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Show Heber J, Grant Sustained as Mormon Church head Antfion H, Lund and C'W. Penrose Named Counsefors E1' LDER HEBER J. GRANT, center, who was unanimously sustained yesterday as president of the Mormon church. Left, Anthou H. Lund, chosen fcy President Grant to be first counselor in the first presidency, and, right, Charles W. Penrose, named as second counselor. 1 - A " 1 Council of the Twelve Apostles Reorganizes the j First Presidency. IMMEDIATE reorganization of the i first presidency uf the Church of Jesus " Christ of Latter-day Saints; was had yesterday morning in the j Salt Lake temple, when the quorum of twelve apostles unanimously sustained sus-tained llebcr J. Grant as president of the organization in all the world, and as trustee-in -trust of that ccclesiast ical body. President Grant announced that he had chosen Anthon IT. Lund and Charles "YV. : Penrose as his first and second counselors, coun-selors, respectively, they having occupied occu-pied the same positions in the first pros- i idency during the Incumbency of the late President Joseph F. Smith. ! Present at tho meeting in tho temple and participating In the' proceedings of reorganization -wore Heber J. Grant, Anthon An-thon II. Lund, Itudger Clawson, George Albert Smith, Charles W. Penrose, Orson F. "Whitney, David O. McKay, Anthony "SV. Ivins, Joseph F. Smith, Jr., James K. Talmage, Stephen L. Richards and Richard Rich-ard R. Lyman, of the first presidency, and the apostolate and Byrum G. Smith, presiding patriarch. President Lund Officiates. President Anthon IT. Lund officiated In blessing and setting apart Hebcr .1. Grant to the presidency of the church after the new chief official had been unanimously sustained as such by the council of apostles. President Grant then blessed and set apart Presidents Anthon T . Lund and Charles "W. Penrose Pen-rose In their positions- as counselors in the first presidency. Apostles Reed 5 moot and George F. Richards were not present. The former Is in Washington and tho latter Is in Liverpool, Lrigland, serving as president of the Kuropean mission of tho church. As senior member of the council of twelve apostles, President Anthon H. Lund was sustained as head of that body and lie was blessed and set apart to that office by President Charles W. Penrose, j Elder Rudger Clawsun, next in seniority ; In the quorum, was sustained as acting ' president of the council of twelve and 1 was set apart by Llder Orson F. Whit- 1 ncy. J Heber J. Grant's Life Sketch, j President Hebcr Jcddy Grant (s th , son of Jedediah M. 1 irnnt and Rai-hel Ridpway Ivhis, find was born Novcinhpr 2. isr.fi, in a It Luke Clly, Utah. His opportunities for schooling were limited, and though he attended for a time the Deserel. university, the greater part of his education was acquired in the school of hard experience. President Grant has grown up with the state of I'tah. Ho lias been a leading figure throughout his life i 11 the development develop-ment of the church, tlio business development devel-opment of the stato and In all public affairs. Tenacity of purposo has always been his marked charaeU-ristic. The record rec-ord of bin church activity is notable. He was a counselor in the first Y. M. W. T. A. organized in the Thirteenth ward. Me was an elder and seventy before being ordained or-dained a high pripst in October, 1 SSO, when ho became president i.f the Tooele stake, being then less than 2i years old, and the youngest stake president In the church. On October Ifi. 1S. he became (Continued on Page Three.) GRIT IS dSEFl . US CHURCH HEAD (Continued from Page One ) the first Utah-born apostle, when lie was ordained by the first presidency and apostles, apos-tles, the ordination being made by president presi-dent George Q. Cannon. As a missionary he has labored in the United States, Great Britain, Mexico and Japan. With Elder Brlgbam Young, Jr., lie went to Sonora, Mexico, before any church members were there, to carry the gospel to the Yaqui Indians. Ijiter, with blder Young he visited other Indian tribes for the same purpose. He presided over tho European mission, and also filled a mission in Japan, leaving here for the orient, July 24, 1901. President Grant started his business training as an office boy, and he has climbed to a commanding place In the business and financial life of the state. To Zion's