| Show Edward Partridge President Utah Stake In i revelation to Joseph J Smith Veil 1 4 1831 occurs the following passage And again I Imo called my ter I ant Edwlrd 1 Partridge I md give a I co Inatld at Cut tint he should be appointed ap-pointed I by the voice i of c the Chujr I I hand h-and Ordained n Hi hop into the I Church to leave his merehmdise I md to spend all his tine m the 1lhOls of the Church 1 1 and this because his heart is pure before me I for I CI he is like unto Nathaniel i r old in whom there is no guile Such by the testimony of the lord himself I him-self wu is the character of Edward I 1 irtnde whose son is now 1 rcsi dent ol the Utah Stake of Zion I President I Partridge was born June j 21 1833 it Independence Jackson County I Mo When eight ears I old his hther died md is i bay he i passed j through nil the persecutions i md privations incident to the expul 1 J ion of the Sums Irom Missouri and I Illinois He reached Salt Lake wemy in 1848 Six yea liter he I went on his first mission to tin Sandwich Islands returning m iSsy He now married Sarah I L I Clayton it 51 tol itJ i I md removed to illmorc 1 where lie i reside 1 till 1885 when In moved to 1 Utah count I During three years 8885 he vvis I President of the Suidwich Isl I land I I l-and mission and superintendent of I the sugar plmtition mil hid the I honor of entertaining the king and I I his suite who attended the dedici tory services ill a ntly meetinghouse I meeting-house built by 1 the Saint His life Ins been a most active one both in civil I mil ecclesiastical affairs In I Fillmore I he acted successively as member of city council mayor count clerk and recorder and pro I b Hi judge md w is twice elected to the Territorial cfihtuie lie was also elected member of the Consti union il convention from Utah county In m ecclesiastical capacity he was a member of the lIih I Council of Salt Lake Stale m IS < 0 shop I ol I Fillmore md afterward first counselor to President of the Stake On moving to Provo he wis made second counselor to President A O Smoot and after President S noot s death WaS chosen April 21 iSgf to be Pnsidcnt of the Utah Stake In uprightness and singleness of character PieMilint 1lru idle resembles re-sembles his fuller A mm of mdly disposition clear practical judg mini one foes to linn instinctively for counsel Though conscrv itive in many things he is a staunch supporter sup-porter of education and has made many sicnliceb to give his own sons a university training One of them is now professor of mathematics in thc I Brigham Young Aeideni |
