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Show n THK Presiding Bishops, i Patriarchs and , J Seventies Active r I j fViunriU nf Firsts' Presidency and Twelve DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY II. Hart. Lev trUrclk as ell as oo of the prosi Charles Edgar dent at tho ttmo of his desh la Young and Key L. Pratt. bv In a revelation, given Joseph lfe2 In Vabmton, Wazhiugtofl Smith February 4. 1831 Edward count. Utah, U 4xrn Afcril . ISeJ In Partr.dge was called to be a bishop He was told to Old pnnf.Jd. Man and was Jiv- -i ef the Church. mg as a bachelor in Ohio when a leave bis merchandise and spend all bis time in this office. In the t r (fyp of' elders passed through He followed thm to Kirtland and following few months, other bishwas baptized the vear the Church ops were appointed and Bishop He was also a Partridge was made the Presiding was organized member of Zions camp and fob Bishop of the Church in June of Isaac M or ley and lowing his call to the Seventies ful- the same year filled missions in the United John Corrill were chosen as bis ' counselors. Mormon with tbs , S' marched I" poo the death of Edward PartBattaLon to California, and re1S47 tho second Presiding Bishridge. turned to Great Salt Lake So He was a pioneer settler In Mantl op waa again chosen by revelaw hen Later Newell K. Sanpete county andf mss a mem-ht- y tion at, WfffgJfKlalaturs Whitney became Presiding Bishop He kIm lived at Pey-o- he served without counselors and Sell Lake. Leeds and Wash- his successor also served five years without counselors. All others ington. first had two counselors. Occasionally A third memlwr of the of Setentie. Leonard some pt the counselors resigned. JUrh also jolrei the f hurch short - mostly because of business reaHe wan sons. It after tie organization. nee-i- . nisem ... m., There hate been six presld'ng utt sue will'd v. Jam's Fosier aa one IOT eerrh") 'anil ev.n for'v-inf of bishops In the Church since ts denta the Pre. F.rt Bven .lie one hundred ami when he was organization, who were asristeif by riding Bishopric and Presiding foU(. halJ.al,4 thus ,,( 8prt lor severtl. In Patriarch are numbered wi'h th j (l rnlr , ,T released because he Waa a high five first counselor and nine secnrat Presdeney of the Churih of the! priest ond counselors. ; . .hor,)y after the .ailing Editorial Quoted, and the Council of th Twelve aa , Fjr,t u became! s,.,,.n Rkhojl Partridge. the general authorities Qf tb f d.spute as to hcth-r- t editorial in the Deseret News Edwrrtb born of Partridge, i ' lor ma-t,a hu-d. scrib'd the life of Scotch anrestrv In I'lttafleid Berkorient m.sht not jgv; juiv There were no aevenOe. l.ihoiw jn (f)g prt,idrrev It was ruled ehedee Coltrin. one of the flrat shire county. Mass. August 27. 171 or patriarchs until many montnst,at I h.-- could not rcscii'cc in i t. n as followa' was a disciple of tho Cempbellite after the Church was organized (h rM use of five in the prrsi j S. Thispresidenta respected and venerable faith when he first heard of url" ,h format. ve period( of qppey h0 acre ascertained to be mi!1 one of the oldest mm-th- e He waa baptised before the Churrh the component Parts, Iwrs of the Church and. was iden- - Church was organized and was 8 f the Church atruedure wr. high prKst.after the first quo.tim of it earliest tn- - years old when bo wa made a many jh 1 gradually brought together saih)Wag orfeomzid, retd at A1' cl. tents. . in the days of Kirttand bishop. OB it place in the great) ft.aman hid-- I in lcnv mines ,,, d, associated with the Bishop Partridgq sif'. red many aywenr a resmirementir d.manhd , 0 lh.-- r, ,ph.r SB h of the persecutions which were so oftsatm I saw fit and (hose for found the as itiou tifud of been witneaa to a tnrj having prevalent during the early days of The "7Hnutf Men" of t.c j copied otthe Teond quorum I an participant in many marvelous the Church. He describes in his Church, as tb Seventies were of organizat'on In the Churrh manifestations. Father own record a time when he waa spiritual . ten referred to by the prophet PiTxitial bfcetilM-shas Coltrin for many years past tarred and featherd by a mob aa llazen-Ald- r.' h joined li'.e ''Uii'bj ofliriated as a Joseph Smith, were eiflled in Feb haa and follows patriarch aa apostles and speruary. 