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Jedediah And Heber Grant, Ronald W. Walker
Jedediah And Heber Grant, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
On December 1, 1856, Elder Wilford Woodruff and Elder Franklin D. Richards left the Church historian's office for the home of Jedediah Grant, less than a block away. The hour was late, about 10:30 in the evening. It had snowed several inches during the day, and the weather was turning cold.
Rachel R. Grant: The Continuing Legacy Of The Feminine Ideal, Ronald W. Walker
Rachel R. Grant: The Continuing Legacy Of The Feminine Ideal, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
We can imagine ourselves visiting Aunt Rachel Grant, longtime president of the Thirteenth Ward Relief Society and one of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint's "leading ladies," at her home on Salt Lake City's Second East Street. In the year of our visit, 1890, her two-story, plastered adobe home partakes of the prevailing feminine ideal that stresses homemaking and handicraft. The stove is highly burnished, while the arms of each chair are covered with homemade lace crocheting. A corner "whatnot" meticulously displays pictures, small framed mottoes, wax and hair flowers, and other curios. Rachel's person also reflects her …
Growing Up In Early Utah: The Wasatch Literary Association 1874-1878, Ronald W. Walker
Growing Up In Early Utah: The Wasatch Literary Association 1874-1878, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
One day in early February 1874, Jim Ferguson, sensing the forlorn hope of advancing his courtship with Minnie Horne, suggested to Ort (Orson F.) Whitney and another of the boys that they organize a reading society. Ferguson "had heard, no doubt, of fond couples 'reading life's meaning in each others eyes,'" Whitney later mused, "and that was the kind of reading that most interested him." Since the seventeen-year-old Whitney found himself "in the same box with Ferguson on the girl question," the suggestion found a ready response. Whitney immediately invited those who "would make desirable members" to meet at the …
Crisis In Zion: Heber J. Grant And The Panic Of 1893, Ronald W. Walker
Crisis In Zion: Heber J. Grant And The Panic Of 1893, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
In late June 1893, Heber J. Grant, a pencil-thin, bewhiskered young man, waited nervously in the downtown office of New York businessman John Claflin. Thirty-six years old and conservatively dressed, Grant was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and president or director of at least a dozen Salt Lake City-based businesses. A financial panic had struck the nation and the Mormon businessman was urgently seeking a loan to save himself and his church from bankruptcy. Although similar dramas were being enacted in business and banking houses across the …
Heber J. Grant And The Utah Loan And Trust Company, Ronald W. Walker
Heber J. Grant And The Utah Loan And Trust Company, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
Before 6:00 A.M. on May 29, 1897, the portly and veteran Apostle Brigham Young Jr., himself ailing due to an attack of dropsy, called at the Heber J. Grant household to pray a blessing upon his associate. He found that "Bro Grant... had a poor night but he was going to the hospital with firm faith that all would be well." The day before, Grant awoke with sever lumbar and abdominal pain. The doctors diagnosed a ruptured appendix and advanced peritonitis and advised immediate surgery. As the hour-and-a-half operation progressed, the nine attending surgeons found "extraordinary suppuration and commenced mortification." …
Grant's Watershed: Succession In The Presidency, 1887-1889, Ronald W. Walker
Grant's Watershed: Succession In The Presidency, 1887-1889, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
Events during 1887-89, during Elder Wilford Woodruff's succession to the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, remains an important but largely untold story—a time when differing views divided the Church's General Authorities and when the policies and procedures for installing a new president of the Church were tested and confirmed. These years are also important for the insights they offer in understanding the life of Heber J. Grant, who himself regarded that time as a personal watershed. While it is clear that he acted with candor, energy, and idealism throughout the episode, with hindsight he believed …
Strangers In A Strange Land: Heber J. Grant And The Opening Of The Japan Mission, Ronald W. Walker
Strangers In A Strange Land: Heber J. Grant And The Opening Of The Japan Mission, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
When Heber J. Grant returned from a two-week vacation in Pacific Grove, California, in February 1901, the news he heard at first seemed favorable. One of his associates in the Quorum of the Twelve, Francis M. Lyman, had been asked to preside over the Church's European Mission. Elder Grant congratulated himself that "missionary lightning had once more escaped me," "heaved a sigh of relief," and embraced Lyman in mock celebration.
Qualities That Count: Heber J. Grant As Businessman, Missionary, And Apostle, Ronald W. Walker
Qualities That Count: Heber J. Grant As Businessman, Missionary, And Apostle, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
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Young Heber J. Grant: Entrepreneur Extraordinary, Ronald W. Walker
Young Heber J. Grant: Entrepreneur Extraordinary, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
When lecturing at the Harvard Law School, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes told students they could do anything they wanted to in life, if only they wanted to hard enough. Later in a private aside he added, "But what I did not tell them was that they had to be born wanting to."
A Mormon “Widow” In Colorado: The Exile Of Emily Wells Grant, Ronald W. Walker
A Mormon “Widow” In Colorado: The Exile Of Emily Wells Grant, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
As the southbound Denver & Rio Grande train pulled out of the depot at Salt Lake City in November 1889, Emily Wells Grant breathed a sigh of relief, and relaxed. As a plural wife of Elder Heber J. Grant, she was used to dodging United States marshals. Her recent crisis, she admitted, was of her own making. Why had she insisted on attending her father's seventy-fifth birthday celebration in the Twelfth Ward after five years of secrecy? She had been spotted there, the grand jury had reopened her husband's cohabitation case, and she had been forced to flee again. The …
Young Heber J. Grant's Years Of Passage, Ronald W. Walker
Young Heber J. Grant's Years Of Passage, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
As Heber J. Grant came of age, Mormonism was as much a part of the Utah landscape as the territory's dusty valleys and vaulting mountain walls. Young Heber met religion everywhere—in his Salt Lake City home and neighborhood, at the Tabernacle on Temple Square, in the offices of Church and civic leaders where he sometimes ventured, and certainly in his native Thirteenth Ward, one of the most innovative and organizationally developed Latter-day Saint congregations of the time. Slowly young Heber internalized his religious culture, but not before encountering the usual perils of adolescence and coming of age. The process tells …
Young Heber J. Grant And His Call To The Apostleship, Ronald W. Walker
Young Heber J. Grant And His Call To The Apostleship, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
A year following his call to become president of the Tooele Stake, twenty-four-year-old Heber J. Grant stopped by the Salt Lake studio of Charles Savage, the pioneer photographer. The conversation took an unexpected turn. Elder Grant wrote in his journal that Savage told him "to put it down that within one year I would be a member of the Twelve Apostles."
Heber J. Grant's European Mission, 1903-1906, Ronald W. Walker
Heber J. Grant's European Mission, 1903-1906, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies Quarterly
Elder Heber J. Grant landed in Liverpool, England, in November 1903, and by the first of the year he officially assumed his new position as president of the European Mission. The mission began at Tromso, Norway; and ran to Cape Town, South Africa; with Iceland and India serving as distant east-west meridians. While the church had branches in each of these extremities, Grant's field of labor was more compact. Most of the mission's effort was reserved to the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, and Switzerland, where he had a general superintendency, and especially in the British Isles, where he had duties that …