, had been unable to pay the notes
in full for the $30,000, which Father
Tanner had signed as surety, and he
was now called on to pay this, and
judgment obtained against him in the
sum of $700, in the district court of
Lee county, Iowa; but he succeeded
in affecting a compromise whereby
the judgment creditors agreed to ac-
cept $100 from him as his share in
full, and look to the other parties for
the remainder. Father Tanner aided
materially in the building of the Nau-

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voo Temple, and received his endow-
ments, sealings and second anointings
therein. In the spring of 1846 he
sold his home at a nominal price, pre-
paratory to gathering to the Rocky
mountains with the Saints. With the
means thus obtained he fitted up com-
fortable teams and wagons and start-
ed west about the middle of May,
joining the westward bound streams
of Latter-day Saints in their exodus
from Illinois. He moved two fam-
ilies besides his own to Council Bluffs.
In July, 1846, he fitted out two of his
sons, Albert M. and Myron, and sent
them with the Mormon Battalion into
Mexico. He then moved across the
Missouri river to Cutler's Park, and
thence to Winter Quarters, where he
herded the stock of the whole camp
of Israel for three months, receiving
no remuneration, through a misunder-
standing. After giving up the herd,
he moved to the "Chimneys" on the
river, three miles above Winter Quar-
ters, whei'e he spent the winter.
While here he lost nearly everything
he owned by fire. In the spring of
1847 he assisted in fitting out the
pioneers for the westward journey,
opened up a farm and raised a good
crop of coi'n. His son Myron returned
in the fall from his trip with the
Battalion, while Albert M. went on to
California. In the fall he also sent
out help to the pioneers who were on
the return trip. In the latter part of
June, 1848, he fitted up five teams
and loaded up his worldly effects, in-
cluding eighteen months' provisions,
and started west for Great Salt Lake
Valley. He spent the 4th of July on
the Elkhorn river. Somewhere be-
tween Wood river and Fort Laramie
his grandson, Sidney, six years old,
fell from the tongue of a wagon
which was loaded with about 3500
pounds; both wheels passed over his
bowels; he raised up on his feet and
then fell and expired in about twenty
minutes. This occurred on the 26th
day of July; the company traveled on
till the following day, when the boy

was buried on the bank of the Platte
river. Otherwise Father Tanner had
a prosperous journey; he arrived in
Salt Lake Valley on the 17th of Oc-
tober, 1848, and located on Little Cot-
tonwood creek, about one mile above
the present Union Fort, where he
built a home and laid out a farm in
the spring of 1849 in the so-called
Lyman survey, between the two Cot-
tonwoods. In the fall of 1849 he was
taken with the rheumatism, and on
New Year's day, 1850, he was con-
fined to his bed and suffered terribly
till April 13, 1850, when he died. He
was buried on the 14th in lots 4 and
13 in block 1, plat "C," Salt Lake City
Cemetery.

TERRY, Otis Lysander, a Utah pio-
neer of 1850, was born March 12, 1818,
at Hardwick, Worcester county, Mas-
sachusetts, the son of Otis Terry and
Cynthia Ruggles. In 1842 (Oct. 18th)
he married Fannie Marilla Loveridge,
who bore him five children. Becoming
a convert to "Mormonism," he was
baptized in 1843 by Elder Mephibo-
sheth Sirrine. In 1845 he moved to
Honey Creek, Iowa, and lived there
and at Kanesville for several years.
In 1850 he crossed the plains and
mountains to G. S. L. Valley in Capt.
Warren Foote's company, Bro. Otis
L. being captain of fifty and his fa-
ther captain of ten on the journey.
After his arrival in Salt Lake City,
Otis L. settled in Union, Salt Lake
county, where he engaged in farm-
ing and also labored as a cooper. In
1851 he took charge of Gardner's
flouring mill on Mill Creek. That year
also he married Levee Terissa Daucy,
who bore him eight children. In 1852
he married Jane Hart, who became the
mother of two of his children, and in
1853 he married Sarah Vail Howell,
a widow with three children. In 1855
he moved with his family to North
Ogden, Weber county, where he spent
the winter of 1855-1856. That season
proved the hardest time of their lives
on account of the grasshopper devas-

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tation. Flour could not be had at any
price and therefore the family had to
subsist oh bran bread and beef made
from cattle that had frozen to death
in the Weber river. These animals
would go out on the ice to drink, when
the ice would frequently break under
them and let them down into the wa-
ter, where they would freeze to death,
and Father Terry would occasionally
cut the ice to get the cattle out long
after they were dead. Towards spring
sickness came upon the family and
thev had measles, scurvy and flucks.

In this weakened condition his beloved
wives, Fannie and Jane, unable to
combat the destroyer, died. Two of
his children also succumbed to the
disease. Becoming somewhat dis-
heartened Bro. Terry moved the re-
mainder of his family back to Union
Fort, where he endeavored to make a
fresh start in life. Times were still
very hard and he buried two more of
his children. In 1857 he married
Martha Jane Van Volkenberg, who
bore him seven children; hence after
the death of Fannie and Jane he still
had three wives. Altogether he be-
came the father of twenty-six chil-
dren. During the winter of 1857-1858
he participated in the Echo Canyon
campaign and during the general
move south in 1858 he settled tem-

porarily at Spring Lake Villa ,Utah
county. Deciding to change his place
of residence once more he left Union
in March, 1860, with part of his fam-
ily and settled permanently at Fair-
view, Sanpete county. There he soon
became one of the leading citizens,
taking an active part in building mills,
making roads, constructing canals and
ditches, grubbing sage brush, killing
snakes and guarding the place from
Indians. He lived in the old rock fort
until it was considered safe to move
out upon the city lots, and he was
one of the first to venture out to the
canyons for timber for building pur-
poses. Bro. Terry took an active part
in the Black Hawk war and ran the
first saw mill at F'airview. He also
took charge of the grist mill in Fair-
view for many years and was among
the first to raise apples in the north
end of Sanpete valley. His corn in-
variably grew the tallest, his stacks
of grain were always the largest and
he always had a good herd of cows,
horses and sheep. Bro. Terry was the
first choir leader in Fairview, as he
delighted in the songs of Zion. It was
always a pleasure to him to tell of
his early experiences in the Church.
He held the office of a High Priest at
the time of his death, which occurred
Nov. 16, 1899, in Fairview. At the
close of 1913 his posterity numbered
383 souls. His sons and daughter
grew up full of vigor and cheerfulness
and nothing ever happened which
caused them to lose sight of the bright
side of life. His wives were kind and
generous and did a mother's part by
the children who had lost their moth-
ers. This was especially the case with
Levee Terissa, whose heart was not
only large enough to work for and di-
vide with all his large family, but
many times she helped others, being
indeed a mother to the motherless and
a friend to the oppressed. Her home
was always open to the young people
and many a happy evening was spent
parching corn, making molasses can-
dy and shaving off dried beef to be
eaten with some of her famous bis-

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cuits and ligfht bread. She was a
teacher and defender of virtue and
some of her words still rin^ in the
ears of many who knew her. In her
home could be heard the hum of the
spinning wheel and the whack, whack
of the loom. She and her daughters
carded, spun and wove many a yard
of cloth which was made into cloth-
ing for the family. Bro. Terry him-
self took pride in wearing his home
made jeans, long after the store-
bought articles had come into use.
His boys grew up full of push and en-
terprise. Though none of them have
attained to great riches, they have
been promoters in different lines of
industry and helped a great many peo-
ple as well as themselevs to get a
start in the world. They have always
been on hand to assist in the upbuild-
ing of the Church and have in a most
liberal way donated their time, talents
and means for the furtherance of the
work of the Lord. Some of them have
gone on missions, and though not flu-
ent speakers, they have done a great
work by their example, and they are
all faithful Latter-day Saints to this
day. The Terry family have up to
date done work in the Temples for
about two thousand persons.

TERRY, Otis Lysander, jun., Bishop
of the Timpanogas Ward, Utah coun-
ty, Utah, was born Jan. 6, 1852, in Mill
Creek, Salt Lake county, Utah, the son
of Otis L. Terry and Fanny Marilla
Loveridge. He was baptized in 1861
by Thos. Terry; ordained successively
to the offices of Deacon, Elder (or-
dained in 1875 by Elias Smith) and
High Priest, the latter ordination tak-
ing place in July, 1877, by Daniel H.
Wells. At the time of his birth his
father was temporarily located in Mill
Creek, running the Gardner flouring
mill, while the home of the family was
in Union, and young Otis was a resi-
dent of the Union Ward until 1886.
While residing there he acted as sec-
ond counselor to Bishop Ismael Phil-
lips from 1877 to 1887; here also he
acted as president of the Ward Y. M.

M. I. A. and as superintendent of the
Sunday school. In 1886 he moved to
Fairview, Sanpete county, where he
resided until 1901. Here he acted as a
counselor in the local presidency of
the High Priests quorum and also as
president of the Ward Y. M. M. I. A.
six years. In 1901 he moved to Tim-
panogas, where he acted as president

of the local High Priests organiza-
tion and in 1903 (April 19th) he was
ordained a Bishop and set apart to
preside over the Timpanogas Ward.
Bro. Terry, besides being an active
Church worker, has taken leading
parts in secular affairs. Thus he act-
ed two years as constable while resid-
ing at Union, and at Fairview he was
a member of the city council two years
and subsequently mayor two years.
In 1876 (Feb. 28th) he married Sarah
Lovina Howell, who was born Jan. 3,
1859, and died Oct. 20, 1899, after
giving birth to ten children. Bro. Ter-
ry married Lydia Ann Butterfield Mid-
dleton April 14, 1881; she bore him
three children. In 1900 (Jan. 3rd) he
married Mary Johanna Rasmussen
Tei-ry, his brother's widow, who was
born Dec. 26, 1863, at West Jordan,
Utah. She also became the mother of
three children by Bro. Terry. Having
been convicted on a charge of unlaw-
ful cohabitation, Bro. Terry served

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nine months in the Utah penitenitary,
from Oct. 4, 1889, to May 20, 1890.

WOOD, James Grace. (Continued
from page 91.) Bro. Wood gives the
following: additional particulars of his
life: "My occupation is that of a
farmer. I am the ninth child of my
father's thirty-seven children. For a
number of years I acted as a Ward
teacher and spent seven years in exile
for having- obeyed one of the Lord's
commandments. I acted for some
time as superintendent of the South
Hooper Sunday School, and in 1894 I
was chosen first counselor to Bishop
Cook of the South Hooper Ward, of
the Davis Stake of Zion. After the
division of that Ward I was chosen
Bishop of that portion of the same
which was named Clearfield and was
ordained a Bishop Nov. 3, 1907, by
Orson F. Whitney. After this ordina-
tion I spent three months gathering:
material for the genealogy of the
members of the new Ward. After
having presided over the Clearfield
Ward four years I had the satisfac-
tion of knowing: that there was not a
single non-tithe payer in the Ward
belonging to the Church, and that of
the twenty-four non-members residing
in the Ward eighteen had been bap-
tized. After returning from my mis-
sion and exile I assisted two of my
brothers to fill missions in England
and one in Scotland; also assisted my
oldest son, James C, financially to fill
a two years' mission to the Central
States; after his return, Loy Wood,
the next of my sons in order of age,
filled a mission to Asia, where he
spent three years. Next my son Alvin
filled a two years' mission to the
Eastern States, and just before he re-
turned an orphan girl (Viola Howard),
whom I had raised, filled a mission
at my expense to the Northern States.
Thus since the year 1883 I have spent
nearly $9000 for missionary purposes,
which I consider a good investment.
Thanks to my Heavenly Father, my
family, myself included,ai"e at the pres-
ent time in perfect harmony with the

authorities of the Church and labor
with implicit faith in the principles of
the gospel of Jesus Christ."

WOODRUFF, Emma Smith, one of

the early heroines of the Church, was
born March 1, 1838, in Spring Hill,
Daviess county, Missouri, three miles

from Adam-on-di-Ahman. Her fa-
ther, Samuel Smith, was of English
descent, and her mother, Martishia
Smoot, was of French lineage and
was sister to the well-known Abraham
O. Smoot, and Emma was therefore al-
ways intimately associated with the
Smoot family in Utah. Her parents
came originally from Tennessee, and
located in Spring Hill, where the lit-
tle Emma was born. When but a tiny
child her parents moved to Nauvoo,
for they joined the Church in the early
days, and here they lived and labored
under the teachings and with the close
friendship of the Prophet Joseph
Smith, until after the martyrdom,
and indeed, till the expulsion from Mis-
souri. The mother was a remarkable
woman, modest and retiring, but of
the best type of American woman-
hood. The little girl was always so-
ber, industrious and mature for her
years. She remembered all her life
the splendid presence of the Prophet,

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and how he fondled her on his knee
when she was near him. She was a
playmate of the children of his home,
and was often on his grounds and
about his place. He was passionately
fond of children, as all know who
knew anything about him, and the
little Emma was quite a favorite with
him. This precious memory she cher-
ished as one of her most sacred treas-
ures. In the year 1850 the little girl
started West with her parents. The
father had worked hard and sacrificed
much to be prepared for this journey
into the wilderness, and yet he under-
took it with the same buoyant hope
and manly courage that animated all
those early pioneers. His wjfe had
already four little children, Emma be-
ing the eldest. What tragedies are
written into those early annals! And
how simply we tell of them! Yet, are
they none the less the record of su-
preme suffering and sacrifice. When
the family reached Salt Creek, the
father died suddenly, after only two
hours of deadly suffering. Can any-
one picture the scene without a flow
of sympathetic tears? The mother,
alone, bereft, with her four little chil-
dren about her knees, the fires of per-
secution burning behind her and the
terrors of an unknown wilderness be-
fore her? But — she was a saint. And
with quiet trust in the God that had
never forsaken her, she bent her shoul-
ders to her heart-breaking task. The
blow was not all fallen. Three days
after the death of the father, the
mother was delivered of a little girl,
and behold, the little Emma, but
twelve years old, was left to assume
the responsibility of looking after the
bereaved family. There were kind
friends about them, and the Church
cast its protecting arms about the
widowed mother and her offspring.
But none the less, Emma was a woman
from that hour. The ordinary care-
free existence of childhood, its merry
pleasures, its joyous hours of play,
were nevermore known by the sober
and capable girl. She was a girl-
woman, and nobly she accepted her

duties, maturing still more rapidly un-
der the stress and storm of her trials,
the "little mothers" that "Mormonism"
has developed. It is such lessons that
bring out all the latent powers of
management, or, as we now term it,
executive ability, possessed by our
Latter-day Saint women. Emma
Smith, girl-woman of twelve years
old, took the long black-snake whip,
learned to hitch up her oxen, and
trudged beside them as she drove
them on with her mother lying with-
in, surrounded by her three babies.
Thus they entered the Valley. Camp-
ing time found little Emma mixing
her bread, milking her cow, and
cleansing the children, ere she put
them to rest beside her mother in the
wagon. Kind friends were there, as
has been said, but each family and
part of a family had its own heavy
burdens to bear, and Emma was found
equal to the occasion; so she was al-
lowed to do her double, nay threble
share of the work. After many pri-
vations and trials, the little party
reached the Valley in the early fall of
1850. And here the struggles was
continued. But so capable a girl, so
matured a mind, so bright an under-
standing was not long left alone. In
the year 1853, when Emma was but fif-
teen years old, she was married to the
rising young Apostle Wilford Wood-
ruff, as his second wife. Again her
abilities were called into effective use,
for she became in a large manner the
pivot of the well known and industri-
ous Woodruff family. She was a hard
worker, full of zeal for the welfare of
her husband and his family, and she
made for herself a very large and im-
portant place in her new home. Eight
children were born to Emma Wood-
ruff, their names are as follows: Hy-
rum Smith, born Oct. 4, 1857, died
Nov. 24, 1858; Emma M., born July 4,
1860, died Nov. 30, 1806; Asahel H.,
born Feb. 3, 1863; Clara M., born July
23, 1868; Ann, born April 10, 1867,died
April 11, 1867; Abraham Owen, named
for Bro. A. 0. Smoot, and born Nov.
23, 1872; he was the brilliant and