181 rvT a n after It w.t onfunized ' 1 was surrounded bv about two record of faith cial witnesses i the trations. to shor'lyordained a h.gh priest s.'yl lie fulness or threa hundred mobbera. Russel r assist the Tweh in opening the was one of the First Seven ,,He w born, ja, JStfl. In Ovid. it teles, apnea red to beilwr hradn' aU --the to New gospel . kingdRe-mon- irof Fevnfes from" York. He served from the moh; he told me that his word t he was to 137 aa one of the peonie. a high 187. Seven was the law of the county, and prim ProiMwal To Call Seventy. one of those released oh April 6, Presidents of Seventiesgirat died that 1 must agreo to leave the and when it was determined that in Spanish Fork Jvlx jZU JFSI-.--. Brigham Young tells of the calleouatv-aing of the' seventies as fellows: a high priest com Id not hr . one. 0- - Li man embraced the I answeredoufferlhoconaenucpcea. that If I must suffer Issmuri. M w returned irom ..After the presidents of the seventies was an date and at gosnel for early religion It waa no more A year later he was among those ordained a high priest shortly at then my my brother. Joseph Young, and had done before me; others Church myself bad been singing after who rebelled against the terwarda Just before be was that t was not consctoue of having preaching In a meeting: and when and apostatized and becameIn one made one of the First Seven Presi- Injured any one In the countv. the dents of Seventies ha was the meeting was dismissed. Bro- of the leading character given therefore I would Dot consent to ther Joseph Smith said. Tome, Brewster movement. He publish- a special revelation at the hands lea - It. Mr Hicks then proceed The called me.' with Klrtland to house down at ed a go my paper of the He ed to strip oft mv clothes and was Smith. Joseph Prophet Vr went and sang to him a long Olive Brrnrh" ten years after bis was chosen counsebe a high to to atrip them all off I time, and talked with him. He apostacy and later went to Cali- lor at Klrtland after he was re- disposed protested against being then opened the subject ef the fornia. where it ta thought he died leased from the presidency of the strongly naked in the street, when stripped Twelve and Seventies for tbs first Joseph Young was one of the Seventies In some more than the rest humane 1 said He Presidents of Seven it. two origins! First time ever thought interfered and t was permitted to Student of Hebrew. 'Brethren. I am going to call out of Seventies who retained that ofmv wear shirt and pantaloons of Silvester Smith, a student He served continTwelve Apoaftee. I think we will fice In then after Tar andand feathers onwere get together, by and by, and select uously In this capacity for forty-si- x Hebrew, was baptized soon me from ' dkubed brought a Quorum of Seventy from those president of the organization of the Church the year, being th time mv to crown mv head of feet, one was and elders. In of its first of hi who have been uo to Zion, out the council t the he was ordained a high priest after which feathers were thrown f the Camp boy. death in Salt Lake City in Utl. over me. The First Seven President of He was born in Hopkinton. and performed a great deal of Bishop Partridge died in Seventies, who were - eboaen Feb- Middlesex county. Mass April 7. missionary labor. May 2T, 1840. from sickness He Wea a member of the first wereHasen 1JJ5. 177. Ho wa active in the Methoruary and weakness resulting Joseph Young. Levi W. Han- dist church when hi brother. high council chosen et Klrtland. from general the Missouri persecutions. Coland 124 President Brigham Young brought Ohio, February. cock. Leopard Rich. Zebedee Newell K. Whitney. trin. Lyman Sherman and Sylve- the gospel to him and he was later a member of Zions camp, which marched to Missouri and , Newell Kimball Whitney, the ster Smith. baptized in 182. In the summer waa back. He succeeded mission John second presiding patriarch of the by Joseph Young was made anior of that year he filled a H to Canada, baptizing 40 persons Ga lord In 1117 Church waa born of old Puritan president over the group andwere at week he a as there Succeding members of the First stock. Fed. 5 1795 at, Murlborough. members of the first Quorum the during rr eras a member of Zions camp Seven