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Directory of Ogden City and Weber County.


THE CHURCHES.

LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

There are in the Weber Stake of Zion one Apostle, 8 Patriarchs, 347 Seventies, 155 High Priests, 862 Elders, 98 Priests, 151 Teachers, 207 Deacons, 4,542 members, making a total of 6,371 officers and members. There are 2,622 children under eight years of age, which makes the total of souls 8,993. This number of souls is divided into 1,765 families who live in nineteen ecclesiastical Wards, comprising all the settlements in the County and four Wards of Ogden City. These Wards are presided over by a Bishop and his two Counselors. The Stake is presided over by a President and his two Counselors, Lewis W. Shurtliff, President; Charles F. Middlton, First, and N. C. Flygare, Second Counselor, being the present incumbents.

The following are the members of the High Council: Israel Canfield, I. N. Goodale, Richard Ballantyne, David M. Stuart, John Barker, F. A. Brown, W. W. Burton, D. B. Rawson, Joseph Stanford, Franklin S. Richards, Joseph Parry, and Orson Badger; with Miles H. Jones, Joseph Hall, and James Owen, Alternates, and James Taylor, Clerk of the Council.

Following are the names of the Wards with the Bishops and Counselors of each, also the population:

1st Ward, Ogden—B. C. Critchlow, Bishop; James Burch, Fred. Garner, Counselors. Population 495.

2d Ward, Ogden—Robert McQuarrie, Bishop; Samuel Eggleston, Thomas Doxey, Counselors. Population 742.


Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 Lori L. Laird
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