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beloved Apostle who died June 20,
1905, mourned by the whole Church;
Winnifred Blanche, born April 9, 1876,
and Mary Alice, born June 2, 1879.
Asahel H. is now Bishop of the Water-
loo Ward, Winnifred Blanche an aid in
Granite Stake Relief Society, and Clara
M. a counselor in the general board
of the Primary associations of the
Church. Emma Woodruff was also very
active and useful in the organizations
of the Church. She was a charter
member of the Retrenchment Society,
and was chosen to act on the first Salt
Lake Stake Board Relief Society. She
was president of the Farmer's Ward
Relief Society. She was chosen to
act as a member of the General Board
of the Relief Societies when it was in-
corporated in October, 1892. Here she
labored for many years, traveling and
ministering in her calling among the
sisters of that powerful society. It
is said that Sister Woodruff was given
many of the hardest trips and she
traveled perhaps as much as any oth-
er member of the Board. When the
Granite Stake was organized Sister
Woodruff was chosen as the Stake
president of the Relief Society in that
Stake. And her labors there are
worthy of all emulation. She was
gifted with rare executive ability, was
an excellent organizer, knew how to
handle women and to utilize forces.
She was broad in her sympathies, al-
lowed gifted women under her to ex-
press themselves in both word and
deed, and, in short, she carried forward
to the time of her death one of the
best and most active Stake organiza-
tions known in the Church. Moreover,
she did this with the loving sympathy
and help of practically every woman
under her charge. She was not only
loved, but highly respected for her
candor, her just decisions and her
keen perceptions. When the Salt
Lake Temple was opened in April,
1893, Sister Emma Woodruff was
one of the first women chosen to of-
ficiate in that sacred House. She was
named as counselor to Sister Zina
D. H. Young, who acted as the High

Priestess there, and later, when Sis-
ter Bathsheba W. Smith followed Sis-
ter Young in 1901, Sister Woodruff
was again named for the same respon-
sible position. Here then she labored
for many years, practically till her
death. Sister Woodruff was gener-
ous to a fault, although she was like-
wise prudent and very thrifty. But
her impulses were broad and her spir-
it noble. She was a loved and loving
friend of the poor and suffering, and
none knew her kindness better. She
was an excellent housekeeper and a
sympathetic home-maker. Her hos-
pitable doors opened wide for all
guests, and her table was ever spread
for friend and visitor. She was with
it all, devoted heart, might, mind and
sti-ength to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
She loved the Prophet with an abid-
ing testimony, and therefore was a
true worshipper of Christ. She loved
the Savior, because she loved His
children. Her own children were her
greatest blessing and her chief care.
That they should be taught the gos-
pel and remain true to those teach-
ings was her daily and hourly prayer.
And be it said ,that she succeeded be-
yond her utmost dreams in rearing a
family who have followed in the foot-
steps of both the noble mother and that
grand old Patriarch and President,
Wilford Woodruff. That Emma was
the wife of President Woodruff was
an honor to her all her life, and that
their children were willing always to
take his counsel was her greatest
blessing. To such as she, the doors
of heaven open wide ,and when she
entered into that celestial portal, who
may describe the songs of joy and
gladness which greeted her, for there
entered in one of earth's heroines.
Requiest En Pace. Emma M. Wood-
ruff married Henry A. Woodruff;
Asahel H. Woodruff married Naomi
Butterworth; Clara M. Woodruff mar-
ried Ovando C. Beebe; Abraham O.
Woodruff married Helen Winters;
Winnefred Blanche married Joseph J.
Daynes, jun., and Mary A. Woodruff
married Wm. McEwan.

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JACOB GATES.

(See Sketch, Vol. 1, p. 197.)

ANDREW J. BOWMAN.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 402.)

JAMES CECIL CLARK.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 755.)

WILLIAM FAUCETT.
(See sketch. Vol. 2, p. 622.)

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JOSEPH R. MESERVY.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 102.)

MARGARET O. MESERVY.
(Wife of Joseph R. Meservy)

OLIVER K. MESERVY.
<See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 103.)

MRS. OLIVER K. MESERVY.
(Wife of Oliver K. Meservy.)

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CHARLES W. HUHL.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 404.)

EDWIN J. KRISTLA.NSEN.
(See sketch, VoL 2, p. 443.)

MARY B. HALL.
(See sketch. Vol. 2, p. 6.37.)

MARY H. COON.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 449.)

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811

GEORGE R. HILL.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 9.)

JOHN J. TANNER.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 156.)

RICHARD DYE.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 286.)

ADIN E. BROWN.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 255.)

812 LATTER-DAY SAINT BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

ALBERT G. GOODRICH.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 241.)

DAVID P. OVERSON.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 693.)

EDWARD C. TUCKER.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 293.)

J. URBAN ALLRED.
(See sketch, Vol. 2, p. 234.)

INDEX.

* Denotes that sketch is accompanied by portrait,

* Aagard, Andrew James, Vol. 2: 584.

* Adams, Charles, Vol. 1: 534.
Adams, Nathan, Vol. 2: 131.

* Ahlander, Anders F., Vol. 2: 281.
Ainsworth, Joseph, Vol. 2: 1.
Aldrich, Hazen, Vol.| 1: 186.
Alexander, John, Vol. 1: 549.
Alger, Samuel N., Vol. 1: 798.
Allen, Alanson David, Vol. 2: 338.
Allen, Amnion, Vol. 2: 339.

* Allen, Andrew A., Vol. 1: 433.
Allen, Andrew Stephen, Vol. 2:584.

* Allen, Charles Hopkins, Vol. 2.: 140.
Allen, Elijah, Vol. 2:143.

Allen, James, Vol. 1:508.

* Allen, John M. J., Vol. 2: 195.
Allen, Rufus C, Vol. 1:535.
Allen, Warner Hoopes, Vol. 2:142.
Allen, Samuel A., Vol. 2:584.
Allen, William C, Vol. 1: 571.
Alley, Charles Henry, Vol. 2: 510.

* Alley, Emma Turner, Vol. 2:510.
Alley, George, Vol. 2:508.

Alley, George Hubbard, Vol. 2:509.

* Alley, Mary Symonds, Vol. 2: 509.

* Alley, Stephen Webb, Vol. 2:509.
Allred, Joseph G., Vol. 1:560.

* Allred, J. Urban, Vol. 2:234, 812.
Allred, Louis Ephraim, Vol. 2:92.

* Allred, Reddick Newton, Vol. 2: 167.
Allred, Samuel, Vol. 2:582.

* Allred, Wilford Leroy, Vol. 2: 573.

* Alston, Thomas, Vol. 1:789.
Andersen, Anders N., Vol. 2: 10.

* Andersen, Andrew S., Vol. 2:541.

* Andersen, Christian, Vol. 2:745.

* Andersen, Christine B., Vol. 1: 507.

* Andersen, Frederick, Vol. 2:211.

* Andersen, Joachim C., Vol. 2: 579.

* Andersen, Mons, Vol. 1:506.

* Andersen, Sc*ren, Vol. 2: 541,
♦Andersen, S0ren P., Vol. 2: 542.

* Anderson, Andrew H., Vol. 2: 341,

* Anderson, Anton, Vol. 1:815.

* Anderson, August Kull, Vol. 2:237.

* Anderson, Charles L., Vol. 1:544.

* Anderson, Charles P., Vol. 1:554.

* Anderson, Christian, Vol. 1: 529.

* Anderson, Edward H., Vol, 1: 715.

* Anderson, Hans, Vol. 1:815.

* Anderson, James H., Vol. 1:778.
Anderson, James W., Vol. 2: 572.

* Anderson, John, Vol. 2:301.

* Anderson, John C, Vol. 2: 237.
Anderson, John Forbis, Vol. 2: 585.

* Anderson, John H., Vol. 1:767,

* Anderson, Lewis, Vol. 2:222.

* Anderson, Lewis Robert, Vol. 2: 560.

* Anderson, Nephi A., Vol. 2:145.

* Anderson, Niels O., Vol. 2: 544.

* Anderson, Ole, Vol. 2: 585.
Anderson, William, Vol. 2: 585.

* Andreasen, Jens P., Vol. 2:250.

* Andrus, James, Vol. 2: 586.

* Archibald, David, Vol. 2:588.

* Argyle, Benjamin, Vol. 2:588.
Armstrong, David, Vol. 2: 190.

* Armstrong, Francis, Vol. 2: 482.

* Armstrong, Isabella S., Vol. 2:484.

* Arnold, Alicia Read, Vol. 2: 493.

* Arnold, Orson Pratt, Vol. 2:492.

* Arthur, Christopher J., Vol. 2:186.
*Ashton, Edward T., Vol. 1:685.

Ashworth, William Booth, Vol. 2: 39.
*Asper, William, Vol. 1:812.

* Atkin, Thomas, Jr., Vol. 1: 546, 822.
Atwood, Millen, Vol. 1: 633.

* Atwood, Millen Dan, Vol. 2:26.

* Austin, Edwin N., Vol. 1:452.

* Austin, Mark, Vol. 2:589, 744.
Austin, Philo W., Vol. 1: 446.

* Aveson, Robert, Vol. 1:679.

B.

Babbitt, Almon W., Vol. 1:284.

* Backmann, Samuel C, Vol. 2: 374.

* Baerentsen, Andrew M., Vol. 2: 577,
*Bagnall, Joseph, Vol. 2: 164.

Baldwin, Caleb, Vol. 2:589.

* Baldwin, George, Vol. 2: 417.

* Balfour, John, Vol. 2:442.
*Ball, Elihu K., Vol. 1:550.
*Ball, Thomas, Vol. 2:259.
*Ballantyne, Richard, Vol. 1:703.

Ballard, Henry, Vol. 1:419.
Ballard, Henry W., Vol. 1: 426.
Ballard, Melvin J., Vol. 1: 419.
Ballinger, Pearson, Vol. 2: 123.

* Banks, Cornelius H., Vol. 2: 465.

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*= Banks, John, Vol. 2: 590.
^ Banks, John Elmer, Vol. 2:282.
^= Barnes, Arthur F., Vol. 1:650.
^ Barnes, John R., Vol. 1: 464.
^Barney, Danielson B., Vol. 2:196.
^Barton, Eliza, Vol. 2:539.
'^Barton, Ellen Bechall, Vol. 2:513.
^Barton, Florence S., Vol. 2:455.
*= Barton, George Ernest, Vol. 2:591.
^ Barton, Isaac, Vol. 1: 676.
' Barton, James, Vol. 2: 539.
' Barton, Peter, Vol. 1 : 463.
^Barton, William B., Vol. 1:667.
^Barton, William Henry, Vol. 2:455.
^Bastion, Gearsen S., Vol. 1: 592.

Bateman, Edward A., Vol. 1: 592.
' Bateman, James Morgan, Vol. 2: 332.

Bateman, Samuel, Vol. 1 : 590.
' Bateman, Sophronia A.W.,Vol. 3:592.

Bateman, Thomas, Vol. 2: 591.
= Bateman, William L., Vol. 2:591.
= Bawden, Ann Ireland, Vol. 2:464.
= Bawden, Henry, Vol. 2: 463.
' Bawden, Henry L., Vol. 2:455.
= Bawden, Sarah F. H., Vol. 2:464.

Baxter, John M., Vol. 1: 331.
■■ Beal, David Nelson, Vol. 2: 745.
= Beal, Henry, Vol. 1: 521; Vol. 2: 226.
= Beal, John Samuel, Vol. 2: 593.
'■ Bean, James W., Vol. 2: 6.
^Bean, Virginius, Vol. 2:209.
= Beatie, Phoebe L. Y., Vol. 2:593.
^Beatie, Walter Josiah, Vol. 1:649.
' Beazer, Mark Ephraim, Vol. 2: 19.
■■ Bebee, Leroy W., Vol. 1 : 537.
■■ Beck, John, Vol. 1 : 688.
'Beck, John Forsyth, Vol. 2:594.
'Beck, Joseph Ellison, Vol. 2:594.

Beckstead, Alexander, Vol. 2: 745.

Beckstead, Byram H., Vol. 2:324.

Beckstead, Gordon S., Vol. 1:576.

Beckstead, Henry, Vol. 2:746.

Beckstead, H. B., Vol. 1: 593; 2: 747.

Beesley, Alvin A., Vol. 2: 406.

Beesley, Ebenezer, Vol. 1:739.

Bell, Herbert Horace, Vol. 2:595.

Belnap, Gilbert, Vol. 2: 747.

Belnap, Hyrum, Vol. 2:247.

Belnap, Reuben, Vol. 2: 596,

Bendixen, Knud, Vol. 2:302.

Bennett, Thomas, Vol. 2:57.

Bennett, William B., Vol. 2:303.

Bennion, Heber, Vol. 1 : 569.

Bennion, Hyrum, Jr., Vol. 2:473.

Bennion, Israel, Vol. 1:547.

Bennion, Samuel R., Vol. 1:478.

Bennion, Wilford, Vol. 2:133.

Benson, Andrew P., Vol. 2:56,

Benson, Ezra T., Vol. 1: 99.

Benson, Jens Peter, Vol. 1:405.

Bent, Samuel, Vol. 1: 367,

Berg, Henry W,, Vol. 1 : 796.

Berg, Ole H., Vol. 1:795.

Berlin, Andrew E., Vol. 2:342.

Bernhisel, John M., Vol. 1:723.

Berthelsen, S0ren C, Vol. 2: 206.

Bertoch, Ann Cutcliffe, Vol. 2:463.

