Show ANTHONY WOODWARD IVINS IS SELECTED NEW APOSTLE n t I r C T 1 i 1 t I fr 5 7 t tV tC tr tC tC tC V C C r C C C CC C C CV CC C V 4 C C C C ANTHONY WOODWARD WOO IVINS Anthony An hopy Woodward Ivins the th latest dig dignitary dignItary dignitary of the Mormon church to be ele elevated elevated elevated has been a resident of ot Utah Ut h for tor or years He was born September Sept 16 1852 at Toms River Ocean county N NJ NJ NJ J and In the following year came came with his parents parent to Utah In Jn 1861 he removed to southern Utah ana became one of f the pioneer settlers of ot o St 81 George His father was Israel Ivins Inns and land his moth mother r Anna Lowrie Ivins In ISiS Mr Ivins married Elizabeth Ashby Snow daughter of Apos Apostle Apostle tle tie Erastus and Elizabeth R Snow At this time Elder Eider Ivins Is s president of ot the Juarez stake of ZIon in Mexico He iise with his family at Coloni Juarez Chihuahua His first mission to Mexico was performed m n a 1875 1871 in with i Dan W V Jones Heleman Pratt Tam Z Stewart R i H iI Smith Ammon M Tenny I and Wiley C Jones The party went first to the city of Chihuahua and thence west westward wes westward ward to the Sierra Madre M mountains Coming northward they passed through the section where many of ot the colonies of ot the Mormons in Mexico are now established established established Three years later in ISiS in company with Erastus B Snow Apostle Ivins went wenton on a mission to the Pueblo and Navajo Indians in New Mexico and Arizona In I the following year he as chosen dent of the ta Fourth Ward Mutual M Improve Improvement Improvement Improvement ment association o in St at George and when the four tour associations in Bt St George were consolidated he was made president nt He was chosen d member of the th high in St George stake in l ISSI and In 1183 was appointed ap firs counsellor to Daniel Dahle DanielD D McArthur of 01 that stake He was ap appointed appointed appointed pointed president of at the Juarez stake In 1895 the year of Its formation During his residence r In St George Apostle Ivins held many ny Important cIvil civi and political offices For six years h he was assessor and collector of o Washington county count and served also as county attorney deputy sheriff sheri mayor maor of St 51 George mem member ber her of the city council city attorney and constable at various times He was a I member of ot the constitutional convention in I ISiS 1895 and In the preceding year ear ISM 1894 1 he was elected ele ted a i member of or the legislature He was for tor two years agent for tor the Shebl Indians for or whom he secured the first ap appropriation Prior to his departure for Mexico he was engaged in the cattle business He is isnow Isnow isnow now the vice president and general man manager manager ager agel of at the Mexican Colonization Agri Agricultural Agricultural AgrIcultural cultural company comp py He is a speaker of note |