Presidents of Seventies were Vermont. Early in youth he left ordained the same day:- -- The of a quorum of Seventy and filled other missions in the John Gould. James Foster. Daniel his parents, brothers, and eistera had not been heard of In modern L'nited States During the Haun'a 8. Miles. Jostah Butterfield. Sal- and with a park over his hack, set times and this action of the Proph- mill massacre he was miraculously mon Gee, John Gaylord. Henry out for the nest to seek his foret Joseph Smith caused many to saved and later went to IV Inter Harrimaa. Zra Pulsipher. Albert tune. filHo was a member of a prosperthe P. Rockwood. Benjamin L. Clapp wonder, and was generally Quarters In 1859 he crossed Jedediah M. Grant Horace S ous mercantile f'tm. Gilbert A ed as a strange procedure. plains with his family bv ox team. W Van Jacob misGates. a John Eldredge. he filled Be Called. hltney and was more business Twenty year lter More To Cott. William Whitaker Taylor, minded than given to things of a Britain. Following the completion of the sion in InGrest W. Abraham 47 Cannon. Office Years. Seymour spiritual nature He had made no Organisation of tha ftrst quorum Levi Ward Hancock wa the Bli knell. Christian D Fjeldsted, connections with any church He of Seventies, the Prophet declared sevJohn Morgan. B H Roberts. became a d'sctple of the one of the two original that other quorums of SeventiesU other He and his wife heard en president who retained that George Revnoide, Jonathan Golden would be organized and that Ho held that Kimball Rulon 8. Welle. Edward the Mormon doctrine. , were con was the dutv of the First Seven position after Sjevenaon Joseph W. McMumn. verted and baptised in November. Presidents of Seventies to call and position for 47 years. blng a paBf 1hre4 time. n. rv 1 17. I ,r ' rv.-,ir- h jar j ri0v . Presi-den- lt' -- ng 15 17 17. 17 till N"au-vo- t. Aid-ric- h. rej Camp-belllte- 17. SATURDAY DECEMBER 180. After serving twenty years faithful workers, experiencing with the rest the persecutions of mobs, and the privations of the he died in Sait Lake City plain, near the spot where the Eighteenth ward chapel oow stands. Other presiding b'shope who followed were Edward Hunter. William Bowker Preston. Chariea W Nibley and Sylvester Q Cannon. The first counselors in the Presiding Bishopric of the Church have Been Isaac Morley. Leonard. W. Hardy. Robert T. Burton, Orrtn P. Miller and David A. bmlth. The second counselors were John Corrill. Tliti Billings, Jesse C. Little. Robert T Burton John Q. Cannon. Toh n'R-W- Tn aftTOffliTP Miller. David A. Smith and John Wells. First Patriarch. A little more than two years after the. Church was organized the first Patriarch of the Church Jospph Bmith, Sr, waa ordained at Klrtland. Ohio. He waa later made Piea'ding Patriarch of tin Church. Tho successorship of thL office was made hereditary- Whef' Hyrum Smith died, William Smith, who would have succeeded by birthright and age. was rejected by the vote of the membership of the Church at the general conference held In April,, 1845 He was exeommnnlt ated on October 12. 1845. The right to the office then passed on to Aaahel Bmith. who was at the time in poor health, and hi never known to have Officiated as Presiding Pifctnarch. He died In 1848. making it three years that the Church was without an active Presiding Patriarch. The Church was again' w ithout this presiding officer in 18S4 Wobn- - Srmth-dW- it and John Smith. Jr. was ton young to rdcelve the office. Tho young man waa ordained a year later to tho office 21 192B as one of the Church s The ororiand atagewiid. tlwPoitv' express rider ties the- - western YxiloBIcs Together and to the east, cutting days off the travel time between points. The picture shows types at both. ''SonT inTopafielinjiLSUMarch 7. 