* BeHoch, James, Vol. 2: 462.
Bigler, Jacob G., Vol. 1: 515; 2: 113.
Billings, Titus, Vol. 1: 242.

Bills, George W., Vol. 1:570.

* Bills, Gordon S., Vol. 1: 583.

* Binder, William L. S., Vol. 1: 640.
Bingham, Adam A., Vol. 2: 253.

* Bingham, Erastus P., Vol. 2:342.

* Bingham, Francis, Vol. 2:347.

* Bingham, Sanford, Sr., Vol. 2:252.

* Blackburn, Elias H., Vol. 1:491.
Blackburn, Manasseh J., Vol. 2:93.

* Blake, Thomas, Vol. 1: 584.
Blake, William, Vol. 1:476.

* Blight, James, Vol. 2:254.

* Blood, William, Vol. 1:465.

* Bluth, John Vitalis, Vol. 2: 244.

* Bodilly, Joseph H., Vol. 2: 240.

* Booth, John E., Vol. 1: 494.
Booth, Josephine D., Vol. 1:503.
Boud, John Wallace, Vol. 2:372,
Bowen, David John, Vol. 2: 134.

* Bowman, And. G., Vol. 2: 402, 808.
*Box, Elijah Arnold, Vol. 2:59.
*Boyce, John, Vol. 2:748,

Boynton, John F., Vol. 1:91.
Brackenbury, Joseph B,, Vol. 2: 597,
Bradford, Robert H., Vol. 2:411.

* Bradley, Orlando, Vol. 2:165.
Brady, Marion H., Vol. 2:596.

*Bramwell, Franklin S., Vol. 1:771.
Brand, Alexander A., Vol. 2:313.

* Brandley, Theodore, Vol. 1:387.
*Breinholt, Ane S. M., Vol. 2: 551.
*Breinholt, Jens P. L., Vol. 2: 550.
*Bricker, Sarah GofF, Vol. 2:452.
*Bricker, William, Vol. 2:451.

* Briggs, Thomas, Vol. 2: 79.

* Brimhall, George H., Vol. 1:714.

* Brimley, Richard, Vol. 1:606.
*Brimhall, Noah, Vol. 2:597.

* Brown. Adin Ebed, Vol. 2:255, 811.

* Brown, Albert George, Vol, 2: 598.

* Brown, Austin C, Vol. 2:282.

* Brown, Austin Milton, Vol. 2: 438.

* Brown, Fannie S., Vol. 2: 439.

* Brown, James, Vol. 2: 283,
Brown, James M., Vol. 2:243.
Brown, John, Vol. 1:511.
Brown, Samuel, Vol. 2:598.

* Brown, William, Vol. 1 : 466.
Browning, George A., Vol. 2: 50.
Bright, John Wesley, Vol. 2:41.

*Broadbent, Reuben, Vol. 2:129.

* Bromley, William M., Vol. 2:24.

* Brooks, George Finly, Vol, 2:99,
*Brough, Samuel R., Vol, 2:256,

Bryner, Casper, Vol, 1 : 535.

* Buchanan, Alexander, Vol. 2:440.

* Buck, William F., Vol. 2: 285.

* Buckley, Edmund, Vol. 2:178.

* Buckwalter, Henry S., Vol. 1: 504.
*Buckwalter, Calvin S., Vol. 1:603.

* Budge, William, Vol. 1: 451.
Buehler, John U., Vol. 2: 14.

*Bull, Joseph, Vol. 1:653.

* Bullock, Lucy C, Vol. 2:600.

INDEX

815

Bullock, Thomas, Vol. 2: 599.

Bunnell. Stephen I., Vol. 2: 600.

Burch, James, Vol. 2: 242.

Burgon, Willard C, Vol. 1: 588.

Burgfoyne, Edward L., Vol. 2: 35.

Burnham, Wallace K., Vol. 2:42.

Burraston, John, Vol. 2:347.

Burrows, John Holmes, Vol. 2:522.

Burt, John D., Vol. 2: 61.

Burton, Charles S., Vol. 1:671.

Burton, Robert T., Vol. 1:238.

Burton, Thomas F., Vol. 2: 227.

Burton, William G., Vol. 2:255.

Burton, Wm. W., Vol. 1: 349; 2: 226.

Bushman, Elias Albert, Vol. 2:284.

Bushman, Homer F., Vol. 2:601.

Bushman, John, Vol. 1: 553.

Bushman, Martin B., Vol. 1:507.

Bushman, Preston A., Vol. 2:601.

Butler, Alva, Vol. 1:578; 2:312.

Butler, Alva John, Vol. 2:312.

Butler, Henry, Vol. 2: 601.

Butler, Job, Vol. 2:359.

Butler, John Low, Vol. 2:601.

Butler, Thomas L., Vol. 2:359.

Butterfield, Almon T., Vol. 2: 315.

Butterfield, Josiah, Vol. 1:192.
^Butterfield, Samuel, Vol. 1:583.
■■ Butterfield, Thomas, Vol. 1: 582.
'■ Butterfield, Thomas, Jr., Vol. 1: 582.
■■ Buttle, Joseph A., Vol. 2: 749.

Bybee, Robert Lee, Vol. 2:601.

Bywater, George G., Vol. 2:602.
■■ Bvwater, Henry G., Vol. 2 : 604.

^=Cain, Elizabeth W., Vol. 2:751.

* Cain, Joseph, Vol. 2: 750.

* Caine, John T., Vol. 1:726.
*Calder, David O., Vol. 1:773.
^=Call, Anson C, Vol. 2: 258.

=^^ Call, Anson Vasco, Vol. 2:751.
Callister, Thomas, Vol. 1: 527.
''■ Callister, Thomas C, Vol. 1 : 528.

* Cameron, David, Vol. 1:542, 821.

* Campbell, Jonathan, Vol. 1 : 398.

* Cannon, Abraham H., Vol. 1:167.
'■'• Cannon, Angus M., Vol. 1: 292.
'^■Cannon, Carl John, Vol. 1:450.

* Cannon, George M., Vol. 1: 566.

* Cannon, George Q., Vol. 1: 42.

* Cannon, John M., Vol. 1: 790.
Cannon, John Quayle, Vol. 1: 243.
Cannon, Lewis M., Vol. 1:687.

* Cannon, Martha Telle, Vol. 2:524.

* Cannon, Sarah J. J., Vol. 2:605.

* Card, Charles 0., Vol. 1: 296.

* Cardon, Joseph E., Vol. 1: 413.
''^ Cardon, Joseph S., Vol. 2: 126.
-Cardon, Louis S., Vol. 1:420.

Cardon, Paul, Vol. 2: 76.
'■' Careless, George E. P., Vol. 1: 738.

Carlisle, John Edward, Vol. 2: 752.
=^^ Carlquist, Carl A., Vol. 2:422.

Carpenter, Erastus S., Vol. 2: 196.

* Carpenter, Joseph H., Vol. 2:561.

* Carrington, Albert, Vol. 1: 126.

* Carver, John, Vol. 2: 284.

* Casper, Jedediah Grant, Vol. 2:752.

* Cazier, David, Vol. 2: 115.
Chamberlain, Solomon, Vol. 2: 605.

* Chambers, Mary L. S., Vol. 2: 524.

* Chambers, Nathaniel G., Vol. 2: 523.
Chandler, James J., Vol. 2:261.

* Cheney, Nathan Beebe, Vol. 2: 62.
Chipman, Washburn, Vol. 1:505.

* Christensen, Andrew, Vol. 2: 576.
Christensen, Anthon C, Vol. 2:146.

* Christensen, Arnfred J., Vol. 2:606.

* Christensen, Carl C. A., Vol. 1:378.

* Christensen, Christen, Vol. 2:163. '

* Christensen, Christian, Vol. 2:753.
=^ Christensen, David H., Vol. 1:788.

* Christensen, F. W., Vol. 2: 544.

* Christensen, George, Vol. 1 : 370.
Christensen, Heber C, Vol. 2: 753,

* Christensen, James A., Vol. 2: 606.

* Christensen, James M., Vol. 1:686.

* Christensen, J. M., Jr., Vol. 2: 166.

* Christensen, James P., Vol. 2: 356.

* Christensen, James P., Vol. 2:68.

* Christensen, John, Vol. 2:607.
Christensen, Joseph, Vol. 2: 754.

* Christensen, Lars Peter, Vol. 2: 210.

* Christensen, Niels C, Vol. 2:356.

* Christensen, Simon, Vol. 2: 753.

* Christensen, Thomas C, Vol. 2: 164.
Christensen, Wilford M., Vol. 2:56.

* Christenson, Joseph, Vol. 2:607.

* Christiansen, C. H., Vol. 2:543.

* Christiansen, C. J., Vol. 2:577.

* Christiansen, F. J., Vol. 2: 569.

* Christiansen, F. J., Jr., Vol. 2:570.

* Christiansen, Hans C, Vol. 1:396.

* Christiansen, Hans J., Vol. 2:201.

* Christiansen, Parley, Vol. 1:817.

* Christiansen, James, Vol. 2: 754.

* Christiansen, S0ren, Vol. 2: 608.

* Chi-istophersen, Rasmus, Vol. 2: 262.
Clapp, Benjamin L., Vol. 1:195.
Clark, George H., Vol. 2: 116.

* Clark, George Sheffer, Vol. 2:25.

* Clark, James Cecil, Vol. 2: 755, 808.

* Clark, John, Vol. 1:775.
Clark, John H., Vol. 1:444.

* Clark, John W., Vol. 1:548.

* Clark, Thomas H., Vol. 1:547.

* Clark, Wilford W., Vol. 2: 35.

* Clark, William H., Vol. 2: 756.

* Clarke, James Hill, Vol. 2: 755.
=^ Clawson, Hiram B., Vol. 1: 629.

* Clawson, Rudger, Vol. 1:174.

* Clawson, Thomas A., Vol. 2: 100.

* Clayton, Thomas, Vol. 2:757.

* Clayton, William, Vol. 1:717.
Clegg, Thomas, Vol. 1:476.

* Clements, Albert N., Vol. 1 : 448.

* Cluff, Benjamin, Vol. 1:475.

* Cluff, Harvey H., Vol. 1: 371.
*Cluff, Henry, Vol. 1:477.

* Cluff, William W., Vol. 1 : 340 .

* Clyde, Edward D., Vol. 2: 10.

* Cockerill, Alice R., Vol. 2: 447.

- Cockerill, Anthony, Vol. 2:446.

816

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*Colebrook, Charles, Vol. 2:292.

* Coleman, George, Vol. 1:526.
Coltrin, Zebedee, Vol. 1 : 190.

* Comer, George, Vol. 1 : 794.
*Cook, Hyrum H., Vol. 2:47.

* Cook, Mary E. N., Vol. 2:758.

* Cook, Thomas, Vol. 2: 757.

* Coombs, Isaiah M., Vol. 1: 495.

* Coon, James D., Vol. 2:448.
*Coon, John, Vol. 2: 758.
*Coon, Mary H., Vol. 2:449, 810.

* Coon, Mary T. Y., Vol. 2: 759.
Coons, George W., Vol. 2:210.

* Cooper, Eliza Ward, Vol. 2: 610.

* Cooper, John, Vol. 2:144.

* Cooper, Thomas, Vol. 2: 609.

* Copley, Thomas, Vol. 2:260.
Corrill, John, Vol. 1:241.

* Cowdery, Oliver, Vol. 1:246.

* Cowley, Matthias F., Vol. 1 : 168.
Cox, Alvira Coolidge, Vol. 2:565.

* Cox, Frederick W., Vol. 2: 563.
*Cox, Frederick W., Jr., Vol. 2:564.

* Cox, Thomas Levis, Vol. 2: 190.

* Cox, William A., Vol. 2: 565.

* Cox, William James, Vol. 2:287.

* Crane, James, Vol. 1:579.

* Crane, James S., Vol. 1: 580.
*Crapo, Charles C, Vol. 2:109.

* Crawford, John, Vol. 1:391.

* Crismon, Charles, Jr., Vol. 2:611.

* Crismon, Elizabeth T. C, Vol. 2: 612.
Crockett, Alvin, Vol. 1: 418.

* Crockett, Ozro O., Vol. 2: 173.
Crook, John W., Vol. 2: 13.
Crosby, George Henry, Vol. 2:44.

* Crosby, Jesse W., Jr., Vol. 1: 541.

* Crow, Charles H., Vol. 1: 621.
Crowther, James F., Vol. 1:553.

* Crump, William C, Vol. 1: 580.

* Crump, William C, Jr., Vol. 1:569.

* Cummings, Horace H., Vol. 1:713.
Cummings, James D., Vol. 1:568.

* Cunningham, Andrew, Vol. 2 : 370.

* Cutler, Allen Riley, Vol. 2: 174.

* Cutler, Heber S., Vol. 2:439.

* Cutler, John C, Jr., Vol. 2: 100.

D.

*Dahl, Alexander, Sr., Vol. 1:578.

* Daines, Robert, Vol. 1: 426.
Daines, William Moroni, Vol. 2: 178.

* Dalton, John C, Vol. 1: 552.
Dame, William H., Vol. 1: 532.
Daniels, James E., Vol. 1:498.
Dansie, Alfred J., Vol. 1 : 570.

* Dastrup, John, Vol. 2: 612.

* Davis, Albert W., Vol. 2: 410.

* Davis, David L., Vol. 2: .395.

* Davis, Edward, Vol. 2: 759.

* Davis, Edward W., Vol. 2: 393.
Davis, Elizabeth L., Vol. 2: 613.
Davis, George, Vol. 1: 399.
Davis, George A., Vol. 2:238.
Davis, George W., Vol. 1:436.

* Davis, Jamina N., Vol. 2: 394.

* Davis, Nathan, Vol. 1 : 647.

