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 . ay Saints inthe winter of 1851. He was ordaineda Teacher in the spring of 1857, and aSeventy, May 17. 1857. beint? assignedto the 34th quorum, and is at the pres-ent time senior president of said fiuor-um. Elder Roberts is now filling amission to Great Britain. JOKGENSEN, Enoch, a prominentElder in the Church, is the eldest son ofJohan and Sorina KnudsenStaalesen, and was born Feb. 26, 1867, atEphraim, Sanpete county, Ut
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 . ay Saints inthe winter of 1851. He was ordaineda Teacher in the spring of 1857, and aSeventy, May 17. 1857. beint? assignedto the 34th quorum, and is at the pres-ent time senior president of said fiuor-um. Elder Roberts is now filling amission to Great Britain. JOKGENSEN, Enoch, a prominentElder in the Church, is the eldest son ofJohan and Sorina KnudsenStaalesen, and was born Feb. 26, 1867, atEphraim, Sanpete county, Utah. Hisparents were poor, but they strove togi\e their children such school advan-tages as the locality Enochwas not slow in making the best useof his opportunities. In 1886 he began acourse of study at the B. Y. Academy,at Provo, from which institution hegraduated in 1889. Immediately he wascalled to the principalship of the Wa-satch Stake Academy at Heber City,where he remained two years. Aug. 2,1888, he married Anna M. Berg, in theManti Temple. She is the daughter ofOle H. Berg, of Provo. Several brightchildren have blessed their union, four. of whom. Berg, Sterling, Fern and Le-land, are numbered among the youthof Zion. [Sterling nine years old, andFern, seven years old, have died sincethis sketch was prepared.]. June 17,3 896, Enoch was ordained a Seventy byJonathan G. Kimball, and set apart asa missionary to Chicago and Scandi-navia. He labored in Chicago that sum-mer, and was sent on to Copenhagen,Denmark, in the fall. The last year ofhis mission he presided over the Copen-hrigen conference, and on being re-leased he was delegated to conduct alarge company of emigrants to a number of years Elder Jorgensenhas been one of the Stake ofl=icers of theY. M. M. I. association and of the Sun-day schools, of Sanpete Stake, and hasdevoted himself especially to work with BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. 503 choirs. He is recognized as one of themost successful teach
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