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Show --oon people earHfStPrfr en Winter Quarter aml,y Td with Brigbam Young and he traveled with b a U)e pioneer company of I th"-"rrurnocd; mountains, work, and came back to halt Lake y wagon in 18"0. Jn that year he elect d .to senate of the provisional state ol eret, and served 21 yea. I to the legw lative assembly in Ctah. . ,Dril At the general conference pf April ,889, he became the president 0f the church with George Q. Cannon and Jossph F. Smith as counselors. In addition to his work and responsibilities respon-sibilities as head of the church, which required him to sign and approve o every draft and official document, he was president of Zions Savings bank and theZ. C. M. I., two immense financial finan-cial and mercantile establishments He was also director in various companies, compa-nies, and was identified with othei minor business interests. He had 32 children, 21 of whom are living; 94 grandchildren and a number of o-reat-grandchildren, nis wife, Mrs. Emma Woodruff, is still alive and in good health. She was born on' March 1, 1838, at Independence, Mo., and c'ame to Utah in 1840. She was a Miss Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith, who died while crossing th e plains. BIOGRAPHY OF THE PRESIDENT. A Long Life Consecrated to the Church or His Choice. ' Salt Lake City, Sep. .". Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of the ' Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born at Farmington. now Avon, Hartford county, Connecticut, on March 1, 1807, and was the youngest, of three children. He came of a long-lived long-lived stock. His great grandfather, Josiah Woodruff, lived to the age of 100 years, and his grandfather. Kldad Woodruff, also attained a ripe old age. Iu youth and early manhood Wilford assisted his father in his business of a flour miller, and later conducted a similar sim-ilar business on his own nimnm T.. 1832 he purchased a farm and saw-mill near Richmond, Oswego county, N. Y.. and settled there. lie joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1834, and in May of that year accompanied Joseph Smith, the prophet, and his little band to Missouri. In 1834 he was ordained priest and went on a mission to Arkansas. Tennessee Ten-nessee and Kentucky, and in May, 1837, he commenced a second missionary mission-ary tour, this time visiting Maine and Fox islands. April uo, 1839, he was elevated to the rank of apostle at Far West, Mo. In August following he went to England on a mission, and established the first branch of the Mormon church in London. lie returned re-turned to Nauvoo in 1811, and two years later was again laboring as a missionary in the eastern states, but returned to Nauvoo on hearing of the assassination of Joseph Smith, the |