Davis, Nofear, Vol. 1: 555.
Davis, Sarah E. H., Vol. 2: 393-
Davis, William C, Vol. 2: 197.
Davis, William K., Vol. 2: 760.
Davis, William R., Vol. 2: 613.
Day, Laronzo, Vol. 2:461.
Daynes, Joseph J., Vol. 1: 746.
Daynes, Joseph J., Jr., Vol. 2: 477.
De La Mare, Philip, Vol. 2: 285.
Denning, James H., Vol. 2:49.
Derricott, Joseph T., Vol. 2:23.
Despain, David A., Vol. 2:310.
Despain, George F., Vol. 2: 312.
Despain, Henry W., Vol. 2:614.
Despain, Hyrum S., Vol. 2: 310.
Despain, Lewis Edgar, Vol. 2: 311.
Despain, Ruth A. N., Vol. 2:308.
Despain, Solomon J., Vol. 2: 307.
Despain, Susan Dean, Vol. 2: 309.
Despain, William J., Vol. 2:309.
De St. Jeor, Francis, Vol. 1: 548.
Dimond, Robert E., Vol. 1: 592.
Dimond, Thomas W., Vol. 2:614.
Dimond, William S., Vol. 1: 590.
Ditmer, August A., Vol. 2:435.
Done, Arthur J., Vol. 2: 124.
Done, Willard, Vol. 1:716.
Dorius, Carl C. N., Vol. 2:760.
Dorius, Charles R., Vol. 2: 615.
Dougall, Maria Y., Vol. 2: 617.
Dougall, William B., Vol. 2:615.
Doxey, Thomas, Vol .2:761.
Drake, Horace, Vol. 2:80.
Driggs, Don Carlos, Vol. 2: 235.
Druce, John, Vol. 2:496.
Druce, John Alma, Vol. 2: 499.
Druce, Julia A. J., Vol. 2: 498.
Duffin, James G., Vol. 1: 537.
Duncan, Homer, Vol. 1:622, 822.
Dunn, Charles O., Vol. 1:429.
Durrant, Joseph, Vol. 2: 148.
Durrant, Lorenzo H., Vol. 2: 149.
Durrant, Thomas H., Vol. 2: 180.
Dusenberrv, Ida Smoot, Vol. 2: 619.
Dye, Richard, Vol. 2: 286, 811.
Dye, Samuel G., Vol. 2: 288.
Dykes, George P., Vol. 2: 762.

E.

Eardley, Bedson, Vol. 2:276.
Eardley, James, Vol. 2:277.
Eardley, Louisa C, Vol. 2: 277.
Earl, Joseph Ira, Vol. 2: 192.
Eccles, William, Vol. 2: 620.
Eccles, Samuel, Vol. 2:195.
Eckersley, Joseph, Vol. 1 : 346.
Eddington, William, Vol. 2:620.
Egan, Richard E., Vol. 1:816.
Eggertsen, Simon P., Jr., Vol. 1: 493.
Ek, Carl A., Vol. 1 : 686.
Eldredge, Alma, Vol. 1: 341.
Eldredge, Benjamin R., Vol. 1:792.
Eldredge, Horace S., Vol. 1:196.
Ellwood, Robert, Vol. 1:576.
Emery, George R., Vol. 1 : 644.
Emery, Wilford W., Vol. 2:409.
Engberg, Andreas, Vol. 1: 514.

INDEX

817

* Ensign, Datus H., Vol. 2: 245.

* Ensign, Rufus B., Vol. 2: 490.
Enz, Gottleib, Sr., Vol. 2:207.

* Erickson, Einar, Vol. 1:525.

* Erickson, Jacob Emil, Vol. 2:466.
Erickson, John, Vol. 1:588.

* Evans, Henry ,Vol. 2:289.

* Evans, John A., Vol. 2:499.

* Evans, Priscilla M., Vol. 2: 360.

* Evans, Thomas D., Vol. 2: 359.
*Ewell, Francis M., Vol. 1:525.

* Eyring, Henry, Vol. 1: 311.

* Fairbanks, Henry, Vol. 2: 354.

* Fairbanks, John B., Vol. 2: 352.
Fairbanks, Joseph W., Vol. 2: 211.

* Fairbanks, Nathaniel, Vol. 2:355.
*Fairbourn, Richard M., Vol. 2:296.
*Fairbourn, William, Vol. 2:295.

* Farmer, Erastus G., Vol. 1 : 447.

* Farnesworth, Julia P. M., Vol. 2: 621.

* Farnsworth, Moses F., Vol. 1: 522.
*Farr, Lorin, Vol. 1: 749.

* Farr, Willard, Vol. 1 : 555.

* Farrell, George L., Vol. 1 : 765.

* Farrell, John, Vol. 2: 334.

* Faucett, William, Vol. 2: 622, 808.
*Felt, David P., Vol. 1:689.

* Felt, Nathaniel H., Vol. 2: 380.
*Fenton, Joseph J., Vol. 2:436.

* Fenton, Thomas, Vol. 2: 437.
Fernelius, Charles A., Vol. 2:254.

=*= Fernstrom, Frans S., Vol. 1: 684.

* Ferrin, Josiah Leaman, Vol. 2:623.

* Ferrin, Josiah Marsh, Vol. 2:242.

* Fielding, Joseph, Vol. 2: 762.

* Finlayson, Thomas, Vol. 2:623.
Fish, Joseph, Vol. 2:215.

* Fisher, William F., Vol. 1: 447.

* Fitzgerald, J. W. W., Vol. 1:793.
=<= Fjeldsted, Andrew C., Vol. 1:817.

* Fjeldsted, Christian D., Vol. 1: 203.
Flake, James M., Vol. 2:218.
Fletcher, Samuel, Vol. 1:471.

* Flygare, Nils C, Vol. 1: 461.
*Folkersen, Hans Peter, Vol. 2:623.

Foote, David, Vol. 1:374.

* Foote, Warren, Vol. 1:375.

* Forbush, Loren Ezra, Vol. 2:326.
Forbush, Rufus, Vol. 2:325.

'' Forsgren, Peter A., Vol. 1: 393.
Foster, James, Vol. 1: 191.

* Fotheringham, William, Vol. 2:190.
Fox, Isaac W., Vol. 1:505.

* Fox, Jesse W., Vol. 1:774.

* Frame, Archibald, Vol. 2:474.
Frank, Christopher, Vol. 2:20.

=' Frazier, Marion, Vol. 1:469.

* Free, Sarah J. H., Vol. 2: 394.

* Freeman, Elijah N., Vol. 1: 329.
*Fry, Richard, Vol. 1:474, 821.

* Fuller, Edmund B., Vol. 2: 334.

* Fuller, George A., Vol. 2: 335.

* Fuller, Henry John, Vol. 2: 624.

Vol. II. No. 52.

* Fullmer, David, Vol. 1: 289.
Funk, James William, Vol. 2:42.

G.

*Gaelte, Andreas 0., Vol. 1:587.
Gallop, William, Vol. 1:497.

* Gardner, Ann Knox, Vol. 2:349.

* Gardner, Archibald, Vol. 2:329.
Gardner, Eliza Rogers, Vol. 2:349.
Gardner, Henry, Vol. 1:797.

* Gardner, James, Vol. 2: 348,

* Gardner, Niel L., Vol. 2: 333.

* Gardner, Robert, Jr., Vol. 2: 625.

* Garner, Henry James, Vol. 2: 251.
*Garrick, Elizabeth T., Vol. 2:558.

* Garrick, Hamilton M., Vol. 2: 557.

* Gates, Jacob, Vol. 1:197; 2:808. '

* Gates, Jacob F., Vol. 2: 625.

* Gates, Susa Young, Vol. 2:626.
Gaylord, John, Vol. 1 : 193.

* Geddes, Hugh S., Vol. 1: 442.

* Geddes, Joseph S., Vol. 1: 439.

* Geddes, William, Vol. 1: 462.
Gee, Salmon, Vol. 1: 192.

* Geertsen, Peter C, Vol. 2: 629.

* Georgeson. Niels, Vol. 1:445.

* Gerrard, George E., Vol. 2. 473.
*Gerrard, Samuel, Vol. 2:475.

* Gibbons, Andrew S., Vol. 2: 194.

* Gibbons, Andrew V., Vol. 1: 554.

* Gibbons, William H., Vol. 1:328.
Gibbons, William Oliver, Vol. 2: 763.

* Gibbs, Horace, Vol. 2: 763.

* Gibbs, William H., Vol. 1: 771.
Giles, Frederick W., Vol. 2: 630.

* Giles, Henry Evans, Vol. 2:507.

* Giles, Thomas D., Vol. 2: 507.
Gifford, Freeborn D., Vol. 1: 539.
Gifford, Oliver D., Vol. 1: 538.
GifFord, Samuel K., Vol. 2: 194.

*Gillen, Erick, Vol. 2: 458.

* Gillispie, Alexander, Vol. 2:5.

* Glade, James Richard, Vol. 2: 630.
Glazier, John W., Vol. 1:541.

* Gledhill, John Ivo, Vol. 2: 632.
*Gledhill, Lilly B. I., Vol. 2:631.

* Gledhill, Thomas, Vol. 2: 631.

* Glen, Alexander, Vol. 2:418.

* Glines, James H., Vol. 1: 478.

* Glover, Albert, Vol. 2: 108.

* Glover, Betsy C. W., Vol. 2: 531.

* Glover, Joseph, Vol. 2: 332.

* Goaslind, Charles D., Vol. 2: 171.

* Goddard, George, Vol. 1 : 706.

* Godfrey, Caroline T., Vol. 2: 468.

* Godfrey, Fannie A., Vol. 2: 469.

* Godfrey, James, Vol. 2: 468.
*Goff, Hyrum, Vol. 1:308.
*Goodliffe, Arnold, Vol. 1:391.

* Goodrich, Albert G., Vol. 2: 241, 812.

* Goold, Robert F., Vol. 2: 632.

* Goold, Samuel W., Vol. 2: 212.

* Gordon, Robert J., Vol. 2: 234.
Gould, John, Vol. 1:191.
Gould, Robert, Vol. 2: .136.

Dec. 28. 1914

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INDEX

* Gould, William, Vol. 2:337.

* Gowans, Hugh S., Vol. 1 : 354.

* Graham, George, Vol. 2: 434.

* Grant, Heber J., Vol. 1 : 147.

* Grant, Jedediah M., Vol. 1: 56.

* Grant, Lewis McKeachie, Vol. 2:89.
Green, Benjamin, Vol. 2: 300.
Green, Niels F. H. N., Vol. 2: 262.

* Green, William, Vol. 2: 301.
Greene, John Portineus, Vol. 2: 633.

* Greenwood, Hartley, Vol. 2: 636.

* Griffin, William H., Vol. 1 : 404.

* Griggs, James F., Vol. 2: 236.

* Griggs, Thomas C, Vol. 1:711.

* Grimmett, John Henry, Vol. 2: 31.

* Grimshaw, Duckworth, Vol. 2:37.

* Grossgrove, James A. B., Vol. 2: 300.
Grover, Joel, Vol. 1: 515.

* Gudmundsen, Isaac, Vol. 2: 50.

* Guldbransen, Ole, Jr., Vol. 2: 379.

* Gundersen, Thomas, Vol. 2:478.
Gundersen, Thomas, Jr., Vol. 2:479.

H.

* Hacking, James, Vol. 2: 636.
*Haigh, William H., Vol. 2:471.

* Haight, Horton D., Vol. 1: 302.
*Haight, Louisa L., Vol. 1:303.

* Hakes, Collins R., Vol. 1: 559.

* Hakes, Mabel A. M., Vol. 1:811.
Hale, Alma H., Vol. 1:402.

* Hale, Solomon H., Vol. 2: 168.

* Hall, Elizabeth T., Vol. 2: 637.
Hall, Joseph, Vol. 2:241.

* Hall, Mary Bates, Vol. 2: 637, 810.
*Hall, Timothy, Vol. 2:637.

Halls, William, Vol. 2: 204.

* Hamilton, James C, Vol. 1:791.

* Hamilton, Reuben S., Vol. 2: 315.
Hammond, Francis A., Vol. 1: 351.
Hammond, Francis P., Vol. 2: 1.

* Hammond, James T., Vol. 1:723.

* Hammond, Milton D., Vol. 1:428.

* Hancock, Amy, Vol. 2: 351.

* Hancock, George W., Vol. 2:350.

* Hancock, Levi W., Vol. 1: 188.

* Hanks, Ephraim K., Vol. 2: 764.

* Hanks, Walter E., Vol. 2:263.

* Hansen, Carl K., Vol. 2: 575.

* Hansen, Hans C, Vol. 1: 443.
Hansen, Hans C, Vol. 2: 766.

* Hansen, Hans M., Vol. 1: 343.
Hansen, Hans Peter, Vol. 2:573.

* Hansen, Jens, Vol. 2: 361.

* Hansen, Jens N., Vol. 1: 406.
Hansen, John, Vol. 1: 585.
Hansen, Joseph C, Vol. 2: 217.

* Hansen, Karen R., Vol. 2: 576.

* Hansen, Niels, Vol. 2: 18.

* Hansen, Peter Olsen, Vol. 2: 766.
Hardcastle, Levi, Vol. 2: 323.

* Harder, Willet Shave, Vol. 2: 767.

* Harding, Charles Don, Vol. 2: 387.

* Hardman, Frances A. C, Vol. 2: 767.

* Hardman, Lehi Nephi, Vol. 2: 767.

* Hardy, Aaron, Vol. 2: 166.
Hardy, Charles W., Vol. 2: 101.

Hardy, George W., Vol. 1 : 562.
Hardy, Leonard G., Vol. 1 : 599.
Hardy, Leonard W., Vol. 1: 236.
Harmon, Melvin M., Vol. 1:535.
Harriman, Henry, Vol. 1: 193.
Harris, Hyrum Smith, Vol. 2: 129.
Harris, John R., Vol. 2: 2.
Harris, Leander S., Vol. 2: 251.
Harris, Martin, Vol. 1:271.
Harris, Micah F., Vol. 2:638.
Harris, Silas, Vol. 2: 130.
Harrison, Edwin D., Vol. 1: 768.
Harrison, James Parry, Vol. 2: 133.
Harper, William T., Vol. 1 : 549.
Hart, Arthur W., Vol. 2: 172.
Hart, James Henry, Vol. 2:27.
Hatch, Abram, Vol. 1: 359.
Hatch, Lorenzo L., Vol. 2:179.
Hatch, Lorenzo H., Vol. 1:323.
Hatch, Meltiar, Vol. 2: 182.
Hatch, Wilder True, Vol. 2: 45.
Hawkins, Riego, Vol. 2:638.
Hawkins, Riego Stay, Vol. 2: 312.
Hayes, Alma, Vol. 2: 32.
Hayes, Henry Nephi, Vol. 2:209.
Heiner, Daniel, Vol. 1: 475.
Hemenway, Lachoneus, Vol. 2: 457.
Hemmert, Hans J0rgen, Vol. 2: 231.
Hendricks, Brigham A., Vol. 2: 639.
Hendricks, James, Vol. 2: 403.
Hendrickson, John A., Vol. 1: 425.
Henricksen, Erik C, Vol. 2: 9.
Henrie, James, Vol. 1: 800.
Henry, Arthur John, Vol. 2: 639.
Herrick, Lester J., Vol. 2: 288.
Hess, John W., Vol. 1: 463.
Heywood, Joseph L., Vol. 1 : 646.
Hicken, Thomas, Vol. 2: 12.
Hickenlooper, C. A., Vol. 2: 287.
Hickenlooper, Wm. H., Vol. 1: 607.
Hicks, George B., Vol. 2: 163.
Higbee, Elias, Vol. 1:253.
Higbee, Isaac, Vol. 1:480.
Higgins, James, Vol. 2: 303.
Higgins, Mahala B., Vol. 2:304.
Hill, Alexander J., Vol. 2:456.
Hill, George R., Vol. 2:9, 811.
Hill, William H., Vol. 1: 791.
Hill, William J., Vol. 1:438.
Hilton, Joseph, Vol. 2: 185.
Hinckley, Bryant S., Vol. 1:778.
Hinckley, Ira N., Vol. 1:528.
Hoagland, Abraham, Vol. 2:364.
Hoagland, John, Vol. 2:365.
Hoagland, Louis G., Vol. 2:365.
Hobbs, Matilda B., Vol. 2:305.
Hobbs, William, Vol. 2:304.
Hodson, William, Vol. 2: 264.
Hogan, Hannah, Vol. 2:640.
Hogan, Ingeborg M. J., Vol. 2: 640.
H0gsted, Hans C. S., Vol. 1: 759.
H0gsted, Victor C, Vol. 1: 769.
Holbrook, Jean C, Vol. 1: 503.
Holladay, Abraham, Vol. 2: 763.
Holladav, Ann H. M., Vol. 2:397.
Holladav, Averetta C. J., Vol. 2: 398.
Holladay, George T., Vol. 2:397.

