Bishop of the 11th Ward in Nauvoo Illinois
And
First Bishop of Lehi
- Born 1804 Cecil County, Maryland
- Married Mary Beck 1826; later practiced plural marriage; forty-one children
- Baptized 1833
- Ordained Elder 1833
- Zions Camp 1834
- Ordained Seventy and called to First Quorum of Seventy 1835
- Ordained High Priest and called as Bishop of Eleventh Ward in Nauvoo, Illinois
- Trekked west with saints, arriving in Utah in 1850
- Settled in Lehi, Utah where he was Bishop, Mayor, etc.
- Died 1883 Lehi, Utah