. 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. open for visitors. Afterits dedication Elder Pomeroy wascalled and set apart as a regularTemple ordinance worker, togetherwith his wife. They have both actedin that capacity ever since, this beingtheir fourth year. Brother Pomeroyvisited Salt Lake City and Californiain 19:51. POTTER, Robert John. Mrd Bishopof the Beaver Ward, Bear River Stake,Box Elder Co., Utah, was born , 1895, in Raughton, CumberlandCo., England, the son o
. 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. open for visitors. Afterits dedication Elder Pomeroy wascalled and set apart as a regularTemple ordinance worker, togetherwith his wife. They have both actedin that capacity ever since, this beingtheir fourth year. Brother Pomeroyvisited Salt Lake City and Californiain 19:51. POTTER, Robert John. Mrd Bishopof the Beaver Ward, Bear River Stake,Box Elder Co., Utah, was born , 1895, in Raughton, CumberlandCo., England, the son of Thomas Pot-ter and Margaret Carlile. He emi-grated to Utah in 1913, crossing theAtlantic Ocean in the ship Maure- BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 55 taiiia and located in Logan, Utah, fora t^hort time, and thence moved toCollinston, Utah (Beaver Ward). Hewas baptized and confirmed Nov. 26,1916, by Hyrum Kidman at Collin-ston; ordained an Elder Aug. 11, 1918,by Bishop Race A. Johnson, at Beaver;married Lottie Lorenzo Rucker , 1918, in the Salt Lake Temple,which union has been blessed withsix children, namely, Robert Carleton,Margaret, William Bethel, Leona,. Naomi and Elizabeth. Brother Potteracted as second assistant superintend-ent of the Collinston Sunday school,and on March 4, 1923, he was ordaineda High Priest by Arthur R. Capenerand set apart as second counselor toBishop Johnson of the Beaver Ward,which position he held until Nov. 10,1929, when he was ordained a Bishopby Apostle Richard R. Lyman andset apart to preside over said ward,which position he now occupies. Bish-op Potter filled a short-term missionin the Western States Mission in 1925-1926; he is a farmer by occupation. wood Reid and Elizabeth Ann still an infant he and his par-ents located at Lund, Nevada, wherehe has since resided. He was baptized March 29, 1908, byRobert Reid. Being born of goodlyparents, and from his early youthbeing instructed in the principles oftrue Christianity, he was ordai
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