Show ALBERT carrington albert carrington who aled at his residence at 18 minutes to 4 pm yesterday sept 19 was a member of the quorum of twelve apostles from 1870 to 1885 he was born bern in royalton Boy alton windsor co vermont jan 8 1813 he graduated in dartmouth college iu in the class of 1833 and for two or three years subsequently taught school and studied law in pennsylvania prom from that state he removed to wisconsin where he engaged in lead mining until 1844 in 1841 he joined the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in wiota wis and on the abandonment of his his business in 1844 gathered to nauvoo this was at the very crisis of the troubles then occurring therland there and just previous to the martyrdom of tle the prophet he was with the saints in their exodus crossing the mississippi river with his family feb 9 1846 thus being one of the first to start for the rocky mountains from the camp on sugar creek he went to council bluffs and was the following year a member of the pioneers who went to the G S L valley he returned with pres brigham young to gather the main body of the saints and journeyed to the mountains with them in 1848 at the organization of the wards of G S L city in february 1849 elder carrington was chosen as second counselor to bishop heywood of ward no 17 which position he held for about six years when the provisional state of deseret was organized he was elected assessor and collector he also acted as the first clerk of the high council in the salt lake stake of zion after the organization of utah territory he was repeatedly elected a member of the council until antil 1868 when he was sent to england to preside over the european mission he also acted for some time as editor of the DESERET NEWS after his bis return to utah in 1870 he was july ad 1870 ordained one of the twelve apostles to fill the vacancy caused by the death of ezra T benson since then he has presided three times over the european Euro pear mission namely 1871 73 1875 77 and 1880 82 prom from april 1873 until president youngs death he acted as assistant counselor to the president of the church and for more than twenty years he was president brigham youngs secretary and having bee been appointed one of of president youngs estate he labored in that capacity after the presidents death until the business connected with the estate was settled and the many difficulties were adjusted |