INDEX

819

*Holladay, James E., Vol. 2:399.
Holladay, John D., Vol. 2:395.

* Holladav, Thomas M. W., Vol. 2: 396.

* Hollands, Thomas, Vol. 2:641.

* Holman, Ezekiel J., Vol. 2:111.
*Holt, Joseph Mabey, Vol. 2:641.

* Holt, Robert Mabev, Vol. 2:407.

* Holt, Samuel Elijah, Vol. 2: 323.

* Hooper, William H., Vol. 1: 724.
Home, Henry James, Vol. 2: 139.
Home, James M., Vol. 2: 142.

*Horne, Joseph, Vol. 1:806.
*Home, Joseph Smith, Vol. 2:206.

* Home, Mary I., Vol. 1:807.

* Hortin, John, Vol. 2: 232.
Hoskins, Oliver C, Vol. 1:770.

* Houston, James, Vol. 1:800.
Houston, John Cooper, Vol. 2:48.

* Houtz, Watson C, Vol. 2: 642.

* Howard, Wilson Allen, Vol. 2:643.

* Howe, Amos, Vol. 2: 384.

* Howe, Amy Mellor, Vol. 2: 385.
*Howe, Charles Ross, Vol. 2:386.
-* Howe, Julia Cruse, Vol. 2: 385.

Huber, Johannes, Vol. 2: 14.

* Huffaker, Louis Albert, Vol. 2: 54.
*Huhl, Charles W., Vol. 2:404, 810.
*Huish, John Edward, Vol. 2:155.
*Hull, Thomas, Vol. 1:716.

* Humphrey, Thomas G., Vol. 2: 768.

* Humphries, Samuel, Vol. 2: 31.
- Hunter, Edward, Vol. 1 : 227.

* Hunter, Joseph S., Vol. 1:534.

* Hunter, Oscar Fitzallen, Vol. 2: 643.
Hunter, William P., Vol. 1:534.

* Huntington, George W., Vol. 2:411.

* Huntington, William, Vol. 1:368.
*Hyde, Annie T., Vol. 1:702.

* Hyde, Janette A., Vol. 2: 644.
*Hyde, Orson, Vol. 1:80.

Hyde, Rosel, Vol. 1:466.
Hyde, Wilford A., Vol. 2:230.
Hyde, William, Vol. 1:759.
Hyde, William, Jr., Vol. 1: 421.
*Hyde, William A., Vol. 1:313.

I.

*Iff, Jacob, Vol. 2:325.

* Inglestrom, Anders O., Vol. 1: 455.

* Ipsen, Alvin, Vol. 1:398.

* Irons, John Wilbert, Vol. 2: 266.
Isaac, John P., Vol. 2:378.

Isaac, Rachel Williams, Vol. 2: .378.

* Isaacson, Martha K. C, Vol. 2:552.

* Isaacson, Peter, Vol. 2: .552.
*Iverson, Gustave Arnt, Vol. 2:646.

* Iverson, Niels C, Vol. 2: 646.
*Ivie, John L., Vol. 2:647.
*Ivins, Anthony W., Vol. 1:311.

* Jack, William T., Vol. 1 : 304.
*Jackman, Levi, Vol. 2:769.

* Jackson, Alma O., Vol. 1: 436.

* Jackson, Henry C, Vol. 1:766.

* Jacobs, Daniel, Vol. 2:445.
Jacobs, Henry C, Jr., Vol. 2:768.

C

Jacobs, John C, Vol.' 2: 15.

* Jacobs, Mary Hains, Vol. 2:445.

* Jacobs, Zebulon, Vol. 2:401.
Jacobson, Christian, Vol. 2:40.

* Jaques, John, Vol. 1:254.

* Jeffs, David William, Vol. 2:51.

* Jenkins, Edward E., Vol. 2:482.
Jenkins, John, Vol. 1:405.

* Jenkins, Thomas, Vol. 1:604.

* Jennings, Priscilla P., Vol. 2:505.

* Jennings, William, Vol. 2:500.

* Jensen, Andrew, Vol. 2:542.

* Jensen, Andrew C, Vol. 2:56.

* Jensen, Carl, Vol. 2: 435.

* Jensen, Charles, Vol. 2:648-

* Jensen, Christen, Vol. 1:550.

* Jensen, David, Vol. 2: 173.

* Jensen, Denmark, Vol. 1:301.
Jensen, Hans (Hals), Vol. 2:223.

* Jensen, Hans B., Vol. 2:318.

* Jensen, Hans Peter, Vol. 2:362.

* Jensen, Hyrum, Vol. 1:399.

* Jensen, James, Vol. 1:310.

* Jensen, James, Vol. 1: 565.

* Jensen, James, Vol. 2:229.

* Jensen, James C, Vol. 1:361.
Jensen, James, Jr., Vol. 2:229.

* Jensen, James S., Vol. 2:770.

* Jensen, Jens I., Vol. 1:818.

* Jensen, Jens Severin, Vol. 2: 512.

* Jensen, Junius C, Vol. 2:176.

* Jensen, Joseph Y., Vol. 2:648.

* Jensen, Martin, Vol. 2: 649.

* Jensen, Peter, Vol. 2: 36.

* Jensen, Jens Peter, Vol. 1:570.

* Jenson, Andrew, Vol. 1:261.

* Jenson, Jens, Vol. 2:649.
*Jenson, Joseph H., Vol. 2:650.

* Jenson, Peter, Vol. 2: 305.

* Jeppson, Jeppe, Vol. 1:395.

* Jeremy, Thomas Evans, Vol. 2: 651.

* Jerman, Daniel Smith, Vol. 2:358.
*Johanson, Olof P., Vol. 2: 653.

* John, David, Vol. 1: 488.
John, Levi, Vol. 2: 135.

* Johnson, Bengt, Jr., Vol. 2: 6.
Johnson, Benjamin J., Vol. 2: 120.

* Johnson, James, Vol. 1:441.

* Johnson, James H., Vol. 2:654.

* Johnson, John, Vol. 2: 159.

* Johnson, John, Vol. 1:495.

* Johnson, John P. R., Vol. 2:655.
Johnson, Lorenzo, Vol. 2: 174.
Johnson, Luke S., Vol. 1:85.
Johnson, Lyman E., Vol. 1:91.
Johnson, Peter, Vol. 2:98.

* Johnson, William D., Vol. 1:366.
*.Jollv, Haskel S., Vol. 2:47.

* Jones, Albert Stephen, Vol. 2:655.

* Jones, Alfred Abraham, Vol. 2:656.

* Jones, Alfred Thomas, Vol. 2:656.

* Jones, Daniel Brooks, Vol. 2:105.

* Jones, David P., Vol. 2: 135.

* Jones, George L. M., Vol. 2:657.

* Jones, George R., Vol. 1 : 684.

* Jones, John F., Vol. 2:52

* Jones, Nathaniel Vary, Vol 2:368.

820

INDEX

* Jones, Nathaniel V., Jr., Vol. 2: 453.
Jones, Robert Elijah, Vol. 2:657.
Jones, Thomas J., Vol. 1:532.
Jones, Uriah T., Vol .1 : 533.
Jones, Uriah T., Vol. 1: 533.

* J0rgensen, Enoch, Vol. 1: 502.

* J0rgensen, Johan G., Vol. 1: 797.

* J0rgensen, Jens, Vol. 2: 581.
*J0rgensen, Kjersten B., Vol. 2: 582.

* J0rgensen, S0rine K., Vol. 2: 658.

K.
*Kay, Hyrum, Vol. 2: 188.

* Kearns, Austin, Vol. 2 : 555.

* Kearns, Hamilton H., Vol. 2:555.

* Kearns, Mary J., Vol. 2:556 .
Keeler, Charles Obed, Vol. 2:658.

*Keeler, Joseph B., Vol. 2:770.
Keetch, Elijah C, Vol. 1:451.

* Keller, James M., Vol. 1: 443.

* Kelley, Charles, Vol. 1 : 389.

* Kelly, William, Vol. 2:771.

* Kemp, James, Vol. 2:659.

* Kemp, William, Vol. 2: 659.

* Kenner, Scipio A., Vol. 2:278.

* Kennington, William H., Vol. 2: 228.
*Kesler, Frederick, Vol. 1:643.

* Kimball, Andrew, Vol. 1 : 364.

* Kimball, Elias S., Sr., Vol. 2: 55.

* Kimball, Ellen S., Vol. 2:772.

* Kimball, Heber Chase, Vol. 1:34.

* Kimball, Hiram S., Vol. 2:372.

* Kimball, Jonathan G., Vol. 1:210.

* Kimball, Lucy W., Vol. 1:808.

* Kimball, Sarah M., Vol. 2: 372.
King, Culbert, Vol. 2:185.

*King, Thomas P., Vol. 2:81.
*King, Thomas Owen, Vol. 2:266.

* King, William H., Vol. 1: 787.

* Kingsford, Elizabeth H.J., Vol.2 :528.
Kingston, Charles, Vol. 1:331.

* Kjffir, John Christian, Vol. 2 : 566.

* Kjaer, Louis Christian, Vol. 2: 660.
KJEer, Margaret Weibye, Vol. 2: 567.
Kleinman, Konrad, Vol. 2: 661.

* Knight, Charlotte M., Vol. 2: 532.
Knight, Jesse, Vol. 2: 776.

* Knight, Jesse William, Vol. 2:778.
Knight, John Miner, Vol. 2:778.
Knight, Joseph, Vol. 2: 772.
Knight, Lydia G., Vol. 2: 775.
Knight, Newel, Vol. 2: 773.

* Knudsen, Andrew, Vol. 1:492, 822.

* Knudsen, Christian, Vol. 1:508.

* Knudsen, Mathias, Vol. 1: 508.

* Kristiansen, E. J., Vol. 2:443, 810.

* Kuhre, William D., Vol. 1:585.

L.

* Labrum, Ann E. W., Vol. 2: 470.

* Labrum, John George, Vol. 2: 470.

* Lake, James, Vol. 2:387.
*Lake, Philomela, Vol. 2:388.

Lake, William Bailey, Vol. 2:390.

* Lambert, Charles, Vol. 2: 779.

* Lambert, Charles John, Vol. 2:453.
Lambert, Ephraim, Vol. 1:477.

Lambert, George C, Vol. 1:612.
Lambert, John Carlos, Vol. 2: 661.
Langford, Jeremiah E., Vol. 2: 537.
Langford, Sarah E. 0., Vol. 2: 537.
Lant, David, Vol. 2: 154.
Lapish, Hannah Settle, Vol. 2:525.
Larkin, George W., Vol. 2: 289.
Larsen, Christen G., Vol. 1:523.
Larsen, Christian, Vol. 1 : 406.
Larsen, Christian, Vol. 2: 75.
Larsen, Christian J., Vol. 1:423.
Larsen, Hans C, Vol. 1:449.
Larsen, James, Vol. 2: 580.
Larsen, John, Vol. 1:441.
Larsen, John C, Vol. 1:766.
Larsen, John Parley, Vol. 2: 2^5.
Larsen, Lauritz E., Vol. 1:458.
Larsen, Ludvig, Vol. 1: 575.
Larsen, Joseph Young, Vol. 2: 460.
Larsen, Lars, Vol. 2: 459.
Larson, John A., Vol. 1: 587.
Lauritzen, Jacob M., Vol. 2:208.
Law, William, Vol. 1: 53.
Layton, Charles M., Vol. 1:367.
Layton, Christopher, Vol. 1 : 363.
Layton, Oscar T., Vol. 2:662.
Layton, Richard G., Vol. 1 : 560.
Leak, William, Vol. 2:330.
Leak, William J., Vol. 2:331.
Leany, Hyrum, Vol. 2: 193.
Leatham, James, Vol. 2: 180.
Leithead, James, Vol. 1:540.
Lemmon, Hyrum, Vol. 2: 151.
Lemon, Alexander A., Vol. 1:435.
Lemon, John Knox, Vol. 2: 662, 780.
Lesueur, John T., Vol. 1 : 330.
Lewis, Ann Llewellyn, Vol. 2:350.
Lewis, Benjamin M., Vol. 1: 764.
Lewis, George William, Vol. 2: 142.
Lewis, Rufus, Vol. 2: 349.
Lewis, Samuel E., Vol. 1: 557.
Lewis, William H., Vol. 1:298.
Liljenquist, Ola N., Vol. 1:814.
Lind, Niels, Vol. 1:310.
Lindsay, David E., Vol. 2: 45.
Lindsay, Edgar Monroe, Vol. 2:663.
Lindsay, Joseph, Vol. 2: 472.
Lindsay, Philemon, Vol. 2:267.
Linford, James Henry, Vol. 2: 90.
Linford, James H., Jr., Vol. 2: 72.
Lisonbee, James T., Vol. 2:140.
Little, Feramorz, Vol. 2:485.
Little, Jesse C, Vol. 1:242.
Little, Rebecca E. M., Vol. 2:487.
Lofgren, Niels, Vol. 2: 343.
Lorentzen, Gocitfred, Vol. 2: 663.
Loveless, Justin A., Vol. 2: 155.
Low, Osborne, Vol. 2:228.
Low, Sylvester, Vol. 2:17.
Ludvigsen, Frederik, Vol. 2: 558.
Lund, Anthon H., Vol. 1: 161.
Lund, Christian N., Vol. 1 : 339.
Lund, Henry C, Vol. 2: 780.
Lund, Louis P., Vol. 1:512.
Lybbert, Christian F. B., Vol. 1: 479.
Lyman, Amasa M., Vol. 1:96.

INDEX

821

* Lyman, Amy Brown, Vol. 2:664.

* Lyman, Francis M., Vol. 1: 136.
Lyon, David Ross, Vol. 2:540.

