Brigham Young was born 1 June in Whitingham, Vermont. In , three years after he joined the Church, he was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He was sustained as president of the Church on 27 December As Church president and territorial governor of Utah, he established Latter—day Saint settlements in Utah and throughout the American West.
Under his direction, construction began on temples in Salt Lake, St. George and Logan, Utah. He brought the telegraph and the railroad to Utah and encouraged cooperative industry among Latter-day Saints. For a more in-depth biography of Brigham Young, click here. An immigrant to Toronto, Canada, he was a cooper and part-time Methodist minister. He and his wife, Leonora, joined the Church in Two years later, he became an apostle and enjoyed close association with Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
He was sustained as president of the Church on 10 October During his administration, President Taylor established Latter-day Saint colonies in Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Canada and Mexico, oversaw the worldwide adoption of the Primary program for children and canonized the Pearl of Great Price as scripture. He died 25 July in Kaysville, Utah.
Born 1 March and raised in Connecticut, Wilford Woodruff was a miller by trade. He joined the Church in and served two missions before being ordained an apostle in As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve , he completed four additional missions, presided over the temple in St. George, Utah, and served six years as Church historian. He was sustained as Church president on 7 April During his administration, he dedicated temples in Salt Lake City and Manti, Utah, oversaw the organization of a genealogical society and reemphasized the value of historical record keeping.
In , after much pondering and prayer, President Woodruff received a revelation that the Latter-day Saints should cease the practice of polygamy. He died in San Francisco on 2 September Lorenzo Snow was born 3 April in Mantua, Ohio. As a youth, he preferred academic study to an apprenticeship and study of Hebrew and theology led to his conversion to the Church in He served as a missionary and apostle before becoming Church president on 13 September He helped the Church recover from the challenges of the previous decades.
He expanded missionary efforts and stabilized Church finances by encouraging the payment of tithing. As Church president at the dawning of the 20th century, he opened a new era in Latter-day Saint history.
Nelson speaks at the beginning of the Sunday morning session of General Conference on April 1, In January , when Nelson was the senior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, he described a controversial policy about gays as a revelation. Such statements echoed words and phrases used by Kimball and others to describe their experience ending the racial ban in The elderly leader seems to have a sense of urgency, Reid said.
Donate to the newsroom now. The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. By Peggy Fletcher Stack. Religion More millennial Mormons are choosing a middle way — neither all-in nor all-out of the faith. We check out the rumor mill, which is working overtime. In case you missed it. Since then he has reported on topics ranging from TSA PreCheck to micro apartments in overcrowded cities to the various ways zoo animals stay cool in the summer heat.
But, his primary focus has always been education and he returns to Utah to cover the same schools he was teaching in not long ago. Lee is a graduate of Brigham Young University and is also fascinated with the way religion intersects with the culture and communities of the Beehive State.
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