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Show PRES. PENROSE 1 HONORED TODAY Veteran Churchman Is 90 Years Old; One Time Editor in Ogden President Charles W. Penrose, first counselor to President Heber J Grant of the L. D. S. church, is today celebrating cele-brating the ninetieth anniversary of I his Mrth. Special services, cele- I brating the event, will ! held in I h I I Salt Inko tabernacle Sunday afternoon. I i when addresses will be given by Prcsl- I dent Grant, Apostle Joseph Fic-ldmsr I Smith and others and President Pen- I rose will respond. Hymns written by I President Penrose will be features of I the musical portion of the service- II BORN IN LONDON I President Penro is born in i.on- I don. February I, 1882, and was bap- I tiled a member of the church May 14, I 1850. He has been actively engaged I in church duties since he was ordaln- I ed a deacon shortly after his baptism I mhI has become well Known hi this I Bj community as a missionary, editor, au- I W thor, b-gislator and church executive I IP His tracts dealing with the doctrines j I fj of the church have been read Jy I v thousands olf people In all parts of the I civilized world and has been a means I , of converting many people to the faith I m oi the Latter Daj Saints, it is said. llsst TO I N'GLAND I m Shortly after being ordained an elder I I on January o. is.si he went ppon his I id first mission to his native land and I a Several years later returned to his; I 4 native land again as a missionary de-j I voting part of his time is edltpr of I fl the Millennial star, which is still in I I ion ind thi oldcsl publication I '$j of the church. When he returned to I i Utah he tvai appointed ho I sionary and a member of the high I council in the Cache stake. 1I labored H BS a home missionary In Salt Lake H j and on August August L lss was H . tos.en s mt mix ol Lite stake presi- I i' dency. In Ja.nua.ry LSSo be went on H j a brief mission in the States and then H tJ went on another foreign mission to the H British Isles, presiding over the Lon- H don conference and visited In Sweden, H Denmark. Norway, Germany and EfWlt- H garland, in i;i H BOARD H On June 30, 1904 he became a mem- H ber of the church board of education H filling the vacancy caused by the dc- H J mlse of Hon. Jnmes Sharp and on July 7 was chosen a member of the quorum of twelve apostles to fill the vacancy H caused by the" death of Apostle Abra- H hum O, Woodruff in ll06 he was .sent to Liverpool to preside over the H European mission and returned to Salt Lake City June U". 1910 H He was chosen by the late President H Joseph P, Smith in It'll as his second H counselor to rill the vacancy caused H by the death of President John Henrv Smith On March 10 1021 he was H chosen first counselor to President H lleber J. Grant to fill the vacancy I caused by the death of President An- H thon H Lund i l ST KB si i i) OGDEN PAP R President Penrose was called by President Itrigham Young to asslBt In the editorial department of the Des- later was appointed editor-in-chief He H j had hail newspaper .eri. m ' that time being associated with Franklin P Richards In establishing the Ogden Junction In 1.87a. n Oct ' 1. 1892 he became connected with UM 1 the Salt Lake Herald and became its 1 editor-in-chief in 1893 serving until lll the fall of lSO.i when he was appointed iH : to labor in the church hostorlan's of- iH , flea, On Jan. 1. 1899 he again became editor of the Deserct News, continuing M until Pe,-r ruber 1908 I The veteran churchman became a member of the legislature In Salt Lake IIB county In is7y and was re-elected in 1882. He had represented Weber county in the legislature before that Today President Penrose Is receiv- MM Ing the congratulations of thousands MM of people. Mormon and non-Mormon. pfpfH who have learned to appreciate his MM sterling character and Inspirational MM leadership in things both religious and pppj |