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 . was an ac-tive Sunday school worker. He wasset apart as president of the MorganStake Sept. 13. 1900, by Apostle , as successor to the lateRichard Fry, and he is to-day fillingthat responsible position. Pres. Heineris noted for his wise and good counseland is loved and respected by all who know him. He ascribes a great dealof his success in life to a good paren-tage; his father and mother were bothgood people, who raised
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 . was an ac-tive Sunday school worker. He wasset apart as president of the MorganStake Sept. 13. 1900, by Apostle , as successor to the lateRichard Fry, and he is to-day fillingthat responsible position. Pres. Heineris noted for his wise and good counseland is loved and respected by all who know him. He ascribes a great dealof his success in life to a good paren-tage; his father and mother were bothgood people, who raised their childrenin the fear of the Lord. CLUFF, Benjamin, first Bishop ofCenter Ward, Wasatch county. Utah,is the third son of David Cluff andBetsy Hall, and was born March 20,1830, in the town of Durham, Straffordcounty. New Hampshire. He was butan infant when his parents movedfrom his birthplace to Kirtland, Ohio,where the family became converts toMormonism. Benjamin distinctlyremembers the dedication of the Kirt-land Temple and the subsequent perse-cutions in Ohio. While the familystopped temporarily at Springfield, 111.,in the spring of 1839, Benjamin was. baptized in the Illinois river, and thefollowing year the family moved tcvNauvoo, instead of going to Missouri,for which State they had started fromOhio. As a young man Benjamin tookan active part in the upbuilding ofNauvoo,and remained there until thegeneral exodus of the Saints in journeying to the great west thefamily made halts at Bonaparte andMt. Pisgah, Iowa, the winter of 1846-47 being spent at the latter place. Afterthat two years were spent at CouncilBluffs and vicinity, and in June, 1850, 476 LATTER-DAY SAINT the family started on the long and tedi-ous journey to Great Salt Lake valley,where they arrived in the fall of thatyear. They settled in Provo, Utahcounty. In the spring of 1853 Benjaminwas ordained a Seventy by JosephYoung, and in the fall of that year hewas called, together with many others,to go s
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