Savings bank he sustained for a time the relation of assistant cashier, in 1S90 he aided In the organization and became president of the State Bank of Utah; since merged with the Utah State National. He has been a director of tho Provo Woolen Mills, Deseret National bank, Oregon Uumber company, and was at one time vice president and director of the Salt Lake Herald. He became, a director of Z. C. M. I. and later was made chairman of the executive committee. He haa been president of the Salt Lake Theater The-ater company, Consolidated Wagon & Machine Ma-chine company, Hoilie Firo. Insurance ance company and the Heber J. Grant company. Gives Efficient Aid. In tho days when the church was not as strong financially as it is today he rendered ren-dered great service. During the panic of 1N90 and 1R 11 he made trips to eastern money centers where he was successful in raising several hundred thousand dollars witli which to keep going some cf the distressed dis-tressed business houses here; and In the dark year of he made four trips east for money which tho church and local business houses were in dire need of. On those four trips he returned with over a half million dollars. A keen interest In and help for all public pub-lic enterprises has ever been shown by President Grant. He was a mem her of one, session of the territorial legislature and sev'-ral times has been In the Salt Lake Ciiy council. His recent and enthusiastic en-thusiastic activity in the Liberty loan campaign is notable. Anthon H. Lund's Career. President Anthon H. Lund was born May 15, 1 S -1 4 , In Aalborg. Denmar.'.. He was taptlzed as a member of the church May ir, lSf-i'i, on the twelfth anniversary anniver-sary of his birth and has ever since been one of Its indefatigaldo workers. He arrived in Salt Lake City Kf.pt r-mber 2:t, 1SG2, locating In Sanpete county, where he remained until the fall cf 1X70. In 1S71 he returned to Scandinavia, o?i a mission; and ho fillec a second mission to that land in ISnI. In May, ISsi, he was appointed ap-pointed vice prenident of the Manti temple, tem-ple, and in succeeded l'anie H, Wells as president there. At the organization organi-zation of the general church beard of education he became a member, and at the October conference, issy, he was called to the high office of apostle, to which be wns ordained October 7, issy. by President Presi-dent George Q. Cannon. In 1.SHI1 he went to Liverpool to presiile over the European mission, and returned in the summer of Sinee then he ha? continued his labors la-bors as an r-postle until called to act as counselor to President Joseph I- Smith in the first presidency of the church. . Life of C. W. Penrose. President Charles W. I'rnroK'; svn born February 1, 1 JO 2. ; t t'';i inborwell. London, Kn'land. and juhird thv 'bnvh in May 11. 1f."u. A fur un cars nr' mot ef feci ive mission a ry work be eni igra ted lo America in ISfil. crossing Ihe plains by ox team. He settler! first at Farminp-ton. Farminp-ton. Davis county, ain' in IS'M moved In Cache valley. In lo be w.nt or. a mis- slon to England, returning in 18f.S. He founded tho "Ogden Junction" In the early ear-ly seventies, and in 1SS0 he became editor-in-chief of the Deseret News, a position posi-tion which lie filled many years with signal sig-nal ability. In 1SS-1 he became ono of the presidency of the Salt Iake stake; performed per-formed a brief mission to the states In l&Sn, and went from there to England, where he did editorial work on the Millennial Millen-nial Star. He returned home to resume active work as editor of the Deseret News. Subsequently he was sent to Washington where he spent two winters working in missionary fields, writing articles ar-ticles for the "Forum" and other magazines maga-zines on the "Mormon" question. Ijiter he was editor of the Salt Lako Herald and In the fall of 1S.S5 he became a member mem-ber of the staff of the church historian's office. January , 1S99, he became again editor-in-chief of the News, a position which he held until called to tho presidency presi-dency of the European rnlsslon. Ho has always been a steadfast worker, and now even at his advanced age, be is as active, ac-tive, alert and ready, as most men many years his junior. He was chosen second eonnse.lor to President Joseph E- Smith December 2. 1911, and now has been called to sustain the same relationship to President Heber .f. Grant. |
