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 . ish. Hedemarken, Norway. He emi-grated with his parents to Utah in1872 and located in Lehi. Utah was baptized Aug. 30, 1873, and or-dained an Elder in the summer of married Sarah L. Ottesen Nov. 14,1879 and was ordained a Seventy Nov. 13, 1889. During 1896, 1897, 1898 he filleda mission to Norway, laboring princi-pally in Tromso, which is the north-ernmost branch of the Church in theworld. Later he presided over th
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 . ish. Hedemarken, Norway. He emi-grated with his parents to Utah in1872 and located in Lehi. Utah was baptized Aug. 30, 1873, and or-dained an Elder in the summer of married Sarah L. Ottesen Nov. 14,1879 and was ordained a Seventy Nov. 13, 1889. During 1896, 1897, 1898 he filleda mission to Norway, laboring princi-pally in Tromso, which is the north-ernmost branch of the Church in theworld. Later he presided over theStavanger and the Ejdsvold branches. At Lehi, where hestill resides, he has officiated as aWard Teacher for many years, andhe has otherwise been active in thecommunity. KNUDSEX, Mathias, a prominentElder in the Lehi Ward, Utah county,Utah, is the son of Guldbrand Knud-sen and Marie Andersen, and was bornat Ringsager, Hedemarken, Norway,July 24, 1859. He emigrated to Utahin 1872 and located in Lehi, Utah coun-. ty, where he has resided ever since. Hewas baptized by Mons Andersen July23, 1876, and ordained a Seventy and setapart for a mission to Scandinavia byEdward Stevenson June 28, 1895. Dur-ing that and the two following years heperformed missionary work in Norway,laboring principally in the HedemarkenTrondhjem and Tromso branches. El-der Knudsen is the father of elevenchildren. He takes an active part inChurch work in the Lehi Ward. WALKER, Henson, Bishop ofPleasant Grove Ward, Utah County,from 1853 to 1863, is the son of HensonWalker and Matilda Arnell, and wasborn March 13, 1820, in Manchester,Ontario county, N. Y. When he was BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. 509 fifteen years old, the family moved toMichigan, and Henson spent much ofhis time wandering through the denseforests in search of game, with whichhe supplied his fathers the succeeding years he heardthe gospel in its purity and simplicity,and was much impressed by it, and inApril, 1840, he was baptized
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