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 . eaily years were passed in hisnative place and in Payson, Utahcounty; and at the age of fifteeen heentered the Brigham Young Academyfor a brief course of study. Graduat-ing in 1883, he immediately accepted a He was appointed general .secretary ofthe Y. M. M. I. Associations in 1897, andin 1898 was also made general treasurerof that organization, both of which po-sitions he is efficiently filling at pres-ent. He is also assistant bus
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 . eaily years were passed in hisnative place and in Payson, Utahcounty; and at the age of fifteeen heentered the Brigham Young Academyfor a brief course of study. Graduat-ing in 1883, he immediately accepted a He was appointed general .secretary ofthe Y. M. M. I. Associations in 1897, andin 1898 was also made general treasurerof that organization, both of which po-sitions he is efficiently filling at pres-ent. He is also assistant businessmanager of the Improvement Era,the official organ of the Young MensMutual Improvement Associations. DONE, VVillard, a member of thegeneral board of Y. M. M. I. A., is theson of John Done and Sarah Barker,and was born Dec. 10, 1865, inMoioni, Sanpete County, Utah. His. position as an instructor in the acade-my. He continued this work for a lit-tle over three years, when, on Nov. 15,1886, he was called to Salt Lake Cityto take charge of the newly organizedSalt Lake Stake Academy, now the Lat-ter-day Saints University. He re-mained connected with this institutionuntil June, 1899, when he resigned tobecome professor of theology in theBrigham Young College, at Logan. Heremained in that position only a year;and in the summer of 1900 he left theschool room on account of impairedhealth, and went into other lines ofwork. In the meantime he had occu-pied several ecclesiastical positions,among them that of home missionaryand Stake reporter in the Salt LakeStake of Zion; and one of the presidentsof the 10th quorum of Seventy. Helesigned these positions on going toLogan; and there he was appointed sec-ond counselor to Samuel Roskelly,pres-idont of the High Priests quorum, ofthe Cache Stake of Zion. He was re-leased from this position when theCache Stake was div
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