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Show RELIGIOUS LEADERS as a publisher, merchant, mining man and agriculturist. He served five term as Utah's congressional con-gressional delegate beginning in 1873, and of all the men who represented From Many Churches Came State 'Builders' was an answer other congressmen are reported to have given frequently when asked a question. First white men to visit what Is now Utah were Catholic priests, and It was not long after the first pioneers settled here that Catholic priests arrived. ar-rived. First to do missionary work was the Rev. John B. Raverdy In 1864, and two years later when the Rev. Edward Kelley visited Salt Lake City, Brlgham Young placed the old L. D. S. assembly hall at his disposal. The Rev. James P. Foley, who arrived ar-rived In 1868, was the first resident pastor, and his successor, the Rev. Patrick Walsh, built the first Catholic church In Utah, the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, In 1871, at a cost of $12,000. Bishop Scanlan Salt Lake City was headquarters for the largest parish In the country on August 14, 1873, when the Rev. Lawrence Law-rence Scanlan began the work which occupied his every attention for 42 years and earned for him the mitre of a bishop. Within a few years his labors had resulted in the opening of St. Mary's academy In Salt Lake City, Sacred Heart academy in Ogden, the Holy Cross hospital, AU Hallows college in Salt Lake City and he had launched erection of churches and parish schools in several other communities of Utah In 1879, while visiting southern Utah, he was invited to speak at the L. D. S. tabernacle in St. George. Two weeks before the program, the leader of the L. D. S. choir asked for copies of Catholic music, and before the services were held the singers learned the mass and could sing it In Latin. In 18M Father Scanlan was appoint ed Bishop of Larandum and Vicar Apostolic of Utah and Nevada. Three years later he obtained the property on which the Cathedral of the Madeleine stands. When the Salt Lake diocese was created with the RL Rev. Scanlan as bishop In 1891. it embraced Utah's 84.990 square miles and 73,667 square miles of Nevada, to make It the largest diocese in the United States. Shortly later Bishop Scanlan opened SL Ann's orphanage, which moved into its present quarters in 1900 largely (Contlnged og rollowtns Pw J ' 1W Religion played a more important role n the 'upbuilding of Utah than in any other state in the Union. It was to be allowed to worship God as they desired that the Mormon pioneers pio-neers came to Utah: It was because of their religious faith that Brigham Young and his followers had courage to conquer the forbidding wilderness, and from those earliest days religious leaders have been prominent In business, busi-ness, in education and in care of the sick and the needy. The Latter-day Saints were first In the field, but the Catholic and Protestant Protes-tant religions were not long in becoming becom-ing established here, and their leaders, particularly the RL Rev. Lawrence tfc-nnlan, IX D.. first bishop of the Catholic diocese of Salt Lake, must need be Included in any tribute to the "builders" of Utah. Schools, magnificent churches, hospitals hos-pitals and orphanages are monuments to the charitable spirit and community consciousness of these men. President John Taylor Upon Brigham Young's death In J877, John Taylor became the foremost man in Utah, and in 1880 Jubilee year of the L D. S. church ha became president. It was the poetic Taylor who In 1844 ' ?d nominated Joseph Smith, prophet of the church, for the presidency of the United States, an who had been in the same cell and been wounded ' four times when the church leader was martyred In Carthage JalL Taylor's company of 600 wagons and 1500 persons arrived In Salt Lake valley val-ley October 5, 1847. He was speaker and for many years headed the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing society. so-ciety. Two of his proudest acts were the dedication of the Salt Lake temple in 1893 and the unveiling of the monument monu-ment to Brigham Young in 1897, SO years after arrival of the pioneers. President Woodruff is chiefly remembered, re-membered, however, for his famous manifesto, issued September 24. 1889, In which he ordered the practice of plural marriage discontinued. This was the signal for an era of far better feeling between the Mormons Mor-mons and those outside the church. In 18, at the age of 88, President Woodruff, assisted by his wife, succeeded suc-ceeded in landing a 30-pound yellow-tail yellow-tail while fishing at Catalina island. 