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 . council, in Salt LakeCity. Elder Weiler is truly a pioneer, 604 LATTER-DAY SAINT and has done his share of killingsnakes and building bridges. He hasfollowed farming and contracting mostof his time in life, but is at presentengaged in mining, being vice presi-dent, director and secretary of one ofthe principal mines in Utah. He is thefather of 17 children, 12 of whom areliving. BUCKWALTER, Henry Shuler, a prominent Elder in the Thir
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 . council, in Salt LakeCity. Elder Weiler is truly a pioneer, 604 LATTER-DAY SAINT and has done his share of killingsnakes and building bridges. He hasfollowed farming and contracting mostof his time in life, but is at presentengaged in mining, being vice presi-dent, director and secretary of one ofthe principal mines in Utah. He is thefather of 17 children, 12 of whom areliving. BUCKWALTER, Henry Shuler, a prominent Elder in the Third Ward,Salt Lake the son of John Buck-waiter and Sarah Shuler, and was bomin Chester county, Penn., May 12, Buckwalter writes: My fatherembraced the gospel in 1839, but died in1841, leaving my mother with six smallchildren in poor circumstances. Weemigrated to Nauvoo, 111., in 1842, whereI was baptized in the Mississippi riverin July. 1843. I witnessed the tryingscenes surrounding the martyrdom ofthe Prophet and Patriarch. I was atthe meeting called by Sidney RigdonAug. 8,. 1844, when he proclaimed him-self a guardian to the Church. I saw. and heard Brigham Young when hisvoice and manner became changed, sothat he talked and looked just like theProphet Joseph Smith. Together withthe body of the Church, I endured thej)ersecutions, which culminated in ourexpulsion from Nauvoo, by a mob in1846. While encamped in Iowa, I sawthe hand of a kind Providence extendedto the Saints on many occasions. Atone time, when we were without food,and had no prospects of getting any, a tlock of quails flew into our midst, andwe captui^d all we needed, and werethus supplied with food. In April, 1852,after residing in St. Louis, Mo., for afew years, I started for the great westand arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah,Aug. 11th of that year. I settled inthe Ninth Ward, where I was ordaineda Teacher in 1853, by Bishop Seth to counsel from Pres. Brig-ham Young, I visited my f
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