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 . rganized, andhe was set apart as senior president ofthat quorum by Seymour B. Young. Heheld that position till Sept. 21, 1886,when he was ordained a High Priestand set apart as Bishop of the WestonWard by Apostle Francis M. position he is at present filling. BIOGRAPHICAL. ENCYCLOPEDIA. 445 From August, 1889, till the fall of 1891,he perfomed missionary work in Eng-land, laboring in the London confer-ence. GEORGESON (Jorge
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 . rganized, andhe was set apart as senior president ofthat quorum by Seymour B. Young. Heheld that position till Sept. 21, 1886,when he was ordained a High Priestand set apart as Bishop of the WestonWard by Apostle Francis M. position he is at present filling. BIOGRAPHICAL. ENCYCLOPEDIA. 445 From August, 1889, till the fall of 1891,he perfomed missionary work in Eng-land, laboring in the London confer-ence. GEORGESON (Jorgensen). Niels, a Patriarch in the Oneida Stake of Zion,was born Jan. 17, 1834, at Hosterkjob,Birkerod parish, Frederiksborg amt,Denmark. He was the youngest of allhis fathers children, 21 in number, andthe only one who has accepted the gos-pel. He was baptized in April, 1853,and late in th&t year he started forZion, arriving in Salt Lake City in Oc-tober, 1854. He settled in PleasantGrove, Utah county. In 1856 he wasordained a Teacher, and later an was ordained a Seventy May 25,1857. and became a member of the 52ndquorum. He removed to Salt Lake. City and worked at Pres. BrighamYoungs saw mill in City creek 24. 1863, he married Johanna , and in the summer of 1864 hemoved to Oxford, Idaho, where he re-mained till 1866, when he located atWeston, Idaho, where he at present re-sides. In the spring of 1867 he waschosen by Bishop Peter Maughan toact as counselor to John Maughan, act-ing Bishop of Weston. When theWards and Stakes were reorganized hewas chosen as first counselor to BishopA. A. Allen of Weston Ward and wason that occasion ordained a HighPriest. At the organization of the Oneida Stake in June, 1884, he wascalled to be a member of the HighCouncil in that Stake, a position whichhe still occupies. April 5, 1895, he leftSalt Lake City for a mission to Scandi-navia, where he labored till June, 1887,when he was honorably released andreturned home. I
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