8aew the Financier Lorenzo Snow, one of the church's greatest financiers, succeeded President Presi-dent Woodruff in 1898. He it was who after nearly drowning drown-ing while a missionary in Hawaii in 1864 returned to organize the Brigham Brig-ham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Manufactur-ing association, perhaps better known as the United Order of Brigham City. This was an effort to communis all industry. Farms, factories and stores were community owned, and several hundred persons prosperously employed em-ployed when a series of disasters brought the experiment to an end. "When I know I am right, I would as leif have some enemies as not," was President Snow's philosophy. Improving the financial position of the church and reviving observance of the law of tithing, under which mem- FIRST CATHOUC BISHOP The Rt. Rev. Lawrence Scanlan, first heed of the Salt Lata diocese. the territory, Mr. Cannon was undoubtedly un-doubtedly the most influential. "I don't know. Ask Mr. Cannon of Utah. He seems to know everybody," - till ) i: i j -esssssa i-.J.e''" s VMsljs RANKING L D. S. CHURCHMEN Of THEIR TIME Dignity was an evident attribute of (left to right) George Q. Cannon, WiKord Woodruff and Joseph F. Smith, leaders of tha church at state-hood state-hood time. ef the territorial house of representatives representa-tives for five terms beginning in 1867, . was probate judge of Utah county and became territorial superintendent ef schools in 1877. During his term as church president, The Crusade" against plural soar-. 1 llages swept Utah. , A martyr to his religious convictions, Coresident Taylor was in retirement for two years before his death, July 23, 1887. . Wllferd tha Beloved His suoceasor was Wllford Woodruff, Wood-ruff, "the beloved." alee called the "Clndnnatua of Utah." An active coloniser and explorer la the territory. President Woodruff was a natural agriculturist, liking nothing better than to discover an unusually large apple, or potato, or berry, on his property, so he oould exhibit It to ad-' salrlng neighbors. He was first president of tha Utah taarticulturai society organised In 11M bers pay a tenth of their earnings to the church, were his great works as president. He died October 10, lWx, and wea succeeded by Joseph T. Smith, wise bad been a member of the first presidency presi-dency since 1880, served nine terms la the territorial legislature, and been an active organiser of several touting commercial enterprises. While a member of the Salt Lake City council he had fought for and succeeded in having the city purchase the land which Is now Liberty park and Pioneer park. Although he never became president of the church, George Quayle Cannon was first counselor to Presidents Taylor, Tay-lor, Woodruff and Snow, and it was said of him that "no man la Utah, after the passing of Brigham Toung, wielded with all classes so great aa Influence. Utah has probably never seen his ao,uai as diplomat, and be prospered Many Schools, Hospitals Founded by Churchmen ever wore the black cloth, and the whitest man in these mountains. He's a fire fighter rtom way back, and whenever he chooses to go on a brimstone brim-stone raid among the sinners in this gulch he can do it and I'll back him with my pile." Corinne was the "Gentile city" of early day Utah, and representatives of most Protestant religions reached there in 1869 with the coming of the railroad. The Rev. Joslah Welch organized the First Presbyterian church in Salt Lake City In 1871 and dedicated the , first house of worship in 1874. The Rev. Gustavus M. Pierce preached the first Methodist sermon in Utah's capital in May, 1870, and the next year laid the cornerstone for the First Methodist church, in which in 1872 the Rocky Mountain conference was organised. Prominent among early Protestant ministers was the Rev. Thomas Cor-win Cor-win Iliff, who became presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal church in Utah in 1876 and remained superintendent superin-tendent of the Utah mission until 1901, a leader much of that time in cultivating culti-vating friendly relations with the Mormons. " l . ... ' JOHN TAYLOR Third L 0. S. church president. (Continued from Preceding Peg.) as the result of a $50,000 gift from Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kearns. Ground was broken for the new cathedral July 4. 1899; the cornerstone was laid in 1900, and the structure dedicated August 15, 1909. The following follow-ing year Judge Mercy hospital waa completed. Bishop Scanlan died May 10, 1915, widely mourned, and was succeeded by the Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Glass, D. D, second bishop of the diocese. The Rt. Rev. Danial S. Tuttle became be-came the first Episcopal missionary bishop of Utah, Idaho and Montana in 1867, and that same year organized St. Mark's church here. Two years later he established St. Mark's hospital, hos-pital, first institution of its kind in Utah. To "Bitter Root Bill," a Montana desperado whose real name waa William Wil-liam Bunkerly, and who worked beside be-side Bishop Tuttle in fighting a disastrous disas-trous fire at Helena, Mont., in 1869, goes credit for this eulogy of the churchman: "He's full Jeweled and 18 carats fine. He's the biggest and best bishop that BISHOP DANIEL S. TUTTLE Organized St. Mark's cathedral. |