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Harris, Leander Sargent, first counselor to Bishop Levi
J. Taylor of the Harrisville Ward, Weber Stake of Zion, Utah,
was born in Harrisville Weber county, Utah, April 20, 1860,
the son of Martin H. Harris and Louise Sargent. He was
the grandson of Emer Harris, who is mentioned in the Doctrine
and Covenants, Section 75, and who was a brother
of Martin Harris, one of the Three Witnesses to the
Book of Mormon. Leander was baptized June
14, 1868; became a member of the first quorum of
Deacons organized in Harrisville in 1877, and afterwards
presided over the quorum for five years; acted as secretary
of the first Y.M.M.I.A. in Harrisville; was ordained a Seventy
in 1883, becoming a member of the 60th quorum of Seventy,
and was called to act as first counselor to Bishop Levi J.
Taylor, Oct. 01, 1895.
In 18971899 he filled a mission to the
Eastern States, laboring in the West Pennsylvania
conference. After his release he visited the large cities
of the east in search of the genealogy of his forefathers,
and was rewarded by obtaining several hundred names
of his early
ancestors, thus ascertaining that his branch
were pioneers to America and came from England to Boston
in 1630, in the ship "Lyon," along with Roger
Williams, who founded Providence, Rhode Island, in 1636. In
1888 Brother Harris married Alice Jensen, daughter of Hans
P. Jensen, of Brigham City, by whom he had three children.
They were divorced in 1898, while he was on his mission
to Pennsylvania. In 1900 he married Eliza
Barlow, by
whom he has four children. For many years
Elder Harris was a diligent Sunday school worker, commencing
to labor as a Sunday school teacher when only sixteen years.
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Muir, Wm. Stewart, a High, Counselor in
the Woodruff Stake of Zion, was born Oct. 14, 1849,
in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Wm. Smith Muir
and Jane Stewart Robb. He was baptized in June, 1859,
at Bountiful, Davis county, Utah; rdained a Teacher
and labored as such in a local capacity in Bountiful,
and when that Ward was divided in 1877, he was
chosen and ordained Bishop of the West Bountiful
Ward. He held this position until 1885, when he
removed to Randolph, Rich county, Utah. Since the
organization of the Woodruff Stake in 1898 he has
acted as a High Councilor and as a counselor to Wm. H. Lee
in the presidency of the High Priests quorum of that Stake. In
early Utah days he was a member of the militia,
and served in the Indian wars of 1865 and 1866 as an escort
to Pres. Daniel H. Wells. He went east with the last
Church train sent out after emigrants to the terminus
of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1868. Elder Muir has
married two wives, namely, Susan V. Grant and Jane
F. Barlow,
by whom he has had seventeen children. In 1892 he was
arrested on the charge of unlawful cohabitation and was fined
$428, including costs. He is a carpenter, dairyman and farmer by occupation. |
Jones, Nathaniel Vary, Junior, president of the High
Priests quorum of the Granite Stake, Salt Lake county, Utah,
is the eldest son of Nathaniel and Rebecca M. Burton and
was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 9, 1850. He
was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, Sept. 30, 1860, and soon after-wards ordained
an Elder. In January, 1868, he was ordained
a Seventy, and became a member of the 32nd quorum of Seventy. In
December, 1872, he married Janet Innes Swan. He served
as a deputy sheriff of Salt Lake county for twoor three years. In
November, 1876, he was called to fill a preaching mission
in the United States and left Salt Lake City in
November, 1876; he labored as a missionary in the States
of Missouri, Illinois and Ohio, until the month of May, 1877,
when he was called home on account of the illness of
his wife. June 27, 1877, he was ordained a High Priest
under the hands of Apostle Orson Pratt and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Joseph Pollard, of the Fifteenth Ward,Salt
Lake City. He occupied that position until the death
of Bishop Pollard in January, 1890.
In 1885 he
married Elizabeth Dwight
Barlow and in 1890 he
married Barbara E. Morris.
He read law for several years
in the law library of Senator Arthur Brown in Salt Lake
City, and in the month of December, 1895, he was admitted
to the bar of the Supreme Court of the Territory of
Utah; he has followed the legal profession ever since. In
May 1898, he was set apart as second counselor to Geo.
