. 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. tah Legislature in 1923and 1925. He taught school for fiveyears, but is otherwise a farmer andstock raiser by avocation. WEED, Charles Leonard, 5th Bishop of the 26th Ward, Salt Lake City,Utah, (Pioneer Stake), was born , 1867, at Vestra Ryd parish, UpsalaIan, Sweden, the son of Erick WilhelmWeed and Johanna Susanna a desire to try his fortune inthe new world, he emigrated to Amer-ica in 1887 in advance of the re
. 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. tah Legislature in 1923and 1925. He taught school for fiveyears, but is otherwise a farmer andstock raiser by avocation. WEED, Charles Leonard, 5th Bishop of the 26th Ward, Salt Lake City,Utah, (Pioneer Stake), was born , 1867, at Vestra Ryd parish, UpsalaIan, Sweden, the son of Erick WilhelmWeed and Johanna Susanna a desire to try his fortune inthe new world, he emigrated to Amer-ica in 1887 in advance of the rest ofhis fathers family, and after stoppinga short time in New York City andafter the family had also arrived inAmerica, they moved into the country BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 79 and resided successively in Delawareand Otsego counties, New York Whileresiding at Franklin, Delaware County,Mormonism found the family andhere young Charles was baptized April5, 1903, by Thomas Richardson, anElder from Zion. Soon afterwards hewas ordained a Priest, and at a con-ference held in Albany the same yearhe was ordained an Elder by JohnG. McQuarrie, president of the Eastern. States Mission. For a short time heassisted the Elders in holding streetmeetings and otherwise, and then emi-grated to Utah, arriving in Salt LakeCity in October, 1903. His first homein Utah was in the 16th Ward, fromwhich he filled a mission to the East-ern States in 1908-1910 and presideda part of the time over the New YorkConference. After his return fromthat mission, he was ordained a Sev-enty by Levi Edgar Young and becamea president in the 110th Quorum ofSeventy. While residing in the 16thWard, he acted as assistant superin-tendent of the Ward Sunday school,and after he had moved into the 26thWard in 1912, he acted as assistantSunday school superintendent in thatward and later was superintendentof the ward Sunday school for eightyears. He was ordained a High Priest by Elder William McLachlan, presi-dent of the Pionee
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