Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . ond but oldest liv-ing, son of Myron Tanner and MaryJane Mount, who when their son wasabout three years of age moved to Pro-vo, where he received his earliest edu-cation in the public schools. From hisfourteenth to his seventeenth year he 710 LATTER-DAY SAINT w«us an employee of the Provo WoolenMills. He worked during the day Inthe factory and attended a night schoolorganized at the Brlgham Young Aca-demy, under Dr. Karl G. Maeser.
Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . ond but oldest liv-ing, son of Myron Tanner and MaryJane Mount, who when their son wasabout three years of age moved to Pro-vo, where he received his earliest edu-cation in the public schools. From hisfourteenth to his seventeenth year he 710 LATTER-DAY SAINT w«us an employee of the Provo WoolenMills. He worked during the day Inthe factory and attended a night schoolorganized at the Brlgham Young Aca-demy, under Dr. Karl G. Maeser. Theclass originally consisted of sometwenty-six factory hands who graduallylost their interest In the studies, and hefinally became the only student of theclass which continued during the entireschool year. It was during these , at which he was the only stu-dent, that a sympathetic friendshipsprang up between the boy and G. Maeser—a friendship that be-came increasingly intimate during DrMaesers life. At the age of seventeenhe entered the academy as a regulaistudent and was a membei- of its firstgraduating class in the year 1878, thus. becoming one of the first tea-chers whohad graduated from the remained at the academy as ateacher of various subjects, especiallyof mathematics, fiom his nineteenth tohis twenty-fifth year. In 1879 he wasengaged in engineering work in the con-struction of the Denver and Rio Granderailroad, and in 1882 was appointed citysurveyor of Provo. In 1884 he left fora misison to Germany. In view of hisprofession as teacher he traveled ex-tensively in America and Europe onhis way to the missionary field, and wasfinally assigned to the Berlin confer-ence. In the fall of 1885 he was trans-ferred to Turkey for the purpose ofopening a mission in the Sultans do- minion. During the spring of 1SS6he visited the principal Oriental coun-tries bordering on the Mediterranean,and especially the Holy Land, where anopportunity was di
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