B.Wallase, president of the High Priests quorum of the
Salt Lake Stake of Zion, and held that position until
the death of Pres. Wallace in January, 1900. Jan. 28,
1900, he was set apart as first counselor to John Cook, president
of the High Priest quorum in the Granite Stake of Zion. He
occupied that position until June 21, 1908, when he
was chosen and set apart as president of the High Priests
quorum of Granite Stake, which position he occupies at the
present time. |
Willey, David Orison, junior,
second counselor to Bishop Franklin S. Tingey of the Seventeenth
Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Sept. 13, 1869, at
Bountiful, Davis co., Utah, the son of David
O. Willey and Mary
A. Barlow. He was baptized Sept. 13, 1877, by his
father and ordained successively to the offices of Teacher,
Priest, Seventy and High Priest, the latter ordination taking
place in February, 1902, under the hand of Geo. R. Emery,
who also set him apart as second counselor in the Ward
Bishopric. Bro. Willey was raised in Bountiful, but has resided
a number of years in Salt Lake City. From his early youth he has taken an active part
in Church affairs. Thus he served a short time as
president of a Teachers' quorum, was a Sunday school officer,
etc. He also served four years as county superintendent of schools
in Davis county, was county attorney in the same
county two years, was city councilor of Bountiful
one year and assistant city attorney in Salt Lake
City two years. He has followed school teaching for
six years and practiced law for fifteen years. In 1898
(Feb. 16th) he married Mary A. Price, who has borne him
six children. |
Call, Christian, Bishop of the Chesterfield Ward
( Idaho Stake ), Bannock county, Idaho, was born Jan.
24, 1887, at Chesterfield, Idaho, the son of Ira
Call and Emma Jane Barlow. He was baptized Jan. 24, 1895,
by Moses Muir; ordained an Elder Sept. 8, 1908, by Joseph
T. Pond; married Anne Elizabeth Rugger Oct. 8, 1908, in
the Salt Lake Temple, was chosen as assistant superintendent
of the Chesterfield Sunday School in 1909 and filled
a mission to the Central States from 1913 to 1916.
After his return he was ordained a High Priest by
Heber J. Grant May 21,1916, and set apart as second
counselor to Bishop Carlos H. Loveland. Finally he was
ordained a Bishop Feb. 25, 1917, by Hyrum M.Smith and set
apart to preside over the Chesterfield Ward, succeeding
Carlos H. Loveland. This position he still holds. Bishop
Call's avocations
in life have been those of merchandizing and farming. He
has managed a store since he was fifteen years of age, and
a farm also for the same length of time, and is still making
a success of both undertakings.
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Call, Joseph Clarence, Bishop of the Bancroft Ward,
Idaho Stake, was born Oct. 18, 1892, at Chesterfield,
Idaho, a son of Ira Call and
Emma Jane Barlow. He was
baptized March 3, 1901, by Judson A. Tolman, and after serving
in the various offices of the Aaronic Priesthood, was ordained
an Elder, Jan 12, 1917, by Charles S. Martin, a Seventy,
Aug. 29, 1920, by Charles H. Hart, and a High Priest,
May 17, 1925, by George F. Richards. He was president
of a Deacons Quorum in 1909, when he moved to Denver,
Colorado; later he resided in New York, his work
as an engineer and inventor taking him into
many states of the Union and also into Canada. After his
return to Idaho he resided in Bancroft where he presided
over the Y.M.M.I.A. and served as clerk of the
Bancroft Ward from 1920 to 1922. On March 4, 1922, he
was set apart as a president of the 197th quorum of Seventy
by George F. Richards.
Elder Call was set apart as second counselor to Bishop
J. Fred Corbett of the Bancroft Ward, May 17, 1925,
became first counselor Nov. 22, 1925, and was ordained a
Bishop by Joseph F. Smith, Jr., Nov. 17, 1929,
and set apart to preside over the Bancroft Ward. He
and his wife make a point of doing some Temple work yearly. |
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