b Feb 2, 1876 Plano, IL
m March 14, 1908 Nina Grenawalt(d Oct 8, 1950)
bap June 25, 1886
d June 14, 1958
ed Graceland College 1898-1900
BA of Law - Lincoln Jefferson University
1911-13 Iowa state legislature
1912 admitted to Iowa bar
1914 " Missouri bar
April 11, 1915 o high priest
April 1915 chosen Independence Stake High Council
1920 o bishop & 2nd counselor to presiding bishop
1925 left presiding bishopric
Oct 1922-42 member, standing high council
1929-40 general secretary of the church
April 14, 1940 o counselor 1st presidency
1943 appointed member of Missouri Constitutional
Convention
April 7, 1946 o prophet-president
ed asst ed Saints Herald 1908-13
bibl HC7:705
TMD:339-48
SH 93(16):458
SH 105(25):580
SH 105(26):604, 621
papers at RLDS Archives