M.
*Macfarlane, Andrew N., Vol. 1:681.

* Madsen, Christian A., Vol. 1: 816.
Mackay, John Calder, Vol. 2: 104.

* Madsen, Ellen Nielsen, Vol. 2: 781.

* Madsen, Lars Peter, Vol. 2: 781.

* Madsen, Niels, Vol. 2:665.

* Madsen, Peter, Vol. 2:780.

* Madsen, Peter F., Vol. 2: 64.
*Maeser, Karl G., Vol. 1:707.
*Magleby, Jacob, Vol. 2:665.
*Maiben, John B., Vol. 1:522.
*Malin, John McGuckin, Vol. 2:666.

Mann, Charles W., Vol. 1:467.
Mansfield, Matthew W., Vol. 1:527.
*Marchant, Franklin W., Vol. 2:233.

* Marcroft, Charlotte, Vol. 2: 421.

* Marcrof t, John, Vol. 2:421.
*Margetts, Charles P., Vol. 2:781.

Marks, William, Vol. 1:283.
Marsh, Thomas B., Vol. 1: 74.

* Marshall, George, Vol. 2: 40.

* Martin, James, Vol. 2:250.
Martineau, George A., Vol. 2: 126.

* Mason, Ambrose Todd, Vol. 2: 295.

* Mather, Thomas, Vol. 2:43.

* Matheson, Alexander G., Vol. 2: 188.

* Matson, Peter, Vol. 1 : 370.

* Maughan, John, Vol. 1 : 445.

* Maughan, Peter, Vol. 1 : 758.

* Maughan, William H., Vol. 1 : 437.
Mawson, William Oliver, Vol. 2: 465.
Maxwell, James, Vol. 1:687.

* McAllister, Duncan M., Vol. 1:651.

* McAllister, John D. T., Vol. 1: 334.

* McArthur, Daniel D., Vol. 1: 336.

* McClellan, John J., Vol. 1: 747.

* McCullough, William A., Vol. 1: 496.

* McCune, Elizabeth A. C, Vol. 2: 667.

* McDonald, Alexander F., Vol. 1: 557.
McDonald, John, Vol. 2: 11.

*McEwan, Daniel Dean, Vol. 2:667.

* McGhie, Robert L., Vol. 2: 669.

* McGuire, Patrick Henry, Vol. 2: 670.
Mcintosh, Abraham E., Vol. 2:581.

* McKay, Angus, Vol. 2:339.
*McKean, Mary Page G., Vol. 2:377.
*McKean, Theodore, Vol. 2:374.

* McKean, Theodore, Jr., Vol. 2:409.
*McKee, Joseph Allen, Vol. 2:671.
*McKenzie, David, Vol. 2:670.
*McKinnon, Archibald, Vol. 1:332.

* McKinnon, Peter, Vol. 1: 470.
*McLachlan, William, Vol. 1:611.
*McLelland, Thomas, Vol. 2:431.

McLellin, William E., Vol. 1:82.
*McMaster, John B., Vol. 2:64.
*McMillen, William, Vol. 2:201.

McMullen, Bryant Ross, Vol. 2:234.

McMullin, Albert O., Vol. 2: 782.

* McMurrin, Joseph W., Vol. 1: 216.

* McNeil, John, Vol. 1:504.
McQuarrie, Robert, Vol. 2: 16.

'■ McRae, Alexander, Vol. 1 : 620.

McRae, Daniel, Vol. 1:567.
'■ Mecham, Joseph Lyman. Vol. 2: 149.
■■ Mecham, Leonidas S., Vol. 2: 267.

Mecham, Moses M., Vol. 2: 240.

Meeks, Heber Jesse, Vol. 2:132.
'■ Mellor, James, Jr., Vol. 2: 782.

Memniott, Thomas, Vol. 1:531.

Mendenhall, William H., Vol. 1 : 769.
■■ Merrill, Albert, Vol. 2: 390.
■■ Merrill, Alma, Vol. 1 : 400.

Merrill, Amos Newlove, Vol. 2:783.

Merrill, Bathsheba M., Vol. 2: 392.

Merrill, Clarence, Vol. 2:391.

Merrill, Heber Kimball, Vol. 2: 74.
■■ Merrill, Joseph F., Vol. 1 : 784.
'■ Merrill, Marriner W., Vol. 1: 156.

Merrill, Thomas H., Vol. 1: 404.

Meservy, Joseph R., Vol. 2: 102, 809.

Meservy, Margaret 0., Vol. 2: 809.

Merservy, Oliver K., Vol. 2: 103, 809.

Merservy, Mrs. O. K., Vol. 2:809.

Merz, Adolph, Vol. 2:571.

Middleton, Charles F., Vol. 1 : 460.

Middleton, George W., Vol. 2: 481.

Midgley, Jemina R. H., Vol. 2: 491.

Midgley, Joshua, Vol. 2:490.

Miles, Daniel S., Vol. 1:192.

Miles, Samuel, Vol. 1: 536.

Miller, Charles E., Vol. 2:314.

Miller, Eleazer, Vol. 2:672.

Miller, Daniel G., Vol. 2: 101.

Miller, Jacob, Vol. 2:87.

Miller, James R., Vol. 1 : 563. .

Miller, Margaret N., Vol. 2:673.

Miller, Orrin P., Vol. 1 : 307.

Miller, Reuben G., Vol. 1:524, 821.

Miller, Uriah G., Vol. 1 : 568.

Miller, William, Vol. 1:481.

Miller, William, Vol. 2:460.

Miller, William, Vol. 2:672.

Minson, Thomas, Vol. 2:30.

Miskin, James Richard, Vol. 2: 53.

Mitchell, Benjamin T., Vol. 2: 369.

Moench, Louis F., Vol. 2: 244.

Moffett, William A., Vol. 2:673.

Molen, Simpson M., Vol. 1: 408.

Money, Albert Thurber, Vol. 2:161.

Monson, Walter Peter, Vol. 2: 175.

Monteirth, Alvin M., Vol. 2: 198.

Moody, Francis Winfred, Vol. 2: 268.

Moody, William A., Vol. 2: 195.

Moore, John, Vol. 1: 797.

Moore, John, Vol. 2: 162.

Morgan, John, Vol. 1:204.

Morgan, Joseph R., Vol. 1 : 639.

Morgan, Thomas, Vol. 1 : 763.

Morley, Isaac, Vol. 1: 235; 2: 784.

Morrell, Joseph, Vol. 1:407.

Morris, Elias, Vol. 1: 636.

Morris, George Quavle, Vol. 2:367.

Morris, Nephi L., Vol. 1:639.

Morris, Richard V., Vol. 1:675.

Morris, Robert, Vol. 1:621.

Mortensen, Christian, Vol. 2:324.

Mortensen, Johan P., Vol. 2: 673.

Mortensen, Morten C, Vol. 1 : 397.

822

INDEX

Mortensen, Niels C, Vol. 2:340.
Mouritzen, Mouritz, Vol. 1:424.
Mousley, Lewis H., Vol. 2: 107 .
Moyle, Henry, Vol. 2: 674.

* Moyle, .James, Vol. 1 : 776.

* Mojde, James H., Vol. 1:783.
Muir, Dan, Vol. 2:88.

Muir, James A., Vol. 1: .579.
*Muir, William S., Vol. 2:256.
*Mumford, Elizabeth M., Vol. 2:400.

Mumford, George, Vol. 2: 37.

Mumford, Thomas, Vol. 2:399.
*Murdock, Gideon M., Vol. 2:400.

* Murdock, David L., Vol. 2:522.
Murdock. Gideon A., Vol. 2:39.

* Murdock, John, Vol. 2:362.

* Murdock, John M., Vol. 2: 38.
Murdock, John M., Vol. 2: 12.

* Murdock, John R., Vol. 1: 304.

* Murdock, Joseph R., Vol. 1:361.

* Musser, Amos M., Vol. 1: 381.
*Mvers, Carl Peter, Vol. 2: 459.

* Myers, Jacob, Vol. 2: 319.

'■■■ Myrup, Lars C. N., Vol. 2: 224.

N.

* Naegle, George C., Vol. 1 : 562, 822.
Nalder, William N., Vol. 2:91.

* Nash, Isaac B., Vol. 2:178.

* Neal, Mary Malissa, Vol. 2:784.

* Nebeker, Ammon, Vol. 2:152.

* Nebeker, Delia Lane, Vol. 2:34.
Nebeker, George, Vol. 1 : 682.

* Nebeker, Ira, Vol. 2:33.

* Nebeker, John L., Vol. 1: 683; 2: 785.
Needham, Alice W., Vol. 2:419.

* Needham, James, Vol. 2:419.

* Needham, John, Vol. 1 : 414.
Needham, Martha B., Vol. 2: 420.

* Neff, Amos Herr, Vol. 2: 103.
*Neff, John, Vol. 2: 785.

Neff, John, Jr., Vol. 2:787.
*Neff, Mary B., Vol. 2:786.

* Nelson, Joseph, Vol. 1:784.

* Nelson, Joseph G., Vol. 2: 172.

* Nelson, Nels August, Vol. 1: 571.
Nelson, .Thomas B., Vol. 2:675.

* Neslen, Charles C, Vol. 2:520.

* Neslen, Robert F., Vol. 2: 518.

* NewTiian, William J., Vol. 2:377.

* Nibley, Rebecca Neibaur, Vol. 2: 675.

* Nielsen, Charles M., Vol. 2: 678.

=••= Nielsen, Christen (Miller)Vol. 2:268.

* Nielsen, Christian R., Vol. 2: .568.

* Nielsen, Hans W., Vol. 2: 540.

* Nielsen, Jens, Vol. 2: 203.

* Nielsen, Jens, Vol. 2: 344.
Nielsen, Lars, Vol. 2: 165.

* Nielsen, Niels, Vol. 2:679.

* Nielsen, Rasmus, Vol. 2:680.

* Nielsen, Peter A., Vol. 1: 573.

* Nielson, James L., Vol. 2: 787.

* Nielson, Oloff, Vol. 2:322.

* Nilson, Cecilia Larson, Vol. 2: 306.

* Nilson, James Anderson, Vol. 2: 306.

* Nilson, Nils Mats, Vol. 2: 680.

* Nixon, James W., Vol. 2:94.

* Nixon, Mary Ann Hall, Vol. 2:681.

* Nixon, Thomas Alonzo, Vol. 2:48.

* Nixon, William, Vol. 2:681.
Nowers, Wilson Gates, Vol. 2:39.

*Nuttall, Leonard J., Vol. 1:355.
*Nye, John, Vol. 1:397.

0.

* Oborn, John, Vol. 2: 326.

* Okelberry, Peter, Vol. 2:160.
Oldham, Samuel, Vol. 1:434.

* Oldrovd, Archibald T., Vol. -2: 682.

* Olpin, Edwin Dee, Vol. 2:683.
Olsen, Edward A., Vol. 2:787.

* Olsen, Frederick A., Vol. 2: 299.

* Olson, Lars Larson, Vol. 2:357.

* Olson, Randine G., Vol. 2:356.

* Ord, John William, Vol. 2:112.
*Orgill, Edward, Vol. 2:317.

* Orme, Charles A., Vol. 1: 546.
Orr, Josiah, Vol. 2: 23.

* Orton, Joseph, Vol. 2: 192.
Osmond, George, Vol. 1:348.

* Ossmen, August W., Vol. 2: 53.

* Ottosen, Jens, Vol. 2: 567.

* Ottosen, Johanna E. N., Vol. 2: 568.

* Overson, Christian, Vol. 2: 146.
*Overson, David P., Vol. 2:683, 812.

Overson, Ove Ephraim, Vol. 2: 684.

* Oveson, Lars Peter, Vol. 2: 92.

* Owen, James, Vol. 2: 290.

* Owens, Clarence E., Vol. 2:219.
Owens, James Clark ,Vol. 2:217.

Pace, Harvey A., Vol. 2:684.
Pack, Silas Mosher, Vol. 2:231.
Packard, Noah, Vol. 2:684.

■ Page, Esther Leader, Vol. 2: 421.
Page, Hiram, Vol. 1: 277.

■ Page, John, Vol. 2:420.
Page, John E., Vol. 1: 92.
Page, Jonathan S., Vol. 2: 153.

■ Page, Jonathan S., Jr., Vol. 2: 150.
Page, Thomas P., Vol. 2: 318.
Park, Hamilton G., Vol. 1:668.
Park, John R., Vol. 1 : 785.

Park, Joseph Gordon, Vol. 2: 466.
Parker, James Slack, Vol. 2:21.
Parkinson, George C, Vol. 1:438.
Parkinson, Samuel C, Vol. 2: 178.
Parkinson, Samuel Rose, Vol. 2: 177.
Parkinson, William C, Vol. 1 : 305.
Parry, Edwin F., Vol. 1: 645.
Pairy, Joseph, Vol. 2: 685.
Partridge, Ernest D. A., Col. 2: 685.
Partridge, Edward, Vol. 1 : 218.
Partridge, Edward, Jr., Vol. 1:488.
Patrick, Robert, Vol. 1 : 665.
Patten, George, Vol. 2: 157.
Patten, David W., Vol. 1: 76.
Paul, Joshua H., Vol. 1: 619.
Paxman, James W., Vol. 1: 517.
Paxman, William, Vol. 1:515.
Pearson, Hans, Vol. 2:333.
Pearson, Henry, Vol. 1 : 575.
Pearson, Henry M., Vol. 1: 588.

