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Presented the General Authorities and officers

Heber J. Grant, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

1918 October General Conference·Second Outdoor Meeting·1918-10-06

Presented the General Authorities and officers of the auxiliary organizations who were voted upon and unanimously sustained as follows :

GENERAL AUTHORITIES.

Joseph F. Smith, as Prophet, Seer and Revelator and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Anthon H. Lund, as First Counselor in the First Presidency.

Charles W. Penrose, as Second Counselor in the First Presidency.

Heber J. Grant, as President of the Twelve Apostles.

As members of the Council of Twelve Apostles : Heber J. Grant, Rudger Clawson, Reed Smoot, George Albert Smith, George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, David O. McKay, Anthony W. Ivins, Joseph F. Smith, Jr., James E. Talmage, Stephen L. Richards and Richard R. Lyman.

Hyrum G. Smith, as Presiding Patriarch of the Church.

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 David A. Smith and John Wells 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 Joseph F. Smith, Jr.

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.

AUXILIARY ORGANIZATIONS 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. Coray, Organist ; Sarah Jenne Cannon. Romania B. Penrose, Emily S. Richards, Julia P. M. Farnsworth, Phebe Y. Beatie, Ida Smoot Dusenberry, Carrie S. Thomas, Elizabeth S. Wilcox, Rebecca N. Nibley, Elizabeth C. McCune, Edna May Davis, Sarah M. McClelland, Elizabeth C. Crismon. Jeanette

A. Hyde, Sarah Eddington, Lillian Cameron and Donette Smith Kesler.

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 E. 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, Tracy Y. Cannon and Richard R. Lyman.

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, Joseph F. Smith, Jr.. Lewis T. Cannon, Benjamin Goddard, George Albert Smith, Thomas A. Clawson, Lyman 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, Brigham S. Young. B. Cecil Gates, Richard R. Lyman, Ernest P. Horsley.

GENERAL BOARD YOUNG LADIES' MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.

Martha Home 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, Chorister and Mabel C. Cain, Assistant Chorister. Aids: Maria Young Dougall, Adella W. Eardley. Agnes S. Campbell, Ann M. Cannon, May Booth Talmage, Emma Goddard, Rose W. Bennett, Julia M. Brixen, Agusta 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, Martha G. Smith, Catherine Folsom.

GENERAL BOARD OF PRIMARY ASSOCIATION.

Louie B. Felt, President ; May Anderson, First Counselor; Clara W. Beebe, Second Counselor ; Genet B. Dee, Secretary and Treasurer ; Matilda W. Cahoon, Acting Chorister ; Isabelle S. Ross and Ann Nebeker. Physical Directors ; Advisors to the Board, Anthony W. Ivins and David O. McKay, Aids : Aurelia Rogers, Lillie T. Freeze, Josephine R. West, Eliza S. Bennion, Edna Harker Thomas, Edith H. Lambert, Laura L. Foster, Eleanor R. Jeremy, Ella S. Capener, Zina Y. Card, Georgina F. Richards, Vilate S. Chambers. Helen Davis, Marion Belnap Kerr, Nellie A. Talmage. Cordia H. Smith. Sadie G. Pack.

GENERAL BOARD OF RELIGION CLASS.

Anthon H. Lund, Superintendent ; Rudger Clawson, First Assistant Superintendent ; Joseph F. Smith, Jr., 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, P. J. Jensen, Willard Young, James E. Talmage, N. Andrew Jensen, Guy C. Wilson. Richard R. Lyman, Hyrum G. Smith. John Wells.

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 Christenson, Librarian ; Anthony W. Ivins, Heber J. Grant and Hyrum G. Smith.

Edward H. Anderson, Clerk of the Conference.

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