. 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. ond mission, he published theBook of Mormon in the Dutch or Neth-erlands language, the translation hav-ing been made by his pi-edecessor, JohnW. F. Volker. He taught school in Ogden, becom-ing the leader, if not practically thefounder of education in Weber served as probate judge, aldermanand justice of the peace, and also wassecretary and later president of irriga-tion companies. He died June 9, 1894,at Ogden, Utah. (See
. 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. ond mission, he published theBook of Mormon in the Dutch or Neth-erlands language, the translation hav-ing been made by his pi-edecessor, JohnW. F. Volker. He taught school in Ogden, becom-ing the leader, if not practically thefounder of education in Weber served as probate judge, aldermanand justice of the peace, and also wassecretary and later president of irriga-tion companies. He died June 9, 1894,at Ogden, Utah. (See also HistoricalRecord, Vol. 5, p. 114.) BUTTERWORTH, John Addison, president of the Netherlands Missionfrom 1916 to 1920, was born Oct. 15,1882, at Mill Creek, Salt Lake Co.,Utah, a son ofWilliam J. Butter-worth and MelindaH. North. He wasbaptized Nov. 6,1890, became amember of the 61stQuorum of Seven-ty, and filled twomissions to theNetherlands, thefirst one in 1906-1909. His presi-dency, during his second mission, in-cluded three years of the World war,when only a small number of mission-aries from America were laboring inHolland, the majority having been. BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 351 transferred to the United Statesshortly after the outbreak of the dis-astrous conflagration. Holland man-aged to keep out of the war, but hermanifold cares, principally the lack ofsufficient food stuffs, put the people ina depressed, dissatisfied and unspirit-ual mood, making missionary laborsmuch harder than ever before in thehistory of the mission. President But-terworth was not allowed to enterBelgium, but he aided the Brussels andLiege conferences with funds fi-om theheadquarters of the mission at Rotter-dam. He is a teacher at the GraniteJunior High School. CANNON, Sylvester Quayle, presi-dent of the Netherlands Mission from1900 to 1902 and from 1907 to 1909,was born June 10, 1877, in Salt LakeCity, Utah, a sonof George Q. Can-non and ElizabethHoagland. He wasbaptized June 10,1885, by his
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