1744. Joseph Smith, Sr., the father of the Prophet Joseph Bmith. and first Presiding Patriarch of the Church, yn oved In ea rly , Q0-tTunbridge Vermont. He married In this town and had ten Young, Kimball Meet Pony Express Was Fastest Travel Before Rail Came . children. He was tho Prat person to receive hi son Josephs testimony after he had seen an angel, and told hia son to be diligent to the message hh had received. He was baptized a member of the Church on the day of Its orto ganisation. During a SL Lawrence county. New York, he succeeded in converting ail of hia brothers ard and his father. He was chosen a member of the high council at Kirttand in Prophet Joseph Brigham Young and Heber ; C. Kimball first met the Prophet Joseph Smith at Klrtland, Ohiot about November 8, 1832. wi'h this achievement for the Pony Express." a borae-ifie- d the speedy present." BISHOPS NAMED. In the beginning the postal rate delivery of dispatches between the M ssourl river and Pacific coast, WHS 85 per half ounce for delivery, Several kinds of bishops wa toll named In it he Inaugurated in the spring of sny distance, but later this early history of the as a private enterprise. jwa reduced to tl per ounce. presiding bishops, travelThe scheduled daily distance to! The service, which frequently Church, local and or ward ing bishtps; be covered by each rider was about suffered from the hostilities of the 75 mil's. Stations containing fresh Indians, was d.acontinued in Oc-- i blihoI)J ' Ua mounts, provisions and lodgings tober of the year following were located at first about 25 fourding when EAL GATH ERIVG PLACE, fill were later Increased to telegraph communication was miles, but As early as 1831. It waa re. 190 in number. Itabiished, but In the mean time veaied to tho Saints that Jackson 0 Ths service- waa started April . ' had erved to inform the Mo., was to he the ulti. Courty, enta of ot ,h manY gravand the" westto' to them In the na- - mate gathering place of the Saint. reacb'salVSke'city e Importance a capital. apd also to bring the -1. arrived from Barsamento The first' f rm th eaait'i hich:5e?rrim wori $ lhe outbreak of the AMERICA LAND OF JOSEPH. war St. Joseph. Missouri oa the of Apul 3. reached Salt Lake on Joseph Smith declared that tho BIND ORGANIZED land of Araerlia is the land of the evening of April 9 One of the prominent musiial Jcsfph. given to that son of Jacob This service brought tli Mormon headquarters within six days' organizations of early "Mormon" who was sold into Egjpt, by hia with the frontfeV history wa Pughs Band, a group fuller, Israel rommuiliation and wlihln sev.n dav of the ra- - which came intact Ewane. nd etlcd in Ogdn in the tiona (appal, a result much 1 APOSTLES CHOSEN IN 1835. carlY fifties predated by the people who had been accUomd to wait three, Organization of the first quora FIRST CONFERENFE. months for ness from the east j The Deseret News upon the The first conference of the um of apostles In the Church occasion of the first delivery, statwa bld on June 1.1830. Ik3" ,n February. 1835. The first a telegraph 'd a created la, with thirty members In of Seventies Although we feel satiswell desirable, dance. very in the same month. . The back relay system for ml-si- lt9 s'tr 1834 ut Following a mission through the eastern mates. Elder Smith return, ed to Kirtlgn'l and during the persecutions In 1887 was made a prisoner He obtained his liberty and traveled to Far Vest. Jlo He escaped in midwinter to Quincy, III when his sons Joseph end Hvrum were thrown into the In the following Missouri Jail. spring. 1839. he moved to Commerce and became one of those who founded Nauioo The exposures of his recent trips caused h's death in 1840 at the age of Mor-188- - m" i1 1 I", m ap-"'- Succeeding Presiding Patriarchs William Smith (apostatized) Asa-h- e Smith. John Smith. John Smith. Jr. and Hyrum G. Smith. of tho Church were Hyrum Smith. atten-lquoru- m I Dr We H Groves Latter Day Saints Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah The Largest Privately Owned Hospital West of the Mississippi River 406 Beds 1 mt Ar jf w v This Hospital Js owned and controlled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day j BOARD OF TRUSTEES. f Saints. Its Object is to provide Scientific care and treatment of the sick. Its Scope is Medical, Surgical, Obstetrical ' and Educational. . ! m LL It service is n. V.i33fav,. I, BSi,wilg,a.-r-f i H i is i Non-Sectaria- ewe h ill III Pi I us ii II ii I fs fiTiPSi si i fnniiui w f wr.ir ..Jt'pr pVt! 10 W tiA. J- - 1 nr v r. .! (ii E . - if 6; W- - Sylvester Q. Cannon, President. David A. Smith, Vice President John Well Franklin S. Richards. Winslow Farr Smith. mu V' i Frank ..PingreeT. Superintendent Secretary of the Board of Trustees. Uiii , and-- |
