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 . n , June 23, 1865. As a boy heworked on the farm in the summer andatended the district school in the win-ter. He became a student at the Academy, Provo, in 1882, and con-tinued there for three years. In Sep-tember, 1885, he married Hannah Nel-son, of St. George, and during the win-ter of 1885-86 he taught In the districtschool. During 1886-88 he served as amissionary in the Southern States mis-sion. After returning f
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 . n , June 23, 1865. As a boy heworked on the farm in the summer andatended the district school in the win-ter. He became a student at the Academy, Provo, in 1882, and con-tinued there for three years. In Sep-tember, 1885, he married Hannah Nel-son, of St. George, and during the win-ter of 1885-86 he taught In the districtschool. During 1886-88 he served as amissionary in the Southern States mis-sion. After returning from this mis- BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. 799 sion he acepted the position of tith-ing clerk of the St. George Stake. Healso gerved as telegraph operator inSt. George. In 1899-1901 he labored inthe Eastern States mission, first as acounselor in the presidency of that mis-sion, and later as the president, inwhich capacity he performed excellentwork. At the conference held June14th and 15th, 1901, in St. George hewa? chosen and sustained as presidentof St. George Stake, in which positionhe is at present laboring. Bro. Snowhas always been an efflcient worker in. the Y. M. M. I. A. and is a member ofthe general Church board of mutualimprovement tvork. In civil life ElderSnow has held a number of respon-sible positions such as city recorder,•ity councilman, member of the consti-tutional convention, which framed theState constitution, senator in the StateI-gislature, etc. In the discharge ofthe duties of these offices he has shownmuch ability and strength of chaiacter. WOOIvLKY, Edwin Gordon, an al-ternate High Councilor in the Stake of Zion, is the son ofEdwin Dilworth Woolley and LouisaChapin Gordon, and was born in Nau-voo. 111., July 30, 1845. Elder Woolleywrites: My mother died, when I wasabout four years old, in Galesburg, was then cared for by my grand-mother, as my father had already goneto Great Salt Lake valley. In 1849 myfather came east and took me to the
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