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 . the Falsterbranch of the Islands (Oernes) confer-ence. Two months later (May, 1866)he was called to labor as a missionaryon the island of Lolland. He laboredin the field about four months; butowing to lameness in the leg, he wasunable to travel, and being a tailor byprofession, he obtained employment assuch in the city of Nakskov, where hebecame an instrument in the hands ofthe Lord to convert two young of these was Oluf B.
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 . the Falsterbranch of the Islands (Oernes) confer-ence. Two months later (May, 1866)he was called to labor as a missionaryon the island of Lolland. He laboredin the field about four months; butowing to lameness in the leg, he wasunable to travel, and being a tailor byprofession, he obtained employment assuch in the city of Nakskov, where hebecame an instrument in the hands ofthe Lord to convert two young of these was Oluf B. Andersen,who now acts as Bishop of North Mor-gan Ward, Morgan county, Utah. Theconversation of these two men exasper-ated the people of Nakskov, and was forced to leave thecity. He next went to the island ofFyen, and while laboring in Odense asa tailor, he was closely associated withthe branch of the Church there, forwhich he acted as clerk. After labor-inp- at his trade at a number of otherplaces, he came to Slagelse, on the is-land of Zealand, and there presided ina district, and married Anna Andersenin 1873. Two years later he emigrated. to Utah with his wife and one child andlocated in Brigham City, where he haslived ever since. Here he has actedas counselor in the presidency of the1st quorum of Elders and Ward Teach-er. He was ordained a High Priest in BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. 397 1895, and since October, 1895, he hasacted as counselor to Ola N. Stohl,president of the Scandinavian meetingsin Brigham City. NYE, John, senior president of the5th quorum of Seventy, was born , 1835, in the parish of Leigh, countyKent, England. About the time of theso-called gold fever, in Australia, heemigrated to that country with hisfathers family. Here he heard thegospel preached by Mormon Elders,believed, and was baptized July 11, 1858,by Thos. S. Johnson, an Elder fromUtah, at Kyneton, colony of afterwards he was ordained aPriest by the same Elder. Em
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