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 . anStake of Zion, is the second son ofThomas and Mary Webster, and wasborn Feb. 8. 1830, at Suton, near Wy-mondham, county of Norfolk, was baptized in April, 1848, by ElderJohn Licorice, and left England forSydney, New South Wales, Australia,June 5, 1848. He returned to England in 1855 and married Ann Elizabeth Par-sons in London, England, Dec. 5, 1855;was ordained a Priest Dec. 23, 1855, andemigrated to Utah in 1856, cros
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 . anStake of Zion, is the second son ofThomas and Mary Webster, and wasborn Feb. 8. 1830, at Suton, near Wy-mondham, county of Norfolk, was baptized in April, 1848, by ElderJohn Licorice, and left England forSydney, New South Wales, Australia,June 5, 1848. He returned to England in 1855 and married Ann Elizabeth Par-sons in London, England, Dec. 5, 1855;was ordained a Priest Dec. 23, 1855, andemigrated to Utah in 1856, crossing theocean on the ship Horizon, and theplains in Edward Martins hand-cartcompany. He arrived in Salt Lake CityNov. 30, 1856, and went to Cedar City,Iron county, where he made his perma-nent home. Here he served for twentyyears as a Ward teacher; was ordainedan Elder Feb. 19, 1860, and ordained aSeventy April 17, 1863. He became iden-tified with the 63rd quorum of Seventy,and was chosen to be a president inthat quorum May 5, 1866. March 14, 1869,he was ordained a High Priest and setapart to act as a member of the HighCouncil of the Parowan Stake, by Apos-. tle Erastus Snow. He was set apartas second counselor to Bishop Christo-pher J. Arthur, of Cedar City, July 29,1877, by Apostle Erastus Snow, and la-ter he was set apart as Bishop Arthursfirst counselor. May 5, 1884, he was setapart as first counselor to Bishop Hen-ry Lunt, by Pres. John Taylor. In 1889he served six months imprisonment inthe Utah penitentiary for consciencesake. He was set apart as a memberof the Parowan Stake High CouncilJune 23, 1889, and he was set apart byApostle Heber J. Grant to be secondcounselor to Pres. Thos. J. Jones ofParowan Stake Sept. 23, 1889. When theStake was reorganized, March 21, 1892,he was set apart as second counselor toPres. Uriah T. Jones, and later (June 21,1896,) he was chosen first counselor to 534 LATTER-DAY SAINT Pres. Jones, being set apart to that po-sition by Apostle John Hen
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