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823

Peerv, David H., Vol. 1: 756.
Pehrson, Erik J., Vol. 1:816.
Pehrson, John P., Vol. 1:575.
Peirce, Eli Harvey, Vol. 2:686.
Peirce, James M., Vol. 2:688.
Peirce, Mary Ann B., Vol. 2: 688.
Peirce, William A., Vol. 2:687.
Pendleton, Daniel S., Vol. 2:689.
Penrose, Charles W., Vol. 1:256.
Perkins, Abraham J., Vol. 2: 198.
Perkins, Alice Mellen, Vol. 2:448.
Perkins, David M., Vol. 2:689.
Perkins, George W., Vol. 2; 447.
Perkins, William G., Vol. 2: 429.
Peters, John David, Vol. 2: 63.
Petersen, Hans F., Vol. 2:554.
Petersen, Jens, Vol. 2:345.
Petersen, Lars, Vol. 2:345.
Petersen, Lars C., Vol. 1:427 .
Petersen, Mette C. C, Vol. 2: 691.
Petersen, Niels M., Vol. 2:690.
Petersen, Niels R,. Vol. 2:225.
Petersen, Oluff, Vol. 2: 66.
Petersen, Peter A., Vol. 2: 161.
Petersen, Peter, Vol. 1 : 798.
Petersen, Rozilla K., Vol. 2:67.
Peterson, Brigham Y., Vol. 2: 193.
Peterson, Canute, Vol. 1 : 362.
Peterson, Christian, Vol. 2: 344.
Peterson, James C, Vol. 2:788.
Peterson, James E., Vol. 2: 184.
Peterson, James Morten, Vol. 2: 691.
Peterson, Mary Jensen, Vol. 2: 553.
Peterson, Niels, Vol. 2: 553.
Peterson, Peter B., Vol. 2:788.
Pett, James, Vol. 1: 390.
Pettegrew, David, Vol. 1:618.
Pettit, Emma S. B., Vol. 2:406.
Pettit, Ethan, Vol. 2:414.
Pettit, Lorenzo, Vol. 2:405.
Pettit, Lucy A. M., Vol. 2:405.
Pettit, Margaret E., Vol. 2:414.
Phelps, Henry Smith, Vol. 2:138.
Phelps, Morris, Vol. 1:373.
Phillips, Ishmael, Vol. 1:692.
Pierce, Isaac Riley ,Vol. 2:358.
Piggott, George W., Vol. 2:692.
Pilling, Richard, Vol. 1 : 386.
Pitkin, George O., Vol. 1:433.
Pixton, Seth Silcock, Vol. 2:316.
Pollard, Joseph, Vol. 1: 635.
Pomeroy, Franklin T., Vol. 2: 137.
Pond, Brigham, Vol. 2:41.
Pond, Joseph Thorn, Vol. 2:26.
Pond, Lewis S., Vol. 1:301.
Pond, Lysander C, Vol. 1:315.
Pond, Noah S., Vol. 1:314.
Pope, George H., Vol. 2: 694.
Porter, Joseph Rich, Vol. 2:148.
Porter, Nahum, Vol. 2:174.
Porter, Margaret L. B., Vol. 2:790.
Porter, Nathan T., Vol. 2:789.
Porter, William F., Vol. 2: 789.
Poulsen, Andrew^, Vol. 2:693.
Poulsen, Paul, Vol. 2:694.
Poulton, James, Vol. 2: 790.
Pratt, Moroni W., Vol. 1: 817.

* Pratt, Orson, Vol. 1:87.

* Pratt, Parley P., Vol. 1:83.

* Preston, William B., Vol. 1:232.

* Price, Edmond, Vol. 2:695.

* Price, Robert, Vol. 2: 36.
Priest, John, Vol. 1:450.
Probst, Jacob, Vol. 2: 13.
Pugh, Edward K., Vol. 2: 132.
Pugmire, Jonathan, Jr., Vol. 2: 430.
Pulsipher, Zera, Vol. 1: 194.

* Purdie, William, Vol. 2: 102.
Putnam, Savannah C, Vol. 1:471.

* Pyper, Alexander C, Vol. 1:627.

* Pyper, George D., Vol. 1 : 669.

Q.

* Quist, Albert, Vol. 2: 695.

* Quist, John Anderson, Vol. 2: 696.
Quibell, Joseph A., Vol. 1:472,

R.

* Raleigh, Alonzo H., Vol. 1: 672.

* Ralphs, Ephraim, Vol. 2: 189.
Randall, Orrin Harley, Vol. 2: 147.

* Rappleye, Tunis, Vol. 2:791.

* Rasband, Frederick, Vol.«2: 697.
Rasband, Joseph A., Vol. 1:478.
Rasmussen, Daniel, Vol. 2: 572.

* Rasmussen, Hans, Vol. 2: 697.

* Rasmussen, Niels, Vol. 1: 596.

* Rasmussen, Peter C, Vol. 2:108. '

* Rasmussen, Rasmus, Jr., Vol. 1: 443.

* Rasmussen, Soren, Vol. 1: 574.
Rawlins, Franklin A., Vol. 2:41.

* Read, Walter P., Vol. 2: 494.

* Redd, Lemuel H., Vol. 2: 116.
*Redd, Wayne H., Vol. 1:353.
*Redd, William A., Vol. 1:539.

* Reece, Joseph, Vol. 2: 152.
*Reed, Ira, Vol. 2:413.
*Reed, Levi Ward, Vol. 2:412.

* Reed, Margaret P., Vol. 2:413.

* Rees, John Evans, Vol. 2: 583.
Reeve, William A., Vol. 2: 145.

* Reid, Alfred C, Vol. 2:698.
*Reid, George A., Vol. 2:446.
*Reid, William T., Vol. 2:791.

Reidhead, John, Vol. 2:221.

* Reiser, Albert S., Vol. 1:780.

* Reiser, Anna C. A., Vol. 2: 427.

* Reiser, Henry, Vol. 2:424.
Reiser, Magdalena S., Vol. 2:426.

* Reiser, Margaret V. B., Vol. 2:428.

* Reiser, Susanna Rupp, Vol. 2: 425.

* Remington, Lydia R. B., Vol. 2: 239.

* Renstrom, Andrew P., Vol. 2: 698.

* Reynolds, George, Vol. 1: 206.

* Reynolds, Henrv, Vol. 2: 233.

* Rhodes, Jane Williams, Vol. 2:699.

* Rhodes, William Henrv, Vol. 2:699.

* Rich, Charles C, Vol. 1: 102.
Rich, Leonard, Vol. 1: ]89.

* Rich, William L., Vol. 2:28.

* Richards, Claude, Vol. 2:700.

* Richards, Emanuel H., Vol. 2: 331.

* Richards, Emily Sophia, Vol. 2: 700.
Richards, Evan Alvin, Vol. 2: 150.

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Richards, Franklin D., Vol. 1: 115.
Richards, George F., Vol. 1:544.
Richards, Henry P., Vol. 1: 813.
Richards, Joseph Hill, Vol. 2:213.
Richards, Myron John, Vol. 2: 134.
Richards, Preston D., Vol. 2:704.
Richards, Samuel W., Vol. 1: 718.
Richards, Silas, Vol. 2:327.
Richards, Willard, Vol. 1:53.
Richards, Willard B., Vol. 2:471.
Richardson, John, Vol. 2:457.
Richardson, Shadrach M., Vol. 2: 160.
Richins, Mary Ann H., Vol. 2: 398.
Ricks, Joel, Vol. 2: 70.
Ricks, Joel, Jr., Vol. 2: 69.
Ricks, Thomas E., Vol. 1:455.
Riding, Alfred Hall, Vol. 2: 183.
Rigby, Fanny J., Vol. 2:792.
Rigby, James, Vol. 2: 792.
Rigdon, Sidney, Vol. 1: 31.
Ritchie, John McAffee, Vol. 2:10.
Robbins, Charles B., Vol. 2:74.
Roberts, Brigham H., Vol. 1:205.
Roberts, Walton A., Vol. 2: 20.
Roberts, William D., Vol. 1:498.
Robinson, George W., Vol. 1: 252.
Robinson, Benjamin H., Vol. 1:529.
Robison, Daniel A., Vol. 2:147.
Robison, Franklin A., Vol. 2:144.
Robison, Willis E., Vol. 1:342.
Robson, Charles I., Vol. 1 : 558.
Rockwood, Albert P., Vol. 1: 194.
Rockwood, Charles W., Vol. 1:454.
Rogers, Henry Tooles, Vol. 2: 174.
Rohwer, Charles J., Vol. 2:69.
Romney, George, Vol. 1:678.
Romney, Margaret A. T., Vol. 2: 538.
Rosengren, Gustave L., Vol. 2:110.
Roskelley, Samuel, Vol. 1:400.
Rouche, John E., Vol. 1 : 434.
Rouche, Thomas F., Vol. 1:464.
Roundy, Elizabeth J. D., Vot 1: 809.
Roundy, Shadrach, Vol. 1:642.
Rowberry, John, Vol. 1:545.
Rudy, Anna Maria B., Vol. 2: 415.
Rudy, Franklin H., Vol. 2: 416.
Rudy, Henry, Vol. 2: 414.
Rudy, Margaret Ann R., Vol. 2: 416.
Rundquist, Peter T., Vol. 1: 592.
Russell, John Hastie, Vol. 2:520.

Salisbury, David, Vol. 2:115.

* Salisbury, Joseph H., Vol. 2: 2.

* Sandberg, Peter J., Vol. 1 : 446.

* Sanderson, Owen M., Vol. 2: 249.

* Saunders, Demas A., Vol. 2: 705.

* Saunders, Hannah B., Vol. 2: 706.

* Saxton, Matilda D., Vol. 2:707.

* Saxton, Solomon, Vol. 2: 706.

* Schade, Adam W., Vol. 2: 338.

* Schade, Christian F., Vol. 2: 337.

* Schaerrer, John J., Vol. 1 : 514.
Schenk, John, Vol. 2: 107.

* Schofield, Nephi Y., Vol. 2: 481.

* Schow, Andrew P., Vol. 1: 543.

* Schow, August S., Vol. 1 : 767.

Schramm, Carl C, Vol. 2: 158.
Schulthess, Arnold H., Vol. 1: 598.
Scott, Andrew H., Vol. 2: 7.
Scott, Walter, Vol. 2:8.
Scott, William R., Vol. 2: 111.
Seal, Franklin E., Vol. 2:316.
Seddon, Samuel M. T., Vol. 1: 607.
Seegmiller, William A., Vol. 2:707.
Seegmiller, William H., Vol. 1:521.
Selander, Julius, Vol. 2:379.
Sessions, Byron, Vol. 1:300.
Sessions, David, Vol. 2: 79.
Sevey, George W., Vol. 1 : 800.
Shaffer, James M., Vol. 2: 238.
Sharp, John, Vol. 1: 677.
Sharp, John C, Vol. 2:479.
Sharp, John George, Vol. 2:327.
Sharp, John William, Vol. 2:320.
Sharp, Joseph, Vol. 2: 479. .
Sharp, Sarah B. P., Vol. 2:480.
Sheets, Edwin S., Vol. 2: 708.
Sheets, Elijah F., Vol. 1: 614.
Sherman, Lyman, Vol. 1 : 190.
Sherwood, Robert, Vol. 2:441.
Shomaker, Abigail T., Vol. 2:560.
Shomaker, Ezra, Vol. 2: 559.
Shreeve, Thomas Arthur, Vol. 2: 708.
Shumway, Wilson A., Vol. 2: 221.
Shupe, James Wright, Vol. 2: 289.
Shurtliff, Lewis W., Vol. 1:459.
Siggard, Peter Petersen, Vol. 2: 67.
Simons, Martha Dixon, Vol. 2:710.
Simons, Orrawell, Vol. 2:709.
Skanchy, Anthon L., Vol. 1: 422.
Skidmore, William A., Vol. 2:176.
Skidmore, William L., Vol. 1:403.
Slaugh, George Alfred, Vol. 2:239.
Sloan, James, Vol. 1: 254.
Smart, Abel, Vol. 2:32.
Smart, Thomas H., Vol. 1:589.
Smart, William H., Vol. 1: 360.
Smith, Albert, Vol. 2:306.
Smith, Amanda, Vol. 2:792.
Smith, Andrew, Vol. 1 : 599.
Smith, Andrew, Jr., Vol. 1 : 602.
Smith, Asahel, Vol. 1 : 182.
Smith, Azariah, Vol. 2 : 224.
Smith, Bathsheba W., Vol. 1:699.
Smith, Benjamin F., Vol. 1 : 497.
Smith, Elias, Vol. 1: 719.
Smith, Elias A., Vol. 1:776.

Smith, Emma, Vol. 1 • fiQ?.,_ —

Smith, George A., Vol. 1 : 37.
Smith, George A., Jr., Vol. 2:392.
Smith, Harriet S., Vol. 2: 298.
Smith, Hyrum, Vol. 1: 52.
Smith, Hyrum M., Vol. 1:772.
Smith, Isaac, Vol. 1: 410.
Smith, Jesse N., Vol. 1:316.
Smith, John, Vol. 1:182.
Smith, John, Vol. 1 : 183.
Smith, John Eddins, Vol. 2:297.
Smith, John C. L., Vol. 1 : 532.
Smith, John Fewson, Vol. 1: 688.
Smith, John Henry, Vol. 1:141.
Smith, Joseph, Jr., Vol. 1: 1.
Smith, Joseph, Sr., Vol. 1: 181.

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825

Smith, Joseph Daniel, Vol. 2: 143. *

Smith, Joseph F., Vol. 1 : 66. *

Smith, Joseph Harmon, Vol. 2:383. *

Smith, Josephine A. R., Vol. 2:307. *

Smith, Joseph West, Vol. 2:220. *

Smith, Lauritz, Vol. 1 : 573. *
Smith, Lot, Vol. 1:803.

Smith, Lucy, Vol. 1:690. *

Smith, Mary FieiaTngTVol. 2: 710. *

Smith, Orson, Vol. 1 : 407. " *

Smith, Ralph, Vol. 2:73. *

Smith, Samuel P., Vol. 2:214. *
Smith, Samuel H., Vol. 1: 278.

Smith, Silas S., Vol. 1:801. *

Smith, Sylvester, Vol. 1:191. *

Smith, Thomas X., Vol .2: 77. *
Smith, William, Vol. 1:86.

Smith, William G., Vol. 1 : 473. *

Smith, William Henry, Vol. 2:297. *

Smith, William J., Vol. 1 : 472. *

Smith, William R., Vol. 1:802. *

Smoot, Abraham O., Vol. 1 : 485. *

Smoot, Reed, Vol. 1:178. *

Smoot, William C. A., Vol. 2: 711. *

Smuin, George, Vol. 2: 290. *

Snell, Rufus P., Vol. 2: 45. *
Snow, Edward H., Vol. 1 : 798.

Snow, Eliza R., Vol. 1: 693 . *

Snow, Erastus, Vol. 1: 103. *

Snow, Elizabeth R. A., Vol. 2:512. *

Snow, James C., Vol. 1: 794. *

Snow, Jeter, Vol. 1 : 539. *

Snow, Joseph Homer, Vol. 2: 183. *

Snow, Lorenzo, Vol. 1: 26. '*
Snow, Lucius A., Vol. 2: 60.
Snow, Mason Levi, Vol. 2: 93.

Snow, Oliver G., Vol. 2:58. *

Snow, Oliver G., Vol. 1 : 389. *

■ Snow, Seymour B., Vol. 2: 797. *

■■ Snow, Willard L., Vol. 1 : 574. *
^Snowball, John, Vol. 2:257.

^Solomon, Alfred, Vol. 1: 681. *

S0rensen, Andrew P., Vol. 2: 205. *

■■ S0rensen, Christina W., Vol. 2: 712. *

= S0rensen, John P., Vol. 1: 819. *
'■ S0rensen, Morten, Vol. 2: 712.

S0rensen, Niels, Vol. 2: 269. *

■■ S0rensen, Ole, Vol. 1 : 523. *

S0rensen, Peter C., Vol. 2: 713.

