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 . n Willcounty, just south of Chicago, wherethey remained till 1854. Benjamin mar-ried Lillis A. Andree, May 12. 1853. Hav-ing embraced the gospel, the familywere never satisfied with their Illinoishome, although fortune smiled on themfinancially; their hearts were withtheir co-religionists in the Rocky Moun-tains. Consequently they sold theirhome and started for Utah in April, Aug. 24. 1901. 530 LATTER-DAY SAINT 1854: they arrived in
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 . n Willcounty, just south of Chicago, wherethey remained till 1854. Benjamin mar-ried Lillis A. Andree, May 12. 1853. Hav-ing embraced the gospel, the familywere never satisfied with their Illinoishome, although fortune smiled on themfinancially; their hearts were withtheir co-religionists in the Rocky Moun-tains. Consequently they sold theirhome and started for Utah in April, Aug. 24. 1901. 530 LATTER-DAY SAINT 1854: they arrived in Salt Lake Cityin August the same year. After pay-ing their tithing they continued theJourney south to Fillmore, Millardcounty. Here Bro. Robison workedwith his family, to reclaim the desert,by breaking the soil, digging ditches,building forts, standing guard to pro-tect the community against the In-dians, and in fact anything commonto the lot of a frontiersman. In 1861he went back to Illinois, where hespent the following winter and was called to Deseret, Millard coun-ty, in the fall of 1863, to preside overthe Saints there, who were struggling ¥. his demise he was mayor of the city,and so deeply was his loss felt> thatthe court house bell was muffled andkept tolling all day long. By his firstwife he raised four sons and twodaughters, and by his second wife fivesons and three daughters, all of whom,together with their mothers, are fol-lowing in the path he marked out forthem, being faithful members of theChurch. STEPHENSON, Anthony, Bishopof Holden Ward, is the son of Thos and Maren Simonsen, andwas born April 5, 1852, in Jerslev par-ish, Hjorring Amt, Denmark. He emi-grated with his parents to Utah in1862, crossing the Atlantic in the shipFranklin, and located in Holden,Millard county, in 1868, where he has re-sided ever since. March 9, 1874, hemarried Mary Ann Bennett, in the En-dowment House, Salt Lake City, bywhom he has had eleven children, nineo
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