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Authorities sustained

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1917 October General Conference·Second Day Afternoon Session·1917-10-06

The Counselors in the First Presidency, the Twelve Apostles and Patriarch, as Prophets, Seers and Revelators.

First Seven Presidents of Seventy: Seymour B. Young, Brigham H. Roberts, Jonathan G. Kimball. Rulon S. Wells. Joseph W. McMurrin, Charles H. Hart and Levi Edgar Young.

Charles W. Nibley, as Presiding Bishop, with Orrin P. Miller and David A. Smith as his First and Second Counselors.

Joseph F. Smith, as Trustee-in-Trust for the body of religious worshipers known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Anthon H. Lund, as Church Historian and General Church Recorder.

Andrew Jenson, Brigham H. Roberts, Joseph F. Smith, Jr., and August William Lund, Assistant Historians.

As members of the General Church Board of Education : Joseph F. Smith, Willard Young, Anthon H. Lund, George H. Brimhall, Rudger Clawson, Charles W. Penrose, Horace H. Cummings, Orson F. Whitney and Hyrum M. Smith.

Arthur Winter, as Secretary and Treasurer to the General Church Board of Education.

Horace H. Cummings, General Superintendent of Church Schools.

Board of Examiners for Church Schools: Horace H. Cummings, Chairman; George H. Brimhall, C. N. Jensen and Guy C. Wilson.

Auditing Committee : William W. Riter, Henry H. Rolapp, John C. Cutler, Heber Scowcroft and Peter G. Johnston.

Tabernacle Choir: Anthony C. Lund, Conductor; Horace S. Ensign and B. Cecil Gates, Assistant Conductors; John J. McClellan, Organist; Edward P. Kimball and Tracy Y. Cannon, Assistant Organists : George C. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer; and all the Members.

General Board of Relief Society : Emmeline B. Wells, President ; Clarissa S. Williams, First Counselor ; Julina L. Smith, Second Counselor ; Amy Brown Lyman, Secretary ; Susa Young Gates, Corresponding Secretary ; Emma A. Empey, Treasurer ; Lizzie Thomas Edward, Musical Director ; Edna H. Corav, Organist ; Sarah Jenne Cannon, Romania B. Penrose, Emilv S. Richards, Julia P. M. Farnsworth, Phebe Y. Beatie, Ida S. Dusenberry, Carrie S. Thomas, Priscilla P. Jennings, Elizabeth S. Wilcox, Rebecca N. Nibley, Elizabeth C. McCune, Edna May Davis, Sarah M. McClelland, Elizabeth C. Crismon, Jeanette A. Hyde, Sarah Eddington and Lillian Cameron.

General Board of Deseret Sunday School Union: Joseph F. Smith, Superintendent; David O. McKay, First Assistant Superintendent; Stephen L. Richards, Second Assistant Superintendent ; George D. Pyper, Secretary ; John F. Bennett, Treasurer ; Heber J. Grant, Hugh J. Cannon, Andrew Kimball, John M. Mills, Seymour B. Young, Anthon H. Lund, James E. Talmage, George M. Cannon, Horace H. Cummings, Josiah Burrows, William A. Morton, Horace S. Ensign, Henry H. Rolapp, Harold G. Reynolds, Charles B. Felt, George H. Wallace, Howard R. Driggs, Nathan T. Porter, Milton Bennion, Charles W. Penrose, Edwin G. Woolley, Jr., Hyrum G. Smith, Charles H. Hart, Joseph Ballantyne, J. Leo Fairbanks, J. W. Walker, E. G. Gowans, E. Conway Ashton, Adam S. Bennion, Edward P. Kimball and Tracy Y. Cannon.