= Speirs, Adam, Vol. 1 : 618. *

"Spencer, Daniel, Vol. 1:286. '*

Spencer, Franklin, Vol. 1 : 519. *

'■ Spencer, Hiram Theron, Vol. 2: 443. *

= Spencer, Mary Barr Y., Vol. 2: 444. *
= Spencer, Orson, Vol. 1 : 337.

' Sperry, Harrison, Vol. 1:605.' *

= Staines, Lillias T. L., Vol. 2:518. *

'Staines, William €., Vol. 2:513. *

' Staker, C. M. P., Vol. 2:293. *

= Staker, Joseph Smith, Vol. 2: 715. *

Staker, Nathan Henry, Vol. 2: 294. *

= Staker, William Henry, Vol. 2:292. *
= Stallings, Virgil B., Vol. 2: 335.

Standing, James, Vol. 2:713. *
' Standing, James V., Vol. 2: 714.

' Stanley, Frank, Vol. 2: 451. *

' Staples, Joseph Levi, Vol. 2: 714. *

Steed, Thomas, Vol. 2:88.
Steele, James E., Vol. 1: 453.
Steele, Mahonri M., Vol. 1: 543, 821.
Stephens, Evan, Vol. 1:740.
Stephenson, Anthony, Vol. 1:530.
Stevens, Thomas J., Vol. 2:248.
Stevens, Walter, Vol. 2:715.
Stevensen, Willard E., Vol. 2: 716.
Stevenson, Edward, Vol. 1: 214.
Stevenson, E. J. D. F., Vol. 2: 716.
Stevenson, Ezra T., Vol. 2: 500.
Stewart, Benjamin F., Vol. 2: 717.
Stewart, David B., Vol. 1:541.
Stewart, Elizabeth H., Vol. 2: 575.
Stewart, Isaac M., Vol. 1:793.
Stewart, James, Vol. 2: 574,
Stewart, James W., Vol. 2: 579.
Stewart, James Z., Vol. 1:416.
Stewart, Samuel W., Vol. 1 : 786.
Stewart, Vincent I., Vol. 2:21.
Stewart, William A., Vol. 2: 184.
Stewart, William M., Vol. 1:786.
Stimpson, William, Vol. 2:253.
Stocking, Ensign I., Vol. 2: 718.
Stohl, Lorenzo N., Vol. 2: 65.
Stohl, Ole N., Vol. 1 : 394.
Stokes, Thomas, Vol. 2:299.
Stratford, Edwin, Vol. 2:291.
Stucki, John Ulrich, Vol. 2:29.
Sudbury, Samuel John, Vol. 2: 280.
Sullivan, James Henry, Vol. 2:718.
Swenson, Canute, Vol. 2:719.
Swenson, Oscar E., Vol. 2: 467.
Swindle, Heber, Vol. 2:798.

Taft, Seth, Vol. 2: 798.
Tanner, Benjamin F., Vol. 2:58.
Tanner, George W., Vol. 2:720.
Tanner, Henry S., Vol. 1: 717 .
Tanner, John, Vol. 2: 799.
Tanner, John J., Vol. 2:156, 811.
Tanner, Joseph M., Vol. 1: 709.
Tanner, Joseph Smith, Vol. 2: 153.
Tanner, Nathan A., Vol. 2:246.
Tanner, William S., Vol. 2: 151.
Taylor, Alonzo L., Vol. 2: 122.
Taylor, Eliza J. W., Vol. 2:449
Taylor, Frank Y., Vol. 1 : 563.
Taylor, George H., Vol. 1:634.
Taylor, John, Vol. 1: 14.
Taylor, John, Vol. 2: 720.
Taylor, John W., Vol. 1: 151.
Taylor, Joseph E., Vol. 1:295.
Taylor, Lee, Vol. 2: 579.
Taylor, Levi James, Vol. 2:270.
Taylor, Martin V. B., Vol. 2:578.
Taylor, Samuel B., Vol. 2:449.
Taylor, Thomas, Vol. 2:366.
Taylor, Thomas E., Vol. 2: 720.
Taylor, Thomas H., Vol. 1:493.
Taylor, William, Vol. 1: 564.
Taylor, William W., Vol. 1:199.
Teasdale, George, Vol. 1: 144.
Terry, Joseph, Vol. 1 : 572.
Terry, Joshua, Vol. 1: 572.
Terry, Otis L., Vol. 2:802.

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* Terry, Otis L., Jr., Vol. 2:804.
Tew,' William, Vol. 1 : 495.

* Thatcher, Moses, Vol. 1:127.

* Thomas, Charles J., Vol. 2: 488.

* Thomas, Charles W., Vol. 2:724.

* Thomas, Edward, Vol. 2: 721.

* Thomas, Elbert Duncan, Vol. 2: 722.

* Thomas, Richard K., Vol. 1:780.

* Thomas, Robert Henry, Vol. 2:723.

* Thomas, Robert T., Vol. 2:723.
*Thomassen, Peter Olaff, Vol. 2:724.

* Thompson, Mercy R. F., Vol. 2: 725.

* Thompson, Niels, Vol. 2:321.
Thompson, Robert B., Vol. 1:253.

* Thomson, Andrew, Vol. 2:549.

* Thomson, Andrew, Jr., Vol. 2: 726.

* Thomson, Andrew W., Vol. 2: 314.

* Thomson, Christiana J., Vol. 2: 549.

* Thoresen, Ingwald C, Vol. 1:430.

* Thorn, William, Vol. 1:610.

* Thorne, Joseph E., Vol. 1: 512.

* Thorup, John T., Vol. 1 : 595.
Thurber, Albert K., Vol. 1: 519.

*Tillotson, Ephraim, Vol. 2: 15.

* Tingey, Franklin S., Vol. 1: 650.

* Ting-ev, John, Vol. 1: 648.
Tingey, Thomas, Jr., Vol. 1:333.

*Tobiason, Theodore, Vol. 1:617.
Tolley, George W., Vol. 2:22, 727.

* Tolman, Judson, Vol. 2: 78.
*Tolman, Judson A., Vol. 1:388.

* Torgerson, Gilbert, Vol. 2: 247.

* Tracy, Eli A., Vol. 2:346.

* Trane. Thomas F., Vol. 1: 506.

* Tucker, Edward C, Vol. 2: 293, 812.
Tufts, Josiah, Vol. 2: 269.

* Turner, James, Vol. 1: 589.

* Turner, James F., Vol. 1 : 577.

* Turner, William A., Vol. 2: 230.
*Twitchell, Willis, Vol. 1:471.

Tyler, Robert M., Vol. 1: 560.

U.

* Udall, David A., Vol. 2: 112.

* Udall, David K., Vol. 1: 325.

V.

*Van Cott, John, Vol. 1:198; 2:727.
*Vaughan, John Harris, Vol. 2:728.

* Vernon, James, Vol. 2:232.

W.

Wahlquist, Anders J., Vol. 2: 140.
Walker, Daniel Cox, Vol. 2:336.

* Walker, Don Carlos, Vol. 1:453.

* Walker, Henry, Vol. 2:729.

* Walker, Henson, Vol. 1:508.

* Walker, John H., Vol. 2:109.

* Walker, Stephen, Vol. 2: 729.

* Walker, William H,. Vol. 1:565.

* Wallace, George B., Vol. 1:291.

* Wallace, Henry, Vol. 1: 613.

* Wallace, George E., Vol. 2:402.
Wallantine, Robert W., Vol. 2:730.

* Walsh, John, Vol. 2:81, 744.

* Walton, Thomas, Vol. 2: 730.
*Warburton, Joseph, Vol. 1:593.

Ward, David Henry, Vol. 2: 270.
Ward, Moroni, Vol. 1:459.
Warnick, Charles P., Vol. 1 : 513.
Watkins, William (Lampard), Vol.

2:62.
Watson, Andrew A., Vol. 2:3.
Watson, Ellen Rily, Vol. 2: 423.
Watson, Hugh, Vol. 2:428.
Watson, James Cowen, Vol. 2:423.
Watson, Sarah J. W., Vol. 2: 429.
Webber, Thomas G., Vol. 1 : 670.
Webster, Francis, Vol. 2:533.
Webster, John, Vol. 2: 475.
Webster, John W., Vol. 2:477.
Webster, Mary A. W., Vol. 2: 476.
Weggeland, Dan A., Vol. 2, 271.
Weibye, Jens C. A., Vol. 1:818.
Weiler, Elijah M., Vol. 1: 603.
Weiler, Jacob, Vol. 1:601.
Welker, Adam, Vol. 2:199.
Welker, James R., Vol. 2:200.
Welling, Milton H., Vol. 1: 770.
Wellington, John, Vol. 2:298.
Wells, Emmeline B. W., Vol. 2:731.
Wells, Daniel H., Vol. 1: 62.
Wells, Heber M., Vol. 1: 722.
Wells, Joseph Smith, Vol. 2: 479.
Wells, Junius F., Vol. 1: 714.
Wells, Louis R., Vol. 2:521.
Wells, Lydia Anna, Vol. 2:511.
Wells, Rulon S., Vol. 1:212.
Wells, Susan H. A., Vol. 2: 511.
Welsch, Charles A., Vol. 2: 43.
Wentz, Peter M., Vol. 2:734.
West, Chauncey W., Vol. 1:749.
West, Jabez W., Vol. 1: 616.
West, Joseph A., Vol. 1: 754.
West, William, Vol. 2: 735.
Wheatley, Thomas, Jr., Vol. 2:735.
Wheeler, Joseph Edward, Vol. 2: 204.
Whipple, Willard, Vol. 2:218.
Whitaker, John M., Vol. 1: 790.
White, Catherine Foutz, Vol. 2: 736.
White, Charles D., Vol. 1: 531.
White, Kershaw N., Vol. 2: 436.
Whiting, Edward L., Vol. 2: 273.
Whitmer, Christian, Vol. 1 : 276.
Whitmer, David, Vol. 1 : 263.
Whitmer, Jacob, Vol. 1:276.
Whitmer, John, Vol. 1: 251.
Whitmer, Mary M., Vol. 1:283.
Whitmer, Peter, Vol. 1: 282.
Whitmer, Peter, Jr., Vol. 1 : 277.
Whitney, Ira B., Vol. 2: 206.
Whitney, Newel K., Vol. 1:222.
Whitney, Orson F., Vol. 1 : 658.
Wickman, Hans C, Vol. 2:94.
Widerborg, Carl, Vol. 1:814.
Widtsoe, John A., Vol. 1: 768.
Widtsoe, Osborne J. P., Vol. 2:403.
Wight, Lyman, Vol. 1:93.
Wilcox, Elizabeth J. S., Vol. 2:737.
Wilding, Thomas E., Vol. 2:434.
Wilkins, George W., Vol. 2:161.
Wilkins, Oscar, Vol. 2:738.
Willardsen, Anna K. S., Vol. 2: 547.
Willardsen, Christian, Vol. 2:545.

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Willardsen, Chr., Jr., Vol. 2: 547.
Willardsen, Karen S., Vol. 2: 546.
Willardsen, Mary L., Vol. 2:546.
Willey, David O., Jr., Vol. 2:738.
William, David J., Vol. 1:493.
Williams, Clarissa S., Vol. 2:738.
Williams, David, Vol. 2:532.
Williams, David J., Vol. 2:536.
Williams, Frederick G., Vol. 1: 51.
Williams, Eda Pearson, Vol. 2: 741.
Williams, George W., Jr., Vol. 2: 740.
Williams, Ira T., Vol. 2: 106.
Williams, James V. N., Vol. 2: 740.
Williams, Sarah T., Vol. 2: 534.
Williams, William N., Vol. 1:657.
Willie, James G., Vol. 2:430.
Willis, John H., Vol. 2:219.
Willis, Lemuel J., Vol. 2:46.
Willis, William W., Vol. 2:218.
Wilson, Joseph E., Vol. 1: 412.
Wilson, Robert L., Vol. 2: 741.
Wilson, William W., Vol. 1: 586.
Wiltbank, Ellis W,. Vol. 1:555.
Winder, John R., Vol. 1 : 244 .
Winter, Thomas W., Vol. 1:606.
Wolstenholme, Martha H., Vol.2 :450.
Wolstenholme, Levi, Vol. 2:450.
Wood, Charles, Vol. 2: 340.
Wood, Charles S., VoL 2: 340.
Wood, James Grace, Vol. 2:91, 805.
Wood, John, Jr., Vol. 2: 192.
Wood, Jonathan David, Vol. 2:87.
Wood, Samuel, Vol. 2:741.^
Wood, William, Jr., Vol. 2:408.
Woodbury, Frank B., Vol. 2:433.
Woodbury, John Taylor, Vol. 2: 742.
Woodbury, Orin Nelson, Vol. 2:432.
Woodland, Henry S., Vol. 1:315.
Woodland, James, Vol. 2:742.
Woodruff, Abraham O., Vol. 1:172.
Woodruff, David P., Vol. 2: 742.
Woodruff, Elias Smith, Vol. 2:367.
Woodruff, Emma S., Vol. 2:805.

* Woodruff, Newton, Vol. 1:402.
♦Woodruff, Wilford, Vol. 1:20.

* Woodruff, Wilford, Jr., Vol. 1: 616.
Woolf, John Anthony, Vol. 2: 17.

*Woolley, Albaroni H., Vol. 2:281.
*Woolley, Edward D., Vol. 1:358.
*Woolley, Edwin D., Vol. 1: 799.

* Woolley, Edwin G., Vol. 1:799.
*Woolley, John M., Vol. 1:782.

* Woolley, Marcellus S., Vol. 1: 679.

* Woolley, Samuel A., Vol. 1:781.
Woolley, Thomas, Vol. 2:743.

* Woolstenhulme, J., Sr., Vol. 1:469.
Wootton, Attewall, Vol. 2: 14.

* Wootton, Charles R., Vol. 2:294.
Workman, Andrew J., Vol. 1 : 538.

*Worthen, Charles H., Vol. 2:417.

* Wright, Brigham, Vol. 2: 66.

* Wright, James A., Vol. 2:291.

* Wright, John F., Vol. 1: 431.
Wright, Joseph, Vol. 1 : 467.

* Wright, William H., VoL 2: 467.

*Yeates, Richard, Vol. 1:421.

* Young, Andrew, Vol. 2:92.

* Young, Brigham, Vol. 1 : 8.

* Young, Brigham, Jr., Vol. 1: 121,

* Young, Ebenezer R., Vol. 2: 743.

* Young, Franklin W., Vol. 2:95.

* Young, John Ray, Vol. 2: 274.
Young, John W., Vol. 1 : 42.
Young, Joseph, Vol. 1: 187.

* Young, Joseph A., Vol. 1:518.

* Young, Richard W., Vol. 1:671.

* Young, Robert D., Vol. 2:743.

* Young, Seymour B., Vol. 1: 200.

* Young, Zina D. H., VoL 1: 697.
*Youngberg, Carl G., Vol. 2:258.

*Zundell, Isaac E. D., Vol. 1:561.