Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: April 7, 1921 President Penrose is so well known, and has for so long been prominent as an apostle and member of the First Presidency, that no other appointment could have been thought of, to take President Lund's place as first counselor. Anthony W. Ivins, sustained as second counselor in the First Presidency, is the son of Israel and Anna Lowrie Ivins, and was born September l6th, 1852, at Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey. He came to Utah with his parents ...
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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: April 7, 1921 President Penrose is so well known, and has for so long been prominent as an apostle and member of the First Presidency, that no other appointment could have been thought of, to take President Lund's place as first counselor. Anthony W. Ivins, sustained as second counselor in the First Presidency, is the son of Israel and Anna Lowrie Ivins, and was born September l6th, 1852, at Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey. He came to Utah with his parents in 1853, and with the famil y moved to southern Utah in 1861. he was a member of an expedition sent out by President Brigham Young in 1875 to Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico, which visited the various tribes of Indians and established friendly relations between them and the whites. The party Visited the Navajos, the Hopis, the Apaches, the Pimas, the Maricopas and the Papagos. It even penetrated Mexico to Chihuahua city, went west into the Sierra Madre country and explored the Casas Grandes district, where the present Mormon colonies were later established. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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