General Board Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association : Joseph F. Smith, Superintendent ; Heber J. Grant and Brigham H. Roberts, Assistant Superintendents ; Moroni Snow, Secretary ; J. Golden Kimball, Junius F. Wells, George H. Brimhall, Edward H. Anderson, Thomas Hull, Willard Done, LeRoi C. Snow, Rudger Clawson, Rulon S. Wells, Joseph W. McMurrin, Bryant S. Hinckley, Brigham F. Grant, Hyrum M. Smith, Joseph F. Smith, Jr., Lewis T. Cannon, Beniamin Goddard, George Albert Smith, Thomas A. Clawson. Lvman R. Martineau, Charles H. Hart. John A. Widtsoe, James H. Anderson, Anthony W. Ivins, Oscar A. Kirkham, Anthon H. Lund, George F. Richards, Nephi Anderson, John H. Taylor, Charles W. Penrose, James E. Talmage, Hyrum G. Smith, Henry C. Lund, George J. Cannon, Nicholas G. Morgan, Claude Richards, John F. Bowman, Levi Edgar Young, Roscoe W. Eardley, Preston D. Richards, Osborne J. P. Widtsoe and Brigham S. Young.

General Board Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association: Martha Horne Tingey, President ; Ruth May Fox, First Counselor; Mae Taylor Nystrom, Second Counselor; Clarissa A. Beesley, Secretary ; Joan M. Campbell, Recording Secretary ; Alice K. Smith, Treasurer ; Margaret Summerhays and Mabel Cooper, Music Directors. Aids : Maria Young Dougall, Adella W. Eardley, Agnes S. Campbell, Ann M. Cannon, May Booth Talmage, Emma Goddard, Rose W. Bennett, Julia M. Brixen, Augusta W. Grant, Emily Caldwell Adams, Mary E. Connelly, Elen Wallace, Lucy Woodruff Smith, Jane B. Anderson, Edith R. Lovesy, Laura Bennion Dimond, Rachel Grant Taylor, Sarah Richards Cannon, Lucy M. S. Carter, Charlotte Stewart, Lucy Grant Cannon, Emily H. Higgs.

General Board of Primary Associations: Louie B. Felt, President; Mav Anderson, First Counselor ; Clara W. Beebe, Second Counselor ; Francis K. Thomassen, Secretary ; Genet B. Dee, Treasurer ; Ida B. Smith, Librarian ; Isabella S. Ross and Ann Nebeker, Physical Directors. Advisors to the Board: Hyrum M. Smith and Anthony W. Ivins. Aids: Matilda W. Cahoon, Lillie T. Freeze, Josephine R. West, Aurelia Rogers, Eliza S. Bennion, Edna Marker Thomas, Laura L. Foster, Edith Hunter Lambert, Eleanor R. Jeremy, Ella S. Capener, Georgina F. Richards, Vilate S. Chambers, Helen Davis, Marion Belnap Kerr, Nellie A. Talmage, Cordia H. Smith.

General Board of Religion Classes: Anthon H. Lund, Superintendent; Rudger Clawson, First Assistant Superintendent ; Hyrum M. Smith, Second Assistant Superintendent ; Edwin S. Sheets, Secretary ; Horace H. Cummings, Rulon S. Wells, Joseph W. McMurrin, John Henry Evans, William A. Morton, Joseph J. Cannon, George Albert Smith, Charles W. Penrose, Orson F. Whitney, James E. King, George F. Richards, Heber J. Grant, Anthony W. Ivins, George H. Brimhall, Joseph F. Smith, Jr., P. J. Jensen, Willard Young, James E. Talmage, N. Andrew Jensen and Guy C. Wilson.

General Board of the Genealogical Society of Utah : Anthon H. Lund, President ; Charles W. Penrose, Vice-President ; Joseph F. Smith, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer ; Joseph Christensen, Librarian ; Anthony W. Ivins, Hyrum G. Smith and Heber J. Grant.

Edward H. Anderson, as Clerk of the Conference.

Each and all named were sustained by unanimous vote of the people in the position designated.

Cite this talkConference record, "Authorities sustained," 1917 October General Conference, Second Day Afternoon Session (1917-10-06). Pulpit Vault, 1917-10-58-of-the-church-remarks-58. Fragmentary text from archive.org.Pulpit Vault, edition of 23 September 2026 (commit 4bdc6ac627).